[0:04] Surprised John Douglas isn't here
because he's the one that kind of pushed
[0:08] me to do this again. But
hopefully we're going to be able to show
[0:13] you what we've done in the last year and
what our goals are for this next year
[0:19] and even beyond that give you a little
taste of what we're looking at. There's
[0:24] a lot going on. I think you've seen
throughout the city
[0:29] some problems that we've had that we've
had to deal with. You've seen some
[0:33] beautification and we'll show you some
pictures that we've been working on
[0:36] trying to kind of clean up the lake. But
to start out with we'll stand and do the
[0:42] pledge of allegiance.
[0:47] Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:52] republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:59] justice for all.
[1:02] I want to
say a prayer to uh
[1:06] a few people. I know Mike Gibbon's
working on dealing with some stuff but
[1:11] it's always Jeff Libby.
Uh he retired or actually resigned as
[1:16] our emergency preparedness commissioner
to here for the lake and he's been doing
[1:21] it forever and I know he loved it. But
he had to back off because of health
[1:26] reasons.
reasons so if we have no one a silent
[1:30] thank
[1:36] Okay, thank you.
Uh to start off with we're going to do
[1:41] get sworn in. I want to thank everybody
for voting that did vote.
[1:47] There wasn't much of a
Nobody was running against so uh
[1:53] This is Dave Belkey
and Gary Tebeau.
[1:57] » [applause]
>> And I'm the mayor. We're all going to
[1:59] get sworn in
and thank you.
[2:02] Okay, can I get a motion to accept the
Platte County Board of Elections results
[2:07] for the 2026 election? I make a motion
to accept the Platte County
[2:13] election results for 2026. Second.
Okay.
[2:21] Alderman Bureau Alderman Belkey Alderman
Nash Alderman Tebeau Thank you.
[2:26] » [clears throat]
>> Okay. All right.
[2:27] All right, so we'll begin
Nash Not really Okay. Okay. How long
[2:32] have you been saying that? I'm
[laughter] not saying anything tonight.
[2:35] All right.
[2:38] All right, so
let's
[2:40] let's start with the mayor. Okay.
[2:43] And you two I can probably do you guys
at the same time. You just insert your
[2:46] name since you're in the same positions.
So that you won't have to do separately.
[2:51] Okay, so you'll raise your right hand
and repeat
[2:54] after me.
[2:57] I Richard Zelfer I Richard Zelfer of the
city of Lake Waukomis, Platte County,
[3:01] Missouri of the city of Lake Waukomis,
Platte County, Missouri do solemnly
[3:05] swear that I possess all the
qualifications
[3:09] Do I
solemnly swear that I possess possess
[3:14] all the qualifications prescribed by law
prescribed by law for the office of
[3:19] mayor of the city of Lake Waukomis for
the office of mayor of the city of Lake
[3:22] Waukomis that I will support the
Constitution of the United States that I
[3:26] will support the Constitution of the
United States
[3:28] » and the state of Missouri and the state
of Missouri the statutes the statutes
[3:33] and all laws of this state and all laws
of this state
[3:36] » affecting the [music] city and the
ordinances affecting the city and the
[3:40] ordinances of said city of said city and
will honorably conduct myself and will
[3:45] honorably conduct myself
>> while in office as mayor while in office
[3:49] as mayor of said city of which office of
said city of which office
[3:53] » I was duly elected this 11th day of
April, 2026. as I was duly
[3:59] elected this 11th day of April, 2026.
Congratulations.
[4:04] » Thank you.
>> [applause]
[4:11] » Okay.
Now both aldermen
[4:14] please stand and raise your right hand.
[4:18] I insert your name
Gary Tebeau Dave Belkey of the city of
[4:23] Lake Waukomis, Platte County, Missouri
of the city of Lake Waukomis, Platte
[4:27] County, Missouri do solemnly swear that
I possess do solemnly swear that I
[4:32] possess
all the qualifications prescribed by law
[4:35] all the qualifications prescribed by law
for the office of alderman for the
[4:40] office of the alderman of the city of
Lake Waukomis of the city of Lake
[4:43] Waukomis that I will support the
Constitution of the United States that I
[4:47] will support the Constitution of the
United States and the state of Missouri
[4:51] and the state of Missouri the statutes
and all the laws of this state the
[4:54] statutes and all the laws of this state
affecting the city
[4:58] affecting the city and ordinances of
said city and ordinances of said city
[5:03] and honorably conduct myself and
honorably conduct myself while in office
[5:07] as alderman of said city while in office
as alderman of said city of which office
[5:12] I was duly appointed the 11th day of
April, 2026. of which office I was duly
[5:17] appointed this 11th day of April, 2026.
Thank you. Congratulations.
[5:22] » [applause]
[5:29] » Thank you. I'd like to do that with the
way that
[5:32] our city council meeting and when the
vote was we didn't get the official
[5:36] until Friday.
Uh to start out with I'm going to
[5:40] introduce you with Dave Belkey and he's
going to go over
[5:44] you know, some minor stuff.
So I'll let him have it from here.
[5:48] » No Mike, I can I can talk loud enough.
Well, it's for us. Oh, sorry.
[5:53] Yeah.
Here you go.
[6:05] Okay.
All right.
[6:09] Uh
my name is Dave Belkey and I wanted to
[6:12] give you a little background on myself.
