City Council - Regular Meeting

I would like to call the meeting to order and if everybody could please stand for 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.

We have a roll call, please. Justin Rock here. Marian Ner here. Karine Dudo here. David Glaive is not here yet. Ricky Joiki is going to be here soon. Molly King is absent, excused. Denise Wheeler here. All right. Is there any changes to the agenda this evening? There are no changes at this time. Uh do we have any changes to the consent agenda? If not, do we have a motion? I move we accept the consent agenda as presented. Second. We have a motion to second. All in favor? I.

All right. We're going to move into our public comment. This is the portion of the meeting where anybody can go up. Uh please state your name. You do have a threeminut time limit and this is on non-aggenda items. So if anybody would like to step to the podium, now is the time. If you could please sign your name to the document that's up at the podium too. You step up.

Oh, I'm not first. Steve Vincent is first. That's okay. Steve, it don't matter. Okay. Yeah, you're up there, so you're first.

Thank you. Thanks, Stacy. All right. Thank you, everybody. Good evening. Thank you, Mayor Rock, city council members, representatives for having us here this evening. Um, I'm here today as a Lrand voter and community member. I'm Dr. Paul Nardert. I teach history at Eastern Oregon University. I'm also a partner at Muddy Paws Farm, where my husband and father-in-law farm, uh, just outside of Lrand city limits. And I'm here to request that you all affirm our city's welcoming spirit by issuing a proclamation honoring the month of June as pride month this year. Such a proclamation would honor our fellow Lrand residents, our sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, sons, daughters, parents, grandparents, friends, and neighbors who are LGBTQIA identifying and generally all of us who stand for equality and affirmation of all members of our community. Just as our past city proclamations, such as our annual Arbor Day proclamation, honor shared values, this proclamation would also underscore city values, such as the city's vision statement, which declares, quote, "We will showcase Lrand as a culturally rich city with a strong sense of identity and pride and seeks to build quote, our diverse community through innovation, partnerships, and relationships to capitalize on our existing strengths while seeking new opportunities. ities. LG LGBTQ people are an integral part of Lrand's diverse economy and help make our town a culturally rich city as business owners, teachers, first responders, farmers, artists, students, and much more. Proclaiming June Pride Month would certainly capitalize on these existing strengths while realizing new opportunity to highlight an integral part of our community. and we have the proclamation on hand that we can send to

council members, the mayor, and uh city staff after the meeting if you're interested. But thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you. Uh good evening uh mayor and council members. My name is uh Dr. Daniel Paul Costy. I'm a professor of uh public policy and public administration at Eastern Oregon University. Uh you may remember me uh from a couple years ago. So I came in and with some students I'm here again. Uh uh so uh my my goal at the at the university what I work to do is build a uh a network of uh practitioners such as yourself, students and scholars dedicated to ethical, democratic and competent public service. And so in that respect I I want to thank you for your service. Um I have uh raise your hand if you're in state and local government 314 right there. Boom boom boom. Uh so those uh fine young men and women will be going to Island City uh in a couple weeks here to uh uh present just like they did to uh we did to Lrant, you guys uh on rank choice voting, the pros and cons of that approach. Uh and so the we're trying to keep that tradition alive of getting the students out into the into the uh you know quote unquote real world. Um on a personal note, I also would like to talk about my water bill for a second. Uh I uh I noticed that um you we switched uh providers for the online uh billing system. Um it asked that you add your account number or to start a new account. In that process, I didn't have access to my account number. When I did find it, it says on the on the bill the customer number. And so I I was able to put oneonone together and uh after I actually got a a second reminder, but I just wonder about some of our community

members who may not be that digitally savvy. They may have an issue. I don't know if you could look to see if there's an uptick in delinquents delinquent uh uh billings uh because there may be an issue with with the communication as you swap went over to the new system. Uh that's all I got. Thank you.

Thank you. Hi um honorable mayor, members of the council, I also would like to take a moment to recognize an important part of our community, the LGBTQIA+ community in Lrand, as stated includes our neighbors, colleagues, friends, and family members. Individuals who identify as LGBTQ contribute to every sector of our local community, including education, healthcare, retail, public service, armed forces. There are students and teachers, medical professionals, veterans, and service members, and small businesses, employees, and owners. Like all residents, they are invested in the safety, stability, and success of our community. At our core, we share many of the same values. Wanting to feel safe, to support our families, to access education, and to build a strong, connected community. Events like Pride are not just celebrations. They are opportunities to foster understanding, provide access to helpful resources, foster education, and ensure that everyone in our community feels seen, supported, and safe. Fostering a culture of respect and open dialogue strengthens the entire community. By recognizing and supporting one another, we help ensure that Lrand remains a welcoming and resilient place for all who live and work here and rebuilds many of the divides that have been growing between all the groups in our area. We also have the proclamation that was spoken of on hand as stated or we can send to any of the relevant members. And thank you from somebody who was born here for all the work that you do. and thank you for your time.

Thank you. Hello there and thank you for your time. Hello there and thank you for your time and listening to me. I am here to speak on behalf of Pride and my wife's proclamation that she mentioned. I am here to support her and the others in this community that I love both sides of that. My name is Terrence Campbell. I am a veteran. I went into the military to fight for that equality and to support it. Whether it is the right side or the wrong side, I don't see it as a side. I am hoping that like me being born here and raised in this area that community is something we are all looking for. That's all any of us are looking for. Just to be recognized as existing, seen as part of something. Thank you for your time and for the service that you put in. Thank you.

Well, Mr. Mayor, city council members, I like Dr. Nart, Britney, and Terrence am also here to speak on behalf of Pride and proclaiming June as a pride month. Like Terrence, I am also a vet. I served my country for eight years. I also felt that those beliefs were what I signed up for and unfortunately we live in a time when that is not the case. People are not coming together as communities and showing that every member of the community is welcome. So that's why I'm here again on behalf of proclaiming June as a month of pride. Oh, I forgot to say my name. My name is Dr. Anthony Stenson. I am a cognitive scientist up at EOU and again former vet. Former vet, current vet. Please consider proclaiming June as a month of pride. Thank you. Would anybody else like to speak this evening? Uh, with that, I believe George Mendoza is going to come up and speak. Welcome. Thank you, Mayor Rock, members of the council. My name is George Mendoza, superintendent of Lrand School District. Um, I want to uh first start off by thanking you um for the partnership that we've had in with our Tiger Homes projects for the last two and a half years. Very thankful to Mike Boowquist, very thankful to Cal Carpenter for all

