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Surprised John Douglas isn't here
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me to do this again. But
hopefully we're going to be able to show

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you what we've done in the last year and
what our goals are for this next year

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and even beyond that give you a little
taste of what we're looking at. There's

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a lot going on. I think you've seen
throughout the city

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some problems that we've had that we've
had to deal with. You've seen some

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beautification and we'll show you some
pictures that we've been working on

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trying to kind of clean up the lake. But
to start out with we'll stand and do the

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pledge of allegiance.

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Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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I want to
say a prayer to uh

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a few people. I know Mike Gibbon's
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it's always Jeff Libby.
Uh he retired or actually resigned as

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our emergency preparedness commissioner
to here for the lake and he's been doing

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it forever and I know he loved it. But
he had to back off because of health

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reasons.
reasons so if we have no one a silent

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Okay, thank you.
Uh to start off with we're going to do

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get sworn in. I want to thank everybody
for voting that did vote.

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There wasn't much of a
Nobody was running against so uh

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This is Dave Belkey
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» [applause]
>> And I'm the mayor. We're all going to

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get sworn in
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Okay, can I get a motion to accept the
Platte County Board of Elections results

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for the 2026 election? I make a motion
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election results for 2026. Second.
Okay.

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Alderman Bureau Alderman Belkey Alderman
Nash Alderman Tebeau Thank you.

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» [clears throat]
>> Okay. All right.

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All right, so we'll begin
Nash Not really Okay. Okay. How long

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have you been saying that? I'm
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All right.

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All right, so
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let's start with the mayor. Okay.

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And you two I can probably do you guys
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name since you're in the same positions.
So that you won't have to do separately.

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Okay, so you'll raise your right hand
and repeat

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after me.

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I Richard Zelfer I Richard Zelfer of the
city of Lake Waukomis, Platte County,

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Missouri of the city of Lake Waukomis,
Platte County, Missouri do solemnly

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swear that I possess all the
qualifications

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Do I
solemnly swear that I possess possess

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all the qualifications prescribed by law
prescribed by law for the office of

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mayor of the city of Lake Waukomis for
the office of mayor of the city of Lake

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Waukomis that I will support the
Constitution of the United States that I

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will support the Constitution of the
United States

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» and the state of Missouri and the state
of Missouri the statutes the statutes

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and all laws of this state and all laws
of this state

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» affecting the [music] city and the
ordinances affecting the city and the

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ordinances of said city of said city and
will honorably conduct myself and will

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honorably conduct myself
>> while in office as mayor while in office

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as mayor of said city of which office of
said city of which office

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» I was duly elected this 11th day of
April, 2026. as I was duly

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elected this 11th day of April, 2026.
Congratulations.

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» Thank you.
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» Okay.
Now both aldermen

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please stand and raise your right hand.

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I insert your name
Gary Tebeau Dave Belkey of the city of

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Lake Waukomis, Platte County, Missouri
of the city of Lake Waukomis, Platte

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County, Missouri do solemnly swear that
I possess do solemnly swear that I

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possess
all the qualifications prescribed by law

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all the qualifications prescribed by law
for the office of alderman for the

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office of the alderman of the city of
Lake Waukomis of the city of Lake

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Waukomis that I will support the
Constitution of the United States that I

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will support the Constitution of the
United States and the state of Missouri

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and the state of Missouri the statutes
and all the laws of this state the

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statutes and all the laws of this state
affecting the city

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affecting the city and ordinances of
said city and ordinances of said city

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and honorably conduct myself and
honorably conduct myself while in office

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as alderman of said city while in office
as alderman of said city of which office

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I was duly appointed the 11th day of
April, 2026. of which office I was duly

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appointed this 11th day of April, 2026.
Thank you. Congratulations.

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» Thank you. I'd like to do that with the
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our city council meeting and when the
vote was we didn't get the official

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until Friday.
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introduce you with Dave Belkey and he's
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you know, some minor stuff.
So I'll let him have it from here.

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» No Mike, I can I can talk loud enough.
Well, it's for us. Oh, sorry.

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Yeah.
Here you go.

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Okay.
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Uh
my name is Dave Belkey and I wanted to

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give you a little background on myself.
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I'm the new guy on the block. Um back in
October um Bob Schnugl moved off the

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lake and the mayor came to my house and
asked me if I'd fill in as interim

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alderman which I accepted and I re-ran
in April and

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and here I am so Uh Leona and I reside
at 559 on North Shore.

