##VIDEO ID:Zjz-xy6Hdh0## well there's Craig we're live all right thank you uh the time is 5:02 and with us this evening is Kim vanbeck uh Craig schy Ben Peters Bill Lois myself Michael Gary Michael Roth that's it it's Mike to Michael that's what always gets me I can't flip that part all right the important stuff okay we are all here uh is there anyone in the empty chair that is here for open Forum this evening okay and with that I'll move on to our city hall and Lor star project update [Applause] Yay good evening everyone um my name is John Heen Miller with mgov construction again I am the site superintendent for the new city hall in in Municipal liquor store project and I just want to come here to give you a quick update on where our progress is today uh currently we are about 95% uh completed with the sheetrock and about 60% completed with the taping of the sheetrock uh we have about 40% of the ceramic wall tile installed uh but not grouted uh We've started painting this week so we've hit some uh small areas like mechanical rooms electrical rooms just to get the other trade Partners in there as quick as possible so they can uh do a lot of their work and we've started the mechanical and electrical finishes actually excuse me we start that next week if the rooms are painted and that's setting of equipment electrical panels and doing uh finish conding conduiting into the uh panels and then uh after that we'll start uh pulling wire uh we are finished with well tomorrow we'll finish with the small canopy roof outside of the city hall uh we were waiting on a design change from the architect we got that and now we're completing that so it will be 100% waterproof on the up upside we still have uh Windows to come in uh we've completed the brick pavers we're about 75% complete on the exterior siding uh we're starting Windows midweek next week and then following probably for the next week and a half to two weeks um the only thing is our last two or four storefronts if you want to call them uh those are for the liquor store on the exterior and in the vesal those we're trying to improve the delivery date and uh the only date I have is first part of January so uh we're trying to improve that so uh we can get things buttoned up and operational uh and that's about it uh again feel free to stop by take a tour um it's nice to see some people down there and what's the pain color we got a lot of different ones inside safy yellow she's on to your tricks though John she is oh that's and is the Box all secured somewhere it's secured can't tell you where but yes it is you can't you can tell you where I'll tell you where offline offline there you go uh so that's everything I just want to wish everyone a good Thanksgiving and if you're traveling safe travels mhm all right same to you have a wonderful Thanksgiving you're staying here yep very nice I got some people coming up oh everyone wants to visit you so enjoy thank you again thank you thanks all right moving on to the consent agenda any questions about the minutes or bills the consent agenda second second thank you great all right roll call for a approval of the consent agenda Craig I Michael hi I Bill hi Ben hi all right moving right along two the second reading of the Cannabis ordinance 2024 d [Music] 03 so we weren't looking at any changes except for the distance right um from our last can you put that up on the screen Patrick are you up there I'm sharing was there something about the ordinance at the bottom or we'll cover that that part that was the only other part right yeah yeah answering your question and just a quick Jump Ahead we're not planning on changing that right now so here is um you can look on your small screens I think if you want to get a better view of it we're sharing this for everyone the the blue shaded area is the original um th000 ft from schools 500 ft from other things and now you can see um the new purple and orange lines purple being 500 ft of course you only see that in around the schools because everything else was 5 100 ft and then the Orange is 300 ft mhm all right got it no that lower one I know we talked about it but that's the wreck park right oh cuz the ball field ball field and the playground are the two dots in there that are generating a buffer zone yeah what did the park boards did they this is completely irrelevant to the that area this buffer is for retail sales and there aren't there that's right it's not use it's just retail okay forgot sorry thank you all right so the the oranges the 500 right 300 the Blue Area was a th000 around schools just focus on the schools for now the purple line is 500 ft and then the orange dotted line I think really the only one though that that would change for is probably the vacant space right on the northwest corner of the intersection that Steve Sports has used for parking right now okay cuz the other side of the street is a brand new building for a plumbing business so it's probably not going to turn into a retail store anytime soon if you head up to the business park that's the other place we talked about 500 feet um it cuts off the uh the Baptist Church's entire property I guess the Cornerstone Community Church they're not calling themselves that anything so sorry about that but I don't think that's going to be an issue for them to be included in the buffer zone and then it does just cut right into the corner and