City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, we'll call the meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge. Pledge allegiance

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. [clears throat] Okay. The clerk will note all members are present and accounted for. Ceremonies, ceremonies, and announcements. We have one proclamation tonight for America 250. Whereas the United States of America is celebrating its independence in 1776 and its rich history from that date forward. Whereas postfalls citizens past and present have contributed to the history of the United States from the American Revolution to the settling of the country from coast to coast. Whereas Postfalls citizens have served their country with military service and community service throughout the United States and the world. Whereas Postfalls joins cities and towns throughout the state of Idaho in commemorating this 250th year celebration event with activities and events. Now therefore, be it resolved that I, Randy Westland, mayor of the city of Postfalls, Idaho, do hereby proclaim that Postf Falls joins our nation in the celebration of America's rich history and heritage throughout 2026. Should we do the photo now because we've got an executive session at the end.

Let's do that now.

Yeah. Who's got the camera? Let me get out of here. [snorts] Do you need introductions of these people? I'd be glad to introduce them. We probably met. I'm not sure about names. All right. Um,

well, just for this is Katherine McClintic. She's president of the Postfalls Historical Society. I'm a past president and this is a past president, Carol Yoast of the Post Falls. society and this is regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lieutenant George Farragut chapter Kathy Swanson. She also has a family here in Post Falls. So we work on historic projects um not just for the year day in and day out. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much. You need to get in. No, it's okay. I'll take her here. together. Yeah. Scooch together. Down. Catherine, you can come around to this side, too.

Yeah. Go on the other side. Oh, sure. Sure. Go. Go. [laughter]

Put her face forward.

Thank you very much. Thank you. That's wonderful. Okay. Any amendments to the agenda tonight? Declarations of conflict, exparte contacts, or site visits? Seeing none, uh, please present the consent calendar.

Item A is minutes from the January 6, 2026 city council meeting. Item B is payables January 7th through January 20th, 2026. Item C is November cash and investments. Item D is West Fork Town Home Subdivision final plat approval. And item E is Kilder Meadows subdivision final plat approval. Any questions on the consent calendar? I move to approve the consent calendar as presented. Second. Motion in a second. Roll call. Ziggler. I. Pl. I. Luca. I. Stigleer. I. Mosby I Mallaloy I.

Motion passes. Thank you. Next item up at public hearings tonight we have none uh unfinished businesses uh business returning ordinances. We have engineering and design services agreement with Welsh comr engineers for the Fiser lift station project. [clears throat]

Good evening Mr. Mayor and members of council. There's only one presentation up here. So lucky you guys. [laughter] [snorts and clears throat] Oops. There it is. Okay. As [clears throat] I mentioned, good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of council. Uh Jackson Pleshman, project manager for the city of Post Falls. Here tonight to present to you a design and engineering services agreement with Vulture Comr Engineers for the Fisher Lift Station project. Um Fisher lift station is currently existing Fisher Lift station is currently loaded in located in the northwest area of the city. Um along Fiser Avenue just east of Howell Road. Um here you can see existing Fisher lift station. That red square in the bottom is the existing site and the red square in the top is the new site which we purchased um 2023 2024. Um and I'll go into that a little bit further. Um, for council members who maybe haven't dealt with lift stations before or pump stations, uh, this is for you guys. So, please forgive council members that are aware. Um, very quick diagram to kind of go through it. Um, starting left to right. So, that house that's light blue has a service presumably a toilet would flush. It would go to the public sewer main which would then [clears throat] gravity flow to a pump station or lift station is how we seem to refer to them within Post Falls. But then that water would then be pumped or lifted um via force man. So a pressurized force man uphill and then eventually to the treatment plant. So very simplized diagram but that's the the gist. So project background trying to look at look at you guys not looking project background. Uh 2019 collection system master plan identified this as a project that had high and medium priority improvements um that were needed. Um

