City Council - Regular Meeting

I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU AND CALL TO ORDER THE CITY COUNCIL'S MAY 26TH REGULAR MEETING. AND IN THE ACTIONS WE'RE ABOUT TO TAKE, I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND US OF OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES, WHICH ARE, ARE WE RAISING THE BAR IN OUR ACTIONS? ARE WE HONORING THE PAST BUT NOT LIVING IN THE PAST? ARE WE BUILDING POSITIVE CONNECTIONS WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND OUTSIDE PARTNERS? AND IS THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS BUILDING A DIVERSE, EQUITABLE, AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY? PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF

Thank you.

ALL RIGHT. I KNOW OF ONE POTENTIAL MODIFICATION TO THE AGENDA. COUNCILMEMBER MORSE, YOU WANT TO MAKE THAT MOTION TO EXCUSE? YES.

DO WE WANT TO MAKE THAT CONSENT?

YEAH.

I WOULD SAY CONSENT. 4D. SO WE WOULD LIKE TO ADD CONSENT ITEM 4D, EXCUSING COUNCILMEMBER WARDEN FOR HIS ABSENCE THIS EVENING FOR PERSONAL REASONS.

SECOND THAT.

A motion, Council Member Morrissey, a second by Council Member Fenton to add to the consent item, consent item D, the excusable Council Member Warden for personal reasons. All in favor, please say aye. Aye.

Any opposed?

Hearing none, that's been added to the consent agenda. Council Member Rosepepe.

Mayor, I move to approve the agenda as amended. Second.

I THINK THE SECOND WAS BY MORRISSEY. AND ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE AGENDA AS AMENDED, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? HEARING NONE, THE AGENDA IS SET FOR TONIGHT. WE'RE TO OUR FIRST CITIZEN COMMENT PERIOD. IF THERE'S ANYONE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL, PLEASE STEP TO THE MICROPHONE AND IDENTIFY YOURSELF FOR THE RECORD. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.

OK. My name is Samantha Smith. I'm a local downtown business owner with two businesses. I'm also the president of the Port Orchard Bay Street Association, also known as the Port Orchard Waterfront Alliance. First, I want to come in as far as representing the organization. We want to say thank you to city council, the mayor, but give huge kudos to Public Works. We had our big first event downtown this weekend, the Mosquito Fleet Festival. It's our third year. It was the most highly attended. But more than that, we heard compliment after compliment after compliment how beautiful our waterfront looked. From the baskets to the signs to the grass that looked amazing, just so many improvements. And as a merchant that's always living downtown, I've noticed how much Public Works has been down there. And there's just another thing added and another thing added. Just want to give recognition to them because it really I know as far as our merchants actually got two new merchants to join us as our organization because they really see the change that's happening. And that's not just because of us. I think it's obviously a collective of everything. So thank you. The other thing I'd like to talk about tonight, I know on the agenda, I believe it's a proposal for possible lease of the lot across from Josephine's that Jordan's Western Wear, if you know what that was, used to be. And then also possibility of the Kitsap Bank parking lot. And as the merchant's president and kind of the voice of the downtown merchants, we strongly love this idea. I love parking enforcement. I'll say that on video, but we also need more merchant parking. Just where shops are filling up, there's not a lot of vacancy downtown, which is what we want, but we also need some merchant parking because what happens is merchants park in front of their shops. There's not as much rotating. Merchants are not sure where to have their customers and employees, especially employees, park. So that's a huge thing. We are very excited and I know there's quite a few merchants that want to get a permit or pass. The other thing is the possible lot across from Josephine's. We are 100% in support of this because we need an activation point. It's been six years that I've been looking outside to a metal fence that I told was going to be taken down and it kind of looks like a prison yard from my cafe. not that that was ever the intention and I know that but what I've learned is when we activate certain parts of downtown it rises the ships and so by having that lot risen it will help with me I am in charge of a lot of events that happen downtown night market being one of the biggest ones to be able to not have to use parking lots to host guests would be amazing holiday on the bay not i'm throwing this out there there's other events that we could think about activating that spot for and it's so important because we do have a gazebo down the way but port orchard we have to think of it bigger and it is bigger from west bay shopping to the spinney park and then to this activation point and hopefully eventually over here to the boat launch that's what i want people to walk and this weekend seeing so many people I met people from Canada, Idaho. I met a lot of people from Seattle, Bellevue. They want to come back to Port Orchard, and I want to tell them all the amazing things we're doing. That lot would just be a huge activation point for us. So we as merchants are excited, and we really want to support that mission of it. So thank you.

Thank you.

I was wishing to address the council.

Hi, my name is Lizzy Rolando. I am a Port Orchard resident and also own a business in downtown Port Orchard. And I'm here mostly to echo a lot of what Sam said, which is that we're really excited by the proposal to lease some of the heritage lots for merchant parking and also potentially for food trucks. First, for the food trucks, one of the things we talk a lot about downtown is that we don't actually have enough food often. So the ability to bring in a variety of food in a compact, efficient space, often food truck food is also a little more affordable. So having that variety for our community is really valuable. But like Sam mentioned, one of the things the proposal I think does well is in a cost-effective way strategically use spaces that already exist downtown but are underutilized. So bringing that energy back into this space will be a benefit to all of the merchants and to the general community. Less exciting is of course the parking, but like Sam said, As downtown grows and we bring additional employees in, the merchants are definitely feeling the pinch and in a situation where it's almost like we're competing with our customers for parking, which is not ideal. I'm actually one of the merchants who does pay for a permit and Saturday is a great example where I came at 915 in order to keep one of our reserve spots at our building open, and the parking was already gone. So having a space where merchants can park that is away from where our customers are parking and also doesn't require us to move our cars every four hours, which is typically kind of a burden for a lot of businesses who only have a single staff member at a time is really ideal. So this would be a huge benefit and I think it's great to be using these underutilized spaces to help enhance our downtown community. So thank you.

Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Would you like to address the City Council? no no you're you have a presentation later you have a presentation later yes yes you do i was i was jesting with you but you're welcome to address the council all right is there anyone online if you are and wish to address the council use the raise your hand feature and the clerk will bring you into the meeting And I see no one, so I'm going to close the first citizen comment period. We have an amended consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve?

Go ahead. Mayor, I move to approve the consent agenda as amended.

