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[0:00] 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.
[0:52] Thank you gentlemen and if you could please step up to the podium here, there will be very easy questions I promise.
[1:00] 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,
[1:06] We'd appreciate it. So if you stand on the other side there and face toward us and
[1:12] the microphones right there
[1:20] Great. Thank you
[1:22] Yep, if you can just step up to the podium right here Mitch
[1:25] Can you show them where the microphone is there? Thank you. Yep
[1:28] I'm Parker Swayngen. I'm working on from true point 64 and I'm working on my communications and
[1:36] citizenship in the community
[1:37] Maribages welcome. Thank you
[1:40] I'm Aidan Swayngen and I'm also working on my citizenship
[1:46] Thank you all for being here and thank you for leading us in the pledge this evening.
[1:54] I do want to confirm we do have a quorum of the council here.
[1:57] All seven members are here this evening.
[1:59] Mr. Rothweiler, are there any amendments to the agenda this evening?
[2:02] Mr. Mayor, members of the council, there are no amendments this evening.
[2:06] Thank you, sir.
[2:07] Next in the agenda will be general public input, but before we begin that this evening, I'd
[2:13] open with just a few remarks and a bit of discussion about developments in our
[2:18] community over the past week. As police chief Kingsbury addressed last Monday at
[2:24] this council meeting, there's an ongoing investigation of a sexual assault that
[2:29] occurred at the Fund Brook Apartments earlier this month. At the heart of this
[2:33] incident is a five-year-old victim, a little girl and her family who I sent my
[2:39] thoughts and my support and my love to just as you all have. This young girl's
[2:46] safety continues to be protected through the work of law enforcement, prosecuting
[2:51] attorney's office, and various partner agencies. These partners continue to
[2:56] work together to bring justice in this case. Justice through the due process of
[3:02] our Constitution and laws and ordinances and justice specific to the difficult
[3:07] circumstances of this case as it involves juveniles and has been sealed by the court.
[3:14] The three suspects have been charged, the two who had been in juvenile detention were
[3:19] released from custody late last week at the order of a judge.
[3:23] And in cases like these involving juveniles, release includes agreements tailored to the
[3:28] case to protect the safety of the victim and the public safety.
[3:33] There are many more steps in the proceedings to take place in this case before it is resolved
[3:37] by a judge. And as that due process in this case plays out, I urge our community to pause,
[3:47] to pause to remember the victim, to pause to remember the process ahead of us, and to
[3:54] show faith in the law of our land that justice will be served.
[4:00] Through the discussion of this issue here in these council chambers, emotions have run high
[4:04] on both sides of this day as. When we speak from a place of emotion and without all the facts,
[4:12] we spread misinformation and doubts. And as tidbits of this not quite truth and suspicion spread,
[4:20] particularly in the world of instant and unchecked communication online, they were woven together
[4:27] into a narrative of falsehood. And when people who do not live in our community,
[4:34] who are not our friends and neighbors, who don't share our values and the positive experiences
[4:40] that we have in this community.
[4:43] When these people latch onto that story and they spread it like wildfire over the World
[4:48] Wide Web,
[4:51] a story that is beyond the bounds of reason and based on emotion and fiction,
[4:57] Again, it paints a picture of our community that is not us.
[5:04] It paints one full of hatred and divisiveness and it brands us all as individuals and
[5:14] as a community as something that we know we are not.
[5:19] This is not us as a community.
[5:23] For all our differences, I know that we have more in common than we don't have in common.
[5:29] We are friendly and neighborly, and we love this community with all of our hearts.
[5:37] It's why we live here and work here and play here.
[5:41] It's why we want to raise our families here.
[5:44] It's why we continue to invest in our future so that we can build on our collective prosperity
[5:49] and give opportunity to others to join us.
[5:53] The same as the pioneers who came here and founded this region and settled here and found
[6:00] new promise in the Magic Valley. And it's why when we hear the report of a
[6:06] terrible crime, we step up and do our jobs to protect and support the victim
[6:12] and the safety of everyone in our community.
[6:18] As we move forward, I encourage us to
[6:20] do this in unity. I'm certainly not saying that we're gonna agree on everything.
[6:31] But
[6:32] And good information, and we must all keep our emotions in balance with our logic, and
[6:40] we need to do that honestly and respectfully.
[6:44] So I would ask this evening, as you come forward to address the city council, that you please
[6:50] keep in mind the common goals that we have, instead of the divisiveness that has been painted
[6:57] about our community in this past week.
[7:01] And that you be honest and respectful, and I will speak for myself, that I will do the same with you.
[7:10] So with that, I would welcome members of the public to come forward to address the council.
[7:21] Is there anyone who wishes to come forward and address the council?
[7:25] Please.
[7:33] And for the record, please state your name.
[7:36] Julie Ruff.
[7:38] Thank you.
[7:39] First
[7:43] of all, I acknowledge that at least I understand not reading the article that there
[7:48] were threats lobbied against someone or more than one person on this council.
[7:54] So I will petition my God Elohim by Jesus Christ for your security, each one of you, for
[8:02] your family security, and I will pray that you are safe, no harm will come to any one of you
[8:08] or to anyone you love, or this community, and that the perpetrators of this crime which
[8:16] is grievous will be found out, brought to justice, and obviously incarcerated if need be.
[8:26] Many of you are my friends, and I care about U.S. people.
[8:30] I've respected what you have committed to doing in this community, and like I said last
[8:35] week, this is an honorable seat.
[8:39] I want to acknowledge you, Ms. Hawkins, for your excellence last week during a very fiery
[8:46] meeting.
[8:47] You are an example to your peers, and I appreciate you keeping calm, speaking calm, and allowing
[8:54] the community to actually have emotions about something that they should have emotions about.
[9:00] This is something that we do come together with.
[9:02] With thank God we come together and we are emotional about this type of issue.
[9:07] What type of people would we be if we were not emotional about the rape of a small child?
[9:16] I would advise again to consider in any decision made forthcoming that we do that you do
[9:26] together agree that the security of this community be held higher than any other desire for
[9:34] economic gain or otherwise, that the security of this community be the priority in your
[9:41] mind as you make decisions about who is or who is not going to be sought out and brought
[9:47] into this community, no matter what group they are from.
[9:52] I'd like to be a little personal.
[9:55] There's a little person who is afraid to go out of her house, who wears two pairs of underpants
[10:01] to protect herself now.
[10:04] And she can't go out of her house because her perpetrator is still living next door.
[10:12] So who has become the prisoner?
[10:15] After being dragged and attacked and violated, who has become the prisoner?
[10:21] It is the family who can't afford to move because of poverty.
[10:25] And I think we all know that poor people in our community are the primary victims of crime.
[10:32] and it remains true in this case and there is a secondary offense when someone is not
[10:38] safe to go out of their house because their perpetrator remains their neighbor.
[10:43] I'm not certain if this is the way Idaho always governs violations for people under 18.
[10:51] If it is, I think we need to address that as a state. We need to address that as a city.
[10:57] Perhaps we need to amend how we do things in order to protect underage people when they
[11:03] are violated by a peer.
[11:05] And instead of looking at two and three years as having a big significance, look at the
[11:10] actions that were perpetrated by the offender.
[11:18] We are responsible to keep her safe.
[11:20] She does not have the power to do that.
[11:23] I don't have the power to do that.
[11:25] I can only petition my city and my police department to do that.
[11:33] I know that they have already received an eviction notice,
[11:38] among other things, and they are still there,
[11:41] and this little boy is still in the neighborhood playing with all the other children
[11:45] while his victim is held inside of her apartment to be safe.
[11:51] She's trying to recover how can she?
[11:59] I'll end, being religious once again,
[12:02] and because it's important to me that we have that religious freedom no matter what faith we are.
[12:07] Righteousness exalts a people, but sin is a reproach.
[12:11] Thank you.
[12:13] Thank you, Mrs. Ruff, for your comments.
[12:18] Senator, well, anyone else who wishes to address the council this evening, please come forward, sir.
[12:27] My name is Russ Kraus, and I live here in Twin Falls.
[12:33] and I was going to talk last week and as I told on I think that the council had been beaten up on
[12:43] quite enough and anything I might say would would not make any sense. But having moved here,
[12:52] well let me tell you about a year ago I did speak to this council and that was in opposition
[13:00] 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.
[13:32] because I didn't like what I saw coming from Wisconsin to Idaho.
[13:44] Some of the things that Don and I talked about also just a few minutes ago.
[13:49] I've noticed either a lack of zoning or a lack of follow through on zoning.
[13:57] I see houses going up next to more modest houses, it's almost like there's no plan.
[14:08] And we all know if there's no plan, any road will take you to that end result.
[14:17] Your roads need help, excuse me, our roads need help by a resident of Twin Falls.