takes about a third of the lot that's right on the corner out of play uh I think zoning wise you could still fit a building in there if you wanted to but it seems less likely that someone someone would use that lot and then if you use the orange dotted line uh all the properties in the business park except for the Cornerstone Community Church property would be eligible to do this and that in and that would be the same if you had the purple one it's still just the church and and just right on the corner it's really hard to see the lot line but there is a triangular-shaped lot on the east side of the Business Park Road mhm that is cut in it looks like about a third 2/3 a third in the Little Triangle to the left and 2/3 to the right so that lot you could potentially still locate a business uh if it was not if the building wasn't inside of that buffer area mhm but it's less likely that somebody would do that all right um that'ss 300 500 or a thousand going going G I'd support 500 reducing it to 500 from the school and just keeping everything the same at 500 yeah Bill thousand okay um Craig any thoughts see muted yeah no I'm okay um yeah I'm I think that 500 is uh pretty good for what's currently Avil currently what we see on the map that we have now okay um um Bill did you want to say something about your thoughts for the Thousand well I don't think we need to make it any easier easier to to bring this stuff in and I hear a lot of talk about concerned about your neighborhood that's my neighborhood so this puts it potentially directly across from my driveway which oh are you up seven nope down on the lake oh okay and we pay a pretty good property tax to be there and I really don't like to see something like that coming into the neighborhood now is the South Side um Zone just residential or no it's part of that is commercial um yeah I think that is the well what was the RC what is it it's a commercial mixed use it's commcial it transitions yeah I'm opening the zoning map so I think I mean is it should we take the approach of everything on the south side is residential is oh okay of 61 from um basically from IGA um to the old Shore Road okay the second well they're not going to be able to retail there anyway no there won't be any retail the South Side north side is the one that's mixed use some wood yeah okay all right and I you know I guess I kind of go back to my kind of reverse logic again the school didn't seem to have problems locating close to a place that was selling selling cigarettes the youth center didn't seem to be mind that it was close to a liquor store and other PE you know I mean it's just kind of hard to and we're so small yeah you know it's hard to kind of do this um would you would anyone like further discussion or comments anyone like to make do we want to motion Everything at Once Mike or think because you said you wanted to talk about the bottom just let's go with the make a decision about the buffer distances first with motion and then we'll talk about the bottom quick okay would anyone like to make a motion for um the buffer I would I would make that motion for the 500 ft for all okay would anyone like to second that uh I'll second that okay I'm going to take a roll call on this um Ben hi Bill no I I Craig I all right thank you all so that is um 115.6 a minimum buer requirements and what the only thing we changed was the school went from 1,000 ft to 500 ft the others are the same correct because they were at y they were at which is what Ben had said last time to keep them to be okay so then there was the last and that's at the bottom of the ordinance right um the very last section 11528 prohibited act by underage persons we're recommending leaving it as as it is right now this is just cut and pasted right out of the County's ordinance um I don't know if we're sure it needs to be here or not but it doesn't hurt to be here and it was our intent to have the same uh penalties and rules that the county does and this was something that they noticed as a missing piece from the state's rule so just soon keep it in for now all right and yeah they was it in last time yeah so it was part of the first reading it was in the first reading it was just a question of well does this belong here and and I think it's a fair like is this the right place in our city code for it to live um it's a bit of a non Seer but I think it U whether we want to modify it or move it or something at a later date this is one of the things I'd put on the list of changes I expect to occur in this ordinance as because we still have zero businesses we just don't know enough yet to be sure that this everything's right so I I guess I'd expect us to revisit this and then um for just a moment um trying to remember where and here um we we did get Communications From Grace groger today wanting inspections yeah about inspections and compliance and hoping that the city and county could work that together and that their process right now is that Health and Human Services does the compliance checks and the Sheriff's Office does the enforcement and I'm having a moment of not understanding the difference because a CL compliance check is an enforcement piece isn't that where am I not grabbing on I think the compliance checks is more about is everything set up the way the ordinance is meant to be set up and the age verification checks are different and then