City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone to the City Council meeting of Tuesday, June 2nd. Call an online meeting to order and ask for approval of the agenda.

I would like to move to approve the agenda, but to include David Carr of Sunset Transportation as the first presentation. And as we are presenting, I ask that everyone be mindful of time so we can get through the agenda efficiently and adjourn. Is there a second?

Second. Second. All those in favor, aye.

Yes.

Okay. So first we have public comment. When you do public comment, please give your name and mail your address. And you have three minutes. Is there anybody? Yes.

Hello. My name is Dean Bradshaw. I'm a visitor to your city. My address is 379 North 650 East in Bountiful, Utah. I serve as mayor of Bountiful, Utah. And as my husband and I were making the drive from Utah to Oregon, we were counting up the number of times we have been to Penn Beach. And we believe this is our 19th trip. We kind of like your fair city. We think it's really cute. We enjoy, of course, the beach. We don't have one of those in Utah. At least not in the way you guys have it. Great Salt Lake, if not the same. Because I'm a bit of a municipal nerd, I enjoy walking around other cities and seeing what you're up to. So I enjoy your nature trail and the creative way you've used your review for wastewater treatment. Today, my husband and I were at Chapman Beach with our dog, and we appreciated using your public restrooms and we squirted off the dog after his romp on the beach. So tonight, I noticed you had a council meeting and I noticed you had issues that I thought were interesting. And I don't intend to stay for your whole meeting because I am on vacation and my husband does think I'm a little bit nuts, but I have a free Tuesday and I came over here. But in the spirit of American 250 and the things I've been working on in my city, I thought municipal service is sometimes hard and people don't come to say, hey, you're doing a great job and I really enjoy visiting your city. And I see all the things you're putting into public works and that it must be a challenge to a city that has to expand to accommodate so many people who want to spend summers with all of you. And that takes a lot of work and thoughtful planning and resources. And I see it and I appreciate it. And so thanks for making a great place that has been our pleasure to visit for 19 times and what I'm sure will be many, many more. I also appreciate that you guys are meeting in temporary chambers. We remodeled our city hall a few years ago and I know It is fun and a challenge to figure out how you're going to continue to do the work of the city, but do it from somewhere remote, but still make sure you maintain a public access. So with that, thanks for making this a great place to visit. Please keep up the great work so that we continue to come spend many more summers with you. Thank you so much. Super curious about your mobility issues on advice. I saw your agenda. We have the same challenges in my city. But maybe I'll read your minutes and follow that up afterwards.

Is there anyone else in the audience who would like to make public comment? Is there anyone on Zoom who would like to make public comment? Nobody? Okay. Going once, going twice. Anybody else anywhere who would like to make public comment? Okay. Okay. Then we'll close the public comment section and we're going to hear really briefly and our guests from public from sunset transportation.

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Thank you. Thank you very much. Hey, let's we're going to have a presentation of city hall. We say the project of day. We're going to have one.

You see this child better and she is our senior project manager And also, as the Jones from Cedar was the project architect and there is nothing on that. Thank you also for.

joining us at the grand opening of the police station a few weeks ago. That was a great pleasure to share the excitement with everyone. In your packet today, you'll notice on the police station side, we're now able to have both the rendering and the completed project photo adjacent to it that you're looking at there. Starting with City Hall, So some things that we in FNC have been up to since last we met, these photos were put in the packet last week. So I'd say they're already out of date. It's been very busy over there, but some things that have been happening, I'm seeing on the upper left, that's the new council chamber in progress. So finishes have been being installed the boosting panels there, the speakers hanging that is there this afternoon. The dais is now installed. The flooring is standing. So great progress throughout the building. On the upper right, casework is on again. What you're looking at there is the mailboxes for Public Works and the flat files for the planning department to replace that. area of flat files and actually community that's in the old city hall. The retaining wall in the bottom center, that's between the public parking that replaces those railroad ties that we determined to take out last time. That's installed. The sidewalks and the paving and striping, that's all in now. On the bottom right, that's the plaza on the south side. The benches. Right now, the closet papers are mostly in the process of being complete. So landscaping is underway. It's in the final stages for both site and field room and interior. So the budget, as always, I like to point out that you need to remember through the end of April, we were at 78% complete. I won't go over all of this unless there are questions. There's no contingency use showing up on this. There are a couple of items in the pipeline we'll have to forecast that we'll be seeing next time. One is We opted to do a full street improvement along Gower. So originally, the intent was not to disturb Gower, but there will be contingency from this project set aside for that. The other small contingency use that you can expect to see next time is an enhancement to the art painting system in the Capitol Chamber. So we've had art lights to feature HAB-Masyn Moyer- On the wall space for community are we added that formal hanging system support that are so that will come through next time.

