City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome

everybody to the May 19 meeting of the Red Bluff City Council. Just to let you know ahead of time that even though there's one chair missing I mean, one person missing on the chair of the diocese up here, he is remotely. That's Mark Clement. And he is authorized to be in this meeting. And would you stand with me, please, for the Pledge of Allegiance?

Salute pledge. I pledge allegiance to the

flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank

you, everyone. As you know, we meet the first and third Tuesdays of every month. And you are welcome to attend the meeting remotely by looking at the instructions that is provided on the agenda by our city clerk. Also, citizens comment tonight, everybody has three minutes. You do not have to give your name if you desire not to do so. And everybody is given the opportunity to speak one time. So Ken.

Honorable mayor and members of the city council, my name is Ken Boone. In Scott's absence, may I have the honor of opening in prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this body of people. Thank you for those who are friends and foes of the City Council. May it all be harmonious this evening. We commit this time to you. In Christ's name we pray, amen. From the word of God, because our national motto is In God We Trust. I love the word of God. I love sharing it with us.

The Bible says that life and death are in the power of the tongue. That's reinforced in James chapter three. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also. Though they're so large and are driven by strong winds, they're guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.

So also, the tongue is a small member, and yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire. And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell itself. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

But no human, no human can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil full of deadly poison. With it, we bless our Lord and Father, and with it, we curse people. People who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond produce fresh water. Words from the word about our mouth of this.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ken. Before somebody else comes to speak, just to let you know, if there is an item on the agenda and you are commenting during citizens comment, please wait to comment on the agenda item at that time. But open comment is left to you of whatever you want to share with counsel at this time. So again, anybody would like to speak on citizens Comment? Yes, it is.

One thing I want to address is I live on James Avenue. And since the beginning of the years, there's been three of my neighbor's pets run over by people speeding down James Avenue. And you know, I realize that it's something that law enforcement has a hard time dealing with because they're not there all the time. But it's really getting old. I mean, it's hard to back out of your driveway or cross the street to get your mail without being run over. It's becoming a problem. And I just want to know if there's anything that can be done about it. We've asked for speed bumps, but they told us that wasn't going to work. I don't know why they gave that reason. It was a couple years ago.

You know, one thing I could think of maybe because the first responders in law enforcement have to slow down for the speed bumps. But they don't drive crazy down the street. They drive like they should be driving. So I don't know if that's an argument or not. But some people hit that turn coming down Mill Street and they just haul as fast as they can down James. It's really and you can hear them late at night. They're going crazy. It's kind of getting old. I worry about my own safety when I go to check my mail because my mailbox is right by that turn at Mill Street and James. As soon as I hit that turn, I've almost been hit two or three times. It's kind like and you give them this, and all they can do is flip you off. It's like, come on, You're driving like a madman. And they don't seem to care. And I don't know. I'm just kind of begging for help here.

Because my neighbor's daughter's cat got slaughtered about two weeks, three weeks ago. She was devastated. And I watched the guy. He tried to hit the cat and did. And I went over and told her, hey, I know this is your cat. She was devastated. I was like, I'm sorry I had to bring it up to you. But she was really broken up about it. And it's the third one this year since the beginning of the year. I don't know. I'm asking for help, basically. That's all I got.

Thank you.

You're welcome. Appreciate that.

Good evening, city council. You all are doing well. My name is Danette Garcia. I also live on James Avenue. I'm just gonna piggyback a little bit on had said. Speak into the mic. Oh, sorry. I'm just going to piggyback a little bit on what Mike had said. So I had knee surgery six weeks ago. So normally at work, I'm a hospice nurse, right? And so I miss a lot of stuff. And since I've been home, I've been pretty appalled at the lack of respect for our community. Right? It's like a speedway. You know? And, unfortunately, I'm the guy on the corner that they race around. You know? So I'm like, look. You can't stay stuck in a problem. You gotta be in the solution.

Right? So I put the signs. You know, the little red signs. You know, drive like your kids live here. The little yellow kids. Hey, slow down kids at play, right? Nope. Some people do. Some people do, but most do not. And what I've noticed is people the entrance to path is supposed to be up late into PATH. That's not happening, right? And I watched them come out of PATH, even the people that work there, and they use James. And they hurry up and down it, forgetting that our grandchildren are there, our children. We live there. We gotta pull out for for work in the morning.

You know what I mean? So, like Mike said, we did ask for speed bumps, you know, a while back. And when they put it in, they said, we'll give you guys speed bumps, you know, But that never happened. So my concern is, is something going to have to happen to us or one of our neighbors for somebody to take heed? I did talk to Tom quite some time ago about this issue, and he said that there have there they have new technology where they can sit and find out how how fast people are going.

But I'm telling you, you put an officer on Villa right there, you know what? The city will make money with so many speed tickets, but that's a thought in your ear. You know what I mean? So perhaps, I mean, you know, we should think about I mean, that is city revenue and it does it is a safety issue. So maybe we can do a two for one. So that's all I have to say about that. All right.

Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else?

Hello. My name is David Burke. I'm going to speak from a place that's personal to me. I spent my life around the trades, around people that work hard, raise families, and take pride in building communities they live in. I understand what a prevailing wage job means.

It's not just a paycheck, but stability, dignity, and a real pathway forward. I know we've looked at this before. I would hope that the council would look at it again considering the tax that's before us in a few weeks. When projects like this tax or this roadway come to our community, they represent the opportunity not just to build roads or infrastructure, but to build people. Take a moment here.

I had an opportunity today to speak with the superintendent for the county. He was talking about the CTE program down in Corning. I believe it's called the MC3, where they actually train high school students how to work in construction. Wouldn't it be amazing if those high school students can get a job here in our community? We're already training them.

Let's put them to work. To train the next generation, to give the young men and women a chance to learn a craft or a trade, to create careers that can support a family right here in Red Bluff. This only happens if we are intentional. If we're investing the millions of dollars it's going to take to repair our roads or any infrastructure in our backyards, then the money should be circulated here. It should support our local workforce, our local families, our local economy, not leave a town not leave this town with outside labor force no matter who the contractors are.

Myself, I moved here because of a contractor, Balfour Beatty. They're out of The UK. And they worked on the diversion dam project. Even West Bay, they were out of San Francisco. And they came up here, but they hired the locals. We worked on that project. The money stayed here. We have people who are ready to work. We're training them in our high schools right now through CTE. This is a priority.

The question is, are we going to get sure that they're included? Because if we're paying into it, our community should be working onto it. So whatever happens with this tax the next week, please, beseech you, look at putting 5%, 10%. Five people out of 100, that's nothing. But it means a lot to those five people. Thank you very much.

