City Council - Regular Meeting

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Do a roll call, please. Council member Clerk, here. Council member Collings here. Council member Stackle, waiting on the train. Council member Gladman here. Mayor Redmond here. All right, seeing no special presentation or announcements, we'll move on to public comment. If anybody has anything they want to talk about that's not on the agenda, come on up.

Area half of the Yah movement. Um, just want to say uh we had our community dinner last Saturday and I want to give a special thanks to Casey. he did show up and he spent a long time talking and engaging with all the the citizens that came and showed up and um I I feel like it was great. I feel like you you actually got a lot of insight what the people want, which is awesome. And that's partly what we're doing it for. And people learned a lot. And we had a tiny house right there on site. So, everyone got to go in and tour it and see, you know, try it out. Would this work for me? Would this work for my mom? Whoever. So, I feel like it was a really good opportunity and uh we look forward to continuing to do those in the future. Yeah. Thanks.

Aloha. AA the other half of that one. And uh yeah, same special thank you to Jeffrey last month. Came over, helped the people. Special thank you. Casey came over Saturday. We did do a tour on a tiny house on wheel. We had to move locations because of truck problems to pull the tiny house to slow connection. So we moved it and it was at uh where's that rad camp? Where's it at? Nazarene, the Nazarene church. So, we had a tiny house on wheels and then we had that new remodel that we helped paint and the school is now over there and we had a great commercial kitchen and a good gathering about a dozen people, about six kids, a kitten. It was really good. I don't know how many questions whatever it was, but it was like 30 or 50 questions. It was a lot of questions. We It was the people were really active and very appreciative and so yeah, just super special. Thank you. Um, a lot of big ripples going on. I think it was last week or week before I went to city council of weed and uh, it was the same week, the week before we had Roseberg going on. And so I know we have a lot of families here in Mount Chassa that also get the ripple effect. Ericson's logging all my buddies everywhere. And so, you know, as one thing ripples off, it'll hit our city. It'll hit the whole county. I know we got big plans, changes going on. So very extremely grateful for the affordable housing movement, income base qualified with the town homes, workerbased qualified with the um intent to purchase with powers and the alternative housing movement and push that we are doing together. I really think we're flag shipping the whole county to be honest. I've pretty much seen everything of everyone and every group in the whole county for six months and I'm going to throw a small flag on Mount Shass and say we're very active. We're doing the

very best that we can all together. Special thank you to police chief and fire chief and police chief for the ongoing overtime, the ongoing stresses of volunteers and uh staffing. Um special thank you to all the grant writing staff that we do have that keeps our whole town alive. And a super special thank you to the planning uh commissions and our council that is very active. Tonight's an exciting night. We're making history together. And uh we're very grateful, very thankful. Aloha.

Guys, but with the change of venue, I couldn't be that far away from work. I know. I was looking forward to tacos. It's my favorite food group. Anybody else? Any other comments? Shut down public comment. Bring it back to council and staff. Todd, if you want to kick that off.

Sure. Okay, everybody's favorite committee um has now had their last meeting. the library expansion committee ad hoc um we uh got final approval on the 100% design drawings um from that group and we've I had an RFP written uh was determined that we should be putting out a request for qualifications that's written now one of the things we're running into um in talking to Ken and putting the word out there is um when we put this RFP out, what are we asking for? Are we looking for a GC or are we looking for a construction management firm? Um and you know, I've always viewed it as something that is a hybrid that includes both. Um sorry, I'll I know this a lot of detail detail and I'll land the plane, but um uh did some digging. Apparently, there's something, you know, a the kind of firm known as integrated project um uh delivery and they tend to be in larger cities, the Bay Area and um Sacramento, but uh Ken's got dealers out there to see if there's anybody more local that does that kind of work and then we get that information and then we'll publish that RFP. And what that will do for us is um get numbers on what our respondents say it's going to cost to take these 100% design drawings and um phase it um uh fa essentially phased work where we're doing the interior acoustic tiles and HVAC um and the front of the structure and

phase two where we're um extending the structure in creating a conference room. So that way we know what we're in for for a total cost and whether uh the money the library tax advisory f folks uh have collected is enough for us to chase the loan to pay for the whole thing or whether we need to do fundraising or just phase the work. Um and we do the second phase and we have the money. Um so that's that. uh the work with the landing and powers group um is continuing. They have been uh talking to a group called the rural uh community housing development corporation. They do like Denko's work uh um and they're saying that the sweet sweet spot uh to get these things to pencil right now is about 40 units and um They're working with uh John and Brian Powers to come up with a proposal. In the meantime, uh they're searching out uh where sources of PLHA grants and lowinterest loans and other potential funding opportunities uh that we can tap into are. And uh I made a call to Maline Bryant over at the county uh to see if she's got some insight on it. And um I also suggested that John and Brian today, as much as we've had some issues with Denko, they're they're experts at actually chasing down the funding themselves. Um you know, they've in some cases they've cut corners and there's been some friction. Um but they always deliver a good pro uh product.

But reached out to them, see if uh you know who's going to um and you know see who will get us off the block more quickly if we choose Danko with some uh guarantees that they're going to meet their deadlines and not expect us to bend the rules for them. Um so we have that um uh that that is the work that they're doing now. um they're thinking about what happens on the west side. We talked a little bit about what we do to bring in workforce housing and the kind of concerns uh that may create more living wage jobs and again um Bob Kendrick up in Central Point. Uh um they've been in contact. They he needs John Power needs to pick up that threat again and talk about him being down here and um you know when the time comes they know about Laurel Harkness and her work and we'll put those two together and they've all been informed about what each party does and um we'll uh we'll make this work. There's a lot of moving parts. And then finally, uh, you all may remember a gentleman named, um, Eugene Sway, who is, um, you know, how do I phrase this? Um, let's just say he's on the avantgard edge of development. Um, but I find I've gotten to know him over a number of years. Uh he's an internationally known architect. Um

you know he has been planning and he's had limited success getting his project off the ground here in the past. He's gone back to the drawing board. Basically what he does is um if you know if we get this approved it's going to be something that um is something Mount Chass has never seen. Essentially what he does is biomimicry. Um he uh his plan is to construct a pretty large um like uh community center, convention center uh centered around um ecology and sustainability with the entire building being off the grid. In other words, uh they used solar, they used wind power, they recycle gray water, you know, like uh sink water and um you know, from urinal, uh toilets and um uh you know, and solid waste and use it to to make sure that the building is off the grid and creates all its own electricity. Um the structure proposed is buried uh 40 feet underground uh and extend uh you know above ground and built into the the surrounding grade to kind of cut down on the profile of the structure and it has some really interesting designs. It's going to be pretty far out. Um they're in SQUA right now and um their SQUA guru is um our um and he knows what he's talking about

is our favorite um environmental litigant. Um so it's going to be interesting. Uh the stuff the guy does is is pretty amazing, but I don't know how the planning commission is going to react to it given that it's so far out of the realm of a traditional development. The the design packet normally for a project is about this thick. I'm uh imagining that his packet of architectural drawings is going to be extremely thick. It's going to be a lot of work. Anyway, that's what I've got. Thank you, mayor and council. Just a quick update. So, we did have a incident uh within the vicinity of Mount Chasta where a uh deputy came across the car up on Ed Circle, thought it was suspicious, went to contact them. Um found out that they were uh committing a burglary, residential burglary in the area. Pursuit ensued. Um, while the car was fling from the off or from the deputy, uh, the driver of the vehicle fired several rounds from a 20 gauge shotgun, striking the patrol vehicle, chasing down Mloud a Old Mloud Avenue and then out of Mount Chasta 89 and over to Mloud uh, where the uh, vehicle crashed out. Our officers got up and assisted in the uh, the pursuit and subsequent uh, perimeter. Our K9 was called out for assistance. Sergeant Moore uh went over and um assisted um with the search for the uh the two suspects in the vehicle. Um later that day uh he was relieved by Sergeant Pretty who uh assisted the sheriff's department and was uh one of the officers that observed the subject go into a house and other perimeters take put on and after about four and a half hours the subject was taken into custody without without further incidents or

shots fired. They ended up catching the uh catching the uh the female subject the next day in the same house. Um so just to get that out there um our involvement was very peripheral. Um there was no other one time he was driving down the road really fast leaving town. There was no immediate threat to uh any of schools or any of that in town and it left very rapidly. And then the second thing is uh we're in the hiring process. We're going to be down two officers as of the 20th. Um, so this weekend was the uh graduation ceremony at the COS for the 15th Police Academy. So myself and uh officer St. Claire, we went there and personally recruited all those that hadn't been uh hired. So we're hoping to get a couple applications because it would be nice to just have them ready made walking in. You know, it's hard to follow up after talking about a 40 foot hole at a police chase. And we do have a couple of vacancies. I'm If there is a silver lining to the Roseberg uh fiasco, we may get some good applicants for a couple of our public works vacancies. is over.

