City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. The hour of 7 p.m. having arrived, I will call to order this regular meeting of the Keen City Council. This meeting is being broadcast live on the city of Keen YouTube channel and Spectrum channel 1302. The video is also streamed on the city's website and is posted by the end of the next business day, barring any technical difficulties. If you would like to receive an electronic city council packet to reference while viewing future broadcast, please contact the city clerk's office during business hours and go to the city's website and subscribe to the city meetings email list. The agenda is also accessible from any mobile device. Would the clerk please call the role?

Randy Elilio here. Michelle A. Chalice here. Katherine I. Workman here. Brian J. Lake here. Jacob R. Favalis here. Laura E. Tobin here. Robert C. Williams here. Philip M. Jones present. Chris E. Roberts here. Betina A. Chadborn here. Edward J. Hos here. Laura E. Ruddle Miller here. Molly B. Ellis here. Thomas F. Powers here. Mitchell H. Greenwall here. All present. Uh, councelor Chalice, would you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance?

I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. I'd like to recognize councelor Greenwald for a motion to adopt the minutes of our previous meeting. Thank you, your honor. I move to accept the minutes of the February 5, 2026 meeting as presented. Second.

Seconded by councelor Powers. I like to see if there are any comments, questions. Uh, councelor Ellis. Um, there's also a typo this month in um in Megan Forson's name. A lot of the time it says Foron. I noticed it like almost throughout. I forget which line it started. I wrote it down and then I forgot to read my notes. Sorry. That was my one name. Yes. Was that in the city council minutes or one of the standing committee minutes? It may well have been was I believe in our minutes. Our our city council minutes. Okay. We'll look for that and make sure it's corrected. Thank you.

Okay, I think that's uh what we call scribner. It sure is.

Correction. Uh seeing no other comments, uh all those in favor of accepting the minutes as presented. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Um, tonight we have uh known no uh uh proclamations, no uh I'm jumping ahead of myself. Um so for announcements uh coming in March uh it is women's history month. I will be searching uh for the kind of programming that folks are doing. the human rights committee and uh the library etc. Uh then hopefully we are honoring that as well as uh our care workers. Uh so uh that's an opportunity for us to to bring together our uh care workers within our community, some representatives and say thanks for all that they do. Um other uh significant dates that we'll be uh recognizing in March, St. Patrick's Day, Ramadan uh it continues uh into March and uh and there we go. We've got city council uh special meetings that are coming up in this next month that hopefully you'll note in your calendars. um the uh workshop relating to capital improvements plan for 2027 through 2033 that will be held in Heertton Hall on Tuesday March 3rd beginning at 5:30. Uh so please arrive at 5 as a meal will be served prior to the start of that meeting. Uh then there's a special meeting of the finance, organization,

and personnel committee scheduled for March 10th at 5:30 to continue the review of the proposed capital improvement plan. And the and also there is a regular finance, operations, and personnel committee meeting on March 12th that will start early uh to allow for the CIP review. for both of those meetings on March 10th and March 12th. Uh there will be meals served prior to those meetings uh because of the early starts. So uh do note that. And uh again there are no proclamations or presentations tonight, no hearings uh uh that are scheduled for this evening. Uh so we move then to our nominations and confirmations. Uh and I'd like to recognize uh the clerk to read those.

Thank you. So we have confirmations this evening to the assessor's board and the human rights committee and they include the uh appointment of Christine Houston to serve as a regular voting member on the assessor's board for a term to expire December 31, 2028 and the confirmation of Thomas M. White to serve on the human rights committee as an alternate member for a term to expire December 31, 2028. And recognize councelor Greenwald for a motion. Thank you, your honor. Move to confirm the nominations. Second. Seconded by councelor Powers. Uh any questions on the two nominees? Seeing none, uh like to ask for a roll call. Councelor Filio, yes. Councelor Chalice,

yes. Councelor Workman, yes. Councelor Lake, yes. Councelor Favalis. Yes. Councelor Tobin, yes. Councelor Williams, yes. Councelor Jones, yes. Councelor Roberts, yes. Councelor Chadbornne, yes. Councelor Hos, yes. Councelor Rule Miller, yes. Councelor Ellis, yes. Councelor Powers, yes. Councelor Greenwall, yes. Motion carries unanimously. We move to communications, of which we have three this evening. And our first communication is from Katie Woodard. She is the uh operates the farmers market of Keen. and this is their annual request for a license to use city property

and we'll refer that letter to the planning licenses and development committee uh for their consideration. Our next communication is from councelor favalis and this is a request for a presentation outlining the role of contractors and consultants in city projects

and we'll refer this to municipal services facilities and infrastructure committee uh and uh like to ask if there's no objection that we schedule that for the May March meeting uh to allow time for uh departments to contribute their presentations put that together. Okay, good. So, that is referred. Very good.

