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[00:04] Now, we've called the order, the regular meeting of the Maris City Council for Monday, October 4, 2021.
[00:09] Two public input and unscheduled personal preferences, we have one, this route, Stevens.
[00:15] Everybody has a hand out that she gave.
[00:17] Thank you, everybody.
[00:27] Is this, is it a picture?
[00:29] Oops, sorry.
[00:30] You can pull it down.
[00:32] You have your code of ordinance in front of you, the Section 23417.
[00:39] That's why I'm here.
[00:42] I live at Route 66 landing.
[00:46] My son brought me here from Tucson four years ago, and it was wonderful.
[00:51] I live on the fifth floor.
[00:53] I have 20 windows.
[00:54] That is the most beautiful apartment you can ever imagine.
[00:57] In Tucson, it would rent for 2000 a month.
[01:01] And we should really be proud of it.
[01:03] But since we've had the street Route 66 fixed,
[01:12] the noise is, it's horrible.
[01:15] We can't sleep.
[01:17] It's all night long.
[01:19] And it's mufflers.
[01:21] Now, I know there's all the excuses, all the catalytic converters are being stolen, all that.
[01:26] No, this is on purpose.
[01:28] And when I had my dogs, I would walk this street at night,
[01:34] and they would love to come up right beside me and give a big pop.
[01:38] It sounded like a gunshot.
[01:40] And scared us to death, and they would just laugh and just so funny.
[01:45] I'm really, I have to sign my lease now for the next year,
[01:52] and I question if I even want to live here.
[01:55] Because you don't own mainstream, any longer.
[01:59] It's not yours.
[02:00] It has been totally taken over by RIPRA.
[02:05] And we want three things.
[02:09] We want a sign that says quiet zone.
[02:12] Second thing.
[02:14] A speed limit sign.
[02:16] And then third, enforcement.
[02:19] And we have 24 apartments in that building.
[02:25] Some of the residents are over 90 years old.
[02:28] I'm 83 by the way, getting there.
[02:31] And one lady even had to hurt a lady, just they'm pitated.
[02:37] And we can't rest.
[02:41] We can't sleep.
[02:43] It's all night long.
[02:46] And we keep calling the police department.
[02:48] I've talked with Chief Anderson.
[02:51] Today I talk with the Indians.
[02:53] I don't know where else to go.
[02:55] Don't know what else to do.
[02:57] I think.
[03:00] What we are are thinking of doing the residents is standing out there in our night gowns,
[03:08] holding signs, having photos taken, and I'll send them to every newspaper and Oklahoma so
[03:18] that they know what's happening in my air, and I hate that I love historic gowns, but it's
[03:24] totally wiped out from all of this reference. And they love it. And we've set out there
[03:33] as not kids. It's 20 and 30 year olds. We had an officer out to see us last Sunday, and
[03:45] he was very nice Brad Mullin, I believe it was, but he's on leave now. He's there giving birth
[03:53] to a little girl. And he said, well, if it will help, we'll set down here, but of course,
[04:00] he's not there anymore. So what can we do? What do you say? It's a hopeless situation, and
[04:14] it's too bad because the apartments are beautiful. And we have a good social life there,
[04:21] we have the jam, we have the community room, we have the pool room, we have the puzzle room, but I'm
[04:28] sorry. You can't live with that kind of racket all the time, and they love it. They just love
[04:35] to do it. So we could start with the three things I mentioned, the quiet zone. They used
[04:44] to have quiet zone signs there, I've heard that. What happened? We can't even carry conversations
[05:51] to bad because it's a beautiful building.
[06:01] So I'm leaving it there and we do have ladies believe it or not who are ready to go
[06:08] We're going to go out and our nidies with our signs saying we can't sleep be quiet
[06:14] One lady in a wheelchair went out one night and shook her finger at him
[06:18] And of course they probably really enjoyed that because they think it's also funny
[06:23] I went I know you probably it don't like my my shit show, but I went on that one
[06:29] Just to see what the feeling was and one of the responses was well, we don't do drugs and we work
[06:37] So we should be privileged in order to do this and so of course my
[06:42] Response was I've worked 63 years and they'm retired. What's my privilege? I don't have a privilege
[06:49] I don't have to sleep apparently
[06:52] But it's it's just too bad. It's really a let down that
[06:56] That this town would let that happen and main street isn't yours. I would said just I've been president of the
[07:06] Visitors bureau in another town and I would hate to hear statements like this
[07:12] Because who wants to come and walk down the historic
[07:17] Streets of the town if you have to walk in the alleys or the side streets because you can't walk on the main street because it's so noisy
[07:26] I don't know how people even cross the street because there's no lights of course anymore
[07:32] But we've sat down there and watched them. They will stop at the four-way stop on first street and then gun the motors
[07:40] Try to get us a ties they can until they get to central in one block and that's how they make the noise
[07:50] So
[07:53] That's all I have to say
[07:55] Just leave it with you guys, but but you will be getting some advertisement before you go to advertising
[08:04] Is there a time in the evening?