Thank you, Mor Council. Uh, some sad news from a longtime resident that lived here, started with the fire department and went through the paramedic program locally. Uh, him and his wife were killed in a car accident over off of Highway 50. He's a battalion chief for Truckucky Metals Fire Protection District. I just wanted to bring up that he originally started with the fire department here uh as an explorer and became one of the captains here before he transitioned his life to Reno area where he became this statue there. So, uh we're also in the process of trying to fulfill that fire engineer position. Um so, we'll see how that goes. Were you any status on the kids in that crash?

I heard one of the kids was released from the hospital. The other kid was still in fairly bad shape in Reno. Um he's doing better, but has an uphill battle with some of the injuries sustained.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh kind of continue the theme. Um, I do need to u give you notice that we're having another separation in our uh department. Jodie Pulk will be retiring after 20 years of or so of service. So, um we will have vac we have some vacancy as well. Um her last day will be mid January and we're recruiting for the open accounting assistant position right now. We have some interviews this week. So, um, just wanted to update on that. And I got to go to a League of California Cities, um, finance institute training last week and it was very good. I met um, some great people and I also connected with Jill from Weed, which was nice that they're going through very similar processes that we are with Springbrook. So, it was a good training and have some things to think about and move hopefully move forward this coming year. Counselors, any comments? All right, we'll move on to outside meetings. If there's anything to report, Todd or committee updates, I should say. Um, I tell I didn't sit on that. So, it's it's one individual. Okay. So one individual from the beautifification committee resigned. So therefore we don't have a quorum right now. So we need to go out and uh and see what we can do to um you know fill that lot. There has been I think um we talked about uh some consideration of combining beautifification and DACK and I I think that may they there's a lot of overlap but I think that um if we can keep them separate I think it would make more sense but let's see who we get.

And just a reminder to the public, there are currently several vacancies on the committees, three on the beautifification now, two on DAK and one on the planning commission if anybody wants to apply. Casey, I just have a point of clarification for that. Um, to serve on the well any of the committees, I guess, but specifically the beautifification, does a person have to reside within the city limits?

Okay. Now, for those of you who didn't hear that, the answer was no. All right, moving on to consent agenda. City manager recommends approval of the following consent agenda items. All resolutions and ordinances on this agenda were added here to shall be introduced or adopted as applicable by title only and the full reading thereof is hereby waved. A approval of minutes November 24th, 2025 regular meeting. B, approval of dispersements for accounts payable, excuse me, 1124 of 2025 and 123 of 2025. Total gross payroll and taxes for the periods ending 112625 and 12 1125 2025, excuse me. C, police department monthly report. D, approval of job descriptions for fire captain and firefighter. E, police K9 retirement. Do I have a motion? I move to approve consent agenda items A through E by title only.

Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. None. All right. And now moving on to the Sison Museum presentation. D have the floor if you want to make.

Yeah. Excuse me. Um so we have uh assistant museum here Jean uh to give us some presentation on um the museum and and the importance of it and to remind council and uh you know citizens that uh last year and in previous years we have um provided a donation to the museum amounting $5,000.

Hello, my name is Dean Nel. Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you. So, in order to uh talk about this subject, I thought first of all we would talk about why a museum. Do you all have the slides on your screens? Great. Um, so why a museum? What is so important to a museum for a community? And it all started back in okay 1979. They were going to deconstruct the historic fish hatchery building and our community members, especially people from the Chamber of Commerce, said, "We don't have a community museum. Who's going to save our history? Share our history." and they came together, a lot of volunteers petitioned the state of California and they said, "All right, we'll let you use that as a museum." And that was in 1979. It took them four years and lots of money and lots of volunteers and they changed that historic building to the museum we have today. And if you've driven by it, you've seen that um entry there. And that was also done by volunteers, Art Horvath with a stonework and um Moroni Construction and our own Jim Mczning here, our board president um making the front door sign, I mean the entry sign. So when we were going to do this museum, we had to think about the name of our museum. And just like the town of Mount Shastas had four different names. And if you come to the museum, we'll about that. I would like to invite all of you to come to the museum. I'd

love to give you a personal tour. I'm very proud of what we've done there. So, um, one of the names they thought of thought of first of all was to call it the Citizen Hatchery Museum. Well, the only problem with that, people would walk in and say, "Well, where's the hatchery stuff?" And this is more of an historical museum. So, the next name they came up with was just citizen museum and uh so people would walk in the door and say well what's a citizen so the next name we come up with was Mount Shasta citizen museum which honors the citizen family some of our first settlers and also that it's here in the town of Mount Shasta names are important just like you know so like when I was contemplating going to the air and space museum I thought well that's nothing air space. There probably nothing there to see. Okay. All right. So, we opened in 1983 after four years of lots of um work and one of the things we worked on um all right. We worked on landscaping and that was with the Rotary Club. We have partnerships with many organizations in the city and when we opened um it now looks like this after you know 42 years so very different all that volunteer work has really made um a lot of changes the opening night um so for some reason this does not seem to be working well

what Okay. Okay. Um, we are the exhibits have changed a lot through the years. If you look at some of these photos, you'll see that it's pretty basic to start out with. You know, photos and some writing. And as we um went on, we have covered lots of subjects that are important to our town. Logging, skiing, um the mountain that um cone which some of you are familiar with used to be on the top of Mount Shasta it's now in the museum um also we've done things like caves lava tube caves are a big thing around here that was 2007 we've also done the story of the Italian people which if you got seen all of the stone buildings in town a lot of history there plus you know the wine they made and Marone's market things like that then water and we've covered water many times starting in 2010 and we just did another three-year exhibit ending this year. Also, the lenticular cloud exhibit. We thought this was going to be only be a one-year exhibit because our museum does changing exhibits. This exhibit has been so popular because just like on Wednesday, was that the day that it lasted the whole day long? Um, it's just incredible these amazing clouds we get around here. So, this is our third remodeling of that exhibit and we get local photographers to submit their photos and that's what is shown in this um display. Also, of course, we have to cover the lore and the legends of Mount Shasta, all the spiritual things. You know, Mount Shasta magnet for many people. So

that was one of the exhibits we did in 2018. Um, of course we have to save the history of our area and one is when I5 went through here. So we did the 50-year history of building I5. Then we also had to cover the history of the building of Lake Syscue and that was an incredible exhibit. And all of these exhibits we archive them and people come to the museum and say, "Well, I missed that." We give them a binder of that information. so they can see it even though they weren't there during that year. Um, so one thing you noticed when we first started it was pretty basic, pretty bare bones exhibits. So we decided to do something about it. I got my museum studies degree. I am a volunteer. I've been volunteering since 2007. I went and got my museum studies degree because I wanted this to be a first class museum that we would have for our community. So, in the first room, we changed it. We got a mural painted. We had people like Chris Schneider come and do um interactive displays and things so that it makes history more real. We um this is what the first room looks now. It's the history of Nacha starting with the indigenous people up to present day. There's photo frames that show changing photos. We the museum store provides onethird of our income. And you can see when we first started, look at that. Just bare bones, she's had a uh you know, a little just opening there with um some books for sale. And through the years, we've changed it. And so now this is what it looks like. And people come and do their Christmas shopping here. And um it all of the products have some kind of relationship to the exhibits that we have. We Lula

