City Council - Regular Meeting

To the flag of the United States of America to the nation andice for all. Council member Calling here. Council member Clerk here. Council member Stackler here. Council member Redmond. Mayor Gladman here.

All right. Uh I guess we're jumping right into uh item number three. Are there any special presentations and announcements tonight? I don't believe there are. Nope. Nope. Almost there. All right. Seeing as there are no special presentations, we will in fact now jump into public comments. So, if anybody would like to speak on something that is not already on the agenda, now would be the time to do so. Please come on up. Say your name. Fair enough.

And to let commenters know, I'll be tracking your three minutes for you. When you have 30 seconds remaining, the light will turn yellow. And when the light turns red, your time is up.

Don't attend all the meetings, so I might bring something up that's already been discussed. At one of my meetings, I asked to have an agenda item made to be able to talk about the wood pallets that are on Mount Shasta Boulevard and are seating for two restaurants. And I want to talk really quick about that. I've mentioned it before. We have like a beautifification committee. We have like a ordinance that you have to have a sign approved. You have this alpine look for the town. And I have an opinion about those were put up five years ago. And the reason I'm bringing it up and asking it to be an agenda item is because in May it comes up for it six month renewal again. And I want that addressed and I want the community to have a chance to speak. I will tell you that when I bring it up with people, they don't agree with me. But I feel strongly there's 13 places to eat outdoors in this community and on the main street you're breathing the fumes and I think we're covering up the buildings. People are paying a lot of money for rent. You can't see it when you're driving through. So I have a really strong opinion and I'd like people to come and speak up. I would like to have an agenda item on that. There was something I read that said whether or not we're going to fix the clock. Somebody educated me that there's a part missing, but I don't think the words would be weather. I think the community can afford to fix the clock because we have Roseberg property that's brought in of rent for parking trucks 1,500 a month for a year or more. And I think that money should go into a general fund to pay for the clock. So, it feels to me like the beautifification committee should realize that money is there because it's community money that's been collected and it's probably being used for general fund. That was

about the monthly investment report. I need to understand more about that. I read about that. I want to understand more about that funds. Okay. Thanks. Let me know if I can get on the agenda for that item. An agenda item. Thank you. Thank you very much. Look like we've got at least one more coming up for public comment. Feel free.

Hi, my name is Anastasia Sprout and I am a relatively new resident of Mount Chasta, but for fun, I decided to start a local newspaper. This was inspired by an interview that I was blessed to do as a result of coming here uh in December. So, I was able to meet police uh Chief Robert Gibson and do an interview of him and Dan, if I'm saying this right. Say it, Dan. Go for it.

Okay. Um Jakamaro. Thank you. So, they are featured in this newspaper. Um, someone was kind enough to bring me a box of these Mount Shasta Heralds um, from 2021. I thought this was a fantastic newspaper. It still exists, but it has new owners. So, there's a lot of residents that are saying, "Wow, yeah, we need something local with really local news." So, I'm going to do one more free edition and see how it goes and then just get feedback. People like it. Um, maybe we'll continue. So, I brought you all a copy and there'll be some I have two restaurants or two places, the Spirit of Mount Shaft and the it's I'm forgetting the bike shop that's Gri Grizzly. Anyway, I have it in the um I'm posting on Next Door about it. So, I'll go ahead and hand out copies now. And I would like to find a way of just helping to get things that are important to residents that you all are working on to the residents, the information and um also reciprocal loop. Maybe there's things that you might read in the paper that would be helpful for you to hear. So, I'll pass it out now. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you for doing that. By the way, I think it is I I think a lot of us would agree that it is something that is great to have in the community. Um and I think if you go around I'm just speaking for myself, but there probably a lot of places that would be happy to have have it on display. So far, we got two maybe grow and thank you very much. Is there anybody else that Oh, what's up? We got another taker.

Come on up. meeting where she met the chief and got that wonderful interview. I'm so excited she wrote a newspaper. That's awesome. Um I have invitations here um for our next monthly community dinner. Um usually we're we're going for second Saturday February. The second Saturday is Valentine's Day, so we figured we'd just bump it and do third Saturday. Just figure that might work better. Um so yeah, I just want to invite everybody from the community, everyone on the council, um everyone is welcome to join um the conversation for affordable housing. That's part of that is tiny houses, but it's not only tiny houses. There's a lot of different ways that we could go at affordable housing. Um, and so I just also wanted to thank Todd and thank Kim and thank everyone that uh has been really receptive and open to communication and really actively looking to answer questions from the community regarding different ways that we can uh have affordable housing. Um, and you know actively answering and and looking for answers when we don't immediately know what the answer is and just continuing to to build solutions together. So, just want to thank everybody for that.

Thank you very much. Another one.

Aloha.