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Uh been here for about 10 years.
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being an alderman just for the last few
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I see a lot of things that I can help
with and it's I care a lot about the

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lake and I care a lot about people on
the lake so I'm very honored to have

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this position.
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some of the things I've been working on
being the new guy

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» [clears throat]
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system for the city office and the city
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I did some work on the

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trash disposal service. I know everybody
wasn't happy about that but I think

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everything's settled down now.
Everybody's

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Everybody's got the right cans and
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» according to somebody that his lids
aren't heavy enough. I don't know if

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that's true or not but uh
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My professional background I've been a
business owner since 2006

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and I'm in the construction service
business. So I thought like you know,

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when the city is going out and getting
bids on different projects that we have

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I feel like my skill set can bring some
some some

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justice to that to get the right bids to
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at a decent price.
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Also I want to say something really
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When I first moved in here and I don't
know everybody was complaining about the

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gas pumps up at the same place.
Well, that's what I do. I'm the one that

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put new gas pumps at the same place.
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» So you owe me that.
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that's all I got in there.
Um Did you want to mention anything

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about the building permits and Oh yeah,
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when the hail damage when the hail storm
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um the mayor asked the aldermen to we
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our our city attorney Scott
and we went out and and canvassed the

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area for a couple days checking all
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and I I ran into several of them that
when I approached them and and told them

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they needed to make sure that they got
the proper licenses of the city

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you know, and had their insurance and
everything taken care of. A lot of them

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left. They just took off.
So as residents with you getting

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these people to come to your house, it
doesn't they don't need a permit to come

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to your house to give you an estimate.
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non-solicitation you know, in the lake
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they can't just start walking
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You know, that's not they can't solicit
their own business and they can't

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obviously can't put signs in their yard.
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I probably delivered 20 or 30 different
brochures to different contractors and

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and I think most of them did come to the
city to

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to visit with Brandon get their their
things in order but please if you have

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contractors that come to your house make
sure they come to see the to the city

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and by the way the the building permits
are sitting about 10 days out. Yeah, 7

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to 10 days. 7 to 10 days out on the
building permit because she's so backed

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up in there.
So and it's probably going to get worse

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as the summer goes on. There's going to
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and a lot of furnace issues so
check with your contractors and make

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sure they got their paperwork in order
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we'll do our best to police it the best
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Do you think they have any questions on
the roofing On the permits

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my roofer came by something
resident needs to sign out to on the

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permit.
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the resident is actually the one that's
most that we can actually

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send you a ticket
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the resident is actually the one that's
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what it was what Scott told us.
Okay. Well, you know, and I don't want

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to do it that way. Most people normally
rely on a contractor. So, what I

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That's what we're trying to do. Well, my
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me. So, I'm I'm hearing the way it's 100
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responsibility is to make sure that the
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do, but also understand if they lied to
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and they take off working and then they
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the homeowner is still responsible.
You're the one that's having the work

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And Mary, can you
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one of the meetings we had about it?
Is there a Is there a Is there a

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pre-inspection and a post-inspection
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Well, with our building inspector, he's
over swamp, too. He's actually allowing

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the contractor to take certain pictures.
He'll tell them what he needs pictures

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of the frost line barrier,
uh the gate the metal that goes into the

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these,
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I forget what the third one, but there's
a third one. He He tells them what he

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needs. As long as they send him the
picture, he's fine with that because we

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can't be there all the time.
This is crazy around here.

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How many roofs are going up and we won't
ever stop anybody if they start to roof,

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we won't stop them even if they don't
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we don't know when the next rain's going
to happen. So,

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we're not going to
make it to where somebody has water

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damage because we stopped them from
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Okay. Any other questions?
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That saves us.
All right. Our next one, I think you

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guys will really enjoy this. You
probably have seen a a lot of it

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throughout the day you need to be here.
I do, but I can't read it upside down

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and backwards, so Okay.
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» All right. This is on the
beautification. He'll show you and we

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got some slides for it.
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as most of you have probably noticed
over time,

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we we spend a lot of money trying to fix
sewers and things like that. We also

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have not been taking care of the
cosmetic and the normal things and we

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just kind of get used to it. It just
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So, this year we started looking at
different things that we could do under

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our control to change some of that.
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guardrails. This is an example on your
right of what some of the guardrails

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looked like and they were a lot worse
than this. What Actually, on on my

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right, not your right.
So, and and you can see there on the

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after,
we replaced some of the bad ones that we

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could. We only had so many down below
the dam to do that with, but then Mike

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and the guys
scrubbed them down, power washed them

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and started painting.
And we we've done that

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practically every guardrail that we've
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So, this as you can see, this is the
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what they were looking like. A lot of
this all over the lake where we had

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guardrails
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» and that's an example of what they look
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Okay.
The other thing we did is

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we we've always had a problem with that
fence along this this spillway edge over

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here and it's always looked ugly. The
underbrush

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had just come up through it and it
looked terrible. So, we started knocking

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down
sewer lines got to be the most important

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things that we had to put it off for a
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So, here in the last month or so,
we got up there and

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dredged out all that stuff and angled it
back. I mean, it was just a straight

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drop off back there.
So, we angled it down a little bit. As

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you can see where they we've put the
grass mat and stuff on the back. We

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drilled all through that and then put
these 6 by 6s all the way through. And

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we tried to keep the theme of that we
started here at Lake Waco with the cedar

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tone and those kind of woods. So, things
all look the same. You'll notice

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the signs that by the
the storage [snorts] bins over there,

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we've got them in the the old Lake Waco
signs on it. So, we're trying to

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continue that look wherever we can.

