[0:12] Good

[0:16] evening, everyone. Item 3A, minutes, a previous meeting. August 10th, 2026, we want to approve. Second. We'll wish my customer a web, second by customer foe any discussion. Yes. And the electronic version is on their twice, so those, the same.

[0:35] Any or did something get updated?

[0:39] I was on there twice and then it disappeared.

[0:44] There it is.

[0:46] Perfect.

[0:47] No other concerns?

[0:48] Okay.

[0:48] All those in favor say aye.

[0:49] Aye.

[0:50] Aye.

[0:50] Any opposed?

[0:51] Motion passes.

[0:53] Item 4 set agenda.

[0:55] I

[0:57] have a motion to set agenda.

[0:59] Motion to set the agenda as it's laid out.

[1:02] The first by Council Member Mañac.

[1:05] Second.

[1:06] Second by Council Member Faux.

[1:07] Any discussion?

[1:09] Seeing none.

[1:10] All those in favor say aye.

[1:11] Aye.

[1:11] any opposed? Motion passes. Item 5, public comment. If anyone from the public would

[1:19] care to address council, please address the podium.

[1:25] Seeing none, we'll move to item 6.

[1:26] Administrators report. Good evening, Tom. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and council. Item 6A is a item

[1:35] about a sewer connection, sewer water connection. If you understand that the

[1:42] So Beaumont project is running the water and so we're down to 1-2-5.

[1:46] There's a property that's just across the street from that, just south of 1-95.

[1:55] We approached them and asked if they would like to hook up at this time because we're digging

[1:59] a hole right in the road, right in front of their place.

[2:02] It makes sense to stub it in.

[2:04] They do not want to hook up now though, so that's a situation.

[2:09] originally when we talked to them it was about $38,000 for them to do this work and hook up

[2:17] and they don't have a bathroom and they don't have what they're in a water source so

[2:24] they would have to build a bathroom to be able to use the hook up so they don't want to hook up

[2:29] right now they want to wait until they actually redevelop that lot a little bit or add on to building at a new building

[2:34] So, that's, you know, that's up for consideration.

[2:38] And the site actually is on the list for code issues right now.

[2:43] So, what we did is, if you would agree to file for a CUP and get the property fixed

[2:52] up, screened off properly as part of this, we'll see if we'll agree to not make you be hooked

[3:01] up right away.

[3:02] So, they'll pay to get their stubs in if we'll agree to not force them to get hooked

[3:07] up for three years.

[3:10] So, they want to opt to three years to not get connected?

[3:13] Yeah.

[3:16] What happens in three years if they make the deal and they still don't connect it?

[3:21] Well, then it's up to the council to force them to hook up.

[3:25] The code is written so that if the services are available, you have six months to hook up.

[3:31] But if we had a parcel that had nothing on it, you wouldn't make them hook up obviously because it's the connection charges and the whack-and-sacks.

[3:43] Those are the things of, you know, of interest when it adds like 20 grand or whatever.

[3:55] I don't think you would make a raw land hook up.

[3:59] They have a building that doesn't have services or need for services, I don't know.

[4:04] Right.

[4:05] I mean, you can make them pay the whack and suck, though.

[4:08] I suppose.

[4:13] That spur them along to develop it quicker, I don't know.

[4:19] This is the building with the storage stuff, the CM arms talk to us as well.

[4:22] Yep. So if we get them to do a CUP and fix up the property, screen it properly, and get

[4:32] into compliance, and it takes eight months or a year or whatever, that's better than going

[4:39] through code enforcement sometimes, because those can take, you know, two, three, four, five

[4:44] years sometimes, and then the court system is very lenient on those people, and we end up just

[4:51] with a bunch of effort and a forced change later.

[5:05] So all you're looking for today is the approval of the 11,000, 165. The agreement, the utility agreement, where we agreed to not force them to hook up for three years, they agreed to do those other things. And then because we need to approve soon, because henches are going to be start doing this work in 190th, like this week.

[5:30] And then I see something too when I was reading through it. I saw it briefly before I got here.

[5:37] They were requesting the way I can say that he's not going to be raised.

[5:41] Yes.

[5:42] They're going to pay at that time, they would pay in today's price, not three years from

[5:46] not price.

