[0:00] I'll go ahead and call this meeting to order and ask for a roll call please s

[0:06] okay could everybody please unmute their microphones before I

[0:13] start okay council member Kevin Reed present council member Alex

[0:20] McCree here president Jennifer Harrington here council member Jeff

[0:28] homb present council member Dr David Gua here and we

[0:34] do have a quorum okay um let's go ahead and do the

[0:39] Pledge of Allegiance in a moment of silence

[0:44] um a pledge of allegiance to flag United

[0:50] States to the it

[0:57] stands under God

[1:03] Justice for

[1:12] All let's go on and move on to approval of the agenda was there anything from

[1:19] staff no no modifications at this time except uh unless you want to defer the

[1:25] reports now that we've wasted about 30 minutes of the time um what's is what

[1:29] what's the will of the Council on that it'd be up to staff I'm okay with

[1:34] deferring reports um if we could maybe just um move those to the first of the

[1:40] month next meeting we'd have two next month we'd be glad to do that if it's

[1:44] okay with with

[1:47] Council okay with me okay I'm seeing thumbs up but seeing approval yeah uh

[1:54] we'll just handle the the meeting portion the action portions of the

[1:59] council okay sounds good um I would go ahead and uh entertain a

[2:05] motion to approve without the reports so

[2:11] moved I'll second I have a motion in a second to go ahead and approve the

[2:16] agenda with the um reports being removed for this meeting all those in favor I I

[2:25] I I okay motion carried um were there any

[2:30] public comments any

[2:36] public if you have somebody in the public that's not on here if you want to

[2:41] unmute if you're not uh don't have an item that you're speaking to

[2:54] specifically doesn't appear that there's any public comments okay I'll move on to

[2:59] the consent

[3:03] agenda I would entertain a motion for um the consent agenda at this

[3:11] time so moved

[3:15] second I have a motion in a second on the consent agenda I would go ahead and

[3:24] um put it to a vote at this time all those in favor say I I I I I

[3:34] motion carried on to um new business 7A Burns and McDow water and Supply

[3:45] planning good evening mayor and Council can you all hear me yes yes yes um as

[3:52] you know the city ma have been working hard over the last couple years to U

[3:58] gain and and require additional water rights and working on getting a third

[4:02] well and uh due to the growth our city has experienced and forecasting over the

[4:07] coming years it's becoming a point where we need to become a little more

[4:10] aggressive in pursuing additional water rights and water

[4:14] infrastructure um we were approached by Burns and McDonald to assist us with

[4:19] these efforts the burns and McDonald McDonald team consists of

[4:23] hydrogeologists Engineers and experts in the

[4:26] regulatory in regulatory operations uh collectively as a team they've got over

[4:30] 60 years of experience working for municipalities and the regulatory

[4:36] agencies that make the decisions um regarding water rights and water supply

[4:42] infrastructure they've got years of experience working with many cities to

[4:46] assist in their water supply efforts including the city of wiah city of Hutch

[4:50] city of Valley Center mcferson and many others uh the city manager and I have

[4:56] met with Brian and Danel over several different occasions and we've got over

[5:00] some of the some of their approach to helping us with our water rights um Nick

[5:06] and I have been pleased with those conversations I'll let um Brian and

[5:10] Daniel kind of go over those with you a little bit but um they'll be able to

[5:14] help us a little bit with our existing water rights as well as um help us find

[5:19] additional water well sites and apply for water rights applications and

[5:23] they've got lots of experience working directly for those regulatory agencies

[5:28] that make those decisions um the Bruns McDonald team um in my and

[5:33] Nick's opinion would Prov would provide the city may as a topnotch and highly

[5:37] experienced group of Consultants that would put us in the best possible

[5:40] position to uh acquire more water rights and put our water system in a a much

[5:45] better spot um with that I'll let uh Brian Meyer uh kind of go over a little

[5:51] bit of their expertise some of their qualifications and share with you all um

[5:55] their approach and what they're going to do to help

[5:58] us thanks Nick I really appreciate it um Daniel you want to go ahead and share

[6:02] your screen and bring the PowerPoint

[6:10] up thanks Dan yeah okay you guys can see that okay

[6:15] perfect yeah hey wanted to express our appreciation for the opportunity to be

[6:20] here tonight and and talk a little bit about Burns Mack our experience and in

[6:24] our approach um Nick did a really good job of describing a lot about Burns and

