City Council - Regular Meeting

the city council will come to order uh june 22nd 2026 regular meeting at the time and place is advertised uh please stand and join us in reciting our pledge of allegiance i asked if jennifer dreadful water would join us here and her family they don't have to but i'm gonna Good, good. Come on up. I'll stand up here with you. Face the crowd here. There you go. I'll stand right next to you. There you go. All righty. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, It's liberty and justice. Our next item 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, this is the time to do that. Individuals encouraged to discuss operational issues in advance with the mayor in consideration of others wishing to speak. Commentary is limited to three minutes. we have citizens tonight that would like to offer public comment we have a microphone in the middle of the floor we just need your name and your city of residence we do not need your physical address welcome i'm rita eisley and i live in lewiston idaho

I'm speaking to the Brighton Canyon golf course fees that you have put out. There is either something omitted or I hope it's being omitted.

Excuse me, Mayor. These particular comments relate to a public hearing that's later in this meeting.

Thank you, Jennifer. That's why we have a team up here. So we do have a public hearing on our fees. So we're going to have to wait until the public hearing to do that. OK. Yeah. Thank you. Are there citizen comments? Other citizen comments? Okay, hearing none, we'll move to our presentations. Item A, Valley Vision Quarterly Update, receiving an update from President and CEO Jerry Chavez. Jerry, welcome. Please introduce yourself for the record. The floor is yours. Thank you.

Can you hear me? can hear you perfect my name is jerry last name is chavez i'm president and ceo of valley vision economic development corporation uh it's it's always a pleasure to be in front of city council to give an update but before i give an update i want to recognize three board members that i have in the audience have mr butch alfred have dale aldridge And then I have Mike Tatko, which is going to be our MC for the 2026 annual event. And I'm sure he's going to do a good job like he did last year.

You're welcome.

And a selfish plug, that event is July the 30th at the Clearwater Casino. But having said that, just a friendly reminder, Valley Vision we pay attention or our main focus is to try to attract other manufacturers or what we classify new well generators. New well generator is a company that brings, that makes gadgets, gizmos, sells that part or that product in the marketplace outside the valley, sometimes outside the region. So when somebody makes that purchase, that's new wealth that comes into the area to support that particular business. So having said that, I will jump into the presentation. Am I driving this or is somebody else driving it? Here we go. But in particular, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE COUNCIL AND OTHERS THAT MIGHT BE LISTENING TO THIS PRESENTATION TO THINK ABOUT A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THE VALLEY. AND, YOU KNOW, OUR EMPLOYERS, OUR MANUFACTURERS ARE CREATING A LIVING WAGE. IT'S RATHER INTERESTING WHEN DURING OUR BEAR INTERVIEWS, I WOULD HAVE PAST BOARD MEMBERS THAT CAN REMEMBER ONCE UPON A TIME THAT THE main conversation for the youth in the Valley was, I wanna, when I grow up, when I graduate from school, I wanna go get a job here. And I want to be employed by an employer that may be longstanding. And so think of it not only in terms of new wealth coming into the area, living wage jobs, but these are jobs where our youth can have on a permanent basis. And they have, there's a variety of positions where they can go from one company to the other based upon their skills and how they want to advance. With that being said, we're going to get into some of the numbers. Numbers are always important, right? So if you look at manufacturing, government, and health care, the bottom light blue bubble gives you a sense of what that employment is per sector. Orange bubble gives you a status of the payroll by sector. And then the dark blue bubble is actually the economy in that particular sector. So manufacturing, it's about a billion dollars in this economy. Payroll is about just shy of $450 million, or an employment of 5,300. So you can see the numbers. That tells you, tells me, that our employers are paying good wages, right? And stop me at any time if you have any questions, but I don't want to spend too much time going through some information we've already presented in the past. But when you look at payroll for manufacturing, there is a, for every dollar of manufacturing that's in your economy, there's probably about 50 cents of ancillary dollars or 50 cents that's circulating as well. So that $450 million Is just not 450Million dollars that increases as well. So, with that being said, I'll go to the next slide. This is, uh, this is, uh, let's make a deal. These are our projects that we are in conversations about coming to the belly. We've got one company, it's a relocation. I won't get into too many of the specifics, but they want to build a 150,000 square foot building at about $50 million. We just made a presentation to them last week. That presentation was received very well. What is a presentation? Presentation rolls through the numbers. This is the business case. This is what you can anticipate in terms of your recurring costs if you are set up to do shop or you operate in the Valley. That's very important because it's about profitability at the end of the day, right? If a company moves, they have to not only be profitable, but they have to absorb that cost of relocating from one community to the next. Having said that, Project Cake is a project that is not what I would call a project that falls within one of our other sectors that we're trying to attract. Is that actually a food? or what we call value-added ag project. But it could be upwards of about five acres, $50 million. The good thing about this is we have the feedstock. We have the ingredients that go into that production of what they will do at the end of the day. So it's not where we have to go out and recreate that. And this is leveraging the ag commodities that's already available in the area. Won't spend too much time answering questions here. It's kind of very guarded information with respect to what we do and how we do it with our clients.

But let's talk a little bit about the numbers.

I won't go through Northwest Foreslide. You know they've come here a number of years ago. They've been running like operating the belly. I can't tell you that. Cascade Classics, I want to give a little bit of a shout out, if I can use that term. I think my kids use that quite often. But this is something where we as an economic development organization want to say thank you, not only to the city, but to community development and all those people that had a hand in helping them get their operations up and running. There are three machines out there today that are producing their product. Their product is plastic injection molding. To support CCI spear, I can also sit tell you with confidence that because of their already their footprint is starting to expand out there in the marketplace talking to existing businesses know how can we support your business. Do you have any plastic injection needs? And this is, remember, plastic injection molding as a sector is, without them, we don't have any other plastic injection molders in the valley. We do have some, but they do, parts and pieces support their own organization. I won't spend too much time other than we've had a little bit of a, pivot because our provider that would organize our meetings either be it in Southern California, Central California, the West Coast, Canada, Mexico, they had some internal issues where they had to pivot and we had to go out and hire a different service provider. So we're in the process right now of trying to disseminate information. The challenges with getting a new service provider to organize these meetings, they have to learn our system. They have to learn what we want. Bad thing that, or the thing that we lost with our old service provider, I utilize these this same group probably for about 8 years. So, it's a little bit of training. Um, but we confident that this group will get us to where we need where we need to get to. What isn't included in the sides in these slides. Or what I recall kind of the other numbers. Remember, I've described the business attraction process that is 1 of. Developing a list going out to a off-site location to talk to a company Face-to-face to see if they have interest in movie, right? Does it make it's not a long conversation if they have no interest in movies if their market is Work next part of the conversation is shifting information back and forth and then gain to a point where we do site tours that you bring officials from that company to the valley and conduct a They get to open the hood, kick the tires, and see if the engine runs. Within the last month, we've had two of those site tours. We had the fortune to have Mayor Johnson at one of those tours having a conversation with one of the companies. So it can happen as quick as that. It can be a little bit more prolonged, but it always, part of the process, you gotta get that client to come to the valley to start to investigate. And then it becomes an issue of trying to answer the questions in a very timely manner. So I will stop there and say thank you very much. Once again, thank my board members for being here. And I would ask either Mike or Dale or Butch, did I leave anything out? There we go. I knew I knew I could count on my cat.

I work at this time a long time board member validation. All I'd say is, is the slide. The previous slide that talked about site visits. Um, and things like that in 5 years ago, that never happened. Um, and so we asked for your funding, um, yours, um, other, um, municipalities. And then also private businesses, such as myself and and butch and Dale. And, um, that helps us to be able to do these things. It helps us to be able to get Jerry. Out traveling, and it helps us to bring these people in so that they can see. What a great location they have. So, on behalf of all of us, thank you.