this was followed up with a 2021 prairie prairie and Idaho sewer study um which identified three separate projects within the next 5 to 10 year um time frame for [clears throat] phased improvements within the Fiser sewer basin. And then this was followed up um with a 2023 preliminary engineering report um that ultimately in informed the design um for property purchase for the new station which was the the larger red square that you guys saw in that current slide. Um so [clears throat] yeah using uh confirmation with with data of existing conditions and design flows um and data from our master plan [clears throat] um our engineer with this per was able to develop the basis of design for the future lift station um helped inform size of the property needed uh because this is going from a local lift station to a regional lift station which just means it's processing a bit more water. Uh and then we also had some site survey done as a part of this um per and what that did was develop um a legal description for land purchase survey and of the parcel and then legal description. Um the existing Fiser lift station was constructed in 2002. Um as I mentioned there were some high and medium priority improvements identified in our master plan. Um, a lot of them are are some of the hot hot items that occur with our other lift stations, but backup power, fall protection, um, some equip equipment [clears throat] upgrades, excuse me, and overflow capacity. Um, I put this here to remind myself. So, a local lift station is less than 500 gallons a minute. Once it goes past that point, it becomes regional. Um so the new Fisher lift station [clears throat] incorporated the condition or will incorporate the conditiondriven improvements identified in the 2019 collection system master plan. Um it is now identified as a regional lift station because there will be increased flows. Um and this is currently anticipated to be funded

through capacity fees. However, we do plan to do an analysis of whether maintenance funds should be utilized um for the conditiondriven improvements during the design phase of the project. up here on the screen is a uh very preliminary site layout. Um that kind of gives you an idea. So the property purchase was the the whole thing, but that area that's hatched in red is is dedicated to future rideway sidewalks. The area in purple is what we actually have to work with for the future lift station, which is still larger than the existing site. Um it's about 75 ft by 100 by 175 ft. Um the location of the the overflow basin will likely change. This is just preliminary design. Um, everyone's favorite topic. So, the financials. Um, the total request tonight is for 350790. Uh, $350,790. The design and engineering contract with Welch comr is 318,900 and we are requesting a 10% contingency um to bring it up to 35790. Um, this would be funded through the Fisher lift station upgrade budget. Um and then we may come back at a later date to add construction phase services with Welch commer. Uh using information we know today along with information pulled from our master plan. The estimated project cost of the lift station is approximately $3.5 million. That's all said and done design construction. Um this project may include some of the gravity work in project one. Um so let me flip to the next slide. So, the three projects that I had mentioned in the previous slide that came from our 2021 prairie and Idaho sewer study are below [clears throat] or on the screen and I'll kind of talk through them. Um, and they're colorcoded so hopefully that helps a little bit. Um, forgive me Council Councelor Mosby and Luca. I don't think you've seen this project. Um, but project one is the

decommissioning of Guy Road lift station which is on the um intersection of Fischer Avenue and Guy Road. Um and then running a gravity sewer line, very deep gravity sewer from there approximately to the existing lift lift station site at Fiser that southern lift station site. [clears throat] If I could if I could interrupt for a moment, is the Guyro lift station at the end of its operational life or something or why are we decommissioning that? Uh to get rid of as many lift stations as possible. Uh they are, as I understand it, uh operational they're more of a cost to the city than maybe I should punt that one, but we don't like lift stations. it causes us to work on and operate them. We we'd rather things just

The idea being that the new one will handle the capacity that the guy road one used to. Correct. And um more importantly, it was identified because there was um downfalls to the existing station, things that were not up to snuff.

