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[0:00] This conference will now be recorded.
[0:03] Do
[1:57] you have a pipeline to build on us?
[2:00] No, we're not doing that.
[2:03] What is this?
[2:05] Are you trying those on?
[2:07] Can we move these down?
[2:20] Okay.
[2:21] Okay.
[2:21] 430.
[2:22] We'll start.
[2:23] We'll start the question.
[2:25] I
[2:31] 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.
[2:52] Okay, first step approval of the agenda.
[2:55] Mr. Mayor, I would so move we approve the agenda that was presented to us.
[2:59] I'll check it back.
[3:01] Councilmember Cross has made a motion to approve the agenda as presented.
[3:05] Councilmember Stoffel, seconded motion to be approved.
[3:09] Section 9, all those in favor, raise hand.
[3:12] Motion carries unanimously.
[3:16] Yeah.
[3:16] Can you accept the bill?
[3:28] Good.
[3:28] Yes.
[3:29] All right.
[3:30] A couple of comments.
[3:32] Are there any public comments this time?
[3:35] Section 9 will move on to presentations and public hearings.
[3:38] First up, water concomitations.
[3:39] Even with the recent rains, we can have the bubble counting, and we can add in quite a
[3:44] little bit of this in a modest drought.
[3:47] So we're keeping an eye on our sources, right now our standards remain unchanged, the
[3:52] victory contains the flow, we do not anticipate any restrictions in the next working days.
[3:57] And the climate predictions center shows a 33% chance of a above normal precipitation for
[4:02] June to line on this, which is a good sign.
[4:05] And as you have noticed, so how are we here in the city?
[4:09] I'll wrap it up to you.
[4:12] Yeah.
[4:13] Okay.
[4:15] Okay.
[4:15] Okay.
[4:16] Anybody else have any questions on this?
[4:18] The one next up, downtown Revivalization Project.
[4:22] With us today, we have Chris, the project,
[4:24] and Andrew is crew prouds that part of the group
[4:27] that is working on this.
[4:29] You only get a pick on that.
[4:31] It's working on the realization project.
[4:34] Yes.
[4:35] Hello, everyone.
[4:36] I'm here today representing
[4:38] representing our street skate committee, which is in charge of the downtown project.
[4:43] We wanted to meet with all of you and just give kind of an overview of what's happened,
[4:48] maybe things we haven't presented going on behind the scenes. So that's what I'm here to do today.
[4:54] If you all are aware, the Russell Street Skate Committee are kind of, our claim to fame,
[5:00] is to revitalize Russell. And what's really cool about our committee is that it's not just one
[5:06] organization working towards one goal. We have several different organizations that are partnering
[5:10] together to make this project happen. So I just wanted to kind of go through, first of all,
[5:15] we have a partnership built with the Russell County Historical Society. Obviously,
[5:21] Russell Main Street, the City of Russell, Russell Rotary, and Russell Pride. And we also have
[5:26] downtown business owners, building owners, and USD 407 representatives, someone from Russell Regional
[5:34] hospital on the committee, so we have kind of a wide variety of committee members, but
[5:38] the organizations I mentioned are mostly the organizations that are going after funding
[5:43] and kind of the promotion of the project. So at this point I figured I'd start with the
[5:48] dollars that we have raised or received through grant funding. So we have two different projects.
[5:54] They're both working towards the same goal, but one of the projects kind of break it down to make
[5:57] easier is the outdoor restrooms which is on the corner of
[6:01] eighth in Kansas and then behind jagged edge seventh and maple is
[6:07] parking lot that we're looking at to do a downtown market square so
[6:10] all towards the same project but kind of two different
[6:12] projects if we want to think of them that way. The outdoor restroom area so far we
[6:17] have received $48,700 and that's a combination of
[6:22] private donations and also grants that received.
[6:26] We did work towards, we thought after we got together and looked at the plan, we thought
[6:31] what could we do to make this project nice but cut the cost a little bit because the
[6:37] bathrooms were price pretty high.
[6:39] So we got together and we decided to send out letters to all the city council approved
[6:45] contractors to see if anyone would be interested in donating some of their time.
[6:50] 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.
[6:57] They met with us and they're interested in donating all of the plumbing for the bathroom area.
[7:04] He also mentioned helping with HVAC and electrical, but that's something we're not, he said that was kind of a possibility.
[7:11] 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.
[7:18] what it would actually equal to if we had to pay for it but we were pretty excited about that.
[7:23] We also were able to get the demolition of the current structure that's on the property donated
[7:28] by J.R. modeling. The downtown market square right now we have $22,180 towards that, also grant
[7:36] funding and private funds. Currently right now we have several grants that we're still waiting on.
[7:42] Union Pacific, next tech, Dane Hansen, the city is applied for the build grant again which
[7:48] could help fund this project or part of this project and then also the cost share grant
[7:52] which the city applied for. So those are funds that are still out there that we're just
[7:56] waiting on. Kind of moving into the actual project update. The bathrooms were a little bit further
[8:01] along on. So at this point the current building we've had a spestus inspection on. The state
[8:09] did approve for that to be demoed and then KDHE came out and believes that there may be tanks
[8:15] under the property. He's not certain because it wasn't old gas stations so right now we're
[8:21] in what they call phase one of remediation and included interviews kind of looking at the history,
[8:27] the deeds, just kind of getting an idea of what could possibly be there and in phase two we're ready
[8:32] for that but it can't start until the building is demoed to see what we're dealing with.
[8:37] 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.
[8:48] 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.
[8:55] We also met with Bartlett and West last week, committee members met on site to work with them.
[9:01] And we did our first plan and came to you and got it approved.
[9:04] It was kind of just an overall idea of what we wanted.
[9:07] They did a ballpark figure.
[9:08] Now we have a little bit better idea.
[9:10] So we're at the point where we need to actually have plans drawn up
[9:13] and really cut down no exactly what it's going to cost.
[9:17] So before it was just kind of an idea,
[9:19] we want to get the bottom dollar.
[9:21] So we know where we need to be with our fundraising.
[9:24] Hopefully we will get that completed soon
[9:26] and we'll have a new estimate on cost as well as the plan.
[9:31] Also, I don't know if we mentioned this before, but we did talk about park equipment.
[9:34] We are still looking to add park equipment to the property too.
[9:40] Our main goal right now is getting the bathrooms done, but if we can find funding for the park
[9:45] equipment, that's we're going to be searching for that too.
[9:48] With the park equipment, we know it'll be necessary to add a privacy fence on the north side
[9:52] of the property.
[9:53] So that's our goal and then also along the alleyway to possibly add some kind of a metal
[9:58] sensing there to kind of close it off. But once again, we're exploring opportunities for grants for both of those.
[10:05] We do actually have some funding for the privacy fence today.
[10:10] 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.
[10:18] But the bathrooms, I think that's it on progress right now unless there's something I'm forgetting. Okay.
[10:23] Moving on to the market, as I mentioned, the bathrooms have really taken off more so at the moment.
[10:30] Do you realize there?
[10:31] Yes.
[10:31] Before you move on to the markets where the bathrooms will be in a building for property owned by the historical society.
[10:40] Is that what that's all about?
[10:41] Yeah, the property is currently owned by the historical society, yes.
[10:45] Do you talk with the historical society and they're okay with demolishing the building?
[10:49] Yes.
[10:49] and the board is agreed to be the release of the land to the city for 50 or 99 years.
[10:58] 99 years. It's my next bullet point. Sorry.
[11:04] I didn't organize this, I guess, as well as I thought I did.
[11:07] The market, I just wanted to give a quick update on that.
[11:10] I think you all know we secured the property from sunflower bank
[11:12] and we're currently looking into design options down the cost
[11:16] on what we had originally planned, we have some options, but we haven't decided on anything
[11:22] and we're still working for funding sources and then we have a potential private donor.
[11:27] So once we can all meet again, now we can, so now we need to schedule the meeting, we'll
[11:31] know more about that. So moving on to what you're mentioning. That's okay. I didn't give you this,
[11:36] so you didn't know what I was going to talk about. So the Historical Society does own the land
[11:40] and the bathrooms will go on and the board has agreed to demo the building and I know we've
[11:46] mentioned it several times. Some people may think that the building is historic because
[11:51] there was a sign that said the historic blacksmith shop. The building itself is not. The area
[11:57] they kind of had deemed as the location of where the blacksmith shop was. So they're
[12:02] okay with demoing it. We originally thought about repairing it, but if you go inside it's
[12:07] just in really bad shape. So that's not an option. I didn't believe it until I really stared
[12:13] at it a little bit longer and it's not in good shape. So they're okay with that. What will come
[12:18] with that, what's in with the property and then the land, the historical society is looking to lease
[12:22] the land to the city for 99 years. So with the lease would come responsibilities of building maintenance,
[12:29] utilities, facilities and grounds upkeep by the city. So that's probably what you're what you were asking
[12:34] about. They haven't officially voted. They've they haven't yet. Meeting tomorrow. I knew it was coming
[12:40] up so they have said that it's a go but they have to have that official meeting before we know
[12:46] in writing and everything so that'll be tomorrow and we'll know more than basically what we our
[12:52] main goal was to come today give you an update on what's happening and then also to ask you all
[12:57] for your support moving forward obviously the lease for 99 years is going to be up to you so we hope
[13:03] that moving forward you'll be able to support our project and see what it will do to benefit our
[13:08] community.
