Yes, we got a request from the director at Evergreen Place. One of the water softeners went out and this was a quote to replace it. So, because it is over the $2,000 limit, it's coming to council.

We did replace the water heater last year, so the plumber did feel it was best to replace the water softener to help um the life of the water heater.

So, uh PIG is the point source implementation program. Um this is a program through um MPFA which is the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority. And so this is a grant program where cities can apply. You need to apply and get rated. And based on your need to upgrade uh water infrastructure or wastewater infrastructure, there's two different programs. Um cities can get grant dollars for that.

Part of that application process is each of the cities uh passing a resolution in support of uh applying for the PIC program. It's not guaranteed that we get the dollars, but we can apply to see if we can get any grant dollars.

part of our website when they built the new website is with every contract um re-up we get a refresh and so essentially um with no cost to us they'll give us all the new features that a that are available so they'll kind of scrub our website they'll apply all those new features that we want they'll update anything that we want for no cost

Correct. Yes. So, our our mass notification that we do for the city, I know like pool updates are really popular. We have different categories that people can sign up for updates. We send those out through email, voice message, or text message. They can sign up for what they choose. That's included in this is that uh subscription for the mass notification.

So my board did meet earlier last month and they did recommend going forward with the quality restoration and we paid to bring that to you. Um get that approved here. We did uh have $12,000 last year that this year and so there should be plenty of money.

Uh this year we are looking forward at the level increase 9200. Uh with that being said, last couple years we had nominal stock markets uh step down last year with an increase and we're just trying to continue to progress.

So, based off where the market was at last year and where the market's currently sitting, uh, this last month, he just got to 1,997,000 in that account. Talking with our treasury two weeks ago, it actually $2 million. So, it's continuing to grow.

I where I would say Pine Island is sitting very uniquely right now is you look at the um retention rate of the fire department. It's exceptional. Yeah, it's it it's exceptional. You look at a lot of agencies around us and the turnover even down the road from us is extremely high. Very high. Um there's a reason why the retention rate is so low here. I think it's both culture but um the city's investment in making sure that we look at taking care of the fire department.

right now we're currently 135% funded. We had fun come into our yearly audit last month. So we got to look over the numbers with him and then after we got done discussing the audit with him, we actually went into our SC and made sure that all the numbers that we had entered were finalized and everything was correct.

So early last spring, we discussed uh looking at our Wacken sack fees to make them more in line with neighboring communities. At the time, we had some discussion on whether we wanted to apply this per application or if we wanted to apply it per acre.

Stephen and I looked more into what surrounding cities are doing and just based on how many developments we have uh around the city along with residential and commercial, we do feel that it would be more appropriate to have the wacken sack fees applied per developable acre um and not uh just per application.

We have are non CBAC. The seats right now calls wheat guys backs off the truck. And so part like all of the old trucks up there all have the SCBA packs. The breathing apparatus that goes on your back is built into the seat so firefighters can pack up on the way to the call.

Where the fire department was running into issues is getting on scene and those packs are in the side of the truck trying to pull the door open. The door didn't come all the way out. It was the packs getting stuck in there which is causing a delay for our firefighters to get geared up when it's time to fight fire.

I will add that we're requesting the funds come out of fund 280, which is the charitable gambling account. And so this it would be money that um the fire department has donated to the city.

So staff has started to look at a 2026 project uh where we reconstruct certain streets in the southwest street southwest that area also second street southeast so just west of the school

So, um there's a state statute that's chapter 429 that outlines a process for any projects that would meet to an assessment to meet the property owners. Um this is the additional step in that process. So um authorize overview cost the overall timing of the project and not over not overall cost to the uh to the city for the project but also what those possible assessments could be.

And to Craig his work on this this is really one of the final big road projects that city started what 20 years ago or better.

So was constructed in 2005 that system and some of the structural elements have so assessment of the tower and they violated some of the deficiencies that the tower has along with.

So um you know just looking the price of systems super expensive contract. So like to recondition that tank access system. repair.

But so we did settle the slide out. You should see one last and that in the amount of $57,2 over budgeting to be in that 44 $450,000 range. Um had a conversation with the vice president there asking to review scope and then also the pricing.

Uh they did come back yesterday with a uh with a revised bid of $486,000. $486,7. Yeah. So that that looked a lot better.

So, um for the budget, so we have >> so we initially have a little over $200,000 being we've been waiting for. Uh and then we discussed with council at a previous work session that take the additional plan. And so uh we do have a little over $500,000 yet. Um and that's taking account to pay for paid off land.

Mayor and council, we did talk about real briefly before the meeting. I what I understand all that to mean is that there isn't a scenario where the city will be signing a contract for $500,000 without either having the change order in hand already signed by the contractor or we won't be signing that at all. We'll just have a contract for the 400. But either way, there is no scenario where the city is signing off on 500 and waiting for later to get a change order. That's not going to happen.

I would just make a public notice. People are uh there's some people that misunderstand how this process works and there's things going around. So if they have questions, reach out to city hall for clarifications rather than making assumptions on how this process works with the pool.