City Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, thanks for your patience. Welcome to the City Council meeting for August 25th. I don't think Pastor Jason made it, so we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance that John will lead us in. Um, we're going to have a couple of things, uh, at the front. And first is, uh, um, we have a visitor here from Republic services. They want to come up.

We need to establish a quorum.

Oh yeah. I'm going to get ahead of myself. Go ahead.

Counselor Evelyn here. Mayor Fitch here. Counselor Nielsen here. Counselor Osborne here. Counselor Patrick here. Counselor wedding here. Counselor's wicker here.

Okay, so if you guys wanna come on up, that'd be great.

Thank you.

Speak? All right, I can figure it out. Well, thank you for having me today, Mr. Mayor, council members. My name is Wes Davis. I'm the new general manager for Republic Services in Central Oregon, which means I work for you guys. You know, I have met with your staff. I've heard a lot from my team about where we're at in this market. AND I AM NEW, SO IT'S MY CHANCE TO KIND OF ASK FOR FEEDBACK ABOUT HOW WE CAN BE BETTER AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO BETTER SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE. IT'S SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE HEALTHY, SAFE, SANITARY AT ALL TIMES, AND I TAKE THAT CHARGE VERY SERIOUSLY. WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS One, make sure you guys know who I am. So I've been with Republic for five years. I was most recently a general manager in North Idaho, Coeur d'Alene specifically. Beautiful area if you've ever been up there. And there's not many places in the country or world, frankly, that I'd rather be. But this is one of them. I chose to come here. I wanted to come here. I hope to be here for many, many years and be your partner for those years. Before that, I was in the Army for six years. So I've learned quite a bit. I've learned a lot. One of the things I've learned is you learn a lot by seeing the situation. So one, I want to invite all of you at any time to come out and do a ride along or see our facility and understand where the rubber meets the road and what we're working on for the community to better serve you. I also want to make sure you all have a direct line to me. Obviously, I work with your staff right now, but I work for you guys. I also work for all the people of Redmond, so anybody that you hear from that needs help because they've been online for 40 minutes and aren't getting an issue resolved, I'd love to hear about that because that's my job to fix that. If I don't know about it, I'm probably not going to be able to do much about it. So I'd love to get that feedback. I love hearing what's going on, what the issues are, and how else I can make this better. I think that's pretty much all I got. I want to make sure you guys got to see me today. I'll stand for any questions or comments at this point, but I don't know that you guys are prepared necessarily.

It could be a long night if we did that.

Hey, I'm happy to meet with you individually if you do want to take time to prepare. All right, thank you. Because I understand it could be a long night, and I want to do what I can to fix it.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Next, tonight on our agenda, we have a second reading on the fireworks ordinance. I don't know if anyone's here on the fireworks, but there won't be a public comment period, so I just wanted to bring that out front. And with that, we'll move on to the consent agenda, which is made up of the minutes of June 15th, the minutes of June 23rd, the minutes of June 30th, North Point Vista Phase 1 Infrastructure Project Change Order No. 5 with Taylor Northwest for $47,313.95. A purchase authorization for heavy-duty mobile column lifts for the fleet services of $120,070.32. Amendment No. 1 to the design contract with Kittleson & Associates for the Northwest 19th and Northwest Maple Traffic Signal Project TR-2412 for $26,199. and the September recognitions. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

I move to approve the consent agenda. Second.

Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Okay, next we have a presentation, one we always look forward to, the fourth quarter financial report.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Jason F., Deputy State Manager, Chief Financial Officer. So, yeah, we are bringing the fiscal year 25-26 year-end report. So you can see the highlights there on that blue box. I think they can see it. Okay, thank you. There you go. Now you can see them. So in that blue box is our financial highlights for the year. I should mention, these are unaudited, but numbers aren't moving much at this point. James Wood and his team are doing a great job of kind of finalizing things. So operating expenses for the year. We spent 4% less than budget. That's pretty typical for Redmond. We spend typically about 5%. I think where we were a little bit surprised is the general fund spent about 2% under our budget. So we were caught a little bit surprised there. Looking at some of the revenues, property taxes, we were slightly higher than budget. Franchise fees is kind of where we missed it a little bit. Good example, we were $300,000 down in franchise fees versus budget. Good example is in September of 2025. Cascade Natural Gas dropped their rates by 16%. We typically would assume maybe a 3% increase. So something we didn't anticipate. Also, you might remember Pacific Power dropped their rates by almost a percent. So those two alone kind of missed the mark on franchise fees. Overall, we're carrying an operating deficit into the end of the year, $800,000, or about 2.7%. That's for the general fund. We anticipated that might happen. This year, in our budget, we tightened things up quite a bit. We carried into the budget a 3% deficit. So I still am confident we'll see that dissipate throughout the fiscal year. But something we'll keep an eye on. The water fund was breakeven this year, 3,000 positives on a $9 million budget, so I think our rates are right where they should be. The wastewater fund, obviously we got the wetlands project going full steam ahead. The DEQ loan is going to be about $2.2 million, eventually coming into our budget. Right now we've got about $800,000 surplus in wastewater. We're gonna see about 800,000 other debt drop off over the next couple of years. And we're also anticipating about a half million dollar savings on our treatment costs. So we're gonna get there with regards to our ability to afford that project. You look at the airport, passenger traffic was up 3.2% the prior year. Overall, we had a $6.9 million operating surplus. You'll recall council gave us the authorization to issue all the debt for the terminal. And two budgets from now, we're going to be spending about $7 million a year on that debt service. So we are spot on where we should be with regards to being able to afford that terminal debt service. So those are the highlights. I know we got a lot to talk about tonight and other stuff. I can take questions from council.

Any questions for Jason? I think we went over these before, but they're basically a good report. So thank you.

You're welcome.

Let's see. Next we have a public hearing and this is resolution 2026 dash 19, a resolution of the city of Redmond, Oregon, adopting a tiered rate structure for the water utility. Josh. with assistance from finance.

Evening, Mayor and Council. Josh Wedding, Operations Manager for the City of Redmond. And tonight, before I get into the presentation, just to let you know, our consultant, she's remote again, and her name's Deb, and I'll go ahead and give her the opportunity to introduce herself.

Good evening, Mayor and Council, Deb Gilardi, Gilardi-Rothstein Group, and I'll be supporting Josh on the presentation.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Deb. So this is the same presentation that I gave back in July 25th. It's a little bit more of a condensed version, but I always look for a little bit, a few more tidbits of information that I can give you guys to help better inform your decisions.

Hey, Josh, before I forget, I'm going to open the public hearing, so this will be part of it. Thank you. Go ahead.

All right, on the first slide here, kind of what this shows is what the fixed volumetric rate is currently. and what the volumetric rate could go to should a tiered rate be adopted in tiers one, two, three, and four. I would be remiss to say that I didn't point out in the last presentation that tiers one and two were structured as such so that there'd be zero impact to the household in the wintertime months, the non-irrigation months. To kind of put that in perspective for you, an average residential home uses about 35, 3600 gallons a month on the non-irrigation months. And so nine tiers, or excuse me, 12 tiers, really what that allows you to do is use about 12,000 gallons, or sorry, 5,000 gallons, 9,000 gallons. Sorry, math was wrong. I have a lot of numbers in my head. about 9,000 gallons with really no impact to the bill. As we can see, tier three here, you can take that all the way up to about 15,700 gallons. Once again, minimal impact. And then tier four, of course, is really the tier we're focused on. That's a tier where the opportunity for more efficient water use exists. What this slide really points out is the number of accounts in the summertime that jump into Tier 3 and Tier 4. It's hard to say from this bar graph exactly where that customer lands in Tier 3 or Tier 4. You could be one unit into Tier 4 and you could show up in the red bar here. What this also points out is what I mentioned in the earlier slide, the minimal impact and increase in Tier 3. And even into Tier 2 and into Tier 3, taking it all the way up to 15,700 gallons, the bill impact there, the increase is $3.50, so not a lot. Tier four, once again, is the tier that we're focused on. Also, once again, what I was not able to point out in the previous presentation is, as you can see, in January, February, March, November and December, you can see that there's accounts in the black and the red, right? And kind of give you guys an idea to get into that black and then into the red. That's 15,000 gallons in the wintertime. And so while the impact to the water utility isn't super great, 95% of that water is indoor leaks that are going down the drain, and that's an impact on the sewer system. And so we're really looking to address those leaks also in the wintertime.

So the wintertime, I think you indicated average use is about 3,500 gallons, and that's a month?

Yeah, that is correct, per household. The average comes out, PSU average is 2.42 times 50 times 31.

What would be the average in the summertime?

Let's see. An average home with indoor use and 1,500 square foot yards, about 15,000 a month. Questions? Move on. Yep.

