[0:00] Good evening, everyone. I'm finally in the council meeting of September 22nd, 2026 to order.

[0:05] The advice that this meeting is being audio and video recorded.

[0:09] Please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

[0:12] Franklin, will you leave us this?

[0:16] It's going to fire in the United States of America.

[0:20] It's going to be a Republic for which it stands.

[0:22] One nation.

[0:23] Under God.

[0:24] In the middle of the world.

[0:25] Look at who's in justice for.

[0:27] Thank you.

[0:28] Thank you.

[0:29] Thank you.

[0:30] Do you do a call?

[0:31] Thank you.

[0:32] President.

[0:35] President.

[0:35] Thank you.

[0:37] President.

[0:42] We do have a forum.

[0:44] Thank you everybody for being here this evening.

[0:49] Councilmember Monthus did inform her confirmed that she would not be here this evening.

[0:56] So with that, is there a motion in a second to either excuse or an excuse?

[1:02] Councilmember Monthus from tonight's meeting.

[1:05] Motion to excuse.

[1:06] Councilmember Monthus.

[1:08] Second.

[1:09] It's been moved in seconded.

[1:11] Councilmember Brace, you already have had a book?

[1:14] Councilmember Bustin?

[1:15] Yes.

[1:15] Council Member Reyes.

[1:17] Council Member Moons.

[1:19] Motion carries.

[1:23] Under consent agenda items.

[1:27] Motion and second to approve the following items.

[1:30] A through D.

[1:32] A approved minutes of workshop data September 8, 2026.

[1:36] B approved minutes of council dated September 28.

[1:40] Sorry, September 8, 2026.

[1:43] C, approve accounts payable dated September 22nd, 2026 in the amount of 53,766 dollars of 46 cents.

[1:54] And D, approve payroll dated September 18, 2026 in the amount of 72,638 dollars in 39 cents.

[2:07] There are motion in the second.

[2:10] Motion to approve the consent agenda items A through D.

[2:15] Okay, it's been moved in second and any further discussion.

[2:23] I had a question on the bill.

[2:24] I forgot to bring up an workshop.

[2:27] I saw some reimbursements for fireworks.

[2:32] Do you know what that was in reference to?

[2:36] Yes, so those are vendors.

[2:40] We'll not vendors, but individuals who had applied for a permit for fireworks stands.

[2:47] And so what they do is they purchase the permits so that they could sell fireworks.

[2:53] And then once they have cleared out their area, right, and clean it to the requirements

[3:01] of having a virus stand, then they receive their $50 deposit back.

[3:08] So it's a total amount of $60 with a $50 deposit.

[3:13] So that's the refund.

[3:14] Okay. Yeah. Thank you.

[3:18] Any other questions?

[3:25] Hearing none. Council member Munoz, how do you vote?

[3:28] Aye. Council member Reyes? Aye. Council member Hustin.

[3:32] Aye. Council member Hustin. Aye. Council member Hustin.

[3:34] Aye. Motion carries. Underactive agenda.

[3:40] The recommendation is for a motion to approve the convergence networks.

[3:45] And I close out my packet, so I don't know exactly what the language says, and I'm going

[3:51] freehand.

[3:52] So, is there a motion in the second?

[3:55] Motion to approve the City of Green Chair to enter and to agreement with

[3:58] Convergent Networks for IT Services.

[4:01] Thank you.

[4:02] It's been moved in a second and any further discussion.

[4:10] Thank you.

[4:11] Thank you.

[4:15] Thank you.

[4:16] number race, council number moonions, motion carries unanimously. Thank you.

[4:24] Under departments, anything from the PD that they would like to provide our announcement.

[4:31] You mentioned earlier that the number had improved the kind of us, I spoke to the last

[4:39] I think it was a day after the last council meeting at a conversation with the chief and you

[4:46] need to get. And basically, I suffer stats at crimes that

[4:54] have been involved in marijuana.

[4:55] And there really isn't any tracking. He says that the retailers that they do have in

[5:03] we get. He believed that they've been verbalized a few times, but no real serious crimes

[5:13] that have committed around those retailers or a way to track the stats that have come from

[5:21] marijuana.