[13:15] Hopefully that wasn't directed towards me.
[13:18] I'm actually excited about this project.
[13:23] Yeah, we still, we were really excited when we wrote a letter to the
[13:28] Institute's foundation they have a family ties to Russell and we received $10,000 from them.
[13:33] So that was a good step forward in the right time because then we kind of had a
[13:38] 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.
[13:57] 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.
[14:12] Just a little bit about the project, if you've seen the plans for the streetscape, you
[14:17] know that it is scheduled to be placed to the west of where the blacksmith's shop gas
[14:26] station currently stands.
[14:27] There's a vacant, blighted lot there that's rubble and rock, and that's where this flash
[14:35] plant is intended to go.
[14:37] So we have been doing some fundraising over the last several months and we do have some funding in place.
[14:43] We have received a $16,000 grant from the Russell County Area Community Foundation.
[14:50] We've applied to the Hanson Foundation for $20,000.
[14:53] We have not yet received a response on that grant application.
[14:57] we have a really
[15:00] 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.
[15:26] And we are just getting underway with trying to sell bricks to engraved bricks, so donors could purchase a brick for $250 a piece.
[15:40] And that would be engraved with their name or whatever message they might want to convey provided that it's appropriate.
[15:47] We're going to be using the ideas to use old street bricks from Russell's streets.
[15:55] We've sent a sample to the engraver and they are able to use those successfully.
[15:59] So I think that will provide a really nice look.
[16:01] 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.
[16:10] We'd like to sell 200 of those.
[16:12] 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.
[16:23] 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.
[16:36] So that does bring me to my next topic, which is the actual, the way that the splash pad functions.
[16:46] So the way that it works is that it will have a recirculating pump.
[16:51] So that the water comes up, it goes right back down the drain, gets re-sanitized, gets re-treated, and gets recycled.
[17:00] So the water loss, the majority of it will be recaptured and recycled through the system.
[17:08] There will be a timer, so it activates on the timer if I'm wanting to come use the
[17:14] slow-bate the timer, it runs for 10 minutes or 15 minutes, I don't think we've determined
[17:19] a timeframe.
[17:20] It's probably an industry standard on that, so that it's not running indefinitely.
[17:26] It will be designed so that we say a certain time of the year is not available just like the pool.
[17:35] We don't want to have an issue with freezing. We'll have to purge the pipes and winterize it.
[17:40] But it will be available when the weather is nice enough to use it.
[17:45] So, we're shooting for September start date on our construction, of course, that's once
[17:52] again dependent upon that you're getting a lease agreement in place where, you know,
[17:57] we don't feel that we can actually do anything on the project until that lease agreement's
[18:03] in place.
[18:03] We're just, you know, don't want to incur any liability for either Russell Pride or for the
[18:15] I think pretty well describes the project in a nutshell. Does anyone have any questions?
[18:19] Just like that.
[18:23] That would be the best way. That would be the best way.
[18:31] This is at one like Wilson, where it has no.
[18:35] No, it's so if you've ever been to the state fair, you'll know that there's a splash pad,
[18:41] That's pretty much smack dab in the middle of the fairgrounds.
[18:44] It's going to be very similar to that.
[18:46] It'll be concrete with jets that that shoot out at various sizes and heights, but no.
[18:54] The addition of the other functionality greatly increases the cost, it increases the maintenance
[19:02] cost.
[19:03] This is going to be a fairly low maintenance project.
[19:06] So the chemicals for this are basically cool chemicals from what I understand. It's the same concept. Yes, this may be a
[19:16] question, though, there will be a fence around it or, you know, I think that would shoot well, I think personally I think there
[19:24] 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
[19:35] where parents can sit. So the two, thinking like, we're a little bleeding or riding your bike through
[19:41] it and things. Oh, yeah. That, well, you're not, that's going to be, shouldn't have
[19:45] I heard you, but yeah, I probably don't know that you're beginning with people's parents and that
[19:49] because you can't police it, 24 or 7, you know, but I don't know that it won't bother. They
[19:55] cause any nuts that I want. Yeah, it's concrete. It shouldn't, shouldn't cause a problem.
[20:01] but yeah and the benches I'll speak to that a little bit more so the pledges
[20:08] that we received will be enough to pay for two benches so that's in exchange for
[20:14] your pledge you get a bench with your name on it so for a certain pledges of a
[20:20] certain dollar amount so we've got two benches sold so to speak and we'd like to sell
[20:26] a couple more. Yeah, they'll be the same vendor everything. They were good to work with and
[20:35] they provided a quality product and we were very pleased with those. Yeah, they are.
[20:41] So sturdy and they should last a long time. Anybody else have any other questions?
[20:46] 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.
[21:03] So, you have to be done at the same time, so the plumbing, yeah, they'll come in through
[21:11] the bathroom and get trenched in to the splash pad, right?
[21:18] Okay.
[21:21] Okay.
[21:21] Thank you.
[21:22] Thank you.
[21:23] Ladies and thank you everybody else involved for all the artwork that's within this is a great
[21:28] project.
[21:29] Thank you.
[21:30] Yes.
[21:33] 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.
[21:47] Can you hear me okay?
[21:50] Say what we're talking about.
[21:52] I'm here. Can you hear me okay?
[21:54] Yes. Perfect. Yes ma'am.
[21:56] Okay. I'm going to try to talk nice and loud so that you just interrupt me if you have any problems.
[22:01] All right?
[22:02] Yes.
[22:03] Okay.
[22:04] I'm Jessica McGuire from the Russell Public Library, and I just want to say thank you for allowing
[22:08] me to join this way.
[22:10] I would say a year ago would be very strange to join in this way, but now I'm extremely
[22:14] used to it.
[22:15] The mission of the library is to empower effective users of information and ideas, provide relevant
[22:21] services, programs, and materials, enrich, support, and complement the community, and promote
[22:27] a lifelong love of reading.
[22:28] I want to talk a little bit about some highlights from 2019.
[22:33] We had 162 new library users.
[22:36] We had 22,248 visitors and 3538 web sites visit.
[22:43] We added 1,220 new items to our collection, which is roughly 102 items every month.
[22:49] And there were 2,680 downloads of e-contin, which was a 43% increase from 2018.
[22:56] the main reason for that was we added two plus to our digital
[23:01] content. We had a total check, total checkouts of 20,886. So a few more
[23:07] stats. Our computers were used 3,945 times. We saw a 61% increase in the
[23:14] number of books we lent to other libraries through Interlibrary Loan and a
[23:18] 24% increase in the number of books our patrons borrowed through Interlibrary Loan
[23:23] And I always like to look at that status right there because I like seeing that we've
[23:28] wind way more books to other libraries than we have to pull for our patrons.
[23:35] And I think that's a good sign that we're bringing in the content that they want.
[23:39] We offered 175 programs in 2019 with a total attendance of 4,201 people, which was a 55% increase
[23:48] in attendance from 2018.
[23:50] The main reason behind that is you might remember that we talked about how our goal was to
[23:56] present more programs for the entire family, and also to present more programs for adults
[24:03] only.
[24:04] And so I'll go into a little bit about our programs.
[24:10] Storytime.
[24:11] Right now, our storytime is virtual on Facebook Live, unfortunately.
[24:16] We have a program called Let's Try It.
[24:17] A couple of examples of what we've done there is kids yoga,
[24:22] editable slime making, and made rag rug out of old t-shirts
[24:26] that were donated to the library.
[24:28] We hold a classic movie night once a month,
[24:30] which bring in between 13 and 15 adults to the library.
[24:34] That's for 18 and up.
[24:36] We do our summer library program,
[24:38] which this year unfortunately has to be virtual.
[24:41] Last year, our theme was a University of Stories,
[24:44] and this year the theme is Imagine Your Story.
[24:46] We do a YA event, which is for middle school and high school kids every month.
[24:51] A couple examples of that would be our teen trivia night, fear factor, and escape room challenges.
[24:56] And then some of the adult programming we've done are gardening basics,
[25:00] candle making, and palette painting, where we took an old donated palette
[25:03] and painted it to look like an American flag.
[25:06] We do trick-or-read every year and give away between usually 100 to 150 books.
[25:11] and letters to Santa. We have 200 to 300 people coming into the library and we give every child a book.
