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[1:00] ancient and undergyntra of India is evolved with liberty and justice.

[1:09] Let us record who is in attendance, Councillor President Cheek.

[1:13] Yes.

[1:14] Councillor Conner.

[1:16] Yes.

[1:16] Councillor Martijn.

[1:17] Yes.

[1:18] Councillor McGinnis.

[1:19] Yes.

[1:20] Councillor Ryan.

[1:21] Present.

[1:21] And Mayor McNeely is present.

[1:23] The consent agenda is a tool used to streamline meeting procedures by collecting routine non-controversial items into a group whereby all are passed with a simple motion and vote.

[1:34] You have before you the consent agenda on the approval of regular meeting minutes, August 12th, 2026.

[1:40] We will workshop minutes, August 12th, 2026, and a review of financial reports, the minutes of the previous meetings and financial reports were distributed beforehand.

[1:50] Does the council wish to remove any of these items from the consent agenda to be discussed individually during agenda item 11 items removed from consent agenda?

[2:03] Since we have no items to be removed, may I have a motion to approve? Oh, I'm sorry, before we do that, are there any clarifying questions?

[2:12] Council,

[2:17] no clarifying questions, no document removal. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda?

[2:22] move to approve the consent agenda. Second. Second. Second. The motion.

[2:26] It is moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Let us vote.

[2:30] Council President Chi. Yes. Councillor Conor. Yes.

[2:34] Councillor Martini. Yes. Councillor McGinnis. Yes. Councillor Ryan. Yes.

[2:39] The motion castles unanimously. We have no presentations, guests, or announcements,

[2:43] so we will move on to staff reports. The Chair recognizes Fire Chief Godhead's

[2:47] Nancy, to report where the fire department.

[2:57] City Council, City Manager, Rockway Beach.

[3:00] Yeah, before you, the Fire Department Council report

[3:03] for August.

[3:05] Wow, some of the bout pumps.

[3:07] August of 2026.

[3:09] Start with the run reports,

[3:11] like we usually do here.

[3:14] August did not disappoint on runs.

[3:17] We had 72 911 calls last month,

[3:21] which tied the all time record

[3:23] that which was August the 0.5 at 72, 901 calls.

[3:29] Heavy on the medical, 49, two fire alarms,

[3:34] one structure fire response, three water rescues,

[3:38] a couple more vehicle crashes.

[3:40] So we kept the statistics, at least we got something

[3:44] in all the demographics.

[3:47] Trains were busy last month.

[3:48] We continued to train the third tonight.

[3:51] We've been also training a lot on the Wednesday day times through the day times with some volunteers, so we've been a lot of extra training samples we had 10 last month.

[4:01] I think most notable, the most interesting one.

[4:05] We did go down the Garibaldi and learned how that supply water on their docks and the little bit of how to suppress a boat fire, which was something a little new and we can put into the our pocket of things and skills we have.

[4:19] non-emergent, kept busy, we're on the beach a lot,

[4:22] earned complaints, obsessed, got to get busy.

[4:26] I think the notable call, so far this month,

[4:29] we did a lot of rescue over the weekend.

[4:31] That was successful, which is good to see

[4:33] with the amount of people in the water.

[4:35] We'll talk about our crew here in a minute,

[4:37] but been getting on that beach a lot,

[4:39] trying to keep people safe.

[4:41] And it's really been effective,

[4:43] but at least some of these holidays,

[4:44] we get to have so many people on the beach,

[4:46] you just get to be there to everybody all the time.

[4:48] So Emily did his job again, which is what we're out here.

[4:54] Year-to-day, it knows the calls are definitely surging forward as expected.

[5:03] I think so far this month we've already had something today.

[5:07] We've already had 17 this month.

[5:09] So September, after a pretty strong start too.

[5:14] but anyway, 378 911 calls so far this year, so we're busy.

[5:19] I'm still training hard, looking at fire attack.

[5:23] We've been, well, the weather's still nice.

[5:25] We still got a little bit of daylight.

[5:26] We've been trying to take advantage of that.

[5:29] We do have a chance to look on,

[5:32] plan the liquids and gas training with Garibaldi in the month

[5:35] and continue on the ladder and GMS stuff.

[5:39] Okay. Page two, like I said, the beach has been busy. Fires have extinguished 28 different

[5:44] fires and extinguished on the beach in August. That's 113 to day. 31 tanks of water. The dog

[5:53] biscuit number, sorry, it's only 23. It's like a double lap this month, but we were so busy

[5:59] they did what they could. The 23 is like, it's still a pretty fair effort. Anyway, they've

[6:06] been given lots information. Emergency management, the new radios are in. I'll start with that. I don't

[6:14] remember I put that in the board, but the new radios are in. They had a class last month. I got a few

[6:20] folks trained. They did their first call in last Thursday. It was noted that there was a lot of new

[6:29] voices on the radio, which is good to hear. That's what I heard people talking about commenting. So

[6:34] So if anybody is still interested in joining that radio group, they would see myself for

[6:40] Captain Grace, and when we get all this started, we'll get enough people we can have another

[6:44] class, or find another class in the county to get up to speed on.

