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We have some boy scouts here from troop 164 who I'd like to invite up to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance for those of you wishing to join us. Please rise. Always you can come on right down here.

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Thank you gentlemen and if you could please step up to the podium here, there will be very easy questions I promise.

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If you could just tell us your name and which troop you're with and what you're working on, your badges that you're working on this evening,

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We'd appreciate it. So if you stand on the other side there and face toward us and

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the microphones right there

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Great. Thank you

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Yep, if you can just step up to the podium right here Mitch

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Can you show them where the microphone is there? Thank you. Yep

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I'm Parker Swayngen. I'm working on from true point 64 and I'm working on my communications and

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citizenship in the community

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Maribages welcome. Thank you

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I'm Aidan Swayngen and I'm also working on my citizenship

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Thank you all for being here and thank you for leading us in the pledge this evening.

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I do want to confirm we do have a quorum of the council here.

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All seven members are here this evening.

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Mr. Rothweiler, are there any amendments to the agenda this evening?

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Mr. Mayor, members of the council, there are no amendments this evening.

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Thank you, sir.

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Next in the agenda will be general public input, but before we begin that this evening, I'd

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open with just a few remarks and a bit of discussion about developments in our

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community over the past week. As police chief Kingsbury addressed last Monday at

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this council meeting, there's an ongoing investigation of a sexual assault that

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occurred at the Fund Brook Apartments earlier this month. At the heart of this

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incident is a five-year-old victim, a little girl and her family who I sent my

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thoughts and my support and my love to just as you all have. This young girl's

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safety continues to be protected through the work of law enforcement, prosecuting

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attorney's office, and various partner agencies. These partners continue to

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work together to bring justice in this case. Justice through the due process of

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our Constitution and laws and ordinances and justice specific to the difficult

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circumstances of this case as it involves juveniles and has been sealed by the court.

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The three suspects have been charged, the two who had been in juvenile detention were

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released from custody late last week at the order of a judge.

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And in cases like these involving juveniles, release includes agreements tailored to the

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case to protect the safety of the victim and the public safety.

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There are many more steps in the proceedings to take place in this case before it is resolved

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by a judge. And as that due process in this case plays out, I urge our community to pause,

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to pause to remember the victim, to pause to remember the process ahead of us, and to

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show faith in the law of our land that justice will be served.

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Through the discussion of this issue here in these council chambers, emotions have run high

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on both sides of this day as. When we speak from a place of emotion and without all the facts,

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we spread misinformation and doubts. And as tidbits of this not quite truth and suspicion spread,

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particularly in the world of instant and unchecked communication online, they were woven together

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into a narrative of falsehood. And when people who do not live in our community,

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who are not our friends and neighbors, who don't share our values and the positive experiences

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that we have in this community.

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When these people latch onto that story and they spread it like wildfire over the World

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Wide Web,

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a story that is beyond the bounds of reason and based on emotion and fiction,

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Again, it paints a picture of our community that is not us.

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It paints one full of hatred and divisiveness and it brands us all as individuals and

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as a community as something that we know we are not.

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This is not us as a community.

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For all our differences, I know that we have more in common than we don't have in common.

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We are friendly and neighborly, and we love this community with all of our hearts.

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It's why we live here and work here and play here.

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It's why we want to raise our families here.

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It's why we continue to invest in our future so that we can build on our collective prosperity

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and give opportunity to others to join us.

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The same as the pioneers who came here and founded this region and settled here and found

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new promise in the Magic Valley. And it's why when we hear the report of a

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terrible crime, we step up and do our jobs to protect and support the victim

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and the safety of everyone in our community.

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do this in unity. I'm certainly not saying that we're gonna agree on everything.

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And good information, and we must all keep our emotions in balance with our logic, and

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we need to do that honestly and respectfully.

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So I would ask this evening, as you come forward to address the city council, that you please

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keep in mind the common goals that we have, instead of the divisiveness that has been painted

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about our community in this past week.

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And that you be honest and respectful, and I will speak for myself, that I will do the same with you.

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So with that, I would welcome members of the public to come forward to address the council.

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Is there anyone who wishes to come forward and address the council?

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And for the record, please state your name.

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Julie Ruff.

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Thank you.

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of all, I acknowledge that at least I understand not reading the article that there

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were threats lobbied against someone or more than one person on this council.

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So I will petition my God Elohim by Jesus Christ for your security, each one of you, for

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your family security, and I will pray that you are safe, no harm will come to any one of you

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or to anyone you love, or this community, and that the perpetrators of this crime which

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is grievous will be found out, brought to justice, and obviously incarcerated if need be.

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Many of you are my friends, and I care about U.S. people.

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I've respected what you have committed to doing in this community, and like I said last

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week, this is an honorable seat.

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I want to acknowledge you, Ms. Hawkins, for your excellence last week during a very fiery

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You are an example to your peers, and I appreciate you keeping calm, speaking calm, and allowing

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the community to actually have emotions about something that they should have emotions about.

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This is something that we do come together with.

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With thank God we come together and we are emotional about this type of issue.

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What type of people would we be if we were not emotional about the rape of a small child?

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I would advise again to consider in any decision made forthcoming that we do that you do

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together agree that the security of this community be held higher than any other desire for

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economic gain or otherwise, that the security of this community be the priority in your

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mind as you make decisions about who is or who is not going to be sought out and brought

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into this community, no matter what group they are from.

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I'd like to be a little personal.

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There's a little person who is afraid to go out of her house, who wears two pairs of underpants

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to protect herself now.

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And she can't go out of her house because her perpetrator is still living next door.

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So who has become the prisoner?

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After being dragged and attacked and violated, who has become the prisoner?

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It is the family who can't afford to move because of poverty.

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And I think we all know that poor people in our community are the primary victims of crime.

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and it remains true in this case and there is a secondary offense when someone is not

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safe to go out of their house because their perpetrator remains their neighbor.

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I'm not certain if this is the way Idaho always governs violations for people under 18.

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If it is, I think we need to address that as a state. We need to address that as a city.

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Perhaps we need to amend how we do things in order to protect underage people when they

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are violated by a peer.

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And instead of looking at two and three years as having a big significance, look at the

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actions that were perpetrated by the offender.

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We are responsible to keep her safe.

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She does not have the power to do that.

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I don't have the power to do that.

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I can only petition my city and my police department to do that.

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I know that they have already received an eviction notice,

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among other things, and they are still there,

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and this little boy is still in the neighborhood playing with all the other children

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while his victim is held inside of her apartment to be safe.

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She's trying to recover how can she?

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I'll end, being religious once again,

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and because it's important to me that we have that religious freedom no matter what faith we are.

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Righteousness exalts a people, but sin is a reproach.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mrs. Ruff, for your comments.

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Senator, well, anyone else who wishes to address the council this evening, please come forward, sir.

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My name is Russ Kraus, and I live here in Twin Falls.

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and I was going to talk last week and as I told on I think that the council had been beaten up on

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quite enough and anything I might say would would not make any sense. But having moved here,

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well let me tell you about a year ago I did speak to this council and that was in opposition

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to the refugees and I haven't been back until last week and now I'm thinking more and more about it but there are some things that bother me about twin falls and you may not remember my face but you might remember the statement that I made that I could move out of twin falls right now and it wouldn't bother me.

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because I didn't like what I saw coming from Wisconsin to Idaho.

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Some of the things that Don and I talked about also just a few minutes ago.

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I've noticed either a lack of zoning or a lack of follow through on zoning.

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I see houses going up next to more modest houses, it's almost like there's no plan.

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And we all know if there's no plan, any road will take you to that end result.

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Your roads need help, excuse me, our roads need help by a resident of Twin Falls.

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There are some roads that are like going over a washboard.

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Two things in particular that I think the council should take a look at because you probably see it or look at it but never see it.

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And that is approximately four miles west toward Filer on the south side of the road.

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There's a house up on, it almost looks like a could-

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Let's drive it away, and it looks like the whole front end has blown apart. That house is not moved, but that's the first thing that people see as they get off of highway 93 coming down 30 to come into the city. And then when you get to Rock Creek, there's a twin falls.

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Welcome to Twin Falls.

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The sign that says welcome to Twin Falls almost could say don't come back.

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That is one of the,

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I'll use the word ugliest signs I think I have ever seen going in and

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out of the city.

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It's not a friendly, warm-hearted greeting when you come in.

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And it's right on, again, on the south side of the road, and right across from the old hospital.

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And by the way, thank you for fixing this.

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It wasn't fixed last week, and it was flopping all over the place.

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And I was going to bring up the fact that when I did speak to the council about a year ago,

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someone said, well, it is a problem, and we're going to fix it.

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It wasn't fixed as of last week, but it seems to be right now.

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And if I might suggest I think Twin Falls has to get its house in order before it starts

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going out and continuing on the Refugee program, continuing on all of the other programs

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that I'm a Christian, and it kills me to say this, but I think that things have to go into a logical progression.

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And for heaven's sake, I would hate to see this city.

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My city also get into the same thing that Europe is potentially getting into right now because that would destroy twin falls.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor, thank you and your council for hearing some of these things.

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Thank you, Mr. Kras, I appreciate your comments,

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is anyone else who would wish to address the council at this time?

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My

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name is Terry Edwards.

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I just wanted to say that I wasn't going to speak today, but then after this mayors,

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so will it, so will it, so will it, so lilaque, which was very well thought out, very

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well planned.

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I just wanted to ask each one of you, it's been 25 days now since this incident occurred,

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what have you done personally to soothe and comfort the victim or the family other than turning it over to the police department washing your hands of it.

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So my concern is that you have little concern because we would have heard about this week following when we brought this to your attention.

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In fact, we were almost chastised and called by at least one person, nearly a racist

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that we were connected with racist groups.

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So the community comes and tells you things, turns out to be maybe not specifically totally

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accurate, but this little girl was violated.

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And you guys chastised us for bringing that attention to, but that to your attention.

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I don't understand it.

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You're supposed to be compassionate.

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And we elect you folks, I don't, I don't live in twin falls, I own property in twin falls.

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And I'm concerned about it, but we, the people elect you to be compassionate to hear the city,

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council members and different views and the city, when they come to you, they're concerned.

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Do you think we would have walked down here and come to you because we just made something up?

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And by you guys not putting your foot forward first and getting ahead of this issue,

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this is what you brought on your own heads.

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And it's a shame but this is what's going to happen in the future if you don't step up and do your job

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and get ahead of the issue instead of trying to sweep it under the carpet.

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How long was it before anybody even reported it in the paper?

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Sir, I appreciate your concerns that you're sharing this evening.

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Some of what you are discussing right now is the exact components of not quite truths that I'm concerned about.

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This crime was reported when it occurred.

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It was investigated, when it occurred.

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And our job as council members is not to investigate crime in this case.

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Nobody's asking you to investigate it.

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Excuse me.

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I was talking and you interrupted my comments here.

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What I was saying is that it was reported and none of you had a clue.

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You didn't know anything about it.

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I heard each one of you that spoke, well, we didn't know that.

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We haven't heard anything.

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We don't know anything.

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And we're sitting there with our hands in the air going, what?

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You mean there's something that's serious?

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And since you're over the police department, what I understand is that's one of your departments.

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Why aren't you having a liaison come in here and brief you on these situations so that

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you know what's going on?

