City Council - Regular Meeting

Next, we have item D, which is amendments to the agenda. Does any council member have amendments to the agenda? Seeing none, we'll move on to item E, which is presentations. I'm going to start with our preservation month, historic preservation month, or it's just preservation month. May 2026, we have a proclamation. Whereas historic preservation is an essential tool for managing growth and sustainable development, reali realizing neighborhoods, positively impacting the local economy, fostering local pride, and maintaining community character while enhancing livability. And whereas historic preservation is relevant for communities across the nation, both urban and rural, and for Americans of all ages, all walks of life, and all ethnic backgrounds. And whereas it's important to celebrate the role of history in our lives and the contributions made by dedicated individuals in helping to preserve the tangible aspects of the heritage that has shaped us as a people including the original inhabitants and protectors of Cordelane, the Cordelane tribe. And whereas Cordelane's historic preservation commission is partnering with the Museum of North Idaho and the Cordelane Press to do a historic preservation outreach and education throughout the month of May. Now therefore, I, Daniel K. Gukan, mayor of the city of Celane, Idaho, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2026 as preservation month in Celane, Idaho, and ask the people to join their fellow citizens across the United States in recognizing and participating in this special observance through a variety of historic preservation activities. And to accept this is Hillary Patterson, our community planning planning director, and Walter Burns, chairman of our historic preservation committee [snorts]

for the camera. I didn't realize we were doing, [laughter] there you are. All right. Thank you.

Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of council. Uh this year we will be continuing our tradition of celebrating preservation month with a public reception, awards, city tours, and community outreach. Um we'll be at at the May 22nd reception, which will be held at the Museum of North Idaho, will present our annual Heart of History Award to the Roosevelt School recognizing the outstanding community effort that helped save this important piece of history from the wrecking ball. We'll also be hosting a table at the chambers America 250 event in May 14th and have informationational services available at city hall and chamber of visitors center throughout the month. The Idaho State Historic Preservation Office has chosen Cordel Lane for its annual statewide camp training program. Also on May 22nd, the training conducted by the National Association of Preservation Commissions will be held all day here at the library and will be followed by city tours and the group's attendance at the preservation month reception that evening. We have another big event coming up and I'll jump ahead a little bit. Um, our commission will be co-hosting with the Coutney his count historic preservation commission on July 3rd. Um, we'll be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and at the same time the 100th anniversary of our landmark county courthouse. Uh this will be a truly once in a century event as we'll be opening a 100-year-old time capsule that was placed in the courthouse's cornerstone as it at its dedication in 1926 and then placing a new time capsule to be opened a century from now. The event will also include remarks from Mayor Gan and others, patriotic music by a barberh shop quartet in the music conservatory of Celane,

plus a variety of family activities and an ice cream social. It's going to be a lot of fun. Beyond these events, we've been busy as always with other initiatives, including the completion of the downtown survey partially funded by the state historic preservation office, piloted historic program, recognizing of a historic sign program, pardon me, recognizing key historic buildings downtown, and exploring the creation of a local historic roster and local historic districts, which will tell the story of Cord Lane's rich history much more fully than the National Register of Historic. workplaces and will hopefully include a self-guided walking tour. That's all I have. We'd like to thank you all for your continued support and unwavering your continued and unwavering support of historic preservation in Cordelane. Thank you so much.

Thank you. No questions. Okay, we're going to move on to our second presentation item E2 which is from which is the Tubs Hill Foundation update and it says that Annette is doing the presentation but you don't look like Annette [laughter] but please introduce yourselves. Thank you. escape. There we go. Well, good evening. I'm David Taylor, the past president of the Tubs Hill Foundation along with Dave Yaden, who's kind of our trails coordinator um for several years now. And what we're going to do is speak to a little bit of the annual report that came out. You all should have received a copy of that. Um it comes out every year. Um gives an overview what we accomplished. And I'd like to thank the mayor for this opportunity to do the presentation. Um we have a great relationship with the city of Celane in particular parks department who provides both support leadership and also fully cooperation in terms of any kind of projects that are appropriate. I'd also like to thank Christy Woods for being our liaison for a number of years. Um she did a great job in linking us up with departments at the city, the police department, the fire department because it was valuable to have an opportunity to interact with them. [snorts] So this is our current board. Um Annette is our new president. Uh Jessica is our vice president. um they took office in December. So they'll be kind of running the operations um in from this point forward. Um we meet on a monthly basis. It's open to the public. We meet here in the library in a room upstairs in the southeast corner of the building. U it's very much open to the public and any