[6:49] I think it's a great program, and we'd like to get more and more people signed up, and

[6:57] I have heard that the new radios are a definite improvement on what we had before.

[7:03] There'll be a CPR class coming up. I have a fire here with me, but it's on the 26th at

[7:10] 9 o'clock at the station. You get our website and we did update the contact information

[7:17] for counting grace on there. So his phone number and email is on there, which he's excited

[7:22] about. The people can call him and send me, but he's looking for all those who want to get

[7:28] signed up and get into that class. We're probably not going to hold a lot more classes. So,

[7:35] we've been getting a lot of signups. If I'm being honest, a lot of people sign up and then

[7:40] do not show it up that they didn't last. So, we're trying to figure out how to put some accountability

[7:46] in there, but we definitely want to teach. So, if you're interested, please sign up and show up and

[7:52] cap will put you on a great class on. See, the great shakeout set your calendars for October 15th and

[8:00] 1015. Next month I'll give you a lot more details and our next month's monthly management meeting.

[8:07] Preparedness meeting will be going over some of those details of what we're going to do for the

[8:11] shakeout. So the 15th October at 1015 and I will keep you posted. The SWAT analysis

[8:22] I will tell you this, give you a little tease, which we have the draft form looks really

[8:26] good.

[8:27] Send it to the same manager you got today, yesterday, sometime this week, we're kind of reviewing

[8:32] it and making sure it's ready for a distribution that I'll get a copy to the council, so thank

[8:37] you.

[8:40] The consultants did a good job, I think, of capturing the fire department where we're out,

[8:45] where a future probably needs to go direction wise.

[8:49] But it would give a lot of stuff that will go into the city's plan. I was happy with how it would integrate in.

[8:55] The burn ban is still in effect. Having had a question through and I've been getting a lot of questions to consistent with the recent rains and cooler weather.

[9:05] Other than today's 70 something that the cooler rainier weather has definitely.

[9:10] people are stacking up on to breathe. It's still not quite safe to burn yet. Bring it up to the

[9:17] fire and clinical board next week at our meeting. We'll discuss it and kind of give you a date.

[9:23] As soon as I know a date, I'll get it out to everybody.

[9:28] September 11th, Friday. We need to get a couple

[9:31] things on our website. I apologize for that not happening yet, but September 11th at nine o'clock,

[9:38] Friday at 9 o'clock. We're going to be doing a remembrance for the point at the anniversary of 9-11.

[9:44] There'd be a short ceremony, but we've asked that as many people can attend, we'd appreciate it.

[9:52] 9 o'clock, we wasn't in some of our publications, so 9 o'clock at the wayside.

[10:00] And see, a couple of other things. I had to see far much will stop by today. Well,

[10:06] So actually it's the county community wildfire protection plan coordinators showed up today. We've actually signed that plan today.

[10:15] On the F signed it fire defense board signed it today is going to go in from the commission. It's hopefully next week.

[10:22] And it'll be an official and a living document, which is a big step for grants and some of our mitigation efforts and education efforts will be making going forward here.

[10:34] on that note, State Fire Marshall didn't stop by about an hour later today.

[10:39] They had a request from one of our citizens in town to do a home assessment,

[10:45] which the State Fire Marshall's office is currently doing them.

[10:49] We're going to have three of us going to get trained to do the same thing.

[10:51] So you have a resident in town and would like somebody to come by and look at your house

[10:56] and see what your wildfire risk is.

[10:59] We will do a free, it's a free home assessment and give you the tips you might need to trim the grass away, move the wood pile, you know, open gas cans, you might want to move into the shed, that kind of helpful hints for you.

[11:14] So you can go to the Oregon State Fire Martial website if you're interested.

[11:19] It's osfm.com or if you type in Oregon State Fire Martial, and then click on wildfire.

[11:28] The tabs cross top are pretty easy.

[11:30] Click on wildfire and then it opens up a drop down menu that says defensible space and

[11:37] As soon as you hit Defensible Space,

[11:39] it'll give you a link to fill out a request.

[11:45] And once we get that request,

[11:46] it takes up to two or three weeks.

[11:49] This person today happened to not be home,

[11:51] but requested this morning,

[11:53] and they were already in town happy driving through,

[11:55] so they stopped to do it.

[11:57] But it's a pretty cool program.

[11:59] And I'd say three of us are going to get trained

[12:02] in October, up in the Hang-On.

[12:05] a couple of other things we've got going on.

[12:07] Football standbys, we're going to start this week,

[12:10] our first home game,

[12:11] plan shared and Saturday or Friday night at seven.

[12:14] So if you're not doing anything,

[12:15] come support the Nick County Pirates,

[12:18] but we'll be there taking care of,

[12:20] make sure they're healthy,

[12:22] and if they make it for everyone, take care of them.

[12:25] There's four home games this year.

[12:26] We opened it up to the other departments in the county.

[12:29] So I sent out an email in the Hayland,

[12:30] in Garibald and Bay City that they want to send folks to support since it's all in all our districts.