My name's AA for the movement. That one's mine. The gorgeous one that's just worn that way. Um, again, thank you. Uh, she sent out this. This is a broad invitation to our next community dinner which is February Saturday the 21st at 5:00 pm at the Nazzy the old Nazi building 954 Old Stage Road. Uh we had a nice little tiny house tour last time. We're going to have dinner there. It'll be a lot of fun. And so everyone's invited all staff. All staff. And uh we're going to planning commission and then we're going to invite all them too. So it's just broad. We expect to have I don't know 20 to 30 people and it's just a broad dinner break bread Q&A about whatever's going on with the city usually around Dango town homes worker qualified housing at the landing income qualified housing alternative housing and tiny houses just pretty laidback chill things. So that's the invitation. Uh last weekend I think we had our first little grant writing team get together at Anastasia's place actually which is gorgeous and had about five of us. One of them being a member of the city planning commission in Dunir that wants to take the tiny house ordinance and put it on the agenda. And once that magical date happens, then we'll just ducks fly together and start going that way and help them copy and paste and then push it towards the first and second reading of the council maybe. And then same thing is happening in the city of Weed. And so again, tip your hats, you guys doing such an amazing job. And I know we touched base within the city of Huica for the same thing. and they just from watching their video they did have a lot of interest in a tiny house movement. So just small

little breadcrumbs are going across and we have a HOA guy in Lake Shassina that we're supposed to meet up with I think in the next week or two. So just really good job really proud of you guys. Very extremely thankful for open transparency and communication and thank you.

Awesome. Thanks. Awesome. And anybody else out there for an item not on the agenda? Going once? All right. Moving on. We will move on to council and staff comments. Anybody on council make a comment on something not on the agenda to start? Okay. Wait. Okay. uh going down the line there.

All right, perfect. Sorry about that. Um so uh at the last council meeting we talked about uh the potential for uh to explore the possibility of combining our sewer and um drainage funds and uh you know uh the reading I've gotten is uh from our city attorney and looking at case laws. It doesn't really there. So I without rehashing it um one of the things that I promised I would do is contact other uh cities up here. uh spoke to the finance directors in Wu Rico Weed and Dunge and um all three of them of course have a sewer enterprise fund and the uh other three cities rely on grants and um uh repairs from their general fund. So they don't have a separate um they don't have separate drainage funds. So, um, still I haven't gotten a call back from John. I think, um, the the big determination now is under 218, can you actually go out and, uh, we know what it costs to provide the service? Can we charge less than what we need just to starting the bleeding? And that's what I'm trying to answer next. So, more to come. I haven't forgotten it. We're we're gonna we're gonna move on it. Um

before you go on. So, so if it's not part of the sewer fund and it remains a separate fund, uh storm water system have to any improvements any 218 process has to be affirmed by a positive vote, not a protest vote. Correct. Yeah. So if we went out with a, you know, I were at $1, we need to go to $6 per rate. They there would have to be an affirmation for 50% plus.

No. Um, and this isn't uh to um disagree in any way or disparage our city attorney. I I do want to get another reading because it seems uh illogical to pass it because it seems like no one would ever pass um this and the idea that you have a a different 218 process for just drain it seems odd. So I'm I'm also chasing that link down. You're actually not sure. I I'm going we did we did this correctly to begin the first time.

I'm going through the adimacy of our city attorney and we went through that. It just has struck me as I think it's struck the rest of council that it's odd that there's a process that's different for one to 18 fund than every everything else. Um so uh library expansion uh we uh we're still waiting for a couple bids to come back. We also have uh Nolan contact us out of the blue to say hey how's the project going? And um Someone said uh you know uh hey they got a local estimator and um you know and they weren't chilling for work. They were like well how would they know um how to price some of this stuff unless you know they have some guidance on it. So they they threw in a bid. It's under the amount. Um it would be them with a little bit of oversight on estimating firm um you know, we've got to we've got to go through the process, but I think uh that's ideal. Um anyway, so there's that. Then uh lots of landing stuff. There were uh uh meetings last week related to infrastructure. Tom Hasseldon's uh who's done a lot of the site plan work. Kim uh um Fowler, our planning director, and Ken Kellogg, public works director were on the call, as well as the power group uh their uh engineer. And so we were just trying to figure out, well, okay, how do we get to the logistics of of resizing so we've got fewer that serves Church Street and onto the east side parcel and across um the the to the northwest corner of the west side parcel at the landing, you

know, the need for a pump station, all the nitty-gritty stuff. And at the same time, we're still working uh with the affordable housing groups. And what we uh we're working to do is Kim's going to close the loop. Uh we're uh uh on the SLA and say, look, the amount of time it's going to take to get funding to do affordable housing is a couple years out. So, um, you know, we're going to say that we can't come to an agreement in our time frame close SLA and still, uh, within a development agreement with the city right in there that we're we're still going to do the affordable and we're looking uh, we've tossed everything around from, uh, tiny home clusters to um, uh, you know, affordable senior cottages uh, to traditional affordable housing as a mix. and um more to come, but things are moving. It it always feels like it's not moving as fast as we as we'd like it to, but uh these guys are serious and they're spending money and um uh we've got to have sight control to do the affordable here. So, that that's coming soon.