[14:25] There are some roads that are like going over a washboard.
[14:33] 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.
[14:46] And that is approximately four miles west toward Filer on the south side of the road.
[14:54] There's a house up on, it almost looks like a could-
[15:00] 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.
[15:29] Welcome to Twin Falls.
[15:33] The sign that says welcome to Twin Falls almost could say don't come back.
[15:40] That is one of the,
[15:43] I'll use the word ugliest signs I think I have ever seen going in and
[15:50] out of the city.
[15:51] It's not a friendly, warm-hearted greeting when you come in.
[15:58] And it's right on, again, on the south side of the road, and right across from the old hospital.
[16:11] And by the way, thank you for fixing this.
[16:14] It wasn't fixed last week, and it was flopping all over the place.
[16:19] And I was going to bring up the fact that when I did speak to the council about a year ago,
[16:24] someone said, well, it is a problem, and we're going to fix it.
[16:28] It wasn't fixed as of last week, but it seems to be right now.
[16:33] And if I might suggest I think Twin Falls has to get its house in order before it starts
[16:44] going out and continuing on the Refugee program, continuing on all of the other programs
[16:55] that I'm a Christian, and it kills me to say this, but I think that things have to go into a logical progression.
[17:11] And for heaven's sake, I would hate to see this city.
[17:17] My city also get into the same thing that Europe is potentially getting into right now because that would destroy twin falls.
[17:30] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, thank you and your council for hearing some of these things.
[17:36] Thank you, Mr. Kras, I appreciate your comments,
[17:41] is anyone else who would wish to address the council at this time?
[17:44] My
[17:55] name is Terry Edwards.
[17:56] I just wanted to say that I wasn't going to speak today, but then after this mayors,
[18:03] so will it, so will it, so will it, so lilaque, which was very well thought out, very
[18:11] well planned.
[18:12] I just wanted to ask each one of you, it's been 25 days now since this incident occurred,
[18:17] 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.
[18:28] 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.
[18:38] In fact, we were almost chastised and called by at least one person, nearly a racist
[18:45] that we were connected with racist groups.
[18:48] So the community comes and tells you things, turns out to be maybe not specifically totally
[18:54] accurate, but this little girl was violated.
[18:58] And you guys chastised us for bringing that attention to, but that to your attention.
[19:03] I don't understand it.
[19:05] You're supposed to be compassionate.
[19:07] And we elect you folks, I don't, I don't live in twin falls, I own property in twin falls.
[19:13] And I'm concerned about it, but we, the people elect you to be compassionate to hear the city,
[19:19] council members and different views and the city, when they come to you, they're concerned.
[19:26] Do you think we would have walked down here and come to you because we just made something up?
[19:31] And by you guys not putting your foot forward first and getting ahead of this issue,
[19:37] this is what you brought on your own heads.
[19:39] 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
[19:45] and get ahead of the issue instead of trying to sweep it under the carpet.
[19:50] How long was it before anybody even reported it in the paper?
[19:57] Sir, I appreciate your concerns that you're sharing this evening.
[20:01] Some of what you are discussing right now is the exact components of not quite truths that I'm concerned about.
[20:10] This crime was reported when it occurred.
[20:12] It was investigated, when it occurred.
[20:15] And our job as council members is not to investigate crime in this case.
[20:20] Nobody's asking you to investigate it.
[20:22] Excuse me.
[20:22] I was talking and you interrupted my comments here.
[20:25] What I was saying is that it was reported and none of you had a clue.
[20:31] You didn't know anything about it.
[20:32] I heard each one of you that spoke, well, we didn't know that.
[20:35] We haven't heard anything.
[20:36] We don't know anything.
[20:38] And we're sitting there with our hands in the air going, what?
[20:41] You mean there's something that's serious?
[20:44] And since you're over the police department, what I understand is that's one of your departments.
[20:49] Why aren't you having a liaison come in here and brief you on these situations so that
[20:53] you know what's going on?
[20:55] So you don't have to look like a bunch of bumps on the log and
[20:58] Embarrass yourself and embarrasses the respect, sir, bump on the logs and
[21:04] not showing respect and not showing knowledge of the things that go on in this community. You embarrassed yourselves
[21:12] 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
[21:20] but most of you haven't
[21:23] 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.
[21:35] And sure, it goes viral because people don't like this kind of attitude, you're supposed to support all the people.
[21:45] I think it was you that said, Mr. Mayor, that you support everybody, that we all treat everybody equally.
[21:52] They're all under the law, we treat them all equally.
[21:55] Well, you're not treating this girl equally from what I've seen.
[21:59] And the experience that I've witnessed in the media and comments that have been made
[22:04] by I don't think you guys have even made any comments at all.
[22:09] Everybody else is checked in on it and made some comment except today.
[22:14] Now you come out with this beautiful story about how you're so concerned.
[22:18] 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
[22:26] But instead we write down questions with our names to get answers so you have time to cook up some kind of a
[22:34] report
[22:35] That covers everybody's tail. Why couldn't you just spontaneously
[22:41] Answer the question so I'm asking you what have you each one of you done?
[22:45] And since this occurred, personally, to support that girl, not calling the police chief, finding out what the details were,
[22:56] calling the federal prosecutor in Boise and complaining to them.
[23:01] 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,
[23:13] talking about Jesus Christ and the Qur'an versus the Bible and reported to the F.B.I.
[23:23] I think that's been reported in the media.
[23:26] I don't recall that statement at all, Mr. Edwards, I apologize.
[23:30] You don't have to apologize but I think that was reported by our news media here.
[23:36] That was not just recently. This was back a year ago.
[23:41] Some letters mailed out and there was a comment in the newspaper and they referred to you.
[23:47] You said bring them to me if you get them.
[23:49] I will report them to the FBI and the proper authorities and the police.
[23:55] So we'll go back and look but again, I wish that you were that enthusiastic if that's
[24:01] the case and that turns out to be accurate that you were that way with this situation that
[24:07] we have before us now.
[24:10] So are you guys going to answer my question?
[24:12] 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?
[24:22] No comment.
[24:24] Thank you.
[24:26] Thank you, Mr. Edwards.
[24:31] Is there anyone else who wishes to address the council?
[24:43] My name is Heather Strupp, and I live in Twin Falls.
[24:48] Heather, could you please speak up so that this meeting is recorded so that I can be heard?
[24:53] you can pull that down.
[24:54] Thanks.
[24:55] Heather Strupp and I live in Twin Falls.
[25:00] Excuse me.
[25:02] Yeah, I don't appreciate the parts of your letter in which you seem to be saying that
[25:09] there are liars in this community who are who are actually just concerned for the
[25:13] well for this little girl and her family.
[25:16] And I believe probably it's offensive to others who really just want the truth.
[25:20] And that's why we're here, really, because all of us are concerned with lawlessness.
[25:32] We're concerned with lawlessness wherever it is found, whether it's in the community
[25:38] from perpetrators, or whether it's under the cover of darkness somewhere in government
[25:47] law enforcement. We don't want lawlessness in our community.
[25:54] We want to be
[25:55] protected from all lawlessness wherever it's found. And the group of us, excuse me,
[26:04] have been getting together on Wednesday nights and praying somewhere in this city
[26:09] that lawlessness will be uncovered. And I believe that my God, Elohim, will answer
[26:17] to that prayer and lawlessness will be uncovered.
[26:24] Thank you for your comments.
[26:28] Anyone else who wishes to address the council?
[26:34] Seeing none at this time, we will.
[26:36] Yes, sir, please come forward.
[26:42] You need to wait till you get to the microphone, please, sir,
[26:44] since it's recorded for the record.
[26:45] My name is Scott McKinney, I live here in Twin Falls.
[26:48] Thank you.
[26:51] I wasn't going to speak today, but I've been bothered by
[26:55] what I've heard about the kids.
[26:57] And I'm here for the kids, not just for the girl, but for all of them, they're juveniles.
[27:07] They're not adults.
[27:08] From what I understand, the little girl was not raped.
[27:15] I don't think that these little boys should have to go through anything horrific over this, from what I understand.
[27:23] Although it was not right, we have to be very careful how we treat children.
[27:27] I think you're doing the right job, I think the prosecutor is doing the right job.
[27:32] I think a lot of this is religious, and it's wrong.
[27:37] We have laws that protect children.
[27:41] I want to let you know that I am in favor of protecting the children.
[27:49] I'm disgusted with what's taken place here because I think a lot of it has to do with fear.
[27:56] Does it not?
[27:58] Do we not all fear today because of the things that are going on throughout the world?
[28:04] Well, the things that are going on are because of religious extremism, people who think
[28:09] they know God and have the truth.
[28:13] God is in all of us.
[28:17] He's not in one belief system.