Bell, which the city let us have. Um Frank Melo, our fire chief, restored that great old fire engine. It's a very popular place for photos. This is what it used to look like. And now we got had a mural painted behind it. And this mural features some of the most famous fires that happened here in our town. I don't know if you know, but it burned down 11 times in 30 years from 1887 to 1917. So, we tell the history of um what's happened. And just like the beginning, our volunteer fire department, we depend upon volunteers like you are all volunteers with your time. Then um the second room is now a geology exhibit. They're short one minute videos and the touchscreen that people can learn about the geology of our area. How was Castle Craigs made? I don't know if some of you know, but it's fascinating. How was that mountain made? How about the glaciers, mud flows, things like that? You can crawl through the lava tube caves. The third room talks about the railroad history around here, which is really important. That's why our town is situated where it is. And um there's an interactive place that they can drive the um locomotive. The event room, which when I came on, this is what it looked like. Just really bare bones. We used to do quilt shows in there. And then we got a um grant in 2012 to put a 12-oot screen, a sound system, a surround sound system, an LCD projector, and we now have presentations and amber room and changing exhibits. every room that every year that room changes entirely. Um the presentations people get to sit in comfortable chairs like the ones you're sitting in. Mike Rodriguez convinced me how comfortable these were

and people come and we do one presentation at least a month. It brings in a lot of people with discussions of community issues like Eugene Sway came and talked at the museum and we had Tom Hessel come talk about changes in the town. So we have a lot of those kind of presentations happening. We also are very family friendly. A lot of families will tell you they come to our museum because there's something for people of all ages. Matter of fact, we've just recently started a partnership with um First Five. I heard her come talk to you a couple weeks ago. Um these kids activities, we feature them in all of our exhibits. And we also have special days that um we set up that back room just and we have lots of volunteers come um do the different activities. But every room has um things for the kids to do. But the back room um we do science at the museum and there's experiments set up for the kids to do. We have lots of volunteers to do that. We have many volunteers like look at how many volunteers are there for the science day that you see right there and the families doing it. We also have experts who come and um please go back one slide. Uh Bill here is a um you know he's a geology professor. He comes and talks to us about the geology of the area. Bill me is a great historian. Did you know that all geology books say that or many geology books used to say Mount Chass erupted in 1786 or ' 89 and Bill Mace proved that geology those geology books were wrong through his research. It's just incredible all these experts that volunteer for our museum. It's a real important resource.

So, um, we need to ensure our future. We need to, um, share and save Mount Shasta's stories. And that's why we ask you every year for um, $5,000. We It's a It's a donation, but our museum really spends a lot more money than that, as you can imagine, to put on these kind of equality exhibits. Our dedicated volunteers and people's donations help us make changing exhibits, educational tours, and field trips. It's fun. It's a center for the community. It's attractive, informative. It's fabulous. We depend upon volunteers. We depend upon donations. So, if anybody's listening to my speech tonight, if you want to volunteer, there's many things you can volunteer for. And if you want to donate, um, we have memberships available. $25 a year, not much, but $25 a year times a thousand people. I mean, you can imagine that that would really mount up. So, if you want to volunteer or donate, please let us know. And one thing we're very excited about that last year uh DFW we negotiated for five years and because our lease was up on that building we don't pay rent which helps us to survive and we asked community members to send in letters and the state said they were overwhelmed by how many people sent in letters saying yes this is an important community resource. Matter of fact, one of the DFW employees wrote a threepage letter saying, "You've got to let them stay. This is such a valuable resource." So, of course, statistics also help. So, I'm telling you this that we have 14,000

average visitors a year. We've had almost 600,000 visitors in our 43 years that we've been in business. And we do surveys. We let people fill out these surveys. They're anonymous, but you can see I compiled them for the last um two years. From 2023 to 2025, there were over 1,500 responses. And we ask them yes, no questions. Did they learn something new? Are they likely to recommend the museum to others? And did they like the interactive opportunities? The blue is yes, the orange is no. So you can see the amazing um response. And then of course we ask people for comments. If you come and um we have a visitor comment page, Google, you'll read great comments about us. Yelp, fantastic museum. So yes, we're asking for your support. Oh, there should be one more slide. Um and I guess it didn't. Oh, there it is. Why a museum? I started with that question. So, let's end with that. We provide unique learning experiences. We preserve our history. We provide a space for community gatherings, dialogue, and inspiration. We contribute to the local economy, which I know I've been listening to your um city council meetings online. I sit at my uh computer at home and uh watch the meeting. We attract tourists. If you go on to look at our Google reviews or the 10 best things to do in Mount Shasta, we are definitely one of those things to do. So, we're asking for your support and I know I know about how you're in the red, but um if you can find those funds, that would be great. And if not this year, perhaps another

year because where would our community be without our museum? Thank you. council debates. This is self- serving. This is something I wanted to bring up in comments, but I forgot about, but it dubtales with this. A month ago, I learned that this year um it was the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Mount Shasta. So, um you know, uh and we'll see what we can do potentially to capitalize that on that. um in this next year without looking foolish because it be the 101st year. But um but we thank you for all your work.

Thank you. Any questions? I was just going to open that up if anybody we'll open up to public comment and then we'll come back. All right. Anybody wants to speak? All right. See nobody wanting to speak, we'll bring it back. Do I have a motion? I just wanted to say that uh I'm one of the Did you say 600,000 that have visited? Yeah, more than once. And and my grandkids really love the place. So I don't know if you remember us when we came in you were there. So I'll move to approve a donation of $5,000 to the Mount Shasta Historical Museum or Sison Historical Museum.

Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. There's none. Thank you very much as always. And I didn't realize I didn't realize we were skipping over the comments and I just wanted to say how much I appreciated every talk that I've been to there. They've all been really great. So keep them up. What a great Christmas present. Thank you. I look forward to coming back for a tour. All right, moving on to number nine, safety action plan presentation. Todd, you have the floor.

Okay. And um it's been uh well over a year now that the city received um federal grant dollars uh through the safe streets for all um pot of money and we hired Kimley Horn to conduct a um safety action plan on behalf of the city and they've been up here um canvasing our streets, looking at all of our intersections, interviewing people meeting with different groups to find out um where uh problem intersections are uh and what those fixes may be, whether they are actual geometric fixes in terms of engineering, whether they are uh policy fixes uh or enforcement etc. And um we now have the draft final safety action plan which is in the packet and uh They were here the second go round um uh to walk through uh you know the the project and their findings.

So take it away Kinley Horn.

Sorry apologies about that. I guess the computer froze up as soon as I was trying to unmute. But thank you everybody. We're definitely looking forward to uh talking to you about this. It's been an exciting project to work on and um got some pretty good funies, I think. So, want to move forward next slide. So, we'll go over quickly just what the background of the safety action plan is, why we conducted it, and why it's important for the city. Then, we'll talk about a little bit what we saw in the analysis, what we looked at more closely, and then what we actually came up with as recommendations in the long run. So, first of all, the safety action plan is the gateway the city has to a lot of funding opportunities for both state and federal grants. So, the plan really lets us look at what's going on on the city roadways, how are people driving, what kind of intersections and roadway segments do you have, uh what kind of traffic control is there, and how does that align with best practices. So, we took a look at all those things. We looked at the crashes that have been occurring on the in city streets for the last few years and what kind of trends they have. One of the good news here is that you don't have a really large number of crashes as you're a smaller city, but we don't we do want to make sure we're limiting those ones that are occurring. As uh Todd mentioned, we talked to quite a few people in the city, out on the public, out on the street at some events that we had uh throughout the year. And then we looked at a number of different project recommendations that we could continue. We'll talk a little bit more as we move forward. But really the goal here is to figure out what are the most effective safety improvements the city can make and how do we prioritize those moving forward. So ultimate goal reducing serious injury and fatal crashes. So over the study period the study fortunately had no fatal fatal crashes and not a lot of serious injuries. So that makes the the

