Okay, we'll call to order
this meeting of your city council, Tuesday, May 19th,
2026.
Roll call, please.
Let the record show we have a quorum with all council members present.
Closed session. Public comments.
The public will have an opportunity to directly address the legislative body
on the item below prior to the council convening into closed session.
Public comments are generally restricted to three minutes.
Closed session pursuant to Government Code Section 54957,
public employment of the city manager. Do I have any public comments?
Online?
No. And while no one's talking, so just what we on?
So we are going to go into closed session if it's fine.
Mayor.
We are now going to return to our session.
Report from closed session.
We will report that under Government Code Section
54957.1, the council has
approved a separation agreement in general
release with Joseph Goodman by a vote of
5-0. A copy of the executed agreement is available for
public inspection in the office of the city clerk.
We want to recognize the efforts that Mr.
Goodman put in and the value he brought to our
community during the time he was here, and we wish him the
best and appreciate all that he's done for us.
At this time, we will do the Pledge of Allegiance.
Luke.
I pledge
allegiance to the Flag of the United
States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands, one
Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all.
Members of the public wishing to address the council
on any items not on the agenda may do so at this time when
recognized by the mayor. However, no formal action or discussion will be
taken unless placed on a future agenda.
The public is advised to limit discussion to one presentation per
individual, and while not required, please state your name and place of
residence for the record.
Please direct all your comments to the mayor or vice mayor, not to city staff, nor
to the audience. Public comments will be limited to three minutes.
Do I have any public comments at this time?
Ms.
Mayor.
Hey.
Valerie Thompson with Hidden Treasures Sanctuary and
Rescue. Just thank you, Mayor Barr,
for coming to our gala. It was a success.
We filled up the place and we raised $10,000, which was great.
Moving forward, we've got plans this year to really
upgrade the sanctuary, do a lot of necessary
things. So with that, also the voucher program, we've been
going forward with it. With the news of
changes here and there, and regardless of that, we
are going to continue with the voucher program on our own in the
future.
Whether the political winds turn whichever
way,
I would with that like to
be placed on the calendar for a
discussion to see if we can finalize finally with
all the changes with the city council and the members and
managers and what have you. I think we've gotten a little lost in the mix on
getting it all finalized. We've done
250 spays and neuters so far, just since
we've been
finalized the use permit, and our surgery room is
complete as of this year. And so we're happy about
that. So we did submit an invoice to our acting
manager, Janet Wackerman. Thank you.
And we would like to be on the calendar to see if we can just
finalize the fine print on everything we've done.
We've crossed all the T's and dotted the I's, so the city clerks in the
office would not have to do anything at all, really, except for just
sign a check.
With that,
moving forward, we are really proud of our city of
Orange on the stance that they've taken with the
humane
cap situation problem and as
that goes with the county did not go through
with their end of it, and that's sad to say.
But with that as well, our sheriff,
sorry for going over, Megan-
Oh, yeah. We're going to have to-
Oh, s**t.
Is coming in for stepping up for the county instead of
supervisors. So with that, I can say that the program's going forward.
Very good, and we'll make sure you get on a future agenda.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your thoughts and your contribution.
Ms. Joanna on it.
Thank you so much, Mayor. My name is Joanna Guthrie.
I am a resident of Chico.
However, I am your representative for waste management
here in the Glenn County area.
I am less than two months into the job, so I am learning
about all of you, your cities, your towns.
A quick little rundown on me. I spent the last 25
years in local governmentI worked in a rural county in Washington
State, and then the last five years, I was working for a smaller city in
the state of Arizona.
And part of that time I was a solid waste manager, and I did
various other roles in public works.
So I've been on your side of the table before.
I'm new to this side. But I do know solid waste, and I am happy to
be available to talk with any of you.
I'll be working with Janet, your city manager, that's acting at the
moment. And please feel free to reach out at any time if you have any
specific questions.
Okay. Thank you so much for coming forward and saying hello to all of us.
And I'll be getting your information and reaching out to you.
I am on the Waste Management liaison for the City of Ormond, and
I've got a couple of questions that I'm sure you could easily answer for me, so
let's face it, but they're there. Any other public comments tonight?
No? Any online?
No? Okay. Well, we're going to close the public comment section then.
And we will go on to our
consent calendar. Public comments are welcome for each
agenda item at the time designated by the mayor.
Each speaker is limited to one comment per item, with a maximum of three minutes.
After the public comment period closes, the council will proceed with its
discussion, and attendees are asked to refrain from interruptions or
disruptive behavior. A, the warrant list.
B, approve city council minutes for May 5th,
2026. C, receive and file Arts Commission minutes
from February 18th, 2026.
Madam Mayor, sorry to interrupt.
Yes.
Staff is requesting that you pull, the council pull item D
for future consideration as a regular administrative
business item, not on consent. We had a slight little miscommunication
between governor and I on this, so we can make those corrections.
Okay, thank you for that information.
E, adoption of the disability retirement designation
resolution.
F, adoption of the annual solid waste parcel fee resolution.
G, consider an MOU with the Ormond Unified School District
Student Success Library Card Program.
H, receive the April 2026 budget reports, and I,
receive the Treasurer's Report for May of 2026.
Do I have any public comments on any of these items?
Online?
No. Okay. Do I have a motion to
approve the consent calendar while pulling item D?
Madam Chair, if I may.
Item I, it says receive your treasurer's report.
It makes a reference to a committee.
I don't know, I couldn't find out who's on that committee.
This is an investment committee that would take funds and invest
them in earning of CDs, that sort of thing.
I would ask to pull that until we get a report in the future.
Okay. So we'll pull item I as well.
And then, Madam Mayor, I'd like to pull item H just I've got a few questions
regarding the budget.
Okay.
I would make a motion to adopt the consent calendar with the
indications that we've been pulling items D, H, and I from
consideration at this time.
I'll second the motion.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Opposed?
The motion carries.
Okay, so D is off the calendar entirely.
E, H, shall we discuss the April budget?
Yeah, Madam Mayor. I just... Hey, Jen.
Just a quick question. I was running through some of those budget numbers, and I
saw that parks and meetings, and this could've been a simple question I could have
answered earlier, but get a chance to make it to you.
But I seen that park maintenance went up 243%,
and I don't know if that was another project you got tied in there.
I know it's happened before.
Yeah. Excuse me. Roberto is online-
Okay. No, yeah
... and maybe he can probably answer that better.
Okay.
Roberto, did you catch his question?
Yes.
So the
parks maintenance is over, the budget is over as far as the
financial report is concerned. They're not really technically over, it's just
there's some corrections that we're still in the process of making.
This is a new system that started this fiscal year from the
last one, and we're still working out the bugs.
There's some charges that are showing up in the wrong account.
We're trying to get everything into the right accounts.
Hopefully by the May report, everything will be back in the right account, but
we've been working through quite a few adjustments with this new system.
And Madam Mayor, just one last question for Roberto then.
And then also, too, I noticed for the discrepancy between Measure A and Measure J,
where they should be bringing the same amount of money in.
Roberto, you know anything about that?
Yeah. So,
as you know, Measure A used to exist. Measure J replaced it.
But for budgeting purposes and talking to staff, it was
understood and it was explained to me, and we can certainly change it, that Measure
A
is the original half cent. Measure J is the additional half cent.
