City Council - Regular Meeting

Monday, March 2, 2026

The Tillamook City Council proclaimed March 2026 as Emergency Preparedness Month, heard a presentation from the Columbia Pacific Economic Development District (COPAC) on regional economic development programs, and approved the first reading of an ordinance to partially vacate a portion of Trout Street.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Tillamook, OR
Meeting Date
March 2, 2026

Transcript

52 sections (from 172 segments)

32:11Speaker 1

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32:19 – 32:46Speaker 1

I guess they are. There they are. Thank you.

32:43 – 33:20Speaker 1

All right, let's bring our second order and stand for the pledge of 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 for all. I have roll call, please. Uh, councelor Kninger here. Councelor Bashard here. Councelor Reynolds here. Mayor Burus here. Councelor Sandowski here. Councelor Chris here. Councelor here. All right. Thank you. We have

33:20 – 35:19Speaker 1

proclamation that Sanduski said he would read tonight proclamation about emergency management and citizen preparedness. Whereas the city of Telmok recognizes its responsibility to protect the life, safety, health and property of its residents, businesses and visitors. And whereas the city of Telmok emergency operations plan establishes an all hazards framework for prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery activities consistent with federal, state of Oregon, and Tmore County emergency management policies. And whereas the city of Telmo is subject to a variety of hazards including but not limited to floods, winter storms, wind storms, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, hazardous materials incidents, wildfire and utility failure. Whereas major emergencies may overwhelm the local response capabilities and may require residents to be self-sufficient for a minimum of 72 hours or longer. And whereas effective emergency management requires a whole community approach that includes government, businesses, faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and individual households working together to enhance the preparedness and resilience. And whereas knowledgeable and prepared citizens significantly increase the community's ability to withstand and recover from disaster. Now therefore, we the mayor and city, pardon me. Now therefore, we the mayor

35:16 – 37:14Speaker 1

and council of the city of Tilmok do hereby proclaim that number one, the city of Tilmok designates and affirms its commitment to promoting citizen preparedness within the city and surrounding areas. Number two, all residents are strongly encouraged to maintain an emergency supply kit sufficient for at least 72 hours. Develop and practice a household emergency communication and evacuation plan. Sign up for local emergency alert and notification systems. Mitigate hazards with their homes and b within their homes and businesses. can prepare for the needs of children, seniors, individuals with access and functional needs and household pets. Number three, local businesses are encouraged to develop continuity of operations plans to ensure the resilience of the local economy and essential services. Number four, community organizations, faith-based institutions, and volunteer groups are encouraged to partner with the city to expand preparedness, education, and training opportunities. Number five, the city emergency manager is directed to continue community outreach efforts to promote preparedness education and support volunteer programs such as walk emergency volunteer corp, community emergency response teams and other resilience initiatives. And number six, city of Tillawok affirms its commitment to cooperation with the county emergency management, Tillawok Emergency Volunteer Corp, the state of Oregon, and regional partners to strengthen preparedness and capabilities

37:11 – 39:07Speaker 1

across jurisdictional boundaries. Let it be proclaimed that the city of Tamok calls upon all citizens to take personal responsibility for preparedness and to participate in efforts that enhance the safety and resilience of our community. This resolution is approved and adopted by the city council of the city of Tillok on this second day of March 2026. Thank you uh councelor Sanduski for reading that out loud for us to hear. Um I read it and a lot of it resonates with me and I want to thank the mayor and council for their support and I want to be able to point out that to improve disaster preparedness responsibility and planning is uh a part of our public safety goals that the council has set. Maintain and or strengthen regional emergency planning partnerships. This helps to satisfy both of those along with some of the folks here who are part of the total emergency Volunteer Board which is a very small but mighty group that has a lot of energy going and and we're we're moving in the right direction. We collectively as a city and this volunteer group, this proclamation will help to continue our efforts in partnering with the county and with the state and other funding partners because as the city manager is designated as our emergency operations or excuse me, our emergency manager for the emergency operations stuff. Um it it really it takes all of us to be able to come together specifically for the city of Soma to be able to be ready and resilient and then think about recovery. What does that look like? You're going to be camping potentially for a couple

