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okay good evening folks welcome to our
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november 12th working meeting of the
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council
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um probably i'm guessing most of the
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people are old hands at this but just in
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case this is your first time
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you're just gonna listen to the council
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discuss some uh
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some business there's no um
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voting on anything we're not making any
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decisions on anything we're just
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discussing some city issues uh there's
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no
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public comment there's no good in
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welfare anything like that
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so uh basically just uh listening to us
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uh banter about uh some some city issues
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we need to go over
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so uh with that i see we got
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uh mr canner is with us so why don't we
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uh
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why don't we start with the benches on
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the boardwalk and uh what's going on
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with them
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and we gotta we gotta unmute him yeah
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tommy you're uh muted still
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all right how about now there you go
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okay
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good evening everyone uh the benches
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where we stand right now is we just
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finished repairing all of the benches on
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the boardwalk with the exception
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of the ones that have a top slat that's
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cracked with a plaque in it
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there's 970 benches and it costs us this
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year
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50 000 to make the repairs again without
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the plaque
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um the plan is to
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go out document each plaque which we
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have uh
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we have on a computer we have every
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single one documented
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we have a picture of it with the plaque
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that's in place and then when we put a
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new plaque on
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what we would do then is you know update
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the picture so if anybody's looking for
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their bench
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if they want to know if their new plaque
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was installed they can actually go on
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and look at it themselves
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what we're going to do now is we're
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going to go out and we're going to take
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all of the plaques whether
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the top slats cracked and it's you know
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in danger hurting someone
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we're going to put a blank plate up
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we're gonna take that black back to the
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shop
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take the plaque out of the slat send it
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out to the company
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and then we'll do is we'll contact the
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resident that owns that bench
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and we will give them three choices one
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we could take the plaque in its present
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condition
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and put it into a new slat and then
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they'll send it back to us we'll install
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it
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or they can choose to clean that black
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up make it look as close to new as
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possible
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or a brand new plaque with the same
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saying on it
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or they could add to it any of those
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would there would be a cost to it
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obviously normally what we do is the the
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resident would pay
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for that we would give them we would
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send it out to the company
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they would send us back a mock-up you
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know via email
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and there would be a price attached to
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it we'll let the resident know
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that the uh the owner of the bench
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rather
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will let them know what it what it cost
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and once they pay the
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city then we can order the plaque it
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will come to our shop we'll unwrap it
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we'll put it back into
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to the bench so far we've been doing
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that
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the only cost is exactly what the bench
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owner
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would pay for the plaque in the top slat