Um
[6:14] I'm the new guy on the block. Um back in
October um Bob Schnugl moved off the
[6:20] lake and the mayor came to my house and
asked me if I'd fill in as interim
[6:25] alderman which I accepted and I re-ran
in April and
[6:29] and here I am so Uh Leona and I reside
at 559 on North Shore.
[6:34] Uh been here for about 10 years.
And um
[6:39] being an alderman just for the last few
months I've
[6:41] I see a lot of things that I can help
with and it's I care a lot about the
[6:46] lake and I care a lot about people on
the lake so I'm very honored to have
[6:49] this position.
Um
[6:52] some of the things I've been working on
being the new guy
[6:57] » [clears throat]
>> I helped procure some bids on a camera
[7:00] system for the city office and the city
court.
[7:03] Um
I did some work on the
[7:06] trash disposal service. I know everybody
wasn't happy about that but I think
[7:10] everything's settled down now.
Everybody's
[7:12] Everybody's got the right cans and
>> [clears throat]
[7:15] » according to somebody that his lids
aren't heavy enough. I don't know if
[7:18] that's true or not but uh
Uh what else?
[7:23] My professional background I've been a
business owner since 2006
[7:27] and I'm in the construction service
business. So I thought like you know,
[7:31] when the city is going out and getting
bids on different projects that we have
[7:35] I feel like my skill set can bring some
some some
[7:39] justice to that to get the right bids to
make sure we're getting a good product
[7:42] at a decent price.
Um
[7:46] Also I want to say something really
funny.
[7:48] When I first moved in here and I don't
know everybody was complaining about the
[7:51] gas pumps up at the same place.
Well, that's what I do. I'm the one that
[7:55] put new gas pumps at the same place.
>> [laughter]
[7:58] » So you owe me that.
So
[8:01] that's all I got in there.
Um Did you want to mention anything
[8:04] about the building permits and Oh yeah,
so um
[8:09] when the hail damage when the hail storm
came
[8:11] um the mayor asked the aldermen to we
had a letter from the city
[8:16] our our city attorney Scott
and we went out and and canvassed the
[8:20] area for a couple days checking all
these different roofers
[8:24] and I I ran into several of them that
when I approached them and and told them
[8:29] they needed to make sure that they got
the proper licenses of the city
[8:32] you know, and had their insurance and
everything taken care of. A lot of them
[8:35] left. They just took off.
So as residents with you getting
[8:43] these people to come to your house, it
doesn't they don't need a permit to come
[8:46] to your house to give you an estimate.
But we don't have we have
[8:49] non-solicitation you know, in the lake
too so if they come to your house that's
[8:54] they can't just start walking
door-to-door.
[8:56] You know, that's not they can't solicit
their own business and they can't
[8:59] obviously can't put signs in their yard.
So um
[9:04] I probably delivered 20 or 30 different
brochures to different contractors and
[9:08] and I think most of them did come to the
city to
[9:12] to visit with Brandon get their their
things in order but please if you have
[9:16] contractors that come to your house make
sure they come to see the to the city
[9:19] and by the way the the building permits
are sitting about 10 days out. Yeah, 7
[9:23] to 10 days. 7 to 10 days out on the
building permit because she's so backed
[9:26] up in there.
So and it's probably going to get worse
[9:30] as the summer goes on. There's going to
be a lot of roofs going to be replaced
[9:33] and a lot of furnace issues so
check with your contractors and make
[9:37] sure they got their paperwork in order
and
[9:39] we'll do our best to police it the best
we can too. So
[9:43] Do you think they have any questions on
the roofing On the permits
[9:50] my roofer came by something
resident needs to sign out to on the
[9:54] permit.
Actually
[9:56] the resident is actually the one that's
most that we can actually
[10:01] send you a ticket
to the residents for the permit because
[10:05] the resident is actually the one that's
responsible to get the permit. That's
[10:09] what it was what Scott told us.
Okay. Well, you know, and I don't want
[10:13] to do it that way. Most people normally
rely on a contractor. So, what I
[10:19] That's what we're trying to do. Well, my
contractor offered to get the permit for
[10:23] me. So, I'm I'm hearing the way it's 100
bucks.
[10:27] So,
I think that I think that a homeowner's
[10:30] responsibility is to make sure that the
contractor do what they're supposed to
[10:34] do, but also understand if they lied to
you, if they say, "Yeah, I've done it."
[10:38] and they take off working and then they
up scale,
[10:42] the homeowner is still responsible.
You're the one that's having the work
[10:45] done.
[10:47] And Mary, can you
remind me
[10:51] one of the meetings we had about it?
Is there a Is there a Is there a
[10:55] pre-inspection and a post-inspection
also with our with our inspector?
[10:59] Well, with our building inspector, he's
over swamp, too. He's actually allowing
[11:05] the contractor to take certain pictures.
He'll tell them what he needs pictures
[11:09] of the frost line barrier,
uh the gate the metal that goes into the
[11:16] these,
and then
[11:18] I forget what the third one, but there's
a third one. He He tells them what he
[11:21] needs. As long as they send him the
picture, he's fine with that because we
[11:26] can't be there all the time.
This is crazy around here.
[11:30] How many roofs are going up and we won't
ever stop anybody if they start to roof,
[11:35] we won't stop them even if they don't
have the information because
[11:39] we don't know when the next rain's going
to happen. So,
[11:42] we're not going to
make it to where somebody has water
[11:46] damage because we stopped them from
doing their roof work.
