[2:04] The parking area, the ramps, the city council, the city council, the city council, the city council, the city rules under Einsatz.

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[2:37] Notice of changes in the agenda by the city clerk.

[2:39] Additions may not be made to this agenda less than 24 hours before the beginning of the meeting, unless added under item five of this agenda.

[2:46] No changes, okay.

[2:48] Citizens with business not scheduled on the agenda is required by state law.

[2:51] No matter may be considered under this item, unless council determines that the matter requires emergency action.

[2:56] have any emergency action.

[2:59] Close session, council reserves are ready to enter in a closed session of Dean necessary.

[3:03] If the item is on the agenda as per section 84, 14, 10, and the Nebraska revised statutes.

[3:09] Consent calendar items and the consent calendar proposed for adoption by one action for all items unless any member of the council requested an item be considered separately.

[3:23] We have a motion to approve the consent calendar.

[3:27] Any comments or questions?

[3:30] Okay.

[3:32] Philips.

[3:32] Yes.

[3:33] Solomon.

[3:33] Yes.

[3:34] Macaraghan.

[3:34] Yes, striker.

[3:36] Yes.

[3:36] Been locked.

[3:37] Yes.

[3:38] Bids and awards.

[3:39] Council to discuss and consider awarding the bid for a new playground structure and equipment for East

[3:44] Overland Park to miracle play systems.

[3:46] Three incorporated for the amount of $41,071.

[3:53] Good evening, Mayor Council.

[3:54] So this bid is for a new playground structure and some swings at East Overland Park.

[4:03] We had some damage to a slide there and this unit that is currently there was a 1999 unit.

[4:11] So parts are pretty much obsolete at this point.

[4:14] You can find some retrofits up but it doubles the price and all that.

[4:19] So it makes sense to put in a whole new structure there.

[4:23] We also have an old structure here, like a old monkey bar,

[4:28] a slab structure there that will come out and then we'll put the swings there.

[4:32] So this is the bid to do that. This is a source well bid.

[4:36] So it leads all the criteria there.

[4:41] Matt, what's the expected lifespan of something like this?

[4:44] You know, kind of depends. We've been getting, I mean, obviously this is a 1999 unit.

[4:49] So it's pretty good use animal. We do a lot of maintenance and upkeep on them, and it just kind of depends on the you know traffic of the park, but how how long are parts available generally because it's kind of very yeah kind of varies.

[5:05] We stick with miracle and Burke and those because they tend to hold parts a lot longer.

[5:11] Some of the other companies kind of change their lines and shift things.

[5:15] So these two organizations that we need to generally use, they keep them a lot longer.

[5:23] So this is just the structure.

[5:25] The surface below is still stuff that you don't get scraped up and all of that.

[5:31] Yeah, so this is only the structure and then the swings and then add a bay with a saucer swing.

[5:37] The surface thing right now that we have in there is sand.

[5:41] So that means the criteria for fall and all that.

[5:45] And well, it's a source well, which is a good thing. Is there, was there any other bids under source world?

[5:50] We took prices with Burke on a few different structures and size wise and all of that. This one came in way less.

[5:59] We're getting everything here with the swings added for less than what the structure would cost.

[6:06] Yeah, it's pretty shipping.

[6:08] Yeah, it's pretty shipping, which that's nice.

[6:12] Well, that was saving about 6 grand.

[6:15] Yeah, it's nice.

[6:17] For these powder coated or today up,

[6:19] some kind of a grubber edge coating.

[6:21] Yeah, they're powder coated and then the slides and all that are the hard plastic.

[6:28] Nice.

[6:29] And the materials on this asin with the newer sets.

[6:32] It's designed so it doesn't get really hot in the summer kids can still use it.

[6:36] Yeah, and this park actually is pretty shaded with the cottonwood trees in there.

[6:40] Yeah, it's a pretty well protected area.

[6:43] Yeah, and then this isn't the exact color scheme they just give us one.

[6:47] And so we can pick whatever color scheme we want for that to be cool.

[6:50] So they'll match with the swings and all that.

[6:53] Is this something we can install ourselves or do we have to bring people in to do this?

[6:57] Yeah, this says, you know, we can do.

[6:59] So we're going to do it.

[7:00] It'll be a nice winter project.

[7:01] Okay, so we have a winner like last year, we'll get it in.

[7:06] That's what we get to shortly.

[7:09] So I'm guessing to the main poster that they just said in concrete.

[7:14] Yeah, they're all congregated in.

[7:19] Okay, any other questions?

[7:24] Thank you.

[7:25] Thank you.

[7:26] Have a motion to approve.

[7:28] I will move to approve.

[7:29] Second.

[7:30] Okay, any other comments or questions?

[7:32] Yes.

[7:33] Okay.

[7:34] Solomon.

[7:34] Yes.

[7:35] Yes.

[7:36] Yes.

[7:37] Yes.

[7:40] Okay.

[7:40] Resolutions and ordinances.