39:05 – 40:23Speaker 1

weeks or longer, maybe a couple months. And so I'm excited uh about this and I really uh do believe that it's a um it's a milestone for our city to be able to recognize this so we can continue this energy and moving forward. Um and we just recently had an event at the library with Steve Everlin and it was very well attended and that was a preparedness event talking about all kinds of different stuff that you can do. Um and out of that one of the uh regional state coordinators who has some hopefully cross our fingers there'll be some monies available to us and we're really excited about what we got going on. Randy throwing has seen what's going on. Um and so thank you to the emergency volunteer quarter that is here because you've been in good work and I would then open up to questions if you have if we have time but um that's our presentation on the proclamation. A third grader after that meeting was out at Disney brought a couple of pamphlets the tsunami pan sharing all the kids that waiting for us. So nice pretty good. Anybody have any questions or comments?

40:20 – 41:01Speaker 1

Could you ask the volunteers to wave so we can see which one? You bet. You'd like to introduce What am I supposed to say? I'm ID Reynolds and I'm Trey West. Thank and and Chris has been a part of the organization and has been a part of the organization as well and she's she's a great support and advocate for us and a good a good person for us to be able to uh check in with on the different projects. So great support. Well, thank you ladies.

40:58 – 41:29Speaker 1

Thank you. Okay, next we have our public comment section. Any person may address the council after being recognized by myself. However, topics which are under appeal or legal in nature cannot be addressed. Please state your name and address for the record. Time is limited to 3 minutes per person. Anybody's chance on agenda? Not on agenda. No, we have nobody online.

41:27 – 42:02Speaker 1

We do. She's here for presentation. Great. Okay. All right, we'll move to our presentation. Regional economic development program Pacific Economic Development District. Are you there Sarah? I am. Hi, good evening. Thanks for having me. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All yours. Okay, great. Um, Chelsea, are you able to pull up that presentation? I am

42:00 – 42:26Speaker 1

awesome. While she does that, I'll just share my appreciation for having me tonight and having a virtual option. Uh we do cover a wide area of territory and I reside in Atoria. So while I'll even be in Tamok later this week, it is nice to to have a virtual option after dark. Um so as I mentioned,

42:23 – 43:02Speaker 1

um I am Sarah Lou. My last name is Heath. I'm the executive director of the Columbia Pacific Economic Development District. I think it's pretty obvious why we go by COPAC. Um we were uh I just want to give you a little bit of background about what we do and some of our projects and programs that we have. Uh we do work with the city on a couple of items and um unfortunately uh I I got a voicemail that city manager Lewis wasn't available to be there, but uh we've been working on some stuff with him. Um, and is that presentation up? I don't see it on my screen. It was there for a second, but

43:00 – 43:14Speaker 1

yeah, I had it sharing, but it wasn't showing up on the big screen. So, I'm going to I'm going to move it over so that the audience can see it and then I'm going to share it again so you can see it. Oh, great. Okay.

43:13 – 44:03Speaker 1

Because I could probably rattle off everything that's on there, but getting it right order might be tricky. And while she does that, I uh I'll just share some background of the organization. We were founded in the mid 90s. Uh and and the Economic Development Administration is a design, I'm sorry, economic development district is a designation that's provided by the EDA, the Economic Development Administration at the federal level. And uh we serve three and a half counties in far northwest Oregon. That's Colombia, Clatsip, Tieleook, and Western Washington County. uh which is just about from where the highway fell in uh all the way to the county line. And I cannot see that presentation, but I think we should be on the third slide.

44:02 – 44:28Speaker 1

Okay, let give me just one more second. Let me try one one more thing. Can you see it now, Sarah? That's fantastic. Yes. Okay.

