Common Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, good evening. 603. We'll bring this uh uh actually we got some presentation recognitions and public hearings and then we'll do a call to order after that. So, first we get to have the good things and that's uh uh presentation recognitions from the police department. So for officer Brad Layman if you could come up and deputy chief cute please just come up and make a few words out your family A couple weeks ago, Chief Per and I held interviews for uniform sergeant um along with the police commission and uh we had three excellent candidates um all known to have a track record of doing outstanding police work. I'm proud to recognize one of those officers whose leadership, integrity, and dedication have consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty. A promotion is not only about rank. It's about trust, responsibility, and the ability to lead others by example. Officer Brad Layman has demonstrated all these qualities every day for the past seven years. Through steady judgment, commitment to community, and unwavering professionalism, Officer Layman has earned the respect of his peers, supervisors, and the citizens we serve. Brad leads with fairness, calm demeanor under pressure, and displays a genuine concern for public safety, well-being of fellow officers. Brad is a member of the department tactical team. He has a specialty as a certified sniper on that team. He's trained numerous recruits over the last seven years and as a go-to officer for questions and guidance. It's with great confidence, pride that we promote officer Brad Layman to the rank of uniform sergeant. We know he'll

continue to uphold the highest standards of this department and inspire those who serve alongside him. Please join me in congratulating Officer Brad Layman. Stand over here. Mayor's D will swear to him. Yes. It was exciting day for uh Officer Layman, soon to be Sergeant Layman. If you guys could put your hand on his shoulders as he raises a right hand and does the swearing again. I state your name. I Bradley Layman. Do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I'll support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and faithfully discharge my duties. And faithfully discharge my duties

as sergeant of the city of Portland Police Department. as sergeant of the city of Corland Police Department. kind of neat unique that uh they're all talents. I did not know that these were your in-laws till tonight. You guys got some great families. This is a lot. Excited. Excited to have doing it. We're excited for the future. And

of the badge, who got the honors? You know, that's what the big delight. between Thank you. You guys can go. Thank you for coming.

Thank you. Thank you.

Sign up. I do not see Miss Sman on there. Okay. Public hearing number one, proposed local law to allow Common council to set city fees, fines, and penalties by resolution. Second call on the proposed local law public hearing number one to allow common council to set city fees, fines, and penalties by resolution. Last call before we close the public hearing on public hearing number one, proposed local law to allow the common council to set fees, fines, and penalties by resolution. Seeing none, we'll close that public hearing. Public hearing number two, propose local law to establish rental fire and safety inspections and rental certificate. I do have somebody signed up in this place.

I would just like to read into the red. Oops. Sorry. I would just Why is it not? It should be.

Hello. Now read into record a letter that I sent to all the other people of expressing concerns about the proposed law to establish rental and fire safety inspection and rental certificates. And my concern is that just for one section of it, the rental permit law should comply with the existing zoning code, not the reverse. Of interest and concern is the change of the definition of family. And what's proposed is quote family shall be any group of indiv individuals residing in a single dwelling unit. This is very vague to the point of having no value. No other municipality in New York State uses this definition. None. And it does not follow the city of Courtland's existing zoning code definition of family. And many municipalities near Courtland have adopted a functional family concept, which Courtland already has. including the city of Ithaca, the town of Courtlandville, the town of Onida, the town of Oniata, the village of Hamilton, the city of Platsburg, Bingington, etc. The common thread among these municipalities is that they have a large student population and their definitions are used to distinguish between a stable functional family and household and transient rooming house arrangements. And the city's current zoning code definition does encompass functional families. And a functional family as you know has many

different aspects. Uh zoning in general controls the use and size and density of properties. It supports and regulates the community by the creation of a positive environment and growth, property values, neighborhood character, and public services. The current residential districts in Portland are R1, R2, R3, and R4. Each district has different housing types. With the new definition, none of this will matter. In an R1 district, a single family dwelling unit could have multiple people living in a house based solely on the size and number of bedrooms. My house could fit 14 people by the building code and they're not using this dwelling as their permanent residence. It would be fine if you had a you were living there permanently. A residence could also be used by a group of people for a short-term vacation rental under this new definition. After all, Oops. You're saying my three minutes is up.

That's the timer. Just finish your thought. Yeah.

Okay. Thank you. Uh for a short-term vacation rental as they're all albeit temporarily residing in a in a residence as a family under the definition which goes to the concerns about BMV. Uh, Courtland has a shortage of affordable housing for long-term rent and for those who are permanent contributing members in the city. This change will severely affect the composition and value of the housing stock. And to sum up, numerous numerous studies have shown people living temporarily in a community are less likely to be involved in volunteering boards and contributing to the general welfare. If this is not their permanent address, they are not voting here and they are still using community resources. So I ask you, how does this new family definition promote the health of the city and what is its purpose? And so I respectfully ask you that you consider section 103-28 of the proposed law which is effect on other laws in this regulation that and just give it further discussion and that you don't vote on it tonight that you table it especially since I see some of your members are not here tonight either. I think it just needs further defining and thinking about what's going to happen as a result of this. Portland needs to be strengthened, not weakened. So, I thank you for your time.

Thank you. Thank you, Jim.

Thank you. Um, I just will remind you my wife is an architect. She deals with the code department and the building uh codes all the time and uh that's part of the reason for her concern. One of the other reasons why I'm here and some other people from Iron Crest Drive is that uh some time ago the city refused to to uh enforce their codes. We we now have a dwelling that is technically a grooming house and it certainly didn't meet the definition of family. But this law, the question that I have is that I believe the intent is that any structure in the city with a rental dwelling unit is to be required to have a permit. Why not just make that the definition? There's no reason to to change the definition of family in this law. Um, I'd also like to uh uh remind you of things that were discussed the last time we were here. We've heard from several alderman and from the mayor that the cost of legal fees to defend some of the codes has been millions or a million dollars. Uh, I wrote the insurance for the city of Portland for nearly four decades. I was on the I handled the city's self- insurance fund that ran for 11 years. I was on the city safety committee for 25 years. I had and after the last time we were here, I researched about the number of lawsuits involving codes and just lawsuits in general

against the city. I believe, in fact, I'm certain that that is a false statement that say a million or even millions of dollars have been spent by the city defending the codes. Um, and since I've got a little time, I'll just uh give you one more observation. The city changed their trash program a number of years ago and it immediately went over budget. Just from observations on our street, uh the one house that has uh five rumors in it puts out more trash than the entire there's five other houses on the street. It's clear that people in R1 and single family dwellings are subsidizing rental housing for the trash costs and I hope you take that's a separate issue but uh please take it in consideration. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Hello.

