OK thank you.
OK thanks for your patience.
Welcome to the city council meeting for August 25.
I don't think pastor Jason made it.
So we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance
that John will lead us in this way.
Oh, 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.
We're going to have a couple of things at the front.
And first is we have a visitor here from Republic services.
They want to come up.
We need to establish a quorum.
Oh, yeah.
Get ahead of myself.
Go ahead.
Counselor Evelyn.
Here mayor Fitch here.
Counselor Nielsen here.
Counselor Osborne here.
Counselor Patrick.
Here counselor.
Wedding here.
Counselor Zwicker.
OK So if you guys want to come on up, that'd be great.
Sounds good.
Thank you.
Commissioner yeah.
Speak speak.
All right.
I can figure it out.
Well, thank you for having me today, Mr. mayor.
Council members.
My name is Wes Davis.
I'm the new general manager for Republic services
in Central Oregon, which means I work for you guys.
I have met with your staff.
I've heard a lot from my team about where
we're at in this market.
And I am new, so it's my chance to ask for feedback
about how we can be better.
And what we can do to better serve our community.
Honestly, obviously this is an essential service.
It's something really important to the community
so that we're healthy, safe, sanitary at all times.
And I take that charge very seriously.
What I'd like to do is 1, make sure you guys know who I am.
So I've been with Republic for five years.
I was most recently a general manager in North Idaho.
Coeur d'Alene specifically.
Beautiful area.
If you've ever been up there.
And there's not many places in the country or world,
frankly, that I'd rather be, but this is one of them.
I chose to come here.
I wanted to come here.
I hope to be here for many, many years
and be your partner for those years.
Before that, I was in the army for six years.
So I've learned quite a bit.
I've learned a lot.
One of the things I've learned is you learn
a lot by seeing the situation.
So one, I want to invite all of you at all times, at any time,
to come out and do a ride along or see our facility
and understand where the rubber meets the road
and what we're working on for the community
to better serve you.
I also want to make sure you all have a direct line to me.
Obviously, I work with your staff right now.
But I work for you guys.
I also work for all the people of Redmond.
So anybody that you hear from that needs
help because they've been online for 40 minutes
and aren't getting an issue resolved.
I'd love to hear about that because that's
my job to fix that.
If I don't know about it, I'm probably not going
to be able to do much about it, so I'd
love to get that feedback.
I love feedback, hearing what's going on, what the issues are,
and how else I can make this better.
I think that's pretty much all I got.
I want to make sure you guys got to see me today.
I'll stand for any questions or comments at this point,
but I don't know that you guys are prepared necessarily.
It could be a long night if we did that.
But hey, I'm happy to be with you individually if you do
want to take time to prepare.
All right.
Thank you.
Because I understand it could be a long night,
and I want to do what I can to fix it.
All right.
Thank you, thank you.
Next tonight on our agenda, we have a second reading
on the fireworks ordinance.
I don't know if anyone's here on the fireworks,
but there won't be a public comment period.
So I just wanted to bring that out front.
And with that, we'll move on to the consent agenda,
which is made up of the minutes of June 15,
the minutes of June 23, the minutes of June 30,
North point vista phase I infrastructure
project change order number 5 with Taylor
Northwest for $47,313.95.
A purchase authorization for heavy duty
mobile column lifts for the fleet
services of $120,070.32, cents.
Amendment number one to the design contract with Kittleson
associates for the Northwest, 19th and Northwest maple traffic
signal project TR 2412 for 26,001 99
and the September recognitions.
Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda.
I move to approve the consent agenda.
Second moved and second.
Any further discussion.
All those in favor, signify by saying Aye.
Aye OK.
Next, we have a presentation one we
always look forward to the fourth quarter financial report.
Good evening, Mayor and council.
Jason Neff deputy city manager chief financial officer so,
yeah, we are bringing the fiscal year 2526 year end report.
So you can see the highlights there.
On that blue box I think they can see it.
OK thank you.
Come on.
Jason there you go.
Now you can see them.
So in that blue box is our financial highlights
for the year.
I should mention these are unaudited
but numbers aren't moving much at this point.
