1 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:42,020 Number 14th, 2026, 6 p.m., and we'll begin with a, we'll 2 00:03:00,490 --> 00:03:23,330 just, I don't have the sheets, so we'll just say this here. Then he's watching. Paul Langerd. Paul Langerd. Jeremy Hollis. Jeremy Hollis here. Robert Duplicy. And Robert Duplicy is here. Scott Cooper, Charlene, have both excused emphasis. That's right. Scott Cooper and Charlene, as well as Mike Crager. 3 00:03:23,330 --> 00:03:25,790 I think he was going to try to jump online. 4 00:03:26,410 --> 00:03:28,830 Yeah, but KLTV is still the ones that didn't. 5 00:03:29,050 --> 00:03:33,470 Okay, all right, so those three have been excused 6 00:03:33,470 --> 00:03:35,010 and some other stuff going on. 7 00:03:35,610 --> 00:03:39,010 All right, we'll jump right into the flexible. 8 00:03:44,390 --> 00:03:48,730 The United States of America and to the Republican 9 00:03:48,730 --> 00:03:51,950 proposed a stance on one nation under God 10 00:03:51,950 --> 00:04:02,880 individual with liberty and justice for all right mayor's address council 11 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:09,340 I don't know you see we kind of upgraded the city council chambers with the 12 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:19,360 our logo hopefully like that just trying to make things professional and then the 13 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:25,660 The other thing under mayor's address is I have a proclamation, mayor's proclamation 14 00:04:25,660 --> 00:04:31,940 I'd like to do tonight and it's small so I need to use my old man reading glasses here. 15 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:46,240 So tonight's mayoral proclamation is proclaiming September 25th 925 as Dolly Parton Day in 16 00:04:47,740 --> 00:04:53,240 Where as Dolly Parton is an internationally beloved entertainer, songwriter, author, 17 00:04:54,560 --> 00:05:00,820 philanthropist, businesswoman, and humanitarian whose remarkable life has inspired generations 18 00:05:00,820 --> 00:05:08,080 through her music generosity, preservation, and unwavering commitment to help others. 19 00:05:08,940 --> 00:05:14,220 Where as Dolly Parton, use her success not simply to entertain, but to make the world better 20 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:23,120 place, supporting education, literacy, children, disaster relief, healthcare, families, and 21 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:29,960 communities in need, and also note that we even had her program right here in our library. 22 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:38,140 Dolly Parton founded the Dolly Parton and Imagination Library, a program that provides 23 00:05:38,140 --> 00:05:44,400 a free, high quality books to children, inspiring a love reading, a love of reading and giving 24 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,000 children the opportunity to imagine a brighter future. 25 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:54,160 And whereas the Dolly Parton Imagine Library has been a part of Rainier community for several 26 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,800 years providing local children with books, imagination, and opportunity. 27 00:05:59,660 --> 00:06:05,280 And whereas Dolly Parton's contributions extended far beyond the stage, including her support 28 00:06:07,130 --> 00:06:13,780 of various programs, Dolly Parton has demonstrated the kindness, generosity, humility, 29 00:06:13,780 --> 00:06:19,380 hard work in treating people with dignity can have an extraordinary impact on the 30 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:23,660 world. Whereas the City of Rainier recognizes the positive example of 31 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:30,640 Deli Parton and has set by encouraging people to lift others up, give when they 32 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:36,520 can, dream big, work hard and never underestimate the difference one person can 33 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:42,060 make. Whereas the people of Rainier believe that a little more kindness, compassion, 34 00:06:42,060 --> 00:06:47,560 generation, generosity and optimism would make our community and our world a better place. 35 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:53,780 Now therefore I, Jerry Cole, Mayor of the Rainier, Mayor Rainier, City of Rainier, Oregon, 36 00:06:54,100 --> 00:07:03,300 do hereby proclaim that September 25th, 9-5 shall forever be recognized as Dolly Parton 37 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:04,560 Day in the City of Rainier. 38 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:10,320 On this day I encourage the citizens of Rainier to celebrate Dolly Parton's contributions 39 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,220 and perhaps do what Dolly would do. 40 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:17,820 Be kind, help someone who needs it, 41 00:07:18,220 --> 00:07:21,340 give a child a book, encourage someone's dream, 42 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,500 lend a hand without expecting anything in return, 43 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,060 treat everyone with dignity and respect, 44 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,840 and when given the opportunity to make a difference, 45 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:31,880 make the difference. 46 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,300 May Dolly Parton Day serve as a reminder 47 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:37,700 that you don't have to be famous, 48 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:41,060 wealthiness, wealthy, or powerful to make the world a better place. 49 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:48,960 Sometimes all it takes is one kind word, one helping hand, one generous act, or one person 50 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:49,780 will end to care. 51 00:07:51,020 --> 00:07:54,680 So I signed this, the 14th of September, 2026. 52 00:08:03,290 --> 00:08:07,410 All right, so don't forget to be good on 925. 53 00:08:08,010 --> 00:08:09,990 Well, we like you to be good every day, but you know. 54 00:08:11,310 --> 00:08:11,850 What's that? 55 00:08:12,010 --> 00:08:12,970 We'll extract. 56 00:08:13,670 --> 00:08:13,710 We'll extract. 57 00:08:14,850 --> 00:08:15,490 All right. 58 00:08:15,490 --> 00:08:21,230 All right, moving along, we're going to do visitors comments. 59 00:08:24,150 --> 00:08:24,430 All right. 60 00:08:26,830 --> 00:08:29,450 Michael Self, do you want to come up? 61 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:33,720 Good evening, Council. 62 00:08:34,620 --> 00:08:34,900 Good evening. 63 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,560 Always nice to see you guys again. 64 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:39,880 Today, I got nothing to complain about. 65 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,840 I just want to bring to you guys' awareness the make on Washington way 66 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,600 between military and the stop sign. 67 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:55,440 If you look up all the maple trees that are along there there's some big heavy 68 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,740 branches up there. I don't know who the property owners are on the both sides of 69 00:09:00,740 --> 00:09:05,940 that road but this must be probably a very very wet winner which is going to 70 00:09:05,940 --> 00:09:11,200 make those trees very heavy and it could snap on top of cable lines, telephone 71 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:17,540 lines. There's no power lines there in that section but if you guys can take a 72 00:09:17,540 --> 00:09:23,180 chance, drive down that road and look up because somebody's going to get hurt on that road 73 00:09:23,180 --> 00:09:28,100 eventually. There's already been a couple of trees snapped last year. You can see the 74 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:32,180 remnants of it. I just don't want to see anybody get hurt. That's all I got for you. 75 00:09:32,540 --> 00:09:38,960 Where was that again? Between mills and the stop sign on Washington Way, West Green. 76 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:55,800 Yeah, that's one section, Mill Street is when you're going from the stop sign down the 77 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:01,920 first road to the right, from that area to the stop sign, and like I said, if you go 78 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:07,940 through there, and actually there's one on the street as you come around the corner, it's 79 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:15,200 you pretty low. I'd hit it with a trailer on my boat. So I reached out to the PUD. I know they 80 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:21,800 got a program where they just kind of look at it. They're pretty big names. So that's all I got. 81 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:28,160 All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I just want to make sure Doris did you have any comments? 82 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:29,860 Okay. All right. 83 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,540 All right. 84 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,560 I have a front row seat and what's going on up at my cul-de-sac. 85 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:52,460 I watched them haul out, I lost track of the number of dirty, they called it dirty gravel 86 00:10:53,140 --> 00:11:00,260 until it got so deep that I go out every morning or every evening when they were done 87 00:11:00,260 --> 00:11:02,540 and I would check it out and take some pictures. 88 00:11:03,220 --> 00:11:05,180 I felt like I was living on the edge of a cliff. 89 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:08,880 Now they've started to, and they have hauled in, 90 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,300 countless numbers of clean gravel. 