Item 6.1 is a motion to approve the appointment of Nettie Johnson to the aging commission for a two-year term to expire on March 18th, 2027.

Motion to approve.

Support motion by Councilwoman Brandana supported by Councilman Johnson.

Is that correct?

Okay.

We had up.

All right, you've got the minutes.

Sorry, I had a little bit of things getting out of order on the uh on the cheat sheet here.

Uh is there any discussion?

Hearing none, all is in favor say yes.

Yes.

All is opposed, say no.

Yes, have it.

Motion carried.

Is Nettie here?

Uh no, she cannot make it.

Okay.

All right.

Uh item 6.2 is a motion to approve the acceptance of the Michigan.

No.

Yeah, I'm going off.

Motion to approve the acceptance of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation grant in the amount of five million dollars.

Make a motion.

Support.

Motion by Councilman Johnson supported by Councilwoman Brandon.

Is there any discussion?

Hearing none.

All is the chair.

Could the mayor just uh go through it a little bit with audience?

Through the chair, absolutely.

So that was uh the check that was awarded here um by Senator Geiss.

Um it allows us to uh focus on lead line replacement.

Um and it also allows for like park and recall and uh infrastructure in our parks, but mostly infrastructure and DPW or yeah, DPW, but focusing mostly on lead line water replacement.

I just wanted to hear it again.

Yep, absolutely.

Thank you.

It was uh definitely well appreciated and uh that's a huge amount of money, and we're definitely gonna use it uh uh wisely and as quickly as possible to get those lead lines out of here as quick as possible.

We're going to um just to touch on something real quick, we're going to uh send out those mailers again, and probably we need the uh you know residents to help us out as best as we can to help identifying who has lead lines, and uh there's information out there um where your water um meter, meter, thank you.

Um you can tell what type of pipe is going in there that helps us identify, and that would save us a lot of time and money if uh the residents can help us do that, and it can really speed things along.

So we're gonna focus on that as well, getting uh the residents information that can maybe help us either sending us literally an email or even a picture that we can focus on getting out there and getting that replaced as quick.

Is that the flyer with the penny test?

If it's copper, a couple different ways.

A couple of different ways, but you know, if no, definitely uh that was helpful because uh yeah at some point in time if we get a projection kind of I know we we put in quite a bit of money in this year's budget that ends um coming up here soon, uh, but just kind of a projection where where we stand in terms of uh when we think I mean I don't know that you're ever done because you may still find some, but uh the chair that you know Ralph can probably speak to this much better than I can, but um that was the thing trying to figure out where you know and locate these once we locate them, we can address it kind of quick.

Um but just going with in with a game plan of knowing where um to focus on, you know, when these houses were built, that you know that kind of helps us, but you know, the much as much information we can have going in, it definitely benefits us.

And so um, you know, the mailers and stuff like that, and actually um we're gonna do uh like one of those little shorts on our cable channel as well, going into detail of what people can do at home that can help us greatly.

And Councilman Johnson, you may be able to answer this.

When a plumber poll a permit from the city of Taylor, is there somewhere in there where they could indicate on there?

Indicates it, but uh any basically any house built before 1960, you need to look at there's some in the 60s, but everything before that along e-course road, uh some of the other subdivisions.

Yeah, Van Born Column, yeah.

Oh but there's no indication.

I mean, they don't it would be nice if the plumbers come in and they say, Yeah, there is a lead line there to give everybody heads up.

Might be something we want to add to that.

And through the chair, sometimes just work we've done, we've been able to, so like we kind of include that.

We might like when we did the work on Wick Road, we discovered that some more of those houses had lead lines than we anticipated.

So you know, knowledge is key, but the more info we can get prior to really going in, but we know there's gonna be ones that we're literally gonna have to knock on the door.

You know, well, maybe just a thought.

You know, any time there's a plumber pulling a permit have on there, you know, that they have to, you know, as part of the you know their inspection, they certify that it's either led or not lead.

That's a good idea.

I mean that extra five or ten minutes.

Uh or at least only take much.