Technically, it's 1 cent, but they're keeping Measure A as
the original half cent with its stated purpose.
As reported in the financial statements, there is no Measure A, but in the
financial statements, the original purpose of that first half
cent is being kept in one line. Measure J is being tracked
separately, which is the other half cent.
It's got a different uses in the original Measure A.
That's the reason why there's two of them shown, but legally, there's only one
Measure J.
Are you talking about the income value in
Measure
J?
Maybe I didn't quite hear the question.
The four-year almost.
Yeah.
Or one.
Yeah, Roberto, I think you had explained it to us before.
It had something to do with when the money came in.
I think that's what-
Oh, in the current year's budget, you mean?
Yeah.
Yeah, the revenue... Oh, I was thinking, sorry.
I have '26, '27 budget in my mind. In the current budget
Measure-J is less because it did not have a
full year's worth. It didn't have a full year where Measure A was in
place for the full year, and that was kind of a guesstimate at the very beginning.
Now we do have a more solid number for next year.
And as you can tell when you look at the revenues, Measure J is coming stronger
than was originally anticipated.
Yeah. I think because it passed in November, it didn't go into effect until
April or something of June. I know about sales tax, that's why.
So it'll be a full-
Yeah
... a year.
Yeah, I mean, you start receiving money in June, and then you obviously-
And then it took a while for you to come in.
Okay.
Yeah.
And then other than that, you have any other questions?
No other questions from council members. Any other questions, Alex?
Roberto.
Try to make it.
On the budget that you provided.
Yes, I do have a question.
Okay.
Roberto, what is your last name? I'm brand new here.
Moreno.
Very nice to meet you, Mr. Moreno. I'm Wade Elliott.
I'm a new member of the council, first time we've met, so I'm so glad to have made
your acquaintance tonight. I just want to make sure I'm understanding, and if not
for me, maybe for the public. Measure J, Measure A, these are
both taxpayer-approved, right? These were
voter-approved taxes on our sales tax. Is that correct?
Yes.
Even though there were intentions that were put into the language that we voted on,
were any of the funds required to be restricted?
Technically, no, because if they were technically
required, then it would be a special tax
that has a two-thirds majority vote. It's a general tax.
It's subject to the council's discretion, but council has chosen to
follow a certain direction as to how the money should be spent.
So that is my understanding as well.
And you've looked at these two systems and the transition.
Had there been a practice in the past of carefully
identifying the Measure J and Measure A funds for designated
purposes as you described prior?
I just started this about a year ago, and
so what was done in the past is only what I've been provided, which was the
Measure A, a list of projects and how it's been spent in the past.
Right.
And then there's what was the language in the ordinance as to what it was intended
to be used for.
Is it your read as you've looked at some of the numbers that discretion was
used with those funds outside of those definitions by previous
councils?
Everything that I've seen was spent based on what was in the ordinance
of public safety, streets-
Okay
... and ambulance now.
I appreciate that. Thank you for that clarification.
And again, thank you for reporting to us tonight.
And, Mr. Mayor, I do have one question. All right.
A quick question, again, so I mean, probably figures, kind of makes it sound
like we're not holding our end of the deal for Measure J and for the citizens.
We'll use that and we'll get broken for this.
So I do want to say I appreciate that, but we're still
keeping track of it, just like-
Yeah.
Yes.
I trust you guys on that one. Roberto, not to throw you under the bus, buddy, but
this community will set you, me, and everybody else on fire if we don't hold it up
to the letter of the law. Yes, it's a general fund measure on a two-thirds
majority special measure, but yeah, the community takes that very,
very seriously. So I want to make sure that I understand what you're saying in
terms of a general fund issue, but we just want to make sure general fund money is
not getting funneled out of Measure J, or there can be a lot
of problems around here, so. But thank you for that. Thank you, Jen.
Well, again, I only have one other question.
When I'm looking at impact fees revenues, we have
transportation, public safety, city hall, water system, sewer system,
library, park land, park improvements, capital maintenance,
and recreational facilities. And then there are
numbers
totaling $312,000 on the current or on the
fiscal activity for the year. So these are fees that we have
collected that have been allocated to each piece departments, is that
correct?
So each fee is collected based on the ordinance.
It can only be used specifically for these items, so they are all
being tracked.
This money has been collected. The fiscal activity is
year-to-date on active building permits.
Permits are issued for development within the city,
and they are each tracked, and they can only be spent on specific items.
I'm not sure if I answered the question.
I'm trying to understand. The Arts Council
funding comes from a designation from impact fees,
and I don't see the Arts Council listed here.
Why were they not included as one of those impact recipients?
Okay, so this part of the impact
fees is subject to state law and what
it goes through. These are impact fees per state law.
The Arts Commission fee that you're talking about-
Okay
... that one is not based on
state law. That is an extra fee that was set up by council.
When the person takes out the permit, all of these fees are set up, and
then there's an extra fee below the impact fees that's
for the Arts Commission. It's called an impact fee, but it's
not an impact fee in the true sense of the word.
The way all of these are subject to state legislation as to how they can
be used and how they can be collected.
The other one is
not. It's a city set ordinance.
Okay. But since it's a city ordinance, then it doesn't need to be reported on what
we're looking with revenues.
Right.
It's 300 and some thousand in impact fees to these
various things that are stayed, but is there another category
somewhere that shows what the Arts Council should have been?
Yes.
Okay.
Yes, there is.
What
you received here is the funds that were
budgetedThe Arts Commission funds were not
budgeted. They are being tracked, they're being reported on separately, but they
were not budgeted. Now, we can certainly add them to this
budget.
It's just that there was no set dollar amounts.
It was just whatever they had on hand.
For next year, for 26/27, there will definitely be a budget
for the Arts Commission
based on some estimates as to what might come in for the Arts
Commission. But they are there, they are being tracked, they're just not reported
here. But we can certainly add them.
Okay, I just want to make sure that those are being tracked and that the-
Yes
... arts grants being comprised of any monies that are due them under...
It's one of the items on tonight's agenda we can talk about more there.
That I just, when I saw these impact fees and didn't see their name,
I'm still trying to learn the processes here. Thank you.
Any other questions from the council?
Yeah, if I could, Madam, just through the chair.
Again, Roberto, just for clarification, I don't want to leave this one unsaid.
These funds have been collected as they come in.
They're based on applicants, right?
So they're not based on some easily predictable number.
If there are no applicants, there are no fees.
Also, in the ordinance, there are exemptions from that fee.
Was that correct?
Yes, it is.
It is, because I've read the ordinance.
So there could be an actual development where that fee does not
appear on their fee schedule because it's an exempt
entity. For example, if a nonprofit were
to construct.
Okay. Awesome.
There you go. So it is entirely possible that you could have
activity in the community where that particular
fee is not assessed. Also, I don't know so much about
budgeting this unless it's an actual line item budget.
This is actually, if I understood it, and it's been around for a while,
this was an effort by prior councils to show their support for
arts in our community, and we've appreciated what they've done and are still
doing. And so we think that the real
wagon we've hitched to here, which is development, was probably at least
originally the right
wagon to hitch to. If future councils decide that
isn't the way to do it, and so that it's not dependent on
applications, it's not dependent, that would be a brand-new decision
for the Council of May. So I've got that all right, right, Roberto?
Perfect.
You got it.
Right?