interaction, any information they would like to provide on Tubs Hill, we'd welcome it. So this is our mission statement. Uh it's pretty much unchanged um from our beginning. We act as an advocate for the park. Um and we advise and work with the city administration on issues pertaining to the park and we coordinate u volunteer efforts and we do some fundraising and community relations through a whole series of things that we do um with various entities within the city. Um, the other thing I would say is we discovered um, when kind of looking through and stuff, this was our 40th year anniversary of being created. So, we've been around for 40 years. Um, and I think you all were provided a book that Scott Reed had written about the history of Tubs Hill and how various organizations over time put together the efforts that managed to survive survive or save the 165 acres up there for the public use. Um it's it was a very interesting process that um went through. Now I kind of talk about the report and some of the things going on in the hill. Um there's a graph inside the report that deals with the amount of usage on the East Tubs Hill interest entrance. This is the graph from the main entrance on Third Street. And as you can see, we're talking about big numbers of people using Tubs Hill. I think when we first the parks department put out the trail counters, we had no sense of how many people were up on Tubs Hill and it's literally in the hundreds of thousands of people using Tubs Hill every year and that has consequences. Um the East Tubs Hill is the main entrance. Um and that's where the largest bulk of the people and also mostly the visitors, more of the locals probably are using East Tubsill Park. Um if you ever go up on Tubs Hill, you may see some of us in this green vest. Um, we're up there to try to answer

questions that people may have. Also, um, to educate people about Tubs Hill and I guess I would describe it as encourage people to follow the rules. Um, because, um, there are some issues we're having because of these large numbers of people on the hill every year. Um, those three primary issues and then, well, actually there's probably four. Um, is bicycles being up on Tubs Hill. It's not a heavy amount of bicycles on Tubsil, but they are up on Tubsill and that's not an allowed use. Um the trails weren't designed for bicycles and they're basically pedestrian trails. Um dogs, both dogs off leash and then dog waste. Um and dog waste can have serious ramifications because as everybody knows, everything goes downhill and that could eventually get into the lake and add phosphorus and artificial chemicals into the lake. And then litter um is probably the other area that comes as a problem with um that many people. Um, and I would say from my perspective, walking fairly often on Tubsil, I'm actually quite amazed we don't have more litter than we do. Um, and we'll talk about some of the efforts we do, but I think large part of that is there are community members that um on their own on a daily basis go up on Tubs Hill and pick up litter. Without that effort by the community, I'm not sure it would look like it is. Um, so it's a real benefit we have of our community participation in keeping the hill clean. Um, probably the biggest event last year was the fuel mitigation project um that the parks department had a grant through the county um to go up and remove some of the fuel load up on the the hill itself. We supported that as an organization both philosophically and financially. We were part of the matching funds that the city had to

provide to get the grant. Um, and there were basically this year 58.5 acres. We had volunteers up on the hill while that was ongoing to explain to people what was going on and direct them to going around um the area. From my perspective, and I think a lot of other people, when he first saw the area after they were done, it looked quite stark. It was a little bit um overbearing in some sense. Um I think u if you were to go up there now, it looks far different. a lot of vegetation's come back. The slash piles have all been burned, so they're no longer kind of protruding into the area. So, I think it's actually looking quite good um from that standpoint and only in six months recovery essentially. So, it'll get better even as it goes on. Um there was tree planting that went on this spring, which is a really good thing. Um and it was done professionally, which we supported because we wanted to make sure they have a chance of surviving. We really try to get participation and education um through using Tubs Hill um as a laboratory so to speak. Uh we work closely with the school district. Uh Lake City High School has a field day. Um we've also participate um in their Earth Day at Lake City High School. Um we participate in the K KA water festival which brings fifth graders down onto the the hill. Um, we also, um, museum sponsored spring break camps for kids and we worked with them, took them up on the hill. Um, and then we worked with the Celane Library on library walks. Every year there's about a half dozen of those where we go up on a hill for various topics. Um, like I mentioned, litter is always a big issue. Um, we sponsor and work with the city on three different occasions. Earth Day, we had a cleanup. The biggest

clean up of the year will be on the 5th of July because on the 4th of July there's a lot of people up on the hill and it's always remarkable what we find up on the hill. What's left behind, you know, can't either they've drank too much or something. We'll typically find coolers of beverage and food that had been left up on the hill. Um we found fireworks up on the hill. Um, so that's the biggest one of the year and then in September we'll sponsor one usually beginning on East Tubs Hill Park for kind of more local flavor and to hit that side of the hill. Um, they will find some interesting stuff particularly on the beaches. Again, as I mentioned, um, one of the big benefits of the keeping the litter down has been the pickup by local volunteers, including the picking up of dog poop that's left behind. We have one person that was on our board. We gave her a thousand bags about every two years that she used to pick up dog poop that was left behind. And there's also people that are bagging their poop up and but leave the bags behind, which I've never quite understood. But um that's for a psychologist to work on at some point. Um at this point, I'd like to turn it over to Dave, who's going to talk about one of our big volunteer efforts, which is the trail work. Because of the volume of visitors, our trails are are suffering to some respect. Um and so we put a lot of effort working with the parks department on trail work. So [snorts]

