[0:18] you get the game on

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[1:39] okay I got my Yankee one sir I got for my birthday last year so I'll just go

[1:43] ahead that are you a Yankee well I'm a baseball fan first Yankee fan second but

[1:47] I've been watching you know I watch baseball all day every day yeah yeah um

[1:51] I love I think that the baseball playoffs

[1:55] made me appreciation with on the west coast because when I was like east coast

[1:57] and Central it was like oh man just staying up now

[2:02] like wait till you sleeping the game going

[2:28] on

[2:47] oh it's an interesting question Su are

[2:53] you I'm not the girl that usually complains

[2:57] about it is always free in that building just patching to see if you can

[3:03] hear it is Snip but it's

[3:08] good I'd rather be cold

[3:25] yeah seems to be with from everyone that I asked from other cities and stuff that

[3:30] seems to be although one mayor today was talking

[3:34] they gave six minutes

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[3:45] yes an example where group that comes in and like

[3:50] condemns them to hell and they each Tak

[3:58] minutes

[4:02] there's better use of condemnation

[4:28] yeah yeah you have L you can bring everybody

[4:33] close together and use all the skirting appropriately

[4:39] soen I've seen some of the videos that in the office was that's where they had

[4:44] the extra table and they were like table

[4:55] everybody okay I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to

[5:01] order oh meeting the order please stand for the

[5:07] light I of the United States of America and to

[5:13] the rep for it stands Nation

[5:26] indivisible okay I know everyone by heart uh mayor Hillary momson here

[5:32] councelor gilan here councelor Carswell pres councelor pson

[5:38] here okay we are all here first up on our

[5:45] agenda is the appointment of Eric quilan was that how we say your last name

[5:49] quillin quillin um and this was a carryover from

[5:55] a previous meeting so all the information was not reprinted in the

[6:00] packet so I just wanted to reiterate real quick what I had shared with Eric

[6:05] on the appointment this is an appointment to fill the um unexpired

[6:10] term uh that was created through um Jim drevan um and this was something I sent

[6:18] out to council end of August and part of it just says that the applications

[6:23] before me brought four wide variety of candidates and possibilities I Ed the

[6:27] following 10 questions which was also included in the packet last month for

[6:32] the candidates to to guide our discussion together one area of focus I

[6:37] had was making sure my selection would represent a large population of the town

[6:41] with a diverse population um and so with that I put

[6:46] forth um my nomination and so I laay that before you guys that a

[6:53] nomination of

[6:57] Eric is it a good time you think it's good

[7:01] now now that we taken care of the well I think especially for this

[7:06] seat This was um a selection that was made prior to all of that um which was

[7:13] partly why I'm referencing that I did email out and made public that my

[7:18] nomination was for Eric prior two things I think that's important for our city to

[7:24] know that our residents that this was an application that came in without any of

[7:30] the water rate issues but for a wider range of things

[7:36] but um I do think that especially with multiple openings that for the benefit

[7:43] of the city so that we do have a quorum for something when I know that I had a

[7:48] few counselors that might not have been able to make it tonight we wouldn't be

[7:52] able to make you know just with this many openings it

[7:55] takes almost like one person two people and we don't have Forum we all move to

[8:01] accept the appointment of Eric in the city

[8:04] council to the expired term December 31st 2024 created by Jim's

[8:11] vacancy all second

[8:15] okay any further discussion um all in

[8:21] favor I any opposed passes unanimously welcome to the council all we'll let

[8:30] yeah Eric is going to um offal handshake you can sir thank

[8:39] you I don't know if you want your papers you brought or we have for um Eric will

[8:45] be U sworn in through either the option of a notary or the next time court is in

[8:52] session but our Carter does give him permission to take a seat

[8:58] immediately so he can take the

[9:04] seat without signing it once appoint the pointed the the Els are gonna just be

[9:10] more of a regulatory function but you looked into it yeah I looked into it too

[9:15] after the beginning of the

[9:19] year um yeah so welcome I do want to give

[9:24] Eric the you can pick wherever you want to sit s um the permission to know that

[9:30] as a brand new counselor um one speak up don't feel like oh no I shouldn't have

[9:36] asked that ask we don't expect you to know every process nor do I yet know

[9:43] every process and you're more than welcome to abstain if you feel like hey

[9:50] I just got on the table and you know but you are fly on Council

[9:56] so welcome thank you um can I do a quick introduction yes so my name

[10:02] is Eric Gan my family and I have lived here for eight years and I teach English

[10:08] at Dayton High School I've been a teacher most of my professional

[10:12] life and we opened a coffee shop down the street a year ago so that was a big

[10:19] decision for our family kind of a kind of a little bit risky you know kind yeah

[10:26] have good coffee

[10:30] uh I'm excited to take this position uh I'm I have a very busy life there's nine

[10:35] people living in my house grand kids dogs cats but uh I'm looking forward to

[10:41] this opportunity because we love this town really happy that we moved here um

[10:47] we're raising our family here and it's um you know I just want to I want to see

[10:52] this town prosper and grow you know in the right way how how we as a community

[10:57] see that how we envision it so I'm happy to serve that's kind of been my role in

[11:03] public public service has been my job as a teacher that's what I do so I'm

[11:09] excited to to be here and I want to especially thank you Lee for uh tbling

[11:14] the first motion because when I you know attending

[11:19] those meetings stepping up there and having to vote I it would have been

[11:23] really awkward and maybe inappropriate I probably would have abstained and for

[11:27] clarity it's just you know I don't think you have seen all the numbers and the

[11:30] budget yeah and I haven't yeah so thanks for that because that would have put me

[11:35] kind of in a tight spot you know apprciate I appreciate that too so

[11:40] welcome um with that and lastly just let you know um you're on boarding process

[11:44] I'll get with you sometime tomorrow we'll get your email set up we have an

[11:47] orientation packet budget stuff all that stuff will go over maybe for about an

[11:51] hour hour and a half or so once you come whenever you have

[11:54] time um so with that um we do need to declare the vacant

[12:00] seats created by the um recognition of councelor Shaw and Johnson um they were

[12:10] both emailed to council and in our Charter it states

[12:17] that we need to formally acknowledge the vacancy they

[12:23] have already the resignation stands no matter what but we do have to so all

[12:27] move to declare on the city council due to councelor Michael sha and Joe

[12:31] Johnson's resignation effective the dates on their respective resignation

[12:36] letters so second any further discussion all in favor I I any

[12:46] opposed okay um I do want to quickly just share the same as I did the last

[12:51] time we had a vacancy declared um this is a little bit of a overlap but yet not

[13:00] um last time I was very clear in my process and I want to be very clear

[13:04] again um my main objective of taking a pause of 30 days to open up the actively

[13:11] seeking applications is I want to make sure that I have a variety of

[13:16] applications in front of me with as many options as possible um that doesn't mean

[13:22] that my intent to um the goal was to declare vacancies last month and I um

[13:32] when I selected a seat for um the seat that Eric just or counselor qu just

[13:38] filled it wasn't a who would I pick it was a hard who would I not pick um and

[13:44] so with that I know it's a little bit awkward that um I did put forth a name

[13:50] that I wanted to nominate um but at the same time I do find that we are in a new

[13:56] situation it was a new territory where all of a sudden sudden with two

[13:59] counselors resigning back to back and another appointment that puts three

[14:04] seats that are getting appointed which is half the council and then I break the

[14:08] tie because of that I want to be very careful that the council seats do not

[14:14] get appointed where it's 100 heavy loaded um just from my viewpoint so I

[14:21] did speak with um counselor Paulson who is the council president to ask her to

[14:27] come alongside me um when I start interviewing candidates again um and so

[14:33] that might be that um somebody who's already been put forward before um I

[14:39] would like them to also interview with her even if I'm already comfortable with

[14:43] that but also I would like to reach out to you guys that um feel free to share

[14:50] as much as you want of your opinions on how to handle especially that third seat

[14:55] I do want to respect the fact that um you guys are hold seat

[15:00] especially the three original counselors tonight hold seats that they were

[15:04] elected for and um I don't take lightly the

[15:09] responsibility that I have to appoint and I want to respect your seats as the

[15:13] same as respecting the open seats so long story short once again there'll be

[15:19] a 30-day window that I am actively seeking

[15:22] applications and um councelor pson is going to interview along with

[15:29] um could be together could be separate depending on everyone's schedules at the

[15:33] same time if there's anyone you guys want to talk with you are more than

[15:36] welcome and I encourage you to reach out to those

[15:38] candidates um or applicants I should say and we'll go through the same steps and

[15:44] my hope is to appoint or decide what to do with those two vacan seats at the

[15:50] same time and now was this from the resignation date 30 days from today

[15:55] although we have had some applications come in I've contacted letting them know

[15:58] that yeah 30 days from this vacancy or we

[16:02] just declared vacancy so so mayor M if I may clarify so we'll get the ads out

[16:08] tomorrow just like last time um as a reminder since both these positions were

[16:12] just recently elected um they the official term ends on December 31st 2026

[16:18] but they will have to run again in the next election to keep the seat yes the

[16:21] appointment only goes through until the next election so we actually have an

[16:26] election where there are five yeah five councilors and one mayor seats yes so

[16:32] six so

[16:36] um citizen input on non-agenda items um I have Tom

[16:49] Reed hello hello hello I want to talk about talking about the storm water

[16:56] basis which I don't know I I I put together a little thing I've only got

[17:02] four copies thank you it's got a little map to show you where they

[17:07] are I was here once before a couple months ago the situation is this when

[17:12] the developers developed the northeast corner

[17:17] they created HOAs and put the storm water Bas in

[17:23] maintenance and ownership onto those HOAs I think this is

[17:28] part of the sewer system I don't think an HOA has any business being involved

