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Good evening. The meeting will please come to order. This is a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees at the Village of Womets.

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I'd like to welcome everybody here this evening. Well, everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

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Thank

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you all for joining us tonight.

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We will call the matters in the border, in which they appear on the print of the agenda.

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There are copies of the agenda on the table by the door.

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You may want to have one, so you can follow along to see when your matter will be called.

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If you plan to address us tonight, we ask that you please come up to the podium.

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Please speak into the microphone and tell us who you are and where you live,

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as that may be relevant to the matter at hand.

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Everything you say and everything we say is recorded,

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and from those recordings minutes of the meeting are prepared.

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These minutes are available at Village Hall, and on our website, it will met.gov.

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Also, our Village Board meetings are televised on Local Access Channel 6, and on the Internet.

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By televising our meetings, we make it easy for our neighbors in the community to follow the proceedings of the Village Board.

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See the types of matters that come before us, the questions we ask and the policies we create.

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You can find our kind of videos of Village Board and other government meetings on our website.

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Before each meeting, the Board receives a packet of agenda materials.

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These materials are also posted on our website on the Friday before our meeting, so residents

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and other interested parties can review the same materials that the Board members receive.

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Finally, we are a community of neighbors and as such, we want our meeting to be a civil and

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prettiest as possible.

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I know that we, the Board, as well as our residents and those speaking today, will promote

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of the city by listening, being respectful of others, acknowledging that we are all striving

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to support and improve our community and understanding that we may each have different ideas

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for achieving that objective.

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Was one courtesy to those around you, please take the sign to turn off your cell phones

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and other devices, and while we're doing that, Mr. Halgren, would you please call the roll?

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Trustee Lender, here, trustee Shuffer, here, trustee State here, trustee Weaver, here, trustee

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up here, across the Kennedy here, and President Plunkett.

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Here, we are all here this evening.

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The next item on the agenda is item two public comment.

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During public comment individuals are allotted up to three minutes to address the board

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on an item which is not already on the agenda.

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Members of the audience may address the board on matters which are on tonight's agenda when

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the particular matter is called.

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So any member of the audience who would like to address the board on an item which is not

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I'm the agent of this evening.

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Maybe Mr. Wiremieler?

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Good evening. My name is Mark Wiremieler, right?

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My own clock here.

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So I'm going to keep track of the time.

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So you have three minutes to speak during public comment.

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Again, my name is Mark Wiremieler.

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A couple quick points.

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Last week, I want to commend the board and the vendors in town,

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the business owners on the Black Party.

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I thought it was tremendous.

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Special credit to Valley Lodge, Napalita, Thitt and Tap.

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They all did a great job, and I just think we maybe should have a block party every weekend. How's that sound?

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We have a Facebook group called Wilmet Connection, where we do a lot of comments on promoting restaurants, bars, new businesses.

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I see buttermilk pancakes is going to open over on Skowkey Boulevard, possibly in a couple of weeks.

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I, as people know, I followed that since Baker Square, I was critical of the board at the time because they raised their property taxes.

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They actually hired attorneys to dispute, review their, their reduction, which seemed very strange to me.

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So if you want to know more about that, you can follow me on our Facebook group.

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You can look up records of it, but I want less taxes, so better for homeowners, better for businesses.

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But our page is up to 16,000 people. I recommend and they call me the I recommend guy

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I recommend all of you should be following this on Facebook. I'm also on Twitter

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I'm basically a taxpayer advocate. I want less taxes and no offense to everybody

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But I want to shrink the size of government

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So more money goes people can keep more of their own money

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a couple things that came up in the last meeting and I'm upset about is the

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95,500 was approved by the board with little discussion

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to fix the fountain outside.

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I talked to maybe 100 people who say that's about a $5 or $10,000 job.

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It says, Masonary Repairs in the bill,

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I was told I don't know the scope of the project.

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Maybe I don't, maybe they're going to build a big,

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maybe it's going to look like Buckingham Fountain or something.

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But it seems like pretty basic repairs.

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The fountain's 54 years old.

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It seems like it's been neglected for 54 years.

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It looks like some talk point has been done maybe 20 years ago, but 92,500 seems like a lot

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for that type of job.

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And it's more of the tip of the iceberg, is that the same meeting that you guys voted

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to spend 5 to 600,000 on bike lanes on Lake Avenue.

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So I just want to watch the costs.

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I do want to spend money.

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I see the fire trucks, the new fire truck for $2 million.

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I approve that.

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That's great.

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We should get two or three of them.

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But that's on the agenda later on.

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I'm at 30 seconds here.

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A couple of the things.

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The housing commission is meeting coming up.

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I wish they just held up a paddles at 30 seconds.

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I always say that.

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The housing commission is meeting I've issues with the housing commission and also the

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parents review.

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I'm not sure why they have to go before a committee to get a new on-ean in time.

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This seems insane.

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That's it.

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Again, Mark Wiremler.

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Thank you for your time and good work to everybody, especially on the Black Party.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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anyone else wishes to make a public comment this evening. Okay, seeing none, we'll close public comment and move on to.

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Oh, I'm sorry. Please, come on up.

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I need an issue that you're entering.

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But there's been a lot of talk about these cameras.

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Would you mind introducing yourself?

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So, my name is Robert Mucci, I'm a retired attorney with public defender's office.

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I don't live in Wometh. I live in Weneca, but you're calculating decision.

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What a fact me.

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This camera system is not a local community issue in your town. You have interstate cameras and the interstate camera is going down green be able

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And I can't suddenly go through when my way home. This camera system raises many issues.

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Classical issues that the erosion of our rights privacy under the constitution.

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I've spent 30 years in my life litigating fourth amendment issues, reasonable searches and seizures.

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This is a very complex issue and I urge you to take a lot of time, have opened discussions and bring in everybody in the community.

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In UNEC, we have a conversation with a survey on major issues.

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We send a survey out to everybody in the town and they can answer this survey on issues like this.

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And we use the responses in making our deliberations and how we choose to act.

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But the camera system invades all our privacy.

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Whenever there's been an erosion of constitutional rights that we have, the Supreme Court uses a...

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And the balancing class is whether or not there is a compelling state interest that would overcome any chilling effect of loss of privacy. We don't have that here at all.

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What's going to happen is they're going to take any information about you and they're going to sell it.

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And then it's all going into AI. It's not going to benefit you in any managed shape or form that's going to justify implementation of its project.

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So, I would just like to sum up, it's a very important issue, it's a slippery slope when

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you take that first step down that slope, it's going to be a cast and erosion of your

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rights and we're never going to reverse the direction.

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I see no purpose in this, there's plenty of cameras, our police officers have cameras in

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the car, they have body cameras, when it comes to crime, there's no purpose other than

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to implement a loss of your rights, a loss of your freedom.

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You might be deterred from assembling.

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You might be deterred from associating with people you're always being watched.

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It's 1984 in a scary.

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So please take your blood and deliberation and make it an open discussion.

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There's a lot of literature on this because other communities are considering this.

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And I hope that you do too and I hope you don't implement it.

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And I'm doing the same thing in the town where I live.

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I don't see any good from actually a lot of evil and they're going to sell all your information

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to AI.

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They're building these big centers.

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Speaker of 30 seconds.

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I appreciate the time.

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I thank you and I have a good evening.

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Thank you.

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Anyone else wish to make a public comment?

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Okay.

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And this might be a good time for a reminder for the community that there will be a public safety

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committee meeting on this topic this Thursday in Council Chambers.

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It will be recorded and what time is it?

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at 10 AM, the first of two meetings and the Agenda packet is on the Village website for everyone to review.

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Moving on then to the consent agenda item three is the consent agenda.

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As described on the printed agenda items which are either routine business or normally not debated by the Village Board

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are placed on the consent agenda. All items beginning with a three or on the consent agenda

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And tonight the consent agenda consists of the items on page 1, beginning with item 3.1, through page 4, and ending with item 3.31, items on the consent agenda are up for approval tonight.

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If an item is not removed by a member of the audience and is not removed by one of the trustees, the item will be approved and it will not be discussed.

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Are there any items trustees would like to remove from the consent agenda?

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All shaking their heads no? Is there any member of the audience who would like to remove an item from the consent agenda?

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Okay, seeing none, may I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda?

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So moved.

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Trustee Smith, is there a second?

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Second.

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Trustee Lieber, it's been moved in seconded.

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Mr. Halgrim would you please call the roll on the motion to adopt the consent agenda?

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Trustee Lieber, aye.

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Trustee Shepherd, aye.

