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Now is the time that we invite any of the audience from the audience to the council.

This portion of this portion of the meeting is dedicated to the public to allow the matters of interesting concerns.

We do ask your name or name direct all questions of the mayor.

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Most small driving force is either late or they're late, as I just on her new position.

Read her debt resume resume.

Was very impressed.

Anyway, I always thought she did well.

So anyway, I put it on, but I've got um we passed the six pass the six six six cent.

No, I'm not gonna hear here.

We passed the six cent issue.

And I haven't heard a word about it since collecting it.

So my question is uh where do we stand where do we stand on that?

And how does how does it go?

As far as uh uh which program that was voted in gets which money first, and uh and then how do how does it go down the line?

Which which issue that passed gets first priority, which gets second, uh some kind of an update on how much money is collected each month.

Uh just something uh to uh quell my curiosity, I guess.

Uh but anyway, uh that's my other little issue coming down, and uh my friend Greta from last time I used to stay.

She says, keep your comments to one issue, so that's my one issue.

Thank you very much.

Thanks.

Any questions for Mr.

Steenslin?

Anybody.

Uh good evening, Mayor.

Um my name's Robert Taylor.

I live in Mills, and once again I'm here uh in reference to the Steckenhoff Shooters Complex.

It's a publicly owned facility leased to a nonprofit corporation.

Over the past three years, the leaseholders generated $116,000 in revenue from private shooting competitions held on public land.

Um this is not a one-time occurrence.

It reflects a sustained pattern of private financial gain from a public resource.

Uh substantial private benefit, and that the events are organized, managed, and financially controlled by the leaseholder with limited public access and no transparent revenue sharing.

Uh exclusive member privileges, sponsor branding, and competitive entry fees indicate a commercialized operation and not a public recreational service.

The pistol range is entirely closed to the public.

When a nonprofit derives substantial private benefit from a public asset, it undermines the public trust, violates the intended purpose of the lease, uh lack of oversight and transparency.

There's no um publicly available breakdown of how the 116,000 dollars was spent, reinvested or allocated for community benefit.

Uh the lease lacks enforceable provisions for financial reporting, public engagement, or equity and access.

Without oversight, the city risks enabling a private enterprise on public land with little accountability, equity and access concerns.

The public users are limited to four days per week, while the user groups enjoy 24-7 access and exclusive events for the private financial gain of promoting those competitive uh those private uh competitions.

The complete the complete exclusion of the public from the pistol range reinforces a two-tooled two-tiered system that favors insiders and sponsors over the broader community's public goal.

And therefore, I'd like to respectfully urge the council to uh conduct a lease audit focused on the financial transparency and public benefit.

Uh also require a reporting of revenue and expenditures, establish a public advisory board to oversee the operations and ensure fair access, and also re-evaluate the lease terms to prevent future private enrichment at the public's expense.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any questions for Mr.

Taylor?

Yeah, go ahead.

We got a question for you, Mr.

Taylor.

Thank you, Mayor.

So my question is which um which end exactly are you talking about?

Is it the shooting club or is I mean Stuck and Hoffs or another another user group that's basically the lease operator is Castro Shooters Club, and they have um a pistol club called Ghost Town Shooters, and that club is a private affiliated member of another competitive shooting group, and they close that range for their own private use or the use of their I don't want to use cronies, but the user group is ghost town shooters, and they host this.

Excuse me, or they host this uh competitive this uh uh private competitive shoot, and then they get to share that revenue with Ghost Town Shooter with uh Casper Shooters Club, and there's no breakdown of how much money goes town shooters got or or if it goes to the public, that type thing.

And uh it was uh quite a bit of money, I think 116,000 over the last three years is quite a bit of funds.

And that's to me, it's a private benefit, a public property.

It's not a public competition, it's a private competition.

It's more like a a uh entertainment match and a private shoot for the public.

And uh I think that the city uh should not use their public parks to generate funds for private groups.

Does that answer your question, sir?

Not exactly, but um I I think I get the jest.

So that would also implements that we make with youth baseball, um the soccer, soccer fields, um ice.

Um are you implying to do audits on all of those groups also?

I know the thing I'm comp concerned concerned with is it's a facility that they they lock, physically locked, they don't let the public in there, they only let GTS shoot there.

GTS puts on this private competition and gets the share on the 116,000 dollars of the last three years.

I don't know how youth baseball works or any of that.

Um, you know, I'm not here to to I'm my comments are directly with Casper Shooters Club and Stuckenhoff Shooters Complex.

Um, you know, I'm not against public access, and that's what I'm all for, and that's what I want.

I'd like to see the city use that access is the main point.

Um, baseball is important, community uh sports are important.

Um, you know, I don't want to, I'm not uh I just would like for y'all to look into the Casper Shooters Club and the Steckenhoff Shooters Complex, and that's that's what I'm limiting my um uh time here.

Does that help you, sir?

Sure.

Okay, thank you.

Adam City Manager, do you want to say anything or do you want to wait till our comment period?

Why don't we tell the comment period?

So we'll have uh we'll have something for you that Mr.

Taylor here in a minute, I'm sure.

Thank you, sir.

You betcha.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor.

Uh Ross Shriftman.

Um last week you had your work session and you received a very impressive presentation on the North Platte River Restoration Project.

And I learned a lot, and especially the history.

And we should all be grateful to all those people over the years that restored the river to where it looked.

I saw that picture of the refinery right up against the river, and uh we we have a responsibility to maintain that.

And uh so I I very much appreciate that.

Um, in my religion of we're required, commanded to be stewards of the earth and to honor the blessings that we've had.

So I I plan to help as much as I can.

I did uh contact staff about the upcoming September 27th, and I understand that that's a very specific uh project, uh, not for the general public, uh, because it sounds pretty intense, but I will uh do what I can to promote that because we have a wonderful river in our community uh with uh um natural areas, and uh we need to protect it uh going forward.

Uh going forward, I I notice that some of the projects are going to be quite expensive, and I know council will look to see what cost-effective ways we can do this uh so that uh we can maintain the integrity of the river and its banks and the natural areas around it.

Uh one other item I have is uh you just had your pre-meeting on uh the uh issue of bullying and the uh presentation by parks and recs.

Um bullying is a very um important issue, and it's it's a concern for every community.

Uh one thing I noticed in the document, it says something about staring.

Um staring can be misinterpreted.

We're we're told when we're kids to have eye contact with the people that we're talking to.

So I think we got to be kind of concerned which way.

I mean, if somebody's staring and glaring at somebody, uh it's one thing.

If they're looking away, that can also be interpreted as they're disrespecting somebody.

So that's just my only concern as you go forward, and thank you for bringing that up.

Thank you.

Any questions for Mr.

Shriffman?

Thank you.

Great, thank you.

Good evening.

Hi, Mr.

Mayor.

I'm my name is Kevin Eberly.

I'd like to make some comments about the Stuck and Off Shooters Complex also.

I'm a member of Stuckinoff Shooters Complex.

I'm also a member of Ghost Town Shooters and have been for close to 30 years.

There are parts of the range.

You're coming in the road and then it turns to the right.

And the area right where that turn is an area that Ghost Town Shooters developed along with the Cowboy Action Shooters.

It was part of the property of the range, but there wasn't any berms or anything on it.

And so ghost town shooters and the cowboys paid to have the berms built.

Occasionally the city helps out with the equipment loaning and that type of stuff.

And it's they pay for the use of it.

The cowboys rent that range, and the ghost town shooters rent that range.

If you want to be a member of Ghost Town Shooters, and anyone can be a member, it's $75 a year, and they give you a key to the lock.

So you have the public has use full use of that area.

Cowboy, this the Ghost Town Shooters lease it on Tuesday nights and the first, second, and fourth Saturday of the month.

They have matches on those, and then the Cowboy Action Shooters have the third Saturday and all the rest of the Sundays.