Thank you Mr. Berger.

I just want to say thank you to you guys. You guys are sitting up there paying attention to what everybody says not having your heads down not on your computer. It's a lot different than the county. I appreciate it. Thank

you, Jessica. Anybody else? Anyone else? Thank you for your comments tonight. And then I will close public comment at 05:41 actually 05:42.

We'll go on to Mr. Westbrook, any agenda corrections?

No, sir.

Thank you, Tom. We'll go on to staff items. Tom, please.

As the public made notice, we've switched to a new software system for our agendas management program. We're trying to work out in this transition some of the kinks, and so just bear with us as we move forward and try to fix those things. This is kind of the first city council meeting where we've done this new system. A lot of the work and the credit goes to Anita to get us to this point. Thank you very much.

She's also the one that will be making corrections as we move forward. So if there's something that you see in formatting or whatever, please let us know so that we can address that. A couple other things I wanted to mention. Next week on May 28, there's a Good Morning Red Bluff. The Chamber of Commerce is running that and it's going to be held at Gomers Jewelry at 07:50 a. M. They're open to the public. Anyone is welcome to attend. Also, just wanted to continue to mention that the Farmers Market continues on Saturdays in River Park. And then starting June 3 through the end of August will be the Downtown Farmers Market on Wednesday night. And that's all I had.

Just adding to what you said, Tom. Remember everybody, if you wanna be on TV, show up June 3. Right? Alright. Scott Garrison, sir.

Yes. The city has, finished its hiring for the lifeguards for the city pool, We're excited to onboard a lot of lifeguards next week and rehiring lifeguards from last year. We're excited to get the pool staff up and running. That's all I have.

Thank you, Scott. Beth Lindauer.

Good evening. So I'm just going give some updates about some local businesses that we've had open or at least applied for and had issued their business licenses for the last month. We have had a new dog grooming, a Mexican restaurant, a mental health facility, some auto repairs, a meat and sausage company. That's exciting. And a couple, salons and barber shops. So more people are starting to come back to the community and are seeing a positive response from everybody's efforts. So thank you to those who are investing in our community. Looking forward to more applications coming up.

Thank you, Beth. Again, shop locally, right? Absolutely. Scott Miller, please.

Honorable Mayor and members of the council and Mr. Mark Clement. Distance. Several things to report because we've had a very busy time the last couple of weeks in public works. If you noticed a couple times on the news, we had some issues at the airport. The first one started when we had a gentleman doing 115 miles per hour went through the fence over on the Pasquena side and submerged his vehicle in Grasshopper Creek. So, was exciting. Followed by a bellied in landing on an aircraft and then the pilot taken off and suffice to say we had a lot of people involved with that project. Followed by another one large aircraft coming in that was disabled on the runway with a flat tire. Then followed by our airport day, which was on Saturday out there.

So, I do commend as far as the Tama County Aviation Association for putting on that and drawing awareness if the newspaper and the news agencies didn't draw enough attention to the airport then. We also, if you notice, we did a lot of railroad activity, the crossings. I do believe the first three are completed. Looking over at my assistant over there. The final one is Walnut Street.

The city and the railroad are working together on that one to try to soften out that roller coaster ride as well as when they're doing their track improvements. So hopefully that will be opened up tomorrow when the asphalt gets time to dry up, not dry up, but harden up. Additional paving, our city crews are going to be doing a bunch of dig outs and a hot mix paving over the next few days and next week at multiple locations such as like in Diamond Park, Luther Road, Walnut, Hasbrold, Robinson, Treasure and Corona. So please watch out for those individuals out there doing the work and drive safely. Let's see, the Rio Street sewer replacement project kicked off on Monday.

They did the demolition of the old restroom facility starting on Monday. Now they're starting to do the digging and setting up the manholes in the lines. Let's see what else we got here. The pool prep, start prepping on that, getting that ready for the pool season, as well as at the community center, the carpet replacement will be beginning on May 29 through the thirty first. Take a break because there are a of projects events happening there and then they'll start up roughly around June 18. And with that, my long way to report is done.

Thanks Scott. Chief Bachmeier.

Good evening Honorable Mayor, members of the council. Hopefully fingers crossed, knock on wood. We are still planning to have the control burn which is in cooperation with the United States Forest Service, CAL FIRE and Nome Laukee Pascana Band of Nome Laukee Indians. I believe they did roughly a 20 acre fire today that was just for service itself. But on Thursday, the plan is kind of similar to what we did three years ago.

We'll start on the south side of the Sand Slough Bridge, work down the Slough all the way down into the Discovery Center there. A small portion of that will not be burned, so that the Nomlaki tribe can come back and do more cultural burning with that later. But we've been trying to have this the last two years. Ever since we did it the first time, it hasn't lined up, whether because of staffing levels, weather or whatnot. So, we're keeping our fingers crossed at this point.

So, very hopeful for that. Over the next few weeks, we're gonna be hosting and delivering a couple of Operator 1A and hopefully one Operator 1B classes. These are the classes firefighters to take when they're wanting to ultimately become apparatus engineer. So, we've been hosting these classes for the last couple of years and we have two of the 1A and one of the 1B schedule and hoping those all go off with no problem. And just a reminder, by June 1, we'll be out doing, I drove around a little bit today, kind of looking at some of the open fields, what's been done for weed abatement so far, what hasn't.

Everybody has till June 1 to complete their weed abatement and at that point, we'll begin the enforcement portion for those properties that haven't been abated at that point.

You, Chief. Appreciate that. Paul Young is not with us, so Captain Woodgear, here we go.

Here we go. You. Obviously lots to talk about but one item of note that I wanted to discuss was we're excited our community service officer started his field training this week. So he has a long road ahead of him and we're hoping that it's successful.

Thank you. Robin Kappa, engineer. Okay.

Honorable Mayor and Council Members, I just want to report that the Carmel waterline plans, the bid documents are complete. We are putting the front end documents together at the city, and that will be going out to bid shortly. So it will fall in line with, hopefully, the budget approval later this next month. So we're we're glad to get that done so we don't have major repairs and emergency repairs any longer. Say that done. Which what part of that is again? So Carmel Way,

I Okay.

Yes. It's the waterline replacement for the whole whole section of Carmel.

I just want everybody to know exactly where it was.

Yeah. We have a repair almost every six months on that road. So it'll be nice to get that done and repaved so we don't have all the pothole repairs.

Thank you, Robin. Appreciate that. All right. Tonight, do have a commission's report. Who's bringing that up tonight?

Yeah, I don't see any of the Parks and Rec Commission. Scott Miller was at that report and provided updates to the commission. So I'll let Scott give a brief synopsis.