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Trustee Sting, aye.

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Trustee Lieber, aye.

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Trustee Smith, aye.

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Trustee Kennedy, aye.

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And President Walker.

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Aye.

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Motion carries the consent.

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The consent agenda has been adopted.

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If you are here for an item on the consent agenda, it has been approved.

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And to clarify for people who are here tonight, all of the items beginning with a three have been approved.

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There will be no further discussion of any of the items on the consent agenda.

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So you are free to leave.

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But of course, you are more than welcome to save the part for all of our meeting.

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Next up is reports of officers, and I am happy to welcome Illinois House Majority Leader Robin

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Gabel to Wometh the seasoning.

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We appreciate leader Gabel's representation of our community and partnership with leader

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Gabel.

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Not only does leader Gabel listen to us to take our concerns seriously as it relates to legislation

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in Springfield, but she has been an advocate for the village during the state annual budget

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process.

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Recently, we were able to complete one of the final sections of our Eden's pollinator corridor as a result of a $270,000 grant that Robin is secured for us.

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And on tonight's agenda, we are approving a contract for architectural services to begin modernization of Fire Station 27.

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We have a fire chief here, several leaders in the back, kind of an all-fire evening looking

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at our agenda.

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But starting with the architectural services contract that we just approved on our consent

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Mr. Brayman and I met with Leader Gabel, several months ago in Springfield, and we

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were able to share that our fire stations were constructed more than 60 years ago and don't

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meet today's standards for functionality, firefighter safety and quality of life.

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And this project funded through this grant will improve fire station health and living conditions

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by updating the sleeping quarters at Fire Station 27 and installing airlock vestibules

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between the sleeping common areas and the apparatus phase.

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The sleeping corners update will take the current open air sleeping area sleeping room with all the

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bunks in one room and replace it with individual bunk rooms with locker rooms and privacy doors.

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We have long had difficulty attracting women to our fire service and this step is long overdue.

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This grant will also support the installation of the enclosed air lock vestibules

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between the vehicle apparatus areas and the living quarters in both fire stations, which will reduce the contaminants from entering the living areas.

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So with that, I would like to invite leader Gable to come up.

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I want to present her with this certificate of thanks for this important grant.

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Well, why don't you, and I want to say a couple words.

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You don't have to do it with a thick photo with this and a few minutes.

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which

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I have to do all the time.

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They actually built a little stool for me,

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so if I'm ever presiding in the chamber,

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I can be seen over the podium here.

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So, thank you very, very much for this recognition.

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It really has been a pleasure working with you,

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President Plunkett and Village Manager,

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frame in over the years and all of you trustees. I really appreciate you coming to Springfield

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or calling me here. I but do believe that decisions with the most amount of input from

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stakeholders are our best that the more opinions we have, the better our decisions are. So I really

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do appreciate hearing from everyone. You know, I'm so pleased that these state funds will help provide

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as you said, separate locker rooms for women firefighters, and hopefully be an incentive

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as the village recruits more female firefighters to the community.

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I know that I, once,

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We did that experiment with the firefighters where I had to put down all the equipment and walk up the stairs in a, quote, burning house, and I will tell you, I will never be a firefighter.

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It was the poor guy leading me was finally like, okay, give me your air, because otherwise we're never going to get up these stairs, you know, it was like, so I really, really appreciate the work that they do having experienced it myself.

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And, you know, these types of projects are exactly what the Illinois State Capital Funds should be used for.

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Improving our communities while also providing really high quality construction jobs.

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So, I am so pleased that we could be using these funds for this purpose.

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Thank you again.

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And I really look forward to continuing our open communication and our great relationship,

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which I find mutually supportive. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I would love a photo with you.

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I should probably move forward a little bit and then everybody gets by.

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That's good. You get tight.

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Very tight.

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No, good tight.

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I know.

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Yes.

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Here you want to be on the other side.

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Yeah.

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You want to come on up?

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I actually don't know.

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I don't know.

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Perfect. Now that you've got this perfect.

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I'll just in there you go.

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Do one more.

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Thank you.

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I'll cut you out.

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Oh yes, I'm going to do this.

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We're going to do this.

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We're going to do this.

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Thank you.

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You're a must be great.

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It's a must be great.

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I'll do it.

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I'm going to do it.

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I'll do it.

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I'll do it.

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Don't, don't, don't, don't.

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I'll do it.

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I'll do it.

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Okay, this is something to catch you.

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What do you get again?

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What do you get again?

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Next time next time you come to call us

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some authority, it's going to go right over.

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You'd have a second where you'd thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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It's fun to work on.

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Next up, I would like to introduce Christine Moran.

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It has been recommended for appointment to the Human Relations Commission.

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So happy that you agreed to be on the Human Relations Commission.

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I think you're going to make a wonderful addition.

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I think you've got, I'll let you introduce yourself.

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I even know I have your bio here, but I wanted you to be able to say a few words to the board.

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Sure, thank you. I think you press and unplug it and members of the board.

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My name is Christine Moran. I've been a resident of Wilmat since 2009.

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I married to Bob, a new chair graduate, and together we have two sons.

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Matthew, who's 22 and William, who's 20.

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Our family chose to move to Wilmat when Matthew was starting kindergarten,

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recognizing the community as a welcoming environment.

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Bob grew up in Womats, and my sister-in-waring taught special education at Central School.

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So we already knew about Womats' strong commitment to inclusion,

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especially important to us first, and Matthew, who has special needs.

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Over our 17 years in this community and school district,

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we've been so pleased with how Womats has embraced Matthew.

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He recently graduated from the YouTube Transition Program

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and has moved to Missouri, Korea.

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In my professional life, I serve as the managed and director of multi-family finance department for the Illinois Housing Development Authority.

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At Ida, my team is responsible for the administration of various state and federal resources to create and preserve affordable housing across the state.

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I'm honored to be considered for this position on the Human Relations Commission.

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I believe I can bring valuable perspective and diversity equity and inclusion.

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And we also love the fireman.

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Yeah, because we've been going into fire stations since he was in kindergarten, I think we're just very yesterday, so.

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Anyway, thank you very much.

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Well, thank you.

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And so happy to have your voice on the Human Relations Commission and to the race to our place, which is coming up to come soon.

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October 4th.

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Yes.

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So excited for that.

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And I really appreciate your service.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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You're welcome.

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Thank you.

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I have a few requests for executive session which I will read at the end of the evening at the end of the meeting and then I just wanted to have a shout out for some block party. Thank you.

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The block party was phenomenal this year. It might have been the most people since our 150th or maybe it eclipse that, but it was a wonderful collaboration between the village and the park district.

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And specifically, I'd like to thank from the village, Sarah Fyfer, and Monica Grossnickle,

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and I'm going to thank the Park District, especially Lindsey Thomas, and from the village,

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I want to thank our facilities crew, public works, police department, fire department.

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They were all out there.

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The comments I got that evening was, is this really well met?

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And I think some of us were kind of pinching ourselves.

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It was, it was a wonderful evening and it all ran smoothly.

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thanks to all the staff that worked really hard. So we're excited for next year for a number

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for a year six of the Black Party. Mr. Raymond, do you have any reports? Okay, so then we

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will move on to our standing committee reports. The first up is the land use standing committee

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trustee Leonard. All items, all the things that we do. Finance committee standing report,

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trustee Shefford. All items are on the consent agenda. Administration committee standing report,

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We have a couple items under public safety standing committee.

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I move for the adoption of resolution 2020.

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26, dash our dash 141 authorizing the village manager to execute a contract in the amount not to exceed

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$2.1 million with garage ink, New York, New York. For the purchase of a 2025 piers enforcer latter, I'm sorry, enforcer tower latter.

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the numbers on here for detail. I move for this to be accepted, meaning to be approved by the board.

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It's been moved in a second. Second?

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Okay, it's been moved in a second.

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I want to turn it over to our chief of fire.

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Thank you, trustee Smith. Thank you, President Punket.

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I'll be trustee's, Village Manager.

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Short presentation.

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All

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right, so a quick overview on the screen here is a tower ladder 204 and tower ladder 205.

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This is our current fleet for tower ladders.

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These are your fire apparatus or your suppression apparatus.

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The under station that's station 26, which is your only suppression apparatus.

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East of the railroad tracks.

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Station 27 houses an engine.

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So FD204 is our frontline FD205, we purchased five years ago, it's a used unit to back up 204 when it's out of service for PM's for maintenance and such.

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So NFPA 1901 has some recommended guidelines for frontline for fire apparatus, specifically this one is for a tower ladder.