[11:51] Okay. Any other questions?
Okay.
[11:59] That saves us.
All right. Our next one, I think you
[12:03] guys will really enjoy this. You
probably have seen a a lot of it
[12:07] throughout the day you need to be here.
I do, but I can't read it upside down
[12:11] and backwards, so Okay.
>> [laughter]
[12:14] » All right. This is on the
beautification. He'll show you and we
[12:17] got some slides for it.
Uh
[12:20] as most of you have probably noticed
over time,
[12:24] we we spend a lot of money trying to fix
sewers and things like that. We also
[12:28] have not been taking care of the
cosmetic and the normal things and we
[12:32] just kind of get used to it. It just
gets worse and worse and worse.
[12:36] So, this year we started looking at
different things that we could do under
[12:40] our control to change some of that.
So,
[12:45] guardrails. This is an example on your
right of what some of the guardrails
[12:50] looked like and they were a lot worse
than this. What Actually, on on my
[12:54] right, not your right.
So, and and you can see there on the
[12:59] after,
we replaced some of the bad ones that we
[13:03] could. We only had so many down below
the dam to do that with, but then Mike
[13:08] and the guys
scrubbed them down, power washed them
[13:12] and started painting.
And we we've done that
[13:16] practically every guardrail that we've
got on the place.
[13:19] So, this as you can see, this is the
ones up here by the spillway and that's
[13:23] what they were looking like. A lot of
this all over the lake where we had
[13:27] guardrails
>> [music]
[13:29] » and that's an example of what they look
like now.
[13:34] Okay.
The other thing we did is
[13:37] we we've always had a problem with that
fence along this this spillway edge over
[13:43] here and it's always looked ugly. The
underbrush
[13:46] had just come up through it and it
looked terrible. So, we started knocking
[13:50] down
sewer lines got to be the most important
[13:55] things that we had to put it off for a
while.
[13:57] So, here in the last month or so,
we got up there and
[14:02] dredged out all that stuff and angled it
back. I mean, it was just a straight
[14:06] drop off back there.
So, we angled it down a little bit. As
[14:09] you can see where they we've put the
grass mat and stuff on the back. We
[14:14] drilled all through that and then put
these 6 by 6s all the way through. And
[14:19] we tried to keep the theme of that we
started here at Lake Waco with the cedar
[14:24] tone and those kind of woods. So, things
all look the same. You'll notice
[14:28] the signs that by the
the storage [snorts] bins over there,
[14:32] we've got them in the the old Lake Waco
signs on it. So, we're trying to
[14:37] continue that look wherever we can.
[14:41] And Bob Schmalgo
started off with this project and
[14:47] those of you can even remember seeing
the sign before.
[14:50] They were not only hard to see, but they
you had to be right up on them to be
[14:54] able to see them. They were small
and hard to hard for anybody that wasn't
[14:59] used to being on the lake to figure out
where to go. So, these are some of the
[15:03] examples of the signs that that are up
there right now and that we're using and
[15:08] they're very descriptive. I
You know, every time I look at these,
[15:12] I'm like, "How do we get by so long
without signs like that?" They just They
[15:16] look great and they make they make Lake
Waco miss
[15:20] improvement there. I mean, it's like,
"Yeah, we care what we look like here."
[15:25] So, that's that's part of what we're
doing.
[15:27] And and then we spent a lot of time
[clears throat]
[15:30] looking at signs.
We We've got rid of over 13 signs that
[15:34] was plastered around, stuck on poles,
behind bushes.
[15:39] Uh and we put speed signs out
in rows and numerous places
[15:45] so that when people were driving around,
you didn't have to go try to find sign
[15:49] and see a sign. You're going to drive by
these speed zones.
[15:52] Uh most of you probably seen them at
night if you if you drive at night.
[15:56] If not, you see them in the daytime as
well, but they're a fluorescent paint
[16:01] type stuff that shows up. And we'll
continue this up. We'll be touching them
[16:05] up from year to year as we go along
until we have to repaint again.
[16:09] But the plan is to keep them up and then
I
[16:13] I think they're pretty pretty successful
so far.
[16:18] What's that, Ange?
Uh any questions? Is there any such
[16:22] things out there that you've noticed
that we just need to go get working on
[16:28] for beautification to make the lake look
better?
[16:33] So, you think we're touching on some of
the right things?
[16:37] Awesome. Thank you.
[16:41] Thank you, guys.
All right.
[16:44] Gary Thibault is going to come up and
kind of go over the dam, the situation,
[16:50] what we've been doing,
uh
[16:53] the lake's full, what can we say? I
mean, we fought this forever and now we
[16:58] don't have to. So, I'll let him go
through this.
[17:05] So, one of the things that we're going
to go over. We had the Department of
[17:09] Natural Resources came out and
evaluated our dam again.
[17:14] So,
thank you, Carol.
[17:17] So,
one thing if if you look at what they
[17:20] This was their scorecard that they put
out and so they did They said we're
[17:24] doing a great job maintaining the dam.
It's just outstanding. We have a couple
[17:29] of other call outs. I put the green ones
there. Great job maintaining the
[17:34] concrete joints and and so forth in the
spillway. Uh
[17:39] and they said continue the efforts to
remove the concrete joints and seal and
[17:43] keep them sealed and keep out the
vegetation growth. And then the large
[17:48] volume of seepage that has historically
uh been documented down in past
[17:54] inspections has been reduced to a
trickle of flow at the line of
[17:59] inspection. What they're talking about
is down here on the side. It used to go
[18:04] at about 300 gallons plus a minute.
