City Council - Regular Meeting
The Caldwell City Council honored community heroes, discussed water capacity and future development plans, and approved an extensive 10-year contract with Axon for police technology.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- City Council
- Meeting Type
- City Council
- Location
- Caldwell, ID
- Meeting Date
- October 5, 2026
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All right, good evening, everyone. It is October 5th. It is 6 p.m. I'm going to call to order tonight's Caldwell City Council regular meeting. First of all, welcome. There's many people out in the crowd. We have several great organizations. Of course, our wonderful police department here and our guests and, of course, the news. Thank you for being here tonight. First on the agenda is going to be an invocation, which tonight will be offered by Daniel Becerra, if I said it correctly, from Caldwell First Christian Church, followed with the Pledge of Allegiance. So please stand.
Thank you, Ann, for that wonderful indication. All right, next is a conflict of interest declaration. Are there any members of the council who have a conflict of interest to declare relating to any item on tonight's agenda? Seeing none. Next on the agenda is roll call, Madam Clerk.
All right. We have five councillors present. Sorry for the mix-up in the order. Since we have no conflict of interest declarations, next we're going to move on to special presentations. First is going to be a Mayor's Community Heroes Award. It's going to be Mr. Chris Longs. Can you please... come up here, and Pedro Rodriguez. Thank you. So real quick, I'm just going to read to the public where this is coming from. So I, as mayor of Caldwell, am proud to honor and recognize two brave heroes, Pedro Rodriguez and Chris Bonds, for their courageous actions during a 2024 incident at Caldwell High Sc
All right, I'm going to go ahead and come around. Council, if you wouldn't mind, if you just want to sit or stand, we'll get some quick photos. Just to expand a little bit more on that, you know, we have many, many wonderful SROs that protect our schools each and every day. Our police department, fire department does a lot of great things, but we also appreciate when safe school aides, security folks, and others do, you know, put their lives at risk each and every day to protect our children. So thank you with that. Next on the agenda is going to be a special presentation in which is a proclam
Anything from Council? And thank you all for being here. If you all could stand up real quick. I know there's several staff members that are here. Thank you for all you do. All right, the next agenda item is going to be a letter recognizing Heap Herder's Car Club as Car Club of the Year, and more specifically by the Board of the Idaho Hot Rod Hall of Fame. Sorry, let's do a quick picture before we take off. Thank you, Council President. Thank you, Madam Council President. Just also, any of these proclamations we do, we do put them on the website. So if you ever want to go through and read them
What a great opportunity. Anything from council? Any questions? All right. Just real quick, on behalf of the city of Caldwell, please accept my congratulations on being selected the Car Club of the Year by the Board of Idaho Hot Rod Hall of Fame. This well-deserved honor signifies the dedication, pride, and lasting impact our club has had on the automotive community and our great city of Caldwell. And I'll come down there real quick. Thank you. I did learn an important lesson from our wonderful club that it's not just a hobby. It's a lifestyle so. Prepare to have a big checkbook though. Thank
Do you just want to take a quick break, five-minute break? Or do we want to move on? Let's go and move on to the next while they get the email transferred. Next, we're going to have an introduction of Caldwell's newly appointed city treasurer and finance director. Rochelle, would you please step forward? And would you mind telling us just briefly who you are and the work you do and the combining of the positions? Of course, we all know the great work you do. Thank you.
I'm just going to tell the public, this job is huge. Not only are we talking about a $200 million budget, which most companies don't get anywhere near that, but on top of that, you have all the government rules and regulations that you have to follow and the many, many varieties of revenue. And this is no small task, and we're very excited that you took the job. I appreciate that. Thank you.
Absolutely, and I'll just reflect, counsel, I get to work on a regular basis, and you are great at what you do, and I'm just in awe. I'm glad we were able to keep you and promote you in this dual position. Just for clarity, normally we'd go through an appointment process, but this was an individual that was already appointed, and after consulting with legal, we determined we didn't need to go through that process, but we did go through a merging of the process for those that have been following along with council meetings. Are we looking on the parks plan? All right. We'll go back to that.
Thank you, Art. Counsel? Just real quick, on the survey, does it determine if someone responds more than once, or is it pretty locked in, like someone can't keep going in multiple times?
right that's correct yes all right uh thank you very much we look forward to this we have a lot of great parks of course as the city grows you know our parks will grow and new amenities and such so thank you for your work and uh appreciate looking we look forward to seeing the results i look forward to working with you all too thank you very much all right the final special presentation i will discuss the cobble urban renewal agency's proposed consolidation of tax increment financing areas for site b Central area central area staffs can discuss proposal and of course there'll be time for quest
Council. All right, thank you. Thank you. All right, next on the agenda is going to be audience participation. This section of the agenda is reserved for citizens wishing to address the council regarding city-related issues that are not on the agenda. Any comments regarding any agenda item are out of order and will not be allowed. Comments related to pending public hearings, including decisions that may be appealed to the city council are out of order and should be held for public hearing. Repeated comments regarding the same or similar topics previously addressed. Generally out of order. Comm
So as long as we're not specifying the approval or declining of the contract, correct?