the support that they've given to us in moving the projects forward. Um, again, I'm going to be asking if you're willing to wave permits as you've done in the past. Um, this project, as you can see, is a subdivision. So, we have eight homes that we're planning to build. So, we're changing the the land that we purchased. We're looking to change the lot layouts and to make them into eight lots so that they can be subdivided so that we have eight years worth of work for the school district on lots right next to the Grand High School. Um, it was the Sud Brock property. We're now calling it uh basically a Tiger Home subdivision. Not very fancy, but Um, in in those eight lots should be about eight years. Should be a three- bedroomedroom, moderate income housing, twocar garage, living room, a bonus room on top. Um, hopefully some space in the backyard. Um, we're excited. We're excited to start that. Um, in the past, uh, you've helped out with waving permits and tap fees and hookup costs. Um, all of that has helped us. our first house that we built, uh, our first townhouse that we built, we were actually upside down about $65,000. Um, this this time we got a little bit better at building. We're not going to be upside down. But the reality is, uh, when you're buying land and you're moving dirt and you're, we'll just say putting in the infrastructure, there's a lot of cost on top of, uh, building the the facility or building the home. And so we've we've gotten a little bit better at that, but we still um anything that helps us to save money allows us to basically reinvest into into that. Uh as an aside, we haven't used district funds outside of u the teacher, paying for our CTE teacher. We've re received grants and then we've been able to sell some

land and use that land for tiger homes. Um, and we're just doing our best to not use general fund dollars for the work that we do with with our Tiger Home projects. Um, we're also working to get support with electrical permits. So, it's not just you that we're asking uh support with gas permits, with telecommunication hookups. Um, so I want to be clear, it's about $15,000 per per hookup that happens from the city. So when I ask you to wave that amount, that's that's a significant amount when you multiply that by eight by eight homes. So that's about 130,000. I have talked to Kyle in the past. Um and he made a great point to me and he shared that uh you know it does cost labor. It does cost some manh hours. It does cost some parts and materials for them. Um, and I shared with him at the time, well, if there's a certain amount of cost, I think it's fair if if the city charges us for labor or materials. Um, but just a standard $15,000, if it's really not $15,000, I' i'd like for that to be discounted or or giving us some kind of remission. And so, that's that's the part where I think you need to think about. I I do think there is a cost to the community or cost to doing these things, but but waving what you can um is is something that I think is important to us. We have a lot of partnerships in our school district to make this program a successful program uh for our students, for our community, for our families, um for those residents that want to move into Lrand. Um it's been a great public and private partnership for the hospital and we want it to really be a great partnership for anybody that wishes wishes to purchase a home in the future. Um you can see the subdivision that's been uh that we're working on and you can also see the the initial home designs that we're working on. We've also worked uh with Ralph

Lewis to design our homes. So we're trying to do everything that we can locally. Um we buy we buy most of our materials also from Millers. Um, we ask uh we ask for donations from all the wood companies that are around us. So, Boise Cascade, Northwood, um not Northwood, um I'm sorry, Wood Grain. We've been asked we and we've received a variety of uh of donations of wood products, too. So, it's it's been really good for our students. We have a lot of contractors that help us, too, and they do things at discounted rates at times. So, um we would like for your support. again. Is there any questions that you might have?

Yeah, I have one. How many students do you have in the program this year?

Good question. We have two classes. One has 10, one has 12, so 22. And then off and on, they have different students that come in and start to see what they can do. And there are classes that help with design with AutoCAD and also with nursery with um FFA. So, they also um we get more students involved. The other thing that we're going to do with the I'll just say a little thing that we're thinking about with all that that land, the eight lots. Um there's a strong potential we're going to we're going to plant a pumpkin garden and some corn and fence it and uh look to uh have FFA projects um around agriculture there u while we're while we're slowly building that that land. And it'll also keep the dirt down. We'll we'll probably have to figure out things with deer or other we'll just say uh animals that might want to eat the the pumpkins or the or the corn, but we're uh we're trying to get as many people involved in our school district to to see what our students can do. And if you want to ever check out the our tiger homes, I'm happy to give you a tour.

Oh, good. Yeah. Just a lot of other day. How uh did the students get involved in the permitting process like we have we that I know of right now we haven't involved them with that

that would be and that would probably be having there there might have been a time where we've talked to Mike about coming in or giving a presentation I I'm happy if Mike or Kyle or John whoever might want to come and talk to our students about the process about architecture about design, about permits, about fees, about hookups, all of it. Um, we're happy to do that. We do have presentations where we have carpenters come in and they present to our students about being a carpenter. Same thing for plumbers. Um, so electricians, um, we get a variety of people to come in from the trades, demonstrate, model, teach, but also present um, the lifestyle that they have.

I have a question. Has the number increased from the very first time to this year? That by how much? And the I think the first one was six to eight. Yeah.

And uh the reality is 12 to 14 12 per to 14 per class is quite a bit for u a teacher to supervise with kids with hammers or with saws um or you know just so yeah. So the reality is uh having if you're thinking hey we need to get 25 kids all at once and with one teacher and do a lot of good work uh and we we try to build it over the course of a year and having 12 to 14 per class with uh with Parker is a lot for Parker as it is and making sure that they're safe uh in doing work is is important to us. Um, but I realize that some folks might think, well, we should have a hundred kids in that program, but it it wouldn't work out very well with with a 100 kids in that program.

But it's pretty impressive that it increased though that the excitement and o and only over time I think that the sweet spot will be always in that 14 15 range anywhere 28 to 30 students. Uh, others helping here and there, others learning here and there. Um, and our our reality is that's that's a good number for for what we do. And if you didn't know, part of the other time is where Parker does work to develop the next home or does work to schedule work that needs to get done with other contractors um, and gets prepared for the next home and all of that. So, that happens to when he's when he's not with students. Do they work through the summer? No,

I didn't think so. But but what happens is uh students do get uh asked to do apprentice work um with contractors. So there's uh plumbers that say come and work with me this summer. Okay. Carpenters that say come and work with us this summer. Concrete companies that ask our students to work with them and our students have been doing that from time to time. Yeah. Yeah. It's been nice. It's been a really good project.

