I'd like to call the meeting to order at seven o'clock, please stand for the Pledge
of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for
which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
At this time I would like to take a quick moment of silence to remember our mayor, Andy.
In January of 2021, Andy and I took the oath of office right here.
Did we know what to expect?
Absolutely not.
We had no clue.
We laughed.
He made the comment our first night, will two Andy's maker write?
I don't know.
We'll find out, he said.
Andy was a great leader.
He made sound decisions based on what he thought was right for the citizens of Jeansville.
Those shoes cannot be filled.
I spoke with Andy five days before he passed, and we talked about me finishing his term
as a mayor.
I had no idea that it would come this soon, but I am honored to try for him.
He will be missed and remembered for his quick wit and decision-making, and pity laughs,
Eclintons, dad jokes.
You didn't get that in writing?
I did.
That's why I wanted to hear one.
Make your rest in peace, Andy, and thank you for your service.
That's it.
We do have a plaque that I would like to give to Sarah for Andy's time as mayor.
Thank you.
Item number two, city council vacancy, and name new mayor.
Yes, according to law, when there is a vacancy, the council needs to declare the vacancy,
and then we need to fill that vacancy.
Resolution number 11 tonight calls for the recognizing the vacancy, and then the last
portion there, which our mayor, pro tem, and he, Almond, as a term mayor.
Once we declare a vacancy, are we allowed to appoint somebody, or do we need to hold
an election?
If the person has less than half their term left, you can appoint.
If they have more than half, you can choose to either appoint or have an election.
So in this case, we could appoint.
You could appoint until the end of December, yeah.
So with that being said, I feel that we should try to appoint somebody.
Yes.
What do we think of that?
Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking, you know, 7-1.
Yep.
So, I don't know, put some feelers out there, and there are a couple people I've talked
to that may have showed interest, and we'll discuss that.
Do you need to make a motion for this resolution?
Yeah.
A motion for this resolution.
Second.
Motion and a second, all in favor?
Aye.
That's for all.
Another thing we should do tonight is determine which council member is going to serve on
the boards that Andy was on.
He was on the utility commission, and he was also on the personnel committee.
So if we can do that tonight, anybody volunteer for that post?
Well, you would ask me to be on the personnel committee, so I will take that one.
What?
I think it's okay with everybody on.
What time did the utility board decide, 5.30?
5.30.
Okay.
I could, I could do that.
If everybody is fine with that, can I have a motion to make those appointments?
Aye.
Second.
Motion.
All in favor?
Aye.
All right.
And then for the new mayor, is that, I didn't see the, you're, you're on the rural level.
That was that first resolution.
Oh, that was it.
Yep.
Okay.
All right, moving on.
Approval of the agenda.
Are there any additions or corrections?
I have none.
Motion to approve the agenda is written.
Second.
All in favor?
Aye.
Yep.
Okay.
Consent agenda, yes attached to tonight's consent agenda.
You have a minutes from our last council meeting March, 9 you have the receivables in
the papers.
There's three sets of payables and I just wanted to point out that in these.
I can't pronounce words than I'm going to try.
But remember, Joel is here last meeting.
And he talked about a column, they're real
They do it.
Right?
Yeah.
That's in there. You'll see that tonight. There's like 78,000.
Then the first half taxes that we have on certain city properties,
they were due slowly. You'll see that in there.
And then, like I mentioned in the last couple of meetings, you know,
just kind of the time of year where a lot of employees go to training and stuff, so you'll
you'll see some of that in tonight's payables as well.
Do you have anything else, Sarah Joel?
It was April 13th.
What's it?
Oh, I got to fix that on the agenda.
Sarah Joel's gone last week, so I didn't get any help with this.
I didn't get to feel free to make anything I got done.
Anything else for the consent agenda? That's all I have.
Motion to approve consent agenda?
All in favor?
Public forum. Do we have anybody here that would like to speak through public forum?
Public forum?
Moving on. There was some communication.
I just handed you a mazing that came from the League of Cities that came in today's mail.
