City Council - Regular Meeting

putting together all the stuff for wastewater. And I do need a show of hands who read all 900 pages of it. Okay. Who put it into chat GPT and had chat summarize it?

Who's just skimming through it now?

I'm not trying to embarrass anybody. Executive son. Okay. Is a lot of this similar to what we saw in the presentation?

Yes. This is

This is the culmination. So you've had several work sessions, several presentations on this plan and the facilities master plan, financing issues, SDCs, everything that goes in that. In order to make this work, we have to adopt it by resolution to say, this is the adopted wastewater master plan. By adopting this, this opens doors for the city to be able to go out and work with our financing people work on the GO bond, the council has directed me to work on. This is all what has to be there. So we can say, this is the official document that we are working from, and this is the plan that we are working from. This also allows us to do some things on the east side of town where we can officially put some breaks on development there and have rules and standards that go into that. So this is just the whole culmination of that. This is the final report.

and staff recommends that it be adopted by resolution we have any questions or want to make a motion i move we approve and adopt resolution number r2026-13 uh for the wastewater facilities department sorry all right

HAB-Masyn Moyer- Moving Saturday session really quick listen to this also open up a few more doors for potential parents, yes, yeah, this is all encompassing.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- Question questions call all those in favor signify by saying aye. HAB-Masyn Moyer- Aye. HAB-Masyn Moyer- Aye. HAB-Masyn Moyer- By the Council seated.

next request follow-up or discussion with her work session exactly that as we mentioned in the work session i'm looking for guidance to see if you want me to begin to negotiate a new iga the new parking lease and do we want is there any comments from the council that didn't get made in that work session that need to be made and do you want to correct me and do is it just me do you want to have a specific member of the council join me on that committee just I'm looking for what you want and need. Right.

So I have a question. As someone who's unfortunately not able to be here for the work session, I understand things with the exploration to IGA, but in terms of parking, what was that value?

So the parking that's for a lot that is right by some of your properties, your family's properties, that are leased and that expire in December 31, 2024. And so it's just we're doing that so that we technically legally have permission to use it for city parking purposes. So, and these are two separate, two separate documents.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that's super important. And, you know, I think that's on us to negotiate on the best interest of the city. I think that the hard thing for me, you know, will actually move the parking. It's, you know, extremely important. And hopefully, with the parameters, even in the last place, there's not a ton of giant complications to that. It's just working out the details. But being able to get that agreement in place for the parking lot in a timely manner before doing anything else across the whole thing is really important, I think, to the communications and messaging for reforming the parking downtown. If we do it on parking lots, but not one, it's going to be chaos. So I just think that's really important. I just like this, I guess, kind of to my questions that I had towards the end, I would love to see the city, I don't know if you thought about attending there. You know, I think of all the projects that even I've worked on with the city or had some grants for, or I've talked with Sean about, HAB-Jacques Juilland, In regards to like priorities of what the city is right now and those priorities were not at the table it's aware. HAB-Jacques Juilland, I think they have a better table like sidewalks might have been prioritized a little bit bomb and get at least at least I will try to plan, you can personally so project there's a lot of other opportunities, I will be called for to. HAB-Jacques Juilland, Think of the park bathroom all parts of the urban goals. concept for both the urban and the western. You know, I'm working with restaurant facilities. I always, you know, like, that should be a priority. It is a priority. It's goal number four. Repair, improve, and construct new building facilities. Goal number three, create pedestrian spaces that are attractive for residents and employees to simulate activity and enhance the downtown. You know, this island has been on a priority list for a long time, speaking of what we're up to now. HAB-Jacques Juilland- I like I understand tourism autonomous organization, I appreciate when organizations have Tommy. HAB-Jacques Juilland- In but, at the same time, do you think that it would be great to get a table on the city to bring those projects that we all have priorities for on privacy here or you're sitting there so he's sitting here where that and. they've been overlooked. And I think that Tura is an extremely valuable asset to build the public and the private sector of the city. So I would just like to see us have, I guess, a more forward approach on bringing the priorities for these public infrastructure things to Tura so that they don't feel removed. That is how I believe it. I can show you know she mentioned earlier like the relationship was a lot closer with the city manager was always there. And there's this constant like who has to be in the city that needs the roles of terror and it's just kind of symbiotic relationship is a lot closer. So I would just love to see that return.

On that though, I was on terror when previous city manager was always there running the meetings a lot of times. I just want to make sure that we're very clear that we need to maintain the autonomy and that seeing where previous manager uses divvy account maybe a little bit too much at times. So I just want to make sure that we're careful to keep that autonomy.

I think it's a good idea if the city managed to be there like he suggested and like he committed to. I think the board made it pretty clear that they were happy with that. I would like to ask if, do you feel like the agreement with their executive assistant, how that all works and the structure of the city, is that good for the city? Do you feel like it's okay?

