City Council - Regular Meeting

Well, good evening. It is Thursday, August 27th. I want to welcome you all to this session of the Ridgefield City Council, as I call it to order. As you rise and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance, please from the back, feel free. This isn't a Methodist church. You can come forward. We can sit in the front pews. We're not going to call on you to testify. But with that, would you please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Councillor Fevella. All right. Please be seated. And I wasn't joking. Please come up. Fill in. All right. Miss Julie, would you please call the roll?

Here. Thank you. Mr. Stewart, any late changes to the agenda tonight?

Oh, yeah, there it is. OK, cool. All right, we got that changed. Thank you very much. Looks like some of you guys are here for a certain purpose or another tonight. We are, we're here tonight to conduct some business, but before we do that, we're gonna take a few moments and recognize somebody who is, I think, very important and very dear to all of us as we celebrate Chief Kathy Doriot. As she... Well get your clappers and your Kleenex ready because there's a lot more where that's gonna come from. But we're gonna take a few moments and do that and the first thing we'd like to do is just call u

Thank you, everybody. No words from members of the Guild at all? We're just, okay. Well, don't go too far, Chief, because you probably need to be just closer here, because there's a lot coming your way. We took the time, members of council, we got together and we thought we can't just leave you empty-handed as well and you're gonna probably leave with an armful tonight. But on behalf of all of council, we'll invite you to come up. We have a presentation of just a gift for you that we got for you. Everyone knows that Chief is a big fan of Disney. You can, yes. Open it. Yes. Yes, go ahead. Read

You come back with more swag than you need, right? Yeah, you bet. Thank you. Thank you again. At this time, I'd like members of council, I'd like to invite you all to say a few words if you'd like, give you the floor. So I don't know if there's anybody who's itching to go first. Okay, Councilor Burke, we'll let you go first.

I would just like to say, To the very, very best. You are about to enter a remarkable part of your life. Enjoy it. We appreciate everything you've done for us here in Ridgefield. You're very, very special.

I'm not a guy of many words, but Kathy, you've run a wonderful journey since you graduated in 1984 from the Ridgefield High School. She graduated with my oldest daughter. So staying in the community and serving our community, and I know that you will still stay here from here on out. And we really appreciate you. I appreciate you. We haven't been real close, but we still had a bonding between us for all of the years. Thank you.

All right, I am the crier on council, so I apologize in advance. I wish I could do better, I can't. I was thinking about this, oh God. I'm sorry. I moved to Ridgefield when I was nine, and I remember you from when I was a little girl. And I remember always knowing, like there's a Mr. Rogers quote about finding the helpers. And I remember always knowing that you were a helper and that you were a safe person that would do anything that she could to help whoever was in front of you. And so I just want to properly thank you for all your service. I'm sure it was not an easy ride. So thank you for a

I don't necessarily want to follow that one, but you know. No, Chief, it was, the Guild spoke about it as well, like to spend your entire career in one community, the other one in the community that you grew up in is absolutely remarkable. You know, the impact that you've had on Ridgefield is gonna be felt for generations, and so I just really thank you for the service, the heart, the literal heart that you gave us at the stoplight, and just for everything that you've done. So thank you, and congratulations.

I, too, am a crier, and I want you to know, because you'll appreciate it, when Steve was letting us know about the timing of the council meeting, your retirement, I said, please give me enough heads up so I could get tanning and lashes done so if I cry, they're not ruined.

Kathy, I appreciate everything about you. All the sentiments of everybody on council, they've said, just being a woman in the community who has championed your community, you've grown up here, you have spent 37 years with the department, and I remember being in this very room on the interview panel when you became the chief of police and being so enamored with a strong woman in the room and honestly the first woman police chief I've ever met. And I am so excited that your retirement doesn't mean goodbye. It means that I get to enjoy life with you in a different capacity, not in an official cap

All right. Thank you, counselors. At this time, I'd like to invite Chief Doria to come up and say a few words. I know you don't like to do this, but we're going to make you your last official councilman.