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And Bob Schmalgo
started off with this project and

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those of you can even remember seeing
the sign before.

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They were not only hard to see, but they
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able to see them. They were small
and hard to hard for anybody that wasn't

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used to being on the lake to figure out
where to go. So, these are some of the

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examples of the signs that that are up
there right now and that we're using and

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they're very descriptive. I
You know, every time I look at these,

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I'm like, "How do we get by so long
without signs like that?" They just They

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look great and they make they make Lake
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improvement there. I mean, it's like,
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So, that's that's part of what we're
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And and then we spent a lot of time
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looking at signs.
We We've got rid of over 13 signs that

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was plastered around, stuck on poles,
behind bushes.

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Uh and we put speed signs out
in rows and numerous places

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so that when people were driving around,
you didn't have to go try to find sign

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and see a sign. You're going to drive by
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Uh most of you probably seen them at
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If not, you see them in the daytime as
well, but they're a fluorescent paint

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type stuff that shows up. And we'll
continue this up. We'll be touching them

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up from year to year as we go along
until we have to repaint again.

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But the plan is to keep them up and then
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I think they're pretty pretty successful
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What's that, Ange?
Uh any questions? Is there any such

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things out there that you've noticed
that we just need to go get working on

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for beautification to make the lake look
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So, you think we're touching on some of
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Awesome. Thank you.

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Thank you, guys.
All right.

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Gary Thibault is going to come up and
kind of go over the dam, the situation,

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what we've been doing,
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the lake's full, what can we say? I
mean, we fought this forever and now we

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don't have to. So, I'll let him go
through this.

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So, one of the things that we're going
to go over. We had the Department of

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Natural Resources came out and
evaluated our dam again.

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So,
thank you, Carol.

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So,
one thing if if you look at what they

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This was their scorecard that they put
out and so they did They said we're

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doing a great job maintaining the dam.
It's just outstanding. We have a couple

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of other call outs. I put the green ones
there. Great job maintaining the

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concrete joints and and so forth in the
spillway. Uh

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and they said continue the efforts to
remove the concrete joints and seal and

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keep them sealed and keep out the
vegetation growth. And then the large

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volume of seepage that has historically
uh been documented down in past

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inspections has been reduced to a
trickle of flow at the line of

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inspection. What they're talking about
is down here on the side. It used to go

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at about 300 gallons plus a minute.
Now, you might get a half a cup,

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something like that. So, it's it's
The money that they put out there to fix

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all that it
vehicle there. So, which is good.

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There's some things though that they
brought up to that are in yellow that we

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need to watch and that's on the left
groin, which is over on the other side

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coming off. There's a lot of water that
comes off from the 100 block and it goes

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out towards Greenhills Road and circles
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we need to keep an eye on that and they
There's quite a bit of water flow there.

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And so,
to fix that though, we looked at it

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previously and there's
it's coming from all different It'd be

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very expensive to fix that. And so, what
we've been doing is maintaining where we

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can right here where we can control it a
little bit better. That's what we did

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last I think last year or the year
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Uh and then areas of standing water down
at the bottom, approximately 50 ft down

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slope on the toe, there's a vertical
center of the dam. This may be evidence

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of seepage surface
surfacing or possibly just ponding

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from precipitation. So, sometimes you'll
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kind of in the center of the dam and
that's what they're referring to.

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To carry down at the base of it.
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they could only find the red down here.
It says they could only one find one

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pipe outlet that could be located during
the time of the inspection and they want

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us to identify the other two uh pipes
cuz there's three of them that go out

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and mark them for the next time. I don't
think that's going to be much of a

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problem to find it.
Except to digging.

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We'll find it though.

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So, they they also provided some basic
some pictures of the dam inspection

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downstream face, downstream face where
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towards the lake and then principal
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toward the discharge.
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And then you can see the principal
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water goes over I say over the cliff.
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outlets that they're referring to. So,
that's one of the outlets that they've

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got the mark on on the upper right. We
need to do that on the two that they

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can't find.
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side is the corner of the former locate
location of the seepage collection

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measurement weir
in the lower right groin. And that's

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uh one of our
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about
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the left side where they where they're
saying significant water is coming out

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that we're getting seepage from.

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So,
this is a weir that would we found at uh

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uh where was that? It's someplace up in
the north. Up north. And they they they

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poured that whole thing and just bring
it down and deliver it. Okay. So, you

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can see that this thing is backwards but
basically what it is we set it down at

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the bottom. Prior we had a tube
a metal tube which it was kind of

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unsightly really and then we had a V
notch in there. So, what we're going to

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try and do is put this in there which is
a little cleaner and easier to read the

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values as far as how much water flow
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And so, with that being said
one of the things that we're wanting to

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do is put this in so that hopefully
we'll have the the funds to do that but

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also down the road just keep in mind
that the expensive we spent almost a

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million dollars to fix this this
past time.

