City Council - Regular Meeting

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Okay. Good evening, citizens and staff. by Mayor Carol Westfall. Hereby call hereby call to order this council meeting on May 18th, 2026 at 700 p.m. Roll call, please. Council Stinber here. Council Lee here. Council Russo here. Council here. Thank you. And today we have a special treat. We've got senior Mard and the Henley ROC presenting the colors and leading us in the uh pledge of allegiance.

Nice. And they can start. Color guard left face present arms to the flag of the United States of America. America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

For our right face forward march. Thank you very much. Okay. We have a presentations.

Okay. The city of Clamoth Falls has a certificate of service to award to Kurt Wall. So, come on up here, Kurt. Kurt Wall has been with the uh Clamoth Falls Police Department code enforcement for the completion of 25 years of service on May 29th, 2026. And we appreciate all you do for the city. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

Good. face. You know, it's been an honor and a privilege to be here for about 20 I'm not loud enough, right? It's been an honor and a privilege to work here for the city of Columbus for like the last 25 years. I mean, you know, they all say it doesn't seem like it's been that long. It truly doesn't. It just seems like yesterday when I walked into Judy's office for my first day here. So, I just am grateful that the city took a chance on hiring me 25 years ago because here I am today and look forward to however many more I got left. Very good. Thank you. Thank you.

How many? 13. 14. So, about 14 years ago, we stole him from uh public works and um took him on as code enforcement officer and it's probably one of the better decisions we've made. He's an outstanding employee. Shows up to work every day. Uh works hard. first one to volunteer for something that um we need extra. Hey, let's get Kurt to do it. Okay, this is what he does all the time. The one trait I really admire about Kurt is his empathy. He is the first one to volunteer for a guy needs help moving. You know, somebody needs help putting something together, somebody needs help cleaning out a yard or whatever, Kurt is the first one to step steps up. So, I really appreciate him for that. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you, Kurt.

Thank you. And the city of Clamoth Falls has a certificate of service to award to Edgar Cisinero for public works maintenance division for the completion of 10 years of service on May 9th, 2026. He is not here, but we'll make sure he gets that. So, um, at this point we have public comment and, um, public comment is a time reserved for citizens to speak on a matter that is not scheduled um, on the meeting on the schedule at the meeting agenda. Each person has three minutes to speak and must state their name and address for the record. Um, if there are multiple people from one group or entity that wish to convey one message or thesis, they can have the group speaker that will be given 5 to 10 minutes. So, first of all, I'd like to call up um, Senior Meard with his ROC, the skills USA, if you would like to come up and speak on that. Uh yes, I'm a senior master sergeant uh retired uh Mard. I'm the ROC instructor out at Henley High School. Um but I want to actually bring up uh our president for uh Skills USA here in the state of Oregon. Uh um Theren Tyler, he is a senior at Henley High School and he's going to speak on uh some of the stuff that we do for Skills USA and the monetary uh challenges that we're having uh for this year. So the Hello, my name is Theren Tyler. I'm a Henley High School engineering student and the Oregon Skills USA president. Skills USA is a career and technical student organization preparing students for leadership, workforce readiness, technical careers, and post-secary success. Skills USA works to build employability, leadership, teamwork, and technical skills through competitions and service.

At Henley, we compete in engineering, construction, commercial drone program, and health occupations. Next year, we plan to grow to digital media, pre-education, and agricultural mechanics.

Skills USA gives us hands-on career connected learning experiences, and we gain leadership, communication, technical, and professional skills that translate directly to college, careers, military service, and industry. This year, 11 Henley students qualified to compete at the National Skills USA conference in Atlanta, Georgia on June 1st. Students earn this opportunity through strong performance at our state competition, getting first and second places at multiple competitions. We're going competing in job interview, commercial drones, engineering design technology, robotics, basic healthcare skills, and medical terminology. Henley students will will be representing our school, our community, and the state of Oregon on a national stage. Skills USA helps us develop future workforce in engineering, healthcare, skilled trades, aviation and drone technology, and education. We've raised $25,000 toward travel and our competition expenses. But we still need to raise $5,000 to ensure every student can participate. We welcome support from local businesses, organizations, and community members. Anyone interested in supporting Henley students and Skills USA participation is encouraged to reach out. Thank you for supporting opportunities that help students build skills, develop leadership, and open pathways to successful futures while representing our community at the national level.