[7:42] Council to consider action on the first reading of the ordinance and many discuss with municipal code dealing with alarm systems for both the fire department and the police department.

[7:49] Mayor

[7:52] Council, Attorney General Harchman.

[7:55] Before you use the, for your considerations, the first reading on an ordinance amending.

[8:01] Chapter six, eight and 16 dealing with fire alarm systems.

[8:09] Police and fire alarm.

[8:11] The biggest change in it is just removing language in their.

[8:16] They're dealing with the communication center.

[8:19] They are no longer as of July 1st this year,

[8:22] no longer monitoring alarm systems.

[8:25] So we're just cleaning up the language.

[8:27] I'm ending it to remove anything that has to deal

[8:31] with their involvement with these systems.

[8:36] Additionally, the language was modified.

[8:39] and these then are chapter eight and the fire that we put in the specifics to along with fire code who code monitor those systems and people with these systems have been advised many of them of our transfer to I believe there's only a couple of left that haven't overworked through that weekend.

[9:04] and same with the law enforcement side of things,

[9:07] burglar alarms and those types of alarm systems have all been

[9:11] in that transition switch over.

[9:14] So these will all go through private companies

[9:16] for the monitoring?

[9:17] Yes.

[9:18] Tell them a little bit about why they're not monitoring.

[9:22] Yeah, so the decisions for the county

[9:26] to stop monitoring the software that they use called microkey

[9:31] was extremely outdated, did not meet the system that they were using, did not meet in the current

[9:38] UL standards or any of those for monitoring alarms. And then to upgrade that was at a rather

[9:46] significant cost. So they they believed it best to and they're not a call summary either. So

[9:53] they believed it best to put that in the hands of third parties that are UL certified,

[9:59] I had the capability because I was doing that monitoring,

[10:02] which does make sense.

[10:06] So there's lots of, so it mentions were required

[10:11] by the fire prevention code.

[10:13] Which one, the city of Scott's plus adopted IFC

[10:15] or the state's adopted conglomeration

[10:20] of national, or an MBA code.

[10:24] depends. If it's if it's a regulated facility, so one that has a license of some sort, it falls

[10:31] under the state code. If it's if there's no license to it, it falls under the city code.

[10:37] Those are both pretty similar. So those that are under the state code and are those

[10:45] shepherded by the state prime marshal's office. We are delegated authorities, so we we still

[10:52] maintain authority over those. Do you have any idea how many systems in the city might

[11:03] be central supervising stations? I don't often talk in my head but I know it's a good number of them.

[11:18] Tom and here has language about it used to have language because it's been stricken about permits

[11:25] That's for alarms. Now that'll all be done through private companies. And so we won't have to do any permit issues.

[11:30] Well, we have never done any permit issues. That was all the county. The county is still going to do some permitting because they want to be able to track.

[11:39] But they're going to create their own ordinance on how it's going to look rather than using our ordinance.

[11:47] So they're going to permit the systems that they're not having anything to do with any longer.

[11:53] How does that work?

[11:55] Well, I'm seeing the ordinance.

[11:57] I mean, we're going to get a permit to not do something.

[12:02] Well, they're going to have to apply for a permit so that the county knows they have one.

[12:07] And that kind of answers your question that we talked about this morning.

[12:13] That's how they'll keep up the date and know where they're at.

[12:16] Who has one?

[12:18] Who's responsible to respond?

[12:19] I guess it really makes sense.

[12:22] The permit is a mechanism to make sure it does what the requirement says it does.

[12:27] And the registry is just how many there are in town.

[12:29] And that would probably be a better.

[12:33] But for the sake of this, that was referred to as permitting.

[12:38] I guess I never thought about it and looked at the weekly things.

[12:44] But how many, what percentage of calls do you think we have that are false alarms?

[12:49] for fire alarms. For fire alarms, it's a very low number.

[12:54] Typically, if the fire alarm goes off, there's a reason for it.

[12:58] Whether it's burnt food or someone pulled the alarm, something, something that intervenes.

[13:04] So the alarm is functioning properly.

[13:07] There may not be a fire. There may not be an emergency that arises out of it.

[13:11] But it is functioning as we have very few.

[13:14] I can't think of very many and looking back at that,

[13:19] we're talking probably less than 10 a year

[13:22] that are due to a malfunction of some sort.

[13:26] Yeah, that's, it's hard for the Poland,

[13:29] for the malicious polling of the lawrooms.

[13:32] Let's say, for example, when you talk about

[13:36] a system function the way it was supposed to

[13:38] because it detected cooking smoke,

[13:41] would that not be a problem with the design

[13:44] of the system that's not the right system for the design if it keeps going off.

[13:50] Well potentially there could be a design flaw in there but I can say that we don't generally go

[13:57] to the same location more than once or twice in a given year. So I would say very few if any design

[14:05] flaws. I notice in the place when there is a maximum, of course, I don't think there's any

[14:11] that I know of at least locally or nationally like fire stuff require much to respond

[14:17] to any alarms. But there's four a year and then you can start charging. Is there, would

[14:25] it, is there any appetite to have that ability and fire alarms in case somebody decides

[14:31] they don't want to pay attention to their system and just let the fire department keep responding?