[6:30] Mac um but I wanted to go into it just a little bit deeper and and then open it

[6:36] up for questions certainly um you know one introductions I'm Brian Meyer with

[6:42] Burns Mack been doing water supply planning for um going on 40 years now um

[6:48] all predominantly in Kansas and in in Oklahoma spent the last 25 years with um

[6:55] Burns Mack um my role on this project is kind of twofold

[7:00] it's not only is the water supply planner but it's also to make sure that

[7:04] the project stays on track meets your goals your expectations whether it's in

[7:08] regard to budget schedule project needs at all times so be in close

[7:14] communication with with Nick to make sure that it is staying on track with

[7:18] that Dan would you like to introduce yourself hey thanks and I I would

[7:22] normally have my camera on but I am recovering from the flu so I didn't

[7:26] figure I wanted to share that that visual image with everybody but um um

[7:30] thanks for letting us join this evening I um I've spent about 15 years in the

[7:34] industry and I've dedicated my career to serving municipalities just like the

[7:38] city of ma and and and helping folks um get to that next phase in their in their

[7:43] water supply um portfolio and and that's range from traditional you know develop

[7:47] a single well and you know serving small communities to to well fields that you

[7:51] know are over 15 20 30 you know 100 million gallons a day so um that range

[7:56] of experience is has been right here in Kansas mostly but across the United

[8:00] States and then again it's a privilege to serve um water is one of those those

[8:04] critical aspects that uh is going to help you guys continue to grow so um my

[8:08] role in the project is going to be on the technical lead side of of

[8:11] hydrogeology that's uh that's my main focus but uh also on the project

[8:15] management side making sure we're headed down paths that are going to be

[8:18] successful in anything that we pursue uh for additional water rights um and then

[8:22] uh also on the technical side for welld designed and things like

[8:26] that excellent thank thank you Daniel couple other folks that on our team that

[8:31] I wanted to mention that aren't with us here today uh Dave Barfield um is with

[8:36] Burns Mack he's the former chief engineer for the Division of Water

[8:39] Resources um once he retired he came over to work part-time with Burns Mack

[8:43] and he is a um a real asset to the team when it comes to managing water ride

[8:49] issues and and dealing with challenging situations so he's a great resource to

[8:54] have we also have Matt Gallagher Matt's more on the infrastructure side as we

[8:58] know if we Iden identify a location uh that's suitable um for production from

[9:04] from a water quality water right standpoint the connections to the system

[9:08] and how that site's developed are are critical so Matt's on our team to help

[9:12] with that aspect of it uh just just a little bit of overall philosophy and it

[9:16] and it kind of says it here is that our typical water supply planning process is

[9:21] to optimize what you have to make sure that it's being used as efficiently and

[9:26] as effectively as possible and often those initial U measures are non-

[9:33] capital projects anything that we can do administratively to modify the water

[9:36] rights we'll talk about that a little more detail and then we move on to

[9:41] things that would be um adding additional Supply that have a

[9:46] infrastructure addition or cost to them so um the easy the low hanging fruit

[9:50] first to provide the highest value to the community

[9:54] so next slide Daniel

[10:02] as as Nick mentioned earlier um Burns Max is 125 year old company we've been

[10:06] in witto area for 30 years but decades working for communities around the state

[10:12] of Kansas and it really it really does cover pretty much the full geography of

[10:17] the state and um there's active projects in a lot of these communities right now

[10:22] so this is kind of an ongoing process we develop in Partnership that um continues

[10:27] over time when we get the opportunity unities serve a

[10:30] community um the the column on the right the the agencies that that Nick

[10:35] referenced earlier as well that's because of the work that we've done over

[10:39] the years we've developed those relationships and those have been

[10:43] critical in making sure that we can move a project from conception to

[10:48] implementation effectively and understanding what the um pitfalls might

[10:53] be as we move through that is there a permitting issue is there a is there a

[10:58] water qual issues or want a quantity issue making sure that we have a good

[11:03] dialogue with all of the um permitting agencies and the planning agencies um

[11:09] we've got the Kansas water office on there and as you know we'll talk a

[11:13] little bit more about this in a minute too um they've taken a more significant

[11:18] stance in recent in recent um in the recent year the last 12 to 14 months in

[11:24] water supply planning and providing funding for projects so they are a big

[11:29] player in this as well as as is the Bureau of Reclamation so next slide

[11:36] Daniel just one of the things with with those Decades of experience and and the