[12:36] Let me get more people more support. Let's see. I think the last thing I have is just set your

[12:47] calendar to head. I've got a look at the calendar today. The trunk of tree is 53 days away, but Santa

[12:53] plus is already not just 95 days away. And I believe the way the year is going.

[13:01] Anyway, Santa will be at the station in 95 days and Trump will treat you 53 days. So

[13:07] you can set your counter to that. Talk of eggs.

[13:10] You know, we couldn't bring that up. I'm okay with, you know, if you go to dollar general,

[13:16] the Christmas stuff's already up. So, you know, I'm fine holding up on the eggs for another

[13:23] at least in a couple of weeks and then I've got a short little presentation for you

[13:30] wanted to show you. We're going to start off with some of our highlights, one of our highlights

[13:37] the year and that's our staff. I can't keep talking about how busy we are, how many calls we've ever,

[13:45] what we do and in the back of the room today I've got Ryan which most you recognize and Anthony and

[13:53] and Dylan are two seasonals and are paid firefighter.

[13:57] Cap can beat her tonight yet another obligation.

[14:01] But these guys are what really drive this department

[14:05] and make sure that we caught two in the morning,

[14:07] somebody's there.

[14:08] So I got a huge shout out to him

[14:11] that we had drilled the other night with Garibaldi

[14:12] and I captured this picture

[14:14] and I thought it really showed a lot of things,

[14:17] pictures worth a thousand words.

[14:19] And this picture showed me the teamwork,

[14:21] the camaraderie and just everything you can capture. I mean they're happy, they're working hard,

[14:29] and these guys are what what matters. So I think so. So with that, oh yeah. Yeah, I did.

[14:41] And you know, I call Ryan out too. I did last month with his participation in the wildfire response,

[14:49] But, you know, it was, it's really, really proud of where they're developing, what they're doing, and, uh, and, uh, thank you all.

[14:57] So, was that though?

[14:59] So, my name is

[15:00] I slide, see if it's up or down, I can't remember, down. It's a little hard to see, but this is a slide taken Sunday morning about six, 30 in the morning with our drone. It's about 400 foot above the ocean there, looking back from the wayside or about north, third to the north and about south, sixth to the south. And they captured a picture. And it might not look much to you, but each of those

[15:29] those red little cross dots are marked

[15:32] of a heat signature from the night before.

[15:35] That's how sensitive our drone was.

[15:38] And he marked them so you can see them better,

[15:40] but there's actually little, it's the infrared

[15:44] for where the campfire is for the night before.

[15:47] So when that's how sensitive the camera is,

[15:50] you know, whether it's healthy in the night before

[15:53] is captured is 38 different heat signatures

[15:56] in that little stretch.

[15:57] When I went there, yeah, Sunday night, yeah, this is Monday morning.

[16:02] Yeah, Monday morning.

[16:03] So, when I went Sunday night, I looked down the beach and I don't know if I'd ever seen more campfires going on the hard beach.

[16:10] And then you can see most of them are in a safe area.

[16:13] A few that might be a little close, but most people did this in a safe area in a safe distance.

[16:19] But it shows you, I think we were.

[16:23] There's a lot of people in that beach.

[16:24] And, anyway, I just thought that was an interesting chapter.

[16:29] Now, I have four different slides here that I'm going to show you.

[16:32] And these are kind of, sometimes it's hard to put numbers into words, especially.

[16:38] You know, as you talk about percentages or how many of this or how many of that,

[16:42] I've always found that pictures are a lot more important or easier to show what you're actually thinking.

[16:50] So if I were to ask you a question, I said, how many times do you think that we would respond to a call that has a visitor versus how many times do you think we have a resident call?

[17:04] And I captured data all year. I've been capturing lots of data. I love data, love number.

[17:08] and I took three or four different highlights here in OC.

[17:12] But the first one I did is this is going to illustrate

[17:15] how many calls we had from January 1st to May 31st,

[17:22] which I'll call one of the shoulder seasons,

[17:24] our first shoulder season.

[17:26] This is a capture over a five-month period.

[17:29] We responded to 179 calls.

[17:33] And in your heads, put 1% you think might be visitors

[17:36] versus residents. And I made sure to have an amount. And this is what the data

[17:41] showed. So from January 1st to May 31st, we had 179 calls, 101 or about 50,

[17:54] I see, I wrote the number down, so it messes up and yes, what I can't find right now.

[17:59] I think it's about 56 or 7 percent, 57 percent. So it's 57 percent or residents.

[18:06] heavy on the resident calls, we still obviously have a lot of visitor impact, but the summer season

[18:13] I captured next. And that is from June 1st, August 31st. I try to go from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

[18:20] So I kind of thought, well, I think we'll have more visitor calls, but I kind of thought it would be

[18:25] pretty close. This slide tells me it was totally different. And Councilor McGinnis, I see from your

[18:33] reaction you think that just like I did I kind of surprised me how much contrast there was so in

[18:39] the summer months almost 57% of our calls are this or and only 40% of our action residents it's

[18:48] a very I thought a very interesting concept how much impact they have now that's why I have it's

[18:56] going to show you our call volume.

[19:00] And it's going to contrast the last five years.

