City Council - Regular Meeting

masked goons in our community, but we're trying to come up with a way to say it without it becoming a political political thing, but more about the safety of it because there's been so many more than a handful of people who have pretended to be ICE agents and have ripped people away, stole their cars, raped a woman, things like that. Wow. Yeah. Hm. Why agree? I don't want ice in here either. So, I mean, I'll just say that that's a political thing. I

Anyways, I'm working on it with with some other mayors and we're having discussions about it because we don't want it to be a political thing necessarily, but we we also don't want that kind of thing happening in our communities. So, thank you. Um, I support that. It's funny though. I drive past Bailey's all the time out there on Walls Road.

Usually this time of year, they're just buzzing, getting the trees in and everything, and there's not a soul out there. Nothing's happening. I just know that the last email I saw was

December 9th at 6 p.m. Okay, that's the school board meeting. And who is going to attend that? Well, hopefully me. Me, the mayor, Dave, Rob, Drew, if he wants to participate. It's just an update on urban renewal agency. We had to get their cooperation and implementing it. So it's good to check in from time to time to be good. We get the fire chief here. So he kind of knows. Yeah. But those were the two agencies we had to get cooperation with make it happen. Then the county we went

Yeah. I think we went so water conservation district. Yeah. There were a couple that weren't Yeah. exactly thrilled about it, but by defilar not thrilled about it. They were just concerned for their own budget is what it was. Um, but once we got through all that, it worked out. Same with the school. It's just getting them to understand how the financing works and you know how they can benefit from it too.

And it really should be a communitywide thing for everybody to buy too because then it's a positive thing for the community. Absolutely. Means it means money when we don't have money. And it also means that we get a different image and can grow. I like that. We need that for our text. Yeah. I don't know who put this chair this high, but kind of like it because I am actually like up here.

You're taller than everybody else in the room. Normally I'm like down there and my feet actually sort of touch the ground here so I'm good. Red hot. Yeah. Well, is there anybody who's on the um it is out there? Well, I mean, um, besides counselors, um, Daniel, Daniel, who? Oh, like, um, our

Let me call the other two real quick to make sure. Oh, that's it. November 20th.

Believe it. We're only a month away from winter solstice. Oh my god. It's just insane how fast it's just been. The only time it goes slow is between January and March when the weather is just garbage and there's no holidays. There's nothing going on. Football's off. No, just like, hey, we get off of it. So, Colts, I'm going let you talk there. I'm going let you talk to rece on his way. And who is that? Cult. Colt. We're trying to get Col's iPad.

Cole, are you on Daniel's iPad? Uh, yeah. Yeah, you're here then. You're here. Okay, stand by. You gotta turn your camera on now. I'm hearing in two different places now. Okay, I think we're good to go. Thanks, Cole. We'll get started here. So,

and you said Drew will be right here. He's on his way. Anything right here is Am I here now? Yes, we can hear you. Okay.

Okay. will go ahead and file this at 6:03. Let's do the pledge.

I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationis and justice for all. Okay, we do have a quorum and councelor little grant will be here. So, we'll have a full load of people. Did anybody sign up for comment?

I don't have any kind of All right, we'll move on to action item one. Did you have anything you wanted to say, Brian?

Yes, mayor. Uh, I want to thank you, mayor, and members of council for being flexible tonight for us to approve this so we get moving forward on this critical project. I just want to explain for the council's information on why why we're going through this exercise right now. So when we were first looking at the Fisher Farms project with our current consultant GSI, I looked at our our agreement that we had, our master services agreement. It's very old. Insurance coverages are very low. There's just a lot of outof-date stuff on it. And with a purchase at this level, my opinion was that the the most legally sound way for us to procure a service at this at this threshold at this level would be to go through the informal process. We went through that informal process. We had an open competitive process. We utilized completely new personal services agreement that our law firm drafted. This is the model not only we're going to use with this but for any future personal services agreements that we use in the future whether it's auditors wherever the case may be. This great great model going forward and it's certainly stronger more protective of the city than what we currently have. So at the council's last meeting approval of this was contingent on business Oregon review. They reviewed it. They said it looks good. It was contingent on us getting a fully executed contract back from Business Oregon guaranteeing financing. We have that contract back. The only thing remaining is a vote to approve this and signatures and then we're going to get started. That's why we're here tonight.

All right. Does anybody have any questions or comments or anything they want to discuss before we No. Thank you. Motion. Yes, please. I move to approve the personal services agreement with GSI Water Solution Incorporated as presented [clears throat] for the Fisher Farms well improvement project in the amount not to exceed $174,910 and to authorize the city manager to sign a second. I have a motion from councelor Peterson and a second from councelor Hoverver. Uh, all those in favor I I

I passes. All right. Well, that was quick. And we'll quickly go through the city council comments and concerns. We'll start with Miss Kitty Mackin. Nothing for tonight. Thank you. You, Councelor Tyra. None for me either. Councelor Hoverbert, I just like to make a comment that this document, if this is to be used for our future um relationships with potential vendors, it's a really nice document. Thank you. Yeah. Covers us in lots and lots of different way. Thank you, Phil. Thank you for that. Absolutely.

