Here
you go.
>> This conference will now be recorded.
>> You better get over here.
» You're going to get a spank.
» You stay in your yard.
Clerk, please start the recording.
Welcome. Today is Wednesday, August 26,
2026, and I would like to call today's
city council meeting to order. If we
could please stand for the pledge of
>> allegiance.
United States of America to the republic
for it stands one nation under God
indivisibley
and justice for all.
» All right, clerk. May I have a roll
call?
Council member Ravara,
>> present.
>> Council member Casper,
>> absent, excused.
>> Council member Bole,
>> present.
>> Council member France,
>> present.
>> Council member Cerviny,
>> present.
>> Mayor Strobin,
>> absent, excused.
» Um, yeah, kind of forgot people are
going to be waiting on me to talk
tonight. So, um, clerk, uh, please call
it p public comment.
from the audience. Any
public comments from those calling in?
Please press star six.
>> Al fella.
>> Okay.
» Al Phillip 36016 Northwest Jenny Road.
Well,
Mayor Boil,
boy, doesn't that sound good. your proud
kids are here, you know, and so Al's up
here gonna try and embarrass you. No, no. It's been nice having you on the council for what, three, four years,
whatever it's been, you know, and
not that I've always Well, not that I've
always agreed with what you the way
you've gone, but we did agree a couple
times.
>> We did,
>> you know, so you you you did okay, which
is which is quite quite something. Oh, I
do want to give a shout out to the
police department. You know, I made a
comment about not getting any law
enforcement on the west side. Well, the
last two weeks they showed up and
they've been there and, you know, in
front of Satie and Jos's over by Wall
Eisers. I mean, it's it's just down here
across the bridge. I mean, uh, it just
does my heart good and I smile and wave
and honk my horn. So, at a boy. Okay.
Well, that's it. Thank you. God bless
America.
>> Thanks Al.
» Any other uh public comment from the
audience?
>> Paul Wimhunick.
» Paul, please state your name and address
for the record.
My name is Paul Wemhaner and I reside at
204 East Minhan Court in Center
Washington.
» Well, I was going to say Mr. Mayor, City
Council, and staff, but Mr. Mayor is not
here tonight. Um,
>> Mayor Prom,
>> there you go.
On July 8th, 2026, I delivered a letter
to the city of Cent's office building.
staff received it and indicated it would
enter into the log but advised that I
should not expect a response for at
least three months as there were more
than 40 requests ahead of me. My letter
was addressed to Miss Tracy Coleman and
director of public works
and Mr. Tony Cooper, city engineer
regarding ste street signing and safety
concerns. In it, I requested the city
install a sign at the corner of Minihon
Court and East Second Way to alert
drivers of to the children and
pedestrian entrances into Holly Park.
This entrance is prudently unmarked and
heavily used. It is especially
concerning given the volume of
construction equipment now passing the
entrance due to the new development
occurring at the end of East Second Way.
Understanding the city could not respond
to my request promptly and recognizing
the risk to residents, I installed a
cons a caution sign warning drivers to
watch for pedestrians and psych
cyclists. The sign was purchased from a
standard roadway sign
manufacturer,
smart signs, and attached to an existing
signpost at the corner of East Second
Way and Minhan Court.
On August 13th, 2026, I discovered the
sign had been removed. After contacting
public works maintenance staff, I was
allowed to retrieve the sign on August
24th. By phone message, I was told that
public work requires UTCD approved
signs. Apparently, the sign that I'm
holding up
does not meet that standard.
I respectfully request the city
immediately issue a temporary
installation permit for the removed
sign. This permit should remain in place
until city staff can provide proper
approved signage for the entrance to
Holly Park on Minhan Court.
Respectfully, Paul,
any questions?
>> No, but I'm sure city staff will get
with you to uh you know, further address
your requests and
>> Well, so far they haven't since it's
been a month and a half.
>> All right. Well, they will get to you as
they go down the list.
Pete, maybe if you have time after the
meeting, you guys can chat quick.
>> Hudson Bole,
» please state your name and address for
the record.
>> What?
>> Hudson.
Oh man,
center.
>> There you go.
>> Okay. Um, I think that we should add a I
don't know if you guys know, but like a
bowl to to a skate park because me and
my buddies really like Battleground
skatepark and Battleground skatepark has
a bowl.
So, I think that'd be a good ad to skate
park.
I don't know.
Do you have any plans for funding for
this?
>> I don't know.
>> Okay.
Is that it?
>> Yeah, I think so.
>> Okay. Thank you.
Um, any more public comment from the
audience?
>> No more public comment from the audience
to be read.
>> Um, are there any public comments to be
read?
No public comments to be read, but we do
have some phone.
>> We got a Skip's coming up here. We'll
get to the callers next. I
>> apologize. My name is Skip Carlson. My
mailing address is 35915 Northwest,
Jenny Creek Road. I signed the thing
back there. I thought that got me right
in. I apologize. Um what I want to do is
uh
address
and it's
I'm reacting I suppose to the
public media brewhaha
around
the traffic control on this extremely
difficult project out here and for
moving traffic.
And I think I've been through it a
couple of times, more than once, more
than twice. I think it is a it's on par
with a wonderfully choreographed
ballet. I think the
what is being done out there everything
considered couldn't be
I don't I don't believe it could be done
any better uh with the flaggers and
considering how tight it is.
I get so frustrated when I look at all
the negative
comments.
I almost react. I just say cheers
to those that are in charge of moving
traffic through that extremely tight,
extremely
challenging
project to be done. That's it. That's what I want to do is recognize I
think it's really being done
wonderfully.
