1 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:27,800 The great place that we live and love calling the city of Mimi. Father, just give us wisdom to make good decisions. Be with our business meeting tonight, Lord. Help us to make decisions that will best serve the citizens of Mimi. It's in your name, Jesus, we pray, amen. 2 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,680 And 3 00:00:36,460 --> 00:00:44,880 by the end of tonight's guest, if you have a quick presentation, I don't know how many of y'all have heard of the game warriors. 4 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:52,700 I've visited there. He's been back here two years ago. And I've been visiting, probably two years. 5 00:00:53,620 --> 00:01:02,940 Can't swim, going with the other day and visiting. I will turn this time over the year for an inter-doxing and then we'll turn the floor over to them. 6 00:01:02,940 --> 00:01:14,520 Okay, so as you guys know over the past year, we've had folks come in and tell us about different organizations that we have for those in need with different things like that. 7 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:24,300 And so I was invited last week to go and visit the gang warriors and had never been to one of their functions. 8 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:35,120 It's there in the old state building where the Christian Church is and they're located 9 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:42,320 on the backside of there and so they thought this was such a good opportunity for them to come out 10 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:49,300 and explain what they do and how they try to raise funds and do different things for different 11 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:56,660 Awareness is, for example, coming up, if I'm not mistaken, the awareness that they're 12 00:01:56,660 --> 00:01:59,180 gaming board is suicide prevention. 13 00:01:59,620 --> 00:02:07,820 So today we have Charles and Sonny Vell and Regina, who is also part of the group there. 14 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:13,260 So I want to turn it over to those guys and let them tell you a little bit about the gaming 15 00:02:13,260 --> 00:02:19,740 lawyers and what they do and how they place funds to help those in the jobs. 16 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:29,100 I am Charles Bell. I am the founder of Game Warriors. My wife Saunget is co-founder and 17 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:39,160 operating at the Secretary. Jan is our unofficial PR person and we've got several 18 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:44,820 members that are one of which is actually at Gamer even right now getting ready for our Star Trek 19 00:02:44,820 --> 00:02:56,100 Day thing. So Gamer's started in our living room when he was used to go as a way to battle for him 20 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:06,060 and then about 15 years ago my daughter came to me and said hey we're talking about watching 21 00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:13,080 cars and selling candy to raise money for youth trips, can we do one of these? And that's 22 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:20,520 kind of where we picked off. So, Game Wars is a 501c3 organization that harnesses gaming 23 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:32,260 to raise funds and awareness for various organizations locally and nationally. We are becoming a free 24 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,800 the game wars and conferences, three different areas, so it will go to the next slide. 25 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:46,140 So Game Wars Gaming for a call, which is our charity and awareness division, focuses 26 00:03:46,140 --> 00:03:55,400 on video game tournaments, mainly, and related events to race funds and awareness for stealth 27 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,340 like make-a-wish, safety, rain, and then, 28 00:04:00,460 --> 00:04:06,560 logically, for, like, food pantry, a generation house, 29 00:04:07,470 --> 00:04:13,160 and last month's tournament was for MNPD's domestic violence. 30 00:04:13,580 --> 00:04:14,560 Then the day is put out. 31 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:19,660 I think the money has finally made to the banks 32 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:23,880 so we'll be able to give to the donation of 900 plus 33 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,240 some physical stuff that we've collected. 34 00:04:28,420 --> 00:04:32,180 And so we've been doing that for about 15 years. 35 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:37,380 Nick had talked about coming to visit us a couple of years ago. 36 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:38,300 Next slide. 37 00:04:39,420 --> 00:04:42,240 And that brings us to our other part, which 38 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,380 is Gamer Haven, which is our community gaming center 39 00:04:45,380 --> 00:04:46,860 that we're currently working on. 40 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:51,700 For us to house our events, plus more stuff. 41 00:04:51,700 --> 00:05:02,540 The way gamers and families young and old have a safe place to gather, make friends, share 42 00:05:02,540 --> 00:05:09,500 interests such as tentative top games, whether you like nothley, D&D, or you like video games 43 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:14,260 such as Mario Kart and Mortal Kombat, we've got you covered, that's the game plan. 44 00:05:14,260 --> 00:05:23,100 and do it in a safe environment, bridge the community of charitable giving and gaming. 