91 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:17,300 And it's built up and built up so that now I feel safe, 92 00:11:17,540 --> 00:11:18,320 safe hurt. 93 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:24,740 And they said that they found trash in the gravel, 94 00:11:25,340 --> 00:11:26,360 a broken doll. 95 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:53,640 I have a front row seat there and it's looking great and the guys are really friendly, you know I say you know this nosy lady across the street but I got this front row seat right here like it's my clip so I want to say thank you very much for fixing it all and I've been backed up there was today to see what they've done but I'm sure it's good and the guys are nice. 96 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:56,120 So thank you very much. 97 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,420 So Russ and I went up there earlier today, 98 00:11:58,420 --> 00:12:00,020 and it looks like they're wrapping up. 99 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:06,300 Yes, I asked them how soon this was going to go on, 100 00:12:06,580 --> 00:12:08,580 and they said the middle of the week, 101 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,000 so Wednesday, Thursday they'll be done. 102 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,780 That's what they said last week, so thank you. 103 00:12:16,060 --> 00:12:18,120 All right, Shelley Adams. 104 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,560 I'm new here, so excuse my nerves. 105 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:37,420 I'm Shelley Adams. I live at 29808 Old Rayner Road number two. And I'm here regarding an urgency as some tree trimming. That's on our property that's owned by the city up there. 106 00:12:38,460 --> 00:12:48,760 It's urgency because we're not waiting for something to happen. It already has a tree has fallen down. Many trees have fallen down. One on my neighbor's brand new car. She hadn't even had a week. 107 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:59,480 and I'm just worried. It's a safety issue. And I think the Public Works Department has been out there and the RVRS and I think we're just waiting for an OKO approval. 108 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:06,700 So it's really, it's not if it's going to happen, it's when it's going to happen. 109 00:13:07,260 --> 00:13:11,320 So we actually do have a quote for approval included in the package. 110 00:13:11,780 --> 00:13:17,740 But all my neighbors here to verify, we've been there for years and this is not the first tree that's fallen on this property and my neighbors adjacent to me. 111 00:13:17,740 --> 00:13:24,960 So it's on the agenda tonight. Thank you very much. Yeah, and actually let's see if you look up at the screen there 112 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:29,400 That's that's the bid. So don't let us forget that that's up there. Yeah 113 00:13:32,570 --> 00:13:38,450 Well, they need to approve the bid and then we can get a schedule, but there so that's it location of a job up there 114 00:13:38,450 --> 00:13:45,230 2 9 8 8 8 old Rainier Road to take down four maple trees clean up mess on or pass the burn. That's good 115 00:13:45,910 --> 00:13:47,770 Tell you why if you're here about the trees 116 00:13:50,170 --> 00:13:55,750 specifically, I'll let anybody comment when we get to that topic, so it's around the topic. 117 00:13:57,310 --> 00:14:00,430 So is anybody want to do a comment that's not about the trees? 118 00:14:04,340 --> 00:14:04,560 Okay. 119 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,380 And maybe we'll do comments if the vote's no. 120 00:14:11,780 --> 00:14:13,180 So we can make it a little quicker. 121 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,040 So how's that sound? 122 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:25,680 Okay, then you could just tell them how crazy they were to vote now or something, but we'll 123 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,720 do it that way so we move it along. 124 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:33,320 So just making sure is there anybody else that would like to do visitor's comments tonight? 125 00:14:36,210 --> 00:14:37,550 Okay, we're going to move right along. 126 00:14:40,470 --> 00:14:42,270 Approval of the agenda. 127 00:14:42,270 --> 00:14:43,110 agenda 128 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:55,000 is presented. All right is there a second. I'll second. All right motion on 129 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,780 a second to approve the agenda. Any discussion? All those? 130 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:15,620 All right. Opposed? Right, the I's have it. Consider approval of the consent agenda. That's the August 3, regular council meeting, minutes, and the monthly financial statements. I 131 00:15:27,590 --> 00:15:39,370 have a question on the 132 00:15:39,370 --> 00:15:44,250 three times. Actually, you have to have the motion. Oh, I'm sorry. If you would move the whole second, 133 00:15:44,390 --> 00:15:45,790 there won't do discussion. 134 00:15:47,810 --> 00:15:55,490 You're fine. No. Is that motion? Yeah. I'm not okay. 135 00:15:56,210 --> 00:16:03,270 A motion a second to approve the consent agenda. Is there any discussion? Denise. Okay, sorry. Yeah, 136 00:16:03,610 --> 00:16:08,810 so I was wondering, but Larry, was that was that entry three times? Was that split among three 137 00:16:08,810 --> 00:16:16,350 different. It's a total of $4,000. Okay, that's what I thought. And then our 138 00:16:16,350 --> 00:16:20,410 purse, that got resolved in August, so. No, what? Purs. 139 00:16:27,290 --> 00:16:29,130 No, was, did we get 140 00:16:29,130 --> 00:16:33,930 everything done on time for purses? Yeah, we just, uh, we need purses every month. 141 00:16:34,510 --> 00:16:34,510 Okay. 142 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:45,820 Any other questions? I just had a question. What is the, uh, the line item 143 00:16:45,820 --> 00:16:55,920 a random US D.O.T. McConnell drug testing. Okay I'll just just race random they just randomly get 144 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:57,580 pulled. Okay yeah 145 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:07,380 I just saw the word random. 146 00:17:09,860 --> 00:17:10,920 Random expenses. 147 00:17:14,620 --> 00:17:15,800 Any other questions? 148 00:17:18,830 --> 00:17:19,630 All right all 149 00:17:19,630 --> 00:17:20,190 those in favor. 150 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:27,860 Oppose? Right the ice have it. All right I'm going to switch some stuff around here 151 00:17:27,860 --> 00:17:36,760 And we'd like to do the wastewater plant M.A.O. first because Councillor Langer's got 152 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:43,610 to leave here a little bit. This is one that needs resolution one way or another. 153 00:17:43,950 --> 00:17:45,010 So rest your mind, 154 00:17:47,180 --> 00:17:50,080 top brief in on the M.A.O. 155 00:17:52,980 --> 00:17:53,500 whoever wants to. 156 00:17:53,540 --> 00:18:00,120 Yeah, I can bet on this. So I've put up on the screen. This is the most recent iteration 157 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:06,520 of our agreement with DEQ and the deadlines that we're looking at, right, under it. 158 00:18:07,380 --> 00:18:15,000 So we're on track right now with everything, but in about a year, just over a year, we're 159 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,980 going to be expected to complete and submit a preliminary design report to DEQ for review 160 00:18:18,980 --> 00:18:20,700 and approval, right? 161 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,100 So we've gone back and forth on this. 162 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:27,000 So, that's to put it in context. 163 00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:30,280 All right, we've got this agreement. 164 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,020 That's for us to support them. 165 00:18:35,020 --> 00:18:40,650 And we've got a one-pager here that I handed out to council ahead of time. 166 00:18:40,750 --> 00:18:41,950 I'm throwing it up on the screen. 167 00:18:43,890 --> 00:18:46,110 So, remember, a while back. 168 00:18:48,370 --> 00:18:50,690 We've been under the semi-0 for a while, right? 169 00:18:50,690 --> 00:18:58,810 And at one point, the state said, okay, you pre-approved for all these different loan packages and I presented that to you. 170 00:18:59,450 --> 00:19:02,450 And then I stopped halfway through and said, you know what, I don't feel right about this. 171 00:19:02,810 --> 00:19:06,930 DQ has approached us, our regulators, about this idea. 172 00:19:07,190 --> 00:19:12,190 They're realizing that, like right now and during the summer, we're not at capacity. 173 00:19:12,830 --> 00:19:14,890 The wastewater plant is nowhere near capacity. 174 00:19:15,710 --> 00:19:20,330 And they came to the realization, like we did, that the issue was that 175 00:19:20,330 --> 00:19:22,210 our collection system is leaky. 176 00:19:22,950 --> 00:19:25,950 We need to fix our pipes to reduce the amount of water getting into that. 177 00:19:26,390 --> 00:19:29,430 And that's where they've given us a couple of years to get that figured out. 178 00:19:29,690 --> 00:19:30,730 We've been working on it. 179 00:19:31,350 --> 00:19:35,250 And we've got it down now to where we've been talking about a screw press. 180 00:19:36,110 --> 00:19:41,350 Okay, we're going to do an expansion, any kind of expansion because the state's requiring it. 181 00:19:42,110 --> 00:19:47,590 The only option you have that's going to result in any revenue coming back to the city is a screw press. 182 00:19:47,590 --> 00:19:50,230 So, you know, Russ and I did our field trips. 183 00:19:50,410 --> 00:19:54,910 We went out to sweet home where our engineers had helped them get a screw press, scap-hoos, 184 00:19:55,150 --> 00:19:55,450 similarly. 185 00:19:57,290 --> 00:20:00,750 And how it's looking is that a screw press will cost around $4 million. 186 00:20:02,090 --> 00:20:04,150 We wouldn't have to pay any debt back. 187 00:20:05,090 --> 00:20:09,390 So most of the city's debt service is paid off in a couple of years and a lot of it is related 188 00:20:09,390 --> 00:20:14,290 to the last round of expansions at the wastewater plant, which is why I balked at the idea of compounding 189 00:20:14,290 --> 00:20:15,390 that debt further. 190 00:20:15,390 --> 00:20:20,290 saying, well, wait, we haven't grown at all, why are we having to increase capacity? 191 00:20:21,910 --> 00:20:27,930 But if you get, if you do the screw press, you'd get the septage revenue back, which is 192 00:20:27,930 --> 00:20:31,790 the reason that we had to increase the sewer rates is because we lost out on all that 193 00:20:31,790 --> 00:20:35,830 septage revenue and the system has to pay for itself, right? 194 00:20:37,170 --> 00:20:43,930 So what's on the table now is we've been pre-approved and it's essentially a $4 million 195 00:20:43,930 --> 00:20:50,510 dollar loan with up to 50% not to exceed 2 million of principal forgiveness. 196 00:20:51,190 --> 00:20:54,790 That all changes as of October 1st, right, that window shuts. 