City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right, folks. We're going to do a little flag here.

Council member Collings here. Council member Clerk here. Council member Slack here. Council member Redmond here. Mayor Gladman here. All righty. Uh moving on. Uh Todd, do we have any special presentations?

We don't. Okay, perfect. In that case, we will move on to section four, public comment. And this is time for any members of the public that would like to speak on any items not on the agenda. Uh you'll have three minutes. So if you would like to please come on up to uh how are we working with the signin sheet this evening? Is everybody already signed in? Um Rachel

uh so we have uh extra participation tonight which is wonderful to see. So to keep things organized I've set up this signin sheet. So, anyone who signed in will be called to the podium first to speak for your three minutes. Uh, and then afterwards, uh, anyone who's not on the signin sheet is free to stand up. Um, I had this handy dandy desk timer to show you how much time you have remaining, but it just gave up the ghost 20 minutes before the meeting. So, when you have 30 seconds remaining, I'll tell you verbally into the microphone, and then I'll tell you when your three minutes is up. Perfect. Thank you. Can you read this?

Well, you are signed up. So, if you could step up to the microphone. Okay. Uh, we'll move on to speaker number two.

I have Tatiana Gonzalez. I was supposed to be the last speaker, but I'm going to be the first because I wrote my name first. We are here on the spraying of the skies in hopes that you guys will do what you can to stop it. I will be brief in my explanation that Tennessee, Florida, Mexico have been successful in getting this to stop. The Air Force does own the rights to the sky. They do not own the right to be spraying us with poison. My name is Tatiana Gonzalez. I have a business as an herbalist and an AI consultant. I am interested in buying the building on Mount Shasta Road, the downtown building. Um, it's a white building. I want to buy it and I want to bring business here, but this is a huge deflection to that decision to spend millions of dollars to integrate my business here because you are they are actively poisoning the skies, the water, and everything else that is sacred here. Mount Shasta's economy is built on a brand. The the brand is purity. Clean water, clean air, pristine mountain wilderness. Every tourist who visits, every hiker who climbs, every family that relocates here, they come because of the brand. They've come because Mount Shasta represents something that is increasingly rare in America. A place that is still clean. Tourism is a primary economic driver. Visitors come from the for the mountain, the springs, the trails, the spiritual significance of this place. They spend money at local businesses. They hotel rooms. They eat at local restaurants. They come because this place is special. And what makes it special is the environment. Now, let me present the economic risk. If independent testing confirms contamination of our water and snow at levels that exceed EPA standard, and the preliminary data suggests it might, the economic consequences for this community would be severe. Property values would decline, tourism would suffer, and the city of Pure Water would

no longer be able to stand by that brand. But here is the part that you should that should keep you up at night. If we do not test and the contamination exists and it eventually becomes public through some through someone else's investigation, a journalist, a state agency, a law lawsuit, then this city will not just face an environmental crisis. You will face a credibility crisis because the community will ask, "Did you know?" And the answer will be, "People told you. They stood at this podium. They showed you the data. They asked you to test and you chose not to." That is the worst possible economic outcome. Not the contamination discovered through our own diligence that can be addressed, remediated, turned into a story of community leadership. The worst outcome is contamination discovered despite our refusal to look. That destroys trust. A trust once destroyed does not come back. You cannot call yourself the city of pure water if you refuse to test the water. 30 seconds. The people that have joined me tonight are either going to speak from the heart or they're going to speak the data that I have pulled. And there is enough data to show you that in fact we are being poisoned. Um Fred Mangles did a test independently on the snow and it showed 10 times the legal amount of barium and aluminum. The elemental chart for that stands for ball. You guys know what that is. I'm just asking you from the bottom of my heart to protect the children here, the people here, the business owners here, and the sacred land here. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

I have Shaniah Freeman. We have a question. We have a question from a council member. Hi.

Am I Ah, thank you. and me. I just thought I was death. Well, wait a minute. That's true. And just a couple of quick questions to help put a frame of reference and help us understand because this is a fire hose level of current stuff. Yes. You have precipitation testing samples in 2023. Do you know where those of those samples like is this Mount Shasta samples?

Yes, this is Mount Shasta samples. This is from the AQMD who actually studies the environment and the elemental damages going on from everything from exhaust and fires, everything going on in the air. They actually delegate that. Just I just want to understand this one thing. They actually delegate that. Does that mean they're taking those numbers and kind of putting them aside so they're kind of a net what's left are the numbers that are present here for aluminum barium and

yes so they they monitor decontamination of the air so for instance I have a friend that works for the USPS he couldn't be here tonight but he used to be working on the oil mining field and because the AQMD who governs this pollution if you will se sector I've never done this before, you guys. I just feel called. Um, they had to shut down the oil rig, what they were doing, because it was putting too many contaminants in the air. So, that's what the AQMD governs and monitors. So, these facts are actual real data that we've pulled from the government of what is actually being sprayed. We have the patent information. We have who's funding it. Aerial spraying is

aerial spray. Yes. When the planes come and they dump all the stuff that's covering the skies, I just again Mrs. Mount Chasta. Yes, we're familiar with this discussion. Yeah, I don't mean to speak for everybody here, but I suspect most people are here are and uh I just wanted to make sure that I was kind of step one got what you were talking about. Thank you. We got a lot of folks to get. I do have I do have one last question. I read through this briefly. I didn't see it listed here. If I missed it, apologies. The samples, where on the mountain were they taken? because I actually did water sampling uh over the last couple years for a a different organization and I'm just curious.

I I'm going to tell you right now I have not looked into where exactly they're pulling the samples. There's samples done from the snow by Fred Mangles that was actually on Mount Shasta Francis. Yes. Oh, God bless him. He's still alive. Uh, as far as the other data that's pulled from the government, this is AQMD data that is just monitoring what is actually falling from the skies from these planes that are dropping the stuff. As far as I know, I wish I would have had more time to do this, you guys, but I do run several companies. I have a child who's been sick all week, so I've had no time to really prepare, and I've never ever done this in my life, but I know that I'm supposed to do something like this.

Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, council members. My name is Chey and I've lived in this community for five years. Before anyone speaks about science tonight, before anyone speaks about law, government programs or patents or contamination levels, I want to speak about love because that's the only reason any of us are here. Mount Shasta is not an ordinary mountain. The indigenous peoples of this land, the winn the moduled This mountain is sacred for thousands of years before any government claimed jurisdiction over it. They understood something that we are only now beginning to remember that some places on this earth are not resources to be managed. There are living beings to be protected. The mountain is one of them. Beneath this mountain, something miraculous happens every single day. Snow melt and rain filter through volcanic rock for a journey that takes decades. Some hydraologists estimate 50 years or more before emerging at Big Springs as approximately 10 million gallons per day of some of the purest water on Earth. 10 million gallons every day. A gift that has been flowing since before any of us were born and that should flow long after any of us are gone. That water becomes the headarters of the Sacramento River. It flows south through the central valley. It irrigates the most productive agricultural region on the planet. It enters the taps of millions of What begins here does not end here. The town built it built its identity on that water. City of pure water. That is not a slogan. It is a covenant. It is a promise we made to ourselves and to every person downream who depends on what flows from this mountain. I'm here tonight because I believe that the covenant is under threat. Something is wrong with our sky. Residents who have lived here for decades will tell you the skies do not look the way they used to. The snow does not behave the way it used to. The trees are not as healthy as they used to be. You can dismiss one person

who says this. You cannot dismiss hundreds. We are not here tonight because we are afraid. We are here because we love this mountain. We love this water. We love this community. And when you love something, you protect it. 14 people will speak after me. They will bring you science. They will bring you government documents. They will bring you patents, military history, legal precedent, and a draft resolution. They have done the work. They have done it for you. And they have done it for this mountain. All I ask is that you part of you that remembers why you moved here, why you stayed, why you chose this place. We are here because we love this mountain. We are here because something is wrong with our sky, our snow, our water. And we are here because you, the people sitting at that table, have the power to do something about it. I'm a mother. My children are 10, 12, and 14. They were born here. They grow up here. They play outside on the mountain. They catch snowflakes on their tongues. They drink the water from our traps. They breathe the air. I'm not a scientist. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a policy expert. a mother and I need to tell you what it feels like to watch your children play in the snow while wondering what's in it. Children are not small adults. Their bodies process environmental toxins differently than ours. Pound for pound, the children absorb more of what they are exposed to. Their organs are still developing.

