City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, I will call tonight's Cole City Council meeting for March 16th, 2026. It's 6:06 p.m. And I'm going to call to order and welcome those uh that are joining us here tonight. Thank you for those in the crowd, especially our city employees that are here. Um, first on the agenda is an invocation which tonight will be offered by John Stone of the Cobalt 7th Day Adventist Church. Please stand if you're able to join us in prayer and we'll move to the pledge of allegiance. Thank you, Mayor Phillips and City Council. Let us bow our heads. Oh God, creator of heaven and earth, we come to you this evening seeking your guidance. Bless this council and grant them the wisdom to discern what is right, the right course of action in each matter that they will that will come before them. May their decisions balance justice with mercy as they serve the needs of our community with humility. May those who come before this council this evening have clarity and thought and purity of intentions as they present their concerns and may the quorum of civility be expressed by everyone in attendance. May the outcomes of be received with the understanding that the needs of all who call Caldwell home have been evaluated and the results are fair. We ask your spirit to guide this meeting so that the decisions may honor you. May all that is done here contribute to the peace, prosperity, and well-being of our neighbors. In your holy name I pray. Amen. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

All right. Thank you for that. The next item in the agenda is the roll call. Madame Clerk, would you please call the role? Councelor Tilmont here. Councelor Sodic here. Councelor Register here. Councelor Williams here. Councelor Algood here. Councelor Denber here. All right. All council and the mayor present. Uh thank you for that roll call. Next on the agenda is the conflict of interest declaration. Are there any members who of the council have a conflict of interest to declare relating to any item on the agenda tonight? All right. Seeing none, we're going to move on. The next item on the agenda is a special presentation for the ELTAC, also known as a local highway technical assistance council of Cwell Road Scholars. Please come up.

Hi, my name is Lisa Popoff. I'm with Eltac. Uh, thank you for allowing me to be here today to present these awards uh to your staff for their outstanding achievements. Just a little bit about ELTAC and the programs um before I give out the awards. So our mission at ELTAC is to advocate, support, and train uh all local highway jurisdictions. That's every highway district, city, and county uh with roadway authority in the state. So the programs that we have as part of our training uh we offer classes that are uh held throughout the state generally in the spring and the fall. The classes we offer cover a wide variety of topics such as safety, professional development, and the largest portion being construction and maintenance activities. Uh most of these courses um the participants have to pass an exam uh requiring 80% to pass the class. So currently we have two level levels to our program, the road scholar and the roadm. Uh today I'm here to present awards to three of your staff for road scholar. Um that program includes approximately 80 hours of instruction, seven core classes including roadway materials, pavement maintenance and preservation, flagger certification, and four electives. Each student had four years to complete this level. So our second program is our road master and that builds upon the road scholar. Again, that's 80 hours of instruction, four core classes and five electives. Um so today again we are here to celebrate three road scholars. So, if you guys could come up. Uh, we have Chris Harky, Ryan Fleming, and Michael Broski. Sorry if I said that wrong. Leatherman and your certificates. So, Michael Brian

and Chris, congratulations. And if I could bother you to get a picture, sure would be amazing. If you guys don't mind,

you take a step back. Can we get a round of applause? Congratulations.

All right. Uh just in following the mayor and council of course are very grateful for the excellent work done by our street department. I've had the recent opportunity to tour their facilities. They have a lot of equipment, a lot of folks, and a lot of great work they do. So, we thank you for that. Uh, next on the discussion for tonight is school capacity and development ordinance, and we're going to hear from a city of Middleton representative, I believe, our newly sworn in mayor, um, on how their ordinance works. So, with that, welcome to the call city council meeting. We look forward to hearing your comments. And with that, to we offer our condolences.

Thank you, Mayor Phillips. I appreciate that. Um we uh instituted an ordinance a couple years ago um for school capacity and uh it worked for Middleton. It was ordinance 693 from Middleton. Um, and it uh it kept the uh developers in the county area from requesting annexation into the city and loading our school even further. Um, for us it worked because we had the uh added difficulty of having a wastewater treatment plant that was at capacity. So we had already stopped um accepting any new developments uh preliminary plots to our city because of our wastewater treatment plant. So, this was requested by um some of the council members to enact us an ordinance and for Middleton it worked for a couple of years, but we are currently looking at repealing that ordinance uh due to the fact that it it basically stops the growth. our wastewater treatment plant has um acquired the funding that it needs to develop another 1,800 EDUs. So, we're going to be opening up for development again. Um, this basically stops your revenues that are coming in for uh infrastructure, which as you guys well know, that's a real cost to us, especially since 689 went into effect. Your your budgets are as limited as

ours. So, um, if you can partner with the county and, uh, make this ordinance work for you, uh, then I'd say yes, move forward. But at this time, uh, if you're just trying to move forward with your Caldwell School District, u, I would take a really hard look at it, gentlemen, I don't think it'll work for you. If you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer if I can. All right, with that uh any further? All right, councelor Stodd. Mr. Mayor, thank you. Did that include uh industrial and commercial development, too?

It did. It did. Well, to a certain point, um we did have a little bit of capacity left for commercial, but not for industrial. Okay. And so we we were accepting applications for commercial and our commercial did move along, but uh Middleton's still a bedroom community. And relative to schools, was that elementary, middle school, and high schools all included in the ordinance?

That that that is correct. Um Middleton School District has since been able to fund uh a new school district thanks to um donated land by Corey Barton. and then two different um school bond well not really bonds but uh school funds. Uh one was the school modification fund which uh gave the school district $8 million and that's not enough to do anything with. So they set it aside uh until they could raise enough funds to actually do something. So, um, then the legislation changed and, uh, they were able to coup a a cooperative facilities fund for another $11 million. And between the two, that basically pays for three quarters of a school. So, we we can add capacity of 400 students, but uh, it doesn't pay for the complete school. So, it'll be built in phases. and it's uh already uh got a building permit, so it's moving forward.

Thank you. Thank you, Councelor Stodd. Council All good. Yes, sir. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you coming. When when this ordinance passed, just understanding the mechanics of it, did the school district say yes or no when a development came to to council or how did that work? Yeah, the school district was actually in favor at that time.

Um, unfortunately, it's kind of a double-edged sword. Uh, you you're stopping growth for a little while, and that helps your school district, but your constituents out there will vote no on any school bonds because you stop growth. So magically, we're we don't need to put out any more tax money for schools. So it's kind of I I I really can't recommend it. And that was my that leads Mr. Is that right? My my second question is did you guys see a change in your property tax up or down as a result of this?

Not really. No, it it really didn't change that much. Um if anything property tax went down because of the legislature but um not because of our initiative. Thank you. Appreciate it very much. Just to clarify, council good, were you asking if the schools approved the development or if they approved of the ordinance itself? Actually kind of each development if a developer were to approach were the schools saying no or did they just say it? It was pretty much uh um the school district was in favor of uh stopping growth entirely. So So development just didn't come in the door at that point.

Not residential. No. Uh we still had 3,000 lots that were ready for development. So, those houses continued to progress um over the last two years and they've brought our um our stash of lots uh down a little bit, but there's still quite quite a few lots that are undeveloped that uh had previous um applications in. So, you really didn't stop any growth. you just stopped new development from coming in.

Thank you. Appreciate it. And just to clarify, um it doesn't say no growth, correct? Right. In your ordinance? No. It's based upon a percentage, right, of the school district capacity in the area. That is correct. And how many school districts do you guys have in Middleton? One.

Okay. The Middleton School District uh encompasses an area from uh the Boisee River to the Jim County line and from the interstate over to Star. And that's part of our problem is you have two different cities that are building rapidly and one has no hold on schools. So, um the other one kind of limited. So in your mind if you had two school districts right uh you were a city nearby one is bursting at the seams experiencing a lot of infrastructure challenges and another that's regressing in population size and attendance I mean it could vary right on the effectiveness or not

exactly and that that is part of the problem plus you're t you're still building out in the county so most of most of the Middleton school district is county and do you know your percentage percentage of capacity right now.

Um well, with the new school um being built, we'll have uh we'll be back down to uh 100% of capacity in that school when the doors open. Um the other schools will actually drop in capacity and then we'll be around the 80% mark in those schools because uh they're going to uh redistrict the elementary schools to even out the load. And just to further clarify on your code, so the way the code's set up, it's not necessarily I mean it's citywide, right? But you have variations between elementaryaries, middle, and high school. So if capacities were different, you both could Yes, we

move around for lack of better words. That was one of the things that the school district did immediately after this uh came about was to redistrict the schools to um get away from uh having 120% of capacity at one school and only 90% at another so that our teacher to student ratios were a little more even. Thank you for that. And oh, councelor Toma, real quick on your on Middleton school district, is there any other municipality that feeds into Middleton school district

into Middleton schools? Yes. Um, abs the county and the city of Star both feed into the school district. If you were to say as far as p property taxes go. Well, I mean as far as students as far as students uh there is um a policy within the school district to allow students from across the river to come to Middleton or from other communities if there is capacity available. Okay. But they're not slated to go into they are not. So in other words, people from STAR are not part of Middleton school district.

No, people from STAR are part of Middleton school district at the Canada line. Star goes way beyond the Canada line out to Kingsbury Road. So all of those people that are within Star's um city limits are are still speeding into the school. Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions from council? All right, with that, thank you for the information tonight. Obviously, we have a followup um workshop here in the near future on the 25th, I believe, 5:30. And once again, we offer our condolences to your city. Thank you. The tragedy you recently went through. Thank you very much, mayor. All right, sir. Appreciate it, Mayor. Thank you, gentlemen.

