[0:05] Sure. >> Thanks so much.

[0:06] » You all would be pleased in the pledge of allegiance.

[0:09] » I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[0:14] republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[0:20] justice for all. >> Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much

[0:23] for this time together. We pray for your presence. In your name we pray. Amen.

[0:27] » Amen.

[0:33] » All right. As you may have noticed, [clears throat]

[0:35] Mr. Hagley is not going to be here today due to a family emergency. And so, he's

[0:39] asked me to step in and chair the meeting. And so, I would um

[0:43] move for approval of the consent agenda. Any

[0:47] Anybody? >> I'll make a motion to approve it.

[0:50] » I'll second. >> Agenda and minutes approved.

[0:52] » All right. Are you in favor of that?

[0:54] » Yes. >> And you, how would you vote?

[0:55] » Yes. >> All right, yes.

[0:57] We okay with I should have asked our friend Are you

[1:00] people okay for us? >> Yeah.

[1:01] » Okay. All right. If anybody see any agenda at

[1:04] all that's signed up, so we'll move on to the non-agenda

[1:08] audience. And I didn't see any non-agenda audience.

[1:12] I'm going to pause. Does Does anyone know of anything you're

[1:16] expecting to come speak to or anything like that?

[1:20] All right. So, we'll go to the clerk's report.

[1:23] » Okay. All right. The first thing is I need I

[1:26] was going to ask approval to change the meeting dates for September to September

[1:30] 10th and September 24th. Uh we got budget numbers from

[1:35] Tallahassee literally this week. And so, we're going to need to have two

[1:40] meetings to pass the budget for next year.

[1:44] So, if we do them September 10th and September 24th, that will give me enough

[1:47] time to kind of put them out on the website and

[1:50] let people comment if they want to. Um and that would give us

[1:56] So, the budget meeting would be on September 10th.

[1:59] And then we would approve the budget on the 24th.

[2:03] So, that's okay with the >> Uh 24th would be on Thursday, regular

[2:07] meeting. Right?

[2:09] » We're making the 24th a regular meeting then?

[2:11] » Yes. >> Okay. It would not normally

[2:13] » not normally cuz five there's five Thursdays I think in this month. Is that

[2:17] right? >> Okay.

[2:18] » Yeah. >> So, move it off of the 17th.

[2:20] » Yeah, we'd be moving off of 17th to 24th. Is that right?

[2:23] » Yes. >> Right. Okay, yeah.

[2:25] » So, I guess maybe we probably should separate so that we can be clear that we

[2:28] want to have a special budget um is it called a workshop?

[2:33] 10th, the budget workshop on the 10th. Would be the first probably.

[2:36] » Right. >> Let's divide that up into

[2:38] » Same time, 5:00. >> Yes,

[2:42] 5:00.

[2:50] » We need to vote on that as a motion and so

[2:52] if anyone would like to make a motion to >> I'll make the motion.

[2:55] » We're limited to that. >> I'll second. [laughter]

[2:57] » And a second. All right, Mr. Lambert, what would you vote?

[3:00] » Yes. >> Mr. Parks?

[3:01] » Yes. >> And the chair would vote yes.

[3:03] » So, we'll go with >> Move that meeting. So, then there's a

[3:06] request to reschedule September 17th meeting to September the 24th to

[3:10] accommodate uh the necessary time to consider

[3:14] that budget and make that a part of our normal meeting what we're going to call

[3:17] our normal meeting on the set on the 24th.

[3:23] And a motion. >> I'll make that motion.

[3:25] » I'll second. >> All right.

[3:27] » So, would you be in favor of that? >> Yes.

[3:30] » Sorry, >> Mr. Lambert?

[3:32] » Yes. >> All right. I would vote yes as well.

[3:35] So, that's the budget workshop and the date change, right? Both of those items

[3:39] would be >> Yes.

[3:39] » Okay. >> Yep.

[3:40] Okay. Um

[3:43] the next thing is I wanted to get the council's permission to seek bids for

[3:47] cemetery grass mowing. Uh our maintenance worker can just

[3:52] cannot keep up with the cemetery. And prior to fund day, I just went out and

[3:56] got someone to do it because it had gotten so high

[3:59] that we and I had had a couple people calling complaining about it, but it

[4:04] takes him a good two full days to pull the weeds and mow it and do everything,

[4:10] clean it up, and needs to be done. Um so, I'd like to just get some bids

[4:16] for it and see if it's something that we can afford.