[08:07] It would seem
[08:08] Agreeable to have those activities
[08:12] Start to come to the hall
[08:15] They usually start
[08:17] The big time around seven thirty and then
[08:23] It just increases in momentum and then it
[08:28] It goes on to one and two o'clock
[08:33] And you've never know when it's gonna stop and then the next morning at seven thirty it usually starts in the morning
[08:40] And then it will ease off to noon and then again at nine at seven thirty. I mean
[08:49] We it's like cock work. We know when it's gonna happen, but there's no way to get away from it
[08:54] Not at all so I did more than my question correctly
[09:00] Would there if boys we're gonna be boys from 7.32 what every time you get ready to tell me here in just a second
[09:07] What would that magic time be that you would like it to get quiet if they were gonna be silly for a couple hours or whatever
[09:15] If you thought through that at all
[09:24] Well, how late to how you're asking how late can that can the big boys be little boys, right?
[09:32] But yes, face it out of you. Yes, man
[09:36] Well, in the evenings we're watching
[09:41] TV and we're watching football games trying to then we go to bed
[09:56] Yeah
[10:09] But it is very difficult even now see even on Saturdays
[10:14] They can this and if you're watching football it's a lot of us are football fans
[10:19] It and I literally feel at times that my head is a based drum and it's like this and
[10:30] And it is affecting me. I know we were joking earlier that were like this
[10:35] But but that's really how I'd hit you after a while it just wears on you until you start yelling at different about different things that have nothing to do with that
[10:46] It's just your reaction
[10:48] Who want it does
[10:51] so
[11:37] That dip was supposed to be there permanently
[11:41] It was part of the construction process right now
[11:44] Well, we've labeled at the night of the living dead because that's
[11:48] You know, it's it's horrible and
[11:53] Also, it ends all right
[12:03] And the three consent agenda staff recommends we approve items 4 through 7.
[12:11] So, I'm going to thank you.
[12:13] Hi.
[12:21] Eight.
[12:22] Approved or reject the Grand Gateway Pell event outside organizational contract for a fiscal year 21.
[12:28] 22.
[12:29] I'm just going to give you a little bit of a penalty information a minute.
[12:39] But then I talked about just an opportunity to get front of you guys.
[12:42] It's been a while because of COVID.
[12:44] But I just want to explain one time really what Green Gateway is.
[12:48] We're a co-op of local governments.
[12:52] The city's in county's created us like 55 years ago.
[12:56] And so we're theoretically year-end boys.
[12:59] I think the Attorney General made that really about 40 years ago.
[13:02] And we can contract and do things because the council government is just good boys.
[13:07] And so we've been.
[13:08] We do a lot of things.
[13:10] We do rule-firing.
[13:11] You know, less than you know I've met.
[13:12] They were not economic development activities because, you know, I've been around.
[13:16] I've been at Green Gateway 29 years.
[13:18] So I've been here for a long time.
[13:20] I actually, when good rich clothes, I was a grad student.
[13:23] It came down here to research on trying to figure out what we're going to do with a good rich clothes.
[13:28] And that's where we came up with the Perky Park.
[13:31] And we came up with the office park.
[13:33] And you know, we've just done a lot of projects.
[13:35] And I was here for progress parks development.
[13:37] And those couple of things.
[13:38] And that's the economic development community on the side of us.
[13:41] We also do a rule-firing advance.
[13:43] We fund the area agencies on AG with help and legislature.
[13:46] And, you know, so we do a lot of things at Green Gateway.
[13:49] But we're really yours.
[13:51] You guys own us.
[13:52] We work for you.
[13:53] And I just wanted to make that clear.
[13:55] Now we are a full profit entity.
[13:58] But we are.
[13:59] Is we're trying to provide this federal grant to you for Pellan.
[14:03] That's cheap as we can do it.
[14:05] Because we know that your match is what matches our federal grant.
[14:09] Now theoretically, it's a 50-50 percent operating grant.
[14:12] But the truth is, in my image case, you pay about 10 percent of the way.
[14:15] And we're scrounging together those other dollars to keep that match down.
[14:19] I think we supplied some numbers to you.
[14:21] It's a little over 400,000 more costs for the city service.
[14:25] We've also added the tribes.
[14:27] We sell advertising on the buses.
[14:29] And we do everything that we can to try to keep those costs down as a service to you.
[14:35] And I think there's sometimes a little bit of confusion about this.
[14:39] And I think there's a question about how we do extra hour things.
[14:44] And theoretically, we're licensed by the grant to do from 7.30 to 4.30.
[14:49] And we've been able to extend hours and use contracts that we have with the tribes.
[14:54] We've done some other things.
[14:55] We've chased some other grants.
[14:56] And we've some things that we've just picked as we tried it.
[14:59] We've done some other things.
[15:00] in the service without adding additional cost.
[15:04] And one of the things that we've tried to do throughout the years is meet your quest.
[15:09] And I've done it with the Chamber of Commerce and Leadership by Ameth.
[15:12] But it's against the law for us to what they call a charter service, robotic charter service.