» Thanks, Skip. Any more comments from the
audience?
>> No more comments from the audience.
>> Uh any any people calling in?
» Those calling, please press star six to
unmute yourself.
No public comments via phone. Kimberly
go. Uh any public comment to be read?
>> No more public comments to be read.
>> Okay. Thank you everybody. Uh with that
we'll move on to the consent agenda. If
there are no requests for any items to
be removed, may I have a motion to
approve the consent agenda?
>> So moved.
>> Second. It's been moved and seconded.
All those in favor say I.
>> I.
Opposed.
Abstained.
>> Hello. Can anybody hear me? I'm on the
phone.
>> All right. Um, moving on to
presentations and proclamations.
>> Um, I know this was a little bit last
minute, but this is, uh, the Clark
County Commission has a, um,
presentation for us on
>> Hello.
>> the a Let's see. The Clark County
Commission on Aging will present their
annual report.
» Hi, my name is Mike Anderson. I'm the uh
chair of the Clark County. The
>> mic up to your mouth.
>> Oh, sorry.
>> There you go. Thank you.
>> Hi, my name is Mike. Can you hear me
now?
>> Yep.
>> My name is Mike Anderson. I'm the chair
of the Clark County Commission on Aging
and this is Ellen Rogers. She's our
immediate past chair, so she trained me
to to do this over the past year. We're
so happy to be here and to be able to
give this presentation today. The
Commission on Aging is into its second
decade of providing leadership,
developing community awareness, and
guiding positive change toward an all
age friendly and livable community. We
are so pleased to be able to share a
brief annual report with you. Next
slide, please. Okay, you're going to
have to pull the mic in a little bit
closer. You pretty much got to eat it to
make it
>> Oh, okay.
>> There you go.
It's kind
>> I'm going to try not to eat it. Okay,
>> next slide, please.
» The purpose of this work of this
presentation tonight is to update the
city council on the commission on
aging's work in 2025. Today we'll be
sharing some background information
about the commission on aging, giving
you a highlevel overview of the aging
readiness plan, providing an outline of
the communities the commission's 2025
focus on healthy communities and civic
involvement, acquaint you with the 2025
Silver Citizen Award winner, and share a
summary of a few additional commission
achievements in 2025. Next slide,
please.
To start off, we will give you some
background on the commission and review
the work completed by the commission in
2025. Next slide, please.
Clark County, as everywhere in the
country, is anticipating a surge in the
number of residents 60 or better. By
2035, one in four Clark County residents
will be 60 or older. With the knowledge
of this coming change, the county
council approved the original aging
readiness plan in 2012 and formed the
nine member volunteer commission on
aging. The commission's charge is to
provide leadership in addressing the
special needs of the aging population
and to manage assist with the
implementation of the county's aging
readiness plan and to update the plan as
needs change. Next slide, please.
The aging readiness plan is a long range
planning document that assesses the
county's readiness to serve as a home
for a growing number of older residents.
The recommendations in our aging
readiness plan focus on topics such as
missing or lacking public
infrastructure,
support for social services, and zoning
and planning standards that encourage an
age friendly community that older adults
can thrive in. The 10-year update of the
ARP was adopted by the county council in
September of 2023 to ensure that the
plan reflected the community's needs,
public engagement, and was a focus of
the update of the ARP. It centered on
what makes Clark County an age friendly
place, and what opportunities and
hurdles there are for making
improvements. Engagement activities
included a survey of older adults,
focused group meetings with service
providers and agencies, online input
opportunities, and three public
workshops to evaluate existing
strategies, brainstorm ideas for new
strategies, and prioritize the
strategies for improvements in the
community. Next slide, please.
The commission was honored to learn that
the updated plan was awarded a 2024
Governor's Smart Communities Award from
the Washington State Department of
Commerce. The Governor's Smart
Communities Award highlight effective
implementation of the state's growth
management act and other local or
regional planning procedures. The plan
received judge merit award which
recognizes success in more than one
judge category. Next slide, please.
Now I have to figure out how to eat
this. Hi, I'm Ellen Rogers. I'm the past
chair of the Clark County Commission on
Aging. So, I'm going to go through a few
things about the aging readiness plan.
includes 18
goals that are implemented through 67
strategies. These strategies are
intended to improve the community's
capacity to support its growing older
population and ultimately benefit all
ages. The housing chapter provides
strategies to address the various
housing needs of the aging community
such as multi-generational
living options and affordable units. It
also supports construction that enables
people to age in place which generally
means staying in their own home or
community if their abilities change. The
mobility chapter includes strategies
based on the transportation and mobility
needs of older adults. It outlines ways
that older adults tend to travel and
other areas that could use improvements
such as public transit, ADA
accessibility, and others. The final
chapter is on emergency preparedness,
which was added to the ARP during the
update process in 2023.
This chapter provides strategies that
outline how older adults might be
affected by natural and human cause
hazards and outlines ways that the
county can improve the health and safety
of older adults and methods to prepare
them for these hazards. Next slide,
please.
The aging readiness plan implementation
efforts in 2025 focused on healthy
communities and civic involvement. The
Healthy Communities Chapter provides
strategies that encourage opportunities
in Clark County related to access to
healthy foods, parks, and recreation,
and goods and services related to
healthy living. It includes strategies
to improve and expand access to
resources by creating a welcomecoming
and age friendly built environment that
serves all ages and abilities. The civic
involvement chapter establishes
strategies based on increasing older
adults civic involvement within the
community or within the county. It
reviews ways that older adults can
engage with their communities like
working, volunteering, attending
community events, participating in local
government or advocacy work. Next slide,
please.