Now, you might get a half a cup,
[18:10] something like that. So, it's it's
The money that they put out there to fix
[18:14] all that it
vehicle there. So, which is good.
[18:19] There's some things though that they
brought up to that are in yellow that we
[18:22] need to watch and that's on the left
groin, which is over on the other side
[18:27] coming off. There's a lot of water that
comes off from the 100 block and it goes
[18:31] out towards Greenhills Road and circles
back around to the creek down there. And
[18:37] we need to keep an eye on that and they
There's quite a bit of water flow there.
[18:41] And so,
to fix that though, we looked at it
[18:45] previously and there's
it's coming from all different It'd be
[18:49] very expensive to fix that. And so, what
we've been doing is maintaining where we
[18:53] can right here where we can control it a
little bit better. That's what we did
[18:58] last I think last year or the year
before.
[19:01] Uh and then areas of standing water down
at the bottom, approximately 50 ft down
[19:06] slope on the toe, there's a vertical
center of the dam. This may be evidence
[19:13] of seepage surface
surfacing or possibly just ponding
[19:19] from precipitation. So, sometimes you'll
see waters down at the
[19:24] kind of in the center of the dam and
that's what they're referring to.
[19:28] To carry down at the base of it.
And then
[19:32] they could only find the red down here.
It says they could only one find one
[19:36] pipe outlet that could be located during
the time of the inspection and they want
[19:40] us to identify the other two uh pipes
cuz there's three of them that go out
[19:46] and mark them for the next time. I don't
think that's going to be much of a
[19:49] problem to find it.
Except to digging.
[19:53] We'll find it though.
[19:56] So, they they also provided some basic
some pictures of the dam inspection
[20:02] downstream face, downstream face where
the siren's at.
[20:07] The principal spillway inlet looking
upstream meaning the
[20:11] towards the lake and then principal
spillway channel looking downstream
[20:15] toward the discharge.
Okay.
[20:20] And then you can see the principal
spillway outlet where it goes where the
[20:24] water goes over I say over the cliff.
And then one of the embankment drain
[20:29] outlets that they're referring to. So,
that's one of the outlets that they've
[20:32] got the mark on on the upper right. We
need to do that on the two that they
[20:36] can't find.
And then this is the point on the left
[20:40] side is the corner of the former locate
location of the seepage collection
[20:44] measurement weir
in the lower right groin. And that's
[20:48] uh one of our
issues that we're going to be talking
[20:51] about
upcoming is putting replacing that weir.
[20:55] And the culvert on the right hand side
down at the bottom is the lower groin on
[21:01] the left side where they where they're
saying significant water is coming out
[21:04] that we're getting seepage from.
[21:08] So,
this is a weir that would we found at uh
[21:14] uh where was that? It's someplace up in
the north. Up north. And they they they
[21:18] poured that whole thing and just bring
it down and deliver it. Okay. So, you
[21:23] can see that this thing is backwards but
basically what it is we set it down at
[21:26] the bottom. Prior we had a tube
a metal tube which it was kind of
[21:31] unsightly really and then we had a V
notch in there. So, what we're going to
[21:35] try and do is put this in there which is
a little cleaner and easier to read the
[21:39] values as far as how much water flow
we're getting through there.
[21:43] And so, with that being said
one of the things that we're wanting to
[21:49] do is put this in so that hopefully
we'll have the the funds to do that but
[21:53] also down the road just keep in mind
that the expensive we spent almost a
[21:59] million dollars to fix this this
past time.
[22:03] So, in 20 years just think what it's
going to cost
[22:06] to fix it again because it was about 20
years previous that we did that. And so,
[22:11] we're going to have to come up with some
ideas on how we can collect money and be
[22:16] prepared for that event down the road
because it's going to happen. It's not
[22:20] after 20. Hopefully we get 20 years.
But if it was a million today 20 it
[22:26] might be 20 million. Who knows? I you
know, I'm just throwing a number out
[22:29] there because it's hard to say what it
would cost.
[22:33] So, keep that in mind
and because without that and our I'll
[22:38] say the lake's leaking then our property
values go like that quick. So,
[22:44] Any questions, sir? Is the plan to just
like wait another 20? I I thought that
[22:49] when they did that work they
it was some sensors that were left and
[22:53] they're going to monitor it maybe 5
years.
[22:56] So, instead of waiting 20 maybe do it
more frequently. That's what I
[23:00] I thought the weir
was to help us. The weir is to help and
[23:03] we also do have some sensors that will
will monitor and track it by their
[23:08] rainfall and also
how much [clears throat] we're
[23:10] discharging. So, hopefully this thing is
just barely going over the edge for a
[23:15] long time. That's what we're hoping.
And hopefully the other side doesn't
[23:19] become a problem because that will cost
a lot just because it goes where the
[23:24] grass area is or where the 100 block all
that. It's all through there where it's
[23:30] going through and you can see it coming
down on Greenhills Road if you're
[23:33] walking or you know, if you're driving
by and and that foliage isn't up you can
[23:37] see it running out over there.
Any other questions?
[23:43] Thank you.
[23:49] I will say that
the the aldermen have set aside like
[23:53] this year I think there's $40,000.