[17:33] in it whatsoever I don't know why I pay taxes if it's not for the city to do

[17:38] stuff like this it's drainage it's it's land that's sitting there doing nothing

[17:43] a low area that the water collects in so it doesn't

[17:47] flood not residential it's not commercial it's not Parks and Recreation

[17:52] it's sewer system so I'd like the council to consider and I'd like to have

[17:57] conversations about moving the ownership of these to the city which will save two

[18:04] HOAs up there $30,000 per year and by what I can figure out won't cost the

[18:10] city hardly anything because you got an umbrella liability policy it goes under

[18:14] you've got contracts with landscapers already um and we can get rid of the

[18:19] HOAs it's just another level of administration that um I guarantee you

[18:24] nobody up in that area wants and from talking to the people in the

[18:28] neighborhood we feel like we're getting double taxed we pay all the taxes to the

[18:32] city and then we have to take care of part of the infrastructure ourselves so

[18:36] we just think it's unfair and we'd like to have the city council consider it so

[18:41] my question to the city council is what's the next step to talk about it

[18:44] can I ask go quick you're you're saying we so are you coming before us tonight

[18:50] as Tom we the homeowner or are you coming before us I know that you're on

[18:56] an HOA are you speaking speak I just want to talk yes yes

[19:01] yes I I was on the HOA to clarify for you Brandon I was on the HOA thought my

[19:06] time there was done and resigned but um now have applied to be back on there and

[19:11] have been accepted the formal meeting to accept that is October the 26 okay so as

[19:18] but you can contact I can give you the person's name at management trust so as

[19:22] of tonight you're coming just as Tom re though I just want to make sure that um

[19:25] well I I guess the official staff hasn't put on the people have all replied via

[19:30] email saying yes we will reinstate Tom and I was on there before so we got the

[19:35] emails very reinstating um me but you know really as as as one of the people

[19:41] in the um one of the HOAs I think that's sufficient for me to raise the issue to

[19:46] the oh yeah I just wanted to know if it I'm not I'm not asking to make a

[19:49] decision I'm not acting in the role of making a decision at this point I I

[19:53] think we need to have a conversation about these because we're getting danged

[19:57] and there's 23 households up there that are screaming saying hey come on so you

[20:03] know they they're upset and they want out of this it's been going on for in

[20:06] mine for 18 years and then the ones over on 16th Street for less than that but

[20:11] they all Joe Johnson and you know you guys know Joe she's the president of the

[20:15] other HOA and I've spoken with her and she's on board with me that and I

[20:19] understand do sense you can't speak on her behalf right no of

[20:23] course absolutely and that's why down the road when it comes time to do a

[20:28] transaction or something sure you're going to need the board of members to be

[20:32] present and whatever I I assume all of that but before we get to that we've got

[20:37] to have agreement that yes it makes sense for the city to take

[20:41] ownership and so I'm trying to find out what the next step is to have that

[20:46] discussion uh I can't speak for everybody I'm not I'm not interested in

[20:51] the city taking that at this point it's not something that can you

[20:56] tell me why what's the reasoning that redistributes cost from an HOA where the

[21:02] expense was originally put before homeowners bought the houses and

[21:05] redistributes it to all taxpayers people bought those houses knowing and that's

[21:09] not appropriate for something that's part of the infrastructure well I mean

[21:12] you can look at different things as infrastructure too there every HOA

[21:16] generally has it's usually not always usually an HOA because they common land

[21:21] that they can't develop and that's why they have to it and I think that

[21:24] generally people at least have the whether or not

[21:28] where they have the information to know those things I've been in HOAs I've

[21:31] never had an HOA at land that couldn't be developed so I don't know not this is

[21:37] you know part this this is the discussion it needs to be had that's I

[21:41] understand that but that's not what the the agenda says right right I understand

[21:45] that so can we do something to create a discussion panel or

[21:51] something at this point and I saw your emails thank you for that you know yeah

[21:56] I appreciate you send the emails but like

[21:58] I've just told you my stance on it that's why I have not asked that to be

[22:01] added to our agenda that's just where I'm at um can I

[22:06] ask how much it is is this a 30,000 30,000 is 20,000 on

[22:12] our HOA and

[22:16] 10,000 272 a

[22:20] year 2025 bucks a month for everybody forever to own a storm water basin

[22:28] my stance said the city's got all the expertise my stance is um along the

[22:33] lines with um councilor gilan the only difference I would put is if the

[22:40] HOA wants to come before Council as an HOA they can then re so

[22:48] you need me to come back in November with something saying that the HOA is

[22:52] asking on their behalf to then possibly I mean I'll be I'll be on the board so

[22:58] usually you'd have like meeting

[23:02] minutes okay that is something that we could 26 so you know but as I know that

[23:08] a couple months ago you came before Council and our directive was to connect

[23:13] with our city admin which I know that there was some discussion and that at

[23:16] that time if Council sorry I'm just GNA have to

[23:20] correct you whatever all I asked for was a name at County I did not ask for

[23:25] Brandon to have the conversations with County with me flued and never able to

[23:29] okay but that's his prerogative okay but did yeah but let just the record

[23:33] straight he said he knew somebody County and that he was going to give me a name

[23:37] did eventually after having a conversation with the guy making the

[23:41] decision on their own without me even being able to explain our cost and our

[23:44] position and our thoughts okay so um that means that means that any further

[23:50] directive to Brandon is the same as where it would have been two months ago

[23:54] that I would say hey is get get him that information he's got you that

[23:58] information the only thing I could see that would change it is as an h0a coming

[24:03] to us possibly you got the information so process and and you just need me to

[24:08] be as a board member

[24:12] representative but that's change what Lee thinks I mean just I don't I can't

[24:18] Joe are you open to listen I understand how passionate you are trust me I can

[24:23] hear it like 20 bucks you know it's $30,000 a year these people are coughing

[24:29] up which would cost the city maybe a grand so I'm gonna we're going in

[24:34] circles and for respect okay so so I'm hearing I'm I'm hearing no I'm hearing

[24:39] no okay so I'm going to say it I got 123 households that got voting people in

[24:45] them Fant okay we're gonna go to De democracy I kind of expected this I

[24:49] gotta say I'm disappointed we are done I just got your time is done thank

[24:56] you for coming app thank you sad thank you thank you sir okay any other citizen

[25:03] input no okay Christine were you nope okay I

[25:09] could tell if you okay um next up additions or deletions to the agenda yes

[25:14] mayor I actually completely forgot um but under 12 uh F I'd like to at least

[25:20] address the sewer rate study from oawu um and I I knew you were G to ask

[25:26] that and I would actually like to broaden that topic to discuss a little

[25:30] bit more about just oawu

[25:35] in folder context since we just came off the not that it's a big water rate study

[25:40] question I just have a question that would fall in line during that I would

[25:44] like to remove the code enforcement discussion primarily because the sheet

[25:48] we were given has absolutely zero Direction on the discussion points and

[25:52] there was no way for us to prepare for that discussion um I would like to leave

[25:56] it the purpose was was for us to start it as a quick conversation just the

[26:01] purpose is fine but I didn't have chance to look at it beforehand so I don't feel

[26:05] like anybody here is going to be equipped to have meaningful conversation

[26:08] so I would like to remove it put it back on next month with a little more

[26:12] context I think if we leave it it will give me time during that to explain to

[26:16] you that there was no decisions to me anybody else

[26:23] opinions we bump it just I just want to point out that it was supposed to be on

[26:28] last mon I'm already done and I'm putting it on because and it's fine that

[26:32] it's you can say it's supposed to be somewhere but if you don't get the

[26:35] counselors any context for which to prepare it it's not a fair the context

[26:39] was to bring it forth to see what are tell me the context now I don't have

[26:44] time to prepare for it now okay so that's that's why I would like to remove

[26:48] it AG so I am I will respect the fact that that wants to be removed um Brandon

[26:55] I will send to you the verbage that I would like somehow to at least be

[27:01] considered I am the one that asked to have it put on on behalf of multiple

[27:05] citizens so I don't want to drop it um my apologies if it came off that way the

[27:11] whole point was to keep it very broad so um I will rephrase

[27:18] that and work with Brandon to make sure that that is worded more correctly um to

[27:24] become audience month are you guys okay with that

[27:29] yeah okay so any other so anyway so

[27:38] um 12f Eric would be the sewer rate We'll add that to 12f sorry I wasn't

[27:45] very clear so that you know where to when we add something we it'll be an

[27:49] action item then and we are taking off 13A okay any other additions or

[27:56] deletions

[28:01] okay um report from La at fire

[28:10] to good evening um so last month um we had a fil the boot event that ended up

[28:18] getting canceled last second um unfortunately uh due to some unforeseen

[28:23] uh circumstances we had to cancel that and the plan now is to hopefully do it

[28:28] in the spring sometime uh the volunteers are currently

[28:33] working on the schedule of events for December um as far as our Christmas

[28:39] banquet or um you know whether we're going to do

[28:43] the light parade and all that stuff again

[28:46] um let's see uh we're still having issues with

[28:51] our current brush rig um we've got um constantly troubleshooting

[28:57] something different on it um right now we're having issues with the the pump

[29:00] starting so uh and batteries dying on us constantly so uh our fall academy starts

[29:08] October 14th it runs every other weekend um with the live burn and the

[29:14] last day being uh the weekend of December

[29:18] 3rd uh we have two uh volunteers that will be attending that

[29:23] Academy um and then several of our other volunteers will be going as uh conre to

[29:29] help teach

[29:32] um we're doing a promotion process for lieutenants on November

[29:38] 1st uh we've had about 200 hours of combined time of of training between

[29:47] everyone uh there's a typo on here I I have 22 it's actually 24 Personnel on