45 00:05:23,980 --> 00:05:33,320 And lastly, Respawn Hope is our new initiative that we are starting and that we're working 46 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:39,940 on to as an advocacy group to further bridge so if someone comes to us and says, 47 00:05:39,940 --> 00:05:43,260 is hey, we're having trouble putting food on our table. 48 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,940 Do you know if someone, and we can be that good between 49 00:05:48,940 --> 00:05:51,240 and the direction of food pantry? 50 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,980 Or if, hey, I know someone's been abused to take food, 51 00:05:56,180 --> 00:05:59,660 we've got contacts, let's get you into the contact 52 00:05:59,660 --> 00:06:02,120 with the people that you need to get in contact with. 53 00:06:02,780 --> 00:06:04,900 So that way, because I know personally, 54 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:12,180 I had issues that I didn't have anyone to reach out to, and that's what we want to be. 55 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:20,440 I know that gaming was essentially one of the key factors that saved my life, which 56 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:25,700 is why this month's time it is, who is out of prevention, we have to talk enough about 57 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:26,620 some of these things. 58 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:33,240 So we want to fill that gap and be there for everybody. 59 00:06:34,620 --> 00:06:39,840 We'll have anybody come and ask me questions, look at what we're doing 60 00:06:40,780 --> 00:06:44,950 and I'll have to talk at this time. 61 00:06:46,130 --> 00:06:49,110 I'd like to say that we've been busy in two years ago 62 00:06:49,110 --> 00:06:53,050 and it's really impressive all the things that they have 63 00:06:53,050 --> 00:06:55,870 and the set up and the gaming stations. 64 00:06:55,870 --> 00:07:01,250 So, particularly Council, I encourage all of you to go by there and say it at the time. 65 00:07:01,970 --> 00:07:07,990 I'm going to go see it. It's really neat. And, again, the purpose of this is to expose 66 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:16,090 which are due to the community. Hopefully, a good story comes out about it to really be 67 00:07:16,090 --> 00:07:17,530 You bet that, didn't you? 68 00:07:20,190 --> 00:07:24,890 No, I was just going to kind of say, mayor, you know, 69 00:07:26,070 --> 00:07:28,970 going into that facility that they have. 70 00:07:29,830 --> 00:07:34,170 It's extremely nice, you know, and what came to mind 71 00:07:34,170 --> 00:07:36,990 when I walked in the room is, you know, 72 00:07:37,010 --> 00:07:40,130 I don't know if you have ever seen these gaming tournaments 73 00:07:40,130 --> 00:07:43,010 where they have all the, you know, Xboxes 74 00:07:43,010 --> 00:07:45,750 and all these things up on the screen and over the wall. 75 00:07:45,750 --> 00:07:49,970 I mean, there's five or six different stations there with these chairs there. 76 00:07:50,090 --> 00:07:55,490 I mean, it's really set up for a true gamer's heaven, you know what I mean? 77 00:07:56,030 --> 00:07:58,350 I think some of my children would love to do that. 78 00:07:58,650 --> 00:08:05,930 I just thought it's a great opportunity to make the public aware of what their goals are, 79 00:08:06,110 --> 00:08:07,170 what they're trying to do. 80 00:08:07,510 --> 00:08:11,570 You know, we need, I think, the world awareness all the way around. 81 00:08:11,570 --> 00:08:40,530 We've talked about the city of having the information for people who are in need for different aspects, and I know that it's to come about, but we have this facility, and I really want to bring awareness to this, and especially the suicide awareness event that they've got coming up, that that was a good friend of mine. 82 00:08:40,530 --> 00:08:50,630 his son took his life long ago so it's you don't think it happens here but it does so I just 83 00:08:50,630 --> 00:08:56,790 appreciate you guys what you do appreciate coming and telling the folks and hopefully like the 84 00:08:56,790 --> 00:09:01,730 mayor said maybe we can get a story out of this. Any questions for these guys? Well we got them here. 85 00:09:03,310 --> 00:09:08,190 All right well thank y'all and appreciate y'all with them and cheering with this and now with that 86 00:09:08,190 --> 00:09:15,650 That gave me what miss having enough for you now we had the auditors, folks from Allen 87 00:09:15,650 --> 00:09:21,590 Green, Williamson are here to present our 24 or 25 audit presentation. 88 00:09:22,530 --> 00:09:23,250 Good evening. 89 00:09:23,790 --> 00:09:24,670 I'm Jenny Henry. 90 00:09:24,790 --> 00:09:25,850 I'm without a green reason. 91 00:09:26,370 --> 00:09:26,950 My name is Anne Green. 92 00:09:27,990 --> 00:09:29,210 I'm just eight and nine. 93 00:09:29,470 --> 00:09:32,890 I feel like the warm up name is the presentation here. 94 00:09:33,070 --> 00:09:36,010 The chance going to the Big Nostar and the handsome lady. 95 00:09:37,570 --> 00:09:45,470 I can't remember if I could have copy of the records, but I'm going to go over a few 96 00:09:45,470 --> 00:09:45,890 items. 97 00:09:46,150 --> 00:09:49,750 I did have the 2024 report that you might have asked me questions. 98 00:09:52,370 --> 00:09:54,070 So first, we'll look at page 5. 99 00:09:55,290 --> 00:10:01,110 Page 5 is the Auburn Church of Kenya, and on the top that shows that there's an adverse 100 00:10:01,110 --> 00:10:06,630 And that's just because the cord and Marshall are not included in this report. 