City Council - Regular Meeting

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. All righty.

Thank you so much. City recorder, please call roll. Here. Present.

Council President Steinhiebel. Here. Councilor Conte.

Here.

Councillor Angelford? Councillor Salvage? Councillor McLean? Here. Councillor Workman?

All righty, thank you. Move on to consent calendar. Following items are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion or will be not separate discussions on these items unless the councilor so requests. In that case, the item will be removed from the consent calendar and considered separately. First one is agenda, Lebanon City Council agenda, July 8th, 2026. Appointments, Senior Disabled Services Advisory Committee, Marlon Flyer, Linda Emeritus, Cody Sheets WAC reappointments, Avery Shields appointment. Three, the board meetings for Parks, Trees, Trails Advisory Committee, January 21st, 2026. Planning Commission, March 18th and April 15th, 2026. And council meeting for June 10th, 2026, work session, regular meeting. minutes and June 24, 2026, special meeting minutes. Is there a motion?

Move to approve. Second.

Motion has been made to approve the consent calendar. It's been seconded. All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed? Motion passes. Move on to present, God, I cannot speak today. You get these moments where it just, your tongue just does not wanna work. So, you know, there's people up here that might have this trouble too, so. Presentation, we're gonna be with the COG Executive Director. Ryan, please. Make sure the, yeah, green's on, thank you.

Well, good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you so much for having me back. I'm Ryan Vogt. I'm the Executive Director for the Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments, and I'm also the Executive Director for the Community Services Consortium. This is a new transition that's happened over the last year as the two boards have continued to encourage the two organizations to seamlessly work together to serve primarily low-income seniors together, but we certainly have a social services footprint that's bigger than just that. I've brought with me today Kayla, who's the agency director for Community Services Consortium, and we'll just kind of divide time a little bit, so I'll keep mine to a half hour or so, and then I'll give Kayla another. Sorry.

Ryan, can you hold up for just a second? How do you turn these screens on?

There's no screen activity going on. That one on the end does, and up there does.

The screens are on, but we're not seeing the presentation on the screens.

So the packet that we provided to the council was not necessarily needed to be queued up as a presentation, but we can do it that way if that works best for everyone.

I'm good.

Yeah, you don't have to go through it. Just put it up on the screen and kind of pop it.

Well, usually it'll show who's talking too, and mine's not even nothing. Yours is black. Black, yeah, a lot of them are. It's that thing, the on button. Okay, now we got it. Thank you.

Always ask the tech guy. Please continue. Thank you, not a problem. So I am thankful to be here.

One of those nights, I tell you.

As long as the left side of your body still feels OK. Thank you for doing all right. I'm thankful to be back in front of Council here in Lebanon. Thank you so much for having us. In your packet is the Cascades West Council of Government Annual Report. You may also have the Impact Report for Community Services Consortium. And then we have a little bit of a distillation where you have a one pager that talks a little bit specifically about Cascade West Council of Government's footprint in Lebanon. This is a commitment I made a number of years ago to try and help you all understand that, yes, we have a regional impact, but what does that really mean for the city of Lebanon in terms of our outreach and how it is that we're here? I was joking about being up here for a half an hour unless you all really would like us to be here that long, but the material that I provided for you is really something that I hope that you'll spend a couple of minutes going through in your own time to re-familiarize yourself with really the magnitude of services that we deliver across the region and here in Lebanon and get a flavor for the types of lives and some of the people that you know who we touch and assist on a daily basis trying to make things better for them as they navigate some difficult situations so i don't intend to necessarily go through that material but we're happy to answer questions i'd like you to read it off okay back to page one i'll read very slow too sir everybody can hear um So I do, however, have a handful of things from the Cascades West side that I'd like to highlight. Since this is an annual report and we are now in July, some of this is a little bit stale, and there's a couple things I'd like to call out. And then I'll hand it over to Kayla to talk a little bit about Community Services Consortium, and then we'll take questions if you have them, or we will let you get as quickly to dinner as you possibly can. One thing that I would love to point out is we have a person that you, some of you hopefully know, Tori Hartman. who has been here in the community. And she has been the site manager for the Meals on Wheels here in Lebanon for 24 years. And she is experiencing her retirement this month after serving thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of meals to people That we are really happy with the congregate meal site here in Lebanon. She's able to keep it open five days a week serving people seniors who need a meal and She's got a bubbly personality and is really fantastic And so if you know her or if you see her I would love for you to Pat her on the back and thank her for the service that she's done for Lebanon and all these years Also One of the things that you'll note in there is our ride line non-emergency medical transportation program. And this is a program that we run where people who are on Medicaid primarily, who don't have access transportation to get to and from the doctor, they're able to call us up and we arrange for a ride to come and pick them up. And this year, so far, just in the first six months, we have provided 12,552 rides to residents in Lebanon. So that gives you kind of an order of magnitude of how many people in Lebanon are needing to get to the doctor and don't have an alternative way to get there. And then on top of that, we've done free Medicare counseling for people who are trying to navigate the complexities and the changes to Medicare rules right now in a way that's non-predatory where people get the phone calls saying, please, you need to sign up for Medicare Part C and I'm gonna help you do that. But we have free counseling where people can call up and understand better what the different types of Medicare do for them. um and we counseled 111 individual 11 residents last year related to that so i have a handful of other things but in the interest of time i'm going to go ahead and kick it over to kayla and then if you all have questions we'll see what we can do for you

