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Seven o'clock. Let's call this meeting order. Please join me for the flag salute.

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Make a motion to excuse councilmember Dede. Second, all those in favor? Aye.

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Councillor Neillson.

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Councillor Neillson did reach out to me about an hour or two ago to let me know that she

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would not be attending tonight.

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Okay.

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They can motion to excuse.

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Councilmember Neillson.

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Second.

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Motion in favor.

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Aye.

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Motion carries.

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Thank you, Chuck.

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So next we need to review and approve the agenda.

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Is there anyone wishing to make any changes at this time?

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Like a motion to approve the agenda as presented.

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Second.

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Those in favor?

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Wait.

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Are we going to still leave Sarah's items on the agenda if she's not here?

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Brenda, you're good.

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Got the vote.

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Thank you.

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So that brings us to our public comment session.

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this is for people wishing to address council regarding items of new business. You may do so at

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this time. There's a sign-up sheet over there. If you didn't get to it, no worries. Raise your hand

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to either physically or electronically online when you're called upon. Please come to the podium,

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state your name, city of residence. Please leave me your comments to three minutes.

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First up, we have Kelly Sisquayas.

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Good evening, Council and Mayor Adler.

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I thank you for the opportunity to come and address the council this evening and my fellow comment.

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My name is Kelly Sisquayas.

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I am a member of the Black Diamond City Planning Commission and a resident of the city of Black Diamond for 31 years.

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And my public comment tonight is about the strategic plan.

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When I was reading through the strategic plan as it's written, I found a couple of things

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that seem a little bit out of character with the way I believe we want the City of

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Black Diamond to develop.

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In the plan, it does not provide specifically for public comment or public input to guide

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the themes of the plan.

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It says that the city staff will select themes that the city council might select themes but no place in the plan does it show public participation in guiding the themes of the plan.

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I believe this is out of character with the type of city that I choose to live in and I feel it's out of character with some of the other

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are things that the city has implemented lately to not allow the public participation.

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That's one of the things that we have been working very hard on at the Planning Commission.

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And there have been hundreds of public comments that have been turned in.

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In the four years that I have been on the Planning Commission, I believe that needs to be

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a larger part of this plan for public participation and that there needs to be actions taken on the

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comments that are turned in, not just decisions made by the staff. My recommendation is that

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this plan could be tweaked and maybe account for public participation in a broader way.

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And there were other things in the plan that hit me as not quite consistent.

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It makes mention of the Lake Sur regional park as being potentially a future asset to the region.

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I can tell you that when I was participating in the development of the pros plan,

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the Lake Sur regional park already is a major asset to the region and there were dozens of people

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who came out to speak on behalf of the Lake Sur regional park and how they like it pretty much the

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way that it is. And there's a there should be a strong curb on development planned for lakes or

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a regional park. It is one of very few places where you can go and walk your horse, ride your

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horse, ride your little battery powered dirt bike, go fishing, go and have a picnic and hike over five

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miles of trails that are within the city limits of black diamond. Please consider that. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next up, I have Stacey Lyons.

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Hi there.

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My name is Stacey Lyons.

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I am a resident of Black Diamond, and I'm here tonight to raise publicly an issue that

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I think is a traffic safety issue in the city of Black Diamond, and it's regarding the intersection

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of 216th and 288th.

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As you probably know, there has been a very extended period of time of building traffic

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signals at that location for what was really a, I think, a traffic issue and safety issue

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at the time.

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So, I acknowledge the need to do something, but now we are fast forwarding several years,

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and there has been a lot of infrastructure built there, including several mechanical boxes

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on the northeast corner of that intersection, which from a line of sight perspective offers

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no ability for a driver to be able to assess if there's somebody coming up that hill before

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having to check in their way into the intersection and hope that they can make it through and still

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manage what's happening on the left hand side of that intersection. So I did reach out to

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public works today and while I understand what the long-term agenda is at getting those

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operational and I even understand what the concerns or the issues have been that have slowed

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that construction, there has to be an interim solution to make that a safe place. I go through

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there every day to and from and frankly I feel like I sometimes put my life in the hands of

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someone not coming up too fast on that hill. And I have had several close calls and I've seen

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several close calls. And I think that we need to ask the engineers within the Black Diamond

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city to figure out what an interim solution could be until we get those operational.

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It's been years that we've been waiting. And frankly now they're sitting at a state where some of

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those signals, the covers are starting to wear off.

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And if you're a new person driving there,

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you're not sure if you're supposed to stop,

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not supposed to stop, the person behind you

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doesn't know whether they should stop or not stop.

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And I just think it would be neglectful

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to not have a solution

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before some kind of casualty happens at that spot.

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So as just a resident, I felt like I was implored

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to ask you for your guidance

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and leadership in this situation. So thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next up, we have Kristen Bryant.

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Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Kristen Bryant.

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I live in Bellevue and I grew up in Black Diamond.

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I have comments on your strategic plan.

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I'll go kind of fast and I want to comment on three areas.

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Item one, the first element is basically about land use.

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It has a, it divides Black Diamond into seven opportunity areas.

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One concern, an opportunity area has a more specific legal definition is used in King

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County.

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Even from a common use perspective, it's a term that invites and assumes significant

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growth in each area, which is really a comprehensive plan decision.

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Not a thing to put lightly in this short, you know, strategic plan.

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This, it also, item one, talks about developing a vision and land use plan for those areas of the city for each of the seven.

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That belongs in a comprehensive plan process. It's a vision in land use. That's what a comprehensive plan mainly deals with.

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How do you decide a vision without the traffic evaluation, the environmental impact evaluation and the capital needs evaluation that come specifically with comprehensive planning?

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I noticed in that section there was also a change from your August draft to tonight's draft that's not noted, but there's a bullet about commercial and light industrial use.

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It used to be two bullets between commercial and space for small manufacturing and light industrial, but tonight it's all lumped into commercial development that blah, blah, blah and provide space for small scale light industrial.

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I notice you had taken anonymous comments on this and one of those seemed to be really

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clearly from a developer who might own some light industrial land and be seeking a

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reason to commercial because they use words like highest and best use that developers tend

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to use not your everyday resident, but we don't know because those were anonymous comments.

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Your item 2 in the plan, Lake Sawyer Park, from the beginning it was the goal of some people

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that Oak points ball fields would be developed at the regional park and that's

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really why that became a priority and ended up in this strategic plan even if

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it doesn't say ball fields. I think you should consider that that shouldn't be

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there at all. And then strategic plan item four talks about enhancing city

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capacity but if you lock yourself into three-year funding commitment for a civic

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campus now you're artificially restricting other options that you might want to

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fun with city money. And there's a lot of examples I know you can think of them. One thing is the

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always postponed fish passage projects. You've got blocked fish passage all the way from lake

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soil you're on up to where wash dots finally going to make the fish be able to get under 169. But

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where's the money going to come from to help the environment there? You may want to put money

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towards new staff. You haven't had a city engineer for the better part of a decade. You may need

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experience planning staff because you're doing a comp plan. I know you've got how he seems great,

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but you can, you know, look at other funding because you can pass a government facilities fee

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on new development. I know that you can get money from other places for a civic campus. You

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may be cutting that off by committing it now through this process. Thank you.

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Is there anyone else online or in person wishing to address council last

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call.

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Seeing no one, I will close this public comment session.

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It brings us to appointments and answers, proclamations and presentations.

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First up, committee reports. Is anybody have any committee reports they'd like to share?

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I see no department reports. Shout out to Chief Judd Kim this first. Any

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verse in today? You haven't seen that. It's in your email.

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And then we have Mr.

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Mason with the second quarter financial report.

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Good evening mayor. Good evening

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council.

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Excuse me. I set up.

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After seeing you like to talk to you all about the

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second quarter financial report for the City of Black Diamond. That's a real

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brief report. However, in your packing material to see the actual report, it's

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about 44 pages long. The summary I'll provide this evening probably close

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here to five minutes. I went over it last Tuesday during the budget finance and

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administration to meeting.

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I would say there's nothing too out of the norm. However, there are

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some important developments that occurred during the second quarter. The second quarter report

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goes up until the end of June 30th. I'll be going over the actuals for the operational funds,

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the investments and

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the fund balance classifications for each of the funds for the entirety of the

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city action. First, general fund, the general fund has reached a surplus as a

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June, a good portion of the reason, a good reason for that is because it has strong revenues and property taxes, sales taxes, utility taxes, and investment earnings. So you see a surplus of about $100,000 there. We weren't, of course, anticipating a budget deficit, however, seeing that we do are very concerted when it comes to our revenues and also concerted when it comes to our expenditures.

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I'll say this, this deficit in the surplus is very welcome.

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Looking at the percentage of where we are in terms of revenues in terms of the percentage.

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We have 48% where we're budgeted for the year and 46% where we budgeted for the year as well for expenditures.

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So we're right in target in terms of we're expecting to be halfway through the year.

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Again, revenues are bit stronger due to those revenue streams I mentioned earlier.

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And part of the reason is because utility taxes in particular, we see a rise in those

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during the third quarter months due to usage of different utilities.

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For the street fund, this fund is heavily supplemented by the General Fund, which we made a budget

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amendment at the end of $26 to provide, I believe $200,000 to keep that fund afloat in addition

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to your REIT funds and TBD funds. So, you're looking at a deficit of about $336,000. That is

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there because we have yet to make those transfers. This fund will still end at it with a deficit,

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however, it would not be as big as you're seeing this evening.

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The water fund,

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Historically, as I said since 2024, since we've paid off that debt in May, this has been

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our strongest utility fund, and as you'll see, there is a large surplus, 253,000, what

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you'll see as a year progresses is that surplus will continue to grow.