Yeah. Well, thank you, Chief. Thank you. And thank you all for coming today. Whoever decided I should speak right after that last call owes me an apology because I don't know if I can make it through this. But I've been asked to bring this little ceremony to a close. This is just a segment, just a sliver of looking into Kathy's career. And it's a remarkable one, to say the least. I want you to picture for a moment. It's 1989. When Kathy joined Ridgefield Police Department, this was a town of about 1,300 people. 1,300 people, let that sink in for a second. When she started here, and tonight we

I'm going to call a five-minute recess just to let everyone clear out. I know people want to shuffle out and not be disruptive. So we'll resume at 7.07 p.m. All right, council is returning from its short recess here. We're gonna get back to work. And with that, it's now time for public comments. So anybody wishing to address city council regarding items not subject to a specific public hearing may come forward at this time to the podium or use the raise hand feature located on the toolbar at the bottom on your Zoom screen. For controls over the phone, press star nine for raise hand, press star

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Is there anybody else wishing to give public comment this evening?

Thank you. Is there anybody else in the room this evening wishing to give public comment? Okay, Miss Julie, anybody online?

All right, we can go ahead and... Jamie, it's all you. You're free to talk whenever you're unmuted.

I got to pick something on my phone. Okay, there we go.

Yeah, we can hear you now. Yeah. Oh, did we lose her? Oh, she's on mute again.

I'm sorry, Jamie, I think we're losing the connection here. We do have another public comment period at the end of the meeting if you wanna try again, but I don't think we're gonna be able to keep you on the call because we can't hear anything. Thank you and I apologize about that. That's unfortunate. Ms. Scheele, is there anybody else online wishing to give public comment?

Okay, we're gonna close public comment for right now and we will return to that at the later portion of the meeting. Thank you everybody for coming and speaking to council tonight. We're gonna move on to the consent agenda. Council, I'd accept a motion.

I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. I'll second it.

All right, it's been moved and seconded. Real quick, council, I would like to remove the contract for the PD recruitment campaign from consent agenda tonight so that staff can work with the vendor to reconfigure the timeline that's in there and also adjust the scope for the paid media deliverables. Staff said they would meet with the vendor and then they'd bring it back with a corrected contract. Everyone's okay with that? Okay, so with that, with the removal of that item, all those in favor of consent agenda say aye. Aye. All opposed? Thank you, council. Motion carries. Okay, we're gonna move

Thank you, yeah. Questions, so we'll start with Councillor Davis, and we'll move over.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I really appreciate this, because I think access in our city should be one of our highest priorities. I guess... I mean, obviously, you prepped us. We're gonna get some big numbers, right, in terms of noncompliance. But you also said that some of them are due to, you know, it's 4.9 out of five, or it has to do with more topography. I guess my curiosity, and I don't wanna hold you to this, some exact number, but I'm trying to get an idea what percentage of the outstanding issues would be reasonably considered probably almost unfixable, right? If we have a... if it's a to

I just appreciate the presentation. You know, as we talk about accessibility through our community, this is a priority for council for us to focus on. So I do appreciate having this information with what Councillor Davis brought up. I would be interested to see in especially the sidewalks issue. That is something we're actively looking on with our sidewalk preservation program and what portion of that to what he was saying, can we actually use some of those funds to get those sidewalks fixed, and which ones are really just not going, you know what I mean, to be able to get that, yeah.

I would just add to that too, as we consider that, I know there's budget considerations too, and we're in the middle of budget season, we're talking about some sidewalk repair. It'd be great to have that factored in so that as we're drafting a budget, we can make sure that that's included. Is that part of the plan to bring this up, the ADA compliance?

All I'm requesting, I would like to have a hard copy of this presentation that we have here so I can reference it in the past. So thank you.

Just a quick question, would I be correct in assuming that the majority of our challenges are in old downtown Ridgefield?