job a little bit easier than it would be in some bigger cities, but there are definitely some places where there's some potential um needs and a lot of community members brought those to our attention. And then we also want to look at the best practices and how connectivity works in the city, how we can make it easier for people to walk and bike around um so that you don't have to drive from one store to another. and again to prioritize those improvements as we move forward. So in the safety action plan itself uh we look at the leadership commitment goal setting. So one of the things state and federal governments are looking for is that commitment to achieve zero traffic deaths uh by a horizon year. So you're well on your way to that. And um so we've set this up to align with what CALR and other agencies have been looking for to make sure that you have perfect access to all those grants. Um what's the planning structure in place? So how do we make sure this plan gets implemented well as we move forward and then um that analysis component looking at the actual crashes that have been occurring and where they are, what types of crashes they are so that we can recommend good improvements for that that engagement with the public and with key stakeholders. So that's city department, city staff, um county sheriff, CALR, other agencies that have an involvement in the roadways. What kind of policies and processes might need to be looked at again and that can be staff resources, that can be educational programs, all kinds of things like that. And then we get through that strategy, recommendations, and then how do we monitor the plan as it's being. So, what does the city get out of having a safety action plan? So, one thing to keep in mind is the federal government has what they call a safe system approach. Um, this was really uh pushed

by the prior administration. Um, and it's something that's actually continued to be important to FHWA move forward. So, it's based on the five pillars and their related principles. Uh, death and serious injuries are unacceptable. Humans make mistakes. Humans are vulnerable. Responsibility is shared. Safety is proactive. Redundancy is crucial. And to get to those things, we need safer people, safer vehicles, safer speeds, safer roads, postc crash care. So all of those factors were considered as we developed this plan. All right. So just a quick look at your crash data. On the left hand side we see how the the different types of crashes that have been occurring over the year over the years. So usually four somewhere between four and six crashes with the exception of 2020 where we had COVID shutting things down. So there wasn't a lot of activity on the roadways during that year. So we've been fairly consistent in the amount of activity as we move forward. A little bit higher in 21 and 22 though when we look at the injury levels. So those blue ones are the ones we're the most concerned about. Those are the severe injuries. That basically means we had lights and sirens, so we didn't walk away from the crash. They had to they required some sort of urgent care and potential lifelong impacts from those crashes. The more minor injuries and complaints of pain. Um so there were injuries involved. We don't we don't have um the information on just the vendor vendor type crashes where where there was just an exchange of insurance but no actual injuries. But there were we do know there were several of those as well over those years. When we look at the span of the year and how things are, I'm sure you guys would be very shocked to like see that August is your peak crash month. So that's when we have a lot of people touring through and folks that aren't as familiar with

the roads. And then we see another little spike in January when you're more likely to have some snowy conditions on the road. So, I don't think any of that is very surprising, but it's something for us to keep track of because we always have to remember that in Mount Shasta, a lot of your traffic isn't the local residents. Um, we have a lot of tourism as well. So, we get people here that are just visiting. There's also a lot of truck traffic through the city. Um, so those were all different things that we were looking at. The map on the right shows you where those injured crashes occurred. So we see obviously the downtown areas where they do have the biggest concentration and then a few kind of in the far farther north and south of the city. When we looked at all those different crash patterns and what was going on relative to the state, first thing we have to remind you of is that the number of crashes in the city is quite low. So we have to take all this information with a bit of a grain of salt. Every year this could look different, but at least for this particular study period. Uh intersections were where most of your crashes occurred. So that means crashes usually between two vehicles rather than somebody just running off the road and hitting a pole or something like that. Um when we look statewide, it's about a quarter of the fatal and serious injury crashes because those ones where people run off the road themselves tend to be the worst crashes. but it's a little over half in Manchester, which is not uncommon for an urban area. So, aggressive driving is the second category. So, that can mean either vehicles speeding above the speed limit as noted by the responding officer. It could also mean uh traffic that is falling too close, doing tailgating. It can mean ignoring the traffic signal downtown or running through stop signs. So, there's lots of different factors that can lead to that. Mount Shasta is quite a bit higher again than the statewide average in those characteristics. So these are definitely crashes where somebody was willfully disobeying a law. And then lane departures. So those are the ones we're

I was just talking about. Um you're lower than the statewide average, but they're still a pretty good number. And that means somebody actually left the lane. They went off the road usually and hit an object on the side of the road or rolled over. So we we definitely don't like to see a lot of that. So when we look at the crash data and try to determine which locations have the most interesting characteristics for us to explore, this map shows where those are. So we had um went as far north as the Spring Hill Road intersection near the I5 interchange and then as far south as Mount Shasta Boulevard near Mountain View Drive and those segments down that way. Um, we also looked along uh Lake Avenue up into the Ever Memorial Highway area. Uh, and then uh we also looked along um Mloud Avenue. That's a pretty tight little corridor and a lot going on there. So, we walked all of those areas. We observed traffic and we took some notes on the various things that we could see that might be things we could do in the future. for engagement and collaboration. We did a few different things. We attended um events out in the city. We collected information. You'll see the little boards we had where people could put their stickers on. We also had a website that uh people could visit and put their comments on in that in that form as we can see here. So, we got a fair bit of input on the events we went to. We didn't get a lot of people visit visiting the website despite a lot of distribution of our flyers with the QR codes and everything. But all in all, we did get some feedback and some some ideas from residents. A lot of them really wanted to talk to us about specific things. So the common themes are the missing sidewalks. There's a lot

of places where you have to walk in the street a little bit or walk through the mud on the side of the road. Uh there was a lot of folks that wanted to see a more for bicycles. And then potholes and lack of safe connected routes, places where snow plows can uh block things were all issues. We heard most about Mount Shasta Boulevard um between Chest and Water Street, the intersection near Barville and the sportsman's den. We had people talking about pedestrian injuries there, Pine Street and West Lake Street. Um some other places that we heard about were Alma and Chestnut Mloud and Mount Shasta Shasta and RE that's a that's a complicated intersection there and then along the corridor and then a few others as far as top suggestions we had continuous bike lanes uh where there's gaps or new bike lanes in places where they're not there. Uh there's was some interest in roundabouts at actually a few different locations. Um and there were a few that looked like it could potentially work there. And then obviously the sidewalk gaps again along the Shasta Boulevard corridor area, especially along Lake Street and Washington Drive area were the prime locations for those. Again, we did visit in the field. We took a lot of photos. We watched how traffic was working. Um where there's potential conflicts between vehicles that wasn't well regulated or anything else like that. And then we took input from anybody that wanted to come and talk to us while we were out there as well. There was a number of places where we saw pedestrians trying to get across the road where they didn't have as great of a clear zone. There's a few places where we saw visibility wasn't as great for oncoming vehicles with those trying to make turns. there's some intersections with some very sharp angles that can make it a little bit

difficult. So, there's a number of things like that that we saw that we we can um certainly talk about in our recommendations. So, here's a list of potential improvements that were included in the report. At least it's somewhere in the city. So, not all of these would be everywhere. Roundabouts. So, a couple locations like the Spring Hill intersection up north, Mount Shasta Lake was another potential area. Um, improving sight distance, so that could mean clearing some vegetation or putting stop bars a little further out into the intersections so that we can see better. High friction surface allows vehicles to stop a little shorter distance if uh they have to make an emergency stop. the rectangular flashing beacons. Those are little flashing lights that go when the pedestrian pushes the button so people know somebody's trying to cross the crosswalk. And then, as I said, lots of sidewalk gaps. Uh there's a couple places where the center line rumble strips, so if you're starting to cross the center line, it makes some noise and wakes you up a little bit. Um some areas where we didn't have crosswalks around the whole intersection, just partial crosswalks. Um and a few places where there might be one needed in the middle of the block. Bit more in terms of bike lanes. There's a few places where we could potentially reduce the number of lanes or the size of the lanes on the road and make more space for things like bike lanes or additional sidewalks. There's one place down in the southern part of the city, we call it a peanut roundabout or a dog bone where you have intersections that are very close together with a lot of complicated movements. So, it's one way to keep traffic from conflicting with each other. A nice easy one is putting those yellow stripes around the signal that you have. Um it can make it more visible and believe it or not actually does produce certain types of crashes. Same area with the leading pedestrian interval. So when a pedestrian pushes the button, their walk signal comes a little bit for the green light for traffic, which prevents some of those