For funding us, thank you. That being said, I'll answer any questions that you might have.

Questions for Jerry today. All right, well, I'm going to say that I appreciate having the opportunity to work with Jerry and some of the businesses that are interested in the valley. I know that I've talked to a couple of them, and I'm really excited about it. Jerry's giving me homework, too, so it's not just his board. So I'm trying to do what I can to contribute and really roll the carpet out for these businesses that are looking at the LCA Valley.

And I will say one more. If I can, one more comment. As somebody in economic development, we rely heavily on others that have been here a lot longer than I have. I want to commend Mayor Johnson for his breadth of knowledge in being able to connect the dots for us. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, Mike, Dale, and Bush for being here with us tonight. Appreciate it very much. Thank you.

Councilor, next up, item B, monthly financial report for June.

Financial reports for April 2026 in accordance with Idaho 50-208. Our finance director, Amy Gordon, is here. I don't think she intends to give us an oral report unless you have a question. And I don't see any, so we're gonna move to room number five, public hearing to related action items. Item A, excuse me, public hearing on establishing fees for fiscal year 2027, accepting public testimony and proposed fee increases on select fees and charges. This is an action item. and again we have our finance director here amy gordon amy will introduce us to the topic here tonight folks this is how the public hearing process will occur i will open the public hearing we'll have a staff presentation from director gordon we'll accept testimony from the public at that time council that will be your opportunity to to ask questions of staff or those providing testimony Once the public hearing is closed, then we will receive no additional evidence or testimony. So that is your time to ask questions, please. And then after that, I will close the public hearing. So with that, I welcome Amy to the podium and open the public hearing. Welcome, Director Gordon.

Thank you, Mayor Johnson, members of council, Amy Gordon, city treasurer. We have before you tonight a fee resolution for approval. And just a reminder to council last year, we took all of our, um, individual fee resolutions and we combine them into 1. The resolution, this provides a greater transparency because we have 1 location for all of our fees. Um, it creates consistency across departments and. We've organized. The, um, attachment to your resolution, it's organized in the 7. Different categories, and the intent is for these to be updated annually. So, here we are before you presenting, uh. Any updates to the themes that would go into effect October 1st, 2026. This is a team effort I'm going to kick this off, but we'll have, um. Staff representation from the various, uh, B categories, the departments who those fees fall under come up and present on their individual fees. Public records, we have no changes to these fees this year. And so we are going to move on then to an area where there are updates to fees, which the 1st 1 would be our ambulance and EMS fees.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Council, citizens. Greg Reitmeyer, Fire Chief. Before you in the ambulance fees today is the work that has been assembled by the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board over the past six, seven months now. We did a fee study that we send out to our comparable departments in the region and then also throughout Idaho's departments that are our size. Want to make sure that we're being market friendly and paying attention to that, as well as looking at our costs of goods and our costs of our business and our labor costs. So next slide, please. Thank you. Oh, boy, that's small. So, Council, hopefully you have the packet before you. What you see here is represented, the advisory board looked at our increase in our labour costs over the last year when the contract was settled, and there was a 4% market adjustment and a 2.5% COLA. So we looked at a 6.5% increase just capturing the labour costs there. And then what you'll see is we tried to make round numbers. drives our ambulance billing folks a little crazy when they have to enter 17 cents for something so that's why the percentages kind of change 6.4 6.48 6.62 but went round numbers down there and we also cleared up a few things you see on the left where there's a black asterisk that's just some wording or splitting out of the different fees and such as the ground medical flight in there working on a contract. So we set a base fee to match our normal transport fees, but also put in the condition there that if we get the contract, that'll be our rate that we set. Moving down. The second attendant, that was a flat rate. And the only time we really send a second attendant is with a very critical patient that's on a ventilator. And so we send that extra staff in case the ventilator fails. There'd be somebody there to do the bag that you see on TV where they have to squeeze the bag the whole time. So we make sure that that's covered. But that was a flat rate. And so we changed that to our average loaded overtime salary rate so that we were capturing our true cost of doing that transport along the way. mileage and oxygen charges or our flat fee charges, but we did our market adjustment based on what it's been costing us for our increase in our fuel costs, as well as our maintenance costs to the fleet. And then the oxygen is what we pay for that to get that from our supplier. When you get down to the, we removed extrication, because the only time that we bill for extrication is in the contracts that we have without counties outside, or Nez Perce County, but then also Whitman County and Asotin County. So that fee was already captured in the contract, and we didn't want to have one fee in city code and then one different fee in different contracts. So we removed that. And then when you get down to mobilization for standby time, What you see there is a change in the structure. The old structure didn't really have a lot behind it. Washington State and Idaho State both have mobilization rates that are set by the state for the wildfire world. So they have for an ambulance, for a fire engine, for a brush truck. how much they charge per hour. So what we did, we just matched that so that it's a standardized rate that's across the board fair. And then we've added our labor costs on top of that. So you'll see the true cost of going out there. For instance, before it was a hundred and $15 for an advanced life support ambulance. $115 an hour, that didn't cost, I mean, I didn't even cover the cost of two people on that ambulance. So we're making those adjustments to make sure that we're representing, if you're hiring one of our ambulances for a special event that you're doing, that that's part of the cost of that event. and it shouldn't be borne back on the taxpayers. And that's the direction that we've received. And so we're mirroring that. You see that the hourly rate for the basic life support ambulance is slightly cheaper. And then when you go to standby for a special event, same modeling there is that we've looked at what we charge, matching the state fees, and then also adding the cost of the crew that was working that day so that we're getting made whole for the city. WITH THAT EXPLANATION, HOPEFULLY IT'S BEEN BRIEF ENOUGH AND DETAILED ENOUGH AT THE SAME TIME. ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER.

THANK YOU, CHIEF. COUNCIL QUESTIONS? I DON'T SEE ANY. THANK YOU.

GREAT. THANK YOU.

DIRECTOR CLIN, WELCOME.