[19:03] It's going to contrast from 2022 to 2026.

[19:08] And the calls that we received from July 1, August 31,

[19:12] just the summer season.

[19:14] Because you hear from me the same thing every month, busy, busy.

[19:18] I think I could write a broken record.

[19:22] But this will show you how busy we've been over the last five

[19:25] years and how much the calls have been increased. So we went from 109 calls in 2022 to 199 calls this year.

[19:36] And the things I find interesting are is 2022 was the year we hired Brian.

[19:43] 2023 was your captain grace and the first two seasons came on. But to see the increase from 2023

[19:52] three to this year. And this is our

[19:55] emergent calls. These are the 911 calls

[19:57] to service. It's up about, that's a

[20:03] I'll see. I have it down here. It's

[20:05] up significantly. 78% I think it is.

[20:09] I wrote it down. 70% yeah, about 70%.

[20:14] It's so it's noted. So we, when we

[20:18] tell you we're busy, this kind of

[20:19] illustrates that. I thought that was

[20:21] a good point. But this next one is what really got me. And the next one is not just the calls

[20:27] but everything we do. And this is, you know, our non-emergent calls, our burn complaints,

[20:32] or the trainings, everything we respond to in total. And I found this very interesting.

[20:39] So we ran this year's 420 calls, same staffing we did in 23. And definitely so when I tell you

[20:48] I can see it on the straight face now when we play stats.

[20:53] I found it interesting.

[20:55] We appreciate what we do.

[20:57] We know we're all working on the same thing, but I thought data shows an interesting stuff.

[21:04] So with that, I can answer any questions that council might have.

[21:12] So they had to see with Emily, and I was a fire command on the first call we had with

[21:20] Emily.

[21:21] And we got a family of four.

[21:23] They got pulled out two different repairs and got them all back on the sand in five minutes.

[21:28] It's a pretty amazing tool.

[21:30] We made national news.

[21:32] I heard that one.

[21:33] Yes.

[21:34] We still have a good contact with the Emily company.

[21:39] Yes.

[21:40] They still call us for testimonials and information for somebody that might want to purchase

[21:46] one.

[21:47] And we tell them the same thing.

[21:48] Yeah.

[21:49] I showed up the other day.

[21:49] It was five in the water.

[21:51] And to decide, try to get control of that scene, decide how we're going to get to what

[21:56] we're going to do to get to them is very challenging.

[22:00] But we did it.

[22:03] It was mean.

[22:05] Yes.

[22:05] It's a great machine.

[22:07] I was just going to ask for anybody listening here that doesn't understand what it is.

[22:12] Can you give us just a brief explanation on what Emily is?

[22:17] Oh, sure.

[22:17] If you haven't seen Emily yet, come on by.

[22:20] Emily is our, and I'll put your name out.

[22:24] It's our vote.

[22:26] It's a jet vote tied to a rope that we can take out.

[22:30] the ocean. It's a small remote control boat and I don't know how we should keep the talisman,

[22:36] how many people, it's full now, but it's quite a few. It saved a lot of lives for sure.

[22:42] We drive it out, turn it off and you get to the people, they hang on, then everybody pulls

[22:47] the other road. It's tied to a road, you pull back in. If you haven't seen it, stop by the station.

[22:53] We love giving tours, don't we? Yeah, in unison. That's what I like. Good job.

[23:00] Yeah, yeah, we do miss would it be a program and we could you could introduce all of the firefighters who are here? Sure.

[23:11] Do a little time.

[23:13] These are seasonal prime moves are both coming and Anthony Allen are other seasonal.

[23:20] Thank you.

[23:21] Thank you.

[23:21] All right.

[23:25] I think we've got them all hooked to one of the firefighters in the future.

[23:29] That's a good thing.

[23:31] Thank you.

[23:33] Anything else?

[23:34] All right.

[23:35] Thank you very much.

[23:35] Thank you.

[23:36] Thank you.

[23:37] All right.

[23:38] The chair recognizes Deputy Sean Alders to report for the Film Accounting Sheriff's Office.

[23:42] Come on down.

[23:47] Do you think?

[23:48] Just like the part of our grant, August is a super busy month for the Rockway Beach Patrol.

[23:52] So lots of visitors in town and a steady stream of criminal cases kept us hopping.

[23:58] A note, schools back in session, in its second week, and so the stock or the point of

[24:06] on our lights are active multiple times throughout the day, they have a change to the traffic

[24:10] patterns, school grounds, if nobody's driven through there on a weekend yet.

[24:14] Once you get past the gymnasium, there's only one way to come off a campus, and that's

[24:19] on Lake Boloar. And that is right next to one of the 20 mile an hour signs. So controlling

[24:23] your speed as you approach the school when the school zone is active is going to be extremely

[24:27] important to allow buses for young drivers and our parents coming out of there to remain safe.

[24:34] So known what calls for service this month include a report of a theft of a cell phone off

[24:37] a South Beacon Street. I love involved the juvenile. So that case has been forged at the juvenile

[24:42] department. A report of illicit drugs came in from a local business. They were picked out

[24:46] but seized and destroyed by our office.