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we don't
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we don't add anything for a maintenance
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fee so that's something i think we're
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gonna have to change in the future
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obviously
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um as well as repairing the benches
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every slat
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on the bench is ninety dollars
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and again there's no maintenance fee for
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that at all so that's that's something i
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think
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that we need to we need to look into
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yeah
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this is this is liz every slap
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how many slats are on on a bench i
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think there's 12. okay thank you
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yeah yep and it's mainly it's the
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you know the flat part where somebody
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sits it's
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it's those that break when we install
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the benches there's probably at the
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the last leg there's probably about a
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foot of the bench that overhangs
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so with the sun beating on and it's
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stuff you know the uv
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rays they they wind up they wind up
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deteriorating
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it's a composite material it's like a
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plastic and almost a sawdust that's
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combined
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so one of the problems is that we have
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is when people
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are working out on the boardwalk they do
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those box jumps which
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if you don't know what that is
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somebody's standing in a position
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and leaping up onto the bench as an
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exercise thing that that's
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one of the biggest problems that we have
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people exercising on a bench and
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breaking it
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so what we're going to try now is when
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we put the bench together
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we're going to spread the legs out
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further so that we don't have an
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overhang we'll have maybe like a six
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inch overhang on the end so if somebody
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does do that
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it's not likely to break as quick
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so tommy let me let me ask you a
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question um you know
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if if you go out and you look at the all
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the benches they're all breaking in the
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exact same place it's where
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on the seat part where the bolt goes
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through uh to hold the slots down and on
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the back it's also where the sl
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where the bolts go through is it um
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do we think it's just that like you said
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the materials get taken a beating with
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the salt air and the
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and the uv light or um
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is this potentially a design flaw with
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the bench
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i i think it's just that they get beaten
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up it's um
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you know they're pre-drilled and the um
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the screws that go in they don't go all
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the way through
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you know and then when we put it in it's
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like a heavy thread so i just think it's
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that it's getting beat up and
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you know it's people are more are out
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there doing more exercise now you know
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because the gyms weren't open with the
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covert
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and it's just it's to the point where a
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lot of the benches
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they're 20-plus years old you know so
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the material is
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like outlived it's used for life yeah i
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think that's the biggest
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the biggest problem all right
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yeah we're gonna have to uh figure
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something out uh
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with the uh we're maintaining those
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things
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uh 50 000 bucks is obviously a big chunk
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of change
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um i i i could have sworn there was also
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that that there was a amount grossed up
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in the initial price to cover
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maintenance
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so therefore that there is a there is a
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a price what the whatever the bench
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costs are usually about two thousand