inforcement actions based on any of it is different so what our ordinance says is that that City staff will do compliance checks and all we're doing is verifying that things are set up the way our ordinance requires and that the sheriff's office will do the age verification okay I feel okay about volunteering them for that since we have a contract with them to do a law enforcement services and they're already doing that sort of activity um I think we're happy to cooperate with the county on any of it any way they want to but I didn't think we wanted to codify that they would be doing something on our behalf and so even if it says in here that City staff are doing it I think it would be okay for us to farm that out to the county if they were if they were interested in participating in that so that just I think it leaves it open for that conversation continue so we don't need to do anything tonight to get ready for that okay yeah whatever it may be um because there's more to that from Grace's things she wants to talk about so so we'll talk about it at the next cannabis committee meeting all right okay and can I I just wanted to ask one question so Mike you know i' had mentioned before reading about you know checking for age verification but that would really be on the Sheriff's Office to figure that out to find the 18-year-old or whoever to go in and do all that kind of stuff or it's that part of the compliance it it's actually it's something that that's already done alcohol-wise okay and maybe even tobacco wise so I don't think this is new or difficult to figure out they've already got it figured out so the the sheriff does yeah okay we don't do it ourselves so we just do the licensing yeah CU they do do the tobacco checks so ours is more like where is it located where is the yeah did you follow the signage did you meet the buffer zones um is your storage set up correctly yeah just you know kind of a general and and there might be a lot of us doing that right you know the state already came through and did that type of inspection for the um low potency folks that are registered through the state so it's uh okay I don't expect that to be a difficult process at least for us the things that we're looking at verifying there's not a lot of them okay great yeah and they put together these um online forms now they're already all set up so we don't even have to you know create the forms that's what's in did you look at that I reading the things that I was like what so that helps and they've got the age checklist form as well so um yeah it should work pretty well that way felt good about that um okay so with that oh yes I was just thinking about the this thing the local unit of government cannabis licensing contact and delegation form is that that's Mike's going to do that yeah we got that so then we'll be set up with their software for when those licenses come through and I believe you probably work with that for I don't know is that the one you also like send in your notes about complaints there's a proc that's I think so yeah you do kind of do everything I think through that portal um that's oh yeah that's right because we have to say like they're in good standing or whatever yeah we have to do that but also I think if there is a complaint later I don't know if you use that if there's another way you communicate to let them know if there's been any issues with a retail operation cuz they're it's up to them to come and inspect it and and and track all that so okay so with that would anyone like to make a motion for ordinance 2024 d03 um with the change to the buffer zone I would make that motion second second all right uh Craig I Michael I I Bill no Ben hi all right and with that ordinance 202 24-3 passes so we will be meeting with the sheriff and Grace and Molly we're going to have a little off meeting to talk about those little details kind of and Molly's done in January is that end of December I think that's right yeah I mean but yeah you're right December J that somebody would have to like Jean y okay so the text me service proposal yeah um we've been talking with uh text my gov and Tracy you mentioned that you were looking at New York Mills and they happen to be the same uh vendor for them uh about uh uh texting platform that would allow us City staff to send messages to any subscribers um in non-emergency situations or like pre uh pre-planned outages or any type of thing we want to communicate in a non-emergency situation we'd be able to send a message to subscribers but then also uh included in this package is what they call the IPA system and that lets us do like an emergency blanket message to anyone in an area um so if there was like something more serious that we wanted to get a message out to we'd have access to anyone within the area that we Define um but it also lets citizens report issues as well for example they can take a photo of like a pothole or a uh uh Tree on a power line or something like that and S it'll step by step say where where are you describe the situation and leave a phone number Etc um so yeah the package gives us a lot of options uh for creating different subscriber groups that we could play with how however we you know I I think it would take some trial and error and iteration to figure out the best way to get people involved but they also uh included a package for the first year to really like do