The Saline Regional Public Water Authority will consider several items on their January agenda, including a waterline, and service to Sardis & Tull. Read the full agenda below, and read the previous meeting’s minutes and/or watch the video.

The public is invited to the water meeting 5:00 p.m.Thursday, January 22nd at the City of Bryant Court Room; 210 SW 3rd Street.

AGENDA

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of Minutes of December 15, 2025, Regular Meeting

3. Financial Report

4. Election of Officers

5. Old Business

A. Update on Easement Acquisitions -Shawn Jackson

B. Update on Waterline Progress -Matt Dunn

6. New Business

A. RFQ for Municipal Advisor -Perry Young

B. Report on Email from Bob Hunt with ANRC Regarding Financing

C. Discussion on Conversation with WIFIA about Loan -Perry Young

D. Update on Sardis and Tull -Dickie Kentner

7. Public Comment

8. Announcement

A. Next Meeting Date: February 26, 2026

9. Adjourn

Minutes of previous meeting Dec 17, 2025

🎬🎥Watch the video of the meeting at this link, and the auto-generated transcription of the video is below:

0:17 – December 15th meeting. Bobby, if you would call a rod

0:23 – here. See, Mariah Winkl,

0:28 – Salem Water, D Kentner here, city of Haskell, Bobby Westbrook present. Uh,

0:34 – Southwest Water, Jason Temple. Sane County Water and Sewer, Jamie

0:40 – Reagan, he is absent. He will not be here tonight. City of Shannon Hills Mike Kent here east end water Tim here

0:50 – we have a quorum with seven present and one thank you

0:56 – at the same time otherwise if you don’t mind I have something to share on behalf of the city of Bryant

1:03 – please um over the past couple months my treat and the new public works director Ted

1:08 – Taylor and I have had many conversations um kind of result trajectory of Saline

1:14 – regional and my role in it. Um I’m going to read my request from December 1st to

1:20 – my retreat. Um for all of you just so that you guys know what’s going on. As you know, I genuinely valued the

1:26 – opportunity to represent Bryant on the Selen Regional Public Water Authority Board. The project is important to our

1:32 – region and I am proud of the work that has been accomplished so far. Over the past year, my responsibilities here at Bryant have grown both in scope and

1:38 – significance. And I am deeply committed to advancing our internal initiatives, supporting our departments and positioning the city to be strong,

1:45 – resilient, and forward thinking in its water and wastewater planning. Because of this, I believe that shifting the Saline

1:51 – Regional Public Water Authority board seat to someone whose primary focus can remain on regional representation would

1:56 – be the best decision for both the city of Bryant and for the authority. I respectfully request to be replaced as

2:02 – Bryant’s board member. This is not a request to step away from supporting the project. I am more than willing and

2:07 – fully committed to continuing to assist the mayor and the city behind the scenes in any capacity he feels helpful. My

2:13 – goal is to simply ensure that my professional role aligns with where I can have the greatest impact while still supporting you in the Saline regional

2:19 – project in a way that is sustainable. I deeply care about the success of Selen Regional, but my priority is to focus on

2:25 – growing within the city of Bryant and contributing to our internal progress. I believe this adjustment will allow me to

2:30 – do that effectively while still ensuring that the authority receives the guidance and support it needs from us. Um, as of

2:36 – this morning when we met with Mayor Treat, he officially accepted my request. So, starting January 1st of

2:44 – 2026, Mayor Treat will be the board representative for the city of Bryant.

2:50 – counselor. Can I refuse to accept that and keep him too? I wish I could, but

2:58 – article four of our our constitution says that the uh board of directors

3:03 – shall be quote designated by the constituent entities from time to time.

3:10 – I think you’re compelled to accept her resignation. Thank you.

3:16 – Thank you for your service. You don’t have to do it joyously. Uh I that’s where I’m at.

3:22 – Hey, he can still send her whenever he wants to. Yeah. And uh she could always be his proxy and

3:31 – I have confidence in him as well. Let me tell you what I told another

3:36 – gentleman sitting right behind him one time. We’re talking about Mary Tree filled in for back sometime and I told

3:43 – him I said if you would Mary he did a good job but actually he would be my third or fourth choice.

3:52 – Totally understand that you Marry leads the city in a very good

3:59 – manner. He will do the same on the regional board. He will do a good job representing the city. So I’ve enjoyed my time on the board. Look forward to

4:05 – seeing what the project is. It was is with a lot of regret as you know I will

4:12 – accept that but I don’t like it. Any more comments? I’d like to tell how much I appreciate you Mariah. Your your leadership and

4:19 – your get it done attitude has really helped us get down the road and we just want to say thank you so much.

4:24 – Appreciate it. Thank you. There’s no doubt whatsoever that she’s

4:30 – appreciated. She’s helped us all. Thank you. I don’t blame you. I don’t blame you at all. I think that’s good money.

4:36 – it and we’ll all benefit from it. I think so. Anything else?

4:44 – You can stay up here if you want to for the rest.

4:55 – Um, we use that date. Um,

5:00 – before we approve the minutes, I want to let everyone know we will have an executive session at the very end of

5:06 – this meeting after the public comment meeting. Um, we’re going to have a short

5:12 – one and we will leave here. Mariah, if you’ll show us how to get into that room

5:17 – right there where the BR board goes. We borrow that, sir. We’ll be in there just a little while. Everybody stay in there

5:22 – where it’s warm and we’ll we’ll retire in there and come right back. All right. Uh

5:29 – if if there’s no more comments or anything, I’ll entertain a motion to accept the minutes from the November 17

5:36 – meeting. So move.

5:41 – Second. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Thank you. Bobby, when you’re

5:49 – through writing, would you give us our financial? All right. Uh excuse me.

5:57 – uh checking account number two which is the first security main operating account. We have beginning balance uh of

6:04 – November the 1st 2025 of $111,1957.

6:11 – We had deposits a total of 139,67527.

6:17 – We had uh disbursements in the amount of $132,226.16

6:24 – leaving an ending balance of November the 30th of $118,468.68.

6:32 – Uh gateway CDs there’s no activity still

6:37 – the balance is $47,870.79.

6:42 – Checking account number three, which is easement acquisition account. We had a be beginning balance November the 1st of

6:50 – $21,87848. We had a total deposits of $47,976

7:01 – and and uh no disbursements leaves an ending balance of $69,855.15.

7:10 – Uh the money market account at First Service Bank. We had a beginning balance November the 1st of $194,393.79.

7:20 – We had 11,400.14 deposited leaves an ending balance of

7:28 – November the 30th of $25,793.93.

7:34 – And Rhonda, it’s your turn.

7:42 – How are you all doing? Uh, you brought your packet there. The

7:48 – uh the the only change and I was going to surprise Todd and let him know that I

7:53 – caught it and he already he he caught it for me, too. So,

7:59 – of course, that’s what I like about him. I love it. I love it having somebody double checking me at all times. Anyway,

8:05 – on the billing, uh we do only bill uh for the administrative services at the

8:10 – $400 a month, the $53. Uh the county does not like to reimburse that because

8:16 – that can be used for other things besides this project because it is for data. It is for internet connection. So,

8:22 – uh the actual amount that we will be billing uh for the operational piece is

8:28 – 143,4787. 67

8:34 – uh is at 400. It’s about $53 less than what I have sent you. And then right up

8:40 – above that, you’ll see a section for 18,1440. That is for easements that I am

8:46 – preparing to turn in. I will not turn that in, however, until after the first of the year because I think we’re

8:51 – working some others and it’s a smaller amount that we can float until I can do

8:57 – one larger. I like to do them in large bundles. I think it works better with the county to do that.

9:03 – Can I ask a question right here? And maybe Sean, do we need to change that account? More money? There’s a lot

9:09 – more coming down the pike. Yes. That is one of the things that I want us to discuss and ask.

9:15 – Sorry. Um, no sir. The um uh I think we have

9:20 – had some discussions in the easement committee that I was privileged to sit in on and uh had some talks and

9:27 – conversations. if we could do a loan from the meter fee account for $100,000.

9:35 – It would be a loan because I know we want that meter fee account to be for y’all when this opens to pay for things

9:40 – to get it up and going. strictly be a loan that will go into the easement account that would then give us uh you

9:48 – know if we keep the 120 that’s in there then 100,000 more that will be 220,000

9:53 – and will free up for some larger easement payments that we know are probably coming. It’ll make it a little

10:00 – less stressful on me worrying in the middle of the night if I’ve approved checks that Oh my gosh. Yeah. Um anyway,

10:08 – so but it wouldn’t be considered a loan from the meteor account and when the easements are done, we’ll just pay it

10:13 – back because we’ll get reimbursed for them. Um so that is a recommendation,

10:20 – I think. Is that correct, Sean? Okay, that is a recommendation that I would like for y’all to consider if you

10:26 – may. And I guess you will need to make a motion to adopt that.

10:31 – What’s the amount? 100,000. 100,000 additional from the meter

10:37 – account. We have what is it? 200. We have the money in the meter account.

10:42 – It’s not an issue at all. I attended that meeting as well. And it’s there is some benefit to having

10:49 – cash available. So you can complete this transaction. If you make these folks wait sometimes they can walk away. So it

10:58 – would be very useful. Yeah. Would you make that motion? Make that motion. Bobby, write it down. We’re

11:04 – going to that we allow Senator to make a loan from the meter

11:11 – fund to our ement account of $100,000. Second.

11:24 – Got that. Bobby, we make him write awfully. I’m not saying anything. Mhm.

11:30 – I’ve learned better.

11:38 – I’m waiting on him to quit. I know. And then you can call for the vote.

11:46 – All right. I have a motion and a second. Second by Mike. Right. Right.

11:57 – to loan from the meter account to the easement acquisition account of $100,000.

12:04 – Any more questions? All in favor say I. I oppose.

12:11 – Thank you. I agree. So you’ll see the rest of the documents in there. There is your ARPA funding

12:18 – total, the rolling balance. Uh we’re sitting at about 3.6 6 million right now

12:24 – on it. Uh that’s 200,000 less than last meeting, right?

12:29 – Yes, sir. It’s going down about 200,000 and it’ll go down even faster if we do

12:35 – some of these larger easements that we’re talking about doing. Um you can see your receivables. We are

12:42 – waiting on 188,000 from the county that should be coming in. I know one of them

12:49 – the easement amount of 47,000 has been cut and is in the mail. The other uh for

12:54 – the operating account she had some questions but the lady was out today so

12:59 – um I’m not exactly sure what those questions would be since it was pretty standard you know uh anyway

13:06 – so we’ll get those in. Um the question last month still has not been last month

13:14 – that we approved the 140 as of today has still has not been received. Okay.

13:21 – Still has not 47,000 of it should be coming. 140 y hopefully they’ll ask me about it

13:27 – tomorrow while I’m driving down the road so and I can find out what that is and if it’s just one small piece of it I’m

13:32 – going to say hold that piece and this the rest will figure it out. Um, I have a feeling it may be the John Penn

13:39 – excavating an older bill that we missed

13:44 – coming into the inbox uh that you sent me. I have a feeling it may be that that one is in question, but I’ll work with

13:51 – them on that. That’s on this processing. Oh, it is on this one, isn’t it? Yeah.

13:56 – Yeah. Josh. Mhm. I’m sorry. It is on this one. Yeah. So, I don’t really know. I I’ve just got

14:02 – to wait and see. You know, sorry. wish I had answers, but I’ve called them and and emailed them and asked them about it

14:09 – cuz I really wanted I know we’re early this month because we bumped everything up, but I was trying to get everybody

14:16 – paid and everything covered. Uh you asked the question last week or last

14:21 – month I think about how much have we paid on easements so far and I tried to go back and look because some were done

14:26 – before I you know really dug into it. Looks like about 670,000 so far. 70.

14:33 – Mhm. it’s been paid on easements so far. Uh now that does not include, you know, the

14:39 – land purchase that we made. Those aren’t easements. That’s actual land purchase. So, um anyway, uh I got the invoice that

14:49 – you’re looking at here that is set to be sent tomorrow. I’ve already got it scheduled on email to go to her so it

14:55 – will go out automatically because I am leaving out of town early tomorrow morning. Won’t be back till January 4th.

15:02 – So, um, but, uh, I have left Bobby the checkbooks if there’s anything that

15:08 – needs to be done. He has the easement checkbook. Uh, Bobby and Dicky are signers on everything. Anyway, they’ll

15:13 – just make copies for me if there’s anything that needs to be done. I have cut the checks for any bills that we had

15:19 – for this month and he is holding them until we see if we get um that

15:24 – reimbursement check from the county in. When he gets that in, then we can release those checks. So, um, that’s it.