Thank you. Next up is going to be Mr. Ron Dillon.
All right, next on the agenda is, and by the way, that was the, there's only two signed up for public comment. Next on the agenda is approving the consent calendar. These are routine items that are grouped together to be approved in one motion, unless the councilor moves for one or more items to be removed from the consent calendar and considered separately. Since there are no motions to amend the consent calendar, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented.
Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented.
Thank you, Councillor Dittenberg. That's a motion.
Motion and a second from Councillor Tillmont. Any discussion? If not, Madam Clerk. Just a reminder, we have one councillor absent tonight. Motion carries, thank you. You start technology is working tonight All right, thank you council tonight on there is on the agenda an item on our old business business here Not being on the Canyon County Jail site first. We're gonna start off with just some technical from our city engineer I'll provide additional information While they talk real quick, I'll just update council. We had a follow-up meeting with Gannon County. They provided a draft of an MOU, a
Yeah, just a brief information that that's kind of what we're looking at right now. The news has been obviously reaching out, asking questions, provided some recent stories, so we are working together with them. But it's more of a water issue we're looking at right now.
Thank you. And we're also, I believe there's an agreement being worked out between Kenney County and Colwell Housing Authority for the route to the sewers. Once we have that, we'll incorporate that into the MOU. And then legal, we'll obviously continue working on that. Anything from legal update on where you're at with that? All right. Thank you. Any questions? All right. We're going to move on. Next agenda item is under old business, the status update on the city water source capacity from city engineer staff and Bowen Collins associates.
All right, thank you. Council? Council, all good?
Yes, sir. If my memory serves me right, we partnered with a developer out south of Highway 55 to build a well, and that was just a year or two ago. Did that well develop?
I think he's actually talking about Karcher Commons, Indiana and Karcher.
It sat off of South Florida, South Indiana. out towards Lake Lowell off of Orchard. Is that the Karcher Commons well?
That would be the Karcher Commons well between Florida and Indiana.
Because that well is very recent is my understanding.
Yes, the Karcher Commons well. They're still trying to figure out where they want to put it, correct?
That has not been drilled yet because that's been some time since that was approved. Right. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Is there any others that are in that stage of development?
So, sir, on the two wells that just need some work, that need to be upgraded, those are about a year to get those online. Are those good flowing wells if we get those online? One is especially good.
Yes. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Okay. All right. So that kind of gives us some guidance where we want to spend our money. Correct. Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Yeah.
Councilor Williams. Thank you, Councilor. All good.
Probably several questions, so let me be careful. I don't. I don't want to get them out of order, but I feel like this is not really new information to us. So correct me where I'm wrong here. We've known about this issue for a couple of years now. And one of the remedial measures we've taken is every development that comes forward, and you or even Robin could correct me if I'm wrong, gets noticed of the fact When they come before us they don't get occupancy permits Unless and until we have water to service them. Is that still accurate? Are we still doing that and every single one that comes be
So I appreciate that. Thank you. My, my, uh, my thought is this isn't really new information to us though today. This is, you're not telling us anything we didn't already know so far. So I want to be careful that, We just found this out. We've known this for a while. I also believe, and again, you'll have to correct me, and Haley's not here. Nice job making sure she didn't get her first day back. But Haley, even earlier this year, reassured us that our aquifer is healthy, it is abundant, that we have the best aquifer in the valley. I'm probably putting words in her mouth. but we're the low end
And if I could, the notion that we've already seen work itself out a couple of times Continues to be we can do these as a as a private public cooperative effort and developers I think one of you said I think you said it are Entirely willing to do this and again I go back to what I was told before And it was probably before your tenure here but that private can do things differently than public can. And so they tend to be able to get things done faster because government, as we all know, everything moves very slowly. So the opportunity to continue to partner with those developers that wish to c
Thank you, Councilor Williams. And thank you, John, for that. You know, this is very exciting news. We had that sewer agreement, reimbursement agreement in place. And now we can look at the water. So that way, taxpayers and rate users aren't stuck with the bill. So thank you for working hard on that. And when did you update your modeling? Can you briefly discuss that?