[24:49] Our standing order violation was reported on our military.

[24:52] That was investigated.

[24:53] The suspect had been arrested

[24:55] on a similar type of charge among them,

[24:57] but count in sorry cases.

[24:58] It's going to be handled by his office

[24:59] and conjunction with them.

[25:01] A possible hit and run was called in

[25:03] over by the Republican Brewery.

[25:05] It was, I happen to be here at the sub station

[25:07] within two minutes.

[25:08] I found the suspect and he was extremely intoxicated.

[25:12] I don't believe the hit and run never happened,

[25:14] but the report of what somebody thought

[25:15] they saw it led me to him, um, midday, mid afternoon, just should not have been driving.

[25:21] I'm so good, solid arrest in that case is in the district of Terry's hands.

[25:25] A missing person was called in on South Miller Street about five o'clock in the morning, a couple

[25:30] weeks ago, um, with the part department's help, till McCowney's search and rescue,

[25:34] and the Rockway patrol were able to locate him as soon as they break. This generally, but happened

[25:38] a lot of time, but it was an adult with some disabilities, and as soon as they happened, he started

[25:45] to walk around and use these little things at that point.

[25:48] The report was stocking, was taking on South Beacon Street.

[25:51] This particular case covers multiple jurisdictions

[25:54] throughout Oregon.

[25:56] So we've taken our report and this forward

[25:57] onto the district attorney's office as well.

[26:00] Our annual search and rescue fundraiser banquet

[26:02] for the sheriff's office is the Saturday the programs.

[26:05] Door's open at 4.30.

[26:06] There's one of the biggest ways we raise funds

[26:08] for the search and rescue effort for the county.

[26:11] So we hope we'd see as many people there as possible.

[26:14] It's good food, there's games, options, lots of good stuff.

[26:21] Excited to talk about just real briefly, we're going to be having a Reserve Deputy Academy

[26:25] start next year, so we're currently in a process of accepting applications for anybody

[26:30] that would like to see kind of what please work as like if you don't want to make your full

[26:34] time job.

[26:36] You can come and be a Reserve Deputy with us, you go through the application, the background

[26:40] process, medical exam, psychological exam. A few months of training initially in the academy,

[26:47] some more training with deputies, and you'll spend some time working out there on the road

[26:51] or in corrections on a volunteer basis so you get to have all the fun but none of the pay.

[26:58] And even opportunity if you'd ever thought about what's it like to actually see things from the

[27:02] other side of the curtain because a lot of people see what happens on the front end but the back end

[27:07] And it's really, really, it's deep as far as the amount of things that are happening

[27:11] that you don't see from the front and it's a good way to get in.

[27:16] It's going to be a big ask on the front end with the Academy and all the training and

[27:20] after that, it's going to be requested, heavily requested, 20 hours a month, 10 hours in

[27:25] the jail, 10 hours on patrol.

[27:28] If you stick with it long enough, maybe you make it a career or the potential to become

[27:32] a solo reserve deputy for the right people.

[27:36] That's what I have.

[27:38] Any questions?

[27:40] That's much.

[27:42] I have a couple.

[27:46] One, do you.

[27:47] There's a sheriff's office department.

[27:49] Make this same pitch about a reserve deputy to the community college.

[27:54] They may be the criminal justice courses area.

[27:57] Yeah, okay.

[27:57] It's been over a Facebook and.

[28:00] I'm hoping to get.

[28:01] that at least 10 or more applicants,

[28:04] we don't have an exact closing date for that yet,

[28:06] but it's soon because the sooner we can get them,

[28:08] we want to be able to start the academy

[28:10] at the beginning of next calendar year.

[28:12] So we want at least 10 because that is inevitably

[28:14] going to whittle down to maybe three to four people

[28:17] that want to stick with it.

[28:19] And the other thing is we never got a report

[28:22] on the number of citations for illegal fireworks.

[28:26] Is that something that the department tracks or is?

[28:29] It could be found it's not something that we track actively now, because it's a big contingent in the community as you know.

[28:38] Yeah, I didn't write any, but I only worked till certain time on the board.

[28:42] Thank you.

[28:44] Any other questions?

[28:47] Thank you.

[28:47] The chair recognizes Public Works Director Mary Merch to report on public works.

[29:03] So, September, month of run, as always, Madonna is nearly wrapped up, super excited with

[29:12] that.

[29:13] We're currently doing site connect and our final walkthroughs this week, hoping to have

[29:17] that project all that enough on site by the end of the week might go into the next week

[29:23] if a little bit of extra site connect needs to happen, but everyone's connected to new

[29:27] lines. It's been a pretty successful project. We added in quite a lot of additional work,

[29:35] Geneva, Riley, Western. So expanded the scope of the project and we're still coming in

[29:40] well under budget. A huge success. This project, again, was funded through the

[29:46] Savedric and Water Revolving Loan Fund, which is a 50% forgivable loan. So it's a huge win

[29:54] University to get this project done so timely and we can't wait to see you.

[30:00] We'll do some comparisons now that we're connected to the new lines and see how much water savings we have by getting this project done. We'll be digging into that data for the next year to see what those savings are for the cities.