15:32 – Since you brought it up, I was ask anyway, the Josh pen. Mhm. What What is that that popped up on your

15:40 – It was an old invoice that they had sent us that we were not aware of. And Josh

15:46 – asked, “Why has this not been paid?” We, my understanding, Bobby, Dicky, y’all

15:52 – are the ones that really We It went back to September. We found out today.

15:58 – Okay. And uh he’s bad about doing that. He don’t he’s not in any hurry, you

16:03 – know, when we pay. Let Let me tell you where. He sent the email to the old email address.

16:11 – We never got it. He didn’t send it to the one we had. Okay. So that and then they called and asked

16:18 – me where the check was at. Why hadn’t it been paid? So I sent a copy of it to Ron

16:23 – told her to go ahead and pay. Okay. Yeah. They sent it to us. It was for site work. It it was back when he was

16:29 – doing that site work to ask that. Yeah. I just was like

16:38 – the test to start. Remember we talked about them? Uh they had to do what was that group that they done with testing?

16:44 – It was basically it was support for the geotechnical crew. Geotech. Yeah. I got you.

16:50 – And and the um Well, that’s it. Yeah. I do remember down at the intake

16:56 – they had to do some work. Okay. There was a tree blew down in the middle

17:03 – of that and he did that paint on that. He was sitting there with a big machine. He took care of that.

17:08 – Okay. I just Thanks for asking. Yes. Yes.

17:14 – Appreciate it. Any other questions? I’m wide open. Y’all can ask questions or

17:19 – come to do something different. So anyway, I appreciate you all have a wonderful holiday and if you say

17:27 – prayers, say prayers that I don’t crazy with my grandkids.

17:35 – Yes, you you need them. I know. Be safe, lady.

17:42 – Any more question on financial? Not entertain a motion to accept.

17:48 – So move. Second. All in favor say I. I.

17:55 – Motion pass. Thank you very much. Now that’s you.

18:03 – We’re in old business and I’m going to jump ship on you a little bit here. And we’re going to move counselor. I want to

18:09 – move number six to number one so we can talk about Sardis and Tull And uh then

18:16 – they can leave. They get I know you have to leave early so I won’t miss you. Oh, that’s changed.

18:22 – Okay, that’s even better. We’ll go ahead and do six and one. Okay. All right. Um

18:29 – what we did, we’ve been working on this for several weeks. Some of us

18:34 – arrive raised a question in the last meeting was a great question about a lot

18:39 – of people are calling now talking and uh wanting in they’re serious about getting

18:46 – in this project and so Mariah said well we got to be sure we have enough water

18:52 – before we do that was a great statement so at that time we asked Sardis and Tull

19:00 – who have been with us the longest And so we’re we put them at the top of the list and u Perry drew up a we asked them to

19:09 – make a positive comment to us that they wanted in that the board could see that

19:14 – it was serious. So Perry drew up a uh little four page thing, three or four

19:20 – page thing. And I’m going to ask Roger if he will to go first. And I I’ve been

19:26 – talking to him every other day. I’d say with you, Jeff at least. And uh so we’re

19:33 – really behind and we want to make this happen if we can. Now, if you’ll get this thing out, y’all have a copy.

19:40 – Roger, you have a copy of your uh thing indicating that you’re pos you’re very

19:48 – sincere about wanting it. So, we prepared a letter based on your request.

19:54 – And after I prepared that letter, our board president signed it, I then received a document that

20:01 – outstanding. You got any questions for Mr. Junk? Yeah, I was just curious

20:08 – on the agreement in four different places in the agreement, it talked about

20:13 – the attached wholesale water supply agreement. It was not attached with this document.

20:21 – So, I haven’t haven’t seen what the agreement is going to say. I I know what

20:26 – it will probably say, but I don’t think any of these guys went through their approvals with their boards or

20:32 – commissions without being I

20:38 – I’ve been wrong before, but I believe it was sent when it was first sent out, and I don’t think I sent it directly to you.

20:43 – You got it. He didn’t. Somebody You didn’t? No, I didn’t. I’ll consider

20:50 – one agreement that everyone here signed. I’ll send it to you tomorrow. Okay.

20:58 – Well, I I couldn’t really do anything with it with this document that you guys

21:06 – have until I had that because it’s very I mean, nobody wants to sign anything

21:13 – that says you’re going to based on this, you’re going to have to sign the agreement with you without having the

21:19 – agreement first. Roger. What that was was the board basically wanted to commit

21:27 – We tried to roll that in one. Yeah. So, if you do, I’ll get it to you. But I

21:34 – thought going to go over that.

21:40 – We have we have time. You want to wait till we get contract and everything.

21:45 – So, we know him and to or you want to sign this saying they’re

21:51 – coming and then do the contract. I’m listening.

22:00 – No reason why we could go ahead and accept this letter that he I mean you know and that to me something that’s a

22:08 – letter of intent but we still and he can come back with the other letter I mean

22:14 – to me that kind of preserves his position that’s better than nothing better than nothing. Yeah, that be okay.

22:22 – Roger, y’all want my letter? Yes, please. Yeah. So, still need to execute this one.

22:30 – I would think so. What I would think? Yeah. No, no. Yeah. And reason I say, I

22:36 – can see Trey shaking his head. So, you want this contract coming to you

22:43 – tomorrow or whatever? Work on that? I wasn’t here last month, so I didn’t hear any of this. Our meeting is the

22:50 – third Monday, right? So that’s where I was supposed to be tonight, but I felt I needed to come

22:55 – here. So you need to be here. You’re right. Manager’s taking care of that meeting. So I just needed to know how to proceed

23:03 – because I don’t want to hold this thing up anymore. Why don’t you guys move forward? You’re not going to hold anything up.

23:09 – You’ll go ahead and do that commitment letter tonight. We’ll get the contract took care of all that by the next

23:15 – meeting. Would that be okay? our commitment there. What you’re working to that okay, Barry?

23:21 – Yeah. I mean, it just it and I’m hearing that you didn’t get the underlying

23:27 – contract the first time right now. Okay. Sorry. I’ I’ve asked for it

23:32 – several times. Maybe not directly to you, but uh it is basically something that says

23:40 – if you change A, B, and C, we will agree to the rest of it. promise will come in

23:45 – that precipitates engineering expense and recalculation of the overall

23:52 – project and that’s why I was that specific was so exactly 100% what you

23:58 – I’m sending you the bylaws I’m sending you agreement I’m sending you the option

24:03 – I like it all right you good Roger

24:09 – all right to um I know you can’t make quite the

24:15 – commitment or go as far along as they are. You’ve got some things you’ve got to work out, but would you be opposed to

24:21 – doing a commitment letter that to is interested and sincere about this

24:26 – project? Yeah, I can get one of those done. Okay. Take it back to the council listening.

24:32 – Can you come to the microphone? Yeah. I thought it was No, I saw that.

24:39 – Is that better? Was a nose situation? Sorry. My fault.

24:47 – I like you too much.

25:02 – Okay. Y’all have to go back to my council with all this. So, I’ve got this. I got it a couple of days ago

25:08 – emailed to me and I know they’re want going to want to see some kind of agreement also like Sardis is talking

25:14 – about, but I can get a commitment letter done and get it to you. Okay, Gary, can will that get him a

25:21 – contract copy too? If you’ll give me your email address, I’m so sorry.

25:26 – I’ll write it now for you. That’d be great. All right, sir. Mr. Warren is getting his right.

25:32 – Got a question now. Yeah. So, I don’t think I have any more questions. I’ve kind of looked at this

25:38 – and I’ll just take it back to my council cuz they hadn’t seen this to get to look at

25:44 – it yet and then we’ll but we’re very interested in Seline Regional Water. So,

25:50 – Yes, sir. and we’ll get the commitment letter and this there’ll be some questions coming about how much water probably

25:56 – you’re Yeah. because I’ve gotten I’ve gotten with Malvern and they haven’t still hadn’t got back with me yet on how much

26:04 – water I’ll have to take cuz I need to know that so I can get with Seline

26:09 – Regional to see, you know, how we’re going to balance out how much water we’re going to take from Malvern

26:15 – since Malvern has dropped us from retail water and we’re going to wholesale water and that’s effective

26:22 – November the 1st, 2026. Next one we’ll go to straight wholesale

26:27 – water with Malvin and then but I’ve called him twice and I

26:32 – think it’s Carl Wheatley still hadn’t got back with me on how much water I’m going to have to take from Melbourne.

26:39 – Okay, the least and the most back too, aren’t they? Yes.

26:44 – Yes, they are. CW CW’s got CW’s got per right now, but

26:50 – they’re Melbourne saying they’re going to take it over. Yep. They can’t afford not to be honest with

26:56 – you. They have to. They can’t. Okay. So, anybody have any questions for

27:01 – me? And I’ll get that commitment later for you. But all this looks fine to me. I don’t know a lot though, but it looks good.

27:08 – Yes. Yep. All right. Thank you. We’ll move on.

27:14 – Hey, question. What contract are you asking for, Roger?

27:20 – What contract are you asking for? the one that we have signed now or a new

27:25 – one? Well, we don’t have

27:30 – what I refer to as your update. Yeah. The update to the agreement we

27:36 – received back when it was $2.50 per meter and it and it was a volumetric

27:43 – water. That’s right. Okay. So, those things were going to be changed to the 25 cents per meter. You were

27:50 – talking about sending a contract like we signed, right? Think I sent actually

27:56 – it’s the contract that’s referred to in Perry’s letter. That’s what he’s wanting. He says he did not get that.

28:03 – Sir, you got the contract that everyone here has signed with a three-page agreement that says if you’ll change

28:10 – this and remove that, we will join. Nobody here at yell at him.

28:16 – That’s what I had said. We have discussions need to come to the microphone. Yeah,

28:23 – I do. Yeah, you have one on the table, but we can’t.

28:29 – Okay, Roger. Well, I guess I’m what I’m referring to is this four-page

28:38 – agreement. It says agreement to enter wholesale water sale and purchase agreement. Okay. So, we did receive a

28:46 – wholesale water sale and purchase agreement back. Okay.

28:52 – When I don’t know, it’s been a few months ago. Mhm. And we said that we we did not know we

28:58 – were going to have to pay the $2.50 per meter for our entire system. I

29:03 – and y’all agreed to change to some volutric numbers measures

29:09 – and and also the 25 cents per meter would be acceptable. Yep.

29:14 – Um and we got to go back and pay what we already owe from from back. But

29:21 – I guess I’m referring to a revised wholesale water sale and purchase

29:28 – agreement. a revised one that that shows these numbers that have been changed.

29:34 – Would that have to be revised for everybody? Then wouldn’t we have to get new ones? Squaring the circle that you just had

29:41 – described, what I did was send him our existing contract with what we termed an

29:47 – option that said, “Nobody here has had this ratified by their respective board

29:53 – yet. The only contract I could send him was the one in existence, not a hypothetical one. However, his offer or

30:02 – option, if you will, says as a condition that we will uh revise article 3.02 and

30:10 – exhibit 2 to the attached contract to read 25 cents per meter per month, add

30:16 – infant item. And that in turn would require us to go

30:24 – back to our respective boards, city councils,

30:30 – and get approval for the modification of the contract that kicks into here action

30:36 – on behalf of seven eight different constituents. But I have not as yet, Mr. warrant

30:43 – generated the new and improved contract, if you will. It put as a condition of

30:48 – your acceptance our going ahead and making those revisions to suit you

30:54 – because we haven’t done that yet or they have not done that. What if we can’t get it passed? What if we can’t get it passed?

31:01 – Then he has the option to back up. Okay. Okay. And that’s why we wanted the letter.

31:09 – We didn’t want to have to go to all of our boards for something that might not even take place. Y’all, if y’all backed

31:15 – out, I mean, why why are we have all these entities doing this if we don’t even have something solid from y’all

31:23 – that you’re definitely going to come if you get these things? Does that make sense? Mhm.

31:30 – Yeah, I understand. And Mr. Mayor, that’s why I did what I did. You did good. Thank you, sir.

31:35 – Well, I apologize. cuz I was under the understanding y’all just needed a letter from us. I Yeah, that’s what I

31:41 – basically think that that is that commitment letter and I didn’t receive this until

31:47 – Yeah. Yes. Wednesday last week. Uh Perry, when will you have drafted

31:54 – contracts for us to take back to our board and/or Sardis say that they will

32:00 – join us if we make those changes. Okay. Okay. Is that accomplished by a rational

32:06 – flow of decision making? Y makes sense. I think it’s by you signing that

32:12 – you’re saying you will accept those conditions. Am I correct? As revised.

