City Council - Regular Meeting

My apologies. I am so sorry. So, good evening, citizens and staff. I'm Mayor Carol Westfall, hereby call to order this council meeting on Monday. May 4th. May 4th, 2026. The time is 7:05. Please roll call. Councelor Sternberg here. Councelor Angelique here. Councelor Russo here. Councelor McConnell here. Please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge

algiance 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. That's why he didn't call me back. He wasn't here.

We have a presentation, a very important one. the city of Clamoth Falls, Oregon proclamation in the matter of proclaiming May 11th through the 16th, 2026 as National Peace Officers Memorial Week in the city of Clamoth Falls, Oregon. Whereas in 2026, National Police Week will um will be observed from Monday, May 11th to Saturday, May 16th. Whereas established in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy. A proclamation was signed establishing the observance of and to pay special recognition to those who have lost their lives in defense for and for the safety of others. Flags will be flown at half staff on May 15th to honor the fallen officers. In addition to the National Memorial, many states conduct ceremonies prior to the national date. Whereas National Peace Officers Memorial Week is part of an annual series of nationwide events dedicated to honoring law enforcement officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. It serves as a time of remembrance supporting the surviving families and friends and co-workers while showing appreciation for officers who are currently serving and or who have served. The memorial takes place every May during this the calendar week that includes May 15th which is designated as peace officers memorial day. Whereas the city of Clamoth Falls and its citizens honor those both local and nationwide who have given their lives in the line of duty to guarantee the safety of our community. Now therefore, I, Mayor Carol West Ewall, proclaim and acknowledge the week of May 11th through the 16th, 2026 as National Peace Officers Memorial Week. And I encourage all Clamoth Falls citizens to join in the observance signed and dated May 4th, 2026. And thank you.

I'd like to thank uh city council members and the mayor for this presentation. Um, if you're not aware, we also we've had two fallen officers just in our community as well. Uh, Trooper Claude help Cloudfelter, correct? And then also Sergeant Swan back in I remember that like I was yesterday I was in the military when that happened. So I wasn't here presently but I remember it happening and very vivid and I knew him personally. So thank you. This is very well appreciated.

Thank you. Thank you. And now we will have public comment. Uh public comment is a time for citizens to present information to the city and if based on what is presented additional information is needed and or an answer warranted by the city, citizens will be contacted by the appropriate city or staff and a f or put on a future agenda. Um public comment is not a time set for questions or answers. of counselors have questions they will present it to staff at or the speaker at another time. So we will start with first I want to know that you have two regular

but then we need to know if they want them to these are for item 9.1 so I need to know if they want them to speak in public comment okay or if they want it. So, we have two people for public comment that can speak. Now, we do have um four of them, four four that are on part of the agenda item and would like part of the agenda item. And would you like to speak during that agenda item? Council's decision. It's council's decision. Or would you like them to speak now? Under public comment or under public comment or during the um action item? Are all of them for the one item? Four. Yeah, four of them. Should we just do it under the item then? Yeah.

Yeah. Do it under the item. Okay. So, we'll call up for public comment right now. Ron Johnson.

Good evening. I am not Ron Johnson. I'm Ron Johnson. My name is Sarah Kellen. I am the comedant of Crater Lake Detachment 373 for the Marine Corps League. I am also the junior vice comeant for the state of Oregon. This is Ron Johnson, the commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1383. And also joining me is Corey Wizenhun, the parade coordinator and organizer of the Memorial Day parade.

Yes. We are here to invite you to the Clamoth Falls community and the Clamoth Falls community to the Memorial Day parade and ceremony. Memorial Day is Monday, May 25th, 2026. Now, for us, that day starts very early. We have a sunrise service at Clamoth Memorial. Unfortunately, not many community members attend, so we would love to see more of Clamoth Falls and more of the basin out there. It starts at sunrise 6:00 a.m. where we do a full service with the honor guard at Clamoth Memorial. Then we go down to start the Clamoth Falls Memorial Day parade that begins at 10:00 a.m. downtown and concludes at Veterans Park that where there will be a Memorial Day ceremony at the pavilion at 11:00 a.m. After that, at noon, the veterans organizations open their doors to feed the community members for free at noon. Now, Memorial Day chronicles America's most difficult times. Warfare that covers over 200 years, accounting for 12 major wars and numerous conflicts and skirmishes. Over 1 million men and women have perished in military service while serving in the United States armed forces. As a remembrance for their loss, this day is set aside to commemorate and revere their ultimate sacrifice. The first service was conducted in 1868 at Arlington National Cemetery adjacent to the Ptoic River. It was known as Decoration Day. A day each grave was decorated with flowers. There were 20,000 Civil War soldiers buried there.

