City Council - Regular Meeting

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tonight is to raise awareness for MS um through MS week, MS month and quite frankly most of us try to raise awareness and advocate for it 12 months out of the year um raising awareness um emphasizing the understanding of what multiple sclerosis is. So, uh, when you see people that might have the disease in the community, you understand better what it was or what it is. I know when I was diagnosed, I had to look it up. I didn't know what it was and I'd been a paramedic for 20some years. So, that's the opportunity that we have during MS awareness week is just to bring education to the forefront. And Dr. Bosanoff will uh do that for us here in just a minute. From a personal perspective, I just like to share a couple things. Uh when adversity enters your life, whether it's a medical condition or something other, uh I know personally I had to search for something that made sense with it all or find a reason to uh help me accept why this had to happen to me or just simply grab onto something positive to help you move forward with it. Um, advocating for this disease is just that it's a positive thing. Uh, I have some friends in here that advocate for this every day with fundraisers and walks and golf tournaments and I think that's what helps us move forward with this um, [clears throat] this disease in today's world. Um, my personal MS diagnosis came in 2019. It was life-changing for me and my family, but it also brought some very unexpected blessings into my life. Um, and those are the people that I believe if I wouldn't have been diagnosed with MS, I never would have crossed paths with them. And they're some of the most remarkable, amazing people that I've ever met in my life. And some of them

are here tonight. And you're going to get to meet one special one here in just a second. Um the team at Coupney Health is far more than just care providers for MS patients, but they're they're trusted and they've become close friends. And I I I consider them extended family for myself and I know that the folks that are here tonight with me and in the MS community, I'm echoing the same feeling for them. So at this time I is my privilege to introduce you to an amazing person who has been just instrumental in the care and support of MS patients in this region since 2020. Dr. Nina Bosanov from Coupney Health. I'll pull your slides up for you.

All right. Thank [clears throat] you all so much for having me here this evening. We won't take up too much more of your time, but thank you for the recognition and this opportunity. Uh so again, my name is Dr. Nina Bajnoff. I'm one of the only two multiple sclerosis fellowship trained neurologists in the state of Idaho. The other one is in Boise. So we obviously have to care for a wide uh range of our population that's living with multiple sclerosis. Uh so just a couple of things to overview about multiple sclerosis and maybe some of you are familiar with this. It is a chronic autoimmune condition. It can impact the optic nerve, the brain or the spinal cord. And essentially what it is, it's a disruption of the communication between the body and the brain. Um, and so one of the challenges with multiple sclerosis is the symptoms can be very um different based on where the lesions can occur. So someone may have blindness, they may be in a wheelchair, they may just have cognitive changes or fatigue. And so uh the approach really has to be individualized as we think about multiple sclerosis. Um so it is a lifelong condition. Right now we do not have a cure for multiple sclerosis because we don't really fully know the cause. Uh but we do have treatments that can significantly improve quality of life as well as disability. Um so what is the impact? So as you mentioned uh over a million people are living with multiple sclerosis. A global diagnosis is made every five minutes. As we talked about before, it can cause varying symptoms. And that's one of the reasons it can be so challenging to make a diagnosis is because people may not realize that their symptoms might be from something like MS. Uh most people get a diagnosis diagnosis between the ages of 20 and 50, but we know that there are pediatric people with MS uh as

well as older adults as well. uh there is progress and hope which is the great part of things and it's one of the reasons I love giving MS care. So over the past two decades we have more than 20 FDA approved multiple sclerosis disease modifying therapies and they can really prevent these attacks of MS and then hopefully prevent disability by preventing the attacks. Uh so the time of diagnosis is incredibly critical. So the earlier we can make a diagnosis the faster we can get people on treatment. uh and then hopefully stabilize their disease course. Um so what what do we know about um MS especially here? So it's interesting if you look at the prevalence of MS as we can see in this map of the US. Uh those dark blue states such as Idaho have higher prevalence rates than many of the other areas in the country. Um and there's still a lot of work being done in this area to understand why that might be. But I think anecdotally we do talk about that like why is MS high here and we're really trying to look into that. Um what's the you know kind of local impact? So I joined Kney Health in 2020 but before I was there there was a three-year gap and they did not have an MS specialist and so people were having to travel to Seattle. I actually just had a patient established with me today that had been traveling to Oregon for many years. And so, um, being able to provide local MS care really helps keep that care network, um, close to home and really has a big impact both socially, um, but also financially on our patients living within this area. [clears throat] Um, so, uh, why does National MS Week matter? I think we've talked about this. Uh, so again, the recognition helps support families and caregivers just recognize the importance of this condition. um and then highlight the ongoing research and progress that we're making both locally and nationally. So, thank you.

Oh, can I Yeah. Do any questions for Dr. Bjanov? Thank you, Dr. Well, you went over the area that it's prevalent. Yep. Which is a little frightening for Idahoans and I think Eastern Washington was included. Um any any data that would give us an idea?

Yeah. So, it's interesting. This is from one of my colleagues um out of Stanford and so this he's doing more work into publishing on this area. So if you look at it there seems to be some connection probably so we know that there's some connection with distance from the equator related to probably vitamin D deficiency and we certainly know that vitamin D deficiency is a big issue in our area as well. Um and then there's some link maybe to climate and temperature. So, um, they're doing more epidemiological research to try to look into that, though. Yeah. But it's, um, interesting. Again, we have two MS specialists for the whole state. Uh, there's one in Montana, there's none in Wyoming. So,

Wow. Yeah. Well, and I also want to thank Chief Grafe for sharing his personal story. When leaders such as yourself step up and and share something that's private, I think it gives others hope that there's other people dealing with this that have been managing it and and you do very well, Chief. So, thank you, doctor. Does that latitudinal distribution is that the same in Europe, too? Uh, it does look similar in Europe. Yes. Yep. Any other questions for the doctor? Thank you for coming.

Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to item F, which is public comments. And I can't see the sheet from here, but I have telepathy. So, I'm going to say the first name is Wes Davis. You're a genius. Good evening, uh, Mr. Mayor, council members. I'm Wes Davis. I'm the general manager for Republic Services in, uh, Coupney County here. So, I have your solid waste contract. Um, 16 months ago, Phil Damiano retired and sold his company to us. So, I figured I was due for a little update for you guys to hear how we've been doing in the meantime since it is such an important public service that we provide. Um, you know, these transitions are never easy, but I'm pretty pleased to report that we're doing quite well. Of the 40 original employees, I still have 38 of them working for me. So, I have 95% of the same team. Uh, I also hired two more mechanics, hired a supervisor, hired a sales rep, and yet another driver as we continue to grow with the area. Uh, got a new truck in recently as well. So, we're keeping up with the the demand for service. Uh, and what that really means for you guys is that you should continue to see the high quality service that you're used to in this area. Um, I could talk about solid waste and recycle all day. Uh, I'm sure you guys don't need to hear me do that, but um, you know, this is one of those industries that I think is fundamental to what we do, and I want to just appreciate what the city has done for us so far to help us make our alleys and our community safer as well. So, thank you for that. Uh, last thing I'll leave you with is recycle because it's the most common question I always

get is what happens to my recycle after I set it out on the curb. So, standing invitation for anybody that would ever like it. I will take you to our facilities and show you exactly what we do with it. But the short answer is we take it to my facility in Hayden, Idaho up here. We basically prepare it for shipping. We bail it and ship it off to Seattle where it's does a final sort and then that goes to the mill as feed stock. So, yes, it's real. Yes, we're doing it. And if anybody ever needs to see that, I'm happy to facilitate. Uh, that's all I've really got for you guys tonight, but I'll stand for any questions or comments you have.

Okay, questions. Kenny, feed stock. Uh, for the mill, they they just think of it, it's an input, raw materials. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Nobody's eating anything. Okay. Okay. This is Dan. [snorts] Well, I would just say you have really nice trucks. They [laughter] they look sharp and painted and not a bunch of rust. Um you should think about the Fourth of July parade. So I love that idea. I think we're planning on it this year. Thank you, Wes. And my neighbors do appreciate it. Thank you. Yes. Thank you guys.

