City Council - Regular Meeting

Lewis City Council regular meeting April 27th, 2026 at the time and place as advertised. Our first order of business is the pledge of allegiance. If you'd please stand and join us in reciting our pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stand with liberty and justice for all. Thank you counselors. Council Klene will be joining us virtually tonight. Counselor, can you hear us?

Yep. Thank you.

Thank you. Next up are 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 a public hearing, as there may not be another opportunity to comment. 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. In consideration of others wishing to speak, commentary is limited to three minutes. And your council pledges to practice and promote civility within the governing body, advocating for civil engagement, respecting others and their viewpoints, and finding solutions for the betterment of the city. Are there citizen comments tonight? Any? We'll keep moving through. We'll move to Roman numeral four presentations. Item A, historic preservation uh month proclamation proclaiming the month of May as historic preservation month in the city of Leon. I will read this over here and Wow, we got a full crew here tonight. Yeah, thank you. Well, come on over here. Slide in a little bit so we can Yeah. anywhere. Yeah. Didn't Shannon Yeah.

Proclamation City of Lewis, Idaho. Whereas the National Trust for Historic Preservation established May as Historic Preservation Month in 1973 as a way to promote historic places for the purposes of instilling nation and community pride, promoting heritage tourism, and showing the social and economic benefits of historic preservation. And whereas the city of Lewon recognizes the value of historic preservation as an effective tool for revitalizing neighborhoods, fostering local pride, and maintaining community character while enhancing livability. And whereas historic preservation is relevant for communities across the nation, both urban and rural, and for Americans of all ages, all walks of life, and all ethnic backgrounds. And whereas many Lewon residents, groups, and organizations work hard to preserve Lewon's past for future generations. And whereas the city of Lewon has had an active historic preservation commission and a designated historic district since 1976. And whereas the city of Lewon became a certified local government in 2001, demonstrating a strong commitment to historic preservation. And whereas the city of Lewon continues to demonstrate its commitment to preservation through ongoing historic survey work, the expansion of our local historic district, the protection of our traditional neighborhoods and historic downtown, the integration of historic elements with redevelopment, and the recognition, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic properties. Now therefore, I, Dan Johnson, mayor of the city of Lewon, proclaim the month of May 2026 as historic preservation month in the city of Lewon, Idaho, and encourage all citizens to join me in the special observance. In witness whereof, I have here on to set my hand and seal of the city of Lewon, Idaho to be affixed here to this 27th day of April, 2026. Daniel G. Johnson, mayor of Louis V. Thank you very much. Yeah,

thank you. Thank you for serving. And then I'll give you this and then I think Shannon is going to grab a picture or something. And yeah, thank you very much for your service.

Well, we can't say enough about the work of our commissions and we appreciate your work very much. Thank you. Councilors. Next up is item B, financial report. Financial report for the period ending March 31st, 2026 in accordance with Idaho code 50-208. We have an oral report tonight from our city treasur, finance director, Miss Amy Gordon. Amy, welcome.

Good evening, Amy Gordon, city treasurer. Tonight before you and in your packets, we have our March 31st financial report which um is halfway through our fiscal year that runs October 1st through the 30th of September. Um I have included in the pre presentation tonight a look at our general fund revenues. I just wanted to take an opportunity to show you the revenues after we've collected that first um installment of property taxes and then just kind of compare that. If you were to take this page and look back to your December report when I presented last time in December we had property taxes at 4% and overall general fund revenues at 8%. And so this is how much of a difference those property tax receipts into the general fund make to the general fund. So now we are right at that 50% marker for revenues and I thought so I've gone through this report and I've looked for the areas that have you know are trending beyond the 50% trending below the 50% and they were the same items we talked about in December. So, I thought we'd do this a little bit different tonight and um talk about like the structure of the general fund because one of the questions that I have received um a couple of times and in recent months is well, how much property taxes go to support police or go to support parks department? And so in a general fund, we that's our fund that will hold all of our governmental services. So in the state of Idaho, a city, we can levy for a variety of activities. It can be you can levy to support an airport, to support a bond, capital improvements, cemeteries, streets, library, and then

