City Council - Regular Meeting

Call the meeting to order. Tonight we have a representative from Girl Scout Girl Scout Troop 2472. And would you be so kind as to come forward and lead us in the pledge of allegiance?

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. Thank you very much. You did a wonderful job and you even had a police escort. real quick. If anybody is here for the uh ordinance on the parade that's been removed from the agenda and it was published on the I think social media, but it has been removed. So, they're here. You're here for that. That is now gone. Okay. And we do have representative from Girl Scouts would like to speak.

Thank you, mayor. Uh my name is Brian Newberry, the CEO, Girl Scouts Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho. I just want to celebrate Eden here representing uh 3,200 Girl Scouts all across eastern Washington, Northern Idaho. We have over the past two months visited 16 different city councils across our vast territory. You are our last and uh we're there to celebrate the day of the girl which was in the fall time frame. And so Eden, who goes to Seltis, uh this day is to celebrate you and to let you know that we want to hear your voice because your voice makes the world a better place. But I'm also here tonight to celebrate you, sir Mayor. Uh Mayor Jacobson was the first mayor when I started as CEO seven years that opened up his heart and his counsel to my Girl Scouts. Uh Jackie Livingston, who's a great service unit leader. There she's getting a little tearful myself, but uh herself, but I am too. Uh you were the first one to give a gold award to recognize a gold girl scout in our council. That's the highest award in Girl Scouting um to her daughter Jackie Livingston. And you also recognized Sierra Livingston. And you also made Sierra Livingston citizen of the day for her work here with the VFW. So, Mayor, from start to finish, you've been there for Girl Scouts. So, if you ever need Thin Mints, just let us know. Uh we we gave him a a Thin Men ornament cuz he is truly number one in our hearts. So, Mayor Jacobson, these Girl Scouts are actually number three in the country for Girl Scout cookies. Uh last year, um um they had over 40,000 boxes donated to our troops and our first responders. And after the tragedy in Celane over the four just before the Fourth of July weekend, they went on out and delivered 5,000 boxes of cookies to every northern Idaho first responder, including the great uh city of Post Falls as well. That's what you all do is you support Girl Scouts and in turn they support you to make the world a better place. So Eden, God bless you and your Girl Scouts for all they do and more importantly, God bless every one of these servants up here who are making our world better place. Mayor Jacobson,

we'll never forget you. You take care. Appreciate.

And we do have a couple of announcements. Uh city hall and business offices will be closed at noon on Wednesday, December 24th, and remained closed uh Thursday, December 25th in observance of Christmas. City offices will also close at noon on Wednesday, December 31st, and remain closed Thursday, January 1st, observance of New Year's Day. Emergency police and fire services are available by calling 911. The police department will remain open for walk-in emergencies. For water related emergencies, call 2087733517. Also, uh I was talking with a couple folks from the city of Cordelane yesterday and they've got, I think now, 17 applications for the opening that they will have in their city council with a new mayor coming in. And as as you well know, uh we'll have a new mayor coming in the first meeting in January, which is going to open up a seat on the council. And I would encourage anybody and everybody who is interested in uh submitting their names for the city council to please do so. I think when we had appointments a year ago, we had probably 10 or 12 uh applicants. So hopefully we will get a number of applications for that position. And in addition, there will be an opening on the urban renewal agency. So if anybody out there has an interest, please feel free to uh stop by the city and submit a a form with our wonderful clerk, Shannon Howard. Uh opportunities there. Please take advantage of it. And I guess I should have started by saying please note that all council members are present. Um, and we do have a swearing in as opposed to swearing at. It's time to swear in our new parks and recreation director who is doing the honor. Shannon, please raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear that you will

support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Idaho and that you will faithfully discharge the duties of parks and recck director of the city of Post Falls accordingly according to the best of your ability? I do. Congratulations. Thank you, Chris.

Does that mean this is your last meeting, Dave? Well, I will be a citizen next time. You've been here for many of them. Thank you. Are there are there any amendments to the agenda other than the remove uh removal of that one ordinance? Just got push button. Just the removal of the parade ordinance and we do not need uh a motion for that. No, it's just remove if we were adding anything to the agenda. Thank you. Are there any declarations of conflict? Would you please present the consent calendar?

Item A is minutes from the December 2nd, 2025 city council meeting. Item B is accounts payable December 3rd through December 17, 2025. Item C is October cash and investments. Item D is fiscal year 2025 street and road report. Item E is salary survey contract with optimal talent dynamics. Item F is arrive postfalls construction improvement agreement. Item G is Harvest Meadows subdivision construction improvement agreement. Item H is Northplace East fourth edition subdivision construction improvement agreement. Item I is Crown Reserve subdivision final plat approval. Item J is WA Estates minor subdivision final plat approval. Item K is pull line and Zuros grants grant for rights of way and easements x24-2. Item L is Meuire annexation reasoned decisionnx-25-4. Item M is Maguire annexation and development agreement-25-4. Item N is Maguire annexation grants of rights of way and easements. Item O is Echo Estates Grant of Rights of Way and easements, ANNX-24-5. And item P is Echo Estates annexation and development agreement, ANNX-24-5.

Any questions on the consent calendar? Entertain a motion. I would move to approve the consent calendar as presented. Second. Motion second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. PL I. Weslin. I. Stig leader. I. Davis I Mallaloy I Ziggler I motion passes thank you next item is unfinished business returning oh I'm sorry public hearings tonight we have none uh followed by unfinished business returning ordinances and resolutions and we have a bunch first ordinance Villa Point North

I move to place the ordinance Villa Point North vacation BAC-25-2 on its first and only reading by title only while under suspension of the rules. Second. Motion second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. Weslin. I. Stigler leader. I. Davis. I. Malloy. I. Ziggler. I. Poo. I.

Motion passes. You're up. Mr. Harrington. First of many. An ordinance of the city of Post Falls, municipal corporation of the state of Idaho, providing for the vacation of a 10-foot ingress eg ingress egress and utility easement situated in the corner of lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8, block one of the plat of Villa Point North, according to the plat thereof recorded in book L, page 654. Records of Coutney County, Idaho, located in the southeast corner quarter of section 34, township 51 north, range five west. Boise Meridian as described herein, providing for disposition of the easement, providing for repeal of conflicting ordinances, providing severability, providing an effective date, and providing for other matters properly relating to there too. I move to approve the ordinance Villa Point North Vacation VAC-25-2 and to direct the clerk to assign the appropriate number and that it be published by summary only.

Second motion second further discussion. Roll call, please. Weslin I. Stigler I Davis I Mallaloy I Ziggler I motion passes. Thank you. Next is the Northplace Vacation. I move to place the ordinance Northplace Vacation VAC-25-3 on its first and only reading by title only while under suspension of the rules. Second. Motion second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. Stigler. I. Davis. I. Malloy. I. Ziggler. I. Blue. I. Weslin. I. Mush passes. Mr. Harington.

An ordinance of the city of Post Falls, a municipal corporation of the state of Idaho, providing for the vacation of approximately 5.05 05 acres of ride ofway running through the Northplace East subdivision providing for disposition disposition of the ride ofway providing repeal of conflicting ordinances providing for severability and an effective date. I move to approve the ordinance Northplace Vacation VAC-25-3 and to direct the clerk to assign the appropriate number and that it be published by summary only. Second motion second. Discussion. Roll call, please. Stigle leader. I. Davis I. Malloy. I Ziggler I PL I Weslin I motion passes next ordinance poll line Zoros annexation

I move to place the ordinance pole line and Zoros annexation anx-24-2 on its first and only reading by title only while under suspension of the rules second motion second further discussion roll call please Davis I Malloy I Ziggler I Weslin I Stigler I motion passes Mr. An ordinance of the city of Post Falls municipal corporation of the state of Idaho annexing property consisting of approximately 5.215 acres located at 4553 East Pline Avenue providing for amendment of the official zoning map and providing an effective date hereof.

I move to approve the ordinance Poland and Zoros annexation anx-24-2 and to direct the clerk to assign the appropriate number and that it be published by summary only. Second motion second. Further discussion. Chander, please take the role. Davis, I. Malloy. I. Ziggler. I. Poo. I. Weslin. I. Stigler. I. Motion passes. Next item up is the Echo uh estates annexation ordinance. I move to place the ordinance Echo Estates annexation-24-5 on its first and only reading by title only while under suspension of the rules. Second. Motion. Second. Further discussion. Roll call. Malloy. Hi. Ziggler. Hi. Pl. Hi. Weslin.

Hi. Stigler. Hi. Davis. I. Mush passes. An ordinance of the city of Post Falls Municipal Corporation of the state of Idaho annexing property consisting of approximately 10.309 acres located at 2641 and 2709 West Echo Drive. Providing for amendment of the official zoning map and providing for an effective date hereof. I move to approve the ordinance echo estates annexation anx-24-5 and to direct the clerk to assign the appropriate number and that it be published by summary only. Second motion second further discussion I Sigler I Weslin I Sig leader

I Davis I passes. Next ordinance is the G2 development annexation. Move to place the ordinance G2 development annexation A&NX-25-2 on its first and only reading by title only while under suspension of the rules. Second motion second further discussion. Roll call. Ziggler I Weslin I Stigler I Davis I Malloy

I. Motion passes. An ordinance of the city of Post Falls, a municipal corporation of the state of Idaho, annexing property of a pro property consisting of approximately 10.05 05 acres located at 166 East Horse Haven Avenue and assigning it a zoning designation of residential mixed providing for a change in zoning classification for a 8.3 acre adjacent property located on East Horse Haven Avenue from single family residential to residential mixed providing for an amendment of the official zoning map and providing an effective date hereof. I move to approve the ordinance G2 development annexation A&NX-25-2 and to direct the clerk to assign the appropriate number and that it be published by summary only.