All right. And up next, which I could also have guessed through telepathy, Suzanne Kudson. Good evening, mayor and council members. Uh, my name is Suzanne Kudson, and I'm here tonight in recognition of disability awareness month and what that truly means in Celane. Disability Awareness Month is a reminder that one in four, actually more than one in four Americans lives with a disability. In our own na city, neighborhoods, churches, schools, and businesses, people with disabilities are contributing, working, volunteering, creating, and building community alongside all of us. Disability awareness is about moving beyond sympathy to understanding. It is about shifting from accommodation as an afterthought to inclusion as a priority. It is recognizing that accessibility benefits everyone. Parents and grandparents pushing strollers at the park, veterans with injuries, seniors aging in place, children with developmental differences, and adults navigating visible and invisible disabilities in the workplace, on the bus, at events, and everywhere in our community. Here in Celane, we value community. We pride ourselves on being welcoming. Disability Awareness Month challenges us to take a good look at awareness and understanding for building community. True awareness means recognizing that disability is not a limitation of a person. It is often a limitation of environment, design, or opportunity. When we build inclusive spaces, we build a stronger city. When we ensure access to recreation, employment, transportation, and civic engagement, we are not offering charity. We are investing in human potential. We do we understand that when individuals of all abilities are given opportunities to participate in all aspects of our community that confidence grows, friendships form, and isolation decreases.

But this is not just the work of nonprofits. It is the work of our city as a whole. It is the work of our schools, local businesses, and policy makers. And it's the responsibility of all of us. Disability Awareness Month invites all of us to move from awareness to understanding to action and inclusion. To examine our attitudes through the lens of accessibility and individuality, to model inclusive language and behaviors, to challenge stereotypes through representation in media and community life, to encourage employers to recognize the talent within the disability community, and to ensure that civic life is open and accessible to every resident. When we prioritize inclusion, we send a powerful message. Every person belongs here. A city is measured not only by its economic growth or development projects, but by how it treats its most vulnerable residents. When we design for those who face the greatest barriers, we create a city that works better for everyone. So, thank you again for your support of the specialized needs recreation building belonging project in Celane. Disability Awareness Month is a call to continue to build a community where differences are not hidden but valued. Where accessibility is standard and where belonging is intentional. Let us continue to grow as a city that does not merely comply with accessibility laws but embraces inclusion as a part of our identity because when everyone belongs our community is stronger. Thank you.

Lovely. Thank you Suzanne. Anyone else want to make public comment? Thank you. We will move on to the next item G, which is announcements. Does any member of the city council have an announcement? Uh, yes. Yes, Christie. Thank you. I had a meeting this morning with CDA edu. Our city administrator was also it was he was on the line. It was and we're going to have to announce what acronyms we're talking about.

It's the old jobs plus. [laughter] Um, and uh, it was early. It was by Zoom. Troy warned me of that, but here I am. Um, it was it's a really great group. They're working really hard, focused on bringing high-paying jobs to our region. And, uh, I can't share with you any prospects that they're working on. I can just tell you they're working hard and I I enjoy it and I was glad that Ron's part of that as well.

Very good. Any other announcements? council. Very good. Uh, I do have a couple of things here. First, I have an obituary notice. Please join us in extending our heartfelt condolences to the family of Phyllis Luven, who faithfully served our community in the police department as a secretary typist clerk. Uh, Phyllis was hired on May 12th, 1969 and dedicated 26 years of service to the city before retiring in 1995. Throughout her tenure, she was known for her commitment and for her kindness and warm spirit. Those who had the privilege of working alongside her remember her fondly as a genuinely nice and caring person. We honor her years of dedicated service and extend our deepest sympathies to our family and loved ones during this difficult time. If you're watching us on TV, you can see her picture. You cannot see it here.

There she is, Billy. We want to extend her family the best. Also, I have some appointments. These are of uh to our personnel appeals board which I think has met once in the last century. Um so we will be appointing Benton Wolfinger, Vonnie Jensen, and Mike Gridley to the personnel appeals board. I need approval from councel. So moved. Second. Move. Motion in a second to confirm the appointments. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Thank you. Motion carried. We'll move on to item H, the consent calendar.

Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented, including resolution number 26-018. Second. Motion in a second. Any discussion on our consent calendar. Normally, we'd have it up there, but it's not. So, okay. I'll take Oh, Monty will come to the rescue. There it is. That's what we're working on. All right. funny. He did good without even doing something. He's magic. All right, so we're going to do no discussion. We'll do a roll call, please. English, yes. Wood, yes. Evans, yes. Gabriel, yes.

Motion carried. Moving on to item I1, which is resolution 2619, approval of change orders number four and five to the solids building improvement project contract with Apollo Incorporated in the amount of $12,6867 and $190,811.89 respectively. We have Mike Becker, our capital pro programs manager from the wastewater treatment plant. Mike,

good evening Mayor and council. first and foremost because it's real close to my heart. Thank you for the proclamation of the MS awareness week. Um uh but the main reason why I'm here tonight is I'm here to ask council's approval of change orders number four and five for the solids building project. Just to recap, uh the solids building project is the improvements we made on the south end of the treatment plant uh to enhance our dewatering uh capabilities for our sludge prior to composting. Um and uh as requested uh the wastewater department is bringing change orders as they progressively um evolve in this project. Um the fortunate thing is this project which began in 2023 is slotted to be completed April 24th of 2026. So I thought I'd throw that out there. So the end of this project is real close. So um what is change order number four? Exhibit um A in my uh staff report gives you the def uh the justifications for these change orders. And change order number four includes removing and relocating some of the utilities over our overhead uh panels. Um [clears throat] this is this was done for safety reasons. We also were required to pull our centerfuge and that required a crank. Change order number four amounted to $12,6867. This was done last August. Um the reason why it did not come before council is I was waiting to get a few more change orders together to actually present it before council. We're almost near the

finish line. So you get two of them tonight. Change order number five was for miscellaneous electrical. We had to fill in a wall. We also uh did some improvements to an existing uh panel on the ground level of our uh loading bay. Um that change order comes to a total of well we also applied a credit that we had. So the change order total is actually $190,81189. Now, presently, um, there is no money in the project's expenditure fund because we were led to believe this project would be done before we entered into this fiscal year. So, we did not budget anything. However, last year we spent by a little over a million dollars. So, there was still a million dollars remaining. That's clearly enough to cover these change orders. Um I did speak with the finance department and we can simply do a budget amendment which we have to do sometimes anyways on these prolonged projects. So based on that information uh it is the wastewater department's uh recommendation that staff I mean council approve change order number five and number four um in the amounts uh in my staff report. If you have any questions, I'll feel free. [laughter] Feel free to lost

it at the end. Good. Sorry, I can't even read my own writing tonight. It's okay. They're they're very unusual numbers. Any questions from council on this? Very good. Well, thank you. And then we'll go ahead and take a motion if there's no questions. Uh Mr. Mayor, I would make a motion to approve resolution number 2619 approving change orders number four and number five to the solids building improvements project contract with Apollo Incorporated in the amount of 12,06867 and 190,81189 respectively. Second. Very good. Any discussions on this motion? We'll do a roll call, please.

English, yes. Wood, yes. Evans, yes. Gabriel, yes. [clears throat] Motion carried. Thank you, Mike. And next up, we have our item number I2, which is resolution 26020, creation of a 15minute parking restriction at 108 Indiana Avenue. And this is something that I don't think has come to council in like ever. Have we ever done this? I was going to say, well, thank you, mayor, council, first of all. Chris Mosley from the streets and engineering department.

Yes. Um, until a couple months ago, we had a parking commission. So, whenever one of these requests would come forward, we would send them to the parking commission before it would come on to city council. Since we didn't have one, I asked, "How do we handle this?" So, here I am. Um, so at 108 Indiana Avenue, it is the first street, by the way, um, north of downtown. Oh, we don't have a picture for all of you to see. We have it up here, Chris. Doesn't help. [laughter] I wonder where it maybe Mike can. There we go.

Thank you. Okay. But no, thank you. Thank you. [snorts] So, outlined in red is the address uh in question here. This is Indiana Avenue, and it is the first street north going out of downtown that doesn't have 2-hour parking restrictions on it. First East West Street. First East West Street. Yes. Okay.