some help with marketing and create some of the Mater like they've already created videos and they can just slap our logo in there and and make it a little more customed to Grand maray but they've done the work of recording and creating the animations and all that to make it easy to understand how to use it um so they yeah I don't know if if you have any other questions about it so when these so let's say your example when someone does send something in tree down on a power line where does that go to it will create a um email we'll have an email that we'll send it to like all the office staff to notify us that somebody sent something in and then so then you have a process that says this will be responded to in this you we respond within whatever amount of time yeah and then does it just so you respond through that that system or do you respond through you know like you give them a phone call you know depending on what the situation is we would like if the the the reporting part has like a pre you create a script that it goes through and and it'll tell them okay someone will it'll it'll handle that part automatically but then we'll whenever somebody receives the email then we go into the system and we can communicate back and forth with them so they'll be texting and we'll be on a computer um does that make sense yeah I just you know software is great but then there's still the human process piece like timely response who feels responsible like no one says no isn't mine yeah to deal with and then I think the marketing thing cuz that's kind of been the issue around getting some kind of efficient way to let people know about things um especially the unexpected has been how do we get these people to sign up and subscribe mhm especially with the number of people we have that don't live here I should also mention mention that that they have um a connection with the Postal Service somehow to like SC so they'll also start us out with a database to they scrub some of that information as well okay um so it'll be but I think it's still we want to Market it as well as much as possible sell sell sell so like the old days is selling band calendars and candy bars and whatever else out there maybe that's what we do offer treats yeah to everyone who subscribes we'll have signup sheets for the five of you ready to go in a couple months and you can start knocking on doors yeah this is going to be great can we have like a little cardboard box bring contest cool we have to have a prize for who gets the most subscribers yeah nice I'm man on this starting to sound better was there anything about this that gave you paws at all that you um no I I mean it doesn't seem like a silver bullet to me I think it's just broadening what we're doing but it's a great way to broaden that um I think we I think Tex text messages are like very easy to access so it's a it's a nice tool you don't have to download an app app most people have texting native to their phone um no I don't I I think it's worth a try the the only it is a three-year commitment to that 3500 MH and then with the initial 5,000 for the first year so but it seems worth a try at that price to me sure well and i' you know I've been places and people have said how am I supposed to know to look on Boreal or you know some of the things we've been doing so which is more than we used to but um to me sending something directly to someone or like if it's a retail operation they can all be signed up so whoever happens to be there that day or whatever when the power is going to go out for 15 minutes and they can't run their credit cards um you know they should somebody should be able to it isn't like it'll be limited to like just one person at a location and yeah the sign up will we also have like on our website you'll be able to go there to sign up as well so it'll be accessible to anyone who wants it is there I don't know maybe it doesn't matter maybe the sheriff in certain emergencies they already get to everybody but is there any way they could benefit you know like tap into this to get those kind of emergency messages out that they might have or they have code red right now that does that that's kind of that's one of my concerns is how much of this is really redundant with that and are there already folks signed up for that in town that won't sign up for this because it seems like they've already got it but it's code red isn't really for us to do this type of communication it's it's for emergencies and emergencies is really only a small part of what we'll use this for we'll try to use this to get the word out about as much things as we can I I created just a short like uh puc outages so electrical and water outages uh open houses like the tree inventory or like Highway 61 open houses things like that to give examples of um board openings public hearings ordinance changes and then seasonal reminders like parking things like that is what I think we'd want to use this for I don't think we want to do everything because I in my own experience like when I have apps that notify me about stuff I'm not interested and eventually I start turning off the notifications so I think we want to keep it to like the real definitely um yeah specific things but I think it'll be very useful for those things well and and even I mean not that we have lots of building but like with that Nora skogan with those roads well it