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15 years front line 10 years in reserve status we do maintain two tower

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ladders like I said that reports are response plan and the idea is try to get to

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point where we're replacing these in a timely manner and on a regular manner.

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So we want to public safety and present to this.

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Ideally, we're giving some direction that's 12.5 years and 12.5 years is

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more solid with the replacement and the budgeting. So we know what's happening as time goes on

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for budget purposes. But the other thing too is it's also subject to what the conditions are

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when we get to that time frame, what the conditions are with the economics, the village stands,

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and where the apparatus are our standing in. There's still operating and there's no issues in

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So, this still keeps this open.

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So, the three scenarios that we presented

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to the public safety committee are up here.

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So, scenario one was to purchase a used Pearson forcer,

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estimated $2.58 million total cost.

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That is the 2.4 that was asked in price of this tower ladder,

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then it would be the maintenance cost of the apparatus of the reserve,

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And then also what it would cost to bring that tower ladder into service for the village

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of Womet.

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scenario two was to buy a new unit that would be purchased this year or next year and

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then it would take up to 40, 40 months to get the tower ladder to be manufactured in the

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So that brings us up to around 2029.

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So these costs also included the refurbishment of FD205.

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So we had gone to public safety earlier and got approval

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of 204 getting the hydraulic systems replaced,

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which we have done.

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That's where we had it on a 204 was on a fire.

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We had a catastrophic break of a hydraulic system

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that we dumped all the hydraulic oil on a heared,

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which really rendered the tower ladder out of service.

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Luckily, the fire was out, but we had to, it means it's out there to pull it out.

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So we had gone and discussed about getting 205 with public safety in the hydraulic system

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done that also.

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So those costs are in the 3.01 million dollars.

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And scenario through scenario three is the same thing by new unit with the refurbishment,

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but then also try to look for the possibility of acquiring another huge tower ladder that

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fit as a reserve with the costs of tower letters today and even some aftermarket we're seeing

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that those prices are up there because tower letters are $2.5 million new today and people are

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holding on and selling their used tower letters. We just a little history we did look at another

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used one we were unable to acquire it but it did go for a million dollars and it was of 20 2015 so that

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that's what those cost of the 3.45 are.

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So, public safety gave us direction to go with option,

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or scenario number one.

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So, we contacted Garage and we negotiated with Garage

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for the purchase of the tower ladder

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that is from the dining under York.

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And we agreed upon a price of $2.1 million.

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So, this is a brand new pierce.

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That was delivered in January of this year when they got it to the fire station that didn't fit.

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And they chose to sell the tower ladder and set up raising the roof on the fire station so it would fit.

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So it will fit in our fire station.

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We have measured so they're on any issues there.

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So this is almost identical to what we would purchase if we were to purchase something new.

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These are the two things that are of significance that would be different that if we were to purchase

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We were to go into a contract with between these are two things that we would have probably put into our contract

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We would have had air at the basket. So this is the ability for the firefighters when they're in the basket on a fire

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They're able to hook into an airline that's piped into the latter and are able to

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options. This isn't a deal killer by any means, you know, the firefighters wear their air

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packs in the in the in the basket. We have the option of going to one hour bottles, which would

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be twice as much errors as we normally have. Another thing would have spare bottles in the basket,

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so they could change out the partners could change out between the two or we would do personnel change.

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The second item is 300 gallon water tank. Our frontline tower ladder currently is 500,

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but our reserve tower ladder that we got from New Jersey by years ago has 300 gallons.

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All this really does is really signifies and it's already a priority number one is

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after life safety is made sure that we're going into a structural structure fire that we establish

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a water supply. So that's one of the things that once the water supply is established,

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it's communicated on the air and now we have because we have Lake Michigan and Lake Michigan water.

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Hopefully we have an endless amount of water for firefighter.

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So, the first thing we did is we went to public safety for a review and we proceeded with scenario number one.

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And we went out and negotiated the price of $2.1 million from an asking price of $2.4.

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We went out, the team went out and did an inspection. They went out to New York and included our fleet department.

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Deputy Chief Sheets, who was with me today, and then a Deputy Chief Menzy stayed back with me.

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And then we had an apparatus engineer, so many of that is going to drive the tower ladder.

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If it comes back, when it comes back, and then also we had an officer that also is in charge of our fleet.

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That works in public works with our fleet management, so we sent the four people out there.

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I liked what they saw.

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I mean, it's a brand new tower ladder.

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We feel that we can make it fit in to very similar to what we would purchase, except for those two things that we're

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that I mentioned before.

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Terminal of the Sales was established in just a little bit of the warranties.

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You own one-year powertrain warranty from barrage.

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The Pierce warranties will transfer over and then they're going to fray it out here at

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their cost.

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That's my report.

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One question, but beforehand, before the people who are on the Public Safety Committee,

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we were talking about this a year and a half ago or so, one of the things that we talked

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was the possibility of getting kind of a gently used ladder truck just because the time to get

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new one is so long because they're basically two companies in the United States that build these,

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so it's like what 40 months away. And then low in behold, this one came available and we all

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had the same question. Why is there a brand new one? And it's literally because the station in

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in New York State, the roof is a foot too low, and it wouldn't fit, is that all right?

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Correct. So basically, their losses are a game, and $300,000 cheaper, right. Correct.

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And today is waiting for four years. The only question, it occurred to me as you were talking,

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we're probably going to need to spend a little bit of money to re-brand the outside,

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say we'll met fire department, right? Correct. So we were estimating around $50,000 to be put into the

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tower ladder to get it, you know, laddered and put in service. Okay, that's the $50,000. Okay, that's the

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$50,000. Thanks. Right. Inform a contractual perspective. Those will fall under other existing contracts

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that we already have. Those aren't within the purchase of the deal.

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I mean, this sounds like, I mean,

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expecting to spend this today. That's why we have to vote on this in the budget, but we were

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going to spend this in a few years and we were going to spend more. And so this sounds like

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a really good deal for a brand new tower ladder, and then we're also saving money on not having to

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refurbish one of our existing tower ladders. And I assume that we'll just put that on the auction to

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So that is so much of the cost that we went over a little bit earlier, and includes selling

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of the reserve, our current reserve.

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And then obviously, when things go on, you sell the reserves as we get through.

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And that 25-year period, you look at how much your reserve with fleet is what the value is.

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Is it beneficial to sell it sooner than later?

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I mean, it's just like, you know, like a million dollar spur of a 2015 power that

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earth.

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It's hard to come by, but that's kind of where we started with all these conversations

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about fire apparatus and replacing them, because we're really in a weird situation where,

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you know, 40 months for a power ladder, to me when I heard the 40 months, I thought that

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was pretty quick from some of the stories we were in a few years ago, it was up to five

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years, and then the prices are astronomical, and we're bangin' the drum at the state

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in the federal levels, like some of you guys

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have to do something with the price of our apparatus.

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It's just getting larger and larger.

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And then there's really not a market out there

452
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,880
is not going out and buying it, and I tell you guys,

453
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,200
it's not like going out and buying a four to 150,

454
00:34:26,700 --> 00:34:29,760
where they're selling 10,000 a week,

455
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,420
where you can negotiate, and you have some history.

456
00:34:32,780 --> 00:34:34,860
I mean, how many people are selling a one,

457
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,820
how many people are selling a tower ladder

458
00:34:36,820 --> 00:34:38,800
that they purchase and never put in service,

459
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:46,600
And two, who's selling a tower ladder, that has 20,000 miles on it from then, bought it in 2015.

460
00:34:47,620 --> 00:34:50,100
But nowadays, there's that little bit of the market.

461
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,560
And it is funny that a lot of people knew about this, this one from New Jersey,

462
00:34:54,860 --> 00:34:57,220
or New York, because they've had some conversations.

463
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,540
And it was out there and people are like, you know what I say?

464
00:35:00,780 --> 00:35:04,660
Yeah, we ended up cutting a deal on, for 2.1.

465
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:09,440
And we all, you know, with that too, all the hard work from Deputy Chief Sheets.

466
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,580
Because he pointed out like in February.

467
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,080
He said, he's a look at this and I laughed.

468
00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:16,820
I'm like, come on.

469
00:35:17,260 --> 00:35:17,800
There's no way.

470
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,000
And we were looking at something else.

471
00:35:19,140 --> 00:35:21,300
And then all of a sudden, it was like, wait a minute.

472
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,820
We asked, I'm looking at this because we had both tower ladders down at the same time.

473
00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:26,940
I'm like, give me a call.

474
00:35:27,340 --> 00:35:28,800
See what they have to say.