[5:47] I see that was something.

[5:47] Yeah.

[5:48] And I told them that'd be a long shot for the council to agree to that, because you're not

[5:51] looking up to them why would we...

[5:54] But I...

[5:55] You did mention it here, but I thought I'd read that in what you said, so I just wanted to

[6:00] make sure that was...

[6:01] Okay.

[6:02] Yeah, I have that in the right up here too.

[6:05] They had asked for a year to get the property in code enforcement, good standings, and

[6:13] that-

[6:14] Yeah, that must be where I'm running that.

[6:16] Yep, yep.

[6:20] If you make this agreement, you have to have some type of teeth that says they have to pay

[6:24] in the three years, whether they're-

[6:27] Whether they have something to hook up to or not, like-

[6:30] And we can make that known in the minutes that that's that was the intent of Council when we approve this agreement.

[6:35] We just put it in the contract to make the owners on them versus us the way that it reads it's us right that we're saying that

[6:42] we'll agree to delay allowing them to connect which means we have to approach them again in three years.

[6:47] So we just say they agree to connect or pay the whack in second three years and then we just deal with it.

[6:55] I'll make a motion to do it that way, that paragraph 1D just be switched to say the property

[7:06] owner agrees to connect municipal city and waters who are three years from the date

[7:11] of this agreement,

[7:14] that first sentence.

[7:17] All right, I have a first by Councilor Webster, a second by Councilor Foe, discussion.

[7:28] Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

[7:30] Aye.

[7:31] Any opposed?

[7:35] Any time?

[7:36] One other question for Tom.

[7:38] How are, so speaking of co-inforcement,

[7:40] we haven't had an update in a while on

[7:45] heavy automotive shops.

[7:48] Any update on that?

[7:53] Any heavy automotive shops, what do you mean?

[7:56] Which one?

[7:57] The old Pearson property.

[7:59] That one, they would took about five years

[8:03] There's in the occupant agreed to file guilty for one of the findings and then getting

[8:13] the grading permit is what the county said that he didn't have to give a week.

[8:17] He's got probation for one year and if he violates that probation, we can hit him with

[8:22] both of those again.

[8:24] So that's what they plea bargain down.

[8:26] So we don't have, so he just gets to leave it graded without a grading permit?

[8:31] was

[8:37] there do you call an explanation or if there's a change that we should make in our city code

[8:46] that wouldn't give that?

[8:52] Just to streamline the language so like the what he thinks is ambiguous and we can look at it.

[8:58] Or if there's a way that the county could say,

[9:01] this is why we run back as a court state

[9:03] that this way we're still going to allow for that

[9:06] to get rid of that work around,

[9:08] because apparently, whatever he was howard involved,

[9:11] they may saw it the same way,

[9:12] or they agreed to see it the same way,

[9:14] I don't know how that's played out.

[9:15] Well, they cut their losses and don't want to go to court

[9:19] on everything.

[9:20] That's probably one of the points.

[9:21] But again, don't waste a ton of time on it,

[9:23] but it'd be worth it.

[9:24] In his defense, he's cleared all the cars out of there

[9:26] Bernie's moved most of his business to a different location, so he's most

[9:32] in compliance though. Well, but now all the berms are growing up with whatever's

[9:37] growing on the berms, so. Yeah,

[9:42] that's why what?

[9:46] It's pretty

[9:46] gnarly out there, yeah. Yeah. Anyways, that's what made me think of it

[9:51] this last time I drove by him. It's like, well, now we've got now on top of the

[9:55] We've got 8-8-foot.

[10:03] So, did he get rid of the cars, are they just behind them? No, no, no. Jeff inspected it. Jeff

[10:11] went out and inspected it. He did it to her.

[10:15] I mean, there's some cars there, but there

[10:17] are just personal ones, and it was deemed less than the amount that would violate the,

[10:24] the condition, she's permanent, or the 10% or whatever.

[10:31] And the answer, Tom?

[10:34] All right. Moving on

[10:35] to item 9-9-8, finance report, preliminary budget and levy. Good evening.

[10:59] For the preliminary budget and levy, this is our first discussion on this, and then we will finalize the preliminary levy budget

[11:13] This is the first meeting in September so that the preliminary levy can be sent to the county by the end of September and we will finalize it the first meeting in December between the preliminary levy and the final levy in December, the levy model can be increased and not be increased.