[15:20] And so every time we ask for that permission, we get Jefferson, lines, and greyhound
[15:25] and people kind of complain and we don't get to what we're not allowed to do that.
[15:28] So our really our only choice is to do those extra things, is get them in our grant early and make it a route that's served once a year.
[15:37] We do that with KMO and Benita.
[15:39] We've done projects like that here with you.
[15:41] And so other than that, we are just trying to break you.
[15:45] So when you ask for something a little special, whether you end up using your shun up, we're putting
[15:50] in extra buses out there, we'll pay an extra drivers and we're just trying to cover the service.
[15:54] We get no profit.
[15:56] There is no profit and penalty.
[15:58] And what we do is you're in applying the match a few years ago with a different council.
[16:04] There's a lot of questions about how we are giving discounted rods to natives.
[16:08] And what we actually did is we got a grant from them and they actually paid the freight on each rod.
[16:14] Each rod of ours is booked.
[16:16] It's audited from the federal and state government.
[16:18] We do it every day.
[16:20] And so we don't really have any extra money.
[16:23] I think we provided to Ben the budget for the Miami Out program.
[16:28] And you put about $46,000 and a little over $400,000 for the project.
[16:33] And so those things, we are trying to keep your cost as low as we possibly can.
[16:38] Now, we operate this in like seven cities.
[16:41] And you are our truly our biggest system.
[16:43] We provide more service here in Miami than we do in, I would say, a WASO in KMO combined.
[16:50] And this is a crisis.
[16:52] It's a first one.
[16:53] You're the first entity that joined the year old first city.
[16:56] It's a joint great gateway.
[16:57] They're also the first contract that we ever signed with.
[17:00] Peleband was here in Miami.
[17:02] So what we've been able to do is use that federal grant that they give us.
[17:05] And but we've expanded it throughout the years and that's why it's no longer 50-50 match.
[17:10] Because the grant hasn't increased.
[17:12] The service has.
[17:14] And part of that service.
[17:15] I used to come to you guys probably every two or three years when we had two or three bands in town.
[17:19] And we was felt like we could safely haul about 33 people a day.
[17:23] And when it got beyond that, we started seeing accident.
[17:25] It's a bit used to be my attorney.
[17:27] And he said, we would have little accidents.
[17:30] And so that's when we'd come to the city and say, you know, we're getting beyond our safety limits.
[17:34] And you guys want to add a bus.
[17:36] And this would be the extra cost for it.
[17:38] And recently, we actually added the tribal operation here.
[17:42] We partnered with ITC and those tribes.
[17:44] We've not had that kind of growth.
[17:46] We've been able to supply after our services.
[17:48] We've done different things with them.
[17:50] But we're just running it for you.
[17:52] This grant rather than coming to the city and mine for you to operate.
[17:56] We operate on behalf of the seven counties in our area.
[18:00] And so, that's why we do it.
[18:02] But I will literally literally eat cities
[18:04] a separate operation.
[18:05] We find the answer that way, we show every ride.
[18:08] And so, that will actually, that $500 will be glad to do it,
[18:12] but if it's worth the wallet,
[18:13] we're just going to add it to your cost.
[18:15] And that, because we don't have,
[18:17] we don't make money.
[18:18] There's no more grant money available.
[18:19] And we're just really providing, really,
[18:22] a four million-dollar system, you know,
[18:24] regional-wide, what should be a two million-dollar operating
[18:27] two million from then.
[18:29] And we've got it down to like $50,500,000 with a grant,
[18:32] and the cities come up with the other thing.
[18:34] So, every time we sell a wrap,
[18:36] it's the little, your cross-tiered Miami,
[18:38] we have the cost to Miami, just for Miami.
[18:42] We don't blend the system.
[18:44] So, we make the city of Miami stand alone,
[18:46] we make the need of stand alone,
[18:47] like gross stand alone, we want to play more stand alone.
[18:50] We even were asked to do a while,
[18:51] so a few years ago, because they're half of the while,
[18:53] so it was in our counties.
[18:55] And so, that's how we run that system.
[18:57] The same is true with prior.
[19:00] But so, that's, so when you see our costs,
[19:02] it's our actual costs.
[19:03] And we spent days with your attorney, not being with another one.
[19:06] We came over and looked at our books and made sure
[19:08] that we were not unfairly given the need of your eyes
[19:11] that weren't being paid for.
[19:12] And so, I'm glad to come and talk to you.
[19:14] I know Jill serves on my board.
[19:16] She's heard all this stuff before and how we were structured.
[19:20] But that's how we do it.
[19:21] And I just wanted to explain that to you,
[19:23] that I was going to let Kendrick get up,
[19:25] and she really runs the program,
[19:27] and explain to you what's happening to your ridership,
[19:29] and where we're going, and we're trying to try to come up
[19:32] while I'm in the hole, and we guys like to hear from Kendrick
[19:34] and then explain to you how you're going to do it.
[19:38] Hello, I'm Kendrick, and I'm the Director of Pelvian Transit,
[19:41] and Ed is absolutely right.
