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All right. Welcome, everyone. I'd like to call to order the town council regular regular meeting for Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 at 6.32 p.m.

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President Miske, did you call the role? Councilor Shinken, here. Councilor Gardner, Councilor Nellons.

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Present. Councilor Peterson, Councilor Hawford.

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right there. If I could have everybody stand for a moment of silence in the

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Pledge of Allegiance. I didn't hear it say that it's recorded.

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I

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pointed away from the line of the United States of America and do the

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Republic for which it stands one nation under God in the digital with liberty and

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justice for all.

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All right. Our first order of business is to take care of a

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public hearing for additional appropriations.

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So council

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Also held their first hearing on the ordinance for an additional appropriation at their last

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regular meeting.

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Tonight, you're being asked to hold the required public hearing.

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At later in the agenda, under old business, you'll be asked to vote on the actual ordinance

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and to

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vote on the actual ordinance, and it will go into effect immediately, assuming that

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it gets a positive vote.

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So, there are four funds that we need an additional appropriation for.

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First is the Lane Milage Direct Distribution Fund.

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This is a new fund that was created in the most recent General Assembly for some road

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funding dollars that we can get.

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After that is the TIFF Fund.

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This is $68,216.

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This is for work that was done in 2025 for the squad cars that did not get invoiced until

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bill 2026. Next is the opioid restricted fund. This is for $2,643 and this is to purchase

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some equipment that would be used by the police department in addressing opioid issues.

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And last is the self-funded liability fund. This is for a million dollars. This is to help

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pay for costs to property that is owned by the town that was damaged during the storm.

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So at this time we're asking you to open the public hearing for comment.

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So with that, the public hearing is open for this issue.

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Anybody like to speak?

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Going once, going twice, closing the public hearing?

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All right.

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I would actually invite Chief Hayduk, Mark Hayduk to update a little bit on where we are

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with the clean up and the recovery and everything happening in town.

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So at this point, we're about 90% through the town on the first to pick up, the first

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go through. We're about 60% done with the cutting of trees with bucket trucks. Now, that's

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not to say that there has been some that have been passed up, specialty situations, but we're

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We're about 60% done with that.

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To date, we're about 200,000 cubic yards of material picked up.

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Just for example, that 200 cubic yards would fill a football field about 100 foot deep.

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That's a lot of material.

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There's been some worries that people aren't getting their stuff picked up.

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It will be picked up.

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It takes time.

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As was stated right off the bat, this is not a sprint, this is a marathon.

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Same with trees getting cut.

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People are, you know, sending in emails which we'd like to see, but some of them are

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uptight about some hanging branches.

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They're all very important, all them branches hanging are very important.

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We're getting that sucked on in a timely fashion.

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We have to start somewhere and we have to end somewhere.

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That's just the nature of the game.

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other than that I think everything's moving forward rather quickly. I can also say

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there is no community around us who has moved more material than monster.

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That just shows the magnitude of what went on in our town. I think we're we're

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getting on the other side of things here pretty quick and I'm happy to report that.

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Thank you. I concur with that. That brings us to public comment.

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All public comment is limited to two minutes, for a person with a total of 20 minutes

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allotted for the public comment section.

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All speakers must sign the public speaker sign in form prior to speaking, please keep

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all comments civil, constructive and related to public policy issues after discretion council

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may allow public comment to extend past 20 minutes but is not required to do so.

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All rules for public comment are posted outside the main meeting room.

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So with that being said, if anybody would like to make a public comment, please step up to the podium, state your name, address, sign-in, sign-in form, and state your comment.

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Any comments?

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If you could speak into the microphone, speak into the microphone.

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say

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is what the test has done on the cardinal fiber not an attraction, so that's the last

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So you couldn't hear it over a beat or couldn't drive it, so once you're going to have the

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cardinal fiber, you're going to have to be able to send your power to the 8th also test

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it to the shelters at your home,

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you slow it off, you're

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going to be going on, you're

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going to have to double it.

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I'm going to jump back in for a second.

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There is something that I forgot in the tornado warning sirens and the lightning detections

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were all tested. All worked correctly. Actually, we have videotape and sound going off during

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the storm for all but one of the tornado sirens just because we had no one in that area, but

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they all went off. We have more than one tornado siren in town. It meets federal requirements

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actually exceeds by far federal requirements. So just to let everyone know that and just

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to remind her tornado sirens, they're actually outdoor warning sirens, they're made to

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be heard when you're outdoors, not when you're indoors, just so everyone's clear on that.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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It brings us to consent agenda.