[11:39] First item here is the way of comparison we received from the county of the preliminary

[11:50] levies of our 1.9% increase right

[12:05] here we have a comparison.

[12:07] This year's driving 640,000, last year 6147,000.

[12:16] Most of the difference in the debt living, a little bit,

[12:22] is to generalize any of the efforts related especially

[12:26] to the board in the least vehicle like 65,000.

[12:30] And there's just greater inflationary masks,

[12:33] tax, staff goal is increases like more chemicals for the streets and the parks, that is the

[12:44] main thing affecting the general portion of the land.

[12:49] Just to note,

[13:03] that you change this year in the median value of 100%, it will remember last

[13:10] last year we were at zero,

[13:17] got some nice increases in gross tax capacity from 9.6 to almost

[13:24] 10.3 and net tax capacity from 8.5 to 9.179 and tax will mark a value within 8.46 to about

[13:38] of 90% so that's some nice increases there, which

[13:42] I have to do the rate increase.

[13:44] Yeah,

[13:57] that's based on 0.025% estimated in market value.

[14:03] We can let it out to 167,078 dollars this year.

[14:09] Last year we let it be 157,117.

[14:14] And

[14:21] spend your time looking at it

[14:25] about a 3.5% increase from the prior year to

[14:35] the 20th, 27th, and there to the 20th, 26th.

[14:39] I'm going to see how much the parliament basically how much their portion of the general

[14:50] I saw it at 6.9.8.

[15:04] On the revenue side, there's $1,7,7,4,400, 13 taxes, and that includes the laws for the night months. And, um, some companies and interests, I am the end of budgeting with the revenues and expenditures, zero account.

[15:35] That let me go from $1,517,000 to $1,300, $1,845,000.

[15:44] or the year 26 payable on the 7, I mean that's by $327,000 increase, a lot of that is

[15:53] the year 26, A issue which will start and pay on that.

[15:59] I have

[16:03] a couple of minor issues coming off soon in 2013,

[16:24] because of taxes, that really

[16:28] aren't any other major increases.

[16:32] There's a couple of other government agencies that are getting one, another $7,000.

[17:25] I know the topic comes up, the fund of balance for the EDA account is on here and I'm

[17:34] I would have it just so we know what the next time and then

[17:51] I'm might as reading this

[17:53] around because the green thing says 2026 also with the top of all the it's what I was just like yeah

[18:02] I thought that was a great one for us.

[18:04] Okay, 27.

[18:05] All right.

[18:12] Anyone else?

[18:25] We move on to first meeting of the franchise teams.

[18:31] Um, school, biologists, requires pool meetings.

[18:35] The first meeting, uh, the first meeting,

[18:38] is the camera will be the second.

[18:41] And then it has to be published.

[18:43] And then the people of this,

[18:44] will be sent to the various utilities

[18:47] to give them nine days.

[18:49] to do what they have to do in collecting and January 2020 set.

[18:55] We started talking about this last fall

[18:58] and discussed it several times.

[19:02] How roughly the amount of revenue it based on a five percent

[19:09] across the world will be roughly $4,000,000,

[19:14] plus a lot of cost of defense

[19:16] That's basically based on prior year numbers,

[19:19] so the polls would be a little bit more than that

[19:22] with growth, some of the things that we could do

[19:27] with that, with those funds,

[19:32] could use those to pay off the ads in the general edit.

[19:42] The limit area, maybe like we just discussed

[19:45] The last one is $1.921, you could create an increase if we use those funds to reduce the

[19:53] sales revenue amount, we could get that down to about a 3% increase in taxes.

[20:02] And by the poverty, you can see what that change will allow to be between $150, $290 depending on the problem.

[20:19] Some of the future gain increases based on the scabby that we put at last. And about $610,000, we are 41 over the next five years to the general levy. So that the franchises will basically

[20:36] to eliminate most of them.

[20:45] Other times we talk about possible use

[20:47] and we get to eliminate special assessments.

[20:52] I'm by your side key on the visual list

[20:56] of what we have for outcome assessments

[21:00] like the coming roll 59 year change area.