I THINK IT'S MY TURN. IT IS. Justin Glenn, Parks and Recreation. So we've been here officially a year now and really enjoying it. But this process has given us an opportunity to look at ourselves. And really what you're seeing is not a whole lot of increases in rates, but more of efficiencies of how we communicate our fees and what we are seeing as far as trends through our utilization and opportunities associated. So we'll cover a couple of things about rentals, introduce a couple of new opportunities for fees here. And then I'll invite my friend from the golf course up and we'll get after that portion as well. So the first section here, Um, the, the black asterisks aren't necessarily annotating. Cost percentage change, but more of a process change. Um, so while that, if you look at that, you're like, wow, they're doubling the rental rates. No, no, that's not the intent here. The intent is to reflect the actual cost because there was a 2 hour minimum. When you make a reservation for any of the rooms at the community center. because that allows for setup and cleanup. So really what I wanted to do is look at the customer perspective and go, if I know I'm going to have a birthday party, I don't want to know it's $35 and then come to reserve it and be like, oh, it's $70. So now I know it's $70 to get two hours of a party in. And then we could add on a half an hour as you go along at that 50% rate. So that's the change there. Introducing a couple new fees, field prep and cleanup. So that's been built in in the past. I feel like it's important to capture that separately so that we can see exactly how many of those services we're doing. And there's an additional cost there to just our general field maintenance because it's our park maintenance team that's going out or our recreation leadership. Most of them are teenagers, seasonal hires. They're going out and doing that work. And so there's a value associated with that. We just want to try to recuperate. and capture some of that cost because there's extra dirt work, extra watering, things like that. Also the change going from kind of a five-hour block system or a full tournament rental, let's just make it a little bit cleaner here and go, it's going to be $30 an hour. That way you can kind of understand where your budget is as a user and we can better schedule our staff to support accordingly. Another opportunity here is looking at shelter rentals. So we did some benchmarking on all of these. I was lucky enough to get an intern from LCSC this last semester, a great young accounting major. And I put him to work looking at all the other parks and recreation operations in a geographic area as well as comparable size. And nobody was doing rentals by group rate. And the reason for that, which is what we were doing previously, The reasons for that is because everybody's going to call and make the reservation or get online and make the reservation. Yeah, I got 100 people. And we're not going out there and checking. Oh, no, you've got 250. You owe us this, right? So what we're trying to do is, again, make that expectation for renting those assets a little bit more manageable and understandable and transparent. Moving on here, our pickleball courts. Obviously pickleball, if you didn't know this, pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America and has been for the last three years. We did just build that pickleball court shelter up there. And so there's an opportunity to recapitalize on that asset. And that's what's introduced here is some new fees so that we can bring some more cash flow in so we could do some other things, change out the nets on the court. And hopefully we'll get to a point where we do some lighting and things on that shelter. But that goes back into our inventory of park reservations that creates kind of a pot of money that we get to recapitalize to park improvements. Um, so that's another asset that we were able to add. That's what that's the other new fee is, uh, water access. So, what we found is that a lot of folks will just go and buy a water key. And turn on the water start running sprinklers or running different, uh, Uh, water fountains or filling up a dunk tank when they reserve a park. And again, this is just a little bit more of, you know, checks and balances internally. So we're not having to react to that where they have to come in. The customer will come in or have a dialogue with us through the reservation process and we'll issue them a water key and say, here's what this is. This is where it's located and we can kind of monitor that situation. Going down, looking at permits. Um, so this is something that. the cities kind of always had some form of a process associated with the rose garden and the event boards. The rose garden specifically, I just want to capture a permitting process, just formalize it going back. I guess there was one previously, just kind of the department got away from that. But basically that's just going to be an opportunity for engagement to say, hey, when you go up to the rose garden, please harvest those roses, but only do this many and cut here. And so we could have that interaction before we issue a permit. Additionally for the community event boards, I'm asking to include a $2 daily rate on those. Right now it's kind of a first come first serve, get it up there for a period of time. But our staff is finding that we're having to go out and monitor and engage in that process. And so what this does is it helps us have a codified system for what information is going on the boards. And then we can modernize those boards. Some of them are in rough shape. develop checks and balances on those community of imports. A $2 nominal fee for that level of advertising I think is a very fair rate. Brighton Canyon. Rob, do you want to come up and just give us a quick cursory overview here? I'll say this from my perspective. Most of these fees were captured in their business plan for this next fiscal year. Last year, I think, 1 of my 1st city council meetings, 1 of the 1st ones was this type of discussion and there was some feedback from council. Like, maybe there's an opportunity to re, look at some of our fees. And I think that's kind of what the, the operators looking at here. Rob, is there anything you want to you want to highlight.

Uh, Rob is loose and I. Brian Kenny golf course, um, there's there, there are a couple of things that that we do that are not on there. There's one line item that we will hit next year, because this year we missed it, would be the passes. We also have a spouse pass, which is not on this sheet right here. And the other one that is not on this sheet is?

The small corporate?

Yes. On the bottom, we've got... know court corporate fees where business come in by corporate passes they can bring their their people they can hand them out whatever we're we're missing a new one that we added this spring which was a small business corporate pass per se uh where it was just 50 passes so we we did add those two things that are not on this list that we are we are selling right now

Questions for Rob before I move on to the cemetery.

Council. I think we're good director.

Yeah. Thanks, Rob. Uh, so cemetery is pretty easy 1 here. We've talked with kind of I've been here before and provided a. A briefing on some of the expansion of services we're doing out there. Um, so what you're going to see here is just, uh, in the black, um, annotations there, it's just changing some verbiage. To mausoleum niches, which. identifies where those niches are located in the mausoleum, join the mausoleum. And then the new ones are that new garden space that we're developing out in the green portion right behind the administrative building. So that's the new columbarium that's going to be coming here soon. I have some really cool updated pictures of that. It looks great. I talked to the guys from Wilberts. They're really happy and excited with the product. We hope to have that here in the late summer, early fall. Then also going down the bottom there, there's an ossuary vault on that. So that's a new fee because we don't have an ossuary. Currently, and then looking at some of the remains in tournament fees too. So that's a new fee there. And that's where they can do a placement within that garden space. And we'll have a corresponding memorial wall. To those placements, and so that's the new fee there. Any questions.

Thank you director counsel questions on summit.

Oh, fantastic. Thank you so much.

Thank you director.

I'm followed by.

Welcome.

Good evening council Shannon grow community development director. So, business license fees this year, you will be seeing. Quite a bit of a change, one of the things that has been brought to my attention by the Department of Labor, but also in looking at other communities around the state is that they don't have this kind of schedule based on number of employees for business licensing. And most, um, cities will charge just a flat fee for a business license. So, what we are, uh, what we did advertise in the fee schedule today. And for you to consider is to make all business licenses. 100 dollars this then makes it a lot more consistent and easy to process. We did do, um. A kind of salary study, if you will, with the people that do look at business licensing, and that would be the building department. Of course, the business licensing department and the fire department to just kind of gauge what that looks like. for processing a business license, and it is just around $100. And so that is proposed for that. We did see, you see an event permit here, $61. Recall that I think two years ago, we did make it so that each vendor from an event did not have to get a business license. This is really up to the event promoter itself to take care of. Bringing the site plan to us and doing those necessary things to do an event. And so that when we did, we are recommending to also put to 100 dollars. Um, the rest of these are some what, as you can see somewhat, we are making them so they are more rounded numbers. So, for example, the very top 1, the restaurant bar patio. Um, instead of 109, just make it a 100 dollars much like the. Uh, regular business licensing, we did take out tree printer. And added that description up into the regular business license. Um, we current staff does not know why it was set apart. As a different license, so we put that with the other ones. And the rest of these that are all alcohol beverage licensing, those are all set by the state of Idaho. So, we can charge less. We cannot charge more. I did look at when I 1st came to the city or back to the city. I did look at what other communities were doing across the state with, um, I'll call beverages. Every single community charges exactly these fees, whatever the state allows you to do. And, um, you make question why that is. But the reason why they are maybe seem to be high is that it is our. Public safety that tends to have to deal with the ramifications of alcohol beverages. And so I think that's why the state allows for. The cities and the counties to charge what they can charge. You will see down here. There's a black asterisks. We just kind of re, um. Rewarded this 1, it's a business premises inspection fee was 224. this is 100 and we're proposing 150. this is a new license or location. So, when we do, when we process a business license, a new business license does require more work on the part of we have to go inspect it. We have to look at. The premise, make sure that there's accessibility bathrooms are accessible. So there is. Extra work to do with a new license. and no other changes to business licensing. So before I move to community development, I will be happy to answer any questions you may have about business licensing.

Council. I think we're good.

