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The Scottsbluff City Council met in regular session at 6:00 PM on September 8, 2026, in the City Hall Council Chambers, 2525 Circle Drive, Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The council approved the East Overland Park playground bid, utility fee updates, the police retirement plan amendment, the 2026-2027 pay resolution, union wage contracts, and a wireless lease renewal. Several ordinances were presented on first or second reading without a recorded vote in the available transcript. No minutes were available in the source material; this summary is based on the agenda and transcript.
Here Striker? Here. McCarrigan? Here, Solomon. Here. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. For public information, a copy of the Nebraska Open Meetings Act is available for review. Notice of changes in the agenda by the city clerk. Additions may not be made to this agenda less than twenty-four hours before the beginning of the meeting unless added under item five of this agenda. No changes. Okay. Citizens with business not scheduled on the agenda as required by state law, no matter may be considered under this item unless council determines that the matter requires emergency action. Closed session. Council reserves the right to enter into closed session if deemed necessary. If the item is on the agenda as per section eighty-four fourteen ten of the Nebraska revised statutes. But how how long are parts available generally? Do they just kind of vary? Yeah, it kind of varies. We stick with Miracle and BERC and those because they tend to hold parts a lot longer. Um, some of the other companies kind of change their lines and shift things. So um, these two organizations that we generally use, they keep them a lot longer. So this is just the structure, the surface below still stuff that you don't get scraped up and all of that, like yeah. So this is only the structure and then the swings and then uh at a bay with a saucer swing. Um the surfacing right now that we have in there is sand, so it meets the criteria for fall and all that. And and while it's uh source well, which is a good thing, is there was there any other bids under source world? Uh we checked prices with BERC on a few different structures and size-wise and all of that. This one came in way less. Um we're getting everything here with the swings added for less than what a structure would have cost. Yeah, pre-shipping, yes. This includes pre-shipping, which is nice for structures. Oh, yeah. So that's saving about six grand right there. Nice. Are these uh powder coated or do they have some kind of a rubberized coating? Yeah, they're powder coated, and then the slides and all that are the hard classics. And the materials on this, I assume with the newer sets, it's designed so it doesn't get really hot in the summer, kids can still use it. Yeah, and this park actually is pretty shaded with the cottonwood trees in there, so it's a pretty well protected area. Yeah, and then this isn't the exact color scheme, they just give us one, and so we can pick whatever color scheme we want for that too. Okay, so they'll match with the swings and all that is this something we can install ourselves, or do we have to bring people in to do this? Yeah, this size unit we can do, so we're gonna do it. It'll be a nice winter project. So if we have a winner like last year, we'll get it in the it's a struggle.