Mr. Mayor, thank you. Roland, I've got a couple questions you might be able to answer for me. I think the last time you and I chatted, we were talking about a property line. And so it's nice to see you again. Is there a well up at Purple Sage Golf Course?
And the city owns those wells. What population do those wells serve? And the follow-up question to that, if you're inclined to answer it, if we're talking $2 million to drill a new well or $7 million to fix existing wells, Why can't we just pipe from the existing wells we have at Purple Sage Golf Course down to our existing water line?
So tell me a little bit about pressure zones. Are pressure zones based upon available aquifers to feed those pressure zones? Or can we just say, hey, let's just create another pressure zone, split one into pressure zone one and five, and take the two wells from Purple Sage and provide pressure to other zones?
Okay. So I have a follow-up question to that. I would, I understand this completely. There's an atmosphere at every 33 feet. So we're, so we're talking about pressure. Yes. But Purple Sage, would tend to be probably about 50 feet higher in elevation than your pressure zone one. So wouldn't that mean increased pressure through pressure one and not necessarily less pressure?
Okay. Now I want to direct the question to the other two wells that we have that are not producing anything. So if I understand correctly, one of them is, uh, is strong and sulfur smell and sulfur is not poisonous or not hazardous. It just smells like sulfur. Um, has that well been, have we been directed to take that well offline by DEQ or regulatory agency or did the city and some sort of, uh, move to not want smelly water, take it offline?
And do the arsenic levels exceed the contamination levels?
Just for follow up on that, is that something that can be treated? Yes. To bring those online and what would that cost look like?
Thank you, Councillor Dentonburn. I'll have some follow-up, Councillor Dentonburn. Councillor Tillman.
John, it was before both of our times, but I remember, and I want to say it was either Verbena or one of them that's up on Airport and Bear, donated some land for a tank. So there is a tank donation that's sitting up there between 10th and, now is that a storage tank or a pressure tank?
I was understanding that it was a low profile above ground tank.
I guess that was my question is is we have the site for it first was that a pressure tank or a storage tank?
If we were able to get it, just out of satisfying my own curiosity, if we were able to get an agreement before December and we had it confirmed that we had it, how long would it take to get that tank online?
But if we rehab that well, that would be one that could supply it.
Thank you. Anything else from council? A couple things. Thank you, John, and everyone for working on this. You know, there's a lot of complexity to this. You know, we promised, I believe it was 10,000 to 11,000, Robin, apartments and houses. We also have a lot of commercial development. The key we want the public to know is we're working on solutions, right? It's not just identifying a problem, but it's working on solutions. So there's a lot of ways we can handle this. Our biggest ask, you know, obviously for everything that's been promised, especially any future commercial development that wa
Mr. Mayor, thank you. I just wanted to clarify some information for those people listening. The optional tax that the voters are going to be asked to approve will generate $4.4 million a year in funds for roads and highways. And that's a substantial amount of money. When we talk about infrastructure, whether it be water or roads, this will go a long way to help the city of Caldwell. The Idaho legislature, in their wisdom, take that how you want it, seem to have punished cities, meaning that the default formula gave 70% of the revenues generated by registration fees to the rural counties and on
Thank you, and just for some additional information, thank you, Councillor Dittenberg. We have a total of 417 total miles of roads within the city limits of Caldwell, and 337 miles of that is marked as maintained by Caldwell. Important distinction, too, when we looked at the highway districts and the distribution of funding, it's a lot higher of an expense to build a city road, because we have curb, gutter, sidewalk, and other things, compared to a more rural road, which is the generics of the road compared to what we have to do. just made more sense to make sure we get a bigger pot of the mon
All right. Thank you. Do you have a question for them? No, I just didn't know if they were next in the process. Oh, okay. Councillor Dinmer.
Mr. Mayor, I would suspect that we're about to have some spirited discussion about this. And unlike Councillor Williams, who said he didn't have a script earlier, I have a script, so I would like to read a comment into the record before we have some discussion, if you're okay with that. Okay. So I put a lot of thought and a lot of contemplation into this, and so I want to make very clear, and so there's no misunderstandings about how I feel about this. I have concerns related to the use of the automatic license plate readers, the ALPRs. My concerns are two-sided. How will the city generate the
Okay. I'm going to ask you this question and I'm going to turn and ask our city attorney a question. Have you ever been in court where they have raised the concerns about the legality of what you're presenting based upon LPR data?
Alex, are you aware of any situation where our, uh, our officers have taken a case to court where the legality of LPRs have come into question?
Mr. Mayor, I have some more questions. Are you okay? Okay. So I'm looking here in the contract. I guess I'm appalled that it's such a short contract, and there are some things that I'm surprised are missing out of there. But I want to ask about Section 4 in the contract, Section 4.2 specifically, that says that Axon will – will obtain all necessary state and federal approvals before installing this. Can you explain the state and federal approvals for this type of technology?
