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[00:01] Okay, we're on a call to order the regular city council meeting for today's date and time.
[00:12] Item two is public input and on schedule personal appearances.
[00:15] So I don't see the one in the audience.
[00:17] So I'm going to move to item three, which can send agenda.
[00:21] Item four through eight.
[00:23] Staff of recommending for the consent agenda.
[00:25] If there are no questions on any of those items,
[00:30] we're going to take motion to approve the consent agenda as recommended.
[00:35] Second, roll call please.
[00:38] Item nine is the same issue that we just discussed.
[00:45] I believe.
[00:47] Okay, and the SUA meeting, which is, this is an ordinance 2019 01,
[00:55] a mending section 2460.
[00:58] I have one more question and there are fuel costs.
[01:02] I know they were expanding into natural gas and coal.
[01:06] So the, the power that we purchased for city.
[01:09] My emits all hydro.
[01:11] Is that right?
[01:12] There's a mixture.
[01:13] It's a mixture of it.
[01:14] Actually, coal, mostly gas, coal, hydro, we unpack.
[01:19] And it also, we have a conversation, which is not a deal, but that's a hydro.
[01:25] Yeah, yeah.
[01:27] It seems like we have plenty of water to supply the hydro.
[01:30] So I think.
[01:31] The total hydro generation, don't need about 250 megawatts.
[01:36] What is that as a percent of their total generation?
[01:40] About 10 percent.
[01:43] In coal, they shut down.
[01:45] Are they retrofitted a coal firecrank?
[01:47] Two.
[01:48] The Giorde 2 unit is running Giorde 1 in shut down.
[01:53] And it's basically moth all the right now.
[01:57] And we, we discussed, we were just going to discuss.
[01:59] There's a great detail in Giorde A.
[02:01] What would we do?
[02:02] Let's scrubbers on everything.
[02:03] Are we built a gas fire fire plant?
[02:05] Oh, it was more than the station.
[02:07] We all ever made.
[02:08] It was built a gas fire fire plant.
[02:10] I think the coal was, uh, high sulfur.
[02:13] Yeah.
[02:14] Yeah.
[02:15] The high sulfur one was, uh, Giorde A2 was built with scrubbers on it.
[02:19] So they shut it down.
[02:20] And as it was, the only had to spend about 300 million dollars on Giorde A2
[02:25] to fix the scrubbers on it for the EPA.
[02:28] Thank you.
[02:29] Mr.
[02:30] You mean other questions on item nine?
[02:31] If not, do we have a most to approve?
[02:33] Ordance 2019 01.
[02:35] Thank you.
[02:36] Thank you.
[02:37] Mr.
[02:42] You mean other questions on item nine?
[02:45] If not, do we have a most to approve?
[02:50] Ordance 2019 01.
[02:52] And a second.
[02:54] Second.
[02:55] We'll call please.
[02:56] Or get a question.
[02:57] Aye.
[02:58] Forster.
[02:59] Aye.
[03:00] list. Hi, and item 10 is emergency calls are related to the same
[03:04] ordinance. Do we have a most to approve the emergency clause?
[03:07] I'll make a motion. And I'll second that, Roko.
[03:11] I'll show. Hi.
[03:13] Forester.
[03:15] I work it.
[03:17] Okay, I remember 11 is ordinance 2019-02 created an
[03:22] section 24-3 right of entry, article 1 in general of chapter 24 for the purpose of
[03:28] accessing utility department equipment providing several
[03:32] guilty and establishing an effective date.
[03:35] Hi.
[03:36] What's all that mean?
[03:37] Well, the next one.
[03:38] The other I have been working on updating the utility
[03:41] the customer service manual.
[03:43] And we found two areas. One, we were looking for the right
[03:47] of the right of entry ordinance.
[03:49] And then we discovered that back in September that ordinance was actually
[03:53] really never removed.
[03:56] Some other changes. I think it's the building because.
[04:00] So we went back and we asked the department and they said, well,
[04:03] in our notes, we showed that the intention was to put those that right of
[04:07] entry into utility chapter 24, which is what we should be.
[04:11] So that's what we're asking is to re-establish it back.
[04:14] It allows our reader readers to get on the property and read the
[04:17] readers, maintain the readers.
[04:19] You know, let's say they're going to want them to get on the property and
[04:23] take responsibility to their readers.
[04:26] So we didn't burden lady to leave that.
[04:29] Or it was purposefully.
[04:32] But the communication didn't happen to say.
[04:35] It would just turn follow up.
