This next year we've been quoted at $750 for those 2 days, which I get is a huge reduction and a huge discount compared to what it would cost other organizations perhaps. Um to benefit, but I wanted to share the awesome work that we're doing here in this tiny community of Castle Manorville and asking if that can be reconsidered because that is expensive for a non-profit, especially for us when we are giving back immediately.

Well the not I mean the the difference in charges that the the bay wasn't being charged for previously. And so the fire department came to us and said well we've got these folks who are using the bay now and there's all this extra related cost. So earlier this year the council made that change because I mean there's a difference between like the if I have a birthday party on the the smaller part of the building versus using the whole building.

I don't like the idea of making exceptions. I'd rather have us stick to the same policy for everybody.

But we 100% of our money raised goes to veterans. Um veterans in crisis, canine dogs, um service dogs, um we provide furnaces for veterans if they need them... And so for us being nonprofits to give up $750 or for us it'd be 400 to 600 depending on if we want both rooms in the fire hall. That's just kind of a big chunk of change that is not going into our community.

But we've already put so much into the property with the trees and the gazebo and and we really don't want to have to come up with, you know, especially $12,000 for 122 ft of sidewalk uh Basically, the property, you know, it hasn't got any home on it uh at this point and it it doesn't the sidewalk, if it were to be built there, it would doesn't take you anywhere except into a bean field that and we certainly would be able would realize that we have to put a sidewalk there once they develop it to the north of us, but right now it's just a real short stub.

I mean obviously you know, our perspective is we we do want these to you know, and then it's not just that we want to. I mean it's ADA requirements require it. So, it isn't a question of if, it's a question of when.

Yeah, tip well, the petition waiver is is just a process where they're asking us to pay for it up front and then assess it to the property taxes. Which is how this would probably work process-wise for for Mr. Bigelow's home. Yeah. So it's not that he's going to be expected to pay it all at once. It would be over a period of time similar to our other street projects assessments that we do over a 15-year year That could be figured out with that additional waiver.

Bringing it back as an old business just to see if there is any comments from anyone on that. If there aren't any comments, at some point in time I would like to get this approved and promulgated to staff because we we do want to make sure that they're um you know, staff will be starting to use AI more and I want to make sure they have the guidance they need.

I mean, I speaking as a landlord, I can see both sides of this. Um I mean, I have a house not here in Atlanta that my property manager was lying to me about for 10 years. And when the tenant finally had enough and moved out, that's when I found out how bad it really was. So, would I have appreciated having to go through some of this? Yeah, actually I would have. I can also see it from the tenant's perspective. However, when it is going to be something that potentially increases the rent in a town where we already have some relatively high rents.

Excuse me, to what their current officers are jobs description were and because they were way out of date. So, they've been working on updating those. That was part of the bylaw and they had They're in the bylaws, so they needed to update the bylaws, so and kind of going through it with them a little bit, they realized that they had been doing some of this stuff and didn't realize that they didn't update the bylaws to match.

And my request to them, and I still haven't received it, I don't know if they forgot, I wanted to know how often they use that equipment.

I mean, if they they've got a budget for equipment and they're going to use that budget on these tools then I mean, the the real request at the end of the day would be to exceed their budget line item. Yeah, I don't know about that. I'm [snorts] not on board with that.

I would choose to do is I would take that out of their next year's budget. So, it'd be like they'd be purchasing it early, you know, and that's I feel like that's a fair way to do it because at the end of the year if they don't spend that budget it doesn't roll over, but it does go into the general fund fund balance. So, to me if if we were going to exceed it by 15,000, I would say, "Okay, well, next year we're going to reduce it from 40,000 to 25.

The only thing we found is galvanized, which a lot of the galvanized lines as they come out of the house meter, there was lead at the point where it goes to the main, they call it the goose neck. So, they're still concerned about that lead there, which we don't you know, we don't we didn't dig up at the road, we didn't verify that those galvanized are not got connected to the lead, so that's what the determination from the EPA has been that they need to be replaced. Um and they treat them just like a a lead, so may not be lead, but lead and galvanized in their eyes is the exact same, so that's what we're that's how we're moving