32:17 – As revised. Okay. Not not the 250, but but the the new 25

32:23 – per meter and then the $5.40 volumetric per 1,000 I think is what we’re

32:30 – in the contract that Perry’s going to send over. Yes. And then if we can’t get it passed by our boards, then you guys have the

32:36 – decision to back out of the one that you signed. It’s contingent on us getting it passed

32:42 – for 0.5 cents at 540. Clear. But but if you sign Well, I understand it, Roger. If you signed that slip that

32:49 – Perry sent you, that would give him authority to write up new contracts to

32:54 – send out to everybody. Yep. Correct. Yep. and and then the the the

33:00 – expenditure of time and capital to vote on a new and improved contract with

33:05 – those revisions in it. Yeah. Cuz it’s going to cost us money.

33:10 – We have to pay it. Well, I even just for y’all to think about it.

33:16 – It cost us money. I the reason that I I wanted to bring this up tonight is

33:22 – because where it said in here four times that see the attached was not there.

33:28 – Yep. So you got to act on something you didn’t have either. So agree.

33:34 – Yeah. Definitely. No you you’ve had it. You’ve had it. It’s just that you have to read the

33:40 – underlying agreement in light of the option that you have contingent on those changes being made. Mhm.

33:48 – Thank you, Roger. Did he we help you any? Roger. Uh

33:57 – I guess I’ll take the agreement he’s referring to and show it to my board

34:02 – along with this and they’re going to sign it. And I’ve been telling you all

34:07 – that, but I know you want something in writing. So, we will get it. We’ll call special meeting to make it happen.

34:14 – Thank you. Thank you. No, thank you. Thank you. Not I don’t think you have to have a special meeting

34:20 – because you can do it at your January meeting. I didn’t know what kind of rush.

34:26 – No, you can do it at the January the the January meeting. We went back to we’ll go to our fourth

34:35 – day and move forward from there. Back to fourth Thursday in January. Right. Yeah, that’s my understanding.

34:42 – Yeah, please. I need you. And and on the 25 cents back to 2018,

34:51 – that would be due when you signed the new contract

34:56 – and not until then. And also, you remember you just you go back and look at each year. What you are

35:03 – today don’t mean that’s what it was in 2018. We got you did you gave us one. I went over

35:10 – that with T. Do each year save you some money.

35:17 – Any questions, Jeff? I got one. I got one. Come on.

35:23 – Cuz I’m confused now. So I know that’s right. This this contract here is good though. Right.

35:29 – This agreement. Is it four pages or 11? It’s four. Okay.

35:37 – that basically is like an offer that says I’ll agree to this attached

35:42 – contract which is 11 pages if you make these changes and one of those changes include reducing the per month meter

35:50 – fee. So like Mr. Mo you don’t have the attached underlying blank plain vanilla

35:57 – template to attach it to but I just sent it to your email this month. Okay. Okay. and and so y’all so I can

36:05 – wait and do my January meeting and not call a special meeting. Don’t call don’t call special meeting. We don’t like them either. So we

36:11 – understand. Okay. So I’ll do it. I think ours will be on the 5th or something. It’s the first Monday.

36:17 – I’ll probably be there next month. Yeah. You need to come. There’s a place for you to fill in your minimum that you’re going to want.

36:23 – Yeah. Well, I’ve got to figure that out with my I got to figure that out with my engineer, which is Carl Hansen,

36:29 – and he’s got that. So, first we got to figure out how much u how much m how

36:35 – much we’re going to get from Malvin. Yes, sir. And they’re difficult to deal with. So, and Perry, for the contracts, when you

36:42 – send them to us contingent on both of them signing, will you include on the back page the capacity with them added

36:48 – with the minimum and maximum so we could see what we’re at? It’s right there for them to fill in. But, yes. Yeah. I mean once they fill it in and

36:54 – you give it to us to get signed so that our city council can see how many MGD were accounted for out of the 15 MGD

37:00 – plan. Yes ma’am. Thank you. Thank you all.

37:06 – No, thank you. I think y’all are wise for getting in now.

37:11 – Yes, because there are going to be folks down the road that are going to say I wish I had.

37:20 – While we’re on this subject is um what is the name of that water association

37:25 – supposed to be here to Little Creek? Little Creek. Little Creek Water Association from Sheridan. They were supposed to be here

37:32 – last month and told us at the toll meeting they were coming tonight. I don’t see them. So, we’ll move on.

37:40 – Um anyway, hold on one second here.

37:47 – Hey, just a quick question. Go go go Matt. Uh on the the initial phase of the water treatment plant, what’s the size

37:54 – going to be? Is it 15 MGD? Mhm. Okay.

37:59 – So the initial plant’s going to have 15 MGD and according to our our exhibit 2 of our contract right now, we are

38:06 – allocating up to 11.275 MGD. So there is some available capacity to

38:14 – de delegate out to ourselves or to anybody else that might join. Right. Am I incorrect in saying that the 10

38:20 – state standards does say that at 80% capacity of a treatment plant, you need to start cap uh major capital

38:26 – improvement upgrades? It’s not 10 states, but it’s it’s a health department policy. Yeah.

38:32 – So again, but you’re not required to do it. It’s a health department policy

38:38 – again. Yeah. Hypothetically, would the health department approve plans for a plant

38:43 – when you’re already at 80% capacity? I don’t know. Okay.

38:49 – Oh, the to get back to the point that Mariah is making that’s a good point is just how much of the you know the 11.275

38:58 – I didn’t calculate what percentage of 15 is that?

39:03 – 12% would be 12, right? Yeah. Yes. But um so

39:10 – technically we can max out the plant, but eventually we would need to expand

39:15 – it if we’re going to take on more customers or if we want more capacity ourselves. I don’t know if we can say that because

39:21 – my question was would health department approve plans if you put them in front of them for a 12 MGD allocation and saying our

39:27 – plan’s only going to do 15. So that’s already 80%. Yeah, if I was the health, you know, I’ just

39:33 – asking and no one has asked the health department that you do max using the max day calculation by doing that.

39:39 – Yeah. Okay. That’s the max calculation. Yeah. Which is one and a half times the

39:45 – and they require that of us to use for our booster pump station. Anything that we do treatment wise is required to use.

39:52 – That was our only water supply. That that is very limiting. But we have

39:57 – multiple a lot of some of us have multiple water supplies. So it would be less of a criteria for us like South,

40:05 – you know, we got Ben and other. Yeah. I’m not sure how Bryant would react to that because we’re going to

40:11 – obviously renegotiate our contract with CIW on the terms of what we can get from Selen Regional. So it’s not really in

40:17 – our best interest to be paying for 2 MGD if we only need to take 0.25.

40:23 – I get you. So, I mean, we already we have we’re trying to go to Saline Regional as the sole source of water.

40:29 – So, we’re not going to keep a backup with CAW on the exact same payment agreements that we have already. So,

40:35 – that would be tough to swallow. I get you. In that scenario, you’re going to be very dependent on that and

40:41 – don’t need that to be jeopardized at all. Yeah, we could probably take the water from CW, but it would be at a much

40:46 – different rate um than we’re getting right now, and that would not be very desirable to have to pull from them.

40:52 – It’s a good point. I I just kind of want to get my head wrapped around it. Yeah, we need to start now.

40:58 – Anything else? If not, Sean, would you be about ready

41:03 – for uh start our easement committee report? And could you go right into that cru property on Salem Road, please?

41:11 – Since Ronda stole my fun on the for 100,000.

41:17 – It’s all good. Um All right. So Matt’s going to pull up the the crook property as well. Um

41:26 – y’all know that’s out on Congo Road. It’s the 2 acres that sold recently.

41:32 – Um been talking to the owners. Um at first we wanted 100 ft off that

41:39 – southside. They didn’t really they didn’t like that at all. Um, so talked to Matt and then we backed it off to a

41:47 – 70 ft um, purchase along the south side. Um,

41:53 – Matt’s got a little bit different drawing there than what I have for y’all because I wanted y’all to be able to see

41:58 – where their building site was going to be. Um, what Matt has drawn in there is he’s showing two 36-in pipes and a 12-in

42:10 – finished water mane coming out of the U treatment plant, which would be for

42:17 – Selen Regional customers, but it shows the two 36-in pipes going in, uh,

42:22 – driveway going in. um which is I think we’ve got it worked out to where it’s

42:28 – going to be enough room. Uh they’ve kind of tweaked the driveway a little bit and did all that stuff. But um if we do a

42:37 – sole purchase of that property, it’ll allow us to have the driveway for access

42:44 – and it gives us our easement all in one fell swoop. Um, good.

42:49 – The problem is is it’s going to be it’s going to be a little bit pricey. I say

42:55 – it’s a problem. It’s going to be a lot cheaper than what we looked at buying the whole per sale property. Um,

43:03 – let me let me give y’all some selling points on purchasing the 70 ft. Um, if

43:09 – you can see there on the west side of Congo Road, that’s where the 36 in raw

43:17 – water lines are coming from. If we can get that straight shot

43:23 – straight in to our 40 acres, we don’t have to do any bins or anything there,

43:28 – it’s going to save us a lot of money. Um because right there you would have to do

43:37 – at least 90 degree bins if not some different types of bins. So there may be

43:42 – two to three bins there to be able to get it to go up Congo Road and then back into our property.

43:49 – And what are we 20 20 $25,000 per bend?

43:56 – Um so what he said one time. Yeah, I would say at least 20 on those bins. Um,

44:04 – so there’s going to be some cost savings just in actual material for the for the

44:09 – pipeline. Um, so if we add that into to what we’re going to purchase this property for, I

44:15 – think we’re going to see that it’s going to help us a lot. Plus, we get the driveway out of the deal. Um, so the

44:22 – deal is the the guys are wanting $60,000 for the for the property, which

44:30 – is a half an acre. And then they’re wanting us to take care of their building

44:36 – pad and all of that on the other side of the property because they were wanting to build their building on that south side

44:43 – of the property, which is another they’re wanting $50,000 for that

44:48 – over. So, so $110,000 for us to be able to get that 70 foot

44:55 – swath through there. Let me ask you this. How big is that pad? You told me. I forgot. Um 80.

45:00 – They’re showing an 80 by 120. 80 by 120. I’ll get a quote on that.

45:05 – Yeah. So, what I’m what I’m dealing with with them is they’ve got their mind set

45:12 – on a fixed number. And that fixed number total is $110,000. I mean, that’s just how

45:20 – they’re and that’s what we’ve come up with is, you know, you’re going to look at earthwork on, you know, on their

45:27 – building pad cuz it does fall off. Um, and then $60,000 for the actual purchase

45:35 – of that piece of property. Um, whenever we get over to the east side of

45:41 – that property where the yellow line is drawn, it’s about right in there. I’m trying to

45:47 – look on. Yeah, about where the yellow line’s drawn. That’s where the PCEL property picks up. So, we’ll have to

45:53 – carry that 70 ft all the way over to our property, which is on the east side

45:58 – there. Um, so I don’t know. I know Randy stepped out, but I don’t know where Ry’s

46:04 – at with talking to the purses. Um he has he’s he’s been on hold on hold on that. Okay. Um

46:13 – I think it’s I think it’s a a doable deal either way. Um if we can get the if

46:19 – we can get to right if we can get the the half acre there the 70T coming in once we go

46:26 – towards our property we can either do it by easement or we can do it by purchase.

46:32 – Back in I see you. Um, but anyway, that’s where I’m at with the crooks is, okay, I mean, it’s pretty

46:39 – much a fixed price of they’re want $110,000. Um, and that’s what when we looked at

46:45 – it, it came up to 6050. 110 is for the property plus the

46:52 – No, 110 is the total. So, 60,000 for the property, 50,000 for their dirt work,

46:58 – prepping of their of their property. But if you do the if you do the cost

47:06 – savings on us not having to go a different route, put fittings in and do we’re a straight

47:12 – shot in I mean so much better. That’s my opinion. I think it’s a really

47:17 – good deal. Uh we’ll still have to talk to the PCEL about the spot in between the two. Um

47:23 – yeah, but I think that’s a good option for them. The only the only other thing

47:28 – that’s um I know that we talked about this being a private road coming into

47:34 – our facility. Um I’m going to step over to this one here.

47:40 – Um I understand the whole private road thing. And so that would be a private drive all the way down to here. Okay.

47:48 – But one of the selling features for these guys here is allowing a driveway

47:53 – access. And I really think it’s going to be a selling feature for the Purscels as well, just due to how you can see this

48:01 – is kind of a pipe stem coming in here and it’s cut off completely here. So they have no access to this back

48:07 – piece of property. These guys are kind of handstrung a little bit because they

48:13 – only have one drive entrance that they might get in here. But if we allow another drive entrance, then

48:19 – you’re talking about that opening up for for sales to sell that to somebody that already has access,

48:24 – right? And so if we do that, then we put our gate back here, you know, to where it’s our 40 acres.

