[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.

City of Lake Waukomis - Town Hall Meeting - 4/11/26

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