And what does.
That mean.
What do you think.
It's possible.
Let me know.
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It really Yeah I'm sure there's been a lot.
Yeah no, as far as.
It's OK.
So Yeah the thing about.
It is that they have not pulled it out.
So what's that going to do.
You are.
You are you going to.
Really protect us.
Yeah It's.
Not bad.
We did talk.
You can stay holstered.
Yes sit down and everything in it.
Yes that's our thanks.
Yeah that's great.
That's great.
Thanks no problem.
Oh, yeah.
Sounds good.
And I welcome you both to the August
11, 2026 city council meeting.
I call the meeting in order, and if you would please
join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands.
One nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice.
Thank you.
Mayor McArdle here.
Council Member.
Sanders mayor.
Council Member.
Venegas here.
Council Member here.
Council Member.
Higgins here.
Council Member.
Vargas council member.
Hollingsworth, Mayor and council member here.
Great we do not have any agenda changes this evening
and so we will move into citizen comments.
This is the time that we hear from our community.
Comments are very important to us,
and we appreciate you taking the time to attend tonight's
meeting to share your thoughts.
There is a three minute time limit
to public comments for both items on the agenda
or not on the agenda, and speakers may not
transfer their time to another speaker
during the council meeting.
Public comment periods are not an opportunity for dialogue
with council members.
However, you would like to have a lengthier conversation.
I encourage you to take a contact card at the back
of the table before you leave.
If you would like to provide comments.
Oh, this is for items on the agenda.
So is there anyone that has any public comments
for items not on the agenda.
Go ahead and make your way to the microphone.
And I just want to confirm, your honor, for housing authority.
But that's for the presentation.
Correct that's right.
And if you have any comments on items on the agenda,
please raise your hand and we will take a note
and we'll call you on that item for discussion.
All right.
We will move into the consent agenda.
And I would accept a motion to approve the consent agenda.
People have reviewed and.
Approved the consent agenda.
All right.
So I have a motion by Council and seconded by Council Chitty.
All those in favor.
Aye Aye.
Opposed motion passes.
All right.
Let's move into special presentations,
proclamations and awards.
And tonight we have the Housing Authority of Chelan County
and the city of Wenatchee presenting.
And we have Vicki and Sasha here.
And so I will pass it off to you this evening.
This and such is the president of the housing authority.
So if there's any.
Yeah OK.
Good bye.
Good evening, everyone.
Madam Mayor, members of council.
My name is Sasha sleiman and I am
the executive director for the Housing
Authority of County and City.
I wanted to talk to you today a little bit
about our organization.
And I know actually the city of Portland
is probably one of the more acquainted
municipalities with your representative on our board.
But each municipality.
Appoints a representative.
And so your representative has been for many years.
And I know she is a really wonderful job of reporting back
to you all and having conversations
with staff and with you and the mayor
and doing things in the community.
So we really appreciate that.
What I'm doing is kind of going around
to all the municipalities, introducing myself.
There's been a lot of new electeds.
I've worked for the County commissioners for a few years.
I was on the city council, so when I entered the role,
I thought I knew everybody and a lot
of people got elected across the two County area, and I don't.
So I want to make sure that I introduce myself to you all.
But also, my board wanted kind of a chance for us to connect.
And then that way you all know who your representative is
and in the future, potentially better
communication between each municipality
and our organization.
We are a quasi governmental organization,
so we're not really a nonprofit.
We're not exactly a County or a city.
Really fun name, though.
Mouthful has been already planned
in the city of Wenatchee.
We do serve Douglas County and all of the small cities
throughout the entirety of our region.
We are that because the city of Wenatchee
and then later in 1998, when County designated us
as a housing authority, which is something
you can do under our CW.
And originally we were a forum to provide agricultural housing
for workers in the AG industry.
So really rooted in agriculture.
Up here in the Chelan area, we have three properties and then
two properties in Manson and you all
probably are overly familiar, so I won't get into it too much.
But the demographics of the industry are changing.
But we are really rooted in that ad housing
and want to continue to be but also looking
at statutes and requirements.
And can we ever shift that to continue
to meet the intent of supporting industry in this area.
And is there a future where we can potentially
serve an industry that isn't that either isn't
or isn't just agriculture.
For example.
You all know this very well.
Tourism hospitality is huge here.
Leavenworth knows it very well.
Also, can people afford to live the areas that they work in
and that in itself is an industry need.
Just the way that agriculture housing is.
And so can we ever have an ability to do that
and still stay true to our organization and the governance.
So just putting that on all of your radar.
We have a property here in Chelan
called Chelan bluff that we often
are wake up late or running a lot of vacancies, which
is Hurts my heart of it, because you all
know there's a housing crisis.
I know there's a housing crisis.
And to not be able to fill those units because
of the restrictions of you have to have
this exact person to fill those units
at this exact income level.
And so I'm working to try and remedy that
with our different funders.
What else do I want to tell you.
We have some housing restrictions.
Switch from egg to yes, we get waivers every once in a while.
We keep mentioning that allows us to do that.
So that's something that we're really exploring because I get
calls all the time from folks who need housing
and having that flexibility, something
that I'm really excited about.
Looking into the future here, I'm
going to tell you in the new year,
as I like to not tell you something and then not be it.
So I'm going to tell you a father out deadline
and then I'll make it.
In early 2027, we are rolling out
with a platform that will allow potential tenants
and potential applicants to this section 8 housing program apply
online in their rents online.
Do all of that application work online, which is huge for these
in the outer lying areas that are not just Wenatchee right
now, our partners at Chelan Valley folk
who are huge resources here in their community,
they're working with someone who needs assistance, longer
term assistance, emergency.
They would have to have them physically drive to my office
in Wenatchee happy to fill out paperwork and simply
photocopy IDs right back or at the link box.
It's just not very accessible.
So it's rolling out technically at the end of this year.
But we're doing property by property,
and I think it'll be huge, especially
for our senior populations on fixed incomes
when they get their Social Security on a certain day.
And you are dealing with mail, the amount of checks that we're
receiving late from the outlying areas just
because of everybody's control, won't
have to deal with that anymore.
They can pay it right there online,
or someone can help them if they can't access the technology.
So really excited about that.
We also just contacted the very last of our Housing Choice
Voucher waitlist Housing Choice vouchers,
a federal program administered nationwide where we help
subsidize the tenant's rent.
And that subsidy goes directly to the landlord.
So we have about 448 families on the program
across the two County area.