well thank you. Um, when we first put this uh, program together, I thought that maybe David could do the whole thing, and I think you probably could, but Annette, for some reason, wanted me to come and give you some updates as well. But it's a bit of a deja vu here speaking in front of you. Not talking about land use and and height v he height regulations and and annexations and things of that nature. But I I can say that Tubs Hill through the planning aspect 1979 when we were asked to [clears throat] develop the first plan for Tubs Hill and worked a lot with Art Manley and discussing different things about the hill and I developed worked on a plan for it and Art was quite mad at me because I put together a list of scenarios non-development da da da da da da and he was furious with me for the fact that you know it's it's got to be preserved the way it is. Well, we need to have the public statement. this is a public document and we have to go through the process and we get became good friends and everything. But early on and before the Tubs Hill Foundation developed, it was a committee in the city that was in Tubs Hill and Art would be leading trail work up on the hill and over the years that trail work didn't continue as such. Doug Eastwood did a fabulous job in doing some improvements to the hill and different things. But approximately seven years ago, our board started taking a hard look. We didn't know how many people were on the hill, but we knew things were looking a little sad. And we went out on the hill and looked at things of how people interact with

the hill, how they get lost, where they're going when they're lost. And we do worked with the city to put up signs, directional signs. And then we started looking hard at what was happening to the trails. And through my involvement with other programs in Washington state parks where I do trail work on our cross country trails as well as some other places had trail experts and we started looking at how do we make those trails sustainable. So we decided we'd reamp up work with the city to do trail work and we enlisted volunteers and some six years ago and we're into the seventh year here we started working on that and in 2020 we have a chart here that talks about what we've done in the total volunteers the hours and the dollar value of what those volunteer hours give to the city back to the city because Tubs Hill is important to the city and it shows from the interest that we have from volunteers for this many years and you can see it's a big number 500 plus folks have volunteered in those six years 2841 hours of volunteer time and there's a independent sector for gives a value based on per state and taking those hours it's $78,415 and I know the past park directors have been very very happy that we're able to do that because over those years Tubs Hill was our first natural area. We've developed other natural areas which

people love. We developed a number of parks and the parks department is needless to say and you know it trying to fit the budget to take care of all that plus take care of Kenny's old department and get the fires and things of that nature. So we're we're proud and the volunteers are really happy to come back. You the smiles from 10 year olds to 87 year olds are out there working. Many are repeats for all of those years. And the map that's on this screen here shows some of the areas that we've worked on. We've rerooed trails and we've made them sustainable. So, I'm going to cut it short because I know the council likes to go on till 1 in the morning on things here, but I'd invite you if you want to come out. We have a work party on Friday. We have 17 volunteers, I think, so far. Shane's bringing lots of stuff, but you too could have one of these shirts if you come out and volunteer and work with us. And we'd love to have you. And Dave and I answer any questions you might have.

Are there any questions for Dave or Dave? Yes. Christie,

a comment, Mr. Mayor, if I may. Uh, we're so fortunate to have you and your board all these years focus on Tubs Hill. And if you would indulge me, Mr. Mayor. We always ask the little kids to come up and get on camera so their grandparents can see them, but I want the rest of the board to come up so your grandkids can see you and how much work you've done for this community. Come on, Annette. [laughter] Get on camera. All of you taking a picture. These are the people that day in and day out work on behalf of all of us keeping that gem in the shape it's in. And they haven't just done it for one year. Most of these people have done decades dedicated to the city and the hill. I just can't The council can't thank you enough and your heroes. Thank you. [applause]

Thank you. Anyone else want to order them around? [laughter] Thank you Dave and Dave and Annette and all of you who uh help make this just a awesome park. I mean, we got the lake, we got the hill. We have a lot of great things we're blessed with here. So, thank you again. We're going to move on to public comment. I have one person signed up, Max. Dan Sheckler, how's it going? Good. Dan Gan, Randy Adams, Troy Tyson's not here. I submitted an application to the city uh to construct a building. You guys have all heard about it. Um, Randy Adams, our current city attorney that represents you guys in the city, states that the building, as long as I can uh satisfy my neighbors, then they would be inclined to allow me to continue with my construction. Sounds like coercion. Sounds like blackmail. Because Troy Thyson admitted that the city made mistakes. Hillary Patterson, this fine lady here, said, "You're never getting your staircase." Randy Adams stated that I have to tone my behavior down. When you spend tens of thousands of dollars trying to construct a building, submit the application, go through the process, have four separate inspections along the way, have Randy stated that in addition, the wrap on the garage was never covered and the siding was installed without a final inspection. What's interesting about that is that your inspector that is now retired, uh,