So during the week it's open to the public.

Or the Cowboy Action Shooters, you can be a member of those, that group to use the range.

They use all of their club's property, all of their targets, their target stands, their moving targets.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have any targets to use.

I'm not sure about that.

So it brings a lot of money into the community.

Some of the top shooters in the world come and compete in that tournament.

So it brings a lot of notoriety for Casper.

And anybody is free to shoot that tournament.

They just have to be a member of the United States Practical Shooting Association and they can join.

You can sign up for the tournament online months ahead of time.

So it's open for anybody that lives in Casper to shoot if they want to.

And then I don't know where the figures of the hundred and some thousand dollars coming in.

That may be the total fees that come in, but there's also all the expenses that go out.

They don't pay anybody labor to put the tournament on.

Ghost Town Shooters members build all of the courses, and a lot of them are the range officers that supervise the course while competition is going on.

They usually have to hire uh range manager who oversees big matches like that, and they come in to make sure all the rules and the safety things are being followed.

So when it's all said and done, I think typically there may be 10 or 15,000 profit, and then ghost town shooters and castor shooters club split that.

So I guess that's all I have to say.

Any questions?

Yeah, Councillor Bond.

I just want to clarify Michael, we can turn your mic once.

Um so I I think I understand um, you know, that there's times for the Casper Shooters Club, times for the Ghost Town Shooters when they use the range for for their events, correct?

And you're a member, you can get a key and yeah, and that's just that one portion of the range.

So there's only four shooting bays there.

Okay.

And um, but they do take the entire range for that governor's cup.

Sure.

Because there's I think they have up to 17 different courses, and you only can have four or five courses in that area where ghost town shooters and the cowboy action shooters shoot.

Okay.

Uh so if my question is if so, if I'm not a member of either Ghost Town Shooters or the Casper Shooters Club, are there times when you know just members of the public who are not members of either of those organizations can come in and pay a fee, correct?

And and go in and use the range.

I don't think as an individual you can.

Uh, but the there's a lot of different entities that use that range besides us.

The college has a shooting class and they rent it from Stuck and Hoff's or shooters club for what days I think they shoot on Thursdays when the weather's good for the for the college.

Um any trainers, a lot of course self-defense courses and um pistol courses are held there, and the um those instructors have to pay rent to rent the range.

Sure.

Um as far as an individual that's a member of Stuckenhoff's but not a member of Ghost Town Shooters or the Cowboy Action Club, they can't just go use it.

They would have to be a member of one of those two clubs.

I see.

But I think that there's been talk in the past.

I wasn't at the meeting, but this issue has come up before where some of the general members of Stuckenhoffs think that they should be able to use that range.

And I think that they've talked to the city, and um this next coming year, anybody will be able to use that part of the range, but they'll still have to pay that membership fee, except they'll be paying it to Stuckenhoff's instead of ghost house shooters.

Yeah, and then right now there's a padlock and a key that the club members have for the years, but they're gonna have to put in electronic key card like they do at the main gate for the shooting range.

And I think they're gonna do the same thing with the um the long range shooting area, which there's a blue gate you go through to be able to shoot at I think past 900 yards now.

Okay, thank you.

And so there'll just be endorsements on your regular membership that you'll have to pay extra, but your regular uh you'll only have one key card thing that'll work wherever you paid for it to work.

Okay, thank you.

I yeah, because I was thinking, do you have when we get the comment period?

I'll have I'll have uh Ms.

Lopez save that.

Yep, absolutely.

All right, thank you, sir.

Anyone else okay?

So now I invite any counselors who wish to uh briefly respond to any of the matters that were brought up during the public communication communication.

Yeah, go ahead, counselor thank you, Mayor.

Um I'm looking forward to uh punting to the city uh manager for a lot of that.

However, um I did want to say I appreciate uh you know good showing of public five different people speaking to like three or four different things.

So always love seeing uh people showing up and speaking to things that are important to them, and I thought you all articulated your concerns, questions, and thoughts very well.

So I appreciate you being here with us tonight to Mr.

Steenslin.

Um I actually was gonna give an update at around the table, and so uh you must have been reading my mind or something.

So in our information packet this week uh that was published last Friday, uh, this is where you can find this information.

It sounds like we've received roughly five million dollars of the 18.3 million projected six cent revenues, so we're on track for that tax to end after 15 months uh based on current revenue generations.

As far as the you know, which projects take priority, I will uh stop talking and punt this to the city manager as well if I'm off track.

But my understanding is that uh all those projects are at different phases, and so as the money comes in, uh the money is simply expended in whatever way is most expedient to advance those projects.

So for instance, Metro Animal Shelter.

Uh myself and Councillor Pollock sit on the Metro Animal Shelter Task Force, and right now we're kind of in a holding pattern for that.

We are uh polishing up the RFP to put out to hire a construction manager at risk to start advancing the construction of that project.

But right now, there's no movement, there's no expenses occurring uh as a result.

And so any revenues coming in from the six cent are probably being allocated to the other projects that might have expenses um uh that are uh amounting.

And so uh that's my understanding is that um and I'm getting some sort of affirmation from my city manager.

So yeah, essentially just we are expending the money um as quickly and expediently as possible to advance all those projects and get them all done uh as soon as possible.

So not one is taking priority, it's just each project through as they go through their phases, require more of that share uh and other times uh there are no expenses occurring, and so uh they don't require any of that money.

But yeah, it looks like we're on track for it to end within 15 months, and we got about five million of the 18.3 so far.

Thank you.

That's all I got.

Awesome.

So in regards to the uh Stuck and Hoff Um Madam City Manager getting clarifications, there's a couple things.

I think the city has met with Mr.

Taylor's many times on this, and so it sounds like that it's it's it's been communicated, and so and we had somebody from um the club that came down here to to chat a little bit.

Could you give us a little bit more perspective?

Sounds like we've we've tried communicating multiple times that this is the process to Mr.

Taylor.

Mayor, counselors, thank you.

And yes, to speak to Mr.

Taylor's comments, uh, you know, some of the things that he brought up today are um in addition to some concerns that he's shared with us in the past, and and so a little bit of new information, but I do have uh a response.

Uh so he he spoke about the private match.

I do believe that he's speaking of the governor's cup match, um, as the speaker from uh the action shooter club mentioned uh that is a partnership.

So the Casper Shooters Club Club partners with Ghost Town Shooters uh to submit the bid for the governor's cup.

Uh the ghost town shooters do not qualify to submit a bid, it has to be an operating entity, and Casper Shooters Club does not have the material and equipment and expertise in order to hold the match, and so they they partner.

Um we were successful in in obtaining the bid for the governor's cup, um, and in fact, in intend to hold that event here for at least the next two years, if not maybe three years.

Um, and so as I understand it, what happens is that the net proceeds, so of course, there is revenue generated from uh registrations for the match.

However, there are expenses associated as well with holding a match of that caliber.

And so the net proceeds, which I understand for last year, I I can't speak to his total uh figure of 116,000 over three years, you'd have to do a little bit more um uh uh research into that.

But as I understand it, the net proceeds for last year's governor's cup was approximately $18,000.

Now, what happens with those proceeds is that they are split 50-50.

50% of it goes back to the general fund of the Casper Shooters Club, uh, which is used for range improvements throughout the facility.

50% of the proceeds go back into what they call their match fund, which is the starter for funds that are needed to improve the match in future years, any match that that we host at Stuckenhof's.

And so uh right now, the only annual event uh that Stuckenhof is hosting is this governor's cup match, and so yes, 50% of those proceeds would go into that match fund, and then those funds were expended uh in order to improve the berms, um, purchase new targets, do do all of the things that would make that match a better competition and user experience the following year.

And so that's how I understand they utilize uh those funds.