Second. By Council Member Rospepe, second by Council Member Trenary to approve the amended consent agenda. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, the consent agenda is approved. We don't have a public hearing. Oh but we do have a presentation.

Well, it's this time of year again where we have our brand new court. And I want to come here and introduce them. We're a little bit later than we normally are. But still, I wanted to take the time to let all of you meet. We only have two this year, but we're still mighty. It doesn't matter. So I'm going to first let them introduce themselves, and then we'll go into just talking about what we're going to do this year. OK, go ahead.

Hi, I'm King Christian. I am in grade 11. I go to Explorer Academy, and my platform was moss and space.

Hello, my name is Princess Jamie. I am a ninth grader at South Kitsap High School, and my platform was about how everyone deserves to belong.

So as everyone knows, these young people, we mentor them and help them develop their public speaking skills, help them be able to feel more confident in front of people, talking amongst their own peers, as well as people who are older than them. And as always, I'm always shocked every single year to see how they rise to their occasion and how they come from being somebody who's a little bit more timid and kind of afraid to talk to someone, where they become very confident and willing to say anything to anyone when needed to. And so I really think this is a really cool program, and that's why I've been in it since, what, 100 years later? I think I started in 2011 as the director, so it's been a long time. So Fathoms this year, if any of you don't know, because you probably should know, because you guys hear everything that we're doing, but we're excited for this year for our fireworks to happen on July 3rd. And it's going to be hopefully a lot of fun and a big event. But something before that is we're going to do a big block party on June 14th. Everyone needs to come and drop your dollar bills our way and help us raise money for this event. We've had, how it came about was two food trucks, and I wish I could remember the names of them, Ponco Tacos and a Smash Burger Guy. I can't remember his name. He came up with the idea for this fundraiser for the fireworks. And so they are basically donating all of their money they're making towards us. It's amazing. And so we're really hoping for a great event. And we are excited for everyone to be there. Then, of course, we got our parade happening on the 27th. Is that right? Yeah. Am I saying everything right? And then we have our car show. This is the second Sunday in July. I'm going to cheat and go that way. So we're really excited for a really great summer and we're looking forward to really great weather and we're here to support the city and all the different organizations around us to see what we can do to make their event even grander and more spectacular than they already are. So at this time, they're gonna do their famous let's go and sell the buttons. They're $2. It's inflation. I'm sorry. So you go up and just ask. They're very nice. The audience, you might want to talk to them. We've got these people over here. Yeah, they got their dollars out. OK, I'll buy two. And then no change back. You can have that. Yeah, thank you.

Well, thank you. I got one. No change.

After we're done with the buttons, I want to try to get a quick picture if we can.

11th grade? No, you're 11th grade?

I think you'll get the change. I'll change. Thank you. Thank you. I'll give it away.

Go over here, gotta get these guys up, gotta get everyone.

We're gonna do a picture. Let's put them all on the board somewhere at home. Picture time, picture time.

Thank you. Okay, squish and touch. One more time. I would love to. Thanks. Oh, you did? Okay.

All right, thank you very much. Thank you.

All right, we're gonna jump into our business items. The first of which is item A, which is parking lot leases with Heritage Bank. Ms. Archer isn't here this evening, so I will read the staff report. The city has been in discussions with Heritage Bank regarding the potential use of two parking lots currently owned by Heritage Bank. following its acquisition of Kitsap Bank. The two parcels, and I'm not gonna read those parcel numbers, but we know those lots to be, one, the gravel lot that Sam referred to. It used to be the Jordan's Boots. And the second one is the paved lot outside of City Hall across the street from Kitsap Bank. And they're currently used as parking, and we used the gravel lot at one time as a construction lay down yard. Heritage Bank is interested in leasing the two parcels to the city at a minimal cost for use for the city for public purposes. In particular, the larger lot that is currently used for parking would be used for city employees as well as downtown parking for the merchants through the merchant pass program as well as free after hours and weekend parking. THE SMALLER LOT THAT IS CURRENTLY A GRAVEL LOT USED FOR STORAGE AND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES WOULD BE POTENTIALLY USED FOR FOOD TRUCK PARKING SERVICES FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS AND THEN WOULD BE USED IN 2027 AND 2028 AS A CONSTRUCTION LAY DOWN YARD FOR THE CITY'S COMMUNITY EVENT CENTER PARKING PROJECT. Additional off street parking for city employees will free up on street parking currently utilized by staff and the city was already anticipating leasing the gravel lot from Heritage Bank for the community event center construction. The use of the lot for food truck vendors is supported by the Merchants Association and will add more options to entice tourism during the summer months. Staff anticipates providing a program with the associated application process for food truck vendors at the next council meeting. The draft leases are currently in negotiation, but terms have been solidified, including the rental rate of $100 a month on each lot, A ONE-TIME DEPOSIT OF $200 AND A ONE-TIME $1,500 SECURITY DEPOSIT. THE PAYMENT OF TAXES, UTILITIES CURRENTLY ESTIMATED AT $6,000 A YEAR FOR AN ANNUAL TOTAL COST OF $8,073 WITHOUT REFUNDABLE DEPOSITS. staff's recommendations to prove the leases with Heritage Bank for these lots in order to facilitate the off-street parking and other activities. I will note that the Bank, we moved fairly quickly on this because we're wanting to get this in place by June 1st and ahead of the FIFA activity. The bank provided the terms to this lease. We returned that to him midweek last week with one change, which is adding, they didn't reference the construction lay down yard activity that we had previously used it for. I DON'T BELIEVE THE PERSON IN THEIR CURRENT REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT WHEN HE EMAILED ME BACK HE WAS SURPRISED BY THAT. I'VE EMAILED HIM SUBSEQUENTLY. WE MAY NEED TO REMOVE THAT PROVISION FROM THE LEASE AND THAT'S WHY THIS it says in uh this that it the leases will be in a form acceptable to the city attorney we may have to remove that construction lay down language if they aren't comfortable with it and negotiate a separate agreement after the summer when we're done using it for the food trucks but that's the only change i would anticipate and like i said this is uh trying Ms. Archer put that language in there explicitly because we're still going back and forth on language, but the terms and the dollars won't change. Those were provided to us by the bank, were dictated by the bank. So Council Member Deener.

Mr. Mayor, I move to authorize the mayor to sign two real property leases with Heritage Bank for tax parcels 4650-012-003-0007 and 4650-009-001-0005 for monthly rent in the amount of $100 per parcel plus taxes and utilities that are applicable in a form acceptable to the city mayor.

