[0:02] yeah we're again we're going to call to
order this regular meeting of the Miami
[0:08] special utility authority for today's
date we have tonight in the lead us an
[0:14] invitation pastor of First Christian
Church Brian Baker let's pray Heavenly
[0:25] Father we just pause to bring our focus
and upon you and father I pray that you
[0:31] would be with these men and women that
have given of their time to serve this
[0:37] community father I pray that you would
grant them wisdom father I pray that you
[0:42] would just bless their decisions father
I also pray that you would watch over
[0:48] and bless their families as they give
this time to the community which pulls
[0:54] them away from their family so father we
ask for a special blessing upon their
[0:59] family during this time of separation
and again father we ask for your wisdom
[1:04] we ask for your insight to be upon this
board father we love you we praise you
[1:10] it's in Jesus's name I pray amen
immediately thanks fun the Julius in the
[1:16] plant sure probably I pledge allegiance
to the flag of the United States of
[1:21] America and to the Republic for which it
stands one nation under God indivisible
[1:27] with liberty and justice for all thank
you and item number four is public input
[1:37] and I'm schedule personal appearances
and when the audience that wishes to
[1:40] address the council on any of the agenda
items there being none item 5 is consent
[1:48] agenda staff is recommending items six
and seven for the consent agenda if
[1:52] there are no questions I
motion motion to approve mer and a
[1:56] second second roll call Johnson hi
Weston why Forster hi hi item 8
[2:05] authorized expenditure of automatic
transfer switch for Walmart it will
[2:08] transfer power between feeders 22 and 29
in case of an outage and mount not to
[2:14] exceed 65,000 narrow Tyler toddlers are
gonna kind of tank okay at the end of
[2:21] the last hour last council meeting
councilman Weston had pointed out that
[2:25] on Christmas Day that Walmart
experienced an outage and aren't stam
[2:31] was on it very quickly took care of it
and I appreciate that work but the
[2:36] question was wasn't there a switch that
was installed it was supposed to have
[2:40] taken care of me and after the meeting
toddler and I got on that I think
[2:46] finance was also involved with this
because I think from the finance
[2:50] standpoint it was proved but we
understand from utilities that without
[2:55] your knowledge that project was
basically killed that it just it was not
[2:59] not done I don't have any answer for
that and as you know we've gone through
[3:05] some transitions but what I'm trying to
do is pick up the pieces from there and
[3:08] continue forward I'd like to point out
and with Alicia's help she gave me what
[3:13] the agenda item was and this would have
been on July third and 2013 and what was
[3:19] provided to you was report from David
Rountree and also from Jeff bishop and
[3:25] basically talking about the way walmart
operates that if they have a power
[3:29] outage and if it's in excess of five
seconds they have to reset everything in
[3:33] the store empty the store and it
basically affects their operations
[3:39] emptying the store that large plus it
affects sales tax revenues as well that
[3:43] was the reasoning that was given to you
for doing this but at the time the
[3:48] estimated cost was twenty-three thousand
dollars now i'm working with tyler what
[3:54] i understand at the time and i think it
was trying to save some money there was
[3:58] some discussion about trying to build
one of these and in fact even in what
[4:02] was given to you was you know after you
know doing some testing or something
[4:06] along that
line and that doesn't make me feel real
[4:11] comfortable with the idea of building
something like this I think the best
[4:14] thing to do is to go out to bid and buy
something that is constructed especially
[4:18] for this has been tested it has
warranties and we'll handle things not
[4:24] only handle the transfer handle the
switches when they're necessary but also
[4:28] it's for frankly the safety of our
employees as well to make sure that
[4:31] something like this is built properly so
Brian our excuse me Tyler has been
[4:37] working on this and in essence he's dead
a little bit of research and we think a
[4:42] new switch would probably be in the
neighborhood of about fifty to sixty
[4:47] thousand dollars obviously we'll go out
to bid but then also some amount of
[4:51] money to be able to do the installation
some equipment that's necessary for that
[4:54] even in the installation there's going
to be a time when we'd have to have some
[4:59] type of a generator out there for a few
hours when we switch everything over I'd
[5:04] like to put this in a little bit of
perspective this is a lot of money and I
[5:09] understand that but it's something that
the council had had talked about doing
[5:12] in the past it is something that needs
to be done with our infrastructure our
[5:16] utility infrastructure and it also ties
into the fact that I don't think we
[5:21] should be looking at this in in a vacuum
this is not the only improvement that we
[5:26] should be making in our utility system
in fact we were talking just before the
[5:30] meeting started that we have some
significant work being done at what we
[5:34] call the nickel substation which is by