This is what the street looks like during the daytime um in that uh building right there off to the right with the red roof on it. It used to be a daycare. It is now BIFIC, which is a behavioral health service uh company. their clients who have mental and physical disabilities are dropped off at the front door and they with all the parking there they can't pull up right to the front door. So they requested to have a 15minute parking space out front so that the bus could pull up right to the curb and allow these clients to get to the building. Um, apparently some of them are also I think they said elopers, which means they tend to run. So they need to be close to the door so that they can bring them in. But if you have any questions about it, Nikki Burton is here from BIFFIC to answer any questions if you have any.

Um, but um, our plan here was to just meet with them upon your approval and define what uh, area. It's only going to take a couple spaces there to put in uh a big enough area for a bus drop off zone. And uh with that, I would uh stand for any questions. So Chris, um why can't this just be like a loading unloading zone? I mean, assuming people are loaded and unloaded, it could.

Okay, but why can't it be? I mean, why why is it 15 minutes and not just a yellow curb loading unloading? Well, we would sign it because we don't like to paint curbs. We have a policy against painting curbs, especially because winter, uh, they're usually, well, except for this winter, they're usually under a snowbank, so we don't like to paint curbs and it's a maintenance issue. Um, but the signing could be anything. We just wanted to get to prohibit people from parking all day. There was the goal. So, if you have a different suggestion for what that sign should be, but anything with a time restriction on the parking has to be approved by council and put into code.

Interesting. Okay. Any questions for Chris on? Mr. Mayor, it sounds like a legitimate safety concern, so I'm prepared to make a motion. Yeah. Uh Randy has a question. Uh I just have point out that the uh loading zone in our code is up to 30 minutes. Oh. If they want a 15-minute zone, it would be signed as 15 minutes rather than a loading zone. Interesting. That's good to know. Any other questions? Well, I'll just go with the motion unless there's a preference between the loading and the No. Okay. Please go ahead.

All right. Uh, let me find it. I, Mr. Mayor, I'd make a motion to approve resolution number 26020 approving the creation of 15minute parking restriction at 108 East Indiana Avenue. Second. Great motion and and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Very good. Take a roll call, please. Wood, yes. Evans, yes. Gabriel, yes. English, yes. Motion carried. Thank you, Chris. Thank you. And and thank you.

Hope that helps. We're moving on to item I3, which is resolution number 26021, accepting a bid of and approving a contract with Badger Meter Incorporated for the purchase of new water meters, registers, and inpoints in the amount of $299,456. From the WA water director, uh, no, from the water department, we have Glenn Polstra, assistant water director. Good evening, Mayor Council. Thank you.

Thanks for having me this evening. As you said, I'm here to present uh and recommend the approval of an agreement with Badger Meter for the purchase of new water meter registers and endpoints. The registers and endpoints are key components of our water meters that allow us to get a manual read and which are connected to a uh radio or cellular read unit that we can that broadcast the signal so we can obtain readings uh with our meter reading software as we drive by. Um these are components. The basis of replacing these components are uh part of a meter change out program that was created back in 2005 due to uh significant undocumented water loss through our water meters. So each year our goal is to replace up to up to 15 to two500 to 2,000 water meters each year. Uh inevitably replacing all the water meters within in the city every 10 years. So, um, and this is a photo of the actual boundaries are created that we, uh, have, uh, certain numbers of water meters that we can, um, pick through throughout the city that would equal that 1,500 to 2,000, uh, water meters that we would change out each year. Some boundaries are larger than others, so sometimes we're doing one boundary versus two or three. Um, so the program consists of removing uh the old water meters, stripping them down, as you can see in these photos that we're pulling them off the meter bodies. Um, we're getting them set up to go in our sand blaster. We clean them up and then we actually put them through a state-of-the-art meter test bench. The reason we have this test bench is that we can reuse some of the components of those water meters and actually reertify them to put them in the ground. And that's where these registers and endpoints come in is those are the replacement parts mainly that have battery life to them and it's

recommended that they be replaced about every 10 years otherwise we start seeing significant failures. So with this meter test bench we can reertify them as a factory standard. This is a type of test bench that they would see at Badger Meter. Um and we can put these back in the ground with almost 100% accuracy. So there is always a variance depending on the percentage, but we are very confident that this meter test bench does quality job making sure that we have a a good component going back in the ground. Um, and we are actually set up right now. We're the meters that we pulled out from the last boundary and put in in through our test bench. We're looking at a 94% passing rate on those old meters that come in the ground out of the ground. So we can actually reuse those meter bodies, which you see the brass body. Where's my mouse? right there. So, this is the chamber that's inside there. That's the measuring component that we're testing along with this meter body and the register you see here and the end point are the replacement parts that have the batteries within them. These [clears throat] are completed after they're re uh tested, rebuilt, register, installed, and then we would um plan to put those out in the field throughout those boundaries with our employees in the water department. As you can see, sometimes we have a little bit less snow in some years, so we get out there earlier or have to work late into the fall to complete those that work. Um, pursuant to the city's purchasing policies, we went out for a sealed bid process with the dollar amount that we estimated. Um, and the only uh bid that was returned was from Badger Meter in the amount of $299,456. [snorts] The B the budget for the 2526 fiscal year was set at 350,000, which we were well under with that number. Um, and as mentioned, 1,500 to 2,000 meters are changed each year, and through a 10-year cycle, we can replace those meters and update to make sure that we have the most accurate billing records for our customers as the revenue streams

that come in to replace these type of components. Uh, with that, I would recommend that the council approve approve the purchasing agreement with Badger Meter uh for the new water meter registers and endpoints in the amount of $299,456. And I would stand for questions. Thank you, Glenn. Any questions? Mayor, I'd like to make a motion. Chatty bunch. We are. I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution number 26-021 accepting the bid of and approving a contract with Badger Meter, Inc. for the purchase of new water meters, registers, and endpoints in the amount of $299,456.

Second motion in a second. Any discussion on the motion? Good. Clerk will take the role. Evans. Yes. Gabriel, yes. English, yes. Wood, yes.

Motion carries. Item J's or starts our public hearings. There are signup sheets available if you want to testify. This is a Oh, also, thank you. You can um believe you can testify online. Are we still doing that? Oh, prior to 300 p.m. today. Did anyone sign up online? Are we aware of No one signed up online. Thank you. This is a quasi judicial hearing. Um A126 request for annexation by Aspen Homes and Development LLC for a 1.937 acre parcel from County Egg Suburban to City R3 residential at 3 units per acre located at 2739 East Thomas Line Lane Cordelane Idaho 83815 stuff I have to read. Please note that the term deliberation in the Idaho open meetings law indicates the receipt of any receipt or exchange of information in any form including emails, telephone calls, and in-person conversations. In addition, when council sits in a quasi judicial capacity, its decision can only be based on information presented at the hearing. Therefore, I ask if any council member has received or exchanged information related to this annexation request that is not included in the council packet, please disclose that information now so that the applicant and the public have full knowledge of the information you possess. Does any council member have anything to disclose?

I am seeing none. So, we have a staff report by Barbara Barker, our associate planner. This is Barbara's first time up in front of the city council with an annexation. Everyone be gentle with her. Thank you, mayor. Good evening, mayor and council members. We do have before you today an annexation A1-26 for 1.937 acres with city R3 zoning. The engineer is Olsson Engineering. The applicant, can you speak up just a little bit? Thank you.

