This was the agenda meeting for the March 17, 2026, City Council meeting, held on March 10, 2026, starting at 4:30 PM. The meeting covered consent items, a future public hearing, unfinished business from prior meetings, and new business items. Council members discussed several items in detail, with two items pulled from consent for full council discussion: the OSM Aviation Academy lease (A6) and police policy amendments (A14).
Okay. It is 4 30. So we are now gonna begin the agenda meeting for the for what will be the March 17th City Council meeting. The first thing we'll have at the meeting next week is a do I have the right? Forgive me just one moment. Yes, first up, we will have a report from the nominating committee. And then we will move right into consent. And after the meeting minutes, here are our consent items. We have item A2, a joint funding agreement. It's a resolution to approve a joint funding agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey for stream gauge operation and maintenance and water quality sampling and monitoring at various locations in the city of Fayeville in 2026 with the amount paid by the city not to exceed $60,700. And Chris is here and available to speak more about that if anyone would like. Yes. Okay. Yeah, so this is a um a stream gauge monitoring program. We've got two locations in the city, one on town branch near the White River, uh, and one on Mud Creek near the the uh city limits to the north. Um these gauges are um maintained by the US Geological Survey, and uh they so they take samples periodically and we we pay for the uh for the service that they provide. Um this is uh this is looking at stream gauge uh stream heights, uh so when we have floods, we know what kind of uh flooding event we have. Uh it also has some some water quality uh sampling that it that we take. Uh this is funded uh the USGS paid to put these in. Uh we pay for the maintenance and upkeep. Generally they they do contribute five thousand dollars per year, but we pay the remaining and we split that between uh the stormwater fund and the uh water and sewer fund. Thank you, Chris. Go ahead, Teresa. Uh thank you, Mayor. Um, I just wanted to ask Chris. I mean, this is a long-term data set that the city gathers so we can really look at change over time in terms of um flow height and and how qu uh rapidly the stream will rise. How many do you know off the top of your head how many years we've but we've got this data set for? Um I think it's been Alan before I go here. So I think it's been over 10 years, yes. Okay, I think it's really important that we maintain that. So thank you for bringing it forward. Sure. I I just have one more question. I'm sorry. Um do you have data to share with us about the the data that they're collecting? Um I believe these now and correct me if I'm wrong. I believe this is online and available. We can provide a link to that if you if you'd like. It's continuous information. Thank you. Yeah. Sarah, this morning. That was just what I had had my light on, was just I was curious about the different places that it does get reported, just so the public if they have an interest where they can go locate it. I was just trying to do a Google search to find it and I couldn't locate it. So yeah, we can we can send that link out to y'all so you can have it. Yes. Great. Thank you, Chris. Um, the next A3, A4, and five are all out of fleet, and Ross is here should you have questions.