Thank you. You spoke to the question just now that I was thinking, but in the ensuring ongoing compliance, are we confident in those checks and balances that we're going to have so that we're not having to go back and retrofit infrastructure that wasn't done properly the first time?

Okay, cool. And then just I'm curious Was there any feedback from volunteers that you found particularly helpful in this process since that was kind of a new thing for this process Not not that I can think of as far as like the process of data collecting but I

Sorry, one more. I was just thinking about, so we're beefing up the inspections. We're looking at that process. If something got by for whatever reason, are we financially responsible to fix that? Or would that be the developer?

We'll go back down the line. We'll go to Councilor Wells and then a couple of others.

I just wanted to use an example on Railroad. and the 15th roundabout on Royal Road if you're going north and you're driving up the pavement and as you're going up the hill, 300 feet from the roundabout, your vehicle does a like that. There's a crosswalk there. And to come off of that crosswalk, the pavement's got to be flat to turn around and accommodate ADA. When you're driving your vehicle, you think they poured the asphalt wrong. But you've got that flat, flat spot where according to the ADA rules. So next time you're on 15th, you're driving that, you feel that, that's what it's for. Okay.

Yeah, just one more thing to follow up as I'm sort of going through. I realize that this is sort of establishing that plan, and we have an inventory that we're going to be able to work off of. And I start thinking about... how we're gonna tackle it. And it's sort of a similar conversation that we've had with parks. Do we wanna tackle like one big one each year? Do we wanna sort of inch up a handful of them? And so I think about Okay, we got a finite amount of money to be able to address some of these each year. Do we take the little hanging fruit, or do we prioritize ones that have a major imp

Because this is a federal mandate, and it is a pretty tall order with the cost associated with that, I'm assuming, or are there grants available to us that we can apply either federally or otherwise that would help us expedite some of these things in a way that we can do on our own?

Yeah. I know there's a lot to prioritize in there, but this feels like a pretty big one, especially because we've had public comment talk about sidewalk safety and whatnot, and we want to make sure that, I mean, I think this is a priority for this council, and so the barriers are often cost, and so looking at how to fund it is pretty important.

to be able to meet some of the needs within this and again not try to raise separate money for separate pieces but integrate what we're doing and get the most efficiency for it i like that okay great thank you council any other questions for staff on this all right if there are no further questions um this is a item an action item for this evening so i'd accept a motion ADA transition plan All right, it's been moved by Chipman seconded by favela any discussion council Hearing none all those in favor say aye aye all opposed Thank You councilman carries All right. Thank you staff for that one. T

I have one question on that. The six hours per week city-sponsored programming at the facility for people with disabilities, are they going to be charged for that, or will that be on the city's...

Sorry. Real quick, I think we'll take a couple of questions on each of these because they're relevant. So it looks like Councilor Hamilton has a question as well.

Thank you. Just so I understand the public-private partnership element of this, do we have to agree on the value of the public benefits together?

Okay, thank you. Has there been any issue with agreeing upon public benefits, or that's all been a conversation that we all have the same vision?

Council, other questions on the public use covenant? Okay, we're going to continue.

So who is responsible for overseeing the allocation? Is that the construction management team? Is that a neutral third party? Like how does that get determined and who's determining that?

Do you foresee any sort of, I always think with stuff like this, like worst case scenario, but any sort of discrepancies and things like that where BRV might say, oh no, our share is less, or something like that, or the city might as well, and how does that get, what is the arbitration or identification process for that?

OKAY. GREAT. THANK YOU. COUNSELOR DAVIS, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION?

YEAH, I'M STILL FORMULATING IT, BUT I GUESS, YEAH, THAT LAST PIECE, THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW AND INSPECTION SERVICES WILL ALSO BE SHARED. I'm assuming it's a 50-50 split, and we're just kind of assuming, we're viewing this as a one large project. But if there's one area that becomes a consistent issue, does that still stay with shared cost, or is it seen as, well, this is a shared project, not a your side, our side kind of a thing?