So I'm asking for your support. Is there any more questions? I'd like to contribute to the conversation a little if that's all right as well. Um, so, uh, doing some of the diligence on the fact that this been talked about before, one of the things that I've came to understand was is that there's at least was a level of understanding from the staff side um, that this was when it was originally approved, it was done as a one-time um, approval, not something that was intended to go on. Um, for the sake of being fully transparent to the, uh, community, um, one of the concerns that we think we need to make sure that we're taking into consideration is is that at the end of the day, this is a developer and they sell and they make profit. Um, and so we're subsidizing that profit. Um, there's at least risk that some people might not appreciate that. That being said, this, as you already know, I'm sure, um, our assessment as a staff, um, is is that this is an outstanding program and that they very much liked and want to see it being supported. Simultaneously, um, Mike has opened the door for us to start creating a menu of options that we can come back to the council with to say, "Hey, if we're going to try and incentivize development within the community, how can we make sure that this isn't just limited to um this particular program, but actually incentivize construction in other or development in other ways as well. So, in the future, at some point in time, we'll come back and talk about that when and if that council desires." Um, and then, uh, on top of that, we do have some ideas of what for this particular one that we would recommend, um, or recommend that we do or don't do in this situation. And I'm prepared to talk about that if you want to as well.

So, the profit goes back into the Does it go into the school district's general fund or it goes into this specific? Yes. I was on the budget separate fund for Tiger Homes.

Yeah. So, it doesn't go out of that. Yeah, correct. One thing I would add, thank you, city manager O'Brien. Um, you you did a a housing analysis, I think three to four years ago, and whether it was moderate income housing or lowincome housing. Uh, moderate income is what I believe is a strategy that the city wanted to see, and I feel like we're we're working in alignment to that strategy. Um, I I would say again to this does help with as a community partnership. This does help with housing production in this community. This does help with students having opportunities to learn trades and careers that are essential for Lrand and the future of Lrand. And it is a long-term economic investment in this community. So, those are things that uh I just want you to consider and hopefully support. I

think is that good? You'll give us the the lowown.

Yeah. The the the short version of what the the staff has recommended that we do is is that from the planning office all costs there be waved. Um admittedly those are small in comparison. Um but the uh all of the hard costs that the city has um we don't propose waving that. And then some of the the um fees associated with different permits that are required, those are subsidized by both the city and the county. Um we propose that we wave only the city subsidized costs, not and leave that for the county to determine whether or not they want to offset the county.

Commissioner Scarfo, I can meet with you. So, do we need a motion on this, John, or do we need to um not to now, but if you would like for us to put one together? I'd like a proposal for July or August. Okay, makes sense. We'll bring it back for a proposal in July, no later than August. Okay. I think it's important because I think what they're doing is absolutely wonderful. It gives those kids that experience hands-on. Then like you said, they become apprentices during the summer some of them.

I think it's a wonderful thing and I think our school kids are different than the general public. I they're they get ignored a lot by this different things. So I just think it's important. I think it's important you guys know that the staff is in full support of it. It's just the hard costs are something that we are prepared to especially in fiscal transformation, right? Yeah. And I think this plan is excellent because I had my granddaughter and grandkids came and they were bummed that their school is not doing this because I think trades is that's what we're lacking. It's hard for any of us to find plumbers or electric or whatever we need when we need them. There's always a a big wait and I think it's incredible.

We're one of I think five in the state that do this program and it took us a long time to get it set up. Um, but we're really happy that we have Yeah. Well, when we first moved here in Grand, they were doing it. Then they quit because they couldn't afford it. Oh, when was that? Yeah, it was back in the se late7s. Oh, okay. But I mean, I know where a couple of the houses are that they built. Oh, wow. That's cool. And if you do, I mean it when when I say if you would like to tour the place, let me know. I'd love to. You've got a tour coming up, aren't we? We will. We I think we have an open house um going to be June 3rd or June 4th. I'll have to see. Okay.

Um but you can come then and then also if you set it up whether it's Mayor Rock or city manager or Brian um I'm happy to take you around. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I would like to see what you're doing. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, George.

All right. So, at this time, we are going to move into our public hearing. The public hearing is still open for the ordinance to be read a second time by title only and considered for an adoption and that the rules of order and public hearing were read in their entirety during the regular session of April 1st, 2026. With that, can we have the staff report? Uh just a quick reminder in the um excuse me, mayor and councel um in the uh last meeting we uh notified you or updated you that this particular amendment um amends chapters 32 articles 1 and four to establish clearer and more consistent standards governing how utilities apply for licenses, construct, operate, and maintain facilities with them within the public rightway. The ordinance clarifies the city's authority to require permits, assess and collect applicable fees, and enforce compliance with established requirements. Bottom line, the city council met with to consider with the request um as we stated before on the 1 of April, which concluded with the first reading of proposed ordinance by title only. Um my recommendation is that we proceed forward with um that that initial action and do the second reading and approve. pending your questions of me.

Any questions?

At this time, I would like to invite public testimony uh in favor, neutral, or opposition. Mayor and council, Steve Vincent representing a Vista Utilities. Our local office is on South F Street in Island City. I spoke to you a month ago. Um, just to encourage your, uh, approval of the ordinance as presented. Uh, want to acknowledge staff for, uh, including Oregon Trail Electric Co-op and A Vista Utilities in the definition of existing franchise, which your council adopted for a Vista in January of 2023. And, uh, that the terms and conditions of the franchise are there. uh since much of the ordinance doesn't affect us until the current franchise terms out, I still went through uh it line by line and had uh ideas and recommendations for your city manager and legal counsel. Just little things that I've seen in other cities that um improve clarity. Um some I gotas that I've seen in other municipalities that uh just to make uh your staff aware of to consider. So I I would part of being here is to again acknowledge uh that you've included the franchise agreements for OTCH and A Vista and be available for any specific questions if you want to dive deep into it, but I imagine you might not want to. Thank you.

Thank you for your time. Would anybody else like to speak on this matter? Council of discussion. Do we need any more discussion before we have a motion? I don't think so. We have a motion. I move that the proposed ordinance attending amending city code chapter 32 article one and article 4 be read by for the second time by title only and put to a vote and adopted. Second.

Have a motion to second. Any more discussion at this time? Could the city recorder read the proposed ordinance for the second time by title only? An ordinance of the city council of the city of Lran, Union County, Oregon, amending chapter 32, article 4, utilities, referred to as the utility licensing ordinance and chapter 32, article 1, section 32-3, excavations, tree maintenance, obstructions, and encroachments of the code of ordinances, city of Lrand, Oregon, and declaring an effective date. All in favor? I.

Anybody oppose? Nope. Pass it. Looks like we have no unfinished business. We do have new business. Uh looks like we're considering resolution annexation of property at 708 South 12th Street. Uh with that, can we have a staff report, Mike?

Yeah, thank you, Mayor and Council. So, this property is located on the upper end of South 12th Street. It's outside the city limits in our urban growth boundary. uh the property owner is seeking to connect to city services which our ordinance requires annexation and uh this is a kind of a a simple application that you've seen several times in the past. Um if you have any specific questions I can answer those for you but uh it's pretty routine. Looks good. Mike, it does. Any questions for Mike?