[19:42] We get a $46,000 match from you guys
[19:45] and the operation costs us about $400,000 to around.
[19:48] But that's okay, because this is what we do.
[19:49] But I do want to explain to you that that contract
[19:52] is specifically for seven, three to four very service.
[19:54] We're happy to do anything extra,
[19:56] but we do have to kind of talk about that
[19:57] because what we're doing is we're pulling away
[19:59] from your service and we're getting into charter regulations,
[20:01] which could get Pelvian into big trouble.
[20:05] But I want to talk about your numbers right now,
[20:07] since I think that a lot of you have
[20:09] and heard the Pelvian's feel before,
[20:11] you do have one of the most innovative public transit systems
[20:15] in the state in the nation.
[20:17] Actually, you have the most efficient innovative in the state,
[20:20] hands down.
[20:22] We have implemented an after-hour service
[20:24] to your system called pick transportation,
[20:26] which is a partnership with Uber.
[20:28] So you actually have a public drop-down that runs from five to 10
[20:31] and 10 to two on Saturdays.
[20:33] It takes care of that and financially through the grants.
[20:36] So that's one of the things that you have going.
[20:37] But my aim is a very, very transit-dependent area.
[20:41] For example, your numbers in 2019,
[20:44] for your 46 for the maps that you guys pay,
[20:46] for 2019, we gave 29,719 trips.
[20:50] Now, in 2020, we dropped down to 18,400
[20:53] and that was with COVID-19.
[20:56] Your numbers actually stayed the highest throughout our system,
[20:59] and currently, right now.
[21:00] Right now you're at 11,000 and six trips and we still have months and months to go.
[21:05] So Miami is a very transit dependent area and as far as pick transportation goes we've been
[21:11] rolling this project out your after hours transportation project which comes at no cost to
[21:16] the city.
[21:17] You have currently since June 1st we've given 218 trips in that system.
[21:22] That doesn't sound like a lot but it really is and it's very cool.
[21:26] We've also transported 12 wheelchair dependent individuals which means that we've given
[21:31] them freedom to move about the community of Miami after hours.
[21:35] I'm seeing that most of your trips are being used for shopping which means that we contribute
[21:40] to the local economy in a big way as well.
[21:43] But I wanted you just to kind of know where your numbers are out with the system to see
[21:46] that you're steadily increasing to let you know that we're happy to do any kind of extra service
[21:51] that we have.
[21:52] I think that next time maybe I should sit down and communicate that with someone from the
[21:57] city that might be a good move we're happy to do those things we just have to be really careful
[22:02] of charter regulations and just wanted to make sure that you know that the system that we provide
[22:06] to you is very efficient and it's a pretty good deal.
[22:09] So does anyone have any questions for me?
[22:14] Yeah.
[22:15] I wish I should have brought pick folders for you guys.
[22:19] I did not do that but I've got to come to Miami in the next couple of weeks.
[22:22] So I'm going to bring them down so you guys can take a look at some of that as well with
[22:26] the after hour system.
[22:27] But yeah, any questions that you guys have were happy to help?
[22:31] What's your name?
[22:32] What's your name?
[22:33] What's your name?
[22:34] Oh yeah.
[22:35] In our mileage at our ridership is audited every year.
[23:26] We have a very innovative, we're very technologically advanced.
[23:31] We have one of the most advanced rural systems in the nation by far.
[23:36] So all of our trips are booked that way so we can easily get you print out that I usually
[23:40] get those to you once a year but I can start giving you numbers.
[23:44] Maybe come to a council meeting once a quarter or something like that and kind of talk to you
[23:48] about where we are with things.
[23:49] That would be a help I'm happy to do that.
[23:53] Yes.
[23:54] Thank you.
[24:20] And I love my I'm because you're the very first I've only been there five years, but I feel like I've been there a lot longer
[24:26] So but yeah, this was the first city that signed a contract for a real transit in this area. So thank you
[25:00] You're mad at hangar on talking to me. I don't remember
[25:02] Well, that's exactly
[25:06] Thank you
[25:12] So looking for a approval reject most of the proof
[25:23] All right
[25:32] Nine the approval reject the ODL health
[25:35] Literacy contract between the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the my I'm a public library in the mountain $9,000
[25:41] An authorized the city manager to sign
[25:46] Just to make that clear their the contract is for grant with the Department of Libraries
[25:52] we started that
[25:56] 2014 we were saved $3,000 and
[26:00] We've been doing this over the years. I think there was one year that we didn't
[26:05] One year that we didn't have it but we mostly done gardening and exercise classes and cooking classes
[26:13] We've got some other things as well
[26:15] We have six
[26:18] Garden beds at Ottawa County Health Department. You can still see those if you drive by we put in three at the boys and girls club
[26:25] And then
[26:26] One at the lead agency we've had Tai Chi classes yoga classes
[26:32] Even chair exercise classes for seniors and then we've had a multitude of cooking classes
[26:38] A lot of them have been for kids mostly through the boys and girls club. We've gone to Miami
[26:42] We've gone to commerce. We've gone to Fairland and
[26:46] And you can see the
[26:48] The lovely the mayor's lovely daughter Jordan over at the left because she's taught a lot of these classes
[26:54] She's a
[26:55] Nutritionist at northeastern tribal health system and then also we've had
[27:00] classes for adults as well. And so this is just a kind of review up to you today and then
[27:05] Kelly's going to tell you a couple things about the current brand.