Okay, so for those of you that aren't familiar with CSC, Community Services Consortium, we're a community action agency and the intention of our programs are really to kind of help bridge individuals to self-sufficiency. So we have utility assistance supports, housing assistance supports, workforce development programs to help individuals who maybe want to access scholarships to increase their education or to get on the job experience to kind of get to that next level of a job for something that's more of a living wage. And we also have our Lynn Benton Food Share Food Bank. And so one of the most notable bodies of work that you'll probably see or feel within the city of Lebanon is the footprint that we have in meal sites. and food pantries, and food delivery. So I just want to highlight a couple of statistics that we have seen. So through the Lebanon Soup Kitchen, in 2024 and 2025 fiscal year, we had 28,000 meals served. And for this most recent fiscal year, we had 36,000 meals served. So quite a large increase in access to those services. And we really saw that increase pretty significant, pretty significantly throughout our food pantries in general for Linn-Benton food share. Um, our total, uh, pounds of food between emergency food boxes that we provide to those who are senior and physically disabled, our meal sites, uh, gleaning groups, and then the non-emergency supplemental boxes was 554,000 pounds of food. Um, so pretty significant footprint that we have within, in the region. We also have a contract with Pitchfork and Crow to utilize their produce that they grow and have intentional production with them. So it's giving back or investing in the community and allowing for that fresh produce to be accessible to individuals who may not normally have access to it. So we're really grateful for that connection that we have with them. And then additionally, just one highlight for a story that we received was As I mentioned at the beginning, the intention of a lot of our programs is to kind of be a stop gap to either prevent something from happening or to kind of get you back on your feet. And we had an individual who was living in Lebanon and he had been out of the workforce for an extended period of time and recently was kind of by way of vocational rehab and some other supports able to get access to a new job. And then unfortunately he suffered a non-work related injury that resulted in him having to postpone his employment for a short period of time. We were able to support him with utility assistance payments to bridge that gap that he needed to be out to make sure that he didn't lose power and to kind of give him that opportunity to get back into his job and not sustain a significant loss. So we were quite happy with that success story as well.

You're up if you want.

I think we'll put it all to you.

All righty. Thank you.

Is there any questions?

I just want to clarify a number you gave there. Is it the soup kitchen? Was it 24,000 meals served total of two years and then 36,000 this year? Or was it 24,000 consistently for two years and it's jumped to 36? It's jumped to 36. So from June of 25 to June of 26, we've served 36,398 meals. And the two years total to that, it was 24,000 or was it 24,000 a year, those two? Because you said two years. Yeah.

So from June of 24 to June of 25, that fiscal year, it was 28,000 meals. I got you. Thank you.

Any other questions, comments?

Well, one thing we use the COG for a lot is grant writing. They're writing the CDBG grant for the library right now. We were successful with our Safe Streets for All. We've got another joint application that we just found out wasn't successful today with Linn County that Susan's helped us write. So we appreciate all that work that goes on there. We have a good collaboration with Susan. So just wanna throw that out there that we appreciate working with her.

What's the biggest challenge you have going forward? What's the biggest challenge we have going forward? I mean, no, there's many of them. What's the one that scares you the most?

