[0:01] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America [clears throat]

[0:06] and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with

[0:12] liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everybody. We'll do a quick

[0:16] roll call here to determine the quorum. Bobby Gardner is absent. Evers here.

[0:20] Ferguson's absent. I'm here. Howard, we do have a forum. We'll call the meeting

[0:24] to order here. Uh the first uh part of our meeting is the public forum portion.

[0:30] Um if uh the public wants to address council on any items that aren't on the

[0:35] agenda, this is a time uh the public can do so. We ask that uh um that you state

[0:43] your name for the meeting record. Speaking times are generally limited to

[0:47] three minutes. Uh if there's like unfinished business after those three

[0:51] minutes are done, we'll either direct staff take take some action or we will

[0:57] add the item into a discussion item uh for the council to consider later on in

[1:03] the agenda. So if there's anybody here from the public who wishes to address

[1:07] council, now's the time. I think these other guys are on the agenda. Yeah.

[1:12] » Could you come to the table right here? This allows us to record better meeting

[1:18] and all that. >> I'm Bob Elbert. Hi Bob.

[1:23] » I'm here on behalf of my neighbors. The the south side of us lives on the other

[1:30] side of it. The letter I got here is the map is wrong. The map's right, but the

[1:38] 605 on the 601. Todd lives across the street or almost

[1:44] Miami. >> Sure.

[1:46] » And there was maybe other meetings. I should have come here before this

[1:49] because there was ongoing issues with our neighbor.

[1:53] » Okay. >> It's more his house keeping. I mean,

[1:56] he's had tires outside. >> Sure.

[1:58] » You spray for mosquitoes and stuff which bring the mosquitoes and tires and now

[2:05] you guys allowed him to put a fence up which was right. But I and so far he's

[2:09] done a good job on the fence and I created him for that. He's three feet

[2:13] right there and now he come up with the deal that he can put a fence right on my

[2:17] line in front by the driveway. >> Sure.

[2:21] » Well, all the all his stuff there. Two years ago he dug out his his slope was

[2:28] like this. So he dug it out. End up with a retaining m Well, that never finished.

[2:32] So that brings mosquitoes and flies. Whatever. Gory sprays puts fertilizer

[2:37] on. We hire someone to do spraying fertilizer and ours are clean. His

[2:43] dandelions, the only time they get it is when he takes the clipper over them,

[2:47] which they can spread really easy. And now I I come in here and I talk to I

[2:54] can't remember the name, but now you you're going to allow him to put the

[2:59] more of a fence on right on the concrete right there

[3:03] where he's got maybe this far, maybe a foot to go for my line exactly on my

[3:10] line. And uh then the way I see here, he's

[3:15] going to put a gate there. But what we're doing and you're doing it, you're

[3:20] allowing him to enclosed his whole work so he can put his couple lawnmowers that

[3:26] don't run a snowmobile maybe back there. All his tires went back outside after he

[3:32] got a ticket from the police or something. So that's it's you're

[3:37] allowing him just to hide everything. That's what And if this goes through,

[3:41] I'm okay with it, but I I would appreciate it if he would to come over

[3:44] and talk to me before he just starts digging holes in there.

[3:47] » Sure. >> I mean, they seem like a nice couple or

[3:50] they're not married. >> Yeah.

[3:53] » And I guess I mean I got to go with it if that's the policy you got if they can

[3:58] go right on the line. But he was 3 feet back here which matched up to his

[4:02] garage. He did a nice job on his fence. It didn't look bad. But you still got

[4:07] the all the clutter back there. His housekeeping isn't good, you know.

[4:11] » Yeah. >> I mean, and and

[4:16] I mean there were there's I got there the front yard looks bad and all the

[4:22] cars and I can't say if they got tabs on or up to date. Police been over there a

[4:26] few times about this issue. And I I guess if you got more questions,

[4:31] you can ask my neighbor Todd. >> Sure.

[4:34] Yeah, he's Todd's been pretty hopeful about it here in the past.

[4:37] » I guess that's all I got to say. I mean, I can't do nothing if you're going to

[4:40] allow him to do that. It's just it looks good now the way he's got, but you can't

[4:45] » hide. You're just hiding stuff. That's what we're allowing them to do.

[4:51] And uh it's what he hides is stuff that don't work. Don't you don't use their

[4:55] stuff. >> Sure.

[4:59] » I guess that's all I got to say what we can do with it. And from there, I know I

[5:03] got the letter here and stuff and I tried to keep it down to 30 minutes. I

[5:08] talked to you today. >> You did. [laughter]

[5:12] » So, any questions or anything for Bob?

[5:18] » Our our ordinance states that a fence can go on the property line.

[5:23] » That's that's what you're allowing them to just hide all this whatever he's got.

[5:29] There's been there's one right up in his driveway that's been sitting there a

[5:34] year. There's a old car. It's sitting over on the other side in between the

[5:38] house and his garage. That's been sitting there

[5:42] and he's he sells vehicles out of there. He works on vehicles. He sells them.

[5:47] Does mechanical work. Sure. But I don't know if he's got a license with the

[5:53] state or not, but that's up to someone else's answer.

[5:59] Um, as far as these other nuisances, those are are being um

[6:05] » they're going through our nuisance process

[6:07] » being served here. >> Yep. And we've worked with our city

[6:10] attorney's office and our city prosecutor office for these issues,

[6:14] particularly with the car issues. >> Um, and as Mr. Albert stated about the

[6:19] tires, when when receiving a notice about the tires, the tires did disappear

[6:25] from there. They went in his garage, then they went back home after the fence

[6:29] was up cuz he told me it's worth the tigers.

[6:33] » We still, regardless if you have a fence or not, our nuisances policies still

[6:38] apply. Um, so we we still if there are ongoing issues, will work and follow and

[6:45] continue to follow the process. Yeah, that's the only that's the only thing

[6:49] that I was going to offer up to the council if we we were going to have any

[6:53] consideration or discussion here is if there's if we're still able to enforce

[6:57] nuisances as we typically are uh if there's a fence up and then that it

[7:02] sounds like that that is the case. Looks like Pam's gonna ready to chime in here.

[7:08] You're muted though. >> Oh, I was just I was just coming on

[7:12] camera in case I got a question. Oh, so um

[7:17] » but I agree with Elizabeth that you know your nuisance um ordinances still apply

[7:23] and so you'd have to look at the pictures and from whether you know those

[7:29] are inoperable vehicles. Um outdoor storage that isn't allowed

[7:34] there. I'd have to I was just trying to pull up the ordinance on outdoor

[7:38] storage. So um we would could take a look at those types of things.

[7:44] Pam is our city attorney. She's the one that's helping us enforce these

[7:48] businesses here. >> You talk to them. They seem real nice to

[7:50] me. >> Sure.

[7:51] » They got three kids there. Two there and one up and up.

[7:56] » We'll uh you know, we'll do everything that's that's written in our our code to

[8:01] keep up with the nuisances there. Right now we're we're going through these

[8:06] processes. We have the courts involved on them as well. and uh you know we

[8:11] » but I think he's been pulled in 12 times within a year.