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What will happen at the end of the year, that surplus will drop significantly because we'll

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be transferring a good portion of that amount towards capital expenditures, which are budgeted.

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And going towards the other one sewer and storm water, you'll see a slightly different

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story that you do want to hone in a little bit on this evening with anticipation of

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upcoming meetings regarding the budget and the utility race setting.

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So you do see a surplus for the sewer fund, you'll also see a sewer plus and a storm

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water fund.

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The difference between this and the water fund is that these sewer pluses are not, say,

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large.

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Large in the sense of that, we cannot transfer funds from these different utility funds towards

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our capital funds because the funds that are the surplus that they're building up are

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are needed to keep their operating fund afloat.

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Councilmember Peterson already called you,

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email me about a year ago.

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As a question regarding,

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why do we not have a set percentage amount

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of our revenues going towards capital funds?

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And that's part of the reason.

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Nearly 100% of the revenues that these two funds

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generate are used to keep the operating fund stable.

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The storm mark on the other hand is not very stable.

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As an enterprise fund, you need to fund the operations as well as capital.

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And for about two years now, we've been, I don't say neglecting,

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but strategically holding off on those transfers that can keep their operating fund afloat.

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So, so as an sewer, you see a surplus here, 708,000,

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which of course makes the operating fund stronger.

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However, it's not enough to keep up with the capital expenditures that requires this fund to operate.

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A storm mark, you see the same thing.

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For those who have mentioned or heard me speak before, storm marks the plan that I put a lot of attention on just because of,

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first, it's very limited in terms of revenue generation.

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expenditures are growing and some revenues like the

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grant, the certain water capacity grant, $120,000 is good for

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operating however, it's not an annual grant, it happens

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on an 18 month cycle and next year we're not expecting

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$120,000 and so you'll see that we discussed the

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budget in the coming weeks and so that again affects

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this fund's ability to

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to provide income for capital expenditures,

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which makes capital planning a bit harder to do.

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Cash investment balances overall season pretty good.

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There's been an increase from the December 25 to the June 30th,

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about 1.2 million overall, good 100,000 in the general fund,

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about 300,000 or so in the reach. So rough, pretty good, pretty good. Everything is in the black.

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Here's a quick chart detailing how the funds have grown throughout the years between 18th and present.

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A lot of growth, a lot of growth is good because you never know when you need those funds for a rainy day.

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Back then, I mean the best one for folio. As I mentioned earlier, we were doing very well

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in comparison to what we were expecting during the budget process last year.

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A big part of that reason is we were expecting the fed rate to decrease.

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As you may have watched the news lately, they have not decreased, in fact,

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since expecting a hike tomorrow.

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So that may, our interest rates may be a little bit better in the near future.

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Here's just a chart detailing interest rates or interest investments or

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investment earnings over the years from 2020 to present,

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and conclusion, fund balanced

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classifications, looking about 4.6 restricted, about 1.1 in committed, about 6.3 in assigned,

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and unassigned, which is primarily the general fund 9.145, and it's all 21.2 million has

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end of last year.

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Are there any questions regarding the second quarter financial report?

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I do have a question. I was just trying to get right my head around this.

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We can't stand that the storm and sewer on are in a positive fund, but you can't transfer to

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the capital expenditure. What does that mean? Where's that money going? What's the capital expenditure?

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Okay, so good question. So there's different, there's a, there's a water fungal within the water fun, I don't say sewer fun within the sewer fun, there's two points, the sewer reserve and capital and the sewer operational.

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So the sewer operational point is what generates the revenue and most of the expenditures and what happens is that over time or maybe on annual basis, you'll see this through the budget process.

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We may not see it because we want to not make a transfer is that a portion of the reserves

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within that operating fund are transferred to the capital fund, from which it's expanded

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towards capital projects.

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And when the reserve or the fund balance of the operating fund is so low, let's say for

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example, I believe around February and March, the storm market fund was near $20,000.

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dollars, you can't make a transfer to capital without making that fun go underwater.

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But we're really talking about a bigger problem.

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Our rates are not set properly, right?

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Because we're not factoring in our capital needs, and we're not setting aside enough money.

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So help me understand in how far we are on our rate study and how that's been included

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this time around.

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Yeah, the rate study, they're progressing along very well.

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I think they're near completion and almost ready to present the council.

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Will you be including these rates in next year's budget?

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Or does it have to go through us first before you can even contemplate it or what?

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So during this budget process, I have worked with them to

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help determine the revenues and they have similar expenditures so that you know,

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like, no, be apples to apples.

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So during the budget process,

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I'll be presenting to you all rates as they are

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because they've not been approved by council.

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However, during the stand-tox presentation,

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they'll have the status quo at rates as they are,

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as well as rates as they can,

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as they are suggesting them to be,

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if any at all, any changes at all.

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And then what will happen is,

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depending on council's decision,

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and it also depends on how fast that process is

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because the budget and stand deck are not necessary

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on the steam voting time table.

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But ensure it will deal with the update,

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rates to reflect whatever council decides something to be.

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And then I know because we've all read through

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our planning documents that we have a six year

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and a 20 year capital improvement plan

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for each one of these funds.

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So and I'm assuming that all of those things are being factored in and it's been my experience that a body like this might determine maybe a percentage of the rates that they want to go to capital. That's how my board does it or maybe it's the amount of projects we want to complete or however we do it.

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but that's where during this budget process we want to be informed.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Very next up is the consent agenda.

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We'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

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I answer. All those in favor?

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Opposed? Motion carries, no public hearings, no unfinished business,

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This brings us to item 7, which is the hometown hero's banner program presented by Councillor

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Nielsen, Proxy by Mr. Nielsen, for Mr. O'Neil.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and if it's all right with Council, I'm just going to kind of combine

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these two items, the Purple Heart City item as well as the banner.

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There's no action requested, just mostly information, not mostly.

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it is informational. So, first, since we have it on the screen, I'll start with the banner

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program. Chief Councilmember Nielsen has been working with Mr. Glenn Boji, who, if I said

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that correctly, I'm sorry, if I didn't, to kick off this program. What's been, this has come

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before Council before and what they've decided to do as just an initial trial is two banners.

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They cost about $100 each. So very, very low cost and we will put them on

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Roberts on two of the light poles there just as a trial run for this year.

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The two people we would like to honor this year are is Mr.

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Boji as well as the purple heart recipient that we are honoring on the next item

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the purple heart city. So those will be the two that we start with and then

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We'll, from there, we'll have to figure out a process in terms of, you know, we have limited light poles.

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How do we select the number of people? What's the nomination process? You know, how do we handle the cost? All of that kind of stuff.

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But at this point, I'm just kind of looking for a head nod. This is generally sound okay, and we'll move forward with purchasing them and try to have a small little ceremony.

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Where we can, we can get them installed in before veterans.

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What's that before veterans that we're going to try to yeah, and then how long do we think we'll leave them up? I mean

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I'm kind of a trial to see how they look see how it goes. I

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Maybe I don't know exactly. I think that we'll kind of have to see how they how they stand the weather

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Yeah, we certainly you know

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We start to do do the the

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Individuals disservice when they're up there and they're weathered and they're that's what I'm wondering. Yeah

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So, you know, we don't have any experience with the vendor, so maybe they'll look great for a month, maybe they'll look great for two years, I don't know.

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But certainly it'll be something we'll be coming back to council on as we build out the program.

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And then on the purple heart side of things, we have ordered the signs.

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We have determined where they will go generally, rather than trying to have them at each entry point to the city.

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We want to focus on the northbound entrance on 169 as well as the southbound entrance on 169

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just on both ends of the city that the two most traveled areas somewhere around the cool cars.

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You know, we don't want the cool cars are so cool that we don't want it to track from them,

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but with the same time we want the purple heart recipient to get their due attention as well.

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So it will be somewhere along there.

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The idea at this point is to do a small ceremony.

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that will likely happen on October 3rd, a Saturday, I'll send a confirmation.

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And what we're thinking we'll do is we'll have a small ceremony here.

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And then bring him out to where one of the signs will already be installed

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and just do a quick little photo op and little danger is on the side of the road.

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Thankfully, the southern quote card, there's some good area there.

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so it shouldn't be too bad. But certainly, all council will be invited to that and then

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we'll get the second sign installed on the north and north of the city. So that's

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for those two items.

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Do you have a time on the third?

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I'm not yet.

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That he, Mr. Sakato's family is coming in like the first through the fifth or something, something along those lines, we'll be working with them to make sure that they can attend. I think if I had. I don't know, we'll still have to see either morning or afternoon. Okay, that's. Safe way opening. Oh, I said, let me report. We will work around the safe way.

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I that that I that didn't connect that dot. So yeah, we'll figure out a good time. Or maybe we'll all just.

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carful from one to the other. There you go.

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I'm going to have the bus.

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Yeah.

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Reckons.

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Or cones.

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Silence.

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I'm a question too. I sure

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I'm Scott Sandle that that for

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the hometown hero banner sounds like

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Robert Stry.

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Is where we are going to place those.

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We do have a grant.

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To reconstruct Robert Stry.

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The section of it with the sidewalk.

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I'm sure this can be street lights.

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And that are those poles.

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So we're going to make sure the polls are adequate with the banners.

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Yeah, yeah, the polls will work.

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The banners themselves have basically brackets of straps that go around them.

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So, okay, they don't have the arm like we did down at the bakery.

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So there's straps and arms on them.

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These are the, okay, so for those of you online who couldn't hear Mr.

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Hannes, he basically said there shouldn't be an issue that, yeah, should be an issue.

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And are you happy with the design?

