City Council - Regular Meeting

Right. Welcome to the Lucen City Council regular meeting of February 9th, 2026. We're going to go ahead and call this meeting to order. Our first order of business is the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join us in reciting the pledge. Pledge allegiance to the flag of America to the republic stands under indivisible and justice for all. Thank you. Our next order of business is citizen comments. This is an opportunity for individuals wishing to comment on agenda items or other matters they wish to bring to the council's attention excluding those scheduled for public hearing. As there may not be another opportunity to comment once again once an agenda item is addressed. Individuals are encouraged to speak at this time. Individuals are encouraged to discuss operational issues in advance with the mayor and consideration of others wishing to speak. Commentary is limited to three minutes. Do we have any citizen comment comments this evening? Hello council. I'm disappointed the mayor's not here. I hope he'll hear my words. And before I read my prepared statement, my name is Loris Profett, uh, city of Lewon. I I want you to hear that my husband Shannon and I have no malice

toward any of you, but I have prepared a statement that I'd like to read. Following your work session last week, I felt like I had to come to this meeting tonight and relay our experience with the city with you face to face. It's said that actions speak louder than words, and your words last week were everything a voter would want to hear. Your ideas for the city of Lewon and future plans were just as I would hope they'd be. New housing, reducing taxes, supporting new and existing businesses. But our experiences, your actions have been horrific to our small business. In 2017, my husband Shan, a general contractor who's at a meeting tonight and couldn't be with me. We bought 11 acres at the top of Lindsy Creek. We worked with community development at the city of Lewon to come up with a plan. And after four long years of back and forth, Lindsey Creek Estates, a 90-unit townhouse neighborhood of ADA compliant homes for those 55 and older was finally fully approved. I've been a real estate agent in Lewon and Clarkson, Idaho, and Washington for 32 years. This type of housing wasn't available in 2021. Our timing was perfect. The interest rate hadn't been lower. It was about two and a half%. And the real estate market had not been higher. We built and sold 10 units that first year. And we had the waiting list of people waiting for those homes. February 14th, 2022, my husband went to the community development office to secure a building permit for the next building. The city had recently hired a new engineer, Luke Antioch, who didn't like our approved PUD. So, he denied them the permit without legal cause, unless we

tore out about $80,000 of new curb, gutter, and sidewalk that had been approved and fully permitted by the city. Lewon had just voted in a new mayor. So, we appealed to Mayor Johnson. He was very friendly. He's well spoken. He told us he'd look into our situation, and he did. He chose to back his staff. I'll never forget. His action began a legal battle for us that lasted three long years. Through 2022, we had meeting after meeting with community development, but the city wouldn't budge. The new employee, with the full backing of the mayor, didn't like the approved plan or the placement of our driveways. If we made the changes he wanted, we would have had to go all the way back to the beginning and start the whole process back at the survey, which we couldn't do because we had 10 homes already built. Who would guarantee that a new approval by the city would be honored any more than the last approval by the city? During this delay, caused completely by the city, the interest rate rose to more than triple what it had been. The market slowed. Other builders were approved and now condos and town houses were available all over the LC valley. We finally filed the first lawsuit we've ever filed. Our attorney filed a court case or summary judgement. Now, I wasn't familiar with that term. In layman's terms, a summary judgement is used to determine if a contract is valid. In this case, the contract was our PUD agreement. In late December 2024, the court determined we did have a valid contract with the city and our PUD stood as originally approved. In January 2025, Shan went back to community development to get the permit denied since 2023 to complete the additional phases of the development. He was denied again. Even a decision from

the court wasn't enough for the city of Lewon. 2025 brought more legal interaction with the city. The city's outside legal council said on the record that if we won in court again, the city would appeal until the profits ran out of money. Can you imagine? Can you imagine a city with a goal of bankrupting a small business during these years? We took on debt that we previously had not had. We lost employees. We paid hefty legal fe fees, though only half what the city paid. We delayed our eventual retirement and our son's timeline of taking over the family business. The stress has been tremendous. We tried to mediate with the city and finally a court date. Finally, a court date was scheduled for January 26. With the city's legal council's words at the forefront of our minds and a sincere desire to put this horrible ordeal behind us, we agreed to settle with the city for $690,000. And you know that because you approved the check. The city treasurer in a meeting recently called this budget item an unforeseen settlement. A forensic economist has stated that our actual losses were much much higher and we know that

it's difficult for me to give you an exact dollar figure. Profit. Mhm. You're going to cut me off. Summarize. I'm almost finished or I can have uh someone else finish.

