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occasions
[0:10] all right ladies so I'm going to get
this thing started
[0:13] the town board meeting for September 5th
2023 call into order
[0:18] um welcome everybody
and
[0:21] I was Mr Kenny and Christian okay
[0:27] all right
um
[0:46] sound minds and make clear decisions
really that just stare at this town in
[0:50] the path you'd have it to go I want to
describe for every person here for their
[0:53] health and welcome to other families
will just keep them safe and help us
[0:57] just to do your will in Jesus name
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[1:27] all right can I get somebody to give me
a motion for this
[1:30] I'll make the Larson would approved the
maintenance for all of us
[1:41] does anybody have any additions or
changes to this evenings
[1:45] agenda
[1:48] at this time Mr Mayor I'll make a motion
here for the agenda has his emotion of
[1:53] the city second all those in favor uh
okay
[1:59] yeah
okay the
[2:03] just read this out just
please yes okay
[2:10] um this is a proclamation for North
Carolina Daughters of the American
[2:12] Revolution and it does not say what does
that last name
[2:21] [Music]
um
[2:26] Diane long score is the representative
for the daughter North Carolina daughter
[2:30] American Revolution
and uh Constitution week that apparently
[2:35] is coming up so I'm going to be doing a
proclamation
[2:39] so I'll try to get through this real
quick whereas it is privilege and Duty
[2:42] that American people commemorate the 200
31st anniversary of drafting the
[2:47] Constitution United States of America
with the appropriate ceremonies and
[2:50] activities
and whereas Public Law 915 guarantees
[2:56] the issuing the proclamation of each
year by the president United States
[3:00] of America designating September 17th
through the 23rd is Constitution week
[3:05] now therefore Eric Roberts the mayor of
town Dillon do here by Brooklyn of the
[3:09] week September 17th through the 23rd is
Constitution week
[3:13] and our adult citizen studies the
Constitution reflect on on the privilege
[3:17] of being an American with all the rights
responsibility and privilege it involves
[3:21] we need to sign this in the year of Our
Lord just because I
[3:27] was pretty neat do they even teach
constitutions going more than anybody no
[3:31] they don't how does that happen
[3:35] they really don't teach constitutional
schools no they don't teach cursive
[3:38] anymore either
that's fascinating yep
[3:42] all right
I'll take care of this
[3:48] of you
[3:51] yeah
[4:00] okay
um
[4:02] in Focus bill can you get one so yeah
so
[4:10] several things have gone on in the
background and some several other things
[4:14] are going to be going on here in the
very near future
[4:19] I've had a couple of conversations with
in Focus
[4:22] we've got a pretty aggressive calendar
I'll go ahead and show it to you but
[4:27] it's
it's a little uh
[4:30] hard to understand
the most important thing right now is
[4:34] that we get a planning permission
planning board whatever you want to call
[4:38] it set up my statute that's a minimum of
five Max of right now maximum seven we
[4:45] don't have an Etc
to this spot
[4:50] so that's where we're at right now
so I emailed you a couple times I think
[4:54] once today a reminder
but I really need to get five people set
[4:59] up the MP5 people not own the board
correct yeah the board cannot because
[5:03] they recommend to you right so you
cannot be you can be more adjustable you
[5:07] can't be thankful
um
[5:40] number one on this board yeah I'll
totally join this board so we need four
[5:45] more I think Miss Rose said she would
join us all you have to there's the only
[5:50] requirements you live in Texas
that's the only requirement there's no
[5:54] other there's no legal requirement other
than that what if you live life
[5:59] in your sleep
but your property is in town if you own
[6:04] property downtown technically your
residence must be in town so if the
[6:08] house is outside of town to the
properties in and out we can make an
[6:11] exception of it
serve that side of town
[6:17] I'll find four more
oh it works
[6:22] you
yes
[6:25] two
Wolverine
[6:28] so there's two that's the only three
more
[6:31] people
Chris like as well oh yeah
[6:36] what about um
did Chris tell you yeah yeah
[6:40] okay okay he was gonna get back to me so
I wasn't sure
[6:44] what about Sierra uh
[6:48] we're here
she's young
[6:55] I'll call her this video
[7:00] before I tried really hard to get Josh
to take the time I'm not sure if he's
[7:03] good yeah
[7:07] I really need to have that information
by tomorrow because I've got to get
[7:11] those people we're gonna start getting
them lined up
[7:15] and understanding what is is going to
happen okay so
[7:21] um you should have some other papers
just so you can see what's going on
[7:26] there's uh
the packet looks like this at the
[7:31] beginning
[7:33] okay
so the first set of pages is a meeting
[7:40] schedule
[7:43] okay
it goes from there
[7:46] to a ordinance
[7:51] which will not
so I need to actually look at that
[7:54] ordinance
it should have been sent to you
[7:59] this morning this morning yeah
[8:05] okay
so it'd be great if you could approve
[8:09] that
[8:21] so the final thing is I'll bring you
next month we don't have
[8:26] rules and procedures for boards and how
people come on boards and golf course so
[8:30] I'll drive something and give that to
you next time okay that's just not
[8:33] required for tonight but just wanted to
let you know the
[8:39] so the sooner I
get confirmation from these people and
[8:43] just having contact me or McKenzie uh
we'll start we'll just start blasting
[8:49] the real first meeting for the planning
board is scheduled for the first week of
[8:53] October
[9:00] and in focus should be here for that
meeting
[9:11] okay
[9:17] and so just to kind of give you so
what's going to happen is the info is
[9:21] going to start coming into town talking
to businesses talking to Residents
[9:25] talking to you talking to the planning
board
[9:28] and so everything they do when they're
getting ready they're going to come to
[9:33] you talk about stuff that's going on
they're going to bring it to the
[9:37] planning board
and you guys are invited you do not make
[9:41] decisions at planning boards so all of
you can come we're going to put it on
[9:46] the agenda that you'll be there won't be
a quorum because there's no decision
[9:49] making
but you are all invited
[9:53] participated citizens yeah so I was just
expect you to be there and watch what's
[9:57] going on so you can understand the back
and forth that's going on because we're
[10:00] going to give you synopsis The Following
month
[10:03] if you want to know the Navy green
detail it's really good for you to be
[10:07] there especially for this first year in
this cycle
[10:11] once we get through this whole year of
in Focus talking about an in Focus
[10:17] presenting elements of the plant the
planning for carrying them refining them
[10:22] getting them back to you for approval
then we'll start talking about zoning
[10:27] workloads so that but that's down the
road if at least 12 months down the road
[10:31] so
the planning process or the
[10:35] comprehensive plan which is required
stars now
[10:38] okay as soon as I get five numbers okay
confirm okay that's it thank you
[10:55] a discussion process we've already done
three and four two and three
[11:02] you got any focus of two discuss time
processes three yes that's all that's
[11:08] together the InFocus is just letting you
know we've I've had a couple of meetings
[11:13] AIA resolution
so you should have a copy of that
[11:21] this is just paperwork hiding up
paperwork the contractor has submitted
[11:27] their first invoice to the state
the state has received it they haven't
[11:31] approved it yet
but
[11:35] there's no money out of our pocket this
is just we're going to process paperwork
[11:39] so
this resolution is just from the
[11:42] resolutions we needed to get signed
should have been closer to the beginning
[11:47] of the project but remind me what AI was
the asset inventory assessment so that's
[11:52] that 150 000 for the water that's 150
000 for the sewer they've gone done
[11:56] smoke tests they counted all the meters
located on
[12:00] they're adjusting all of our GIS layers
that work in the top you get all of that
[12:04] they're going to start
real soon they're finishing up on the
[12:09] inventory they're going to start doing a
Capital Improvements plan that's what we
[12:13] really need out of it but it's a Capital
Improvements plan but we're still three
[12:16] months down the road before we get a
final place
[12:21] John's not available
[12:41] question is if it doesn't have anything
in it email me and I'll make sure to
[12:46] make some adjustments but I'll have to
talk about it next month for adoption
[12:51] okay we're going back to the news to
make this resolution for you yes
[12:55] yeah we just need you guys to say yes to
it and then the mayor can sign up
[13:03] okay
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[13:08] she doesn't have enough batteries wait a
minute that's fine let's talk about this
[13:14] shoot
[13:18] thank you
yeah we don't need to perform but it's
[13:21] crazy for history so
[13:30] we're good
okay uh can I get a motion to approve
[13:35] the Cardinals
[13:41] um but we're doing it on the table this
next month so we can actually get a
[13:44] chance to look at it they come up with
the policies I just want by bringing it