We're hoping that we don't you know,
[23:57] we've got to buy the weir.
Surprisingly the price that we got from
[24:02] one supplier is $2800. That's them
pouring that whole thing and delivering
[24:06] it to us. So, all we got to do is set
it.
[24:09] So, but every year I'm going to try to
keep at least while I'm here we'll keep
[24:13] budgeting money and we'll keep putting
it into the CD. But at $40,000 or
[24:19] $40,000 a year it
I if it increases the way the volume of
[24:23] everything's increasing it's that's why
we're worried about whether we'll have
[24:27] enough money. So, now turn it over to
Lori Barrel.
[24:34] Hi y'all. My name's Lori Barrel. Hello
all you Lake Waubesa and thank you for
[24:38] coming.
Um I'm going to read my presentation to
[24:42] you.
Um
[24:44] I wanted first of all thank all of you
for sharing your topics, concerns and
[24:47] kudos that you have freely expressed
with me over this last year.
[24:51] I hope you found my responses to be
truthful, open and responsive. I
[24:56] appreciate your confidence in electing
me as an alderwoman representing all of
[25:00] you during my tenure.
My goals this year were I I do the
[25:06] police board and I
and mayor pro tem. But my goal this year
[25:10] for the board was to try to find
some people who would want to go go and
[25:17] grow forward with us so that we can
continue to be solvent and
[25:23] bring some of this talent that we have
in this lake
[25:27] to into the city.
Um
[25:31] So, I wanted to set the residents of the
generations up to come for success in
[25:35] structurally both structurally and
physically. The city board is but so in
[25:40] that I'm going to explain what the city
board is about. So, just a very brief
[25:44] recap so it takes some of the fear or
reticence of
[25:49] being involved away.
The city board is made up of four alder
[25:54] persons, two south shore, two north
shore. Several tasks are exclusive to
[26:00] all municipal boards
which is a city board.
[26:04] Um
The most distinctive difference is that
[26:08] city boards work within with ordinances,
codes and rules of law structures.
[26:13] Mayor constructs the agenda but has no
voting power. Alder persons should be
[26:17] bringing their constituents
Lake Waubesa citizens
[26:22] concerns and questions to the meetings
to be discussed and resolved in public.
[26:27] We should be here to represent and serve
in the best interest of our community.
[26:33] Only alder persons can vote unless it's
a tiebreaker and then the mayor votes.
[26:39] Like any government entity it is best to
serve your community with boards of
[26:44] members that have different skill sets.
This allows Lake Waubesa to continue to
[26:48] grow as a whole community. We have an
attorney named Scott Sullivan who should
[26:53] who serves as a consultant only not a
decision maker. And I've had questions
[26:58] about that too. So, Miranda, Lisa, Mike
and Alex
[27:03] are the only city employees we have.
They should run their own departments.
[27:07] That is what they're being paid for.
Spending caps should be in place and
[27:12] adhered to for all departments and
mayors and alder persons.
[27:16] We are a small city with limited revenue
streams. Overspending can quickly sink a
[27:21] small municipality. That's why it's
important.
[27:24] » [cough and clears throat]
>> Bids for outside contractors should have
[27:27] three bids or more.
Encourage you to watch how your
[27:32] resident money is being spent.
Um
[27:36] I've gotten lots of calls on the flags
on the dam. I did call Larry and ask him
[27:41] today so I can answer.
Um
[27:44] They're going up next month.
Um I myself too love to come across that
[27:49] dam and see those those flags. So,
they're coming.
[27:52] And I think he ordered new ones, right
Larry?
[27:55] I haven't ordered them yet but Um
Okay.
[28:03] Um
Um
[28:06] For future city projects you need to be
able to not only build a structure but
[28:10] have the income to maintain it.
So, we we've had a lot of really nice
[28:16] things happen in the last couple years.
Example being like the city South Park.
[28:22] When it first when I first came on the
board legally that was
[28:26] controlled by the city so it was a
public park.
[28:29] For financial and safety reasons they
went back to being an HOA
[28:34] uh task and property a couple of years
ago.
[28:37] Um
I'm delighted since that's another
[28:39] question I get a lot. Um
I'm delighted to continue to meet the
[28:45] 20s, 30s, 40s and 50 year old something
citizens that are so gifted.
[28:51] I want to encourage you to run for
alderperson, mayor, codes inspector,
[28:55] treasurer, emergency preparedness,
building inspector, dam and spillway
[29:00] committees.
You will have support from other Lake
[29:03] Waubesa residents that have served
[29:09] for years and are retiring to travel and
enjoy to and do other things and take
[29:14] other journeys and adventures.
This segues me into a very heartfelt
[29:19] thank you to the mentors that have
enveloped me on my service journey here
[29:24] at Lake Waubesa. Yes, I'm going to name
your names.
[29:28] These people are examples of unsung
cultural heroes that allow us to have
[29:32] what we have here as far as the fun.
Um many of them have served in formal
[29:37] capacities in the past and some just
quietly seek a way to continue to give
[29:41] back and maintain the real beauty of
this community. They are as follows.
[29:47] Marvin and Tina Lynch.
[29:51] Um they never met a stranger. Come on
in, old bud, presentation. They are
[29:57] fixing things for people that you don't
even know are broken.
[30:01] Um with consistent kindness and giving
back spirit.