Second.

A motion by Council Member Diener, second by Council Member Fenton. Any questions for me, Council Member Diener?

Yeah, I've got a few questions. So what will become the city employee parking lot? Hopefully that will be, and I'm just stating the obvious, but hopefully that will be signed appropriately so people in the public know when and when not, okay. How does this serve to help more directly with downtown workers and business owners find parking that's dedicated to them? That's one of my questions. Go ahead.

So currently we have the merchant program on the water side of the street. And we have a section of the parking lot in front of the marine offices. by the marina pump station so we have a program in place the plan is to expand as lizzy was speaking to earlier sometimes if you don't get there on time you know the lot's full so the plan is and we'll be bringing back a a number of things one to you a an application for the program for the food trucks Two, we have to amend our parking code to include this lot now that we control, but the intent is to make it, and it will be signed in this manner, that after hours, and on the weekends, it's free of the public. It'll also allow us, to manage it for the festivals and activities that happen from the Christmas festival to the car show to keep these lots activated. My biggest concern is I believe it will take just one encampment or a motorhome camping there and the bank would turn would put chain link fencing around that parking lot and let make it look like Rite Aid and that's the last thing we think we want to have happen to our waterfront so this is a way for us to control the lots keep them active and so to answer your question how so we're going to expand the merchant program so make some of that parking available for that because it's a big lot when we go to construction though remember on the community event center side we're going to displace everybody that is currently using the merchant program on that side of the street so we're going to need to move you know We won't have it on both sides available, but it'll give us that capacity to continue that program going forward. The caveat to all that is these are month-to-month leases. We want the bank to find a partner to develop the property. As soon as it sells, then they'll be canceling these leases with us because a development is going to happen on their gravel lot.

Okay, I have additional questions, but everybody else gets a shot.

Okay, Council Member Trenary.

Yeah, you know, for years our merchants have expressed concern about not having enough parking for the downtown area, so I'm in full support of this. I think it's a great opportunity to address those concerns. Has the city looked at actually trying to acquire these two lots via purchase?

We've had conversations about that. And it's in our best interest and the bank's to find some of these, we're not developers. And if they can find, right now they're shopping the site, the gravel lot in particular that has entitlements. And we'll circle back on that later this year. But they're not interested in selling it to us at this time, but we've had conversations in regards to that. We wouldn't work and pay for what work isn't owed. And so we haven't figured out the billing asked aspect of it yet. But, you know, the PROBABLY A THIRD, YOU KNOW, THE UTILITIES COME MONTHLY. THE TAXES ARE PAID IN HALVES, YOU KNOW, IN SIX-MONTH INTERVALS. BUT WE'LL WORK THAT OUT WITH THE BANK'S FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT ON WHAT THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY TO DO THAT IS. BECAUSE THE UTILITIES ARE LUDGELY GOING BACK TO THE CITY. THERE IS A LIGHT METER FOR THE STREET LIGHTS, BUT THAT'S A PRETTY NOMINAL COST. COUNCIL MEMBER FENTON, DID YOU

Yeah, I think this is a great idea. And I especially like the words that say free after hours and weekend public parking. People are gonna love that. And when it comes to the gravel lot that you're gonna do some parking and restructure, it says that you're gonna pay for that for the downtown revisational fund. How much do we have left in that? I would think we already used it.

It's largely gone. There's a few thousand left. We're not planning to, I mean, A, we want to get the chain link fence down. And what we've discussed with public work is a series of ecology blocks. So, you know, from a safety standpoint, so people can't drive into the lot and spreading some gravel. And that's largely what we're going to do for improvements. Maybe buy a couple of picnic tables, but we've got some nice picnic tables on the waterfront. I don't see a whole lot of people sitting in the gravel lot. Not in the gravel parking lot.

RIGHT RIGHT AND UM YEAH AND WHEN LINDSEY WAS SAYING LIKE SOMEONE'S PARKED IN HER PARKING SPOT EVEN THOUGH SHE PAYS FOR IT DO WE HAVE UM A SIGN THAT SAYS TO DOWNTOWN THE PROGRAM IS IT 10 O'CLOCK LIZZIE I ACTUALLY THINK THAT'S ENDED SO NOW IT'S AVAILABLE TO BOTH PURCHASES WITH A PERMIT AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC IT USED TO BE BEFORE 10 REQUIRED A PERMIT WHICH I WOULD LOVE TO

yeah i think that's the intent so what we may need to revisit that yeah so okay good okay thanks

I just wanted to make the comment, I appreciate you both being here and whatever work you're doing with the merchants to utilize that parking is great because I know years ago it was underutilized and we pulled some of those parking spots back. So expanding it and getting people to utilize it is great. So thank you for advocating for that. And it's good to see that we're expanding our parking when we can. on the other side when we start talking about development of those spaces i hope we don't keep them as i hope developers come in because one of the assets that scott always says our best part about our downtown is what you know we don't want to keep it as a parking lot you know just as a parking lot so the world's best waterfront you know it's yeah waterfront is is prime so we can have that discussion much later Council Member Morrissey?

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would like to echo Council Member Rosa Pepe's sentiments. Thank you for coming and talking with us. We hope more from POWA come and talk to us as we talk about all kinds of things downtown, whether it's our downtown revitalization funds, our grant program, et cetera. We love hearing from the public. I would like to semi push back on utilizing. I know we had to find a home for these dollars because we didn't know this existed when we had it out of our budget. I would like to make sure that even right on down to the last $8,000 be used towards beautification stuff downtown. So if we have to authorize a couple extra $8,000, $10,000 to make that happen, I'd like to not pull it from there.

A COUPLE OF THINGS. YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS A WHILE AGO. THERE'S THOSE 55-GALLON DRUMS SITTING DOWN THERE. DID YOU FIND OUT IF THE CORE SAMPLES HAVE TO STAY ON SITE?

THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GET REMOVED. I'VE HAD MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS BUT THEY HAVEN'T MOVED. So hopefully when the fence comes down, the barrels leave too. But I've had conversation not only with Kitsap Bank representatives, but also Heritage about it.