No. Thank you, Mike. At this time, we would like to invite public comments on this item. Not councelor discussion. Look good. Everything looked in place to to me. Yeah. Yeah. It's owner. Yeah. Owner requested, right? Motion. I move that the proposed resolution annexing property located at 706 or 8, excuse me, South 12th Street be read by title only put to a vote and passed. Second. We have a motion and a second. Anybody else? Any more discussion?

At this time, could the city recorder read the proposed resolution by title only? A resolution of the city council of the city of Lrand, Union County, Oregon, declaring certain territory annexed to the city of Lran, Union County, Oregon. Specifically, property at 708 South 12th Street, Township 3 South, range 38E, section 17BD, tax Lot 403, and removing said property from the Lrand Rule Fire Protection District. Thank you. All in favor? I I

Anybody opposed? Perfect. All right, we have one more. We get to the right page. Consider discussion regarding proposed uh residential service line protection program. And with that, can we have the staff report? Um so um Brent is going to bring Mr. Lion in v he's prepared to join us via Zoom. Um the as far as the staff report is concerned I think most all of you would recall that on the 20th of April we had a work session that was intended for them to bring u offer the service line um insurance to the community. um part of their request is is that they be able to utilize our logo on that and the city does in fact when they sell policies to people um ends up making some money off of that event. There's no upfront cost to the city to do it. Um they're seeking permission to be able to go out into the community and do it and they'll do all the management. There's no administrative burden to us other than if and when something should be sold um that the processing of potential funds that are in there. Um, I think you guys had some great discussion in regards to the work session, but there were some questions that were unable to be answered that evening. Um, as a result of that, it was requested that we set this opportunity up. And Mr. Lion will be joining with us here in Zoom. And then I think I'm not sure if Kyle's in the room, but I think he might have had some things that contribute to the conversation as well.

He's here. Yeah. Okay. Um, Dennis, can you uh hear us? Oh. Oh, yes I can. I can.

Okay. So, just so you know that when he's on your mics are turned off, so there might be a little like slight pause in between on things. Um, Dennis, do you have anything you want to open up with and share with the uh with the council? Yeah, I would just like to say that I appreciated the opportunity to discuss the program and answer some questions at the work session and I apologize apologize. I don't know if it's coming through but I'm having some Zoom errors on my end. Um, but I appreciated the the feedback that I got, the questions that I received and so on. and I'm looking forward to the continued discussion and hopefully we have the opportunity to help out the city and residents of Lrand.

Well, I believe there are some questions that you might have hadn't wanted to ask and get clarity on before making a decision as to whether or not you wanted us to in fact uh endorse their movement. I think the big questions were more for were for Kyle. Correct. I wasn't at the meeting. Mr. Mayor, counselors, I'm ready. Whatever questions you got, I'll see what I can come up with. I wonder if we should summarize for the public that's here and watching and for the what the program is. What the program is that we all know, but it's sounds

okay. I I'll try my best. I missed the work session. So, uh, from my understanding, the program is, um, Homeserve, which is an outside thirdparty agency, will offer insurance policies to homeowners. They'll utilize, um, our logo, um, and send out twice a year offers for homeowners to sign up for insurance policies, which have a monthly payment due. If there are issues with what I understand, the water and sewer service lines, the the citizen will contact them. uh Home Serve, those offering the insurance policy, they will mediate someone to come and fix it. Um and and we're kind of I would say out of the loop. We're really not uh charged to administer those processes. Um I've always seen the city's job is we're trying to make those processes as cheap and easy and navigable as possible for our citizens. Um so that that's kind of what the program comes from. So, their insurance actually takes care of the citizens side, not the city side. Is that correct?

That might be a Steve question. I'm not sure exactly where it's correct. That is correct. That is what That's what I understood. Yeah, that's what he said. First session is basically what they're trying to do is give you insurance. So, the site that they're responsible for is what the insurance will cover because of course it's not cheap to repair a mainline or something. It's going to the house that's not the city's side.

Yeah. And so under under the city of Lrand's ordinance, the the citizen is responsible from the mainline to their home. So that also includes a section that's under the street. Those are the pieces of of the whole dynamic that I don't I'm not fully aware of. Um what's covered by your homeowner's policy if you have one as a homeowner existing, you may have some coverage. Will that homeowner's policy cover out into the street? I can't tell you. That's that's up to the homeowner's policy. And and maybe Mr. lines can answer if their policy would cover underneath the city street of a main if it is under our ordinances the jurisdiction of the citizen.

So in our study session he did say basically it would cover from from the line to the house and that's what the purpose of the um insurance is. Also he pointed out that why he wanted to use our city logo is to let residents know that this wasn't a con. this was something that was legitimate because a lot of homeowners can get ripped off with certain things and that's the reason why behind the logo of our city

certainly I mean I I will speak from my position. This is my opinion is if something goes wrong I know they will call me because my city logo and contact information is widely available and I'm closely easy to be reached. So my concern generally with lending out our likeness to others um comes from down the road. I fear I will end up getting the phone calls and having to you know steer them away which is not something I have to do now. When I get a phone call I can assist. So in a way it takes me out of the loop of the of the location of but sometimes you have to tell them that they're not covered. It's they have to pay for it. So you get that call pretty much every time now.

You get that call all the time. You get that call anyway. Correct. Okay. One of his highlights or points was it takes some of the load off of off of our staff too because they're they're dealing with the the homeowner is dealing with this insurance company. Um and I think one of my questions, well, how often does this happen? Um Sure. And how often does this happen every year in the city? You weren't there to answer it.

Yeah. Uh, well, I'm glad I wasn't because I had to look it up. So, um, over the last 5 years, we we've averaged about 20 taps. So, when I when I reference a tap, that's where, uh, the city is hired to come in and replace the line from the main line to the property line a year. A year. Wow.

Um, uh, on the private side, so we are not licensed plumbers. We're not allowed to work on private property. We can only work in the rightway. On the private side, I contacted Joe over in the building department who pulled the permits and he pulled in 2025 there were six filed repair or replacements on private property for a service line on water and sewer. So that's a total of 26 total incidences a year roughly. Not infrequent less than it's less than 1% of what we have here in the city of actual occurrences. I mean, would he have to have gotten the permission from the city or does he just want to be able to tag into the city? I think the way that the program is structured that generally they don't like to come into the city unless the city is on board. That's my understanding. Okay. Okay.

So, I don't know that it's something that they would come in and offer this service unless the city was on board. Kyle, can you remind me how long the agreement or Yeah, the agreement would be with them. Was it three years? I think the preliminary is three-year agreement that they're proposing. Thank you. That seems reasonable to see how satisfied people are and cut it if it's not working.