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So you don't have to look like a bunch of bumps on the log and

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Embarrass yourself and embarrasses the respect, sir, bump on the logs and

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not showing respect and not showing knowledge of the things that go on in this community. You embarrassed yourselves

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You are an embarrassment to this community and it needs to change not all of you were because there are some people that actually stood for something here

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but most of you haven't

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from your, from experience we've seen it, we saw what you did, we saw what you said, we heard what you said, it's recorded, it's not, it's not conjecture, it's fact.

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And sure, it goes viral because people don't like this kind of attitude, you're supposed to support all the people.

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I think it was you that said, Mr. Mayor, that you support everybody, that we all treat everybody equally.

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They're all under the law, we treat them all equally.

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Well, you're not treating this girl equally from what I've seen.

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And the experience that I've witnessed in the media and comments that have been made

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by I don't think you guys have even made any comments at all.

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Everybody else is checked in on it and made some comment except today.

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Now you come out with this beautiful story about how you're so concerned.

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Why didn't you show that concern when we first brought it to your attention and say wow that really something we got to look into

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But instead we write down questions with our names to get answers so you have time to cook up some kind of a

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report

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That covers everybody's tail. Why couldn't you just spontaneously

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Answer the question so I'm asking you what have you each one of you done?

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And since this occurred, personally, to support that girl, not calling the police chief, finding out what the details were,

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calling the federal prosecutor in Boise and complaining to them.

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And I think you, Mr. Rockweiler, one of them that said that you were going to return all these people that had letters sent to their houses,

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talking about Jesus Christ and the Qur'an versus the Bible and reported to the F.B.I.

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I think that's been reported in the media.

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I don't recall that statement at all, Mr. Edwards, I apologize.

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You don't have to apologize but I think that was reported by our news media here.

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That was not just recently. This was back a year ago.

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Some letters mailed out and there was a comment in the newspaper and they referred to you.

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You said bring them to me if you get them.

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I will report them to the FBI and the proper authorities and the police.

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So we'll go back and look but again, I wish that you were that enthusiastic if that's

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the case and that turns out to be accurate that you were that way with this situation that

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we have before us now.

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So are you guys going to answer my question?

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Do I have to write it down on a piece of paper and give you my contact information for you to come back later and give me an explanation?

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No comment.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Edwards.

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Is there anyone else who wishes to address the council?

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My name is Heather Strupp, and I live in Twin Falls.

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Heather, could you please speak up so that this meeting is recorded so that I can be heard?

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you can pull that down.

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Thanks.

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Heather Strupp and I live in Twin Falls.

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Excuse me.

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Yeah, I don't appreciate the parts of your letter in which you seem to be saying that

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there are liars in this community who are who are actually just concerned for the

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well for this little girl and her family.

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And I believe probably it's offensive to others who really just want the truth.

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And that's why we're here, really, because all of us are concerned with lawlessness.

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We're concerned with lawlessness wherever it is found, whether it's in the community

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from perpetrators, or whether it's under the cover of darkness somewhere in government

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law enforcement. We don't want lawlessness in our community.

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We want to be

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protected from all lawlessness wherever it's found. And the group of us, excuse me,

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have been getting together on Wednesday nights and praying somewhere in this city

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that lawlessness will be uncovered. And I believe that my God, Elohim, will answer

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to that prayer and lawlessness will be uncovered.

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Thank you for your comments.

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Anyone else who wishes to address the council?

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Seeing none at this time, we will.

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Yes, sir, please come forward.

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You need to wait till you get to the microphone, please, sir,

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since it's recorded for the record.

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My name is Scott McKinney, I live here in Twin Falls.

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Thank you.

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I wasn't going to speak today, but I've been bothered by

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what I've heard about the kids.

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And I'm here for the kids, not just for the girl, but for all of them, they're juveniles.

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They're not adults.

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From what I understand, the little girl was not raped.

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I don't think that these little boys should have to go through anything horrific over this, from what I understand.

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Although it was not right, we have to be very careful how we treat children.

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I think you're doing the right job, I think the prosecutor is doing the right job.

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I think a lot of this is religious, and it's wrong.

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We have laws that protect children.

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I want to let you know that I am in favor of protecting the children.

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I'm disgusted with what's taken place here because I think a lot of it has to do with fear.

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Does it not?

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Do we not all fear today because of the things that are going on throughout the world?

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Well, the things that are going on are because of religious extremism, people who think

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they know God and have the truth.

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God is in all of us.

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He's not in one belief system.

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I think a lot of this has to do with the people here that are coming from other countries,

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I think a lot of this has to do with the refugee camp, I think people are scared, they don't want these people.

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To me, I'm 100% in favor of helping these people.

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These people are trying to escape murder, brutality.

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I'm in favor of helping people, try to escape this, little kids.

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trying to escape hunger being killed in this country I'm not in favor of

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people going nuts and killing other people but why couldn't we as a community

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help these people get to know these people wouldn't that be better if we

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knew them and we helped them rather than just point our finger at them and put

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them all in a big group that they're Muslim it's like the Christian right

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things that they're right. Nobody's right.

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The God that we share is in all of us. God doesn't hate the

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Muslims, doesn't love the Christians, he loves all. We are always to forgive. Are we not?

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In your life, when you don't forgive, what happens? Do you suffer? Yes. These are our brothers and

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our sisters, regardless of where they come from, what color they are. The only thing that makes us

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It's different because raw-

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That can beаться in theprus, saying, if you are free. It's transition. I want to change

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that are not giving any information out that is not necessary to this public to protect all these children.

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That's all I have to say.

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Thank you, Mr. McKinney.

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My name is Toilet Chapman and I am from Kimberly Idaho.

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I have to say personally that this gentleman that just spoke does not know what he's talking about.

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We are talking about a five-year-old girl that has gone through horrific

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incidents that nobody's saying what it is. I understand that in the case of

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still. We just need to take care of her. Right now, the perpetrator is living still

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next door. She can't go outside. There's other families involved in this. They can't

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go outside. They are afraid of what's next door. What are we doing to help her with this?

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We need to take the main concern of all this is not hatred. It's just we need to take

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care of this little person.

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And from personal experience, they are totally afraid. Still,

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Well, this five-year-old girl has gone through a whole lot.

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They will not open it.

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I totally understand, but I know personally what has happened.

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And we are, it's not hate, love, whoever we are, it's what has happened to her by three

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older people that she didn't even know what was happening.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Councilor.

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I'm John Hate and I spent about 15 years on volunteer for juvenile probation and I understand

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a little bit of where you guys are coming from, where Travis is coming from.

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You guys can't say anything about a juvenile case.

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I've said on diversion board for years and I once the people walk out with a juvenile and

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that's all diversion board is a juvenile.

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I don't say a thing and you can't either. And I admire you for not getting back into

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paper and throwing mud. Because we have rules and laws, and these laws, they hit all of

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us. And juvenile law, I was around when juvenile law changed, changed for the better.

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I was volunteering in the prison system when the juveniles were kept with the adults.

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That's how long I go back.

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At least now they're separated and you guys did fine.

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You guys don't need to talk to the press.

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I don't elect you to talk to the press all the time.

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There's nothing.

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Thank you, Mr. Hayden.

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Hello, my name is Nolan Strupe.

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I suppose I cannot agree with every sentiment that has been expressed here before because

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As I believe there is such thing as right and wrong, I recall hearing nobody's right or everybody's wrong or whatever it was.

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Nobody's suggesting that any children go through anything horrific, but I'm sure you all agree that justice needs to be done.

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And we do have a juvenile justice program.

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I'm hoping we're all on the same page here.

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Thank you, Mr. Strupp.

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Say anyone else who would like to address the council at this time.

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Seeing no one, we will move on with the rest of the council agenda this evening.

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Next item for consideration is the consent of their council wishes.

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Chris talking to move approval is printed.

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Motion by Chris talking to seconded by Nicky Boyd to approve the consent calendar as presented

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Is there any discussion?

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Nicky Boyd.

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Yep, you're fine.

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So you have no discussion to share and we'll call both, please.

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Suzanne Hawkins.

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Yes.

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Nicky Boyd.

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Yes.

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John Barriger.

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Yes.

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Chris Hawkington.

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Yes.

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Greg Lanting.

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Yes.

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Don Hall.

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Yes.

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Ruth Pierce.

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Yes.

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Motion passes 7-2-0.

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Under items for consideration, we have presentation of peace officer standards and training

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Council certificates to officer Matthew, oh man, I'm going to slot of that one.

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Kielta, officer Simon Rodriguez, detective Javier Paradise, and detective John R. Wilson.

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My apologies for my mispronunciations, I have Craig Stots and Chief Kingsbury, welcome

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gentlemen.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of Council.

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Thank you for giving us the opportunity to celebrate the success and achievements of

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of our police officers.

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Obtaining levels of certification in our profession

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takes into account years of experience, education,

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training, and dedication.

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You have a police department full of professionals

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that take their job very serious and you should be proud.

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After reading each officer's bio,

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I would ask Chief Kingsbury and Mayor Barriger

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to please come forward and present the certificates

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and pose for a photo with our officers.

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This evening we're pleased to present,

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And actually, I think three certificates, unless Officer Gelt is here, he is not here.

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So the first certificate we'll be presenting tonight will be the Intermediate Certificate

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to Officer Simone Rodriguez.

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Simone, could you please come forward?

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Simone Rodriguez was hired by the Twin Falls Police Department as a full-time police officer

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on April 14, 2008.

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Simone was born in Pocotello, Idaho.

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He and his family moved to Twin Falls when Simone was seven years old.

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He graduated from Twin Falls High School.

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Simone started working for Albertsons at age 16

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and during his 14-year employment with Albertsons,

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he worked his way up to grocery manager.

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Simone served on the police department

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since actually in the patrol division.

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And in 2013, he became a school resource officer.

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Simone is currently assigned to O'Leary Middle School.

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Simone and his wife, Brianna, have four daughters

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and twin sons.

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With six children, Simone doesn't have a lot of spare time, but when he does, he enjoys fly fishing.

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Simone was awarded his post-basic certification on October 20, 2010, and is with great pleasure that we present Simone with the intermediate certification from the State of Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training Council.

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If I could have Officer Javier Perez, please come forward.

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Javier Perez was hired by the Twin Falls Police Department on December 10, 2007 as a full-time

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police officer. Javier was born in Twin Falls Idaho and graduated from Twin Falls High School.

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He attended the College of Southern Idaho and graduated with an Associates of Arts degree

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in business. Prior to his employment, TFTD, he was a personal banker with Wells Fargo Bank.

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During his ten-year with our department, Javier has served in the Patrol Division,

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Narcotics Unit, and as a SWAT team member, Javier is also a post-certified instructor in

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ground fighting. Javier was awarded his post-basic certification on December 22, 2008, and

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his intermediate certification on May 1, 2012. Javier is a great pleasure that we present

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you with the advance certification from the State of Idaho Peace Officer Standards and

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Training Council.

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Detective John Wilson, please come forward.

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John R. Wilson was hired by the Twin Falls Police Department on March 20, 2006 as a

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full-time police officer. John was born and raised in Northwestern, Montana. He

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graduated from Knoxham High School in Knoxham, Montana. He served two and a half

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years with the Montana National Guard and four years in the United States Navy

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serving on submarines. Prior to his employment with TFPD, John worked with the

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Twin Falls School District for 10 years as the District Plumber. From November

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Number 2003 to March of 2006, John worked as a patrol officer with the Kimberly Police

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Department.

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John was awarded his post-basic certification on May 24, 2004 and is Intermediate Certificate

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on November 20, 2009.

