WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.000 And it's a positive state direct through the whole meeting, so... 00:09.000 --> 00:12.000 So it's a good communicator. 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 How long have you been a part-timer with us? 00:14.000 --> 00:16.000 14 years, right? 00:16.000 --> 00:17.000 Eleven. 00:17.000 --> 00:18.000 I've made it sound better. 00:18.000 --> 00:19.000 Eleven. 00:19.000 --> 00:21.000 See, I didn't recognize him, so... 00:21.000 --> 00:23.000 And he's full-time in blue and furry. 00:23.000 --> 00:26.000 I have never met him before. 00:27.000 --> 00:28.000 Okay. 00:28.000 --> 00:30.000 Maybe that's a good thing. 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 Start running, stop. 00:32.000 --> 00:33.000 Or take a drink or... 00:33.000 --> 00:36.000 He's never seen my turn to be seen again. 00:36.000 --> 00:39.000 We'll come, isn't he? 00:39.000 --> 00:41.000 We will. 00:41.000 --> 00:43.000 So you're good with this? 00:43.000 --> 00:44.000 I am. 00:44.000 --> 00:45.000 I would move for... 00:45.000 --> 00:47.000 Except the recommendations. 00:47.000 --> 00:49.000 One second. 00:49.000 --> 00:50.000 All in favor? 00:50.000 --> 00:51.000 I am. 00:51.000 --> 00:53.000 Congratulations. 00:53.000 --> 00:55.000 Congrats. 00:55.000 --> 00:56.000 Thank you. 00:56.000 --> 00:57.000 Thank you. 00:57.000 --> 00:58.000 Thank you. 00:58.000 --> 01:01.000 I'm going to chat with you. 01:01.000 --> 01:02.000 Public Works. 01:02.000 --> 01:03.000 Joel's empty. 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 Speed. 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 Should. 01:14.000 --> 01:16.000 Don't you have videos? 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 Well, you should have a doctor. 01:18.000 --> 01:19.000 There's some counsel. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 Videos and pictures. 01:23.000 --> 01:28.000 If you want to replace equipment, you better prove it's gone. 01:28.000 --> 01:32.000 Well, isn't he a funny guy? 01:32.000 --> 01:37.000 Yeah, I'll just give you a quick update on Public Works happenings. 01:37.000 --> 01:44.000 And James Bell, our column barium that we have purchased for the cemetery is finished. 01:44.000 --> 01:45.000 It's not installed. 01:45.000 --> 01:51.000 It's not delivered yet, but it is sitting at the plant up in little falls. 01:51.000 --> 01:55.000 I'm just waiting to hear when they're going to be dropping that off. 01:55.000 --> 01:57.000 And then I will also be... 01:57.000 --> 02:05.000 I'm in the process of putting a policy together to present to you guys on how we want to set rules pricing and such. 02:05.000 --> 02:08.000 So that will be coming your way soon. 02:08.000 --> 02:15.000 And also Bolton Main keeps moving forward with the updating of the cemetery records that we have them doing to the new format. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.000 They've gathered all the information they've needed. 02:17.000 --> 02:18.000 They were out there. 02:18.000 --> 02:23.000 They had an intern out there, GPS, seen taking photos of every single headstone. 02:23.000 --> 02:31.000 So look forward to getting that all plugged in and into a usable format. 02:31.000 --> 02:34.000 Parks. 02:34.000 --> 02:39.000 The sign should be arriving soon for the Yandey Arnold Park on North Street. 02:39.000 --> 02:46.000 I do haven't decided yet if we're going to install that yet this year or it's getting kind of late in the year. 02:46.000 --> 02:53.000 So we might wait until that road construction is finalized before we install that. 02:53.000 --> 02:59.000 It's going to be a little bigger than say like the Elke Park signs just because we're having one. 02:59.000 --> 03:04.000 And so yeah, we might wait on that installation. 