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I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

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I'll second that motion.

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We have a motion and a second any discussion?

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No discussion, clerk, Thursday or miss could you call the vote?

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Councillor Sinken.

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Yes.

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Councilor Gardner, Councilor Nellins, Councilor Peterson, Councilor Hopper.

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Yes,

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that brings us to old business.

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One item in old business, it's the ordinance 2015 additional appropriations.

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This is the item that you had your public hearing on earlier this evening, so we're asking

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that you adopt the ordinance tonight.

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Mr. President, I would make a motion to approve the ordinance, approved ordinance 2015 as presented.

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I'll second.

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We have a motion in a second, any discussion?

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Councillor Schinken, Councillor Gardner, Councillor Nellins, Councillor Peterson, yes.

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Councillor Hufford, yes.

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That brings us to new business.

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This is a present before we get a new business.

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I'll make them make a motion that we remove item H from the agenda.

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I'll second.

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We have a motion and a second to remove an item H from the agenda.

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Any discussion?

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Dr. Hafer, I'm going to weigh in on this more of the concerns that I've heard from residents

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from time to time as a lack of transparency and I personally experienced that lack of transparency

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but I asked two and a half, so a time frame that I've been on the council.

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Transparency is told disclosure of information that includes the attorneys, the representatives,

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disclosing every criminal council, that includes staff disclosing to elected officials.

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We're the people's representatives, and being transparent to information is incredibly important.

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I will vote in favor of removing this tonight, but I believe that greater transparency could

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have helped us avoid having to do that.

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And I hope that the people in town hall will take this to heart and improve the transparency

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of information.

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I can share this with you.

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I have close relationships with elected officials

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in Highland, Dyer, Sherrville, and Griffith.

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Those communities don't have the types of problems

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that we seem to experience here.

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And I would urge that our members of Town Hall

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take that to heart.

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Thank you.

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Any other discussion?

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Councilor Pierson is talking about members

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of the Town Hall, I mean the town of Staff.

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I would like to make a public statement of the voice of support for our town hall staff and our town administration.

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They've been through an awful lot over the last two months and I think their efforts, their dedication and their commitment to public service in this town has been second to none.

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And I, I just appreciate all of the records and this town is strong because of the council

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there.

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Gardner, I echo in your sentence.

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Thank you.

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Any other discussion?

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Clerk Treasurer, Miss, could you call the vote?

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Councillor Schinken.

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Yes.

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Councillor Gardner.

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Yes.

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Councillor Nellins.

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Yes.

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Councillor Peterson.

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Yes.

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Councillor Hoffers. Yes.

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Councillor President, I have an item I'd like to make a motion on with respect to, do

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we have this as item number? I, is that correct? Yes.

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Yes. So the motion I'd like to make is I move

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to amend the agenda to add consideration of an increase in the financial authority for looks

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It's great to provide continued essential debris removal services to the town of Munster.

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We have a motion. Can you get a second?

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I'll second that motion, but is this, I'll second the motion.

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We have a motion in a second, any discussion?

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I'm sorry. Is this, Mr. Nell?

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What, you're mending that to allow them to continue to increase the financial authority?

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To what amount of money?

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The motion is to consider the item. It's just to add it for consideration as an item agenda.

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You're just voting right now to add this to the agenda. You're not voting to give additional funding.

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That will be an already on the agenda.

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It was not on the agenda that was presented to Council at Agenda Review.

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But it's on this agenda now that's...

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That's what your motion, if the motion is passed, it would add it to the agenda.

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And then it would be the last item of business that Council considers, whether they want

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to actually increase that authority.

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Because we never had it on here.

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So, what is the official, what is considered the official publishing scheme for agendas?

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Is it the agenda review, or is it the Friday before the Council meeting?

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I've always been under the understanding that the official publication date of the agenda was

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in Friday before. Could you get an opinion on that please?

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I believe that the agenda that was

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published on Friday did not include this item. The issue was that led to this was not known until

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yesterday. And that was going to be my question. I was saying what Mr. Donald was asking to put

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on the agenda is already on the agenda that's on the board right now.