101 00:10:07,290 --> 00:10:11,870 But for the city's financial service, there's an unmodified opinion, which means plenty of opinion. 102 00:10:12,290 --> 00:10:14,950 And that's what you want to know, and that's what the city would have. 103 00:10:16,730 --> 00:10:18,570 It's on this month, it's on Friday. 104 00:10:19,650 --> 00:10:21,210 So that's some page shop. 105 00:10:22,010 --> 00:10:23,490 And then we'll look at the MDNA. 106 00:10:23,790 --> 00:10:26,130 And this is where you look at both years. 107 00:10:26,290 --> 00:10:27,650 And this is on page 15. 108 00:10:29,050 --> 00:10:30,630 And this is the full approval. 109 00:10:30,750 --> 00:10:33,510 This is all your capital assets and all your debt. 110 00:10:33,910 --> 00:10:39,010 So a couple of things I wanted to point out here, sales tax. 111 00:10:40,150 --> 00:10:42,490 So if you look kind of back in the middle, 112 00:10:42,670 --> 00:10:44,210 you see the revenue to no-see sales tax. 113 00:10:44,670 --> 00:10:48,690 So the tax in 2024 is 8.2 million this year was 9 million. 114 00:10:49,210 --> 00:10:53,070 So that was quite a large increase in data. 115 00:10:53,630 --> 00:10:57,830 your revenue was up this year, part of that was this grant 116 00:10:57,830 --> 00:11:00,230 and contributions not restricted to a program. 117 00:11:00,650 --> 00:11:02,850 That had this to do with the state local fiscal 118 00:11:02,850 --> 00:11:04,030 recovery fund money. 119 00:11:04,490 --> 00:11:06,490 That was on the line that was received here in Poland. 120 00:11:07,150 --> 00:11:09,490 You know, people called it the ARFA money. 121 00:11:10,230 --> 00:11:14,290 And so this year in 25, you use that 122 00:11:14,290 --> 00:11:16,390 for the public works, maybe it's annual shelter, 123 00:11:16,810 --> 00:11:17,730 a few other times. 124 00:11:18,130 --> 00:11:20,470 And so it was recognized this year. 125 00:11:21,210 --> 00:11:27,210 So that was a big, uh, in the business activities in 2024, there was a capital grant, and that 126 00:11:27,210 --> 00:11:33,550 had to do with the CBBG project that y'all did with Bosure, and so that was a little bit 127 00:11:33,550 --> 00:11:34,730 different there. 128 00:11:35,330 --> 00:11:43,050 But you can see your expenses were down in governmental, and then up in the business side, 129 00:11:43,890 --> 00:11:46,170 for a little bit with most of that being with electric. 130 00:11:46,170 --> 00:11:46,810 So 131 00:11:48,860 --> 00:11:53,860 please be getting questions as long as you have questions like that. 132 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:55,540 Feel free. 133 00:11:56,220 --> 00:11:58,240 Now I'll go to your governmental funds. 134 00:11:58,720 --> 00:11:59,620 And that's on page 30. 135 00:12:00,820 --> 00:12:03,600 And this is what you usually say to your budget actual. 136 00:12:04,380 --> 00:12:05,640 This is what you're getting. 137 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,960 These are maintenance funds according to account principles. 138 00:12:10,660 --> 00:12:14,380 And you have the general fund, sales tax, the storage sales tax. 139 00:12:14,940 --> 00:12:17,000 The ARCA, that's the one that I was talking about. 140 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,820 And this fund will go away this year because all the money was used. 141 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:24,280 You received the money in 21. 142 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,780 I think you had to spend it about this year. 143 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:29,720 And then you have not made your governmental. 144 00:12:30,260 --> 00:12:31,840 And that's all covered further in the back. 145 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:37,300 You have a video tip, funds, staff, and maybe drug evidence. 146 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:39,300 Anyway, both cover those. 147 00:12:40,380 --> 00:12:43,560 But to general fund, you can see how the next change of fund out. 148 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:49,720 This is like the third row from the bottom of almost $2 million, okay? 149 00:12:50,620 --> 00:12:53,960 And then you have a total increase of 2.8 million. 150 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:04,400 So that was good, you went from 10.8 million fundats to 13.7, so good financials. 151 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,980 And then if you go utility, that's on page 33. 152 00:13:07,980 --> 00:13:09,220 So, 153 00:13:12,990 --> 00:13:21,910 you have a 3 million walls in your tiny position for your utility funds, but from 24.8 to 21.7. 154 00:13:23,630 --> 00:13:27,230 And the largest increase in layer was your panel. 155 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,080 These questions about the utility. 156 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:36,480 So, 157 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,740 in page 93, this is your model, the smaller funds that made up that other aggregate. 158 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,740 So, you have your 410 funds. 159 00:13:47,740 --> 00:13:52,800 You have your step, and it is inputs that step for weeks and the regulars, regulars 160 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,560 because that's where the seed funds come by. 161 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:56,460 I'm going to draw a task force. 162 00:13:58,020 --> 00:14:01,740 Overall, the change was $248,000. 