HAB-Michael Leccese Jr.: So i'm but it and other stuff pending we're talking to me a little bit about paving in the parking lot in there and that some portion of that is going to be covered under this budget. What's the situation there?

We believe that's going to be outside the budget. The city has indicated they have separate funding for the repairs in that lower parking lot in a couple of areas. And so what we're using contingency is for is the full street improvement along Gower there instead of just patching back to the curb. There's a lot of palliatory and a lot of damage paving there, so we're going to I mean, I think they start next week socket all of that out and move it and prepare to celebrate. Make it better, hopefully, and repay to have something.

It's never been inside the front, not inside this necessary. I see. It was inside that, but I would like to not accept this contract.

Thank you for that. And then I had another question. Is there any reason why the subcontractors aren't parking within the site and are taking up a dozen or two dozen parking spaces daily?

We do have reduced crews now, but I know it's very tight, but we have a lot of lay down in the new parking lot, and we don't want a lot of traffic on that, so it doesn't look like it's all used up by the time we get to turn it over to you. I know if anybody has to leave and they come back, they can't find parking. We're having them park in there from the turn of the 6th. Some of the side stuff, but like next week, we're going to be ripping out that asphalt and we're not going to be able to park in there.

Yeah, I understand when it's actually new stuff, but like the last week or two weeks, it's... I own a business right next to it and I see it's just empty. All the galleries are just sat in feet. When I get to work in the morning, I wake up and

Stability full of contractors were Yeah, I know we still have a dumpster along here and some of the parties models of already our Electrician the parking down the bar and still have a little bit of lay down area in there and then we're using that as as overflow parking one week if somebody comes in later and can't come back to me.

Yeah. I'm wondering why It wasn't determined in the beginning that GARL was going to be a problem and need to be redone. It was a huge project. It's old infrastructure.

I think at the beginning and early stages, our emphasis was to make it as cost efficient as possible. So it's similar to the retaining wall we replaced. We were really trying to keep scope minimal and keep that project scope as small as we could. And so now we're at a place where we have the funds and the budget to add back some of these items that we want to get ahead of ourselves.

I appreciate what you're saying. I think that the project could have been much smaller than it was to begin with. So I have that in the back. No, I get the back of my mind too, but thank you for that. I appreciate it. I appreciate what you're saying there.

Anybody else have anything?

Any questions? So we do have some information on authorization as well, some updates. These, as I said, thank you for everyone for joining us at the grand opening. We still have some photos. Several of them are from the grand opening. You'll see here It was not installed yet, but the signage that west-facing signage is now installed. We're still waiting on the main entry signage that we believe is next week to have that installed. Budget-wise, again, there is a lag. So this is showing 91% complete. That's through April. I know Montana was working on the May budget numbers this afternoon, right before we came here. And so then those will be being reviewed in the process. Chana is reconciling and getting those final billings so that this one can be wrapped up. We are forecasting remaining contingency on this. So the plan is after the last items get reconciled, that that contingency would then move to the city hall contingency in one bucket until we get to that

So you believe May will be the final 100%? Billing will be done at that point?

It's not quite. I have some subs that have not final billed yet. And I couldn't wait on them anymore. I have to get it done. But I'm hoping by the end of June that we can get the last couple of stragglers in. We might do some increases in exhaust airflow there. So a little bit of stuff might be coming there as well through June and then hopefully we can bill it out all through June and maybe start releasing some of the attention on that in terms for the city over the city hall.

So is that $800,000 to $828,000 mainly billing that hasn't come in yet? That's through April.

That's already been billed, and I think we released the check on that. So through May, I can't remember what that came out. I just finished it, too. I remember before I came over here. But I'm still projecting savings coming back and getting transferred to the city hall.

Yeah, it looks great. So from what I'm seeing, there's still $800,000 to go. I'm wondering, where is it going? But I don't know if it's always delaying. Well, that was only until the end of April. Yeah. And there's more bills that haven't come in.

Yeah, but it's not a huge one. I think this bill, if I remember the numbers right, is about $303,000 for this through May. And there will be very little left after that. What do you anticipate that you have left in finals? I think it was... Is that the remaining... Then you see, you know, this is going to rain. There's 33. Okay. So there's about 33 remaining contingency that we don't expect to get spent. And I think there's going to be about another 40 to 50,000 in the main contract unspent. So we'll have about $75,000.

So it'll go to city hall. Yes. Okay. So it's a much smaller number than it appears. Yeah.

And then the final thing we have is schedule. Again, we just discussed the police schedule, wrapping up with the final items and that final billing. City call is also, we're looking at mid-July for our substantial completion. And that's not final completion, but the move would be happening back there end of July. And we are scheduling a grand opening for the city hall as well. We're currently looking at August 6th.

The signage for the city hall or the police station that you've got the highway facing sign up, but the front facing, is it going to be similar to this? Or is it, it's different.