Okay, that helps. That's great. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you. I have two. Do you want me to just do one?

Whatever, if they're on this, that's fine.

Thank you. So my question is about the, there's a $2 million change order amount, so I want to make sure that I understand the change order amount. If we go over the Blue Rock funding amount, Then go over the additional two million and we can't agree on Who is responsible for the additional cost? What happens then?

You did. And then the next, in the agreement it says that we can't replace the project manager or make major changes to their scope without Blue Rock's approval, but does Blue Rock still, do they have the same standard? Can they make changes?

So why would we need their approval if we want to change the project manager?

I think so. I think there's a few questions. So we're going to start with Councillor Wells, and then we'll look to my right over here.

The lease rate is $184,230. So for the... No, I mean over 50 years. I guess I'll add that to my question.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Looking at the lease term, I see that we're still in negotiation for the lease rate and going up a couple of elements there. The term is 30 years of the city right to two additional 10-year extensions. So I would say are the parameters for how those 10-year extensions going to be determined in the current negotiations? I mean, we're not gonna set the extension rate now for 30 years ahead, right? But when 30 years from now, when it gets time to consider that extension, are there gonna be parameters in this negotiation we're doing right now that kinda outline what that sh

I mean, I agree with that segmentation, like the 30 and then the 10 and the 10. I don't know, that's just something that kind of stood out to me was having an understanding of whatever framework would be in place for determining what those extension values would be. So I guess maybe the ask is to see what we can find, right? What can we find? Are there some examples of where that would make sense?

I have two again, I think. So in this agreement, it states that the lender has protections if Blue Rock defaults. We've talked about that. But can you help me understand what happens to the city's rights if Blue Rock stops performing and the lender steps in? Like how long would or could the city be tied up in that process before we could actually regain control of the property?

And that will be, when we talk about the operation and maintenance, that will be coming back to us as well. Okay. And then not a question, but just a comment. When the facility lease comes back to us, this is a two part making sure that I'm pretty sure it says it here, but not just the rent and making sure we have operations and maintenance included. And then with a third party agreement, when this comes back to council details on what the operator is responsible for and versus what remains the city's responsibility under that facility lease. And then if the operator fails what financial obligations still remain with the city versus what was their ownership?

Regarding the that last followers as BRV must offer city first right of refusal prior to any sale Would I be correct in assuming that this all of these terms and in the lease agreement and the in the agreements we have between the city and BRV are Transferable directly or are we gonna end up having to renegotiate all or part of that? If if BRV was a solid and we were to decline to purchase it, what would then happen to all of the negotiations that have taken place up to this point?

Yeah, it does. Yeah. That's kind of what I thought as well. And I have a second question, too. And I'm not sure if I'm understanding this right, but the bullet says consideration for the lease is recorded as a recorded covenant for public purpose and use restrictions which are agreed to be noticed less than... $184,230. That amount, that's not the lease amount, is it, per year?

And then the rate at which the BRV is leasing the ground from the city, does that stay the same? I'm assuming it doesn't. Does it go up in increments?

The only comment I was going to make, the lease is transferable to the next party that should happen to take over. They can accept it at that.

Other questions, council? Okay, we can continue.

Question. Okay. It's on. It's on. So it sounds like that the change order cost has not been determined yet.

Where are we regarding the site changes and the boundary line changes? Are we making progress?

Thank you. Of course. Okay, Councillor Hamilton.

Thank you. I think I just want to be clear in understanding funding. So we obviously approved the $15 million for that. We have a capital campaign coming up. And so I'm just curious, I guess, the relationship with, it says both parties secure funding, but at the end of the day, will Blue Rec Ventures have any financial investment in this property?

But we will be paying you back, correct?

Other questions, Council? Councillor Fevella.

So those lease payments, though, will essentially go back to repay the portion that Blue Rock is funding, yes?