And the uh the consultant is Olsson Engineering. The applicant is Aspen Homes. As mentioned, the location is 2739 North Thomas Lane and Cord Lane. All needle legal notices were sent out as required. [snorts] The decision point should the city council approve the requested annexation of 1.937 acres with city R3 zoning residential three units per acre. A little background information before we get started to the findings. Uh the applicant did provide us with a annexation map that you can see on the right as well as a nar narrative. Uh and just this is just a generic uh quip that I took from the narrative. We believe the property is fitting for this location. Some more background here. The property is conti contiguous with the Cordelane city limits and it's also within the area of impact for the city of Celane. The subject property is currently located in county AG suburban zone. The current size of the property is 1.937 and it is considered a conforming lot per county land use and development code. The applicant has proposed city's R3 zoning. The existing adjacent properties within the city are also R3 as you can see adjacent. The density allowed for this zone is three units per acre and the proposed density as you can see is 2.86. This lower density zone requires a minimum lot size of 11500 ft and 75 ft of frontage. The R3 permits in resident residential usage is single family housing only and ADUs are permitted accessory use. The lot sizes for this particular subdivision is going to turn

out you could only have one single family as well as an ADU. As you can see here in the photo, this is a photo of a adjacent property. Adjacent neighborhoods are similar to what is being proposed. The adjacent areas west and south were annexed in 1999 and 199 sorry 1999 and 1991 respectively. This is what it looked like before. Um, it was a active salvage yard. What is proposed, you can see overlaid, is a four residential lots on a dead-end private driveway, and they are requesting to be connected to city water and sewer. Due to that previous use, um, there is some soil conditions and what is being done with that is we've reviewed it. We're going to look at that a little bit later in the staff report. Um but the building department has requested there it'll be conditioned for any building permits and also DEEQ was uh contacted for their recommendations and again we'll talk a little bit more about that later. This has gone before planning and zoning commission and they did adopt an R3 zoning at on January 13 2016. They also approved subdivision called mountainside at Canfield and this was approved at that same meeting. If you're following along in the staff report, we're jumping to the findings on page 11. All right, there are four required findings for annexation. Finding B1, does the proposal conform to the comprehensive plan? Finding B2, are there public facilities and utilities available? Finding B3, looking for the suitability of the physical characteristics of the site. And finally before does a proposal adversely affect surrounding neighborhoods in regard to traffic, neighborhood character and existing land use. We're going to cover these one by one.

Finding B1. So looking at that where we're uh how is this conforming to the city's comprehensive plan, we're going to look at three different areas. Place type, transportation goals and objectives. from the comprehensive plan regarding place types. You can see the definition there. This represents the form of future development as envisioned by the residents of Cordelane. This place type has been categorized as single family neighborhood. The surrounding area is also single family neighborhood which indicates that the Cordelane residents envision this property and the surrounding areas residential develop development to be single family. definition of single family neighborhoods, lower density single family homes. And you can see there that R3 is one of those uh recommended compatible zonings. In terms of the comp plan and transportation for availability, you can see here on the left in terms of bicycles, there is a plan multi-use pathway right adjacent to the site. There is adjacent walking network. The only thing that's not being provided here is transit network again just because it's on the eastern edge of the city policy framework out again out of the comp plan. these following uh that you see listed here. This is a curated list that staff has selected and you're certainly welcome to add more. Those are shown as attachment to goal C11. Cordelane citizens are well informed fostering broad-based and inclusive community involvement and promote community unity and involvement under growth and development. uh GD1 GD11 develop mixed uses of land uses that balance housing and employment while preserving the

qualities that make Cordelane a great place to live. And you can see under GD2 ensure appropriate highquality infrastructure to accommodate community needs and future growth. reiterated there under 2.1 and health and safety continue to provide exceptional police, fire, emergency services and enhanced cooperation to provide fast reliable service. So before you council members uh for B1 evaluation, does city council need to determine based on the information before them whether the comprehensive plan does or does not support the request? All right, finding B2. The public facilities and utilities are or are not available or inadequate for the proposed use. We're going to be relying on the staff reports that you can see on pages 17 and 18 in the staff report. And what you'll find there is in general staff comments did indicate that public facilities and utilities are adequate. So for the B2 evaluation, the council will need to determine based on the information before you whether or not public facilities and utilities are adequate for this request. Finding B3 that the physical characteristics of the site do or do not make it suitable for the request at this time. We're going to look at three items there. The existing site, adjacent properties, and environmental site assessment. So just a few photos of the site. The first one, the site is vacant, recently cleared, and generally graded. It is relatively flat, although you can see up to the west towards the adjacent properties, there is a different elevation. And then here you're going to see the existing swale curb and sidewalks that would be extended to the property. Finally, this is a photo of the existing site and you can see the um the concern with the environmental equality because of the soil conditions. So there were three things that happened there. There was a phase one environmental site

assessment that was done by a third party. You can see that summary in attachment three. There was further assessment by the same contractor and that second assessment also did not find any issues to be concerned with. Um that email is included as attachment 4. No concerns were noted but they did recommend that professional oversight be provided with future soil disturbance. We also consulted the department of environmental quality. You can see that as attachment five in the report and they their recommendation concurred with the geotech recommendation for professional oversight. So what you're going to see in later when we look at the conditions staff did add two conditions regarding soil quality. One is for independent soil reports to be included with every building permit application and also uh requiring the owner to have ongoing coordination with the DEEQ regarding any future soil disturbance. You'll see there's this is condition 13 and 14 in the report. All right. Finding B3 question again. Based on the existing site conditions that you've seen and the environmental site assessment that's been done, the city council will need to determine based on this information before them whether or not the physical characteristics of the site made it suitable for this request. Finding B4 that the proposal would or would not adversely affect the surrounding neighborhood with regard to traffic, neighborhood character, and the existing land uses. We're going to be looking at each one of those individually. First off, as submitted by Chris Booseley, our city engineer, the subject property is bordered by Thomas Lane. Local residential street traffic is proposed to be estimated to approximately 38 daily trips to Thomas Lane. Minor increase over the 2,300 trips. So, he has no objection to the annexation as proposed. In terms of neighborhood character, the

subject property is situated adjacent to the city's land use CSFD for single family dwellings. And you can see here just a aerial photo. All the properties around them have that same lowdensity single family residential development on larger lots. Directly west to the properties. You can see an overlay. This is what is being proposed. You can see the size of the lots compared to what's adjacent to the west. Um there's also another subdivision south of this which is known as foothills. All of these are all R3. when the development took place for these other major subdivisions, single family developments with R3 zoning was approved. To the east, you can see in Kney County, there's a single residence. All of these are larger parcels with private wells, septic systems, and limited infrastructure. Regarding land use, the proposed subdivision is coming up up at lot sizes of.35 acres. And you can see the western parcels vary from 026 to 048. The southern parcels 0 29 to 0.58. So again it's just sort of showing that there's some continuity there. All right. Finding B4 looking at the traffic neighborhood character and the existing land use. The council will need to determine based on the information before them whether or not proposal would adversely affect the surrounding neighborhood regard to traffic, neighborhood character andor existing land uses. And to finish off, um, we did come up with 14 staff, uh, provided 14 recommendations for this annexation as well as the subdivision, and we'll go through those. Uh, engineering suggests a dedicated sidewalk easement along Thomas Lane on the final plot and also providing the taper transition where it moves into uh, county property of the east. planning is requiring that that 75 foot frontage that's required for R3 is

going to be required up against the private driveway and also requiring the 75 ft minimum frontage and then including the utility easement within the private driveway tract. Water is uh again just providing that we can showing that we can provide utilities that are required. They're requiring the 8 in water main line be required to extend it through the property to the northern property line and then a permanent flushing station be required because it is a dead end there. Wastewater is requiring a 30-foot shared utility easement for water and sewer and the project will require an extension to the for the two and through to the north. [clears throat] Urban forestry is requiring street trees along Thomas Lane. And then uh Monty's got a list here of what's required or suggested for those locations. fire. Uh typical statement from them that all of fire will be reviewed at time of building application. And then the building department again as we talked about due to the previous usage they are going to be requiring an independent soil report on every single building application and then also the requirement that they continue to coordinate with DEQ with any of their recommendations. So, the decision point before the council tonight again, the annexation of 1.937 acres within with city R3 zoning. And I will note um that we do have an annexation agreement that we'll be looking at in a few moments. So, the alternates before you determine one of the following to approve with and without conditions, deny or deny without president prejudice. And I stand for questions. Good job, Barbara. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Any questions for Barbara? Yes, Council Member Wood. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, thank you, Barbara. Good presentation. I throughout the packet, numerous times, there's mention of the soil and that the soil was tested and and we know what was there before, right? And um I think there's probably a lot of people I know I did kind of thought what was there before was a bit of an eyesore. So, so this is definitely an improvement, but since it's mentioned so many times about the earthwork and and continue to observe future earth work, can you tell me specifically what that means for the city? How would we do that?