[29:53] the roster Five Knights uh that were staffed

[29:58] we had three new Personnel that have joined the Department and last night at

[30:02] our meeting we had two new people that came in that live in in the city that

[30:06] would like to join as well uh and for the month we had 60

[30:14] calls that's all I have the um blackout part is that addresses that is addresses

[30:21] yes is there anything in the reports that show like a time stamp of when

[30:26] these calls come in when they come in yeah I I just was I noticed that there's

[30:34] 18 calls that was unable and I'm just curious if there's that so or I looked

[30:41] at that because I did notice that there were 18 um two of those calls were

[30:45] entered wrong they were actually staffed um they were cancelled in route um so

[30:51] with the 16 remaining calls seven of them were to Mutual Aid partners um that

[30:58] we were not able to staff due to the fact that um when we had day daytime

[31:04] staff there uh we didn't have someone else to come in we require a certain

[31:09] amount to go to our our neighbors um the rest of them they were uh going

[31:18] uh after hours or whatever those calls um it was just we didn't have the the

[31:23] volunteers to be able to staff it um the remaining nine uh six were on

[31:31] weekends Saturdays and Sundays here are on um and then the

[31:38] remaining after that were all um during the week that we also times that we did

[31:44] not have our uh staff on um the volunteers you know they they're

[31:50] volunteer so um I understand and I won't fault them for not being able to make

[31:55] calls however I will say that those calls just because they say that they're

[31:59] unfilled does not mean that they are completely unfilled usually there is

[32:03] someone that is going to it whether it be one of our mutual Aid Partners or if

[32:07] it's um a medical call or always having McMinville ambulance because they they

[32:12] have the ASA with us they're the ones that are responsible for the ambulance

[32:16] service for us okay well just Carri blackout was

[32:21] addresses yeah I I blocked out the addresses um we've I can redo this

[32:27] report to make it look something different so that there's not blacked

[32:29] out sections on there but I um truly feel that not every although this is all

[32:36] public record um I don't feel like it needs to be out there for everyone I was

[32:43] just so we just want to make sure was there yeah I just want to make sure what

[32:47] that was that was blocked out okay no no need to change it all

[32:52] right okay thank you oh

[32:57] Sheriff I know that sheriff Morrison is on vacation

[33:02] correct yeah he's on he actually emailed me from a cruise that he forgot that day

[33:06] um and with me being um away as well we couldn't get any representation but

[33:10] he'll go the the last two months um morisy just started last month and he's

[33:15] been pretty active especially in the daytime I probably seen him six or seven

[33:19] people in the morning just pulling people over for speeding so I know

[33:21] there's some activity with him recently so um yeah okay

[33:30] um report from public works great well I have your public the public works repor

[33:36] is here um but I did want to introduce Chad Snider our new Public Works

[33:40] director um Chad will be the one uh doing the report monthly from here on

[33:45] out um started last week um he's been kicking going uh we had a we had a

[33:52] transition meeting today with Mark the previous uh system supervisor on some

[33:55] items uh a lot of things that we're seeing over the past week week and a

[33:58] half that we need to work on and we'll be going through those processes here um

[34:03] so um some of this stuff on the the Public Works report is kind of redundant

[34:07] to what we uh what I discussed later on in my administrator's report for the

[34:11] water and billing uses update but um if there's anything else you have any

[34:15] questions on I can answer for you I questions real quick though welcome Chad

[34:21] thank you um the 34 leaks on the homeowner side

[34:27] those uh concentrated in particular neighborhoods yes um like I had

[34:32] mentioned I think in my on last month report um there was a good chunk of

[34:37] those that were going to be in the the subdivision these had additional checks

[34:41] in them yeah yeah yeah these have these we're seeing the same Concentra so there

[34:46] was um we after coming out of the last meeting um we did another check I think

[34:49] it was on Jefferson and there's one more that you and I have kind of been looped

[34:53] in on that I'm trying to work through um that's the hardest one I think

[34:57] everything else has kind of been um mitigated to least um if there were

[35:01] leaks some of them were small and just as a reminder if you do catch a leak on

[35:05] your property and you bring that uh that bill in we we give Credits based on uh

[35:10] what type of leak who fixed it you know how much water it used so sure since um

[35:16] chat clarify Brandon yeah the credits that also depends on whether it falls on

[35:23] the city or the homeowner correct correct correct it's all it's all it'll

[35:27] all be homeowner side uh repairs repair credits

[35:33] okay um can I ask that we put the month prior numbers next to the current

[35:41] numbers okay just there's room on the paper and I I found myself going back

[35:47] and looking at what last months were if it's not too big of a deal just to helps

[35:53] give a little bit more context to what those numbers

[35:55] are so anyway welcome

[35:59] Chad make yourself at home and we look forward

[36:04] to see what you can add to the report okay um approval of minutes we

[36:12] have three different sets so let's the first one was revision to July 13th

[36:18] council meeting um if I could recall correctly

[36:24] uh Madame mayor this the I just had one of the um the tiebreaking vote which I

[36:31] think uh you mentioned to go ahead and make sure that was notated and then I

[36:35] think councelor guilan had mentioned something about um the changes there

[36:39] looks good okay yeah um and the last thing that I had that saw on there it's

[36:43] not a huge deal to me but it was the directive to reach out to the people

[36:49] that weren't there for the grant that we never asked for that to be rescheduled

[36:54] that that was they're welcome to come back but that was supposed to be changed

[36:57] but wasn't but that's not a big enough thing to stop from approving

[37:03] it so Eric what we do right now is if someone wants to do motion to

[37:13] accept unless you guys want to do them all at once I like that idea I am going

[37:18] to move to accept the July 2023 council meeting minutes with the

[37:25] revisions the August 10th Council minutes and the September 14th Council

[37:29] minutes a second all in favor any opposed

[37:37] okay moving on

[37:45] um items fire trck

[37:51] Bill Brandon I will yeld that to you

[37:57] just thank you Madame mayor and we have Chief here to answer any questions but

[38:01] uh as part of the capital Improvement plan for the 2023 2024 budget and

[38:05] included a new fire rescue vehicle for the Department uh uh I think two or

[38:11] three meetings three meetings ago it was approved for the chassis and that's

[38:15] ready to go now this bid was for our buildout and you see the three bids that

[38:19] we received with the lowest being Cascade Fire Equipment of

[38:25] 9,355 um according to Chief me if I'm wrong they would deliver the um

[38:32] everything to the to the the vendor correct and we're not we're out of that

[38:37] now

[38:39] correct they're bring the they're bringing everything to we don't have to

[38:45] like how we have to pay the $500 if we didn't go through them it's going to be

[38:48] yeah it'll be sent

[38:53] yes so with that so with the if if the if approved $19

[39:00] $355,000 and the um the chassis we would still be at about $20,000 so there would

[39:07] be some savings from the projected expenditure of

[39:10] $225,000 it'll probably be about another another couple Grand just to do the

[39:15] final finishing painting and branding

[39:22] yeah no I don't think can I ask real quick chief I mean there's big

[39:27] difference in prices but the difference between like the 144 and the 119 is not

[39:33] it's I want to make sure whenever I'm looking at the lowest amount that we're

[39:38] not cutting Corners just to get it as low as

[39:42] possible um we've actually had Cascade has buil

[39:48] sorry Cascade by equipment built several of the apparatus around the area and

[39:54] they've done a good job um you know we had a good report on the you

[40:00] know as far as talking with the salesman and getting this stuff taken care of

[40:04] they they're really on top of it um we've had one built over in Carlton um

[40:10] and anytime we've had any issues with it or anything they're super responsive to

[40:14] being able to take care of whatever the little issue would be um you know we

[40:18] have small small things that were just you know needed to be touched up but

[40:24] overall they're good I had a question for you Chief the will the build out I

[40:29] don't know if you know her Brandon will it be ready before the next Fire season

[40:33] or you know when it will be online uh with Cascade um Fire Equipment yes it

[40:39] will be uh they have us on the books to start on May if we're able to get the

[40:45] chassis over to them sooner um that's great I've asked these guys to make sure

[40:51] that you know I'm trying to figure out how when when we can get them on the

[40:55] books so asked who one of these when they get started everyone else um

[41:01] couldn't do it until next year next budget so I asked these guys they said

[41:07] they could do it now so I asked that they put us on there just in case as a

[41:10] placeholder right so we placehold there the

[41:16] others the next so then we would not get it until probably next

[41:21] fall how long could we expect that vehicle to be like functioning and doing

[41:27] its job it sounds like it'll solve a lot of your problems with the batteries

[41:30] obviously like it's 10 years so um most of the time uh there 20 years is

[41:39] what we're kind of running them like the one that we currently have is 25 years

[41:42] old and it's you know it's like any vehicle though you know the older it

[41:47] gets the more problems you have with them um granted these don't go out a lot

[41:51] they don't have a lot of miles on them but they do get driven pretty hard when

[41:54] they do get driven um and used pretty hard when they get used

[42:00] so thanks I'll make a motion to can I continue this discussion here I think

[42:06] that last month we went through heavy financial review a lot of us did to make

[42:10] sure that we were making ends meet through the city and I hope that opened

[42:16] folks eyes to the financial situation we're in and I I don't think it's

[42:20] responsible to spend six figures on this right now I understand that there's

[42:24] different account and money comes from different budget places but our spending

[42:28] has been very laps over the last few years and I do not see how we justify

[42:32] spending this especially when later in this agenda we're looking to approve a

[42:36] supplemental judge or a supplemental budget that uh reduces the city's

[42:41] Revenue by almost a quarter million dollars so I remain completely opposed

[42:46] to the spending I had a Brandon you mentioned

[42:51] that this the vehicle has Revenue uh generating possibilities correct on

[42:56] conflict only if we send it outside of the city not even to service our

[43:01] city I I think that this is that it is a hefty price tag but I because it is