Thank you. Um we uh through the course of design we were concerned that we had maybe bitten off a little more than we can chew when it comes to completion of the full project within one construction season. And so fairly recently um we elected to for lack of a better term chop off the ends of this project one which is just the the decommissioning of the guy road and the connection to Fischer lift station. Doing this and working with our design consultants, we feel that we are able to complete the entire gravity uh gravity sewer section within one constru construction season while still allowing a little bit of comfortability because if you really try to cram every single day in there, you're going to you're going to end up potentially regretting that. Um so those [snorts] those things the decommissioning of the station and the connection would um at at this exact time we're planning to do those as a part of project two which is the new Fisher lift station um construction of which would occur at the earliest in 2027. That is what I'm here asking for design a design contract for tonight is for new Fisher lift station. The design of it is tonight's ask. But this is kind of a broader view of that sewer basin for you guys. just a little bit of [clears throat] knowledge and then project three would be a connection later down the line that is not planned in the coming in the immediate coming years. um next steps. So the parcel that we own, I believe it's actually currently in the county. So we are annexing that or that annexation process has um began and will be cons concurrent with design. Um and then project design through 26 and construction 27 is the is the intent. Questions?

We keep having winters like this. Are we just going to have construction all year round? It's a really frustrating thing for me personally because sometimes I look out my door and I'm like you could totally do it and then sometimes you can't really it's a temperature thing for the asphalt but um yeah it is frustrating when we expect these big winners and they don't come. So may I ask about the capacity and I might ask this every time you bring this to us just to kind of reiterate it. So the guy lift station does have the capacity to service the development that is currently there. But the Fiser lift station built to service like um Crown Point Reserve.

You want to handle this one, John? Pardon me. I I just don't want to answer incorrectly with where the flow is coming from. Yeah. Yeah. I'm closer to the microphone, so I'll take the first stab at it. Don Beach, public works director. If I get too far off base though, I might defer to Rob Paulus, the city engineer, for some advice. So, both Guy Road and Fischer lift station are existing lift stations. Okay. Okay. Guy Road and Fischer both have some additional capacity as they exist today. So, some development is still occurring under the existing lift stations. Okay. Um the options for Guy Road would be to either upgrade it or decommission it with a pipe that goes to a bigger lift station. We're going with the bigger pipe option. Okay.

The new Fiser lift station is both replacing the existing outdated station and also increasing the capacity to serve more development in that area. Hence the funding by capacity fees. But those are capacity that we're funding it through capacity fees that have been paid by residents that are currently using it, not by the future um capacity that it has. I just need a different word than cap and capacity.

Yeah. Unfortunately, capacity fees are really structured in how they must be developed. So, they are backward looking. So, each time you buy a house or a developer builds a house, they're paying into the existing system. Um, you can use those capacities to fund growth, [snorts] which is what we have elected to budget those dollars for. And we still can use those fees should we find the like inefficiencies I think that was referenced or what is not technically up up to snuff. We can use additional funds to backfill that. Is that right?

The nice thing about capacity fees and user fees is you can use those both for remedying existing deficiencies or expanding the system. In contrast with impact fees like for transportation which cannot be used to remedy existing deficiencies. So when we get the cap fees for the additional development that will be serviced by these lift stations that is not paid into the system just yet, we can still use that money to perhaps service what we are building for them that has not been paid for by their capacity fees yet. Yeah, you can um the the ability of things to do with capacity fees is basically any

anything that that entity is allowed to spend money on as I understand it. So if we collect a capacity fee, we can use it for operations and maintenance. We can use it for personnel or we can use it to build something new. Okay. I think that's helpful to um tease out when we're talk when we're constantly having to [clears throat] have the growth pace for growth and how is this money spent and why are we spending three million to service something that doesn't exist yet and hasn't paid into the system yet. But if we can use what is paid into the system once that is built out even for maintenance or other things, I think that that's helpful to know. So, okay. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you for your question. I have a question about

potential savings along the same line with the [clears throat] decommissioning of the guy road lift station into gravity feed. What I mean, first of all, we're not going to upgrade it obviously if we're decommissioning. So, bit of savings there. But what is the service horizon for a lift station like that for future investment? Is it what's the 20 years, 30 years or it's growth dependent? I'm going to I'm going to punt again unfortunately to Mr. to Mr. Borpole um or or John perhaps if just they can speak to the operations of of the stations a bit a bit more in tune than I can. I just I'm not involved with the operation of the station. Y

that's a great question and thanks for asking and John Beum again. Um the way I think about it is we need to replace the pumps and some of the electrical gear about every 10 years on a lift station and a major rebuild of it about every 20 years. So we have approximately 30 lift stations give or take. Uh that's about one and a half a year. Yeah, I like the idea of using gravity to our advantage. So yeah, I I heard a statement unverified from an engineering firm that said the construction cost of a lift station is about onetenth of its lifetime cost. So thank you.