[13:47] to you I want you to look at it next
month
[13:52] no that's the resolution for the AIA
yeah I get a motion to approve the AIA
[13:58] resolution
no motion
[14:03] all in favor
[14:16] so we're going to table this until next
time
[14:21] everybody
give you guys a chance to look at it
[14:24] it'll be on your agenda for Action seems
like a whole lot of word for we don't
[14:28] care about your safety your health just
be here
[14:31] I had to go through state law and state
law is really funky and then federal law
[14:37] jumps into and this even works
so there's really no allowance in the
[14:42] federal laws or anything from the
weather proposing a town hall
[14:46] so you have to say you have to say if we
closed Town Hall we pay the employees
[14:52] and we don't pay the employees and
that's what governs
[14:55] that's kind of the decision
yeah and so that so I'm really really
[15:00] more concerned about the treasure
foreclosure than anything else and I
[15:04] know Christy was talking about using or
we traditionally use the counties
[15:09] uh tradition if they close we close kind
of thing so
[15:15] and of course you'll see in there it
exempts certain employees the police
[15:18] department the Public Works employees
who plow the road so they're considered
[15:22] essential personnel so they're they're
not going to be covered under this other
[15:27] than they're described as a central
personnel
[15:33] for the other on paying
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[15:36] a lot of property salary is completed
yeah hourly is the issue salary all
[15:43] literally all I have to do is show up
four hours a week and you'd have to pay
[15:46] for the entire week that's a federal
office I didn't even know that uh
[15:52] uh that is great yes
the hourly employees is that's where
[15:58] there's ambiguity and
you can make that decision if we close
[16:04] Town Hall I would say anything but
[16:10] no there's no reason at all that's what
the federal government uh says unless
[16:15] you say otherwise they give you the
leeway to pay salary uh
[16:20] or the state also does the same thing
they make you take leave or
[16:25] yeah
and then there was in there a provision
[16:29] to allow the employee as they feel
unsafe
[16:32] there's a provision that keeps them
protected if they choose not to come in
[16:37] but they would take vacation or sick
tough to do that
[16:46] administrative job description yeah so
you asked me to come back actually back
[16:51] a couple times the last time was at
Canada's Forum uh and I thought well I
[16:56] better get it done so I took my job
description and I added in a provision
[17:04] currently serve as a liaison between the
board and Personnel act as Director of
[17:09] Human Resources
and hires
[17:12] with the approval of the select board
which is what you used to be called
[17:19] so I've changed it to read hired and
fire all staff except the police chief
[17:25] and the Public Works Public Utilities
manager
[17:30] so and then I would always update you on
what goes on with that regard it
[17:35] wouldn't be in a vacuum
[17:38] needs to be broader than that
there's a Litany of things that you
[17:43] should just be managing and doing rather
than having to send out emails
[17:49] well I mean my JavaScript is pretty
broad beyond that
[17:54] if I have a big dollar and you take an
item I'm going to bring it to you just
[17:58] because you know what's going on and get
ready about twenty thousand dollars or
[18:02] something you know I just even though
it's in the budget I want you to know
[18:05] what's going on but hiring firing
Personnel is not one of those items like
[18:09] you have to do it yourself does anybody
have any questions if you have any
[18:12] questions you understand what you're
talking about I think
[18:18] all right
yeah
[18:24] so I don't know
everybody got it so you'll see I made a
[18:30] couple of teenagers mostly stylistic you
were called select
[18:34] board I changed that and governing board
[18:40] on my promotion with accept this I have
a motion to have a second thank you
[18:52] town taxes
gotta raise it
[19:00] okay
so I'm just going to throw this at you
[19:04] again I don't really remember how it got
on back on the agenda I think it was
[19:08] through discussions but
prior to my getting here I've been here
[19:15] wow I know
it's my first meeting last year
[19:19] so uh so proud of my getting here you
guys dropped the taxes like tremendously
[19:31] at the same time the economy tanked it's
not doing well right now we're at 5.8
[19:39] inflation
so that takes a bite out of any dollar
[19:43] that we spend it requires more dollars
than was previously said uh we're having
[19:50] supply chain issues so costs are going
up so
[19:53] money is harder to combine
and I'm just bringing it back up to you
[19:59] because it's real challenging to get a
budget balance
[20:03] and be able to do just the essential
thing
[20:07] you'll notice this budget has very few
things in it kind of had a police car in
[20:12] it that's pretty much it I did put in
some money for Town Hall we're getting
[20:17] ready to drop 13 Grand to fix the front
door
[20:21] and fixing Ada issue on the front door
so
[20:26] those are just things that you know
you're gonna have to
[20:29] to be cognizant of I'm just recommending
I recommend of course I recommend
[20:34] balanced budget so I recommend we raise
it as the next opportunity
[20:38] and I don't say go back up 0.52 but can
we come to a middle ground in there
[20:44] somewhere
otherwise I'm afraid we're just gonna
[20:48] have to really really can you showed me
those numbers uh last month I think it
[20:53] was
on how much of a beating that change
[20:57] caused yeah and then with
whatever they call it whatever how bad
[21:04] it's gone exponentially so yeah
essentially
[21:09] if we left the tax where it was
we would have balanced the budget but we
[21:16] probably wouldn't have bought
side
[21:26] they're just in deplorable conditions
and it's lack of maintenance
[21:31] we've got that large backhoe we're
getting ready to actually trade it for
[21:36] an excavator it'll be an even trade
across so whatever we owe
[21:41] we'll get it we'll work with the bank to
get that refinance appropriately but
[21:46] that'll give us a backho or an excavator
which will be a lot more useful to us
[21:51] get a lot more efficient on the fuel
that we use
[21:54] we'll go get better use out of it
but we're still looking at replacing at
[21:59] least three more vehicles
um and that's in the short term and
[22:04] short term for me is three to five years
so what's the mechanism raise the tax
[22:08] backups or certain time frame you're
supposed to do that well you really have
[22:11] to rate you can only raise taxes at tax
time so everybody's got their tax bill
[22:15] you can't raise it you can raise their
tax now but it won't be affected until
[22:18] next year
okay
[22:23] yeah you do it for January what you
don't do some remaining and then January
[22:27] 1 it takes and then we send out tax
bills
[22:53] it really wasn't quite that bad it was
you could see the things moving in that
[22:57] direction but it really took off by the
time you would have adopted a tax change
[23:01] right after that it just skyrocketed uh
and and but I mean you could see it
[23:07] happening
yeah
[23:10] so it was just
it was too much in my opinion just
[23:15] looking at the budget how numbers work
and how how much we spend and how we
[23:19] spend it it was a lot to hear on
my recommendations that we seriously
[23:24] consider raising back up at least
halfway it's accordingly yeah exactly
[23:34] somewhere in there
[23:38] because I'm afraid if we don't do that
we're going to get into a problem where
[23:42] we're going to be up at 0.55 or 0.56 the
following year and that's really going
[23:47] to be a shot I think right now we can
get up to 0.4849
[23:51] then we're
it'll be a little bit of a shock but
[23:56] it's we'll be able to sustain that for a
longer period of time
[24:00] we're also doing things online to make
it we're more efficient
[24:04] so we're not spending money the way we
used to spend it the phone system for
[24:08] example you know cut out a bunch of
extends for us we're looking at
[24:13] replacing Vehicles we're replacing the
backhoe with the excavator was going to
[24:18] save us much money on fuel
much money on insurance so we're looking
[24:23] at different things to try to save money
on our end to help balance it out
[24:29] I'm doing some rough figuring so like I
do this every time
[24:34] so if someone only has a hundred
thousand dollars worth of property if
[24:37] they taxes on it's gonna upload sixty
dollars for them to go
[24:42] I mean on the average
[24:53] there's another big ball in one of them
after taxes
[25:02] and there's money you know we're sitting
over here and we're boating
[25:08] we're he's talking one hand about saving
money and then we're voting to send
[25:12] Vehicles home all the way out of County
of police officers so I mean and I knew
[25:16] this was coming but that's just my
opinion
[25:19] I just don't see the I think we can
figure out other ways
[25:25] I would be the greatest president before
a month
[25:39] you need to make a change in December
[25:47] provide you whatever information you
need to help make your decision just let
[25:51] me know
all right event
[26:01] is this a big Trek events
I think we were going to do a special
[26:07] meeting about events yeah oh and that
was decided event
[26:12] and we and I think Bill or I don't know