[04:36] Yeah.
[04:37] Any concerns?
[04:39] Any concerns?
[04:40] No, not at all.
[04:41] In fact, if anything on the this side of the following item,
[04:44] we have emergency clauses as we need to have something like this in the
[04:48] ordinance.
[04:49] So our people go in and read these readers side.
[04:52] So it is kind of a repair or anything else in getting it back in place.
[04:57] Okay.
[04:58] Any other questions?
[04:59] We have most to approve item 11, which is 29.
[05:03] So to.
[05:04] Any motion?
[05:05] Second.
[05:06] Second.
[05:07] Local employees.
[05:08] Worcester.
[05:09] Work in.
[05:10] Western.
[05:11] High.
[05:12] And then not in 12 is emergency clause related to the same ordinance.
[05:16] Do we have a motion to approve?
[05:18] I'll make a motion.
[05:19] Second.
[05:20] Second.
[05:21] We'll call please.
[05:22] Lewis.
[05:23] Western.
[05:24] Forester.
[05:25] Work it.
[05:26] So.
[05:27] And then item 13 is ordinance.
[05:28] 2019 to show three.
[05:31] Stablishing.
[05:32] Section 27.
[05:33] Six rates and charges within chapter 27.
[05:37] Stablishing a dishonored payment fee.
[05:40] You would probably know the term more return check.
[05:46] But when we were looking into, it's really could be anything.
[05:50] A credit card.
[05:51] I could be returned.
[05:52] So we found this term.
[05:54] Or the return.
[05:55] Or dishonored payment fee.
[05:56] So that's what we chose to use as a language.
[05:59] And back.
[06:00] of the 17, there was what was called a non-rate rate study, and they looked at things like
[06:05] our permitting fees, our licenses, I think they even looked at coal in rates, and that kind
[06:11] of thing, and one of those things was a return check fee of $25. I looked back, I got the
[06:17] minutes from that meeting, and the ordinance just didn't have this in there, and we all
[06:23] thought it did. Again, when we were looking at the manual, after that ordinance couldn't find
[06:28] it, so we realized it got missed, and we needed to have it in there. So it was recommended
[06:33] in the rate study, the non-rate rate study we did, we just didn't actually get it into the
[06:39] language into the old.
[06:41] It was very large ordinance, and it just looks like it's kept this.
[06:44] Any questions or concerns about inserting the dishonor payment fee?
[06:51] Does fee still seem to yield?
[06:54] And is this saying to check insufficient check?
[06:57] It's the capers.
[06:58] Do we have a motion to approve item 14?
[07:03] I'll make the motion.
[07:08] In 2019, there are show three, and a second, there will be a vote, please.
[07:11] Well, it's been a short time.
[07:13] For a certain list, I'll work it.
[07:16] And then item 14 is the emergency hours related to the same board, so I'll make a motion to
[07:21] approve.
[07:22] Do we have a second?
[07:23] Say.
[07:24] World call, please.
[07:26] For a start.
[07:27] What's been?
[07:28] Hi.
[07:29] Lewis.
[07:30] I'm four.
[07:31] All right.
[07:32] We're going to start.
[07:33] We're going to start.
[07:34] We're going to start.
[07:35] We're going to start.
[07:36] Um, is an ordinance creating section 277 discretionary waiver of collection fees, for
[07:44] chapter 27 for the purpose of authorizing the city manager, way of all of our portion
[07:48] of collection fees, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and what are collection fees?
[07:54] So if we send an account to collections, they haven't paid, and it was in a collection.
[07:59] Strange things can happen.
[08:00] Things we can't foresee.
[08:02] An example I gave you was, someone that's a good payer, and they have several accounts, and
[08:08] they pay auto draft, which is what we want them to do.
[08:11] But if an account gets closed, say they have 15 accounts, but one of those accounts gets closed,
[08:16] they're assuming that last payment is going to come out auto draft out of their bank account.
[08:21] We don't do that on the last one, because most of those people move, and that makes
[08:24] an account close.
[08:25] So we would recommend keeping that or changing it to that.
[08:29] But we would like to allow the authorities to see managers to waive fees if something like that
[08:34] happens.
[08:36] So life fees, et cetera?
[08:38] Yeah, well, the collection fees, if there haven't been any, a lot of times we can just request
[08:43] the collection to come back to us many times, but not all the time, without a fee to ask, but
[08:48] it becomes us.
[08:50] One of the things we had a situation like this that happened about a month ago, and
[08:57] as staff, we all sat down and looked at this.