[4:19] Um and I'm willing to allocate $2,500 for that in the 27

[4:25] 26-27 budget. Um

[4:30] but I might not be able to get it that but I wanted to I wanted to put out, you

[4:34] know, some some information for some bids and just see

[4:37] what we got. It would be for My idea is for 6 months, so maybe either May to

[4:43] October or April to September just in the heavy summer months where you

[4:47] literally have to do it every single week. I mean, you just have to keep up

[4:51] with it. And then, um he could take care of it

[4:54] during the winter months. So, I think $2,500 would would do it.

[5:05] Um but, we'll see. I just want to get the bids, kind of see what they are, and

[5:10] then be able to put that into the budget for next year before if I'm able to get

[5:14] it as cheap as I think I can get it. >> So, that's like $100 a month, right?

[5:18] $2,500 this >> Um most of the people who come in here

[5:22] to talk to me about it have said I need it done once a week.

[5:25] And um so,

[5:30] » I'm just curious. >> I heard some numbers thrown out that I

[5:32] could probably get it done for 400 a month.

[5:34] » Okay. >> Which is what I was wanting to do.

[5:36] » [laughter] >> That would That sounds real good.

[5:38] » But, I want to see bids. I want to I want somebody to write it in paper and

[5:41] then that's what I'll, you know, >> Yeah.

[5:43] » see it's what we may be able to get it for.

[5:45] » And the bid would be for mowing and edging or would it would it include

[5:49] » Mowing, edging, picking up old dead flowers, basically just cleaning up the

[5:54] cemetery. >> So, would it include like the mowing

[5:56] weeds and existing flower beds?

[5:59] » What we've been doing is just um weed eating over the top of them. It's

[6:04] time-consuming cuz you have to be real careful with it.

[6:08] But some of the ones that are real bad, we've just been um

[6:11] weed eating over the top of them just to get it knocked down.

[6:15] And and that has has kept it looking really nice.

[6:19] I mean, it's really nice. But you know, I've had some uh contractors

[6:22] come in here and say, "Listen, I can bring a crew out there and I can have it

[6:25] done in 3 hours." Well, that's a whole lot different than

[6:28] spending 2 full days on the with one man out there trying to

[6:32] to get it all done. [clears throat] And it's

[6:35] especially right now, we are having still having so many water breaks from

[6:39] these this road construction and also the Olin and Core project

[6:44] that he is spending all his time right now just about doing water repairs. It's

[6:48] been terrible. Terrible.

[6:52] So, um >> Yeah, and 9 hours of work for one guy is

[6:54] much different than 3 hours of work for three guys, right?

[6:57] And there's a big difference in the output from that.

[7:00] » So, if it comes back and it's

[7:04] crazy high, you know, we can't afford it in the budget, then we'll just have to

[7:08] do what we can do. That's all there is to it.

[7:12] » So, like we don't have it in the budget now, so we really wouldn't be voting on

[7:15] this right now. I think you're just asking

[7:17] » No, just to just give me permission to seek the bids cuz I want to put out

[7:21] there for a formal bid. >> Okay.

[7:23] » And and I'm >> have to let the bid if you're seeking

[7:25] them? That's what I'm curious >> No.

[7:29] I can just get the pricing in, right? Yeah, pricing in.

[7:32] » If you have local providers, you can poll them if you want to. You can get

[7:36] two of them and just poll >> do that? That won't hurt the bid

[7:38] process? >> But that's I'm saying you're going to

[7:40] hire them. You're just doing it for informational purposes.

[7:42] » Right. Okay. >> And then

[7:44] once you have an idea if you want to go through with the process, just let me

[7:46] know and we can do it that way. But there's no harm in in polling the

[7:50] local providers. >> Okay. Do I need the permission of the

[7:52] council for that? >> Uh well, just the direction but you

[7:55] don't need to vote. Would you all be in agreement that that

[7:59] would be a good direction for her to go in for

[8:01] » I think so. >> So, then we can

[8:02] » Yeah, based on there's no available money to do

[8:04] » Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you.

