Council July Meeting [22:47-27:50]

We'll get you. That's all right. Good afternoon. What do you think with the neon limestone? Just give you a brief update. Last year was a good year for us, as far as stone removed and stone cells. Everything was right on cue. This year's been a little bumpy. From stuff, I mean, just being quite honest, the terrors have impacted us, especially our Canadian customers up north. From that, but we're working around that, and we're surviving, we're doing okay. So we're still equal to last year, but we had bigger plans for this year. So improvements that we continue to do. It's not noticeable to anyone unless you're there. But we've added a building on the backside of the Empire Planet. We've added two souls, or what we will have. We'll have two new souls going to tell me by September 1st. I think it's going to be by October 1st. Roughly the building of the two souls, about $6.4 million that we're investing in. I will also get my plug in. The tariffs had an impact on that as well. The souls come from Italy, so we were impacted on that. Overall, headcount. We're going to add about 20 employees if we can find them. So that's kind of what's going on there. Well, just make us more efficient. We've added the line on, and we've kind of used Purdue. If you guys are familiar with this, Purdue has a program where they'll send down these experts. Down to do a process. Flow analysis. So they did that. So we moved a lot of equipment around in the building. It's really helped on the health and safety aspect. And make us a bit more efficient on how we move equipment. What's going on there? That's great. How do you find out about Purdue's program? Actually, she had size more. Kind of give me the lead on that. Give me the recommendation. Before he left last year, we brought him down. There was a group of five people. They brought four students. And this is actually a nationwide program. But in Indiana produced only of it. I highly recommend it. Purdue has lots of resources that people are not always aware of. Yeah, it was amazing. The greatest thing, minimal cost. Less than $2,000 just to cover their travel down. And they did the whole process of mapping. And did this whole great presentation. Honestly, we didn't do the worker hire. The work to get it moved. But I highly recommend it. And it's a secret. Did you say the saws came from Italy? Italy. Yes. May I ask why? That is actually the best place in where to get saws and stuff. Do you think I hate to hear that? It's the stone. I mean, Italy is where a lot of our stuff comes from. Did you do some stuff with the WFM? Absolutely. Yes, WFM is. They provide the blades and help us from that. But what this will be is actually finishes there. It's, they're called CMIC saws. It's what they are. But they're basically a router, sander, planer. I put it in winter and all. I grew up doing that. That's kind of what they do. They do the finishing touches. So you load a block on one end. And on the other end it comes out in the pieces. It's kind of. Yeah. It's kind of. Thank you. Yes. The questions? The first one is Andy. Is Andy a pixel? I'm showing that for this first. Yes. That's all our properties from the standpoint. So we do a little bit of quarry there. All of our quarry sites. We're still using some of them. It depends upon the stone that comes out of them. So currently, but used to be Elliott stone which we call Eureka now, don't know, exchange name. We've paused. Coil production there for two months. Brought those staff in the equipment to empire. Because we're in a nice buff material and empire. to empire because we're in a nice buff material in the empire and he'd to say it we want to get it while the weather is good in the summer is there because Urika is underground and we can call you there in the winter time and so we find ourselves moving equipment around and people so I guess my question is you knew the thing I was at work with the taxes in the abatement, if the abatement was framing and creating this verse being assessed that, but yeah you've got this material now, this machine room. Yes, like I said, in this case, Urika will remove the equipment, not all the equipment, because some of it is made for underground, we move it there and then we move it back and we move the people back. So, in 2009, what was it in Urika? At that time, I think we're at 220 right now, at 221.