197 00:20:55,730 --> 00:21:00,950 So what the state's looking for, what DEQ is looking for, is something in the minutes 198 00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:06,830 of this meeting to reflect that you guys are authorizing us to move forward so they can 199 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:08,070 start the paperwork for that. 200 00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:10,310 So that's kind of the long and short of it. 201 00:21:10,850 --> 00:21:13,550 Well, and then you have three to five years to use it, right? 202 00:21:14,090 --> 00:21:14,250 Yes. 203 00:21:14,850 --> 00:21:18,510 And so, the thing that's due most immediately is the design. 204 00:21:19,330 --> 00:21:23,350 So, we have to have the design work to DEQ in about a year. 205 00:21:25,310 --> 00:21:29,910 And from then, I think you don't actually have to pay it back until afterwards, 206 00:21:30,450 --> 00:21:38,010 until after the construction is done, by then, our current debt service for the sewer plant will be paid off. 207 00:21:38,010 --> 00:21:43,430 And right now that runs about three-quarters of a million dollars a year, that goes into 208 00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:46,890 the sewer fund, that goes straight out of the sewer fund to pay for that debt service. 209 00:21:48,370 --> 00:21:52,770 So that's what we're looking at right now, that's the decision that needs to be made. 210 00:21:56,340 --> 00:22:00,960 And unlike the last time I presented you guys with this, I actually do feel comfortable 211 00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:05,080 presenting you with this, because I want to be able to look everyone in town in the eye 212 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,760 and say, you know what, we spent the last couple of years working to get you the best deal 213 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:14,220 So you could get, it would increase capacity at the plant, which is one of the things DECU wants. 214 00:22:15,220 --> 00:22:20,360 Make it easier to process solids at the plant, but also enable us to take 215 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:21,940 step-dig and get the revenue from that. 216 00:22:22,380 --> 00:22:29,960 The other three things that I like about the plan, one, $2 million is being forgiven. 217 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,060 So it's not really $4 million alone, it's a $2 million loan. 218 00:22:34,060 --> 00:22:34,900 possibility. 219 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:35,500 Possibility. 220 00:22:36,140 --> 00:22:36,240 Right. 221 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:37,180 Possibility. 222 00:22:37,260 --> 00:22:38,300 But if we don't act tonight. 223 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:38,520 Right. 224 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,200 There's no chance of, if I give him a strap, that. 225 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:41,440 Yeah. 226 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,340 Timing-wise, we got three to five years to use it. 227 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,360 Well, I guess there's four things I like. 228 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:52,680 The other one is the possibility of takingceptage again. 229 00:22:53,420 --> 00:23:00,140 And so with the screen press, we would put the seven receiving station online that we purchased. 230 00:23:00,140 --> 00:23:04,300 was to have a store of stink to probably to accept it. 231 00:23:04,460 --> 00:23:04,640 Yeah. 232 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,100 So I like that possibility because that's 233 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,420 a direct benefit to the rate payers. 234 00:23:13,340 --> 00:23:21,800 The other thing that I like is the forgiveness already 235 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:22,480 said that. 236 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,280 Oh, is timing wise, we're going to be paying off one loan. 237 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,840 We won't have a payment on that one anymore. 238 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,540 and then timing wise, we'll start paying on this one. 239 00:23:34,940 --> 00:23:39,980 So I think that serves on $2 million is considered less 240 00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:41,580 than what we were looking at before. 241 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:44,360 Because before, we were looking at like, well, yeah. 242 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:47,500 And I looked at those numbers and said, gosh, I just, 243 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:51,900 this is like three generations of briniere residents 244 00:23:51,900 --> 00:23:55,480 that are going to be saddled with this debt, $12 million. 245 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:56,500 And for what? 246 00:23:56,780 --> 00:23:58,540 But in this case, you say, no. 247 00:24:00,020 --> 00:24:06,760 2 million over 30 years and it'll be generating revenue that we can use to pay off the debt. 248 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:08,840 What's everybody else's thought? 249 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,940 There's a question on the line here, so at the end of the pre-construction period, 250 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:18,100 Rainier can increase the loan amount when ready to start construction? 251 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:24,980 Yeah, I think we're approved for the up to 12.7 million but we don't have to use it all. 252 00:24:24,980 --> 00:24:30,460 Well, this way if something comes up, for example, I mean, 253 00:24:30,660 --> 00:24:35,400 Klatsk and I a while ago got $10 million for their wastewater plant. 254 00:24:35,620 --> 00:24:37,780 And they were overjoyed, right? 255 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:38,700 Oh, this is tremendous. 256 00:24:39,020 --> 00:24:43,200 Well, by the time they actually got to that phase, the cost of that jumped and 257 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:43,960 jumped and jumped. 258 00:24:44,620 --> 00:24:50,860 And now they're having to stick a graduating fee on people's utility bills to make 259 00:24:50,860 --> 00:24:54,720 up the difference of the extra 20 million that they need for their planned upgrades. 260 00:24:55,260 --> 00:25:00,460 So this way you have a little bit of wiggle room, if need be, but I'm still hoping that 261 00:25:00,460 --> 00:25:04,260 we can keep it to 4 million total with half of it being forgiven. 262 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:07,460 You're not going to get a better deal than that, ever. 263 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,960 And we still have a subgroup by the queue, 264 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:12,960 that too. 265 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:13,680 Yeah. 266 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,980 So we're hoping, because you mentioned about the storage tank, and we saw that, 267 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:22,920 and they 268 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,880 gallons is what that looks like. The other things that DEQ could require would 269 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,920 that be something that we could tack on to the lung or do we have to come up with 270 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:35,900 it? 271 00:25:36,020 --> 00:25:40,500 We could add it because it's known that's what the extra amount in there is for. Is anything 272 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:46,440 extra? Okay. So once our permit is renewed if it ever does, I'm sure there'll be some upgrades 273 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:51,220 to the plant because everything made to plant is pretty old. So I'm sure DEQ can require 274 00:25:58,270 --> 00:26:05,610 I mean, there's no other way, so I think I'll make a motion to move forward with the funding wastewater funding. 275 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,140 All right, is there a second? 276 00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:10,320 A second. 277 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,620 All right, second by Robert. 278 00:26:14,420 --> 00:26:17,400 All right, motion and second, is there any discussion? 279 00:26:29,260 --> 00:26:30,760 Just, I'm out of half to have you. 280 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,700 Not saying anything, it's not an open forum. 281 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:34,380 Sorry. 282 00:26:34,380 --> 00:26:35,560 It's 283 00:26:43,460 --> 00:26:49,150 not really a return on investment scenario. 284 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,440 It's more like meeting the terms of the MAO. 285 00:26:58,640 --> 00:26:59,000 Exactly. 286 00:26:59,860 --> 00:27:01,360 Is what we're doing because- 287 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:03,120 Return on to investments bonus. 288 00:27:05,420 --> 00:27:09,860 And this is literally the only way in which we could expand capacity at the plant that will 289 00:27:09,860 --> 00:27:10,960 actually generate revenue. 290 00:27:11,260 --> 00:27:15,380 I mean, anything else is just a sunk cost that's gone and debt service. 291 00:27:15,380 --> 00:27:17,960 is at least this way, we have something that we could use 292 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,440 to generate revenue on the back end to pay off the debt. 293 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:21,900 We have to have the screw press 294 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:25,680 that's selling way to process to get the stolen 295 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,380 where we can instead of sending some pictures. 296 00:27:28,020 --> 00:27:28,200 Yeah. 297 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:29,560 Is this the only way about it? 298 00:27:30,180 --> 00:27:31,280 All right, all those in favor? 299 00:27:31,940 --> 00:27:32,420 All right. 300 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:33,560 Opposed? 301 00:27:34,460 --> 00:27:35,580 All right, the ICE have it. 302 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,880 All right, now we're going to go back to our forester's 303 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:40,460 presentation. 304 00:27:48,210 --> 00:27:48,610 Welcome. 305 00:27:48,910 --> 00:27:49,250 Welcome. 