[8:15] » Sure. >> So there's bigger problem than what I'm

[8:18] saying probably. >> Um so uh with with knowing that we can

[8:23] still enforce nuisances. Um I I'm not sure if there's there's

[8:31] anything the council can legally do at this point to stop him from putting that

[8:36] fence up. Well, and the the important thing is

[8:39] that you're coming in to let us know about the nuisances because when the

[8:43] fence goes up, we might not see it, but you'll still see the the increase in the

[8:49] mosquitoes and the flies and all the other critters in the area that are

[8:54] going to be bothering you as neighbors. And

[8:56] » you tighten it up, but it's still >> Well, it causes what it causes. You

[9:01] know, those water pools are there and you know, so that Yeah. So we might not

[9:07] see it with the fence, but you are still being affected by it and you see it. So

[9:12] this is Yeah, >> this is about two weeks ago. He was

[9:15] hauling lumber in. They say he's fixing up the basement. He said next year I

[9:19] might be able to sell the place. I told Barb, I said maybe I should go back and

[9:23] tell him to fix the back yard up first, but he I don't think she did.

[9:29] » Anyway, >> we appreciate we we appreciate you

[9:32] coming. >> Okay, that's all I got to say.

[9:34] » Thank you. Thanks for listening. >> Any uh any other members of the

[9:37] community here to address council? >> You're good.

[9:42] » Okay. Thanks. >> Thank you guys.

[9:44] » Thank you. >> All right. We'll close down the public

[9:46] forum portion of the meeting and move down to the setting of the agenda here.

[9:50] » Um if there's anything from the consent

[9:54] agenda you all moved into discussion items, now's a good time to bring it up.

[9:58] There's any other business to bring up, you know, now's good time to add it to

[10:02] discussion items. Otherwise, I'll call for a motion to

[10:06] approve tonight's agenda. >> Second.

[10:10] » Motion's been made by Evers, seconded by Ferguson to approve the agenda. Any

[10:14] other discussion? >> Hearing none, all in favor say I.

[10:18] » I. >> Any opposed. All right. Agenda is set as

[10:22] written. We'll move down to the consent agenda. It includes the meeting minutes

[10:26] from August 17, a staff movement for Jodie Gilbert's uh designating the city

[10:32] administrator to serve as acting city clerk during extended leave. uh

[10:38] approving the transition to Microsoft 365GCC,

[10:44] declaring a slum and blighted area, accepting a quote from AM Electric for

[10:49] electrical department equipment purchase, and then our August

[10:52] dispersements. Call for a motion to approve tonight's

[10:55] consent agenda. So move >> second.

[10:58] » Motion's been made by Ferguson, seconded by Howard to approve the consent agenda

[11:01] as written. Any other discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say I. I.

[11:06] » Any opposed? Consent agenda is approved as written. Moving down to the

[11:10] discussion items. What we have in front of us is the process for a public

[11:14] hearing to consider the vacation of certain open space easements. The

[11:18] process for this is receive some staff reports, then receive public comment,

[11:23] and then to close close the public hearing and take any action. So, at this

[11:28] point, we'll gladly take some staff reports.

[11:32] » Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, so this is a vacation of a open st of the open space

[11:39] ement. Um, I think you've heard me talk about this a couple of different times.

[11:44] Um, vacating or also known as kind of removing the open space easement. It

[11:49] that's on currently several properties in the area. It's created a lot of

[11:53] confusion over what this open space easement is. Um what we have determined

[11:58] with this open space easement is it prohibits development on the area of the

[12:03] easement. Um which we are have currently secured utility easements on a lot of

[12:08] that which means you can't build on a utility easement anyway. Nothing about

[12:13] the actual property will change. Nobody will see a change. It will not be used

[12:19] in any different way. This is something we need to do legally. Um there from the

[12:25] legal perspective, we had our lawyers take a look at it. We believe the open

[12:29] space easement could have already been extinguished when the properties all

[12:33] fell under common ownership. But it was acknowledged that it was a very messy

[12:39] situation and going through the formal vacation process for this open space

[12:43] easement was the cleanest solution moving forward. We have had discussions

[12:47] with the hospital as well because we are currently in discussions with the

[12:51] hospital and county on conveying these 20 ft to the clinic for their westerly

[12:56] access where this open space easement is. Um we the city is maintaining the

[13:02] utility easement that went with one open space easement. So you can see here it's

[13:07] two different easements. Here is an existing easement for open space as well

[13:11] as utilities. We're retaining that utility easement. We're just proposing

[13:15] to vacate the open space easement associated with this map. And then

[13:19] exhibit B is the other open space easements as well. So this is what we're

[13:24] proposing to vacate. You can see they're kind of all over the place. Particularly

[13:29] also that EDA is looking to develop this area and are inactive conversations with

[13:34] developers. This would also impact future development. So removing the open

[13:39] space easements um ease all of that. So this is all a part of you know

[13:45] cleaning up that that area so it's it's more more square uh so everybody has a

[13:55] clear idea of of the ownership of of the associated properties. Um this is

[14:02] something that the EDA and planning and zoning have been working very hard to to

[14:07] simplify this purchase uh while also uh maintaining

[14:14] uh a focus on the existing burning businesses there. So

[14:19] » for the record, can we state where this is?

[14:22] » Yes. So this is um right here north is traditions. Right here is the clinic

[14:30] that houses dialysis and TC aiology. And this is the old hospital lot where the

[14:36] EDA owns those properties. So you have Fair View on the North Street and this

[14:41] is on Park.

[14:45] » Does that help orient everything?

[14:50] » Thank Oh, okay. Thank you very much, Elizabeth. At this point, if anybody is

[14:56] here to address council on the consideration of vacation of certain

[15:02] open space easements, I ask that you address council now. Not seeing any

[15:08] movement on that right now. So, we'll uh we'll close the public hearing portion

[15:12] of of this item here. uh open back up for resolution 87, which is the vacation

[15:20] of certain easements for open space affecting real property located in the

[15:25] city of Olivia. That's resolution 87. I'll call for a motion to approve

[15:30] resolution 87. >> So moved.

[15:33] » Second. >> Motion's made by Howard, seconded by

[15:35] Evers to approve resolution 87. Any other discussion? Hearing none, all in

[15:40] favor say I. >> I.