Thanks. Thank you, Councilman. Gravity is good. We That's just gravity lines all everywhere. Let's do it straight into the river out to the ocean. Yeah. Yeah. Straight in the river. Let's lower the Just kidding. EPA. What happens with the land once these other two live stations are abandoned? Can it be remediated? Can it be put to other use?

Uh sold off? Like what? I have um a bit more information on the on the existing Fisher Lift station uh than I do for Guy Road. Um the existing station we will we own we will likely hold on to. Um and I would I would again defer to Mr. Borpole for further um further ideas on what we would do with it. But it is my understanding that there is I want to say it's a 60oot sewer easement through that hole. And it actually Let me see if I can So [clears throat] that southern station, you can see it actually um splits two properties. There's a sewer easement because even with the decommissioning and and getting out of this site, we will still have sewer lines coming through here. So sorry. Uh there is a sewer that is 60 foot on either side of that property line all the way to the road. So, I don't I wouldn't see us um relieving it to I can't say for sure, but I I believe we would hold on to it. Um as for the the other property, which I don't think I actually have a zoomed in um picture of. I apologize on this presentation. Um it is ours as of right now for the for the project. We're planning uh once we decommission, we're planning just to leave that site gravel.

Um but if there are ideas or someone tells me to otherwise, I think that is We're open to that, but currently we don't have any plans for it. No. With moving to the new site, is this budget inclusive of any costs to get new easements that will bring the these lines into that new site like are or does there even need to be any change to the easements? I I don't I don't believe there'll be any changes. So So no, but I don't I don't think there will be any need. Okay. Maybe ducks. Maybe we could put ducks on these small pieces of property. Ducks. What? Whatever animals we we like. I I

Ducks works for me. Further questions. Entertain a motion. I would move to approve the engineering design services agreement with Welch Comr Engineers for the Fiser lift station project. Second. Motion in a second. Please take the role. [clears throat] Clue. I. Luca, hi Ziggler. I Mosby. I Malloy. Hi, Ziggler. I motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, council.

Next item [clears throat] under new business, K9 agreement for detective Jason Cop and electronic storage detection dog Uno. Discussion. motion. He doesn't move fast. We'll wait. He's detected. He didn't do that.

Yeah. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I uh thank you for giving us opportunity to come up and introduce our newest partner to the team and ESD uh Uno here just came back and his handler, Detective Cop, Jason Cop, is uh just finished training to come back and be street ready and ready to go out and work some criminal cases here in Post Falls. Give you some background a little bit on Uno. He's a three and a half year old yellow lab as you can see. Uh he originally was a service dog and he didn't do well in the service uh that he was originally trained for. So they brought him out of that and found that his niche was this. And so he has completed six months of training himself and then two weeks together as joint training as handler and partner together. Uh he can find electronics in all different capacities in different places. and we're really excited to see it's the first one we've ever had here and I'm excited to see where uh he can be useful because I think this will be outside of the scope of what we think it is too from finding missing property to potentially even finding things outside of criminal matters of helping identify and find people that might be lost or missing. So, we'll see where that all goes and I'm sure that Detective Cop give more information about that. Uh the program was through the Secret Service and we're the first agency here in Kney County and in Idaho in our region actually that received a dog through the program. So, we're really excit excited about that. The dog himself came at no cost to the city. Uh they're generally about $8 to 12,000 for the dog and then another four to $5,000 for the training and all of that was paid for by the Secret Service. Obviously, our maintenance of the dog from here forward is on us for vet care and for food and that such things like that. And we'll have him at the PD frequently. He was Today was his first full day there. As you can see, he's very mellow and relaxed and likes to be pet. So, it's kind of a nice addition compared to our patrol dogs. Detective Cop came to us uh starting in 2004 in Merced Police Department in California and in 2021 he came to Post Falls PD as a police