Actually, Christine kind of stole my thunder, but she did a much better job of describing uh the whole issue regarding the definition of family, which I'll repeat again, but I'm assuming everyone here has read this entire document and is understands all these definitions. any group of individuals residing in a single dwelling unit. That's it. There's absolutely no other determining criteria. Do every one of you honestly believe that? I mean, is this how you see your family? Is this what you think of Courtland as a community? Just random groups of people living together? This is what you're saying in this document. And this is what people who come into this community as well as the people living here are going to see. This is obviously some kind of an effort on a front that frankly just doesn't seem to make sense. There's no doubt that the family dynamic is and has been changing as has been recognized by communities all over the country. I spent more time than I wanted to looking into family definitions of family, different areas, different parts of the country. And as Christine pointed out, u none of them are like this current definition that's being proposed. But I did find one that according to everything that I was looking through is being accepted on both sides of arguments. When I say arguments, people who want to cram more people in a house, people who don't, people who would just like a definition of what a family really is. So, I'll read this to you and hopefully it will help some consideration.

Family networks of people who share their lives over long periods of time, bound by ties of marriage, blood, law, or commitment, legal or otherwise, who consider themselves as family and who share a significant history and anticipated future of functioning as a family. Ladies and all 2025, I didn't write that. I simply wrote it down. If you pass this local law, obviously the average person coming into our community is not going to read this document. They're not going to read this local law. In fact, they're probably not going to read any local laws. But this definition of family as presented is going to be there and it is going to affect, as Christine pointed out, every single zoning district in this community. stable housing will be at risk because money can be made by not having stable housing. And the dollar speaks and you all know that. If you pass this local law as written, as any number of individuals living together, then you're tearing apart the core values that make us a caring community. I ask you to please table this tonight and reconsider at least this portion of it. There are many other things I found that will present lawsuit nightmares far greater than you have seen before and you need to really consider this entire document. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. My name is Dan Quail and this is my wife Teresa and we live at 25 Lancing AB. Um I'm here to voice my concern. Um I was here on the council when we worked on this definition and we worked hard and long and there was a long discussion. There were several people there was multiple meetings on this type of discuss this change. I mean this is a significant magnitude of change we have right here that will require require an open discussion of density and infrastructure pressure. Backyards are going to disappear. We have a problem with parking. You say that it won't, but they will disappear because as Christine said, when you got 14 bedrooms and everybody's got a car, they're going to find room and they're going to go right in the backyard and you're not going to see it. So, and that's going to continue to put more up cost on trash removal. Collectively, our trash removal cost has gone from $600,000 to this year $1.7 million. More occupants will increase the tonnage. Look around you. Single family put out one dumpster, maybe one a week. If you look at multifamilies, their dumpsters are exponential. I mean, he's Jim's absolutely right. You drive around here, there's five or six dumpsters piled with trash and we are subsidizing rental property. And I and I think we ought to understand that because it's happening every day. So when is so when is this administration going to rectify this and support the single families that are looking for affordable homes? Thank you.

Is there anybody else that would like to speak to public hear and safety inspection and rental certificate? Last call. Okay. Yep.

I live on Price Drive and um I we've lived there almost 40 years or maybe it's even more longer than that. But um and just recently uh a rental unit appeared right next door to us and then we only have five houses on the street, right? What? Six. Six.

And we've lived there a long time for each with the same residents on the street and they're they've all been families or a single person. And um the last two years we've seen I can't I started counting hundred people just coming down the steps from the college. If you don't know where Pinburgh is, it's right next to the college. And they came down and they they were partying and they were yelling and screaming at each other using the f word in every other swear word possible and they that was at 2:00 in the morning. We've seen this several times because the neighbors next door had a part. I don't, you know, there's a lot of people going in and out of there. The last year that I thought they were selling drugs, honestly. Um, so this is, you know, this is our, you know, my husband and I are retired. We've paid off our house. We've paid our taxes on two houses that we've we've bought in Courtland, New York. And you know, your house is something you're proud of and where you welcome your grandkids in and and um to see that kind of behavior because the house is a rental. We've never had anybody who was unfriendly or rude live on our street for years, you know, but we've all lived there. And we would respectfully ask you to change the to further define the definition of family because if we're getting older, if we saw our

houses and it all turns into a party place, like our house is pretty big and could hold a lot of people. Shoot. So I I think it's grew in Courtland and that's why we came to Courtland. We we came first for a job with my husband got a job here and we stayed because we liked Courtland. We stayed because I grew up in a big city, my husband grew up in a small town and we liked Courtland. We raised our kids here. Um and you know, one of my kids just lives in Homer and the other have, you know, gone to other places, Syracuse and DC. But um I would really respectfully ask you to really consider making that definition and not destroy a whole neighborhood. This one and the rest of us, you know, going to appreciate we've we've kept our houses up and we've been peaceful peaceful people. Thank you.

Mr. Mayor, you have one online that would like to speak to this. Miss Caitlyn. Okay. Okay.

I am a property manager, a licensed property manager with a business in the city of Portland. I'm also an associate broker for a real estate agency here in town as well. Um, reading this packet makes my head spin a little bit. Um, you know, the definition of a property manager, um, I think is one of the biggest issues in this packet and in the city of Courtland. my my job requires me to be licensed through New York State in property management and in real estate. I think one of the bigger issues that isn't looked at within this packet is there are so many properties being quote unquote managed by a property manager who in fact is not licensed to do this job. Does not hold any sort of insurance. does not hold any certifications, licensing, um, anything that gives them the ability to actually legally manage properties. And I think that a lot of these things in this packet come down to the validity of somebody's knowledge and ability to do this job accurately with all these issues going on in this point system. I think if the city held property managers or owners to having somebody in town if they're an out of town landlord or having that information accurate, I think really where the root starts with this issue. Uh I've know that I've addressed this with city code many times. I know I pick up my phone as soon as they call if there's any issues because I honestly care about the representation of what I'm managing and I don't want it to be looked at as a problem for single family residential owners. Um, and I think there are so

many landlords, whether they're self-managing or I mean there's very specific property managers and companies in this town that are recognizable by city code and by many people in the city of Courtland. And you know, I think it's a little worrisome that we're kind of not brought into the city of Portland code enforcement. If somebody called me and said, "I want to know your client rent role. I want to know what what properties you're managing." I think that that combats your registration certificates, the fees associated with that. I'm just curious to know how many of these properties are actually not certified as as being registered with the city of Portland. Um, so I think I think with this packet, it's putting an extreme amount of pressure on code enforcement who already has so much to deal with. I think this is just making so much extra work where the root really isn't looked at first by identifying all these properties that should have rental registration. Who's actually managing these properties and are they licensed to do so? I think once you start taking a look at that information and if these people are not registered to do this, there should be a system where, you know, I have to turn my license into the city of Courtland and I'm on a list that, you know, could potentially manage a property. I am licensed. I, you know, I'm insured. I have all of all of the things that I need for the state to be recognized to do this job. And I think that if those were the things that the city really put into consideration, I think a lot of these things maybe wouldn't be really big issues that we we're seeing now.