[27:12] So last year we got this brand and if you're a curve ball because of COVID and we had to kind
[27:17] of think out of the outside of the box on it. So last year we did a lot of virtual programming.
[27:22] So this year we're excited because we get to step into in-person again. So what I have planned
[27:29] I've got several fitness classes lined up with Bible arm, white knife, Rick police going to do
[27:37] Tai Chi with us again and then Kelsey Weiner is going to do some aerobics classes. We're going to have
[27:43] classes for kids and adults. We're going to be doing cooking classes for children and adults. Some
[27:48] at the boys and girls clubs, some at the library. With that I actually found two chefs out of
[27:54] Tulsa that are willing to travel up here and do those classes for us. So they'll be able to do some
[27:59] actual professional style cooking as well as tie in the healthy aspect of eating fruits and vegetables and
[28:05] how to prepare those. We're also going to have some informational classes. One of the things we struggle with
[28:11] in this community is just healthy eating and activity. So the health department's going to come in and talk
[28:18] about diabetes. They're going to talk about proper nutrition. We're going to do some teen health
[28:22] classes with them as well. So here's some of the partners that we work with last year. We did the
[28:29] farmers market. I don't know if anybody saw that out there. We handed out smoothie kits. We taught people
[28:33] how to make healthful smoothies with fresh ingredients and then we pass those out for them to make it home.
[28:39] So this year it's going to be a little bit different. We're going to just advertise that the farmers
[28:43] market. I could say the health department's going to help us out. And we're going to be trying to
[28:46] help boys and girls club and integrists are all part of this great. It may not be a big grant, but it
[28:53] can do big things for a community. Thank you. So move. Second. Two. Please step a second.
[29:23] 10. Approve or approval or rejection of preliminary design and implementation of natural learning environment
[29:32] outdoor classroom project. This is something that we're very excited about. We always hope that
[29:39] the life just comes to us and very seldom does it ever work this way all the way through.
[29:46] Late last year, early this year, I think it actually started with Amanda and Bo, who's out of medium
[29:52] and we were approached by the tribes about putting in a natural outdoor classroom at some location.
[30:05] So after discussion, settled on the flashback,
[30:10] that's about there to kind of explain that complex.
[30:13] Nothing that I have done very little on this project.
[30:18] This is really a tribally run project.
[30:21] Diana Baker with the Shawnee Tribe, Carol Essex,
[30:24] with the Ottawa Tribe, and Tracy Beck with Miami Tribe.
[30:27] They're a really spearhead in this project.
[30:29] They can't just vary into the ones that want to go.
[30:33] Those aren't want to play anymore.
[30:34] So we just really got to kind of set that.
[30:37] We're bringing it to you.
[30:45] We're happy.
[30:46] So we're happy.
[30:47] We're asking if you're afraid we'll switch you away from it.
[30:50] They want to keep this all natural.
[30:57] With just dirt, stones, mulch,
[31:00] through the ground spot you see on there.
[31:03] Actually elevated six to eight left heels.
[31:06] And they'll have hides, walk, drop-wall,
[31:10] and things like that, fill in two of those.
[31:13] So they really listen to us when we talk about maintenance.
[31:17] So they can't everything really stone and mulch
[31:20] that try to keep everything natural.
[31:23] You always send them to the park and really have them.
[31:27] You can see they can have them out for a farm.
[31:29] Helps tides, flash pad into this outdoor land.
[31:42] You can bring the building to you.
[31:48] You can always send them to the park and visit the park.
[31:54] You need to call protection underneath that bridge.
[31:57] Because we're part of that.
[31:59] Everything else is just enough.
[32:14] With that being a ground field side,
[32:16] we had to be very careful about what we did on the ground.
[32:19] So we sent them to the room, soil, management plan from BDQ.
[32:24] And they worked with that.
[32:25] And that's why everything's coming up.
[32:27] That was going back.
[33:00] You see the rope, the rope, the rope, the rope, and it's open to the public.
[33:06] It's a great part of that, it is.
[33:08] Anybody can use it?
[33:10] They put no regulations on us on the use of Jews or anything on it.
[33:15] That all back together, one of the place where everybody can use it, that's what they decide.
[33:20] This is their landscape that they give us some distinction between the classroom and the splash.
[33:55] That's the same as the splash pad, just in the south.
[34:23] It really lift that whole north side open for an amphitheater or anything else we want to do on that whole.
[34:29] When we talk about something, this is a 300 to 300 75,000 dollar project.
[34:41] This is not something that we could have done on our own.
[34:43] So we're talking about partnership and tribes.