Yeah. I mean, I I as I said, I have my personal preferences and my opinions on it, but I can't say what the opinions of the general public is and how how much value they find in that program. So, um I I'm I'm very prideful on my department. I think that we work very hard to keep our costs down for our citizen and take out middlemen and and you know at 26 instances that's you know two a month where we're going out and helping either coordinate offering up the local contractors who can assist with the private side work or completing the work ourselves for a cheaper cost than a private contractor. This is also optional. So no one has to buy this insurance.

Correct. So is would this repair like okay several years ago 10 years ago after right after we black topped our driveway of course is when our pipe broke in there so this is what it's covering they would come in and they would pay for the repair that is my certain amount though to a certain amount they have a cap I believe on it I think they do have a cap but but that is the instance that they okay because we had to have the drive that part cut up and then the plumber come the citizen would call They would arrange for the contractor to show up. Oh, they they arranged for the contractor and they use local people. Correct. Okay.

Well, if people want to vote, I if they want to buy it, they can buy it. If they don't, Yeah. I guess it depends if we want our name attached to it. That's the main reason why we're discussing it tonight. I guess I don't see a reason if people It's their choice. It is. All right. No further questions. Any more questions for Kyle?

Thank you, Kyle. So, from this um from my perspective, if you don't mind me contributing to the conversation, um this this is one of many things that I think the council is going to hear from over time um from us because we're trying to generate additional ways for the city to generate revenue um that is not imposed on people, but they have the ability to opt into and and or opt out of. Um but one way or another gives us a chance, many chances, um this is one of many to try and generate some additional revenue that eases the potential future tax increases. Yeah, that that's all I had.

And I think that would be a fairly small bit of revenue. It would. That's why it's going to bucket. Yeah. Yeah. You remember a month or so ago, we also had conversation about conduits and um what we were working with in regards to the local title companies and them being able to produce a level of income. That wasn't something that was a windfall for us either. Um but if we get a lot of those small dollar amounts coming in, that's better than nothing coming in. So because you get 10% of the revenue from this, I don't remember the ex. Well, that's what it says on our here. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you, John. Uh, at this time, I will invite public comments. My name's John Lackey. Um, I've been in the insurance business for 43 years. uh there are insurance agencies that have this product available without bringing in outside firms. The amount of revenue that we would get from having this would not offset our cost to administer whatever part of it we have just including checking taking a check to the bank for our feedback. One of the questions I have is for a uh insurance commissioner. If a brochure goes out selling insurance and we have a uh our logo on it, that's an endorsement of the product and that's the intent of that. But the we are not licensed insurance people. We do not have staff online other than the actual work being done by whether you have the insurance or not uh by people locally. That's great. But um I just can't see an economic benefit to us doing this thing. If we only had six people who had this problem, how what would be the cost of our total administration overseeing that they do their work right, that they have licensed and bonded contractors, that the work uh is warranted. Uh there's a whole lot of

things that we are by endorsement or by recognition uh endorsing this company and we don't know really anything about it other than the the presentation which is a good presentation but uh I really would be very uh surprised. I think we're offering ourselves open to a lot of uh administrative license selling. We're not in the insurance business. If we don't have enough time to do what we already have on our plate, I don't see how what the benefit net benefit economic or personnel benefit would be to the city to take on this insurance. Thank you.

I have a question. You're the expert. Do we have local insurance agents that would offer a product like this? Yes. Which one? Because I know mine doesn't. I I can't name them all. I I don't know every company that every agency has. Okay. But I know there's about three of them for sure that do have a like product. It may not be the exact same. Their uh their cost was $3 for the city water and $7 for the sewer. The the insurance rate the the premium for the policy. Yeah, I don't know. So it's it's not a high cost but

yeah it was pretty close without having a three for one and seven for written detail of the products and what they do and the insurance agreement is there a deductible is there co insurance you know it just goes on and on and on and I don't think respectfully of you folks that we have anybody here qualified to really take on something like this again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lucky.

I'm not citizen of staff. Um, I just want to speak on this a little bit. I didn't even really know about this until the work session and I just looked over it very quickly and my very first concern is the logo that's going out to all citizens of the city of Lrand. We are the first contact generally and Kyle um to to field these calls and I have a feeling we are going to be overwhelmed by that. So my my biggest concern is our logo going on that we already feel tons of calls as it is. It's going to be an overload and all we're going to end up saying is we can't help you because we don't know what the the insurance and I know when we can't help a customer on the phone they get angry with us. So, that's my biggest concern. Um, yeah. Anyways, I just wanted to share that.

Yeah, because his pitch would it would take um calls off of our city staff. But you're I have a feeling it we will get increased calls to be honest with you. We the only time we get calls in our office is if we've noticed a leak, a high consumption in a water bill. And we walk them through that anyways. That's that's our job. I mean to walk them through that. So our city logo going out generally our 1313 number is the general number to the city of Lrand which is our office. So just my big concern. Thank you. Thank you.

Good evening. Um I'm Vivian Young. I live here in Lrand. Um, I've had the fun of flooding in my basement and had to deal with homeowners insurance and I don't think it's a good idea to have the city logo on some kind of policy that we don't really know anything about. It sounds like we're not going to handle it. As John was saying, when I called my insurance company, I expected them to replace the carpet to take care of things for me, and they replaced part of the carpet, but not enough. It was only a certain amount. I can just see so many people getting angry about this. I don't think they'd be happy about it. And I don't think it's a good idea to have our city logo um presenting it as something that the city endorses. I I would disagree with taking on this. I I am maybe I'm biased in not believing what I'm told by someone who's trying to sell me something and that's what this feels like.

Thank you. Would anybody else like to I'm Jean Williamson. Um I live here and I'm just curious about have you done a background check on him? Have you seen any references? We did through our work session. We did. And so you are certain that he's a good person? There's a whole he gave us a whole list of cities that they have contracts with that we can talk to.

Okay. I own Evermind labels and I own the press room. And it's a big concern when you hire somebody. You just have to be really really careful. And we've hired people that we think are just terrific and then all of a sudden they're not so great. And so to bring a person on that is representing you, you just have to be absolutely positive that they're going to be really good. And that's all I want to say is just just be really careful if you're going to do this that it's a that person is going to do a terrific job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I can I'm not trying to say that I'm endorsing specifically or trying to influence the thought process, but just for your awareness, um we came into the information through the League of Oregon Cities. So, they're a supported organization through the League of Oregon Cities as well. They're not just um a random door knocker that came to us and asked to be able to speak about this. Any more comments from the public? Councelor discussion.