[30:14] And we're taking off a new water project. This will be starting next week mentioned this one before, but we have a water line projects. Just a little one that our staff is going to be doing. This is a project on easy street between Washington and the wetland preserve.

[30:29] We're scheduled to begin that next Wednesday.

[30:32] We're letting the folks in the area know

[30:35] they can't expect some scheduled water service

[30:37] tips for options.

[30:39] This is a steel line that's gonna be upgraded to PVC,

[30:43] but it is kind of a few leaks here and there on that line.

[30:48] So again, hoping to see some water reduction,

[30:51] water loss reduction in that area once we get this project

[30:54] completed, but doing this in-house,

[30:57] we're gonna be saving a considerable amount

[30:59] money been having to cost it out. And our guys don't get to do a lot of these bigger for us

[31:04] waterline projects. So we're excited to get this underway. I should have an update for the

[31:10] public just to let everyone know what's going on. Everyone up to date within the next week on our

[31:14] website.

[31:18] And then so you may have remember earlier this year you guys invested in our sort of

[31:23] department allowing us to purchase a sewer camera truck. And our guys have been trained. We've

[31:29] done a little bit of repair work to the truck. And we finally got it into action this last month.

[31:35] The staff was so excited to be able to get this out on the road and we're really impressive

[31:39] what it could do. We're going to be doing a peaking project next spring in the Pacific

[31:45] duest state's neighborhood. So to prepare for that, the guys went and looked at all the sewer lines

[31:52] up there to make sure we don't have sewer lines that are going to need to be repaired right after

[31:57] we paid those roads. So we found two offsets and we'll be scheduling to make repairs to those

[32:04] over this winter before that paving takes place. I think it's a huge asset for our department

[32:13] and being able to do this early identification of problems that we had in the road before we do

[32:19] other projects to the road themselves is a great way for us to make the taxpayer solvers go further

[32:27] and invest in the infrastructure that we're building,

[32:30] creating a better quality project overall.

[32:33] So thanks again for that.

[32:35] It's been a lot of fun to use that.

[32:38] And then Lake Blightle,

[32:40] if you guys have been out there this last week,

[32:42] you'll see that the vault toilets are no more.

[32:45] We temporarily have some fortified use out there

[32:48] for the public to use if you're out at the lake,

[32:51] but really excited to finally be having this move forward.

[32:55] I feel like I have been talking

[32:56] about restaurants at Lake Lettle for ever. So having them underway is really exciting.

[33:03] We're going to be having some heating that'll be happening in the next month, some site preparation.

[33:09] There's a manufacturing delay with the restroom building themselves. So those should be out

[33:15] at the beginning of November to start actually constructing the physical restroom, but we'll be

[33:19] getting everything else done in preparation while they get those out. And we've got a lot to do

[33:26] kind of amazing. You think just put some new restrooms in but getting all the utilities

[33:31] all the site prep, it's a lot more than what you think. And speaking of Lake Lightle,

[33:38] while phase one is happening, we're also working on phase two and what we're going to call

[33:44] phase three. So phase two as we're working on a partnership with some of estuaries partners

[33:50] to do some community engagement regarding the invasive species management.

[33:55] That needs to take place out there, plainly the Eurasian Milk Oil.

[34:00] I know you have all heard a lot about that from the public.

[34:02] We have as well, but we're looking to partner with them to do some community engagement,

[34:07] some technical analysis, and have them help us develop some recommendations for treatment of that invasive species.

[34:15] So you'll be hearing a lot more about that.

[34:17] we're hoping to have them come to a community engagement event and share wearwear patterns and

[34:23] get some feedback. We're also just got back in touch with the Oregon State Marine Board who are

[34:30] helping us do the design work of some in-water work. So you'll see there we've actually got their

[34:38] preliminary design. This is a concept design that we're going to be circulating around the public

[34:44] to get some feedback on. It'll be replacing the existing concrete boat ramp with a new boat

[34:50] launch and a dock to be able to actually get on your boat. There's a gangway and 88 kayak

[34:57] launch and a fishing dock is what they proposed. So we'll get some feedback from the community whether

[35:03] or not this design works. If there's fish in the area where they put the fishing dock, if not,

[35:08] where would a better place be? So we'll be getting that up on our website. I hope within the

[35:13] next week, and get some feedback. We'll have a site, excuse me, a sign out at the site as well,

[35:20] so people who are at the lake know that we're gathering feedback and ask them to participate in

[35:25] what this is all. And once we get that feedback, we'll bring it back to the Marine Board,

[35:30] they'll work with their engineers to update the design, and we'll keep this project moving forward.

[35:36] And then I think Luke probably has some more about this in his presentation, but it is water

[35:42] professionals appreciation week this month and you have a resolution

[35:46] confirmation in your packet resolution to support our wonderful

[35:51] employees who provide clean drink water to our community.

[35:57] We've got a great crew that worked 24-7, making sure that everybody here has

[36:03] clean, reliable drinking water of the highest quality.

[36:07] And most of their work happens behind the scenes.

[36:11] You don't really know it.