[30:06] To the Patty Clarks and the Karen Hayes
of this neighborhood that were here when
[30:10] I moved in here.
Uh with our U-Haul still in the
[30:13] driveway, they were bringing us food and
drinks, giving me phone numbers, a list
[30:18] of upcoming events and things to enjoy.
And they're going to pick me up, so I
[30:22] better be ready.
To Bill Massock, offering me a police
[30:26] board, and I didn't know he was going to
be here, but to Bill Massock, offering
[30:30] me a police board position
on and sparking my interest in city
[30:34] government in the first place.
[30:39] To Mayor Todd, who encouraged me to run
for an alderperson position.
[30:44] To Louisa and Jeff Libby, who are the
gargoyles of the neighborhood who
[30:48] quietly just keep things on the track.
Um and can thank you for your service,
[30:55] both of you.
Um and huge shout-out to another family
[30:59] that has represented to me the ideal
Lake Waubesa culture. They were They
[31:05] embraced everyone. They hosted everyone
and anyone for decades.
[31:11] They do the golf tournament. I just
They've done a lot of things in their
[31:14] time. Um
this all A lot of things happened in
[31:17] their home. Jeff and Nancy Dollar
family.
[31:21] Consistently understated with maximum
amount of class.
[31:25] Last of all, to the Donna Rothe's, the
Sandy Massock's,
[31:30] the Ann Sanders,
the ladies who served before me, and all
[31:35] of them offered their guidance to me.
Uh
[31:38] they just came to me and asked if they
could help.
[31:41] I appreciate you very much. You're
well.
[31:45] Um
I'm all about women empowerment, and
[31:48] these are some very bright There are
some very bright young women on this
[31:52] lake. Please consider the con- Ooh.
Please continue to consider
[31:59] the protecting of our Lake Waubesa city
for years to come by serving.
[32:05] Um unlike thinking people
make a great board.
[32:09] You serve with respect, be an asset to
your community,
[32:14] and we thank you all for being you.
Let's go slay another year.
[32:22] » [applause]
[32:25] » Thank you.
I want to thank the aldermen for their
[32:30] presentation.
Uh I would thought that would be good
[32:33] just to give them a
give you a taste of what we're looking
[32:37] at, what we're trying to do.
Uh now I get to break in the bad news,
[32:42] the sewers.
Uh you guys all know what we dealt with
[32:46] last year when we had uh
the the sewer that went from the 300
[32:51] block to 200 block started leaking in
the lake. So then we had the emergency,
[32:55] we started pumping had a line that was
costing us $16 a foot per day
[33:01] that we had to run that line all the way
around the cove to get it back over
[33:05] while we fix that repaired that line.
Well, when that happened, that's when I
[33:11] told the aldermen, we need to fix all
the lines under the lake. There is a
[33:15] total we still have to fix four.
We are not doing any You seen us do some
[33:21] work over in 900 block, and I'll talk
about that here in a little bit, but
[33:25] we're basically letting the money build
up, and we're going to sit there and put
[33:29] it out for bid, probably I want to say
September, October,
[33:34] for to do in March, probably next year,
because he's asking me to drop the lake
[33:40] 3 to 6 ft. We're going to try to drop it
in the winter, that way you have the
[33:44] spring to get it to pump back up. And
that's that's our goal anyway. You know,
[33:49] Mother Nature has a lot to do with that.
But uh
[33:53] my hope is that we can get enough money
built up that we can do the 400 block
[33:58] pump station that runs from the 400
block to the 300 block. It runs under
[34:03] the water there. Then we have two
gravity-fed lines that run from the 200
[34:08] block
back to the 300 block that goes to the
[34:11] pump station that come kicks it back
out. And then the longest one is we got
[34:17] from the 200 block a siphon line that
runs to the 100 block, and that picks it
[34:22] out of there.
So if we can get those three done in
[34:27] next year,
then all we have is the 900 block pump
[34:31] station to finish. The problem I have
with the 900 block pump station is we
[34:35] got to totally rebuild it. It is
obsolete. We're going to So we're going
[34:40] to move it down close a little bit
closer
[34:42] to the lake. We're going to keep it low,
but we'll keep all the power where it's
[34:47] at, and we'll just
uh trench the power under underground.
[34:52] That way we don't have anything high to
where it obstructs view of anybody.
[34:57] Uh that is my goal
for the next 2 years is to get get all
[35:03] the lines done that go under the lake.
Then from there, we'll be back at the
[35:09] 100
uh block and start repairing it. I will
[35:13] say that this
aldermen allowed us since I became mayor
[35:19] 4 years ago
that we started in right here at the
[35:22] 1,100 block, the south shore on the
first tier is 98% done.
[35:29] And it We You don't see us in there like
we used to. I mean, when I first became
[35:34] mayor, we were in behind those houses
fixing collapsed lines.
[35:41] Uh the thing we're seeing is that it's a
clay pipe.
[35:45] And we really believe that they laid
this clay pipe and then just took a
[35:48] dozer and pushed over it. There's no
gravel around any of it. So, you know,
[35:54] the thing that would save the city the
most money is if we can get into an area
[35:58] that we can line.
Because then we don't have to do any
[36:02] digging. We can just pump this
fiberglass in there. They lock it freeze
[36:07] it up or heat it up, and it and it gets
hard, and that's what we've done in the
[36:12] 800 block. That's what we've done from
1,000 to 1,100 block. We had to fix
[36:17] certain areas, but after that, they
lined it.