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During his employment with Twin Falls PD, John has served in the patrol division and is currently

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assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division as a case detective.

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John is a member of the Crisis Negotiations Unit and the Honor Guard.

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John has been married to his wife Marilyn who I believe is here for 30 years and they have two

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daughters Darcy and Echo. John and Marilyn have two grandsons. Their granddaughter Danica was born

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last week and they are expecting another grandson in September. It is with great pleasure that we

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present John with the advanced certification from the State of Idaho Peace Officers Standard and Training

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Council.

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Thank you.

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Thank you Lieutenant Stats. Congratulations gentlemen. Thank you for your

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continued dedication to service to our community.

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Next on the agenda is consideration of a request from Brady Dickinson of the Twenthal School District

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to waive the building permit fees for a new equipment storage shelter located at 1155 Highland Avenue East.

450
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:58,900
And we have Jared Ordie from our-

451
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:03,360
So we'll just have to fill them up and describe the project and if you have any questions for me I'll be right here.

452
00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:08,800
Welcome Dr. Dickinson.

453
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:09,780
Thank you.

454
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:26,140
We have a main in charge that's located out on Highland and we would like to build a small structure to park basically yard equipment, trackers underneath to get it out of the weather.

455
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:34,340
Generally, we have a long-standing relationship with the city and in the past the city is way building permit fees to the district.

456
00:42:34,860 --> 00:42:40,800
We share facilities, the park and wreck is able to use our facilities, we use city facilities.

457
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:48,360
We're both supported by tax dollars, and so I would once again come before you to ask a waiver of this fee.

458
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,280
I haven't had to answer any questions right now.

459
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:52,740
Chris, talk to me.

460
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,680
Mitch, what would the fee structure be for this?

461
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:57,960
Oh, I can't bother you with the handle.

462
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:07,900
So it should be in the staff report.

463
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:15,460
total fees that I have, $1,100, $1,149 cents.

464
00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:15,920
Okay.

465
00:43:16,220 --> 00:43:16,440
Thank you.

466
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:18,740
And the impact fees will be assessed.

467
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,720
This is just a final review of Billy Permanke's.

468
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:21,960
Thank you.

469
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,360
That was going to be my clarification for the audience

470
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:25,380
and those people at home.

471
00:43:25,660 --> 00:43:26,920
It's not all the fees.

472
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:28,260
It's just those two.

473
00:43:28,620 --> 00:43:28,920
Yes, Mayor.

474
00:43:31,450 --> 00:43:32,190
Great lantern.

475
00:43:32,750 --> 00:43:33,910
Mayor, are we ready for motion?

476
00:43:34,870 --> 00:43:35,470
I believe so.

477
00:43:35,470 --> 00:43:44,090
Here I move that we waive the building fees for the maintenance building that's being built at the Highland Avenue for the Twin Falls School District.

478
00:43:44,530 --> 00:43:44,850
Second.

479
00:43:46,110 --> 00:43:53,970
Motion by Greg Lanting, seconded by Don Hall, to prove the request to waive the building permit fees, Susan Hammers.

480
00:43:54,310 --> 00:44:02,650
Thank you. This might be better after the vote, but I'm going to take a stab in the dark that this is probably going to pass the council.

481
00:44:02,650 --> 00:44:32,630
And I just wanted to mention last week we were at the Association of Idaho City's annual conference and it was my pleasure and honor to host a roundtable meeting of council members where they could ask any questions and it was just a group from all over the state talking about issues that come up in their cities and the main topic was do any of the city's wave fees for school districts and other like government agencies and it made me, it made me very proud that the city

482
00:44:32,630 --> 00:44:39,930
of Twin Falls has such a passion for working with others in our partnerships and those that

483
00:44:39,930 --> 00:44:45,170
we team with because I learned that we're one of the very few cities that has that relationship.

484
00:44:45,890 --> 00:44:52,930
And most of the other cities, when it even consider this request and so it made me very

485
00:44:52,930 --> 00:44:58,850
proud to represent our city and have a chance to talk about partnerships and common goals.

486
00:44:58,850 --> 00:44:59,770
and hopefully

487
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,980
We gave some of the other cities things to think about. Thank you, Suzanne. Greg Landon. I'm sorry. I just wanted to add that the school district is very appreciative of the city and the partnership that we have. We always seem to work really well together in projects and I think it benefits us mutually. Thank you very much. I agree. Greg Landon. Well, one of the things I'm not going to defend the other cities, but obviously our situation is maybe slightly different in the fact that we

488
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:34,640
our school district is outside the boundaries of the city of Twin Falls but

489
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,860
really not very far where it's other places like, let's give you an example,

490
00:45:39,020 --> 00:45:42,720
like the Lord Filer's cast for some of those. Most of it's farmland outside the

491
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:48,400
city and so may not be quite the same feeling but I echo what Brady said and

492
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:53,780
what Suzanne said I'm glad for our cooperation between the city and the school

493
00:45:53,780 --> 00:45:58,660
districts. It's been that way for a really long time and I can't imagine the

494
00:45:58,660 --> 00:46:05,680
The other city's not getting along like we do with our school district, but I know other cities do struggle and I'm not sure whose fault it is

495
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,500
I'm not placing blame by this note occurs.

496
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,480
Thank you. Any other discussion from the council?

497
00:46:12,660 --> 00:46:14,400
Seeing none, Sharon, we'll call vote please.

498
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:16,260
Nicky Boyd. Yes.

499
00:46:16,900 --> 00:46:18,040
Sean Berraker. Yes.

500
00:46:18,540 --> 00:46:21,160
Chris talking to Greg Lantin. Yes.

501
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:22,340
Don Hall. Yes.

502
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:23,800
Ruth Pierce. Yes.

503
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:28,480
Susan Hawkins. Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Brady.

504
00:46:31,940 --> 00:46:39,600
Next on the agenda's consideration of a request to approve the purchase of real property located at the Northeast corner of Addison Avenue West and Monroe Street.

505
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,640
We have our Public Works Director, John Keaton. Welcome, John.

506
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:46,260
Thank you, Mayor and Council.

507
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:06,840
So, we were recently approached by the property owner of 277 and 285 Addison Avenue.

508
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:08,560
And that is,

509
00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:13,760
that's these two lots right here.

510
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:16,080
This is Monroe, and this is Addison,

511
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,180
right across the street, is Lincoln School.

512
00:47:19,780 --> 00:47:25,200
And the property owner has been taking care of this property

513
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,860
for several years, take care of the weeds and that sort of thing.

514
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,620
And recently, this person's health

515
00:47:31,620 --> 00:47:35,320
is degraded to the point where they either sell the property

516
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:36,320
or do something different.

517
00:47:36,540 --> 00:47:38,480
So they've been actively trying to sell it.

518
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:45,000
The problem with this piece, as you can see, there's some utilities that cross this property.

519
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,480
This is lateral 42.

520
00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:53,520
It's one of the largest laterals, if not the largest lateral in the city.

521
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:58,860
And it runs underneath, if you remember, there's, it runs underneath the sidewalk along Addison.

522
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,800
It turns northwest and goes behind back lot lines.

523
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,660
Yeah, just real quick, John, could you explain to the audience those that don't know what a lateral

524
00:48:16,660 --> 00:48:17,180
is?

525
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:18,120
That's true.

526
00:48:22,770 --> 00:48:24,250
Just say sounds really important.

527
00:48:25,650 --> 00:48:27,590
Just say underground canal.

528
00:48:28,470 --> 00:48:29,590
Thank you.

529
00:48:30,150 --> 00:48:31,730
It's just an underground canal.

530
00:48:32,590 --> 00:48:38,310
And it provides irrigation to the, from Twin Falls Canal Company.

531
00:48:38,650 --> 00:48:43,030
This maps a little bit harder to see, but right here is the intersection of Monroe and

532
00:48:43,030 --> 00:48:50,270
Madison, again, Lateral 42 comes from the East, Moves West, goes back lot lines and crosses

533
00:48:50,270 --> 00:48:55,490
here, or goes to Washington and crosses in between Schupe and Habern.

534
00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:02,970
The city has maintenance responsibilities for laterals anytime they cross underneath roadways.

535
00:49:03,550 --> 00:49:10,110
Also every now and then there's a maintenance agreement on particular segments of irrigation.

536
00:49:10,110 --> 00:49:17,670
This one, this particular one has a maintenance agreement along its length and back lot lines

537
00:49:17,670 --> 00:49:22,010
from the wheat that we have, so from the Twin Falls Canal Company, we have the maintenance

538
00:49:22,010 --> 00:49:23,630
on this facility,

539
00:49:27,780 --> 00:49:32,580
and so that is this here, and we also have a sewer line here.

540
00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:40,220
Obviously, when you look at this lot, corner lots have setbacks on both sides front setbacks

541
00:49:40,220 --> 00:49:44,020
that are significant, 20 feet, I believe in this, 20 feet here.

542
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,980
So it really limits what you can do with this property, plus you can't put a footing

543
00:49:47,980 --> 00:49:51,260
on top of a utility like that and you wouldn't want to, even if you could.

544
00:49:51,820 --> 00:50:01,160
So the property has, arguably, little value to many people, and arguably, reasonable value

545
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,320
to the City of Twenthaust for a couple of reasons.

546
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:10,420
First of all, that underground matter is large and difficult to maintain, so this would

547
00:50:10,420 --> 00:50:15,960
provide us a great location to get in safely and reconstruct that in the off season when

548
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:16,840
it's not flowing.

549
00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:28,760
The other opportunity is a long time from now when it makes sense to potentially retrofit

550
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,880
that irrigation in downtown, it's very costly.

551
00:50:33,220 --> 00:50:34,900
Right now it does not financially make sense.

552
00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:38,360
But as you know, when there's an opportunity

553
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,320
to buy a piece of property that could potentially

554
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:42,840
be a part of that.

555
00:50:45,900 --> 00:50:49,180
So what I've done here is taking a page

556
00:50:49,180 --> 00:50:53,960
out of our water facility plan, and this shows options

557
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:55,120
to retrofit PI.

558
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:56,980
So as you know, in the old parts of town

559
00:50:56,980 --> 00:51:00,180
that use potable water, it would be a real opportunity

560
00:51:00,180 --> 00:51:03,520
for us to retrofit with PI in use irrigation water.

561
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:11,780
So this law is about right here in this, or we're calling, phase three of a PI retrofit.

562
00:51:12,580 --> 00:51:18,100
And it's a great location for a lot of reasons on the high ground.

563
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,900
It also has the lateral that we could deliver shares to.

564
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:27,000
So engineering-wise, it makes a lot of sense, it costs-wise, it makes no sense at this point.

565
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,920
but someday the value water will be there and it'll make sense.

566
00:51:31,420 --> 00:51:35,760
So for those two reasons, I'm recommending that we go ahead and purchase the property.

567
00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:44,360
The tax assessment in the staff report, it's difficult to determine a value because of

568
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:45,340
the situation here.

569
00:51:45,740 --> 00:51:49,280
The tax assessment value is 59,000 for those two lots.

570
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:56,600
the property, the seller is asking for a purchase of $20,000 for both lots.

571
00:51:58,200 --> 00:51:59,180
Thank you, John.

572
00:51:59,280 --> 00:51:59,760
Chris Talkington.

573
00:52:00,980 --> 00:52:07,880
John and Travis, I would really like to push the envelope of comfort on this and say,

574
00:52:08,220 --> 00:52:15,800
why are we going to wait for some indefinite time to start utilizing, expanding that lateral

575
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:20,880
to take our dependence off of a potable water by making the P.I.