would be nice to just even get the residents close by to that that and that's we can create specific groups too that doesn't have to not every message has to go to everyone we can create localized groups or specific special interest groups or things like that okay good all right um are you asking for approval for that or yes all right would anyone like to make a motion for approval to purchase and utilize text me service is it text me gov text my gov text my gov yeah I like the sound of that better than the first one sheet text me go I could make that motion all right a second I'll thank you uh any further discussion all right Ben hi Bill hi hi Michael hi Craig hi all right thank you and with that we're going to give this a world text my go all right um budget update a little early Christmas present potentially I don't think so oh all right never mind no no Christmas presents sorry what um are we still talking Cole again no it's just not time to talk about Christmas Thanksgiving to do thanks then we can talk about Christmas okay I um thought this would be a good idea just to show you the changes that have been occurring since you last looked at this um and where we're at on it and then there's no action you need to take tonight the this will be on your next Council agenda for the a hearing about it where we can really dig into whatever you need to and then the meeting after that you'll be asked to take some final action on it so we still got some time so what's happened um why don't we just skip ahead to the draft budget changes summary which is the last of the three pages and you can see uh based on the department lines that um virtually all of them have gone down except the clerk administration's gone a little bit up but it didn't go up it actually went down so at the end of September meeting we added a we want this Levy to be small smaller by $50,000 line item in the clerk Administration budget um and you could see that down below that $50,000 now is uh is gone from those revenues so overall most of the change here is the reduction in health insurance costs based from our estimate versus what our final was but there's been a lot of other changes kind of gone back and forth in the expense side that make the expenses $447,000 less than the revenue we lost we took the 50 placeholder out we just took it out because we don't need it and we added in quite a bit more Revenue in the rec park and a little bit more in the golf course and a little bit more in the fire department so the fire department Revenue we have a contract with the county and there's a formula that we use to determine how much of our fire department budget the county levies to the extra territorial area outside the city limits on our behalf because we of course serve that area as well and we don't uh usually know what the actual contribution is going to be in September because we haven't gotten all the final numbers yet now we do so it's a little bit more than we had budgeted that's nice you can see the rec park we had a, 59200 in early September since then we experienced a glorious September and a pretty nice October and right now the the Rec Park revenue is actually north of a milon 650 for 2024 so we up that number to a mil 650 for next year and I actually think if we have another successful summer we should be able to beat that number as well so that's up almost 60 Grand and then the golf course numbers same thing it at uh 155 in September looked like yeah we can probably make that happen and then we had September and a little bit of October and they're up north of 165 now so I think that that 165 is probably what we should expect there that feels pretty pretty good um I don't think we're going to blow it out of the water next year unless something miraculous happens but it's been a couple years in a row now that we've managed that number so it feels like the right one to put in the budget so the expenses went down the revenues went up and they went up dramatically even though we had that 50 placeholder disappear and for a net change of about $70,000 now let's go back back one page what does that look like that means a property tax levy of 1,132 634 which is about a 4.9% increase um over 2024 that's a little bit better than we looked at in September and and I think it can get better yet so let's scroll up one more page and I'll give you my one target that I have left that I know we're going to make a change and then we'll talk about some other potential changes the library line item budget for 2025 is 513 410 in this spreadsheet that's what it was in September but their actual number after the the health insurance changes and other changes is more like 460 something so that savings gets split two ways between us and the county if we decide to make those changes which I think we will so that takes another about $220,000 out of the levy which actually makes it just under 3% instead of just under 5% nice keep in mind it's a $10 million budget and we went from a number that was 4.9 that's like yeah maybe that's okay but it seems a little high to 2.9 and now everybody's thinking hey that's great that was $20,000 of a $10 million budget so it's that's a rounding error right you know this we're we're picking a number that we think is fair and is safe and is good for the community and it's good for the services that we're providing but $20,000 we're going to it's