Awesome. Very good. And can we have your statement for the record? If you're done, thank you so much. We appreciate you being here. Thank you. Very good. Thank you so much. We appreciate that. Thank you.

Um, next we have up is Marissa Davidson. Hello. How are you guys tonight? I'm Marissa Davidson. I'm here on behalf of the KFDA. Um, we just uh wanted to come and chat about something that was put in the news. as an organization, we sent an email requesting public support on an unpleasant odor downtown. Um, since that email went out, we had um a group of us had a really productive meeting with our city manager. Um, we felt like it went really well and uh that we understood staff will be looking into this issue. Um, we just want to let you guys know that news article went out after we had that meeting um without our say, but we feel like it we've been heard and um we look forward to um how this is going to move forward and we appreciate um your all all your partnership um in everything that we do downtown and together. So, thank you.

Very good. Thank you, Ren Shaki. Sorry to butt in on the previous topic, but my uh my grandparents were dairy farmers, so I am a little bit nostalgic for the smell of manure during planting season. Um I was going to say I actually do want to talk about a code enforcement issue. uh specifically an issue with the building across from ours at the corner of 11th Street and Pine Street putting up flood lights to shine in the windows of buildings that are opposing the parking lot that we share in the space behind those streets. Uh when it comes to code enforcement, I think it's really important that we recognize the text of how the code enforcement law is written. Specifically, it is anything that constitutes a nuisance being anything that prevents or inhibits the lawful use or enjoyment of someone's property. I think it's something like uh someone that prevents a person from lawfully enjoying or using his property, something like that. Uh specifically, the lawful or legitimate use that I would be referring to here is my right to sleep and my ability to sleep. Um I I think that when we look at what these property management companies do, uh there should be a lot of care taken to people who live in buildings that are not owned by those property management companies and specifically monopolistic behaviors or practices that may be taken by these companies to try and drive people out of their building. This was something that I saw with Morehouse and I think it's the Salem property management like landlord whatever company that owns a lot of the buildings they manage downtown. They they ended up taking up uh you know the WineAma Apartments, renaming it, kicking out a lot of my neighbors who some of which became homeless, many of which left the Clamoth Falls community. And now they are trying to get our building. They've repeatedly tried to buy it from the

landlord that owns it. They've repeatedly gotten into property line disputes with the property manager that runs our building. And while we do have problems with our property manager, I would much rather be under their ownership as somebody who's actually established in Clamoth Falls and is working for a landlord in Clamoth Falls than somebody who wants to evict me and my neighbors to create Airbnbs. So, this started like two years ago when they purchased a flood light to shine in the rear parking lot, you know, on the main street side of this block. And this came into my window from the living room side and you know just went all throughout the apartment. Just several hundred watt flood light really difficult. Um I ended up uh having bigger fish to fry at the time. Uh and they pitched this to the police as being a thing that would you know prevent vagrants or other people from doing things they shouldn't in the rear parking lot. Um and when I went and tried to speak to this guy, I said, "Hey, could you get a hood on this? Could you do something to abate the negative impact of this?" and he said, "Well, I want it shining on your building." That was what he said. Um, now, as of I think about a week ago, they've gotten a second one and it now shines directly into my bedroom window. Um, this is really difficult and just not something that I think that people who live in this city should have to deal with. I think it's a basic matter of dignity to be able to sleep in one's home. And I think it kind of Yeah, I I think we should have code enforcement look at this and at least get them to put in a shade over the light. I think it draws into question if something's not done on this whether this is something like a city government that stands for the people that live here or is here to facilitate the transfer of the property away from the people who live here to people who don't. Thanks.