stated that he never received any pictures, then called me from the same phone number to which I sent him pictures and goes, "Oh, I did see these. It was inspected." So, my confusion here just comes down to what's happening. What's going on? Does the city administrative office not coordinate with city council? Does the city not the city attorney who represents the city not know what's going on? Is the administrative staff told not to approve or or do anything by legal? In fact, under title 39 of the building code, it states that legal cannot intrude into an administrative uh administrative review process. Yet, Randy did. and then states, "Well, that was before your client had to get a survey or presented a survey to the administrative staff." And it's hard for him to hear this. It's really tough. Randy also says that I have cameras at my home, yet also admits that he's never been to my home, but only takes the statements from the Bells. The Bells, who have attempted to get three separate protection orders that have been denied via exparte to the late Caldwell, was one of the judges, so God rest his soul. He seems like a reasonable man. I don't know. I I'm at a loss. I've done everything with the city. I've attempted to do everything by by the process and I continue to get this push back, this delay, this push back, this delay. I mean, Hillary literally said, "You're not getting your staircase. Put it on the inside like we told you." What's interesting about this is there's no survey requirement for the city. So what happens is the standard operating procedure is you have an inspector that comes out, looks at the property lines or what he can assume is the property lines and says go ahead and construct. And then the city staff says well that's wrong after it's been constructed. They said that I provided him insufficient and incomplete plans yet approved the permit. It's a joke. It's a joke. And shame on you, Randy. Come to the building. Look at the cameras yourself.

Thank you, Max. Have no one else signed up for public comment. Does anyone else want to make public comment? Thank you. We will move on to uh council announcements. G1. Anyone on council have an announcement? Christie, I can I can wait my turn. Okay,

go ahead. Um well I I just want to acknowledge that um 11 years ago today on May 5th um my friend and co-orker Sergeant Greg Moore with Cordelane City Police was shot and killed in the line of duty. It was incredibly difficult for the police department. It's something you never get over and unfortunately our fire department is experiencing the same kind of pain now. This morning, uh, the mayor and, uh, Councilman English and I attended the, um, memorial at the cemetery with the lane of the wreath, and then we attended the memorial at his memorial in Mchuan Park. And I just want to thank the police honor guard for um, every year acknowledging the loss and uh, knowing that the community will know that we will never forget. We will always remember Greg. And it was uh very difficult but it has to be done. Every year we remember. Thank you.

Thank you Christie. Anyone else have an announcement? I have nothing. And so we'll move on to the consent calendar item H. Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented. Including is there a resolution? No resolution today. Okay. Motion. Motion and a second. Any discussion on the consent calendar? Roll call, please. English, yes. Wood, yes. Evans, yes. Miller, hi. Gabriel, yes. Shackler, yes.

The motion carries. We're on to other business. And item I1 is resolution number 26033, which is approval of the transfer of a lease agreement from Concourse LLC to Inland Northwest Land Conservancy for a 5-year term for the course concourse. uh staff report by Adam Rouse, our interim parks and wreck [clears throat] director and Shane O'Shea, the trails coordinator. Gentlemen,

yes, thank you and council. Um I'm actually just going to kind of use the opportunity to introduce Mr. O'Shea here. So he was uh uh full-time with us in a lead worker capacity and has within the last few months taken the trail coordinator role over for Monty McCaulay. Uh and he's he's our resident expert, we'll say, on this. So, he's going to give you some more information as far as what we're looking at with this agreement and the transferring of it. So,

thank you, sir. Mr. Mayor, council members, uh, this uh, sale that we're hoping to push through, the parks department backs this 100%. The city ownership that the parks department has up there is roughly 23 acres off of East Mountain uh, Vista Access. And if Cancor LLC sells to the Inland Northwest Land Conservancy, that would inline our mission and objectives for the natural spaces and thus bring in a total of 134 acres adjacent to our 23 that meet the objectives, like I said, for forest health and for recreation in perpetuity because they would put that into a conservation easement. And then that borders Forest Service and we would have constituents being able to access all of Canfield. So

any questions? I love a brief staff report. We like them, too. Are there any questions? Just a comment, Mr. Mayor. I said this at uh Park and Wreck and I'll say it again that Jason Evans is an incredible human being and what a gift to the public. So, I don't know if you talk with him a lot, but if you could just express that this is an incredible gift. We will share that with Mr. Evans. Any other questions? All right. Looking for a motion.

Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve resolution number 26-033 approving the transfer of the lease agreement from Cancor LLC to Inland Northwest Land Conservancy for a five-year term for the Cancor. Second motion in a second. Any discussion on the motion? Roll call, please. Wood, yes. Evans, yes. Miller, I. Gabriel, yes. Sheckler, yes. English, yes.

And the motion carries. Moving on to item I2 which is resolution 26034 approval of a memorandum of understanding with Cordelane Little League to reserve property at the Canfield Sports Complex located at 5370 North 15th Street for the construction of an indoor baseball facility. staff report by Adam Rouse, our interim parks [clears throat] and recck director, and David Everson, who is the Everson Powell architecture and design. And this sounds really cool, Adam.