All right. Anything from planning department or fire department? Thank you, Mayor and Council. Um, just a little clarification about one of the consent agenda items. I had a question. Um, there was an RFP process that was evaluated by or staff for the vegetation management grant. Um, there was eight that were received. um went through them all and they were ranging anywhere from a th000 an acre to just under about 4,000 an acre. So the process came down to local knowledge of city land as well as previous done work on city property. That's where the decision came down overall and cost per acre will be able to do more for the city property to accomplish you in the vegetation management.

Awesome. Thanks, Chief. Appreciate that. Any other council or staff comments? Can't have anything.

All right. So, yeah, I wanted to address issues, please. So with respect to the speaker I think TZ on the uh fixing of the clock and the temperature gauge we did have an agenda item on that and it was it was last week or last time two weeks ago and it was fairly negative. The repair job for the thermometer is apparently impossible due to lack of parts repair-wise. Ready? At the moment, we have not been able to find parts for uh anyone can rebuild the existing parts. Now, having said that, uh after our last council meeting, I was approached by Mike Ye, uh who would he's an electrical engineer that's here in town and would like to take a shot at it. So, I'm trying to set up a meeting for Mike to go take a look at it to see if

the thermometer. Yes.

And then you're going to go on the on the clock. Um Ken, uh public works director did isolate parts that would fix the the clock, but his his feeling was was that they would not be long-lasting repairs. In other words, maybe a year or so. So, uh there is a cost to replace the clock and that's in the 40 30 40,000 range. 40 to 50. So to me to me it's almost a valid measure. Do you want to fix this clock and thermometer and this is what it will cost to replace them with similar similar architectural features to make at that point. But um it was addressed those who would like to keep the clock versus having it removed. The cost to remove them will be practically zero by the way. Um put put in trees or something. the uh cost of replacing them or long-term workability, serviceability of of both items would be in the well, if it's going to be both. It's probably approaching $100,000, I'd imagine.

We have yet to find anybody that manufactures pedestal. It it's it's not made anymore that we can find. So, for those of you who might seem a little frustrated, might be a little frustrated about the two non-functioning entities down there, u I I'm with you on that. I uh wish there was an easy solution, but apparently one if this if this engineer can't fix the thermometer, it's going to be a uh non- workinging item there. So, something for future discussion. Yeah. As to what to do. Yeah. You want to say something about that to me?

Well, I I don't know about that. That doesn't sound right to me.

Wait a Roseberg and we the landing there there were those are rental that was the rental monies and stuff for replacement of utility PS

yeah I I think it's trending more towards a well yeah um ballot measures I and don't forget we do have we do have an election coming up and the ballot measures want to some more interesting things than tax. Uh not more, that's pretty interesting, but other other interesting things. Uh this is time to do it because they'll be cheap. They'll be cheap to put on the ballot. Um so there's other things we want to do. The due date on that is July or August, right? July, I think. July. July. So yeah, we do have to get to get to uh what we want to do, especially on the tax measure. The other thing had to do with Prop 68. saw the the poster on the board out here as I walked in and um so I've been researching the Prop 68 process and because I was just curious how it worked. So it turns out well at least for the district and I would imagine it's the same for us. you get you get your you get your grant awarded in this case for all these different localities was $177,000 about three years ago maybe four and uh it's not clear who manages the money but it seems that staff can can manage the funds we as a council have to approve the application for the grant which we did I looked that up but the management of the funs is it's unclear if it has to be council approves for a project list or even an individual project. Uh Shannon, the director of the rec district worked extensively with her board to come up with a a project list. The the big one is the roof of this building. And here's here's the thing and I I don't know if it's the same for the council city. I mean for the city, but you have to spend the money first. you get you get a nod as to whether the money will be forthcoming, but you have

to spend the money first, then be recompensed by the state through Prop 68. So, they had to go out and get a uh bridge loan, very favorable bridge loan, zero interest, zero fees, just unbelievable. And not only that, the payback was extended two or three years. So whoever this bank was was more than generous for banks, you know, zero interest, zero fees. Yeah. And what are roughly the stipulations for the use of that? It has to be park oriented.

But that's very broadly it's a pretty broad um standard. And so we as as you'll you'll see at the visitor center, the visitor center is city property I believe and the visitor center is managed by chamber at our request. Well, we we pay them to run it. But anyhow, the prop 68 is right there on the board and that landscaping project was prop 68 money and there's a roof improvement either to complete what they started or to actually do the whole roof. uh the visitor center city parkish um park light and then there's um there's the parking lot over by the Barnell property with currently Ramirez next to Ramirez Welding. So that one might be a little I can if you want I can walk through. Um so uh we we

have you got some things lined up beyond that. Well, there there a couple projects that were in the original grant and that was to uh pave that parking lot and um uh and uh the parking lot at the visitor center which you want to transfer to the roof and so we've got an estimate on the roof. It's just it's been um and then we have uh you know rearranging landscape elements at city hall was another one. Another one was what they were calling Castle Creek Park which involved uh you know a um a design that so losing parking and then creating parking elsewhere.

