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This conference will now be recorded.

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Do

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you have a pipeline to build on us?

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No, we're not doing that.

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What is this?

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Are you trying those on?

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Can we move these down?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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430.

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We'll start.

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We'll start the question.

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have played it in the state of America and to the Republic for which it stands one age and under the individual with the state.

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Okay, first step approval of the agenda.

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Mr. Mayor, I would so move we approve the agenda that was presented to us.

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I'll check it back.

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Councilmember Cross has made a motion to approve the agenda as presented.

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Councilmember Stoffel, seconded motion to be approved.

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Section 9, all those in favor, raise hand.

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Motion carries unanimously.

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Yeah.

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Can you accept the bill?

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Good.

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Yes.

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All right.

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A couple of comments.

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Are there any public comments this time?

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Section 9 will move on to presentations and public hearings.

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First up, water concomitations.

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Even with the recent rains, we can have the bubble counting, and we can add in quite a

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little bit of this in a modest drought.

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So we're keeping an eye on our sources, right now our standards remain unchanged, the

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victory contains the flow, we do not anticipate any restrictions in the next working days.

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And the climate predictions center shows a 33% chance of a above normal precipitation for

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June to line on this, which is a good sign.

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And as you have noticed, so how are we here in the city?

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I'll wrap it up to you.

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Anybody else have any questions on this?

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The one next up, downtown Revivalization Project.

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With us today, we have Chris, the project,

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and Andrew is crew prouds that part of the group

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that is working on this.

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You only get a pick on that.

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It's working on the realization project.

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Yes.

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Hello, everyone.

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I'm here today representing

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representing our street skate committee, which is in charge of the downtown project.

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We wanted to meet with all of you and just give kind of an overview of what's happened,

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maybe things we haven't presented going on behind the scenes. So that's what I'm here to do today.

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If you all are aware, the Russell Street Skate Committee are kind of, our claim to fame,

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is to revitalize Russell. And what's really cool about our committee is that it's not just one

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organization working towards one goal. We have several different organizations that are partnering

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together to make this project happen. So I just wanted to kind of go through, first of all,

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we have a partnership built with the Russell County Historical Society. Obviously,

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Russell Main Street, the City of Russell, Russell Rotary, and Russell Pride. And we also have

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downtown business owners, building owners, and USD 407 representatives, someone from Russell Regional

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hospital on the committee, so we have kind of a wide variety of committee members, but

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the organizations I mentioned are mostly the organizations that are going after funding

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and kind of the promotion of the project. So at this point I figured I'd start with the

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dollars that we have raised or received through grant funding. So we have two different projects.

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They're both working towards the same goal, but one of the projects kind of break it down to make

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easier is the outdoor restrooms which is on the corner of

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eighth in Kansas and then behind jagged edge seventh and maple is

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parking lot that we're looking at to do a downtown market square so

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all towards the same project but kind of two different

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projects if we want to think of them that way. The outdoor restroom area so far we

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have received $48,700 and that's a combination of

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private donations and also grants that received.

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We did work towards, we thought after we got together and looked at the plan, we thought

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what could we do to make this project nice but cut the cost a little bit because the

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bathrooms were price pretty high.

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So we got together and we decided to send out letters to all the city council approved

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contractors to see if anyone would be interested in donating some of their time.

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We, I don't even, can you tell you how many we sent out a whole bunch and we were actually contacted by Glassman Corporation.

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They met with us and they're interested in donating all of the plumbing for the bathroom area.

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He also mentioned helping with HVAC and electrical, but that's something we're not, he said that was kind of a possibility.

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So we're not going to guarantee that right now, but he did say he would donate the labor for the plumbing, which we don't have a price yet waiting for him to send that.

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what it would actually equal to if we had to pay for it but we were pretty excited about that.

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We also were able to get the demolition of the current structure that's on the property donated

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by J.R. modeling. The downtown market square right now we have $22,180 towards that, also grant

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funding and private funds. Currently right now we have several grants that we're still waiting on.

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Union Pacific, next tech, Dane Hansen, the city is applied for the build grant again which

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could help fund this project or part of this project and then also the cost share grant

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which the city applied for. So those are funds that are still out there that we're just

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waiting on. Kind of moving into the actual project update. The bathrooms were a little bit further

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along on. So at this point the current building we've had a spestus inspection on. The state

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did approve for that to be demoed and then KDHE came out and believes that there may be tanks

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under the property. He's not certain because it wasn't old gas stations so right now we're

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in what they call phase one of remediation and included interviews kind of looking at the history,

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the deeds, just kind of getting an idea of what could possibly be there and in phase two we're ready

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for that but it can't start until the building is demoed to see what we're dealing with.

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So if tanks do exist, we do have funds to, through the state, access to funds to pay for whatever that cost to get the tanks out of there.

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But like I said, we won't know until it's demoed, which hopefully we will have that done here in the very near future.

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We also met with Bartlett and West last week, committee members met on site to work with them.

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And we did our first plan and came to you and got it approved.

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It was kind of just an overall idea of what we wanted.

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They did a ballpark figure.

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Now we have a little bit better idea.

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So we're at the point where we need to actually have plans drawn up

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and really cut down no exactly what it's going to cost.

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So before it was just kind of an idea,

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we want to get the bottom dollar.

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So we know where we need to be with our fundraising.

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Hopefully we will get that completed soon

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and we'll have a new estimate on cost as well as the plan.

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Also, I don't know if we mentioned this before, but we did talk about park equipment.

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We are still looking to add park equipment to the property too.

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Our main goal right now is getting the bathrooms done, but if we can find funding for the park

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equipment, that's we're going to be searching for that too.

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With the park equipment, we know it'll be necessary to add a privacy fence on the north side

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of the property.

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So that's our goal and then also along the alleyway to possibly add some kind of a metal

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sensing there to kind of close it off. But once again, we're exploring opportunities for grants for both of those.

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We do actually have some funding for the privacy fence today.

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Also in the area is the splash pad, which Andrea came here with rotary, and she knows more about that than I do. So I'll let her talk about that.

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But the bathrooms, I think that's it on progress right now unless there's something I'm forgetting. Okay.

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Moving on to the market, as I mentioned, the bathrooms have really taken off more so at the moment.

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Do you realize there?

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Yes.

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Before you move on to the markets where the bathrooms will be in a building for property owned by the historical society.

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Is that what that's all about?

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Yeah, the property is currently owned by the historical society, yes.

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Do you talk with the historical society and they're okay with demolishing the building?

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Yes.

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and the board is agreed to be the release of the land to the city for 50 or 99 years.

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99 years. It's my next bullet point. Sorry.

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I didn't organize this, I guess, as well as I thought I did.

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The market, I just wanted to give a quick update on that.

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I think you all know we secured the property from sunflower bank

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and we're currently looking into design options down the cost

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on what we had originally planned, we have some options, but we haven't decided on anything

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and we're still working for funding sources and then we have a potential private donor.

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So once we can all meet again, now we can, so now we need to schedule the meeting, we'll

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know more about that. So moving on to what you're mentioning. That's okay. I didn't give you this,

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so you didn't know what I was going to talk about. So the Historical Society does own the land

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and the bathrooms will go on and the board has agreed to demo the building and I know we've

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mentioned it several times. Some people may think that the building is historic because

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there was a sign that said the historic blacksmith shop. The building itself is not. The area

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they kind of had deemed as the location of where the blacksmith shop was. So they're

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okay with demoing it. We originally thought about repairing it, but if you go inside it's

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just in really bad shape. So that's not an option. I didn't believe it until I really stared

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at it a little bit longer and it's not in good shape. So they're okay with that. What will come

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with that, what's in with the property and then the land, the historical society is looking to lease

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the land to the city for 99 years. So with the lease would come responsibilities of building maintenance,

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utilities, facilities and grounds upkeep by the city. So that's probably what you're what you were asking

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about. They haven't officially voted. They've they haven't yet. Meeting tomorrow. I knew it was coming

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up so they have said that it's a go but they have to have that official meeting before we know

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in writing and everything so that'll be tomorrow and we'll know more than basically what we our

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main goal was to come today give you an update on what's happening and then also to ask you all

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for your support moving forward obviously the lease for 99 years is going to be up to you so we hope

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that moving forward you'll be able to support our project and see what it will do to benefit our

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community.

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Hopefully that wasn't directed towards me.

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I'm actually excited about this project.

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Yeah, we still, we were really excited when we wrote a letter to the

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Institute's foundation they have a family ties to Russell and we received $10,000 from them.

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So that was a good step forward in the right time because then we kind of had a

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Downward fall of donations but we're getting ready to ramp that back up and we'll know more in the next couple days. So all right. Thank you.

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So I'm going to be speaking with you specifically about the splash pad project. So this is a project that's being it's a cooperative project between Russell Pride Incorporated at 501c3 and the Rotary Club of Russell.

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Just a little bit about the project, if you've seen the plans for the streetscape, you

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know that it is scheduled to be placed to the west of where the blacksmith's shop gas

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station currently stands.

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There's a vacant, blighted lot there that's rubble and rock, and that's where this flash

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plant is intended to go.

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So we have been doing some fundraising over the last several months and we do have some funding in place.

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We have received a $16,000 grant from the Russell County Area Community Foundation.

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We've applied to the Hanson Foundation for $20,000.

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We have not yet received a response on that grant application.

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we have a really

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We've recently identified another grant opportunity that would potentially pay for up to 50% of the cost. We will be applying for a rotary district grant in the amount of $5,000 that is due on July 31. So, look, a rotary club has pledged $6,000 to the project. We've received pledges totaling $20,000 from individual donors.

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And we are just getting underway with trying to sell bricks to engraved bricks, so donors could purchase a brick for $250 a piece.

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And that would be engraved with their name or whatever message they might want to convey provided that it's appropriate.

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We're going to be using the ideas to use old street bricks from Russell's streets.

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We've sent a sample to the engraver and they are able to use those successfully.

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So I think that will provide a really nice look.

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And then depending on how many we sell, the pattern around the splash pads hasn't yet been determined because obviously it depends on how many bricks we sell.

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We'd like to sell 200 of those.

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So that, that portion of the fundraising is just getting underway, and if you'd like to buy your very own brick, please see me about that.

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Also, the plain kind, the plumbing installation will, glassmen is indicated that they will provide an in-kind donation to install the plumbing for the, the splash pad as well.

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So that does bring me to my next topic, which is the actual, the way that the splash pad functions.

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So the way that it works is that it will have a recirculating pump.

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So that the water comes up, it goes right back down the drain, gets re-sanitized, gets re-treated, and gets recycled.

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So the water loss, the majority of it will be recaptured and recycled through the system.

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There will be a timer, so it activates on the timer if I'm wanting to come use the

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slow-bate the timer, it runs for 10 minutes or 15 minutes, I don't think we've determined

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a timeframe.

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It's probably an industry standard on that, so that it's not running indefinitely.

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It will be designed so that we say a certain time of the year is not available just like the pool.

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We don't want to have an issue with freezing. We'll have to purge the pipes and winterize it.

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But it will be available when the weather is nice enough to use it.

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So, we're shooting for September start date on our construction, of course, that's once

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again dependent upon that you're getting a lease agreement in place where, you know,

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we don't feel that we can actually do anything on the project until that lease agreement's

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in place.

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We're just, you know, don't want to incur any liability for either Russell Pride or for the

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I think pretty well describes the project in a nutshell. Does anyone have any questions?

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Just like that.

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That would be the best way. That would be the best way.

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This is at one like Wilson, where it has no.

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No, it's so if you've ever been to the state fair, you'll know that there's a splash pad,

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That's pretty much smack dab in the middle of the fairgrounds.

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It's going to be very similar to that.

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It'll be concrete with jets that that shoot out at various sizes and heights, but no.

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The addition of the other functionality greatly increases the cost, it increases the maintenance

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cost.

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This is going to be a fairly low maintenance project.