576
00:52:20,980 --> 00:52:27,440
Is there not some long lead planning item that we can still incorporate into this coming

577
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:28,240
years budget?

578
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,760
We always have capital money available, some form or fashion.

579
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:37,740
I don't want to sit here three and a half years when I go off the council be talking about

580
00:52:37,740 --> 00:52:43,120
someday the more dependence off of our potable water that quicker the better.

581
00:52:46,340 --> 00:52:51,760
So I think that what John is trying to do is to make sure that the situation is right,

582
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,880
so when that opportunity presents itself, we are not landlocked without the land to

583
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:57,520
be able to be there.

584
00:52:58,220 --> 00:53:03,100
And while there might be a source of water to be able to get into that area, we still

585
00:53:03,100 --> 00:53:07,320
have to go out and make sure that the water rights are able to be spread across those

586
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,580
properties, so you look at acquisition of water rights.

587
00:53:09,580 --> 00:53:27,680
And then after that you need an entire distribution system that isn't available in that area right now and our water facility plan estimated that it would cost about 19 million dollars to transform that area from a potable water to a pressurized irrigation system.

588
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:38,700
Not to mention potential impacts and cost to the individual homeowners then to take that water and to be able to apply it to the properties that 19 million dollars is our cost.

589
00:53:38,700 --> 00:53:45,100
When we start looking at spending $19 million from a cost-benefit analysis, we believe

590
00:53:45,100 --> 00:53:50,680
that the $19 million is best served by taking a look at Sunnybrook Springs, by taking

591
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:56,340
a look at additional storage, by taking a look at land that we could buy that have a

592
00:53:56,340 --> 00:54:01,240
more immediate direct impact and value for that dollar.

593
00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:03,180
Just after that, if I could.

594
00:54:03,180 --> 00:54:15,160
But if I could just follow up with one piece, then it has to be a complete 19 million dollar project that cannot be a phased introduction of this that would be 5 million or something of that nature.

595
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,040
It's all or nothing in other words.

596
00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:25,260
Well, if I could just answer the whole area, if we retrofit the entire area, it costs that much.

597
00:54:25,260 --> 00:54:33,320
what we would get is 1.5 million gallons per day at peak use in savings, which is something.

598
00:54:34,140 --> 00:54:40,240
But we can, right now for a couple million, if we can find water out south and we do have a

599
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:45,400
well that we have developed here recently, we can potentially, the cost per millions of gallons

600
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:51,160
that you can either conserve or find is factors away in cost.

601
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:56,920
But really, Councilman, go ahead, John.

602
00:54:57,240 --> 00:55:03,260
Well, so the challenge that we have is, I mean, to put the 19 million or 5 million or even a million dollars in perspective,

603
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:12,080
the entire water fund budget for the upcoming fiscal year 17 year that we're currently working on will present to the Council the first week in July.

604
00:55:12,380 --> 00:55:17,400
That entire budget is estimated to be right around the $10 million mark.

605
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:25,920
And that $10 million mark, probably 40% of it is associated with debt and debt service.

606
00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:32,900
And then you have another large portion of it that is going to be associated with personnel to make sure that the system's running.

607
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:44,500
Spending, we have historically been able to take and save money from revenues that are not expended in any given year.

608
00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:49,720
and collect them over a period of time and then apply them to long-term projects to be

609
00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:52,560
able to help offset without having to go out to a debt measure.

610
00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:57,780
The Wills Booster Station is one of those projects that we've been able to save money

611
00:55:57,780 --> 00:56:01,700
over a couple of years and then apply that to a long-term capital project.

612
00:56:02,140 --> 00:56:05,940
The same is true here, but then it comes to a matter of priorities.

613
00:56:05,940 --> 00:56:12,840
Is it more important to get 1.5 million gallons off of potable water during peak or does

614
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:18,720
Does it become more advantageous for us to buy land and be able to have a 10 million

615
00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:23,780
gallon storage facility located in an area that could be of a more direct and beneficial

616
00:56:23,780 --> 00:56:24,540
use today?

617
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:30,320
And so what John wrestles with is what does that look like recognizing that we couldn't

618
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:35,700
just collect $5 million in a single fiscal year without devastating the rate payer.

619
00:56:36,300 --> 00:56:41,380
And then you start looking at having a long term debt instrument if you don't have those

620
00:56:41,380 --> 00:56:42,480
cash reserves available.

621
00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:45,460
And so we'll continue to look at these things.

622
00:56:45,460 --> 00:56:47,920
I think the value of the water facility plan

623
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,980
does provide that road map, but it provides the road map

624
00:56:51,980 --> 00:56:54,980
in terms of greatest return for our dollars today.

625
00:56:55,740 --> 00:56:58,360
And it kind of keeps those opportunities out there

626
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:00,200
in the future for us to have awareness of.

627
00:57:00,340 --> 00:57:01,700
So when land comes available,

628
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,380
John isn't in a position to move forward.

629
00:57:09,500 --> 00:57:10,960
John, just out of curiosity,

630
00:57:11,220 --> 00:57:14,780
because I know that some parts of our town in that area

631
00:57:14,780 --> 00:57:24,780
Yeah, maybe not down that far west has surface irrigation of canal water off of these underground canals.

632
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:29,000
And is that, does that play in that area at all?

633
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:31,440
Are there a lot of those in that area?

634
00:57:31,940 --> 00:57:35,540
Does this lateral play into that game at all?

635
00:57:35,740 --> 00:57:36,780
It does a little bit.

636
00:57:36,980 --> 00:57:40,920
You know, is there a lot, I couldn't tell you how many are actually being used?

637
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,420
because a lot of the ditches don't get maintained.

638
00:57:43,420 --> 00:57:47,120
It's just difficult for some people to get their neighbors to take care of ditches,

639
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:48,480
and obviously you can't get it delivered.

640
00:57:48,660 --> 00:57:53,020
But yes, that is a part of it, and we would have to get those shares transferred

641
00:57:53,020 --> 00:57:58,140
and into a PI station and back out from Travis was talking about the water rights.

642
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,520
Again, I'll just, it's kind of aside, no.

643
00:58:01,700 --> 00:58:08,620
But I would just encourage us if we can utilize the already system that we have in place

644
00:58:08,620 --> 00:58:11,420
they can take us further away from potable water

645
00:58:11,420 --> 00:58:15,080
because that's part of town that's used surface water

646
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:18,520
from the canals since they built the neighborhoods.

647
00:58:19,020 --> 00:58:21,480
So I just think if there's anything we can do

648
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:24,760
to encourage that or help, I'd like to see us do it.

649
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:26,620
Greg Lansing?

650
00:58:27,340 --> 00:58:29,280
I wish we hadn't let Brady get out of the room

651
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:30,280
before we ask him.

652
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,240
Do we know whether the school district like Lincoln

653
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:34,080
is right there?

654
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:35,360
Do we know whether they're on potable

655
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:36,420
or whether they're on P.I.

656
00:58:36,420 --> 00:58:40,760
because that would be an, if they're on PI, they're potable, that would be an easy one

657
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:44,800
to convert, because it's right there, and this lot could help us do that.

658
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,220
Yeah, that's a good question.

659
00:58:47,580 --> 00:58:55,960
Yeah, so they have a large area, and football, football field, they're on potable, so that's

660
00:58:55,960 --> 00:59:01,100
something we might be using that lot quicker just to take care of that, and that might gain

661
00:59:01,100 --> 00:59:05,880
us, I don't know, it wouldn't gain us one million gallons, but again it's something, so thank

662
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:06,800
Thank you.

663
00:59:07,700 --> 00:59:09,180
Any other comments?

664
00:59:09,340 --> 00:59:09,820
Suzanne Hawkins.

665
00:59:10,220 --> 00:59:11,000
Are you ready for a motion?

666
00:59:11,140 --> 00:59:12,060
I am ready for a motion.

667
00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:12,860
Okay.

668
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:20,740
I would move the approval of the request to purchase real property located at the northeast corner of Addison Avenue,

669
00:59:20,780 --> 00:59:23,540
West and Monroe Street for $20,000.

670
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:24,760
I'll second that.

671
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:34,500
The motion by Suzanne Hawkins, seconded by Ruth Pierce to approve the request to purchase real property up to $20,000.

672
00:59:35,700 --> 00:59:37,620
Any further discussion from the council?

673
00:59:39,020 --> 00:59:41,440
Seeing none, Chair and roll call vote please.

674
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:44,700
Sean Barrager.

675
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:45,060
Yes.

676
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:46,280
Chris Talkington.

677
00:59:46,340 --> 00:59:46,520
Yes.

678
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:47,680
Greg Lanting.

679
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:48,080
Yes.

680
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:48,900
Don Hall.

681
00:59:49,100 --> 00:59:49,300
Yes.

682
00:59:49,700 --> 00:59:50,220
Ruth Pierce.

683
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:50,620
Yes.

684
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:51,920
Suzanne Hawkins.

685
00:59:52,180 --> 00:59:52,400
Yes.

686
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:53,500
Nikki Boyd.

687
00:59:53,620 --> 00:59:53,740
Yes.

688
00:59:54,340 --> 00:59:56,600
Motion passes 720.

689
00:59:59,420 --> 00:59:59,760
Next.

690
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,500
Is consideration of a request to use contingency funds to make necessary improvements to the city pool to meet current ADA requirements. And we have our parks and recreation director, Wendy Davis. Welcome, Wendy. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and council. I'm here this evening to ask you to consider a request to approve the use of contingency funds to make the necessary improvements to the city pool to meet the current ADA standards. This pool was built in 1989.

691
01:00:29,500 --> 01:00:37,300
and the ADA requirements have changed over the years and the most recent changes did not

692
01:00:37,300 --> 01:00:47,240
grandfather in older facilities and so some of those updates need to be made such as fixing

693
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:52,180
the locker rooms, lowering the front counter so that it's wheelchair accessible, changing

694
01:00:52,180 --> 01:00:56,920
the size of a couple bathroom stalls, lowering urinals and some of those kinds of things.

695
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:02,320
I added a list or attached a list of the improvements that need to be made.

696
01:01:03,980 --> 01:01:10,840
The estimated total cost of the project is about $32,350, but I guess I would just caution

697
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:17,580
that that's based on estimates talking to people that do these kinds of things, but they're

698
01:01:17,580 --> 01:01:21,020
all just currently an estimate of about what they think it would cost.

699
01:01:21,020 --> 01:01:25,780
And so I didn't really build a cushion in for myself with this.

700
01:01:26,140 --> 01:01:28,940
I just gave you the flat out numbers of what I'm seeing.

701
01:01:29,500 --> 01:01:33,940
But I guess I'm thinking that maybe if you'll consider approving your press,

702
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:38,580
we either do it not to exceed or give me a little cushion on that in case

703
01:01:39,380 --> 01:01:41,700
something comes in a little higher than the anticipated.

704
01:01:42,060 --> 01:01:43,940
So that's basically the request.

705
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,120
Does anybody have any questions?

706
01:01:48,060 --> 01:01:51,020
What is a little cushion with $32,000?

707
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:52,260
I don't think a very big.

708
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:53,340
I guess I don't know.

709
01:01:53,540 --> 01:01:56,840
I was thinking what would be a reasonable cushion?

710
01:01:58,500 --> 01:01:59,540
$35,000?