Thank you. At this point, we don't have any more forms for public comment. We will close public comment. um the approval of the consent agenda, meeting agenda and prior meeting minutes from May 4th, 2026 provided under um with the agenda and any listed consent items. Um 5.1 first period budget analysis report for the 2025 2027 bianual budget. Move to approve the consent agenda. Uh just one moment.

I just wanted to say thank you to Jessica. Jessica, thank you for that report. That was good information. So, I appreciate it. I read it, went through it, and so I just want to say thank you. Very good. And I will um entertain a motion. Move to approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? 5.1. First period budget analysis report for 20. Is this Oh, I already did that one.

Okay. This is This is funny. Okay. Um, six, land public hearing legislative 6.1, an ordinance approving community development ordinance text amendment 1-ta-26, residential code update, first reading. And we have Joe Wall. Good evening, mayor, council. This has kind of been a long time coming. Um, I feel like we had a work session some time ago talking about adjustments to residential standards in the community. I want to give a little bit of a preface in that we have applied for a grant together with Clamoth County that we received from the state of Oregon.

Um, it's just now kicking off that's going to take a much more thorough look at our kind of comprehensive residential development code and that will be in front of both the planning commission, city council and planning counterparts at a later date. Um but with that kind of wanted to look at some lowerhanging fruit to primarily ensure that our code both complies with state standards. Um so as recent state legislation comes out we need to make sure our code is compliant and then to also add some I'd say builder and property owner flexibility to reduce the cost of providing new housing. As far as state items, what we primarily need to do is always ensure that we have clear and objective standards is what it's called for residential. So items that are very easily categorized numerical such as this is your maximum height, your setback, number of parking spaces, etc., but not necessarily um does the look of the home blend in with the next door neighbor or something that may be more akin to HOA standards or similar. So we went ahead and took out conditional uses in our code and then also did an item that's called middle housing land divisions that the state is encouraging. And the gist of it that is I'm almost thinking about like a row home. So you have three houses in a row and you can divide it on the shared property wall. So the common interior wall and the premise there is to have additional homeownership opportunities where they would typically be rentals but kind of smaller units that people can buy fee title and it's a little bit easier of a route than creating condominiums which are notoriously difficult. Um, and then I I'll kind of look to our associate planner, John Anderson. He did a really good job scanning through our code, finding some standards that we've talked about, um, which are the other items that we've brought forward. Um, I had provided a little summary sheet to the city council depending how far over we want to go with things. U, but some of the gists are we looked at other communities, looked at our historic subdivision lot sizes within our own

town. Um, so older neighborhoods and what those lot sizes are. Um, I think we talked about many areas being, let's say, 50 by 100 or 5,000 square feet where our current standard is 7,000 square feet. Um, having talked to many home builders and what it costs to build out infrastructure and new lots, again, kind of reducing a barrier to new subdivisions and new housing.

Uh, some of the other items that we looked at are reducing parking requirements, not necessarily requiring that one has a garage, though you're more than welcome to build one. And then something that's come up over the years just east of where we are today. It's kind of a little bit of a hodgepodge of uses, but before you get to the historic industrial area along Spring Street where you have again commercial residences, churches, vacant lots, etc. So technically you have a lot of houses there that aren't permitted and it becomes difficult for them to obtain mortgage financing um to do additions again expansion etc. So something that we're doing here is creating a non-conforming use exception for residences in historic residential areas where the current zoning doesn't match.

So again, number of items. We've gone through them with our planning commission um looked at how they comply both with our comprehensive plan statewide planning goals. Uh we had a planning commission meeting maybe about a month and a halfish ago um where they unanimously recommended the findings and the text amendment to the city council. So with that, I would open up any questions and then we'll have a public hearing. Councelor Muk, thank you for the summary. It read to me like primarily just reductions in barriers and making things easier to develop housing. Did I miss anything on that? Is there anything in there that people might see differently?

I think it's overall right. I I think when you talk about smaller lot sizes, people can maybe get a little afraid, but I think the gist of it is it it does not require that you have that lot size. If you have your existing lot, it does nothing to that. But if you wanted to make a property line adjustment with your neighbor that also agreed, you could. So, the way I see it, it's options more than anything um instead of being mandated. That's what I saw, too. Thank you. Thank you. Same. Um, any other question or comment? I'd like to open it up for a public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on this agenda item, go ahead.