Second motion second further discussion. Roll call, please. Ziggler I Weslin I Stigler I Davis I Mallaloy I motion passes. Next item up is the ordinance McGuire annexation. I move to place the ordinance Meguire Annexation A&NX-25-4 on its first and only reading by title only while under suspension of the rules. Second motion second further discussion. Roll call, please. Hello. Hi. Weslin. I. Stigler. I. Davis. I. Malloy. I. Ziggler. I.

Mush passes. An ordinance of the city of Post Falls, a municipal corporation of the state of Idaho, annexing property consisting of approximately 18.11 acres located at the southwest corner of North Maguire Road and West Poleine Avenue, providing for an amendment of the official zoning map and providing for an effective date hereof. I move to approve the ordinance Mecuire Annexation ANNX-25-4 and to direct the clerk to assign the appropriate number and that it be published by summary only. Second. Motion second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. PL I. Weslin. I. Stigler. I. Davis. I. Malloy. I. Ziggler. I.

Which passes. And the last one is the ordinance for the fiscal year 2026 budget amendment number one. I move to place the ordinance fiscal year 2026 budget amendment number one on its first and only reading by title only while under suspension of the rules. Second. Motion. Second. Further discussion. Roll call please. Weslin. I. Sig leader I Davis I Mallaloy I Ziggler I Blue I wish passes

an ordinance of the city of Post Falls Idaho amending the annual appropriation ordinance 1531 for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2025 to reflect the receipt of unscheduled revenues and to authorize expenditure of previously unbudgeted fund balance increasing and establishing the appropriations and expenditures in various departments and funds. Providing that the tax levy upon taxable property within the city is not affected hereby, providing that all ordinances in conflict herewith are superseded by this ordinance to the extent of such conflict and providing that the ordinance shall be effective upon its publication date. And I would also note that this gets published in full.

I move to approve the ordinance fiscal year 2026 budget amendment number one and to direct the clerk to assign the appropriate number. Second. Motion second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. Weslin. I. Stigler. Hi. Davis. Hi. Malloy. Hi. Ziggler. Hi. Clue. I.

Motion passes. Thank you. Next item up is new business and we have three items tonight. The first is the urban renewal technology district plan amendment. Mr. Seal. Mayor and Council, Bob Seal, community development director for the city. Um, so we're here tonight to talk about uh an processing an amendment to the urban renewal technology district plan. Um, this plan uh was originally put together in 2018. Uh, this amendment went through the Urban Renewal Agency and it started with them. A couple of months ago, the um Prairie Medical Center came in and gave them a quite a detailed and long presentation that covered everything on all their plans, what they were looking to do. And coming out of that, uh they followed up with a request for amendment to the plan. This is an amendment, not a modification. The difference being that a modification resets the base. Um this is just an amendment. more or less a lot of it is clarifying uh information that we didn't necessarily have beforehand. I wanted to show you a map of the general project area. Um as I noted, there were certain aspects to this that we didn't really know when the plan was developed in 2018. Uh there was a lot of detailed information for the areas north of Prairie, but not a lot of detail south of Prairie. Um so as we'll kind of discuss is that there was little information then. Um so again on August 16th 2018 the city council established the urban reneur district. Uh following up in Apollo 2025 uh North Healthcare Holdings uh the ultimately the Prairie Medical campus group uh requested that the plan be amended. And as I noted this is a plan amendment. um plan amendments are made

to as long as they're supporting growth or development of a commercial or industrial project in an area um in a existing revenue allocation area then it does not constitute a plan modification which would reset that revenue allocation area. Uh the purpose of the ordinance or amend of the amendment, the postfalls renewal agency passed this passed a resolution on November 20th uh this year uh stating that the purposes and major goals of the plan are to ultimately create um and expand public infrastructure and public facilities within the entire uh urban renewal district. to enhance and improve transportation routes and collector streets within the district to enhance future development to strengthen the district and enhance related commercial development and support with the project area and to provide commercial and recreational facilities for the residents uh and postfalls and visitors. Um so as part of this I wanted to just kind of show what the amended infrastructure items look like. Um, so you've got uh I wonder if I can do this. Let's see here. Pointer magnify. How do I screen pointer options? I like this. So, uh, right now, uh, Zoros deadends right here and Fenicus deadends here as well. Um, this is an unimproved, uh, dirt driveway essentially right now as well. And this is just an an improved parcel. Um, this is the location of the future uh, Prairie Medical Campus. And they will give a presentation after me in order to better elaborate on the details within the plan so that you can better understand the the full scope um, and the wise and the where's. Um, but I kind of wanted to just highlight a few things. Um in the original plan set um

back in 2018, all it called out for these this area um related to what they're requesting today is that it said that the Meer alternative line which is the Fenic which is the sewer uh deeper and larger sewer line in Fenicus was called out as additional cost to upsize the planned 10 to 15 in pipe at a deeper depth. That's all it called out in regards to that. And then in regards to the uh ultimately these are collector streets. These are higher higher volume collector streets uh minor collectors and major collectors uh that help to move traffic not just for the neighborhoods. Those are local streets. This is for the uh entire region. Essentially utilizing these as back as the backage roads. And as I talked about at the transportation master plan workshop earlier these parallel routes help to reduce the demand um on shifting that demand is what they look to do, right? Um, so with these projects, this what they're looking for ultimately is the uh being able to complete Zoros and Fenicus all in one fell swoop as opposed to incrementally. Uh, if we were only to develop uh as development happens, which is often how it works out, which is how it has worked out so far. Uh, the roads dead end as they slowly move along, putting in their developments as we go. Um we're looking forward to being able to connect Fenicus and Zoros up to prairie that would connect them all the way down to pole line as well. Um additionally there is the route that uh some development projects have taken that uh if you are working on a phased project maybe you don't have to do all the improvements all at once. So you I for lack of a better term you game the system you do a boundary line adjustment and you only work in that designated area. Um potentially Prosper could have been that where they ultimately just did a boundary line adjustment where they're only affecting Prosper and so therefore the only improvements that you get is

that improvement to half of Prosper on their side of the project. What they're proposing to do is work in coordination with Lakeside Development, Jaclyn Land Company, Parkwood Properties, as well as the uh Prairie Medical Campus to do all these improvements um in a nearer term uh and more of a cohesive um manner so that we can see that, you know, the fruits of our labors essentially see it happen quickly um so that we're no longer waiting for that incremental development to happen. Uh this will help bring him on earlier and sooner um and by being allowed for the reimbursement through urban renewal. Um

Mr. Seal, can I ask about that question? So are you saying that without this proposal there is a world in which Zoros doesn't get finished all the way up to Prairie even though this piece of property is developed? If that's one piece of property phased project. So they are currently looking at their first phase and they'll expand more on this is the fact that they've got phased project for the medical campus and their first phase is kind of down here in this uh lower southwest corner

um which I believe is an emergency room as well as a med as well as a doctor's or medical office building. Um, and so there is a world where a boundary line adjustment could be performed and they essentially limit themselves to fronting on Prosper and Highway 41 and only do the improvements associated with that initial phase. And when you say boundary line adjustment, you mean cutting that one singular piece of property into multiple pieces of property. They already have multiple prop pieces of property. They have three pieces of property on there's three different parcels. It is three different and boundary line adjustments allow you to move those in. Okay. for comparing. Sorry, my under just from the maps that we've seen, this is one piece of property, one parcel, but that's not actually true.

Correct. Okay. Yes, it's broken up into three under this one.

Um, and I did realize earlier tonight that I don't know if you've all heard the presentation from Prairie Medical Center. I had heard it three or four times, so I had assumed and made an assumption that you had heard it. So, luckily, they are here to be able to provide some more context to this. Um, these are the estimated costs based on $ 2025 and it shows uh a little bit more of a breakdown as to what uh would be considered for reimbursement. Um, as you can see, some of it has to do with um right in right out on Highway 41, some of the uh infrastructure, water and wastewater that surround the site as well as the Zoros uh road improvements, Fenicus improvements, and prosper improvements. Again, those are all collector streets uh that will help implement the uh the transportation master plan as well. Um and talking with my with the engineer, the city engineer, he indicated that this is a really important corner and getting these types of improvements done in the near term will definitely help with the whole system in that quadrant of the city. And instead of saying no question, any questions, I decided to say the end.

Any questions, Bob? At this point, story, I have a question about the the dollar amounts there at the end. Um, so assuming that this parcel is built out incrementally over, say, 10 years, um, today's dollars are worth more than tomorrow's dollars. So wouldn't it then be a better investment to do this sooner than later? And that's kind of what we're driving for. That is true as well. Yes. Yeah. though the estimates back in 2018 when they did these there was it only amounted to $800,000 for the pieces that they were looking at. Um obviously a big difference in there was a difference in the in the types of facilities but definitely a difference in dollar amounts for sure.

So and then kind of a follow-up question to that these improvements are ones that we kind of already plan to do with this project. We're just kind to do within this area. Within this area.

Yes. So, as again as I noted, it could be done incrementally as you know, Foxtail does it. Foxtail also has it's not I don't know if it's part of Foxtail, but it is a mixeduse development along Prairie Avenue that they would like to do in the not too distant future, but providing the timing of getting Zoros and uh Fenicus implemented helps to alleviate some of those pressures so that we can see that happen in the nearer term. Same with along Prosper. You've got the Prairie Medical Center on the north side and then you've got the Parkwood properties on the south side which are also uh indicated for future development. Um likely potentially uh medical related.

The difference here though is that if we pass this then the developer gets reimbursed for all the effort to build it and if we don't pass this then they don't get reimbursed for these things. Correct. Correct. they would be limited to what was in the original plan.

Can you just be really clear about how that's different than what you're proposing? And I'm I'm sorry to ask for that because to me it seems like other than Ficus and the west portion of Prosper, Zoros and and uh the other side of Prosper, I'm sorry, the east side of Prosper, the west side of Prosper, that's going to have to be done anyway. So correct, there are things that will be done. Um in the in in so in the plan um Prosper isn't really called out. Um it is called out under Foxtail Streets. We'll just go ahead and consider Prosper, Foros, and Fenic is all considered Foxtail Streets.