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Yeah. Yeah, Councilmember Nielsen took the lead on the design. I think she's done a fantastic job on both of these two initiatives. It's really exciting to see the process start and now get to the point where we've had the meetings. We've made the decisions and now we're getting it over the finish line.

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So excited to see that happening. So Kudos to her.

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That's

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it, Mr. Mayor.

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Thank you.

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You're back up again for maybe 26-118.

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Resolution adopting city strategic plan.

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Thank you again, Mr. Mayor.

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So I am going to share a quick PowerPoint.

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And then handed over to Brian Murphy,

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who's been the one of the consultants that's been helping us

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through this process.

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I'm excited to be here at this meeting and I'll just add before I hand the microphone

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over.

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You know, we have received a lot of comments the last few days, you know, we've had

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people come up and speak and Brian and I have touch base.

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If there are tweaks we want to make tonight, we can do that on the fly.

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He's prepared to pull it up and we can kind of do some wordsmithing and if there's some items

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that are not quite you're not quite comfortable with so that is an option

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just want to lay that out first. So with that said Brian.

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Yeah good evening

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council. Mr. Mayor thank you so much for letting me join you and I do which I

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was there on person given the interest in the strategic plan but I would join

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them. Can you hear me okay?

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Yeah it's a little low volume Brian we're trying to

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I'll make some tweaks here, maybe.

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I'll bring my mic just a little bit closer. Is that better?

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Yeah, that's a lot better.

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Oh, good. So it was error on my end. So hopefully you can hear me now.

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I just want to say good evening.

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I'm really glad to be with you all.

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And which I was there in person, actually.

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But I'm up in our Seattle office and glad to connect with you

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about this strategic plan.

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So I'm happy to just give a recap of kind of the planning process

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and where we are tonight. Just a few high-level remarks about the strategic plan as it sits in

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front of council. And then as Kevin said, very glad to take feedback and final refinements and hopefully,

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you know, see council adopt tonight. Can you go to the next slide please?

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Yes, one second.

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Thank you. So just a brief recap of the journey we've been on. We started the process in April,

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April 17th with Council retreat.

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We then met with staff to take some of the ideas that have been talked about,

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a vision that have been talked about, that Council retreat, and workshoped that a bit and came back and spoke with

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Council again in person on June 8th.

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Went back to staff, so kind of use staff as a sounding board for some of the ideas that council raised.

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Then did a very brief, you know, public review process and some additional staff engagement.

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And then my colleague, Maddie Immel and I were down with council on August 18th and had a version of the plan that was fairly close to the version that's in front of you this evening.

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I'm happy to recap the changes that we've made some wordsmithing and also some I think that it's a bit more substantive.

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Next slide please.

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I'm not going to talk through the whole plan.

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I know everyone's had a chance to kind of review that and look at it. I will say it's a high level

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document. It's all of 10 pages, so it's got a high level direction to it. It is not nearly as long

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as comprehensive or as technical as a comprehensive plan will be for you. I will say it does talk about

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growth, but it does not establish a growth target, and it is not meant at all to preempt

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any of the land use decisions that would be made in a comprehensive planning process.

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So it talks about the need for visions and land use designations for areas of your community

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that are subject to change, that you all want to shape.

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To be a particular thing, it talks about the idea of a walkable downtown.

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for example, but it does not presume to say where that downtown should be or how

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that exactly should function. That's clearly, you know, something that should be

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developed in the comprehensive plan. In addition to groves, it talks about other

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things like enhancing communication with the public. It talks about a fair bit

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actually about internal city capacity and operations in the fourth priority and

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And helping you map out as your community does continue to grow,

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how do you make sure you provide in quality services,

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and how are you staffing appropriately, not getting over your skills,

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but also not under capacity to the demands that are placed on staff.

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It talks about other things like a community brand or community identity.

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So quite a lot here, but it's meant to be a flexible document

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that gives council and staff some direction,

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but constant process of engaging with the community

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and with one another to set that annual implementation plan.

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So it's so high level, it's not meant to lock you in.

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Just to recap, some of the changes

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that we made prior to this final version,

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we removed a projection of population

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that we had pulled from the comprehensive plan

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that has since been put on hold.

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And we added just some brief narrative to say

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that Black Diamond is very likely to continue to grow

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but we don't know and the purpose of this document

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is not to say how quickly or how much.

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We generalize the approach to Lake Sawyer Regional Park.

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Under priority four, we added a focus on developing strong

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internal systems and processes

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as well as being a learning organization.

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Having the chance to sit with staff,

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00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,060
we see that there's a real need to invest

449
00:37:59,060 --> 00:38:03,360
in city services, city systems rather and processes

450
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,340
so that they're more robust and more stable

451
00:38:06,340 --> 00:38:10,420
and more resilient to increase demand for services.

452
00:38:11,380 --> 00:38:14,240
And then the last thing we did was at Request of Council,

453
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,580
we really fleshed out the annual implementation cycle.

454
00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:24,000
So if you could go to the very last slide here, I'm happy to sort of walk through that.

455
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:27,400
There we go.

456
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,020
It looks better in the plan itself as it's more portrait orientation.

457
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,840
But the idea here is that the strategic plan is very high level.

458
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,480
It should be updated every two years.

459
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:48,140
So every two years council would look at the strategic plan and identify where there should be a focus.

460
00:38:48,140 --> 00:38:53,580
us in the coming two years. As with all things that are driven by council, that would be with

461
00:38:53,580 --> 00:39:00,820
like a strong public process. So we're showing down in the green area ongoing public communications

462
00:39:00,820 --> 00:39:06,560
and town hall events so that you as council elected officials are getting input from the community

463
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:14,160
about how you are going to govern in the coming two years. So the strategic plan would be the focus

464
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:19,360
of the strategic plan would be updated every two years and then of course your budget would be

465
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:24,140
updated every year and we're trying to make the connection between the strategic plan and the

466
00:39:24,140 --> 00:39:30,460
budget to make sure that the budget is a good representation of your overall strategy and where

467
00:39:30,460 --> 00:39:35,000
where you want to go with the city and the priority investments that you want to make in the coming

468
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,040
years. But I'll just close by saying the strategic plan doesn't commit you to any budget decisions

469
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:47,800
and similarly, it doesn't come to you to any land use decisions or capital facility decisions for that matter.

470
00:39:48,060 --> 00:39:55,200
So, it's putting in front of Council and staff priority items for additional discussion as you go forward.

471
00:39:57,230 --> 00:40:01,190
So, that's all I would hope to share with you. Happy to take questions.

472
00:40:01,250 --> 00:40:09,970
Of course, happy to take suggested revisions and would love to hear Council's interest in whether you'd like to adopt this plan.

473
00:40:09,970 --> 00:40:10,830
questions.

474
00:40:27,950 --> 00:40:37,350
I'll start you know we were in the meeting we could go we want to

475
00:40:37,350 --> 00:40:42,350
express how we want to listen to the public we need to get more public

476
00:40:42,350 --> 00:40:47,410
involvement but we got a lot of public involvement on this topic and no one

477
00:40:47,410 --> 00:40:52,250
supported us adopting this plan tonight not one and I don't know what the

478
00:40:52,250 --> 00:40:58,950
urgency is adopted. I know it doesn't lock us into anything. It's a high-level plan but without

479
00:40:58,950 --> 00:41:04,490
the concrete plan being done, I think you got the wagon before the horse on this plan. I just

480
00:41:04,490 --> 00:41:10,230
don't see why we would want to adopt this now until we have the concrete plan done. It, to me,

481
00:41:10,350 --> 00:41:16,210
it doesn't make any sense. So we look at the wagon three times already. Nobody brought up any objections

482
00:41:17,410 --> 00:41:18,310
until today.

483
00:41:20,050 --> 00:41:20,990
And that's true.

484
00:41:21,570 --> 00:41:23,070
And there was a lot of objections.

485
00:41:23,670 --> 00:41:27,710
And I don't see why it would hurt to just wait until the

486
00:41:27,710 --> 00:41:28,550
conc plan is done.

487
00:41:28,970 --> 00:41:30,350
Make most of the table that's saying,

488
00:41:30,350 --> 00:41:31,810
until we get the conc plan done.

489
00:41:32,770 --> 00:41:35,490
And then we can address any issues that come up out of this.

490
00:41:36,410 --> 00:41:41,130
And, you know, a lot of the comment was done on the civic plan.

491
00:41:41,310 --> 00:41:42,510
You know, there was that document.

492
00:41:42,690 --> 00:41:45,630
There was a study done by the makers on the facilities

493
00:41:45,630 --> 00:41:49,590
and what we should be charging, and previous counsel,

494
00:41:50,250 --> 00:41:56,130
previous, previous brief, decided not to adopt that plan

495
00:41:56,130 --> 00:41:59,490
in all over the fees, which we would already have

496
00:41:59,490 --> 00:42:02,030
like 10 million, 12 million in the fund

497
00:42:02,030 --> 00:42:03,550
or city hall right now.

498
00:42:03,970 --> 00:42:06,850
It estimated that we should be charged in some place

499
00:42:06,850 --> 00:42:13,010
about if the 800 per housing unit in $2.86 per square foot,

500
00:42:13,010 --> 00:42:16,630
but so we can start addressing our needs of city all in that.

501
00:42:17,310 --> 00:42:19,830
And tell we start doing some of this stuff.

502
00:42:20,010 --> 00:42:22,690
I don't see why we need the street and land now

503
00:42:22,690 --> 00:42:24,490
and the dock that we get to Conkland.

504
00:42:25,130 --> 00:42:26,450
I think that's my opinion.

505
00:42:29,330 --> 00:42:31,270
Councilmember source, you see your every end up online,

506
00:42:31,290 --> 00:42:31,510
Nick?