[5:23] And I know that we talked about that right before we ended the last California meeting that

[5:27] probably would be hard to determine the cause of either the violence or crimes that we're

[5:38] taking place in those areas. And so thank you for bringing that back. Because we did talk

[5:46] about that, right? How can we find a way to pinpoint it if that's indeed the case, right?

[5:53] And so it sounds like more of the crime is targeted towards the retailers versus individuals.

[6:05] Yeah, I was wondering what I'm understanding.

[6:07] Right.

[6:07] Okay.

[6:08] Did they talk about, like, so the theft?

[6:12] Bandalism?

[6:14] What was it?

[6:15] People break it into the retail store to see a marijuana?

[6:21] Okay.

[6:21] And a lot of them have been unsuccessful because they're so well guarded in there.

[6:28] I'm trying to break it, but they don't.

[6:31] Okay.

[6:31] I can't.

[6:32] But yeah, that's the, that's literally what they can track.

[6:37] They can't track anything else.

[6:39] So are they operating?

[6:40] Are they able to apprehend the individuals that are committing the crimes?

[6:44] I didn't ask that, but those places do have a,

[6:52] They're able to do that.

[6:54] Okay.

[6:55] Let's put it back.

[6:57] Okay.

[6:57] Thank you.

[6:58] Anything else?

[6:59] That's it.

[7:01] All right.

[7:01] Public works?

[7:04] Anything from City Hall?

[7:09] And then the fire chief didn't have anything either.

[7:11] So anything from fire?

[7:14] Anything from Council?

[7:17] Just want to say thank you to the community members who sent in the email and regards

[7:22] to mosquito control, I appreciate that and all of them coming together and signing that.

[7:30] So, supporting each other, and it will be addressed, it sounds like he sent them an email already, ever apply, but I just wanted to say thank you to them.

[7:38] No, I agree. I really appreciate that we have community members who are keeping us accountable and responsible for the things that we set out to do and we commit out to do and ensuring the safety of the health of our community, right?

[7:56] And so we will be, we are working with state agencies to help us with a short term solution and providing an application throughout the city so that we could minimize any, you know, the amount of larva that is out there.

[8:14] The weather is going to help, of course, right, because as the weather starts to get more colder.

[8:21] It's really difficult for our brought to breed and of course multiply because the weather is not complementary to that process.

[8:33] Without being said, it is a little bit more difficult for the obligation to be provided because the weather does have to be warm, can be wet and it can't be windy.

[8:43] So it's a double of sort, if you will, challenged, but certainly we will make sure that we do our part and remain diligent on providing the solution.

[8:56] The challenge for the city is that we currently do not have team members who are certified to apply the solution throughout the city.

[9:06] And then we also have permitting issues and so that we need to comply with so that we could get

[9:14] re-certified in terms of permits to have the ability to purchase the solution and then also apply it

[9:23] because of the two-step process.

[9:26] And so in the interim, we are, like I said, we are working with agencies outside of the city so that we could have a short-term solution

[9:33] and possibly the community through this thing.

[9:37] Thank you so much.

[9:39] Yes, so thank you for that.

[9:41] I'm appreciate it.

[9:43] Council Member Reyes, I know that you were not here in workshop,

[9:45] but do you have any questions regarding, you know,

[9:49] or the concerns, you need anything that's top of mind?

[10:03] During workshop, I did bring to the attempt of the council that we prematurely set a date for the retreat for the budget retreat, and so we're asking for a reconsideration of the council's time so that we could have ample time to provide the information that we need in preparation for the budget retreat.

[10:25] treat. And so we're looking into and considering Fridays.

[10:33] Now we have options, so we're

[10:35] 10th is one of the Saturdays. Friday. Well, I guess I want to consult this. What are your

[10:45] thoughts about Fridays? Yes, you're not. Okay. It could work. You had mentioned doing it over

[10:52] So if we did a Friday, because the contagion mentioned were old, but if we did a Friday for a couple of hours and then continued on Saturday, I think could be a good option.

