I just wanted how much the council how aggressive they want to be and if they want to save some of that fund balance for 208 or 29 or not have to bond as much in the future.

Uh my staff saw a lot on the island. Um of course there a lot down there on Painter Circle too that's kind of falling apart, but um most bang for your buck. I think the island would be nice to get that done. Mhm.

Um Mayor Mayor Whan Council Member Ruffin that's a great question. So part of the cords, not only do they tell us what um what kind of street project you want to do, but it's also important information for the contractors to have so that we know what kind of um how much um how much reclaiming they need to do because if an area has been heavily patched and it has a significant amount of um pavement on it, it costs more for the contractor to grind that up. So we want to know that.

Um so if this is a roadway that the council would like to consider for a project next year, staff would like to have a conversation on um what we, you know, what we would like to see done with water man. Should we engage with the residents? Um, you know, do we want to look at open cut versus uh like a traditional installation method for the water man or would we want to look at a trenchless technology?

Yeah. Um, Madame Mayor, uh, Congress, uh, Councilwoman Lacy, they, uh, the gentleman who owns it, I believe, 87 and then he has kids who, uh, help him out too at the property. Um, so there is family that that can assist him with it, but I I believe they all kind of work together. scrapping. So, it's kind of I think a family business. Not officially.

Once that happens, we get the bill, we have to pay the bill, the city does, and then we say, 'Okay, property owner, you have until this day to pay the bill.' And if they don't pay the bill, then it gets assessed to their their um property taxes. They then have one year to pay that off, I believe. And then after that, if they don't pay, then you start going down the tax forfeite process. Uh that could take anywhere from 3 to four years for that to finally get finalized.

Um Madame Mayor, members of the council, I don't have much. Um, just to clarify the process, um, we would be, I mean, this is a huge cleanup effort. So, um, we would want to make sure we bring in action in court that would allow us to evade it and get on the property before we because I mean, our ordinance actually says we can just go on the property and start taking stuff away. And I would not recommend that. I think we need a a court order to allow for that.

Um I guess when I compare it to other things that we um analyze sometimes if there's something that we can potentially outsource and make a little more streamlined or let's you know a company that does it more often more frequently can do it at a better um cost or price point. Um, I guess to me the decision seems like pretty um, logical to go with contracting with infosen to help with this, you know, small part of the utility billing process and going to that monthly change.

But the other thing that you're missing is the redundancy. We have no redundancy. So if Renee is sick and then then let's say she or she has or she's not able to do this then then we have to have other staff people step in and then they're they're having to do double duty so to speak and and then if the machine breaks down and then you have to wait a couple days for it to get fixed. All of those things we don't have that redundancy and that's that's a big issue.

I'm looking at the date on the email I got today for the quote. Oh. Um, from March 19th, I guess. All right. From So, you're not upset about the cost, you're upset about the process.

Um one of the things that we would like direction on from the council ultimately if if council is interested in replacing some of the trees, do you want them replaced one? Each one removed gets replaced uh 2:1 is it as needed?

I think we replace as requested by a homeowner within reason. We're going to take them, we're going to remove them if they're dead, right? I mean, so that's our responsibility. It's a matter of whether or not we replace it. And so if a resident would like it replaced, then I think there could be a cost share.

Um one of the things that public works did mention is if we are looking at a tree replacement that it would not be within the right of way that it would be on the property uh a private property so it becomes their ownership and responsibility not the cities.