officer, moved to investigations in 2023 and then was selected to be the digital forensics uh investigator that we have. So, he has the cyber lab at the police department. He's very busy inside there. And as we all know, IAC, Internet Crimes Against Children, we're on that task force and those cases get more and more and more and those are making children victims of crimes. And so we want to go out hard after those people. And this dog will give us the tools to do that and find hidden electronics that people that have child pornography have hidden in their house when we go to execute a search warrant there, which we're doing more and more often. And we want to continue that and keep arresting these people and get them off the street. So, we're really thankful to have Uno on the team and we're looking forward to these capabilities and helping us find and get bad people off the streets. And we'll be open for any questions if you have any.

Can you find stuff like air tags like Apple Air Tags and stuff like on people's cars like absolutely he can um anything uh uh Bluetooth related, cellular related he can find. So,

wow. That's one of the capabilities too is we frequently get stranged relationships that have they suspect that there might be tracking devices in their car or under their car and it's hard to find that as a human, right? An air tag is pretty small. Air tags are kind of the harder they alert you like, hey, there's a strange air tags following you around. But there's other companies that don't and so people will frequently drop those down in heater vents. They're hard to find. We can't find them as humans without ripping your car apart where he can find it by smelling it. So really, like I said, there's so many uses that we don't even probably understand what its capabilities will be. At least I don't. His handler probably does way more than I do. And but it's something that we haven't had before. And it's a regional resource. So we really value our partnerships, making sure that we go out there and look out for all of our region, not just us here at the city. And that's something we value and have continued to do. And he'll be a resource for everyone. So when they're out there arresting offenders in their community, we can be assistance to them as well. Detective, I was uh curious. Um there's so many electronic devices out out there. In previous dogs that I've worked with, they walk by narcotics. They, you know, they're they want their toy so bad that they're scratching at it or alerting on it, even if you're not asking them to search. How does this dog's training, how do they cut down the noise? Because, you know, he's sitting next to a laptop computer and not alerting on it. So, I was noticing that.

Great question. My lab has hundreds of electronics in at any given time. So, um, essentially I'm just I give him the let's go to work command. Um, and then while we're working, I'll give him seek and I'll just direct him in the capacity. And so, uh, hypothetically, if we're serving a search warrant and somebody has, say, 15 computers in there, I'm probably going to have those removed, um, just to narrow it down because obviously, um, you know, a micro SD card in a pile of computers is going to be very difficult to find because he's going to indicate on all of those. So, so if you gave him the command of search here, then he would have alerted on that laptop that was sitting there.

Correct. As of right now, um he's eating for the day because he works off of a food reward. And so anytime he's training, he's actually getting his food amount for the day. And so, um being he doesn't have his go to work or seek command right now, he's just he's just smelling stuff. So, thank you.

Yes, sir. I as the budget um I was going to say Nimrod and that's not the word that I was looking for, but like the one that's always asking about um money. Obviously, this is going to cost us slightly more money in our PD and um and it sounds like we're okay and we're comfortable with that. But um what I wanted to say was that outside of the kind of different compensation um considerations that are in the packet, I wanted to say thank you because I know that again you're getting kind of a different sort of contract with like a different uh schedule and some different allowances to be able to go out. this is really like you're committing to keeping this dog um for the duration of its life potentially and your family is committing to helping take care of this dog uh really for the benefit of Coutney County and our region as you've stated and so I just wanted to say thank you to you both for making that sacrifice and that commitment to um especially all of the kids around here and helping us out with that. So thanks. We're very excited and I think you'll probably see in the near future cool stories about him out there doing good work. So if you have any questions, if you ever want to stop by the PD and see him, just come by and you can check him out. And if you didn't get a chance to pet him now, I'm more than willing. I'm sure that Jason be glad to bring him around if you didn't get a chance to or you come by and see him at at the police department.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. So we need a motion to approve the agreement to take care of our newest team member. So moved. Second. Motion and a second. Roll call, please. Luca, hi Stigleer. I Mosby I Mallaloy I Ziggler I Blue

I motion passes. Thank you. Next item up is citizens issues. This set section of the agenda is reserved for citizens wishing to address the city council regarding city related issues that are not on the agenda. Anyone wishing to speak come forward. State your name for the record, please.