507
00:42:32,350 --> 00:42:33,050
Yeah, I do.

508
00:42:33,670 --> 00:42:37,570
I come, you know, have the same concerns

509
00:42:37,570 --> 00:42:39,090
that Mr. Dalsano has.

510
00:42:41,750 --> 00:42:48,330
We're going down the road without a comprehensive plan and the makers put together and it's unfortunate

511
00:42:48,330 --> 00:42:56,050
that the council away back when didn't adopt it because I believe we should have show that

512
00:42:56,050 --> 00:43:00,570
we need facility funding which can come within the comp plan.

513
00:43:00,570 --> 00:43:06,890
We do adopt facility fees, 5,800, you know, 6,000.

514
00:43:07,770 --> 00:43:11,730
We still have a lot of houses that are going to be built in 10 trails as well as the rest

515
00:43:11,730 --> 00:43:12,370
of the city.

516
00:43:13,050 --> 00:43:19,470
That will generate a capital facility fund for us so that we can build the capital facilities.

517
00:43:20,070 --> 00:43:26,190
Cash that we currently have in our reserves can be used for other things within the city

518
00:43:26,190 --> 00:43:33,710
to improve that. Everywhere from streets to water quality to fish, as you heard, we need

519
00:43:33,710 --> 00:43:38,790
to re-prioritize and look at where our money is going to come from. I believe capital

520
00:43:38,790 --> 00:43:45,690
facilities should be funded from growth because that's what's driving this and we need the

521
00:43:45,690 --> 00:43:52,290
comp plan so that we can adopt a capital facilities plan. So I don't think we should adopt this.

522
00:43:52,290 --> 00:43:56,850
I think it's good work. We can keep it on our back pocket, you know, and look at it.

523
00:43:56,930 --> 00:44:01,950
But I think we need to get working on the comprehensive plan and get that done so we can start generating

524
00:44:01,950 --> 00:44:03,630
revenue for capital facilities.

525
00:44:07,390 --> 00:44:12,110
Mr. Mayor. Yeah. So maybe I think what might be helpful is

526
00:44:13,790 --> 00:44:19,130
if I remind it, I just kind of brought up some of the context of what led us to this plan.

527
00:44:19,130 --> 00:44:28,310
And I freely admit that this plan was a bit of a selfish project for myself because

528
00:44:28,310 --> 00:44:34,350
if you recall at the beginning of the year, we had two new council members on the

529
00:44:34,350 --> 00:44:34,850
dius.

530
00:44:35,410 --> 00:44:40,570
I think three additional council members who had just been re-elected when we kicked

531
00:44:40,570 --> 00:44:45,990
off this process at the retreat, even our now council member read was even there.

532
00:44:45,990 --> 00:44:52,830
And the reason I was, I really wanted to do this plan is because it's not just the document,

533
00:44:53,410 --> 00:44:56,970
it's the process in which all of you worked on this.

534
00:44:57,670 --> 00:44:59,970
We saw a lot of great synergy between...

535
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,560
In the 7 of you, a lot of excellent conversations back and forths that have led up to this meeting

536
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:16,480
where you're considering adoption. And, you know, the process is almost as valuable as the

537
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:23,880
document itself. But the other big reason that I felt this was important was because on

538
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:31,140
the staff side, we have a 20-year comprehensive plan and we have a one-year budget.

539
00:45:32,660 --> 00:45:36,780
And there's a six-year TIP, a six-year CIP, but even those for the most part, they're

540
00:45:36,780 --> 00:45:40,360
just parking lots for projects because we don't have the funds to do very much.

541
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:47,040
And so what the vision for this was that it would help us bridge that gap between the two

542
00:45:47,820 --> 00:45:48,740
big documents.

543
00:45:48,740 --> 00:45:55,720
And I completely recognize that the situation has drastically changed with the repeal of the comp plan.

544
00:45:57,500 --> 00:46:04,540
However, I, from a staff perspective, I almost see this as being even more important at this time.

545
00:46:05,220 --> 00:46:09,740
And the reason for that is because we will likely not have a comp plan, a new comp plan.

546
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:15,700
We do technically have a comp plan, it's the one from 2019, that we, I don't even know, you know, council member D.

547
00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:20,940
He's certainly the only one on council that was that on council at that time, and I don't

548
00:46:20,940 --> 00:46:25,660
know how many other times your seats have turned over since then, but we're at least

549
00:46:25,660 --> 00:46:28,100
probably a year away from adopting another comp plan.

550
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:33,880
And we are deep into the budget process this year.

551
00:46:34,420 --> 00:46:41,040
We're excited to present that budget to you, but by doing this exercise, by adopting a

552
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:52,660
strategic plan, it helps give me that stop gap from the 2019 plan to whatever this new plan is going to be, because it comes from the seven of you.

553
00:46:53,140 --> 00:47:02,800
The 2019 comp plan came from one seventh of you and the next comp plan, it might not even come from all seven of you.

554
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:08,140
you know, we're going to have an election in a little over a year where I think if I can't

555
00:47:08,140 --> 00:47:13,160
remember, I haven't looked at the date. I think four seats are up for reelection or not reelection,

556
00:47:13,220 --> 00:47:14,560
but for grabs.

557
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:24,660
And so I would just ask you to consider it from from that lens. The resolution

558
00:47:24,660 --> 00:47:32,440
even says such, you know, nothing in here is binding every item that we budget for or we come

559
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:37,560
approval will come before council and like every document it's a living document we know it's

560
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:42,940
going to change it it's just part of the part of the cycle of things so I also want to add that

561
00:47:42,940 --> 00:47:49,460
little bit of perspective because you know we find ourselves in uncharted territory with repealed

562
00:47:49,460 --> 00:47:53,900
a comprehensive plan I don't think there's a single city or county in the state that is operating

563
00:47:53,900 --> 00:48:00,960
off of a 2019 comp plan so I see this has been a help not a hindrance but again that's just my

564
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,400
I respect them on the on the matter.

565
00:48:07,610 --> 00:48:08,170
Question.

566
00:48:09,150 --> 00:48:09,850
Kills me.

567
00:48:10,050 --> 00:48:16,790
So I know that a lot of the public comment was about the phrasing of the.

568
00:48:17,930 --> 00:48:23,030
Shared vision and investing in lakes or regional park to establishes a meter asset to the community and region.

569
00:48:26,350 --> 00:48:31,650
I think a lot of the concern was that I've read in my email. So surround ball fields.

570
00:48:31,650 --> 00:48:38,110
It would be, and this is a more directional statement.

571
00:48:38,530 --> 00:48:45,590
It would seem that maybe a planning committee or future council decision could decide what

572
00:48:45,590 --> 00:48:48,170
happens there, but it's not locked into ball field.

573
00:48:48,370 --> 00:48:56,050
So a potential outcome would be to enhance the trails that are already there, or as I think

574
00:48:56,050 --> 00:49:05,670
one of the people said last time here is asking about a gist golf course out there. So I just want

575
00:49:05,670 --> 00:49:14,230
to caution that I think those are also potential outcomes. And I don't necessarily think this

576
00:49:14,230 --> 00:49:22,570
locks us into any sort of ball field or any sort of point agreement or it really kind of gives us

577
00:49:22,570 --> 00:49:28,490
the, you know, as a community, we want to do something there. And we don't have that necessary,

578
00:49:28,870 --> 00:49:35,270
necessary, that plan necessarily lined out right now. But it does through parts of the other

579
00:49:35,270 --> 00:49:40,090
plan say that we should work together as a community and figure out what that plan is. So,

580
00:49:41,490 --> 00:49:47,650
I mean, from that standpoint, I'm thinking about, you know, optimism of my community. I think

581
00:49:47,650 --> 00:49:53,610
that it makes sense to lean into that and work with everybody because we could have a really cool

582
00:49:53,610 --> 00:49:57,890
orstrial out there. We could have a really cool electric turbine back out there.

583
00:49:58,030 --> 00:50:06,830
You know what I mean? I just want to caution that saying no to this, are we saying no to those other things too?

584
00:50:07,810 --> 00:50:14,150
Right. And that I guess less of a question, but maybe confirm my assumption that that is a potential outcome.

585
00:50:14,150 --> 00:50:14,250
Um,

586
00:50:16,730 --> 00:50:20,070
this was really my question, but yeah, my thoughts.

587
00:50:20,310 --> 00:50:23,130
We did the council was selling up this work on it.

588
00:50:23,130 --> 00:50:26,830
It is a working document that we all sat down and meetings

589
00:50:26,830 --> 00:50:28,390
and meetings and meetings on this.

590
00:50:31,900 --> 00:50:35,500
We're not walked into anything, but there's no public comment

591
00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:37,720
on any of that what we decided either.

592
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:42,200
Sure, you know, it was what we thought of as a whole would

593
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:43,740
be good for that community.

594
00:50:44,100 --> 00:50:46,520
And I know we're elected and we represent the people,

595
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,740
But we never got to really hear the people of what they not.

596
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:54,460
It was our vision of what we think the population of people on.

597
00:50:55,580 --> 00:50:59,220
Now, we're learning that a lot of them don't want

598
00:50:59,220 --> 00:51:00,980
with ball fields at the park, but you know,

599
00:51:01,420 --> 00:51:03,600
how do we say, okay, that we won't do that?

600
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:04,760
But we might do this.

601
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:06,640
How do we have

602
00:51:08,850 --> 00:51:10,350
a public comment on every issue

603
00:51:10,350 --> 00:51:11,430
we're going to decide on?