who but somebody decided to just do it
[26:16] tonight okay so do you remember Christy
was here do you remember what it was
[26:20] about
[26:22] it was it was looking at coordination
because you Christy are handling the
[26:29] majority of the events but the mayor for
example is trying to add things in here
[26:33] and there and we're just trying to find
a mechanism to help coordinate that
[26:38] stuff so that you know you don't have
the parachutists and nobody knows about
[26:45] it kind of thing so that that this time
period was just the ability to talk
[26:51] about that when did you guys meet for
your record guess like for your
[26:54] Christmas dinner parade and stuff like
that do you all have meetings on that
[26:58] honestly
[27:02] honestly it was like because most of
them have been like something that have
[27:06] started and it's like you're having it
happen over time so it just almost it
[27:10] happened it was awful
thank you yeah cool okay well let's uh
[27:15] let's let's always try and
maybe work out of time and we can sit
[27:20] down and say you know for instance if
we're doing skydivers again next year
[27:24] we've got to send them a you know
a deposit check and we're going to do
[27:28] fireworks Jamie wanted to do which I
agree with and I think everybody agreed
[27:32] with it
his name was it voted on on the fishing
[27:35] tournament never was but we know okay
well I think that we should add the
[27:39] fishing tournament back in we've got a
kind of a quagmire with this next next
[27:43] Fourth of July because I think it comes
on like Thursday yeah it's really weird
[27:48] so we really got to figure that out yeah
I was just on the Saturday closest
[27:53] I guess people more opportunities
yeah I'm perfectly fine
[27:58] the next issue is that this area is
actually in June
[28:02] well that's right now
[28:07] it's not fun to go in retrospect or I
can't drink that much alcohol
[28:18] do you guys care if I go ahead and talk
to Eric he's already called me once uh
[28:23] Jacob
[28:44] even though we told them we didn't
really have a we didn't have a good plan
[28:49] on our end to let information get out
and I don't understand why we don't like
[28:55] possibly do a you know a spring summer
billboard like over in the Banner Elk
[29:00] area with everything that we're doing
all the festival we're doing Norman
[29:04] needs to do that somebody used to do it
for like Johnson County down there yeah
[29:11] I think you were with me talking a bunch
of veterans about the skydivers coming
[29:15] they don't have a clue when they're
living here
[29:18] so
yeah a lot of this time around let's
[29:21] work them out
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[29:23] on that note who does the public
relations who does the marketing who
[29:27] does the pub like all of the social
media because I mean like the website
[29:31] needs to be updated updated for Newland
things need to be put out there the
[29:35] Newland has going on just like you're
saying I mean yeah we're we're
[29:40] when I first came in I was a hawk about
that trying to get all that you know
[29:44] worked out Facebook trying to get
Instagram trying to get everybody lined
[29:48] up we hired somebody to do the
the website website and then we ran him
[29:53] off because we hired a town clerk that
had computer experience but then we
[29:57] quickly realized that we were dumping
too much stuff onto her
[30:01] and then she dips out of the town
Facebook page we recently found out that
[30:05] when she left she left she's in control
of that because it's married to her
[30:09] personal page that's why you don't see
anything but sounding new look she
[30:12] worked out of that apartment
so now we're trying to go through those
[30:15] hooks and trying to get hurt either
because she's not compliable
[30:18] uh yeah I'm sure she well I mean I would
just try to reach out to her then okay
[30:23] yeah I mean that's that's a serious
problem because I mean vaynerd
[30:27] Blowing Rock any any towns that have a
tourism industry done through here their
[30:33] stuff is updated you know at least every
three months yeah yeah I mean oursis
[30:37] hasn't been updated in almost a year I
just looked at it the other day and I'm
[30:40] very disappointed I talked to Spectrum
news recently because you know Blowing
[30:43] Rocks always got all their stuff on
Spectrum news you know have that little
[30:46] like a minute rolls through what's going
on ash what's going on blowing up and
[30:51] you know it's actually free for us to
put that put what we're going on with us
[30:55] you know even food truck Thursday put
that on there um yeah I spoke the news
[31:00] I'll give you their information but um
but yeah that's something that you know
[31:05] that yes it's you know it's hurting our
town it's killing we're dying already we
[31:10] don't need a diamond further yeah
then coming back to life but that's my
[31:14] opinion I agree thank you James no no I
definitely see a lot of changes I've had
[31:20] a lot of people say to me that they see
a lot of positive changes there's still
[31:23] a lot to do because it was we we've had
over this last year the the events the
[31:29] things that we've done the flags that
sort of thing that we've got have just
[31:33] completely changed completely changed
the way people look at newly yeah
[31:38] so we're we're moving that down the road
and that's one of those things
[31:43] up for Labor Day
[31:50] I mean no direction to do it
traditional who else did it I don't know
[32:02] I mean y'all tell me I I always thought
you just worked better today
[32:06] [Music]
[32:16] yeah yeah Labor Day I mean no I've seen
them you know yeah
[32:23] oh
[32:26] they were for the dream yeah there's
nothing to prevents us from doing it we
[32:31] just in that direction not traditional
[32:39] um
[32:44] no apparently y'all got straightened out
yeah
[32:55] like every time Lauren puts something on
Friends of you and I'll take care of
[32:58] people on our website go ahead Chris
[33:11] Thursday so yeah it's been very recently
someone bought a webcam for us to put up
[33:18] right Chief they gave it to you
it was a gift to the town I never
[33:23] actually
yeah
[33:26] but it was to put up and paste the red
lights on it
[33:34] awake
when the word outside
[33:39] first I heard about it yeah who bought
it who donated I just donated by
[33:43] Creekside Electronics gotcha
[33:47] yes
let's keep brainstorming I like that
[33:51] we're rolling about the billboard idea
Spectrum news if anyone else think of
[33:56] any other method of promotion I think
the signs you know they're all so
[34:01] they're you know that say like the food
trucks and stuff like that's good it's
[34:04] good and the one out front of town hall
I just try to I know offense to them but
[34:10] I try to avoid the newspaper because I
don't feel like it's actually your bang
[34:13] for your buck or considering you know
the book is
[34:16] flashing signs but for the wooly worms
yeah we do too yeah
[34:23] we've got that yeah so we have one out
front and then we have one that's on the
[34:28] street here
at the stationary went out president
[34:31] yeah
and we was Mobile on it just a lot of
[34:36] people come from Tennessee that's why
it's over that way you know that always
[34:39] is something you could apply for a grant
for the North Carolina emergency
[34:42] management here I'm thinking what
are we trying are we are we having
[34:48] interest in adding more festivals July
we'll get the Fall Festival
[34:54] Christmas
season just one over season so it
[34:59] doesn't overwhelm me so much but
we were being disgusted by the town of
[35:03] Blowing Rock because of the phrase
you're
[35:06] Festival which is the Outlander Festival
apparently they're trying to take
[35:10] they're trying to bring Outlander
and start bringing some of their cast
[35:14] and have a festival for the Frasier
Festival anybody here watch out later
[35:19] well technically if you have read the
books here's where Fraser's Ridge is
[35:26] [Music]
[35:32] I don't think you have to worry about
that but I'm going to bring it up and
[35:36] throw it out there just in case
you know the town noodle wants to get in
[35:40] front of that and the suggestion was to
be done around
[35:44] uh what the Highland Games something
something marries that up I always
[35:50] thought it was nice and neat to do the
Scarecrow was in the roofs on the light
[35:54] poles if we could ever get that yeah the
new ones up I always thought that was a
[35:58] neat
so what we're talking about that Gary
[36:01] you know I've been trying not to put you
know too many people
[36:05] too many people's business ad I'm
bringing up a couple big sweepers
[36:09] tomorrow from town because I've asked
for a year and a half now since I've
[36:12] been mayor was the number one thing I
wanted we bought we had fallen short
[36:16] with the fire department they have lost
their five thousand dollar donation
[36:19] because they don't want to do it so I'm
going to bring them in myself my career
[36:22] is going to be taking care of
the gutters tomorrow was pulled up right
[36:26] here at the Carter's Corner Mr carton
was kind of spent all that money turned
[36:29] that corner around and it's
eight inches in
[36:33] in Weeds and
gutters full of dirt so
[36:37] I'm going to be doing that
Thursday
[36:42] so
Bill and Gary I'd like at some point for
[36:45] us to get together and figure out some
more stuff we can do
[36:50] you know just just clean up the
appearance
[36:53] let's get back on the planet appearance