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The documents were put out there so that they would be available for public to see.

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Thank you.

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Good.

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Council weigh in on that.

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The future.

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This is going to come up again.

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Let's get an official thing back.

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The actual public, I think under Robert's rules, the publication of the agenda is what locks

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it in place and procedurally we need to know that.

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All right.

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All right, so we have a motion in a second.

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No more discussion, click to raise your message.

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You call the vote.

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Councillor Schinken.

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Yes.

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Councillor Gardner.

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Yes.

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Councillor Nellins.

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Councillor Peterson.

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Brings us to the next item, which is the contract ratification of debris hauling monitoring and

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a public assistant firm.

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Under the purchasing policy, there are some contracts that can be awarded prior to council

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approval, and then we need to come to you after...

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There were some items that were done where council gave authority to the president to sign on things. This is staff coming back to council to formally ratify each of these items.

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On August 21st, the council president signed a contract with looks great for debris hauling at a amount not to exceed $1 million and debris tech for debris monitoring at a not to exceed amount of $255 million.

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On August 27th, the Acting Town Manager, Assistant Town Manager, Dan Reyes signed a contract

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with ER Assist, a public assistance firm, to help with grant management at a not-to-exceed

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amount of $50,000.

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On August 29th, the Acting Town Manager signed a Dendom No. 1 to the Looks Great Services

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contract, increasing the not-to-exceed amount by $100,000, $100,000 in accordance with Ordnance

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2019, and on August 30th, the Acting Town Manager signed a Dendom number 2 with looks

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great services, increasing the net to exceed amount by $100,000 in accordance with ordinance

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2019.

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Mr. President, I would make a motion to approve and ratify these kind of ex-creases that's

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executed by Council President Joe Hopper, and Acting Town Manager Dan Reyes is presented to

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the Council.

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I'll second.

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We have a motion in the second, any discussion?

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Clerk Treasurer, Ms. Keezy, call the vote.

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I do want clarification.

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However, time manager, are we still on target for the reimbursement of all these expenses

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for FEMA?

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Where do we fall on that, man?

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So at this point, we have not yet filed with FEMA.

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We aren't at that point yet.

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But one of the main reasons behind having the contract with debris tech and with ER Assist

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is they are monitoring every truckload, everything that happens there so that we have all the

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pieces in place so that when it is time to file with FEMA, we have all the proper documentation.

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Have they given you a projection on likely FEMA recovery amounts?

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No, I do not have that information yet.

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They express to you any concerns or difficulties in the documentation process.

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No.

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Councillor Schinken, Councillor Gardner.

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Yes.

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Councillor Nellins.

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Yes.

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Councillor Peterson.

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Yes.

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Next item is resolution number 2169, the in-dat signing authority.

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So the next several agenda items are all as part of the transition to the new town manager.

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This first one for in dot projects, in dot requires that someone be named by resolution

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as the official signing authority for any projects that happen with them.

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That has to be in place before they will issue a draft contract to be signed.

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The resolution that's presented to you tonight would name me as the town manager as the official

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signer for that.

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This is not authorizing any given contract. It's just telling in dot.

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Here's the person who can sign. Any contract that comes through will be presented to counsel

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prior to that signing. So you're asked to adopt this resolution on first reading tonight.

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I'll make that motion to adopt resolution 2169 as presented.

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I'll second that motion.

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We have a motion in a second.

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Any discussion?

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Clerk, charge your message.

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You call the vote?

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Councilor Shinken.

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Yes.

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Councilor Gardner.

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Yes.

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Councilor Nellins.

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Yes.

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Councilor Peterson.

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Councilor Hopper.

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Yes.

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Next item is resolution 2170, the update to retirement health savings program.

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The town has a retirement health savings program.

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This is something that is either a mandatory contribution on the part of the employer or

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a mandatory deduction from the employee.

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As the program is currently structured, it is only the employee contribution.

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The town at this point is not making any contributions.

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This resolution here would amend the plan that would allow, or it would require the town manager to be making contributions to that retirement health savings fund.

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President, I'll make a motion to adopt resolution 2170 as presented.

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I'll second that motion.

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We have a motion in a second, any discussion?

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Clerk Treasurer, a message you call the vote?