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So the chemicals for this are basically cool chemicals from what I understand. It's the same concept. Yes, this may be a

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question, though, there will be a fence around it or, you know, I think that would shoot well, I think personally I think there

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ought to be some landscaping around it to delineate the area. We're wanting to put benches around it that also help sort of define the area

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where parents can sit. So the two, thinking like, we're a little bleeding or riding your bike through

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it and things. Oh, yeah. That, well, you're not, that's going to be, shouldn't have

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I heard you, but yeah, I probably don't know that you're beginning with people's parents and that

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because you can't police it, 24 or 7, you know, but I don't know that it won't bother. They

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cause any nuts that I want. Yeah, it's concrete. It shouldn't, shouldn't cause a problem.

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but yeah and the benches I'll speak to that a little bit more so the pledges

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that we received will be enough to pay for two benches so that's in exchange for

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your pledge you get a bench with your name on it so for a certain pledges of a

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certain dollar amount so we've got two benches sold so to speak and we'd like to sell

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a couple more. Yeah, they'll be the same vendor everything. They were good to work with and

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they provided a quality product and we were very pleased with those. Yeah, they are.

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So sturdy and they should last a long time. Anybody else have any other questions?

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How large area in court relations is a lot is it the diet it's 25 feet in diameter I believe is that correct yes 25 feet in diameter so it would probably then interfere with the construction of the bathrooms.

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So, you have to be done at the same time, so the plumbing, yeah, they'll come in through

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the bathroom and get trenched in to the splash pad, right?

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Ladies and thank you everybody else involved for all the artwork that's within this is a great

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Okay. Next up we have the library. Just because what's this on going to be, she signed in so okay let's get her unmuted and just go over there.

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Can you hear me okay?

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Say what we're talking about.

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I'm here. Can you hear me okay?

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Yes. Perfect. Yes ma'am.

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Okay. I'm going to try to talk nice and loud so that you just interrupt me if you have any problems.

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All right?

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Yes.

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I'm Jessica McGuire from the Russell Public Library, and I just want to say thank you for allowing

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me to join this way.

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I would say a year ago would be very strange to join in this way, but now I'm extremely

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used to it.

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The mission of the library is to empower effective users of information and ideas, provide relevant

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services, programs, and materials, enrich, support, and complement the community, and promote

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a lifelong love of reading.

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I want to talk a little bit about some highlights from 2019.

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We had 162 new library users.

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We had 22,248 visitors and 3538 web sites visit.

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We added 1,220 new items to our collection, which is roughly 102 items every month.

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And there were 2,680 downloads of e-contin, which was a 43% increase from 2018.

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the main reason for that was we added two plus to our digital

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content. We had a total check, total checkouts of 20,886. So a few more

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stats. Our computers were used 3,945 times. We saw a 61% increase in the

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number of books we lent to other libraries through Interlibrary Loan and a

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24% increase in the number of books our patrons borrowed through Interlibrary Loan

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And I always like to look at that status right there because I like seeing that we've

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wind way more books to other libraries than we have to pull for our patrons.

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And I think that's a good sign that we're bringing in the content that they want.

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We offered 175 programs in 2019 with a total attendance of 4,201 people, which was a 55% increase

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in attendance from 2018.

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The main reason behind that is you might remember that we talked about how our goal was to

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present more programs for the entire family, and also to present more programs for adults

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only.

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And so I'll go into a little bit about our programs.

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Storytime.

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Right now, our storytime is virtual on Facebook Live, unfortunately.

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We have a program called Let's Try It.

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A couple of examples of what we've done there is kids yoga,

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editable slime making, and made rag rug out of old t-shirts

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that were donated to the library.

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We hold a classic movie night once a month,

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which bring in between 13 and 15 adults to the library.

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That's for 18 and up.

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We do our summer library program,

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which this year unfortunately has to be virtual.

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Last year, our theme was a University of Stories,

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and this year the theme is Imagine Your Story.

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We do a YA event, which is for middle school and high school kids every month.

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A couple examples of that would be our teen trivia night, fear factor, and escape room challenges.

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And then some of the adult programming we've done are gardening basics,

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candle making, and palette painting, where we took an old donated palette

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and painted it to look like an American flag.

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We do trick-or-read every year and give away between usually 100 to 150 books.

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and letters to Santa. We have 200 to 300 people coming into the library and we give every child a book.

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We do our after-school programming knitwits and we have photography classes which are usually

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twice a month. So I'll go into some of the services of the library. I'm sure you're familiar with all of these,

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but I'll tell you anyway, we have a public access computers. We offer copying, scanning,

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in fact new services, notary services, test proctoring by appointment. Our free Wi-Fi hotspot has

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proven to be extremely helpful during the quarantine because people who don't have internet access

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at home could still just come and park in the parking lot and take advantage of that. Of course,

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we circulate DVDs and we raise along with books, audio books and such. And we also have Hoopla

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and Central R.E. Library, which was very helpful during the quarantine as well, so that we could

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still offer books to our patrons, just in a digital format. We'll talk about some of the partnerships

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that we have taken part of through the years. We do scholarship night with the Russell County Area

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Community Foundation, Community Connections, does a monthly play group, Catholic Charities,

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says a mobile outreach at the library, USD 407 that are reading family fun night last summer,

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they're also summer and then we are the Russell County affiliate for the Jolly Park and

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Imagination Libraries and we currently have 319 users and they're receiving a free book

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per child from the ages of 0 to 5 every month and so basically what we do with that is whenever

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a book gets returned we just get in contact with them make sure that we get we have their correct

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address and just some kind of things like that. Not a real big time. It doesn't take a

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whole lot of time but it's worth it to be able to get the books into the hands of the kids.

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And so a few things that we're looking forward to coming up here is I know I've been at the

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library for seven years and for seven years we've been talking about how the roof needs to be replaced.

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And finally, we had a hailstorm that did it in and the insurance company is going to replace it.

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So a big sigh of relief for all of us that we don't have to worry about that huge expense.

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That's going to be happening sometime in the fall.

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We will have a new look to our library catalog personalized to the Russell Public Library.

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So right now if you would go on our catalog, which is called Pathfinder Central,

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You would see it's quite generic looking every library within Central Campus Library system.

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It looks exactly the same to every one of them, and you probably wouldn't even know

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it's the Russell Public Library catalog.

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Basically, what's going to happen is that there's going to be a scan as what they're calling

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it that goes over that catalog where we can put our Russell Public Library logo.

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We can kind of tailor it to Russell County.

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We can put information about things going in the library, going on in the library on there.

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it's going to be really nice. I'm really looking forward to that. And then also to let you know,

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the Central Kansas Library System in 2021 is changing the way they give us our grants. So in the

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past, we've gotten a base grant. And then the rest of the money we receive from CKLS is through us

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applying for competitive loan or competitive grants. And so sometimes we'll get them, sometimes we

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that money that they would normally put into a competitive grant and they're

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going to distribute it among the counties. And believe it or not, Russell County

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is one of the bigger counties within Census Library systems. So because we

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have more people that we serve, our cut will be a little bit larger. And so I'm

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looking forward to that. It's going to save a lot of time and not having to write

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as many grants as I have had to do in the past. And so on to my budget, I just

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wanted to mention that with the pandemic and obviously the tax monies are

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going to be going down and we understand that and we always talk about local

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maintenance of efforts and just so you know that they're continuing to expect

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local maintenance of effort but the state understands that you can't give what

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you don't have and so with tax monies being down and with possibly people being

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the link went on paying their taxes. We may be asking for 160,000. You can say yes, we'll try

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to give you 160,000. We understand that that is definitely a humongous chance that that's not going

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to be happening. And so you'll notice that we have created our budget to replace that.

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Do you have any questions?

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Okay. Okay.

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I would like to say, you know, every year, it flourishes. A lot of people. I think it has a lot to do with the people in charge to. Yeah. I think they have soft to.

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to you and your staff because since I've been here

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on the city council, this is, you know, eight or nine years ago,

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we had, you know, I think we have struggled there

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for a little bit.

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Yeah, and now we have just,

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and every year you think we'll increase

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by getting any better in the drive down.

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It's amazing, thank you.

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Well, I thank you so much for those kind words

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and I don't do it alone.

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I have a really awesome staff.

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They work very hard for me, even through the pandemic

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when we were quarantined, they were at home working. Our summer library program coordinator

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had the entire library programs planned and had to completely redo everything. Jim who's been

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here almost as long as me. He was checking on the library every other day. I was checking on the

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library every other day. We had one person who was making little videos with her daughter to post on

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Facebook page about post site science experiments people could do. I mean they're just absolutely awesome

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so I don't do it alone and I will pass on those kind of words to them as well. Thank you so much.

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And the mural, what's awesome.

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A lot of people. That is awesome. Yeah. So thank you very much. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Crosswell, we need it all but thank you for the opportunity to come and justify our expenditures out there that you help us out with. We certainly appreciate that chance.

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Obviously, you have a lot of tough decisions in front of you, obviously.

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And of course, my record board has had a few of their own the last three months, honestly.

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They probably had the most difficult vote last Thursday in my 10 years.

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And I'd like to publicly thank them, by the way. I've been there 10 years, so appreciate that.

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But they voted last Thursday to go ahead with a summer season.

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So I'm kind of doing this backwards. I was going to highlight some of the 2020 stuff before we get to the 19.

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So I sent ahead of time here if you don't mind looking at the sheet, this label tentative summer plans on that and again that was tentative at the time but they did approve this plan to move forwards here.

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We based our decision on the older group on county health policy suggested that we do not travel and she highly recommended that we didn't have teams travel in here.

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She recommended that so my board considered that last Thursday and voted to not let that happen so that took care of our tournaments, unfortunately, but it's for the safety side of it. So we're doing what the county health suggested, but that older group, the 12 under 15 under will still do a lot of things in terms of scrimmages and those kinds of things and has some fun, which as the spirit of recreation is to have some fun.

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I would also note that when we do travel, we go to Ellsworth, Ellinwood,

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Claflin, and Hoisingson. Those four towns have also voted to not do any

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traveling, stay among themselves. And in fact, I talked to the lady from

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Claflin last night, they canceled their whole summer season last night. They're

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not doing anything. And either is Osborne Smith Center, by the way. So we feel

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fortunate, I feel fortunate, that we at least get to offer something for these

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kids this summer. And if you look down at the bottom, and again, I would emphasize

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this with tentative. Look down at the bottom I have swimming wood and I listed that as wood

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be offered, not will be. Only you and my board members have seen this sheet and obviously

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I can see on the board you've got decisions to make later. We'll abide by those. Whatever

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you decide is fine by us, absolutely. So again they did approve all of these other things here

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which gives us an opportunity to move forwards a little bit. Yesterday we opened the rec center

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fully for the first time since March 15th. Obviously we had we were I shouldn't say obviously because I'm out there a lot bit

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We were met with a lot of positive comments

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It opens at 4 a.m. And we have that's a pretty card system and we could go back and look in that 401 402 403 people were there

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Couple weeks. We were open for two weeks

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While I was there from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. I had people standing there before 7 a.m. You get in there

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So we're back fully open and a lot of people really appreciate that to say the least so that's our plan just briefly for 2020 moving forward. We've got something right now and we will still at the park.

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We will still recommend will have signs of recommending social distancing big time and I'm not going to let him use new water fountains.

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We won't be providing the water and the coolers, they'll do their own thing there, and we're going to provide them with sanitizing sprays, et cetera, to each coach to each team, so we'll still be careful there.

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And normally the machine pitch kids are down at the two smaller fields. I have the opportunity now to move them up to the bigger fields, Fred, I'm not more social distancing.

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So that's just moving forward in 2020, but I think the real reason I'm here or the other reason I'm here is to talk about what took place last year.

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And if you folks don't mind looking at that, that would be the summary portion that I sent you.

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I'd like to point out just two numbers that my board's pretty proud of and so am I. We did the one right at the top where we offered the 30 programs and the thousand and three people that participated last year.