[15:41] » Any opposed? Resolution 887 um passes. Okay. Now we have another uh public

[15:48] hearing to go through here. We'll take some staff reports on a conditional use

[15:54] permit. >> Thank you. So um this is for a

[15:59] conditional use permit to establish outdoor storage facility what's

[16:02] currently within the I1 light manufacturing industrial district. So

[16:06] this is the address is 21102 Fair View Avenue. Uh the property use consists of

[16:12] outdoor storage bases for boats, campers, fish houses, trailers,

[16:16] vehicles. Um the property was formerly utilized as a feed lot. Um contained a

[16:22] lot of different structures. The applicant has been diligently removing

[16:26] them. Thank you. Um and staff has found that the proposal qualifies as open

[16:32] storage um as the primary use and that's under the conditional use of the

[16:37] district I mentioned previously. Um, we have noted that open storage

[16:42] screening requirements are required. Um, and they should certainly be considered

[16:47] by the city council as part of the conditional use permit requirements. So,

[16:51] screening requirements could be a fence, could be bushes, um, just an active

[16:56] screen. Um when the planning commission uh discussed this, there is a

[17:02] stipulation that there is currently in our code an 8-foot screening requirement

[17:06] and planning commission is interested in reviewing that to see if 8 foot is

[17:11] really necessary. More of them felt like six feet would suffice. So they are

[17:15] looking at um amending that screening requirement in the future from 8T to six

[17:20] feet. Um, and overall staff is recommending the approval of this

[17:26] conditional use permit subject to the following conditions. That it's operated

[17:31] as an outdoor storage facility. Um, storing junk, salvage materials,

[17:36] dismantled vehicles, hazardous materials, or similar nuisance materials

[17:41] not prohibited. Um, any outdoor lighting that's established should be directed

[17:45] downwards to minimize light spillover to neighboring properties. the outdoor

[17:50] storage area should be limited to the proposed fenced area. Um, and then if

[17:56] they expand the storage area, they need to come back and amend the conditional

[18:00] use permit if they're expanding. And then again, that they should require

[18:04] comply with the open storage requirements

[18:07] um, open storage screening requirements, but it is possible that that could be

[18:11] amended. So we're putting a timeline of that as 365 days within the approval of

[18:18] the conditional use permit. So that is and I believe Marissa

[18:25] included a beautiful map just exhibit. So exhibit of the legal

[18:32] description. >> So everybody know the property I'm

[18:35] talking about or do you want me to pull it up?

[18:38] for in humorous. Thank you. Absolutely. Wall 21.

[18:46] Yeah. >> So then if this if the open storage

[18:51] screening requirement goes down to six feet from 8 then their requirement moves

[18:55] to >> six feet. Correct. We don't have to.

[18:59] » Correct. That's why we would we are recommending that they have a full year

[19:04] to come within compliance of that screening requirement because the commit

[19:08] the planning commission is looking at amending that down to six feet. So we're

[19:12] not asking them to build it on day one. We're asking them to give us a little

[19:16] time to consider an amendment and then they would be responsible for the

[19:20] screening requirement. So, if we pass a resolution for it

[19:24] today, >> um, and I don't know if you know the

[19:28] answer, Pam, do we have to pass it with that mentioning

[19:32] » the resolution? The resolution includes those conditions that I just stated.

[19:36] » Yep. >> I'm sorry, that was my staff report. We

[19:39] can get into discussion in a little bit. >> Anybody here from the public to here to

[19:43] address council on this proposed conditional use permit? property owner

[19:48] if you'd like to come up. >> I sure can.

[19:52] » He's going to be like, "Please." >> Yeah. Item P from Augustus, the property

[19:57] owner. >> Whatever questions you may have.

[20:02] » There's the property. >> Any questions from council for Keith?

[20:08] » We bought all the fencing stuff already. >> Yes.

[20:10] » Okay. >> And then you're tearing all that down.

[20:14] » I already did. It's all cleared out. So, what is what is going to be fenced?

[20:20] What do we look for? >> You can go on up and

[20:23] » it's not a smart board, but >> that's okay. So, basically what you're

[20:26] looking at, this is all concrete here except for this section, which I've

[20:30] already rocked and filled in and packed, but this building,

[20:35] the uh cattle shoots, this has all been cleared. This fencing's been cleared.

[20:39] This lean has all been cleared. This concrete is all there yet. So the area

[20:44] that we're talking about fencing, it's 120 ft wide that goes from here to here

[20:48] by 180t deep that goes back here. So that's the square. This section I'm not

[20:54] doing anything with yet, but the square is going to run 120 by 180

[21:00] with your gating. >> So in this area

[21:02] » where your gating will be right here >> and that's why the fencing is required

[21:07] is because it's kind of essentially like just loose out there,

[21:10] » right? There's a screening requirement in our

[21:16] screening requirement, but that makes sense.

[21:18] » It's part of our city for >> Yeah. No, that's a good part of our

[21:21] city.

[21:25] » Any other questions for Keith?

[21:30] » All right, Keith. Now, we need to hear somebody complain about it. So, if you

[21:33] can nothing to complain, I think Dave's here

[21:38] to complain. Oh, thanks. [laughter]

[21:43] Everybody you feel like they got a good idea what's going on?

[21:46] » Yeah. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate it.

[21:48] » All right. >> Marissa's here to answer any code

[21:51] questions. Do you have questions about the code?

[21:53] » Anybody else from the public want to address council on this? All right.

[21:57] Anybody have any questions for Marissa? >> How do you feel about the six to eight?

[22:03] » Uh, very good. >> Okay.

[22:06] » I think it's a good move at 7 ft. it becomes a building permit then you have

[22:10] to have a lot higher requirement uh because of the height. So at six feet

[22:16] we're not requiring anyone to go above and beyond that. They can do that at

[22:20] their discretion. If they want to go higher then they will have to engage in

[22:25] the necessary uh professional uh services to have that height. But if

[22:31] we're trying to remove higher requirements, six feet is a good

[22:35] starting point and then they can choose.

[22:39] » Thank you very much. >> All right. Uh so there's a resolution

[22:44] tied to this. It's resolution 88 approving a conditional use permit for

[22:48] open storage as a primary use on property located within the I1 light

[22:53] manufacturing industrial district. I'll call for a motion to approve resolution

[22:59] 88. So move >> second.

[23:00] » Motion's been made by Howard, seconded by Evers to approve resolution 88. Any

[23:04] other discussion? >> Just pointing out at the end of

[23:08] » Oh, pardon me. >> At the end of the resolution is the

[23:10] conditions that discussed. >> Oh.

[23:16] Uh, any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I.

[23:22] » I. >> Any opposed? All right. Motion carries.

[23:25] Thank you everybody. >> Thank you.

[23:27] » All right. Mike is here to talk about our police chief hiring process.

[23:32] » Want me to sit here? Both of us or do I have to sit? Can I walk or you want me

[23:37] to? >> You can walk.

[23:38] » Oh, okay. >> You can walk.

[23:39] » Let me do this. I I don't know if I need to introduce myself, but I'm my uncle

[23:44] with South Central South Central Service Cooperative. I appreciate the

[23:48] opportunity to work with you guys again. And hopefully we're as successful as we

[23:54] were the last time around. And so I have a partner with me. Well, I've

[24:01] been in local government for 39 years. I've only hired or assisted in the

[24:07] hiring of two police chiefs. One's sitting right here and and the other one

[24:11] had had retired, too. So, and at the time when Mike was hired, we used Baker

[24:16] Tilly to assist us in in that process. Um, so I'm going to let Mike introduce

[24:23] himself. I just handed out a little bit of information about Mike, his resume,

[24:28] and that sort of thing. But Mike's going to be kind of our expert in the process.