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dollars depending on the wording and the
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plaque
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and then the city adds a one-time fee
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of one thousand dollars what that
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thousand dollars does and there is
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confusion people think it's maintenance
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that's for us to order the bench receive
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the bench
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take it out of its packaging put it
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together and then install it
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and then we've never charged anything
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for me so there is
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you're correct there is a one-time
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thousand dollar fee in the very
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beginning when we purchased the bench
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so maybe maybe we should call that a
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installation fee
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and then ask ina to work on pricing for
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maintenance
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i agree 100 percent thank you
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you're welcome all right
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um i have a ques hi this is the lindsay
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i have a question
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so it have we have you looked at
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any type of new bench
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since those are over 20 years old
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or are we looking to continue to
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continue it to look the same
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we start flopping out
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yes we've looked at all the benches we
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we were we actually looked into benches
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that are made out of the same
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wood as the boardwalk you know the the
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ipe
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it's very expensive it would hold up it
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would look really nice because it would
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match the boardwalk but it's very
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expensive
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uh any of the other benches that are or
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any kind of
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metal they're gonna rust so this is the
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best fit for
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us besides the air bay wood which i
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i think the cost would be astronomical
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yeah and we also have to consider
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that there's really not too much room
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left on the boardwalk you know this we
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have the north side there's a few spots
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but we don't put them i think 73 it's a
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lot of
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enough benches yes agreed
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all right uh anyone else got any other
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questions about the benches
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all right so why we uh got you tommy can
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you also update us on the the lights
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there on uh
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drive yes sir uh the lights on west bay
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drive they've been a problem for a while
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um it's just they're old the
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there's underground wiring it's been
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it's been compromised
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some of the pool boxes you know the
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water's infiltrated in it
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i've worked with public works they're
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aware of the situation
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they've been working with the company
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that we had the lighting company wells
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back
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they've been working with them uh they
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ordered material as far as i know
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to replace the few lights that were done
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i think there's two or three of them
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and you know for them to come in and put
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handhold covers so the wires aren't
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exposed
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and then to to find out what the issue
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is
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um so we can repair it correctly in the
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interim
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on uh veterans day we got a call from
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the
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department that you know somebody's a
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dog got shocked from
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the poll not being grounded um
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unfortunately we've had that problem
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before
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so i took the city electrician down
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there and we in conjunction with our new
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company
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uh new york trenchless we cut the power
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to all of those lights there's still
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street lights all the way down bay drive
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but on the walking path there are no
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lights but
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that saved off the police department was
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there they you know we
