WEBVTT 00:00:02.562 --> 00:00:09.952 - Call to order the Monday, October 26, 2026 meeting of the Eltsville Town Council. You want to defer? 00:00:09.952 --> 00:00:17.415 - Yep. Dear Lord, please bless this town. Bless the people making the decisions. Give us the wisdom and 00:00:17.415 --> 00:00:25.317 - humility to make the right decisions for our residents. In your name, Lord Jesus, amen. I pledge allegiance 00:00:25.317 --> 00:00:32.414 - to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, 00:00:32.610 --> 00:01:00.926 - under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call whenever you're ready. We'll wait. 00:01:03.106 --> 00:01:12.016 - Sorry, Scott Oldham. Dan Swaffer. William Ellis. Here. Trevor Saver. Here. I do want to ask Jeff, was 00:01:12.016 --> 00:01:21.364 - that telling your car warranties? Was that tech support or your car warranty was? So probably was. Minutes 00:01:21.364 --> 00:01:30.274 - from the October 12th, 2026 town council meeting and minutes from the pre adoption meeting on October 00:01:30.274 --> 00:01:31.934 - the 5th. So moved. 00:01:33.570 --> 00:01:41.306 - Okay. Either way we'll get a motion to second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? 00:01:41.306 --> 00:01:48.545 - Next action is the action of accounts payable vouchers and payable vouchers. So moved. Second. Motion 00:01:48.545 --> 00:01:53.726 - to second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? 00:01:54.434 --> 00:02:00.554 - There are no resolutions this evening. There are no ordinances on first reading this evening. There 00:02:00.554 --> 00:02:06.797 - is one ordinance on second reading, which is ordinance 2026-17 to establish the salaries for the 2027 00:02:06.797 --> 00:02:13.162 - budget year. This came before the council at the last town council meeting. If there are any questions, 00:02:13.162 --> 00:02:19.405 - I can answer those. The one thing I did want to remind the public when they are looking at the salary 00:02:19.405 --> 00:02:22.526 - ordinance is that the bi-weekly wages that you see 00:02:22.658 --> 00:02:29.333 - is not necessarily going to be indicative of what someone has paid. That is their base pay. 00:02:29.333 --> 00:02:36.589 - The certifications are additional pay. Longevity is additional pay. So the report that you see that 00:02:36.589 --> 00:02:44.207 - will come out in January on the 100R of what we paid somebody in total is not gonna necessarily be their 00:02:44.207 --> 00:02:51.535 - biweekly wages that you see on this salary ordinance. The salary ordinance is for their base pay and 00:02:51.535 --> 00:02:52.478 - officer pay. 00:02:52.578 --> 00:03:04.286 - if it's included in with a position that requires officer questions from anybody on staff public and 00:03:04.286 --> 00:03:15.878 - back to the council to approve ordinance twenty twenty six dash one seven to establish salaries for 00:03:15.878 --> 00:03:20.862 - the twenty twenty seven budget year second 00:03:21.826 --> 00:03:30.716 - Second roll call, please. Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Trevor Sager. Yes. Pamela Samples. 00:03:30.716 --> 00:03:39.072 - Yes. Motion passes. Next is the purchase of traffic counters. Is this you, Chief, or is this? 00:03:39.072 --> 00:03:48.318 - This is me. These are our actual counting devices that will, the type I'm bringing to you now will give 00:03:48.318 --> 00:03:51.518 - me in real time of what's going on. 00:03:52.002 --> 00:03:59.330 - First off, the JMAR technologies that this is from, we purchased them originally. We purchased some 00:03:59.330 --> 00:04:06.878 - originally from JMAR back in about 2008. We've had them counters for a decade and a half. They've been 00:04:06.878 --> 00:04:14.280 - really good equipment to have. JMAR comes really highly recommended. That's who I went to first. And 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:18.750 - then I proceeded on trying to find others that are equal to, 00:04:19.298 --> 00:04:26.755 - or possibly better than what Jamar offers. And there's none other one out there. Jamar's counter, there's 00:04:26.755 --> 00:04:33.930 - some that just does traffic, some does traffic and radar speed. None of them will detect whether, and 00:04:33.930 --> 00:04:41.386 - I don't know whether if this could be an important thing or not, but Jamar's the sole one that can detect 00:04:41.386 --> 00:04:49.054 - whether if it's a semi, if it's a car, it could tell you what size of the vehicle. And it's gotta be by the, 00:04:49.250 --> 00:04:56.984 - the overall length of the vehicles would be. So I tried to go through that process. I did get a few 00:04:56.984 --> 00:05:04.949 - numbers that weren't comparable with apples to apples as far as the pricing for what we would get with 00:05:04.949 --> 00:05:12.761 - this in the bundle with Jamar stuff is software provided with it. What do you call that when you get 00:05:12.761 --> 00:05:14.462 - help from the people? 