[36:12] And that is the best way public works can operate

[36:14] and providing a great service without anybody

[36:18] thinking about transferring their fax on.

[36:21] And that's the half.

[36:24] Questions for Dr. Merchus, Mr. McGuinness.

[36:28] Thank you so much for the Lake Lidle update.

[36:32] I don't know how many years ago it was now,

[36:34] but Councillor Cheek and I started working

[36:38] with the city manager on what we thought was just going to be an ADA kayak launch and boat

[36:44] wrap and it has morphed into so much more and I'm so excited for the value this lake brings

[36:52] to our community and thank you for all the work you're doing on it. Pleasure.

[37:01] It will be really

[37:02] exciting. I don't think I've ever been more excited for restaurants that I am. Thank you.

[37:32] I'm going to go ahead and jump right into the agenda review for tonight's meeting, and a couple of things to share with you, but I'll try to keep it brief. I know we've got a public hearing right after this.

[37:47] Yeah, so first off on the agenda, we'll have a public hearing on ordinance 2026-05 and ordinance amending city of Rockway region zoning ordinance 143 related to the flood hazard overlays on this is very similar to what I was working its way through the process about a year ago, except one of the big differences.

[38:08] This is excluding all of the FEMA buy-up, all of the pick-up requirements that will

[38:14] baked in.

[38:16] And as you'll remember, in November, last year, you asked the planning group to bring

[38:21] it back with all of those items removed, and that's largely what you'll see tonight.

[38:28] City planner actually planner is a great staff report that you'll see that I'll go through

[38:32] all of this in a lot of detail.

[38:33] Now, what's nice is completed in the zoning code update

[38:38] for the flood hazard overlay zone.

[38:40] It is a strategic planning initiative item 3.9.

[38:43] So it's nice to have that in queue for you all

[38:47] and we are set up to get all the way through adoption.

[38:51] Should it happen that way tonight?

[38:55] As former Merck mentioned,

[38:58] we also have a proclamation on the agenda,

[39:00] which declares water professionals week,

[39:06] per October 3, 2026.

[39:08] This is something that the legislature established

[39:12] and to recognize those dedicated professionals

[39:16] who work in the water and wastewater industry here in Oregon.

[39:20] And I always like to take any opportunity I can to highlight

[39:23] our staff, our wonderful public works department,

[39:26] who perform those functions first here in Rockway Beach.

[39:30] We have a lot of great departments here and our public works department is definitely

[39:35] one of them.

[39:37] And we'll finish up the agenda tonight with resolution 34 for the year, which approves

[39:43] an IGA, which is the city of Rockway Beach and the Twin Rocks water district for fire protection

[39:48] services.

[39:49] We've been providing fire protection service them for a long time, but this is a nice new

[39:54] modern agreement, it's a long-term IGA, and to make sure that the pricing is

[40:00] fair for everybody involved, those paying for the service and those

[40:04] providing the service.

[40:08] And we have an open house coming up next month, October

[40:13] 28th, all to do with our strategic plan update. We're two years into our five

[40:18] year strategic plan, and so it's time to check back it into community. We want to

[40:24] make sure all of the priorities you said two years ago are still still true but also we want

[40:31] to share with you what would be accomplished and want to see if there's anything we need to change

[40:34] and anything we need to modify for the final three years of our strategic plan. So there's open

[40:40] house from five to seven. I hope everybody attends and there's even some information on our website

[40:49] about this. So then here's our public meetings for the next this month and next month.

[40:55] Again, we've got our open house on the 28th, and I do want to point out the planning

[41:01] commission for September has been canceled,

[41:05] and with that, I could conclude my report

[41:10] for this evening.

[41:12] Thank you, City Manager, Shepherd.

[41:14] All right.

[41:14] There is a report from the planning department in the meeting package.

[41:17] Thank you, Planet Happy.

[41:18] If you're preparing board, I do appreciate that you do that every month for us.

[41:23] All right.

[41:23] We're going to move on to our public hearing.

[41:24] it's a public hearing on ordinance number 2026-05 in ordinance amending city of Rockwood Beach

[41:30] zoning ordinance 143. Code chapter 155 related to the flood hazard overlay zone.

[41:36] I open the public hearing at this time. Purpose of this public hearing is to receive public input

[41:42] regarding the proposed amendments to the Rockwood Beach zoning ordinance,

[41:46] who allow for continued community participation in the national flood insurance program,

[41:51] also known as NFIP and adopt higher standards that address the unique flood risk in Rockway Beach.

[41:58] All documents have been available for inspection as required by state statute.

[42:02] We're going to move on now to testifying instructions. I have the sign-up sheet for those who

[42:08] have requested to speak. As indicated on the sign-up sheet, if you wish to be notified of an appeal

[42:12] or other action on these proposed amendments, please provide your name and complete mailing address

[42:18] on the sign-up form or provided to the City Recorder immediately following the meeting.

[42:23] If you do not provide your address, we may be unable to provide you with a copy of the final

[42:27] decision.

[42:28] Please make sure your testimony is related to applicable criteria or other criteria that

[42:33] you believe apply to these amendments.