All right. Sorry, may I? Just a question. Who's who's presenting to us at that workshop on Wednesday? That's going to be staff. Okay. On the 25th. Yes. Any other questions? All right. Next on the presentation of the cobalt cities coal city and single audit report. Relle who will be speaking for Eddie Bailey. Sorry. Fine.

Good evening Mayor Phillips, city council members. I'm Kelly Bergie. I'm with I Bailey. Um, I'll be going over the results of the audit. So, I just want to first thank you for the opportunity to serve as your auditor. And I would also like to thank Rilyn and Michelle and the finance team for the great job in preparing the financial statements and prep prepping for an efficient audit. Um, just a note that on March 4th, we did meet with the audit committee and discussed um the audit results in detail. So, I believe you have the report in front of you. On page two is our opinion and we're happy to report that we had an unmodified and that's a clean audit report and at the bottom of that page is an emphasis of matter paragraph. Um this last year the government accounting accounting standards board issued a new statement. and it's statement number 101 and it was over compensated absences and it just provided for a little bit more of consistent recognition and measurement of um absences like PTO, sick leave, those kinds of things. Um and then it's also highlighted in the financial statement notes under note 17. All right. On page 85, so at the back of your report is our report on internal control. and we're happy to say that we have no internal control findings. And then our next report on page 87 is the compliance report and this is over um the audit of the federal major program and the major program that we audited was the airport improvement grant and we had no um compliance findings on there and that is all I had prepared. Do you have any questions for me? Uh questions from council. Do you need a minute to go through it?

Do you have anything else from staff? All right. Michelle is going to go over the financials. Thank you. Thank you for that.

Hello, Mayor and Council. Um thank you for having me here tonight and I am here to present and give a little bit more information about the financial statement. So, um, I did provide a summary sheet and I kind of want to focus on that a little bit more tonight. I will tie it back to the financial statement. Um, but, uh, the the page that I gave you in the front of the packet, it has a summary and it breaks down the individual current uh, activity for this last previous year as well as ties in the fund balance or cash um, that we had at the end of the year. So the first number that I want to talk about is uh the uh the total fund balance as of uh 930 2025. You'll show that in the government funds listed there first. The second column there's 79.3 million and that ties back to page 21 of the financial statements. That's the governmentwide um re profit and loss basically. So it's uh that's the balance there. And as a whole the we did have a decrease in fund balance within the governmental funds of 2.7. Um most of that was in the streets department. We had about 10.2 million in projects completed in this last year. This last fiscal year 2025 in the street department and 5.7 of fund balance was used to complete those projects. Um, we also had some spending in fire capital impact fees and park impact fees. I'm sorry, the fire capital fund and the park impact fee fund. We did $4.5 million of projects to complete the pool and some other parks projects that we needed done last year and uh did use about 532,000 of that in fund balance. Uh fire capital, we did about 1.6 6 million in

in equipment, apparatuses and um vehicles and uh used about 415 of fund balance. So the very first column there is just our current year increase or decrease. If there's a negative there, that means we used a little bit of our fund balance. If it's a positive, that means we had revenues in excess of expenditures and actually added to our fund balance. The second column there is our fund balance as of 9:30 for each division and department. And then um and then also our cash and there's there are some slight variances to cash. I wanted to highlight that but it is pretty close in nature. I did a little reconciliation off to the right to show you. Usually the variance in cash is related to um acrual accounting which just means that we record the expense and the revenue when it's earned. So some of the balances are going to be higher or lower than the existing fund balance because we have money that we acrewed such as property tax, sales tax, etc. that we haven't yet received but it was earned for the month of September. We just didn't get it until October. And so that's why you see a small variance in the cash. Um and if you see um the a negative cash balance, it's the opposite. It's it's that we had a lot of expenditures come in for projects and things like that and uh those expenditures were for the month of September but we didn't pay them until October. So the variances in cash are just related to a cash flow um that happens with acrruel accounting but I wanted to provide that as a guide for you guys as well. Um on the enterprise funds which are listed down below we have a we end the 930 2025 with a fund balance of 62.3 million and um had a total of 5.5 million in increases in the enterprise funds. Enterprise funds are golf, water, sewer, sanitation, electrical and irrigation. So those

funds are doing relatively well and we are doing a lot of projects in those funds. Um and we'll continue to do a lot of projects. We do have um some big sewer projects and water projects coming up. Down at the very bottom, I give a highlight of the general fund. Um the very first number listed in your top left corner there is the current year increase in general fund of 369,000. general fund is uh mostly our public safety divisions, police, fire as well as our building mapping and uh building safety uh divisions. Um and then we also have uh projects that we completed with our general fund funds and some investment revenue. So, I break that down that 369,000 so that you can see a little bit more detail within the general fund on what the current year uh increases or or decreases were. And then I also do a little budget comparison as well. There were planned use all of the the decreases in fund balance this year were planned use of fund balance. Um we did have projects and things like that that we were trying to get done and did complete and so that was was not unplanned. Um, and the uh just to tie back to the financial statements, the uh 62.3 million is identified on page 24 of the financial statements. And um with that, I stand for questions if you have any.

Thank you for that. Council, any questions? Uh councelor Denver. Mr. Mayor, I'm not sure I have a question. I I got a big book here and uh can we ask questions about anything in the book or is there somebody else that's going to to kind of chat about the pages in the book? Uh we can review some of the pages in the book. Um as highlighted uh page 21 is where I'm getting the number of the total fund balance. So page 21 is the governmental funds that shows all revenues and expenditures received for the governmental funds within the year. Um the bot the number in the bottom right corner of page 21 is the 79.3 million. So that's where we stand on our Got all those numbers, but I have a question about a statement that's made on page 11. Oh, okay. Yeah, we can talk about that

and it's specifically in relation to the fund balance.

So I'm looking here at the statement in the let me see one, two, three, fourth paragraph that says the uh uh the unassigned fund balance is $24.2 $2 million which is represented in these numbers somewhere. And uh and then it also says that uh the city should maintain 19.6 million of that in reserves. So did we have a fund balance that that saved more money than we anticipated saving?

Um we did we did have a planned use of about 500,000 last year in the budget of fund balance. we ended up ending the year with a 360 something increase. So the fund balance did go up a little bit. Um how we look at the fund balance is um we have restricted fund balance and so there's some restricted fund balances that we have for like the impact fee funds and whatnot. If you want to take to get a better look of fund balance, you can go to page uh 19 that also references the 7.9 million. And there the bottom of the page, it identifies fund balance. And so you have your general fund, your street fund, our debt service fund right now, which is for our fire bond. And then we have our other governmental funds which is library, community development, um and all the other special revenue funds, airport, parks and wreck and things like that. Um but the two major funds within the government funds are our general fund and our street fund. And so this breaks down the total. So the total in the general fund is 46 million and that's the balance of the general fund as of 9:30. But within that there are restrictions and so we have 8.4 4 million currently assigned for projects. Mostly that's within the impact fee funds. Um we also have 12.8 m million I'm sorry the the committed per capita outlay 12.8 million that is that is the fund balance that's restricted for most of the capital funds and impact fee funds. And so the actual unassigned is the 24. So out of the 40 46 we have 24 unassigned. But as that statement identifies in the analysis, we do retain 30% of current year general fund expenditures. That amount is withheld. And so right now that amount I think is is close to

uh 13 or 14 million right now that we have for our reserves. We we don't list that in the financial statements specifically because Gazsby doesn't um it's not something that they want to present. But um out of the 24.2 here there is restricted another 14. So the actual amount that we have as far as um buffer or usage I guess you could say would be the difference between the 24 and the 14 which is right around 910 million. So my question then boils down to uh so we're saving uh and we have a fund balance at an expected or a favorable rate to the city.

Yes. Yes. And so as we go into this next budget year, couple of weeks, couple months down the road, we're going to be looking at a bunch of things including the utilization or the potential utilization of fund balance. And so the comment in the auditor's report right under there is that uh fund balance should be used for one time if there's foret one-time purchases only.

And the city still maintains that strict policy that fund balances are used for one-time purchases only. Correct. It is general practice, best practice and within our financial policy. So if there is planned use of fund balance, it's ideal that that's a one-time expenditure for capital, equipment, and machinery. Um because it's not a sustainable form of revenue. It's your savings essentially. And so you cannot uh you don't want to use that to hire because that's ongoing source of expenditure that will accumulate year after year um unless you you know let people go which nobody wants to do. and software costs. Obviously, keeping the doors open, utilities, those are all operational costs. You need sustainable oncoming incoming revenue. You don't want to use um prior year savings or excess. Uh a lot of the reason that we have excess in prior years is due to uh things that you know are unforeseen inside the budget. And so, uh we have cost savings because of turnaround or maybe we didn't, you know, get to purchasing a piece of equipment or finishing a project that we do still plan to do. it's just going to go into the next year and things like that. And so you have to be very careful when using fund balance and what you do want to make sure it is one-time use. It's not uh any kind of operational ongoing operational expense.

Okay. Thank you. The next comment is on page the next question I have is about uh page 14 and uh I'm going to look at the uh the very the very last sentence on the second paragraph. Nope, very last sent third paragraph. My apologies. Uh very last sentence. Um, and this question is in relation to some information that we have about where we might be in our current budget, where we might be as far as, you know, tightening the belt as we end the year. And that last statement says the demand for commercial building permits is expected to stay the same in 2026. Where do we where do we make that conclusion? Who makes that conclusion that residential building permits will stay the same?