right turn collisions with pedestrians. Uh there's lots of areas where you have intersections that aren't fully ADA compliant. just now. So, some of these truncated domes and having them positioned correctly would um improve some of that. And just on a side note, city has applied for uh an ADA transition planning grant through the same source that funded this project. So hopefully you'll hear good news about that. That grant also included some money for sidewalk improvements. And then we have the accessible pedestrian signal or APS push button. So, it's just a way to make the it's a more modern version of those buttons for pedestrians when they come to the signal and want to push it, want to get it going. Um, it's better for people who aren't as u able to hear a seat. Transverse rumble strips. So, um especially in the north and south end of Mount Chassa Boulevard where you get those higher traffic speeds, um that can be a good way to warn folks that there's a stop sign or an intersection coming up. And then there's a few places where additional signage or a little bit more visibility at night could be helpful. And then that immediate transition plans I mentioned that um students apply for funding for Darl.

Yeah. Uh can I interject on a question? Um, one of the things that I we've mentioned, but I think it's important if we can get it into the final draft is to me one of the most vital intersections that needs work is uh Pine and Lake Street and clarifying that vehicular um geometries there so the sight lines um are clearer and there's a clear path of travel. It just it seems to be a real problem spot. Yeah, we'll take a note of that and uh um we'll get that uh sorted out. All right. So then um another part of it we were talking about was the transparency and the monitoring of program as it moves forward. So as part of this we've established this story map. So, this is a website that anybody in the city can go to um or outside the city and it basically outlines a lot of what's in that final report as it moves forward. You can walk through this all um you can actually still access that interactive map and take a look at um where people might want to put comments on there so that the city has a way to continually have a conversation with the public. Basically, this is an easy excuse me, the site is easy to update. So, as things change and you have new projects coming along, you can always make make those updates and keep this as an active portal for the public to see how things are being done with the safety plan and to continue to collect information from the public on improvements they'd like to see. So, as far as next steps go, um we're receiving feedback on the draft um safety action plan. Then the idea is to get that final safety action plan adopted and then pursue those grants, bring the money in um and get some of

those improvements built so that we can get the improvements moving forward and reduce those crashes. So right coming up and this spring is further from federal money from the safe streets for all program. There's one more round of that funding available and the highway safety improvement program through CALR. So, those are both directly safety grants that um this plan enables you to pursue. And there's also a number of other programs like the active transportation program and a few others out there in the near term that are opportunities for the city to pursue some additional funding for some of these projects that are being suggested in this fight. And thank you. So, if that any questions or comments, we plan to take them.

Any questions right now?

Hey, Darl. Uh, Jeffrey Collings. Um, can you flip back to 7.2.1 2.1 so you know which one I'm addressing. Um it talks about after saying that we've in five years from 2019 to 2023 we only had 17 crashes and that in all those crashes where somebody has complained of any pain all the way to some serious injury. We ranked 94th out of 98 where one is the worst. and and towards 98 is is the best. Am I reading that correctly?

You are um it's just nice to be proud of something. I mean,

no, I I don't want to understate that the Mount Sta safety performance is extremely good. So, this is not a uh plan where we're saying the city's a really dangerous place to be by any means. The reason this plan is important for the city is because this is an opportunity for the city to pursue funding to fill in some of those holes and just make the quality of your road system a little bit higher. And there are there there still are some crashes. There are still some injuries. So, you you have that case to make. and uh we just want to make sure that you're able to pursue all those opportunities that are out there to get those get those dollars and bring them back into the city. I I get the analysis first, funding later, sequencing and and I wasn't trying to to minimize the needs, the many needs that are put forth in the study, but I am confused a little later on, and I don't have the number, but of where it is in your report, but we're like 46th or 47th out of 76. We're kind of in the middle. And I just didn't know how to make sense out of those two things where on one we looked really great and the other one we looked kind of well you're in the middle someplace. Um and I'm sorry. So I'm trying to I'm trying to flip to that just to see which one you're referring to directly, but there are several different rankings.

There's the aggregate overall, but then there are sub rankings for specific types of crashes and specific issues. And you do you do rank a little bit separately in those? I think it's our OTS ranking that you might be looking at that had us right in the 40s. Yeah. The Office of Traffic Safety. Uh they just rebranded, but that's the that's the statewide uh ranking system that they put together. They classify cities into groups based on population. Thanks, Darl.

You bet. So this question is directed to the city manager. What what is the situation with grants regarding the planning on this? We we received a grant, did we not? Stepstead step funding and so for which project the narrowing of Lake Street?

Oh, we've got a couple things going on. We have um uh the next round of safe streets for all. which were uh if you remember uh it was for uh creating an inventory of where we're falling down on ADA accessible infrastructure um and you know how we rank those in terms of um constructing um them so we're compliant with the law which is good because we have folks that go to communities and try to find deficiencies and sue one and two is uh for um potentially uh you know a few million dollars for filling in sidewalk gaps. That's one. We have stiff funding uh through uh CALR which is federalized dollar which are federalized dollars for uh um the reconstruction of Lake Street uh which um is is another grant uh and uh dovtailing with that we have a state transportation planning grant which is paying for the um conceptual design of active transportation improvements along Lake Street that we can fold into recstruction and um we're applying for additional uh uh transportation planning money for the engineering of those active transportation improvements. Um we're also chasing CDBG dollars for the planning uh um for uh the full reconstruction of Mount Chasta Boulevard from end to end. But again, it's planning.

Okay. So, we'll talk about how any of those grants might help us with number 10. Uh great presentation. You know, if we could do everything that they recommend, that'd be wonderful. But we are concentrating on Lake Street, right? Number 10. Okay. Any other questions before open up to public comment or anything?

No, but I'll say can I We get um a lot of comments obviously about the state of our roads and it's a real it's an issue and I think um people realize that there's only so long you can go while you're patching roads before you need to to um um you know to fully reconstruct them. Of course, maintained roads are uh much easier to keep in that condition than letting them go to the point where they need to be reconstructed. problem in rural areas that we're finding is there's so few federal dollars that are allocated to particularly a county um you know uh in the county seat um that are then uh you know competed over and uh it's you know even if you get an award it's very small amount of money we just happen in this case to get money for instance the stip project this last big award we got it's $100,000 I And you know, um, we've got a, you know, a yawning chasm of need in terms of streets that need to be either reconstructed or repaved. We're trying to do the best we can with gas tax money and, um, other other ways of um, you know, just uh, patching and keeping us going until we find a grant that we can grab on to um, that we can make a big impact. But we're we're working on it. It's just it's it's an intractable problem and every city's facing it. On that note, we'll open it up to public comment if anybody has anything they want to add to this.

Hey, uh I think this piggybacks off something that I mentioned a few meetings back when they gave the presentation about uh the Lake Street um thing. So, you know, as my kids are not teeny tiny anymore. My my son is my older one. He's 12 now. So, he's doing a little more independently, riding his bike or scooter around sometimes to get here and there for shorter, you know, distances. We're juggling a lot of things. But, um, these projects would be amazing, especially, I know, if we can get grant funding because, you know, my my kid, it's it's kind of sketchy out there sometimes. The intersections are not good. There's sometimes there's no sidewalks. Sometimes there's really bad gaps or the it's really uneven because trees and things I mean it happens but you know he had a couple months back there was a car was not really paying very good attention and it was kind of a tricky situation and then with the the sidewalk being the way it was he crashed off a scooter scraped up his leg pretty bad. So I mean could have been way worse. He didn't get hit by a car or anything. Luckily, he didn't have to go get treatment or anything, but you know, anything we can do to to make things better or make things easier for people on bikes or pedestrians or obviously this is something people are paying attention to. So, I support that.