Today, there are over 400,000 fallen veterans in Arlington Cemetery. In the Clamoth Basin, there are over 2500 veteran grave sites. With the advent of the World Wars, the US armed conflicts, Memorial Day has eventually become more common name. Still to this day, graves have been adorned with wreaths, flowers, and American flags to honor the fallen veterans who died in the service of this country. Locally, a thousand small flags are put on veterans grave sites in memory and remembrance of this upcoming Memorial weekend. Please join us this Memorial Day in reflection with the parade and memorial ceremony. God bless America's fallen and God bless America.

Well, thank you again. It's the invitation is please uh join us uh this Memorial Day for the parade and for the at the pavilion the ceremony. Thank you. Also yeah uh this is the uh coordinator for the parade and she might have to say something. We'd absolutely love for everybody to come out and actually come together as a community. I think it's really important. It's why I started helping with the parades. Um, and so if we could have your support and spread the word, we'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. Were you going to say? Oh, I was just going to say um if anyone does need me to send any information on the location, dates or times, or if anyone would like to come help put those flags out, we put the large ones out uh that you see from the highway at Clamoth Memorial as well as the small ones on the graves. We do that the Thursday before. I can go ahead. I'll give you a few of my cards and you can pass these out and I can email out that information if anyone would like to join You can send that to city recorder and I'll just disperse that all the times and everything. Very good. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. What I'll do, I will I have that and I will send I'll bring it in tomorrow morning.

Okay. Thank you. Go ahead. I'm sorry. You're all good. Um I don't really have any prepared public comment. Uh, I was just going to mention that the city failed to post their agenda online and I wasn't really able to figure out if it was even happening today except for just showing up. So, might want to make a note of that. I'm sorry. We just It was online, but there is a whole new system right now. So, I'm sorry. Okay. So, maybe you want to come in.

Yeah, because it could be a little messed up right now. I'm sorry. Um, so are we there now? Um, okay. So that's all we've got for public comment right now. Um, and that concludes our public comment. So this approval of the consent agenda, meeting agenda and prior meeting minutes under separate cover. So we there is nothing on the agenda. This

it's just it's just the consent agenda and it says all that's on there. Yeah. Okay. So I entertain a motion move to approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any declining? Under general public hearing 8.1, authorization of a liquor license application for Letos Pastia located at 1401 Espanade Avenue. And we have Joe Wall. Good evening, Mayor Council. I thought you said that word very nicely. Pastia. Okay.

I don't know why I like it, but um have a limited on premises liquor license recommendation for Leo's Posteria. um which is a newly opened restaurant um northern side of downtown corridor. Um it's been a I think various different restaurants over the years but been open for a few months and now they are requesting the ability to sell beer, wine and like beverages on premises. Um in talking to the the folks who own it, it's not to be age restricted at any time, not uh late night and again kind of a limited on premises in this nature. So with that, in sending out comment to both neighbors and the police department, um nothing discernible came up in this instance. So staff would after a public hearing recommend that the city council recommend a limited on premises license for Leo's Pastor um to the OLCC.

Questions or comments? At this time, I'd like to open it up for a public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on this agenda item can do so right now. Question. Question. Um, come up please.

Just state your name for the record, please. Isabelle Isabelle Rodriguez. And I just wanted a little clarification on what a limited liquor license was. Very good. Thank you. So, it is just the exclusion of distilled spirits. So, no hard alcohol. It's beer, wine, cider only. Very good. Um, anybody else wishing to speak? Um, we will close that. Move to make a positive recommendation for a limited on premise liquor license to the OLCC for Leo's Ptoria located at 1401 Eplanade Avenue.

Second. All in favor say I. I. Any. Very good. 9.1 The approval of city funding request for the economic development funding program and special event 3TS initiative sponsorship for fiscal year 2026 2027. Now this I'd say he does the report and then they

shall we do the report first Jonath um city manager go ahead do the report and then we will have um public comment. All right. Very good. Uh, evening council. Uh, so every year we we advertise um economic development applications to our public entities and u those seeking event funding uh for this coming year. Um, our direction a year ago was to uh for staff to get the word out uh advertise we which we've done. We received more applications this year than we have in the past. I think we were successful in that regards. Um also um the direction from council was that we looked at a way to involve council earlier in the process and making that decision in the scoring of these applications. Uh we received a total of nine economic development funding applications and 26 uh for event funding uh sponsorship funding, community initiative funding. Uh I think altogether there was close to $600,000 in requests that were made to the council. Um per council policy funding was limited to 50,000 per organization. However, in that council uh may award additional funds at this discretion for special projects. Um council has met in three different work sessions since then to to review that to review these applications that have come in. And that brings us to this point tonight where um we recommend approval for the request as presented and glad to answer any questions the council may have.