That's good enough for me. My other comment is, as I was listening to the potential for redevelopment of both of these lots, We're creating a situation where we need more parking and we're taking away parking at the same time. And so I'm concerned about that, frankly. And I know that we've talked about in the long ago past about how this could be part of a structured parking garage something like that but if they're not into the development of this parcel that's that may not be what we get and so i just want to caution us we should go into this eyes wide open about maybe losing more parking but creating the need for more parking at the same time

And to the earlier point about the parcels, the purchasing the property, we're really, as the city, we're interested in the paved lot, okay? But in the best scenario, they're sold together because the gravel lot has the ability to provide some parking, but it needs, the larger solution, as you're referring to, is a building with a parking garage on this side of the street. And so they're best sold to one developer that's looking at this holistically. And that's why there's the reluctance to sell it to us, because it could be short-sighted to sell it to the city just to use it in its current form.

Yeah, and I understand that. Maybe we could talk to the bank about, could they stipulate that a parking structure be a part of any redevelopment?

I don't think they would have any interest in that.

Okay. I'm not surprised. I just wanted to throw it out there.

Yeah, no, I don't think any business is going to stipulate the what's going to go into that parcel once they're done I Kind of dawned on me after I had my a few minutes there I don't know that I've ever seen any raw data on parking downtown and any data around the usage of of the merchant program that we have downtown. So I would like to, I'm on no timeline, but I'd like to see that at some point. I still wanna move forward with this, but it was a good call out that if there's only three people like Lizzy out there utilizing it, maybe we need to get more information out and make it more prevalent and more readily available to them, but I'd just like more information.

I know the chamber did a study, gosh, five, six years ago. There's 200-ish parking stalls downtown in totality. And I think these guys are doing a pretty good job marketing That program, I know they're telling their fellow business people, I wasn't aware that the time restriction had gone away, but we're gonna touch this program when we add the other lot. So we'll be taking a closer look at that and what the rules and hours for it. Because the last thing we want to do is leave it The reason there's a time lapse on that is that Lizzie has the day off and she's rented a space down there, but it doesn't get used because she got the day off today. And we want to see all the parking get used. So if she doesn't show up by a certain time, then it's available to others to use that space.

Yeah, I love the program. Bremerton has a similar thing. They have a city-owned garage. We don't necessarily have that, and it has one rate for those folks, but then it's a drastically, it's like $30 a month or something for the merchants to help get them off the street. Ours is 35, yep.

Council Member Dedman?

Yeah, I think this, if we're looking closer at parking, would be a great time to determine whether we have good accessibility For folks who have mobility issues, and especially in terms of having enough parking for them, also would it behoove us to have a trolley go up to the school and back to make parking up at the school area or the community center or whatever, Gibbons, basically Gibbons Center, and maybe having a parking lot that can get utilized there easier and creating more space, more accessibility.

All right, any other comments? So you'll be voting on a parking lot lease with Heritage Bank. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Is there anyone opposed? Hearing none, the leases have been approved to a form acceptable to the attorney. We are to item B now. Adoption of a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a contract with Truland Survey for on-call surveying services. Mr. Ryan.

Thank you. Good evening, Council and Mayor. The city needs on-call surveying support for various projects, including for capital, development work, and right-of-way research. Using the MRC roster, we issued an RFQ and received seven qualifications. After evaluation and interviews, Truland Survey LLC ranked highest. Staff negotiated a three-year agreement not to exceed $75,000, which includes standard contract requirements and lines with budgetary expectations. Tonight's actions would approve the consultant services agreement with Trudeland LLC for on-call surveying through services through 2026 through 2029. We are one of the older cities in the state of Washington. Survey is one of our biggest challenges. We often come, we call them the mysteries. This is just another tool that we, when we get in a pinch, we pull these surveys and then we'll utilize it for our various capital projects as needed.

Council Member Morrissey. Yes, Mr. Mayor. I move to authorize the mayor to execute the consultant services agreement with True Land Survey LLC for on-call surveying services for the 26 through 29 contract period in an amount not to exceed $75,000 in form approved by the city attorney. Second.

Motion by Council Member Morrissey, second by... Council Member Rospepe. And any questions? Go ahead, Council Member Rospepe.

Just a curiosity. This is for three years, so essentially about $25,000 a year. What has our cost been in previous years? Just what have we used?

They vary. Sometimes we just purchased the 730. I'm sorry, not 730, but our new operation center for utilities, the Lumpston building. That was about $10,000 a survey that was required for that job. It happens about... TWO TO THREE TIMES A YEAR.

I WAS JUST CURIOUS. I KNEW IT WASN'T VERY MUCH.

$20,000 IS IN THE BALLPARK.

THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. YOU'LL BE VOTING ON ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH TRUELAND SURVEY FOR ON CALL SURVEYING SERVICES. ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. IS THERE ANYONE OPPOSED? ONE ABSTENTION. NONE. THEN IT PASSES. We are to item C, approval of amendment number one to contract C083-25 with Concern North America Inc. for the Old Clifton Intertie Project. Mr. Ryan, this is you again.

The city originally contracted with Consul of North America in September of 2025 following the full RFQ process interviews and council approval to advance the old Clifton Intertype project to 60% design. Amendment number one adds all remaining engineering permitting and regulatory work needed to complete the final design and delivery fully bid ready construction package. This includes 100% design, updated plans and cost estimates required environmental and agency permitting and support through the bidding process. The amendment updates the contract exhibits and increases the agreement by $652,329 bringing the new not to exceed total to $1,651,263. This work is necessary to complete the design and keep the project aligned with confirmed Public Works Board funding, which we were notified last week that we will be getting the Public Works loan that is retro effective back to May 15th, so everything is reimbursable after May 15th. That is for $650,000, so we'll have a $2,000 gap. IN THE APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE WILL ALLOW THE FINAL DESIGN TO MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT DELAY AND PREPARE THE PROJECT FOR CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT.

I MOVE TO APPROVE AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE TO CONTRACT C083-25 WITH CONSULT NORTH AMERICA, INC., INCREASING THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY $652,329 TO COMPLETE FINAL DESIGN PERMITTING DOH REPORTING AND BIDDING SUPPORT FOR THE OLD CLIFTON INTERTIPE PROJECT.

SECOND.

and a second by Council Member Fenton. Are there any questions for Mr. Ryan? Go ahead, Council Member Devlin.

The original contract, did it write in that it was for 60% of the design?

Yes.

And then now it's for the rest to the total?

It'll take it from 60 to 100% and provide the work getting all the permits needed.