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So, in 20 years just think what it's
going to cost

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to fix it again because it was about 20
years previous that we did that. And so,

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we're going to have to come up with some
ideas on how we can collect money and be

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prepared for that event down the road
because it's going to happen. It's not

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after 20. Hopefully we get 20 years.
But if it was a million today 20 it

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might be 20 million. Who knows? I you
know, I'm just throwing a number out

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there because it's hard to say what it
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So, keep that in mind
and because without that and our I'll

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say the lake's leaking then our property
values go like that quick. So,

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Any questions, sir? Is the plan to just
like wait another 20? I I thought that

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when they did that work they
it was some sensors that were left and

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they're going to monitor it maybe 5
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So, instead of waiting 20 maybe do it
more frequently. That's what I

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I thought the weir
was to help us. The weir is to help and

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we also do have some sensors that will
will monitor and track it by their

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rainfall and also
how much [clears throat] we're

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discharging. So, hopefully this thing is
just barely going over the edge for a

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long time. That's what we're hoping.
And hopefully the other side doesn't

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become a problem because that will cost
a lot just because it goes where the

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grass area is or where the 100 block all
that. It's all through there where it's

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going through and you can see it coming
down on Greenhills Road if you're

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walking or you know, if you're driving
by and and that foliage isn't up you can

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see it running out over there.
Any other questions?

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Thank you.

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I will say that
the the aldermen have set aside like

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this year I think there's $40,000.
We're hoping that we don't you know,

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we've got to buy the weir.
Surprisingly the price that we got from

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one supplier is $2800. That's them
pouring that whole thing and delivering

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it to us. So, all we got to do is set
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So, but every year I'm going to try to
keep at least while I'm here we'll keep

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budgeting money and we'll keep putting
it into the CD. But at $40,000 or

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$40,000 a year it
I if it increases the way the volume of

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everything's increasing it's that's why
we're worried about whether we'll have

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enough money. So, now turn it over to
Lori Barrel.

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Hi y'all. My name's Lori Barrel. Hello
all you Lake Waubesa and thank you for

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coming.
Um I'm going to read my presentation to

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you.
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I wanted first of all thank all of you
for sharing your topics, concerns and

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kudos that you have freely expressed
with me over this last year.

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I hope you found my responses to be
truthful, open and responsive. I

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appreciate your confidence in electing
me as an alderwoman representing all of

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you during my tenure.
My goals this year were I I do the

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police board and I
and mayor pro tem. But my goal this year

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for the board was to try to find
some people who would want to go go and

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grow forward with us so that we can
continue to be solvent and

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bring some of this talent that we have
in this lake

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to into the city.
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So, I wanted to set the residents of the
generations up to come for success in

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structurally both structurally and
physically. The city board is but so in

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that I'm going to explain what the city
board is about. So, just a very brief

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recap so it takes some of the fear or
reticence of

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being involved away.
The city board is made up of four alder

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persons, two south shore, two north
shore. Several tasks are exclusive to

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all municipal boards
which is a city board.

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Um
The most distinctive difference is that

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city boards work within with ordinances,
codes and rules of law structures.

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Mayor constructs the agenda but has no
voting power. Alder persons should be

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bringing their constituents
Lake Waubesa citizens

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concerns and questions to the meetings
to be discussed and resolved in public.

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We should be here to represent and serve
in the best interest of our community.

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Only alder persons can vote unless it's
a tiebreaker and then the mayor votes.

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Like any government entity it is best to
serve your community with boards of

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members that have different skill sets.
This allows Lake Waubesa to continue to

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grow as a whole community. We have an
attorney named Scott Sullivan who should

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who serves as a consultant only not a
decision maker. And I've had questions

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about that too. So, Miranda, Lisa, Mike
and Alex

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are the only city employees we have.
They should run their own departments.

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That is what they're being paid for.
Spending caps should be in place and

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adhered to for all departments and
mayors and alder persons.

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We are a small city with limited revenue
streams. Overspending can quickly sink a

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small municipality. That's why it's
important.

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» [cough and clears throat]
>> Bids for outside contractors should have

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three bids or more.
Encourage you to watch how your

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resident money is being spent.
Um

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I've gotten lots of calls on the flags
on the dam. I did call Larry and ask him

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today so I can answer.
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They're going up next month.
Um I myself too love to come across that

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dam and see those those flags. So,
they're coming.

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And I think he ordered new ones, right
Larry?

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I haven't ordered them yet but Um
Okay.

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Um
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For future city projects you need to be
able to not only build a structure but

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have the income to maintain it.
So, we we've had a lot of really nice

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things happen in the last couple years.
Example being like the city South Park.

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When it first when I first came on the
board legally that was

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controlled by the city so it was a
public park.