[34:47] This is really the first one that is kind of a book of water to see how this works.
[34:53] They have a lot of great ideas that may be able to help us out the future parts.
[34:57] This is just kind of the first one.
[34:59] And this is only three tribes get involved.
[35:01] So that is not a brand new to us.
[35:08] We don't have anything like this in town.
[35:10] I volunteer Tyler for a lot of stuff.
[35:17] As far as lighting and things like that.
[35:20] There is a really like this up.
[35:25] This may have to move a little bit when we're in another pod or something.
[35:34] And we also talked a little bit about video.
[35:44] Security is only a concern everywhere we go.
[35:51] So that's definitely something we've looked at.
[35:58] Harder is already new.
[36:00] or stage an area on side, on the east side, the parking lot.
[36:08] So hopefully we can match the parking lot
[36:10] in this flashback on the west side.
[36:26] Any questions?
[36:27] They wanted to be here tonight,
[36:29] but all three of them sent me any mail today
[36:31] that something else came up.
[36:32] So how long do they think this will take?
[36:39] Time-widening, talking to you, you've got to ask
[36:42] you to go to a concerned about weather,
[36:47] not just building up to work all of you all.
[36:53] If you get time-widened, we'll find out.
[36:55] We'll find a lot.
[37:00] It's curtain rocks.
[37:28] Did you get that over there?
[37:30] Yeah.
[37:31] Come on.
[37:32] The playground equipment.
[37:33] Time-wideners?
[37:34] Yes.
[37:35] Don't get it.
[37:35] The T-set, yeah.
[37:36] No, the T-set, the grand, the marches.
[37:48] It's on the mulch.
[37:49] Is it like natural mulch or is it natural?
[37:52] It's not the rubber.
[37:53] It's not the same thing.
[37:54] It's not the same as natural.
[37:56] It's what I want to do with wooden mulch, or something.
[38:01] They're lighting.
[38:06] But once the natural was possible, how do you make the poles look like trees, please?
[38:11] That's it.
[38:12] That'd be really nice.
[38:13] If you look at the letter, the tent that's in your packet,
[38:16] they're going to have some additional funding for the next couple of years
[38:21] to help kind of offset the maintenance of this,
[38:23] and maybe add additional things to do this.
[38:25] After 2023, it becomes off.
[38:28] The city is fully responsible for it.
[38:31] It's going to become our so-it's back.
[38:33] But after 2023, we'll have to see what kind of project
[38:37] you make.
[38:38] So, I'm assuming parks will be maintaining it.
[38:40] Or today.
[38:42] Now, how is that going to be with employees and staff and time?
[38:46] No, obviously.
[38:47] That's the thing that scares us more than anything.
[38:50] I wish you weren't staffed as it is, just because we can't be hired.
[38:55] I can do that we've advocated.
[39:01] We need to help with the development.
[39:03] We needed to go there.
[39:05] We no longer have the ability to pull them and use them
[39:07] for something else.
[39:09] So that isn't concerned.
[39:11] That's always the inside.
[39:13] We will.
[39:15] We'll make it happen.
[39:16] We will not get a little bit of thought about your style.
[39:18] So, exactly where we were proving today
[39:40] or rejecting just the design.
[39:42] Just to design.
[39:43] Just to design.
[39:44] implementations.
[39:45] I think it's good to me.
[39:52] I think it's great.
[39:53] I'm actually excited to see it.
[39:56] Start going.
[39:57] We're just a bunch of guys up here.
[40:03] I'm concerned about the design.
[40:07] It's a...
[40:09] It's a...
[40:11] It looks great.
[40:15] I think it is really, really good job on this.
[40:19] There's been a lot of time.
[40:21] When we first started this project,
[40:23] it was really rushed.
[40:24] It was here guys.
[40:25] It's a great time to try and use.
[40:27] They let that roll off.
[40:29] It's a traditional grandma.
[40:30] So they slow down.
[40:31] So they really took the time.
[40:33] But the thought is,
[40:34] we have to use them a couple of different times.
[40:38] They really listen to us on length.
[40:40] It's part of the time.
[40:42] They're cornered round.
[40:43] They didn't think it's not that good.
[40:45] So, Marsha,
[40:56] have somebody who's done some outdoor things like this.
[40:58] What are your thoughts?
[41:00] Maybe not to this scale.
[41:03] But you've done smaller projects like this.
[41:06] You said they'd have additional funds for the next couple of years.
[41:44] Is that just for maintenance or was it...
[41:46] Wouldn't it be an opportunity to expand it?
[41:49] Well, it's for maintenance and with the ability to add additional features.
[41:54] If they see necessary reasons.
[42:01] How's our from a public safety perspective do you see any issues with this?