That's the only thing that's in the plan uh from 2018. Okay. Um, and what it allows for in that is, um, the additional width that a collector requires. So, you've got your standard local road that may be 36 ft wide, whereas the collector is, let's just go ahead and add 12 feet, I don't know,

somewhere around there. It's extra. It's extra. It adds extra to it. Um, and has more requirements within it. Um, so that's kind of what was looking to be reimbursed at that time. um which isn't unheard of especially when it comes to residential projects. Um they they they typically renewal typically does not reimburse for local roads uh and or things that are supportive only of residential projects. Their goal within especially within this plan was to focus on commercial and and uh industrial development up here. Um and so that call out in there that it was well we'll reimburse for wider collector streets kind of goes in line with their mission that like okay we're asking a residential development to to build a wider road so we're going to potentially reimburse them for that smaller amount which is just the uh change in width. Um whereas we've now have better vision for this area and a better understanding as to how this area is developing out and they were able to better clarify the project improvements that were needed for the for the Prairie Medical campus as well as the adjacent land to the south of it as well as the mixeduse development on uh the lakeside property in addition to the Jaclyn uh ranch property to the north where their project is ultimately limited until such time as uh the Fenicus or the Meer alternative wastewater line gets installed. Um so those are kind of all these different pieces are at play. So much of these improvements you can directly relate them to uh needed improvements because of the commercial and industrial uh development that's happening within that quadrant.

So if I could summarize then in 2018 we didn't know what was going to go in this corner. Um, so in the plan it says that we're going to do a smaller type street and we're going to reimburse for that. But now that we do know what's going there and we have a plan to do that, that usage is really truly requires a wider street. So we need to change the plan more in it's more in line. It's not done yet. I'm sorry. It's okay. Um to reimburse for the wider street that now what we know it's being used for is more appropriate. Is that an accurate summarization? Uh I believe that the request would be to reimburse for the entire street as opposed to just the extra width just

but it is more in line with the goals of the plan which was to support commercial and industrial development. Now Zoros is squarely within R1. Is that correct? That zoning over there. So this is R1. Oh I'm so sorry. Uh, fenicus. Fen fenicus. Uh, can I have my It's res is a PUB. It's a PUD. It's a PUD. Um, and they had originally um they they've had a mixture of of uses, but it is R1 in this area. This section is currently unannexed. Okay. It's the Hughes property over here. Got

um so it's unknown um currently what would be there. However, um this is Prairie Avenue, so we would anticipate and expect kind of higher intensity uses up along Prairie. My understanding of the urban renewal reimbursement plan is that we only reimburse residential at 30%. Is that accurate? The re they do have a policy 7 um which touches on residential prop residential development can be reimbured like up to 25% is kind of what was chosen. So, would we be looking at reimbursing the work on Fenus? Oh, I'm so sorry. Fair's fair's fair. I just I get in trouble for taking so long. You're you're leading You can ask again.

You're leading me down the right path. And so, Fenicus, again, Fenicus is not uh set up to just serve the residential area. Okay. Uh Fenicus go is is one of those backage roads and it's actually that's the major collector. So that's the one we anticipate being, you know, 35 miles an hour, you know, good easy straight shot from whole line to prairie. Um, so it's it's drawing and it's also adjacent to the school. So you'll be able to have school will be able to now, you know, people who drop their kids off at Treaty Rock will now be able to head straight up to Prairie. Okay. Um, as opposed to meandering their way back through a neighborhood and out. And the reimbursement rate for Fenicus would be I believe they're requesting they can clarify this if I'm wrong but I believe they're requesting essentially would be requesting the full reimbursement

the full reimbursement for that portion that they're looking to develop. Sorry no one quick question on that then.

So why was Fenicus not designated a full collector street if it was going to be a backage road to Highway 41 initially? I actually can't answer that question. I believe that it was just called out as a collector and it was just the primary piece is that it was unknown what was happening south of Prairie. If it was just strictly I mean Rob's happy I'm happy to have Rob talk about it. Um it in their plan set for the tech park. It calls it out as a collector. Um so yes, we knew it was going to be a collector. There was question probably back in 2018. I have to make these assumptions and Warren was here. he might be able to confirm, but I believe that we kind of because it was called out as Foxtail Streets, it may have been assumed that it was going to be residential development all the way up to Prairie Avenue, single family residential and so therefore um it left it open. They in 2018 they were also able to be less vague or sorry more vague about the projects that they were doing. Um and today urban renewal requires a little more specificity spec specifics about the projects that they are doing um in order to be reimbursed for them which is why um you see this kind of called out in a little more detail full collector street improvements from Prairie Avenue to Prosper including utilities. So this kind of is uh provides more information. Um, I know that when we were doing the roundabout uh in downtown district at Fourth and and Idaho, uh, we had to do a a minor amendment uh to the text within the plan to indicate, hey, we were also considering a roundabout. Even though we talked about we were doing all four corners of the infrastructure improvements for this, we just didn't specifically identify roundabout. So, we had to modify that plan or not modify, amend,

clarify that we still don't know that Finus isn't going to be residential all the way up to Prairie. Correct.

Um, I know that they've got a plan for a mixeduse type of development. Um, uh, at that northern portion, uh, so that where it runs into Prairie, there is a po, uh, all I know is it says mixed use. And I also know that I've spoken with them in the past and they've got a project that they would like to to see put in there. Uh is it residential? I don't know. They do have resident they have potentially this is residential, but I'm not 100% certain. This could be I can't tell what Gabe was drawing here. I'm going to blame Gabe. Maybe Gabe didn't even do this. I don't know. Anyways, I can't tell what that is. Uh but it is currently residential and a PUD. Again, um the the improvements of Fenicus will definitely if we can get all of them done around the same time period within the same project fe um period, it would greatly benefit that whole area. So

then fin prairie is all residential are going to be all res. Finus north of prairie is Jaclyn Ranch, right? Which and that's all all commercial. It's commercial. Commercial. There's actually the zone when zoning came through and approved that strictly said no residential. So that's okay. And that's one of the reasons why there's also the need for the uh wastewater line, the myer alternative line to be completed in there so that eventually it can take the capacity and shift it around so that we can actually service that area to the north of Prairie.

Yeah. I have one more question if I'm allowed. um might seem silly, but our urban renewal agency feels like they will have the funds to re um now I've lost the word. Reimburse reimburse the increase costs that this would incur. Yes. Yeah. Um excuse me. Isn't it not true though that if they don't have the funds, they don't get reimbursed?

Correct. if they don't uh if the if the increment does not develop enough for this uh it could be left un refunded and so ultimately they end up carrying the the bag in the end. Um my understanding is that they are on potential path uh to be able to should all the OPAs get approved and get them in the cycle they should potentially be able to begin reimbursing in just a few years. So we have a great track record with our urban renewal district. So, I would hate to set us up for something that didn't look as good as we've done in the past. Yes. No, I I think that they don't have any concern. They've again already processed this amendment. Um, from their from their perspective, they have looked at it and agreed that it fits within the scope of the plans. I believe that they are okay.

Okay. You and you said they would like to speak. They would like to speak as well. So, I will close this. And this is the who's coming up? Jamie. Yes. Okay. Name for the rest, please. Jamie, when you get up here, thanks, Bob. Good evening, Mayor Jacobson, City Council, Post Falls. I hope you don't grill me like you did, Bob. Right there. Ready. Um, well, we're excited to present this. Jamie, I'm sorry. Give me your name for the record, please. Oh, Jameson Smith, CEO of Coutney Health. Thank you.

Thanks. Um we're excited to to present this proposal to you tonight. Uh Coupney Health, Multicare Health System, Parkwood Properties, and Lakeside Development are coming together as collaborators to make this proposal. It's our vision to create an anchor for this rapidly growing community. With respect to the health care services, I can speak to that most specifically. Coupney Health, uh, Multicare and Parkwood are developing the 30 acre parcel, uh, just to the south and east of Prairie and Highway 41. It will be a major medical campus. Um, it will be developed over time in phases, but at its maturity, it could exceed our Cordelane campus. So we are envisioning um full hospital beds, operating rooms, emergency department, hundreds of jobs, um all kinds of physicians, offices and other services. Now that's not happening day one, but that is the vision over time. Importantly though, right now, Coupney Health is not abandoning its current Postf Falls location that centered around Mullen Avenue. This campus is going to be an addition to that location. really we want to serve the growing health care needs of this community uh you know all of Post Falls as well as really West Kney County which is rapidly growing but we also want to decant our C our Celane campus and decentralize some of our services healthcare is moving to that model in addition we want to be a destination for jobs for economic activity and growth uh we believe we can move uh with this infrastructure being done at one time in a much more coordinated way that will benefit not just the partners here

tonight but also beyond in this whole area. And so we really hope uh that you'll um ask good questions of us. We want to make sure that we make a compelling case for why to approve this. And I'll turn it over now to our project manager, Ben. Name for the record, please. Ben.

