City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right. Good evening, everyone. It is 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 28th, 2026, and I now call to order the 2,181st regular meeting of the city of College Place City Council. Madame Clerk, will you please take roll call? Yeah. Council member Green, present. Council member Cleveland, present. Council member Stucklight, present. Council member Bole, present. and uh Mayor Hernandez present. Thank you. We have a quorum.

All right. Thank you. Will you all please join me in the pledge of allegiance? All right, it's now time for public comment. Madame clerk, did anyone submit a written comment in advance or request to speak via telephone or virtually? I've received no requests for comment.

Thank you. If anyone in council chambers in person would like to speak on during the public comment time, please raise your hand. Seeing none, we're just going to skip on by to the consent agenda, which consists of tonight's agenda, April 28th, 2026. Approving the council regular meeting minutes from April 14th, 2026. Approving November 2025 financials. Excusing the absence of council member Sherman. Approving Noanet Internet contract. Appointing council member Sherman as mayor prom Jim Fry to planning commission and appoint Jessica Benzel to salary commission. And that's it. All right. Is there anything on the consent agenda any member of the council would like removed at this time? Hearing none. Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Yes, we have a motion to accept the consent agenda. Is there a second? I'll second. Council member Green. Thank you. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. The eyes have it and the motion is passed. And we have, let's see, a few action items. Um, tonight Mr. Holden will present the procurement procurement of professional services for the Davis Whitman pedestrian bicyclist Improvement Project. Mr. Holden, you are up.

All right. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, council members. The procurement of this professional service, we put out an RFQ um earlier this year for this project. We we chose Apex. They have a little bit leg above everybody else. They're currently working on our Rose Street pedestrian light project. So, they they have a good idea of what what we're looking at. So, we're want to continue, excuse me, the pedestrian lights down College Avenue. We're going to go south down Whitman and then head, excuse me, going to go west down Whitman and then go south down Davis all the way to Sixth Street. We'll be installing pedestrian lights all on there. We'll be putting sidewalk in across from the Waw Wall University uh gym aquatic center and adding two additional RFBs, one at Whitman and Davis and one at Fourth and Davis. This will help with the Waw Wall Valley schools, DA, the Davis Elementary and the Wawwa U to provide a safe passage and safe crossing across those busy intersections.

All right. Thank you, Council Member Green. Questions or comments? I don't have any questions. Council member Cleveland. Uh, no questions. Look forward to the project. Council member Stline. No questions. Thank you. And council member Bole. Um I see the grand total amount and things. And this is just for my own reference. Do you know ballpark how much each of those RFBs cost? If not, that's fine. It's totally a

No, they I can have the our API representative that's here tonight. um if he might know, but I think it depends on the situation, depends on what improvements you're doing on a radius at an ADA ramp, depending on where the crossing is. I think on our most current project that we just put one in at large, and 8th Street was roughly right around 15 to 18,000. 15 to 18. Okay. Yeah.

Thank you. Speaking of the one on Larch and ETH, I sure do like seeing it. It really catches the attention as you're driving down Larch to remind you that there's people wanting to go to the park. It really does make a difference. All right. So, if there's no additional discussion, do we have a motion to award? I will motion to award the professional services contract for the Davis Whitman Drive pedestrian and bicyclist bicyclist improvements project to PBS Engineering APEX in the amount of $198,95025 which consists of engineering pedestrian lighting design, curb ramp design, street lighting design, RFP design, cultural resource assessment and public involvement. Also authorize authorized public works director or designate to sign contract documents.

All right, got a motion. Is there a second? A second. Council member Stackline second. Any additional discussion? All right, hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? And any abstensions? I always forget to ask that. All right. The eyes have it and the motion is passed. Thank you so much, Mr. Holden. Well, that was the only action item. That's right. Okay. Then we're going to move on toformational reports. Mr. Rurn, you're going to do your city administrator update.