[21:03] Most of that, it's kind of a bit over there.

[21:07] I think we've had about a thousand of them.

[21:10] I'm correct.

[21:11] Yeah.

[21:11] The

[21:14] last couple of years, a few of our assessments with the 20th grade improvement that work

[21:21] up by the school and like last year's for 20th grade board family and then some of

[21:29] the people come at this and pre-paid their amount.

[21:33] So I should be that to the

[21:47] last times are the importance of ordinances,

[22:11] do we need to move to approve the first three to have it come back for the second?

[22:16] We usually do it that way, yeah.

[22:18] Okay, so you want one at a time?

[22:20] Sure.

[22:21] I'll move to approve ordinance 2026-04 for NSP.

[22:30] Second.

[22:31] 1st by Councilmember Whips, 2nd by Councilmember Penny discussion,

[22:37] seeing none all is a favor say aye aye

[22:39] any bose to

[22:44] approve ordinance 2026-05 for center point

[22:48] Motion by Councilmember Whips, 2nd by Councilmember Pei, any discussion?

[22:53] Seeing none all is a favor say aye aye any bose

[22:58] 3

[23:03] of 2026-06 for MVC

[23:07] 2nd

[23:08] First, if I come from her website,

[23:09] that might come from her Penney, though.

[23:11] Excuse me.

[23:13] Seeing none, I'll just have to say aye.

[23:15] Aye.

[23:16] Any both?

[23:18] Opposities.

[23:18] Passes.

[23:28] Sorry.

[23:36] Plan is your port, please report to...

[23:40] Sergeant Probe, okay.

[23:46] Public Works Report.

[23:50] I vote 13 consent agenda.

[23:52] Move A through G.

[23:57] Seconded by Council Member Fau, any discussion?

[24:01] Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

[24:03] Aye.

[24:03] Hi, any opposed?

[24:08] So, committee reports, Mayor comments,

[24:12] the Hope Avenue parking lot, and the new parking lot,

[24:17] and the lights look fantastic.

[24:19] I drove through it this weekend,

[24:20] so a great job by everybody involved on that.

[24:23] That turned out really well.

[24:25] We had a great first weekend

[24:26] on the state baseball tournament.

[24:28] The weather was probably perfect.

[24:31] They are looking for volunteers,

[24:34] so please look at the city of Jordan's Facebook page.

[24:37] There's some sign-up forums on there.

[24:41] Hyman Fest, same kind of deal.

[24:43] They're looking for volunteers.

[24:46] So please sign up if you can help.

[24:50] Lastly, I want to thank Officer Ross,

[24:52] who's leaving us after five years.

[24:54] Good luck in your future endeavors.

[24:57] With that, come to some other shoe.

[25:00] I'm jumping on Heimatvest that the clues are out on the Facebook page and the Heimatvest website for the medallion has not been found yet. Let's see, what else? I agree. Thank you to Officer Ross and her work with the city. And then say Happy Anniversary to my husband today. That's it. Happy Anniversary. Good luck, Officer Ross. And see, kids start school. I believe before our next meeting.

[25:30] So good luck to them going to school and all their sports

[25:37] Yeah, thank you

[26:02] Thank you, Officer Ross, for your service.

[26:05] We appreciate it.

[26:07] Fair department doing pork burgers.

[26:09] We will.

[26:10] We saw in my agenda with some pork world's best pork burger

[26:13] stand.

[26:15] It's best pork burger.

[26:17] It's drove me wrong.

[26:19] It's drove me wrong.

[26:21] Good luck to the burgers.

[26:22] It'll be fun.

[26:23] It's awesome that they have a home game.

[26:24] So go up that out.

[26:26] I think that's our last one of the year, right?

[26:29] And congratulations to Amanda as well.

[26:35] Thank you, Officer Russ. I would agree. So, I'm at the fest will be before our next meeting.

[26:44] So, come on out to the street, dance on the Friday evening and down to the park and fireworks

[26:48] at the park. Saturday evening. So, it's always a really fun community event. Parkburg stand

[26:55] will be up. That's really all I have. Motion to adjourn.

[26:59] Second.

[26:59] Oh, it's a favorite German side?

[27:01] I don't know.

[27:02] I think it is German.

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