And that's it. Thank you.

Thank you. Anybody else want to speak to this proposal local law to establish rental priority and safety inspection rental certificate of compliance? Okay, we'll move on to public hearing number three. Proposed local law related to property tax levy authority. Again, proposed local law for public hearing number three. The proposed tax levy authority. Last call proposal of the law relating to South Tax levy authority. We'll close that public hearing and go to the last public hearing on the four proposed 2026 city budget. Anybody here to speak to the proposed 2026 city budget? Public hearing number four. Last call. Proposed 2026 city budget. Hearing none. We'll close up public hearing. And now we'll call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. Council member Barker

here. Council member is not present. Um, council member Lane here. Council member Conland here. Council member Carpenter here. Council member Beckley here. Council member Michaels here. We can all rise 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.

Excuse me. Council member Sllon is present. Good to see you.

Okay. Um, anybody here to have privilege of the floor and public hearing? Anybody for privilege of the floor? Okay. So, then we'll go right to the mayor's. Um, so on the 5th, we had the light my life hostas event. Thanks, Mr. Beck. That was a great event. and Homer. Um, Operation Toy Train came through on the 6th at 130th Community Center. Um, Shackles a cop. There was 60 kids were able to participate this year thanks to impactful donations from everybody in the community. I did I was able to uh follow the caravan over to Walmart, which is an excitement in itself. And then went to Walmart and uh what a great experience that was to have the Walmart employees all clapping the kids as they came in. It meant a lot to the police officers. is a great thing for the police officers and for the kids. It was a great thing. Uh I want to bring you know u to attention on the 12th we lost a pillar for our community. Uh Dave Aman um he's the founder of uh CRT and uh community arts and the homer there and shaped a physical and econom economic landscape in our community through his investments in our community. You know it started off with his father Jim and then he continued on. he was a lot more quiet about doing it, but he has definitely been missed. He's a mentor to myself as long as others. Um, and then we had the manura lighting on the 14th. Uh, so in a partnership with Rabbi Heck, so that was a great event. Uh, it's always great to see their what they've done. On the good news side, received a permit grant for $5,000 for a new washer and dryer for the fire department for station two so they can wash their turnout gear there. So, we have different locations to be able to do that. That was something we just received on the 15th. And then coming up, we have the downtown holiday window painting contest that runs at the uh

16th through the 28th. So that's online judging. It's Parker School cutting tomorrow for the new playground at Parker School in the gym. So that's at uh 1:30 tomorrow, Derek. Is that I thought that was earlier. Yeah, 1:30 tomorrow. Yes. So that's a Parker School. So get a chance to go over there and see what's been done over there. Looking it's looking great. Um, as much as you know, um, others have said ahead, this really, it looks nice over there and it's getting some good use. Uh, the community court community center holiday lighting judging, uh, I'll be doing that tomorrow evening with them. And then our New Year's Eve, which is the first time we've done that, starts at 11 on New Year New Year's Eve day, 11 a.m. Uh, live broadcast, a lot of stuff for balloon drop, a countdown with X101's going to be there. uh beacon skip cider toast uh all kinds of events kind of happening down there and then the ball drop of course at midnight on main and ball drop and the fireworks at midnight. So the ones that can't stay up hit noon and the ones that can stay up hit hit the later that would be great. That's what I have. Um so we'll move toward reports one. Well, I don't have anything really to report Ward one, but I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, mayor, for appointing me, June, serving my short six months here. I've had a ball doing this and I've had a lot of excitement, learned a lot of the city, and really appreciate everything that was given to me.

It's been a pleasure. Happy. Thank you. Um, war two basic.

We had some excitement in W actually technically W three. Uh, I understand um the police apprehended a felon who was sheltering in a home on Clayton A and I really appreciate their efforts to keep the city safe and and arrest that person. Also, just today I've got news that there are beavers building a dam under Otter Creek Bridge under Grten A. Um, in the past, this is something DPW's taking care of. So, I will be in touch with um Mike at DPW to talk to him about how he can get his crew together and um take care of that problem. I really regret not being able to come to a lot of these public events, to any public events. I'm just not allowed to because of my illness, but I look forward to joining you guys someday in the future.

That's it. Look forward to having it for sure. Thanks, Katie. Thank you. Thanks, Katie. Miss L.

Um, I received several phone calls, emails snail mail uh regarding the upcoming uh discussion on definition of family. So I will be talking about that at that time. Um college kids have have gone home so traffic is um much better now. Um getting out of my driveway anyway. Um so things pretty quiet, beautiful. Thank you, Mr. Collins.

Things have been cold and snow, but I think that's the whole city. Uh, looking forward to discussing the budget. Thanks, Mr. Card. Um, just a reminder about fire hydrants. I bring it up every year. If you have a fire hydrant on your property, please keep it clear. If you're unable to do it, make a phone call to sell the fire department out today. you're doing some just remember that fire protect your house as well as everybody else's. So, um if you need help doing it or whatever and you're same with the sidewalks,

thank you, Mr. Mus. uh a few emails uh regarding the adoption of our uh local law under a uh regarding uh the same thing in definition of uh you know I've read that definition over and over again and uh one thing that definition does uh make quite clear it does not discriminate against anyone uh living in these properties. Uh as many of you recall back when uh we tried to adapt this uh years ago, college students were basically the the target overcrowding of these these properties. And uh I just just wanted to point out that it's kind of what I'm leaning towards tonight. And that's kind of what I've been telling the individuals that uh that have reached out to me. That's all I have for my word for. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. To agenda item number one, adopt local law number seven of 2025 authorizing the common council to set city fees, fines, and penalties by resolution. Resolved that the city of Corland County Council adopts the following as local law number seven of 2025. Removing specified dollar amounts for fees, fines, and penalties from the city code. granting the common council authority to set and modify such charges by resolution of the council. A motion current any questions or discussions?