Yeah, I listened to it three times [laughter] because the thing stopping. Anyways, how about you, Council? Good. Thank you. For the parade, would you need us for a float for the after Thanksgiving parade? That Christmas. Uh, we don't need We're not doing a parade this year. No, they just advertised it. Yeah. Oh, on Facebook. Are you thinking the the light parade? The light parade. That's on the Yeah. As far as I know, that's on the 13th. The tree lighting parade. tweet since 29th. Is it?

Yeah, it was 29th. I thought it said there was one on the factor. I think that's one I'm passing out. Maybe I'm smoking weapons, but it is both. I wish I was smoking something that good. [laughter] I think I have it on my gall. I'll look because I just um posted it not too long ago here. So yeah, tree lighting on the 29th. That's what I have. So tree lighting. No parade for tree lighting. Oh, is it breakfast with Santa? No. So on the same day as breakfast with the 13th is the the caravan of lights by the Oh, it's the 13th.

That's the 13th. Yeah. So I think where I mis I misread, misinterpreted was it says on the timeline it says Santa arrives right after the tree lights. And I think the arrives made me think Oh. parade. So it's just terminology that it was my misunderstanding. H. Yeah. Usually the Santa arrives on the fire truck. He gets no fire truck. He just know why. Fire truck. The caravan of lights. If the city wants to have a float, that would be fun because we had the years pass. Yeah. Anyway, um but it's it's something we would need to figure out quickly if we are.

Yeah. Could we for provide root beer float for everybody in the city? That would be awesome. That's for you. That's all I have. All right. Excellent. Mayor, I do have four quick things if I may. Sure. And I will make this quick while everybody's here. I just want you to be aware that there are two grant opportunities that opened up. [clears throat]

Uh they recently opened up and they have a very quick timeline that they're going to close. I like to get grants to this body to review before I send something off to commit us to something. But with a tight time frame, I'm just going to have to get an in and when approvals come to you at that time, we can talk a little bit more about it. But one of them is a wetland delineation project. A local local wetlands inventory that will facilitate development in the urban growth boundary. Under that program, DLCD will provide the consultant. So the only thing that we're out is staff time to participate. We get that in next week. And then another one is a housing infrastructure financing program through business Oregon. This is for infrastructure projects that facilitate new home construction. So, we're going to put in for financing for water main improvements to facilitate development on Neck Road. We've had a lot of interest in that, but infrastructure has been a barrier. I'll be bringing that to you in December. We won't have a fully fleshed out application, but at least you can get an idea of what we're looking at.

So, development fees won't cover that. No, we don't have enough development. Well, there's 50 units going in. So, you would think there'd be some development fees for infrastructure because that's an acceptable use of that's not near enough. Yeah, it it wouldn't cover it. It's It's like too I'll get I'll have that. Yeah, let's look at the details.

And then I want you to be aware that the code enforcement officer and I did a citywide review last week. We sent out 10 letters today. Uh just want you to be aware in case you get contacted by your constituents. These are the 10 most challenging cases that we identified. Some things that are truly concerning.

So the idea is to make some progress on those, start getting things cleaned up and and make some momentum on that. And then council president, I just want you to be aware we're talking before you arrived on December 9th. There's a school board meeting. We're going to give an update on the urban renewal agency. If you want to be a part of that meeting, you're more than welcome to do so. I may That's all I have. Do you have any questions for me? I have nothing. Anybody else? Have any comments?

Oh, I'm so sorry. Colt, did you have any uh comments? It says Daniel, so I keep thinking Daniel. I do not. Okay, sir. [laughter] Excellent. Thank you. Um, all right. I'll entertain a motion. I got a question as a follow on those. Okay. Um, so for the code enforcement, do they follow a general theme? Like are we talking like are these cleanliness issues or what's the within what we can discuss, I guess, in this moment? I'm just kind of curious if there was a a consistency. rubbish. Jump rubbish. Send us a list of those properties involved. Excuse me. I didn't

Oh, no. You're fine. You're good. You're good. I think that probably not a good idea. Let let me let me try to make some some headway with with folks. And if we get to a point where there's going to be abatement or municipal court proceedings, then I'll I'll keep you informed as to next steps. This just went out today. I I want to have a chance to have a conversation with people. Cool. Yeah. Well, as a citizen who's had a complaint regarding probably one of the properties involved, I have a vested interest in as a citizen, not as a council.

Absolutely. 15 minutes. Yeah. 14 minutes and 20 seconds over there.