About $400,000 a month goes into the community and the landlords
pockets from that program.
And we have had a wait list of over 300,
almost 400 people since July of 2023.
So a really long time to be on a wait list.
A lot of things change in one's life in that time,
but we just contacted the last of the folks.
We can close our waitlist.
Now we've got about 20 people who are eligible for vouchers.
We're just working on the paperwork, finding apartments,
so we're really excited.
That was about 280 people that were contacted
in the last 12 months.
Here's the sad part of that.
We really are only bringing on probably about 40 to full
because we have a wait list like that.
Like I said, things change.
People move, maybe get the letter
and that kills me because I know that some people need help.
So again, 2027, that process hopefully will have some funding
from the federal government to continue it,
hopefully at the same levels.
We'll assess that in the early New year
and then people will be able to apply online.
We'll probably see me then for that.
I want to get it out to the public for the first time
in four years.
You can apply for Section 8 housing.
So we're really excited and proud of that.
The last couple things I wanted to let along those lines
is Housing Choice Voucher.
Similarly to city councils and County commissioners,
my board also has to host public hearings for certain things.
So the Housing Choice Voucher administrative plan
is now available on our website for public comment.
It is a 600 page document folks.
Please read it cover to cover.
But no, in all seriousness, it is
kind of our Bible for lack of a better comparison on how
we administer the program.
It is the rule book.
So please, if you know of anyone or a landlord
and helpful for participants or landlords to look at that
and see what's changing.
A lot of Federal Regulations change.
So we're updating that and we're doing
public comment public hearing on that September 24.
So it'll be available on our website until then.
And then the last thing is just letting
you know that Vicki and I are here
and I can email the mayor knows how to get a hold of me.
If any of you wanted to talk more,
just get that connection between all of us
and then figure out how you best want to hear from us.
If you want us to come and present
to you formally like this, or if it should
be things that we lead with.
I work with your staff quite a bit
through just our work and also our other future
and other things.
So pretty connected tries to connect with people,
whether you know it or not.
Do you have any questions.
Sorry, I just like would you explain what we're
doing in Leavenworth, in Thailand
to get more of the service workers into.
Obviously we got some units have been switched, haven't they.
We're working on it.
Yes, we are working on it.
Not that ideally, that would be a goal.
Yes and we are preserving housing.
There is affordable housing property in Kashmir
that we are hoping to acquire in the last stages
of that senior housing, that it doesn't go to the open market
and those folks get to say, permanently affordable.
Any question.
I was just curious, out of the 40
roughly, that have been kind of realized and received support,
how many of those are within the city of Sharon.
Oh what I should have brought abroad is that number.
I don't know if the new tenants, and we
may not know that exactly because they're
searching for housing.
So whether they're housed or somewhere or unhoused,
they might they're still looking for housing.
So I can update that.
But I do have a report that tells me
how many active vouchers are in each city.
I should have brought that so I can email it to you.
There's a handful here in Chelan.
Yeah OK.
We're going down the line.
Just a quick Pat on the percentage
of those 400 versus the ones that are let's
say retired or seniors on Section 8
versus working families.
I don't know if you know the percentage
of our unit of Section 8, I don't off my head,
but I can get it.
I can see if we have that data of our properties, though.
We have 20 properties across the two counties, just over under it
and move some 600 units around 200 and some are add housing
and 180 ish are senior properties.
So you have to be 62 or older.
Some of them you can be disabled.
So our properties senior housing is our second.
But our biggest unit count is agriculture workers.
Yeah Well you know.
Yeah a lot of good information.
Thanks for that.
But just one thing I wanted to drill down a little bit on
and forgive me for what you said,
but I'm wondering if you could.
Drill down a little bit on the vacancies
that are showing as well and what
the impediments are to folks being
able to use those that housing.
This is yeah, that this is probably
my biggest issue at the moment.
So I appreciate it.
Yeah the my perspective of it is that we are trying
to find a person that obviously exists,
but they're harder to find and harder to reach.
And what I'm trying to tease out with my staff
is, are we not meeting them where they're at
and finding them correctly, or do we
need to ask which we are in the process of asking the State
Department of Commerce, the USDA rural development
for that property, if we can have some adjustments.
So commerce is the income limit is 30% Ami, which is quite low,
like almost I used to manage the homeless programs for Saline
County.
That's like barely out of homelessness level.
And they have to the Head of Household
has to earn up to $5,000.
Around $5,000 to around $5,000 in agricultural work.
Thankfully, agricultural workers are
making more money today than they were in a few years ago.
So that in itself is a challenge.
And so we've asked the State Department of Commerce
to at least let us buy up the 80% that lets us do,
because that would be I think that right there
we would probably go into this.
The other component is the Head of Household
who also has to have an income also has to be
documented resident citizen.
And they have to have your ID has to be around.
So it's not like our seasonal properties right now.
Well, and this is year round agriculture.
And so I think what we're trying to find
is a very small box when you combine all of those.
So I'm hoping just a shift in army will help.
And that's the path of least resistance.
Distance the path is harder to do that we are on
is getting the rural development,
USDA rural development to let us have flexibility and have anyone
who is of 80% or lower, regardless of where they work,
be housed there, but they are USDA.
So obviously that so those guidelines
are federal USDA guidelines.
So $5,000.
Obviously that means a whole lot more in Oklahoma
than it does in land, for instance.
Yeah for sure.
Yeah 30% behind.
You're not making a lot of money and
there's really nowhere for you to live other than our housing.
So it's.
Yeah, it's a challenge.
Yeah flexibility.
Nice well, thank you for presenting.
That's exactly what I wanted to ask.
So thank you for answering.
Yeah of course.
No, it breaks my heart because I've talked to people here
in this area who need housing.
And I'm like, well, yeah, because I thought
I wouldn't get help for it.
So yeah, well, we'll get there.
We'll go there.
Yeah I'm just curious now that you brought it up.
How are you currently advertising.
Great question.
And that we are my property manager here
in the area this year has really good relationships
with the growers in the area.
And so she's gone directly to growers and talked to employees.
We've done a job fairs.
What I'm worried about on the are we doing enough component
is are we allowing people to return to us that when we
contact somebody who was on the waitlist,
for example, for that property, which we don't have
at the moment, when we would or we would contact folks who are
on the waitlist, maybe we have really strict rules on when
they have to get back to us.
And I'm looking at are we allowing them to get back to us
in a way that's feasible for them.
And they're working agricultural hours.