you can levy for your general fund. And in that general fund will fall all the other services that a city would provide. So for the city of Lon, we have public safety, um, comm community and economic development as well as a park system. And then you'll have your support services like my department finance, our legal council's budgets there. So when we um are building our general fund budget, we're building out the budgets for those various departments. Some of those departments will have department specific revenue, but then some departments don't have revenue. And in the general fund, we have revenues that support it that aren't specific to a department. So property taxes is one of those. There's no specific department out there generating property taxes. Like there's no specific department out there generating sales tax or state shared revenues. So those are what we consider our undefined revenues. So they're revenues of the general fund that help support these budgets, but they're not allocated to those specific department budgets. So if we look at um council's budget or our executive budget, these are departments that don't have revenues specifically tied to them. So when you're going through your um financial reports and the general funds, you will see some departments that have no revenues and then you'll see some departments that do. So recreation, they are supported by general fund revenues, but they also pro bring in some of their own revenues through their recreation program. Um, this also includes senior nutrition. So there's some um revenue that helps support senior nutrition. So when you're going through those reports and if you ever wonder why there's some departments that don't have revenues and how they're funded, that's kind of the explanation behind that. And I just thought that might be something different to talk

about tonight and then something that will help lead us into our budget discussions coming up the next couple of months. Um, this is just a sheet that kind of takes all of the property tax line items in your financial reports and puts it on one sheet. I specifically just wanted to point out um when we get that first big payment in January for the most part we will fund most funds at 50%. There are some funds we will fund a little bit heavier than 50% and then some funds we fund just a little bit lighter than the um reasoning behind that has a lot to do with the revenues that are available to those other funds. So if you see here we have library where we funded it at 65% and then transportation's funded a little bit less than 50%. If you look at those specific areas of your financial report you can see like the transportation fund has other revenues available to them. So they have revenues that will come in throughout the year to help support their budgets whereas library is predominantly supported by property taxes. So, we when we're making those decisions on how to allocate out that first property tax payment of the year, we're looking at what cash is in the bank for those funds, like what they have left in their reserve bank as well as their other revenue sources that they have available to them.

Yes. Um, can you back up one page? So when you say the revenues to date, like the month and year to date, you're talking about 60%. Does that just mean it's been allocated to them or does that mean that say transportation has already spent a million dollars of their uh $2.7 million budget?

No, this is the amount of property taxes when we've received the property taxes, how we have deposited it into the various funds. Doesn't necessarily mean that it's been spent. Um, and then last but not least, it's hard to not provide you this information every quarter just because it can vary so much quarter to quarter. Um, police retirement cemetery perpetual fair or perpetual care, excuse me. These are our professionally invested funds. They're, for lack of a better term, self-sufficient funds. They generate their own income through investments and the market will really dictate how these um funds perform. It's interesting. I found it interesting. You're going to sometimes see negative revenue in here and that's just a condition of how the market performed that month. Um the police retirement fund at De December was at 41%. Well, you can clearly see March was a rough month for the police retirement fund, but yet they're still at 36%. So, it's a large fund. It's um requires there to be 13 million in that fund to be considered fully funded. We have more than that currently in there. And so, it is more resistant to these market swings as perpetual care fund that has just it carries between one and a half to$2 million in that fund. So, it's going to be a lot more um it's going to have a a larger risk in the market risk area, but still year-to- date, it does have some revenue in it. And I would imagine that we could see completely different results than June depending on how the market does. And that's all I have this evening unless there's questions for me.

Thank you. Director of counselors questions. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. Amy, thank you. Counselors, next we have agenda item five, consent agenda. All items on the consent agenda are considered routine by the council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion on these issues less the counselor so request 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. Counselors councelor Wright I move to approve the consent agenda.

Second been moved by councelor Wright seconded by councelor forceman to approve the consent agenda. Clerk Brocky. Council president Cleber. Hi, Councelor Wright. Hi, Councelor Foresman. Hi, Councelor Mury. I councelor Spigglemire. Hi, Councelor Klein. Hi.