Thank you. Thank you. Still got that chunk that just wobbles. Anybody else with anything? All right, we'll close public comment. Bring it back to council for discussion. Yeah, we're just receiving it. I just didn't know if anybody wanted to comment make any say anything Casey. Sure. At at what um we're not at a point of determining exactly where to allocate resources at this point, right? Or Okay, just

this this presentation, the safety action plan um piggybacks the Alta active transportation plan that was fullscale plan that focused on getting people out of cars, let's say, and there were safety elements to that, too. This is a thoroughgoing um safety action plan. So, we have two two uh pretty thorough reports on what we should do. Now, we have to plan it and construct it. Yeah. And find the money. All right. Well, then since we're done with that, we'll move into number 10, the approval of the contract with Kimley Horn for Lake Street. And Ken, you have the floor on that one.

Members of the council, John, you gave me a great in uh introduction. Uh this is how we're going to uh plan and and build. Um this uh the city as you mentioned earlier got a uh skip funding for Lake Street reconstruction two phase uh process first is the planning specs and cost estimate the design for the lake street reconstruction that is what we went out for bid here we uh went out for an RFQ in October uh we got received two qualified responses. The most highly qualified response came from Kimley Horn who also just is finishing up our active transportation plan. Uh mainly, you know, they were very familiar with Lake Street and I think that helped them put together a very good proposal. Um the bids came in rather high. Uh their bid was 463,000. We uh negotiated on it. They did have a lot of bells and whistles in it. Uh we were able to trim it down a little bit, get it down to about 350,000. Still is a very complete approach. uh they are incorporating the uh they will incorporate a lot of the information and proposals brought forward in the lake street complete street study done by green dot. Uh that is one reason it is more expensive. This is not going to be a simply a reconstruction project. It's going to be a complete street project. um inflation because this grant was from several years ago plus being now a more in-depth, more complete design is the

reasoning for the increased cost. Uh we will use the $100,000 SIP funding and we will leverage our gas tax funding to uh cover the uh total cost. So I recommend acceptance of this uh proposal uh and we will sign a contract with people horn. Do you have any questions? Pretty straightforward. We've been talking about it.

Yeah, I do actually. I've got a question here. I'm just looking at the numbers here. Um so by getting this or by contracting with Kimley Horn and then for this the planning phase and uh the specifications construction estimate all that that's in this proposal here. I see the end of it. It says that it will allow us to access the 2.2 million in stiff construction funds. Yes. Um obviously things change. You just mentioned inflation. I don't know that that's going to change. Um um by your estimate that 2.2 2 million is at what portion of You are bringing up an excellent point. Okay. The 2.2 million will cover pretty much the reconstruction the complete

of of Lake Street. Yes. Okay, cool. But the complete streets approach where we do the sidewalks and everything else that will need additional funding. Uh do you anticipate being able to find grant funding for that additional funding as well? Do you think

I think Todd will jump in on that. The green dot is helping us chase uh active transportation funding which is specifically targeted to pedestrians and bicycles. So nice. Um, you know, we've talked about this here. Uh, there's been a trend for a number of years now that, um, you know, while, uh, roadway reconstruction money for cars, for vehicles, trucks, um, is, uh, very scarce. The one area where there is a continuation of a lot of funding is if you were doing uh in California's eyes the work of getting people um out of their vehicles and uh contributing to one less trip as they would put it. So there's there is still a lot of money for the design, engineering and construction of um active transportation facilities. questions.

Uh Ken, would you take me through just the headlines of the timeline relative to when actual construction on Lake Street, especially the residential area was going to occur? It looks like it's 27 or is it 28?

It should be 27. the the um we're a little behind the curve on uh what the schedule was for the stiff funding, but uh we're going to be issuing this hopefully contract here, end of the month, first part of January. Uh already talked to Kimley Horn. They're ready to dive into this first part of January. Uh construction package ready to go should be about six months. So, it should be on the street to advertise May, June, uh, with construction starting probably fiscal year of 27. It could start this coming season. So, actual construction would start in late calendar year 26, best case scenario. Yes. Okay. Thanks. Because I'm a little confused. I couldn't figure which way this is going. Thank you. Appreciate it. And if I can add one more thing, um, this agenda doesn't have the actual contract in it. Melissa pointed this out. We'll bring the actual uh contract uh um to the first meeting in January, but we wanted to get um get the horn rolling on this because we are behind. And just to clarify, when you say complete streets, fixing everything under the street before the new street goes over it, so we're not cutting up the new street. That is a concern of ugliness.

Yes. With everything. Okay. Very much a concern. All right, we'll open up to public comment if anybody wishes to join in. Oh, sorry. Did you have another question?

I had I had one last question. Sorry. Um this one I understand if you don't if you haven't seen this in your like when looking for grants uh for particularly with regards to active transportation. Have you seen anything with regards to like proval to get people out of cars and onto bicycles, scooters, walking, skateboards, whatever. Um, have you ever are there any grants that you've seen that actually provide for citizens to get those means of transportation like the bikes themselves or anything like that for people? Is is that ever a part of this? That is not part of this. I've seen programs like that in big cities, but I'm not sure it's state funding. I think it might be more local. the state funding to buy people the bikes is what you're saying is

I wasn't saying that they exist. I was asking no curious people to do the actual act of transportation.

I I haven't seen it. Um the first roll out of like a public bike program uh that I know of was when like I worked in New York City and that was subsidized by um uh City Bank and JP Morgan to get it off the ground and um you know uh up in Portland. Some of the companies that had already uh made a fair amount of income, they provided some subsidies for for um trials. Um, but it it ends up uh being um something that is supposed to be self-funded. I mean, once people understand it and we've got a demonstration project out there that people aren't falling off and the city's on the hook for a ton of liability, um then, you know, they are supposed to be taken care of by the companies and um and they make money by the credit card.

Could be onto an entrepreneurial thing. trade your car in for bikes or something, you know, turning.

All right. Anybody else? All right, we'll open it up to public comment. Anybody wishes to chime in on this? Seeing none, we'll close public comment. Bring it back to council. Discussion or motion. I move to approve the contract with Kim Lee Horn for plans, specifications, constructions, estimate, and contract package for the reconstruction of Lake Street uh negotiated upon the proposal of $349,325 to be used by an allocation of $100,000 from STIP and the remainder with gas tax funds. I'll second that.

All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed is none. Moving on.

All right. Moving on to fire engineer side letter and you have the floor council. This is just a side letter to add to the fire Emily and as well as the authorized positions to be included with the fire engineer position. uh on the authorized positions and the second letter is just stating the amendments to add it to the current fire. Any questions you open up to public comment? Seeing none, we'll close it. We have a motion.

Sure. Uh motion uh where was it? Motion to add the fire engineer side letter to the fire department. Second. Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. None. Moving right along. Number 12, contract extension for WBC campaigns. T you have the floor.

Yes. Um so Bill Barry WBC campaigns is our um uh you know our folks are um you know his company and um researchers that have helped us uh get uh polling research and talking to citizens and um um getting surveys out on the website. His contract expires at the end of December. we have a full year to go before we're able to float a sales tax measure. And um uh you know I ask that he try to reduce uh his scope as much as possible, but the idea is to keep him on through that election so we can continue to uh hold additional town hall meetings uh and um you know uh include utility flyers uh keep an online talked to individual uh um citizens, to uh business groups and um uh neighborhood groups and and other folks and generally keep up the the campaign and the enthusiasm to move us towards uh the passage of this sales tax measure uh next November. And so the ask is uh the actual um extension ask is for uh 22,000. We're asking for in total $27,747. The difference there is um some overage on the part of um WBC. They uh um were uh mistaken um and their the original contract that was approved was 5,000 and he thought it was 65. So um you know he was willing to eat it but it seemed like

the right thing to do because the guy has done um you know yman's work here so want to make sure that he gets paid for the work that he's done. Any questions?