44:26 – 46:25Speaker 1

And so, if we can just hop to the third slide. This is an overview of uh the programs that we have and that includes grant writing and administration. Uh and so for example, right now we're working with the city of Tielemok um drafting and and you will submit since you will be the applicant but drafting the um disaster emergency uh funding. Uh we've been working with city manager Lewis and your project manager Adam on that application for the commercial side of your waterline uh project. We also have a revolving loan fund for small businesses. Um, in three of our counties, we're working on the commercial property assess clean energy, which we hope Tilot County will uh also pass ordinances to allow y'all to do. I'll tell you a little bit about that. Um, our brownfield redevelopment program, uh, the Northwest Transit Alliance, and then the comprehensive economic development strategy. And we can go to the next slide. And so, uh, not only do we help people write grants and do grant discovery, oftentimes folks will come to us, uh, and say, "This is our project, and can you help us find what grants might be a good match?" Uh, we can do that for folks. And we also administer grants, uh, because part of our mission is to provide flexible capacity to our rural region. And so, one of the one of the programs that we often manage for municipalities is the community development block grant. Uh and this can uh do infrastructure. It can also help with food pantries, senior centers. Uh it's it's funds that are passed from HUD through the state. And then uh that funding is offered to folks on a competitive basis. Uh and Oregon just

46:22 – 48:20Speaker 1

has a lot of reporting and regulation around these funds. And so we can step in and help with uh that administration, the reporting, all making sure all of the the federal cross cutters are met just to make it a little easier for communities to access these funds. Um and we'll go to the next slide, which is our small business revolving loan fund. So um we work closely with a lot of our commercial banks and even craft 3 uh who's a non-traditional lender and and we can help small businesses and even municipalities. For example, we've loan to Gabaldi in the port of Nalum um to do a number of things like uh purchasing equipment and machinery uh working capital uh even business acquis acquisition um and and real estate. So, uh, we can lend up to $200,000. And as I mentioned, we work with traditional banks. Uh, so when a business might be a startup or is not yet bankable, we can come in early and get those businesses the opportunities they need so they get into the regular commercial banking system. And I I wanted to mention CPACE. Even though this has not been adopted in Tamut County, I think it's a really fantastic tool. and even know of a couple projects that are interested in your area that could be really helpful. Uh it is passed by the county and then all of the cities can access uh this program. And this is a highly flexible financing tool and it is for commercial properties. So that's your traditional commercial properties also industrial. And really one of the reasons that we were looking at it as a tool to bring to the region is to use it for multif family housing. And so, uh, this is all private funding. Uh, this this program allows, uh, private investors to match with projects that, um, use energy

48:18 – 50:18Speaker 1

efficient and clean energy, uh, materials and systems in either a a big rehab of a building or or development of a new construction project. So, what's really nice about this is uh this is nationwide program that was adopted by Oregon, I believe, in 2017. Um, and what's really nice is building code in Oregon is already so progressive that most of the uh any of the eligible avenues for this funding are are included in that building code. So that can be uh water conservation, renewable energy, even seismic upgrades. Um, and so this allows uh a non-traditional financing to come in and it can provide up to 30% of um the total uh redevelopment or or construction costs and it can cover 100% of the energy uh related aspects. So we are talking with the county on on having this adopted. Uh we did that with uh Klatsip and Tielement counties in 2025 and we hope that Tilament County will will look at it this year. We also have administered the Northwest Oregon Transit Alliance since its inception in 2011. This is a group of five different county-based transit agencies. And so it covers the counties that that we're in. Columbia also includes Lincoln County and Benton County. uh this was conceived through a department of energy a US department of energy grant uh for efficiencies and uh lower carbon emissions. So the transit alliance as a whole provides uh coast to valley and valley to coast transit opportunities uh in a connected seamless service. So if you, you know, are going from Tieuk to Canon Beach in another part of the state, you might have to switch buses, pay another fair, look up

50:14 – 52:14Speaker 1

another route, etc. In our system, you can get one fair uh from Tamok all the way up to Atoria. And um we've done a lot of great projects with this group from uh purchasing sanitation supplies as a whole to get discounts. Uh we recently did a zero emissions transition study with all five agencies and this year we're going to embark on a full uh redesign of our website to bring that uh kind of into the future and we are building on this program uh with a new opportunity for us at least through ODOT uh that's called transportation options and and we are launching this program now. Uh we actually have a request for qualified entities uh out there right now to help us with this program. Uh the goal is to promote uh commute options like van pooling, car pooling, transit, bike ped um and and really some of the things that we're excited about this is is around walkability is around um helping with congestion uh seasonality and then doing construction mitigation outreach. Um, I know it was very challenging and I see that uh Justin's in the room tonight. Uh, really challenging for downtown businesses when ODOT uh redesigned all of downtown Tilok, which is beautiful now, but was really a uh I think a challenge for a lot of those main street businesses while that construction is going on. So, on a project by project basis, we can uh help with communication, signage, things like that. So, we're just getting started here, but expect to see uh more from us in your area on this uh in the coming months. And also, um wanted to mention our brownfield redevelopment program. Uh this is something and I see a piece of