Thank you, Council. Next, we move to Roman numeral six, active agenda. Item A, Advisory Board and Commission appointments. Item one, Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board, considering appointing Mike Larson to four-year term. This is an action item. counselors. Uh, as with all appointments, uh, I meet with the candidate and, uh, learn a little bit more about them and what their interest may be in serving on the different boards and commissions that we have. Mike and I met, uh, for about an hour actually. And, uh, Mike's been around a long time on this commission. He does a lot of good work for us. And um once you've had your opportunity to serve a couple of terms, I do uh work with our city clerk to open that back up to the public to see if there's anyone else interested in serving. No one else applied. Mike applied to be reappointed. Um and I learned a lot from him. We're fortunate to have him there. So, uh I endorse him um fully. And I move to approve the appointment of Mike Larson to a four-year term to the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board.

Second. It's been moved by Mayor Johnson, second by Councelor Foresman to appoint Mike Larson to four-year term for the emergency medical services advisory board. Those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I.

Opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, counselors, and um thank you, Mr. Larson, for serving us. Next up is item B, resolution 2026-18, considering approving the Federal Transit Administration FISBY or 2026 certifications and assurances. This is an action item. And our transit manager is here with us tonight, Chris Usher. Council, if you have questions for him, uh he can answer those questions. And I'm going to pause for a minute to see if anyone does before I move on. Questions, concerns? No. Okay. Council, I would entertain a motion on this.

Councelor Spikmire. Motion to approve resolution 2026-18. Second. Been moved by councelor Speckleer. Second by councelor Wright to approve resolution 2026-18. Clerk Brocky, Council President Cleber. Hi. Councelor Wright. I. Councelor Forsman. Hi. Councelor Mory. Hi. Councelor Speelmire. Hi. Councelor Klein. Hi.

Thank you, council. Motion carries. Next up, we have uh 6C resolution 2026-13 concerning approving the inter agency agreement to establish the region 2 type 4 Idaho hazardous substance emergency response team agreement and regional response team equipment funding agreement with the Idaho military division. This is an action item. Councilors, you've had this before you previously. I would entertain a motion or if you'd like, we can call our fire chief to answer any questions you may have. Councelor Becker. Yeah. Um I did have Chief, I had a question. Um

Chief, if you'd introduce yourself for the record. Thank you. Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, Council Greg Ray, Fire Chief. So, Chief, I was just curious in that the Idaho military division, um, has it been impacted at all by the governor's budget cuts or anything that you know of. They cut a lot of stuff.

The um, not to my knowledge. I haven't shared that in any of the meetings that we've been at. I know that some departments um, they had already done pullbacks for this year. I don't know if they did. Fire search training did, for example. I just noticed in reading it said that the funds are contingent upon the leg legislative appropriations or grants and so if they don't get their grants does it just stand down or you don't respond or what happens?

In my time the only times we've experienced this is during federal government shutdowns and it's just delayed our grant issuances. Um the way the grant system works so like currently right now we're we're spending on the 2023 grant. So there's we're all as a couple years behind in those federal homeland security grants. Okay. All right. Thank you councils. Are there questions for Chief Right Meer? Oh I did have another question. Councelor Specmier

in the contract um it has a statement that when um get it says deployed members shall be reimbursed based on their um full loaded monthly rate. Is it does the state military division pay them or the city pays them and then the city gets paid back by is that how it works? City pays them on their regular paycheck and then the city gets reimbursed from the state. It almost reads like they pay it but okay. Thank you counselors here for

um in here I think I see I saw about uh like health um what I got well health checks or ether yearly health checkups. Is that something that they only have if they had to respond or do they because they have like that certification to be able to respond to these types of situations? They are covered under that and they they cover them yearly.