That's fine. It's difficult for me to give you an exact dollar figure for the city's legal expenses or our case because my public records request was denied by the city's attorney, Jennifer Tangano. I have a letter from her stating that as best I can tell, the city has spent over $500,000 taxpayer dollars to back the mayor's decision not to honor our approved PUB. This doesn't include the c count countless hours of city employees spent attending meetings with us or behind closed doors working on the city's behalf. Approximately 1 million $200,000 have been spent for no legal reason. It's never been our family's desire to add to the tax burden of our city or of our neighbors. The responsibility for this waste relies solely on the actions of the mayor and of you, the city council. Our experience is in stark contrast to the picture painted at last week's work session. And I'm wrapping it up, Jim. As I said before, actions speak louder than words. Your actions regarding our small business have been less than appropriate. If I hadn't lived through it, I might not believe it. Was this government incompetence, or was this intentional? We may never know, but it's no wonder that our city's in the shape it's in. How many other stories just like ours have been hidden away? You can do better. Our city's future is in your hands. I challenge you to live up to your words and have your actions live up to your words. Our family wishes you every success because if you make good decisions, all of us will benefit.

Thank you. Thank you. Any other citizen comments? Okay, seeing none, we'll move on to item four, consent agenda. All items on the consent agenda are considered routine by the city council will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion on these issues unless the councilor so requests in which case the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in the active agenda under items moved from the consent agenda. Do we have any we have a motion?

Yep. That's all right. Thank you. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. There's a roll call. All in favor? No. Council President Cleber. I. Councelor Wright. I. Councelor Forsman. Hi. Councelor Klein. Councelor my hi. Councelor Spickle. Hi.

Okay. Thank you. Let's move on to the active agenda. This is resolution 2026-03 considering approving the Nespers County Emergency Operations Plan 2026. This is an action item uh in we have emergency management coordinator water check.

Thank you for having me. I'm James Water, the Nespress County Emergency Manager. Our emergency operations plan is one that we uh update annually and for this year's update there was some subtle changes that was made. Um I had written this uh originally in 20 uh 25 or I'm sorry 24 and then subsequently in 25 and now 26 and we'll do this annually. The changes just include some verbiage for a uh drought and how a declaration is established for that. That wasn't in the previous editions. Um I also placed uh two additional sections to the plan. One is uh just a kind of a quick reference guide for our emergency operations center that covers responsibilities and roles of people that are involved with that. Uh and then there's a reference section that includes uh about 25 or 30 different organizations. Uh that way people have a kind of a quick list to go to. You know, the state police, fire, um several other ones. The plan was uh approved through Nesper County on I believe this is the 12th or 13th of uh January of this year. So the next step is uh seeking your approval. Um do you have any questions I can help you with?

Have any questions? Yes, councelor. Right.

More a comment probably, but uh under the facilities. So I see the Nesper County Fairgrounds, Lewon City Library, and the Lewon Community Center. It says shelters for warming, cooling, and short-term sheltering in place. I I would be curious to find out what our what do we have in place if the power is out? Do we have a generator in the library in the community center at the fairgrounds? Do we have water in the case of a disaster? How ready are we for sheltering in place in those locations? So, traditionally, the county kind of relies on uh the American Red Cross for those types of services. They have their ability and I think it's in one trailer that they house in Coutney County uh that they can bring to any location that can uh service up to about a hundred people or so. So, we don't keep on hand like an emergency generator and some of those things that are portable. Um, as far as like this building goes, uh, I I honestly don't know if it uh has a generator or not,

but I can find out for you. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Just what our level readiness is these locations. That'd be great. Absolutely. As far as like uh you know water and things like that, I don't stockpile as emergency manager a lot of you know things like water because it's very readily available to go purchase. What happens to it is it gets kind of stored in in an uncontrolled climate and I don't think it lasts as long as it does when it's in a controlled and clim you know like a grocery store. So pretty easy to come by. Um, so there's some things like that I do a little bit differently than past emergency managers.