James Wood and his team are doing a great job
of finalizing things.
So operating expenses for the year.
We spent 4% less than budget.
That's pretty typical for Redman.
We spend typically about 5% I think where we were a little bit
surprised is the general fund spent about 2%
So under our budget.
So we were caught a little bit surprised there.
Looking at some of the revenues, property taxes,
we were slightly higher than budget
franchise fees is kind of where we missed it a little bit.
Good example.
We were 300,000 down in franchise fees versus budget.
Good example is in September of 2025,
cascade natural gas dropped their rates
by 16% We typically would assume maybe a 3% increase.
So something we didn't anticipate.
Also, you might remember Pacific Power
dropped dropped their rates by almost a percent.
So those two alone kind of missed
the mark on franchise fees.
Overall, we're carrying an operating deficit in the end
of the year, $800,000, or about 2.7%
That's for the general fund.
We anticipated that might happen this year in our budget.
We tighten things up quite a bit.
We carried into the budget a 3% deficit.
So I still am confident we will see that dissipate
throughout the fiscal year.
But something we'll keep an eye on.
The water fund was break even this year.
3,000 positives on a $9 million budget.
So I think our rates are right where they should be.
The wastewater fund.
Obviously we got the wetlands project going full steam ahead.
The DEQ loan is going to be about $2.2 million
eventually coming into our budget.
Now we've got about $800,000 surplus in wastewater.
We're going to see about 800,000 of other debt drop off
over the next couple of years.
And we're also anticipating about a half a million savings
on our treatment costs.
So we're going to get there with regards to our ability
to afford that project.
You look at the airport, passenger traffic was up 3,
3.2% the prior year.
Overall, we had a $6.9 million operating surplus,
you'll recall, council gave us the authorization to issue
all the debt for the terminal.
And in two budgets from now, we're
going to be spending about $7 million a year
on that debt service.
So we are spot on where we should
be with regards to being able to afford
that terminal debt service.
So those are the highlights.
I know we got a lot to talk about tonight and other stuff.
I can take questions from council.
Any questions for Jason.
I think we went over this before but basically a good report.
So thank you.
You're welcome.
Let's see.
Next, we have a public hearing and this is resolution
2026 19 a resolution of the city of Redmond, Oregon,
adopting a tiered rate structure for the water utility.
Josh with assistance from finance.
Evening mayor and council.
Josh, wedding operations manager for the city of Redmond.
And tonight, before I get into the presentation,
just to let our consultant.
She's a remote again and her name is Deb.
And I'll go ahead and give her the opportunity
to introduce herself.
Good evening.
Mayor and council, Deb Gulati.
Galati, Rothstein group.
And I'll be supporting Josh on the presentation.
Thank you.
Yeah thank you.
Deb so this is the same presentation
that I gave back in July 25.
It's a little bit more of a condensed version,
but I always look for a little bit of a few more tidbits
of information that I can give you guys to help
better inform your decisions.
Hey, Josh, before I forget, I'm going
to open the public hearing, so this will be part of it.
Thank you.
Go ahead.
All right.
On the first slide here, what this shows
is what the fixed volumetric rate is currently
and what the volumetric rate could go to.
Should a tiered rate be adopted in tiers 1, 2, 3, and 4.
I would be remiss to say that I didn't point out
the last presentation that tiers 1 and 2 were structured as such,
so that there would be 0 impact to the household
in the wintertime months, the non irrigation months.
To put that in perspective for you,
an average residential home uses about 35,600 gallons a month
on the non irrigation months.
And so nine tiers really or excuse me, 12 tiers.
Really what that allows you to do is use about 12,000
gallons or sorry 5,000 gallons.
9,000 gallons.
Sorry math was wrong.
I get a lot of numbers in my head, about 9,000 gallons with
really no impact to the bill.
As we can see.
Tier 3 here.
You can take that all the way up to about 15,700 gallons.
Once again, minimal impact.
And then tier four of course, is really
the tier we're focused on.
That's a tier where the opportunity for more
efficient water use exists.