I'm really not in favor of this because I agree with what they're saying. We're we're we're separating one person, one company with our name. We're not doing it for the other insurance companies here in town. And that bothers me because we're endorsing it. If it wasn't offered here that it was something that could be beneficial, I would support that. But since it's offered here, people just need to know that they uh that it's something that they might want,

right? And it seems like we're just we're picking one company instead of letting them pick who they want. If the company wants to come without our endorsement, that's fine. They'd just be another in company. But I don't want to endorse them. I don't think we make enough money on this either at 10%. So, so there's no motion or anything like that. Basically, what we need to know without making a motion is where the council agrees or disagrees, wants to move forward with this, or we say no and we keep moving on our meeting and move on and get it done.

I think it's a great idea and I think we should discuss it even further. I don't know that we should be making um a decision next month because while I hear what has been shared out here, I also feel like if those companies here in the Grand wanted to be endorsed, they could also come to us, right? And I hear that they might get phone calls, but we also have answering machines that can say if you are calling for XYZ, then please consider hanging up and calling the next line. So, I don't I don't think we have enough enough information to say, "Yes, let's prepare an agreement right now." But I think we have enough information to really get into the nitty-gritty if we really think this is something that could benefit a larger portion of the population because of all the old homes and pipes that we have in the city. And

I also think the whole council needs to vote on on this. And I think giving it another month because I don't know of any other I mean my property I'm just speaking for myself sits kind of far away from the mainline and I know it will cost me a pretty penny and my house is old. So um I would like to have time to check and see if anybody locally as well. I do like the idea of having insurance because that's a lot of money out of pocket. But like John said, if somebody around here does it, I think that's cool. But I also think we get 10% over the year policy and so forth. So I I also agree with any money that we can add to our budget would help us. So um yeah, there's a lot of variables.

Well, one thing to look at, I mean, it's only going to be a $20 policy, so you're looking at $2 per household. Well, $2 on our budget that we spend is Yeah, but he said it's a month, so it it it adds up. But to put more time into it, I mean, I'm I'm actually with Denise. I don't think putting this the city logo out plus hearing from the staff not wanting to do it. So, I kind of uh suggest to let it go and not do anything with it. But I don't want to make more work for our staff. No, I don't either. For the what we're going to get, it's not feasible. I don't think but I wonder if we should wait for the whole council. Yes, I think we need to

I'm good with that. We're back next month if that works for you. Yeah, that work. Yeah, that's fine. I I know that councelor King has expressed to me today to convey to you that she was in high support of it. So, I think it would be um good to have more. Yeah, but she she didn't hear some of the things we heard tonight too. So, agreed. Agreed. Yeah. And I don't think councelor Glae was at the work site. He wasn't either. So, yeah. Okay. Said no. Okay. Well, I suggest we move on and our next item would be Union County updates. Good evening, Commissioner. Evening, mayor and counselor. So, I'll make this brief. Uh, we're in budget season.

We know what you guys aren't doing a budget this year. So anyway, we're uh the county budget be my ninth budget with the county will be the 19th and the 20th. Uh there's something else going on on the 19th. Oh, election day. So while my opponents will be celebrating with their friends and family, I will be in four and a half hours of budget with the county. So can someone text me who won? That'd be great. Uh so the 19th to 20 if you'd like to come 4 to 8:30 both nights and update on the fairgrounds. It looks horrible. It's supposed to in a good way. Yeah, in a good way.

It's all tore up. It's It's awesome. Super excited. One good thing that we decided to do, the fair board decided to do, which is going to be fantastic. I love it, is uh all of our power lines, power poles, it's all going underground. Since we're digging trenches and doing that anyway, why not? I thought it was a fantastic idea. OTCH was out there yesterday and they I think they get it done by Wednesday. So, no more of those riggedy poles that have been there for hundred years. All the overhead stuff's going to be gone. We're going to put some lamp posts in. I think it's going to be awesome. So, super excited. Will it be done by Yes, it'll be done by fair. Fair. There's a wedding uh June June 27th out there. I don't know whose wedding it is, but they're going to get it done before then.

Mike, who's this that's saying, "Hey, Mike, getting married out here. Let's get it done." But, uh, yeah, super excited. Questions? When's when's your guys' budget meetings? Next week. Next week. Okay. When? What day? The 11th. Tuesday. Monday. Okay. Whoa. Whoa. John. Monday and Tuesday. Monday. Okay. Monday. Tuesday. Or uh when to when? Uh starting at 6. 6 p.m. Okay. Thank you very much. At the library. Yeah. I'm sorry. Over at the library. All right. I'll try to attend. Thank you. Thank you. Staff comments. Do we have any staff that would like to make any comments this evening? I see a few of you on the very back. They're hiding.

Oh, hello again, Kyle. Ste's not here, so I'll feel fill the role there. Uh, I've got three. Uh, we started some development up on the hill. So, uh, the ridge phase 2 is underway. We're installing all the utilities. So, they're working on sewer, water, storm, sewer. Uh, hope to be out of there in about a month and a half and then we'll be moving down right after graduation and tearing up the second street in front of the high school. So, uh, just to get the word out there early, there's going to be a lot of closures between K and H. We're going to try and leave either K or H open because we did determine last time having one or the other open really opens up the hospital for getting around, right?

So, um, that right now is projected to start mid June and have it done before school starts. Uh, we're run running into a few problems with water pipes, so that might be delayed a little bit, but we're got our fingers crossed by getting them in. Yeah. 18inch steel fully gauged pipe is hard to come by. So, uh, we're working on it though. Uh, when you work on that section, are you going to put little side things off for the tiger homes or does that We already put a sidewalk in there with the ARPA funds last year, but we are going to add um some ramps in a few areas and we're going to be replacing some of that sidewalk and adding some new sidewalks.

Yeah, because I saw one some of the sidewalk is Yeah, I think the only sidewalk that's really going to stick around is the one by the high school. Uh that's a lot of sidewalks, so we're going to try and save some money and just leave it where it's at. So, there's a couple of sections that need repair, but there'll be some good flat work done for that project. And that's going from K to K to H. So, we'll get just the school block. Yep. This year,

correct. And then the last one, I got notified by Elhorn Media Group that we got a grant from FEMA to replace the 18th in 18th Street bridge. I haven't actually heard from FEMA yet that we got the grant, but I was on the weekend and they announced that we had got it. It was a really great way to find out that we got it. Uh so that it's about a $600,000 grant. Uh will redo the sewer in the area because currently, a lot of people don't know, the sewer pipe goes actually through the deck of the bridge. So if it ever flooded and ripped the bridge out, we would just push sewage down Gekckler Slooh. So uh we're going to drop the sewer line below the bridge, replace it with a newer, larger structure that will lessen the flood impacts. It's actually uh one of FEMA's programs, which is flood mitigation assistance program. So uh really good program and pretty excited. So we're hoping to get to that this fall.