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For financial and safety reasons they
went back to being an HOA

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uh task and property a couple of years
ago.

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Um
I'm delighted since that's another

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question I get a lot. Um
I'm delighted to continue to meet the

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20s, 30s, 40s and 50 year old something
citizens that are so gifted.

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I want to encourage you to run for
alderperson, mayor, codes inspector,

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treasurer, emergency preparedness,
building inspector, dam and spillway

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committees.
You will have support from other Lake

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Waubesa residents that have served

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for years and are retiring to travel and
enjoy to and do other things and take

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other journeys and adventures.
This segues me into a very heartfelt

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thank you to the mentors that have
enveloped me on my service journey here

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at Lake Waubesa. Yes, I'm going to name
your names.

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These people are examples of unsung
cultural heroes that allow us to have

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what we have here as far as the fun.
Um many of them have served in formal

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capacities in the past and some just
quietly seek a way to continue to give

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back and maintain the real beauty of
this community. They are as follows.

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Marvin and Tina Lynch.

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Um they never met a stranger. Come on
in, old bud, presentation. They are

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fixing things for people that you don't
even know are broken.

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Um with consistent kindness and giving
back spirit.

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To the Patty Clarks and the Karen Hayes
of this neighborhood that were here when

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I moved in here.
Uh with our U-Haul still in the

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driveway, they were bringing us food and
drinks, giving me phone numbers, a list

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of upcoming events and things to enjoy.
And they're going to pick me up, so I

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better be ready.
To Bill Massock, offering me a police

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board, and I didn't know he was going to
be here, but to Bill Massock, offering

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00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:37,960
me a police board position
on and sparking my interest in city

427
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,960
government in the first place.

428
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:47,440
To Mayor Todd, who encouraged me to run
for an alderperson position.

429
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:52,720
To Louisa and Jeff Libby, who are the
gargoyles of the neighborhood who

430
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:56,760
quietly just keep things on the track.
Um and can thank you for your service,

431
00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:02,840
both of you.
Um and huge shout-out to another family

432
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:09,000
that has represented to me the ideal
Lake Waubesa culture. They were They

433
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:13,480
embraced everyone. They hosted everyone
and anyone for decades.

434
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:16,600
They do the golf tournament. I just
They've done a lot of things in their

435
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:20,040
time. Um
this all A lot of things happened in

436
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:23,720
their home. Jeff and Nancy Dollar
family.

437
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:28,240
Consistently understated with maximum
amount of class.

438
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:32,680
Last of all, to the Donna Rothe's, the
Sandy Massock's,

439
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:37,880
the Ann Sanders,
the ladies who served before me, and all

440
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:40,080
of them offered their guidance to me.
Uh

441
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:43,960
they just came to me and asked if they
could help.

442
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:46,520
I appreciate you very much. You're
well.

443
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:50,680
Um
I'm all about women empowerment, and

444
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:55,800
these are some very bright There are
some very bright young women on this

445
00:31:52,200 --> 00:32:01,679
lake. Please consider the con- Ooh.
Please continue to consider

446
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:05,320
the protecting of our Lake Waubesa city
for years to come by serving.

447
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:12,720
Um unlike thinking people
make a great board.

448
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:17,520
You serve with respect, be an asset to
your community,

449
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:20,920
and we thank you all for being you.
Let's go slay another year.

450
00:32:22,097 --> 00:32:24,117
» [applause]

451
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:31,760
» Thank you.
I want to thank the aldermen for their

452
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:35,800
presentation.
Uh I would thought that would be good

453
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:39,960
just to give them a
give you a taste of what we're looking

454
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:43,960
at, what we're trying to do.
Uh now I get to break in the bad news,

455
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:49,000
the sewers.
Uh you guys all know what we dealt with

456
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:53,240
last year when we had uh
the the sewer that went from the 300

457
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:58,120
block to 200 block started leaking in
the lake. So then we had the emergency,

458
00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:03,280
we started pumping had a line that was
costing us $16 a foot per day

459
00:33:01,679 --> 00:33:08,360
that we had to run that line all the way
around the cove to get it back over

460
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:13,320
while we fix that repaired that line.
Well, when that happened, that's when I

461
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:18,840
told the aldermen, we need to fix all
the lines under the lake. There is a

462
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:23,280
total we still have to fix four.
We are not doing any You seen us do some

463
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:27,040
work over in 900 block, and I'll talk
about that here in a little bit, but

464
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:32,120
we're basically letting the money build
up, and we're going to sit there and put

465
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:38,320
it out for bid, probably I want to say
September, October,

466
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:42,520
for to do in March, probably next year,
because he's asking me to drop the lake

467
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:47,280
3 to 6 ft. We're going to try to drop it
in the winter, that way you have the

468
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:52,440
spring to get it to pump back up. And
that's that's our goal anyway. You know,

469
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:55,679
Mother Nature has a lot to do with that.
But uh