Well, we've we've covered that in the conditions. So the way that we can control it is we can make sure there's already been two phases and maybe more that the applicant can bring that up in terms of their own soil testing and anytime that these one of four lots come in for building permits, we're going to be requiring independent testing for those as well. And then DEEQ has has suggested as has their third party consultant that whenever there's future soil conditions and disturbance, they're going to have a professional on site to actually oversee that and bring up any. So, we've tried to cover our bases. I mean, we were concerned with it. The neighbors have brought up their concern. The owner has been concerned. And so, that's why we wanted to cover it thoroughly, just so that you know, it's we've done our due diligence, I think. Yeah. Thank you for that. Yeah.

Any other questions for Barbara? Yes. Barbara, one of my concerns that I read through this is the deadend driveway. I know we do our best to not have deadends, and this is one where fire trucks get to back up instead of drive forward, which we don't like doing very much. Well, we did um we don't have that as part of this in terms of the annexations, but in the subdivision that was covered well in terms of the fire and police uh serving this area. So, we've required them to do a fire turnaround. Perfect. Thank you.

Okay. Any other questions for Barbara? So, we'll be opening the public hearing now. And there's a signup sheet. If you failed to sign up, I can still call you up. Um but we will start. Uh Mr. Mayor, I think the applicant gets to go next. Yeah, he's on the hearing thing. So, yes. So, the first first sign up in the hearing is uh Jeremy and I assume this is Jeremy. Jeremy, you need assumption. Yes, you need to be sworn in and then you can give your uh presentation. Certainly.

Jeremy, please raise your hand and respond by saying, "I affirm." Do you solemnly swear nor affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? So help you God that I do.

Um again, uh Jeremy Truzulli. Uh I'm a land use consultant here in North Idaho collaborating with Olsson Engineering tonight on behalf of Aspen Homes. And um just as an anecdote, uh I I walked in here this evening and saw Mayor Jacobson and had a quick little panic attack that I was in the the wrong public hearing. So Ron, it's [laughter] a little strange seeing you over there on that side, but uh I'll get used to it. So, um, I'll be pretty brief here because I thought the staff report covered everything, um, pretty well. And hang on just a second. Highlight.

Oh, just click the left left of the mouse.

The left mouse. Okay. So, starting off with the zoning request. I'm going to go real quick on this because I I believe that between the staff report um the thorough discussion that was had at planning and zoning um the surrounding areas uh I think that the the R3 zoning is the appropriate request if you guys choose to annex this property this evening. Um as Barbara pointed out, it's surrounded by R3. I also brought um some of the county parcels that are actually smaller than that 5 acre that we see elsewhere in the county. Um, so you see an awful lot of residences along Thomas Lane that are, you know, under 3/4 of an acre that are still in the county. Um, I think it's reasonable to assume that, uh, additional annexations will come forth in this area um, over the next 5 to 10 years and and that R3 zoning um, will create good cohesive and consistency in this area. So regarding the annexation request, um, so the annexation is a legislative process. We understand that the zoning is more quasi judicial. So that legislative process does give the council a bit more discretion. In essence, is this in the best interest of the city at this time to annex this property? Um, but state statute does offer some direction to cities when uh working through annexations. And the first one is that procedural requirements had been met. That uh staff did point out that all of the noticing was done. Uh posting on the property was done, the mailers, uh posting into the newspapers, all of the procedural requirements have been met. Um additionally, uh state statute does point to the city and orderly development. Does this proposal

represent orderly development? And as the staff report with the zoning request pointed out, the R3 zoning designation here uh would be the appropriate zoning. It is contiguous with city limits. So we do believe that this represents um quarterly development. Um the state does also point towards private property rights. And so in essence out of uh if the city decides that this does represent orderly growth, if infrastructure is available, if the annexation creates logical urban boundaries, um then property owners adjacent to city limits should uh be able to come to the city and request uh the benefit of those municipal services to develop their property in accordance and uh um cohesive with the the surrounding area. [snorts] Additionally looking to the comprehensive plan. Um so the staff report was thorough here as well that the comprehensive plan um points out that it is in the area of city impact. The future land use map does talk about single family residential lowdensity development in this area. The comp plan also does point to um a diversity of housing maximizing existing public infrastructure. So, we believe this request is supported throughout the comprehensive plan. Um, and then one one goal I wanted to point out was that goal C1 and this uh I I toyed with the idea of whether or not I was even going to bring this up, but at planning and zoning, there was a public comment um from Mrs. Darien and I was able to talk with her after the public hearing and you know she brought up some good questions, some good points that I thought were worth worth bringing up tonight. And she indicated to me that well the the

property already been posted for the second hearing and the developer had already started clearing the land. So in her mind this was a done deal. And the way she brought it up, I I thought about it and I thought about it on my drive home. So, I do this all the time. This is what I do. I've been doing this for over a decade and and you guys see many of these public hearings. And with regard to an informed public in her mind, and she says it in her letter, um why would somebody spend that kind of money clearing the property if they didn't already have their approval? And again, because I'm in this world, I was just like, well, no, that's not how this works. We have to go through this process. Um, what she doesn't know, and what the general public doesn't tend to know is before this request ever makes it to this point, this project started close to a year ago. Somebody identifies a piece of property, they'll come reach out to Olsen Engineering or they'll reach out directly to me. We will then meet with city in a pre-development hearing. City staff and the representatives will go through all of the code, the comprehensive plan, the guiding documents, the master transportation plan. We go through it with a fine tooth comb. And if staff doesn't feel it's a good fit, we really never get to this point. So, what the general public doesn't always understand is we've done a thorough analysis of this property. We've been on this property for months. We're bringing forth what we think is a project that can and and should be approved. Like we believe in the project and so we we offer our recommendation. Hey, should I start clearing the property? How should we do this? We also have a plan B that if the annexation were to be denied, we could appeal it. Um, and also the the property owner

could build a home or two on there in Coupney County. So, and kind of recoup their cost. Like I said, in the moment I was a little taken aback, but as I thought about it, um, the general public isn't here at all these meetings. The general public isn't in those meetings that I have with the city. the general public doesn't do what I do and understand that we make our best guess that this is a good proposal and and we think that it'll probably get approved um because of its merit, not because any backroom deal was made or there's some secret handshake cuz if there is, I never learned that handshake. So, I just wanted to bring that up with regard to goal one and it might help people here tonight to know we've been on this project for nearly a year before we get to this point. So, just thought that was worth noting. Um, benefits to the city, uh, to increase the tax base, to maximize infrastructure that's already in the ground, an extension of that infrastructure, to collect impact fees on a property that has been using city services for a very long time. There's only one way to get to this property, and you have to navigate city streets to get to this property. Um, and now you'll be able to start recouping some of the impact that this uh scrapyard has had on city streets. Um, the developer is going to put in all the infrastructure on his dime and the city can also direct uh development through zoning development agreements. It's going to create that diversity of housing stock. These will be larger homes on larger lots. Um, and like I said, we feel that this is in the best interest of the city to annex at this time. Um, and uh, we respectfully request approval and I'll stand for any questions.

Any questions for Jeremy? No questions. We'll let you come back to wrap up. Thank you. I do have on the signup sheet, I have two people. I have uh, Debbie Darren who is neutral but did not specify whether you wanted to testify. Is Debbie here and does she want to testify? She does not. I also have and I apologize if I don't get this name right. Uh is it Sandra Robertson who has signed up? I guess says neutral but has not specified whether they want to testify.

Okay. So neither neither people who signed up want to testify. That's good. Uh Jeremy, did you want to come back and add anything? because no one said anything. So he's good. Okay. So given that I will close the public hearing and wait for council to take action. U Mr. Mayor. Yes.

Um just under discussion. Um I I think uh in looking at the whole package, there's been quite a few points that this does line up with our comp plan. And Jeremy's right. the these things have to be done on merit and this appears to have met the merit. So R3 seems to be the right fit. Um as I said earlier, it certainly is an improvement with what was there before and so I would find myself supporting this project. Excellent. Any other comments? Okay, we'll do a a motion first and then we do the findings.

Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve without prejudice the annexation by Aspen Homes and Development LLC for a 1.937 acre parcel from the county a suburban to city R3 located at 2739 East Thomas Lane pursuant to the following findings and order. Second. I don't do that yet. Sorry. Okay, we can do it now, but that's good. We may proceed.

