City Council - Regular Meeting

Everybody stand please to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Wouldn't you know chairman? Council member Collings here. Council member Cler here. Council member Stackland here. Council member Redmond here. Mayor Gloffman here.

All right, moving on to item number three. Do we have any special presentations or announce? Nope. Shaking your head. All right. Uh, moving on to item four, public comment. Uh, any members of the public who would like to speak on any item or any issue not on the agenda. Um, please step forward, say your name, where you live, and I will track your 3 minutes for you. Uh, when you have 30 seconds remaining, I'll jump in and let you know, and I'll tell you when the time is up.

Going once. Oh, there he is. forward. Amazing what we're here to say. So, that's good. Aloha. Aa uh right here. Been here a few years now. Uh really, really good news. Area is going to share a lot of really good news. And so, our next Ohana connect networking, business networking is hold on. I wrote notes for this. Area Shanti, I think it was the last um

Andrea. And wow, way off. Andrea Shanti uh on May 28th, that's a Thursday night, 5 to 7:00 p.m. at 1534 Davis Place Road. She's our newest Ohana uh Connect member. Uh we have a couple gold members that just came in recently and we just got our first annual member. That's the tiny house manufacturing friends, Forever Tiny Home. So, they came to support and so Ohana connect is doing uh really good, really good. Arez working a lot in the background. I think she told you last time about the 200 something jobs in the county awareness and anybody can post new jobs. Uh hundred something businesses are already posted for free and anyone can post their business for free. Um anybody that becomes a member is at priority listing. It's at the top of the directory. Um 250 events countywide. I think this is a big one. Countywide tourists come to the visitor center and chamber and looking for something to do this weekend. But we don't actually have a calendar for the week of what's happening in the county in order. We just have flyers on 10 different Facebook pages randomly sporadically everywhere. And we might know what's happening in weed or we might not. We might know dog days are coming dogwood. Or we might know the the Mloud thing might happen. We don't know. And so Aria set up this big calendar that absorbs all the events countywide and puts it on in order at a week's notice, you know, uh, in order. And then again, it's free for anybody to make an event and put it on the calendar. And, uh, yeah, so she's just done a lot of really good work for Ohana connect business networking. We love that Mount Shasta is U Chamber is now doing more mixers. That's exciting. Uh we love that the city of Weed, they've been more active with uh networking and now they're doing mixers, too. Super exciting. So, thanks lady

councilwoman Tessa for I don't know how to say that right yet, but for asking us to put it together and then we saw the people needed it and we put it together. So, thank you for all you guys do. Thank you for all the chiefs and Kim and we appreciate all of you. Aloh. Thank you. I have a quick comments. I don't know if you were aware, but the there has been at least a two decade that I'm aware of ask from the community to have a calendar so that people can see what's going on. So, I don't know if you knew that, but that's a huge deal. Um, so if there's a way that we can spread the word and how to access it and utilize it, that would be awesome. Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah.

Step right up. I'll just jump in because I can answer that question right now. So, if you go to directory.mmyohana.com or if you just go to myohohana.com, there's a button at the very top also that'll take you straight to the directory. Um, so you can search the events by date. They're automatically in order by what's the next one upcoming. You can also search by category of event, which I thought as a mom is really helpful because, you know, you want to know is it familyfriendly? Is it music? Is it food? like what kind of event is it? So, yeah, I have uh search features in there too. So, and then the more people engage with it and use it just the bigger and better it'll get. So, there is a free option for anyone to add events, local businesses, and jobs. And then it'll be ongoing in development. We'll add more stuff as we go, but that's what I have so far. Um, and then also I have some exciting news. We have a very exciting envelope here. Um, number one, as a couple of you know already, we officially have our business license for AANA Connect. Um, so this is for the city of Mount Shasta. We are also registered with the county for fictitious business name. So if anyone had questions about the um official status, we are good to go. Um, and I also have very exciting paperwork here that just arrived in the mail today. It's our uh nonprofit paperwork.

