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Talk Line 10-20-2026: Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes talks streets, events, listener questions · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Time for TalkLine.
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  Speaker 2: And we're joined in the booth once again by the
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  Speaker 2: one and only Mayor of Dixon himself, Glenn Hughes, in studio,
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  Speaker 2: in person, as always. I love it when we can
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  Speaker 2: chat in person. So I know it doesn't always work,
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  Speaker 2: but I appreciate that you always make it in, Glenn.
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  Speaker 3: I try to. I enjoy this. I think it's a
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  Speaker 3: great opportunity to keep the community informed and to provide
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity for people to call in and ask the questions.
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  Speaker 3: I actually would like a few more. If you've got
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  Speaker 3: a question, obviously you can call me at my office,
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  Speaker 3: but this is a good opportunity to do it as well.
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  Speaker 3: If I don't have the resources available to do it
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  Speaker 3: while I'm sitting here, we'll make sure we get your
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  Speaker 3: information off radio, and then I can get back to you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll try a little experiment today. That post is still
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  Speaker 2: up there, so you can type in a question, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll turn it around and check every so often. I
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  Speaker 2: usually don't do that because that's kind of rude when
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  Speaker 2: you're talking with somebody. But maybe you just heard it
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  Speaker 2: for the first time. You've got Glenn's invitation, and you
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  Speaker 2: want that question. I'm going to try that little experiment
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  Speaker 2: because we're going to keep pushing because, as me and
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  Speaker 2: Glenn always say, the questions are welcome. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to start off talking about World Polio Day, though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I had a proclamation yesterday. at the council meeting,
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  Speaker 3: did a proclamation for World Polio Day. Rotary International and
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  Speaker 3: specifically our local Rotary Club are working on what they're
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  Speaker 3: calling the world's largest walk for polio. October 24th is
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  Speaker 3: designated as World Polio Day, and one of the activities
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  Speaker 3: is our local Rotary Club is trying to participate in
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  Speaker 3: that World Polio Day and get a walk going. They're
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  Speaker 3: looking for the whole community to be involved, not just
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  Speaker 3: Rotary clubs and out there. Rotary has done a great
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  Speaker 3: job of working with several agencies worldwide and helping to
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  Speaker 3: eradicate polio. There's a few countries that it's still an
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  Speaker 3: issue in, but for all intents and purposes, we're getting
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  Speaker 3: real close. The health organizations are getting real close to
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  Speaker 3: eradicating polio. I know my uncle would have been very
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  Speaker 3: appreciative of that. When the Salk vaccine came out, he
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  Speaker 3: cried because he had been a victim of polio. But
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  Speaker 3: it's a strong thing, especially if you've known somebody who
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  Speaker 3: has had to deal with the issue You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just one more thing we can check off the list. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anyone or haven't been affected personally by that.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel the same way about cancer. Lost my
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  Speaker 2: mother to cancer. her brother to cancer. And so I
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  Speaker 2: get it to be able to check something like that
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  Speaker 2: off and say that we came together for the common
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  Speaker 2: goal of humankind to eradicate something that can affect any
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  Speaker 2: of us. It doesn't care about borders or nationality or gender.
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  Speaker 1: It can be anybody.
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  Speaker 2: So to come together like that and actually be able
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  Speaker 2: to do that and come close to that milestone, it's
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  Speaker 2: one of those things is one human to another we
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  Speaker 2: wish we could do with everything. So On that level,
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  Speaker 2: I definitely get you, Glenn.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. And then I also want to note it's Fire
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  Speaker 3: Prevention Month. Yeah. Our Chief Buschel reminded us of that
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  Speaker 3: at the council meeting last night, so I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: pass that on. It is Fire Prevention Month. Then as
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  Speaker 3: long as I'm talking about the miscellaneous things... Tour the
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  Speaker 3: Trail is coming up on the 23rd on Friday from
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  Speaker 3: 9 a.m. to 1 o'clock. They're going to start set
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  Speaker 3: up around between the ball fields and Emma Hub's tennis courts.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly. I probably should have checked with that.