[25:17] We do our after-school programming knitwits and we have photography classes which are usually
[25:22] 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,
[25:29] but I'll tell you anyway, we have a public access computers. We offer copying, scanning,
[25:34] in fact new services, notary services, test proctoring by appointment. Our free Wi-Fi hotspot has
[25:42] proven to be extremely helpful during the quarantine because people who don't have internet access
[25:47] at home could still just come and park in the parking lot and take advantage of that. Of course,
[25:53] we circulate DVDs and we raise along with books, audio books and such. And we also have Hoopla
[26:00] and Central R.E. Library, which was very helpful during the quarantine as well, so that we could
[26:06] still offer books to our patrons, just in a digital format. We'll talk about some of the partnerships
[26:12] that we have taken part of through the years. We do scholarship night with the Russell County Area
[26:21] Community Foundation, Community Connections, does a monthly play group, Catholic Charities,
[26:28] says a mobile outreach at the library, USD 407 that are reading family fun night last summer,
[26:34] they're also summer and then we are the Russell County affiliate for the Jolly Park and
[26:39] Imagination Libraries and we currently have 319 users and they're receiving a free book
[26:44] per child from the ages of 0 to 5 every month and so basically what we do with that is whenever
[26:52] a book gets returned we just get in contact with them make sure that we get we have their correct
[26:57] address and just some kind of things like that. Not a real big time. It doesn't take a
[27:04] whole lot of time but it's worth it to be able to get the books into the hands of the kids.
[27:09] And so a few things that we're looking forward to coming up here is I know I've been at the
[27:16] library for seven years and for seven years we've been talking about how the roof needs to be replaced.
[27:22] And finally, we had a hailstorm that did it in and the insurance company is going to replace it.
[27:28] So a big sigh of relief for all of us that we don't have to worry about that huge expense.
[27:33] That's going to be happening sometime in the fall.
[27:37] We will have a new look to our library catalog personalized to the Russell Public Library.
[27:42] So right now if you would go on our catalog, which is called Pathfinder Central,
[27:46] You would see it's quite generic looking every library within Central Campus Library system.
[27:52] It looks exactly the same to every one of them, and you probably wouldn't even know
[27:56] it's the Russell Public Library catalog.
[27:58] Basically, what's going to happen is that there's going to be a scan as what they're calling
[28:02] it that goes over that catalog where we can put our Russell Public Library logo.
[28:07] We can kind of tailor it to Russell County.
[28:11] We can put information about things going in the library, going on in the library on there.
[28:15] it's going to be really nice. I'm really looking forward to that. And then also to let you know,
[28:20] the Central Kansas Library System in 2021 is changing the way they give us our grants. So in the
[28:27] past, we've gotten a base grant. And then the rest of the money we receive from CKLS is through us
[28:33] applying for competitive loan or competitive grants. And so sometimes we'll get them, sometimes we
[28:45] that money that they would normally put into a competitive grant and they're
[28:48] going to distribute it among the counties. And believe it or not, Russell County
[28:52] is one of the bigger counties within Census Library systems. So because we
[28:56] have more people that we serve, our cut will be a little bit larger. And so I'm
[29:00] looking forward to that. It's going to save a lot of time and not having to write
[29:04] as many grants as I have had to do in the past. And so on to my budget, I just
[29:12] wanted to mention that with the pandemic and obviously the tax monies are
[29:18] going to be going down and we understand that and we always talk about local
[29:22] maintenance of efforts and just so you know that they're continuing to expect
[29:28] local maintenance of effort but the state understands that you can't give what
[29:33] you don't have and so with tax monies being down and with possibly people being
[29:40] the link went on paying their taxes. We may be asking for 160,000. You can say yes, we'll try
[29:47] to give you 160,000. We understand that that is definitely a humongous chance that that's not going
[29:53] to be happening. And so you'll notice that we have created our budget to replace that.
[30:00] Do you have any questions?
[30:08] Okay. Okay.
[30:12] 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.
[30:33] to you and your staff because since I've been here
[30:36] on the city council, this is, you know, eight or nine years ago,
[30:41] we had, you know, I think we have struggled there
[30:43] for a little bit.
[30:44] Yeah, and now we have just,
[30:45] and every year you think we'll increase
[30:48] by getting any better in the drive down.
[30:50] It's amazing, thank you.
[30:52] Well, I thank you so much for those kind words
[30:56] and I don't do it alone.
[30:58] I have a really awesome staff.
[30:59] They work very hard for me, even through the pandemic
[31:02] when we were quarantined, they were at home working. Our summer library program coordinator
[31:09] had the entire library programs planned and had to completely redo everything. Jim who's been
[31:16] here almost as long as me. He was checking on the library every other day. I was checking on the
[31:21] library every other day. We had one person who was making little videos with her daughter to post on
[31:27] Facebook page about post site science experiments people could do. I mean they're just absolutely awesome
[31:33] so I don't do it alone and I will pass on those kind of words to them as well. Thank you so much.
[31:39] And the mural, what's awesome.
[31:41] A lot of people. That is awesome. Yeah. So thank you very much. Thank you.
[31:51] Thank you.
[31:53] Okay.
[32:07] 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.
[32:19] Obviously, you have a lot of tough decisions in front of you, obviously.
[32:24] And of course, my record board has had a few of their own the last three months, honestly.
[32:29] They probably had the most difficult vote last Thursday in my 10 years.
[32:33] And I'd like to publicly thank them, by the way. I've been there 10 years, so appreciate that.
[32:38] But they voted last Thursday to go ahead with a summer season.
[32:42] So I'm kind of doing this backwards. I was going to highlight some of the 2020 stuff before we get to the 19.
[32:47] 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.
[33:01] 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.
[33:12] 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.
[33:35] I would also note that when we do travel, we go to Ellsworth, Ellinwood,
[33:41] Claflin, and Hoisingson. Those four towns have also voted to not do any
[33:46] traveling, stay among themselves. And in fact, I talked to the lady from
[33:49] Claflin last night, they canceled their whole summer season last night. They're
[33:53] not doing anything. And either is Osborne Smith Center, by the way. So we feel
[33:57] fortunate, I feel fortunate, that we at least get to offer something for these
[34:01] kids this summer. And if you look down at the bottom, and again, I would emphasize
[34:05] this with tentative. Look down at the bottom I have swimming wood and I listed that as wood
[34:10] be offered, not will be. Only you and my board members have seen this sheet and obviously
[34:16] I can see on the board you've got decisions to make later. We'll abide by those. Whatever
[34:21] you decide is fine by us, absolutely. So again they did approve all of these other things here
[34:26] which gives us an opportunity to move forwards a little bit. Yesterday we opened the rec center
[34:32] 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
[34:39] We were met with a lot of positive comments
[34:42] 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
[34:50] Couple weeks. We were open for two weeks
[34:52] 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
[34:58] 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.
[35:10] 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.
[35:17] 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.
[35:29] 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.
[35:38] 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.
[35:47] And if you folks don't mind looking at that, that would be the summary portion that I sent you.
[35:52] 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.
[36:05] The reason that is a big deal to us is, again, I've been here 10 years now, last month,
[36:10] 10 years.
[36:12] It started out with 14 programs and 278 people.
[36:16] So in the last 10 years, we've gone, we've nearly doubled, well, we've doubled our programs,
[36:21] and we've nearly tripled our participation in those programs.
[36:25] So I think that kind of growth, it means a lot to the community, and my board feels like
[36:30] That justifies us requesting us to be fully funded or as much as we can do and we believe
[36:36] me.
[36:37] My first thing I said was you got tough decisions to make, we understand that.
[36:41] But with the opportunity to continue the growth and the services for everybody, we would
[36:45] request that, but we don't expect it and we totally understand that.
[36:49] So if you want to go ahead and just briefly look at the rest of the sheet, I'm not going
[36:53] to read it to you obviously, but during your regular season, we have 22 dates in the
[36:58] evenings out there, 22 dates that we have games and we average about 150 people a night
[37:04] so that puts us and at last year we still had the travel teams coming in which we can
[37:09] separate out travel people and our own people but in that time we average you know over 3,000
[37:14] people just during the regular season if you will and in the special events we host two large
[37:21] softball tournaments, a baseball tournament and we have a volleyball travel league, our travel
[37:26] And finally, those towns I listed, we each host one time,
[37:29] which gives each town an opportunity to bring a lot of people in.
[37:32] And then basketball, basketball, we top the thousand people
[37:36] in about a 14-hour period.
[37:37] Thank you to the Russell School District,
[37:39] by the way, for letting us use their facilities.
[37:41] So you take all those numbers,
[37:43] and you're looking, as you can read, over 7,000 spectators,
[37:45] players, coaches involved last year,
[37:48] which I think is fantastic.
[37:49] And of course, that's directly involved.
[37:52] If you look back up there where I had put
[37:53] indirectly involved,
[37:55] I think that's kind of a conservative number, you know, you just anticipate every kid has at least one parent usually to.
[38:02] So really, if you add that up, you're affecting over half the town. Easily over half the town.
[38:07] It's involved somehow or understands the Russell work programs, which I think is huge to be able to say that.
[38:14] And of course, you can't be selfish. We don't want to be selfish about anything. So we try and give back.
[38:19] So you see here where we partnered and helped out the 19 outside groups to get back to the community that helps us out
[38:26] 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
[38:32] 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
[38:37] We just let them use the facility in order to get back to the community in that respect
[38:42] So it's open up all the time
[38:44] The fitness room, I wanted to point that out specifically.
[38:48] That's a big deal to us as far as our machines and last year,
[38:52] the correct word really is replaced, not upgraded. I apologize for that.