I have a question here. So, I noticed that the original contract that we approved for 45,000 had a not to exceed uh amount in there, which is why we are in this in the first place. Um, I don't see that in this part of it. Is it possible that we could I I mean, I I understand adding that 57 or the 5,747 on top of it. I I I agree with you that that sounds like the right thing to do if we if we are bringing him back to continue working with us through the election, but I'm wondering if we can make a not to exceed part for this 27,747 or is that already just implied?

Um, it would be extension of the original contract which they should have stuck to the NTE. It was it was an honest mistake, but I mean there's a lot of stuff he didn't charge for honestly. If we had chosen a different election, like one sooner, this amount would have been much less. I'm assuming it would have um we wouldn't be spending anything past November. Um the November that just passed, right? But weren't we looking at June? We were looking at June for a minute. But yeah, I mean,

it would be less. But here's the thing. If you're in an offer election, I don't know how many thousands of dollars it is, but the city's got to put a big bill, right? I just want to make sure there was no bias on his part to have us wait until November. Um, no, actually, we had a discussion here when he presented and um you know, we have the opportunity to make that choice. His argument was that um when you've got a tax measure in in an offyear election that um it's a lot harder to get people out to vote in support of a tax measure if it's the only thing on the ballot

and your turnout is much lower. Um as opposed to if you're going to a general election and you've done the ground game and you've continued to hammer things home, uh you're more likely people uh that um a are going to come out to the polls a lot more people a bigger pool uh and therefore you're also um more you know likely to get folks voting for the measure uh just because you've got that larger turnup but plus we have more time to build the ground game well as part of June also that we would have to declare a fiscal emergency to do the June thing which doesn't occur

you know to the public not his recommendations. So, any other questions? All right, we'll open it up to public comment. Come on up and talk. It's public comment up here.

Um, there was no guarantees on any of this. It's just, you know, but I I'll add to your question is, you know, we had a a sales tax measure that failed um recently. We also had a drainage impact fee because um it hasn't changed since I believe the late 70s. And um to get us to a place where we're able to to um you know to work on slowly replacing all our crumbling drainage infrastructure, we were going dollar per residence fee um for that was going to buy you nothing to I believe the first year was like $24 per residence um and you know in a lot of minds that's not a lot of money but it's a big increase uh so that didn't pass either and I think one of one of the the reasons we brought this consultant on is the last thing we need right now is another tax measure that fails Anybody else?

Aloha. Aloha.

So, this is another thing that we've talked about for a little while now. That one 1.5% sales tax increase for all these different ideas. And uh that's another big reason why we've decided to make this community dinner, just for open Q&A for all the different topics. Uh we're doing our best to get this information out in layman's terms across 10 different social media things and it's generating a lot of input which is really really really good and uh sometimes we know some of the answer and sometimes we don't know any of the damn answer at all and so our only answer is come meet a council member council woman come meet somebody in staff here's an open Q&A that ask anything ask about the housing workforce housing that's for workers and and uh ask about the qualifi the income housing, ask about Dangle, ask about the late streets. There's so much things about the narrowing streets. We probably got five different people yelling at us about that. Uh but it's just such a a good thing that um we're trying to get the word out in winter, which is a little bit of a struggle, but we're doing actually really good. So, we appreciate the support of being able to come. And so, it's a reminder that it's always the second Saturday of every month forever. And if we can get through the winter months, then by spring and summer, we should have a strong momentum, wind and sails, logs on fires, uh, bonfires, and a little bit more help to get a twothirds vote plus one by then. And so just letting you all know that we're here to support whichever way, however way we can.

Thank you. And um you know the folks that you're talking to um just give them my number. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Anyone else? Close public comment. Bring it back.

One more question. Um, part of the proposal is the channel plan and cadence. I know that we had a town hall meeting that he assisted with, but has there been any of these things that he's done up to this point that maybe I've missed like the weekly updates on the website, the email bulletin, social media, utility inserts. Have those happened or is that what he's proposing?

Um, they have. they've happened for um the the town hall and um he's also uh you know put together information that has gone out and you know uh with graphics onto our website announcing the town hall and just you know g whiz information and uh you know as we get closer to the election we ramp that up and I think it's really important and we would do it whether we hired this guy or not but are we going to are we going to do it as effectively that's that's the point is um I think we would still hold town halls just because I think they're an effective way uh you know to to bear the brunt of the criticism um but also take that in and but also be very clear and patiently explain u the position that we're in and why we have this need

uh also So, city manager, a little a little question and and and comment, but have we settled on 1.5%. No, haven't. We're still getting feedback on all that. Yeah, I thought I thought so. We haven't. I mean, if you remember uh till July to

I'm going to get an approximate on this that um in this the early survey research and uh what um William Barry stressed is that we're early in the this was all this work was done before any town halls or any information was sent out. Okay. So um and he presented the findings but um you know just that initial brush was that over 78% of people or I believe 78% of people said they would uh vote for a 1% sales tax increase and a 1.5% uh sales tax increase it was like 52%. It was very slim. And so one of the things that we need to do is is continue to keep up the pressure but also gauge what we float as a measure. We meet 1.5 but you um it isn't um in our best interest to float a measure if um if we take samples near uh you know election time and we're still getting that same result where it's a tossup. So you know we need to ensure that um we're pretty sure this thing's going to 1.5% is is clearly desirable. Um but it it's a moot point if it if it just we spend a bunch of money and we get nothing.

Did my my comment part is um a little confusion on my part. Um, I have mentioned many times a 1% sales tax increase instead of a 1.5. And I don't know what the right number is. You know, I I don't I'm not for a 1% versus a 1 and a.5%. I don't know what the right number is. I don't know how how much money we actually need to take care of the things that we need to take care of because we really haven't had a lot of feedback from from our citizens and across council at least on a meeting. Maybe there was when I I missed a meeting here or there earlier in the year, but um I I'm not necessarily just in case there was some kind of confusion about this, I don't know what the right number is. Um, it may be 1.5, but if it is, I I think we're going to need a good number with these folks because we're we're renewing their contract to help us with a a good solid platform of here's where the money goes. You know, here's here are the things we're going to take care of. Um, and and I'm I'm not very clear on that. And I just in case there was any confusion up here, I I don't know what the right number is. Anyone else got a motion?

This is not the time to debate the number, right? No, just I'm going to move to approve the continuation of the con the current contract with WBC campaigns for the purpose of helping the the city uh with a potential tax increase at a cost of 27,747.

All those in favor say I. I I opposed is none. Okay, moving on. Discussion and possible action to set a hearing to revoke the business license of Summit View. Oh, gotcha.

Gotcha. Uh to revoke the business license of Summit View in for repeated disregard for the proision provision of municipal code chapter 52. Todd, you have the floor. Um, okay. So, uh, the saga of the globe. We've had a, you know, a hotel year here in, uh, 2024. Uh, uh, was behind more than six months in in paying uh, money that isn't the hotels, but is the collection of, uh, bed tax toot on behalf of the city. uh repeated um you know uh you know um outreach letters, threats um without you know with the acknowledgement that they owe it but no action and it took us filing um a suit. Once that suit was filed they paid all our back to and they paid our legal fees. uh um again a month and a half later uh it starts again not paying to it's more you know it's approaching six months again we file another um you know the same cajoling threats whatever uh and we filed another suit they paid the toot and they paid the city's attorney's fees uh they changed the name of the venue still owned by the same parent company to Summit View. Uh they are now in a rears of um over three months once again um seeking direction on public hearing to revoke their business license. I

probably would have uh brought it if we had the 10 days to um uh to properly notice uh you know a public hearing for the revocation. But um proposing uh to council um to consider holding a public hearing for the revocation of the LO aka summit view uh at the first meeting in January. Any questions? Pretty straightforward. Go ahead. I actually I just have a couple questions. Um, if we revoke their business license, does that uh does that preclude the city from going after the back DOT that we're owed?