306 00:27:49,990 --> 00:27:50,730 Congratulations, man. 307 00:27:51,470 --> 00:27:51,750 Thanks. 308 00:27:51,750 --> 00:27:58,010 Yeah, I haven't got to see you so it's good to see all of you. It's been a while I'm just kind of kind of give you guys a brief 309 00:27:58,010 --> 00:28:02,450 update on where we're at in the watershed kind of something that I would like to 310 00:28:03,750 --> 00:28:08,950 sort of contemplating doing some harvesting and maybe some back and forth about that a little bit. 311 00:28:12,230 --> 00:28:18,610 The market has been sort of stable. You know, you hear a lot of gossip. Now I got off the phone this morning with 312 00:28:18,610 --> 00:28:25,530 Hampton lumber and I was sort of shocked honestly at where the price is. I thought it was a lot 313 00:28:25,530 --> 00:28:32,110 lower than it is. I've had them come out and look at this sale that I would like to kind of put 314 00:28:32,110 --> 00:28:37,390 up at some point. I had it and then you know the market sort of went south on me and I had this 315 00:28:37,390 --> 00:28:44,730 number in my head of $740,000 and he told me it's really I can probably give you close to $775 316 00:28:44,730 --> 00:28:51,270 right now which I was like whoa that's good I mean so I will say the inventory is 317 00:28:51,270 --> 00:28:55,350 on most of the mills they're at capacity so it would be hard right this second 318 00:28:55,350 --> 00:29:02,110 for us to sell our logs but it's there it seems to be pretty stable and part 319 00:29:02,110 --> 00:29:05,570 of the catalyst for me sort of wanting to do this it's been a while since we 320 00:29:05,570 --> 00:29:09,390 harvested and there's been some changes in the rules as far as the stream 321 00:29:09,390 --> 00:29:16,790 buffers. It didn't have a huge impact on us, but what it did change is where the fish use 322 00:29:17,350 --> 00:29:18,950 goes up into the watershed. 323 00:29:21,810 --> 00:29:25,930 We went from basically having one fish barrier to four, and we're 324 00:29:25,930 --> 00:29:27,630 going to have to chip away at fixing them. 325 00:29:30,330 --> 00:29:33,990 It's mandated basically for us to log. 326 00:29:38,590 --> 00:29:39,150 We're 327 00:29:39,150 --> 00:29:42,570 little bit more money in the coffers, not that we're going to eat up what we have, but it just 328 00:29:42,570 --> 00:29:48,830 makes it look a little bit better if it's just a constant in the red. And going forward, it's 329 00:29:48,830 --> 00:29:53,390 hard to predict where we're going to be at with the market, but it does seem to be fairly stable. 330 00:29:54,730 --> 00:29:58,730 I know Stimson Lumber, they've got a new mill that's supposed to be coming online. 331 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:24,880 I'm going to talk to him about a month ago. He thinks that that's going to drive the price up a little bit more. So, that being said, I would sort of like the OK to kind of get this ball rolling. It's not for sure. I'll come back with the numbers and, you know, all of the final say, but I'd kind of like to get it all permitted, sort of start the thing going because it takes a little bit for me to get it all organized and get us a lot for us to sell our logs. 332 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:28,720 So anyway, that's kind of where I'm at. 333 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,760 You know if you guys want to ask some questions about it, I'd be more than happy 334 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:37,420 But that's kind of kind of where I'm at with that. I kind of feel like you know, it's been several years 335 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:38,920 and 336 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:45,560 Playing this market is tough and I'm not sure really going forward is going to get a lot better 337 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,800 time soon 338 00:30:47,620 --> 00:30:48,060 so 339 00:30:48,060 --> 00:30:51,820 I kind of feel like now would be a good time 340 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:55,620 Any questions? 341 00:30:56,460 --> 00:30:57,980 So I do have that. 342 00:30:57,980 --> 00:30:58,480 Yeah, sure. 343 00:30:58,700 --> 00:30:58,960 What do you got? 344 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:00,420 Mr. Mayor of Councilor. 345 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,340 Pat, I would like to see a couple of things. 346 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:03,620 Yeah. 347 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,460 And I agree that the timing could not be better 348 00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:07,360 in the market right now. 349 00:31:07,620 --> 00:31:07,780 Yeah. 350 00:31:08,420 --> 00:31:10,700 I think we need a new force management plan for the city. 351 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:11,260 Yes. 352 00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:15,560 And the needs come from the proceeds or we existing funds we have. 353 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,380 I would like to proceed with the ideologies. 354 00:31:17,740 --> 00:31:19,980 Pretty good clip to sit there and see what we're having. 355 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,880 Because of the number of dynamic changes that have come out of the state 356 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:24,980 in the federal government. 357 00:31:25,420 --> 00:31:27,460 Sure, so I think we need to force management plan. 358 00:31:27,940 --> 00:31:29,520 The other one that I would like to ask for 359 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:33,140 is a cruise of what we have right now at this point in time. 360 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,600 So we have a deep point in time. 361 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,040 Sure, I know there's a manager plan somewhere 362 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,680 but people are kind of struggling 363 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,940 to get in our fingers on it and understanding it. 364 00:31:42,940 --> 00:31:44,980 Yeah, it's insanely outdated. 365 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,800 I've never even really looked at it. 366 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:47,980 I had it in my possession. 367 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,320 Connie had given it to me a while ago, 368 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,980 So you are our contract forester? 369 00:31:55,260 --> 00:31:57,960 Yeah, you feel comfortable basically as our contractor 370 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,220 representative of the COTR forest to sit there put out an RFP 371 00:32:02,780 --> 00:32:05,820 for new forest management plan and an RFP for a cruise. 372 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:11,480 Sure, I can do that absolutely. I will say when I first started I 373 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:17,480 had reached out to somebody to do some similar to this management plan to kind of like 374 00:32:18,460 --> 00:32:33,320 break up the land in some polygons because, you know, in some age classifications. I didn't want to spend a whole bunch of money, and they could do it aerially, so it was just kind of a ballpark, right? 375 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:43,020 Yeah. We put it in 10-year age groups. And at that point it was like, he wanted $10,000, and I was like, man, I don't want to go in here and ask him for that. And that was not a whole plan, right? 376 00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:50,800 but that was just to kind of help me get my filet of the land, if you will, to kind of understand what we had or where we were at. 377 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:57,500 So, I've certainly put out RFPs, you know, in my position as public work director here, and in four towns I saw it. 378 00:32:57,540 --> 00:33:01,320 That certainly is in my wheelhouse. And I know the people to kind of go to. 379 00:33:02,820 --> 00:33:25,240 So with that, Mr. Mayor, would it be possible for the VA to be allowed to make a motion to ask the County Council to approve this is both going off an RFP for force management plan for the city's watershed and an RFP for a cruise, present value cruise of the temperate with our city for sure is our contact your representative. 380 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,920 We call that a motion is there a second. 381 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,480 Second all right motion a second any discussion 382 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:40,280 Would you guys like for me to kind of get this thing together and then send it out, you know to you to look at 383 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:46,300 I think what you probably do is bring the RFP back to us for approval. Okay. Okay. Yeah, and then 384 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,780 It would be sent in there 385 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,320 Thank you so much for 386 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,020 I guess we had some more run-off that went from 387 00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:01,100 the watershed into Fox Creek and you mitigated that with some rock. 388 00:34:01,660 --> 00:34:07,860 So the plan was so old, the master plan, the plan was so old, I thought these were new 389 00:34:07,860 --> 00:34:14,440 rows happening, I'm like, what and he got mad and I'm like, what and so yeah, we definitely 390 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,060 I mean, a new plan going forward. 391 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:23,220 And so I would request from staff that, 392 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,760 so I had no idea on the watershed liaison. 393 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,320 I had no idea that we had a kind of information 394 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,260 about anything that was going on with the runoff. 395 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:33,700 And I'd like to be kept in the loop 396 00:34:33,700 --> 00:34:36,680 and it wouldn't be filtered out maybe from staff. 397 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,120 It would be great for me. 398 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,720 But yeah, I also noticed that there's 399 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:47,380 And nothing in the watershed plan for cyber anything. 400 00:34:47,740 --> 00:34:50,600 And so I spoke with Kayla just so everybody knows that 401 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:51,580 more power solutions. 