604
00:51:11,950 --> 00:51:14,870
This is, I mean, you know, that's why I think,

605
00:51:14,870 --> 00:51:26,570
I think we should just table this till the comp lands done and make sure we're all in the line and everything lines up and then I'm not saying our work goes away.

606
00:51:26,830 --> 00:51:33,110
I'm just saying we table it till we get some key issues addressed.

607
00:51:38,110 --> 00:51:55,350
So I have a lot of feelings about this and I think that we're in a unique position as a city where we've been a little city for a long time and we're trying to grow up and become a bigger city and trying to plan for the city of not today but 20 years from today.

608
00:51:55,350 --> 00:52:04,490
And what what will we need then and just as you guys brought up why didn't we do it and adopt that plan those years ago and we would have had the impact fees.

609
00:52:04,970 --> 00:52:11,460
You know by doing nothing and by saying we have to have all this other stuff done all we do is stagnate.

610
00:52:12,330 --> 00:52:19,610
The problem is we have so many choices and so many priorities that we could focus on but we don't know where to start.

611
00:52:19,610 --> 00:52:28,190
We, the point of this was to say, what steps do we need to take to grow up as a city?

612
00:52:28,650 --> 00:52:34,250
Because we got to start somewhere because there's a plethora of complications and challenges

613
00:52:34,250 --> 00:52:34,870
out there.

614
00:52:35,590 --> 00:52:42,270
So this is a planning document that says, okay, we're going to pick these five things to

615
00:52:42,270 --> 00:52:42,770
start with.

616
00:52:43,430 --> 00:52:48,030
And it doesn't mean that we are committing to ball fields.

617
00:52:48,030 --> 00:52:53,610
In fact, it says develop a shared vision for the park, which inherently includes public

618
00:52:53,610 --> 00:52:53,970
comment.

619
00:52:54,450 --> 00:53:00,790
It doesn't change the studies that are required, the public meetings that are required, the

620
00:53:00,790 --> 00:53:03,490
capital budget process that you have to go through.

621
00:53:03,610 --> 00:53:05,290
It doesn't change any of that.

622
00:53:06,010 --> 00:53:13,770
It gives us a framework to say, we know in 20 years, 15 years, whatever, we're going to need

623
00:53:13,770 --> 00:53:14,630
a proper campus.

624
00:53:14,630 --> 00:53:18,350
And a lot of us are tired of paying rent, a very high rent.

625
00:53:19,090 --> 00:53:27,290
And for that amount of money, we could have something with, you know, adjacent to a park or maybe there's ball fields there or who knows.

626
00:53:27,670 --> 00:53:39,870
But the point is we want to start to focus our energy so that we can create something so that we can have something that we're proud of.

627
00:53:39,870 --> 00:53:44,430
A strategic plan is not a comp plan.

628
00:53:45,050 --> 00:53:48,110
It does not require that there be a comp plan.

629
00:53:48,290 --> 00:53:50,050
We can do both things at once.

630
00:53:50,790 --> 00:53:55,750
A lot of these things, we're not making development decisions, we're not making land-to-use

631
00:53:55,750 --> 00:53:56,250
decisions.

632
00:53:56,670 --> 00:53:59,410
We're talking about where do we focus our energy?

633
00:53:59,990 --> 00:54:02,690
Where are we going to have discussions about the future?

634
00:54:03,290 --> 00:54:05,750
We want to talk about these things.

635
00:54:06,170 --> 00:54:07,710
We said we want to walk a little park.

636
00:54:07,810 --> 00:54:09,030
Well, how do we make that happen?

637
00:54:09,030 --> 00:54:11,590
would make that happen with making it a goal.

638
00:54:12,290 --> 00:54:15,810
And then every two years you review that goal and you tweak it.

639
00:54:16,650 --> 00:54:22,450
So I think it would be a shame to set this work aside.

640
00:54:22,730 --> 00:54:25,910
I think that the public has had input.

641
00:54:26,210 --> 00:54:30,750
I have some language I think that we could change about the park specifically.

642
00:54:31,870 --> 00:54:37,950
But it would be a shame to set this aside and continue to be the rudderless city that

643
00:54:37,950 --> 00:54:46,430
we have been for a while and I would hope that we would honor Kevin's request really begging for us

644
00:54:46,430 --> 00:54:51,710
to give him some direction and the staff some direction and that's what we're trying to do with

645
00:54:51,710 --> 00:54:52,330
this document.

646
00:54:55,860 --> 00:55:07,140
Yeah I see this as trying to write a term paper and I've done both things I've written

647
00:55:07,140 --> 00:55:13,940
an outline, so then write a very long, you know, 15, 20 page paper. I've also winged it.

648
00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:22,220
And I'll tell you what, working off an outline allows you to have a focus through way through

649
00:55:22,220 --> 00:55:25,740
it. Things can change. You can change the ending. You can change different things. You can put

650
00:55:25,740 --> 00:55:30,180
different things into it. But having that through line, an outline to be able to follow it

651
00:55:30,180 --> 00:55:37,580
and change it as you want to is so much beneficial than just like winging it and like I'm just going

652
00:55:37,580 --> 00:55:41,020
to start writing and also you go on a tangent and you're going this way, you're going that way

653
00:55:41,020 --> 00:55:48,720
and you've wasted so much time and effort and money, you know, if you want to get a quick list of

654
00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:57,740
things that's not necessary not necessary for this. So the fact that this is like a strategic plan

655
00:55:57,740 --> 00:56:04,000
that's not beholden it literally just gives us a little bit of focus now there's things that we

656
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:08,920
can potentially improve on this great but there's other things that we can give city staff

657
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:13,560
a direction so start going down the road and then they come back to us and we talk we do public

658
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:21,620
comment we do town halls all these things we're gonna have our retreat probably in February or March

659
00:56:25,420 --> 00:56:27,940
We're going to have that retreat sooner than later.

660
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:29,020
It's not a year from now.

661
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,640
We could even potentially say, hey, you know what?

662
00:56:31,780 --> 00:56:32,640
We've had a few months.

663
00:56:33,020 --> 00:56:34,360
We've had people reach out to us.

664
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,220
Instead of waiting two years, let's tackle some of these things now.

665
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:43,440
It gives us and it gives the city staff an outline to work from.

666
00:56:43,780 --> 00:56:45,880
Because right now, we don't have.

667
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,380
We've submitted our paper and we retracted it.

668
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:55,680
And so I feel like that's the right way for us to go because otherwise, we're just going

669
00:56:55,680 --> 00:57:00,580
to be going down the road and not having a direction to go.

670
00:57:00,900 --> 00:57:06,220
And if we want to campus and we want impact fees, how do we start the study to know what

671
00:57:06,220 --> 00:57:06,740
those should be?

672
00:57:07,180 --> 00:57:08,100
They did the study.

673
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:12,160
We probably spent 20,000 for the way the city spends money.

674
00:57:12,700 --> 00:57:13,560
We did a study.

675
00:57:13,740 --> 00:57:16,060
And then nothing happened just like today.

676
00:57:16,060 --> 00:57:26,480
It did happen, and the council voted not to, I mean, the prices there, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the whole thing. What's that? How old is it?

677
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:27,320
2014.

678
00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:32,120
And it was adopted and everything, but then they decided not to.

679
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:36,920
to implement in copies.

680
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:38,480
Sounds very simple.

681
00:57:38,700 --> 00:57:45,200
General government facility plan, which they said at the time they looked at city hall,

682
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:51,500
police, up fire and public works and said, you're going to have to be a minimum of $40 million

683
00:57:51,500 --> 00:57:53,140
guys, a minimum.

684
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:57,260
You guys going to have to have that, you know, and it was all done.

685
00:57:57,260 --> 00:58:03,800
and then for some reason, I won't mention names, Orston decided not to do it.

686
00:58:04,540 --> 00:58:10,580
That sounds eerily similar to wanting to table an item that the city's already spent $36,000 on.

687
00:58:11,980 --> 00:58:14,060
I don't think so, not even guess.

688
00:58:16,020 --> 00:58:18,140
Council Member Sorcery, I see you have your hand on phone line.

689
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:25,680
Yeah, just want to comment. My greatest fear, if we want to go back to the term paper,

690
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:33,460
is this council has created the outline and as we go forward I read this as

691
00:58:33,460 --> 00:58:38,120
we're telling the comp plan and the citizens this is the direction we want to

692
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:46,800
go that you guys fall in line I don't like to work that way I think it was a

693
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:52,620
good exercise we spent the money we have some direction we don't necessarily

694
00:58:52,620 --> 00:58:59,660
have to adopt this but there's no reason why it can't be a working document on the side where

695
00:58:59,660 --> 00:59:04,900
you can take the pieces you need but you adopt something like this we're basically telling the

696
00:59:04,900 --> 00:59:09,040
planning commission this is how you're going to deal when you're working with updating the comp

697
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:14,420
plan and citizens of Black Diamond this is what you're going to have to fall in line with I just don't

698
00:59:14,420 --> 00:59:15,160
like that.

699
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,880
I'm not sure actually says any of that. No.

700
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:24,920
Councilmember Peterson you said you had

701
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:29,740
some suggested language for. Yeah, of course I was going to ask David if you can confirm

702
00:59:29,740 --> 00:59:35,580
for the record that adopting the strategic plan does not replace or amend the comprehensive plan

703
00:59:35,580 --> 00:59:41,220
and that any actions requiring formal planning, environmental review, public process or council

704
00:59:41,220 --> 00:59:46,080
approval will still have to go through those processes. Yeah, there's an extensive process that you

705
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,360
went through to adopt the comp plan, you're going to be going through that same process

706
00:59:49,980 --> 00:59:54,700
this time, perhaps even a little bit more elaborate process than you went through, or at

707
00:59:54,700 --> 00:59:59,220
least, more focused process.