[8:06] » Okay.

[8:10] Okay. Um

[8:13] I I had one more thing before I want to get to the other was it

[8:16] I'm having so many problems down at the park, the possum palace.

[8:21] I I think I mentioned the last meeting, I'm not sure that we could actually lock

[8:24] to the gate at the park at Well 3 because I'm was having such

[8:31] problems with traffic going in there.

[8:35] I put up some camera I had spoken to the sheriff's office, spoken to a deputy two

[8:39] times and he said, "Lynn, if you want to stop

[8:42] them, stand out of your well place, just lock the gate."

[8:45] So, I got Jordan to go down there and we put a walk through gate and then we

[8:48] locked the drive through gate. I mean, I'm getting no pictures on my

[8:53] cameras at all and um

[8:56] but the driving traffic down there was terrible. I mean, terrible. Worse the

[9:01] concession stand, all the windows have been broken out of it. Doors been

[9:04] knocked in. We went and fixed it. What no time

[9:08] doors knocked in again, windows broken again. There's nothing in there. I don't

[9:13] know why they're >> You're talking about the park on Pine

[9:14] Air? >> On Well 3.

[9:17] » You're better off leaving the door open so they know there's nothing in there.

[9:19] At least they won't break the door. >> Well, that's true. That's what I should

[9:22] have done the first time. >> That's what they're doing in California.

[9:25] People are leaving their windows down in their car so they can see that there's

[9:27] nothing in the car. That way they don't bust the windows.

[9:29] » Right. >> It's crazy.

[9:30] » It is crazy. Um the skate park and the little park area

[9:35] for the kids, you can still walk through and there are people still coming

[9:38] through there with the other day Jordan was up there and he said there was a

[9:41] family that walked through and their kids played in the park area. And um

[9:46] haven't had any complaints so far. I thought I'd just lock it and see what

[9:49] happens. But the one up at the Possum Palace

[9:53] the bathroom area is the problem I the problem I'm having. And so I wanted to

[9:59] see about how the council felt about me closing the park

[10:03] and and locking the bathrooms at night. I don't know if the vandalism is

[10:08] happening at night but they pulled the cabinets off the

[10:11] wall, they busted the locks off. Literally all I had in it was cleaning

[10:15] supplies. They took every cleaning supply I had.

[10:19] So I think we're around about enough. We're

[10:22] going to start Jordan's going to check it one time during the day. I'm going to

[10:25] check it one time and Lindsay's going to check it one time during the day

[10:28] to see if there's any daytime traffic. But I think because I'm seeing people on

[10:34] the camera coming in there like dusky dark and dark

[10:39] that I just want to see about locking it and just seeing what happens.

[10:43] I don't really want to lock the gate. I want to lock the bathrooms.

[10:48] Is what I want to lock. And I'm thinking maybe 7:00 during the

[10:53] summer cuz I really want the kids to be able to still come to the splash pad. I

[10:57] mean you know, I hate I hate to lock it but

[11:01] the mess we had clean up this week nobody should have to clean that up. No

[11:05] employee should have to go out there and clean up what I had to clean up in that

[11:08] » [laughter] >> bathroom. It was bad.

[11:11] And this is probably the third or fourth time I've had to go do that.

[11:15] » I personally don't see a problem with it. I think I mean

[11:20] why would it need to be open after dark anyway?

[11:24] » Yeah, well that is what I was thinking. I'm like so you know, if you're going to

[11:27] vandalize now you don't have to do it during the day with people. I know that

[11:30] there's two homeless people that are coming out there and bathing

[11:34] uh cuz I walked in there with one of them before.

[11:37] I don't really have a problem with that she's not making a mess.

[11:41] I don't really know if that's what the park bathrooms for but she hasn't made a

[11:46] mess. She's homeless and she just come a

[11:50] couple of days a week to bathe in there. Um

[11:53] but the vandalism is is just crazy and I don't understand it but

[12:00] » But you're not catching anybody on the camera who's doing that.

[12:03] » Well, I see who's walking in there and I spoken to the the

[12:07] I got spoke to a deputy

[12:10] and he said that basically unless I see him in the act

[12:14] that I can't do anything but I can't put the cameras in the bathroom.