Thank you. Thank you. I have Aniston Strauss. Do I have that right? Thank you.

Something like that. Good evening. My name is Anastasia Stevens. I'm a resilent 3186 and the title of this patent is stratospheric seeding of production of global warming. It was filed on April 11th 1990 and it was granted on March 261. The inventors listed are David and the corporation that owns the patent aircraft company aircraft company in 1997 is now corporation and one of the largest defense contractors on earth annual revenues billion dollar. Let me read to you from the patent itself. described and I quote the abstract a method for reducing atmospheric warming due to the greenhouse effect by seating the atmosphere with metallic particles of the use of aluminum oxide. It specifies a particle size of approximately 10 micrometers. It specifies deployment at stratospheric altitudes to seven or 13 miles and I will say that again a United States patent owned Defense contractor describes the deliberate dispersal of aluminum oxide particles in our upper atmosphere. Now let me connect two facts. Fact one, a defense contractor holds a patent for dispersing aluminum oxide in the atmosphere to a retired USDA soil scientist aluminum in our snow. If the only source is from natural geology, I'm not asking you to draw

conclusions. I'm asking you to Not that these two facts exist exist at the same time at the same time and this council has authority to investigate. This is not the only patent. United States patent 46865 the foundational patent filed by Bernard describes a method for altering a region of the atmosphere using focus electromagnetic radiation. The United States patent 363 950 describes combustible composition for generating aerosol assigned to these patents are public documents and you can read them in the US website from your phone. They describe in precise engineering language exactly the kind of atmospheric modification that residents of this community believe they are witnessing. Defense contractor Rathon, one of the largest weapon manufacturers on Earth, holds a patent for the disappearing the dispersing of aluminum oxide in arms. atmosphere aluminum retired scientist. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. I have Rael next.

Hi. Uh so just out of curiosity, who here knew about this issue before today? Anybody? This is sort of somewhat known. Okay. But how? Um so they've already banned this practice in Florida, Tennessee, and other places. There actually is a legal precedent for banning it here as well. Um it's not legal to spray something, you know, that wasn't voted upon or um advised to the public about the risks of it or even actually admitted to the public that it was happening. Um the entire process is illegal. What they're doing is completely illegal and completely poisonous. There's no benefit to humanity or to anyone really even prove that this process works through climate change because they claim it is poor. Um there's a million other things they could do to reduce climate change like you know changing the infrastructure or the way we use electricity or fuels all sorts of things that could have been done but none of that is ever acted upon. The only thing really acted upon is um just doing things upon what's was done yesterday. Uh well you know a few states like Tennessee and Florida have already banned it. So there's not really a reason at this point that you can't stand up and just say no to this. Um, and additionally, it would actually there is a legal precedent in this in this circumstance because Sys County is mostly farmland. There is a legal precedent for the county who's due for damages for this. Um, I know a farmer here uh he has a local farm and he's actually tested the spoil levels of aluminum on his own property. I have to actually bring you the data. I don't have it with me, but he he says that um on the on the open land where there's just open soil on the sky, he's testing the soil and it's getting very high like levels of aluminum. But when you test it under a trailer, there's nothing which proves that this is actually where it's coming from. They're spraying into the atmosphere. It's falling on us and it's getting into the food, the water, into our cells, into your body. Um making you sick. You guys are being we're all being harmed by this. There's no positive this

at all. So, um there I'm just saying that there being a legal proced for this to be removed already because it's already been done in a few states um does make it a possibility for this be a fairly straightforward process for the county to deal with the city to deal with. Um it would simply be, you know, going through the proper channels and legally making this something that is not allowed here. uh there isn't really again a reason for them to be doing this and for them to be doing it is kind of an act of almost like terrorism actually um because we we don't have a way to stop it other than just to sue them or to do something legal about it. We can't go vote up on it. We can't shoot down the planes or something. So the only thing that we can really do is just um take action whatever we can do to ban this practice being used over our ourselves are your families. you know, if I was going to poison your property, it would hurt you and your life and you would have the right to defend yourself and take legal action and that's basically what they're doing to all of us at the same time. So, um, I think this is something that is worth looking into and changing and I I strongly stand by that. Thank you.

Thank you. I have one question for you. Um, you mentioned that Florida and Tennessee have uh completely banned it. So, I assume that was done in response to studies showing elevated uh levels of barerium and aluminum. Have there been subsequent studies since the banning that have shown a reduction in those materials? I'm not I don't know. Okay.

But I I would assume so, but I don't know for sure. I'd have to go look it up. Addison Orgo. Good evening. My name is Addison Enrio. I want to begin by acknowledging that I do not speak on behalf of the Win or any other indigenous nation. I speak in support of their claims, their sovereignty, and their relationship to this mountain, which predates every government, every corporation, and every council that has ever claimed authority over this land. Mount Shasta is one of the most sacred sites in North America. The Winnam people have honored this mountain for millennia. It is not a landmark to them. It is not a resource. It is a living being. It is a sight of ceremony, of origin, of spiritual power that cannot be measured by instruments and cannot be valued in dollars. This relationship between indigenous peoples and this mountain is older than the United States. It is older than the state of California. It is older than the English language. When the minimum to say this mountain is sacred. They are not making a cultural claim. They are stating a fact that predates every institution in this room by thousands of years. And the law recognizes this. Executive Order 13007 signed in 1996 direct federal agencies to accommodate

access to and ceremonial use of Indian sacred sites on federal land and to avoid advers adverse oh my gosh adverse adversely affecting the physical integrity of such sites. It atmospheric modification programs are degrading the physical integrity of Mount Shasta, contaminating its snow, its waters, its soil, its air. The executive order is being violated. The National Historic Preservation Act, section 106, requires federal agencies to consider the impact of their actions on historic and cultural properties. Mount Shasta qualifies. If atmospheric modification is occurring without section 106,

the law is being violated and there's a living precedent. In 2021, the Samurai people of Northern Sweden, an an indigenous people with deep spiritual connection to their land, exercised what is known as free, prior, and informed consent to stop Harvard's Scopeex geoengineering experiment. Harvard proposed to release particles into the stratosphere over time. Thank you.

Thank you. We've reached the end of our signup sheet. So if anyone did not have the chance to write their names down, you're free to come to the podium now.

My name is talk about history specifically declassified history of United States military modifying the weather of an active war from 1962 to 72. United States Air Force conducted operations over Vietnam Cambodia. The operations weather out the monsoon season. The method was clouded to the silver iodine monsoon cloud aircraft. The purpose was rose land. The official model of the operation was mud. war. This is not an allegation. This is not a theory. Operation Popey was declassified from the Pentagon papers and subsequent Senate hearings led by Senator Clay Barel between 72 and 74. United States government confirmed it. The military confirmed it. Details are in the record. And here is what matters the most. The public operation directly led to the environmental modification convention. The m treaty signed in 78. 178 nations are now targeted to the treaty that bans the hostile use of environmental occation techniques. The treaty exists because our own military proved it was possible, proved it was effective, and proved it could be done in secret for 5 years before anyone found out. Five years. A covert atmosphere modification program run by the naked and nobody knew until the story does not end in 72. In 196 Air Force University published a research paper titled weather as a force multiplier owning the weather in 2025. proposes precipitation enhancement, precipitation denial, storm modification, fog generation and space

weather modification as military capabilities to be achieved by 2025, not 2100, not someday, 2025, last year, and I quote the ability to modify the weather enabling our own. It was written for the Air Force chief of staff. It includes detail implementation timeline and technological roadap

30 seconds. Our government modified weapon of war proposing to own the weather just like the also add not and aluminum. It's proteins. What they're adding to the food, what they added into the vaccine, what's known to cause mitocardis and pedocardiasis. My father almost died from can't trust the government. Thank you. And if you if folks could speak into the microphone, we have people watching at home as well. It's difficult for them to pick it up, but thank you.