[09:00] This is said, number one, the person that had happened to, I think any one of us in their position would have thought the same thing.
[09:07] So, it's completely understandable.
[09:09] Number two is looking at our process that works 99.9% of the time, great.
[09:16] Try to change that to try to catch it.
[09:19] Would have just changed our entire process.
[09:23] So, the thought of having something like this, where rarely ever happens, but when it happens,
[09:29] my ability to be able to wave it, but then on top of that, then I have to report it to you.
[09:34] So, it's not something that would just be something that would just happen.
[09:38] Just like we do on some of our other waivers, they're part of your report.
[09:42] You're able to see them, you're able to oversee them to make sure that we're doing it on a proper basis.
[09:47] That's probably the best way to be able to handle these situations.
[09:51] And I agree, the distinction I'm trying to draw is, there's doesn't mention the late fees,
[09:57] which are different with the collection, because we want to weigh those two.
[10:00] I don't know if you currently have the discretion to do that.
[10:03] On late fees, no.
[10:04] So, do we need language on late fees, too, is what I'm asking?
[10:07] You do.
[10:08] You actually, currently, the city manager has the authority to weigh late fees and dispatch fees.
[10:12] Okay.
[10:13] Okay, sorry.
[10:14] Sorry.
[10:15] I want to make sure.
[10:16] Okay.
[10:17] This is the authority of the different.
[10:18] The dispatch fees are what we have a tendency to wave quite a bit,
[10:21] because people will realize, pay it on the spot, and we weight that fee for it.
[10:26] Any other questions or for clarification or concerns?
[10:32] And again, even on those dispatch fees, we just mentioned,
[10:35] I think they're several in your agenda tonight that you see.
[10:39] So, we report those as well.
[10:41] So, do we have a motion to approve orders 2019-04?
[10:46] And second.
[10:48] Second roll, please.
[10:50] Work it.
[10:51] Aye.
[10:52] Aye.
[10:53] Aye.
[10:54] Aye.
[10:55] Aye.
[10:56] Any new business, anyone?
[11:00] Staff reports are in your pocket.
[11:02] Any questions for staff?
[11:05] Mayor?
[11:06] Any council committee announcements?
[11:08] Aye.
[11:09] I do have one.
[11:10] Good.
[11:11] There is a...
[11:12] Everybody that's in the city limits of my upper schools,
[11:16] or that says there is an election tonight.
[11:19] We have a school board.
[11:20] We have a school board member.
[11:22] And somebody ready to get some.
[11:26] And the board?
[11:27] Who has the clothes of that?
[11:29] Yes.
[11:30] Tell us about that.
[11:31] And it's also a football and commerce and wine garden.
[11:34] Anybody's got one?
[11:35] Yeah.
[11:36] And then also continue on with our 16-year celebration in the year.
[11:40] The Saturday will be doing our unveiling of our first order of each statute.
[11:44] That'll take place at one o'clock.
[11:46] Awesome.
[11:47] The beautiful way they're taking.
[11:49] Yep.
[11:50] Anything else?
[11:51] Or announcements?
[11:53] Any manager communication?
[11:55] Amanda wanted me to remind everybody that they have the rodeo money.
[12:00] I am a tech that's going to sell this week,
[12:01] rode in my end as May 34th this year.
[12:05] Let's hope the water stays low,
[12:06] so we'll have plenty of place with parking
[12:08] and everybody not have to reschedule it.
[12:11] Also, they are say, you trip less a baseball turn
[12:15] that this weekend, we have about 23 teams coming to town.
[12:18] And at the end of this month, we have close to 40 teams
[12:22] coming for a softball turn.
[12:23] So check is keeping very, very busy,
[12:26] and that is going well.
[12:28] Let's bring clean up, just finished up.
[12:30] And we have almost kind of imperious.
[12:33] We actually didn't have as many loves as we have last year.
[12:37] We had the 287 trash loads last year, 320.
[12:41] We had 16 loads of yardways, or 16 tons.
[12:47] Excuse me, last year we had 11.
[12:49] So we went up in yardways, and only 831 tires
[12:54] compared to last year, 1,312 tires.
[12:57] But it's nice to know that we've got that out of our neighbor hoods
[13:02] and into the proper ways to suppose the way it is.
[13:06] We had a lot of people comment that they really appreciate
[13:09] this program.
[13:10] We are first numbers tons also on the 287.
[13:13] I don't have the number of tons that we had at 20,
[13:16] so we had 268 tons of trash.