Okay. So... That answers a question, not my question. So now over to our city legal staff. What are the federal regulations requiring regarding LPRs or state regulations? Are there any regulations?
Okay. So the next question that I have is a section 4.3, uh, where it says that Axon will install outpost hardware and outpost hardware means something. Uh, I'm not sure it means a lot to me, but there's always concerns about embedded technology and uh, and what people who really know technology is about can embed something. What has Axon provided you that would guarantee the safety of this information?
Okay, thank you. In my written statement, the courts, this is relatively new to our courts. I mean, really new. And so we have a gentleman that just read a court case that I'm sort of familiar with. I didn't come to the same conclusion, but it's definitely a court case. So having said that, What if the courts decide at the state level or the courts decide at the federal level that flock cameras cannot be, or LPRs, cannot be used in Idaho? What sort of recourse do we have against Axon?
Okay. So now my question is for legal. So I call it something different. I'm not as highly technical as legal is. I call it a weasel clause. Uh, how do we weasel out of something if it just seems to not be good for our city?
Okay, and one last question with regards to that. Sometimes our legislature and their wisdom do stuff and it might lack a little bit of clarity. For example, the current law regarding the safeguards of LPRs lacks a little bit of clarity. So who gets to decide whether or not the contract could be voided? Do we decide that or does Axon decide that or is that something we do together?
THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DITTENBERGER. COUNCILOR WILLIAMS.
THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. BEFORE I ASK YOU A COUPLE OF Congratulations on your award. That's a big deal. Can you just really briefly, because this is going really long, really briefly tell the council and the public what award that the real-time crime center was just awarded.
Thank you. And again, thank you and congratulations to your entire team on that award. You mentioned CJIS. CJIS certified means that only authorized people have access to this, and it's actually governed by the criminal justice system, not by anybody else, right?
So can you give me a couple of other illustrations of what CJIS governs in the police department? What might you access as a police officer that CJIS has authority over?
So the surveillance of the people that came in this building tonight by the cameras in this building that is videoing and tracking everybody that walks in City Hall, employees, or anybody else, that's not CJIS protected or certified, is it? It's public property. What about like Walmart or Shields or those places that actually know when you walk in, how long you're there, what you bought, how often you come? Is that surveillance being protected by CJIS or not?
So really, the point I'm trying to make through these rhetorical questions is that law enforcement is the only people using this technology that have strict guidelines and rules and parameters that they must follow in order to use this technology for saving lives and for solving crimes, for keeping our community safe. And so I think it's important to say that. You touched on something else too, Sergeant Heitzman, that I think is important. I don't know what our solution would be if we get rid of this technology. How do we propose to fund the police officers that we would need to make up for th
And this doesn't mean we still don't need 30 police officers. It just means the deficit would be greater if we didn't have this. The other thing I thought was important to mention is When I said surveillance, we're not surveilling citizens with this data. You said that, but I think it's important to reiterate that's not what's going on with this technology. This is simply being used when there's a CR, a case number that is entered and then authorized people are getting that data for a specific reason. Am I overstating it?
And then there was another time not too long ago You might have been in junior high, but it was a while ago where there was a significant uprising in our community against cameras being used. And we made the decision to move forward with them, even though people were concerned about privacy. I'm talking about body cams. And I believe that was in 2005. Councilman Allgood, do you remember? And in 2005, we started using body cams. I believe you used yours when you were on duty, didn't you, Mr. Mayor?
I believe it was actually post-2008 when we got the first body cams.
So, but we were concerned about privacy then, but those are fantastic tools that we use every single day on every single call. In fact, would we consider removing body cams if we're considered about privacy? Because when you turn on your body cam and walk into a home or any other location, look into a car, everything within view is being recorded and revealed. That seems to me to be more intrusive than an ALPR, which is recording a license plate and a color and a make of a car. Do you have any concern that we should just eliminate the whole thing and get rid of our body cams and our dash cams
Thank you. Councilor Williams, council register.