Nope, I have a question. Are the numbers you're showing here on the graph, I'm assuming on the left side of the graph, it is gallons per minute. Is this historic usage that you extrapolated to determine two, three, and four?

The left-hand side of the graph is number of accounts. Number of accounts. Okay, gotcha. Number of accounts, yes. Okay. Yeah, and this is all that.

Gotcha. So, okay, accumulated accounts throughout the city. Perfect. Thank you.

All right, this next pie chart. So 5% of single-family residential demand use short-term reductions, right? So conservatively, we're looking for this to conserve about 5% in the short term. That amounts to about 60 to 75 million gallons a year. And then, of course, as the program progresses, we're looking for long-term reductions of 10% or better. So 10% on the residential demand yearly would be 500 million gallons, which would be pretty nice. It's a great opportunity to align our water use with our water right constraints and also focus on the long-term capacity of the natural resource. We all live here. We know the number of droughts we've seen over the last five years. And so this just gives us a better opportunity to bring our water use into a more and more efficient capacity. From my perspective, capital project deferment's a huge one. right, the more we can meet the growing needs of the community without constructing wells, booster pump stations, and reservoirs. That's efficiency to me. The 21% in tier four. So what this pie chart really represents is the percentage of bills throughout the year that occur in those tiers. And so to point out that the 21% in tier four accounts for 30% of the water's use annually. And if we just kind of really do the quick math there, we've got 37% between tier four and tier three, and we have 63% of the total bills that occur in tiers one and two.

Do we have a breakdown on residential and commercial for tier four?

This is strictly just residential. Just residential. Just residential.

Thank you.

And this is our bill profile. So what this is doing is this is taking the average of the high bill, right? This takes all the data that we've compiled over the last couple years. And the average of the high bill was 59 billable units. So to put that in perspective, the mayor loves gallons. That's 44,000 gallons. And so if you guys will remember, I think told Councilor Zwicker, the average home in July utilizes about 15,000 gallons on a 1,500 square foot yard, including indoor use. So what this kind of shows is if, this average high bill didn't change their water usage and they continued to water at 44,000 gallons a month, the bill impact would be $25.61. And I like to use July. July's, you know, it's when we see the highest use. And so your bill impact would be $25.61 with a tiered rate adoption. And moving on, and if you guys have questions on how this looks on the bill, Valerie, our billing manager, she's in the audience, and she might be able to answer any more targeted questions. But council had kind of asked, hey, what kind of information, what kind of things should we do on the bill to inform customers of what their previous year's water use would have looked like with a tier bill applied to it? And so what we've done here is kind of put on there, this is what an average high bill would look like. We also have the opportunity to take the individual's 12-month use and apply that month over month over month to kind of show them what that would look like if a tiered rate was applied to 2025's use. Moving on. So kind of this is the implementation timeline. So obviously right now we're looking for an adoption today. And what we would like to do is implement in either April or October.

And so I think if we, whichever way we implement it, I think the key is what I understand is educating people what their bill looks like now and what it would look like under the tiered rate ahead of time.

That is correct. So we would get working on getting those out so customers could start looking in that, viewing what their water use would look like applied to a tiered rate. So when April came, there wouldn't be any big surprises. Yeah.

And as I understand it, we have the capability of doing that now, pre-April. That's a question more than a statement. And nodding is yes, okay.

Valerie Taylor, Billing and Collections Manager. We would actually, October, with the bill we sent in October, that would be the earliest that we could start this communication, but that would give us enough time to do that and then we could continue doing it from there forward.

So just to take it one step further, people would see what their consumption is now and what the rate is and what the consumption in the future would be with the tiered rate. And then I assume we can provide them the tools as to whether they want to lower that consumption with the rebate programs we have and other possibilities?

Yes, correct. So we would do the 12-month view, and then we'd do their current usage with the tier, and then we would also make our communication plan for education and outreach.

Okay. Any other, John? I have a non-billing question. So we have kind of a stated goal as a city. We want to reduce water usage by 10%. The tiered water system is not designed as a punishment for people who are wasting water, but it's designed as more of a carrot model to try to get that reduction down. Where have we seen this implemented in other cities, and what kind of reductions have we seen in those cities that have brought this forth?

That's a great question, Councillor. I'm actually going to pass this one off to Deb, since she deals with so many utilities throughout the nation.