It is different. So it is a single piece of wood that is sandblasted to relieve for relief of the letters and police about it. And it's more in line with the city. I thought I heard that, but then I wasn't sure.

Question. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Next on the agenda, we have ordinance number 26-03, an ordinance amending Cannon Beach Municipal Code chapters 10-08-010 definitions and 10-12-010, bicycles, skateboards, and emerging mobility devices. Bruce, do you have a staff report?

Yes, ma'am. Thank you. I want to give you a little bit of history on the voting. At the April 7, 2026 meeting, Council approved first reading of Ordinance 26-03, Votes 4 to 1. Since the vote was not unanimous, the second reading of future meetings needed board adoption. At the April 14th meeting, Council discussed the item and requested additional information from fund cycles CANDIDATES BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH SECOND READING. THE MAY 12TH READING, AFTER DISCUSSION AND HEARING FROM FUND CYCLOS, COUNCIL REQUESTS AN ADDITIONAL REVISION. DUE TO REVISION, THE ORDINANCE PROCESS IS STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING. SO YOU'LL HAVE A FIRST READING TONIGHT. AND ASHLEY, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE ATTORNEY. If we have four people here and it does pass unanimously with four, do we have to have a second reading?

That would depend on your charter language, whether it's required to be read twice. I can check your charter language as we're speaking, if that would be helpful.

Okay, thank you. Okay, that's... Well, it's time for a discussion.

Okay. Any discussion?

I move to approve the first reading of Ordinance 2603. Okay.

Ordinance 2603, an ordinance amending Canada Beach Municipal Code chapters 10.08.010 definitions and 10.12.010, bicycles, skateboards, and emerging mobility devices. Amendments can be voted on and adopted during this time. So does anyone want to discuss the amendments that were in this ordinance?

Are they amendments or is it fun? That would be amended to what's in your cap. Oh, additional then.

So this would be extra. Okay. So is there any further discussion? Would anyone like to make, okay, roll call the first meeting. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Does anyone make a motion for a second meeting? or we don't know yet if we can do that. It is tied to that.

Yes, Ashley. So to confirm, it can be at one single meeting if it's unanimous.

Okay, great. Anyone want to make any more comments?

Yeah, I'll move to approve the second reading and adopt ordinance number 2603. Sure.

Ordinance 2603, an ordinance amending Cannon Beach Municipal Code chapter 10.08.1010 definitions and 10.12.010, bicycles, skateboards, and emerging mobility devices. Any further discussion? I would like to say that I really like the changes in that, and I think they're great. I'm really put at ease by them. Okay, roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. OK ordinance number 26 or 3 has been adopted will be coming back in 30 days. Finally okay. We're now we're resolution point 6, all 9 of the purpose of repealing resolution, 25, 0, 7, establishing the 2627 city of cannon beach. Master the schedule. And the staff report, please.

Okay, that's present for members of the Council. The resolution before you is to approve the master fee schedule for 2627. We went over the changes to the utilities last time or last month. And so this master fee schedule basically only adds to increases. That's a water increase for 3%, wastewater for 5%. Everything else in the schedule essentially stays the same. And with that, I'll open it up for any questions.

Well, I have a question. I can't remember anything. I don't know if we answered it in a long time. But exempting certain types of construction, ADUs, things like that, MSCCs, is that something that is policy, completely separate from this, is adoptable by resolution? Separate from that?

I believe that will be in the part of the housing. Oh, so that wouldn't be in your master fee schedule. That would be outside of that. No, you'd adopt that. I'll share that.

Yes, that goes into the master fee schedule. My question too.

Would anyone like to make a motion?

I move to approve resolution number 2609, The purpose of repealing resolution 25, seven, establishing the 2627 city of cannon beach master food schedule.

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Again so this this resolution is to just the budget again we did this once in March, this is similar. Again, this is just with regards to the litigation that we are currently engaged in what we had been doing originally was charging these litigation fees for the list. So the wastewater. And what we brought to you was to charge them into the general fund and into the non-departmental portion of the fund. And therefore, they wouldn't be charged to any other program. So the general fund is just picking them up. They won't have any impact on rates. Again, this is only for the litigation. The other two areas that would typically have legal fees are in planning, and there we have spent about $76,000 this year. And then the other area is our general legal fees, which is in the executive department, which is usually like ASHRAE, and that is about $88,000. Both of those are significantly below budget.

Any discussion or questions?

Do you happen to know our total legal costs for this?

As of this moment right now, it is about $397,000. Okay.

I move to approve Resolution 2610 for the purpose of approving increases and decreases to the FY25-26 budget by making an inter-fund transfer of appropriations for the costs related to litigation In the 2526 fiscal year any further discussion.