Yes. So, um just just for some context, and I see uh back here, so she knows about this type of an agreement uh very similar to what we uh what y'all approved with, uh special needs recreation. So, uh, an agreement to reserve a a small piece of land out there at Canfield Sports Complex, which David will, uh, will show you on a on a slideshow here, um, for basically this is just giving them some peace of mind to be able to start a capital campaign, same as that special needs one, to raise some money to build this facility, um, which is going to be a a multi- multi-use for them, for us, uh, in the offse, potentially some more partnership with Little League to do some camps and things like that, But I'll turn it over to David and and let him share his

um before I get into the PowerPoint, I just wanted to uh introduce myself to you guys. Um my name is David Iverson. Um here's a board member, a coach, uh former player of Cordelane Little League and Celane Park and Recreation baseball and also as the project architect for what we think is a very exciting potential project for our youth in this community. Um I was very fortunate to grow up here in Celane. Um play youth sports all the way through, you know, little league thumpers and Celane park and wreck through high school baseball at Lake City High School. Uh if you look behind me, you'll see uh a number of our little leaguers uh here with me today, including a few of my own children. Um my children uh represent the fourth generation of Eversons to play in these parks and on some of the same ball fields that their great-grandparents played on as far back as the late 1920s and early 1930s. My great-grandfather or sorry, my grandfather Ken Iverson graduated from Cordelane High School in 1939. After returning uh to Cordelane after World War II, uh he started his own family here and shortly after became uh president of of the Brian Elementary PTA. Early in the 1950s, uh it was when uh the PTA entered a joint partnership agreement with the city of Celane, acquired about a 2acre parcel on the corner of Harrison and 10th Street for the purpose of constructing a youth baseball field, outdoor basketball courts, a playground, and public restrooms. We still know this park as Brian Playfield today. Cordelane Little League has been serving our community of baseball players for generations now. It was originally the Coupney League in the 1960s and 70s until becoming the Dalton League in the 1980s which a lot of us from my generation played in and then

adopting its current charter in 1995 as Cordelane Little League today. Uh similar to park and recreation baseball leagues uh but very different than select or travel ball teams. Cordelane Little League doesn't turn any kids away. Uh all who sign up are eligible to play. We do have player evaluations uh for our older kids programs, but those are strictly to place them in the appropriate appropriate league or team for their skill level. Uh we don't cut any kids from our program. They all play baseball. As we've seen over an evolving landscape of youth sports where excl ex exclusivity becomes the norm, Cordelane Little League and Little League International will never change this core principle to give every kid a team to play on. The city of Cordelane has been a great partner uh to Cordelane baseball for many generations now. In the early 2000s, the city and CDA Little League acquired and built our incredible Canfield Sports Complex that we jointly use for both of our baseball programs today. This complex is now service is now been in service for more than 20 years and is in use every day and every night of the week in the spring and summer by either one or both of our baseball programs. Uh, our long list of volunteer board members, coaches, parents, and grandparents put countless hours into field preparation, game scheduling, uniforms, sponsorship, and rooting on our youngsters. But we could not run this league without the city fields that we play on or the park and wreck department. We're truly grateful for the city of Cordelane and for its continued partnership. Uh, one of the wonderful things about Celane and North Idaho in general is our four seasons. Unfortunately, uh for those of us who love baseball, fall, winter, and early spring, uh make

it very difficult with the weather, uh early early evenings or short days to do any baseball activities whatsoever with our kids. Uh for most of our lives, this has been the accepted norm uh for baseball in this area. But in the last 15 to 20 years, this has started to change. Um, both of our high schools now have indoor hitting facilities with batting cages, pitching mounds, and fielding turf to keep their baseball and softball teams in shape year round. And a lot of the younger travel ball teams uh, who charge a significant amount of money rent facilities or drive to Spokane uh, to practice at indoor facilities when the ground is too wet or snow covered for practice outside. We want to bring this opportunity to our Cordelane Little Leaguers and this new indoor baseball facility would give us that opportunity to do that. Uh we're proposing this building at the current uh Campfield Sports Complex and I'll go through that in a minute with you to show you the site plan for that. Uh to provide those interior batting cages, a fielding area, bullpens, and uh for pitching and a muchneeded public restroom to be accessed from the outside of the building by the public. Uh this would allow us to remove the portaotties that are currently on site and have some permanent restrooms uh that would be very centrally located to the entire park. Uh as an architect, I've done countless projects of all types, sizes, and scopes. Uh this is a special one for me. Uh it's a reward for me to volunteer my time for a project like this that is truly devoted to serving kids in this community. We have a long history of sports and recreation in Celane, and it's now our generation's turn to continue that legacy. Uh, every time I drive down Harrison Avenue, I cannot help but think of how many tens of thousands of kids have played a baseball game or shot a basketball hoop at Brian Playfield since my grandfather helped to build that over

70 years ago. Organizations uh such as CDA Little League and City of Cordelane Parks and Rec should be very proud of the efforts and investments we've made for the city's youth and sports programs. As I look back at my baseball and sports experiences, and then look forward to the kids that will run on our fields, hit on our cages, slide into our bases, it gives me a lot of hope and optimism that we will do as much good for our children as our parents and grandparents did for us. Thank you for the opportunity to present this exciting project to you. If the council uh has questions and comments, I'll get to those after the slideshow. But I also wanted to introduce our Celine Little League president. Um have her come up and introduce herself to you guys.