Thank you. Um, I also have some questions and then a couple of statements. Um, this has been a hard one for me with two decades of law enforcement experience. I like crime fighting tools. But I have concerns about the LPRs. So I kind of want to go through those You made a statement the very beginning of your presentation that this has been a very polarizing topic and I agree with that and one of the things that I feel like this council should do is Receive comment from the public We have had some people come in during public comments, but we have not had an official Townhall or anything like t
OK. So I did have a note on here about the drones. I do understand that this is more The urgency is more about the drones than anything else. So I do understand that, and I would look forward to what we could work out with Axon about the drones. But I don't think we need to put everything all together in one contract, including the ALPRs, until we know if we even want to keep that program. So that's going to be another question for me. It is a lot of money and a lot of time just to approve something to make sure that the Drones are provided when maybe we can section that out and do a separate
Okay. So I'm still not willing to put LPRs into a contract. You know what I mean? Right now, if we have to make a decision about the drones. I went back and watched the original... Council meeting when we've originally were told about LPR s you were not there somebody else did the presentation just captain Rosen I believe it was It was well, it doesn't matter representatives from the police department, but it wasn't you know So I just want to make sure that I'm clear on that So during that presentation we were told that there would be no room within the police department set up with cameras Bu
Okay. There would be no live cameras. So do we have cameras that are constantly going, like where you're able to watch those on the screens? Yes, we do, ma'am. We were told that they would be put where crime is occurring. And I even asked the question if we could move them if there was some sort, like almost like if there was like a directed patrol and there was Burglaries that were hopping in one area could we move those cameras and we were told that they could come out and move them for us Theoretically they can't it just cost every time to move one, right? So if we were told they wouldn't h
OK. So one of our FLOC contracts ends in December, as far as what the city attorney advised me earlier. I guess that was probably the one that I went back and watched the video on. What I was told today was that every time that we approved more cameras or anything like that, that we entered into a new contract. So there's new contracts with FLOC apparently, as opposed to just purchasing new cameras on the contract we were on. So there's also the argument often that it's no different than somebody standing on a street corner and writing down license plates. And I understand that and I appreciat
We are tracking movements. And if we need to go back because they've committed some kind of crime, we can.
Okay. So if somebody commits a crime, you can go back into your camera history and see if they've hit any of those cameras during whatever the time is that you're looking for?
Okay. So the other thing that I thought about a lot was that I would assume that when NCIC and ILITS was created, that people had great concern about that with all of their information being stored somewhere where people could have access to it. Councillor Williams touched a little bit on CJIS and how that works. And so everybody's clear, you do have to be certified to be able to access these systems. We know there's been abuse of it, but that's kind of, I mean, things get abused, right? Agencies take care of it NCIC is governed by the Department of Justice, right?
Okay, so with the cameras with the LPR cameras who is Besides the police department like I know you guys do your own audits who's auditing the police department No one ma'am. Okay, so there's no Overview of coming from CJIS or the Department of Justice or anything like that. We're doing it all in-house
The other thing that has been on my mind a lot lately are the courts and how they're going to start looking at cases that are involved with LPRs. I don't even want to guess as to how some of those things will go. I also read over the court case U.S. versus Kyle, seems to me that in that particular case, the LPRs were used unconstitutionally, and that's what happened. I didn't see anything that said that LPRs were unconstitutional across the board. So I do think that there's going to be more of those cases. We see how it goes. What concerns me about that, not just whether or not it's constituti
Okay. And then you said that there were 185 outcomes, I believe is the number. Do you know how many plates have been captured?
That's okay. I don't need to. I'm just curious.
Okay. So let me just look at my notes here again. I think the other thing, too, is we hear a lot about the technology helping officers, which I believe that it does, and I think that there's a great value in some of these things. Like I said, I like crime fighting tools. But with, and I'm not talking about drones or anything like that at this point, I'm just talking about LPRs. Have they made it so that our patrol shifts are now over minimums?
Okay. And we do hear a lot about how officers are taking more calls. Are we taking report calls every time a drone goes up? Like a separate report call?
Well, when you go to count your stats, is that one call considered Like if you have a burglary call and then you initiate a drone, is that considered two report numbers?
Okay. Okay, let's see. And then I do want to just kind of clear up that body cams are not the same as LPRs. Body cams are a great tool for officers for their safety. They're a great tool for our citizens for their safety. I think that they serve a really good purpose. But they're turned on during a crime, traffic stops, things like that. They're not just stationary on a pole collecting data. So it is a very different thing. For me, I'm not ready to vote on this tonight. I would like to do whatever we need to do to secure whatever the drone thing is that you need. I don't know that we can do th
Thank you, Councillor Register. Councillor Allgood.
A few quick questions, Sergeant Heisman. When video is collected, how long is it stored?
So just let me clarify that it automatically, there's not something that you have to go in and do. It just automatically disappears after 30 days. Correct. And is the, The provider of these devices, do they instruct you on how long to store data, or are they part of it, or is that just a city policy?
And that leads into my second question. Do other cities around us have ALPRs?
Okay. And one more thing. The contract we're considering is in the budget, correct? Correct. Yes.