The one that scares me the most right now is what rules may or may not be implemented by the Office of Management and Budget on October 1st, because those open the door for all federal funding streams to be kind of summarily changed in the way that they get administered. um but i think other than that the food insecurity is going up poverty continues to rise and the wealth gap continues to broaden and most of the social services that we provide across the two organizations are targeted at lower income oregonians and so You take those kind of societal factors that are driving some of that. You look at the impending Medicaid cuts that are coming. You look at people falling off of the SNAP rolls right now because of the redetermination stuff. And I think it's going to take us a little while to develop a rhythm, both as a service provider around how to close the gap for people who fall between the cracks, and also for the community that's falling between the cracks to figure out how to re-navigate different systems in order to stay as level as they possibly can. Thank you. Yeah, thanks, Councilman.

I do also want to add one other thing. CSC provides us a significant amount of assistance related to income verification for the purpose of our utility discount. So that's a huge service that they provide for us. I know sometimes it gets to be a lot, but we really appreciate that they put that effort in for us and our customers, I know, appreciate it as well. So thank you.

Thank you, Director. We're not as good at bragging as we should.

Any other questions or comments?

Just real briefly, I have just enough knowledge to be dangerous about this, but can you explain some of the potential impacts of those impending Medicare cuts? Like to our community in specific or to our County. How about that specifically?

Thank you for the question, counselor. And I just got across my desk earlier today, the recommendations that have come out of the, the governor's targeted Medicaid council on that. So I feel ill equipped to give you detailed information on that, but I am more than happy to follow up with you.

Okay. Yes. I would, I would appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah.

Alrighty. Well, thank you so much.

Thank you, Mayor.

And I appreciate you two coming in and giving us the information. So thank you.

I'm happy to come.

Move on to public comments. I don't have any cards, but I'll go ahead just in case someone's online. Citizens may address the council by filling out a testimony card prior to speaking handed to city recorder. Each citizen is provided up to five minutes to provide comment to the council. The council might take additional two minutes to ask clarifying questions. City recorder will accept and distribute written comments at the speaker's request. And we don't have any public comment tonight unless there's someone sneaking around besides Trey online. Nope. Okay. We'll move on to our public hearings. Public hearing for the exempt from competitive bidding. The public hearing is now open at 6.16. I don't know why my brain is not working tonight for some reason. Will the city manager please prevent staff report?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, City Council. So what we have before you tonight is a request to exempt from competitive bidding and authorize us to utilize the construction manager general contractor form of project delivery for the wastewater treatment plant project. This project modernizes the city's biosolids. It also includes a new operations control building. Major components also include an electrical building. So we'll put all of our electrical in one spot instead of multiple spots. It involves highly specialized biosolids treatment equipment. This requires significant technical expertise. Construction must occur while maintaining continuous operation. That's probably one of the biggest aspects of this is maintaining existing operation. We don't have a lot of redundancy out there, so it's going to be tricky. So what the CMGC delivery method allows us to do is involve a contractor early, which is key to getting a good project off the ground. It reduces our risks. We get real-time pricing. We also get some value engineering out of it from the contractor. And it makes for a smoother project, one that's very technical and one that's this large. We intend to issue a request for proposals to qualified contractors so they can submit a proposal on the contract or on the project. They will be selected based on qualifications, you know, like technical experience, their approach to the project, And our evaluation is not solely based on low bid price, although that is a component of the evaluation is price. You don't get an overall guaranteed maximum price until we get to that point. So the first phase of this is pre-construction phase services, which is basically a lump sum value that they'll provide. And then they provide the markups, percentage markups for each of the different categories, whether it be self-performed subcontractors materials and labor and such. So pursuant to ORS 279C335, city council is acting as a local contract review board and they must approve the findings to support us to do the exemption from competitive bidding. Staff obviously recommends this for approval. We've talked with the city attorney. In fact, he's written a letter for our CWSRF grant that the findings and concurs that they satisfy the statutory requirements. More than happy to go through any of the findings with you and move any questions you may have, but what's on the table is a recommend to approve this for exemption from competitive bidding. So with that, I can answer any questions.

Just a comment.

Okay. Make sure we turn on mics.

Just a comment, I'm in favor of it.

Any other questions from council? Is there anybody that would like to speak regarding this matter? Public hearing is hereby closed at 6.20. All further discussions will be limited to council and staff at this time. Is there any other discussion to be had?

It's kind of like just a giant version of why we did the ERP thing we did, just too technical to get that many people involved.