Second, we have a second local police. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, we have some populations. First of all, this is probably 26 and for Tufted Puffin Month, and it will be scheduled on September 4th.

Good evening, council members, city staff, sorry, I forgot to bring a brace, I've been on the bridge for about eight days, and I have very cramped arms, so it's 38 third graders today. So, I'm here to proclaim June 2026 as Tufted Puffin Month. However, I really prefer to be the flag hoist or catcher-upon, but that's for another time. We have hosted our annual Puffin Wonder during the 12 days of our big festivities. And due to the negative tide and activity, we had over 800 visitors for this celebration. During that set day, we were with our friends at the Eastside Pop, Project Puffin, the Wildlife Center of the Northern Coast, NCLC, and a special guest, Jeff Hemantwell, with his charter of the Talbot Puppet. And I'm looking forward to having you all there next year. We're continuing our work with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the ODFW and Friends of Haystack Rock for monitoring the puppet population at Haystack Rock. In addition, my team continues to point out and occasionally yell a puppet when it's sighted. Thanks for your continued support for our iconic bird and a trap. Do you have any questions?

Any questions? I saw a puppet flying down Hemlock. What? And, yeah, and it was a puffin, and it was flying right by Hallmark, right down in the middle of town. That's crazy. Wow.

I can't explain it. It was amazing. Of course not. I didn't have a claim on it.

I believe you. Okay. Would anybody like to make a motion?

I'll move to adopt Proclamation 2610, the Pregnancy of Proclaiming June 2026. That's up to government and the City of Canterbury.

Second. Sorry, I had those two items reversed, and I'm copying and pasting, so that's why it says, do I have any discussion before the second? You'll see that I copied and pasted. Oh, yeah, I know that.

I don't think we get a chance to say that. I'm sorry about that. We get our seconds really fast. Okay. Okay. Any further discussion? We have a second. So roll call, please.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

Something else you don't do in due thought.

No. So my council was excited to know about Tufts and Southerns, so I respect them. You can bring these to Siebel's. Thanks. Thank you.

Then next on the list, we have a Proclamation 26, a Latinx-established Pride Month in Cannon Beach. Group, staff report, please.

Thank you. LGBTQIA+, Americans, including those who live in our local communities, face discrimination simply for being who they are and for who they love. And there remains much work to do to extend the promise of our country to every person, making it important for cities like Cannon Beach to stand up and show support for all our residents. We thank Councilor Ostrander for bringing the Pride Month Proclamation to our attention. Suggested motion is I move to adopt Proclamation 2611. The purpose of the designating June 2026 is Pride Month.

Is there any discussion?

I want to note that on the 28th, there's a Pride event down in Warren House. Everyone, welcome to join. I don't know.

I think I'm still out of time for that. I ended up missing it.

But down in Warren House, I don't know if I saw the flyer somewhere. It's up in those kinds of things. But welcome to Warren House.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thanks.

I'm going to adopt Proclamation 2611 for the purpose of designating June 2026 as Pride Month.

I'm happy to be in a community where this isn't controversial.

Yes. That's for sure. Okay. Welcome, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. The next issue on the agenda or item on the agenda is appointment of City Committee Board Commission. Sharon Clyde is up for Budget Committee renewal. She was unable to attend the meeting tonight. Would anyone like to make a motion?

I'll move to renew Sharon Clyde for a three-year term to the Budget Committee beginning August 1, 20.6.

Any discussion? Do I have a second? I will second that. and roll call, please.

I believe our rules and procedures stated that the presiding officer can't make a silence.

Oh, that's fine.

Oh, no, that's true.

I don't like going nervous.

Is that Morse code? I can sit here and think for a while.

Now it's very silent in here. reluctantly going to vote yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay. Well, we're sharing my back to the budget. And good. Now we have a report on all contract. And then it's great to give us this report.

Thank you. Thank you. Council members. Thank you. Sorry, like Lisa, I lost my voice on Saturday and I've been slowly recovering. Trust me, it sounds a lot worse than it is. At the May 12, 2026 council work session, city, staff, and council members discussed proposed changes to the public works contract for the purposes summarized below and included on attachment A. One was to revise the incorrect effective dates. Two was to establish the time period associated with the annual not to exceed amounts to begin on July 1. and end on June 30 of each year to coincide with the city's fiscal year. Three, increased annual amounts for janitorial, excavation, and flail mowing contracts. Four was to include labor, equipment, and unit rates as a revised exhibit and or attachment. Together with Ashley's help, we drafted the proposed contract amendments and city staff issued it to each contractor for execution. We are now returning with assigned amendments and are asking for formal approval to have the city manager execute each. The individual contract amendments containing the proposed changes are included as attachment B for your review. Recommendation. If Council wishes to proceed with the approval of Public Works on-call contract amendments, a suggested motion is as follows. I move to authorize the City Manager to sign the Public Works on-call contract amendments as presented.