708
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:30,320
So, even if something you adopted in a strategic plan, turned out to be 180 degrees from what you eventually want to put in the comp plan. It doesn't stop you from putting in the comp plan what you want to put in the comp plan. The strategic document, I think, is Mr. O'Neil was saying, staff needs some direction to do something to know that they're not wasting their efforts when they're sitting in city hall trying to figure out how they're going to spend their day. If they're doing things that the council is not going to support, I think this helps give this, give this,

709
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:34,520
staff, some confidence that when they're spending, you know, they're, they're, they're,

710
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,440
they're weekly schedule.

711
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,360
They know they're working on something that actually has counsel backing.

712
01:00:42,610 --> 01:00:43,330
Thank you.

713
01:00:45,780 --> 01:00:47,820
Yes, I do have some potential language.

714
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:53,080
I, I think, you know, we learned very clearly that the park is a sensitive spot and that

715
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:56,240
of course, nobody wants to carve up their paradise.

716
01:00:57,040 --> 01:01:02,760
I think there is a section of the text that says, right now, it says, develop a shared

717
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:08,160
vision and invest in lakes or a regional park to establish it as a major asset to the community

718
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:13,620
and region. And I think that that's a little bit of the hesitation is that it feels like we're

719
01:01:13,620 --> 01:01:17,920
opening it up to everybody and people are going to come in groves and we're going to get overwhelmed

720
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:25,320
and traffic is going to be crazy. And I think the intent is more that you know the city has grown

721
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:31,160
and the people in 10 trails have as much right to enjoy this wonderful asset as the rest of us do

722
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:37,220
and there are things that maybe will make that easier, safer, whatever we consider,

723
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:42,820
but those things need to be planned and discussed and public hearings need to be held all of that.

724
01:01:43,300 --> 01:01:50,300
But I think that we can soften that language and change it to develop a shared community vision

725
01:01:50,300 --> 01:01:57,340
for Lakesore Regional Park that balances recreation, public access, access, environmental stewardship,

726
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:00,080
and preservation of the park's natural character.

727
01:02:03,620 --> 01:02:07,080
and I have that written if you'd like to have it.

728
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:08,340
Did you get that, Brian?

729
01:02:10,830 --> 01:02:13,030
I got some of it and I'm happy to share my screen

730
01:02:13,030 --> 01:02:14,430
if it's helpful to see the edits

731
01:02:14,430 --> 01:02:15,710
and I can capture them here.

732
01:02:16,350 --> 01:02:16,990
I think that'd be helpful.

733
01:02:17,510 --> 01:02:17,950
Great.

734
01:02:21,590 --> 01:02:22,670
Let's see if I can do that.

735
01:02:31,220 --> 01:02:33,500
So develop a shared community vision

736
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:35,460
and invest in Lake Sawyer Regional Park.

737
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:36,300
Sorry.

738
01:02:37,300 --> 01:02:38,980
For Lake Sawyer Regional Park, yeah.

739
01:02:40,620 --> 01:02:42,220
That balances recreation,

740
01:02:42,220 --> 01:02:43,520
public

741
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:46,560
access,

742
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:52,400
environmental stewardship,

743
01:02:54,770 --> 01:02:58,490
and preservation of the park's natural character was

744
01:03:26,300 --> 01:03:28,580
that the only suggestion you had come from Peterson.

745
01:03:29,580 --> 01:03:37,240
So maybe before we move on to the rest of council, do you agree with this modification?

746
01:03:38,300 --> 01:03:41,000
Would you prefer what was originally there something different?

747
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:48,120
Should I do it as a motion or doesn't matter?

748
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:57,560
I think motion was just as amended motion if when we get to the adoption piece just to do the motion to adopt.

749
01:03:58,740 --> 01:04:03,780
So the other thing that I would consider is that we're missing two council people.

750
01:04:05,860 --> 01:04:14,220
So rather than being forced into a no decision tonight, I would rather wait till we have all seven of us.

751
01:04:16,620 --> 01:04:21,160
So that would be a motion to table until the next that would be a motion to table until

752
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,040
the next meeting. All

753
01:04:29,470 --> 01:04:30,090
those in favor?

754
01:04:30,650 --> 01:04:33,230
Aye. Opposed?

755
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:36,320
Motion carries.

756
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:55,860
Yeah. David, I just heard speech about adding fees to new development of houses and

757
01:04:55,860 --> 01:05:01,540
handrails. Is that something that can be done or are we to go part of the development

758
01:05:01,540 --> 01:05:07,220
agreement for those houses to be built. I would be happy to send you a confidential attorney

759
01:05:07,220 --> 01:05:12,420
client memo or email on that subject. Thank you. For to discuss it in an executive session if

760
01:05:12,420 --> 01:05:18,660
you prefer. Yeah, I got him to answer my question. To be clear, it wasn't just an ask-to-plan.

761
01:05:18,780 --> 01:05:24,460
It was throughout the city. Yeah, no, I just heard the trails on that was processed. That's why

762
01:05:32,580 --> 01:05:47,320
I'd like to make that quick comment is that we can't be specific to 10 trails or loss and hills, but we can be specific to citywide adding this, which means every house built anywhere within the city limits of black diamond.

763
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:49,800
and would get a facility's charge.

764
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:52,840
So there would be nothing exempt

765
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:54,580
within the city limits of Black Diamond.

766
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:58,740
And I think if the city attorney

767
01:05:58,740 --> 01:06:00,640
would probably confirm that that is correct

768
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:02,140
that we can charge everyone,

769
01:06:02,140 --> 01:06:04,120
we can't be selective on who we charge.

770
01:06:09,790 --> 01:06:10,790
What's that, little signals?

771
01:06:19,260 --> 01:06:22,040
So next item on the agenda is the mayor report.

772
01:06:24,460 --> 01:06:26,500
I'd like to invite everyone out

773
01:06:26,500 --> 01:06:30,620
to the Black Diamond Museum this Thursday at 12.30.

774
01:06:31,460 --> 01:06:37,340
The daughters of the American Revolution will be hosting

775
01:06:37,340 --> 01:06:43,100
a ringing of the bells ceremony in order to honor the 239th anniversary

776
01:06:43,100 --> 01:06:47,880
of the draft as a Constitution.

777
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:49,840
I'll be reading a proclamation.

778
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:53,980
And so it would be great to see a number of residents out there.

779
01:06:53,980 --> 01:07:07,540
couple two weekends ago. I attended the Labor days. I just want to give a shout out to all of the residents, the vendors, all the participants. They came down.

780
01:07:07,940 --> 01:07:22,660
It's good to meet so many people out there. I'd really like to give a big shout out to Hal Hart, who manned the city booth for the entirety of the weekend, met with dozens and dozens of residents.

781
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:36,500
also want to give a big shout out to the public works teams, a lot of people don't realize that when we have these booths set up, these community events, all the tear down and set up and everything goes is done by the public works guys.

782
01:07:36,780 --> 01:07:43,760
And so I also guilty when I get done at the end and I collapse the tables and the chairs and then just walk away from the pile of stuff.

783
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:48,860
know in the public works, guys are going to go and clean up after us. So big shout out to them.

784
01:07:50,220 --> 01:07:56,900
Thank you to all the volunteers that helped make the Labor Day event possible and really did just

785
01:07:56,900 --> 01:08:04,680
kind of read a little bit of a call to action. You know, Mr. O'Neill and I were there breaking down

786
01:08:06,300 --> 01:08:12,380
the tents and everything at the end of it and I think we were probably the only people under the age

787
01:08:12,380 --> 01:08:14,820
of 75 that were there.

788
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:17,400
No comment, just doing manual labor.

789
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,900
So if we could get some more volunteers out there

790
01:08:20,900 --> 01:08:23,940
to help keep this tradition going, it would be amazing.

791
01:08:25,140 --> 01:08:27,240
And that might have been an exaggeration.

792
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,060
Sorry if I just called anybody over 75.

793
01:08:29,480 --> 01:08:29,840
That's not.

794
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:39,980
And then another thing that's been out and about there

795
01:08:39,980 --> 01:08:49,880
Is the commons area, the food truck area within the 10 trails community has opened up and is being occupied by a number of food trucks.

796
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:54,700
If you haven't been down there yet, I would highly suggest it. Is that just certain days?

797
01:08:55,480 --> 01:08:59,060
No, there's always seven days a week. Yeah, there's a couple of

798
01:08:59,060 --> 01:09:03,540
four and a whole tables set up there and ladder golf in a nice

799
01:09:03,540 --> 01:09:09,860
curved area. It's awesome. Swing down there late one evening and get some ice cream

800
01:09:09,860 --> 01:09:17,400
or and wanted to talk a little bit more. I think that's going to become even more of a

801
01:09:18,020 --> 01:09:25,980
visited area with the opening of the Safeway coming. I've got a semi-formal invitation to an opening

802
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:46,080
on October 3rd at 9 a.m., they asked me to be there and speak and I will send it formally in an email, but wanted to invite all the council members and all the members of the public to come on down and join the say pretty big milestone. I feel within the city with the opening the safe way coming.

803
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:49,680
So yeah, that's my mayor report.

804
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:54,860
Moving on to the council report, council member Young.

805
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:55,780
Thank you, mayor.

806
01:09:56,780 --> 01:10:00,320
I have to, fortunately, last meeting,

807
01:10:00,860 --> 01:10:04,800
I did not have my notes stop from my commissioners meeting

808
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:05,740
with Mountain View Fire.

809
01:10:06,220 --> 01:10:07,740
My wife and I have swapped cars,

810
01:10:07,740 --> 01:10:09,240
and my notes were in the other car.