[14:35] I think in talking to Tom and listening and I don't think there's a need for that to be honest with it. It's such a small number.

[14:48] Okay.

[14:50] So the county is no longer monitoring these and these third party vendors have to do this. So then do businesses have to pay for that.

[14:57] And not the county.

[15:02] So the three, the three classifications are the central station, remote station, and proprietary. Those are early supervisor services, central station, very few of them exist because they're so expensive. They you contract for somebody to respond every alarm and take care of stuff, remote is just people looking at a board kind of like the kind of like the county did and then calling the right place. But this others that the owners responsible for it.

[15:29] but in the cases of a central supervisory station,

[15:33] they know they don't know anything about it,

[15:35] they don't want to know anything about it,

[15:36] but know they're responsible.

[15:38] So they contract with somebody to be responsible for it.

[15:41] And so that's who you really do.

[15:42] So there's very few central stations,

[15:45] supervisory services.

[15:46] And the monitoring station has to meet certain criteria

[15:49] that is very expensive.

[15:52] Interesting.

[15:52] So on all this language that's in here,

[15:55] someone there's about testing of the alarms.

[15:56] Do you guys have, do we have a code where we test those for businesses every so often?

[16:02] Yes, it's within the fire code, depending, there's some different schedules that different

[16:10] alarms have to fall under, but everyone does, and everyone that we've been dealing with

[16:17] has been very diligent about testing their alarms.

[16:22] That is a segue into one of the other comments I added.

[16:26] In the section where it says no alarm system, shall be silenced or reset prior to arrival

[16:31] of the required department personnel except for like the silence you're receiving during

[16:37] it to us, which is pretty obvious.

[16:41] But so let's say we have one of those times where you're in disposal with other calls and

[16:47] it's one of those where you're not able to respond or certainly significant delay.

[16:51] Is there any thought of training specific people on if there's a, what's it look at, if there's a true problem or not?

[17:01] I'm thinking of a hotel and guests that we want to come back to town, but then they're listening to a fire alarm for an untold number of minutes and don't see anybody.

[17:13] Is there any, is there any thought been given to that?

[17:17] But we do have a couple of facilities that we've worked with in the staff.

[17:23] Who tells us not one of them?

[17:26] The issue that we have run into is people resetting and we don't know where to start looking at.

[17:31] No, yeah. I'm not seeing the reset. I'm saying the silence.

[17:34] Reset should never.

[17:36] Yeah.

[17:37] Typically when they, they go to silence that they reset.

[17:41] So that's it's been that we have worked for some staff like hospitals and one of them.

[17:48] Yeah, imagine that would be.

[17:51] Yeah, that could.

[17:53] Any other questions for Tom.

[17:57] Thank you.

[17:58] Thank you.

[17:59] Thank you.

[18:00] Thank you.

[18:03] In ordinance of the city of Scott's blood Nebraska amending the Scott's blood municipal code at chapter six article six section 10 chapter eight.

[18:12] Article 3 and Chapter 16, Article 2, dealing with alarm systems for both the fire department and police department, revising several sections, repealing several sections, and removing fees for monitoring and permitting a fire in police alarm systems, repealing existing provisions of the municipal code not consistent with this ordinance, providing for an effective date and providing for publication in pamphlet form.

[18:40] Okay. Council to consider action on the first reading of the ordinance authorizing the issuance

[18:45] of general obligation highway allocation fund pledge bonds for improvements to a certain

[18:50] street of the city. Mayor and council, Scott King is here from Piper Sandler,

[18:57] discuss this and answer any questions you might have. Good evening, Mayor and council.

[19:04] So Scott, can you reply for Sandler as Kevin mentioned this is an ordinance on first reading considering the issuance of up to 2.35 million dollars of high allocation bonds city currently has an issue outstanding of and and these bonds would be with their anticipate be a five year amortization, that's how we've structured the issue much like the 2018 bonds that were done with a five year amortization as well.

[19:31] So it was the 2020 bonds, I guess, had a five-year amortization.

[19:35] Again, the city has a significant amount of highway allocation revenues that come in each

[19:40] year.

[19:41] States that should allow cities to pledge those revenues to secure bonds that are then also

[19:47] backstopped by the limited property taxing authority in the city.

[19:52] So it's a very strong credit.

[19:53] This financing we would anticipate marketing just like we have in the past without a bond

[20:00] rating.

[20:00] we've talked in the past occasionally about having an issue of the city's rated by a rating

[20:07] agency like Moody's or Standard of Bores. This is of a small size and a short amortization.

[20:13] There isn't enough time to pay back the cost of the rating. That's the reason we've been

[20:17] looking to do it on a non-rated basis, but it's still considered a very strong credit.