So we officially have paperwork. Um, and we're just notorizing it and then we'll get it all set. So, yeah, we officially raised enough money at our event last time at our concert and silent auction to get our paperwork done. So, we now officially have a 508 nonprofit, which means as soon as we get the stamp, we already have our EIN, so we're good to go as far as the feds go. So, um, yeah, people can make donations and they'll actually be taxdeductible. Okay. Thank you. You are welcome. Thank you. Quick question. Yeah. Do you have a plan for linking your calendar

to other established city oriented websites, chamber of commerce, etc. You are you working on that? Because when people go there and they don't see one Yeah. to have it, oh, it's just linked over to here. Well, that that's a good question. And I guess that would be for the other organizations to be open to linking it directly. Um so if if we you know I'm not I'm not sure. So yeah, maybe if maybe one of you knows someone that that we could reach out to and ask if they would link it, that would be great. Kayla Burns at the chamber would be my first stop. Kayla. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. I'll let her know you said. Awesome.

Okay. Thank you. Do we have any other Oh, we got one at least. Come on up. Last opportunity.

Hi, I'm TZ Swinsson and I'm here to talk to you tonight about the Parklets and I've kind of worked up a few now. I don't know. Can you see? I don't know where to aim at you. So, the Parklets have an encroachment permit that's been temporary for five years. I came for six months asking to be on the agenda and the city councilman said that I wouldn't get consensus here. And I started to think about why and I believe that the council is trying to protect this for the folks that want to just sit there and have a place to be seen. because I want to tell you that it's a public sidewalk and public parking for all businesses, not just one restaurant and one bar. And the thing I want to talk to you about now is not just the fact that I've brought up before. You're sitting there breathing the fumes of red light cars and every time it turns green, everybody's kicking their gas. But I want to talk to you about the fact that when you drive through Castella and you go through the street and you go through Dunesir and you go through Mount Shasta and you go through my there are no boxes on any streets and what I want to bring up about that is we're coming into fire season and what's important is that we all be prepared. Are you prepared? And what's important is if you have 250 people in Castella, 1500 in Dun, 3,000 or more here, there's more than one car. We have to do an evacuation scheme like we did about four years ago. We're going to have all those cars coming up the freeway. And with gas being $6 and $7 a gallon, we're going to have cars out of gas and we're going to have the freeway shut down. We need all roads clear, all lanes, all parking spots clear to be able to move people. So I'm bringing up the fact that there

are 16 restaurants. The beer garden, the Kasaramos, Lily, Seven Suns. Starbucks, Treehouse, Puerto Viarda, Poncho, Lefties, Beastro, Thrive, Yaks, Baldwino, Crave, The Freight Station, Siri, Los. There are 16 restaurants that have seating on their own property. I'm trying to defend the public parking that should be turning over every two hours so that all the businesses on Main Street get to have people pouring up and coming in. So, thank you for listening. I know that when I went to the meeting, I had waited 6 months and 3 hours to speak at your meeting and you said to everybody, "Oh, let's make this permanent." and this is the last opportunity I have to bring this to say that there's a fire issue that needs to be considered. Thank you. Thanks.

Thank you for your time.

Would anybody else like to speak during public comment for any issue not related or not already on the agenda? Okay, we will co close public comment. We'll bring it back to council and staff comments. Uh, please go ahead, Council Member Collings. Before you leave about parking in downtown, you may want to hear what I've got to say. As you walk out the door, you may want to come back for a moment. Well, if you would enjoy,

you won't, but that's okay. Um, one of the things about being up here is that you get the feeling from time to time that we don't represent you and your viewpoint. And I just want to make it clear that we do. We just don't only represent you. We represent everybody. And everybody is a wide and diverse amount of perspectives. and across time where the issue of seating in front of restaurants has been discussed which has gone on for at least a decade.