Can we ask questions or talk after the public comment?

How would you like to do that? Would you like to have the public comment first and then ask questions or do Okay, let's um let's go ahead and open this up. It'll be three minutes. Kelsey Mueller went Hi, Kelsey Mueller Wayne 826 Lomol Linda. I'm sure it's no surprise that I'm here, especially after looking at where the funds were being designated. So, to uh refrain from going over three minutes, I've written a script. You're welcome. Good evening, council mayor. I'm here to speak on agenda item 9.1 regarding the approval of recommended funding amounts for the economic development grant. When we consider the state of the stated intent of this grant to foster economic prosperity by supporting business retention, expanding in recruitment downtown, and neighborhood vibrancy, small business support, and housing, it's important that the fund's decisions clearly reflect those priorities. Based on that framework, I believe both the Farmers Market and Discover Clamoth merit consideration for funding support. While I was not present for the formula presentations, I have seen firsthand the economic impact of the farmers market. It's not only it not only drives significant foot traffic to downtown businesses, but also creates a critical entry point for entrepreneurs to launch and grow their ventures. To highlight that impact, the farmers market generated 550,000 in vendor sales. It supported 95 vendors with 20% being new and startup businesses, aka small businesses. 21 new agricultural vendors alone produced $200,000 in sales. $36,000 was distributed to local food and agricultural producers through SNAP and EBT, providing local fresh foods to those that are underserved. The estimated broader economic impact on

downtown businesses is $1.5 million. These are the exact types of outcomes this grant program was designed to support. I also want to raise a concern about the funding recommendations themselves. One organization is being recommended for nearly twice the stated maximum grant amount and I noted that it was for a special project. However, when looking at the descriptions, it says contracted services. Those are so when you look at contracted services rather than a competitive grant, those are fundamentally different processes and should be treated as such. Blurring that line risks undermining trust in the grant program and citizens, might I add, and creates false expectations for the nonprofits and organizations that are working hard to strengthen our community and those that we marketed this to. Specifically, Discover Clamoth that is regularly hard at work during to driving tourism aka TRT tax without earning without receiving any funds from it. For those reasons, I find the current recommendations disappointing and encourage the council to reconsider allocations to better align with the state of goals and ensure fair and transparent process. Thank you.

Kelsey, would you like to leave your statement for the record? Okay, that's good. Jad Jaw Jad Jad I'm mark not to public comment and I reiterate everything Kelsey said.

Very good. Hello. Hi, council. Uh, my name is Rose Clark. I'm the executive director of Clamoth Grown. Um, and it's wonderful to be here for the first time. Um, uh, I know some of you and and hello to the rest of you. Thank you all very much for the work that you do for our city. Um, I live up at Third and Jefferson for the record. Um, so yeah, I wanted to um just introduce myself as well as Clamoth Grown and just reiterate what Kelsey said about our um platforms both Clamoth Grown and the farmers market. Last year um funneled over 750,000 towards small businesses, specifically small farmers um and ranchers as well as um artisans. Um, with our food access programs, the farmers market operates staff and doubleup. Um, Clamoth Grown launched a community food fund last year that offers free food to people weekly. Um, and the farmers get paid full amounts for their um those purchases um and and the food goes to people. We also donated over $16,000 in food to the food bank um and to the tribes and to IS. Um, we also, uh, support community development, uh, through offering healthy and welcoming places to gather. Um, I'm sure you all know and appreciate that those are sometimes hard to find. Um, and and we offer that weekly. Uh, Clamoth Grown operates our local food markets on Wednesdays and Thursdays year round. Um, we are newly in the Mills neighborhood. I'm pointing to Isabelle and the Mills Neighborhood Association. Um, and I and I encourage you all to come by and see

our operation. Um, we would love to see you there. Wednesdays from 3:30 to 6:30, Thursdays from 10 to 2. Um, we also are going to be hosting a small farms tour on August 9th, and we hope that you all will attend. Thank you. Super. Thank you,