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Councilor Shinken. Yes. Councilor Gardner. Yes. Councilor Nellins. Yes. Councilor Peterson.

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Yes. Councilor Hopperth. Yes. The next item is ordinance 2020 amendment to celery ordinance.

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This is the first amendment to the celery ordinance. There are two things that we are seeking to

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have changed. The first is to bring it in to match the celery that is in the contract for the

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time manager. The second change is we want to change the job title from director of operations

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to director of public works. We feel it would be more in line with how other jobs are titled

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and it would be, it would just make it more clear what that particular role is. There's no change

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to duties or anything like that. It is strictly changing the title.

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For us, I would make a motion. We hear orders 2020 on first reading as presented and set second

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reading for the next regular schedule council meeting.

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I'll second.

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We have a motion in a second.

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Any discussion?

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A question would be, when does our new director of public works now start?

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September 15th.

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So, yes.

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14th.

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I'm sorry, next Monday.

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Next Monday.

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Very good.

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Thank you.

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Very good.

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Clerk Treasurer, Miss.

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Could you call the vote?

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Councillor Schinken.

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Yes.

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Councillor Gardner.

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Yes.

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Councillor Nellins.

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Yes.

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Councillor Peterson.

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Anderson, Councillor Hopper.

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Yes. Next item is Ordnance 2021, the Perf covered employees.

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So Perf is the Public Employees Retirement Fund.

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It's the pension fund that all regular civilian full-time employees are part of.

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In order to be a member of that fund, the job needs to be listed on an ordinance.

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We review this every few years.

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it's time for it to be reviewed and what's prompting it right now is it will

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allow for the pension contributions for the new town manager to continue to go

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into the pension fund. We have also cleaned it up for jobs that no longer, job titles

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we no longer have. I'll make that motion here ordinance 2021 on first reading and

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set second reading for the next regular meeting. I'll second that motion. We have

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We have a motion in a second, any discussion?

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Clerk Treasurer, Miss, could you call the vote?

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Councillor Sinken.

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Yes.

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Councillor Gardner.

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Yes.

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Councillor Nelland.

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Yes.

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Councillor Peterson.

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Yes.

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Councillor Hawford.

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Yes.

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Next item is the engagement letter, 2026, Geobond.

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At the July 6 meeting, Council improved an engagement letter with Barnes and Thornberg

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for the 2026 Geobond.

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Baker-Tilly has now presented an engagement letter to provide the financial planning services

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related with that.

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Their costs are going to build hourly at a not-to-exceed amount of $20,000 that will

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cover things like sizing the bond, determining our debt capacity, that type of thing.

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If the bond is ultimately, privately placed, there would be an additional fee of $40,000.

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right now we're going through an evaluation of what is the best way to market this particular bond.

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But the maximum exposure that the town would have would be $60,000 and those costs would come from the proceeds of the bond itself.

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Mr. President, I make a motion to approve the letter of engagement with Baker Tilly or issuance of the 2026-GO bond.

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I'll second.

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We have a motion and a second, any discussion?

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Clerk Treasurer, Ms. Could you call the vote?

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Councillor Schinken.

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Yes.

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Councillor Gardner.

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Yes.

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Councillor Nellins.

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Yes.

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Councillor Peterson.

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Councillor Hawford.

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Yes.

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The next item is the purchase of two altitude belts.

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The two valves are in the water tanks.

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The ones that are elevated and what it does, it keeps the tank water levels at a certain level

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and also has access to back slow belt.

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I'll make that motion by motion and a roll call vote approve the purchase of two out to two vows from Austin Electric for 71,741 dollars each for a total price of 143,482 dollars and no sense.

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We have a motion and a second, any discussion?

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Clerk Treasurer, Miss, could you call the vote?

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Councillor Schinken.

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Yes.

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Councillor Gardner.

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Yes.

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Councillor Nellons.

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Yes.

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Councillor Peterson.

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Councillor Hauffer.

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Yes.

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And our last item is the hauling contract, a dendum number four.

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Earlier this evening, you confirmed the contract, the original contract, with looks great debris haulers.

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That contract was issued under the emergency contracting laws, and we are currently going through the process to get bids for a permanent contract.

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The not-to-excite amount that is currently in place is $4 million.