[20:22] In today's market, we would expect that the true interest cost will be something around 3.9 percent.

[20:29] and that the plan deposit from the proceeds of the bond issue is in the amount of $2,213,520.

[20:39] I would prefer to lane to describe exactly which projects we're talking about.

[20:45] They're going to be funded with this project, but then again, we would anticipate December of 2031 being the final maturity of the bonds.

[20:52] The ordinance itself is what we've used in the past, what's called the parameters ordinance,

[20:57] which means the council approves certain parameters and authorizes certain officers to

[21:03] finalize the terms and conditions of the sale.

[21:06] In this case, it would be in a principal amount not to exceed $2,350,000, true interest cost,

[21:13] not to exceed 5% again in today's market, we're around 3.9% so we're well under that 5% threshold

[21:21] and underwriting this count, which is a fee paid to Piper Sandler to underwrite the bonds,

[21:27] not to exceed 1% and a final maturity, no later than December of 2031.

[21:33] So as long as the results of the sale meet all of these parameters,

[21:37] the authorized officers have the ability to approve those terms and conditions.

[21:43] We're currently working with bond council to draft the offering document that'll be used

[21:47] to sell the bonds after the council's third meeting and consideration at the October 15th

[21:55] We would anticipate getting to market with the bonds probably around the middle of October

[21:59] and delivering the proceeds might be early in November this year.

[22:05] This year?

[22:05] Yes.

[22:06] This year.

[22:07] And that's it.

[22:08] Thank you for reminding that reminds me that one of the other provisions of the ordinances

[22:13] is one that the Council's considered before.

[22:15] We are asking you to declare the bonds, a designated bonds bank qualified, which means

[22:22] that banks that buy the bonds, with you doing taking that action, banks that buy the bonds

[22:27] not only receive the income on a tax exempt basis, but they're also offered an offset of the

[22:33] cost of funds through their own tax filings.

[22:37] So there's a double benefit for banks to be buying the bonds that are designated bank

[22:41] qualified makes it very, it makes them very appealing to banks and that is a

[22:47] calendar year test. You have to state your intent to issue less than 10 million

[22:51] dollars of tax exempt bond in this calendar year 2026 for these bonds to be

[22:57] designated a bank qualified with this being the only issue that you're doing this

[23:01] year. That's that's an easy lift. Okay. Questions? So the bond issue like with

[23:10] the swimming pool doesn't count against this one.

[23:12] That's separate.

[23:13] What if we were to issue the bonds in 2026,

[23:16] but I think the expectation is that there's going to be

[23:19] some time prior to the receipt of the sales tax

[23:23] and so forth that pushes the likely timing

[23:25] of that financing off into 2027.

[23:30] So this shouldn't like the the aquatic center

[23:33] back by sales tax had a longer term.

[23:38] And this one is a shorter term back by highway allocation funds and the appetite I think of the average citizen to not dip into property tax payment.

[23:50] Does is there in that five year period if the amount is kind of not the correct amount.

[23:59] Can it be, can it more be issued with the backstop of highway allocation for that?

[24:07] Could more bonds be issued?

[24:09] What do you, if you don't have it, if there's less than you thought?

[24:14] Yeah, I'd like that just like the aquatic center question.

[24:17] The good news is the city's allowed to actually use any funds that the city chooses to use to repay the bonds.

[24:23] that this is an obligation that forces the city to take the money from any one account.

[24:29] It's just the general funds of the city, but what we are pledging, what the city is pledging

[24:34] to the investors, is the receipt of the gas tax revenues, and then back stopped by that unlimited

[24:40] property taxing authority. The good news is with this financing, we're estimating that the payments

[24:45] on this bondage will be around half a million dollars a year. The outstanding bonds have payments

[24:51] of about $455,000 a year.

[24:54] So between the two of them,

[24:56] our payments are below $1 million per year,

[24:59] and laying correctly,

[25:00] we've got to be over $2 million a year

[25:03] anticipating gas tax receipts.

[25:05] Yeah, $2.1 million is the average.

[25:08] So, our gas tax revenues are dropped by more than 50%

[25:12] before we ever have to be looked

[25:14] into that property tax pledge.

[25:16] But even before you got to that,

[25:18] the general fund dollars of the city,

[25:20] whether it's sales tax,

[25:21] or any source, could be used in any case.

[25:25] Scott, I have one question for you.

[25:27] I think you've partially answered it,

[25:28] but who normally buys these bonds?

[25:30] Is it retirement groups in it?

[25:31] I think you said banks.

[25:33] Taxics and bonds are traditionally purchased

[25:37] by banks as big buyers.

[25:39] Bank trust department, banks for their own portfolios,

[25:42] bank trust departments, property casual insurance companies.

[25:46] There are some corporations that buy in mutual funds

[25:49] and individuals.

[25:51] And individuals have really moved towards buying municipal bonds

[25:55] through what are called separately managed accounts.

[25:58] So many folks have an investment firm that's managing their funds for them.

