City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. Is there anyone else who would like to speak during public comment? Okay. Uh bringing it back then for council and staff comments. Anybody over here? No. over here. Let's do it. Okay. Um try to make this short. Um the landing we had uh um the developers John and Brian Power uh and um the architecture cohort from Dallas. They were in town um a couple days last week. They did a lot of a lot of reconnaissance. We uh were able to set up a tour at the Citizen Museum and I really want to thank um Dean Nells. She was under the weather but still pulled through and just did a great job. So, thank you. Um they were really impressed by that. Um they they've got some new ideas based on their visit. you know, we're determining that we're not going to build uh affordable on the timeline of the timeline of the surplus land act. So, what they're doing is uh uh figuring out how to do that on their own. There's a 5 acre parcel uh on the west side uh that is um directly across from Bear Springs Road. and they're looking at um

a combination of a a tiny home cluster and uh what they're calling uh uh workforce by design or affordable by design. And that is, you know, what do we do to make um one and twobedroom um homes available at the at at the cheapest price? and they're talking to um Bob Kendrick, if you may recall that name from way back when, up in Central Point uh and some other companies about uh pre-fabricated housing at that location. So, that's where they're looking um at next. Um, on another vein, we went out with an RFP for master planning, trying to build consensus and understanding of what the community wants in terms of development out of the landing. That closed on Friday. We have 14 responses and uh we'll be going through them all on Wednesday and um if we need to do uh interviews between the the the uh finalist and we'll do that. Uh but we hope to get that underway real soon. Um for those that are uh well, we've got one member of the public finance authority here. Uh Councilman Collings and and Council person uh Cler is also part of that. Uh I, you know, was able to finish the base year EIFD report this weekend. uh we need to uh notify all the property owners within the IFD give them 30 days and also notice it in the um various locations because it'll be a public meeting and then we'll set up that PFA uh public finance authority meeting to adopt the base year report. Um

I know this sounds really exciting. There is a drain drainage project open house at uh theory on Wednesday at 5:30. Um it's important not sexy. It's about uh new drainage on Mloud. Um and uh finally uh with the sales tax initiative we have a ballot language drafted we need to bring to get approved. We also um have a resolution uh and an ordinance uh consolidating the election with the county one and two we need to bring uh the resolution uh adopting and moving forward the ballot measure so we can get it on the ballot and I'm hoping to get that at the next council meeting.

Anyone else? Cool. Um, just since it was brought up, I'll just respond. Um, I do have another coffee with the mayor thing tomorrow morning at uh 900 a.m. at uh seven sons. I would normally say that at the end during meetings, but I have a feeling that 90% of the people in the audience will not be here at the end of the meeting. So, we'll just get that out of the way now. Uh, anybody else over here? You got Rachel? No. Okay. Okay. Cool. All right, we'll move on to item six, committee updates. We've got the downtown enhancement advisory committee, the library tax advisory committee, the beautifification committee, and the active transportation committee. Any updates?

Uh, DACK meet this Wednesday. Um, library tax advisory committee met uh last week. Is this last last week? Y um we talked about cost estimating and how that's coming soon.

Um and uh went over um uh budget numbers uh that Melissa was kind enough to prepare and uh they're just looking forward to seeing what that uh those cost estimates show there. As I mentioned in an email, it's a little bit delayed. The uh estimator had a um medical emergency in the family. So, it it's put off for a couple weeks u and been told the end of the week, but you know, give or take a week. Uh it'll be back.

Okay. And while we're on it, I should note that we have a one vacancy on the planning commission, two vacancies on the beautifification committee, and one vacancy on the downtown enhancement advisory committee. If anybody out there is interested in any of those wonderful committees. All right. Uh we will now move on to uh 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 too shall be introduced or adopted as applicable by title only and the full reading thereof is hereby waved. A. Approval of minutes April 13, 2026 regular city council meeting. B approval of dispersements accounts payable April 13 26. April 15 26 April 20th 2026. Total gross payroll and taxes for the period ending April 16th, 2026. C. Monthly investment report. D. Purchase and outfitting of patrol vehicle using Proposition 64 grant funds. E. Approval of contact cellular services. Um, move to approve consent agenda items A through E by title only. Second.

All those in favor? I. Any opposed or abstain? Okay. All right. Uh, we will now move on to item number eight, which I imagine many of the folks out there are here for, and that is our community partners presentations. Um, as the city prepares the 2026 27 fiscal year budget, staff has invited community partners to speak on behalf of their organizations. Melissa, did you want to?

Yes. I'd like to thank um all the community partners for being here and responding to the request. Um, this is probably a different process than you're used to. This is my first time doing the budget for the city. Uh, and so as part of that planning, I wanted to have everybody come and speak to us about what they've done with the money that we've given them in the past and um, what, you know, they intend to do if they get funded going forward. Um, and that will help us be ready to pre present our balanced budget um, at the end of May. we'll have a public hearing and then hopefully get that adopted by July 1. So again, thank you and I believe that everything should be queued up and ready to go for the first speakers and we'll just um go through them as you uh were in order. Thank you.

Thank you for this opportunity. And Todd, you were under the weather, too. Are you feeling better? I'm just passing it along to all my

such a sharing person. All right. Well, thank you. Um I see my slide here, but the title is not there, which is supposed to be um why support No, go back to the first slide, please. Why support a museum? Um, so the I try to answer it on that same slide. We document and share our history and no one else does that in our town and it's so valuable to have that. Just as Todd was saying when that group came, they were very interested in hearing what some of has happened through our 125 since 1887. Our town's history really. It started in um the 1850s but over on Old Stakes Road. And then we offer community events at least one a month and um we entertain or I should say we educate the schools that come there and we are tourist destination which is very important in our town. If you go to Google you will see all the amazingly positive comments we have. Let's see if this is working. It is. How wonderful. Thank you. Um, Star Museum opens its doors on July 4th, 1983. And that historic building was going to be destroyed and a bunch of community members got together and petitioned the state and we were able to restore it and it's now our museum. Um the only way we have kept going is through volunteers. I myself am also a volunteer full-time volunteer. Finally

after 40 years we were able to hire uh part of part full-time person and um as you can see from this slide they help with the exhibits like Chris Snder whom some of you know and people really enjoy seeing all these variety of exhibits that we have there. They we change our exhibits every year in the back that is major change every year, but all of them change. We put up new artifacts and many interactive opportunities for the people that visit. This year, the exhibit is Mount Shaft to stories. Um, and we talk about six major areas that have developed through time in our community. Um, in this Mount Shasta stories exhibit, we are documenting the oral history of many community members and some of them we missed because we did not start this project till this year um when we got the funding for it. And one person that we did record this year was Rich Zenetti who had a milk run back in the 50s, 60s,7s, 80s, 90s. And it's just amazing to hear the oral history of people. And we have four more scheduled to interview for next year. And we've got to document those people. Um, also it is a center for our community. We offer these events. Um, storytelling is a big draw at the museum right now and we offer some special Saturday events in the summer. Last year

we had three science Saturdays. This summer we are offering eight family days um around the our theme of Mount Shasta stories. We're offering one of them is pioneer games. Another one, Native American weaving and gambling games. Another one is um using a little table saw and making things out of cardboard. The children get to cut the cardboard. Partnerships broaden our outreach. We've had a closer partnership with the uh city council lately. And you can see we were so grateful when you uh did the opening day celebration there. and um different communities in the area that we um partner with are like the Mount Chester Bio Regional, City Land Trust, uh Rotary. Um and these our exhibit sponsors give us money every year because we could not do that without them. It's fun for people of all ages and you can see that when you come, whether it be dressed up in the cabin. Uhoh. Uhoh. Um and uh uh other different uh educational things like um you know making things with that circus or we have some lumber activities right now, agricultural activities. So last year with everyone's help in the community, we're able to get a 25-y year lease. So, we're guaranteed at least 25 more years in that location. And so much outpouring of support from the community.

The our 10-year average attendance, it's 14,000 visitors a year. We get ra reviews, like I said, on Google, but also we do a survey in the museum. And you can see from that little survey there, we had um 1,500 approximate responses. And look at that, you know, how many people said they learned something new, recommend this museum, and the interactive opportunities. So, thank you very much. We our our exhibits uh and everything are a big draw for the visitors and community members. The upkeep of the building is extremely expensive. That's all on our dime. And to put up new exhibits every year also takes a lot of effort. So, thank you for your continued support.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Jean. Um, I believe next Are we going in order of what's in the packet here? Is that I believe we have Sora.

Good evening everyone. I'm Casterline with Syscue Outdoor Recreation Alliance and this is Jesse Hansen. We really appreciate the opportunity to chat with you all tonight and bring you up to date on what tour's been doing most recently and also what we have in mind for this year. Let me familiarize myself here. Not that way. So, we wanted to start off in what we'll share with you tonight by really reviewing this vision of sustainable outdoor recreation. As you all know, in 2024 and 2025, Sora conducted the South Sisu sustainable recreation planning process, which was outstanding. We had so much community participation, lots of events that people were able to participate in person, online surveys, and what that really helped us do was develop this picture of what outdoor recreation is for the South County. And you can see from our graphic that outdoor recreation, while Jesse likes to say it is about fun, it is about other elements as well. You know, it is about social connection and stewardship, our connection to land, public health, the well-being of our community members, and it's also about economic development. And that really is where our scope of work for the next year to three years lies. And just last week, Jesse and I were invited and so honored to take part in the um California Jobs First Symposium of Practice down in Sacramento. We were one of well over a hundred projects that were invited to attend with the goal of creating actionable recommendations for

legislators at the state level about how to make rec outdoor recreation an economic driver which is something that the state has recognized and included in their blueprint. And so as we have wrapped up the South Susu sustainable recreation plan, we're moving forward and we really want to focus on doing an economic impact study that really specifically looks at the value of outdoor recreation in South Du County, obviously including Mount Shasta, but we do want to use the same footprint for that that we did for the SouthU uh recreation plan. And part of the way that we're shaping that impact study is to as the question, what would our communities look like if we didn't have outdoor recreation? Obviously, that's a personal question, but it's also a communitywide question in terms of the impact it would have on our businesses and and the viability of people being able to live here and to live here well. So, one of the one of the elements that we're really looking at moving forward in the next year or so is that um that economic impact study. And Jesse and I are going to bounce back and forth here tonight. So, right now I'm gonna pass it back to Jesse.