Okay, moving on to community development fees. Um, this 1 with planning and zoning fees we did, we did do, um, a study last year. We found we were way under on some fees. And so we added 5% to those this year. I did a more in depth study of other. Um, jurisdictions, the ones specifically that we looked at were Eagle, Rexburg, CUNA and Moscow. They were similar in size. And so, as you can see here, there were a lot of, um. not round numbers, as Greg said, with his fees, we did do some rounding on here to just make it a little bit more consistent with other fees. And there are raises on some of them. So, for example, an annexation across the state, annexations are going to be anywhere from 500 to $1,400. So, while 510 to 600 may feel like a big jump in comparison to the time an annexation takes, and other jurisdictions, $600 is at this time, what staffs to be believed to be a reasonable charge. The rest of these, Uh, the zoning letters, we did drop fees on that 18270. there was a time where community development was all fees were. Um, increased by the, and so, um, some of these fees got a little ahead of themselves and that's why you're seeing. Um, a little bit of a reduction on some of them when compared to other cities. We're building permit fees. This is the 4th year that we are not recommending any increases to building permit fees. Building permits. Are based on valuation, um, valuation since covert have gone up and so to raise building permit fees. And have, um, valuations go up, it's kind of a double hit. And we did the kind of gut check with other jurisdictions. We are getting closer now, so we are again recommending not to raise fees. This will be the fourth year in a row on those. We did, however, make a slight change on electrical permits. Our city electrical inspector who did have his own business for, had his own electrical business, pointed out to us that Our originally our fees, the way they were set up that a rewiring of a single family dwelling was more than a new single family dwelling. And so we did want to. Um, make those at least equal and so we did include in the description of the wiring fees for residential, the rewiring of a new single family dwelling so that it did not cost more than doing a new house. And then those other three asterisks you can see there, that's just a small change in the quantifiers to the right. What was happening is because those were raised with the CPI years ago, they were making it so that some of these permits, the higher you went, you would be paying more for a medium-sized permit than you were for a very large permit. So we wanted to readjust those to make them so that they were appropriate. So that we did that in the residential commercial. And electrical, there are a few fees also with community development under the fire fee schedule that are new this year recommended by the fire Marshall. And I believe. Yes, that is it for community development fees. Happy to answer any questions.

Thank you director counselors questions.

I just have one thing to consider with the rewiring compared to new construction it seems like it'd be a lot easier to inspect something that's new construction since a lot of times you can't have like the the walls up and stuff like that so you can it's more visible where something where you're rewiring is a lot more complicated to inspect because you already have your walls in there and yeah

Sure, I mean, you're welcome to remove it if you feel like it's not comparable. That was just his comments.

Council, I would add a comment to this. You know, sometimes we hear concerns about developing or building in Lewiston, and I think this is a pretty good example of how we're trying to be responsive to that and actually be forward thinking and get ahead of that. So I think very positive on our part to do this. Questions before we let Director Groh go? Council?

Okay, I'm going to pass it on to Public Works.

Thank you, Director. Director Johnson, welcome.

Good evening mayor city council desk and Johnson public works director. So, uh, I have the last 2 sections to discuss tonight. The 1st, of which are the public works fees and so these are typically, uh, engineering fees, uh, that you would, you would have during, um, construction or development within the right away. Um, generally, there's not a lot of updates. There's only 2 areas. I did want to call out. Uh, the 1st, being so, if you remember a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about in development. To see Lewiston in particular circumstances, allow a developer to pay a fee in lieu of sidewalk. Uh, and so that is the program that the city has had within code forever. Uh, and the way the process works is, as I, as we laid out during the work session, if they meet the particular parameters that are outlined with the code. the the developer instead of building a sidewalk that doesn't go anywhere they pay into this uh philo program and the city takes that money either uses it for leverage for a larger grant or they build grant build sidewalks in areas of need so the developer never actually has to build a sidewalk and the city gets sidewalk somewhere in lieu of that sidewalk that wouldn't connect anything Long and the short of it is, uh, the city engineered, uh, developed goes out and much like director was talking about. Looks at what it costs to build sidewalk price per square foot price per square foot on, uh, sidewalk and curb and gutter and establishes that note sends it on to the mayor. Uh, and that's what we do. But it was never actually adopted by the fee resolution. So that's why I have a city attorney to remind you, you should have all of your fees adopted by the fee resolution. And so that's all this is just a little housekeeping in that. We are basically adopting the already accepted rate for the sidewalk into our fee fee resolution. All of these other things that you see in here are just hook-in fees for when you're doing construction, work within the right of way. We keep an eye on, much like what community development does with building permits, we look at what's kind of what our cost per service is and where we are on comparable size cities and the services that we provide. And generally, we did a pretty significant update two years ago, and so you're not seeing all the zeros across we're not adjusting much of anything the only other one uh is a sewer fee here in the end so uh when a developer and we're talking large scale developer builds uh uh water and sewer lines the city you know so the developer builds the sewer lines or the water lines the road the sidewalk in order to provide uh you know uh Public service utilities to these new established lot. Uh, the city is accepting responsibility and future maintenance of all of those. Uh, and part of that requirement, it's a requirement from, uh, and adopt by city code that we tell TV these, these sewer lines. Uh, and what was happening, uh, quite frequently a lot of the, the, the, the people that are out there are small scale compared with that's what we do every day is we go out there and we TV the lines we jet the lines. Uh, that we already own and operate and so what was happening was we were accepting shoddy TV footage or or, um, you know, something that wasn't usable. So, the city would go back and end up TV in the lines anyway. And so we've had some conversations with developers and saying, would you just pay the city? They still have the option to do it on a private, uh, private, uh, contractor to go out and do the TV. But we now have a fee set for the price per foot. Uh, to TV and jet any lines that we would be accepting upon subdivision. This is not something anybody, uh, out in the community would ever use other unless you had built a section of sewer line that the city is going to accept. And so that just gives the developers another option. Uh, they can use a contractor or they can now use a city and we can just streamline the process to get them. Uh, there are a lot so they can get them sold and houses built on them. So. Those are the only 2, uh, changes that we have within our, say, engineering and public works fees. So I stand for any questions.

Thank you director counsel. Counselor, right?

Yeah, on the, the sidewalk and curb. Where is it here? The thing is curb and gutter and sidewalk. Bees. Um, is it the same person that does both of those when they go out to inspect it? So if I'm doing a new development, I put in sidewalk, I put in curve.

Yep. Yep. There are locations where in town where you have curve and you don't have sidewalk or you have sidewalk, you don't have curve, but yeah, the forms, when we go out and inspect them, the forms are all set and we, it's the same person. Yeah.

Gotcha. I was just curious if, cause I get how you have to have two separate in case you only have one or the other, but if you're doing both, should it be. A better deal or yeah, that's what it's funny.

It's always a challenge because you don't, um, you know, because when we, we, we, we shop, we call up the local contractors and we ask them questions like that. And they're somewhat hesitant because. By doing the file, that means they aren't they're, they're getting work later down the road, but they're also, if a community developer does a file, that means they're not getting the work. And so you'll sometimes see some very interesting figures when we get it. And so a lot of times, you know, we, we, we know the cost of concrete because we do the bids and then we see a lot of, you know, we have people build a curb gutter sidewalk. And so we have pages and pages of spreadsheets and a lot of it just depends how, how far the hall is, how steep the grade is, is there sidewalk and curb and gutter? And so it's, it's, there's a little bit of an art form to it than trying to, you know, and set that form and you want to make it, Uh, attractive enough where somebody would be wanting to pay into the file, but not, uh, cumbersome enough where you're gonna chase people out. That would be a good good, um, beneficiary of that file system.