Millie Osthorp. Thank you, Mayor and Council. My name is Millie Osgorf, executive director of Discover Clamoth. Our role at Discover Clamoth is to sustainably curate, cultivate, and create meaningful experiences for residents and visitors to drive the visitor economy forward. And I'm here today with my team to speak following the release of the proposed results for the economic development grant agenda item 9.1. We see that our grant application has not been proposed for funding. And I would be remiss to not publicly comment on that today prior to approvals. Our proposed project on downtown revitalization of the main gateways delivers shared infrastructure for business success, supporting retention, recruitment, and small business growth at a district-wide level. Without funding, these benefits are delayed, not just for one organization, but for the entire downtown ecosystem. We noted in our grant the economic benefits and the synergy between the 2020 Clamoth Falls plan as well as the newly released plan orchestrated by Happy Cities for Healthy Clamoth as well as the Spring Street Urban Renewal District. At its core, this effort is about aligning what we already know to be true. The visitor economy is a major driver of local prosperity. Visitor spending contributes approximately $245 million to Clamoth County. This is not a peripheral figure. It is central to our economic stability and growth. Investments that strengthen first impressions, increase dwell time, and encourage exploration directly support that revenue stream and the businesses that rely on it. You know, we see for every $100 spent, $43 is coming from a visitor. Of the people who visit Calamoth Falls, 50% that come into the county come into Clamoth Falls, but only 5% are coming into our downtown. Without revitalized gateways, businesses, hotel years, and events are missing out on potential customers. So, I have to ask the question, you know, what good is a plan if it sits on a shelf and is not actualized? We have a shared opportunity to move from a planning to implementation to take the strategies that we've

identified and bring them to life in a way that benefits residents, businesses, and visitors alike. A vision that we truly felt aligned with this grant. I want to extend an open invitation for feedback, whether publicly or privately. We would value the opportunity to better understand the city of Clamoth Falls economic development priorities. Our goal is to truly ensure the work that we're doing, our investments, and our vision are aligned with our largest municipality, both in terms of strategic direction and practical outcomes. We remain committed to this work and to this community, and we plan to be back for the next grant cycle, and we hope to return with even stronger alignment and partnership. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. And thank you.

Okay, and that is all of the public comment we have. Questions or comments? Go ahead, councelor Russo.

Um, I just want to open up to council um just to have a conversation. Uh, I want to say thank you you guys for coming out and giving your feedback. Um, this was a new way of doing things. This cycle started with councelor went um on council at the time and some of the vision that we had at at that time was just wanting to get more involved with um our community and really hearing what people were working on and understanding um how you know the doers are doing you know there's doers that are doing and they're contributing to our city and um the presentations that were given were really nice they I mean I learned so much and like I said and I think we've all said this at one point. If we had all the money, we would give it to everybody. It just makes it very difficult to allocate funding. Um, but that being said as well, you know, we're you guys are all part of uh a cog on the wheel. Everybody is a cog. Everybody works together to sort of feed economic development into our community and livability. And so that being said, um I would like to present to the council an idea of amending the staff recommendations and um placing or allocating 10 grand to uh the farmers market, 10 grand to um downtown uh I mean Discover Clamoth and 70 to Cassita. If anybody wants to comment on that or have feedback on that, but that's a little different than what we had originally. um had recommended, but um that's my thought. So, I'd like to throw it out there. Councelor Angeli.

Again, as Councelor Russo said, um well, as I'll say, this is probably one of the toughest budgets I've looked at because of the lack of money available and the amount of turnout by everybody that's been so viable and so deserving of it. I'm concerned personally about the format of this whole breakdown here. So, it just I I wish that we had a way that we could fund everybody appropriately because there's so many viable people and organizations in this. Um I'm just I'm not completely sold on the way it's broken down at this point myself. Thank you. Councelor McClung.

Um, it was impossible decisions. I can say that like every single application that came in was worthy of the amount that they asked for and then some. There were four criteria. Just so that everyone here understands the methodology that we looked at four different areas and the one that several applicants didn't get a check mark in was the housing support. And so it was hundreds of thousands of dollars more in requests than what was available to be spent. And so there's no way to distribute that where every applicant is going to feel good about this. And it is a unique environment that when I do a lot of grant writing and you get some and you don't get some and you don't always have the opportunity to look at the whole scoring sheet and then come share your opinions on that. Every single presentation was completely worthy and if there was $600,000 to distribute from the the revenue that the city does have then the situation would have been different. So the way that we went about it in multiple work sessions was looking at all four categories and then applications that met the most of those categories were the ones that were funded. So, it was a different process. It was impossible decisions. And anybody that wasn't recommended to be funded by staff recommendations and reviewed by council is because they didn't meet as fully all four categories as the other applicants.