just not a not a big number to really worry about one way or the other um there's a couple of other changes we want to scrutinize a little bit more uh we've been working with a consultant on HR for a while now and we're just going to build that into the budget but I'm not confident that it is built into this budget yet so we might need to increase that a little bit to make sure that's there the um we have had a lot of additional projects than this year that we spent some money at the attorneys and the engineers like our uh all the developments that we've talked about there's been quite a few and some of the conversations were were tricky and I think that's probably uh an anomaly I think that we will continue to have some conversations like that but I don't expect it to be as heavy as it was in 2024 but it made us think like are we good with this number or do we want to bump it up a little bit so that one we're probably going to bump up a little a little bit too so I think you know in the balance where is that in the budget most of it lives in the clerk Administration Lem of both of those things okay um there really aren't something that we charge directly to a department since they kind of serve all the Departments so we plan to come back in December with um a a finished product with the library number down with a little more in the administration side and then the last thing that we're still talking about is um we don't have a lot of money built into this budget to for the utility funds to directly pay the city hall debt payment and they probably ought to be because that's really half that building is their use not the Planning and Zoning or street department and since we keep those funds separate we really need to have those funds contribute it's built in as a rent payment right now but I'm not sure it's adequate um it probably should be increased uh since we really don't know we know the capital cost of this building very specifically but we don't know the operating costs I don't think we need to get this right year one but that might be the place if we really want to make the levy a particular number that we go to to make that happen that's it for that update any questions I asked mine earlier so I'm good okay anybody want to make a comment or guidance or anything like that or should we just we'll see in December no it's good news yeah mhm that's good great happy about it another benefit to a nice fall yes Ben no just thank you all right good thanks a lot I've got some updates if you want me to go first too yeah go for it okay I'm sharing my screen one more time our uh city code when it comes to final plats I don't know if this is just some sort of strange ceremonial thing but it says final plats are submitted to the counil and the council refers them to the Planning Commission we have received the final plat for Norris googan and if you wouldn't mind just saying please send it to the Planning Commission we'll put it on their agenda for next next week okay right not head nods are fine with me let's do that can you can you send that to us yep we'll send it out to you and everybody else I mean we just got it this afternoon uh we'll prepare a report about it that'll go to the Planning Commission they'll have it on their agenda for next week and then it'll be on your agenda the following week as long as all goes well okay um I'll leave that up for a second but I'm going to show you one more thing we have um going to put that up you can look at this too and and we'll send this around for folks to to take a look at as well uh we've received kind of our final product for um the furniture for City Hall and the liquor store uh we had a placeholder in the budget for the furniture in the building for $175,000 after our first this isn't our first look at it this is our eighth look at it but this is our first kind of package where we've got all the pieces picked out all the finishes picked out everything priced out and it came in uh between the furniture and the shelving in the liquor store at about um $160,000 so we want to start buying this stuff oh that's terrific Ben says yeah Back in Black we're we're using a Cooperative purchases contracts with Innovative Office Solutions which means that all the pricing for this has already been bid out it's compliant with our bidding requirements um but we're going to start submitting uh purchase orders to them next week as long as everybody also is not in their head on this uh just just get some of this going because we need to get it ordered now if we wanted it to be ready in January so happy to give anyone a more in-depth tour of this and we'll send this out as well for folks to look at this what kind of what Furnishings are happening uh I can tell you that the most expensive room to furnish is the council chambers I'm sure you won't be surprised what we're ending up buying is a series of um tables that are 4ot tables that each person's going to have one for their own station but the tables are are movable they have a a modesty Shield like this dasas does here in front of them each table does they'll have power and data connections individually on them for you to use and then a task chair for those we're also getting training tables maybe eight or 10 more of those like this that can be set up in the room all those tables are movable they're all flip top they're all storable so we can change