[12:17] So I see who's walking in and out but I don't have any proof that they're

[12:22] Yeah. They're who's doing it.

[12:25] I mean I was tell Mr. Park that the day that we caught three kids they didn't

[12:28] know Jordan was there and they were they had apples and tomatoes and um pears

[12:36] and were throwing them at the concession stand windows.

[12:39] And they were just splattered and they just fall down.

[12:42] And he ran them down made them go clean it up.

[12:45] on the lawn mower. He ran down on the lawn mower

[12:48] and got them to clean it up. He's like "Hey you

[12:50] » The blade was disengaged. >> Because he's like you know y'all go

[12:54] clean that up. I'm out here in 90 something degree weather mowing grass.

[12:57] » Yeah. >> Trying to keep this place looking nice

[12:59] and y'all are vandalizing. So I I think it I want to believe it's

[13:03] just kids. That's what I want to believe but um

[13:07] I want to try to start locking it at night and seeing if we can go up there

[13:10] and have time during the day that maybe we can shut down some of the vandalism.

[13:14] But if they keep on doing it then we may just have to shut the

[13:18] bathrooms although I don't want to do that. I don't want to everybody to

[13:21] suffer. >> Yeah.

[13:23] » people just want to be you know knuckleheads.

[13:25] » The good thing is our team comes in early in the mornings on most weekdays

[13:29] so we can get it up and early in time for people to use it.

[13:32] » Right. >> I I'm I'm

[13:34] I agree with you, but I'm concerned about basically what that means is

[13:37] you'll have to lock them up. >> Sure.

[13:41] I'll lock them at night. I'll come and lock them at night.

[13:44] » I hate that for you, but I appreciate you.

[13:46] » Yeah, I mean well, I mean, you know

[13:50] listen, rather than have to clean up what I had to clean up

[13:53] I'll come and lock them at night. >> We'll lock them up at night, but we'll

[13:55] lock them up at night, but we'll find somebody to lock them in the next

[13:57] morning. >> All right.

[13:58] » Yeah. >> I I I want to try it just see what

[14:02] happens, but I just I just want to let y'all your feelings about it in case

[14:06] somebody calls you and like, why are the bathrooms locked, you know?

[14:10] Why don't you even get here at 8:00 at night?

[14:13] » Well, I mean, you don't need to be up there

[14:17] » period. I mean, who's going to take their kids to the park that late at

[14:20] night anyway? There's a lot of teenagers just walking

[14:25] around. I see them on the camera going in and out of there.

[14:29] A lot of teenagers that are unsupervised.

[14:32] They've got these bathrooms bad enough, they can go to the dollar store.

[14:36] Or go home. >> Right.

[14:38] » [clears throat] >> So, there is no park policy right? So,

[14:40] we don't really need to have any votes on that cuz you

[14:43] » Yeah. >> given any

[14:44] » Yeah, I haven't been to a head change since we haven't Right. I just wanted to

[14:48] get the feel of the council to lock it and see what happens.

[14:52] » Yeah, this >> I'm thinking 7:00 in the summer.

[14:56] And then of course in the winter it'll get dark earlier. I'm just going to do

[14:59] it as soon as it gets kind of dusky dark and I'll just lock them up and see what

[15:01] happens. So.

[15:04] » It's a shame you got to do that, but I mean

[15:07] yeah, it's our

[15:08] » Well, they actually and they're stealing the toilet paper.

[15:10] Can't have it all rolled out there at the time

[15:13] cuz they'll take it. You have two rolls.

[15:17] » [laughter] [gasps]

[15:19] » I go there pretty often anyway. But I think with the three of us doing

[15:23] at least four days a week, then you know,

[15:26] I'll I'll take it I like it open in the back up on the weekends. We'll just see

[15:30] what happens. >> Um Mr. Parks, where are you?

[15:34] » Oh, you can tell us today if >> Okay.

[15:37] » And then the next thing is the um

[15:40] Let me see. The project updates. So, we've decided that we're going to have

[15:44] to get um at least a 3-month extension on the community center over here. We

[15:49] had some leftover money and they approved for us buying a generator.

[15:53] And they did approve the digital sign. And so, there's a little bit of lead

[15:57] time on the ordering. So, though you know, there was not going to be any

[16:02] more extensions on this COVID money, they did we did get the permission to

[16:08] get an extension on that. So, we're working on that right now. Because

[16:10] remember that that project had to be ended by September 7th.