What this slide really points out
is the number of accounts in the summertime that
jump into tier 3 and tier four.
It's hard to say.
From this bar graph you know exactly where that customer
lands in tier three or tier 4.
You could be one unit into tier 4
and you could show up in the red bar here.
What this also points out is what I mentioned in the earlier
slide, the minimal impact in increase in tier 3
and even into tier three.
Even into tier, excuse me, tier 2 and into tier 3, taking it all
the way up to 15,700 gallons.
The bill impact there.
The increase is $33.50.
So it's not a lot.
Tier 4 once again is the tier that we're focused on.
Also, once again, what I was not able to point out
in the previous presentation is, as you can see in January,
February, March, November and December,
you can see that there's accounts in the black
and the red, right.
And give you guys an idea and to get into that Black
and then into the red.
That's 15,000 gallons in the wintertime.
And so while the impact to the water utility isn't super great,
95% of that water is indoor leaks
that are going down the drain.
And that's an impact on the sewer system.
And so we're really looking to address those leaks also
in the wintertime.
So the wintertime you think you indicated average
use is about 3,500 gallons.
And that's a month.
Yeah that is correct per household.
And the average comes out PSU average is 2.42 times 50 times
31.
What would be the average in the summertime.
Let's see.
An average home with indoor use and a 1,500 square foot
yard is about $15,000 a month.
Questions move on.
Nope I have a question.
Are these the numbers you're showing here on the graph.
I'm assuming on the left side of the graph is gallons per minute.
Is this historic usage that you extrapolated to determine
two years, 3, and 4.
The left hand side of the graph is.
Number of accounts.
OK gotcha.
OK Accumulated accounts throughout the city.
Perfect thank you.
All right.
This next pie chart.
So 5% of single family residential demand,
short term reductions.
So conservatively we're looking for this to conserve about 5%
In the short term that amounts to about 60
to 75 million gallons a year.
And then of course, as the program progresses,
we're looking for long term reductions of 10% or better.
So 10% on the residential demand yearly
would be 500 million gallons, which would be pretty nice.
It's a great opportunity to align our water use
with our water right constraints and also
focus on the long term capacity of the natural resource.
We all live here.
We know the number of droughts we've
seen over the last five years.
And so this just gives us a better
opportunity to bring our water use
into more efficient capacity.
From my perspective, capital project deferment is a huge one.
The more we can meet the growing needs of the needs
of the community without constructing Wells,
booster pump stations and reservoirs,
that's efficiency to me.
The 21% in tier four.
And so what this pie chart really represents
is the percentage of Bills throughout the year
that occur in those tiers.
And so to point out that the 21% in tier four
accounts for 30% of the water is used annually.
And if we just really do the quick math there,
we've got 37% between tier 4 and tier 3,
and we have 63% of the total bills
that occur in tiers 1 and 2.
Do we have a breakdown on residential and commercial
for tier 4.
This is strictly just residential.
Just residential.
Thank you.
And this is our bill profile.
So what this is doing this is taking
the average of the high bill.
This takes all the data that we've
compiled over the last couple of years,
and the average of the high bill was 59 billable units.
So to put that in perspective, the mayor loves gallons.
That's 44,000 gallons.
And so if you guys will remember, I think,
told councilor Zwicker, the average home in July utilizes
about 15,000 gallons on a 1,500 square foot yard,
including indoor indoor use.
So what this shows is if this average high bill didn't change
their water usage and they continued
to water at 44,000 gallons a month, the bill
impact would be $25.61.
And I like to use July July's.
It's when we see the highest use.
And so your bill impact would be $25.61
with a tiered rate adoption.
And moving on.
And if you guys have questions on how this looks
on the bill, Valerie billing manager, she's in the audience
and she might be able to answer any more targeted questions.
But council had kind of asked, hey, what kind
of information what kind of.
What kind of things can we do on the bill to inform customers
of what their previous year's water
use would have looked like with a tier bill applied to it.
And so what we've done here is put on there.
This is what an average bill would look like.
We also have the opportunity to take the individuals 12 month
use and apply that month over month over month
to show them what that would look if a tiered rate was
applied to 2025 use.