The proper jacket. With the proper jacket, I mean along.

Hi. Uh my name is Lauren Iverson and I am our Coraline Little League president. Um, I've volunteered with this organization. First, I'm a baseball mom, but I've been with this organization in some capacity for the past 10 years. Uh, my husband, our three boys um have all and along along with several other cousins in the community um have had a chance to play at Canfield and experience Cordelane Little League. Uh we currently have our two in the league. Um we've got we also have some of our other divisions here if you guys want to come over here. Hunter Cooper case. Uh we've got uh we had a record-breaking year of registration this year with all the growth coming into Cordelane. Uh we had uh over 475 kids register this year and placing that and working with uh our recck department has been amazing this year. Um being able to accommodate all these kids to be able to play. Canfield of Dreams would be an amazing addition to Canfield Sports Complex, providing our league, the opportunity to utilize it for clinics, camps, practices, uh a great resolution to our constant battle with uh snow and sleet and rain. And as much as we all love portaotties, this baseball mom is so excited for a permanent restroom opportunity along with our other baseball moms in the audience here. Um, and we know with the community support and amazing families um, coming together to kick off this campaign, we uh, respectfully ask the council to support this endeavor. Um, we have big dreams for the future of baseball and Celane as you've you've heard the history and we hope the council will support our dream to make Canfield of Dreams a reality.

Uh so future of Campfield Sports Complex, a collaboration between the city of Celane uh and Celane Little League to share the love of baseball for years to come. Uh this is a re year year-round opportunity for events, clinics and uh our youth to um practice baseball and participate in athletics year round. Uh the site plan in front of you. Um if you're not familiar with our complex, Cord or Canfield Middle School sits right up about in here. The the page is oriented. So the top of the page is due north. Uh 15th Street would be running right out in this area. And then there's a long parking lot that runs and serves the park and uh serves the uh the middle school ball fields um that are accessed off 15th Street. We have four fields, four little league fields um in this park. So this is what we call field one right here. Field two is right over here, field three, and then field four falls in down here. So, we're proposing the location of this building would be over an existing section of the parking lot that's sort of furthest away from everything and is central uh to where the existing soccer fields are up here to the north and where our field one uh field is here to the east. The public restrooms that we're uh suggesting would be right here accessing the public walkway and centrally located. So, it really actually served both the soccer fields and the baseball fields uh at the same time. [snorts] Uh the structure itself, uh what we'd propose would be a pole building type structure, so a metal building. Um we'd use a in in the past a lot of these buildings are wood posts that are just embedded in the ground. Now, we use a a concrete perma column to make a much more permanent structure, longerlasting, and it's much less susceptible to

movement with the ground freeze and thaw that we have here in Idaho. The restrooms are shown right here, which so this would be the northeast corner of the building. Uh we'd have rollup doors for equipment and vehicles to access or move things in and out. And then our accessible entry, front entryway would face field one, so face the east side. um of the BU or on the east side of the building. Just walk you around. This is a a view just slightly different view. Here's the restrooms again, the rollup door and then our front entry door. And then this would be the south view. So uh this this would access the parking lot that's there now with a uh with a rollup door um on the south side. And [clears throat] with that, I would certainly open it up to any comments or questions that you might have for us.

Any questions for David Kenny? Comment. Yes. As a past board member and a coach of some of the Eversons back in the day and a 30-year coach at Celane, this is a great thing because we've done that pilgrimage so many times to Spokane and even down to Lewon to try to find facilities to play and I'm all in on this. So, great job bringing it forward. Thank you. Thank you. Excellent, Kiki. So, I have two questions. So, if Ken is your grandfather, then Barb is your grandmother and Courtney is your mom. Barbara is my mother. Okay. Yeah, Gary's my dad.

Okay. I went Ken Gary. So, I was I was thinking, oh my gosh, did I miss a whole generation? But I think I think I'm on track. So, good. Got to clear that up. Um the parking and the main entrance. Um you had a map there that showed that. I guess my question is are are you planning ahead for what could happen with this complex bringing more people in for congestion either going into 15th Street and or uh it looks like it kind of goes out onto Dton right there onto Dalton and exits that way. Which one is the primary? The primary is from 15th Street which is way over here to the to the west. Uh this is the [clears throat] can't remember what the street name is. It's a residential road. What is it? Homemstead.

Homestead. Homestead.

Uh to the east. And that that really is not the primary entrance because it it's really a residential road there for that. I say it's a new housing complex, but it's been there for probably 20 years now. Um so, and we did talk about that with Adam. We don't we really don't have any concerns about, you know, creating parking issues cuz that section of our parking lot is not used a lot and we don't anticipate, you know, having mult having baseball games going on while this facilities necessarily in use uh since it would primarily be used for practices in say the offseason or at times when the fields aren't being played on. So, I don't I don't really think we have a concern about that and I didn't I don't think the city does for their use of it either.