Council Member Fenton?

yeah on here it says um board funding with a start date of may 15th well obviously we're past may 15th does that just um have they already started or that was just there just in case we it was gonna go a little ahead of time we are financing the remainder of this uh design through a public works loan that's how the a million dollars of the first piece was financed

They're very low interest funds that we get through the Public Works Board. So they gave us an award letter that will be, they indicated everything after May 15th, that's why that date is there, we'll be able to put in for reimbursement. So now that we go to 60% onward, everything that CONSERV incurs from that point, we will get reimbursement for.

Other questions? ALL RIGHT. YOU'LL BE VOTING TO APPROVE AMENDMENT NUMBER 1 TO CONTRACT NUMBER C083-25. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ANYONE OPPOSED? HEARING NONE, THE CONTRACT AMENDMENT IS APPROVED. ITEM D, APPROVAL OF CHANGE ORDER NUMBER 4 TO CONTRACT NUMBER C027-25 WITH GENERAL MECHANICAL INK FOR THE MELCHER PUMP STATION. MR. RYAN, THIS IS YOU.

The Melcho Street Pump Station Rehabilitation Project is underway and during construction several unforeseen electrical and utility issues arose and must be addressed to complete the work. Electrical clarification identified through RFI-07 require added wiring and components totaling $5,022. In addition, Puget Sound Energy determined its original design services done by PSE was not feasible and issued a revised layout that requires relocating the transformer and installing a new underground secondary service. This additional civil conduit and wiring work totals $59,387. Because of these changes and delays tied to PSE service revisions and generator equipment, The contractor has also requested a 31-day time extension. All times are incorporated into change order 04, totaling $70,399, including tax. These changes are necessary to complete an upgraded electrical service, support the system startup, and move the project towards closeout. And again, this PSE change, the original design for layout was the PSA transmission line. They were originally going to place the transformer near the given center and they found that not feasible and so they located it closer to Melcher and it was underground where they were originally going to do an overhead service line.

Marcy? YES, MR. MAYOR. I MOVE TO APPROVE CHANGE ORDER NUMBER 4 TO CONTRACT C-07-25 WITH GENERAL MECHANICAL INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $70,399.04 FOR THE METZER STREET PUMP STATION REHABILITATION PROJECT.

SECOND. BY COUNCILMEMBER MORRISSEY AND A SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER TEENOR. ANY QUESTIONS, MR. RYAN? PSE gives us estimates, but the scope changed on what they had to do, so we have to concur those costs. Council Member Trenary.

Director Ryan. Estimated completion date on this project is?

I believe I'm going to have to email you tomorrow. I know it's the summer. It's very, very close. It is the PSE schedule that's going to hold this up. I WILL CLARIFY AND SEND THAT TO THE ENTIRE COUNCIL.

THANK YOU. COUNCIL MAYOR FENTON?

YES. I'M TRYING TO LOOK WHERE I READ IT BUT I WROTE IT DOWN. SO WITH ALL THE UPDATES AND ALL THE PICK SCENES, SO THIS SHOULD LAST 50 MORE YEARS?

THAT'S THE ANTICIPATED TARGET.

YEAH. OKAY.

COUNCIL MAYOR ROSEPEPE?

JUST A QUICK QUESTION. IS THERE ANY OTHER IMPACT ON CITY WORK OR OTHER CONTRACTORS WITH THE 31-DAY EXTENSION BESIDES PSE THEMSELVES?

I BELIEVE THE 31-DAY EXTENSION IS FOR OUR CONTRACTOR.

RIGHT. BUT I'M SAYING SO THERE'S NO OTHER IMPACT TO THE OKAY. GOOD. THANKS.

ALL RIGHT.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? MOTION ON THE FLOOR IS TO APPROVE CHANGER NUMBER 4 TO CONTRACT C027-25 WITH GENERAL MECHANICAL FOR THE MELCHER STREET PUMP STATION. ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. IS THERE ANYONE OPPOSED? Hearing none, the change order passes unanimously. All right, we're going to jump into committee reports. Finance was last week, but it was canceled. So the next meeting is June 16th. Transportation was this evening, also canceled. Next meeting is May 26th. I believe land use, Matt, though.

No, we had a report on that. And I did want to say that our next meeting is, oh, wait a minute. We did have land use. I get land use and utilities mixed up. Sorry. So before I go into report, our next meeting is July 8th. The June and July meetings have been combined to July 8th, so if we can make that change. Sorry, land use, we had an update on the Givens Park master plan that's ongoing. Saw a couple of proposed examples of what it might look like. Again, the committee's doing their work, so it was just more of an update. We also got notification about changes that will be needed to city documents based on the 2026 legislative session that the DCD will be working on over the next several years in 27 and 28. And those were the highlights.

Do you have something to add?

Yeah, I do. We actually reviewed for givens. We were given minutes and meeting minutes to review, but we did not actually have a presentation or review that at the land use committee. So I'm just saying that if anybody went to go watch the video, there's not gonna be like a discussion, but I don't even know, were the minutes attached? I don't know if the minutes were attached to the agenda, but there are minutes that exist if somebody wanted to go back and try to find them that exist, but there isn't a presentation. So I just wanted to make that clear.

Is that it for land use? That's it for land use. Okay. Lodging tax, I don't think there's anything going on there. And sewer advisory, it doesn't look like you meet until June.

We don't meet until June, and it's not via Zoom. It's in the Lomson building. Okay. So at 3.30. All right. Utilities?

meeting in June. Meeting in June. Okay. There was no meeting. All right. I don't have anything for outside agencies to share at this time. Report of the mayor, the only thing I have was I passed out scarfs. Those are from Commissioner Walters. She had those produced and I asked her, she was passing them out at KRCC meeting and I said, boy, I think our city council would like some scarfs that she should some with me. So we're going to go to director's reports. Mr. Ryan, do you have anything to share?

Just real briefly, I'm glad the Givens part came up. We have our second final public meeting is June 11th. We want to get as many members of the community here there to participate. It's 5 o'clock at Givens. active club and then that will be followed the next few months we'll be wrapping up the master plan and then that will be presented to council in a work study study session and then i just didn't want to i wanted to provide an update on well seven we've talked briefly about well seven uh it's not producing as we thought it was as it historically has That's the one right here. It's actually at the boulevard, but the clarifier is right here at this campus. We are going to plan on doing a rehab of the well. We have our intertie that is being completed, the wash stop project out on SR 16. We have that emergency intertie coming back online this week. They are charging the line on Wednesday and then they'll do the bacteria testing. So that will be Back in line, Bremerton has committed to provide water for us. So we have our contingency plan and we have a plan to rehab that well. Anticipated costs right now are gonna be about $50,000.