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million dollars. There is about two weeks between now and when we anticipate being able

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to award the longer term contract, we believe in conversation with looks great that we

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will exceed that amount based on how much work is being done every day. The estimate

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that we have been given is that $6.5 million is where the not-to- exceed amount should

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be set, and that that would carry us until we have the permanent, whatever that permanent

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long-term contract would be. And again, we're going through that bidding process, those

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bids are due September 17th. And so we're asking for council to increase the not to exceed

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amount so that this work can continue.

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I'll make that motion by motion and roll call vote approve it, addendum number four,

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with looks great service.

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I'll second.

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We have a motion in a second.

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Any discussion?

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Mr. President, again, to reiterate, we have expectations that you will receive them reimbursons

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for most of all of this, correct?

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Yes, we do.

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I was going to say that's also why we have that additional service that's tracking everything and yes, marking it and yes, that is to be sure that we have the that we are properly tracking how much FEMA is going to want to know exactly how much did we take out and the the hauling there's the hauling and then there's the monitoring and the monitoring is doing that part and then that will help us to have a strong application to FEMA so that we can go after the maximum amount of

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that we would be eligible for.

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Thank you.

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I would just, you know,

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like to assure everybody that from the beginning,

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in all the processes of these emergency negotiations

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that were occurring with the companies that we hired,

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making sure that we had all the help that we could get

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in every facet from picking up debris,

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to measuring debris, to helping secure this grant money

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or this FEMA money,

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that we were doing everything the way it should be.

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We're getting phone calls for, you know, people wanting to get firewood or wanting to pick piles and, you know, and we were advised to absolutely not leave, you know, leave the debris for the debris company because that is getting measured and that's going to, you know, be put towards what we're going to be getting reimbursed. So it's like we are, we are dotting all the eyes. We are crossing all the T's as far as we know we've got expert advice, you know, helping us through all this so we're not missing this.

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But, you know, I know it's something that's still kind of hanging out there, but we're

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doing everything we can to make sure that we're going to get to that percentage of reimbursement

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that we're desiring, okay?

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So just everybody is on the same page with that.

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And also I would like to reiterate to our staff, the experience staff that we have, when

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And this happened.

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There was immediate calls to neighboring communities

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for contingency help working together with other towns.

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We have been through the theme of process

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in other situations before,

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they knew right off the bat what need to be documented,

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how things had to move forward.

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And as Chief Hibiki said,

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this is a marathon, this is not a sprint.

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And so again, I just wanna thank our staff

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to really get a top of things and being a little bit shorthanded during this whole process

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would still come through with white colors. Thank you very much.

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Yeah. And just, you know, another thing that as we've gone through this,

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and, you know, again, this is something that we've never seen before. It was a ginormous storm.

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And, you know, our EOC was put together with their meetings that, you know, we're hitting,

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you know, the ground running, making sure everybody was safe, making sure that everything was

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cleaned up making sure all these things were handled in that you know I know there was some

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inquiries about you know does our town have a disaster plan and the town has a disaster plan

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because we had that disaster in 2008 and that you know in 2009 we've implemented the disaster

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plan it was it was updated in 2019 it was updated in 2022 but it's also a plan to keep the town safe

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and it's literally it's not for public consumption but just to to let you all know that you know there

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There is a disaster plan and I will assure you that having gone through this, we have done

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a remarkable job, but there's also a list that that plan will improve even better.

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God forbid if we have another disaster or some other crazy thing happened in our town.

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So I just wanted to state something on that.

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President, but I get a

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Commitment from you that members of the council will be allowed to see that disaster plan. I'd like to see it.

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I gotta. I am aware of a couple of years ago. Actually, all counselors were asked to participate in an online video and from the emergency management company. I'm not sure I believe that's probably the biggest hospital heart. Yeah. So I don't.

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in past year even council members were asked to watch and

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observe some of that stuff. So even if that's something that's a value to the rest of the council might be a value.

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I mean, but as I reiterate is not for public consumption and if the council would like to see it, the council could see it, but it's not for public consumption.

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Okay. So that brings us to the reports. That's fine. That brings us to reports and announcements.

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Is we vote on it? I'm sorry. I'm voting on it. Clerk Treasurer Miss, could you call the vote?

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Councillor Schinken. Yes. Councillor Gardner. Yes. Councillor Nellins. Yes.