475
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:30,600
And here we are.

476
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:32,820
It seems like a good story.

477
00:35:32,820 --> 00:35:35,300
And I know from talking to other municipalities,

478
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,880
this is a real problem, not just the cost,

479
00:35:40,340 --> 00:35:41,060
but the waiting.

480
00:35:42,420 --> 00:35:46,220
And trying to repair these aging vehicles costs

481
00:35:46,220 --> 00:35:49,740
a fortune in and of itself, and takes a long time.

482
00:35:50,660 --> 00:35:55,180
So this sounds like a good ending to this story.

483
00:35:55,420 --> 00:35:58,680
So thank you all for your diligence and hard work

484
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,180
in research and trying to find this.

485
00:36:02,180 --> 00:36:07,320
So I, and also, you know, for people who don't know the public safety committee as reference

486
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:12,300
had a series of meetings and we were made, all that information was made available to us.

487
00:36:12,380 --> 00:36:17,800
So it was really helpful and appreciate all the work that was put in by that committee to get it to us.

488
00:36:18,740 --> 00:36:21,000
It's really been helpful in the work that all of you did.

489
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:22,060
It's great.

490
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,440
So in eight years, we'll have to start talking about it again.

491
00:36:27,420 --> 00:36:28,460
It does.

492
00:36:28,740 --> 00:36:32,000
This one should last until 2050, right?

493
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:32,620
Yeah.

494
00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:36,900
Yeah, but then you have a second year.

495
00:36:37,260 --> 00:36:38,920
And we have to look at that.

496
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,100
If I go back to Chief's discussion a couple of years ago,

497
00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:49,240
how do we get on this regimented cycle and looking at six to 12?

498
00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:50,820
And how can we get to that?

499
00:36:50,820 --> 00:36:55,620
And you would say fortune came, we were able to get a use when then.

500
00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:04,620
But this fortune to get this one and really have a really a new vehicle in the fleet is really remarkable.

501
00:37:05,260 --> 00:37:08,600
So you took a very challenging situation.

502
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:13,760
And now we've turned it into a very positive situation as we go into the future.

503
00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:15,740
Well done.

504
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:16,840
Thank you.

505
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,600
Just a well done to staff.

506
00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:24,660
to. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate it.

507
00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:28,100
Since we are voting on this, it's a large expenditure.

508
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:29,980
Would any member of the audience wish to...

509
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,160
Can you make a public comment on this?

510
00:37:39,660 --> 00:37:48,940
Good evening, real quick, Mark Wiremiller. You can follow me on woman connection. I was the only member of the public to attend the public safety committee meeting.

511
00:37:48,940 --> 00:37:55,000
Actually, I've been the only one less free, I believe. So there is another public safety committee meeting mentioned earlier.

512
00:37:55,220 --> 00:38:02,820
Ten o'clock Thursday morning. I think the main issue is going to talk about flock cameras. I'd like to talk about other issues in public safety. I do support this purchase.

513
00:38:02,820 --> 00:38:09,380
This is a great thing. This is what we want. Many of us want our tax money to go to, to police, fire,

514
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:17,980
trash pickup, fixing potholes. This is, this is what our property tax should be going to. I commend the fire to the part, but they do a great job.

515
00:38:18,340 --> 00:38:24,420
I've seen them do quite a few things just in downtown will met, especially EMS calls. They do a great job.

516
00:38:25,620 --> 00:38:32,640
Money will spend. I'd rather spend money on this than bike lanes for overpaying for a fountain or redoing

517
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:38,740
world with seem fine, or as I've said before, spending $49 million on a new police station

518
00:38:38,740 --> 00:38:42,620
that seemed like it was in relatively good shape. So, excellent job by the fire department.

519
00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:46,780
I did have two questions. I would wonder if you vote yes on this. If it went, it's going to be

520
00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:52,780
delivered. And also, when they sell the old truck, when they sell the old truck many years ago,

521
00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:57,660
they seem to like give it away to a country. I think in South America, I hope they sell it to

522
00:38:57,660 --> 00:39:03,900
somebody and get some money out of it, you know, I hate to sound, you know, even, it's obviously

523
00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:07,920
we're something, hopefully it's not going to be a victory auto-reppers or somebody, but I

524
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,920
think that truck has value and hopefully we get some money to offset our costs here. But again,

525
00:39:12,060 --> 00:39:15,920
great job, everybody, and I support the fire department, the police department, and everybody

526
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:28,100
working in the village. Thank you, and I hope we vote yes. Thank you. And just to confirm, when we

527
00:39:34,410 --> 00:39:38,450
as early as this week or next week.

528
00:39:39,030 --> 00:39:40,390
So, but on everything goes tonight,

529
00:39:40,590 --> 00:39:42,270
they said it would be good to go.

530
00:39:42,850 --> 00:39:43,710
Great, thank you.

531
00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,240
You don't think we have any other questions.

532
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,020
And it's been moved in second and in the second

533
00:39:50,020 --> 00:39:52,120
and in the second, please call the roll on the motion.

534
00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:53,020
Trust me.

535
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:54,460
Trust me.

536
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:55,520
Trust me.

537
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:55,920
Trust me.

538
00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:56,600
Hi.

539
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:57,820
Trust me.

540
00:39:57,820 --> 00:39:58,040
Hi.

541
00:39:58,740 --> 00:39:59,180
Trust me.

542
00:39:59,440 --> 00:39:59,720
Hi.

543
00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:02,260
Hi.

544
00:40:02,580 --> 00:40:02,820
Hi.

545
00:40:02,820 --> 00:40:04,300
I'm President Plockett.

546
00:40:05,060 --> 00:40:06,840
I, resolution adopted.

547
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,480
Thank you all for your hard work again.

548
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:11,600
Thank you, Trustee Smith.

549
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:19,300
Second item, 5.52, police station project, construction update.

550
00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:22,060
I'm going to turn it over to the village manager.

551
00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:22,620
All right.

552
00:40:22,780 --> 00:40:23,560
Thank you, Trustee Smith.

553
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,260
And I'm going to invite Mark Rodgers up.

554
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:26,200
He's our owner's representative.

555
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:27,740
He's going to walk us through the presentation.

556
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,280
As he's coming up, I just want to note that, on tonight's agenda was introduction of an ordinance

557
00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:37,020
authorizing the issuance of general obligation vans to help fund this project.

558
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,940
Moinda is out of town this evening, she'll be back for our next meeting.

559
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,920
So when she's here, that adoption of that ordinance will be off consent.

560
00:40:43,420 --> 00:40:45,580
Moinda can walk us through that in a little bit more detail.

561
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:53,840
We have one site tonight, just to touch on where our financial advisors PMA project us to be in terms of that debt service associated with our project.

562
00:40:55,180 --> 00:40:55,960
All right, good evening.

563
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,140
We have a little bit of a slide to show you tonight.

564
00:41:00,220 --> 00:41:03,800
Hopefully, Eric, let me know if I need to do anything on my hand.

565
00:41:05,660 --> 00:41:07,220
It's on a different screen right now.

566
00:41:07,540 --> 00:41:07,640
Thank you.

567
00:41:08,060 --> 00:41:10,480
It is here.

568
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:12,720
Should I click present?

569
00:41:18,310 --> 00:41:20,650
Here we go.

570
00:41:21,950 --> 00:41:22,350
All right.

571
00:41:23,490 --> 00:41:27,030
I'll click through and please interrupt with any questions as you think of them.

572
00:41:27,450 --> 00:41:29,950
It'd be more than happy to have this be a discussion as much as a presentation.

573
00:41:30,750 --> 00:41:32,670
So with that, we want to go through construction progress.

574
00:41:32,670 --> 00:41:41,030
risk tracking that we're constantly looking at and evolving with the Project Schedule Project Budget and upcoming activities.

575
00:41:41,970 --> 00:41:45,730
Construction progress, actually, there's been more progress to date from the picture number.

576
00:41:45,850 --> 00:41:49,010
Though from last week, they've actually poured the footings in the bottom right.

577
00:41:49,250 --> 00:41:51,810
It's the cursor here hopefully you can see that.

578
00:41:51,870 --> 00:41:55,570
These are the footings going in and the lower section of the north side of the building.

579
00:41:55,790 --> 00:41:59,010
And actually, out where these people are standing is the deepest part of the excavation.

580
00:41:59,190 --> 00:41:59,970
That's where the elevator's going.

581
00:41:59,970 --> 00:42:05,430
So, you can see we're working our way in the north, down the west, and back in the south,

582
00:42:05,790 --> 00:42:08,810
we're all of the excavation, footings, and foundations.