[13:20] I don't know what we had last year, but usually a load equals about a ton.
[13:24] We had 287 loads, 268 tons.
[13:28] I'm hoping those declining members of your assigned
[13:30] that were making proper copies too.
[13:32] That's your data.
[13:34] I saw a lot of stuff piled out on the streets.
[13:39] These are those something.
[13:40] What we noticed, it seemed like we had fewer houses,
[13:43] but the houses that had something piled out
[13:45] had big bottles off of the streets.
[13:47] That's not like.
[13:48] Well, the more of the concerns that I have
[13:50] that the name was brought to me and I know this convention
[13:52] is that the people that are running in the truck,
[13:56] that are loaded, so they're running and do the due diligence
[14:00] of scrapping metal that most people wouldn't,
[14:04] is that when they go through those piles,
[14:06] it was essentially invoked into one-lilary
[14:09] in somebody's yard, but then it all gets spread over here,
[14:13] because they go through it in the day,
[14:14] while somebody's at work, and they're just there for them.
[14:16] I don't know what we can do to pursue that.
[14:21] I don't know if that's a homeowner's, you know,
[14:24] throw it all out to the night and the floor,
[14:26] but you just, you never know when people go through it.
[14:28] And the problem is, is that we don't know how quickly
[14:32] we can get people's property.
[14:33] If we tell somebody, put it out on a Wednesday,
[14:36] and we might get bogged down, it might not be until Thursday
[14:39] or Friday before we get to it.
[14:41] And even the last few days, we usually go back to the neighborhood
[14:43] because people will suddenly have a big pile
[14:46] and say, oh, you forgot me.
[14:47] So we go back and we pick it up and stuff.
[14:50] I like the fact that some of us being up-cycle would be nice.
[14:54] Yeah, as long as it's being up-cycle too,
[14:57] the facility that needs to be up-cycle too.
[15:00] it's being brought to another house and stored at your neighbor from the right.
[15:05] We actually were able to be on top of that this year.
[15:08] The first year when we got it restarted, we just moved it to another neighborhood.
[15:13] And we kept that from happening.
[15:15] But you're right when they go through and pick it, they don't have it.
[15:18] They have a tendency sometimes not to leave it very nice.
[15:21] I don't know how to use it, but I know it's just brought up.
[15:24] But very appreciative of everybody I've talked to is thankful to that.
[15:28] So I'm with you, man, I hope we're getting ahead of it.
[15:31] Somebody posted on Facebook while back, they put stuff out like five years in a row.
[15:36] And by the time our truck shows up, there's nothing left.
[15:39] Well, the friend said, well, you've got two good stuff here, throw it away.
[15:43] You know, barely.
[15:44] The final thing I want to bring up is we're in budget seats.
[15:48] And we do have an account under that we're going to have budget meetings on April 23rd, 24th and 25th at 530 p.m.
[15:57] So I wanted to do this as a reminder, everybody could check their calendars.
[16:02] And what we've usually had, what we all kind of hope is staff is that we go through the first day and we're okay.
[16:08] But if we need to continue on, we have the 24th and the 25th to work on as well.
[16:13] I know we're still kind of balancing budget, we still have even a couple departments to meet with yet.
[16:19] So we're not completely ready ourselves.
[16:22] And then along that line too, on the 16th, our next meeting will have the performer.
[16:26] But it should always look forward to the kind of just that dashboard to see just how we're doing.
[16:31] So now that we've based on last year and the audit that we just got.
[16:36] That's exactly it.
[16:39] So we're in that season as well.
[16:41] And that's by report.
[16:42] And I forgot to mention Sunday the branch in two, or we'll be at the call in the highest.
[16:49] I think that would be a really neat show.
[16:52] I'm looking forward to it.
[16:53] It's the one that was rescheduled from last month because of the weather.
[16:56] Some very good performers are coming.
[16:58] Okay.
[17:00] So item 20 says the meeting will be continued from council chambers and reconvened in the meeting room.
[17:07] One for purposes of executive session.
[17:11] And then we're going to adjourn and we'll take place in the meeting rooms.
[17:16] Correct.
[17:17] For all intents and purposes, this part of the meeting.
[17:20] So I don't remember if we have to have a motion to continue the meeting.
[17:26] I think we should have in the meeting.
[17:29] Sorry.
[17:30] That's what it means being reconvened.
[17:33] Okay.
[17:34] So I think I just announced that.
[17:36] So we'll pack up and go.
[17:37] I mean, I didn't even know you would.
[17:39] Why?