48:32 – So that was kind of the some of the selling features on trying to get them to

48:37 – I like to bite off on that. It’ll be a little bit cheaper, I think, than

48:43 – what we were going to look at paying for the for sale property. Um, yep.

48:49 – And it’ll just be what we need, you know. So, anyway, but I do need to I do need

48:56 – to know if y’all are okay with with that purchase price of that halfacre piece of

49:02 – property. discussion, questions,

49:10 – I was at the meeting and and I pretty much asked every question I could think of and I’m convinced that this is the

49:17 – best option at the best price for for a piece of property that we

49:24 – really do need. Way cheaper than 750,000. It is what it is.

49:29 – No question. So I I would recommend we move forward with that.

49:36 – Anybody else? Are you going to move forward with that

49:43 – without knowing if the pursel property is So that was a Didn’t you talk about it having contingency

49:49 – at the purchase of this contingent upon the pursel property? That was a good point and I I do recall you guys talking

49:56 – about that cuz it would make no sense buying this piece of property and we get can’t get to the property yet.

50:01 – Randy needs a direction too. So yeah, I would say that we approve

50:09 – Sean to make an offer, but they need to understand that if

50:14 – that is just the first step. We now got to negotiate with the property owners behind them. And if it does not occur,

50:20 – then Yep. We’re out. We’re out. Yeah.

50:28 – Mhm. Mhm. Randy, do you have any questions on this

50:34 – thing? Well, well, we’re going to talk about both of them at the same time, but both. So, I

50:40 – mean, number one, y’all got the power of imminent domain,

50:46 – and Curtis Ho, who is in charge of the pursel property, is well aware of that

50:51 – and has mentioned it to me. Yes, sir. If you get the front tract,

51:01 – yeah, it’s a deal. It’s just a question of how much. That’s that’s all there is. That’s right.

51:06 – Mhm. I mean, and you don’t have to wait on them to say yes with imminent domain.

51:13 – Yeah. You go to the court, you file it, you put the money up with the court, you

51:19 – can put your bulldozer on it the next day. That’s all there is to it. I’ve had it happen to me. I know that wants to do

51:27 – that. We work very hard. That’s that’s the power of imminent domain.

51:33 – Earnest know a little more money. Stay away from that. Well, yeah. I get it. But you’re right.

51:38 – It’s very simple. I’m with you. And he understands it. And right now,

51:43 – Miss Helen is willing to go along with it. And the sooner you make them an

51:49 – offer, the better it’s going to be because as soon as Miss Helen goes up

51:55 – above Mhm. It may or may not be more difficult

52:02 – because now there’s two couples as trustees or owners of that estate

52:10 – and and they’ve already got they’re already on the page. Yes. Okay. They’re already on the page.

52:16 – It’s just the quicker you make it happen, the sooner you going to have a deal.

52:21 – That That’s what All right. We need to put words in his mouth to tell them that’s what we’re

52:27 – looking for. So the offer, we already have an

52:32 – appraisal type thing on the acreage over there. Right. Right. So we need to know how much this is

52:38 – going to be. What’s the acreage? 1.24 1.24

52:44 – 1.24. And what are you offering the H people with road frontage?

52:50 – Well, that 50. Yeah. 50 60

52:58 – for sale is 60. $140 an acre. You’re talking about 1.24.

53:04 – That’s what they $80,000. 85. Take it and walk away.

53:11 – Yeah. That’s the cheapest thing we run into, I believe. I have a question about the road.

53:18 – If we were to should he tell them that there’s going to be a public road

53:24 – and would we have to build that road? If if we did do that, would we have to build the road to the city of Venton

53:30 – standards? It’s not if if the county accepts it, they will have to meet their standard

53:37 – 60 foot wide right away with certain amount of SB2 and everything else.

53:43 – It needs to be private road to keep it at 30 foot. I’m concerned about building that to cuz

53:48 – we have to build it to a new standard. It wouldn’t be a driveway be a road. Yeah, it could still be our private drive and

53:54 – just allow them access. We don’t have to build it to county standards. I mean I would make it naming

54:00 – it making it a road. I would say keep it private road with

54:07 – their extra have to build it to county standards. You can build it 30 foot wide give you

54:12 – two 15t driving lanes or you have to make it private room to do that. We don’t have room that’s not

54:18 – oh we don’t have room to do that. We have a we have a 20ft driveway is all we

54:24 – have. It’s only 70 ft wide. Okay. We have a 20ft driveway shown in this.

54:30 – You have hang on. You got 70 foot of space. Are you saying you don’t want to

54:35 – put asphalt over the water lines or Well, wait. If we ask you, that’s what you come down to.

54:43 – I’m I’m only interested in it being a private drive and you let the property

54:49 – ownership for a subdivision development, not for

54:55 – anything more than just a driveway. I just trying to clarify, but if we keep it in that in that

55:01 – perspective, we’re fine. We don’t we don’t make any more agreements beyond that.

55:07 – Yeah. But still, don’t bring it up to the perspective. Yeah. He’s doing a good job of dissuading them from making a

55:12 – contingency that we get the next door property. I think that would be Sean. What was the appraised value of

55:18 – the per sale taking

55:24 – 40 48 44 or something? That’s what I was 44 44 48.

55:30 – That was without road frontage, wasn’t it? No, that included included

55:36 – 45,000 an acre. Yeah. Yeah. Same we paid him in the back, right?

55:42 – Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. That that matches what we bought the the water pan site for sure and

55:49 – stuff. So, we’re we’re more than good to to make an offer plus the, you know,

55:54 – plus or minus what our easement committee has agreed to do for for the appraised value. To go beyond that, we

56:01 – need a board decision on the on the William and Scotty the Crook property.

56:08 – That’s a that’s not just straightforward. We’re doing an improvement and buying easement or

56:14 – property at the same time. So, it’s a it’s a special condition. It is that the board’s going

56:20 – I don’t think the easement committee has the right to unilaterally go out there and buy that piece of property. No, they

56:27 – have they have with they can get an easement, but they can’t buy the property. So, that would have to be You’re right.

56:33 – But the purpose is to buy that per sale property. So, that needs to come through in action through the board.

56:38 – You’re right. That’s not this easement. You don’t have that. You offer them the

56:44 – same per acre money. Yeah. Is what you offer the

56:50 – house or craft or what whatever. effectively that’s $220,000 for for per

56:56 – acre is what the effective price doing. Oh, I thought somebody said Yeah, I know. I said 60. That’s what

57:02 – we’re offering, but it’s a half acre. So, you’re only offering to buy the half

57:08 – acre. That’s correct. But the for sale property needs to be offered the same per acre price in order

57:15 – to get a quick yes. That’s in my is nowhere near the value.

57:21 – Yeah, it’s it’s not no road at all. What we’re talking about now. Yeah, it’s no road.

57:26 – We’re paying for the road. That’s why we’re paying that much. Okay. I mean, that makes no sense to me to

57:33 – give them the same thing unless they’re going to build us an overpass to their land back there or something. I mean,

57:40 – we’re having to build the overpass, too. Okay. Right.

57:45 – So, it’s I I do not agree with you, sir. Okay. So, you think that that land back

57:50 – there of theirs is just as valuable as this up here on the road? Yes, sir. I do.

57:58 – Well, that’s a good point. But hey, back to it’s is it 1.24 acres? 1.24 * 45,000.

58:05 – That’s 55 55,800 bucks. That’s a pretty nice offer.

58:11 – So, we offer the appraised value of 45,000 an acre for 1.24 acres. That’s

58:16 – 55,800. That’s a reasonable offer. It matches what the value of the of the land

58:22 – adjacent to it. And we offer uh crook the 60,000 for that land and 50,000 for

58:31 – the improvements. I’m good. I I can go with that right now. If y’all want to if y’all want to

58:36 – do that, Mariah, sir, comment. I like that. Yeah. I mean, I think that

58:42 – would make the most sense. Yeah. I definitely don’t want to pay them the same the PCEL off or off or the

58:48 – Purcell the same without that roof. I don’t want unusual precances. Yeah. No, I don’t think it’s worth the

58:54 – same, but I I like your evaluation of going with the appraisal, Mike. I’m not going to stand in the way

59:00 – of it, but I think that it flies in the face of all real estate logic.

59:05 – Mhm. No. Yeah. Not what not not what Jason just said, though. What Jason said is that the you’d offer the pursel exact

59:13 – for that 1.24 acres it what it appraised at and then you offer the other people

59:19 – for that half acre you’d offer them what was it 60,000 for a half acre because of the road

59:25 – frontage. So it is it’s a different price than we’ be getting 1.24 for what like 48,000

59:31 – and then the half an acre for 60,000 cuz it’s road frontage. So you would be paying a difference for the road

59:36 – frontage. You’re actually paying $110,000 for the 60 acres

59:42 – for the I mean for the half acre up front. Yeah. Right. Well, we’re pack is broken into two

59:50 – different things with a special and one of them is a special condition. Right. Just like saying

59:58 – is that what you’re thinking here too? You’re excluding that then? No, I’m saying you’re offering the

1:00:05 – people up front $110,000 to take a 75 70 ft rideway across need

1:00:13 – to offer theelves the same amount of money per acre. Everybody in this world

1:00:21 – thinks dollars per acre. Okay, that’s what I’m saying.

1:00:27 – Dollars per acre. But you’re saying that the highway furnish doesn’t mean anything.

1:00:33 – Well, Purscell’s already have highway frontage. Yeah. And we’re not taking it. I understand.

1:00:38 – We’re taking the stuff in behind. We’re leaving them the highway frontage.

1:00:44 – I understand. Council, I’m giving you my opinion. That’s all.

1:00:50 – I’m just giving you mine. You’ll be taking this to court if we have to. So, opinion. You’re better off getting an appraiser

1:00:56 – then. But the fact that you have eminent domain is the last step is the last

1:01:02 – domino to fall. Uh you better be pretty close when it comes to valuation. I can I can see

1:01:10 – take I don’t know how much it was appraised for per acre 45. Did I hear? Yes. Mhm.

1:01:16 – 1.25 times that to 1.25 times the 60 we’re paying on the front. But uh

1:01:27 – $250,000 for a 70ft strip that has no direct road back. So she better have an appraisal to

1:01:34 – justify spending that kind of money. All right. Yeah. Fair enough.

1:01:40 – We got Sean. Okay.

1:01:48 – There’s no reason to get the appraiser back out there. We’ve already got appraisal done.

1:01:53 – It shouldn’t have changed. It’s not going to change. No, appraisal. You did it this year.

1:01:59 – You’ve already done that on a on a

1:02:04 – Oh, no. We didn’t do theirs, but they paid 70 an acre. Oh, we didn’t do an appraisal

1:02:10 – just based on what they paid for. Paid 70 an acre. The crooks paid 70 an acre. Yeah. And we were going to offer 60 an

1:02:17 – acre plus the 50 or plus improvement 60 for half. Oh, so we’re offering Yeah, we’re

1:02:23 – offering them 120 an acre. Yeah. Okay. They had a bigger number. Remember back

1:02:30 – to 120,000 300 for that two. They wanted 220 when I first asking

1:02:37 – for the cutting back down to this. I mean that essentially is still 220 an acre. Yeah,

1:02:44 – they haven’t budged. Nope, they haven’t. They say

1:02:49 – Yeah, they got creative. I agree.

1:02:56 – I’m going to try to do pay it for less than 50,000. Well, here’s the deal.

1:03:01 – They want the money. Yeah, you willing to pay it for less than 50.

1:03:06 – They want 110. The question is, are we willing to pay 110? It’s a yes or no question. It’s real simple.

1:03:13 – Yeah. It’s it’s it’s 60 for the lamb, 50 for the

1:03:20 – pad. Work. It’s a that’s a yes or no question, not us trying to figure out

1:03:26 – and we need to figure out if it’s a no, then we got to reroute it up and figure

1:03:31 – another way in. Yeah. And then it might be buying $750,000

1:03:38 – of per sale or it’s spending how much money going down to sell and berry berry

1:03:43 – barn. It’s a question. And we’ll put that much money in that road getting that thing ready. It’ll be

1:03:49 – I moving the utilities that are in the way. Yeah. Just moving them.

1:03:55 – Yeah. Astronomical going down. Yeah. You’ll you’ll spend

1:04:01 – you’ll spend 2002 $200 a foot to build a road.

1:04:10 – All right. With cur I thought Jason made a Let’s go back to Jason’s

1:04:18 – motion was I second. So I hear him right.

1:04:24 – My motion is that we on the crook property. Sorry if I’m not saying that

1:04:30 – right, but um we make an offer of the 60,000 for the 70oot easement and 50,000

1:04:37 – for the improvements 50,000 60,000 60,000 purchase purchase for the

1:04:44 – for the purchase of the yeah 70 foot wide purchase of land.