[38:56] We were able to replace two of our treadmills. We started out with four,
[39:00] and they're seven years old, but we paid well to start with.
[39:04] They're in very good shape. We were able to trade those in, but last year,
[39:07] we were able to replace two of those. And then we were able to also add two types of machines.
[39:13] we've never had before to give more diversification
[39:15] to stepper machines, if you will.
[39:18] So, we've made some upgrades in there,
[39:19] and I think the biggest thing that we did
[39:22] that really helps out in there is adding Andy Hurla,
[39:25] works a lot with the school sports,
[39:27] you may know him through that.
[39:28] He's with the rehabilitation center at the hospital.
[39:32] Andy is, he does a great job there.
[39:34] We were able to work with Russell Regional Hospital
[39:36] on a contract where he comes out twice a week
[39:40] and he can legally give advice
[39:42] and help out people that have questions about fitness and programs.
[39:46] He's a huge addition in there, really gives us a lot of ability to help people out even more
[39:51] in a legal fashion to say the least.
[39:55] So what you don't see on there, I might point out is before all this craziness started
[39:59] and I can't remember exactly in the next January or February, but I pointed out that the other two treadmills
[40:06] You need to be addressed, well, they were and they approved that purchase and they'll
[40:11] be here Friday.
[40:11] And again, this was all done before all this craziness started.
[40:15] So we'll be able to replace those two, upgrade those, and then the other one was, within
[40:20] a month of me being hired, month after I got hired, we bought a new machine that takes care
[40:25] of the fields.
[40:26] It's called a field dresser.
[40:28] It's that three-wheeled machine that I can't live without.
[40:31] It does all the spiking and the dragging and the working and the fields.
[40:34] so this would have been its 11th summer. It's got 1,400 hours on it. It's crazy, but it's done
[40:40] fine. They did approve a purchase of any one of those after 11 years and it will be here in
[40:46] a couple of weeks. Those are expenditures that you don't see yet that you will see as far as
[40:51] utilizing your money to keep our equipment up. So I'm pretty excited about that to say the least.
[40:57] And of course staff wise I wanted to point out you know with the two full-time myself and Jerry
[41:01] person does a fantastic job just don't tell her that she might get a big head she does a great job
[41:07] though she really does and the 51 seasonal workers to me that's a big deal. It just it really is
[41:13] 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
[41:19] work in the summer it will be a shorter summer this year but we'll still be able to help out a lot
[41:23] of people in terms of salary and of course that directly plays my next bullet point there over
[41:28] $1,000 and this is in your finances.
[41:31] I don't want to be too repetitive because you can look this up.
[41:34] But we put in over $100,000 of salary back
[41:37] into the community last year through our employees.
[41:40] And I'm guessing a versatile that stayed within the community.
[41:44] And then you throw me in the five events.
[41:46] And I had a lady help me figure out how you can kind of figure
[41:50] an average on that.
[41:52] And she said basically $7 an average for the number of people
[41:56] that come in the average $7 expenditure.
[41:59] I didn't put it on, but this includes our nightly program
[42:03] as well as the events, but $35,000 plus
[42:06] brought into the town through those five tournaments
[42:09] and our nightly events.
[42:10] So you put those two numbers together.
[42:11] I feel like that we are carrying our own weight
[42:14] and it's because that you guys let us do that
[42:16] because of the funding that you give us.
[42:18] So I know my board feels like and I do
[42:21] that we're still a contributing member
[42:22] to the society, to our community,
[42:24] and I think we're an asset to the community as much as the library.
[42:28] You should have fantastic one, too.
[42:30] So I just appreciate the opportunity to give you this.
[42:33] I hate to bore you with all the numbers,
[42:34] but it really does boil down to that that I think
[42:37] that we produce really good numbers.
[42:39] And we do have an opportunity in 2020 to do some things.
[42:43] I didn't think we were going to be able to do even a week ago.
[42:45] So, okay, and now I'm not going to read all those things.
[42:51] Any questions?
[43:02] 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.
[43:14] Let me make, if I go off the record real quick and go, I'm actually on the historical board,
[43:20] actually a president, I do the short straw.
[43:23] Katrina's come and done a great job. She gave a couple presentations to us in terms of
[43:28] turning the gas station and looking on that. We're all on board.
[43:32] We just have to go through. I now can speak to them. We just have to go through all the
[43:35] the galleries tomorrow and our vote,
[43:37] but we're more than willing to move forward with that project.
[43:40] Absolutely.
[43:41] And the plan for us is to just make a,
[43:45] some sort of a plaque, something bigger like this,
[43:48] next to the Gernan House, indicating the spot
[43:50] of where his actual blacksmith shop is.
[43:53] So we'll still be able to honor that historically.
[43:56] So we'll be able to be able to do that, so.
[43:58] That's right, me to do the plaque and the bill.
[44:01] There you go, so, there you go.
[44:03] Thank you guys for all of that.
[44:05] So, I appreciate you guys.
[44:06] Thank you.
[44:07] Thank you.
[44:08] Thank you.
[44:12] Okay.
[44:14] Next up, 2021 budget.
[44:17] The budget, when we bring you over next few weeks,
[44:21] the budget requests from the library and bus
[44:25] and recreation are just drafts.
[44:27] These are just beginning workings of the 2021 budget
[44:30] based on revenues and helpful input and directions.
[44:35] Those will be changed.
[44:36] 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.
[44:45] So they may look at them in private as you put them in the tree to take care of.
[44:50] So just want to point out these are drafts and still working process.
[44:54] So, our utility snapshot electric environment serves 3,400.
[45:00] 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
[45:29] infrastructure, which is huge, especially in time of the disaster. So in a water
[45:36] department, we served just under 2,500 customers. Last year we converted 981 acre feet or just
[45:43] 120 million gallons of water, finished water. That's down from 2018, which was 1166 acre feet,
[45:51] and even down a little bit more from 2007, which was 1,284 acre feet, which 1284 is about the high
[45:59] point that we've had, we've had years in the age of sometimes there we've gotten up around
[46:03] 13, 1400, 2017, for us was a lot of use. That was just under 400 and 20 million gallons in 2017.
[46:13] We have 92 miles of water mains in town that are either PVC, cast iron, duct metal,
[46:20] and during department reports, we're going to talk to you a little bit about the water project
[46:26] 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.
[46:33] 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.
[46:44] So,
[46:46] you can see here on our annual water converted, it's just 1981, I was grabbed out there.
[46:52] You can see we've had up and ups and downs.
[46:54] Our high point was in the 1983,
[46:57] we used just about the 1800 acre feet.
[47:00] And actually that is where our maximum limit was sent
[47:03] by the state of Kansas.
[47:05] We used 1,842 acre feet and that is our maximum.
[47:08] Doesn't matter how much water we have,
[47:11] we could have all the water in the world
[47:12] we cannot use more than 18.2.
[47:15] With the R9 ranch, that would not change,
[47:18] that would have been incorporated into the change orders
[47:21] or the National Order.
[47:24] Then you look here, the areas that are circled,
[47:27] those are areas that were around 2006, 2007 and 2008,
[47:32] and then in 2012 from 2013,
[47:34] you can see that water has dropped out of drastically.
[47:39] Our waste water, last year we treated 372 million gallons
[47:44] of what we call Influent,
[47:45] that comes from the sewer lines into our Lagoon system
[47:48] and it goes out as Influent,
[47:50] but we discharge.
[47:51] 22% of that are 68 million gallons came from industrial customers.
[47:56] 300 and 4 million gallons came from commercial residential customers in the city.
[48:01] So, let's say, sanitation, we provide service to just under 2200 customers.
[48:06] We hauled a little bit more than 2,165 tons of trash in 2019.
[48:12] That's down from 2,700 tons in 2018.
[48:17] pain. Not all of that is accounted for by recycling, but a good portion of that is. You can
[48:23] tell we, the recycling center, we recycle 220 tons of cardboard.
[48:31] You can see those bum
[48:33] look in the galore. It's get hold off and you paint by the recycler to paint that. And
[48:39] I believe that we make about $8,000 a year from just the cardboard recycling. The other items
[48:45] that we recycle we do not get paid for. We have an agreement with central campus recycling,
[48:50] just let them pick that up. We've estimated that we recycle 12 tons of plastic, 4 tons of tin,
[48:59] 19 tons of glass, 4 tons of aluminum, and that is based on those trailers being full
[49:03] and empty two times a week. Those numbers are plastic are probably a little low because there's times
[49:08] we have to call them extra if it gets so full.
[49:13] So on page 12 of your packet you can see
[49:18] Closer than what I'm looking at on the screen is the electric revenue.
[49:23] What I'd like to point out on this is that the revenue sales from 2019 to 2021 are down.
[49:32] And that is based on the same amount of kilowatt power sold, but our rates are down.
[49:38] We look at the council reduced rates by one and a quarter cent per kilowatt out.
[49:43] 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.
[49:54] Electrical expense, which is also on page 12 of your packet.
[49:57] You can see that our expenses build down with dolls with a buck pie. They have low cost.