Gotcha. Okay. Thank you.

Yes. Council President, thank you. Um, what is our, you know, some cities have color codes, you know, red means get going, yellow's kind of be aware. Uh, what do we have? What is ours? Is it is there a certain coding that we need to know? Like if there's an event of a fire and we need to evacuate, do they get text? How does how does someone know y know that there's an emergency?

So the state of Idaho, even though I don't think it's been officially adopted as their staging and it's ready, set go. It, you know, previous versions were level one, two, three, things of that nature. But ready, set, go is what is written into our plans and that's what I teach and that's what we follow. I think that the state will eventually um and Greg Wright could certainly uh answer that better than me, but I believe they are going to officially adopt it adopt it uh at least in the coming year or so. It's it's widely used across the nation. Anything further?

You have a motion. Council president. That's all right. Make a motion to approve resolution 26-03. Have a motion and a second. Is there further discussion?

Clerk Brocky. Council President Cleber. Hi. Councelor Wright. Hi. Councelor Forsman. Hi. Councelor Klein. Hi. Councelor my hi. Councelor Spickle. Hi. Okay. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. And next up, item B, alcohol beverage, liquor license, considering approving a request from the courtyard by Marriott at 2647 Nesper Drive to add serving and selling liquor to their alcohol beverage license. This is an action item. And we have director Grow here, I think. Anything to add? Okay. Yes. Question. Director Gro,

Shannon Gro, community development director. Director. So, I always thought these liquor licenses, alcohol, were there's a set number for the city. It's not. There's a set number for the state. That is correct. And for the city in this state. And so this one here is taking up one that's available, correct? Or adding. This one, there was one released at the state level and they were able to obtain it. Thank you.

Anything further? Yeah. Quick question. Uh the courtyard by the Marriott, it is this a separate business? No, this is the Marriott up by the movie theater. Oh, okay. The new hotel up there. Oh, and they they didn't already have they didn't have a liquor license. They're fairly new, so they would have had to wait for one to be released for a liquor license. So, they had their alcohol beverage license already,

but the liquor license endorsement is separate. So, they would have had to wait for one to become available in order to sell in the state of Idaho. Gotcha. Thank you. Anything further? Just an editorial comment, I guess. But when people ask why we don't have an Olive Garden or some of these Red Robins and stuff like that, just remember they don't have a liquor license. And that's what's making it tough to attract businesses like that. So, Of course, that have to come from the state.

All right. So, do we have a motion? Present. Yes. Make a motion. Motion to approve the request from the co the courtyard by Marriott and to serve serving and selling liquor to their local alcohol beverage license. Second. We have a motion and a second. There's a voice vote. All in favor say I. I

I opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Next is resolution 20261 considering authorization authorizing the destruction of certain human resources department records. And this is an action item. We have our city attorney.

Thank you, Council President Cleber. Council members, Jennifer Tangano, city attorney. Um, city resolution 2026-1 authorizes the destruction of several human resources records. um namely personnel files, the former employees who separated um in the year 2015 or earlier, Cobra records from the year 2022, Percy records from the year 2020, and FMLA files and other medical documentation of former employees who separated from the city um in the year 2020 or earlier. All of these records are being dis uh destroyed in accordance with Idaho statutes related to such and will be done under the supervision of the city clerk. If you have any questions, I'm available. Otherwise, I would ask for you to um make a motion.

Any questions? Got one. So, these records are all clean. No sort of pending action. Um, no, there's nothing pending on them and they are all being destroyed consistent with state statute and the city's uh retention policies.

Yeah. All of the employees here would have already separated other than the Cobra and the Percy records and those again are being destroyed consistent with state statute. So it's um in most instances it's it's old documentation that um we're required to keep for a certain period of time and then once that time has expired then we're no longer required to keep it. So we just go through the process of destroying them. Yep. That's all right. Make a motion to approve resolution 2026-01. Second.

Have a motion and a second. There further discussion. Council President Cleber. Hi. Councelor Wright. Hi. Councelor Forsman. Hi. Councelor Klein. Hi. Councelor Mory. Hi. Council Speckleer. Hi.