[43:09] something that sits in its a fund specifically for this um because we

[43:15] approved the budget for it to be like we put the fund there it's not like the

[43:19] money is just there we put the money there in the budget so we can't say the

[43:22] money's already there we did my my understanding is that

[43:26] that money was to be spent on vehicles not because budget we

[43:34] approved so if we're gonna buy one the sooner the better I mean we've

[43:40] already I I think it's I think it's better to get our finances in order

[43:45] before we continue to make six figure purchases we already bought the chassis

[43:49] that's that was the 77,000 purch that's already purchased

[43:54] yeah um I will open before we get to motioning to

[44:00] um citizen or public input um Christine you want to just the impact the vle

[44:07] didn't have a

[44:10] rescue becomes unusable and we only have the two engines let's see so if we only

[44:17] have the two engines we have people that have the ability to Able

[44:23] Drive um certain Vehicles so they can drive the rescue the the smaller brush

[44:29] rig they can actually take that and go on calls they're not allowed to drive

[44:33] the big apparatus until we go through certain classes and have the ability to

[44:36] drive them um we have a lot more people that are able to take that um so

[44:42] therefore we're not taking the engines for everything um also you know the

[44:47] engines are a lot more expensive to take out they're bigger they use more fuel

[44:54] um there's you know a lot more wear and

[44:58] tear on TR on the roads using those bigger vehicles where the smaller ones

[45:03] you know we're able to get in and out of places a little bit better and um you

[45:08] know it's a lot more user friendly for us soce our volunteer

[45:15] availability not responding our volunteers us get regularly right now

[45:21] our fres vehicle given all the mechanical issues you just listed they

[45:24] have been using it um because that's what we have and um

[45:30] for us it's better that it goes out especially here in town it hasn't really

[45:34] left town for anything um it's here um and if that is the case you know we have

[45:40] the ability to go get it or whatever but um so far we haven't had any major

[45:46] issues on a call it seems once we get it started and going it's going it's just

[45:52] that at night when it sits overnight and it's got a low Drive somewhere that's

[45:56] where we have an issue and what's the cost to fix the starter the switches in

[45:59] the battery uh I'm not sure what the overall

[46:04] cost is we keep taking it into our um mechanic to have them work on it uh it's

[46:10] just kind a constant and over again so is the vehicle uh that we've already

[46:18] purchased the new one is is it a usable vehicle without the build out or is it

[46:22] just would it just be sitting there waiting to just be sitting there until

[46:26] we decided if we decided to do it later it wouldn't be serviceable or

[46:30] usable or we can declare for the city to resell it and recoup the money that we

[46:35] spent on it um yes well 14 Monro uh just

[46:44] listening to the conversation personal opinion would be

[46:50] yes it's a large St of change sounds like there's some budget issues you guys

[46:53] need to talk about discuss but at the same

[46:57] time you've already spent in a certain amount of money on this it's okay to let

[47:03] that go that's one that's one of course there's no harm and no problem with

[47:07] doing that

[47:09] but you've got part of it cost it sounds like you've got it budgeted you can

[47:14] still resolve a budget issue down the road but now you have to look

[47:19] at what's the practicality of not buying it or not going ahead because our

[47:26] department has a rig that is usable under a limited

[47:31] basis but and when I say puts it puts the city at risk it puts the city at

[47:37] risk and nickeling diming when it comes to

[47:40] costs you know sometimes it's better to go okay yeah it's a new

[47:46] vehicle but it's got a 25 year lifespan yes it's expensive but guess

[47:52] what folks if you wait three years it's only going to be more

[47:57] expensive so I would

[48:00] say yeah all for saving cash but there's a point in time where saving cash is not

[48:05] a good thing at the same time I would strongly encourage whatever concerns Lee

[48:11] has Lee by all means work with the councils bring up the issue as far as

[48:17] come out with a budget fix if you were or adjustment

[48:23] that is actually going to work that's going to support the capital equipment

[48:27] so here's what I'll say whether it's more expensive or not in three years is

[48:30] based on a price tag not based on the city's financial situation given the

[48:34] city's financial situation right now I think that it's very expensive right now

[48:39] secondly we can fix budgets all we want but what we need to fix is just the

[48:43] insanely lack spending that is occurring you fix a budget you can you

[48:49] manipulate numbers on paper all you want we need to stop being so lack spending

[48:54] tax that's that's the part of the issue agree and I thought it hit hard for a

[49:00] lot of people last month it did I think I think what you're saying about we need

[49:05] to you know that there's still costs that need to be um I mean anyone would

[49:10] love to like their home budgets to be zero dollar a month but there's cost

[49:15] that's whether you have to tighten your budget or not and I think that

[49:20] perhaps the budget committee needs to reconvene in a larger thing but that

[49:26] this was a purchase that we had already started um I can't tell Council how to

[49:33] move forward tonight but I think the discussion has already have been had

[49:37] that we understand your your view that you want to curve all spending I I never

[49:44] don't put words my I did not say curve all spending but we need to be more

[49:48] responsible we dealing with tax spare money we can't just spend on everything

[49:52] that's put in front of us and that seems to be what's happened so that that's

[49:57] ined so I guess right now it's and that the motion can be made or no motion but

[50:04] I think the discussion part is blowing in circles so I'd like to make a motion

[50:09] that we accept the bid from Cascade Fire Equipment for 119

[50:16] 355 I'm going a second okay I hear um to accept the bid of $119 355 from Cascade

[50:25] Fire equipment I'm assum um it wasn't stated but for the fire brush truck

[50:30] right um and authorize the city administrator to sign and administer the

[50:36] contract um any further discussion okay all in favor I

[50:44] All Passes three to

[50:49] one okay next up is resolution for for designa check

[51:11] signing okay um Brandon

[51:17] any statement you need to make to us no um so with um Kevin Perkins leaving um

[51:26] leaving his uh separating from work here uh we need somebody else who doesn't

[51:30] have access to the City Finance programs who issues checks Etc um so right now

[51:35] here at City Hall um it would be myself and Robert who would be those two

[51:39] individuals who don't have access to that so um Robert would be the backup

[51:43] person replacing Kevin uh regarding check signing abilities can I clarify

[51:48] you said it needs to be somebody who doesn't have access correct that's your

[51:54] recommendation well somebody who who's not in the systems so um and we've

[51:59] talked about using Chad but Chad just started so the next I

[52:02] know um so yeah um the goal I think is eventually once we get to Kevin's

[52:07] position filled however that looks when that happens um or when Chad uh

[52:12] successfully here past probation period um it could be changed but um Robert is

[52:17] the only person here besides so Robert's the only other staff member that doesn't

[52:22] I would recommend yes okay recommendation aside yeah are there

[52:28] other employees I'm I just want to know who our choices are yeah but I I don't

[52:33] think Public Works should have to come in sign checks when they when it's time

[52:37] Robert's here he knows he knows the city you know he knows kind of what to look

[52:40] for but um it's completely up to you all I will move to approve resolution

[53:00] approved um action item 12C resolution for water

[53:06] rates yes oh wait did I have to did I have to read it out since it was a

[53:12] resolution yes just the the key heading the resolution do so we have to re

[53:17] revote on that correct with me read okay so the motion's still alive but um

[53:24] before the city La at Oregon um a resolution designate signes

[53:31] for checks City checks resolution number

[53:55] yeah this is just memorializing as per the motion um at the last uh the meeting

[53:59] at the fire station um reducing the rate to the previous rate uh from or the 20

[54:05] the fiscal year 2223 rate as well as adding the macw waterer and light search

[54:09] charge and system maintenance search charge those financial impacts are there

[54:14] um and all of the items requested are in the resolution 2020

[54:21] 309 I have a question okay for Council to make sure are you guys okay with the

[54:28] verbage that says whereas members of the city counc held of town

[54:33] hall yes my concern is that that makes it

[54:40] appear that the that the group of City councilors held it where everything was

[54:47] By Invitation of councelor Paulson and I and I don't want to put into a

[54:53] resolution something that down the road someone can read it that the council has

[54:58] a whole held of town hall this was the first I'm actually

[55:04] okay with it it doesn't say all of the members okay I just I wanted to respect

[55:08] those that weren't that it's it was more for your guys's I think if someone were

[55:13] to read it to be the entire Council it would read the city council

[55:18] okay okay so I move to approve resolution

[55:23] 2023 d nine amending water utility rates for the city of

[55:28] Lafayette I'll second okay I have before me um before the city council for the

[55:34] city of Lafayette Oregon a resolution amending the water utility rates for the

[55:38] city of Lafayette Oregon resolution number

[55:41] 2023 d09 all in favor all all

[55:48] opposed passage unanimously can I just add something yes um

[55:54] I the loan repayment fee U I'm totally in

[55:59] support of this but I I would like to say that I don't think that it is

[56:03] Equitable I think it's very necessary but I I just don't think

[56:08] it's the the lowest water user in the city of Lafia pays the same amount as

[56:14] the highest so just you know so just from my viewpoint because I've had this

[56:17] discussion with citizens is I think that there's ways maret this is equable or

[56:22] not and it depends on if you look at that fee to pay for water usage or for

[56:25] Debt Service and if it's Debt Service the debt is split equally upon everybody

[56:29] if it's water usage you're still being charged by your usage so I think there's

[56:32] two ways to look at it yeah I agree with that I think because we were it's

[56:36] important to note that it's important to note that with our contract with W

[56:41] McMinville Water and Light after the city uses so much G so many gallons of

[56:47] water the rates increase and so that's where I think

[56:52] councelor gilan is getting at it depends on how how you're looking at this and

[56:56] really with the usage it it does come out Fair because the costs go up for