I think it's good because TOR can't provide the economies of scale on it. the bonding and stuff like that. So it's good for us to have that. I also think it's good for the city to have that in-house because supervision and they're using our equipment, they're using our property machines. So having that under the city auspices just helps us a little bit with budgeting and employee allocation. I think there's some, again, cleaning up of the disparate language that needs to happen, but I'd I think that it's fair enough. If they were to have a separate person that was not a city employee, I think it would be much more difficult for us to...

They don't see the city trying to ask for a sincerely larger fee or something from Tura for what they begin out. It's all what Jamie wants to ask for.

I'm going to throw her under that bus. I think most of the status quo just brought something about you guys. I don't I don't anticipate a huge subsidy. I think it's been good.

I mean, Tura used an outside accounting firm and that was a nightmare. So I don't think they have any interest in trying to do that again. But I'm just curious what you guys thought.

But a moderate increase just because that's a five-year-old contract and costs have gone up. I don't think a moderate increase is out of the question, but I don't think we're going to have a double. Thank you. So consensus is good? I think consensus is good. If you guys are going forward negotiating and And working on that, we'll get it done as quickly as possible. I don't think it's going to be a feature. I haven't heard anything against it. Good.

Sounds good. All right. Moving on to reports. So all I have to say is good job for all the seniors that graduated. It was a great graduation. It was golden windy, but it never rained. It got a couple little drops and stopped. So that was an amazing night. A huge shout out to, I know I'm going to miss a bunch of this. This has been a lot in the community forum. I know my daughter runs the Elks for a single breakfast. And then the Cheese Factory did a special event, shut down during the evening, and did pizza, mac and cheese, pizza, salads, and all the ice cream that you can eat. And it was for family's earnings. So it was, yeah. It was a good time. Yeah, that was for all. Yeah, it was, it was bad. Yeah, they shut him down. It was, it was a good time. They called it a cheddar-ration. That's what it was. I think they've done a cheddar-ration. A cheddar-ration. And his family, you know. They have so many different types of pop. They're so in there that covered the cucumber. It was not mine. We tried it. It's interesting. Yeah. It was a good time.

All right.

Go ahead. Okay. I just got a couple of things. I think it's one thing. Councilmember Optemeyer, we had a really good discussion the other day about parking. I think we've got a good consensus on where to go with it and how to move forward. We're beginning to implement some of that stuff. We will bring those changes back to the full council once we're ready to implement. But I think we're on the same page. Councilmember, do you agree? And it was really productive to do that. Just a couple of updates on things. our polymorphic AI application processes. I just got word today that we've got the money portion where people can pay online squared away. And so we hope to have a lot of those applications online and live and active this week or next week. So it's just a matter of beating them up on the website. It's very intuitive. It's very simple. You don't have to make a new account to do anything, but it'll allow us for Some things like our special permits, planning permits, all those things, we're getting them up. You won't see every application, we're kind of doing them in batches, but we've got nine or 10 of them that are just about ready for prime time. So you'll see those in the next couple of weeks. So that's a win for us. We've also got a win on, it's taken me a long time and I'm sorry for this, but we finally got a win on our door security for the city hall, where we figured out how to get the, uh, fobs and everything to work so people can scan their cards in and get a full audit trail of that. Um, this week or next week, we'll be issuing new ID cards to all of our staff. Um, and the request will be that all staff has their ID card at least around their person, you know, much like many places do, but it will allow us to be a little bit more access control to city hall and all of our facilities actually. have a secure door. So that's a big thing where we can monitor that and keep that going. So that's an awesome thing. I do want to just mention, Mayor Kerr, our phone call today. There's been some question in the community about the baseball send-off today. We wish the baseball team well. There's some final meeting tomorrow at 3 o'clock, right?

3 o'clock.

This is the farthest that baseball's gone or any sport until it's gone in a long time, if you want to understand it. Baseball. Baseball. And so, anyway, the police and fire sheriffs and everything had that send-off today that went from the high school around town. There was a question, why didn't the seniors have a graduation parade? The simple answer is nobody asked. The city was not approached by anybody at the high school to have a seniors parade. A seniors parade can happen. There's a little bit different logistics between what happened this morning, which was a 30-second drive-by with a police escort versus a parade where we're on road out roads that have to shut down and there are 150 or 100 vehicles going through. That's a little bit bigger logistically. There's insurance requirements. There's different things like that that cost some money. But the fact of the matter is, nobody's going to contact the city via application or phone call to request a parade. Okay.