Okay. Thank you. That's all I had. Anything else? Dan English. Sure. Well, just say this is terrific and uh I remember as a kid attempting to play a little league several times, you know, and if it wasn't for that hitting and throwing and running part, I would have been great. I I remember my uncle George English one time saying, "Well, did you play today?" And I said, "Yeah, but we won anyway." So, [laughter] you guys go. So, this is great.

Christie, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to let council know that uh this was reviewed by Park and Wreck and it was unanimous decision to bring it forward to council with a due pass recommendation. But also, can we know the names of the little guys so their grandparents can see them? You guys come up and introduce yourselves. Come up. Do the microphone though. Oh, they don't have to if they don't want to. See a hat down there. We just I just want them to be on TV. Say your name. Uh, hello. My name is Hunter. Hi. Your name or your age? I am 11 years old. Hello, my name is Brendan and I'm 7 years old.

Hi, [clears throat] my name is Case and I'm 12 years old. My name is Cooper and I'm 11 years old. Wonderful. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? We look for a motion then. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution number 26-034 approving a memorandum of understanding with Cordelane Little League to reserve property at Campfield Sports Complex located at 5370 North 15th Street for the construction of an indoor baseball facility. Second motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Roll call, please. Evans, yes. Miller, I. Gabriel, yes. Sheckler, yes. English, yes. Wood,

yes.

The motion is carried. Congratulations. Look forward to that facility. We move on to item I3, which is resolution number 26035, approval of a contract with PO Asphalt Paving Incorporated for the 2026 Chips Seal project in the amount not to exceed 883,288. Here up since 5 a.m. is Todd Fuser, our streets and engineering director. Uh, just second. So, good evening, Mayor Gan and council members. I'm excited to come forward with our 20 26 chip seal project. Uh, looking to uh for the approval to award the contract to PO asphalt and paving. Um, we try to do this annually as you know. Um, we sometimes will switch on and off from paving or chip seal uh to do more of either one. uh volume dictates the price. So the more we can do of chip seal, we get a better price. The same goes for paving. So some years if we have a bigger goal to do chip seal, we will just do chip seal in that season. Uh that is what we have in front of us this year. Um so the dollars have shrunk just a little bit. Um we're trying to be creative. Um we have several streets that we're going to do that are long overdue. They're to the point in their uh lifespan to where if we don't do something soon, we will have to do a full replacement. So that's what we look for. Um so you're familiar with this as they come into town. Chip seal is not a clean process, but it is quick. Uh you know, you're normally going to experience a day or two of really extreme discomfort and then it goes away. Then they come back and they will u fog seal it and turn it black.

Um so uh we have several areas. Um this one here that's up first is uh Sherman Avenue. I think my slides went backwards. Anyway, uh Sherman Avenue to Ashton Drive. Uh this section of road we did a chip seal about four years ago. Uh we are looking to make some changes. The old paint lines are bleeding through. it's making it very hard to tell where you're supposed to be. So, we are going to redo this portion of the road. Uh for this portion of the road, um I had asked in the 2026 budget to uh reserve some funds uh back when the city of Corlane took over this section of road. ITD had given us funds for maintenance. Uh I need to come before you to ask to utilize those. So, I had put in our budget this year $30,000 knowing that we were going to do this. So, uh that money is going to be used to do this section of road.

Hey Todd, real quick while you're on this um Cordelane Lake Drive. We did receive funds for that. Troy's not here. It'll be very difficult for Ron to answer. Go back in time, but wasn't it quite a bit of money for

Quite um we Yes, I believe. And I from if my memory serves me correct, it was approximately $600,000 that we set aside for maintenance for this section of the road. So I've came to you once before. We need to upgrade some push buttons and things on the signal. That was part of that deal. And then out to uh Silver Beach is the section that the city of Corlay maintained. So that money is yes sitting there. we just as we need to do some maintenance of the road, I come and ask you for permission to use that money. So, okay. Um that's what I remember of it. Um I've talked to Katie and she says the money is still sitting there and that's what it's meant to be used for.

Okay. Thank you. Y council know this is restricted fund balance. So, this is not what we're going into to balance the budget. This is money that is set aside.

