You get down by where you live and it gets a little more clearly.
Yeah.
Watch the answer.
Yes.
There's only one way in and out of there.
Yeah.
It's tight.
It really is.
I think I'm going to give us, I think you're going to start to
figure stuff out before the contracts do it in 2020.
Yeah.
January 27th or December 27th.
December 27th or December 7th.
So 27th started.
I'm sure we know you're still in the address of that.
And I think we've probably been asked.
I don't see that being issued.
I don't think I've ever had that session.
Put this to vote.
Does it need to go to vote?
I would prefer it.
I motion that we at this time decline taking on the additional
section and a half for the Raytown show.
Second.
All in favor?
Aye.
Opposed?
Aye.
That's just 3-1.
Do the township.
My board members add a little here.
I would say, I would say yeah.
Okay.
Well, now how did that work out?
Well, typically what happens is motion is made in a second and then the vote
takes place.
So I would maybe ask those present what their votes are.
Because the motion was made and seconded.
So it's already ready to go for that.
But then it has to come back to the city council.
Again, correct?
Well, normally when we have our joint meetings, those in the crowd will also
hold, you know, like to approve the minutes and things like that.
So yeah, you could ask them for the vote tonight.
You can ask them to vote tonight.
Okay.
Well, let's see here.
We're ready to go.
Nay.
The motion was to deny.
Yup.
So vote in favor would be just deny the coverage.
So we're voting nay or opposing the motion.
Okay.
And we have Alton.
My only question is what section is the one that's being double covered?
Fourteen.
Okay.
Third one.
I guess I'd be, I'd be for sort of this name that's turning down
I would be for changeable.
Okay.
So that puts us at four, three in favor of us not taking the
edition of the township.
Is there anything else?
Any other discussion on that?
I think we covered all the town chips, Quentin.
I believe so.
So four, three vote.
We do not cover.
Thank you.
And just so everyone knows we are having our regular summer meeting July 13th,
the joint fire board.
Yeah, we'll do that in a second.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration.
I appreciate it.
Yeah.
We'll motion to adjourn.
Okay.
All in favor?
Aye.
I guess we'll call that.
Seven o'clock.
Seven on four.
We can now jump back into our city council meeting.
Thanks.
Thank you.
All right.
It's solved.
Move of the agenda.
Second.
All in favor?
Aye.
Consent agenda.
The taps are the minutes from May 11th, not March 9th.
That was a typo there.
So the May 11th minutes, and then we have three sets of payables,
and we also have receivables.
Nothing really stuck out too much except one item,
and I'm going to talk about here in a couple minutes.
Do you have anything, Sarah Joe?
Motion to approve the consent agenda?
All in favor?
Aye.
All in favor?
Aye.
Public forum.
Do we have anybody here to speak through public forum?
Go ahead.
State's your name.
Virginia McCarthy.
I live on West North Street, and I'm here to talk about the house at 500 West North
Street, which has been abandoned for over 10 years.
There's been enough mold in the house that the ceilings have collapsed.
The doors have all been unlocked.
There's grass and trees growing.
The city has come and cut those down once, and it needs it again.
The shed also is open.
There's a brush in the yard along with the grass and weeds.
And until this year, the gillers have been mowing the lawn, so it would be a lot longer
if they had not been doing it.
The windows are open.
They've been open for over two years.
The utilities have been off for years, and there was the previous owners said that every
time it rained, there was water in the basement, and they had to bail it.
With the utilities being off, I've been told standing water in the basement, which has
made the mold.
I do have a letter from another area of person on our street that could not be here.
I'd like permission to read that.
To the Mayor and Jamesville City Council, since November of 2016, I've been having conversations
with city personnel about the abandoned property at 500 West North Street owned by Lee M. Erickson.
I have also had many phone conversations with Mr. Erickson in 2016, 2017, and most
recently in October of 2025.
My concerns from the beginning have been more about health and safety of people, especially
children in the neighborhood.