Also, in your packet, there is a um, Sarah Arnold does have this letter,
but the City of Pemberton is kind enough to write a letter to the city and to the Arnold family
with their condolences. I thought that was really super cool.
So I wanted to put that in tonight's packet.
And that's all I have.
Council reports.
Yeah.
EDA has not met since last time we met.
We'll be leaving tomorrow.
Park Road for the most part of their last meeting.
And we'll move ahead with the window replacement.
There was some fumbling around of the numbers
and where the cash is actually going to come from.
But we have enough money to get the job done.
So we'll see where they're at when we meet.
Again, this month.
I don't have much.
We'll be
filling the police
The police got soon.
Golf course, everything's full steam ahead out there.
I know it's been super busy. I haven't got any numbers or anything from Kevin,
but I know they're very busy out there.
So that is a good thing.
Oh, I'm terrible. 50?
Probably.
Over to that membership over there.
Kyle?
Park Road been on 27th.
We talked about a lot.
We went over some new park equipment that we're potentially going to buy this year.
Doing zip lines or bed swinging bench.
I think we did kind of narrow it down and come to decision,
but I haven't made it official yet.
I think we're fighting stuff like that to hopefully get it on to order this year.
We went over some of the park.
We all have a listing here of all the different
bands, everything.
There was still an opening for Food Truck, which Paul was going to look into.
He can fill in the letter that I can.
There was
Jacob Lurke. He had been contacted by a,
I can't remember the name of him, but just by ship.
Letter P, everybody.
Yes.
They want to give us money to work on our
parks in very dedicated
lanes. We can't get parking equipment from what I understand, but we make those
adventures, lighting, stuff like that. He was going to respond to her
and she was going to come to one of our meetings and give a whole presentation on what she
can do for us and go from there.
And then there was a brief conversation about
changing, remaining a park.
We'll probably end up talking about that a little bit.
We now have a planning commission met on the 29th.
We had, we spent the entire
time talking about how do we pull in more businesses.
A lot of it followed around as
updating our infrastructure.
Potentially, the grants aren't there, so potentially you can change them, maybe just
needs to be proactive. By the lots ourselves, get the infrastructure out
to ourselves and just be ready for these people to come in.
There was a large name that wanted to potentially come to town.
Robert Burns was, as always, talking
very heavily about them. I can't say I disagree with him.
I did tell him, probably for his council sake, if he could get a letter of intent,
it might help move things in the right direction,
that are them waiting for us and us waiting for them.
But essentially, to people being proactive.
Taking a page out of my own makes book, I believe it was.
And just, it's titty supporting it.
And then...
Very good.
Oh, and there's a poem.
One in red, along, since this is up, so they're doing good.
Very good.
Administrator report.
Trying to find it.
I can never find this.
All right.
In your packet tonight, the April reconciliation is in there
from the bank. You have your cash balance report.
Please, chief, opening. The applications were due by 4.30 today.
Monday, May 11th at 4.30.
So, I'm just letting you know that we did get three applications.
And now that we have actually had a personal committee,
personnel committee should get together and talk about what we want to do next.
I'm just going to flat out recommend we interview all three, you know, for starters.
So, three of us will figure out a time to get together for that.
Okay.
And then over the next, I would like to maybe begin this month,
but I would like us to consider meeting twice a month again as we start rolling with budgets.
We have some, Joel's working on getting some bids and stuff for our CIP street
projects and improvements, and I just don't know if we want to wait a whole month.
You know, if he gets good bids, it'd be great to
award them and improve them sooner than later.
So, there's more of a summer that they can do the work.
Is it okay if we meet twice a month?
Typically, it's a second and fourth Monday.
I guess I would like to see that too.
Andy was so good at budgeting that.
I think we're going to miss that.
It will help the rest of us get up to speed lower and really meet a bit.
Okay.
Well, if you are okay with that, now here comes the first curveball, right?
We're blind loving at the table here.
The fourth Monday of May is Memorial Day, so we can't meet in the parkour to discuss that.