and all this grass is going through I've
[36:57] seen that we sprayed but you still have
four to six inches of dead grass growing
[37:02] through
yeah we're also trying to work on
[37:05] striking all the parking spaces so I'll
donate the Striking for free I gotta get
[37:11] dot permission on media boats that's
what's slowed me out
[37:15] I don't care if it's doing nighttime and
just not telling who did it
[37:21] a lot of talks in the past about the
T-Rex and
[37:25] how official to have
[37:28] would go in water flowers with milk jugs
full of water lined up on the back of
[37:31] their car we just don't have those
people and I mean as I wish it could be
[37:35] spread thinner and peanut butter already
uh maybe the planning committee
[37:40] I don't know she likes a chunky on there
but I don't know
[37:46] and I'm just niche of people are willing
to them
[37:50] yes
the problem that I have about it and
[37:54] that's all you know hunky dory and
Kumbaya but
[37:58] it doesn't get done and I've been the
number one thing that I ran on was
[38:02] trying to clean up the gutters and clean
up the sidewalks and clean up the lights
[38:06] and
and here we are uh you know I keep
[38:09] waiting for the fire department show up
and they're not going to do it and we
[38:13] know where we're at for them
I'm telling y'all I'm gonna be able to
[38:16] sweeper and I'm hoping this is going to
work and I'm sure you'll get a lot of
[38:19] complaints and we'll have some big
blowers behind it it's going to make a
[38:22] mess for a little bit but I'm tired of
seeing it
[38:26] um
so uh you know I don't know why we can't
[38:30] it take some of this 1.37 million
dollars to sit in the journal from
[38:34] Jessica
[38:37] let me know
is there a reason why we don't you know
[38:41] when you first come in town plus some
dailies I told the high school about you
[38:44] know their at that Bakery
you'll find some delicious
[38:51] trying to clean it up another thing
these lights that you see those other
[38:54] times they string lights you know
through the downtown we have enough
[38:58] buildings to do that
[39:02] um
[39:06] so I was in Los Angeles we saw that in
every corner I thought that would be
[39:09] anything like Los Angeles but it was
ridiculous yeah well the difference
[39:13] between here in Los Angeles is stay on
the streets and Dot on it's the main
[39:16] thing so when you say that does that
mean that they're not allowed to do
[39:20] something because they've made it very
clear to Jamie and I went out there and
[39:23] talked they see anything from the inside
of town limits they don't care about
[39:26] them they don't but they still at least
how to get permission to mow the the
[39:31] grass there and we stopped to get
permission to do striping I mean they
[39:35] own the road so do you remember do you
remember the permission they gave us
[39:38] when we were arguing about I mean we had
that argument I went out there and the
[39:42] permission we got from them was why are
you asking us you you can mow the grass
[39:46] that's fine with us we don't care
because it's out of town my point is I'm
[39:49] tired of asking I want some I want
something to accomplished
[39:54] okay so if you're having problems with
DOT then tell me and I'll pay my guys to
[39:58] do it
because that way the town's not involved
[40:00] and we're not worried about somebody
getting hit by a car
[40:03] clean it up
that's all that's all I want we're red
[40:07] and white
oh so that oh I was going to discuss
[40:11] that when you discuss it now so we have
uh 273 thousand dollars worth of
[40:18] materials below
we don't have that much in the budget
[40:21] we've got like 180 some thousand dollars
my recommendation is that we buy the
[40:27] poles
now all of them
[40:31] uh the reason I say that is which is 273
right let's say that is because the
[40:36] manufacturing process could change we
could buy say a whole circuit or two
[40:41] circuits now I think we we can do like
30 likes now
[40:45] complete
but if the manufacturing changes and I
[40:49] can't get that pole anymore then all of
a sudden in the middle of the project
[40:51] I'm saying the poles the lights are
pretty much you know we can get those
[40:56] minutes all the way down the road with
weekends that or give me another 100
[41:01] forty seven thousand dollars and I'll
just do the whole thing
[41:06] but that's why recommendation is that we
just we just go ahead and get the pulse
[41:09] now that includes the bases and the
mounting brackets and the you know
[41:13] everything so from the ground up so all
you need to do after that is labor
[41:16] equipment I need labor to put them in
and then I'll need the lights themselves
[41:20] so I can get those on next year's budget
or if we can find some money
[41:26] okay well tell me something if we can
find some money just till we have 1.3
[41:30] something million dollars in two
different accounts is that correct no
[41:35] no well we have it I don't care I don't
care if it's in 50 accounts we can go
[41:39] 100 if you want to take it
[41:43] and that's fine okay that's fine we have
we have we have since I started this
[41:50] yes it's the lights
get this can around just like the dog
[41:52] park
we've not got anything accomplished and
[41:56] we all agree on what new life is Gail
you want new lights
[41:59] Jamie Christie Lauren so I don't
understand why the board cannot say okay
[42:06] whatever we need to do to get new lights
take it out of the whatever fund we need
[42:09] to take it out of and let's move forward
okay and I apologize if I'm no it's just
[42:15] frustrating to me that the government
takes so damn long I want lights out I
[42:20] want
a town cleaned up so what do you need
[42:23] bill you need 90 000 to buy 273
correct I need another hundred and forty
[42:29] thousand dollars okay is that do it is
that doable is that in some mysterious
[42:33] account that we have
well they're not mysterious yeah
[42:40] Jamie help me out here
so what's going to happen here is 10
[42:44] years from now we're going to still be
dealing lights if you want to transfer
[42:48] money
in the budget
[42:51] Amendment bam James tell me tell me what
what is the hold up here
[42:58] anymore I I don't want to say well I
tried for four years to get new lights
[43:02] number one thing that we talked about
we got the dog park finally successfully
[43:06] after a year and a half it is complete
and they've got to put poles we got the
[43:13] fencing that's again I don't think I was
gonna talk about but the fence was
[43:16] completely in so we have other things we
want to do we've got the dog it's great
[43:20] dog stations in the signs are up looks
great we don't have any furniture yet we
[43:24] don't have any play things from the dog
we were going to mulch the entire thing
[43:28] if you'll also look we're cleaning out a
pond back there because part of the dog
[43:34] park problem is water sitting so now
we've got a flow through there that area
[43:39] will dry out it looks great it looks
really good yeah so and again I won't
[43:46] have anything to say when it comes to my
turn so that's great but
[43:50] but all these things are kind of
interlocking together but the dog park
[43:54] has been used every time I go down there
there's there's at least three or four
[43:58] people down there they love it so and
I've got a lot of positive feedback I've
[44:02] only got one negative feedback so the
two years that Christie tried to get
[44:06] done before I came on 18 months after I
came on prompt sure I'd help it is
[44:09] almost four years for a twenty thousand
dollar Park
[44:13] okay 28 000 that makes absolutely no
sense to me that's
[44:18] so much that thing going on
[44:23] there yeah yeah exactly thank you so
tonight I would like for us to resolve
[44:27] the lights thing so Bill
put us in a ballpark number yes
[44:36] tonight yeah sure
all right
[44:39] bubble confidence public comments
anybody like jump in and yes ma'am yes
[44:44] hi my name is Amy
great job you're welcome
[44:50] I just want to thank the town everybody
anyone Lauren especially for making food
[44:57] trip Thursday night a success
it's been a while since it has been
[45:02] great and I'm born and raised David
County
[45:06] still live Glory Lake County L.A L.A
that's right I will tell you this uh Ada
[45:12] County is growing and he's a lot with
what's going on in New York are the
[45:16] closest pushed by another new one that's
three times dying yes
[45:20] it's hard to shut down two weeks ago
yeah I heard that I mean it's been
[45:24] parties in a new one is picking up and
I'm gonna say a lot of it has to do with
[45:29] food truck Thursday
but I will say that I've had comments
[45:34] that oh we came up there and we didn't
know that the thrift shop was there
[45:39] apparently yeah
somebody came and said what's that
[45:44] little diner out there where we can't
turn in here that's her case Country
[45:47] Kitchen whether they had the best
breakfast in town she's a breakfast
[45:50] place there on Sundays a lady from my
church if you don't know it was there it
[45:54] wasn't there if we had never
[46:01] from us so we just want to be sure that
we're doing it for next year we're in it
[46:07] for the Long Haul
we've got some great food truck rentals
[46:11] We're Cute
[46:15] none of these police officers
[46:26] I'm just here to say thank you thank you
for sure
[46:31] [Music]
how hard would that be next year to move
[46:36] into a Friday and put a band on the
stage again be very hard yes some of the