[11:41] benefit I think it brings to Mae is that you know each and every project is

[11:45] unique so you got to take a little bit different approach take a different um

[11:50] perspective on what success is and how to get there um just wanted to throw up

[11:54] a few examples of projects that are ongoing now or have been completed in

[11:58] the in the recent recent pass hay that's that's a similar wellfield um in Edwards

[12:04] County um and about a 65 mile pipeline that will go to Hayes and um be their

[12:11] future water supply to to support their Community uh Dodge City take a little

[12:16] little different approach and um with the depletions that we're all seeing in

[12:21] the ogalala out in Western Kansas they they saw the writing on the table that

[12:25] they really needed look hard at Wastewater reuse so that is the actual

[12:30] implementation process for using Wastewater to recharge the aquifer in

[12:34] the vicinity of some of their Municipal Wells and still meet all of the water

[12:39] quality standards um of kdhe um Ark City that was a new water

[12:44] treatment plant um that would is now in operation and it was designed to be

[12:51] compatible with their changing water suppli as they started to see their

[12:55] chlorides increase they needed to change the the treatment technology they were

[12:59] using so um M first that's one that just got completed late last year um once

[13:06] again a wellfield um to provide uh water supply for a declining aquifer in their

[13:12] area as well um in a more sustainable area so they developed a well field

[13:17] about um 20 miles south of mcferson and um we built the pipeline and a treatment

[13:24] plant to manage the water quality that was going to come from that wellfield

[13:28] that um in mcferson so all different types of projects all took a little bit

[13:33] different approach um and all of them took a lot of planning to go in to make

[13:39] sure that it was the right project for the community um and then then you do

[13:43] the project right so right project first and make sure we execute it

[13:48] correctly next slide Daniel thank you um just wanted to talk

[13:53] about something that's really come to the Forefront in the last oh

[13:59] 24 months I mean and it's because of the escalation we've seen all of the supply

[14:04] chain challenges um projects sometimes take

[14:08] longer to get done we start focusing on funding um at the beginning of the

[14:12] project once we understand what the needs are what the goals are and what

[14:16] the nature of the project is we start to think about what what funding sources

[14:20] might be out there and and of course we' got a lot of the traditional sources the

[14:25] srf um loan funds but we also look for Grant funds and

[14:31] we've been fairly successful over the last couple of years these are just some

[14:35] of the examples um mcferson BPU project came in it right right out of covid um

[14:43] and saw some tremendous escalation so we were able to go and get some emerging

[14:47] contaminant funding and um some CDs funding um is in the works right now to

[14:53] bring them about $6 million which hopefully will get um their take some

[14:58] stress off their budget couple of other success stories and the

[15:02] reason I wanted to point those out is because each one's different Garden City

[15:07] really went down the road of CDs or congressionally directed spending um and

[15:11] it was compatible with their project Dodge City um went with Bureau of recre

[15:17] funding and that allowed them to access Bill Kansas or the infrastructure Hub as

[15:22] well so um two different types of funding two different types of projects

[15:27] but we keep the keep the uh the everything on the table until we know if

[15:32] there's something available and if it'll fit and then we do what we can to go

[15:35] after it so that's that's a commitment we

[15:38] make next slide Daniel so this this is really kind of

[15:43] the project approach and and Nick did a good job of of describing it as well and

[15:48] it goes back to that that traditional philosophy that we apply to water supply

[15:53] planning projects you know and that's looking at the water rights of your

[15:56] existing Wells first um and one of the things that we are planning to do is is

[16:01] make a change so that each well serves as a standby for the other well so that

[16:07] if one well goes down you can produce the water rights um in total from both

[16:11] Wells from a single point um little more redundancy reliability in that and

[16:17] that's that's a relatively easy change the other significant thing with the

[16:22] existing Wells to optimize is is to look to see if there is um a additional water

[16:29] supply available at one point in time there was because I think applications

[16:34] were actually filed a number of years ago um for a number of reasons those

[16:39] were never seen through to completion um so we would take a look at that again

[16:44] make sure there's yield available and If there is apply for additional water

[16:47] rights at the existing points of diversion um so technically that would

[16:53] require no improvements to those Wells we just take a look at the productivity

[16:57] to make sure that they can visit Bally produce the water rights that would be

[17:01] obtained for those Wells the um the next step is the

[17:05] addition of of a new well or well sites um and once again there we take that