Actually, this is a little bit different than that. That was a request for proposals, yes, same thing. This, any time you're doing a public works job, you've got to go through all of the findings that are attached in the report. and list out, you know, we can meet all these criteria in there. What this does is gets a contractor on board once we've gone through the scoring process and it's a pretty elaborate process and the RFP will, you know, they'll have to submit a proposal, we'll score it and you come up with a contractor at the end that, you know, gets the highest scoring. And then from there, what happens is we sign a contract with them only for the pre-construction phase services with the intent of getting to a guaranteed maximum price. So, We work through that process. We negotiate, hey, we think this is too high. You work that all out through design. They're on board with design. And then when we get to the end, we get to see the real pricing, the actual cost of the project. with their markups, and then from there the GMP is developed. And if it's within the funds that we have available and it seems reasonable, then we would recommend an approval on that.

The problem is it's impossible to do it where you just bring three people in and get bids.

yeah to in depth with you yeah and who knows how many bids we'll get we'll we'll send it out uh just like we would do a normal design bid build but you'll only have certain percent you've got to be able to have the bonding capacity and and all the different things associated with that in order to to submit a bid or a proposal and then from there it gets scored

I wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable just giving it the cheapest bid anyway. As big of a project as this is, we wouldn't want some of the low balls.

We use the CMGC on the water plant, Westside Interceptor, anytime where you've got a lot of unknowns. What's really nice about those unknowns is you can put them into allowances in the way the CMGC is set up. For instance, on the Westside Interceptor project, we had no idea what kind of groundwater conditions we were going to hit over five miles of They put a $2 million price tag to dewatering. At the end of the day, we had very little dewatering that happened. And so the city saw savings there basically of about $1.8 million. Had we done that design-bid-build, they're not going to take that risk. We would have paid that $2 million out. So those are the kinds of things that you look for when you're doing a project like this.

Okay, thanks.

Any other questions? All righty, is there a motion to exempt the competitive bidding for this project?

I so move. Motion to exempt. Do you need a second? I'll be either one. I don't care.

Okay, so you made the motion because you actually worded it. Okay, you're seconding it? Certainly. Okay. A motion has been made to exempt for the competitive bidding for this project. It's been seconded. All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed? Motion passes. Okay, we'll move on to the next public hearing. Resolution number 2026-16. Public hearing is now open at 624. And I know Trey's online, so will the city attorney present the staff report? Yes, Mayor and Council, thank you. And sorry I couldn't join you in person.

So tonight's resolution is basically the final act in getting it on the ballot, the tax levy or law levy. created and presented a staff report that addresses most of the issues and kind of goes through the history. Certainly would like to give great kudos to Julie for putting that together. When she asked me if I wanted help writing the memorandum from the city attorney's office, I certainly jumped at the chance. But at this point, it's presenting not only the approval to put it on the ballot, but also adopting the language for the ballot title, the explanatory statement, and other requirements of state law. If anybody has any questions, I'm sure Julie or I would be happy to answer them. Some of the procedural questions would be more Julie's area, and any of the other questions about language or why we chose certain language and that kind of stuff would be directed to me. With that, if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer.

Surprise, I got a question. In Section 2 of it, it says question, and then it spells it out, and it says this measure may cause property taxes to increase more than 3%. Is that a canned thing that just has to be put in there? Because we know the net of it won't.

The statute requires that language specifically, and it doesn't count towards the word limit.

I got you. I figured. I just wanted to ask.

Any other questions of staff?

I just want to say thank you again. I know a ton of work went into this as well as the several meetings and I appreciate the recap in it in the in the packet that it took for us to get here. So I'm looking forward to getting this past.

Can I add one thing?

Yes, please.

Oh, if Council approves this resolution tonight, then the ballot title will be published and then tomorrow it starts the statutory challenge parade, which is 10 days.

And business days, right?

10 business days.

So to clarify, after those 10 business days, will we have like a ballot measure, like a number for it?

After those 10 business days, if there's no challenge, then we will go over and file it with the county and then they will issue that measure number.

Oh, okay. So you hold on to it for those 10 days waiting for, okay. I understand the process now. Thank you.

Any other questions? Is there anyone that would like to speak regarding this matter? Public hearing is hereby closed at 627. All further discussions will be limited to council and staff at this time. If there's no more discussion, okay. City attorney, will you please read the title of the resolution?