So, for those of you who are not familiar with Sora, um we are dedicated to advancing rural economic um development and community health through sustainable outdoor recreation. Um it gets people outside. It's how we connect. Um I think it's part of our community ident identity and um that's reflected in the system museum. You know, if you go into the system museum, there's always a history of the climbing and the skiing and the hiking and the fishing in our community. Um, and so our goal is to be a part of building a sustainable recreation economy in uh, Sysu County. So that's just a little bit about us. Um, we're also climbers and skiers and cyclists ourselves. Um, and we bring that kind of heart and soul to the work that we do. Um, so our current programming focus, and we're going to get back to the economic development piece and what we're asking for, but we're trying to create some context here for everyone. Um, so our current focus is phase two of our sustainable outdoor recreation plan. Um, and part of that is the economic development study. Um, we're going to talk a little bit about the Fourth of July walk run tonight. Um, you all know we have our new lodge up at the Nordic Center. So, while it was a short season, it was certainly a successful season with um increased users and um and the the lodge was definitely wellreceived and lots of kids groups up there. So, it was super fun. So, tonight we are going to talk about the Fourth of July walk run and the economic de uh economic study um that we're proposing and preparing for. Next slide. Okay. Yeah. Um so just a little bit about the recreation plan for context which is kind of tied into our ask um that it's sort of now becoming like our

basically our map for the organization and and and um our motivation and orientation to moving forward. Um, so it's going to include economic development, equitable equitable access, and equitable access is really about making our recreation infrastructure available to someone regardless of their economic uh, socioeconomic background or physical abilities. Um, we spent $80,000 on an ADA ramp for our new lodge. So, um, we're very proud of that. Was a little more expensive than we thought, but we we got it done. um maintenance and stewardship of our trails. That's really important. Um land access and ownership, that's a big issue. That'll be something else we're trying to focus on. Um we got all these project recommendations from the community. Some of those are on hold right now because of uh private land issues and then funding and government. So, moving right ahead. Yeah. Um so, these are some of the community recommendations. Um the community voted on let's do a townto town trail. So linking the towns of um South Puerto County we matcha mloud and Dunmir via multi-use trails. We think that that would invite people out to to our community especially the ebiking communities and the idea was that someone could bring their bike and basically ride between the four communities stay in a hotel um shop at our local stores eat in our restaurants. So it's really an economic development piece. Um there was also a trail to Hedge Creek Falls and around the mountain route for Mloud um Dunmir or in Mount Shasta, the Lake Skeview uh Delta Bridge and then the Mosray Falls access and then um the weed to Blackb Trail and then some of the programs that communities were wanting to see was an Everett Memorial Highway winter road access which seems to be resolved for the time being and then fire mitigation

and trail maintenance and development. So, those are all the things that we're taking into consideration um at Sora. Next slide. Okay. Should we skip this? Yeah, let's skip it. Okay. Do you want to talk about this one? Yeah.

Okay. So, our economic impact analysis, what we really want to do is make this specific map to South South County. Obviously, you can buy data, but we're really interested in correlating what we see on the ground here as it relates to recreation to business activity and what business owners are really experiencing. Sora partners with Mount Shasta Trail Association to host vol trail volunteer days, which we just started last week. And we were also dealing with drainage issues and not sexy, but actually pretty fun. And while we were out Saturday morning, we saw dozens of cyclists out on the Gateway Trail. It was really, really neat. Some of them, we think there was a a team that came up from Reading. So, we're really interested in seasonal variations around tourism and how those seasonal variations impact our businesses. You know, this winter that I refer to as the winter that wasn't, we discussed, you know, should we pivot? Should we be talking about come up and ride mountain bike trails right now? There's no snow. The trails are great. That, however, relies on a connection of a lot of nonprofit organizations. As one of the nonprofits that keep those trails open in February, I knew they weren't open because we had a lot of trees to cut down. And so, it takes a lot of cut out of the trails. It takes us working together and understanding each other's needs and concerns and where the opportunities are and the things that need to be taken care of so that we can be responsive as a community as we have these uh unanticipated seasonal changes and to really be able to pivot and to and to work together. So what we really want to start this year is doing that work of looking at recreation and looking at how

it impacts businesses. What I really want to see us do is tableabling up trail heads at the same over the over a weekend that we also are asking businesses about their experience of that weekend and then to think about how we can do that at different seasons of the year. So that's a bit of the character of what we're considering with an economic impact analysis. And what we really want to do is start that this year with, you know, some small amount of funding that we have available and then look at how to really grow that impact study because within the outdoor recreation economic development industry. Um, that's definitely a trend that's developing is to take a really good look and understand the role that outdoor recreation has to play on your local businesses and your local economy.

Yes. And we've also had the opportunity to work with UC Davis Cooperative Extension economists who are starting to work on outdoor recreation. So, we've had the opportunity to connect there. We've also been invited to speak at the California Outdoor um economy summit that Calpaly Humble is hosting in June. So, we're really getting the opportunity to broaden our lens of what outdoor recreation and economic development mean. And we want to really put that on the ground here. And I just wanted to dovetail on one thing that Renee mentioned about this economic development study um or sustainable recreation study that the folks at Cal Pauly um or the UC Davis extension program have been so generous to sort of take us under their wing. We don't have the funding right now to do a full-blown study. There's um ECOS Northwest out of Portland that we would love to hire and and work with them. Um but we have to pull together the funding and find some grant funding that's available. So, our plan is to kind of just do sort of a startup with this to position us for a grant application, you know, whatever grant funding comes up in the future. And they're offering to kind of mentor us and get us started, which is lovely because they have already been involved in um the sort of recreation focused economic analysis. So, we're very grateful for that. Okay, moving along. So, our long-standing Match Fest Fourth of July walk runs. We are at year 46. Um, I'm year 14, I think, helping to coordinate the event. Um, so I put this up there because this imagine the Fourth of July walk run with the Fourth of July without the walk run. It's pretty big event along with what the chamber puts on. Um, and our board of directors has

just been commenting recently on what a big effort it is. Um, our costs have increased and we don't have as much volunteer um, volunteer participation anymore and um, we're not making as much money. A lot of the proceeds actually go back into the community into the community group that help support um, the youth sports that help support the event. So, we all know anecdotally that uh the Fourth of July contributes to our local economy because it fills the streets. Chamber knows too. Um with athletes and visitors from all over. It's kind of one of our biggest days. It might be our biggest day. Yeah. Okay. Um and it supports community health. Like I said, our proceeds go to youth athletic groups um from all over the county. Um it supports local nonprofits. So when we have groups that come help support the event, we pay them from the proceeds. Um so I'm looking it looks like I have a typo right there. I didn't catch that. Um anyway, so we need more support and you can switch to the next slide, Renee. So the event vulnerabilities that we're facing right now are basically um rising event overhead expenses. our portaotties or the cost of the portaotties has increased. Um, you know, it's $4,000 just for the portaotties. That's our half. The chamber pays the other half. Um, so that went way up. And then those portaotties are used by everyone in town, not just the run uh participants. And then again, the decline in local volunteer capacity and and increasing labor costs. So now that we have less volunteer capacity, we have to pay more people to put the event on. So um that is one thing that we would love to have

uh city support on. Yeah. Or for um so opportunities for the city to support sustainable outdoor recreation economy would be if you would like to support the beginning of an economic development study related to recreation and um support the uh Fourth of July walk run. Yeah. Any questions? I do have a question. Okay.

Um you mentioned that so the the the original um study that was done was for a lot of South C or like all of South County basically and and you want this to have a similar footprint I imagine just so it kind of aligns with the findings of that one as well. Yeah. Um, are you are other cities within that region contributing to the study as well? Not not currently. Nope. But that's a good question. Yeah.

I guess that's it for now. Thank you. Thank you very much. You guys all have a presentation.