Then our final communication is from Carolyn Ogrren. Uh Miss Ogrren is requesting a review of warehouse zoning as it relates to the potential housing of detained individuals. So, I'm going to refer this to the planning, licenses, and development committee uh unless any counselor wishes to raise an objection to that and uh suggests that this be filed asformational. Uh your objection might be based on a belief that the federal government has a supremacy right and that this should be filed asformational. On the other hand, uh you may believe that a discussion with PLLD that is limited to questions related to the city's zoning ordinances uh that it may be appropriate and that the PLLD chair keeping that discussion focused on Keen and not drifting into federal, state, and local government issues related to other communities over which the city has no authority uh that we can execute in that manner. in which case you agree with referring this letter to PLLD. Councelor Filio,

thank you. Yeah, I I'd agree with sending it to PLLD. I think it's too important just to accept it asformational and um we will keep things in check. Councelor Hos. Yeah, thank you your honor. Um I agree with Senator PL as well. Um more on the basis of anytime we look at our zoning codes and um what's allowed and what's not allowed, it's educational for everybody. So certainly supre supremacy clause rules here and we're not going to get into that and I trust our honored chair will u manage that discussion well um but uh it's it's always good to look at our code and understand what's allowed and what's not. Thank you.

Okay, the uh letter is referred then to PLLD. we can move on to council committees and uh ask the clerk to lead us through this. So our first comm community our first um report is out of the planning licenses and development committee and it relates to the energy and climate committee uh recommendations regarding the sepacer program. And on a vote of five to zero, the planning, licenses, and development committee recommends the city manager be directed to submit an ordinance for first reading relating to establishing a commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency district. Councelor Filio for a motion.

Move to carry out the intent of the committee report. Second. Seconded by councelor Jones. Yes. Yep. As the city uh clerk just mentioned, uh the energy and climate committee shared a presentation with us on the CPACE program. Um it's a resil resiliency program which was recently adopted under New Hampshire law and um we know how New Hampshire law can be and basically allowing for private capital for development and energy improvements. Um it was a five to nothing out of the PLLD committee to send to the city manager for a possible first reading of an ordinance and we hope you'll vote also. Thank you.

Okay. Seeing no questions on this item, uh, all those in favor accepting the committee report. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you.

All right. Our next report is coming from the finance organization personnel committee. Uh it is from uh Mark a communication from Mark Rebelard of the downtown group asking for community event funded status for a series of small-scale festivals that they are planning during uh downtown construction. And on the vote of 4 to zero, the finance organization and personnel committee recommends that any available unspent funds from the FY26 community events budget be used to help offset the cost of city services for the Keen downtown group for two smallcale festivals as part of the dig into Keen project with event dates tentatively scheduled for April 4th and June 13, 2026. Any costs over the above available funds will be the responsibility of the Keen Downtown group. And further on a vote of 4 to zero, the finance organization and personnel committee recommends that the city council suspend resolution R20201219. the council policy on funding for community events to allow the city manager to include funding in the proposed FY27 community events budget for the Keentown town group to conduct up to four smallcale festivals as part of the dig into Keen project with event dates tentatively scheduled for July 25th, September 12th, October 1, and November 27th, 2026 for consideration by the council during budget deliberations said funding not to exceed the $10,000 threshold.

So, you can see that there are several motions in this one item. Uh, and I'll call on councelor Powers to able lead us through those. Oh, boy. Thank you, your honor. I move to uh carry out the intent of the committee report on item number one. Second.

Seconded by councelor Blake [clears throat] and councelor Powers. So, uh, Mark Rebelard in the downtown group was with us for about three quarters of an hour the other night and we covered a lot of territory. Um, and it's uh pretty neat stuff coming up this summer in the downtown area and then um needs some financing and there's been a little bit of work done behind the scenes to bring to us a program so that we we'd be able to utilize some of the funds that will be in the unappropriated balance at the end of the fiscal year which is coming up pretty fast. So they're addressing the first part in that motion. I'd like funds set aside in the first part for two of the programs they've got planned for downtown. Very worthwhile project throughout the whole project. Neat way to get the funding available to us without getting into the regular budget and we'll have to deal with the rest of it in our second motion. Thank you. Uh so we councelor Chalice