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  Speaker 3: But if you want to take a golf cart ride
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  Speaker 3: If you haven't got the ability to walk or bike
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  Speaker 3: the new trail and you want to take a golf
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  Speaker 3: cart ride to enjoy it, that will be going on
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  Speaker 3: on Friday 9 a.m. to 1 o'clock and it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be starting around the ball fields just past the
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  Speaker 3: Emma Hubs tennis courts. I think they're going to have
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  Speaker 3: coffee available for you. I don't know if anything else,
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  Speaker 3: but I think they're setting up to make it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as convenient and easy for you as possible. And it
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  Speaker 3: will be a very nice ride. I know the previous
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  Speaker 3: rides we've had have been very well received. You know,
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  Speaker 3: people just can't necessarily get it. You know, some people
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  Speaker 3: can't necessarily get around, whether by disability or just age,
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  Speaker 3: to walk. to walk out on that trail or bike
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  Speaker 3: the trail, so it's a great thing. So just want
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  Speaker 3: to remind you of tour the trail, 9 a.m. to
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  Speaker 3: 1 o'clock on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and it was, like you said, it was quite
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  Speaker 2: well received. You guys did quite a bit of rides
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  Speaker 2: the first time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and we've actually done it twice now. We
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  Speaker 3: did it after the dedication and got people out there,
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  Speaker 3: and then we did another event a think it was
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  Speaker 3: August or early September.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So this is number three then.
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  Speaker 3: This'll be the, this'll be the third time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm loving that fall might even, even be the prettier,
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  Speaker 2: not that I'm sure it wasn't nice then, but.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be a little cooler, but hopefully, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially when we've had these cold nights and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be getting some warm days this week, that'll, that'll
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  Speaker 3: change the, that'll change the colors pretty quick, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: And a nice cool ride through some pretty scenery, some
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  Speaker 2: coffee waiting for you. I can walk, Glenn, so I
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  Speaker 2: can't partake, but I can walk alongside. We did get
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  Speaker 2: a listener question. Somebody called it.
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  Speaker 1: Great. So this is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: A listener wants to ask, what is Dixon doing about
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  Speaker 2: the graffiti on River Street and about the homeless individuals
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  Speaker 2: taking residence inside Walter Knack Building?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Graffiti is something that we just have to keep up on.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we try and deal with it when we
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  Speaker 3: find it. If you've seen something we haven't, please notify
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  Speaker 3: the street department or call City Hall and leave a message.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take a look at it and address it. Not
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  Speaker 3: much we can do about it except after the fact,
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  Speaker 3: unless somebody's actually caught in the act. As far as
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  Speaker 3: the old Walter Knack building or Moxie building, whichever you're
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  Speaker 3: more familiar with, that building should be coming down this winter.
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  Speaker 3: I would have liked to have told you it was
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  Speaker 3: going to come down two winters ago, but there have
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  Speaker 3: been some issues, some documentation that we needed to deal with,
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  Speaker 3: some issues with our TIF district. wanting to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that we're protecting different aspects for environmental and what we
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  Speaker 3: consider for the riverfront TIF. I know that right now
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  Speaker 3: they're in preparation for putting out the bid on the
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  Speaker 3: demolition of that building, so that will not be an
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  Speaker 3: issue anymore. We know there's been problems. We do have
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  Speaker 3: an ordinance in place that prohibits camping on public property. That's,
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  Speaker 3: in the NAC building, that's probably more of a trespassing.
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  Speaker 3: That's more of a trespassing thing as well. That building
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  Speaker 3: is condemned. There shouldn't be anybody in it, and that's
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  Speaker 3: why it's going to get torn down.