Moving on.
So this is the implementation timeline.
So obviously right now we're looking for an adoption today.
And what we would like to do is implement
in either April or October.
First and so I think if we whichever way we implemented,
I think the key is what I understand is educating people
what their bill looks like now and what
it would look like under the tiered rate ahead of time.
That is correct.
So we would get working on getting those out so customers
could start looking in that viewing,
viewing what their water use would
look applied to a tiered rate.
So when April came, there wouldn't be any big surprises.
And as I understand it, we have the capability
of doing that now pre April.
Is that that's a question more than a statement.
And nodding is yes OK.
Yeah Valerie Taylor, billing and collections
manager we would actually October with the bill
we sent in October.
That would be the earliest that we could start
this communication, but that would
give us enough time to do that.
And then we could continue doing it from there forward.
So just to take it one step further,
people would see water consumption is now
and what the rate is and what the consumption in the future
would be with the tiered rate.
And then I assume we can provide them
the tools as to whether they want
to lower that consumption with the rebate programs we have
and other possibilities.
Yes, correct.
So we would do the 12 month view and then
we do their current usage with the tier.
And then we would also make our communication plan
for education and outreach.
Any other John.
I have a non billing question.
So we have a stated goal.
As a city we want to reduce water usage
by 10% This is the Tiered water system
is not designed as a punishment for people
who are wasting water.
But it's designed as more of a carrot model
to try to get that reduction down.
Where have we seen this implemented in other cities,
and what kind of reductions have we seen in those cities
that have brought this forth.
It's a great question.
That's a great question, councilor.
I'm actually going to pass this one off
to Deb since she deals with so many utilities
throughout the nation.
Sure So I've worked with the city of Tucson, Arizona
for years, and obviously they're in a very water
scarce environment.
And we saw over a 10 year period a actually even larger than 10%
reduction in their rates or in their water consumption.
Part of it is the structure itself sends a conservation
oriented message pricing incentive to customers
to understand about the scarcity of water
and the cost of those using water during the peak season.
The other variable is the price.
So for the initial implementation
we have set there's two objectives.
One is to send that conservation incentive
by pricing those upper tiers at a higher rate.
But also we don't want the rate for anybody
to decrease because that sends kind of a confusing message.
So in the future the city can monitor what the customer's
response is in terms of water use,
and then continue to progressively increase
those upper tier rates as needed to send a more pronounced price,
provide a pricing incentive or just seeing these can be tweaked
as you move forward during this plan
to balance of your affordability and your conservation
objectives.
But studies have shown that even just the rate structure
itself can result in about a 2% reduction
in water use and the pricing.
Then, depending on how high those rates are
and how much they increase, that results
in the additional conservation.
And we've seen this work in Arizona
and in other Oregon communities and across the nation.
So one more follow up question on that.
So do you have experience in terms of lead time.
Because obviously the education piece of this
is going to be huge to get this out to folks.
Have you seen what is the sweet spot between where we're giving
them enough time to adapt, but not
so long that that's kind of falling off of their mind,
and they get surprised with it when the implementation
finally does come into play.
Yeah, I think, a six month time period
is sufficient and is that sweet spot,
assuming that the billing system is able to produce
the Bills and the other customer service material
and that you've got the rebates and other elements
of the program in place as someone pointed out, to support
the customers in actually using less water in implementing
conservation practices.
Thank you.
OK go ahead.
That is the end of my presentation.
All right, Jason, do you guys want to add anything.
All right.
We'll go to public comment then.
Is there anyone here who would like
to speak on the tiered water rate proposal.
Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing.
And let's see where we're at.
We're at the motion.
But shouldn't this be April.
Yes So the motion we'd want to adopt it affected April 1.
April 1.
March 1.
OK OK.
So what we have.
All right.
So is there a motion.
Ocean I'm already talking.
I guess I move to adopt resolution number 2026 19
adopting the water tiered rate effective April 1, 2027.
Second moved in second.
Any further discussion.
Sure I just want to tell staff I appreciate all the work
you guys are doing to try and figure out how to let the public
know what they're going to be charged.
