Remarks by Kathleen Krohn
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“Well, I'm gonna go ahead and move to approve the findings of fact and conditions of approval for the Eden Glen PUD subdivision street variances with a revision to condition A on page 281. The applicant has 24 months from the city council decision.”
“Could we have staff respond to this request that the citizen had?”
“Motion to approve the consent agenda by reading it a Motion acknowledging the receipt of the monthly investment for September 2026 motion acknowledging the receipt of the monthly water revenue bonds investment report for September 2026 motion approving the minutes of the City Council special meeting of October 5th 2026 and MOTION ACKNOWLEDGING THE MINUTES OF THE PARKS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETINGS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2026. AND THE MOTION ACKNOWLEDGING THE MINUTES OF THE SMALL BUSINESS TASK FORCE MEETING OF AUGUST 16, 2026.”
“So it was brought to my attention. Well, I've known about this agency for a while now. It's called 715. And it is a incentivizer for youth that have no desire to really go to school, to provide them with apprenticeship or pre-apprenticeship training for different labor jobs. And because this goes along with, or here, let me pass some of these out. Because this goes along with what the SBDC used to provide or partially provide, I would like to suggest that we use that money from them, because it's not being used right now as I'm informed, and transfer that to this, THIS AGENCY? WOULD THAT BE A…”
“Yes, we do. I'd like to invite Pastor Jason Smotherman from the Parkway Church to the podium. Thank you.”
“No questions until I hear the applicant.”
“Yeah, thank you, Justin. That was very informative. So if this was remanded back to the committee, how much delay would this cause?”
“So did I understand correctly that possibly the committee made a premature decision not having heard some of these new variances and street width and cul-de-sac and hammerhead and all of that?”
“Yeah, I just want to clarify that everything has checked out fine with the fire chief with the hammerhead turnaround in the middle and the cul-de-sac. Maybe he could speak to that.”
“AND YOU WOULD SAY THAT'S SUFFICIENT TO COMPLETE THIS PROJECT?”
“OKAY. AND THEN WHAT I'M HEARING IS THAT THE CONCERNS OF THE COMMITTEE, YOU'VE MADE ALSO ADAPTATIONS TO THEIR CONCERNS. with the 28 feet and making it a public street and these cul-de-sac and hammerhead.”
“Yeah, and if we want to talk about delays, I think it's been long enough since 2023 to get this project off the ground. I think that that's been delayed enough. And when I hear about the things that have been needed to be changed, Public Works had no recommendation on the 38 feet variance. That wasn't an issue for them. there the other two variances have been remedied and the fire protection or the turnaround and all of that has been remedied so I'm going to be in favor of this project to appeal the committee's decision thank you further discussion okay you currently have a motion on the…”
“I move to adopt the ordinance amending Grants Pass Municipal Code section 6.46.350, temporary exclusion from city park properties and declaring an emergency and have it read by title only second reading.”
“Yeah. I think I have questions about two of the applicants, Crash and CMAQ and the Hula Foundation. I'm not seeing that they are actually attracting that many stays from 50 miles away since they're mostly attracting people locally. Like, for example, in the first paragraph on CMAQ productions, it says the application showed over 14 events with an estimated 120 stays. 14 events, that's a lot of events with only 120 stays. So that was a question I had, and then the hula room foundation they are they have had only one year so far and not sure that they will it says that they attracted 150 to 200…”
“One year, which isn't much to go on, as compared to some of the other applicants who've had nine years, 20-year histories of gathering people from 50 miles away.”
“Yes, I would. Because I think there's others on there that could use the money too and are making a big contribution so to say, of visitors in our town. I mean, the fast-pitch lady rogues, they've been doing this for 20 years. They're bringing families. They're bringing their whole entourage of teams. 15 to 20 teams are coming. And during Boatnik, which is another draw to our Boatnik activity. So I think, all in all, there's several on here that deserve more money, if I may say so. the rat rod ruckus they have a nine year history great community support and I see that the committee didn't…”
“okay any further discussion Kathleen well seeing how it is really late already and we have we haven't even done public comment yet we yeah we have appointments we just have a lot tonight so I would be in favor of tabling it any further discussion”
“I just want to give an observation that it seems like this committee has had trouble filling its places. I mean, the last time we voted, we had to vote two in. Now we have to vote two in again. and the applicant the application was on our city website for a long long time it's almost like there's trouble getting people into this committee so i think whoever has been applied for it should be able to get in there so that we can fill this darn thing any further discussion and i would be voting yes for andreas black joel”
“I guess what I wanted to respond to, Joel, is that I haven't seen applicants or the request for applicants on the city website as long as the historical buildings committee. Most of them get filled maybe not as quickly as we expect, but I mean, these positions have been on there for months. for the Historical Buildings Committee.”
“OKAY. SO I'M NOT REAL CLEAR ON WHAT'S GOING ON HERE. SO THERE'S RESTAURANTS THAT DON'T, WELL, THE HALL HAS SEATING. right outside of their restaurant. So is this trucks that want to have alcohol or?”
“And what are we exactly leasing? A whole street?”
“Okay, so I'm sorry that that gentleman left who said we don't have enough drug rehabs here in the city. And to my knowledge, we are blessed with a lot of it. So I just want to give a rundown. We have four full drug rehabilitation programs. We have 10 plus sober living transitional housing. Two of those transitional housings wait for a treatment bed. They're put in there to wait for a treatment bed. The rest are after care for those completing treatment. We have a recovery cafe meetings all day. I mean, they're there from late morning to 8, 9 o'clock at night. We have AA meetings and NA…”
“In addition to that, the exclusion zones being extended.”
“Yeah, I'd like to invite Bonnie McDonald to the podium. Can you turn it up? Thank you, Bonnie.”
“Thank you, Justin. I was wondering about the loans themselves. Are these reduced rate loans?”