Sorry. This matter came before the city council on March 3rd, 2026 to consider A126, a request for zoning in conjunction with the annexation of a 1.937 acre annexation from county a suburban to city R3. The owner applicant is Aspen Homes and Development LLC. The location is 2739 East Thomas Lane, Courtane, Idaho 83815. Findings of fact. The city council finds that the following facts A1 through A11 have been established on a more probable than not basis as shown on the record before and on the testimony presented at the public hearing. I don't need to read them all individually, do I? You're adopting it. There's no there is no uh uh disputed facts. There were no contrary testimony. So you can adopt the suggested findings

based on the forego foregoing findings of fact. The city council makes a following conclusions of law. B1 that this proposal is in conformance with the comprehensive plan policy. B2 that public facilities and utilities are available and adequate for the proposed use. B3 that the physical characteristics of the site do make it suitable for the request at this time. B4 that the proposal would not adversely affect the surrounding neighborhood with regard to traffic, neighborhood character, or existing land uses. The city council, pursuant to the foregoing findings of fact and conclusions of law, approves the requested R3 zoning in conjunction with annexation with the following conditions to include in the annexation agreement. And you can just note that the 14 that are in the findings are what you adopt if if that's what you wish.

Please note that conditions 1 through 14 we wish to adopt. These include findings in engineering, planning, water, waste, water, urban forestry, fire, and building. With that, I'll make the motion again to approve. [laughter] Sorry, guys. to make the motion to approve the requested R3 zoning in conjunction with annexation. I will second it again. Very good motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion or the uh agreement, the findings? None. Please take the role. Gabriel, yes. [snorts] Yes. Wood, yes. Evans, yes.

Motion carried. Now, sub item A is council bill number 26105, an ordinance approving the annexation requested by Absson Homes, ABS APS, excuse me, Aspen Homes and Development LLC for a 1.937 acre parcel located at 2739 East Thomas Lane and zoning said parcel R3. I'll make a motion to dispense with the rule and read council bill number 26-10005 once by title only. Second motion a second. Any discussion? All right. Roll call, please. Gabriel, yes. English, yes. Wood, yes. Evans, yes.

The clerk will read the title. Council bill number 2610005. An ordinance annexing to and declaring to be part of the city of Cordelane, Kney County, Idaho, lot 2, block one, halfhigh ridge in the northeast quarter of section six, township 50 north, range 4 west, Boisee meridian, commonly known as 2739E, Thomas Lane, Kurd Lane, Idaho, zoning such specifically described property here by annex R3. repealing our ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with providing a several beauty clause providing for the publication of a summary of this ordinance and an effective date here. Very good. We'll do a motion to adopt the bill now. I'll make a motion to adopt council bill 25-10005.

Second motion a second. Any discussion on the motion? Very good. Take the role, please. Gabriel, yes. English, yes. Wood, yes. Evans, yes.

Motion has carried. We have resolution number 2622, which is approval of an annexation agreement with Aspen Homes and Development LLC for a 1.937 acre parcel located at 2739 East Thomas Lane. Is there any discussion on this? No presentation, nothing. We've all read it, of course. Very good. I'll make a motion to adopt resolution number 26-022 approving an annexation agreement with Aspen Homes and Development LLC for a 1.937 acre parcel located at 2739 East Thomas Lane. Second motion and a second. Any discussion? Very good. Clerk will take the role. English. Yes. Wood. Yes. Evans,

yes. GL, yes.

Very good. Motion is carried. Now we have item two which is quasi judicial and this is our second hearing for the evening. It is an exchange, let me cheat, exchange of a halfacre parcel owned by the city which is a portion of tax 24207 and located behind 3700 West Seltis Way and along the future Atlas Trail Connection for improvements to cityowned real property to be completed and paid for by Glacier 3700 Seltis LLC. the parcel and improvements being equal in value to $85,000. And before we get started, I would ask if any council member has received or exchanged information related to this land exchange that is not included in the council packet, please disclose this information now so the applicant and public can have full knowledge of the information you possess. And I'm getting no communication from the council. So, we may proceed with a staff report by Monty McCully, who's our trails coordinator, and by Hillary Patterson, which may or may not stand up there, our community planning director. Monty, please.

Well, good evening. Um, this will be my last trail coordinator presentation to you for after this, it'll be urban forester.

Um, so I'll go ahead I know you've seen this before, but I'll go ahead and read through the uh um staff report anyway for the public. So the decision point is should the should council exchange a halfacre parcel owned by the city which is a portion of tax 24207 located behind 3700 West Seltis Way along the future Atlas Trail connection for improvements to city-owned real property or of equal value. So, a little history. In 2014, the city of Celane purchased 20 acres of real property within a two-mile stretch of the former BNSF railroad rightway for a price of $2.5 million. [clears throat] The former railroad wideway to the east, which was also purchased in 2014, is currently being developed along with the Atlas Trail Extension as part of the River's Edge Apartments and Atlas Waterfront projects. a section of the former uh BNSF railroad rideway that is completed for the exchange south of 3700 West Salt Way and is operated by Heritage Health and owned by Parkwood Properties. This parcel has an irregular shape due to the railroad lines and its triangular in shape and is not uh used is not used for any city purpose. On February 3rd, 2026, council declared its intention to exchange this halfacre parcel for one, a double trail section. Two, light poles and fixtures to enhance security along the trail. Three, a bike repair station. Four, uh, widening concrete areas for future public benefits such as public art and or public exercise equipment. Five, perpetual maintenance of the dryland grass seed zeros escaped shoulders of the trail. And six, a permanent solar lighting for the city skate park. All to be provided to be provided by Parkwood Properties without charge to the city. Also on February 3rd, council declared the value of the parcel to be $85,000.

The value of the real property improvements to be provided by Parkwood Properties was determined by council to be $85,000. So the financial analysis of Parkwood properties is interested in acquiring the subject property in exchange for improvements to real property owned by the city is shown on the attached exhibits. The cost of the improvements is equal to the invest estimated current value of the property to be exchanged. Parks and Rec recreation department has indicated that city does not have a need for additional land next to the Atlas trail connection and exchanging the property would reduce city staff costs related to landscaping and ongoing operations and maintenance and result in trail enhancement for the public. So here's the Idaho code section. Idaho [snorts] code 50-15031 provides for the exchange of the property for real property of equal value if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the city. The term real property is not defined in title 50 chapter 14 Idaho code. However, the term is defined in IC55-101 as follows. Real property or real estate consists of one lands possessory rights to land ditch water rights mining claims both load and placer. Two, that which is affixed to land. Three, that which is opportunate to land. An opportunity is a legal term that means belonging to, accessory or incident to, adjunct, appended, or annexed to. Black laws dictionary, fifth edition, 1979. The black's definition goes on to say, "A thing is deemed to be incidental or opportunitant to land when it is by right used with the land for its benefit, as in the case of a way, a water course, or of passage for light, air or heat from or across the land of another. So, Parkwood's property offered of improvements to city real property would be considered real property subject to

exchange for city real property and is in the best interests of the city. So to the decision point is council should exchange subject halfacre of city- owned property for improvements to city- owned real property as outlined in the attachments. And I do have Chris from Parkwood Properties here to go through um the project for you. Let's uh start out with any questions for Monty. Anyone have any questions for Monty? Yes, Christie.

Thank you. Uh, Monty, I'm aware of the parks department strategic plan and I don't recall in the plan that we were ever going to do a pocket park here. We were going to put resources on that piece of land. Can you verify that?

That is that is correct. We have uh Atlas Park to the east and we have Mil River Park to the west that uh will actually be um expanding that in the next few years to uh triple its size. And so the distance from Atlas Park to this pocket park was a block [clears throat] block and a half. So it's it's really close and there's not really any access other than by driving on the trail to get to that property. So, so the financial resources coming from us, that has not been part of the plan to do what Parkwood is proposing to do. That is correct. Okay. So, we would just kind of leave it in its natural state.