The commission began their forum series,
which the Commission on Aging calls
fireside chats, to guests um and experts
focused on providing access to healthy
food resources, which included
information related to food and other
resources offered by our local food
banks and community gardens. Next slide,
please.
They continued by hosting a meeting with
experts from Clark County or Clark
Kowlet's Fire and Rescue, the National
Alliance on Mental Illness and Hope
Dementia to find better ways to raise
awareness of available services and
support for those experiencing mental
illness and those
in a caring role. The partnership
with hope flourished in 2025 and the co
COA is looking forward to fostering this
connection in the future. Next slide,
please.
The COA invited staff from the city of
Vancouver to discuss opportunities for
social connection and fitness. They
shared resources and information about
opportunities for older adults at the
Marshall and Lupi and Fenberg community
centers.
Next slide, please.
The commission partnered with the staff
from the area aging I can never say this in
the meetings either the area agency on
aging and disabilities of southwest
Washington or at a discussion about
wraparound care options for older adults
who wish to maintain independence and
age in place. This discussion included
input from Design Doctors. That's a
local company that included information
on how older adults can continue to live
in their homes comfortably and safely.
Next slide, please.
The commission also explored social
connection through a special joint
meeting with the Clark County Youth
Commission. The two commissions
discussed cross-g generational
challenges around mental health and
formed a relationship that carried
through the school year and continued
with the commission youth commission's
art show. Next slide, please.
In partnership with ADSA, the
neighborhood associations, and other
partner agencies
shared and distributed, we shared and
distributed best practices for reaching
older adults. The COA also hosted a
fireside chat with members from the
Humane Society of Southwest Washington
and explored the value of social
connection between people and animals.
Commission members also learn teamed
with hope dementia and participated in
the standown event in October. These
events occur locally all around the US
and are meant to connect homeless and at
risk veterans with comprehensive support
services in one location. The local
event is organized by the Clark County
Veterans Assistance Center and is open
to all veterans and their families.
Commission members connected with
visitors, providing a listening ear and
gathering feedback about the challenges
facing veterans today. Next slide,
please.
Earlier in the year, the COA welcomed
area experts from both the private and
public sectors to discuss housing
options for low-income individuals. And
in the fall, commission members
benefited from a presentation provided
by the Clark County Assessor's Office
regarding a special tax exemption option
for seniors.
Next slide, please.
In addition to the focus on healthy
communities and civic involvement, the
Commission on Aging presented its annual
silver citizen award to which the
nominations are still open if you look
on our website. Um to encourage and
support older adults for their
contributions, the Clark County
Commission on Aging established the
Silver Citizen Program to recognize
older adults who go above and beyond in
service. The award recognizes the
valuable contributions older adults make
to the vitality of the community and is
open to any county resident 60 years or
better who has enhanced the community
through their life's work, engagement of
others, volunteerism, or other impactful
acts of service to the community for any
age group. Recognition for 2025 was
awarded to Sharon Woodkey, the president
of the board of directors for the
Battleground Senior Citizens, Inc. She
has actively served this group since
2018, and under her leadership, the
group has expanded their roster from 90
to over, I think, 900 participants at
this rate, and they serve up to 200
lunches to area seniors each month.
Mike,
>> next next slide, please.
>> And finally, other commission work
included members and staff giving
presentations at several local community
meetings in 2025. This included city and
town council meetings, neighborhood
groups, and advisory bodies. Commission
members also provided a presence at
meetings for the Washington State
Council on Aging,
Community Health Access Resource Team,
and the Area Aging on Aging and
Disabilities of Southwest Washington
Advisory Council. They also co-sponsored
a county council proclamation for older
Americans month. Next slide, please.
That's the end of our formal
presentation. We'd now like to open up
for discussion, answer any questions you
may have for us to discuss topics of
interest to you.
>> Uh, thank you guys for your
presentation, council and comments.
>> Yeah, I have I have a few comments. Um,
both of our mo both of our mothers, my
wife's son and mine died in our home.
mine at 98 years of age and my wife's
mother, I don't know what her age was,
but both lived with us simultaneously
for 12 years. And my mother lived with
us for 17.
And I realized looking back that at
least in my family, that was something
that had happened in more than one
generation to a degree. Uh my mother
took her father in after her husband had
died and when he was alone and his wife
had died. Prior to that when I was
growing up my father's mother lived with
us until I went off to school. And uh so
often what I've seen is that many
children who have been properly raised
by their parents, not abused and not
given clear
distinctive reasons to push them away,
feel that their job ends when they find
a proper care facility for their parent.
I agree that if a person can stay in the
home or stay in the home they're
familiar with as long as possible, their
quality of life generally is better. So,
I wanted to make that comment. Secondly,
I'm curious uh regarding the commission.
How many are on the commission?
>> We have nine members.
>> And is it fully staffed now or do you
have openings?
>> Yes, we just filled our last two
openings. So, we are now fully staffed.
And what is the age range of the people
that are on the commission? Your best
guess from youngest to oldest?
>> I would say from
early 40s up till 80. I would think that
out of the nine members of the
commission, I believe four may be
retired.
Four out of the nine are retired. The
other five are still working that
haven't reached retirement age.