711
01:01:59,540 --> 01:02:00,780
$35,000 altogether?

712
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:02,540
Probably.

713
01:02:02,980 --> 01:02:03,840
That would probably cover it.

714
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:06,360
Suzanne Hawkins.

715
01:02:06,940 --> 01:02:09,900
When did you know what we do have in our contingency fund now?

716
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:10,800
For this?

717
01:02:12,660 --> 01:02:12,980
No.

718
01:02:13,460 --> 01:02:13,900
Sorry.

719
01:02:14,420 --> 01:02:15,160
I should have asked earlier.

720
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:20,500
No, so so this would come out of the capital contingency fund. And so we have the capital

721
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:26,300
Associated with that and that has not been significantly drawn down this year

722
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:34,600
Very few projects have been attached to it at the beginning of the year. We started with about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the contingency fund. Thank you

723
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,780
Ready for a motion. Sure. I would move that we

724
01:02:39,780 --> 01:02:48,520
Approved up to 35,000 not to exceed 35,000 for the ADA requirements that you have outlined in the report.

725
01:02:48,940 --> 01:02:49,320
Great landing.

726
01:02:49,620 --> 01:02:49,820
Second.

727
01:02:50,920 --> 01:03:00,160
The motion by Don Hall, seconded by Greg Lanting to approve the request not to exceed $35,000 for the necessary improvements.

728
01:03:00,700 --> 01:03:01,320
Any discussion?

729
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:08,100
question. Great, Glenn. Well, obviously, these are one of those ones where we like to throw

730
01:03:08,100 --> 01:03:12,440
around up unfunded mandates and all that kind of stuff. But if you look down to the list,

731
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:20,220
many of them are needed improvements anyway. And so where I don't see myself voting no on

732
01:03:20,220 --> 01:03:24,460
something that might end up closing the tool. So I think I will be voting in the affirmative.

733
01:03:24,460 --> 01:03:27,700
Thank you, any further discussion?

734
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:31,960
Seeing none, Sharon, I'll call vote, please.

735
01:03:33,020 --> 01:03:34,320
Chris, talking to you?

736
01:03:34,580 --> 01:03:34,920
Yes.

737
01:03:35,500 --> 01:03:36,460
Greg Lantin.

738
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:36,800
Yes.

739
01:03:37,220 --> 01:03:37,660
Don Hall.

740
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:37,960
Yes.

741
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:39,100
Ruth Pearce.

742
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:40,520
Suzanne Hawkins.

743
01:03:40,780 --> 01:03:41,060
Yes.

744
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:42,080
Nikki Boyd.

745
01:03:42,180 --> 01:03:42,340
Yes.

746
01:03:42,820 --> 01:03:43,500
Sean Berker.

747
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:43,920
Yes.

748
01:03:45,020 --> 01:03:46,940
Motion passes 7-2-0.

749
01:03:47,420 --> 01:03:47,860
Thank you.

750
01:03:48,300 --> 01:03:49,160
Thank you, Wendy.

751
01:03:51,730 --> 01:03:55,490
Next is consideration of a request to enact a new chapter

752
01:03:55,490 --> 01:03:58,450
13 of Title VI of the Twin Falls City Code,

753
01:03:59,090 --> 01:04:01,830
prohibiting graffiti, requiring removal and abatement,

754
01:04:01,990 --> 01:04:04,830
and providing for a penalty for violation of this code.

755
01:04:05,170 --> 01:04:06,870
Chief Kingsbury, welcome back.

756
01:04:07,570 --> 01:04:08,570
Thank you, Mayor, Council.

757
01:04:09,610 --> 01:04:10,830
Thanks for having me here this evening.

758
01:04:11,270 --> 01:04:12,810
And if you remember a few weeks ago,

759
01:04:12,950 --> 01:04:18,550
we first brought this code before you as a council

760
01:04:18,550 --> 01:04:20,070
to review and discuss.

761
01:04:20,650 --> 01:04:23,370
And at your direction, working with our

762
01:04:25,790 --> 01:04:28,850
We went back and made some changes to the code.

763
01:04:29,530 --> 01:04:37,490
And I think it's important to add for our community that the purpose of enacting this code is not to make graffiti illegal.

764
01:04:37,770 --> 01:04:40,650
I mean, it already is under state statute with vandalism.

765
01:04:41,470 --> 01:04:52,650
However, the purpose why I am asking you to enact this code is to allow us as a city to have some better tools for tracking said vandalism,

766
01:04:52,650 --> 01:04:58,310
And especially when it is gang-related type vandalism, I would point out that today if you

767
01:04:58,310 --> 01:05:03,430
are a fan of the Twin Falls Police Department Facebook page or follows on Twitter, two great

768
01:05:03,430 --> 01:05:10,390
follows, you will have seen that we posted a photograph of some graffiti that was done

769
01:05:10,390 --> 01:05:15,770
to the disabled American Veterans Hall that was reported this morning, and it was gang-

770
01:05:15,770 --> 01:05:18,010
graffiti that was placed on that building.

771
01:05:19,770 --> 01:05:22,870
Obviously, the men and women of TFPD are aware of it.

772
01:05:23,150 --> 01:05:29,090
We're working with the community to try to find the perpetrators as well as going to

773
01:05:29,090 --> 01:05:32,510
work with whoever we need to work with to make sure the data gets cleaned up.

774
01:05:32,990 --> 01:05:38,570
But I think the timing on that is appropriate as we discuss this ordinance tonight, just

775
01:05:38,570 --> 01:05:43,130
as an example, to let you know that we do have gang graffiti that takes place in our city.

776
01:05:43,710 --> 01:05:47,990
So again, by asking for this ordinance, I am asking council members to do that.

777
01:05:47,990 --> 01:05:59,510
to look at this and give us as a city, both the police department code enforcement and even you as counsel the tools to help us keep our city clean of this graffiti.

778
01:06:00,310 --> 01:06:11,150
I said it before and I'll say it again that it is not my intention as the chief of police to dictate mandate or order members or community,

779
01:06:11,150 --> 01:06:31,590
especially those that are lived below the poverty line to have to pay a large amount of money to clean up their property, but rather to work with them so that we as a city, we as our police department and our code enforcement folks and our great citizens out there can work with them to get this cleaned up so we get it documented quickly and cleaned up.

780
01:06:31,590 --> 01:06:39,610
So the changes were made as you asked we can certainly discuss those that you think you'll find a real process in there that

781
01:06:40,710 --> 01:06:46,610
Makes you as a city council the the out of board if you will and I think it spells out very clearly

782
01:06:46,610 --> 01:06:50,270
What our intention is I would stand for questions

783
01:06:50,910 --> 01:06:53,670
Thank you chief down home. I don't have a question for you chief

784
01:06:53,670 --> 01:07:01,050
I just want to say that I like the changes and and we both knew what your intentions were before but again in 10

785
01:07:01,050 --> 01:07:06,390
in 20 years when you and I are here, we want to make sure those following us know what our intentions were.

786
01:07:07,030 --> 01:07:30,050
And I like the line about your designee will enlist partners to help folks take care of these kind of issues because there are going to be some folks that are living under the poverty level and they need some assistance and this spells it out well and I appreciate you taking it back and meeting with Fritz and making those changes, sir.

787
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:37,620
I think there's some improvements to this ordinance make us all happier than the first run

788
01:07:37,620 --> 01:07:38,020
around.

789
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:44,620
I especially am enamored with the use of jubbies from all detention center that when they get

790
01:07:44,620 --> 01:07:50,980
out doing public pickup or improvement projects and the eye of the public is on the mitt has

791
01:07:50,980 --> 01:07:57,600
more of a shame factor and getting religion factor than about anything you can do behind a closed

792
01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:58,020
door.

793
01:07:58,020 --> 01:08:04,040
So I hope that we can use juveniles that need to work off some some energy

794
01:08:04,980 --> 01:08:10,300
Whether they've been directly related to that graffiti or not the word will spread real quickly

795
01:08:10,300 --> 01:08:17,840
Yes, well and Councilman talk to you to that I am meeting tomorrow afternoon with the director of the juvenile detention center

796
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:23,080
So be the first time I'll be meeting with him, but these will be one of the things I'll be discussing great

797
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:23,980
Thank you.

798
01:08:24,020 --> 01:08:24,620
Nikki Boyd.

799
01:08:24,900 --> 01:08:29,280
What I like about it is it shows pride in our community and it shows that we're paying

800
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:34,600
attention up front and this is something that is near and dear to our heart and we're

801
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:38,360
not going to let our town get junked up and I think it's fantastic.

802
01:08:38,580 --> 01:08:39,520
Thank you.

803
01:08:42,100 --> 01:08:42,920
Greg Landon.

804
01:08:43,340 --> 01:08:47,860
Again on the timing issue, I think all of us were certainly appalled about the Veterans

805
01:08:47,860 --> 01:08:54,520
Hall and the Disciple Veterans Hall and then I have to be on a walk last night and

806
01:08:55,040 --> 01:09:00,760
somebody you didn't care for, for Mr. Crump had written on a fence, that particular thing

807
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:04,460
and I thought, you know, I'm wonder one of those, you know, I'm glad that that's coming

808
01:09:04,460 --> 01:09:08,800
back to us tonight so we can get moving on this and maybe help that community, that person

809
01:09:09,460 --> 01:09:14,900
take that obscenity as well as Mr. Crump's name off their fence.

810
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:19,440
I'm sure that behind their property they might not even notice yet because it's on a different

811
01:09:19,440 --> 01:09:27,140
Not just on Harris in there, so but obviously we will be in touch with them to help them to heat it off there and

812
01:09:27,140 --> 01:09:34,240
Council in Latin if you would shoot me a email or a text with the information where that's located. I'll make sure that we're wherever the police department will do

813
01:09:38,220 --> 01:09:38,660
Discussion

814
01:09:39,260 --> 01:09:42,060
Council so Sharon. We have an ordinance number

815
01:09:44,060 --> 01:09:44,940
ordinance number

816
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:57,620
This is your Chris talking. I would move to place ordinance 2016 dash six on third and final by title online

817
01:09:58,500 --> 01:09:59,580
Second, you

818
01:10:02,750 --> 01:10:03,940
have suspend the rules in there

819
01:10:07,550 --> 01:10:11,870
Motion by Chris talking and seconded by Don Hall to suspend the rules and place ordinance

820
01:10:12,650 --> 01:10:17,050
2016 dash six on third and final reading by title only

821
01:10:17,990 --> 01:10:19,070
Discussion and

822
01:10:21,340 --> 01:10:26,600
well, how about please share Greg Lansing. Yes, Don Hall. Yes, Ruth Pearce. Yes

823
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:32,960
Suzanne Hawkins, Nikki Boyd, Sean Barriger, Chris Hawkins.

824
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:33,260
Yes.

825
01:10:33,980 --> 01:10:36,020
Motion passes and seven to zero.

826
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:37,720
Sean, would you read the title, please?

827
01:10:43,220 --> 01:10:50,660
Ordinance number 2016-6, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Twin Falls, Idaho,

828
01:10:51,460 --> 01:10:58,600
enacting a new chapter 13 of Title 6 of the Twin Falls City Code, prohibiting graffiti,

829
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:05,620
be requiring removal and abatement and providing for a penalty for violation of this code.

830
01:11:06,020 --> 01:11:10,380
Be it ordained by the mayor and the council of the city of Twin Falls Idaho,

831
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:19,300
that the Twin Falls City Code is amended by the addition of a new chapter 13 of Title VI as follows.