[57:02] us that the loan is there whether we turn the pipe on or not correct go over

[57:08] certain am that water increases okay that makes yeah I so I totally I totally

[57:14] want appreciate you sharing that coming on you know you're you're picking up the

[57:18] tail end of what's not a closed topic yeah and um I've had lots of

[57:23] conversation like lead did with other people and I think the biggest thing for

[57:27] me was it is Equitable in respect that it has nothing to do with usage right

[57:33] it's infrastructure house and and people I don't think people realize this the

[57:36] old tiers that we went back to they were still teers yeah they just weren't as

[57:40] punitive on the higher end so people are still paying higher tiers for higher

[57:44] usage that part so the Equitable part I think is still there for usage just on

[57:48] small scale yeah well it's teared so that's I talked to many people and they

[57:53] are a okay with this ch

[57:56] not wants no one's purposely going yes know

[58:04] thanks um Okay 12d resolution 3-10 supplemental

[58:13] budget Brandon thank you Madame mayor so this just similar to the resolution this

[58:19] actually shows um where we are adjusting the uh the projected Revenue uh we also

[58:25] took out the um contingency fee we added the water debt search charge and the

[58:30] water maintenance search charge obviously see in black in the

[58:33] supplemental Budget on the fiscal year 23 24 so everything changed was going to

[58:37] be in you see the the reduction of utility bill collections um the addition

[58:44] of the water debt search charge and the water maintenance sear charge there all

[58:48] in black and bold so this will reduce our planned expenditures from 4.6 four

[58:55] 4ish million to uh 4394 million okay um Council

[59:04] discussion I just want to encourage that we meet with the budget

[59:09] committee soon I mean we need to adopt this we need to fix the budget needs to

[59:12] be fixed okay we need to adopt this but I I think it would be prudent to call a

[59:17] budget I know that historically the budget committee meets in April I think

[59:21] it would be good to meet more frequently especially given the current Circ

[59:25] that's going be coming up on the next agenda pick a date so I would agree I

[59:29] agree that this needs to get taken care of but we can't just since I got taken

[59:33] care of just ignored again that coming I think councelor gilan's correct like we

[59:38] need to have a meeting sooner rather than later absolutely yeah I agree um so

[59:44] council is is picking a date next month let's

[59:49] let's I'm I'm going to uh move to adopt resolution

[59:55] 20231 second amending the water Fund in the

[1:00:00] fiscal 2024 budget just to be

[1:00:05] clear I didn't hear her sorry say that again I was just including the rest of

[1:00:11] the language because I wanted to specify that it's in regards to amending the

[1:00:15] water Fund in the fiscal 2024 budget yeah but yes okay so that was a

[1:00:23] second um before the city council for the city of Lafia Oregon a resolution

[1:00:28] adopting a supplemental budget and changing Appropriations for the 2023

[1:00:34] 2024 fiscal year resolution 223-10 all in

[1:00:41] favor I all opposed passes

[1:00:46] unanimously um followup from that discussion though is there any directive

[1:00:50] that is next month picking a date soon enough to set a budget meeting or do you

[1:00:56] guys want to try this I give you time to figure out when we can all get together

[1:00:59] because then I'm gonna we don't we don't have to set that budget meeting in a

[1:01:04] council meeting no can we just send you our availability and start getting

[1:01:07] something on the map yeah yes Monro might I suggest when it comes

[1:01:14] to setting follow on meetings might I suggest and a look at the calend

[1:01:18] determined perhaps three times during the year that works out for not Council

[1:01:24] you might want to actually meet with them yes while

[1:01:28] they we do meet with them we're all part of the so so I think for now just I

[1:01:33] think you make a great Point pick three pick three times yeah so I think you

[1:01:36] make a great point I think for now we're just trying to get it on the calendar

[1:01:39] this year and then we'll start figuring out what times we can meet next year

[1:01:42] multiple times and I think what we're getting at is we don't need to wait till

[1:01:46] next month for it to be on the agenda to start sending Brandon our dates so star

[1:01:52] them just as people availabil yeah let's all try to send Brandon like a handful

[1:01:56] of dates because I'm sure if we all send one none of them I will make I will

[1:02:00] yield for you guys as much as possible I know for some of you it's harder it's a

[1:02:06] priority but yeah even if that's a council we can pick two that we send to

[1:02:11] budget committee I want them there as much as as they're even more to me part

[1:02:16] the budget thing okay um the last action item is a DC

[1:02:22] appointment that is the downtown

[1:02:28] sorry my my position on this is that we

[1:02:35] wait until we have a full Council I can't speak for the other counselors but

[1:02:39] I don't have the availability and so I think it'd be

[1:02:42] appropriate to hold off until we get somewh the seats filled so i' lean that

[1:02:47] way except for I want to know how many people are on this committee again uh we

[1:02:51] have five technically but while right now we only have

[1:02:56] three we have a planning commissioner we have a counselor and then we have three

[1:03:04] at large yeah we already had an um we just appointed Travis Johnson um we have

[1:03:11] Becky sha as chair we already had an opening

[1:03:15] sha resigned and that's what we're talking about that we were supposed to

[1:03:18] put how frequently like they have one meeting right they do have one okay so

[1:03:23] here's will volunteer to temporarily my calendar is very I was

[1:03:30] offer to temporar I will volunteer to temporarily sir but once we fill the

[1:03:34] council I would like to revisit this and I it's not that I don't want to just I'm

[1:03:40] I think it's a lot I want to I I fully support that because I know that bud you

[1:03:47] are very responsible with expenditures um if if you want to also

[1:03:54] also know that I am willing to temporarily do it I'm I'm

[1:03:58] happy one thing in front of us for now there might be something yeah I think

[1:04:02] we're looking in daytime so if we want to make it work around your schedule

[1:04:04] since sh the councel on it I'll get with you on some I appreciate you stepping up

[1:04:09] to that because I know that they put on hold a meeting they were going to have

[1:04:12] hoping that a counselor but I would like to revisit this one absolutely there

[1:04:16] might be someone better qualified depending on pointed let's just make

[1:04:19] sure we re RIS i' like in the motion to make sure it's temporarily stated can

[1:04:24] can I move to temporarily appoint councelor gilan for the downtown design

[1:04:30] and award Review Committee for the unexpired term ending

[1:04:33] 1230 I can just resign from that so it's not a big deal

[1:04:38] I so but we will put it back yeah would you like oh sorry we have a

[1:04:45] motion so I have a question follow up for you after but um any

[1:04:50] second I second okay I have the before me a motion to appoint councelor

[1:04:56] Gilligan to the downtown design and award Review Committee for the unexpired

[1:04:59] term ending 1231 20125 and I got you at the second right

[1:05:05] before Kayla is that okay perfect okay all in favor all

[1:05:11] I oh okay allst

[1:05:16] okay Lee quickly question for you as I'm in interviewing candidates is it

[1:05:20] something important enough to you that I ask them to desire if they want to sit

[1:05:25] on or not or is it just something we no I think all here we determine who the

[1:05:29] best service and we'll figure out I just want to respect the fact that you I

[1:05:33] definitely appreciate that okay um discussion items so we're moving

[1:05:39] straight to B short-term rental survey

[1:05:44] results um I am going to pause for a few moments we'll Pretend This is a

[1:05:53] break did you put an in there pause oh thank you okay so we on a break

[1:06:03] because by time I say it it'll be out thank you for catching that had on the

[1:06:07] side instead of underwear normally Reddit okay we're taing back to action

[1:06:11] items 12s 12f sewer rate for O A Wu and just o a w in general so Brandon

[1:06:24] since we have nothing in front of us yes so I didn't want to add this on the

[1:06:27] agenda because I know's meeting it was an official vote even though it was

[1:06:32] under the administrator's uh expenditure spending Authority but I think with

[1:06:36] everything going on and I I spoke to every councel just about this to holding

[1:06:40] off on this but since it was a council action I would like a council vote to

[1:06:44] hold off on that if that's where you choose to go did you speak with Eric no

[1:06:49] okay I just didn't know if we needed to update it this is this is the sewer

[1:06:52] study by the same people yes so may I yes okay so we had a water rate study we

[1:06:57] adopted the recommendations of the water rate study I think you know what

[1:07:01] happened yeah we had a sewer rate study scheduled to be done by the same

[1:07:05] consultant I think we want to put that on pause for now until we figure out if

[1:07:10] that's really who we want to use given our recent events does that make sense

[1:07:14] yeah so you just need a directive right it's not yeah I can't go above because

[1:07:18] you made a direction for me for for staff so I just need another vote to we

[1:07:22] vote did we vote on it or was it just I think we voted yeah January's meeting

[1:07:27] we should vote then okay um my question real quick with that is there any

[1:07:33] followup that needs to happen or part of the plan with o awu about the original

[1:07:39] study yes so they were going to come back after a year yeah when when the

[1:07:43] when the rates were and to do another rate rate analysis um I pretty much had

[1:07:47] conversations with Tim and told them that's probably not going to be

[1:07:50] warranted just because we didn't we didn't enact their rates and he would

[1:07:54] just be doing more work and it's probably going to come to a conclusion

[1:07:56] where may not be favorable to the community because it's going to come

[1:07:59] back with doing the exact same thing again so I I discussed that with Tim and

[1:08:02] told him it's probably not the best to do that um so when

[1:08:08] we all the discussions we had was it council's decision that we stood by

[1:08:16] those rates we were just or the report we just were choosing to accept it to

[1:08:23] accept it but not use it or did we as a council feel that it I did not stand by

[1:08:28] the by I didn't stand by them either I it

[1:08:33] was done incorrectly did we pay for the rate

[1:08:37] update already

[1:08:41] well so I hate to say this yes but it was money that was wasted at least in

[1:08:48] this from what the context of what it was so I'm not going to say it's wasted