1:04:51 – Sorry. And then 50,000 for the improvements

1:04:57 – as a special feature. And do you want to make you want two

1:05:03 – separate per property? That’s Yeah. Go ahead. And then and then contingent also with the the

1:05:11 – offer to the for sale property of 45,000 per acre for the purchase of that 70ft strip.

1:05:20 – It’s got to be better. Did you say 46,000? No. Say how much again for the for sale

1:05:26 – the the appraised value which is 45,000. Yeah, it was 45 an acre, right?

1:05:33 – That makes sense. And that would be 1 say acre and a

1:05:39 – quarter. Let’s let’s if if u let’s see if we can’t make that happen. If it doesn’t happen, then we fall back on our powers

1:05:47 – to make it happen. I like having it contingent upon but at least it gives you the power to

1:05:53 – negotiate. I think that’s fair. That’s very fair.

1:05:59 – Well, not super.

1:06:18 – All right. I have a motion and a second to offer Crook $50,000 for the purchase

1:06:23 – of a 70 foot wide strip of land and 50,000 for 50,000 for a pad.

1:06:29 – 60 no 60 and 50. Yes. Okay. 60

1:06:34 – 60 for the purchase of land. Pad and 50 for the pad, right? and a $45,000 per acre for the

1:06:40 – for sale property contingent upon uh closing a deal with uh

1:06:46 – well both of them agreeing to the deal. Okay.

1:06:52 – Then we close on it. Yeah.

1:07:08 – All right. And I put that that I said on both properties agreeing to purchase of

1:07:14 – the purchase. Mhm. I think Mariah wants you to read that again. All right.

1:07:20 – I have a motion and second to offer Crook. Yeah. Thanks, Danny.

1:07:26 – $60,000 for the purchase of a 70 foot wide strip of land and $50,000 for a pad

1:07:36 – and to offer per sales $45,000 per acre for their property

1:07:43 – uh upon both parties agreeing to sale. Yeah, you got it.

1:07:49 – We’ll come back and talk about it. Mhm. Motion and second. Second by you. Yep. All in favor say I. I. Opposed.

1:07:58 – Thank you. I agree. Let’s move on.

1:08:03 – Just to be clear though, that doesn’t have the 5% negotiation. It comes back here.

1:08:09 – Yes. Leverage in there like the Yeah. Write that down.

1:08:14 – We came We came after the way over the Yeah. Or come back to the board.

1:08:20 – That’s it. And I have no problem with doing

1:08:25 – condemnation if we have to. Oh, I have no problem with doing condemnation. We have to back in

1:08:32 – especially. Yes, sir.

1:08:38 – All right. Discussing inclusion of an additional rate you throw. Is that all of you had?

1:08:43 – Yes. I just I gave you No, I’m sorry. No, you’re good. I gave you your normal handout that you sir.

1:08:49 – Yeah, you can read. So, um the only thing one thing I was going to talk to you about with the the extra

1:08:57 – $100,000 um coming into Saline County, we’re going to have some some

1:09:04 – bigger sums on the easement for for money. Y um so I need to get vulker more

1:09:12 – easements. Okay. But I’ve got to be very delicate with that because when we give

1:09:18 – them easements, we give them checks and so that that locks in our our amount.

1:09:23 – Um, so I was talking to Perry about it a little bit. It’s kind of our kind of hamstring on some of that. Um,

1:09:32 – because it doesn’t give us very much room to go out and and try to get easements. So, if I give them 10, I may

1:09:40 – get them to work on their first five that they think they can get right out of the gate, request those five checks

1:09:46 – and then as they’re working in the background on the others and they’re not just sitting on some of those checks,

1:09:52 – if that makes sense. Maybe we can get some cash flow coming. So, just let know I may try to

1:09:57 – That’s good to filter that a little bit. Yeah. But that’s it. So, all right. Thank you, Sean.

1:10:05 – discussing the inclusion of additional rate that is solely volutric and would not include a meter fee. Aren’t we done

1:10:14 – with that? Yes. Yes. All right. We haven’t voted for it. We haven’t

1:10:22 – 25 cents and 540. Right. That our two numbers. Yeah. Yep.

1:10:36 – need a motion to accept that approve that. Oh, I I don’t make that motion at all,

1:10:42 – but I uh I mean I don’t think it will I don’t think we need a motion because it’ll come back in the

1:10:48 – That’s fine. It’ll come back in the contracts, right? Yes. Yeah. So, I mean, I don’t even know if we have the power to approve. We don’t

1:10:55 – have the power to approve that. All right. So, we agree on the numbers. Um Todd, anything from energy on um

1:11:03 – river day at night contacted you back from that one.

1:11:08 – Okay. I mean are they losing interest? Do you think

1:11:14 – don’t I can’t answer that. I really like selling that problem.

1:11:19 – I I don’t have a problem selling them making some money either. But yeah, they don’t call. They don’t call. Yeah.

1:11:25 – We were just one of several options options. That’s correct. Mhm.

1:11:30 – They had other options. Do we do we think do you think they’ve already gone with another option or

1:11:35 – something? I can follow up on that and I’ll give an update and ask if it’s already been

1:11:40 – cuz I do know that they are um it would be something that they would be looking at.

1:11:46 – Yeah. Multiple sites across the state. Yeah. And I know that they’re looking at

1:11:53 – some grant money actually to do it right. And they probably have a a deadline or something that say

1:12:02 – it’s it’s just tax abatement. Yeah. Any idea what kind of money we’re talking about if they were want to

1:12:08 – purchase something? No.

1:12:14 – Okay. We’re good. No, you’re fine. Uh last thing in old

1:12:21 – business, discuss the granted proposal. the gentleman that was here at the last meeting and and uh

1:12:29 – I’d like to make a just a brief recess cuz uh

1:12:35 – uh uh Rodney had to step out. I mean he’s been sitting here all this time

1:12:41 – I was trying to and he’ll be next after this. So we’ll give him just a minute.

1:12:47 – What does that make sense to y’all? Just a kind of courtesy I think. Yeah. Sure. We should not move on to new

1:12:53 – business and start doing some stuff and then when it comes back in the room I mean we can go ahead and talk about the uh

1:13:00 – the gr discuss the granted part and then uh we can pick up anything serious with

1:13:05 – Rodney when he comes back. Um basically uh

1:13:13 – talk about grants we need to be working on that like we’ve talked about. Where did we leave this

1:13:20 – gentleman? And I’m not passing or selling or anything. This gentleman that was here last month. I did get a call

1:13:27 – from him. Forgot. U few days after that, he said he had found some grants out

1:13:34 – there that uh would probably fit us and just let him know if we need him or not

1:13:39 – or whatever. Or we can decide on someone to pursue those grants. we’re going to

1:13:46 – if we have to hire someone, do whatever and uh because they’re going to become very critical in the next year if

1:13:53 – there’s any out there. So, any comments? Um

1:14:00 – we have Yes, I’ll make a comment. I love the idea of having someone going out there looking

1:14:05 – and chasing for some grant money for us cuz yes, we’re you can’t do that enough because

1:14:13 – it’s project going to wind up costing. So we need to pursue every option we can. So I like the idea of having

1:14:19 – somebody out there pursuing the option. I also like the idea that mayor that you brought up of let’s have we exhausted

1:14:25 – everything with Arkansas economic development and everything everything in the state of Arkansas that maybe might

1:14:31 – be some easy advisement to us on on what’s out there that we can be

1:14:36 – pursuing. I just don’t want I just want to leave any stone unturned when there’s opportunities out there to go get some

1:14:42 – money for us. Now, we probably need to be on the aggressive side of trying to

1:14:48 – find it and chase it. And that that’s where I’m at. There’s no I agree 10,000%. We need to be on the

1:14:55 – aggressive side. Uh I just, you know, I So, we’re going to look into hiring

1:15:01 – someone. Well, to do that, I’m not so sure that this I mean, that’s why all of this stuff is why I kind of

1:15:07 – wanted Rodney in the room. Yes. because he can hear this discussion

1:15:13 – and he can answer directly these things we’re bringing up. That’s a good point. The difference between them.

1:15:19 – Sure. I mean, granted, that’s a totally uh

1:15:25 – private business enterprise is what that is. ATC and uh you guys they’re going to tell

1:15:32 – you try to get you sign contracts

1:15:40 – cuz I don’t they’re not going to tell you well there not that many grants out there. I

1:15:46 – guarantee you that. They’re not going to tell you, “I’m not sure we I don’t know that we can get

1:15:51 – you.” They’re not going to They’re going to tell you everything that they think is going to get you to sign on the

1:15:57 – dotted line and give them some money. Sure. That’s the only problem I’ve got with granted is they want some money on the

1:16:02 – front of it. Yeah. It’s $10,000 whether they succeed or not. Type of a thing. I I

1:16:09 – You’re ready sir. Yeah. I wish there was somebody

1:16:20 – is going to want money before they ever start work.

1:16:26 – That’s what Ry’s here for.

1:16:31 – Well, I want to start off by thanking you for inviting me. Yes. Thank you, Mike. because what we

1:16:38 – want to do is help our communities move forward. And just to give you the

1:16:44 – background, 1968,

1:16:50 – uh the federal government created a lot of more government

1:16:55 – and provided a lot of money to communities available to communities to

1:17:01 – help economic development. And so they created planning and

1:17:09 – development districts all across the nation. There’s currently about 580 plan

1:17:16 – development districts that are funded by uh EDA planning grants. Now EDA’s

1:17:24 – economic development administration. And so the state of Arkansas created

1:17:31 – eight planning and development districts in 1969. Uh ours here in central Arkansas

1:17:39 – consists of Seline, Palasi, Faulner, Lono, Monroe, and Prairie counties.

1:17:46 – And we’re the Central Arkansas Planning Development District. And there’s seven others, eastern Arkansas, Southwest, you

1:17:53 – know, all around the state. Now, our boards and who we work for is made up of

1:18:01 – the county judges of each of those counties, the mayor of the largest city in each of

1:18:07 – those counties, and they appoint a business and minority representative

1:18:14 – to serve on the board. So, that’s who makes decisions about how we spend our money, what we do. But what we and we

1:18:22 – have 50 municipalities that are members from those six counties

1:18:29 – that pay dues to us and we use that due to match the money coming from EDA.

1:18:37 – And so this is a a system that is designed to help

1:18:44 – communities with these type of grant issues. you know, getting a grant,

1:18:50 – knowing what you want to apply for is the easy part, managing the grant, and making sure that

1:18:57 – all federal regulations are met is is the difficult part.

1:19:03 – And that’s what we excel at. In the last 20 years, we run about

1:19:10 – 300 uh about $300 million worth of projects.

1:19:15 – Currently, uh, we’ve got about 250 projects going

1:19:22 – and worth about $40 million. And that’s what these two that’s what they do.

1:19:28 – That’s what they excel at. And they’ve been doing it for a long time and they’re very good at it. And, you know,

1:19:37 – trying to figure out how to make a community eligible for the grant, that’s

1:19:42 – very important. How to figure out

1:19:48 – how to spend federal money is one of the

1:19:53 – I don’t care who who says it’s not difficult. It’s very difficult. And

1:19:59 – uh following the rules, regulations, spending the money the way it’s supposed to be spent. That’s the important part

1:20:06 – of all of this. And you know, we just work for the mayors and judges. Whatever

1:20:11 – they need us to do, we do it. If if the mayor calls me up

1:20:16 – and says, “Rydney, I want some money to do this or that, we’re going to figure out some way

1:20:22 – if we can make it eligible and get it funded, and then we’re going to manage that grant for the city.” And you can

1:20:30 – see how just think back to 1968.

1:20:35 – if you got uh $500,000

1:20:40 – for a community like Benton, you know, I was a I was 13 years old

1:20:47 – then and I know for a fact that when in

1:20:53 – the 70s when the city of Benton went to city manager,

1:20:59 – the ability of the city government at that uh time was very minimal.

1:21:08 – And the city manager, new city manager came in. He was handed a cigar box with all the bills in it and said, “That’s

1:21:13 – how we manage the city of B in the early ‘7s.” And so that’s why federal

1:21:20 – government created PDDs because they weren’t capable of back

1:21:26 – then especially. Now times change and the cities and communities are growing.

1:21:33 – I mean, what I’ve seen happen in Bryant in my lifetime is a perfect example of

1:21:40 – uh everything growing and getting bigger and more capable of doing this stuff.

1:21:46 – But there’s no reason for it when when uh the PDD exists.

1:21:51 – And my one of my favorite stories about how

1:21:56 – you know how to use a PDD is when I was mayor of Minton and the

1:22:04 – Kors came to town and bought a local plant

1:22:10 – make ceramics and uh I met with them.

1:22:16 – They were going to move it back to uh Colorado. I said, “Well, why don’t you put it in bidding?