Okay. I am Josh, president of Mount Chasta City and owner of the Ascension Aesthetic. We do the marketing for the digital marketing for the city of Mount Chasta. So before I kind of throw a lot of data at you because that's what I have. I have a lot of slides with quantitative data. I just wanted to give you guys the qualitative side of things. Right? So basically we are creating viral content. Somebody in Portland will see something like this and like for example this is one of the places we market to and they never they've never heard of Mount Shasta. we've showed something very beautiful and they say wow like I want to see that I want to go there and they start to do their research um after seeing our content they will tend to Google Mount Gasta and we have done a good job with our SEO and so if you Google Mount Shasta visit Mount Shasta is the first thing that pops up um and that's spelled you know multiple different ways um so after seeing the content researching on Google um then they start to get curious and they will book hotels. They will drive to the area um and that's where they will spend their money and uh go, you know, average stay two to three days staying in hotels, spending money in on restaurants, uh doing things, activities in the area, mountain biking and such. Um so that's just the qualitative side of things. So we've been working with you guys for four years. We just want to show at a glance, you know, started in 2022. We had 2,644 Facebook followers, 3,285 IG followers when we first took over, and we've grown that. We've launched an e-commerce store. We had a lot of major growth with uh our increase in ad spend, and we've gotten really good at our ad marketing. So, our cost per click has

gone down quite a bit. And as we stand, we have over 33,000 combined followers on uh Facebook and Instagram platforms. We put a lot of effort into Instagram because that's where we see the most ROI as far as you know this is a beautiful place. It's a visual place and for tourism marketing Instagram tends to be the best. So what we deliver currently um posts, reels, stories, we do paid ad campaigns. Um we're maintaining the website and SEO. We're in um engaging with influencers, which is something I'll talk about in the future, something we want to lean into more. Um we have our YouTube channel that we manage and we do customer relationship engagement and we also deliver quarterly analytics. So currently we're at 38,400 per year. Um what that's getting you, we have over 33,000 combined followers, as I said. Um our peak quarter ad reach we had seven cents average cost per click which is extremely low um and over 42,000 uh unique um visitors or sorry uh reach. So the TOT revenue that I got from Melissa, excuse me, uh was 1.6 million as of last year and it looks like this year was on track. I haven't gotten the full numbers this year. It's not done with yet. Um and then the total content views that we had over our year was 2.8 million. And so this was a graph of the DOT numbers uh over the history. And again 25 to 26 is not complete yet which is why it looks so low but it again looked to be on track. Um you know since our partnership the TOT growth has been $342,000.

Um that's that big. I know there was a jump from um the 10% to 12% I believe although the organic growth was 6%. So if you look at our audience over time since we started you can see it's pretty exponential. It's gone up and up and up. Um, and again, you can see there that we've uh really increased our Instagram presence because of the ROI there. Um, we've had a 570% Instagram growth and 316% Facebook. And the difference there again is because we're leaning heavy into Instagram. Oh, okay. You're taking over. Okay, so um this is just showing our ad campaigns and what we've been able to accomplish, right? The industry average is about a dollar for this type of tourism. Um you know, if on the low side is 50 cents. We're averaging 16 cents cost per click and our best quarter in P1 in 2025 was 7 cents. So we're doing very good with our ad spend and that comes from time. You know, we've again had this partnership for four years and we're just getting better and better at it. So, in the beginning, you know, we're learning what works, what doesn't work, and then we're honing that and getting better at it. And so, we've gotten a really good ROI on our cost per click and ad spend. Um, uh, to look at the website, we see a lot of people are going from our Instagram channels directly to the website. They want more information where there's a lot more in-depth knowledge in the, uh, area. Also links to all the hotels and restaurants in the area. So people can go directly to them and book through our website uh indirectly because they'll go to the the hotel website or the restaurant. Um so yeah, 81,000 unique visitors, which is up 46% year-over-year, 67,000 unique

visitors, uh 135,000 page views, and then a 68.93% bounce rate, which I think we could get to be better uh with some updates to the website, just making it a little bit cleaner, more efficient. So funding request is option one. This is an increase of 4,500 a month. That would be 54,000 a year, which would be a 0.009% increase in the budget. Um, this would get you seven posts and reels, 40 stories a month, up from the six and 30 that we currently have. Um, a high production highlight video that we do yearly. We we did that in the past and that's how we were promoting the Fourth of July event. Um we've been recycling that video for like three years and we're getting comments of people saying like, "Wow, they're not really updating this at all." So, we don't want to keep doing that. Um and this doesn't have to be the 4th of July, although I would expect that to have the best ROI. Um it would increase the ad spend from 750 a month to a thousand. And it would also allow us to have more money to uh engage with these influencers. We have a lot of people that ask us like, "Hey, are you guys doing partnerships? Do you want to collaborate?" They have, you know, 20,000, 40,000, a million followers and they want to promote the area. Uh they cost money though. So I say, you know, we can't really work with you guys at the moment. Um, we were dedicating this to ad spend currently, but I hope in the future that we can collaborate because we can take advantage of their audiences and drive growth. And like our highest performing video was with an influencer and that single video had over 85,000 views. Um, and I know that was bringing in people. Uh, option two is the standard package. So, that's currently what we're we're doing. Um, I propose a slight increase just because we haven't raised our prices in over two and a half years and as you know costs have gone up

dramatically over those two years. Um, but this is giving you the six posts and reels 30 stories a month 750 a month in ad spend. Um, the visitor center integration uh because we're dealing with the visitor center that's essentially the you know brick and mortar version of what we do that we work with them closely. Um, still maintaining the YouTube channel and the quarterly analytics. Um, something I didn't put on here because I caught it later, but I also want to add the verified account. You know, there's a blue check mark you can get next to social media accounts. That just gives you more presence, more gravitas. Uh, it is the and we have it written down to where the official social media platform of the mouse shalsa, but this is something that they can see right off the bat. They don't have to click to know. So, it just makes it more um, you know, gives it more graph. Um so again in comparison how our budget stacks up if we were at that 42,000 a year um compare that to say discover sysfew which we know is about five times the budget from what I um have heard visit reading which I know is a million dollars our Instagram followers are very close we've surpassed Discover sisq we're very close to visit reading um we have a lot less posts and our cost per follower average is much much lower so our cost per follower cost is $1.75 versus the $38 that visit reading has or the $1079 that discover this piece has. So, we're able to compete with a very small budget, but I just like to be even more efficient and you know take advantage of of you know what we're able to do to promote this to this wonderful community and economy. And so, you know what happens without active market? You know the audience will start to decay. Social social accounts with active management lose relevance quickly. Algorithms will deprioritize. Inactive pages. Follower accounts stall. Reach collapses. And years of audience

building can erode. And so competitors will fill the vacuum. You know there is these skew visit reading chastic cascade and other regional destinations that are actively marketing without a presence. Um, mouse jaser loses mind share to those destinations with bigger budgets and audiences without our consistent output. Uh, the tot revenue is at risk. The TOT grew 27% over our partnership, but overnight stays don't happen by accident. They require awareness. Reduced visibility directly translates into fewer hotel bookings and less revenue for the city. And if the website traffic declines, our data shows a direct link between social activity ad campaigns and our website visits. When the socials close, web traffic follows 42,000 a year in marketing helped protect the $1.6 million revenue stream. And so, you know, over the four years that we've been together, again, this is very quantitative data. You can see it. It constantly going up. We're getting better and better at what we do. And so, we uh hope that you have us another year. Thank you.

Any questions?

Any questions over here? Okay, awesome. Thank you, Josh. Thank you. Thanks, Josh. And next up, if this uh lovely K9 face is to be believed, I believe we have the Sys Humane Society. That was based on this. Oh, that's Piper, by the way. Oh,

okay. Um, thank you for inviting me to speak tonight. My name is Austin Browder. I'm the executive director of the Sist Humane Society. Something changed. There we go. Uh, the Sist Humane Society and the City of Mount Chasta maintain a partnership through anou. Thisou exists for one simple reason. The city of Mount Chasta is legally and practically responsible for animal services and the city Humane Society provides those services on the city's behalf. By partnering with SHF, the city ensures compliance with state animal welfare requirements while allowing the Mount Chester Police Department officers to stay focused on core responsibil um core public safety and responsibilities. Everything you see today is meant to show the value and cost efficiency of this partnership. These services the city would otherwise need to provide directly. internally and absorbed as a liability. Our goal is prevention, compliance, and community well-being. Our partnership is designed to allow the Mount Chastic Police Department officers and other uh and the city to remain focused on core public safety responsibilities while SHS handles animal care, housing, and placement. How are you seeing the slides over there? Oh, you do right here. Okay. Um, when officers encounter a stray, injured or nuisance animal, SHS comes the operational solution from intake and holding to medical care and eventual placement. We also support both city and county compliance with California animal welfare laws which require specific timelines, documentation, and care standards. Beyond enforcement and intake, SHS uh serves as a primary resource for the public, answering questions, providing guidance, and resolving animal related issues before they escalate into police calls. Under California law, cities are required and counties to required to ensure animal services are provided,

including rabies control, stray holding, microchipping, reunification, and lawful placement. These laws are very specific. Animals must be held for defined time frames, provided daily care, documented properly, and made available for reclaim or adoption before any other outcome. The Siski Humane Society fulfills these responsibilities on behalf of the city of Mount Chasta, meeting the legal requirements while also managing the operational financial risk and uh the outcomes with them. When these services are handled promptly and correctly, it reduces exposure for the city, not just for compliance issues, but for public safety incidents like dog bites, aggressive animals, and animals creating traffic hazards. The humane society Oh, where am I? I got ahead of myself. Okay. Uh, the Sist Humane Society handles operational and financial workload of animal care uh, including intake and holding, daily feeding and monitoring, medical care, microchip scanning, owner outreach, and spayneuter and placement. We also maintain records and documentation required under state law, which is critical protecting the city if any incidents do occur uh, or decisions are questioned. On this slide, approximately 30% of our animals in care uh come from the city of Mount Shasta. In 2025, that included 120 cats, 64 dogs, and with dogs coming in from both u the police department directly and directly from public intake found. Uh these animals um that would otherwise require city holding care and officer time and liability coverage are housed at our facility. Additionally, in 2025, oh, I added this one later. Uh we had two clinics in the city of Mount Shasta vaccinating approximately 140 animals. Oh, you're you're moving them for me. Okay. This slide shows our our organizational level outcome for 2025. Um not going to read this all aloud to everybody, but