Yeah, so I think that would be maybe what we'll actually discuss
tonight, whether or not that's what the Arts Commission is actually asking
for-
Yeah
... is a different approach to how they're funded.
Thank you.
Okay, any other questions by council on the budget?
All right, we will return it to the consent calendar,
as well as the treasurer's report that you had a question about.
Yeah, I'll wait for another report.
It's not appropriate tonight to try to ask somebody like Letty who's not here what
is going on. The people I've asked haven't been able to tell me who's on that
investment committee. I don't think it's a big deal.
I think we could accept her report at a future meeting, and obviously, she can
flesh that out for us to my satisfaction, I'm sure.
Okay. So we are going to then approve item
H.
We've had a motion. We've had a second.
We've had-
Richard, did you approve?
Not on this. So we pulled H and I, so if you could do a
joint motion, we could-
We pulled D, H, and I.
Correct. D, H, and I.
And that was the motion we made.
Correct.
That was second.
Now the issue is whether your approval of H and
I is separate than that.
Yeah.
Yeah, outside, since we pulled it, they weren't approved.
So now it's just a motion to accept.
So if I may, I'll go ahead and move. My question's been answered by
Roberto. I'll move to approve an H and add on the consent
calendar as was said.
Okay, a motion to be seconded. Officer Bigger? Oh, second.
Second.
Okay.
Are you approving I, because I thought we were bringing it back?
Yeah, just kind of a point of order here.
We're not required to adopt everything on the consent calendar.
No.
I think the council's made it clear there are three items of concern.
There's no point in accepting a budget that's not clear.
We're hearing that in May we have a better budget report.
I would not support approving a budget report that we know
isn't going to be the one that's accurate. So I think we can...
I mean, do whatever you want, but I'm going to vote no
on approving H or I because we've already decided
those items are not appropriate to consent to tonight,
and that's all we're talking.
Okay.
Agree.
So this requires no further motion-
No
... since it's been pulled then?
It's up to the council.
Yeah.
It's just us.
Okay, just our table.
It's up to the council.
Welcome back.
Yeah. Just-
Continue from where we-
The eight people
... Yeah.
Mr. Mayor. Sorry. Actually, I would like for staff on
item 8B for the
districting,
ask the council to consider adding language for-
Mm-hmm
... the use of independent redistricting commission to map out future
maps.
I know Orland has been pretty, I feel like has been pretty well
in keeping national politics out of
what we do here.
So I feel like
adding that extra step so that when future districting maps come
about, we don't kind of fight over that.
And so if we use an independent redistricting commission, that'll
keep choosing the maps or
it'll allow the voters to choose their league instead of us up here
choosing who our voters league will be.
So-
Okay. So-
So if I could suggest-
Sure
... yeah, a way to kind of address that.
Yeah.
I think that's a good... One of the reasons why I want to put this on for regular
business, so what we can do is put it on.
There isn't really a rush now that we're going to wait.
Right.
So we'll put this on, and then we can have that discussion.
Sure. I just wanted to make sure so we don't-
Thank you
... go to that discussion and then-
Go-
... wait for that.
Yeah. Yeah.
Thank you.
Okay. Thank you.
Okay, administrative business. Council accomplishments, reports, and
commissions.
We just have our list of reports and commissions.
Yeah, we approved ours.
Yeah.
Two weeks
ago.
And as was said,
previous appointments were made in April
after Mr. Romal left the council. At this
point in time, are there any changes that anyone would like to
suggest? Any
new appointments or anyone on any of the appointments that they'd like to
discuss or change?
Well, I have one for the Golden
State GRSK team.
I guess the meeting that I went to last week was the last one
for that seat, and I guess it's moving to Crescent City, so they'll get a
seat.
Mm.
We don't want-
Yeah. Let's go with mine.
Yeah.
Okay. Anything else?
No.
No. How about you, John?
No. I'm fine.
Okay.
So I'm the new guy here, literally first meeting,
so I know there would be some expectation that I would look for one of these where
I may serve. And I will, in a future time, do that.
Right now, what I've focused my time on is I've met with the four department
heads,
to get the lay of the land. I think eventually I'll get to see where
these additional responsibilities fall and where I can be of some
help. But I'd let the mayor know when we talk about this, that I'll be here to
help. I'm just not ready to commit to one of those commissions tonight.
Okay.
That leaves me, and I have a pretty hefty schedule that
is hard. I was explaining to Wade
that
trying to be effective with this many that I'm trying to learn,
as well as keep up with on a monthly basis, has been a little
overwhelming for me. I literally
am on 13 different committees.
Many of those are monthly. Some of them are every other
month. But I am hoping that at least one
other member here would be willing to take one of them from me.
The ones that regularly meet are Arts, Library,
and Waste Management, the Groundwater
Sustainability Agency.
And I'd like to keep Arts, but if there is another member
here that might be able to step forward and take the Groundwater
Sustainability or the Waste Management, that would really help.
Is there anybody here that might be able to take that?
Mayor, just to help you out on the Groundwater, too, once we have
Zach here, we can always send him your project, have him be
put for that.
That's it. Need an appointment, though.
I find that each time I try to change something, I have to go to county
City Selection Committee.
Because they're already assigned.
We have, I think we have a seat there, and then Zach, as well.
So I remember that we dealt with that last time.
Okay.
So that'll help you out there. And then other than that,
obviously you have your stuff you like.
If you could wait just a meeting or so, because then
Wade will figure out where he wants to help us out, too, because I'm looking at it
here thinking,
"Yeah, let's see what you like."
They were good in it. Okay. Well, Zach, if you-
Mayor, I think I need to verify with the
county first to make sure it's not one of
the council members, because he is staff.
I just want to verify first with Zach, okay?
Sure.
Yeah, I don't know, so I need to verify.
I think we have-
Yeah. Okay
...
to be
discussing further.
I think it's worth it. He
likes.
Okay.
Okay?
Okay. We're doing that for now. We'll move on to the next
one for proposed SB 1 funded project, road repair and
accountability, Paul Ravo, Public Works.
Good evening, Mayor, council members.
We've got a report here
that we bring up every single year.
It's for the use of Senate Bill 1, Road
Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 funds.
This was passed by the state legislature, signed into law,
and essentially they
set aside a certain amount of funding each year for every
agency, and then that money is used towards
projects that we want to get done. And it's
specifically road. It's not trying to
beautify, like the bee sculptures or something like that on I-5.
So,
we put together a list of projects that are found in the
resolution there,
items 2A through I. And
the funds can be used for construction,
putting in curb, gutter, sidewalk,
roadway rehabilitation.
We've also used it in the past for design services
and construction management.
Anything related to construction,
and roadways specifically.
So the projects that are listed here came out of the
pavement management program that the county helped us prepare.
And this is the starting point. I think in years past,
some council members have had thoughts on other streets that they wanted to
see done. This is just where I start with these
projects, because it's
kind of founded, as far as the roads have been assessed
and
a certain quality has been determined for them and,
yeah. It gives me the starting point.
So if-If there's any questions
about those projects, I'd be happy to answer.
If there's
no comments or any questions,
then we recommend you adopt the
resolution, because then we have to upload it to the state-
Yeah
... for them to know what we plan on doing and how we're going to use the funds.
It's a part of their transparency. So.
And then only the SB1 funds would be used for the
maintenance and rehabilitation of the roadways. Yeah.