Key word, brief. At the twelfth meeting, basically it was just staff comments and updates, consisted of, like, the second place Scott mentioned regarding pool lifeguards of getting hired and getting them set up. There was also discussions regarding the Splash Park update regarding the rebidding process of getting the price down within the budget, the Rio Sewer project or how it would impact the parks, the pool prep, that the boat dock was gonna be installed shortly, which it did over the week on Friday afternoon, Trainer Park play structure, which you'll hear a little bit more later on tonight, And then, yeah, that was it.

Very good. Thank you, Scott. Alright. That concludes our reports. No presentations tonight. I would like to ask counsel if there's anything on the agenda that you are in conflict of interest with that you'd like to declare at this time. Pat? No. No. Mark? Can you hear me? No. No? Okay. If I forget you, Mark, just speak up, Okay? I don't want to do that. All right. Here we go. All right. So the next item is a consent agenda approval of number one, city council meeting.

Number two, second reading, adoption of ordinance ten ninety five, adding section 2.8 to chapter two administration article one, general provisions of the Red Bluff Municipal Code establishing procedures for public records requests and appointing a designated public records coordinator. Three, approval of warrant list. Four, purchases of 2,000 or more contract awards. Do we have a motion, counsel?

Motion to approve.

Motion to approve. Do I have a second?

Before you continue, you should ask if there's any council member or member of the public if I appreciate they'd

like

that. Thank you for reminding me. Is there anything on the consent agenda that the council or public would like to have moved to the regular minutes of the council, regular meeting? I haven't seen none, then we'll go on. Sorry, didn't bring that up. Thank you, Tom, for reminding me. Appreciate that. Okay, we have a motion by Chris. And do we have a second?

Second.

Second by Pat Hurtin. Anita, please take the role.

Councilmember Hult? Yes.

Councilmember Hult?

Yes. Councilmember Hult?

Yes. Mayor Plymouth?

Yes. Mayor Plymouth?

Yes. Motion passes unanimously. We'll go on to item number five, Chamber of Commerce and City of Red Bluff agreement for July 2026 through June 2029. Tom Westbrook.

Thank you, mayor council members. The current agreement that is before you would be for fiscal years 2026 through 2029. Currently, the city of Red Bluff funds the chamber of commerce in the amount of $70,000 a year. The chamber of commerce is desirous to keep their agreement moving forward, so they would like consideration of another three year term, but they are requesting that that amount go from $70,000 to $100,000 a year. Historically, the city has contracted with the chamber to provide, be our tourism promoter, and also our visitors provide services to our visitors within the community.

The chamber has the annual funding agreement increased. They've requested that due to cost of living increases over the number of years and so that's why they've increased or requested an increase to $100,000 As you know, the chamber does a lot of events within our community. They do the farmers markets on Saturdays, the upcoming farmers markets. They're involved in April with a number of events in April. Good Morning Red Bluff ribbon cuttings, they do a lot for our community.

One of the things that I'll say, having worked at another city for a period of twenty years, I was a liaison with that city and their local chamber of commerce. There's a dramatic difference between the two. This chamber is within the community, holding events, doing a lot to promote the businesses within the community. The chamber that I worked with formally didn't have that same level of success that the Rebelief Tame Accounting Chamber of Commerce does. So with that, one of the things that I will note, the agreement I left the agreement at the original $70,000 amount.

So if there's a desire amongst the council to increase the amount of funding to the chamber of commerce in any type of motion for approval, you'll have to make that motion to increase that amount. So the agreement that's included in the report shows the $70,000 amount. With that, I'm available for any questions. I do know that Dave Gowan from the Chamber of Commerce is here as well this evening to answer questions.

Thank you. As Tom asked, anybody have any questions for Tom at this time before I go further? Any questions for Tom? None? Chris? None? Mark, any questions for Tom? No. No? Okay, thank you very much. I think at this time before I ask any public comment or any questions from the public, I'm going to have the head of the chamber, Dave Down, please come up and report here.

Kind of a spot quiz, I guess.

You can handle it.

Okay. All right. Great. Well, yeah, I mean, we're just thankful to partner with the city. We love it. We love city council, most of the department heads. Sorry, it's an ongoing joke with Mr. Miller. Anyways, and the staff. It's honestly, every day, it's a blessing for me, my staff. Jason Natt is here. Haley Ray, owner of Tema Floral, is our current chair of our board. We're just thankful to partner with it. And we've just kind of worked at things and obviously it's tight. And when is it a good year to ask for a raise?

Never. But we really need it to keep moving on all cylinders and continue to do what we're doing in all the areas. So that's all I have.

Okay. Would you stay right there, please? Members of the public have any questions for Dave Gowan? Okay, none. Counsel, any questions for Dave? No? Cassie? Chris?

I don't have any questions. I noticed the last agreement that we had, you and I signed that three

years Yes, did. Three years ago.

We had a good time with that, didn't we? Yeah.

Yeah. It was great.

Yeah. I Yeah. Do have one question. How long is your agreement with the county?

It is a year by year at this point, but that's probably going to change.

Do you have a current one with them?

We don't, but they're going into budget cycle for this upcoming year. We just met with them this morning in support.

I was just curious how that was working. Yeah,

worked out great. So we do more for the city than we do for the county. But the county is more on the economic development. But I do a lot with economic development with Tom and with Beth and everybody else. So that's one extra component.

So Dave, with the compensation that they provide the funding that they provide you, would that be less than the city if you don't do as much for the county as you do for the city?

It's going to be close to the same. Even at times, they're going like, what about us? But we're doing whatever we can for the county. Right, Tom? But anyway, so yeah, that's how that works.

Thank you.

Sure, thank you.

I do have some questions for Dave. Dave, how long have you been doing this for the city?

So I showed up with my family on 03/01/2010 with my wife and six kids that have all grown up now. But 2010.

I have a question. What has made you stay for sixteen years?

Well, the first couple years, I was ready to leave at any time. But it was kind of a rough start. Honest to God, I mean, I love my job. I love the people that I work with. I love this community. I just believe in everything that's going on around here. Is there issues? Are there problems? Is there tough times? Yes. Name me a town, name me a city where there isn't. But there's a blessing here. Whenever I talk to people, you know, could be a Facebook live or it could just be a one on one with no cameras. But I tell them it's the people that make the difference here. And so that's you guys out here.

You make the difference here. And so, everybody but, no. But anyway, it's the people. I mean, and the other thing to be honest about, have I had other offers? I have. Bigger places, you know, bigger money and all. But I honestly have just said no. I've never told that to anybody before. But anyways, that's why I'm here.

Tell me about, you go out to businesses and you do a photo for Facebook. How many have you done this last month?