Maybe they have two jobs and can they really easily
call us by 4:30 or o'clock.
What I mean.
Are there ways of a lot of the people on my list
that I was looking at trying to determine,
is it the income limits.
Is it this is that a lot of them just didn't respond.
We asked for paperwork and they didn't give it.
So I don't know if they're self-selecting like,
oh, I don't actually have that requirement.
I'm not going to return my paperwork.
Or is it a burden or did you not get the paperwork
to the right house I have a vendetta about mail these days,
so we'd like to mail too much.
But by the time you've done that to us.
Yeah, she goes on.
Amber I don't know if anybody.
Yeah Amber Turner.
Well, yeah.
Cody's a great radio station, but I would think that maybe
it's because of that.
But yeah.
Obviously yes.
But yes.
Yes hello.
101 yes.
Yes I will ask Amber.
Hasn't I know that.
But one of her colleagues.
Yeah right.
Yeah any other questions.
Well, thank you for coming up here.
Thank you.
But it's great to see your face up here Yes You look great.
Yeah thank you guys.
All right we'll move into motion considerations
and we'll start with the US Department of Transportation.
Federal Aviation Administration grants offer for airport
improvement program.
Project number (353) dash 2026.
This will be handled by our city administrator.
Thank you for reading that so I don't have to council.
This is a very recently as of actually
Friday awarded grant from the Federal Aviation Administration
to as you recall, the environmental assessment
process.
The final report remained in draft form because of feedback
that we received from adjoining property owners and public,
and the FAA felt like we needed to go back out
and make sure that the public outreach that was done, which
happened actually during COVID, but make sure
that public outreach and the stakeholder outreach
was done adequately.
Make sure that we're confirming critical aircraft usage
at the airport and what the needs
are of Lakeland airport for runway alignment and instrument.
Instrument approach.
What has been deemed not viable in the current master plan
provides for instrument approach.
So things that have changed since it was finalized in 2021
need to be reevaluated before the FAA will
commit to additional funding.
The good news to that is that they have given us this grant,
$418,000 to provide 90% of the funding
for the planning consultant who will do that work for us.
So what we're asking of you tonight
is to approve and authorize acceptance
of this Federal Aviation Administration grant for.
Airport for updating the airport improvement program.
Excuse me through the airport improvement program funding.
And it is for updated airport master plan and airport layout.
So we will have the same match that we
found on prior FND GRANTS.
It's a 90% funded by the FAA, and then we
have a 10% match that is funded 50%
by Washington State Department of Transportation
aviation division.
And then the city and the port through the interlocal
agreement, equally split the remaining 50% 10%
And we will include it in the budget for you going forward.
So we're asking you to approve the grant offer for airport
improvement program project number 1, 90% I will accept
a motion to open for discussion to authorize the city
administrator or fund manager to execute instead,
Grant airport improvement program project number 3
to three say thank you.
Thank you, Council Sanders.
And for discussion and questions.
Yes so if we all accepted what was happening
and please move forward or not forward
with the current scope of work that was done previously.
Yeah, that's a great question.
The work that was done previously is complete.
There is no more funding for improvements at the airport.
So Lake Chelan airport, under the current master plan,
we don't have a viable funding source from the FAA
to do the runway realignment.
So without going through this planning process,
nothing will change at the airport.
It will stay as it currently is.
Does that mean that any.
Any hangups or hiccups with the water that's going to be taken
out there, or is that separate.
That's industry versus take offs and landings.
OK awesome.
Great question.
So the airport that's going, the water line
that's going to be constructed to the airport,
will provide the opportunity for the city
to develop available land out there for hangar development.
But generally with hangar development,
the taxiways and the runway and the runway areas
and the apron for the vehicles to get there
and the vehicles, the airplanes to be able to get
from the hangars to the runway.
We wouldn't have funding to install those.
Those are generally funded through FAA airport
improvement program funding.
So this is kind of laying the groundwork
for any future improvements that would happen out there
and creating that map, that airport layout plan of what
the airport should look like with the future growth
and with the anticipated aircraft that we'll be using it,
and making sure we have current robust public outreach
to the stakeholders want around the airport
that own property around the airport,
but also the users of the airport.
And that was part of the feedback
was those stakeholders did not feel like they had had
an adequate opportunity during the multiple years
it went from 2018 to 2021.
But as I mentioned, there was a pandemic in the middle of that.
It didn't feel like they had adequate opportunity
for public input, or if they shared it,
it wasn't factored in with the way it should have been given.
If more people who shared their opinions
had been able to provide comment.
Can I ask a question.
Can I give everybody.
OK I just want to be clear.
This is a fast tracking your movement out there,
annexation or anything.
This is planning, and this is a great way
to allow the stakeholders out there to get more input
and not feel this is what we get down.
Yes, this is slowing it down, taking a step back and making
sure we have the right layout for that airport to serve,
the needs that it needs to serve,
and also realistic plan if we're going to expand the airport,
if that's what the numbers show is necessary.
How do we do that and how do we work with the adjoining property
owners when they're ready to transition ownership of any land
we would need to the city.
OK no.
I'm good.
Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it.
Thank you.
And yeah.
So is this kind of just a repeat of the half
million plus that we spent on the previous.
Just a better stab at the same process.
I wouldn't say it's a full repeat.
It is validating the data that was gathered at the time,
updating it in light of current operating indicators at Lake
Chelan airport, the current economic conditions that we are
encountering here in this area.
So it's really validating what was previously done.
That's really step one in the scope.
And then it's also when you go through a planning process,
you don't.
You plan it right.
You're not looking at the actual operational side of it.
And part of what happened during the environmental assessment
is that the FAA, with the staff they have in place now
and understand during that same period, time period
in the last four years, the Federal
Aviation Administration has undergone
significant staff turnover.
So with the current staff, they took the airport alignment that
was selected as the preferred alternative and the lack
of in a non-technical way, we plugged that alignment
into their flight simulators at operational level
and determined that unless we were to literally move
mountains, that runway would not work
without an instrument approach.
And because of those same mountains and that large river
gorge, an instrument approach, we
don't have the amount of clearance
on every side that is needed in order to support
an instrument approach.
So the alternative that was selected at the time
by the city council and through that planning process
looks great from a planning perspective.
But when they plugged it into the operational side,
it's not feasible.
So that was why they said a large part of the reason
why they said, let's go back.
Let's look at it with that insight.
We've had new construction happen since the inventory was
taken of adjoining property.
So there's been additional housing that's
been allowed to be constructed by the County
in the runway approach area.