it's just here for some quick data points. Um these outcomes represent the capacity of our systems and they allow us to respond quickly, prevent escalation, and keep animal related issues from becoming public safety and liability issues for the city. Uh next I want to pro uh focus on prevention in particular long-term costs and risks. Prevention is one of the most important and most cost-effective parts of this partnership. Our pet food pantry uh um provides um reduces owner surreners and which also means fewer loose animals in neighborhoods and along roadways. Our spay and neuter programs reduce stray population over time, lowering the likelihood of repeat nuisances placed in aggressive encounters. By the way, I think we just reached our 300 vouchers for the year already, which is pretty good. Um, uh, our vaccine clinics reduce disease risk and also reduce bite related incidents that can become, uh, public health or liability issues. And our community outreach helps resolve issues early before they escalate into enforcement calls, dog bites, and traffic hazards. Taken together, prevention reduces long-term cost and demand on city resources. This chart shows a high level estimate of what um this would cost the city uh directly to directly provide these animal services um without the sysi humane society's uh these are core components required to operate an animal services program staffing facilities utilities insurance veterinary care equipment uh and they all exist regardless of intake volume even if we brought in one animal a year or 10,000 Uh, as a nonprofit, we absorb additional expenses such as fundraising and donor relations, uh, grant administration, related administrative functions, which total another hidden cost on here, um, which I estimate to be about 100,000. Even while carrying these additional costs, we're able to deliver the required uh, services, maintain compliance, and significantly reduce

operational and liability exposure for the city. Now this slide uh breaks down the real average cost of animals in our care um from shelter in uh intake to outcome. Our annual operating costs are approximately 850,000 which reflects daily care, medical treatment, facility operations and compliance uh compliance requirements. Our average dog remain an average dog remains in our care for 30 days and cats about 20. When you spread these costs across daily care, the average comes to about $40 per animal per day. Our important piece of context here is that Mount Shasta services we provide operate an ongoing operational um deficit under the current agreement. That deficit can't be covered by donations raised solely within the city of Mount Shasta. So the Cisco Humane Society also operates as a countywide provider serving animals and residents throughout Cisco County while maintaining a broader donor base that allows us to continue providing required services here in the city. Um let's see now let's look at what would happen without this uhou and agreement. First animal care would responsibilities would dip directly to city resources. That means Mount Shasta Police Department would be spending significantly more time um handling animals and um including sprayed dogs and injured animals. The city would assume responsibility for housing, feeding, daily care, medical treatment along with associated insurance and liability exposures. Those risks do not disappear. They would shift from um the nonprofit to a city responsibility. Um when you look at the partnership as a whole, it functions as a cost-effective and risk reducing model for our city. Siski Humane Society provides the custodial and care components of animal services under the city's responsibility including intake, holding, daily care, medical treatment, and placement. This partnership reduces demand on city staffing and infrastructure, particularly Mount Faster Police Department. Uh, and it also helps limit

liability exposure related to dog bites, loose animals, traffic hazards, ensuring intake, and care and placement. Most importantly, this model allows the city to meet legal obligations while avoiding sudden cost, service gaps, and unmanaged risks. Let's see. So, I'm not making any requests tonight. I but I do want to show what could happen with increased support and more a more robust uhou in the future. Um, we currently are not animal control and we do not run as an animal control facility, nor are we legally um allowed to anywhere within this county, but um and we do not handle dog licensing. Uh, in the future, I would be willing to negotiate that um when ourou does come up in the future. Um that is something that we have been considering discussing.

And then I was going to skip this but uh this is oh that's fine. We had 7,000 uh volunteer hours last year um reducing our operational costs um as well which is great. All right. The 50 Humane Society is not an optional service. That is part of how Mount Shasta meets its responsibility to ensure animal services are provided. Through this partnership, those custodial and care responsibilities are handled professionally, consistently, and in a way that supports public safety, compliance, and risk management. It reduces operational burden, helps limit liability related to dog bites and loose animals, and allows animal related issues to be addressed before they escalate. We appreciate your time. Um, thank you for letting me speak tonight and inviting me here. Um, anybody that's here is welcome to have a private tour of the facility. Um, I will host it. I have my card and my phone number on my card, my personal cell phone. Give me a call. I'd be happy to give you a tour anytime. Um, that's it.

Thank you.

Any questions? Okay. All right. Awesome. Thanks, Austin. Thank you. And next up, we have the Chamber of Commerce and the Visitor Center.

Good evening. My name is Kayla Burns and I'm the executive director of the Mount Shasta Chamber and with me is Allison Carpenter and she runs our visitor center. The Mount Sa Chamber and the visitor center are essential to strengthening economic and community experience for our city. Together, they serve as a welcoming hub for our visitors center and a driving force for our local events that bring energy and revenue into our community. These services depend on continued partnership and funding support from our city. The visitors center is the first stop for travelers. It connects them with local businesses, lodging, dining, recreation, directly influencing how long they stay and how much they spend. The chamber also puts on four contracted events each year. Fourth of July being our biggest event and that not only enriches community life, but it draws visitors who support our local economy in 2024 2025 physical year. It costs approximately 110,748 to operate our visitor center and put on these four contracted events. These funds covering staffing, daily operations, marketing, event production, core elements necessary to maintain a high quality experience for both our visitors and our residents. The visitors center still remains a very important part of our town. Visitors through the ages of 40 and 70 really like to come in and see a local face. People still like walking through the doors, speaking with someone, picking up a hard copy of a map, which Allison will go over that she has designed, instead of just relying on their phones. They also like having access to local souvenirs, the Mount Sha license plates, only place you can get them is with us, and they like to have that at their fingertips. We constantly hear appreciation from both our visitors and our locals that we still have a visitor center still open. Because of these realities, city funding is more important than ever. It ensures that the

visitors center can continue to operate and our community events can still be delivered at the level expected by res by residents and visitors. Without this support, these programs and economic benefit they generate would be at risk. Thank you for your time and I'm going to pass it on to Allison.

Hi everyone. Um so the slideshow is a little wonky based on kind of what we submitted. Um but uh This is the map that I give out to visitors. Um, currently what we are giving out is much smaller than this one. We went through thousands of these and they're they're out. We have plans to produce more of these. Um, so this is the one that's on the screen here. This is what I'm currently printing out. Um, so part of the funding that we received from you guys is going to printing these maps. Um, the guys love these maps. Um, they're printed in 17 in by 11 in. Um, This side right here, this is the recreation side. Um, this is where I get to go over with the visitors all of the recreational parts of Mount Chasta and the surrounding area. The other side is the town map. And on this side um we have um all represent all of our businesses in our downtown area. So in the packet that we um provided, you can see a sample of what our print for the summer is going to look like. Um as well as information on the budget as well for that. Um the map is going to um have a QR code that will guide people to our website which is where we'll have our events calendar um as well as to a visitor information page that will take them to an after hours location where they can access resources. Um it's my experience that visitors really want to have physical resources. They want to have physical copies of maps. They extremely appreciate those printouts. Um I have also because I'm a designer, I've also not only did I design this map, but I also designed um trail maps that we give out to visitors. The visitors appreciate those immensely. If you look at our Google reviews, which I provided samples of in in the packet, um you will hear

what they say firsthand. um the ones that reference me by name specifically, those you know are the ones that are dealing with me specifically and um my interactions with them are always extremely positive. I would say that 90% of my interactions are extremely positive and I very very rarely have a negative interaction. Like when I do it's actually more about my safety than about anything else. So um I do run the visitor center by myself. There is really no one else. So um yeah um again the events calendar is going to be linked to this map through a QR code that will be on the back side listing all our events as well as um on this side where we have the town map. We will be having a QR code link that will take visitors to that after hours visitor page um so that they will be able to access continued resources after the visitor center closes and those resources are all the resources I provide at the visitor center that is not meant to be a replacement for the visitor center. It's just ion of what we already do because there are still plenty of visitors, especially the elderly. So, we have to think about accessibility for those visitors who um really don't have access to technology in the way that we would want them to. We have to think about accessibility there because those visitors, they're not going to be able to like, for example, use a QR code. They really aren't. So, um, we have to think about them and their public safety. Um, because that's a really huge part of what we do at the desert centers, just help to keep people safe and give them good directions, which is, um, another huge issue because Google doesn't always guide people to the places that they think they're going to go to. Sometimes it takes them onto old unsafe roads. That's a real issue that we have. I get um, probably every few weeks someone calling and trying to figure out where they are. They got lost. Um, someone called me recently on the other side of Mount Eddie, believe it or not, someone was trying to get into our town and they got totally lost. So, um, I do provide

that service. I help people find where they need to go. I help them make sense of the area and the technology even like Google Maps for example. Um, and so yeah, I'm just there by myself taking care of all of our visitors. So, um, that's pretty much it. Thank you. Thank you. That's right. The next one is the Collier Center. Thank you for that, Alison. Well, good afternoon and and thank you for uh allowing me to come and present to the council. Um my name is Renie Cleland. I'm a uh resident of Dora and at in the early 1990s I was part of the city council just like you guys are and we had a presentation from two fellows out of one out of Hu Rica and one out of Edna basically coming to the council bas and saying that uh they call your rest area on interstate five at the promise river that's the side of Hornbrook um was in jeopardy of being shut down. The couch runs was having a tough time uh with their numerous rest areas in California and the fall rest area seemed to be on the on the chopping block. Um Bob Reich was a force supervisor at that