[24:33] So, he will be with me the entire time we do the the initial application review

[24:40] and screening. Um, he will work with the city on some of the post board

[24:48] requirements. post stands for >> peace officer standard and testing.

[24:54] » So he'll make sure that we comply [clears throat] with that throughout the

[24:58] throughout the whole process and then at the end as we get to the end of the

[25:03] process and we're here and um doing our interviews, Mike will be part of that um

[25:10] from the interviews to deliberation as our expert. I he's could answer a whole

[25:16] lot more questions about policing and what that takes and what those post

[25:20] standards require. So, we'll be tag teaming this along with the the rest of

[25:26] our our team at South Central Service Co-op. But Mike, you want to just kind

[25:30] of introduce yourself and Sure. Um, again, thanks for the opportunity to be

[25:34] here. Um, Leonard, I was recently retired after 30 years in law

[25:38] enforcement. Um, 27 of those were with my last department with City of

[25:42] Fairmont. uh nine of those as chief and seen a lot of changes and we talk about

[25:50] changes challenges and opportunities and that's kind of what you guys are are at

[25:53] here and when I started in 2016 as chief of police first thing off the bat I

[25:59] ended up hiring three officers in my first month. Uh so since then I probably

[26:04] hired between full-time officers um part-time officers civilian staff

[26:09] probably close to 25 people during that time. Uh,

[26:14] of course after I retired or my last year of retirement, they hired a HR

[26:18] director to handle all that. So, um, but I greatly enjoyed that part of my job

[26:22] was working with people, working with the hiring process. Um

[26:28] with that seeing some some different changes in our applicants for patrol

[26:33] officer positions and really for us we saw a difference in the number of

[26:39] applicants and that's unfortunately sometimes corresponding with other

[26:44] positions within uh the profession as well. But a lot of

[26:49] it has to do with some things that happened way before way back um in time.

[26:55] If we look at the mid60s when uh the seven county metro area a lot of these

[27:01] agencies and cities started to incorporate. So during that time they

[27:04] are hiring a large amount of new police officers. So in 1964 1965 you see a lot

[27:12] of places with a um huge increase in hiring for the

[27:17] profession. 30 years later, all those people retiring and we saw our next rush

[27:22] of that in about 1995, which is when I started. And with that, we also saw the

[27:29] um I think you remember the term Clinton cops back in the day. Uh in 1994, Bill

[27:35] Clinton signed a bill to put a 100,000 more police officers on on the streets.

[27:40] And that was also during this time that we were seeing this huge turnover in

[27:44] that first batch of police officers. So, um, Fairmont went from we had 15

[27:50] officers at the time, we got three of those positions. So, um, and we've

[27:53] retained those since. So, now that same group along with my group that's

[28:00] retired, a lot of people that were hired during that same time are also retiring.

[28:04] So, we're seeing that vacancy cycle again. Um, and that that really

[28:10] affects some of these um, executive positions as well. Also um you know

[28:16] since 2020 we also saw some changes after co and George Floyd uh police

[28:21] reform that was in our state here uh created a lot of changes in the

[28:25] profession and some people chose to leave the profession. Um saw people

[28:30] chose not to go into some of the schools anymore. So we saw the recruitment

[28:34] [clears throat] issue and we've been addressing that um pretty aggressively

[28:37] as a profession and we're seeing that coming back. So that's great to see.

[28:42] We're seeing a lot of good people getting back into this profession. Um,

[28:46] [clears throat] with that um, you know, we're seeing um, numbers of candidates

[28:52] being down, but I, as we talked about those opportunities, I don't see that as

[28:56] a bad thing. Back in the day, we used to go through everybody's resume where you

[29:01] had a checklist where we were looking for everything else and because we were

[29:05] sorting through probably about 40 to 50 applicants for one job in a city the

[29:09] size of Fairmont. Um, so we're trying to get that down to a workable number. Um,

[29:15] what I'm finding out and what I like doing, we just invite everybody in. We

[29:19] get to know them as a candidate. We sit across the table from them. We talk to

[29:22] them and we focus more on their character. What are they going to bring

[29:25] to the table? They may not have some things checked on their resume, but they

[29:30] bring some characteristics and traits we're looking for. And that's kind of

[29:33] the um, I guess exciting thing for me in speaking with Mike and what they look

[29:38] for in their process. Um, we're looking for some of those traits and again

[29:42] trades that are going to fit for the city of Bolivia here. So, um, really

[29:46] looking forward to that. Um, and one of the things, you know, Mike says I'm an

[29:51] expert. I'm not an expert. I'm a resource. I'm a resource for you guys as

[29:54] well. So, you have my contact information.

[29:57] » Okay. I'm Mike's expert, but I'm a resource to you guys. If you have any

[30:01] questions on anything during the time, feel free just get a hold of me. Shoot

[30:04] me a text, give me a call, shoot me an email, whatever works for you. I'm

[30:07] always there. Um, I'll be more than happy to get back to you and talk to you

[30:11] about some things. So, but looking forward to it. So, it's kind of a great

[30:14] opportunity for me and yeah, very pleased to be here. Thank you.

[30:18] » So, what what I want to do next then is talk about our process and I mean we've

[30:23] all been through it before, but this is a little different. So,

[30:30] just take one. This is I'm just kind of going to go

[30:35] through our philosophy a little bit. You you know, our thing is that you're all

[30:41] volunteers, you have day jobs, um you have families, so you don't have

[30:48] the time to do the search and the vetting that that we're going to do. Let

[30:52] us do that. Trust us to do the right thing. And then

[30:59] your staff on the other hand, they have a lot on their plate as well.

[31:05] And if they're doing this recruitment, they're not getting something else done.

[31:11] So, I think having a recruiter is important. Um, we don't leave your staff

[31:18] out. They're part of the process, but we go out and we do the the marketing and

[31:23] the advertisement and we'll certainly work with the city staff, especially on

[31:28] a search like this. Do you know of any individuals in the region that might be

[31:35] thinking about looking at this? We can we can make contact with them. We can

[31:39] tell them, hey, here's here's the here's the position. What kind of questions you

[31:43] have? So, we'll include staff. But I think really, you know, our process is

[31:48] we'll bring you hopefully three or four candidates that all have

[31:55] the skill sets to do the job. They might not have been police chiefs before. They

[32:00] might have varying backgrounds, but all of them have the skill sets to do the

[32:04] job. your job and your city staff's job because we'll include them in the

[32:08] process like we did last time is to determine who's the best fit for the

[32:14] city of Olivia organization and and your community. That's really what's going to

[32:18] make make the position important. So, I'm not going to walk through the, you

[32:23] know, Mike and I, we'll figure out a process to weed out the applications or

[32:28] weed out the applicants and get down to the process that we're going to begin to

[32:35] identify finalist when we do that. If you remember, I work with another

[32:39] private consultant that is is also is an expert in HR as Mike is in law

[32:45] enforcement and she does a management leadership assessment and a PXT

[32:51] assessment. Now, the PXT assessment we purchased. Last time we purchased one

[32:56] that said what are the the the thinking style and behavioral traits and interest