No, I I've been on here 12 years and I brought it up right away. It's it's it's been out there for a decade. We have criteria for them. It's been so long. We've made criteria for them for new ones because and as best we know, listening to everybody in this community, they do want out outdoor dining and and the we're this this isn't a back and forth. I just wanted to let you know that that as far as I can figure up here is the position that we've we've taken because that's what the vast majority of the community wanted. But with with this is this is not a this is not a back and forth.

Thank you. I know we have Thank you, Jeffrey. You're wasting your time. We've been saying this for 6 years. As long as she's been bitching about this. I just want to give one more. I appreciate that, but it's a waste of time talking to her about anything. She's an absolute idiot. All right, let's hold off on personal attacks here, guys. Six years. Six years without listening, dumb ass. All right, that's enough. Hey, come on.

All right, we're going to move on to item five. Of all the times for your microphone to break. All right, we're going to move on to council and staff comments. Any Anybody else over here? Anybody here? No. Okay, now we'll go over here. All right. Still not working. I'm not hearing it.

Thank you, uh, council mayor. Uh, filling in for Todd tonight. So, update a couple things. First of all, uh, you may or may not know this is the beginning of the National Police Week, which runs from May 10th through May 16th and honors the law enforcement officers who have given their lives in the line of duty. So far in the first four months of 2026, 31 officers have died in the line of duty. 16 of them from felony assault and 15 by accident. Um I'd also like to take this time to honor two uh Mount Chasta Police Department officers that gave their lives in the line of duty. Uh Chief Vernon Davport whose end of watch was February 20th, 1942 and Officer Gary Fitzgerald whose end of watch is July 21st, 1939. Also tomorrow, if anybody would like to attend, there will be a memorial service in Huica in front of the old courthouse from 12:15 to 12:45 honoring all the Syscue County law enforcement officers that have uh given their lives in the line of duty. Moving on to from there. Uh so they put out uh RFPs for uh proposals for master planning of the landing and we received 14 different uh plans coming in that were fabulous. All of them were very hard. So we have began the process of going through and asking questions and answering um and trying to get some answers and whittle this down. Uh last week we had uh really good session with uh Field State and Structure Naturalist Incorporated. They were able to answer some questions that we had very specific to uh locations, good answers and we'll be providing a lot more information. continuing this week with more interviews or not interviews but more of a question and answer type with the other uh entities to try to whittle this down so that we can uh land on a uh good choices for the council to come up with. So it's

a long process. We were not anticipating getting so many quality quality uh firms coming forward. So that's a good thing. uh remind everybody that um May 18th there'll be a tax hall or a town hall meeting for the new to discuss the tax hall or the tax measure. That'll be at 5:30 right here at the upper lodge. So tell your friends, families, neighbors, come on out and uh uh join the town hall for some good information. And then talking with uh for the tax measure, talk to the county uh register of voters. So the CL asked that we need to have our um cons ask the consolidation of the uh election by July 1st. This is what we do to get council members on. It's the standard normal uh thing we have to do. So that's coming up on July 1st. Um speaking with uh the county, the deadline for Mount Shasta to pass a resolution calling for the tax measure to be on the election will be isn't until August 7th. But, uh, we've, uh, Todd's already reached out to, uh, John Kenny and they're working on now because we'd rather be ahead of the curb than behind it or press for time. So, just so you know, those are coming up here in, uh, the, uh, near future. And that, uh, I talked to Todd today. He's doing good. He's looking forward to being back to work. So, uh, other than that, that's it for today.

Chair, please. Uh, a couple questions. I attended the first town hall meeting for the sales tax measure. Will I be missed if I miss the second one? Well, of course you'll be missed. Am I allowed to play hookie on the second one? Absolutely. Thank you. And secondly, when are we expecting Todd back? Is it next week? Wednesday. Wednesday. This Wednesday. Yes. Oh, wow. Okay. Thank you. He told me Wednesday. tomorrow. Todd, if you're watching, take as much time as you need as long as you're back by Monday. Any other? I'll be at the second one. Perfect.