There's a couple situations that exist. They have an annual physical that's required by NFPA and the code of federal regulations for their hazmat. And then if they are exposed at an incident or become symptomatic at an incident, then they would also get that and then that goes on state workman's comp at that point. So they don't get the yearly annual checkups covered unless No, they get the yearly annual. Okay. that always goes on. And then if they are exposed or there's not a known exposure but they become ill after being at an incident then then we would they see a physician and and they would be responsible for the coverage of that. Correct. Okay. Thank you.

Councelor Wright. I'd make a motion to approve resolution 2026-13. Second. Been moved by councelor Wright, second by council president Kleberg to approve resolution 2026- 13. Clerk Rocky. Council President Cleber. Hi. Councelor Wright. Hi. Councelor Foresman. Hi. Councelor my hi. Councelor Spickle. Hi. Councelor Klein. Hi.

Motion carries. Thank you council. Thank you Chief Ray Meyer. Councilors, next up we have item D, resolution 2026-17, considering approving a donation agreement between CHS, Inc., formerly known as Senate Harvest States Cooperatives, and the city of Lewon, and accepting a donation of a commercial building at 1200 Snake River Avenue building G from CHS, Inc., and authorizing the mayor to sign the donation agreement. This is an action item, and we have our public works director with us here tonight, Dustin Johnson. Welcome, director.

Good evening, mayor, city council. Dustin Johnson, public works director in front of you. It's kind of a unique uh situation. So, Snake River Avenue, if you've driven it, is under construction currently. Uh when it was originally designed, this particular building that we're talking about tonight, it's partially in the rightway. And what the design incorporated a retaining wall that went around the building to allow the CHS or whoever was occupying the building at the time to have access to it. Well, time over it's gone several years since the design was completed. Well, the building is vacant now. And so the construction projects obviously going. There's been uh many months of conversations between CHS and the city saying, "Do you need that building?" And CHS said, "No, we do not need that building. You can have it." And so that's basically what this is is them donating just the building. Uh it gives us a window of I think three years to demolish it or you know if we've already got a bid so the the contract is already locked in so we know the price of what it's going to cost us. It's all paid through STP or surface transportation funding or and a grant. So, the price is locked in. The only thing we can do is demolish it, save money from the project, and utilize that in other areas for transportation. So, um uh legal uh Jennifer Tangano drafted this uh agreement between the two entities. Uh it seems like a win-win and an opportunity to uh save money on project. So, with that, I have I'll answer questions on the project and maybe Jennifer can answer any questions you may have on the agreement.

Thank you, director Council. Councelor Wright. Yeah. So, I'm I'm a little curious on this because I looked up the company and it it, as you said, the building's been vacant. Well, it is vacant. How long? I'm not sure, but I would assume a a good while. It's it hasn't been in use. If it's in the public right away, why don't they pay for it to get demolished? Why are we paying for this to happen? I'll defer to Jennifer on that one because that was a question that was asked. Thank you, Jennifer. Welcome.

Jennifer Tangano, city attorney. So, this building is only partially in the rideway. So, technically only that portion of the building in the rideway would be subject to um abatement. um the remainder of the building is on private property and the building itself is private property. So we would only have authority to embate abate the part part of the building that is encroaching in the public right away and it's not really feasible to just kind of cut a building in half. Um, so as a part of this project, if it becomes cost effective to just remove the building versus u building the retaining walls around it, it's in everyone's best interest to just do that. Um, otherwise there's not anything that we could do at the moment to force CHS to demolish the entire building.

So it's Master Right. It sounds like, not to put words in, here's how I'm interpreting it, that it would potentially cost us more money to pursue them paying for removing the portion that's in the rightway if they can figure out how to keep half a building standing. Okay. But it'll save us money in the long run just to do it ourselves. That's that's what I'm hearing. It it could this agreement provides for the opportunity to assess that properly. Um because right now everything is planned and designed for keeping the structure as is and installing the retaining wall and there is the need to re-evaluate whether or not um if removing the building would benefit the project or keeping it there. Um, in the event that the city decides that it's more of a benefit to just continue with the retaining wall option, this agreement allows for the city to just give back the building without doing anything further.