[1:08:53] we got got to a point where we can service the debt we got there was just a

[1:08:56] very tumultuous ride so I'm not going to say it was wasted we got where we need

[1:09:00] to be we probably could have just done it differently yeah we did we did we

[1:09:04] spent the money we ended up where we needed to be surfacing the debt and

[1:09:08] everything we just to I just wanted to find out if Council

[1:09:14] felt there was further discussions as we're having the discussion to pause the

[1:09:18] other study that needed to happen coming out of last month

[1:09:24] I think I think the sewer rate study needs to be put on hold and I think we

[1:09:28] need to address that in the budget meeting okay agre

[1:09:33] okay so we do need to motion so I'm gonna try

[1:09:40] to make a motion okay I'm going to move to

[1:09:46] table the sewer rate

[1:09:51] study I got nothing else is that it yeah a second with O A with o thank

[1:09:59] you okay I have on the table a motion to table the sewer rate study with O A

[1:10:07] Wu all in favor any opposed passes unanimous okay

[1:10:14] now we didn't pay for that rate study no but we're actually getting ready to

[1:10:17] start it literally when there's no money I think it was supposed to start like

[1:10:22] later this month yeah we were going through data process literally the week

[1:10:26] literally the week

[1:10:30] okay now on to discussion item short-term rental survey results Brandon

[1:10:37] thank you madam mayor so in your packet is the uh 10 survey questions we asked

[1:10:42] coming out of I think it was uh May or June's meeting about surveying the

[1:10:47] community to see if there's an appetite for uh short-term rentals inside the

[1:10:52] city of Lafayette um we did both English and Spanish we got

[1:10:57] about 125 120ish 12 um respondents via the English

[1:11:05] survey we had two in the Spanish survey um so we did make it multilingual we

[1:11:09] promoted it throughout um the newspaper online the app um uh at numerous Council

[1:11:14] meetings discussions in the community um and in front of you are those answers um

[1:11:20] the only open-ended questions were 10 which is why I probably would focus on

[1:11:24] that's where some of the um positive or negative comments against for are going

[1:11:28] to be there um but see I was wondering why you combin would you support the

[1:11:35] city allowing and regulating use of Str strs inside City Limits not just would

[1:11:41] you support the city allowing question four yeah and then would you um want the

[1:11:48] city to regulate as separate

[1:11:52] questions I see why it was grouped together though because if we're

[1:11:55] allowing it the city has to regulate some of

[1:11:58] it well we can allow we can it's allowed right now right no regulations against

[1:12:04] it or well we can't we we can't tell them we can't tell them not to operate

[1:12:08] so I mean it's allowed but there's nothing we can really do about it so I

[1:12:12] guess the question's asking if we regulate it it's in a way of allowing it

[1:12:17] or what we do in general I get what you're

[1:12:22] saiding I think it was just the verbage but I don't think it I there was a

[1:12:27] comment in here and I not about to try to find it with all I just realized how

[1:12:31] small this is on

[1:12:35] paper just my computer a lot easier to zoom in about what it is and I'll see so

[1:12:39] there was a comment in here about um the difference between kind of

[1:12:45] regulating for the sake regula or approach the topic when there's a need

[1:12:48] for it and I don't think there's a need for us to do anything on this right now

[1:12:52] if if it becomes trouble maybe revisit it next year but I I don't

[1:12:57] think there's a need a to broadcast hey we're going to start opening this up for

[1:13:01] everybody there were some really legitimate concerns about street parking

[1:13:04] which is already an issue in parts of the city about how many there's going to

[1:13:08] be with the zoning to be like cost of for housing all kinds of legitimate

[1:13:12] concerns also legitimate Arguments for but I just I don't think we're at a

[1:13:17] point where this needs to be acted on okay that's Happy hear El there's a few

[1:13:24] that talk about it but I think you're talking about regulations are easier to

[1:13:27] add later when something becomes an issue yeah regulating controlling

[1:13:32] without just cause can do more harm than good yeah there's there's a couple

[1:13:35] comments in there but yeah I mean I just I don't think this something that like

[1:13:38] we really need to take care of this right now and I think it would be easier

[1:13:43] to tackle this if it blossoms as something that's like okay this is this

[1:13:46] is something we need to take care of because if we just proactively put

[1:13:49] something in place and a year later we find out if we knew this was coming

[1:13:53] would have done this differently I just I don't think it makes a lot of sense to

[1:13:56] act on at this point in time that's but I do think we should continue to revisit

[1:14:02] it as the circumstances Chang I appreciate that this survey was done um

[1:14:08] it because of the statements that people gave or the way people answered

[1:14:12] questions it showed a little bit of a not a pattern but like you were

[1:14:18] mentioning the over regulating for the sake of regulating the parking um but I

[1:14:23] think that that all leads to that like Council gilo was saying that we don't

[1:14:27] need to do anything right now and actually just tells us that we don't

[1:14:33] need I also and I know there was some I just want to reiterate because I think

[1:14:38] everybody on this council is pretty committed to making sure Third Street

[1:14:42] continues to progress there was some talk in here about adding to the

[1:14:45] businesses and tan on I I get the argument but Airbnb is a wine country I

[1:14:51] don't think lafet the plan stop yet yet I think people are adding to dunde and

[1:14:56] Carlton and McMinville and eventually we might get there I just don't think we're

[1:14:59] there right now yeah and I get that regulating it we could get a little bit

[1:15:03] of income from it from you know the hotel taxing or whatever but um as one

[1:15:09] comment has stated like just because you can doesn't mean you should you should

[1:15:15] after the atmosphere of the last meeting more regulation doesn't seem like really

[1:15:20] it's current sorry no I appreciate you I

[1:15:25] would I would sit down and say just as a person out the community that not

[1:15:32] regulating right now gives you flexibility because if problems arise

[1:15:37] then you can tailor the regulation to the need as opposed to going out I'm

[1:15:44] doing oh we're going to do these 14 different regulations and everybody's

[1:15:48] going I don't want that but if you have a problem and you have a tailored

[1:15:52] solution ution then all of a sudden wait a minute that kind of you know the

[1:15:59] solution all of a sudden BEC more powerful and more likely to be both

[1:16:03] accepted and wanted yes try to have the best of both I think this is gray that

[1:16:08] brought it to the surface for us to remember to be acutely aware of it so

[1:16:13] that you know but that right now there's not a and thanks for doing that survey I

[1:16:19] if if we do revisit it later I would love to see more people respond I know

[1:16:23] you can't force people to respond I will actually say this is a great survey

[1:16:28] we've done surveys in the past and this is actually pretty good turnout for us

[1:16:32] yeah

[1:16:35] yeah I have a question yeah yes do you think that it's possible that because

[1:16:41] we're not regulating it we haven't seen interest in it

[1:16:46] yes okay so I it's my position I think that this is a discussion that

[1:16:51] definitely should be continuing should be exploring that and I agree with the

[1:16:55] results from this study such as the parking issue but those are things that

[1:16:59] we could start exploring and trying to bring that stuff

[1:17:02] into Lafayette because it's going to help Lafayette

[1:17:06] grow so you're you're saying that you can see there's ways that if we do it

[1:17:12] correctly very Loosely regulating or POS that we can

[1:17:17] actually start advertising the positive parts of it without squashing the Nega

[1:17:23] stuff I I just think there's a lot of people here who don't want it here based

[1:17:28] on Country based I get I get that and I think that tourists would love it here

[1:17:34] but I think that there's a lot of people who live here who don't want strangers

[1:17:38] coming in and out of the house next door every day I I think there's people here

[1:17:42] who don't want extra cars who are unfamiliar with the roads that are

[1:17:47] already a little dangerous out here after whatever they were doing or how

[1:17:50] hard it is to find homes that are I also don't think that we should be regulating

[1:17:54] what a homeowner does with their house if they want to rent it out on Airbnb

[1:17:58] that should be their choice and I agree with that and I think people already are

[1:18:01] in I think if anybody jumped on Airbnb right now You' probably find a couple of

[1:18:04] off yet four but but my my I think my biggest issue which I don't think I've

[1:18:09] stated yet is that our law enforcement presence here is a very limited hour so

[1:18:15] stuff that comes up with parking with noise complaints with anything that

[1:18:18] could come with this territory we're not really properly prepared or whatever

[1:18:24] those unknowns are uh until we have a little bit better and better is the

[1:18:29] wrong word our law enforcement folks are fantastic they're just not here all the

[1:18:34] time we pay for a limited

[1:18:38] out SC that there's been actually actual complaints about there being things

[1:18:43] being up in town or or I mean are there concerns have been brought forward that

[1:18:48] that brought all this yes like we received a phone call which

[1:18:54] kind of initiated the process and then I started doing some uh surveying with my

[1:18:57] peers across the state and the processes and I started talking to the our planner

[1:19:01] and then I brought it up a few months ago and it was like well let's see if

[1:19:03] there's an appetite for it um but the hardest part is enforcing something

[1:19:08] because we pretty much have to bait and switch Somebody by ordering on Airbnb

[1:19:13] and yeah it's a whole issue so so to find common ground because I know

[1:19:16] Council disagrees a little bit here to find Comm ground I do think this is

[1:19:20] something we should revisit I'm not saying lock it up throw away the key I

[1:19:23] just don't think the time is proper for to act on at this

[1:19:29] moment before we give the official directive my final

[1:19:34] comment is that right now there's no regulation so if a airbnbs are operating

[1:19:40] and they likely are do you if you don't see a problem at

[1:19:45] this point then doing nothing is not going to harm anything right uh to

[1:19:51] Brandon's comment a caller com com in be careful of not letting the Tail Wag the

[1:19:57] Dog and then lastly the issue of parking and parking issues if they exist in the