163 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,360 And, you know, over half of that was in the tip district, too. 164 00:14:08,020 --> 00:14:14,320 So, you all went from $1 million in the beginning fund balance to the end fund balance of $1.3. 165 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:14,980 So 166 00:14:24,710 --> 00:14:30,990 we're going to audit reports that if a government receives over a million dollars and federal 167 00:14:31,850 --> 00:14:34,990 funds to cover their expenditure, then you have to have a single audit. 168 00:14:35,410 --> 00:14:41,850 And on page one of the nine is the amount of expenditures that were covered by federal funds 169 00:14:41,850 --> 00:14:44,110 for the city this year. 170 00:14:48,260 --> 00:14:52,320 This year is $3 million of expenditures by the city. 171 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,240 and 2.8 of that have to do with your COVID money. 172 00:15:07,780 --> 00:15:24,040 So, we did test the state local fiscal recovery bond. We did that for our federal testing. There were no findings with that. Everything, no non-components, everything was great with that. So, now we'll look at what our couple of findings on page 22. 173 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:24,520 soil, 174 00:15:27,140 --> 00:15:32,340 and one tiny was controlled over financial order 40, and this had to do with the frills 175 00:15:32,340 --> 00:15:36,580 that you're in, your balance sheet of camps, and to clean up the boats that you're in. 176 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,480 And the second was the late addition of auditors for us. 177 00:15:45,810 --> 00:15:50,850 We did, there was an announcement letter, auditors, this was a repeat from last year, and this 178 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:57,930 has to do with a time key base system, okay, and there was the place bar in the electric 179 00:15:57,930 --> 00:15:59,590 We're not on a time-keeping system. 180 00:16:00,210 --> 00:16:02,330 The electric is now all that system. 181 00:16:03,170 --> 00:16:06,130 And so we were recommending, you know, 182 00:16:06,170 --> 00:16:08,290 you have that payroll, that time-keeping system 183 00:16:09,090 --> 00:16:10,130 to use that. 184 00:16:12,860 --> 00:16:14,980 Also, we had to do some testing on the bridge 185 00:16:14,980 --> 00:16:15,740 upon procedures. 186 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,420 These are drawn up on the legislative auditor 187 00:16:19,420 --> 00:16:21,580 and they're basically a best practices. 188 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:24,620 There were only two items that we noted. 189 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:26,280 There was one time sheet that didn't have 190 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:27,320 a supervisor approval. 191 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:35,120 and also there were some outstanding items on the bank account and so whatever was 192 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:39,920 maligning Katrina and they're going to be submitting those on plain property right now. 193 00:16:42,510 --> 00:16:47,830 So there are a couple other things. One thing I wanted to mention is that I'm sure 194 00:16:47,830 --> 00:16:51,750 the line you have told you all about the legislative auditors. There is training 195 00:16:51,750 --> 00:17:00,430 now that you have to go for a cure. All the edd officials and employees that will be decided 196 00:17:00,430 --> 00:17:05,770 by the mayor have to take this training and it's on the LLI website. You have to take 197 00:17:05,770 --> 00:17:08,490 it this year and every year it's an hour training. 198 00:17:10,660 --> 00:17:11,840 Does anyone have any questions? 199 00:17:16,490 --> 00:17:22,390 Well feel free, you know when you should go over it, feel free to call me. You know email me 200 00:17:22,390 --> 00:17:24,890 I'll be glad to answer and help with anything. 201 00:17:25,430 --> 00:17:30,290 I'm glad you could turn on that today and set different timelines for upcoming audits 202 00:17:30,290 --> 00:17:32,530 and discuss a lot of different areas. 203 00:17:33,470 --> 00:17:36,330 So, I feel like a very good shape for coming on. 204 00:17:36,870 --> 00:17:37,930 So, thank you. 205 00:17:38,230 --> 00:17:38,750 Thank you. 206 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:42,100 Thanks. 207 00:17:43,940 --> 00:17:48,940 I wanted to go over two things with you all that are pressing. 208 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,100 I don't file on our agenda. 209 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:55,540 that I just wanted to be sure that everybody's understanding 210 00:17:57,180 --> 00:18:04,020 to a few of y'all, but our building official retired. 211 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,800 This is an agreement between the city of Minden 212 00:18:09,340 --> 00:18:13,240 and the Houghton Fire Prevention Bureau of Houghton PSA, 213 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,460 our prevention bureau that does inspections for them. 214 00:18:17,460 --> 00:18:36,120 And I was researching how we handle the lawsuit on building the official and one of the options we have is either hire a third party company or we can partner with another municipality that has the inspection services that we need. 215 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:44,860 And Houghton actually has a pretty good system in place and they're willing to partner 216 00:18:44,860 --> 00:18:47,920 with us through what's called an intergovernmental agreement. 