[11:06] Eric, is anybody opposed enough?

[11:08] Continue on Saturday.

[11:09] Yeah, thank you, I'm Friday.

[11:10] And any, I just need to check

[11:12] if you can assemble Saturdays, but then I'll copy it all right.

[11:15] What are we just doing with her?

[11:17] Off Thursday and a Friday.

[11:19] We'll get out of the way.

[11:23] We'll get out too.

[11:23] Thursday, Friday.

[11:24] We'll have work for students.

[11:26] I could do either or Thursday Friday or that Saturday.

[11:31] I'll play in a roundabout.

[11:33] Any questions?

[11:35] What about, okay, um, what about the teams?

[11:38] Are there any scheduling challenges?

[11:43] Where is my friend?

[11:44] We'll be there in the ass.

[11:46] He's like, I don't have a choice.

[11:48] I was gonna say.

[11:50] They would probably only need to be here for the first day.

[11:56] It will first or present.

[11:58] Well, what we come do.

[11:59] So they can go point in the app, right?

[12:00] We could potentially assign like maybe PD1 day

[12:05] and then fire the next day so that you're not here for the donation.

[12:08] and power of advantage that has to be here.

[12:12] So that's what she gets for colonists.

[12:16] The does a great idea, right?

[12:17] Where we could assign, you know, like PD one day and then public works maybe the same day and then

[12:24] fire the next day and it might actually go through a little bit quicker if that's the case.

[12:32] I'm open to crucifixion.

[12:33] Okay.

[12:34] Are you ready?

[12:35] Okay.

[12:36] I'm open to that, but then he's okay.

[12:38] So if we do, there's me Friday,

[12:42] right, um, like, six to eight, is that good winky?

[12:46] Would that be enough time for you, guys, for work schedules, though?

[12:51] Oh, okay.

[12:55] It works really well.

[12:57] The other thing is, I don't know what to help them and what this schedule looks like.

[13:06] Could that go out in a group email?

[13:12] It'll serve as a reminder for me too, but with that being said, then which Thursday Friday

[13:21] then?

[13:22] The upcoming, or the 8th and 9th, was that enough time for that work, or how could

[13:35] be given?

[13:35] Where do I want to do? 14.

[13:41] 15.

[13:41] I'll be you. I mean, 15.

[13:44] Oh, yeah. Thank you.

[13:47] How about you?

[13:48] 15. 16 is the other side?

[13:50] Okay.

[13:51] Just for, I don't know what else is coming my way

[13:54] and getting, to getting reconciliation.

[13:59] And then you would just join your teams.

[14:01] I have trouble on the 16.

[14:03] So I can do the 15, not the 16.

[14:07] Like I don't know that I'll be at my location on the 16th to join in.

[14:13] Unless we did, um,

[14:19] when you teach 14, 14, or 14, 15, excuse me, Wednesday, Thursday.

[14:31] What am I saying? I can't even do this.

[14:32] Okay, so you look at me and I'm stuck in the house.

[14:36] Yeah.

[14:36] You were a little per week, too.

[14:38] Yeah. No, I'd be looking at me because I'm stuck, yeah.

[14:41] Yeah.

[14:42] This is work, this is work, this is work.

[14:45] That's for you all.

[14:46] Yeah, in the evenings.

[14:47] So that's 16 hours of work.

[14:50] So I'm trying to do that.

[14:53] Okay.

[14:54] Whatever you all want, right?

[14:56] It's a work set by the producer.

[14:58] We typically do like a...

[15:02] So, we can do two and a half, okay. Okay, right, two and a half hours. I just want to make sure we'd have enough time, but also be mindful of everybody's schedules to make sure we're out.

[15:12] Okay.

[15:13] 1314?

[15:15] I think you could do eight minutes.

[15:19] Are you sure? Eight minutes.

[15:20] October 8th and October 9th.

[15:22] That's okay.

[15:25] Okay.

[15:30] But we just have to do it. Yeah, we have to make sure she's available.