The parkour is meeting Wednesday the 27th and 7th, 25th with the City Council.
Can we meet that night to 27th?
I mean, I'm going to be here anyways though.
Yeah.
True.
We can.
Or if we wanted to start the two months in June, I guess.
Either way, I guess it's fine with me.
Unless we have a reason to meet in May.
Well, I mean, if Joe gets a couple of good quotes, it might be worth
he'll be able to see if we can just have a quick special meeting maybe for that.
Okay.
And then the other thing, speaking of calendars,
I'm going to be gone at literally half of June.
Be at Willem's wedding and then the league has their conference at the end of June.
So I just put the dates in the memo there when I won't be here.
And Ivan's already going to order pizzas and everything for everybody else when I'm not here.
He was talking about it this morning.
What's the question about what?
I can hear everything that says.
It's in May.
Or did you start it in June?
I think you want to start in June, right?
I said I was bringing past some dates.
We'll leave it in a second.
Okay.
So June.
And that's it.
The last final thing is the weekly, you know, mailing from the coalition.
You're still in session, so I think anyway.
That's all I have.
Thank you.
Person next to him has a motion to accept his report.
That was always my job sitting next to him.
Oh, I will make a motion to accept his report.
I'll second.
All in favor?
Aye.
All in favor?
Aye.
All in favor?
Aye.
All in favor?
Aye.
All in favor?
Aye.
Staff reports.
Yes.
So our department heads tonight will be police and fire.
You do have the first quarter police department report in the packet there.
If you have any questions for Mark, if you have any questions for Mike and fire related items,
do you guys have anything?
I do.
Okay.
We currently have 13 air packs.
The current three of them are in shock.
We've been down a lot of heat for the last few years.
We're getting out of the police shop getting fixed.
We're the most recent pack we had in there.
I can get records over 2004 for 15 years of life.
We're looking at getting some new air packs.
We do have plenty in our capital country.
We do realize that we'll push our next vehicle pack, tanker pack, probably a year, year and
a half, but air packs could not be changed to their rules now.
We have to have 45 amount of bottles, $4,500 PSI bottles instead of $21 or $20.
It was $16.
What we have now, we're not set up for that to refill them, so we're going to be in the
compressor too, so we're looking at about $220,000.
We want to let you know we are looking for that right now.
We currently don't feel that our packs are having an ammunition drop all the time.
Trying to have any of them get us through is a good idea.
I just wanted you guys to wear that up to my ex.
Sometimes summer I'll be coming to you, hopefully I'm asking you to spend some money on the capital
countries.
You said these were the ones you were using are 14.
To the 24.
24.
Okay, well then why are you waiting for it?
I mean you're good at flossing that.
It's a lot of money.
I understand that.
If the 50 year shoe and struggle with one more, taking our time on that kind of stuff.
Well I'm guessing you're in the process of pricing and all that.
We're going to go off.
A lot of you guys are aware that I'm going to be coming to you.
Or if they get numbers quickly.
Do you want to make a motion for them to spend up to X number of hours on these?
What do we have available?
Well there's like 300,000 and that fund doesn't like that.
Yeah.
Three hundred and three or something.
Under $100 I would like to see the console.
Okay.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Big number.
Yeah.
Okay.
First something like that but fairly important I would say if you get a good deal, I'd be willing
to meet outside a normal thing to approve that.
Just to get it done.
Sure.
Can we look into that?
The lead thing on those are coming down a lot.
They're in COVID.
It was a couple of years before you could see them on the order.
They're not going to take weeks off I guess.
We're going to go under it.
Thanks Mike.
And then Mark did you have anything?
No.
You don't want to ask them really to?
Is there anything you'd like to point out to us?
Where is there anything you'd like to point out to us?
No I think you're doing a great job.
Thank you.
Usually the team has a podium when you're doing a three quarter.
That is accurate.
I mean we're happy to see you but I think the less we have to talk to you the better job
of doing it.
That's why Kyle calls me.
Would you like to stand over there?
You've got nothing to say.
All right.