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The reason that is a big deal to us is, again, I've been here 10 years now, last month,

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10 years.

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It started out with 14 programs and 278 people.

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So in the last 10 years, we've gone, we've nearly doubled, well, we've doubled our programs,

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and we've nearly tripled our participation in those programs.

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So I think that kind of growth, it means a lot to the community, and my board feels like

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That justifies us requesting us to be fully funded or as much as we can do and we believe

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me.

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My first thing I said was you got tough decisions to make, we understand that.

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But with the opportunity to continue the growth and the services for everybody, we would

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request that, but we don't expect it and we totally understand that.

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So if you want to go ahead and just briefly look at the rest of the sheet, I'm not going

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to read it to you obviously, but during your regular season, we have 22 dates in the

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evenings out there, 22 dates that we have games and we average about 150 people a night

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so that puts us and at last year we still had the travel teams coming in which we can

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separate out travel people and our own people but in that time we average you know over 3,000

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people just during the regular season if you will and in the special events we host two large

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softball tournaments, a baseball tournament and we have a volleyball travel league, our travel

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And finally, those towns I listed, we each host one time,

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which gives each town an opportunity to bring a lot of people in.

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And then basketball, basketball, we top the thousand people

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in about a 14-hour period.

425
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,420
Thank you to the Russell School District,

426
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,140
by the way, for letting us use their facilities.

427
00:37:41,540 --> 00:37:42,880
So you take all those numbers,

428
00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:45,720
and you're looking, as you can read, over 7,000 spectators,

429
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,560
players, coaches involved last year,

430
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,420
which I think is fantastic.

431
00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:52,100
And of course, that's directly involved.

432
00:37:52,340 --> 00:37:53,960
If you look back up there where I had put

433
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,120
indirectly involved,

434
00:37:55,120 --> 00:38:02,260
I think that's kind of a conservative number, you know, you just anticipate every kid has at least one parent usually to.

435
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,640
So really, if you add that up, you're affecting over half the town. Easily over half the town.

436
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:14,580
It's involved somehow or understands the Russell work programs, which I think is huge to be able to say that.

437
00:38:14,580 --> 00:38:19,260
And of course, you can't be selfish. We don't want to be selfish about anything. So we try and give back.

438
00:38:19,260 --> 00:38:26,100
So you see here where we partnered and helped out the 19 outside groups to get back to the community that helps us out

439
00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:32,880
And then the 12 groups that use the rec center and most of the time if there are I know the tree board came in

440
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:37,960
Those kinds of things are schools if they want an event. We don't charge them. They don't charge any kind of rentals for that

441
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:42,040
We just let them use the facility in order to get back to the community in that respect

442
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,100
So it's open up all the time

443
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,520
The fitness room, I wanted to point that out specifically.

444
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,800
That's a big deal to us as far as our machines and last year,

445
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,820
the correct word really is replaced, not upgraded. I apologize for that.

446
00:38:56,340 --> 00:39:00,320
We were able to replace two of our treadmills. We started out with four,

447
00:39:00,620 --> 00:39:03,880
and they're seven years old, but we paid well to start with.

448
00:39:04,020 --> 00:39:07,600
They're in very good shape. We were able to trade those in, but last year,

449
00:39:07,620 --> 00:39:13,160
we were able to replace two of those. And then we were able to also add two types of machines.

450
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,960
we've never had before to give more diversification

451
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,660
to stepper machines, if you will.

452
00:39:18,220 --> 00:39:19,560
So, we've made some upgrades in there,

453
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,120
and I think the biggest thing that we did

454
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,180
that really helps out in there is adding Andy Hurla,

455
00:39:25,420 --> 00:39:27,060
works a lot with the school sports,

456
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,100
you may know him through that.

457
00:39:28,220 --> 00:39:32,280
He's with the rehabilitation center at the hospital.

458
00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:34,160
Andy is, he does a great job there.

459
00:39:34,740 --> 00:39:36,900
We were able to work with Russell Regional Hospital

460
00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:40,180
on a contract where he comes out twice a week

461
00:39:40,180 --> 00:39:42,100
and he can legally give advice

462
00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:45,640
and help out people that have questions about fitness and programs.

463
00:39:46,060 --> 00:39:51,980
He's a huge addition in there, really gives us a lot of ability to help people out even more

464
00:39:51,980 --> 00:39:54,620
in a legal fashion to say the least.

465
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,660
So what you don't see on there, I might point out is before all this craziness started

466
00:39:59,660 --> 00:40:06,540
and I can't remember exactly in the next January or February, but I pointed out that the other two treadmills

467
00:40:06,540 --> 00:40:11,240
You need to be addressed, well, they were and they approved that purchase and they'll

468
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:11,960
be here Friday.

469
00:40:11,980 --> 00:40:15,060
And again, this was all done before all this craziness started.

470
00:40:15,340 --> 00:40:20,920
So we'll be able to replace those two, upgrade those, and then the other one was, within

471
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:25,960
a month of me being hired, month after I got hired, we bought a new machine that takes care

472
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:26,620
of the fields.

473
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,080
It's called a field dresser.

474
00:40:28,220 --> 00:40:31,060
It's that three-wheeled machine that I can't live without.

475
00:40:31,340 --> 00:40:34,080
It does all the spiking and the dragging and the working and the fields.

476
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:40,320
so this would have been its 11th summer. It's got 1,400 hours on it. It's crazy, but it's done

477
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:46,000
fine. They did approve a purchase of any one of those after 11 years and it will be here in

478
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:51,540
a couple of weeks. Those are expenditures that you don't see yet that you will see as far as

479
00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:56,320
utilizing your money to keep our equipment up. So I'm pretty excited about that to say the least.

480
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,700
And of course staff wise I wanted to point out you know with the two full-time myself and Jerry

481
00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:07,400
person does a fantastic job just don't tell her that she might get a big head she does a great job

482
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:13,840
though she really does and the 51 seasonal workers to me that's a big deal. It just it really is

483
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:19,100
you're able to hire so many of these as you can see the average age is 16. I put a lot of kids to

484
00:41:19,100 --> 00:41:23,100
work in the summer it will be a shorter summer this year but we'll still be able to help out a lot

485
00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:28,920
of people in terms of salary and of course that directly plays my next bullet point there over

486
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,060
$1,000 and this is in your finances.

487
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,980
I don't want to be too repetitive because you can look this up.

488
00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,840
But we put in over $100,000 of salary back

489
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,960
into the community last year through our employees.

490
00:41:40,140 --> 00:41:43,900
And I'm guessing a versatile that stayed within the community.

491
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,100
And then you throw me in the five events.

492
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,700
And I had a lady help me figure out how you can kind of figure

493
00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:51,800
an average on that.

494
00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:56,780
And she said basically $7 an average for the number of people

495
00:41:56,780 --> 00:41:59,300
that come in the average $7 expenditure.

496
00:41:59,980 --> 00:42:03,360
I didn't put it on, but this includes our nightly program

497
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,460
as well as the events, but $35,000 plus

498
00:42:06,460 --> 00:42:08,540
brought into the town through those five tournaments

499
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:10,080
and our nightly events.

500
00:42:10,380 --> 00:42:11,800
So you put those two numbers together.

501
00:42:11,940 --> 00:42:14,400
I feel like that we are carrying our own weight

502
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,700
and it's because that you guys let us do that

503
00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:18,280
because of the funding that you give us.

504
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,040
So I know my board feels like and I do

505
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:22,940
that we're still a contributing member

506
00:42:22,940 --> 00:42:24,660
to the society, to our community,

507
00:42:24,660 --> 00:42:28,320
and I think we're an asset to the community as much as the library.

508
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:29,840
You should have fantastic one, too.

509
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,360
So I just appreciate the opportunity to give you this.

510
00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:34,640
I hate to bore you with all the numbers,

511
00:42:34,660 --> 00:42:37,380
but it really does boil down to that that I think

512
00:42:37,380 --> 00:42:38,720
that we produce really good numbers.

513
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:43,180
And we do have an opportunity in 2020 to do some things.

514
00:42:43,180 --> 00:42:45,420
I didn't think we were going to be able to do even a week ago.

515
00:42:45,860 --> 00:42:49,000
So, okay, and now I'm not going to read all those things.

516
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:51,880
Any questions?

517
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:11,740
Yes, respectfully. We request the same amount if that's possible. Yes. We request that. But what we understand, which was. Yeah. Yes. Sorry. I didn't make that clear.

518
00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:20,140
Let me make, if I go off the record real quick and go, I'm actually on the historical board,

519
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,860
actually a president, I do the short straw.

520
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:28,260
Katrina's come and done a great job. She gave a couple presentations to us in terms of

521
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,960
turning the gas station and looking on that. We're all on board.

522
00:43:32,260 --> 00:43:35,760
We just have to go through. I now can speak to them. We just have to go through all the

523
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,200
the galleries tomorrow and our vote,

524
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,020
but we're more than willing to move forward with that project.

525
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:40,660
Absolutely.

526
00:43:41,460 --> 00:43:44,420
And the plan for us is to just make a,

527
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,780
some sort of a plaque, something bigger like this,

528
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,480
next to the Gernan House, indicating the spot

529
00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:52,860
of where his actual blacksmith shop is.

530
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,700
So we'll still be able to honor that historically.

531
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:57,880
So we'll be able to be able to do that, so.

532
00:43:58,060 --> 00:44:01,500
That's right, me to do the plaque and the bill.

533
00:44:01,700 --> 00:44:03,080
There you go, so, there you go.

534
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,360
Thank you guys for all of that.

535
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:06,600
So, I appreciate you guys.

536
00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:06,840
Thank you.

537
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:08,640
Thank you.

538
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:09,020
Thank you.

539
00:44:12,310 --> 00:44:12,790
Okay.

540
00:44:14,210 --> 00:44:17,630
Next up, 2021 budget.

541
00:44:17,910 --> 00:44:21,730
The budget, when we bring you over next few weeks,

542
00:44:21,890 --> 00:44:25,170
the budget requests from the library and bus

543
00:44:25,170 --> 00:44:27,190
and recreation are just drafts.

544
00:44:27,190 --> 00:44:30,910
These are just beginning workings of the 2021 budget

545
00:44:30,910 --> 00:44:34,930
based on revenues and helpful input and directions.

546
00:44:35,470 --> 00:44:36,310
Those will be changed.

547
00:44:36,310 --> 00:44:45,070
Most notably on tonight's presentation, you'll see 10-year plans for utilities which are also in your packet, and those are definitely working process.

548
00:44:45,750 --> 00:44:49,710
So they may look at them in private as you put them in the tree to take care of.

549
00:44:50,510 --> 00:44:53,590
So just want to point out these are drafts and still working process.

550
00:44:54,450 --> 00:44:59,730
So, our utility snapshot electric environment serves 3,400.

551
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,980
Customers, a little bit more than that. In a 50 square mile area, we're a little different than most municipal utilities, but generally just serve their city proper. We have 50 square miles that we covered. That's provided by 146 miles, a three-page primary and about 8,000 power poles. The electric department has been working along with the water department on mapping our infrastructure. And right now, Megan's, the GPS has got about 95% of our electric

552
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:36,440
infrastructure, which is huge, especially in time of the disaster. So in a water

553
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:43,460
department, we served just under 2,500 customers. Last year we converted 981 acre feet or just

554
00:45:43,460 --> 00:45:51,120
120 million gallons of water, finished water. That's down from 2018, which was 1166 acre feet,

555
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:59,480
and even down a little bit more from 2007, which was 1,284 acre feet, which 1284 is about the high

556
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,820
point that we've had, we've had years in the age of sometimes there we've gotten up around

557
00:46:03,820 --> 00:46:12,740
13, 1400, 2017, for us was a lot of use. That was just under 400 and 20 million gallons in 2017.