[15:35] If, could you send that out in the email, but those are the two options.

[15:39] Yeah. The October 8th, and then the...

[15:42] 13th.

[15:43] 13th.

[15:47] 13th is Council.

[15:50] Oh.

[15:51] So it would have to be 1415.

[15:53] 14th.

[15:54] We would meet three days in a row, which is fine, but...

[15:57] there's a 14 15. Yeah, that she said, oh yeah, 14 15. Because we said Wednesday, Thursday.

[16:02] Right. Okay.

[16:04] Right.

[16:05] And then from 6 to 830.

[16:11] Right before my bedtime.

[16:13] Right.

[16:14] Good time.

[16:14] Yeah.

[16:15] I just want to.

[16:19] Okay.

[16:21] And then with that being said,

[16:26] because I also want to be mindful of the teen's time.

[16:30] Right. Are there any specific days that either one of you would like to be?

[16:38] No, whatever works. Whatever works.

[16:42] Sounds good.

[16:43] And about paper scissors.

[16:48] I will separate them because they.

[16:51] I know they have bigger. Yeah, the fire departments is smaller budget.

[16:56] So that's what I was thinking. Have one one day and then one the other.

[17:00] Okay. Yeah.

[17:01] because we could potentially go through ED in about an hour and it was so what we'll do is

[17:09] assign.

[17:10] Can I do break by himself?

[17:13] He has like five, five, one, one, four, one.

[17:17] So will we have enough time for the rest of the departments and two and a half hours?

[17:28] Expect to probably be done at night.

[17:32] Okay.

[17:32] possible, right? Let's just keep it safe, that way.

[17:37] Um, I don't, we don't do more than five hours, huh?

[17:41] No, yeah.

[17:42] I think we're at, we do, I think the laser is 12, 30, maybe one, I think we have school.

[17:47] What we can do is create an agenda for each day, right?

[17:51] And put an amount of time for each department to give you context.

[17:57] And I'll work with Fantasia because, yeah, you're right, public works has quite a few areas, right, that require more conversation.

[18:12] We get the preliminary budget before the date.

[18:18] Yeah, yeah.

[18:20] You feel really disemuse it and it settles whatever

[18:26] Yeah questions

[18:34] Okay, I know if I know we get an email, but if you want paper coffee, if I pick this to someone my email is even that was serious to me

[18:42] Some emails came back with 15

[18:44] Right now

[18:46] I think you have to, like, refresh your time.

[18:50] I did, because some of the emails, I did it for you, because I had already come over the

[18:57] reason they had, but to hear that said, but then the emails came behind it, so I'm also

[19:04] okay.

[19:07] Maybe we should just have paper copies of this piece.

[19:11] Yeah. I could just figure about the email part of it, right?

[19:16] I had issues with plain two, so I don't know if they need to be updated, but at one point

[19:20] remember I wasn't getting the invite.

[19:32] So I'll send an email out so that, just remember, please do not hit reply all, hit disregard

[19:39] apply, right, and provide, well, no you won't, you all don't need to reply, well, what

[19:47] I need to do is know from Judy, so if you're all okay, what I'll do is email her first.

[19:52] and let her know these are the options, and then whatever she decides, then I'll email that out.

[19:58] Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. And I'll send it out as a calendar in bite, so it's on your calendar.

[20:04] Okay. And then, um,

[20:08] at that, whenever the preliminary budget is ready,

[20:13] Fantasia can also attach that onto the calendar in bite, so you can find it there, right?

[20:19] instead of having to go into your emails to look for it.

[20:22] That might be easier way for you to find it.

[20:25] And then, of course, you'll have a paper copy.

[20:27] And if you want that, whenever that's ready,

[20:29] then just come in.

[20:30] Thank you.

[20:31] Thank you.

[20:36] Did you anything give us anything else?

[20:38] I do have something to talk about.

[20:41] Looking at the bills and everything

[20:42] and what everybody gets paid on here.