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wrapped it with caution tape but the
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main thing is
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there's no power to those lights until
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we can get uh
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get it repaired so i will definitely
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speak to uh commissioner morando and
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fabrizio about how to proceed
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we did take the time out to kind of find
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out what's going on we have an idea of
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why
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it's happening and i will definitely
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talk to the the two commissioners and
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we'll figure out what we're going to do
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going forward
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all right so in the interim we don't
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know when those lights will be turned
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back on
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i guess that's correct i mean we know
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what we have to do
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but of course you know that that takes
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money i know how much that's going to
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cost i know we have a contract with new
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york trenchless um i'll speak to
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commissioner fabrizio about how to go
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about it but it's something that we need
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to definitely
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address when i saw you saturday you said
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though that wells bach had
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ordered the the replacement parts for
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the base to cover the openings
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so are they going to potentially be
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involved as well or if they are they out
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of the picture
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it's that's um joe fabrizio spoke to
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them and they did order the parts that
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did order the the
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four lights that are out on the walking
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path and they ordered the parts the
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handhold covers
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they were supposed to do before that
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contract ended um
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if that didn't happen i know that
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commissioner fabrizio has been on the
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phone with them
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and he's trying to get them down here to
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you know complete that
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i'm not sure exactly where it's at but
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um
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if they're not going to do it i know
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that
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that the public works commissions will
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make sure that the new company does do
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it
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okay because uh the city manager and i
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took when we walked down there and saw
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you over the weekend uh
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there's quite a few polls missing those
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covers
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yes there's i don't know how many polls
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there are i think there's approximately
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16 or 20 of them and i would say that
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there's three quarters
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are missing missing those pieces and
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then there's one poll that's missing all
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together
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yes i think there's it's either two or
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four i forget
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um fabrizio knows he's been working on
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that project quite a while
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um but they as far as i know they did
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order the likes and they have them they
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just haven't come to pay for them i mean
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they haven't come to
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to install them rather i'm sorry so but
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it's now that we were down there we
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looked into it
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it's more than than just the wiring
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being compromised because the handhold
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covers are gone it's
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it's a whole underground thing i haven't
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even got the chance to update the two
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commissioners of public works but i will
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make sure that i do that
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all right so we might have some repair
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work to do also it sounds like
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yes sir and then uh i don't know if you
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wanted me to
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update you uh everybody on
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the doors yes we uh we installed a new
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system a new lock system
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so that it works on a key fob system
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um we work with uh with mr frazier on it
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we anybody that's coming into city hall
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from the city manager to the person who
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started yesterday will have
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if you're an employee of the city and