[46:41] bigger events that we do uh and we're
talking about every Friday and Saturday
[46:45] Friday and Saturday again September
October but most of my 70 my years
[46:51] before Oh okay this is Saturday so you
wouldn't get a food trucks that would be
[46:54] worth pulling in yeah one of the things
that Lauren has done brilliantly is
[46:58] marketed this yeah to where people know
about it and she's phoned some of the
[47:03] bigger trucks that have the bigger
following we have approximately about 15
[47:06] 000 people that follow all of us we're
pulling from Spruce Pine for Banner out
[47:10] we're pulling Burnsville Marion yeah
would it hurt y'all if you put a band on
[47:15] the stage with you on Thursday no sir
not what somewhere
[47:21] that's a lot of Fellowship that goes
Island yeah just the entertainment
[47:27] but I will share with you that others
have tried it and it wasn't it didn't
[47:31] matter yeah they might buy from the
Japanese like him and he can enter there
[47:38] didn't come get him a donut
right through the band or the people no
[47:43] no no the people to stay what we want
them to try to stay in here okay well
[47:48] you I mean you wouldn't believe how many
people come and that's that we're still
[47:51] there a couple hours later yeah I mean
it's sort of like a class for you you
[47:56] know a family yeah they have it now and
they hang around and tile we appreciate
[48:01] y'all I mean we could try it it would I
love music okay
[48:06] search up on it say do can you give a
microphone I taught to Lynn church about
[48:18] you know it might draw a few of their
fans in to buy food too yeah yeah
[48:24] and we didn't have a lot of great local
talent been in church yeah
[48:29] I love them boys really good
we need more
[48:33] too much so we've been doing it every
other is a lot to put too much
[48:39] away from them too
[48:42] if they feel like they're being took
away the problem
[48:44] someone told me Point blanket
we've had people famous
[48:50] [Music]
[48:59] [Music]
anything every Thursday next summer
[49:04] would not be too much on you it might be
too much
[49:07] so I have to understand
well I think you you've done a great job
[49:14] of building a successful model the point
to where other towns want to copy it so
[49:18] elf Park is coffee you know rolling
mountains coffee and that's why I was
[49:22] trying to get it we're trying to
Mitchell County their Chamber of
[49:25] Commerce is trying to do that again but
the formula that you have and that's
[49:29] what the others want to say with the
band I don't mess with success if it's
[49:33] working I don't want to pick something
bro
[49:36] so but
um we want to try it a couple times why
[49:40] not but
um long story short thank you very much
[49:43] for the pounding me on very
close to us but we're grateful we're
[49:48] grateful for Lauren for all of them
because there's hundreds of hours ago no
[49:52] he doesn't this is not something that's
easy and I will tell you bigger
[49:56] constituents yeah oh yeah I hear it
every day yeah yeah we hear nothing but
[50:01] positives about it yeah when the
restaurants are saying they like it and
[50:04] you've done something right
[50:09] strategic giving people that Thursday
off it makes them want it more yeah
[50:16] next Thursday
[50:25] oh we got that tomorrow we go there
tomorrow if they see us oh we gotta go
[50:29] we didn't see them again so I mean same
way if you're a good person we know sit
[50:33] with the first time we might not get
back yeah
[50:47] go ahead
[50:50] um I just want to thank Commander for
finding
[50:53] um they are so professional and like 10
times like family and and the lady Tammy
[51:00] spoke about
it's exactly
[51:11] you know
[51:17] um
[51:22] anyone
[51:26] anymore
[51:31] it was all his idea let me tell you the
story this man literally he came in on
[51:35] the December event the day of it's like
hey I heard you have another event can I
[51:40] come be a part and he thought it was
wildly successful the new one like the
[51:45] Rock Gym the Christmas thing and in the
cold weather he was selling Donuts like
[51:49] hotcakes so he's like let's do something
here let's make something along the map
[52:07] the dates for the others are September
7th this Thursday
[52:11] the 21st
the 12th of October and the 26th of
[52:16] October
yes and that while we're at events treat
[52:20] strangle this fall on Halloween this
year yeah I saw that on Facebook
[52:23] somebody was asking my articles yes and
I get lots of flack the years that I
[52:27] have to put on another day but you have
to realize the business owners are
[52:30] imperative to treat Street and we don't
want to drag them out on a Saturday or
[52:34] Sunday they deserve their day off so
y'all coming home
[52:39] do you all want to come and vegan I mean
I haven't offered that in the group yet
[52:43] but okay
[52:53] how many
people
[52:57] I've always heard it's been pets
there's a 2300 2400 at least
[53:04] good start
we tried to do an unofficial account
[53:09] last year I got well over 15
[53:15] more than one time but I walked up and
down the street and just started
[53:19] counting and I got over 1500 it's like
yes yeah it was
[53:25] Halloween this year yeah if it's a
weekday it's cool but if it's a Saturday
[53:31] Byron did you happen to see my email
about asking of how we could make it a
[53:35] little more pedestrian friendly I did
and I'm still thinking about that
[53:41] somebody at the courthouse had mentioned
it to my colleague Michael P
[53:46] um
and I think he's willing to coordinate
[53:49] with you if you want extra hormones
[54:13] yeah they remain open and they set up
outside their door and
[54:17] you know set up stuff but
[54:22] okay
all right
[54:25] um any other public comments
[54:34] and I just want to thank you and about
Roscoe wants to thank you and I I see
[54:41] the same a lot of the same people out
there and you don't know how much that
[54:45] means and
um
[54:48] she said I literally had to keep my dog
in my house this whole time because she
[54:54] can't keep you know the dog pulls her a
little bit yeah and she said be able to
[54:59] let that dog
and I know it took a long time but I
[55:03] know you guys worked on grants I know
you did anything but it means a lot that
[55:07] you listen
and I also wanted to talk about and I
[55:11] didn't know why you were cleaning that
up you know it really looks good yeah
[55:16] and I was there on Saturday and
I don't think it was one of your
[55:21] officers I believe it's real nice
failure he was trying to find someone
[55:24] that I think he'd plan to be bothering
um and so he was there and he pulled up
[55:29] and he you know everything and he said
this is going to help us so much yeah
[55:34] because we can see from the road there
and I was walking the other morning and
[55:38] two there's two two or three elderly
they said walk every morning and that's
[55:44] I told him I was coming to think about
this and they said well you know thank
[55:47] thank him for this because you know when
they went around that corner yeah
[55:53] so I feel safer yeah but so um I know
you know I I just it just meant a lot to
[56:01] me that you listened to me
well tell me this it says
[56:05] you use it what else could we put out
there I mean I know we're gonna put some
[56:08] yeah
I feel a lot of different things of
[56:11] course benches is the first thing you
want to be careful about toys and things
[56:16] uh because you have to watch uh
skateboarders and you know because they
[56:21] want to come if you do ramps and do
tricks and stuff so you want to be very
[56:25] careful that you don't have things that
people can destroy and they'll get in
[56:29] there so right now the people who are
using our dog owners and I promised when
[56:34] I came here we had when I came here four
years ago three years ago I said if you
[56:38] get one I will check it regularly and I
do I check it in the morning
[56:42] and walk the dog
the dog and I my dog's gonna come midday
[56:45] and then I'll check it in the afternoon
uh to make sure that it's because we got
[56:50] to take care of what you guys need have
you been out there at night yet is there
[56:54] enough lighting yes it's there's enough
lighting there's not many people that
[56:58] use it at night
um but do you think if we I'm talking
[57:02] about electric and they've agreed to put
a light pole on the back corner which
[57:06] would cover the entire thing I think it
would help and then uh since I think
[57:10] Public Works is here so and I wasn't
willing to Bride on them
[57:14] about another thing sometimes we just
brag today I was wondering if we could
[57:20] if we could do an outside spigot there
at the bathroom
[57:24] you know that frost proof for the water
for the dogs
[57:28] somebody kindly left a nice heavy bowl
video and uh and and I've left that
[57:34] there you know now there's been I think
two times since you pay that I've had to
[57:38] pick up any trash in there and I don't
have to tell you only one time I had to
[57:43] clean up another person's so so they're
taking care of that I think the benches
[57:47] would help and then an outside Stadium
the other thing is I live right outside
[57:52] of Newton but connected to to where I
live is the uh the old station they're
[57:59] the septic stations and
you know it goes off sometimes and that
[58:05] uh Roger and those guys they I call and
they're so quick to come and apologize
[58:12] if that's going on so you really have
people that are trying uh they don't
[58:17] ever say it seem like it's you know but