the arrangement of the room however we want um we're getting getting a lot of chairs you want to know what the chairs are like task chairs meaning like what you would have in an office setting for the around the council chamber for the tables where people are sitting in the crowd there'll be a mixture of uh and we haven't decided yet whether we want something that's a little bit like this but more of a wireframe stackable for most of our chairs uh but we also want some that are like this that are a little more durable a little more padding a little nicer and then there's a third option where it's actually quite a bit nicer with a flip top seat so that they're nestable but not really stackable and and they're more of something that you might be able to be in a meeting for three hours and and it would be okay to do that whereas that chair after 3 or four hours gets a little bit uncomfortable so we're trying to make sure the room can be set up for like a conference for 20 or 30 people around a meeting or something like that so that that's uh we've got to figure out okay how many of each of these chairs do we want which ones do we like how are we going to store it all and so all those things are kind of going back and forth and so there could still be some up and down on that final number that we're at but I'm feeling really good about it uh the design team both at Innovative Office Solutions and and lhb has done a great job uh it's going to look great good nice did you need a motion for that or you're good be within your now I feel like you've already approved this as a part of the project budget but I wanted to just update you on it before we start spending that money so if anybody's got any qualms let me know but otherwise we're going to start submitting the purchase orders to get that going and then of course before any checks are written it runs through a city council meeting yeah and I don't really think about there being much in the way of storage really I mean you're talking in room storage like basically just against the wall we we have a specific room next to the council chambers that's designed to store Furniture ah it's not very big you know we don't have a lot of space for that but it's its intention is well when those tables aren't being used they're in that room with some of our extra chairs okay good day thanks all right very good be fun to see yeah yeah all right um is that your updates you have more that's it all right thank you Michael uh yeah we had a library meeting I wasn't able to make it but it was a pretty quick meeting um set the calendar for next year um and approve the uh holidays for the coming calendar year and then actually started uh talking about reviewing the administrator so review processor whatever that is yeah go back over that again so that's started so we'll have something more to talk about about that and that would be it well actually director director I'm sorry I was thinking okay all right thank you um Bill very quiet I have nothing okay Ben I don't have anything either all right Craig uh yeah I went to a uh parks and trails meeting last week um while the conversation was more like or organizational issues that we're facing um the course budgeting as far as hiring a full-time person and what that person would be um actually doing um also what came up at the meeting quite a few times was was s to uh uh topic which I think uh you know maybe in the next couple of months here we can probably just kind of I think we already did talk about the ins and outs of of we we we already rated it what we're going to be doing in 2025 but um I think some more communication with the with the through the count on how that process is going to be uh in the near future um I think we've decided to put it low on our priority list I don't know where it is on the county board's priority list I know that um the parks and Trail uh there's some people that want to push it to a a maybe a more of a uh topic to start discussion on but that remains to be seen I guess so I'll keep I'll keep everybody posted on how that's being viewed currently I guess um other than that um I haven't been to a few meetings prior to the last week so I just try to get caught up on some of the the issues that have been going on with trails and um it's nice to have the meetings um we do get uh representation from the DNR and the US Forestry so so that kind of helps to give us some ideas what they're doing in our community and how their's services and what they have to provide for us to let other people know about so it's kind of nice to to be part of that um other than that that's all I have from that last meeting we have another meeting I think is it January January every two months I guess we'll have another meeting in a couple months January who from who from the county participates a bunch of people or like any well we have a county Dave Mills County Commissioner okay is on it and then we have uh uh who took over well Tim is Tim is helping a little bit now but he's going to be retiring MH uh and so Mitch Travis uh oh Mitch I keep calling him Matt but Mitch Travis is taking the reins from Tim right now and then we have uh who are the members there's uh one two there's a three four other members and they say they have a list of other people that want to be on it so I don't know if they're going to increase how many people are are