402 00:34:52,820 --> 00:34:55,620 And we want to incorporate that in the EOP. 403 00:34:55,980 --> 00:34:59,900 She's going to check all the devices and make sure that they're all, 404 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,620 you know, go set it with their devices and then everyone is accounted for 405 00:35:04,620 --> 00:35:05,680 because she wasn't quite sure. 406 00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:08,820 And so they'll be getting back to us with that. 407 00:35:10,380 --> 00:35:15,100 Because it's so outdated, the only kind of structure that we have for any kind of emergency 408 00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:18,420 is a fire or somebody shooting them there. 409 00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:22,780 There's nothing that covers any kind of cyber security on, you know, the different 410 00:35:22,780 --> 00:35:23,880 kilometers and things. 411 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:27,620 What kind of cyber threats do you think would be in the watershed just? 412 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:33,240 Oh, they can spoof reports, they can like say that the watershed, the water is bad when it's 413 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:34,620 not, or it's good when it isn't. 414 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,580 Certain things, there's a whole thing on it. 415 00:35:36,580 --> 00:35:42,880 Well, the city of McMinville just had something happen, not too long ago, and they're having a back panel because they got hacked, yeah. 416 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:51,060 One thing that I did want to give some credit to Pat McCoy for here is that we had a dam inspection recently. 417 00:35:51,780 --> 00:35:55,760 And this is one of the things that we budgeted for because we knew the dam inspection was coming up. 418 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:02,420 So we've been up at the watershed before the work that you guys did, and after the inspection was slimmingly. 419 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,800 All right, our regulators are really, really happy with that. 420 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,760 They said, you know, do all this work that you just did in there that is a lot more accessible, a lot of the debris was removed. 421 00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:13,440 And it just looks a whole lot better. 422 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,800 So I really wanted to thank you directly for that work. 423 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,560 One of the things just I'd like to get back to the cyber attacks on the watershed. 424 00:36:22,860 --> 00:36:27,580 So we call it the watershed, but we're not taking any water from it. 425 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:53,560 There's nothing computer up there, everything is manually, manual locks, like there's no pump house, there's no, it's all gravity fed, it's like, it's basically the same system that your, our great-grandfathers had, you know, so there's really, yeah, it's great. 426 00:36:53,560 --> 00:37:03,940 Literally. It's crazy. I mean like, but I don't disagree on the cyber stuff for our water plant 427 00:37:03,940 --> 00:37:13,560 that draws from the pump house, but I'm not a cyber expert, but I'd be shocked if someone could 428 00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:21,560 cyberly do anything to the watershed and let's say a hijacked your red Ford pickup or something. 429 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:30,480 I mean, Brian, I know it, but I'm just saying like there's zero, there's zero computer technology. 430 00:37:33,380 --> 00:37:50,400 Yeah, no, I'm not saying it'd be a rust question really, but I'm just trying to bring some clarity to, you know, I don't, it's really been the same for 100 years. 431 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:57,480 So they're really literally like with our wooden. Yeah, that's how you beat a cyber attack is you have stuff that's so old 432 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:02,720 I mean, I'd be more worried about 433 00:38:04,860 --> 00:38:06,620 Trust passers, you know them 434 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:08,460 Vandalism 435 00:38:09,380 --> 00:38:10,660 Right, you know 436 00:38:12,260 --> 00:38:12,800 You 437 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,780 bet see up 438 00:38:21,780 --> 00:38:26,360 But I mean good discussion. I mean, that's how we yeah, sure good 439 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,360 get to where we need to be. 440 00:38:29,060 --> 00:38:31,200 Hey, before we move on to part, 441 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,860 when we talk about this RFP for... 442 00:38:34,860 --> 00:38:37,780 And real quick, all those in favor. 443 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:38,460 Oh, sorry. 444 00:38:39,620 --> 00:38:40,760 Before he leaves the room. 445 00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:42,240 Before he leaves the room. 446 00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:43,500 Opposed? 447 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:45,600 All right, the eyes have it. 448 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,160 So we'll get those RFPs. 449 00:38:47,740 --> 00:38:48,320 OK, so. 450 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:53,980 Just to get myself a little bit of some walls here, 451 00:38:53,980 --> 00:39:02,600 When we talk about cruising that, what are we after of value, you know, if I'm a little 452 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:08,080 leery about the value, I mean, it's nice, but it changes with the market. 453 00:39:08,180 --> 00:39:08,860 There's so much. 454 00:39:09,620 --> 00:39:09,880 Yeah. 455 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:09,960 Yeah. 456 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,460 Here, here, here, here. 457 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:11,840 Yeah. 458 00:39:12,180 --> 00:39:14,360 Just, we have a forced management plan. 459 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:19,740 But I would like to place in time for everybody to follow future counsels for media and 460 00:39:19,740 --> 00:39:19,840 advocacy. 461 00:39:20,540 --> 00:39:25,740 At this date, I, with this much law, here's where I was scanning through the, it was, the net 462 00:39:25,740 --> 00:39:26,120 forecast. 463 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:27,020 So, okay. 464 00:39:27,340 --> 00:39:28,500 Just they have a peace line. 465 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:29,820 Because we don't need a peace line. 466 00:39:30,020 --> 00:39:30,240 Yeah. 467 00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:32,920 And so, that's all of the proofs that they can come back with. 468 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:34,800 You know, you're starting looking at the temperatures. 469 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:39,460 you might find yourself locked in and all of a sudden you can skim some of the tape that you can scoop it. 470 00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:40,880 Yeah, that was the case. 471 00:39:42,140 --> 00:39:44,640 But yeah, I'm with you, but the question is, 472 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,620 like at what age are, 473 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,040 does this take cost a tremendous amount of money to be suddenly honest with you? 474 00:39:50,540 --> 00:39:53,220 You know, it's good, it's going to be constant. 475 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,860 I think that you should get good crews for $20,000, right? 476 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:00,720 Yeah, we'll have to put some barbells on, 477 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,200 like at what age we're going to cut it off. 478 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,100 I mean, it's hard to say what we consider a worse number. 479 00:40:06,540 --> 00:40:06,980 Exactly. 480 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:08,660 So it's... 481 00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:09,400 OK, OK. 482 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:09,900 All right. 483 00:40:10,020 --> 00:40:11,640 And I was in there, Kate, that's standard. 484 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:12,800 What's the standard? 485 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:15,180 Is it a chip? 486 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:16,320 Yeah. 487 00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:18,200 Something like that. 488 00:40:18,740 --> 00:40:18,860 Yeah. 489 00:40:19,060 --> 00:40:20,200 I got to concentrate. 490 00:40:20,620 --> 00:40:21,440 We're in love. 491 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,440 And because we're governing entity, we're feeling similar. 492 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:25,440 Right. 493 00:40:25,980 --> 00:40:28,180 So this is a hard, good stuff. 494 00:40:28,420 --> 00:40:29,180 It's a good thing to do. 495 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:31,300 Well, I should... 496 00:40:34,140 --> 00:40:34,940 All right. 497 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,820 I got you all of my resolve. 498 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:48,160 And what's important to me is we've got a sustainable tree farm up there. 499 00:40:48,420 --> 00:40:53,080 You know, I don't want to get into a situation where we're like, man, I wish we wouldn't 500 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:53,800 to log so much. 501 00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:54,800 No, we can't log anymore. 502 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:55,220 Okay. 503 00:40:55,380 --> 00:40:57,740 This little regret we've had has helped us a lot. 504 00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:58,200 Yeah. 505 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,780 you know when I started it was like we want to cut trees at 55 years old will we still don't 506 00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:06,980 really have anything up there 55 years old other than kind of a garbage patch of hardwood 507 00:41:06,980 --> 00:41:11,420 that I'm hoping that market comes back so we could get that back at this Douglasburg. 