that's a big thing thank you for
[58:21] listening thank you for coming because
it's very rare that there's people
[58:25] coming out of it seems
like we're having Kumbaya even tonight
[58:28] that's fine
if somebody you know was against it you
[58:33] know I think I read somewhere you're
against animals and I don't know before
[58:37] you because I mean you know they're the
most innocent creatures
[58:41] um so I I would love that and then I was
going to ask if if a person wanted on
[58:47] the Treat Street if they wanted to to
set up a KB Cannon interview yeah
[58:51] absolutely okay CVS parking lot any of
the Open Spaces you just pull up so have
[58:56] a good day okay because I noticed last
year a lot of people did have to go
[59:13] [Music]
[59:34] you're welcome
[59:38] and you have some
work hard I don't know where they live
[59:42] in new one but they pick up trash every
Sunday afternoon and I don't know who
[59:47] those people are so have you seen them I
really don't know where they live but
[59:52] every Sunday afternoon they're beginning
to talk about yeah one kind of thought
[59:56] he runs every morning uh they live right
above you or Aaron my name is
[1:00:07] and not always talking back oh okay and
also my doctors
[1:00:14] [Music]
that's awesome okay
[1:00:18] um
you know any other problems
[1:00:21] public comments
all right let's uh move to our reports
[1:00:29] Gary
all right I tried to print mine out but
[1:00:33] uh printer wouldn't work so uh doing a
lot of molding had a lot of things going
[1:00:37] on
[1:00:40] and just trying to catch up on some
things uh trying to keep 181 going out
[1:00:46] of town mode I know we got to get back
over on the other side it's just kind of
[1:00:49] hard to
do that with
[1:00:52] um what do you think about spraying them
just kill it off yeah around the uh
[1:00:56] guardrail number one is I want to wash
down into the river number two then it's
[1:01:00] all going to wash away if we kill the
grass
[1:01:04] kind of catch but you know
if I thought about trying to go out
[1:01:08] there with a push mower but there's so
many ones and well the push more better
[1:01:13] than weed here we need to move along but
I've got a lot going on with the park I
[1:01:19] was down there most of the day Jessica
said I look like I've been on the beach
[1:01:22] I said well I missed that trip
there's a lot going on there uh we fixed
[1:01:28] the link ups cost of the day
coming out of the whale and we currently
[1:01:33] have a problem with well forward so uh
not sure if it's the pump or if it's
[1:01:39] just the wine is in the motor uh Gerald
was never going to look at that in the
[1:01:42] morning
so uh that's pretty much what we've got
[1:01:45] right now so when I sent you the text
about him taking the power offline they
[1:01:49] had already done it yeah yeah because
that takes the guys to tell them and
[1:01:52] Mark said well the generator running the
detergent plane so yeah they I mean they
[1:01:57] don't mean much but yeah sorry yeah
all right uh finance officer
[1:02:05] oh okay so you all have all your numbers
for all of our accounts if you're ready
[1:02:12] uh pretty much all I've been really
focusing on is that 2122 annual Town
[1:02:19] audit that I've been working on for a
couple months my goal is to have that
[1:02:24] completed by the end of October and then
we will go ahead and do our 22-23 which
[1:02:31] fingers crossed that's not going to be
that bad and hopefully that's going to
[1:02:33] be kind of selling and then we're going
to be all caught up and I also submitted
[1:02:39] our annual workers comp self audit this
this might have been haven't heard
[1:02:43] anything back so hopefully that thing
[1:02:49] and just keeping up all their day to
day-to-day things
[1:02:54] Gary I was going to say one more thing I
mean like Bill said I've heard nothing
[1:02:58] but good things about what we're doing
down there I mean it's going to take a
[1:03:02] couple more weeks to get it cleaned up
and look nice but of all the people I've
[1:03:06] talked to has come out on the Riverwalk
and said what are y'all doing
[1:03:09] everybody's been like great you know
what do you need to do this so you're
[1:03:12] gonna try and get on the other side of
the river as well
[1:03:15] hopefully I mean we've got to be careful
with the river but we we do want there's
[1:03:19] some decent taller trees over there you
know that we want to leave along but we
[1:03:23] want to kind of get in between you know
get the brush cleaned out in between
[1:03:26] because that that too there's places to
hide along that River Bank back there so
[1:03:31] we want a full line site if we can get
them so but that's that's the next step
[1:03:36] he's working down to here and then I
think before we finish cleaning up
[1:03:40] because that's going to make even more
messes to try and get
[1:03:43] River and then once we clean up we'll be
moved through and be done just the water
[1:03:48] running in that little pond off huh
[1:03:53] depends not really usually it fills up
with a big rain but like where he's
[1:03:59] cleaned stuff out you know when we let
Friday there wasn't hardly any water
[1:04:03] except just down at the bottom and then
when we walked right there Saturday it's
[1:04:07] like where did all that water go from so
as the ground dries out it's coming back
[1:04:12] up I think if we get it down to a point
we can keep water in the pond but you're
[1:04:17] probably not going to get a lot of water
other than that would it be something
[1:04:21] maybe a miniature with the live
Community a little fish and falling in
[1:04:24] and just stock of the white bluegill or
something for the kids or anything
[1:04:27] I don't know if it would be deep enough
it's only like seven feet oh that's way
[1:04:32] deep in that I don't know if you don't
have fresh water it's continuous you
[1:04:37] know it's like you kind of clumping out
of the river
[1:04:41] we might be able to figure something out
I mean you can catch it out of the river
[1:04:46] and run it in and run it up it's a state
project that is just designed to kind of
[1:04:50] take overflow
[1:04:53] yeah
[1:04:58] it's one of those projects that we got
on the ground that we're supposed to be
[1:05:03] maintaining we haven't maintained it so
it's in bad condition so it's taking a
[1:05:08] lot of effort to get it into good
condition
[1:05:12] one more thing we could have done with
the backup we don't have to reach we've
[1:05:16] got an excavator with the guy that's
helping them and then he's got plenty of
[1:05:20] reach on there so he's able to get
around
[1:05:22] the only thing is the timing of a dog
park kind of messed him up so he has a
[1:05:27] machine that goes through and just eats
weeds
[1:05:30] for lunch I mean breaks them down into
little chunks it's a great machine but
[1:05:35] he can't get it back because the fence
is in already
[1:05:38] so you can't get back there because of
the Ponder outside
[1:05:42] but you know just getting that thing
cleaned out
[1:05:45] and getting all the muck out of it
there's you're going to see a lot of
[1:05:49] changes we're putting in some additional
piping covering uh because the Beavers
[1:05:54] love to build dams in there and try to
track the water so we're gonna get them
[1:05:58] at least push them out to the river
and get them out of that area and see if
[1:06:03] we can keep it up longer we're going to
put in a set on the Basin before the
[1:06:07] pond to try to catch some of the mud and
stuff coming down so the water that goes
[1:06:11] through there stays cleaner it doesn't
fill up as fast just back up what are
[1:06:16] you trying to do with the Beavers
yeah move them out to the river where
[1:06:20] they belong they're enlighten me
so I'll call every liberal outfit up
[1:06:25] here if you start messing with the
Beavers
[1:06:30] okay any more public comments
yes ma'am I wanted to um
[1:06:36] say a lot of us in Land Harbor went and
rescued the paper blocks that were taken
[1:06:41] out from Courthouse area over there when
they redid that area and
[1:06:46] um we didn't know about it until
somebody stumbled across it but we sure
[1:06:51] appreciate it because we pulled almost a
thousand paper blocks out of there
[1:06:54] between us and we're reusing those and
we're reusing we went for bags of sand
[1:06:59] and stuff and so we've got it pretty
well cleaned out of there was pretty
[1:07:03] much a big mess at the recycle center
but we we've got most of the materials
[1:07:07] back out of there
all right
[1:07:10] County Courthouse oh yeah we just
apparently Discord all of them all with
[1:07:15] the recycle center
[1:07:20] you know backyards or stairs or whatever
and this year
[1:07:26] um thanks to Lauren we're also going to
be participating a group of us in the uh
[1:07:31] There She Goes Again
[1:07:52] [Music]
[1:07:56] thank you
thank you for coming Stephen
[1:07:59] is anybody else say anything for public
comments yeah
[1:08:15] marijuana
[1:08:29] perhapso been working pretty diligently
on the bank of Michigan we've had the
[1:08:34] last couple of months
we're still still looking at those cases
[1:08:40] per day
so
[1:08:48] thank you
[1:08:52] thank you
because already yeah you've already done
[1:08:56] years
most of it I just want to point out some
[1:09:00] of the vandalisms talking about that's
happening at our our facilities
[1:09:04] so every time we see something we say
something to the cheese so we can try to
[1:09:09] get at acquire in the facilities uh I
don't know if you went out to the ark