Hello, my name is I've lived here 13 years and I noticed and it's very clear to see we have such a beautiful open sky here. You can see a a blue sky turn very quickly into a gray sky by the end of the day. I I've watched this happen for so long what's happening. So I want to share a list of seven court cases um ruling in favor of the health of our earth. Um first United States versus 1946. Um, this is the United States Supreme Court. The government flew military aircraft well over a farmer's property. The noise and disturbance killed his chickens and destroyed his livelihood. The Supreme Court ruled that this is this constituted a taking under the fifth amendment. The government was required to compensate him. Ifine planes killing chickens is a constitutional taking then the disposition of metallic particles on private land, private water supplies and on private agricultural land is at minimum trespass. Bradley versus American smelting and refining company in 1985 Washington state. The court ruled that the that depositing microscopic particulate matter on a neighbor a neighbor's property constitutes trespass even when the particles are invisible to the naked eye. You do not need to see contamination for it to be trespass under the law. versus in 1977 also Washington state. The court ruled that aerial spraying is an abnormally dangerous activity subject is strict liability. That means the person or entity doing the spraying does not need to be negligent. The act itself carries liability. If it causes harm, the sprayer is responsible. Martin versus Reynolds Metal Company 1959

Oregon. The court ruled that the invisible invasion of fluoride particles on neighboring property constituted trespass trespass invisible particles crossing a property line trespass. Clean section 304 title 42 United States Code section 7604 grants any citizen the right to file suit against any entity including agencies of the federal government for releasing pollutants in violation of the act. This is called a citizen provision so that communities like ours can enforce the law when government will not. The national environmental policy act requires that any major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment be preceded by an environmental impact statement. If any stratosphere aerosol injection program is being conducted or funded by the federal government then the policy requires an environmental impact statement. No such environmental impact statement has been publicly identified for any time.

Thank you.

Thank you. Good evening, council. Can you hear me? My name is Kim. I'm here. I would like to tell you thank you for listening to this. We brought you data. We brought you law. We brought you history. We brought you and we brought our heart to all of us and I know you also. So what we would like to ask you tonight is that the council pass a resolution calling for the immediate unauorized atmospheric aerosol operations over county air. We prepared draft resolution language modeled on Tennessee State Senate Bill 2691 adapted for local jurisdiction. The draft is in the packet we provided for you tonight is ready for your review and is ready for a vote which will be a little bit more. We're asking the council authorize and fund the following actions. First, commission independent studies from EPA approve laboratory testing of local precipitation spring water and snow melt for aluminum barium and other heavy metals. The estimated cost is 10 to $25,000. We have identified qualified laboratories and sampling protocols. This is not expensive. This essential second submit freedom of information act requests to the federal aviation administration. The env Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Inhibilistation, the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency for all records related to atmospheric modification

programs activities or authorizations over Northern California. Third, we request Noah weather modification activity reports filed for county under the weather modification reporting act of 1979. demand approve of environmental impact statements filed under the National Environmental Policy Act for any atmospheric modification programs affecting the region. If no EIS exists, the program is operating in violation of federal law and we will pursue that violation through every legal action available. Third, we ask council draft and pass a local ordinance prohibiting unpermitted atmospheric modification over this jurisdiction. We formally request that the California state legislature introduce state level

30 seconds modified for this and you can read the rest of the packet. We want to close with this please. All these people that have spoken here tonight have tempered their hearts and they spoken their truth. We've provided data. We provided All these things it's all in the packet for you. But what we're asking you and I don't want to hear it clearly because this community will remember your answer. Will you protect this mountain? Will you protect this water? Will you protect these children? Are you time? Thank you. Thank you very much.

Everybody My name is Evan Drake. I didn't come with the group today, but I just wanted to chime in a little bit. I remember in community college meteorology class learning about cloud feeding as an act of agriculture typically and of war in the world. And um seems to me it's actually more common than that. Um just observing the sky, you know, one in every 50 contrails doesn't dissipate. It spreads and has a certain color to it and it's very obvious. I don't know what council can do about that obviously um supporting this resolution. Um but it it does seem to be something occurring that is a real thing and noticeable to the visible eye as well as just a scientific commonplace practice in agriculture and other things. But what I did come to mention was just that um the Earth Day Festival is on Sunday. Uh for those who don't know, my organization Housing Alliance will be there with the booth. Um we're going to be doing some polling about housing in Sys County and we'd love for anyone and everyone to show up. Thank you.

Good evening. My name is Inana and I want to change the scale of you are thinking about tonight. It's easy to look at this issue as a local matter, a few concerned residents in a small mountain town, a niche environmental question, something the council can table until next quarter. But this is not a local issue. And I need you to understand why. The Sacramento River is the largest river in California. It begins here, not symbolically, but literally. The headarters of the Sacramento River originate at Mount Chasta. The water that emerges from big springs, from the snow melt on these slopes, from every creek and tributary on this mountain. That water flows south, joins the Sacramento and travels hundreds of miles through the central valley to the sand Sacramento delta where it serves as a primary source of drinking water, irrigation and ecosystem support for the state. The Central Valley produces approximately 25% of the food consumed in the United States. One region, one quarter of the national food supply. almonds, walnuts, grapes, tomatoes, rice, citrus, an output unmatched by any agriculture region on Earth. And that production depends on water. Water that begins here. Nearly 40 million people live in California. The Sacramento River system is one of the primary arteries of their water supply. When you contaminate the headarters, you do not contaminate a creek. You contaminate a supply chain that feeds a state and feeds a nation. I want you to think about a map. Start at the summit of Mount Chasta. Follow the water downhill through the springs, through the tributaries, into the

Sacramento River, through Reading, through Redbrook, through Seiko, through Sacramento, into the Delta, into the pumps that send water to Southern California, into the irrigation canals that water the central valley. Now, put aluminum in the snow at the top of that mountain. Every community downstream is affected. every farm that draws from a Sacramento, every city that treats and distributes Sacramento river water, every child who drinks from a cap connected to that system. And not one of millions of people has an idea that why we are here tonight fighting for the security of the water they drink tomorrow morning. What we protect here, we protect for 40 million people downstream. This is not a small town issue being inflated by a handful of activists. This is a state emergency hiding in a small town. The headarters are the most important point in any watershed because they are the point of maximum downstream impact. Council members, you do not just govern tonight. Whether you know it or not, you stand at the top of a water millions.

Thank you.

Thank you. Good evening everybody. Uh my name is Hamid. Been living here for on and off for three years and I want to talk about money today because we're in America and you want to understand something you got to follow the money. So in 2013, the National Academy of Sciences conducted a major study on geoengineering. The CIA contributed approximately $630,000 from that study. This was confirmed by NAS itself. The Central Intelligence Agency and organization whose core mission is to covert operations helped pay for the most authorative scientific assessment of how to modify the atmosphere. Ask yourself why an intelligence agency funds atmospheric research. Bill Gates has contributed at least 4.6 million to the fund for innovative climate and energy research since 2007. The fund bank Harvard SCX experiment that the stratospheric aerosol injection project that was stopped by citizens in Sweden. One of the wealthiest individuals in human history is personally funding experiments to inject particles into the stratosphere. This is a public record. He is uh he has acknowledged this in the in his interviews. Weather Modification International

headquarters in Fargo, North Dakota is the largest commercial weather modification company in the world. They operate cloud seating programs across multiple US states and internationally. This is a commercial industry. Companies bid on contracts. States allocate budgets Y so the state budgets are revealing taxes spend three to5 million per year on weather modification. Wyoming spends on one and a half to two million. North Dakota spends two 1 to2 million. California has various programs through its uh through its water agencies combined. States are spending 15 to$30 million per year to modify the weather. This is not It is state budget documents.

It is 30 seconds simply not discussed. Now here's the part that should concern every person in this room. The letter modification reporting act of 1971 requires anyone conducting weather modification activities to file reports with NOA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The law is 55 years old. It is still on the books. And there's what and here is what is not what that it does not do. It does not require to investigate. It does not require NOA to audit. It does not authorize. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Good evening. My name is Daras Oliver and I want to change the direction of this conversation for a moment because we're here not only to oppose but we're here to protect and protection requires a vision of what we're protecting for. 12 speakers have stood here and told you what is wrong. But I want to tell you what is possible. ecosystem is not just scenery. It is a living filtration system of breathtaking sophistication. The forest on these slopes capture moisture from the air. The root systems channel water into the soil. Volcanic geology filters that water through layers of the salt over decades, removing the impurities. sterilizing the water, delivering it to the big springs at a purity that no human engineering can match. 10 million gallons a day naturally purify for free forever if we protect it. This is not a system that we build. It's a system that we inherited. In regenerative science, the science of

working with living systems instead of against them, tells us exactly how to protect it and how to heal the damage that was already been done. Jeff Lton, one of the world's foremost permaculture practitioners, demonstrated in the Dead Sea Valley, one of the most degraded landscape on Earth 400 m below sea level, receiving less than 50 mm of rain per year. That regenerative design can bring back life to land that everyone else has given up on. If you can green the desert, Inside the Dead Sea, you can feel a mountain in Northern California. Allan Saly savory has shown that properly managed land does not just sustain itself. It's the question of carbon filters water. The soil is not dead matter.