Okay. Just very briefly, continuing as planning manager, not a member of the public, but I would like to introduce the findings as recommended by the planning commission into the record for the public hearing. Very good. Thank you. Um, go ahead, Ren. And then we'll have Niles. at a public hearing. You don't have to. Go ahead.

I was just going to say you guys have a lovely woman who works with planning uh for the city. I spoke with her with CAC about things with uh programs to address the homeless. Uh and she has like a fantastic story. I think you guys know of her. She came from, I believe, either Idaho or Montana with her kids in her car. Uh started working with uh with the program that that serves the youth youth rising in Clamoth Falls. And yeah, and she's big on support of things like this to allow there to be more homes built, to do stuff like decreasing the minimum lot sizes. Uh for people in my generation, this is a big thing. And obviously like just Yimi policy, yes, in my backyard, paving the way through reducing barriers to more development. Obviously that doesn't solve a 100% of the housing problem, but it solves a good half to 60% of it. Uh people in my generation, we have as our aspirational homes, not these large McMansions on a quarter acre out in the suburbs. a lot of us would really even be happy to have a seven or 800 square foot uh you know house that we can have a garden in or something else like that. And when we look at the development that happened in historical downtown Clamoth Falls like in a lot of historical downtowns that's a type of development that isn't allowed anymore. And so it would be great if you know the city does adopt this and you know takes away these barriers because it's been something these uklitian zoning policies and policies that forbid housing in large swaths of the areas that the city has annexed into what it it manages. This has contributed to a really big deficit in the amount of homes that are available and the places available for development. Uh in the future, I would love to see the city look at working with our state and federal uh counterparts to see about doing things to actually incentivize uh development, you know, instead of just

removing the civil administration barrier. I would love to see things that encourage the sale of properties that currently are sitting vacant and abandoned. uh you know because we have a really big issue on top of this stuff with zoning where you'll have these property management companies come in purchase single family homes and then either intentionally not ri rent them out use things like real page to artificially raise the price of rent where you've got let's say a hundred units available but only 20 are on market I'd love to see the city pursue policies in the future that look at the tax code and making it to where it incentivizes making these properties available on top of just removing the administrative burden um Sorry for yapping so much, but yeah, I appreciate this good step in the right direction and I support it. Thank you. And um Niles Walter,

I am Niles. Uh I would like to say I'm generally in support of this from what I have read in the past 10 minutes. Um Clamoth Falls definitely has an issue with, you know, what you might call underutilized or blight properties that are maybe left over from an era when Clamoth Falls had a different industrial makeup that doesn't really reflect its economy as it sits today. So, anything that can possibly be used to improve the livability of the city is definitely in support. I would just like to mention though under goal 12, it says that this pattern of development supports the city's transportation system plan by promoting non-vehicular transportation modes and minimizing energy consumption. The amendments do not trigger significant effect on existing or planned transportation facility under the transportation planning rule, etc. The only thing I would like to make sure that the council keeps in mind is that outside of maybe the downtown corridor, Clamoth Falls effectively does not have a public transportation system. The buses start running at 8 when most people start working at 8. And the changes to the parking rules into this code thing may make it difficult for multi-person households who work different schedules at different locations to actually be able to get to work without parking a unreasonable distance from their property. So, I would like the council to keep in mind the necessary need for additional public transportation support when they approve these multi-use family dwellings that have limited parking available. Thank you.

Very good. Thank you. Okay. Um, if there is nobody else wishing to speak, we will close the public hearing and I will entertain a motion. I'll move to accept the excuse me proposed findings as presented by staff and recommended by the planning commission. Second. All in favor say I. Any opposed? No post. Okay. Go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead. More motions.