And so I do think that it's important to note that while that match is for a certain type of shooter, the proceeds do benefit the entirety of the Stuck and Hof um membership population.

Um and then just to clarify so while in the past it was the case that you had to be a member of Ghost Town Shooters or the Action Um Cowboy or the excuse me, the Cowboy Action Club in order to access that that pistol range, that is no longer the case.

Um we we brought Mr.

Um Taylor's concerns to the membership, and they devised a membership through Casper Shooters Club, whereby any of their members could purchase an additional membership to access that part of the facility at any time.

They do the exact same thing with the long range, which is another sort of specialty range that's out of the way and difficult to manage from a safety perspective all of the time.

And so those require uh additional memberships, but any member of Casper Shooters Club can become can buy the the separate membership package and gain access to the pistol ranges.

Uh, in addition to that, they are working on offering completely open public days next season, where anybody in the community, whether they have a membership or not, can come try pistol shooting at the facility and determine if that is a sport for them.

Thank you, appreciate that.

So, Mr.

Taylor, it sounds like you've met many times with the city, and and we've we've kind of been able to give some feedback on that.

And it may or may not be what you want to hear, but it sounds like from what I'm hearing from from around that the from our city staff that we've worked on it, we're remediating it, we're taking care of those things, we're trying to make extension to give more access to public.

And so that's our hope.

And so I I certainly hope that helps to that extent that we're moving down that road.

Um, to me, I guess for the council too, it sounds like it's understand that they're working towards that, and I'm hoping it's meeting the standard that that's that you're asking for from the city.

So thank you, Mr.

Taylor.

Appreciate it.

Please read the consent agenda titles.

Establish October 7th, 2025 as a public hearing date for consideration of 7A1A fiscal year 2026, budget amendment one and 7A1B, new microbrewery light liquor license number 13 for oil city beer company, David Street doing business as oil city beer David Street, located at 225 South David Street, suite five.

Thank you.

The chair to entertain a motion two by minute action, establish the public hearing dates just read moved by the vice mayor, seconded by counselor Jensen.

Any abstentions?

Yes.

I would like to abstain from item 7A1B, please.

Any other abstentions?

Okay, please cast your vote.

Please record the vote.

With counselor Pollock abstention notice noted, and all other counselors voting aye, the motion passes.

I now declare the public hearing open for the consideration of an ordinance approving a zone change for lot one of the Irma Edition subdivision.

Uh Mr.

City Attorney, do you have any exhibits?

Thank you, Mayor.

I do exhibit number one correspondence from Liz Becker to Zuluna Lopez, dated September 12th, 2025.

Exhibit number two, affidavit of publication from the Casper Star Tribune dated August 25th, 2025.

Thank you.

Madam City Manager, do you have a report?

Thank you, Mayor.

So tonight we're asking council's approval for uh a zone change for the property located at 777 Antler.

I believe that there's a map pulled up for your um viewing pleasure.

The applicant applied for a conditional use permit under their previous zoning, uh, which was C4.

Um, however, that conditional use permit was denied by the planning and zoning commission because of the requested residential use was not allowed.

And so the applicant uh is now requesting uh a zone change to M2 General Industrial.

Uh it's worth noting that the applicants were granted uh site plan approval for the construction of uh approximately 7400 square foot office and warehouse building in March of 24.

Uh that building has been constructed.

Uh temporary uh certificate of occupancy has been issued, um, but they are currently uh decided to delay the completion of the site work, which would issue them the full certificate of occupancy um pending their efforts to obtain permission to construct uh a residential addition to the east side of that building.

The surrounding land uses uh do comport to this zone change request, and so um we are requesting uh council's approval to move forward with this zone change.

Thank you.

Council will now listen to public comments, public hearing comments are limited to five minutes, and no duplication of speakers will be allowed.

At this time, I would ask those individuals who wish to speak in favor of the ordinance to please approach the lecture.

Those who wish to speak in favor hello, my name is Kevin Everly.

I'd like to speak in favor of because that building.

So yeah, everything that you have.

Any questions?

Yeah, go ahead, counselor Sweeney.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

So do you intend to add on to that shop to the east or the residents would be inside the existing building?

No, I don't want to give up any of the shop area like any man.

So uh we uh we do have plans drawn up for an addition onto the east side of the building that's about 2500 square feet.

And um, but we haven't gone forward with anything.

Uh contractors looked at it, and we have plans drawn up until we get this issue settled, we're kind of at a standstill.

We're kind of at a standstill, and it's kind of we didn't finish the concrete on the east side of the building.

You know, in case this actually comes to fruition, and then if we'll just concrete the rest of it, like and that should finish up for the final uh occupancy.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Okay, thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Certainly, thank you.

Any other speak in favor of this?

Okay.

At this time, we would ask the uh any speakers or individuals who wish to speak in opposition to the ordinance to please approach the lectern.

Anybody who wishes to speak in opposition.

Okay, there being no others to speak for or against the ordinance.

I now declare the public hearing closed.

Please read the ordinance by title only.

An ordinance approving a zone change for lot one of the Firma edition subdivision in the city of Casper.

Chair would entertain a motion to approve on first reading the ordinance just read.

So moved.

Second.

Move by uh Councilor Sweeney, seconded by Councilor Pollock.

Any discussion from the council.

Any amendments?

Please cast your vote.

Please record the vote.

With all counselors voting aye, the motion passes.

Thank you.

And I'll declare the public hearing open for the consideration of submitting a community development block grant application to the WCDA on behalf of the subrecipient Wyoming Housing Network.

Mr.

City Attorney, do you have exhibits?

Thank you, Mayor.

I do exhibit number one correspondence from Liz Becker to Zalimala Lopez, dated August 29th, 2025.

Exhibit number two, public hearing notice as published on the City of Casper website on August 28th, 2020.

Exhibit number three, project proposal as submitted to the City of Casper by the Wyoming Housing Network, dated August 27th, 2025.

Thank you.

Madam City Manager, do you have any comments?

Mayor, at this time I would like to invite Liz Becker, our community development director, up for a staff report, as well as to introduce uh the Wyoming Housing Network to review their proposal.

Perfect.

Thank you so much.

Ms.

Becker.

Mr.

Mayor, members of council.

In June of this year, the Wyoming community opened up the process for applications for this upcoming year for CDBG projects.

Staff attended a meeting with them to make sure that we were on track with the protocols, the process.

We have previously, you as the city have had a couple of projects through this same CDPG program.

We attended a webinar training, and then I came before you in August at a work session to ask that you support the allowance of a letter of intent from interested parties that had projects that served the poor, um, benefit the poor, and also maybe serve an emergency need.

And you gave me authority to allow for those letters of intent to be submitted to the city by the deadline, which was the end of August.

Woman Housing Network did submit a letter of intent, and then that was forwarded on to the Wyoming Community Development Umuthority.

A lot of acronyms there.

That you were asking me also during that particular work session that there were questions as to whether the CDBG funding would be actually honored because of some of the federal cuts that we've seen with programs.

I did follow up immediately afterwards with the team at WCDA to verify that in fact projects that would be granted through this cycle do in fact have the funding secured that we could move forward.

So I wanted to get that answer back to staff.

This evening, what we're looking for is in fact support for the Wyoming Housing Network project, which you'll hear about in a minute.

Um we need to, in fact, for the next step, have it in our formal minutes from this meeting that there is support for this project.

Those minutes would be attached to the application, which is due to WCDA at the end of this month.

We will then wait until January when the WCDA board of directors will meet and convene on all the projects that have been submitted from around the state for CDBG funding, and then we would come forward if we are successful and uh bring forward the grant acceptance as well as a subrecipient agreement to work with Wyoming Housing Network this next year on their project.

So that's my staff update, and then I don't think you're gonna have any more questions for me, but without further ado, I think you'd like to hear about the project a little bit more.