It's when it is healthy. It cleans water, stores carbon, supports the entire web of life above it. The soil beneath this mountain is our greatest technological asset. It's been filtering the water for longer than the civilization existed. So here's the point. We don't just want to stop the spring that we all have been experiencing all this time. We actually want to heal the mountain.

That's time. Thank you. Presentative science shows us how and this council will empower our will. Thank you. Hello. I'm not gonna read my script and I do know a thing about what's happening in this but one of the most important pages that I am seeing is 15. We have Francis Mangle the retired USDA soil scientist who served the federal government for 35 years. service around five times higher in the snow than in the soil directly beneath it which is alarming. We have a lot of people that go on the mountain. There's a lot of snow resounding.org extensive laboratory testing through mechanical analytical and basic laboratory both located in reading. They're accredited agendas and they analyze samples report numbers for aluminum and drinking water to 200 micrograms per liter. Some of the tested rain and snow samples from this area have shown aluminum concentration reported at 2600 micrograms per liter. And the most extreme snow reported approximately 61,000 micro perfil

and separately. So we need to start that sooner. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Nikki Eron. I am a new shop owner here in Mount Vasta and I to talk to you tonight about what happens after something enters the atmosphere above this mountain because what falls from the sky does not stay in the sky. The water cycle is one system. Atmospheric deposition, whatever is in the air becomes precipitation. Precipitation becomes snow melt. No melt enters the aquafer. The aquifer feeds the springs. The springs feed the river. The river irrigates the farms. The farms feed the people. The people feed their children. Air, water, soil, food, body. It is one chain. And if you contaminate the first link you contaminate every link that follows. This is not theoretical. It is the reality that Americans are already living. In 2023, the United States Geological Survey published a study finding PF socalled forever chemicals in approximately 45% of the US tap

water. These are chemicals that do not break down. They accumulate. They're in the blood of virtually every American alive today. In 2022, the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found glyphosate glyphosate the active ingredient in Roundup in over 80% of urine samples tested. % that means four out of five Americans are carrying a problematic carcinogen in their bodies right now. A congressional investigation found heavy metals at 175 times safe limits in commercial baby food not in some back alley product and parents that every parent in this room has 30 seconds. I am telling you this is not to overwhelm you but to make a point. The contamination of Americans is not a future risk. It is a present reality. And every one of these contamination pathways began with something entering the environment that should not have been there. Now apply that understanding to Mount Sa. If metallic particles are being deposited in the

time. Thank you. Thank you.

Good evening. My name is Kathleen Amira. I am a mother. I'm not a scientist. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a policy expert. I'm a mother and I need to tell you what it feels like to watch our children play in the snow while wondering what's in it. Children are not small adults. Their bodies process environmental toxins differently than ours. Poundforound, children absorb more of what they are exposed to. Their organs are still developing. Their brains are still forming. And the bloodb brain barrier in young children is not fully developed. which means that neurotoxic metals including aluminum, lead and mercury have access to developing neural tissue that would be more protected in an adult brain. And I would argue that even the adult brain is not well protected from these things. And indeed my own mother has suffered from these toxins and it is provable by scans that she received. Dr. Andre Lou, the former president of the internal feder international federation of organic agriculture movements has documented that pesticide damage to children occurs at levels far below regulatory thresholds. The limits we set for adults are not safe for children. They're probably not even safe for me because the acceptable and allowable levels are for 180 pound men. They're not acceptable for a 30 pound child who absorbs proportionally more and has decades more exposure ahead of them. The surgeon general of the United States has declared a youth mental health

emergency. I have seen my nieces and nephews struggle with their mental health. I have struggled with my own mental health. What we are being exposed to is not a joke and some are more at risk than others. Researchers are increasingly studying the role of environmental toxins, heavy metals, endocrine disruptors, air pollution in neurodedevelopmental disorders. We are watching a generation of children and adults struggle with attention, anxiety, depression, and developmental delays. After tonight, you cannot say that you did not know about these issues. Please test the water, test the snow, test the air. Do it for the children and the adults who cannot who cannot stand at this podium and ask this for themselves. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening. My name is Christine Stewart. I've lived in I've lived in Masta for the past five years and I also lived here briefly about 20 years ago. I have been passionate about this issue for a long time and it's come being here and just observing with my eyes. I would have prepared more, but I just learned about this shortly before and I forgot my readers, so I get to speak from my heart. There's four main points I'd like to say. One is that something is going on in the skies and like this gentleman mentioned, it's pretty obvious to all of us who live here. So, we we know that. Number two is that there are significant health and environmental implications, physiological as well as mental health. I'd like to speak about that a little bit more later. Um, number three, we can actually do something. 20 years ago, I don't think I would have thought that we could do something, but now we're seeing different states taking actions. There's some concrete things in this proposal that we can do, and this is a really powerful community. I'd love to see us take a stand and make a mark for our community and also the ripples that that positive ripples that that makes for the world. And so and the fourth point would be is that we could uh be doing that. I know you're all busy. Everyone is really busy. Uh so why make this a priority? Uh I think the health implications are significant including for older people. I don't know the data, but I've noticed here in not that there seems like there's higher levels of neurological issues with the older population. And it's something that I think about when I think about if I'm going to live here long term. It's actually probably number one on the list is can my physiological and neurological

health is it worth it having this increased load of heavy metals from the brain in the skies. Um, so there's a physiological level. There's also, I think we need to remember the electromagnetic level, which could be one of the reasons why things are being sprayed, one of the many reasons why this area could be being targeted more than other areas. And not only do the metals in the sky conduct waves in our atmosphere, having those metals permeating our body, and we don't know exactly what are in these patents. And it's not just like that they're even There can be other things but that can also affect our mental health through electromagnetic interference as well. On an environmental level, I think the forests need to be considered as well as well as fires that having the metals in the atmosphere makes it more prone to big lightning strikes and fires and also the nanopart or the metal particles in the soil damage the roots of the trees and make the trees weaker. perhaps some of the

that time. Yeah. And also for Thank you.

All right. Oh, no. Slow roll that one.

Yeah. I just wanted to make sure uh thanks council for hearing us out tonight. just wanted to stand and voice my support from the heart. As a resident of Jasta, as we all are, we love this place and we love this mountain. We love what it provides for us, but what it also provides for the rest of the community and the rest of the state. Um, it's obvious that there are some big issues here and these issues have been going on for a long time. So, if there's something that we can do as a community to amplify this so that it doesn't get slow rolled, we need real action to take place. So, I would love to hear your comments in this next section. I looked through there to make sure this was in the Q&A. I didn't want to ask some questions right now, but I'd love to hear your comments on what could be done outside of just what's being presented here and in these documents of what you can do to amplify our voices here as residents of the community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Do we have any other public comments before we bring it back to Certainly. Thank you. Yeah. Well, um, just for my part, you know, there's a large packet, a lot of information. Certainly, we'll need a little bit of time to read through it. I didn't get through it in the half an hour I had before this, so I'll take a couple minutes at least, but thank you. Sounds good. Appreciate that. I know we're not going to go without hearing from you. And aloha.

Big thank you to our family over here for bringing up this super important topic. Uh from our little two cents uh making a study group maybe I know half of us here American state national poets. It's another indigenous way to take a look at it where you protect the land and you protect the air. So, let's all be fun. That was a lot and that was really good. Really, really good. Super glad to see that. I'd like to thank everybody here on staff and council for everything that you always do every week in and week out. We appreciate you a lot. We have a fundraiser benefit concert coming up in May 2nd, Saturday. It's also going to be a silent auction for our nonprofit 508 C1A faithbased private nonprofit. We have the land. We have another piece of land that's in the holding sales until we get that thing up and running. It's going to cost us about $7,500 with CPAs and attorneys. We have about $1,000 raised. Um my beautiful one over there is going to talk about Ohana connect, which is our business networking system to get all businesses in the county together specializing in Mcasta. to our awesome lady council and so she's going to go into deep depth about all that that's happening. So we do have one band which is Blue Sky Rambler. We have one more band that's coming in. So spread out the words that we're just looking for one more band about 45 minutes an hour. After that it's a silent auction. Everybody that's in Ohana connect and members inside of there and business owners, you bring a basket with your shampoos because you're a barber or a sound bulb group or a crystals or a massage for an hour or I'm going to bring a stump grinder, whatever. We're

just going to auction anything and everything. So, we're going to have uh concerts, music, and fun. And that's in about a month from now. And we're super stoked about that because that's progress. So, we're grateful for all the donations that we did receive. get our nonprofit up and running and for all the help that we have been given. And now my lady has made this shirt. We are Ohana. She made some stickers and stuff that she and so you're going to start to see this all over social medias and 10 different platforms across the world. So, thank you. Aloha. Love you.