508 00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:17,580 So you know we don't need to worry about them getting too big we're a long ways away from that 509 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:22,480 but I'm with you and so this it's very important to realize that the fact that we haven't 510 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:26,480 logged has done nothing but like help that water shut out because it really was kind of over cut 511 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:35,000 And it wasn't fire, and it really was prior to that even, it needed some time, so I appreciate 512 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,160 you tremendously understanding that, and I mean, I mean, I wouldn't mind getting on 513 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:39,300 it. 514 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:47,140 I mean, if the study came back, we should be logging every two to three years, I mean, it 515 00:41:47,140 --> 00:41:52,620 is what it is, I mean, but we got to consider that money we don't count on. 516 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:53,760 Exactly. 517 00:41:54,460 --> 00:41:54,860 Exactly. 518 00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:55,500 Okay. 519 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:01,100 Well, and we also, the other thing is, since this forest management plan was put together, 520 00:42:01,300 --> 00:42:03,120 we had that other property purchased, right? 521 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:06,460 So we had another, like, 40 acres, and so what does that look like? 522 00:42:06,580 --> 00:42:07,400 What's that inventory? 523 00:42:07,740 --> 00:42:08,520 What's that age? 524 00:42:08,820 --> 00:42:12,740 So it's in your right to mention about the different regulations, the stuff about the stream 525 00:42:12,740 --> 00:42:13,160 buffers. 526 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,580 I mean, they've added significant volumes and volumes of regulations. 527 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:17,560 Yeah. 528 00:42:18,020 --> 00:42:21,620 On top of that, you know, there's even more lands where it's taken out just to protect 529 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:27,440 I mean, Byron did a really great job of like making, there's kind of an inner gorge there, which we kind of locked down 530 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:36,180 a little bit. He didn't, which I 100% agreed with. I mean, he, so it's even more so than you would think. Honestly, what gets taken out of production? 531 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,300 I, I, I welcome the, the plan. I think it'd be cool. I'll get on it. 532 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,500 Does anybody else have any questions? 533 00:42:47,180 --> 00:42:50,660 You want him to come back for the October meeting with an RFP and more information? 534 00:42:50,660 --> 00:42:53,340 I don't get an RFP, doesn't matter. 535 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:54,880 All right. 536 00:42:55,180 --> 00:42:55,280 Yeah. 537 00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:56,120 Sounds good. 538 00:42:56,740 --> 00:42:57,520 Thank you. 539 00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:58,180 Thanks for your time. 540 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:04,600 Two big things. 541 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:04,940 Yeah. 542 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:06,920 All right. 543 00:43:08,740 --> 00:43:09,640 Next item. 544 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,180 Library Board appointments. 545 00:43:11,980 --> 00:43:13,540 So we do have a vacancy. 546 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,580 We've had a vacancy on library board. 547 00:43:17,060 --> 00:43:21,980 Sometime back, Janet said Lee had applied for a library board. 548 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,480 Was appointed to library board. 549 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:28,500 Life gets in the way. Things come up. She's got more availability now. So I'd even used 550 00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:33,500 in it's in the packet her previous application from a couple of years ago, but I, you know, 551 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,600 the library board wanted to bring her back. I called her a couple of weeks ago and she 552 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:43,160 said she wants to come back and serve and they could use some help. So I staff recommends 553 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:48,900 that Janet be reappointed to library board. Well, she will continue to serve with honor. 554 00:43:50,580 --> 00:43:51,840 Yeah, I like her. 555 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:52,340 All right. 556 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:53,200 It's great to work with you. 557 00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:55,040 Is there a motion? 558 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,220 It's a move. 559 00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:58,180 Second. 560 00:43:58,720 --> 00:43:59,080 Second. 561 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,220 All right, motion a second to a point. 562 00:44:01,820 --> 00:44:03,140 Janet to the Library Board. 563 00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:06,120 Any discussion? 564 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:10,020 I'd just like to note for the record. 565 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,680 She lives at 112 West 10th Street. 566 00:44:15,420 --> 00:44:19,360 There has been some criticism in the past that 567 00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:27,840 There was quite a few library board members that didn't live in the city, so I just want 568 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,240 to point out that she does reside within the city limits. 569 00:44:33,900 --> 00:44:34,980 Any other discussion? 570 00:44:37,460 --> 00:44:38,240 All those in favor? 571 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:41,040 The pose? 572 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,080 All right, the ice-havoc, congratulations, Janet. 573 00:44:48,950 --> 00:44:53,670 All right, next item is Veterans Way Safety Improvements. 574 00:44:53,670 --> 00:44:55,030 And you know what? 575 00:44:57,180 --> 00:44:59,980 My suggestion is we move this to unfil- 576 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:18,440 We're going to finish business because two of the people that really wanted this on the agenda are not here tonight. If you guys are okay with it, I'd like to just bump it to October. They put a lot of work into this. They put a lot of work into it. So I want to make sure that they're here. 577 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:26,760 Okay. So we'll bump that to October. Yeah, sounds good. 578 00:45:29,260 --> 00:45:33,260 And it's not time sensitive. There's some grants sitting out there right now or are we? 579 00:45:33,260 --> 00:45:39,720 have to move fast on it so I just want to make sure they're here. All right so 580 00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:43,340 that moves us to council reports. 581 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:51,740 Denise you got anything? I've finished eight 582 00:45:51,740 --> 00:45:52,220 of 583 00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:01,700 the FEMA classes I finished eight of those I have quite a few more hours 584 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,380 so 585 00:46:05,380 --> 00:46:06,660 Oh, I'm gonna wait on that. 586 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:07,560 Yeah, those are fun. 587 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:08,780 Oh, really? 588 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:10,940 He was an emergency rescuer. 589 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,040 I took all those classes. 590 00:46:13,460 --> 00:46:14,220 Yeah, I really did. 591 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,620 No, it's a good job taking it. 592 00:46:17,740 --> 00:46:20,060 And let's see, that's about it. 593 00:46:20,740 --> 00:46:21,400 Thanks, Denise. 594 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:23,140 Jeremy, you got anything? 595 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,040 I would just like to thank public work 596 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,920 and I believe you for it pushes 597 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,720 kind of on 7th and B Street there. 598 00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:36,020 Oh yeah, the public works did that? 599 00:46:36,140 --> 00:46:41,900 Yes, I was getting hit on a daily basis, people coming down to some of the street right 600 00:46:41,900 --> 00:46:46,380 there, not being able to see a bee street, so I appreciate that. 601 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,920 I did the trees on Highway 30. 602 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,700 I don't mind cutting it, I just don't like picking up the branches. 603 00:46:54,220 --> 00:46:59,680 So public works was nice enough to pick up the branches, but if anybody else wants to 604 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,600 do some cutting, public works will 605 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:02,380 pick up the branches. 606 00:47:05,660 --> 00:47:08,600 Yeah, it's not a bad trade. 607 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:12,720 It was more than I thought it was 608 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,260 going to be. They wouldn't have fit in my truck. 609 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,200 Anything else, Jeremy? Yeah. All right. 610 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:25,300 Robert, I don't have anything but the speaking of trees. We have something to discuss. 611 00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:27,280 Yeah, actually, we had a tree one here. 612 00:47:27,820 --> 00:47:30,400 It was an accident under Russ's reports. 613 00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:30,880 Okay. 614 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:32,080 That's why I thought. 615 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,300 I just want to make sure that we did skip. 616 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:37,140 Okay, we promised these folks we'd talk about this. 617 00:47:37,260 --> 00:47:39,280 No, I was just trying to hurry up so they couldn't comment. 618 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:40,520 No, that's easy. 619 00:47:41,260 --> 00:47:41,860 I'm joking. 