[50:04] You can see on there that we're able to transfer more to the electric depreciation.
[50:08] Back in 2019, we transferred a quarter of the May $2,000,
[50:15] we're projecting $360,000 and $21,000 with projections $350,000.
[50:21] First, now cost you can see it up.
[50:23] That is due to bringing our wages closer to market ranges
[50:27] for both production and distribution crews.
[50:30] Most notably our distribution crews, we had a difficult time
[50:33] maintaining during the alignment when they could go to a co-op
[50:37] or investor owned utility make $15 to $20 per hour for the exact same training.
[50:43] Work almost there. We are at above some municipalities where not where the IOUs and the co-ops are.
[50:51] We can't be. I don't think we'll ever get there. But if you look overall,
[50:56] our utility rates are much less than the co-op who are next to our utility, including the ones that
[51:01] around our area.
[51:04] So, and here's the electric three-year view. This is the same information
[51:09] just in Graphical Review. You can see that the 2019, which is dark blue line of revenue
[51:15] is the actual and then 2021 are estimated based on the same amount of load just at the lower
[51:22] rates. Our administration remain cost remains flat, our production decrease, you can see there
[51:31] is because the purchase power down but then you'll see that the numbers are actually a little bit
[51:35] higher because of the some maintenance items that we're doing and the increase in personnel
[51:40] and distribution has risen and transfers. Those transfers are things like personal benefits,
[51:47] the depreciation fund in the general fund. The electrical utility in the last few years
[51:51] is transferred more than $50,000 to the general fund to reduce the tax burden, and the
[51:57] reason is if that was privately owned utility, that more likely than not, that it would be paying
[52:02] the city's credit charge. So that's basically the same thing. The other transfers are to cover
[52:08] to personal benefits, that's to cover those employees' costs, personal benefits here for
[52:16] 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.
[52:25] 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.
[52:40] Actually, that's actual projected per check.
[52:44] This is the one that is going to be hard to see on this screen, so this is on page 13 of the packet.
[52:50] all these plans that you're seeing are fluid and they'll move. This one's a little
[52:56] unique because you can see that off into the 27th and 28th, 29 years there's
[53:03] actually a negative cash balance and that is the timing of overalls of the
[53:08] turbines which are scheduled in 2024 and 2027. Those overalls are based on the
[53:15] hours, so they're numbers to get put back. We also believe that we'll be able to transfer more
[53:21] into the depreciation. So, like I said, this is just a rolling plan.
[53:29] This shows the cash balance
[53:30] from that in graphical form. Did you get closer or 24-25 and 26? We do not anticipate those
[53:40] main negative balances. We can't have them that way. This is just how it looks today.
[53:43] Okay, any questions about electrical from the one in water?
[53:49] Okay, a water revenue, this is on page 14 of the packet.
[53:54] You can see by those numbers that water sales 2019, which is under $2.7 million.
[54:01] But we're budgeting only 2.2 in revenue and sales in 2021.
[54:07] one, and that's because we budget for draft reviews. That way, we're not caught off
[54:11] hard, expecting a higher amount of revenue, drought kits, we don't have the sales. So each
[54:16] year we've been planning for draft, and our rates that were updated three or four years
[54:21] ago, probably four years ago, are based on draft sales.
[54:27] We will need to look at, though,
[54:30] a rate increase for debt service, and to put money back for future capital projects.
[54:35] A council is aware that we have about $4 million for plant A. $1 million of plant B that
[54:41] will take cash work because we're building up the water improvement fund.
[54:46] We have source development, the R9 ranch.
[54:49] Regardless, once that is developed, regardless if we become an owner of 18% or become a preferred
[54:57] customer, who will have to have a transmission line from retention well to the PIFO well
[55:04] field, and then you'll have to use our line from Piper to Cam.
[55:10] But while we're doing that, one thing we ought to consider that an embodied should consider
[55:14] is replacing that transmission line from Piper to Cam because it's exceeding 25 years
[55:19] in age.
[55:21] So if we're going to be replacing that in the next work by 10 years and that R9 is going to
[55:26] that's something we should consider.
[55:28] If you remember back when we did the late increase,
[55:31] about four or five years ago, we did a stagger.
[55:34] We did hit it all at once.
[55:35] We brought it up over three years.
[55:38] That was for a couple of reasons.
[55:40] One that wasn't a shock to our customers,
[55:42] and two that were slowly easing,
[55:43] especially our market customers into that rapid change.
[55:47] At one point, many years ago,
[55:50] we were going from losing money on producing water
[55:54] or actually making enough money to make even put some away.
[55:57] That was the purpose of that change.
[56:00] When that happened, the RMA engineering completed that course
[56:04] suggested that we have an annual increase
[56:06] of 1.5% to 2% to match the rate of inflation.
[56:10] We did that for two years after the change.
[56:15] So we had a change one year, then one of another year,
[56:18] and then a third year, then a year four and five
[56:24] 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.
[56:35] If we don't need it, that we would ask the council to take it from the national state.
[56:39] we don't need a doctor.
[56:41] That way we're not coming back in the 10 years.
[56:44] And if you're paying $7,000 a thousand gallons now,
[56:46] and we wait, and then all of a sudden in six years,
[56:49] our nine comes to fruition,
[56:51] and we need to, you know, bond $20 million
[56:53] wherever that is.
[56:54] We're not saying, oh, wait, we want to go from $7,000
[56:56] to $10,000 at the shoot, it's going over time.
[57:01] So we'll bring more detail in that.
[57:03] We're not asking you for permission to mind.
[57:05] It's just, we want to have that on your radar,
[57:07] that's something that is most likely going to be needed, especially with the projects we have planned.
[57:14] Our water expenses, you can see on page 14 of your packet also. What I like to show here is that in 2019,
[57:22] we transferred $700,000 in that water approval fund, we transferred in 2020, we're projecting
[57:29] to transfer 625,000 and then in 2,021 only 280,000. Those two major transfers were for much
[57:38] needed projects to get that cash balance down, but we're going to need to make more significant
[57:42] transfers that want to improve the fund in future years more than 280 for these major projects.
[57:49] And what I do worry about the most is that Arnold is at that cost. If you talk to a million dollars
[57:55] a mile for a pipeline, but I know it's not. That's what they gave us one time to see the bluff,
[57:59] if you remember a long time ago. But we're looking at both our way of our project, just about 14
[58:04] miles from change-in to five-thirds of one. And then you get a twenty-two miles from
[58:11] back to the Russell. Correct. So that's a big one.
[58:16] Information on that design of your page 14
[58:19] to the vertical form, you can see that our revenue is far and
[58:23] left. The mark bar is the actual minimum two lower bars are
[58:28] estimates, because like we mentioned before the estimate just
[58:32] drop sales. Administration costs are flat, production costs are
[58:38] up due to increased maintenance, and we also did a similar wage
[58:43] pay matrix for certified water production optimizations.
[58:47] Just like alignment, many cities and even private areas have difficulty finding class 3 and
[58:53] class 1 water up for you.
[58:55] So you can be certified here and then go to a water city and make all the place and make
[59:02] 4 parts as much.
[59:03] So we're not going to meet them, you know, part of our attraction is our work environment,
[59:09] community, schools, you know, great places to raise your family, but we still have to be
[59:14] competitive to get and retain.
[59:18] Water operators should have certified. And then our transfers,
[59:21] those are things that have gone in interest, personnel benefits, the water improvement fund,
[59:26] and the general fund. And off the top ahead I'm not sure. Water transfer is about how much
[59:30] the general fund, we have a couple of, I don't know if that's how to do it. It's much less than
[59:35] the $250,000. I think it's, I think so. And then the fund balance reserve policy based on that,
[59:44] we should have at least $500,000 minimum. Our target is $1.2 million and our actual or projected
[59:51] is $1.2 million. We're actually only about $540 off, $537. So, doing well there.
[1:00:01] 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.
[1:00:31] We think we'll get the best bang that will still do what we need for the
[1:00:35] well-being as far as acidizing and keeping them going. So the cycle will be
[1:00:41] everything in five years instead of everything in three. Correct. Yeah.
[1:00:46] And if we notice that, you know, that's how to find more, we need that. We can always
[1:00:51] move that out. But we're thinking that three every two years might be too much.
[1:00:55] So, we received $600,000 in scandals with a $1.29 million waterline project that Richard
[1:01:05] toppled a bit was in the media about the EDR plan improvements that estimated $1.1 million
[1:01:12] because we're putting money back, we're going to pay cash, and then plan A, it's $4 million
[1:01:17] which we plan to pay with a KDHG loan. We think that's going to be the most cost effective
[1:01:24] way. And one of those of those projects you've done, those plant A and B should be good to build for
[1:01:29] 20 years. Plus, they'll be on our asset management program and we'll be planning sort of what to do,
[1:01:34] you know, over time as opposed to, oh, we've got to do this now. This is a graphical representation
[1:01:41] of the cash balances for the water improvement fund. You can see that we've built it up,
[1:01:45] it's a drop down, we do major projects like in 2020, we start to build it back up, then it drops down,
[1:01:50] We have another major project. This does not show any projects we plan for the R9 branch, because timing is still unknown.