time in Syscue County and George Frier was a retired librarian out of the Bay Area that came up and was living in for in Fort Jones. But the bottom line, they were asking for help to salvage this very popular rest area, rest stop. And um instead of it turning into a commercial gas station uh convenience store, they wanted to save it, preserve it. It has a lot of Fiscu County um indigenous species or indigenous uh people's recognition there. There's some artifacts there. We worked very closely with Als. So the bottom line is is I want to talk real quickly about the rest stop itself and the fact that it will in jeopardy and then the second thing I want to do is I want to tell you about the call your uh visitor center. We call it the call your interpretive and information center and that's because it is uh um it's not only a visitor center we're trying to tell people about Syscue County. We're trying to spread people throughout Cisco County. Um, and I heard from almost everybody uh prior that we're looking for partnerships. And what happened with the caller uh concept is that um these two fellas went to the county board of supervisors. That's the supervisor support. They ended up coming out to each one of the small communities, Mount Shasta, all of our incorporated communities, nine of them in Cisco County, and they asked to form a joint powers authority. Um, collectively everybody was sold on the fact that this was an important site

to save for Syscue County and we created this joint powers authority of which Mount Casta city council and the city of Mount Casta is involved with this as much as the city of Doris is or the city of Fort Jones or Edna or Tuli Lake. So, uh, with that, I don't know how many people on the council or in the audience have been through this caller rest area. It's pretty impressive. If you, uh, talk to the people at Calr, they say that this is the best rest area that they have in the state of California. Uh, the visitors that stop at the rest area pretty much attest to that. Uh it is very well maintained by CALR and their contractor that comes in. They've got some disabled kids that come in and and do most of the maintenance, the uh lawn mowing and everything else that goes along with it from raft rooms to uh determine the trees. But I wanted to give you a little bit of background on this because it's special to me as a as a kid that grew up in Cisco County and had the opportunity to come back and u spend the last 20 years of my career in Fisku County and primarily in the Doris area. I grew up in Doris. I was able to come back. Um but this rest stop aside from the visitor center was named for for Senator Randolph Collier and makes him kind of special is that he was not only born in Sysu County over in Etna. He was a police judge in Hua. He ended up becoming a senator in the state of California and through his work in the Senate, he became known as the father of the freeway system in California.

So that freeway that goes by there was named in in honor of Randolph Kong. Um like I said, he was a a leader in California transportation and and infrastructure. It's located right there on Interstate 5 at the or near the Oregon border. One of the things that we talk about um whether it's the chamber of commerce um whether it's the system museum whether it's anything else that Mount Chasta is involved in economic development part of it we are a gateway community tow county I represent my little portion of fiscu county councilman sack John represents your community is a very strong partner in what we do up there. Uh attends most of our meetings when he can. So uh but it's more than a more than a rest stop. It's it's a re a regional welcome center. So the statistics when right now Calrans if you ask Calrans how many people visit rest areas in California they'll say it's in the upwards of 100 million people that physically pull off of the highway and and use the rest areas. Obviously, we have a visitor center there that u is an addition to that potty park potty spot, but for the most part, we get a lot of people that pull into the caller rest area. When we first developed that, we were figuring on 20 to 40,000 people per year that would actually come and see our outdoor advertisements advertisements or on the inside once they come inside the the visitor center. It's no different than your chamber of commerce. It's a

welcoming spot that has brochures from um throughout Cisco County and the whole Pacific Northwest, Southern California, and Arizona. But uh the numbers showing here, the visitor numbers is for 2025 um last year and we had some we were kind of rebounding from the COVID and shutdowns and um lack of transportation, lack of uh movement in America. And for the most part, our numbers are down. But keep in mind that uh we expect between 20 and 40,000 people to stop in that parking lot and walk around on that call your piece of property. So anyway, this is a this is a picture and I hope you guys have it on your screen, but it's it's a picture of how we focus on tourism and and our primary goal is to meet those people uh with a handshake or a high. Uh we don't have the ability to sell because of our contract with Calr, we don't have the ability to sell anything within that facility. There's a contract in the state of California that house Rams is limited to a particular contractor that will service every one of those other um rest areas in California. We are we are unique in the fact that we through the JPA um and through some pretty aggressive um grant seeking opportunities we were able to um use one of your Mount Shasta architects to design the building that you saw in the first couple photographs um to Calran specs and um anyway it's a

beautiful building we the only one in California on state property that is owned by the call your interpretive center. So through the call your interpretive center I'm saying the JPA the joint powers authority. So uh obviously here's a an example of of the kiosk that we started out in. It's now a standalone outside advertising portal but uh that's where we started and we ended up um with with the building inside with the inside building. That's an example of some of our outdoor advertising. The kiosk showed out in short amount of outdoor advertising as well. Um and then once they came inside, we've got all the brochures that anywhere from the Humane Society in Mount Chasta to the Chamber of Commerce to discover syscue to the system museum. Uh we've got them all. So, and we need more. We are advertising your community. So, I want to go back to that last slide. So, what we're seeing, and I heard it tonight, is many local businesses that are advertising with us that they see the value in that foot traffic that comes in and the hospitality that we serve those those people. However, there's still a lot of businesses out there and at a county level and at a community level that haven't taken advantage of this prime visibility. This means missed opportunities for both your community, the travelers, and with thousands of people passing through each week, the potential economic impact is far greater than most realized. We are u a very informal welcoming

center that people are are stopping there. They're they're stretching their legs. They're having a picnic. They're walking around. They're looking at the the river. Um there's a lot of potential for growth in that particular area. So anyway, let's go to that next slide. But why does it matter? Let's go ahead to the next slide after that. Um there's our there's our building that Stevens built or designed and rebuilt. But that's the the signage for the vis center. Um big impacts with a small footprint call your center plays a quiet but sign significant role in supporting tourism. That's a key one because I heard it tonight. You guys are the destination community of this county. People are attracted to that mountain. They're a mountain. They're attracted to your community. A lot of times this is a stopping place um for them going to further south or further north. But you guys have that identity that most of the other communities in Syscue County do not have. Local economies through our referrals. It leads to overnight stays, obviously meals, retail spending. Another benefit is is public safety. And during the wildfire season, we're able to tell people where not to go. Don't go down Highway 96 because half the camp's on fire or this, that, or the other thing. Um, so public safety is huge for us. Community education u falls in number one with the u with not just the information that we're sharing but Collier is a is a living laboratory for the most part because if you look at the Clamoth River and with the four dams on the Clamoth River that

have been taken out and the number of salmon and steel heads that are now coming back up the Clamoth River. It is an information and interpretive center. What we have the ability to do is to take a college class or a biology class from Mount Shasta High School and taking them up there and and show them the flora and fauna that Syscu County is is proud of. So, community awareness again uh history, natural resources, recreation, agriculture, and more. And the sec and the fifth thing is that it's a county identity by offering a unified welcome that reflects our values and our landscapes. People stop there every time they're on Highway 97 or on Highway I5 going up and down the the interstate. Um so when you ask why does this matter, Mount Shasta? Uh primarily it matters because this center represents your community even if the traveler never drives through it. We are your chamber of commerce extended up there. We are uh your discover clam or discover syscue or wherever that um tourism industry may land. So next one please. So, one thing I heard tonight, there's I've got five or six different uh speakers in front of me, but um one thing I heard was partnerships and that's what the joint powers authority is. That's what you represent to the call your interpretive center. Uh what you're doing by sharing with us u you're serving travelers heading across this county and beyond. You're often, we are

often the first point of contact for Lake Syscue, for Mount Shasta City, the Clamoth Basin, the Scott Valley, the Shasta Valley, and more. We reach visitors before they decide where to go or spend their time. And that's that's really a key thing in the fact that a lot of the people with the dollars in their pocket have a big motor home that they're going up and down the interstate with. And most of them are looking to go. Where are we going to vacation? Where are we going to go explore America next year? So with those people, we're a contact for them. and if they want to go see the lava beds or lower climate the wildlife refuge um or spread out anywhere else they are they're getting their first contact right there with us. So, uh, in 2025, just last year, we were able to come up with a a a grant to create with CALR's approval to create a an an interpretive trail. And like I said, the the Shasta Indians, the the Peruks, there's that spot along the Clam of the River was a was a a training And so, um, this interpretive trail has several pieces of signage on it that describe the not only the plant species, but what the Indian native Indian-Americans uh, what they used for that. So, it's a it's an interpretive story of what this site all involves. It expands the visibility for local programs. Um, just hearing it tonight, I mean, there's a there's a huge um correlation between what I'm hearing the people coming to you for dollars are

staying um destination services. It reflects the full diversity of Syscue County and then again the stronger impact through the collaborative effort of the joint powers authority. So with that, I think I'm pretty well done with my slides. Thank you. Again, my name is Renie Cleland. I'm the board president, current board president. Um, we are hurting right now uh for dollars. You guys gave $1,000 last year. Uh, it cost us about $60,000 a year to run that place. We have run it because we don't have money coming in. We are u we survive on on advertising dollars and uh and donations and grants and that kind of thing. So we need your help. You need to see the value in what we have. Uh right now we don't think that we're being utilized enough or or recognized for our value as much um throughout the county. And not and I'm not saying that about the city. It's because you guys have been when we started out in 1991, we made it made it known that we were going to keep our doors open by advertising dollars and um and the communities in that JPA supporting us. And it has started out strong and then it has it has waned down. We have one employee that we just hired three years ago I think now and she gives us about 18 hours a week

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and uh she's a retired lady that is friendly as can be and loves meeting people and u we had to lay her off the end of of January. So there's a there's a sense of urgency. I don't know. Not coming here um with a number to ask because we've asked we've asked the board of supervisors and all of the other communities. I think you guys as a as a council get a letter from our secretary treasurer who prepared um but kind of advising you that uh we're still active. we could we appreciate any support that you can give us. And like I said, last year I think we received $1,000 from the Mount Chester. So anyway, with that, any questions you want to ask me? I'm I got a lot of notes, but uh I don't want to take much longer. So any questions?