Yeah. Anybody over here? You guys good? Ken, Kim, Rachel. Okay. All right. We're going to move on to committee updates. We've got the downtown enhancement advisory committee, library tax advisory committee, beautifification committee, and the active transportation committee. Any updates for any of those? No updates.

Okay. Um, as I always mentioned, there are some vacancies. I'm not going to mention the planning commission cuz that one might be filled. Uh, yep. But we we do have currently two vacancies on the beautifification committee. And a big thanks to the beautifification committee for all the work done downtown on all uh to make it look nice for the summer. Um, there's also one vacancy on the downtown enhancement advisory committee. So, if you are interested, please come on into city hall. Uh, cool. Moving on to item seven, the consent agenda. The city manager recommends approval of the following consent agenda items. All resolutions and ordinances on this agenda or added here to shall be introduced or adopted as applicable by title only, and the full reading thereof is hereby waved. A. Approval of minutes. April 27th, 2026 regular city council meeting. B. Police department monthly report.

I move to approve consent agenda items A and B by title only. Second. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed or abstain? Okay. All right. Moving on to item number eight. We have a planning commission application. Michael Penrose. Uh Michael Penrose has applied to serve on the planning commission. And Kim,

yes, thank you. Uh the city has been casting a very wide net over the last year to fill the remaining vacancies on the planning commission. Tonight, we have an applicant for our seventh and final vacant seat from one Michael Penrose, who I understand is now a retired but full-time resident in the city of Mount Shasta. We have a civil engineer, former public works director, former development director, has lots of time, bandwidth, and energy to to offer the city. So, he is here tonight um if you have any questions. Otherwise, the application is in your staff report packet and we're available for any questions you might have.

All right. Uh do we have any questions from We probably have. Oh, yeah. Actually, Michael, if you want to come on up here, you can you should probably answer the questions. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming. Oh, it's my pleasure to be here. Actually, you want to ask some question first? Yeah, go ahead. Um, nice to meet you. I'm so happy to hear that you are interested in this. Do you have like a big reason or something that you would like to see implemented or what brought you to this podium tonight?

Well, kind of two things. one is is that uh most recently over the past year or so we'd heard that there's a lot of challenges with the planning commission and it being staffed correctly you know and being able to process the needs of the community and so I became aware of that and this particular area is something that I have a lot of interest in and have had for some time and I wasn't quite sure about how to engage and learning those two things the opportunity you know presented itself for me to get involved I don't have a specific individual agenda um I have been spending quite a bit of time trying to get up to speed on a number of things including the item that you just had about the parklets and the you know I know there's a lot of history there right which a lot of which I'm learning about um and I'm excited to be able to have the opportunity to participate in that you know it's a a service role as well as something that you know there's a regulatory component that has to be met and um being able to be a part of that and help with that is uh something that I'm excited to do. So

awesome. Thank you. Go ahead. After that, are you ready to deal with the village idiots on a daily level? Seriously, I mean, you're going to be hearing from her a lot. Are you ready for that? Cuz it's not going to stop. It's been 6 years of this kind of stupidity, you know. Yeah, I get it. Okay. Just so you know what you're actually in for. She doesn't stop. Okay. I'm still in if that's the question. We didn't scare you away just yet. Yeah. No questions. Point. Yes, I think so. Um, yeah. Uh, no more questions, it sounds like. So, we'll send this to Thank you for applying for the position.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Uh, we'll send this to public comment. Okay. Anybody else? Uh oh. I'll get up and say a word because I know that this has been a a missing piece for a long time and has been some problems with being able to have all the meetings because there's not a quorum. And so I'm really excited and it sounds like he's got a lot of time that he can devote to like doing a good job and a lot of experience to have a civil engineer. That's that's huge. I think that's a lot of great experience, a lot of very specialty knowledge. So, I think it's great for our city to have access to somebody like that on the planning commission. So, yay.

