The City Council convened for a work session to review minutes, receive departmental reports on financial performance and capital projects, and deliberate on upcoming agenda items for the November 12th meeting. Key discussions included the approval of emergency assistance loans, the selection of a contractor for water pipe replacement, and the review of solar plant progress. The session concluded with the Council suspending rules to add a video presentation to the next agenda and entering executive session regarding property acquisition.
Hello to call the city council agenda work session to order, please. The first item October 6, 2025 agenda work session minutes. Motion to approve. Second. Any discussion? Motion carry seven. Oh. Next side of the BOW report. Council Member Shill Richardson. All right. So we had a good meeting. If you've got a copy of the notes, you'll see that we added something to start the meeting. And the first thing that we discussed was a new assistance program. And so what we're looking at is kind of ways to help people who are either being affected by the shutdown and not getting paid, or people who are not getting their SNAP benefits, so that they can still be able to, they don't have to decide between do I pay for food or do I pay for my electricity? So what the program is, it's going to be set at five at $50,000. That's our limit right now. And we are going to give people up to $200 credit. Because we looked at looking at the average delinquent bills when people get to Lincoln, we're about $150. So it's a $200 credit, but it is a loan. All right, so we don't have issues with the gratuity clause. We're not giving away money. We're loaning people up to $200. You've got to show that either you're a snap recipient or that you were affected by the shutdown. And people affected by the shutdown received letters, so that's an easy thing to show. So with those two things, um, it allows you to keep up have a $200 credit so that you don't lose your uh electricity, and also so you don't have to choose between do I pay the electric bill or do I eat? And that's the one thing that we want it to not have happen. So that was presented today, and needless to say, that passed 7-0. Um we also then went into uh Kim Holland presented next year's a water plan for next year. What they're looking at is they're gonna need to replace some uh water pipes that are running through the St. Mary's um St. Anne's up that area, and um it's a what they presented today was the contract for that, and so they got in actually 12 bids. They selected a company called KM Davis, and we're gonna let a contract with KM Davis for that water system improvement project, and the amount is uh 2.3 almost 2.4 million dollars, and again, it'll probably start sometime in January and run about six months. Um a little side contract, which we thought Andy should have to pay, but we'll go ahead and pay it. Um some of the piping runs through a subdivision that Andy may or may not live in. The pipes are ours, the streets are public, but because we're gonna go through there. We we did have a um we had to do a little easement, and they were gracious enough to set the price of the easement at a dollar. So we decided we'd go ahead and do that as well. Um let's see. Pretty much after that, it was kind of status quo meeting. We had water authority, and I'll turn that over to Councilman Chalfont. Okay, this is a um uh a recap of um for the third quarter. Um, the the funds funds for the third quarter, and they in the third quarter, the water sales for the month averaged 85 million gallons a day with a budget of uh 84 million gallons a day with sales revenues of 9.2 million dollars. Um net income for the month of 7.7 million, exceeded the budget by 3.4. This was uh mostly due to unrealized gain in a mark market investments, and um also we got some return from PFAS settlement that we're working on. So uh year-to-date spending on capital projects totaled 49.6 million at the date of the this report with a remaining uh uh CIP budget commitment of 42.5 million dollars. Cash reserve for CIP spending totaled 81 point five million dollars, and that's where some of that money comes from. You're earning money from too. Um year to day to average rainfall at the water authority, totaled 36 inches to last year's 47, 44.7. So we've about 18 percent down on uh the water uh rainfall. So um we had um four linear projects uh underway and working on in progress, including the uh 041 water main replacement.