So I'd like to introduce Melissa Noah, the executive director of the Wyoming Housing Network.

It's been a pleasure to work with her up to this point, and um feel really really great about this project and the need it will fill in our community and also meeting our um count your council goals that again we are striving to hit with affordable housing and maintenance and preservation.

So, Melissa Melissa Noah, executive director for Wyoming Housing Network, Mr.

Mayor, uh members of council.

I'm very excited to be here tonight.

So thank you, Liz, for the introduction.

I do have um some information and handouts to share with you.

I'll give those a minute.

Um the left side of the packet that I provided for you is the information that I'm going to cover here in the meeting.

Um basically what I'd like to cover with you is just an introduction to who Wyoming Housing Network is.

Um, talk to you about the compelling need for the project, um, describe the project for you, uh, address any risks that we see with the project, and then talk about the community benefit of this CDBG application application.

Um we are asking the city of Casper to be our UDLC for this application.

We cannot apply directly for these funds.

We must have a uh municipality um sponsor in order to uh bring our project forward and request the funds.

Uh Wyoming Housing Network is a uh statewide nonprofit.

We are a community housing development organization, and that is a HUD designation.

We serve uh moderate to low-income families, and we do that.

Our mission is to provide uh to strengthen Wyoming communities by providing quality resources and housing um opportunities for people to reach their housing goals, and so we do that two ways, um, and I'll cover some of these.

One is that we are a nonprofit developer, so we develop and have an extensive portfolio of uh low-income multifamily apartments in the state, um, and then we provide um high-quality housing counseling.

We are the only HUD certified housing counseling agency in the state.

Um, it's a great mission.

I get pretty excited about it.

So our track record here, I just want to cover we do own and operate 481 housing units across the state.

Um, 187 units are here in Casper.

So we own Spring Hill Apartments, and um we also own Juniper Ridge, which is the project I'm here to discuss with you.

Uh, we are a long-standing partner of WCDA, it's the only HUD certified housing counseling agency.

Um, we work with 10 partners right now in Neutrona County, providing financial education, uh, rental and eviction prevention counseling, and uh Wyoming uh we work with the community action partnership and Natorina Collective Health Trust as well in uh development projects and meeting the needs of our most vulnerable and low-income members of our community.

Um, in your packet on the left-hand side, you will see two letters of recommendation that we've received, one from Casper Housing Authority and one from Natrona Collective Health Trust in support of this project.

So I hope we have time for you to read that today.

Um, Spring Hill Apartments is an extensive rehabilitation that we've done in uh actually four years.

Uh it took two funding sources, home funds and National Housing Trust Fund, and then um it was a 50-year-old property.

We did a rehabilitation of inside and outside um new steel stairs foundation work.

We added seven additional ADA units.

I bring that project up because it was an extensive project that had to meet federal funds, which is very federal requirements, very similar to the CDBG application.

Um, we have that experience that was a four-year project.

Our t-shirts at the end actually said we survived Spring Hill rehab.

So we are fully versed in the amount of work it takes to complete rehabilitation work and meet federal compliance.

Um, as we continue through this document, um the request that we have is that Juniper Ridge is um was built in 2013 and the ethys or the stucco on the outside is a system-wide failure.

Um, the uh winters here are very extreme, and they've taken their toll on it.

This is not an expense that was ever anticipated in the development of the project, and it is more than the property can afford on its own to be able to do this repair of those three buildings.

Um, I have pictures with in here that show you some of the damage.

Um, this is actually from a WCDA report.

We are audited um and inspected by WCDA every year, and they have us on a watch list now because the EFIS failure is becoming so significant.

Um the scope of the work is to repair the um the siding on the outside.

We did look at replacing it, and that was 2.4 million dollars with siding instead of redoing the the EFIS stucco work.

The EFIS is approximately 1 million to 1.2 million um plus some money for remediation of uh our risks here are mud swallows.

I have an environmental science bachelor's degree, so we do have a mitigation plan in place to reduce that risk of that interrupting their nesting season, interrupting the construction.

Um just the timing of the award if we were to get it.

Um, and the stringent requirements of the CDBG.

Um we have extra capacity in house.

We are hiring a construction project manager grant assistance to manage the grant.

So we are mitigating our risks and making sure that we're able to meet the requirements.

Um the benefits to the community.

Go ahead and take another.

Go ahead and take another.

Okay, I'm talking sorry.

I tried not to have a Dr.

Pepper this afternoon because I talk really fast anyway.

Um the benefits to the community.

Um really we are an organization that's been around for 20 years, so we are seeing our portfolio mature, which means it's getting older.

And Wyoming has that issue as well.

Um, and affordable housing, uh repairing and maintenance for it is a significant issue.

Um it's an issue when we talk about housing in general.

So there's a lot of talk about building and expanding our affordable housing, expanding housing in general.

We're we're we're versed well versed in the issues that are facing our communities with housing.

Um, part of that conversation that's really important is maintaining the housing.

If we're not maintaining the housing that we have, we're on a hamster.

I call it the hamster wheel of housing.

We're trying to build and increase capacity while we're losing housing at the same time, especially in certain demographics like low income and naturally occurring affordable housing.

So this project is incredibly um important.

It is not a flashy project.

It's not um, it's uh, you know, not necessarily exciting to people, um, but it is very important to the people who live at Juniper Ridge.

Um, and until we get this taken care of, um, we'll continue to have to find solutions.

Um, so the CDBG funding is really the only type of funding available for us to access for a project like this.

Otherwise, I'm looking at increasing permanent financing or doing one building at a time, um, which is not no not only not efficient, it's also more costly, and it shrinks the margins at Juniper Ridge apartments, which is an affordable housing, it's income-based, so it's low-income families that live there.

Um, if I have to go out and finance this another way, the margins to maintain that property into the future are cut significantly.

And so it's uh we'll create a cycle of issues with maintenance for the building if we can't find some assistance to repair it.

Um I'm gonna go ahead and stop you the yeah.

Yeah, yeah, sorry, go ahead.

No, no, no, you're good.

So, what I'll do is um I don't know other questions.

Yes, go ahead.

Thank you for the presentation here.

Can you talk to me a little bit about the uh the rationale?

It sounds like the original EFIS only lasted 10 maybe, and the proposal is to put the same um it's not different.

Okay, yeah.

Can you talk to me about um you know, sort of the difference between the proposal here versus the siding and what you anticipate the longevity to be relative to to what you had in the first go round?

Um so, Mr.

Mayor and members of council, that's an excellent question.

Um, and so this type of EFIS that was applied was actually very popular in that time period in development because it was fairly inexpensive.

Um, in my history in Ding, I was not here when the the building was built.

Um, that it was applied similar to how you might do that in um a more temperate environment.

Um, that that stucco.

The work that we did in our research was to work with several stucco companies.

We've gotten bids and it increases the flashing on the building, the waterproof, um, the winterization for it, um, and the material they will use will be of a higher quality when they go to put it on the housing.

So it is a superior product to what is on there now, and we anticipate not having this problem again um down the future with with this particular repair.

So we've done the diligence not to just replace it with something that's the same, but to make it better for the property and make it more appropriate for uh Casper, Wyoming weather.

So thank you.

Just a follow-up to um the folks you're working with who who were advising on that.

Did they give you any sense of um what type of lifespan you could expect with this this new um method?

Um Mr.

Mayor and members of council.

I can't speak directly to that um to that uh fact, but um I sure can follow up and get that information.

Um thank you, Liz.

All right, can we council now listen to public comment?

Public hearing comments are limited to five minutes, and no duplication of speakers will be allowed.

At this time, I would ask those individuals who wish to speak in favor of submitting the application to please approach the lecture.

At this time, I would ask those individuals to who wish to speak in opposition to submitting the application to please approach the lecture.

There being no others to speak for or against the submitting of the application.

I now declare the public hearing closed.