I uh expressed my thanks at that FOP meeting but once again I really would like to say thank you to the downtown group for this wonderful idea of these smallcale festivals finding ways to bring people together in a playful manner doing our best to acknowledge what our circumstances are I I just can't speak highly enough for their efforts. Great. Thank you your honor. Um, I may have to ask to be recused from this vote as I sit on the board of the downtown group. Um, then I have another question after that passes. Uh, [laughter] don't know that you'll have that opportunity to ask that. Uh,

well, let me probably stand up again. Um, can I speak as an inform source and advocate if I am recused from the vote? No. No. Okay. Uh any uh want a motion? I don't know that we need a motion to Yeah. Just is there any objection to uh allowing your recusal? Thank you. Uh you might want to step away from the table or we we have this. Yes, that that's sufficient enough.

Uh okay. Thank you. Uh all right. So what we're acting just to be clear, we're acting on just those uh couple of uh festivals that would require uh the use of fiscal 26 uh surplus funds. Okay. Uh okay. All those in favor of that motion, that motion carries 14 to nothing. Thank you. Uh, councelor Powers for a second motion. All right. So for the second motion,

I would move to suspend the council policy relating to funding for community events. Seconded by councelor Lake.

All right. So the reason we're doing this is we have a policy on how we fund public events and you have to have put on these various events no matter what they are for several years proven that it's worthwhile and it can be carried out in a reasonable fashion uh before we put our funds against it. Um, and our funding for the most part usually covers city services. What we have to do um to provide security, fire services, uh, traffic, block off the downtown area, etc., etc. Um because this has come forward without two prior years of events like this, we have that ability in our programs to suspend this rule and support what I hope all of you think is a great event. Um so that's our first part of this motion [clears throat] is to suspend the rules so we can address the rest of it and we'll go forward from there. Councor [clears throat] Ellis.

Excuse me. Um I think I need to be recused from this one as um I'm the chair of the committee. That is not this one. It's the next one. Okay. But thank you for You're right. You will need to trying to be scrupulous.

Uh but you can vote on this one. Uh I think I think uh you have in front of you uh what that 2012 resolution uh set in place relative to having conducted uh festivals in prior uh years or prior instances. Uh so uh that's what's in front of us now is to suspend that resolution so that we can consider the 2027 request. Okay. Uh, all those in favor of sus. Uh, no. We need a roll call. I know. I know. Roll call vote. And it takes twothirds to pass. Councelor Phillio, yes. Councelor Chalice, yes.

Councelor Workman, Councelor Lake, yes. Councelor Favalis, yes. Councelor Tobin, yes. Councelor Williams, yes. Councelor Jones, yes. Councelor Roberts, Councelor Chadbornne, Councelor Rule Miller, yes. Councelor Ellis, yes. Councelor Powers, yes. Councelor Greenwald. Yeah. Okay. We've got a unanimous vote. Uh recognize councelor Powers for the next motion.

Thank you, your honor. So, uh this is the entire motion. I move to allow the city manager to include funding in the proposed FY27 community events budget for the downtown the Keen downtown group to conduct up to four smallcale festivals as part of the big the dig into Keen project with with event dates tentatively scheduled for July 24th, September 12th, October 1st, and November 27th uh for for consideration by the city council during the budget deliberations said funding not to exceed $10,000. Second as a threshold. Second by councelor Lake. Uh councelor Pers.

So it's a continuation of the little discussion we had previously. This is you know the rest of the program for the summer for downtown businesses for everybody in the community for people who are visiting the community during that period of time. um different kind of things that will attract your attention, keep you busy for a little while and help the businesses downtown um to stay open later in the afternoon, whatever it may be. But it will present more people in the downtown area during a tough time and uh it's actually pretty neat because it's I think it's running into November. So, we're kind of spreading this out and scheduling it out to keep people downtown in I'm sure it won't snow in November. [laughter] Um, unanimously approved by the finance committee and I'm pretty sure everybody here will approve it. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, all right. Since having suspended the rules and gotten the motion on the floor, um, any questions? There are the manager will include this then in her fiscal 27 budget should this approve be approved. Do a show of hands vote to approve though. Yeah. Yes. All those in favor. Motion carries unanimously. 14 to zero. Okay. Let's do this again. [laughter] Councelor Ellis. Yes. This time I would like to be recused please. Yes. and your reason for recusing. Um I'm the chair of the Manadnock 250 volunteer committee.