Public comment, yes.
Public comment on the SB1 discussion.
Online?
No.
Okay. Council?
Good.
Casey.
A few questions.
These eight streets that
you've listed, could they use up the entirety of the 244,000?
It's possible. It just depends on how we get
what we get for bids-
Yeah
... when we put them out. But-
Those are just our shower guys table?
Well, when I chose them, I try to choose them in a fashion, because
this here has a lovely breakdown of what this
consultant thought all the costs would be for each project.
Mm-hmm.
And I kind of adjusted a little bit for increasing construction
costs. And so I do my best to come
close to what the funds are that we have available.
Thanks. And then I have a question about
one of the streets you recommended, was recommended to
have a rubberized cape seal or rubberized cape.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that was-
What does that entail?
So, most of the projects on here are a crack seal and
then a slurry seal, so they go through...
You've probably seen public works out there, right?
And they just put some sealer and some cracks and
hopefully you don't get water in there breaking the roadway apart further.
And then they do a slurry seal, which is just like a-
Mm-hmm
... essentially looks like they're painting the road black, right?
And then they re-stripe it. The rubberized cape seal
is just a heavier duty version of a slurry seal.
Are these all just... I'm fixated on the
rubberized keyword. Are they all polymers?
Are they all plastics?
Um-
I guess rubber?
The crack sealing and
the-
It's kind of a bituminous thing.
For the crack sealing and the slurry seal it's
a petroleum kind of bituminous product.
The rubberized cape, it's not like we're putting
down a layer of rubber, it's just some of the
material. It's like a Caltrans specification
on materials that are used within that product.
And so it's not like it's 100% rubber and we're going to be bouncing down the
road, right?
Right.
It's just a small amount.
Yeah.
It's like, technically, say, if you're using a recycled asphalt
pavement, they're using just a small portion.
It's not the full thing, so.
And how much better is that versus crack sealing or-
Well, so the crack sealing and the slurry seal are
for roads that
are still in fairly good shape, and we're just trying to prevent them from falling
apart. And I think in here, we have the estimated
lifespans. Those crack seal and slurries are about a
five to eight year
timeframe. And so, you kind of stay ahead of the game.
That's kind of your preventative maintenance.
The rubberized cape seal means maybe the road is a little bit less
condition or worse condition.
Yeah.
And so you're just trying to give it that little extra oomph
that the slurry seal can't do. And
then you get to the other end and you're redoing the complete road
because it's been too long. And so the
slurry seal and the cape seal are a form of preventative maintenance.
Okay. The main reason I ask is I keep seeing more and more
studies about microplastics-
Mm-hmm
... in the environment, and the rubberized seal being an
additional microplastic that will eventually leach into our
waters.
So
if it doesn't provide too much extra
usefulness to the road, I'd rather you avoid using that, unless
you feel that it is
equivalent to slurry sealing or crack
sealing,
or the same as having someone burning up.
Well, we can
always visit the method.
I guess for right now,
just to use the funds, we have to say these are the projects and if we
can take a look at that, and if we go, "Hey, rubberized
is something we can
avoid using that on that particular road, and we can use this other method,"
then we can definitely look into that.
That's all good. Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Ben.
I would move to adopt resolution 2026
next in line and authorize the city manager as designee to submit to the
California Transportation Commission, the city's
2026-27 SB1 project list.
We're really getting the backbone questions. Great job, big brother.
Hey, just a quick end point. So we're talking about last week's.
I know. Amy,
what's up with the... Is the bridge going to get done on Shasta that crosses in
Brian, basically? Or are they just going to stop there
at...
Because-
Because you don't like that bridge?
Yeah, because we keep bottleneck right here with it being fired, and I'm getting
tired of having the public trying to leave while we're trying to get in, and God
loves them for leaving, but I'm getting interested in that.
But my question is, is that part of the budget? That's all.
It is currently included in the Shasta Street project, yes.
Okay.
And so this-By putting it
on this list, we would be taking the approach that we did on Tehama,
and that would be we're using the SB1 funds to help
us with the design, the environmental, some of those preliminary and
design portions, because then the construction money is a
different funding source.
Right.
And we would like to use all of that construction
money.
We need to break it down at least.
We only get 20 years worth. That's just pretty much the way that it shapes for
everything they have funded. My only thing is we're going to be building houses
all. We've already talked about it.
Yep.
But if we can just make sure that gets at least designed or something.
Yeah.
Because, yeah, nothing we can do this year.
It's on the wish list, I think.
It's got the approval.
My only question is that,
it references the city uses its existing budget
together with the SB1 funds. Does that mean the budget that we have for
2026, '27 that we're creating now, or should we have
funds left over from '25, '26? Where are we going to get the money to pay our
portion of this? Do we have an idea?
What portion? What do you mean by portion?
I think it's-
Well, it says we have to use our existing budget with the
SB1 funds to do these
projects.
Because this always goes in the budget. That's what...
Yeah. So,
I guess what I would say is sometimes there is a potential that,
depending on how the bids come in, that the SB1
funds can't cover all of the projects that
we want to do. And we can make the decision at
that time that, hey, we're only going to do six of the eight projects
and that-
Then we can adjust that. It's not a sharing thing.
We don't have the money unless you put in your own portion.
No.
Okay.
As far as I know, yeah, this funding does not require a match from the
local agency.
Okay. Just making sure. Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
I think that's all. Vote for it. We may found a motion.
I made the motion.
Yes.
We're just waiting for a second.
Second the motion.
Okay, motion has been seconded. All those in favor?
Aye.
Motion carried.
All right. Going to move to the Arts Commission finance.
Janet Blackmer.
Thank you, Mayor and city council members.
So,
the Arts Commission was created by the Oregon Municipal Code,
and as determined by the language in the code, they receive one quarter
of 1% of any revenue from qualified building permits.
And as we alluded to earlier, that means something that gets
federal funding or like the self-help homes,
they
would not be required to contribute to the Arts Commission fund.
And so again, a monthly report is compiled, and has been
since the beginning, and it's submitted to the Arts Commission for their review
at a public hearing. Now,
in a recent audit of the commission's financial status, it
was determined that the revenue amount reported to the commission did not
match what was in the city's financial program.
So because of this, the commission found their balance to be such
amount, which is approximately 5,000.
I can't give you to date, because I know some funds have been coming in.
But they had to review their expenses going forward.
Moreover, upon review of future city projects, and that's when I allude
to
when things are being constructed, and we are seeing houses being built, that those
are the self-help houses.
Yeah.
So they're not charged an assessment.
So,
when we looked at that, it was determined that additional revenues could not be
expected in the near future.
So at their meeting, at the Arts Commission's meeting of May 6th, a few
expenses were eliminated, and a means of building
revenues were discussed. And the commission proposes to create a
GoFundMe page, and that was at the time of this agenda, to collect revenue to
make up for the shortfall. We don't have any recommendation
of... It's just purely to let you know what's the status of the Arts
Commission at this point.
You have any questions?
Okay. Now I'll open it to public comment.
Okay. Any online?
No.
Nobody.
Jill.
My
name
is Jill Elliott. I am on the Orland Arts Commission.
I live here in town. I was-
Jill, could you please speak into for those people online?
Thank you.
I just wanted
it to be noted that the amount our
account was reduced by was $24,000.
Oh.
So it has left us in a
sudden
lurch. So I just wanted that to be brought
forward.