So um we're trying to reprogram the money uh that you know so we can get the roof at uh the visitor center done instead of doing the landscaping at city hall. Uh we want to remove a problem tree and then reprogram the rest of the money uh for a design uh and repaving for the two chestnut parcels that would uh work in conjunction with um if we ever do the daylighting of Castle Creek, but also to provide additional uh overflow parking, especially uh during our peak seasons. And um it just that the state has been wanting us to slowly reprogram each element. It's in process. It's glacially slow, but we'll get it done.

We still have uh three and a half years on the grant.

The red district manages um the city property the ball fields over there by citizen they need a fence re uh replaced so that might be something for $11,000 so do talk to I think we'll have here and as long as we get it done in a time where cost escalators don't eat everything yeah I would imagine it would be more by the time we get around to it but at this point it's prevailing wage okay and so that's something that's very park oriented the lights at the cast fields as well. Yeah, those are also down. We're having to move the summer softball league.

Yeah, that's the pricing on that was pretty high last time I checked. Yeah, she just mentioned she mentioned the fencing at the ballpark. If you guys have a different understanding, my understanding is prop 68 is now done. We've got the new Yeah. parks measure that's under four. Yeah. So, we need to look at that. Yeah. to try and see what we can do well in advance. So, u I've got some good stuff on well, yeah, it's good hopeful stuff on the Kier interpretive center, but I'll save that for meetings at the end. Yeah. So, that's it for now. Thanks.

Well, thank you. I missed that over here. All right. Uh on to number six then. Committee updates. The

one go ahead. So, uh, DXMat, we, um, I'm going to reiterate that's a great high functioning group. Um, you know, we're, uh, looking at potentially bring in additional murals in some locations, finishing up, uh, the wraps on the power box art. Uh, um, Danny from the seasons and I are going to work on Blacktober. We're just trying to figure out a way to raise some additional money potentially through GoFundMe, but we can't do that through a government site. So, we're um we pulled in um the the chamber to talk about that issue. And the other big thing is um and I've I've talked about that before is how do we capitalize on the the 250th anniversary of the nation and 101st of uh the renaming of um this city from SIS to Mount Chasta and um we've got a meeting on uh Kim and I have the meeting with SIS economic development on Wednesday to go over some ideas. I've had some conversations with the chamber and you know gotten some great in-house ideas. So, we're trying to figure that out before we lose daylight. And let's see what else. Um, we have uh a couple uh new faces uh you know, very enthusiastic folks that were considering the idea of um of joining the act and uh think they'd be a great addition. I I can't I can't say enough about what a high functioning solid uh any updates for the other committees there? I know we've got the next agenda or well two agenda items from now has to do with the committees as well, but anything else? All right, moving on to

item seven. And there has been a request to to move um item C off of the consent agenda and discuss it separately before going through there. So we will um remove item C and just go through A and B. And I'll read those now. Consent agenda. The city manager recommends approval of the following consent agenda items. All resolutions and ordinances on this agenda or added here too shall be introduced or adopted as applicable by title only and the full reading thereof is hereby waved. A approval of minutes January 26th, 2026 regular meeting B. Police department monthly report.

All right. Move for approve consent agenda items A and B title only. All right. All those in favor I I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. What's that? Oh, and in and one absent. Um, should we move to discuss item C separately right now? Then we'll jump it ahead of the others real quick.

Yeah. Um, so this is in relation to a um wildfire mitig mitigation grant. It's something we've we've gotten before. Uh we were awarded uh $393,400 um to do what we can to remove as much uh fuel and snags as we can around the city. Any any place that we can get access to uh just so we're prepared for fire season. We had a we got a lot of responses. Um we uh uh reviewed all the RFPs and um uh the fire department chose to go uh with mellow excavation. I think the big deciding factor here is local knowledge. One, two is that there is a savings because uh the cost of staging and pulling all equipment um is happening in town as opposed to you know Sacramento or Reading or some further loc. We just know, you know, ultimately with local knowledge, we know our problem areas and we can be a little bit more strategic when removing fuels with an eye on what we can, uh, remove to, uh, limit, you know, property owners from being dropped from their insurance. And so, um, we made that award. Uh, and we just we run this um, you know, until the money runs out and we remove as much as we can. Um, the chair.

Uh, yeah, please. I was a little confused by Corey's statement during the beginning of the meeting. Did he say that it was chosen in error or something? I didn't follow that completely either. I I there wasn't an error made. It was discussed. Um and uh it it just this seemed like the right path. And you know um the gentleman again was our fire chief. He bought him navigator and he's done work for us before. He gets on it.