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you're in city hall you need to get in
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there
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you'll have a key fob it'll be assigned
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the number and the name
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so anybody can go into the building at
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any time
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and if it's after hours we'll get an
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alert um
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so we know who's going in there's the
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camera in in the front of the building
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um we're going to be setting it up so
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that it will take you'll be able to see
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who it is
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so if if you know com counter is
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you know number one zero zero zero
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and you see that person swipe and if
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it's not tom county you could see that
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somebody's using it the a card that's
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not there
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so it's it's good for obviously safety
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and for some of the people who are in
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the building after hours
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you know should got something happen
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they're alone in the building they
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should need help we'll know that they're
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in there
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and it also cuts down on the staff where
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we don't have to if we have a city
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council
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meeting or something like that obviously
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we're going to open the building to the
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public
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but during during the day some people
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come in early some people may cut stay a
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little late
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we won't have to put a special in the
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lobby so we won't have to staff it as
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much it'll cut down on
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on it you know on the employees it'll
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cut down on any overtime if if there's
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going to be a small meeting
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and it's people who have key fob we
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don't need to put somebody in the
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building to open the door and to
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stay there for the length of the meeting
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um
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tommy in my experience with security
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certain employees normally work nine to
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five and therefore would not need access
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after hours and should not be able to
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access the building 247
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so there should be a tiered system on
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who has access in my in my opinion
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no you're 100 right and i spoke to to
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the city manager
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we're going to make a list of everybody
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that
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should have a card and all of the cards
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will be distributed
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exactly as you said on the tier system
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you know city manager will know exactly
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who's given a card and for what reason
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where they work who they are
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and it doesn't necessarily like you said
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mean that we have to give a key to
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anybody
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or everybody so to your point
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that's that's exactly how we're going to
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do it that's for safety reasons so thank
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you
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you're welcome thank you
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okay anyone else have any questions on
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this
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all right uh thanks tommy appreciate it
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very well you're very welcome have a
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great night all right
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have a good night and i see we got uh mr
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mcnally with us
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uh what's going on over at the wreck
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do you hear me okay uh yes okay
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so i have a couple of updates one on uh
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the recreation center
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and the other more of a general kovid so
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uh as the council knows and as we hope
16:18
most of the recreational
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uh community knows we were put in a
16:22
position where we had to put out an rfp
16:24
for the third party vendors that operate
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programs out of the recreation center we
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did that a little over two weeks ago
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those uh responses to the rfp were due
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today
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so we have an internal committee that is
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evaluating
16:40
uh the responses to the rfp we're
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pleased to say that a vast majority of
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uh the entities that were operating out