And
it's a lot of money.
Yeah. So
I just wanted you to know.
I think I have a question for you.
Okay.
And thank you for being here.
Right.
I want to make sure I understand.
Does the Arts Commission get a number
projected from the city
that you were operating on, and then the number didn't come out right
because we didn't have enough projects that committed to it or?
There was no projection. We did-
How did the shortfall happen?
There was a review,
how Janet explained it,
and the main
accounting system with this city did not
relate to our monthly financial
report that we get from Leti. And so,
it was determined that there had been an
erroneous or just a mistaken
entry back in 2022 that gave usUm,
an impact fee of $24,000, um, and
some change. And so that was carried along on
the financial report since 2022, but then about a month ago,
it came to light that that was a mistake.
And so-
Boy, that's a big one, huh?
Yeah.
It's-
So were those funds actually transferred, or they were just on your
budget as expected?
They were
added to our financial report as a
incoming-
As an asset
... fee. Yes, as an asset.
Okay.
But it was really, the number was
not a real number. It was just a, um, running
balance or something that just got added in by mistake and
had, um, no connection to anything.
Mm-hmm.
Um, but we just didn't know because it said an impact fee, and at the time we were
getting a lot of impact fees.
Yeah.
The city, you know, the city what's in 2022.
It helps to know that, understand that. Thank you.
You're welcome.
You wanted to make the other kind of mistake.
What do you think?
You're getting money you didn't know that.
Or you think you're getting money,
whatever.
So, anyways, um, I don't know if anybody have any other question.
Has the GoFundMe page been created?
No. Not that I'm aware of. This just, um, because it
happened just a month ago or so, we've just been,
um, trying to decide what to do because we have
certain expenses every month, like our rent and heat we
need.
Mm-hmm.
And all of a sudden we literally have about $5,000
available, and our monthly expenses are, you know,
just to keep the lights on and the rent are $1,000, and that's it go.
A short window.
Very short window.
Mm-hmm.
Yes. But we have put a call out and we're trying to do what we
can.
Thank you.
My name's Janet Jonday. When I first moved to
Orland and saw the Art Center, I was so
amazed that a town this size would have an Art Center.
Such an incredible
display
and art from farther away. It's really wonderful.
So
I hope that we as a community can join together and
find a way to continue to support the Arts Commission.
I know they do more than just manage the Art
Center. Uh,
I feel I've been a recipient of the bounty that
Art Center and the Arts Commission has provided.
And I would be happy to
donate to the GoFundMe.
Um, hearing Valerie talk about the gala that raised money for,
for her animal, uh, spay and neuter surg- surgical
center.
There must be many ideas we could come up with to, um,
as a community,
put the word out and, and have some kind of celebration of the arts
that could bring in money that kind of thing.
So, um, I'm
willing to do my part and I hope that we can find a
way to rectify the situation.
Thank you.
Hello, Ray.
Hello.
Thank you for coming out.
You're welcome. Tell me if you can hear me in the back.
Yes, ma'am.
Uh, we
have already asked our patrons. One of the ways
we generate our own income is to have
people pay $50 a year, and they
become a patron of the arts. We have already
approached them and told them we are in dire straits
through no fault of our own, and through a
mistake that
was not found for four years, we find
ourselves in a very awkward position.
We would have to close our doors,
and we know that the community does not want that.
Um,
the biggest expense that we have, and would need help
with, possibly if the city could help us with
that, is our electric bill.
It's huge, and we all know what those electric
bills are like. If the city could find
a way to just take our electrics bill, we
could manage the rest of it.
Um, I realize this is not a good time
to ask the city to help us, because the city has
its own problems of being over budget, et cetera.
We're not looking for handouts.
Although we are asking for them, and we have already had
many people contributing,
uh, and saying, "We want this to stay." So
realistically, we know that we bring something to the
city that it doesn't have without us, and that doesn't
count all of the special projects that we've done.
We want to keep going forward.
Anything that the city could come up with to help us
would be appreciated.
So that's basically it, and if you have any questions for me,
I'd be happy to answer them.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Ray.
Steve.
Hi there. I'm Steve Elliot. Uh, I'm an Arts Commission- Arts Commissioner, and I
also am a citizen of Orland.
The Arts Commission doesn't have their own money.
Our funds come from the
city. So even the donations that we make
essentially go into the city coffers.
It's just that we have an accounting of our
own, keeping track of the money that we spend and what we
bring in. So
yeah, those numbers,
they're just on paper. They're not money in the bank.
So that money never existed. So the problem, the real
pinch is that,
if we had known a year ago the position that we were in, we could have
made
provisions to keep ourselves going.
But this came up so suddenly and left us with so
little that we're scrambling to get donations
and things like that,
just so that the obligations that we have...
We have a show that's running right now that's supposed to run through-
June
... June. And we're not even sure we're going to have the door open for that one.
We have a big show planned for July.
And we don't want to see the doors closed at all, but
we've put a lot of work into
what's happening and what will happen in the gallery.
So I don't know what the answer is, but just want to let you know what our
position is.
Thank you, Steve.
Okay, do we have other
comments on this?
Yes, ma'am.
Real quick question. You mentioned about the electric bill.
How much is it?
I would defer that to Jill, who's previously been the treasurer for
the commission. The question is, how much is the electric bill
a month?
About $50 per month. Like in July, maybe it's
$1,200 and it just ebbs and flows month by month.
Yeah. The summertime is the worst, but that's also some of the best
time for their shows because we have downtown and pickups happening
and things.
I just thought if we had that
figure in mind, maybe it would
give us some idea.
Okay. Thank you. I think from, I'm the liaison with the
Arts Commission, and I think our discussions
led to it being probably an average of $1,000 a month.
When you take the months that aren't quite so bad and then you add the months that
are summer months and the air conditioning's running, it runs about $1,000 a month.
Between $800 and $1,000 a month, somewhere in there.
Roland Knight, Economic Development Commission.
I don't know what the roof looks like over there, but possibly throwing some solar
panels helps offset some of that electric bill. It helps me in the summer.
It helps me.
The way I look at it, my solar pays for my AC in the summer.
That's about it. But it helps.
Good suggestion.
Okay.
Always sunny in Morganton City.
We are more than grateful for our community, and we
know the struggles of starting a small
nonprofit to get going and off the ground and become
sustainable. We've had our ups and downs, for sure.
And we're at that point where we are becoming very sustainable on our own,
so we want to be a nonprofit that actually gives back, just like the
City of Willow, the Willows Thrift Shop does
that with their thrift shop, and they've helped us the last couple of years, which
is really amazing how everybody comes together.
And with that, we'd be more than happy to put together a fundraiser for the Art
Commission and help them in any way that we can to give
back and help them with their PG&E bill or their rent, however we could
with from the Cats.
Thanks.
Great. Thank you, Valerie. Any other thoughts in the audience?
Okay. We're going to get things all done.
No, I just thought I will shake some trees for you and see if we can get something
nice from that. And appreciate what you guys do, y'all always show
up.
But I know that's the animal with community, so it's something we can do.
But no, appreciate it, and I'm sorry it had to happen.
John,
thoughts?
No.
Well, Steve, with whom I share a last name and striking good
looks-
... I'll see what I can do as well. As I heard John mention, I
think I can help connect you with some resources, too.