No. Oh, excellent. Um, and then no, I actually have a question for Melissa. I think this would probably be more for you. Yeah, just trying to keep you on your toes over there. Um, how I I realize this is an egregious case. How often do other hotel years or uh people that should be paying t how often are other people in a rears like a month, two months, three months?

Okay. Um that's a good question. And we currently have another hotel year that is past due and is frequently past due. Um they typically pay the 15th to the 20th once we've sent them multiple reminders and phone calls. But for the most part, I would say 95 to 98% of our hotel years pay by the end of the month. And the one you're referencing is like they're not three months out, they're like one month late or whatever. Instead of paying by the end of the month, they typically pay by the 15th or 20th or so. multiple reminders which does take staff time and

but they like to go 30 days late right now basically or um so there um loge is currently uh owes for September and October I'm sorry October and November and then the other one still owes for November okay got seems pretty straightforward to me I I guess what I I am curious Um, we do this. Uh, what happens to the property? They just immediately stop being able to act as the hotel. It becomes vacant. Sell it to the P brothers.

Sure. Um, so yeah, a giveaway. It's a a price you can't refuse. Um, the um we immediately, if it passes, I assume it will, we seek an injunction and we close the doors. Um but um I got late word from John Kenny today because I called immediately like I have in the past to put heat on um the lows from a different direction. There's uh they've been trying to sell the property and I've called the broker uh for it to let him know that they're in a rears. what we're planning to do um or notification of the DA for potential criminal charges um well civil um uh and um he knows that he can't sell the property. So, uh, today, uh, John Kenny got a call that, uh, from the broker saying that, uh, what he'd like to what he's got agreement on with the owners is that, uh, when they sell the property and they made it sound like they've got a buyer that um, they would put into the agreement um, uh, that uh, for the deal to go through, they have to any remaining uh toot and other fees. Um but I don't

the buyer or the current owners have to pay that as part of the sale.

The buyers would have to pay it out of the tunch of funds especially whether whether that's escrow or not. I'm not sure what how it's structured but um uh you know nothing signed and so what I told John is we're going to move forward and um you know and his argument was uh you know that uh we should probably be careful. Uh we want to do whatever it takes to make sure that we get the funds and not shoot ourselves in the foot. And I said that's great, but if we don't have a signed agreement, why wouldn't we move forward because it's the only way we have to pressure them?

I'm in agreement with that. I'm curious, is it possible to add some sort of contingency to the revocation that says upon sale it's im like you you buy this, it comes with a business license or something like that. As long as we get the as long as that's done just to just to encourage the sales of somebody who actually will operate a proper hotel.

Um we can and I talked to John about this is the idea that we put uh you know a cottis or rider in here that if um even if we pulled the business license that um that restriction is reversed on payment of back to Okay, we'll open it up to public comment. Seeing none. Oh, you got Okay, we got one. Maybe maybe I'm off or maybe this is obvious, but it typically don't you just put a lean on the property and when it changes ownership that automatically comes out of escrow before anybody gets their money?

Um, for us to to put a lean on a property, especially in a case like this, we actually need to injunction that allows us to do it because we don't have it as part of our municipal code. Oh, interesting. Okay. Anyone else? All right. Seeing none, I'll bring it back to council. Got a motion. I move to approve scheduling a public hearing for the first meeting in January to consider the revocation for the loes business license. Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. I

and stack left stack left to recuse himself. All right, moving on. Budget adjustment of a hiring bonus and Melissa has the floor. Thank you, mayor. Um, back in 2022, there was a resolution um that provided a hiring bonus structure for our police and dispatch uh personnel. And that um resolution was to come before the council uh annually for review and approval. Um we have had a few u signing bonuses that have been given and we need to get approval to pay those out.

Seeing no we'll open it to public comment. Seeing none we'll bring it back. Do we have a motion? All right. So, I'll move to approve resolution CCR-25- 31, a resolution of the city council of the city of Mount Shasta reauthorizing the hiring bonus structure for police officers and dispatchers. Second. All those in favor say I. I.

I. Opposed is none. Okay. Last item of the night, rearrangement of the mayor for the year 2026. Glad you have the floor, I guess, on this one. Um, well, I guess I would ping pong or pong it back to you. This is the anniversary of the first video game. Um that

um that uh we uh typically um you know the last meeting of the year. we uh um elect a new mayor and uh the proceedings I believe typically start uh with the current mayor and we just take the pulse of of our council members on um on um who the candidate is. You know, in in you know uh um past practice has been rotate the position, you know, based on where you are, um, you know, when you last served. Um, but that, um, you know, that hasn't been the case in the LA the last election. So, um, I'm, uh, kind of turning it back to, uh, council to deliberate.

Well, the past practice is that the clerk has nominations. So yeah, clerk the clerk runs the deputy city clerk runs the the election. Would anyone like to nominate a mayor? Okay. I'd like to nominate uh a ticket for mayor uh Mr. Glavin for um for mayor prom uh testore. Wait a second. ticket for mayor Cloudman for uh mayor pro 10 clerk. Yes, it has been done. It has been done in the past. Okay,

then I will nominate Tessa for mayor and Casey Gloman for mayor pro 10.

I thought we usually just did a mayor first and then vice mayor, but we're doing the two at once. nominations. Do I have any other nomination? I'm waiting for this train to go by. Do I have any other nominations for mayor? That made Uh, council member Cler which

which one? So the the first one Yeah. So I think we go to stackless first nomination. So I'm a Yes. What was his nomination? Casey mayor me prom. I have that exactly First, I have it down. We have another trace. Uh I have it down as uh council member clerk for mayor and Casey for mayor prom. Do I have that backwards? My nomination for mayor.

Okay. So, this initial vote is only for the mayoral ticket and we'll do mayor prom afterwards. So, uh, for Casey Globin for mayor, cler, yes. Uh, colleagues, yes. Redmond. No. Doc, yes. Correct me if I'm wrong. My vote doesn't actually matter at this. Okay. Yes.

Congratulations, I think so. Yeah. All right. Congratulations.

No, you can't do it by ticket. We've done that. That hasn't happened in a while, but back in 2017, this next vote is for uh council member Cler as mayor prompar. Uh council member Cler, yes. Council member Collings, yes. Uh Mayor Gladman, yes. Council member Sak. Yes. Council member Redmond.

Yes. The motion passes. Okay, then. All right. Um, right now I'd like to ask if anybody has any future agenda items. It's actually outside meetings. Ah, yes. Uh, anybody have any outside meetings to report on? No. No. All right. Now, any future agenda items?

Uh, I' I've got something that I would like to potentially put on there. Um, you don't have to

Oh, that's true. Well, I'd still like I'd still like to take the temperature of of council to see if there's a support for this in general. Okay. Um, I think I've gotten some feedback from the community and I think we may have been a little bit premature in um in deciding to wait and see with a measure regarding um rent control in our mobile home facilities. um a bunch uh quite a few members of residents there have come forward to say that they are very concerned and my concern is that if we wait and see it becomes too late for a lot of our most vulnerable residents with regards to housing. Um so I personally I'd like to see uh at least look into the potential measure. I know Hay Rica is looking into something similar and I think it would be a good time to follow suit.

So it would be a rent control uh ch difference. It' be there'd be a difference probably a lower lower cap than what the state is. Is that what you're correct? Yeah. Um most of the ones I've seen it'll be something around the lines of like 3 to 5% plus CPI instead of the 10% that the state mandates. Or about CGI you mean mobile could get discussed. favorites.

All right. Any other Oh, go ahead. Do you want to add um uh you mentioned an article where uh the mobile home uh park in question um is actually uh was it owned by a hedge fun? Uh I'm not referring to a specific one in general. Um but it was I I think just any of the ones with that in city limits but not not directed at anyone specifically. All right. If that's it meeting

happy holidays. Merry Christmas everybody. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Happy new year. We'll see you