Uh, I'm glad to hear the range is that
broad. I didn't see it in the photos
that were on the screen. Uh, and I think
that when I look at a community and I
look at the activities and the events
that a community is creating, I like to
see things going on in a community
that draw a broad range of ages. So, if
there's an event where 10 year olds are
performing and the grandparents show up
to see their grandchildren and then
there's a band off to the side and
there's chalk art, there's a blend of
something that draws a broad range of
ages. I think that's important because I
think one of the things that ensures a
higher quality of life is when we see
people enjoying themselves of all ages.
When we experience different points of
view and when we have the opportunity to
mingle with people that we don't
normally hang out with, we tend to hang
out in my age group with older people
because I fit the mix right now. Uh
unfortunately
uh you know I I know that my
grandchildren who are 50 years younger
than me at least
uh don't look forward for every
opportunity they have to spend time with
me because they have other things they'd
want to do too but anything that can
bring the age groups together I think is
important. Appreciate you being here.
Thank you for putting up with my
comments.
>> Oh no problem. Part of what our aging
readiness plan is to cover various areas
such as healthy communities, civic
involvement, emergency preparedness,
housing, transportation. This past year,
uh uh we focused on housing and
transportation. Next month in September,
we have a uh 3 to four hour planning
meeting to plan for the next year. And
we're already looking at healthy
communities. And I do believe
interaction between different age groups
as well as just getting people out of
the house and involved. Uh I mentioned
when I was interviewing for the
commission a couple of years ago that
we're always uh advised about retirement
plans and uh uh for our health and
finances, but nobody tells you what to
do with that other 40 hours a week that
you're leaving behind. And so social
isolation becomes a big issue. And so
part of our aging readiness plan is to
bring forth those uh opportunities for
seniors to uh to socialize and to have a
life outside of their home. So uh uh if
you get the opportunity, I' I' I'd like
you to have the opportunity to check out
our aging readiness plan and to see the
broad base that we have. We also have
meetings on the third Monday of every
month. uh uh we have a work session uh
from 3:15 to 4:15, but at 4:30 we begin
our fireside chats where we bring these
experts and people from de different
groups in to present to us and there's a
lot of great information. And I wasn't
aware until I joined the commission of
how widespread of a support organization
that of support organizations that Clark
County has. And a lot of questions that
people come up with, you see on Facebook
or Next Door, whatever. There's a lot of
information. We try to to bring that
information out to to people uh as much
as possible. So,
>> thank you.
>> Any other questions?
>> I was just going to add um all those
meetings are also on CBT. Yes. So you
can actually look up our agendas if
there was a topic. So like this year we
focused on like Mike said healthy
community sorry housing and um
transportation. So we kind of flip-flop
back and forth each month but there's
some really great information on both
how we are dealing with um issues in
housing and different innovations that
have been seen across the state in
housing. And also we talked a lot about
the transportation planning process and
the challenges with that. So it was a
really interesting year
if you want to go back and look at any
of our meetings.
>> Yeah, our meetings are recorded by CCTV
and I think there's at least five years.
>> Yeah. five years or more on file so that
you if you don't can't be available on a
Monday at 4:30 you can always look back
and see the uh presentations that have
been done and uh and honestly they are
some of the best presentations I've
experienced and I was a not very naive
I'm 70 years old and I did not know all
the uh opportunities for services there
were in the county until I joined the
commission and we've done a I think an
excellent job of presenting information
from from local nonprofits and
governmental agencies and that
» very good. Anything else?
>> Yeah.
>> Thank you. That was very
>> All right. Thank you guys very much.
>> Thank you.
>> We appreciate you
» Mr. Mayor Pro Tim. Uh we had an issue
during uh public comment
>> and one of the folks online was not able
to get through and have her
>> three minutes. Uh she's here in the
audience now and I was wondering if
>> with your permission if we could allow
her the three minutes to provide public
comment.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
>> Thank you.
Is this considered
>> Is this a special treatment
>> today?
>> Is this special treatment?
>> It's difficult for me to get out of the
house. I already spoke twice today at
our Clark County Council meeting and the
uh Clark County Board of Health.
>> My name is Kimberly Gohane Elban. Um my
mother was born here in Le Center when
it was a little town. Um so yes, Skip,
the uh people that are doing the work
out there, they do a great job.
Everybody does a great job, but I'm
totally against uh any growth. Um right
now, our resources here in Clark County
are depleting. People just don't know
it. People don't even know to come here
and uh run their government. Uh they
think the government's supposed to run
us. It's the other way around. We run
the government. I'd like to commend this
young man for bringing up the fact that
they want a a skate bowl. I think that
the public should get their way. He's
part of the public and uh I think it's a
great idea. If you guys want more
families to move in here, let's satisfy
the kids for God's sake. Okay, so let's
get that skate bowl.
Um I do want to talk about a little bit.
I wish there were more people here about
the uh roundabout that's going to go in
on Timmans Landing and Lenter Road. If
you think we got problems now, wait
until that uh roundabout goes in. I know
some people want it. They think it's
going to slow traffic down. Well, it
probably will, except I think there's
going to be a lot of accidents. I cannot
imagine coming down that hill. I've
practiced it many times. For one thing,
I'm going to ruin my brakes and uh slow
down to 20 to 15 miles an hour around a
downhill. We're just asking for a a
problem there. But then again, I didn't
want them to take Landing, a historical
site that should be on the historical
registry in Clark County, and they're
going to put buildings there and
everything else because of growth. I'm
totally against that. I've asked Clark
County for a couple years now to put a
five-year no growth overlay over Clark
County because of our resources and
population pollution.