583
00:42:09,730 --> 00:42:10,630
Demolitions complete.

584
00:42:11,150 --> 00:42:11,950
Obviously, you can see that.

585
00:42:11,950 --> 00:42:14,450
The earth retaining system, and that's what you're seeing in the background.

586
00:42:14,550 --> 00:42:16,630
This picture right here was installed.

587
00:42:17,530 --> 00:42:19,930
The ridge road work is partially complete.

588
00:42:20,250 --> 00:42:23,990
What we mean by that is there's all the underground utilities that they connect in to

589
00:42:23,990 --> 00:42:24,590
ridge road.

590
00:42:24,910 --> 00:42:26,350
Those connections have been made.

591
00:42:26,870 --> 00:42:27,850
Curbs have been adjusted.

592
00:42:28,290 --> 00:42:32,150
there's some additional landscaping. There's going to be more concrete work in the future, but it's been

593
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:36,310
where we forgot those connections in place already. We'll be back in a ridge road. Right now,

594
00:42:36,450 --> 00:42:41,470
if she's upcoming unrelated to the PD project, there will be some work in ridge road for any of the

595
00:42:41,470 --> 00:42:45,440
resurfacing, so we're making sure we coordinate an allow for any of that work to happen around us.

596
00:42:46,650 --> 00:42:50,850
Separately from that, you've got the excavation substantially complete. Why is it substantially?

597
00:42:51,350 --> 00:42:54,470
As there's multiple parts of this building, if you can imagine, there's a tight constraint.

598
00:42:54,470 --> 00:42:59,130
So the area if you can all remember on the north side is a salary port that's where you come in

599
00:42:59,710 --> 00:43:05,570
You park in that's going to be a separate excavation. They'll come back after they pour the foundations and footings come back and do that

600
00:43:05,570 --> 00:43:09,050
So there's still some ongoing work, but it's following the sequence that's been planned for

601
00:43:10,050 --> 00:43:15,530
Footings and foundations are ongoing concrete was being poured. We have more pores coming to Marl on the foundation wall

602
00:43:15,530 --> 00:43:17,210
So that's good news

603
00:43:17,210 --> 00:43:23,450
In terms of the overall risk tracking, I'll get in the sketch a little more as we go here

604
00:43:24,930 --> 00:43:29,010
We did have, when we first started the project, some additional found the specialists and covered

605
00:43:29,010 --> 00:43:30,850
when we were taking down the walls on the building.

606
00:43:31,390 --> 00:43:32,310
That was mitigated.

607
00:43:32,590 --> 00:43:34,790
There was a additional cost for that.

608
00:43:34,890 --> 00:43:37,570
It was between $67,000 something in that range.

609
00:43:38,490 --> 00:43:41,290
There was no real impact on the actual overall progress.

610
00:43:41,690 --> 00:43:45,730
There was about a five day slow down as they had to go for your additional testing and take

611
00:43:45,730 --> 00:43:47,030
the material out.

612
00:43:47,590 --> 00:43:48,770
But overall, the project was scheduled.

613
00:43:49,130 --> 00:43:52,270
I'll come back this in a minute, wishing not losing time to the contract,

614
00:43:52,270 --> 00:43:53,590
schedule, which is good news.

615
00:43:54,450 --> 00:43:59,270
MWRD approval has also been, I'll say, dragged out the initial

616
00:43:59,270 --> 00:44:03,610
submittal to the MWRD happen way back when in October of 2025.

617
00:44:04,770 --> 00:44:09,550
Just this path past month, we had gotten approval from the MWRD

618
00:44:09,550 --> 00:44:11,610
after six different regions back and forth,

619
00:44:11,690 --> 00:44:13,530
tweaking things, clarifying details.

620
00:44:14,710 --> 00:44:18,450
That has resulted in a two major change orders.

621
00:44:18,510 --> 00:44:20,770
Now, I will say that it's not contract change orders.

622
00:44:20,770 --> 00:44:25,750
We're leaving all the costs for these changes are being absorbed within the contract that Henry

623
00:44:25,750 --> 00:44:29,970
Brothers has with the village, but if you recall and we awarded that contract, we had a number of

624
00:44:29,970 --> 00:44:35,730
contingencies and allowances in that contract, we are using those contingencies and allowances

625
00:44:35,730 --> 00:44:41,270
for. We assumed what happened, which is the MWRD, but there are large numbers we wanted to explain them.

626
00:44:41,770 --> 00:44:48,950
The two main parts are one, the atrium axis path, the engineers assumed and we all assumed

627
00:44:48,950 --> 00:44:55,230
and initial conversations that the atrium access path would be allowed to sheetflow in the water could flow over it.

628
00:44:55,350 --> 00:44:59,890
And I believe we've all talked about this a couple of months ago in this room to Howard.

629
00:45:00,460 --> 00:45:16,200
That was not looked at favorably by the MWRD. We are still having some ongoing conversations with the MWRD to see if they'll relent on that, but right now we are anticipating potentially having to use a 3302K based on their comments and requirements for the engineering of the site.

630
00:45:16,780 --> 00:45:23,400
The other portion of it is the onsite stormwater management system. I can go into it in much greater detail if you have questions tonight.

631
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:33,380
The short story is the site was designed and submitted to the MWRD and October with a storm trap system with a concrete bottom.

632
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,940
The concrete bottom did infiltrate below, but it holes in it will call it.

633
00:45:37,620 --> 00:45:44,700
During the review process in December, which is when we were out to bid, MWRD's first comments came back to us.

634
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:50,380
At that point, based in those comments, they revised the system to a storm tank system,

635
00:45:50,380 --> 00:45:56,920
which is a smaller depth to stay away from the waterline and got larger actually.

636
00:45:57,180 --> 00:46:01,900
The system get larger, but it's a storm tank, it had no concrete bottom, it's a cheaper

637
00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:04,820
system overall, so we thought, okay, great.

638
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:11,000
Got bids in based on that, and somewhere around the 5th or the 6th revision, the MWRD

639
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:17,860
changed the approach, again, based on the site conditions, existing soils on the west

640
00:46:17,860 --> 00:46:23,180
of the property, and we found ourselves going back to the original submittal for Bids, the storm

641
00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:29,360
trapped system with a concrete bottom. All that back and forth to say that basically you've been

642
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,140
having to update the drawings and revisions based on the back and forth the engineers,

643
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:38,340
and that is that $410,000 risk item that we have right now. Going back to what was originally

644
00:46:38,340 --> 00:46:43,920
submitted for Bid, but then changed during the Bid process via a dendom on the initial comments.

645
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:53,820
So complicated, I can show pictures if anyone has any inkling or interest, but that's the big dollar amount out there right now.

646
00:46:54,420 --> 00:46:55,640
Just to follow up again.

647
00:46:56,660 --> 00:47:01,100
So we're going back to the plan that we submitted initially, or is it modified?

648
00:47:01,220 --> 00:47:08,220
It's modified still from it, so for instance, based on the soil conditions, they're not allowing infiltration into the soil.

649
00:47:08,220 --> 00:47:14,020
So, over the initial design had a concrete slab, but it had holes basically through to allow for infiltration.

650
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,260
The current system will not allow for that.

651
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:22,380
Also, the current system will be actually deeper than the original submittal by about a foot.

652
00:47:22,980 --> 00:47:24,880
Not a huge difference, but there is a delta.

653
00:47:25,420 --> 00:47:29,720
We'll have roughly and roughly the same amount of capacity.

654
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,140
Again, you know, the weeds, there was actually a point in time.

655
00:47:33,140 --> 00:47:40,060
the end of that was issued was for more capacity because Richard was thought to have to go

656
00:47:40,060 --> 00:47:43,500
into that same system, as you recall from a couple months ago, we were splitting it

657
00:47:43,500 --> 00:47:48,040
out now. There was a lot of back and forth. That's a short story. But yes, we're essentially

658
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,320
back to the same theory, just different details.

659
00:47:50,940 --> 00:47:58,980
So the 410,000 is professional fees or is there no, you've had no cost absorbed by the village

660
00:47:58,980 --> 00:48:02,940
for the engineering back and forth. The engineers have actually done that is part of their

661
00:48:02,940 --> 00:48:08,600
base contract. So the only thing is the betterment of the system itself. So you'll get a credit

662
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:14,740
back for not using tanks, which were bid. I mean, I've never bought them. We have to prove this

663
00:48:14,740 --> 00:48:19,180
middle. There's been no money spent on that. It was just a bid number. But then you'll have to

664
00:48:19,180 --> 00:48:25,500
spend additional funds about 410 on the pad and the storm trap system that we're going to

665
00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:27,220
but they're all hard-cuffs.

