Remarks by Richard Mays
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Thank you. Well, our staff has copies of this, and if you get your toner situation resolved, please see the city clerk, okay?
Okay. Thank you. Okay. Mr. Mayor. Sorry. Council Runyon.
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Good suggestion. Okay. Item eight is councilor reports, city council reports. We'll start with councilor Ring.
Sorry, what? Could you just repeat the first, the very first item you brought up? You were cutting out.
Thank you, Councillor. As far as my report goes, I'd like to thank Councillor McLaughlin for standing in for me or sitting in for me, presiding over the June 22nd City Council meeting. Thank you, Tim. You're welcome. On June 12th, I met with some city staff with Leslie Navarone regarding some homeless issues. I was on coffee break with Al Winn and Councilor McLaughlin on June 16th. I did an interview with KCI Radio with Mark Bailey on the 18th. Every Father's Day, I'm invited to go to the Springs Nursing Home and participate in a Father's Day breakfast with some of the residents of that…
Mm-hmm. Okay, item nine is the consent agenda. Items of a routine and non-controversial nature are placed on the consent agenda to allow the city to spend its time and energy on the more important items and issues. Any counselor may request an item be pulled from the consent agenda and be considered separately. Items pulled from the consent agenda will be placed on the agenda at the end of the action items section. Tonight, we have six items on the consent agenda. First is the approval of the June 22nd city council meeting minutes. Second is approval of the June 29th special city council…
Moved by Councillor Randall and seconded by Councillor McLaughlin to approve the consent agenda. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Item 10 is a public hearing. Consideration of an ordinance amending the Dalles Municipal Code and clarifying and conforming procedures related to the adopted hearings officer process and making associated technical amendments. Now's the time for the council to conduct a legislative public hearing to consider zoning ordinance amendment number 112-26, city of the Dalles and general…
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Is the council ready for deliberations? If so, the public testimony portion of the hearing is now closed and the council will now deliberate. Any comments or questions?
Is the council ready to have the ordinance read and receive a motion? By title only. That was my next question. That's what my script says. Okay, and not hearing anything, will the city clerk please read general ordinance number 26-1430 by title only.
It's been moved by Council Richardson and seconded by Council Randall to approve the ordinance 26-14-30. Is there any more discussion? All those in favor, please say aye.
Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much.
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Anyway, just a thought. Well, to follow up on that, you're confident that these will all be addressed and there won't be any issues next year? Yeah.
I think one of the things that's been overlooked, at least a little bit, has been not only did we lose our finance director, we also, as the city manager just pointed out, lost the second command. With very short notice, I might add, after being with us for many years, which I had a problem with, but that's another story. So anyway, I think that the finance department, it's been a challenge for them to kind of recover from that. And we wish you a lot of luck in the year going forward. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Okay. Thank you.
Yeah, we're looking. Nobody's made a motion yet, right? No.
I'm looking for a motion for the adoption of the plan of action.
It's been moved by Councillor McLaughlin and seconded by Councillor Richardson to adopt the audit plan of action. Is there any more discussion or questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries five to nothing. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Okay. Action item 11B is consideration of an ordinance amending
Thanks, Woodley. The clock on this guy. Maybe we should have that executive session.
You're proposing this is section 12, paragraph B.
Yard debris open burning is allowed only from March 1st. April 1st. April 1st.
I would suggest that perhaps this might be considered by some people more than a minor tightening and that it come back before the city council