[1:01:58] Counts is aware we're still in the judicial review, and the oral arguments are skated.
[1:02:07] Any questions about what is the primary sanitation?
[1:02:09] presentation.
[1:02:12] Hey, our sanitation revenue is pretty consistent with our current rates, we should be able to
[1:02:18] save the increase in cost of transfers to the sanitation reserve that Council created
[1:02:24] a couple years ago.
[1:02:26] Our landfill sales, all those numbers pretty much stay the same.
[1:02:31] It's pretty even utility, not a lot of surprises there.
[1:02:36] Our expenditures, because we adjusted the rates, we're now able to transfer money to that
[1:02:41] sanitation reserve. For 2020, we're projecting $120,000 and then in $21,75,000. Prior to
[1:02:50] council creating this on, we didn't have quite a percentage. So we trampled when we needed
[1:02:56] a trot for something else. So now we do that plan. These are the cash balances. You can see
[1:03:02] revenue will make flat expenses is gone up because of transfers and then our fund balance
[1:03:09] policy for this fund it's 146,000 is the minimum with the total of 282 and we're about
[1:03:16] 68 dollars over that so we'll write what we need to be so we have 282,780 which projected
[1:03:23] and we should get a set of hundred and so.
[1:03:26] We're right there.
[1:03:27] This tenure plan is on page 17 of your packet.
[1:03:31] For the meetings that are just a second and those the current links.
[1:03:34] The sanitation front will be able to fund this equipment and capital expenditures.
[1:03:38] We will need some direction from the government body on the recycling building and a compactor building.
[1:03:45] We've had talk in the previous years of building and recycling building.
[1:03:49] and maybe in the area where the two trailers are,
[1:03:52] and combining the cardboard recycling,
[1:03:55] plastic and all that into one location,
[1:03:59] having a contractor that we can compact that plastic,
[1:04:03] because it's, as you see, it's so bulky
[1:04:06] that it has to be emptied twice a week.
[1:04:10] So we think with a compactor, we can get that bill.
[1:04:13] This was three or four years ago,
[1:04:14] and we started talking about this
[1:04:16] because the cost of recycling plastic
[1:04:18] It was a good business model for some people.
[1:04:22] Well, I know this is blank for everything,
[1:04:24] but with the tensions with China and the trade
[1:04:27] that's going back and forth,
[1:04:28] they were a large consumer of the elite,
[1:04:30] that's probably the type of plastic.
[1:04:32] So the bottom is falling out of plastic and some of the notes.
[1:04:38] So we put it back, but we will be direction down the road
[1:04:41] if that's something we want to continue to look toward.
[1:04:46] I think based on what I've read and other cities are doing, recycling is not going to break even.
[1:04:54] It's going to cost us money.
[1:04:56] But it's some things that I think that our customer or residents appreciate, they use the heck out of it.
[1:05:04] And it has to do some sanitation costs.
[1:05:06] We can't quantify it because we don't actually measure what people put in there.
[1:05:11] And we do have people from that attempt to put it in.
[1:05:15] There's no question about it.
[1:05:16] So,
[1:05:19] any questions about sanitation?
[1:05:23] If not, waste water revenue was on page 18.
[1:05:28] These numbers that you see on the revenue,
[1:05:34] come from the data from RMAs, studies on
[1:05:39] what our rates need to be for our
[1:05:41] But when that renewal project was about a million dollars made in a half-month, and Councils
[1:05:48] are aware that we have to switch from a request to Beds to request to proposals because the
[1:05:55] EPA and KVG changes on the ammonia limits and what they wanted us to do, and new requirements
[1:06:00] of our NDPES permit change that, and we are now looking closer to three to four million dollars.
[1:06:08] Rich and I have been meeting with Army engineering.
[1:06:15] We think that we might have a solution.
[1:06:18] We can bring you in a couple of weeks.
[1:06:20] They may lower that back now.
[1:06:22] They won't be back down to me in a half.
[1:06:23] We think we can save a million dollars.
[1:06:25] Get KDH here approval.
[1:06:28] And it's just a different option.
[1:06:30] So I guess what I'm saying is right now,
[1:06:32] our waste water rates, we think are okay.
[1:06:36] But it's something we'll have to keep an eye on based on that cost.
[1:06:40] If we can get it down a million dollars, I think we're going to be able to buy it.
[1:06:44] So our expenditure is for a waste water.
[1:06:47] You can see here that in 19, we spent the 235,000.
[1:06:51] We were planning to transfer 380 in 20 and 487 in 21,
[1:06:57] transferring that to waste water improvement.
[1:06:59] So we can use that for those projects that need to be done.
[1:07:04] 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.
[1:07:13] And then the wastewater replacement fund, which is on page 19 in your packet, this is also a work in progress.
[1:07:26] We will bring the entire budget rolls of funds to you in August, July and August and go to them in detail.
[1:07:34] If you have any questions or comments about any of these budgets we bring to you, we ask you to bring those to us.
[1:07:39] 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?
[1:07:46] We can get your input.
[1:07:49] Waste water.
[1:07:51] You can see here that in 2020, we have $4 million budgeted for dredging the lookings.
[1:07:58] That also has some headworks work.
[1:08:02] and but you can see that that is $4 million a loan proceeds.
[1:08:06] If we get down to $2 million,
[1:08:08] we will need a borrow for maintenance.
[1:08:10] Except that one.
[1:08:10] You make things much better.
[1:08:12] Cash balance for the waste water replacement.
[1:08:15] It continues to grow into 2030.
[1:08:18] It looks like it's a giant jump.
[1:08:20] $2.6 million, $2.3 million, and here's from now,
[1:08:23] there's going to be 20 votes you're going to have to do
[1:08:25] with lift stations, and those lift stations
[1:08:28] are pretty priced.
[1:08:29] 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.
[1:08:42] One percent or based on rate of inflation.
[1:08:47] To put that in perspective, if you use 24 gallons of water for a year, your water bill is probably around 30 to $34.
[1:08:55] So you're talking about maybe his recent increase the year. Now that would impact people who are resorting.
[1:09:02] You know, these.
[1:09:06] Our our mandated waste water changes like the among the limits and moving to zero discharge.
[1:09:12] And for us to extend the life of the news and those info and information projects will require us.
[1:09:23] 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.
[1:09:34] These projects are counter-authorizing now and having the last couple of years.
[1:09:39] There's hard things that we're gonna fix
[1:09:40] and then walk away from in 20 years, say.
[1:09:42] Somebody else would be going, oh, correct.
[1:09:44] It's gonna be, okay, we're putting in this new
[1:09:48] trying to be our plan.
[1:09:49] Here's a life expectancy.
[1:09:50] How much money do we have to put away if something happens?
[1:09:55] You put it in a good place for utilities.
[1:09:59] Mostly because of that fund balance
[1:10:01] and reserve policy, and you optimizing these projects
[1:10:03] we've done, are there any questions in the comments?
[1:10:06] So just to make it I think the staff did a great job with acting and planning and
[1:10:13] I think it's a lot of money and use that we didn't have to find out.
[1:10:20] Find out.
[1:10:20] Okay, everybody.
[1:10:29] Next up, consentative.
[1:10:32] I would so move we approve the consent agenda as presented.
[1:10:35] That's it.
[1:10:37] I'm going to cross the green motion of food to continue to as presented.
[1:10:41] I'm going to stop for a second in motion.
[1:10:43] During further discussion.
[1:10:46] T9 all of a sudden.
[1:10:47] I have a major hand.
[1:10:49] Motion carries.
[1:10:50] That.
[1:10:51] I'm going to finish.
[1:10:53] 2020.
[1:10:54] Well, that's seven.
[1:10:55] A little bit.
[1:10:56] Let's get that concession.
[1:10:58] I believe tomorrow.
[1:10:59] Not sure how long it's going to go.
[1:11:01] I do believe that.
[1:11:02] where at a point we can make recommendations for the operation of our plan or
[1:11:09] recommendation that the panel is that we will come on Tuesday June 16th. We will
[1:11:15] follow CDC guidelines as far as obtaining the frequently touched areas
[1:11:21] about the name of them and also the Kansas Reclamation Parks Association
[1:11:25] guidelines as far as operation. We have 13 certified guidelines, a manager or a
[1:11:31] system manager. We recommend that the operating hours be from 1 a p.m. to 6 p.m. which is a change
[1:11:37] from last year, which was 1 to 7. We will recommend that the council open the pool Tuesdays
[1:11:44] through Saturday, which means we'd be closed on Mondays. Those two reasons also because of
[1:11:50] Saturday. The slides, the diving boards, we think we can operate with the number of guards
[1:11:56] we have they will be open if we do get some guards to call and sit or whatever reason we're sure
[1:12:02] on staff will close those as appropriate but the slides and diving work are pretty popular with
[1:12:08] kids and the people who are there as we made after after you keep those open. We would recommend
[1:12:14] that the chairs which have already been taken out be taken out because if you follow the CDC guidelines
[1:12:20] are claiming that we're kind of somebody that up from the chair we have this impact which is in practice.