666
00:48:27,340 --> 00:48:27,960
All hard-cuffs.

667
00:48:28,380 --> 00:48:29,660
I mean, some are scheduled for the moment.

668
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:30,480
Thank you.

669
00:48:30,580 --> 00:48:30,840
A question?

670
00:48:31,020 --> 00:48:32,860
Well, what's the difference in soils

671
00:48:32,860 --> 00:48:35,720
than I expect, like, what's the determinant on that?

672
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,680
So the site had the NFR, no further remediation letter issued

673
00:48:41,620 --> 00:48:46,640
by the government of drone, like, an acronym, IVH.

674
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,220
That, that basically, you don't have to remediate the soils anymore.

675
00:48:52,220 --> 00:48:55,780
based on what was found there from tanks ages ago.

676
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,220
The MWRD has in their review process,

677
00:49:00,220 --> 00:49:02,220
it kind of changed the structure of they looked at it.

678
00:49:02,340 --> 00:49:04,660
So once we started encroaching closer to that area,

679
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,800
on the east side of the property,

680
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,180
they said, okay, no longer can we infiltrate stormwater

681
00:49:12,180 --> 00:49:12,820
into the ground.

682
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,280
We've got to encapsulate this.

683
00:49:14,420 --> 00:49:17,820
So that review processes would flag them to then go back

684
00:49:17,820 --> 00:49:19,920
to the baseline of saying, no encapsulate it.

685
00:49:19,940 --> 00:49:21,160
And by the way, with that concrete pad,

686
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:25,160
had there that's great, but that there but don't all the holes in it. Short story.

687
00:49:30,420 --> 00:49:34,980
And think on that, that is one of the larger numbers. You say that there's still a chance

688
00:49:34,980 --> 00:49:44,940
that the HM 332,000 number may go away. There's still a chance I'm being optimistic and saying that

689
00:49:44,940 --> 00:49:51,700
if I was being honest. You're going to have to have someone in a Chicago office of MWRD. You

690
00:49:51,700 --> 00:49:54,400
or someone else who made that different termination.

691
00:49:55,780 --> 00:49:57,800
I don't know how well it will go over.

692
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:59,320
We've submitted our request.

693
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:00,680
We're waiting for that.

694
00:50:01,580 --> 00:50:04,020
We're trying, I guess, as a short story,

695
00:50:04,420 --> 00:50:05,000
in multiple avenues.

696
00:50:08,660 --> 00:50:10,660
So again, if you have more questions than that,

697
00:50:10,780 --> 00:50:12,240
I'm happy to answer anything there.

698
00:50:12,740 --> 00:50:15,960
The water and weather, there have been numerous

699
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,260
I'll call it productivity issues on site

700
00:50:19,260 --> 00:50:20,940
because of water management.

701
00:50:21,780 --> 00:50:23,660
I've less left sometimes with the contractors

702
00:50:23,660 --> 00:50:25,340
just to try to make sure we're maintaining momentum

703
00:50:25,340 --> 00:50:28,500
and a good feel on site and that they're doing sometimes

704
00:50:28,500 --> 00:50:30,140
more water management than construction.

705
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,520
And they literally had to funnel everything

706
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,880
to the east side of the property so that they could build

707
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,680
the west side and the footings and that.

708
00:50:36,940 --> 00:50:38,300
They're getting through it.

709
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,460
Every time it rains, it takes about a day or two

710
00:50:40,460 --> 00:50:42,120
for the site to dry out.

711
00:50:42,180 --> 00:50:43,700
It is on them to manage.

712
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:45,740
So there is no cost impact on the village.

713
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,380
We did, you know, strategically put that in the contract.

714
00:50:49,340 --> 00:50:53,000
But there's been a time impact, which means that we're trying to make sure we get the building

715
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:59,700
and close with the roofing and the enclosure of any of the metal panels prior to heavy winter.

716
00:51:00,380 --> 00:51:04,240
And so really what we're saying here is we're trying to look at using over time strategically

717
00:51:04,620 --> 00:51:10,440
and over time dollars are very small and for a crew of 10 guys to be out on site you're talking about.

718
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:16,140
And anywhere from a couple hundred dollars or so per guy to be out there for a few hours to make up some of that time,

719
00:51:16,140 --> 00:51:19,300
that's what we're looking at right now and trying to make sure we're staying on schedule.

720
00:51:20,020 --> 00:51:23,600
One of the things I will stand scheduled to is that I called it a delay risk.

721
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:29,260
The baseline contract with Henry Brothers actually has substantial completion as November 1,

722
00:51:29,260 --> 00:51:35,560
2027. So we are actually still as of the last week, last week's full project update,

723
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:41,060
trekking on schedule. We're actually trekking to do owner moving on October 27th of 2027.

724
00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:45,920
However, Henry Brothers may first talk to them, we asked them for an aggressive schedule.

725
00:51:46,140 --> 00:51:50,260
trying to make sure we pushed them as much as we could, that aggressive schedule had a baseline

726
00:51:50,260 --> 00:51:54,480
move in a September 27. We're tracking into October obviously, so this is about a

727
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:59,900
amount of risk because of the other issues identified, but we're still within their contractual

728
00:51:59,900 --> 00:52:05,380
base substantial completion date of November 1, 2022. So it's a risk for monitoring it. We want to

729
00:52:05,380 --> 00:52:07,700
make sure they stay at least in their contractual bounds.

730
00:52:11,710 --> 00:52:13,610
So all of that said, we are on budget.

731
00:52:13,610 --> 00:52:19,190
we had the $41.5 million budget approved in January. We are still on that as of today in

732
00:52:19,550 --> 00:52:25,770
September. We have not touched the $613,000 owner's project cost contingency down below the

733
00:52:25,770 --> 00:52:29,970
line at them. You can see we really haven't changed these numbers. We've just been tracking the experience.

734
00:52:35,580 --> 00:52:43,460
In addition, I will highlight the 34.8 million on their building hard costs. There are contingencies and allowances within

735
00:52:43,460 --> 00:52:49,580
Henry Brothers' contract within that line. Those are shown on the screen here in the contract line item value.

736
00:52:49,580 --> 00:52:55,280
can not get too into the weeds, but we are tracking every individual potential change order.

737
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:59,460
That goes into the approved pending column that we summarized to $972.

738
00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:04,780
The bulk of that over $742,000 is towards the MWRD.

739
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,940
The balance of it is permitting revision, so permitting revisions.

740
00:53:08,140 --> 00:53:12,880
We went up to bed as we were going through some of the permitting department of corrections, the village,

741
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,760
fire, there's a lot of different permits you have to get a fist up a project.

742
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:24,760
That resulted in a post-bid, and then under the drawings, that's 131,000.

743
00:53:24,980 --> 00:53:30,580
I can sum that up to basically being some fire rating changes on doors and wall types,

744
00:53:31,140 --> 00:53:36,960
and changes in the masonry details around the detention area to make sure it was to

745
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:41,160
proper, where would get approval from a code jurisdiction? Code jurisdiction?

746
00:53:43,820 --> 00:53:44,800
Is it fair to assume

747
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:53,440
on this that we are in pretty good shape now on our considerable soils risk? And I would

748
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:58,900
assume on our general permit review risk? Is that fair statement or do you suggest items?

749
00:53:59,100 --> 00:54:03,560
Yes, items. No, it's such stuff. I first take anything else that the contingent on the contingency

750
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:08,060
list here where you would say we've more or less passed the risk window for it.

751
00:54:08,060 --> 00:54:12,000
I think I want to make sure that we get through a couple of inspections, but the Department

752
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,200
of Corrections allowance.

753
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,140
Most of those costs that was actually pertaining to the, you know, masonry changes that

754
00:54:18,140 --> 00:54:20,180
I mentioned for the general permit review.

755
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,120
Because it's one change order.

756
00:54:22,220 --> 00:54:23,220
It's easy to track it in one line.

757
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:24,500
I'm just splitting it up.

758
00:54:25,180 --> 00:54:26,620
But that's substantially passed.

759
00:54:27,340 --> 00:54:29,180
So there's a few numbers that we can roll off.

760
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:30,880
It's speaking of that.

761
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,820
I know one of the things that we talked about over the past 12 months is

762
00:54:34,820 --> 00:54:39,400
concerns about tariffs and how they could impact some of the things that are being bought for

763
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:40,040
this.