Thank you, Barry. Resolution number 2026-16, a resolution referring to the voters, a five-year local option tax Property tax levy for municipal jail operations, adopting a ballot title and explanatory statement and directing the city elections officer to take all actions related there too.

Alrighty, is there a motion regarding this resolution?

Don't say it wrong. Yes, I I moved to move forward to put this on the ballot, please. I'll second that.

Motion's been made to refer this and put it on the ballot. It's been seconded. All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed? No, no.

I'm an aye.

Motion passes.

And just to be perfectly clear for the record, I know that the way the motion was phrased, I understand the purpose. But I would also assume if you guys could all agree that that was to approve Resolution 2026-16 in its entirety.

Correct. That's what I meant.

Okay. Thank you, Trey. Yep. You know, next time, stop us. We'll just take care of it at that moment.

After all the unanimous votes we've had on it, I would be surprised if we didn't have one tonight.

All righty.

Could we have read into the record the ballot title? Nobody has said it out loud.

The city attorney did read it. It is in the title of the resolution.

I think what he's asking for is, are you asking about the... the actual caption of it or the title of it? Right, the caption is going to be five-year local option levy for jail operations.

Okay, thank you.

Yep. All righty, any other comments? Okay, move on to regular session, council stipend reinstatement. City manager.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, City Council. What we have before you here tonight is basically a discussion amongst yourselves, but I'll give you a little bit of background on the stipend. So historically, the city's provided a stipend to city councilors and the mayor. The last, in 2024-25 budget committee process, council voluntarily discontinued all city council stipends. That dollar value was two hundred twenty five dollars a month per counselor and a thousand dollars per month for the mayor. There was no date for reinstatement at that time. Excuse me. But during the fiscal year twenty five twenty six budget committee process consensus was reached and to reinstate the mayor stipend at five hundred dollars per month to help offset expenses associated with serving as a mayor budget committee agreed to that reinstatement of the council members stipends would be revisited during the fy 2627 process The budget for fiscal year 26-27 includes the appropriations for stipends. However, if council wishes to reinstate the stipends, council must establish the monthly stipend and effective date and the implementation through motion. Because the item concerns compensation received by council members, each council counselor should declare an actual conflict of interest. This is pursuant to ORS 244.120. Suggested conflict of statement, I believe, is in the report, but it's basically I am declaring an actual conflict of interest because this agenda item concerns city council stipends and I receive compensation as a member of the city council. Staff is presenting the item for council discussion. We have no recommendation. If you do move forward, you should take action through via motion to reinstate or not reinstate the stipends.

From there. Do we have to read the declaration before we start talking about it?

Julie?

Okay. I'll start if we have to do it.

I think we could do it as one. Yes.

Didn't we already then?

We are declaring?

Yeah. We are declaring an actual conflict of interest because this agenda item concerns city council stipends and we receive compensation as members of city council. I'm making this announcement pursuant to ORS 244.120 and Oregon government ethics law. Okay.

I think for the record, each individual counselor should concur in that statement and adopt it.

I concur that statement and adopt it. I concur and adopt it.

I begrudgingly concur and adopt it.

Am I required to say it too there, Trey? Yes.

I think so. If you're going to talk about it.

What was the phrasing again? I concur and adopt. I concur and adopt. Is there questions of staff?

Again, I want to just highlight that staff report again that I kind of did this in the last one, but I do appreciate the work in there about the history and the reminder that when this was done, it was done at the same time that we asked our department heads to also forego a Cost of living increased too at that time. So it really, again, felt very appropriate at the time. I still feel like it is appropriate to continue to not take. However, I fully understand and know that I'm in the minority in this one and will support council's decision in this.

Am I right with my iPhone math that that equals $2,350 a month? $28,200. Is that the same amount? That's what it was as quoted before with my super duper math skills on my phone.

Brandon, do you remember how much we budgeted altogether?

It's 28 to a year.

I think we budgeted 32 ish. I'd have to pull that up, but we we've budgeted enough to cover the six stipends as well as the mayor's stipend.

Okay.

I just got that man, I said I'm I just did quick math that's $2,350 a month or $28,200 a year that sounds close right.

I know for at least the 6 Council members at $225 a month. You are looking at 16,200 for the year.

Does the $30,000 include the PERS liability for the two public employees? Or no, sorry, former. One public employee. That is separate.