Thank you. Um, another area we're moving to is uh Legacy Place subdivision in H Heartland. Um, if you live up there, you've already seen crews up there prepping for the chip seal. Uh, we will spend, we've probably been doing this prep work for the last 3 to four weeks, and we will continue for the next month and a half. All these areas I'm going to show you, we have to do prep work in front of the project. So, we are currently up in H Heartland, and we are doing crack sealing. Uh we are replacing the asphalt around manholes getting ready for the chip seal project. Uh we will be redo uh we will chip seal the section of honeysuckle that streets and engineering paid la we paved it last year inhouse. Um so now we want to seal that section of road so that we get the maximum lifespan that will be from best avenue all the way up to fourth street and we will put chip on that to get the maximum life out of that section of road. uh Appleway Avenue to Hanley. Um so if you remember a few years ago, we've done a couple projects up there. We paved it and so now it's been 3 years since we did that most of that work. We need to put the chip seal on top again to get the maximum amount of life out of that section of road. Uh we're also going to do a section of Pinerrow Drive from Hanley Avenue to Wilbur. um that road if we don't chip it this year and I was to push it off, we would probably be looking at milling it up and doing a complete reconstruct in the near future. Uh we're also going to do Kathleen Avenue, Ramsey Road to Atlas Road. We paved that last year. Um so we're going to seal that one up and we should be doing uh Kathleen Avenue to Dalton uh St. Michelle. That those were all part of last year's paving project. So, we're going to chip seal those as well.

And then, uh, as a bid alternate this year, we put that in cuz we weren't sure where the numbers were going to land with the rising oil prices. Um, so we put a bid alternate in so we could add it or remove it. There's a section of 15th Street that was tore up uh a year ago for a water project and then Thomas Lane, 15th Street to East Thomas Hill Drive. So, we're going to seal those two roads up as well. Um, we have uh just some general tips for drivers I like to bring up. It's a multi-stage process. You know, please follow traffic control directions. Uh, again, it's quick and it's messy. They move in, they move out just as fast as they got there. So, just be patient, please. If traffic signal is not operation, treat it as a a stop sign. That's [snorts] something a lot of the public doesn't realize. If a stoplight is black, it's still a stop um by law. Um expect loose rocks uh until the final chip. So, we're going to um probably we use a new oil now. So, in years past, we had to let it sit for a couple days and let it bond. Uh the oil that we use is a fast set so they can actually put the chip down on a Monday and sweep it on Tuesday morning. Um so that that helps keep it a little bit cleaner. Um we ask that you reduce your speeds to the construction area construction areas uh and incre definitely increase your following distance unless you want to get a new windshield. um motorcycles and bikes use caution and expect delays before the striping is completed. So, um we're excited for this project. Um

uh staff recommends awarding both the base bid and the alternate for the 2026 chip seal project to pull asphalt and paving for $883,288. um where the numbers have came in. We are looking potentially to come up with a little bit more money which uh hopefully I could come back to you at the next meeting if we think we can add to this project. So, uh but right now that is the number we hope not to pass. So, I would stand for any questions. Are there any questions? Todd,

thank you. Um Todd, is there a place where the general public can see what roads are going to be done based on a certain time uh month? Are they concurrent? Are they running consecutively? So the chip seal project um will be all at once street by street by street. So they're not going to start stop start stop. So it's probably going to for this amount, you know, be a week or two you're going to see chip ceiling. Uh we don't where I'm going with it. Didn't mean to interrupt you, Todd. I guess where I'm going with it is um for uh the newspaper or media. Oh,

like for Ramsey Road, for example, there it it's sometimes bumperto-bumper through up there and then if it's going to be pushed to one lane for a certain period of time if it give people a plan a chance to plan ahead for that.

So, it will be on our website. We will probably put it out in the press. uh the contractor is um on the hook to put advanced notification up before they move into an area. So reader board saying that they're going to be there. Um because of the type of work we're doing, this cannot be night work. You have to have the daytime temperatures to do chip seal. So it's not recommended to do it at night. So we will try and get it out on the Corlane TV uh our city website all before um we start the work. And so we do the best we can to get the message out there. Ramsey Road is the trickiest of all those as we're experiencing right now with other delays. Anytime you shrink it to one lane, it's it's going to be bumperto-bumper traffic. The only thing with the chip seal, it is very quick. So I mean, they're going to be there the next day, it probably won't be like that. [snorts] But yes, we will do the most we can on advertising.

Thank you. Everyone appreciates that. And we don't know a time of year yet. Uh after tonight we will set a meeting with the contractor. They were forecasting uh mid July at this point. Um we like anywhere from mid June to mid August is our kind of our sweet spot to do this type of work. Okay. Any other questions for Todd? Huge project coming up. Okay. Let's see if we can get a motion out of council. Mr. Mayor,

Mr. I'd make a motion to approve resolution number 26-035 approving a contract with POA Asphalt Paving Inc. for the 2026 Chipsfield project in an amount not to exceed $800,883. What did I just say? $883,000288.

Sorry, is that the right number? Second. $883,288. Not to exceed. Yes. Okay. As long as you're okay with that. I don't know why that just got stuck in my tongue and it would not come out. Numbers. And we have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Roll call, please. I. Gabriel, yes. Shackler, yes. English, yes. Wood, yes. Evans, yes. Motion carried. Item J is adjourned. Mr. Mayor, make a motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor I we are adjourned. Thank you everyone.