Thanks. Yeah, I just I want to echo, you know, I know it's not easy, especially if you've never done this before, to come in here. It's a little intimidating. A lot of people don't like to speak in front of public at all, but especially when it's being recorded and there's people up here. So, back to you. Good job, everybody. And thanks again to you guys. Um, our experience with doing affordable housing stuff over the last year. Um, we have like the most epically awesome city council that you could ask. If there is something they can do to advance something for the people they do, There's some things that are not in their control as a, you know, a local municipality, but they really, they really are great people and they really care. So, we appreciate you because I came from DC and most people are not like that.

I'm circulating some flyers. Um, we had our first Ohana connect business networking mixer uh a couple weeks ago. It was awesome. Clandestino was packed full. We had people going out the It was like 25 plus business owners. Uh a bunch of people that had never been to that restaurant or that wine bar before. So that was really cool. I know you got a couple new wine club members and and everything. So that was really awesome. Um we got the um public directory up. I did a lot of work on the back end. This stuff I love like the graphics the fun stuff I love doing. Uh the technical side not so fun but I still can do it. So we have just the direct directory.mmyohana.com. Um, it's a subdomain. That's the way it's set up. So, if you just go to myohohana.com, it also has a button that'll take you straight to the directory. So, the directory is free business listings, free uh public event listings, free public job postings. I already went, we pulled a bunch of data. I have listed about 120 jobs that are currently available throughout Syscue County. Everything from food service and landscaping to $100,000 a year, like big time jobs. So, wide variety of jobs. If you have a job position available, you can post it for free on there yourself. Um, if you have an event, you can post it on there yourself. Um, or you can just browse through and see what's going on in Mount Chasta. Um, we've had our first community members already launching their own event, which is awesome to see. Um, you can claim your free business listing on there. And then we also have membership options available if you want to pay to be a member. You get some features and benefits. You get a more premier listing. Um, that's also a great thing. Um, but yeah, you can come to the mixers for free. You can post your business for free. You can post your job for free.

You can post your events for free. Uh, if you want to put your But sometimes the bulletin board is crowded. So ours will never be too crowded. There's always time. Thank you. Thank you very much.

More stickers.

All right. Any other public comment before I bring it back to council? Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. All right. So, we'll bring it back to council now. And I just want to say I just want to say thank you to everybody that came. Um, as Ara noted, it's not necessarily easy to do this, particularly if you have not done it before. So, I want to thank everybody and um, obviously, like I said, this is a large packet of information, which I'm sure has a bunch of I noticed has citations to go chase down more of the the sources and all that good stuff. So, it'll take a minute to get through it, but definitely appreciate y'all coming forward and and bringing your concerns here and certainly will look through everything as well. True. Um, we don't really do that necessarily. Uh, probably not a member of council, but I guess if you have if you have questions, feel free to you can email me. I'll be happy to I'd be happy to take that on.

Oh, sure. Yeah.

Hi, folks. A few things about me. I've been here 26 years. I have seen the sky change. I looked into it. I found the suppliers not only have patents, they have conventions. You can attend them and learn all about it. This may come as a surprise, but I was once your age in the last century. Something has changed in me in the past 45 years or so. While I still speak from my heart, I am mostly interested in what works. Somebody said earlier, will we protect? And I suggest uh question before that which is can we protect um myself and many of the members up here know a lot about the filtration system on this this wonderful mountain. We understand a lot about the mountain. So to keep this relatively short but to address all the folks that have spoken so well to us this evening. The short of it is I have good news, bad news and a request.

The good news is people are more and more aware of chemtrails, things being sprayed for reasons I'm not quite sure of. all the D Wington stuff certainly familiar with Francis. I don't think anybody's not familiar with Francis to some degree. Um and it led me to uh what what are the steps the next steps for you? What what can you do? Which brings me to the bad news. There's a hierarchy of law in this country. Fed, state, county, local. I have no idea what the Tennessee law was that was passed, but I doubt that it had any effect whatsoever on federal military or other planes spraying in our skies. On the other hand, if there was a 60inut section on this. I suspect some things might start to actually change at the federal level, which I suspect is the level that this will need to change ultimately, not initially, but ultimately. So my request which is commentary on what I suggest are next steps for you all. It's better current data on samples,

especially from third party samples, verified third party samples, and then speak to the effect of 20 and 30 times levels of barium, alone, aluminum, and then also speak to the effects of what What happens with that? What what does that mean when when children get that or consume that? Speak about the real world effect of that. And should you desire to speak about the things that can because I have daughters and granddaughters and grandsons, many of us We're not oblivious. We just speaking for myself. We had one of the premier cleansing and detoxification companies on the planet in this town. I worked for them. Learn about how to detox yourself. as you can. Um, and that's trying to keep it somewhat short before they start throwing things at me. Um, but thank you. It It's good to be reminded of this again. Um, thank you. We It's not a Q&A this time.

Okay. Okay. Uh, thank you for that, council member. Um, uh, staff comments. We'll start on one end and work our way around.

Thank you, mayor and council. First, just an update. As you may know, we've been out RFP for a police vehicle through our Proposition 64 grant and it uh initially was going to be for a Tahoe vehicle and that's taking us all the way to Utah with about $8,000 added to it. So, we went from within our budget to well outside our budget. So, we sent out another RFP for Silverado pickups like we have now and we got one back from Airport Chevrolet. uh $10,000 less than any other competitor. Um BSC has approved the expenditure, so it's a 100% grant funed. So that's going to be coming to you. Uh but just know the uh PSD gave the approval and that we're going ahead of the vehicle. And then remind council that last year uh we had a proclamation declaring April 13th through April 19th as National Telecommunications Week. It's that time of year again. So, I'd like to just take a moment to recognize the dispatchers uh with the city of Mount Shasta. They are the first voice that a person who needs help hears. They are in their most critical moments. They are the calm, reassuring voice on the telephone while simultaneously sending fire, EMS, and police to uh help the callers. For our MSPD dispatchers, they handle a large number of emergency and non-emergency calls. people went out. Last year, our dispatchers handled over 2,244 911 calls. That's the average of six 911 calls per day on top of 25,425 non-emergency telephone calls of another 70 calls per day. On top of handling radio uh traffic in the uh 20 to 30,000 range from our officers that are out on

the street, all while doing it with a smile in their voice. um and handling the people at the window. So, I'd personally like to thank my dispatchers, Jennifer, Amber, Crystal, Lauren, and Megan for all their hard work and their dedication to the citizens of Mount Chaza and to the city and recognize them on their national appreciation. Thank you. Appreciate that. Tell them thank you as well. Maybe we'll go this way since it always ends with our bet has plenty to say.

Thank you. And just a couple things. Um we have new staff as you're aware and the last two weeks we've had some training on the systems that we use for collecting the DOT and managing short-term rentals. Um, I did want to report that as I've been learning through the system, um, we currently have three uh, entities that are passed due on their remittance. So, I just wanted to let you know that I'm learning this system. I'll probably be bringing more information back as reporting items as I figure it out and we'll come up with a way to report that information out. Um, and then we are um coming up on business license renewals and we have um been implementing Spring Brook for the last two years and this module we're going to go through implementation in the next two months. So we're hoping to use that new system to uh issue the business licenses that'll look a little different for the businesses that have been doing the renewals in the past. Um and then just a reminder that next meeting April 27th we'll be having our community present to us for the upcoming budget year.