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  Speaker 2: Well, an issue that won't be an issue forever, but
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  Speaker 2: there's always red tape to go through. Unfortunately, nothing is
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  Speaker 2: ever as easy as saying just take it down or
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  Speaker 2: put it up. Always lots of things to consider. And
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  Speaker 2: then especially, too, with your TIF, making sure that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of planning and hard work goes into setting up
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  Speaker 2: those districts, making sure those incentives are in place that
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  Speaker 2: they provide, and obviously taking the careful consideration with what
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  Speaker 2: you do to make sure you don't topple a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of work just by toppling a building.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So hopefully that answered your question. If not, as
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  Speaker 2: Glenn said, you could always maybe reach out to him
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  Speaker 2: through a call or an email later. But we did
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  Speaker 2: get that, and we do appreciate the question.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do. As a matter of fact, I was
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about that building anyway, so that was
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  Speaker 3: a great lead-in. From that standpoint, I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, just lots of scheduled maintenance in one
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  Speaker 2: way or the other, whether it's with buildings like that
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  Speaker 2: or street maintenance, which was something we were going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. Thanks for the opportunity to lead into
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  Speaker 3: that then. A lot of work has been done. We're
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  Speaker 3: getting real close to winding up on the street and
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  Speaker 3: sidewalk maintenance. You may not have seen a lot happening
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  Speaker 3: on the streets, although some of the streets have been completed.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of what happens these days really involves the
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  Speaker 3: preparation to do, and that includes the ADA accessible ramps. Those,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in terms of square footage, nothing like the streets,
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  Speaker 3: but they take a lot of time. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: the forming and getting your whole setup done, the pouring
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  Speaker 3: of the concrete and Um, so right now, um, we're
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  Speaker 3: kind of getting close to the wrap up on the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: on the, on the corners, the ADA accessible corners. Um,
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  Speaker 3: we're working on sidewalks along there as well. In fact, uh,
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  Speaker 3: we actually ended up, we had a street that we
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  Speaker 3: were going to be paving and we found out we
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  Speaker 3: had some additional problems there. We ended up having to
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  Speaker 3: tear things up. We street and water crews worked together
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  Speaker 3: and we ended up pouring probably an additional 600 feet
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  Speaker 3: of sidewalks and several driveways. By the time our sidewalk
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  Speaker 3: work is done, including this additional project, we'll probably have
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  Speaker 3: around 1,000 feet of sidewalks and 21 driveway approaches completed
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  Speaker 3: this year. And that does not include approximately another 1,000
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  Speaker 3: that we've contracted for, that we've got under the general
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  Speaker 3: maintenance contract. So this year, we'll probably get in the
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  Speaker 3: range of 2,000 linear feet of sidewalks taken care of.
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  Speaker 3: And again, that doesn't include our sharing program where the
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  Speaker 3: property owner pays for the concrete and our staff does
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  Speaker 3: the work. So a lot's getting done in sidewalks this year.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to see that, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: miles of sidewalks. And I'm sorry if we haven't been
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  Speaker 3: able to get to yours yet, but we can only um,
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  Speaker 3: kind of take a, a section at a time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: depending on how the, how the money holds out. But I,
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  Speaker 3: I really have to give a shout out to our,
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  Speaker 3: our streets and, and water department in particular. Um, the
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  Speaker 3: additional work that's being done on the sidewalks, um, is
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  Speaker 3: saving us about a hundred thousand dollars over what it
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  Speaker 3: would have cost us if we'd had to contract that
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  Speaker 3: work out. Um, So that's a real good thing. And
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  Speaker 3: our street and water department are doing an excellent job
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  Speaker 3: throughout the city in terms of working together. Things come up,
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  Speaker 3: the additional work that needed to be done on this
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  Speaker 3: particular street that was scheduled probably would have had to
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  Speaker 3: have been delayed until next year if we didn't have
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  Speaker 3: the teamwork that we do Um, so, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: only do they have the skills to be able to
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  Speaker 3: save the city money, um, as compared to having work
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  Speaker 3: contracted out, but more importantly, we've got the teamwork that, uh,
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  Speaker 3: pulls that together and allows us to do some, you know,
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  Speaker 3: things in to be able to pivot, you know, and to,
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  Speaker 3: and to be able to take on projects that hadn't
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  Speaker 3: been anticipated, but need immediate attention.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's never a straightforward thing.