Right. So we're not looking at a $32 million project. We're essentially looking at close to a $50 million project all in.

So when... I understand that we're not talking about funding tonight because there's so much coming back to council. So I want to clarify what this slide is saying right now is that at any time between December 15th, if something is not penciling, something's not right, we can separate and we can be done moving forward. Yes?

So whatever we agree on tonight, what in this, what we're agreeing upon can be changed without coming back to council? Only in the portion that we're talking about tonight. Once we agree upon it, can anything be changed without us knowing?

And lastly, just looking at finances, we're heading into budget season. So whatever budget financial components come out of this, I would like to see how that pencils when we're looking at our overall debt capacity for 2027 going into like, how does this all pencil out and what does it look like? It could be a hypothetical if it needs to be, but when this comes back to us, Separately just for this development agreement, but then also looking at budget season how these two marry into each other Of course

Yep. I just have a niche one and that is can you explain the shared pool cost and the agreement That will pay the initial pool deposit. I'm just curious where that Came from what the history is with that.

Okay. But it sounds like that's a unique, because it's called out, like unique for the rec side of it. Yeah, it is.

Okay. And then it kind of squared up because we're not paying for other elements always directly. So it's kind of squaring up on another side.

Other questions at this point, council? I think we're good. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. Real quick, just on the construction, actually, on all the risks. So for this, as it pertains to insurance, are we taking out a separate Builders risk or or like another captive program or something like that for this projects exclusively That's apart from the city's insurance or what is this attached to the city's insurance policy?

Okay, so as far as how does that work? So BRVs construction or builders risk policy will cover... The rec center, right, the building thereof. Yeah, the building of the rec center. But not the land, the ground, right, because we own the ground, so are we responsible for insuring that portion of it?

And that's all factored into the financial considerations, that's built into the financing of this whole project, okay.

Yeah. Okay, other questions, council? Yep, go ahead.

In the agreement, it says that the city shall cause the recreation center to reach substantial completion. But since Blue Rock is responsible for the rec center, can you explain to me what the obligation is in real time? Or is there a reason that the obligation is written that way?

Go ahead. I just have one simple question, a quick one. When is the completion date anticipated?

Other questions at this point, Council? Okay.

One count question from councillor Burkle just very quickly BRV how many projects like this have you done?

Thank you. Other questions? Oh, Councillor Fevella, yes.

It's not a question, just a comment, but really, Mr. Stewart, going back to that financial piece, we have some major capital projects and going into budget season, so I wanna make sure that any financial conversations that we have with Mr. Johnson about budget season line up with financial conversations that we're having about this and we're not having them out of sync so that all of the information lines up, it's accurate and it's on time and it makes sense.

Okay, council, any remaining questions or comments for staff on this development agreement? Okay. Great, so if there are none, I would request a motion to approve.

Do we have a second council I'll second. Okay. It's been moved by ship and second by Burkle to approve the development agreement with blue lock Frenchers as BRV Ridgefield Holdings LLC for Ridgefield Community and Recreation Center development Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? No. And one opposed. The motion carries 6-1. Thank you very much, Council. Thank you. Okay. Our next item of business this evening is the second reading of ordinance number 14. Sorry.

All good. All right. Our next item of business is the second reading of ordinance number 1485, the amending the transportation impact fee project list. And for that, we're going to go to our city engineer, Mr. Kast. Good to see you, sir.

Thank you, Mr. Cast Council. Any questions at this point?

Councillor Davis, I guess it's not as much a question is just, uh, you know, clarifying. We are talking about the tiff rate for the overlay, not. It's not counting the citywide TIF rate, correct?

Other questions at this point, Council? Councilor Wells?

Okay, I raised one question in the briefing, but I wanna hear it from our engineer, city engineer. The TIF rate for Geek Creek Plateau is $1141.11 per trip. The TIF rate for this project would be 1,073. Their rate was set 10 years ago, for construction of the road out of the plateau. How come the TIF rate is cheaper now, 10 years later?