[1:09:15] but they tore the ramp off of that and
somebody painted some really graphic
[1:09:19] graffiti on the inside we got to
complain about that just take it and
[1:09:25] so I mean eventually it's coming down I
just don't know we're taking it down or
[1:09:29] the church statement down let's play
with a dog breach but indelible yeah we
[1:09:33] can do that
[1:09:36] and then you're opening yeah yeah but
because Jesus came from
[1:09:41] uh I I want to say also that you know
we're again you're starting to see stuff
[1:09:48] happen we're getting into a position
where stuff is happening
[1:09:52] uh the pond out there is something that
we should have done all along we're now
[1:09:56] getting it it's on our maintenance
schedule now once we get it cleaned out
[1:09:59] uh we're getting it set up so when Gary
goes to maintain it at the beginning of
[1:10:04] the year it'll be simpler and won't be
as big and complex as it is we'll be
[1:10:10] able to keep it vote down part of that
mowing down was access to the river but
[1:10:14] it was safe
there was just no safety there at all I
[1:10:18] mean I I stood out there one day and
watched people walk around the pond and
[1:10:22] want to get around the other side it's
like I don't see them again I don't know
[1:10:25] what happens and you got little Trails
down in the river and then you've got
[1:10:30] clothing all along there so people are
sleeping back in there
[1:10:35] so there's
you know there are a lot of safety
[1:10:39] concerns that we have this is our plan
along the entire stretch of the
[1:10:43] Riverwalk
from from one end to the other is making
[1:10:47] sure the banks are stabilized making
sure the brush is clear so you can get
[1:10:51] easy access
and you have visibility
[1:10:55] one of the things we'll do with street
lights that we take out is try to put
[1:10:59] some on
you know filling gaps
[1:11:03] on the trail on the Riverwalk so we'll
fill in some gaps uh put some in where
[1:11:09] the you know the dog park and any other
place that we can find it we're also
[1:11:13] looking at the way we provide power at
the event area is not adequate so we're
[1:11:22] looking at ways to fix that the way we
provide water is not accurate we want to
[1:11:27] basically run hose across the river
and bring it to us speaking so that
[1:11:33] we're looking at ways to change that so
we're getting prices on that we're going
[1:11:36] to see if we can work it in this budget
grade if not we'll be on the next budget
[1:11:39] but those are all things that we're
doing to try to get things on our hip to
[1:11:44] run a lot smoother
time on putting in when people pay to
[1:11:48] get water from poker apps
thank you
[1:11:52] what do you mean it depends on the
complexity we've got one that we're
[1:11:56] going to have to have a contract to pull
the water because it's going under the
[1:11:58] river uh it's going to take him three
weeks two weeks well we were waiting on
[1:12:04] you know what yeah it probably within
the next week yeah right now if we're
[1:12:10] doing it it's it you know we can get it
done pretty quickly but now we're
[1:12:14] running into the issue we don't have the
parts
[1:12:16] we put in so many water connections or
replace water connections we don't have
[1:12:20] the parts and we can't get them I only
got four yolks left and I got to order
[1:12:23] straw for them yeah
and I'm trying to get some more uh we
[1:12:28] got 12 in right after I started and then
here this past three months we've had a
[1:12:33] run
we've had to change out before that you
[1:12:38] know we had a leak and went to get it it
didn't have a backflip around here it
[1:12:42] was damaged beyond the
so we've changed that at least four just
[1:12:47] because what was there was no longer
adequate so
[1:12:50] if we didn't have that we would have it
when I'm trying to acquire some more but
[1:12:53] I have 12 on the order over here we did
anywhere
[1:12:57] now what was your other question well I
mean
[1:13:01] I know there's nothing to do with it I
know
[1:13:04] but I I don't understand why in the
summer
[1:13:09] when it's 80 degrees
why is the pool closing five o'clock
[1:13:13] that's a family voice because But there
again you know like today as hot as it
[1:13:20] was right close with you why does the
pool not open when school gets out but
[1:13:24] they're closer to you well I understand
it but it's a heating pool
[1:13:29] it's government
Gary it's wasted money it's government
[1:13:34] okay whatever
forget I said anything
[1:13:42] okay let's go back around the black
holes and finish that conversation and
[1:13:46] then I want to go back to the race
[1:13:57] so anyway we're going to take the old
light poles that are usable we're going
[1:14:01] to try to move them in places that make
sense
[1:14:04] that provide to get more safe
another question I have I've had a lot
[1:14:09] of requests from task force we used to
be a passport office
[1:14:14] and
we have to
[1:14:17] re-up reapply this passport office the
because it's easy on our side all we do
[1:14:25] is we have some training it's online it
doesn't cost us anything to do that it
[1:14:29] was time I stay up to two full-time
employees available
[1:14:33] uh so they have to be full-time
employees and then you know they have to
[1:14:37] be available that's the only thing right
when you're saying with DMV girls well
[1:14:41] they could be that it could be McKenzie
I mean it doesn't matter who the
[1:14:44] employees are but
we've had a lot of asks for it uh
[1:14:50] apparently Banner Elk we don't know if
they do it or not because it's a
[1:14:54] question of I guess when you go there
and Boone is the only one that's around
[1:14:58] here that you can pass
[1:15:02] okay so I mean we can pursue this I just
want to make sure you just change in
[1:15:05] service
no we gave it up
[1:15:11] yeah
I I didn't know if we were doing this I
[1:15:13] guess that was a conversation before my
time so I'll start that process
[1:15:20] what do we need
get these lights done
[1:15:26] well you guys give me a directive
a directive to do it don't get done tell
[1:15:33] me where the 147 comes from because the
digits you gave me were 273 and
[1:15:37] materials and then 180 budgeted yeah
[1:15:45] the actual quote for materials is
256.2 Plus
[1:15:57] an additional 37 for
for the galvanized Breakaway anchor
[1:16:03] bolts
that's the complete set
[1:16:07] and then there's the installation cost
which right now we're programming 50
[1:16:13] Grand
as a number we don't it can be is it
[1:16:19] could be as simple as doing a hundred
dollars 150 bucks to do it it could be
[1:16:22] as complex as five thousand dollars to
install it depends on what we find
[1:16:26] underground
and how difficult it is to set the
[1:16:30] anchor balls and it's not our guys doing
it no uh actually we have this contract
[1:16:36] that you already agreed to our CED is
supplying the parts and which
[1:16:41] Consolidated electric and money Grant
Construction and he's using limbo River
[1:16:47] Electric to do the electrical
this will also
[1:16:52] at what I don't have price in here are
photocells good heavy duty photocells
[1:16:59] and timers so that's going to be an
extra that's three connection five
[1:17:02] thousand Chicken Thousand four thousand
eight hundred I think it was
[1:17:07] okay the question is how much do you
need
[1:17:12] so right now we need an additional 224
000. okay
[1:17:19] and that we've got that would have to be
a new line item what does it mean no no
[1:17:22] all I need is for you to direct me to
find the money and whatever fund is
[1:17:27] available it will give you a next
meeting a budget amendment that you can
[1:17:31] approve
but that'll give me the directions I can
[1:17:34] go ahead and get the process started
because we can transfer the money
[1:17:37] anytime
the approval of the budgets you need
[1:17:41] these folks to vote on that to tell you
to move forward
[1:17:45] and we won't hamper the current Services
we'll go to one of the funds yeah I was
[1:17:50] going to say you'll have to transfer
from another
[1:17:52] because
[1:17:58] the monies have been sitting there for
very long time
[1:18:02] when I take it from one
but the money's there
[1:18:06] it's been there for a while correct yes
we have contingency funds for both
[1:18:11] general fund and employment service
and you have to keep someone we have to
[1:18:17] keep so much so we won't endanger that
we will not endanger that correct
[1:18:28] we can easily justify that in the eyes
of the auditor so
[1:18:33] it's the original taxpayer money Union
correct yes yeah we just like say we're
[1:18:38] required to keep a percentage of our
operating budget
[1:18:42] so we we've got well I think we've got
18 or 19 months months without hurting
[1:18:47] us I guess my confusion is back when the
when the board voted to do the lights it
[1:18:52] was just not it was just not funded is
that what the problem no he's funded it
[1:18:55] but you funded that and the dog park and
something else it was like they're all
[1:18:59] lumped together in one so when I gave
you the current budget that you have I
[1:19:03] broke it out put it in a capital line
Capital items and I said well it's going
[1:19:07] to cost me this much to do the dog park
so the rest is going to be for this and
[1:19:12] then you have another I think songs
what's the other one we do that number
[1:19:15] so I took those two out what was left
over was was three months
[1:19:20] okay
[1:19:26] so we had no idea at the time what they
were going to cost because nobody got a