Well thank you gentlemen.
Jamesville night out plans August 6th.
Yes let me try to pull that up here Paul.
There it is.
Okay I'm going to make this really short because quite honestly I want to get home to watch
wild.
So I think it was in place we did not get the main grant that would get other years.
But as it turned out I had a fair amount to carry over.
And as it turns out we're going to have a fair amount to carry over this year after all the
sponsorships and the other grants and stuff came in so it actually worked out okay.
I had to make minimal adjustments on what I was going to do as it worked out okay.
You'll see here the list of the artists and the food trucks on the right hand side just
kind of listing so more informative than anything.
I talked at the park board about having hot dogs.
I checked prices just real quick in general ideas.
That total amount is at the bottom so it's really pretty minimal.
I didn't think it was too bad at all.
The only thing is I will be hitting everyone up here to if they can volunteer to serve
hot dogs that day.
So the plan is to have 200 to 225 hot dogs just to people you know.
Each person have one you know limit to one per person limited amount when they're gone.
They're gone kind of thing.
We're also having food truck that night.
I talked to Mark from infinity and he said yeah he thought it would be worthwhile.
So they're going to be there that night too.
So really that's the only other thing I've got while the farmers market.
You see the farmers market that's starting eight days weekend with that seemed to be a good
weekend to start it.
So the only other thing point out July tentatively and I think it's going to stick here is July
23rd the plan is to have a pie social.
We can get pies from the dam store.
There will be a charge for the slice of pie but we're not I'm not doing it to make money on it.
I'm doing it just to bring people in.
So you know the price will be minimal but you know that kind of thing.
It just might bring some people in and give people a chance to eat pie.
So I think that's really all I've got unless there's any questions.
I just have one question.
What time do your musical acts be done?
They start at, no I got to think, they started 5.30 to 8.
They run 5.30 up until September and September they start 5.30 because it gets dark so much faster.
Yeah so veterans more a great place for to have it.
I mean whoever designed it set it up perfectly so it's a really good place to have it.
So yeah so I did we did talk Clinton about paying for it and all that and we don't have to go over that now.
But I know you had some kind of plan or something so.
It's going to go live now.
It's getting so yeah otherwise unless anybody has questions.
I think I'm good.
All right good.
All right thank you.
Thanks for your hard work on this too.
Go wild.
Exactly.
Fill in the vacancy on the EDA.
Yes Mike Danbury was on the EDA and he recently resigned just due to scheduling conflicts.
His term went through December 31 of 2029.
So resolution number 12 identifies that vacancy and then resolution 13 is going to name Alice Fenig who has volunteered to fill his empty seat.
You want one motion or two?
Probably better do two just to be safe.
Motion to approve resolution 2026 12.
Second.
All in favor.
All right.
4.
Motion to approve resolution 2026 13.
Second.
All in favor.
All right.
Excellent.
Madam salar.
Public safety increasedrecord coverage from zero.
Okay.
Oops.
One more.
213.
Look at that I already skipped one.
Okay.
It's a first name.
Item C terminating Midwest municipal gas agreement.
Yes so years ago the the city utility and the city of j sands is assigned into this Mtg agreement.
and the city of Jamesville signed into this MMPG agreement with the rest of the consortium
that we have our electric power with.
This municipal gas agency no longer really exists anymore and it's just not needed.
So the board of directors and the attorneys at the campus, the CMNPA, are recommending
that each utility and each city council in these communities just get rid of the agreement
because we don't need it anymore, they don't exist.
But remember I told you Sarah Joel was gone last week.
I saw this before.
How do you sell Germany?
Tremendly?
You thought the computer would have caught that.
You'd have to know how do you spell check, right?
I just looked for the squidly red line, you know.
So anyway, Andy, the resolution in your folder decided it smelled correctly.
Okay.
I'm motion, we approve resolution 2026, 14, all in favor.
Aye.
For all.
Talk about the district coverage for the raid township.
Very good.
Thank you.
Ferdinand, for something the raid township, Philos and Mike are both here.
