Mayor & Council

MINUTES Town of Smyrna Council Meeting Bi-Monthly Meeting Monday, July 15, 2024, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Council Chambers MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL BE PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING by teleconference by calling 1- 312-626-6799 and entering Meeting ID number: 851 4643 9749 Passcode: 844592 or by visiting Join Zoom meeting at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85146439749?pwd=ZR93nDYQsmCQ9Avdf1fEnyH1LpNN3n.1 1. 7:00 PM - Call to order The meeting was called to order by Vice Mayor Rasmussen at 7:00 p.m. 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Roll call Roll call taken by Danielle Pope. All present except Mayor Johnson, who was absent. 4. Additions/deletions to published agenda Vice Mayor Rasmussen would like to amend the agenda - add 7a: update on the 2024 budget implementation and remove 8e: discussion and possible action on amending the 2024 budget. Councilman Pope motioned to amend the agenda as suggested. Councilwoman Gott seconded. Danielle asked for clarification to make sure what 7a said, and then that current 7a and 7b moved to 7b and 7c respectively. Vice Mayor Rasmussen confirmed the clarification. 5. Consent agenda: a. Council minutes of 7/1/2024 Councilwoman Dr. Upshur motioned to approve the consent agenda/7/1/2024 minutes. Councilman Pope second. No discussion, all approved. 6. Non-agenda items: a. Mayor and Council Members Councilwoman Dr. Upshur - read the CROWN Act Proclamation. July is National minority mental health awareness month and spoke about what it represents. Thanked Debbie Camaratta of Bon Ayre for her tenure as their HOA President. Councilwoman Gott - Saturday July 27 Focus Pharmacy is celebrating their 5th year and will have a 5k at the High School, 10a-2p. Anyone interested can reach out to her, to Sharon Wright, or stop by Focus Pharmacy. They are going to have vendors, a band, food, games. They are a tremendous resource for diabetic education. They have classes. Parks and Rec will be meeting on the 17th, 6p, downstairs in the Committee Conference Room. For Council members - they should have the 2024 Veteran form. This is for the yearly Veterans event that the Town hosts. This year it will be at the Opera House, December 4, 6p. Each council member has the opportunity to recognize a veteran from the community. Asked that the form be completely filled out because it helps make the veteran's write up easier. If there are any questions, give her a call. The honored veteran does need to be at the event.  Councilman Pope - there will be a Personnel Committee meeting on Tuesday July 23 at 5p, in the Committee Conference Room. Councilman Pressley - Charter Review meeting will be Thursday, 7/18, at 5p, in the Committee Conference Room. Everyone is invited. Councilman Johnson - had nothing to discuss Vice Mayor Rasmussen - thanked the Smyrna-Clayton July 4th Association, the town Police, and town staff. They did an amazing job with the July 4 event; the parade in Clayton and the fireworks display. A lot of people believe the town hosts the event, but we do not. It is mostly paid for through fundraising in the community by the July 4th Association. The town contributes $10,000 to help, but it is a community lead effort and it goes off without a hitch each year. Wanted to clarify about the budget workshop. There was miscommunication on whether it was a special meeting or workshop, and a delay in announcing it accordingly, and due to not meeting our Town Charter the meeting did not happen at 5p. Instead, staff will discuss the update during the regular meeting and if necessary will present any proposed changes later in the year. Councilwoman Gott - asked to have the Veteran form back by August 30 and if she doesn't, she'll give another reminder at the following Mayor and Council meeting. b. Police Chief Chief James - There are complaints about seeing officers on the highway a lot more lately. This is due to the higher rate of accidents and fatalities in the last 30-days. Hopes the residents understand. The officers will still be in the residences, but more at night when people are sleeping. c. Town Manager Chief James - The finance report will be presented by Travis Stewart, (Finance Director) 7. Old business, including discussion and possible action on the following items: a. Update on the 2024 Budget Implementation (added during #4, additions/deletions) Vice Mayor Rasmussen - the budget was passed at the end of March and there were a lot of 'to-do' items. These items were circulated to Council members and staff. This update to see where we are with the 'to-do' items. Chief James - There were a series of questions, and the Finance Director will present, but there are 14 items that will be addressed. We are still in the process of identifying g/l lines that need updating. Travis Stewart - Asked if there were any questions? There were none so he moved on with the presentation. 1. Tax revenue - .47 cents to .94 cents - boosting the revenue forecast from 4.9 million to 10 million. This will help with infrastructure. 