That also factors into whether FAA will approve it.
And they've regulations have changed
during that same time period.
They used to allow exceptions for the displaced thresholds,
and that's where you have the short approach
area at the end of the runway.
And the runway protection zone is shorter
than what they want it to be.
They no longer allow those exceptions.
So if they're going to fund a half a million construction
project, or 1.2 or $7 million construction project, whatever
it turns out to be, they're going
to make the airport bring it up to compliance
with current standards.
And we're unable to do that with the alignment,
the preferred alternative alignment
that was last selected.
So there's a number of factors in there.
So I wouldn't call it a repeat.
It's a quality check verification
that the data is still good that we're
applying current regulations to the analysis.
Our consultant is doing that.
This is not a criticism of our former planning consultant
or our current engineers.
This is just simply a fact that conditions have changed.
Is there a specific scope of work that the FAA has.
With this grant.
There is a scope of work that we developed with the FAA's
assistance and approval of it, for we ever
applied for this grant in order to make sure the FAA has really.
Done some significant favors for Lake Chelan airport
through this process and through this grant.
This is not the normal time frame for a grant.
So they essentially Held Funds for us since the spring
until we could get a scope of work put together
and get a cost estimate put together.
And we've done that in lockstep with FAA planning consultant
and our project manager to make sure that we would arrive
at this point where we have a scope of work
that they've approved.
We've already done the RFP for planning consultants
to do the work using that scope of work.
I anticipate bringing that contract back
to you at the next council meeting
should you approve this grant.
But it was all subject to US actually getting
the formal approval of the grant.
So we've tried to work this on a parallel basis
so that we're getting the funding lined up while we're
doing the work to get the planning consultant contract
and be able to move forward with the work.
And that scope of work will offer
some guidance on the cost, benefits and economics
of different alternatives, kind of a business strategy going
forward to make this a viable project
to continue to put money.
Absolutely it will make sure that we come out of this process
with an updated master plan and updated airport layout plan
and exhibit A, which Lake Chelan airport has not had in the past.
And exhibit A is the FAA's term for the formal property
ownership and map of the boundaries for the airport
and the surrounding property.
It will put us in the driver's seat
and get us perfectly aligned to be able to move forward
with a real improvement project and improvement
project that's achievable and realistic
and can be funded by the FAA.
And the consultants.
How many people are on our list.
We sent it out.
We published it in the Seattle journal of construction.
That's called the Journal of business,
but it's specifically for specialists in land development.
We received three highly qualified proposals.
We ranked those as we have an evaluation committee
that has ranked those.
We have two finalists, and we have interviews scheduled
with those finalists this week, pending approval
and subject to the approval by the city council of the grant,
including our previous consultant.
In terms of being interviewed, yeah,
they're not being interviewed for the planning
consultant work.
They do continue to be under contract with the city
for our engineering because they were the consultant
on the previous master plan.
OK yeah.
Well, yeah.
Thanks for your patience.
Absolutely all right.
We have a motion by Council Combs and a second
by Council Sanders.
All those in favor.
Aye Aye.
Opposed motion passes.
We'll move on to item D, resolution number 2026 1486.
Education service center SB inter local purchasing system
purchasing co-op in our local.
And this will be handled by our director.
Thank you mayor.
Quite a mouthful.
Council tonight before you is a resolution
to approve an interlocal agreement and an addendum
to an interlocal agreement for cooperative purchasing
with tips, which is the local purchasing system.
Tips is a cooperative purchasing program
that's administered by region 8 educational service center
in Texas.
So that's why the title of our agenda
is educational Services Center there.
The administering program of they
administer the cooperative purchasing program.
So a cooperative purchasing is an Avenue
that public agencies can use to get competitively
solicited contracts, which helps reduce
administrative costs and staff time that's
associated with advertising.
Getting proposals.
Awarding contracts.
It's another tool in our tool belt
to be able to get the best price for certain services or supplies
that we need to purchase.
So tips is one of many cooperative purchasing programs
that operates in the country.
It's based in Texas, but they do operate in Washington State.
The addendum to the interlocal agreement
was one that was prepared by our city attorney,
just to clarify language to ensure that we're following
Washington procurement laws.
So the city, through partnership or through participation
as a member to this cooperative purchasing,
gets access to the competitively bid contracts
that tips has already procured.
There is no membership fee associated with it.
So this is a $0 agreement.
It just gives us access to those cooperative purchasing.
And the city also retains the right
to use this cooperative purchasing
or to not use this cooperative purchasing in the best
interest of the city.
So we're not obligated to use it,
but it does give us options when we need to go procure
for supplies or services.
So in your packet you have the resolution,
you have the interlocal agreement,
and then you have the addendum for the Washington law as well.
So the resolution approves the interlocal agreement
and the addendum.
And I am available for any questions.
I move to adopt resolution number 2026 dash 1486 second.
All right.
We have a motion by Council and second by Council.
Any questions.
No I think it's a great thing you already
see your potential savings with a particular item
that is already purchased.
I think there's definitely lots of possibility
for savings with contracts and utilizing them.
I'm good.
Yeah, good.
There's a motion and a second.
All those in favor.
Aye Opposed.
Motion passes.
All right, let's move into administrative reports,
and we'll start with resolution number
2020 6014x affordable housing grant
funding policy and finance.
Great so the resolution an affordable housing fund policy
application and supplemental worksheets
you have before you as a careful recraft
from the originally enacted policy
that started back in 2019.
So earlier this year, due to receiving a large volume
of requests from the community benefit grant application
process, it was determined that some of those requests
were related to affordable housing,
and thus the need arose for the major renovation on this policy
and application process in an effort
to improve those processes and ensure compliance,
all parties involved.
And so, while I do acknowledge that this is a very complex
policy and process, as I'm sure you're all
aware of after reviewing your packets,
I'd also like to stress that this is necessary from an audit
standpoint, because the city of Charlotte
receives funding to support affordable housing
initiatives in three ways.
State share tax revenue, council directed allocations
and developer contributions.
Staff, of course, have the responsibility
to ensure accurate record keeping
for all the various sources of funding
and ensure audit compliance for awarded funds and agencies
who have been awarded those funds.
Then have the responsibility to taxpayers
to show that the organization station is providing a benefit
that the city would otherwise need to provide,
or just as generally, a public benefit.
And so without those ties, it can be considered
a gifting of public funds.