52:10 – 54:09Speaker 1

information is missing on this slide. Um back in 2021, COPAC applied for three different grants through the EPA for brownfield redevelopment. One of them went to Clatsup County for $500,000, but also uh the Tieleut County Brownfield program uh also received $500,000 from grants that that we wrote on on their behalf that have been used across Tiele County. Uh we also have our Brownfield revolving loan fund. And so brownfields are any commercial industrial property whose redevelopment is being hampered by real or perceived contamination. And so these assessment funds um can be used to do a number of things. Um your traditional environmental assessment, whether that's hazardous building materials like lead and asbestous or whether you're looking at possible uh groundwater contamination or vapor intrusion. A lot of times when uh a large property needs to change hands, part of your due diligence is going to involve ensuring uh that there won't be any environmental liability coming up once you purchase that property. Um so just last year, COPAC uh acquired another $1.2 million to work on this and uh that funding will go across the region, all three and a half counties, so we can supplement the work that Tieut County has available. uh if if the city has something that the county doesn't think fits their uh their goals, we'd be certainly interested in hearing about those projects and and partnering with land owners in that way. And then um the last two things that I wanted to mention are related. Um and so this is the comprehensive economic development strategy which we call the SDS. um developing the strategy and kind of being the owners of it is one of our requirements for the EDA as an economic

54:06 – 56:04Speaker 1

development district. Uh and so every 5 years we do a deep dive into our our development strategy for the region. That's everything from updating demographic information to looking at economic trends. Uh we have workshops in every county. Folks like yourselves uh at at Tamuk City, large businesses, other of our nonprofit partners are all invited for an in-person SWAT analysis. Um and and we develop an implementation plan to meet our goals, which I'll outline on the next slide. And so um the SE's goals uh are modern and adequate infrastructure, regional collaboration, supporting businesses, that is everything from your uh mom and pop retail business to your fisherman uh to large bu businesses like the crearyy. um resiliency uh not only in emergency management as was spoken about earlier but also uh economic shocks uh with resiliency whether that be COVID or tariffs uh we look at how to ensure that businesses can be nimble and flexible we also work on workforce development and uh transportation as I mentioned so what you're looking at here is some of the work that we have done across the region in the last five years um there are not any um multipliers uh on this. Sometimes you'll see a study that says, you know, we put in $1,000 into this project. And if you look at that impact, you know, times 2.2, which is the the economic multiplier, this is this is just straight real dollars that have been um been invested in our community in the last 5 years that COPAC has led. And I know that that was a lot of information really fast. Um, but I have

56:03 – 56:40Speaker 1

only been in this position for a little less than a year. And while I have met some of you, uh, I just wanted to share this information with the whole council. And, um, you know, definitely open it up for any questions that you might have or if you have a a project or a partner that might benefit from one of our programs, we always appreciate a good referral. Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions or comments? Thanks again. Thanks. Yeah. Well, have you done?

56:40 – 57:12Speaker 1

All right. Next, we have a public hearing. So, we will open public hearing on the vacation of K Street, part of Crow Street. Purpose of this hearing is to provide the public with an opportunity to submit testimony concerning this. We'll begin the order of business with staff report followed by public testimony. Hello. Good.