1:22:22 – Why why would you move? You got everything going here. The people know how to do these jobs.

1:22:28 – Don’t do it.” And they said, “Well, we’d have to have a site. We’re going to

1:22:34 – we’re going to build a new plant.” And uh I promised them what they wanted

1:22:40 – was electric feed from two different spots instead of just one. So if the power

1:22:46 – ever went off from one feed, it’ feed the other one. The other one would automatically kick in and we had to have

1:22:54 – water and sewer. I just agreed to all of them.

1:22:59 – Well, when they left, I said asked my engineer. I said, “What? How are we going to pay for this?” And he said,

1:23:06 – “Well, we just call the plan development district. They they’ll get you the money.” And that’s how Coolers is here.

1:23:13 – Cuz that’s exactly what happened. And that’s how easy it was to make that decision.

1:23:19 – Call us. I tell the mayors and judges all the time. Just call us and tell us what you want to accomplish and if

1:23:25 – there’s some way that we can find the money and make you eligible, we’ll get it for you. And so sign up with these

1:23:33 – projects that y’all are talking about coming through there. There’ll be I don’t know what all

1:23:39 – is possible on a project like that. Job creation of course is very important

1:23:46 – in getting these kind of grants. Uh making things available so that growth

1:23:54 – can happen. And that’s exactly the business y’all are in. Bringing this water in here is going to ensure that we

1:24:00 – have that service available for whoever needs it. And that’s why it’s so important. So, I don’t I can’t stand

1:24:06 – here and tell you just exactly how we would help, but if you need us, we’ll be there. Cuz if one of our mayors or

1:24:14 – judges ask us to do something, we get on it. And those are the people I work for.

1:24:20 – And that these two work for. And so if y’all got any specific questions.

1:24:27 – So y’all actively research federal

1:24:33 – grants looking for what could fit in that area? Yes, sir. Okay. When we know what what the project

1:24:40 – is, what it’s going to cost, the reasons for doing it have to be

1:24:45 – developed, you know, to get grants. If so, we work on like we work with the

1:24:51 – communities to to do that stuff. Okay. And if y’all got specific

1:24:57 – questions about certain programs or what, those two are

1:25:02 – my experts and they uh they can answer your questions.

1:25:08 – Mhm. So, you got any questions? If we were to ask

1:25:13 – you to help us find $40 million to build a raw water line and build a water

1:25:19 – treatment plant in Swan County, how far would would it how far could we go as

1:25:25 – far as finding some pieces of that or all of it? About 30

1:25:30 – million. What what would be the first things we do? First thing I would look at is the area

1:25:35 – that your service area. Okay. uh that would determine if what agency

1:25:42 – would be eligible to grant me the money. So, you’re in the county unincorporated

1:25:47 – area. Uh there are no matching grants that are out there for a million that uh

1:25:55 – if you met the income levels of that area, which we would find on a census track and we could do uh low or moderate

1:26:02 – income surveys just for that service area to see if you’re eligible. That’s a

1:26:07 – million dollars. That’s a Arkansas Economic Development Commission. ANRD,

1:26:13 – Arkansas National Resource Commission or division. uh their grants are a little bit

1:26:18 – different. They don’t always utilize us. We send them the grant information. We

1:26:25 – gather it so that you guys can apply directly to them. And then a lot of times because of the federal compliance,

1:26:32 – the engineers will subcontract with us to keep them out of trouble because

1:26:37 – there’s a lot of federal things that we’ll want. And there what three

1:26:43 – programs right now going that you could probably qualify for something. Just

1:26:48 – depends on what it is. There’s also the economic development component. If you’re going out there and somebody’s

1:26:53 – looking in your area that would need uh utilities, that could flip all the way

1:26:59 – over to a different type of project that you would be serving utilities for that

1:27:04 – uh economic development site and that would be based on job creation or

1:27:10 – promises of jobs. There’s a a lot of different things we would have to look

1:27:15 – at. Now, we don’t charge for that. There’s no $10,000 fee for us to do

1:27:21 – those projects or to do the research. We like you already later because the district I mean the c the

1:27:28 – judges and the mayors the communities are already members of our district for a minimal amount of money. So,

1:27:38 – for instance, let’s see. Um, well, as a matter of fact, Bryant

1:27:44 – Engineer called me today twice to ask about their FEMA application

1:27:51 – because I am the liaison. There are there are agencies that require the

1:27:57 – communities or the the the folks that are applying to use the planning and development districts in their area to

1:28:03 – write their grants because we’re trained, we’re certified. So for instance, FEMA, I’m the connection

1:28:09 – between that community for city of Bryant and uh Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. Um so we know a

1:28:18 – lot of people been around a long time and we just have to ask the questions. we have to get the information from you

1:28:25 – and if you’re going through a particular city say Alexander and if that city has

1:28:31 – a slot available then you can apply through the city different agencies

1:28:36 – require different applicants you some of them you have to be a city or a county

1:28:42 – and then that’s just a conversation you would have with Judge Brumley if you’re in an unincorporated area so you have any

1:28:50 – questions for

1:28:55 – We need $40 million in three years. Okay. Yeah. You usually have about 3 years to get it done.

1:29:02 – Is that I just thought, you know, it doesn’t sound reasonable to even ask that of y’all cuz I know y’all got a lot

1:29:08 – of other stuff you’re having to The next question we would have is uh if if we can’t get that amount of money, if

1:29:14 – maybe there’s a limit on the amount you could get, would the engineer pay it? And if you do your scoping, if you do

1:29:21 – your engineering, if you have it show already, then it’s easy for them to go to phase one, phase two, phase three

1:29:27 – once each of those are complete. You have to know what the agency wants, what’s important to them.

1:29:35 – Was it like one of those things if if it doesn’t hurt to ask because you just never know, you might get

1:29:40 – correct. I gotcha. And sometimes we have odd and strange grant programs that come up and

1:29:46 – if we know you’re looking for that, whatever their platform is, we will let you know. I just need like your contact

1:29:53 – person. I mean, everybody can call, but it would be better if I just had like one person

1:29:59 – that can give you information on those lots. Yeah, I just mentioned that uh when I first became mayor in

1:30:06 – Shannon Hills, well, you anybody explain hills, there’s that area that’s next to

1:30:11 – Otter Creek and it doesn’t take an engineer to look at that and say, you know, they should

1:30:17 – never have built any home ownership in that next to that creek. And I just made

1:30:23 – that passing comment to one time to the folks at CAPD when I was working on

1:30:29 – something totally different. Next thing I know, well, they’ve come up with, okay, uh, mayor, you know, we they’re

1:30:37 – fixing to start putting some money into this uh, uh, hazard remediation or I

1:30:43 – forgot what it is. Hazard mitigation. Had mitigation. Yeah. and and uh he said, “I want I want

1:30:50 – to do a submission here. Apply for that for y’all.” Okay. Well, sure. It doesn’t

1:30:56 – cost me anything for to apply. Yeah, let’s do it. And so, they did it. Didn’t

1:31:01 – get it first year. Well, but they said, “Yeah, we’re going to keep this active.” So, they kept it

1:31:08 – active. Didn’t get it the second year either, but they kept it active. And guess what?

1:31:14 – We did get it the third year. and uh they took care of all the

1:31:21 – paperwork. That’s one of the things where we don’t have any staff,

1:31:27 – right? and uh anybody that that is a part of

1:31:33 – their mission with us that will do the paperwork. I mean that puts them miles ahead for

1:31:40 – me. You know it does because I don’t have I’m in the same situation as we don’t have any staff got total about 12

1:31:48 – 14 people all together counting the police. So yeah that to me is a big thing.

1:31:56 – They’ll keep keep us straight on our paperwork and we won’t have to worry about that. But the other thing here too

1:32:02 – is they’re not asking us to give them any money right in

1:32:08 – asking us to get after it is what I understand. Am I wrong?

1:32:14 – Absolutely correct. And the other thing too that to me is critically important

1:32:19 – is this juncture is for the the state of Arkansas is finally getting into the

1:32:24 – water and wastewater grant business. Mhm. Finally. One of the things that

1:32:30 – we’ve needed this state forever. Rodney Larson knows everybody down

1:32:36 – there. These other folks know him too. Rodney knows Saline County. He is Seline

1:32:43 – County. And y’all know my love for southern

1:32:49 – colloquialisms. Uh I’m one of these guys. I just believe

1:32:54 – really strongly in dancing with the one that br

1:33:04 – if it didn’t cost anything anyhow. Why wouldn’t we? Yeah. No brain. Yeah. No matter what else you do, why

1:33:11 – wouldn’t So, that’s pretty much all I got. And

1:33:16 – they they’ve done they’ve been with me from the get- go get. And uh they’ve

1:33:21 – helped me bring in many many many many times more than my salary

1:33:28 – over the past 15 years. So, yeah, I’m a rain maker because of them. So,

1:33:35 – oh, I forgot a very important part. the grants that we usually find the

1:33:42 – grant program pays us to administer the grants. You guys are not out of that money. I I

1:33:49 – forget to tell them sometimes that you know they know the cities know that but

1:33:55 – it’s built into the grant program that certified. Yeah.

1:34:00 – And that’s that’s how we stay in business. Mhm. The money we’re paid from the grant.

1:34:10 – That is unless you’re a municipality. I mean,

1:34:15 – you’re not going to be exposed to them really up to this point. you know, this is kind of new, you know, uh, and so

1:34:23 – don’t be surprised, you know, I mean, don’t feel that you missed something over the years because unless you were a

1:34:30 – municipality up until this point, you would never probably come in contact.

1:34:42 – So, what do you need from us, Rodney? you like on our email list where you can

1:34:48 – just track us or just we’ll call you or let you know what we have with the board. Once the projects

1:34:55 – are defined, which I assume they are, we need to let them review the projects

1:35:04 – and see, excuse me, okay, and see how we might could figure out a

1:35:10 – way to like said just I’m thinking that

1:35:18 – I mean for them to really work I mean it’s hard to say y’all Well, we’ve got

1:35:24 – $250 million projects here. We need y’all to get some money.

1:35:29 – We kind of need to I’m thinking maybe Matt, you know, or somebody that could

1:35:35 – divide this into cut this elephant into uh

1:35:42 – edible pieces. It really is. This is like three now, ain’t it? We talked about doing the

1:35:48 – first part. Bitten is going to take raw water and so yeah, you can explain that to him if you need

1:35:53 – to, but it’s in three parts. We just need to Yeah. And that’s that’s what we can start then dedicate off.

1:36:01 – Yeah. Reservoir reservoir going in water

1:36:06 – starting and the rest and then the actual

1:36:11 – infrastructure. So there’s like three parts. You probably want a board liaison

1:36:17 – designated whether it’s Matt or somebody already on the board, somebody to work with Larson.

1:36:23 – Yeah. May maybe the uh way the the treatment plant, you know, maybe it fits

1:36:29 – into an economic development. Uh I I mean I’m just throwing things out

1:36:35 – here. But you see what I’m saying? Mhm. I I don’t think we’re doing ourselves

1:36:41 – any good or them any good if we just say we need 200 something million dollars here.

1:36:49 – I think we need to take advantage of opportunity passes. So what about Matt Brett? Maybe we put

1:36:56 – Brett on that.

1:37:01 – Yes, that motion just passed. Brett for a fee.

1:37:07 – really that’s going to be the shortest way to what you need.

1:37:13 – I get it. Okay. You have to back there and back secret.

1:37:18 – These ladies will be a lot happier getting the money getting a direct answer. Yes, sir. Do do we need a motion to

1:37:27 – I’ll make a motion that uh uh we as a group uh take full advantage of all

1:37:34 – services that are made available through Central Arkansas Planning and Development District.

1:37:44 – I’ll second that. that constitute. Um, yeah. Can we get clear on our

1:37:52 – contact person though? Shouldn’t it be you so that we’re not I don’t have a problem with that. Um,

1:37:58 – probably some of those answers he’ll ask me. I’ll have to go to him. Yeah. I mean, just to save some cost. I think Brett’s

1:38:07 – Yeah, probably should be through I’d assume through you first. We are in contract. Don’t know that

1:38:13 – cost. Yeah. If you not going to cost us a bunch of

1:38:18 – money for them to come over and meet with you, if you direct us to do it, we’ll do it. We’ll report back.

1:38:25 – I’ll be in touch with you, right?

1:38:30 – Got your cards right here. Oh, good.

1:38:37 – No, we haven’t yet. Not yet. We’re still riding, Mike. Okay. I just We don’t need a motion.

1:38:46 – motion

1:38:54 – suggest the moneyaging services. Okay. Huh. You can say the board.

1:39:04 – I’m good. You’re engaging their services. We got a second.