Thank you. Okay. Bring

Yeah. Um, so I wanted to address the group um and add a little bit more council member Collie's uh point. Um, I I I think you know there's not anybody in this that isn't worried about um PAS microplastics uh the effects on our environment um you know and um uh council member Collins's point about third party testing that makes a lot of sense. I think one of the things that um that come out of that is uh being able to point to the the most likely cause of uh what you find as part of that analysis. Because one of the things that uh you know you know if you were to take action uh you need to be able to show uh you know beyond correlation uh approaching causation and so you need to be able to show and point to that likely source. That's one of the things they ran into uh during the Love Canal days. And you remember the you know the blockbuster movie with Aaron Brockovich. I mean all the work that he put in to being able to make that case. So we need to be able to point to it. I mean we have everything here from uh you know uh legal farming and acres upon acres upon acres of illegal um uh you know uh grows, cannabis growth, and all kinds of pollutants that we're carrying uh through the atmospheric rivers and you planes flying overhead. We certainly have a a lot of

pollutants, but we need to figure out what we're pointing to and what we need to chase if there is anything that we can chase. So, just just to add that so we you know there's some more clarity on how we might be able to move this ball forward. Thank you. And I will add this, you know, I think all of us need the time to digest um what you put in front of us and you know, you you cite legislation it's stuff we need to to dig through, but feel free if um it's of interest to you uh to make an appointment. We'll sit down, you know, kind of chew on this a little bit. Yep. Okay.

Thank you. Okay. On to regularly scheduled business. Um, so I I've talked a little bit about enhanced infrastructure finance district and tax increment finance life and we're at the one year mark where we're supposed to be reporting any increment that um, you know, we've uh, been able to collect. Um, uh, the count I've been having a devil of a time uh, um, getting a response. the county assessor's office who uh holds this information. So, I reached out to um the state board of equalization and um uh I have a meeting set with them. I I need to be able to get that paperwork in front of me and and um I know the process that we need to go through in order to report. I just need to find out because we're on the cusp of that first year of whether we actually do need to report in that first year because there isn't much to show. But um I'll keep you updated on it and um if there is anything that we need to report on, one of the things that we need to do is you know pull our public finance authority uh back into session and then um you know, vote on adopting uh you know, the increments that we've harvested and if there's direction, if there's anything usable, what are we going to do with it? Then bring it to um so uh as we mentioned last time, we have the RFP out for the master plan uh for the landing and uh we've been getting incredible amount of replies. We've had uh at least 10 firms uh contact us. Um

Kim had Walker Macy up here today. Uh populace uh were folks that um K2. I'm meeting with them up here on Thursday. And um uh there's another firm that uh at the end of the day contacted Kim and I and um you know make a visit as well and remind folks that we do have that visit I think it's April 23rd 24th where uh John Brian Power and Nio and Mark Danis are back in town um uh you know uh just to uh connect with more residents and collect more data and kind of talk through in person what the are. Uh in the meantime, our biggest hurdle is with affordable housing. Uh we're finding that we can't meet the time frame in which uh we need to be able to close something. So the SLA requires us still to build affordable housing whether or not we do it up front. So um we've been trying to reach HCD for a um consultation. We have that this week and um We need to show a record of back and forth negotiations and we don't have anything on letterhead exchange. We want to make sure uh I did add um AI note takingaking to each of our uh Monday morning meetings and any other meetings in between. We want to find out if that record of back and forth is deficient and what form that takes. But I think we have more than enough for us to be able to say okay we've met the requirements of the SLA. Um it is now uh up for public

auction and John O'Brien Power of course want to get through uh you know the majority of the master plan before they plan anything uh to make sure that we're getting it right to the community. So that's where we are on that tax town hall. We had it set for April 20th. What we found is that uh the mail the direct mailers that needed to go out didn't get to us on time. So, we're moving it out to uh uh May is confirmed with 22nd Avenue and um uh and um parks and we're going to send direct mailers out um as soon as we can. clarification. I thought the last thing I saw said May 20th. Um it's a Monday. Let me just pull this up because the um yeah, uh I originally sent out that it was on the uh May 20th, right? And I sent everybody an email this morning saying apparently I can't read the calendar. And that would be scheduled from May to 5:30 here. We'll get those mailers out. And uh Rachel has been wonderful about sending email blasts out uh per week and other just information about why this tax measure is needed. And um and we plan beyond May to have one final tax town hall uh before you know you know we're within a month of uh of the actual election.

And Wednesday, finally, I won't anticipate any more in this. Nolan Tam uh will be providing an update on the cost estimate for the library renovation and expansion and when that is going to be complete. I know that uh zero west the cost estimator they are going to be done on Wednesday and I know wants to go through it and we'll figure out what we can do, what we can afford, what we can't. Thanks. Thanks for that update, Todd. Excellent. Um, okay. You look like you have something. Uh, moving on to number six, committee updates. We've got the downtown enhancement advisory committee, library tax advisory committee, beautifification committee, and active transportation committee. Any updates on those? Okay. Uh, one update on that, and this would be for everybody. If you are interested in any of these committees, we have one vacancy on the planning commission, two vacancies on the beautifification committee, one vacancy on the downtown enhancement advisory committee. So, if you are interested, please reach out. Moving on then to item seven, the consent agenda. The city manager recommends approval of the following consent agenda items. All resolutions and ordinances on this agenda or added here to shall be introduced or adopted as applicable by title only and the full reading thereof is hereby waved. A approval of minutes March 23rd 2026 regular city council meeting. B approval of dispersements accounts payable March 23rd 2026 March 27th 2026 and April 8th 2026. Total gross payroll and taxes for the period period ending April 2nd, 2026 and C, police department monthly report.

Move to approve consent agenda items A, B, C by title only. Second. All right. All those in favor. I. Any opposed or abstain? Okay. Moving on to item number eight, library business improvement and enterprise funds update. Uh staff will provide a review of the library business improvement and enterprise funds. And this is going to be our finance director.

Thank you, mayor and city council. Um I think this is my second time to do this. So uh open to feedback on how you would like to see these reports uh brought to you. Um I first started to do a report out looking at basically trying to carve out the cash on hand which the enterprise funds is something I think we should monitor uh closely. So um the first page in the packet is kind of a summary. I went back two years prior to the uh audited financial statements and broke out the cash investments u um on a separate line that's highlighted in orange. I did that for uh 24 and 25. And then what I did was I looked at our current financial system and pulled those same accounts that would have been um reported out in the financial statement and listed those here for you. A couple things to point out. Um the water fund um is pretty running pretty much as expected uh as far as cash inflows and outflows. Um the sewer fund has fluctuated quite a lot and obviously that's due to wastewater treatment plant coming on. Um, one of the things that I did when I first started to uh work with the chart of accounts was I broke out the uh reserve accounts that were required to hold for the loans that we have. Um, so that changes that cash and investment actually cash on hand to look a little bit different as it has to be set aside in the bank account. Um so another thing to point out on there we have three basic three loans or um debt that we have to hold reserve on. One is the um USDA for the downtown. I think you guys called it the interceptor if

you will um that has a reserve that is fully funded right now at 51,000. We have the um state water resource board uh for the wastewater treatment plant loan. There's a million 51,000 in that account set aside. That is our um reserve that we're required to hold and put in 155,942 annually. So that will continue to grow which sets aside money from the cash on hand for that fund. Um, in addition, the other uh USDA loan for the wastewater treatment plant, the line item for 247,000, that one also requires us to set aside 82,495 each year of the loan. And that's of course um you know to have I think money in the future to replace the things that are required to replace as we move forward with the waste treatment plan. Um and then in the drainage fund, uh very consistent the last couple years, we'll we'll be needing to use general fund to to um offset the expenses that out outdo the revenue. Um the business improvement fund is money collected from the businesses for their for the parking um for the parking fees. And that fund um went down pretty significantly the last couple years, but is starting to build again. That um as Todd has mentioned multiple times, that group has been meeting pretty regularly. And um I think they have some ideas on how they want to spend money going forward. And I think we I've asked them to come to the budget meeting in May. We'll finalize that a little bit more with them in the coming month

or month, I guess. April already. Um, and then the library uh, uh, fund pretty much just is going along as expected. Um, a few changes on the operating side that I'll I'll point out when we get to the, um, P&L, but uh, I did ask um, I haven't heard back from library yet, but I'm hoping that they will come and do a a short presentation for us during the budget presentations as well. So, any questions on on that. Okay. Um so I guess uh just to summarize a little bit there that um we are spending uh in principal and interest and reserve funds for the wastewater treatment plant. It's about a million dollars a year of money that gets paid for principal interest and then set. So, okay, I will move on to the P&L. Um, kind of did a similar look at that. Went back to 24 and 20.

Sorry, real quick. One question that that approximately a million dollars roughly, and I know you haven't been here a huge amount of time, but um, is that by what you could see, or maybe council member can answer this, is that roughly what was expected upon putting in the wastewater treatment plant? roughly the expected timeline. I wouldn't I wasn't here and wouldn't others speak to that.