And so this application allows staff to better understand
the needs of the organization applying for the funding
and the people that which they serve,
so that we can best determine what source of funding
would best meet their needs.
And so this policy was drafted with previous council
conversations taking into consideration
legal counsel of course.
And Sao guidelines are state laws, federal ones.
And of course, most importantly feedback provided
by our local housing agencies.
So in addition to support of this policy,
I would also be looking for direction on how much funding
council would like to award the 2026 and get some ideas for 2027
of the currently available 133,000 that is
in the Affordable housing fund.
Aside from the modest revenue that we receive of about 15,000
from the state share tax revenue,
the next external contribution is expected
to be the widening project.
But we really at this time do not know when we will receive
funding from that project.
So at this time, my recommendation
would be no more than $50,000 for 2026,
$50,000 for 2027 be awarded.
That would at that time leave approximately $50,000 for 2028.
And perhaps we just see at that time of that
project looks like or other developer
contributions or council directed
contributions would look like.
And so with that all being said, I
look forward to hearing your feedback on the 2026 award
amount and recommendation for future years,
as well as on the policy itself.
And application process.
Thank you very much.
Now, do you remember that the grant
didn't do anything with that.
But what the request of those three other housing associations
were for 2020.
I do not have that information available right
off the top of my head.
So that's back a few months.
I would be more than happy though to dig those back up.
I do know that one is referencing some updates
to an owner occupied home who would be
eligible under like low income.
There was also some renovations to as well to heritage heights,
but I'd really want to look back into those specifics
and I'd be happy to commit to accomplishing that.
Along the same lines, do we know roughly
how much was awarded last year to organizations that would
qualify for affordable housing.
The way we're looking at it now.
Yeah so that's a great question and a bit of a harder one
to quantify.
Just so we've had a bit of a moving target
here with our housing funds.
There was a interlocal agreement between us and the housing
trust, which we were providing a $20,000 a year
stipend up to them for operational
and affordable housing needs.
We awarded funds affordable housing
from the community benefit grant application process.
And so really, this year, we're really
trying to make sure that those processes
are all kept separately.
And everyone kind of has their respective pots of funds.
But I would urge counsel.
I perhaps what we've historically done.
Maybe we pivot away from.
Sure no, I think that $50,000 recommendation sound,
as long as it's kind of in alignment,
roughly with some of those organizations
and what they applied for.
I think it's great that we continue to fund them as they
I know they rely on them.
I agree with 50,000 to be conservative in what is sent out
with what is presented because as you mentioned, Widener
potentially so based on.
A source of income.
So that's good.
Yeah speak on conservative side.
Now that puts us out for a year and we're spent.
So that's with 15,000 companies evidence without
possible forward income.
But yeah, I guess I have some questions
on item 6, the recorded security capital board still.
But maybe I'll discuss those.
So we can discuss that further.
If you like.
All right.
We'll move into discussion about higher
professional services, agreement for fire protection inspections
and that.
Yes thank you.
Mayor yes.
Tonight we're going over live professional services agreement
with fire protection software company
that we've had since 2018.
Somebody was egress fire here tonight.
Jim, who was with fire and now live.
I go over the presentation on the.
Thank you.
Yes thank you.
Thank you very much.
Just going to be brief.
But we can help you see the last eight
years with our detection system, life safety system and tracking
them.
We currently have 71 properties we monitor with 295 systems.
And that has more than doubled since we started.
So some exciting news is we virtually live.
I was the vice president of fire, Vice President of live,
and we opted to go with their platform
for a lot of different reasons.
The main thing is that they have a lot more flexibility and a lot
more free, free software offerings that they offer us
to help with prevention, to really
increase firefighter safety and fire prevention
and save station.
So they have a software certification,
which is really hard certification
to get that protection.
They also offer a host of new features
for compliance, fire prevention and firefighter safety.
First of all, I have their support staff to help Casey
and his team do what they need to do and fire compliance.
And there's also some free modules that we're doing.
So we're doing some free tracking
where fire department and buildings can
go on this platform also, and be combined with that premises
detail that can also be used for short term rentals and stuff
like that to help us do that.
We have a fire watch program, so in the building
has you on fire watch because their systems are down.
Traditionally, that's been kind of a favor type thing.
So I'll be trapped digitally so that you'll know that existed.
That building's on fire watch, and it's actually being
directed to do it properly.
We also have an integration with first name
first used as a platform for the fire departments.
That's a free module also.
So if there is an incident, the city of Cheyenne and that fire
truck rolls out, they'll know if there's an additional system
there, it's on fire watch or anything like that,
but also helps firefighters also.
So it's a pretty complete platform I'm
available for any questions.
Also, I think you all have one sheet
of paper what the new system looks like and my business card.
Yeah so our business fire inspection.
Yeah and so they put that into the system
as we're talking about.
That system talks to your system and you want to upgrade that.
What office city do you.
Plan to game.
Yeah so he represents the company that we currently use.
So his system is what.
Before I got here.
We've been using since 2018.
They were acquired by live.
So he's the back end of live and answering the questions we have.
So nothing will change.
We're being migrated over to the new live platform this month.
The upside to it is really for us, our compliance.
That went up to over 75% Now with using p grids,
because now it ties into setting up the notification
to the businesses that vendors already know that when
they do an annual or six month inspection,
they upload that report.
And it comes into my office that we either accept
it or pick it back out.
So it allows us to track it and not do pen and paper.
And pretty much every jurisdiction around us
is using egress.
So when Angie County, the border area.
So all these vendors, whether they're
from Spokane or the West Side, are used to using egress.
And so it's just what they require.
And there's more.
There's some more APIs that tie-in when I first do,
which is a big one for fire when you first use this,
will now talk to their system.
Today, they don't have any way to look at our software
or our inspections.
They just don't have access to it.
So this will give them access to fire
life safety inspections for it.
Really for us, for the city, it's mostly just a good system.
Inspection for businesses, the fire alarm systems,
the suppression systems include schools,
family buildings, commercial buildings up to 275.
So we have quite a few system types in there.
It just helps us keep track of all that.
And then we work with, most of these vendors who
are doing these are coming out of Yakima
or Wenatchee or Spokane.
So it just helps keeps everything dialed in with things
are doing.
If you're a business owner, you log in and see when the stuff
is due and if you have to bail.
Just keeps everybody on the same page, the fees themselves.
That is one component that is going up with the new system.
The feed today that is charged to the third party vendor
is going from 15 to 18.
So that's the fee.
That's the entire time that gets charged to the vendor.