So, we look at trends. um we've been tracking and recording the number of permits and types of permits that are issued every year. We get reporting from the softwares that we use in order to get that data and we do kind of a trending analysis but we also take into account several other factors within economy. Um Raylin and I attend economic meetings uh held by banks and people who are well known in the investment industry and banking industry and econ and and economists who are speaking about where we're going, what direction we're going as well well as keeping up with the legisl legislature and state policy and and if that's going to affect us in any way, shape or form and what they're trending to see and things like that. And so it's kind of like a collaborative discussion that we have between taking the data that we do have from our softwares as well as as well as collaborating with uh and networking with the people that we do have. We have financial adviserss that we reach out to um anytime we have questions and and want some economic advice in regards to that. And we also have our community members and other states and other cities that we reach out to as well to say what are you seeing trending here and how does that work? And so that's kind of where we come up with our projection for the next year. Um, of course it is just a projection. Um, but we do we do think things are going to level off when it comes to going into this next budget season. Last several years we've been seeing huge increases in uh, you know, going over budget in projected revenue for building permits and things like that. So our numbers have been exceeding what we've been projecting for the past several years. I don't think that that's going to continue in the next year or so. I think we're going to see at minimum a leveling off. Um uh and and those significant inclines and excesses that we've been seeing in the past are not going to happen moving forward.

Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you, Councelor Denver. Council good. Uh yeah, not a question. I just told Michelle I'm on the audit may I told her I'd bring this up. For many, many years we had to help the golf courses with finances. They were in the red every single year uh due to good management by our golfing staff and our finance department. Not only are we very much in the black, but we have $423,000 in fund balance on top of that, which uh we hadn't seen in many, many years. And and so thank you. Thank you to the golf people. Um that is a huge turnaround. It is wonderful.

Yeah. And I would also say congratulations. That is a good turnaround. Um, thank you for those that participated in that and thank you councelor all good. Councelor Stoic. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I want to uh thank the golf committee too because I remember way back when when I was on that and we were shelling out almost a quart million dollars a year and that had to come to an end. So anyway, uh Roshelle, I was just wondering are there any unspent ARPA funds?

We do have about a million dollars left in ARPA funds. Um that's one thing I did uh want also talk about. We spent about three million this year in federal funding um on our SEO report. The um larger ones was ARPA funding. I think last year we spent about a million dollars, a little over a million dollars in ARPA funding and then we had the airport projects um which kind of go up and down and when we see a construction hit for those projects, we usually have high years in that. Um but we have about a million left. So that does have to be spent by the end of this calendar year. So December 31st, 2026. and um and and and I think that that's not going to be a problem. There's some big I think it's mostly a fire and police uh training facility that we're going to be using that funding on as well as um a large piece of equipment for police. It's some big SWAT unit that they're buying and that's pretty much going to take up the funds and I think those are on order. It's just a matter of getting him getting them here. So

So after this year they'll be spent then. Can we assume that they will be 100% spent after that? All right. Any other questions from council? All right. Thank you for that. Okay. Thank you.

And thank you for the work on the report. That's those that don't know this is a thick report council and staff have uh reviewed and can always reach out if you have any questions on that. All right. Right. Uh, next on the agenda is audience participation. The section of the agenda is reserved for citizens wishing to address the council regarding city related issues that are not on the agenda. Purses wishing to speak will have three minutes and we have a clock here. And right here, comments related to pending public hearings, including decisions may be appealed to city council, are out of order and should be held for public hearing. Repeated comments regarding same or similar topics previously addressed or out of order will not be allowed. Comments regarding performance by city employees are inappropriate at this time and should be directed to the mayor either by subsequent appointment or after tonight's meeting. You can also reach out to our city attorney if time permits. In order to ensure adequate public notice law provides any item of the emergencies requiring council action must be placed on the agenda upcoming council meeting. As such, city council can't take action on the items raised during citizen issues at the same time meeting, but at the meeting, but may request additional information or the item be placed on a future agenda. With that, we're going to start with Mr. Travis Manning, the chair of the Cowell School District. And thank you, Chairman Manning. Thank you, Mayor Phillips, for allowing me to speak for a couple minutes. Uh, mayor, uh, members of the council, um, just wanted to stand for a couple minutes and, um, as I I've been reflecting the last few months, um, with various issues and and things and and thinking about the the relationship that we have that the Calwell School Board has, I'm the chair of the Calwell School Board and I'm just grateful uh, for the relationship, the long-standing relationship that the Calwell School District has with um, the city of Caldwell. Um, and there are numerous ways and I probably should have compiled

the list, but I I didn't. I'm just going to kind of riff here off my head. But I just am grateful for um the relationship that we have and we had you know three students hit by a cars here in the last couple months in December and January and um the city responded uh rapidly and and worked with um the district uh to help try and you know troubleshoot and problem solve and and we're in the process of um you know working out working out some things there potentially getting a hawk light system put in at the high school and um we have a a safety summit coming up here in a couple weeks um that the city is sponsoring and and you know using utilizing their community partnerships and including us and we just are very appreciative um of everything that we do together whether it's collaborating with SRO's um that we have uh other police issues um thinking about planning and zoning they're very thoughtful in getting our feedback from our district about um you know population growth density growth uh neighborhoods um walkways and pathways um I'm thinking the Caldwell library does a great job working with our schools. Um either having kids come to the library or going to schools themselves and working inside the schools. Um there just there's there's just a lot and and so whatever we can do to um as a city to help our our families as well. I guess I would sort of close there. um here um we have a lot of families that struggle and so it you know housing is important um and having jobs is important as well. Um and I guess finally I would say this that just for clarification the Cell school district is the the growth of of our population has been stagnant um and even declining slightly um due to a number of different reasons. Uh, you know, we Idaho is is a state of school choice. And so in Idaho, you have we have we have charters and magnet schools, we have private schools,

online schools. Uh, you can um, you know, we have students who go to other school districts uh, with open enrollment um, as as space allows. And so all of that to say that um uh we you know we did have to close a school a couple years ago, but we appreciate you know the city of Caldwell and and this and the citizens for stepping up and um supporting us in in numerous ways. And there are many things I could talk about, but I just wanted to say thank you and I just look forward to the continuing relationship that we have that we've um have had that we have now and and so thank you. Appreciate your time.

Uh thank you with that council. Any questions? I just want to reflect on we are having a school safety summit with um we've invited the school districts in the city of Caldwell. Uh your board is welcome to come if you didn't get that invitation already, your entire board. I see you have another board member in here. So um we appreciate you guys participating that. We also just for an update real quick. We do have that Hawk light is progressing. We're just I believe waiting on electricity. So hopefully that does come to fruition soon. We also heard tonight the ELTAC um sidewalk project that'll be going by by Soringa along Montana that's been talked about for some time. So um there's some good things coming and we do appreciate the relationship between our two entities. So thank you for coming and talking about that tonight. We really appreciate it.

Thank you guys. I think there's going to be an intersection or a a stoplight at the corner of Indiana and um Lindon. Yes, that would be correct. Is that correct, Bruce? Yes. So I think that'll be great because that will be able that will help us to sort of regulate traffic flow because otherwise during busy traffic times you there's just heavy traffic and it's hard for kids to cross and things like that and so that'll help to regulate the flow I think and that with many other things but appreciate your time.

Yeah, thank you Chairman Manning. Appreciate that. Just real quick no one else. All right, thank you Mr. Sean Harmon. Thank you, Mayor and Councilman. Councilwoman, I appreciate you guys letting me talk for a minute. Uh, my name is Sean Harmon. I serve as the chair on the planning and zoning commission. I want to start by saying this. Serving on planning and zoning is something I take seriously. Like every member of our commission, I volunteer my time because I care about the community and the future of Caldwell. However, I'm here tonight because of comments that were recently posted on the city of Caldwell's official social media page that referenced members of our board and specifically named me. In those comments, an individual stated that he would strangle people on those boards. and another comment referenced being charged with murder in connection with people serving on those boards. The same individual also stated that I need to be gone and that I am no good for Caldwell. Let me be very clear on this. Disagreement with decision made by planning and zoning is completely fair. People have every right to disagree with our recommendations, criticize our votes, and challenge city policy. That is part of living in a democratic community and those of us who volunteer in public service understand that. But threatening violence towards citizens who volunteer their time to serve their city across s various lines. Members of planning and zoning are not paid politicians. We are residents of the community who give up our evenings, our families time, and many hours viewing staff reports, ordinances, and public testimony to help Caldwell grow responsibly.