Thank you. Uh any objections to councelor Ellis recusing herself from this vote? Okay. Uh so I'll read

so this is a finance organization and personnel committee report that was uh submitted by Mark Rebelard. It's a request for community event funded status for the Keen 250th Independence Day celebration. And on a vote of four to zero, the finance organization and personnel committee recommends that the city council suspend resolution R20201219, the council policy on funding for community events to allow the city manager to include in the proposed FY27 community events budget uh for the Keen Downtown group to conduct the Keen 250th independence celebration on July 4, 2026 for consideration by the council during budget deliberations. said funding not to exceed the $10,000 threshold

before proceeding. Councilor Hos is I think uh this is a proposal from the same group. Your honor, thank you. Um it's a proposal from the 250th committee. No, it's from the Keen Downtown group as the licensing. So we roll it that way. All right. I'm in the box. Any objection to councelor Hos uh recusing himself from this voting? No, no, no, no. U Okay. All right. Uh we uh need councelor Powers to introduce a motion.

Thank you, your honor. Move to suspend resolution 2012-9 to consider extending community event funding status to the proposed event scheduled for FY27, the parade. Second. Seconded by councelor Lake. Uh motion to suspend on the floor. Uh and this will take a roll call vote. Councelor Filio. Yes. Councelor Chalice. Yes. Councelor Workman. Yes. Councelor Lake. Yes. Councelor Favaliz. Yes. Councelor Tobin. Yes. Councelor Williams. Yes. Councelor Jones. Yes. Councelor Roberts. Yes. Councelor Chad. Yes. Councelor Ruddle Miller. Yes. Councelor Powers. Yes.

Councelor Greenwall. Yes. Motion carries unanimously 13 to zero. [clears throat] Uh we recognize councelor Powers for a motion. Thank you, your honor. Move to carry out the intent of the committee report. Second. Recognize councelor Powers for the committee.

Thank you, your honor. So, um this action would allow the city manager to include the funding uh for this project in the FY budget coming up. Um a lot of work been done already. There's still a lot of work to be done, but it's fairly evident that this will be a great event. Everybody loves a parade, even if it does make a traffic mess, but [laughter] uh it gives everybody an opportunity to come out on that day, see their neighbors, their friends. um other communities are going to come and uh it should do good for the downtown businesses and uh there's no reason for us not to fund this. Um and I'm sure that they'll be able to keep it under the threshold and they did indicate that if it goes above they're going to have to figure out how to raise that money. So I recommend that we uh unanimously pass this. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, councelor Charles, once again, I'd just like to say how impressed I was to hear the extent of the organization of the event, of the details involved, and of the many parties that are coming together. I just, it's amazing the amount of work that's going into this. I'm very excited to see it come about. Thank you. It's amazing the amount of work that's going into this. Agreed. [laughter] There's an echo in the room.

Yeah. Um and also the uh that the Keen Downtown group has provided an umbrella uh to allow for this to occur with so many other community groups joining in. Uh it's a real credit to the group. Uh okay. Uh motion's on the floor. All those in favor? Motion carries unanimously 13 to zero. Okay. Like to invite our other counselors to join us and uh recognize the clerk to read item D4.

And this is a finance, organization, and personnel committee report relative to the allocation of casino revenue donation to the FY25 or I'm sorry 27 CIP. And on a vote of 4 to zero, the finance organization and personnel committee recommends that the city council approve the allocation of the Revo Casino donation in the amount of $13,788.35 to the FY27 Police Department CIP for the Exacom purchase. Okay. Councelor Powers for a motion. Thank you, your honor. Move to carry out the intent of the committee report. Second.

Seconded by councelor Le. Councelor Powers. I think it was about two years ago there was an explosion of casinos throughout the state because a number of statutes were changed and uh we have one here now in the city and uh a few years after the first set of regulations were changed they put in a provision that um communities could reap some benefit from these businesses because they're obvious to uh bring on needs for services in the community. So we we were lining up for the same uh principle that they were using for us to be part of it. However, in order to make it proper according to each of the the uh statues there, the city council had to vote to approve that we do this. Uh and the MA manager was allowed to sign the commitment and the date was picked and it raised $13,788. would be the community this community share towards whatever city services are uh generated by the business with that uh you have to park it somewhere or you have to apply it towards a project or um another particular program you might have. So, uh, through staff and looking at the budget and the CIP, it was determined that the best place for it this year is to, uh, put it towards the replacement of the the bulk recorder in the police department. It's a system that has a pretty short lifespan because it's going 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Uh, so it's a it's a 40 to $50,000 project and this would cut $13,000 out of that of out of our tax dollars. So, Finance Committee voted unanimously to carry out this report. I hope you do the same. Thank you,