[28:20] I think a lot of this has to do with the people here that are coming from other countries,
[28:35] I think a lot of this has to do with the refugee camp, I think people are scared, they don't want these people.
[28:43] To me, I'm 100% in favor of helping these people.
[28:50] These people are trying to escape murder, brutality.
[28:56] I'm in favor of helping people, try to escape this, little kids.
[29:01] trying to escape hunger being killed in this country I'm not in favor of
[29:06] people going nuts and killing other people but why couldn't we as a community
[29:12] help these people get to know these people wouldn't that be better if we
[29:18] knew them and we helped them rather than just point our finger at them and put
[29:24] them all in a big group that they're Muslim it's like the Christian right
[29:27] things that they're right. Nobody's right.
[29:33] The God that we share is in all of us. God doesn't hate the
[29:39] Muslims, doesn't love the Christians, he loves all. We are always to forgive. Are we not?
[29:45] In your life, when you don't forgive, what happens? Do you suffer? Yes. These are our brothers and
[29:53] our sisters, regardless of where they come from, what color they are. The only thing that makes us
[29:59] It's different because raw-
[30:09] That can beаться in theprus, saying, if you are free. It's transition. I want to change
[30:29] that are not giving any information out that is not necessary to this public to protect all these children.
[30:38] That's all I have to say.
[30:40] Thank you, Mr. McKinney.
[30:51] My name is Toilet Chapman and I am from Kimberly Idaho.
[30:54] I have to say personally that this gentleman that just spoke does not know what he's talking about.
[31:01] We are talking about a five-year-old girl that has gone through horrific
[31:09] incidents that nobody's saying what it is. I understand that in the case of
[31:14] still. We just need to take care of her. Right now, the perpetrator is living still
[31:23] next door. She can't go outside. There's other families involved in this. They can't
[31:30] go outside. They are afraid of what's next door. What are we doing to help her with this?
[31:40] We need to take the main concern of all this is not hatred. It's just we need to take
[31:47] care of this little person.
[31:51] And from personal experience, they are totally afraid. Still,
[31:59] Well, this five-year-old girl has gone through a whole lot.
[32:03] They will not open it.
[32:05] I totally understand, but I know personally what has happened.
[32:11] And we are, it's not hate, love, whoever we are, it's what has happened to her by three
[32:21] older people that she didn't even know what was happening.
[32:28] Thank you.
[32:29] Thank you.
[32:38] Councilor.
[32:39] I'm John Hate and I spent about 15 years on volunteer for juvenile probation and I understand
[32:47] a little bit of where you guys are coming from, where Travis is coming from.
[32:52] You guys can't say anything about a juvenile case.
[32:56] I've said on diversion board for years and I once the people walk out with a juvenile and
[33:03] that's all diversion board is a juvenile.
[33:05] I don't say a thing and you can't either. And I admire you for not getting back into
[33:12] paper and throwing mud. Because we have rules and laws, and these laws, they hit all of
[33:18] us. And juvenile law, I was around when juvenile law changed, changed for the better.
[33:26] I was volunteering in the prison system when the juveniles were kept with the adults.
[33:32] That's how long I go back.
[33:35] At least now they're separated and you guys did fine.
[33:38] You guys don't need to talk to the press.
[33:41] I don't elect you to talk to the press all the time.
[33:45] There's nothing.
[33:47] Thank you, Mr. Hayden.
[33:56] Hello, my name is Nolan Strupe.
[33:59] I suppose I cannot agree with every sentiment that has been expressed here before because
[34:04] 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.
[34:12] Nobody's suggesting that any children go through anything horrific, but I'm sure you all agree that justice needs to be done.
[34:22] And we do have a juvenile justice program.
[34:26] I'm hoping we're all on the same page here.
[34:31] Thank you, Mr. Strupp.
[34:33] Say anyone else who would like to address the council at this time.
[34:38] Seeing no one, we will move on with the rest of the council agenda this evening.
[34:44] Next item for consideration is the consent of their council wishes.
[34:49] Chris talking to move approval is printed.
[34:53] Motion by Chris talking to seconded by Nicky Boyd to approve the consent calendar as presented
[35:04] Is there any discussion?
[35:06] Nicky Boyd.
[35:07] Yep, you're fine.
[35:13] So you have no discussion to share and we'll call both, please.
[35:16] Suzanne Hawkins.
[35:17] Yes.
[35:18] Nicky Boyd.
[35:19] Yes.
[35:20] John Barriger.
[35:21] Yes.
[35:21] Chris Hawkington.
[35:22] Yes.
[35:23] Greg Lanting.
[35:24] Yes.
[35:24] Don Hall.
[35:25] Yes.
[35:26] Ruth Pierce.
[35:26] Yes.
[35:27] Motion passes 7-2-0.
[35:31] Under items for consideration, we have presentation of peace officer standards and training
[35:35] Council certificates to officer Matthew, oh man, I'm going to slot of that one.
[35:41] Kielta, officer Simon Rodriguez, detective Javier Paradise, and detective John R. Wilson.
[35:50] My apologies for my mispronunciations, I have Craig Stots and Chief Kingsbury, welcome
[35:57] gentlemen.
[36:01] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of Council.
[36:04] Thank you for giving us the opportunity to celebrate the success and achievements of
[36:07] of our police officers.
[36:08] Obtaining levels of certification in our profession
[36:11] takes into account years of experience, education,
[36:15] training, and dedication.
[36:17] You have a police department full of professionals
[36:19] that take their job very serious and you should be proud.
[36:23] After reading each officer's bio,
[36:26] I would ask Chief Kingsbury and Mayor Barriger
[36:28] to please come forward and present the certificates
[36:30] and pose for a photo with our officers.
[36:33] This evening we're pleased to present,
[36:34] And actually, I think three certificates, unless Officer Gelt is here, he is not here.
[36:41] So the first certificate we'll be presenting tonight will be the Intermediate Certificate
[36:46] to Officer Simone Rodriguez.
[36:48] Simone, could you please come forward?
[36:51] Simone Rodriguez was hired by the Twin Falls Police Department as a full-time police officer
[36:56] on April 14, 2008.
[37:03] Simone was born in Pocotello, Idaho.
[37:05] He and his family moved to Twin Falls when Simone was seven years old.
[37:08] He graduated from Twin Falls High School.
[37:10] Simone started working for Albertsons at age 16
[37:13] and during his 14-year employment with Albertsons,
[37:16] he worked his way up to grocery manager.
[37:19] Simone served on the police department
[37:21] since actually in the patrol division.
[37:24] And in 2013, he became a school resource officer.
[37:28] Simone is currently assigned to O'Leary Middle School.
[37:31] Simone and his wife, Brianna, have four daughters
[37:34] and twin sons.
[37:35] With six children, Simone doesn't have a lot of spare time, but when he does, he enjoys fly fishing.
[37:43] 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.
[38:22] If I could have Officer Javier Perez, please come forward.
[38:29] Javier Perez was hired by the Twin Falls Police Department on December 10, 2007 as a full-time
[38:34] police officer. Javier was born in Twin Falls Idaho and graduated from Twin Falls High School.
[38:40] He attended the College of Southern Idaho and graduated with an Associates of Arts degree
[38:44] in business. Prior to his employment, TFTD, he was a personal banker with Wells Fargo Bank.
[38:50] During his ten-year with our department, Javier has served in the Patrol Division,
[38:54] Narcotics Unit, and as a SWAT team member, Javier is also a post-certified instructor in
[39:00] ground fighting. Javier was awarded his post-basic certification on December 22, 2008, and
[39:06] his intermediate certification on May 1, 2012. Javier is a great pleasure that we present
[39:13] you with the advance certification from the State of Idaho Peace Officer Standards and
[39:17] Training Council.
[39:36] Detective John Wilson, please come forward.
[39:41] John R. Wilson was hired by the Twin Falls Police Department on March 20, 2006 as a
[39:47] full-time police officer. John was born and raised in Northwestern, Montana. He
[39:52] graduated from Knoxham High School in Knoxham, Montana. He served two and a half
[39:56] years with the Montana National Guard and four years in the United States Navy
[40:00] serving on submarines. Prior to his employment with TFPD, John worked with the
[40:05] Twin Falls School District for 10 years as the District Plumber. From November
[40:10] Number 2003 to March of 2006, John worked as a patrol officer with the Kimberly Police
[40:15] Department.
[40:16] John was awarded his post-basic certification on May 24, 2004 and is Intermediate Certificate
[40:24] on November 20, 2009.
[40:27] During his employment with Twin Falls PD, John has served in the patrol division and is currently
[40:31] assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division as a case detective.
[40:35] John is a member of the Crisis Negotiations Unit and the Honor Guard.