We're going to be supervisors for being built township.
I'm sorry for the raid township.
I'd like to begin by expressing the involvement of this.
You were awesome in here.
Thank you.
So in the raid township, we have 32 sections, and we have quite a coverage from four different
prior departments.
We have MassLink, we have St. Clair, we have Jamesville, and we have Elie, and they each
take about eight sections.
We've been very pleased with the job that Jamesville prior department has been doing,
and we've enjoyed working with the City Council and Fire Board to negotiate and come up with
what we believe are reasonable terms for prior coverage for everyone.
Unfortunately, we cannot say that about our relationship with the City, MassLink, and
the Fire Department.
They basically just want to issue ultimatives, and they're becoming more and more affordable.
We're being ten times the cost per section for prior coverage from Jamesville, or on
MassLink, as we are from Jamesville.
We've tried to address that, we've requested meetings, we've attended a handful of meetings
with them, and they're not interested in discussing or negotiating anything with us.
They're basically issuing ultimatums, and at our last meeting, we were told that if we
didn't like the terms that we should fill their own fire hall and serve our own fire
department.
So, we kind of anticipated from past experience because we've kind of been struggling with
those guys for a couple of years, so we brought the issue to our lawyers at our annual meeting
in March, and requested permission to no longer seek coverage from MassLink, but to request
it from Jamesville and some of our other providers to fill that void, and it was approved
unanimously.
So, what we're here tonight for is to request that you consider expanding the coverage
area to help us out.
So, we would like you to pick up the east side of Mass and Lake, or of Mass and Lake
coverage in the area of Tomchick.
So, we're looking at, we'd like you to pick up the west half of section one.
Section two is basically just the peninsula out in the lake, most of section two is water,
but there's a lot of houses out on that point.
And then we'd like you to pick up the west half of section twelve, you're already doing
the east half on that one, and then pick up section eleven.
That would kind of square out the coverage area that you have right now, and if the chief
thinks that this is doable, we would really like you to pick up section fifteen, you're
already doing fourteen, you picked up fifteen and ten, between the county world seventeen
and the four land on highway fourteen, you've got to excellent routes to get to those properties.
And so, we don't think that it's going to create an unacceptable response time, but
we're not the experts on that.
We've got to rely on the chief for his expertise on that.
Kurt, well, I have a couple of concerns.
One concern is the nine mile corner.
That would be separated between multiple departments, so an accident there, which it is prone to.
Could it be confusing to responders?
Or who to call to give response?
Let me just take a look at it.
Does that do this map instead?
Section fifteen and section ten.
Yeah, that's kind of a junction point there.
Yeah, Eagle Lake is taking sixteen.
That's part of our coverage.
So they might be having anything to add on this?
I do.
I drove from a fire hall to the DNR.
Get up to the map here and kind of show you.
Down at the west side of the lake.
You get there sixteen minutes driving them by.
So I had to get down into down here.
From our fire hall.
You can't remember that.
We've gone through a lower kind of dispatch that had transferred to a secret county.
It doesn't happen instantly.
We get paid to the bell and we get that much response time.
I'll keep you by the other way.
The other one?
Friday night we were out in the grass fires.
Right here.
If we haven't got a medical at that point, it's almost fifty minutes to get there.
What does it teach you to get to that grass fire on this old thing?
That was about four minutes.
I just don't...
I don't want the citizens in their own form that it's hard to add or a fire in your area.
That longer response time to me would not be acceptable.
We should take it.
I have some concerns of how our contracts are done.
Anyways, we're involved in contracts.
We take our operating budget and the final, the last three years for your contract.
We take how many city towers we have, how many road calls we have.
I'd say it's seven, eight, thirty in a city.
I'm strong with numbers.
I don't exactly what they are, but three round numbers.
That's what we charge the rural sections and then we divide that per section, whatever that is.
That's what they pay per section.
We're adding sections here.
We're going to add the longer calls.
I don't see any difference in...
It doesn't match the city to run more calls in the rural without adding dollars to our...