[42:05] But we were talking to an amphitheater. You're off the talk of the walking trail that would go around
[42:39] Let me make a motion. We have proved
[42:58] Hi, thank you
[43:08] 11 except a reject contract with Ottawa County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff David Damien's here tonight. Thank you for coming
[43:17] We are
[43:20] It should be right on
[43:22] We're very excited about this the project
[43:24] We've been trying to get off the ground for several years and just a day where we did take off this
[43:30] We were really able to put forward and currently are just by center
[43:36] In fact
[43:40] In Sheriff's Office this patch is for their agency some people go through them for
[43:47] One-and-a-kind stuff and I know it's always been to combine that
[43:52] We're currently working on this kind of first step in that big plan
[44:00] When we read it, our dispatch center
[44:03] Last year we re-designed it made it capable of pulling extra staff and putting it in third center
[44:09] The third control we pulled more staff
[44:13] This year, we walked on the action of the process and said hey we're building a BGFC
[44:17] We're going to put secure location in there. We don't have a
[44:20] We're dispensing a platform
[44:22] We're going to build a storm and we're going to do a BGFC
[44:28] So they're building this facility so we'll lose this after you
[44:33] We'll have one county one dispatch center all the way about 15 staff
[44:38] They've pitched in funds
[44:40] All of those have about 15 dispatchers currently have
[44:46] They're going to have two
[44:50] A lot of tribe partners who have
[44:52] Stayed in their business
[44:54] Bloods might not just for additional staff
[44:57] So if you find it, have three people on staff
[45:00] 24.7 and this is going to put in safety for all of them.
[45:05] You know, why is all dispatcher one told me that dispatcher
[45:08] is safe seconds, second safe lives?
[45:11] This is going to save minutes.
[45:13] It's just, it's a great thing for public safety and
[45:21] you can buy it in dispatcher and you don't hear coming
[45:24] shut up, sorry.
[45:26] Is anyone having that?
[45:28] Any other questions on it?
[45:30] Basically, we'll bring in dispatches over
[45:32] in the past.
[45:33] The city will treat people to add to our staff and then we're going to take
[45:39] the work for baseball.
[45:40] Are there things to dispatch at your students?
[45:50] No, they're moving over here.
[45:53] Are there two dispatches?
[45:54] This is going to give you some time.
[45:57] They'll be coming up.
[45:58] They'll be coming up.
[45:59] Then that's all.
[46:02] Then we'll have to move out there.
[46:04] Then the whole thing will move out there.
[46:06] At least that.
[46:07] Yes.
[46:08] They've talked a long time ago when we saw a man, right now talking about
[46:15] new furniture, new radio equipment, totally decked out, we've talked about
[46:23] leaving a radio pump up here and for a backup center if we needed, but
[46:28] they'll have a branded facility with new equipment and really be able to provide better
[46:35] services for everybody.
[46:36] They're still sitting in the middle of the place and they'll just be working
[47:05] outside.
[47:06] We have several employees who've been with city for quite some time and they're
[47:10] bussing the retirement, they're about a bit and as far as the package, city has the
[47:15] best employee package to their new city employees and just work to a different one page.
[47:22] But this and they'll be right here that you've ran through just a couple of minutes.
[47:28] They'll create two new activities that they're funded by the Charity Un.
[47:34] So, that was really, that's for two people, that's really, three thousand.
[47:40] That was just to get you.
[47:45] Yeah.
[47:46] You know, in guys I would just have to say, this is something that, um,
[48:00] the chief and the sheriff absolutely need to be commended on for starting this for this is something
[48:07] that's been talked about for a long time.
[48:09] Prior to this, this overall agreement that we're talking about, the city has been dispatching
[48:15] for 23 organizations for years, without any compensation, really, and nothing significant.
[48:22] That's been the burden of the city, but what they're doing today and starting on this path is completely
[48:29] changing that culture in the group that they have.
[48:33] We've met now, I don't know, three or four times.
[48:36] The culture of that room is just phenomenal.
[48:39] We've got counties, tribes, city, other cities, municipalities, all involved in that group,
[48:47] which is involved, first responders, coming together and everybody is committed
[48:52] to creating this shared service environment, because they know we can do more of a blast
[48:57] of the whole resource.
[48:59] Stop everybody spending individually and trying to manage everything, every aspect of it on their own.
[49:05] And the collaboration in that room is phenomenal, the commitment that's coming out of that room is phenomenal.
[49:11] And I have no doubt.
[49:13] Yes.
[49:14] Absolutely.
[49:15] This is absolutely the first step.
[49:18] And I think everybody should know, this is really kind of a monumental moment.
[49:23] We have, I'll give examples of the benefit of this.
[49:25] And there's a house fire pitcher, an episode out there.
[49:29] We can't wait to not want such a work that's calling to church in town.
[49:33] Church is heading called Auto County.
[49:35] Auto Kansas, we know this by fire, so it's not my own.
[49:38] By the time I am on this batch out, there's 13 minutes of these people sitting and watching it have a burn.
[49:48] That's in turn.
[49:49] Where they could have called one call, we could have had this batch.
[49:53] Probably 10 minutes off that.
[49:56] We're not sure if we want to provide answers.
[49:59] We're all here.
[50:00] And one thing with this, I'm wondering, when you, next other day, I'll have it on the board of campus visitors.