Okay. Next up, this is the request for proposal RFP26-007. Award for Bert Lips pool liner pool liner project. considering awarding RFP 260007 Bert Lips Pool Liner Project to WM Smith and Associates, Inc. doing business as WMS Aquatics in the amount of $294,469.34 and authorizing the mayor to sign the agreement. And this is an action item. We have our parks and direct parks and rec director here. Speak Meer have a question for the director in Justin Glenn Parks and Recreation.

Um, so first off, director, I want to thank you for pushing this through. I mean, it's I'm glad we're getting it rolling. Um, a couple questions on it. I was wondering, reading through the stuff, does the liner have a warranty? Does. Yes, sir. Um, there's a one-year warranty on the work and then there's an extended warranty on the liner itself. And I was also curious the like for these liners, is there a life expectancy of them or Yeah. 20 to 25 years. Oh, pretty substantial. It's the industry standard now.

One last question. I see you have a work completion date of no later than June 29th. No way of pushing that up further so we can get the kids in there. I wish. I think that's an optimistic timeline as well because these liner installations are so dependent on weather conditions that we're going to have to play that game a little bit. Um, but uh, as I had told our purchasing office, the goal is to get water in that pool and have a party sometime this summer. That's the goal. Thank you. That would be great. Yes,

that's a comment. Um, when we first found out the pool had issues, I kind of felt like they kind of came to us with the worst case scenario, we might not get this pool going. It's going to cost huge amount of substantial money and we're trying to figure out what to do with it. Um, people are very attached to that pool, especially being down in that area, not having to try travel all the way to the orchards. And so I just want to commend you and your staff for going above and and looking not taking what the information you were given, but going deeper and really finding if that was the best solution. Uh because you could have done that. But nope, you went further that and um were able to have a pull this summer. So uh well done

very much. Still got to put the liner in before we cut it any further, but definitely optimistic to do that. job. Any questions? Motions. Oh, go ahead. That was right.

Thank you, Council President. Motion. Make a motion to award RFP-26-007 the Bertlips Pool Liner Project to WM Smith and Associates, Inc. doing business as WMS Aquatics in the amount of $294,469.34 cents and authorizing the mayor to sign the agreement. Second. We have a motion and a second.

This is a roll call. Council President Cleber. Hi. Councelor Wright. Hi, Councelor Forsman. Hi, Councelor Klein. Hi, Councelor my hi. Councelor Spickle. Hi. Excellent. Okay, we'll move on to item E, resolution 2026, considering authorizing submission of a build grant application committing a local match for design costs. This is an action item and we have public works director Dustin Johnson.

Good evening council Dustin Johnson, public works director. Uh as you may recall 2025 we floated two general obligation bonds for uh it was the nexus was the water sewer uh storm water underneath main street but it was all part of a main street reconstruction because of the nature of the pipe replacement. You dig almost storefront to storefront. Um if you didn't remember those bonds did not pass. It's a supermajority 66% plus one. Um nevertheless those pipes uh in Main Street still need to be addressed. And so uh uh staff um has pivoted and moving forward uh to what is called a build grant. So building it's a federal grant. Uh I'm going to give you all the acronyms tonight. Building better utilizing investments to leverage development. B UID. It is through the um US Department of Transportation. It's so it is a transportation grant, but as I said, the pipes, some of the sewer pipes are 16 20 feet deep. So when you kick those slopes back, you're replacing basically all the sidewalk. And so this grant would cover the majority. Well, it would cover all transportation costs. And so you're left holding only the replacement of the pipes underground, which makes that project more um affordable from the city's perspective to cash flow that. That's all the background that doesn't necessarily matter. What we're applying for is the design of this uh grant for the transportation components. Uh and that design estimate based off of our preliminary work that we've done up to date is about uh $3.1 million. Uh and since it's a federal grant, it would be administered by ELTAC, which is the Idaho Transportation Local Highway Technical Assistance Council. Uh so all told, that is what is that 3.2 2 million in change uh for the grant, we would only be obligated for the local match, which is 20%. So that's what's outlined in that resolution in front of you, is