Well, and in in this case, I. I thought it was. Not the file, but the, I thought it was an inspection inspection that I was looking at. So that that inspection, if it's the same inspector doing it. You know, if you were doing both, you really have to pay 40 cents per foot. When they're looking at the sidewalk in the gutter at the same time and walking. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, I don't, I don't know. I mean, a lot of because we have, if you ever go to our office, we have the great stick. So you're still, I'm sure the travel time and everything else would probably reduce that. And so you're having some savings, but, um, I could ask why that wasn't built into the rate, but, um, trying to make it easily digestible. Easily understandable, because a lot of times these, these rates, we try and consolidate them, but every now and then you start breaking things out and it gets more confusing.

yeah and i that's i you know i i don't think i necessarily want to change something but something to think about yeah for the future should there be some discount if it's both at the same time counselor enforcement um yeah the sewer tv make sure i got my word my acronym right um

If today choose to do that on their own, I'm assuming then they would hire like an outside party to do it.

Yep.

If you find that you're not able to see very well, or wasn't maybe done to the quality that you can get what you need out of it. Do what happens then? I mean, do we pay for it anyway?

Or, uh. Yes, no, I mean, we oftentimes we would take it back and say, hey, we can't see this. This is. There, you know, because there's a very, you know, I think Nate has come and talk to you in the past. There's a very specific grading system and things that we're looking where the service lines come in there. Um, and if they're driving right by him and not looking up to these, you know, man, whatever it is, we'll have them go back and do it again. Um, and a lot of times. You know these things are they're underground and they're hooked into cables and you get vibrations and so you say yeah you if you pause it here at this second, if you can find it, and so we it's a little bit easier and that's what we found where. You have them come out 2 or 3 times and finally, we're like, we're just going to go do it. And so having those conversations that that's, that's what we do. We have a crew that does it every single day of the week. And so communicating that to the, the, or the, the developers, they said, well, if you do this every day, why am I paying this guy to do it? Or they're more than happy there. If they're equipped on smaller scales, it works fine. But it was just, we were, we were having contractors come back 2 or 3 times. And then eventually we're like, let's just go do it and we have a clean slate and we'll get it done like the way we like it.

So we're hoping that this will just encourage them to go through you guys instead of.

It gives them an option, um, you know, and who's to say that, uh, maybe, you know, there's, it's the free market. If somebody out there finds that there's a business out there and a money opportunity opportunity, we're not making profit on it. But maybe somebody else can, and it works for them. So that's. You know, in public works, we're trying not to take business from, you know, private industry, but sometimes it's just more efficient for us to do those types of things.

Okay, Council, further questions? Looks like a director.

All right. Uh, so this is the last 1. um, this is the utility fees. So, uh, this, this is the 1, um. You know, it is the most difficult 1, because these fees are, are, they're going to touch. Generally, the entire population of Lewiston where parks fees or development trees don't, you know, those are, um, applicants to come and use them or users of the facilities you by nature use water. You use wastewater. Uh, and so. This 1 is, it's far more impactful on on, as I said, the entire community. And so it is not easy to. Weigh the needs of the infrastructure while at the same time understanding that the community feels these, these, these fees every single day. I gave you a pretty in depth outline at our, I guess it would be our 1st budget work session. Uh, and what we did was we laid out and I, I kind of, I did my best to. Uh, we've got another Google formatting issue here. Um. I did my best to lay out for you kind of the hierarchy of needs within each of our enterprise funds. And so when I talk about enterprise funds, each of these utilities operate within their own, their self sufficient. So. Your property taxes that we talked about earlier do not go to water fees. Water fees do not go to property taxes. So, and same thing with wastewater doesn't go to water stormwater doesn't go to water. They're each individual enterprise and so it's very important to keep keep repeating that because I think people see you're raising your water rates because you want to take care of your stormwater. You want to take care of your parks or your golf course. They're not related. These are independent enterprises. And so what I tried to do at our last or at that first work session was outline, you've got debt service for water and wastewater, you have operations, and then you have capital needs. And so when I talk about capital needs, these are large water treatment plants, pipeline replacement, reservoirs, lift stations, things like that. We're talking tens of millions of dollars that need to be invested in these systems over the course of years and years and years. And what I did at that last presentation was to talk about the hierarchy of needs and I, as I said, water is the 1 that is in the. Toughest situation right now, but also understanding. With everything that's been going on with inflation cities, paying the same inflation prices. We pay fuel prices. We pay energy costs. We play light labor insurance. These are all. Feeding into the need for increased rates. Don't like it, but that's how things operate. Water is, as I said in that meeting at the work session. In the tens of millions of dollars we've invested, we've got the water treatment plant, but we have an intake that is half done. We are trying to find federal dollars or even state dollars to get that. Then we have a transmission line. Multiple reservoirs that need to either be recorded or reconstructed that in those right there is over 60 to 80Million dollars right there. I gave you the, uh, finance breakdown. That there's not 60 to 80Million dollars sitting in the bank and reserves and so water isn't in a position right now where they need to stay. above the plane in order to pay for even some of these smaller investments. I don't want to say smaller investments, but pipelines and reinvesting in low reservoir. And so what we did to try and show, this slide's not even helpful, tried to show you is Trying to make it a, uh, a net 3 and a half percent increase to what we would consider your average user. And so 3 and a half percent. And taking that budget, that's basically a 5 dollar bill. Increase each month on your utility bill if you're what we would consider an average user. So we took that and we put 5 and a half percent rate increase on water. 1% rate increase in wastewater 1 dollar and. Increase on storm water, and then 1 and a half percent increase on sanitation. And so that net difference, it's not showing on this slide. Uh, is, uh, roughly I've got to print it out is, uh, 5 dollars and 8 cents a month difference. Um, and I have a slide at the end. So, I'm a real quickly go through. Uh, each increase and so as, uh, Chief Breitmaier and everybody else said. You can't some of these, these, uh, rates, you can't. If it's a dollar, and you're trying to get 5 and a half percent, you can't charge half a penny. And so a lot of these are rounded down or rounded up. Uh, they're generally rounded down, but you can see in the water sheet if you've got it in front of you. There are 5 and a half percent across the board going down and through water. Uh, we did talk about other fees, hydrant fees aren't changing. Um, and then we get into wastewater wastewater again, as I said, was a 1% increase. Moving on into solid waste, solid waste is 1.5% rate increase. So these are just carried forward all across the board. 1.5% increase on utility fees, I mean on sanitation. So these are all garbage totes and pickups. Everything's up by 1.5%. Now at the bottom of this page, this is where it gets a little, I warned you at the work session, The residential, there's two zones within the city for the stormwater. There's zone one and zone two. One is currently at $7.40. It's going up to $8.40. So it's increased by a dollar. That means it increases 13.51%. So that looks a lot, but it's a dollar. And then the same thing with the other ERU, which is currently Uh, yeah, it's 5 dollars and 70 cents going up to 6 dollars and 70 cents and outlined at the work session. Uh, you saw. Uh, when the stormwater utility was originally adopted. It was adopted at half capital, so. operational operation, permit compliance, and then, uh, capital. And so what we're seeing, I think it's 3, 4 years. This will be the 4th fiscal year. You're seeing we're not keeping up on those large capital projects. We've got some stuff on our. Later in the agenda talking about some of these large projects that are coming down the pipe. We're not able to keep up with those and so that's where that that extra dollar a month is going straight into those, uh, larger projects that are needed, uh, you know, particularly on 21st street. So, this is 1, I can show you here. Um, so what I, every year we bring this to you and show you. Uh, what we call Joe customer, your typical or your typical utility bill. And so, uh, you got to pick a number somewhere. This is 5. 500 cubic feet in the water industry. 100 feet is a unit. So I typically call this 5 units of water. It's on the billing as 500 cubic feet. I looked at my utility bill. A family of 4 with a teenage girl that takes a lot of long showers. Without irrigation. I operated 5 years without any irrigation. So that's a kind of a standard family for understand if it's an industry. If it's a laundry business. Uh, if you're irrigating, you're gonna be, this is gonna be a higher bill, but I had to grab something and just show you, um, you know, something that this is a standard. November bill for family of 4, um, and that's a 3 quarter inch meter. We're getting away from the term meter fee. This is a base fee. Over the years, we get a lot of questions of why do you keep paying for these meters? It's not a meter fee. It's a base fee. So generally, you can look at the $19 that's on this bill is what it costs to make that water. The 4114 on that bill is the cost to maintain and operate the fire hydrants, the valves, the pipe in the ground and the deliverance system to get it to your house. So, that's the 2 breakdown, so you're going to see that it's encoded base fee, but we're going to, we're going to change the, the, the billing to say, base fee. Drainage system, this is the higher, so that is the 8. it goes from 740 to 840. Single family wastewater. That's a base fee every month. So, 52 dollars and 81 cents. And then your sanitation fees and so. All right, hold on. Okay. So you're going from a 143 dollars and 29 cents a month to 148 dollars to 37 cents a month. And that was. What did I say? 5 dollars and 8 cents difference. To your your family of 4 with no irrigation. So. With that, I stand for questions.