470
00:33:53,440 --> 00:34:00,640
my hope is that we can get enough money
built up that we can do the 400 block

471
00:33:58,679 --> 00:34:05,880
pump station that runs from the 400
block to the 300 block. It runs under

472
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:09,760
the water there. Then we have two
gravity-fed lines that run from the 200

473
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:14,440
block
back to the 300 block that goes to the

474
00:34:11,879 --> 00:34:20,720
pump station that come kicks it back
out. And then the longest one is we got

475
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:23,800
from the 200 block a siphon line that
runs to the 100 block, and that picks it

476
00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:28,520
out of there.
So if we can get those three done in

477
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:33,280
next year,
then all we have is the 900 block pump

478
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:38,040
station to finish. The problem I have
with the 900 block pump station is we

479
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:41,520
got to totally rebuild it. It is
obsolete. We're going to So we're going

480
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,000
to move it down close a little bit
closer

481
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:48,760
to the lake. We're going to keep it low,
but we'll keep all the power where it's

482
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:54,159
at, and we'll just
uh trench the power under underground.

483
00:34:52,159 --> 00:35:01,120
That way we don't have anything high to
where it obstructs view of anybody.

484
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:07,359
Uh that is my goal
for the next 2 years is to get get all

485
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:10,480
the lines done that go under the lake.
Then from there, we'll be back at the

486
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:15,720
100
uh block and start repairing it. I will

487
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:20,680
say that this
aldermen allowed us since I became mayor

488
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:25,840
4 years ago
that we started in right here at the

489
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:32,800
1,100 block, the south shore on the
first tier is 98% done.

490
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:38,080
And it We You don't see us in there like
we used to. I mean, when I first became

491
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:43,280
mayor, we were in behind those houses
fixing collapsed lines.

492
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:46,800
Uh the thing we're seeing is that it's a
clay pipe.

493
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:50,720
And we really believe that they laid
this clay pipe and then just took a

494
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:56,640
dozer and pushed over it. There's no
gravel around any of it. So, you know,

495
00:35:54,560 --> 00:36:00,760
the thing that would save the city the
most money is if we can get into an area

496
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:04,600
that we can line.
Because then we don't have to do any

497
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:09,640
digging. We can just pump this
fiberglass in there. They lock it freeze

498
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:14,520
it up or heat it up, and it and it gets
hard, and that's what we've done in the

499
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:19,400
800 block. That's what we've done from
1,000 to 1,100 block. We had to fix

500
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:23,200
certain areas, but after that, they
lined it.

501
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:27,680
Uh the 900 block way, if you've been by
there, you'll see we had to remove a

502
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:33,240
huge tree.
That tree was the entire problem of that

503
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:38,280
whole line that we repaired this year.
Uh we sat there, and I knew Mike was

504
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:42,400
uh
having, you know, going to be gone for

505
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:46,560
any length of time, I talked to the
aldermen, told them that we were going

506
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:50,080
to hire the Dyster company to come in
and dig.

507
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:54,320
And then when Mike got back, I just I
just kind of stood back and watched,

508
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:59,160
because this is the first section that
we've done on the second tier that I've

509
00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:03,960
been around. I wanted to see what kind
of problems they ran into. I didn't make

510
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:08,760
any suggestions to them. I just watched.
Uh there is some areas that we can

511
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:13,080
definitely improve on to make it
cheaper.

512
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:17,240
Uh number one, we needed both trucks,
and we still had the one had salt been

513
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:21,320
on it. And we didn't want to take the
salt spreader off of it

514
00:37:19,359 --> 00:37:24,760
quite yet, because it was still March,
and I didn't want to be in that case

515
00:37:23,359 --> 00:37:30,000
that everybody raise hell that I
couldn't salt anything. So, we're We'll

516
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:36,280
be discussing
the why that one that run of three

517
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:41,560
houses cost so much. The The other thing
that we dealt with, it's where all the

518
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:48,120
gas lines are. It's where the, you know,
Spectrum, AT&T is. So, it's not like of

519
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:53,440
these houses, because we don't have any
of that in the backyard. So we were able

520
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:58,080
to dig and do two to three sticks of
pipe every day. We are lucky to do one

521
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:01,680
to two.
Uh so that's some of the problems that

522
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,440
we have.
Uh like I said,

523
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:08,440
uh
when we get into the 100 block, or

524
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:13,080
you're going to start seeing it.
When we get If we're close to a tree,

525
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:17,320
we're going to take the tree out. You
know, we tried to save them in the 900

526
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:21,560
block, we had two fall over.
You know, so from now on, if we're

527
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:25,200
getting close to a tree and we think
there's any chance that we're going to

528
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:29,720
weaken that tree and it could fall, I
don't want it to fall on anybody. I'm

529
00:38:27,359 --> 00:38:35,359
going to take it out. That's why we took
out the one in the 900 block. The stump

530
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:39,200
on it was so big that we had to roll it
up a hill, back the truck up, and roll

531
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:42,880
it into the truck, because we couldn't
pick it up.