Oh, good grief. My apologies. My eyes. Where we at? There we Okay. Okay. Um, I'll move to approve Thank you. move to approve the CDO text amendment 1-Ta-26 based on the accepted findings. Second for um all in favor say I. Any opposed? And go ahead. Okay. I'll move to introduce the ordinance for first reading by title only. Second. Um, all in favor say I. I.

Any oppose? Um, city manager, please read the ordin ordinance by title. An ordinance approving community development ordinance text amendment 1-ta-26 residential code updates. Thank you. Um so no land use public hearing or general public hearing under legislative action 9.1 request to wave the city code section 5.438 438 to allow the consumption of alcohol within the delineated sidewalk areas during the 2026 third Thursday event. And we have Joe Walsh.

Alrighty. Third Thursday and summertime is approaching. Uh despite me working yesterday in the yard and it being tremendously blustery, but summertime is near, so Memorial Day. Um with that, um we have the slate of third Thursday events which staff approves through um special event permits. Um but there has been some additional requests made this year similar to past years. Um during last year's Fighter Friday event, which was the special event kind of coinciding with the air show at the the base, um there was the provision of outside sidewalk dining with alcohol for participating restaurants. I think the public support and kind of takeaways from that was largely positive.

So with that, um, it has been the request to allow for those businesses that already have established liquor licenses to partake and extend into their sidewalk areas to serve and consume as well. Um I want to be a little careful on this because it's something that we always say has to be kind of carefully enforced, regulated and with that KFDA has come up with a set of guidelines for any participating business uh that largely spell out how areas are to be delineated. So kind of roped off um staff that's supposed to be present um additional signage and then really putting the onus on business owners as the license holders themselves. I think the message through a lot of these things is don't mess it up or these things could go away. So again, please do your best. Um, with that, as we know, city code does not typically allow alcohol within public rights of way. We would look to make that exception for sidewalks only, specifically during the times of third Thursday events this year. And then I will note this July's event, okay, is being tagged freedom Friday. So that's going to be the third Friday in July to coincide with the 250th birthday of America as well. So with that, um, again, happy to answer any questions. I know that we have members of KFDA here as well.

Another question that go ahead, councelor McClung. Um, I've worked every third Thursday for years and years and years, probably since it started, and I didn't notice any difference in safety or crowd management um, at Fighter Friday last year. So, I think it's a good thing to do to encourage downtown businesses to open and do a little more sales and and right don't mess it up. Very good. Any other question or comment? I will enter um and you said the there was KDF. They're not here. Yeah. Questions. Okay. It went well last year. Okay. Very good. Any other question or comment? I will entertain a motion.

I'll move to wave city code section 5.438 438 to permit the temporary consumption of alcoholic beverages along participating businesses sidewalk frontage during the 2026 KFDA third Thursday events conditioned upon OLCC approval. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? 9.2. Authorization of modification to facilities sustainment repair modernization cooperative agreement FSRMCA with the National Guard Bureau for the repair of this uh B325 project. And we have Colin Grady. No.

Oh, Colin Grady. Okay. You got a jacket on today.

I don't have a name tag normally. Um all right. Uh good evening everyone. Uh this is uh probably nothing new to you. Um we have executed 14 of these projects. So the military construction cooperative agreement or the uh facility sustainment repair modernization cooperative agreement. They're all uh uh managed under the same uh constraints. Uh this one before you uh building 325 is uh a change order uh driven uh increase 100% funded by the guard and the city does receive a uh administrative fee or agent fee for managing these. Um a subsequent uh change order to the contract will be following for this agreement. Do you guys have any questions?

Questions or comments? Thank you for all you do. appreciate that. Um, I will entertain a motion move to authorize the city manager to exe execute modification number four to the facilities sustainment repair modernization cooperative agreement with the National Guard Bureau in the amount of $31,773 for the repair of B325 project. Second. All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Great. 9.3 Authorization of modification to facility sustainment repair modernization cooperative agreement FSRMCA with the National Guard Bureau for the repair of the B216 project and um airport manager Colin Green

uh all the same things I just said before but building 216. I'm surprised Nicole didn't alternate me and Robbie so I had to have to sit down and come back and reintroduce myself. Um, this is mod number five. Uh, again, uh, 100% of this is paid for by the National Guard Bureau. Uh, and a change order to the contract will be forthcoming, uh, once all those details are ironed out.