that the city is committed to pay for that uh 20% match of $663,000. So that um grant is due, I believe, February 24th. So turnaround time is really quick on this one. Uh we have some consultants working on it with us. Uh we feel like it's a pretty competitive grant, but you never know. that's compet competing nationally. Uh so the grant if we were awarded the grant we would take that grant design it would take probably a couple years to work through the process design the underground stuff bundle it together and apply for another federal grant for the construction which would be you know far greater in the in the roughly right now I think we're at 30 30 million uh maybe more um once time moves forward. So, this is only the step that you're uh you know telling the federal authorities when we turn in the grant application that we're good for the $660,000 local match and then you would have to accept the award. So, you're not really um locking yourself into anything tonight. You're just saying that we have the money available if we were awarded the grant for the design. So, with that, I I'm here for questions.

Mr. Just pick a letter. Um, so director in that you mentioned like this grant is it it's only good for FY 26. No, it would be whenever they award it. Um, so we would have to amend our budget if they awarded it. We're in f it would probably be 27. And so if we get awarded it, we would probably uh just build it into our FY27 budget, but sometimes they're slow. So then they award it. We've already built our budget. So, we'd have to figure out how we would make this fit in our budgets. They don't always match our calendar. That answered my second question. Thank you. Yeah.

If we did get it awarded, do we have a certain amount of time that we to utilize it?

And typically, I don't typically they want want you to use that money as fast as possible to get those improvements in the ground. I mean, it would be the design. That's why we're not applying for the design or the why we're not applying for the construction because the design's not complete. So, that's typically how this process works. And so, if we were awarded it, it's it's a it would be a huge boon because, you know, obviously $3 million in design is a lot of design work. And then when they run out the next one, we'd be very competitive with for the construction. So, the answer is yes. We want to go as best as we can so we can stay on the schedule to to award when construction's available. Um, but I don't think we would have a pinch just because we've done so much work up front. We're we're ready to I mean, we're at preliminary design in order to get us those estimates for the for the bond. So now we would take it from basically 20% design to 100% and then and then we could roll that into the next grant. Yeah. Grant for construction.

Follow just for clarity sake. So this is just the design and then we would have to do the construction but we'd have to do the piping first right before we prepared the top. So we'd have to have that money and ready and that done before we can

if we were awarded the design we would move forward with the design and then we would get and basically an estimate because we're we're still working with ITD so we have state money for the transportation stuff too. Um, and so we would work it out with the state of Idaho and federal government of how the total cost estimate for just transportation component and then we would build in future budgets FY27, FY28 whenever the construction or 29 whenever that construction uh schedule was was set. We would we would pay out of our own rate payer because we're just awarding it to one contractor. So we would have all our you know all their different colors of different money. you know, this part would come from the federal government for the transportation component and this component would come from uh our our you know, water and sewer rate money to one contractor. So, it's all part of the accounting. We we we deal with this on a lot of grants. It's not as complicated as this, but we'll we'll do multiple grants or local match. At the end, the contractor doesn't care and a lot of times we're awarded the money from different pots of money and some of it's our own money and we give it to the contractor. So we just it's all part of the accounting.

That's all right. Thank you. So getting if if we were awarded the grant for design cost, does that guarantee us a grant for construction costs?

Not necessarily. I mean that it it would have to be awarded at the federal level. And so just like the state and just you know Washington DC, you never know what goes up or down. Um, and so every transportation bill, you know, this this build grant, I call it the raise grant. It's been the Cobra grant. It's it's got different names. And so every every Congress when they set these up on these federal bills, billions of dollars, that's how much that's where these these uh grants come from. So we're relying on future transportation dollars to be obligated into the federal federal budget um for future grants. So, do you have concerns then if if we spend, let's say we get awarded this and we spend the roughly $700,000 and we do a design that's a big project, you know, a 2025 million $30 million project, then we don't get the construction grant and we have to do peace meal. Does the design that we paid for still work?