2. Water rate - 20% increase to sewer and water. Vice Mayor Rasmussen asked what bill this was or will be seen in. Travis said it was updated starting with May's bill. Chief James said this is in response to the increase the County has put on us. Councilwoman Gott asked if this money goes to us or directly to the County. Chief James said that the money does not come to us. 3. Reinstate froze positions - Public Works, Finance, and Planning/Inspections. These were removed in the beginning of the year and they have be added back. Some have been filled and some are in the process of being filled. Finance has had discussions of adding a Bank Reconciliation Accountant. Cash reconciliation is outsourced to a third party. If we bring it back in- house it will save on on consultant fees. 4. Major Capital Equipment Purchases - opting to fund the vehicle purchases directly instead of incurring more debt. This will help keep the debt level manageable. Vice Mayor Rasmussen spoke on the 4 potential vehicle purchases; 2 for trucks that have been delivered; then 2 dump trucks and 1 bucket truck, and potential purchases on a street sweeper and trash truck. The original intention is that these would be funded this year through our equipment line of credit. Chief James said this is to reduce our debt ceiling. The goal is to identify funding sources so we don't go further into debt. Councilman Pope asked if these were to replace current vehicles. Public Works Director Jason McNatt said that the 2 dump trucks that have been delivered are replaces. The two other vehicles would be additional; street sweeper and rear loading trash truck would be backups. Council Pope asked what the plan was for the older vehicles; traded, sold? Jason said he has not discussed it yet. Chief James said we do have policies in place. The goal is to have backup vehicles, but those that are not manageable are sold. Councilwoman Gott asked how long ago the vehicles were ordered. Jason said it was over a year ago for the ones just delivered. Vice Mayor Rasmussen asked if there is an expectation to order the rear loader and sweeper this year? Jason said that they have been put on hold until approved. 5. Legacy Pension payments - a payment plan has been established for the Legacy Pension systems. The Town has not been keeping up with the payments. The first payment has been made. There are 2 more payments for this year; made quarterly Vice Mayor Rasmussen clarified that the total is close to a million dollars a year for the next 13 years. 6. Transfers from water/sewer and electric funds - cap total transfers is 2 million, which could be split at 1 million from electric and 1 million from water/sewer, or as departmental needs. This will safeguard utility funds, but there won't be a full picture of what amount will be transferred. Vice Mayor Rasmussen summarized. Historically we have transferred a lot of money out of the water/sewer and electric funds in order to pay our operating expenses. The recommendation for a long time has been to cap that number at no more than a reasonable amount or percentage. We are setting that at a maximum of 2 million instead of 5 million like in the past. The transfers would not be made until the end of the year until we know if those funds are necessary; try and maintain as much in our water/sewer and electric funds in those accounts so they can be used in the capital needs that are substantial in those specific areas. 7. Allocate one time funds - so this is the process of building up, opening starter accounts to public tracking and auditing purposes. Real estate fund and transfer taxes, for example, impact fees, other one time funds placed in strategic reserves unless council directs otherwise. Impact fees will be still going to be tracked separately. Of course we have not been doing that. And then also real estate transfer taxes moved to a strategic reserve fund. 8. Fund allocations to capital budget - in short this is water/sewer, electric, and other impact fees allocated to the appropriate capital budget line items guaranteeing all 2024 capital needs are fully funded. 9. Code pages for reserve funds - Council has passed the necessary changes. We now have a dedicated reserve account for capital impact and special projects. Travis asked if there were any questions before moving forward. There were no questions. 10. Fully fund capital reserve accounts - the goal is to develop a plan to fully fund our required capital reserve accounts for water, sewer, and electric within the next three years, or sooner; if feasible. The status is the end of the year funding goal. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - So at the end of the year, just so folks know, we will make the transfers into them based on Town past code; a code change to require the creation of capital reserve funds for both water/sewer and electric. I believe the funding amounts are 1.4 million for water/sewer and 700,000 for electric. I could have that wrong. And that those transfers would be made into those capital reserve accounts at the end of the year, so that those funds carry over for next year. 11. Develop RPF for strategic plan - the initiative is going to be to draft a request for proposal (RFP) for a comprehensive town strategic plan to address both operation and long term capital projects. We're not in a position to start this yet, but we are fully prepared to begin once the audits are done. 12. Share finalized budgets - finalizing disseminates to the town operating capital budgets to all Council members, the Finance Committee, and make them available to the Town's website in a user friendly format. This has been updated on the website. The Finance Committee will receive the items as they request within the coming weeks and Council to receive copies. 13. Plan for collaboration work - to work with other developers for the properties of North Duck Creek to finance the necessary utility extension. THis is crucial for supporting new developments. The status is that this is an ongoing discussion between Public Works Director and the developers. After the border is finished the project east to west and we obtain the easements, it will be on the developers to connect. Councilman Pope - asked the Public Works Director, Jason, if this includes the implementation of any fiber lines being put in as well with all other utilities. Jason - fiber is not a provided utility. It would be on Verizon or Comcast to bring those utilities themselves. Usually the applicant request service. You're looking basically at water, sewering, and electric. They do put redundant casing in. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - we'll put in the casings and if they want to utilize our casing, we allow them to. 14. Hiring a Purchasing Manager - this is an act on the auditor's advice to hire or assign a person as Purchasing Manager for accurate tracking and responsibility of capital funds, ensuring fiscal responsibility. So we're in discussions about hiring. Chief James - What that'll be is when we come back with any budget adjustments that need to be made, that will also include adding additional staffing that we need to take care of. Obviously we know that we have to add 1 to Finance and then also looking at hiring the Purchasing Manager. That's a recommendation. So as long as we're good, we should see these things done in the next month or so. We are currently hiring right now to fill the other positions we have. He mentioned about the 2 positions in Public Works. They were initially filled, as were the extra ones. Unfortunately some of the new hires left. So we are in the process of filling them again. There are interviews all day tomorrow, so hopefully we'll have them replaced and filled ASAP. Councilwoman Gott - who will the Purchasing Agent report to? Chief James - good question and we will answer that once we get in the system. This will help realign everything. Councilwoman Gott mentioned that someone asked for them to all speak up. Chief James said he is a soft talker and he apologized. He talks loud if he was in a police situation. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - thanked the Finance Director, Travis, for giving the update. Are there any specific questions or other questions from Council members that we want to make sure we ask the staff as far as implementing all of the items from the 2024 budget? There were none asked. He said that hopefully maybe the second meeting in August, we'll have budget updates or amendment items that need to be put forward and we can either discuss them here on Council floor or we can have a workshop, not a special meeting, in order to go over those and discuss them before a budget amendment is proposed. Councilwoman Gott - with the changes that this is alluding to, we'll see that in the report that will come out the end of this week, correct? Chief James - it's actually what you have right there; it's the weekly financial report. Councilwoman Gott - it's already been impacted? Chief James - that's all that's there and if you look through it, the very last two pages are almost duplicates. One was created on the 12th, the other one was an hour ago. So you can kind of compared and see within a week. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - asked if there were any other questions.  There were none and they thanked Travis again for presenting. b. Second reading of ordinance 008-24 to amend the Town Code establishing discharge regulations for the town sewer system Vice Mayor Rasmussen asked for a motion to approve. Councilman Pope motioned for approval. Councilman Johnson seconded. No discussion. All approved. c. Amend and update the current bank accounts and signatures from the 5/8/2024 Organizational meeting Vice Mayor Rasmussen briefly went over what this entailed and that all questions or concerns about restrictions and requirements have been answered. Chief James said that there was a discussion with the insurance company. The town has a policy that covers everyone and being bonded is an individual thing, which is simply having a credit check run; there's no additional coverage that we would see. Councilwoman Gott asked if that is done for those in Finance. Chief James said yes. Vice Mayor Rasmussen motioned to amend and update. Councilwoman Dr. Upshur motioned approval. Councilman Johnson seconded. There was no further discussion. All approved. 8. New business, including discussion and possible action on the following items: a. Appointment of Patrick Watts, Smyrna High School, to the Planning Commission as a non-voting student member Councilman Pope motioned for approval. Councilwoman Gott seconded. Jeremy Rothwell, Director of Planning, and staff liaison to the Planning & Zoning Commission presented Patrick Watts background. Jeremy - about two and a half years ago, Michael McGrath, also on the Planning and Zoning Commission and a retired planner with the State, discussed the idea to have a high school student on the Commission. Given the amount of growth in the next 10-20 years, having a young person who would bring a different perspective when reviewing developmental applications, but to also have a stake in terms of what the developmental growth would look like. A little over 2 years you all appointed Sydney Holt, who is Roger Holt's daughter, just finished serving a 2 year term. She was president of the SGA and recently graduated. She's going off to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This spring I was invited back to the Smyrna High School SGA. We had a discussion with them and they appointed and selected Patrick Watts, to be able to serve, or to recommend to serve, on our Planning Commission. Patrick has a GPA of 4.15, he's in the top 1% of his class. He serves with boys volleyball, in the marching band. He's a coach for the Junior volleyball league. He's a member of the SGA and he's a blue and gold