[40:38] John has been married to his wife Marilyn who I believe is here for 30 years and they have two
[40:45] daughters Darcy and Echo. John and Marilyn have two grandsons. Their granddaughter Danica was born
[40:52] last week and they are expecting another grandson in September. It is with great pleasure that we
[40:57] present John with the advanced certification from the State of Idaho Peace Officers Standard and Training
[41:02] Council.
[41:23] Thank you.
[41:34] Thank you Lieutenant Stats. Congratulations gentlemen. Thank you for your
[41:38] continued dedication to service to our community.
[41:44] Next on the agenda is consideration of a request from Brady Dickinson of the Twenthal School District
[41:48] to waive the building permit fees for a new equipment storage shelter located at 1155 Highland Avenue East.
[41:57] And we have Jared Ordie from our-
[41:58] 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.
[42:07] Welcome Dr. Dickinson.
[42:09] Thank you.
[42:15] 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.
[42:27] Generally, we have a long-standing relationship with the city and in the past the city is way building permit fees to the district.
[42:34] We share facilities, the park and wreck is able to use our facilities, we use city facilities.
[42:40] We're both supported by tax dollars, and so I would once again come before you to ask a waiver of this fee.
[42:49] I haven't had to answer any questions right now.
[42:51] Chris, talk to me.
[42:53] Mitch, what would the fee structure be for this?
[42:56] Oh, I can't bother you with the handle.
[43:06] So it should be in the staff report.
[43:09] total fees that I have, $1,100, $1,149 cents.
[43:15] Okay.
[43:16] Thank you.
[43:17] And the impact fees will be assessed.
[43:18] This is just a final review of Billy Permanke's.
[43:21] Thank you.
[43:22] That was going to be my clarification for the audience
[43:24] and those people at home.
[43:25] It's not all the fees.
[43:27] It's just those two.
[43:28] Yes, Mayor.
[43:31] Great lantern.
[43:32] Mayor, are we ready for motion?
[43:34] I believe so.
[43:35] 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.
[43:44] Second.
[43:46] Motion by Greg Lanting, seconded by Don Hall, to prove the request to waive the building permit fees, Susan Hammers.
[43:54] 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.
[44:02] 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
[44:32] of Twin Falls has such a passion for working with others in our partnerships and those that
[44:39] we team with because I learned that we're one of the very few cities that has that relationship.
[44:45] And most of the other cities, when it even consider this request and so it made me very
[44:52] proud to represent our city and have a chance to talk about partnerships and common goals.
[44:58] and hopefully
[45:00] 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
[45:29] our school district is outside the boundaries of the city of Twin Falls but
[45:34] really not very far where it's other places like, let's give you an example,
[45:39] like the Lord Filer's cast for some of those. Most of it's farmland outside the
[45:42] city and so may not be quite the same feeling but I echo what Brady said and
[45:48] what Suzanne said I'm glad for our cooperation between the city and the school
[45:53] districts. It's been that way for a really long time and I can't imagine the
[45:58] 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
[46:05] I'm not placing blame by this note occurs.
[46:08] Thank you. Any other discussion from the council?
[46:12] Seeing none, Sharon, we'll call vote please.
[46:15] Nicky Boyd. Yes.
[46:16] Sean Berraker. Yes.
[46:18] Chris talking to Greg Lantin. Yes.
[46:21] Don Hall. Yes.
[46:22] Ruth Pierce. Yes.
[46:23] Susan Hawkins. Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Brady.
[46:31] 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.
[46:40] We have our Public Works Director, John Keaton. Welcome, John.
[46:44] Thank you, Mayor and Council.
[46:59] So, we were recently approached by the property owner of 277 and 285 Addison Avenue.
[47:07] And that is,
[47:11] that's these two lots right here.
[47:13] This is Monroe, and this is Addison,
[47:16] right across the street, is Lincoln School.
[47:19] And the property owner has been taking care of this property
[47:25] for several years, take care of the weeds and that sort of thing.
[47:29] And recently, this person's health
[47:31] is degraded to the point where they either sell the property
[47:35] or do something different.
[47:36] So they've been actively trying to sell it.
[47:38] The problem with this piece, as you can see, there's some utilities that cross this property.
[47:45] This is lateral 42.
[47:48] It's one of the largest laterals, if not the largest lateral in the city.
[47:54] And it runs underneath, if you remember, there's, it runs underneath the sidewalk along Addison.
[48:00] It turns northwest and goes behind back lot lines.
[48:12] Yeah, just real quick, John, could you explain to the audience those that don't know what a lateral
[48:16] is?
[48:17] That's true.
[48:22] Just say sounds really important.
[48:25] Just say underground canal.
[48:28] Thank you.
[48:30] It's just an underground canal.
[48:32] And it provides irrigation to the, from Twin Falls Canal Company.
[48:38] This maps a little bit harder to see, but right here is the intersection of Monroe and
[48:43] Madison, again, Lateral 42 comes from the East, Moves West, goes back lot lines and crosses
[48:50] here, or goes to Washington and crosses in between Schupe and Habern.
[48:56] The city has maintenance responsibilities for laterals anytime they cross underneath roadways.
[49:03] Also every now and then there's a maintenance agreement on particular segments of irrigation.
[49:10] This one, this particular one has a maintenance agreement along its length and back lot lines
[49:17] from the wheat that we have, so from the Twin Falls Canal Company, we have the maintenance
[49:22] on this facility,
[49:27] and so that is this here, and we also have a sewer line here.
[49:33] Obviously, when you look at this lot, corner lots have setbacks on both sides front setbacks
[49:40] that are significant, 20 feet, I believe in this, 20 feet here.
[49:44] So it really limits what you can do with this property, plus you can't put a footing
[49:47] on top of a utility like that and you wouldn't want to, even if you could.
[49:51] So the property has, arguably, little value to many people, and arguably, reasonable value
[50:01] to the City of Twenthaust for a couple of reasons.
[50:04] First of all, that underground matter is large and difficult to maintain, so this would
[50:10] provide us a great location to get in safely and reconstruct that in the off season when
[50:15] it's not flowing.
[50:18] The other opportunity is a long time from now when it makes sense to potentially retrofit
[50:28] that irrigation in downtown, it's very costly.
[50:33] Right now it does not financially make sense.
[50:35] But as you know, when there's an opportunity
[50:38] to buy a piece of property that could potentially
[50:41] be a part of that.
[50:45] So what I've done here is taking a page
[50:49] out of our water facility plan, and this shows options
[50:53] to retrofit PI.
[50:55] So as you know, in the old parts of town
[50:56] that use potable water, it would be a real opportunity
[51:00] for us to retrofit with PI in use irrigation water.
[51:04] So this law is about right here in this, or we're calling, phase three of a PI retrofit.
[51:12] And it's a great location for a lot of reasons on the high ground.
[51:18] It also has the lateral that we could deliver shares to.
[51:22] So engineering-wise, it makes a lot of sense, it costs-wise, it makes no sense at this point.
[51:27] but someday the value water will be there and it'll make sense.
[51:31] So for those two reasons, I'm recommending that we go ahead and purchase the property.
[51:36] The tax assessment in the staff report, it's difficult to determine a value because of
[51:44] the situation here.
[51:45] The tax assessment value is 59,000 for those two lots.
[51:49] the property, the seller is asking for a purchase of $20,000 for both lots.
[51:58] Thank you, John.
[51:59] Chris Talkington.
[52:00] John and Travis, I would really like to push the envelope of comfort on this and say,
[52:08] why are we going to wait for some indefinite time to start utilizing, expanding that lateral
[52:15] to take our dependence off of a potable water by making the P.I.
[52:20] Is there not some long lead planning item that we can still incorporate into this coming
[52:27] years budget?
[52:29] We always have capital money available, some form or fashion.
[52:33] I don't want to sit here three and a half years when I go off the council be talking about
[52:37] someday the more dependence off of our potable water that quicker the better.
[52:46] So I think that what John is trying to do is to make sure that the situation is right,
[52:51] so when that opportunity presents itself, we are not landlocked without the land to
[52:56] be able to be there.
[52:58] And while there might be a source of water to be able to get into that area, we still
[53:03] have to go out and make sure that the water rights are able to be spread across those
[53:07] properties, so you look at acquisition of water rights.
[53:09] 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.
[53:28] 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.
[53:38] When we start looking at spending $19 million from a cost-benefit analysis, we believe
[53:45] that the $19 million is best served by taking a look at Sunnybrook Springs, by taking
[53:50] a look at additional storage, by taking a look at land that we could buy that have a
[53:56] more immediate direct impact and value for that dollar.
[54:01] Just after that, if I could.
[54:03] 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.
[54:15] It's all or nothing in other words.
[54:17] Well, if I could just answer the whole area, if we retrofit the entire area, it costs that much.
[54:25] what we would get is 1.5 million gallons per day at peak use in savings, which is something.