57:08 – 59:04Speaker 1

U carpenter city cler city zone. Um you have your staff report in the uh packet uh with the maps. if you could put up the map uh Chelsea, the zoning map which shows the area that we're talking about and then we'll switch over to the flat map so they can see what actual section is being vacated. So the city received a partial uh street vacation request from Trout Street in Tilla. Um, for those of you that don't know where Tra Street is, um, we're focus on that. We are just east of Feral Gas. They're on Third Street across from Lumberville. We're We're going to get it my way. Okay. It's a It's an unmarked street. So, that's why I said people may not know that's actually trash street. Uh, it's an unimproved street. It's gravel right now. It's never been improved. Um we it's a deadend street that we don't plan to create any through space through there. There's too much control on either side to do any kind of condition highway 6. Um the transportation system has even called for anything for future. So um the section that's going to be vacated, I don't know if you can see it on this map. Uh there's a 20 foot section right now. Currently it's on street and it's 60 foot wide which is sacred. Um, under the design standards, you can go to a 40ft street and still leave a loop enough room for curves on both sides and street improvements. So, we wanted to keep the street because we plan on putting a main line down through that street that will go off to higher eventually once we get money. Obviously, that's another issue. Uh, but we do want to leave that available. So, we didn't want to vacate the whole street. And the reason why we're asking for the vacation is because when the applicant came to us in a pre-application, we noticed that uh we can throw the zoning map on there.

59:10 – 1:00:22Speaker 1

And you can see from that that house that's sitting here now, this was built in the early 1900s. And this house when it was built, if we were to keep it right now, they would lose part of their porch, their driveway, or their garage if we were to go and put sidewalks in there. So, we're requesting a 20 foot that will bring it out, still be in the design standards as far as getting improvements down through there. Um, and that will go all the way back to the dead end. That will then be portioned into the two lots there. There's front lot and a rear lot. then those properties will just assume that one fee and tax on there. This would be the right way. Um once that's done, then we can deal with some of the property line adjustments that need to be there. And in the future, the the property owner to the rear plans on making a single family home at ADU back there um with some mitigation efforts because obviously that's on that side of town with the sewer. So that later date, but this gets the ball rolling, gets the survey back in line with the property where it should be uh and still keeping the street for us so that we can do our infrastructure there.

1:00:22 – 1:00:54Speaker 1

Anybody have any questions for me? Yeah, exactly. When you when you do these kinds of things, you you talk to the property owner, right? Oh, yes. It was all public notice. So in your packet you'll notice the public notice went out. We noticed in the paper for almost a month uh this is happening and then all the property owners and also the signatures of all property respected are you have this. Great. Great. Thank you.

1:00:50 – 1:01:49Speaker 1

All right. Next is public testimony. Any interested person may present testimony for or against. If you wish to speak I will recognize you. Any questions should be addressed through me. When you come to the podium, please state your name and address for the record as this meeting is taped. Anybody here want to say anything by chance? If not, we will move on. Do we have any correspondence? No. All right. Last chance. Anyone want to speak? All right. Hearing none, I will close the public hearing. We'll move to new business which is a request. First item is a request to reappoint Jamie Road to Planning Commission for the remainder of her unexpired term beginning March 1st ending February 28th, 2029.

1:01:50 – 1:02:35Speaker 1

Hello city council Jamie Rhodess 710 Manor Place and I'm happy to be here tonight to submit my application to rejoin the planning commission. Thank you. It's a lot of work. Anybody have any questions? Anybody make a motion? I move we reappoint Jamie Rhodess to the planning commission for the remainder of her unexpired term March 1st, 2026, February 28, 2029. Second. Okay. Second. Any other discussion?

1:02:32 – 1:03:17Speaker 1

Yeah. All right. Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. All right. Passes by the council. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Next will be ordinance number 032026. Request to hold first reading of an ordinance vacating a portion of Trap Street in the city of Toma. First reading. read it. That was the one hearing this. Correct. Yes. Um are you voting on Okay. I'll make a motion on this.

1:03:13Speaker 1

I move that we approve ordinance that we may I'm sorry. I approve.

1:03:25 – 1:03:47Speaker 1

Okay. I move that we hold the first reading on ordinance number 032026 for vacating the portion of TR street first reading by title second. All right move second. Now it's time for discussion. Does anybody have anything withdrawal?