Very good.

Uh just a moment, Councelor Studenberg. Well, unfortunately because of some health reasons, I didn't attend all the the sessions, but I I I feel like it was uh a good process. I think it was a useful process and I it uh it will grow as as we uh every year when this process comes, we can certainly modify it. But at this point, I I tend to support the uh the budget that we approved and uh I think we need I I intend to support the budget that we approved. So

I would still like to make a motion and so we can vote on it. Just a moment. Um would you like um councelor or Kelsey to come up? Yeah. Would you like to hear? That's fine. Go ahead, Kelsey.

Okay. Sorry. I just I can't sit quiet through this. When we look at all four criteria, I would love to see the applications because those were not published. They were just the recommendations per staff. And to be honest, I would challenge you, Abby, and I love you to death. So, this is not a personal thing. This is purely business. Um, I would challenge that Cassita didn't have all four criteria. And quite frankly, I don't really believe that they had a special project. When you look at downtown vibrancy and when I look at some of the applications that didn't make it, I mean, Discover Clamas had business retention, expansion, recruitment, downtown neighborhood vibrancy, and small business support. The one that they were missing was housing. So, I don't understand with that explanation why they wouldn't receive some funds. And quite frankly, when you're trying to tell me that funds are limited, why are we increasing one one request and almost matching it with almost twice council policy of the recommended grant amount? So this the answer is I understand your politicians, but guess what? I'm not anymore. So I can speak frankly and I don't buy it. I think it's baloney and I think you guys can do better. And if I were on that bench, I would be fighting for these organizations because I truly believe that it's not the math is not mathing. I'm sorry. And I'm not trying to rip you a new one, but I'm just being honest. And we have to fight the good fight. And when we push and push and push to get more applications, why on earth are we advertising it as a competitive grant when it's the same three organizations? And I support all of them in different ways, but when it's the same three organizations getting funded, it's not competitive. It is it is misleading organizations saying hey you might have a chance at this and they don't they just don't so I personally believe that each organization has a place but it shouldn't be where we're giving twice

the allotted amount almost twice to one organization that gets funded every year and we're justifying as a special project when it says contracted for services. So I'm sorry I'm I'm not buying it. Thank you. Councelor,

I just want to reiterate the fact that, you know, reallocating some of this money has nothing to do with saying that anything is not important, especially Cassita. Cassita is very important, but Cassita also relies on the other cogs in the wheel in order to bring business and livability into our community. And it's so important that we um are able to nurture that. And so again, I would like to make a motion to amend the allocated funds and change the cassita amount to 70, discover Clamoth 10,000, and the farmers market 10,000. Do I have a second?

I would second that. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed? Opposed. Opposed. So you're the tie. Why? We need another council person. Right. You know where my rope would go. Yeah. You could have been a tiebreaker. It's you.

I would have to go with uh Russos or So your eye is in support of the motion. Okay. It passes. Yeah. So that changes it from what it was to just making sure I have this clear. 70,000 to Cassita, 10,000 to the farmers market and 10,000 to to discover common. Correct. Does that does that add up Jonathan to the reallocation? It does. It does. Okay. Great. Okay. And I'll just comment on that. Go ahead. That's not a loss for anybody. I mean, that's a great

that's a good thing to go around. It really was housing that was the category. Um, and of course, we want to see Discover Clamoth and Farmers Market also be funded. There was a lot of discussion around that. It came down to so many asks, so little money, and who met the most criteria and had the furthest reach. So, this isn't a bad outcome. I'm certainly not upset that it went in that direction. And I think that's great and I love to see people get up and um speak passionately about what they believe in. But it really was that fourth category of housing when you're checking boxes on a rubric, the ones who didn't get funded. It really came down to that and then comparing the reach of some really significantly sized organizations and what they what they get accomplished. So

very good. Okay. I would join in Council Mullen's statements. Certainly no hard feelings and I think it was a good good result. City manager would you like to um I think the only question I'd have uh we had outlined what the additional funding for Cassita would be which was to um administer the opportunity zones and the enterprise zones. So I think we'd need count uh some some direction from council which do you want them to to do now? Say that question again because I wasn't listening to the first part. Part of the recommendation was for the additional 40,000 that Cassita was operating. They were going to administer the enterprise zones and opportunity zones.