Sure. So I've worked with the city of Tucson, Arizona for years, and obviously they're in a very water scarce environment. And we saw over a 10 year period, actually even larger than 10% reduction in their rates or in their water consumption. Part of it is the structure itself. sends a conservation-oriented message pricing incentive to customers to understand about the scarcity of water and the cost of those using water during the peak season. The other variable is the price. for the initial implementation, we have set that there's two objectives. One is to send that conservation incentive by pricing those upper tiers at a higher rate, but also we don't want the rate for anybody to decrease because that sends kind of a confusing message. So in the future, the city can monitor what the customer's response is in terms of water use and then continue to progressively increase those upper tier rates as needed to send a higher, more pronounced price, provide a pricing incentive or just seeing these can be tweaked as you move forward during this plan to balance kind of your affordability and your conservation objectives. But studies have shown that even just the rate structure itself can result in about a 2% reduction in water use. And the pricing then, depending on how high those rates are and how much they increase, that results in the additional conservation. And we've seen this work in Arizona and in other Oregon communities and across the nation.

So one more follow-up question on that. So do you have experience in terms of lead time? Because obviously the education piece of this is going to be huge to get this out to folks. Have you seen kind of what is the sweet spot between where we're giving them enough time to adapt but not so long that that's kind of falling off of their mind and they get surprised with it when the implementation finally does come into play?

Yeah, I think, you know, a six-month time period is sufficient and kind of is that sweet spot assuming that the billing system is able to produce the bills and the other customer service material, and that you've got the rebates and other elements of the program in place to, as someone pointed out, to support the customers in actually using less water in implementing conservation practices.

Thank you. Okay, go ahead.

That is the end of my presentation.

All right. Jason, do you guys want to add anything? All right. We'll go to public comment then. Is there anyone here who would like to speak on the tiered water rate proposal? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. And let's see where we're at. We're at the...

Yeah. Yes.

So the motion, we'd want to adopt an effect at April 1. April 1, right, not March 1. Does that make sense? Okay. Okay.

We're just looking at what we have.

All right. So is there a motion?

I'm already talking, I guess. I move to adopt resolution number 2026-19, adopting the water tiered rate effect of April 1, 2027. Second. Second.

Moved and seconded. Any further discussion?

Sure. I just want to tell staff I appreciate all the work you guys are doing to try and figure out how to let the public know what they're going to be charged. I really appreciate that. However, I disagree with rising costs. especially when there are no projects lined up for the extra mines. They're just going back in to get more conservation. And the reason that plays so little in my mind is the city of Redmond uses three to maybe 4% of the water in Central Oregon. So 55 million gallons is a lot of water. But in the big picture of things, it's not very much. I just can't support rising costs for people to live here, to live in Redmond. I'm trying to think of ways we can go down rather than go up. So that's it.

Any other comment? I just say that water is going to be the critical policy in the decades to come. We are in a very resource-challenged situation in Central Oregon on water. One of the balances of getting additional water rights is establishing some rational level of conservation, which I think this does. I think if people do it the right way and, uh, their bill will not be increased. Uh, if it is, it's almost, um, imperceptibly that is 25 bucks for the year. Um, but this is the cost we pay for a long drought and an aquifer that's being very challenged at the time. So, um, all those in favor of the resolution signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed?

Aye.

Okay. Next, we have Contract Review Board, an award of a five-year agreement with Avianx Corporation for the flight time airborne position. Reference tool and service contract at the Redmond Municipal Airport for $242,820. Gentlemen.

Mayor and Council, I just wanted to introduce Charles Hanson. He's been with us about a month. He's our new deputy director of the airport. And I think you've met Leif before, but he's going to take the lead on the presentation.

All right. Welcome, Charles.

All right, thank you.

There we go.