the will rogers practice field that's
[5:39] one that was installed in the early
1970s has had some maintenance word but
[5:45] not a whole lot and really needs to be
rebuilt to be able to improve the
[5:49] electrical service to that entire area
something like this needs to be done and
[5:54] at that Tyler is currently working on
kind of a overall plan for improvements
[5:59] in our electrical system just like we're
doing in our water system and our sewer
[6:03] system but since this was an item that
the council had identified and really
[6:08] improved just three years ago I have
less than three years ago frankly
[6:12] something that was promised to one of
our businesses and something that really
[6:17] is necessary for their off
erations I wanted to proceed with
[6:20] providing this to you and getting
approval so we can move on it so that is
[6:24] definitely my recommendation but I think
in the not-too-distant future they're
[6:28] going to be a lot of other improvements
in our electrical system we're going to
[6:31] be bringing to you as well I do want to
also highlight that our utility rates
[6:36] that were approved we're approved with
the idea that some of these projects
[6:40] we're going to be taking place that
we're obviously I mentioned finding us
[6:44] we're going to be looking at where the
revenue will be coming from for this to
[6:47] make sure that we will have the
additional revenues to start doing these
[6:51] capital expenditures there was one
question about where the specific line
[6:56] item will come out of and we have a one
item one line item in our budget for
[7:00] about ninety three thousand dollars
which is overhead lines and we'll be
[7:04] taking this expense out of at this point
we'll be keeping an eye on our new
[7:08] revenues coming in because our new rates
just went into effect and seeing if that
[7:13] brings in some additional revenue so
this is probably something that we're
[7:17] playing a little catch up on something
that was provided to you but I also feel
[7:21] very comfortable that we're doing it
right and what's being proposed to you
[7:25] is doing it in the right manner so
that's what we're recommending approval
[7:34] I have Tyler on this with this generator
that Dane had mentioned that you
[7:44] possibly will have to put into effect
what what businesses are going to be
[7:47] affected how's this going to be
displayed walmart just won't answer so
[7:51] this is really ill generated in a
discounter well power walmart good
[7:54] you're not gonna be shelling power off
to anybody else no this this is purely
[7:58] to circle with this type of situation
think you kind of cover that you're
[8:02] you're looking at other areas that could
be under the same type of issues have we
[8:08] this is about the only one so far that
we found that we're up against yep what
[8:12] what we're dealing with right now is an
item to you that's reactive but what we
[8:17] need to do is in our system we need to
be proactive and not just to our
[8:22] commercial areas to our industrial areas
even some of our service
[8:26] we have some discussions around the
hospital about improving electrical
[8:30] service to them and it's just something
that's this long overdue we need to have
[8:36] this focus we do have the resources to
do it that's one of the reasons we even
[8:40] did the reorganization to have Tyler
over a smaller organization because and
[8:45] absolutely no offense to Joe because he
did a great job when he was public works
[8:49] director but it was too big and we
needed somebody to focus on our
[8:53] utilities because it's just a huge
amount of infrastructure that we have
[8:57] that we have to make sure that we're
taking care of properly I want to
[9:01] clarify something because Brian use the
term generator putting it generally
[9:08] pretty nice today to switch we need will
need temporary have a temporary
[9:12] generator when we switch everything over
about it but just for that time just not
[9:17] yes you know you're interesting on a pad
although knows it for that day just for
[9:22] that day one day says you understand yes
you know I had one more question and I'm
[9:26] not gonna put him by on the spot but we
did have a number that was the loss of
[9:31] sales tax revenue per minute at walmart
and I don't know if those numbers are
[9:35] still available it was pretty
significant and that's one of the
[9:38] reasons we decided I don't have that
well me that's what we want to spot it
[9:42] it was significant yeah it is it is but
I again I I think we're keeping a
[9:48] promise that was made that kind of fell
by the wayside with your question we
[9:53] resurrected it any other questions we
have a motion on item 8a commotion I'll
[10:05] second second whoa call all right fine
Johnson all right thank you thanks Tyler
[10:14] I deny a new business any new businesses
and be more subtle this agenda your
[10:20] honor okay staff reports are in your
packet we have questions trustee
[10:25] community announcement
announcements I just have one on this
[10:29] one mayor I guess a couple ways go I
want to come in or speaking of your
[10:33] utility department matter of fact I
called Dean right after this hasn't it I
[10:40] was up on North Main Street in one of
our restaurants had my morning coffee
[10:44] and the electric went out and I called
Joe and I think Joe is in the area
[10:50] somewhere I wasn't sure but anyway he