Councelor Green. Thank you, your honor. I hate to ruin the unanimous evening. However, as I said when this came up the last time, I don't think it's appropriate that the city should be expending money or receiving money from an organization that is still coming to the city going through the planning board process and inspections process and whatnot. Otherwise, it's a conflict of interest. So, I'm going to vote against it. I'm all for the city getting money from any source other than taxpayers, but I just don't think that it's appropriate. So, I'm sure it's going to pass. So, I'm done. Thank you. Uh, councelor Williams.

Well, I don't want Mitch to be alone and I don't like casinos. So, you got another vote. I'd love casinos. Councelor Favis.

Uh, [clears throat] thank you, Mr. Mayor. I was hoping this maybe wouldn't turn into a rehashing of the merits of the agreement like we we had already discussed last time. I will say that this question came up around the conflict of interest piece. This is a state statute that authorizes this and it's not that we're going kind of hand in hand to the casino and saying please please you know give us $13,000 for this project. The requirement is that if there are dates available um then those dates have to be held in case the host community wants to enter into this sort of agreement. So I will be voting to take $13,000 off of what would otherwise be a property taxf funded project and I hope that the majority of my colleagues will do the same. Thank you. Thank you, Council Councelor Hos.

Thank you, your honor. Um, as I understand, we've already agreed to accept this money. This vote is just to say where it goes. Um, so voting against this is not going to change anything. We're still accepting the money. It's just not directed to anything in particular. But I too agree with the stated opinions that it's inappropriate for us to be accepting money from from a business that we may be regulating. It's not like it's a tax that's uh general for everybody. If it was a tax, it'd be different. But this is a specific fee where we're taking it from from the casino uh based on their success. And when they come and they say, "You want the money? You got to help us do certain things." That would make me very uncomfortable. So, I'll be voting yes to support FOP. But I hope in the future we can reexamine this somehow.

Okay. We've heard pros and cons. All good. Uh, and all those in favor of accepting the vote. Sorry, another hand. I just did want to get a clarification question based on what councelor Hos just said is that it is our our vote tonight is just on the money going towards that.

Um, it is uh allocating the dollars for a purpose. Got it. Correct. Okay. All those in favor of the motion as presented. I see uh 12 hands. All those posed. Yeah. [clears throat] Three.

Okay. [clears throat] Very good. Moving on to item D5. The floor has nothing in store. And this is a finance organization and personnel committee report relative to the execution of a change order for construction engineering services with Greenman Peterson, Inc. for Island Street 2026 reconstruction. And on a vote of 4 to zero, the finance organization and personnel committee recommends that the city manager be authorized to do all things necessary to negotiate and execute a change order for construction engineering services with Greenman Peterson, Inc. for 2026 construction as part of the Island Street Corridor improvements project. Councelor Powers for a motion. Thank you, your honor. Move to carry out the intent of the committee report.

Second. Second by councelor Lake. Councelor Powers.

Thank you, your honor. Um this has to do with the Island Street project. There's still some work to be done. Um the contract or the time work plan was extended because u towards the end of the season this year we had some bad weather that affected what was going on. We also had um some of the other utilities that working in the area to improve that along with our work and they ran into some issues that extended their time. So essentially was negotiated with the contractor to extend a period and there's certain amounts of work that needed to be done at certain time frames. However, we need to have our engineer watching over and managing the project which means their contract needs to be changed and Greeman Peterson's doing quite a bit of work for us. We've been very satisfied and this was easy to put together and now the manager when we approve this the manager will be authorized to negotiate the cost and because it most likely exceeds what she has the authority under our um programs to to just have the change order. We have to approve it and um the funds are in the project. This is not new money being raised uh to do the project. I recommend that we pass this. Thank you.

Any questions uh for this item? Seeing none, all those in favor? And the motion carries unanimously on to our last committee report. This is a finance [clears throat] organization and personnel committee report and it relates to a uh request from councelor Workman to review and update the 2029 inter agency memorandum of understanding involving law enforcement partners and this is anformational report and uh this report will be filed asformational and counselor.