Well, I will just go from the safe side of it, is the school, I think it was kind of the last time. I think they felt maybe they were hurt a little bit in the way that it was just kind of shut down real hard. I mean, I would think the community, I got lots of messages on that when it happened. I got messages from high school kids who graduated, why didn't they have their parade this year, but they had that parade today, I got that today. I think it's important that we have a conversation about this. I think the community really, really likes it, really, really wants it. I think we need to make it happen. And I think the school, when the safe brought it up, the principal just said, no, we're not doing, we're not going through the headache of it. It was kind of made it to be a headache. And I disagree. I think this council disagreed with the idea of not doing it anymore. So I just think we need to put all the agenda down the road to have a conversation and we need to do it because it's, It's good. The community wants it. It's not a huge thing, but it's a huge thing. I just think it's a big thing that we should do. And I was going to say something about immigration. I appreciate that you said nobody reached out, but I think they were kind of hurt a little bit last time. I think it's fair to say.

Some more history on that with the expenses is the school just doesn't have the money to pay for all the funding that would be necessary. And so starting last year, the year before, when they cut it off, They changed and they decided to put some funds towards a barbecue just for the seniors instead of doing this towards the parade. And this year, well, the parents made one of them. I teach those kids. I was like, well, why don't you set up people bars? I don't know. I don't think that they missed it as much as people think.

Yeah. There's a lot.

I would like to have the conversation regarding not necessarily just how, but how this, how we handle parades and processionals. I was in that conversation that didn't get asked for this year because last year when I said, do you want to run this stuff? We just said, hell, I am. And it was basically, I don't want the trouble. So we're just going to move on. I do think kids like barbecue. I think, so whether they want to do it or not, but I think what it did show was the fundamental flaw in the fact that we treat different, what would be processionals differently based on our code. Our code calls a processional essentially for funerals and celebrations like a full moon. But a parade is also a lot different than cars driving through. They're required to obey the traffic law. Uh, and so what I think is different, I mean, there's a lot of requirements and it is a bigger conversation, but, uh, going back to that conversation, it was, it was not a positive, it was not a good conversation about the way things were interpreted. So we did have that conversation. Yeah, to be fair, I was not here. No, there's not.

Yeah, and I appreciate that.

Because they're not being treated.

Yeah, and if the school wants to contact us and say this is something we want to do, we will have it on earth to make it happen and make it happen.

I think from the city's standpoint, I think we need to have that conversation prior to one person because there could be others. I think that we need to get our certifications correct before people ask. Because the reason we didn't get the application, like I said, was because last year's, or the year before, was not good.

So. And we can have those conversations. I just wanted to clarify that it was because the city said no this year. No, we couldn't say no because we were never asked.

Right, that's fair.

But there was a reason. So, other than that, I've asked Chelsea to pull up our elections page. June 3rd, that is the day after tomorrow, opens our candidacy filing period for those who want to run for office. That runs through July 30th, if I have my dates correct. The seats that are up this year are the even number seats. So that's two, four, and six, plus an unexpired term for Ward 5 for two years, and our mayor. Chelsea and I have spent some time putting together a wonderful candidacy guide. You can open that up for us. There's your link that is available here. This candidacy manual, candidate manual, I guess is what we've called it, step-by-step how to run for office in the city of Tillamook. It has just about everything you should need to figure out how to file your forms, how to get your signatures, who to turn it into, how to do finance reporting, where to place your signs, anything that we can think of to put in this that is Tillamook-specific is in this guide. So just want to put it out there that we are prepared for candidates to start filing as of Wednesday morning. Those filing periods are just during business hours, 7.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., but we ask For most instances, if you could schedule a appointment.

I think it's on here from 8.30 to 3.30.

8.30 to 3.30. Just so we have some time and buffer on either side. But yeah, business hours, 8.30 to 3.30. Come in and get your guide. But everything is online. We try to digitize as much as we can. Every form is available online. We try to make it very, very easy for folks to run problems. Yeah. So there you go. That's my report. All right.

Council Collins.

The only thing I was going to, it just crossed my mind earlier. I haven't seen any progress or any update, anything on the park area that Dennis Toth was going to work on, Clinton Angel, but I'm going to hold it there. I thought maybe you could try to get an update. I can give you an update on that. Sure.

I've got to stop Ms. Yank. that was in charge of that was no longer employed by Adventist Health. So we no longer have that person that was kind of the driving force.

I feel like, was it Haye that gave us a presentation? John Haye? I don't know. I have a plan. There's no champion.

All right. Nothing for today.

On a couple of things. First, can we get a update on the typing ordinance?

So we gave the last update at our meeting. That's kind of where it's at as we go through the legal review of stuff. We did get some of the legal review back Friday or today, just not in time to get it on an agenda. So we'll have some of those brought back for you next meeting or two.

