City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Welcome to the Monday, October 19th City Council meeting. Our invocation will be provided by Rob Douglas, Elder for the Independent Church of Christ. Please stand for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Madam City Clerk, would you please call the roll?

Here. We have no proclamations tonight, so we'll go right into citizen's request. Just a few reminders. For those of you who have signed up to speak, please state your name at the beginning of your remarks. All remarks must be addressed to the council as a body. No personal remarks about individuals, whether positive or negative, are permitted. In addition, everyone must Everyone present must maintain decorum and comply with the directives of the presiding officer. If an issue arises and you will be given a verbal warning. If the issue persists, then you will be required to leave the meeting.

All right. With no other speakers, we're going to move to the consent agenda.

Make a motion to approve the reports and recommendations of the city manager.

Second. I got a motion and a second. Would anyone like to pull anything off the consent agenda? I have two things I would like to pull. Item number six. And under resolutions, I would like to pull, hang on, I got, sorry, 26-765.

Mr. Mayor? Yes. I'd like to pull under resolutions 26-764, please. Okay. Anyone else?

Yes. Consent agenda passes with five yeses, zero noes. I'll take number six, and then I'll get to you next, and then I'll do the other one. I want to direct this to the deputy city manager. I see where we're authorizing over $1.3 million to a contract to ran. I know we've had some discussions, at least at the last council meeting, on procurement policies and those things. My question to you is, Does Rand and the subcontractors that are going to be doing this work meet those qualifications?

Okay. All right. So I would move to approve item number six on the consent agenda.

Yes. Item number six passes with five yeses and zero noes. Council Member Atkinson?

Yes. So this is a follow-up on the study session for us to pursue a Bird City designation. This is not any sort of ordinance or regulatory change at this moment, this is just simply instructing staff to examine the next steps, I am prone to very long emails So if you would like to see my ideas on the various things we can change to be more bird friendly. I am more than happy to share those with you. I got a lot of really great feedback from various organizations and individuals about pursuing this designation. I even spoke with Doug Cowan of Community Services League, and he sees it as a poten

I move to approve item number 26-764. I second.

I got a motion and a second. Any further discussion on this? Madam City Clerk, please call the vote.

Yes. 26-764 passes with five yeses and zero noes. This is going to bring me to 26-765. Of course, we're missing a city council member tonight, and I hope she gets to feeling better. So, Jenny, I hope you're getting to feel better. I would like to postpone this to the November 2nd meeting agenda. Got a motion and a second. Wood, any discussion?

Yes. 26-765 passes with five yeses and zero nos. Postponement passes. I'm sorry. Postponement passes. This brings us to our regular agenda. Madam City Clerk.

Any discussion on 26-100? Madam City Clerk, please call the vote.

Yes. 26-100 passes with five yeses and zero noes.

Yes. 26-101 passes with five yeses and zero noes.

Any discussion on 26-102? Madam City Clerk, please call the vote.

No. 26-102 passes with three yeses and two no votes. This brings us to first readings.

All right, this brings us to council member comments. I will start with council member Dorman.

Okay, so I feel like maybe we've shared these, but if so, correct me, but have we been here since the police night out? Oh, okay, okay. So one thing that I want to mention is we had the police night out, which actually involved the fire department and the military and a fabulous night at the Independence Center. It seems like we've had a meeting to discuss this. So if I'm repeating myself, it was a great night. We have the library there, a lot of nonprofits, those that are helping with suicide prevention, drug addiction, like just a great community night. When it comes up next year, I would en

Yeah, I want to thank Congressman Cleaver and his staff for attending last week. Really looking forward to tackling such a prominent issue in our community with homelessness and housing affordability and just getting to work with somebody who worked so hard on passing a bipartisan bill like that. It's a great privilege to have them here in our community. That's all I have, actually. Thanks. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. So it's been a really busy couple of weeks since the last meeting. And I was able to sit down today with Dr. Vicki Murillo, who's our new superintendent. Had a really great meeting with her. Really excited about her. She's got some fantastic plans for ISD. She's got a really great vision. I could have talked to her forever. And I'm really excited about her. So... Thank you for taking the time to meet with me, Dr. Murillo, excited to see what you do. Last week we had our quarterly audit and finance meeting We were able to do an audit on the rental ready program, which is a rea

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The only thing I was going to mention was the budget town hall for the second district is actually going to be on. Looks like October the 28th, it'll be from 6 to 8 at the Metropolitan Community College, Blue River, off of 78 Highway. That's all I have. Thank you. All right. Thank you.

I've been a little busy myself lately. A couple things that I just wanted to go over. I was honored to speak at the grand opening and the ribbon cutting ceremony at the Independent Surgical Center, which is just a couple buildings down. This is for people that have issues getting into a dentist in time and with Medicare issues, and they have developed this to try to help in that area. Really excited for them to be here. I think this is a new avenue for us in trying to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to get dental care, because I think that's important for our kids and our resident

Can I just add one more announcement? This Sunday, the 25th from 1 to 4, both the Vail and Bingham are going to be open. For folks to tour I'm sorry I didn't mention this during my council member comments but the public can come it's not a formal tour but you can see the places where both both historic buildings need to be repaired and talk to volunteers about the repairs that both buildings need. Thanks.

Yeah. And I'll kind of piggyback a little bit on that. This past Saturday, I was at the volunteer appreciation for Old Fire Station 1 and got to – look around and see some of the old fire trucks and also talk to them about the issues with their building as well so I'm sure that they would be more than willing to take people around so if you had any if you wanted to see what their issues are there as well and you know we encourage everybody to get out and vote on our geo bond on November 3rd this is important for us to protect our historical sites And at that, I'm going to turn it over to our D

Did we set a record for a council meeting? All right. I want to thank everybody for coming out, and we'll see you on November 2nd. Thank you for coming.