The chair would entertain a motion to by minute action approve the city submitting a community development block grant application to the Wyoming Community Development Authority on behalf of the subrecipient, the Wyoming Housing Network.

So moved.

Move by Councillor Pollock, seconded by Councilor Jensen.

Discussion from Council.

Okay, please cast your vote.

Please record the vote.

With all counselors voting aye, the motion passes.

Good luck and thank you for the work that you guys are doing.

Appreciate it.

Council will now consider consent resolutions.

Sorry, please read the consent resolutions by title only.

Sorry about that, Laura.

9A1, authorizing a transportation service contract for transit services for the city of Mills, a Wyoming municipality for fiscal year 2026.

9A2, authorizing a transportation service contract for transit services for the town of Evansville, a Wyoming Municipality for fiscal year 2026.

9A3, authorizing a transportation service contract for trans services for the town of Bar Nunn, a Wyoming Municipality for fiscal year 2026.

9A4, authorizing a contract for transportation services with Notrona County for fiscal year 2026.

9A5, adopting and establishing new bus fares for the City of Casper Transit System, which provides transit services for the City of Casper, City of Mills, Town of Bar None, Town of Evansville, Wyoming, and parts of Neutrona County, Wyoming.

9A6, approving and adopting the long-range transportation plan navigating 20 2055 for the Casper Metropolitan Area.

9A7, rescinding and replacing resolution number 2503, providing for the naming of legal depositories and investment firms for 2025.

9A8, authorizing submission of a federal mineral royalty capital construction account grant application to the state land and investment board on behalf of the governing governing body for the city fiscal year 26 priority water main replacement for the purpose of replacing approximately 4,300 feet of water main that is at the end of its serviceable life.

9A9, authorizing a contract for outside city sewer services with MAGE LLC.

9A10, authorizing a contract for outside city water services with Danny Spurgen, Nicole Spergen, and Marcus Bergen.

9A11, authorizing the city of Casper to participate in the new National Opioids Secondary Manufacturer Settlement and enter into a secondary manufacturer's combined subdivision participation and release form.

9A12, authorizing acceptance of a quote between the City of Casper and Motorola Solutions Incorporated for the Motor Oil Motorola Site Router Project.

9813, authorizing a contract with Pope Construction Inc.

Pope for the water distribution garage building and door repair.

Project number 25-48.

9A14, authorizing an agreement with the NORCON of New Mexico LLC for the Casper Recreation Gym Center Gym Curtains Divider, Project Number 25-037.

Authorizing change order number two to the agreement with installations and service company Inc.

for the East 21st Street Improvements, Kingsbury Drive to Walsh Drive, Project Number 21-73.

9A16, authorizing amendment number one to the contract for professional services between the city of Casper and Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.

Thank you.

Chair Dunitana motion to adopt the consent agenda items just read.

Moved by Councillor Bond, seconded by the Vice Mayor.

Madam City Manager, would you like to comment on any of these items?

No comments on these.

Any abstentions or nay votes?

Please cast your vote.

Please record the vote.

With all counselors voting aye, the motion passes.

Council will now discuss the resolution regarding wastewater treatment plant, master plan, and improvements.

Because this is not on the consent agenda, it will be open for discussion by the council.

Please read the resolution by title only.

Authorizing a contract for professional services with HDR Engineering Incorporated for planning and engineering services for the WWTP facilities master plan and improvements.

Project number 24-74.

Chair Duntertain a motion to approve the resolution just read.

Move by Councillor Sweeney, seconded by Counselor Haskins.

Yes, Mayor, thank you.

So I'm going to ask you all to remember way back to the end of January of this year in 2025 when we first came to you with a request for uh wastewater treatment plant facilities study.

At that time, the study was estimated to cost about 400,000, and council approved for us to move forward.

The professional services agreement with HDR on the agenda tonight includes both the wastewater treatment treatment plan, excuse me, analysis and master plan.

So this works the work includes a thorough site assessment, performance review, analysis of alternatives for improvements, and a conceptual design for those improvements at the wastewater treatment plant.

The fee for this work is 398,605.

So right under that 400,000 we estimated back in January.

The project, however, also includes design services, bidding services, and services during construction for a complete rehabilitation of the headworks facility at the wastewater treatment plant.

It is our intention to hire a construction manager at risk for this work.

So the work includes new screw pumps, an evaluation and replacement of all of the HVAC, electrical piping, slide gates, et cetera.

And so the project includes uh SCADA system improvements to allow for the automated monitoring and operation of the headworks building.

So the fee for this additional scope that was not discussed with you uh back in January is 481,025, which brings the total uh fee agreement to 879630, which is what we are asking you to approve tonight.

Thank you.

So now I'll open up for discussion for council or questions for staff.

So yeah, counselor Sweeney.

So um that that helps to clarify the differences.

Um in going through that um on the um basically the consulting part in the master plan part.

So my understanding is that is limited in scope to just the plant itself, uh showing us a variety of options.

Um for council to consider in the future.

Is that correct?

Mayor, yes, sir.

That's correct.

And if I could follow up.

Um thank you, Mayor.

So also um so if if I'm thinking correctly, there's um screw pumps or four, three, three.

So would this revive and rebuild all three or just one of them?

Mayor, counselor.

I believe the answer is yes to all three, but I would like to invite Mr.

Brower up to confirm.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor, Councillors.

Um we gave an update to council a few months ago on the screw pumps, and one of those screw pumps cannot keep up right now.

There are a total of three of them.

And this project, it basically again it's the whole scope of engineering services from design through bidding and construction administration services to completely replace all three of those screw pumps.

At the same time, we're doing that.

We wanted to take care of all of the aging infrastructure as part of the headworks.

So that includes slide gates, HVAC equipment, electrical equipment, and all that stuff.

So again, um estimated to be roughly a $15 million project.

Uh, that's a project that you guys have approved, uh, state revolving loan fund loan for uh that project.

And so again, it's a fairly substantial project, and this you know, a good portion of this contract are for the engineering services associated with that $15 million.

Thank you.

Um Mayor, if I could follow up.

So um thank you for that, Tom.

Um so this is just for the design on the screw pumps and in the head headwater system, not necessarily the replacement.

That's the 15 million.

Mayor council, that is correct.

It's important to keep in mind that again.

There's in general kind of three phases associated with that engineering.

We have the design of the project, we have the bidding of the project, and then we have the construction administration services where they're they're overseeing, reviewing submittals, checking on the project, making sure it's going along with schedule, approving pay requests, and that that fee of that uh 481,025 includes that whole myriad of engineering services.

It's not just for design.

Design bidding and engineering services during construction.

Thank you.

Any other questions while we have Tom up here?

Okay.

Thanks, Tom.

Appreciate it.

Any further discussion?

Mayor if I could.

So I this was complex enough in my P brain that in enough the dollar amount that I felt that it warranted a little more discussion.

Not only for my purposes, but the public uh to know a little bit more that we're just not going willy-nilly about um, you know, spending almost 900,000 um on stuff.

So uh, but that that was purpose and I appreciate the explanation.

In a way, I can understand.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, any amendments.

Please cast your vote.

Please record the vote.

With all counselors voting aye, the motion passes.

Thank you.

Uh please read the consent minute action title.

10A1 acknowledging a change of corporation ownership ownership for bar and grill MTB Entertainment LLC doing business as Rialto and Bar and Grill number 15, MTB Entertainment LLC doing business as America.

10 A2, accepting a high bid for track G of the Mesa del Sol edition.

10A3, authorizing the purchase of one new one ton of pickup with platform bed for use by Hogan Basin ski area of the parks recreation and public facilities department.

10A4, authorizing the purchase of one new one-ton pickup with utility body for use by the parks division of the parks recreation and public facilities department.

1085, authorizing the purchase of one new nine-foot dump body for the use of the wheat and pest division of the parks recreation and public facilities department.