I really appreciate that.
However, I disagree with rising costs when especially when there
are no projects lined up for the extra money,
they're just going back into more conservation.
So we aren't.
And the reason that plays so little in my mind is.
The city of Redmond uses three to maybe 4%
of the water in Central Oregon.
So 55 million gallons is a lot of water.
But the big picture things, it's not very much.
I just can't support rising costs for people who live here.
Live in Redmond.
I'm trying to think of ways we can go down rather than go up.
So that's it.
Any other comment.
I'll just say that water is going to be the critical policy
in the decades to come.
We are in a very resource challenged situation
in Central Oregon on water.
One of the balances of getting additional water rights
is establishing some rational level of conservation,
which I think this does.
I think if people do it the right way
and their bill will not be increased, if it
is, it's almost imperceptibly.
That is $25 for the year, but this
is the cost we pay for a long drought
and an aquifer that's being very challenged at the time.
So all those in favor of the resolution
signify by saying Aye.
Aye Opposed.
Aye OK.
Next, we have contract review board,
an award of a five year agreement with Una avionics
corporation for the flight time airborne position reference tool
and service contract at the Redmond
Municipal Airport for $242,820.
Gentleman, Mayor and council.
I just wanted to introduce Charles Hanson.
He's been with us about a month.
He's our new deputy director of the airport.
And I think you've met Leif before,
but he's going to take the lead on the presentation.
All right.
Welcome, Charles.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you.
Let me get to from the beginning.
There we go.
All right.
Thank you, Mayor.
Thank you.
Councilors Leif Andersen, in Redmond Municipal Airport.
Contracts and properties manager.
Tonight, we're going to ask for authorization to engage
in a contract for five years to acquire a digital solution
for mostly our air traffic control
cab staff to enhance safety situational awareness in the cab
tower.
The full cost of the contract relates to the acquisition
of the software, the installation, and the licensing
of the software to not only air traffic control staff,
but other stakeholders around the airport, which
we'll explain in a minute.
So first off, the acronym is apt,
which stands for airborne position reference tool.
This is not radar, but it's a GPS based tool that picks up
on ads-b broadcasted aircraft, which is basically all aircraft,
including our commercial air carriers,
and translates that data into visual screens for air traffic
control tower users to look at and deploy in the cab for safety
and awareness Among the many benefits of the service
which are listed here are.
Verifying verifying transponder issues.
Assisting in distressed aircraft.
Currently in the tower, we've got folks with binoculars.
This will add to their ability to quickly
ascertain where aircraft are in the airport environment.
This is the only approved vendor of this particular service
for commercial airports in the GA community.
So it's an FAA single source provider.
This is an example of what the tower staff would see,
as well as other users of this particular product.
It will be very, very similar to what they will see if they had
ever worked in an FAA tower with full radar
surveillance coverage.
So it kind of mimics the same look and effect
of what they would have seen in previous positions
in towers that had full radar surveillance coverage.
As mentioned, this is the only FAA approved vendor
for this particular service.
The FAA and the airport staff have been wanting this
and have worked hard on this particular opportunity
for years.
We also have very strong involvement and a proponent
within the air carrier community at the airport,
including Alaska Airlines, who have been very
interested in instrumental in getting
this set up for us as well.
We did go through a sole source process
through the city's approval process for this particular cost
over a five year period.
And with that, we'll take any questions.
Thank you.
So as I understand it, at a certain elevation,
Seattle controls traffic.
And then this one is below that elevation.
Yeah correct.
This will be this is below that elevation.
This particular tool will be able to see
any ads-b broadcasting aircraft, but this tool
will be basically zoomed in to the Redmond airport environment
to pick up quicker communications with air
traffic control in Seattle.
The Seattle air traffic route center
and pilots coming into the airport environment
pick them up on the screen and then visually
verify that they're out there for their separation
service calls for departures, landings, et cetera.
I'll convene the contract review board retroactively
to your beginning leave.
So with that, does the council have any questions
or are we ready to move forward.
With a motion.