My name is Kim Brown. I'm a past president of the Post Falls Historical Society. Uh we network with a variety of historic preservation groups throughout Coupney County and the state of Idaho. So, I'm overjoyed. Thank you so much for the proclamation for America 250. you're probably seeing a lot of uh flashes on your local media with regard to the country's 250th birthday. So, of course, being a Post Falls resident, we all we are here to do our raw raw for our own town. And so, that's basically I appreciate the proclamation. I think I came to your meeting last year. And within our ranks here in Post Falls, we have residents that are related to George Washington himself. And of course, many of us have uh were descendants of the American Revolution, which some of you may know. Uh the people that were involved were the women supporting their men. Some of them took over the cannon when the husband was killed. Some of the little boys went off and played the F at 10 years old. So there was a lot of input. And even some of the old guys out plowing in the field were participating in the American Revolution 250 years ago. So there's a lot of historic uh pride in what we have. Our unfortunate thing is is a lot of times people don't know what we have here in Post Falls. So we have residents that live here who have descendants from the American Revolution. In our cemetery we have many many Civil War war veterans. We even have a a veteran of the Mexican War that's buried up at Evergreen Cemetery. And if you're trying to compare dates, the Mexican War was before the Civil War. And we have out with our statue of John Mullen out here. Some people think that's Frederick Post, but it's actually John Mullen. And he was a veteran of the Mexican War also. But at any rate, I'm

not going to get into the details of Postfall's history because I've been overjoyed with it for a lot of years. But what I'm cha what I'm thankful for is that you are actually uh picking up the torch. Every once in a while when these centennial celebrations come along, people get excited and then they kind of put the stuff away and they're expecting someone to take care of it or keep it out in the public. So back um 37 years ago, the Postfall City fathers um our own Kent Helmer thought that we should have our own historical society here in Post Falls. The reason we have one based on city leadership is because the other entities weren't preserving Postfall's history, whether it be the state of Idaho or the Museum of North Idaho, folks were giving them things and they never saw them again. So, as this town has grown and as we follow in the footsteps of our history and heritage from long ago, um, here within our ranks, we have a lot to really be proud of. So the our greatest strength of course is our citizenry and when we're thinking about our volunteers and that's what this town kind of started on a lot of the elected officials were all volunteers. So we walk in that in that uh with that pride and also with that energy. So if there's one thing that we should be energized about it's about walking in the footsteps of the heritage that we have. So we didn't end up just being here the ninth largest city in Idaho. It is because of a lot of different efforts on the part of our citizenry, taxpayers, volunteers, community service organizations, but we have a lot to be thankful for. So, I've kind of put together I appreciate Shannon Howard's help with getting out this uh proclamation. So, we're already out. We talked about a

proclamation last year, but I want to thank you for get making our citizenry aware of it because a lot of folks are going what's happening what's happening in postfall. So that's why want to take just a few minutes um to share with you what we have put together. Your proclamation is important because that sets the tone for your interest in this town and our heritage. So that's great. If you get a chance to promote and share the idea of oral video histories, we also are doing that in conjunction with the Idaho State Historical Society where we interview citizens. They're they could be their veterans. We have a gal that is has a grandfather. Her relatives went all the way back to the revolution. She has the story documented and she wants to blab about it. We want to record her, but in doing that, we want to make sure that it's preserved for the future. So, it is going to preserve be preserved down at the Idaho State Historical Society archives. So, there's some trust levels with any group that's out there, the more we can preserve, the more we're going to have for the future. Also uh we in addition to the oral video uh history program, we also are working with the postfalls chamber Christina Petite and also with Darla Dryer at the Jaclyn Center. They are putting together a wonderful heritage food fest for May 30. Please mark your calendars. Please be on hand to attend that. It's going to be an all day event over between the chamber and and the uh the Jack's parking lot. The Postfalls Historical Society also will begin its early season starting in May which is na national her uh historic preservation month. They're opening up and we will be having some public lectures. One featuring uh George Washington and the charact curture of uh