[26:04] And those firms will typically go out and buy a good chunk of a bond issue

[26:09] just like this one.

[26:10] And then allocate shares out or ownership out to the individual investors that they represent

[26:16] that want to have tax-exempt interest.

[26:21] Banks will be a big buyer of this issue just because banks traditionally look very

[26:26] to the shorter maturities.

[26:29] The rare bank that's buying a 15-year or a 20-year bond,

[26:34] almost all banks, like the short end of the yield curve,

[26:36] because it's matching up the way their funds are coming in

[26:39] and the commitments they have on the other side,

[26:42] with CDs and things like that.

[26:44] So it really this it's ideally for banks and we would expect the banks in the area to be very good persistence. They've always been very strong supporters.

[26:54] Thank you, that helps.

[26:58] Any other questions?

[27:01] Thank you.

[27:08] Thank you.

[27:09] Thank you.

[27:10] Thank you.

[27:11] Thank you.

[27:12] And the projects.

[27:14] Did you guys want to know what the projects were?

[27:17] Yeah.

[27:18] Yeah.

[27:18] This is for.

[27:19] We got.

[27:21] Come on.

[27:21] I'll do it.

[27:22] I'll do it.

[27:23] I'll do it.

[27:24] I'll do it.

[27:26] I'll do it.

[27:27] I'll do it.

[27:28] I'll do it.

[27:29] What we're looking at is East Oakland from 21st to how we 26 right there in front of sugar factory.

[27:35] That one is going to be all concrete, so it'll be well worth money we put into that.

[27:42] West Oakland from Broadway to have to be a little stretcher that's kind of been left out for years, so we'll complete that.

[27:50] Avenue I and the railroad tax, we're going to clean up that concrete there to fix that.

[27:55] And 20 27th Street and 21st Mountain.

[27:59] Yeah.

[28:01] That intersection is getting pretty.

[28:03] Yeah.

[28:04] That's just.

[28:05] That's the college.

[28:06] Yeah.

[28:07] You're different.

[28:08] You know, welcome by.

[28:10] Oh, excuse me.

[28:11] Yeah.

[28:11] One that we just annexed.

[28:13] Yes.

[28:13] Yeah.

[28:14] Yeah.

[28:15] Yeah.

[28:17] And it's 21st Highway 26 is another section that we just annexed.

[28:21] It was.

[28:22] It's an essential fuel.

[28:24] So that would have been, yeah, it's been a while.

[28:26] We told each of us there to the ditch in the annexation.

[28:31] Okay.

[28:32] On our map.

[28:35] Okay.

[28:37] These projects were probably identified on the one or six year plan that we.

[28:44] Yes.

[28:45] They will be updated the second week and on October.

[28:48] So all these will be on there.

[28:49] West everyone east overland were on the outer years before us will bump them up to the one years and the other two will be out of people.

[28:57] Okay, so this is common to to have a cup. Well, the revenue is that the revenues there to meet those two.

[29:04] to eat common to have silver transportation related bonds out historically, I guess.

[29:12] I'll make general way in the past.

[29:14] Okay.

[29:16] We only have two right now.

[29:18] All right.

[29:18] If you count this one, this is the second one.

[29:21] Yes.

[29:22] Are you already talking about existing bonds?

[29:26] For street transportation.

[29:29] Okay.

[29:31] Thank you.

[29:32] Thank you.

[29:35] And ordinance authorizing the issuance cell and delivery of general obligation highway allocation fund pledge bonds of the city of Scottsville, Nebraska in a principal amount not to exceed 2,350,000 to pay the costs of constructing improvements to certain streets of the city, prescribing the form and certain details of the bonds and providing for the fixing and establishing of other details of the.

[30:00] Voss. Fledging funds received from the Nebraska Highway Elecation Fund and providing for the levee and collection of an annual tax for the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the bonds as they become due and authorizing certain other documents and actions and connection therewith, providing for publication of this ordinance in pamphlet form and related matters. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Let's go. Council, we can send you an

[30:29] are action on the second reading of the ordinance adopting the budget statement to be termed the annual

[30:34] appropriation bill for fiscal year 2627. Anything to add on that before we? Any changes?

[30:42] I left you for me, so. It's okay. You're tilling. Go ahead and read. Okay. Thank you.

[30:52] And ordinance of the city of Scott Smith, Nebraska to adopt the budget statement to be termed the annual

[30:57] appropriation bill for fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026, to appropriate sums for necessary

[31:04] expenses and liabilities to provide for an effective day and to provide publication in pamphlet

[31:10] form. As you know, from previous meetings, everything pretty much went up 3%. It hasn't been that

[31:21] That long ago, we did a rate study through NMPP

[31:24] and made some adjustments to the way that we bill

[31:28] and the way our rates are structured.

[31:31] So I think everything's working.

[31:33] These funds are a really good shape.

[31:35] So these gradual increases that we do annually

[31:39] are keeping up with inflation

[31:41] and keeping these funds in a really good shape.