Uh whether or not that um that expenditure on the wastewater treatment plant aligns with what was originally expected or if that's changed since the plant went in. And then $75. Okay, thank you. I haven't reviewed the specifics of their rate plan, but I think as we move forward um into the new the new times or rate study that, you know, looking at what they put in the current one versus what we're doing now will be something to to make sure we're clear on. Okay. Sorry. Uh back to back to the kind of P&L. Um went went to the 24 audit uh statement and then I um projected sort of what was expected right now. I don't expect much to change. um still working with u on

the audit um but basically we're in water were in line um with what was previously uh brought in as revenue as well as I expect that what was budgeted the current year for revenue is what we will collect for both water and sewer. Um the expenses have obviously changed a bit. Um this, you know, this budget was adopted a two-year budget. So I think there was some information that we, you know, probably didn't know at that point. Um and again, this was different than the rate study, right? So I compared this to the rate study numbers, which I guess I I could do if we want to go that route. Um but basically the um I expect the revenue to come in as as budgeted. Um the expenses uh I expect to be a little bit higher um than were projected. So a instead of a $233,000 um lo in water I'm projecting there to be about a $70,000 gain or that's a change in about $165,000 of expenses as I expect revenues as budgeted um for the sewer. Um I expect there to be um instead of a $1.4 million u profit, which I'm not really calling a profit, but profit um I would expect that to be about um 710,000 and of course that includes the one time money that we had spent on sludge removal, which is about $340,000 more than we had budgeted. Um and then there's increased expenses in util personnel um general expenses and allocated expenses. So that number will will be significantly less than what was originally budgeted. Um drainage, I'm

not sure. I think that what happened there was you guys had expected to pass a rate increase and so the revenue was increased and the expenses were increased, but basically that didn't happen and we're just going along as we have in the last couple years and there shouldn't be any significant differences there. Um, I spoke already about the business improvement fund, the DR committee, and we'll look forward to hearing from them as well as the library. I don't know if you have any other questions about that.

70,000. Where did you get that? Well, the cash year is only reported through January. I did a year to date, so I didn't project out for February through um the end of the year. Yeah. The only thing that really is going to change there's um you know, and I know this is you know, the allocations. We talked a little bit about that last time. I attended the score meeting um since the last meeting and I do I want to follow up with them about some questions. Our um our liability insurance and our workers comp insurance seems to fluctuate quite a bit year to year. So I want to ask a few more questions about that and get a better understanding of why. But for the um library in particular the property um the allocation that was budgeted for insurance expense was um only $5,000. And when you when I changed the allocation methodology um based on the property asset that we have versus allocating it by the value of the asset that is significantly low for what the library should have been paying. So, I know you, you know, there's questions about the methodology. I'm happy to, you know, go through that in more detail at an upcoming meeting if you'd like.

I gave some of that.

Yeah, I that's not what I'm getting at. I'm trying to figure out what since we don't really get regular updates on on profit and loss, cash flow positive or negative for the library. Um, we know that that quarter zone sales tax generated, but now it's down was in it peaked in the low 400s and now it's down I think in the 350 range per year with some of the the the reasons we talked about and why Todd's going to the special tax self change conferences that he's going to. Um, and we have a what's going to be a four to5 million project. Um, it looks like there's about a million more

in in reserve. Can't use all that as a down payment on the construction loan, but maybe a million. Um it seems like at best uh the surplus that that operation generates is maybe in the 140 150 range which I think is what I remember seeing in the past about testing things about right and um I just want to trying to figure out if that's going to be enough to cover a loan payment of $3 million because it's getting to the point where we have to start looking at that and Teltac will take two years to figure that out. So, we have to take that No, I'm not joking. We do have to take that out of their hands

and I can I can I can uh bring more information about the library specifically if you want, you know, at a future meeting to the chair. Yeah. Right. We can we can just take that out of their hands one more time. If we find there being too sluggish deciding what to do with respect to how to finance the libraries. City council can

we can disband the committee um but or um add uh members which uh council which may be a way to say hey um you know we got to move faster. I was going to say at the next, you know, the next finance meeting, which is Friday, is probably not enough time, but maybe the one after that, you can do like a mock budget of what interest rates are and what you think we could get. Um, and do some debt service pallets and see if we are at a sustainable balance right now or what we would need.

Just a quick question about Eltech. So they were required to be formed when the measure was passed, right? And then but we can still go around them like John said holding things up and making it cost. That's correct. Okay. Thank you.

Um probably if we were to disband the committee, we would have to pass a resolution rescending that portion of the original uh resolution that was passed. Uh it would probably be easier to amend uh the uh members of that committee and add a couple um council members just to go things along because I don't think it's going to you know either we're at a place where it's a go no go decision once we have the cost estimate in our hand and what we fight off and what we don't. So I think it's a shortterm duration thing.

No. I think what I'm gathering um just to make sure I'm clear is that you want me to look into the amount of money that we have and but do I need to know first what we would need what we're trying to borrow? Do I do I know that? Let's talk about those. Sorry. Okay.

We might have um uh cost estimate numbers and Nolan might want to look over them. But I think there are two things we want to look at. One is um and they're going to split it out uh as part of that cost estimate. One is re uh interior renovations and um and then the other is if we were to carry through with just the expansion of course if we were we had the money to do the two of them uh at the same time. So, um, you know, I think we can potentially look at three different scenarios if I if we have

I don't know that I'll have that Friday. Yes, that's something that we can definitely work on. Um, and so I I didn't that we didn't really have much else other than answer questions. Any more questions over here? Yeah, thank you. Okay. Um Oh, that's right. Sorry. We'll now move on to public comment regarding item number eight. anything. Okay, bring it back to council for discussion.

All right, then. And I don't believe a we're just receiving the report, so no vote needed.

There wasn't any. Uh we will move on to item number nine. This is on packet page 50 for those following along. Um this is the anniversary of the founding of the United States and the naming of the city of Mount Shasta from Sison to Mount Shasta. Uh the city has partnered with the Syscue Economic Development Commission, the Chamber of Commerce and Visit Mount Shasta on a coordinated summer marketing campaign and our city manager is going to tell us more about it. um you know just as um kind of a first you know 100,000 foot level um you know uh we came up with this campaign originally with the thinking that uh with the volatility in the market um you know multinational stop dart nature of tariff uh you know you know the inflation increasing decreasing, you know, the uh the war in the Middle East. Um uh large multinationals aren't investing in longer term projects uh because they don't like to invest in volatile climates. That is we're seeing that across the board uh and we're starting to see that on Main Street as well. And I think one of the things that we are going to see uh and we have seen little decreases is that um the fight for uh scarce travel dollars um is is you know is on and um I think a lot of people are not going to be traveling overseas and they're going to be if they are traveling at all staying closer to home. So whatever we can do to make this city more attractive and pull people into the region is kind of the impetus behind

this. So um as you mentioned we've got the renaming of sits into Mount Shasta uh coinciding with the 250th uh birthday of the nation. And so uh we're doing whatever we can to advertise the two and uh been working with just economic development uh discover syscue the chamber visit mount casta and um they've been working uh with Rachel uh we have a lot of graphics out there got um tent restaurant uh table tent that are being uh printed right Now, uh, for those restaurants that want them, those tents will have a QR code that, uh, you know, we'll have the list of the events are happening this summer. Uh, you'll notice in the packet there are there's a mockup, um, with a lot of gibberish just to show you, you know, what it looks like. We've got that all figured out. It's just more illustrative. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a, you know, uh, I'm not going to

The other thing I'll know, and it probably already been established, but it goes from 8 a.m. to then military time and still we're just filling space. Um,

right. Exactly. And, you know, all of a sudden they're, you know, picking up transmission from the from the spaceship. Um so uh we have posters that are being produced uh that um we also have those QR codes for those that want them. We have integrated um uh um you know pages discover this you have we'll host those events on that website. We'll host them on ours. Uh Josh Thomas is going to do his best to push things out. Uh um is it California? We made a pitch to they're going to promote our event and we've got some billboards based in Sacramento and in San Francisco. Um and um we're doing whatever we can to get the word out and hopefully there's synergy between events that are happening in Reading and other places uh with uh you know what's happening up here including the the summer's reading triathlon and trying people, hey, you just did the reading triathlon. Come up and do the Tin Man a little bit cooler and um you know, we had the opportunity to add events uh to working with Danny the fifth season. We're trying to get uh fighttober event planned and uh it's something we'd like to add to this and if we can have uh you know part of this be an introduction to the final leg of our 49 miles of mountain bike trail whether whether that's a take a kid mountain biking day with camping out there and a screen where you know you show these kids mountain bike videos on a blow up you know screen something like that um is still uh we're trying to add the events that we can, but we want to get our um

you know the word out as far as we can. One of the things that I'm going to send out to you guys, you can ignore it if you choose to uh but that uh there is uh you know our logo red hot American summer uh and put directions in there forite um on how to put that um you know that salutation at the bottom of your emails every time you send one on anything on you know your official emails and um again just it's a way to get get that message out. So um that's we've got so far. If you guys have additional ideas and an additional reach um let's let's take the full run at it. Oh, and banner being printed right now uh that will span Mount Chasta Boulevard uh during the summer and the July event. Want to really make sure we showcase the distant museum. I think it's a absolutely hidden gem and um so that that's the intent.