[54:34] But we can, right now for a couple million, if we can find water out south and we do have a
[54:40] well that we have developed here recently, we can potentially, the cost per millions of gallons
[54:45] that you can either conserve or find is factors away in cost.
[54:51] But really, Councilman, go ahead, John.
[54:57] 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,
[55:04] 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.
[55:12] That entire budget is estimated to be right around the $10 million mark.
[55:17] And that $10 million mark, probably 40% of it is associated with debt and debt service.
[55:26] 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.
[55:34] Spending, we have historically been able to take and save money from revenues that are not expended in any given year.
[55:44] and collect them over a period of time and then apply them to long-term projects to be
[55:49] able to help offset without having to go out to a debt measure.
[55:53] The Wills Booster Station is one of those projects that we've been able to save money
[55:57] over a couple of years and then apply that to a long-term capital project.
[56:02] The same is true here, but then it comes to a matter of priorities.
[56:05] Is it more important to get 1.5 million gallons off of potable water during peak or does
[56:12] Does it become more advantageous for us to buy land and be able to have a 10 million
[56:18] gallon storage facility located in an area that could be of a more direct and beneficial
[56:23] use today?
[56:25] And so what John wrestles with is what does that look like recognizing that we couldn't
[56:30] just collect $5 million in a single fiscal year without devastating the rate payer.
[56:36] And then you start looking at having a long term debt instrument if you don't have those
[56:41] cash reserves available.
[56:42] And so we'll continue to look at these things.
[56:45] I think the value of the water facility plan
[56:47] does provide that road map, but it provides the road map
[56:51] in terms of greatest return for our dollars today.
[56:55] And it kind of keeps those opportunities out there
[56:58] in the future for us to have awareness of.
[57:00] So when land comes available,
[57:02] John isn't in a position to move forward.
[57:09] John, just out of curiosity,
[57:11] because I know that some parts of our town in that area
[57:14] Yeah, maybe not down that far west has surface irrigation of canal water off of these underground canals.
[57:25] And is that, does that play in that area at all?
[57:29] Are there a lot of those in that area?
[57:31] Does this lateral play into that game at all?
[57:35] It does a little bit.
[57:36] You know, is there a lot, I couldn't tell you how many are actually being used?
[57:40] because a lot of the ditches don't get maintained.
[57:43] It's just difficult for some people to get their neighbors to take care of ditches,
[57:47] and obviously you can't get it delivered.
[57:48] But yes, that is a part of it, and we would have to get those shares transferred
[57:53] and into a PI station and back out from Travis was talking about the water rights.
[57:59] Again, I'll just, it's kind of aside, no.
[58:01] But I would just encourage us if we can utilize the already system that we have in place
[58:08] they can take us further away from potable water
[58:11] because that's part of town that's used surface water
[58:15] from the canals since they built the neighborhoods.
[58:19] So I just think if there's anything we can do
[58:21] to encourage that or help, I'd like to see us do it.
[58:25] Greg Lansing?
[58:27] I wish we hadn't let Brady get out of the room
[58:29] before we ask him.
[58:31] Do we know whether the school district like Lincoln
[58:33] is right there?
[58:34] Do we know whether they're on potable
[58:35] or whether they're on P.I.
[58:36] because that would be an, if they're on PI, they're potable, that would be an easy one
[58:40] to convert, because it's right there, and this lot could help us do that.
[58:45] Yeah, that's a good question.
[58:47] Yeah, so they have a large area, and football, football field, they're on potable, so that's
[58:55] something we might be using that lot quicker just to take care of that, and that might gain
[59:01] us, I don't know, it wouldn't gain us one million gallons, but again it's something, so thank
[59:05] Thank you.
[59:07] Any other comments?
[59:09] Suzanne Hawkins.
[59:10] Are you ready for a motion?
[59:11] I am ready for a motion.
[59:12] Okay.
[59:13] I would move the approval of the request to purchase real property located at the northeast corner of Addison Avenue,
[59:20] West and Monroe Street for $20,000.
[59:24] I'll second that.
[59:26] The motion by Suzanne Hawkins, seconded by Ruth Pierce to approve the request to purchase real property up to $20,000.
[59:35] Any further discussion from the council?
[59:39] Seeing none, Chair and roll call vote please.
[59:43] Sean Barrager.
[59:44] Yes.
[59:45] Chris Talkington.
[59:46] Yes.
[59:46] Greg Lanting.
[59:47] Yes.
[59:48] Don Hall.
[59:49] Yes.
[59:49] Ruth Pierce.
[59:50] Yes.
[59:51] Suzanne Hawkins.
[59:52] Yes.
[59:52] Nikki Boyd.
[59:53] Yes.
[59:54] Motion passes 720.
[59:59] Next.
[1:00:00] 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.
[1:00:29] and the ADA requirements have changed over the years and the most recent changes did not
[1:00:37] grandfather in older facilities and so some of those updates need to be made such as fixing
[1:00:47] the locker rooms, lowering the front counter so that it's wheelchair accessible, changing
[1:00:52] the size of a couple bathroom stalls, lowering urinals and some of those kinds of things.
[1:00:56] I added a list or attached a list of the improvements that need to be made.
[1:01:03] The estimated total cost of the project is about $32,350, but I guess I would just caution
[1:01:10] that that's based on estimates talking to people that do these kinds of things, but they're
[1:01:17] all just currently an estimate of about what they think it would cost.
[1:01:21] And so I didn't really build a cushion in for myself with this.
[1:01:26] I just gave you the flat out numbers of what I'm seeing.
[1:01:29] But I guess I'm thinking that maybe if you'll consider approving your press,
[1:01:34] we either do it not to exceed or give me a little cushion on that in case
[1:01:39] something comes in a little higher than the anticipated.
[1:01:42] So that's basically the request.
[1:01:44] Does anybody have any questions?
[1:01:48] What is a little cushion with $32,000?
[1:01:51] I don't think a very big.
[1:01:52] I guess I don't know.
[1:01:53] I was thinking what would be a reasonable cushion?
[1:01:58] $35,000?
[1:01:59] $35,000 altogether?
[1:02:02] Probably.
[1:02:02] That would probably cover it.
[1:02:05] Suzanne Hawkins.
[1:02:06] When did you know what we do have in our contingency fund now?
[1:02:10] For this?
[1:02:12] No.
[1:02:13] Sorry.
[1:02:14] I should have asked earlier.
[1:02:15] No, so so this would come out of the capital contingency fund. And so we have the capital
[1:02:21] Associated with that and that has not been significantly drawn down this year
[1:02:27] 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
[1:02:36] Ready for a motion. Sure. I would move that we
[1:02:39] Approved up to 35,000 not to exceed 35,000 for the ADA requirements that you have outlined in the report.
[1:02:48] Great landing.
[1:02:49] Second.
[1:02:50] The motion by Don Hall, seconded by Greg Lanting to approve the request not to exceed $35,000 for the necessary improvements.
[1:03:00] Any discussion?
[1:03:01] question. Great, Glenn. Well, obviously, these are one of those ones where we like to throw
[1:03:08] around up unfunded mandates and all that kind of stuff. But if you look down to the list,
[1:03:12] many of them are needed improvements anyway. And so where I don't see myself voting no on
[1:03:20] something that might end up closing the tool. So I think I will be voting in the affirmative.
[1:03:24] Thank you, any further discussion?
[1:03:29] Seeing none, Sharon, I'll call vote, please.
[1:03:33] Chris, talking to you?
[1:03:34] Yes.
[1:03:35] Greg Lantin.
[1:03:36] Yes.
[1:03:37] Don Hall.
[1:03:37] Yes.
[1:03:38] Ruth Pearce.
[1:03:39] Suzanne Hawkins.
[1:03:40] Yes.
[1:03:41] Nikki Boyd.
[1:03:42] Yes.
[1:03:42] Sean Berker.
[1:03:43] Yes.
[1:03:45] Motion passes 7-2-0.
[1:03:47] Thank you.
[1:03:48] Thank you, Wendy.
[1:03:51] Next is consideration of a request to enact a new chapter
[1:03:55] 13 of Title VI of the Twin Falls City Code,
[1:03:59] prohibiting graffiti, requiring removal and abatement,
[1:04:01] and providing for a penalty for violation of this code.
[1:04:05] Chief Kingsbury, welcome back.
[1:04:07] Thank you, Mayor, Council.
[1:04:09] Thanks for having me here this evening.
[1:04:11] And if you remember a few weeks ago,
[1:04:12] we first brought this code before you as a council
[1:04:18] to review and discuss.
[1:04:20] And at your direction, working with our
[1:04:25] We went back and made some changes to the code.
[1:04:29] And I think it's important to add for our community that the purpose of enacting this code is not to make graffiti illegal.
[1:04:37] I mean, it already is under state statute with vandalism.