I don't see any questions director. Thank you. Thank you. Is that the end of the presentation? Okay. All right. Well, we're going to have a cameo here. I'd like to call up our fire marshal, if I may, please. Julian didn't mean to bypass you earlier, but we do have some new fees, and I need some clarification. This would be the time and the place. Okay. If you could just share with the council and myself the need for these fees just briefly. It tells me you're either spending time doing these things and when you could be doing other things or this is something you're being asked to do.

Julian Sorrell, fire marshal. So the fire code actually has 50 operational fees that the city has already adopted and we have 25 construction fees which are already adopted. We've been doing all of those as they come to us throughout the years. What we did is we went through our list of simply the construction fees. And we decided to attach some numbers to them. To have some cost recovery for the time that the inspectors myself been doing these. As you can see, it's emergency respond to radio coverage, high piled combustible storage. Flammable combustible liquids these are all systems that are pretty particular and done by particular licensed contractors. And they get pretty intensive as far as the review and the inspection and testing process. So. It's not a, it's not a high acuity. We don't do these a lot, but when they do, it's, it's just probably best practice to have an associated permit type to it also so that we can go back and find the information.

Thank you very much council questions. Nope. All right. Well, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Do we have some citizen comments? This is the time to offer them please. Um. I'll have you introduce yourself again. You might have to get right on that microphone so we can hear you well. Come on up here to the middle and introduce yourself for the record and the floor is yours. Yes.

Rita Isley.

I live in Lewiston, Idaho.

And I have a question. One of my questions was answered in the presentation for the Brighton Canyon golf course. And the passes that you have, there was a deletion of the spouse pass. It wasn't in the increases. And I was just questioning whether that was added. Rob said, yes, they are adding that. I'm assuming it's going to get a 5.8% increase, as did almost all the other season passes. And I don't know. And the other thing that I noticed with the increases, most of them were at 5.8%. A lot of the things did not change. Some of them did. But the card storage went like 14% for the old barn with electricity. The portable barns with electricity went up 28%. And then the parking lot, which is gas only carts and there's no electricity, it went up 16%. So I just wondered why things that were at 5.8%, why those particular items went up quite a lot. And if you're a pass holder and you have your pass and you also have your cart there, so you're getting two fees. You're going to get the fee from the pass holder and then you're going to get the fee from the cart barn. So that's adding to your expense. And I was just wondering why that didn't stay at like the 5.8% that most everything else that they raised stayed at.

Thank you i'm going to try to get you an answer i'm going to look at director Glenn and Mr rob see who might jump first.

The cart barns the cart barns. In the past, were I guess I should I should start this way you're looking at storage for your car farm and you go down the road to. just the rent-a-space. They're considerably more. This is a per-year fee, and right offhand, I don't have the sheet in front of me. I think that the fees went up like $20, $25 a year, which when we're talking $500, $600, it's going to raise the percentage up there to that 10% or whatever. But when we do a comparative on that stuff, which we do, It's hard to do unless you just call another golf course. Hey, what do you charge for your storage? And we're right there with everybody else. What we've been getting in the past is people will come and store their carts at Brighton Canyon and don't golf there. Well, it's cheaper to store it at Brighton Canyon for per se $600 than it is to go down the road to airport and rent a storage and you're paying $125, $130 a month. you know, to store your cards. So they were just storing them at the golf course. So that's, I mean, that's kind of the reason right there. Because we have a lot of people, we have a lot of people who want the card storage. We have a waiting list every year. So does that answer your question?

It answered my question. Counselors, do you have any further comments or questions for Mr. Hayes?

Yeah, right. Thank you.

Just the other question that Rita had on that spouse pass. Is that increasing 5.8%?

Like I said, I don't have that. I don't have the sheet right in front of me. But I will when I get back to the office in the morning, I'll look at that and see what it is. I'm going to assume that it's right in there. It's right with every other fee that has been increasing. It's right around that.

Thank you. Do you have that information by any chance? Okay, so I'll give you a chance to if you have any questions for any of the presenters. or if there are any other citizen comments. Councilor Forsman?

Just to clarify, I didn't think of this earlier, but we're raising- Could you turn your microphone on, please? We're raising the cart rates. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I was talking about sanitation. No, I should have clarified. That's my bad.

Yeah, kind of similar terminology.

Um, because we just did the contract increase with sunshine. But those aren't to those don't come correct.

What we increased was what the contractor charges us that we. Charge the customer. Because sunshine is only a portion of what, you know, because we still have to pay a certain county landfill and the recycling increases from that. Not necessarily rental fees that are in here are not there's not a lot to him because, yeah, you can see the cart rental fee. Is what a dollar yeah, a dollar 11 a month. So that that just goes towards the replacement of the, of those totes that you see.

I just wanted to make sure because we talked about we weren't going to have a rate increase for a while with when we did the sunshine contract. So I just wanted to make sure those weren't.

No, no, no. And what you'll see, um, as we start working through, we're, we're seeing the negotiations with, uh, a certain county, uh, with their increased tipping fee, which is going up to 64 dollars. I think a ton up from 48 dollars a ton. Uh, and then and then the sunshine disposal and everything else as I outline, you know, fuel labor insurance, everything's going up. So. Sanitation is in a much better shape than, say, water. And so you're going to see this year is 1 and a half percent increase. We may be going up just as CPI to kind of cover these expenses and hopefully we'll close that gap without any. Double digit or significant increases as. We know the cost that we pay are going up, but we have the reserves to cover, you know, the new transfer station floor. Uh, and so, you know, the, the cul-de-sac that we built this year. So, you know, as we. Buy down the, the reserves that we have that allows us not to make those significant, uh. Jump in rates.

Thank you.

Thank you director. Okay. Council. I don't see any more questions. All right, I'm going to close this public hearing. Now to the next step, we go to Roman numeral 5B, resolution 2026-26, considering restating and adopting a fee schedule for services provided and regularly charged for the city of Lewiston effective October 1, 2026. This is an action item. Councilor Cline.

Motion to approve resolution 2026-26.

Second. And moved by Councilor Cline, seconded by Councilor Wright to approve resolution 2026-26. Clerk Brocki.

Council President Kleberg.

Aye.

Councilor Wright. Aye. Councilor Forsman. Aye. Councilor Cline. Aye. Councilor Mori.