811
01:10:09,780 --> 01:10:11,960
So I will be giving my report tonight.

812
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:17,760
So at the end of August, we met call volume

813
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:24,360
through July from January. So basically it's 1,645 calls, which is up 1% from 2025.

814
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:33,420
It's roughly a district-wide, 71.4% EMS and 28.6% fire. Black Diamond is still right around 1.5

815
01:10:33,420 --> 01:10:42,260
calls per day. This year we've had 324 incidents, 74% as EMS, and total for the year of ambulance

816
01:10:44,700 --> 01:10:49,480
We had some incidents on the green river with the rescue and some brush fires.

817
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:53,700
We wanted to recognize Lieutenant Nick Faust of 10 years.

818
01:10:54,220 --> 01:10:55,420
Matt Cleveland of five years.

819
01:10:56,100 --> 01:10:56,360
Awesome.

820
01:10:56,480 --> 01:10:57,400
Godwin of five years.

821
01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:00,580
And then Chapman beer was there at the meeting.

822
01:11:01,060 --> 01:11:02,520
And we were celebrating five years.

823
01:11:02,620 --> 01:11:05,280
And he just really wanted to say that much of you fire and rescue.

824
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,200
Has great small town feel and six around and puts in the effort.

825
01:11:10,060 --> 01:11:22,660
During public comment, the union representative reported that by unanimous approval by the union members, they would like to start contract services with Puget Soundfire and Mountain View Fire and Rescue.

826
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:32,880
She's got Juckins stated before that that they are now working on the transfer of fire services after the yes vote for annexation.

827
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:35,760
and she said that we will be keeping everyone

828
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,200
and there will be no layoffs due to that vote.

829
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:42,040
I wanted to remind everybody that we are at a stage two

830
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:46,920
fire safety burn van, which that does include

831
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,900
that any outdoor fires including recreational

832
01:11:51,580 --> 01:11:53,920
and ceremonial fires are not allowed.

833
01:11:54,500 --> 01:11:56,700
So you can't have the little campfire in your backyard

834
01:11:56,700 --> 01:11:57,700
or anything like that.

835
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:01,020
So you can still do gas and charcoal.

836
01:12:01,020 --> 01:12:14,580
You can have your natural gas and propane patio heater, but unfortunately right now no outdoor fires as always I just wanted to say thank you for the help of Mountain View Fire and Rescue and for keeping us safe.

837
01:12:14,820 --> 01:12:22,780
They were actually just down the street for me last night helping one of my close neighbors so it's nice to have that support from them, so thank you.

838
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:23,340
That's it.

839
01:12:24,180 --> 01:12:24,960
Thank you.

840
01:12:26,440 --> 01:12:27,640
Councilmember Del Santel.

841
01:12:27,940 --> 01:12:31,120
Yeah, we're just like to address Stacey Lins.

842
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:33,320
Concerns about 288th.

843
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:37,220
I've heard a couple of citizens talk about 288.

844
01:12:37,580 --> 01:12:40,660
And I was going to ask you, Scott,

845
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:45,160
that I know it was a requirement of a massive land development.

846
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:47,040
And they engineer it.

847
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:48,100
It is a very nervous.

848
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:49,460
Her metrics review.

849
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:52,880
Their designs because.

850
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:58,760
because that intersection is pretty inadequate for trucks and especially since it's going

851
01:12:58,760 --> 01:12:59,400
to be a detour.

852
01:12:59,500 --> 01:13:02,740
If you look at the curves that are all laid up, it's going to be a making that might never

853
01:13:02,740 --> 01:13:03,320
funny city.

854
01:13:03,940 --> 01:13:08,880
It just doesn't look like a major arterial that is engineered correctly.

855
01:13:10,620 --> 01:13:19,220
So I don't know if there are metrics or engineer reviews those or it's mainly just a sure-look

856
01:13:19,220 --> 01:13:19,600
tight.

857
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:29,080
And if you look at the curb, and now it's chewed up, it is, you can tell it's not adequate for the traffic that's going to be going next year for months.

858
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:32,640
Councilmember.

859
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:34,500
I can answer that.

860
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,520
I mean, it's possible able to as well.

861
01:13:37,700 --> 01:13:39,420
But I don't know if it's for sure.

862
01:13:39,460 --> 01:13:46,440
Parametrics, but we do have one of our consultants review the plans as does the county, you know, through the permitting process.

863
01:13:46,440 --> 01:13:59,160
So in this instance it was reviewed. I don't they would have been a while ago at this point before my time, but that is the process is we don't just, you know, take their word for it.

864
01:13:59,540 --> 01:14:00,820
Then being a point.

865
01:14:01,060 --> 01:14:02,460
Yeah, I just.

866
01:14:03,100 --> 01:14:03,560
Yeah.

867
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:10,720
It is a weird intersection like why is all that equipment right there and it didn't for a second there was a term lane.

868
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,960
I mean, it just doesn't look as a major

869
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:22,720
arterial to 88 to 16th radiuses.

870
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:24,840
Do we have any solutions?

871
01:14:25,420 --> 01:14:29,040
I mean, I don't know if we're prepared to do an interim solution like she suggested

872
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,800
but are we at least honing in on a solution?

873
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:40,520
Yeah, in terms of the electrification problem, which was the last hurdle, the county requested

874
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:45,240
the shop drawings for the solution. The solution is essentially putting composite poles that don't

875
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:50,740
conduct electricity. We looked at grounding and some other solutions, but that's what they ended

876
01:14:50,740 --> 01:14:59,000
up finding was the best solution. And so the county needed to review it again. They requested shop

877
01:14:59,000 --> 01:14:59,880
Drines we provide.

878
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:05,900
That those and we are now in standby mode yet again. Does that mean they have to rip everything out.

879
01:15:08,020 --> 01:15:29,800
I don't think that, well, I guess it depends. I think the existing polls are not the ones that are causing the problem, but I don't know if they're just going to replace all of them with composite just to be safe. So I don't know. It's going to be another bunch of years. No, I don't think it's I think we're talking a matter of weeks to

880
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:35,460
a couple months, not years. Okay, yeah. I don't want to at this point with that intersection,

881
01:15:35,460 --> 01:15:42,220
I'd never make a promise when it comes to timing at this point, but I can't fingers crossed sooner or

882
01:15:42,220 --> 01:15:48,140
later. So essentially we're just waiting on King County to give us the green light. Yes. Yeah,

883
01:15:48,300 --> 01:15:54,640
the for those that don't know the intersection is partially in the county. So we have to rely on them,

884
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:58,040
or we have to go through their process as well since it doesn't all belong in the city.

885
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:05,460
the county party only reviews their section not ready to just go on on 218 to 216 that's in black

886
01:16:05,460 --> 01:16:12,700
diamond, they probably only review what's in King County. I doubt they comment on what's black diamonds.

887
01:16:13,420 --> 01:16:17,940
I believe they look at it I believe they do look at it holistically as do we because we need to make

888
01:16:17,940 --> 01:16:20,920
sure that their sections drive with our sections and vice versa.

889
01:16:23,300 --> 01:16:25,680
But I couldn't say for sure how

890
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:28,680
They're not the, they're all of a job they do.

891
01:16:29,020 --> 01:16:31,840
Okay. Yeah, I just followed a truck the other day.

892
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:35,460
I popped in that and you didn't go in the other lane,

893
01:16:35,460 --> 01:16:39,100
but his trailer was completely over the curb and on the sidewalk.

894
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:44,020
I'm like, just doesn't look like the engineer in this.

895
01:16:44,180 --> 01:16:49,080
Quite up to any standard that should be.

896
01:16:52,860 --> 01:16:53,820
Council Member E.

897
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:55,740
Your report, Mayor.

898
01:16:56,420 --> 01:16:58,080
Thank you. Council Member Fearson.

899
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:03,440
And I was going to say I enjoyed Labor Day as well.

900
01:17:03,780 --> 01:17:06,620
I wish that Sunday had or Monday had been as nice as Sunday.

901
01:17:07,900 --> 01:17:12,020
And I'm looking forward to a tour with Public Works as Friday.

902
01:17:12,620 --> 01:17:15,600
And so we're going to be at the spring source.

903
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:17,040
It's really good.

904
01:17:19,300 --> 01:17:19,880
That's true.

905
01:17:20,420 --> 01:17:21,000
It's on board.

906
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:23,120
Council Member Source.

907
01:17:23,260 --> 01:17:23,340
Steve.

908
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:24,960
Yeah.

909
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:31,660
Now, this is personal. Earlier this year, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

910
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:35,260
After all

911
01:17:35,260 --> 01:17:44,320
the scans and everything, I selected a radical prostatectomy surgery and the cancer was

912
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:55,600
confined within my prostate so the prognosis looks good. However, I am now dealing with

913
01:17:56,280 --> 01:18:03,040
other issues associated with this surgery and that's why I'm online and I will be online

914
01:18:03,820 --> 01:18:11,060
for quite a while as I won't be able to for the next 12 to 16 weeks or more.

915
01:18:11,060 --> 01:18:17,920
I have to relearn how to control my bladder, so I want to make that personal.

916
01:18:18,500 --> 01:18:26,700
But I also want to let every male and every woman that loves their father, husband, whatever.

917
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:29,340
Get your prostate checked.

918
01:18:30,780 --> 01:18:32,380
I followed my prostate.

919
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:37,520
I was fortunate because I did it constantly.

920
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:42,500
I was able to see that the prostate PSA number was rising.

921
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:47,580
As you know, medicine moves very slowly.