Thank you, Brian. I'm glad you're the engineer and not me. We all are.

Sorry. Other questions or comments council, all right Okay If there's no other questions or comments For staff on this one. Mr. Lee, would you please read the ordinance into the record ordinance number?

Thank you. Council. I would entertain a motion. I

Motion to approve ordinance number 1485, amending the transportation impact fee project list as presented.

It has been moved by Davis, seconded by Fevella. Thank you, Council. Any remaining discussion? Hearing none, Ms. Julie, would you please call the roll?

Aye. Thank you, Council. Motion carries 7-0. All right. And thank you again, Mr. Cass, for your work on this one.

Okay. Our final item of business tonight is a late change to the agenda. This is ordinance number 1487, adopting a moratorium within the corporate boundaries of the city on the filing, acceptance, processing, and or approval of applications or permits for any new gasoline service station facilities. And for that, we're going to go to our city manager, Mr. Stewart. Sure.

Sounds good. Okay, great. Thank you, Mr. Stewart. So it looks like Councillor Fevella might be eager with a couple of questions. Yes.

Oops, sorry, I have no questions, but I am thrilled to see this. Gas stations in Ridgefield are a hot-button issue for me personally, so I'm excited to see kind of what the rest of council, where we're going to go with this, and I think we have enough right now. We don't need any more. Thank you.

Great. Thank you, Councillor. Anybody else? All right, I'll just jump in and say I appreciate this. This was somewhat unexpected, but I think it's necessary now. We talk pretty often about how we have to make sure as a city government that we keep pace with growth here and all of the things that are happening. You hear it all the time from our residents that, Growth is is something that we can't control but it's something we can manage and this I think is just an effort for us to better manage it and to grow smartly and so what you have continually seen from this city is that this is a city th

Thank you, Ms. Julie. And with that, Council, I'd accept the motion.

I move to adopt Ordinance Number 1487 as presented.

Second, okay, it's been moved by Hamilton seconded by Chipman to adopt ordinance number 14 to 87 as presented council any discussion Hearing none. Mr. Lee, would you please call the roll council member Hamilton?

Hi. Thank you council motion carries zero. All right Oh OK, that will conclude our business items for the evening. We're going to move into a public hearing. We have a public hearing and first reading of ordinance number 1486. This is the Saddlemen and Leach petition to annex. And for that, we're going to go to Mr. Stewart.

Great. Council, questions for staff on this petition? None, okay. Sounds good. I will, if there's no questions, I will now open the public hearing to receive testimony. This public hearing is now open. If you sign up with the city clerk before the meeting, your name will be called. You'll receive permission to unmute your microphone or step up to the podium. If you did not sign up in advance but would like to speak, please use the raise hand feature on your toolbar. If you are joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand and press star six to mute or unmute. The city clerk will grant y

Thank you, Ms. Julie. This is first reading only, but as staff mentioned, you certainly are welcome to waive second reading if you so wish.

Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to approve ordinance number 1486 as presented and waive second.

Okay, it's been moved by Davis to waive second reading and adopt ordinance number 1486, the Statlement and Leach Pub petition to annex. Seconded by Buerkle. Any remaining discussion?

One comment go ahead we did we receive an email from an individual I just want that put on the record So we all have seen that and that that's it.

So it's just on the record that we did Thank you, I appreciate you bringing it up actually counselor I thought about the same thing, okay Any other comments? Hearing now, mr. Lee, would you please call a roll? I?

Aye. Thank you, Council. Motion carries 7-0. All right. Okay, that concludes our public hearings this evening and all of our business. And so we're going to just move on to council and staff reports. Council, since we've gone kind of late tonight and we've had a chance to speak, I'll ask you to just, if you have something to share, maybe just one thing and we'll make it quick this evening. So anybody wanting to go first? Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. You are right. I apologize. I missed that. All the stack of papers. Actually, we have to go back to public comment before we go into council repor

Thank you, Mr. Fagan. Appreciate you. Anybody else wishing to give comment this evening?