[1:04:41] 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,
[1:04:52] And especially when it is gang-related type vandalism, I would point out that today if you
[1:04:58] are a fan of the Twin Falls Police Department Facebook page or follows on Twitter, two great
[1:05:03] follows, you will have seen that we posted a photograph of some graffiti that was done
[1:05:10] to the disabled American Veterans Hall that was reported this morning, and it was gang-
[1:05:15] graffiti that was placed on that building.
[1:05:19] Obviously, the men and women of TFPD are aware of it.
[1:05:23] We're working with the community to try to find the perpetrators as well as going to
[1:05:29] work with whoever we need to work with to make sure the data gets cleaned up.
[1:05:32] But I think the timing on that is appropriate as we discuss this ordinance tonight, just
[1:05:38] as an example, to let you know that we do have gang graffiti that takes place in our city.
[1:05:43] So again, by asking for this ordinance, I am asking council members to do that.
[1:05:47] 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.
[1:06:00] 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,
[1:06:11] 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.
[1:06:31] 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
[1:06:40] Makes you as a city council the the out of board if you will and I think it spells out very clearly
[1:06:46] What our intention is I would stand for questions
[1:06:50] Thank you chief down home. I don't have a question for you chief
[1:06:53] I just want to say that I like the changes and and we both knew what your intentions were before but again in 10
[1:07:01] in 20 years when you and I are here, we want to make sure those following us know what our intentions were.
[1:07:07] 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.
[1:07:32] I think there's some improvements to this ordinance make us all happier than the first run
[1:07:37] around.
[1:07:38] I especially am enamored with the use of jubbies from all detention center that when they get
[1:07:44] out doing public pickup or improvement projects and the eye of the public is on the mitt has
[1:07:50] more of a shame factor and getting religion factor than about anything you can do behind a closed
[1:07:57] door.
[1:07:58] So I hope that we can use juveniles that need to work off some some energy
[1:08:04] Whether they've been directly related to that graffiti or not the word will spread real quickly
[1:08:10] Yes, well and Councilman talk to you to that I am meeting tomorrow afternoon with the director of the juvenile detention center
[1:08:17] So be the first time I'll be meeting with him, but these will be one of the things I'll be discussing great
[1:08:23] Thank you.
[1:08:24] Nikki Boyd.
[1:08:24] What I like about it is it shows pride in our community and it shows that we're paying
[1:08:29] attention up front and this is something that is near and dear to our heart and we're
[1:08:34] not going to let our town get junked up and I think it's fantastic.
[1:08:38] Thank you.
[1:08:42] Greg Landon.
[1:08:43] Again on the timing issue, I think all of us were certainly appalled about the Veterans
[1:08:47] Hall and the Disciple Veterans Hall and then I have to be on a walk last night and
[1:08:55] somebody you didn't care for, for Mr. Crump had written on a fence, that particular thing
[1:09:00] and I thought, you know, I'm wonder one of those, you know, I'm glad that that's coming
[1:09:04] back to us tonight so we can get moving on this and maybe help that community, that person
[1:09:09] take that obscenity as well as Mr. Crump's name off their fence.
[1:09:15] I'm sure that behind their property they might not even notice yet because it's on a different
[1:09:19] 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
[1:09:27] 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
[1:09:38] Discussion
[1:09:39] Council so Sharon. We have an ordinance number
[1:09:44] ordinance number
[1:09:51] This is your Chris talking. I would move to place ordinance 2016 dash six on third and final by title online
[1:09:58] Second, you
[1:10:02] have suspend the rules in there
[1:10:07] Motion by Chris talking and seconded by Don Hall to suspend the rules and place ordinance
[1:10:12] 2016 dash six on third and final reading by title only
[1:10:17] Discussion and
[1:10:21] well, how about please share Greg Lansing. Yes, Don Hall. Yes, Ruth Pearce. Yes
[1:10:26] Suzanne Hawkins, Nikki Boyd, Sean Barriger, Chris Hawkins.
[1:10:33] Yes.
[1:10:33] Motion passes and seven to zero.
[1:10:36] Sean, would you read the title, please?
[1:10:43] Ordinance number 2016-6, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Twin Falls, Idaho,
[1:10:51] enacting a new chapter 13 of Title 6 of the Twin Falls City Code, prohibiting graffiti,
[1:10:58] be requiring removal and abatement and providing for a penalty for violation of this code.
[1:11:06] Be it ordained by the mayor and the council of the city of Twin Falls Idaho,
[1:11:11] that the Twin Falls City Code is amended by the addition of a new chapter 13 of Title VI as follows.
[1:11:19] Thank you, Sharon.
[1:11:21] Don Hall.
[1:11:22] I would move approval of the ordinance 2016-6.
[1:11:27] Nikki Boyd.
[1:11:32] Don Hall, seconded by Nikki Boyd to approve ordinance 2016-6.
[1:11:38] Is there any discussion?
[1:11:41] No.
[1:11:41] None, roll call vote please.
[1:11:43] Don Hall?
[1:11:44] Yes.
[1:11:44] Ruth Pearce?
[1:11:45] Yes.
[1:11:46] Suzanne Hawkins?
[1:11:47] Yes.
[1:11:47] Nikki Boyd?
[1:11:48] Yes.
[1:11:49] John Barricker?
[1:11:50] Yes.
[1:11:51] Chris Stockton?
[1:11:52] Greg Lansing?
[1:11:53] Yes.
[1:11:56] Thank you for your work on that and bringing you back to us.
[1:12:03] The next item on the agenda is presentation to the council on the results of the 2016 National Citizens Survey.
[1:12:09] We have our presentation from Mandy Thompson and Travis Rothweiler.
[1:12:14] Welcome, Mandy.
[1:12:16] Thank you, Mayor.
[1:12:17] Councilmember.
[1:12:18] Sharon, can you turn on the projector?
[1:12:54] It is a beautiful screen.
[1:12:58] For a
[1:13:49] moment as we get the presentation set up in case you're tuning in online and wondering what we're up to.
[1:15:03] 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.
[1:15:18] 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.
[1:15:36] 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.
[1:15:46] It should have reflected into the Northwest corner, and that was aptly pointed out by members of the audience this evening.
[1:15:54] 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.
[1:16:03] But for the record, it will make the correction in the meeting minutes to the motion with the council's
[1:16:08] concern, good concurrence, that it should have actually reflected the northwest property as opposed to
[1:16:15] the northeast property.
[1:16:17] The northeast property has never approached us nor they probably interested in the property for $20,000.
[1:16:23] If they're watching.
[1:16:25] And you know how great it is having that mistake come from the engineering department.
[1:16:28] We're going to give them a compass for education.
[1:16:34] Thank you.
[1:16:34] We were sharing that with John.
[1:16:38] Thank you, Travis.
[1:16:42] Welcome again, Mandy.
[1:16:43] Good evening.
[1:16:43] OK, I think we're ready to proceed.
[1:16:45] I apologize for that brief delay.
[1:16:49] I'm pleased to be before you this evening
[1:16:52] to present the results of the 2016 National Citizen Survey.
[1:16:56] We have been on and off the agenda several times
[1:16:58] over the last few months.
[1:16:59] So, I had a lot of assistance in putting together and combing through the results of the survey
[1:17:06] from our intern in the City Manager's Office, Jake Wasinski.
[1:17:09] And we, I told him at one point, I hope that we would have the opportunity to present
[1:17:13] before his internship was over, so we made it.
[1:17:17] A little bit of background on the National Citizen Survey, this is a survey that we have participated
[1:17:24] in now for the fourth year.
[1:17:26] We do it every two years.
[1:17:27] So, we actually did the first one in 2009 and then we started on a every two-year platform
[1:17:33] in 2012, 2014, and now again in 2016, so that is what, on some background on how often
[1:17:43] we do it.
[1:17:45] The first question I wanted to, or the first item I wanted to speak with you about is just
[1:17:49] exactly what does a national citizen survey identify?
[1:17:52] The National Citizen Survey captures residents' opinions of their community across eight central facets.
[1:17:58] We look at the survey looks at safety, mobility, the natural environment, the built environment, the economy,
[1:18:05] recreation and wellness, education and enrichment, and community engagement.
[1:18:11] 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.
[1:18:20] survey, who receives the survey, a survey random sampling through statistical selection was
[1:18:27] met to 1,400 households this year, and we had 405 respondents that is about in line with
[1:18:35] the national average of anywhere between 27 and 30% respondents from the initial mailing.
[1:18:43] And the data was weighed in order to reflect the city population.
[1:18:47] And then the question of how we use this information, essentially what we do with this information
[1:18:52] is we use it to compare similar surveys that were conducted in prior years so that we can
[1:18:59] have a benchmark not only of where we've been but where we've come from the past and how
[1:19:04] we've improved the delivery of particular services to our citizens and how the community as
[1:19:10] a whole is growing.