[16:15] And there's no way we're going to meet that deadline.

[16:18] Uh Cora and Oy, they told me yesterday they're at 85% complete,

[16:23] which is great. Um it's almost the end of that project.

[16:29] Um let's see what else. The Possum Palace Recreation Grant. I

[16:35] did get with the bank about That's the $50,000 grant which we have to pay it

[16:39] all up front and then we get reimbursed the whole 50,000. They wanted me to wait

[16:44] until we get our audit finished for last year's any of the awesome audit

[16:48] information. So, as soon as we get that done, which it is, they are working on

[16:51] now, I'll go back and finish that. Rogers Park, we have gotten the

[16:55] environmental assessment approved, finally.

[16:59] Um tomorrow I will publish the documents in the local

[17:03] newspaper. It has to sit 15 days. Then you have to um sign some sign it

[17:09] and it it's got to sit another 15 days. And then we'll finally be able to go out

[17:14] for construction on that project. Um the Possum Palace updates, we did

[17:20] have the fans for Fun Day if any of y'all came.

[17:22] » Those was nice. >> amazing. Our fans.

[17:25] » You got to chill. >> I don't know about that, but they were

[17:28] nice. >> They were amazing. Um so, we did have a

[17:33] visit by the building inspector who said that we're going to have to um

[17:39] sprinkle the building if we put the doors on it.

[17:43] So, we met with the architect and the contractor and um

[17:47] they're going to go back and make some changes to the

[17:50] uh the drawings and include the sprinkler

[17:55] system. They said that the occupancy load for that building was about 1,800.

[17:59] If you put chair to chair to chair to chair, you could fit 1,800 people under

[18:03] that pavilion. I didn't think that, but they said it's

[18:07] done by methodology that I didn't really understand, so

[18:11] » That means some of you are going to sit in the corner and not see the stage.

[18:13] » Because of that occupancy load, he said we're going to have to sprinkle the

[18:18] building. So, um

[18:21] that course that's certainly going to cut down on some of our construction

[18:24] money, but um we're redoing the draw we're doing the

[18:28] redoing the plans and specs to include that. In the meantime, I got permission

[18:33] from the Department of Commerce to continue on with the renovation. So, the

[18:36] renovation is going to continue to go as we're waiting on that.

[18:41] I think that's the only other ones that I have, but most of them are going to be

[18:46] finished up in very quickly. Um

[18:50] and then the budget, like I said, we're I literally got the budget numbers

[18:54] yesterday or the day before. I've got the water budget already balanced. Um I

[18:59] was waiting on those numbers to balance out the general budget, so I should have

[19:03] those done next week.

[19:07] And I think that's all I have.

[19:11] » Does anybody have any questions on projects or questions you might want

[19:15] Clark to take forward?

[19:19] No.

[19:29] Anything else from the clerk?

[19:34] Uh so Mr. Clark, do you have anything you

[19:36] wanted >> No, I don't have anything.

[19:38] » to the council tonight? Mr. Rymer?

[19:42] » I don't. What's your report look like?

[19:45] » It does. >> Yeah, we're still working hard on it.

[19:52] » Then I you had mentioned a little bit I just wanted to ask for a clarification

[19:56] if you've taken any action or if we just because of the situation is no action.

[20:02] But the the situation with the property with uh

[20:06] turning over that right away I'm going to take to the

[20:10] street right away.

[20:12] » The Smith property still have the property speaking of that.

[20:14] » Um I assume everybody agrees that we lay off of that after we talked last

[20:18] month. >> I don't think we're necessarily

[20:22] Is Is everyone Can you share with us what the deal is so we can

[20:25] » Yes, yes, so basically what I got some

[20:28] description of the land and looked at the original plat of Wallsall

[20:33] for the open road and sent the stuff to Jeff and he and I

[20:36] spoke for just a minute. It you know, it appears

[20:39] maybe that road is the only access to the Chick property

[20:44] which sits behind like if you go to the open road at the very end of the road

[20:49] the prop the parcel behind it is owned by a family called the Chicks.