The vendor themselves, though, have
the ability to up charge that.
That's out of our control.
And they do that which that's not.
And I tell people to shop a different vendor,
they're going to do that.
But nothing really changes other than that there'll
be a new system that allows them to do a lot more,
and it will help us track a lot more
stuff with the fire department and have our clients go up.
So we have a pretty compliant 75% is pretty high.
I mean, I don't think very many departments are close to that.
So I'm moving up on the pricing to that.
We do track that a little bit differently also.
Is that let's take a restaurant, for example, if they have
two commercial goods in there and we
charge 2 times $15 dollars when it was commercial one.
So it's $18 and $30.
So you'll see an overall price reduction on businesses.
So there is that.
Question I guess this is a little out of my expertise here.
So, bottom line I concern I have is for the commercial businesses
in town.
Is this something that's going to streamline
their compliance without significantly
raising costs and red tape.
How is.
How is the rubber meeting the road
in this for our constituents.
So this stuff is the platform we have today
has been in place since 2018, though the businesses that
are using have been using it since 2018,
so they're already utilizing this software anyways,
and the business owners themselves don't
really have to do anything.
It's mostly just for the vendors themselves
who, when they do an inspection, they report it into the system
that comes into our staff.
We review it and it goes from there.
He also sends out notifications to the vendors
and there are fire alarms.
Fire suppression systems are do they send out notifications
or when they're online.
Just to let them know.
So it's just a way to track everything before two years
with around people just using carbon copy paper
and just it's hard to track all that stuff.
So this has been around for a long time.
So yeah, I came on board back in 2018
so it doesn't change anything.
There is a cost.
But for the businesses like Lakeside for example,
they're not open year round.
So we have the ability on our end to buy water.
We can get the frequency on how often they need
to use it so they like Amy Mac.
She goes ahead and claims more than the required minimum.
So this stuff comes out of the fire code.
It's not a city mandated, it's the fire code.
When it comes down to the cleaning schedule
and the annual inspection schedule
for the environmental component, we have the ability
on the cleaning schedule for the food system
to knock that down to once a year,
and we've done that for all the seasonal businesses.
So some of if we're trying to get
the taco trucks on there as well, on if they
now have to do it as well.
But the side waters view is we have
a handful that are just seasonal,
that we've knocked it down.
They can still go above and beyond
and do more than that for their own cleaning,
but it doesn't require that to enter into us.
We just do it once a year.
But a commercial system that's running grease like neighbors
like the Panther, for example, they're
going to have to do by code at a minimum every six months.
They have to get a full cleaning and then
their hood system has to be spent
on the suppression side of it.
The fire alarm and the suppression of the buildings
are just once a year.
That's just an annual thing.
That's just the minimum that you have to do for fire code.
If they're running more than that,
the recommendation that they have
to clean more often, that we don't put it
in there more than that just every six months.
So this system is it kind of streamlines
our ability to monitor compliance
and those kind of things.
But it's going to be fairly transparent.
And there was a lot of businesses
that we found that there'd be a fire call maybe
after a smoke investigation.
And they have a good system and they
haven't had a good cleaning.
They hadn't had one in 15 years, and they
hadn't had their suppression system done in 15 years.
And so it was able to track all that.
It's taken some time to get every business I think we're now
everybody is totally on there.
I haven't seen a new business come online in well
over a year or two.
So it's just a way to streamline it
and everyone's on the same page.
So if the property owners and the vendors
had a chance to do an interview.
And as far as the fees are concerned,
that's just the standard fee that went on at $15 that's
passed down to the vendor.
And then of course, charges stops.
Thanks, Mark.
This is why is this why does the city have a list in that time.
That's a good question.
So the fire department here locally has
no authority to enforce codes.
So the building department here in the fire code,
official department duties fall under building and planning.
So the fire department here online Wenatchee.
They have the fire Marshal.
But they also still even at the city Wenatchee
have a fire code official.
So same duties that falls in on the fire
or excuse me, at the Community Development Department.
We have the ability to do the enforcement side of it.
So the fire department can streamline it.
It didn't make sense for us to go do inspections.
So I come and then they go.
Just so Brandon and myself worked out a deal with the fire
department where they'll send their crews
out there because it's important for the fire to go out there.
They have building familiarization.
It's a way to get their face out in the public.
They should be out doing their inspections.
If they come across something that's egregious on their check
sheet, they send it to us, and then we follow up on it
and we'll go from there.
But if you tell the fire department,
no, I'm not doing that.
They literally can't enforce anything.
So it falls under fire code, which then falls
back to the fire code official.
Which is why if we had a traditional fire
Marshal under a city, that value involved
that person here called fire.
Any other questions.
Microphone question.
All right thank you.
Thank you.
All right, let's move into.
Our city administrator and department reports.
We'll start with Laura.
Thank you.
Mayor just wanted to update you on a couple of changes
that we have going on in the outside departments.
One is back to the airport.
We do have an interim airport operations manager in place.
So he is in the process of doing a review of the operating
procedures for airport operations,
creating standard operating procedures
to shadow Jay for two days.
And we'll run similar operating standard operating procedures
for maintenance, and has scheduled a meeting
with the tenants to talk about what
we need from the tenants in terms of airport inspections.
Following up on a meeting that Paul and I had earlier
this year, but just making sure we're
continuing to keep those lines of communication
open to get 100% compliance from our hangar
owners and tenants on what they are doing inside those hangars.
That's one update.
It's really good to see that level of work
happening out of the airport and just improving
that the operations side.
And then the other thing I wanted to let you know is that,
as we talked about previously, the bid for the air
or the Library Foundation repair came in 100,000 higher
than the engineer's estimate.
You were able to have a conversation with the bidder
and recall, we had one bidder about why the bid was so
much higher than anticipated.
And really, it's because they built a lot of risk
into their bid because of the unknown,
of what's underneath the flooring,
what's behind the drywall.
So we came up with a solution with that potential bidder to do
a small not to exceed $5,000 exploratory analysis contract
with them so that we should be getting done later
this week over at the library.
To enable us to really get a better bid package
put out and get that done.
Meanwhile, we're working closely with the library on continued
communication to the public about when they
will have library services full library services
available to them.
Obviously, both across the street.
That's dependent upon the final repairs,
but the library is working on an improved,
expanded library pop up program within the city limits.
So that's good to hear.
And we'll be hearing more from the library
about that in the future.
That's all I have.
So one piece of exciting news, I guess.
The river heights project has been submitted.