Well, we would we would require a developer to put a trail in, whatever the developer might be. Parkwood is just going above and beyond by putting a lot more uh a nicer trail system, one that's that's maintained and care for that will have uh um it won't just be weeds and rocks next to the trail, right? If if Parkwood takes this, but if it were left with us, it's going to have the rocks and the weeds. Okay. All right. I just want to confirm the strategic plan because that, you know, the question has come up, well, couldn't the city just put a pocket park there? But when we look at our resources and it's mapped out for the next, is it 10 years of where we need to put parks in the city, that's not one of the locations for us. That's correct. Yeah.

Okay. Thank you. Any other [snorts] questions from Monty? Okay. Well, I will open the public hearing with the applicant. Mr. Meyer, please come forward and be sworn in. I need the sheet. No one signed up. Okay. Please raise your right hand and respond by saying affirm. Do you solemnly swear and nor affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? So help you God.

I affirm. Great. Thank you. Good evening, mayor and council. Thanks for the opportunity to come back and discuss this project with you again. Thank you, Monty, and the staff team for working with us on this project. It's been a long road in this process. I'm going to roll back for just two slides, I think, to the original parcel here. This building was first developed in 2004 by the US Bank Company as a call center for our community. It was a large employment driver for many many years. After COVID, the call center use became a little obsolete as folks began to do that kind of work from home. So the fortunate part is we have 400 in excess of 400 call center jobs remain in our community. Yet this piece of real estate became surplus to US Bank. um it was put on the market and we were interested in acquiring it in partnership with Heritage Health. They have approached us to to uh partner with Parkwood to redevelop the call center into a multidisciplinary center for healthy living which achieves their community health mission to provide a single location to allow the community to gather and address a whole wide range of medical needs. That right now the community needs to visit eight different locations scattered throughout our community to access those kinds of community health care services. including mental health, addiction counseling. Uh we're just about to start on the second portion of this which is going to be a medical dental clinic including some um healthy living lifestyle amenities about fitness, about exercise, about diet. So, Parkwood is extremely elated to be partnering with Heritage on this project, and we're about the reason why I'm here before you tonight is we're about to start our second phase um of this development, which means we need to complete our frontage improvements per city codes um and our agreements with the with the council and the staff. Uh fortunately, we've been able to postpone this frontage improvements until this second

phase of a two-phase development. It's been three years in the making now. Um, we have a long history with Heritage Health. It's a great organization. Our community meets the needs of of a number of the less fortunate citizens in our community um that might struggle economically to access the the care they need um to live their best lives. So, Heritage started as a free clinic with Lidman Durnney's leadership back in the 1980s. Um, Parkwood donated space in the lower level of one of our buildings to get them stood up because it was a community cause that we believed in. Fortunately, over the last 30 years, we continue to partner with them through various different clinic relationships. Um, and this is a great chance for them to really take a whole bunch of good programs they're doing and bring it all together. That's a little background information as to the idea that sort of percolated with our design team and in early conversations with city staff about what could we do with this opportunity where our obligation is to complete uh a standard city trail profile of 15 ft uh and connect the Atlas Trail which is now missing a few teeth in this section u between Johnson Mill River Park to the west and our adjacent developer to the east who's working on some multif family projects and will continue this trail on into where the Atlas Mill River, excuse me, the Atlas Mill River Park is to the east of us. So, we're going to try to connect these two sections. But in working around on the site, we thought there was an interesting opportunity with this triangle as shown in the graphic here in pink of surplus land. This was the place where the fork in the road went or fork in the trail, uh, excuse me, the tracks went for the railroad when they would have one spur line that would be bringing in raw logs to the mill that used to be on the adjacent site. the other one would be carrying out finished lumber goods. So, there's kind of a Y-shaped piece that happened there. Uh the city's leadership had the vision to acquire that right ofway as part of their overall Atlas Mill master plan. And this section is

now um doesn't have, according to the the staff report, a whole lot of immediate obvious use for the city. So, it's not on the tax rolls. Um it's a very natural state of of land at this point. um and it was sort of of surplus to the to the um needs for the trail profile passing through that area. So last summer we got together with the city. So working on almost nine months worth of good faith negotiations now trying to say, "Hey, wouldn't this be cool? Could we create a win-win deal here that says, wouldn't it be nice to create in particular a second trail pathway for joggers and and slower speed walkers while there's higher speed runners and cyclists that would go by on the pave path. Really trying to emulate some of the best practices that the city has adopted in the Atlas Mill uh park next door. So, if you go east of here, that trail profile exists and it's been um to my understanding from talking to the parks department, wellreceived. So, we thought, hey, couldn't we do a trail and another trail? Wouldn't that be better two for one? So, that was an interesting idea in in discussion with staff. We also described how this is a little bit of of undeveloped ground is is kind of behind a noise abatement wall from the waterfront homes to the south of our site. So, it's a little bit of an unwatched area. And so, Councilman Wood, from your law enforcement experience, that's not a great place to to be as a trail user. So, maybe we could partner and put some lights across there. We've also done that same standard at Atlas Mill River Park. And so, there's a chance for us to extend some public safety lighting for users of the trail that might be in the dusk hours of of the shoulders of our um rapidly increasing daylight hours, but over the winter, it's it's pretty dark back there. Thirdly, we were partnering with Heritage Health on the idea of maybe we could get a chance to bring people into this site and try to to um have them exposed to more of the center of healthy living opportunities. So, I'm going to

switch to the next exhibit down below um which is our current plan for the project which is showing the graphic here of the dark gray original pave trail sweeping through the project. This is about a thousand lineal feet of trail. The red dots are illustrating where we're proposing putting light fixtures that are we're going to partner with the Vista Utilities on it. They're the same fixtures that are the city standard down the way in the Atlas Park. The lighter gray piece here is the proposed compacted gravel trail which sort of meanders alongside, but it provides two channels for users to take advantage of this public rideway without creating conflicts between slow walking strollers and the rapid bicycles andor someone who's coming from the adjacent center for healthy living trying to figure out how to work fitness into their lifestyle and how to how to be exposed to some of these other opportunities to improve their quality of life. One of the other aspects we're going to add into this project as we propose are some art sort of niche kind of um little pockets off to the side of the trail. This picture here is an example at the Atlas Park where this is already exists and the um these locations in the Atlas Park in the picture were partnered with the city arts commission to provide an opportunity for public art in conjunction with the leadership at Heritage Health. They thought maybe we could put some sort of um exercise equipment out here. If you've ever traveled out towards Silver Beach Marina, there's a Vita course out along the um the Centennial Trail out in that direction. So, if you're jogging along, you can stop and do push-ups or pull-ups or other ways that people can engage in the physical fitness journey. So, we thought, wouldn't it be a great idea to make a spot for one of those to potentially exist? the exercise equipment isn't included in our proposal, but Heritage really liked the idea of saying maybe we can get other philanthropy from the community to partner with us and offer these kinds of amenities right outside our center for

healthy living. So, when a family has come from our community and says, "Dad needs to get his medications checked, mom's got a therapy appointment, the kids have a dental appointment, and um maybe you'll stop off and and do an annual physical just to make sure you have adequate wellness." In addition to that, there's a chance to engage with them about outdoor exercise opportunities by bringing these enhancements to the trail. Because um we all know there's a lot of cyclist traffic uh in this neighborhood. We've got an amazing trail network in our community. We've worked with Motti to propose a bike maintenance station kind of like what we have down here in Mchuan Park that this is a chance that if you've got a flat tire or if you need to get a little tuneup because your stem is is wiggly, you'd stop here. and maybe you'd stop here and think about, hey, what's that project behind me? Maybe I could get some signage from the Center for Healthy Living, engage with them as well. So, working with the philosophy of what Heritage Health is trying to do to create this very publicly approachable center for healthy living, we sort of bundled this this set of of benefits together in conjunction with the city to say, how would we assemble a package of benefits that would make sense to maybe trade for some excess land next door? It's not on the city right not on city tax roles and it's not um really providing any public benefit. So how would we take something that the public is not benefiting from now on its appearance and offer [clears throat] a set of public benefits that people could really use and enjoy in our community? So we've come together with that proposal. This trail network does continue to offer a connection if you'll see on the screen where this will sweep up and enter into the complex of the center for healthy living. And scrolling back up one sheet, this is the opposite side of that building where we now have a pathway striped connection working through our building, working all the way up here to the ADA accessible ramp and a new um um community, a city link, excuse me, I couldn't remember the name.