558
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:20,900
We have 92 miles of water mains in town that are either PVC, cast iron, duct metal,

559
00:46:20,980 --> 00:46:26,460
and during department reports, we're going to talk to you a little bit about the water project

560
00:46:26,460 --> 00:46:33,340
on the west side of town that's going to begin on July 6th, but, you know, you think about it, our town isn't that big.

561
00:46:33,780 --> 00:46:43,600
We have 92 miles of line that we maintain just in town. That does not count to 30 miles of line between here and Piper and here in Bidwick.

562
00:46:44,260 --> 00:46:44,260
So,

563
00:46:46,790 --> 00:46:52,190
you can see here on our annual water converted, it's just 1981, I was grabbed out there.

564
00:46:52,190 --> 00:46:54,350
You can see we've had up and ups and downs.

565
00:46:54,870 --> 00:46:57,390
Our high point was in the 1983,

566
00:46:57,450 --> 00:47:00,190
we used just about the 1800 acre feet.

567
00:47:00,770 --> 00:47:03,210
And actually that is where our maximum limit was sent

568
00:47:03,210 --> 00:47:04,690
by the state of Kansas.

569
00:47:05,210 --> 00:47:08,650
We used 1,842 acre feet and that is our maximum.

570
00:47:08,950 --> 00:47:10,550
Doesn't matter how much water we have,

571
00:47:11,230 --> 00:47:12,810
we could have all the water in the world

572
00:47:12,810 --> 00:47:14,910
we cannot use more than 18.2.

573
00:47:15,330 --> 00:47:17,790
With the R9 ranch, that would not change,

574
00:47:18,030 --> 00:47:21,470
that would have been incorporated into the change orders

575
00:47:21,470 --> 00:47:22,730
or the National Order.

576
00:47:24,150 --> 00:47:27,130
Then you look here, the areas that are circled,

577
00:47:27,510 --> 00:47:31,750
those are areas that were around 2006, 2007 and 2008,

578
00:47:32,030 --> 00:47:33,690
and then in 2012 from 2013,

579
00:47:34,050 --> 00:47:36,570
you can see that water has dropped out of drastically.

580
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:44,120
Our waste water, last year we treated 372 million gallons

581
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,520
of what we call Influent,

582
00:47:45,620 --> 00:47:48,640
that comes from the sewer lines into our Lagoon system

583
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,140
and it goes out as Influent,

584
00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:51,080
but we discharge.

585
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:55,540
22% of that are 68 million gallons came from industrial customers.

586
00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:00,300
300 and 4 million gallons came from commercial residential customers in the city.

587
00:48:01,380 --> 00:48:06,100
So, let's say, sanitation, we provide service to just under 2200 customers.

588
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:12,480
We hauled a little bit more than 2,165 tons of trash in 2019.

589
00:48:12,980 --> 00:48:17,100
That's down from 2,700 tons in 2018.

590
00:48:17,100 --> 00:48:23,700
pain. Not all of that is accounted for by recycling, but a good portion of that is. You can

591
00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:29,100
tell we, the recycling center, we recycle 220 tons of cardboard.

592
00:48:31,940 --> 00:48:33,860
You can see those bum

593
00:48:33,860 --> 00:48:39,720
look in the galore. It's get hold off and you paint by the recycler to paint that. And

594
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:45,160
I believe that we make about $8,000 a year from just the cardboard recycling. The other items

595
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:50,520
that we recycle we do not get paid for. We have an agreement with central campus recycling,

596
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:58,460
just let them pick that up. We've estimated that we recycle 12 tons of plastic, 4 tons of tin,

597
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,520
19 tons of glass, 4 tons of aluminum, and that is based on those trailers being full

598
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:08,540
and empty two times a week. Those numbers are plastic are probably a little low because there's times

599
00:49:08,540 --> 00:49:10,860
we have to call them extra if it gets so full.

600
00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:17,140
So on page 12 of your packet you can see

601
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:22,740
Closer than what I'm looking at on the screen is the electric revenue.

602
00:49:23,300 --> 00:49:32,280
What I'd like to point out on this is that the revenue sales from 2019 to 2021 are down.

603
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:38,440
And that is based on the same amount of kilowatt power sold, but our rates are down.

604
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:43,560
We look at the council reduced rates by one and a quarter cent per kilowatt out.

605
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:51,600
So we're still estimating the same amount of load or usage each year, that declined rather than it was just because the major cheaters.

606
00:49:54,510 --> 00:49:57,590
Electrical expense, which is also on page 12 of your packet.

607
00:49:57,890 --> 00:50:04,190
You can see that our expenses build down with dolls with a buck pie. They have low cost.

608
00:50:04,910 --> 00:50:08,470
You can see on there that we're able to transfer more to the electric depreciation.

609
00:50:08,470 --> 00:50:15,910
Back in 2019, we transferred a quarter of the May $2,000,

610
00:50:15,950 --> 00:50:20,450
we're projecting $360,000 and $21,000 with projections $350,000.

611
00:50:21,270 --> 00:50:22,930
First, now cost you can see it up.

612
00:50:23,550 --> 00:50:26,690
That is due to bringing our wages closer to market ranges

613
00:50:27,450 --> 00:50:29,730
for both production and distribution crews.

614
00:50:30,230 --> 00:50:33,270
Most notably our distribution crews, we had a difficult time

615
00:50:33,270 --> 00:50:37,850
maintaining during the alignment when they could go to a co-op

616
00:50:37,850 --> 00:50:43,350
or investor owned utility make $15 to $20 per hour for the exact same training.

617
00:50:43,890 --> 00:50:51,550
Work almost there. We are at above some municipalities where not where the IOUs and the co-ops are.

618
00:50:51,830 --> 00:50:55,630
We can't be. I don't think we'll ever get there. But if you look overall,

619
00:50:56,430 --> 00:51:01,650
our utility rates are much less than the co-op who are next to our utility, including the ones that

620
00:51:01,650 --> 00:51:02,330
around our area.

621
00:51:04,690 --> 00:51:09,870
So, and here's the electric three-year view. This is the same information

622
00:51:09,870 --> 00:51:15,570
just in Graphical Review. You can see that the 2019, which is dark blue line of revenue

623
00:51:15,570 --> 00:51:22,950
is the actual and then 2021 are estimated based on the same amount of load just at the lower

624
00:51:22,950 --> 00:51:29,610
rates. Our administration remain cost remains flat, our production decrease, you can see there

625
00:51:31,350 --> 00:51:35,130
is because the purchase power down but then you'll see that the numbers are actually a little bit

626
00:51:35,130 --> 00:51:40,310
higher because of the some maintenance items that we're doing and the increase in personnel

627
00:51:40,970 --> 00:51:47,110
and distribution has risen and transfers. Those transfers are things like personal benefits,

628
00:51:47,110 --> 00:51:51,890
the depreciation fund in the general fund. The electrical utility in the last few years

629
00:51:51,890 --> 00:51:57,290
is transferred more than $50,000 to the general fund to reduce the tax burden, and the

630
00:51:57,290 --> 00:52:02,430
reason is if that was privately owned utility, that more likely than not, that it would be paying

631
00:52:02,430 --> 00:52:08,270
the city's credit charge. So that's basically the same thing. The other transfers are to cover

632
00:52:08,270 --> 00:52:14,470
to personal benefits, that's to cover those employees' costs, personal benefits here for

633
00:52:16,110 --> 00:52:25,050
Our fund balance reserve policy, which is one of the things I think that the evident body is done in the last 10 years is growing and doing better for the electric fund.

634
00:52:25,610 --> 00:52:38,850
Based on our policy, which we have a minimum of $2 million with a tariff of 4.5 million in the 2019, the unordered financials were $1 million, just under 4.1 million.

635
00:52:40,150 --> 00:52:42,470
Actually, that's actual projected per check.

636
00:52:44,130 --> 00:52:49,670
This is the one that is going to be hard to see on this screen, so this is on page 13 of the packet.

637
00:52:50,850 --> 00:52:56,930
all these plans that you're seeing are fluid and they'll move. This one's a little

638
00:52:56,930 --> 00:53:03,970
unique because you can see that off into the 27th and 28th, 29 years there's

639
00:53:03,970 --> 00:53:08,130
actually a negative cash balance and that is the timing of overalls of the

640
00:53:08,130 --> 00:53:15,030
turbines which are scheduled in 2024 and 2027. Those overalls are based on the

641
00:53:15,030 --> 00:53:20,370
hours, so they're numbers to get put back. We also believe that we'll be able to transfer more

642
00:53:21,190 --> 00:53:25,870
into the depreciation. So, like I said, this is just a rolling plan.

643
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:30,880
This shows the cash balance

644
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:40,120
from that in graphical form. Did you get closer or 24-25 and 26? We do not anticipate those

645
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,440
main negative balances. We can't have them that way. This is just how it looks today.

646
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:48,240
Okay, any questions about electrical from the one in water?

647
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:53,600
Okay, a water revenue, this is on page 14 of the packet.

648
00:53:54,260 --> 00:54:00,660
You can see by those numbers that water sales 2019, which is under $2.7 million.

649
00:54:01,540 --> 00:54:07,020
But we're budgeting only 2.2 in revenue and sales in 2021.

650
00:54:07,020 --> 00:54:11,120
one, and that's because we budget for draft reviews. That way, we're not caught off

651
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:16,280
hard, expecting a higher amount of revenue, drought kits, we don't have the sales. So each

652
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:21,000
year we've been planning for draft, and our rates that were updated three or four years

653
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:25,680
ago, probably four years ago, are based on draft sales.

654
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,100
We will need to look at, though,

655
00:54:30,380 --> 00:54:35,080
a rate increase for debt service, and to put money back for future capital projects.

656
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:41,960
A council is aware that we have about $4 million for plant A. $1 million of plant B that

657
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,740
will take cash work because we're building up the water improvement fund.

658
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,160
We have source development, the R9 ranch.

659
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:57,500
Regardless, once that is developed, regardless if we become an owner of 18% or become a preferred

660
00:54:57,500 --> 00:55:04,340
customer, who will have to have a transmission line from retention well to the PIFO well

661
00:55:04,340 --> 00:55:10,040
field, and then you'll have to use our line from Piper to Cam.

662
00:55:10,380 --> 00:55:14,360
But while we're doing that, one thing we ought to consider that an embodied should consider

663
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:19,400
is replacing that transmission line from Piper to Cam because it's exceeding 25 years

664
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:19,820
in age.

665
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:25,960
So if we're going to be replacing that in the next work by 10 years and that R9 is going to

666
00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:28,080
that's something we should consider.

667
00:55:28,940 --> 00:55:31,000
If you remember back when we did the late increase,

668
00:55:31,660 --> 00:55:34,160
about four or five years ago, we did a stagger.

669
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:35,580
We did hit it all at once.

670
00:55:35,780 --> 00:55:37,560
We brought it up over three years.

671
00:55:38,140 --> 00:55:39,460
That was for a couple of reasons.

672
00:55:40,100 --> 00:55:41,900
One that wasn't a shock to our customers,

673
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:43,500
and two that were slowly easing,

674
00:55:43,700 --> 00:55:47,100
especially our market customers into that rapid change.

675
00:55:47,660 --> 00:55:50,100
At one point, many years ago,

676
00:55:50,500 --> 00:55:54,280
we were going from losing money on producing water

677
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,140
or actually making enough money to make even put some away.

678
00:55:57,640 --> 00:55:59,200
That was the purpose of that change.

679
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:04,060
When that happened, the RMA engineering completed that course

680
00:56:04,720 --> 00:56:06,960
suggested that we have an annual increase

681
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,960
of 1.5% to 2% to match the rate of inflation.

682
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:14,480
We did that for two years after the change.

683
00:56:15,020 --> 00:56:18,580
So we had a change one year, then one of another year,

684
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,660
and then a third year, then a year four and five

685
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:35,380
We're going to propose during the budget season that the council consider a some language in that ordinance that the water rate would go up 1.5% for the cost inflation.