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 The... 03:07.000 --> 03:15.000 We'll also working with James O'Matters on researching ideas to install signage across the street at Veterans Memorial Park as well. 03:15.000 --> 03:23.000 Similar to the same designs that we have in Elke Park and now Yandey Arnold Memorial Park. 03:23.000 --> 03:28.000 They contacted me and they wanted to work together to come up with the plant. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 So that's what we're doing. 03:30.000 --> 03:40.000 We've also worked with Tim and Jessica Elke family and friends on installing several trees out in the Northwood Elke Park. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 They purchased the trees. 03:42.000 --> 03:45.000 They helped plant them. They helped plant them. 03:45.000 --> 03:48.000 So those are installed and they look great. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 Provide some beneficial shade in the future. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 That honor of their son? 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 Yes. 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 Yep. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Will this there be a plaque? 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 That I don't know. 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 There's going to be a bench. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 They got a bench and there'll be a plaque on the bench. 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 That's not installed yet. 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 I believe that is on order. 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 Yep. 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 Yep. 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 Yep. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 But I believe they want to place that under a specific tree. 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 So, yeah. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 Very cool. 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 Yep. 04:13.000 --> 04:18.000 And also with parks, this is kind of a lot of going on out in the Northwoods area. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 We had the walking path. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Maybe some you've noticed that we had to move it. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Clint, I know you've been working on that too. 04:24.000 --> 04:29.000 We had to move it off of most property and that is mostly complete. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 It is paved. 04:31.000 --> 04:38.000 There's just some black dirt and some seeding that needs to be completed there to get that project finished. 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 If that affects moving that TP? 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 No. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 It did not have to go that far. 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 Yep. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 Just basically behind the twin homes there. 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 Yep. 04:50.000 --> 04:57.000 So, on the streets, all CIP work for 2026 has been done. 04:57.000 --> 05:02.000 Chip seal overlays, except for the sweeping of excess chips. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 I believe that is getting done this Wednesday. 05:05.000 --> 05:10.640 And then that will be it for our CIP work for the year. 05:10.640 --> 05:16.000 One thing you may notice, or maybe you won't, is the business alley behind the bank, UC 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 Lab. 05:17.000 --> 05:21.300 I originally proposed that we were going to overlay that this year, just with the volume 05:21.300 --> 05:25.000 of construction and underground work that's been happening there this year. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 I decided to push that back until next year. 05:28.000 --> 05:32.680 Just to get everybody in, there's also going to be boring for power and it just seems like 05:32.680 --> 05:33.680 it never ends. 05:34.680 --> 05:37.680 Hopefully next year we can get that sealed up. 05:37.680 --> 05:38.680 Let's see. 05:38.680 --> 05:45.680 As we were talking a little bit earlier in the meeting, I have started working on updating 05:45.680 --> 05:46.680 the snow removal policy. 05:46.680 --> 05:51.680 So, hopefully within the coming weeks here, maybe at the next meeting I'll have something 05:51.680 --> 05:53.680 to present to you guys to see if it looks okay. 05:53.680 --> 06:00.680 As far as updating that for mailboxes, sidewalks, et cetera. 06:00.680 --> 06:07.680 And one last thing, the old street sweeper, we put that at min-bit and that had sold for 06:07.680 --> 06:09.680 roughly around $5,000. 06:09.680 --> 06:16.680 So after fees and such, we received around $4,700, which I thought was pretty good, for all 06:16.680 --> 06:17.680 beat up record. 06:17.680 --> 06:19.680 So, that we bought used. 06:19.680 --> 06:20.680 Right. 06:20.680 --> 06:22.680 One to five years ago. 06:22.680 --> 06:24.680 How's everything going with that new broom? 06:24.680 --> 06:25.680 Great. 06:26.680 --> 06:31.680 My only concern now is we're going to be burning up brushes because Nick likes to sweep 06:31.680 --> 06:33.680 without eating dust. 06:33.680 --> 06:38.680 No, it's all going really great. 06:38.680 --> 06:41.680 Does anybody else have anything for Jill? 06:41.680 --> 06:49.680 Do you have any idea how the fiber optic installations are going or are they 50 cent complete? 06:49.680 --> 06:52.680 They are very hard completion. 06:52.680 --> 06:54.680 Now, Fidium is done. 06:54.680 --> 06:56.680 They're gone. 06:56.680 --> 07:03.680 Midco has probably, I'd say two weeks tops, hopefully sooner than that though. 07:03.680 --> 07:04.680 Yep. 07:04.680 --> 07:07.680 And then they'll be done. 07:07.680 --> 07:08.680 That's it. 07:08.680 --> 07:10.680 Those two disciplines too. 07:10.680 --> 07:11.680 Yep. 07:11.680 --> 07:14.680 Andrea mentioned in the utilities board that everything north is done. 07:14.680 --> 07:15.680 Yep. 07:15.680 --> 07:18.680 And they're just wrapping things up. 07:18.680 --> 07:22.680 So, we're hoping to be done this week, but does it sound like that? 07:22.680 --> 07:23.680 Right. 07:23.680 --> 07:24.680 Yep. 07:24.680 --> 07:25.680 That next week. 07:25.680 --> 07:26.680 Yep. 07:26.680 --> 07:32.680 And then the aftermath will start showing up. 07:32.680 --> 07:33.680 All the heads. 07:33.680 --> 07:38.680 They're all finding all the things that they drill through and it takes a while for those 07:38.680 --> 07:43.680 things to present themselves. 07:43.680 --> 07:45.680 Some will be here soon. 07:45.680 --> 07:46.680 Oh, yeah. 07:46.680 --> 07:47.680 Yeah. 07:47.680 --> 07:49.680 Something you can see within minutes. 07:49.680 --> 07:51.680 No other questions on that? 07:51.680 --> 07:52.680 Those topics. 07:52.680 --> 07:53.680 Not on that one specifically. 07:53.680 --> 07:59.680 Do you have a timeline for going back through some of the alleys that we touch up with? 07:59.680 --> 08:02.680 As far as grading. 08:02.680 --> 08:04.680 Grading, new gravel. 08:04.680 --> 08:07.680 There's some pretty nasty models, still some of those alleys. 08:07.680 --> 08:08.680 Anyone's in particular? 08:08.680 --> 08:09.680 I mean, we can... 08:09.680 --> 08:13.680 One behind first street between keel and... 08:13.680 --> 08:14.680 Market? 08:14.680 --> 08:15.680 Probably? 08:15.680 --> 08:16.680 Yeah. 08:16.680 --> 08:17.680 Yep. 08:17.680 --> 08:18.680 I touched that one up recently. 08:18.680 --> 08:21.680 But yeah, we can take a look at them again. 