Council 6-23-2026 [36:30-41:31]

We got. That will be further down the list. Let's go to the CF ones. And then the line is going to work. Pinsley. Evening. Evening. Evening. Well, if you recall last year, we had all the capital expenditures we were doing last year. So the great news we completed all of those and everything is operational. And what did that do for us and our property values? So we increased our fixed assets $3.4 million last year. $2 million that was a new gang saw at our empire facility. $2 million of that was in the building for this gang saw. It's actually two gang saws that we're doing. We run them in tandem. It really has helped us as we centralize all the operations there. We've also added two new block handlers, two loaders, two new excavators last year. We're doing something new. We started leasing new equipment. So in the past, what we, our idea on the past was by used equipment. We decided we're going to start leasing new equipment. I will say it's more fuel efficient, less maintenance costs. Our operators love running these machines. From that standpoint, our plan is releasing for five years and then we're going to purchase them after that. So we get a few of them. And so those alone, those six devices were right about another $4 million. But again, those are just, that's the value of those from that standpoint. Employee headcount, we finished the 212 employees. And I can talk about this each year where we finished. November, December, we slide down and then we pick back up. We're currently 233 employees. Honestly, we could be at 252.60 easily. So if anyone knows anyone that wants to work, we do, we hire every week. We have people going through training every Monday from that standpoint. You guys all know it's, it's, it's just, it's tough work. From that standpoint, but that's kind of been our investment last year. We're going to be in the same numbers. Again, this year, the leasing is kind of proving its worth. Cost of fuel, we all know what the cost of fuel is cost us personally. How would you like to buy out, you know, 10,000 gallons of diesel every month? It's, yeah, it's really hurting us from that standpoint. But that's what we're planning on doing. We're just going to keep every year, just keep leasing with the plan in five years. We'll be able to purchase in the course of five years. We will be placed all of our equipment is kind of our game plan. You're a major employer. Thank you. We try to do right. I also, maybe you guys know this or not, but we celebrated 100 years on April 17th this year. We have our annual company picnic actually. No, it's still, I'm not on the plan. You're not over yet. I was pushing to do an April, but they're all worried about the weather and so forth. It's sometime in July. That's what I can say. We have a company picnic this Thursday that we celebrate. Hey, we get a picnic. All the employees get together. We celebrate. They get the day off work. So everyone's happy. And you got 233 current employees now. 233 as of this morning. Okay. And ready to hire more. We hire every Monday. Every Monday we hire someone and they start Monday by going and watching the videos. They should have him should trained and I kind of use the common sense. Hey, those rocks are bigger than what you are. The trucks are bigger than you are. I mean, it's common sense, but we make them sit through all the videos and get through that. I will say I'll put a plug in this. We also earlier this year and our empire plant. Celebrated a year with no accidents and no, which is amazing. From that standpoint, so no accidents, no close calls, anything. And for us safety is a huge deal. We overly stressed that. We have safety meetings every week and we shift with every department and we go through things. Some big plugs. I know it keeps saying this. We ship products everywhere. We are shipping 38 blocks. We've got half of them shipped to Italy right now. We can get the other one. This is mine or not. There's a big project going in Washington, D.C. So that's using Indian limestone from us. It goes to Italy to get carved and get done and it comes back to Washington, D.C. We also have blocks that are going on the Utah State Capitol. Same thing. We ship them to Italy. Italy does their magic and ships them back to Utah. If we do any carving here. Not for those size projects. Almost all our other customers are around here.