10A6, authorizing the purchase of two new side loading 27-yard sanitation trucks for use by the sanitation division of the public services department.

10 A7, authorizing the purchase of one new one-ton pickup with accessories for use by the wheat and pest division of the parks recreation and public facilities department.

10 A8, authorizing the purchase of one new half-ton pickup with a six and a half foot bed for use by the Ford Wyoming Center.

Thank you.

The chair entertained a motion to approve the consent minute action uh agenda items just read.

Second.

Move by Councillor Sweeney, seconded by Counselor Pollock.

Any abstentions or nay votes?

Please cast your vote.

With all counselors voting aye, the motion passes.

Now's the time that we ask our city counselors to bring forward any relevant concerns or items of interest.

We'll start over the councilor Jensen.

It's like the third time in a row, right?

Well, had busy week so far, and it's gonna continue throughout the week.

Um yesterday we had a OID meeting and went over some things.

So I'm gonna let the chair.

So he's gonna be really thorough.

I know it.

So I'm not gonna repeat because he likes to tell it all.

Um CNFR meeting also yesterday, and um we did really well as far as numbers for that event.

Um going off of memory because I left my number sheet at home, so I can give you some more of those um next week um that are precise.

But uh ticket sales were up.

They did sell out on that Saturday.

Um, I want to say, gosh, you know, I'd be guessing if I said, but um, let's see, Tuesday and Thursdays they said were their really busy days, other than the selling out on Saturday for the finals.

So um sounded like everything went good on all other ends, and the sports ranch did good too with their um mercantile that was going on.

So just really great uh turnout, and everybody was happy and in good spirits yesterday.

So the minutes did not come in yet.

So I wasn't even able to check those for those numbers.

I apologize.

Um let's see tomorrow morning, boys and girls club breakfast honoring Barbara Cuban and many of you maybe know or don't know, but uh she was instrumental in um getting uh public law and a partnership going between the National Historic Trail Center Foundation and the BLM side.

Um so she's gonna be getting honored over there.

So if you're gonna show up, that'd be amazing to watch that.

And then Superman's kid will reeves there.

So again, good talk to listen to him as well.

Um October is domestic violence month.

So just uh um let everybody know the self-help center is gonna be doing holding a visual.

Um, so look for those dates.

I'm sure I think I've saw it on Facebook, their times and location is it the sixth.

Thank you.

Um also every Thursday in October.

Well, is wear purple month in honor of uh domestic pilots and just bringing light to that.

Um let's see, Thursday.

I got a Platte River Revival Advisory Committee meeting.

So in lieu of what we just saw that presentation, it'll be more.

We'll get to look at the 30% conception plan that they have going on.

So we'll get a detailed um run through of that project.

So that's it.

And then Friday, yay.

I don't have anything, so that's good.

Otherwise, yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah, Councillor Bond.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um just a couple of things I I did hear, I did have another mention, heard another mention at an unrelated meeting I was at about the idea of of a city newsletter.

And it kind of really in conjunction with the website.

And actually uh Counselor Pollock pointed this out that uh the new website revision would be would lend itself really nicely to kind of morphing into uh uh with the updates and so forth that happen that are automated as a part of that system.

That might be the nice a nice basis for uh for a newsletter.

So I appreciated her perspective on that.

That was good.

Uh another one I wanted to mention was that uh I did attend the uh chamber of commerce uh luncheon update uh by this the uh the update was given by the airport manager, uh Mr.

Januska, and uh interesting update about there's lots going on at the airport, uh incredibly busy, even with just one airline serving serving the air airport in Casper uh vicinity, but uh and stays incredibly busy.

Uh interesting information that he had to share about the role that this the airport is now playing in uh not only freight uh shipment, but also uh uh the fight, the uh fighting wildfires and forest fires.

They now have the capacity to load and service the uh tanker planes uh and the the ones that fly with the fire, the fire retardant uh substance.

And so that was very interesting to learn.

Um also talked, you know, he said that they're always open to uh other airlines.

Uh he said the most uh in terms of other airlines coming in with additional service.

Uh he said the most likely prospects would be uh probably American or American or anyway.

Anyway, he said there's a class of airline that has connections to other other hubs, uh, but then there are those smaller, more regional airlines like allegiance and so forth.

But he said they're always open to to those ideas.

Um and if those airlines are interested in this market.

Uh I did miss the uh court liaison meeting, but Kel Sler Haskins will have an update on that, I believe.

Uh and last of all, I attended the youth mental health collective meeting today.

We uh kind of did just a share out of the work that's being done for thirds, the development of third spaces for uh youth.

There's two major, well, actually six projects if you count the uh the the five smaller ones or four smaller ones and five smaller ones and the major one with the our uh recenter.

Uh so we'll get a full update and full report out on uh those at the next at the next meeting in uh October.

Um but things are moving along.

So yeah, sharing some research and uh hopefully some some good collaboration happening with other nonprofits and so forth that are also working toward that idea of third spaces for youth.

So yep, good work.

Thank you.

Elster Pollock.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have a few updates.

Um I'll start with today and go reverse chronological orders.

We've got um the regional water board meeting was today.

It was actually quite a short and uneventful meeting.

We paid some bills.

Um we got a production report, our water production is down slightly, but nothing um too concerning there.

Um got an operations update.

It was all pretty much routine maintenance um and a few um unexpected um maintenance projects, but nothing super major.

Um gosh, we renumbered a resolution that we numbered incorrectly.

So it was pretty um pretty exciting all around.

Um we got out of there um pretty early.

So um, yeah, nothing out of the ordinary there to draw your attention to.

Um Counselor Bond was referencing I was invited on Saturday to go um to the Democratic Issues Forum and talk about tax policy.

And you know that I rarely turn down an opportunity to go present on tax policy, so I did take them up on that invitation.

Um and it it went very well.

Um engaged folks were able to give them a kind of an update about how we handled the property tax exemption and what our philosophy was there.

Um, talked a little bit about the six cent update and how the collections there are going and what some of those projects are shaping up to be, and um talked about the budget generally and how it's um sort of structured um what our current fiscal year budget kind of um shook out to look like for this year.

So um yeah, we did get a few questions.

Um I I somebody from another um community said that they received a monthly newsletter that they found very helpful to stay kind of in the loop about um what was happening, and I I've seen a few communities that do like a mayor's um letter or message or something like that.

So um I think it's a good idea and something that might be worth um pursuing if we've got the sort of platform um to do it on.

Um I know that can be kind of logistically cumbersome, so it'd be interesting to explore.

And then um that individual I I um asked that person to go sign up for the e-notifications on the website.

They found that um drop that list of a billion different things to sign up for versus the email and text and email and text for every category to be pretty cumbersome.

Um I think I tend to agree seeing it on her screen.

Um uh my thought was can we just say preferred communication method, either email or text once, and then all the things that you can either opt into or opt out in it rather than asking preference of method for every type of communication or type of subject matter that we might want to talk to somebody about.

So I know that the um we got that presentation about the new website not too long ago and provided a little bit of feedback.

I think hoping to expand those options.

Um perhaps the community members who might be using it would disagree with us and think that simplifying that might actually be a better way to go.

So um maybe pitch that back to the folks working on that project.

Um and then I have an update from the parks and rec meeting on Thursday.

Um these meetings I have learned are are tend to be quite dense.

Um so I've taken a lot of notes.

I'll do my best to convey some of the highlights, but um I would encourage you to go read the minutes when they come out in our packet because um I probably won't capture everything here.

But um we did get an update from the city staff.

It looks like um on the ice expansion project.

The the design um has been given to the donor team so that they can continue their fundraising conversations and um uh so that's a helpful piece of information for them to be able to talk to the community folks to secure um to secure uh private donations and and funding for that project.