Thank you. Is there any Council discussion or questions?

The Were there any substantive changes after our general counsel review based on what you provided us at the Mays World? I didn't see any. I just wasn't sure if there actually was that I glanced over.

The only change was a typo that I had included on attachment A. I had Thornton excavation moving up to 285 and McEwen moving up to 3050, and that was reversed. I know. Thornton, we're going to increase the 350, and Bob McEwen, we're going to increase the 285. So those two are transposed. All right. Yep. Other than that, it was...

It was the same thing that was presented on the final 12? That's correct. And janitorial services, that one was way off. It's way off at 185. Correct. And so that's...

that's being correct we're down to 325 which again is much higher than we're anticipating spending probably for the next five years uh but that's so we don't have to come back each and every year and say i mean that one increased by 20 000 more by 30 000 more but what was um what was the previous actual uh i unfortunately didn't bring that attachment which i brought the the last one um we spend um Like last year, just over just over 200,000. And yeah, I think we're on target for about 222 somewhere in that. Okay.

It was just a little over that 185, wasn't it? Yeah. I moved to authorize the city manager to sign the public works on Paul contract amendments as presented.

Any discussion before the second discussion? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, great. All right. And then we're not in discussion items. We have that and the U. A. S. Program 20, 25 annual report. She would you give us a staffing work?

You betcha. Thank you, counselors. Just Probably should have had a definition in there. The SUAS, the small unmanned aircraft system. So the drone is the unmanned aircraft vehicle and then everything else that goes with it, the rollable software and everything can make it a system. So that's your little definition on SUAS. So if we get called up for like a trivia question. We launched our program in June of 2025 with the deployment of three platforms. We've got large, medium, small. One of the trees is our largest. It's weatherproof. It can fly in weather up to 27 miles an hour, land up to 27 miles an hour, and you can fly it in the rain. The Mavic is our smaller one. It is not weatherproof, so if it is raining out, we really can't launch that one. But it can still fly in land up to 27 miles an hour. And then the Nevada is our small drone, which we can use mainly for interior flying. maybe search and rescue in a building that's collapsed or maybe going over the bank towards a vehicle that had been rolled over to see if we still have occupants in those vehicles. So the program was developed to enhance public safety and operations, including search and rescue, emergency response, scene assessment, thermal imaging, and hazardous and compliance-based operations. Between July and December of 2025, we conducted six remote mission-related deployments in support of missing person searches. water rescue operations, and interagency law enforcement assistance. Notable deployments include locating a missing surfer, assisting with searches for injured crash subjects, and supporting our regional partner agencies with filling suspect searches. Throughout the year, Department of Personnel completed extensive operational and safety training focused on search and rescue, night operations, water rescue, combined space flight, mapping and payload management, and lifespan operations. In December, three additional department members obtained their Part 107 runoff pilot certification, bringing the department to four certified pilots, and that is Corporal Bowman, who leads the program, myself, Officer Cody Gidell, and Officer Ethan Walde. The department also secured federal aviation administration waivers on operations beyond visual light of sight over people and over moving vehicles within approved limits. Coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was also conducted to ensure environmental compliance within protected refuge areas. Financial impact. The program operates within the police department's approved equipment and training budget. And our future in 2026, we plan to continue expanding pilot efficiency and interagency coordination while implementing the National Institute of Standards and Technology Growth and Education course to establish standardized operator performance and training benchmarks. And in your packet, here's the annual report, which goes into a little bit more detail of what I just discussed.

Are there any questions in the session?

Did you, over the previous year, because we only had one operator until just recently, right? Correct. Were there missions that you had to turn down because Bowman wasn't available to operate? I'm sure there was.

I don't. I think I have to ask a woman on that as far as if he was tracking those, but I'm positive that there were where I was assisting the fire department with search and rescue or a swimmer worship around the serve or some other situation that came up where the instances where we were helping other agencies, those were pursuits that ended where the person fled from the vehicle One was where a guy crashed a car into a house at the seaside here several months ago. And we responded up there to see if we can go and get the person that ran the vehicle, the driver.

All right. So it's with having four certified operators now, then you'll probably have a higher fishing count than next annual report? Yes.

Any other questions?

What does the Mavic... do that the Matrice can't?

It's smaller. It's more compact. We have a backpack for it. So if we had to hike in someplace, it makes it a lot more portable. It's just the size. The Matrice is, the box that it's in looks like a piece of, like a suitcase. Probably weighs 40 to 50 pounds. It's one of the ones that we can put payloads on. So maybe a life jacket If they have a life preserver, what do we have? You can get out to that person quicker without trees. The Maverick is just a smaller, easier, affordable drug.