[36:20] Uh the 900 block way, if you've been by
there, you'll see we had to remove a
[36:26] huge tree.
That tree was the entire problem of that
[36:30] whole line that we repaired this year.
Uh we sat there, and I knew Mike was
[36:37] uh
having, you know, going to be gone for
[36:39] any length of time, I talked to the
aldermen, told them that we were going
[36:44] to hire the Dyster company to come in
and dig.
[36:47] And then when Mike got back, I just I
just kind of stood back and watched,
[36:51] because this is the first section that
we've done on the second tier that I've
[36:56] been around. I wanted to see what kind
of problems they ran into. I didn't make
[37:01] any suggestions to them. I just watched.
Uh there is some areas that we can
[37:06] definitely improve on to make it
cheaper.
[37:10] Uh number one, we needed both trucks,
and we still had the one had salt been
[37:15] on it. And we didn't want to take the
salt spreader off of it
[37:19] quite yet, because it was still March,
and I didn't want to be in that case
[37:23] that everybody raise hell that I
couldn't salt anything. So, we're We'll
[37:28] be discussing
the why that one that run of three
[37:32] houses cost so much. The The other thing
that we dealt with, it's where all the
[37:38] gas lines are. It's where the, you know,
Spectrum, AT&T is. So, it's not like of
[37:46] these houses, because we don't have any
of that in the backyard. So we were able
[37:50] to dig and do two to three sticks of
pipe every day. We are lucky to do one
[37:56] to two.
Uh so that's some of the problems that
[38:00] we have.
Uh like I said,
[38:03] uh
when we get into the 100 block, or
[38:06] you're going to start seeing it.
When we get If we're close to a tree,
[38:11] we're going to take the tree out. You
know, we tried to save them in the 900
[38:14] block, we had two fall over.
You know, so from now on, if we're
[38:19] getting close to a tree and we think
there's any chance that we're going to
[38:23] weaken that tree and it could fall, I
don't want it to fall on anybody. I'm
[38:27] going to take it out. That's why we took
out the one in the 900 block. The stump
[38:32] on it was so big that we had to roll it
up a hill, back the truck up, and roll
[38:37] it into the truck, because we couldn't
pick it up.
[38:40] So,
you shouldn't see it The next sewer
[38:45] project that we're going to do as far as
small scale is over in the 600 block. We
[38:50] got an area that we have to clean out.
It costs us uh around $2,000 about every
[38:56] year that we have to clean out, and it's
just a belly in the in the
[39:01] sewer itself. We'll probably be over
there trying to fix that to alleviate
[39:06] that kind of problem. Uh the one thing
I'm really proud of that we're doing is
[39:12] the shoulder work with the cement.
If you You can really see it over in the
[39:18] 100 and 200 block going down the main
drag of how that is helping widen that
[39:24] street. And when I do the other side,
the second tier side, it's really going
[39:28] to make it stand out how wide these
streets are. Because I'm trying to pick
[39:33] up 6 to 8 in every time we do that.
Uh other than that, uh I think we're
[39:39] pretty well there. If If any questions
on
[39:41] the sewers,
>> [snorts]
[39:43] » be free to ask, but I will say
when I started this 4 years ago, I asked
[39:49] for $35. Everybody gave us $35.
We saw last year that it was, you know,
[39:56] wasn't going very far.
So, we had an additional $24 built into
[40:00] the
for normal repair work. Well, I put that
[40:04] $24 additional to it and any sewer work
comes out of that special sewer account.
[40:10] Even that, if we don't sit there and
think about raising that price
[40:16] to help offset the costs going up of
everything, we're going to be ended up
[40:21] having to wait year after year doing on
an odd year working the sewer line.
[40:27] So, I'm going to ask
for $11 increase to the sewer.
[40:34] If you please, everybody and people on
the Facebook, talk to your alderman.
[40:40] Give them your opinion because they're
they're the ones that have to vote on
[40:43] this. What I want doesn't matter. I'll
I'll adjust to whatever is left out
[40:48] there, but I I'm just saying what we
spent at $35 4 years ago is probably
[40:56] costing us more $45 this right now.
I need to sit there and be able to keep
[41:02] moving forward if that's what you want
or we can slow it down. I don't I don't
[41:06] I just need to know which direction.
That is the reason why we're waiting
[41:10] until next year to do these
uh
[41:14] lines going under the lake is because uh
we calculated where we would be in the
[41:19] fall and our engineer says we really
need to get more money than that. So,
[41:25] we're going to see when we get this out
the mid on how far we can go with this.
[41:29] So,
uh that's about all I got. I want to
[41:32] thank everybody that showed up. If you
have any questions, I'll be happy to
[41:36] answer, but uh again, yeah.
So, you're wanting to line the sewer
[41:42] line versus bursting it?
Bursting it, we tried we thought we
[41:46] could burst on the 900 block. The
problem is to burst it, it it has to be
[41:51] so deep in the ground because it
basically is like dynamite bursting it.
[41:56] » [snorts]
>> Well, they told us they could not be
[41:58] done over in the 900 block.