I move to approve the sole source findings and award
the flight line airborne position reference tool contract
to avionics in the amount of $242,820, and authorize the city
manager to sign the contract.
Second moved in second.
Any further discussion.
All those in favor, signify by saying I. I thank you very much.
Thank you mayor.
Thank you.
Council so we'll reconvene the council
from the contract review board and we'll go to ordinances.
And this is the second reading of ordinance
2026 regarding fireworks.
Is there a motion to have a second reading by Title only.
I move to have to have a second reading of ordinance 2026 11
by Title only.
Second moved and seconded.
Any further discussion.
All those in favor, signify by saying I. Oh, Jay.
Nay OK.
City ordinance number 2026-11.
An ordinance amending the Redmond city code,
Section 5.305 prohibiting possession, sale, and use
of fireworks in Redmond.
Is there a motion to approve.
I move to approve ordinance 2026 11 by roll call vote
second a second.
Any further discussion before we have the vote.
If not, we'll go with a roll call.
Vote councilor Evelyn.
Excuse me.
Mayor Fitch.
Yes councilor counselor Nielsen.
Yes Councilor.
Osborne yes.
Councilor Patrick.
No counselor.
Wedding yes.
Councilor Zwicker.
Yes OK.
Next, we have an action items.
And the first one we're going to do
is one we discussed in executive session.
It's resolution number 2026 21.
Give a little background.
Yes mayor.
City attorney.
So this is coming out of executive session.
It's been before council twice now.
The first time was for a resolution to initiate
eminent domain process.
And so the property concerned in this
is the intersection of ninth and antler.
It's part of the East side arterial.
And there's a section of property
that needs to be obtained.
In order to complete this project.
It's essential to continue the project.
And so we've been engaging in negotiations
with the property owner to purchase that piece of property.
And as we are continuing those negotiations,
we are also working through the condemnation process as well.
So this resolution is the second resolution in this process that
would authorize staff to file the condemnation action in city
court while we continue to not seek
or I think I said Circuit Court while we
continue the negotiation process,
because it wasn't in the packet.
There's two sections to whereas clauses that I'll read for you
and then briefly go over the approval as well.
So this is resolution number 2026-20.
It's similar to resolution 2026-10.
That was the first resolution of these two.
In addition, on this one we identify the property concerned
which are tax lots 02500 and one (513) And so that's the legal
description.
Also included in the exhibits are the actual property
descriptions.
Additionally, staff has completed the appraisals
and required notices engaged in the 40 day offer period,
which has now expired.
Despite these attempts, we've not
managed to settle on a purchase price
of the property, which is why we're moving
forward with this resolution.
This resolution will authorize staff to commence prosecute
the condemnation actions.
It also authorizes city manager and city legal counsel
to make stipulations, amendments, agreements,
and determine, as they determine may be in the best interests
of the city to make final offer and negotiate a purchase price
for this property if possible, or continue
with the condemnation in Circuit Court.
Any questions.
Just one.
OK I was just say I have a clarification question.
So we're tonight is 2026-20.-18 correct with
our packet for clarification.
Thank you.
I just want clarification on one point, which
is that no action that we're taking tonight
is going to prevent or interfere with any ongoing negotiations
or ability to reach an agreement.
That is correct.
We will continue those negotiations
and we actually can continue them even after filing all
the way through the process.
We can continue negotiations.
Thank you.
Is there a motion to approve resolution 2026?
20, a resolution authorizing the acquisition of property.
I've got a question.
Let me just finish this interest for the East side arterial
projects through condemnation proceedings
when don't we get the motion and second on the floor
and then we'll have discussion.
Is there a motion.
I move to adopt resolution number 2020 6-20.
I'll second.
OK discussion.
Jay Keith.
This isn't 100% It doesn't slow the process down.
Correct Correct a unanimous vote is not required.
OK OK.
Any further discussion.
All those in favor, signify by saying Aye.
Aye Opposed.
Aye OK, so next we have resolution 2026 18,
a resolution declaring certain territory in Northwest Redmond
as being annexed to and incorporated within the city
of Redmond.
Kyle all right.