This home has been open, both doors to the home, garage, and shed, with the potential
for many dangerous things to happen.
The spaces are full of household items, black mold, snowmobiles, snow glowers.
The back porch is rotting, the gutters are falling off the house.
An abandoned boat and trailer sit in the driveway full of water and weeds breeding mosquitoes.
Mr. Erickson alleges he is in the midst of lawsuits, makes many promises to clean the
property, and even alleges that he is planning to return to the home to retire there.
It is also my understanding that Mr. Erickson is current with his taxes and mortgage payments,
so perhaps the only thing that I can ask for for the city to do for my neighborhood is
to secure the buildings and put up signage warning that is a hazard of sight and people
should stay away.
Most people don't even know the house is vacant because a neighbor has been mowing
the property and parking vehicles in the driveway.
The city workers have also cleaned the lot and mowed a few times over the years.
Ten years is a long time to watch a family home situated directly across from a park
fall into ruins.
This does not appear to be a problem that will go away by itself.
This is not the only home in the city falling apart to the point of total disrepair.
What can and what will our city government do about this blight in our community?
Thank you, Terry Gardner.
And so I've been living next to this for over ten years now.
He has come, apologized, promised to take care of it.
What can be done?
He's paying his taxes.
Do we have no recourse?
We can maybe call the county health kit.
Sounds like an option to start with there.
Yeah, we can do that.
Okay.
And where is the city?
Ten billion?
Well, that's the question I have to ask the county.
Yeah, that's a lot of stuff, one.
So you maybe need to talk to our attorney, too.
Sure.
And we at one point did have a petition from neighbors on the street to do something about
it, but nothing ever happened.
Thank you.
Can I have Terry's letter or does she want to back?
Pardon me?
Can I have Terry's letter?
Yeah.
Or even if you want to just copy it or something.
I need a copy.
Okay.
Thanks.
Well, we'll go put it in the record.
Does anybody else have anything through public forum, public forum, moving on?
Notices and communications.
I don't have any.
Thank you.
Council reports.
The EDA is working on several things.
I'd like to report first that Caitlin has received her first grant.
And while it's not large, it's the first one.
So it's important that it's noted to the community.
And that money that she's earned will be used for signs and banners for signs in the park
along with some handout items, a bag for the farmer's market and some other midnight
brochures and that kind of thing.
We also worked or discussed beautify your storefront project.
And we did part of reviewing the grant for new businesses.
We have one applicant left to interview for that.
I would like to say that it's nice to sit on the EDA board right now.
Sarah is a new member since Andy is no longer there.
And there are three other new members sitting on the board with her.
So it kind of changed the focus of the group when we have four new members sitting there
at once.
I showed up and let them all start.
If we moved to Park Road, Park Road's got new carpets in the hallways.
We're working at buying a fork, vacuum cleaning system to take care of the new carpets.
The other thing, one of the other things we're working on is our staff is using their personal
phones for Park Road.
And we're encouraging them to get phones specifically for Park Road's business should
something happen.
Their personal phone could be confiscated down the road.
I mean, if there was a review or something on the way businesses being done, it could
be confiscated.
It should be separate and separate.
And the other thing we did is we signed a check to Schmidt's siting and windows for
about $350,000 for the first half of the new windows that will be coming in October.
And they will be installing them for us with their own crews.
They figure construction time should take two weeks in October.
They'll be bringing in seven crews.
They're a pretty reputable company on the Mankato and we're happy to have them on board.
It's almost good.
I have the hard work we'll be meeting to speak to next week.
It's been a whole lot of pushing back on days and whatnot.
Planning Commission met on the third.
We had the public hearing for a branch across it.
We're going to deal with the year for two or one first street.
We'll deal with that later.
Planning Commission does used to go to Wisconsin before with that.
Caitlyn went over the program that she wants to investigate.
So we're trying to implement a website for location one.