08:21.680 --> 08:22.680 Yep. 08:22.680 --> 08:23.680 Budget. 08:23.680 --> 08:24.680 Budget. 08:24.680 --> 08:25.680 Yeah. 08:25.680 --> 08:33.680 So, street wise, pretty minimal changes. 08:33.680 --> 08:37.680 Obviously, just your average salary increases. 08:37.680 --> 08:38.680 Insurance. 08:38.680 --> 08:40.680 I mean, we can go down the list. 08:40.680 --> 08:44.680 But is there anything that catches your guys' eye you want to ask about? 08:44.680 --> 08:46.680 We still don't have insurance numbers. 08:46.680 --> 08:47.680 When do we usually get them? 08:47.680 --> 08:48.680 Pretty late in the year, usually. 08:48.680 --> 08:49.680 October, November. 08:49.680 --> 08:55.680 To know what those are, how those are going to affect the budget. 08:55.680 --> 09:02.680 You know, we did increase the mosquito spray a little bit just to kind of keep up with the 09:02.680 --> 09:06.680 rising prices of everything. 09:06.680 --> 09:10.680 Hot holes, patching, you know, quarry materials, that keeps going down because we are doing 09:10.680 --> 09:16.680 such a good job in all the overlays and chipseal area. 09:16.680 --> 09:19.680 One thing I'd like to bring up Clinton is electricity. 09:19.680 --> 09:21.680 And I'm just with talking with Andrea. 09:21.680 --> 09:26.680 We probably should keep a better eye on that. 09:26.680 --> 09:28.680 We'd probably be looking at more like 54. 09:28.680 --> 09:29.680 Oh, okay. 09:29.680 --> 09:34.680 For that versus the 46. 09:34.680 --> 09:41.680 Because we fund all the electricity for the street lighties out of this line item. 09:41.680 --> 09:42.680 Yep. 09:42.680 --> 09:48.680 To make that 54 instead of 40. 09:48.680 --> 09:49.680 Yeah. 09:49.680 --> 09:50.680 Yeah. 09:50.680 --> 10:02.680 But yeah, everything else virtually the same, you know, tree care. 10:02.680 --> 10:09.680 We're still going to keep hitting on the ash trees that are in boulevards in the parks as well. 10:09.680 --> 10:12.680 But of course, that'll be a park budget. 10:12.680 --> 10:21.680 But equipment-wise, the kind of two big ticket items we're talking about for next year would be 10:21.680 --> 10:23.680 updating the sander. 10:23.680 --> 10:28.680 It's just a boss put in an electric sander. 10:28.680 --> 10:30.680 We've had good luck with that. 10:30.680 --> 10:35.680 I believe the one we have now is, when did we get that? 10:35.680 --> 10:38.680 Probably 2014, I would guess. 10:38.680 --> 10:40.680 Good luck with it. 10:40.680 --> 10:43.680 But just kind of getting on in years, so I'd like to replace that. 10:43.680 --> 10:49.680 And then one other thing that's not listed here, but it would be budgeted out of the street reserve fund 10:49.680 --> 10:53.680 would be replacing the payloader snow plow. 10:53.680 --> 10:58.680 That also was purchased in 2014 when we got the John Deere payloader. 10:58.680 --> 11:06.680 So after a very hard life, a lot of welding, I'm looking to update that as well. 11:06.680 --> 11:15.680 And that would come about $30,000 out of the reserve budget. 11:15.680 --> 11:20.680 And of course, the big, the big, big ticket item is the road maintenance line on the bottom there. 11:20.680 --> 11:24.680 The 150,000 for overlays and ship seal. 11:24.680 --> 11:29.680 No offense, Joe, but how many pickups does the city own? 11:29.680 --> 11:33.680 Does the street department, the public work zone? We have three. 11:33.680 --> 11:37.680 You have three and the utility department. 11:37.680 --> 11:39.680 They also have three. 11:39.680 --> 11:44.680 They also, there are six pickups and there's a couple of one tons besides. 11:44.680 --> 11:46.680 They're all one tons. 11:46.680 --> 11:47.680 Okay. 11:47.680 --> 11:48.680 Yep. 11:48.680 --> 11:51.680 So every employee virtually, we have three employees in the public works. 11:51.680 --> 11:53.680 They're all pick up as well as utilities. 