Just real quick, I think someone that I read through quite expensively and not to drag this on, but I think we talked about it before. When can we change this? Anytime or we I want to get into it. set up by res. I just think some of the the fines for example shoveling sidewalk should be a lot more heftier that encourage people rather than $100. I think that's all remedy and these could be adjusted

right just point that out some of the other ones most of them are pretty good and all that but doesn't need to be on the sidewalk you show anyway just think people just unless it's a hefty fine I don't know just as long as there's some leeway in case people are in the way yeah and there's always exceptions I Roy is usually pretty good, but

yeah, after they stormed us, you'll see a lot of them. We had a lot of people in wheelchairs now handicap. I saw a guy get stuck the other day over on the corner of Maine and Compton and Fort Watson. I was getting ready to pull over in a good scare and jumped out of his car. He was going to the diner and pulled over and gave him push because they're not keeping their stuff clean. That's all. We'll see how it goes. Anybody else? Please.

Council member Parker. Hi. Council member Sullivan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Con. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Beckwith. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi. Agenda item number two. set schedule of city fees, fines, and penalties.

Resolved that the city of Portland council adopts the following uh excuse me, jumping ahead here. So many pages. I resolved that the city of Coral County Council adopts the city of Courtland schedule of fees, fines, and penalties included with the meetings agenda supporting documents which shall become effective January 1st, 2026. And be it further resolved that the city clerk shall publish that fee schedule on the city website, make print copies available at city offices. I get a motion. Thank me. Any questions? Please. Council member Barker.

Hi. Council member Sllan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conway. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Beckwood. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi. Agenda item number three. adopt local law number 8 2025 establishing rental fire and safety inspection and rental certificate of compliance. Resolved that the city of Corland County Council adopts the following as local law number 80 2025 relating to rental fire and safety inspections and certificates of compliance. A motion motion put on the floor discussion.

Yeah. I didn't get I'll move on discussion. Okay.

I'm not going to be able to support this. Okay. With that definition of family, Mr. Reiner, the Reiner family owns student housing. That in my opinion is just kept up beautifully. And if there's so many people who who uh have property and I I believe we should talk to this, you know, Oiana and Bington and all the places that also have college housing and see how they how they define family. Mr. Could you come up and just I'd be nice to address some of the questions and some of the concerns that that were brought up as well. Take a good time to talk about it so we can u

Sure. Um I hate to lose sight of the bigger picture over the definition of families. I understand it's a it's a big issue and I am new to the area so I I certainly didn't live through the battles that went on with it before. Um the definition of family as it exists today um it's very broad and it would be pretty easy to overcome. Um it talks about a traditional family. What is a traditional family in today's day and age? Um I would hope that as a city of Corland we're not saying that we only want to rent to married men and women and that's what we're excluding it to because we're saying it's a traditional manner. I don't think that's what it is. But but we don't

we don't define what a traditional family is. It gives a lot of other terms like permanent. What does it mean to to have permanent residency there? If somebody comes in for two semesters, guys, can we just let let's let's hear it out so we can hear the whole

and and that's the problem. We talked about not two semesters that that there is on its face not being uniform in the application. the definition needs to deal with it. Whether it's four nurses that are coming in and renting a house to work at the hospital for six months or whether it's a students coming in to to live there for two semesters, I have no problem reworking the definition of family. The goal of this law was not to undermine the definition of family. That definition has not been enforced by the city for the last four years. It's problematic. The rooming house definition is even more problematic. If you read the rooming house definition on its face, it makes no sense whatsoever. You can't read it and apply it. If you take the rooming house definition word for word, it says any group of people living in any multiple group of buildings can't number more than 10. So, if you live on Tomkins Street, apparently you and your three neighbors can't number more than 10 because it doesn't tell you. It doesn't say on a single parcel in a combined unit of properties. It's it's just it makes no sense on its face. So that's why that we needed to change that. Um what this law actually does is the code department has been doing a great job in my opinion um keeping the properties um to task trying to make things neater. I can tell you since I've been here they've been coming up with new and creative ways to try to um make neighborhoods better. Um I think probably for the first time maybe in the city's history um when we had a party in a residence they not only wrote the tickets for having a party they wrote a ticket for being over occupancy. You think oh over occupancy over occupancy is the bigger bigger ticket that can expose them to 15 days in jail and $1,000 fine for every party. There's nothing in the city code, right? There's nothing in the city code right

now that does that. Um, so we're using tools like that to combat that. When we've had problem properties, we've worked with the landlords um to to work through that. This law comes up with a point system to control the the certificate of rental compliance um and allows the code office to review what's going on at that property to determine if that rental compliance certificate should stay in place or not. Our laws is today for the rental permit law has very little teeth if people aren't registering their properties. It also doesn't do a lot to collect information that we need. Um, the rental permit law doesn't collect a floor plan for the property. This law would. This would allow the fire department when they go to a property to know what the floor plan is, to know what's being used as bedrooms at night, to know where they should expect to find nine people. Um, it's going to get code enforcement in to every rental unit in the city so they can do a safety inspection to make sure that every rental unit has fire extinguishers if they're required. every rental unit has smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and that all the other code things are up to date. We have a number of rental units in this city that are classified as a one or two family that are being self-certified by the landlords. Thankfully, we have a lot of really good landlords and most of those properties are okay, but getting code in there to go through those properties and make sure that they're being maintained properly is key. We're moving from a paradigm that the city has practiced of reactive compliance-based approach to a proactive community risk reduction approach. This is getting out there and dealing with problems before we have it. Um there's a number of other things it does. There's also provision