It pretty much doesn't be like an interactive map that they can go on on the website.
And they will show any business that's for sale.
Any commercial business will talk to them.
They'll go through there and get information on it.
We'll be approved to go forth and send out those letters in the way that she felt was necessary.
Other than that, it was a lot of talking about how can we improve, how can we get money.
Bob Burns is going to try and set a phone call.
I forgot to write down a name.
A gentleman that used to be involved in this.
This is what he does as a zombie now.
He goes around the house town, finds grants.
He'll navigate the red tape.
So I think we're going to try and take a phone call here a couple weeks with him.
See what maybe he can do for us.
I think he'll be at the next ED meeting.
I'm sorry.
Planning Commission meeting.
Well, I'm sure he'll take us and call the other.
What are the other?
We'll be in contact with him.
Tell us what he can do.
Fantastic.
Thank you.
Terrible.
Here's him home.
They do good.
Hades is coming up.
They're going to have their famous turtle reef food.
We'll get your turtles.
And, yeah.
They're going to have other little kitty things that they do down there all the time.
I'm at with the utility board tonight for my second meeting with them.
And we'll go over a few of them things.
Pretty routine in nature.
Talked about the substation project.
Golf board.
Everything's cruising along.
I know they had an issue with the little pump out there, but Jacob's got that result.
So, everything seems to be moving along.
Let's move it up.
And administrator reports.
All right.
In tonight's agenda packet you have the main reconciliation from the bank.
You have the cash balance report.
Are you going to do public works and utilities first?
Oh, sure.
We can't.
Or is that how?
That's supposed to be down next to this.
It's supposed to be down next to this.
No.
Don't give me a dirty look.
I don't know.
Hang it on to your life here, man.
It's supposed to be right now because you have to remain.
So it's fixed now.
Sarah fixed it.
In your packet there is an email from the county.
You're doing a bike MS ride next to it on Saturday, actually.
I'm just going to come through Tom's so I've provided that map for you.
We have a budget schedule that I've put together here so we can look at the different budgets during our city council meetings.
And I do want to point out if you remember when George was talking to us tonight we had tomato sirens going on in the background.
Remember that?
He had mentioned that when we were doing our bond rating call that those were a little concerned about the reserve cash balance.
So when we're doing our budgets here this year, we're going to kind of talk about that for what we're doing, our different departments.
I don't know if that makes sense.
It's just good to have a little more cash on hand for projects and emergencies and things like that.
What else do I have here for you?
We took out a six month CD six months ago for some for the street reserve and out for the storm sewer funds.
They mature on June 22nd.
So we're going to we're going to mature them.
I just want to let you know that we got about $300 in interest in those six months.
So that 9300 will go to the street and storm funds respectively on last but not least.
See you in 10 days.
Or not.
That's all I have.
And reminder we have two meetings starting next month.
Yeah.
Motion to accept administrator report.
All in favor.
All right.
We're ready.
Department heads.
I had Joel and Andrea are here tonight.
Do you have any questions for them or if they have anything we'd like to report?
Mostly items I had for you guys tonight are coming up on the agenda, but I just wanted to give you a quick update on some park
projects that have been taking place.
The warming house, the joint warming house, we have agreed with the school to build down
by the ice rink is nearing completion.
A couple of high school students kind of turned that into their own project and they're going
to have half of the shed and we're going to have half the shed for the warming house and
that's it's coming along nicely.
And we had recently also sold.
We purchased the new mower this year so we sold one of our oldest mower on min bid recently
and quite pleased with the results.
It sold for $18,900.
Now mind you that check gets sent to min bid.
They take their cut out of it and they send it back so I don't think we've gotten that back yet.
But quite pleased with the results of that sale.
So that's really all I had for the park update and then the rest we'll kind of talk about a little bit.
Any questions?
I can get in the question on 2nd Street.
Is that to be done this year or next year?
West 2nd Street.
So we have initially according to our plan it was supposed to get done next year, 2027.