You know, three or four years on our own, we're going to get a new contract.
They'll start reflecting that, but all of the other time trips need to be involved.
This is the two of them.
I'm pretty concerned with the response time as well.
I'm concerned as much as I could.
There's some liability with us.
Twenty minutes for a medical call.
It's only sending a heart attack and you put a deputy to do CPR for twenty minutes.
Doing CPR for a two minute round is exhausting.
But if you only have one deputy on scene and you're going to try to rely on bystanders to help that deputy,
I mean, that person is not going to survive.
If you have a house fire and you've got us responding for twenty minute response time,
we still have to leave our house.
We still have to drive up to the fire department.
We still have to pick what trucks we're going to take.
We have to get all the people up there.
We have to get our gears.
And then we have to drive to Madison Lake.
That could be a twenty-five, almost a thirty minute response time.
By the time we get there, that house is going to be gone.
There's not going to be anything to salvage.
With all respect to address the cost issue on it, you make a valid point.
The historical perspective on it has been to create a percentage based on the distribution of calls
and then sign XML to the city, XML to the townships, and then divide it off by the sections covered.
Leary townships perspective is we know this is going to create additional need from the department, et cetera.
We would be willing to just do an addendum to the contract to pay a flat fee for picking up those extra sections
so that the remainder of the contract remains untouched.
And then once we've established a call pattern on it, if we need to make adjustment, that would be a valid thing to do.
When we talk about response times, we're acutely aware of that as well.
And when we look at adding one model for the traffic distance, we believe that we're still within acceptable response times.
Some of the issues that we're having with Madison Lake, their equipment is very old.
The new equipment that they're looking at will not fit in their existing fire hall.
They're short staffed, they're having a hard time getting people, and we're not getting the coverage that we need as it stands right now.
You guys are setting a much higher bar for performance with the fire department.
And even though we're adding a mile from a mile and a half to the response distance, you think that we're going to get better service
from the Jamesville Fire Department than we are from Madison Lake?
Kurt, I think at the moment, our city council may have a problem here too in that.
We're sitting with two board members here that are on the fire department and they would not be able to vote on the issue.
So we're not going to be able to establish a form at the present time.
Could I respectfully request that the council call for a fire board meeting for the month of June?
Hey, do we have one planned already?
I never did those dates, right?
We've got one planned, but I don't know the date.
Yeah, that sounds right.
If we could get the townships in and have their input on it as well.
I think that's a reasonable solution, and then you'll have the opportunity to do perhaps a one-some of these pieces.
We have time to do it.
We were not looking to gain that coverage until the first of the year.
Is that something that we could discuss at the next fire board meeting?
For some odd reason, I'm thinking it's June, but it might have been July, I don't know.
Did it, okay?
Is that right?
Do we think it's feasible?
Yeah, remember we picked up a lot of link coverage, too.
But how busy late?
I can't remember all that.
Now what the call level is out there, but if we're out there a lot, that takes us away from our primary city coverage.
We have a medical team out there.
Is Madison Lake more equipped for ice rescues than we have?
They have some more water, so you should have to read it.
And realistically, we both be out there.
The students run the call.
The way that it's much, or almost out to the landing.
I hope I call them just correctly, I guess I'm not sure.
We could just evolve to the...
You'd be governed like you were rolling, and that takes you down to the D&R landing.
Yeah, it would be very hard.
Even on the west side of the lake there, we'd come almost up to the gantar on there.
We're only 50 feet off shore, I think.
For the lake.
Well, you know...
If it's not reasonable to pick up 10 or 15, we understand.
Are you counting the west part of the lake, or is that shaded because it's a city, Madison Lake?
Well, we've got two different colors on there.
Yeah.
My request did the graphic here.
So the yellow highlighted area is the primary area that we're looking for coverage in.
I'm taller than mine, but I believe the other is green, and that's just kind of optional.
Yeah.
We'll agree to the northwest corner of what you're asking us to pick up your buck.
Plus a couple other feet from the point of the campground.
From what?
Yeah.
The campground's looking at us.