We do that work in public meetings transparently and under the authority and the ordinances of comprehensive plan adopted by the council. When someone publicly states that they would strangle people on those boards or suggests that it could lead to being charged with murder, that is not criticism anymore. That is threatening language directed at a citizen serving their community. And when those kinds of statements occur publicly, especially on platforms connected to the city of Caldwell, they should be immediately clearly condemned by the leadership of this city. What is deeply concerning is that this rhetoric remained publicly visible without a clear condemnation from the leadership. Silence in situations like this sends the wrong message. It suggests that threatening language directed towards volunteers serving and community may simply be tolerated as part of conversation. That should never be the standard of Caldwell. This is not about protecting my feelings. I can handle criticism. What this is about is protecting the environment of for civic service in our community. If people who volunteer on boards and commissions are subjected to threats of violence without public condemnation from the city leadership, it will discourage good people from stepping forward to serve this city. Our community deserves better than that. I will continue to serve Caldwell and carry out my responsibilities on planning and zoning with fairness and professionalism, but threats of violence toward citizens serving this committee should never be met with silence. I respectfully ask the mayor and this council tonight to make it clear that threats against members of a city board and commission will not be tolerated in the city of Caldwell. Thank you. Thank you for that. And just

to confirm, so those comments that were made, we do not tolerate those on our page. Um we did take those down immediately. Um you're correct. uh that is not appropriate form anywhere to be stating those statements and we made clear in the future right if that were to occur again the same route would be followed additionally we have been preparing a statement right because that was Friday so there's Monday we work with law enforcement prior to that there was an investigation that took place the investigation took two hours yes so now we're preparing the statement right absolutely absolutely unacceptable

let me tell you and I I will say one thing I'm going to respond to you mayor You did tell me you would personally make a public statement condemning this and I got a blanket statement from the city of Caldwell. You to correct the record. You asked me, right, if I would make a statement, you said that would be really nice. We are working on that. When you put public statements out, you have to make sure that things have played their course. Mayor, you put public statements every day on social media. You have to think twice about it. Yeah, but this is more serious. So, we are preparing that. Thank you. Commissioner Harmon, I would like to know that you guys can I agree with you. That is not acceptable anywhere on our public forums. Thank you. All right, Miss Lori Harmon,

All right, Mr. Brad Dodie. Mr. Mayor, I think uh Mr. Harmon summed it up pretty good. Can Can you step up real quick, please? Just because some people can't hear you in the back.

Absolutely. Thank you, mayor and councel. Uh, I think Mr. Harmon summed it up pretty good. Uh, and I know you don't want to hear repeated comments, but certainly adding, you know, murdering our board members is absolutely unacceptable. We expect more out of our leadership to say it. He's your friend, which is probably why you don't want to make a public comment and why Mr. Harmon is very passionate about this situation. Okay. Thank you. I thought I have three minutes. I don't have three. I thought you asked me to continue. Yes, continue. Just watch your comments. Okay. He said he gonna argue. So, why don't you tell him that it's unacceptable?

We are preparing a statement. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. There's a mayor comment section. This is for public comment. Thank you. All right. Railen Camp. Is there a Ray Lynn out there? Sorry, Rayanne. Rayanne, that would be the correct way to say it. All right. Uh, Corey Turner. I think I think it says

All right. Uh, Tim, it starts with an M, the last name, and it was listed in an AMPA address. Thank you, sir. Good evening, mayor, council. My name is Tim Mcqua, 802 North Acer Lane. I don't really have much to go over. I just wanted to procedurally see how this uh school district uh potential moratorum is going to work and respectfully request that you mentioned the workshop on the 25th that information be provided to citizens and stakeholders in the community who are invested heavily here and that we have an opportunity to review that information and provide input prior to any uh item being placed on an agenda for council action.

Thank you. Thank you for that. And just so you know, that will be uh happening. We are noticing it publicly, I believe, because it's going to have to go to a PNZ meeting first before it comes to council. And during the workshop, we will have the information present um for those to review. Thank you. All right. Next, Carl, is it Norton? Sorry, Anderson. Sorry, some people scribble it on there. Yeah, it's all good. I apologize, Carl Anderson.

No, you're good. Uh Carl Anderson, 505 South 7th Caldwell. I just wanted to follow up on uh uh Travis Manny's comment about Caldwell School District and it losing students and the economics of a school district losing students where they need to have students added into that equation uh where they're at the opposite end of what Valley View is. And I hope that uh those uh equations are taken into consideration when uh talking about ordinances for uh schools being overcrowded. With that, Mr. Mayor, I stand for questions.

Any questions from council? All right. Thank you for that. Thank you. Hi. So ba here.

Hello, sir. We have to talk about the uh chief ceiling. About two years ago um the city uh came in uh chips in LA streets. I live on between Indiana and Florida south of Kcher and um we invited a member of the city that road uh uh person to come out and he admitted that the job that was done was poorly done. Um, a lot of the corner streets don't have any chip chips on it and there's very little a very many a large number of uh um little rocks. uh from what I understand is that uh the wrong size of the rocks was uh was applied and then we were kind of expecting to have a slurry on the on the top and we recognize that in the area we do that chips chip ceiling and stuff but our garages and our driveways and our homes are full with those chips that they get caught up and stuff. So, um I believe that in the previous meetings we were promised that this year that would be addressed and then I would like for that to happen for our neighborhood.

Thank you for that. And you're right. It has been discussed in the past. Councelor Stoic. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have Mr. Mills in audience. We have a plan for this year to prevent that from happening. is our transportation director, Bruce Mills, please come forward.

Yes, thank you. And I'm the one that met with the citizens out there. So, two things going on. This is a sample of the new chips that we use now. We have one being awarded tonight. So, it's not round, they're angular, they're clean. Number two, we are going to fog coat your streets uh this July. After we chip seal the 2026 streets, we will then fog coat um all the residential streets that we're doing here in 26 and go back and do the ones that were in 24 that's in your area, but that'll be in July. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Joe. You're ahead of the HOA, aren't you, over there? Yes. Would you make sure that information gets to the rest of the people then? Yes, I will. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Is Fedra here? Please come forward.

Hello. Fedra Boda from 15303 Roa Avenue in Caldwell. And uh Yseph is my husband. So it's along the same lines. Just a couple additional things that um may not have been mentioned at least tonight. Uh one of the concerns he mentioned the little rocks being in our garages etc. which is true, but uh when the children are out in the roads and playing, it's if they happen to fall in those roads, it's it's much harsher than the previous roads before we got the chip that never got sealed. So, I'm I'm in heartened that we are going to get service this year. Um because the first year I had called multiple times to ask about the job being completed. Number one, like my husband said, there were areas that were not chipped in there and at basically at intersections where there's diamonds that were left that were still the the old pattern, which would have been fine if it hadn't been done at all. But, um, now it's uneven and there's places that are marred. And, um, when I called into the number that was on the notification that came to the community, um, I was told that, well, the job wasn't done. they'd be back out to do the ceiling. And uh so we go get to the end of summer and it still hadn't been done. I called in again and was told that, "Oh, well, don't worry about it. You know, just they had so many things to do and they have to get it. It's on the schedule to eventually get done. They will come back to your community to do it." That was two years ago. Last year, I called again. I said, "Are we going to get the ceiling done to help keep some of those rocks from being a problem?" and they continue to tell me yes and it has never yet been done. So I am hoping that maybe you have a different provider this time or um all the details will be ironed out

better than we uh experienced in our paths thus far. And that's about it. I just wanted to thank you for your service, but also we kind of are watching and it is nice to actually be able to get a truthful answer because I don't at this point two years down the road I don't know if I was given the truth you know that they'll be back but it not might now be that they'll be back in a different form or with different service providers. So my comments thank you

thank you for that and Mr. Mills, can you please reach out to them and follow up with that and let's get a date if able? All right. Is there a Joanne?

Looks like low. All right. No. Uh Carlos Hernandez. Well, good evening everyone. Let me know if I can talk about this or not. Um, but my name is Carlos Hernandez, 3906 Brian Avenue, and I'm actually running for Idaho State District 11A here in Caldwell, and I believe in this community deeply, and that's exactly why I am here tonight to respectfully urge the council to pause before adopting a school capacity moratorum like the one that Middleton passed. I understand the frustration. Our schools are stretched. Growth has been fast. And the instinct to pump the brakes is understandable. But let's be honest about what this ordinance actually does and what it doesn't. It doesn't solve the school undercrowding problem that was previously talked about. Middleton's own city planner acknowledged that because of lots already in the approval pipeline, residents there won't feel any relief for 7 to 10 years. Caldwell is in a similar position. We have hundreds of lots already approved and building permit eligible. A moratorum today is a promise that delivers nothing for a decade. Who knows if we're even going to be here? It shifts our decision-making power to others and not to the city. Under this kind of ordinance, Caldwell's growth and its economic future becomes contingent on whether a school bond passes. That means Canyon County voters, school district boundaries, and potentially a future school superintendent holds the key to our city's planning authority. That's not accountable governance. That is an abdication of it. It will cost us economically. Caldwell has infrastructure obligations, roads,

sewers, capacity, and public safety that depends on a growing tax base. When Middleton stopped growing, their city planner warned that a 50 to80 million sewer plant would fall on a smaller and smaller pool of rateayers. We don't want that here for our residents. And here's what really concerns me. If Cobbell stops approving residential development, that growth doesn't disappear. It moves to unincorporated Canyon County where there are fewer infrastructure standards, no city water or sewer hookups, and as Middleton's own chief testified, no guaranteed fire suppression water supply. We don't export the problem. We just export our ability to manage it. The real solution is what it's always been. Passing a school bond and ensuring that the state meets its constitutional obligations to fund public education. But capping Caldwell's future with a moratorum isn't physically responsible. It's a fiscal risk. It's trading a long-term problem for a shortterm headline. Thank you so much.

Thank you for that, Mr. Hernandez. Any questions from council? All right. David Ferdinand, please come forward. Thank you, Mayor Council. David Fergand, 24/19 West Heron Loop in Nampa. Um, we uh uh got the word that uh we may have it a little little uh uh different than it actually is. We were talking uh as a group of uh the Canyon County regional realtors at our meeting and we heard that there was a uh going to be a moratorum uh put forth for growth in the uh in the Caldwell area and it sounds to me like it has to do with schools. Uh but if if we're looking forward to giving any input that we can if you have an ordinance or any type of uh u uh well any kind of ordinance that that you would like input on for Canyon County Regional Realtors. Believe it or not, we have over a thousand licensed realtors in Canyon County right now. U pretty amazing number and we're here to help if you have any information that you'd like to get from this group. And that's my comment.