[33:01] we need for a city administrator. this time that company will create that same

[33:06] PXT assessment for the the ne the things that a a police chief should should

[33:11] bring to to the organization. And I think the best way to kind of talk

[33:18] about how where Mike's going to fit in is in is in and a full process. And this

[33:24] is for um councelor Howard because I don't think he was part of this last

[33:28] time, but let me just walk through this. So the 17th of August you you decided to

[33:35] hire us. Um the 2 or yeah to move forward the 26th you uh I

[33:43] passed out a questionnaire. I got I think 12 or 13 of those back. They'll be

[33:48] summarized in your position profile and we'll also use that to help candidates

[33:54] understand what the expectations of the city are. So we'll do that. So, um,

[34:00] August 26th to the 11th, we'll be putting together the position profile,

[34:05] developing our our marketing strategy, um, how we're going to identify people,

[34:11] and and we've decided that I'll let Mike touch on this if there's questions, but

[34:17] I don't think it's in our best interest to look nationally. I think we're going

[34:22] to look regionally. Iowa, um, Wisconsin, maybe a little bit in South Dakota, but

[34:28] but regionally, I think nationally, I just think sometimes we just run into

[34:34] finding people running from something maybe. So, we'll we'll keep it we'll

[34:39] keep it regionally. Um, we will market to

[34:43] all the post places that that they accept applications for Minnesota police

[34:50] officers, all the standards, league of Minnesota cities, Iowa League of Cities

[34:55] and so on, ICMA, um,

[34:59] National Association of Counties, that sort of thing.

[35:03] So, we've got all that done. We'll begin advertising on the 11th.

[35:09] um we'll advertise for 30 days. Um the end of 30 days will take so October 12th

[35:17] to the 30th that's 15 working days and that seems like a long time but Mike so

[35:25] I can get through our process pretty quick but post requirements and that

[35:30] that we want to make sure if you were to get audited you pass all of those. So,

[35:36] Mike, can you just kind of run through some of the steps we would do in that

[35:40] part of the vetting process? >> Um, nothing more fun than going through

[35:44] a post audit at your agency and one of the things they do is they take your

[35:47] background packets and they scrutinize them. Make sure you hit their five or

[35:51] six pages of checklist items that you have to have and uh

[35:57] my agency them every time. So, it's uh something I'm very proud of, but it's

[36:01] not a fun process um because they they hold our licenses and if we're not

[36:06] hitting those marks and we're not hiring by their standards and making sure that

[36:10] we're checking all those boxes, um we'll have repercussions. So, with that, um we

[36:16] have a variety of things that we have to that post mandates that we have to

[36:20] include in a background check. And it's a bit of a process um but it's uh it's

[36:27] one that um like I say it gives you a great insight into who you're looking at

[36:33] as a candidate and if there's any issues you know everything we it used to be

[36:38] you're doing the criminal background and all that other stuff. But now it's also

[36:41] including um you know certain marks of their social media, making sure that

[36:47] they're um out there putting hateful things out on social media. Um that the

[36:54] social media is reflective of what you want in a candidate for your community.

[36:58] Um also we going we have to um uh focus in on if they're current law enforcement

[37:05] officer there's free gig requirements. So basically it has to do with what

[37:09] their reputation and if there's any impeachable

[37:14] um conduct that their um their county attorney is aware of that they have to

[37:21] provide to defense council. So we have to document quite a few different areas.

[37:25] It takes quite a bit of time. Um but it's done for a reason. Has to be done.

[37:31] Um I love doing and I hate doing it without saying it's a very exhaustive

[37:36] process. Um, but what what our I'm looking at doing is

[37:41] making sure that we have a background candidate for the candidates that you're

[37:44] background packet out to the candidates that you're interested so they can start

[37:48] gathering that information. They have to go back and provide to the city um their

[37:53] their transcription schools they've attended, everything along those lines.

[37:57] So there's there's a lot of things they also have to bring to the table as well.

[38:01] » Can you explain to the council this impeachable? So like basically if if

[38:06] they have any dis stuff on their records, it has to do with so Brady

[38:09] Gigglio is um is reference to basically if the law enforcement officer has shown

[38:17] a pattern of being dishonest, their testimony in court does not carry the

[38:21] same weight as an officer that's not on a gigio list. So you look at some of the

[38:25] larger departments, um at one point my understanding was Minneapolis when they

[38:30] were full staff had about 100 officers on that. um

[38:36] it just doesn't work well. You can't have um but you can't ignore it either.

[38:42] So that's where it's just you have to make sure that we're checking those

[38:45] marks. So basically if the person has a history of um

[38:51] uh disciplinary actions of abuse of power if there's a whole variety of

[38:56] things that could factor into that. So basically when our officers go to

[39:00] testify, I provide any disciplinary stuff, any um concerns to the

[39:07] prosecuting attorney who then turns that over to the uh defense attorney. So it

[39:12] has to do with their credibility as wife to the

[39:14] » Thank you for that. >> Yep.

[39:18] » Yep. Absolutely. So um any other questions about kind of the whole thing?

[39:24] It basically there's you know we've talked about some things that we'll also

[39:28] need to have um from the city on that and uh again at the end of the day you

[39:33] guys retain it all and when post comes and call it you can end of that and um

[39:39] just let them go through it. But yeah it's a it's a a very in-depth look into

[39:44] the candidates's life to make sure that they're going to be a good fit for your

[39:47] community and good for your department but it's checking a lot of boxes for the

[39:52] state. So we're so basically we're doing the same thing we did last time, but

[39:57] Mike's ensuring that we're we're getting the things done that the state requires.

[40:01] Um there's more. So we'll do that for the candidates that we want to once you

[40:08] decide here's we'll say here's the three. Yes, I want to interview those.

[40:14] Then we'll do some additional background and and that and then there will be some

[40:18] final background that will be done even after you make your final decision on

[40:23] that individual. Correct. >> Um yeah, you talk about the formal or

[40:27] conditional job offers. >> Yeah, basically the conditional job

[40:30] offer um points you're required to send to a psych medical um that part of that

[40:35] and retain that information. But um yeah, that would be I mean for the

[40:40] candidate that jumps out that you guys want to go after, that would be

[40:44] something to set up at that point. Um the background's good for 6 months, the

[40:48] psychological is good for uh 12 months during that time. So,

[40:54] » oh, so the first part that you were talking about, you're going to do that

[40:56] to everybody that applies to see if they should even move forward.