Aloha. I just want to second that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. For months now, we've been praying for that. And uh I love it. We have a great city manager. We have great staff. We have great city man plannings. The planning is setting up. Uh the council, the mayors, the whole system together. Uh the people are more active now than ever before. And planning commission and staff and council is feels like everybody's in alignment. And so I just want to send out a lot of appreciation. Good job sticking with it and sticking to it. We appreciate you.

Thank you. Uh, we'll bring it back for council comment now. I'm going to move to appoint Michael Penrose to the Mount Chassa City Planning Commission. All right. All those in favor? I. Any opposed or abstain? Okay. Sounds good. Welcome. Thank you very much, Michael. We're excited to have you.

Okay. Awesome. Uh, moving on to item number nine. Uh the library modernization and expansion. The staff uh staff has received the library modernization expansion estimates and is seeking city council direction on how to proceed with the next steps. Chief, thank you mayor and council. Uh the city has received received the cost estimate for the Mount Shasta library renovation expansion completed by Nolan Tam. There are two different estimates based on what work is uh being done. One estimate for the res renovation and entry edition at approximately 1.9 million and the second estimate was for the community room addition at approximately 1.5. So we were warned that we were going to get big numbers coming in. There's going to be sticker shock anytime that this happens. Um our plan is if we go out for an RFP um for a base bid, we're looking at probably getting lower than what these numbers actually are. Um, also trying to figure out, do they want to do the whole project? Do they just want to do the back project? Do you want to do the entry project? Do you want to do a combination of the entry project? And really what the loan looks like and what we're willing or can uh form that's really kind of the direction we're looking at and kind of the suggestion from council is do you just want to do one portion of the project, the whole project, you know what? So that's what we're looking for is just some uh direction uh through council. I will point out that you know one of the updates uh to look at would be the entry and the update to the heating and the air conditioning units because you're going to save cost by updating into modern costefficient stuff like that. So

to the chair uh yeah um it might behoove us to have a separate meeting with um the finance committee with Melissa and Todd once he returns. I would love to give Melissa time to run scenarios through what debt service would cost through any of these threes before we give direction because I think ideally speaking for myself it would be great if we could do the whole kitten kaboodleoodle because that was the vision of the library committee but revenue important

but revenue would be important as is um you know if things change in this election so my suggestion is to table this until we have a chance to meet with Melissa and run some numbers Well, yeah, but um I'll give the public some idea of what the numbers are. Uh there is a surplus surplus there's a reserve at in the library fund of about 1.3 million I think and you can't use all that for a down payment on the construction loan. So say maybe a million dollars could go towards what looks like a $4 million project. I'm actually not surprised by that number.

Um, it's actually low. I I know people think it's high or talk like it's a high number, but $600 a square foot. Um, prevailing wage requirements, it's actually not a surprise. Uh, anymore. Construction in California is expensive to begin with. Prevailing wage construction in California is almost prohibitive. But this actually I don't I think this is reasonable actually by what I'm dealing with with respect to sewage treatment plants and

interceptor lines $35 million for those combined. Um so anyhow you're looking at a loan approximately 3 million to $3.5 million depending on whether these uh projections hold up costwise. And um so the thing that we'll need to meet with finance committee wise with Melissa is to determine what

what the realistic surplus is uh with respect to the sales tax that for the library it's a quarter cent and right now it's bringing in about $350,000 which is down noticeably from its high of 400,000 plus costs I'm that's where I'm not sure what it costs to run the library. It seems like it's in the 170 range. So 170,000 range. So the question is what surplus is, what the reliable surplus is and and and what kind of and therefore what kind of payment can we afford and will that cover the payment on this loan. So I'll move to table this pending further investigation with respect to the operation of the library to the finance. Oh, that's a public comment from Oh, please still.