That being said, we are proposing to amend that plan given the water main condition on West
North Street.
And so in the coming I think maybe even at the next meeting we'll be presenting a plan to reconstruct
West North Street next year along with a block of South Skooka.
So 2nd Street is on the back burner.
We'll be.
2029 is the proposed date for West 2nd Street.
Yep.
Thank you.
Anybody have anything else for Joe?
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Joe.
Just a kind of quick update here on the water side of things.
Still working with the state on the led sewer line replacement projects.
They are completing 2 agreements at their level.
So once those signatures are all complete then we can give the contractor to go ahead and
start on that project as of this afternoon.
We received one of those agreements and so myself and Clinton and Andy will sign that.
And then waiting on one more in the finance piece and so once that gets going we can finally get
the contractor out in sight to replace those lines for the properties.
East Run Street we're going to be talking about later on the agenda.
Tonight at the utility commission we did go through our first round draft of the water
budget so they did review that.
And then we adopt our agenda like you guys do in December of every year so we'll be
reviewing that from now until then.
We did do every couple years I do do a rate study for the surrounding communities so I did
that again this year.
You guys will get to see that again as I'm working with the sewer budgets with Joe.
So once we get to that later this year you guys will see that information too.
But those are we're sitting good.
We're still one of the lowest in the surrounding communities so when it comes to
rate wise we're sitting good.
Last item on the water we do have a project coming up in the fall.
We're going to be updating our well control alarms and our well health to
communicate with our water tower.
Our system is currently 20 plus years old and on its last leg so it's a key component
for our water utility and making sure that we provide water to our residents so that is
something that is going to get completed this fall.
It's kind of all I had on the water side moving on to the electric.
I guess you guys are all aware of you to see all the flags throughout town.
We've been pretty busy with locates all throughout town.
There's four different telecommunications.
You have mid-co, city, frontier and media comm that we've been dealing with day to day both.
Public work side and the electric utility side and then also with just individual
properties that are doing what they want to do with their property they're still
calling into.
We've been busy with those and then probably the biggest item as you guys can tell we
started the grading project for our Southeast substation.
As you could tell we completed the grading work literally the Friday before the big
rainfall in the middle of May and we've been dealing with the contractor of getting them
out there to install the drain tile system.
Constant communications engineers and the contractor are trying to push them to get them out there
to do it because they had a separate crew doing that from the dirt work.
The county as well has been in contact with our engineer as we're pushing to get that
completed.
Per the contracts this is the remaining week that they have to get the whole project complete.
So pending if none of that.
I'm hoping that that gets completed this week pending weather.
Otherwise we'll myself and engineers will be working with the contractor with
ramifications to make sure the project gets complete as well as maintaining our storm
water management plan with the MPCA.
Kind of where we sit.
Any questions?
Does the project offer rain delays?
No.
They have a time window to get the project done.
So upon June 15th was their deadline.
Upon that we have the authority to invoice them daily if the project's not complete.
Anything else for Andrew?
No.
Okay.
Thank you.
Staff report.
Okay.
In admin thanks to Joel.
Thanks to Sarah Britton.
They've done a lot of hard work here on organizing some improvements that are cemetery.
A bolt and make has in front of you here they have a list of four tasks that they are doing
or going to propose to do for the mapping, the GIS systems, things like that.
So all cemetery lots would have information on our GIS.
Which is quite handy.
Joe do you have anything that add?
I mean it's kind of self-explanatory.
The memo.
Yeah I mean I can, someone up pretty good long story short is our cemetery records are kind of lacking.
This will improve that tremendously.
I know Andrea and Sarah they've kind of always been battling with records and figuring out what's what and who's where.
Luckily they have everything kind of in an Excel spreadsheet format.
So that information will be able to get transferred into the bolt and make software quite easily.
And one of the things on the bid proposed tonight is the field verification which I think they'll actually have someone out there taking pictures of each headstone GIS, GPS located.