[1:20:03] city you would have a vehicle to address and look into that

[1:20:07] issue separately from Airbnb situation and you use that as your model to start

[1:20:15] guiding something that might be done in regulation that could very easily be

[1:20:19] something that could be ultimately adopted or extended to Airbnb in the

[1:20:25] future when it's necessary so in the meantime in the present you do nothing

[1:20:31] you keep a radar on it send a survey out in six months a year something like that

[1:20:36] listen to what citizens you know if comments come in if complaints come in

[1:20:42] for against make note of that uh look at the parking situation where is it a

[1:20:47] problem how do you go about creating a parking enforcement uh model that will

[1:20:52] work work for what's going on in the city right now

[1:20:57] then do something down the road yeah

[1:21:03] okay I I agree with that I just said but if you're kicking something down the

[1:21:08] road and a problem occurs where my house is surrounded by four airbnbs and we

[1:21:15] decide and the city decides to regulate and only allow every other house or

[1:21:21] every fifth house or a certain amount on the street Who you gonna tell no to when

[1:21:25] there's no regulations registrations you don't even

[1:21:29] know where they're at you'd likely have like a permanent application process or

[1:21:33] something like that to know where they're at and have a permanent

[1:21:37] application and then if they're all permitted if they're all permitted right

[1:21:42] you on how many there is a possibility of a problem

[1:21:48] occurring you're going to have to come up or the cil's GNA have to come up tell

[1:21:53] somebody you can't be innb anymore sure so I'm hearing there's nothing

[1:22:00] immediate uh that the survey brought forth that going oh my goodness we've

[1:22:04] got this problem and we need to start raing land but I do hear different D

[1:22:09] points from Council and citizens that don't just kick it down the be like oh

[1:22:13] we'll address it later um Council Paulson is there a time frame that to

[1:22:19] you is acceptable to put this back on the agenda for me personally I think at

[1:22:25] least until we fill or decide what to do with the vacant

[1:22:28] seats I would say within the next three to six months and directing asking

[1:22:34] Brandon to look into some possible white regulations I'm not saying that we have

[1:22:39] to go fully out and regulating but I think that there should be something in

[1:22:42] place one to address if there's issues that arise in the moment not a month or

[1:22:47] two later down the road once we can address it after it's been brought to

[1:22:50] our attention but two also to start advertising this essentially to see if

[1:22:56] it brings in to help the city okay maybe before

[1:23:02] Summer Okay is Council okay with putting it on in the beginning middle of the I

[1:23:08] mean I think anytime we look at the calendar we keep going I'll put it on

[1:23:12] June is that I would preer hear me out out everybody I would prer like February

[1:23:18] yes and here's why if we start this process in June and November there are

[1:23:24] six total seats for election year we start it's just going to have to start

[1:23:28] over with the new Council me following that and that's not productive for any

[1:23:32] place no okay so can we revisit this in February whether it's a discussion or

[1:23:37] action depending on I'll put it back as a discussion on in February and uh we'll

[1:23:42] go from there I'll try to get some uh celer Paulson are you um okay if I ask

[1:23:49] you to think to yourself what some specific specific things that you might

[1:23:54] that jumped out at you yep and I'll be in conversation with Brandon

[1:24:00] yeah I would really like to get some information on communities who have done

[1:24:05] this successfully who have a huge Airbnb presence like Lincoln City Dundee see

[1:24:10] how they've done dundy first and then and then I I want

[1:24:15] to be really clear on like what time what different kinds of short-term

[1:24:17] rentals are there and how they will be regulated differently or separately

[1:24:21] because a house renting rooms is very different than a house being rented so

[1:24:25] just making sure that we're really clear on how we Define them and look at some

[1:24:30] models that that that are working so we're not just kind of inventing a

[1:24:34] regulation so I guess for all Council anyone that feels compelled

[1:24:39] to um give any kind of prompts to um Brandon on how to bring this back let's

[1:24:45] address it in February and go from there okay um on the department reports code

[1:24:54] enforcement

[1:24:56] reports so I was GNA ask I know I think I brought this up a few months ago it

[1:25:01] seems like we're going to more high level reporting on fire and public works

[1:25:06] this is kind of kind of down to nitty-gritty I mean I think there's

[1:25:09] things that we can convey on a high level report but if if you just want to

[1:25:14] see the cases I'm okay with that but I don't know because I mean there's a lot

[1:25:17] of things that Robert does I think I think leave it until we have that

[1:25:20] discussion okay gotcha thank you I'd hate to change it and then have a

[1:25:25] discussion that then um okay um

[1:25:31] Administration uh outside of that in your uh in the packet you do see one uh

[1:25:37] one resident concern um on the uh comment card can we make sure that their

[1:25:43] name is and address is blacked out next time

[1:25:48] okay right I mean I'm not too worri about the name but they were the way

[1:25:54] these comment cards are is they're supposed to It's supposed to kind of

[1:25:58] detach from their bill but we inadvertently just posted someone's

[1:26:09] bill but I appreciate that but that was the last thing that was completely on I

[1:26:14] apologize for that and then um also there's the water

[1:26:18] meter bilding update um mentioned the the 80 leak checks we door hanger

[1:26:26] Consolidated Supply mu have been on site numerous times um the one that I

[1:26:30] mentioned a few a little while ago myself and counselor gilan I have got

[1:26:33] some emails about I'm continue to work with that um I'm going to try to do a

[1:26:37] couple more things next week with with Mueller and Consolidated uh before

[1:26:41] reaching out to that Resident um City staff will be doing

[1:26:45] random housing uh sampling assignments the third week of October so our our

[1:26:50] next Public Works our newest Public Works employee starts next week I've

[1:26:53] already gotten with Chad and the team that we're going to start picking some

[1:26:56] addresses and start calling them next week to kind of set those up for

[1:27:01] November and then all August bills are mentally credited as per Council

[1:27:05] direction from the 9:14 meeting uh the disconnections will resume by November

[1:27:10] so uh what is that November the week of November 7th so

[1:27:16] that the 9th is a Thursday that's when the 48 hour notices well the 48 hour

[1:27:21] notices will go out on Tuesday the 7th and then the 9th we'll start doing the

[1:27:26] disconnections um there's been a lot of people um inquiring about previous debts

[1:27:32] we didn't want to just start singling out a debt from August or whatnot or

[1:27:35] from July so we just put everybody it wasn't just this one bill because it was

[1:27:38] going to be a lot cleaner so there are some people who are even benefiting from

[1:27:42] those shut offs from preceding bills but we want to make sure they get cut off

[1:27:45] because obviously um that that becomes a financial burden to those who um for

[1:27:51] those include that notice in in this month's bills I'm sorry can you include

[1:27:59] this notice like in the newsletter we can okay and for those of you I can't I

[1:28:06] can't remember where the discussion of putting the a water report if it was

[1:28:13] during our council meeting or a conversation um I had with Brandon

[1:28:17] but I specifically wanted to see something monthly that we could separate

[1:28:23] and track where we're going with it so that we can easily find it so that's why

[1:28:29] some of this might sound redundant that was sorry when you say where we're going

[1:28:33] with Itor give me a little more clarity yes so when we came out of last month's

[1:28:39] council meeting it wasn't just a okay we changed it here's our resolution that we

[1:28:45] just adopted that there were some other concerns that came up and so this is

[1:28:49] holding accountable to the change out in the meters to addressing um leaks the

[1:28:56] directive of doing those quadrant checks so um

[1:29:02] this report is monthly and a little redundant but it's so that it's very

[1:29:09] black and white and a tool for us as a council to use to say this is how we're

[1:29:14] holding C defense not be happen yeah and this is the first time this has

[1:29:21] been brought up with of council okay I could

[1:29:25] remember brought it up to

[1:29:29] me yes so with h the cut offs and stuff that you're talking about is there a way

[1:29:35] to put into an investigation like my I live at 120 uh West 19th Street my

[1:29:43] consumption has been inaccurate for a year like the whole winter time my

[1:29:48] consumption was 400 300 6 00 400 400,00 no sprinklers nothing that's

[1:29:57] that's very inconsistent then it went to 26 to 28 to 43 I put my sprinklers back

[1:30:03] on and I just had a bill of, 1500 so there's something wrong I know you sent

[1:30:07] me the reports yeah I don't want to call out my name but that's what but I I I

[1:30:13] don't want to P A bill I still have a Bill of a $300 water bill after the

[1:30:17] rates are changed which is insane my water bill is $100 every month up until

[1:30:22] the one that was just changed so I paid the water bill that was due the one that

[1:30:27] was the most recent one but I I find something definitely wrong and I don't

[1:30:32] want to have a water cut off to our house but I'm not paying a $300 water

[1:30:35] bill so what I hear you saying is is do we have what's the process for somebody

[1:30:39] who there's no consistency is um disputing their bill right and I

[1:30:46] probably should have I I didn't know you know the water rates were low what they

[1:30:49] were beforehand I Pro you know had I paying attention and seeing it I would

[1:30:53] have brought this up much sooner when it went from 400 to 1200 or 300 to 600 in

[1:30:58] the middle of winter I didn't know you could have a consumption low I thought

[1:31:01] the minimum was 400 anyway so I don't know how that showed up like that on our

[1:31:06] so we're sorry I wase

[1:31:11] yeah IA connect we're still working you're

[1:31:18] not I don't want to single you out or anything come here me know you're like

[1:31:22] the onee you're like the one case Brandon I are still scratching trying to

[1:31:27] there's no consistency and I know there's other people in our community I

[1:31:30] live in the newer Community the he and I live on 16th I mean there's other people

[1:31:34] that are in the same boat but they're not as proactive I could say you know I

[1:31:38] tell them like want help you have to reach out you want to do something but

[1:31:42] there's a lot of people within our community that that consumption and the