832
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:21,040
Thank you, Sharon.

833
01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:22,100
Don Hall.

834
01:11:22,300 --> 01:11:26,960
I would move approval of the ordinance 2016-6.

835
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:28,660
Nikki Boyd.

836
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:37,660
Don Hall, seconded by Nikki Boyd to approve ordinance 2016-6.

837
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:38,740
Is there any discussion?

838
01:11:41,350 --> 01:11:41,410
No.

839
01:11:41,730 --> 01:11:42,610
None, roll call vote please.

840
01:11:43,170 --> 01:11:43,790
Don Hall?

841
01:11:44,010 --> 01:11:44,190
Yes.

842
01:11:44,670 --> 01:11:45,470
Ruth Pearce?

843
01:11:45,470 --> 01:11:45,690
Yes.

844
01:11:46,110 --> 01:11:46,990
Suzanne Hawkins?

845
01:11:47,270 --> 01:11:47,490
Yes.

846
01:11:47,850 --> 01:11:48,610
Nikki Boyd?

847
01:11:48,750 --> 01:11:48,930
Yes.

848
01:11:49,350 --> 01:11:50,070
John Barricker?

849
01:11:50,290 --> 01:11:50,470
Yes.

850
01:11:51,050 --> 01:11:52,050
Chris Stockton?

851
01:11:52,610 --> 01:11:53,230
Greg Lansing?

852
01:11:53,510 --> 01:11:53,690
Yes.

853
01:11:56,770 --> 01:11:59,910
Thank you for your work on that and bringing you back to us.

854
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:09,300
The next item on the agenda is presentation to the council on the results of the 2016 National Citizens Survey.

855
01:12:09,620 --> 01:12:13,080
We have our presentation from Mandy Thompson and Travis Rothweiler.

856
01:12:14,900 --> 01:12:15,740
Welcome, Mandy.

857
01:12:16,380 --> 01:12:17,060
Thank you, Mayor.

858
01:12:17,440 --> 01:12:17,900
Councilmember.

859
01:12:18,620 --> 01:12:20,560
Sharon, can you turn on the projector?

860
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:55,780
It is a beautiful screen.

861
01:12:58,120 --> 01:12:59,000
For a

862
01:13:49,050 --> 01:13:54,670
moment as we get the presentation set up in case you're tuning in online and wondering what we're up to.

863
01:15:03,730 --> 01:15:14,990
I'm going to go ahead and recess for five minutes. Take a little break while you all get that set up, so we will come back in about 22 minutes after.

864
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:35,120
Mr. Rothweiler. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council, just really quickly before I turn the mic from back over to Mandy to begin the National Citizens Survey presentation. We had a slight air on the agenda. We wanted to point that out.

865
01:15:36,300 --> 01:15:46,340
The motion was made on item number three, and it is a staff air where it's considered the request to approve the purchase of real property located at the Northeast corner.

866
01:15:46,860 --> 01:15:53,260
It should have reflected into the Northwest corner, and that was aptly pointed out by members of the audience this evening.

867
01:15:54,440 --> 01:16:03,700
And so there is no need to change the motion that was made because the intent is reflected by lot in block later in the application packet.

868
01:16:03,700 --> 01:16:08,900
But for the record, it will make the correction in the meeting minutes to the motion with the council's

869
01:16:08,900 --> 01:16:15,140
concern, good concurrence, that it should have actually reflected the northwest property as opposed to

870
01:16:15,140 --> 01:16:16,520
the northeast property.

871
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:23,100
The northeast property has never approached us nor they probably interested in the property for $20,000.

872
01:16:23,420 --> 01:16:24,500
If they're watching.

873
01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:28,840
And you know how great it is having that mistake come from the engineering department.

874
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:32,120
We're going to give them a compass for education.

875
01:16:34,260 --> 01:16:34,800
Thank you.

876
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:35,940
We were sharing that with John.

877
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:38,920
Thank you, Travis.

878
01:16:42,050 --> 01:16:42,990
Welcome again, Mandy.

879
01:16:43,290 --> 01:16:43,730
Good evening.

880
01:16:43,890 --> 01:16:45,590
OK, I think we're ready to proceed.

881
01:16:45,590 --> 01:16:48,270
I apologize for that brief delay.

882
01:16:49,330 --> 01:16:51,870
I'm pleased to be before you this evening

883
01:16:52,790 --> 01:16:56,510
to present the results of the 2016 National Citizen Survey.

884
01:16:56,710 --> 01:16:58,770
We have been on and off the agenda several times

885
01:16:58,770 --> 01:16:59,710
over the last few months.

886
01:16:59,710 --> 01:17:06,130
So, I had a lot of assistance in putting together and combing through the results of the survey

887
01:17:06,130 --> 01:17:09,390
from our intern in the City Manager's Office, Jake Wasinski.

888
01:17:09,990 --> 01:17:13,450
And we, I told him at one point, I hope that we would have the opportunity to present

889
01:17:13,450 --> 01:17:15,890
before his internship was over, so we made it.

890
01:17:17,930 --> 01:17:24,630
A little bit of background on the National Citizen Survey, this is a survey that we have participated

891
01:17:24,630 --> 01:17:26,250
in now for the fourth year.

892
01:17:26,710 --> 01:17:27,890
We do it every two years.

893
01:17:27,890 --> 01:17:33,610
So, we actually did the first one in 2009 and then we started on a every two-year platform

894
01:17:33,610 --> 01:17:43,990
in 2012, 2014, and now again in 2016, so that is what, on some background on how often

895
01:17:43,990 --> 01:17:44,530
we do it.

896
01:17:45,350 --> 01:17:49,610
The first question I wanted to, or the first item I wanted to speak with you about is just

897
01:17:49,610 --> 01:17:52,110
exactly what does a national citizen survey identify?

898
01:17:52,110 --> 01:17:58,510
The National Citizen Survey captures residents' opinions of their community across eight central facets.

899
01:17:58,970 --> 01:18:05,230
We look at the survey looks at safety, mobility, the natural environment, the built environment, the economy,

900
01:18:05,750 --> 01:18:10,530
recreation and wellness, education and enrichment, and community engagement.

901
01:18:11,230 --> 01:18:20,190
And what it delivers to the cities that participate in this survey is a report about the livability of the community in which citizens are taking the survey.

902
01:18:20,190 --> 01:18:27,510
survey, who receives the survey, a survey random sampling through statistical selection was

903
01:18:27,510 --> 01:18:35,730
met to 1,400 households this year, and we had 405 respondents that is about in line with

904
01:18:35,730 --> 01:18:42,170
the national average of anywhere between 27 and 30% respondents from the initial mailing.

905
01:18:43,070 --> 01:18:47,030
And the data was weighed in order to reflect the city population.

906
01:18:47,870 --> 01:18:52,910
And then the question of how we use this information, essentially what we do with this information

907
01:18:52,910 --> 01:18:59,070
is we use it to compare similar surveys that were conducted in prior years so that we can

908
01:18:59,070 --> 01:19:04,550
have a benchmark not only of where we've been but where we've come from the past and how

909
01:19:04,550 --> 01:19:10,250
we've improved the delivery of particular services to our citizens and how the community as

910
01:19:10,250 --> 01:19:11,030
a whole is growing.

911
01:19:11,430 --> 01:19:16,470
And if there are areas in which the citizens do deem that we may be have fallen short

912
01:19:16,470 --> 01:19:20,310
and then that gives us an opportunity to address those areas as well.

913
01:19:23,930 --> 01:19:29,850
One of the larger questions is asked in the citizen survey is about the quality of life

914
01:19:29,850 --> 01:19:32,450
of what, excuse me, the quality of life in twin falls.

915
01:19:33,890 --> 01:19:38,290
And I'm pleased to report that most residents rated the quality of life in twin falls is

916
01:19:38,290 --> 01:19:39,470
either excellent or good.

917
01:19:40,750 --> 01:19:44,730
Respondents were able to determine that the safety, or determine through the questions they

918
01:19:44,730 --> 01:19:50,350
answered that safety, the economy, and education are the most important factors moving forward

919
01:19:50,350 --> 01:19:51,230
in our community.

920
01:19:54,700 --> 01:19:58,200
Our citizens rated the quality of life and twin falls overwhelmingly

921
01:19:58,620 --> 01:20:05,500
as either excellent, 20% are good at 50%. I find that to be very encouraging and I think

922
01:20:05,500 --> 01:20:09,820
it's absolutely showing the community and the council that we're moving in the right direction

923
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:15,340
that over 70% of those responding felt that we are moving in the right direction and that

924
01:20:15,340 --> 01:20:17,880
we have a very high quality of life.

925
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:24,160
Additionally, 54% of the respondents rated

926
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:27,500
Twin Falls as a good place to live and 26 rated it as

927
01:20:27,500 --> 01:20:29,080
an excellent place to live.

928
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:34,480
Some of the other factors that played

929
01:20:34,480 --> 01:20:37,360
into this overall question of a place to live

930
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:42,320
was that 73% of the respondents cited Twin Falls

931
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:44,760
as either good or excellent as a good or excellent place

932
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:51,760
to raise their children, 65% said it was a good place to retire and 64% that said that

933
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:55,860
overall that we had a good quality image in their minds.

934
01:20:56,840 --> 01:21:02,760
So it's a very similar, it's very similar in comparison to the national survey and the

935
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,300
comparisons that they do to other communities of our size.

936
01:21:05,940 --> 01:21:11,180
But it's also a slight increase over the last time that we took this survey in 2014.

937
01:21:11,700 --> 01:21:13,400
Do you have the comparatives?

938
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:22,200
I do, and I can, I will make all of the, there was probably about 65 to 70 pages worth

939
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:27,360
of information, and so I'll have all of that, I will make all of that available to you

940
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:28,320
after tonight's meeting.

941
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:30,140
I just thought I'd give you a little bit of the highlights.

942
01:21:31,020 --> 01:21:38,280
So one area that we grew in our effectiveness is public safety.

943
01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:43,860
68% of the respondents positively rated that the city had an overall feeling of safety.

944
01:21:45,260 --> 01:21:49,960
And furthermore, 93% of respondents said that they felt safe in their neighborhoods during

945
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:57,600
the day, and that 87% also rated safety at the places they shop and do business as favourables,

946
01:21:57,800 --> 01:21:59,500
so favourable being good to excellent.

947
01:21:59,500 --> 01:22:07,580
So, overall, the feeling of safety in the community of twin falls is continuing to grow.

948
01:22:10,020 --> 01:22:12,660
I wanted to share with you that

949
01:22:15,730 --> 01:22:21,410
overall the rating of our police department increased

950
01:22:21,410 --> 01:22:21,990
this year.

951
01:22:22,370 --> 01:22:26,850
In 2014, it was at 69%, and again, 69% is either good or excellent.

952
01:22:27,450 --> 01:22:31,210
And in this year, the 2016 survey was up to 75%.

953
01:22:31,210 --> 01:22:36,830
So we have a very positive response to not only our police department, but also we have

954
01:22:36,830 --> 01:22:39,430
a 91% approval rating for the fire department.

955
01:22:40,870 --> 01:22:46,370
56% of the respondents felt that crime prevention was either good or excellent, which is also

956
01:22:46,370 --> 01:22:46,690
up.