Oh, wow. Well, in one week, did 22. On a small business week, we did like 12 or 13. In Red Bluff, We did some in Corning, some in Owasimo. And so that was just a few days.

So essentially, you've worked out of the city. I mean, not just in the city, but you've helped other businesses, Corning everywhere.

Everywhere.

Do you get calls from other chambers to help them?

DAVID Some of them are jealous. And some would say, Dave, calm down. But yeah, no, they ask for help. And so I actually meet with some surrounding chambers at times, whether they have somebody new coming in or they're in a tough spot. They just need to be encouraged, I guess. I do.

When you started here, how much was the budgeted item for the chamber at that time?

For the city contract, it was 70,000.

No, no, sixteen years ago. Didn't somebody get paid like 100,000?

Well, okay. So, yeah, no, that was in 2009. So as soon as I showed up, it dropped. They were like, dang, we don't, who's this guy? I think is what happened. No, but, so it was at 100. Then I looked back a couple years earlier and it was 120,000 that the city was giving the chamber back in those days.

So, it went from 120,000 in those days, now you're getting 70,000 plus. How many businesses were registered with the chamber when you first started?

So, when I first started, there was three zero three businesses, kind of. And I only had three stacks on my desk the very first day. I spent five minutes with the previous guy in my spot. And he told me what the three stacks were. One was these are members that are quitting.

These are members that are over ninety days past due. So do something about them or drop them. And then here was a stack of emails, printed out emails for me to write the answers to, to give back up to the front lady at the front desk to reply to whoever for the email. So that was it, three stacks. So we had three zero three kind of members, and we had zero website. It didn't work. And we had obviously no social media. We had zero customer service. And now we're at about five fifteen members.

Five fifteen? Yeah. So from 300, let's say 300 and some of them were negative, get ready to go out the door. And so we've grown by about 40% easily.

And for me, it's all about customer service. I mean, we're here to serve the community. We're here to serve business. We're here to serve families. That's why we love doing parades and markets and all that stuff that people are going like, well, a lot of other chambers don't do it. Well, yeah, but you're not us. So we do it. But we want to serve, we want to give back, we want to be involved in quality of life events.

Don't you do conferences?

Yeah, we do. We're starting to do leadership conferences and conferences to build up, whether you're an entrepreneur or whether you're involved in an organization or a government official, to just speak into and grow us all up more. Because the more we grow in our life, then the more our business or our organization or our family or our neighborhood or our community grows. So that's why we do it.

Yeah. Appreciate that.

Yeah.

You know, I didn't ask Dave all these questions before to prepare him for this. I wanted you to hear what the chamber does. I've been part of the chamber for, what, seven years now. And I've never seen so much excitement in an office to help our community, to help our businesses. And I think every business that is not part of the chamber is missing out tremendously. And he has a great staff. I've seen him grow. I've seen them put a new office. And thank God for that. It might smell a little bit over there on the site once in a while. But Tom I mean, maybe that's why Scott's

Yeah, that's it. That's it.

We'll get this squared away. But my point is, as Tom mentioned also, this is an exciting chamber. And there's a difference in the atmosphere when you walk, when you drive into our community and feel the difference that is happening here. And I'll say that from what also given credit to other departments, and especially when I went to the memorial for police, when the head of California Highway Patrol and I forget his name, who was from Central Valley when he grew up there. Anyway, he commented.

He says, people in our departments, highway patrol, are excited to work in Tajima County because people are respected and people are appreciated. And that's one thing that I think this chamber does and the city council does as a whole. We're looking out for each other. And that's what it takes to build a city. And I'll say build a city under God, build a county under God, build a state under God. So I want to share that Dave, working with you is a pleasure. And I know your heart. And I know your staff's heart.

Yeah. These guys deserve way more credit. Sometimes I get to speak, but these guys do all the hard work every day, game face on, ready as a serve.

Well, call me once in a while, but I don't tell you. No. They do great. That's all I have to say. I appreciate it. Thank you. You know what? Is your question for Okay. Dave, you have to go up to the podium. No, no, not you. You can say your question from right there.

I'm not certain that the microphones will pick up everything, so I would ask that

anybody approach

and then everything go through the microphones, please.

You probably know I appreciate you. First of Dave, last week, was helping out Can

you post it to the mics, please?

Helping out the veterans. Historic we had a dinner. And Dave was able to post it. So he's always been really easy to work with. But you know the question I'm going to ask here. One in five families within our community live below the federal poverty level, Dave. How are you going to solve that? Boost the economic what is that? I mean, if you can give me an idea, a little bit of hope, I know you guys are working hard for what's $30. But I'd love to hear a solution for that, sir. That's all.

Great question. I'll tell you what, I've learned a lot about economic development. The main thing I've learned is, man, you've to have guts to do economic development. It's not easy, Beth? You know, it's tough. So I used to call it like you're fishing. But really, it's more like football. One yard, get tackled, muddy, bloody, get back up, you're tired and go again. So the question is, you know, what are we doing? I mean, I work a lot with Beth and with Tom on things specifically in city.

You know, there's an outside, very reputable business that we've been honestly, I've been working with for eighteen months that has just found the exact sweet spot for them to move into Tehama County for the first time here within the city limits. And that's going to provide construction work and it's going to provide for 15 to 20 jobs. Just that one, mean, that's not huge, but that's something. I'm working with some I meet with investors now that we're doing more economic development, I meet with investors regularly. And Reading, Sacramento, San Fran.

And they see I-five as a gold mine, as a treasure. And our area of it right here. And some of these guys are interested in a piece of land that we had a meeting with my staff and Tom and Beth about to purchase it and to build something great. I can't go any further into that. I'm a chamber guy that loves to cheer things on and say everything, but I can't on economic stuff.

So, there's things in the works. But it's not it just doesn't happen overnight. But we have a new website that's been up that gets five times more hits than the old county economic development website has taymacounty.biz. And it has all the stats on it. And you've been on there before.

And you can see all that. It doesn't work on your phone sometimes, but that's Verizon. But anyways, and you know, we've got a new business that just opened possibly, I can't remember this week, was just there today, the AT and T store, you know, down south. So a little bit, so you just keep on keeping on. You get some no's, you get some ghosted, but then you get some yeses. So that's what we're doing. And so it's not a glamorous Facebook Live type thing. Economic development is I hang out with Mr. Miller more, you know, on that kind of stuff. It's just kind of, you know, just tough work.