Anything else? Any other questions? Okay. We also have the monthly status report. And are there any questions on that? Thank you. No, okay. Yes, I do. You do. Oh, wait a second.

No.

Yeah. You have a question on the status report?

Yeah. I guess I'm wondering about the selection committee, NICU's part selection committee. They met on May 26th to evaluate the proposal is what's what's next in that process.

We have received the information person that they are going to do was to do a review. The people who were sensitive for the proposals and then gave points or 4 categories. We have the interviews on 26 what what was james that to you or you said.

That was yesterday.

Yeah. We interviewed four firms and the people that were selected for interviews. Yes. Four out of nine. And we are waiting for the folks to give us the ratings on the 100 points. Out of the 100.

What did they do?

Tomorrow we're meeting digitally.

Tomorrow afternoon.

Yeah.

That was the time that we're asked for the selection committee to meet to do the final steps.

OK. Great. How's the selection committee working out, having that whole situation going well? Are there people participating fully and all that fun stuff?

A lot of participation. OK. I'm some confusion on the process. Yeah. So I would create confusion anymore.

Yeah. Okay. Any other questions on the statute for our setting for it? If not, Mayor communications may have been the same thing to me. So right now we have nothing to share. Counselor communications. Are there any counselor communications?

And I have had, and I don't know if this is counselor communication or good order, but, um, I've had several people reach out to me about the STRs and getting that handled. I know.

And we all agree, right? We agreed months ago. I know.

So, um, But I have had, I just, I can't, I don't even know. I mean, more than a handful, and that's a considerable amount of people, right? So whether we have housekeeping issues or not, I think that if nothing else, we need to push forward to get the cap on the STRs done.

I agree. I don't see why, I mean, I understand why it's wrapped up into the housing amendments, but it doesn't have to be, because it's a totally separate, It was an issue that this council decided months ago they wanted to move forward on. And it kept on just being kicked on down the road. And I, you know, I mean, it's hard to know how to answer people because I've had that same reach out and people are wondering, what are we doing? You know, why are we not acting on this? It puts us in a really weird position because we've, as a council unanimously agreed on. And then here we are, I don't know, six months later?

Yeah, and we have nothing's been done. In April, we had 196 active, but we have three applications.

It's not just that. Also, a neighbor of mine who's been living in his short-term rental for 17 years with a little child, a family, are now looking for a place because their short-term rental is disappearing. So I just think, you know... You mean their long-term rental?

Yeah, living long-term, their long-term rental is disappearing.

It just breaks my heart to see it. It really does.

And, you know, their homes are being advertised that are for sale, and the price of a short-term rental. Yeah, you know, their turnkey. Great investment property. And it's just, so I think I would like, I mean, Bruce, could you please pass that?

You know, we want to remove all that.

Okay. Okay. No, no.

So Jeff, Jeff mentioned that it's like just one more month, one more month was, I believe that's what you mentioned. So does that mean in July on that, on that packet, we're going to have,

I feel like one of the people that talked to me said that they thought it was going to be at this meeting.

Yeah.

And so maybe is it only going to be on the 9th? We have housing on the 30th. Right. But not STR. It's not.

Yeah. I feel like we're trying to get this out of the housing. Yeah. The housing is separate from housing. Thank you.

The problem is if it's just going to be discussed at the housing meeting, then we're going to have to sit around and wait until language is written out and adopted and go through. It'll be another month before it's adopted.

Oh, easy, right? Because, you know, then you've got amendments and things.

So I just think that I would like to see it on the next agenda.

Yeah, just the STRs. At least the verbiage behind it. So we can Discuss that. Yeah. Do we have any room on the agenda for next week?

Yeah, the bank goes out tomorrow. We can have that on there. To move it forward, though, it actually has to be a planning motion.

Didn't the plan...

They signed on April 23rd.

It was before then.

It was in the Massive Work Session item, so... My mission is to hold a public hearing to make a recommendation to the council before you guys can move forward with your decision. So it's not a decision that I'm going to make at the council.

But I thought they did that, Jim. I thought they did have it on two different agendas.

I believe it was a work session item, not a public hearing. Okay. Because I believe they were trying to wrap everything up. But like Bruce said, he can talk to Jack and give him an update.

Sure. Well, I think if nothing else, we need to start working on language. Mm-hmm. that we at least need to start working on language and we can have a discussion about language.

Yeah. And is it on a planning commission agenda?

Is it on? Yeah. I don't even know if it's on the planning commission agenda. I thought the planning commission wanted us to talk about it first. So I'm really confused. That's what I remember hearing.

Right. That the planning commission picked it

over for us to discuss it, and that would come back to them.

And I feel like that's what Jeff said at the last meeting.

Yeah, absolutely.

And we recommend them to recommend to us if we have that here.

