Remarks by Eric Phillips
325 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 13
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“All right, good evening, everyone. Thank you for being here tonight. It is October 19th, 2026. It is 6.01 p.m. on Monday. I'm going to call tonight's Call to City Council meeting to order. And once again, welcome those joining us tonight. First on the agenda is going to be an invocation, which tonight will be offered by Richard Landauer. Did I say that correctly? All right, sir. Of His Story Church, which is located just across the creek. So with that, please stand for the invocation, and we'll follow that with the Pledge of Allegiance. And thank you.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. We appreciate that invocation very much. I appreciate you guys being a part of our community. All right. Next on the agenda is roll call. Madam Clerk.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. All council members are present. Next is conflict of interest declaration. Are there any members who have a conflict of interest to declare relating to anything on tonight's agenda? All right, seeing none, we're going to move on to special presentations. We'll start with annual report for Treasure Valley Community College. Madam Clerk just confirmed we did not hear back of their emails. OK. All right, moving on. Next is going to be a, and just FYI, they are supposed to have a annual presentation, so we'll probably have that on the next agenda once we reach…”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Any questions from counsel? Thank you. Next up, thank you, Jean, will be Sven Olson on ALPRs.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Can we hold it down, please? Thank you. Anything from Council?”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Thank you. Anything else from council? Thank you, Sven. Oh, sorry. Council President Register.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Thank you, council, president, register. Anything else from council? Thank you, sir. As always, those that participate in public input, thank you. Also, you can always reach out to us if you have any questions. You can contact the mayor's office, and we'll try and forward that information. Next on the agenda is approving the consent calendar. These are routine items that are grouped together to be approved in one motion. Unless a councilor moves for one or more of the items, to be removed from the consent calendar, considered separately. First, are there any motions to amend the consent…”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Thank you, Councillor Dittenberg. Motion from Councillor Stoddick, second from Councillor Dittenberg. All right, Madam Clerk. All right, that is unanimous, 6-0. The first agenda item under Old Business is an action item in public hearing for the case number VAC26-00003, which is a petition for vacation of right-of-way. This application will be rescheduled to a future date, and the hearing will not happen tonight for those that were here for that. The next under Old Business is a proposed ordinance permitting city councilors Request items to place on council meeting agenda the city attorney…”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Thank you. Any questions from council? Councillor Dittenberg.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Thank you Thank You councillor didn't burke else okay Thank You Oscar.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Anything else from council? Thank you, councilor. All good. Going once, going twice. All right. Do we have a motion for the ordinance?”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“All right, that's a motion and a second. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, Madam Clerk. The motion carries, 6-0. Thank you. All right, the next, or the last item of old business, last meeting, Councilor Stoddick was on a trip, and he reached out and talked to, wanted to talk about cameras in the city, you know, he'd mentioned that it was a follow-up kind of from the Axon contract discussion. I know we had a brief conversation on cameras tonight. So, Councillor Stoddart. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Those cameras, I don't know when they were installed. They've been here for some time. I don't know if it was during DVCC, but there's several people who have access. I don't, but the police department, the real-time information center currently does have access. That was one of the things that we... brought up a while back where they were given all the public areas access to those, so they have those right now.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor. I appreciate it Thank You councillor static Councilor Denver.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“All right, thank you, Councillor Dentonburg. Anything else from council? All right, moving on to new business. And we'll get that to you, Councilor Dittenberg. First agenda item under new business is discussing a possible e-bike ordinance. First we're going to hear from Parks and Rec Director, or sorry, Morgan, would you please come forward, or the both of you? And just so you know, this is something that we've been looking at for a little bit. I know Parks and Rec too, they'll talk about that. They've been discussing this too, and we did have an couple of incidents tonight that kind of…”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“That's really all I have other than... Any questions from council before we move on to our Parks and Rec director? Councillor Dittenberg? Oh, sorry. All right, thank you. Tiffany.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“And just for clarity real quick, thank you, Chief. We appreciate that and the police department for being an active part of this. This was first talked about in the Treasure Valley Partnership. mayors and commissioners all across treasure valley seeing these accidents play out and their police departments asking for the ability to yes you know punitive measures aren't going to always correct things but you know hopefully we start in this direction especially in combination with what you mentioned but that's where it originally came from i gave it to robin i mean development reach out to…”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Absolutely. Thank you, Council President. And that's what our hope is, to get it passed sooner than later, because we know we have the monthly meetings and stuff. But also combine that. I'm absolutely in agreement with Council Williams on classes, training, and public awareness. And I thank the police department once again. Councilor Stoddart. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm just curious.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Stoddart. And that would be kind of the follow-up between Parks and Rec, police department teaming up and looking at some options in combination with the things that Councillor Williams mentioned. So I think we'll find the right healthy balance, but we want to make sure that we give our police that mechanism if there is issues going on out in the community, especially what we've seen lately. All right, are we interested in bringing that forward at a future meeting? Mr. Mayor, real quick.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“We'll follow up, but that's the plan is everyone to kind of mirror that. Once again, that came from the Ada County starting to pass that, and then it's spread across the valley, especially because it's such a prolific issue and kids are getting hurt on them. Right.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“All right, so we don't have a meeting yet, but at a future meeting, unless council disagrees tonight, we'll look at a... Mr. Mayor, I have... Sorry, council, all good.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“We will, thank you, Councilor Allgood. We'll research that and get that back, that information back to you. Anything else? All right, thank you. Thank you for the staff tonight. Next on the agenda is a public hearing to consider conveyance of real property, commonly known as Usook Park, to the Canyon County Ambulance District for clarification. It's a part of the park, not the entire park. And with that, can we go ahead and move to staff?”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Anything from council? Do we want to have Chief Cohen come up next?”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“I'm sorry, we'll have him for the public hearing. But yeah, we'll have him next.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026
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“Any questions for the city attorney? All right, thank you. All right, now we're going to go and open up the public hearing. There was no one signed up to testify, but I imagine County Ambulance District Chief would like to come up. Sorry, paramedics. Thank you for being here tonight. It was very exciting. We've been working on this for a while. It's a great new addition, hopefully, to the south side of Caldwell. So without further ado.”
City Council · Oct 19, 2026