Good evening, Mayor and council.
As the mayor just mentioned, this is a really
relatively small annexation.
And this is essentially needed to Annex A little piece
of property that's owned by Hayden homes in off of Northwest
way and Northwest Redmond.
And you'll see there on the graphic,
it's denoted in the yellow.
So all together it's just over 3/4 of an acre.
Again, once we annex that then subsequently it will
be dedicated for right of way.
And that's because the adjoining property owner, Pacific star
estates, which is a master development plan,
they're going to begin work on a multi-phase residential
development, and they will be required
to basically improve Northwest way along the frontage
of their property.
So we need that full right of way dedication
for that to materialize.
So any questions.
No it looks like a pretty small annexation.
Any questions.
Is there a motion.
I moved to adopt resolution 2026 18.
I'll second.
Moved in second.
Any further discussion.
All those in favor, signify by saying Aye.
Aye OK.
Next, we have a purchase authorization for three axle
snowplow dump truck for the public works
department for $308,014.94.
Ryan good evening.
Mayor and council.
Ryan Kirchner, public works operations manager for the city.
Tonight's action item request or ask
council to approve the purchase of one 2027
with 10 yard dump truck that will have a dump body and snow
fighting systems attached.
This purchase will be made via or through PAPI with.
It is for 308,400 or $14.94.
This purchase was competitively bid via sourcewell contract.
This purchase specifically is for the transportation division,
which will use it for summer hauling, street
preservation projects and snow fighting
during the winter months.
It's also replacing almost 30-year-old 5 yard
dump truck that is undersized and is
also beyond its useful life.
This purchase was first presented to the Budget
Committee and is in the current fiscal year budget
under the transportation, capital, vehicles,
and equipment sub fund.
And before we move to motion, I'd be
happy to answer any questions.
Is it 308 within the budgetary framework.
Yes OK.
Is there a motion.
I moved to authorize the city manager to purchase one 2027
with T4 83 axle dump truck chassis with snow removal
equipment from with utilizing sourcewell
contract number 032824.
KTTC in the amount not to exceed $308,014.94.
A second.
Any further discussion.
All those in favor, signify by saying Aye.
Aye Thank you.
Up next, we'll have comments from Citizens.
Does anyone have a comment at this time.
Yeah come on up, sir.
If you just state your name and address, that'd be great.
Oh, Richard frost.
OK, but Richard, you can use the table.
That's fine.
Just make sure you hit the button
to make the microphone go on.
OK yeah.
I'm a sort of a victim of the verra mobility place.
I talked to you about two weeks ago
and gave you some literature, and I didn't get any response.
I wish I could have and that's not everything.
So we all know that system is separate from everything,
but it's not.
So it came along and I don't know who got it.
Most probably the police.
The police officers or.
This area we're talking about the traffic cameras
was that we're talking about the traffic cameras.
And that went through.
I got myself a good six in maple.
So yeah.
But anyway, that did go through a fairly rigorous review
process, but go ahead.
Oh, I don't think that Vera mobility was a very good choice
at all since it's going through a class action lawsuit,
and those could go on for a couple of years.
You just don't know what's going to happen with one of those.
And it's just and when I came and when
I've come into this building, I decided
I was going to go to a judge or and so
that made me give back my pictures that they had taken.
And I thought, oh, OK.
And so when I about a week before I was going
to do the final thing here.
Excuse me.
I went to the police office and I said, well,
can I get my pictures back so I can put up more of not
a defense but just a show.
And so they said, yeah.
And they got a young lady in there
to get a computer outside the police department
or in the police department in the lobby
there for people to use.
And I said, I'm 75 years old and I understand
you are to remind everybody you pointed that out when you were
there that we couldn't get my pictures back,
and that's a failure.
And so when I came here for the judge,
I said, well, I've been pondering
over even getting a jury.
And I said, well, that would be kicking my own self
in I decided not to do that.
But so anyway, he dismissed it, the whole thing because I
just said, this is ridiculous.
Because I don't think I was guilty of that behavior.
And I don't think and I don't maybe the police can tell
me where did my pictures go.