So we have an application for that, which is great,
but where are you going to be processing that.
So that's one step closer to that person.
OK thank you mayor.
We just wanted to help get the word out.
We have a few vacancies for greenskeeper positions
at the golf course, and if we didn't have smoke,
it would be really, really trying for the team
up there with the positions that are
open, that having a hard time filling
in the middle of the season.
When we have vacancies, it's very difficult
to hire more seasonal employees in the middle of the summer.
Most people already have jobs for the year,
so help spread the word.
We have some vacancies greenskeeper positions
and I will say, well, we don't like
the smoke at the golf course, but it's really decreasing play.
It's been a saving grace for the maintenance team
because they don't have to do quite as much hand watering
as they would this time of year, so they can
with a reduced staff that's out there right now,
they can still keep up on the day to day work.
But as soon as the smoke clears, which we're all hoping for that
is going to have a lot of pressure
on the limited staff that are out there
for the maintenance course.
On the topic of smoke, we're feeling those impacts all
across our entire department.
I shared a little bit last week on some of those numbers,
and it's still looking pretty bleak.
Our golf courses in a seven day period compared to last year,
down 41% The RV park process over 100
cancellations in a seven day period by the RV parks.
You can see it's empty and this is the time of year.
We typically have every site booked out every single day.
So I think a lot of kudos to my team who are Fielding all
of those phone calls, who are calling in,
trying to make cancellations, and
we've got procedures in place on when we do allow cancellations.
We do provide refunds, which some people are not
always happy when we tell them what
procedures they have to follow.
So they are showing excellent customer
service in some really trying and difficult phone
conversations.
And then next week we have a Park Board meeting
to highlight some to talk about our Park Board meeting
next week, or field use and waiver
field use fee waiver policy.
We'll be talking about rates, capital improvement,
all things that will be coming back to council for the process.
So I'm excited about it this week
and you'll hear about it soon.
For finance it's pretty much all about budget right
now of course too as well.
So I'm sure you're all just gearing
up and getting ready for September and October.
Really gripping stuff.
I know you guys will be really excited to be
doing this along for that ride.
Otherwise it's pretty routine operations, as you imagine,
but it takes a lot of work.
So just want to give a special shout out though of
course, all of our first responders working on the nine
network out there to know that they're just doing
a number on our community.
So know that my colleagues here at the city
think about all the businesses to impact it.
So I just wanted to share that to us.
Thank you.
Yeah so the Sheriff's Office has been extremely busy three weeks,
last three weeks with the fire that started,
the little giant fire Sheriff's Office.
We are Manning two level three roadblocks in the beginning
at and on the South Shaw of Lake shore.
And those roadblocks we are at mandated
overtime football and football and voluntary overtime.
So guys are spending a lot of hours out there.
We also have contracted Marine One to the fire
to help with transporting fire crews and supplies up
and down the lake.
That is voluntary overtime with that.
So that's been keeping us busy.
I want to give a big thank you to our volunteers
that have helped out.
We've had multiple days and nights where we've
had to change the feedback levels,
move them down, move them down lake.
And we've relied upon a lot of volunteers to help us with.
So big shout out to those people.
Let's see here.
Quick update on marine patrol right now.
It's the boats ready to go.
Marine two in the Marina.
But there's not a lot of love that.
We are.
About three weeks ago, we were sitting
at about 175 ish contacts for the year, which
was on par for a good year.
But the last two weeks we've been
speaking with Gavin Walters.
Nobody's out there, so we are utilizing
our control guys to handle calls within the city.
And then I'll touch on bridge jumping.
Sorry I wasn't here two weeks ago.
I heard that was a pretty hot topic.
So I talked to Sheriff Morrison about issues
and about the damage that's being done to the Globes
to the outlets and everything.
And we discussed some solutions.
So he approved 32 hours of overtime
are to be given out for enforcement
of the bridge jumping.
With that it is.
I put an email out to our entire staff on.
We can do full shifts.
If you want to sit on the bridge for eight hours
or you can hang out for an hour after your shift,
come in early or whatever you want.
Just let me know so I can track the amount
of time that is being put out and the amount of contacts.
And we have had a couple takers.
We have issued tickets for bridge jumping
and the smoke is coming in, and we're not seeing a lot of issues
right now.
So it is nice though, that we do have
that ability to get out there.
It's extremely hard for us to do it while on patrol
and so hopefully we can put a stop to that.
Thanks all.
Thank you.
Nothing for me.
OK OK.
Let's move into Mayor.
Council comments.
So we'll start with Shane.
Thank you mayor.
So thank you for coming for your presentation tonight.
Thank you to staff.
Over to you, as always, for tons of work that needs to get done.
Thank you.
I ask questions and I will be person
that I don't know everything.
So I know to do that.
Couple of months ago we talked a little bit about.
One of the residents of the area, Mr. Higgins,
has some second homeowner thoughts
and about taxes on second homes and things like that.
I don't know the legality of that,
but I believe we're looking into it.
So just want to see if we have any thoughts
or if anything's come out of that.
Council Member from Nancy pointed me to a book
that I'm reading this past week that
talks about other communities and communities that
are doing it.
So I just kind of want to know.
I don't know where I feel on that issue,
but I just want to know what's being
done, what's out there, what are levers we
can work with for having.
Yeah smoke firefighters.
Thank you.
First responders.
Sheriff's Office.
The fire meeting last Friday that was well attended.
Got to talk to Sheriff Morrison.
And I know how hard you guys are working to the firefighters.
So thank you for all of that.
Yeah my thoughts and concerns are
with all the businesses in the Valley
is a very hard time consuming.
It's all very hard heart.
Very concerned about parks golf course.
But I did have a little fun last night.
But not last night.
Last week, but Council kitty and I
went and did the jail tour, which I thought was fascinating.
So he got an opportunity to do this.
And you came back.
Yeah, that was pretty clear that I was going to be let out.
That the first time.
But he gave Sean he.
Yeah they run a great operation.
And so I gotta thank you.
Yeah I think we're all a little down with the environment,
but it could be a lot worse shape.
There's communities that suffer a lot worse.
But I know businesses are struggling.
So I'm trying to shop local a little bit more.
And I think we all got to stick together.
I appreciate the Sheriff's Department all you guys doing,
especially now with the fires.
But I do appreciate I have seen the effects
of a little more presence with regard to the British dumping.
And I think that ultimately made me save some life and property.
So I appreciate that.
Did have a question with regards to the bonding.