00:05:14.722 --> 00:05:21.048 - The tech support is no cost. There's no cloud support needed for JMAR. Some of the other counters, you 00:05:21.048 --> 00:05:27.313 - got to have cloud support, so you got an annual fee to go with them. There's no annual fee with this. 00:05:27.313 --> 00:05:33.578 - Once we buy them, they're ours. I automatically get two seats to go with two laptops of our own to be 00:05:33.578 --> 00:05:38.430 - able to download it to and all that. So I come to you to get these right here. 00:05:38.626 --> 00:05:46.940 - I've checked on two or three other pieces of equipment, along with a little bit of pricing with some 00:05:46.940 --> 00:05:55.171 - of them to see where we're at. And for the, for the piece of equipment we get that no other has, it 00:05:55.171 --> 00:06:03.403 - seems like this is what I came up with and it's $14,556. And that's for two counters, what that is. 00:06:03.403 --> 00:06:06.942 - And does this, does this also track speed? 00:06:07.426 --> 00:06:13.983 - Yes, it's also track speed. So you're saying the other ones, you weren't finding one? Some of them do, 00:06:13.983 --> 00:06:20.349 - some of them don't, and they may, I mean, some of them may track the speed, but you may have to get 00:06:20.349 --> 00:06:27.288 - the cloud software to go with it. With this in here, I don't have to have the cloud service. Okay, thoughts? 00:06:27.288 --> 00:06:32.126 - I'd just like to say at a later date, we'll probably come back and buy some 00:06:32.642 --> 00:06:39.921 - traffic monitors that actually show the speed as well. That'll back these up and maybe we can populate 00:06:39.921 --> 00:06:47.554 - some of the neighborhoods and monitor the speed. And I think the ones with the speeds that show up actually 00:06:47.554 --> 00:06:53.985 - do slow people down. So we can't have a police officer in every neighborhood all the time, 00:06:53.985 --> 00:07:01.406 - but this will help. I do think Mr. Perry bring this to our attention and us, you guys working on it over 00:07:01.794 --> 00:07:09.108 - question for you on that. One, are these, are we able to be able to upload the data to someplace so 00:07:09.108 --> 00:07:16.569 - residents can see it after you've done an analysis? I'm sure there's no problem because it'll be like 00:07:16.569 --> 00:07:24.030 - in a, what's that? Okay. It'd be like PD, they're probably PDFs and Excel formats that'll give me all 00:07:24.030 --> 00:07:26.590 - the information that I can give to 00:07:27.106 --> 00:07:37.077 - Noel or whoever to send out. We can figure out where to put it on that new redesigned website. Absolutely. 00:07:37.077 --> 00:07:46.769 - All right. All right. Other questions, concerns. Anyone else will speak to this in the public. One from 00:07:46.769 --> 00:07:56.926 - that back to council. I move to approve the purchasing of traffic counters. Second motion and a second. Yes. 00:07:58.114 --> 00:08:04.808 - William Ellis? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Motion passes. Under new business this evening, 00:08:04.808 --> 00:08:11.129 - a school resource officer agreement with Richland Mean Boston School Corporation. Thank you, sir. For 00:08:11.129 --> 00:08:17.451 - the last four or five weeks, we've been working closely with the schools regarding our agreement with 00:08:17.451 --> 00:08:23.773 - them to provide officers as school resource officers for RBB. They, being RBB, applies every year for 00:08:23.773 --> 00:08:26.686 - a grant, and like a lot of grants and a lot of 00:08:27.426 --> 00:08:35.284 - agencies and any other funding, they didn't get what they normally get. So they were short $12,000 and 00:08:35.284 --> 00:08:43.218 - some change. We agreed to meet them halfway and pick that up. So we thank you to Darla, Sergeant Legio, 00:08:43.218 --> 00:08:51.305 - Dr. Sanders and his team for working on this, especially Darla and today to get the numbers put together. 00:08:51.305 --> 00:08:56.798 - The agreement is the same that it's always been. The only difference is 00:08:57.026 --> 00:09:06.200 - the money. And so for the next two years, it's a sum of 378,000 for the two-year contract to be paid 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:15.374 - in eight equal installments of $47,250 each. And I have signed it, and then we'll get it over to Dr. 00:09:15.374 --> 00:09:24.548 - Sanders and his team to sign for them. Questions from council? So we're putting in 6,000 per office, 00:09:24.548 --> 00:09:26.910 - or is 12,000 the halfway? 