Awesome. Any questions over here? I got a question. Um I noticed it starts on July 3rd for the July 4th like kind of festival weekend or whatever you want to call it there. Um you you mentioned potentially adding some events. Um would you be interested are we interested in adding events prior to that one if they happen to be of a large enough scale? if we've gotten enough lead time. I mean, uh, when you look on, uh, discover known as the chamber mixer in the golf tournament, it's got a lot of other Oh, it does. Oh, that's just what's on this on this thing right now. Yeah. No, there's more. We've added quite a bit more. Got it.

Cool. But if you got something um I'll call I gota I forgot um to give kudos to Heather Stalone and the folks over there and it just feels good. I know Brewfest is happening in June and that's a pretty big one. Uh you know three four 5,000 people. Um June 24th 5th Saturday. It's Brewfest. It's a sh and it brings in a lot of people. Oh, it's on there. All right, never mind then. I wouldn't miss that one.

All right. Uh, any questions from council here? No. Um, how about some public comment out there? Okay, we got a thumbs up for the record and we'll bring it back for council discussion over here. Okay,

in that case, uh let's see. I also don't think uh nothing to vote on here other Well, we got a thumbs up, but uh other than that, cool. Um all right, we will move on to item number 10, and this is the building plan check contract. In December of 2025, the city hired Lance Foley to perform building inspection and residential plan check services. While he works towards his certification to perform commercial plan check services, consultant plan checkers are required. So, our planning director Kim is going to enlighten us more.

Thank you, council members. Um, that that's about it in a nutshell. Um, the building department consists of our wonderful building inspector and he can do many things. One of the things that he's not able to do right now because of the lack of the IC certification is building plan checks for commercial projects. So until he gets that and he's able to do that, we'll need to find a third party plan checker um to get those plans reviewed on the city's behalf. So right now we have a few of those plans that have been submitted. They're sitting on our desk waiting to be routed out to the third party plan checker as soon as we can have some onboarded. Um in this industry, most of the checkers are small outfits. Workloads are always going to vary from week to week. So, as things come in, having multiple vendors on board will give us it will allow the city to expedite having these routed to whoever can get them finished as soon as so that we can better service our our community. So, we have four contracts attached. They've all been reviewed by our city attorney. Um there's no change in the budget. I think that's all I have. Now if you have any questions let me know.

Um just you know one addition uh part of the strategy uh until l get this lensure is that we have uh four firms on contract um so we can farm it out to whoever's got uh less work. Uh you know we have an hourly rate um you know versus a project rate. And one of the want to see to kind of um let everybody that's part of this know that we've got these other folks on contract. So um we get a good sense of who uh who is delivering the most quickly and who is um uh delivering um you know uh with the least amount of review time that they charge us for. So, it's a way to create a little bit of competition.

Any questions over here? Got a question for you. Um, so you said you have a few um plans already uh submitted from different commercial projects. Yes. So, and I notice you have four of these. Is it like choosing a different one for each of those that's based on the best one? Are you just sending one to different ones? I mean, as Todd said, trying to see who returns the best services for us. Is there criteria?

Well, It's it's a mixed bag for right now. Um right now I have one vendor who this week has immediate availability to turn around the first one that I have in the queue. So that vendor is going to get the first one and I'm just going to go down the line in some semi methodologically manner. Cool. Sounds good. Any other questions? How about public comment out there? Sounds good. and we'll bring it back for discussion.

So, I move to uh authorize city manager to execute four professional services agreements with consultant building plan checkers for a combined not to exceed amount of $30,000 through June 30th of 2027. Second. All those in favor? I I Any opposed or abstain? Okay. All right. Moving on to 11. Uh, council reports on attendance at appointed or outside meeting the chair, please.

Uh, so I believe the end of March meeting was after our prior city council meeting at the Kier Interpretive and Information Center. So, it's basically closed due to budgetary reasons. There's a little over $2,000 left in the bank. Um, very little money coming in. Uh the president Renie uh is going to be cruising around different city councils asking for donations and I think ours is going to be in April. You guys schedu for April. Is that right?

Yeah. Uh I just I don't know what else to say except that thing is closed and a lot of funding. That's pretty much the meeting. We have these meetings. We're gonna have another meeting in April. It's going to be something to the effect of we have very little money and we can squeeze out some bills. It's a bad situation.

Anybody else? I had another the end of March coffee with the mayor. Had about 20 something people there. Uh went a little over two hours. Um, one of them, we talk about all kinds of things, but one thing that we have talked about here that came up that folks, uh, was the Bradley Burns Act and Mount Shasta losing out on a bunch of tax revenue. Um, and it just kind of reinforced the idea that people it's are largely unaware, but there is the at as soon as I described it to people, the immediate reaction was, what can we do? Let's sign a petition. Who do we call? So, as we um form a and I'll get to that in a second as well. Um, there is an appetite amongst the public, it would seem, to actually try and do something about this. What we can do, we'll see. Um, also had the League of Local Agencies meeting um, last week. A big thanks to uh, our city clerk Rachel for putting a lot of that together. Um, it was great. We had uh, great attendance. We met at the museum, learned a bunch of cool stuff at the museum, and had people go through there. They were all dy impressed with our awesome museum. So, big thanks to the folks there. Um, but uh the Bradley Gurns tax thing came up there as well. And in a room full of city representatives from all over Syscue County, I believe there was one person outside of uh the two of us and our um Cal's rep who was aware of it and that turned into a very robust discussion and there was huge appetite amongst those folks uh in making something happen. Um, and on that note, for a future meeting, I'm going down next week to the, uh, 3-day city, California city leaders summit, um, and going to talk to as many people as I can, particularly from small municipalities about putting together some sort of some sort of coalition, uh, to do what we can because, as we've noted, there are 19 cities with

fulfillment centers, and that leaves about 390 cities that don't have them. So, while we people might be largely unaware of it happening to them. There's a lot more people that are affected negatively. So that that's who's putting on the the summit next uh next week that I'm attending. Yeah. Call if we're talking about future agenda items. I kind of want to take the time to Well, we are on to item 12 now. Future agenda items.

And so I jumped the gun. um is that uh uh attending the revenue and taxation policy committee meeting. Um it might be good if I agendaize that for the uh next to kind of go down uh you know what happened with the recommendations and just a list of bills that are um uh scheduled to be floated. um uh you know what we we should support, what we shouldn't um just give you some information. There's a lot of information um and it might be that might be goodformationalally just agenda item.

Yeah, I'd like to see that on there. I'd be interested. Um uh in terms of item 12 or the so the future agenda items we have on there are a the master fee schedule review which we are working on that we have another meeting Wednesday um the combination of the wastewater and drainage funds I believe we're waiting to hear from city No we should pull this you know gotten the final word on it we we can't do it

okay sounds good uh then C mobile home rent stabilization and hopefully you're going to see something on that uh pretty soon moving forward with that And then D, the 2026 sales tax ballot measure. Uh I'm assume I mean we have that thing on on May 18th. So we'll see something on the on the agenda after that I would imagine. Absolutely. You know, one of the things that um uh you know, we've got to make a decision on uh as we get closer probably after this next tax town hall to understand where everybody is is um what are we asking for?

Um question on that. How far is it? So the election obvious or sorry the uh uh ballot will come will be in November. will be voting in November on this. Uh is it 90 days prior that we have to get something on there or how long? It's by June that it has to be on there. Okay. All right. We have um you know we have all the the arguments written all the we've got everything ready to go. We just accept a number. Understood. Uh anything else that people would like to see on an agenda? Okay. Nope. All right. In that case, let's go to item 13. adjournment. Yes.