[20:44] So how can we talk about something

[20:46] guidance or anything that we can do. People have been complain about a few people here

[20:53] in the community thinking that we make a lot of money. We go all to do. And they don't

[21:01] understand how we get paid. It's my fact that you asked yesterday the mayor how much we get paid,

[21:08] because I don't even know. That was like 40 bucks, but it's more than that's like big bucks, right?

[21:14] the community understands that we are here to help the community we're not here to get ourselves

[21:20] rich as they put it and it's not right. One of the things is also, you know, the WKP-50

[21:26] dollar setting, not WKP, but also when they say that the mayor is also making a whole bunch of money,

[21:33] that is very wrong. So, you know, coming in through 900 dollars or something like that,

[21:37] I'm not much, especially in spending, you know, spending all this time. So, we need to talk about

[21:42] and the Bajarao to see what we could go ahead and fix.

[21:47] So, you know, I don't know how I explain myself, I don't know.

[21:52] Do you have suggestions on how we might, it really is, you know,

[21:58] helping the community to communicate it, right?

[22:02] I'm, I'm, how this process works, right, and how the conversations.

[22:06] And really what it is is that Council is the one that sets the email through ordinance and code.

[22:18] That's really where it's at.

[22:20] And so when people ask that question, you know, they can be rude.

[22:25] You know, the code is it, it's not a very easy.

[22:30] Reader friendly type of document. It really isn't, right? But if there is a way to help help the community and residents in the public become better informed, it might be a way for us to think about how can we put the code into some kind of format that is user friendly, right, reader friendly, right, so that people can become better informed.

[22:56] You know, maybe it's that we take, you know, that section and say, hey, did you know kind of thing, right?

[23:02] So that people can be enticed to lead it because otherwise, that thing, if you want to go to sleep, read that.

[23:10] Yeah, we can, that's one of the things that we actually ought to understand.

[23:13] So maybe, you know, sometimes, kind of in this conversation and letting the public know, the community know, hey, you know, this is, we're not in here to get rich in other words.

[23:24] And if you see some of the times that spending the time,

[23:27] I know that you spend a lot of time here more than what it is.

[23:31] So those are the things that need to be talked about,

[23:33] and for the budget we need to figure something out like that.

[23:36] And I'm not saying, like, for us in the council,

[23:39] we're fine, but we also need to talk about,

[23:41] you know, like a free, for example, standing damage time.

[23:45] But whatever Americans in here,

[23:46] it's been the time that, well, we can do, you know,

[23:49] that's the square of these that I'm trying to tell you guys.

[23:52] I would say look at it through a lens of the position, and what kind of what kind of what is it, what's the sustainable solution if you want to implement for the position, right?

[24:07] The other thing is that a lot of the members of the public and community and residents.

[24:14] They think I'm here and I'm here at Council meetings and I sign checks and that's it.

[24:20] And so like we don't really have job descriptions like for any of our positions or expectations

[24:25] or I like, did you know or anything like that?

[24:29] Like it really is how do we help people know more about what we do?

[24:36] It's pretty hard because we have our own jobs.

[24:38] We have our own jobs.

[24:38] then we also, you know, we try to do the best that we can for the community, you know, so some people

[24:45] understand us for the community, you know that people here also get arrested and when they get arrested and they

[24:53] go and be put into jail, guess who pays for those people to spend the time in jail from greater, we do the

[24:59] community gas, they don't understand that, they understand all police officers, police officers that,

[25:04] I don't understand that even juveniles that appoints a juvenile,

[25:09] yes, who pays, that community everybody's paying for that.

[25:14] And we don't pay attention to that.

[25:15] They think that all the money we just throw in an hour and everything,

[25:17] but we have to pay everybody wherever it's allocated to it.

[25:21] One of the things that we can help is allocating,

[25:24] also, that I was probably saying you guys,

[25:27] no, I'm allocating the money to be paid adequately,

[25:30] especially the value of working on all the departments,

[25:33] Then, on each department also pain for the mayor's position.

[25:37] You may think about how we can better summarize, like, you know how the packet provided

[25:44] a summary of the description of that particular fund or that budget.

[25:51] That was a summary, right?