And then ultimately that all gets integrated into our GIS system.
And then task four is another thing I think would be important to consider which is another option, the $2,600 option which would be a public facing cemetery map viewer.
I've had some people contact me about an electronic format to look up grave sites, names and such and that.
I think would be very beneficial to any family member looking for a particular plot.
So yeah basically just significant upgrade to how we currently will do it.
And then you can run the map, you can label it sold, available if the veteran status.
It's very neat all the information that you can plug in to each particular plot.
So this comes out of the cemetery fund.
What did that first cost that we bought last year?
I think that was, I remember right, $28,000 for the columnarium you're referring to.
Yes.
So in the cemetery fund currently it sits at like $51,000.
It wasn't the complete cost of it because there's still a concrete set it on.
Foundation was included in that 20.
Yes.
Foundation work was included.
That was complete project.
Mind you know landscaping around which we will probably do at some point.
You know afterwards.
But yep.
Okay.
This is trying to plan the cost of it.
What's that?
I was trying to see if it's in tonight's payable.
It might not be.
Oh no that was popular.
Okay.
You need action on that?
Please.
My motion.
Yes.
Go ahead.
Our motion we, so we're looking for all four.
Yeah.
We go with all four, uh, masks through both the mink.
How's that fit then?
All in favor.
All right.
Okay.
That's four rolls.
All right.
Next up.
Yeah.
The letter B here we received quite a few contributions and donations the last few months.
So we have those listed and then the attached resolution will accept all those.
I do want to point out that JEGA, the Golf Association did donate a little more than $3,500 staff out there, put a new range shelter.
Oh, so JEGA paid for that.
Any questions?
Make a motion to approve the resolution in 2015.
All in favor.
All right.
All in favor.
Variance request.
Yes.
The Planning Commission met last week, had a public hearing to review a variance request for 204 West 1st Street.
It's just across the road here from the park.
Dan Marks is a president there.
He and his wife been there proposing to put a smaller shed in the back corner of their house.
But they need to encroach into the side yard and rear yard setbacks so that shed can appropriately fit by his cement path.
And the main reason for this too is the shed is going to be located where it's at so it can be 88 compliance for the resident.
There was no public comments at the public hearing.
We did not get any phone calls or questions as to people coming in here asking.
So there was no public comments.
So the Planning Commission recommends approval of the variance.
Anything else, Kyle?
No.
Kind of an FY.
Dan had come in last year to talk to Clayton about repurchase.
Some of the problem is the West to expand your driveway already.
Which is why we felt this was alright because he just kind of moved his driveway over to the left to get that 4B to make it 88 compliance.
He shed some use of it right there.
Caitlin did a great job putting this together.
I congratulated her.
It's her first variance.
She spoke very eloquently.
Motion to approve resolution 2026-15.
All in favor?
Aye.
4-0.
Licker license renewals.
That time of year, Licker license run July 1 to June 30th of each year.
So we do have all the information from the bar owners.
We have everything is paid up.
If I could have an option for the council to accept all those Licker licenses and then they will officially get approved after the state reviews all of the material.
I also want to point out that the Hay Day's committee, they are applying for a temporary Licker license for the 10th over Hay Day's weekend.
So that's in here as well.
Motion to approve license contingents.
Second?
All in favor?
Aye.
Who's second?
I'll take it.
Public safety.
Okay.
As we have mentioned in our last council meeting, we did receive three applications for the police chief position.
A personal committee met a couple of weeks ago.
A personal committee would like the city council to discuss if you would like to have an outside firm do like a search.
Or if you want to, you know, if we don't do this, we would have the three other applicants that are still with us.
David Drown is the first outfit here.
I don't think we would have to do all of the work that they have listed because we've already done quite a bit of it.
And then the other one is self-central service co-op.
They're out in the North Vancouver and they would be proposing to do this as well.
Self-central is less money than David Drown.
So you don't talk it over.