So, that's what we're doing. And trying to bring hope to the community and raise up the community more, and also to promote our area to others to come here. Because, so what we have is a weak tax base. And that has to change. Because we can tax forever and we can want money forever, from whatever way we want. But to really get to the next level, we have to have economic development. But it's a long haul game. I don't know if that answers

think your one of things that we need to remember is that Dave worked in coordination with our community service director and other departments to really build this city. And again, as I said to Beth, I can stress what Dave is saying, to shop locally and support our businesses. People that come here want to be supported. And they're moving from the Bay Area where they're seeing customers that they have a million dollar I mean, million population in their cities. We don't. We have certain people. But every dollar that you spend in their stores and shops really helps to encourage and build the city. You know what? I think we still yeah, go ahead. I just want to be accurate here.

I don't want to get in trouble for doing something out of order.

No, that's fine. There currently any long term strategic plans or benchmarks in place tied to tourism growth, business attraction, workforce development or downtown revitalization and how is progress measured against those goals?

Go ahead. Sorry for

taking up all the time here, guys. Great, great question. The county has some plans. We have some plans, but we're working with the county to kind of solidify some of those plans. To measure things regarding I mean, we're doing, I think one of the things was tourism.

We're promoting our area all the time, whether it's the river, whether it's Lassen National Park. I don't know if you realize, but 40% of the people that go to Lassen, they come through the southern entrance. Majority of those come from the Red Bluff side. So they come and they either call us, they email us, they come into our office and we say, hey, come and shop, come and eat, stay a night, go up there and then come back down, because we've got more for you to do. So how do you measure all that?

It's tough. I mean, one thing, I mean, you can measure a little bit on TOT, transient occupancy tax, which is on the hotels. And when I got here in 2010, it was just over $400,000 the TOT. Now it's over $1,000,000 So I don't know the exact amounts, but I'm guessing somewhere around there. So those are some ways.

But it's not as easy to measure economic development growth as it is for the downtown business to know that they've bought $10,000 worth of goods and they sold it for $30,000 So it's a way different thing. And I know you were at the county meeting this morning, so you heard this part that I'll just say because it has to do with just downtown. Last summer and last fall, we went and inventoried every property that didn't have a business in it. And we got their phone number off the door, or however, you know, you just sleuth it if there's nothing there. Phone number, email address, name of the company, or the private owner.

And we call contacted every single one of those, as well as the strip malls. So, like the AT and T and something that's happening right now down in one of the buildings in downtown, other than the ones on the East Side that are opening up, too, were part of our initial. All we're doing is we're saying, hey, we're here for you. If you need help, we're here to help. We'll point you to Tom.

We'll point you to Beth. But if you need any questions answered about our community, we're here to help that. And so, it's been great. So, it's really helped connect us with commercial property, even more with realtors, even though we speak with them on a regular basis. And with some private owners that are, don't, most of them don't live around here. But I have their cell numbers. So we talk, you know, on all the time regarding their properties. So that's stuff that economic development, no one knows about. You're going like, who cares, Dave? But anyways, so that's just kind of the background work that we're doing constantly. I don't know if that helps.

On your web page, just give an example of the rodeo. You set up a video that was taken that morning. It was on the website. How long did it take to put it on that website, YouTube? To get people commenting on the rodeo parade.

Well, they commented right away on the highlight video with Mr. Mayer's cool song. It, within one week, had over 100,000 views just on that one video of the parade. And just everybody celebrating downtown, celebrating Red Bluff and listening to Red Bluff's song. So, was so and I mentioned it this morning.

I mean, I'm not, so I don't even use my social media page personally, but for my job, I do. And we get about 750,000 views a month just on our Facebook. That doesn't include how much on Instagram or YouTube. But we do, like during rodeo time, we had over a million views just on Facebook for a little town. And, you know, people don't know if that's big or not big. But I guarantee there's larger towns with larger chambers that aren't doing what we're doing.

Thank you, Dave. Appreciate that. Any other questions? If not, I will close public comment, 616. And counsel, do you have any other questions just before we go any further? Chris?

No, but

can Mark

hear us Okay?

Mark, can you hear us Okay?

I can, yes.

Very good. All right, very good. All right, so before us is consider the proposed three year agreement between city of Red Bluff and the Red Bluff Daheman County Chamber of Commerce, authorize mayor to sign the proposed agreement. Also, the chamber is requesting that we increase their annual funding from $70,000 to $100,000 Do we have a motion?

I motion.

Motion. I need an amount from you, Mark. Is that the 100,000 that I mentioned?

Yes.

Okay. Motion made to approve the agreement for three years and increase their funding to $100,000 Do I have a second? I second it. So motion is made and seconded. Anita, please take the roll.

Are we going have any council discussion of that?

Okay. Sorry about that. I will go back. Discussion on the, go ahead.

Thank you, Chris. Good. And thank you, Mayor. Just my thoughts. Dave, excellent job on the hot seat. God, it was you and not me. So well done. I'll make this quick. I think you do a great job. I really do. I honestly do. I think our chamber does a great job. Are you worthy of an increase? Absolutely. Are you worthy of probably the $100,000 I would say absolutely.

But now here comes the but. But keep listening, please. So right now, the position that the city's in, not only do we need to not spend more, but we need to actually spend less to get us where we need to be. That's the position that we're in. So fortunately for you, my understanding is that Scott Miller has agreed to have his salary reduced by any amount that we agree to increase you so that it comes out to a net zero for the city.

Oh, I misunderstood. No, no, sorry. I don't mean to make light of it because it's really serious. But, no, I so recognizing that 2010 has been a long time, recognizing that it was maybe even more than $100,000 prior to 2010, but at this point, where the city's at, I don't know if I could go 100. Just my thoughts at a starting point, I might like feel comfortable with some discussion and consensus to maybe splitting the difference and maybe like 85,000. So that's just my thoughts.

So, counsel, I want to be correct here. Sophie, 100 has been proposed, 85 we're still in discussion. Is that correct?

You're still in discussion because no additional motion to modify has been made unless that's what Pat is doing right now and I'm unsure.

Okay.

So I just want to reiterate what council member Hurtin said. He and I have been on the budget committee together for two years now And I've been on the budget committee what seems like my whole life sometimes. The city, to be honest, is not in good financial shape. That's just a fact. And I have to say that there are situations internally or maybe externally for projects that may need to be done that are having to be looked at and reconsidered because of the finances of the city.

And I appreciate you too, Dave. I've known you a long time. But I have to say, looking at what we are looking at now and possibly what we're going to be looking at in the future in terms of the city budget, I would suggest that I too probably would maybe compromise some of this. But I don't think I can't support $100,000 a year either. I'd like to. But realistically, for me, I can't.

Okay. Pat says 85. Chris says she can't. So Cassie?

I'm the newest, and I have not served on the budget committee. Your heart for our community is very evident and it's worth every bit of what you're asking. So it's not a reflection of how we feel about you or the job that you're doing. Any one of you, each of you, anybody has gone to a single chamber event, every single one of you is exceptionally engaged and approachable and excited and passionate. And it emanates through the entire event, whether it's farmer's market or just coming down and meeting you at the office.