Thank you for that. Any questions from council and we will reach out. Um I'll have our staff reach out and um we'll circulate the draft policy. So we do appreciate that. And just to be clear, it's not a moratorum. It's not listed as such in the code, but we'll follow up with that later. Thank you. And Mr. for Bob Jenkins.

Good evening and thanks for giving me a minute or two, but um mayor and city council, uh about a week and a half ago, I received an email from your city clerk um asking me to verify on those that petition that we passed for the quiet zone. Um, I did go through it and for the most part I think all of them are business owners, property owners and uh and residents of Caldwell. Um, but that got me thinking that, you know, I received the uh Freedom of Information Act with all the comments that were sent into the city. So I took a few minutes and put in a spreadsheet because I believe that that night you said there was 200 and some in the opposition and 50ome in the uh in the affirmative are are uh favoring it. I went back through this list and eliminated all the duplicate emails, eliminated all the um random and what we've come up with right now in uh favor of this project. We're at 274. That's a few more that were delivered, but I also went through and versus 133. So, in the negative. So, I know on Facebook and everything you're seeing, oh, we're the we're the majority and that's not correct. and how you came up that night with a 200 and some figure and a 50 some figure when it was 133 and in in favor of it on that same the people that rode into that there was only 19 and out of the 19 I did go through and there was 13 of them that were let me look at my notes here 13 of them that um were on our list already.

So that's why the number jumped up to 274. But I'd like to make sure that that's clarified and that it is on the uh on the record. And I would hope that you know the Facebook crowd would stop saying that they are the majority because in two weeks time we were able to go out and get 274 people that are for this. and you continue to post things and I can post just as many if I was on a social media crowd that the the life saving of having those medians in and the cars not being able to jump over those medians are just as good. So, and actually would probably increase and save more lives. So, anyway, just trying to correct the record.

Just to clarify if we're going to correct the record, right? I received an email that evening from our city clerk, right? If you look through your foyer that would give where I got those numbers from. So, what I was provided at the time, right, and sure, there may be clarification, but that's what I was given that evening. That's why I mentioned it because I got an email that evening from my clerk. Well, I just like to clarify that these are the numbers that I've received, and you might want to have your clerk I sent her the the uh spreadsheets that I did. Um, and I she's now posted it up so you don't have to do a freedom of information. It's all up on your website now. And so I just wanted to make that clarification. Yeah, thank you for that. Any questions, councel?

Yeah, Mr. Mayor, will that be corrected on FA on your on the city account then that information? Uh, yes, we can post that. And there is a variety of sources out there, too. Um, there's polls that were taken which were like 600 something to a double digit. I mean, it just depends on where you look at, but we can't not everybody does Facebook. I know you're a big fan, but you know, the people that we went out to, we walked doortodoor and uh and got these and probably I can say the majority of businesses in downtown Caldwell signed off on this. So, not everybody does Facebook, but there's a lot of people that do. So, we will post

Thank you for updating the numbers, and we'll post that. All right. Thanks for uh the audience participation for those who participated tonight. Next on the agenda, does anyone need to take a recess? Councelor Tilmont. No recess. Okay. All right. Next on the agenda is the consent calendar. There are these are routine items that are grouped together to be approved in one motion unless councelor moves for one or more items to be removed from the consent calendar and consider separately. First, are there any motions to amend the consent calendar? Mr. Mayor,

I move to amend the agenda to move consent item 10 to new business for further discussion. Uh, there's a motion. Do I have a second? That's my Do you have a second? I'm removing item 10. Nobody second. All right.

Motion to second. Uh has been moved to amend the consent calendar by removing item 10 which will be considered new business. We'll now have a roll call vote and counselors can cast their votes on that motion. Madam clerk correction electronic voting All right, it's unanimous. Uh, I will now entertain a motion that is approved. By the way, um, I would now entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar as amended. Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to approve the consent calendar as amended.

Uh, council register, thank you for that. Do we have a second on that consent calendar? Second.

All right. Motion to second. All right. Um, council moved in a second on that consent calendar and let's go ahead and vote electronically. All right, that motion passes. Next up for consideration is old business discussing a resolution authorizing the acceptance of a bid for installation of security features at railroad crossings. Um, real quick, does any deputy director Bruce Mills, do you have any additional information you'd like to present to us tonight? Mr. Mayor, uh, Councelor Tilmont, thank you for recognizing me. Pursuant to Idaho Code 74-2044C, I would like to make a motion to amend the agenda to make old business item number one an action item to discuss the approval or denial of the construction bid for the railroad intersection improvements and the implementation of the quiet zone agreement with Union Pacific Railroad and to have the final action be taken at the soonest possible meeting being either the town hall on March 25th or the city council meeting on April 6th. My good faith reason for this motion is that I requested that an actionable item be placed on the agenda and it was omitted.

All right, we have a motion and a second. Second.

All right, do we have any discussion on that motion? And just so people under sorry legal, do you want to go ahead? Under Cwell city code, city council does have the authority during a meeting to call and call for and place an agenda if so approved on the next regular meeting agenda. With that, I'm going to go ahead and um before we take a vote, I'm going to read a prepared statement. Council, obviously, councelor Gilmont, you had requested that to be on the agenda and I listed a discussion item. As mayor, I currently set the agenda prior to meeting. I exercise that authority intentionally making this decision or this discussion item tonight not long ago when I was speaking with residents regularly I will tell you on one of the most con consistent concerns I heard from the public was about how decisions were being made being made at city hall people felt projects were rushed the project expenditures were sometimes approved without fully evaluating the total scope the long-term costs or the unintended consequences council and the public both raised those concerns during that time and I certainly did too. To be clear, the quiet zone is not a project that originated with my administration. The bids were initiated by my predecessor before leaving office. The decision was made and now we're dealing with the process that was left behind. I recognize there's a bid that technically needs to be addressed. However, much like other projects the city has dealt with over the years, more information keeps surfacing the deeper we look into it. Additional costs have appeared, operational questions arise, and total picture becomes far more complicated than was originally presented. The project is a good example of that. At one point, the quiet zone concept carried a project cost of a range of $4 million. Now, we're looking at a much smaller version roughly in the $200,000 range. Weeks ago, I sent a simple request to you guys as council. If the council is going to force a quiet zone, at least it should be done properly. Specifically, asked for pedestrian crossing protections be included in the

system so it truly addresses safety at those rail crossings. We recently had a public member that talked about we've been trained to get used to quiet or sorry to train horns. We're now going to change that. At this point, there's been no guarantee that those pedestrian protections are included in the current bid structure. I took the time to personally walk every intersection affected by the proposal here in Caldwell. I've driven those crossings countless times over the years. I spent 15 and a half years working for the city, much of that time downtown. As a former officer and lifelong resident, I know those train tracks crossings well, but I still went back and walked them out and walked them again. And I film them, I photographed them, and I look closely at how pedestrians actually move through those areas. My conclusion is straightforward. We are currently considering as a partial solution, not a complete one. I do not believe that it serves a public well to install a quiet zone without properly addressing pedestrian safety at those crossings. And I also want to be clear at something else. I'm not eager to spend $200 to $300,000 which was one mention which was once mentioned at the per intersection cost. I believe that we do have that down to $2,000 or $3,000 if approved. But the council ultimately decides this project should move forward. It should be built correctly the first time rather than solved halfway and revisited later at greater cost. I'm going to continue. Beyond those design questions, there's another reality we cannot ignore. It's the city's financial situation. As council knows, we are currently projecting a $1.2 million revenue shortfall, and that's a serious number. At the same time, additional costs continue to appear for the rail infrastructure and other related costs. For example, the rideaway lease on Stock Trail Crossing alone is now projected at 55,000 per year. Now, we are looking at potentially shrinking that down to approximately $30,000 a year. When combined with other rightaway agreements related to the rail corridor, we approaching 75,000 annually. Over 10 years, that approaches threequarters of a million dollars. Over 20 years, that climbs to up to 1.4 million. Those are

long-term commitments. Meanwhile, at the city, we have many additional needs that are immediate, and we're competing for limited funds. We have pedestrian safety improvements that must be addressed. We have equipment, safety for the police department, fire, and others, protective in infrastructure within their departments that we're needing to look at. We have deteriorating sidewalks, including some directly in front of city hall. Parks, streets, and public facilities all have maintenance needs. Several departments are already tightening expenditures as we work through the coming budget cycle. Given that reality, I believe it would be responsible or irresponsible rush into a new capital expenditure, especially one that is not fully defined and continues to evolve. That is why I listed this item for discussion. My goal was to have an honest conversation with the council about two possible paths. One is step back, rebid the project, determine the full cost of a complete and safe quiet zone, including pedestrian protections, and then decide whether to fund it when the city is a stronger financial position. The second is to utilize the funds for much needed items throughout the city like safety, staff safety, budgets, and so on. Either way, the discussion needs to happen in an open and with full fiscal picture on the table. There is no train horn emergency requiring immediate action. What we do have is a city budget under pressure and a long list of safety and infrastructure priorities competing for the same dollars. Council retains the authority of course and you're you're using that tonight to move the item forward if it so chooses. If council believes action should recur immediately, members can make that decision and we can schedule that meeting which was mentioned the workshop. But my responsibility as mayor is to ensure that decisions of this magnitude are approached carefully, transparently and with a clear understanding of their financial impact. The public is paying attention. They will soon hear more about the budget challenges we are facing. For that reason, it is important we demonstrate disciplined stewardship of taxpayer dollars. If CWA ultimately builds a quiet zone, it should be safe, complete, and financially responsible. Until we confident the conditions are

met, the responsible step is to slow down, evaluate the full picture, make a decision with clarity rather than urgency. With that, if there's unless there's any additional comment, we can move to the vote. All right. See, sorry. Go ahead, counselor.