Do you want us to do this?
It's going to, obviously, it's going to prolong.
It's going to take longer to get the search done.
Personally, I don't see the need for the city to spend the extra money.
We have people here that are willing to do it or it's wide.
Let's have a committee review and call it good.
I think if we want to spend some money, we should maybe look at our salary.
If you want somebody who's got more than 10 years experience, this pay is not going to draw that person in.
I've heard from quite a few law enforcement people.
Now, it's been working quite a few law enforcement people.
One of the big reasons why those people did not apply is starting pay at $97,000, $108,000.
We have monies that we can set aside or if we can fudge it into next year or we can fudge it somewhere,
I believe we should look into making this a higher pay if that's what the committee wants to do.
If they want a higher netage of more people to interview, that might be a way to do it.
I don't think hiring a firm is the way to do it.
If people want a job in law enforcement, they're going to look to the polls board.
They're going to look to the legal men's policy.
You can't make this any different than what it is.
Chief police can't really make it any more shinier than it already is.
It's a description of what the job is.
I think the biggest hurdle here is that pay.
I think the people that have applied it, the people that are going to apply.
I don't think there's any more people that are going to apply to the position.
I will give you my re-season before I'm wanting to hire this out.
We've been running pretty much for 20 years.
Well, firstly, at day and then we had an OJ who was trained under bail.
I'd like to see someone new from outside the community come in.
We could possibly see some different things under no leadership.
I'm not saying anything with them wrong, but a different set of eyes on our safety department could be good at this time.
But you're not going to drop in at $100,000.
You're not going to dry in a 10-year experience.
$100,000 to a small town.
That's just what I've heard from law enforcement.
Heard from a lot.
Well, it's because I've learned that they've just been used.
10-year experience?
My area of expertise, what's the 10-year?
$130, at least.
We don't have $130,000, but something a little higher than that might draw something again.
When we advertised, we went to like step three, four, and five, I think, in our base skill.
If we did this again, we could maybe start at like step eight or nine, which would be eight or nine years of experience.
But the whole range in there, true.
I'm definitely feeling both sides of this, because when we had our meeting, if we reopened it at a higher rate, maybe we would get some more interest without having to hire it.
But I don't know. I'd just like to see more interest, I guess.
I just think putting it to a firm is just irresponsible with our money.
I think that wouldn't be just why would you do this when you could take it and put it here into a salary.
You're going to just put it all in the same place and evaluate that.
Okay, we can't. If somebody from out of state isn't going to come here to work in a small town, they'll achieve it.
So you have to jump through. So many groups to get certified, recalled by, to have a Minnesota license and learn all the new Minnesota statutes.
Well, do we want to meet again?
I guess at this point, our choice really is to meet again and discuss it some more.
I would have to agree.
I would like to do that soon.
How soon could we meet in 11 days?
Oh, that's right.
You're going to get one night?
Mm-hmm.
What's up?
I didn't know what you said.
Tonight.
Well, we have to announce the meeting. We can't just, you know?
I have a good track.
It's a nice car going back a lot to be here. I don't want to tell it real quick.
So 11 days.
No one wants to let you two want to meet.
I mean, you're two-thirds of the personnel committee.
Yeah, we're done.
I don't know, sir. Do you want to maybe, if they find a date and time,
can you help them with the, get the ad to the, the don'ts of the paper and stuff?
Okay.
This is a personnel committee that's not open to the general public.
It's a regular committee meeting.
So they are open to the public.
Yep.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
We can do that too.
What was that?
I could always zoom in.
You're the mayor. Make a decision.
Well, I would like to get, I would like to get going on it.
If you could zoom, would you be able to do that?
Yeah.
I just have to find the right time.
Okay.
Because I'm an hour ahead of you.
Well, what would work for you?
I honestly don't know until I get there.
I'm sure I have a long list of things that I have to do.
I get it.
Well, we can talk to Sarah Jo and talk to you and see when we can make that.