Not so much questions, but 25 years ago this May, I was a hitchhiker in the area. And I'm sorry, 25 years ago this May, I was hitchhiker in the area. And one of the nicest places I stayed at for a night under a tree was your rest area on my way to Oregon. Oh, good. It was really nice. Compared to the gas stations I've been spending time at, this was a treat. Yes. Thank you for that. Okay. Thank you for the the time.

Thank you very much. Yeah. So that that concludes the uh presentations for that portion I believe. Um unless I missed Did the beautifification committee want to um speak? They didn't um have this presentation but they did want five minutes. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Please.

Thank you. Hi. Uh, my name is TZ. I'm a member of the Mount Chastification Committee and this is Lori Saunders, our president chair person. my 30th year on the committee.

It's amazing. Thank you for that.

So, we've prepared a budget uh for this coming year and um I'll just go through it really quickly. Um the library medians are the two medians along the street sidewalk in front of the library. Um those are needing some more bark basically. So, we put down a price for that. Um, these next three are the entrances to the city. Um, so Lake Street medians could use more bark and just more plant replacements and additions. Uh, the south entrance median is um needs some more bark refreshment and probably plant replacements. and the North Triangle again could use some more bark. Um, and then we put in there some additional uh could order a couple extra trash cans. I don't know if everybody's noticed the new pebble concrete trash cans that we've put out along the boulevard, but uh we wanted to order a couple more just to have as backup in case um some get run over or broken. Um and the last thing is um the plants and soil and bark that's needed for all the downtown planters. Um we currently have 12 and we're in the process of purchasing uh 12 more. So we're going to have a total of 24 to maintain. So yeah, so the proposed budget's like $5,250 for next year.

Thanks so much for your consideration. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Any questions? And one thing I would note is I would assume it's going to be the same this year, but there was a a volunteer day last year to go and kind of redo the downtown planters. Um, is that going to be the same this year? Excellent. So, everybody watching or in the audience, keep an eye out for that as well. It's fun. All right. Um, so we'll open it up to public comment if anybody has any public comment clarification about any of the presentations that you just saw. Please.

Good evening everybody. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. I appreciate it. My name is Lori Sole and I am a Mount Casta tour guide here with a permit through the forestry service. So my business relies on tourism obviously. I think so many businesses in town do, don't they? So I'm here in support of the visitor center. I became a chamber member about eight months ago. I think about eight months ago. And I have been able to put my information in there and I'm going to be on the map, which I think is an incredible asset for the community. And I love I just got to know Allison and her ability to provide hospitality for people who come in because what's happening in the world right now is most of us want to be in communication, don't we? We want that welcome door open to us. And that's exactly what the visitors center is for people who come into town. It's that open door. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful to come because more and more people as they get overwhelmed with information, there's too much information out there really, right? So, what do we want? We want somebody to guide us. When I work with clients, that's the first thing they ask me. What am I supposed to do here? Where do I go? Who do you like? What are some of the little hidden gems in town? And that's exactly what Alison provides. Because what you're going to see with social media and other things, they are beautiful and they work, but we're watching AI take over. So, we have SEO, which is search engine optimization, but we also have GEO, which is generative engine optimization. So, more and more we're going to see AI taking over and more and more people are going to feel overwhelmed and they want to come in and

talk to a human being. That's an asset. That's a value. this is an asset to the community. I have a couple things here that I wanted to share about her. She has the visitor center is it acts as a hub that distributes opportunity across our entire community. And just something that I found out recently from an artist in town, the California Visitors Bureau, Visit California, is doing a massive national commercial and they are focusing. One of the places is Mount Shasta. I know. Isn't that incredible? And the artist is the one that's being I don't know who else is being interviewed in town, but she is one of them. And they're promoting that na nationally. And so when you the rest as the gentleman said and people want to have that break or they want to talk to somebody people I I went on to the Ashland visitors center if you guys have been to Ashland and you stop at that beautiful visitor center that's there and there are people in there and they're they're asking what what are you thank you thank you so again I'm here to support thank you so much for the time

thank you very much all right any other public comments Man, looks like we got one taker. Yeah. Coming up. All right.

That one sister you're talking about is Andrea Shanti.

And when I did a little video with her, she is amazing. Amazing. There's a lot of stuff. So, um, she's also a Ohana connect member. That's why. So, um, we have the museum. I hope I remembered everybody. Outdoor wreck, marketing, humane society, visitors, chambers, color center, stop shop, and beautifification. Everybody is doing such a fantastic job. I just appreciate all of you with all the limited resources that we do have with all the $7 plus gas and diesel to ship it over here with all the inflation and all that stuff we can't control government shutdown co Iran whatever with all the limited tourism that we have that we uh locals is where we need to kind of place all of our attention like yours sis AI is coming it's already here I'm going to be the very first one to let that uh sink in and County and like she did say the bigger the cities that shoot off AI and then the next cities is Medford and Reading after that it ripple affects them it is here that's where our future is going the good news is the more that that world goes the more they want authenticity the more that they want like uh like our brother said with the the stops the mountain is worldrenowned especially with the Nian ISM which is called spiritual tourism. That is our niche. We're not just tourism. We have a niche in spiritual tourism worldwide. Everybody that comes from every other state, Nevada and Oregon and south coming here to this mountain. Once you pass reading and drop over that big old bridge with our big old lake, we go back about 10 years. We have a little bubble that goes over Reading Big Lake all the way to like Medford area. There's a little 10-year bubble. We step back in

time and we just kind of get frozen over here in our little world. That's where locals support locals. You know what I like to say? I went to the weed mixer. I went to the Mount Chasta mixer with a visitor center. Great. Amazing. I've been to Dunmir. I've been to weed five times. Listening sessions. I have land in Lakes Chasta now Chastina. We're pushing for a mayor in HA soon. You know what I like to see? um multiple departments countywide coming together more often. I would love to see the visitor center and the chamber of commerce just coming together once a month and uh uniting resources. I'd love to see the marketing center if there was other marketing in like Scottville and Hu Rica whatever anybody else doing that to come together and see what we can learn from everybody that saves money saves efficiency it brings us together a little bit closer that's called ohana it's one step past partnerships thank you I got you thank you

all right any other public comment on No. All right. Uh we will then we'll bring it back to council to discuss. Anything to discuss at this point? I imagine we'll be talking about these in the future. Yeah. Receiving the information. Okay. Nothing to vote on. Yep. All right. Cool. Uh moving on to item number nine is the uh mobile home park rent control. Uh so a little background here. Um the residents of Chasta Horizon Mobile Home Park have raised concerns regarding rising rent and utility costs and our uh city planner is unfortunately not here. So Todd, I think you were going to give us a little background on this one or

Yeah. Um uh our city planner is um ill tonight. I'm I'm asking that we we table this. Um uh I want to apologize to the folks that have stuck around uh for this item. I think uh I probably failed in in not being more clear that the expectation was that we have a um an ordinance that we have to review as opposed to um compilation of numbers. Um, you know, uh, we need to come back soon with a, um, an ordinance that, uh, council have has something to comment on. Um, and um, so understood.

I just agree with the table just because we're missing a few other ones. Motion table for two weeks. Second. Okay. All those in favor of tableabling till the next meeting. I uh I do want to apologize to the folks who uh stay here and stuck around for it. Um appreciate you all coming out to that we're here for that issue. Um rest assured we will discuss it more though. Feel free to reach out in the in the meantime.

Uh yeah, absolutely. At the next meeting, we'll absolutely have a public comment period on it as well.

Yep. Unfortunately,

sure. Uh well, we'll go first then if there is any council questions regarding any of the stuff on there. Okay. No, we'll open it up to public comment. Anybody who would like to speak for three minutes on this one?