[1:12:25] 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.
[1:12:36] 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.
[1:12:44] The full manager and the lifeguards would just work at making sure they're stacking up people like them to each other.
[1:12:51] And we will not rent out the attitudes or the pool movements because they have to be disinfected every time.
[1:12:58] Concession would recommend being open, but only with limited options, but that would be drinks and pre-packaged items.
[1:13:07] So it seems like a typical or you know, a hot dog and all that is just pre-packaged.
[1:13:16] We would recommend that because of the practicality of cleaning and all of this, that we've
[1:13:24] not had no private parties that early swim lessons, we don't open early and have a life
[1:13:29] bar exam for two or three hours before it opens, if they want to do swim lessons they can
[1:13:33] building during hours, and the early after hours,
[1:13:38] opportunity also, through the same reason.
[1:13:41] And our tentative closing day would be August night.
[1:13:44] That's based on school, opening, and fault,
[1:13:46] kids going back to college.
[1:13:48] Our sign-in process would be a little bit different.
[1:13:50] Normally, the people who come will sign in themselves.
[1:13:53] We'll have a whole lot of do that, keep people
[1:13:55] compouching the cans in the paper, and whatnot.
[1:13:58] We are going to ask for their name and their address.
[1:14:00] 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.
[1:14:08] We will get to anybody who can help the county health nurse or KVHG.
[1:14:14] We'll keep that.
[1:14:15] 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.
[1:14:25] We'll see how well they stay with all the 40 water.
[1:14:29] We're also going to put six road standards.
[1:14:32] When you come into the pool, there'll be road standards,
[1:14:35] going out into the east.
[1:14:38] And Martin, there will be people coming in.
[1:14:39] Sometimes they'll rush people to keep them separated.
[1:14:43] You'll see that feeling they did a little more.
[1:14:45] We won't use caution tape.
[1:14:47] That will use road standards.
[1:14:49] And we're going to change the entry index.
[1:14:51] 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
[1:14:58] into the lockers, put that in there.
[1:15:00] I see. The swimming will break and cleaning schedule. We'll use summer hours. So you have to correct
[1:15:07] your reach. I believe we're doing two hours of swimming, breaking for 30 minutes. Life guards can
[1:15:14] rest for 15 and then they'll clean those contact areas for 15 minutes. I think that is all I have.
[1:15:24] Rich, you would have enough to fill in and we'll wrap with that. We'll put the picture back.
[1:15:27] The filling actually started today and we should be filling up tonight, but it would be definitely full by tomorrow.
[1:15:34] Also, we're looking at keeping everything going as far as our pumps and the operation of the pool itself.
[1:15:42] 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.
[1:15:52] So we're going to move on forward with that with the total operations.
[1:15:56] Like Sir John mentioned, all they might is we'll be taking care of next week.
[1:16:00] Concessions have been ordered today.
[1:16:02] So we hope to be ready to go by the 16th and good weather.
[1:16:09] I'm not sure that it's necessary, but the council would make a motion.
[1:16:17] that you so agree to direct us over the pool on June 16th
[1:16:21] with the operational changes that we have on it.
[1:16:24] Unless, of course, you want something to do.
[1:16:26] I would so move that we open the pool on June 16th
[1:16:31] with the recommendations that staff has presented.
[1:16:35] I suggest we hire more lifeguards
[1:16:38] and keep the open longer.
[1:16:39] You're only going to open 45 days.
[1:16:42] If you're wasting all the time and money,
[1:16:44] to fill a pool, you got to keep the pool.
[1:16:48] Do we have availability of standards?
[1:16:51] There's more.
[1:16:52] If light cards wanted to work,
[1:16:53] we're told it can not.
[1:16:55] We had four, we set up letters to our old light cards,
[1:17:00] which we call over the water,
[1:17:01] previous year's light cards.
[1:17:04] They indicate if they want to come back or not.
[1:17:06] Because of the contract, the time,
[1:17:10] the Caleb reached out and called each one of them
[1:17:14] and made a date that would work for them and they were told that this is the only date because of
[1:17:19] the contract period.
[1:17:23] So you have to be there. You followed that up as a letter. So that would call
[1:17:27] as made on May 8th. Followed up as a letter that was sent out on May 11th and May 12th. With the same
[1:17:34] information, May 22nd was the training. We had four of those people with no show, no call no show.
[1:17:41] We had one young lady who texted Kayla on Wednesday before the meeting to confirm it. She didn't show her. She called yesterday.
[1:17:51] We had another young lady that knows she called two days ago.
[1:17:57] I believe two or three days ago. Maybe this last week.
[1:17:59] Last week.
[1:18:01] And just want to know the makeup time was if she was on vacation.
[1:18:05] After talking was rich and the tool manager made the decision to rescind us for people
[1:18:17] with offers because they were on the phone, they were told, you've got to be here, they
[1:18:24] didn't make the effort to contact us some of them for a week later, and when you're
[1:18:28] stacking that pool, if they can't make the original meeting with all the claim that they
[1:18:32] have to have, then we can't count on them to show up to their shift, which could be talking about.
[1:18:40] So, I did the sentence. I received one call from the one young lady who's
[1:18:45] I think 17 or 18. I got seven calls from her mother and the other young lady called
[1:18:50] Likes and she said she understood it was her fault. She knew that. So, that's why we did not hire
[1:18:57] those life bars. And I'm not sure that their certification has been extended.
[1:19:04] I received this certification extension from two of them, only one of which I forgot.
[1:19:10] Yeah, and we hired two more life bars, we won't be able to extend around this.
[1:19:15] So that's going to help that. And that's just getting, we normally run with 22 life bars.
[1:19:20] Most general, and the end of some, then we were very much like to do later in August,
[1:19:24] 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.
[1:19:42] most generally if we have enough high school age kids we can run it a couple days
[1:19:47] longer but most of the time they have back to school shopping and things that
[1:19:51] they are planning to do so either they are moving away or they have requested
[1:19:56] off as of that date because they have things to take care of prior to the
[1:20:01] beginning of the year. The first go to back to 1 a 7 and 7 days a week we normally
[1:20:06] operate or need 22 lifelines. So we were actually think we'd have to see down two days.
[1:20:16] Can you float the closing date because if they don't go back to college and they're doing
[1:20:22] online classes, it might have just this tentative. As we get closer, we know that lifelines say,
[1:20:29] 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
[1:20:34] general idea.
[1:20:37] I believe that date was on a Sunday, actually. Yeah, and we could be.
[1:20:43] Okay,
[1:20:46] we have the motion.
[1:20:49] Is there a second?
[1:20:54] Council Member Cross has made a motion to open the floor in June 16th with staff recommended
[1:21:01] in this alterations to operation.
[1:21:05] Secretary, Council move to the right of your second motion.
[1:21:10] Is there any further discussion?
[1:21:13] See none, I'll just carry the way to hand.
[1:21:20] All opposed.
[1:21:22] Senator DeWon, Council member Rich Trist will
[1:21:25] go into the negative.
[1:21:27] I wish you pass it.
[1:21:30] We'll have a pool of June 50th.
[1:21:34] Okay, next up, new business,
[1:21:36] This is a agreement.
[1:21:40] 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.
[1:21:55] And thinking your packet, what pages that on going about the mapping of what is that?
[1:22:04] Okay.
[1:22:05] What the map bridge?
[1:22:07] Yes.
[1:22:09] 33.
[1:22:11] Excuse me.
[1:22:13] What that's referencing.
[1:22:14] It's hard to see, but there's two rooms in there that they are utilizing.
[1:22:19] And they've been.
[1:22:22] Been very good about.
[1:22:25] Keeping up their equipment in there and having access through our building.
[1:22:29] So it wasn't hard to reach out back to him once they requested.
[1:22:37] 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.
[1:22:49] 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.
[1:22:59] and the city receiving $1,184.40 per year for the use of that 420 square feet of that building.
[1:23:11] Rich? Yes.
[1:23:12] What they're reasoning for a 20-year lease, just that they didn't have to deal with it.
[1:23:18] That's all it was. That they didn't have to deal with it as often. That's all it was.
[1:23:22] I'm just, they agreed to 10.
[1:23:27] They agreed to 10.
[1:23:28] Yeah.
[1:23:29] We felt that with our building and what condition it may be in.
[1:23:35] We don't know what we're going to be in the next 10 years into that building.
[1:23:38] We felt that it would need to be to keep it the same.
[1:23:45] Ken has reviewed this also and back with me that it was.
[1:23:51] and basically the wording was all about the same of us in the past 10 years of the
[1:23:56] Delicigin. So the basic work continually well. Yes. So the map you showed here, Rich,
[1:24:03] is that is that the entire building? No, it isn't. It's just the area that they're
[1:24:07] there. Yeah. That's their drawing, not my drawing. So how is there anybody there used to be
[1:24:17] Yes, we did have a lease on the other end of the building.
[1:24:21] I agree.
[1:24:22] I agree.
[1:24:23] I agree.
[1:24:24] So it's mentioned here and there.
[1:24:26] So there is nobody else out there.