Well, let me back back to you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Those are good questions, counselor. Councelor Spickle. So, um, for director I'm just curious, is it on the south end? Like, is it part of the old steamp plant? Is that what it is? No, it's on, it's further down. Um, it's the closest building because there's the RV replacement, which is outside the limits. It's the next building going south of there. As you drive it, it doesn't really poke out, but as an aerial, um, it is the it's obviously in the in the rightway.

Okay. if if you're looking for it because I drive by it every single day and I didn't notice it until I was actually looking because the address covers the whole Yeah. Yeah. It is not It is all that stuff past their office, past the gas station down going north. Oh, okay. It's the first building you see if you pass the skate park right next to the skate park. Pastor, right?

So, the the other thing that jumps out at me is they're not donating the land. They're just donating the building. So, if we're paying for if we're not knocking down the building, we're building a retaining wall for them. We're improving their property for them. And I I mean I guess we get a benefit because we can finish this development that we want to do, but it's not it doesn't really seem like a donation. It seems like a city you can go ahead and improve our property and then they can use the property then they keep the property. Well, again, to the extent that part of that is on private property and the city would have no ability to remove that part of the property that's on private property. I don't know all the circumstances uh related to the creation of the rightway. Um but uh it was just it's an option available to all parties to benefit the project. Um, in the event that the city, like I said, in the event that the city and the the um developer is able to find a cheaper solution than what's currently planned, um, it would provide a essentially a benefit for everybody. Um there is an incidental benefit to CHS because now they have that building removed, but there's also a public benefit because now we no longer have this um building that's in partially in the right of way and we can widen that particular section and not have to kind of jog around it

or or design around it. The one thing I'd add is that retaining wall is in the rightway and the rightway that Snake River Avenue in that portion is coming up I don't know exactly a couple feet and so that's why the retaining wall would be required because we can't just stop the road. We'd have to hold the wall or hold the road back with the retaining wall. So that's it's an elevation change the road.

Gotcha. So the the improvement the retaining wall would be on our our rightway. We have the benefit of that. Okay. And and again, this this agreement is situated or is is structured in a way that if removing the building is more costly, then the city is going to essentially give back the building and we're not going to do anything with it. Um so that there's no overall cost increase to the project. So the the the primary goal is if the city were to do this, we'd have to have control of the building. Um, we're not seeking control of the land that's on private property because we don't need to get that portion of the property and the right away sorted. It's just the building. And as I mentioned, you can't just cut off a part of a building in that particular way. Um, so the goal of this is if there's a cost savings to their project, then we can move forward with demo uh demoing the the building and then not doing the retaining loan. But if there's a an overall price increase as a result of this, then we're just not going to proceed with it and we're going to give back the building and the building will remain and we will build the retaining wall.

Gotcha. One more, Mr. Mayor. Counselor. And this will this will protect us against if we we get in there and do something with the retaining wall and it damages the building in some way, we're we're protected against that because it's been donated to us at this time. At that point, it does not protect us because um we unless we were to keep the building either way, but the intent of this is either we're going to accept the building as is and demo it um or we're going to build the retaining wall, but we have three years to figure that out. Okay. Thank you.

Again, the structure itself is what is being donated. the land underneath it. There's no changes to how that's owned. And so the portion of the the property or the portion of the building that's on their side remains their property and the portion of the building on our side remains the public rightway. It's the structure that is encroaching on the in that area. Thank you. Okay, counselors, you have resolution 2026-17 before you.

Councelor Speckleer. Motion to approve resolution 2026-17. Second. It's been moved by councelor Specklemire, second by councelor Wright to approve resolution 2026-17. Clerk Rocky. Council President Cleber. I. Councelor Wright. I. Councelor Foresman. I councelor my I councelor Spickle I councelor Klein I

motion carries Thank you council thank you director Johnson and clerk Rocky council next up we move to item E active agenda item E ordinances number one first reading item A ordinance 4966 considering adding a new section 10-13 to Louiswis city code titled standard specifications for public works and applying this new section of city code to all future developments, addressing conflicts and providing for severability. This is an action item. Our city engineer is with us here tonight, Luke Antinich. If you have questions for him, otherwise um I see you have your tablets open. There's a pretty good summary of it in the agenda item history sheet. I guess what I'd like to call out Council Speckle.

