City Council - Regular Meeting

Yeah, I have one. I've seen a lot of acronyms, but what does DOW stand for?

I move to award the Hemholtz Improvements Southwest Quartz Avenue to Southwest Obsidian Avenue design contracts to Dowell for design services in the amount of $725,037.35 and authorize the city manager to sign the contract. I second.

John? Chief, I don't want to put you on the spot, and if you can't answer it, I wouldn't expect that you can, but do you have any idea of, I guess, the cost for your department for responding to fires on the 4th of July? Do you know roughly what that costs you in terms of dollars? Okay. And then... Last question for me. We had the fire on the fairgrounds. The wind was pretty favorable to us at that point. If it had gone the other way, what would you, I mean, I know you're not going to predict the future. I know you don't have a crystal ball. But if the wind had gone the other way, could we have lost the fairgrounds? I mean, is that possible?

So there is defendable space around the fairgrounds?

Hang with me here, because this is a little bit long, and I kind of apologize for that, but I can't speak any faster. Okay, I'll start off. Fires are ugly. No fire is a good one. Fires don't care about their path. They burn homes, property, people, animals, whatever's in their way. They just keep burning. Tonight, I'm going to talk about principles and what is correct. Because we can, doesn't mean we should. Noise, safety, every year, fear, those are all repetitive phrases that I've had heard in the sessions about fireworks. pretty much all speaking about illegal fireworks. The Fourth of July

John? There were a couple of things that, uh, control council Patrick said that I agree with the numbers that you quoted are correct. Those, I mean, those, those facts are correct. I don't necessarily agree with the interpretation, but I think the numbers are correct. There were a couple of other numbers that I think are worth pointing out. Redmond had 11 fires. Bend had two. One of them was the butte sisters didn't have any, they have fireworks bands. We do not so that the idea that somehow. that the ban isn't going to reduce fires is demonstrably provable. I mean, it's known. One of the citi

Go ahead. I move to have a second reading of ordinance 2026-10. By title only. By title only, please.

Jay? I have a question. If we went, I probably prefer 10 years, but if we went 20 years, at 15 years, we decide it wasn't working, do we rescind that? Or would it be good to...

I would prefer a shorter cycle just so that we're not limiting councils moving forward.

All right. I say, I don't really, it really doesn't matter. Is 10 okay with you? Yeah, 10.

Okay, Jay? Yeah, I... Obviously, a little bit disappointed we passed the fireworks thing, but it's probably not the first time I've ever been disappointed.

But we talked about the fire department being short on staff this last week. I'd love to say this. I said it yesterday. I read on Facebook that from the fire department that they had a fire out in the homeless area and it took a bunch of staff out there in the engines and then we had a medical emergency in the city that they didn't have the staff they would like to have had to go there.

It's just something I read, and it's important enough that it got put on Facebook. Well, that's not the first one.

All right. I have two items. The first one, on behalf of Republic Services and Cascade Disposal, with the passing of the fireworks ban, if you have fireworks in your garage, please do not throw them into your garbage cans. Dispose of them properly. There are a few things in life that are going to spoil a mood more than a flaming garbage truck in your driveway. So dispose of them properly. All right, the next one, I'm just going to read this so I can get through it. So it's my full three minutes. Before we adjourn tonight, I want to take a moment to share something with all of you. Serving the