Um still targeting the the deadline that we set out um as far as I know, so no updates there.

Um the uh North Casper Athletic Complex.

their fundraising conversations and um uh so that's a helpful piece of information for them to be able to talk to the community folks to secure um to secure uh private donations and and funding for that project um still targeting the the deadline that we set out um as far as I know so no updates there um the uh North Casper athletic complex um there's a pre-bid meeting that was hosted and there was a lot of interest in um uh with the the folks to to put in a bid for that project so that's good to know hopefully that means we'll get um some qualified bidders and um some competitive bids um so that project continues to to move forward um I think you all already know this but the pump track um is open um and getting some good feedback and use from the community already um uh the Platte River Commons you you may recall some time ago there was a collaboration with maybe six entities seven uh it's quite a long list of of collaborators to put together a master plan for the Platte River Commons um that plan is finished um but the the group is working on some um pairing up the recommendations with some potential funding strategies so adding kind of another layer of of detail and recommendation for us before um going live with it so that work continues internally at this point um our city staff has been in conversation um with David Street station kind of in a advisory role it as they think about their ice uh rink and what um what that looks like for this coming year um Washington Park the um south tennis courts have been deconstructed and pickleball is going in and there's some work beginning on the tennis courts on the the lower tennis courts that are gonna be um added in that lower area going on now so you should see a lot of activity over in that area um and I think I'll leave it at that um there were some updates on grants as well but look in the minutes look in the minutes for for those so I don't miss state any of the details of those that's it thanks thank you for Haskins I actually have a good bit of stuff so sorry I know Pat I'm sorry you don't get my time well so I met with drug court they gave multiple presentations for some success stories which is really cool to hear they also have invited a former drug court participant onto the board he's got a lot of great ideas so that was exciting one of the things he brought up was that lift drivers which is not something you'd think I would have learned there but however he said that 211 had a grant that is designed to help participants in drug court and other places get transportation to places like therapy or their required meetings but they don't have anyone to take them so if anybody's looking for a job they also mentioned that Officer Jackson will be receiving the Beacon of Hope Award on October 3rd I think you have to have tickets for that 1224 club.

But they are going to they ask that we at least somebody try to make it if we can just because it's a big deal very big deal for him.

I met with municipal band you forgot Jenna um they have finished their season for the year it was very successful very little rain so they didn't get rained out.

They also mentioned that they're terrified that since you're the interim city manager now that you're gonna forget they want to be involved in the design input of the band shells so I promise them that you would not forget them.

I met with the judges from municipal court they will be meeting with us again in November to present no concerns one of our judges has agreed to go get some schooling additional help she sounds super excited because it's apparently going to be very demanding.

Terrible sales pitch for a school and the opioid settlement committee had to reschedule so we'll meet later next week on that one.

Okay it wasn't that long that's all I got thank you.

See I made it quick um thank you mayor uh so last Tuesday downtown Gas for uh business association met and uh um families out there that might be listening uh the trick or treat uh will be on October 25th downtown from 10 to 2 or 10 to noon um and then small business Saturday November 29th um and uh remember to shop locally versus um all the online our brick and mortars are very important to us um chocolate walk is December 4th and um uh weave it at that on that uh the same day I had a meals on wheels um uh board meeting and just wanted to remind folks they're having a down house extram back in of course this flyer I think it's October 2nd if I remember right but um if you need details call meals on wheels and uh they're looking for sponsors and

Uh chocolate walk is December 4th, and um uh leave it at that on that uh the same day I had a meals on wheels um uh board meeting and just wanted to remind folks they're having a doll house extramatza in of course this flyer I think it's October 2nd, if I remember right, but uh if you need details, call meals on wheels, and uh they're looking for sponsors, and it'll be a bid situation on a bunch of really cool dollhouses.

Um I also attended the Chamber of Commerce lunch, and uh uh it's important to note we we do now have a uh uh full-time customs agent, fortunately, Dale Latham, who was tremendous, um passed away during training, and uh so uh the new um the new custom agent seems very enthusiastic, and um that's good news.

I mean it actually Dale had a lot of folks internationally that would stop in Casper in particular uh to be inspected through customs.

Um Paul McCarthy and uh different different stars military um planes um out of Canada in particular would utilize uh our airport uh for a variety of reasons, but a lot because of Dales.

So I'm hoping that the new agent will uh continue those those some of those trait uh traditions.

And also it's important because we're the only international um airport uh with cut customs inspections, which means um some of the tax benefits uh for shipping and receiving um uh which could be very important um with uh some of the possible technologies moving in looking to move in here if if uh the communities will have them on the micro uh nuclear reactors.

Um also on uh last Wednesday was uh Miamico reuse um uh um joint powers board meeting and uh so the slurry wall hopefully it'll be finished up yet yet this fall.

Uh you'll see them digging currently along Poplar and uh uh with that I also saw just a few layouts of the AMICO or the uh commons uh layout.

Uh they've also they're partnering with somebody that BP has for additional um thought processes with remediation uh with those acreage too, and I can't remember um uh uh their name, but um they they also look like they've got some great plans for over there too that will uh dovetail, I think nicely.

Um on the 11th, um there was the United Way uh campaign kickoff breakfast.

Um and uh that was well attended with not only the nonprofits that um United Way helps with, but uh business and community members that support from there I went up to the 9-11 stair climb.

Um that was enough for me just walking in the door, but um I didn't climb any stairs, but uh what a uh great turnout they had.

Um saw the uh chief up there, a lot of our police officers, a lot of fire departments um uh participated uh from the from the county in our fire department in particular chief uh was there participating and uh um I missed the ceremony uh at 645 because I was at the United Way thing, but um look like that all went really well and uh I hope it's a great great tradition we should continue and continue to remember.

Um and then on the 12th, um I attended uh Mills uh senior center.

They the senior did senior did uh not district, but senior center was doing outreach the week before to Evansville, and then this past Friday was uh Mills.

Very well attended, and uh um trying to beef up um attendance both in Mills and Evansville.

Um last night I had fair board meeting, and again um uh just we had a uh very good uh fare in the rodeo overall was up four percent.

And again, thanks to Casper Police Department uh partnering with the Sheriff's Department.

Uh I think it made safer event, safer community uh with that partnership.

Um today, regional water that uh uh counselor Pollock uh reported on.

The only other takeaway was um uh due to the the tax cuts.

Um they were able to pinpoint um the lack of watering between um our parks and um I don't know if the school district was included in that 10 million gallons.

Um maybe Amber remembers, but I think it was just parks was 10 million.

Yeah.

So um so that even though some parks were browning up, um obviously don't make a comeback the last couple of days.

Thank you for the rain.

Uh but um I think that was a good way to do the um uh property tax cuts and um um in being respectful of of the users.

Um I think that was it.

So thank you.

Sorry.

Counselor's Yamrod.

Can you can you give me one second?

I think Counselor Pollock wanted to add something real quick.

Well, yeah, because Pat made me feel like I didn't do anything at all.

Um this week.

Uh I I forgot I made it up to Hogadon on Sunday for the Great Mountain Mingle, the second installment of that.

Um I just wanted to shout out what a cool event that was.

There was music, they had the grill out, food was great.

Uh they had a beer tasting, so I was able to taste beer for the first time ever.

Um it was awesome.

It was really fun.

Um there was a it's uh it sounded like uh um Jake was up there and it sounded like they had a um an increase in attendance from the week prior.

Um so yeah, just a great we took our dog, it was just a great way to enjoy the mountain and get outside while the weather is still pretty good.

Uh did get a little blustery up there, but but not too bad.

And um, yeah, it was awesome.

So I hope that that's something that um look to continue.

So I think um once it catches on, it could be it could be a real thing.

So that's all.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Had a downtown development authority board meeting last Wednesday.

We welcome Megan Bratton from the Neutrona County Library to our board.