So then it would be the the which one would you prefer? Can you describe which what they are? What is it? The opportunity zones 2.0 is we're just going through the process right now. Those would go there would be three of them. Uh it's based on census tracks. It's a it's an opportunity for uh business recruitment, retention, expansion in our community. It's there's tax incentives that go along with that. Enterprise zones as well, but it's more through property tax side. Uh that's already in place. They have been administering that already. Um it may affect our opportunity zone uh in our application there. So,

but that's the part of the funding that's additional to the the original 50,000 ask. Correct. So, we have to decide how that gets allocated or they get that additional funding over the 50,000 and they put it towards those things. How does what do you mean? I'm not sure I understand. He wants you. He wants you guys to prioritize the funding over Oh, how we want to prioritize that $20,000 would you recommend that the city would benefit most?

Yeah. What would you recommend in that? And one comment on that, city manager, before you answer, the funding for Sak Sakisa, that's that was also done in years past. So that wasn't a brand new funding cycle that that's been voted on and approved in years past by full council as well to do that amount. So that wasn't um something that was brand new this time. So that's true. I mean, I think we might have to have a conversation with Cassita and say it's 20,000, not 40. what what can be done toward the enterprise zone work with that lesser amount. Yeah, they're already operating enterprise zone. I would

and they have in the past with that additional funds. I would continue that way and we'll have to have some discussion about what we do for opportunity zones I think is going to be the question we're going to have to ask have. So we don't have to do it right now. We'll need to do it soon. Yeah. Yeah, I think our applications are due, Jo. They're due in a couple weeks, I think. So, Jonathan, you're saying that the enterprise zone would be the one you would go with? That'd be my recommendation. Okay. So, if we want a consensus right now or do you want a work session on this or can we go with that?

Go with what you recommend in that. I mean, that would be my opinion. Yeah. Councelor McClung, do we know that it's an even split of the dollars for either opportunity for enterprise zone? Yeah, we don't. Okay. I think there has to be a conversation with Cassita then to determine how to move that forward. Are you giving him authority to do that then? Yeah. I would need a consensus from everybody. Um, okay. So, you got a yes. just a revised plan with the reduced amount and how to accomplish those goals. Okay. Thank you. And anything else you want to close with?

You want to close with anything else? Okay. Okay. So, and we're good on this one. So, um Yep. I Yep. Got the vote. We voted. Yep. Awesome. Thank you. Okay. Sounds good. So, 9.2 and thank you all for working through this. So, 9.2. the authorization of a letter of support for um basing the T um the F35A lightning training unit at Kingsley Field. This is a letter that was um in support for the F-35. And we have uh Colen, you want to speak on this, Grand? Uh that's not the agenda item.

That's not your agenda item. So, I just wanted to say that the F-35 Lightning 2 is an impressive aircraft that represents the future of military aviation. The F-35 advanced um advanced capabilities and versatility make it a valuable addition to any military arsenal. As technology continues to evolve, it's likely that we'll be seeing more advanced and innovative fighter jets in the years to come. So, you have seen the letter. How do you all feel about that? Um, all in favor or would you like to make a motion? It's a consensus item. Yeah, everybody's good. Um, councelor Angelie, yes, you're good. And um, Councelor Studenberg,

yes. Okay, so we're at 9.3. Authoriza um 9.3 authorization of a jurisdictional transfer of three roadway segments near the Clamoth Regional Airport. And we have Colin Grandandy. Sorry. Or not. Sorry. Wait a minute. I think that's my thought. I wrote the wrong name on this. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, too. Sorry. It's all right. Go ahead. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Council.

Sorry. What we have before you tonight is a proposed juris jurisdictional transfer uh from the county to the city of three roadway segments. That being Joe Wright Road from Spring Lake Road to its easterly termini, Ultimate Drive, Alultimont Drive from Southside bypass down to uh Joe Wright Road and then from Summerslane from Southside bypass down to Bretway. Typically a roadway segment if it's in the city, it belongs to the city, it's in the county, belongs to the county. We do have a few anomalies. These three being a few of those anomalies. Um although it does put the uh maintenance requirements onto the city, it does make it easier when we're doing land use uh development adjacent to the property that we don't have to go to another agency and seek their input if the roadway belongs to us. Back when um Amazon went in the county forgo um some improvements to fasttrack the project at the tune of about $180,000 as part of this jurisdictional transfer. They're looking to give that money to us um as a I guess as a payment. Um the three roadway segments are in or two of the roadway segments, Alt Drive and Joel Wright Road, are in fairly good shape. Joel Wright Road was chip sealed last year. Alto Drive four years ago. The county is looking to chip seal Alto Drive again for us and that would not come out of that $180,000. Summerslane was looking was going to be given over to the city. That was part of the whole Bretway extension um uh the roundabout that was put in. So that was supposed to go to us sometime in the past. So we're just following up on that. So with that, I will answer any questions you might have.