Possibly the week of the 15th might be easier to swallow because weddings on Sunday
is so I'm sure only busy all of this week.
So the 15th through the 18th.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's, uh, then we plan for that then.
And we'll get the notice put out when we iron out a date.
I can show you the notice tomorrow, Sarah Jo.
Yeah.
Moving on.
Public works.
We've got some CIP items to discuss here.
Uh, we are looking at a couple quotes tonight for our, uh, seal coating and crack filling.
Turn to the right page here.
Is it TV not up tonight?
Uh, no.
It's our subject.
Uh, sorry.
I brought it up.
Forget I said anything.
Okay.
I think the first item we have for you is our chip seal map.
I think it's going to go ahead in front of them.
Yep.
This one.
Yeah.
So as usual, um, every year we try to hit a little overlays and a little chip seal.
Um, this year we're going to focus our efforts on the chip seal or seal coat and everyone will call it.
Um, particularly West Allen street.
North East street, a little block of East girl street.
Um, prairie land and prairie court as well as Lakeview park.
Um, all the roads out there.
I'd, I'd have never been touched since they've been put in.
So it'd be nice to get a little sunscreen on them and try to preserve them as long as we can.
Um, bids came in at.
WW blacktop, 53,781.
And Pearson brothers came in at 55,838,088 cents.
Um, so WW is the low bid.
Um, is any questions on the chip seal portion of the CIP work this year?
So do you guys come in and do the patching before they...
Typically that's what we do.
Okay.
Yep.
Cause I know all the lake.
Yep.
There's a couple.
Yeah, there's a couple do's right down there at the end as you go in and then further towards the landing.
There's another hole.
Um, yeah, typically we go and patch before they show up.
Sure.
Yep.
Sounds good.
Um, motion we accept WW's bid for the seal coating portion of the CIP.
I will second that.
Favorite?
Hi.
Thanks.
Next up our overlay schedule.
Um, our edge milling overlay schedule, just a brief explanation.
Uh, it's not like tearing up the whole road.
We bring the mill in and we edge down two inches right along the gutter.
Um, and then it's two inch overlay over the whole surface.
Um, this year we are looking at Savannah Lane.
Warren Street, Nelson Street, Nelson Court.
Um, business alley, I call it the east business alley.
Um, on the other side of the bed, back side of the businesses.
As well as a portion of West Street kind of that goes underneath the trestle.
Um, that is city, city road as well.
And it's kind of deteriorating.
So we're looking to get that built back up for a long, it's life a little bit.
Um, overall the bids, WW once again is at 134, 080 and then Nielsen Blacktop came in
at 139, 90750.
Um, any questions on the overlay schedule?
The one tricky thing with this, I will, I want to state is the business alley.
Um, we are proposing as well tonight in a little bit here.
To do East Front Street, kind of a semi total reconstruct.
Um, so I might, we might hit the pause on the alley, just depends on timing.
I don't want to shut down the alley as well as have Front Street shut down.
That would be just too much of a hindrance to businesses and residents.
Um, but I would like to propose to move forward as planned, knowing that that possibly might
happen.
Some of our contractors are still digging in that East Alley also.
That's the other thing.
The cable companies are still in there and I'd, I want to wait for them to be, be sure that
they're done.
Um, they'll never be done, but at least this year.
Um, correct.
Will the, uh, the generator is going to be hooked up to the new trans, or, uh, transformer
outside of town.
Correct.
Eventually there'll be gen sets off there.
Yes.
That would be more of a killer.
Tilly question.
Uh, underground, I would assume.
Okay.
Time motion that we go with, uh, W again for the overlay portion.
Okay.
All in favor.
All right.
Okay.
One more to go.
Yes.
Um, last year you recall the county, um, eight East Front Street to the city, making the city
of the county road.
Uh, the county gave us $150,000 for that.
So we could use that money to help make road improvements.
So we have a couple of bids here tonight.