So thank you. Okay. Okay. So. I'll just make a quick statement since we're all doing that. Go ahead. So this anti-ALPR thing is a bait and switch. In comparison to the data that's being collected on every American, the ALPRs are a tiny fragment. They have a huge data center being built in CUNA. They're building another one out in the desert in Boise, and these data centers are collecting every single thing that every one of us do. And when we talk about the gentleman's side here, mass surveillance, we are subject to mass surveillance on a basis that is un... And so for those of us that were ar
Yeah. If you think that these are invading your privacy, it's just a drop in the bucket compared to what it is. And I mean, believe me, I hate it. I grew up in the 60s and 70s when we were all about people surveilling us. And I hate it. But the fact that we're thinking that A camera on the side of the road is watching us when every single move and every single conversation we have is actually being watched. We're missing the big picture. We're looking at this little shiny object, and we're missing the big picture that everything we do every day is being infringed upon. And so anyway. Thank you
Thank you, Counselor. All good. Counselor Tillman.
Sergeant Heisman, everybody keeps talking about how we're tracking people. I want to be very, very clear, and I have this simple question for you. The big thing is ALPRs. Do they track people or things?
I mean, I think the reason I use that is because there's a person in the car. So, I mean... Yeah. So, I think that if we're playing on semantics...
Councilor, thank you. Councilor Tillman, Councilor Register, Councilor Williams.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's interesting to me, we're talking so much about LPRs. We're not approving LPRs tonight. We already have ALPRs in the city. It's not a question of whether or not we're going to have LPRs. We're adding to them, I understand. But this isn't a question of whether or not we're going to use this technology. We're already using it. This is about a contract. I'm a little disappointed this wasn't on the consent calendar. This easily could have been on the consent calendar because it is already budgeted. The police department has made a recommendation to us and it could have be
All right a motion is second any discussion.
I'll amend my motion to include council's remarks.
And for either you or Sergeant Heisman, It says customer has opted out of the ACE IP program. Would you tell me what that is, please?
All right, real quick. Um, Obviously, we move to a motion. So I'm just going to state some questions that I had, just for the record. Some questions are going to be data mentioned on our ecosystem. So I was going to ask, is it R specifically or just through our Axon account? I know in the CR requirement, I don't know the exact month, but we had quite a few hundred searches that had been done without a CR. So I can tell about the time frame that you said you cleaned up. So good job on that. I was going to ask about the flock, because we still have contracts in. There was a trend mentioned previ
Mr. Mayor, I have some Final comments during discussion. I just want to address a couple of things that were said. I feel like because the LPR thing has come up pretty recently that it would have been more beneficial for us to decide if we wanted to continue that program before entering into another contract with another company. Originally, I thought the same thing I had brought it up during budget whether or not we could switch companies and whether or not that would make a difference As they continue to do research, I don't think it's gonna make a difference about the concerns that I have B
All right, Naveen. If not anything else from council, we can proceed to a vote. All right, that motion carries for the Axon tenure contract. It's a four to one, four in favor and one against. With that, thank you. The next agenda item is presenting the assessment role for local improvement districts number 24-2, and thank you Colwell Police Department officers for staying here later. For miscellaneous concrete. All right, we'll continue. For miscellaneous concrete improvements within city of Colwell rights of way, we will hear from city staff on this agenda item.
All right. Let's follow along with the instructions. All right. Do we have a motion to approve? Action item number two.
I have had a chance to look at the assessment roll and to briefly review it. And I make a motion that we approve the assessment role for local improvement district 24-2 for miscellaneous concrete improvements within the city of Caldwell right away.
All right. That's a motion from Councillor Dinberg. I'll second. Second from Councillor Tillmont. Any discussion? All right. Seeing none. Madam Clerk. All right, that motion carries. Action item number two. Next is, do you guys want to take a break before we move into land use or just keep going? Okay. Onward and upward. Next item under new business is an action item in public hearing for case number SSP26-00001. The applicant, Double M Construction LLC on behalf of Humberto Machua, Machuca, sorry, is requesting approval of a short plat for Galveston townhome subdivision on a parcel with a two
Thank you. Any questions from council? Councillor Allgood.
Just a quick question. Is it because of city code that we split this lot or is that just the owner's decision to split the lot?
Thank you, Counselor. All good. Any other questions? Thank you. All right. Real quick, we're going to open the public hearing. Anyone sign up to testify? Is this Matt Cruz? All right. So there was no one else against or neutral. So we'll go ahead and close public testimony. All right. Council can discuss applications for making any motions and voting. Any discussions? Would you like to move straight to a motion? Councillor Dittenberg.
I just have one question. Is Mr. Machuca here? He's not here? I was just going to thank him for taking an interest in redeveloping the north end and putting a quality built home in a place that's been relatively underserved. express my appreciations to the applicant.