Questions or comments? I don't have any. Councelor McClung, it makes sense to me. The roads are in the city. Do you have any concerns long term about taking responsibility for that? No, like I said, it does put us I was thinking about this for a while. It's kind of that uh they've been maintaining it in my kind of my view for uh some time even though it should be perhaps our maintenance responsibility. So, it's I'm glad they've been maintaining it for so long, but maybe it's time for it to come back to us. Yeah, that's how it read to me. Yeah, you know more than me about this.

Very good. Anybody else? Okay, I will entertain a qu motion. Um, I'll move to request that Clamoth County jurisdictionally transfer Joe Wright Road from Spring Lake Road to Fairchild Avenue, Altoont Drive from Joe Wright Road to South by Southside bypass and Summers Lane from the Southside bypass to Brettway to the city of Clema Falls. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed?

Thank you. 9.4 4 authorization to execute a facility sustainment repair modernization cooperative agreement FSRMCA with the National Guard Bureau for the design of the F-35 munitions assembly conveyor MAC pad and storage facility and airport manager Colen Grandandy.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I was a little uh uh jumping the gun earlier. Uh the numbering has changed since I printed these. So um so what we have here uh I'll keep this one short is the the city has entered into 13 um military construction cooperative agreements slash facility sustainment repair modernization agreements uh with uh National Guard Bureau on behalf of Kingsley Field to modernize them in preparation for the F-35. This will be the 14th if you guys approve it. Um this is the initial uh MCCA agreement uh and we would go into design work for the Air National Guard. Uh upon acceptance of a final design, they may authorize us to administer the uh construction contract for this project. Uh as with all these projects, it is 100% funded by the National Guard Bureau and the city of Clement Falls receives an agent fee to administer the contract.

Uh any questions? questions or comments? No. I will entertain a motion. I'd move to authorize the city manager to execute the facility sustainment repair modernization cooperative agreement for the design of F-35 munitions assembly conveyor Mac pad and storage facility with the National Guard Bureau in the amount of 28,000. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed?

Okay. 9.5 authorization to submit a small community air service development program grant application and airport manager Colin Grandandy.

Um this one I'm asking for permission to submit a grant. Um so small community air service development programs a competitive grant program administered by the department of transportation. It provides funding for small or rural communities that have lost air service. uh with our grant ask what we're going to be pursuing if awarded would be an updated market analysis uh for the air service catchment um route forecasting and a strategic plan to recruit a new carrier. Um those are all the first steps that we need to take uh to build a case to any airline just because uh we are considered like an at risk route like potentially it's not profitable at least in the beginning. So this grant would get us uh that uh footing in the recruitment phase if we are awarded.

Very good. Questions or comments? Go ahead, councelor McClung. Do I understand right that the grant would be for planning? Yeah. So, uh, this grant, um, if awarded would be used to fund a market analysis, a route forecast study, and a strategic plan that would be used to recruit a new air carrier. Okay. And then at the end of the grant period, if it were awarded, would that just lead to another grant?

That's the hope. Um, so this would build help us build a competitive case for a larger ask within this program and others. So, uh, and I I do want to, uh, make a comment that, so the SCASDAP grant, uh, is a, it's not requiring a match. So, and our application, we're not putting forth a match for this because it's a really small ask. Uh, but in future grants, those are viewed um, for a bigger ask, you would want to have a match and in kind contributions to those. Very good. Is there a phase of the grant that sustainability of that?

Well, that's the whole market analysis. So, they look at a catchment area. So, uh what's the population that would serve this airport um that would drive to our airport versus another uh and then they use that data to compile how many people are flying out of all those zip codes. their analysis could reveal that we don't have enough of a population that would support an air route and then we would have to be going back to the drawing board. Okay, very good. I mean, I think everybody would love if air service in some form were able to return. It just doesn't seem feasible, but I guess that's what this grant is for is to determine the feasibility.

Yes. Yes. We would rather spend someone else's money than ours to be told no, it's not going to work. So, yeah. and maybe put someone at the Rogue Valley airport to say want to include you in the data. Would you have flown out of Clamoth if that was an option? Yeah. Well, and that's what this uh that's why you know the these companies they do some really in-depth market analysis and research that get the data um that the airlines want to see before they make a commitment.