[1:19:29] cost for it so we've got two hard cause
for it and they're roughly equivalent
[1:19:35] one was a little bit higher uh
and the labor in the directional wind
[1:19:40] was buying is direct from the electrical
supplies and we're not paying the
[1:19:43] contractor of the Service Media
yeah CED is going to supply it directly
[1:19:49] to us so we don't have it we don't have
a middle name and then uh Bragg is going
[1:19:54] to supply the labor materials except for
the electrical
[1:20:01] yeah
you thought those figures out one more
[1:20:05] time I had to spend it um okay so we are
short how much and we need to amend the
[1:20:09] budget for how much
[1:20:27] so
[1:20:32] about 100
[1:20:35] yeah 132. so that boosts up just thought
of numbers to 364
[1:20:40] 000. yeah the shortfall of the budget we
have a money market account so the
[1:20:44] shortfall of the budget once that money
market or CD matures that'll cover that
[1:20:49] and we'll still have money left over on
that side but in the money market budget
[1:20:54] right here to see the internet right
here
[1:20:58] which one's the CD
[1:21:02] so that money is already expensive 140
pounds
[1:21:12] so you would have to take 130 whatever
out of that
[1:21:22] that's more than a half a million
dollars
[1:21:33] yeah we have money for Citizens because
we couldn't pass something interest rate
[1:21:41] yeah we have to get done with this audit
that she's trying to finish up by the
[1:21:45] end of next month yeah
we just have to have access direct
[1:21:51] access to all that record
and be able to question so
[1:21:56] just I know it's a lot of money
it ain't gonna get there too
[1:22:07] ultimately we voted to put up new lights
everybody wants new lights we're going
[1:22:11] to have to spend the money we have 1.3
.37 million dollars the taxpayer money
[1:22:15] that we've ported up from the taxpayers
I understand we have events we've got to
[1:22:20] keep minimums for the state we have to
keep that over six months operating
[1:22:24] expenses and you have that even if we
have like a little over 18 it's not
[1:22:29] quite 19. so you so what I'm hearing
we've got all the buttons are being
[1:22:34] pushed right yes
so I'm just patiently awaiting this
[1:22:38] at our our trust funds are divided up
into basically general fund utility
[1:22:43] words the 18 months
operating experience with that what's in
[1:22:49] it
that's the trust funds so so that's in
[1:22:53] there too yeah
it's in it's in the financial form we
[1:22:59] have the two trust funds that
that we keep money
[1:23:03] and those are our emergency funds but
they're quite High
[1:23:07] some of that money was siphoned off into
a separate count a money market at one
[1:23:13] point it became a CD the Bank closed
we didn't have records over here the
[1:23:18] Bank closed said hey we're closing this
Branch you need to get in this account
[1:23:22] and we found old records and the bank
said oh no no and even they had trouble
[1:23:27] finding it
because they changed their account
[1:23:29] number system so many times it took me
how long I mean you were there she was
[1:23:33] there all day one day
so once we finally got in we just
[1:23:36] immediately transferred that money over
to First Citizens that because
[1:23:41] the CD rate they were paying was killing
we couldn't we couldn't say no to it
[1:23:46] so we've got a short-term CD on that
when that becomes mature we're going to
[1:23:50] take that we're going to take part of it
and balance the budget and then the
[1:23:54] wrestling is going to go back into
another investment
[1:24:01] so if we can take money from well you
got to watch how you doing with this
[1:24:06] packet and I'm waiting on lend a massage
[Music]
[1:24:10] we can take
what what we'll end up doing is taking a
[1:24:16] little bit of half the money from one
trust fund and half the money from the
[1:24:19] other customer
so you won't really have a noticeable
[1:24:22] impact on constructions
[1:24:27] Miss Gail where you land you Landing go
ahead and close this deal yeah I'll make
[1:24:33] a notion that we
I don't know how to say it
[1:24:37] that we take the money that's existing
and make a budget amendment make a
[1:24:41] budget amendment to take the money
that's needed to give people a
[1:24:45] completely
find that applies I got a motion do I
[1:24:49] have a second
[1:24:56] we have a second all those in favor say
aye
[1:25:01] um
[1:25:04] [Laughter]
I don't know
[1:25:10] because then we're going to turn around
and raise taxes that just looks like
[1:25:12] magic
[1:25:21] yeah we're spending more money yeah
[1:25:28] all right
[Music]
[1:25:39] that's you know you have to look to
demographics here in the town again you
[1:25:46] have voted for the whites two years ago
big guy you got to fund the lights you
[1:25:49] got to understand that and you can tell
whoever looks as you say anything you
[1:25:53] got a whole room in here all bobbinger
is they want the lights and something
[1:25:56] this whole side of the room is Newland
folks okay well that's fine you go down
[1:26:01] as a name so what does that mean
good luck
[1:26:06] the Texas had to shoot up we're in
bionomics honey we're we're under a
[1:26:11] Democratic president they're going to go
up you don't have to shoot them up I
[1:26:15] know 1020. they're going well before you
did that trust me they're going up
[1:26:19] before you didn't they
I'll never vote for a Time budget
[1:26:23] amendment ASAP let's get this stuff
let's get this stuff going well we're
[1:26:27] gonna have new board in October when
we're doing that December December and
[1:26:32] your new world will be sworn in on that
meeting
[1:26:34] there we go
so once we know who the board members
[1:26:39] will be we can provide them with any
information they need so that when
[1:26:42] they're prepared for the meeting all
right is anybody else in Council have
[1:26:45] any more comments
[1:26:50] I need emotions I have some go ahead
Grace
[1:26:54] I think that truthfully
that you that that you know those that
[1:27:00] wants these lights that's fine I want to
this lives we priced these lights two
[1:27:05] three years ago
and you know I think what it falls back
[1:27:10] to is the ones that was here in charge
then not y'all
[1:27:14] didn't give
I'm not gonna let you get away with that
[1:27:16] you priced those lights this year the
two quotes that we got are this year
[1:27:20] from VPC and Mike Gregg so they went up
that much they never went out those were
[1:27:24] the original quotes
I've just been kicking this
[1:27:32] oldest quote is VPC
[1:27:36] which is this board
[1:27:46] all right
that was
[1:27:53] issue day April 18th
so that was the first quote we got the
[1:27:58] first quote I got and we approved that
much in the budget no no we didn't put
[1:28:02] that much in the budget you approved
certain amount of money for the dog park
[1:28:07] and yeah the lights and something else I
just can't figure out
[1:28:11] their but their money so you know it was
674 000
[1:28:17] that included the labor or any other
issues that we might run into
[1:28:22] so it might be why we're not going with
them well so you you have just the
[1:28:26] materials only their materials were 170
000 more okay than the CED materials but
[1:28:33] that don't stop my initial question why
wasn't the total price within the budget
[1:28:38] Community well that's I mean that's up
to you so when I did the budget I had a
[1:28:42] number and that number was for the dog
park the signs and the street lights so
[1:28:49] I knew I only knew the dog park how much
it cost because I had a had a estimate
[1:28:54] and the streets that there's new signs
that entry signs I had an estimate so I
[1:28:59] had those two that's all I had
and what was left over
[1:29:04] is what I put in the budget
I bumped it a little bit but I was
[1:29:09] already running a budget with a deficit
to begin with so I was I was constrained
[1:29:14] at that point when we started this
conversation when I became mayor we all
[1:29:18] just to guess it's going to cost about
five thousand dollars per lay okay we
[1:29:22] have 68 likes yeah actually 67 right
okay it's 350 000 that's what we talked
[1:29:28] about when I became mayor 18 months ago
yeah I don't know why right now that all
[1:29:33] these numbers are shock
well they're not a shock I'm just
[1:29:36] wondering why don't weren't putting the
initial budget that's what I'm finding
[1:29:39] out you know the budget could everybody
passed and you know again he was one of
[1:29:45] doing a face he was going to do it and
then let's get the lamp post set and
[1:29:49] then lights later and step by step okay
we're not doing that anymore we're
[1:29:54] changing that we're going to do it
you've changed that just
[1:29:59] so what we'll end up doing because this
process would take four years and that
[1:30:04] number we've had at 54 because that's
the estimate labor cost
[1:30:09] so we've added 50 000 for the estimated
labor costs how long do you think before
[1:30:13] we start seeing lights go up ballpark I
have to order they said they're six
[1:30:16] weeks out for the polls and also think
about Christmas we'll see some lights
[1:30:20] coming up yeah bam that's what I'm
talking about
[1:30:24] so and that's the other things with VPC
the polls were like months out
[1:30:29] so here we've got a little over a month
out now
[1:30:33] thank you Gail and Lauren
okay I have a motion to adjourn this
[1:30:47] thank you
once again
[1:30:53] I have a motion to adjourn do I have a
second I'll save you all those in favor