[31:45] We did add a couple of small things to this.

[31:52] coordinates and what were they laying?

[31:55] on the budget

[31:57] We are on the budget, right?

[31:59] On a budget or where?

[32:02] The member?

[32:07] It's our illusion capacity.

[32:13] We could arrange the agenda, yes.

[32:16] We have anything else

[32:17] I mean that rolls into the bucket.

[32:20] Yeah,

[32:20] the budget

[32:21] lands

[32:22] The staff have done a really good job on the budget.

[32:25] You guys know that it looks like there's a substantial increase,

[32:31] but it's all contingent on the bond.

[32:34] Grants or LB 357 passing.

[32:39] So I think staff has done a great job

[32:43] in presenting a well-balanced budget

[32:47] with a lot to think about.

[32:49] You know, the $4 million per safe streets for all the potential of the LB-357 and aquatic center, senior center, passing.

[32:59] That was a lot to think about and there's other things mixed in there too.

[33:03] Trash.

[33:05] Trash.

[33:07] Trash is keeping running up at night right now.

[33:09] So, but anyway, yeah, the budgets, I'm very happy with the budget laying anything to this is the credit ordinance. I love you last meeting and there was the key inverted number on the wastewater.

[33:24] That's been there.

[33:26] Okay.

[33:29] Kevin on the safe streets grant, you know, but no, if we are awarded that.

[33:36] No, we just recently they acknowledged the receipt of the grantus.

[33:41] So I'm sure it's sitting in a stack of other safe streets for implementation grants.

[33:48] So I would imagine it's going to be a little bit.

[33:50] I wouldn't expect anything.

[33:53] It could be before the end of the year.

[33:55] I can check on that and get you a better answer than that.

[33:58] But I wouldn't expect anything else.

[34:01] Okay.

[34:09] Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Council to consider action on the third reading of the ordinance updating utility user fees, including water sewer fee storm water and solid waste collection.

[34:17] somebody more. The budget has been done. I don't think I don't remember doing anything else

[34:35] to ask questions. Okay, well, can we return to Mr. Kevin and ordinance of the city of

[34:43] God's bluff, amending and changing chapter 6, article 6 for solid waste collection fees at section 6-6-23, 6-6-24, 6-6-25, 6-6-26, 6-6-27, amending and changing sewer user fees including surcharge for stormwater regulatory requirements at section 6-6-19,

[35:12] 16, 6-6-20, and 6-6-22, amending and changing the water service fees at section 6-6-28,

[35:24] all in Chapter 6, Article 6 of the Municipal Code, repealing prior provisions of the Municipal

[35:30] Code, providing for an effective date and providing for publication in pamphlet form.

[35:36] Thank you.

[35:38] The motion to approve.

[35:41] No move.

[35:41] Go have a second.

[35:43] Any other comments, questions on the ordinance?

[35:48] Okay.

[35:49] Strigger?

[35:50] Yes.

[35:50] Good luck.

[35:50] Yes.

[35:51] Yes.

[35:52] Yes.

[35:53] Yes.

[35:54] Okay, Council to discuss and consider action on the third amendment of the City of Scots book. Please officers. Retirement plan and trust and authorize the mayor to sign the resolution.

[36:05] Mayor, Council, this is going to bring us in line with recent legislation. I was signed by the governor in April. It goes into effect up to one. So it's just adding that language that you see in your packet.

[36:18] We read other single in kind one or more partial payments in the amount that frequency selected by the participant.

[36:27] It just gives the police officers moral options about how they can withdraw the retirement.

[36:34] They could do it in one loop.

[36:39] And so this based on a legislative action.

[36:43] and this is really a formality.

[36:45] We don't have any choice.

[36:46] You don't have a lot of choice, but it's important.

[36:49] It's important that we have it on an agenda

[36:51] and in our amendments.

[36:53] Okay, now we've added this to the retirement count.

[36:56] Okay.

[36:57] Okay, so I have a motion to approve.

[36:59] So moved.

[37:00] Do I have a second?

[37:02] Any other questions or comments?

[37:04] Okay.

[37:05] Macaragan?

[37:06] Yes, Sylv?

[37:07] Yes.

[37:07] Did lack?

[37:08] Yes, fallen?

[37:09] Yes.

[37:09] Yes. Okay. Council to discuss and consider action on the 2026, 2027 pay resolution and

[37:18] authorize the mayor to sign the resolution.

[37:22] Okay, Mayor and council. We have a treat for you now.

[37:28] Mayor and council. Pay resolution. We did our wage study and everybody's getting a 3%

[37:40] We had to kind of extend the grades in there because we needed more of the top of the hourly and more of the bottom for the salary.

[37:51] Everybody's within their grade now.

[37:55] There was some lateral move either up or down and nobody lost money.

[38:00] Everybody's staying kind of where they are.

[38:02] They just might be shifted around a little bit.