[1:24:29] So this is some income for the building.
[1:24:31] For us right here.
[1:24:33] What are we usually for?
[1:24:35] Nothing at this time.
[1:24:38] So.
[1:24:39] I would so move.
[1:24:40] We approve lease number six.
[1:24:42] 9-7-9-7-DCM-20-FEL-0015 with Federal Aviation Administration has presented an authorized
[1:24:53] and they're assigned to requires documents.
[1:24:55] I'll speak on that.
[1:24:57] We hope that that will be a point on that.
[1:25:01] Council member Cross is made a motion to approve.
[1:25:04] Least 9 or 697 PCM the 1nf-L-Oo-115 with Federal Aviation Administration and
[1:25:31] 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.
[1:25:47] So yes, let me give my folder for the one.
[1:25:51] I'll spray this on maybe this afternoon.
[1:25:57] 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.
[1:26:05] And that is north fossil from 15th street to which to avenue is being planned to restripe,
[1:26:13] to remove the old and restripe of what's there for us getting some left turn.
[1:26:21] Signals are painting markings down and there's 34 of those.
[1:26:27] There's five school crossings and a lot of yellow and white paint down through that model of stretch.
[1:26:34] So they plan to be here tomorrow, start removing some of that and finish up hopefully by the end of the week
[1:26:40] a painting that back on Thursday and Friday. That'll be during the day on that operation.
[1:26:46] So we hope to get that started been waiting for that for quite a while.
[1:26:51] The next area of painting is what we call the Main Street District area. I've been wanting
[1:26:57] this for quite some time and I've got with a contractor. He's out of basically Hayes,
[1:27:04] but SPM, Sweeney Payment, they maintenance and he's supposed to be in here tomorrow night
[1:27:12] and most of his work, majority of his work hours will be at nighttime to accommodate the traffic
[1:27:19] downtown through the area. That includes Main Street from 9 to 3rd Street, the two side streets,
[1:27:26] meaning Maple and Kansas plus third, plus from sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth, and the
[1:27:32] one block area on each side of Main Street. That includes white striping of all the parking stalls.
[1:27:41] The yellow along some of the areas also that are at the end of the blocks will also be
[1:27:47] done. And then this will all be done with glass beads. So be reflective and that helps keep the
[1:27:54] the product down for a long time that we found too.
[1:27:57] The blue, a lot of the handicaps dolls,
[1:28:00] we're doing that in-house to save some funding on that.
[1:28:05] So that's two projects that we'll be going on this week actually.
[1:28:10] So both of them come together at the same time.
[1:28:16] Main Street same time, he's hoping to be done by Friday also.
[1:28:19] Wow. Yeah, a lot of stripes to put down and two nines actually.
[1:28:32] Yeah, you bet there will be somebody. Yeah, we'll be working with law enforcement.
[1:28:50] I'll move on to the next one.
[1:28:52] and that's what John mentioned earlier in the meeting about the yellow waterline project.
[1:28:56] That is a project that we're calling Maple St. John project.
[1:29:03] It's about 2.5 miles of pipeline.
[1:29:06] That'll be totally replaced with new C900 PVC.
[1:29:09] That includes from Maple Street, from 6th Street, or West Concent, to Wichita Avenue, on
[1:29:18] with on West Conson from Maple Street to Ben Hootin and on Wichita Avenue from Lincoln to
[1:29:27] Witt Avenue and then also we will do St. John Street from Seven Street to Wichita Avenue and
[1:29:37] also Grand Street from Seven Street to Wichita Avenue. Well basically first street on that one.
[1:29:43] We do have one block in there that's already been replaced, so that is the area that affects a lot
[1:29:50] of our public all on the west side of our community. We will be going out with public notices.
[1:29:57] We had a pre-con meeting last-
[1:30:00] Friday with the contractor, that's APAC out of Hutchison, as put in the moon bid and got that
[1:30:07] for us and are really eager to start. Only thing is, is that they weren't able to get the supplies
[1:30:13] that they needed. We were supposed to start this week, so we're actually putting it off a month
[1:30:18] and they're scheduled to start July 6th. And because of Corona or the COVID-19 of supplies out of the
[1:30:26] manufacturers to get the pipe is what held us up and they hope to have that in
[1:30:31] here within the next two weeks. So that's a one of our major projects for
[1:30:37] Waterline, if you're starting and we hope to be done. The tentative date is
[1:30:41] December, I believe 19th on that. So Rich, when you and Dylan, when they're
[1:30:48] working on some of these, is there a definitely a lot of coordination?
[1:30:55] A lot of
[1:30:56] everything. One of the things that really concerns me is especially when you're
[1:31:01] working on grant in there by the high rises. Oh, definitely. Yeah.
[1:31:06] Will there be a lot of that? Definitely. We will be working together with the public
[1:31:11] also too, but with the current structure, which would be a virus, not as an issue.
[1:31:16] We can always have the force of we're going to have to go a little bit longer to get it.
[1:31:19] We'll make sure that we have the needed fire for the public.
[1:31:23] 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.
[1:31:35] So we have a map of color calling it for this.
[1:31:38] 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.
[1:31:45] So we're utilizing our system that'll be totally mapped as it goes.
[1:31:56] 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.
[1:32:09] This is a large chunk of the lots of good line what's left?
[1:32:13] it is and it is probably 80% of our leaks are in that area so that'll
[1:32:19] be eliminated with water loss also. As far as we are getting into some of our
[1:32:25] additions that are already 30 years old, around the community, plus even our
[1:32:33] downtown is still hasn't been replaced either. So when you start putting that we
[1:32:39] always talked about the 80% has been replaced and this would take maybe
[1:32:43] about 5%. So I'm going to say still about to roughly 15%. That's still out there.
[1:32:48] That's something done with it. Yeah, and but it's an ongoing thing, you know, here's go by.
[1:32:54] But we're time we get that 15% down, there'll be another 20% on the other side.
[1:33:01] Kind of like road where we can have really problems. What is the lifespan of the PVC?
[1:33:07] Still about 100 years can be. Yeah.
[1:33:10] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:33:13] Zoom's around.
[1:33:14] You be in bother, right?
[1:33:16] Mm hmm.
[1:33:20] And else?
[1:33:22] All the risks.
[1:33:27] Next up, comment, any comment?
[1:33:33] Got anything back there?
[1:33:34] I don't want to get, but.
[1:33:37] OK, no discussion.
[1:33:39] So I guess we're on to get everybody to the major comments.
[1:33:42] Don't you?
[1:33:42] Since we're talking about the budget,
[1:33:44] 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.
[1:33:55] 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.
[1:34:02] with the very warmest or municipalities to have to deal with
[1:34:05] but it's gonna be costly.
[1:34:06] And there's a lot of unanswered questions
[1:34:09] that during the discussion on that last day,
[1:34:13] some of the legislature said,
[1:34:14] we'll just answer those next year when we come back.
[1:34:18] What that we're gonna do is remove the tax lid
[1:34:22] and if a governing body or a municipality
[1:34:26] wanted to increase their revenue,
[1:34:29] the county court would have to send a notice
[1:34:30] every tax payer that you're taxable going to increase. It just wasn't going to say it was going to go up
[1:34:36] a quarter of a mill, it was going to say you're probably taxing for this and then going to raise
[1:34:41] them to this based on what they're saying, which we think is a great idea. We advocated that it wouldn't be
[1:34:48] your taxes are just going to go up because if you were to be in town you can have 190 mills
[1:34:52] and if we keep ours as a city or I know it down and some other entity raises your 16 mills,
[1:34:58] It wasn't a differentiated that. We wanted that to say you're actually going up because of A, B, and C.
[1:35:07] Also the way I know the governor has vetoed that middle sort of action to the text.
[1:35:12] So on this budget we're preparing and unless something changes during the special session,
[1:35:18] whether they override that detail or they pass new legislation that the government signs,
[1:35:23] we're going to work on the premise of the text.
[1:35:25] I can mention that truth and taxation is a good thing, but it has some problems.
[1:35:30] That was just one more example. It's not what it has.
[1:35:34] If Blaine would have, our council members saw what we've got a notice that your taxes are going up the dollar.
[1:35:40] And we will rule on our estimates and your taxes went up to $2.
[1:35:45] We'd have to rebate that to you. That'd be fine. We'd have to send you a check for that difference.
[1:35:51] 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.
[1:36:00] So if there are properties here, we have assuming oil leases that have none of the owners have not moved.
[1:36:05] So that's one of the problems that we have.
[1:36:08] You can expect something more coming. I think it's a good plan.
[1:36:12] The goal of the premise of the task is to make sure you do.
[1:36:18] Anybody else have anything?
[1:36:22] No, anybody?
[1:36:23] So move, we adjourn.
[1:36:25] Seconded.
[1:36:26] That's the man with crosses.
[1:36:28] Maybe maybe maybe you should go get yourself a little bit wet.
[1:36:30] Hey, Roger.
[1:36:31] Is there any further discussion?
[1:36:33] Is there any further discussion?
[1:36:35] Is there any further discussion?
[1:36:36] I don't know where that is.