Sorry. Second question. Um, am I following that he may not be the lowest bid, but in conjunction with where he lives and that sort of thing factored in, he would be the lowest? Um, that my understanding I wasn't part of the RFP review team. I saw it after uh, you know, I think the big kicker is the guy knows where um, the problem areas are. going to be able to hit those first and hit the ground running as opposed to having the ground time of trying to figure out what first

I think so I mean he's not here so I don't want to but I think what he what he had mentioned was it the the bids there was eight of them I think that might have been the word that sounded like error was eight bids or no I don't know but it came in at a rate of of somewhere between a,000 and 4,000 and we're going with the one that's 1,200 and I guess he was saying that the extra 200 It was more worth it than local knowledge essentially I think was the gist of it. Oh please. No. Do we have to go to public comment on this now?

Did you see the uh the criteria for evaluation of of the bids? I'm assuming price was one of the factors, but there's usually some weighted average of different criteria that can easily make somebody who's 1,200 versus a,000 the lowest bidder. Was that the situation here?

So, um I don't I I can't honestly say yes, we are we have um score sheets for any RFP that comes in that are supposed to be filled out and then turned in um and held on file in case uh you know we you know somebody wants to contest the decision. Um so I'm assuming so I um I'm sorry I just didn't confirm that one more question if I can. Is the plan for vegetation clear the where the the order the the we're going to do this then that and here's the general plan for it. Is that done or is there still room for input into that? Oh, input. Um you know we're looking at you know of course the landing is always a problem area. Um we we've got a list. What one of the things that um I think it's is important to point out is that we have um abandoned and distressed properties that are a chronic nuisance and they've been cited over and over again. And um those are the places where their neighbors are now in jeopardy of losing their insurance. And those are the places that we want to hit because we're not getting compliance. I have a question on that. Uh, so if this is a property that's owned by somebody, most likely they're they're owned by somebody not in town, I'm guessing, um, most of the time. So if the city is doing this at a cost of,200, just assume it's like a 1acre parcel. Did do we have the ability then to place some sort of lean on this property similar to what we're doing with the

hotel where if it go if it ever does go into sale, the city will be able to recoup the cost? We do. and and we use it vigorously. Lovely. Uh any other questions? Uh we'll open it up to public comment if anybody would like to comment.

Uh nope. Yeah, we're just uh clearing ve uh hazard vegetation on Sorry. Okay. Uh, anybody else? Feel free to Okay, we'll bring it back for discussion amongst the council. Anybody? Uh, do you feel that you need to put this on the next agenda because you need to clear some question marks regarding you know, you know, again, I wasn't on the review team. I read all the applications and um,

well, I'm ready to move. My my first brief reaction after going through them all is uh we made the right choice, but I'm I'm I'm not part of the review team. Uh we had they had um different fire uh department personnel go through it and there's nobody that knows our problems better than they do. But reading through it was to me it was a clear choice. I I'm I'm move to approve. I'll move to approve consent agenda item 7C vegetation management agreement by second. Okay. Uh all those in favor I

I Any opposed? Any abstain? One absent. All right. Moving on to agenda item number eight. Uh committee appointments. And I noticed we have a number of these. Um I don't know if we want to go through these one at a time, committee by committee. I think it was one person per committee if I remember.

Yeah. Um I think typically what we've done in the past is, you know, we we have uh three committees uh with uh people willing to volunteer uh with chronic shortage. Uh we have um uh for the beautifification committee Lori Oliver and uh for DAK we have Maria Miller and uh for the planning commission we have Tim Stern I think typically and correct me if I'm wrong we usually um have uh the applicants uh say a few words and why they want to be on the committee and then council has a discussion. So, um, Rory, do you want to come up and My name's Lori Oliver. Can you hear me? Um, I've been working with the beautifification committee for about 25 years and uh, a vacancy came up on the board, so I'm here to apply for that vacancy. Um, I've spent about 30 years being a landscape contractor and owning a nursery. Um, I think I'm pretty qualified to help move some things along. So, I appreciate you considering that. You have any questions?

Anybody have any questions for Lauren?

Any Okay. Uh, any discussion?

I don't remember that we have in the past. There's no in it if um it's I guess council's discretion. I um I don't think we have. So typically we've done this during special meetings and because of the earlier time uh there's not always public presence. Uh so we can do the nominations individually or I would suggest uh hearing from all three candidates and then doing one set of public comments. Sounds good to me. Thank you, Lauri. Thank you. Excellent.

All right. And next up, we have Scrolling down, scrolling down. Uh we've got Maria as an applicant for D.