Yeah. So, I agree with a lot of what you just said and my big issue is the safety um and not having pedestrian safety in there that I think is adequate. Um I'm also waiting on some public records requests. Um and those will help me very much make a decision, but I haven't received those yet. So, I'm just waiting for the uh I'm I'm still within my 10 days. Um I have concerns that on the we're working off of a feasibility study that is 12 years old. So, I have concerns about the population growth, traffic, all of that stuff that was not considered in that original feasibility study. But also that the one of the recommendations in there was that if we cannot complete the recommendations that they gave us on 21st so we should leave that crossing out altogether and I think that we need to look at that for the safety reasons. Um and I believe that I I just want to do the process right. I'm not saying we should or shouldn't do a quiet zone. I'm saying we should do the process correctly because for many years we did not do um things correctly. It ended up costing us a lot more money in the end. So until I can get those questions answered and I feel like we're getting honest solutions and we're putting together a really good plan, I I'm not comfortable moving forward until I'm sure that we're taking all the safety precautions. we're meeting the recommendations of the feasibility study from I think it was 2015 and that the process is correct and right now I don't think we're there.

All right. Any additional if not we'll move to a electronic vote or is it a voice vote? Voice vote. Mr. Mayor, I just want to make clear what what I think is is the motion and what that means. And so the code section that councelor Tilmont has moved under does permit an agenda to be amended after the start of the meeting and he did state to good faith reason but a final action cannot be taken on an agenda item that's added on that meeting and I think that's what was acknowledged and so the vote today would not be able to go to a final action if the agenda is amended at one at this meeting it won't

correct councelor Tilmont has requested that we place the train quiet zone approval for the bid on the next appropriate meeting that we can either schedule for a city council meeting or the next regularly scheduled one. Correct. Correct. All right. And we had a second. I believe question. I have a question for legal. Is it when if this is placed on the agenda, which I assume it will be, will it be a public hearing or No, there's there's no requirement for a public hearing. This is actually to accept the the contract the bid for the contract. It' be the final final vote. Correct. No public comment. final bid approval.

And just to clarify that even if we move forward with this, a future leadership could undo it, right? Just to clarify the quiet zone itself. That's a hard question to to answer. I I I mean, I suppose it there's there's it's feasible that that a a future council could request that the quiet zones not be enforced. If that's the if that's the question, Mr. Mayor, there there probably other things. I can't think of all of them, but yeah, but generally there would be a possibility. Correct. Doesn't mean it would be a thing, but is a possibility. All right. Um, Madame Clerk, councelor Tilmont, yes. Councelor Stodd, yes. Councelor Register, no. Councelor Williams, yes. Councelor Algood, yes. Councelor Denber,

yes. All right, that motion passes and we will set a future date. Mr. Mayor, since it's now an action item, I'd like to make a comment based on that action item. Uh, councelor Tilman, go ahead.

Mr. Mayor, I find it disrespectful and unprofessional, excuse me, to both the contractor and city staff for the city to continue to drag out the approval or denial of a good faith bid for completion of the railroad intersection improvements and implementation of the quiet zone agreement with Union Pacific Railroad. This has been an approved project for over a decade. staff has spent countless hours and worked diligently to ensure the best use of taxpayer money and to increase the safety that these improvements will provide. I am new to council, but over the years I have been attending council meetings or over the years I've been attending council meetings. The standard has always been to move forward with things that were approved and budgeted for by former councils. This standard was reinforced on February 10th, 2026 when in an email to the mayor, both council member Stoddic and council member Dittenber asked to have the city's downtown mural project put on hold for further discussion. The mayor's response was quote, "The mural project was previously budgeted for and the budget was approved by council." So, as background, at the July 2023 budget workshops, the budget for the intersection improvements was lowered to $400,000. This allowed the city to move some of the previous approved monies to other projects such as lighting for the quad fields, BMX track improvements, and even a donation to CNR. That budget was approved by council on August 15th, 2023 in a 50 vote. Councelor Dodie was not at that meeting. The designs were finalized and an RFP was then issued with the accepted bid for completion of approximately $238,000. Based on the standard set by the mural project scenario I mentioned previously, the fact that some of this project has

already been constructed and paid for, I'm saddened that it has taken so long to be considered. So pursuant to Idaho code 742044C, since this is not an emergency, therefore no final decision can be made at this time. I make a motion to continue this and have an action item for final discussion of the approval or denial of the construction bid for the railroad intersection improvements and the implementation of the quiet zone agreement with Union Pacific Railroad be placed on the agenda at the town hall meeting on March 25th or if the town hall is not held or a quorum is not met the city council meeting on April 6th. The contractor, city staff, and the people of Caldwell deserve the respect to have this voted on, no matter what the outcome of the vote by this representative body may be. Thank you. Mr. Mills, you have a moment. Just to correct the record, um, this project was previously approved and budgeted. The money was then spent, correct, by a prior city council and staff.

What money was spent? I'm sorry. The the $4 million, right, on things like the rodeo booths and others. That's not a question for me. Correction. Finance. We'll get to you in just a second. Sorry. Hold on. Stand by.

So, when this project was originally budgeted in 2023, it was for4 million. In 2024, it was budgeted for 400,000. In 2025, is budgeted for 400,000. And in fiscal year 2026, it was also budgeted for 400,000. Um, the only funds that have been spent of the 400,000 is $60,000 to the railroad for their review of our plan. And I don't think the full $60,000 has been spent. Yeah. Uh they've charged us 42,000 of that so far. And that's the current expenditures, correct? versus the past that most of those expenditures occurred in last fiscal year.

Yes. But in prior years, the prior money was reappropriated reallocated. Yes. To multiple things such as the pool, CNR, some lighting, and other one-time projects. Thank you. Mr. Mills, do you remember the my predecessor had asked you, I believe you stated this recently, email, to restart the project, right? To restart the project. Yes. Uh when I came on in February of 24, it was already in the 24 budget approved to move forward with a quiet zone. So that was one of the tasks I was given to to move forward with. Yes. Yes. And at the time, right, you'd asked to move forward on that from the mayor, but it wasn't in progress at the time other than the budgeting.

It wasn't what approve. Sorry, the budgeting was approved, but you had restarted the task. Just to clarify for the record. I I guess I don't understand. I mean when things are approved in the budget like a project or whatever then I'm they're there to move forward. So I was I started I started as a t a work task at that point. All right. Thank you. Sure. All right. Moving on. We already voted correct. We don't need to re No, Mr. Mayor. I believe that this was a different motion to to continue to a date certain by council Chant, but I'll let him clarify if that's the motion. I don't I don't want to mischaracterize. No. Originally, my motion was to add the action item to the agenda or change it to an action item, which we now

we're going to move to an action item. And now we're moving it to move to add it to a specific calendar. All right. A motion. Do we have a second on that? Second. All right. Motion to second. We going to do electronic or roll call again? Roll call. Yes. Councelor Denber. Yes. Councelor Stodd. Yes. Councelor Register? No. Councelor Williams? Yes. Councelor Algood? Yes.

All right. The motion passes and we'll notice on the future agenda when that does come forth either on the 25th or in the April meeting. All right, hold on. Let me get my bearing here. Now, moving on to see here. Stand by. All right. Next on the agenda is new business. And first the council will discuss the consent calendar item 10 that was removed. That item is approving a resolution awarding the 2026 chip seal aggregate contract for the city for the council member who asked for this item to be removed. Do you have any questions or things to discuss on this issue? Councelor Stoic, you would ask for it to be removed.

You're talking about item 10, right? Yeah. Uh yes, item 10. Yeah. I think all questions were answered both by the HOA uh gentleman and by Mr. M Mills as far as the chip seal. So no further action from me then. Thank you. Councelor Tillant. Therefore, I'll make a motion to approve res the resolution awarding the 2026 chip seal aggregate contract. All right. A motion and a second. Second. Second. All right. Motion to second for awarding the contract under item number 10. Please vote electronically.

You voted no. No. No. Supposed to be it. Fat fat finger. Sorry. I was going to say you could have said something before we voted. All right. The motion passes. With that, the next item, Mr. Mayor, do we want to make it for the record to indicate what councelor Sorry. For the record, councelor Stoddic, can you please voted? Yes. Yes. In favor, so it was unanimous for that voted item number 10.

All right. The next item in new business is discussing the appointment of director of economic development. Daniel Torres is the nominee for the council to consider. And would you and would you like to come forward and introduce yourself before the council so they can consider your appointment? Good evening, mayor and council. I didn't prepare anything. Do you just want me to talk a little bit about myself or uh please do just introduce yourself?