620 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:43,780 I don't know anything tonight. 621 00:47:44,060 --> 00:47:47,460 All right, Russ, if you want to just go ahead and go first 622 00:47:47,460 --> 00:47:48,560 and then talk about that tree. 623 00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:49,900 Good. 624 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,860 So the tree they brought us up fell down. 625 00:47:52,860 --> 00:47:58,680 The neighbour next door had one week and four of them, a couple years ago, we had to take a broken tree in there. 626 00:47:59,220 --> 00:48:01,340 There's four trees left, they're all covered in 80. 627 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:08,440 I have an estimate for $25.00, we remove all four of them and then all the trees that are on the city property in there. 628 00:48:09,980 --> 00:48:14,000 So I would appreciate you guys to approve me now, all four trees taken. 629 00:48:14,420 --> 00:48:15,440 Okay, is there a motion? 630 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:17,820 Yeah. 631 00:48:21,020 --> 00:48:23,760 Okay, all four trees go down, cut down. 632 00:48:24,260 --> 00:48:24,980 Is there a second? 633 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:26,340 I'll say a second. 634 00:48:26,780 --> 00:48:30,520 All right, motion and a second to accept the bid to cut all four trees down. 635 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,320 Any discussion? 636 00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,920 And just confirming this will abate the concerns that the neighbors had. 637 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,260 All right, any other discussion? 638 00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:48,180 All those in favor? 639 00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:49,080 Aye. 640 00:48:49,820 --> 00:48:50,180 Opposed? 641 00:48:51,260 --> 00:48:51,680 All right. 642 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:52,200 The I-7. 643 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,480 I did say that I'd give you opportunity to speak. 644 00:48:55,780 --> 00:48:57,100 Do you need that opportunity anymore? 645 00:48:58,480 --> 00:48:58,840 Okay. 646 00:48:59,020 --> 00:48:59,560 I didn't think so. 647 00:49:00,420 --> 00:49:01,460 Thank you all for coming in. 648 00:49:01,580 --> 00:49:01,760 Yeah. 649 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:03,820 That's why nobody voted now, I think. 650 00:49:05,020 --> 00:49:07,180 You've got to look them right at the eye and say, hey, go. 651 00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:07,900 I just sorry. 652 00:49:08,220 --> 00:49:09,100 This is too much. 653 00:49:09,220 --> 00:49:09,900 Not necessary. 654 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:10,780 Yeah. 655 00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:12,880 All right. 656 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:14,080 Russ, do you have anything else? 657 00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:19,360 I did include in the packet. 658 00:49:19,860 --> 00:49:23,060 So here's the technical memorandum that Russ put together. 659 00:49:24,220 --> 00:49:26,400 They sent it to the liaisons in the mayor. 660 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,740 So this is what's going over to DDQ. 661 00:49:40,490 --> 00:49:42,330 Does anybody have any questions for us at all? 662 00:49:44,030 --> 00:49:47,830 Here is the roof on the senior center. 663 00:49:47,850 --> 00:49:48,710 Was that completed? 664 00:49:49,670 --> 00:49:50,910 How did that turn out? 665 00:49:51,410 --> 00:49:51,650 Good. 666 00:49:52,010 --> 00:49:52,930 I think it was happening with it. 667 00:49:53,210 --> 00:49:53,410 Okay. 668 00:49:53,870 --> 00:49:54,730 You said it didn't have that one. 669 00:49:54,870 --> 00:49:55,070 Yeah. 670 00:49:55,210 --> 00:49:55,630 It's all included. 671 00:49:55,850 --> 00:49:57,150 It took them on two and a half days. 672 00:49:57,530 --> 00:49:57,930 Okay. 673 00:49:59,610 --> 00:50:04,850 Well, and as Doris pointed out, Richard's road, we've been waiting a while to get that done. 674 00:50:05,630 --> 00:50:11,690 Kenny Neal was up there today, kind of putting the finishing touches on his end, and then up next is the curves and sidewalks. 675 00:50:11,810 --> 00:50:15,630 So we've been waiting a long time to get that done. Looks like it's getting done right. 676 00:50:16,090 --> 00:50:18,990 Shouldn't have any more problems up there. Yeah, Pat and I was a little talking about that. 677 00:50:18,990 --> 00:50:22,470 Yeah, we used to hold them in the next few weeks, we used to get the curb done, and then 678 00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,480 we'll do that with a fix on the little spots in the area that we've had more of the sewer weeks in. 679 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,480 There's about five spots up there right now, but we'll fix all that once. 680 00:50:34,950 --> 00:50:36,090 All right, Alicia? 681 00:50:36,870 --> 00:50:37,310 Yes. 682 00:50:38,070 --> 00:50:40,350 Last week we asked about our... 683 00:50:47,580 --> 00:50:50,920 We have multiple ways people do with credit cards. 684 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:59,840 So first, the in office payments in person, so that's the actual people that come in and just swipe their top third cards. 685 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:09,700 We paid 2.5% plus 10 cents per item for back and then the ones that are paid that would be over the phone, 686 00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:15,540 which we don't really like to do, but some of our fourth people, that's how they have to pay. 687 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:21,520 They don't live close if you don't have the website they can't pay the website for those. 688 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:27,240 That's 3.4% and 20 cents per item, so that's 4%. 689 00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:33,000 So it was a 602 is that how much we had to pay for fees 690 00:51:34,580 --> 00:51:36,380 And then 580 in June 691 00:52:13,720 --> 00:52:20,480 So for the month of June, it was 9.15 that we had to pay out a pocket to just do the 692 00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:29,840 In 693 00:52:33,260 --> 00:52:33,260 whatever else 694 00:52:33,260 --> 00:52:38,060 Yeah, you know, I mean that's I mean it adds up, you know when you're the 695 00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:44,260 My thing on that one is always just been I'm not trying to make a profit off of it. I just want to break even 696 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:48,700 You know, and it's not uncommon to go to a 697 00:52:50,340 --> 00:52:52,120 Store or something like that and they charge 698 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:58,300 $2.55% for taking a credit card, you know? 699 00:52:58,700 --> 00:53:00,240 Well, even the gas is usually generated. 700 00:53:00,580 --> 00:53:01,420 Yeah, on their site. 701 00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,020 Like this is cash price and everything else is yours. 702 00:53:04,980 --> 00:53:07,280 I mean, they have charge, so they have to pass it on. 703 00:53:07,820 --> 00:53:09,560 You know, and if people don't want to pay the fees, 704 00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,960 we will take a check or cash, right? 705 00:53:12,460 --> 00:53:12,860 Yeah. 706 00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,700 Is there a fee for, like if somebody wants to, 707 00:53:17,780 --> 00:53:20,760 like for the auto pay through their checking accounts? 708 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:27,620 Um, we get checks for those, so like if you go onto your bank account and pay for your 709 00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:32,580 account with the credit in there, whatever they spend as a check and then we process the 710 00:53:32,580 --> 00:53:32,780 check. 711 00:53:33,020 --> 00:53:36,380 And so, are you paying for the key, the key, the key, the key, the key, the key, the key, 712 00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:38,640 the key, and I don't know what that looks like, yes, you know, 713 00:53:41,220 --> 00:53:42,820 like a check fee? 714 00:53:43,580 --> 00:53:46,220 Yes, and this will enable you to do this work. 715 00:53:57,800 --> 00:53:57,960 Yeah. 716 00:54:01,170 --> 00:54:06,790 I mean, I guess the double, the other side of that sword, though, for like the, um, 717 00:54:06,790 --> 00:54:10,170 Autopays is you kind of run the risk of people not paying 718 00:54:11,110 --> 00:54:15,370 You know because when it's on set up on autopay, you know people might be like, oh, you know 719 00:54:15,370 --> 00:54:21,030 I'm gonna not do the autopay anymore. I'm just gonna pay and then it's late and we don't get the money or 720 00:54:21,870 --> 00:54:24,390 I mean, I don't know I'm just talking out loud 721 00:54:45,950 --> 00:54:50,110 What are the in office payments, again, typically? 722 00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:10,680 Yeah. 723 00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:13,980 Most people they've come in to either. 724 00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:22,760 Well, you know, in web payments, there's literally probably zero office time. 725 00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,400 Yeah, it's really not a lot. 726 00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:36,020 Maybe an idea to move forward, too, is maybe we eat the web payments 727 00:55:36,020 --> 00:55:56,040 because you look at it as it's really saving personnel time and we charge for the in-office payments, you know, just whatever the fee is, $2.55 or key would be $3.45. I mean, 728 00:55:58,910 --> 00:55:59,910 I don't know what do you guys think? 729 00:55:59,910 --> 00:56:00,190 I mean, 730 00:56:08,220 --> 00:56:16,440 if I had a business and it was costing me 600 bucks a month, the credit card, I'd be trying to figure out a way to make that money back. 731 00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:24,760 What do you think, Jeremy? 732 00:56:28,220 --> 00:56:31,520 I'm going to leave it up to her. She's better at design. I agree with you. 733 00:56:38,970 --> 00:56:39,710 I mean, you figure, 734 00:56:42,230 --> 00:56:43,890 so May was 600. 735 00:56:44,810 --> 00:56:45,770 What would we be seeing? 736 00:56:46,510 --> 00:56:51,710 Well, yeah, it didn't really fluctuate between the months and June. June was the month 737 00:56:51,710 --> 00:56:57,950 for those for deal that you need those as you build and make another June. So it doesn't. 738 00:56:58,150 --> 00:56:58,810 Like that, obviously. 