I think we still should if people have questions. Still in the question phase. Yeah, please. Council member Stafford, just because you're going to know this and I don't um on these the headline listing of expenses just on that first page. Yeah, they have two different lines for profit. one called overhead and profit and another one later called subtotal markups which is and I didn't understand yeah the yeah contractors I I assume that's contractor and their markup on things so it's about 10% usually so the building the contractor profit

I just didn't understand why they were two different worlds why would they call different things well no it's markup and markup is that how you read Tessa, you and your husband assumed it was a 10% markup. It was a Yeah, a contractor markup, right? Contractor. Yeah. That whoever the contractor is will get a markup on the project cost, which is pretty standard. I just couldn't make the math work. We don't have to get into this now. Oh, as far as Yeah, but that's that's what I think it is. Okay. We'll we'll Yeah.

And I have a question. Uh Chief, if you don't have the answer for this, that's totally fine. I've just Todd I'm sure will be watching this or or seeing these. Um my question is so obviously we could put out an RFP for one or the other or both and that's what we're trying to determine. Is it unreasonable to ask or to put out an RFP asking it to be split for whatever firm submits? I mean to to just ask is it are there firms who would be turned off by asking to submit it like in a split way so that we could make a decision after we get the response back from them and see the actual estimate.

I think that's what we were asking tonight is how you wanted to if you wanted to break it up and how you wanted to go. But if we're going to pause it until the finance thing then we can come back. It takes a lot of work to submit a bid. So I think that that's worth the wait to see what direction. Absolutely. Makes sense. Uh, any other questions? All right, we'll go to public comment now if anybody has anything. It'll be coming back later at a later meeting if we're going to table it. So, oh, Ken did you? Oh, okay. Got it. Uh, cool. Well, we'll bring it back then. It sounds like we kind of already discussed. You want to go?

All right. So, I'm going to move that we table this to a date in this is May. Mhm. Um, early June. Late June, probably. Second meeting in June. Second. All right. All those in favor? I

I. Any opposed? Okay. All right. Um, moving on to item 10. uh study of zinc discharge requirements. Based on previous analysis, Robertson Brian believes that the dilution credit can be adjusted using more accurate tracking of river flow rates and monitoring the discharge rates at the wastewater treatment plant. Ken, sure, I broke it. Mayor and members of the council. Um, in December of 2025, the city contracted with Robertson Bryan to conduct preliminary preliminary study to assist with determining the feasibility of adjusting the dilution credits and effluent limitations for copper and zinc at the wastewater treatment plant and modifications to the discharge permit. They conducted a thorough investigation on zinc and copper levels before, during, and after treatment. They also conducted an in-depth review of our current permit to see how the current limits were set. They looked at possible sources of zinc, levels of zinc before and after uh the construction of the wastewater treatment plant. Uh levels of zinc throughout the various stages of treatment. And then they tried they focused on possible solutions and modifications to the treatment or the parameters of the discharge permit to see what possible solutions could be pursued. That is what we got for the initial $10,000. Uh they did come up with several areas to study. One, and now I'm going beyond this. Um they looked first thing they came up with is our zinc levels

in the effluent have gone up significantly with this new plant. Uh there's a lot of speculation on why that is. It could be because of the uh success we've had in reducing inflow and infiltration into our system which was diluting any influent coming into the plant. That might have been a factor. Uh things that have been speculated on is all the new piping in the plant uh could have been leeching some zinc into the effluent. Um they looked at the fact that we the filtration uh material as goes through the plant is recycled into the treatment the head works and comes back down through the plant and that might be a a source of the increase in zinc levels. Um all these things were looked at but they're very hard to change at this point. Uh the one thing that did look most promising was the dilution credits that came with the discharge permit. They're very conservative. Uh they're based off of the lowest flow in the river. I I might I'm not sure. I'm I'm so don't take this as gospel, but roughly the last four or five years. And that's the number they use as uh for calculating our dilution. And I'm simplifying this. There's a lot more to it. There's the actual dilution zone that we get credit for uh being limited to 75 ft. There's some arguments that could be increased to 100 ft or even larger, but it comes down to um protecting the most sensitive fish species is where they came up with