686
00:56:35,980 --> 00:56:39,980
If we don't need it, that we would ask the council to take it from the national state.

687
00:56:39,980 --> 00:56:41,180
we don't need a doctor.

688
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:43,780
That way we're not coming back in the 10 years.

689
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,740
And if you're paying $7,000 a thousand gallons now,

690
00:56:46,900 --> 00:56:49,600
and we wait, and then all of a sudden in six years,

691
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:51,060
our nine comes to fruition,

692
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:53,440
and we need to, you know, bond $20 million

693
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:54,400
wherever that is.

694
00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:56,960
We're not saying, oh, wait, we want to go from $7,000

695
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,920
to $10,000 at the shoot, it's going over time.

696
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,360
So we'll bring more detail in that.

697
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:05,720
We're not asking you for permission to mind.

698
00:57:05,860 --> 00:57:07,440
It's just, we want to have that on your radar,

699
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:13,220
that's something that is most likely going to be needed, especially with the projects we have planned.

700
00:57:14,180 --> 00:57:22,640
Our water expenses, you can see on page 14 of your packet also. What I like to show here is that in 2019,

701
00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:29,120
we transferred $700,000 in that water approval fund, we transferred in 2020, we're projecting

702
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:38,200
to transfer 625,000 and then in 2,021 only 280,000. Those two major transfers were for much

703
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:42,280
needed projects to get that cash balance down, but we're going to need to make more significant

704
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:48,800
transfers that want to improve the fund in future years more than 280 for these major projects.

705
00:57:49,060 --> 00:57:55,200
And what I do worry about the most is that Arnold is at that cost. If you talk to a million dollars

706
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:59,340
a mile for a pipeline, but I know it's not. That's what they gave us one time to see the bluff,

707
00:57:59,340 --> 00:58:04,580
if you remember a long time ago. But we're looking at both our way of our project, just about 14

708
00:58:04,580 --> 00:58:11,560
miles from change-in to five-thirds of one. And then you get a twenty-two miles from

709
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:14,860
back to the Russell. Correct. So that's a big one.

710
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,160
Information on that design of your page 14

711
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:23,940
to the vertical form, you can see that our revenue is far and

712
00:58:23,940 --> 00:58:28,820
left. The mark bar is the actual minimum two lower bars are

713
00:58:28,820 --> 00:58:32,620
estimates, because like we mentioned before the estimate just

714
00:58:32,620 --> 00:58:38,380
drop sales. Administration costs are flat, production costs are

715
00:58:38,380 --> 00:58:43,000
up due to increased maintenance, and we also did a similar wage

716
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:47,420
pay matrix for certified water production optimizations.

717
00:58:47,420 --> 00:58:53,460
Just like alignment, many cities and even private areas have difficulty finding class 3 and

718
00:58:53,460 --> 00:58:54,720
class 1 water up for you.

719
00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:02,000
So you can be certified here and then go to a water city and make all the place and make

720
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:02,980
4 parts as much.

721
00:59:03,620 --> 00:59:09,120
So we're not going to meet them, you know, part of our attraction is our work environment,

722
00:59:09,340 --> 00:59:14,620
community, schools, you know, great places to raise your family, but we still have to be

723
00:59:14,620 --> 00:59:16,080
competitive to get and retain.

724
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,500
Water operators should have certified. And then our transfers,

725
00:59:21,940 --> 00:59:25,840
those are things that have gone in interest, personnel benefits, the water improvement fund,

726
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:30,920
and the general fund. And off the top ahead I'm not sure. Water transfer is about how much

727
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:35,800
the general fund, we have a couple of, I don't know if that's how to do it. It's much less than

728
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:44,080
the $250,000. I think it's, I think so. And then the fund balance reserve policy based on that,

729
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:51,300
we should have at least $500,000 minimum. Our target is $1.2 million and our actual or projected

730
00:59:51,300 --> 00:59:59,520
is $1.2 million. We're actually only about $540 off, $537. So, doing well there.

731
01:00:01,300 --> 01:00:31,280
This one is also a work in process and one of the criminal funds. You can see that in better detail, a bigger font on patient opinion. It's undergoing the valuation of listed projects, the dates, where we need to do those in the cost. Some of the ongoing maintenance items that you see in there are water telematists who are in the year, water main maintenance, and well rehabilitation. The well rehabilitation you'll notice is going down because we're moving some doing three wells a year, two wells a year.

732
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:35,540
We think we'll get the best bang that will still do what we need for the

733
01:00:35,540 --> 01:00:40,380
well-being as far as acidizing and keeping them going. So the cycle will be

734
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:45,780
everything in five years instead of everything in three. Correct. Yeah.

735
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:51,700
And if we notice that, you know, that's how to find more, we need that. We can always

736
01:00:51,700 --> 01:00:55,680
move that out. But we're thinking that three every two years might be too much.

737
01:00:55,680 --> 01:01:05,680
So, we received $600,000 in scandals with a $1.29 million waterline project that Richard

738
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:12,060
toppled a bit was in the media about the EDR plan improvements that estimated $1.1 million

739
01:01:12,630 --> 01:01:17,860
because we're putting money back, we're going to pay cash, and then plan A, it's $4 million

740
01:01:17,860 --> 01:01:24,220
which we plan to pay with a KDHG loan. We think that's going to be the most cost effective

741
01:01:24,220 --> 01:01:29,360
way. And one of those of those projects you've done, those plant A and B should be good to build for

742
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:34,280
20 years. Plus, they'll be on our asset management program and we'll be planning sort of what to do,

743
01:01:34,420 --> 01:01:41,220
you know, over time as opposed to, oh, we've got to do this now. This is a graphical representation

744
01:01:41,220 --> 01:01:45,340
of the cash balances for the water improvement fund. You can see that we've built it up,

745
01:01:45,580 --> 01:01:50,380
it's a drop down, we do major projects like in 2020, we start to build it back up, then it drops down,

746
01:01:50,380 --> 01:01:57,560
We have another major project. This does not show any projects we plan for the R9 branch, because timing is still unknown.

747
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:03,520
Counts is aware we're still in the judicial review, and the oral arguments are skated.

748
01:02:07,180 --> 01:02:09,660
Any questions about what is the primary sanitation?

749
01:02:09,660 --> 01:02:10,080
presentation.

750
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:18,560
Hey, our sanitation revenue is pretty consistent with our current rates, we should be able to

751
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:24,460
save the increase in cost of transfers to the sanitation reserve that Council created

752
01:02:24,460 --> 01:02:25,360
a couple years ago.

753
01:02:26,500 --> 01:02:31,220
Our landfill sales, all those numbers pretty much stay the same.

754
01:02:31,300 --> 01:02:36,080
It's pretty even utility, not a lot of surprises there.

755
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:41,780
Our expenditures, because we adjusted the rates, we're now able to transfer money to that

756
01:02:41,780 --> 01:02:50,360
sanitation reserve. For 2020, we're projecting $120,000 and then in $21,75,000. Prior to

757
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:56,680
council creating this on, we didn't have quite a percentage. So we trampled when we needed

758
01:02:56,680 --> 01:03:02,090
a trot for something else. So now we do that plan. These are the cash balances. You can see

759
01:03:02,090 --> 01:03:09,450
revenue will make flat expenses is gone up because of transfers and then our fund balance

760
01:03:09,450 --> 01:03:16,590
policy for this fund it's 146,000 is the minimum with the total of 282 and we're about

761
01:03:16,590 --> 01:03:23,710
68 dollars over that so we'll write what we need to be so we have 282,780 which projected

762
01:03:23,710 --> 01:03:25,010
and we should get a set of hundred and so.

763
01:03:26,230 --> 01:03:27,130
We're right there.

764
01:03:27,970 --> 01:03:30,770
This tenure plan is on page 17 of your packet.

765
01:03:31,290 --> 01:03:33,770
For the meetings that are just a second and those the current links.

766
01:03:34,450 --> 01:03:37,770
The sanitation front will be able to fund this equipment and capital expenditures.

767
01:03:38,410 --> 01:03:45,110
We will need some direction from the government body on the recycling building and a compactor building.

768
01:03:45,470 --> 01:03:49,690
We've had talk in the previous years of building and recycling building.

769
01:03:49,690 --> 01:03:52,070
and maybe in the area where the two trailers are,

770
01:03:52,630 --> 01:03:54,790
and combining the cardboard recycling,

771
01:03:55,430 --> 01:03:57,990
plastic and all that into one location,

772
01:03:59,010 --> 01:04:03,170
having a contractor that we can compact that plastic,

773
01:04:03,970 --> 01:04:06,550
because it's, as you see, it's so bulky

774
01:04:06,930 --> 01:04:09,850
that it has to be emptied twice a week.

775
01:04:10,250 --> 01:04:12,270
So we think with a compactor, we can get that bill.

776
01:04:13,330 --> 01:04:14,830
This was three or four years ago,

777
01:04:14,970 --> 01:04:16,030
and we started talking about this

778
01:04:16,030 --> 01:04:18,190
because the cost of recycling plastic

779
01:04:18,190 --> 01:04:20,830
It was a good business model for some people.

780
01:04:22,150 --> 01:04:24,310
Well, I know this is blank for everything,

781
01:04:24,470 --> 01:04:27,270
but with the tensions with China and the trade

782
01:04:27,270 --> 01:04:28,170
that's going back and forth,

783
01:04:28,330 --> 01:04:30,770
they were a large consumer of the elite,

784
01:04:30,850 --> 01:04:32,110
that's probably the type of plastic.

785
01:04:32,970 --> 01:04:36,670
So the bottom is falling out of plastic and some of the notes.

786
01:04:38,250 --> 01:04:41,610
So we put it back, but we will be direction down the road

787
01:04:41,610 --> 01:04:45,810
if that's something we want to continue to look toward.

788
01:04:46,730 --> 01:04:53,910
I think based on what I've read and other cities are doing, recycling is not going to break even.

789
01:04:54,650 --> 01:04:56,090
It's going to cost us money.

790
01:04:56,770 --> 01:05:04,350
But it's some things that I think that our customer or residents appreciate, they use the heck out of it.

791
01:05:04,690 --> 01:05:06,350
And it has to do some sanitation costs.

792
01:05:06,770 --> 01:05:11,990
We can't quantify it because we don't actually measure what people put in there.

793
01:05:11,990 --> 01:05:14,770
And we do have people from that attempt to put it in.

794
01:05:15,030 --> 01:05:16,270
There's no question about it.

795
01:05:16,590 --> 01:05:16,670
So,

796
01:05:19,860 --> 01:05:21,520
any questions about sanitation?

797
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,500
If not, waste water revenue was on page 18.

798
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:33,540
These numbers that you see on the revenue,

799
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,580
come from the data from RMAs, studies on

800
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:41,920
what our rates need to be for our

801
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:48,540
But when that renewal project was about a million dollars made in a half-month, and Councils

802
01:05:48,540 --> 01:05:55,440
are aware that we have to switch from a request to Beds to request to proposals because the

803
01:05:55,440 --> 01:06:00,720
EPA and KVG changes on the ammonia limits and what they wanted us to do, and new requirements

804
01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:07,520
of our NDPES permit change that, and we are now looking closer to three to four million dollars.

805
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:15,240
Rich and I have been meeting with Army engineering.

806
01:06:15,580 --> 01:06:17,500
We think that we might have a solution.

807
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:20,180
We can bring you in a couple of weeks.

808
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:21,440
They may lower that back now.

809
01:06:22,140 --> 01:06:23,680
They won't be back down to me in a half.

810
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:25,460
We think we can save a million dollars.

811
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:27,200
Get KDH here approval.

812
01:06:28,820 --> 01:06:30,380
And it's just a different option.

813
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:32,640
So I guess what I'm saying is right now,

814
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:34,240
our waste water rates, we think are okay.

815
01:06:36,780 --> 01:06:39,680
But it's something we'll have to keep an eye on based on that cost.