Okay.
Thank you.
And I'm not sure if this would come up during budget discussions, but
I did also had a thought, and I consider the art
gallery part of Orleans economic development, and this involved
you, Art.
I know that we had some of those art funds that were for
possibly a city gate.
Could we
have a discussion with the Economic Development Commission that they might want to
reassign some of those funds to another economic development
project, which is the Arts Council?
The money has been there for five years and not been used, and maybe that's
somewhere they could get a little piece of the action without trying to tap into
the general fund further.
I believe that money still sits there. So anyways.
Around $30,000, $32,000.
Yeah.
We're open to that.
Now, I don't know if that means we need to refer the council, the Arts Commission,
to go before the... This is a question for you, Scott, to go
before the Economic Development Commission to ask their thoughts on
that. It's money that's within their coffers.
It's in their ability to use those funds.
Yeah, that would be fine.
Okay.
And we don't have an actual budget, but we can-
But those funds-
We have-
... are earmarked for the EDC to decide how to use them, enable the
application.To make a reservation
Once you've been sent elsewhere, you have to make the reservation to send
elsewhere.
And?
The only caveat with that is
we haven't had an EDC meeting in three months-
Oh
... because of the city
manager situation. So as soon as that could get tied up, we
can have a meeting so that we could discuss it.
Can you not have a meeting without a city manager? Or why?
I don't know if it's-
That's always the way
... that's the way it is, but there's-
And that's a rule? That's the one that runs the meeting.
Is the city manager.
And we rely on them for
roles, history, a lot of stuff like you do.
They're kind of-
Is there any way we can-
I'm sorry. Sorry.
We can schedule a meeting. We can schedule a meeting just
specifically for this one agenda item.
With Janet's situation and our situation, we
didn't feel it was prudent to have an EDC meeting with her limited
hours with-
Right
... the budget situation the city's in.
We felt like her hours were more-
Okay
... appropriated to handle the big stuff.
But yeah, as soon as we have a meeting, we're more than willing
to.
Yeah, I think it's going to come back before us now that Mr.
Goodman has separated his employment.
We will be in the search, and the problem is how long can the
arts commission hold out without additional funding.
Our next scheduled meeting is Tuesday, June 9th.
Okay.
Which is in two and a half weeks.
Okay, and we've also had a little bit of reprieve because Janet is free to
roam around for a little bit. But this also can be discussed during the
budget process.
Okay. Yeah.
This doesn't have to go to UNC.
Okay.
Because we still need to know how much is available still with the art program.
We're still budgeting. We are still in the budgeting, yes. The next meeting, right?
Do you want to send it over?
Yes. Yeah. Okay. We'll see what's available-
Okay
... in the budget.
If I could ask a question. Mr. Wine, thank you for that suggestion.
I think it's a great one. It could certainly bridge this gap,
maybe salve this
wound.
But the real question, Janet, can you attend the June 9th meeting on behalf of the
city and allow them to have that meeting so that-
Sure
... arts commission members could come and speak to them to the topic?
Yeah. We forget that-
There we go. I'm not trying to put pressure on anybody, just-
There's no pressure
... bringing it to the fact that we haven't had a meeting because of the
circumstances.
Thank you for letting us know that.
Okay.
It's important that you need it.
Okay. I
don't believe there's a committee of motion or action we can take other than just-
No
... thank you for the information, and thank you for your time to come out
tonight and I know you've been battling diligently to do everything you can.
And I put it on the agenda primarily because I wanted the transparency and the
public to know that they are attempting
to put together a GoFundMe page. And I did
check with the city attorney to make sure that that was something as the city we
were allowed to do, since the arts commission is a
commission authorized by the city.
So, I wanted this council to know that as well,
since all of you need to know what's going on, and I can't talk to them if I don't
get the okay. Okay? So I think we're in
a place that, cross our words, we're going to find some solutions for everything.
Okay? I think it's pretty unanimous up here.
We're going to find solutions.
Thank you. Thanks for everything you've done.
It's incredible,
this building. And the art is... I think that you're booked all the
way through the end of the year with shows, aren't you? Yes. You are.
Okay. Thank you very much. We're going to move on now.
All right. We have the hazardous material survey report for
824 Fourth Street, the Purity Building, and 912
Third Street, the Carnegie Hall. Janet?
Good evening again, Mayor and city council members.
I believe the council had authorized staff to execute a
$21,000 contract to conduct a comprehensive hazardous
material survey. They contracted with G-One Construction,
and they performed it with the assistance of Vista Environmental
Consulting. They performed pre-renovation
hazardous material surveys for the two buildings, as the mayor said.
This building, and also the former Purity building that's on Fourth
Street.
And this was done in January. The surveys were performed to identify and
sample accessible suspect asbestos-containing
materials, representative building components for the presence
of lead containing surface coatings, lead-based paints,
polychlorinated biphenyls, PCPs-
Mm
...
in light fixture ballasts and other hazardous materials that may be in the path of
a renovation project. So attached, I believe you
probably have reviewed the survey reports, and-
Let's see what's here
... it's structured with individual options.
The city can move forward with each scope independently or combined.
And
also, like I said, it's been separated out, combined or
together. Mr. Clark has been in contact
with the city manager, whoever they will be.
And he would be here tonight, but he was not able to make it.
He said it was not as bad for the asbestos as they thought, but there's a
lot of lead.
And so there might be, I don't know, they would like to go
into the, which is always covered in plastic.
They would like to go in there because they need to go, and they were not able
to get into that spot for this survey, but they still need
to get into the B ship, A ship? Is that what?
Yeah.
To see what else is in there. They think there might be something also in there.
Clearly, for your
review, there was impact
fees, but with this budget,
I don't believe there's that much in the
city hallUm, impact fees to pay
for all of this.
Purely just let the staff know your direction, what
you would like to do.
Okay, public comment?
Online?
No? Okay. Let's start on the other side then.
David?
For me it's like, are we in any danger right now being in this
building? Will we be exposed to stuff floating here?
It didn't look like it to me. He didn't say, when I talked to
Mr. Clark, he didn't say immediately abandon the building.
Yeah.
There's just things that a lot of times, and Paul might, and Zach might be able
to... A lot of times, renovation, you disturb things,
and that's when there
could be a contamination. These ballasts, yeah, disturb.
You'd probably have something. When you
chip away paint so you can paint it again, that would
be when you would be exposed to lead.
But as it stands now...
Yeah. Pretty safe, right?
Until it gets disturbed.
Stay out of that security building.
Yeah.
Yeah. And that's,
like I said, I wasn't here for when they
asked for this report.
I presumed what you needed to know is what's in this report.
Which is,
they sampled, they found out, well, how much asbestos there was, and
what would contain that asbestos, what would contain the
lead.
Okay. Out.
Jen, I would appreciate to find out what
this means. As you
stated, the report shows that there are hazardous materials in both
buildings. Just if they can find out for us
what that means for occupying and using,
especially Carnegie, since we're actively in it.
And then
if we do find anything,
how we can get on, at least for Carnegie, start moving on that.
Thank you.
It's like, I think if you notice in the pictures, they're mostly showing
outside-
Right
... for Carnegie. There really isn't anything other than, I think, the
ballasts.
Yeah.
And that would be only if it was disturbed.
But far as any danger, like I said, he didn't say anything about
that.
John?