Thank you your honor. I just want to take a moment and um extend my deep thanks and appreciation to the FOP committee, to attorney um Paul Mera um and um especially our chief for having that discussion. Um I think um it was important for the public. It was the only pathway that the public had to express those concerns. Um, so I'm I'm hoping that the chief's explanation and the full discussion helped to clarify a lot of things and hope reduce some of those concerns. So I do [clears throat] appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you, councelor Workman. Uh, okay. Report is accepted as information. I'd like to recognize uh our deputy city manager Rebecca Landry uh filling in tonight for our city manager.

Thank you. Just something very briefly tonight uh one item and that is that um to follow up on the questions and interest in the downtown project bidding process. The bids will be advertised on March 17th. This includes um allowing time for both the city and New Hampshire dees uh time to review the recent project changes. So that will be advertised on March 17th and the bids will be due on April 16th and then we will hopefully start the project soon thereafter. Okay. All right. Thank you for that update.

Uh got to get involved. We'll move on to uh reports and we have a a item uh that's not on the did not go through the committees but uh is being presented by uh the city uh for our consideration. I need to ask councelor Powers to lead us through this item. Thank you your honor. This uh item is a little bit pressing for time. Uh, so I'm going to start by asking us to suspend the rules to take it up. I make a motion to suspend the rules of order. Second.

Seconded by councelor Trillio and councelor Powers. Anything more on this then? We got a Yes, you can be seated. Yeah, we'll do the roll call and suspend the rules. Uh, would the clerk please call the role? Councelor Phillio. Councelor Chalice. Yes. Councelor Workman. Councelor Lake. Yes. Councelor Favalis. Councelor Tobin. Yes. Councelor Williams. Yes. Councelor Jones. Councelor Roberts. Yes. Councelor Chadbornne. Yes. Councelor Hos. Yes. Councelor Rutle Miller. Yes. Councelor Ellis. Yes. Councelor Powers. Yes. Councelor Greenwald. Yes. And we uh now can take up the motion. And councelor Powers. Would you like me to read the Oh, sure. So,

let's not keep everyone in suspense. Yeah. So just so everyone knows what we are discussing, this is a memorandum from uh the assistant public works director and operations manager. Um and this is a request to reallocate unspent funds for the grit chamber duct insulation repair project. Okay, councelor Powers.

Thank you, your honor. So, we have um we have an opportunity here to uh work parallel with a project that's going on with the same contractor and with funding that's available within our budget um to deal with it. So, should you wish to really get into the nittyritty of this, you have I worked all afternoon on him, but uh we have pictures uh to show you what's going on. You know, a little bit ago, one of our projects that we talked about at FOP and and this evening was uh the work that's going on down there. Now, there's a contractor set up. He's doing work. And while he was there, it became obvious to him that the um part of the duck work needed to be cleaned in a fashion that you just can't stand there and scrub it. And this um sca scaffolds all set up, equipment's all set up, he's there, and for a reasonable price, um this can get done, but we don't have it in this particular project. So the motion is to move some money, unspent funds, no new money. And also it's in the water sewer fund, so it's not tax dollars. So move um unspent funds from the wastewater treatment plant air compressor replacement and the wastewater treatment plant laboratory renovation projects. Both complete. There's a small amount of money there, just enough to help with this particular project. It's a reason we don't like to bring things last minute but [clears throat] it's an opportunity we should not pass up because the job will be done and we won't be going through this girration uh for another bid another contractor etc. So recommend that we pass this. Thank you

councelor Lee. Uh thank you Mr. Mayor. I believe we just need a motion on the uh on that second. You made a motion. I was waiting for somebody to second it. [laughter] Made a motion about 15 minutes ago. So, councelor Lake has made a motion to approve as pres made the motion. Council P made the motion. He did about 15 minutes ago. I wasn't that long ahead of a speech. And councelor Lake seconded it. I did.

Councelor Fio second. Okay, there we are. We've got a motion and a second. Any uh comments? Uh questions from people? I think this is kind of self-evident here. Uh okay, we need a twothirds majority on this and a roll call that is on the actual on the suspension of the rules. That's right. All we need all we needs is show of hands. Thank you very much. All those in favor of the motion as presented.

Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. All right. Let's keep moving. We move on to uh ordinances for the second reading. We have none for the first reading this evening. So we can move on to the second.