922
01:18:50,660 --> 01:18:52,960
And then I had my doctor tell me,

923
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:57,020
because at 75 Medicare tells all their men

924
01:18:57,020 --> 01:18:59,280
you no longer need to get your PSA checked,

925
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:02,720
because if you get cancer, it'll be very slow and you won't die.

926
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:04,120
That's not the case.

927
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:11,220
This answers grow very quickly and the thought of dying of cancer should be at warrant to

928
01:19:11,220 --> 01:19:11,580
anyone.

929
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:19,980
So, please, if you're a male, get your PSA test, watch the numbers, never miss a year,

930
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:28,240
and if you see the PSA rising, be like me, follow it up, push your physician, make sure

931
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:30,900
you get the scans necessary and save your life.

932
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:33,880
Thanks.

933
01:19:34,780 --> 01:19:36,040
Thanks for sharing that.

934
01:19:36,220 --> 01:19:37,260
Yeah, thank you for being vulnerable.

935
01:19:37,480 --> 01:19:38,180
I appreciate that.

936
01:19:41,100 --> 01:19:43,220
Do we have a city administrator report?

937
01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:44,620
Very brief.

938
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:51,200
So just a reminder, we have the in-emclod joint meeting next week, next Wednesday between

939
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:55,040
our city, the city of In-emclod and the in-emclod school district.

940
01:19:55,680 --> 01:20:01,820
And then I also just wanted to thank council for your patience with the budget item.

941
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:07,020
We didn't feel like the material was ready for today and we wanted to make sure that it

942
01:20:07,020 --> 01:20:11,400
was ready for prime time and we didn't want to rush anything.

943
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:18,520
We either, I or Brenda, will be reaching out to each of you to a schedule, a special

944
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:21,300
meeting either next week or the following week.

945
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:26,740
So please keep an eye on your phones or emails because we'll be giving you a call to make

946
01:20:26,740 --> 01:20:28,560
sure we can find something that everybody can attend.

947
01:20:29,420 --> 01:20:29,980
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

948
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:30,900
Thank you.

949
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:38,200
Okay. I'm an attorney report. Not tonight there. Well, that's a first like to keep on your toes.

950
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:45,520
That brings us to our second public comment session. This is for anyone wishing to

951
01:20:46,140 --> 01:20:52,000
dress council, finish final thoughts, anything that came up along the way you want to make comment on.

952
01:20:52,420 --> 01:21:00,520
May do so at this time. Again, raise your hand physically or electronically. You will be called

953
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:00,860
All the bond.

954
01:21:03,300 --> 01:21:03,860
Mr. Eckbert.

955
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:10,780
It's mostly a curiosity.

956
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:11,980
It's something that's changed.

957
01:21:11,980 --> 01:21:13,900
It's fallen off the platform.

958
01:21:16,100 --> 01:21:19,020
That is about the pipeline road.

959
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:22,520
It's been nice to have a status report on that.

960
01:21:23,100 --> 01:21:24,500
Some future council meeting.

961
01:21:35,900 --> 01:21:37,040
My name is Jack.

962
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:38,100
I live in Black Diamond.

963
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:38,580
Darcy.

964
01:21:38,700 --> 01:21:39,080
Thank you.

965
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:44,460
The language that you changed in the strategic plan, I think, will help.

966
01:21:44,460 --> 01:21:50,240
He is a lot of people's minds. It was very clear from the Lake Sort of Community Clubs research

967
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:57,860
this week that people feel very strongly about maintaining the park as it is. Other aside from

968
01:21:57,860 --> 01:22:10,420
small changes like bathrooms and a disc golf. So thank you so much. We recognize how important that

969
01:22:10,420 --> 01:22:15,580
and we really appreciate you standing with like residents on that topic. Have a great night.

970
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:20,400
Thank you. Andre, I see you have your hand up online there.

971
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:30,600
Hello, can you hear me?

972
01:22:31,500 --> 01:22:36,160
Yep. Yep. All right, good evening council members. My name is Andre Cook. I'm the resident of Black

973
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:41,680
Diamond. I would like to take a moment to express gratitude to council member Drede and Peterson

974
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:46,480
for their insightful comments regarding the strategic plan. In my professional experience,

975
01:22:46,480 --> 01:22:51,160
I have seen firsthand how essential strategic plans are, they provide critical direction

976
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:57,120
for staff and help foster your coherence and high expectations within teams.

977
01:22:58,140 --> 01:23:02,580
Review industry's plan, I agree with the goals of the city.

978
01:23:03,510 --> 01:23:08,560
I think it's going to empower staff to pursue purposeful work aligned with those priorities.

979
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:13,540
So I encourage moving forward with that action and item.

980
01:23:13,540 --> 01:23:20,440
Um, um, it's clear that the last comprehensive plan, it took years to create and being rescinded,

981
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:23,160
um, it just looks like you're going to be starting from scratch.

982
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:29,120
And this council will probably not be the council that votes on passing that next comprehensive plan.

983
01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:34,160
So this strategic plan will give the city direction and the interim.

984
01:23:34,860 --> 01:23:39,920
Um, I, I value the comments about the Lake Sawyer, um, regional park.

985
01:23:41,500 --> 01:23:55,020
I am an advocate, but I also have ears and heart, so I think, you know, being wise on that resource and having a lot of voices, provide input in the direction.

986
01:23:55,520 --> 01:24:05,660
My number one thing would love to see a drop off at the end of the road there so people could actually get resources down to the lake to enjoy with their families.

987
01:24:06,740 --> 01:24:14,020
Also, thank you, Council Member Sorcey, for sharing that really powerful story about

988
01:24:14,780 --> 01:24:16,280
your cancer experience.

989
01:24:16,860 --> 01:24:19,740
Just causes me to definitely reflect.

990
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:20,800
So, thank you very much.

991
01:24:21,420 --> 01:24:22,400
Thank you, Council.

992
01:24:23,820 --> 01:24:24,620
Thank you.

993
01:24:29,100 --> 01:24:29,400
Thank you.

994
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:29,420
Yeah.

995
01:24:29,660 --> 01:24:30,020
He's great.

996
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:38,600
Council and Kristen Bryant.

997
01:24:38,980 --> 01:24:45,680
I wanted to just add something earlier, I was bringing up examples that you know you have

998
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:54,580
a lot of important things that you could be spending the city's budget on, and I mentioned

999
01:24:54,580 --> 01:25:01,140
fish passage and, you know, if you were to start making a list, you could come up with,

1000
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:06,500
you know, dozens of things and what the priority is is, you know, it is a council vote and

1001
01:25:06,500 --> 01:25:11,840
a council decision. I wanted to just mention fish passage because you can't pass an impact

1002
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:18,360
fee to really fix some of those issues that were created so many decades ago.

1003
01:25:19,220 --> 01:25:22,520
It's very hard to get the money for that and it's very hard to get the money for parks,

1004
01:25:22,660 --> 01:25:27,220
because parks, you know, don't really generate a lot of revenue, but everybody wants them.

1005
01:25:28,420 --> 01:25:30,220
So I recognize a difficulty with decisions.

1006
01:25:30,380 --> 01:25:33,520
A fish passage has been put off many times, many years.

1007
01:25:33,700 --> 01:25:35,540
There is, you know, grant funding.

1008
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:39,480
I know the city may be looking up at next year and I think I want to just express support

1009
01:25:39,480 --> 01:25:39,900
for that.

1010
01:25:39,900 --> 01:25:45,780
and also the tell you that I did see baby salmon in the stream on Ginder Creek on Roberts

1011
01:25:45,780 --> 01:25:51,320
last weekend. I tried to get a video but you can't film these things like they're this long and

1012
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:57,560
I mean no matter you know how hard the road projects have tried to kill them off they're still there

1013
01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:05,360
so that's encouraging and they may actually make it you know one day under the future fish passages

1014
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:09,820
is that wash thought is improving on Highway 169.

1015
01:26:10,380 --> 01:26:12,640
If you want to see them, you park your car on Roberts

1016
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:14,960
about at Diamond Village and then go across

1017
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:17,180
and like, look over them.

1018
01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:19,560
When they see your shadow, they'll all wiggle around

1019
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:20,160
in the water.

1020
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:22,980
Haven't seen any adults there in a while.

1021
01:26:23,220 --> 01:26:25,100
So you could, you know, the lakes are your weir,

1022
01:26:25,220 --> 01:26:29,100
the Abrams Avenue Causeway.

1023
01:26:29,540 --> 01:26:31,680
And then there's one under Roberts that's

1024
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:33,000
up closer to the roundabout.

1025
01:26:33,020 --> 01:26:34,680
You can go look at these and you can see

1026
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:39,980
by the adult salmon can't get through and just wanted to bring some attention to that.

1027
01:26:40,100 --> 01:26:40,860
Thank you.

1028
01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:41,220
Thank you.

1029
01:26:42,440 --> 01:26:44,080
It's going to be your new honey hole, right?

1030
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:50,780
Is there anyone else wishing to address council?

1031
01:26:54,570 --> 01:26:54,750
Okay.

1032
01:26:54,950 --> 01:26:57,190
Seeing no one I will close this public comment session.

1033
01:26:57,430 --> 01:27:00,290
We have no executive session listed.

1034
01:27:01,290 --> 01:27:02,750
I'll make a motion to adjourn.

1035
01:27:03,270 --> 01:27:03,510
Second.

1036
01:27:04,470 --> 01:27:05,270
All those in favor?

1037
01:27:05,670 --> 01:27:06,010
Aye.

1038
01:27:06,510 --> 01:27:07,030
Opposed?

1039
01:27:07,890 --> 01:27:08,650
Meeting adjourned.

1040
01:27:08,650 --> 01:27:10,170
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