in this law that will pro prevent protect buyers of properties because right now there's not a good mechanism in place for them to check and see if there are open code violations. This creates that. It will also allow because there will be some teeth to to not having your certificate of compliance. It will allow us to have increased compliance rates. Right now, according to our tax records, we have about 600 two family properties in the city of Courtland. of those 600 two family properties, only 130 of those are currently registered as rentals. So, we have a huge non-compliance rate or we have 470 properties that are both sides occupied by the same family. Um, so I I don't think that's because people don't want to comply. I think most of those people have no idea they even need a rental permit to rent out half of their house. Um, so I mean those are all the things that this law will address. the family definition, keep it as it is, change it, come up with a new one. I would strongly encourage to come up with a new one. I think a lot of the things are problematic in it. You know, when you have undefined terms like permanent, transient, um most people would not say somebody that lives in a community for the majority of four years is a transient, which most college kids do. Granted, they may live on campus for two years, um but that does not look like transit. having hoops for them to jump through, like having a driver's license that says they live in Portland. They can go on the internet and in about 30 seconds with DMV update it to say they live wherever they want to. They want to say they live on Long Island and they go home for the summer, they can change it again. Um, so we need to have meaningful things. U, one of the other things that says cook together as a family. I mean, we're in a society today where half the families don't cook, half of them do takeout all the time. some cooking together as a family. You know, it it doesn't seem like it applies today as much. And additionally, we're a

pro-ousing community, a certified prohousing community, and as we have a housing crisis in our state and nation, we need to look at creative ways to alleviate that. Um, we're going to see more and more situations where you have three or four young people that are, you know, professionals, teachers, nurses, things like that that can't afford to buy a place on their own. So, they're going to choose to rent a place together. Um, most people would probably say if four nurses that work at Guthrie want to rent a house, we think it's grand and they should do it, but we have to make sure we're treating the four students that want to rent a house exactly the same way. this law does that regardless of what the definition of family is. We can work through that. But I want to make sure that we focus on what we're really trying to do with this law. Um the gal that spoke on the behalf of the landlords about the property managers from her lips to God's ears if every property manager was licensed, I think it would be the best thing ever. Unfortunately, we're not there yet. Um it's certainly something we could look at as a city. Um, but we have a number of property managers that aren't licensed. Um, property managers and landlords that have invested in this community for long term are usually good landlords. Absentee landlords that live in New York City or New Jersey or something like that tends to be more problematic. Rarely do they have a local property manager that's licensed or even professional. Um, I deal with it every week when we I have Monday morning court with code and the folks that show up at property managers, she's right. They're not professional. They can't understand the law. A lot of them don't understand um, you know, what's going on. I think that most of them are nothing more than a phone number that can be answered. So, people in New York City aren't bothered and then they call a repair man locally to come in and fix what's wrong. Um, I mean, professional property managers

would be great. Um, so that being said, I I just don't want to lose sight of all the good things we can do with this law. Take the definition out, amend it, come back and work on that another month or so. Great. But the law itself does so much good. It gets us moving in the right direction. I would hate to see us wait another year to roll that out because it's going to take us three years to implement it anyway because we have to go through a full rental permit cycle, which is three years. Randy, do we know what other cities do about about student I mean the only Bingham?

Every city has tried it. Some cities have been more aggressive with it than others. I mean if you look at the city of Ithaca they're extremely aggressive when they come to the codes department. Um but I mean what is their definition of family? Have they defined family? A lot of them have removed the words like traditional. There's a wide range of what the family is defined as. Um

I mean I I agree you can't say traditional family you know mom of two point or mom and dad with 2.3 children but to have 10 people living in a 10bedroom house which we have a lot of big houses that landlords can rent to. I I'm sorry. I don't consider those 10 people living together as a family.

And Delh High was mentioned and that that's a really good city to mention or village to mention because their Sunni campus has grown exponentially. Um we have been very lucky with Sunni Courtland. They have done controlled growth. It has grown but we haven't seen a 40% raise in enrollment in one year which is what Delh High saw. they're because limited to three people and tried to do that. They've seen a giant sprawl of student housing because of the lack of student housing. So, what they're seeing is almost every house that comes up for sale is being turned into a student rental because the kids can't get housing near campus. They're commuting 45 minutes to an hour just to go there. So, when a house comes up, it becomes student housing no matter what neighborhood it's in. So to some extent it's a balancing act. It's making sure that the neighborshoods maintain their integrity. It's making sure that the neighborhoods have a quality of life, but it's also creating a density that prevents a sprawl of student housing. Um if anything, I think since we and and you've you can say that this is not the result of not enforcing three unrelated because there's a ton of factors to come into it. we were talking about COVID and this and that the other thing and everything else, but if anything, I think you've seen a retraction in the footprint of student housing over the last four years versus a sprawl. Um, the mayor probably can give better facts than I have because he's been here for the four years, but I don't think the three unrelated law had prevented sprawl. I don't think it's created sprawl, not enforcing. So, I don't know that it's had a real effect either way. So, I think coming up with a system that addresses these quality of life of issues because the quality of life issues, the parties, the things like that, that's what we need to address. We need to stop um if you put 10 students in a house and they're the 10 best

students or it's 10 nurses or 10 teachers um because the governor's come up with some new program that allows us to have more teachers per student or something like that and they need housing, we're probably not going to get the complaints. You could have 10 rowdy teachers, I suppose, too. Um, but as a general rule, students tend to cause more problems. So that's the the population we normally deal with. I mean, when I have noise complaints, one of every 10 might come from a non- studentent housing unit. I mean, they they do come from non- studentent housing units, but they're much more less likely. Um, you know, house parties, they're only student housing units. I mean, so far, I mean, I suppose I could get one that's not, but so far they've only been student housing. So, I understand that student housing is a major concern. We need to control it and we need to make sure that we're doing it in a uniform manner that doesn't discriminate against the four nurses that live together or the four teachers that live together.

Yeah. I mean, I don't necessarily think three unrelated is the way to go because you have landlords who have houses with 10 bedrooms and they're not going to have seven bedrooms empty. So, I mean, it's not necessarily the three related, but I'd like to know what other what other college towns have with what they do. It's there's a large mix. And just because a lot of the towns or cities have them on the books does not mean they're actively enforcing them. There's a number of towns that have said it's not worth the fight. Um, so I mean there's a lot of things that are on the books that are no longer enforced.