[38:04] But we just had a handful that was really easy to move around and other than that I think by just doing constant checking our city and making sure everything's good to go.

[38:18] We didn't have to make a lot of adjustments like five years ago we did.

[38:24] Are you doing it every year now, Cammy?

[38:26] every five years, every five yeah okay because it's a third party so it does cost quite a bit but

[38:32] that gives us kind of out of it and they make that determination. Okay so when you said you

[38:40] needed to move some people around that was to be in line with the current study. Yeah so the state

[38:50] that you kind of guides us on how we can pay people.

[38:54] It has to be a 70% job match in our A-Cities.

[38:58] It also makes us look at, it has to be 90% to 102%

[39:05] within that range of the A-Cities.

[39:08] So if we're like too low, we've got to bump them up

[39:12] to make sure we're in that array.

[39:15] If they're too high, we've got them down

[39:17] to make sure the movement because you look at the minimum and the maximum so if

[39:23] somebody's in the middle of the base skill it's easier to adjust. They're at the

[39:29] top it's harder because we don't want to not give them raises so we've got to

[39:33] make sure we're within that range. So don't have anybody that's not going to get

[39:38] a raise being able to adjust everybody because they're the base skill.

[39:45] Where did they

[39:46] that's got to bluff too.

[39:47] So we do hearing Northclad, Northclad,

[39:54] casings, each union has a different set.

[40:00] So it can vary.

[40:02] York is one of the actress's flares.

[40:08] So this depends on when union and what they decided their race

[40:11] city is going to be for theirs and it has to be either half our size and it can't be more

[40:18] than double our size. So we can't look at like Lincoln no mom, that's too high. So we're

[40:24] going to stay within that very room. We'd have to stay in the state.

[40:30] Yeah, can we have this contract? Is the call increase automatic and then the amount we add

[40:37] that on this 3% would be a addition to the COLA?

[40:40] No, the COLA is the 3%.

[40:42] That is the 3%, yeah.

[40:43] The same p-scale, which is that in 3%.

[40:46] Okay.

[40:48] You mentioned something about 70%,

[40:51] and then 198 and 102,

[40:54] is that different classifications of people?

[40:56] So the second percent is based on the job description help.

[41:01] So it has to be at least a 70% match in order for us

[41:05] to compare them. So there's some jobs that maybe four cities will have that job, the rest

[41:13] don't. So it's not like a perfect match, but you need three or more to have a match.

[41:19] And then the 98 is based on the salary. So we take the midpoint of everybody else's salaries

[41:26] together. And whatever the midpoint is, we have to save between 98 and 102 percent.

[41:33] for this case, not the actual, necessarily the actual.

[41:37] The hourly rate.

[41:39] Okay.

[41:40] That's for all employees or just certain ones.

[41:43] Oh, please.

[41:44] Okay.

[41:46] I just got one last quick question since we have the chart up.

[41:49] So when we hire new firefighters or police officers.

[41:53] We bring them in with your yours and service as they would other jobs.

[41:57] If they have experience in their.

[41:59] They're allowed to buy a, we will take into consideration, okay, for wages, it could even be vacation, it's a cool, so, okay, there's one pass, since we have that up there.

[42:14] Okay, thank you.

[42:16] questions for Camille? So she'll kind of like the last thing in a way this is based on state

[42:23] regulation and statute. It's somewhat of a formality then it is a choice. Correct.

[42:31] Well, I take there could be some choice but it could get us in trouble. No, I might get my

[42:37] I'm not saying I don't want to compete with people, it's just that there is a component

[42:49] that seems like it's a, you have to do this.

[42:52] Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

[42:53] Yeah, we don't get to say about this person's doing a good job, they get it.

[42:59] I would also add that after this last wage and labor study, I think it was an indication

[43:08] about what we've been doing has been right.

[43:13] We've been keeping up with the raised cities.

[43:16] You know, when we did that first wage and labor study, we were really out of whack.

[43:20] People got redlined.

[43:23] I think we had water to that redlined.

[43:26] That was the time before I don't have to resign to anybody last time. Okay. I mean, they were too low or too high too high. So I think this was indication that things are in order. It's working the way that it should.

[43:39] Yeah. I'll make some.

[43:41] We had 136 employees. So just a handful of had to be adjusted. So I think it was good.

[43:48] This is all reflected in the budget that we are considering.

[43:52] Okay.

[43:54] Thank you.

[43:55] Thank you.

[43:56] Thank you.

[43:57] I have a motion to approve the pay resolution.

[44:01] So moved.

[44:02] I have a second.

[44:03] No second.

[44:04] Any other questions or comments?

[44:07] Okay.

[44:08] Bit left.

[44:08] Yes.

[44:09] Phillips.

[44:09] Yes.

[44:10] Stricker.

[44:10] Yes.

[44:11] Caragain.

[44:12] Yes.

[44:12] Solomon.

[44:12] Yes.

[44:14] Okay.

[44:14] Reports from staff boards and commissions.