Uh we just recently appointed her, so should be no surprise.

We discussed potentially changing our meeting day due to multiple conflicts with other boards and uh the chamber of commerce's luncheon series.

I always do end up missing our DDA board meetings anytime they do a pre- or post-ledge luncheon, and I didn't make it to this most recent one, but it also fell on the same exact day.

So looking at it uh maybe changing our meeting date.

We're still in the process of revising our website and re-establishing the brand.

We discussed holiday banners on light poles during the holiday shopping season as far as how many, what the cost would be.

We talked about the history of the public bathroom at the parking garage, if you're curious.

Uh it was built 11 years ago for a cost of 480,000, about half of which was paid for by a state grant.

Downtown merchants, the chamber, and other stakeholders were advocating for it at the time because there was no public restrooms downtown.

I don't know who originally managed.

I don't know if that was a DDA as part of their parking garage agreement.

It looks like uh city manager is confirming that.

Uh however, over time the maintenance has slowly become the responsibility of the city.

I'm sure that's due in part because the DDA doesn't manage parking garage anymore, and so just uh seems to happen over time.

But that costs about $25,000 a year to maintain that, to clean it, to repair it.

Um, and so we're just having conversations with current stakeholders to see if we can partner on that.

Metro had their paws and pencils family event last week.

It went very well from what I'm told.

The food trick had the benefit of our Casper Fire uh crews up there training at the same time, and so I'm sure they were thankful for that.

Uh so thankful that it sounds like the owners of the food truck went home with a dog and a chicken.

So um overall they had 10 adoptions that evening.

They are working up to um try to get around 10 to 15 appointments a week for spay neuter of stray cats.

And uh, as I mentioned earlier, the RFP for our construction manager at risk should be finished, and I assume on our agenda here in the next regular meeting or two.

Um had an old Yellowstone district board meeting last night.

We introduced Rachel, who's the new owner of Racas onto the board.

We also welcomed Mike Leighton from the Amico Reuse Agreement Joint Powers Board onto the board.

He gave us an update on their work regarding the slurry wall, said it should be done here in the next month.

I guess we also have a new rep for BP, and apparently that relationship's getting a lot better.

Our last rep hadn't been here for about seven years, and so it sounds like this one's a lot more engaged and um willing to work together on stuff.

We discussed pushing our Midwest Avenue ribbon cutting to October 8th at 4 30.

The focal point, in my opinion, at least of the meeting was um we had a discussion about potential addition of traffic mitigation measures at the Ash and Midwest intersection.

All of the people in that area are reporting dangerous driving habits.

So we talked about the merits of speed bumps, rumble strips, potentially a street light to help control that.

It sounds like uh Liz, our community development director was going to connect with Captain Dabney and um kind of vet some of those suggestions.

Uh, but they all had really strong feelings on this.

Uh apparently it's something that's become quite the issue down there, and uh they think it's just a matter of time before we have a pedestrian strike at that intersection.

Apparently, the issue is people burning out at the intersection, speeding going very quickly.

Um, especially on the weekend evenings, 2nd Street becomes you know, um, people that have nice fast cars like to show them off on 2nd Street, and so Ash and Midwest is kind of part of the loop for them to go one way down to 2nd Street, loop around, go back down.

So I guess my recommendation to folks is please don't burn out there and please don't drive really fast.

It's uh you know, a lot of pedestrians in that area, and nobody cares uh what your car looks or sounds like.

So just throwing that out there.

Nobody cares, but nobody cares.

Um the ARC review committee and the development community uh have already given some feedback on proposed old Yellowstone District form-based code changes.

Our OID advisory committee is taking the next two weeks to look over those recommendations and add to them.

And um we will see that at a future work session.

Um, you know, potential amendments to the OID form-based code.

Uh so I guess expect that.

Our next joint meeting between DDA, OID, and DCBA scheduled for next Monday.

Uh the Christmas parade, like last year, will be on the 6th, not on small business Saturday.

And then our community Christmas tree lighting at David Street Station is tentatively planned for the 29th.

I spoke to Sixcent Revenues earlier uh as a result of Mr.

Steenslin bringing that to our attention.

But on that note, I um because this is a new tax, because there was a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about how long the tax would be applied and where it would be applied, I do think it would be a value to have our marketing team at the city publish more in the way of routine updates through our social channels and press releases, just making sure people feel like they're in the loop, that we are being fully transparent about that.

Uh and I think it'll provide a lot of reassurance for the folks that were you know critical of that tax to begin with.

And so that's something I would like to see done if possible, just you know, a once a month kind of post through our city socials about where we're at, what it's looking like.

Um we did get it in our information packet, which I was thankful for, but most of the general public does not read our information packets or any of our packets for that matter.

But um, and then lastly, we do have a uh Wyoming Association Municipalities Region 4 meeting in Riverton tomorrow evening, starts at five.

Sounds like the vice mayor is going to be there, so I'm thankful for that.

Uh they are providing dinner, but I'm unable to make it.

So I suppose if anybody else is interested in taking my place, um, I would be happy to send you all the materials you would need to feel prepared and confident to attend that meeting.

But uh again, thankful for the vice mayor.

Sounds like he's gonna be there.

So I was worried we wouldn't have any representation.

So glad to hear that's not the case.

That is all I have.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor.

You can send me this stuff.

Okay, we'll do it.

Now, when I was a teenager driving my fast car, we go down second street and I'll all the way out CY and back.

Why are they kind of short?

That's the funny one.

Somebody started the car with a prank.

Right?

Thanks, Mr.

Mayor.

Anybody was gonna get that one.

All right.

Anyway, uh, we had a meeting with uh Peace in Our Cities, and uh we they have some fantastic things moving forward, and I'm happy to say that we are actually seeing some movement in the middle health arena and in the youth mental health arena.

So uh I think that the the partnership with peace in our cities is uh going to help immensely in our in our city.

So um in a 9-11 day of service, my wife and I, along with uh Tara Walker from uh just serve.org, uh spearheaded a community service project with the Casper East Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, just serve and City of Casper.

We had over 50 volunteers who spent their Saturday morning helping community members with things that they needed help with at their homes.

Uh we cleaned up uh six different homes and did a number of other work for a couple of those people as well.

Uh I just wanted to thank Liz Becker and Jolene Martinez from the city for their assistance and helping get that put together as well as all of the volunteers who uh made it possible.

There is a little blurb on the City of Casper's Facebook page with a picture, but uh more information on that will will be coming.

Uh and that's all I've got.

I'm not near as exciting as Pat.

Uh, just a couple for me.

I'll be doing um a proclamation tomorrow at the Boys and Girls Club breakfast with the Wyow Town Mayor, which I'm looking very much forward to.

Also be doing a uh bell-ringing proclamation for the daughters of the American Revolution, which is recognizes um the Constitution, um, the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Umorrow, uh December 17th.

So I'm looking forward to doing that.

Breakfast with the council of governments at 7 a.m.

So looking forward to all those.

Next council meeting of the city council will be the work session, will be a work session and special meeting to be held on Tuesday, September 23rd at 4:30 p.m.

in a regular council meeting to be held at 6 p.m.

on Tuesday, October 7th.

A notice of an executive session to take place at this date and time during this meeting that was given.

We have a matter to discuss related to land.

The chair would entertain a motion to adjourn into an executive session, and at the conclusion of that executive session to reconvene this regular meeting solely for the purposes of the adjournment of the regular meeting.

So second.

Move by the vice mayor, seconded by counselor Pollock.

There are a majority of counselors present in a motion to adjourn into an executive session has been moved and seconded.

This motion requires a two-thirds majority of the council present.

Please cast your vote.

Please record the vote.

With all counselors voting aye, the motion passes.

Agreed than two thirds majority of the council present voted in favor of the motion.

We are hereby adjourned to an executive session.

Thank you, everyone.