Sure. So our first item is a planning licenses and development committee report and it relates to the update of chapter 18 pro property and housing standards code ordinance 0202536b and on a vote of 5 to zero the planning licenses and development committee recommends adoption of the ordinance and we have accompanying our memorandum a the ordinance itself ordinance o 202536b an ordinance relating to update of chapter 18 property and housing standards code and recognize councelor Filio the motion recommend passage of ordinance 02025-36B second

second by councelor Jones and city committ just mentioned this this was referred back to us in the previous PLLD committee uh it's an update to chapter 18 of the city code regarding code enforcement property maintenance basically rewarding rewarding of emergency contact uh for renters uh former counselor Boseley who was the chair at the time after this ordinance got passed um brought it back for some minor changes to it um that's exactly what this is a minor changes I passed five nothing and we hope the council will pass it also thank you

okay any comments or questions from folks on this item okay seeing none uh would the clerk please call the role councelor Filio Council Chalice Yes. Councelor Workman. Yes. Councelor Lake. Yes. Councelor Favis. Yes. Councelor Tobin. Yes. Councelor Williams. Councelor Jones. Yes. Councelor Roberts. Yes. Councelor Chadborn. Councelor Hos. Yes. Councelor Rutle Miller. Yes. Councelor Ellis. Yes. Councelor Powers. Yes. Councelor Greenwald. Yes.

Motion carries unanimously. Move on to item J2. And this is a planning licenses and development committee report and it relates to application procedures for zoning applications and the definition of primary residence. Ordinance 0 202539. And on a vote of 5 to zero, the planning licenses and development committee recommends adoption of the ordinance with an effective date of March 13, 2026. And we have before us O 202539 an ordinance relating to application procedures for zoning applications and the definition of primary residence. Recognize councelor filio for the motion. Move recommended passage of ordinance 02025-39. Second.

Seconded by councelor Jones. Councelor. Uh once again uh this is basically a housekeeping uh for an ordinance. Uh as city clerk mentioned definition of a primary entrance and procedures for zoning applications. basically is up to update us and get us into a into a concurrence with a with state law. So we voted five nothing to pass this and hope full council will also. Thank you. And that motion includes the effective date of March 13th. Correct. Correct. Yes. Thank you. And uh to allow adequate time for departments to develop the application procedures. Exactly. Councelor Jones.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, I believe when the title was read, it said primary residence. It's prim should be primary entrance. Primary entrance. I'm sorry. Thank you. Primary entrance. Did we? Good. So, so not Okay. Uh, motion's on the floor. Uh, seeing no further questions, would the clerk please call the role? Councelor Phillio, yes. Councelor Chalice, yes. Councelor Workman, yes. Councelor Lake, yes. Councelor Favalis, yes. Councelor Tobin, yes. Councelor Williams, yes. Councelor Jones, yes. Councelor Roberts, Councelor Chadborn, yes. Councelor Hos, yes. Councelor Ruddle Miller, yes. Councelor Ellis, yes. Councelor Powers, yes. Councelor Greenwald,

yes. Motion carries unanimously. Item J3. And this is a planning licenses and development committee report. And this is related to ordinance 0202601 relating to fines for nuisance menace and vicious dogs. And on a vote of 5 to zero, the planning, licenses, and development committee recommends adoption of the ordinance. And we have before us this evening ordinance 0202601, an ordinance relating to fines for nuisance, nuisance, menace, and vicious dog offenses. Uh recognize councelor Filio for the motion. Sure. Move for adoption of ordinance 02026-1. Second. Second by councelor Jones. This is for the committee.

Thank you. Uh, can you please captain Mike Copcha basically explained the details of the fine schedule? Um, we know we've been talking about vicious dogs for a while. Thank you, Council Williams. Um, [snorts] and now we're getting updated with the the fine schedule. There were several questions, but basically what we're doing, we're getting concurrent once again with state law, and if you don't like it, don't worry about it. It'll probably change in a couple weeks. Uh, but the city attorney went along with this that the wording was appropriate. Committee voted 5 nothing to uh, approve the motion by the ordinance. Hope you will also. Thank you. Any uh questions from the committee? Councelor Williams, any uh final thoughts as this finally reaches this point?

Uh it's just interesting to me that all the dog things come through PLLD. [laughter] It's great. Uh and and as noted during your committee hearing, uh there are reasons for the legislature to come back and take a look at this, but for the time being, this is what state law provides and this is what is before us. Yep. Uh, okay. Uh, would the clerk please call the role? Councelor Fillia, yes. Councelor Chalice, yes. Councelor Workman, yes. Councelor Lake, yes. Councelor Favalis, yes. Councelor Tobin, yes. Councelor Williams, yes. Councelor Jones, yes. Councelor Roberts, yes. Councelor Chadborn, yes. Councelor Hos, yes. Councelor Rule Miller, yes. Councelor Ellis, yes. Councelor Powers, yes. Councelor Greenwall,

yes. The motion carries unanimously and uh I want to thank uh councelor Williams and state representative uh help me Jody New Jod New uh uh ad living uh nonetheless those are two people that uh saw this from the beginning to the end and appreciate your work on this. Great. So, we are going on to resolutions. We are on to resolutions.