739 00:57:05,580 --> 00:57:06,880 And you pay that fee twice. 740 00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:11,040 We have two different months because we have two different hardship services. 741 00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:19,160 So we have one. We pay fee for the in office where people come in and pay for a company 742 00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:24,860 in the grant who are in the terminal, and we have another partnership piece for Web 743 00:57:24,860 --> 00:57:25,280 E-News. 744 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:34,300 I mean, you figure just if it was $600 a month average, look at that over a year at $7200. 745 00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,060 Look at it over 10 years. 746 00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:40,100 What's that? 747 00:57:41,020 --> 00:57:42,400 $72,000, right? 748 00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:47,600 I mean, when you start talking those numbers, people are like, well, geez, that's a lot, 749 00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:55,460 You know, but when you just look at a one-time 600 bucks, you know, maybe it's not doesn't feel like it's as much, but 750 00:57:56,620 --> 00:58:04,680 When you add it up, it sure is like I said, I'm not trying to make any money off of that. I'm just trying to break even and it's people's money 751 00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:11,960 I know we've discussed this last meeting before. Did we not already 752 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,500 Approved to pass those through or 753 00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,980 Did we essentially approve it or did we have it? 754 00:58:19,980 --> 00:58:21,220 I think he just asked about it. 755 00:58:24,300 --> 00:58:26,480 Bring back more information, I think. 756 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,500 I mean, I think this is the information we requested. 757 00:58:31,500 --> 00:58:34,680 Do you want to bring back a resolution that says that? 758 00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,820 Do you want to do the inquiries then? 759 00:58:44,310 --> 00:58:48,210 Would it be hard just to do the actual costs? 760 00:58:48,210 --> 00:58:49,170 Why 761 00:58:52,240 --> 00:59:01,780 don't you just think about what would minimize staff time, get us to a break even. 762 00:59:03,660 --> 00:59:07,940 You know, and if you have to see what other municipalities are doing or something that 763 00:59:07,940 --> 00:59:12,100 works too, but you want to just bring us back a proposal next month. 764 00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:29,740 Yeah, I just do that. That would be my inclination. Yeah, because it's especially since we're switching banks. I mean they could decide January 1st that these numbers go up a bit and then yeah, you're right. We'd have to come back. 765 00:59:32,740 --> 00:59:44,900 You know, maybe we leave the web payments alone because we want to encourage people to do it online because it saves us a ton of time on our end. 766 00:59:44,900 --> 00:59:50,160 It just gave us this kind of time and we thought it made me, I think what it kind of 767 00:59:53,490 --> 00:59:54,930 grabbed, I think it was easier. 768 00:59:55,370 --> 00:59:55,970 There is a way. 769 01:00:15,940 --> 01:00:27,760 All right. Well, because we might be careful with the web payments, you know, people might go, oh, well, I don't want to pay online anymore. I'll just send a chat. And then next thing, you know, you've got to go. 770 01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:35,680 Yeah, right. You know, I know I'm thinking, I'm going to have to order some checks. 771 01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:40,900 And then I went to the bank to do that, and the cashier, the teller looked at me, 772 01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,400 she's like, what? That's a thing that we do. 773 01:00:45,540 --> 01:00:48,180 All right. Alicia, do you have anything else? 774 01:00:50,570 --> 01:00:52,270 No, the audit does 775 01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:54,720 the next. 776 01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,400 We're thinking we should be able to have them do the presentation at the next meeting. 777 01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:08,200 And that will coincide with, we wanted to do quarterly financial reviews, so it coincides 778 01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,960 with that, so we should be able to do both of those things at the October meeting. 779 01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:17,680 All right, Scott. 780 01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:25,160 All right, so did meet with Brian Fawcett about the Alder-Crest subdivision issue with the 781 01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:30,180 Power Falls, I think they were planning on being there anyway to do some work, so I was able 782 01:01:30,180 --> 01:01:35,360 to get in his year and time, so whenever they go out to do that, they know that there's 783 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:40,260 demand there. A lot of elections official duties, so we had a lot of interest in folks 784 01:01:40,260 --> 01:01:45,120 running for office and so that involved more than a few trips out to St. Helens to get 785 01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:50,300 the signatures verified and wanted to thank each and every person that filed to run for 786 01:01:50,300 --> 01:01:53,400 office this cycle and wish you the best of luck out there for that. 787 01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:58,460 It was lucky to have to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Columbia River Treasures. 788 01:02:04,900 --> 01:02:05,340 That 789 01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:10,960 and me, here, and Councillor Cooper met with more power afterwards to talk emergency preparedness. 790 01:02:11,340 --> 01:02:12,560 I think those are very good. 791 01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:18,080 KELT even wanted to talk about, you know, our new franchise agreement with Comcast, the 792 01:02:18,540 --> 01:02:24,040 PIG fees, that's public education government, and kind of what that can mean for KELTV in 793 01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:27,500 terms of the services that they can offer for the folks here in town, and that was very 794 01:02:27,500 --> 01:02:30,100 very encouraging, let's see. 795 01:02:30,940 --> 01:02:35,740 And there is going to be a site visit in late October with officials from the Department 796 01:02:35,740 --> 01:02:36,480 of Fish and Wildlife. 797 01:02:37,220 --> 01:02:43,140 So in terms of looking at the dam and the watershed and fish passage issues that had 798 01:02:43,140 --> 01:02:48,380 to talk to earlier about culverts and, you know, the whole Fox Creek discussion has been 799 01:02:48,380 --> 01:02:53,000 stymied for a while because some of it has to do with Highway 30 which is ODOT and then 800 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,200 you've got one agency kind of against the other and they can't really compel each other to 801 01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:56,840 do anything. 802 01:02:57,540 --> 01:03:03,540 The part that they had talked about day lighting is under private property, so that was getting nowhere, right? 803 01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:10,560 So, well, I want you guys to come out and take a look toward the watershed and see if there's other opportunities to improve fish passage. 804 01:03:11,420 --> 01:03:18,940 And we've also been talking, Russ and I internally, you know, they sent divers down there a while ago, and the divers apparently said, 805 01:03:19,060 --> 01:03:24,740 yeah, never again. Well, maybe we put a camera on a boat, maybe there's a drone, we could get down there. 806 01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:29,740 maybe because we don't understand the obstruction right maybe it was like a big 807 01:03:29,740 --> 01:03:33,020 boulder maybe there's a pile lot maybe there's something going on there that 808 01:03:33,020 --> 01:03:37,160 doesn't require spending you know $20 million of other people's money to 809 01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:41,680 daylight a creek so that's one of the things we're hoping to talk to WFW about when 810 01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:47,160 they get here in person did the audit I did the online procurement training by 811 01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:50,240 League of Oregon cities and then the mayor and I met with the organizers of the 812 01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:54,520 Reiner River Jam concert series last week really that went well she wants to do 813 01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,220 So again, next year, I'm really happy about that, 814 01:04:01,930 --> 01:04:03,410 and that is all I have. 815 01:04:06,070 --> 01:04:08,730 Oh, no, there's one more, okay, all right, just remembered here. 816 01:04:09,490 --> 01:04:15,230 There will be the Rainier Chamber of Commerce is putting on a forum for mayoral and city council candidates, 817 01:04:15,650 --> 01:04:18,790 and that's going to be September 30th at the Rainier River Front Center, 818 01:04:18,950 --> 01:04:21,650 otherwise known as the senior center, starting at six o'clock. 819 01:04:22,210 --> 01:04:28,030 So I was told it was requested that I come and invite all our council to attend that. 820 01:04:28,030 --> 01:04:31,130 Is that just going to be the contested council seat? 821 01:04:32,070 --> 01:04:32,330 Yes. 822 01:04:32,750 --> 01:04:32,870 Yeah. 823 01:04:33,090 --> 01:04:35,190 Contested council seat and the mayor's race. 824 01:04:35,330 --> 01:04:35,430 Okay. 825 01:04:35,730 --> 01:04:37,010 What they're focusing on there. 826 01:04:37,370 --> 01:04:39,450 I think there's an email sent out earlier today. 827 01:04:40,050 --> 01:04:40,250 Okay. 828 01:04:41,870 --> 01:04:42,390 Good. 829 01:04:43,090 --> 01:04:44,130 Which state of 29? 830 01:04:45,010 --> 01:04:45,830 The 30th. 831 01:04:46,470 --> 01:04:47,330 And that will be here soon. 832 01:04:48,170 --> 01:04:48,310 Yeah. 833 01:04:50,050 --> 01:04:50,730 All right. 834 01:04:50,890 --> 01:04:52,390 Well, that concludes our meeting for tonight. 835 01:04:53,010 --> 01:04:53,530 702. 836 01:04:54,450 --> 01:04:55,290 Thank you for coming. 837 01:04:55,650 --> 01:04:56,230 Appreciate it.