a 75. Um but the big factor here is the initial calculations were based on like 12 cubic feet per second which was the lowest level flow level in the river during the winter which is when we discharge the river. That was because we didn't know what the daily flow in the river was. We only had monthly reports from the county. Now, in the last I want to say about 6 months ago, we've been working with the county and we now have daily flow rates from the dam. So, we can be much more accurate in doing calculations on what our dilution credit could be and how much effluent we can put into the river based on the the river's flow. Uh so we've asked Robertson Brian to go back and look at what it would take to calculate redo the and they're fairly complex calculations. I remember talking to Pace about them and they couldn't quite follow what the state was doing as far as their calculations that came up with our zinc levels, our limitations. Um but Robertson Brian is going to go back look at those studies see how those numbers can be adjusted giving the increased flow in the river what our maximum daily flow effluent discharge could be based on our zinc limitations and come up with a uh proposed revision to the permit. Uh, I know we're looking at a big chunk of money here, $46,000. I'm going to say about half of that is going back and redoing the calculations. Um, looking at all the different parameters

what they can do. The other half, and this is they put this in because I asked them to because this is the tough part, and it's dealing with the state. not just redoing this permit, but meeting with the state, showing them how it can be changed, rewriting the permit, getting the state water board on the state board on board with these changes. Um, they're going to this includes uh meeting time to meet with the city, time to meet with the uh state and come up with a revised permit. For what it's worth, I'm going a little astray here. Robertson Bryan has very good relationship with the state water board at Sacramento level and I think they'd be a great representative for us on this issue. Um, but please, I'm I'm ready for some questions.

Go ahead, Councilman.

Yeah. Uh so the $46,000 for everyone that's interested it comes from our uh sew it sanitary sewer fund. So it's not from the general fund. So um just be aware of that. Um I guess everybody's probably wondering is this going to work to solve our problem with respect to zinc? I put it in the simplest terms possible there. There's no guarantee. I think it has a good chance of working. And I should throw a caveat in here. One of the factors that will make this sellable is the city will need to be able to adjust their effluent flow at times to fall within the parameters of whatever the river is flowing. It won't happen often, but I there will probably be a situation where we're going to have to maybe cut back on effluent flow a little bit to meet the dilution credits

because where where would that so the e would go into a pond at that point?

Yeah, that's where I'm going. Um we and this is something I've been wanting to do since I got here. We have no buffer in our flows. Whatever comes in has to go out. Um, and talking to Pace about that, they said they were so restricted in funding that they had to eliminate any kind of a pond system as part of the new wastewater treatment plant. I would love to get that pond system put back in. And Robertson Brian brings that up too that we would need there's the possibility depending on how if we got great delution credits, maybe this wouldn't be an issue, but always be prepared. We would need to have a system where we could take some of that effluent and pump it back up to the pond. It would have to be a lined pond. We'd have to add a pump system. A small holding pond or a holding tank. Pump tank. There's a better term for it than I'm is escaping me right now. What is it? uh uh but be able to pump it back up to the pond and we'd have to have a lined pond, but that would allow us holding capacity and it would also be great to have during our really high flow storm events. Now, the design of that pond is not part of this 46,000. It would be an addition to that. If we get so far as to get a revised permit, the state, they wouldn't have to see the thing built, but they'd have to see it designed for it. And that would be, if we go that route, if it gets to that point, that would be an additional charge on top of this 46,000.

Uh, obviously the 46,000 would not cover the building of the pond. No, no, no. The 46,000 of the uh does not cover the design of the pond either. That's correct. That's correct. Okay. And so

now talking to Pace, um the state's well aware we have an issue with zinc. If we came up with a solution and it entailed additional construction, we have a really good chance of landing a grant to fund that. And we have a rate study that's going to start with respect to both water system and sanitary sewer system with the knowledge that this may be a possible expense that would be factored into the rate study. So so u rates are going to go up regardless. The question is how much? Um

so this could be one of the key things for the public. We have to solve this problem or there will be fines. Correct. There are fines. There are fines. Fines now, right? Yes. So, money's a wasting. So, we're going to have to spend money to stop wasting money. There we go. Yes. What's the time frame on the Robertson Bryant on the money for this for them to complete this?

