All right, it is four o'clock, and we are we are we on are we on?

Okay.

All right, we'll yeah, you could we'll call the board to public works order.

Um first item on the agenda is bid for 10th Street Chicago to Washington Streetscape project at WS2620.

That's great.

All right, one bid received from Benton Construction Company in the amount of 119,767 dollars.

Motion to refer the bid to the Department of Public Works for tabulation.

Second, all right, it's been moving the second and to send it to public works for tabulation.

Um any further discussion?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

Next item is bids for Manitowak Public Library renovation of meeting and study room spaces, rebid project WB 2618R.

Uh one bid received from Hammond Construction in the amount of three hundred and ten thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars.

So uh Mr.

Mr.

Chairman, as this uh this project is is stated to be funded by the library foundation.

Uh I move that we refer this bid to the library board for tabulation.

All right, second.

All right, moved and seconded to refer to library board for tabulation.

Any further discussion?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries unanimously.

Next item on here is Noxious Weed Assessment Appeals 260583 property owner appeal for Noxious Weed Assessment at 2200 Rankin Street.

I have it.

You have it.

Well, thank you.

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

Um do want to have her come up to the table right here.

If you here, let's grab a yeah, here we go.

She can come right up to the table, ma'am.

Okay.

We do have a copy of the uh letter that you wrote as well as the the form that was the complaint and the the picture.

So if you'd like to uh address the committee, the floor is yours.

Yes, I took some pictures today too to show that the wood was gone.

I paid a hundred dollars to a friend because they pay paid a hundred dollars to somebody to rent a uh a truck to come and get it, so I had to pay them the hundred.

And I've also got pictures of the yard where it was mowed both front and back.

And it's been mowed a couple times.

The problem was is I had a friend that told me he was gonna come and mow the yard, and he kept having every excuse in the world why he couldn't.

And I didn't have a mower at the time, and my son finally got me a mower, so I've been out there doing part of it, and then I have a neighbor girl that does the other half that I I can't do because getting old.

And I just don't have the energy to do all of it myself.

So she does part of it, and very nice girl.

But it was, as I say, it was very tall at the time because my friend just never got over there, and then he finally directed me to somebody else, which I had to pay him $50 to uh do the lawn.

And then there was a guy, his name was Steve that I had been talking to here at the city, and he told me that he he drove by my yard and saw that the wood was gone and saw that the yard was mowed, and he says, I'm not even getting out of my car.

Well, then somebody who they said it's he told he said that he he was contracted by the city to come out and look at it, and he found the weeds that I had gotten to because my weed whacker ran out of string, and I didn't remember how to restring it.

And he so he said, Well, I have to I have to cut it down, or the city will get mad at me.

So I so I spent 150 dollars first to get and I letters that it got from the city didn't really specify exactly.

I knew the wood needed to be got because that was a specific letter, which I did, and that I knew the lawn needed to be mowed, but I wasn't sure.

I thought I had gotten everything that I needed to.

Apparently I didn't, and it just was very frustrating when two different people tell me two different things, and I and my yard looked very in fact.

The guy who mowed my lawn didn't go close enough to my deck, and that's why there were the weeds.

That was the only reason why the weeds were there, because he was about I'd say a foot or two away from the deck, and so I was kinda frustrated after that because then I got this big bill saying you gotta pay this, and I really don't have the money to pay the hundred and fifty dollars plus the four uh four hundred and seventy, and so I did the best I could on that kind of stuff after reading the letters.

I did do as much as I could, and I spent a lot of time try trying to get people to do this stuff because I didn't have the equipment to do it myself, and I live alone in my house, so I was I was very I mean, when I got that that other letter, it was kind of like a contradiction that one person says okay, another person says it's not.

So this was my problem.

Any comment from board members, please go ahead.

I I just have one real quick question.