All right, thank you, Mayor, thank you, Councillors, Leif Anderson, Redmond Municipal Airport, Contracts and Properties Manager. Tonight, we're gonna ask for authorization to engage in a contract for five years to acquire a digital solution for mostly our air traffic control cab staff to enhance safety, situational awareness in the cab tower. The full cost of the contract relates to the acquisition of the software, the installation, and the licensing of the software to not only air traffic control staff but other stakeholders around the airport, which we'll explain in a minute. So first off, the acronym is APRT, which stands for airborne position reference tool. This is not radar, but it's a GPS-based tool that picks up on ADS-B broadcasted aircraft, which is basically all aircraft, including our commercial air carriers. and translates that data into visual screens for air traffic control tower users to look at and deploy in the cab for safety and awareness. Among the many benefits of the service, which are listed here, are verifying transponder issues, assisting in distressed aircraft. Currently in the tower we've got folks with binoculars. This will add to their ability to quickly ascertain where aircraft are in the airport environment. This is the only approved vendor of this particular service for commercial airports in the GA community. FAA single source provider. This is an example of what the tower staff would see as well as other users of this particular product. It will be very, very similar to what they will see if they had ever worked in an FAA tower with full radar surveillance coverage. So it kind of mimics the same look and effect of what they would have seen in previous positions in towers that had full radar surveillance coverage. As mentioned, this is the only FAA approved vendor for this particular service. The FAA and the airport staff have been wanting this and have worked hard on this particular opportunity for years. We also have very strong involvement and a proponent within the air carrier community at the airport, including Alaska Airlines, who have been very interested in instrumental in getting this set up for us as well. We did go through a sole source process through the city's approval process for this particular cost over a five year period. And with that, we'll take any questions. Thank you.

So as I understand it at a certain elevation, Seattle controls, uh, traffic. And then this one is below that elevation.

yeah correct this will be this is below that elevation this particular tool will be able to see any adsb broadcasting aircraft but this tool will be basically zoomed into the redmond airport environment to pick up quicker communications with air traffic control in seattle the seattle air traffic route center and pilots coming into the airport environment PICK THEM UP ON THE SCREEN AND VISUALLY VERIFY THAT THEY'RE OUT THERE FOR THEIR SEPARATION SERVICE CALLS FOR DEPARTURES, LANDINGS, ET CETERA.

I'LL CONVENE THE CONTRACTOR VIEW BOARD RETROACTIVELY TO BE YOUR BEGINNING LEAVE. SO WITH THAT, DOES THE COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR ARE WE READY TO MOVE FORWARD? WITH A MOTION.

I move to approve the sole source findings and award the flight line airborne position reference tool contract to UAVionics in the amount of $242,820 and authorize the city manager to sign the contract. Second.

Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilor.

So we'll reconvene the council from the contract review board and we'll go to ordinances. This is the second reading of Ordinance 2026 regarding fireworks. Is there a motion to have a second reading by title only?

I move to have a second reading of Ordinance 2026-11 by title only. Second. Moved and seconded.

Any further discussion?

All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Okay.

City of Redmond, ordinance number 2026-11, an ordinance amending the Redmond City Code section 5.305, prohibiting possession, sale, and use of fireworks in Redmond.

Okay. Is there a motion to approve?

I move to approve ordinance 2026-11 by roll call vote.

Second. Second. Any further discussion before we have the vote? If not, we'll go with a roll call vote.

Councillor Evelyn?

Yes.

Excuse me, Mayor Fitch? Yes. Councillor Nielsen? Yes. Councillor Osborne? Yes. Councillor Patrick?

No.

Councillor Wedding? Yes. Councillor Zwicker? Yes.

Okay, next we have action items. And the first one we're gonna do is one we discussed in executive session. It's resolution number 2026-20. Keith, you wanna give a little background?

Yes, Mayor. Keith Leitz, City Attorney. So this is coming out of executive session. It's been before council twice now. The first time was for a resolution to initiate eminent domain process. And so the property concerned in this is the intersection of 9th and Antler. It's part of the east side arterial, and there's a section of property that needs to be obtained in order to complete this project. It's essential to continue the project. And so we've been engaging in negotiations with the property owner to purchase that piece of property. And as we are continuing those negotiations, we are also working through the condemnation process as well. So this resolution is the second resolution in this process. that would authorize staff to file the condemnation action in City Court while we continue to, not City Court, I think I said Circuit Court, while we continue the negotiation process. Because it wasn't in the packet, there's two sections, two whereas clauses that I'll read for you, and then kind of briefly go over the approval as well. So this is resolution number 2026-20. It's similar to Redmond resolution 2026-10. That was the first resolution of these two. In addition on this one, we identify the property concern, which are tax lots 151315BA02500. and 151315BA00300. And so that's the legal description. Also included in the exhibits are the actual property descriptions. Additionally, staff has completed the appraisals and required notices, engaged in the 40-day offer period, which has now expired. Despite these attempts, we've not managed to settle on a purchase price of the property, which is why we're moving forward with this resolution. This resolution will authorize staff to commence, prosecute the condemnation actions. It also authorizes city manager and city legal counsel to make stipulations, amendments, agreements, and determine, as they determine may be in the best interest of the city, to make final offer and negotiate a purchase price for this property if possible or continue with the condemnation in circuit court. Any questions?