Thank you, Jamie. Good evening, mayor, council members. My name is Ben Mcgran. I'm a project manager representing the Northair North Idaho Healthcare Holdings. So, what you see here on the screen in front of you is a rendering of what we're calling phase one. Uh it is an emergency department on the left there. Uh we have a central connected lobby with a medical office building on the right. Uh there's going to be an imaging suite in there with MRI CT capabilities. Uh it's going to have 14 um ED beds and uh about 100 exam rooms in the medical office building. So very excited for this opportunity. So absent of the urban renewal reimbursement, the roads that we're going to talk about, the utilities, the sidewalks, those safety improvements, they would be constructed in pieces as it's phased resulting in a peacemill road and network infrastructure. With this amendment, it allows Kunney Health, Parkwood, Lakeside. We can deliver these improvements now in a coordinated effort in a cost-effective manner aligned with the adopted city plans and support the pace of growth already occurring in this district. So I realize this is probably the first time some of you are seeing this so I'll try to orient you here. Uh you can see in the top left corner is the Prairie Medical campus and we have some dashed lines here that show phasing of the campus. the first phase being anchored in the southwest corner. Uh to the south of Prairie Medical campus is the Parkwood Medical Park development. In the top right hand corner is the Lakeside Assisted Living development. Uh this is what we're considering the commercial area there. Directly to the uh east of the campus is the residential neighborhood, all single family. Uh we think this is a great opportunity for a live and work play community. Uh to the south there you can see the new city

park that's going to be developed, Foxtail Park. The goal is to develop this road infrastructure, utilities, and park in the next two years with your guys' support. Phase one of PR medical campus represents about $120 million investment. As I said, we plan to complete this in late 2027 and early 2028. The future expansion is 250 beds and will include additional medical office space. That's to be built out over the next 10 to 15 years. With Parkwood Medical, it's represents about $100 million investment over the next 5 to 10 years. And senior uh Lakeside Senior Living is about $50 million um which is adjacent to the the residential development. So all of these projects rely on the same underlying public infrastructure network that's addressed in the amendment. So the economic impact collectively these projects are expected to create more than 1500 new jobs. These are primarily highquality healthc care professional jobs. Uh Prairie Medical Campus, it's a community-owned hospital. It's critical to meeting the region's current and future healthcare needs. While Multicare and Cooney Health are nonprofit organizations, the ownership structure of this joint venture means the properties are not tax exempt. So, they will pay full property taxes. uh with the technology district expiring in 2039 uh advancing the infrastructure now ensures that the taxbased growth and community benefit are realized within the life of the district.

So the infrastructure here uh that would be part of this amended plan um it's already planned. It's will be cityowned and it will benefit benefit the entire community and not just a single project. These improvements complete the road network identified in the city's transportation plan. uh creating a connected grid that includes Fenicus uh as we've talked about it's a major collector and Zoros and Prosper as minor collectors. Uh this connectivity enables growth for the commercial aspects of this region and improves the circulation and reduces pressure on Highway 41. The improvements also enhance pedestrian safety through sidewalks, bike lanes, and crosswalks. uh improves access to the Foxtail Park. It's a city asset and strengthens school access, neighborhood connectivity, and emergency response routes. The water and sewer infrastructure included in the amendment supports not only these projects, but broader regional development as well as the uh deep sewer install will directly benefit the Jaclyn Ranch commercial development directly to the north of our properties. So, as been has been discussed, the urban renewal agency has already recommended approval for this. Uh, this is not a modification to the plan. It doesn't change the boundaries. It does not reset the revenue allocation. Uh, but it adds approximately $6.4 million in eligible public roadway and water and sewer improvements. Uh, these improvements are public assets that serve the entire district. Uh the partnership funds these improvements upfront. Uh we seek reimbursement only. Uh so this amendment uh implements the goals established by the technology

district adopted in 2018. Uh it enhances the potential for commercial development uh at our location and beyond. Uh it improves the transportation routes and collector streets and strengthens the district and supports both commercial and recreational uses for residents and visitors. In short, this request advances the exact vision the city originally set for this district. In closing, our collective investment today in the future exceeds half a billion dollars. The infrastructure included in this amendment is foundational to supporting the growth safely, responsibly, and in alignment with the city's plans. Uh, this amendment does not expand the district or alter the financial base. It simply enables the reimbursement of eligible city-owned infrastructure and that benefits the entire community and accelerates its delivery at no additional expense to the city. On behalf of Kney Health, Multicare, Parkwood, Lakeside, we respectfully request your approval for the urban renewal district plan amendment. We really appreciate your time and open to any questions that you might have.

Questions? Thank you. Thank you. Great, Bob. I just wanted to make one last clear point uh is that this is just amending the plan. this is not uh actually developed the uh owner participation agreement with the urban renewal agency. They still will go through that process and they will ultimately be able to make that determination as to whether or not say Fenicus uh is fully reimbursible based on their own uh internal policies. So that's up to them to be those determinations. So

thanks Bob. I do have another question for you, maybe for Rob, but getting the one of the advantages of getting all the roads done and completed at once as the uh development is constructed in phases. Is are there pros and cons to road maintenance for doing it all at once versus phasing it in?

Yes, the short answer is yes. Uh we have talked we were actually talking about that recently at a meeting that I was in that there are so many sections of road within the city that are done in these incremental phases that you know one section of the road is 5 years old but the other section is is 15 years old and having to do these incremental uh uh maintenance projects throughout those areas uh does cause some extra work to be done potentially extra expenses in the in the long run. Um but yes it does certainly help with um with reducing that. So there is also extra expense probably somewhat nominal but you know if all those roads are complete now then we have to start plowing them now and we have to you know do those things is do you think in your professional opinion do the pros outweigh the cons?

Yeah they they do they they ultimately get it done in the near term and a property that was you know kind of touched on is for future development. It helps with the Jaclyn property to to continue to develop out as they as they envision it. um you know so there's a lot of benefits to being able to get these in incremental pieces done now um as opposed to waiting the for another five ten years for the pieces to come into place. So thank you. May I ask a question of health? Sure.

Sorry. Can I have you can I drag you back up? Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Um, so if I can, if this is not approved, the what we should expect to see is only incremental development on these streets. And that's kind of what is um on offer for us. Approve it, get complete streets and infrastructure put in or don't approve it and see. And you are saying that your business plan will be to only incrementally and perhaps only on one side of the street make the improvements that are required by our city's plans as you move along. Correct. Yes. Okay. All right. Cool. I just wanted to have it all laid out there. Thank you so much. Thanks, Jimmy.

Council, before deliberation, well, let's go with deliberation. How any comments or you want to float motion? What's what's your thought? I think that getting the infrastructure in now I kind I see what you're saying like we're going to have to maintain it. Um I think that it's hard because we're making a commitment out there. Fenicus isn't actually on this property. But I think the determining factor for me is that getting the infrastructure in early in the earlyish in the tech park urban renewal district could potentially speed up the other developments there and increase that tax base faster to have more time not only to repay for the infrastructure that they've done but perhaps exceed the projections of that urban renewal district. and then we can use that for other things that are beneficial to the residents of Postf Falls as opposed to doing it incrementally and then potentially just not having time to realize that tax increase. But I'm happy to hear someone else's opinion about that.

I would say two things. I agree with you. I think the the speed of getting this done is important considering that we're already six years into the URD term. Um so getting the improvements done in time to realize that increment I think is important. Otherwise, we'll be kind of pushing toward the end of it. Um, I also know from public feedback that anytime we have major developments that are phased out, they fight construction traffic and and noise and all those things over a period of 15 or more years. So, I do like that all the infrastructure will then support the additional construction traffic rather than having the residents fight it for that long period of time. So, I think I think it's a great idea.

Yeah, this make it makes sense to me. I like that. You know, there's not there's not a plan to reimburse for residential streets. Those are not colored on the map. These are just the kind of major parts of the transportation network that are are primarily serving access to commercial development in the area. I think that's good. And getting the the complete backing roads behind 41. Getting those sooner, I think, is is a real benefit because we're going to see a lot more commercial development there. and having, you know, extra ways to access commercial properties takes a lot of load off the other streets. And we don't want people going through neighborhoods when when we have the ability to just have the street and I think we hear it throughout the entire community, all of us do, and that is infrastructure first, infrastructure, infrastructure. I think this is a good opportunity for us to get the infrastructure in. And I I love the idea of uh the collaboration that's taking place. Um, so it makes perfect sense.

I'm been a bit on the fence on this one. And part of it, I think, goes back to, you know, my thoughts that when we lost our original proponent

um for the tech park that there's a big part of me that thinks we should have just closed the entire urban renewal district then because a lot of it was specifically to bring in that one specific proponent. Um now there's a lot of residential in this uh urban renewal district that you know in my opinion the urban renewal ought to support commercial uh and actual areas of blight and you know a lot of this was largely just open prior to that. And of course you know finishing roads quickly uh is a lot easier to do when the taxpayers pay for it. And ultimately you know that that money doesn't come back to the taxing districts until 2039. and it's the but for test. Would this occur but for the urban renewal district? And I think that yeah, this would probably occur whether it was there or not. It would just happen more slowly and and the people of Post Falls would be able to realize the benefit of that increment uh sooner and be able to spend it on other things because the developer would typically be responsible for paying for these infrastructure improvements. So, uh, having said that, the urban renewal district does exist. These types of amendments are normal and reasonable. Uh, and there are some things in this amendment that I think are greatly to the public benefit, such as the backage road. That's that's been a hot topic for 10 years now. Um, and some some I voted against some annexations farther down that jeopardized that backage road that fortunately it worked out, but if it hadn't, that would have stunk. The traffic on 41's bad enough. Um, the it puts access to that park in play. Uh, and we need we need jobs in this community. Um, and this is the type of project that provide high quality jobs. Uh, so I've kind of got a devil and an angel on each shoulder and that's where I'm

sitting right now.

Yeah, I'm just I'm I'm supporting uh I think it's near instant um continuity connectivity that's important. Uh if it helps for a faster roll out of the rest of the target area, I'm all for it. So we can wrap it up in time. Um and if the project goals are realistic, uh this is a win. the uh urban renewal district, the tech park has languished as Mr. Mallaloy referred to. And on the west side, it's going to continue to languish until lawsuits are settled, the states are settled, etc. I look at the players on this. So what everybody else said I agree with, but I look at the players at this. So I'm going to take it a little bit different approach to it. Not as familiar with multicare. I know who they are. I've talked with them on several occasions. Coupney Health, Lakeside, Parkwood, Multicare, and you throw the Jacquelines in on that. We could not in my opinion, we could not be dealing with a better group of developers, citizens or though than those who are presenting this proposal to us and I would wholeheartedly support it. I think the fact that uh additional medical services in Post Falls, I think, is tremendous. Um, I think it's a win and so I would be very supportive of it. I don't think I'm gonna get to vote, but I I would be very supportive of it and I thank you for looking at it. And it was just uh not quite a year ago when Mr. Smith called me and says, "We're going to have a release press release in the paper tomorrow and I just wanted you to be aware of it." And it was uh I'm silly. I thought it was a $30 million project. So, I think I was short a little bit, but uh uh again, I think it's a great project. So, anybody, we need a motion on that then. Correct.