Thank you. Anybody else in the room this evening wishing to give a public comment? Miss Julie, anybody online? Okay, we're going to close public comment for the evening. And now we'll go to our council and staff reports. And council, again, just because of time considerations, keep it the one thing this evening. Is there anybody who's wishing to go first? Councilor Fevella.

Again, congratulations, Chief, on your retirement. So incredible. The one thing I want to talk about tonight is at the Fire Commission meeting, we had a lot of news media there. Back in July at Paradise Point, there was a father swimming with his two young girls. The girls did not have floaties, and they started to go under, and the dad went in to get the girls, and he also started struggling, too. and if you've ever been to paradise point you know it's right under the freeway so noise you can be screaming and it's hard to hear with all the traffic going over Two teenage girls just happened to

Okay. Next. I'll tap on top of that one. We had one of our twins was face down in the water under the bridge there too and was saved. Also we had two neighbors that drowned there in that same spot. right underneath the freeway. It's really a nice spot, but it's really dangerous. So that's my report.

Thank you, Councillor. Anybody wishing to go next? Councillor Hamilton.

Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you to city staff for the employee appreciation picnic that happened. That was really fun to be a part of. Everyone takes so much pride in their jobs, and it's so cool for us to get to see it firsthand. So thank you for that. And then just congratulations again. I'm very happy for you.

Really nothing exciting to report about other than I had a fabulous vacation with my family. Thank you. Good for you.

I just gotta say something else. The luncheon we had on Tuesday with all the Public Works people, This is not a negative comment, but if we get any more employees, we're gonna have to have another building to hold it in Bennett question was full and everybody had a really good time Don't touch don't test staff with a good time.

They might they might take you up on that Okay, councillor Davis

Thank you. Yeah, so I'd say maybe that one highlight was Tuesday I got to ride the bike bus with the kiddos so I cruised down with about 25 kids that go to Union Ridge started up at the top of Hillhurst and Crew's gone down. They've got that cool mural down at Union Ridge now that they park their bikes in front of. And so I'm really, I love seeing that happen. And it was convenient that one of our officers was just approaching the intersection of Hillhurst and Pioneer right as we were coming in. So he just sort of shut it down. And we had all the kids cruise through, and they kind of got a kic

Great. Just a quick note from me, and it's fitting tonight to share about this too. We talked a lot about Chief Doria and her legacy of service here in the city. As she departs, she's also leaving a gap in a local organization I think is very important and very important to us here in Richfield. Chief Doria has sat on the Police Activities League board for a number of years. And if you know anything about PAL, it's an organization that's dedicated to fostering and facilitating positive relationships between law enforcement and our youth in the area. I first got exposure to this organization wh

Great, thank you, sir. Any questions for the city manager? All right, thank you. Appreciate it. We'll go to Public Works and Mr. Thamer, then.

Man, I'm going to have to do some channel surfing in between.

How many viewers do you get besides Chuck Green?

Mr. Thamer, just a quick, how are we doing with our water conservation program? That's a good question.

Thank you. Great. Other questions for Public Works? All right. Thank you, Mr. Thameron. Thanks for all your team, and you do. Thank you. We'll go to our city attorney, Ms. Parker.

Only I'll just say, I didn't get to say it earlier, or I forgot to say it earlier, is just that thank you for all the work you did on all of these contracts. I know it's not just the DA that you're doing, but there's other lease agreements, there's other operations agreements. You have your work cut out for you, and I know that that's a lot. So thank you for your work on that and being so thorough so that we have the confidence in going forward with these agreements. You're very welcome. Okay, lastly, but never least, we're gonna go to PD and Chief Dorriott.

Not a question, but just a personal comment. Chief, you're the only chief that ever gave me a hug.

Any other questions or comments? All right. Thank you. With that, this meeting is adjourned.