[41:00] » Going to start with that vetting process. get through our vetting before

[41:04] we take anybody through the through the next step of the

[41:08] » So basically when when you as a council say we really like this candidate then

[41:13] we're going to look at I'm going to give them the back so

[41:17] presented they'll have the background pack that they can start on because it

[41:20] takes so while it's about >> 60 pages of stuff they have to put

[41:25] together um where they've lived every county they've lived in I mean we go and

[41:29] look for police contacts and every place they've lived. Um, so it's very

[41:35] intensive, but it's also intensive for the candidates have a lot together and

[41:39] put together. So, um, basically got the first part is Mike vetting them just as

[41:44] a a candidate. Um, and my part is when you guys find the candidate, you're

[41:50] like, this is the one we want to move forward with. Um, they'll hand me that

[41:54] packet and I'll just get that stuff rolling so you have that information as

[41:58] quick as we can. And I just write I mean to the point now that's a lot more in

[42:03] depth than yeah >> I hired the city administrator and so

[42:06] that'll you know set up the interviews hope hopefully our date is November 2nd

[42:13] for interviews um November 16th and 17th that part of the process will be a lot

[42:20] the same. I um I think it's important for the candidates to meet with city

[42:26] staff. Um, I think it's important that that Elizabeth talk to them and outline

[42:33] expectations and that sort of thing. And you know, if you want with that

[42:38] candidate and I've done when city hired Mike, we had a a meet and greet as you

[42:45] know, so the community can meet them. We did that last time your city

[42:49] administrator. So, a lot of that will be the same. the the two the day and a half

[42:54] structure will be the same, but all of the stuff behind the scenes is going to

[42:58] be much more. Mike's here to do that for us. Um,

[43:05] you know, I think and I think you went over that medical. Yeah. So yeah, it

[43:12] seems like a long process and you know if we get to it and we don't think one

[43:16] of the things I'll be doing um in that time period as the applications come in

[43:23] I'll send Elizabeth a week you know every seven to 10 days kind of how many

[43:29] applicants applications we we received I'll give you a brief summary of those

[43:35] no names no nothing like that but just their educational background around, you

[43:40] know, years of service, that sort of thing. So, you're getting an update. And

[43:46] if we get to um October 12th and we don't think there's

[43:54] candidates we want to where I'm not going to bring you bodies. I'm going to

[43:57] bring you qualified candidates. I'll I'll you'll know that and we'll talk to

[44:02] Elizabeth and we'll just kind of sit back, visit a little bit, regroup and

[44:08] and extend it. But I'm I'm hopeful. I you know, I think you're in a good area

[44:14] with some larger cities around you where there's sergeants in different levels of

[44:20] of officers in the area that may or may not be interested. But um you know and

[44:25] there's a lot of that um and Mike said this earlier there's a lot of folks out

[44:30] there that are saying you know still want to be in law enforcement but I

[44:34] don't know if I need to be in a major metropolitan city and you know maybe in

[44:39] maybe it's some of those folks that are 10 15 years into their career and

[44:46] they've had a lot of good and bad experiences that you know they're just

[44:50] ready to wind things down and not that They're not going to be prepared for

[44:55] anything that happens, but it's not hundreds of calls and just the the

[45:00] mental >> things they go through. So,

[45:04] » everything happens just not as frequently,

[45:06] » right? >> I think that's probably very true, too.

[45:09] » And like I say, very remarkable community. I mean, it's it's a lot of

[45:13] positive things that you have here for somebody that's looking to not be in the

[45:16] metro. And there's law enforcement outside of the metro. I keep trying to

[45:21] tell people that [clears throat] but a lot of positivity. I grew up in St. Paul

[45:25] and first thing I did was move out of the area. Uh it really enjoyed being in

[45:31] the metro and um one of my daughters just moved back to Minneapolis. So um

[45:38] she's going to school there and I've been trying to get her to come back to

[45:42] Fairmont but um mother daughter was about a mile from me in Fairmont so

[45:48] she'll never leave. So yeah, one of them,

[45:51] » you know, and one of the things I recall, you know, um we had a number of

[45:55] officers from from the metro and you know, they they bring great experience

[46:00] and that sort of thing and it they seem to work out well. So we'll do our best

[46:06] to target those kind of folks and [clears throat]

[46:09] questions for us. >> I do want to address something you

[46:13] mentioned earlier when you kind of just started with the intro, Mike. I do

[46:18] appreciate that, you know, you're going to be kind of taking some workload off

[46:22] of our staff here, but I just want to let you know the reason why we hired you

[46:26] guys is because of the results you provide. in both the um executive

[46:33] searches that I've been involved with with your company, I

[46:38] this is strange to say it in front of Elizabeth, but I am absolutely uh

[46:43] incredibly impressed by the level of candidates that you bring to the table.

[46:47] That is why we hired you. Well, I I appreciate that, but I think those

[46:50] candidates were in both were looking at your community and where they wanted to

[46:56] be next in their career, and sometimes you just get lucky,

[47:00] » too. [laughter] There's times

[47:04] a charm. Great. I I I do I do appreciate it, but if you

[47:10] have any qu you know, I do think it's important to take the the the load off

[47:15] the city staffs and and herb for majority of it, but keeping the staff

[47:21] and you involved is is important. I have a friend of mine that's the city

[47:25] administrator in Jainsville, Clinton Rogers, and I was talking to him, you

[47:30] know, they they are finally after two years, they did the search internally or

[47:37] by themselves, he and the council and and they're they are bringing a

[47:41] candidate finally to um the interview process, but it's it's a lot. he didn't

[47:48] quite understand all of this and some of the challenges with the with the market

[47:54] out there right now and Mike understands the market and talking to those folks

[47:58] daily. So >> well and knowing how to word it and

[48:02] knowing what an officer I mean that's so smart on your end to have

[48:08] » you know a different >> Yeah. Yeah. We don't know like we're

[48:12] just like hey job money here you go. I mean, obviously Elizabeth would do way

[48:16] better than I would do as posting at a job, but um but that knowledge to add

[48:22] that on there and your timeline always seems to be on point like, "Yep, we're

[48:29] here. We're here. We're we're not like, "Oh, we're behind." You know what I

[48:32] mean? It's always been nice to know that this is a timeline and this is actually

[48:37] the timeline that we're going with. Well, let's let's

[48:42] be confident that on the 16th and 17th we at least have two to three people to

[48:49] look at. >> Love it.

[48:52] Any questions, R for Mike and Mike? >> I think you know everybody knows how to

[48:58] get a hold of me. You have Mike's resume with his contact information. We both

[49:03] bring a fair amount of folk from our homes. My travel a lot, but

[49:10] Yeah. And it's good to be back in Olivia. I told Mike it's been a year or

[49:14] two since I've been here and it has been, you know, over three. So I city

[49:20] hall looks beautiful. >> Yeah, absolutely.

[49:24] » Thank you. >> Well, we appreciate you guys coming

[49:26] down. We appreciate you guys uh helping us out through this very important task

[49:30] and and we look forward to uh the process.

[49:34] » Thank you much.

[49:37] Enjoy your evening.

[49:44] » Good to see you. Thank you. >> Thank you both.

[49:46] » Thank you. One thing that I do want to put before I leave. Um September is

[49:52] prostate cancer awareness month. Next month will be six years for me. Cancer

[49:57] three. It was a blood test that established my baseline. ESA blood test.

[50:03] You are not too young. We're getting guys, especially those that are

[50:06] deployed. We're getting guys that are coming in and testing positive for this

[50:10] at 25 and 27 years old. So, get the blood test. It's not the dreaded digit

[50:15] test anymore. >> I suppose you want that, but I'll

[50:20] request it. But >> no, no, God for me.