217 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:53,680 So tonight, the agenda number five is giving the permission to enter into an intergovernmental 218 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,040 agreement with Houghton. 219 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,800 This will give us time to figure out our long-term solutions. 220 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:05,980 It'll keep us compliant and make sure that business continues as usual in the city of 221 00:19:05,980 --> 00:19:08,160 me until we figure out a long-term plan. 222 00:19:09,220 --> 00:19:16,560 The other thing is kind of deciding in a bigger, a big thing also, Vicky has been working 223 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:17,780 on our handbook. 224 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:23,600 I've been telling you all for a few months that we're going to review our handbook and Vicky's 225 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:33,000 the chiefs in the council of coffee, of what is the proposed draft of the handbook of 226 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,440 it, her pasties out. 227 00:19:40,010 --> 00:19:46,150 Oh, thank you. A few things, and Vicky, if you wanted to just have 228 00:19:46,150 --> 00:19:54,070 a seat in it at the head, said no, you loved the spotlight. So Vicky had a group of people 229 00:19:54,070 --> 00:19:58,170 that I kind of delegated the job of rewriting a handbook. 230 00:19:58,790 --> 00:20:04,350 Vicky led the charge as her assistant, and that he was very helpful in this. 231 00:20:04,750 --> 00:20:08,970 Neil Irwin, our attorney, worked on this handbook in Zag. 232 00:20:09,590 --> 00:20:11,070 And I miss any of you guys. 233 00:20:12,150 --> 00:20:17,570 Melania of course, very helpful in a lot of the details of the handbook. 234 00:20:17,910 --> 00:20:20,930 Also we've seen it all cheaply, 235 00:20:20,930 --> 00:20:26,890 have recommended is great idea that we're going to send it off to Aaron green the 236 00:20:26,890 --> 00:20:31,370 civil service attorney can look it over and make sure that there's no 237 00:20:31,370 --> 00:20:35,710 glaring out these things that we missed on that from that point of view but 238 00:20:35,710 --> 00:20:40,830 obviously it's a little too thick to just go over but to give you a little 239 00:20:40,830 --> 00:20:46,790 summative and all that Vicky add to this if she wants to but basically it 240 00:20:46,790 --> 00:20:51,830 double the size of our current hand boot. And the reason for that is our current hand 241 00:20:51,830 --> 00:20:58,130 boot leaves a lot of things to be decided. It leaves a lot of gaps. And when we need 242 00:20:58,130 --> 00:21:02,790 it, we need it. You don't need the hand boot until you need it. Then you need it bad. And 243 00:21:02,790 --> 00:21:08,350 a lot of times I'll go to the one we're working under right now and look for guidance from 244 00:21:08,350 --> 00:21:13,490 how we have what procedure we have, what policy we have, a lot of times we just don't have. 245 00:21:14,150 --> 00:21:22,210 And another thing we noticed, when it gets really serious and you need a good legal policy 246 00:21:22,210 --> 00:21:26,130 in our own, we just didn't have it. I'll just leave it there. 247 00:21:26,350 --> 00:21:30,590 So that is supposed to be the city and there's not a good way to ruin an organization. 248 00:21:32,130 --> 00:21:35,750 So, if you all remember in the budget, we budgeted in HR. 249 00:21:35,750 --> 00:21:43,930 Our P-RU is a company's name that has a lot of pre-formed, hand-good guidance, but a lot 250 00:21:43,930 --> 00:21:48,750 of our things are so unique to me and they have to be really worked through heavily. 251 00:21:49,050 --> 00:21:51,610 So Vicky worked really well on it. 252 00:21:51,730 --> 00:21:58,590 We have new policies that we never had before, such as something, you know, 20 or even 10 253 00:21:58,590 --> 00:22:01,510 or five years ago, we didn't even worry about, which was AI. 254 00:22:02,030 --> 00:22:04,090 We didn't even AI, obviously, what was that? 255 00:22:04,090 --> 00:22:06,750 We have that now, different things like that. 256 00:22:06,890 --> 00:22:08,470 Vicki, do you have any thoughts on this? 257 00:22:08,530 --> 00:22:12,570 We added a lot of things, financial administration policies, 258 00:22:12,850 --> 00:22:14,730 based on an LLA, best practices, 259 00:22:15,310 --> 00:22:17,450 there's a whole chat on those that were added. 260 00:22:17,710 --> 00:22:20,150 We added a lot of records management 261 00:22:20,150 --> 00:22:24,290 and confidentiality compliance policies 262 00:22:24,290 --> 00:22:25,930 and management and post-section on that. 263 00:22:27,810 --> 00:22:29,990 Also tried to streamline a lot of things 264 00:22:29,990 --> 00:22:32,750 with our civil service because that tends to be 265 00:22:33,830 --> 00:22:41,730 So, we try to make sure everything, either outline exactly which ones to it, press dance or have a work together. 266 00:22:43,970 --> 00:22:48,230 We're going to sit out and have a workshop over us, or is it something like that? 267 00:22:48,230 --> 00:22:53,550 What I'd like for you all today is to just go over it between now and October. 268 00:22:53,930 --> 00:22:59,830 Ladies and gentlemen, any questions you can make with me or both or whoever we need to meet with. 269 00:23:00,970 --> 00:23:03,890 It's, I can tell you, it's a really solid hand booth. 270 00:23:04,450 --> 00:23:10,570 They're cheap phenomenal and never cheap a guy or today also and he likes the things 271 00:23:10,570 --> 00:23:11,450 that are pointed out. 272 00:23:12,330 --> 00:23:16,950 We can set up a meeting if we need to, but I think it's pretty solid. 