532
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:47,720
So,
you shouldn't see it The next sewer

533
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:52,240
project that we're going to do as far as
small scale is over in the 600 block. We

534
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:58,040
got an area that we have to clean out.
It costs us uh around $2,000 about every

535
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:03,240
year that we have to clean out, and it's
just a belly in the in the

536
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:08,520
sewer itself. We'll probably be over
there trying to fix that to alleviate

537
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:15,560
that kind of problem. Uh the one thing
I'm really proud of that we're doing is

538
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:21,160
the shoulder work with the cement.
If you You can really see it over in the

539
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:26,560
100 and 200 block going down the main
drag of how that is helping widen that

540
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:31,080
street. And when I do the other side,
the second tier side, it's really going

541
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:36,560
to make it stand out how wide these
streets are. Because I'm trying to pick

542
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:40,920
up 6 to 8 in every time we do that.
Uh other than that, uh I think we're

543
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,917
pretty well there. If If any questions
on

544
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:46,640
the sewers,
>> [snorts]

545
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:53,520
» be free to ask, but I will say
when I started this 4 years ago, I asked

546
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:57,800
for $35. Everybody gave us $35.
We saw last year that it was, you know,

547
00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:02,000
wasn't going very far.
So, we had an additional $24 built into

548
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:07,840
the
for normal repair work. Well, I put that

549
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:13,120
$24 additional to it and any sewer work
comes out of that special sewer account.

550
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:19,240
Even that, if we don't sit there and
think about raising that price

551
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:24,600
to help offset the costs going up of
everything, we're going to be ended up

552
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:30,600
having to wait year after year doing on
an odd year working the sewer line.

553
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:37,360
So, I'm going to ask
for $11 increase to the sewer.

554
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:42,800
If you please, everybody and people on
the Facebook, talk to your alderman.

555
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:46,000
Give them your opinion because they're
they're the ones that have to vote on

556
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:52,080
this. What I want doesn't matter. I'll
I'll adjust to whatever is left out

557
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:59,440
there, but I I'm just saying what we
spent at $35 4 years ago is probably

558
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:04,240
costing us more $45 this right now.
I need to sit there and be able to keep

559
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:08,360
moving forward if that's what you want
or we can slow it down. I don't I don't

560
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:13,560
I just need to know which direction.
That is the reason why we're waiting

561
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:17,840
until next year to do these
uh

562
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:23,000
lines going under the lake is because uh
we calculated where we would be in the

563
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:27,520
fall and our engineer says we really
need to get more money than that. So,

564
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:30,840
we're going to see when we get this out
the mid on how far we can go with this.

565
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:35,200
So,
uh that's about all I got. I want to

566
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:40,000
thank everybody that showed up. If you
have any questions, I'll be happy to

567
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:44,280
answer, but uh again, yeah.
So, you're wanting to line the sewer

568
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:48,400
line versus bursting it?
Bursting it, we tried we thought we

569
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:53,400
could burst on the 900 block. The
problem is to burst it, it it has to be

570
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:56,600
so deep in the ground because it
basically is like dynamite bursting it.

571
00:41:56,538 --> 00:42:00,320
» [snorts]
>> Well, they told us they could not be

572
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,560
done over in the 900 block.
>> Bursting it is pulling a new pipe

573
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:09,080
through. Well, we've looked into that
one, too. I mean, we've looked at all

574
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:11,680
all aspects and seriously, they
they tell me they can't be done. Well,

575
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:15,800
you
I'm totally I'm asking you because

576
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:19,680
you're shutting down our main people for
that line. You're going to shut them

577
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:25,160
down for at least 48 hours because it
has to cure your line in there versus

578
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:30,160
No, they they lined my 800 block and I
we never got shut down.

579
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:33,240
Seriously. They lined
Huh?

580
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:39,000
Well, I I don't know. There again, we
get we get uh Jay, our engineer,

581
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:44,920
but the company
I'm going to say $11,000. He had the

582
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:48,320
contract to burst the 900 block.
He went in there and started testing

583
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:52,840
because some of the areas on the 900
block is about 3 ft deep or less. I

584
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:56,200
mean, it's that shallow.
And they came back and they said we

585
00:42:54,840 --> 00:43:00,360
can't do it. And we had paid them
$11,000 for them to go through and tell

586
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:03,040
us that they couldn't do it.
So,

587
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:08,960
you know, nothing's for sure. We've
we've had pipe that has been the deepest

588
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:13,560
is probably 12 ft deep
in one area, but I've had it as shallow

589
00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:20,160
that we built a wall and sit there and
actually had to put dirt on it because

590
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:24,920
it's on there's such a short fall that
we have on some of these runs. In the

591
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:29,080
900 block, I had one neighbor say he put
a level on that pipe that was right

592
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:33,160
there where we're going to do his tap.
He says there's only 1/2 in in fall. I

593
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:37,640
said, "Yeah, that's we only get an inch
per 16 ft."