1:39:09 – Okay. I didn’t second it. Jason did. I say Jason. Yeah,

1:39:15 – because we already have an engineer on our contract and we’re just expecting him to provide.

1:39:21 – Let’s move on. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Thank you.

1:39:28 – Look forward to it. I have your number, my friend. You have none.

1:39:33 – Y’all thank y’all for coming and being

1:39:39 – patient. Well, I enjoy it. Hey,

1:39:44 – sometimes it’s longer. I knew all those people you’re talking about.

1:39:50 – Yes, sir. I know you do. They probably got their whole phone number.

1:39:56 – Thank y’all. Anytime Thursday every month, 5:00. You

1:40:02 – don’t have to have an invite. Come on. Yeah, those cards don’t have our cell numbers on them.

1:40:10 – That is fine. Yes, ma’am. All right. Did good, Mike.

1:40:18 – Thank you. Uh All right. Next. Um this uh $7.7

1:40:25 – million loan we just got. We need to approve that, if you will.

1:40:33 – Sorry. Have we received the official notification of that? Hadn’t heard anything. All I All I’ve

1:40:39 – seen is in the paper. Yeah, we haven’t received a formal letter. And so, uh, so I think that might be a little

1:40:45 – what can we do that when we get it? It’s written out.

1:40:50 – And so, we got the we got I’m kind of in the gray area. What what the purpose is for the $7.7 million loan and how

1:40:58 – what it is and what what’s going to be used for, how we going to pay for it, how how’s the you know, what happens.

1:41:04 – So, it’s a it’s a Okay. So this is something we talked with Chris Pauler about last time I remember

1:41:10 – this said it’s general obligation bond fund programs in two states and um they

1:41:18 – explained to us upside down side both sides up and down that’s the best

1:41:23 – program for them to fund our project with because it doesn’t require any kind of uh

1:41:30 – um rating from the bonding and bonding uh bond rating and and that’s backed by the

1:41:38 – state and and in addition to that, but there’s limited funds. They only can fund $30 billion per year, I think, or

1:41:45 – $660 million over two years, something like that. Um,

1:41:50 – and so they were they had some available funds and they were able to shift some of our funding from

1:41:57 – the SRF funding, which they’ve already technically

1:42:02 – granting us, 125 125. they’re able to ship some of that over to this uh because they’re trying

1:42:09 – to kind of back out of that $125 million commitment. Deobligate that. Their

1:42:15 – words, not mine. Wait, wait. No, that’s right. So, say say that again. How that sounds

1:42:21 – pretty big. It is big. They haven’t they haven’t deagated that yet, right?

1:42:27 – They’ve said that it’s on the feet and and it’s a concern. They wanted us to go

1:42:33 – ahead and commit to get out of but bond council I think some of us were there

1:42:38 – besides me uh Friday firm said do not stay there stay in that program so

1:42:46 – I don’t think NRD can deobligate it we would have to say that we want to deobligate it however isn’t there a

1:42:52 – three-year doesn’t it fall off once they’ve granted it doesn’t it fall off after like 3 years and aren’t we nearing

1:42:58 – that three-year approval I don’t know I We do that all the time.

1:43:03 – We didn’t hear that. The the other the other big advantage Yeah. We had to ask for an extension on one of our loans that we got granted for

1:43:10 – Bryant because we are taking too long to get easements. Okay. Having trouble with easements and they

1:43:16 – they were going to deobligate it for us. The other thing that you can do with this money is is you can request and

1:43:22 – they didn’t say that they would approve it, but I believe they would approve it is is to uh request that the the

1:43:30 – payments be deferred for up to 10 years after after the after it’s approved. So

1:43:36 – we could we could defer the payment out to such a time where we had obviously we

1:43:42 – have the funds to to to pay for it, but we haven’t gotten the commitment

1:43:48 – letter. All we know is what was said at the commission meeting. Um but there’ll

1:43:53 – be a commitment letter to follow. I’m sure that they they will the commitment letter give the specifications of what you just said,

1:44:00 – the terms of the loans. Yes. Yes. Okay. So we don’t have we wait till we get to

1:44:05 – the I don’t know what the conditions they’re going to have. We don’t know what the conditions of. We should wait till we see the Yeah,

1:44:11 – I agree. Yeah. I don’t know if it’s going to mention the deferred payment part, but I we can request that.

1:44:17 – Yeah. And um they didn’t say they would approve it, but they said we should

1:44:22 – request it. Okay. So, the 7.7 million is part of the 125

1:44:28 – million and not in addition to, right? And the 125 million we have a

1:44:33 – letter saying that they have committed that to us. Yeah. And it’s I know they we tell our clients

1:44:40 – all the time got to write a need to debate that. We are not going to do that. Let me tell you this what they told us

1:44:46 – in that meeting. Yes. Who was at that meeting? You were there. Ted was there.

1:44:51 – Ted was there. Ted left. I mean basically the the conditions that they attached to that

1:45:00 – funding approval we can’t meet we we can’t meet because they want a they want

1:45:07 – an obligation from each entity on this board.

1:45:13 – Yes. that says in that contract that says that you will repay that loan

1:45:22 – if the project were to fail. Each one of you would would pay for that. That’s not legal.

1:45:28 – And and and they say that that’s what the conditions say. And I don’t agree

1:45:33 – that that’s what the conditions What do you mean that’s not legal? You’re you can’t legally pay pay for an

1:45:42 – asset that’s owned by somebody else. That is true. That’s what makes it. But if the contract

1:45:49 – cuz that’s part of if the contract looks you you can have a contract that looks through the entity

1:45:58 – looks through to the entity as the backing that came up during my negotiations with

1:46:05 – Ryan. And I don’t think that the agreement that is with the Finnish people currently does that completely.

1:46:13 – They’ve got some concerns about us not having a rating. Mhm. And that’s come up a lot. And

1:46:20 – and so I mean they basically all but told us they wanted they’re they wanted us to to they want to back out of the

1:46:27 – loan. I mean that that’s my words, not theirs, but that’s what I heard that day. They said that several times.

1:46:34 – So, we’re saying we’re not we don’t we’re not getting $125 million loan.

1:46:43 – I think that’s up in the air. Okay. Well, I would have I mean, as long as I

1:46:49 – have something else to grab a hold of, another 140 or $170 million to grab a hold of for this project. I’m not

1:46:55 – letting go of that until I got How long can we hold on to it before we make them mad? because that not

1:47:02 – deobligating it does keep I mean I’m all for not deobligating it but that does tie up $125 million in other projects

1:47:09 – that could be completed across the state of Arkansas for drinking water. Correct. Yeah, I know. I got some clients that

1:47:16 – didn’t get funded because the money’s tied up. Yeah, that’s just like a weird How long do they let you hold on to it? If they

1:47:22 – want you to do aggregate it, how long do they let you have until they force you to?

1:47:27 – But if they’re saying why would they approve it if they’re already going to say we can’t meet those stipulations? Why did

1:47:33 – we even get approved for it? Those are all great questions. Okay.

1:47:39 – You ask that

1:47:46 – Mr. P can ask those questions. Yeah. We’ll take that.

1:47:52 – Good. Great questions. So,

1:47:58 – we have a $7.7 million loan pending. Do we think that their considerations

1:48:04 – for that are going to be any different than the $125 million loan? Yes. Okay.

1:48:10 – I don’t want to answer these questions. My speculation. Okay. But

1:48:16 – yes, I mean that would be my speculation. There’s

1:48:23 – I think it’s a good idea to have some money to get us to the next step, but when we get to the end of the 7.7

1:48:29 – million step, we got obligation and we we need to have

1:48:34 – we need to be on the plane. Yes. That this going that’s going to take it to the finish line. We need to have all

1:48:39 – that funding figured out. So, it sounds like while we’re still hanging on to the NRC, it’s still an incomplete solution

1:48:45 – funding wise, we still need the we still need a funding solution to get to the

1:48:52 – finish line. Sounds like we need the $125 million as well. Yes.

1:48:57 – Well, I mean, we if we had the $125 million commitment from them, I forget $350 million.

1:49:04 – The original plan worked just fine. taking the $125 million and then taking

1:49:09 – some bond money to go along with that or some other source of money to get us up to the $175 million.

1:49:15 – But they basically said, “We’re not giving you the $125 million cuz you’ll never meet the stipulations that are

1:49:20 – written in the approval.” Do do you mind stating this?

1:49:27 – Okay. We need to It’s a bigger gap than I thought.

1:49:33 – We need to be thinking. I don’t think anything is is really determined yet,

1:49:40 – but there is a lot of things that are possibilities out there and we need to be thinking about what we’re going to do

1:49:48 – if this happens or what that happens is the impression I’m getting. Is that correct?

1:49:55 – I mean, you don’t have a definitive anything yet on anything yet. I mean, it’s looking like this is the way

1:50:02 – they’re going, but they haven’t pulled it yet. And they

1:50:08 – can’t, as I understand it right now, without us saying, “Okay, they can’t, but they can also not

1:50:15 – approve. They can also not say that we’ve met the stipulations because we haven’t met the stipulations.” Whether

1:50:20 – it’s an argument of if they can illegally ask that or not, it’s still written in there. That’s what the commission approves. So if we can’t meet

1:50:26 – what they’re asking, we’re never going to we’re just going to hold on to 125 million. Chris on the spot that day that you

1:50:32 – said. So you’re telling me that you

1:50:38 – these conditions, you know that you’re telling us we can’t meet legally or your

1:50:43 – conditions the money’s not available. He said, “Well, you can’t meet the conditions in

1:50:49 – the in the note.” So you wrote it that way? You you you wrote the letter that way with an

1:50:55 – approval. I mean, I think I trusted him on it and he that was a new conclusion they came to

1:51:01 – draw or that was he called us into a special meeting for this. Ted went to it. I don’t Mhm.

1:51:07 – Yeah. That just doesn’t really make sense unless it’s a new like why would you approve it? If you were going to come to that conclusion,

1:51:13 – why even obligate it? Good question. Let me say this while y’all are thinking. Uh when we applied

1:51:22 – for this back in October, um they said they were move we we wanted

1:51:29 – 10 million. We asked for 10 million and they said they would be moving 10 million in approved funding from the

1:51:36 – clean water state revolving loan funds to the geo bond funds and the board will

1:51:43 – need to approve. Now that’s their words, not mine. So, we didn’t stop this 125

1:51:49 – million. We knew that they were trying to bulk on it. So, we haven’t stopped there. We’re we’re looking at other

1:51:55 – funding and Leanne is going to speak to some of that in just a minute. So, uh

1:52:02 – there is a lot of work going on out there, trust me, right now to get to this one. Okay. The item that we’re on

1:52:08 – is is that number two under new business, which sounds like to me we’re not ready yet because we don’t have the

1:52:15 – documents from them. No. So, we can’t approve now. All this other stuff.

1:52:22 – Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I I just kind of want to know what we’re going to do with that 7.7 million. That’s going to start the fire

1:52:30 – to the next until I get a a document in front of me. I don’t care.

1:52:38 – I mean, here telling me what I can do with the money, I don’t care. Cuz if it

1:52:43 – says I got to start paying for it up front, then I can’t get it because I I’m not I can’t start paying it back

1:52:49 – immediately, that is not the speculation. The speculation is you can defer it. If we can defer it, it can get

1:52:55 – us to the end where we have final documents where we can bid this thing. Right. That’s what it gets us to. But until I

1:53:01 – get a document in front of me just like Roger wanted I I don’t want to discuss it.

1:53:07 – You’re there.

1:53:16 – That’s why I But until I have a document in front of me, we can we can speculate all day long.

1:53:22 – Y they are they take a while to get they like next to you.

1:53:29 – would you uh speak to some of this? Yeah, we really appreciate you waiting.

1:53:36 – Sure. Good evening everyone. Um so the conversation before I came up here is

1:53:42 – very timely. Um sitting in these meetings, having conversations with some

1:53:47 – of you, I think you’re at a point where you need to model some numbers. you need

1:53:53 – to make some assumptions on different loan sources and figure out how you’re

1:53:58 – going to pay for this project. And so what I would propose to the group and and let let me be clear I you know years

1:54:06 – ago I think the board asked me to to look at some numbers that was before

1:54:13 – really I mean a lot has changed since then. I think co has happened since then

1:54:18 – and a lot of things. Um there is something called a municipal advisor and

1:54:26 – basically a municipal advisor gives advice on municipal bonds or

1:54:32 – financial products and acts as a fiduciary

1:54:38 – to the entity that it serves. So whereas an underwriter their goal is

1:54:45 – to issue bonds. So they get you to issue bonds and they sell it to investors and

1:54:50 – they’re in the middle and kind of conflicted. A municipal advisor is required by the regulators to look out

1:54:56 – for your best interest. And I think you’re at a position now where you need to issue an RFQ for a municipal advisor.