come he come up and it came back on i
[10:57] looked up my phones he wants time to
call joe is they didn't have to nod mean
[11:03] it's time I got that back on it's pretty
amazing stuff in them all now thank you
[11:10] was that the donut shop I'm not saying
then when you said Joe is a ranger did
[11:15] you meet in the same well I'm more calm
down okay item announcements if there
[11:22] are nine out of 12 is the motion to
adjourn do we have most to adjust
[11:26] adjourn second in the second roll call
please I'm Johnson all right Forster hi
[11:31] thank you we're going to move right into
our oh we gotta take a break from there
[11:38] now it we're not gonna move right into
we're going to take a what is the three
[11:41] medical break mine because we're
streaming these now oh so it takes takes
[11:48] a little bit of time from the network
kind of reschedule we've had quite a few
[11:54] people that watch the streaming yeah
because we can kind of keep track of
[11:57] who's watching two and four
[12:05] were you feel stop that's a quick three
minute okay we are now going to move
[12:15] into our regular meeting of the Miami
City Council for today's date item
[12:23] number to the public input on schedule
personal appearances anyone in the
[12:27] audience it wishes to address the
council on any of the agenda they're
[12:33] benign item three is consent agenda
staff is recommending items four through
[12:36] nine for the consent agenda if there are
no questions we have a motion please I
[12:41] was going to talk to coach Grover but I
think he took a phone call from
[12:45] community is that why there is one of
the items i think is all right correct
[12:50] yes the ne yo termine o tournament you
know tournament january 21st through
[12:56] 23rd stop that time again so we are
requesting the use of the Civic Center
[13:00] for those dates that's thursday friday
and saturday basically the entire day
[13:04] each day you have a number of teams we
have 48 teams this year that usually
[13:11] generates about seven eight hundred
students could come on the Indio campus
[13:14] in the city of Miami and then the number
of fans that come in the area are I
[13:18] don't know another thousand so obviously
I would assume that the nao term is one
[13:22] of the biggest events of the city host
or any el host any given year you know
[13:31] the questions about the tournament all
right Thank You coach how will entertain
[13:36] a motion for the consent agenda bottom
is for six seven and nine whole seconds
[13:42] roll call I made the motion okay
[13:52] Schultz hi Forrester hi Weston all right
Johnson I and then I'll also make a
[13:58] motion to approve item 8 as a separate
item well second where roll call so high
[14:05] Johnson huh all right boy hi okay we are
now on I'm candy business ding your
[14:17] business no new business your honor okay
I'm 11 staff reports are in your packet
[14:22] staffs available if you have questions
and 12 22 count Marian council
[14:27] announcements I got one man as most of
you know our Miami 125th is march
[14:34] through 3rd to the 5th I believe that
our Dean and there's talk preliminary
[14:40] talks right now we're having a BF
Goodrich employee reunion februari 27th
[14:46] that's the tentative date be here at the
Civic Center in the banquet hall right
[14:52] now thank the datsun museum will have
their exhibit BF Goodrich exhibits here
[14:57] be more on that later improve lab the
times and mill down by them so so is
[15:04] that the week before that's the week
before the 27th on Saturday all right be
[15:11] if you're a former Goodrich employee or
related anyway to want there'll be more
[15:16] information to follow it's open to
anyone anybody once come they'll have
[15:20] their exhibits there so anybody's
welcome thanks no item 13 and city
[15:24] manager communications doing Your Honor
I have three things I wanted to talk
[15:28] about probably the most serious one
first um councilmember Johnson has
[15:35] mentioned this to us and we've also had
some calls to the CVB about the Miami
[15:39] 125 in the newspaper a lot of people
might have noticed a flyer for a
[15:44] commemorative gun for the 100
fifth anniversary very handsome firearm
[15:49] you know it's basically engraved in goal
that has probably the Coleman theater
[15:54] and something else a lot of people are
wondering is that an official part of
[15:59] the 125th anniversary no it's not I
think for the record we're wanting to
[16:03] make it clear that basically somebody is
taking the initiative to offer that it
[16:10] certainly we're in no way endorsing it
but we're also in no way saying that
[16:15] there's something wrong with it in other
words that it might be a really neat
[16:19] commemorative firearm for somebody but a
lot of people are thinking that we're
[16:24] doing that that we're putting that out
there and we're not so it's just
[16:28] somebody taking the initiative this is
America it's it's a way for somebody to
[16:32] maybe make some money but also by
providing a service or providing a good
[16:36] that somebody would like so we're going
to be putting something on our Facebook
[16:40] page because a lot of people are asking
why are you doing this or asking about
[16:44] the gun and we have nothing to do with
it whatsoever and there'll probably be
[16:48] some other businesses that will probably
have other other you know identifiers
[16:53] zor something like that and commemorate