And so per actually even our last meeting, the conversation that Pat brought up was that we are not in a position to even spend what we're currently spending. And keeping that in mind, I just can't go to $100,000 And it has nothing to do with the quality of job that you're doing. It is 100% a fiscal decision and I wish there was more to give and at this point there just isn't. And so as I don't serve on the committee, don't know where that compromise number lays. But I know it's not at 100.

So my answer is no to the increase.

Are you okay. What I'm going to do is so a motion has been made to $100,000 And Pat, would you like to amend that motion to 85,000 Sure.

Yes.

Okay. So we have an amendment to the motion from 100 to 85,000 by Pat Hurton. Am I correct counsel in what I'm yes, what I've done?

You need a second.

Okay. So motion has been made to 85,000. Do we have a second on that? Second. You made the motion. I think I believe I I'm I believe I made the second. Correct? Do I need to withdraw that?

No. No. You're amending the original motion. And so Pat's made an amendment to the motion.

Okay.

By via motion. And now that motion needs to be seconded, Councilmember Clement just did.

I just want to make sure I have this in order. Okay, so motion made by Pat Hurtin, seconded by Mark Clement. Please, I need to take

the role.

Any any discussion on

the On the amendment.

We're voting across all three. Three year agreement, '85 is

what we're proposing Correct. Year agreement with an '85 increased 85,000. Correct. Any discussion?

I just want ask one thing. In your comment where you're thinking that you wanted to keep it at 70 or was that clear on what that's what you were thinking? I thought so, but I wanted to make sure. Thank you.

So just so counsel is aware, you can have up to three motions pending at the same time. And then once you get to that, then you have to vote down the line until there's less than three. So if somebody wants to make an alternative amended motion, they can certainly do so at this time as well.

I think we need to realize something that we have not increased the chamber in years. I don't know how many of you would work for no raise for a long time, any of us, because cost of living and cost of doing business increases. If we were to look at 70,000 what, sixteen years ago, cost of living adjustments and so forth, I think it's a minimal. 85,000 is a minimum to give. And we can appreciate the fact that they're drawing businesses into our community.

To me, if you've got a I used to be a farmer in my granddad's farm. And you know what? We fit the cows every day. And we gave them water every day. We made sure they were healthy because you know what?

They were providing milk and butter for us. Shows you how long I've been around. My point is we cannot go on without giving to the chamber a raise because they're working hard and they're doing this for our community. Are we going to say, let's keep it the same because it's Okay? Let me tell you, I think it's more Okay to give them a raise because they need the help.

That's all I have to say right now. So any other amendments? So our amendment is our motion is made by amended anyway, been made to sign the three year agreement and by Pat putting it at 85,000. Any further discussion? Anita take the role. Yes.

Yes.

Motion passes, four to one. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, chamber.

I just Yes. Thank you, Dave. I mean, again, I echo everything Cassie said. It's with complete respect that we have for you. And completely understand why she did what she did, because that's how tough the budget is right now.

That's tough.

So, it was a hard balance. It was a hard decision. So, I fully understand why she did what she did. And, at the same time, you are well appreciated. So, thank you very much. Jason.

Know, my staff, my board, I mean, So, it's great. So, I appreciate you all and there's never any hard feelings with me. Don't roll that way. We're going keep on keeping on. We're going to work and no attitudes, right, Tom? Just going to keep going. So, I was just going to say thank you and sorry for taking all your time today. I was a workout. But, anyways, hey, now let me get back to promoting. June 3, First Farmers Market, we're giving away 300 flags to folks there because we have Action News Now coming for their 04:00, 05:00 and 06:00 newscasts.

And they're gonna break away to down here at the market for us to celebrate one hundred and fifty years, to celebrate the market, to celebrate Red Bluff, and up to six times during that hour. So, all of you all are invited, okay, to the market, five to eight, right over here, and just get your face back there behind the camera and wave your flags, all right? So, anyways, thanks.

Thank you, Dave. Appreciate it. Thank chamber. All right. Thank you, counsel.

And we've gone to item number six which is adopt resolution seven-twenty 26 of the City of Red Bluff Council waiving certain building permit, plan check fees and inspection fees for the installation of donated playground equipment and a sponsor sign at Trainer Park. And Beth Lindauer, please.

Honorable mayor, members of council, tonight's item is to request the waive of certain building permit inspection and sign permit fees associated with the additional improvements at Trainer Park. Following the successful playground equipment improvement project approved by council in 2025, Several local nonprofit and civic organizations have secured additional

Hold on a second. Can you close the doors for us? That way we don't Okay, great. Thank you.

Where was I? The service organizations have secured additional funding to install a donated moon crater climber and a monument sign recognizing the project contributors. The total fees requested for the waiver is $706. Staff evaluated the request under the city's fee waiver policy and determined the project provides a clear public benefit and is supported entirely by nonprofit community organizations. Staff recommends the city conduct a public hearing, approve the fee request, and adopt resolution zero seven dash twenty twenty six.

And I am available for any additional questions.

Thank you, Beth. Council, any questions for Beth? Mark, question? No. No. Okay. Thank you. Pat? No. No. Okay. And this calls for a conduct a public hearing to accept the playground structure and donate installation service and consider waiving applicable public permit fees associated with the project. So I will open the public hearing at 06:31. Anybody from the public wish to comment on the waiver of fees for the playground equipment? Remember, if you do, you're taking this away from a child.

Just kidding. All right. I haven't seen no public comment. I will close it at 06:31 I mean, thirty two. So the next part is adopt resolution number 26, providing the installation of the playground and waiving associated building fees. Do you have a motion?

Motion to adopt the resolution. Motion.

Motion. Cassie made the motion. Mark, you want a second?

Mark? Okay,

yes by Mark. Any further discussion, counsel? Okay. Thank you, Mark. Having heard no more discussion, Anita, please take the

role. To

infinity and beyond, yes.

Yes. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. We'll go to agenda item number seven, approve a minor amendment number two to PJ Helicopters 2017 to 2067 lease agreement and I will turn this over to Scott Miller please.

Thank you all honor mayor members of the council. We have before you is the second amendment minor amendment to PJ's lease. If you recall on 03/07/2023, council did approve previous minor lease agreement modification which just expanded their their footprint. They've got a currently a expansion project that is going. The the current one is still inside the current lease area, but just for providing some additional maneuvering space for the construction as well as their daily operations.