594
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:41,560
So, it you know, because that's just the
way they

595
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:48,960
And we've had no problems with it. So,
we we do look at every option in every

596
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:52,800
we've had the 100 block it already
scoped and there is nothing in there to

597
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,520
save
that they can do is what they I was

598
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,080
told.
Yeah.

599
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:03,600
How long
when you go over the lake, how long is

600
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:07,280
it going to take to do the pipes that
have to go under the water?

601
00:44:05,359 --> 00:44:11,680
Well, they're I'm hoping pretty quick.
I'm hoping we wouldn't we'll have to

602
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:15,640
start water dropping the lake because if
we drop it, I'm going to say it's 6 in a

603
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:21,080
day.
A day, no, not that much.

604
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:25,560
It It It takes a while to drop it.
And and I'm not even sure where I'm not

605
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:28,400
going to let them drop it to 6 ft. I'll
we'll probably negotiate between 3 and

606
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:32,480
6.
But with any luck, they're going to be

607
00:44:30,359 --> 00:44:37,200
right there ready to set that pipe
immediately.

608
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:41,320
Okay, absolutely. They can't lower that
much. They can't

609
00:44:39,359 --> 00:44:45,120
Yeah. the line with the lake.
>> No, because they got where the seawall

610
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:48,960
is and everything else, they got to go
and bring it down.

611
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:54,160
And it it make it a lot easier to make
sure we protect it when it comes up to

612
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:57,960
the to the people's residence or to the
ground or

613
00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:01,840
that they can They even want to If they
had their way, they'd want to get their

614
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:06,720
backhoe down into the lake. To do that,
we got to drop it back to where they can

615
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:10,000
get into it. Uh we'll look at every
option. I have you know, I

616
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:14,840
» And you would anticipate doing this
during the winter so that

617
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:19,560
Probably February or March of next year.
Of next year. Of next year. What's going

618
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:24,040
to happen this year? Uh the 600 block,
that'd be about it. Okay.

619
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:28,880
Uh we did the 900 block. If you notice
that we're trying to sit there and make

620
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:34,440
sure everything looks better than it did
when we left. So, if you see, we got sod

621
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:39,200
there. We've laid cement on the new
driveway where we cut across. We've

622
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:44,240
added asphalt where we need to. So,
we're I want to make sure that

623
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:47,080
every resident when we come through,
we try to make it better than what it

624
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,359
was.
And it's just a

625
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:54,920
don't know if it'll happen, but we're
going to try to.

626
00:45:52,200 --> 00:46:03,040
Yeah. Um
I live at 153 100 block, but I'm I'm

627
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:09,840
wondering, do they have an outline or a
plan like how our sewers

628
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:14,040
are on the 100 block where we're going
to be working? Yeah. We We know where

629
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:20,120
the lines are. We've actually videoed
that whole 100 block. And we basically

630
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:25,440
got to start at the dam and we've got to
redo the pipes all the way to Dennis

631
00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:29,920
Talbott's house. Do Do they have a map
so we can know where our trees are going

632
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:34,760
to go down? Well, believe me, that's not
until 2029. And I if I'm still mayor,

633
00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:37,080
I'll be over there talking to you and
pointing out to you which ones are going

634
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to go.
>> Okay. So, so 2029? Yeah.

635
00:46:40,359 --> 00:46:49,400
Yeah, you got you got some time.
Because I know some of them you would

636
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:53,760
think they would go from the house out
to You got to

637
00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:59,240
» There are some houses that are
There is some places that you're going

638
00:46:55,720 --> 00:47:04,040
to see that the the sewer line main is
might be really close to the house.

639
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:09,800
» Yeah. And then the next time it's down
farther down, it has to do with it flows

640
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:16,160
it has the siphoning line. The
It gravity gravity. Yeah. So, we have to

641
00:47:13,359 --> 00:47:20,000
keep it to where you got your uphill and
downhill side.

642
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:23,880
And everything has to flow down to the
dam.

643
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:29,240
So, it it the
It It's like I said, it's 1 in per 16

644
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:33,800
ft. That's what we had in the 900 block.
So, it's not much. I mean, there's some

645
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:36,680
places that it's almost dead level. We
have to really work at it to get it to

646
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:41,720
fall. [laughter]
So, but it's 2029, it'd be the earliest

647
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we get into the 100 block.
Okay? Any other questions?

648
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:50,600
All right. Well, I'm I'll take a vote to
adjourn and we'll call it a night.

649
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:55,080
» I'll make a motion we adjourn the
meeting. I'll second.

650
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:58,200
Okay. All in favor? All right.
Okay.

651
00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:00,880
We're done. Thank you, guys.
Hope that helps.

652
00:48:00,068 --> 00:48:03,440
» [applause]
>> Thank you.