Hello, council. I am really excited to to be here and to have learned about this vacancy at one of the last Rotary meetings I attended when Todd mentioned it. Um, I'm new to Mount Shasta as of spring of 24 and I will never forget my first Fourth of July downtown and just being like, "This is the best place in the world." Like, I'm so grateful to get to live here and be a part of this community. Um, and since my husband and I opened Redwood Gallery on the boulevard, I've been thinking about traffic patterns and ways people move around town and um, learning that, oh, I can maybe contribute and and help. And then when I went to last week's meeting, learning that a lot of what they're working on is related to art and that I'm starting to build up a directory of local artists, I was like, "Oh, I could really be maybe I could be useful here and I'd love to be able to help out to a community that has supported us and welcomed us." And yeah, so that's that's why we're here.

Excellent. Thank you. Uh, any questions, Maria? I'm pleased. So um there are is it right if I share two or three? Okay. So um one thing that always strikes me when I when folks come into the gallery and I ask them are you local? Are you visiting? And we start talking and they look at a photo or a piece of art and it's of Sis and Meadow. And I'm like you know Sis Meadow and they're like no where is it? I'm like literally two blocks away. So, I think that way signage throughout town would be so so helpful to let people know about the headarters and the library and uh the meadow and and different things like that. And even since the boulevard is such a like dense thoroughfare, but it's not the only commercial space in town. I think that some way signage to get people on to chestnut would be really and to pedals and things like that would be really useful too. And then um we do live in such a beautiful place, but if you look around at the buildings, sometimes they're a little sad. And so I think some murals and some art on our um electrical boxes would be a really a really really great enhancement and just make it pop for people who visit really stand out as a a place they want to return to.

Thank you. Excellent. And hardly needs an introduction but uh sitting right there. Mr. Kim turns Tim Sterns for planning commission. What would you like to know?

Thank you. Well, the idea of uh being on planning commission, number one, uh have a quorum so that the planning commission can meet and and move things forward. Number two, work with other members of the planning commission to move things forward. Any other questions over here? Okay. Okay. Thank you very much.

Um I suppose now would be the time for discussion if we wanted to or yeah public comment. Uh if anybody has any public comment to make about any one or all three or if you would like to step forward to the microphone up here and say your name and feel free to make a comment. Nicholas Ron Ro Lucier public or private funding for the artwork in town.

Um are you ask are you asking if the uh the proposed public artwork would be publicly or privately funded? Is that that is the English? Um, I would imagine it would probably be a mix of both depending on the location of it. If it's on city owned things, probably public.

Uh, any other public comment? All right. Aloha. Aa so thank you for you three super awesome beings for all the experience that you do have which is a lot and stepping up to the plate and I know our town appreciates each and every one of you and you guys aura is very bright and your heart is very pure and you're doing really really really good work and I just want to take the second to appreciate them so thank you

thank you author All right. Any other public comments? Okay,

we'll bring it back for discussion. Okay, one more time. I will move to appoint Lori Oliver to the beautifification committee, Maria Miller to the downtown ADI downtown enhancement advisory committee, and Tim Sterns to the planning commission. Second. Okay. Uh, all those in favor? I. Any opposed or abstaining?

And one absent. Thank you all. Well, thanks everybody for stepping up to that. Much appreciated. and welcome to the committees.

Um we will have public comment for each agenda item. Um the there was an initial public comment for uh period for things not on the agenda at the beginning of the meeting. No worries. All right. So, moving on to agenda item number nine, the subreient agreement with Great Northern Services to apply for CDBG funding. Um, this is the city is preparing applications for the upcoming CDBG funding cycle. So, toss it over to Todd.

Yeah. Um, so, uh, for this year's community development block grant, um, round, uh, Great Northern Services, uh, we've got at least Garcia with us tonight. We are um you know we were going to seek uh re uh reimbursement for uh senior snow removal but we needed to hit a certain benchmark by the end of January. Obviously we haven't gotten there. So we are focusing our efforts on two things and um that is uh reapplying for uh a grant for uh 30 to create 30% uh planning drawings for the repaving of Mount Casta Boulevard from one end to the other to include uh um uh bike lanes and uh you know uh active transportation imp improvements uh that are consistent with our active transportation plan. And we are also seeking funds for a microenterprise program that would uh uh provide uh small grants for fledgling businesses, startups, and for folks that are uh at or below 80% of the county's median family income. and we did something similar uh I believe it was back in 2018 and it was a a big success and um so this is uh the public meeting for this. We also need to hold a second public meeting in case anybody has comments. We're going to just kind of wrap that up quickly after um you know we're done with this council meeting tonight so we can get this all shipped off. Excellent.

Thank you, Todd. Uh any Oh, yeah.