So, our first resolution, this is a finance organization and personnel committee report relating to resolution R 202605. And on a vote of 4 to 0, the finance organization and personnel committee recommends the adoption of the resolution. And we have before us for adoption resolution R202605, a resolution appropriation that appropriates planned funds for engineering services for the Robin Hood Park Improvements Project. I recognize councelor Powers for a motion. Thank you, honor. I move to uh adopt resolution 20265. Seconded by Councelor Lake and councelor Powers.

Well, thank you, your honor. This involves a very important project for the city. Uh we have a a pretty good plan on repairs at at the uh pool and the pool's a priority of the projects. There's a number of projects up there that need to be taken care of, but the the pool is uh it's a priority. It has some serious business and we'd like to be in a position to be able to to move forward on it when the season ends and before the next season starts. So, by dipping into next year's funds, which is July 1st, uh we can get going with all the design and the work that needs to be put together so we go to bid and be ready for the construction season to work on the pool, finish it up before the next season, and then we can move on to the second phase. The funds are available. This is not new money. It's a it's a forward thinking on this particular plan. Um, I recommend that that we do such FOP was unanimous in their vote. Thank you.

Thank you, councelor. Any questions on this item? Councelor Williams. Um, just being on the east side, you know, I hear a lot from my constituents. You got to save the pool. You got to save the pool. So, I'm very glad that we're saving the pool. And as it's noted, there are grant funds that are associated with this that push the timeline uh in order to make good use of those. And okay, uh we'll need a roll call on this item. Councelor Filio, yes. Councelor Chalice, yes. Councelor Workman, Councelor Lake, Councelor Favalis, yes. Councelor Tobin, yes. Councelor Williams, yes. Councelor Jones, yes. Councelor Roberts. Yes. Councelor Chadborn, yes. Councelor Hos, yes. Councelor Roto Miller,

yes. Councelor Ellis, yes. Councelor Powers, yes. Councelor Greenwald, yep. Councelor Carrie, sorry. Motion carries unanimously. And we will move to the next resolution. And this is a finance, Organization, and Personnel Committee report relating to resolution R 2026. And on a vote of four to zero, the Finance Organization and Personnel Committee recommends adoption of the resolution. And we have before us resolution R202606, a resolution for the appropriation of funds for recycling equipment replacement. Councelor Powers for a motion. Thank you, your honor. I move for the adoption of resolution 2026.

Seconded by Councelor Lake. Councelor Powers for the committee.

Thank you, your honor. This is in the solid waste fund. Um this is no new dollars. It's a movement of funding. Uh this project has been in the plan for quite some time and was designed when out to bid and unfortunately as our times are it's more than in the particular line item for this project. Uh so to move forward and get it get it done uh we're asking that uh $47,000 be transferred from the fund balance waste solid waste fund balance. Again it's not tax dollars. Uh it's not part of the regular revenue process. Again it's it's a good position to be in that we have a little bit of a revenue uh amount there available for these projects and it's pretty pretty much a priority to get this done because the equipment that's there. This is the 30 years 30 years ago we started doing our solid waste in this fashion and uh I think that's a credit to uh public works team is to make it work 30 years. Nice job. Thank you. [clears throat]

Motion's on the floor. Uh any questions? Seeing none, cler please call the role. Councelor Fillia, yes. Councelor Chalice, yes. Councelor Workman, yes. Councelor Lake, yes. Councelor Faves. Yes. Councelor Tobin. Yes. Councelor Williams. Yes. Councelor Jones. Yes. Councelor Roberts. Yes. Councelor Chadbornne. Yes. Councelor Hos. Yes. Councelor Ruddle Miller. Yes. Councelor Ellis. Yes. Councelor Powers. Yes. Councelor Greenwall. Yes. Motion carries unanimously. And we have one last item to read into the record. Yes. And this is a memorandum from our city assessor. And this relates to resolution R202607. And the request at the is that this be referred to committee.

And you'll recall our last council meeting, this came up uh asking for a uh ordinance to be prepared. We have that draft ordinance now in front of us. As such, I'll refer this to the next uh finance organization and personnel committee for their review. That being the last item on our on our agenda, we could drag this out for five more minutes and get to but we don't need to. We are hereby a journey. All right. No nonpublic.