Council, thank you, Clerk Brocky. Council, next up we have item C, public hearing on VA-01-2026, Wilmore drainage easement vacation, accepting testimony on a request to vacate a portion of a public stormwater easement located near the northerly end of block 30 of block 4 of the Lutz 3rd addition, unit 2, paren 3710, 18th street B. So the property owner can construct a shot building. This is an action item. We have our city surveyor with us here today, Mr. Mark Wiggin. I will open the public hearing. We'll have a staff presentation for Mr. Wiggin. If there's an applicant here, we'll accept their testimony or presentation, any testimony from the public. Council, you'll have a time to ask questions. No additional evidence or testimony may be received once the public hearing is closed. So that is, that will be your time to ask any questions you might have. Applicants rebuttal to any testimony from the public, and then I will close the public hearing. So with that, counselor, I will open the public hearing and ask Mr. Wiggin to introduce himself for the record and turn the floor over to him. Welcome.

Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council, good evening. I am Mark Wiggins, City Surveyor, and I'm here to present a summary of the staff report for the public hearing for VA01-2026. So the applicant, Harley Wilmore, filed a petition requesting that the City vacate a portion of the public stormwater easement located near the north end of the property commonly identified as 3710 18th Street B. The GIS map that was included in the agenda information packet shows the proposed vacation area which was located in the applicant's backyard. Public Works Engineering staff evaluated Mr. Wilmer's request and determined that the portion of the easement identified in the easement request is not contributing significantly to the operation of the stormwater system and granting the vacation request should not adversely affect the current system's overall operation. As requested for an easement or as required for an easement vacation petition, the serving utilities are required to provide signed consent letters indicating that they are not opposed to the requested vacation. Because the easement is a public stormwater easement, only the City of Lewiston has an interest in this easement and a copy of the Public Works Director's consent letter has been included in the information packet. Notice for the public hearing was published in the Lewiston Morning Tribune and written notice has been mailed to all landowners within a 330 feet area of the proposed vacation. A public hearing notice sign was also posted at the proposed vacation site. The Public Works Department office has not received any questions or comments regarding the proposed easement vacation prior to the meeting here tonight. If based on the public hearing, the City Council determines that no property rights will be affected adversely or damaged, and the vacation is expedient for the public good, The City of Lewiston Public Works staff recommend that the City Council vote to approve Resolution 2026-27. That concludes the summary of the staff report. I have time for any questions.

Thank you. Thank you. Council questions for Mr. Wood? Is the applicant here tonight? Would they like to testify or any citizens? I have comments in favor or opposition. OK, Council questions before I close the public hearing. Right, I will close the public hearing. Thank you. Council next we move to item D resolution 2026-27 concerning vacating green energy smithson va-01-2026 this is an action item in our city surveyor mark wigginess here or i would entertain a motion mayor councillor foresman motion to approve resolution 2026-27 second it's been moved by councillor force and seconded by councillor klein to approve resolution 2026-27 clerk rocky

Council President Kleberg.

Aye.

Councillor Wright.

Aye.

Councillor Forsman. Aye. Councillor Klein. Aye. Councillor Morey.

Aye. Thank you, Council. Thank you, Clerk Baraki. Motion carries. Next, we move to Roman Rule 6, the Consent Agenda. All items on the... We just voted on that. Let me just check in with our clerk.

Clerk Brocky, did we just approve the resolution 2026-27?

Correct.

Okay.

Thank you, Counselor. Councilor, next we move to the consent agenda. All items on the consent agenda are considered retained by the council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion on these issues unless the councilor sub-requests, in which case the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered on the active agenda under items moved from the consent agenda.

Mayor?

Councilor Klein?

Motion to approve consent agenda.

Back in. been moved by councillor wright second excuse me councillor klein second by councillor wright to approve the consent agenda clerk rocky council president kleberg aye councillor wright aye councillor forsman aye councillor klein aye councillor morey aye thank you council next up roman numeral seven active agenda item a advisory board commission appointments action item are you with us jennifer Item one, the Historic Preservation Commission, considering appointing Jennifer Dreadful Water to a three-year term, the Historic Preservation Commission Council, like all appointments, I ask them to come in to City Hall and I have the opportunity to get to know them a little bit better and learn about their interests, a little bit about them, and they get to ask questions of me or the city as well. And I also re-emphasize to them the important role that these commissions play for us as a body. They do important work for us. They give us feedback. And hopefully, we're giving feedback to them too when needs of the council. So we do have Jennifer in the audience with us here. And counselors, it's my pleasure to move to approve the appointment of Jennifer Dreadful Water to a three-year term on the Historic Preservation Commission. moved by mayor johnson second by councillor klein to approve the appointment of jennifer dreadful water to a three-year term on the historic preservation commission those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed carries thank you council thank you jennifer for your service and thank you for helping us out with the pledge of allegiance tonight we appreciate that very much Council next up we have item b school resource officer agreement considering approving the school resource officer agreement between lewiston independent school district number one and the city of lewiston for the 2026-2027 school year and authorizing the mayor to sign the agreement this is an action item when our police chief jason cusick is with us tonight council if you have questions for him about the agreement if not i would entertain a motion mayor

Councillor Forsman, you have a question. I don't know if it more of a Jennifer question possibly. It was more about I obviously they pay for the school resource officer and then when they're not when during the summer then they don't then they go back to regular duty. My question is with the increase of like the colas and increase of health insurance. Do we factor that into the contract? like or do we is it a one-time fee that we asked for or how does the fee structure work i don't think i understood it in the contract rock paper scissors

Amy Burden, City Treasurer. We bill out the school district the actual cost of the officer. So we look at their projected salary for the year, their budgeted salary for the year, and the school will pay the percentage of whatever the contract days work out to a work year. So, typically, it's about a 177 contract days they do a year. So the school district will pay. Whatever the percentages of 177 divided by 260 working days in a year. Okay, whatever that percentage is, that's a portion of the. Officers salaries that they pay, and it is based on the officer who's filling the contract. And so that would then include any adjustments to their pay, COLA, step increases, any additional pays they have as part of their salary.

Okay. Awesome. Thank you.

Thank you, Director Gordon. Councilor Forsman, if you have it loaded there on your screen, it's on page 107 there under Article B, it describes that form right there.

iPad died, so I'm on the small phone. Can't see.

Mayor? Councilor Wright? I would move that... Gotta look at this first. I'd move that we approve the school resource officer agreement and authorize the mayor to sign the agreement. get you to reread that counselor it's under item b there page three of the agenda yeah i'll just i'll read the whole thing i i move that we approve the school resource officer agreement between lewis and independent school district number one in the city of lewiston for the 2026-2027 school year and authorize the mayor to sign the agreement

I'm moved by Councilor Wright, seconded by Council President Kleeberg to approve the school resource officer agreement between Lewis Center Penn School District number one and the City of Lewis Center for the 2026-2027 school year and authorizing the Mayor to sign the agreement. Clerk Brockie?

Council President Kleeberg?

Aye.

Councilor Wright? Aye. Councilor Forsman? Aye. Councilor Klein? Aye. Councilor Morey?

Aye. Thank you, Council. Motion carries. Next, we have item C, bid award for IFP-26-010. Considering awarding the IFP-26-010 wastewater 2026 pipeline replacement, PRIN WW071 and PRIN project of Titan Technologies Incorporated in the amount of $3,698,581 and authorizing the Mayor to sign the contract. This is an action item and our Public Works Director, Dustin Johnson, is here with us tonight. Welcome, Director.