My name is Alisa. I'm one of the grant writers uh with Great Northern Services and we assist the city of Mount Shasta with uh writing the grants. And as uh Todd mentioned, um we wanted to submit three applications. the seniors know we really um had a lot of seniors re that requested to see if we can reapply for that grant. Unfortunately due due to um not having any snow, we haven't had any call call outs for any snow removal and um as you guys mentioned for the other funding, we have to spend the funding before they give us more funding. So, we have to at least spend 50% of the funding to be able to to reapply for the same grant. Um, and as of right now, we've only been um able to spend 40% of that senior snow. Uh, the Mount Shasta master plan is um it's a resubmission of an application that we submitted last year. uh we believe that we'll have a strong um score to get the application approved and that's for a 30% design and that's at 300,000. The microenterprise assistant program is also a resubmission. Last year it was a a first come first- serve basis and um this year they're scoring competitively and so for that for um local small businesses here in the city of Mount Strasa. It's a grant for 560,000. And then as you guys were mentioning, um I was taking notes of some of the items that you guys were requesting and seeing where you guys can get extra funding. Um we have also talked to Todd and for future funding um in 2026 the proposed

method of distribution for CDBG funding is $27 million that it's going to be available. It's for infrastructure, community facilities, housing activities. The maximum award is $5 million for jurisdiction. Um, so for community facilities that could be parks and wreck.

All right. Uh, any questions over here?

Uh, Todd, did you have more clarifying information on this one? Not just yet. Um on the grant. What's that? On the grant submission. Yeah, I I don't that really sums it up. We're just, you know, at you know, once we wrap up council, um you know, we're gonna ping around and see if anybody has any um objections or cheers or tears. Excellent. I did have a question uh for you there if you don't mind. Um, you mentioned that last year we were unsuccessful in our submission, but you're more helpful this year. Um, so were we able to change some things from from last year's submission.

Uh, yes. It was um it was a an audit issue that the the state was looking for um just because Melissa was so new. We asked for extended timing and we believe that we've um we've achieved that goal and we can submit a good application. Fantastic. That answers that question. All right. Uh public comment if anybody would like to speak on this agenda item here on this grant application.

In regard in regards to the lake project we just talked about. I attended that meeting with Casey at seven sons and the conversation we had was studies have proven if you limit people's freedom they're more easy to control tighter bike lane tighter driving lanes were too free okay looks like we've got another please step up.

Hi, my name is Nancy Swift. I'm with Jedi here in Mount Chesta and I just wanted to clarify um about this um and I'm glad that you're interested. These CDBG funds are perfect for the two uses you you're suggesting. um Jedi would be engaged hopefully to be the subreient to provide and I wanted to clarify for businesses because they might have heard 560,000 for them. Um the money is for um technical assistance and grants. So, we anticipate making maybe 10 grants or more of up to $10,000 each for startup and existing businesses like Todd said. And then also lots of individual business coaching and um resource acquisition and and helping get that grant that um the city would offer and other financing. Um, and Jedi's been in your community for a very long time supporting this these size of businesses. Microenterprise equals five or fewer people including the business owner and you do have to be income eligible. So, there are a few restrictions on the money and it's absolutely critical for all of your plans um in terms of supporting the smallest of businesses to create jobs in our community and um also um building the camaraderie and the um like tonight there's a lot of spirit of people wanting to contribute and excitement. Um I think you called it youthful enthusiasm. I'm I used to be that youth. So I'm gonna go with other people are doing it now and it's wonderful. So um this kind

of a grant and these kinds of businesses who would be eligible are um prolific in our community and they create most of the jobs in our community and we're excited to be a part of the project. So thanks for moving it forward. Thank you and thanks for what you do. got multiple friends that have utilized your services. So, all right. Any other members of the public wish to speak on this? Okay, we'll bring it back for discussion. How about over here?

Please. Thank you. U so Todd, are we approving or pending approval of the grant application or the subreient relationship. Uh the submission of the the grant application.

Anybody like to make a motion? Yes. I'll move to approve the submission of grant applications to the state community development block grant program for this Mount Chasta Boulevard master plan, not Lake Street and the microenterprise assistance program. Second. Excellent. All those in favor?

I I Any opposed or abstain? And one absent. All right. Excellent. Um, item number 10, a public hearing on the military equipment report. California law requires that the council receive an annual report on the inventory and use of military equipment. So, this would be I believe we have a standin for Chief Gibson. Hello, I'm Sergeant Don. I'm here on behalf of Sergeant Chief Gibson to address the military equipment inventory. On September 30th, 2021, California Assembly Bill 481 was signed into law. This bill requires all law enforcement agencies participating in the federal federal surplus property program law of 1948, also known as the 1033 program, to have policy addressing the use of military equipment. Um, pretty much we have six rifles, two AR-15s and four M14s. Uh, they're currently locked up, double locked. No military equipment is currently in service. No annual cost with the equipment. No complaints or concerns received last year and no plans to acquire any additional equipment.

And if I can add speaking to Chief Gibson today, uh, Basically, why we have these is um they're collecting dust. It's just easier to keep them where they are than just spend the money to to send them dispose of them. All right. Any questions from council here? Just so we're receiving the report. There won't be a motion to accept the report. A technical standpoint. I I don't think there's an action. I It's just um receiving the report. Yeah.