Mr. Bond. Got a couple of announcements tonight. First of all, our downtown grant program, the application has been drafted and we have content drafted for our website that's with Megan for review. And we'll be talking about that tomorrow morning at the mayor's directors meeting and trying to lock down a date for the application deadline. So look for an announcement on that in the very near future. Next on Friday, my permit center staff and I took a field trip to the city of Bainbridge Island to meet with their permit center administrative staff. And with the process improvements that we're making to our permitting system, we wanted to talk one-on-one with our peers, ask them how various aspects of the technology that we are going to deploy are working for them and get best practices. I wanted to share a couple of takeaways like the the direction that Port Orchard is going Bainbridge Island is totally digital They don't do any paper permits anymore. And so we are we will be consistent with them in that regard I also learned that their permit coordinators do some of the work that our planners and engineers are doing in terms of getting permit decisions written and ready to issue so a little bit more advanced work than what our staff is doing, but they also have nine permit center staff compared to our six and a similar volume of permits. So I think they're doing more work, but they also have more staff for that work. One interesting thing and a potential opportunity for efficiency is that they allow their permit fees to vest. And so when somebody applies for a permit, the fee that's in place on the date that they apply actually is the fee that they pay when they pick up their permit. whereas in Port Orchard, if fees change and we have CPI adjustments annually on March 1st for certain fees, we have to then have our staff go back in and for every permit that's in process, the fee sheet has to be updated to reflect new fees. The downside to that, of course, is that Bainbridge Island isn't getting revenues based on those adjustments in the future so that it's capital facility charges, impact fees, other things. So it may be something worth looking at. um another thing that that is maybe an efficiency that we ought to look at is that they don't require their applicants to sign permits when they're issued or initial permit conditions and so a lot of our permits will have a list of conditions we actually make the applicant go through and initial each one that they've read it which i think is good because when somebody says hey why am i required to do this and we say well you initialed the condition when you picked up your permit Bainbridge Island doesn't do that. They issue everything digitally and so maybe it's a more efficient process, but maybe people are more surprised when they actually look at their permit four months after they pick it up and realize that they have requirements they weren't expecting. And finally, the other thing that was a little unique is that they charge a technology fee. Our tech fee is $10. That was initially implemented to pay for our SmartGov subscription. Bainbridge Island is charging $125 and it's due at the time of application. we charge it only when a permit is issued and so if somebody applies for a permit we go through the process of putting it into the system moving it through the system if it never gets picked up or never gets approved that we never collect a technology fee on that and so it was interesting to hear that that's a requirement at the time that you push something through the system that you pay that fee and that way you're you're collecting money on every application that comes in not just those that are issued So anyway, there was a whole lot of other takeaways that we had. We're talking to some of our other neighbors as well. We've reached out to Paulsbo and we're going to be reaching out to Bremerton to try to learn from them as we're building out our permit platform. The final announcement that I have, and I'm looking for potential nods of approval here from everyone on council, the Suquamish Tribe, the mayor and I had met with them when the Opportunity Zone application was first announced by the state, and we had talked about submitting two applications. Then some guidance came out that seemed to indicate that you could not apply for contiguous Opportunity Zone tracks. THAT HAS SINCE BEEN CLARIFIED THAT YOU CAN APPLY FOR CONTIGUOUS OPPORTUNITY ZONE TRACKS. SO THE SACWAMISH TRIBE OWNS PROPERTY IN THE CENSUS TRACK THAT IS TO THE SOUTH OF SEDGWICK. IF YOU REMEMBER THERE WERE TWO ADJACENT TRACKS THAT WERE ELIGIBLE FOR DESIGNATION. SO THEY'VE ASKED US TO PROVIDE A LETTER OF SUPPORT BOTH FROM THE COUNCIL BUT ALSO FROM THE MAYOR BECAUSE COUNCIL LETTER OF SUPPORT IS WORTH FIVE POINTS IN THE SCORING. I BELIEVE THE MAYOR'S LETTER OF SUPPORT IS WORTH ONE POINT. They're already behind on points compared to our application because there just isn't as much development in that area. So I'm pretty confident it's going to score lower than our application no matter what. But I think the right thing to do for our partners with their application is to provide them a letter of support. And as long as the council is okay with that, I will draft that and have it prepared before the application deadline on Thursday. So any objection from you folks?

that they provided us one. I think it's reciprocate. All right. I got a couple questions. And Council Member Deener's got a question.

So working backwards, did they indicate what they plan on doing? What they'd like to do?

Well, they're not going to benefit directly from the Opportunity Zone. They own... I think either 40 or 80 acres that they've bought that has been recognized by the Department of the Interior is tribal land. They are under contract now to add to that. And so I think it's more about the synergies with what they're doing and the adjacent property and trying to support their property, the development of their property. They agree that our tract is probably a higher priority and they agree that it will probably score lower, but they'd like to see both of them designated if possible. They want to throw an application in for that one and and we've provided them some support You know the there's only two development projects in that track that I'm aware of One of them is housing kits app and one of them is our well 13 project and so I think those are those are two of the three that they're going to point to and then they've reached out to the county to trying to identify a third project that they could list in their application, but they don't generate nearly as much housing or jobs. So I think they will probably score significantly lower. I think there's around 150 points available in the application process and 80 of those points are related to development that's in the pipeline within that census tract.

I'll try to answer your question. I've met with them a few times, and when that, before we had entered into tribal trust, it was zoned in the city as multifamily. They don't build housing. They build things that generate sales tax. And that's what they've indicated to me. What that's going to be, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT TO FIND, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY THAT WANTS, YOU KNOW, A NEED.

AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION, GOING BACK TO PERMITTING, DOES BAIN BRIDGE ISLAND IN LIEU OF HAVING INITIALS ALONG EACH CONDITION, DO THEY USE NOTICE TO TITLE AND DO WE USE NOTICE TO TITLE FOR CERTAIN DECISIONS?

We don't use notice to title for permit decisions only for code enforcement actions. And I don't know that they have anything in lieu of those conditions, in lieu of initialing conditions. It hasn't been as much of a problem for them. I think we have it come up fairly often where people say, what do you mean I have to put in fire sprinklers on this house? And we say, well, here's the permit and here's where you initialed that condition when it was issued. There shouldn't be a surprise to the permittee.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Bond.