816
01:06:40,100 --> 01:06:43,540
If we can get it down a million dollars, I think we're going to be able to buy it.

817
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,940
So our expenditure is for a waste water.

818
01:06:47,220 --> 01:06:51,520
You can see here that in 19, we spent the 235,000.

819
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:57,220
We were planning to transfer 380 in 20 and 487 in 21,

820
01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,220
transferring that to waste water improvement.

821
01:06:59,540 --> 01:07:01,900
So we can use that for those projects that need to be done.

822
01:07:04,370 --> 01:07:12,030
Cash balance for the wastewater is right where it needs to be minimum the $200,000 with the part of the $333, we're right at $332.

823
01:07:13,670 --> 01:07:20,070
And then the wastewater replacement fund, which is on page 19 in your packet, this is also a work in progress.

824
01:07:26,470 --> 01:07:34,170
We will bring the entire budget rolls of funds to you in August, July and August and go to them in detail.

825
01:07:34,710 --> 01:07:39,530
If you have any questions or comments about any of these budgets we bring to you, we ask you to bring those to us.

826
01:07:39,530 --> 01:07:45,490
And if you don't think that those are in a meeting and you think that if math merges in us a hole and say, hey, what exists are we doing that?

827
01:07:46,650 --> 01:07:47,330
We can get your input.

828
01:07:49,890 --> 01:07:50,630
Waste water.

829
01:07:51,910 --> 01:07:58,330
You can see here that in 2020, we have $4 million budgeted for dredging the lookings.

830
01:07:58,430 --> 01:08:01,370
That also has some headworks work.

831
01:08:02,350 --> 01:08:05,730
and but you can see that that is $4 million a loan proceeds.

832
01:08:06,630 --> 01:08:08,030
If we get down to $2 million,

833
01:08:08,370 --> 01:08:09,710
we will need a borrow for maintenance.

834
01:08:10,070 --> 01:08:10,350
Except that one.

835
01:08:10,950 --> 01:08:11,710
You make things much better.

836
01:08:12,690 --> 01:08:14,770
Cash balance for the waste water replacement.

837
01:08:15,070 --> 01:08:17,490
It continues to grow into 2030.

838
01:08:18,250 --> 01:08:19,730
It looks like it's a giant jump.

839
01:08:20,110 --> 01:08:23,410
$2.6 million, $2.3 million, and here's from now,

840
01:08:23,770 --> 01:08:25,390
there's going to be 20 votes you're going to have to do

841
01:08:25,390 --> 01:08:28,530
with lift stations, and those lift stations

842
01:08:28,530 --> 01:08:29,370
are pretty priced.

843
01:08:29,370 --> 01:08:42,540
So, okay, with water for development and infrastructure projects, like I mentioned, we're not going to be coming to council and asking if you want to increase water.

844
01:08:42,980 --> 01:08:45,740
One percent or based on rate of inflation.

845
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:55,740
To put that in perspective, if you use 24 gallons of water for a year, your water bill is probably around 30 to $34.

846
01:08:55,740 --> 01:09:02,220
So you're talking about maybe his recent increase the year. Now that would impact people who are resorting.

847
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:03,700
You know, these.

848
01:09:06,460 --> 01:09:11,360
Our our mandated waste water changes like the among the limits and moving to zero discharge.

849
01:09:12,060 --> 01:09:17,440
And for us to extend the life of the news and those info and information projects will require us.

850
01:09:23,480 --> 01:09:34,360
And this is really one of the key reasons why keep on touting the work that Trina led in the department hits that helped with all of the intern of that asset management program.

851
01:09:34,740 --> 01:09:39,060
These projects are counter-authorizing now and having the last couple of years.

852
01:09:39,060 --> 01:09:40,500
There's hard things that we're gonna fix

853
01:09:40,500 --> 01:09:42,500
and then walk away from in 20 years, say.

854
01:09:42,860 --> 01:09:44,140
Somebody else would be going, oh, correct.

855
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:47,680
It's gonna be, okay, we're putting in this new

856
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:49,460
trying to be our plan.

857
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:50,420
Here's a life expectancy.

858
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:54,060
How much money do we have to put away if something happens?

859
01:09:55,340 --> 01:09:57,480
You put it in a good place for utilities.

860
01:09:59,820 --> 01:10:01,220
Mostly because of that fund balance

861
01:10:01,220 --> 01:10:03,720
and reserve policy, and you optimizing these projects

862
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:06,600
we've done, are there any questions in the comments?

863
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:13,900
So just to make it I think the staff did a great job with acting and planning and

864
01:10:13,900 --> 01:10:19,680
I think it's a lot of money and use that we didn't have to find out.

865
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:20,480
Find out.

866
01:10:20,820 --> 01:10:21,320
Okay, everybody.

867
01:10:29,850 --> 01:10:31,110
Next up, consentative.

868
01:10:32,130 --> 01:10:35,630
I would so move we approve the consent agenda as presented.

869
01:10:35,630 --> 01:10:36,550
That's it.

870
01:10:37,450 --> 01:10:41,370
I'm going to cross the green motion of food to continue to as presented.

871
01:10:41,670 --> 01:10:43,390
I'm going to stop for a second in motion.

872
01:10:43,970 --> 01:10:44,950
During further discussion.

873
01:10:46,390 --> 01:10:47,290
T9 all of a sudden.

874
01:10:47,390 --> 01:10:48,010
I have a major hand.

875
01:10:49,210 --> 01:10:49,810
Motion carries.

876
01:10:50,650 --> 01:10:51,210
That.

877
01:10:51,790 --> 01:10:52,690
I'm going to finish.

878
01:10:53,190 --> 01:10:53,530
2020.

879
01:10:54,550 --> 01:10:55,790
Well, that's seven.

880
01:10:55,970 --> 01:10:56,750
A little bit.

881
01:10:56,870 --> 01:10:58,530
Let's get that concession.

882
01:10:58,970 --> 01:10:59,650
I believe tomorrow.

883
01:10:59,930 --> 01:11:01,050
Not sure how long it's going to go.

884
01:11:01,370 --> 01:11:02,530
I do believe that.

885
01:11:02,530 --> 01:11:09,050
where at a point we can make recommendations for the operation of our plan or

886
01:11:09,050 --> 01:11:15,270
recommendation that the panel is that we will come on Tuesday June 16th. We will

887
01:11:15,270 --> 01:11:21,510
follow CDC guidelines as far as obtaining the frequently touched areas

888
01:11:21,510 --> 01:11:25,830
about the name of them and also the Kansas Reclamation Parks Association

889
01:11:25,830 --> 01:11:31,750
guidelines as far as operation. We have 13 certified guidelines, a manager or a

890
01:11:31,750 --> 01:11:37,670
system manager. We recommend that the operating hours be from 1 a p.m. to 6 p.m. which is a change

891
01:11:37,670 --> 01:11:44,670
from last year, which was 1 to 7. We will recommend that the council open the pool Tuesdays

892
01:11:44,670 --> 01:11:50,030
through Saturday, which means we'd be closed on Mondays. Those two reasons also because of

893
01:11:50,030 --> 01:11:56,550
Saturday. The slides, the diving boards, we think we can operate with the number of guards

894
01:11:56,550 --> 01:12:02,530
we have they will be open if we do get some guards to call and sit or whatever reason we're sure

895
01:12:02,530 --> 01:12:08,450
on staff will close those as appropriate but the slides and diving work are pretty popular with

896
01:12:08,450 --> 01:12:14,470
kids and the people who are there as we made after after you keep those open. We would recommend

897
01:12:14,470 --> 01:12:20,510
that the chairs which have already been taken out be taken out because if you follow the CDC guidelines

898
01:12:20,510 --> 01:12:24,630
are claiming that we're kind of somebody that up from the chair we have this impact which is in practice.

899
01:12:25,110 --> 01:12:34,630
So we have the chairs and the tables out. We will publicize the council's permission that it wasn't welcome to bring your own chair and take them out.

900
01:12:36,690 --> 01:12:44,770
Lockers, we think that we will allow the kids to use those. At one point, we're considering not using those. Sometimes you can rent valuables that you will walk them up.

901
01:12:44,770 --> 01:12:50,390
The full manager and the lifeguards would just work at making sure they're stacking up people like them to each other.

902
01:12:51,570 --> 01:12:57,090
And we will not rent out the attitudes or the pool movements because they have to be disinfected every time.

903
01:12:58,850 --> 01:13:07,030
Concession would recommend being open, but only with limited options, but that would be drinks and pre-packaged items.

904
01:13:07,030 --> 01:13:14,810
So it seems like a typical or you know, a hot dog and all that is just pre-packaged.

905
01:13:16,330 --> 01:13:24,510
We would recommend that because of the practicality of cleaning and all of this, that we've

906
01:13:24,510 --> 01:13:29,890
not had no private parties that early swim lessons, we don't open early and have a life

907
01:13:29,890 --> 01:13:33,930
bar exam for two or three hours before it opens, if they want to do swim lessons they can

908
01:13:33,930 --> 01:13:38,570
building during hours, and the early after hours,

909
01:13:38,670 --> 01:13:40,430
opportunity also, through the same reason.

910
01:13:41,670 --> 01:13:43,770
And our tentative closing day would be August night.

911
01:13:44,070 --> 01:13:46,790
That's based on school, opening, and fault,

912
01:13:46,930 --> 01:13:47,810
kids going back to college.

913
01:13:48,550 --> 01:13:50,450
Our sign-in process would be a little bit different.

914
01:13:50,930 --> 01:13:53,230
Normally, the people who come will sign in themselves.

915
01:13:53,730 --> 01:13:55,470
We'll have a whole lot of do that, keep people

916
01:13:55,470 --> 01:13:58,050
compouching the cans in the paper, and whatnot.

917
01:13:58,690 --> 01:14:00,710
We are going to ask for their name and their address.

918
01:14:00,710 --> 01:14:08,230
It's not going to ask the eligible member for the phone number, but just in case there is an outbreak, and there's contact tracing, that information will be secured.

919
01:14:08,450 --> 01:14:13,050
We will get to anybody who can help the county health nurse or KVHG.

920
01:14:14,130 --> 01:14:15,170
We'll keep that.

921
01:14:15,990 --> 01:14:24,290
We're going to try to put six-foot markings and professions here, trying to get visual and how to stay separated when they're on mass up there during break.

922
01:14:25,970 --> 01:14:28,770
We'll see how well they stay with all the 40 water.

923
01:14:29,230 --> 01:14:31,810
We're also going to put six road standards.

924
01:14:32,570 --> 01:14:35,430
When you come into the pool, there'll be road standards,

925
01:14:35,950 --> 01:14:37,630
going out into the east.

926
01:14:38,170 --> 01:14:39,530
And Martin, there will be people coming in.

927
01:14:39,650 --> 01:14:43,070
Sometimes they'll rush people to keep them separated.

928
01:14:43,530 --> 01:14:45,330
You'll see that feeling they did a little more.

929
01:14:45,710 --> 01:14:47,030
We won't use caution tape.

930
01:14:47,230 --> 01:14:48,450
That will use road standards.

931
01:14:49,490 --> 01:14:51,790
And we're going to change the entry index.

932
01:14:51,790 --> 01:14:58,370
you'll have one side coming in, the other side will be coming out. Inevitably, you'll have people passing because they use the bathroom

933
01:14:58,370 --> 01:14:59,970
into the lockers, put that in there.

934
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:07,760
I see. The swimming will break and cleaning schedule. We'll use summer hours. So you have to correct

935
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:14,920
your reach. I believe we're doing two hours of swimming, breaking for 30 minutes. Life guards can

936
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:24,840
rest for 15 and then they'll clean those contact areas for 15 minutes. I think that is all I have.

937
01:15:24,980 --> 01:15:27,800
Rich, you would have enough to fill in and we'll wrap with that. We'll put the picture back.

938
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:33,260
The filling actually started today and we should be filling up tonight, but it would be definitely full by tomorrow.