Uh good evening uh council members. Thanks for the opportunity to to speak on this subject. Uh it's my understanding there is some kind of consideration for mobile home park uh rent control or a stabilization ordinance. Uh my name is Richard Travas. I'm with the property management company for uh Shasta Horizon Mobile Home Park. Uh we've had some communications via email. Um and I just wanted to uh make a couple key points um on that subject if I may. Uh there was a report that was put out last week. Um I had some concerns regarding the accuracy and objectivity of that report. Uh the report contains information that is misleading. Uh specifically it categorizes utilities as rent and combines rent and utility charges when calculating rent increases within that report. Uh this approach inflates the perceived increase and does not accurately reflect actual rent adjustments. Utility costs are pass through expenses. They are build to the park and then prrated among tenants based on actual uses usage and set rates. We do not profit from those charges. Uh nor do we have control of the charges that are charged to us. Uh therefore it's inaccurate to site a 14% rent increase uh which includes utilities in that figure. The actual average rent increase for 2025 was 6.1% uh for our mobile home park tenants. Um additionally, uh the report singles out Shasta Horizon mobile home park. There's other parks uh within the city that were not included in that. Um the report also appears to rely on information from a single tenant which does not provide a comprehensive or balanced view. uh we are available staff at Horizon to offer information as needed to the council to help make them an informed decision. Um also uh we have an existing lowincome rental assistance program that we offer in house. This is

something that we're proud of. Um this we've taken these proactive steps to support residents in need. We have implemented this program uh for our homeowners within the park. This program provides direct monthly rent credits as well as multi-year lease options with cap to rent increases. We we we did 3% plus CPI if you're interested in what we did for those multiple year uh uh leases. Uh it it is it is a targeted classical and already benefiting multiple residents. Uh importantly, it ensures assistance is directed to those who genuinely need it rather than applying a broad policy that may have unintended consequences. Um if a rent control ordinance is passed, unfortunately that program would go away. Um if there's any residents that are here from our park, which I don't know if they are, I'm happy to meet with them and um tell them about the rental assistance program and um even expand it if needed. So we're we're actively, you know, willing to participate in doing that. Uh meanwhile, there's been property improvements and rising operational costs. Um unlike similar to uh city of Mount Shasta, you know, we have infrastructure roads, uh, water, uh, gas, electricity, um, that all need upkeep, you know, and, um, so far the owners invested 500,000 in those improvements, um, that directly, um, benefit the residents and improve quality of life, increasing the value of their homes. Um, so average rents are less than $500. Um,

that's time. Thank you. Thank you. And open to continuous conversation. Thank you. You have any questions? No. Thank you very much.

Good evening, council members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Corey McNoli and I am the community manager for Chester Horizon Mobile Home and RV Park. Chester Horizon take great pride in our community and over the past several years we have made a consistent effort to improve both quality and safety of our property for our residents. We have completed a number of significant upgrades to our shared facilities including fully remodeling and modernizing both the women's and men's restrooms as well as renovating the laundry room and installing new more reliable equipment. In addition, we have made important infrastructure improvements. We've established a central office to provide residents with a dedicated space for communication and support. We installed a new community map to improve navigation within the property. And we repaved our street to enhance both safety and accessibility. We have also invested in amenities to that improve quality of life. This includes the de development of a secure off leash dog park providing providing residents with a safe and appropriate space for their pets. Recognizing the importance of safety during winter conditions, we purchased a snow plow that operates on the same schedule as the city. This ensures that our residents are able to safely enter and exit the community during inclement res inclement weather. Beyond physical improvement, we have worked a sense of community within Chest Horizon. Throughout the year, we host events such as community barbecues, ice cream socials, and seasonal gatherings with our residents, which help foster connection among residents and encourage positive engagement with management. Our goal is to continue building a community that is not only well-maintained, but one that residents are proud to call home. Rent control would hinder this.

While we have a quite a bit of future amenities planned, this this is additional cost to this community. Every amenity that we provide needs continuing upkeep. Not only upgrades, but events that we provide and that we host um require money and material. Uh food if it's a food event. Um labor costs. Um not only upgrades and events we are providing but current infrastructure as well. We own our water lines in the community. These water lines put in well before the 1970s. These break on a monthly basis. It requires time and money to keep our utilities up and running, providing water to our residents, keeping them happy. Uh not only for our water in our well, but we also pay sewer. We pay the city sewer. While we pay them each month, we are still required to upkeep the sewer lines in our community.

Have time. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.

Would anybody else like to speak on this? No. Just adjusting. Anyone else? Okay, we'll bring it back to council for discussion. Anybody? Okay. All right, tableing it. Um, it's been tabled. Okay, sounds good. So, two weeks from now, we will uh resume discussion. uh staff report from the state revenue and taxation finance committee. Uh let's see. Staff will provide an overview of the discussions which took place at the January and March 2026 state revenue and taxation finance committee meetings. Todd?

Yeah. Um so uh attended uh two inerson um revenue and taxation finance committee as an appointed member. Um you know our uh you know majority focus was uh looking at uh the current Bradley Burns tax sharing uh policy uh that um is part of uh state law that says that the point of negotiation is where sales tax is collected and um the way it has been construed for uh online retailers is that uh where when you order something online, whether that's Best Buy, Target, uh Walmart or Amazon, those uh sales tax revenues stay in the comm uh the community in which the fulfillment center is as opposed to coming here. Um so uh you know there are many communities that are losing out because of this and so there was a a pretty robust debate uh over this entire time and uh you know we had a member that was looking for a 100% return. Um what was curious is on uh the committee the committee makeup there was one inviteee from cities except for cities that had fulfillment centers and they had up to three members. Um so it was an interesting skew. So what came out of you know a days of these negotiations are uh a number of points that we implement u you know a 50/50 split with uh the communities that have fulfillment centers keeping 50% of

that sales tax revenue 50% going back to the communities um in which you know products were ordered that uh there was a a plus or minus 5% fluidity ban which is basically you know, uh allowing for a 40, you know, from 45% to 55% um leeway in sales tax revenue. So there isn't continually a granular account of um of uh you know of the accounting of of sales tax. It also um it allowed uh existing sales tax sharing agreements to stay in place. Now, um this is kind of a sidebar uh comment, but uh a lot of communities with fulfillment centers and there's a bill to try to um to stop this that when these large retailers uh you know decide to build the fulfillment center, there are opaque agreements in which uh sometimes 50% of sales tax revenue is kept by the company, sometimes 100% % and um right now that's not discoverable via a Freedom of Information Act request. So we're trying to get transparency through another bill, but that's the way it is now and we'll keep those agreements because we'd end up mired in a bunch of lawsuits. This were this is what we recommended. Um the we introd we uh uh projected or we asked for a five-year phase in plan. So, it gave communities that have fulfillment centers the ability to adjust um and um

created a plus or minus what they call a you know a 20% volatility band and that uh ensures that um you know uh e-commerce revenue uh that uh you know certain communities um of that 50% that is returning that's getting um sales tax returned to them. If uh the their portion exceeds 20% that the excess gets put into a mitigation pool and shared with communities that are um you know that are actually suffering more. Um and then finally we would uh propose to reallocate county pool use tax dollars from out of state e-commerce which is a pretty minuscule amount instead of it going to counties it coming uh directly to cities. Now uh all these points except for the last one require a constitutional amendment for them to pass. And so we made the recommendations and it went forward to a committee uh of legislators and uh Cal city members. And what we learned after the fact is that um uh the board expressed, you know, real concerns about passing any of this because a it was too controversial, which I I find interesting because Cal City is the group that puts the revenue in taxation. um you know policy committee together and then sits on the committee that makes a decision whether to move it forward and if they're afraid of controversy then it seems to be kind of a big circle where nothing gets done um which worries me. So, the only thing

that they uh they also said that um that they didn't want to take this on right now because of a state budget deficit that's being projected and if they put a constitutional amendment on to the ballot, they it cost money to put it on the ballot and they would have to spend money for the literature uh to fight uh you know big retailers and other groups that um front groups that will come out and flood the market with literature, you know, trying to make sure we knock this down. But if you read between the lines, um you know, it it's that Cal cities and legislature not wanting to take that level of controversy on right now, part of it. And um frankly, the League of California Cities uh relies on membership dollars. So if they're pissing off some communities, then um they're losing members. And they as much admitted it. And I think the thing that goes unsaid in all of this is that um you know there's there's lobbying money behind the scenes for all these fulfillment centers and um they don't want to miss out on that. And it's clear uh from the reports from this committee, you know, not ours but the Cal City uh um and legislature is that uh communities with fulfillment centers got advanced notice. There's nobody from any community other than those with fulfillment centers and direct from the

fulfillment centers and those cities to come out and uh you know be extremely loud and and make a fuss and so that's problematic. Um you know I think one thing to keep in mind is there are pro approximately 35 cities in California that have fulfillment centers. Um and 448 without. And uh one of the things that uh when we met they showed is a breakdown of cities by zip code and um uh the city of Mount Chcasta if we got 50% of our tax revenue back it would be 27%. If we got 100% of it back you know um 55% or so. Uh so we're losing a significant amount of money and we need to to figure out how we can turn this tide. So I just wanted to share that uh because I think it's important and I think it's important in light of um you know increasing cost with the city and increasing cost to provide services and the fact that we've got a a sales tax measure that we're putting on the ballot. Um I don't know if this is of interest. I put it on here. There are some bills that uh Cal City is uh you know um suggesting that we support. We don't have all the details yet. It's kind of a very very quick synopsis. There's a um SB9 23 road repair. Uh it um is designed for cities to be able to seek reimbursement for costs like uh you know when um you know we're doing road repair, road reconstruction. we can

collect for, you know, uh the cost of of hauling our garbage off, of using electricity, um using uh essential uh public health services, that kind of thing. Uh which Cal City suggests we support. When I have more information on it, I'll bring a letter uh to council. There is a a Senate bill 1005 about uh rounding which is really in reaction to sounds really esoteric but losing the penny uh and putting something in writing and what do we do in terms of rounding so we don't end up in a bunch of fights over rounding pennies up or down. So that's another one. when we have more information, bring it to council. And uh there is um tax expenditure review board that um uh uh Senate Bill 1349 uh is, you know, they'd like to put it in place. And the intent is is establish an independent advisory body uh to to assess major tax expenditures and provide recommendations to the legislature. So um what does that mean? to increase transparency and oversight of the California tax system on um uh you know what they're passing so we have an idea of um you know the nuts and bolts of of where some of our tax are going let's go let's go this step by step so we have 6% case state sales tax all that

sales tax goes to Sacramento and then each municipality or wherever the collection comes from. So if this is the restaurant charges their sales tax they remitt it to the Sacramento get turned back around we get our we get our quarter cent for for the library y and then there's 1% county or something like that. So what do we get from do we get anything from the 6% back? Is that clear to you? We get 1%.