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of our facilities whether it be the pool
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or the ice arena did submit
16:53
their responses to the rfp so
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internally staff the review committee
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will be evaluating
17:00
those responses over the next day or so
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and we anticipate having them
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uh having the highest awarded ones
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to the council for next tuesday's
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meeting so
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if all of the stars align at the way
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they should
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a vast majority of the programs that
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were previously
17:20
operating out of the recreational center
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uh will
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be able to do so well in advance of
17:25
thanksgiving so you know it would be
17:27
approval by the council on tuesday and
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then we just need to
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dot the eyes and cross the t's in terms
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of the legal agreements
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uh which we already have drafted up um
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and then it's just you know sitting down
17:39
with each of those third-party vendors
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to
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go over all the ins and outs of it and
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then
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once again we'll all kids back on the
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ice and back in the pool
17:49
um and back to normal hopefully
17:54
did we get um
17:57
more than one proposal for for
18:00
the various services or was most of the
18:03
things just a
18:04
single vendor for a uh for
18:08
whatever a you know whatever service
18:10
that we were looking for did
18:12
were mostly just a single response or do
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we get
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so for the for the pool we we basically
18:19
got a continuation of the services that
18:22
were previously in there before
18:24
we had to close things down um so we had
18:27
one
18:27
for competitive swim and one for
18:31
um educational training swimming
18:33
certification for lifeguards
18:35
uh in red cross and such for the ice
18:38
arena
18:40
we got most of the programs that we're
18:43
currently operating out of there came
18:45
back
18:45
uh and a few others so there was stuff
18:48
on the ice and there was stuff
18:50
off the ice that was operating out of at
18:52
a facility so
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a vast majority of those came back plus
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we got uh
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at least one other one that was proposed
18:59
a new service that would be upstairs at
19:02
the ice arena
19:03
not on ice um but that was doing another
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service we're not sure if it's the right
19:09
fit for
19:10
this rfp or if it would be something
19:13
that's better served out of
19:15
uh community services so we're going to
19:18
be evaluating that as a committee
19:20
as early as tomorrow okay
19:24
um do you mean community development or
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community services
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i'm sorry community development so so
19:32
all the substantiation we'll receive in
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our packet but tomorrow night
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no um we're doing is we're evaluating
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all of the uh rvs that have come in
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we will sit down um and look at
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we have to look at what the city will be
19:52
receiving as far as money
19:54
and we will then look at what they're
19:56
charging
19:57
the residents or whomever is coming in
20:00
and then we will put something together
20:02
in
20:03
for it to go out and then what we're
20:06
going to ask
20:07
for is provisional um
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approval from the council while we
20:12
complete the
20:14
um contracts because
20:17
they and we can outline what's going on
20:20
so we can get everybody
20:21
back operating everything that's for the
20:24
ice is on a month-to-month basis because
20:26
we're going to be putting out an rfp
20:29
and then the swim um one of the things
20:32
that
20:32
ina definitely has said and we're
20:34
looking at
20:35
is that we want to make sure that the
20:37
city is getting their
20:39
portion the correct portion of whatever
20:41
money it is to make
20:43
um so that's what i mean by we're we
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will ask for provisional um
20:49
provisional acceptance so we can get the
20:52
get them back there so
20:53
that the programs can continue while we
20:56
go through the con
20:58
go through the contracts so can i can i
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ask for
21:02
a conditional certificate of insurance
21:04
for each entity
21:06
um as part of the provisional approval
21:08
or they have to have their insurance
21:10
certificate and it's included in the rfp
21:12
so yes so then we can that could be part
21:14
of the packet
21:16
yeah thank you
21:19
now the other program that we worked for
21:21
sure that came in
21:23
was a cook and learn so we weren't quite
21:26
sure how the cooking learn got in with
21:28
the ice um
21:30
and the swim but we're gonna do our best
21:34
to incorporate it because it is for the
21:35
students
21:37
that could be interesting yeah franks
21:40
and beans
21:45
so as the city manager stated there's a
21:48
you know we
21:48
we are working to make sure that
21:52
these you know the relationship with our
21:55
our third-party vendors who
21:56
we very much value and have been
21:58
providing excellent benefit to our
22:00
to our residents we want to make sure
22:02
that all of that's on solid putting for
22:04
all parties involved
22:06
but at the same time we we know the
22:08
position that
22:10
our children have put in where they got
22:12
something back
22:14
um after what has been obviously a very
22:16
difficult year
22:17
and then it had to be taken away um for
22:20
for what's hopefully just gonna be a
22:22
brief period of time so
22:24
you know there's the the two different
22:26
components here of wanting to make sure
22:28
it's done right
22:28
but that we want to be able to restore
22:30
services for the children of our
22:32
community as quickly as possible
22:38
thank you all right um anyone else got
22:42
any questions for john about it
22:45
right in the eye sir not about the wreck
22:48
in the ice
22:49
um but i'll wait till later if it's
22:52
appropriate
22:55
okay so the the other item i just wanted
22:57
to be able to give an update on was
22:59
covid where we stand and obviously uh
23:02
if anyone's not aware of some uh
23:05
promulgation of new
23:06
regulations or mandates from the
23:08
governor so
23:10
all summer long we we were doing as a
23:14
community very well
23:15
in terms of covid we were averaging from
23:18
a