I'm going to ask for a couple of different motions.
The first motion, I would ask that you pay for the road improvements with that, that county
money as well as some, you know, reserves if we need it.
And then the second motion will be to have the utility funds pay for the utility work.
That will be done along that road.
Does that make sense?
Okay.
So we're going to use a, we're going to use 150.
That was earmarked for repairs.
Yep.
Okay.
And then any CW said 108.
I would recommend that we, you know, whatever overage, you know, it's 108.
We got 150 keep, keep a little on retainage kind of as a contingency just in case, you
know, you're keeping eye on it for a year.
And if something changes, something happens, we can kind of use that.
Uh, those funds for that.
And then if that does not happen, then I think that the remainder can come.
Split it between water and, and the storm.
But yeah, just kind of brief overview of the project.
As Clinton said, the county gave us that street back.
Um, virtually no storm sewer in place.
There's a very small one not able to handle the volume of water that comes from basically
the chiropractor down and around.
Um, so we'll be adding a 12 inch storm line basically from two street all the way up to
the west side of the alley to try and catch that water, get subsurface and get it out
of there.
Um, as well as a couple, dropping in a couple catch basins along the way, um, for the
storm.
Um, the, there are a couple properties interested in having a sanitary sewer stub into their
property as well.
Um, of course that will be their burden to pay.
Um, as well as the water service line aspect of it.
Did you want to come talk about that?
So part of the project there are existing currently five, um, water, water stubs along
there.
Um, straight across from the water tower location there where the residence homes and
there's one business.
Um, like Joe said, there's a couple interested in adding, um, water and sewer.
Um, that would be at their own cost.
But with the water, the water main existing, um, that they are connected to is a four inch
main on the north side of the road.
Um, so we're looking to abandon that four inch main and they will be connected to the 12 inch
main, which is currently already installed on the south side of the property.
The service line is, um, private, that is the homeowners expense in a part of, uh, the
WW one there.
Each property is roughly $2,700 for that extension of that service line to the 12 inch.
Um, so upon approval, if this gets moved forward, then we'll be in contact with each, with each
property owner, um, to discuss those costs.
If they can afford to pay that upfront, otherwise we will do consent agreements with them.
So over, depending on what the term that we agree on between three to five years, pay
back.
It would go on their tax date on their tax roll.
One other thing I wanted to touch base on the street side of it.
Um, we were adding, you probably read it, but we're going to be adding quite a bit of
curb and gutter along there, replacing some drive over curb and gutter.
Um, and we'll be reclaiming.
We won't be tearing up the whole road.
We will be a little bit to put a new storm sewer and do the water work.
Um, but we'll be a full reclaim, basically come in, grind up the top, mix it in with some of
the base, grade it, and that's, and then pave it to lifts over that.
So that would be the, the work scope, um, for the surface.
So.
Any other questions?
Hi, motion.
We again go with www for the East Front Street repairs.
And the road improvements will come from.
And the road improvements will come from the 150 from the county and, um, the utilities.
The water portion will be paid for by a GPU.
Andrew is paying for it.
Correct.
All in favor?
Thank you.
All right.
Oral.
When was it supposed to be started?
To be determined.
Once we, we awarded tonight, then I'll be in contact with the contractors and then, uh, hopefully soon.
Um, uh, like I always kind of like to wait till hey days, you know, and then get that.
I've done out of the way before we have everything tore up.
So.
Thank you.
Thank you guys.
Appreciate it.
Thanks.
Guy and Gail, maybe I should say.
Anything else?
Motion to adjourn.
Okay.
All in favor?
Aye.
Motion adjourned at 756.
Mm.
This is a Leon Shalomon.
West Side.
As soon as my phone went off at six thirty, I knew I took five feet off before Joe.
Well, I kind of figured that.
Glen Church was like, he hung up on me.
We didn't meet until 13th, right?
Two.
Ugh.
I just want to make sure that we do it.