You mentioned the refunds.
And I'm wondering, do we have a specific refund
policy with respect to smoke and how is that working.
Yeah, that's a great question.
So when people make their reservations, especially
this time of year, most people do a seven day reservation
because a portion of the RV park is Saturday
to Saturday open bookings.
So when anyone makes a reservation at the RV park,
it's a two night deposit that they have to make.
They can pay for their whole stay is full,
but it's a minimum of two nights that they have to pay.
So if someone wants to make a cancellation,
it has to be to get a full refund.
Plus, a cancellation fee has to be made three weeks in advance.
Obviously, in instances like this where people are not
they're making a decision closer to so what we have,
our procedure that we follow is the day check in.
If the AQI is reading over 150, then we
will allow them to cancel the reservation with
and getting their deposit back.
There is an administrative fee that we
have to hold on to which covers credit card fees essentially.
But that's the threshold is 150 AQI on the day check in.
So part of the challenges that we're dealing with is people are
calling on a Tuesday or Wednesday
to cancel their check in on Saturday,
but they have the AQI on the day check in is what we follow.
So as we all that the air quality changes by the hour.
So while we might predict that the air quality will be poor.
We don't know what's going to happen between now and Saturday.
So that's where we're getting some of that pushback
from customers.
Or at least it's just requiring a lot of explanation
as to here's our procedure, here's why we set it,
and sticking to it even when we get some of those complaints.
Yeah it's a hard thing to negotiate, I imagine.
And we definitely we want to accommodate our visitors.
So they're not afraid to book here in the future.
And we're encouraging people to reschedule.
If you don't want to come this week,
why don't you book for October, maybe change your reservation
so they can still come to the RV park,
but understandable that they don't
necessarily want to be camping in this weather right now.
Well yeah, just want to give a special thank
you for the first responders.
You're here.
So thank you.
And we've had three weeks.
It hasn't been easy with what everything is going on here.
And yeah, it's tough.
It's tough all around.
And big shout out to the Hotshots.
So yeah.
So thank you to the housing authority for the presentation.
Thank you for that.
But of course shout out to all first responders.
You guys are working really hard for sure.
And thank you staff.
And yeah to echo that fire Sheriff's it's
a tough time for everybody.
We appreciate the work they put in.
It was a little bit eye opening our tour
down there through the jail.
We think it's just taking people in there
and locking them up and stepping away.
It's amazing how many steps they have
to go through medically and systems
that they have for monitoring.
Kind of gave me a little bigger insight of what technology goes
on with medically monitoring the people that are in there
and the challenges they have.
And I guess my last thought on that
is, I think the only sure, sure way to stop
that is a physical barrier.
That But it's a Band-Aid.
But you're going to really deal.
I think it's a lot of folks.
It might be a physical barrier.
I think I'll keep it short.
Echo what's been said already.
And just remind you that these times, some people woke up
and they didn't have a home anymore.
All those things and we get concerned about what's happening
around us, but really reminding ourselves what we do
and being grateful that we still have a home, a place
to hide out from the snow.
People out there watching out for us.
The city staff watching out for the entire community.
There has been a lot of money.
And then just the things on parks,
the benches that the request on the park right now
from some people that there was any funding
left over for those yet or that's not closed up.
I don't have an update on that.
We still have some open contracts with work
out at Lakeside that has yet to be finished.
Actually, I should have shared this as an update.
We had twin floats for the swim area at Lakeside
was kind of one of those outstanding items.
That was backordered, and they started working to pick up
in last week, and the contractor started working through this one
line at Lakeside.
So once all of our current contractual obligations
are paid out.
That's when I will determine how we'll proceed with this.
Yes on a positive note, I think we're probably
all semi fire suppression experts now claim
dialogue and presentation.
So thanks for that.
And then as has been mentioned, just
and we're all thinking about all those direct impacts impacted
directly and indirectly with all that's
going on with all things fire.
And several folks have mentioned,
our small businesses can use all the help
they can get around town.
So when we can and have capacity,
we just encourage everyone to do that.
And then just thanks to the public
for coming out tonight and staying informed and involved
and engaged, appreciate that.
And then great presentation by the housing authority.
Really interesting to learn all that they're involved with.
And then also some of the red tape
that they have to work through.
And then just at the point of business not a major surprise,
but we're in the process of moving to our new house
in Hanson, and since I won't live within city limits anymore,
August will be my last month on council.
So I just want to give staff time to prepare
for that vacancy, and looking forward to staying involved
and engaged until that time.
So I am.
Hanson Community Council out in that area.
All right, I will just echo the first responders.
Every day I wake up and think, how can you go out and fight
this fire all day long.
And then you see those tents and they're
still out sleeping in smoke and I
just I don't know how they do it.
And it's very humbling to see everyone who has to work outside
and be in this environment.
And they'll go home and have a smile on your face.
So thank you for everyone who's putting in work
to keep our community safe.
On that note, I had a conversation
with incident command leader that
just took over as a team 12.
I think that was taking over, and they are working
to secure their land lease, and they will be building a fire
camp in shewan, which will be about 200 and 250 Watt
firefighters based in town.
So it was nice that they were actually thinking
about their location, about where to put this and just
the economic impact to help our community
by where they're putting their fire, their firefighters.
So it will be in the city limits.
And hopefully we'll start to see those that fire
camp being built next week.
Everyone, I gave you a copy and emailed you.
I would love your feedback on for council and directors
on the HWC legislative priorities.
There's 19 of them.
I don't expect you to bring all 19 of those.
If you can just maybe pick your top five.
That would be helpful for me when
I'm sitting in a room of 30 to 40 other elected officials
from other communities across the state of Washington,
from a small communities perspective,
to make sure that our feedback is
represented in some of the things
that you see will be pushing forward.
And then I'll reiterate, the Small Business piece
of this August is our number two month in revenue
generation for sales tax.
And we just heard recently one of our local lodging businesses
is currently at 10% capacity or 10% booked.
That kind of tells you this into perspective.
How in.
This month of August and probably around September
pass on our local business community,
coming off of a slow spring and a slow winter.
So as everyone said up here, if you
can support your local business as much as you can, that would.
Every little bit will help our local community.
That's just kind of right now hanging on by a string.
And I hope that this fire season isn't
the straw, that it's the last straw that they can handle.
So that is all I have.
But now I would accept a motion.
John thank you.
Thank you.
All right all those in favor.
Hi all right.
We are adjourned.
Thank you.
Sir