939
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:41,760
Also, we're looking at keeping everything going as far as our pumps and the operation of the pool itself.

940
01:15:42,220 --> 01:15:51,500
We've got a good manager. She was with us last year, so we're going to be bringing her in actually tomorrow on some training of sampling and the chlorination.

941
01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:56,200
So we're going to move on forward with that with the total operations.

942
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:59,580
Like Sir John mentioned, all they might is we'll be taking care of next week.

943
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:01,980
Concessions have been ordered today.

944
01:16:02,380 --> 01:16:07,300
So we hope to be ready to go by the 16th and good weather.

945
01:16:09,860 --> 01:16:17,200
I'm not sure that it's necessary, but the council would make a motion.

946
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:21,860
that you so agree to direct us over the pool on June 16th

947
01:16:21,860 --> 01:16:24,320
with the operational changes that we have on it.

948
01:16:24,440 --> 01:16:25,740
Unless, of course, you want something to do.

949
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:31,960
I would so move that we open the pool on June 16th

950
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,460
with the recommendations that staff has presented.

951
01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:38,500
I suggest we hire more lifeguards

952
01:16:38,500 --> 01:16:39,660
and keep the open longer.

953
01:16:39,820 --> 01:16:41,480
You're only going to open 45 days.

954
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:44,480
If you're wasting all the time and money,

955
01:16:44,480 --> 01:16:47,480
to fill a pool, you got to keep the pool.

956
01:16:48,740 --> 01:16:50,960
Do we have availability of standards?

957
01:16:51,220 --> 01:16:51,700
There's more.

958
01:16:52,100 --> 01:16:53,760
If light cards wanted to work,

959
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:55,040
we're told it can not.

960
01:16:55,740 --> 01:16:59,900
We had four, we set up letters to our old light cards,

961
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:01,220
which we call over the water,

962
01:17:01,500 --> 01:17:02,580
previous year's light cards.

963
01:17:04,300 --> 01:17:06,480
They indicate if they want to come back or not.

964
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:08,960
Because of the contract, the time,

965
01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:13,920
the Caleb reached out and called each one of them

966
01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:19,980
and made a date that would work for them and they were told that this is the only date because of

967
01:17:19,980 --> 01:17:20,860
the contract period.

968
01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:27,640
So you have to be there. You followed that up as a letter. So that would call

969
01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:34,280
as made on May 8th. Followed up as a letter that was sent out on May 11th and May 12th. With the same

970
01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:40,120
information, May 22nd was the training. We had four of those people with no show, no call no show.

971
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:50,660
We had one young lady who texted Kayla on Wednesday before the meeting to confirm it. She didn't show her. She called yesterday.

972
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:57,040
We had another young lady that knows she called two days ago.

973
01:17:57,280 --> 01:17:58,780
I believe two or three days ago. Maybe this last week.

974
01:17:59,540 --> 01:17:59,900
Last week.

975
01:18:01,300 --> 01:18:04,340
And just want to know the makeup time was if she was on vacation.

976
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:17,580
After talking was rich and the tool manager made the decision to rescind us for people

977
01:18:17,580 --> 01:18:24,160
with offers because they were on the phone, they were told, you've got to be here, they

978
01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:28,720
didn't make the effort to contact us some of them for a week later, and when you're

979
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:32,820
stacking that pool, if they can't make the original meeting with all the claim that they

980
01:18:32,820 --> 01:18:38,740
have to have, then we can't count on them to show up to their shift, which could be talking about.

981
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:44,740
So, I did the sentence. I received one call from the one young lady who's

982
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:50,660
I think 17 or 18. I got seven calls from her mother and the other young lady called

983
01:18:50,660 --> 01:18:57,800
Likes and she said she understood it was her fault. She knew that. So, that's why we did not hire

984
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:03,020
those life bars. And I'm not sure that their certification has been extended.

985
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:10,140
I received this certification extension from two of them, only one of which I forgot.

986
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:14,960
Yeah, and we hired two more life bars, we won't be able to extend around this.

987
01:19:15,480 --> 01:19:19,260
So that's going to help that. And that's just getting, we normally run with 22 life bars.

988
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:24,300
Most general, and the end of some, then we were very much like to do later in August,

989
01:19:24,300 --> 01:19:41,600
But the problem is we hire some of the college age students that most generally they are moving that second week of all this so we lose majority of our staff after that first full week in the office to the point where you can't maintain the staff keep growing.

990
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:47,880
most generally if we have enough high school age kids we can run it a couple days

991
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:51,880
longer but most of the time they have back to school shopping and things that

992
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:56,700
they are planning to do so either they are moving away or they have requested

993
01:19:56,700 --> 01:20:01,100
off as of that date because they have things to take care of prior to the

994
01:20:01,100 --> 01:20:06,880
beginning of the year. The first go to back to 1 a 7 and 7 days a week we normally

995
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:14,600
operate or need 22 lifelines. So we were actually think we'd have to see down two days.

996
01:20:16,180 --> 01:20:22,240
Can you float the closing date because if they don't go back to college and they're doing

997
01:20:22,240 --> 01:20:29,040
online classes, it might have just this tentative. As we get closer, we know that lifelines say,

998
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:34,560
okay, I've got to move in my bedroom. So I do want to hear if that's just a moving part. So they have

999
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:35,120
general idea.

1000
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:40,540
I believe that date was on a Sunday, actually. Yeah, and we could be.

1001
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:44,280
Okay,

1002
01:20:46,300 --> 01:20:47,520
we have the motion.

1003
01:20:49,980 --> 01:20:50,540
Is there a second?

1004
01:20:54,120 --> 01:21:01,380
Council Member Cross has made a motion to open the floor in June 16th with staff recommended

1005
01:21:01,380 --> 01:21:05,140
in this alterations to operation.

1006
01:21:05,900 --> 01:21:09,400
Secretary, Council move to the right of your second motion.

1007
01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:11,580
Is there any further discussion?

1008
01:21:13,500 --> 01:21:15,400
See none, I'll just carry the way to hand.

1009
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:20,420
All opposed.

1010
01:21:22,820 --> 01:21:25,600
Senator DeWon, Council member Rich Trist will

1011
01:21:25,990 --> 01:21:27,020
go into the negative.

1012
01:21:27,560 --> 01:21:28,580
I wish you pass it.

1013
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:32,000
We'll have a pool of June 50th.

1014
01:21:34,390 --> 01:21:36,690
Okay, next up, new business,

1015
01:21:36,690 --> 01:21:38,150
This is a agreement.

1016
01:21:40,950 --> 01:21:55,070
Yeah, this has been a long-term agreement not just in years, but agreement with FAA on providing space to in our terminal building for them for aeronautical communication and equipment.

1017
01:21:55,630 --> 01:22:02,910
And thinking your packet, what pages that on going about the mapping of what is that?

1018
01:22:04,430 --> 01:22:05,010
Okay.

1019
01:22:05,810 --> 01:22:06,870
What the map bridge?

1020
01:22:07,350 --> 01:22:07,490
Yes.

1021
01:22:09,750 --> 01:22:10,330
33.

1022
01:22:11,530 --> 01:22:12,230
Excuse me.

1023
01:22:13,470 --> 01:22:14,210
What that's referencing.

1024
01:22:14,570 --> 01:22:18,470
It's hard to see, but there's two rooms in there that they are utilizing.

1025
01:22:19,430 --> 01:22:20,790
And they've been.

1026
01:22:22,890 --> 01:22:24,610
Been very good about.

1027
01:22:25,690 --> 01:22:29,970
Keeping up their equipment in there and having access through our building.

1028
01:22:29,970 --> 01:22:34,050
So it wasn't hard to reach out back to him once they requested.

1029
01:22:37,430 --> 01:22:48,590
and the same payment amount and in a couple of discussions that we would recommended back to him that we'd stay with the tenure agreement with the same amount.

1030
01:22:49,410 --> 01:22:59,890
And they come back pretty quickly that they would agree to that and keep the lease agreement per se in the same as with the tenure.

1031
01:22:59,890 --> 01:23:10,830
and the city receiving $1,184.40 per year for the use of that 420 square feet of that building.

1032
01:23:11,350 --> 01:23:12,290
Rich? Yes.

1033
01:23:12,550 --> 01:23:17,850
What they're reasoning for a 20-year lease, just that they didn't have to deal with it.

1034
01:23:18,010 --> 01:23:21,830
That's all it was. That they didn't have to deal with it as often. That's all it was.

1035
01:23:22,930 --> 01:23:26,990
I'm just, they agreed to 10.

1036
01:23:27,490 --> 01:23:28,490
They agreed to 10.

1037
01:23:28,750 --> 01:23:28,850
Yeah.

1038
01:23:29,890 --> 01:23:35,450
We felt that with our building and what condition it may be in.

1039
01:23:35,530 --> 01:23:38,390
We don't know what we're going to be in the next 10 years into that building.

1040
01:23:38,890 --> 01:23:41,510
We felt that it would need to be to keep it the same.

1041
01:23:45,130 --> 01:23:50,550
Ken has reviewed this also and back with me that it was.

1042
01:23:51,690 --> 01:23:56,310
and basically the wording was all about the same of us in the past 10 years of the

1043
01:23:56,310 --> 01:24:03,570
Delicigin. So the basic work continually well. Yes. So the map you showed here, Rich,

1044
01:24:03,770 --> 01:24:07,910
is that is that the entire building? No, it isn't. It's just the area that they're

1045
01:24:07,910 --> 01:24:17,110
there. Yeah. That's their drawing, not my drawing. So how is there anybody there used to be

1046
01:24:17,110 --> 01:24:20,510
Yes, we did have a lease on the other end of the building.

1047
01:24:21,010 --> 01:24:21,990
I agree.

1048
01:24:22,470 --> 01:24:22,650
I agree.

1049
01:24:23,210 --> 01:24:23,410
I agree.

1050
01:24:24,270 --> 01:24:26,170
So it's mentioned here and there.

1051
01:24:26,450 --> 01:24:29,130
So there is nobody else out there.

1052
01:24:29,290 --> 01:24:31,270
So this is some income for the building.

1053
01:24:31,690 --> 01:24:32,590
For us right here.

1054
01:24:33,370 --> 01:24:35,170
What are we usually for?

1055
01:24:35,490 --> 01:24:36,830
Nothing at this time.

1056
01:24:38,030 --> 01:24:38,210
So.

1057
01:24:39,410 --> 01:24:40,490
I would so move.

1058
01:24:40,550 --> 01:24:42,310
We approve lease number six.

1059
01:24:42,310 --> 01:24:53,270
9-7-9-7-DCM-20-FEL-0015 with Federal Aviation Administration has presented an authorized

1060
01:24:53,270 --> 01:24:54,870
and they're assigned to requires documents.

1061
01:24:55,490 --> 01:24:57,530
I'll speak on that.

1062
01:24:57,530 --> 01:25:00,110
We hope that that will be a point on that.

1063
01:25:01,750 --> 01:25:04,350
Council member Cross is made a motion to approve.

1064
01:25:04,930 --> 01:25:16,170
Least 9 or 697 PCM the 1nf-L-Oo-115 with Federal Aviation Administration and

1065
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:47,040
I have to talk about a couple of projects that we've got going on one that really didn't tell anybody else, but I should have the other one is just update on one of my projects.

1066
01:25:47,040 --> 01:25:50,460
So yes, let me give my folder for the one.

1067
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:54,360
I'll spray this on maybe this afternoon.

1068
01:25:57,740 --> 01:26:04,960
We'll go in to paint the town a little bit and per se, but not the whole town just a couple areas of it.

1069
01:26:05,100 --> 01:26:13,560
And that is north fossil from 15th street to which to avenue is being planned to restripe,

1070
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:20,720
to remove the old and restripe of what's there for us getting some left turn.

1071
01:26:21,820 --> 01:26:26,540
Signals are painting markings down and there's 34 of those.