[1:31:46] rate increase was all the same month and everybody had Drop Like if I go through

[1:31:51] the communter probably I wanted to get hit like I don't know what to do but

[1:31:55] everyone's consumption went back to the way it was for him and they didn't turn

[1:31:58] their sprinkles off they didn't change it now they're off because it's raining

[1:32:04] time no we'll get together I do more research um I can't wave you to I cannot

[1:32:10] tell you to not pay your bill right um any type of any type of wavers have to

[1:32:15] come from the city council I would still pay it and if something were to come up

[1:32:19] out of it then that's a discussion that we would have on we buy something our

[1:32:23] Brandon is that something where he should be coming before councel right

[1:32:26] now saying I'm disputing my bill he can but at this current moment I haven't

[1:32:31] found anything yet that could support that it was a city item I I stilled to

[1:32:36] do more research on that so I'll let you guys do what you're doing and then two

[1:32:40] I'll work with you guys I don't want to pay that and we even got that meter I we

[1:32:44] even got this the meter like calibrate we did like we figed everybody else out

[1:32:48] you're the one that still this weird anomaly we did find one that had a

[1:32:51] reverse meter put in that was put in by our contractor by accident so was a

[1:32:55] revers read um so that one was like oh that was completely on our fault so

[1:32:59] we're finding things here's here's the last one to crack and it's hard no

[1:33:03] consist and I'm gonna not single you out in a bad way but it's easy for us to say

[1:33:09] okay you guys get you get you already that but I want to acknowledge that

[1:33:13] there might be somebody listening to this going what about me right I just

[1:33:18] haven't broke up so the if someone is still disputing the bill they do need to

[1:33:24] speak up in I'll advise my two neighbors that are talking constantly that have

[1:33:28] like a 6100 yeah went down to 1500 15200 then went back to a 1500 and they didn't

[1:33:35] change it for what it's worth we're activeon and I talked on the phone

[1:33:40] yesterday well I know you're responsive too so I know that yeah it's not gonna

[1:33:44] get well I I want to acknowledge I do appreciate Michael from the first day

[1:33:49] you've been communicative with me and sharing you've even done some research

[1:33:53] you know s um so I want to acknowledge that the reason we're saying oh we'll

[1:33:58] get with you is because you did the added effort to come to Brandon and

[1:34:04] Council but if anyone else is having issues they can't just go well once they

[1:34:09] fix his they'll fix mine each person needs they shouldn't put that on you and

[1:34:14] we're not email yeah I think easy going guy I

[1:34:18] may not I'm just saying it's not appropriate

[1:34:22] neighbor to neighbor that let any neighbor speak on your

[1:34:26] behal have directly you make it official writing

[1:34:32] W okay so that's where the water meter

[1:34:38] update came and it might be where there's not much going on one month but

[1:34:41] I asked Brandon and I believe um Council Fon was part of this conversation to add

[1:34:47] it so that we can easily track sometimes no you know no information still

[1:34:53] information while we go through this it just holds us all accountable that we

[1:34:56] haven't swept it aside and lastly um as part of the administrator report um some

[1:35:02] some of more some new constructions going on in metal Brook you may see I

[1:35:05] think we have uh four or five uh foundations down over there so we're

[1:35:09] going to start bu out next month I'm going to be coming up talking about the

[1:35:13] state's e- permitting system and some Community Development updates um we did

[1:35:18] get the manhole cleanouts um done I know the budget committee and the city

[1:35:23] council approved uh $50,000 uh and uh eight we got seven

[1:35:28] done for like $20,000 um over the past few months and those were at seventh eth

[1:35:32] in Lincoln and dunway and then we had 9th 11th at Grant so we had seven done

[1:35:37] oh and then we had Maro Maro in 16th and Wilson in 12th so yes I saw that I think

[1:35:42] so we got seven done um for Less M than we thought so we're happy about that and

[1:35:47] then as I mentioned to you all last week I'm going to be working with council

[1:35:50] president pulson to meet with M Wilder and light from January of 2022 to

[1:35:55] September of 2023 there was um a mechanism in one of their low or high

[1:36:01] flow meters that wasn't registering consumption properly no figure and now

[1:36:05] so we have a $20,000 bill that we have to pay and I mentioned to them well if

[1:36:08] we had a mess up on our end we wouldn't charge a resident that and their

[1:36:12] building policies that states the customer responsible for or billing

[1:36:15] practices so I'm going to be working with council president bson and one of

[1:36:19] their board members hopefully maybe we can get this down to a manageable dollar

[1:36:22] amount because looking at the numbers it be very tight to you get this taken care

[1:36:26] of so I'll update you all that hopefully the next council

[1:36:29] meeting okay thank you thank you um committee reports there was no committee

[1:36:35] meeting right that anyone sat on um Council

[1:36:39] reports um I submitted my mayor report um one thing I wanted to touch on real

[1:36:45] quick because we decided not to put as an action item

[1:36:49] um speaking of money and being very you know are we spending when we don't need

[1:36:54] to spend one of the things that was discussed this past month was Christmas

[1:37:00] time in the city um and that $155,000 was spent last year on lighting up the

[1:37:06] City entries um and because of that um elcat

[1:37:13] LDA um the PTA everyone's all the groups are coming together to try to see what

[1:37:19] we can do to cut costs do things in house one of the things that I'm working

[1:37:24] on is using resources we already have which is the residents and their

[1:37:28] beautiful decorations so um working in Tangent with as an a suggestion from

[1:37:34] Brandon lafayette's going to have a Christmas decorating contest originally

[1:37:39] he had suggested to put it on so that council could pick a maybe give a credit

[1:37:44] on the water bill or whatnot and I said that that I didn't support that because

[1:37:48] that just looks like we have extra money in the water bill um so we will do some

[1:37:52] sort of small non denominational or non-monetary

[1:38:00] prize I was just about to say um Dollar General's on my list although I know

[1:38:05] that that manager it's out of his pocket but I would like to ask councel if you

[1:38:10] want to be a judge we can't participate in it so it'd be a fun way um so and any

[1:38:17] other ways that anyone in the city wants to brainstorm how we can I think the

[1:38:21] this year Christmas and celebrating what we have as a small community as is more

[1:38:26] important than ever without spending the $115,000

[1:38:30] on professional lighting um but that is so a decorating contest will be

[1:38:37] happening um but if Council wants to participate you can join me if not I

[1:38:42] will find other judges and we'll work but it's just going to be good old Quay

[1:38:48] fun is this each tree in the park the 15,000 no so the contest will be your

[1:38:54] your yard like your own personal okay so there's like three categories like

[1:38:58] Griswald which is the most you know a lighting one y oh Chris I forget what

[1:39:02] the three categories were sorry I don't have time so anyway I could ramble on

[1:39:06] all night because I love Christmas but it's us using very minimal money to

[1:39:11] encourage everyone else to do it um other groups are one of the things that

[1:39:16] we've decided is to invite people to hang a water or weather appropriate

[1:39:21] ornament on the Christmas tree that goes in the

[1:39:24] Gazo you know put your family name on it if you want if it's a big Bell plastic

[1:39:28] Bell from Dollar Tre whatnot be things that are going to come rolling out Chief

[1:39:32] already mentioned that he's working with his crew I did want to support and let

[1:39:37] you guys know that I acknowledged and so did the rest of the group that the fire

[1:39:43] department put together that parade during Co and wanted to make sure

[1:39:48] that if they wanted to do it to to do it if not we will'll support something else

[1:39:53] but I just wanted in my report to share about the decorating

[1:39:57] contest and that I am committed to making sure that we're not frivolously

[1:40:03] spending for Christmas so just email you if I'll send I'll send out the

[1:40:08] information to you guys I didn't have anything because I thought we were going

[1:40:10] to present it to you guys because I was going to need council's approval to pick

[1:40:13] a prize but we're going to try to make it a donation and I was against the idea

[1:40:18] of a water bill credit because that's just

[1:40:22] touch subject yeah like that just yeah like I get that's an easy way to you

[1:40:26] know get money in Pockets but anyway so I'm

[1:40:29] rambling so yeah um so I'm ready for a motion tojin if somebody wants toj um I

[1:40:35] just want to make it quick mention the laate Downtown Association is holding a

[1:40:41] community Workshop this upcoming Wednesday October 18th at the community

[1:40:47] center beginning at 5:30 p.m. which is open to the public and we encourage

[1:40:52] citizens to come over and be part of that yes and El is hosting our Harvest

[1:41:00] Festival Saturday I encourage Council to even if you don't have kiddos to come

[1:41:07] say hi we'll be there with the table the city will be there with the table Time 1

[1:41:11] to four why contest I'll be back up from I get to be a judge you want us to

[1:41:19] Christmas decorations but I'm fine supp I was asked to judge suppli you can

[1:41:25] link the decorations if you want but anyway um so yeah I'm I'm excited that

[1:41:32] commun CER yeah so there's indoor and outdoor but ELC cats not going all out

[1:41:38] but they're going all out and I'm excited to be back and I guess before we

[1:41:42] go to German I appreciate the meeing tonight and I'm enjoying my time down at

[1:41:47] the LCC conference share with you guys about

[1:41:51] yeah did did the chief say when the Fill the Boot is gonna it's beginning of next

[1:41:58] year yeah it's one of the I I talked to some of them so I do know that it's

[1:42:03] something that they can schedule whenever they want there's some online

[1:42:06] stuff that would be like a Christmas time thing well not the right time of

[1:42:11] year they're already working on the toy drive and talking about how stuff so

[1:42:15] anyway um be supportive of our fire department and all right

[1:42:21] so I move to

[1:42:25] adjourn okay all in

[1:42:37] favor yeah

City of Lafayette's City Council Meeting for October 2023

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