[44:16] Council to discuss and consider action on the contract.

[44:18] was discussed with firefighters local number 1454 and authorized the mayor to sign the contract.

[44:26] And mayor and council this this was our full-blown contract negotiation this year and it was the

[44:34] firefighters contract. The big news here is the pay the 3% increase. We did make some adjustments

[44:44] But it was really a lot of house cleaning issues in the contract, we changed their life insurance to 50,000 and it had been 50,000 and it was just different in the contract.

[44:59] Sorry, there were...

[45:00] Yes, you just spread out in the contract like that. We're really big changes or just have to keep them. Okay, so. Okay, any questions on that? Okay, to have a motion to approve. So move. Second, second, any other comments? That's a three-door contract. So. Okay. Okay. Philips. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, striker. Yes.

[45:29] Yes.

[45:32] Council to discuss and consider action on the article eight.

[45:36] Wages discuss both firefighters, local number 1454 for fiscal year 2026 27 and authorize a mayor to sign the attachment.

[45:44] And that is the right choice.

[45:46] Okay.

[45:46] So I have a motion to approve.

[45:50] So moved.

[45:51] Okay.

[45:52] So second.

[45:53] Second.

[45:54] Any questions on that piece?

[45:57] Okay.

[45:58] Solomon.

[45:59] Yes.

[46:00] Make your oven.

[46:00] Yes.

[46:01] Stringer.

[46:01] Yes.

[46:02] Good luck.

[46:03] Yes.

[46:06] Okay.

[46:07] Council discussing.

[46:08] Consider actually an amended contract.

[46:10] 21 wages.

[46:11] Discuss with police officers.

[46:12] Association for fiscal year 2627.

[46:14] And authorize a mere sign of contract.

[46:17] Yeah.

[46:17] And this is again, this is wages for police officers.

[46:19] It's an amendment to their current contract.

[46:22] They're I think in their second year, a three year contract.

[46:28] Okay, so so the only things that by the contract that we want to know.

[46:33] Shots, wages and insurance.

[46:35] Turn that through you.

[46:38] And I didn't ask it on the last one, but this is this is all taken into consideration.

[46:45] that an idea to one of two and this will be another 3%

[46:52] 3% and that keeps them in the 9.8102.

[46:58] Okay, so I have a motion to approve.

[47:01] I have a motion to approve.

[47:02] I have a second.

[47:03] No second.

[47:04] Any other questions or comments?

[47:07] Okay.

[47:08] Phillips.

[47:08] Yes.

[47:09] Yes.

[47:10] Yes.

[47:11] Yes.

[47:12] Yes.

[47:13] Council is discussing, consider action on the amendment to local union number 1597.

[47:20] International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Schedule A wages for fiscal 2627 and authorize a mayor to sign the amendment.

[47:28] The mayor and council say the same thing. This is the IVW union.

[47:32] So there was wages and insurance to share 3%.

[47:55] Any other questions, comments on that one?

[47:59] Okay.

[48:00] Yes. Yes.

[48:05] Okay. Council is discussing. Consider action on approving a renewal of the lease agreement with telecom west incorporated for their wireless antenna system on the airport water tower and authorize the mayor to sign the agreement.

[48:15] Okay, this is our agreement with telecom west, I call Jerry, the owner today, he's an alliance

[48:24] and just to ask him why he wasn't renown at the cemetery and he just don't have the customer

[48:31] base to justify having that equipment on that tower. He told me he's been competing with

[48:37] start link in Elon Musk.

[48:42] It sounds like the equipment on the airport water tower is doing

[48:47] well, still supporting the rural community with Wi-Fi out in that area. So they will maintain

[48:55] that. I did ask him and he said he would make arrangements to get his equipment off the

[49:02] Okay.

[49:06] Do I have a motion to approve the lease agreement?

[49:09] So moved.

[49:10] So I have a second.

[49:11] Second.

[49:12] Any questions or comments on that?

[49:16] Okay.

[49:16] Macarigan.

[49:17] Yes, Phillips.

[49:18] Yes.

[49:18] Good luck.

[49:19] Yes.

[49:19] Fallen.

[49:20] Yes.

[49:22] Okay.

[49:22] Council reports information only.

[49:24] This item is intended for council members to update and inform other council members and meetings

[49:28] attendance in the last city council meeting.

[49:35] What is it?

[49:37] Oh my God.

[49:38] It's very terrible.

[49:40] It's too difficult.

[49:42] It's because I just hear.

[49:43] I like the chance.

[49:45] No.

[49:47] Okay, nothing.

[49:50] We have meetings.

[49:53] 30 days.

[49:54] And that's about it.

[49:57] We'll be working hard on the

[50:00] landfill stuff.

[50:10] Okay,

[50:19] so I have a motion to adjourn.

[50:21] I'll have a second.

[50:24] Good luck.

[50:25] Yes.

[50:26] Yes.

[50:27] Yes.

[50:29] Yes.

[50:30] adjourned.

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