Chief? Yeah, just real briefly, this is tentative, but we'll be doing a commissioning ceremony in front of you guys on June 9th, if that works out with the officer's schedule. So we did have a graduate last month from the academy, and then we have another guy on FTO that we hired from Pierce County. And then we'll likely also do a brief presentation on our awards ceremony, which is why I missed last Tuesday, and also to have

DEPUTY CHIEF ANDY BRANDON GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HIS TIME AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY SO THAT'S WHAT'S COMING FOR YOU HOPEFULLY FIRST COUNCIL MEETING AND YES SIR WHENEVER YOU'RE DONE I JUST HAVE A QUESTION THAT'S HOPEFULLY WHAT'S COMING FOR YOUR FIRST COUNCIL MEETING PERFECT THANK YOU CHIEF SAY WE'VE HEARD FROM YOU RECENTLY HAVE WE SEEN AN UPTICK IN ANY ACTIVITY IN THE DEPARTMENT JUST REAL RECENTLY OR HAVE WE JUST HEARD ABOUT specific incidents. I'm trying to get a feel because I feel over the last thirty days or so we've heard of more activity. We've heard more emails to counsel from you and I'm just trying to get an overall feel is this just kind of a everything happens to happen at once or you are seeing a little uptick in activity overall?

We are seeing an uptick. I mean as the weather warms people stay out. As the kids get closer to graduating they go out and stay out later and And their floors are certainly fun. But yeah, I mean, usually the summer months tend to be busier for us. So nothing out of the ordinary, I guess. Nothing out of the ordinary. Okay, perfect.

Thank you. Ms. Wallace.

Good evening, Mayor, Council. So two quick things. One, I'm hoping I can do this right and share with you very high level, which I think you've seen a sneak peek of it before, the city's website. So this is just the... the page, the landing page, if you will. None of the content has been added to the page yet. We're still working on the final design stage right now. The goal is to have the website live by July 30th. So this is the color scheme and as you may have seen Megan out tonight, she was also here in the city over this past weekend, taking some photos. And so we're hoping to build up our photo gallery up on the website as well as other social medias. So I wanted to share that with you tonight. The other thing is, the first meeting in June, Megan will be here to speak and provide you some sort of analysis of the last three months of social media and where we were and where we are now. So again, we'll have that at the next council meeting. And then lastly, we have two people signed up for the June 6th coffee with the council. I have council member Rosa Pepe and Fenton. Is there a third person that would like first come first served? or just email me and we'll get you on the list. That's all I have.

Thanks, Brandon. Are you raising your hand to sign up?

Oh, no, I just wanted to make a comment to Brandy. I just want to say that is so rad, especially from a perspective as like a former content creator and whatnot. I think that a city having assets that the public can go to and use only helps to help promote the city. So that is so rad. Thank you for doing that.

Perdina?

So you can sign them up for June 6th, number one. Number two, in the new website, will there be a distinct link to government like we have now? Yes. Okay, great. Thank you.

All right, we're to our second citizen comment period. I see no one in the audience. And if there's anybody online, please raise your hand and the clerk would bring you into the meeting. And I'm not seeing the clerk tell me I have anybody to bring in.

all right and so we are now to good of the order is anything for the good of the order councilmember rose peppy mayor i was hoping that you would bring up about the completion of the mural downtown and the dedication goodness i failed yes i would like you to to talk about it for a minute and i would because we went and looked at it a little bit

crazy. So that happened rather quickly. I was out of town at the time and Adam sent me a message and said the mural's done. I CALLED HIM AND HE SENT ME SOME IMAGES OF IT AND I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD LIKE TO DO A DEDICATION BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE AND HE SAID HE WOULD LOVE TO AND REACHED OUT TO SAM FROM THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION AND THEY FELT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE SINCE IT'S GOT THE MARITIME ASPECT TO IT IN THE CARLISLE THAT WE SHOULD DO IT THIS WEEKEND. HAPPENED VERY QUICKLY. BUT MEGAN DID A FABULOUS JOB GETTING OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND A PRESS RELEASE. I WAS A LITTLE LATE IN GETTING YOU GUYS NOTICE AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. BUT IT WENT VERY WELL. COUNCILMEMBER FENTON AND COUNCILMEMBER TRANERI WERE THERE. We've had probably 20 people from the public there, and it was very nice. Adam's family, and it was great. The mural looks fabulous. It was one thing to see the render. It looked great, that image, but to see it in person and what he's done is just wonderful.

It really is. No, we had gone down to see it Friday night, and it was really nice. My last two comments was, and Nick, I'm gonna put you on the spot. We have a meeting about, the city has a meeting about Stormwater Park on Thursday, and I missed the announcement of that. What time is it? I know it's in council chambers. 630. 630, okay. Thank you. So it's a second update. If you haven't been involved or have a chance to stop by to see it, it's very interesting as they narrow the concept down for it. And last but not least, since it looks like we're going to be out of here a little early, a reminder to everybody that's watching or will watch later that packets are available at on Friday for everybody to see. So sometimes it looks like we don't have a lot of discussion because we've had the packets for three days and kind of done our homework. So sometimes things seem automatic, but they're not. We do our homework and anybody in the public can see what we see on Friday afternoon, whether it's 400 pages or about 100 pages today. A little lighter this time. A little lighter tonight. Thank you.

Council Member Deener, do you have something?

Actually, Heidi had her hand up first.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I just wanted to say the Mosquito Fleet, wow, that was awesome downtown. And it was booming. So what a great event that we put on for our history of Port Orchard downtown. And I was going to say something on the mural. That was a very nice dedication. And the Carlisle that he painted down there is excellent. Yes. And then in the library mural, too, is the history on the library is that's awesome. And then I was going to remind people that we have our second town hall on June 4th. AT 6 O'CLOCK AT GATHERED. AND THEN LET'S SEE. OH, AND THE SENIOR PARADE IS RIGHT ON THE 5TH, JUNE 5TH. SO THERE'S SOME INFORMATION OUT THERE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING, JOHN, BUT I KNOW I WAS TALKING TO MEGAN EARLIER. AND SO IF ANYBODY'S GOING TO DO A POWERPOINT OR GET PICTURES, GET THOSE TO HER BY FRIDAY AT THE END OF THE DAY. SO SHE CAN PUT THAT TOGETHER IF YOU NEED SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR THE TOWN HALL.