00:09:27.362 --> 00:09:34.491 - six thousand well six thousand would have been our part so they just won't pay they'll only pay six 00:09:34.491 --> 00:09:42.119 - instead of twelve because i mean they're sending the money to us so yeah okay any other questions thoughts 00:09:42.119 --> 00:09:49.247 - from the public back to council i'll make a motion to approve the school resource officer agreement 00:09:49.247 --> 00:09:55.806 - with richland dean blossom school corporation second motion second when you're ready please 00:09:56.834 --> 00:10:04.603 - Yes, William Ellis. Yes, Trevor Sager. Yes, Pamela samples. Yes motion passes Moving not a privilege 00:10:04.603 --> 00:10:12.525 - of the floor any having business for the council was not part of our normal agenda this evening No one 00:10:12.525 --> 00:10:20.294 - rises in chambers no one raising hands online we're now moving to supervisor comments beginning with 00:10:20.294 --> 00:10:23.678 - the town manager I'm happy to announce that 00:10:23.842 --> 00:10:30.144 - Lieutenant Michael called me today, and we did get our grant through Smithville. So we will be getting 00:10:30.144 --> 00:10:36.262 - our speed signs. You ask, we shall give. I'm not sure when that comes in, but as soon as we can get 00:10:36.262 --> 00:10:42.503 - that money, we'll get those purchased. And once we get our training done on that, we'll get them out. 00:10:42.503 --> 00:10:48.866 - I want to thank Lieutenant Michael for last minute writing of that grant and getting it. And obviously, 00:10:48.866 --> 00:10:51.742 - we want to thank Smithville for supporting us. 00:10:51.874 --> 00:10:59.448 - And once we are ready to roll them out, I will be getting with Mr. Perry and ask him where he would 00:10:59.448 --> 00:11:07.022 - like the very first one to be put out. Awesome. And that is all I have. Thank you. Jeff? Yeah, over 00:11:07.022 --> 00:11:14.823 - the last six to 10 months, I came to you for some upgrades at the Elksville wastewater plant. New dump 00:11:14.823 --> 00:11:18.686 - station, new gates, new cameras, new SCADA system. 00:11:18.786 --> 00:11:26.733 - I'm probably leaving an item or two out. But after all was said and done, I'm happy to announce that 00:11:26.733 --> 00:11:34.758 - we were $100,000 under what you approved that we get to keep. And that was due to cooperation between 00:11:34.758 --> 00:11:42.783 - the town staff and BFU staff helping some of the stuff get put in and taken care of. And the place is 00:11:42.783 --> 00:11:45.694 - looking a lot better down there than 00:11:46.018 --> 00:11:53.652 - after a little bit of a facelift. So we do have some things. I'll probably put an itemized report together 00:11:53.652 --> 00:12:00.858 - for you for next meeting so you can actually see it on paper, see where we saved the money. And that 00:12:00.858 --> 00:12:08.207 - was also in cooperation with. Most of the savings come from Wessler Engineering. I think we'd budgeted 00:12:08.207 --> 00:12:12.702 - over $150,000 for their work because we pitched in and helped. 00:12:13.090 --> 00:12:20.141 - that we saved over $100,000. So pretty happy about that. Great. Thank you so much. Great job, Jeff. 00:12:20.141 --> 00:12:27.404 - Thank you. Chief. And all staff. We're getting ready to have our second blood drive for the year. It's 00:12:27.404 --> 00:12:34.808 - November the 7th from 10 to 2 at the fire station. And you can sign up on the Ellesville Fire Department 00:12:34.808 --> 00:12:42.846 - Facebook page. Last year, it filled up pretty quick, and they were very happy with that. So we're doing it again. 00:12:43.330 --> 00:12:49.494 - Excellent. I wanted to invite the council on Thursday, November the 5th, the employees will be having 00:12:49.494 --> 00:12:55.598 - their open enrollment for all their health benefits and insurance. And we are doing a chili cook off 00:12:55.598 --> 00:13:01.763 - that some of the department heads are gonna and departments will be bringing some chili. That will be 00:13:01.763 --> 00:13:07.988 - at noon and the open enrollment presentation for the employees will be at one. Fire department's gotta 00:13:07.988 --> 00:13:11.070 - be the front runner in that, right? It's gotta be. 00:13:14.498 --> 00:13:23.274 - Yeah. Trevor, you have little faith. All right. Council comments? Get out and vote. That's coming up. 00:13:23.274 --> 00:13:31.706 - Appreciate everybody's hard work on getting this information pushed out on reorganization. Truly, 00:13:31.706 --> 00:13:40.482 - I do. Do your research and get out and vote. We look forward to hearing from you. Yeah, do the actual 00:13:40.482 --> 00:13:43.838 - research. Just don't believe in rumor. 00:13:44.418 --> 00:13:51.481 - And I will say with that, it's just kind of weird knowing that this could be, this is the last meeting 00:13:51.481 --> 00:13:58.201 - before the vote. So next meeting, we'll have a clear vision of what our future is. Or is it? Yes. 00:13:58.201 --> 00:14:02.110 - All right, anything else? All right, we stand adjourned.