957
01:22:47,530 --> 01:22:51,790
And another category where we grew significantly was animal control, which I know at some

958
01:22:51,790 --> 01:22:56,710
points have had some, there have been some citizens with some concerns about how animal control

959
01:22:56,710 --> 01:23:00,410
has been handled by the police department and so that's excellent news to know that those

960
01:23:00,410 --> 01:23:01,910
citizens' concerns are being addressed.

961
01:23:06,700 --> 01:23:09,820
This table is just kind of giving you an idea

962
01:23:09,820 --> 01:23:15,940
of where a population is growing compared to the criminal fences in the community and

963
01:23:15,940 --> 01:23:20,220
just to let you know that I guess it's just a way of showing on the left hand side you're

964
01:23:20,220 --> 01:23:25,260
going to see the population and on the right hand side you will see criminal offenses. This

965
01:23:25,260 --> 01:23:30,900
is not actually from the national citizen survey but this is just a visual representation

966
01:23:30,900 --> 01:23:36,220
that while we do have some increase, we do see an increase in crime in twin falls.

967
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:41,980
It's also something that we have been telling you for a long time is a direct reflection

968
01:23:41,980 --> 01:23:45,260
or has a direct correlation with the increase in population.

969
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:52,240
But that it's not in line with where the crime had been earlier in the decades.

970
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:56,240
So that's just a anecdotal information for all of you there.

971
01:23:56,920 --> 01:24:05,980
Another area where we saw an increase in the positive responses from the citizens that

972
01:24:05,980 --> 01:24:11,200
took the survey as in the natural environment, 69% of our respondents rated the cleanliness

973
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:18,200
of natural environment in our community favorably, that it was 80% rated twin falls as a favorable

974
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:24,720
place to live, and again going to, and specifically in the natural environment, drinking water received

975
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:26,420
to 58% approval rating.

976
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:38,400
Other areas that showed an increase were open spaces and natural area preservation,

977
01:24:38,700 --> 01:24:46,760
which I think can also be a direct reflection of the work that we've done and the community

978
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:50,740
has done towards the acquisition of areas such as

979
01:24:50,740 --> 01:24:53,400
auger falls and our continued efforts to

980
01:24:54,500 --> 01:24:56,020
connect the trail system.

981
01:24:57,000 --> 01:24:59,920
Some other areas where we've improved since the 2014

982
01:25:00,660 --> 01:25:04,000
survey are the overall direction of the city

983
01:25:04,540 --> 01:25:06,540
that increased to 61%.

984
01:25:06,540 --> 01:25:09,200
The value of services for taxes paid,

985
01:25:09,700 --> 01:25:13,300
48% of the respondents rated that as good or excellent.

986
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:31,440
confidence in city government increased, customer service, and this is directly linked to customer service by city employees and city staff, economic development and the growth of the economy and twin falls increased to 65%.

987
01:25:31,440 --> 01:25:38,640
And the belief that the city is acting in the best interests of twin falls also increased and that increased to 65%.

988
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:55,460
That absolutely is a, I believe, a reflection of the hard work that not only city staff puts into their jobs at the city, but also the council and also the partnerships that we've created throughout the community.

989
01:25:56,100 --> 01:26:02,020
the the overall livability report and the quality of life that was reported in this final report

990
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:12,060
certainly supports the statement that one falls is a someplace where our citizens are

991
01:26:12,060 --> 01:26:16,640
proud to be proud to live and that they have pride in their community and that they want

992
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,600
to continue to see us going in that direction.

993
01:26:20,590 --> 01:26:25,290
That this next area though is for there are obviously it's not always a glowing report

994
01:26:25,290 --> 01:26:27,530
and there are always going to be some areas for improvement.

995
01:26:28,270 --> 01:26:31,790
There were several areas that we saw declines,

996
01:26:32,250 --> 01:26:34,170
some of them a little bit more so than others.

997
01:26:36,150 --> 01:26:37,350
A couple of things.

998
01:26:38,290 --> 01:26:43,970
We don't always know why citizens answer the questions they answer,

999
01:26:44,290 --> 01:26:45,310
and how they answer them.

1000
01:26:46,110 --> 01:26:49,870
We've had some questions as to when the surveys are conducted.

1001
01:26:50,430 --> 01:26:53,710
Typically, the mailings go out in early January

1002
01:26:54,390 --> 01:26:59,470
And the postcard, because you just can get the postcard letting the know that a survey is on its way,

1003
01:26:59,970 --> 01:27:06,870
they received the survey early February, and they had this year until mid-March to complete those surveys.

1004
01:27:07,070 --> 01:27:11,950
We tried to send them out around the same time every year, sometimes that's very slightly over the years.

1005
01:27:12,190 --> 01:27:20,930
But there are certainly some opportunities for maybe the natural environmental factors to affect maybe the responses of the citizens.

1006
01:27:20,930 --> 01:27:27,690
But, without a lot of information to, you know, understand why they answered the questions.

1007
01:27:27,710 --> 01:27:33,130
It's a little hard to, you know, to make those links.

1008
01:27:33,570 --> 01:27:38,010
So, I'm going to have Travis come up here and he's going to discuss some of the areas of improvement.

1009
01:27:38,530 --> 01:27:38,950
Thank

1010
01:27:41,220 --> 01:27:41,480
you, ma'am.

1011
01:27:45,500 --> 01:27:46,880
So, Mr. Ma'am, remember to the council.

1012
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:53,360
These are, I think, Mandy and Jake did a really good job kind of talking about the high points

1013
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:56,900
and in some of the successes that we had, and I want to reiterate some of those.

1014
01:27:57,840 --> 01:28:01,840
Because one of the things that's important when you take a look at the survey is the

1015
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:06,980
growth over time, because one of the things that you want to make sure is that the actions

1016
01:28:06,980 --> 01:28:12,600
that we're taking are sustainable courses of action, and we continue to make ground to realize

1017
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:15,380
the level of service that the citizens are looking for.

1018
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:20,380
So, for example, when you take a look at the overall direction that the city is heading.

1019
01:28:21,500 --> 01:28:25,540
In 2009, we received 44% was either good to excellent.

1020
01:28:26,380 --> 01:28:30,260
And over the course of the last several years, we've seen increases

1021
01:28:30,260 --> 01:28:33,900
and as Mandy shared, it is now at 61% good to excellent.

1022
01:28:34,100 --> 01:28:36,620
So you can see that that is moving forward.

1023
01:28:36,980 --> 01:28:40,320
For the values of tax paying dollars that have received,

1024
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:47,140
it's kind of, it has moved 8 percentage points from 40% to 48% from good to excellent

1025
01:28:47,140 --> 01:28:48,820
just in that past year.

1026
01:28:49,340 --> 01:28:57,540
And so what we want to do is we want to understand why is that occurring so we can continue to move forward and we look towards that strategic plan.

1027
01:28:58,440 --> 01:29:04,760
Well, just not only do we look at the successes, but we also want to take a look at those areas where we fell a little short.

1028
01:29:05,260 --> 01:29:07,940
And these are some of those key areas that we fell a little short.

1029
01:29:08,440 --> 01:29:13,080
One of the most frustrating things about a survey is it doesn't say why.

1030
01:29:13,080 --> 01:29:22,440
It doesn't tell you why street repair has fallen each and every year since 2009.

1031
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:29,740
When the city of Twin Falls has invested more money than it ever has in the area of

1032
01:29:29,740 --> 01:29:30,800
street and road construction.

1033
01:29:31,460 --> 01:29:37,640
It doesn't talk about how traveled by bicycle has fallen yet last year you'll recall we took

1034
01:29:37,640 --> 01:29:43,840
a major street initiative to create sharrows to create more bike lanes to go forward and

1035
01:29:43,840 --> 01:29:45,340
revisit our city code.

1036
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:50,240
And public transportation has been one of those hot button issues that we've had conversations

1037
01:29:50,240 --> 01:29:50,800
about.

1038
01:29:52,060 --> 01:29:57,800
It makes sense that we saw an increase in water because we no longer are required by the

1039
01:29:57,800 --> 01:29:59,940
EPA to put a note in the water bill.

1040
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,780
So every quarter saying your water does not meet the standards of the Clean Water Act as a result of our standards. And so when you tell somebody something long enough it's going to take some time to watch that trend and we're starting to see that move forward. Parks recreation, recreation centers, recreation programs, solid waste and recycling. Those were some pretty key button issues as well as whether or not the city of Twin Falls is open and accepting to individuals

1041
01:30:29,780 --> 01:30:34,160
of different cultures and whether or not we're open to Spanish-speaking

1042
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:42,160
residents. Those were areas that we fell from 2000 and 14 to 2012. And while we

1043
01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:49,140
might all take a moment to say well I think it's this because of where we're at in

1044
01:30:49,140 --> 01:30:54,080
street repair. One of the things that my office is going to do and I've asked

1045
01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:58,280
Mitch to oversee this process is that we are going to have some intentional

1046
01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:04,340
citizen-driven focus groups to have a conversation as a part of the strategic plan to understand

1047
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:10,600
why are we not meeting your standards in streets and bicycle in public transportation?

1048
01:31:11,100 --> 01:31:15,400
What can we be doing better in the areas of parks and recreation?

1049
01:31:15,760 --> 01:31:21,660
Because I do not believe that this is a reflection by the effort of the men and women in the

1050
01:31:21,660 --> 01:31:22,100
department.

1051
01:31:22,300 --> 01:31:27,640
If you spend time with the men and women in public works and the street teams, they work

1052
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:33,700
really, really hard and they take great pride in the work that they do, and it's our

1053
01:31:33,700 --> 01:31:41,720
job to make sure at our level that we are providing the absolute best tools and direction

1054
01:31:41,720 --> 01:31:46,280
that we can to ensure that they're successful, not only from strategic planning perspective

1055
01:31:46,280 --> 01:31:48,620
but also in the eyes of the citizen that we serve.

1056
01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:55,040
So really the citizen survey gives us a starting point.

1057
01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:58,320
It gives us a starting point to ask why.

1058
01:31:59,140 --> 01:32:01,540
Why did we not meet your expectations?

1059
01:32:02,300 --> 01:32:07,120
And so we'll be having a call to action in preparation of the strategic plan because

1060
01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:12,420
we want to take this information as we launch in September in the degree crafting of our

1061
01:32:12,420 --> 01:32:17,160
strategic plan to take this information but also to bring more answers to the table than

1062
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:18,900
what we're able to present to you this evening.

1063
01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:24,380
If you're interested in helping on one of those, please let us know.

1064
01:32:24,580 --> 01:32:29,940
We think it's important to have complete engagement in one of those areas that we grew was

1065
01:32:29,940 --> 01:32:35,460
that area of public engagement and so we want to make sure that we're continuing to engage

1066
01:32:35,460 --> 01:32:36,120
the citizens.

1067
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:37,980
Now, it's a blind survey.

1068
01:32:39,560 --> 01:32:46,160
And so we will not be able to go out and ask those who submitted, well why do you feel

1069
01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:48,660
that we failed to meet your expectations.

1070
01:32:48,900 --> 01:32:54,620
This is going to be more of a general call to the citizens and we'll dig deep, we'll understand why.

1071
01:32:54,800 --> 01:33:04,580
But again, we certainly want to emphasize the point that we do not look at this as a reflection by the quality efforts of the men and women that work in these departments.

1072
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:14,180
They work very, very hard, we just might not from a city manager's office level be providing the right direction

1073
01:33:14,180 --> 01:33:17,420
to supply the right services to our citizens as they're requiring.