Thank you, Councillor Denver. Mr. Mayor.
I move that we approve case number SSP260000001. Second.
Motion from Council President and second from Councillor Dentonburg. All right, any discussion? If not, Madam Clerk. All right, that motion carries five to zero. Thank you for coming tonight. I appreciate you adding additional homes to that area. Next page. I'm trying to get you out of here after my long speech. The next item under new business is an action item and public hearing for case number DEV26-000005 and SPP26-000005. 0-0-0-0-0-7, the applicant KM Engineering LLP on behalf of Caldwell Commercial LLC is requesting development agreement modification as well as a preliminary plat for Can
Thanks for your time Thank you, thank you anything from Oh counselor Doma Just a real quick question that you may or may not be able to answer. Do you know who owns the corner?
Just to clarify, you were just wanting to know who owns it, and do you have knowledge?
Thank you, Councilman Tillman. Council Halkin.
Good evening. So looking at this, I'm glad you got this picture up. All of the businesses would be inward facing. Am I understanding that correctly?
And Katie may, Katie's probably aware of where I'm going with this. it's really really important that when you're driving up and down the boulevard that you're looking at something nice we don't want the back of a bear building or or anything like whatever you're seeing going down the boulevard has to look like a storefront mayor and council are all good as we've discussed before our design review requirements would require that the parking be concealed in the rear
Yeah. I just, Again, we want the appearance along the boulevard to be as good as we can get, so. Definitely. Thank you.
Thank you, Councilor Allgood, and I agree with that. Anything else? All right, now we're going to hear from staff. Thank you.
I think she wants to get us out of here soon.
I'm tired. Katie, would you go back to the lot layout? Yes. I'm aware that all of this is owned by the same party. You can see down there an exit onto Cleveland. I'm Referring to the same lot that's not involved in this that Councillor Tillmont talked about, I want to make sure we don't do anything to landlock that corner. That corner still has access and can be developed individually.
Okay, yeah. So I just want to make sure that we're not... I'm kind of surprised that they allowed a...
Thank you. Counselor all good. Counselor, Denver.
Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Katie. I have Just a question for clarification. So there was an original development agreement that was That had a property laid out differently. And so now we're down the roadways and they want it for the same use, but they just want to configure the parcels differently for for greater use to maximize the property.
Thank you Thank You councillor Denver Anything else going once going twice, all right Thank you. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and open the public hearing There's no one signed up. So I'm gonna close the public hearing anyone else wants to speak up forever hold your peace All right, we're close now. We'll open up for council discussion Or any motions Mr.. Mayor counts are all good.
I'm Lou the council approved development project number dv2 6.0 5 and SPP 2 6.0 7 I think your council are all good for that motion.
I'm gonna counselor tilma is a second for the record any discussion on that motion I I do have a suggestion if you guys are looking for places, but I'll wait till after the vote. That is, that is, they're both true. They're all good, and this is, counts for all good. Congratulations, Carried 5-0. Thank you. You know, I used to live in the Face Landing Apartments. I know they have a much larger apartment complex right there. Could we get a Waffle House or a Whataburger? Just thought I would, you'd know where to find me. Yes, oh yeah, that place would be sold out, long line. Totally up to you, t
I'll sponsor. Oh, this was written wrong. I'll sponsor bill number 48, ordinance number 3782, and bill number 49, ordinance number 3783, annexing property into the Cobble Municipal Irrigation District with a request to pass by title only and approve for publication.
All right, that's a motion from Councilor Allgood for items five and six, the action items, and a second by Councilor Dentonburg. Any discussion on that motion? Councilor Allgood?
Pardon me. Sorry, you're green still, so it wasn't. I'm already moving on to the next thing.
I don't know if you're all good or you wanted to, there you go. All right, thank you, Councilor Allgood. Motion carries. Moving on, tonight we also discussed proposed ordinance. Mending the agenda standing powers, the mayor and council, Councilor Tillmond, would you like to discuss your proposal, clarifying how council members can get things on the meeting agenda. And just for disclosure and clarity, we had talked about this quite some time ago, long before in office.
So I thank you for bringing this forward. Mr. Mayor, just for clarity to everybody out listening, since it was not attached to the agenda or in the packet. Well, no, my email. Right. Just for full transparency and disclosure, I did not contact any council members about this. I didn't want to violate any open meeting laws. Didn't even take your phone call when you called me. Basically, I robbed some ordinances from other cities that I had seen and put them together. Luckily, we have a great legal team that then took that and revamped it. So what everybody saw was not what is the final, what's i
Yeah, I think it looks like Maybe a typo fix for C to be on its own line instead of right after the 74-206. If you happen to have that up with some minor clarity. And then I think we would actually have the whole section, right? Because Section A, which already exists. Correct. Other than that, yeah. Madam Clerk, we can put that on the next agenda. And if this legal has any other modifications, but I would imagine it would be fixed by then.