Can I Katie, can I please add something? So I've lived on Pleasant Street up by the college for the past 20 years and I think what we have is a communication problem. You may have done a lot of work on this, but it's not clear to people who are worried about their neighborhoods how this will preserve neighborhoods. It's not clear to me how it will preserve my neighborhood, which has degraded over the past 20 years. Upper Clayton A is an R1 district and it used to be predominantly owner occupied. Now it is predominantly student rental and people say, "Oh, change the zoning. Why should it be R1? It's rentals." Now, that's that's how you get this degregation. And that's what other people are afraid of having happen to their neighborhoods. That's what the people in Pinerest are afraid of. They see it happening with one house and they see the potential for other houses to flip. And I really liked what the property manager woman said. We do need more professionals to care about the properties that they're managing and to be more handson and that would greatly reassure people in the neighborhood. I can't vote for this because because I don't think that we've rolled it out well enough to to the constituents of the city. I think they need to see the big picture and how it fits together. Right now, the fear is that it's going to make it easier for landlords, even if the fines and

everything are in place and that it is going to make it harder to maintain neighborhoods, the the quality and the character of neighborhoods. Given Thanks, J. Given that we're open to reconsidering the interpretation of family, I'd like to motion to strike 10328, set another public hearing on family and occupancy, and move forward the rest of the legislation.

Well, and I 10328 is actually the section that says that this law, the most restrictive law should apply. There's Roman numerals underneath there. You want Roman Roman? That's correct. Okay. Yes. Thank you. So, we got that cleared. Um, that's a motion to make that amendment. Got to get a second. I'll second. 103-28 underneath it. And we still have any discussion involved in at this point.

Well, we can still we have discussion. That's an amendment. have a discussion for sure. And you know, I'd like to make a couple comments, too. So, I think we should do that. Um, so I got a second, right? Yep. Okay. All those in favor for the amendment change?

I so continue the conversation. You know, we sat back talking to the readers now. I know Mike was on that board. You talked about all these things in the front system and trying to get the merits with local communities. And thus years ago, years ago, we're trying that's that's what all this that's where this all developed from uh you know and over the time and period that we've seen the sprawl that Katie was talking about. You know, there was a time and period where um it was exactly what Randall was alluding to in other communities where Grown State was growing. We had some dormitories that were being remodeled and done and now we're kind of on the other side of that where the dormitories or now they're going to build another. The dormitories that are occupied. So now there's a a need, you know, there's empty student housing now, not as much as there used to be. You know, I was a zoning board chair prior to uh this position here. And um I sat in front of the Supreme Court and for a couple different cases that were brought up about this the the families and what's unrelated and grandfathering and and those are all considerations we really need to consider about all of that. So that was some of the wording came because you know the grandfathering in and just trying to get that so everybody had a rental permit. Everybody's on a fair shake. There's a lot of uh two families that are stretched into more. It's the quality of life issues that we really have been focused on boat office and that's why we've had a lot less complaints and a lot less problems and there's still a long ways to go but then there then we get left out with the teeth that we can grab a hold of some of these issues and some of these problem areas that we've done. Um, other than, uh, you know, we haven't really had any more. Actually, we got back on Lincoln. We're able to get back single family homes back in there. And one of the single family homes I can think of, I listed a bunch of them. There's one on Albino with four nurses on it, but there's a house on Lincoln AB that has a couple that is not married. They bought the house in the way they can afford it is to rent out two rooms. So, you know,

I mean, I don't know that they define as a family. And I think some of that needs to really be considered. I think we can probably get into that. And then it has to tie into our zoning co code which Christine brought up which is a very good point and that is something we're looking to reh develop as well. Uh so we get some of that zoning code and I think a lot of the issues that everybody's having in the in their communities whether it's backyard parking up on Clayton but if you go back to Clayton even the issue that uh someone was talking about in a ward report was not student housing. So we yeah we we have these issues we have these quality of life issues that span across the board and I think uh we need to address all of those as you and without somebody winning a court case that we're picking on them because they're student housing or the otherwise. So I think that maybe addressing that that that part of the law would be greater.

So we should address the code issue before we move forward or the zoning issue before we move forward with this.

No, we need to do that. this would be our tooth behind it and then the zoning would follow because we're doing our strategic plan right now. The strategic plan is offset for us and that's going to be a complicated issue. I think Jim was involved with that. I was as well last time and that was quite the mess and uh some of it didn't get the way we we thought it was adopted when it was over. So, it needs to be really reviewed and get to I think you said the apples will go to the cart whenever. So but this this should be pulled forward first. So that gives them the teeth they have to seek that compliance again uh we can we can address it but this is what's been working for the last four years and I think we can continue on with that. Anybody else?

I think a lot of us have lost uh sight regarding our code office. Our code office is much larger than what it is and those individuals are much more aggressive. uh regarding uh poaching uh violations and issues within the city. Uh uh we uh were supposed to uh have in the budget this year uh another uh code officer to assist with the the existing ones. And uh I didn't I didn't see that in the budget where Rory Roy didn't express an interest of getting another person in that position which would strengthen uh uh this this these changes much more than uh they used to uh address. So to adapt to adapt to that, we did u get the uh nonops code ops be able to take up more for the inspections and to help boost up to get these whatever number we're up to for the two families that are not in compliance and the ones that are owner certified which are our main state or our fire calls is those ones that are owner certified. So the majority of our calls are to them uh for fires and so that that would enhance that

and having uh property managers that have a local contact has always been an issue. Uh especially uh off-site managers or out of state managers uh having a a current phone number to be able to reach that's always been an issue too. I would like to find the means to really uh strengthen that that those issues there. We have trouble with see some local landlords that own I mean we have they're not responsive for public. Yeah. Well, that's where they all

Yeah. Yeah. One of the things the new law requires is for all property owners to provide a good phone number and a good email address for them when they sign up for their inspection. And if they have a local manager to provide the same thing, that's that's been the the goal all along, but it doesn't always work. Then they won't get a certificate of rental compliance. Well, maybe you go everybody else. Okay. Okay. So, we'll move the uh amended vote.

Yeah. Amended with amended resolution to take out that so that road enforcement has the ability to enforce it once that certain please get a motion and a second member. Yes, I did. But then on the the motion itself, I'll motion it to a vote as a motion. I'll second it.

Council member Murker. Hi, Council Member Sullivan. So, this is voting for the amendment. Yes. Yeah. Roll context of the amendment. I, Council Member Laney, I, Council Member Conlin, hi. Council member Carpenter, hi. Council member Beckwith, hi. Council member Michaels. Hi.

Uh, agenda item number four, adopt local law number nine of 1.5 relating to property tax levy authority. Resolved that the city of Portland County Council adopts the following as law number nine of 2025 authorizing the override of the tax levy limit for fiscal year 2026. And a motion slative any questions? Again, we just do this out of make sure that if we did some math wrong or something, but we don't anticipate it happening. Move it, please. Council member Barker. Hi. Council member Silivan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conland. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Beckwitch. Hi. Council member Michaels.