[50:23] » Thank you, brother.

[50:25] » Thank you all. There you go. >> All right, we're moving down to the

[50:30] first reading of ordinance 13, which is repealing and replacing chapter 93 on

[50:36] animals of the city code of the city of Olivia, Minnesota.

[50:40] » Yeah. So, no action tonight. Just wanted to share this with you. Um, initially

[50:45] when we were proposing revisions to the current code, um, myself, um, Chief

[50:51] Crumbhower worked with our city attorney's office. they decided it

[50:56] became too unwieldy to try and iron out kind of the

[51:00] inconsistencies in the existing code and then harmonizing it with applicable

[51:06] provisions of state law. So they started over from a Minnesota basic code of

[51:11] ordinances template and then they made edits to more closely reflect what

[51:16] Olivia's current code were appropriate align um to help us create this new city

[51:23] code. It really where we were really struggling with our previous animal code

[51:27] was particularly along the designations of potentially dangerous and dangerous

[51:31] animals and the inconsistencies there as well as the inconsistencies against

[51:37] state law. So this cleans it up immensely. Um Pam and her team um did a

[51:44] great job working on this. I don't know Pam if you have any other comments you

[51:47] want to present. Um, I just would point out that um

[51:52] there's also a provision that was that we included related to um not allowing

[51:58] feeding of stray cats. Um so I know that that's been a concern

[52:04] as well in the city. Uh so that was a provision that we

[52:09] included. And um just emphasizing Elizabeth's comments uh that the former

[52:16] code was out uh was not consistent with state law with respect to um dangerous

[52:22] and potentially dangerous dogs and their designations. So,

[52:27] » so you can hear see here um I know it's been brought to my attention pretty

[52:32] quickly since I moved here about stray cats mainly not a lot of stray dogs but

[52:38] the concern is people feeding stray cats which keep them to stay and hang around.

[52:43] So we did address that here. >> Anything addresses uh feeding wild

[52:48] animals or is that going to cover it too? Uh Pam, anything that particularly

[52:53] addresses feeding wild animals? >> Not that I recall.

[52:58] » Not not in this um >> not not as written. Um we didn't know

[53:04] that that was something that was going on or that was a concern. So we can

[53:09] certainly take a look at >> I don't know. What do you guys think? I

[53:13] I have a neighbor that I know I have to feed other animals.

[53:18] Not that it's ever bothered me, but >> I mean we can certainly offer an

[53:23] amendment during the second reading. Correct. Pam,

[53:26] » are we calling >> that will give us I would like to get a

[53:28] better idea of what's going on and just to take a look at it. I mean it could

[53:32] possibly be that that's something more of a nuisance than under the ant. But um

[53:37] we certainly because we have definitions of domestic and non-domemesticated

[53:41] animals. So I just would like to get a better understanding.

[53:45] » Sure. um of what's happening and where it would

[53:50] best be addressed. >> Let us look into that.

[53:53] » Okay, >> good suggestion.

[53:55] » Whether it is addressed in this ordinance or if there's a different

[53:58] ordinance. >> I just thought I'd bring it.

[54:00] » Yeah, thank you. >> Feed the black and white stripe and

[54:04] can't see it. [laughter]

[54:07] » The white stripe going down the middle. Okay. Uh any other questions?

[54:16] Thank you on that.

[54:24] » All right, we'll move on to staff reports.

[54:27] » Sure. So, a couple of different reports were included in your packet. Um, one

[54:31] was done, well, two actually were done by our intern about uh, we had a lot of

[54:38] questions during the airport work session about the hanger fees and where

[54:42] we were at. Uh, we're actually pretty in the market for hanger fees. Um, to be

[54:48] quite honest with you, where we could use an update would be our large hanger

[54:53] rental fees. Um, those are on a different lease timeline than the tea

[54:58] hangers. So, both myself and Sean have calendar reminders for the spring to

[55:04] re-examine that to provide ample notice in the contract for that rent to

[55:09] possibly increase it a little bit. Um, but it was great. It was great work done

[55:14] by Owen. He let me know he learned a lot about airports. Uh, he was cold calling

[55:19] a lot of cities for this information and quite a few cities asked to see the

[55:23] report after he was done. So, he also got to share out the information which

[55:26] was great. Um, so that's in the airport.

[55:30] » Can I go jump back to the cat dog feeding thing?

[55:33] » Okay. >> What if somebody says they're their

[55:35] cats? Do we have something about not having 19 loose cats around your house?

[55:41] » Are we addressing I'm sorry. I just I just want to make it as clear as

[55:45] possible for whoever is trying to >> It's a hot button for the community.

[55:48] It's good to square this away. >> You know what I mean? Just have it if

[55:52] somebody's like, "Oh, these aren't stray cats. They're mine. All 19 of them.

[55:57] Pam, do you recall if we have a limit number

[56:01] » or if they can be out and about? Can you have your cats out around?

[56:06] » So, technically we do have a ordinance against dogs and cats running at large.

[56:11] So, right here on the screen running at large.

[56:14] » Um, so it's unlawful for any person who harbors or keeps a dog and cat to

[56:19] prevail to they can't run at large. They have to be on a leash or they have to be

[56:25] under the control and direction of a person to be effectively restrained by

[56:29] command as leash. So if you have a dog who's trained within a ventur's life,

[56:32] you say here and it comes here. >> That that applies as well. So you can't

[56:37] just have 19 cats running at large and

[56:42] » around the neighborhood >> around the neighborhood and say they're

[56:45] yours. >> Okay? Because that would be against our

[56:48] » Does that get you out of getting into trouble for feeding out? because

[56:51] » because they would be at large which is prohibited.

[56:54] » Does that address that concern? >> Yes. Okay.

[56:56] » Yeah. Thank you. >> And I would say that there's also some

[57:00] um provisions with nuisances about um that type of you know um

[57:08] ownership or or statements claims. You know, would this mindset kind of

[57:16] just logically lead some lead anyone to interpret that the outdoor feeding of an

[57:22] unleashed animal is completely prohibited?

[57:25] » You would think so, but it doesn't. >> I mean, well, this is a new I mean, this

[57:28] is new. >> Yeah,

[57:30] » but I mean, wouldn't that be wouldn't that be a logical interpretation of all

[57:33] this? I

[57:35] » think you get it there. Yeah. That essentially don't put any type of animal

[57:39] food outside. Actually, that's such a good point. What if somebody has one cat

[57:44] and says they're only feeding their cat, [clears throat] but

[57:47] » their leash cat, >> their leashed cat outside, but other

[57:51] cats are stealing the food or the dog. >> Again, I think the city's recommendation

[57:56] would be to bring in I mean, it's a lot of whatifs. You can't you can't, you

[58:00] know, do your code on every single what if, but I think then the the

[58:03] recommendation to the city would be move that feed bowl inside.

[58:08] » Okay. >> Right. So, if we have somebody who's who

[58:10] has an issue with it and says, "Well, I like to feed my dog outside." There are

[58:14] a couple ways. One, do you have an enclosure for your animal outside?