And you really haven't gotten official? No. Yeah. No email, nothing. I mean, they kind of gave the preliminary as soon as the money comes through. we think you're good, but nothing. Uh, somehow they announced it over on the other side of the state and Elour Media picked it up. So, well, yeah, good surprise. So, unless you have questions, that's all I've got. Thank you, Kyle.

Thanks, Kyle. I don't get up here very often, but um I know we had assistant talk about the new payment program software. Um yes, it has been a challenge. Um but I do want everybody to know there was a radio ad. Um it was on in two bills. There was a February bill announcement and then there was a March bill flyer and emails went out to everybody. Um we are being very lenient about any late fees. if anybody acres any, we will actually wave those and we're helping um citizens um work through it on creating an account express bill pay. So if you hear any complaints, we're really trying to work with customers to get on there. I know it's been challenging and can be painful, but in the end it's it's a good move. So

thank you. There you go. Good evening, Chief.

Good evening. Not to be outdone by Kyle, but we also received the grant for uh and it was out on the Oregon State Fire Marshall's website before I had to check to make sure we got it uh through the website. So, uh we received our uh upstaffy grant for this year and uh those will be great dollars to be able to to upstaff um during this difficult maybe fire season. So, uh pretty excited to have that. that helps us every year and OSFM's been pretty good about doing that. So, just thought you should know that and we heard about it over social media, too. So,

one good thing, Chief, that both your uh fire trucks for the outer areas are up and running, aren't they? Yeah, we have two uh you guys uh Chief Kornford uh did all that and we have two uh wildland rigs. Uh we're going to try to um you know assist where we can maybe uh you know do some staffing for you know anything we maybe bring in some revenue uh using one of those and so uh those are all in the works coming up. So um we're getting ready to do that and so you could charge an entity to Yeah. Yeah. Um you know with um we

it's on federal land you the Yeah. Exactly. uh confilgrations uh through OSFM are one of the ways um it's just uh you know how how do we do it and so that's the that's the good thing with as dry as it's going to be this year is that we are our fire department is to prepare

yep in words doing our training we're getting our our training done right now getting our guys uh trained up and and uh brushing up on things so yeah we're excited for the for the wildland season And uh it helps our guys get some morale too, you know, with the do something a little different every once in a while. So, we're going to try it, see how it h see what happens. So, um with those two two brush rigs, we can do it. So, how far would if a fire happened, how far would our um employees travel?

Um we could uh do um you know, with conflicts, we go all over the state. We've had in the past uh it's been a while, but we've went to California twice. Okay. So, you would be one that would go Yeah. We'd just be part of a a task force that would uh would uh help people around the state. And one thing we need to remember too is those people come help us, you know. So, if we can help in any way, brings in a little bit of revenue, gets our guys doing something different. We use our piece of equipment has our name on it, our logo uh to help folks. So, um yeah, it's a in the unknown uh with the fire season this year. Um yeah,

it's pretty dry and uh so if we do get called out, do do we get our costs met? Uh yes, through the state um OSFM. If we go, you know, wherever to Yeah, exactly. We won't be out. We'll our cost will be met. any of this um um you know at least break even or make some money. I've been looking at a budget for the last week and a half. So, right. Me, too. So, um yeah, it's a it's something that may, you know, we're going to try doing. Um I've been talking to the guys, get a policy going and see what we can do to help out there. So, yeah, good question.

Thanks, Chief. Yep. Any other staff? That was cool. Councelor discussion. Oh, wait, wait. Sorry.

I almost jumped over you, Jim. City manager comments, please. Sorry. Um, nothing to update. We're other than we're excitedly anticipating the uh budget hearings next week. Um, this should be an interesting goound. The I think you guys are seeing that our roundt efforts are amping up. Um we've had several successful um streets and road edition continuing the conversation versions that I think are yielding fruit. I feel like the temperature in regards to the topic um is dropping because the education is getting at least from the ones that are getting engaged and getting involved. Um so uh it feels like and we'll have multiple more of those that will occur between now and August. Um and then uh um some other topics that we're looking at near term includes uh the next generation talking to people in the community in regards to what the future will look like for the young people of our city today. Um as well as some other key topics. We're planning one for budget to help educate the community as well. Uh date and time for that to be determined. The police department has one else for also for public safety that we're doing in August. Um so by and large it feels like the roundts are a very successful effort. The feedback we get on the community uh um town halls um is very positive as well. So lots of good stuff going on. Um and then we have our executive session today. I'll give you guys an update in regards to where we're at with the collective bargaining season.

Perfect. Thank you.

So are you having good attendance at all of them? Um yeah, the numbers have gone up significantly at each of the town halls um both online and and uh and what we're seeing in person. And then uh um as far as the continuing the conversation of streets and roads, the first one was a pretty large number. The second two had the same number of people in attendance, about 11. Um, the way I see it is is they're becoming ambassadors in regards to helping us spread the information out. So, um, I I'd be lying to say that it's not a significant lift for us to do it. Um, but I feel like the community deserves us putting the effort in and so I'd argue it's worth the

Well, I certainly have heard a lot of comments and people really appreciate appreciative of the fact that you're out there giving them information. Um, Kyle's the one that makes us look good. So, I'm busy. Okay. They didn't mention him though. All right. My bad. Well, thank you. Thank you, John. All right. City council comments. Any counselor comments information?

Um, a week and a half ago, city did arbor day tree planting and that was the biggest turnout that I have seen. There were probably 30 people including a I don't know, she was like eight months old.

Um, and we planted 31 trees and it was pretty nice. Um, and I think they did a lot of uh education. They did uh third or fourth graders had them all out. the all the um the um urban forestry committee was exhausted after that Friday with the kids and then Saturday. But it looks nice. The trees looked good. It was fun and the weather was good. Oh yeah. So that's always a bonus. I don't have anything.