273 00:23:17,970 --> 00:23:23,290 My first major reaction is just taking home and looking over, particularly in the parks 274 00:23:23,290 --> 00:23:27,030 there, very important, which is pretty much all of it. 275 00:23:28,030 --> 00:23:31,590 But if they had good reason before bed, then we'd go to the side. 276 00:23:32,810 --> 00:23:36,730 One thing's for sure is the one we have that we're currently running under. 277 00:23:36,830 --> 00:23:41,670 I use it all the time, I'll pull that thing out of the drawer, I have it marked up and 278 00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:42,490 tabbed off. 279 00:23:42,690 --> 00:23:47,270 So it's very important when you need it, and I do think it's time to do it. 280 00:23:47,570 --> 00:23:49,590 But we'd go with that a little more as we go. 281 00:23:49,690 --> 00:23:52,390 This is just a draft for y'all to review in this one. 282 00:23:54,130 --> 00:23:55,270 Any questions on it? 283 00:23:55,270 --> 00:24:01,790 It's so cool, I know you all know, and she can also see a PDF copy of it for you. 284 00:24:02,530 --> 00:24:02,870 All 285 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:05,180 right. 286 00:24:05,340 --> 00:24:05,800 Thank you, Vicki. 287 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:08,220 Appreciate all of y'all's hard work on this. 288 00:24:10,380 --> 00:24:10,820 Awesome. 289 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,460 I'm thinking that we have 290 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:15,800 John Bargdon. 291 00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:18,380 Oh, you're sitting back here. 292 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,040 You know, you're here every month. 293 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:22,700 And I thought, you know what? 294 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,360 I want to call on you and see if you have anything. 295 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:31,000 the good team leader has he seen us a good word from Austin in DC sir he's just 296 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,480 working hard if working hard for the people that's right we appreciate all 297 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:40,260 you know that it's always a pleasure to see you sir glad to be here all right next we 298 00:24:40,260 --> 00:24:45,700 have Chief Jerry McGatter to be the police reporting nothing nothing very 299 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:54,680 special just right along right now so that's that's about it okay chief Brian 300 00:24:54,680 --> 00:25:01,760 One of the time weeks, real quick, for the month of August, the Minimum Fire Department responded to one vehicle fire. 301 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:08,400 13 miscellaneous fires, five were grass fires, wood fires, 11 public service calls. 302 00:25:09,220 --> 00:25:14,080 One of those included the DOF team assistant on 10 service with recovery on that 20. 303 00:25:14,740 --> 00:25:22,300 One rescue call, three has not related calls, 10 false alarms, eight fire alarms, so for a total of 47 emergency calls. 304 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:37,500 We still have to open in spur firefighter operators going along with the grass fire number of calls for 305 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:39,600 urban ban preparation in the city still in effect. 306 00:25:40,660 --> 00:25:47,040 And last but not least, just a reminder, our P.I.L. evaluator for our party insurance. 307 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:53,460 the fire rate will be here on 14th of September and there's a public service 308 00:25:53,460 --> 00:25:59,060 announcement going out tomorrow morning. Unfortunately we need the citizens 309 00:25:59,060 --> 00:26:05,440 to bear with us. We have to flow test 22 fire hydrants in very series of the 310 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:11,740 city that the rating gentleman picked out and so we will start testing those 311 00:26:11,740 --> 00:26:15,740 tomorrow, that'll take two, maybe three days at most. And 312 00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:19,640 at the end of the whole time, the water crew will be flesh and 313 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,920 hodders to get this to the line as quick as we can. But we 314 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,600 don't have a choice. We don't pick the hydrants, they pick 315 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,360 them for us, and they're at random. So we're going to be 316 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:33,160 doing those all across the city starting tomorrow. Can we 317 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,840 post something like now? So start letting people know 318 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,060 But it's like, it's a kind of take place. 319 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,160 Yeah, we definitely like to have done that earlier today, 320 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,600 but we really need to give them a heads up notice 321 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,840 on this, it's possible. 322 00:26:48,460 --> 00:26:50,800 And we just got the email today this afternoon 323 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:52,780 from the rate in general. 324 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,400 Yes, they decided to do it, start tomorrow. 