1:03:51 – 1:04:34Speaker 1

Good question. Question. All those in favor signify by saying I opposed. Passes now. Could you read the Yes. By title, please. Ordinance number 0 through 030226. An ordinance providing for the partial street vacation of the westerly 20 feet portion of Trout Street between Third Street and Highway 6 located between block seven and block eight of Goodspeed Second Edition Tamok Tam County, Oregon. Thank you. Now we'll move to second reading will take place

1:04:31 – 1:05:12Speaker 1

on the next meeting or is it how long do we have? that it'll be on the agenda for the 16th. Thank you. Uh resolution number R030226 request to approve a resolution gratifying confirming an IGA with the Port of Selma Bay for the water transmission line replacement project. This is just the request um it's already been signed by the city manager. It needs to be approved by you guys. Um this is just an agreement with the port. So when we start the water line that they're in agreement to work with us of all the contractors and all that stuff that project.

1:05:14 – 1:05:47Speaker 1

Any questions on this? I make a motion to approve resolution number R030226. Second further discussion questions called. All those in favor signify by saying I. I I post motion pass is unanimous by the cast seated. And now we need an adoption motion or is it all in one? Is that all adoptions in one? Okay. Just making sure. Yep.

1:05:45 – 1:06:21Speaker 1

Okay. All right. Next resolution 30 R 030226A. request to approve the resolution authorizing bank signature authority for the city of Tulment financial accounts. This is to add Justin and Hope onto the signing authority. Dean Dean Dean was on the last one. So now this is redoing that other one we did two weeks ago because we added two more. Yes.

1:06:20 – 1:07:01Speaker 1

No, you're already on the other one. This is just adding the two newest council members. Um, the bank will be here before the next meeting and she's bringing the paperwork with her so you guys don't have to go there. So, I'll try to try to get here like 5 minutes before so we can get the paperwork done. Yes. I will not be at the next meeting. Oh, that's right. Friday before I can stop by signing. I can have it to her tomorrow and hopefully by Wednesday you can sign it this week. Okay. Just send me a note when it's ready. All right. Well, thank you. I move that we approve a resolution authorizing bank signatur city of toic financial councils resolution number R0302268

1:07:02 – 1:07:25Speaker 1

second move and second any other discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I motion passes by the council seated all right so I have nothing tonight we Did I miss one?

1:07:30 – 1:08:11Speaker 1

I've missed them in the past. Thank you. All right. Oh, yeah. Um, councelor Ninger pointed out to me that I had the ordinance number incorrect on the agenda. I just wanted to make sure it's on the record, but I will um that the number should be ordinance number 030226. Um number two. Yeah. So I'll make that correction in the correct on the next. Thank you. All right. City manager report. Do you have anything?

1:08:09 – 1:09:05Speaker 1

I got lots of stuff here. All right. You guys ready? All right. So, Representative Susan Vonichi is going to be doing a town hall March 14th from 10:30 to 11. It's going to be elected officials only from 10:30 to 11:00 at the Tarmac High School in the choir rehearsal room at 11:00. It's open to the public. Um, there's a tsunami workshop April 1st from 6:00 to 7:30. Um, the county emergency manager has requested at least one official attend on April 1st. So, if somebody has hope or anybody wants to join, that'd be great. Let us know. Um, bad news. We have a water leak. Um, it's been discovered underneath the lines, the runway. Um, it's John, you want to touch on this? You talked to the engineer today.

1:09:04Speaker 1

Yeah. It's going to be a big project and it's the line that we're actually replacing that is leaking. Yeah.

1:09:12 – 1:10:29Speaker 1

So, last Friday we got a call from a port saying there's water coming up through the tarmac. So, we went out and investigated and sure enough there is. So, what we're doing right now is this week it's uh we're trying to do all the ground work we can to try to find exactly where that leak is because anytime you cut the tarmac out there they close down the airport in air traffic and also it has to be rebuilt to certain standard specifications. So, it's very expensive. It's also a very deep and complicated excavation because when they maybe ran the water lines underneath the air strip, they're really deep down through there. So, it's worth our time, energy, and effort to really narrow down exactly where that water is coming up out of the water line. So, we'll be doing that next week using corators and a uh consultant that is pretty familiar. Um, and then we'll open it up and see what we can do. The bummer is obviously is we're going to construction to build new vehic. So unfortunately we spend probably good chunk of money on this repair, but I think if we do our homework, I don't think I know if we do our homework, we should be able to cut that cost down to as small as possible. So that's kind of where we're at that timing thus far.