Yeah. I mean, that is a risk that, you know, that we we get the the design, but even if we get the design, we're we're that that farther along, just like when we didn't have a preliminary design, we're we're better off today than we were yesterday. And so, yeah, we're we're relying on future funds, if it's another bond, if it's another grant, if it's peace meal, you know, I I I can't predict, you know, especially what the federal government's going to do in the next, you know, six years. Um, but it it this has been a a long-standing uh it's Cherry Lane count uh Nespers County used this this not wasn't named this then, but it was it's the same funding mechanism to build Cherry Lane Bridge. And so, um, it's it's a long process and sometimes you have to apply multiple times before you you figure out, you know, what they're actually looking for in these applications because presidents change, the the uh criteria change, Congress changes, and so you're just looking for a a a project that matches the criteria as best you can. And when you're That's the problem with federal grants is you're at the mercy of the winds of Washington DC.

Oh, 100%. What I was just trying to get at was regardless what if we get a construction grant, we're going to eventually do the work anyway, whether it's in small parcels or the whole thing at once. So, I guess what I'm asking is the getting the design and spending this 20% if we're awarded this is a positive either way. There's not a negative.

Yeah. And I think everybody I mean once you get into the weeds of the design, we know first and main D and first or yes, D Street, main street and first right there. That's where the sewer issue is and that's that's the deepest. It's where all the sewer goes. that's where all the traffic goes and that's kind of the the keystone of the project and so we know that's phase one. It doesn't matter if we're doing it multiple phases or we're doing it as one big one but once you can get that locked down then you can move east. So um that that and as we work through design obviously we're looking at kind of benchmarks of where okay that buttons up that's $10 million that's a good phase one or whatever it is. So that that we'll be looking at those types of thing. Everything that we do in design is always looking at constructibility.

Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you, Counc. Just to kind of piggy back off that question, um so if we were awarded the if we got the design, um is there a certain amount of time that it lasts before we have to get it redone? Like as far as years?

No, the design the design is what it is. Um an example would be Snake River Avenue. That road has been designed when the train tracks were still there. And so that one was in the queue for service transportation our or allocation. And so the city chose not to put any more money into it. And so it's taken I don't know decades to well I don't want to say decades but at least 15 years to get that project which will be constructed this summer. Um and so yes, your your uh environmental will lapse, your if a building is reconstructed or you know the conditions can change in the design just like Snake River Avenue where they took train tracks out so then you had to amend the final design. But yeah, I don't see that happening on this one just because it's kind of a locked in environment. So you may have small stuff but um I don't see that changing. It's it's more of the environmental documentation that it it only lasts for so long. Councelor,

I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution 2026-06. Second. We have a motion and a second.

Council President Cleber. Hi. Councelor Wright. Hi. Councelor Foresman. Hi. Councelor Klein. I

councelor my councelor Sticklemire. Hi. Okay, motion passes 6. Thank you. Move on to resolution 2026-08. This is considering amending schedule B of exhibit A to resolution 202539 regarding out of area transfers. And this is an action item. We have our city attorney here to explain Thank you, Council President. Uh, council members Jennifer Tagano, city attorney. So before you today is a proposed resolution that amends the uh exhibit or sorry it's it's exhibit A schedule B of the city's fee resolution which is resolution 2025-39 to remove the language between Lewon Clarkson and Spokane Moscow Pullman Cottonwood Graangeville orino from the out of area areas transfer section of the uh ambulance EMS fee schedule consistent with the ction from the city council last uh or at the work session last week. Um I would note that the motion that was made was to draft an ordinance related to this. Um, I reviewed chapter 7 of the city's uh city code related to EMS than ambulance services and there's nothing similar or anything specific in our city code that actually regulates these type of ambulance transfers and for the most part leaves it up to policy and um our MSAB recommendations. Um the fee schedule in and of itself just sets the fees that the city could charge when you doing this particular service. So absent I guess further direction from the city

council that sets forth specific regulations relating to out of area transfers in our city code. This particular resolution achieves the objectives that the city council expressed at last week's meeting to broaden the scope of where the city can do these out of area transfers. And then um the mayor and chief right will have to work together on updating that SOP 609 related to um the fire department specific policies related to out of area transfers. have any further questions, I'd be happier.

Any questions?

Yes, councelor CL. Motion to approve resolution 2026-08. Second. We have a motion and a second. There further discussion. Okay. Council President Cleber. Hi. Councelor Wright. Hi. Councelor Forsman. Hi. Councelor Clyde. Hi. Councelor my hi.