[25:53] And in wondering if that summary just needs to provide, like, what you're seeing to you, right?

[25:57] that these funds are allocated for this purpose, right?

[26:01] And maybe better describe what those funds cover.

[26:07] And that's how we can provide more information.

[26:10] That's time to think about that, you know,

[26:13] spend a time on myself, so I can think about a few things like that.

[26:18] So one of the things is that we also kind of look into the future.

[26:22] So, not also, if we kind of remember that also, there is insistence before when somebody

[26:28] is upset at a mayor or whatever elected official is in here.

[26:32] And they try to move out that elected, it's an elected official, and you can't be bored.

[26:36] So, whether that person comes in to your restaurant or money and you stack a certain thing

[26:40] to be done and they don't do it, they're still going to be in here.

[26:44] So, that's the sort of things that will really need to be watching for.

[26:50] Any thoughts or comments?

[26:51] Yeah, many thoughts that you're talking about.

[26:53] What do you just think?

[26:55] You're seeing like to level out like the conversation

[26:59] for like extra time spent in here?

[27:04] You know, all the time that that, you know.

[27:08] You guys, we gotta see, you know, we gotta look at that.

[27:10] I know that recently, this is like one of the big topics

[27:13] in Madison, so I know that they have,

[27:16] or the last time, we kept up with that,

[27:18] is that they do have two ordinances for the mayors.

[27:25] What do you know what I'm saying?

[27:28] I don't,

[27:32] I don't know what I'm saying.

[27:34] Right, thank you.

[27:36] 100%.

[27:36] How about this?

[27:37] I think it's a good question.

[27:38] But it is a good question to look at.

[27:41] But it was like basically one was four,

[27:44] like specific amount of hours,

[27:45] anything accessible,

[27:46] that then it fell into this second,

[27:49] like,

[27:50] four months.

[27:52] One of the things right as council members

[27:54] is that you can do your research and look at what other comparable cities have, in terms

[28:02] of ordinances related to maybe expectations, it sounds like there's an expectation, right?

[28:12] That there's a certain number of hours, meaning that's part of the expectations, there's

[28:16] a certain amount of work that needs to be conducted, right?

[28:19] Um, almost like a job description, right, you know, when these are these central functions, right, of this role, um, you know,

[28:28] that's something that you all can look into and because you're the ones that create that, um,

[28:34] that ordinance of the whole people.

[28:37] Me, thinking a lot is pretty tough.

[28:38] You think about it because you guys, we have something here.

[28:41] We go home.

[28:42] We open it and we start reading.

[28:43] We're still doing work at home.

[28:44] Open it is not.

[28:45] So that's what it gets.

[28:47] I think we all do. I believe we all do. So that's where it gets, I think, a little bit.

[28:54] I do.

[29:01] No, maybe just a question. So are you asking to have a conversation and we meet for budget?

[29:08] Yeah.

[29:08] To talk about futuristic or current.

[29:11] Current and history.

[29:13] Current and history.

[29:15] Okay.

[29:16] Futures one.

[29:21] We've got to be fair wherever fair.

[29:24] That's my little bit.

[29:29] Any other questions?

[29:32] I agree.

[29:33] Just want to, you know,

[29:36] say, I agree with the

[29:38] taught us a point.

[29:41] I think especially when cities that

[29:44] don't have a manager, basically,

[29:47] for time running the city,

[29:51] basically that job is falling under the mayor.

[29:54] I'm probably the clerk as well, so I think it is just a fine one, you know, to do that.

[30:00] Thank you so much for being able to look into that.

[30:04] As we've got to look at, that I take going to find out as a city manager, it can pay very, very well.

[30:10] And I know that the city at the time, this city, the way that we're running things, and we're trying to

[30:16] the best that we can, we understand that, you know, I don't know if that's going to be, you know,

[30:21] something that will be painful for those things that are going on. So, I've got to look at some of those things,

[30:26] and you're right. I've got to say that about the same.

[30:28] Yeah, so it falls on the mayor, a lot of it on the city trip.