Logan Kraton. You may have seen he's a living history presenter. So we're trying to rev up and utilize our postfall citizenry to bring them out and to showcase their history and their connection to the national history and also to the present day. So that's how we're going to do some of that. We're hoping for a small costume historic costume parade all on May 30 to grab the attention of our kids. Kids like to dress up. kids like to relate with um their history, their family history, and the country's history. So, we hope to work work with the school systems on that. Our little Postf Falls museum over here, I want to pump that up a little bit because we do tours for a lot of history groups during the off season. So, we just had some last week. So, if you have relatives or you know of school situations, please send them our way because we open the place up. give us a call and it's an all volunteer uh effort. I do want to make you aware though that this wonderful building over here is one of our oldest remaining in Post Falls. So you have a couple of we have several National Historic Register sites that are on city property and you may or may not be aware of that but the when we first got started with historic preservation, Treaty Rock wasn't even listed on the National Register. Well, just to let you know, we're over time, so we should

Yeah. Well, well, yes. And everyone knows that I Yes. how passionate we all are about it, but I just want to um if we throw some information your way, uh take a peek at it. At least this gives you an awareness. And we are extremely proud of your efforts, the past efforts of previous leadership, and we're hoping to showcase our town and its heritage and history. Thanks for your time. Sorry, I'm over. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak? All right. Seeing none, administrative and staff reports tonight. We have none. We have none tonight, sir.

Uh, mayor and council comments. For me, I'll just say that I I think everybody should take this year as an opportunity to do a little research into family history. My wife and I have been doing that kind of in honor of America 250, looking at our own roots and our own ties to the American Revolution. Uh, and I think it's it's important to preserve that history and find out where your family came from. where did your great-grandparents live? Uh, and make sure that that stuff gets preserved. So, so thank you. Council comments. I just want to say, uh, today's, uh, my wife and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. Congratulations. Um, and, uh, honey, there's champagne in the fridge and the hot tub is heated. I'll be home as soon as possible. [laughter] Clue 25.

Congratulations. Clue 25. Congratulations. Thank you. Any comments? Uh, okay. Next, we do need an executive session tonight. That is correct. To last how long? Roughly? About 12 minutes. 12. All right. I move to enter an executive uh session pursuant to Idaho Code 74-206D to consider records that are exempt from disclosure as provided in chapter 1, Title 74, Idaho Code. Further that [snorts] no action will be taken during the session and the session will last approximately 12 minutes. Second motion in a second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. Stigler. I. Mosby. I. Malloy. I. Ziggler. I.

Lou. I. Luca. I. Motion passes. We'll move into executive session.

All right. Return from executive session. Um, next item up on the agenda is consideration of adding invocation to city council agendas. How would you like to act? Uh, move to table this to a future meeting. Second. Motion in a second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. Who? Who second? Oh, me. Okay. Mosby. I. Malloy. I. Ziggler. I. Flu. I. Luca. I. Stick leader. I. Motion passes. Thank you. Any other business to come forward before we adjourn? I have one question. Oh,

at the last meeting there was a gal that came up to talk about the Harmony Place HOA and we were going to look into that. I don't know what the process is for hearing back on that or who I asked the question or direct it to. I was wondering if we knew anything more about what we could do as a city for that lady. That was task of Bob's heel, wasn't it? I don't see him here. Yeah, Bob is looking into it. I don't know where we sit tonight. So, let me look in it into it tomorrow and I'll figure out where we're at and and we'll get some answers back. Thank you. Seeing no further business, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.