You know, Madam Mayor, everyone's looking at these documents.
I was just trying to pull up the, what I read earlier
this weekend,
on this report, and one of the things that I was a little upset with was the
cost of just mitigating it out of the
Purity building
at $131,000 just to clean up something, and we're
just scratching the surface. And we have a library roof that we're going to have to
deal with, 30 some odd thousand dollars worth of mitigation
here. We have to weigh our
finances versus our goals and wishes.
And I would say at this point, we don't spend another dime on the Purity
building.
This could turn out to be a bigger money pit than we've already found out.
I am all in favor of getting that thing out or we're...
I don't know, Zach, we could bury this out by the ponds.
Because I have crew that could probably do it for free.
But this is not good.
And this building too, I mean, I am, I mean, I
guess it has the benefits to the Purity building, to say the least.
We do not have an endless budget, and I'm very concerned that we
start ripping the scab off of a wound.
I've heard everybody's comments, I agree with them.
The unfortunate part is, the missus wants a
fancy car and we can only afford a bicycle, so
manage my expectations. And as somebody who's responsible for the
checkbook, we have to be stalwart in terms of
managing our budget and being future responsible
for making sure we don't go into some projects that could really, really
hurt us in the long haul.
Nice thing is, thanks for not letting us know that we're not sitting in a
hazmat site. They tell you there's lead paint here. We know what the ballasts do.
We know all that stuff. We've got rot and other damage, but we'll have to
cross that bridge in the future. And we might have to, as long as we don't lick the
lead paint windows, because don't forget, that's leaded glass.
Yeah.
We should be good.
That's what I recommend.
And John, real quick. Sorry.
Yeah.
John.
Go ahead.
I think for, when you read that 130,000 for
mitigation, that's not for-
That's not for-
That's for selective destruction before assessment.
So I think there'd be additional costs to that.
Oh, no, 100%.
Yeah.
That's just-
Yeah
... performance, lack of due diligence, age.
That's just the beginning, the scab of the wound. That's just the beginning.
But not flooring or exterior work.
So, and Terry, you'd know better. On your side, did you guys have those VCT
or that vinyl tile that's on your side?
Yes. The-
Yeah
... vinyl was there. What that 130...
Well, I spoke with Will Shepherd, he called me.
Mm-hmm.
And the 130 was to remove the interior
structure down to the studs. So as
part of drawing plans for a renovation project,
he would know what the structural design of that building
was because there's been so many changes over the years.
Right.
The remediation that's required just to get rid of,
it's $7,000 for 1,000-
Right
... holes to look for lead paint, and it's $30,000
plus to remove what they have identified in the way of
asbestos and lead paint so far.
Yeah.
So then the cleanup is $37,000, and if we
decide we want to strip walls down and start talking about renovating and turning
it to city hall, that's where our $130,000 came in.
Okay. Ooh.
Yeah.
I agree with Alex. The one building of concern would be this
one. If there's some issues that we can reasonably address so that
there's full confidence that this building is fully safe for the public
now and in the future, we should do that.
I think as far as the Purity Building goes,
that's a pig in a poke that the city bought.
They've been pouring money into it for years.
I've watched the taxpayers' money, not necessarily ours, it was a grant, I
don't know if Janet remembers, a million dollars.
A million dollars was spent on pretty pictures.
Eventually, what we want to do is go back to the grant process, see if there's
funds available to remove that building to nothing, and
what we'll have is a clean site for future development in the downtown, possibly
for commercial development, possibly for municipal use.
But I think that's the only real solution there, and I wouldn't spend a dime right
now on the Purity Building,
other than some barricades to keep people from going inside.
I think that's the right course of action there.
Okay.
My thoughts on it,
yes, we have to defer because right now we don't have any money to move forward
with any of the project. But also, we
have a real problem with the building, this
black plastic flapping off it. We have to do something.
And the way I see it, that building actually, on that end where the
plastic is,
it's got two-by-fours the entire length of it.
Is it possible just to get up there and at least stop spending $200 to
$400 every two to three weeks because paper keeps
coming off, and get up there and
put quarter-inch plywood to seal that off, making it safe for anyone
underneath, and getting rid of the whole fix it?
Because if we're doing nothing, we still own the property.
We can't just keep putting plastic on.
What's your thoughts, Zach?
My thoughts are to remove the plastic and let it sit open,
leave the wood open. The wood that is actually up there as your upright
studding is actually held to the old window frames from the
grocery market by tie wire.
Oh.
So what's happening right now is the frame, it is
leaning forward, and it's trying to disconnect from the roof
line and fall out into the road. So if we add more weight to
that, it's definitely just going to drop off, possibly injure somebody.
Okay.
But the plastic solution isn't the best solution at this point.
Right?
Just to keep water out in the meantime, but now that it's summer and the wind's
blowing and it's ripped it down to-
Just take it off and leave it
... yeah, take it off, yeah, better than nothing.
Because the rest of it can go
Mm-hmm.
And the option we have, that's not viable.
Okay, let's do that. I think it's honestly-
Thank you, Zach. Welcome.
Appreciate your work.
Welcome.
Okay.
And that will all have to return in a future discussion as to where
we're going to with both this building and what we're going to do in the future.
We can't just leave it there forever. It's pretty sad.
If the city,
we would probably be looking at a maintenance measure if it weren't
anything else, and we don't. So that'll be another discussion for each of them.
Okay, any other thoughts?
Okay, as long as that administrative business, and we have
the city manager, Bird Boulder, for it. Everything? That's...
Now-
Did we do public comment?
Go ahead.
Did we do public comment?
She asked first, and then she asked that.
Yes, sir.
It was before you made all your comments.
I didn't have a comment until you made all your comments.
You know what? I'm the mayor, so I have to say, let's hear
you, Janet, just for a minute.
Okay.
But keep it short, okay?
Covered it with black plastic.
The black plastic-
Blown away in the wind.
We got it down, but that ain't...
I think you know what I'm going to say.
Do you?
Of course you know.
And I'm going to let you say it anyway.
I don't know what you're going to say.
I bet, is it Mill Street School?
I bet when they were deciding what to do with Mill Street School,
they said exactly what John said and exactly what Wade said,
and everybody that knows about that school regrets it.
That building is a historic building.
It was built in the '40s. Anything over, what is it, 50
years, is a historic building. When a year ago they were
talking about building a new city
building
for a million and a half dollars,
it's absolutely ridiculous to not patch
that
when we can save part of history. I hate to see when the
igloo things, I hate for them to go. They're part of Orland.
From an outsider, see
Orland completely different than you all do.
These are wonderful individual things. It's a historic building.
I would just be sick if you let them let it
fantastic.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Yeah.
I thought one person-
Now I brought this up.
This was why Paige told me all of this stuff.
We have igloos.
There we go.
If I can make this really short. You've kind of come up with a
solution, but maybe speaking to the
gentleman who prepared the report, and just passing
that by him and getting the okay
that
we won't have toxic things lying
everywhere. Just an idea.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thanks. We'll make sure we do it safely, whatever we do.
Okay?Okay, and maybe there's the option out there
that this council will have a discussion and decide to sell it.
If we sell it, the public, the general public doesn't have the restrictions
that we as a city council have. We have a much higher
bar
for the public being in a building like that, than if it was sold to somebody
who potentially could preserve it the same way you
did with the Farwood building, the same way I did with my
buildings. And maybe that's
a future for the building, rather than the cost of tearing that
down, knowing the toxicity of it,
is probably the million dollars we have.