Councelor Spickle Meer. Hi. Okay, I'll bring us down to item G, ordinances. Item one, first and second readings. This is Ordinance 4959 considering amend amending Lewis and City Code section 37-3 relating to the definition of parking lot amending Lewis and city code sections 37- 146 149 151 and 153 related to parking lots in repealing and reserving Louis and city code section 37-147. This is an action item. We have Miss Hollings head here. If anybody has any questions,

client. Um, I'd like to make a motion. Yes. Motion to dispense with the requirement that an ordinance be read on three different days and to combine the first and second readings. Second. Have a motion and a second. Discussion. All in favor say I. I. I.

Opposed. Motion carries. Now we'll move it on to the next item which is to motion to combine the first and second readings of ordinance 4959. Mr. Klein do that one too. Motion to combine the first and second readings of ordinance number 4959. Second motion and a second. Further discussion also voice vote. All in favor? I opposed. Okay. City Ordinance number 4959, an ordinance of the city of Lewon amending Lewon City Code section 37-3 relating to the definition of parking lot. Amending Lewon City Code sections 37-146, 37-149, 37-151, and 37-153 relating to parking lots, repealing and reserving Lewis City Code section 37-147, and providing an effective date Thank you, Code Brocky. Okay, we'll move uh to item seven, unfinished new business. City councelor comments. These are comments shall only be related to an item currently before the city council or an item that may come before the city council in the foreseeable future and shall be limited to comments, not discussion. Have any city council or comments this evening? Councelor Forsman, I

just want to extend kudos to council Spicker when the uh addition to um the new director in parks and wreck, council me also was very diligent about the pool and making sure we were staying informed and updated um and keeping that going. So, it really meant a lot to the community. I agree. Thank you. Any further council or comments? City boards and commission leazison is on updates. Do we have any this evening?

President um I have a my meetings are this week. I have a disability advisory meeting and then um also the UR tomorrow. I am not able to attend that. I have some doctor's appointments going on but uh council right will be in there in my absence so be able to our next meeting on that. Okay.

That's all right. Thank you. We had the Lewon Historic Preservation Commission meeting on the 5th and the main topic of the meeting is seeking nominations for the Orchid Awards. So, Lewon Historic Preservation Commission requests your nominations for the orchard awards to celebrate those individuals and organizations that have made a positive contribution to historic preservation. Some categories to consider is excellence in historic preservation, contribution to historic preservation, preservation, sensitive new construction, friend of preservation, distinguished preservationist, cultural heritage preservation, and heritage stewardship. The deadline to get your nominations in is April 1st, 2026. And you can find that on the city's website if you go to the historic preservation page. All I have.

Yeah. Thank you, councelor. Councelor Spelire. Um, we had uh my first Valley Vision board meeting. It was very interesting. Met all the board members. um reviewed four of the new or ongoing prospects they had that are under different stages. It's uh looked very promising and look forward to the next meeting.

Excellent. Okay. Anything further mayor comments? Well, he's not even here, so we'll go on to agenda topics. Do we have any we want to add? Yes, councelor. I'd like to make a motion to add budget discussion to the March 2nd work session. March which second have a motion and a second to add budget discussion to March 2nd work session. Any discussion?

All those in favor say I. I. I. Okay, President,

I'd like to add that our next regular meeting, which would be March 9th, um to have Michelle King bring uh homeless stats for I believe 2025, last year's homeless stats, and um how it's affecting our valley, how many are in It's more just anformational an opportunity for her to share information uh so that his councils are aware of what's going on in our valley.

Okay. Second. Got a motion and a second. Council member, um to clarify, are you talking about the point in time count stats that you're talking about or is there different types of stats that you'd like her to bring? Whatever the stats that they had stats to bring up, I don't know point in time is the right verbiage or not. So, HUD. Uh, it's basically the HUD um stats for 2025. Basically, it is. Excuse me. Okay, we got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I.

I. I. Opposed. Okay. That on March 9th. Next item eight. Ajournment. Have a motion to adjourn. Second. Second. Thank you. All in favor say I. I. Thank you everybody for tuning in and being here.