1%. Okay. As I remember that however if things are sold through Amazon fulfillment center in Mantico wherever and gets delivered here that 1% goes to Mant not not to Mount Chasta. Y

so that's the controversy in case people were wondering. U but what about the quarter percent for the library if it's charged? In other words, if Amazon looks at our zip code, they charge the 7 and a half% one quarter of that should go to Mount Chasta for the library. Do you have did that get clarified at all? Like what happens with that type of transaction? I'm not Sure. But I don't think um although the sales tax in Mantique is higher so yeah going to be higher.

I believe we do keep that because I had a conversation with the rep or the city council from Dun. You know what I'm saying? The sales tax is higher. But do they not going to charge that? No. To let's say it's me. I'm buying something which I do. Sure. I don't see it being more than seven and a half%. So the the quarter percent does come back to us because Dunmir just passed their city their sales tax and they were saying all of that stays with them even with online. So if we do a 1% sales tax increase as a special add-on to the sales tax that's all going to go to us

okay so that's important but that's going to be about $1.2 million if it passes and um so forth. But you said the second thing you said something um about the companies keeping the sales tax money themselves. What is that? There are agreements that um uh you know these large corporations have uh in been legal that they can set with the community in which they they want to locate.

Yeah. that in some cases, you know, in exchange for the property tax revenue and, you know, the expiration of that uh sales tax sharing agreement that in some cases they keep 100% of the sales tax revenue. Sometimes it's 50%. But those contracts um are opaque. They're considered the company's contract and so they're not discoverable via FOYA. And there was a Senate bill last year Um, and it didn't get very far. That says that there needs to be uh, you know, uh, you know, sunlight on it as an anesthetic to see what what's going on. And, um, it hasn't passed. Still being discussed.

Wow. I I had no idea that was going on. I thought I thought sales tax had to be charged, collected, and remitted to Sacramento regardless in all cases. There apparently are plenty of for for exceptions. Well, that's not very balanced. All right, any other John questions? I will open that up for public comment regarding this issue.

Good evening. Um Johanna Elour, I just want to say this is really awesome. you're following up on all of this and kind of, you know, keeping them honest and it's unfortunate that this has happened. I believe this is a fairly recent change. I want to say, do you know when it was? I want to say 2021. Circa 2019 or so

or 2019. 2021. From what I recall, it seems like they're playing corporate games with paperwork because all these big box retailers used to be it used to be online sales and these online sales are now coming down to a state level and they're kind of cherrypicking. And I think if we go back to the big picture and what it used to be, maybe that could be an argument to bring it back to this the um the buyer cities and and whatever you know John was just asking about with some of these corporations keeping the sales tax that sounds unreal and like it doesn't even make sense but I think this is there's some there's a little bit of a shuffle whatever the crux was that changed it from online to this corporate thing needs to get really looked into because I think that's where you're going to find the answer to make it go back to the online because you have to remember that there needs to be nexus for all of this and the nexus really is the buyer because without the buyer you have no sale and so in my opinion that's your nexus. Just just my two cents on that but thank you for doing that Todd that's really awesome. Thank you. Any other public comment out there on this issue?

I just I just wanted to put this on that record so we can blast it out. Uh we've been talking about this for about a year or so already. Yeah. Had that big 30 people here last year sometime. and we've been setting it up with Yah movement and now ohana connect to bring this topic more awareness to the public. We've been talking about it every month that a vote will be coming up in November or 1% or one and a quarter. We're not really sure. One and a half, we're not sure. And I just wanted to put it out there that uh this affected us personally in our emergency services budgets. It affected a lot of fire department uh staffing and a lot of police department staffing and dispatching which was huge and a lot in our charitable being able to fund you know only $1,000 because our budget was so strict only uh x amount like the marketing guy couldn't really go for the higher package. We have to keep it the same because funding our our watchtower that we want to do back to the future fourth of July because you know we have to hold oursel conservative and uh we slowly brought back a little bit of help in our staffing and awesome budgeting uh putting it that all together and we got a few more officers which is awesome and a few more fire staff and just slowly chipping away at it. And so I just wanted to say that out there to all of our friends. I also have other friends that's inside of the hotels like Mary Mary's in Mary Mary and uh you know one of her little concerns you know we got t that's already taxing them at a certain percentage and it affects them a lot and then when they have to consider a 1% more or 1% and a half more um it's kind

of a harder pill to swallow. So I just wanted to throw that out there that uh a big part of this Amazon Walmart online thing that we did lose when which was around a million bucks a million and one or something our salary our money that used to come in from there that we usually use for staffing uh for emergency services got cut and blew our budget out and we're recovering a really well job. Great job, staff. And this um this tax increase is also to help our fire department and police department and emergency staffing and water sewer staffing and awesome city staffing to be able to still be super awesome. And so we'd like to I'd like to encourage our public to become more aware of our 1% uh increased sales tax vote that is coming around because it totally affects us in a personal note in the city of Mount Chesta and that's why I appreciate each and every one of you guys so much so much so much.

Thank you.

Any other public comment please? Hi, I'm Anastas again and this issue came up quite passionately at the coffee with Casey coffee with the mayor. So I just want to represent some of that discussion of many people who spoke up very concerned about this. We were trying to brainstorm solutions and there were three things that were talked about and I wanted to offer this for people watching or considering. One was to get support to make a statewide proposition and to get free legal assessment of how to write that so that we can have people signing up. Part of it we need to educate people about what this means. Um I was from Seattle and in Seattle we had the promise of a lot of jobs the race for distribution centers and Amazon brought jobs into the community and then took them away. So this was looked at as rather a Trojan horse promise for these communities. Um also another idea was to introduce the bill into the state assembly um the state senate really ask people to take that forward. Um the other thought I had personally is to educate and if we can't get you know more fair communication and representation about what's really going on because frankly it's inappropriate to the point of defrauding cities. That's what it sounds like from where I'm sitting. um this money that is rightfully ours by common sense uh at point of sale. Then we really do look at a fairness boycott campaign where we try to educate people about where are you spending your money. And so perhaps if the citizens can get together and put together some momentum that'll support the people who are going into these meetings who are set up to to fail it sounds like. So food for thought. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other public comment out there? Okay, we'll bring it back to council for discussion then I guess. Um just to address a couple of the concerns there. I spent um three days last week down in uh Sacramento for a Cal City's um California city leaders summit and as part of that I did meet with our state assembly member and our state senator and kind of hijacked a portion of the meeting to bring this issue up and both of them were actually um very much in support if we are to bring something to them. Uh both of them are they're well aware that they represent a lot of small communities um and that there's not distribution centers in their districts. And part of the issue as uh as our city manager mentioned is that some of this may require a state constitutional amendment rather than just because if it was just uh an assembly bill or a senate bill, either of them would be very on board to introduce it. That doesn't mean that they won't be able to help going forward and be in support of something that will absolutely be crucial. So there is um some movement but you know all of the ideas that you suggested are definitely going to be helpful I think. So we're not done. Yeah. Any other discussion out there? Anything else? No. Okay. Um well there was nothing uh nothing to vote on with this one. I was just right. No. Where am I? Yeah. Okay. Receive the report. Yep. All right. Uh we will move on to item 11, the closeout of fund 70. And fund 70 has been used to fund projects recommended by the beautifification committee. Our finance director.

Thank you, mayor and council members. Um as you know, since I've been here, I've been trying to streamline the number of funds that we have an account for. Um the beautifification committee was receiving transfers from a fund we closed last year. So, we would be transferring the money from the general fund to the beautifification fund. And rather than do that, what I'd prefer to do and would like to get support to do is close the beautifification fund 70 and create a department in the general fund that we use to track the expenses of the beautifification committee. They presented their budget here today. It's a little less than it had been in the past. So, it will cost the general fund possibly a little bit less. So, if there's support for that, I'd like to move that move that forward. Thank you. Uh questions from the council? I mean, this sounds pretty straightforward. Uh any any public comment on this one?

Excellent. Uh as noted. All right. Uh we'll bring it back to council for discussion. I mean, this sounds if this is your recommendation that this will be easier for you. Yeah. Got it, John. So, what are we doing? So motion to approve close out of fund 70 for the beautifification projects fund by title only. I'll second that. All right. All those in favor? I.

Any opposed or abstain? Okay. Excellent. Um we'll move on then to item 12. Council reports on attended on attendance at appointed outside meetings. You guys Yes, I went to a we had a finance committee meeting uh last week and we went over this book very well laid out. Uh so very quickly, the combination of closing funds like we just did and we've done several of those and assigning costs properly to that were previously assigned to the general fund to to enterprise funds such as the sewer system, the water system has helped the general fund budget come more into balance. are actually being balanced. However, it it affects the performance of those funds. So, with the uh soon to be started rate study for both of those funds, the sewer and the water and that's separate. Um although they probably will happen simultaneously. Uh, I hate to break this to people, but rates will probably go up and that's the reality, especially if you want to fix more pipes. So, there you go. Thank you. Anything else? No. Okay. Um,

yeah, understand. I understand. Um, moving on to item 13, future agenda items. We've got the master fee schedule review. We've got a meeting for that on upcoming on Wednesday morning. Uh mobile home rent stabilization. We moved that to the future. And then the 2026 sales tax ballot measure which will be sometime in early June. We'll probably have it on the agenda before in sometime in May. Anything else that you guys would like to see on the agenda? Okay, cool. All right. Well, we'll move on to item 14 then.