City link bus stop up here to again allow the public transportation network to engage with the heritage health center for healthy living. So, what this will do is create an interesting kind of throughput path to allow the community to engage on both sides of this this complex um in addition to some of these uh added enhancements and amenities we're proposing. So, a lot of details in there, but it's been a long back and forth conversation. We've had great partnership with the city and the leadership who said, "Hey, let's let's find a reasonable value for the property and a basket of improvements that the city can can offer to the community um for true engagement and we'll put the piece of property back on the tax rolls. We have no immediate um plans for this property next door. As you can excuse me, tell from the original graphic. There is some empty land over here. We don't know what that needs to become. We're waiting to see. Heritage Health and their leader Mike Baker have amazing visions for what they want to do in the community. We've been in conversations with them about maybe additional kinds of programs that they could offer to the community. Um, but the reason why this is important now and we've started this conversation is that that the frontage improvements of the trail are an obligation to a pending building permit to complete the construction of our project in order to get our certificate of occupancy. We owe the community those public improvements. So, I'm kind of at a bit of an intersection here where I need to continue this for our summertime construction season in order to deliver the healthcare clinic, which is our primary objective, and we're hoping we have a reasonable win-win proposition that we've worked with in the city for this. So far, it seems like it's been met with approval in our previous conversations, but we're here in the public forum to make sure that this is the best interest of the city and happy to stand for any questions that you may have.

Are there any questions for Chris? Um, not for Mr. I'm going to recognize Oh, Christie. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, not for Mr. Meyer, but for Monty [clears throat] Monty, did you get a chance to look at the packet? Uh, Councilman Sheckler added an an addendum. I I did not. Uh Oh, well then you I I don't have any questions for you. I'll speak to Randy if I may, please. Randy, did you have an opportunity to look at the addendum added by Councilman Sheckler? The letter to Mayor Gin. I did.

The mayor. Thank you. Um the gist of it is he's concerned about the fact that we didn't get an appraisal done and at the last discussion over this I I tended to agree that staff should seek an appraisal on future projects. We it's difficult to make some some of these decisions without a true appraisal. But but this has been in the works for nine months. There's been a lot of back and forth and um I like the project a lot. I think that we wouldn't do much on our own and it's going to be so much better for the community. But my question uh Randy is some of some of his points that

Wait, hang on. Hang on. Do you have a question for the applicant or for staff? Staff. Randy. Oh, okay. Thank you. Okay. Um, Councilman Sheckler wanted the appraisal that it would be a standalone for that little piece of property, but then he went a step further that it would also be uh assembled with an adjoining parcel for a true appraisal. And and for me, just my experience is that wouldn't be anything that government could do. That's more of a private market sort of thing. But for government, I thought we would only look at the value of our little tiny piece of property.

Well, pursuant to the statute, uh 50-1402, council sets the value of the property. It doesn't say how you set the value. You can ask for an appraisal. You don't have to. uh your judgment as any property owner as to the value of the property to you is uh uh accepted by the state as a valid exercise of your discretion. Okay. And then I guess I do have a question for Monty if I may. Mr. Uh Monty, can you give me an idea of how you came up with the value on this small piece of property?

Actually, I I got the list from from Chris. Um, but I will say before we uh get to that is it dawned on me. We were talking about a pocket park that's uh in one area triangle about a half acre. When even if we developed that as a pocket park, we wouldn't get the a linear park that we're getting here, which is they're basically providing us with a park. It's just a linear park instead of a pocket park. But I can have Chris come up and talk to the those numbers as far as how they broke down. Do you remember the cost of each thing?

Sure. Perhaps if if I understand the question a little bit differently from the council member about how the price was set. Perhaps the discussion was an open conversation about what does the city have invested in the project and what is the current fair market value of what that is. And it was an interesting piece we wrestled with because to the points that have been raised, it's an isolated parcel with no utilities, no public access and and it's not it's it's hard to encapsulate what that might be. So we decided that the best thing to do in conversation with city leadership and the team was that if we if the city can recover the money they've invested in it, which is doing nothing for the public now, recover that original investment and get the benefit of the public improvements, that felt like an appropriate value to set. So it absolutely was per the discretion that city attorney had mentioned to say this this is a a two-party conversation about what's a fair value to the city to propose. And I said, "Well, that makes sense to me. Within that realm, I can do a couple of really neat things here." Of course, at some point, the sky's is the limit to say, "What what could we could we do with this?" But at some point, the opportunity doesn't really match up between um the I guess the the a fair value that was negotiated and and the basket of improvements that can be exchanged for that. And as far as the the the list of of items, he had broken out the cost of each one of those things and then we had put in the cost of the skate park solar lights to come up with that list that matched with that value he spoke of of the parcel.

Great. Thank you. Any other questions for the applicant? Yes. Well, it's more of a comment. Mr. Mayor, please go ahead. Okay. So, I guess value is an interesting word, isn't it? because what's the value to the council to get this done and enhance our park system and second I think we're in a great position right now to help heritage health which is a huge asset in our community. So I think that um Chris heard you say win-win a couple of times and I think that I can't think of a more appropriate way to say that and how lucky we are to have this in front of us right now and I support it completely.

Okay, any other questions? Yes, please. I'll just comment that um it it says improvements and things of equal value and it's at least equal value. My personal opinion is we're coming out ahead in the deal. So, any other questions for the applicant? Okay. Well, I'm going to close the public hearing and before I ask for council action, I did tell Mr. Sheckler that I would read his uh comments since they are directed to me. So we'll all in the room know what we're referring to with these comments being the words of uh Daniel Sheckler. Uh Monty, did you have anything to add before I uh read this? No, I don't. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Uh apologize for not attending the council meeting of March 3rd as I he's going to be preoccupied. As a council member and steward of public access, I respectfully request that council reconsider the exchange of the halfacre parcel of land at 3700 West Soustis without first obtaining an independent appraisal. Item one, the proposed valuation method using inflationadjusted acquisition cost is not a reliable indicator of fair market value. Um, and he states his reasons here. Number two, although the parcel is limited standalone marketability, its true value is realized when assembled with the adjoining 10.06 acre parcel. Item three, the valuations tax valuations suggest a higher value. Item number four, it is unwise to bypass the regular bidding process because we are not exchanging for unique real estate, but instead for funible improvements to real estate that could simply be purchased with cash. Number five, disposal of the parcel is not urgent. And number six, I appreciate all Parkwood does for our community. Um, now he's not here to make any motion. If anyone has any questions specifically on any of his items, I'd be happy to read the details. They are available in our packet. If you have a concern, but like I said, he's not here to make any motion or take any action on this. So otherwise, I will be looking for council action.

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the exchange of halfacre parcel owned by the city, which is portion of tax number 24207 and located behind 3700 West Southeast Way and along the future Atlas Trail Connection for improvements to city-owned real estate to be completed and paid for by Glacier 3700 Southeast Way LLC. The parcel improvements being of equal value, specifically $85,000. Second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Well, Mr. Mayor, if I may Yes, Christie.

Um, we've kind of discussed this the last time at the last meeting and we talked about what Kenny said, what's what's the value to us and a lot of what we do is a value judgment and I absolutely can understand the reasoning behind an appraisal and I'd like to see staff consider that in the future for these kind of projects. It's just cleaner for us if we have an actual appraisal. But I really like this project. I I think it adds value, great value to the community, and I feel that we wouldn't do it on our own. And so I think it's a fair trade and and I'm in favor. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. English, yes. Wood, yes. Evans, yes. Gabriel,

yes. Motion carries. Sub item B is resolution number 26023 which is approving a development agreement with Glacier 3700 Seltis LLC for improvements to city-owned real property in the amount of $85,000. Council Mr. Mayor I would like to make a motion to adopt resolution number 26 J 023 approving a development agreement with Glacier 37 Sautis Way LLC for improvements to city-owned real property in the amount of $85,000. Second motion and a second. Any discussion on this motion? Very good. Roll call, please. Wood, yes. Evans, yes. Gabriel, yes. English, yes.

Motion carried unanimously. Now we move on to item K. Adjournment. Mr. Mayor, I'd make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you everyone. [music]

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