Good. I appreciate you doing that. Any other comment or question? Um I will entertain a motion. I'll move to authorize airport staff to submit a small community air service development program SCASDP grant application in the amount not to exceed $50,000 and to accept the funds if offered. Second. All in favor say I. Any opposed? 9.6. authorization to submit an application for the FAA airport improvement program grant to rehabilitate the North General Aviation Parking Apron. And Colin Grandandy,

hello again. Long time no see. Um, so uh this is uh a grant request through the FAA. Uh these one these grants do have a 5% match uh for the 1.3 million and some change. The city's match is $68,4215. Uh our uh engineering firm on contract u uh has identified the north general aviation apron as the most likely area that could uh benefit from this grant. uh the pavement condition index for that area is the lowest uh in the airfield and uh not yet failed but if we don't take action soon it could and then we would be closing off sections of the uh general aviation parking apron to aircraft. So um this isn't a competitive grant. Um this one is uh based on our the city has an entitlement with the FAA. So each year we bank about $150,000 that's rolled over up to five years and we're reaching that point where we need to take action or they start to fall off.

Wow. Question council Angel. Is this the the section that would affect any fire service? Um no. Okay. No, that's that's on the it's over by the um US Force Service ramp and then the Bravo taxi way and parking apron over there is where a lot of those aircraft park. Okay. Thank you. Any other question or comment? I will entertain a motion. I'll move to authorize airport staff to submit a grant application to the FAA in the amount of 1,368,4215 for the rehabilitation of the North General Aviation Parking Apron and allow acceptance of the grant if offered.

Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Thank you. Thank you. Other matters. Anybody have anything? Go ahead. Councelor Angeline. Two two pieces. want to want to thank all of uh council and staff included. The the budget process this year was difficult and I think it weighed on everybody. Um how to divvy out such a small amount of money into I don't know how many parcels there were, but there's never enough and nobody's going to go away happy in that unfortunately. Grant funding. Did I what did I say?

Budget. budget grant funding. My apologies. Too many numbers in the head right now, but I want to say to the staff especially that you've crunched a lot of numbers and that's respectable and it it's hard to look at those numbers and and be able to divvy them out. So, it's fair. So, I want to thank the staff again for everything they put into this. And then also to the mayor and council for the proclamation for the peace officers um memorial. week.

Um, having just driven back minutes before this meeting from a major one in in California, um, it's always understated about law enforcement and all those that have, uh, given the ultimate sacrifice for for the work and even people within law enforcement, they don't quite understand the sacrifice and have seen what it takes. There's all state uh memorials as well as the national memorial which takes place next week in DC for an entire week. So I would behoove folks amongst us and out there to really look at that and see what law enforcement has and the families of law enforcement more so what they have to suffer and deal with for the rest of their lives because of their sacrifices. So thank you again for the proclamation and bringing that to light. Very good. Thank you. Go ahead.

Um I just want to second what Mike said as well. I want to thank staff for um helping um navigate this new process of grant funding. I don't know. Um it's hard to do something new for the first time and it's hard to be a counselor and learning a lot of this information on how the city works and making big decisions is um it's complicated and I take it very seriously. So going through this process can be stressful. You think about things when you leave a work session. Um but just out of respect for staff's time, city manager, um these things are really important and um sometimes it feels clunkier than it than it should, but the um ability to learn and work together on this kind of stuff is really important for me personally. So um I just wanted to say thank you for that. And hopefully next time it's better and I'll learn more about how to go through the process a little bit.

Councelor Angelie,

and apologies for coming back, but that reminded me of something. Having just come back from a board meeting for the League of Oregon Cities, from the mayors, counselors, and managers throughout the state, it's not this isn't just a Clamoth issue. I I can say that we're actually in a much better position than probably 90% of the municipalities throughout the state. So, we should be thankful for that. But the one thing I've learned up there is that uh council and people in elected positions are truly held their hamstrung when it comes to getting resources and information. not necessarily from our administration because they do a great job and our staff, but there's so little time and ability to get the information that's necessary to make really big decisions like this because of ethics laws and and things like that. It really puts um elected officials in a bad position to really know all the information. Um, so everything that we get with the limited amount of time that we have, we appreciate the help with that, but please understand that there's a lot of a lot of information that has to pass through a really small civ in a short period of time. So, thank you.

Okay, any other comment or question? I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Move to adjourn. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Meeting is adjourned.