1072
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:34,240
There's five school crossings and a lot of yellow and white paint down through that model of stretch.

1073
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:40,880
So they plan to be here tomorrow, start removing some of that and finish up hopefully by the end of the week

1074
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:46,280
a painting that back on Thursday and Friday. That'll be during the day on that operation.

1075
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:50,640
So we hope to get that started been waiting for that for quite a while.

1076
01:26:51,900 --> 01:26:57,600
The next area of painting is what we call the Main Street District area. I've been wanting

1077
01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:04,360
this for quite some time and I've got with a contractor. He's out of basically Hayes,

1078
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:12,840
but SPM, Sweeney Payment, they maintenance and he's supposed to be in here tomorrow night

1079
01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:19,560
and most of his work, majority of his work hours will be at nighttime to accommodate the traffic

1080
01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:26,440
downtown through the area. That includes Main Street from 9 to 3rd Street, the two side streets,

1081
01:27:26,440 --> 01:27:32,960
meaning Maple and Kansas plus third, plus from sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth, and the

1082
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:40,400
one block area on each side of Main Street. That includes white striping of all the parking stalls.

1083
01:27:41,580 --> 01:27:47,200
The yellow along some of the areas also that are at the end of the blocks will also be

1084
01:27:47,860 --> 01:27:54,260
done. And then this will all be done with glass beads. So be reflective and that helps keep the

1085
01:27:54,260 --> 01:27:56,920
the product down for a long time that we found too.

1086
01:27:57,740 --> 01:28:00,180
The blue, a lot of the handicaps dolls,

1087
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:04,800
we're doing that in-house to save some funding on that.

1088
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:10,680
So that's two projects that we'll be going on this week actually.

1089
01:28:10,940 --> 01:28:13,120
So both of them come together at the same time.

1090
01:28:16,010 --> 01:28:19,010
Main Street same time, he's hoping to be done by Friday also.

1091
01:28:19,350 --> 01:28:23,610
Wow. Yeah, a lot of stripes to put down and two nines actually.

1092
01:28:32,330 --> 01:28:40,850
Yeah, you bet there will be somebody. Yeah, we'll be working with law enforcement.

1093
01:28:50,330 --> 01:28:52,470
I'll move on to the next one.

1094
01:28:52,470 --> 01:28:56,050
and that's what John mentioned earlier in the meeting about the yellow waterline project.

1095
01:28:56,970 --> 01:29:01,010
That is a project that we're calling Maple St. John project.

1096
01:29:03,050 --> 01:29:05,730
It's about 2.5 miles of pipeline.

1097
01:29:06,070 --> 01:29:09,110
That'll be totally replaced with new C900 PVC.

1098
01:29:09,970 --> 01:29:18,490
That includes from Maple Street, from 6th Street, or West Concent, to Wichita Avenue, on

1099
01:29:18,490 --> 01:29:27,250
with on West Conson from Maple Street to Ben Hootin and on Wichita Avenue from Lincoln to

1100
01:29:27,820 --> 01:29:37,310
Witt Avenue and then also we will do St. John Street from Seven Street to Wichita Avenue and

1101
01:29:37,310 --> 01:29:43,890
also Grand Street from Seven Street to Wichita Avenue. Well basically first street on that one.

1102
01:29:43,890 --> 01:29:50,530
We do have one block in there that's already been replaced, so that is the area that affects a lot

1103
01:29:50,530 --> 01:29:57,150
of our public all on the west side of our community. We will be going out with public notices.

1104
01:29:57,670 --> 01:29:59,970
We had a pre-con meeting last-

1105
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:07,320
Friday with the contractor, that's APAC out of Hutchison, as put in the moon bid and got that

1106
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:13,820
for us and are really eager to start. Only thing is, is that they weren't able to get the supplies

1107
01:30:13,820 --> 01:30:18,740
that they needed. We were supposed to start this week, so we're actually putting it off a month

1108
01:30:18,740 --> 01:30:26,800
and they're scheduled to start July 6th. And because of Corona or the COVID-19 of supplies out of the

1109
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:31,880
manufacturers to get the pipe is what held us up and they hope to have that in

1110
01:30:31,880 --> 01:30:37,700
here within the next two weeks. So that's a one of our major projects for

1111
01:30:37,700 --> 01:30:41,200
Waterline, if you're starting and we hope to be done. The tentative date is

1112
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:48,220
December, I believe 19th on that. So Rich, when you and Dylan, when they're

1113
01:30:48,220 --> 01:30:53,400
working on some of these, is there a definitely a lot of coordination?

1114
01:30:55,500 --> 01:30:56,100
A lot of

1115
01:30:56,100 --> 01:31:01,080
everything. One of the things that really concerns me is especially when you're

1116
01:31:01,080 --> 01:31:05,600
working on grant in there by the high rises. Oh, definitely. Yeah.

1117
01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:11,980
Will there be a lot of that? Definitely. We will be working together with the public

1118
01:31:11,980 --> 01:31:16,580
also too, but with the current structure, which would be a virus, not as an issue.

1119
01:31:16,700 --> 01:31:19,600
We can always have the force of we're going to have to go a little bit longer to get it.

1120
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:21,900
We'll make sure that we have the needed fire for the public.

1121
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:34,740
What are these projects going to be boring also so as we less destruction than a normal waterline project and then the fire chief wants to hide and to put back in place for flow test those and we rate them.

1122
01:31:35,200 --> 01:31:37,920
So we have a map of color calling it for this.

1123
01:31:38,800 --> 01:31:45,500
Yeah, this is the first project that I know of for water that we're going to be GPS and it's a project going in too.

1124
01:31:45,780 --> 01:31:48,960
So we're utilizing our system that'll be totally mapped as it goes.

1125
01:31:56,120 --> 01:32:07,920
What percentage of what will be left after this project needs replace? I know we've got a lot of good lines and lots of good lines.

1126
01:32:09,180 --> 01:32:13,760
This is a large chunk of the lots of good line what's left?

1127
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:19,700
it is and it is probably 80% of our leaks are in that area so that'll

1128
01:32:19,700 --> 01:32:25,420
be eliminated with water loss also. As far as we are getting into some of our

1129
01:32:25,420 --> 01:32:33,680
additions that are already 30 years old, around the community, plus even our

1130
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:39,740
downtown is still hasn't been replaced either. So when you start putting that we

1131
01:32:39,740 --> 01:32:43,600
always talked about the 80% has been replaced and this would take maybe

1132
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:48,620
about 5%. So I'm going to say still about to roughly 15%. That's still out there.

1133
01:32:48,620 --> 01:32:53,780
That's something done with it. Yeah, and but it's an ongoing thing, you know, here's go by.

1134
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:58,680
But we're time we get that 15% down, there'll be another 20% on the other side.

1135
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:06,420
Kind of like road where we can have really problems. What is the lifespan of the PVC?

1136
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:10,780
Still about 100 years can be. Yeah.

1137
01:33:10,780 --> 01:33:13,540
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1138
01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:14,240
Zoom's around.

1139
01:33:14,440 --> 01:33:15,860
You be in bother, right?

1140
01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:17,160
Mm hmm.

1141
01:33:20,710 --> 01:33:21,350
And else?

1142
01:33:22,550 --> 01:33:23,190
All the risks.

1143
01:33:27,070 --> 01:33:31,190
Next up, comment, any comment?

1144
01:33:33,220 --> 01:33:34,120
Got anything back there?

1145
01:33:34,780 --> 01:33:35,900
I don't want to get, but.

1146
01:33:37,300 --> 01:33:38,720
OK, no discussion.

1147
01:33:39,400 --> 01:33:42,260
So I guess we're on to get everybody to the major comments.

1148
01:33:42,440 --> 01:33:42,700
Don't you?

1149
01:33:42,940 --> 01:33:44,460
Since we're talking about the budget,

1150
01:33:44,460 --> 01:33:55,100
But I'm going to find a nice session, the legislature passed House bill 2702, and part of that was what was called the Truth and Taxation Bill, which was modeled after Utah.

1151
01:33:55,760 --> 01:34:02,460
And in the limited tax rate, there's a really good part of that bill, and there's some parts that we didn't agree with.

1152
01:34:02,460 --> 01:34:05,420
with the very warmest or municipalities to have to deal with

1153
01:34:05,420 --> 01:34:06,380
but it's gonna be costly.

1154
01:34:06,860 --> 01:34:09,120
And there's a lot of unanswered questions

1155
01:34:09,120 --> 01:34:12,760
that during the discussion on that last day,

1156
01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:14,440
some of the legislature said,

1157
01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:17,020
we'll just answer those next year when we come back.

1158
01:34:18,920 --> 01:34:22,780
What that we're gonna do is remove the tax lid

1159
01:34:22,780 --> 01:34:26,280
and if a governing body or a municipality

1160
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:28,360
wanted to increase their revenue,

1161
01:34:29,240 --> 01:34:30,600
the county court would have to send a notice

1162
01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:36,900
every tax payer that you're taxable going to increase. It just wasn't going to say it was going to go up

1163
01:34:36,900 --> 01:34:41,200
a quarter of a mill, it was going to say you're probably taxing for this and then going to raise

1164
01:34:41,200 --> 01:34:47,240
them to this based on what they're saying, which we think is a great idea. We advocated that it wouldn't be

1165
01:34:48,260 --> 01:34:52,380
your taxes are just going to go up because if you were to be in town you can have 190 mills

1166
01:34:52,380 --> 01:34:58,660
and if we keep ours as a city or I know it down and some other entity raises your 16 mills,

1167
01:34:58,660 --> 01:35:05,480
It wasn't a differentiated that. We wanted that to say you're actually going up because of A, B, and C.

1168
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:11,860
Also the way I know the governor has vetoed that middle sort of action to the text.

1169
01:35:12,380 --> 01:35:18,320
So on this budget we're preparing and unless something changes during the special session,

1170
01:35:18,500 --> 01:35:22,420
whether they override that detail or they pass new legislation that the government signs,

1171
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:24,660
we're going to work on the premise of the text.

1172
01:35:25,580 --> 01:35:30,300
I can mention that truth and taxation is a good thing, but it has some problems.

1173
01:35:30,860 --> 01:35:33,060
That was just one more example. It's not what it has.

1174
01:35:34,140 --> 01:35:39,220
If Blaine would have, our council members saw what we've got a notice that your taxes are going up the dollar.

1175
01:35:40,420 --> 01:35:45,660
And we will rule on our estimates and your taxes went up to $2.

1176
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:50,920
We'd have to rebate that to you. That'd be fine. We'd have to send you a check for that difference.

1177
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:59,080
But the problem comes in is if you own that property along with six other people, then we've got to divide that up and that payment debt all of them.

1178
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:05,000
So if there are properties here, we have assuming oil leases that have none of the owners have not moved.

1179
01:36:05,500 --> 01:36:07,980
So that's one of the problems that we have.

1180
01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:12,080
You can expect something more coming. I think it's a good plan.

1181
01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:15,800
The goal of the premise of the task is to make sure you do.

1182
01:36:18,480 --> 01:36:19,820
Anybody else have anything?

1183
01:36:22,690 --> 01:36:23,510
No, anybody?

1184
01:36:23,810 --> 01:36:25,230
So move, we adjourn.

1185
01:36:25,370 --> 01:36:25,730
Seconded.

1186
01:36:26,550 --> 01:36:27,810
That's the man with crosses.

1187
01:36:28,070 --> 01:36:30,230
Maybe maybe maybe you should go get yourself a little bit wet.

1188
01:36:30,570 --> 01:36:31,270
Hey, Roger.

1189
01:36:31,950 --> 01:36:33,190
Is there any further discussion?

1190
01:36:33,770 --> 01:36:34,230
Is there any further discussion?

1191
01:36:35,170 --> 01:36:36,010
Is there any further discussion?

1192
01:36:36,010 --> 01:36:37,430
I don't know where that is.