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Councillor Peterson. Yes. Councillor Hawthorth. Yes.

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Now that brings us to reports and announcements.

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Any reports and announcements? I was just going to be the calendar lady and let

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But remind everybody that our next regular scheduled council meeting is Monday September 21st.

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We have a busy week next week with the Board of Safety on the 15th, the Heart Board on

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the 15th, agenda review on the 16th.

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And that's what we have in the next week or so.

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Very good.

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You know what I asked.

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Monster High School chicken barbecue speech and debate tickets are for sale.

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You could either go to the Monster High School or go look it up on Facebook

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It's a it's a great event and hope to see you all there

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If it's on the September 18 next Friday for homecoming

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Anything else? I

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Would like to say one thing is that I don't know if you noticed but we we got to see your beautiful faces today

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And we are currently I had the opportunity to sit in the audience yesterday and I was not real

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pleased with the blockage of the monitors.

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So we brought them down today, but we are in the process.

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I think tomorrow the team is meeting to kind of figure out a program

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to where we can tilt them down so that we can see each other.

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So we know what's going on and who each other is

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and all that other good stuff.

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So that's a good thing.

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So anyway, so that concludes our meeting.

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A call for adjournment.

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Still moved.

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moved. Second. We have most of the second. All in favor say aye. Aye.

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Any opposed, same sign? Meeting adjourned.

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Counselors, there is a resolution that's being passed down the line that all five of you

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are asked to sign. It is from a prior meeting. And it's right now with in front of Council

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President Hoffers, but if before you leave, if you would, I'll sign three copies.

472
00:33:07,740 --> 00:33:18,840
Okay, we'll go ahead and start our redevelopment commission regular meeting for Wednesday September 9th, 2026, at 7.05 p.m.

473
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,140
Clerk chose your miscarriage, you call the role.

474
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,240
Commissioner Shinken.

475
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:23,660
Commissioner Gardner.

476
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:25,040
Present.

477
00:33:25,460 --> 00:33:26,420
Commissioner Nellens.

478
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:27,080
Present.

479
00:33:27,420 --> 00:33:28,860
Commissioner Peterson.

480
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:29,680
Present.

481
00:33:30,140 --> 00:33:31,440
Commissioner Haufferth.

482
00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:31,640
Here.

483
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,940
And school board liaison, Mr. John Castro.

484
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:35,800
I am present.

485
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,040
No. You're blocking. You're blocking.

486
00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:42,460
Trust me, he's up here.

487
00:33:43,940 --> 00:33:45,300
I can see you.

488
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:46,560
We can see you.

489
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,720
So that brings us to public comment.

490
00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:54,840
All public comment is limited to two minutes per person with a total of 20 minutes

491
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,400
allotted for public comment section.

492
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,380
All speakers must sign the public speaker, sign in for prior to speaking.

493
00:34:00,620 --> 00:34:05,180
Please keep all public comments, civil, constructive and related to public policy issues.

494
00:34:05,180 --> 00:34:10,480
after discretion the commission made allow public comment to extend past 20

495
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,820
minutes but is not required to do so all rules for public comment are posted

496
00:34:14,820 --> 00:34:18,840
outside the main meeting room so with that anybody like to make a public

497
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:25,840
comment for the redevelopment going once going twice closing public comment

498
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,980
brings us to consent agenda I'll make that motion approved to consent agenda

499
00:34:29,980 --> 00:34:33,300
I'll second that motion we have a motion in a second any discussion

500
00:34:34,060 --> 00:34:35,900
for Treasurer Miskin, do you call the vote?

501
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,240
Commissioner Sinken, Commissioner Gardner, Commissioner Nellins, Commissioner Peterson,

502
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,300
Commissioner Haufferth.

503
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:51,000
Yes, there's no old business, no new business, any reports or announcements, no reports

504
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,560
or announcements, call for adjournment.

505
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:54,520
I'll make that motion.

506
00:34:57,030 --> 00:34:57,910
All in favor say aye.

507
00:34:58,350 --> 00:34:58,630
Aye.

508
00:34:58,770 --> 00:34:59,650
Any opposed, same sign?

509
00:34:59,650 --> 00:34:59,750
Bye.

510
00:35:00,530 --> 00:35:01,110
Bye.