Um Union County um chamber has now updated their um um their activities for the month. They've all they have been doing it weekly. They are now going to do it monthly and so forth. And so um we were able to work on that and everything should be updated. If there's some activity that is not there, they encourage you to contact them so they could put it on their calendar so everybody could kind of know what's going on in our community. That's on the chambers

website, Facebook page and website. Nobody else has anything. I do have one. Uh, city of L Grand proclamation poppy month May 2026 and poppy days which is May 14th, 15th, 16th and 22nd, 2026. Uh, myself being a veteran, I am very supportive of Poppy month. Uh, I'm just gonna run through it. Therefore, I, Justin B. Barack, mayor of the city of Lrand, Union County, Oregon, do hereby proclaim the month of May, 2026 as Poppy month and May 14th, 15th, 16th as Poppy Days and May 22nd as National Poppy Day in our city and urge all citizens to join with me in wearing the Memorial Poppy as together we remember the sacrifices of so many in defense of our freedom. And with that, I have one more thing to read. We are going to adjourn the council into an executive session. The council will not come out, but the urban renewal will. Uh with that, the city of Lran city council will meet in executive session pursuit to OS192-660 to this executive session has been scheduled to conduct uh deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to carry on labor negotiations. Pursuit to OS192-6604, representatives of the news media shall not be allowed to attend this executive session related to labor negotiations. And with that, the city is going to close the meeting. We will return though as

You are Brent. I would like to call to order and could we please have a roll call, please? Justin Rod here. Maryann Meer here. Crane Dudo here. David Glae here. Vicky Joe Hickey here. Molly King is absent, excused. Denise Wheeler here. Is there any changes to the agenda? There are no changes tonight. Any changes to the consent agenda? Do we have a motion? I move we accept the consent agenda as presented. I'll second if you need one. Yes, we do. Okay, we have a motion, a second. All in favor? I.

All right. This is our part of the meeting is for public comment. And so any non-aggenda items, now is the time. Still a threem minute limit. And would anybody like to make Connie any comments? I think they're all with us. Perfect. Thank you. All right, we'll move into public hearings. I see none. Unfinished unfinished business. None. New business. Uh, receiving Lrand Main Street downtown annual report. Let me find where I'm at. I'm going past where I'm

doing. The slides are We have them on here, but maybe we have the staff, sir.

Let John, is that you, John? Or just give us a sec. Sorry. I I went too quick.

So, I'll be just very quick. Uh, this is actually part of the annual budget process. Um because the L Grand Main Street uh program is funded in part uh through urban renewal. Um we typically every year have an annual report as part of the budgeting process uh where you can you can kind of report out uh what they've been working on over the last year. Um currently uh historically the urban renewal has funded uh 25 Yeah. $25,000 uh for Main Street. Uh last year um we increased that fund to 40,000 um for the first time I think in the entire lifespan of the MOA. Um so they are currently operating in the completing the first year of a three-year MOA. Uh so at this point um our recommendation um in the budget that uh has been put put together and will be presented next week um is to continue funding the $40,000 as part of that MOA. Uh so we're now recommending any changes in the funding. Um, and with that, um, I think we just are here tonight to hear an update on the work that, uh, Main Street's been doing. And I believe Cat is presenting tonight. Is that correct?

Yes. Okay. So, are there any other staff questions before turn over to Cat? Thank you.

All right. Good evening, mayor, council members, and community partners. My name is Carolyn Douly and I'm here representing Lrand Main Street downtown. Thank you for your time tonight. I'm here to share the impact we've made in 2025 and where we are headed next. Who we are. Lrand Main Street serves as a key implementation partner for the city and the urban renewal agency. We help bring the city's economic development plan and fiscal transformation initiative to life. Simply put, we are the boots on the ground turning strategy into action. Impact and return on investment. Since we're reviewing the 2025 with the 32,000 in URRA funding, we generated over 400,000 in direct project funding, approximately 3.5 million in private investment. Projects in development. Train depot revitalization. Press room redevelopment. Facade improvement projects. Over 600,000 in revitalization funding managed. Business growth and occupancy. Net business growth of plus five. 94% ground floor occupancy. 80% upper floor occupancy with redevelopment opportunity. Community engagement, 10,000 plus annual attendees, vendor participation increased 30 to 35%. Strong turnout at Crazy Days holiday parade and our safe trick-or- treat. organizational reality. We have one part-time staff member, 6,000 plus volunteer hours, 11 board members, six of which are new this year. Challenges,

executive director recruitment and retention, limited funding, res uh reliance on volunteers, increasing project complex complexivity. Looking ahead, expand membership and sponsorships. Pursue additional grant funding. Prepare a URA sunset art alley project lighting improvements and facade enhancements. Our support request strategic guidance from the city and Urra organizational development support. Lrand Main Street is deliver is delivering meaningful results for downtown Lrand both economically and within our community. We've demonstrated what's possible with very limited resources. With the right support, we can do even more. The progress we've made in the in four short months has been remarkable. We've updated our website. We've updated marketing materials and are holding monthly neighborhood meetings at the press room um on uh first mon or on a Monday of every month and those are gaining traction um pretty significantly. Thank you for your time and continued partnership.

Any questions? Does any of the council have questions? No. Thank you. Thank you. We have like the whole slideshow with all the Yeah. All the data which I like. Mhm. Is there any public comments? Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry.

I have to read it. Uh with that, we will move into agency C discussion. They do a lot of leveraging and do a lot of um community uh events that are well attended. Makes, you know, makes it a community. I agree. Although I never go to the ball drop because it's too cold. Sorry. Hey, but every year it's getting warmer there. I was going to say I like it. True. And I'm usually in bed by 9. So further warm.

I know. But that's way past my bedtime, too. So, but I hear it's great. So, with that, there's no motion or anything. It was just mainly for them to come and present their information. All right. I've lost my paper now. if you have any thoughts or any concerns in regards to the different challenges that are

um any questions, comments? I feel like we're kept a breast pretty well all year. Yeah. Yeah. So, no, I agree. you guys do a good job keeping us informed and I like it that a lot of these are annual events and so people know about them, they're expecting them and and everything. It's pretty pretty cool. I will say thank you for your presentation and your time. We appreciate that.

Uh district manager comments. Um I think you're tracking and aware that we've made some um minor adjustments within the uh the team and the way that we're operating with some of the goals that um Timothy and I have established um for him going into the next fiscal year. Um we've realigned my involvement um to be more deliberate with Main Street and I I personally feel like our partnership's amazing um and I'm excited. Not that it wasn't before. Right. Tim Timothy's given me a great handoff. Um he's still going to be playing a a support role, but um when it comes right down to it, I feel like they're positioned to take what they've done already great and over the next year or so, you're going to see even more greatness um and benefit to the community. So, you've got a great great Main Street team. I'm excited about him.

That's all. Perfect. agency member comments. Since I'm part of it, I'm not making any comments. That would be a wise. No, we're actually on to all agency comments, not just for what we're talking. But that is wise. Thank you. Any more comments from anybody? With that, we are journ. Thank you.