They've proposed to the city as far as expansion of this lease. All the other lease conditions will remain the same it's just expanding the boundary that they currently have. This particular location will not impact as far as any of the airport other users given the geographical location of their facility opposite on the other side of Grasshopper Creek. We're always in support of PJ's expansion expanding their their business out there and I'm available for any questions we also have a representative Ted Rawlings here with PJ helicopters if any other questions that I may not be able to answer that he might be able to contribute for you.

Thank you, Scott. Thank you. Council, any questions? Cassie, Chris? No. Mark, any questions? No. No? Okay, I will open this up then for public comment questions. Mr. Boone?

The obvious question is which direction are you going to expand?

In in part of the the overall packet, I could probably do a share screen here. Stand by the new system. Should be coming up on the screen shortly. We see as far as the yellow color section is the areas that they are expanding. So, it's kind of like a patchwork quilt out there.

It just kind of tidies up of the current geometry of what the layout of the actual geographic of the land, as well as some border fencing that was installed as far as perimeter. So this is all their original building, their second hangar, and then some recent expansions. The next expansion will be occurring in this area here. This area is just going to provide for an additional maneuvering area and parking of facilities, put some base rock in, same around some of the perimeters. Really is no real impact.

This particular the airport property is more than 600 acres in size. They are kind of off to the side at the very end of Langley Way. Don't anticipate any issues. We did take it to the airport commission as well. They unanimously approved as far as recommending bringing it to council.

Any comments from PJ? You want to elect to say anything? No comments? Okay. How many acres does this encompass?

This one will bring up their total footprint to about 15.83 acres, more or less.

How many?

15? 15.83.

Very good. Any other public comment before I close it? Haven't seen none. We'll close public comment on this at 06:36. Counsel, any other questions?

Do I have a motion?

Thank you, PJ, for operating in Red Bluff and expanding in Red Bluff and what your business does to Red Bluff. Thank you very much.

Yeah, I appreciate it. So, counsel, I will ask you for a motion to approve the minor amendment number two to PJ Helicopters twenty seventeen, the adjustment to 2067 lease agreement.

Motion to approve.

Motion to approve. Do I have a second?

Second.

Any further discussion before I forgot to ask? Having heard none, Anita please take the role.

Yes.

Motion approved unanimously. And I want to just also agree with Pat. I'm excited you guys are here. Keep doing the work that you're doing. Appreciate it. All right? All right. Let's go to item number eight. Robin Kaufman is County Of Tehama leased for Rio And Walnut Transfer Facility.

Honorable mayor and council members, the Rio And Walnut Transit Center is the existing public transit facility located at 735 Rio Street. So the bus and ride that is located down in that area. The facility is owned by the property and facility is owned by the city of Red Bluff and it's leased by the county and operated by Trax. The proposed lease agreement is an updated agreement that proposes the property continue to be leased by the county for continued transit use operation, maintenance and future transit related improvements. The lease includes transit facility, the grounds, the buildings which is currently just a restroom, parking areas, landscaping and associated infrastructure.

Under the agreement, the county may make additional improvements that are reasonably necessary to support their transit terminal. Including the improvements could be restrooms, additional parking, sidewalks, landscaping and future site features. The lease term runs for three years. Correct? Three years? Yes. Okay. At a dollar a year for annual. It benefits the city. We're partners with Tama County Transportation Commission.

So, this is a project that benefits both of us. Again, like I said, they already have a lease agreement. This is just an updated lease agreement to accommodate some future funding that they have attained and to meet the grant requirements with that funding. Any questions? I'm here and then Tom Provine's here. The Board of Supervisors also approved this agreement today at their meeting.

Tom, any comments from you?

Council, Tom TOM Provine, Tama County Interim Director of Public Works. I just want to add to it that this project has been in the works for a few years. There's quite a bit of funding that's been set aside by Tama County Transportation Commission, funding that is 100% from the state, not local dollars, that will help improve the facility, hopefully beautify it a little bit with the goal of improving ridership, improving a little bit of the area of downtown, and hopefully driving a little bit more foot traffic to the businesses in the area. So we're excited about it. I think it's good for all agencies involved and good for the public in general.

Thank you.

So as said, was approved by the board this morning. And this agreement is necessary in order to have the funding to proceed with the project because we can't spend money on a site that we don't have control over.

The grant monies will continue as long as the contract exists for the three years?

Right now there's particularly money set aside for the project that will happen for the improvement. But yes, the maintenance of the facility is planned for under with DCTC funds.

Real good. Council questions? Anything? Mark, do you have any questions? No. No. Public comment? Public questions for Tom? Okay. I haven't seen none. Then do I have a motion to approve the intergovernmental agreement between the County of Tehama and the City Of Red Bluff regarding lease of the Rio And Walnut Red Bluff Transfer Center and authorize city manager to execute the agreement and related documents. Do have a motion?

I'll make a motion.

Motion made by Cassie. Second? Excuse me. Discussion? Thank you, counsel. No discussion. Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Second by Pat Hurton. I'm sorry? Anita, please take the role.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Tom, for being here. We'll go on to item number nine, which is City Engineer North Star Agreement extension addendum number seven. Tom Westbrook, please.

Thank you, Mayor Council members. Almost ten years ago, Robin Campman was a contract was entered with North Star, and Robin Campman became the city's public works director and city engineer at that time. North Star has a current agreement with us. Agreement number six is going to run its course and expire on 06/30/2026. I requested another agreement from Mrs.

Campman and she's provided a new three year agreement which would extend us from 07/01/2026 through 06/30/2029. As you know, Robin is a city engineer. She has a license stamp through the state of California. That's something that we have to have as the city of Red Bluff. Currently, how it operates is we we have kind of an agreement that she can work up to thirty two hours per month. Essentially, she does is a lot of her work is remote. Robin really comes to the office two times a month. That is the days that we have City Council meetings. She's sitting here this evening. Generally, comes in the afternoon to catch up with projects with the public works and engineering staff.

And so that's worked pretty well for us. Nothing would really change with this agreement. We would still see her a couple of times a month. If there were occasions that she didn't necessarily need to attend the city council meeting because there wasn't an agenda item, we've tried to implement that and not have her just come to the meeting just because. So it's worked really well. I enjoy working with Robin Campman as an engineer. Her recall and knowledge that she's developed over a ten year period is pretty outstanding. She's easy to work with and I think our staff enjoy it. This addendum, currently we pay $198 an hour for Robin's services. Like I said, we only get charged for what we use from her.

So she streamlines her invoices to us to the maximum amount possible so that we're just paying for the services that we need. This agreement does call for some increases. That increase would go up to $2.00 $8 in $2,028.18 in 2027, and $2.29 in 2028. I will say that those may sound like a lot for engineering services. That's not a lot. Private contractors pay more than that. In fact, the rate that we are getting from Mrs. Campman is about 15% lower than what they built to their other clients, other private clients. Mrs. Campman does support the city of Corning as a city engineer as well.