Oh, any questions? Questions? All right. Uh at this point, if anybody from the public would like to comment, ask questions. Okay. Seeing none, we will bring it back for discussion. Okay. We have received the report. So, so folks are wondering this is done annually, right? Yeah. Usually non-issue. All right.

All right. Um, moving on then to item number 11. Do we have any council reports on attendance at appointed outside meetings? I believe we have at least one over here.

Yeah. So last week I attended the Kier interpretive and information center monthly meeting up in Hu Rica and the organization is down to under $3,000 in operating funds. So it's getting pretty dire at this point. Uh the main hope rests with Nancy Agren, supervisor for the c for the county. I think she represents the Hu Rica area. She was talking with um a representative at uh Community Foundation of North State, particularly the the Driscoll funds and other educators about changing the focus the main thrust of the center more towards the interpretive side versus the information side. uh generally improving both the exterior and interior educational functions of the place in the hope that after those improvements the the number of visits by uh school groups would go from zero to a lot and that the the mission of these uh educators to make it a go-to place for educational purposes would then in turn uh lead to funding that keeps the keeps the center from closing essentially. So I surprisingly was the only one that was really enthusiastic out of the whole board. I I was shocked that nobody else really thought it was a great idea. It's it's really the only way to go. Um the information center south of your visit cal the California visitor center is much more thorough uh down in reading or Anderson wherever it is. And then in the other direction as you get into Ashen, they have a really beautiful information

center there, but it also has interpretive aspects. Um, there's lots of room for improvement at the Kier Interpretive Center. Heading in an educational direction is to me the way to go and hopefully something can't transpire. Uh short of that, we're just hoping to get some more funding from different cities, including Mount Shasta, but the situation getting pretty pretty dire and is heading towards potential potential closure. So, the request for $1,000 will probably be higher this probably more than $1,000 um for the next fiscal year. So, so we'll see what happens there. So, anyhow, that's my report.

We got one over here.

Could you uh step up? Uh for those aren't sure, it's north of Hayek. It's north of Hornbrook, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, it's north of Hornbrook. I actually take that exit. Um, you actually you pass the Anderson grade, you go over that summit, the Anderson summit, and then as you're coming down, it's Yeah, the rest stop. Yeah, that place. Yeah. And that building is is looking to be uh hopefully improved. Pretty long-term project, but we'll see what happens.

Council member,

I attended BNI meeting in Reading Business Networking Institute. Um there are people from every sect of business that comes and it's all about networking and sharing needs and um connecting business wants throughout the community and I got in touch with the BNI lead about opening one in Mount Chasta. Um there are dues involved. So it's really about like kind of buying in for that expansion of networking and getting together as a business group. We need about 17 charter members to get it started. I don't know that I have the bandwidth to take this on. So if anyone wants to take the lead or talk to me about it, please do.

Excellent. Anybody else? Um I did hold my first uh coffee with the mayor session at seven suns and there was uh somebody counted for me. I think there was he counted 27 people there. Um so yeah we we used every chair in the house and uh had standing room only and there was a robust discussion for a couple hours. It went well. Uh we'll be doing the next one on the 24th of this month. It'll be an evening one. Going to alternate morning and evenings to allow for uh folks who have differing schedules to attend. Um, still somewhat up in the air as the wear, but it's likely going to be at Clandestino. Uh, the gentleman that owns that, Nicholas, was there and he offered the use of this facility for the next one. So, hope to see lots of people there. But, yeah, great discussion. People had lots to talk about. Took it back to staff, met with him, and hopefully get some things in the work. Um, cool. All right. Uh, future agenda items. Does anybody have anything they would like to add? Yeah, we need to put a firm date on what we're going to be asking the the people for their sales tax increase.

So let's suggest we have to put a due date May. Oh yes, June. What can we add that any other ballot measures plus other ballot measures? Yes, we need to brainstorm and come up with any other great ideas. Uh but the due date is July. that we want to have this handled by June, but maybe the we have to make a maybe we should make a decision on this by May or

um we have a calendar put together. We're just finalizing that. That'll be out on the website, but we also have a a list of additional town halls and and um you know, other attempt to to reach voters. It's it's just about finalized. We'll have it out this week as timeline. Yeah. Okay. And that's the the consultant. Yes. Um does anybody do we want to second?

There we go. Got that one. Um how about talking about the parklet? Anybody have adding that Jeffrey? Seems fair. Okay. So, we're close on uh bringing the master fee schedule. I don't know. We've got uh Ken's got a couple things he's working out. Um but, uh we'll be back soon. We should probably remove senior snow removal just because it seems like they've nicked that into the future. CDBG has so good. Okay. Excellent. Okay. All right. All right. Meeting adjourned. Thank you everybody.