[20:54] It looks like that may be the only access there. And so because of that

[20:58] Jeff recommended and I that I ask the Smiths about maybe getting

[21:03] um an uh

[21:06] » easement >> a

[21:07] » what? >> Well,

[21:08] » we talked about an easement across it. I'm trying to find the email that we

[21:12] had. >> Yeah, we Well, we talked a survey. If we

[21:14] get a survey, we see exactly where everything's at. And so, I did talk to

[21:19] Tommy Smith about that. I said, "Listen, here's the deal. It may stop the ingress

[21:24] and egress and

[21:27] Ingress and egress, right? >> He was going to have to get these. I

[21:30] mean, the That was the problem. >> Yeah, and I told him I said, but I said

[21:33] the the town is not willing to put out the money. So, I'm going to put it back

[21:38] in I put it back in Tommy's court. If they want it, they was going to need

[21:42] they would need to get it surveyed so that we could look at it and make sure

[21:45] that that did not stop entrance to that property.

[21:50] It kind of looks like it on the property appraiser's map, but Jeff and I were not

[21:55] 100% sure. >> Well, the in the it was but it was the

[21:59] it was a diagram that we had of the beyond the we had that one area

[22:03] rendering that we could Yeah, where the exact lines were and that was the I keep

[22:07] saying easement all I'm going to call it easement on surveys that he didn't want

[22:10] to pay for cuz it would have incurred to his benefit, not ours and not yours or

[22:15] others. So, >> Yeah.

[22:16] » And the survey would have been for $2,500.

[22:19] Probably none of them would pay for it even though it's not out in the country,

[22:23] you know, not a huge parcel. >> Yeah. So, it's sitting in his court now.

[22:27] Went back to him. >> Sure.

[22:29] » Because, you know, as Jeff and I were speaking, one of the

[22:32] things I had talked about is that he he is wanting to get this to be able to

[22:34] sell the property. So, cuz he wants to sell that piece, he

[22:38] wants to include that. So, it really wouldn't be fair to the town for us to

[22:43] spend money on a survey,

[22:46] you know, to help him get land that they're going to sell.

[22:50] So, it's back in his court now. >> And I just want to make sure that when

[22:54] you were about it and we're there to be some questions asked. I just didn't have

[22:57] dialogue with that D&T that were willing to look at the right-of-way issue and

[23:01] all of things aired out up there chipping

[23:04] but then we found [clears throat] out some more information that we dug up.

[23:08] Okay. >> And I'm not confident it

[23:12] it's the only way in and out but I felt like on the side of being very careful

[23:17] that we should do that. >> That sounds good. So it sounds like we

[23:20] put the burden proof on him to come back to us with a

[23:23] » Right. >> viable solution rather than us guessing

[23:25] and looking at Google map surveys. >> Right.

[23:28] Yeah, so that's where that's at.

[23:32] » Then can question about the aspect of somebody talking.

[23:36] I wasn't sure if everybody was aware of that. I just heard it in passing myself

[23:39] so.

[23:42] That was the only thing I had. Jeff, did you have anything else?

[23:44] » No, sir. >> No. Do you have any questions for me

[23:46] about anything else? >> I don't think so.

[23:50] » [clears throat] >> Roger did mention to me he didn't want

[23:53] to put on the agenda but he might want to readdress it was is the cemetery

[23:57] resolution that we passed. Um he he had a family come and question

[24:01] him on that. And um

[24:05] they had already come and talked to me about it and I explained to them why we

[24:08] did that. It's family has a lot of parcels.

[24:12] And so he said at some point he may want to address that but

[24:17] » They already had a lot of parcels in there and they didn't agree with the

[24:20] resolution. >> Well, they have a lot of parcels and

[24:21] half of them have names on them. The ownership has been established.

[24:26] There's [clears throat] more one of the family wants to

[24:31] identify ownership of but I told him that those were going to

[24:34] have to be bought for $300 a piece. And

[24:38] so he didn't he didn't want that. So

[24:42] You know, one of the things I talked to him about is that you know, there's

[24:44] upkeep of the cemetery. And the town takes it out of the general

[24:49] revenue. If we don't somehow sell some of these, you know, this would

[24:53] pay for our $2,500 or $3,000 what it is to get them mowing.