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  Speaker 2: I have to imagine maybe some things are, but I
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  Speaker 2: have to imagine in that area that you have to
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  Speaker 2: always be prepared to pivot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've got a great public works department, and
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  Speaker 3: it's real difficult to pivot if you don't have the
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  Speaker 3: coordination or the cooperation between departments, if you get siloed off.
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  Speaker 3: And I know at one time we probably had that.
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  Speaker 3: I know there's a lot of cities that do. You
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  Speaker 3: don't cross into my area. I don't cross into yours.
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  Speaker 3: But that's not an issue here. The culture here is
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  Speaker 3: that we work together. We've worked with county. We've worked
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  Speaker 3: with state. You know, we've worked with the townships. Depending
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  Speaker 3: on what comes up and what needs to be taken
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  Speaker 3: care of, we've got a real good staff to be
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  Speaker 3: able to address a lot of things. They can't do everything,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why we end up having to contract work out.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we don't have the time to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do that, nor the staff. But it's great that
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  Speaker 3: we've got the capability that we do to be able
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  Speaker 3: to address things or particular problems. Speaking of that, the
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  Speaker 3: contractors have installed about another 350 feet of storm sewer
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  Speaker 3: and inlets on some longstanding drainage issues on South Dement
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  Speaker 3: and 7th. And that leads me into, when we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about drainage issues and waterways along Fargo Creek, We've got
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  Speaker 3: three culverts that need to be addressed. If you were
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  Speaker 3: listening to the council meeting last night, you're probably aware
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  Speaker 3: that we just did a contract, a professional service contract,
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  Speaker 3: to have the engineering done on those. But we had
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  Speaker 3: those inspected in two of the culvert areas on Monroe
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  Speaker 3: and need to be replaced and another culvert on Madison
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  Speaker 3: needs to be rehabbed and upgraded. We do not need
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  Speaker 3: the washout situation that we had several years ago over
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  Speaker 3: on Madison. We don't need that happening again. So that's
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  Speaker 3: part of where we're going there. And for those that
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  Speaker 3: are wondering about the streets, like I said before, the
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  Speaker 3: concrete work takes a little bit more time. but we're
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  Speaker 3: about 95% completed with that. So, um, some of the
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  Speaker 3: streets have been started, but we should, uh, get the
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  Speaker 3: scheduled streets still taken care of, um, yet this year, um,
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  Speaker 3: probably another month out, um, particularly if the weather holds, uh,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a month and a half, depending on if we
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  Speaker 3: get some weather issues mixed in there as well. But, um,
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  Speaker 3: the maintenance on the streets and the sidewalks is going
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  Speaker 3: real well this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hopefully this break from the rain holds out. It
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  Speaker 2: feels like we've had a lot of rain in early
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  Speaker 2: fall already.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's just me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we seem to be able to go a
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  Speaker 3: week or two absolutely beautiful. And then we get a
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  Speaker 3: week without, you know, almost seems like without a break
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  Speaker 3: that we get rain again. So, Um, I know the
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  Speaker 3: farmers have had some issues and are pretty, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pretty well behind schedule on, on getting crops out. So
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  Speaker 3: the rains affected them too. And, and that's their livelihood. So.
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  Speaker 2: Must be a leak upstairs. Maybe you can lend them
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  Speaker 2: your water department. Oh, um, gosh, where are we?
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  Speaker 1: The Moxie building. Did we touch on that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did. Um, that was what we were talking about. The,
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  Speaker 3: the Moxie and, Or knack building that tied into that
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  Speaker 3: individual's call. Let's see. What else have we got to address?