1:55:05 – And one of the things that municipal advisor could do would be to model some different scenarios. We’ve talked about

1:55:12 – WIFIA before. I am still convinced personally that there are some state and

1:55:17 – federal loan programs that make the most sense for this project, but a municipal

1:55:24 – adviser can look at all of those different scenarios. So, that would be my suggestion to you

1:55:30 – and I’m happy to answer any questions you have on that. How much money does it cost? Well, um that typically

1:55:38 – honestly when we serve as municipal advisor, it’s a case by case

1:55:43 – basis. We took a client who was applying for the TIFIA program, which is just

1:55:50 – like WIFFIA for water. TIFFA is for transportation, and we basically analyzed all the work that was going to

1:55:56 – be needed to get an indicative rating and and do the application and all that.

1:56:01 – And we gave them a flat fee quote. Um, so but it’s case by case. There’s no metric

1:56:09 – you can apply, you know, like uh on a $200 million project, you can expect

1:56:16 – this. Yeah. You know, it’s interesting. If this if this was a plain vanilla bond transaction, you could do that. But

1:56:24 – my in my opinion, this is going to have several funding sources. I think it’s

1:56:29 – going to have to. And so that that takes individual analysis, aggregate analysis. So, um I

1:56:36 – it would be reckless for me to even throw out a number. So, you’re saying this municipal advisor could present us a plan?

1:56:43 – Yes. That would get us to the finish line financially. And this is step by step.

1:56:48 – And they have no conflicts. So, they could talk to, you know, anybody.

1:56:53 – Anybody. And when you said they also act as a fiduciary, that was kind of a new term that I heard at the village, the board

1:56:59 – talk about we’re fiduciaries for you. It’s like we’re financially responsible. Something in that. What does that mean?

1:57:05 – So, well, it basically just means that the municipal advisor by by their um

1:57:11 – regulators because it’s a regulated title, if you will. You have to take a test and you’re you’re regulated. Um

1:57:18 – big deal, you have to be you have to act in your client’s best interest

1:57:23 – financially, with all the the advice that you provide. Yeah. You know, you can’t provide advice

1:57:30 – thinking it’s going to benefit you as well. that has to be in the best interest of the issuer or the client.

1:57:37 – Man, I’d love to see a a financial plan, just one that would work that if we went

1:57:42 – down this road, you you’d get to the finish line. Maybe there’s another path, right? Well, and the other thing I think

1:57:48 – too is costs have gone up and then you have different interest rate assumptions. So, you’ve got to look at

1:57:54 – all of those factors and see what the bottom number is and if you can afford it. So how long so how how long would it take

1:58:00 – for let’s say we hired one how long would it take for them to put a plan together for us if you have an idea.

1:58:07 – Yeah. So when we’ve done modeling modeling is one thing but in terms of a plan obviously your engineer is going to

1:58:14 – be involved because your municipal advisor doesn’t know how to build a treatment plant right so that

1:58:20 – coordination would probably take several weeks. general modeling of debt, you know, could probably be done in a

1:58:26 – shorter period of time. So, probably in two months or so. Yes, I would think so. Would that

1:58:31 – require you to re-evaluate project cost estimates or are you going to use old numbers? I mean, cuz it’s

1:58:37 – been a while. It’s been a while. Yeah. And I think I think if you’re going to pay someone to do that, you would want these numbers

1:58:44 – updated because otherwise you’re wasting their you know, you’re going to pay for it twice. You’re going to pay twice

1:58:49 – project now probably by the time we’re all said and done. Yeah. It’d be nice to have that number in front of us though. But

1:58:54 – everything you’re saying is making perfect sense. Yes. And uh

1:59:00 – I’ll be the first to admit, you know, there are some of these questions, you know, that we’re going to have to start

1:59:05 – addressing real quickly now that I wonder, you know, we’ve got to have

1:59:12 – somebody that’s that’s more knowledgeable than me to help me navigate this stuff.

1:59:20 – Yes. Uh my first question for you Lyn is that uh

1:59:26 – uh number one can you write the RFQ

1:59:32 – and number two how much would you charge us to write the RFQ?

1:59:38 – Well, I will be honest with you and tell you I would like to respond to the RFQ.

1:59:44 – So I can’t write the RFQ. Yeah. Well, that that makes it I like that even even

1:59:50 – better, you know. But I mean, you know, the fact that you want to respond to RFG, that’s interesting to me. But

1:59:57 – have you ever done that before? I think we get Don’t worry about it.

2:00:05 – Yeah. I’m not the first time I’ve ever done it.

2:00:14 – There’s some copy and paste stuff out there somewhere. I’ll say we already have.

2:00:20 – I think that would be something I would recommend to Perry to write. If we

2:00:26 – choose to do this, y you can get on AI

2:00:32 – write it. There’s probably one already written.

2:00:38 – It’s just a Google search. I mean, have you already responded to an RFQ like

2:00:43 – this before? I have. The city of Little Rock recently issued one. Okay. Um as well as the University of Arkansas

2:00:50 – system. So, those are two recent run ones. so we can get theirs and eyeball it and see what we’re talking about.

2:00:58 – Well, I definitely would like to see an RFQ. I’d like to make a motion that we task Perry with writing an RFQ

2:01:06 – for a municipal advisor position to serve this board.

2:01:14 – I’ll second that question. Is that the right the way Mike said that? That works. Okay, good. Thank

2:01:21 – you, Mike.

2:01:28 – Is it qualification based or price based? Qualification. Qualification. I want qualification based.

2:01:34 – Professional is professional. I know. But I’ve seen RFQS with bid bid words.

2:01:42 – Professional services. you’re probably prohibited from asking specific uh

2:01:49 – certain specific economic questions. Makes sense. Am I wrong? No, you’re absolutely correct. Yeah.

2:01:55 – Okay. That’s what I thought. Okay. All right. I have a motion by Mike

2:02:00 – to have Perry write a RFQ for a municipal advisor for Saline Regional Public Water Authority.

2:02:09 – Second. Have a motion to second.

2:02:15 – All in favor say I. I. I seconded it. Thank you. Did you hear me? You heard a

2:02:22 – little that gives me some hope. That a lot of

2:02:28 – hope. I I really That was some of the best. Can’t wait a 40, you know.

2:02:34 – Yeah. Yeah. I like that. All right. Uh dear trees on trigger

2:02:39 – planters, man. We we got let Bobby then we get letters on that from some

2:02:46 – got a email from a lady that lives in that housing edition right behind our

2:02:51 – property for the treatment plant said there’s a bunch of dead trees there and she’s afraid it’s going to fall on her house in her fence. So she would like to

2:02:59 – see us take them down where where on the water treatment

2:03:04 – on the water treatment plant side next to that housing addition up there in the tree where the trees I

2:03:11 – think now he come here and asked about the

2:03:16 – water tower.

2:03:23 – That’s right. He wants to preserve the trees. But there was a an email that Katherine

2:03:30 – Depel’s maker um emailed out to the whole group.

2:03:35 – I responded on behalf and include everyone in the group just to kind of make sure she

2:03:41 – wouldn’t depending on where it’s at. It could be hard dead ended. But um I’m appreciate you

2:03:47 – bring if there’s not anything around that it won’t be hard to bring down. But if they’re leaning the wrong way and all is

2:03:54 – a different in there, some of that stuff’s pretty thick in the Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir.

2:04:01 – Can I direct a question to our esteemed council here? Absolutely.

2:04:07 – It’s my understanding if a tree falls, it’s an act of God. Whatever is on their

2:04:13 – side of the fence, they have to clean up. Whatever’s on our side of the fence, we have to clean up.

2:04:19 – It’s also my understanding that if we go in there and we start trying to take down a tree and we cause a tree to fall

2:04:28 – on a fence or on a house, well then we could be liable.

2:04:34 – Can you just answer it now? And as long as we don’t mess with it and it falls, it’s an act of God. You’re responsible

2:04:41 – for reasonable pruning though. If there are dead limbs,

2:04:46 – uh it may be considered negligent to have not uh trimmed them or gotten rid

2:04:52 – of the tree entirely. Uh you’re right on the second once we step in and start moderating or or

2:05:00 – changing the natural environment. Yes. Then it does become for sure our problem. But the question before then

2:05:07 – it’s not black and white. It’s whether the land owner was negligent in trimming their tree. Mhm.

2:05:12 – Or failed to try

2:05:18 – in the village. We had this issue all over all over the place. I bet. And just like you said, the only

2:05:24 – difference is we’ve been we were given notice of a tree that was on POA

2:05:30 – property. Yeah. That had the potential and if it fell, we it was on on us.

2:05:36 – Okay. But if if if we didn’t know about it and it just happened, it was totally an act of God, I think. But now we got I

2:05:42 – got an email here from someone that’s giving us notice. I think it would behoove us to eyeball

2:05:47 – this and evaluate this situation a little bit just to make sure there isn’t potential. Take a ride out there.

2:05:53 – They don’t specify which trees, right? They do not. All they’re doing is just trees over

2:05:59 – there. We think they they might fall. They’re not specific. You had the email

2:06:05 – from uh from Miss Catherine that went out and it’s not real

2:06:10 – specific. Any contractor any tree contractor is

2:06:16 – going to be insured. something falls

2:06:27 – already.

2:06:37 – I don’t I I don’t want to fight that.

2:06:43 – Look at her. Look at her property. line. Let’s see if we have something that’s going to

2:06:49 – That’s what we’re going to do. Yeah, we’re going to check it out and see if you have the contact information

2:06:57 – or forward that to send that to Matt. Okay. And then he and our water side needs

2:07:04 – bush too, please. Mike talked to the judge, didn’t you? About bush hog. I just mentioned it to

2:07:12 – him. That’s all and told him that you were going to be getting in touch with him

2:07:18 – and Yes, sir. They’ve got bush hogs and they’ve got tractors and they’ve got

2:07:24 – I will do that. I sure will. I’ll via email. Oh, see.

2:07:30 – Anything else? Any public comment? Anyone here from the public would like to come up to the podium, ask a

2:07:35 – question? Anything? anybody except that lady in the back there.

2:07:45 – She’s probably from hollering at me all day, so she can’t.

2:07:50 – If not, I will entertain a motion to go out of regular session into a

2:08:00 – session. And we have been told everybody can wait right here. We’ll move you into

2:08:05 – that little room right across the hall and be right back. I have a motion. I have a motion.

2:08:12 – I make a motion we second session and we will return

2:08:17 – in here in here

2:08:30 – exactly right on how we did this. We had discussed uh employee problem not

2:08:37 – problem but uh issues issues in the meeting and telling me how to write my resignation

2:08:43 – letter. No. So, um,

2:08:48 – we, uh, are making some decisions in there and we’re we’re talking about in,

2:08:55 – uh, January, the elections will be up in January,

2:09:00 – um, the fourth, Thursday, whatever date that is. And, uh, we will no longer have

2:09:07 – an employee uh, paid to do anything. Nobody on board.

2:09:15 – First, I think I make a motion that we come out into the executive session. Yes.

2:09:22 – All right.

2:09:33 – Yes. I make a motion that effective the January elections

2:09:41 – that we pay we do not pay any board members for administration services.

2:09:48 – All right. Second. Any questions?

2:09:54 – All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Thank you.

2:10:03 – Now, now I would like to say at this time that I’m resigning my position as secretary treasurer of the Saline

2:10:09 – Regional Public Water Authority, but I will remain on the board as a board member,

2:10:14 – right? Effective today, tonight.

2:10:20 – Now, we will get um I will get these minutes uh

2:10:26 – order. Yes. Uh I think it needs to clarify the positions that he’s resigning from.

2:10:34 – Uh and it’s kind of taken care of with him saying that he’s going to remain on

2:10:39 – the board, but I think he needs to specifically say what position he’s resigning from. He did. He did. He did.

2:10:45 – Did he? Okay. He didn’t hear it. He did. He did. He did. Okay. I apologize. No, you’re good.

2:10:50 – That’s all right, Dicki. As far as meeting minutes go,

2:10:56 – Philip and I will work together and I’ll get you some kind of minutes for just this month. We will not be handling it

2:11:01 – past year, but for this for this meeting, we will take care of it. Um, I’ll get with Todd will for that. That’d

2:11:07 – be okay. Yeah, we’ll we’ll get that figured out. Thank

2:11:13 – you. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. I knew I was going to get him involved

2:11:19 – before this. All right. Sorry, Phil. refresh.

2:11:25 – We’re back in regular session. Any questions? Anything? If not, we’re in good welfare. Motion to adjourn.

2:11:33 – We vote everything. Okay. Just making sure. Yeah. And we did I

2:11:38 – know we

2:11:46 – statement. We have no vote on that. Okay.

 

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