[17:11] conservative approach and I think the initial screening has already been been

[17:15] done and been positive in that it looks like it's in a reasonable place um from

[17:20] a water quality and quantity perspective and could be permitted um now the proof

[17:26] comes in going out and actually collecting the field data um where you

[17:30] would do the test drilling collect formation samples do the water quality

[17:34] um collection water sample collection and then do the pump testing what is the

[17:39] well going to yield um and then make and then that becomes a decision Point are

[17:44] all of those factors um in line with with what you need that well to produce

[17:49] and what water quality expectations you have for your for your utility in your

[17:54] community so and then at that point if everything's a go then it moves into um

[18:00] design and construction of that particular site at the point where you

[18:05] build the confidence to know you're going in the right

[18:07] direction um in in this scope we also um factored in some of the U flexibility

[18:15] because there are opportunities as water rights um are identified and or water

[18:22] right owners come forward are interested in in some sort of um partnership that

[18:28] we can evaluate those and make sure we understand is there something that's

[18:33] viable is there something that's valuable for the community so those so

[18:36] that level of effort is kind of on as assigned basis as they would be

[18:42] identified uh and we' be asked to evaluate them then we we would be able

[18:46] to go forward with that so that's what um that final task is and then I guess I

[18:53] would just sum that up with I mean that's the commitment going through that

[18:57] process is to get you to a place where you do have that long-term sustainable

[19:01] water supply that's going to meet the community growth and future needs so

[19:07] with that um Daniel and I would be glad to take any questions um about um our

[19:13] experience or our

[19:17] approach just uh really quick in the event that this meeting runs out in two

[19:23] minutes um I think uh Tristan has extended the time but I saw a timer that

[19:27] said there was five minutes minutes left so um look at that that I don't know

[19:32] whether that's fixed or not so um just in case that happens we'll send out

[19:37] another invite to everybody on this list

[19:47] apologize yeah I I don't have any questions I think it's a good deal

[19:51] personally there are there's obviously some significant cost with this but

[19:56] securing I think the securing the future of our water rights is pretty

[20:00] critical um I think Nick kind of Hit the hammer on the head um we want to have

[20:05] somebody that's going to guide us through a process to guarantee our

[20:09] future of our water rights you you as a council

[20:13] identified um you know securing those water rights is a critical need um at at

[20:19] our recent Retreat and so um I think uh in my mind just based upon conversations

[20:26] we've had with Burns and McDonald I I think their approach gives us the most

[20:31] certainty going forward and um uh we uh I would say uh we there there's a little

[20:38] bit of work to a little bit of work to do on our contract with Burns and

[20:42] McDonald but um uh if if you were to approve it today it would be subject to

[20:48] Legal review uh with the city attorney uh but and when you talk about the scope

[20:53] of their work and some of the deliverables I think they meet

[20:56] everything that we need to do uh going forward as a as a city

[21:05] organization

[21:10] okay does anybody else have any other questions Madam president I would

[21:16] entertain a motion I would uh move that we approve

[21:22] the agreement with Burns and McDonald for water rights Supply planning subject

[21:27] to City attorney's approval and authorize the mayor to

[21:33] sign I'll second we have a motion in a second on

[21:39] um the

[21:44] uh McDonald for the water rights uh Supply planning subject to the city

[21:50] attorney's approval and authorize the mayor city manager to sign all those in

[21:54] favor say I I I I I those

[22:01] opposed motion carries on to um item 7B May City of ma

[22:10] development agreement for future development Brian and Daniel thank you

[22:14] very much for your time this evening we appreciate you hanging in there thank

[22:18] you very much

[22:26] appreciate okay um I'll kind of start this out here um I

[22:31] don't know if you want to chime in uh Mitch as

[22:34] well you the um so as we look at uh our moving forward as a community when we

[22:43] work with developers particularly residential developers um there are um a

[22:49] number of things that requirements that we have during the development process

[22:53] and um something that's not unusual that I don't think U a has done near as much

[23:00] as other communities is to come up with a

[23:05] development agreement when we pass um when we work to approve um uh

[23:15] petitions and uh those those de the development agreement and what a lot of

[23:19] communities use that for is it's a guide guidance tool to explain the

[23:24] expectations that we have of our develop ERS in our process and um it's it's not

[23:32] uncommon we did it when MC in mcferson where I was at and there's a number of

[23:36] communities around us that do the same thing um what we have before you if