Uh, also I'd like to mention that um I
do have a court date. Uh, a code
enforcement came to my house here a few
months ago. Um, I totally resent it. Um,
I don't like the government telling me
what to do, especially when I do not
commit a crime.
So I am going to court uh court for it.
Um this man came up with no credentials,
no uh uniform, no nothing. And anyway,
I'll talk more about that. I've been uh
mentioning it u the last few meetings.
Um you know, I want to mention
also if you listen to Clark County
Council, they are looking for two areas
for a garbage transfer station. The uh
three transfer stations here in Clark
County are getting old. I don't know how
that works, but they get old. I guess uh
pollution probably down into the
groundwater would be one reason why, but
they want to put it they were going to
try to put it unless uh in Ridgefield.
So, just be the for the lookout that
there's going to be transfer centers
somewhere around here. We got to figure
out where to put our garbage. I guess
that's going to be where. But if you
look it up, it also causes a lot of
pollution uh not only in our wellwater,
but um we're in big trouble, folks.
Let's take care of our town the way it
is. Thank you. God bless us.
>> Thank you.
>> Okay.
» All right. Uh moving on, we're going to
have the mayor's report. Um, the Lent
Farmers Market will be at Legacy Park
every Sunday from 1 to 5:00 p.m. August
16th through October 25th. So, that's
kind of exciting. Up here at the new
park right behind the fire station
there. Um, city hall will be closed u to
observe the Labor Day holiday on um
September 7th. Um, from there, we're
going to go to the attorney's report.
Beth, are you with us?
>> I'm with you. Hello, everyone. I don't
have a ton to say today. I hope
everybody's having a nice end of their
summer. Um, and always if you feel if
you have anything you need help with,
always please feel free to contact me.
And that's it. I'll end it early.
>> All right. Any questions for the
attorney?
» All right. Uh, next up is council
comments. Uh, council member Rabara.
I wanted to comment on Legacy Park and
the farmers market and the food trucks
and what's going on there. Uh,
personally, I'm very impressed with it.
The last two weekends I've been to the
farmers market along with my wife,
talked with all the vendors. They seem
to be excited. Uh, we need more people
going. So, I'd encourage you if you
believe in it, if you think it's an
asset for the community that you mention
it to friends, you mention it to people.
suggest they try it out. Try out one of
the food trucks and just go see what's
there during the week and on Sunday
afternoon when farmers markets there.
That's all I have for tonight
>> at the at the moment.
>> Thank you very much. Um I'm going to
skip myself and move me to the last
position and I'll move on to Council
Member France.
>> Good evening. Thank you for everyone
coming this evening. And I do want to
kind of piggyback on to what um Council
Member Ravar said because I went both uh
Sundays, the last two Sundays since it
opened to the farmers market and it's a
great little market. There were several
vendors there. I thought they seemed
excited to be there. I bought a lot of
stuff.
There was one lady that had was making
birdhouses and had windchimes
and um lots of uh produce and
um spices. One part uh place was selling
spices. So I thought I was impressed
with it especially it's just starting
and so I would encourage people to
attend that too. And I did try out the
um Thai food truck and I'm going to try
all of them out, but I did try out the
Thai food truck. My husband was with me,
too. And uh it was very, very good Thai
food. And uh the other thing I'll
mention I probably everybody heard that
Dolly Parton died today and uh you know
just her whole personality her music her
songwriting but that's I think one of
the biggest things that she wants to be
remembered for is that she started the
Imagination Library in 1995
and I know that council member Ravara
has mentioned that before because Dolly
has been responsible I believe for it's
several millions ions of kids getting
books and that was her dad never learned
to read and so this was something really
important to her that people especially
that didn't have money that could get
these free books for their kids from
birth until I think kindergarten or
something they could get these free
books sent to them so it's a great
organization you can Google it uh
Imagination Library and something that
uh from all the reports that I'm reading
that Dolly something she really wanted
to be remembered remembered for. So, I
think it's something important. So,
that's all I got for tonight.
>> Thank you, uh, Council Member Cerviny.
>> Thank you. Um, and thank you everyone
for coming this evening and your
comments. Um, hopefully we can address
that need.
I would like to just bring up school is
about to start so please slow down and
especially with the construction and
everything going on. It it gets a little
difficult to keep your eyes on um kids
and what they're up to and keep let's
just keep them safe. Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you uh Council Member
Cery. Um, so myself, um, yeah, I just
want to say thank you to everybody for,
um, everything, uh, the staff, the
mayor, the council, the community,
everybody that's up here, you know, that
shows up week after week. It's been so
great getting to know you guys and, you
know, pour into not I mean, you guys
pour into the community, but into us as
well. and we appreciate that so much.
Getting to know you guys and, you know,
hear your voices and what's important to
you and be able to be here to represent
you. It's been a huge deal for me. Um,
gosh, I'm worse for this. But, uh,
I guess, uh, moving forward, you know,
it's been about five years and three
months since I first had the little pea
brain thought to run for city council
after just moving to the center. And,
you know, I thought I just was kind of
doing it for fun at the time. And then
when I uh made the primary by four
votes, I was like, "Wow, maybe I can do
this." There was a guy um that was
sitting council member who had been on
for 12 years, and I didn't really think
I had a chance, but I gave it my all.
Sure enough, made my way up here. So,
it's been a lot of fun. I think we've
accomplished a ton in my, you know,
five, well, in my fifth year of council.
Um yeah, it's been great. It's been a
pleasure to serve and honor and uh can't
say I'm really going anywhere. Just
gonna focus more on these two right here
and few little work adventures and stuff
like that. But um and I also may be
back. I don't know. So, it's been a
pleasure and thank you guys very much.