Questions or comments? I will entertain a motion. I'll move to authorize the city manager to execute modification number five to the facility sustainment repair modernization cooperative agreement with the National Guard Bureau in the amount of $31,586 for the repair of the B216 project. Second. All in favor say I.

Any opposed? 9.4 Authorization um to submit an official Let me see. authorization to submit an an office of local defense community cooperative grant application. Um, calling grad.

Uh, the government likes to use really wordy acronyms. So, uh, I'll read a little bit of this. Uh, ODCC. It's the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. uh because we have a military installation in our town, we are eligible for grants under this program. They have uh a total of six different grant programs in their umbrella. The grant program that we are wanting to apply to is installation readiness. uh they award it's non-competitive that but once a per a project is approved they award grants for um uh development uh planning um and um studies uh for infrastructure that benefits the community and the base because a lot of times what affects an installation is coming from off base which is out of their jurisdiction. So in an effort to help municipalities that host military installations, this grant program was created. Um so for what we're applying for, what are what our intentions are, two projects under the OLDCC uh grant program. The first one is to conduct a feasibility study uh for an inst for the installation of a rail spur and bulk fuel storage tank farm at the Crater Lake Clamoth Regional Airport. Uh this is a if approved uh if the feasibility study does uh determine that this is a a project that uh is worth undertaking, it could be a huge regional impact to most all our fuels trucked in you know through the mountain passes. And if we could get it delivered by rail, there's a potential for lower fuel costs for the entire region. We could be essentially a hub in southern or central Oregon that delivers fuel, not just aviation fuel. So you can store any fuel out there. So uh that's the feasibility study. And the second is for engineering

design services for expansion of the north general aviation apron uh which is already identified in the airport's master plan. This would fund the uh design construction documents for that project. Uh once uh these projects are designed or feasibility study completed then we would be going for uh competitive grants to fund construction and that would be a much later date under a different umbrella through OLDCC and potentially through other uh funding sources. Um the one catch and uh is with this program so that you have some skin in the game uh the there is a cost share. So the OLDC cost share for this program is 10% of the grant award. Uh what we're asking for uh currently is $1 million which in turn the city would have to provide $100,000 as their cost share. Now they do offer inind services. So, as the uh development services team works on it, a lot of the cost share liability uh would then be offset by the hours that we put into these projects.

And with that, I'm opening for questions. Questions or comments? Go ahead. Um, councelor Angelie,

merely as a comment, I'm a huge fan of that, especially the first topic you had spoken about, uh, the spur. One, if it could reduce fuel costs, that would be fantastic. But two, we're in a Cascadia preparation area, as we've always been for the last few years, trying to have um, a way to make sure that we can get infrastructure here given something occurring. And I think that would be a really good preparation offset for that should any bridges go down or anything like that. It could help supply the area. So I'm huge fan of this. Very good. Any other question or comment? I will entertain a motion.

Go ahead. Thanks. I'm losing my voice. I'll move to and sorry it's been a tough one. I've been near laryngitis for three weeks now. So if you can bear with me here. I moved to authorize airport staff to submit an office of local defense community cooperation OLDCC grant application in an amount not to exceed $1 million and to accept the funds if offered. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Thank you, Colin. Thank you.

Okay. 9.5. adopting findings and approve a resolution granting exemption from the competitive bid requirements for the purchase of an Aquaflow um International Inc. Aquatra internet cloud-based water loading station and we have water manager Robbie West.