Thank you, mayor. Good evening, council members. Um yes, you'll recall last week I emailed out to a large distribution list um the city administrator'sformational brief that is now posted on the city website under um the city administrator tab. Um, I'm going to work with um some staff here at city hall to do some videos to upload to social media to directing people to that link so that we can capture more um of our residents and small business community um so we know they know where to go to find it. Um you'll also recall in my city administrator's brief um the community grants we notified all of the recipients. In addition to notifying them, I've done all of the agreements. So all the administrative behind the scenes work is all done. they're notified and um they're already moving forward with their milestones. Um let's see here. Next week I have two speeches before various service clubs, the Walaw Wala Exchange Club and the Walawa Kuanas Club. And then later in the month um I'll be delivering um a breakfast prayer um at the 7th Day Adventist Church. Um and highlighting some various um uh city accomplishments. Yeah. Um, also on Monday, EDTE, which for our new members, um, our new council members stands for economic development, tourism, and events commission. We meet on Monday. That will be our first meeting of the year. Um, they're helping the city with regards to ideas around economic development. So, the pro so you know how the process works. They'll make recommendations, move that through me to you folks for um, consideration. All right. um city at attorney interviews on last Friday. We interviewed um three applicants. There was unanimous consent for one who's currently serving as our interim um city attorney. Um and we're dotting the eyes and crossing the tees with reference checks. And um we're also doing a costbenefit analysis or financial

feasibility just to make sure everything pencils. Last but not least, on Thursday I was notified by the union bulletin reporter Lauren I think is pronounced Kendall um and he is going to do a piece on the city council vacancies. G. Thank you. Yeah. And um so on Thursday there will be a piece in the union bulletin regarding city um council vacancies. Is that not the one that went out today? Oh, you did. Oh, he told me that it would run on Thursday. Oh, look. Yeah. You you guys beat me to it. God tomorrow. Okay. Well, maybe he changed his or she changed her mind.

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I got a couple. No. And that's all I have. Mayor. All right. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Rurn? Council member Green. Nope. I have none. Keep up the good work. Council member Cleveland. No questions. Council member Stline. Um I was just wondering, I know you mentioned um going in front of two service organizations. You said the exchange club. What was the other one? The Waw Wall Kuanas Club. Oh, the Kuanas Club. Okay. Um later in the month, I um also um 7th Day Adventist Church for the prayer breakfast and give an overview of what's taking place at the city.

Okay. I was just um wondering if you would be interested in the College Place Lions is a service club in College Place that you could possibly um reach out to as well. Okay, contact you. Yeah, that'd be great. And Council Member Bole, more questions. Thank you. I love that you're doing this. I love that it's on the website. you can point people there. It's great. Yes. But um he also sent it out um your your city administrator update. You sent it out to certain contacts. Is that correct?

Large distribution list of all the different service clubs, all the small as many small businesses in downtown college place that I could get their email addresses for. some of our residents that have probably contacted you folks with regards to, you know, hey, I'd like to know what's going on in the public works department or I'd like to know what's going on in community development department so that distribution list will grow. That's great. Thank you. Yeah, it's great. It is really turn this on.

Oh, see we have no one's sitting next to you telling you to press the button that keeping you in check. All right. So, there's two other reports in your packet which includes the police department monthly report and the community development monthly report. So, if you have not had a chance to look at them, please do. And if you have questions, please direct your questions to the department heads there. Um, dang, I feel bad. All the work that went into starting this meeting and we're already done. We could hang out another hour or two if you wanted. Right. Sing. Sing happy birthday.

All right. So, we're under new and unfinished business. Is there any other business for good of the order? None. All right. Hearing none, do we have a motion to conclude? It only seems appropriate that I make that motion. All right. The birthday boy wants to conclude the meeting. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Council member Cleveland second. So if there's no objection, the meeting is concluded at 6:13 p.m. Thank you everybody. efficiency. There you go.