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  Speaker 3: You got any?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, not something that's already been out there
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, but, you know, sometimes perhaps people aren't
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  Speaker 2: always paying attention. You've been busy. Totally get that. But
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  Speaker 2: you guys did some, what would you call it, expansion
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  Speaker 2: or revision for handling nuisance properties?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah. Hopefully, I'm not going to go into a
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  Speaker 3: lot of detail, but because there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 3: information in the newspaper and you've talked about it on
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  Speaker 3: the radio, but we had a nuisance ordinance and there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of, it was a, had limited constraints. It
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  Speaker 3: dealt with major issues that the public and the council
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  Speaker 3: had been concerned about several years ago. And we're finding
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  Speaker 3: that things were changing, that it wasn't, um, that it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't as inclusive as it probably could have been. Um,
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  Speaker 3: whether the issues had been issues before, probably not. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sometimes it's a lot, it's hard to second
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  Speaker 3: guess or to wonder if things are really going to
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  Speaker 3: be a problem. So it, was an older nuisance ordinance.
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  Speaker 3: There was a particular problem and a citizen came to
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  Speaker 3: council about a month ago and was extremely frustrated because
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  Speaker 3: with zoning codes and with the nuisance ordinances, There were
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: only limited things that our city zoning building department could
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: do or that the police could do. So we took
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: a look at some of the things that had come
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  Speaker 3: up in this situation, concurred that they were an ongoing problem,
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  Speaker 3: took a look at our nuisance ordinance, broadened that, and
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  Speaker 3: hope that that will help us, um, address some of
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  Speaker 3: the issues that some of the citizens out there, um,
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  Speaker 3: are concerned about. What I do want to say is
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  Speaker 3: it's not an instant solution. Um, when you're dealing with
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  Speaker 3: civil issues like this, it's not like somebody is going
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  Speaker 3: to get arrested right away and, you know, and then
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: go to court and, you know, the issue is resolved. Um,
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  Speaker 3: There's an administrative process, and so you get administrative hearings,
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  Speaker 3: and people get opportunities. They may have to pay fines.
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  Speaker 3: They also get opportunities to have corrective actions, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: that happens, and they correct things. And then a little
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: while later, you've got a problem again, and you've got
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: to go through the administrative process again. Even if they're
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  Speaker 3: not correcting it and they're paying the fines, there's still
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: multiple administrative hearings that have to be addressed before it
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  Speaker 3: can go to circuit court, again, on a civil basis.
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  Speaker 3: And that court situation, especially if that individual gets an attorney,
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  Speaker 3: can take an extensive time. period of time. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just a general warning. We're trying to improve the ordinance.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to be able to put a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more teeth into it to make it a little bit
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  Speaker 3: broader to address concerns that we have now that might
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  Speaker 3: not have been as much of an issue 20, 30,
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  Speaker 3: 40 years ago. But but it's not an instant solution.