All right. Um, now we got the Clark
County Sheriff's Sheriff's Office staff
report and that will be presented by
Chief Barnes.
>> Oh, one second. Finley, you can go on
your iPad now
or pay attention because it's really
exciting stuff here. So,
uh, good evening, uh, Mayor Prom,
council members, and thanks to those in
attendance both in person and online.
Uh
copies of the July 2026 uh report have
been submitted and I'm going to review
some of the highlights here. Starting
with the summary um events reported or
initiated by deputies assigned to the
center precinct totaled uh 281 for the
month of July. So you can see that
breakdown there included uh 71 traffic
stops uh resulting in 15 citations uh
moving citations. Uh that doesn't
account for another half dozen criminal
citations that generated from those 71
traffic stops. Uh the next page shows
the contact breakdowns. Um sorry there you go.
Uh shows the contact breakdowns for the
last two months. Uh the first chart as
well as the results. So on the left
there it shows the type of contact that
was had uh for both June and July. And
then the right chart shows the result
meaning how it was cleared whether it
was a arrest citation um a referral
report.
Uh
if we go to the next slide calls for
service uh in July compared to June
um stayed fairly consistent. Uh the
increase that is shown there is in the
green band which is the self-initiated
which means the deputies are out there
proactively working uh contacting the
public and uh generating reports or
contact reports.
Uh we had several notable calls in the
month of July. Um I'll cover just a
couple of them real quick. Uh first I'll
talk about is a DUI collision. This
happened up at uh Timman Road and
Spencer Road. Um when deputy arrived,
the owner of the motorcycle was pushing
the motorcycle back onto the street with
the help of three firefighters. Uh when
he was contacted by the deputy, he said
that uh he hadn't pushed hadn't crashed
the bike. He hadn't been riding the
bike. He told the deputy that the bike
had been stolen uh and he had just found
it because he was out on a walk. Uh he
told the deputy that he hadn't pushed it
out of the bushes and that he didn't
know anything about the firefighters
helping him. Uh he had a quite a few
stories. He actually told them that he
had stopped to check his UPS and then
corrected it to GPS because he thought
he was lost. Uh needless to say, that
individual was processed and arrested
and booked into the Clark County Jail
for DUI.
Uh on July 24th, Deputy Nick Price
contacted two sus uh suspicious males
outside of a Ford Ranger up at Riverside
Park on the north end of town.
Uh one of the males had multiple
warrants and was arrested. Uh in the
process of making the arrest, uh Deputy
Price noticed a large amount of drug
paraphernalia inside the pickup. So he
uh he impounded the pickup. He obtained
a search warrant. He served the search
warrant. Uh several drug smoking pipes,
supplies associated with drug
distribution, including scales, baggies,
and a log book were located. Uh
additional charges were added to the
male who was still in custody for the
original warrant. So, uh we are uh very
proud of the fact that we can take a
basic contact like that and turn it into
serious felony arrest. So um
one thing of note that's not on that uh
sheet up there is our participation in
our days end of July. I think that was
very very successful. We have we had our
open house on Friday night. It was very
well attended. Had uh I think we had
over 120 families members including kids
come through the precinct. So that was
fun. We had a uh a booth there in the in
the park and had a chance to talk uh
with the public, answer a lot of
questions. Uh so I think that was was very successful.
Um going down to the last page there, as we've mentioned uh in prior
presentations, each month the deputies
and the staff assigned to the uh the
center precinct work together to focus
on an outreach project or a theme. Uh
these projects can be law enforcement
issues, community safety concerns, or
education, information sharing. In July,
the deputies made a focused outreach
effort to educate and enfor statutes
regarding electric bikes and
motorcycles. The community concern
regarding these types of electronically
powered or assisted bikes and scooters
has been steadily increasing for some
time. As part of our focused effort,
deputies were out contacting and
educating operators as well as their
parents uh regarding the regulations
associated with the ebikes. The vast
majority of these contacts were very
productive and received well.
some not so well, but that's okay. Um,
in addition to the contacts around town,
I participated in the new ordinance
drafting process and was very pleased to
have the opportunity to contribute to
this uh from a law enforcement
perspective. So, thank you uh to the
council for allowing me to to
participate in that. The team team also
obtained handouts that were printed and
made available public. These handouts
were given to the public during contacts
that the deputies made as well as having
them available at multiple locations
including here at city hall at our
precinct at the library. Uh we are also
working um very closely with the school
district. Uh we are eagerly awaiting uh
the city's uh final ordinance and we've
already uh made at least a tentative
plan to work with the school district
using their uh email distribution list
to try and reach out to parents in the
district and educate them on the new
ordinance once it's in place. So we're
really really optimistic between the
deputies enforcement efforts and the
public outreach partnership with the
school that we're going to be really
successful.
Uh this concludes my report. Any
questions?
Council, any comments, questions?
>> I have just one. I was wondering what
the red color coding means when it's
darker versus lighter
>> on page one or two of your report on the
left side up up more there.
>> Oh, those those are just that in order
of uh uh the the numbers. So, it's just
the uh the highest scoring in those
categories.
>> They get redder as they go up. Yeah.
Okay.
>> Um, just a comment on the ebikes. It
seems like since we started talking
about this that now I'm just seeing them
everywhere. And after going to that
block party I was invited to where 42
people complained about the ebikes uh
being on the sidewalks and young kids uh
driving them without helmets on and um
sometimes dashing out into the street
with them. And and then of course in
Battleground last week uh there was a a
car crash versus a a bike and um so I
think it's really something we are going
to have to obviously we're going to have
to make some ordinances to help in this
situation. We don't want somebody to get
accidentally killed or hurt seriously.