Hi. Agenda item number five. Adopt 2026 city budget and tax rates.

Right. The uh resolutions in here are very lengthy. I will leave out some of the administrative conferences and kind of get to the heart of them here. Resolved that the 2026 general fund budget is adopted in the amount of 28,916,487.93 which sets forth a general fund tax levy of $11 million $251,98 and a tax rate of $1287 per $1,000 of assessed value. And it be further resolved that the 2026 water fund budget is approved in the amount of 2,612,000 29 2,612,02983 and be it further resolved that the 2026 wastewater fund budget is approved in the amount of 5 million50,663.93. 3 cents. And be it further resolved uh that pursuant to article 21 section C2112 of the city charter four copies of the adopted 2026 budget shall be certified by the city clerk with one such copy to be filed in the office of the mayor and one each in the offices of the director of administration finance city clerk and one placed at the cor 3 library and available electronically at awes. A motion Michael Beck with discussion. So in January of 2024, the council moved unanimously to pursue a review from the state over our finances with the financial restructuring board. Um from my understanding that was never

pursuable. uh it would have given insights as to the city's finances and provided some uh potential guidance as well as grant as to how to improve the city's financial state. Uh I would just like an update on what occurred with that. Uh had did the council hear back on that?

U I I think we might have reported about it. We discussed it. Uh the uh restructuring board we went to them and you know they they haven't been as active as they were. I don't think they've had a meeting 202 we have any record up but when we communicated with them we needed to get our ducks in a row we need to have our AUD done our financials in we have audit our current audit done so uh they it was recommended by them to break when to get that all review that they would they would look at it but they typically look at they don't look at like necessarily our financials in that level of detail but the audit does by the controller But they'll look at like IT services and who you're using an IT services, trash services, how are your trash services, but how you're you know how you're doing that you know I think some of the ones we read into they were installing LED lights we've done all those you know um was one that won I think u Amsterdam was a city they had done and

1.6 six million in grants the federal about tearing down a building. One was you know some of the money was if they uh sold the golf course or sold a building that was on their golf course. There's so there's things those kind of items that would give them towards you know efficiencies maybe new lighting the LED lighting helped get a grant toward that. Um so uh that's why we went for it but they but we need to have our finances in order to be able to do that. So that was 2024 in January 2024. Yeah. So uh so um we were hoping that uh by this year we would have that be able to get that done in time to be able to get those audits in.

The reviews also could provide some guidance like collective bargaining. So I think that's another another area where not having it was detrimental to this budget process. Well, it would have been nice to have had all brand didn't have it. Yes. So will we be pursuing this in the future? as soon as we Yes, absolutely. We have been in contact with them. As soon as we get everything in order and we get our uh AV done and our audit done in a timely fashion, which we're working to do this year as we've been diligent, we're going to try to get out of it ahead of time. That's was submitted for them. I hope the office I appreciate that. Um given the council actually passed it from my understanding has not been really followed up on. I will be voting no on that, but I do appreciate the explanation.

I'm sorry, say that again. Uh given that the council unanimously passed to pursue this and from my understanding it hasn't been clearly conveyed to the council what happened from there. Uh I I don't believe the council was given the information it requested and because of that I question whether or not we're making sound decision on this budget when we could have had insight as to how to restructure it as well as grant. So I will be voting no but I do appreciate the explanation. Okay. The council went through every uh since what October October 15th when we released the budget after that we went through the budget line by line process that we could do better. Is it recent?

Yes. Including from having gotten that second opinion from the state. The then financial director for the city when this was passed spoke glowingly about how it was a great opportunity for a second opinion from experts at the state and outside entity that could shine some light and they're looking for efficiencies right that's what that's what they do they don't they don't

all savings from that any savings we may have realized would have offset cuts or other things in this budget got okay Okay. Well, with that, I think u any other questions on the edits that Beth had made on the budget, but anybody got documents on any other questions for it? Okay, please. Council member Murker. Hi. Council member Sllivan, I. Council member Lane, I. Council member Conland, nay. Council member Carpenter, nay.

Council member Beckwell, nay. Council member Michaels. Hi. Uh, the measure has four eyes and three nays. Fails for lack of a majority. Okay.

So, just so everybody's in record. So, that'll revert back to my the mayor's budget for the beginning of the year. We'll have to uh regroup and we'll have a meeting set up. We'll set up a meeting in January, I guess, and uh figure out we'll have continual meetings till we figure out what we're going to cut and uh where where that's going to go and uh come up with the game plan for that. Okay. Agenda item number six, authorize special wastewater assessment and adopt 1.6 six rates.

The resolve that the city of Toronto County Council does hereby levy a special wastewater assessment in the amount of 1,351,846 to be applied to debt services and be it further resolved that the county council does hereby adopt the following schedule of wastewater rates effective April 1st, 2026. The quarterly minimum charge shall be $40.30 per unit. That is no increase. uh same as last year and the unit charge above 10 units is $4.3 per unit. Again, uh that's a level rate from last year. And be it further resolved that the city clerk shall publish said rates and charges in the city of Portland's official newspaper. End of resolution. I motion back with Mr. Carpenter. Any questions on this? Mot.

Council member Murker. Hi. Council member Sllivan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conwell. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Beckwith. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi.

Authorize special water assessment and adopt 2026 rates. resolve that the city of Coral County common council does hereby levy a special water assessment in the amount of $785,846 to be applied to debt services and cause this resolution be published in the city's official newspaper. Be it further resolved that the county council does uh hereby adopt the following schedule of water rates effective April 1st 2026. The quarterly minimum charge will be43 $3.99 uh representing no increase over last year. The unit charge above 13 units is $4.30 per unit. Uh again no increase over last year and in both this and the previous resolution I have an extra uh resolved about publishing it. So I'll make that correction. Make

a motion. Miss Lang Mr. Any questions? Mer, please. Council member Barker. Hi. Council member Silhan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conley. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Beckwith. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi.

Agenda item number eight. Authorize special storm water systems assessment and adopt 2026 charge. the resolve that the city of Portland County Council does hereby levy a special assessment charge of 93 cents um per foot of street address frontage of each property parcel located in the city to be included within the 2026 tax bill for storm water system preservation, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, reconstruction uh in accordance with the final 2026 tax rule. And be it further resolved that the city clerk shall publish that rates and charges in the city of Portland's official newspaper.

Motion second questions move, please. Council member Barker. Hi. Council member Sllan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conway. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Beckwith. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi. Agenda item number nine, confirm mayor's appointments to boards and commissions.