[23:41] you're able to click on that link would be a a draft of a template that we'd

[23:47] like to utilize um that kind of lays out some of our expectations and I don't

[23:52] know uh Mitch are you on the line did you want to kind of just hit on some of

[23:56] the high points of uh of that sure Nick can you hear me

[24:01] okay yes okay uh public improvements is and assur go with it uh one of the

[24:09] things we wanted to make sure that that was key in this is like

[24:14] uh you know efforts for a rose control residential areas make sure the

[24:19] compliance they confirm with the compliance on that um a concrete wash

[24:25] out area that meets Nick veering was key in

[24:29] this he said you know make sure that it meets Environmental Protection Agency

[24:32] guidelines and then we uh that we have that in place to

[24:39] where they can wash out their trucks and uh in in a timely manner and all that

[24:44] and not make a huge mess um then you know responsibility for

[24:49] infrastructure damage um Nick Ving also brought to our

[24:54] attention that the uh damage that's being caused on site by

[24:59] ERS um and and the lack of attention to detail in that area so we wanted to

[25:04] cover that and then permitting and things things of that

[25:09] nature I think that covers it for the most

[25:13] part we did work with uh with with u the City attorney on this Pro point that was

[25:20] brought up to me by one of the council members I think is a really good point I

[25:23] just we just didn't get have time to get it into places we also have a payment

[25:28] structure and an set of expectations that we have um I think this is this is

[25:35] I'm not asking we're not necessarily asking for your approval we wanted you

[25:39] to show the process that we're going forward today um if if in theory a going

[25:45] forward with a developers agreement is something that that um you guys are in

[25:51] favor of we still got a lot of work to doing this and we also want to talk

[25:56] about our current processes when when it comes to um securing um securing uh

[26:04] commitments from a financial standpoint currently we require letters of credit

[26:09] and we only dismiss those letters of credit once they've reached a certain

[26:13] level of I think 35% is what they are 35% uh tax credits

[26:20] that apply and um once that once the development's reached 35% completion

[26:26] we'll dismiss those um dismiss those but they have to have

[26:30] constructed and actually have permits uh actually certificates of

[26:35] occupancy on 35% of the structures before we'll dismiss those so I think

[26:40] we'd incorporate some of that language into there actually when we started to

[26:44] go back and look we couldn't find some of the policies that apply to that so

[26:48] that part will have to be something we incorporate but I think it's important

[26:52] to incorporate those aspects of it as well so this is a just to understand

[26:57] this is a working document it's something that will change over time it

[27:01] may not be the exact for every developer but um some of the things that are in

[27:06] here I think should be consistently uh done across the board for

[27:11] developers I just uh today was probably as much about

[27:16] uh Mo giving staff some direction to move continue to move forward with this

[27:21] process um I I really think it it's there's a lot of things that are

[27:26] mentioned here that are help that are mentioned in other aspects whether it's

[27:31] the erosion control requirements for the city that are in different documents and

[27:36] it makes reference to those but it gets it all into one document that I think

[27:40] the developer can see are there any questions that anybody

[27:47] has um I have a comment I definitely think this is the way we need to be

[27:51] moving I think that um with all the developments we have already in progress

[27:58] and as much as we've been growing and building I think some of this stuff is

[28:02] kind of been all over the board and each time we're presented with a new uh

[28:07] Builder coming in we have to reinvent the wheel almost and this would make a

[28:11] basis Baseline for us to start with to be able to just say this is this is

[28:16] where we start this is what we have to work with these are what our

[28:19] expectations are and I think um I think it's definitely

[28:25] necessary we' tried to identify some of the common issues that we frequently

[28:29] deal with and that's one of the reasons that I think it's you know this may be

[28:33] something that does change over time as we identify new new trends that we're

[28:37] seeing from Builders or developers um but I think uh this gives you at least a

[28:42] snapshot of what we're looking

[28:48] at any other

[28:56] thoughts so far so good yeah okay we'll just uh uh we'll

[29:04] continue with issuing these so you'll see one of these likely the next time

[29:09] that you get um next time we have a brand new

[29:13] development that doesn't have any petitions already issued is where you'll

[29:17] probably see this um so a lot of the a lot of the developments that are already

[29:21] in place um we probably will not incorporate this so it'll just be new

[29:26] developments going forward

[29:30] if there's no other questions I'd entertain a motion to recommend staff to