And so I know when I talk with their city manager, Brandt Messer, he's very happy with the services that are provided to him. So I would recommend that the city council move forward with another three year agreement so that we can retain the services of North Star and specifically Robin Campman. I would be available for any questions that you might have.

Thank you, Tom. Any questions from counsel for Tom? Mark, any questions? No. No? Okay. I'll open it up for public comment questions regarding the agenda item number nine. Okay. No questions. So before us is to authorize the city manager to sign proposed contract addendum seven, which has been attached to our agenda with North Star to continue providing the city of Red Bluff with city engineer services for a three year period with the option of termination by either party given thirty day notice.

Do we have a motion?

I'll make a motion because this is my favorite agenda item of the night right here.

Motion made by Chris Steiders. Any further discussion? Do we have a

second? Second.

Second by Pat Hurtin. Anita, please take the role.

Although I was hoping she'd get up there like Dave Gowan did, but I'm just kidding. Well, maybe we should do before you

know that. Please. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Motion

passes unanimously and I want to say Robin, thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate your work, your effort, and looking out for our community.

I want to say thank you guys. I'm excited to continue working with the team that you guys have put together here. I feel like we're really making some steps in the right direction on a lot of things. We had a regroup meeting today and there's progress being made on 39 different items just in the engineering side right now. So excited to see those through and continue working with you guys.

Well, you've been a big part of that progress. So thank you.

39. Somebody gonna add 40 to that?

We'll we'll get there.

Thank you, Robin. Appreciate that. Thank you, counsel. Committee counsel, comments and for reports, Antelope Water and Sewer Project, JTI.

Yeah. There was a meeting scheduled for March or May 14 rather. It was canceled. The next scheduled meeting is June 11.

Okay. Chamber of Commerce, we've already discussed all the items as Dave was here. And so we'll just go on to city ad hoc committee, county. Chris?

Yes. Supervisor Burroughs, Supervisor Walker, myself met yesterday. We had an interesting discussion about economic development. More to that may be to come. We also spoke briefly about the unsheltered encampment policy that the state is requiring to apply for the additional $800,000,000 that they're going to make available.

I think I mentioned this before that there needs to be an encampment policy which meets state guidelines in order to even apply for the funds. That will be coming to the county shortly. And then I think it will be followed coming to us as well when it's finalized by the subcommittees that are involved in that. We also talked about the animal shelter yesterday and the need for a new one. I know that the county has talked a little bit about making it more like a JPA.

But the discussion was maybe to continue to pursue that. But as you know, the city uses the facilities and it's really actually county run and it is desperately overrun with dogs and cats as well. So that's going to stay on everybody's radar. And I don't know when we're going to meet next. But actually, was a very, very good meeting that we had. Thank you, Chris. Community Action Agency. We're meeting tomorrow at 03:30.

Downtown Red Bluff Business Association?

I have not had a meeting.

No meeting. No meeting.

Thank you. Mark? Executive committee, Tammoth County Solid Waste Management Agency?

No meeting.

Local LAFCO, no meeting. Red Bluff Community Center Commission.

Next meeting is August 20.

Taman County Air Pollution District Review Committee, no meeting. Continuum of Care Executive Council.

We met May 13. I couldn't stay on the meeting the whole time because I was having extraordinarily difficult computer issues. I was kind of in and out. But there was, again, more discussion about the plan being put together to submit for funding from the state. There's going to be some new sheltered point in time count numbers coming out. And then it was a standard discussion of a need for housing. And everybody was excited about the new apartment complexes starting. That was it. Very good.

The American Solid Waste Management Agency?

I think their next meeting is June 1.

June 1. We

met yesterday. We approved the fiscal year twenty twenty six-twenty twenty seven budget. We adopted the twenty twenty six-twenty twenty seven overall work program. We approved a 5% administration allocation. We approved an administrative amendment to the Bowman Road bike and pedestrian project description. And we increased the baseline allocation to the city of Tajima from $25,000 to $50,000

Thank you, sir.

Is that too fast? Was that too fast, Cassidy? Got it all?

All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you, counsel. Additional counsel comments and other meetings attended. Anyone?

Mark?

No. No?

I had something I wanted Oh,

I looked over there. Sorry.

We're coming up on Memorial Day. And for a lot of us, it's more than a three day weekend. I want to thank everyone who has served this country for doing so. I spent time in the ad hoc committee meeting yesterday with Supervisor Burroughs, who is an amazing man. He served in Iraq and other places, by the way, the US Navy.

He was actually Navy Seabee. For those of you that don't know, he and I ran against each other in 2024 for a supervisor seat that he holds now. He and I are a good example of you don't have to hate each other when you're opponents. He won. I'm glad he did.

He's become a friend of mine. He's a good man. And he has had experiences in his life that none of us can imagine when he served. So I wanted to publicly acknowledge him as well and thank him for his service. Mr. Burt, thank you for your service. And anybody listening, thank you for taking care of this country. And Happy Memorial Day to everybody.

Thank you, Chris. Well said. Appreciate that. Okay. We'll go on to future agenda items by discussion of counsel.

Counsel, anything? I don't know how can put this, but somebody came up here in James Street as become an issue. Again, don't know how maybe Tom, you and I can discuss what we can do there. Yeah, instead of having an agenda item, just discuss it, okay?

Sure.

Okay. We'll do that. Anything else by counsel? All right. Tonight, we do have a closed session. So I would ask our city attorney to please bring that up, please.

We're kind. Tonight, have a single item for closed session. It is a labor negotiations. We are discussing the police officers unit represented by Teamsters Local one thirty seven, the Red Bluff Firefighters Association represented by UPEC Local seven ninety two, Red Bluff Fire Mid Management Association who is self represented, Red Bluff Police Mid Management Association who is also self represented. And then we're also going to discuss the unrecognized employee group agreements and the unrepresented management, mid management agreement.

The representatives tonight, I believe, are just going to be myself, Tom Westbrook, and Scott Garrison as both Paul Young and Liana Pearson are not available this evening.

Thank you, counsel. Haven't heard that I will open up for citizens comment regarding the closed session items. Haven't seen none. I will close citizens' comment on the item before us. And I will go into closed session at 06:54.

Recording stopped. Alright. We'll bring everybody to you.

Thank you, Scott. Thanks, Scott.

Recording in progress.

Open session back at 07:31. Council, please give us a readout.

Thank you, mister mayor. Council reporting out of closed session. Information was received and direction was given to staff. No reportable action was taken.

Thank you, council. Any other questions from council? Alright. I will close our meeting at 07:32.