[58:18] Right? Like in our code, you can have a dog pen. Well, that's completely fenced

[58:22] in, especially from the top. That's not as big of a concern. That's not an open

[58:25] food bowl if it's in a secure kennel. But otherwise, if you have an open food

[58:30] bowl and you have all these 19 cats and you're saying, "Well, my food bowl is

[58:34] only for my one." Then we have a conversation. Let's move your food bowl

[58:38] inside. Water bowl, great, but food bowl, let's move inside.

[58:43] » Okay, >> good questions.

[58:49] » Yeah, I think this will be helpful. Anyway, any other uh staff reports?

[58:54] » Yes, we also have um Owen also put together a staff report for the

[58:59] community center and the usage this summer. And so you can read about it in

[59:04] the packet, but just a couple of overall um I wanted to give you some comparison

[59:09] numbers for last year as well. So total in 2026, we had 478 people visit the

[59:15] community center this summer around the end of May to the end of August. 222 of

[59:22] those were open gym, 256 were corn. So you can really see how cornland has

[59:27] become a good attraction for our community. If you compare this number

[59:31] with last year 2025, we had 94 visitors. So really picked up um our visitors

[59:38] unique visitors in 2026 we had 105 unique visitors and 373 repeat visitors

[59:44] which is great. It shows people are coming back. Um last year we had 44

[59:49] unique visitors and 50 repeat visitors. Um this year we had 133 punch card uses.

[59:56] So people are really utilizing those punch cards when they're coming to visit

[59:59] the community center. Last year we only had 11. Um open gym visitors were most

[1:00:05] engaged with program activities. You may recall this year we um offered a couple

[1:00:09] more structured activities throughout the day. Those were most popular from

[1:00:13] late May to mid July. Um after that a lot of the visitors were returning and

[1:00:19] so they had done a lot of the activities already. So Owen pivoted and planned

[1:00:23] activities towards his repeat visitors that would keep them engaged. Um most of

[1:00:28] the unique visitors were just May and June, not July or August. Wednesday was

[1:00:34] the least busy day of the week, which I found was interesting. In the middle of

[1:00:37] the week, it was least busy for both Cornland and Open Gym. Open Gym and

[1:00:41] Cornland had nearly identical statistics and attendance except for Fridays where

[1:00:45] Cornland had nearly twice the attendance. I attribute that to a lot of

[1:00:49] our um community daycarees would visit on Fridays. Um nearly all open gym

[1:00:54] visitors were in the 6 to 18 age range. Slime making was the most popular

[1:00:59] scheduled activity. Um and average arrival time was 10:09 a.m. and exit

[1:01:06] time was 11:43 a.m. So we really focused on those morning hours.

[1:01:13] So that's we have for the summer community report. What other reports

[1:01:17] could you possibly have for us today? >> Um, I have S&P global ratings to share

[1:01:22] with you all that we are rated at an A+ which is very exciting. Um, and then we

[1:01:27] also included the pool report as well. Um, and those are kind of the main

[1:01:34] things that we have to report out on. >> Any reports from council?

[1:01:42] just that we had the pool board meeting and we were discussing the Orca's

[1:01:48] contract and the increase that we were going to do there and then we had the

[1:01:55] sand filter replacement discussion but we had we tabled that discussion.

[1:02:00] Um, and then just Tracy went over some of

[1:02:05] the stuff that she was going to do for the fall to get people into the pool.

[1:02:17] » Yeah, it was just focused on the property. Um, we didn't have a park.

[1:02:23] and um planning and zoning is focused on on the 212 beef and hog property there

[1:02:30] that we just talked about. So >> there

[1:02:33] » and PUC meets tomorrow >> and I'll be at that meeting tomorrow for

[1:02:38] » right >> alternate format. [clears throat]

[1:02:40] Is it going to be fun? >> A fun

[1:02:42] » we'll be we'll be reviewing at PUC to give you a sneak peek. We'll be

[1:02:46] reviewing the MMPA contract as well as the suggested rates for 2027.

[1:02:54] » Sounds like a lot of fun. >> Yeah, that's going to be fun.

[1:02:59] » I'll see you there. >> Negotiating the last one.

[1:03:02] » Yeah. >> Do we have any

[1:03:04] » The final The final decision is tomorrow, is it?

[1:03:07] » No, it's your recommendation. >> Do we have any notices or communications

[1:03:11] to talk about? Ridfest this Saturday. If you haven't gotten your tickets yet,

[1:03:17] please reach out to Kevin at the Olivia Fire Department for tickets. $25 per

[1:03:23] person >> and

[1:03:25] they sell them there. If they're not sold out,

[1:03:28] » just so you know, everybody here and listening is required to vote for the

[1:03:34] Olivia favor. >> I do. Um, also we're looking for a new

[1:03:40] chamber. Yes. John, do you want to talk about that?

[1:03:43] » Yeah. So, we uh the chamber board has accepted the resignation of the former

[1:03:49] director, McKenzie, and we are now actively uh searching for a uh a new uh

[1:03:56] chamber director. It's a part-time position, roughly 20 hours a week. You

[1:04:00] have any interest in it, feel free to reach out to me. I'll get you uh some

[1:04:04] application materials and we will go through that process. Thank you for

[1:04:09] bringing that up. It's important. It's an important role

[1:04:12] in our community. Um, it's a halftime role. So, uh, you know, that that comes

[1:04:20] in in that comes with its limitations is from a recruiting aspect. But, um, there

[1:04:25] are some there have been some really great community-minded halftime uh, EDA

[1:04:31] direct uh, chamber directors out there in the past and uh, hopefully we can

[1:04:36] find another one to keep the chamber moving forward strong. So,

[1:04:40] » and we are planning on this year's trunk or treat event with outdoor fall themed

[1:04:45] movie for Saturday, October 10th. >> It's a movie.

[1:04:49] » Halloween Town. >> Oh, I think that's a uh

[1:04:54] » it's like a Disney Channel originality.

[1:04:58] » It's a good one. >> Wonderful.

[1:05:02] » I asked kids this year. I said, "What movies do you usually watch for

[1:05:05] Halloween?" And that was immediate response. fantastic like Friday the

[1:05:10] 13th. >> Here's the problem. I'm [laughter] a

[1:05:13] wuss.

[1:05:17] » It's not 1987. We can't raise our kids like that.

[1:05:20] » If you watch Until Dawn, >> no, that's scary.

[1:05:26] » Watch Until Dawn. >> You picked the wrong person to host a

[1:05:28] horror movie like this. Just letting you know.

[1:05:31] » No, no other business on the agenda. I'll call for a motion to adjurnn.

[1:05:36] » So, second. Motion's been made by Ever, seconded by Ferguson to adjurnn. Any

[1:05:40] other discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say I.

[1:05:43] » I. >> Any opposed?

[1:05:44] » Well, thank you everybody. We're >> journal.

[1:05:47] Thanks, ma'am.

09.08.2026 City Council Meeting

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