1:10:28 – 1:11:08Speaker 1

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Um, also our AI chat box, the polymorphic that's going to be on our website is going live. So I believe tomorrow we're going live with that. Do you want to pull that up so we can play with it so you guys can kind of see what it's going to do? So when people go to our website, they can ask it any question that's on our website and it will answer it. Whether it's planning questions, whether it's ordinances, business registrations, it'll pull anything from our website and direct them by giving them forms or where they need to go. My way again. It's okay.

1:11:04 – 1:11:33Speaker 1

All right. So, let's ask what what's in what how do we build a fence? What do we need to build a fence? Okay. Make it a water line instead of a, right? It's also really gracious with grammar. Absolutely.

1:11:31 – 1:12:22Speaker 1

So, it kind of lists everything that you're going to need. Um, talks about what's in our ordinances, what's in our code, and everything. Kind of walks people through the whole process. And if you scroll down, a lot of times they'll have like form attached or what permits and stuff are required. Um, yeah, it's almost right motion. It's pretty cool. And I was asking all sorts of questions today and it was actually coming up with some pretty good answers and I was being really creative. Um, even like you're So, one of the questions I asked, which is a lot for you to type, I just said, um, do I need a business license to have a, um, like a bread shed in my yard? Or you can word it as I said shed. But it was amazing how it actually popped up.

1:12:21Speaker 1

SH shed. Yep.

1:12:30 – 1:12:55Speaker 1

And it pulls up. I mean, it's just odd, you know, that it would know that you got to pull up a business license and all that stuff for. So, it's just kind of interesting. It's going to be very helpful to the public to be able to go in here and get this information. Source. Yeah. To find it. But that should be going live tomorrow and that will be a link on our website. And that's all I have.

1:12:53 – 1:13:32Speaker 1

All right. Uh let's do let's do approval of minutes first actually. So anyone want to go over the minutes of February 7th? Okay. You were not hearing. We were not. Anybody who was I move that we approve the minutes for Monday, February 2nd, 2026. Second. All right. Any other questions, comments? Not all those in favor signify by saying

1:13:29 – 1:13:50Speaker 1

I ask to approve the minutes. Now we have a council comment section. We start on the left. This time, you're first. Nothing personal. Okay. Well, second. All good.

1:13:48 – 1:14:37Speaker 1

Okay. Like people to know that uh the spring term is going to start registration at college tomorrow and there's a wonderful choice of all kinds of classes that you can partake. I myself will be teaching uh US history in the modern period and history of the whole of very I just like to commend the community and high school for this year's amazing chair grant with record breaking funds and how you can raise $26,000 a day is just gets pretty crazy but it's is mess.

1:14:35 – 1:14:56Speaker 1

I should make a comment. My daughter was a senior and she was very very proud that they broke a whole bunch of records. Had 103 I think. Yeah. Yeah. Four. Pretty sweet. Refresh my sophomore junior. Good job. Last time I was done class of 2017.

1:14:54 – 1:15:37Speaker 1

Oh, really? That's awesome. Sorry to interrupt, but it's okay. That was my class, too. So, um, yeah, that was uh that's it for me. I had a quick question for you Sean actually just based on your recent comment um in relation to the leak at the tourmat. I remember last meeting you said that we didn't have any more funds or potential repairs or things like that. So what is the status if when we need to repair this and do we have any idea where we're going to get that from or Good question. So this is a water this is a pot of water so it's different. the sewer system is the one that we're tap out.

1:15:34 – 1:16:12Speaker 1

So yeah, just give the utilities a question. I don't have anything this week. And with that, I move that we move that we authorize to pay the bills. Move and second to pay the bills. Could please pull the counsel? Yes. Um councelor Ninger. Hi. Councelor Bishard. Hi. Councelor Reynolds. Hi. Councelor Sanduski. Hi. Councelor Christ. Yep. Councelor Offer motion pass by the council city that we will adjourn. Thank you everybody. Two.

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