member and he participated in Boise State. He's also served with Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership, which is called HOBY; it's a national leadership development program. He's a volunteer at Saint Polycarp's Church and he is a rising senior at Smyrna High School. So he, in addition to serving on our Planning Commission, he is the, community liaison, I believe. So he serves on a number of different outreach groups, not only for the town, but in other different organizations. So I wanted to introduce him to you and he's going to be serving for the next year until he graduates. Council members welcomed him. Someone in the public asked if Patrick would be a voting member of the committee. Jeremy said he is a non-voting member. So I just wanted to introduce you and then if you wanted to add any questions, or Patrick did you want to say anything? Patrick - I didn't prepare anything, but I'm excited to work with you guys. Jeremy - We brought him on last month. He got to sit through our meeting where we discussed about marijuana establishments, which was a great hour and a half long discussion. So that's a great introduction. I also want to recognize Dr. Brown and Roger Holt from the School District and Jay Davis from the Smyrna High School, who are here to support him. I think it's a great addition and it's a great opportunity for him, but also a great opportunity for the town to be able to get input from our young people for new developments. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - asked if there were any more questions or discussion. There were none. He asked for all in favor, all were. No opposed. b. Discussion and possible action to authorize the Town of Smyrna to execute those documents necessary to participate in the Kroger Opioid Settlement Vice Mayor Rasmussen - there are 3 documents that were provided: the participation email, the DOJ Opioid Settlement Update, and the Kroger National Opioid Settlement document. Asked for a motion to approve signing the Kroger Opioid Settlement document. Councilwoman Gott made a motion to approve. Councilwoman Dr. Upshur seconded. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - asked if there was any discussion. Said that in the document it makes it clear that there are no alterations allowed: participation must be executed without alteration and submitted on or before August 12, 2024. We are either all in or all out. All in favor. Told Chief James he can go ahead and sign the document. Chief said everything was ready, he just needed the approval. c. Resolution to accept streets and subdivision improvements in Lake Como Woods Subdivision and dedicate the same to public use Councilman Pope motioned to approve. Councilman Johnson seconded. Councilwoman Gott - asked Public Work Director, Jason, if everything was good. Wants to make sure that if residents call, we can say that we did our due diligence and it's for where we need to be and it's up to code. Assistant Public Works Director Jake Mitchell - all the inspections have been done. They made some repairs we asked them to make, so everything's good. Barrett looked at all the stuff. He was thanked. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - any other questions? There were none. All approved. d. Discussion and possible action to make a donation to the Duck Creek Public Library Vice Mayor Rasmussen - this is not a specific recommendation, this is a discussion item. Asked for a motion to discuss. Councilwoman Gott motioned to discuss. Councilwoman Dr. Upshur seconded. Vice Mayor asked for Chief James to present. Chief James - he met with Mayor Johnson the other day and a member of the committee. They came to use and asked if we'd be willing to donate the current library's books to them, which makes sense. They also asked if we could donate some equipment. They're asking for things like the baskets, that they walk around in; we're out of the library business, so I don't really think that there's a need for us to keep those items. The other piece is that we get State funding that comes in. We're on the State's fiscal year, so July 1 is the new year, so when we receive those funds, it will rune thround June 20 of next year. They are anticipating opening December, or early January, so basically about half of those funds should go to help fund them. So they've asked if we would be willing to give them the remaining funds for the time when they're opening up. I agree to it. Councilwoman Dr. Upshur - asked what the amount was. Chief James - I don't know the exact amounts. I can get that for you here in a couple of minutes. The final item they asked for is consideration toward any financial support, a donation of upwards of $50,000 a year. Councilwoman Dr. Upshur - how many years? Councilwoman Gott - is it possible we can accept part of it and not all of it at this point? Vice Mayor Rasmussen - we are in discussion, we can talk about what we would like to see and then ultimately it should come back as a resolution to formally make whatever donation. Certainly any cash or anything like that would have to be part of next year's budget conversation because that's not something that we can do. It's a budget conversation. There was overlapping discussion about taxes, both county and state, and how the county has instituted a library tax district that includes all of Smyrna School district. Councilman Pope - asked is the discussion is about the donation of what we've received from the State to give to them or anything additional? Chief James - there's 2 pieces. There's to give what the State gives us; we're calendar year, they're fiscal year. So we potentially would have six months worth of the leftover monies from what we received from the State. So they're asking if we'd be willing to give them the six months because they will then absorb all the library duties in the Town of Smyrna, but they are also asking if we are willing to donate money every year. Councilman Pope - it is possible for us, for the State portion, the first part you mentioned, as far as the money that came in from the State, for them, you know, to give them that half of it and then this other piece, as far as our donation for an annual commitment, to be taken up at another time during the budgetary process? There was overlapping discussion before Councilman Pope said he just wanted to make sure everything was clear. Chief James - he's relaying the information. They have to discuss and then everyone discusses the money side of things and how to fund it. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - thought Mayor Johnson added this item to the agenda with the intention of Council discussing it and what they would like to consider. Then anything that needs to be approved, we can have an actual resolution. Councilwoman Gott - asked if the Town would incur any fees in the movement of the library stuff. Asked Rick Horsey, board member of the Duck Creek Regional Library about it. Rick Horsey - once the new library is build, which should be the end of December, the moving of the collections, if you approve it, and whatever furnishing that can be used in the new library, would be at the expense of the Duck Creek Regional Library, not the Town. Councilwoman Gott - asked if the current library staff will go to the DCRL payroll at the end of December? Rick Horsey - when talking with Chief James and Mayor Johnson the other day, at the end of December, all hypothetical at the moment, the DCRL would like to hire as many as possible and then they would be on the payroll of the new library. The funds that the State of Delaware give to libraries is just for operating expenses, not for capital improvements or anything else. So it has to be for the operations of the library. There were thanks. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - one more thing to throw in, I think, if we're talking about this is that, I can't remember what year, the Town of Smyrna purchased a piece of property to assemble the land on which the library exists. I believe the purchase price was around $400,000. So the intention in that agreement was that, I believe, upon operations commencing for the library that the library would begin to repay that cost to purchasing that piece of property. It as been floated around in the course of the the last five year that the Town could consider a contribution to the library by waiving the repayment of that purchase price of that property, which is not cash out of our pockets, and it is a contribution to the capital side, not the operating side of the library. But if we're going to talk about it, I think we should at least throw that into the mix. Councilwoman Gott - wasn't their a $270,000 residual dollar amount that we were given, or was offered to us, when we were doing the budget? Did we take that? Vice Mayor Rasmussen - we did not take anything from the library at this point, that I remember. There was overlapping discussion about Joanne, another board member, coming to Council and some other discussion. Councilwoman Gott - that money was to go back into our rainy day fund? Vice Mayor Rasmussen - I believe so. Those funds were taken out of the rainy day fund to make that purchase, so that the repayment of that would be refunding the operating reserve account. Councilwoman Gott - is there a legality about not getting those funds because when you take money out of the rainy day fund, you have to make a plan to put it back. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - something was probably supposed to be done a long time ago because this was probably a decade ago that this occurred. After this much time, I'm really not sure. Councilwoman Gott - I just didn't know. Maybe that's a Barrett question. I just want to be prepared for whatever questions could come our way as a result of it. Councilwoman Gott - so with regards to the State money, we go ahead and authorize to give to them now? Vice Mayor Rasmussen - I would think that we would authorize it to be given, whatever is remaining, at the end of the year. Does anybody feel really strongly about anything that's in the collections? I mean there might be things there that might go to the museum. I'm not sure. Councilwoman Gott - unless it's earmarked. I believe, and only because of being on the museum's board, I think the things that are earmarked, they already know what that is; to got to the museum versus the library and some of the things, it's still better to house in the library than it is to house in the museum. There was some overlapping discussion and Rick Horsey mentioned that there was hope that those collections would get ok'd to the library. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - the idea is you pretty much get everything that's in there in the way of books and periodicals and things would go over and then some of the furnishing, whatever is most appropriate for the use of the library. Rick Horsey - we have discussed that the Town hasn't had the resources to weed out irrelevant or old materials. So when a new Library Director is hired, that would be something they would do. Look at the collections, find out what needs to be weeded out, what's usable and what's not. We've appropriated $200,000 for new collections. We understand that we you go from a 2,500 sq ft library to a 22,000 sq ft library, we're going to need a lot more collections. Councilwoman Gott - downstairs (of the current library) there's a relatively large, very nice conference room table. Will that stay with the building for the Opera House to use, or will that go to the new library as well? Rick Horsey - that's part of your the discussion. What besides collections would be offered to the new library. The new library has all new furniture. They say it's very contemporary. Councilwoman Gott - thought there was a perk in there for Brian too, (Opera House Director). Vice Mayor Rasmussen - I think that's a question of who gets first dibs on the stuff. Or certainly it might be worth asking the library to work with the Opera House to see if there are things that Brian might want. He might want everything gone and hope that you take everything; every drop of it. Councilwoman Gott - they were talking about doing classes in the basement, that's why I asked. If you're anticipating something and then we turn around and give it away. I know we received a letter from him, but I can't remember what it said. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - I don't think it addressed furnishings. I think that's on us, being that we own it. We could ask the library to work with Brian to see if there's anything that he particularly  wants, something like that. Councilwoman Gott - but I agree, I don't think it's going to go with anything at the new library anyway. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - Any additional thoughts? There were none. He asked if staff could put together some sort of resolution just authoring the donation? It sounds like the items that would be in it most immediately would be the collections and relevant furnishings that are desired by the library, as well as the transfer of the remaining State library funds upon the opening the the new library or the closing of our library, whichever makes sense to sell. Then if there's additional financial things, I guess we could have that as part of the budget conversation that we have this fall. There was agreement. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - no action necessary and hopes to see something (resolution) in the next meeting or two. e. Discussion and possible action on amending the 2024 Budget (removed during #4, additions/deletions) 9. Presentation and public comments (3 minutes) Vicki Blair - during the budget update, there was something about having to hire an accountant to do the accountant part of it. Asked why we don't have someone on staff to already do that. Asked if the new updated budget could be posted on the website, but thought that was already answered. Asked what the Kroger Opioid Settlement was. Doesn't want all the fine points, but is there some type of money involved with that and would it need to be allocated to very specific opioid type issues? Councilwoman Dr. Upshur - yes Vice Mayor Rasmussen - the Mayor has mentioned stuff on that. There are a couple of documents that are associated with that, or you can Google it. There's a lot of stuff that's been ongoing for years. Vicki Blair - Okay, I just wasn't sure. I figured it was probably what I thought it was. I just wanted to clarify that. Councilwoman Dr. Upshur - it's a National settlement Vicki - okay. Concerns, not such concerns, but my opinion on the whole library thing, I think giveing them what's left at the end of the year is the only way to go since we will no longer have a library. I think as far as the monetary contribution to the library, I think you shouldn't weigh that in with the fact that we purchased the land and there's an agreement that's been made for them to pay it back. I think you need to get that money back, just because the state that the Town is in, okay. Then if financially we are able to give them a donation, not a problem, but we need to be able to financially support this town and right now, we're not in the best shape. We all know that. I think before we go donating any amount of money to a County Library, you really need to look at our numbers. The other thing I want to mention, if you go online right now and you look at the agenda for tonight, it doesn't look anything like this agenda that I was handed. The date on it is 7/5. None of the updates are on it. So if I'm sitting at home watching this on the Zoom meeting, I don't have this agenda in front of me. As much as everybody says, go to the website, this is a major flaw. Have a nice night. She was thanked. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - anyone else? Gentleman spoke up and said he had a question for the Chief. Vice Mayor Rasmussen said he can address the Chief after the meeting, as this was for addressing Council. The gentleman said he'll talk with the Chief afterwards. Rick Horsey spoke up about the new library not being County, but rather a Public Library. There was discussion about the difference. A public library is a 501C3, which is independent. Someone asked  about funding. The answer was private donations, bond money, grant, levy tax, and library tax. There was more overlapping discussion. Vice Mayor Rasmussen - anyone else would like to speak? None. 10. Adjournment Vice Mayor Rasmussen - motion to adjourn. Councilman Pope motioned to adjourn. Councilwoman Gott second. All were in favor. Meeting ended at 8 p.m. Posted on 07/08/2024 at 4:30 PM Posted on 7/11/2024 at 1:00 PM (4) *Agenda was amended to include items of a time sensitive nature. NOTE: This agenda as listed may not be considered in sequence. This agenda is subject to change to include additional items, including Executive Sessions, and/or deletion of items, including Executive Sessions that arise at time of meeting.