I'm pushing the but there it goes. It is for ordinance adoption. So it would be the actual uh just like what we were doing earlier. Well, so it we would read it just as an ordinance or ask the new ordinance be brought back. No, this one we'd ask to just go ahead and adopt it. And so Okay. Anybody want to float a motion? Hang on. Yeah. Yeah. I got to get back to the I move to place the ordinance urban renewal technology district plan amendment on its first only reading by title only while under suspension of the rules. Second. Does that work for your field? Motion second. Further discussion. Roll call please. Davis

I. Malloy. I. Ziggler. I. Blue. Hi. Weslin. Hi.

Stig leader. I. Motion passes. An ordinance of the city council of the city of Postfalls, Idaho, approving a plan amendment but not a plan modification to the Postfalls technology district urban renewal plan adopted by the Postfalls ordinance 1349 to support the growth or development of a commercial or industrial project within the existing urban revenue allocation area by adopting a revised appendix A adding urban renewal projects within the district authorizing the city clerk to transmit a copy of this ordinance to the Post Falls urban renewal agency providing for severability providing for the repeal of all conflicting ordinances providing the summary of the ordinance and providing effect an effective date.

I move to approve the ordinance urban renewal technology district plan amendment and direct the clerk to assign the appropriate number and that it be published by summary only. Second motion second. Further discussion roll call please. Davis I. Malloy. Hi. Ziggler. Hi. Blue. Hi. Weslin. I stig leader I motion passes. Thank you. Thank you folks. Next item up is a crown reserve park construction improvement agreement.

Robbie, Robbie, don't take it personal. That's all good. Um, good evening, mayor, members of council. Robbie Quinn, parks planner, here this evening seeking council's approval for the construction improvement agreement with Metalist Development uh for a Crown Reserve Park. So earlier, excuse me, earlier this year, the city uh signed a CIA with Meadows Development for the Crown Reserve subdivision and phase one. And part of those plans and uh agreement was the development of a 3.6 6 acre park. And while that was going on, the developer approached us and asked if we would be willing to partner with them on this development um and share some of the construction costs and then ultimately get the park dedicated to the city to be a city-owned and maintained uh park. And so we went to brought concepts to the park and rec commission, got their feedback, their input, went through the design process, and ultimately um came up with the plan and the agreement before you this evening. And so, as I mentioned, a 3.6 acre neighborhood park. Um what will be developed if this agreement is approved will be the site utilities, water, sewer, electrical, storm water, drainage, the dry wells. There will be a um 27 stall parking area, on street parking essentially. Um that's kind of bumped off of the road similar to what we have at Crown Point Park. Um that will include the internal concrete walking paths, sidewalks, the playground

curbing, two basketball courts, um earthwork, excavation grading, the landscape and irrigation, the asphalt loop path, and uh road frontage improvements on two of the roads. The northern one is yet to be complete until the phase two goes in. And so that would be constructed as phase one essentially next year. Um and then phase two kind of similar to how we did the mantra or the foxtail agreement. We would come in following year add playground equipment, shelter, restroom. Um and in in this instance there's a proposed splash pad. So just to clarify, sure,

phase one is on whose dime?

Both. So there it's shared uh construction costs. Um so the way the developer kind of approached us was they're obligated to build this open space park. Um and so those kind of base amenities they would be paying for. Um so the grading, the earthwork, the landscape, the irrigation, the asphalt path, the road frontage improvements, they're covering those costs. And so anything that we desired as some of our standards, we're covering those costs. Um if approved, they would begin construction. Obviously, the subdivision is currently under construction, but construction on this park this winter, early spring, um with the plan to be complete in November of 2026. And again, once if approved, the city would reimburse them $349,3801 upon final inspection dedication to the city. Um, and then submit for reimbursement.

So, with that, I'd stand for any questions, Robbie. So, go ahead, Joe. We'll come back. Sorry. So, there's a certain amount of improvement that they're required to do anyway on their own dime. Grass field. a grass field essentially and a couple other things. And so they want us to pay to make that a nicer park and then they dedicate it to us. They don't have to pay taxes on that parcel anymore. Correct. But we are also getting the land cost donated as well. They are donating the land. Correct. What's the what's the value of that lot?

So 3.6 acres. Our most recent um purchase within the city was the additional land at Montrose uh sports complex went for 240,000 an acre. So we'd be looking at about if that equated about 860,000. Okay. And based on kind of our some of our comps on landscape development, um about 350 a square foot, we'd be looking at another 350,000 in added value. Yeah. Ready?

Just to make the the the trade-off should be clear that if we're if we don't do this, we just get an HOA maintained green space with a little paved trail through like a lot of developments have. And this is to get an actual city park. I don't know exactly what their plan would be if it was an HOA park, but yes, it would be an HOA park. That would be the minimum requirements. Basically, just an open field. Correct. Which is what we've seen in a lot of places. So, we take on the cost of maintaining some of the expense in exchange for getting a a more functional part. Correct. This is this is big enough that you feel comfortable taking it on. I know there's some that have been too small.

Yes. Um it's pretty close to our our minimum. um that we'd like to stick around. However, given where it's located off Spokane Street, easy access closer to another park that we do own. So, again, we're already going in this area. Um there will likely be a trail located on the western side of the park. It's joining the school district site. So, there's kind of a lot of factors in that. Um we decided or, you know, determined that it was absolutely worth it. How far from Crown Point is this

park? Oops. Sorry. I don't know the exact distance. Um, but this road is essentially the northernmost developed that um of Crown Point currently. So, not far. Not far. Is it Huh? I'm sorry. I would guess about a quarter mile. Okay. Is it within our parks plan to have two city-owned parks? We have other ones like that, but I think the the key is what Robbie said about it being connected to the school district property, which the school district has zero plans for right now, right?

Right now, but you know, it will be someday. And um there are things at the Crown Point that we can relieve some of those and make adjustments to. Okay. Can I be honest about my heartburn about this?

Yes. Okay. I think a developer said that they were going to build a really lovely park in their development and then turned around and said, "Well, how about you help us make it better and then also we'll dedicate it to you and then you can maintain it." Um, these these residents are going to continue paying the same amount of taxes that they pay whether they have an HOA park or not, but now the city will so we're not going to get an increased revenue to be able to maintain this park. um when there is another park so close, but if it stayed in HOA park, the residents within that community, it would be their burden to maintain their own private park. So, kind of the niceness or not the niceness, but the level of service at that park. It's not like a I don't know. It's not like a convincing argument to me because it's going to be an HOA park. So, they can make it whatever they want. If they want to put two basketball courts in it for their HOA, like they totally can. um it's just not on the community's dime to do it or maintain it. The other thing that makes me curious is Robbie, they didn't come to you with a plan of like, hey, this is what we were going to build. Um but if you want it to be better than that, then you guys will pay for the extra. Um they didn't like there wasn't like a base plan. No, we didn't have um they didn't present us with a plan of what they were going to do.

Gotcha. Kind of makes me like it would just be so much clearer for us to decide like what is actually like an increase in service that we're paying for as opposed to us just paying for anything that's not literally a grass field. Like maybe they were going to put something in there, but now they're not even going to say that they're going to do that because we're going to offer to pay for it. Sure. I think from our perspective, the value that we're getting, like as I mentioned with the land cost, we know in land availability. Yeah. Um we're over probably 1.2 million in value for basically contributing $350,000

plus probably another four or 500 in the in the phase two to finish out the park. But this park in this area wasn't part of our park's master plan like to acquire land here to have a public park. No, I mean this area wasn't even I guess part of the thought to have been in the master plan at that time. Okay. I mean it's lovely and I like more parks. I'm not saying that I think that we shouldn't do it. It's just these are just thoughts that I have.

Sure. And as Dave mentioned, um another reason that we were in favor of it being close to Crown Point, um Crown Point is also one of the smaller side of our parks. Um, and we can kind of move around some of our amenities. Um, so you know, so we don't have to have pickle ball basketball at both locations. We can have basketball at one, pickle ball at other, that sort of thing. Uh, when Crown Point was developed, um, that was a developer project. The asphalt sports court area was supposed to be designed to have two basketball courts, but the way they poured it, we weren't able to fit two. And so we have one basketball, one uh pickle ball, and kind of just some other space that's really underutilized. And so that's why we we kind of thought this was a win-win on being able to kind of move some of our amenities around.

Okay. I like it. It's another anchor for this community up here. And in 10 years when I drive by and don't see just a grass field there, I'll feel pretty good about it. Yeah, I agree. I think I think my opinion is with yours that it would be a win-win. I actually think this is a pretty uh interesting format for kind of public parks that are typically an HOA uh considering the one of the HOAs that we've had in the past.

You know, a lot of the development is is not up to what city city standards would be and what our citizens would expect um initially upon construction, but also upon, you know, 10 years down the road with maintenance. So, I really like the kind of the cooperation that we have with this developer. Plus, it adds to our portfolio of parks within the city, which I think is is fantastic already. Um, and additionally, I think, you know, with the acquisition of that land at a greater value than what we have invested in it, um, I think it is a win-win is my heart my only heartburn. I agree with all that, but I do still have some heartburn that except

that, you know, this developer is going to end up with a nicer product, largely a taxpayer expense, which is going to make all the new development around it uh sell for a higher premium dollar, I would say, and then they get to wash their hands of the of the tax bill and maintenance and all of those sorts of things. and how many people from, you know, the Highlands or downtown CPS or are going to go use this park and they're all going to be paying for it and the and the ongoing maintenance and uh and the developer and the HOA get to get a pretty large uh burden off their back of taxpayer expense.

Yeah. I think on that on that note too though all of these lots will be paying impact fees and so you know thinking about it that way there's still that contributing to development of parks in in city parks. So if I could add not that he's not doing a great job so but I'd like to answer just want to say one more thing before you go off. You know, it's a mic. Do it, Dave.