[1:19:11] And if there are areas in which the citizens do deem that we may be have fallen short
[1:19:16] and then that gives us an opportunity to address those areas as well.
[1:19:23] One of the larger questions is asked in the citizen survey is about the quality of life
[1:19:29] of what, excuse me, the quality of life in twin falls.
[1:19:33] And I'm pleased to report that most residents rated the quality of life in twin falls is
[1:19:38] either excellent or good.
[1:19:40] Respondents were able to determine that the safety, or determine through the questions they
[1:19:44] answered that safety, the economy, and education are the most important factors moving forward
[1:19:50] in our community.
[1:19:54] Our citizens rated the quality of life and twin falls overwhelmingly
[1:19:58] as either excellent, 20% are good at 50%. I find that to be very encouraging and I think
[1:20:05] it's absolutely showing the community and the council that we're moving in the right direction
[1:20:10] that over 70% of those responding felt that we are moving in the right direction and that
[1:20:15] we have a very high quality of life.
[1:20:20] Additionally, 54% of the respondents rated
[1:20:24] Twin Falls as a good place to live and 26 rated it as
[1:20:27] an excellent place to live.
[1:20:30] Some of the other factors that played
[1:20:34] into this overall question of a place to live
[1:20:37] was that 73% of the respondents cited Twin Falls
[1:20:42] as either good or excellent as a good or excellent place
[1:20:44] to raise their children, 65% said it was a good place to retire and 64% that said that
[1:20:51] overall that we had a good quality image in their minds.
[1:20:56] So it's a very similar, it's very similar in comparison to the national survey and the
[1:21:02] comparisons that they do to other communities of our size.
[1:21:05] But it's also a slight increase over the last time that we took this survey in 2014.
[1:21:11] Do you have the comparatives?
[1:21:14] I do, and I can, I will make all of the, there was probably about 65 to 70 pages worth
[1:21:22] of information, and so I'll have all of that, I will make all of that available to you
[1:21:27] after tonight's meeting.
[1:21:28] I just thought I'd give you a little bit of the highlights.
[1:21:31] So one area that we grew in our effectiveness is public safety.
[1:21:38] 68% of the respondents positively rated that the city had an overall feeling of safety.
[1:21:45] And furthermore, 93% of respondents said that they felt safe in their neighborhoods during
[1:21:49] the day, and that 87% also rated safety at the places they shop and do business as favourables,
[1:21:57] so favourable being good to excellent.
[1:21:59] So, overall, the feeling of safety in the community of twin falls is continuing to grow.
[1:22:10] I wanted to share with you that
[1:22:15] overall the rating of our police department increased
[1:22:21] this year.
[1:22:22] In 2014, it was at 69%, and again, 69% is either good or excellent.
[1:22:27] And in this year, the 2016 survey was up to 75%.
[1:22:31] So we have a very positive response to not only our police department, but also we have
[1:22:36] a 91% approval rating for the fire department.
[1:22:40] 56% of the respondents felt that crime prevention was either good or excellent, which is also
[1:22:46] up.
[1:22:47] And another category where we grew significantly was animal control, which I know at some
[1:22:51] points have had some, there have been some citizens with some concerns about how animal control
[1:22:56] has been handled by the police department and so that's excellent news to know that those
[1:23:00] citizens' concerns are being addressed.
[1:23:06] This table is just kind of giving you an idea
[1:23:09] of where a population is growing compared to the criminal fences in the community and
[1:23:15] just to let you know that I guess it's just a way of showing on the left hand side you're
[1:23:20] going to see the population and on the right hand side you will see criminal offenses. This
[1:23:25] is not actually from the national citizen survey but this is just a visual representation
[1:23:30] that while we do have some increase, we do see an increase in crime in twin falls.
[1:23:36] It's also something that we have been telling you for a long time is a direct reflection
[1:23:41] or has a direct correlation with the increase in population.
[1:23:46] But that it's not in line with where the crime had been earlier in the decades.
[1:23:52] So that's just a anecdotal information for all of you there.
[1:23:56] Another area where we saw an increase in the positive responses from the citizens that
[1:24:05] took the survey as in the natural environment, 69% of our respondents rated the cleanliness
[1:24:11] of natural environment in our community favorably, that it was 80% rated twin falls as a favorable
[1:24:18] place to live, and again going to, and specifically in the natural environment, drinking water received
[1:24:24] to 58% approval rating.
[1:24:27] Other areas that showed an increase were open spaces and natural area preservation,
[1:24:38] which I think can also be a direct reflection of the work that we've done and the community
[1:24:46] has done towards the acquisition of areas such as
[1:24:50] auger falls and our continued efforts to
[1:24:54] connect the trail system.
[1:24:57] Some other areas where we've improved since the 2014
[1:25:00] survey are the overall direction of the city
[1:25:04] that increased to 61%.
[1:25:06] The value of services for taxes paid,
[1:25:09] 48% of the respondents rated that as good or excellent.
[1:25:13] 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%.
[1:25:31] And the belief that the city is acting in the best interests of twin falls also increased and that increased to 65%.
[1:25:39] 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.
[1:25:56] the the overall livability report and the quality of life that was reported in this final report
[1:26:04] certainly supports the statement that one falls is a someplace where our citizens are
[1:26:12] proud to be proud to live and that they have pride in their community and that they want
[1:26:16] to continue to see us going in that direction.
[1:26:20] That this next area though is for there are obviously it's not always a glowing report
[1:26:25] and there are always going to be some areas for improvement.
[1:26:28] There were several areas that we saw declines,
[1:26:32] some of them a little bit more so than others.
[1:26:36] A couple of things.
[1:26:38] We don't always know why citizens answer the questions they answer,
[1:26:44] and how they answer them.
[1:26:46] We've had some questions as to when the surveys are conducted.
[1:26:50] Typically, the mailings go out in early January
[1:26:54] And the postcard, because you just can get the postcard letting the know that a survey is on its way,
[1:26:59] they received the survey early February, and they had this year until mid-March to complete those surveys.
[1:27:07] We tried to send them out around the same time every year, sometimes that's very slightly over the years.
[1:27:12] But there are certainly some opportunities for maybe the natural environmental factors to affect maybe the responses of the citizens.
[1:27:20] But, without a lot of information to, you know, understand why they answered the questions.
[1:27:27] It's a little hard to, you know, to make those links.
[1:27:33] So, I'm going to have Travis come up here and he's going to discuss some of the areas of improvement.
[1:27:38] Thank
[1:27:41] you, ma'am.
[1:27:45] So, Mr. Ma'am, remember to the council.
[1:27:47] These are, I think, Mandy and Jake did a really good job kind of talking about the high points
[1:27:53] and in some of the successes that we had, and I want to reiterate some of those.
[1:27:57] Because one of the things that's important when you take a look at the survey is the
[1:28:01] growth over time, because one of the things that you want to make sure is that the actions
[1:28:06] that we're taking are sustainable courses of action, and we continue to make ground to realize
[1:28:13] the level of service that the citizens are looking for.
[1:28:15] So, for example, when you take a look at the overall direction that the city is heading.
[1:28:21] In 2009, we received 44% was either good to excellent.
[1:28:26] And over the course of the last several years, we've seen increases
[1:28:30] and as Mandy shared, it is now at 61% good to excellent.
[1:28:34] So you can see that that is moving forward.
[1:28:36] For the values of tax paying dollars that have received,
[1:28:40] it's kind of, it has moved 8 percentage points from 40% to 48% from good to excellent
[1:28:47] just in that past year.
[1:28:49] 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.
[1:28:58] 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.
[1:29:05] And these are some of those key areas that we fell a little short.
[1:29:08] One of the most frustrating things about a survey is it doesn't say why.
[1:29:13] It doesn't tell you why street repair has fallen each and every year since 2009.
[1:29:23] When the city of Twin Falls has invested more money than it ever has in the area of
[1:29:29] street and road construction.
[1:29:31] It doesn't talk about how traveled by bicycle has fallen yet last year you'll recall we took
[1:29:37] a major street initiative to create sharrows to create more bike lanes to go forward and
[1:29:43] revisit our city code.
[1:29:46] And public transportation has been one of those hot button issues that we've had conversations
[1:29:50] about.
[1:29:52] It makes sense that we saw an increase in water because we no longer are required by the
[1:29:57] EPA to put a note in the water bill.
[1:30:00] 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
[1:30:29] of different cultures and whether or not we're open to Spanish-speaking
[1:30:34] residents. Those were areas that we fell from 2000 and 14 to 2012. And while we
[1:30:42] might all take a moment to say well I think it's this because of where we're at in
[1:30:49] street repair. One of the things that my office is going to do and I've asked
[1:30:54] Mitch to oversee this process is that we are going to have some intentional
[1:30:58] citizen-driven focus groups to have a conversation as a part of the strategic plan to understand
[1:31:05] why are we not meeting your standards in streets and bicycle in public transportation?