325 00:26:57,140 --> 00:26:59,620 But yes, we can get that out of school, if we can. 326 00:27:00,060 --> 00:27:03,640 And it will start in the morning after 8 o'clock, so. 327 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:12,100 So, yeah, you did a very good job explaining that, just so everybody called it, flow testing 328 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:18,400 means they go out there and they pop up in the cap on the fire hydrates and see how much 329 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,720 liquid flow through there. 330 00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:27,200 And that's cool and why it's important to everybody is it helps with your fire rating, which is 331 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:27,740 a good thing. 332 00:27:28,060 --> 00:27:33,420 It helps with your insurance cost where it can be problematic is when you go popping the 333 00:27:33,420 --> 00:27:39,960 the fire hydrant, it seems to stir everything up. So anything was just kind of chilling there in 334 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:45,720 the pipe. It's not going to be chilling there in the pipe anymore. So everybody needs to be prepared 335 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:51,440 that it's going to be some brown water and be dirty and it's probably going to last a month. 336 00:27:52,940 --> 00:27:59,440 They flush it hard, they open it wide to see how much it can be. Again, we don't know where 337 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:16,900 If you ask us, is it in your neighborhood, we don't know, it's rain, we don't know, we don't know, it's rain, we have, we're just, we just received this afternoon of the 22 high rates, we are going to open, but they're in all areas of the city, it's not like just one area. 338 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:23,800 You know, it's a really good, good grace on how much our stuff flows, they basically got to make everything dirty. 339 00:28:24,580 --> 00:28:27,700 So everybody needs to just get their mind dry. 340 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,240 It's going to be a dirty day. 341 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:31,600 Question's lost. 342 00:28:32,380 --> 00:28:32,520 Yes. 343 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,480 But we rough on the Council of the Mayor and Book of Works. 344 00:28:36,540 --> 00:28:37,060 Yeah. 345 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:38,420 Get ready for that. 346 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:39,940 All right. 347 00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:44,320 Next we have our city clerk, Ms. Mulaney Sanders. 348 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:46,740 I don't have much. 349 00:28:47,740 --> 00:28:49,920 Just where it all comes, a shop out there. 350 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,920 We did see a 12.13, 10, 8, 3, 6, and 7 sets. 351 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,540 That's what we related to electrical equipment sales 352 00:28:57,540 --> 00:28:58,380 and new construction. 353 00:28:59,660 --> 00:29:03,560 And so, which this month we're pretty good in set up on. 354 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,480 But by going on all this big projects last year, 355 00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:10,640 we saw a lot of equipment sales equipment. 356 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,960 And so, very this year, this month, it is very, very good. 357 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:22,360 And then just to add to what Ms. Genie said, we made a chair and met the nurse acting for roughly three hours 358 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:30,160 and so we've got a pretty good idea of everything that we need to do and it has been done or how to correct things. 359 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:37,940 And so we're going to start working on that tomorrow and we're going to need a little bit of cooperation from other department heads 360 00:29:37,940 --> 00:29:42,200 to get things rolled out, but we're going to get a lot of that cleaned up for next year or so. 361 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,220 I 362 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,260 think it's questions for the City Clerk. 363 00:29:53,980 --> 00:29:57,000 Council, the other thing you need to discuss for A. 364 00:30:00,780 --> 00:30:21,800 I know last week we, Republic had a few issues. The gentleman that was, that is our area supervisor was off. So, hopefully we got everybody picked up the wrong way for Monday. He said, if you're still having any issues, please feel free to reach out to me. 365 00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:32,600 I don't know why I'm taking care of that, just email, phone, text, however, if you can't 366 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:38,960 find my sub on my reach on my website, so likewise with the email, so definitely reach 367 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:39,560 out there. 368 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:48,920 We've had some issues, it's a growing issue, I'm there with the mayor and the chief and 369 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:56,420 and Jeep Deputy, last winter so and so animal strays are on the rise. 370 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:02,540 We spent some money with getting new cages, bringing them with the city. 371 00:31:03,140 --> 00:31:04,320 We were about out of those. 