So I just wanted to relate an experience my family had. So Friday evening, we grabbed our kayaks and we launched at the Bremerton ramp. The bathrooms were closed there. Somebody needed to use the bathroom. They were closed there. We decided just to paddle around and go to land at where the Spinney Park is. The bathrooms, the brick and mortar was closed. The honey buckets were closed. There was no public bathroom between the Spinney Park and Bremerton boat ramp. And I think that's unacceptable. What it does is it forces people to use businesses and those businesses should not be covering the costs of public bathrooms. And so I think it's something we need to look at. And certainly there are people that have more emergent needs like people with Crohn's disease that can't afford to walk a distance to get to a bathroom. So I think we need to have a better, we need to have a discussion about what looks better for our bathrooms in downtown.

Good call.

So we'll have some public restrooms with our community center when it's built, but the ones that you're referring to are the Port of Bremerton and control over what the hours they keep on those.

Yeah, but we could, sorry, we could send a letter to the port saying, look, this is used by the public. Would you please be more considerate about bathroom facilities?

I heard that there was one, and maybe I'm mistaking your location, but there was one over by where the ATMs are, like the ATM.

Oh yeah, I know what you're talking about. There is one.

I tried using that one and that was closed.

But that's owned by us, right? That's open during events. I think you're talking about the brand new bathroom.

Okay. But is that outside of that?

I think she's referring to the marina offices has their restrooms next to their office also. There's a number of restrooms.

No, the one I was specifically talking about is that little one. I'm pretty sure that's our building. It is, but it's not open. Yeah, it's not open. And I remember because I was with my little and I was like, what am I going to do? And whatever, because they're little. But that was definitely I was like, there's a long gap between there being no restrooms. So that's that's definitely something I remember thinking. I want to reach out about this. So thank you for bringing it up.

Yeah. Is there direction to ask the mayor to write a letter to the port?

Well, I thought that bathroom was always left open, the one that by Spinney Park. So I'm surprised that's closed. That's interesting.

They close it just like our parks, all restrooms in all of our parks. If we don't lock them up, we have unwanted activity in them. So I'm not certain what their hours are, but ours are, I think, dawn to dusk. I'm not certain the exact hours. It's summer hours or longer.

Our bathrooms are amazing. Thank you.

but they mag lock at a certain point i want to say seven or eight o'clock at night i didn't think they had doors on that one uh they do they do yeah yep over by spinney park that one they have doors on that bathroom yes bless you they do they lock them okay

Yeah, thank you. So a couple of things for good of the order. Council Member Fenton is correct. I was going to remind folks that your materials were due last Friday. But I'm sure if you haven't got them in, if you could get them in by midday tomorrow, we were asking for any and all things to be sent in. So staff had the opportunity to prepare and get it ready because as you know, as I said at our last study session, we don't oversee staff and the mayor wasn't here. So I have kindly asked him to help oblige where I have overstepped my bounds to get that done. And he's gonna do his best. So anything that we can, they're also working with whatever restrictions they have within that space as well.

Can I just add that? So in terms of the PowerPoint presentation, that's going to be in order. So you're not bringing your own PowerPoint or yours is not going to be divided. It's all one linear slideshow.

So if you wish to have that included, you need to have that in. Again, I had asked for last Friday, if Megan's willing to by tomorrow, that'd be great. Please get those in so that she has everything she needs and can get that compiled and have that ready. She did also ask, so I am looking for some feedback, so she knew, like Council Member Fenton said at our meeting last week, that she wouldn't need any of that. So Megan was inquiring with me whether or not we'd just like to have your name on a slide behind you if you don't have anything there. And I said, I hadn't responded yet, but I figured we'd take that opportunity. I thought it sounded like a good idea.

Can we get a show of hands? How many are doing actual slides?

I MIGHT JUST DO A PICTURE, A COUPLE PICTURES, AND THEN MY NAME.

I'M DOING LIKE THREE SLIDES.

YEAH.

OKAY. I DON'T WANT TO BE THE ONLY ONE THAT'S DOING THREE SLIDES. OKAY. JUST REMEMBER, YOU GOT FIVE MINUTES, RIGHT?

AND JUST RECALL, I KNOW WE HAD TALKED ABOUT EVEN PLANTED THINGS. WE'RE JUST GOING TO BE WORKING WITH WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US. Second thing, welcome back, but we did ask for two things to come back on a future meeting. One was this next month we're going to bring back the community events conversation. Thank you to the chief, he sent out some information around kind of what's being done for some of the others. We had questions that we weren't able to come to any conclusion on, so we'll look for that. Additionally, we also said go ahead with an adopt, and I know it didn't make it on here, it was no big deal, I wasn't gonna change, but the mission, vision, values stuff, we just said we were gonna go ahead and move forward with the staff. Move forward with?

Pass a resolution adopting that. Correct. And we've got two.

And changing the old ones. Yep.

Repealing the old ones.

That's what we had decided there. Wonderful. THERE WAS A THIRD THING, AND I HAVE HAD SO MUCH STRESS IN THE LAST WEEK THAT I HAVE COMPLETELY LOST IT RIGHT NOW. SO HOPEFULLY I'LL BE ABLE TO REMEMBER. I'LL COME TO YOU AT 2 IN THE MORNING.

JUST ONE COMMENT, JOHN. WHEN I ASKED MEGAN, SHE SAID BY THIS FRIDAY IT WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR GETTING THE SLIDES IN. PERFECT. I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO OVERSTAND. SO ANYBODY FREAKING OUT ABOUT TOMORROW, THIS FRIDAY?

Council member Schreiner, go ahead.

Yeah, I spent some time downtown at the Mosquito Fleet Festival. If you guys didn't get down there at all, please plan on doing it next year. It was a tremendous event. Weather was pretty decent. But I want to give a shout out to somebody in the community who puts her heart and soul into that, as well as many other programs we do in the city, and that's Corrine Haydock. She was in charge of coordinating the Mosquito Fleet Festival, did a great job as always. So I just wanted to recognize her in front of council and the public for the efforts that she puts forth for the city, not just Mosquito Fleet, but for years she's been a leader in this community. And I think we all deserve, or she deserves thanks from all of us.

I wish she was. Nice.