So thank you Todd.
I think uh with the ebikes, our uh
biggest concern is safety.
>> I know somebody in the audience that has
lots to say about it, but we can talk
about it after.
All right. Uh thank you, Chief. Um next
we have another uh uh staff report and
that's going to be read by Peter Boyce.
>> Thank you, Sant Prom Council. Uh, one
announcement I don't have on my sheet,
uh, with the wonderful farmers market
that's happening over at, uh, Legacy
Park, also on Saturdays at 11:30,
there's a yoga class. Uh, so, you know,
give it a try. It's over at the Make My
Milk Building and, uh, should be fun.
>> Very cool.
>> All right. Um, back to the staff report.
Um,
>> the sales tax dispersement uh for the
month of July came in at $73,657.
Uh, so we're right on line with uh where
we budgeted
uh for the year year to date uh through
July we're at $460,96.
Uh wanted to mention the budget
committee. Uh we rescheduled their
meeting uh which was supposed to happen
today. Uh I haven't sent out the
invitation yet to uh members, but it
looks like September 2nd uh Wednesday
will be the day. Uh so that will be
coming out early tomorrow morning. Uh
the committee is going to review 2027
expenditures u and revenues. Uh the
final budget committee meeting will take
place September 30th.
Uh city council's expected to receive or
required to receive a copy uh of the
2027 proposed budget uh on the first
Monday in October and then council will
start its work.
Um just to mention again the salary
commission is going to be activated and
uh what the salary commission does is uh
review elected officials uh stipens and
uh uh compensation. Uh so the salary
commission has the power to uh provide
increases, leave it the same or even a
decrease. Um uh so they'll be looking at
information uh uh regarding what other
cities are doing uh reviewing uh the
city of L center and uh making a a
determination. So that will be coming.
Also wanted to mention that uh in my
department, the administrative services,
Hannah Shields, our outreach
coordinator, is leaving us. Uh Friday is
her last day. Uh as most folks know,
she's taking the opportunity to go to
Scotland to graduate school. So, we wish
her the best of luck. It's going to be a
great uh life-changing event for her.
So, we're excited. It's a little
bittersweet. We hate to see her go, but
it's a great opportunity. she shouldn't
miss out on. Uh we have hired Maggie
uh Mey Redden uh as the outreach
coordinator. She started last Friday and
has been crossraining with uh Hannah. Uh
so you will uh uh start to see Maggie
taking over those duties and she'll be
um assuming all the duties Hannah uh has
up to this point. So, we're excited to
have her on.
Uh, gambling tax revenue. Uh, so for the
month of July, it came in at $142,729.
Um, again, we're right where we thought
we would be revenue-wise. Uh, for the
year, we're at uh year to date, we're at
$99,421.
And that is my report this evening.
» All right. Any questions?
Okay. Uh moving on. Uh under ordinances,
re resolutions, and public hearings. Um
we have public hearing ordinance
2026-13,
Carlson DA extension. Brian Cass will
present the public hearing ordinance
2026-13
Carlson DA Extension.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor Prochem. Can you
hear me? All right.
>> Yep. You sound great.
>> All right. Well, good evening, uh,
council and citizens. Uh, tonight for
public hearing, we have, uh, the
extension of the, uh,
development/panexation
agreement with for the Carlson
properties. Uh this agreement was
originally um put together back in
August of 2011
um when the pre-annexation agreement um
was put in place and that agreement uh
established zoning and development
standards for 14 different parcels um
that were planned to come into the city.
Um these properties make up most of the
Lenner Junction area. um and the
development agreement vested them to the
city's then current uh target industrial
and commercial zones. Uh a few years
later in 2017, the city uh eliminated
those codes and adopted the junction
plan. Um however, with this development
agreement, the Carlson properties
remained under those old codes. And as
council is and uh citizens are now
aware, we're in the process of revising
our code um to look at bringing back
maybe an industrial and commercial code
and replace the the junction code. And
um so as we continue this process, the
Carlson's have asked us to continue or
extend this agreement. Um so before
council for consideration and and public
hearing tonight is an two-year extension
to that agreement. Um, this will give us
time to wrap up that new zoning code and
um, get that in place. And while we're
working in coordination with Carlson's
and other property owners, um, you know,
we hope that this new code will be
something that is uh, workable and and
that everyone, you know, wants to fall
under and built into this extension is
the ability to uh, terminate this
extension uh, at any time during that
two years once that new code's in place.
um if the Carlson's and their um you
know property owners um that they own
some of these properties with agree and
that they want that new code to apply.
Uh so with that I'm happy to answer any
questions before uh council holds a
public hearing on this matter.
» Discussion. I just had one question. Is
there anything we're voting on tonight
other than perhaps
uh opening public? It looked like in
reading this that we were just voting to
open public discussion.
>> Um
>> that was correct. So that would just be
a public hearing tonight and then this
will return at the next council meeting
for um consideration.
>> That makes sense. Thank you.
» Okay.
» All right. At this time, I would like to
open the public hearing at 7:26 p.m.
Comment should be limited to the
ordinance 2026-04.
Are there any public hearing comments
from the audience?