The report won't be added on to the 9th, and what I'll do is I'll just print that. We'll do a staff report, but I mean, obviously, we're going to pass Jeff over. We can put in the current language and have that as it was in fact, and so you guys can have a discussion on the 9th.

Yeah, unless Jeff wants to make some amendments to that. already start making some amendments if we can, if we have time to start making amendments to the language because we already know what it currently says.

Right. It is going to require a lot of discussion because it's going to require figuring out how we do it. You know, how you have to be in process and that will be, you know, complicated session, but probably a simple process.

Well, we all agree. Right. I mean, we all agree, we need to do this. So it would be a discussion that's pretty, that's pretty easy that we can all very good.

So anything, any other counselor communications?

I would like to thank Chris, and I know that. Thank you. for the additional information. It was a lot of information there. I have a few notes. I think I asked you a couple of additional questions, but it seems like after the retrofit, then it would be wear and tear, et cetera. It's going to be much easier to swab those seats out, a lot less expensive.

We don't know what you're talking about.

The additional correspondence received at the toilet seat. Oh, okay. Chris did a bunch of work on the toilet seats, and because they don't already have the holes that are covered up, they have to be retrofitted. So, anyway, it was mostly just a thank you.

Yeah, on that subject, I just want to say it's interesting to me, this last weekend, I was up at a brand new beautiful park in Cedro Woolley called Homestead Park. Just absolutely gorgeous. And they had beautiful restrooms with tiled walls and everything. And they had the exact same toilets that we have over there. See, I don't mind the stainless steel bowls. No, they didn't have seats. And the same thing is true in the So I'm just saying, you know, if I am told by public works that there is not an issue with vandalism in having the same steel toilet seats, I just need to know from public works.

Well, a toilet seat, an elongated open toilet seat is only $34 a measure.

Yeah, it's not how much it is. It's whether or not there's

He answers a lot of that in this email. You can't know. But in the last five years, the vandalism hasn't really been put anywhere.

Well, they're putting that in Midtown, correct? A new restaurant in Midtown. They're there. And so we'll find if that is working, if that is actually effective.

not having a lot of antlers and then i can't see what there would be against putting them down especially whether we're going to add seats to the other ones i think right here yeah and these unless surely are the ones that don't have them right or 19 toilets with 19 toilets that don't have to be and i don't know that we want to deliberate that here but it sounds like we should get it we get an answer on if there's if you're seeing instance of

toilet seat vandals are in Midtown. I will tell you that I used those yesterday and I have no problem with it because I haven't sat on a seat for 30 years. But anyway, I just don't do any public restroom ever. But anyhow, but there was a woman who came out of the restroom as I was going in and she said, it's torture in there. So I thought, G.L.A. Okay, you know if it can be done, having a burdensome vandalism issue that I think it's a fine idea, so I think the stainless steel makes sense because of. G.L.A. All the reasons that we listed in your correspondence makes sense and that's why a lot of coastal towns are doing that using things still. But they might have seats.

Yeah, there's no problem with stainless steel. I don't think anybody's argued that we need to change the toilets away from stainless steel.

We have people argue that we should have foursome. We actually don't.

No, the stainless steel toilets are perfect to live on. I agree. It's lack of seats.

That's the issue. If you could let us know that there's vandalism in the midtown that is at all relevant to whether or not there's a seat. That would give us the information we need to move forward.

In the seven months I've been here, I have not had any bandwidth to a total seat to my home.

Okay.

None of them are ripped off. No. In the past, I have heard that. Yeah. To my home.

Well, maybe people are getting nice.

And I think we're going to have to expect something like a little band to work on.

And, you know, any budget, there's always public stuff. When people are left alone, stuff happens.

And unfortunately, people vandalize things. And then all of a sudden, people are the ones that have to pay the price, and the vandal's gone, right?

It sounds like another situation where we're probably all agreed, but staying the steel seats on all of the seats. Yeah, I don't know.

So I'm not staying on the same, the same, the same thing that they had a lecture with the plastic, the $33 plastic, the standard regular toilet seats on the stainless steel. Yeah.

Okay. Well, then toilets would even get rough, rough at it. We'll see. Right. Yes.

And that way, because the boys have to sit down occasionally.

They want to.

OK. So it sounds like we're probably already the seats of all the twins. How can we?

Can we have that added? I guess we have to take official action.

So if I may, I think I have my marching orders. I think we can add I don't have anything beyond the next three agendas. First, first, as long as you literally get on the downside. Thank you.

Okay, let's go. And all we have left now is good in the order. Does anybody have anything for the good of the order?

Well, there is. I'll be with the councillors tomorrow.

Yes, I'll be with the councillors tomorrow at 10 o'clock here. Still no, we're still not able to record it.

The governor vetoed the proposal that was voted on by the State Senate.