>> Bursting it is pulling a new pipe
[42:01] through. Well, we've looked into that
one, too. I mean, we've looked at all
[42:05] all aspects and seriously, they
they tell me they can't be done. Well,
[42:10] you
I'm totally I'm asking you because
[42:13] you're shutting down our main people for
that line. You're going to shut them
[42:17] down for at least 48 hours because it
has to cure your line in there versus
[42:22] No, they they lined my 800 block and I
we never got shut down.
[42:27] Seriously. They lined
Huh?
[42:31] Well, I I don't know. There again, we
get we get uh Jay, our engineer,
[42:36] but the company
I'm going to say $11,000. He had the
[42:41] contract to burst the 900 block.
He went in there and started testing
[42:46] because some of the areas on the 900
block is about 3 ft deep or less. I
[42:51] mean, it's that shallow.
And they came back and they said we
[42:54] can't do it. And we had paid them
$11,000 for them to go through and tell
[42:58] us that they couldn't do it.
So,
[43:01] you know, nothing's for sure. We've
we've had pipe that has been the deepest
[43:06] is probably 12 ft deep
in one area, but I've had it as shallow
[43:11] that we built a wall and sit there and
actually had to put dirt on it because
[43:16] it's on there's such a short fall that
we have on some of these runs. In the
[43:21] 900 block, I had one neighbor say he put
a level on that pipe that was right
[43:27] there where we're going to do his tap.
He says there's only 1/2 in in fall. I
[43:30] said, "Yeah, that's we only get an inch
per 16 ft."
[43:35] So, it you know, because that's just the
way they
[43:38] And we've had no problems with it. So,
we we do look at every option in every
[43:45] we've had the 100 block it already
scoped and there is nothing in there to
[43:51] save
that they can do is what they I was
[43:54] told.
Yeah.
[43:56] How long
when you go over the lake, how long is
[44:00] it going to take to do the pipes that
have to go under the water?
[44:05] Well, they're I'm hoping pretty quick.
I'm hoping we wouldn't we'll have to
[44:09] start water dropping the lake because if
we drop it, I'm going to say it's 6 in a
[44:14] day.
A day, no, not that much.
[44:18] It It It takes a while to drop it.
And and I'm not even sure where I'm not
[44:23] going to let them drop it to 6 ft. I'll
we'll probably negotiate between 3 and
[44:27] 6.
But with any luck, they're going to be
[44:30] right there ready to set that pipe
immediately.
[44:33] Okay, absolutely. They can't lower that
much. They can't
[44:39] Yeah. the line with the lake.
>> No, because they got where the seawall
[44:43] is and everything else, they got to go
and bring it down.
[44:46] And it it make it a lot easier to make
sure we protect it when it comes up to
[44:50] the to the people's residence or to the
ground or
[44:55] that they can They even want to If they
had their way, they'd want to get their
[44:59] backhoe down into the lake. To do that,
we got to drop it back to where they can
[45:03] get into it. Uh we'll look at every
option. I have you know, I
[45:08] » And you would anticipate doing this
during the winter so that
[45:11] Probably February or March of next year.
Of next year. Of next year. What's going
[45:17] to happen this year? Uh the 600 block,
that'd be about it. Okay.
[45:21] Uh we did the 900 block. If you notice
that we're trying to sit there and make
[45:26] sure everything looks better than it did
when we left. So, if you see, we got sod
[45:31] there. We've laid cement on the new
driveway where we cut across. We've
[45:36] added asphalt where we need to. So,
we're I want to make sure that
[45:41] every resident when we come through,
we try to make it better than what it
[45:45] was.
And it's just a
[45:49] don't know if it'll happen, but we're
going to try to.
[45:52] Yeah. Um
I live at 153 100 block, but I'm I'm
[45:59] wondering, do they have an outline or a
plan like how our sewers
[46:06] are on the 100 block where we're going
to be working? Yeah. We We know where
[46:11] the lines are. We've actually videoed
that whole 100 block. And we basically
[46:17] got to start at the dam and we've got to
redo the pipes all the way to Dennis
[46:22] Talbott's house. Do Do they have a map
so we can know where our trees are going
[46:27] to go down? Well, believe me, that's not
until 2029. And I if I'm still mayor,
[46:32] I'll be over there talking to you and
pointing out to you which ones are going
[46:36] to go.
>> Okay. So, so 2029? Yeah.
[46:40] Yeah, you got you got some time.
Because I know some of them you would
[46:45] think they would go from the house out
to You got to
[46:50] » There are some houses that are
There is some places that you're going
[46:55] to see that the the sewer line main is
might be really close to the house.
[47:01] » Yeah. And then the next time it's down
farther down, it has to do with it flows
[47:07] it has the siphoning line. The
It gravity gravity. Yeah. So, we have to
[47:13] keep it to where you got your uphill and
downhill side.
[47:17] And everything has to flow down to the
dam.
[47:21] So, it it the
It It's like I said, it's 1 in per 16
[47:26] ft. That's what we had in the 900 block.
So, it's not much. I mean, there's some
[47:31] places that it's almost dead level. We
have to really work at it to get it to
[47:35] fall. [laughter]
So, but it's 2029, it'd be the earliest
[47:39] we get into the 100 block.
Okay? Any other questions?
[47:44] All right. Well, I'm I'll take a vote to
adjourn and we'll call it a night.
[47:49] » I'll make a motion we adjourn the
meeting. I'll second.
[47:52] Okay. All in favor? All right.
Okay.
[47:55] We're done. Thank you, guys.
Hope that helps.
[48:00] » [applause]
>> Thank you.