Um, to answer a few questions, I understand what you're saying about developers. I've had the same heartache and heartburn, but our state legislature changed the rules on impact fees. So, we do have to reimburse. That wasn't always the case. The second thing is if it's an HOA, we don't have any control on it in the future. So, a some fad comes in, some new trend, pickle ball, um skateboarding, you name it. Uh maybe lacrosse, if it's not controlled by the city, we can't address the needs of future generations. So, those are really big things. I can tell you that when Robbie brought me the numbers, I was ecstatic because I was expecting a lot more.

So, from my standpoint, it's a really good deal. We try to do win-wins with the developers because we're here for the long term. They're going to be around. We want to work with them again. Um, yes, I would love to get more and I would love to not use impact fees, but that's where we've been pushed. Sure. And I'm not saying anymore because then I don't have to do my talk at the end. Can I ask you a question, Mr. Fair? Yes. If I showed you how popular water polo is, would you get me a pool? No. Well, you know, I wish you could have been around a few years ago when we talked about a pool and how badly that was defeated. I know. We've brought in an expert who I'm sure will be more than happy to get you a water polo pool.

Thank you so much. Perfect.

Any other questions, comments? I just have a couple comments. I think the when we see a case where the developer would benefit by doing something like this with the city, I think it's right for that to raise red flags and to look at it. But the real question is not whether it benefits the developer. It's whether it benefits the city and and the citizens and and whether it's a wise use of taxpayer dollars for what we're getting for it. Uh because it's possible to have a win-win where we can have a developer benefit and also have residents benefit. This looks to me like one of those cases. I can definitely see the argument for saying um if it's an HOA thing, let them let every HOA do their own park. U but from what we've seen from HOAs, we would just have no parks if we did that. And I know that they serve a lot more than the residents just there. The the park groups here rotate through. They go to parks all over the place. And so I think the reason why you don't see really high quality HOA parks is because it's not just for those residents in those cases. It's actually a city-wide amenity. U and if the if the parks department is okay with this one, then then I am too. I like it.

And it was only a few years ago that we had to go into uh Crown Point and redo that park because it was not done properly. Right. So, I'm just being a fence writer tonight. I mean, the property that one thing is tipping me towards it is that property is never going to get any cheaper around here. That's right. Uh, and there's only so much of it. It's just a little bit of heartburn still, too. Well, let's see how you're writing the fence. Anyone want to float a motion? Is this This isn't an ordinance, correct? Just not an ordinance. I move to approve Crown Reserve Park Construction improvement agreement. Second. Motion second. Further discussion? Roll call, please. Mallaloy. Hi, Ziggler. I first I Weslin. Hi, Stigler.

I Davis, I motion passes. You did that on purpose, didn't Shannon, you did that. Next item up tonight is a Quarry Sports Complex grant of sewer easement.

Good evening again, Robbie Quinn, parks planner. Um, this is more or less another housekeeping item on our quarry complex site. So, as we've been going through the final design documents and the permitting, it was discovered that there is no current easement in place for an existing sewer service on our property. Um, this sewer service shown here in green uh is tied into Charleville Road and it services the Ross Point Water District Office building up here. Was installed in 2017. Um and again as it's just kind of more of a housekeeping item to it protects them but it also protects us in developing over this line in the future. Um obviously we're aware of it now but you know future generations may not have been and build something over it and that has to get torn out at some point. So that's essentially what we're here this evening asking for is the um the approval of the easement. And I guess just real quickly, it doesn't impact our design. This space was essentially always going to be a landscape buffer anyways. Um, if you recall kind of from the plans, this area was sports courts. And again, we were always going to have a planting buffer along that property line.

Was there supposed to be an easement that just didn't get recorded or was this built without permission and we're rectifying? No. to to my knowledge and this was before I was here. Um when we discovered it, we talked to Ross Point, they were under the impression that there was one. Um we were under the staff was also, so I think I don't know what happened, but it it wasn't just done without permission, I'm sure. Well, I'm on the fence about this one. Come on, Joe. You have more slivers tonight. I would move to approve the Corey Sports Complex grant of sewer easement. Second. Motion second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. Ziggler. I. Blue.

I. Weslin. I. Stig leader. I. Davis. I. Malloy. Hi. Much pass. Thank you. Thanks, Rob. Yeah. And just one other clarifying point, we we did run this by our grant um representative to making sure that this doesn't cause any issues with our approved grant. Um and she basically said we're all good. We just need to show it on the final plan. Thank you. Nice. Next item up, citizens issues. And this section of the agenda is reserved for citizens wishing to address the council regarding city related issues that are not on the agenda. If anyone wishes to speak, come forward. There's a familiar face. Name for the record, ma'am.

Carrie Thorson, 2550 Powder Horn Street, Post Falls, Idaho. Thanks, Carrie.

First of all, merry Christmas. coming soon. Uh, and because I was sitting here with uh I'm going to call him Chief Mueller, acting chief Mueller, u, I want to give a a real shout out to the Post Falls Police Department who for over 25 years, I don't know how many, but over 25 years has taken the lead in the holidays and heroes program. And uh for several of of those years, my husband and I have um had the real really the privilege of volunteering with that program. And while it encompasses all of law enforcement and first responders and Coupney County Fire and Rescue in Coupney County and surrounding counties, it really is the Post Falls Police Department that um leads it and they do such a wonderful job and and it's from the heart and so I I am honored that I get to volunteer with them. But um Jason's leadership was very impressive this year. So kudos to kudos to the police department. I love these guys and gals. The reason I'm here um is because I missed you all. um as a citizen is uh Mayor Jacobson mentioned something in his comments and I had not seen anything uh in the paper or any notices about um taking applications for the vacancy that will happen in the first meeting in January or after the first meeting in

January. And I would like to say right off I have no intention of applying for that vacancy. But I did want to tell you all how really uncommon it is that this will be the third vacancy that will be appointed on this city council.

Um it's it's just a huge responsibility. Everything y'all do is a huge responsibility. But this one, when I retired in January of 2024, I had served 16 years, four terms on the council, and I never participated in interviewing people for a vacancy on the council. It is really uncommon that the city of Post Falls in a year's span is going to have three times if that happens. I attended the interviews uh the the two separate interviews um for the vacancies last year. Was it just last year? Just last year. And I something that was very disappointing to me is that those were less like interviews and more like interrogations and somewhat conf confrontational. It just really it just it it broke my heart because I know the people that volunteer to serve on the park and recck commission, but especially planning and zoning. Um th the planning and zoning, those people do the heavy lifting. There's no paycheck. Uh they do a a great service to this community and to the council. And so the second round when they were disqualified, anyone who was serving on planning and zoning and maybe anybody who'd ever served on planning and zoning or anyone who had run for the council who had ever put their name on a ballot and gone out there and knocked on doors, they were disqualified. Their applications were not even going to be

considered. and I just want I don't know what your process is. I won't be involved in it because I'm not going to apply and I'm not on the council. But I wanted to really encourage before that process is started or decided on how it will be is that people are not citizens who are eligible to serve on the council. that no one is disqualified whether they are, you know, whether they've run for office unsuccessfully or not or whether they do the heavy lifting on one of our councils or commissions as a volunteer. Um, so I would hope that we the people

We're at five. So if you'd wrap it up for us. Oh, I don't see the clock. It's behind you. Oh, it's behind you. Oh, it's behind me. Sorry. But anyway, so that's my Oh, there's one right in front. Oh, I'm 15 seconds over. Thank you for what you all do and will continue to do. Um, and congratulations, Mayor Elect Weslin. Um, lots of changes. Godspeed, Mayor Jacobson. Thank you. It's kind of good on this other side out here, I'm telling you. But thank you. And that's just what I wanted you to consider is not to make any exceptions to who can apply and consider all fairly and equally. Thanks, Jerry. Merry Christmas.

Anybody else? Miss, we do have uh one administrative staff reports park and recreation presentation. Dave,

and as Dave walks up here, I'm going to read something. So when you look at the playgrounds, the ball fields, the trails, community events, and the programs that fill our seasonal brochures, we save Dave's fingerprints everywhere. Long after his retirement party is over, long after all of us in this room have moved on to new chapters, there will be children who grow up and playing in these parks, families who gather for reunions and picnics, seniors who stay active and connected, and neighbors who meet for the first time at a city event. They may not know Dave's name, but they will feel the impact of his work. This is the quiet power of public service. You don't always get headlines. You don't always get credit, but you build something that lasts. And Dave, you have absolutely built something that lasts. Thank you,

Dave. Dave, before they have tissue, before you start though, did she say you don't always get headlights? Probably.

Okay. Just Yes. Mayor, Council, Dayfair, senior park and recreation director. Um, 30 years. That's a long time in a position, but not long enough for a park and recck director because what we do is so far out, so many years out. You know, I start out with a title actually a file Dave's last talk and I'd throw stuff in it and I'd look at it and I thought about that and then I started thinking about The Last. It made me think about a musical by Sting, The Last Ship. It's great musical, but it was about the decline of the British um ship building industry. thought about the last lecture series at Carnegie Melon. Most of those ended with about ends. That's not what this talk is about. It's not about decline. It's not about ending. It's really it's about where I believe we need to continue to go to be successful as a department and as a city, as a community. Um, I started with this slide here, the castle at White Pine Park, because in my mind, this is where it started for me. This was a change of our standards. This was the start of modernizing our department and most importantly, this was the start of changing the perception about our department and that was critical for our success. 30 years. That's a lot of institutional knowledge. And this is my way to pass on that institutional knowledge because really

that's just perspective. And you need to know where you've been to know where you need to go. So when I first got here, that was our brochure. You might have had something to do with publishing this. Don't take this person. Don't take this personal. Then we publish it once a year. It had stuff in it. It listed some dates, sometimes some fees. Mostly it didn't. Now, our brochure, it does have dates. It has times. It tells you everything about it. It's very professional. But most importantly, it allows people to schedule and get things done so they know what their lives are busy. So this allows for that. That's their first look at our department, at our programs. We were a small department, six people. We've grown a little bit since then, but we're very efficient. 32 For those that like numbers, we had six parks. We now have 37. Our park acreage was 175 acres. We're at 933. Maybe more, Robbie, now that we just added that agreement. I don't know. Um, I can't tell you the program enrollment. I can't tell you the attendance. We didn't take it back then. We didn't start till 96. It took me a full year to realize we didn't have the numbers. Um 96 25,000 um attendance hours. Now we're at 179,000. Little bit of a growth there. We were

two divisions, we're five divisions now. Our revenue was 93,000. Our revenue is now 1.4 million. Now, for the fence sitters, expenditures did go up just a little bit. Um, from 265,000 to 5.5 million. Now, one thing to understand, um, it wasn't until 95 that we actually got money for capital. We got $3,000 for equipment and park construction. The world's changed. I can tell you it hasn't gotten easier, but it's still worth it. I wanted to show you pictures of some facilities. Up at the top there was the boat launch. Those docks were partially underwater. They were wooden. The logs are still at Camelan Park. If you go along the parking spots going on up from the upper parking lot down, that's the log floats.

