Minutes are adopted.

Item number one and only uh standard gentle find budget revision number seventeen.

Yes, the the one and only item, but it's it's definitely not a small one.

Um I think that uh Mr.

Henry categorized it correctly.

There are two items within this budget revision.

The first one is for um environmental services and their auto maintenance uh line item.

If you'll recall a couple of months ago, we came to ask for a budget revision request for um environmental services, meeting about 150,000 into their auto maintenance line at the time to do some of some repairs to some of their trucks.

We also briefed the council at that point in time that there would probably need to be um more money in the upcoming weeks, just in the knowledge of the frequency that some of these large equipment repair um costs were coming in.

Well, we have hit that critical mass.

We are currently sitting um at uh right at their budget line item.

Um, and he is needing to have some critical repairs done within the next couple of weeks.

Um, we have projected out with current usage dollars how much more environmental services will need to finish the year within budget in that line item.

That specific line item will need from what our calculations entail about 432,000 dollars, additional from what it has now just to finish the year.

We are requesting to pull that amount from contingency.

Currently, contingency within the general fund sits at 546,000.

So pulling 432,000 out is a significant request.

It will leave 114,000 in contingency with about two months left to go in the fiscal year.

That is tight.

Um, but I don't necessarily see any other way around that.

But Mr.

Meggs is here, so you moved.

You were over there.

Uh he's here to talk about any of the operational side of things that you might have questions off of it.

So we're in August 4th or 5th September 30, 25, 55 days.

Yes, sir.

These numbers you just gave us already get us to there.

Yes, sir.

What's going on?

I uh sent you all that email just kind of outlining a few things.

Uh just several significant repairs that have crept up on this this year.

I was telling Mr.

Henry earlier, uh one of them that you probably see in the email was uh some water and harness replacements.

We had four of those water harnesses, the the actual truck watering ones.

Okay, we've replaced four of those at 25,000 fees, multiple uh ASL refurbishes where we actually refurbished the truck, uh new arm mechanisms, new operating chains and everything that makes the truck run.

Those uh getting new or 240,000 uh for we did four of those.

So uh right now we've got uh a couple of other significant repairs.

One was uh complete suspension replacement on one of our flusher structs.

It broke the back axle, that was fifteen thousand dollars.

Uh recycling a carboard truck, uh had the mechanisms that fill up on the back, three of those filled.

That was uh $14,000.

Several other issues like that that just keep coming up.

Um like I said in the email, we have solved and we have some things in place and we're looking at some long-term fleet replacement plans for ESD to get some of these older trucks out, uh, but that's still in the works.

Mr.

Bovey, uh, we've been monitoring this all year, and so last night um we were able to finalize um my recommendations to the city council for the next two weeks.

A and F will be reviewing those just to make certain there are no issues with what goes into uh as y'all know the complex uh work of repairing a budget.

Um we have to address these vehicles the last three to four months, it's just made it clear that our maintenance program is just not going to be sufficient.

So I won't give you a spoiler with this.

I'll wait to the 18th, but you're gonna see some um take a little different approach to see if we can't get Mr.

Megs and his department what they need, at least two vehicles, if not more to deal with this maintenance issue.

We just this problem we thought we could we could get another year or two out of these vehicles, a couple of these vehicles, it's just not gonna happen.

Unfortunately, the repair the replacement of these vehicles is around 450,000.

So it's more towards 500 right now.

So two vehicles, you're close to a million dollars right there, but the the maintenance program is not going to be sufficient.

So I you in a couple weeks, you're going to see some us uh take a pretty bold approach and trying to solve this both from a from a functional logistical standpoint but also a financial standpoint.

These aren't like fire trucks, or they take two years to get one.

So yeah, it can.

It can take it's not two years, no sir.

You're looking at 10 to 12 months on a on a garbage truck.

Now they're you'll run up sometimes where they'll have them on the lot and you get lucky, but you want to be kind of picky on what you choose.