going to be on this or not um a lot of it is just to have a group of people that are connected with the county and State and the feds and the city so that when organizations come up with certain issues or may not be problems but they may be uh positive things too that pertain to Parks Trails um outdoor activities that are going on within our County they can go to somebody and say hey we got a problem with this uh bridge on a trail that got washed out we need to repair this where can we go for some money how can we find some funding um could be a bike trail trail hiking trail uh stuff like that that's kind of wow I think the importance of the group on the surface I mean we don't have any like owned Parks so to speak within our community they're pretty much owned by the state and the FEDS but they're visited by an awful lot of people and a lot of our outside areas get used quite a bit uh throughout the course of the year so maintaining these things is pretty much the most important thing right now I guess right that's a broader perspective than I was thinking you I've been thinking about the bike trails and some of those things but that certainly puts a bigger spin on what is needs to be assisted with in charge of okay thanks yep um I went to the CC meeting the other week and presented our art proposal got very positive comments from everyone so we can you know kind of get that mve forward I'll try to work with you Patrick to get that form just switched over and everything in the original form is in our new one it wasn't anything and then we can create that guideline thing and we'll talk a little bit more with them that they didn't you know they're still talking and that's their first look but overall comments were positive and they appreciated the effort that we made on that I was going to meet today with the um ISD 166 teachers but another commitment so I'm meeting with them Monday they're all excited to do mayor for a day which is due December 13th and I'll get cie ask me Hawkins for the radio that she's excited too so we'll get that rolling I attended a webinar the other week from this from the state on some of the new programs and funding for um housing including infrastructure and local housing trust funds and there's one other piece oh one was one of the programs is set more for the metro area and one is set for Rural so I tried to keep myself focused on for us and the two keys for me is I'm really interested in local housing trust funds and what you can do with those but then the infrastructure help as well so then I have a meeting on the second with Jason because I know he follows all this and just kind of help have him give me a little primary to make sure I'm kind of on track with that that and then of course we had this cannabis updating about forms and whatever and that was good to get so that's what I got great yeah so wait I just want to ask the local Housing Trust Fund and what else was it you said they also have some money now for infrastructure infrastructure development I'm not saying it's a lie still got to try to understand it and it varies like how big your unit is that you're doing and the whole thing and anything to help and they sent the you know the webinar and all the materials now that it's done with so I can pass it on to anybody if you want to weed through and then you know this is the state but then once again they give this nonprofit Minnesota housing fi Finance Agency to actually disperse the Mone you know and do the mechanics of it and that's where you get the layers that's they like who's what going on there um but it's just a start because in passing some months ago Jason it said oh there is money for infrastructure like what is it and where is this and I'm quite certain this is this newer little thing is what he was referencing what department is this through oh sure you'd asked me that I'm I want to say it was de but that's what I would let me go look at the the slide tops again for sure I just you know I can share all that um good stuff for us yeah yeah I hope it has something positive um on that so and then how was the did you guys have that meeting with the East Bay with the Army Corps last was that Friday how'd that go and did Margaret and kristna um Krishna was there Margaret had another meeting she wasn't able to attend I think it went great uh they're excited about participating good uh we're happy with the progress and so then what we said do the next thing we're going to do is just local group meet and talk about how to move forward on it okay good so the Army Corp and so did Stephen say if he got that one Grant in um we did get a couple of grants in looking at another one to get in um I'm not sure we're going to yet I think it we're going to wait and see okay how this plays out just figuring out you know who's going to be able to match what a real mess on it and it's a big number so we we want to make sure we get it right before we move forward yeah well a big thank you to so and water Stephen Janice has done a lot of work to try to find us some Grant dollars and monies the thing that's always very hard to do so I appreciate their efforts a lot with this so all right I think we are all set um thanks everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving yeah Happy Thanksgiving yeah Happy Thanksgiving everyone have a good night everybody thanks Craig have a good Thanksgiving