Just one. OK. I was just saying, I have a clarification question. So tonight is 2026-20, not 18? Correct. Did I say 18? I'm just, with our package, it's different. So it was just clarification. Thank you.

I just want clarification on one point, which is that no action that we're taking tonight is going to prevent or interfere with any ongoing negotiations or an ability to reach an agreement.

That is correct. We will continue those negotiations, and we actually can continue them even after filing all the way through the process. We can continue negotiations.

Thank you. Okay. Is there a motion to approve Resolution 26-20, a resolution authorizing the acquisition of property? I've got it.

Is there a question?

Let me just finish this with interest for the Eastside Arterial Project through condemnation proceedings. Why don't we get the motion and second on the floor, and then we'll have discussion.

a motion i move to adopt a city of urban revolu resolution number 2026-20 i'll second okay discussion jake keith yeah if this isn't a hundred percent it doesn't slow the process down right oh correct correct a unanimous vote is not required

Any further discussion? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Okay. So, next we have Resolution 2026-18, a resolution declaring certain territory in Northwest Redmond as being annexed to and incorporated within the city of Redmond. Kyle.

all right good evening mayor and council as the mayor just mentioned this is a really relatively small annexation um and this is essentially needed to annex a little piece of property uh that's owned by hayden holmes in off a northwest way northwest redmond and you'll see there on the graphic it's denoted in the yellow so all together it's just over three quarters of an acre Again, once we annex that, then subsequently it will be dedicated for right-of-way, and that's because the adjoining property owner, Pacific Star Estates, which is a master development plan, they're gonna begin work on a multi-phase residential development, and they will be required to basically improve Northwest Way along the frontage of their property. So we need that full right-of-way dedication for that to materialize. Any questions?

No, it looks like a pretty small annexation. Any questions? Is there a motion?

I move to adopt Resolution 2026-18.

I'll second.

Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Okay. Next we have purchase authorization for a three axle snowplow dump truck for the public works department for $308,014 and 94 cents. Ryan.

Good evening, Mayor and Council, Ryan Kirchner, Public Works Operations Manager for the city. Tonight's action item request or ask Council to approve the purchase of one 2027 Kenworth 10-yard dump truck that will have a dump body and snow fighting systems attached. This purchase will be made via or through Pappy Kinworth. It is for $308,414.94. This purchase was competitively bid via source well contract. This purchase specifically is for the transportation division, which they'll use it for summer hauling, street preservation projects, and snow fighting during the winter months. It's also replacing a almost 30-year-old five-yard dump truck that is undersized and is also beyond its useful life. This purchase was first presented to the Budget Committee and is in the current fiscal year budget under the Transportation Capital Vehicles and Equipment Subfund. And before we move to motion, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Is it 308 within the budgetary framework? Yes. Okay. Is there a motion?

I move to authorize the city manager to purchase one 2027 Kenworth T-483 axle dump truck chassis with snow removal equipment from Pape Kenworth utilizing source well contract number 032824-KTC in the amount not to exceed $308,014.94. I second.

Would you second any further discussion? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Thank you. Next, we'll have comments from citizens. Does anyone have a comment at this time? Yeah, come on up, sir. If you can just state your name and address, that would be great. Okay. But, uh, Richard, you can use the table. That's fine. Just make sure you hit the button to make the microphone go on.

Yeah, I'm sort of a victim of the Vera Mobility place. I talked to you about two weeks ago and gave you some literature, and I didn't get any response. I wish I could have. And that's not everything. So we all know that that system is separate from everything, but it's not. So it came along... And I don't know who got it most, probably the police officers or this area.

We're talking about the traffic cameras. What's that? We're talking about the traffic cameras, right? Correct, yeah.

I got myself a good six in Maple.

Yeah, but anyway, that did go through a fairly rigorous review process, but go ahead.