[24:58] And uh >> In the grand scheme of things, if you

[25:01] look at private cemeteries and you're dealing with the bigger areas, it's way

[25:04] more expensive than that. It's really a deal.

[25:07] At twice the price. I hate that. >> Yeah, so

[25:10] » That's a deal at 300 a plot. >> I think so, too.

[25:13] » Yes, sir. That's I think it's a little underrated

[25:16] myself. Yes, sir. >> Yeah, but um so, he just wanted me to

[25:20] throw that out there. He may want to readdress that again, so

[25:23] but he didn't want to do it tonight. That's all.

[25:28] » So, isn't it Is it Is it actually the case that

[25:31] of the ground that has been deeded we don't own that?

[25:37] » Correct. If it's been deeded, yes, sir. >> Yeah. Of the deeds that have been

[25:41] deeded, it's just curious that

[25:43] » We don't own them, is that what you're saying?

[25:45] » Correct. >> Yes.

[25:46] » It It's just And And again, I'm not proposing we don't make any

[25:50] changes. I'm just making observations and comments that it is curious that we

[25:53] continue to bear the maintenance burden of property that we don't own.

[25:56] » Yes, sir. >> That's all I'm saying.

[25:57] » And eventually, it's going to wear out.

[26:00] » I don't know. >> You know, I don't know what year, what

[26:02] council is going to look at this and say this is where it is at. But, I'm glad we

[26:07] can continue to do what we can for now. >> And I think last year I don't know if we

[26:10] were looking at the budget numbers. Last year, we sold $3,000 worth of lots.

[26:15] I mean, our plots. So, that would have paid our maintenance budget right there.

[26:19] If we can get it for 2,500 others a year.

[26:23] And you know, also

[26:25] » So, like up there where my mom and dad is buried at, they send out letters to

[26:30] all the families asking for, you know, um

[26:34] monetary donation or amount to help offset the cost of

[26:41] grass mowing and that kind of thing. >> Do they collect that?

[26:45] » I mean, I don't know.

[26:48] » My experience is that they most associations collect some, but none

[26:52] collect all. Like it's not a necessary participation. But

[26:56] what little bit you get seems to be some people are giving it.

[26:59] » And I mean that might be some >> I mean can we do that though? That would

[27:02] be I think that would tend to be kind of a little bit of a

[27:05] » If you could ever pass it off and make it a private

[27:08] » That's what I'm getting off the city's books, that'd be great. They did that at

[27:11] the old Ribs Cemetery which is up the road now on Highway 69. I always knew

[27:15] about it cuz my father-in-law goes up there and

[27:17] tends to it cuz they have a lot of family there and friends of the family.

[27:21] He'll be 80 in November. But they had to

[27:25] have to pass it off and get it out of the city's name many many years ago. I

[27:28] don't know how they figured out how they did that.

[27:31] » Well, then you give it to a company or somebody

[27:34] » Probably >> a a private the surrounding land owner.

[27:37] They created some kind of like a cemetery trust as I understand it. I've

[27:40] never heard of it before, but it almost sounded like it operates like an HOA.

[27:44] » Uh-huh. >> Obviously with a little tiny dues.

[27:47] » Yeah. >> For everybody that want to have some

[27:48] upkeep, but they >> They didn't require them

[27:51] » to >> They paid

[27:53] » You know, I've got to have a mission to >> Yeah, again that's not something I would

[27:57] want to take on, but I I just fear that eventually a council

[28:02] say We we just

[28:04] » Yep. >> As as the complexity grows and the

[28:07] disgruntledness begins to get more complex

[28:10] we might not be able to make everybody [clears throat] happy with everybody.

[28:15] But again, future. Anything else for the general

[28:20] benefit of the council?

[28:23] Yeah. Uh do we have to do

[28:26] motion to adjourn or is that just Hoping to get out of

[28:30] » He does it sometimes. >> It's what we do. It's it's

[28:34] » [clears throat] >> I'll make a motion to adjourn.

[28:36] » I'll second. >> Is there any body opposed to that

[28:39] motion? We'll do a roll call.

[28:42] All right then, we'll make ourselves at home.

[28:44] » Thank you very much. >> Accept that gavel one more

Wausau, Florida Town Council Meeting on Thursday, August 20, 2026

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