764
00:54:40,580 --> 00:54:46,440
Has that risk now passed because everything is in the process of being bought and we have

765
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,680
locked in those prices or is there still some risk?

766
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:56,080
I'd say there's still minor risk if a contractor wants to come out of the field and try to

767
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:56,600
claim something.

768
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,180
We've had multiple discussions and Mr. Raymond actually brought it up even last week and

769
00:55:01,180 --> 00:55:04,920
meetings and basically said, hey, what is a risk in the contractor, actually

770
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:10,160
volunteered saying, we're going to tell them, no, at this point, we're through

771
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:13,660
that process. It's not to see that the subcontractor won't attempt to, or

772
00:55:13,660 --> 00:55:18,260
there's some change, like we've seen the past week, I'd say, you know, in Canada,

773
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,740
that something isn't going to pop up and we have to deal with it. But right now,

774
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:25,160
no one is crying for.

775
00:55:25,860 --> 00:55:30,960
And the vast majority of our steel's already purchased in within possession of 100 brothers, right?

776
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:36,220
Yes, so a lot of the major purchases that could be at risk with Canadian tariffs have already been made,

777
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:38,220
so that they're going to get the risk.

778
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:43,240
Yeah, so steel, the material itself has substantially been bought.

779
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:50,280
Actually, the current pay up on reviewing right now has the elevator, and so there's a lot of parts and pieces that have been bought.

780
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:54,940
Not the electrical equipment. That was one of the items we were talking about before.

781
00:55:55,180 --> 00:55:59,240
That's actually on a PAP. I was reviewing as a sitting back there, switchboards and

782
00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:03,540
panelboards, they're all ordered. So that's great news.

783
00:56:03,940 --> 00:56:06,600
So there's a fixed price there. We got it. This is what happens in the world.

784
00:56:07,220 --> 00:56:12,300
Correct. And they're even submitting pictures of them and certificates of insurance for

785
00:56:12,300 --> 00:56:14,720
the material, not all of them, but substantial amount.

786
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:15,500
It's great.

787
00:56:21,990 --> 00:56:23,710
So Mr. Brayman alluded to earlier.

788
00:56:23,710 --> 00:56:33,350
One of the items that was on the agenda earlier was the introduction of the ordinance for the issuance of the general obligation bonds associated with the project.

789
00:56:33,710 --> 00:56:50,050
What we've laid out here is one of the scenarios for that bond issuance looking at a single issuance over a 30 year term and a utilization of around $8 million in reserves and what the outcomes are associated with that.

790
00:56:50,050 --> 00:56:53,390
Now, ultimately, we plan on having future finance,

791
00:56:53,890 --> 00:56:57,690
committed discussions to finalize what these terms are going to be,

792
00:56:57,710 --> 00:56:59,790
whether there's going to be two issuances,

793
00:57:00,210 --> 00:57:03,010
whether we look at that term, or what that reserve,

794
00:57:03,010 --> 00:57:06,090
final reserve usage amount is going to be.

795
00:57:06,350 --> 00:57:08,930
But really, the intent here is to show what that

796
00:57:08,930 --> 00:57:13,010
total outcome may be for what our annual debt service

797
00:57:13,010 --> 00:57:14,590
expectation is.

798
00:57:14,950 --> 00:57:18,530
And so under this scenario, what we're looking at is around

799
00:57:18,530 --> 00:57:25,030
a total of around 2.45 million dollars in annual debt service and if we go back in time and

800
00:57:25,030 --> 00:57:31,430
look at what our financial goals were for the planning for the free station was to use a portion

801
00:57:31,430 --> 00:57:36,870
for the police station debt service and also to use another portion for the funding of the road

802
00:57:36,870 --> 00:57:45,850
program. So under this example we still have a remaining $1.3 million available to help fund the

803
00:57:45,850 --> 00:57:52,970
program. So we just wanted to provide this as an example of that financial stewardship that

804
00:57:53,510 --> 00:57:58,730
is that this board has provided and pass boards have provided to be able to put us in this

805
00:57:58,730 --> 00:58:04,230
position to be able to be in a positive position outcome for what are expected annual debt

806
00:58:04,230 --> 00:58:09,990
services and the available funds that we have for that future road program. One of the other

807
00:58:09,990 --> 00:58:16,550
things that we had talked about during the finance community was kind of our risk that we had

808
00:58:16,550 --> 00:58:23,410
on the interest rates side and kind of where we interest rates would have to go to before that,

809
00:58:23,410 --> 00:58:30,170
I guess, 1.3 million delta kind of is eaten up by additional debt service. And so we have

810
00:58:30,170 --> 00:58:36,750
PMA, our financial advisors run that analysis, and our interest rates would need to increase

811
00:58:36,750 --> 00:58:40,210
by an incremental 4.5%.

812
00:58:40,210 --> 00:58:43,130
So right now, we're assuming a total interest cost rate

813
00:58:43,130 --> 00:58:44,490
of around 4.6.

814
00:58:44,990 --> 00:58:50,050
Those would have to rise to around just above 9% overall

815
00:58:50,050 --> 00:58:53,490
before we wouldn't have any additional capacity left

816
00:58:53,490 --> 00:58:54,370
for the road program.

817
00:58:54,510 --> 00:58:55,870
So we just wanted to give that number

818
00:58:55,870 --> 00:58:58,590
of risks, but that's one of the discussion points

819
00:58:58,590 --> 00:59:00,650
we've had with the Finance Committee

820
00:59:00,650 --> 00:59:02,930
about the bond issuance number over time.

821
00:59:03,670 --> 00:59:05,870
But Ms. Willoy will be back at the next meeting

822
00:59:05,870 --> 00:59:11,770
for the approval of the issuance, and we'll have additional conversations in the next step

823
00:59:11,770 --> 00:59:18,170
forward on our conversations with the Finance Committee about the final parameters for the

824
00:59:18,170 --> 00:59:18,770
issuance.

825
00:59:19,410 --> 00:59:26,990
So, Mr. Hopper, just to make this really clear, we have existing debt service that is rolling

826
00:59:26,990 --> 00:59:27,570
off.

827
00:59:28,250 --> 00:59:34,970
So, within the debt service that is rolling off, not only can we fund the police station,

828
00:59:34,970 --> 00:59:41,810
and we can fund an additional $1.3 million for roads and none of that raises taxes.

829
00:59:41,950 --> 00:59:42,950
That is correct.

830
00:59:44,810 --> 00:59:46,050
We're in the Finance Committee.

831
00:59:46,210 --> 00:59:50,530
We've discussed, as you mentioned, potentially two issuances.

832
00:59:50,970 --> 00:59:55,630
I understand this to be an illustrative exhibit.

833
00:59:56,490 --> 00:59:59,970
Is there anything that we should read into the one single issue?

834
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:08,480
If you want to hear other than the illustration, if you change your minds at all, or do we just want to talk about it at a future date, which is fine with me?

835
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,340
So given the volatility in the market and the raising rates,

836
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,100
Melinda and her discussions with PMA is leaning towards one issue,

837
01:00:17,380 --> 01:00:18,200
to take out that future.

838
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,500
But still a discussion to be had with the finance community

839
01:00:21,500 --> 01:00:22,360
to drill under that one.

840
01:00:23,180 --> 01:00:23,820
That's what I was wondering.

841
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:25,600
Do we serve on it?

842
01:00:25,740 --> 01:00:26,340
Do we serve on it?

843
01:00:26,340 --> 01:00:26,660
Do we serve on it?

844
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:31,840
Do we serve on the issue in size?

845
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:34,140
Because potentially we look at a private placement

846
01:00:34,140 --> 01:00:37,660
depending on the second issue and depending on that size.

847
01:00:37,660 --> 01:00:44,280
So there potentially be some savings, but it all depends on the size of each individual.

848
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:51,620
Mr. Breman, given the volatility that you just mentioned, is there any thought in

849
01:00:51,620 --> 01:00:58,200
this or any possibility to say, hey, we don't have to do this right now. We can take a breath

850
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:03,100
and do this three months from now or six months from now. Where is that not really a possibility?

851
01:01:03,100 --> 01:01:08,520
So the ordinance gives authorization to show that I think up to March, so there's some

852
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:08,800
flexibility.

853
01:01:09,020 --> 01:01:12,300
So that's what we'll work with the Finance Committee on the timing of it in the mechanics

854
01:01:12,300 --> 01:01:13,400
and when we want to go out.

855
01:01:14,900 --> 01:01:19,320
So we have a cash on hand that we can float ourselves for several more months as we work through

856
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:20,020
the process.