I don't have a timeline yet there. They will and we can when if this passes, if you're agreeable to this, we would get that before we issue a signed task order. But I would, my goal is to have everything at least agreed to and in place. Not the redesign pond, but the um before next winter. Any any other questions over here?

All right, we'll go to public comment. All right, we got uh for those watching at home, we got a thumbs up in the audience. We'll bring it back for comment here. John, anybody object to doing this? Okay. No, not really. I'm going to move to approve the task order with Robertson Brian for $46,56 to conduct further studies on the dilution credit adjustment to elimin pollutant discharge elimination system permit with the state water board. Second.

All right. All those in favor? I any oppose or abstain? Okay. All right. We will move on to item 11. Council reports on attendance at appointed or outside meetings. Did you have a

Yeah. So, Kier um the meeting was last week or 10 days ago. I'm not sure. But anyhow, it was at strings in Huica and uh the the administrator for the u uh district basically says that the bank fund is down to $1,000. So, we're in a desperate situation and the president of Collier will be coming around. That was the fellow here last time. Uh, looking for larger money than $1,000 just to let you all know because the different cities in the joint powers authority need to chip in because uh the prior funding sources have have failed which were um people paying for advertising.

So, uh we'll see if we survive. It's getting to crunch time, obviously. Yep.

No else. No. Okay. Um just a heads up, uh this seems related to city government. Uh there are a couple of we got California and local elections coming up. There's a meet and greet with a candidate at Deadwood on Thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for those interested. And then on Sunday downtown at Parker Plaza, there's a bunch of candidates for a big old uh meet and greet event. Kind of hear from candidates all the way from uh commissioner on up to I think there's some folks running for Congress that are going to be showing up. So if you're interested in hearing from people, uh Thursday, Deadwood 6:00 to 8 Parker Plaza Sunday afternoon.

Who is it at Deadwood on Thursday? Um, Judge Kendall Hannon, one of the two people running for judge in Syscue County. But, uh, let's see what else we got. Uh, f yeah, thank you. Future agenda items, we have the master fee schedule review, the mobile home rent stabilization, and the 2026 sales tax ballot measure. Would anybody like to add anything else? Yeah. So, in the 90 90 plus day column, um I'm going to add the finalization of the code for um parklets. Um because second

somebody somebody said somebody on your commission thinks it was finalized. Never got to never got to uh council. This is prior to your tenure and uh Kim and um so I I think we need to finalize that.

Yeah. So what happened was Jeff Mitchum when he was the planning commissioner uh not planning commission planning director had the ordinance passed through the planning commission right before his departure but it never went to city council. So what I was auditing the ordinance because of all this other discussion, I discovered that it hadn't gone to the city council. So it went back to planning commission actually uh last month. So that was the April meeting. In the April meeting, um I used that opportunity to just clarify another couple of items of internal inconsistency within the ordinance. I got direction from the planning commission to update a couple of things that will be going back to the planning commission next week for approval and as soon as that's done we'll get in front of the city council for

so it'll be within 30 thank you all right any other we got we got one over here like the number one topic of conversation on the street amongst but no it's likely the number one people Should we put the annual budget which we are getting close to having to have one? Um it's May. Um we have to pass one by the end of next month. I believe those are on both already on the both the June meetings. I'm pretty sure

I thought that was coming May 26. I could be wrong. It could be the end of the Okay, my mistake. Just want to make sure. Thank you. But yes, absolutely we should. Agreed. Uh, anybody else? Redmond. No, a baseball game. Oh, okay. We won't put that. We're going to meet.

Oh, yeah. I need to respond to that. Oh, right. Sorry. Okay. Uh, we'll go on to item 13. Everyone, watch your ears.