We drug them out. We tried to dry them out. Um wasn't the same. So if you make it down to Black Bay and see the new dock, totally different. The the castle at the start, that's what it replaced. The metal playground. That's where we were at. There was a spiral slide. and I wasn't going to show that. There's some things that just don't show our facilities for park maintenance that was taken in 2001. So, not quite when I started, but we were busting at the seams. We spent half an hour in the morning moving cars and trucks out of the yard, half an hour at night trying to get them back in. All our equipment was stored outside. it kind of ends the space today. There's the um the shop and I should say we were more than happy when uh public works left that third street shop to take it over and we've continued to improve it. Um things are undercover. We're taking care of that public investment. Our playgrounds are state-of-the-art. Um, you know, we're protecting city assets. We're modernizing it. Our things are captivating. They're efficient. They're energizing. We've come a long way. So, you've seen where we were. Now, you're going to see a little bit of where we're at right now. our revenue streams. We had three general fund fees and charges, donations when we started. We now have along with those sponsorships, impact fees, grants, rentals, and concessions and dedicated accounts. That would be the special event accounts, the park trust accounts, the cemetery replacement.

We don't have you broaden it so you're not impacted with the bad year. you hope. Okay, this is where I get to sit on the get on a soap box and we talked a little bit with some of the discussion on Crown Point Reserve. Um, I want you to understand how important and critical impact fees are for our department. It's always been our view that growth should pay for itself, that we need to keep our system as unaffected by growth as we can. So, it's a snapshot of where we were so that every citizen coming along has it. It was a it's a replacement methodology. wanted to keep postfalls feeling like a small town, but our capital uh expenditures over 90% of it comes from impact fees. I'd also like to remind you guys that you did not take the full amount for impact fees that the parks were available. So, we've really struggled to keep up and to get that. So, anytime we can get those um deals with the developers and negotiations, we have to do it. we have to go after the grants. That's not going to change. Uh we work really work hard and I think truly that ground point reserve is one of those things. We're going to our citizens will end up with a better product. I know impact fees will be coming back to the council this next spring, maybe a little later, but next year. Um, please accept that just how critical impact fees are for the continued success of our park system and that development in handling it. There's discussion of moving away from the replacement model to a projectbased.

There's mixed opinions on that. Um, the only thing I ask is that when you look at everything, you make sure that there's flexibility in the system. That's the process that has allowed us to take um to look at opportunities and to be able to go get that. So, it's not specific that you're going to do X, Y, and Z. Growth doesn't happen that way. Um and that it is an ability to be flexible. So, I think that's why we've been successful. Okay, I'll get off the soap box. We've balanced our system through having park amenities spread throughout the city so that it's walkable connectivity, broad-based recreation programs, uh so that we're serving as many needs of the community as possible, community engagement, and reducing conflicts uh through design and everything else. We have a lot of standards now. We have a level of service for parkland for recreation programs. Uh minimum amenity standards that tell us how many basketball courts, pickle ball, you name it. So that it's not just an arbitrary throw something against the wall to see how it fits. There's an actual process in that. We have the the park grid for access design standards. Really think tree standards. Um, can't say enough for how that's helped us. It's so much easier to plant the right tree in the right location than to plant it, watch it just starting to get nice and then take it down because we messed up. Standards for staff professionalism and our rules. Going to take a break.

That may or may not be water.

I Well, after Friday, no, it's not. It also gives you a chance to look at our staff. Um, I can't say enough about them. It's one of our most important things. They're dedicated staff. Uh, they want to serve the community. You know, we're not a 9-to-f5 Monday through Thursday department. We're seven days a week, year round. All kinds of hours, lots of weekends, lots of evenings, call outs, but it's to serve the community, to make it better. 30 years, there's a few successes. Um, I wanted to highlight a few that I thought were important. I already mentioned the revenue streams impact but the TLore quarry development. We had a failed uh development there. The developer went under. A lot of uh developers looked at it. We had one that actually had the finances to do it. But there is a lot of restrictions because you had approved park plans already. Very, very elaborate park plans. it wasn't going to work and that's just how it is. But it took I don't know how many years, a lot of years to go through. But we came up with a win-win that ended up with having Tullemore Park built. Same type of partnership and getting the land for the quarry, which hopefully this spring we'll start construction on. You know, that was a tough one because we kept hitting roadblocks, but it came through. Uh, seeing the community forest come together. We bought the crutch property, made a bookend, and kept trying to sell that that idea and it's wonderful. The cemetery improvements, our broad-based recreation

programs, uh, adding the urban forestry and the planting divisions, uh, the health of our trees. I could have shown you a ton of pictures when I first got here of all the trees being taken down by the wind storms and stuff. I hate to say that right now because we're supposed to get the wind tonight, but um we really have improved the health. One thing you don't see is the pine bark beetle infestation that we've been fighting in Black Bay for the last few years. We're getting a handle on it. It's going to be a continuous problem, but we still have trees at Black Bay. uh planning, construction, it's gotten very complicated. So, having great staff on that, the neighborhood parks within walking distance, community engagement, Black Day Bay Depot for all of the just the little details that make it special. And then probably one of my favorites is downtown for a day. We took a concept, got staff to um help make it happen. And it wasn't just our department, but other departments jumped in and created what the downtown could be. Now, we only got to do it for one year, but in my mind, it was everything that a department should be. It engaged. It got imagination. It was It was the perfect event. Weather was terrible. We did come up short a few times. Um, you know, it's can't win them all. not buying quad park the first time, the second time, and the third time. Probably one of our biggest mistakes. You know, there we haven't always gotten land connected to the parks. Sometimes it goes too fast. Sometimes we just can't afford it is life. Connecting pathways, probably not getting the center of the carbon ditch was a big loss because we could have

connected the U ofi um area down to the downtown. But it happens. I don't mind making the mistakes on those misses, by the way. That just says you're trying. And so what? We make a mistake. We go fix it. I'd rather do that than not have tried. And here, this is really a shameless plug for the American uh sheep industry. So eat more sheep. uh and euros and all those good things. Um where we need to go planting the seeds. These are the things that I see from a long-term standpoint that we really can't lose sight of. In other words, I didn't get them done, so somebody else has to do it. Thoughts? Um it's the little things that make your parks and your programs great. It just takes a little more effort, but it's worth it. Every bit of it. Um, we don't have a fire department, so I can pick on them right now. You go to any city and your fire departments are pretty much the same. Okay, the truck might be different, white, yellow, or red. But you go to a park and wreck department throughout the nation, they're all different. They have this or that. It's because they're reflection of the community. So, you just have to understand that it will be a little bit different, but it should reflect what your community is, and it will change over time. Always engage the community. Don't forget the people. That's why we're in business. Expand the revenue centers. I probably said that enough times, but maybe it'll sink in. Obtain land that's adjacent to parks when possible. Don't make the same mistakes I've done. Another soapbox time. Downtown area is critical. We need to obtain the Burlington

Northern rail line when they abandon it. Not just the rail line, but the switchyard. We need to obtain buffer land around the amphitheater at the landing. We need to finish the espionade. We need to pick up more land around the water tower because that becomes an anchor for that esplanade between that and Falls Park. You want the engagement. the reason for the amphitheater. Oh, I'll get that to the next slide. Um, okay, time over for a soap box, but understand it's so important to the success of our department of the city in future years. Once again, we plan way out. Uh, find access to the Department of Lands property south of the community forest. You got 1,600 acres of land up there. All we need is some way to get access trail head and pathway up. Ultimately, that can can connect to the land over in Spokane County, the Mica Peak area, that whole thing. What a boom for the whole region. And it's not just for that. What about all the companies that deal in that outdoor stuff that would be willing to come in so people can play that make the equipment? Um the potlatch property, it's one of the last pieces of large property in the center or core of the depart city. You need to get some of that. If the Pendar building ever comes up for sale, that's right next to the third street shop. Buy it. When I talked about the railway corridor, I don't know if you can see it. Okay, so way up here, that's one of our parks right there next to the school. comes all the way down, hits Falls or Treaty Rock Falls Park. The switchyard, it's not really showing up there. You'll

have to It's the wider blue. That railway goes all the way down to Court Lane. That was supposed to be the original um Centennial Trail. It's critical to to have have that. And if it means creating um just like we do the facility reserves, creating reserve to get that when it comes in. I know uh Bob's been working with the railroad trying to get first rights is critical. I'm almost done with my thoughts. I've only got 72 more slides. Uh continue to partner with key stakeholders, strengthen them wherever possible, get new ones. We need to build a fieldhouse for indoor stuff, the gyms and the for basketball and volleyball. when COVID hit and we couldn't get into the school district, it just devastated our program and it took time to recover. When you have only one sole source, just like revenues, it can hurt you if something happens. The other thing I I've always hated to tell you, okay, we need to get this this because I've been in places where they actually pointed that out and it never but the Hansen property at state line that will need to be annexed into the city at some point. when it comes in, you do have the ability as a condition of annexation to to ask for things. Ask for land along the river for a trail connectivity. Ask for some land uh for a community park that's adjacent to the county's part there. Someday that county parcel will be the cities. So add to it. um look towards a long-term dedication account which is what I was talking about for the rail corridor considered a corpus trust or a foundation um

most of all engage the community. It's why we're in business. It means the best parks, best programs, they're nothing without people. If people are not engaged with each other through this then that also means no community. I ask you to remember that um that we the city are a service industry that parks and recreation maybe more than most is a service industry. Parks and recreation isn't mandated. uh by state code. We're here because the people want it. Another way to look at it is we're not telling residents they need to have us. They're telling us that we need to provide it. And if we're going to provide it, we need to provide it at the best level we can and provide the best service for our residents. 30 years. There's a lot of people to thank after 30 years. Um, I hate to single people out because I'm going to miss somebody who should be thanked and I'll hear about it. Um, but you know, that's from past council members, that's past park and recreation commission members, volunteers, staff, both full-time and part-time. You know, my current staff, they're the ones who really should get credit for everything we've done. um that makes me look good, makes our department look good. If it looks bad, I probably had a hand in it, but that's okay. They've they've cleaned up a lot of stuff. I said I don't want to single out some people, but I really do. Um I have to thank