Okay. And a while back, PD came to us, requested that we pass an ordinance to help them with panhandling. And that was anybody who was in a car handing stuff out to somebody who's panhandling in a right-of-way or interviewing something. that up because somebody just brought this up to me today. I've seen a number of, like an increase, obviously nicer weather, but an increase in fan members with street corners and stop signs, lights, where, and seeing people hand it out, but it's... Lincoln City's apparently enforcing theirs, or something, because they have a very similar ordinance, and it's more of a, I was told today it's like a

So I don't know, just telling people, hey, if the intersection is a violation, maybe they stop.

I don't know. I don't know. It just, it was brought before us. They said that this helped them with their enforcement. And then I don't see any enforcement.

We do have an ordinance that is enforceable. We do.

Yeah. But it, I don't know. When it came before us, it came pretty quickly. And they said, this is going to help us. We asked you to pass it, and then I've never heard anything, any follow-up or anything on that. Okay, same thing, please. We'll look into it.

I can speak from my own personal experience. One, just in talking to a police officer that they see someone in Henley, calling a night window is really helpful. And then, I mean, in my personal experience, I live right by the Safeway, which is a hot spot in Henley. And I'll often call, and then I'll drive back, you know, an hour later. And they're going to be gone. I don't know if that means, you know, that we something or came to talk to me or that was just a coincidence. But I have some a lot of bad habits.

The ordinance is designed to make plan handling. Yes. Handing something from a car out of a car to the panel. So it puts as the onus is on his transaction.

I think the biggest issue is in order to enforce on it, we have to have somebody that sees that act happening.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- stuff long enough, they would see now, so that is that I do want to give a huge thank you to the police department and. HAB-Masyn Moyer- For busy day on Friday and cooperation, they gave the school district in a lot of different ways baseball game parking. HAB-Masyn Moyer- As well as helping with graduation and then the seniors leading town, they had all of that, and then again baseball this morning that pretty cool. So, and then also a thank you to those businesses who, a lot of businesses stepped up and they, they helped rent a pretty sweet coach ride for a notice. So, yeah, I've driven to Plymouth Falls three times for playoff games for soccer. We didn't travel like that. The yellow buses are... Yellow buses that I was driving.

You're not the only sport that noticed that I...

It's pretty cool. But yeah, just a huge thank you. The city was awesome. Thank you. Really wonderful. Well, in the spirit, when I had started a few weeks ago or a few months ago, first of all, we had a tremendous turnout for Memorial Day.

a ceremony at sunset in light of the fact that we had our deluge going on at the time. It was pretty impressive, but just being somebody that, especially coming up to 250, but always been someone who's been concerned about that we forget what we're about. I found this quote from Ida Sherman, one of our founding fathers, the signer of the Declaration. And this is in light of the work that even though we passed, but we haven't had a chance to talk about it since then. This is his quote, he said, sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history and they no longer remember the country that they love or the institutions they cherish and the freedom they hope to preserve were born from the throes of armed resistance and tyranny and nursed in the rugged arms of their instant. So I wouldn't just, I don't know. I would hope that, and I'm not telling everybody what to do, everybody has a lot to do, In light of the fact that we're coming up to 250 beers and being a teenager when we had a 200 and I'm actually not slowing around to watch this. There is a need for us to go back and recognize what we have to do the gift of this price United States to be specifically in the old town till this love living here. I don't know, I didn't like said, since I'm a preacher, I'm going to go a little long. Just to I told people this often, when Debbie and I moved here in 1999, we committed to stay for five years. That was our plan. Stay for five years at least. So here we are at 27 and counting. And let's drive you guys crazy. I think we're planning on staying here forever. So that's how much we love this town. A little bit to some of the comments that were made in a previous meeting. I think, at least for me, I speak for us. I think that we love this city. We want to see things go. And part of that is remembering who we are and not forgetting that we live in an own in America. That American history is so odd compared to the rest of human history, where tyranny kind of rules the roost and that's how it all goes. And we are the beneficiaries of this amazing thing. It should always be grateful.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- Make the same ones. HAB-Masyn Moyer- If you want to start sound smart to your friends, it's a semi quincentennial. HAB-Masyn Moyer- It's happened to. HAB-Masyn Moyer- Do you want to sample. HAB-Masyn Moyer- With that well said.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- speech by counselor, Chris, I moved to be authorized to pay the bills.

Second that one. All right. Move to the second to prepare the bills. Do you please call the council?

Yes. Councillor Rotsinger.

Aye.

Councillor Bouchard. Aye. Councillor Reynolds.

Aye.

Councillor Sandowsky.

Aye.

Councillor Christ.

Aye.

Councillor Osh.

Aye. All right. Motion to pass. We'll end it with that.