11:53.680 --> 11:54.680 Yeah. 11:54.680 --> 11:55.680 Sure looks. 11:55.680 --> 11:56.680 Yeah. 11:56.680 --> 12:03.680 Yeah. 12:03.680 --> 12:06.680 Anything else for Joe? 12:06.680 --> 12:07.680 Park. 12:07.680 --> 12:09.680 Park budget is next. 12:09.680 --> 12:11.680 I do have a question for Joe quick on the street. 12:11.680 --> 12:12.680 You bet. 12:12.680 --> 12:16.680 I think I asked this last year, maybe before I started. 12:17.680 --> 12:22.680 Where in the timeline are, I'm sure as the street lights we just replaced, 12:22.680 --> 12:25.680 unless they break or kind of do it in sections. 12:25.680 --> 12:28.680 When are the street lights up for replacement? 12:28.680 --> 12:34.680 They are just kind of as they get old and degrade at that point. 12:34.680 --> 12:36.680 Then they get replaced. 12:36.680 --> 12:38.680 Yeah. 12:38.680 --> 12:39.680 Yep. 12:39.680 --> 12:41.680 If the head goes bad or if a bulb burns out. 12:42.680 --> 12:44.680 Everybody was on me. 12:44.680 --> 12:47.680 As long as the park has the new guy. 12:47.680 --> 12:48.680 Yeah. 12:48.680 --> 12:51.680 And that came up as changing designs. 12:51.680 --> 12:56.680 Maybe getting ones that are more efficient or less bright and shiny in people's windows. 12:56.680 --> 13:00.680 Well, I know they do replace them all with LEDs if they do go bad. 13:00.680 --> 13:04.680 But that would be a question for the utility department too. 13:04.680 --> 13:08.680 They could have some more insight than I on that. 13:08.680 --> 13:15.680 I will see them next month then. 13:15.680 --> 13:21.680 On to the parks. 13:21.680 --> 13:22.680 Parks. 13:22.680 --> 13:26.680 Again, pretty uneventful. 13:26.680 --> 13:30.680 Your average increases in wages and such. 13:30.680 --> 13:33.680 Again, your insurance, pretty variable we don't know. 13:33.680 --> 13:42.680 The big ticket item for parks would be replacing more for next year. 13:42.680 --> 13:48.680 We replaced one this year with a big 11 foot 3 decker monstrosity. 13:48.680 --> 13:51.680 And that has been running really well. 13:51.680 --> 13:59.680 This coming year I propose that we replace the zero turn we have with another zero turn. 13:59.680 --> 14:04.680 That is going to be roughly around $50,000. 14:04.680 --> 14:08.680 That would come right out of the miscellaneous there. 14:08.680 --> 14:17.680 As well as a lot of tree work that will have to get done pertaining to ash trees and parks. 14:17.680 --> 14:25.680 That would come out of that as well. 14:26.680 --> 14:28.680 All right, I'll do it. 14:28.680 --> 14:36.680 I talked to several of the park board and I was liked and I talked to Paul Bogus. 14:36.680 --> 14:38.680 He runs songs of the park. 14:38.680 --> 14:39.680 Thank you for your time. 14:39.680 --> 14:45.680 And he does a great job of organizing it. 14:45.680 --> 14:50.680 But he's tired of getting out to recruit money. 14:50.680 --> 14:58.680 So I was proposing or I'd like to see us put $2,000 to $3,000 in the park budget for songs of the park. 14:58.680 --> 15:07.680 And if he ends up fundraising or sponsors come forward, then we can offset some of that. 15:07.680 --> 15:12.680 Additionally, he would like to have someone step in and train under him. 15:12.680 --> 15:17.680 And if they don't have to go out and fundraise for this event, 15:17.680 --> 15:26.680 I think he's more apt to get someone to help him and train in to be his assistant in that. 15:26.680 --> 15:28.680 He doesn't take any money from it. 15:28.680 --> 15:31.680 He does a great job of organization. 15:31.680 --> 15:37.680 So I would like to see us add that you don't have any objection to you, Joe. 15:37.680 --> 15:38.680 So come that. 15:38.680 --> 15:44.680 Well, it's ultimately the council's decision. 