What?
It's the other side of the narrows.
Yeah.
It's the other side in that section.
Okay.
This map maybe shows a little better.
I'm having a hard time seeing that.
Part of the scanning and photocopy.
Those colors are what's darker.
Yeah.
Before photocopying, you have to think, you don't know.
Yeah.
But that makes it better.
Yeah.
That makes it better.
Yeah.
That makes it better.
Yeah.
That makes it better.
Okay.
Here.
We're looking at how we need to pick up this segment.
Okay.
How many homes do we currently service for the sections we have?
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
You're going to pick up a lot more.
Is it a possibility to make the lake itself minus some lake's
responsibility?
If you're overlooking it, a drowning incident or somebody
through the ice, the response time is critical there.
I don't know how we would address that.
It's just because that's always what we've done, doesn't,
and we can't change it.
I don't think you'll get a form of clothing from out of
selection if you've got a phone.
I don't know.
I didn't expect him to do certain calls.
Then at that point, why wouldn't they just do the
fire department, or relying on?
Okay.
Okay, so this is something that we can address at the meeting, or yeah, and I can maybe do
a little better with my magic marker.
Maybe try to get a better diagram that you can see.
Can we maybe see how many holes there's a little bit?
Yeah, that's what meant like how many house properties are there, things like that.
Okay.
Property valuation.
Moment.
But that doesn't matter for us, because it's not in our formula, you don't have to be.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we will.
We're coming to see if there's any calls in that area there in three or two of those
sections.
I'll give you some idea what will work in that area.
No idea.
Do you want to call a year?
Yeah, right.
So we're going to get a little bit more information on that.
Is that good?
Are you receptive to the idea of scheduling something before the hours need?
Yeah.
We could.
I don't know if we could just do it at a meeting night.
Yeah.
We're going to have June and June and June and July.
No.
June 8th and June 22nd would be the June meetings, June 22nd would be able to get the information
and I would honestly would rather be June 8th because I'm not here at the 10th to the
20th and I don't know if I'd be able to help with anything with getting them full together.
You want to say it?
Okay.
Unless you guys want to do it.
June 8th it is, I guess.
Okay.
June 8th.
Yep.
Last thing we have is a visit from John Anson.
Good evening.
Thanks for your flexibility.
I took a tour of the county over the last couple hours and grateful that the sheriff department
was not in the area because I started at New Richland at 630 and then hustled to Waldorf
and I appreciate you guys being able to still be available.
My intent tonight is to just provide information for you and to make you aware of a project
that, and I'm going to use quotation marks, is finished after three years of work.
And the reason why I use quotation marks is because I'd like to think that it's probably
not ever formally finished because it will go constantly through changes and updates
and I'm going to hand you this and you can keep those.
That's however you want to use them.
But just to give you a really quick background, I teach at Wasica, I grew up in Wasica, I've
been back since 1991.
I had a passion for local history and worked extremely hard to incorporate my students
into a project that started out as just a tour of Wasica history and some wonderful people
at the city worked to get a grant and then we worked with the school.
So this has become a collaboration between multiple cities and schools and volunteers
and the county has basically said we see value in this and so the county is really just
trying to shoulder this and said we want to use this as a way to promote life in our county.
And so ultimately we started with thinking we just want to make this one tour of Wasica history
and then what we found out was, this is a platform of which that allows other tours
and it worked its way finally to a point of saying let's use this to promote
not just the wonderful histories of our four communities, so four of the tours are
Wasica history, Jangel history, Waldorf history and Erichson history.
But beyond that we also took a step and said well we've got the tours, it's no more,
there's no limit on content, there's no limit on downloads.
Let's add more tours to promote elements of our county to make life in our county highlighted
through the set of tours in this app.
And it's not only a website that is very user friendly, it works very, very well as a website.
It's also an app and it's in the app store and you download it onto your phone
because of the significant amount of content in it.
It is a bit of a slow download at first but then once it gets on your phone it works fantastic.
And so it now is at a point where we're really wanting to get it out there
and make it available to people.