23:18
daily increase seven day average so
23:20
daily number but smoothed out over seven
23:22
days
23:23
we were averaging somewhere between half
23:27
to one case in our community um
23:30
and that's that's a positive test how
23:33
how severe that individual case was
23:35
we we have no idea we don't have access
23:37
to that data
23:38
but we knew that you know
23:41
throughout our city in area code 11561
23:45
there was the rolling average on a daily
23:47
basis of
23:48
you know have a confirmed case a day to
23:50
one uh
23:52
in the past month or so we've seen a
23:54
gradual
23:55
but steady increase in that and the most
23:58
recent numbers we have are reported out
24:00
by nassau county as of yesterday
24:03
and we're up to a daily increased seven
24:06
day average of
24:07
six confirmed cases a day we were
24:10
somewhere on the order of 20 30 40
24:12
when we were really peaking in march
24:14
april may um
24:15
but we're not at a spike yet
24:18
but there is a steady increase
24:22
counselors may have noticed that in
24:25
coordination with our police department
24:27
our fire department the chamber of
24:28
commerce
24:30
we started a you know we swapped out our
24:32
social media profile pictures with
24:34
masked logos
24:36
um as a way to let residents know of you
24:39
know this is getting serious
24:40
and please redouble our efforts uh it's
24:43
really masks save lives the science is
24:46
clear at this stage of the game
24:48
um so we we have concern with where
24:51
things are going
24:52
we are urging our residents to you know
24:54
once again redouble their efforts this
24:56
is you know maintain
24:57
social distancing wear a mask the
25:00
science is increasingly clear
25:02
it's you know what you see just put out
25:04
is you're not just protecting others but
25:06
you are protecting yourself
25:08
when wearing a mask and wash your hands
25:11
frequently wash surfaces you know that
25:13
are commonly touched surfaces frequently
25:17
and what we saw issued by the governor
25:20
via executive order yesterday was
25:23
a mandate that all establishments that
25:25
have
25:26
sla state liquor authority licenses
25:30
need to be closed at 10 o'clock
25:33
every night that goes into effect
25:35
tomorrow everything i'm about to discuss
25:37
goes into effect tomorrow at 10 pm
25:39
so bars restaurants that have sla sla
25:42
licenses
25:43
even knights of columbus's and vfws
25:47
all of those entities need to be closed
25:49
by 10 p.m
25:51
every single night if you are typically
25:54
an entity that operates around the clock
25:56
there's a lot of diners on long island
25:57
obviously so if you operate around the
25:59
clock
26:00
you need to close at 10 o'clock you can
26:02
reopen again at five o'clock in the
26:03
morning
26:05
so that that that covers that element of
26:08
it
26:08
the additional wrinkle or the additional
26:12
issue that was promulgated by the
26:13
governor was that
26:16
residential gatherings indoor or outdoor
26:20
need to be restricted to 10 people or
26:23
less
26:24
so that is all you know that'll be
26:27
enforced the same way a noise complaint
26:28
would be as you have
26:30
you know please show up your door
26:31
because you got a noise complaint you
26:33
can't have more than 10 people
26:35
that obviously impacts thanksgiving
26:37
that's a lot of the flack that's coming
26:38
back
26:39
but in the call that we're on with the
26:42
state we have weekly calls with all the
26:43
other town supervisors and
26:45
the mayor of glen cove on a weekly basis
26:48
with the
26:49
representatives from the governor's
26:50
office they have promulgated these rules
26:53
because of
26:54
the contact tracing that has taken place
26:56
shows
26:57
that it is these instances both you know
27:00
in bars and restaurants uh and in indoor
27:04
and outdoor gatherings of private
27:05
residencies
27:06
where we have seen the increased
27:09
infections take place
27:11
so they're trying to be quote-unquote
27:13
surgical
27:14
precision in terms of how they're
27:16
they're rolling back the
27:18
the opening that has taken place uh
27:20
these past
27:21
several months um to really constrain it
27:24
to
27:24
just where they're seeing an outburst or
27:26
an increase in cases so
27:29
that's where we're at right now we're
27:32
hopeful that with increased and
27:34
you know resurgence and diligence and
27:36
adherence to
27:38
mask wearing so this and saying hand
27:40
washing and
27:42
these new rules promulgated by the
27:43
governor's office that we can avoid
27:45
further shutdowns
27:47
that we saw you know earlier on this
27:49
spring and in the early part of summer
27:52
so that's where we're at from a covid
27:53
standpoint
27:57
is there uh on the call with the the
28:00
county and such
28:01
i mean are they talking about any kind
28:03
of uh
28:05
i guess for lack of a better term like a
28:08
a pr
28:09
slash advertising campaign to reiterate
28:12
the mask wearing
28:14
because obviously people are getting a
28:16
little burned out on it
28:18
and um
28:21
the the problem is this thing and we we
28:23
see it you know so far here
28:25
locally we've been doing all right
28:27
compared to the rest of the country but
28:29
all you got to do is look at the news
28:30
and see what's going on in the rest of
28:32
the country it's
28:33
it's it's going to work its way back
28:35
here um
28:37
so they have they have not
28:41
um you know what they have discussed
28:44
is the urgency of the situation you know
28:46
where we're we're talking about
28:49
what is likely a two-week lag in any
28:51
data
28:52
um you know if we know any with this
28:54
virus it's you know you can get
28:56
developed symptoms and you know test
28:58
results kind of roll some places are
29:01
immediate results some places are a week
29:03
some places are 10 days
29:05
um but symptoms can lag up to two weeks
29:07
and then
29:08
mobilization god forbid deaths can lag
29:11
another
29:11
two weeks or even beyond in terms of
29:14
that is concerned so
29:15
i think what what they're trying to do
29:18
is
29:19
communicate not necessarily in a pr
29:22
ascend standpoint but it's it's similar
29:24
to how
29:24
we're doing is you know we had we had
29:27
the the mask replacement of our logo
29:30
we've been sitting on it for several
29:31
months because we just didn't feel the
29:33
time was right because we understood
29:34
everybody was a little bit exhausted by
29:36
this
29:37
and with the numbers being where they
29:38
would we didn't want to waste energy
29:40
where we felt it would fall on deaf ears
29:43
um and quite frankly we didn't want to
29:45
be thanksgiver
29:46
of halloween cringes either so
29:50
we were we've been following the numbers
29:52
and got that
29:53
got past halloween um and see those
29:56
numbers continue to increase so
29:58
we we have a level of concern at this
30:00
stage of the game here we're releasing
30:02
that sort of minor campaign on our start
30:04
on our part and will increasingly again
30:07
be
30:07
communicating the severity of the
30:09
situation and i think that's what you're
30:10
hearing from the governor's office too
30:12
of
30:13
we get everybody was burnt out everybody
30:15
was relaxed
30:16
over the summer we didn't see
30:18
transmission rates but
30:19
this thing is starting to come back it
30:21
is once again real
30:23
uh the numbers across the country quite
30:26
frankly are
30:27
astounding and terrifying um and we just
30:30
want to make sure that
30:31
we do everything that we can do locally
30:34
to
30:35
uh stress the severity of the moment
30:39
um what we're potentially up against and
30:41
make sure that we can avoid having to go
30:42
back to where we were in the spring if
30:44
at all possible
30:45
um and that's by everybody doing you
30:47
know what is relatively three simple
30:49
things of
30:50
wearing your mask to protect you
30:52
yourself your neighbors your communities