15:44.680 --> 15:54.680 The money will probably be easier than finding someone to fill in and try to learn all that. 15:54.680 --> 15:55.680 Yeah, he does a lot. 15:55.680 --> 15:57.680 He does a heck of a lot. 15:57.680 --> 15:59.680 But he's his mind. 15:59.680 --> 16:03.680 He was just frustrated with having to do that. 16:03.680 --> 16:04.680 Sure. 16:04.680 --> 16:10.680 I'd like to see us add that if we gave him that small amount of money to use for it, he wouldn't have to scavenge as much. 16:10.680 --> 16:14.680 I'd only see $3,000 in there. 16:14.680 --> 16:19.680 If it's $500 in event, that'll be six events. 16:19.680 --> 16:24.680 And I think we're going to go back to six events rather than eight, correct? 16:24.680 --> 16:27.680 Or maybe eight instead of ten. 16:27.680 --> 16:33.680 I think he was going to drop them late August because school starts and we have a small attendance. 16:33.680 --> 16:36.680 You know, we have volleyball and football and the school is starting there. 16:36.680 --> 16:40.680 So I think he's going to stop short of Labor Day. 16:40.680 --> 16:41.680 Sure. 16:41.680 --> 16:43.680 That's what he was talking about. 16:43.680 --> 16:45.680 I'd like to see that added in there. 16:45.680 --> 16:53.680 I'm shocked that businesses aren't coming to him wanting to kind of sponsor, you know, everybody sponsors in the evening. 16:53.680 --> 17:01.680 If a business wanted to sponsor, you know, put their name up around the... 17:01.680 --> 17:05.680 Well, maybe this money could make banners for them. 17:05.680 --> 17:08.680 You know, nothing else would buy a lot of hot dogs. 17:08.680 --> 17:09.680 Yeah? 17:09.680 --> 17:12.680 I'd like to add that to the budget. 17:12.680 --> 17:18.680 You have Thrawn Day objections from the council. 17:18.680 --> 17:19.680 Okay. 17:19.680 --> 17:20.680 You need to find my ladder just? 17:20.680 --> 17:21.680 No. 17:21.680 --> 17:23.680 We could probably just keep that in the miscellaneous. 17:23.680 --> 17:24.680 Yeah. 17:24.680 --> 17:29.680 And just notate it there, if that's what the council wishes to do. 17:29.680 --> 17:31.680 I'd like to see it as a separate item. 17:31.680 --> 17:32.680 Separate? 17:32.680 --> 17:33.680 Yes. 17:33.680 --> 17:36.680 Oh, he knows where it is and what it is. 17:36.680 --> 17:38.680 The new project, whatever it is, go ahead. 17:38.680 --> 17:43.680 To a particular project, go to all of the implications for his stuff to a certain financial... 17:43.680 --> 17:44.680 He does. 17:44.680 --> 17:47.680 When he wants to know, I just print it off. 17:47.680 --> 17:48.680 That would be acceptable. 17:48.680 --> 17:49.680 Thank you. 17:49.680 --> 17:50.680 Yep. 17:53.680 --> 17:58.680 Joe, I think clients too need to talk about... 17:59.680 --> 18:01.680 Getting rid of the details, obviously. 18:01.680 --> 18:02.680 Yep. 18:02.680 --> 18:03.680 Has that been done? 18:03.680 --> 18:04.680 I haven't been out there. 18:04.680 --> 18:05.680 Yep. 18:05.680 --> 18:06.680 It's gone. 18:06.680 --> 18:07.680 Yeah, it's gone. 18:07.680 --> 18:08.680 Yep. 18:08.680 --> 18:09.680 Yeah. 18:09.680 --> 18:10.680 We had town-borne and construction out there. 18:10.680 --> 18:11.680 They did full removal. 18:11.680 --> 18:12.680 Septic abatement. 18:12.680 --> 18:13.680 Yeah. 18:13.680 --> 18:15.680 I think everything was all gone and cleaned up. 18:15.680 --> 18:19.680 We left the well just for now. 18:19.680 --> 18:21.680 The well at the top of the bill. 18:21.680 --> 18:23.680 No, the one that was down by the bath house. 18:23.680 --> 18:24.680 I didn't realize there was two. 18:24.680 --> 18:25.680 Yep. 18:25.680 --> 18:26.680 Yep. 18:26.680 --> 18:29.680 Well, yeah, everything else is gone. 18:29.680 --> 18:30.680 Yep. 18:30.680 --> 18:31.680 All right. 18:31.680 --> 18:33.680 Well, thank you, Joe. 18:33.680 --> 18:34.680 Joe. 18:34.680 --> 18:39.680 Do we have anything else to discuss? 18:39.680 --> 18:43.680 I do not have anything. 18:43.680 --> 18:48.680 I make a motion to adjourn. 18:48.680 --> 18:49.680 I can't.