Yeah, I do have a question. Luke, you knew that was coming, didn't you? I was hoping so. Welcome. Please introduce yourself for the record. Uh Luke Antonich, city engineer, city of Louis.

So Luke, um on here just a word popped out and I wanted maybe kind of a you talked about severability um in your new section and I'm wondering is that been an issue in the past? Um I guess the explanation severability is the ability of something in a ordinance or um isn't applicable then it doesn't mean the rest of it's not applicable or what's that mean? Uh I will defer to Jennifer

Jennifer Tangano city attorney councilmire if um by adding the separability if there's anything as a part of this new ordinance and then the standards that would be adopted with it that are um inapplicable due to some other law um uh being declared invalid by a court or some other legislative action that would make at least a portion, some or all of it invalid, then we can essentially cut it off from wherever the invalid portion is and continue with the remainder or if it's entirely valid, then the remainder of our code is still valid.

So, a followup then, does that um apply to the contractor as well? Can they use the same process? We do typically include severability clauses in our contracts. Um, and we've litigated over that before in the past as well, whether or not the provision was severable from the remainder of an agreement. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Councelor Specer. Jennifer, councelor, further questions, Luke or Jennifer? Councelor Wright,

maybe just a comment. I'm I'm thankful we've got you, Luke. I can't imagine there's many people who could go through these documents and make updates. Uh, great work. Thanks. Thank you, counselor. You've had this before. You You have another shot at it at a future meeting. Council Spec Motion to approve the first reading of ordinance number 4966. Been moved by councelor Specar, second by councelor my to approve the first reading of ordinance number 4966. Is there discussion? Amendments hearing? None. Those in favor, please signify by saying I.

I opposed. Councelor Klein, how did you vote? Looks like uh No, I I said I Thank you, Clerk. Rocky

approving the first reading of ordinance number 4966, an ordinance of the city of Lewon adding a new section 10-13 to Lewon city code titled standard specifications for public works applying this new section of city code to all future developments addressing conflicts providing for severability and providing an effective date. Thank you, Jennifer.

Counselor's Mayor, I just wanted to note when uh we proceed with our second and third readings, if you if you noticed um a lot of these design standards include an area approved for publication where we'll have the engineer signature and date. Those will be provided um at the next reading. So those drawings for the time being are still incomplete, but um because there are so many uh Luke is getting his signature hand ready for rapid execution of all those documents.

Thank you, Jennifer. Council questions? No. All right, we'll be prepared. Thank you. Next up is second and third readings. Item 8, ordinance 4948, considering amending city code chapter 19 related to health and sanitation. This is an action item. from our community resource officer Dave Gobi is not with us here tonight but council you've seen this previously in a work session council right first motion to dispense with the requirement that an ordinance be read on three different days and combine the second and third readings

been moved by councelor Wright second by councelor forceman to dispense with the requirement that an ordinance be read on three different days and to combine the second and third readings. Those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Councelor Wright. Motion to wave the third reading in full of ordinance number 4948 and approve the reading of ordinance number 4948 by title only.

Second. Been moved by councelor Wright, second by councelor Foresman to wave the second, pardon me, the third reading in full of ordinance number 4948 and approve the reading of ordinance number 4948 by title only. Is there discussion or amendments? Hearing none. Those in play those in favor, please signify by saying I. I I opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Council, City Clerk Rocky,

approving the second and third reading of ordinance number 4948, an ordinance of the city of Lewon amending various sections of Lewon City Code Chapter 19 related to health and sanitation, enacting a new section 19-2 of Lewon City Code related to abatement by the city and providing an effective date. Thank you, Clerk Brocky. Council, next up we have item three, adoption, approval of ordinance summaries. Item 8, ordinance 4948. This is an action item.