We do have that budgeted separately. I'm trying to pull up our budget document now to give you a precise number for that overall budget.

Oh, no, two. They'll still be in PERS, huh?

Okay. So for the personnel total budget for 2027, it's $37,868. That includes the stipends of 28,200 related state, federal, state and federal taxes, and then a PERS contribution for those that we are required to pay on that of about seven, just under $7,500. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm glad my iPhone mouth wasn't too far out there. I wasn't in numbers.

Can you refresh my memory if this is general fund money?

It's in the internal service fund. So all of the various funding, all the funding comes from various pools around the city, including utilities, general fund, building fees.

Can you give me something, so like technology or IT would be kind of the same thing, like internal services?

Yeah, so it's part of the group that also handles the other admin internal services, so city manager's office, finance, HR, it's all lumped in with that fund.

Okay, thank you.

Any other questions?

I do wanna clarify just for record purposes that back in the day, this used to be a monthly stipend. We pay on a biweekly basis now. So if this is reenacted, you would all receive it every two weeks. Sorry.

Well, I think our task here is, and I respect, we've respectfully talked about this. I think the decision may be made what we're gonna do, but how the math works. Is that something we have to figure out? I mean, I don't know why the math was put the way it was before, if that's what's fair, but. What piece are you looking for? 225 for councilor, $1,000 for the mayor. I don't know if that's, if we have, because it looked like by the notes here that we're supposed to decide how that's budgeted, how that's switched up. Would we just do the same way?

Yeah, you would do the same. I mean, you've heard what's budgeted this year, but it's up to you guys to kind of come up with and set those dollar values.

No, that's what I was saying. That's all that's clarifying.

Okay, with all that, is there a detailed motion?

I'll make a motion to reinstate the stipend at the previously paid amounts beginning effective immediately. And for an additional note, my stipend to be paid directly to the Boys and Girls Club instead of in a paycheck.

With that in motion?

Can't do that. Yeah, we...

I don't have a mechanism to do that.

Yeah, so that would be something that you would have to do separately.

Yeah.

Do you want to restate your motion?

I'll restate the motion. I'd make a motion to reinstate the stipend for the previously paid amount effective immediately. Second.

Motion was made to reinstate the stipends at the previous amounts immediately. It's been seconded. All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed?

Nay.

Motion passes. Items from council. Is there any items from council?

The worst kept secret in the world is I will not be seeking re-election as the incumbent for this council seat and will instead be trying to fill the shoes that are way too big of Ken as and run for mayor. I think we've got really good momentum in this body. I appreciate working with you guys and I hope I can continue to.

Well, congratulations on your decision.

Thank you.

You know, I have a friend that's running for mayor of Astoria and he asked me advice and I'll give you the same advice and I'll put it on the record. Have very thick skin. And if you don't know what that means, well, ask somebody, they'll explain it to you. Is there any other items from council? Alrighty. um there was nothing on department reports did you have anything if you want me to well no i mean there's actually just zero look at hey oh you just skipped over me that's okay

can do that um i've got just just two things um august agenda i guess i was just excited to get to this i know i mean it's way more exciting than anything i've got right uh august agenda we're going to do a strategic plan update it'll be brief um kind of give you an idea where we're at on some of our priorities uh where we're moving to uh you will also get um the league of Oregon cities priorities. Uh, we'll, we'll submit that to you guys. Uh, we have to vote on that or what we're going to send out, uh, email, uh, ballot for you. And then in September we'll compile all that data and pick our five top priorities for that. Um, Only other thing is we're submitting our clean water revolving loan fund here real soon for the wastewater plant. And we'll keep you posted on how that goes. I don't foresee any issues with that. So other than that, if there's any questions about the manager's report, feel free to ask.

This is the kind of department that Frank's here. Last time I was here, we talked about, are you aware of, demon on a little scooter in Columbus, Christopher Columbus Park. Nobody's ever said anything, it's only a buzz thing?

I'll just chalk it up as a buzz thing. I looked into it and I found one call on that and we went out and addressed it with the parents.

Okay. I can with a clean conscience that I ask now.

Alrighty, I'll ask again for items of council since we're out of order a little bit. Is there any other items from council? No? Okay. Public press comments, would anybody from the public or press like to address council? Nobody online? Okay. Next scheduled council meeting will be August 12th,