1074
01:33:17,660 --> 01:33:19,720
So this will allow us to connect better with our citizens,

1075
01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:22,140
to have a better understanding of the programs they're looking for,

1076
01:33:22,540 --> 01:33:25,960
and then continue to see improvements in these areas hopefully

1077
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:27,840
in the 2018 survey.

1078
01:33:30,170 --> 01:33:31,610
With that, we'll stand for any questions.

1079
01:33:32,110 --> 01:33:36,890
All of the citizen surveys will be, I believe we have sent those to you previously,

1080
01:33:37,270 --> 01:33:38,270
so you could take a look at them.

1081
01:33:38,550 --> 01:33:42,610
We will also be making them available online for the community to take a look at.

1082
01:33:42,930 --> 01:33:45,490
We would encourage the citizens to take a look at it.

1083
01:33:45,490 --> 01:33:48,590
We believe that this is one of the fundamental report cards that we have.

1084
01:33:48,790 --> 01:33:54,690
It will help drive budgeting decisions, and this right up there with the audit is a reflection of our overall efforts.

1085
01:33:55,290 --> 01:33:57,650
And so we would encourage our citizens to take a look at that.

1086
01:33:58,210 --> 01:34:03,690
And then if they have any thoughts that they would like to share specifically with us to reach out.

1087
01:34:04,610 --> 01:34:08,130
And certainly again, we'll be making that call to action for citizens to participate.

1088
01:34:09,290 --> 01:34:14,650
Travis DeVos reports that we'll have access to do they show that trends since the beginning

1089
01:34:14,650 --> 01:34:17,310
of the survey and that's all included in the they do in the reports.

1090
01:34:17,310 --> 01:34:17,550
Yep.

1091
01:34:17,990 --> 01:34:18,230
Lead you.

1092
01:34:19,070 --> 01:34:19,510
Thank you.

1093
01:34:20,010 --> 01:34:27,850
Any other questions or comments for Travis or Mandy Chris talking just a general observation

1094
01:34:27,850 --> 01:34:35,210
that I think especially transportation probably is an area of improvement because of the growing

1095
01:34:35,210 --> 01:34:42,170
nature of our community, more vehicular traffic, all the time or congestion. I would not

1096
01:34:42,170 --> 01:34:48,250
expect that to be an easy one to change. And further, I would expect with our widespread

1097
01:34:48,250 --> 01:34:57,410
downtown urban renewal going on. We'll probably get hit in some way, former fashion. So that's

1098
01:34:57,410 --> 01:35:02,090
why it's important to look at these things on a comparative basis over years rather than

1099
01:35:02,090 --> 01:35:09,310
one standing here. I think that I think Council Director made really good points there just you know

1100
01:35:09,310 --> 01:35:13,550
just to really make sure that over the length of the survey we want to make sure we're marking

1101
01:35:13,550 --> 01:35:18,890
improvement and ignoring those those single blips because we don't know what those particular

1102
01:35:18,890 --> 01:35:20,050
causes may be.

1103
01:35:22,420 --> 01:35:29,900
Nicky Boyd. Do you remind me the how how the 14th week we send out to 1400 people are

1104
01:35:29,900 --> 01:35:33,100
are those, is that a different group of people every year?

1105
01:35:33,320 --> 01:35:37,280
So every survey, how are they selected?

1106
01:35:37,540 --> 01:35:42,120
So the National Citizen Survey at the National Research Center,

1107
01:35:42,800 --> 01:35:45,980
we work with them to provide a basic map

1108
01:35:45,980 --> 01:35:47,960
of the overall city of Twin Falls.

1109
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:50,160
And then they move forward.

1110
01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:54,160
And they will send out random surveys

1111
01:35:54,160 --> 01:35:56,180
to individuals that are selected.

1112
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,680
and it is a complete random selection.

1113
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:06,860
So we are aware of some cases of people who might have had the opportunity to fill out the survey a couple of different times.

1114
01:36:07,420 --> 01:36:12,220
We're also aware of people who have never had that opportunity and it's a complete random selection.

1115
01:36:13,380 --> 01:36:22,680
It's broke into quadrants of the city and so we break the quad the city into three different areas so that if there's one part of the community that says

1116
01:36:23,620 --> 01:36:27,840
something different when it comes to road repair or road maintenance we want to

1117
01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:33,040
understand why does this section of our community feel differently maybe they

1118
01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:36,280
feel the same way about crime or neighborhoods or fire service or

1119
01:36:36,280 --> 01:36:40,440
recreational amenities what does that look like is there a particular area

1120
01:36:40,440 --> 01:36:46,240
geographically that's weighing the entire survey down so we look at that then what

1121
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:51,320
they do is they get those responses and as Mandy was sharing it is weighted in

1122
01:36:51,320 --> 01:36:58,320
in comparison to the census and what that means is it will take the demographics of our

1123
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:04,860
census and it will either amplify or mute the voices to generally reflect the overall

1124
01:37:04,860 --> 01:37:10,380
sentiment of the community. So we can also share in some of the demographic profile the

1125
01:37:10,380 --> 01:37:15,220
sentiments of the citizens who have lived here for 20 years and so we can kind of take a

1126
01:37:15,220 --> 01:37:19,100
look at that in comparison to the sentiments of the citizens who have lived here for three

1127
01:37:19,100 --> 01:37:28,180
How do parents with children feel about our recreation programs by comparison to M. D. Nester's?

1128
01:37:28,920 --> 01:37:30,140
And what does that look like?

1129
01:37:30,280 --> 01:37:33,540
Because it really helps us begin to ask the right questions.

1130
01:37:34,020 --> 01:37:36,720
It may not provide any answers, but it helps us ask those questions.

1131
01:37:37,480 --> 01:37:39,900
That is all fed to us.

1132
01:37:40,860 --> 01:37:42,960
We get the reports.

1133
01:37:43,900 --> 01:37:49,940
Mandy had the great pleasure this year of collecting all of the undeliverables and then

1134
01:37:50,340 --> 01:37:53,740
we're still getting them and so what we do is we take those and we send them back

1135
01:37:53,740 --> 01:37:58,260
and then they would do a second round of mailings and a third round of mailings each and

1136
01:37:58,260 --> 01:38:02,740
every time to make sure that we get to a place where the survey is statistically valid and

1137
01:38:02,740 --> 01:38:09,720
that's what we have in front of you is a statistically valid survey and so what we can say is we are

1138
01:38:09,720 --> 01:38:24,660
We are confident that the survey that was supplied and the results that were provided this evening reflect the overall sentiment of the citizens of the city of Twin Falls at that point in time.

1139
01:38:25,260 --> 01:38:26,800
Again, anything can change.

1140
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:33,900
There could be a significant event that occurs that could shatter or elevate one of those current standings that we have.

1141
01:38:37,060 --> 01:38:38,740
Any other questions for Travis or Mandy?

1142
01:38:39,980 --> 01:38:45,020
Well, thank you both for the presentation, and we look forward to seeing the full detail of the survey.

1143
01:38:48,140 --> 01:38:57,500
Next on the agenda, we do have another opportunity for public input, if there is anyone here from the public who would like to address the council on an issue, please come forward.

1144
01:39:01,970 --> 01:39:02,470
Any no one?

1145
01:39:03,330 --> 01:39:05,310
Items from the City Manager, Mr. Rothweiner.

1146
01:39:06,030 --> 01:39:10,590
Mr. Mayor, members of the council, just a quick couple of updates about upcoming meetings.

1147
01:39:11,110 --> 01:39:40,050
The first is on July 5th we will not be having a council meeting as a result of a quorum and then the second meeting in July 11th of July will be our regular scheduled meeting and we will be presenting the city manager's recommended budget to you will be making it available to the public after the after the presentation and when we hope to be able to get your copies the week of the 4th of July sometime in that week.

1148
01:39:40,050 --> 01:39:43,070
so you have a few days to to take a look at that.

1149
01:39:43,510 --> 01:39:50,950
The team is feverishly working on the final document as we speak and we do have a balanced

1150
01:39:50,950 --> 01:39:54,970
budget that we believe is sustainable that will be presenting on July 11th.

1151
01:39:57,150 --> 01:39:57,670
Thank you, Travis.

1152
01:39:58,910 --> 01:39:59,950
And then items from the council.

1153
01:40:00,090 --> 01:40:00,550
Greg Lansing.

1154
01:40:02,720 --> 01:40:06,200
Well, first off, I would like to let everybody know that I have a little more free time

1155
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:09,180
now because I'm no longer president of the Association of Idaho Cities.

1156
01:40:09,180 --> 01:40:11,020
My term was up last Friday.

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01:40:11,020 --> 01:40:16,960
But I would also like to extend congratulations, even though I tried to warn her about it.

1158
01:40:17,020 --> 01:40:21,900
But congratulations to Suzanne Hawkins, who was elected by her peers from around the state

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01:40:21,900 --> 01:40:23,360
to be the third vice president.

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01:40:23,500 --> 01:40:27,480
And thus we'll begin the process of moving forward in three years.

1161
01:40:27,480 --> 01:40:30,880
We'll be the president of the Association of Idaho Cities.

1162
01:40:32,200 --> 01:40:37,720
Suzanne will make the third president that we have had in recent years of the association.

1163
01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:40,620
Lisa's lunch cloud was also a president of the association.

1164
01:40:40,940 --> 01:40:41,720
Thank you, Rick.

1165
01:40:48,380 --> 01:40:50,500
Any other items from City Council?

1166
01:40:52,640 --> 01:40:53,340
Seeing none,

1167
01:40:55,850 --> 01:41:03,730
we have an adjournment, executive session 74206C to acquire an interest in the bill property,

1168
01:41:03,750 --> 01:41:10,190
which is not owned by a public agency, and I would entertain a motion from that council on that.

1169
01:41:10,550 --> 01:41:11,150
Chris talking about it.

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01:41:11,150 --> 01:41:14,950
of executive session per 74206c.

1171
01:41:15,150 --> 01:41:15,770
Second.

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01:41:16,290 --> 01:41:19,190
The motion by Christachan 10, seconded by Nikki Boyd,

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01:41:19,290 --> 01:41:25,870
to adjourn into executive session, section 74206c.

1174
01:41:26,530 --> 01:41:27,290
Any discussion?

1175
01:41:29,250 --> 01:41:29,710
Seeing none.

1176
01:41:29,990 --> 01:41:30,850
Chairman, all calls for those please.

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01:41:31,710 --> 01:41:32,550
Ruth Pearce.

1178
01:41:32,630 --> 01:41:32,790
Yes.

1179
01:41:33,310 --> 01:41:34,150
Suzanne Hawkins.

1180
01:41:34,430 --> 01:41:34,630
Yes.

1181
01:41:35,190 --> 01:41:35,930
Nikki Boyd.

1182
01:41:36,070 --> 01:41:36,270
Yes.

1183
01:41:36,750 --> 01:41:37,510
Sean Berraker.

1184
01:41:37,690 --> 01:41:37,890
Yes.

1185
01:41:38,330 --> 01:41:40,670
Christachan 10, Greg Lantin.

1186
01:41:40,930 --> 01:41:41,150
Yes.

1187
01:41:41,150 --> 01:41:41,310
Yes.

1188
01:41:43,410 --> 01:41:53,970
Passes 7-0 I would remind those watching that we will not be making any decisions in the executive session and nor will we return to an open session following it.

1189
01:41:54,350 --> 01:41:55,990
So with that, meeting is adjourned.