[1:31:11] What can we be doing better in the areas of parks and recreation?
[1:31:15] Because I do not believe that this is a reflection by the effort of the men and women in the
[1:31:21] department.
[1:31:22] If you spend time with the men and women in public works and the street teams, they work
[1:31:27] really, really hard and they take great pride in the work that they do, and it's our
[1:31:33] job to make sure at our level that we are providing the absolute best tools and direction
[1:31:41] that we can to ensure that they're successful, not only from strategic planning perspective
[1:31:46] but also in the eyes of the citizen that we serve.
[1:31:50] So really the citizen survey gives us a starting point.
[1:31:55] It gives us a starting point to ask why.
[1:31:59] Why did we not meet your expectations?
[1:32:02] And so we'll be having a call to action in preparation of the strategic plan because
[1:32:07] we want to take this information as we launch in September in the degree crafting of our
[1:32:12] strategic plan to take this information but also to bring more answers to the table than
[1:32:17] what we're able to present to you this evening.
[1:32:20] If you're interested in helping on one of those, please let us know.
[1:32:24] We think it's important to have complete engagement in one of those areas that we grew was
[1:32:29] that area of public engagement and so we want to make sure that we're continuing to engage
[1:32:35] the citizens.
[1:32:36] Now, it's a blind survey.
[1:32:39] And so we will not be able to go out and ask those who submitted, well why do you feel
[1:32:46] that we failed to meet your expectations.
[1:32:48] This is going to be more of a general call to the citizens and we'll dig deep, we'll understand why.
[1:32:54] 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.
[1:33:04] They work very, very hard, we just might not from a city manager's office level be providing the right direction
[1:33:14] to supply the right services to our citizens as they're requiring.
[1:33:17] So this will allow us to connect better with our citizens,
[1:33:19] to have a better understanding of the programs they're looking for,
[1:33:22] and then continue to see improvements in these areas hopefully
[1:33:25] in the 2018 survey.
[1:33:30] With that, we'll stand for any questions.
[1:33:32] All of the citizen surveys will be, I believe we have sent those to you previously,
[1:33:37] so you could take a look at them.
[1:33:38] We will also be making them available online for the community to take a look at.
[1:33:42] We would encourage the citizens to take a look at it.
[1:33:45] We believe that this is one of the fundamental report cards that we have.
[1:33:48] It will help drive budgeting decisions, and this right up there with the audit is a reflection of our overall efforts.
[1:33:55] And so we would encourage our citizens to take a look at that.
[1:33:58] And then if they have any thoughts that they would like to share specifically with us to reach out.
[1:34:04] And certainly again, we'll be making that call to action for citizens to participate.
[1:34:09] Travis DeVos reports that we'll have access to do they show that trends since the beginning
[1:34:14] of the survey and that's all included in the they do in the reports.
[1:34:17] Yep.
[1:34:17] Lead you.
[1:34:19] Thank you.
[1:34:20] Any other questions or comments for Travis or Mandy Chris talking just a general observation
[1:34:27] that I think especially transportation probably is an area of improvement because of the growing
[1:34:35] nature of our community, more vehicular traffic, all the time or congestion. I would not
[1:34:42] expect that to be an easy one to change. And further, I would expect with our widespread
[1:34:48] downtown urban renewal going on. We'll probably get hit in some way, former fashion. So that's
[1:34:57] why it's important to look at these things on a comparative basis over years rather than
[1:35:02] one standing here. I think that I think Council Director made really good points there just you know
[1:35:09] just to really make sure that over the length of the survey we want to make sure we're marking
[1:35:13] improvement and ignoring those those single blips because we don't know what those particular
[1:35:18] causes may be.
[1:35:22] Nicky Boyd. Do you remind me the how how the 14th week we send out to 1400 people are
[1:35:29] are those, is that a different group of people every year?
[1:35:33] So every survey, how are they selected?
[1:35:37] So the National Citizen Survey at the National Research Center,
[1:35:42] we work with them to provide a basic map
[1:35:45] of the overall city of Twin Falls.
[1:35:48] And then they move forward.
[1:35:50] And they will send out random surveys
[1:35:54] to individuals that are selected.
[1:35:57] and it is a complete random selection.
[1:36:00] 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.
[1:36:07] We're also aware of people who have never had that opportunity and it's a complete random selection.
[1:36:13] 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
[1:36:23] something different when it comes to road repair or road maintenance we want to
[1:36:27] understand why does this section of our community feel differently maybe they
[1:36:33] feel the same way about crime or neighborhoods or fire service or
[1:36:36] recreational amenities what does that look like is there a particular area
[1:36:40] geographically that's weighing the entire survey down so we look at that then what
[1:36:46] they do is they get those responses and as Mandy was sharing it is weighted in
[1:36:51] in comparison to the census and what that means is it will take the demographics of our
[1:36:58] census and it will either amplify or mute the voices to generally reflect the overall
[1:37:04] sentiment of the community. So we can also share in some of the demographic profile the
[1:37:10] sentiments of the citizens who have lived here for 20 years and so we can kind of take a
[1:37:15] look at that in comparison to the sentiments of the citizens who have lived here for three
[1:37:19] How do parents with children feel about our recreation programs by comparison to M. D. Nester's?
[1:37:28] And what does that look like?
[1:37:30] Because it really helps us begin to ask the right questions.
[1:37:34] It may not provide any answers, but it helps us ask those questions.
[1:37:37] That is all fed to us.
[1:37:40] We get the reports.
[1:37:43] Mandy had the great pleasure this year of collecting all of the undeliverables and then
[1:37:50] we're still getting them and so what we do is we take those and we send them back
[1:37:53] and then they would do a second round of mailings and a third round of mailings each and
[1:37:58] every time to make sure that we get to a place where the survey is statistically valid and
[1:38:02] that's what we have in front of you is a statistically valid survey and so what we can say is we are
[1:38:09] 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.
[1:38:25] Again, anything can change.
[1:38:26] There could be a significant event that occurs that could shatter or elevate one of those current standings that we have.
[1:38:37] Any other questions for Travis or Mandy?
[1:38:39] Well, thank you both for the presentation, and we look forward to seeing the full detail of the survey.
[1:38:48] 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.
[1:39:01] Any no one?
[1:39:03] Items from the City Manager, Mr. Rothweiner.
[1:39:06] Mr. Mayor, members of the council, just a quick couple of updates about upcoming meetings.
[1:39:11] 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.
[1:39:40] so you have a few days to to take a look at that.
[1:39:43] The team is feverishly working on the final document as we speak and we do have a balanced
[1:39:50] budget that we believe is sustainable that will be presenting on July 11th.
[1:39:57] Thank you, Travis.
[1:39:58] And then items from the council.
[1:40:00] Greg Lansing.
[1:40:02] Well, first off, I would like to let everybody know that I have a little more free time
[1:40:06] now because I'm no longer president of the Association of Idaho Cities.
[1:40:09] My term was up last Friday.
[1:40:11] But I would also like to extend congratulations, even though I tried to warn her about it.
[1:40:17] But congratulations to Suzanne Hawkins, who was elected by her peers from around the state
[1:40:21] to be the third vice president.
[1:40:23] And thus we'll begin the process of moving forward in three years.
[1:40:27] We'll be the president of the Association of Idaho Cities.
[1:40:32] Suzanne will make the third president that we have had in recent years of the association.
[1:40:37] Lisa's lunch cloud was also a president of the association.
[1:40:40] Thank you, Rick.
[1:40:48] Any other items from City Council?
[1:40:52] Seeing none,
[1:40:55] we have an adjournment, executive session 74206C to acquire an interest in the bill property,
[1:41:03] which is not owned by a public agency, and I would entertain a motion from that council on that.
[1:41:10] Chris talking about it.
[1:41:11] of executive session per 74206c.
[1:41:15] Second.
[1:41:16] The motion by Christachan 10, seconded by Nikki Boyd,
[1:41:19] to adjourn into executive session, section 74206c.
[1:41:26] Any discussion?
[1:41:29] Seeing none.
[1:41:29] Chairman, all calls for those please.
[1:41:31] Ruth Pearce.
[1:41:32] Yes.
[1:41:33] Suzanne Hawkins.
[1:41:34] Yes.
[1:41:35] Nikki Boyd.
[1:41:36] Yes.
[1:41:36] Sean Berraker.
[1:41:37] Yes.
[1:41:38] Christachan 10, Greg Lantin.
[1:41:40] Yes.
[1:41:41] Yes.
[1:41:43] 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.
[1:41:54] So with that, meeting is adjourned.