[50:13] They'll agree.
[50:14] And then there's some logistics that I have to figure out.
[50:20] So you're looking to make it two weeks and I'll keep it two weeks.
[50:23] So what does that do with our employee count on the work?
[50:32] I mean, we are limit our cap.
[50:39] It's raising the cap.
[50:46] That's what we're going to work.
[50:47] But really, since the city's paying for work is really raise our cap.
[50:51] I mean, the county.
[50:52] They'll be sitting in police, so it will raise our overall count by two.
[51:00] So we have ready their cap to get in.
[51:02] Say that again.
[51:06] Do what?
[51:07] I don't think we're ready to say it.
[51:18] We didn't approve it.
[51:20] We talked about it.
[51:21] We talked about it.
[51:22] We never did do it.
[51:24] So I guess we didn't fair that out.
[51:27] We'll call it two weeks.
[51:28] Right?
[51:29] We overall budgeted cap by two positions.
[51:39] Which was guaranteed by the funding coming from Chris.
[51:43] It's just over all that.
[51:50] I don't think it's defined and it hasn't been stored.
[51:56] I think it's just an overall head count.
[51:58] Great, Jim.
[51:59] That means we're probably going to come back and do that cap again if we are.
[52:03] We're ultimately going to get in place.
[52:05] Right.
[52:06] We're going to be right now.
[52:08] We have a table of training.
[52:10] Once we get these two in training.
[52:12] So it'll be several months down the road before we add the other three.
[52:16] And work up those in the user's planning.
[52:19] So right now we do need.
[52:21] We will have to have to.
[52:23] I'll make the motion we approve.
[52:25] And increase the complete cap by two.
[52:29] Second.
[52:31] I'll work.
[52:35] All right.
[52:39] All right.
[52:41] Thank you.
[52:45] I don't think yes.
[52:46] 12.
[52:50] Mayor's nomination to the point Rich Slyllard to the mom of downtown
[52:53] Redevelopment Authority in DRA replacing Debbie East.
[52:56] Turnemooks by our eight twenty nine twenty four.
[52:59] Motion.
[53:01] Second.
[53:02] Hi.
[53:03] All right.
[53:06] 13.
[53:09] Another new business of any of those.
[53:11] Business of the busing of this agenda.
[53:17] 14.
[53:18] Staff reports.
[53:19] 15.
[53:26] Mayor and council community announcements.
[53:28] The weather's going to be great.
[53:39] And if you are a softball fan.
[53:41] Lift up behind the high school.
[53:43] Thursday at noon.
[53:45] Hopefully again Thursday at six.
[53:47] And probably afternoon at two.
[53:49] Those are the games.
[53:50] We stay on the winter side of the bracket.
[53:51] And that's to be optimistic.
[53:53] The girls have worked really really hard.
[53:56] They're they're coached up.
[53:57] They're ready.
[53:58] Um.
[54:00] There's a trip to state laying in the balance and we appreciate your sport. Those girls love a pack of cows and lots of noise
[54:11] Let's give it to
[54:26] 16 mayors or city managers
[54:29] You know the only thing that I had that I really wanted to mention night and unfortunately the sheriff left but was to really
[54:36] again
[54:37] Point out what Chief Anderson and Sheriff Dean not only beyond what they've been talking about with this this kind of one
[54:46] Center, but
[54:47] Collectively
[54:48] Watching that relationship between the sheriff's office and the city
[54:53] I can't tell you it is a goal tremendously just in the last number of months
[54:58] The collaboration between the two organizations working with the tribes
[55:02] We've had multiple
[55:04] Opportunities to be collaborating with tribes talking about across digitization and all the paperwork
[55:13] I'm going to use the documents that they've got to get pulled together that are not only protecting our officers
[55:20] All the officers that are out there servicing this community
[55:25] I just a lot goes to those guys in what how they set that to me
[55:30] And I think there are many many many more great things to come, but the collaboration has just been tremendous
[55:38] Unfortunately the sheriff left before I got to say those words, so please pass on to him to Chief
[55:44] It just means a lot in these are things that Chief had brought to me when I first came on and he said here's here's some things
[55:53] We've been working on for years and years and years and they have all seemed to be coming together
[55:59] And it's because everybody's pulling together and working together and that I mean tribes counties other cities
[56:06] We've just been really awesome
[56:10] Thank you in the sheriff for all you've done Chief also in
[56:14] Info and info
[56:16] Once again, don't you have a new position you might mention it's pretty impressive
[56:23] Awesome, that just says a lot about the caliber of individuals that she is and the leader that she is in this state
[56:42] So Val, thank you for all of your thank you for all of your
[56:46] I know how I'm going to step back for a minute because I forgot to say one of my
[56:58] Robby coach
[57:00] fire department, and graduated him on his 25 years with my
[57:04] fire department, so that's not him, that's cheap, but, but, but, but
[57:11] anyway, I sit and rob you our congratulations, that's, that's
[57:14] quite a feat, 25 years, so we appreciate you service.
[57:16] All right, 17, adjournment.