[30:36] Yeah, we're the Wonder Twins.

[30:37] Yeah, and she's young, she could have me.

[30:41] You could have me.

[30:44] So, I'm older and wise.

[30:47] Yeah, that's it.

[30:51] So, those are things I think that we'll go into, I think that we should have come out.

[30:56] I don't know if they have, you guys have something like that for the budget, what do you call that FYI?

[31:13] Okay. Yeah, I think that they had gender, but I don't know anything else.

[31:19] Oh.

[31:21] Hang on. I have something in my report here.

[31:27] We have some notification job announcements that have been posted.

[31:33] For public works, we have a public works team member who is officially

[31:41] retiring at the end of October.

[31:44] I can't remember how many years of service when he's on the years.

[31:50] Do you have a lot of those dinosaurs in there?

[31:53] Yeah, and so we're trying to, you know, get ahead of it to be able to, you know,

[31:58] have a submit transition, right, for that position,

[32:04] and not really have like a gap.

[32:07] We also have another employee who is who's been offered a position with one of our neighbouring

[32:17] cities, has taken the offer, congratulations to him. And so we have to fill that position also.

[32:24] And so as you can see we have maintenance work for one position and maintenance work for

[32:30] position that we're currently recruiting for to build. The first review of applications will

[32:37] take place on September 28th, which is next Monday, and then the position was in the open

[32:43] and so to build. And we're getting a significant amount of applications come in. So we're excited

[32:52] to go through them and rebuild our public works department because

[32:59] the time the team right now are running pretty thin so but despite that

[33:06] you know they're chaps and getting the work done and making sure that you

[33:13] know when community concerns are you know reported that they get a

[33:19] You know, we have some of the other team members who typically don't do garbage, who are now very well-versed and collecting garbage, and which is good, right?

[33:31] Because the other thing is that we want to be able to have everyone with implement works, have, you know, the experience of all of the elements and aspects related to public works, because, you know, what we've experienced is that when we don't have,

[33:48] you know this is for instance the primary garbage truck driver then it's like

[33:55] who's gonna drive the truck right oh I certainly can do it great and so it's

[34:01] it's a good way for us to have you know a constant amount of experience drivers

[34:09] and in fact how long would you say that we've been having to have a number of

[34:16] the schedule for driving.

[34:19] I've been in my year.

[34:20] Yeah.

[34:21] What year have you been?

[34:23] We've talked about this about a year ago,

[34:26] because we've experienced what it's like to have,

[34:29] what someone calls it, all your A's and well-basket,

[34:34] And how that doesn't work for us,

[34:36] because we're such a small city, right?

[34:39] And so, what I asked Frank to do was create a rotation of team members

[34:45] to get on the garbage trucks so that they become familiar with the route and become familiar

[34:50] with how to collect the garbage and then how to, you know, go and take it to the dump

[34:55] and all of the process, right, related to that. And thankfully, we did do that because we did

[35:00] come to a point where, you know, we started experiencing not having our primary driver available.

[35:09] And so it worked, the process that's worked, and we want to continue that right with our new folks that we potentially hired, and then, you know, keep that type of solution in place.

[35:28] And so yeah, I wanted to provide you with updates on public works team, staffing recruitment process.

[35:34] We hope to have the positions filled the week of November 1st, so that you know we can have some books up and running by the end of the year, and then you know kind of get a jump start to the next year.

[35:50] You have pretty good people coming into the platform.

[35:55] I have it in the application, so we have a handful.

[35:59] I mean, yeah, we have a good handful of applications.

[36:06] And then so the way that the reviewing process works,

[36:13] we've created a rubric based off of the job description,

[36:17] And the way that it is designed is, we look at the application and we cross-reference the

[36:26] job description and the rubric and if a individual applicant has submitted their application

[36:36] and they don't meet the minimum qualifications, then they're automaticly decided.

[36:41] So they have to meet them in all qualifications, okay.

[36:48] And so that immediately just qualifies those applicants.

[36:52] If there's applicants who have looked for instance maintenance one,

[36:57] they have their CDL certification, their medical card,

[37:02] their pesticide license, then they receive points right for each of this.