Hey, uh I am grateful to have uh interviewed with the city of Caldwell. Um a little background with myself. Um I um coming from Utah, but rest assured, we lived in Utah or in Idaho for 20 years. Uh my wife has deep roots. Her family uh grew up in Caldwell. her grandfather owned a music store on uh Indian Creek. Uh left in the 1980s to move to East Idaho. Um I personally have uh uh served in municipal government, city of Rexburg for about 12 years. I moved uh to the city of Meridian for two years, served as their economic development administrator. uh moved down to Utah where I serve as the economic development manager uh for six incorporated cities and towns as well as uninccorporated Salt Lake County. And that's a mouthful. Um I'm excited to move back to Idaho. Um we have a little growing family, uh two daughters, a son, and a little girl on the way. Um excited to be here in Caldwell. Excited to see the growth that's happening in the last two years since I've been gone. had the opportunity to work with both Aphilia and your former economic development director uh Stephen um have always um kind of envyed Caldwell uh for the things that are happening here. Um hearing just a little bit of what's happening here in the city council meeting. Uh growth is both exciting and challenging. Um I'm a big believer that um local governments have a lot of say in the direction that the uh that the community uh grows and um and develops. Um economic development is key to that. um ensuring that our tax base is shored up and that we're able to um uh keep those things that make our community our community is important. Um and I'm excited to work with your staff and with your mayor and with your youselves uh council um as we go forward. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

All right. Any questions from council? Councelor Stoic. Sure. Council all good. Uh not really a question. I just had the pleasure of being on the interview panel when when we conducted interviews and and uh you did a wonderful job. I I think you came to a heck of a meeting to to start off your career here. It's it's been a good one. But um uh it was a pleasure to talk to you. I'm very excited to have you join our our city. And something else you said, this is totally offhand, but the Olympics are coming back to Salt Lake. They are. That's pretty exciting. We got to figure out a way to capitalize on that up here a little bit.

Well, there might not be any snow there, so they might come up here. Yeah. Yeah, that would be good. Thank you. And and I'm glad you're here. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Okay. I would entertain a motion to confirm Daniel Torres as the Cobalt City Economic Development Director. So moved. All right. A motion and a second. All right. Would you please vote electronically? I'm trying. I'm trying.

All right, that is unanimous. Thank you for that. And now here comes the fun part. Go and swear Daniel in. It's Do you know what it was? My was music care. It was David CV was his is his name. He's he's 90 years old and still doing it.

Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I, Daniel Torres, I, Daniel Torres, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Idaho of the United States and the state of Idaho and the laws and ordinances and the laws and ordinances of the city of Caldwell of the city of Caldwell. and that I will and that I will to the best of my ability to the best of my ability faithfully perform the duties of economic development director faithfully perform the duties of economic development director of the city of Caldwell of the city of Caldwell Canyon County Canyon can Canyon County state of Idaho state of Idaho during my continuence therein during my continuence therein so help me God

so help me God

congratulations get this signed and then um get you a copy Thank you. And thank you, council. All right. Well, that was definitely an exciting time this evening. Besides the rest of the excitement, um the next agenda item is going to be new business is an action item to consider Bill 11, ordinance 3745. And congratulations again, Daniel, by the way. Um authorizing the issuance of issuance and sale of up to 5.3 million in principal amount, the general bond obligations series 2026. Are there any questions from the council about this ordinance? Hi, council mayor. Um, I have John McDevit with our bond council who' be happy to answer any questions or explain kind of the process that it goes through. So, um, he's online. He's not in person. So, um, I'll turn it over to John.

Thank you, Ran. Um, I'll just briefly go over the ordinance and then if there are questions, please let me know. It's authorizing the instruments of general obligation bonds by the city up to 5.3 million to fund certain fire station improvements um and authorize the notice of sale um the city to enter into or accept bond purchase proposals um and levy taxes to pay debt service on the bonds. All right. Any additional?

Nothing further unless there are questions or comments. Uh, councelor Denber. Mr. Mayor, thank you. I guess I don't necessarily have a a question. I think my uh question was answered in your in your uh in your brief missive. This is for the fire bond, correct? And so if it is for the fire bond, can we uh change the wording this to consider bill 11 ordinance 374545 authorizing the issuance and sale of up to $5.3 million principal amount and general obligation bonds for the fire department for clarity or is that a motion? That's if you're making a motion. Okay, I'll move that then.

All right, a motion. And do we have a second? Second. All right, a motion is a second has been moved to approve approve bill 11 ordinance 375 and the issuance sale of the general bond for the fire bond and then council can now cast their vote. All right, that is unanimous. The next item on the agenda is res resolution accepting a contract for installing every sorry was that was that not pulled for the retaining wall.

Yeah. So that's going to be pulled. I apologize for that. Uh stand corrected. That'll be on a future agenda item. Mr. Mayor. Yes. Council, you know why that was pulled? Clerk. Madam clerk. Yeah. Councelor. All good. Mr. Mayor uh Diana Center requested that it get pulled. She said their legal staff was still working on the details and they weren't quite ready to present to us yet. Okay. It's basically to make sure they not only had a presentation but an actual action item that legal hadn't vetted and cleared um for the agenda. Otherwise, it just would have been a presentation basically, not an action item.

Yeah. And I I you kind of under a timeline and so I I uh was hoping to get this completed. Um, we would like the money spent this year, urban renewal money spent this year. And so anyway, that was my concern is the timeline we're under. Just to clarify for URA, um, which council goods a also an urban renewal commissioner fiscal year, correct? Or calendar year fiscal year. All right. We'll make sure we get that hopefully soon.

Mr. Mayor, just just to make clear for council that the legal was from the county legal. It wasn't city legal request. I just wanted to make that that clear. Any additional on that? All right. The next item on the agenda is an action item consider bill number 13 ordinance number 3747 pertaining to parking regulations with request to move for passage by title only approve. Mr. Mayor, we have the action item regarding the the sale for the fire station that we need to that we're placed from the county. It's on your agenda.

All right. Sorry, we had a All right. Consider the purchase sale agreement of fire. So action item number three for new business would be consider the purchase sale agreement for fire station 4. Haley,

Mr. Mr. Mayor, council members, um I wanted to bring this PSA to you not as a consent item, just so that I could provide a quick update of the fire station projects as well as bringing the the actual action item, the consent item forward. So, the item on the agenda before you is for fire station 4 to purchase the property as we have discussed in the past. Um the developer and I have a come to an agreed upon price which is the it's about 375,000 for an acre and a half for fire station 4 to be able to begin construction um end of summer beginning of fall time frame. Um and then I had a quick update on fire station one as well or sorry fire station 4. So we have completed the survey in the geotech so we can keep design moving forward. So we are on track for fire station 4. for fire station one. Our demo permit is under review right now and we are getting ready to submit for the building permit and so we are on track for fire station one as well. And with that I will stand for any questions.

Uh council councelor all good.

Yes it did. So, the developer has agreed that we will be purchasing the usable acreage, not the entire lot, which would be the usable acreage plus the right ofway. So, it came in right at what we expected it would be. Thank you. Any other questions from council? All right. Do we have a motion for item number three? So, move, Mr. Mayor. All right. A motion for the approval. I'll second

and a second. Uh it's for the purchase sale agreement for our station 4. With that, please vote electronically. All right, that is unanimous. Good to hear fire chief who's standing in the back for those that aren't here tonight. All right, just make sure. All right, the next is action. Another item on the agenda is an action item and consider bill number 13, ordinance number 3747 pertaining parking regulations with request to move for passage by title only and approval for summary publication. Are there any questions from council about the ordinance? All right, go ahead. Sorry.

It's okay. Robin Collins, community development director. Uh, mayor and council, just wanted to explain what we're doing with this ordinance since it all looks like it's brand new, but it's actually not. Um, what we are doing in this ordinance is, if you recall in the ordinance, it used to tell you like what streets the three and four hour parking were on. As we look through the city at maybe more areas where we need that three and four hour parking, we decided to remove them out of the ordinance and put them in a resolution. So, it's much easier to come before council without having to revise the entire ordinance. So, we've removed all of that out of the ordinance, put it into resolution, and we have added in the resolution some additional three and four hour parking for consideration based on requests from downtown business owners. Um, the three and four-hour parking is actually working. We've had good feedback that people are starting to use the parking lots. However, they're overflowing also onto Blaine and some of those side streets that are south of Blaine in front of those businesses. So, we're coming before council tonight to request that we go ahead and extend that three and four hour parking along Blaine and those side streets to Cleveland where the businesses are located. And we are repealing and replacing the entire ordinance because the codifiers is still hasn't published the ones from last year. So we thought this might just be easier on them.

Thank you for that question from council. Just clarify too, a couple businesses did reach out um and asked because there was a change where people that were parking downtown were now parking in front of additional businesses along the Blaine and other corridors. So, um after taking a look, we decided to bring this forth. Um with that, do I have a motion from council? All right. This is for bill number 13, ordinance 347 pertaining to parking regulations. Do I have a second? Second

motion to second. All right. Please electronically cast your votes. All right. It is unanimous. Thank you for that. All right. Let me go to the next agenda item. It's going to be another action item considering a resolution authorizing the designation of time limited parking and other restricted parking zones within the downtown zoning districts. There was two action items. Do you need clarification or you are affirming compliance with chapter 9 article 7 of the cobalt city code pertaining to parking regulations and providing for an effective date? Any questions from council or motion?

Mr. Mayor. Uh, councelor all good. I move we approve the resolution authorizing the designation of time limited parking and other restricted parking zones within the downtown zoning districts affirming compliance with chapter 9 article 7 of Cell City Code pertaining to parking regulations regulations and providing for an effective date. Second.

All right. Motion to second. Any discussion on that? All right. If not, please vote electronically. All right, that is unanimous. Thank you for that vote. Uh the next agenda item is an action item to consider an ordinance annexing Shadow Glenn subdivision phase six in the call municipal irrigation district. Does council have any questions? Councelor Denver. Uh Mr. Mr. Mayor, seeing that there's no question, I make a motion and sponsor bill number 14, Ordinance 3748, addexing Shadow Glenn Subdivision phase number six into the Caldwell Municipal Irrigation District.