372 00:31:05,260 --> 00:31:14,260 I'm going to try to purchase another round of cages so that our animal control can try to help in that area. 373 00:31:14,260 --> 00:31:17,320 If you need anything in that area, life is a call me. 374 00:31:18,620 --> 00:31:26,740 So we have also asked the mayor and the chief or a person to come on the third person. 375 00:31:26,940 --> 00:31:29,160 We have two people in that department as of now. 376 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:36,400 But we need to desperately be the third person that will work Friday, Saturdays, and Sundays 377 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,600 when most people are at home and they're seeing these strays. 378 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:47,140 And so, I'm working with the mayor and pleased to try to find some innovative ways to catch 379 00:31:47,140 --> 00:31:56,020 these strange, because the tranquilizer guns that we have are not the best mode to catch 380 00:31:56,020 --> 00:32:01,660 them, you know, because you draw them, they run off, you know, it takes 10-15 minutes for 381 00:32:01,660 --> 00:32:02,420 this stuff to work. 382 00:32:02,660 --> 00:32:07,780 So, we're desperately looking into different measures of being able to try out the animals. 383 00:32:07,780 --> 00:32:13,900 One big thing that carry our lady over Hamilton control asks is that if we come 384 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:20,260 and set a trap in your yard, please don't feed the stray. That's the worst thing 385 00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:26,180 you can do to help us catch that animal. You know, we put food in the cage to 386 00:32:26,180 --> 00:32:30,900 travel, but if there's food outside, you'll never get that animal, whether it's 387 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:36,500 cat, whatever. So anyway, just please be mindful of that, help us out with that. So 388 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:38,760 so we try to get some of these trails off the street. 389 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,220 Carrie does an excellent job. 390 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,340 I think she had, I don't know, about 16 puppies or so. 391 00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:47,640 Someone around in there, my number may be off, 392 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,200 but she has done an excellent job 393 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,220 in green homing those animals with her. 394 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,740 You know, we had some cats and some other dogs, 395 00:32:55,880 --> 00:33:00,640 and she does a very good job in moving those animals so 396 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,060 that you're not youth and I. 397 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,600 So if I can help me in a way, 398 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:15,060 Please do not hesitate to reach out to me, cell phone, text, email, but something that we're trying to desperately get under control. 399 00:33:15,260 --> 00:33:24,600 I don't know that we'll solve the problem totally, but at least we can get it to a manageable number. 400 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,620 You know, so if there's any questions, how does it start to reach out? 401 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:30,860 Hi, anybody else? 402 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:32,780 I don't mind. 403 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:33,940 Thank you. 404 00:33:34,580 --> 00:33:36,760 Mr. Mill, I want to know. 405 00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:39,340 Now I'm going to get a lot of criticism when I'm with you. 406 00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:46,480 I've been coming here for a long time, and I want to show this kind of thing to you, 407 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:54,420 that everybody on this council, good or bad, if they have any criticism, 408 00:33:55,100 --> 00:34:04,800 in the criticism of this council that has been in place for four years to praise council. 409 00:34:05,020 --> 00:34:08,820 I think this is one of the best council I know. 410 00:34:09,700 --> 00:34:13,600 I've been coming from the press council about how many works I've been doing. 411 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,140 The mayor also had a committee to work out in the council. 412 00:34:17,720 --> 00:34:24,740 This is the best counselor they have helped to sit on your feet up until now. 413 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:31,240 And I just want to come and give our own work and the hard work. 414 00:34:31,380 --> 00:34:37,200 And I hope that everybody will be elected for the next four years. 415 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:41,900 And I thank you so much for giving me an entire screw up over here in the citizen. 416 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:49,460 I thank you for carrying this castle for the last 4 years, carrying it from the lowest 417 00:34:49,460 --> 00:34:52,180 state to a higher state. 418 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,680 I appreciate that we are running here ourselves now, man. 419 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:57,360 Well, thank you. 420 00:34:57,540 --> 00:34:58,160 Thank you. 421 00:34:58,720 --> 00:34:59,100 Thank you. 422 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:01,340 Well, I'm there to be going top there. 423 00:35:01,340 --> 00:35:02,000 It makes a joke.