[37:10] And then there's years of experience that is how it's about, right?

[37:15] And so it's a point system if you will, right?

[37:18] So they get one point for everything that they have.

[37:22] And so at the end of the review of that applicant, it's scored, right?

[37:27] So whoever has the highest score.

[37:30] Right, would be the top candidate that we look into interview and the interview process is the same way. There's a rubric. Based off of the job description and what they provided in terms of the application and then the questions. And I work with Frank and the team to develop those questions and then Frank and the team also develop like a hands-on task.

[38:00] that they have to complete to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

[38:04] So when we had this process last time,

[38:07] we had the applicants get on what was it back home?

[38:13] And they had to demonstrate that they were able to operate that.

[38:18] And then was it something else too that we did?

[38:21] Was it just the back?

[38:22] Yeah, it was just the back.

[38:25] And so we wanted, you know, do that same process so that, you know, we can yield the best candidates

[38:35] right for this song, open to feedback, right to the process for sure if you are having

[38:43] any thoughts or ideas on, you know, things that maybe we need to consider.

[38:47] And I worked out great because it's a two-guide and a dollar.

[38:52] Really good.

[38:54] Yeah.

[38:54] We're fortunate to get those guys.

[38:55] Unfortunately, one of the guys that's even a note, that's right now, but they, I mean,

[39:01] both guys, that's really good.

[39:03] So we're,

[39:07] and we'll break, it means a pattern, right?

[39:10] Um, it's like, like something a pattern, right?

[39:13] Well, a rubric is like a guide, right, that tells us, okay, did they, do they have

[39:19] CDL, yes, do they have the SSR license, yes, and they get a point right for everything.

[39:28] Is there if nobody, uh, sense of that there really close on some things, would you guys

[39:35] as qualified or just keep looking?

[39:38] So what we experienced and what is absolutely important is that they have to have

[39:44] the certifications for the position that's required, right?

[39:48] mostly because the Department of Ecology, the Department of Ecology, we have to have for the type of class of our wastewater treatment plant, we are a class two wastewater treatment plant.

[40:05] We have to have two operators with wastewater treatment, operator two certification.

[40:13] There's no negotiations in that, right?

[40:16] So we have to make sure that when we're hiring people,

[40:20] that they have their certifications, that are required

[40:22] of those positions.

[40:24] And it's not just because we require them,

[40:28] it's because they're state and federally mandated, right?

[40:32] And in order to operate heavy equipment,

[40:36] or like the garbage truck, or any of the big trucks,

[40:38] We have to have a CDL, right? And those are required. So it really isn't something that we can go

[40:48] shape.

[40:52] Because they're better way in statement. So it could potentially be a financial impact

[41:00] on the city if we did it.

[41:06] I never want to visit

[41:10] you. Thank you.

[41:11] logo. Anything else that you want to add about?

[41:19] Yeah.

[41:22] That was on the edge of the side.

[41:23] I didn't see that. Thank you for adding that on.

[41:26] All right.

[41:29] Can you give us an update at the next meeting for the Mosquito solution,

[41:34] whatever you do?

[41:36] So I did provide the community member

[41:41] 13. Is that our next meeting? Okay. Yeah. I did let them know that we would provide updates. Okay. Thank you.

[41:51] Thank you.

[41:51] Can we keep encouraging the community members to any of that? Let us know. Let us know.

[41:59] Let us know anything that we should know. Anything else for the next meeting that I would like to discuss or add to the agenda?

[42:08] And

[42:13] then I am going to welcome to design something like that and I send you something.

[42:23] All right.

[42:23] Well, I plan to announce the beginning of the order.

[42:25] Do you have a motion to adjourn?

[42:27] I submit.

[42:29] I submit.

[42:30] It's been moved in second and all those in favor say aye.

[42:33] All those opposed same sign.

[42:35] Okay.

[42:36] Hearing that.

[42:37] Can you adjourn?

[42:38] Okay.

Granger City Council Meeting September 22, 2026

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