Shelley and Morren for their support, for the belief in me, uh for listening to to me complain at times. I have to thank my management team, Tracy, Brian, Robbie, Kevin, and Preston. They are so good at their their job. They made it easy, and they can do it. I have to thank my family. They've had to put up with the impacts of my job. They've had to take the back seat more times than was probably fair or they should have. Any of you serving here, you know the exact same thing. Um, I wouldn't change that. I I look at Post Falls and I absolutely am very proud of everything I see. And I guess I most of all I have to thank the citizens of Post Falls trusting me with the stewardship of the department. And you know, it's been a great career. I'm very grateful for everything we accomplish and I hope I built a a good foundation for Chris to take over and keep it running. So, I thank you from the bottom of of my heart.

Thank you, Dave.

Job well done. Next item up is uh mayor and council comments. We're going to reverse it. Council comments. Mr. Mayor, this will be my last meeting. I will not be at the January meeting due to some stuff stuff medical stuff. Yeah. Thank you, Ethan. Yes, I do have comment. I would like to read a letter to all of us and then I'll expand on that. Um,

says, "Dear Corbin Rose, thank you for your nice letter. Happy New Year to you. Study hard and be a good student. your friend. And this this letter was written um to my daughter when she was in first grade in 2014 by Mayor Ron Jacobson. 2014.

Um so I wanted to take the opportunity just to thank you in in many ways. Um, your leadership and commitment to the city has affected me on multiple levels from being a hometown resident and living here my entire life. Um, you've affected me personally. You've affected my family and my daughter. And I think I think this letter is just one example of how your caring and commitment to the citizens of the Post Falls really shines through. This is things that you don't have to do that you have chosen to do. And I am very appreciative as a as a father of for someone like you to show that kind of example of civic engagement to a fir first grader at her age just really made a big impact. Um and then thirdly as a council member um I I will miss you and your leadership here. Uh you've been a great example to me as as how strong and firm yet humble leadership should be lived out. Um, and I and I appreciate you in that way as as a as a fellow servant, as a council member here, and and I hope as a friend as well. So, I appreciate you uh from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Yeah. Anybody else? On the same line, um Brian, worked with you for 10 years when you're on the planning and zoning and and a year on the council. Uh it's been a pleasure. Um, wish you the best of luck and I'm sure we'll see you around and involved as as always. I'll be here for citizen comment.

Uh, Ron, 14 years I've been on the council now with you. Uh it's seems bizarre that back then I was by far the youngest and least experienced person on the council and somehow I've become the sage old man on the porch, you know, telling kids to get off their lawn. But uh you you've been you've been a friend and mentor to me the entire time. Um I really appreciate your guidance. A lot of phone calls. You don't if he takes as many phone calls from other people as he's taken from me then you have time to do anything. But um really appreciate you and uh uh this definitely isn't goodbye. I'm going to keep bothering you anyway. Perfect. Um but uh thanks for everything you've done. My pleasure.

I want to go next before someone says something, you know, way more interesting than what I have to say. Um but uh thank you for uh your graciousness and your welcoming when I was appointed to the council. it um it was obvious and noticeable and I was very nervous uh back then and and you uh you you a little bit of a fatherly aspect to you that was really appreciated and I appreciate uh when my dad was dying you checking in with me on that regularly that was also very touching so thank you for everything you've done for me and for the city thank you

Mr. Mayor I don't know what I'm going to call you next year because I've always only called you Mr. mayor. So, I might just keep that up and I'm so sorry. But um I think we've had a um a fun relationship the last two years. And so um yeah, I'm excited for you and for the freedom that you're going to gain to spend some time with your wife that has just been so generous and kind. And I have so enjoyed all of the moments that I've gotten to get to know her. And I'm sad that maybe I won't see her as often. But if you don't mind and also if you don't mind new upcoming Mr. Mayor, I might just keep calling you Mr. Mayor if that's okay. Well, it's like uh Mr. Paulace.

I see Rob at Costco at church and it's always Mr. Mr. Mayor. I says, "Rob, we're at church." He goes, "No, Mr. Mayor, Rob, it's Ron." Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor,

I was just going to announce that this is also my last meeting. uh every other year we get to spend with our kids and the kids have been so gracious that they've married people who coordinate schedules. So every other year the in-laws get them and this year happens to be ours and we usually travel to Christmas but now that kids all have their own houses and we've got six grandkids and they want to have Christmas at their house with their kids which we fully understand. So this year we're celebrating after Christmas and at the January 6 meeting we'll have kids in town and I'm not going to come in to call the meeting to order and then do the consent calendar. So Mr. Mallaloy if you would do the honors I would be very much appreciative.

Amen.

U I served with some great people. Uh Carrie gosh as an elected 27 years I had the pleasure of hiring being involved in the hiring of Bayfair twice. Uh, I believe I was the first chairman of your park and recreation commission. Um, I've worked with some great folks. Uh, half of you up here I've worked with for a short period of time. So, you know, it's a new relationship, but I want to target the people I've worked with for a full term. And Nathan, you know, I didn't know you till you ran and you've been uh nothing but a pleasure. Uh, we don't agree on everything and that's absolutely perfect because we do it for the right reasons. We uh our opinions are for valid reasons. uh we can disagree, still remain friends. Your compassion for the city, dedication to the city is evident. Um so, you know, I sincerely appreciate it. Uh Mr. Mallaloy, 14 years. Uh I remember when Joe ran for office first time he told me he says, "I came to a budget meeting. I heard one of the count councilmen say we have to take a budget increase." And Joe says, "I knew I need to run against him." Joe says, "And then he got involved and said, you know, the guy was probably right. we probably did need to and you've never lost sight of what's best for the city and uh again we have not agreed on everything and I I think it's just been a wonderful relationship. So, you know, I sincerely appreciate the time that I spent with you and and look forward. And I told Joe uh when I was thinking about uh when I was trying to decide if I was going to run for reelection, I said, "Joe, you know, if I don't run, I'm going to endorse you and someday maybe you'll give me the opportunity, you know, for whatever position. So, please let me know." Mr. Davis, I've only served with you on the council for a year, but I've known you a lot longer.

Uh 10 years on PNZ. You you chaired that. you, as Krie said, PNZ does a lot of the heavy lifting. Um, you've I'm absolutely 100% convinced that you were the best qualified, most qualified candidate when I appointed you to the council and you have not disappointed. Thank you very much. U I wish you the best as you challenge face your medical challenges. Know that we're here for you. I'm here for you. U your wife will be happy to have you full-time. Uh well, maybe she will. uh at first at first.

Yeah, Ryan and Jamie have dedicated more time to this city as a couple than I think anybody I've I know. So, uh it's been a true pleasure and uh like I said, it's it's been a good run. You know, it's I was talking to Carrie. She says it's good on the other side and uh never I say never say never. We'll see if and when any opportunity presents itself. And it is kind of funny, but in the last week, I've had two different groups contact me and see if I want to go back to work. And on the first case, it was back in banking. And I thought about it for probably about a half a second said no. So, uh, anyway, never know, never know where you might see me. So, uh, again, it's been fun. Uh, it's been a challenge. We've gone through significant growth. We went through COVID uh you know, we went through a great recession. Uh and I'm just fortunate to be able to work with such a wonderful staff. Uh you we got great people to keep me out of trouble and uh you're second to none. And I know because I've talked to mayors from other cities. Matter of fact, what was it uh eight months ago? City of Louiswis's mayor who's become a friend brought two or three of his staff members up to talk to us to see how we do things because we do it right. I hear that uh Brent Reagan, chair of the Republican Central Committee, says the thing that drove him nuts about me is that I supported urban renewal and he doesn't. He says the reason it drives me nuts is because if urban renewal is done properly, it's because it's in the city of Pulse Falls. And anytime you can have someone who disagree with disagrees with the concept admit that, I think it's because it is being done right. So, uh, to our urban renewal staff, of which Jaime's wonderful wife has been a member for several years, uh, you know, thank you to our planning zoning commission, to our park and recreation commission, and everybody that's contributed to the city. Uh, you know, like Ryan says, I may be here because I'm still paying the taxes. So, uh, I may show up at meetings, but probably not. I've been in enough meetings and I will guarantee you

that the second meeting in January and I've already told this to Shelley. I'm going to take my bride to dinner to a nice restaurant and I'm going to text Shelley a picture of the two of us sipping a cocktail during your meeting and I'm going to text. So anyway, thank you very much. It it's been a it's been a great run. We do not need an executive session. Next motion is go home. All those in favor? I a journey.