Right. Thank you for that motion. Do we have a second? Second.

All right. A motion and a second. Please vote electronically. That's for item number six. All right, that unanimously passes. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the finance report. Mr. Mayor, Councelor Dilmont, I make a motion to approve accounts payable in the amount of 4,588,5683 represented by checks number 1 191856 through 1 192094 and electronic payments and payroll for the amount of $861,9978. 8 cents represented by checks numbers 40729 through 40744 and direct deposits to be accepted, payments approved, and vouchers filed in the office of the city clerk.

All right, that's a motion to approve the finance report. Is there a second? Motion and a second for approval of the finance reports. All right, please electronically cast your votes. All right. And that motion does pass. Thank you, councelor Gilmont. The next item on the agenda is reports from the mayor and council. Councelor all good. We'll start with you tonight.

Thank you for that council. All good. Councelor Dmer.

Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. I also uh uh stand behind those that want to clean up the the dialogue and the rhetoric that's happening towards those people that work so diligently to serve our community. The other thing I wanted to say is I've had the opportunity over the last uh couple weeks, actually last few days, to attend a couple economic summits, the one in uh Nampa and the one that's happening in Boise. and the outlook for uh our community hangs in the balance of what this city council does. uh we uh were told and in in almost both uh situations that we understand that there's going to be a correction in the housing market, but I want to urge my esteemed colleagues to be very very careful about upsetting this balance and doing anything that takes uh prime out of the pump that makes this this great city. Thank you, Councelor Denber, for your comments and councelor Tilma. Um, just wanted to reiterate that I do appreciate being on council. I do appreciate the fact that we can all disagree and still work together. That's something that has not been around for a while on this council. I've seen it all too often being in the crowd. I do also agree with councelor all good that the online rhetoric is getting a little out of bounds especially for some of our boards we're elected officials we put ourselves in the public sphere our commissions our committees don't I do personally think that they deserve a little bit more respect since they do volunteer so that is my personal position but other than that I have nothing thank Uh, thank you councelor Tilmont. Councelor Sodic has nothing and councelor register.

Um, I just I want to comment on um what Mr. Harmon said as well. I also agree that social media has become a a big bullying place and I was um very much affected by that during the election. There was a couple of people who were just tenacious coming to my house taking pictures making accusations that were completely false. So I get it. And I also think that um comments need to be um more appropriate um everywhere and that the city has a duty to monitor those um comments on their page a little bit better and faster so that um those are handled quickly. Um I will address the council privately with my own concerns since this has come up. Um I think they're uh we're constantly talking about decorum and I feel like earlier today tonight um we had a lot of people who volunteer for the city who were um pretty argumentative and then lots of whispering and high fives and stuff like that. And I feel like that's this meeting is not the place for that. But I do believe I I do agree with the overall sentiment of um being more mindful about what's being said. Uh thank you councelor register for that. Um I will agree. So I have also been subject to threats um of violence and other things including um you know my face was put on a milk cart and sent out to a whole bunch of citizens saying I was going missing. To this day I still have not had any police prosecutors or judges verify that um that is not an active threat. So with that I do agree um we will not tolerate those comments. Okay. Those will be taken down. Now, if you see things, please refer those to the city right away and we'll do everything we can to get them down as soon as we can. Keep in mind, we have to make sure that we coordinate with legal and other entities as far as legalities of removing comments, but we'll not

tolerate any comments like that. Um, we will be releasing a statement here in the future. I'm working with the city attorney and the PIO to get that out later this week in reference to our online. We have posted some stuff recently about our rules that I believe council and I had recently talked about in a meeting. So, we'll put out a statement for that. Other than that, um just an update as far as Roger Brooks. Um we are I'm just waiting on the chamber to get back. We had a contract with the Chamber of Commerce. Um and then uh they had a contract with him, a subcontract. So once they're able to verify that that has been completed with the amount of money we paid, then I will reach out to council and see if we want to have a special date for that. Do we want to just put in with a normal meeting as a workshop or how we want to do that? So I will reach out. Um I just need to make sure I hear back from the chamber as far as the completion of their contract we paid out to them. Uh followup once again, there's a workshop on March 25th at 5:30. We'll notify if we're going to add your motion, councelor Tilmont and council for that actual acceptance or denial of the bid, the final bid. Um, and just so the public's aware, that is not open to public comment at the time for that bid. It's a final approval. We did have the comment periods. Um, Mayor's Youth Advisory Council gala we just had. Thank you for those that attended. Um, it was wonderful. Councelor Dentburg, councelor Register. Um I was surprised on how well our sorry councilor all good too was there. Um and by the way all council is invited next year. We'll try and get those invites out um much earlier but our community outreach specialist uh Gino apparently is a closet uh auctioneer. If you attended you would know what I'm talking about. So he did a wonderful job. We raised a lot of money um for Mayor's Youth Advisory Council and that is pretty much their big shebang on how they do that and we appreciate everyone

that attended. Um other than that, I don't have anything additional at this time and like I said, we'll have a statement at a later date and thank you for those that came here and participated tonight in your public comments. And we are also excited for fire station 4 to start moving ahead and also fire station one should have a groundbreaking here pretty soon. Um, correct me if I'm wrong. Is that correct, Chief? How when is the date on that? The demolition. Sorry. Demolition, not groundbreaking. April 22nd. April 22nd. For those, if you want to put that on your calendar, would like to attend. All right. With that, the last item of business is ahead. Sorry, Council Williams. Thank you. Yes. Didn't know if I got council comments tonight.

Uh, I apologize. I forgot to jump from councelor register to you. Uh, I apologize for that. You'll go you'll go first next time.

No, no, no, no. But uh I'll just join the council in their condemnation of the rhetoric that needs to to tone down across the board. But uh I just have one thing to say tonight. I'd like Chief Daniels to come forward if you would please just because he hasn't and it's necessary to embarrass him a little bit. He doesn't mind. But I think it's uh worth us giving out a shout out to our fire department for an epic assault on a very challenging fire just a couple of days ago that was an apartment building and within 20 minutes they knocked down that fire and uh we couldn't be prouder of our fire department. Well, we could be but that will come tomorrow because every day it gets better and we're we're more proud of you every day, Chief. and thank you and please pass on to all of our firefighters. Every one of our trucks was involved in that. Uh I think I read uh we needed assistance from other communities to handle other calls in our community because we were knocking down that fire. But I I say it again that assault was epic and uh congratulations to you and to all of your team for um just what you do and it's it's appreciated.

Wow. Mayor and Councelor Williams, thank you so much, first of all, for calling me up here. Um, you know, I love this stuff. Um, our fire department, um, yes, they they've actually been fighting a lot of fire and over the past several weeks, they've had multiple two alarm fires in city limits, which have required uh the assistance of Mid Midstar Fire Districts as well as Nampa Fire to come in and cover calls behind those calls that we weren't able to answer in city limits. And so, um, again, we're we're really relying on our neighbors. Um, our fear is that that help may run out or they may have their own emergencies to handle. Uh, this morning we had two structure fires off the bat. Um, one um in the south portion of the city, another one simultaneous um uh uh near the Walmart in in downtown Caldwell. Um that full alarm assignment to the second structure fire was handled solely by Nampa Fire units. Um and then around noon today, we had an additional two alarm fire uh started from a flying ember which caught on to some uh arbor vite trees um which were Roman candles basically. Luckily the the home wasn't damaged um but that also consumed several resources and during that incident we had an additional three incidents um that had to be answered by by our neighbors. Um on the last fire we had Wilder, Deerflat, um and Marsing respond in. So we're really casting a big net to get these resources in here. And our team is a bunch of rock stars. The men and women of Caldwell Fire are some of the most highly trained, highly dedicated, passionate individuals I've ever worked with in my 26 years in the fire service. And it is a testament that they do more with less. and they they are the guardians of the city of Caldwell and I

cannot be more proud to be their fire chief. So, thank you. Thank you.

Uh also with that, chief, um I want to say if if council hasn't had the opportunity, I got to do a tour with the chief around all the fire stations. We did a walkthrough and also out into the rural district. So, if you haven't done that, I would highly recommend it. It's really nice to see not only the totality of it and when they bring things before us, you understand what that means, but to also just see the scale and the scope of what they're having to defend with against across the city when it comes to fires and such. And also in coordinate coordination with that is our police department, right? They a lot of times they'll assist on scenes, traffic control, and a variety of other things. So, we really love our fire department, our police department, and what they're doing um across the city to save lives and protect lives and structures. So, thank you for the awesome awesome job you guys are doing.

Thank you, Mayor and Council for the recognition. And just to clarify, Councelor Williams, I'll let you go again first next time. I'll let you go first. All right. If uh nothing further, last item of business is an executive session. in tonight's executive session will be pursuant to item code 74-206 paragraphs A to consider hiring public officer employee staff member or individual agent and C to acquire an interest in real property not owned by the public agency and F to communicate with legal counsel for the public agency. Do I have a motion? Mr. Mayor.

Yes. I'll make a motion that we enter into executive session pursuant to Idaho Code 74206, subsections A, subsection C, subsection D, and subsection F. All right, motion in a second. Second. All right, we have a motion second. Please vote electronically. Uh, can we just do a Sorry, we'll redistribute those. Got ahead of the game here. Council, President Register. All right, council, please vote your place your vote electronically. All right, with that, the motion passes. We are now in executive session. Thank you all for coming tonight.