[29:35] move forward with drafting the

[29:40] template I guess my my question is are we is the motion to move forward with

[29:46] drafting a template or to move forward with the template that was presented to

[29:51] us I think it'd be move forward with the template that's presented and make any

[29:57] improvements as as staff sees

[30:01] fit so I'd be on board with that but I do think it's important to get some of

[30:08] the payment stuff in there as I had emailed to you Nick so I don't know if

[30:13] it needs a final Council approval after that or not but um I think that's an

[30:20] important piece of it I I think uh the first one you see will have some of that

[30:24] language in there um uh so these will be approved whenever you see a development

[30:31] so um what what we'll likely do is we'll put out some of that information that we

[30:35] plan to incorporate into there we just don't have it in a policy form at this

[30:39] point U and we're able to find that current Administration was able to find

[30:44] so um we we will get some language out there that you're able to

[30:49] see and um and the first time you see one of these develop development

[30:54] agreements that happen at the time of development uh hopefully you'll see it

[30:57] in there

[31:00] and and Tom's read through all this stuff right so we're all good with that

[31:03] too with him uh yes that's

[31:08] correct okay yeah I want to make sure that we got our tees are crossed and our

[31:12] eyes are dotted on all this here because you know we're gonna get some um some

[31:16] Kickback we've uh we've met met on it probably three or four times internally

[31:21] as a staff and we've added to it every single

[31:25] time okay so uh not to be difficult but if uh if an agreement every time an

[31:32] agreement comes up with a developer if that's going to be put in front of

[31:35] council is there really any reason to take action

[31:39] here uh I I'm okay if you don't ultimately take action but I just want

[31:44] to make sure we're headed in the right direction and that everybody's in

[31:47] agreement that this is something we should be looking to do with all of our

[31:50] residential developers I I would maybe it's more

[31:54] consensus I would Echo Jennifer's comments that yes absolutely think we're

[31:58] moving in the right direction Nick I think Nick I think one

[32:03] other point to make that's relevant is I don't know if we noted it in here or not

[32:07] but we also talked about having that uh pre-development meeting with the

[32:11] developers that's something that's not happening right now as well that would

[32:14] go over all this in person with the with the

[32:18] developer I think that's important as

[32:22] well we just want to have a different we want to lay out our expect expectations

[32:27] so we think this is the best way to do it um ultimately and and to go over this

[32:32] whenever we do meet with the developer I think is

[32:38] important I important as we move forward some of these are expectations of their

[32:44] builders that that are out there working in here and so a lot of these uh you

[32:49] know the best person to hold those Builders accountable is going to be the

[32:54] developer in a lot of cases

[33:00] I

[33:04] agree so we don't need to have a no as as long as there's no there no no

[33:11] concerns with us moving forward there's not really any action you need to take

[33:14] on

[33:17] this okay I'm I'm good with it okay as long as you do you know what Jeff and

[33:24] Jennifer said so I'm good with that we got to have certain

[33:30] standards okay with that being said um I would go ahead and have us move on to

[33:36] business 7c Evans building project series two 2019 IRB Amendment

[33:45] resolution okay um I'll try to

[33:51] um we were approached by um Evans building and by our bond attorney

[33:58] um Gilmore and Bell uh that Evans building has an interest in selling off

[34:04] a portion of their property and for uh we currently have an IRB standing IRB

[34:11] with Evans building and Evans uh I don't know I'm

[34:17] not exactly sure where where we're at in uh and terms of

[34:22] that IRB but we're several years into that

[34:26] IRB and for that reason um what we need to look to do is to amend the 2019 IRB

[34:35] that we had currently with Evans building to remove that section for

[34:40] which they plan to develop uh it's approximately 1.5 Acres I know uh on

[34:46] this call we do have Hunter Lem monion that is um the realter assisting in this

[34:54] process I don't know if you have anything else to add Hunter but um

[34:59] ultimately this is a this is just a methodology that we do to remove the IRB

[35:04] portion from uh Evans building and it the IRB that's currently in place would

[35:11] just apply to the section that that that Evans building continues to

[35:16] own there's a what basically we're asking for is to pass this resolution to

[35:22] mend those documents and then um any of those supporting documents that we

[35:27] authorized signature of those as well and the May mayor to sign any of those

[35:33] documents you want to chime in Hunter on anything or did I did I represent that

[35:39] correctly I think you represented that well um no that's exactly what we're um