I don't know if that means that there couldn't be another opinion about serial communication or serial communication. It's a separate item.

Yeah, I just, I don't know.

There's logic from that whole, yeah.

So basically we can't talk to each other.

It's not even that. We can't report off of the counselors because two or more counselors might listen to the recording.

Right, which is, I mean, yeah, because talking to counselors was always the exciting thing that happened during the month.

So it's just, it's kind of ridiculous. One thing I would like to see added to the agenda in the near future, if anyone's interested, and maybe Jeff is already doing this, I had some people talk to me about historic overland. A lot of people are complaining that the cottages are being ripped down and being replaced with these humongous, you know, modern houses. And it's just changing the whole look of Gannon Beach. And so One of the ways to solve this traditionally has been to have a historic overlay, which actually prevents people from ripping down. They can do modifications, but they can't rip down old cottages and replace them with. And I know it's a complicated issue, so that's why I would like to hear some information on that. And does anyone else like to hear from whoever, I guess it would be Jeff?

As long as it's not a three-hour presentation and we can't have a session.

I would just be curious to know if there's anything or that was totally left apart. Yeah. How are you now having this neighborhood but saying, you know, tell some people that they can't do anything with their property.

But that happens with every work. So, you know, you don't have setbacks at all and all of a sudden you impose. So people... I mean, any new ordinance is going to have people who are disgruntled because it didn't exist before. But anyway, could we have a presentation on that? I guess that's Jeff's department. We'll shoot Jeff an email. Okay. That'd be great. And just see it. Maybe it's not possible. But I'm sure a lot of people are complaining about the loss of

And does that mean you have to save all the cottages on Spruce and North Spruce, all the now conference home cottages that are jammed together?

Yeah, we have to make that, it has to be an overlay over a certain district is how you usually do it. And you pick, you know, you choose the streets, the overlay area. And I guess that the question would be, is it going to include that or not? You know, so.

What parameters identify as whether or not it's historic, what year, what style? Exactly.

It's pretty complicated, but it might be, I know a lot of community members want to see that happen. They want to see something to prevent the ripping down of all the

historic houses in town. Money comes into town, yeah, and they have those little, those little seven, you know, the inexpensive homes. Right. Right. They enjoy the web on their lot.

Hey, anything else prepared in your order?

I just want to say with the daily car coming, I appreciate him coming. It's great to hear he's interested and excited about re-partnering with the city. I did, I used to Nicholas Matsakis, Because of education, but I talked with the same injured guys. Nicholas Matsakis, They just restarted or just started for the first time problem from their area and I got information for a lot of information, Bruce. Nicholas Matsakis, Where they got it. How much it cost them what their public contract came about all like all those things. And there's really interesting things, including that. They intentionally sized their trolley smaller so that it didn't require a CDL to drive. So it could leave more flexibility if the city would have taken over. They would modify it so it's 14 passenger maximum instead of going for the 28 or 30 passenger trolley. They would have slightly smaller trolley so that they could have the flexibility in the future. So there was some interesting discussion points that they had that they investigated. And so it's sitting on the line, right? HAB-Jacques Juilland, it's city owned operated by first student, so the the bus the bus system down there here the seaside school district does an internal so. HAB-Jacques Juilland, I like the option to talk with them the sunset transportation was unable to do that they sounded excited to maybe that they're still in there, but. HAB-Jacques Juilland, If they're if they're unable to write it might be worth the discussion with seaside school district. And they offer it just on the weekends until kids get out. And then they're expanding it a little bit into the couple of days during the week once school's out. So the school bus drivers are apparently very excited to have year-round employment. Oh, great. That's great. Oh, yeah. It's going to be fun like that. Yeah, those holidays, things like that. They have availability for drivers. That was all really, really interesting. I afforded most of the conversation over to Bruce and a couple of other staff members during that.

When you talk about the different kind of licenses, when you say you don't have to have the specialized license that's required for a larger vehicle, does that mean all of you need to take driving licenses?

I think they still require the passenger endorsement or the chauffeur's license, which is an extra endorsement, but it's not a CDL endorsement. So having a CDL is substantially more. I have a Class A CDL, so it's It's a lot of extra stuff you have to do to get it. And it's difficult to find people that have class A CDLs. I technically could, yes. But I'm busy. I have a hotel room. But it's the day size, so it doesn't require CDLs. It's a smaller vehicle. It's a hybrid vehicle as well. So that was... That was interesting. Yeah. And I asked the question of how often do they have to do it? Can it go for the full day? And she didn't have the answer at that time. She's like, oh, I'll get back to you. That's exactly it. Apparently Rockaway just got approved for a grant from ACPA and Travel Oregon to purchase one as well. So we're starting to fall behind at this point now.

Yeah. Okay. That's great information. Okay. Anything else from anybody?