It's crazy how expensive these things are.
So anyway, we'll have to bring it back to a future discussion.
But for now, let's at least get rid of the black plastic.
Okay? I think that's an agreement with everyone on this council.
Okay, Janet, it's your turn.
Thank you, Mayor.
Our city planner, Lisa Loja, who works for
HSN out of Redding, will be leaving at the end of
June. She is moving to New Mexico. I
did call her company, Bruce Grove, and I asked him,
because they do not intend to renew our contract.
And of course, I called to make sure there wasn't anything
that was
something we needed to address and might have been a concern.
He says, no, they just do not have anybody on staff that would do the same
thing she did, which is to work for a city to do their planning.
So, I reached out to the third person on our list that we had
interviewed, which is Jake Morley from Element Solutions.
I had a talk with him last Thursday, so I wasn't able to put this on the agenda.
He is willing to step in
and do our city planning. He does work for the city of
Colusa right now.
And he is also a developer also. He does land
development too.
He said he'd be willing to work
six months, a year.
He would be in for two days a week. He's very
accommodating for us. He kind of knows our situation.
He was recommended by Mr. Rago, has worked with him.
Bruce Grove, he's with HSN, the company we do have right now.
He recommended him, and also our building inspector, Nick Patterson,
has worked with him. So I feel that it would be a good
fit, and he'd be able to work probably
as soon as we can have him. But Lisa
doesn't intend to be here till the end of June.
So, let's see. The next thing is that I know we've all been,
Jennifer's been bugging you about whether you can attend the ambulance study
meeting. That has been canceled. The consultant cannot be there, so
it might be the first week in June. But be prepared to see
another flurry of emails that ask you if a certain date
is correct. It'll probably be at Success One Center because it will
be the
city council for Willows, Orland, and then the board supervisors.
That's the only two things that I have.
And that's it.
Thank you.
Okay, any other--
Okay, I will ask a question. Now that we have the
separation with Joe Goodman, do we set that for a
special meeting? We can get discussing
publication and advertising to find a new study
manager. How do we move forward with that?
However, council would like to, we can agendize it for the next regular
meeting. That was kind of the plan, but-
Out of all of you, Bill, how do we need to get on it, or do we want you to-
Actually, I'd like to see if we can get staff direction to reach out to Charles and
just these cities, and let's get this ball rolling, and then hopefully we'll have
something at least on here where you guys are attending.
Before we come back to that meeting of, like, what have we gotten done?
Because we're meeting in the fall.
Yeah.
But now it's not good. But it's not good for staff.
We're good now. At the end of the month, we're going to have three people doing
five people's jobs. Very concerned about all that.
So we'll get all the way.
So that's it, the direction of the staff? Or can we even do that?
Is it something-
No, but I think that was kind of the plan.
So yeah.
Let me get on to it.
Yeah.
All right, so verbal reports.
Council?
No.
No? John?
Nothing bad about the
community. Love the place. Looking forward to good weather.
And whoever brought the wind this evening, Broadway
Lane, boy. Why you even bother going 10 with you?
Only 12 calls Saturday. Geez.
It's gone tomorrow.
Just thank you. Glad to be here for my first full meeting.
I heard these meetings went really long, but I think that's a pretty good time.
We're going to get out of here, so keep it up.
Plan.
Good management.
And work for a long time, yeah. Yeah, and have it for another walk.
Yeah.
Okay, I have a whole list of things now that, and the city that I've
been with her was very happy to see that in that sanctuary
gala was well attended and very well done up.
And thank you, Valerie, for what you do.
The Arts Commission, again, thank you for all you do.
I attended their special meeting concerning what we'll talk about
tonight. LACTO is
meeting and regularly talking. Janet is the
LACTO administrator or-
Executive officer
... executive officer.
Mm-hmm.
And so we'll be having more discussions with them concerning our west side
annexation soon.
The Library Commission, very exciting, Jody, what you're doing
with the schools, that whole report of that
MOUTo bring our students together with our library.
Orland's probably one of the only ones in the north state doing such
an aggressive and well-thought-out plan
to get our kids, every kid in school, involved with our
library. Unbelievable how many kids our library
reaches in the many ways. And one of the things coming up is your
wildlife, what is it called?
Wild Things.
And when is that?
June 15th, I think.
Okay. And it's going to come fast and furious.
So anybody that wants to really see a cool program the
library puts together, it's called Wild Things, and they bring all of these wild
animals right out here in the park, and hundreds,
well, it was probably over 100 last year, kids and people get to come and see
the animals, with affection, learn about the animals, as well
as the music program that you have coming on, too, which is, when
does that begin, Paul?
We're working on... We've got the music garden instruments
ordered,
PVA for when we'll have that kind of thing.
And this is stations around the park where kids can go
around and-
It'll be on the west side of the library.
Okay.
That'll be-
Where they can go and hear and feel and see musical
instruments. It's a permanent exhibit.
Yeah.
So that was pretty cool, too, with the animal.
And Joey got grants, I think, for most of this.
Okay.
Or donations. I know the wildlife was donations.
Fair parade, we did the judging. John,
Casey, at the school.
They have a new one. Miss Martha doesn't show up.
No?
Never heard. I never heard of it.
I don't know. There was some pretty fun ones out there.
Great.
I also went there and was the judge for their forestry exhibit.
A lot of really young kids, or high school kids, really, into forestry, and
that's really a dying
art. It was cool to see so many kids involved.
And then Keller Williams, for those of you who do not know,
Keller Williams Realty,
which is Becky Jones, right?
Yeah.
Yeah. Becky Jones got the Keller Williams folks, a group of
them, to go out and do public service.
There were probably, I think she said 40-some, almost
50 of them, and they came and painted our park benches, our park
drinking fountain, the side of the library building.
All of them came one morning, beautiful day that it was.
They were done by 2:00, and they all came over and had an
after party. And boy, those people know how to party.
So that was a lot of fun with all of them.
We thank them very much for the effort that they put in to making Orland look
good.
High school had a civic engagement program last night,
and Alex, Tracy, and John were at that,
where they actually have a program that was initially
state-funded and now is just funded by their own
activity, their high school, where kids get together in
groups. They come up with what they see as a need in their community.
They spend the entire year during their senior year planning for it, going
out, reaching out to our community.
One of them was for West Haven,
went and spent time with older adults and learned and heard
and
touched their lives and were touched by the older adults.
We also had, it was called, what was the swim program?
Civic Engagement.
No, what was the swim pro-
Oh, swim, I'm sorry, Whale Tails. Sorry.
Whale Tails, which is, the Red Cross puts together, and it is to
teach kids how to swim. And they went out to third grade classrooms throughout
our city to talk to kids about water
safety and how to stay alive
by staying out of the water a lot of the times, or what to do if you find yourself
in the water. So these kids were amazing.
They put all these programs together and done a whole PowerPoint.
It was a really neat thing last night.
And the Orland, last one I have here is the Orland Women's Club
has their lunch tomorrow. And they, of course, all
of you know, are a very big part of our community as well.
And we thank them all for what they do.
I know some of you in the audience are part of that group, so we'll see you.
Okay, and that's the end of it for me.
And we'll have that last gavel thing during the-