[35:44] trying to accomplish here um a 60,000 square foot piece of property that Evans

[35:49] currently owns or akj Holdings um and ultimately there is a another type of

[35:55] industrial user that has shown interest in coming into that industrial park and

[36:00] yeah I think everything else that you had shared there is

[36:07] accurate once again this does have has had the legal review um uh we've heard

[36:12] from uh not only from our bond Council but our City attorney and it's a very

[36:16] similar step we did when we went to acquire a portion of the property Evans

[36:22] owns for our wellsite except in this case we're not the city's not purchasing

[36:27] ing it's it's someone it's a private uh property owner that's that's

[36:34] acquiring this section of the

[36:40] property any other questions do we know what type of

[36:45] company is acquiring at this at this point I don't

[36:50] think they've disclosed that um okay I just want to make sure it fits

[36:56] kind of what our goal they realize that there are some

[37:00] requirements that come along with the zoning and the industrial park I believe

[37:04] and uh you whatever whatever user it is I think is identified that um I I did

[37:11] have I did feel the call from the owner of Evans building at one point uh to ask

[37:17] about um another user and whether they' had availability of water and sewer for

[37:24] that location so um without um without sharing that information we did

[37:30] talk a little bit about zoning as well

[37:38] so any specials or anything that would be associated with that property would

[37:43] be transferable to the new owner is that yeah in this case I would assume that

[37:48] would be the case um do you want us to address that Hunter is is

[37:54] that new owner that that is correct nope everything you said

[38:00] there um essentially throughout this we would have kind of a respread type of

[38:05] agreement where they would proportionately share what's the current

[38:09] special assessments that are on that property so they would they would take

[38:12] portion in

[38:16] that unlike on the property we took where we weren't accessing into the

[38:21] utilities um um we we moved all of the specials onto that lot and it would be

[38:27] split between this property and and the regular Evans building

[38:33] property that's the other difference between the property we

[38:39] took okay is there any other questions or

[38:44] discussion if not I would entertain a motion uh Madam president I would move

[38:50] to pass the resolution to amend certain documents relating to the series 2019

[38:56] industrial revenue bonds and authorize the mayor to sign documents connected

[39:02] to said

[39:05] documents second I will second it is that David or was that Kevin has

[39:13] Kevin I think we both second okay

[39:21] Ty so at this point um you know we'll defer the reports we'll bring those

[39:26] reports to you at the March meeting the March 3rd meeting we still have to

[39:31] vote that's okay um we have a motion and two seconds on on uh the recommendation

[39:39] to pass the resolution to amend certain documents relating to the series 2019

[39:44] industrial revenue bonds and authorize the mayor to sign the documents

[39:48] connected to the set amendments all those in favor say I I I those opposed

[39:55] motion carries onto reports sorry Nick uh I'll just say uh I think you

[40:02] guys decided at the beginning of the meeting we'd defer there this reports so

[40:05] we'll bring those on the March 3rd um we don't have a lot of items for that

[40:10] agenda so that probably will be workable um to include those updates at that time

[40:16] I appreciate that I can't believe this weather this is

[40:20] crazy there are no executive sessions um so at this point if uh if a motion would

[40:26] be to go ahead and move forward with adjournment that would be

[40:30] appropriate I I would move to adjourn okay we have a motion

[40:36] to Second Dave Dave

[40:43] second I have a motion from Jeff and a second from David to go ahead and

[40:48] adjourn this meeting all those in favor say I

[40:52] I and once again I apologize for all the inconvenience that we had with getting

[40:57] set up Lessons Learned unfortunately so de you have to learn them the hard way

[41:02] and I promise you our next experience will probably hopefully be better and

[41:06] hopefully we don't have a weather related concern like this anytime in the

[41:10] near future but you know we're in Kansas so who knows I appreciate you guys

[41:15] sticking with us and letting us get through it yeah this is still better

[41:19] than coming down there yeah espec with everybody having

[41:23] you know the flu and all that stuff going around so

[41:27] we will go ahead and get this uh we will go ahead and get this onto um the uh our

[41:35] Facebook feed hopefully the clean version of this one we actually started

[41:38] the meeting so hopefully I think it's it has been

[41:42] recorded so we should that shouldn't be a

[41:45] problem all right so good night everybody thank you thank you thank you

[41:50] good night thank you good night

[41:56] bye e

February 18, 2025 Maize City Council Meeting

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