Good evening Mayor, City Council, Dustin Johnson, Public Works Director, uh, as you, uh, we already discussed capital improvements or investment in our, uh, infrastructure. This is essentially doing that. So, uh, we, we break out all of our, uh, wastewater system into basins. And so this, uh, is addressing basin 3A and 3B, which is essentially. 20 miles of sanitary sewer line. The only thing beyond the price that you've already listed is this was 22.8% under engineer's estimate. So we will keep on keeping on replacing these pipes. And this section of pipe is pretty much all of this lower section. So a lot of really old pipe that needs to be replaced. So I stand for questions.

Thank you, Director. Council, questions? Thank you, director. Council, you have that award 5B-26-010 before you.

There.

Councilor Klein.

Motion to award IFB-26-010 wastewater 2026 pipeline replacement project to Titan Technologies, Inc. in the amount of $3,698,500.

181 dollars and authorizing the mayor to execute execute the contract second then moved by counselor client second by council president cleaver to award rp-26-010 wastewater 2026 pipeline replacement project of titan technologies inc in the amounts of three million six hundred ninety eight thousand five hundred eight and one dollars and authorizing the mayor to execute the contract clerk rocky

Council President Kleeberg?

Aye.

Councillor Wright?

Aye.

Councillor Forsman? Aye. Councillor Klein? Aye. Councillor Morey?

Aye. Thank you, council. Thank you, clerk. Council, next up we have item D, task order number 2026-02-PW-SW, American company, considering approving task order number 2026-02-PW-SW with American company for the SM 008 hall 4 storm rehab project, the amount of $110,000, and authorizing the mayor to sign the task order. This is an action item. And we welcome our public works director, Dustin Johnson.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council, Dustin Johnson, Public Works Director. Again, kind of beating the drum again tonight about the importance of investing in infrastructure. This is a stormwater funded project. And if you go back to the work session that we discussed priorities, this has always been identified as the top priority within our stormwater utility as this utility continues to build momentum and funds to invest in these either deficient or deferred maintained infrastructure. This is a top priority. This is the line that runs. It's just on the East side 21st street. So, going all the way underneath all of our car dealers. Um, and so this has been worked on, uh, and been brought up to the council, uh, as long as I can remember. And so. This takes the, the concept designs that have been considered and discussed and takes it through the final final design. So we can get this project actually constructed. So this is a huge, huge deal. Um. The only other thing would be that we've had some conversations with those property owners. And it's going to look at 2 different scenarios. 1, in which we do the lining of the pipe. And keep the pipe in place, but we feel confident if the design. Is is cost effective and we feel confident in the design, we'll leave the pipe in the location that it's at. and just line it with a heavy industrial sleeve. If not, we have easements, or we have some of the easements, we'll have security easements to reroute that line around the existing structures that are already out there. So those are the two routes that we're considering with the design. Next time you'll see it, hopefully we'll have a final design and we'll be ready to go out to bid and get this project constructed. So I stand for questions.

Thank you, Director. Council, questions? Councilor Klein.

Motion to approve task order number 2026-02-PW-SW in the amount of $110,000 with Merrick and Company for the SM008 Hall Forward Storm Rehab Project and authorizing the mayor to sign the task order. Second.

And moved by Councilor Klein, seconded by Councilor Forsman to approve task order number 2026-02-PW-SW. Dash yesterday, the amount of 110,000. With American company for the SSM 0, 0, 8, hall for. For storm rehab project, not the right scenario to sign the task. For the clerk.

Council president paper. All right. All right. All right. All right.

Thank you, Council. Next, we have item E, resolution 2026-31, considering approving the grant of fiber optic cable easement from the City of Lewiston as contractor to the Port of Lewiston as grantee. This is an action item, and we have our City Attorney with us here, Jennifer Tincana. Welcome, Jennifer.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Counselors. This particular item and the next item, Resolution 2026-32, were not provided. The Port of Lewiston is continuing to work on the materials for Resolution 2026-32 related to a proposed access easement from the Port of Lewiston to the City, and the City is not willing to move forward until that particular matter is addressed. in relation to the grant of the fiber optic cable easement from the City of Lewiston to the Port of Lewiston. So until the second document is completed, neither item will be considered. Hopefully we will have this done soon because it's my understanding that the Port of Lewiston would like to move forward with the fiber optic easement. But once we hear back from them, then we will have more direction on how to move forward.

Thank you, Jennifer. council next we move to roman numeral nine unfinished a new business item a city councilor comments comment should not be related to an item currently for the city council for an item that may come for the city council in the foreseeable future and shall be delivered comments not discussions counselors mayor councilor foreman um make sure to tell your friends to come to high school uh thursday for the tax taxes and the

Star Spangled Banner celebration for your kids and enjoyment and it's a good time to engage with the city and learn stuff so make sure to share it as much as you can thank you counselor okay next we have city boards and commissions liaison updates do we have any today counselors counselor right

Yeah, we had the regular board meeting for the airport authority and just a couple updates. This year in May versus last year in May, we have a 2% increase in employment. And also a 15% increase per load. So we're just continuing to be headed in the right direction. the west entrance door that's been a bit of a problem since that big wind storm the insurance is covering the replacement and then fema is going to pick up the deductible so there's not going to be any cost to that for us and that is all i have for updates airport meeting council enforcement

We had the URA meeting. That was really fast. By the time I got there, I think it was maybe a 10, 15-minute meeting, basically just proving budgets. So it was super speedy. And then the disability advisory meeting, they talked a lot about just crosswalks especially down to Main Street and just people really not looking out for pedestrians talked of ways of trying to flag when pedestrians need a cross and different type of techniques that we can have to help slow people down and be more attentive some ideas were thrown about out maybe some even public outreach type things the city can put on as far as how pedestrians should be crossing the street and how the car should be aware. So that was pretty much the center of the meeting.

Thank you, counselor, for the comments. Okay, mayor comments. I get to have fun. So the first thing I would like to do is to share with the council, if you have not heard, but our very own Jennifer Tingano received the Dale store professional award from the IMA at the IMA conference in Boise on June 12th. And I had the pleasure of getting to present it to her. And she says she was surprised by that. I hope she was. I was. But I was very excited and just very proud of her accomplishments in her service to the city. So I just want to share that with you, Council, and the rest of the world. So I think we're doing some real good things in our legal shop. I just want to thank you, Jennifer, again, for all that you do for the city. I also forgot to mention earlier that Councillor Specklemyer did request and received an excused absent from tonight's meeting, so he was not gone without an excuse. He did contact me ahead of time. I just forgot to mention it to you. And Councillor Forsman, I didn't hear you that well. Did you mention the Let's Talk Taxes open house coming up?

Yeah, I don't think I've heard to talk about it again, though.

Well, we don't have many, if any, from the public here. And by the time they watch this video, it'll probably have come and gone. But we do have our Let's Talk Taxes open house coming up. And it's going to be, I hope, a big event. And right next door, we're going to have Parks and Recs over there with their big celebration. So hopefully, we can capitalize on having a lot of people there. Something else that I'm going to take advantage of as I participate in Democracy Day every year with Lewis Clark State College with the youth And so we are going to, Carol is going to help me get the word out on that and see if we can't recruit a few more students for democracy day at the city hall. So that's pretty exciting. So we'll see what good comes of that. After that brings us to item D, agenda topics.

Yes, could we add to the July 6th working session? Um, toward the very end of that working session a, uh, presentation from commissioner on the state grant bill. And, yeah, 2nd.

After right, it has moved counselor. Horseman has seconded it. having uh commissioner jokish added to our july 6 workshop to give a work session to give an update on his state mrg bill for some favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries tonya can you add that to our july 6 work session thank you okay council that brings us to roman number 10. to make you ask for it okay been moved by council president cleaver second by counselor klein to adjourn those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye opposed we are sure thank you council