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  Speaker 3: We hope we've given both the police department and the, um,
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  Speaker 3: building department, um, a little bit more, um, teeth, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more, um, ability to address some of these issues,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: but against they're not, they're not instant solutions. Um, actually
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: in some cases it becomes even more complicated, um, because
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: the person that's causing the problem might be a tenant,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: not the actual property owner. And some of these administrative
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: actions happen against the property owner. It becomes the property
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: owner's problem then to address the tenant. So it's not
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: real cut and dried sometimes as As much as we'd
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: like it to and as much as you'd say common
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: sense would say, okay, just take care of this.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but these things are never cut and dry.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I hate to, I mean, burst some people's
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: bubbles with that. But, I mean, when you're talking about
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: human behavior, there is no really cut and dry, right?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I can turn a two-way street into a one-way and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: now it's, okay, there's the problem. Nobody's going to be
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: going this direction. Now everyone's going there. Well, every so
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: often we're going to read in the paper, somebody who's
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: traveling the wrong way down the runway, the one way. Right.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: And I mean, maybe terrible example, but I mean, a
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: lot of the, sometimes these things aren't black and white either.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Maybe somebody's not working with you. They dig their heels
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: and get a lawyer.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's another example.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Where, you know, I don't know, maybe a elderly property owner,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe as age goes on, something happens to them.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: They're not able to keep up with things. You know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: they don't want to, you know, that's their only home.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: So then it's like, hey, we, you know, maybe we
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: want to work with you, see what we can do. So,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and I mean, I say all that again to say that,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: just to really reinforce what you're saying is that there
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: is no instant solution because there is no one size
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: fits all to these kind of things that just, here
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: we are, this is never a problem again.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: And something I want to address for the for the
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: victims in some of these situations, the neighbors that are
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: having to deal with the situation. You know, I understand
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: your concern and things feel like they should happen. And
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: when we start talking about the rights of the individual who's,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: you know, violating code, sometimes you feel like, what about
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: my rights? You know, why am I being You know,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: why am I having to put up with this? You know,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I've got rights too. And that's part of the problem
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: with the processes that we have. Things don't happen as
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: quick as we'd like them or as quick as we
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: feel they should. You know, one party's rights are being
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: violated and the other party who's violating those rights, creating
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: the nuisance, gets an opportunity to, you know, have his
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: day in an administrative hearing or have his day in court.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So it's something we've done to try and put more
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: teeth in the process. We hope we responded to this.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: We probably didn't respond quick enough because he was dealing
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: with the problem for a long time. But once he
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: came forward and addressed the council, we made a point
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: of you know, not sitting on our hands. We made
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: a point of working with it. And I, I think
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: we were back. We might've been in, in council with
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: the revision, probably at the subsequent, uh, council meetings. So we're,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: we were aware of the concern. It just had to
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: get it done.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and I mean, here we are, things are,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: things happen, things, uh, you know, you guys revise that
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: and hopefully, like you said, going forward, it won't be
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: an instant fix, but maybe, You know, these departments having
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: an extra tool in the bag to kind of address
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: this will maybe start to speed some things up to
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: where folks feel like, hey, maybe this does happen a
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: little bit faster for me. They see those wheels start
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: to turn. But, yeah, I totally get it. You know,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: during my time having reported on these things and talked
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: with others in this situation, it's like you said, it's
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: never cut and dry. There's... You know, there's always a
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: process in place. But thankfully, it's, you know, what we
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: see a lot of the council in Dixon is the
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: ability to say, can we do better if we need
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to do better than we're going to?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's part of one of the strengths
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: of this community is we're going to try to improve
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: things if we can.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: You can't grow if you don't have the humility to say,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: this isn't perfect and I could do better. No excuse,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: but we're now also not going to sit back here.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: We're going to focus on what we're going to do
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: and move forward and then follow with that action and
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: that's what happens. There's a lot of respect for that.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: A lot of transparency. Again, just going back to the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: same fact, I don't know how many folks would look
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: forward to answering a question on the spot, but Glenn
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and I appreciate that you sent it in and And
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you just answer them. So I think that should hopefully
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: speak some volumes. And, again, if it didn't completely answer
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: your question, between hearing what Glenn has to say on
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: these issues or trying to answer the question, he's always
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: more than willing to have a conversation to try to
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: bring some light to these issues.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And anything else we forget to cover while we've got
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: a minute, Glenn?
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: There probably is, but I'm not thinking of it right now.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I could probably mention that we're going to get some
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: work done on the hangar out at the airport. There's
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: probably not a lot of people in, but we do
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: have a fair amount of pilots and plane owners, so
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: work's going to get done out at the A hangar
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: out at the airport. And unfortunately, we're doing some additional
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: work work out at the wastewater treatment plant. We've been
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: talking about that for a while. And that's a long-term process.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: And unfortunately, the building that we were, the new storage
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: building for the wastewater treatment plant that was being built
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: came in over budget. But we can stay within the,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: we just have to postpone some other projects and we
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: can stay within the annual budget to get this done.