and commemoration we're certainly not
[16:56] going to discourage that in the lease
but but I think some people just be
[17:00] wondering what's official and what's not
so that's the first item second item is
[17:07] we thought we'd asked Chuck to just do
kind of a quick update on the animal
[17:11] shelter councilman Johnson at the end of
the meeting asked about where we were at
[17:16] and I thought we'd give a little better
presentation as to what's going on right
[17:20] now okay Thank You Dean as you know we
had a meeting following the City Council
[17:26] menu at a staff meeting got a few
comments from staff and I'm going to say
[17:31] a few tweaks on the plans city staff met
with Anderson engineering last week
[17:36] received Monday yesterday we received
some revised plans they got a couple
[17:41] more tweaks to do we're expecting that
the next couple days here so I'm
[17:45] expecting before the end of the week to
get that packet together our process
[17:49] then goes to purchasing our legal
department to before it goes out the
[17:56] bids so I'm expecting by the end of the
week we'll have that packet in to
[17:59] purchase
legals hands for their review and then
[18:03] our process within go out for bids
[18:09] questions want to bring it up bring up
to speed we're trying to get this done
[18:13] okay we think we have the budget to do
yes we've we've based on the budget we
[18:19] have again cost estimates and we've also
our intent to suspend all the money we
[18:25] have without going over the budget so a
couple items we've done is put
[18:29] alternates in there that things that may
be in additional phases but if we come
[18:35] in under the cost we don't want to you
know not spend that money that's in the
[18:40] budget some people have donated to the
project and we want to go there so we're
[18:44] trying to battle that because we never
know what the bids are going to come in
[18:47] till the bids actually come in but with
these alternates we can get as close to
[18:52] that that budget without going over
that's our intent we want to ensure
[18:56] anybody that is previously donated to
this project that they don't think that
[19:01] we've cut the amount of money that we
head down by what they donated in other
[19:05] words their donations going to go on top
and what we bunch of it excellent any
[19:10] other questions all in the animal
shelter okay the third one Joe you might
[19:16] want to come on up for this too because
Joe's taking the lead on this but I
[19:19] think this is really a neat project the
central avenue bridge Joe approached me
[19:25] a few weeks ago just a couple weeks ago
actually and mention that he had I
[19:32] basically you've been in touch with the
chief of the Ottawa tribe and I didn't
[19:38] really realize this but you might
remember that the Ottawa try provided a
[19:41] million dollars for that bridge and
probably would not be as nice as it is
[19:46] if not for that cooperation with us and
Joe is in the process of putting
[19:52] together a plaque for the bridge that
would identify the co-operative nature
[19:57] between the city of Miami and the Ottawa
tribe to be able to make that happen and
[20:02] it would identify the council members
that were involved during that project
[20:06] it would be something be kind of a nice
recognition for mayor catcher he was
[20:11] mayor
time and help make that happen but also
[20:14] one of the things that I kind of threw
out there as well is that for something
[20:18] like this somebody giving a million
dollars for a facility you name it after
[20:22] them and we've talked to the tribe and
they suggest it would basically be the
[20:27] ottawa ave central street broad with
central sweetbreads although it would
[20:32] have the proper spelling for the
trolling as what they would like to have
[20:37] on that and that would be something
included so at a later time i'd like to
[20:41] bring you a resolution that we would
name the bridge after the tribe you know
[20:45] in recognition of their donation that
made it happen and when you really look
[20:49] at that bridge and what we've done at
the Rockdale where'd you have really a
[20:52] nice book in that kind of ties into what
we've been talking about to make this a
[20:56] good place to live so i just think
that's good i want to thank joe for
[21:01] taking the initiative on that one
because it's just one of those things
[21:04] that really recognizes that we're all
pulling together all right thank you Joe
[21:09] thanks Joe thanks Joe and that's my
report your honor all right Thank You
[21:13] Dean item 14 is executive session
pursuant to 25 OS 307 B 1 and 4 and 3 07
[21:25] e and 305 do we have a motion to go into
executive session for the reasons
[21:30] outlined and agenda item 14 big motion
and a second one second roll call hi I
[21:45] and I say first
[22:19] out of executive session at 8pm item 15
is municipal attorney David vanishing
[22:29] contract David if you would please make
the revisions to the proposed contract
[22:33] that we discussed submit that to the
council for consideration I would
[22:38] appreciate that item 16 as David Chapman
claim being I guess you and marker know
[22:46] what to do on that with any assistance
you might need for David Adom 17 as a
[22:51] German do we have a motion to adjourn
function German targeting on a second I
[22:57] forgot something Forster hi Schultz hi