857
01:01:21,540 --> 01:01:27,820
And the fact that those finance many meetings are going to kind of make the final decision on

858
01:01:27,820 --> 01:01:30,200
how many how much we want to extend in our research.

859
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:33,080
Okay, I'm going to report back to the notes board and make sure everybody's on board.

860
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:34,160
It's my commitment.

861
01:01:34,420 --> 01:01:34,520
Yeah.

862
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:40,080
So if we spend this $8 million,

863
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:46,560
what does that do to our reserve percentages and our goals?

864
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:48,060
Is that better discussed later?

865
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:53,200
So the $8 million is what we're over our recommended amount.

866
01:01:53,460 --> 01:01:56,360
So we're $10 million over our minimum reserve level.

867
01:01:56,580 --> 01:01:57,820
So that there's still a buffer there.

868
01:01:57,820 --> 01:02:01,660
So the eight gives us enough cover where we're still

869
01:02:01,660 --> 01:02:03,780
going from a triple A bond rating perspective.

870
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:05,680
It's our target, right?

871
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,820
We're not below minimum reserve levels by using these.

872
01:02:09,660 --> 01:02:12,740
I know there are some rules about it, but if we did do one issue,

873
01:02:12,900 --> 01:02:17,780
we'd be able to earn interest on that over time, although there's limits to that.

874
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:22,960
And we have talked to the reading authorities about what that would do.

875
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:27,740
If I were do you think our reserve from $8 million was that would affect our rating, but not?

876
01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:35,560
And so the community knows our AAA rating was just reaffirmed by Moody's a week or so ago.

877
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:38,420
That's a good spot to be in going into a large issue.

878
01:02:41,230 --> 01:02:41,730
It's big.

879
01:02:45,620 --> 01:02:51,800
So upcoming owner activities, besides the bond, I would be ongoing construction oversight of the next few months,

880
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:55,700
heading into the winter work, when we're pushing on them to get it as enclosed as possible.

881
01:02:55,700 --> 01:03:00,020
We'll say steel will be starting here in the next about a month or so.

882
01:03:00,100 --> 01:03:03,340
You'll start to see the steel come in the basement and then actually an October November

883
01:03:03,340 --> 01:03:07,780
and December, you'll appear at a C pre-cast place going in, the pre-cast place will be the

884
01:03:07,780 --> 01:03:10,200
floor slabs as they go up.

885
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:15,160
So you'll start to see a building there as we get into December, which would be great news.

886
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,560
Utilized coordination is ongoing, we actually just got an update from ComEd, they're going to

887
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:24,000
be looking at running some new lines to the neighbors on the north and the atrium side.

888
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,080
certainly will be contacting them to court aid.

889
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:30,380
That work, NICORE is going to be on site the next week or so is recording their locations.

890
01:03:31,300 --> 01:03:36,080
AT&T and Comcast are both being coordinated with in the background design team to still

891
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,580
going through for an insurance equipment procurement.

892
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:42,720
We anticipate the equipment procurement will probably start towards the end of this year.

893
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:44,380
That's about a year out from when it's needed.

894
01:03:44,820 --> 01:03:47,340
It's not too early where you're speccing things that are outdated and already,

895
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:50,880
but it's also really enough that if you have a long lead item in the server switch,

896
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:53,300
whatever that might be, that you have time to procure it.

897
01:03:53,300 --> 01:04:03,700
and then furniture that will throw throwing through to the board in Q1 of 2027 because we will need to bring care of those in multiple packages most likely.

898
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:06,240
Any questions for me?

899
01:04:08,210 --> 01:04:19,090
Just to note, the first few weeks October when the steel starts to come out on site will send an email to the board members if you'd like to come out there and visit the site and talk with the construction team they can walk you through their process.

900
01:04:19,750 --> 01:04:22,970
I think they'd be happy to miss them being in the site trailer with them that I'm going to do.

901
01:04:23,690 --> 01:04:24,350
That was fine.

902
01:04:24,610 --> 01:04:26,090
I have a second about it.

903
01:04:27,150 --> 01:04:30,530
You're expecting full enclosure by when?

904
01:04:30,930 --> 01:04:32,030
And if Q1 is that amazing?

905
01:04:32,170 --> 01:04:35,210
Yeah, and if Q1 is a good target, hopefully a little bit sooner.

906
01:04:35,930 --> 01:04:38,350
The roof material can go on in cold weather.

907
01:04:38,550 --> 01:04:39,250
We can't have it.

908
01:04:40,270 --> 01:04:44,850
Obviously freezing snowing things like that, but we can go on in below freezing temperatures.

909
01:04:46,430 --> 01:04:51,570
So, really what's going to happen and go through January, most likely, so if you want to next year.

910
01:04:51,870 --> 01:04:57,370
And do you have traditional weather days, snow days in your plan?

911
01:04:57,610 --> 01:05:04,230
So, if there's a hit to the sketchbook, it needs to be over and above the average for the area.

912
01:05:04,410 --> 01:05:07,530
So, we've stipulated it instead of finding a random number and throwing it in.

913
01:05:08,110 --> 01:05:10,530
They basically had to prove it's more than normal.

914
01:05:10,530 --> 01:05:17,570
So, haven't obviously there's been discussions about the weather as it relates to being able

915
01:05:17,570 --> 01:05:21,390
to get fully enclosed, but not on the overall schedule itself.

916
01:05:25,730 --> 01:05:26,290
Thank you.

917
01:05:26,370 --> 01:05:29,150
This is a really helpful detailed update.

918
01:05:30,450 --> 01:05:35,590
Really appreciate the line by line oversight and you made it so easy to understand each

919
01:05:35,590 --> 01:05:36,890
everything that's going on.

920
01:05:36,890 --> 01:05:38,330
So I think it's helpful for us.

921
01:05:38,370 --> 01:05:40,950
I think it's helpful for the community to hear.

922
01:05:40,950 --> 01:05:51,970
and so glad that we have you and this oversight of this, you know, one of our biggest construction building construction projects, so thank you.

923
01:05:51,970 --> 01:05:53,950
I'll be working with a team, so good team.

924
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:56,940
Good evening.

925
01:05:57,780 --> 01:05:58,200
Thank you.

926
01:05:58,220 --> 01:05:58,760
Thank you.

927
01:05:59,940 --> 01:06:01,160
Anything else, Trustee Smith?

928
01:06:01,700 --> 01:06:03,340
All of their items are on consent.

929
01:06:03,860 --> 01:06:05,440
Hey, could you share a trustee lever?

930
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:06,740
No report.

931
01:06:08,220 --> 01:06:10,880
No reports from special committees and no new business.

932
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:13,680
So I have two motions.

933
01:06:17,570 --> 01:06:20,630
I move that we adjourn to executive session pursuant

934
01:06:20,630 --> 01:06:23,230
Deception 2C2 of the Open Meetings Act,

935
01:06:23,350 --> 01:06:25,590
pertaining to collective negotiating matters

936
01:06:25,590 --> 01:06:28,050
and deliberations concerning scourry schedules.

937
01:06:29,010 --> 01:06:31,530
And I move that we adjourn to executive session

938
01:06:31,530 --> 01:06:35,230
pursuant Deception 2C21 of the Open Meetings Act,

939
01:06:35,350 --> 01:06:37,410
regarding discussion of minutes of meetings

940
01:06:37,410 --> 01:06:39,330
lawfully closed under this act.

941
01:06:39,890 --> 01:06:40,910
Is there a second?

942
01:06:40,910 --> 01:06:41,550
Second.

943
01:06:41,790 --> 01:06:45,130
It's been moved in second and Mr. Halvin could you please call the roll?

944
01:06:45,330 --> 01:06:45,950
Trustee Leonard.

945
01:06:46,470 --> 01:06:47,530
Trustee Sheppard?

946
01:06:47,790 --> 01:06:48,790
Trustee steam?

947
01:06:49,510 --> 01:06:50,230
Trustee Weaver?

948
01:06:50,650 --> 01:06:50,750
Aye.

949
01:06:51,230 --> 01:06:51,590
Trustee Smith?

950
01:06:51,850 --> 01:06:52,110
Aye.

951
01:06:52,570 --> 01:06:53,110
Trustee Kennedy?

952
01:06:53,250 --> 01:06:53,550
Aye.

953
01:06:55,070 --> 01:06:56,110
So moved.

954
01:06:56,250 --> 01:06:57,850
We will now adjourn to executive session.

955
01:06:58,170 --> 01:06:58,450
Thank you.