I don't think that Vera... Mobility was a very good choice at all, since it's going through a class action lawsuit. And those could go on for a couple of years. You just don't know what's going to happen with one of those. And when I've come into this building, I decided I was going to go to a judge. And so that made me give back my pictures that they'd taken. And I thought, oh, OK. And so about a week before I was going to do the final thing here. Excuse me. I went to the police office, and I said, well, can I get my pictures back so I can put up more of, not a defense, but just a show? And so they said, yeah. And then they got a young lady in there to get a computer outside the police department, or in the police department, in the lobby there for people to use. And I said, you know, I'm 75 years old, and I understand you are too. You don't need to remind everybody. You pointed that out when you were there. That we couldn't get my pictures back. And that's a failure. And so when I came here for the judge, I said, well, I've been pondering over even getting a jury. And I said, well, that would be kicking my own self in the, you know, I decided not to do that. But so anyway, he dismissed it. the whole thing, because I just said, this is ridiculous, because I don't think I was guilty of that behavior. And I don't think, and I don't know, maybe the police can tell me, where did my pictures go? They never showed up. So obviously I'm saying, I'm not giving a very good thing here, because it's not my thing. But you guys need to kind of clean it up. uh... and start with getting rid still i don't care of your mobility is not a good i've got all kinds of stuff just for time right out of the information was that i read all your information well it wasn't all the information there's tons of information on it i said i read your information that you gave us that i read the information you gave me that's like I didn't think I'd want to burden you with that, but you didn't. And I'm not trying to get on you. You're a nice guy. But I think it's not going to go over very well if we don't sweeten. I don't get the system going properly. And that's when it could have been set. And a good time or a bad time for when it was set was May, right when VeriMobility crashed on the NASDAQ a lot. I don't know if you follow that. But, yeah, that was a big crash on the NASA.

So to sum up, Richard, because your time ran out, but let me just ask, you're asking us to review the situation with the police department is what I'm getting from your testimony.

I found it kind of confusing. I kind of found it confusing in the court building. Okay. Because they said when I went to get my pictures up here the first time, They kind of had two people come back and say, well, you need to know that we have these pictures. And I go, yeah, I brought them back. Yeah. But it was like this big deal. And I have a hunch most people just pay their fine and leave. And I just don't think that. Couldn't you get another vendor? I mean, you can. Can you get a meeting? And the judge said it's not that difficult.

All right. Well, we'll review that with the police department and the city staff. What's that? We'll review. I think we actually talked about having a review at some point of how this is working.

It's not working too good. All right.

Well, I appreciate your opinion. We'll find out from everyone else, too.

Okay. I just wanted to, because I seem to be the only one. I seem to be the only one that did a jury one almost and walking in the door and it's like, no, this, and this is going around the whole country with different vendors. And this is one of the, this isn't as bad as a lot of them.

All right. Thank you very much for your testimony.

Thank you.

Okay. Anybody else with a public comment? Seeing none, we'll go to Keith.

Okay, I said a couple things. First of all, the wild ride car show occurred last weekend, and at least from the police department's perspective, and Sergeant Gottney was down there. It went really well. They had good communication with Shane, who you met, who did the presentation a month or so ago. So kind of the new way they're running the show and the coordination with police and making sure people don't do unsafe things worked out. So I just wanted to pass that on. And the only other thing we also, back on July 28th, there was the annexation related to the Segovia property. And that kind of went through without protest. So that's done as well. Good. That's what I've got.

All right. Jay, we'll start with you.

Yeah, I'd like to just bring up a name of a guy who passed away just a week after the fair. Randy Marvin is who it was. And he died at his house. But I had been with him just a few days earlier. He gave me a ride out to my car at the fair. He volunteered for everything. Our flags that we see every holiday, he was part of that program. And just, he was a veteran and a real giving person. Always wanted to be part of the, help people. So I just, I'm gonna miss him a lot. I just wanted to bring him. Thank you.

I just want to say that I think the world is a little less bright today with the loss of Dolly Parton. And my thoughts and prayers go out to her family. And I've got some albums that I'll be rolling around tonight.

Let me say something about water. If we don't do this, our rates will skyrocket in the future because water will not The more people we get with the static amount of water, there's a supply and demand issue there, and prices will go up more appreciably than if we take the steps to add to water conservation, which also puts us in a better state to get additional water rights. We have one currently pending before the Water Resources Department to transfer our surface water right of 500 million gallons from the river groundwater. But water's not increasing in our basin. And so this is the right step for a lot of right reasons. And no one likes any increase, but this is going to be the softest increase compared to if we don't do something. So with that, I think the council made a great decision on moving forward with the water tiered rate system. I think on the long term, it'll be quite beneficial.

And with that, we're adjourned.