» Curtis Raymond Carlson, 35915 Northwest
Jenny Creek Road.
uh and uh
first of all via Mr. Cass's uh verbal
dialogue kind of cleared up one thing in
the copy of the document I got from uh
clerk today
in section six the Brit makes reference
to a one-year term but Mr. Cass made
reference to a two-year term on the
extension, which that's one of the
things I was going to ask about. Uh
because I think two years is in all
reality is not unreasonable.
My when I talked with my sister about
this, we thought about requesting a
five-year term and not in reflection of
the city of Lenter just in in in
reflection of how how slow things work.
And the reality is a five-year term
wouldn't be unreasonable to request, but
we're just happy that this is being
acknowledged as as something that uh
is important to have happen. Uh was
important to the Carlson's. And when I
say the Carlson's, I mean the Carlson's
at all because there are other property
owners. And that's a reference that is
made in this document is other property
other other individuals that are
involved in this. Um
and perhaps Mr. Cass can help me out.
This in the event that there were a sale
this would run and I don't see where
it's carried in the in the sections in
here. This would run with the
properties. Is that correct, Mr. Cass?
Yes, that is correct. The the parcel
numbers um for all those 14 parcels are
referenced by this document. So, it
would run with the parcel.
>> Okay. And that's that's all the just
excuse me
might consider a longer term might not.
That's a council decision on this
in view of the fact that that this is an
opinion now I'm opining the challenge
that
and what appears to be I won't say that
this is a fact what appears to be a
hangup with getting the county of Clark
to get their comp plan updates put to
bed and how it the trickle down effect
on everybody else. It it that's the only
reason I would advocate perhaps even a
glancing at a longer term than a
two-year term on this uh the extension
of this development agreement. Thank you
very much.
» Thanks, Skip. Uh any other comments from
the audience?
Please state your name for the record.
>> Nancy 126 was 16th. Um, the planning
commission's in the process of
>> Hello, there we The planning commission
is in the process of reviewing the
junction code and replacing it with a
new revised. Um I don't know if it will
take two years or not, but the screen
showed that upon execution of the new
agreement that that that two-year will
be eliminated and agreed by both
parties. So if it does take a little
longer, will the two extension like for
five years for him? Can it be might it be three years or three and a
half? Will it be looked at again once
that expires?
>> Brian, you still with us?
>> Yep. Sorry, it took me a second to get
off my mute button there. Um, so this
term would extend um till August of
2028.
So no, it would not uh be two years
after the junction code is the new code
is adopted. Uh there is a a clause in
this agreement that upon mutual
agreement of all of the parties that um
the development agreement extension can stop early um before that two years.
So you know we anticipate you know early
next year having the new code in place.
Um, again, we're working with the
Carlson's and other property owners in
the area on that code and, uh, assuming
that it's something that, uh, you know,
works for them and that they want to
apply to their properties, um, then we
can terminate this extension. Uh, but in
no case would it run longer than uh,
August of 2028, unless um, there was
some other further extension at that,
you know, at that time.
>> Okay. because I I couldn't see it
extending further if we're working on it
now to with a growth plan that would
just kick it down the road. That's not
going to be possible. So, um it appears
that it'll probably will within the two
years um be agreed upon and the two-year
agreement will go away.
>> Okay. All right. Thanks.
» Uh any other comments from the audience?
Anybody calling in? Press star six to
unmute yourself.
» Kimberly Gohan and Elen, do you hear me
now?
>> We hear you.
>> Okay, good. Well, it got fixed real
soon, didn't it? So, I'm going to have
to be okay with growth up there at I5.
I've always said I'll trade uh the new
downtown development and Timmans Landing
development for building over there at
the I5 junction. So, I think that's
wonderful. Um hope that you uh respect
uh Skip Carlson's uh wishes and
you know I wish I wish the best, but um
I I am a concerned about the cars, the
pollution, the water, our ground. Uh, if
anybody would notice on their
windshields, they don't have bug
splatter anymore. It's because of the
chemtrails that are above us. They're
spraying chemicals that hurt our lungs
and hurt the insects and the birds and
the bees. So, we're in big trouble. Like
I said, don't panic, but do something
about it. Get active in your council
meetings, especially in Clark County.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
» All right. Uh, any otherbody
on the phone, please press star six to
unmute yourself.
» Clerk, are there any comments to be
read?
>> No more public comments from the phone.
>> You said no more public comment to be
read.
>> From the phone? Yeah, looks like it. No
more
» there's no none to be read.
>> Okay. Thank you. Um, I would like to now
close the public hearing at 7:33 p.m.
Uh, council,
do we have any comments?
Questions for Brian?
>> No.
>> All right.
So, with that, um, can we get the
ordinance pulled back up? I think we
have a motion for this.
» Uh, Mr.
This this will return back um at the
next meeting for consideration I think
for council adoption is the plan.
>> Okay. So no motion just recommendation
that we hold a public hearing on the
ordinance.
Okay.
Uh no items to be removed. No unfinished
business. Uh our guest council is there
any unfinished business?
Since I've had something to say from
time to time tonight, I just wanted to
say I'm going to miss you on this panel
and I think you did a great job tonight.
That should be indicative that there's a
real reason you should stay on.
>> Well, thank you. I I appreciate that
very much. And you know, like I said
before, it's been really a pleasure and
an honor. And I uh not going too far.
So, uh, you know, maybe one of these
days down the road, I'll be back here
to, uh, you know, help the community and
support you guys and just do what we do
up here. So, thank you again to
everybody. Um, new business.
All right. Can I get a motion to close
the meeting?
>> So, move
>> and second.
>> Second.
>> All right. Meeting is closed.
Just thank you. I