They never showed up.
So obviously I'm saying I'm not giving a very good thing
here because it's not my thing.
But you guys need to clean it up.
And I would start with getting rid.
I don't care if air mobility is not a good.
I've got all kinds of stuff.
Just for fun.
I read all your information.
What's that.
I read all your information.
Well, it wasn't all the information.
There's tons of information on it.
I said I read your information that you gave me.
What's that.
I read the information you gave me.
Well, that's.
Well, I didn't.
I didn't think you.
I didn't want to burden you with that.
But you didn't.
And I'm not trying to get on you.
You're a nice guy.
But I don't.
I think it's not going to go over
very well if we don't sweeten.
I don't get the system going properly.
And that's when it could have been set.
And a good time or a bad time for when it was set.
Was may right when their mobility
crashed on the NASDAQ a lot.
I don't know if you follow that, but yeah,
that was a big crash on the.
So to sum up, Richard, because your time ran out.
Let me just ask.
You're asking us to review the situation with the police
department is what I'm getting from your testimony
that I found it kind of confusing.
I kind of found it confusing in the court
building because they said when I went to get my pictures up
here the first time, they had two people come back
and say, well, you need to know that, you'll they
didn't really sit that we have these pictures.
And I go, well, yeah, I brought them back.
Yeah but it was like this big deal.
And I have a hunch most people just pay their fine and leave,
and I just don't think that.
Couldn't you get another vendor.
I mean, you get a meeting.
And the judge said he could.
It's not that difficult. All right.
Well, we'll review that with the police
department and the city staff.
What's that.
We'll review.
I think we're going we actually talked
about having review at some point of how this is working.
So we won't be working too good.
All right.
Well, I appreciate your opinion.
We'll find out from everyone else, too.
OK I just wanted to.
Because I seem to be the only one.
I seem to be the only one that did a jury.
One almost.
And walking in the door.
And it's like, no, this.
And this is going around the whole country.
All right with different vendors.
And this isn't as bad as a lot of them.
All right.
Thank you very much for your testimony.
Thank you.
OK anybody else with a public comment.
Seeing none, we'll go to Keith.
OK I have a couple of things.
First of all, the wild ride car show occurred last weekend.
And at least from PD, the Police Department's perspective.
And Sergeant gortney was down there.
It went really well.
They had good communication with Shane, who you met,
who did the presentation a month or so ago.
So the new way they're running the show and the coordination
with police and making sure people
don't do unsafe things worked out, so I
just wanted to pass that on.
And the only other thing we also back in July 28,
there was the annexation related to the Segoviano property.
And that kind of went through without protest.
So that's done as well.
That's what I've got.
All right, Jay, we'll start with you.
Yeah I'd like to just bring up a name of a guy who passed away
a week after the fair, and Randy Marvin is who it was,
and he died.
Died at his house.
But I'd been with him just a few days earlier.
He gave me a ride out to my car at the fair.
He volunteered for everything.
Our flags that we see every holiday.
He was part of that program and just his veteran and a real.
Real giving person always wanted to be part of the help people.
So I just.
I'm going to miss him a lot.
I just wanted to bring it up.
Thank you.
OK Clifford.
Yes, I guess I pass.
Yes I just want to say that I think the world
is a little less bright today with the loss of Dolly Parton.
And my thoughts and prayers go out to her family.
And I've got some albums that I'll be rolling around tonight.
So let me say something about water.
If we don't do this, our rates will skyrocket in the future
because water will not.
The more people we get with the static amount of water,
is a supply and demand issue there,
and prices will go up more appreciably than if we take
the steps to do water conservation, which
also puts us in a better state to get additional water rights.
We have one currently pending before the water resources
department to transfer surface water
rights of 500 million gallons from the river to groundwater.
But water is not increasing in our basin.
And so this is the right step for a lot of right reasons.
And no one likes any increase.
But this is going to be the softest increase compared
to if we don't do something.
So with that, I think the council
made a great decision on moving forward with the water
tiered rate system.
I think on the long term, it will be quite beneficial.
And with that, we're adjourned.