Councilor Elgin. Sorry, anything else from Councilor Tillman? Just just a quick question for you or the clerk So when something comes to the agenda is there a formal way like a council member would make that request Yeah, I believe you so some of the things we looked at it was kind of very narrow in scope I mean the general idea was there but we want to make sure things are reviewed by legal by finance if need be I believe you'd submit them and to look at how it's rewritten but the idea was to submit to the clerk a certain amount of days before but obviously we want to verify any funding mecha
So how long before a council meeting would a counselor need to send something in?
Just real quick for legal. Thank you, Councilor. All good. Is this something for a code change has to go to notice to the public and such and have public input or no? Yes. No. Okay. Perfect. Makes it easier. Councilor Dittenberg, did you? I know your light was on briefly, but. I think my question was answered. Okay. Councilor Tillman.
Just real quick for everybody on council. When I was sitting out in the crowd for years, I talked to a lot of you that are up here. Previous administrations, I've talked to a lot of other counselors from other cities. This was one of the biggest complaints that I always heard, was that either it was hard to get it on, or somebody didn't put it on, or they thought it was personal. There was all kinds of issues that were coming up. This kind of clarifies that. It's something that I worked with Oscar to make sure that it wasn't It wasn't political. It wasn't anything else. It created a space for
Thank you. Thank you, Council President Register.
I was just going to say the funny thing is that In the last administration, there was a council member and I who did talk about it because we did think it was important, but we couldn't get it on the agenda. So there was no way to discuss it. So I appreciate you bringing it up. I appreciate some of the changes that were made and legal going through. I thought the original copy was a little broad. So I think this helps a lot with putting the specifics in there. I don't think they that I've heard the mayor talk about this even before he took office that he thought council should also have that A
Thank you. I remember my question. Scott, first of all, or Councillor Telmont, I appreciate you bringing this forward. But how many times do we walk in your office where you walk us off the ledge, where we don't have to request this?
All right, well, we'll try and look and have it on the agenda. Just for clarity, some things that we talked with legal with the proposal, just looking at the process, making sure we follow it with staff so they have time to modify things. There hasn't been a lot. I'll self-admit, right, I appreciate the comment. I think we're definitely working together a lot more, but railroad quiet zone bid. But outside of that, generally open. This does give an opportunity. One thing I mentioned, I want whatever we vote on, to survive us, right? We're going to change out all the time. Okay, theoretically, w
I move to approve accounts payable in the amount of $4,802,958.82 represented by check numbers 196180 through 196515 and electronic payments and payroll for the amount of $1,000,000. fifty two thousand nine hundred sixty two dollars and ninety three cents represented by check numbers four zero nine nine seven through four one zero four five and direct deposits be accepted payments approved and vouchers filed with the office of the city clerk second a Motion to approve the finance report from councillor Tillman a second from councillor all good Any discussion see none madam clerk?
All right, the motion carries 5-0. Now we're going to move on to council comments. Councillor Tillmont.
You had nothing tonight? Okay, I was going to come back to you. Councillor Williams.
I'll make it brief. I just want to say we all have different bases that support us. That's part of what makes this body a representative of the city. Because there's a lot of different people in the city. And so to be clear, I'm listening to people. People are talking to me. I am listening. And so I just appreciate the recognition that what we do up here isn't in a vacuum. Thank you.
Thank you, Councillor Williams. Councillor Allgood.
So I want to thank Councilor Denver again. Like I said, I'll get the notification out for the task force and appreciate you bringing up things like the Purple Sage Golf Course. I wasn't even, I know we have the golf course, I know the services and such, but the correlation between the two is thank you. Go over a couple things. Kimball Bridge is moving along. I know, I wish I could wave a wand and it's done, but it's going to carry into the Winter and Wonderland year. We still do have restrictions on the bridges crossing the creek. I believe we're... John, can you talk briefly where we're at on
Thank you for that. And I know there was some conversations publicly about motivations behind it. It's first and foremost safety. And lastly, it's safety and safety all between. We want to make sure that we listen to, obviously, what's recommended, people at risk. We also don't want to close down the bridge. That's not necessary at this point. Especially with Kimball Bridge, that would be problematic, especially for people walking downtown. So thank you, staff, for working ahead on that. I'm not sure the timeline for the water reimbursement agreement, but I believe it's illegal right now. So h
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