30:53
your loved one
30:54
wash your hands as frequently as humanly
30:57
possible
30:58
um or as appropriate and in social
31:00
distance
31:01
um it's weird relatives of the universe
31:03
we were living in a year ago
31:05
um but most people have gotten
31:06
accustomed to it at this stage of the
31:08
game it's it's not a
31:09
there's no political statement behind it
31:11
this is just what we need to do
31:13
um to keep ourselves and our neighbors
31:15
and our families our loved ones safe
31:18
john have a quick question um
31:21
for our restaurants that have to uh
31:24
they're under the 10 o'clock restriction
31:26
is that a total closure at 10 or are
31:28
they still allowed to deliver or have
31:30
pickup
31:32
it is it is so they can do so for in
31:35
in store in you know in-house they need
31:38
to close the tent so
31:39
if you're a bar you need to have your
31:41
last call by 10 o'clock
31:43
and everybody needs to be out by 10
31:45
o'clock uh if you
31:46
are a place that can provide grab-and-go
31:48
or delivery
31:49
for food that can continue on past 10
31:52
o'clock so that's an excellent question
31:54
and a good point of clarification
31:56
that can continue on as long as the the
31:58
establishment operates
32:00
there is no restriction on grab-and-go
32:02
on delivery
32:03
um but it's it's the the you know this
32:06
is where they're finding it it's it's
32:07
within closed quarters
32:09
is where we're getting the infection so
32:11
this is where the governor and the state
32:13
are trying to tamp down
32:14
on things is getting people out from
32:16
closed gatherings inside
32:18
um of establishment so inside
32:21
business needs to close at 10 o'clock
32:23
but the businesses and restaurants can
32:25
continue to operate from a grab and go
32:27
uh in a delivery standpoint after 10
32:29
o'clock okay thank you
32:31
no i'm this of course this is liz i
32:33
don't know i mean
32:34
i know we're not a social service agency
32:39
um but is there a way that and
32:42
maybe mr uh rich you could answer
32:46
if it's a legal thing that we could let
32:49
people know where they could be tested
32:51
because the the south nassau thing they
32:54
closed shop a while ago
32:57
the little where they were offering free
32:59
testing
33:01
and i know city md the line is
33:04
almost around the block and it just is
33:08
non-stop
33:09
in the last week and a half um
33:14
and it's it's young it's old it's every
33:17
everybody
33:18
so
33:21
so you are literally can we put
33:25
something out to show
33:26
where you can go and have a test done
33:29
yeah with m11561
33:31
yes we can can you designate between the
33:34
rapid tests and
33:36
other tests um we can try we have to
33:39
call and find out what they do
33:41
and and get the definition of each test
33:43
thank you
33:45
oftentimes just as a way of reference
33:47
when you look up these different places
33:49
like city md or pro health or any mobile
33:51
provider
33:52
they'll generally tell you in their
33:53
website so if you have a hyperlink
33:56
they'll usually have what tests they
33:58
offer
34:00
and kind of break down both for you a
34:01
lot of those websites have that so
34:03
maybe that's something we can include
34:05
yeah um the the preeminent uh
34:07
disseminator of mom information
34:10
moms11561 on facebook
34:12
has some varying thoughts on on what
34:15
place is open so that's why
34:17
you know if we can be a consolidator
34:19
that would be awesome thank you
34:22
thank you
34:27
all right so
34:30
everybody put a mask on
34:35
uh all right john you got anything else
34:38
that was it for me if there's any other
34:40
questions um
34:42
i do mike delore good evening john
34:46
and michael um
34:49
could you just briefly talk about how
34:52
the hydrant flushing is going
34:54
and if people um need to know
34:57
that don't know sure so
35:01
we've been we've had it up on our
35:02
website included talking about it from
35:04
social media
35:05
uh as early as it was
35:09
i don't know on monday
35:13
john you're breaking up john i'm sorry
35:16
i'm i'm sitting out in my car a while my
35:18
wife puts my kids to sleep so
35:20
i'm doing the best i can
35:25
nope you were breaking up again do you
35:28
hear me hold on
35:30
yes that's good that's good is this any
35:33
better
35:33
yeah lift keep your left leg up in the
35:35
air and your left arm extended that's
35:38
i'll do that
35:42
now now we lost you again yeah john all
35:45
i want to do is really just say that uh
35:47
it's available on the website it's
35:49
rolling
35:50
and uh you know people could just
35:52
monitor it if they uh because it worked
35:54
very well
35:55
last spring i thought it was
35:56
exceptionally well exceptionally
35:59
done well where people um i think
36:02
it was limited or no complaints um
36:05
you know what street they're up to now
36:08
i looked it up their the website was is
36:11
updated
36:12
with the information overall tomorrow
36:15
it would be updated to let everyone know
36:18
the
36:18
different streets that they will be
36:20
working on um
36:22
direction because it's two crews that
36:24
are out there right now so one crew is
36:26
going west
36:27
one crew is going east so the although
36:30
it says uh flushing
36:32
hydro flushing right now it will be
36:34
updated um
36:35
by tomorrow with additional information
36:38
so right now
36:39
right now it's it says thursday november
36:42
12th
36:42
flushing will begin at 9 00 p.m on
36:44
monroe boulevard
36:46
and heading east to lincoln boulevard so
36:48
it's updated already right and on
36:51
and on laurelton boulevard heading west
36:53
to lafayette
36:54
right so it's been updated it's been
36:58
updated so as far as we know the
37:00
flushing is going well
37:02
um unfortunately i don't have um
37:04
commissioner
37:05
miranda on the call um
37:08
because he can get more into details
37:10
mike and so i can ask him to give you a
37:12
call if you need more details about
37:14
actual the actual flushing itself no
37:17
donna that was all
37:18
i just wanted to make residents aware
37:21
that it is
37:22
on their website it is updated daily and
37:25
i i just a shout out to whoever does
37:28
this
37:28
it really has proven uh extremely
37:31
helpful
37:32
and that's all thank you so can you can
37:35
you hear
37:36
me mike am i in a better spot uh yes
37:38
john you're coming in loud and clear
37:41
okay so it was i mean as i think has
37:43
been spoken about so we're updating on
37:45
social media we're updating on the
37:47
website daily
37:48
uh it's it's you know john mooney and
37:51
michael longin
37:52
from the water transmission essentially
37:54
what they do is they start
37:56
you know so you're looking at a water
37:58
transmission system here
38:00
so they have two crews that start in the
38:02
middle of the city
38:03
and what they're doing is concurrently
38:05
moving east and west
38:07
and flushing the system we just
38:09
discussed that
38:10
we just discussed that so okay
38:14
yeah we just discussed and and uh john
38:16
bendo read um from what was on the
38:19
website
38:20
um okay very good yeah
38:25
all right anyone else got any questions
38:33
all right here are none uh
38:36
i think that was pretty much it this was
38:38
uh we didn't have a lot
38:40
we needed to really go over tonight so
38:42
uh
38:43
so i guess we'll we'll wrap it up there
38:46
and
38:47
let people go what what's that
38:50
what was that liz census will you talk
38:53
bring it up the census
38:54
no it's now wear your mask and dispose
38:58
your man but it's not a meeting so
39:00
i know wait i know wait wait wait a
39:02
minute
39:04
it's not a it's not a it's not a
39:06
political statement it's a health issue
39:10
um all right uh just in time for people
39:14
to go watch jeopardy i guess so
39:16
uh everyone uh have a good night
39:19
and we'll uh i guess we'll see you
39:22
tuesday at the city council meeting