Councelor Forceman motion to adopt ordinance number 4948 and approve the related ordinance summary. Second. Been moved by councelor Forsman, second by council president Cleleberg to adopt ordinance number 4948 and approve the related ordinance summary. Clerk Browy, Council President Cleber, hi. Councelor Wright, hi. Councelor Forsman. Hi. Councelor my hi. Councelor Spickle. Hi.

Councelor Klein. Councor Klein, how did you vote? Yes, it must not have gone through. I did say I. Thank you. We just want to get it on the record. Yep. Thank you, council. Next, we move to Roman numeral 8, unfinished and new business. Item A, city council comments. Comment shall not 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. Mayor, councelor Forsman.

Um this Sunday I will be meeting with the 4 and giving a 20 to 30 minute um not speech but basically a discussionary. They want to know about the name of the city executive entitle. Is it mayor, city manager? Kind of the details of that. Um, is the person appointed or elected? So, is the mayor appointed or elected? How many members are on the city council? Are these people appointed or elected? When and where does the governing body meet? How does councilman and mayor get on the ballot? What are the qualifications for a candidate? And what are the responsibilities and authorities of the council and mayor? So I will be talking on those subjects at this Sunday um for the 4 group and hopefully they'll be asking them lots of questions and it's h good to see young kids engaged.

Thank you counselor councelor Pickleer. Thank you mayor. Yeah. Um I've been thinking more about our um upcoming FY27 budget processes and um in thinking in it I consider the mayor council and the directors and the chiefs us all to be in the same management team um and also share all the responsibilities. I just hope when the directors or your cons and the chiefs are considering your s your city budget issues that we look at the impacts on our taxpayers and the city um when you're developing all your budgets for the sheriff.

Thank you counselor. Further council comments. Okay, next up, city boards and commissions or leazison on updates. Councilors, councelor, right?

Yeah, I've got a couple of them. The cemeterian urban forest forestry advisory met on the 22nd last week and we planted the liberty tree which was a lot of fun and it was nice and rainy so a great time to plant a tree. Sure. It's doing great. And on date was this the 21st, we had an airport special board meeting. The preliminary FY27 budget was approved and there are also some lease agreements that were approved and the state grant. Well, actually, let me skip that one. uh the contract for taxiway dre reconstruction and reconfiguration product project was awarded. And just more some things for the public, the TSA pre-check is going to start on May 12th through the 15th. So if you don't like taking your shoes off in the line, that's something you can go get signed up for. And from the director, the new parking system continues to work great and they're getting great data from it. And the Seattle flight times have changed slightly. So folks fly into Seattle, keep an eye out for that. That'll be coming up. Uh May 8th is when that'll that change will take place. That's all I have.

Thank you, counselor. Next up is the mayor comments item C. Um I'll piggyback on the airport uh comment. I was actually there this morning at um about 5:00 and um they're doing well. Things are running smooth and um we're just happy to have Delta here in the valley. I know that our um city finance director is going to be contacting them soon about a possibly a corporate account with them. council. So, see if we can't leverage some more um benefits out of that relationship here at the airport. I also too just wanted to um just call attention to the passing of Governor Dirk Kempthorne. Um I I did know him and he previously served as mayor of Boise and US Senator and then Secretary Vinterry for the United States, but I found him to be a very fine man. He was leading the effort in the USS Idaho project, the submarine that's named after the state of Idaho. So I know that he'll be missed by all and those flags will stay half staff. They are at the city until after his service. So,

agenda topics item D, counselors, councelor Peekomire,

you may um we've had discussions in here with the cities, the city reserves um that we have to maintain a certain level around to cover expenses through like I think it's a 90-day period, but I've never really understood um the utilities reserve funds um if there's a requirement to retain a certain amount of money um something like that. So, I'd like to make a motion to add utility reserves discussion to the May 4th work session. Second. Okay. It's been moved by councelor Specter, second by councelor Wright to add utility reserves to the May 4th council meeting.

Those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Are there further agenda topics? Okay, we'll move to Roman numeral nine adjournment. Motion to adjurnn. Been moved by council president Kleberg, second by councelor forman to adjurnn. Those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Post. We are journ. Thank you, councel.