All right. Thank you, mayor and council and city manager. Um so back again with this fill station. Um we've discussed it many times now, but we are looking to come to council hopefully at the June meeting, first June meeting um to award that for bid for contract. And part of our design was this skid platform. And so this is a proprietary product that's built and assembled by the company. It's not sold by anybody else. Um it's proven technology that's been used throughout Oregon. We've had seen good success with it. um it's what we want for that skid, but since it is a item that only he does, we have to come do with the sole source and we want to get this approved tonight before we go out and get the final bids. Um other than that, if you guys had any questions on it, I'd be more than happy to answer those

questions or comments. Just you do a nice job of anticipating questions and so when you say it's proprietary and there's one source available, it makes sense to make an exception on the non-competitive bid. Okay. And I should also say with that then too, I'm sure you saw it, but we did advertise this in the DTLC just so it was out there and gave anybody else who was interested or had something similar to come forward and we didn't receive anything. So,

excellent. At this point, I'd like to open it up for a public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on this agenda item can do so at this time. Uh and now that it's open, I would just like to ask for the staff recommendations that are attached as exhibit A to uh the findings of those to be uh put on the record as well. Very good. Anybody wishing to speak on this agenda item? And seeing and hearing nobody, we will close that. I will take a motion. I would move to approve and adopt the submitted sole source findings and authorize the city manager to execute the necessary purchase documents. Second. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Thank you.

9.6. Yeah, there's more. Go. Okay. Go ahead. I'll move to introduce the resolution and read by title only. Second. Um, all in favor say I. Any opposed? City manager, please read the resolution by title. A resolution granting an exception from the competitive bid requirements for the purchase of an Aquaflow International Incorporated Aquat Aquatra internet cloud-based water loading station for use by the city water division. Move to approve the resolution. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Call. Sorry. Let's do a roll call.

Sorry. Yes. Lee. I. Councilor Russo. I Yes. Okay. And we're going to continue. I'll move to authorize the bid awarded contractor to purchase the Aquaflow International Incorporated Aquatra Internet Cloud-based water loading station. Second. Uh, all in favor say I. I. I.

Any opposed 9.6 Six, authorization of a consultant service contract with CDM Smith for the Balsam well um PIFA solution alternatives tech technical memorandum and the not to exceed amount of 97,290 and um Robbie West.

Thank you again everyone. Um so on this one u working with CDM Smith we worked with them before in other projects. Essentially what we want to do is look at our balsom well. We were originally talking about doing some work out there, building a a skid treatment facility where we could uh pull water through that and have a cleaner provide better water quality out there. Uh in doing the research and looking at it, there may be an option where rather than rehab that well, we look at um proofing up one of our other wells in the nearby area out on Debbie, um it's a higher yield well. We could look at moving those water rights to that well. Um and then also looking at updating our Riverside booster. Um, both of those would give us more production and redundancy for the Steuart Linux area rather than putting money into this well, which is a low yield like 375 gallon a minute well. Uh, and so what we're going to do is we're going to hire CM Smith to look at that and go through all those stations, determine what the best avenue is, and then help us with the RFP process to get uh documentation so we can go out for that. And again, with that, I'll answer any questions that you guys have.

Questions or comments? If not, I will entertain a motion. I've moved to authorize the city manager to sign a consultant services contract with CDM Smith for the Lawson Well PFS solution alternatives technical memorandum in the not to exceed amount of 97,29. Second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? And thank you, Robbie. Other matters. Anybody for other matters wishing to speak? Councelor um Angelie.

Yes. I'd uh just something that was interesting over the weekend that I thought was really unique for our community and communities all around the or all around the world actually was a was a motorcycle ride. And I'm not a motorcycle kind of guy, but it was pretty pretty impressive. It was called the Distinguished Gentleman Ride and it had taken place all over the world. And if you had seen it or have been part of it, it was pretty unique. It's seen a bunch of people dressed up on motorcycles, very unusual, dressed to the nines. And it was in support of, excuse me, support of cancer health and mental health. And uh it managed to bring a lot of great people together. And it's really neat to see that. And it's potentially going to be something here on a regular basis. So, so it was really um exceptional and also for the chief back there. Um, the PD, I'd gotten word from many folks that were involved in that ride that the PD was more than gracious in making sure everybody was safe and helping them out with different routes and things like that. So, kudos to all the officers that helped out with that. Um, the word got around. It was good.

Very good. Anybody else? Well, thank you. Um, I will take a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. All in favor say I. I any oppose meeting is adjourned.