And so I volunteered to say I'll touch base with the different cities in the county
and so that's why I'm here tonight is to share just really briefly about it.
And I've worked already Caitlin.
Thank you, I've worked with Caitlin already a little bit on this but just to give you an update
of the status of where it's at and I don't know if you had a chance to even look at it at all.
Besides the four history tours it also includes tours of all the schools in the county.
And it's not just kind of generic and vanilla, it's a number of images and websites
and social media and even interviews with each of the principles of the 16 different county schools.
And it's all GPS driven so it's based on a map and you go and you visit it
and you can ignore certain things or you know visit other kinds of things.
So that's our schools and then we also have an attractions and events.
So it's everything from golf courses to libraries to bowling to community celebrations
like hey days and songs in the park.
Those are all tour stops on the attractions tour of which there are 34 of those
that we highlight in the county and just meeting with Waldorf a little while ago.
We need to have a 35th because we did not include Waldorf days.
So now that's going to be on there.
And that's the whole point of this is that as more people visit it hopefully and use it
they may recognize you know what that's not exactly accurate or this state's wrong or whatever.
I cannot be offended hardly at all in loan.
I mean please tell us our goal is to be accurate and thorough
and we want this valuable and everybody knows that if a website is inaccurate
it loses its credibility and it loses its visits.
And so we want this to be frequently updated and you know if there's an issue or a concern.
So besides the four histories and the schools and the attractions which includes like I said
the golf courses, libraries, everything for attractions there's 37 bars and restaurants in the county.
I don't know if you knew that.
I did not know that.
I joke with my students when I teach my Waseka history class in Waseka.
We like our churches, our parks and our bars which I'm not sure what that says about us.
But there are 37 on that tour all scattered throughout the county.
And each one of them has everything we could get from them.
Images, websites, social media and then if you're using it on your phone you tap a button
and it navigates you to that destination.
If you're on the history tour, two of our four history tours, if you have the app open
if you get within a certain number of feet and you have a head fold in the narration automatically begins.
If you're walking or driving and you have your app open it notifies you as soon as you're near one of the spots.
Whether it's a history tour spot or a park.
So it's a really cool I think and it accommodates to people that aren't local.
That maybe grew up here and one still stay attached and they want to know more about it
or they have great memories of the Jamesville history, whatever it might be.
So there's 10 stops on the accommodations tour in the county.
29 stops on the shops.
33 churches in the county and 25 different parks and all of the parks have drone flyovers
as well as as much information as we could gather to put in there for someone who wants to know more about the parks.
And then there's also one on trails.
So all of this is to be truthful information you could probably find somewhere out there.
But it's now all in one place and that's the beauty of it from our perspective.
And so our intent is to and the county's intent which Commissioner Malta is here tonight as well.
The county is basically saying we value this.
We're going to own it and we're going to take care of the subscription process cost of it and those promotional to start with that item.
And I want to show you one other quick thing.
The idea is that Caitlin will work to deliver those to every brick and mortar location on all of the tours.
So if there's a shop in Jamesville, a school in Jamesville, a restaurant in Jamesville, any place in Jamesville that's a brick and mortar,
she's going to deliver those with a folder so that they're there and available.
And if there's an outdoor location like on the history tours or on the park or wherever it might be that wouldn't have a spot for those,
there's this, which is basically serves the same purpose.
It alerts people to that this location is on the tour and you flew our code it and it takes you to the site slash path.
So I'll work with her to find out how many of these that Jamesville wants.
And we'll order those and then she and staff will work to put those up in the way that works and how you guys want to do that.
So the other thing would be I'm not attached very often to Jamesville social media, but social media is a huge way to communicate and get information out for most of our creative charge.
So the county will work through its social media mechanisms, but each of the communities will be up to them, but we'll give you access to everything you need and want.
If you want to highlight elements of it to promote within your own social media community.
A whole lot of people, county, city, school, volunteers will seek area foundation.
All people gave resources to build it.
It's of no value if nobody uses it.
Right?