Resolve that the city of Colin County Council does hereby confirm Mayor Steve's appointments as listed below. Uh being reappointed to the board of public works uh for a three-year term to end December 31st, 2028. Terresa Quail, Alan Ricatelli, Mary Lou Bardwell, appointed to the ethics board for a two-year term. Julie Rayani, Darren Lehy, Gary Van Gorder, Randall Lewis being reappointed to the fire commission uh for a five-year term. Chris Hodgekus uh being reappointed to the historic commission for three-year terms. Chris Ryan, Kate Okonnell, Richard Stop being appointed to the planning commission to fill a vacancy for a term ending December 31st, 2031. Amy Bucks, uh being reappointed to the planning commission for a term ending 2032, sevenyear term, full term. uh Mike Sword out uh being appointed uh to fill a vacancy on the zoning board of the fields for a term to end December 31st, 2028. David Burker and uh being reappointed to the board for a 5-year term, Kyle Davis.

All right, any questions or I guess this week, you have any questions? Move, please. Council member Marker. Hi. Council member Sllohan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conlin. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Beckwith. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi.

Uh, agenda item number 10. Sorry. Thank you. Adopt city medical cost reimbursement council. Resolved that the city of Portland County Council hereby adopts the medical cost reimbursement policy effective immediately as the official procedure for processing claims under the mandate of resolution number 182 of 2025. I get a motion second any questions please. Council member Murker. Hi. Council member Silivan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conland. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Yay.

Council member Becket. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi. Agenda item number 11. Approve event permits for New Year's Eve party and midnight on May.

Resolve that the city of Corland County Council hereby authorizes uh or does hereby approve permits as described below for issuance by the city clerk. Uh the event uh the first event is a new year party uh December 31st. It'll take place 11:00 a.m. to 100 p.m. uh on Main Street in between Bron and Central A. Um, and uh, Main Street will be closed from Bronad to Central from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. And then later in the day, midnight on Maine, uh, taking place from 10:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Main Street, uh, between Port Street and Tomkins Street. Uh Main Street will be closed between Port and Tomkins from 1000 p.m. to 12 uh 30 a.m. and um from the intersection of Maine, Tomkins, and Port Watson uh going in a oneb block radius on each of those streets uh will be closed from approximately 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Have a motion.

SL a second. Mr. Carter, any questions? Move it, please. Council member Barker. Hi. Council member Stan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conlin. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Beckwith. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi.

Uh, agenda item number 12. Set a second public hearing for CDBG grant members enterprise assistant program number 285me 564-24. Resolve that the city of Portland shall hold the required second public hearing for the CDBG microenterprise assistance program grant on January 6, 2026 at 6 p.m. immediately prior to the regularly scheduled meeting of the common council in city hall, 25th Street, Portland, New York. I motion any questions? All those in favor? Hi

13. Is that a public hearing proceeding to grant ladder truck replacement grant for number 285 PF133-2? resolve that the city of Corland shall hold a required second public hearing for the CDC late ladder truck replacement grant on January 6, 2026 at 6 p.m. immediately prior to the regularly scheduled meeting of the council and city hall. And uh just to make a note that the amount of the grant for the ladder truck was 1 million, not 1 billion. Any question? We got a motion.

Motion, Mr. Carpenter. Any questions? All those in favor? I agenda under number 14, authorized memorandum of agreement between the Portland Police Department and the Graten Police Department for use as a polygraph footage. Resolved that the city of Corland council will hereby authorize Mayor Steve Vandor andor is designate to execute a memorandum of agreement between the Corland Police Department and the Grand Police Department for the mutual use of polygraph equipment. Mr. Collins, Mr. Carpenter, any questions? Cheyenne, we got a polygraph operator now or no? Uh, yes.

Oh, so they're going to use our equipment. We can send our and they'll do it. That's a good way to do it without having to train somebody. Yeah. Anybody else? Move it, please. Council member Murker. Hi. Council member Silan. Hi. Council member Lane. Hi. Council member Conlin. Hi. Council member Carpenter. Hi. Council member Becker. Hi. Council member Michaels. Hi. Agenda item number 15. accept and recognize donations to the police department.

Uh resolved that the town council hereby accepts and appropriates the donations listed below and expresses its sincere gratitude to the generosity of the donors. Um Mrs. Imbascati uh made a donation the amount of $200 to the K9 program. I believe that's the third donation she's made this year. Uh Precision Electrical made a donation to shop with the cop. all the following and made donations to the shop with a comp program. Judian Lynn Decker, $50. William Olstead, $55. Judy and Lynn, um, sorry, that's a duplicate. Uh, Eve's broadcasting $250 at JMS plumbing and heating for Dallas.

Make a motion to accept. Mr. Collins, carer, any questions? Okay. All those in favor? I post carries. All right. Um, so one last thing I I'm going to ask for um go into executive executive session uh for for possible litigation. Um and I would like to get a motion to move that motion. Mr. Con, Miss Lane. Um Mr. Car have to request that you not for that. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So we'll be doing executive session. I don't expect anything after something like that.

Okay. So, let's uh go on your pause for us, right? Yeah. Um there's a pause. that we will pause the audio or pause this or put people in waiting list.

Yep. So, we're still live here. We have mute now. Okay. For those folks that are participating via video conferencing Zoom, we are going to executive session. of when we come back into regular session, we will unpause uh the recording and the video and audio and open that back up uh into the open meeting. So, you're welcome to state a motion for Mr. Beck to reconsider agenda item number five, adopt Lage 6, city budget tax rate. Uh, Miss Lane, Miss Lane, Miss Lane, second that. And, uh, certainly you can make a comment if you want to.

I just like I don't know if we need to make a revote or I'd just like to take my name to EA. Okay. We'll do a revote. I think we did a roll call vote. We'll do another roll call vote and u move that forward. Okay. Anybody else have any more discussions about it? Okay. So, we'll start with board one. Yeah. Okay. Uh so to following the role on agenda item number five to adopt the 20126 city budget and tax rates. Um council member Marker I. Council member Sllan I member.

Council member Carpenter. Council member Beckwith. Hi. Council member Mitos. Hi. Okay, I guess. So, uh, motion that motion is approved by a vote of five to two. We'll see everybody at the vote, right? So, if there will be a motion for adj Mr. Mur. Thank you. Thank you. All in favor? All in favor? I Whatever I need the motion to I I think