[42:35] Planning staff will identify those criteria at the beginning of the hearing.

[42:39] Testimony also should not be repetitious.

[42:41] Please do not repeat testimony offered by yourself or earlier witnesses.

[42:45] If we think your testimony is irrelevant or repetitious, I may interrupt and ask you to continue with another subject.

[42:52] Person speaking, she'll address the comments to the council as a whole and keep their comments to four minutes.

[42:57] The electronic egg next to our city manager will count down, giving speakers a one-minute warning by turning yellow.

[43:03] Demonstrations from the audience are prohibited. Please refrain from them.

[43:08] Comments from the audience will not be part of the record.

[43:10] Moving on to conflicts of interest, bias and ex-partei contacts.

[43:15] The mayor and council are required to disclose any conflicts of interest, bias, or ex-partei

[43:21] contacts that we have with the application.

[43:24] Specifically, a conflict of interest exists of a counselor where we see financial benefit

[43:29] or detriment from a decision, such as a specific vote on this matter.

[43:35] Ex-partei contacts include any communication, verbal, visual, written or otherwise with any

[43:39] party about the underlying application outside of this present hearing, and city councilors

[43:45] may only participate if they can do so without undue bias for or against the application

[43:50] before them.

[43:52] Do any councilors wish to make disclosures?

[43:58] Are there any challenges from the audience as to conflicts of interest, exparte context,

[44:03] or bias related to any member of the city council?

[44:09] When I move on to required statements, state law requires me to tell you about several things

[44:14] at the beginning of this hearing.

[44:16] First, the applicable substantive criteria

[44:18] that apply to this application are contained

[44:21] in the written staff report, and will be identified

[44:23] and discussed in the oral staff report.

[44:26] Second, your testimony, arguments and evidence must be directed

[44:30] toward these criteria or other criteria in the comprehensive plan

[44:34] or development code that you do apply to this application,

[44:39] ORS197.795-5B. Third, failure to raise an issue accompanied by statements or evidence

[44:46] sufficient to afford the decision maker or other people in an opportunity to respond

[44:51] may preclude future appeal of a decision on this application based on that issue.

[44:57] or S197.797 fights.

[45:00] See, we'll now move on to the staff report. If that I will now ask City Plan of Tapio to present the staff report. Thank you. Welcome. I have prepared a presentation today. And for there's a couple familiar faces from our planning commission meetings. So I do apologize that I am going to be repetitious. I want to be sure everyone's on the same page and has the same information. And it is quite a lengthy presentation. So I want to really focus on what

[45:29] what you're going to be adopting today.

[45:31] So you have, again, all the information

[45:34] pertinent to that decision.

[45:41] So starting off, this presentation is going to include

[45:44] a brief description of the flood plain

[45:46] and why it's regulated.

[45:48] I'm going to include details on the proposed changes.

[45:52] My details are detailed, but they're not comprehensive

[45:55] for a complete list of all the changes in the ordinance.

[46:01] And so again, I'd recommend reviewing the staff report.

[46:05] Next, I will present the staff findings and include,

[46:09] include in the meeting items and now also include

[46:12] the applicable criteria as mentioned.

[46:15] And then finally, I'm going to spend more time discussing the proposed

[46:19] higher standards and staff recommendation.

[46:22] Since those are the ones that the council has the mostly way in addressing

[46:28] testing, amending without impacting our cities standing within the NFIP program.

[46:34] So are there any questions on the agenda before I jump in?

[46:41] I'll jump in.

[46:43] So flood planes, what is a flood plane?

[46:47] Floods occurred naturally and can happen almost anywhere.

[46:50] They may not even be near a body of water, as is with a lot of Arizona and New Mexico where

[46:58] they have a lot of flooding as well. Although river and coastal flooding are two of the most

[47:03] common types and the ones that we have here in Rockway Beach. But in the definition of a flood,

[47:09] basically any time it rains and there is surface water moving, that is considered a flood.

[47:15] When is that flood a risk to the community? That is the question and why we have flood plain

[47:20] management. So flood maps are one tool that communities use to know which areas are the highest risk

[47:27] of flooding and a type of flooding that could be detrimental to the community.

[47:33] A FEMA floodplain is a geographic area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency

[47:39] or FEMA that is at high risk of flooding, specifically these are areas known as special

[47:45] flood hazard areas and have a 1% chance or higher of flooding in any given year.

[47:51] These are also called the 100 flood year floodplain.

[47:58] However, that's a bit of a misleading name.

[48:01] It doesn't mean that the flood will happen once every 100 years.

[48:04] It just means that every year there's a 1% chance of that type of flood occurring.

[48:10] There's also a higher type of flood that FEMA maps,

[48:14] which is the area in orange in this map,

[48:17] which is the 0.2% chance of flooding.

[48:19] It's a higher, a more impactful type of flood, but it is not regulated as it assesses

[48:26] its likelihood of happening is diminished.

[48:30] So I am being very reducing the complexity of this matter, but I do want to note that today

[48:36] we're not discussing any amendments to the maps themselves.

[48:40] These maps were adopted in 2018 and were based on extensive technical information.

[48:48] and that is not something that will be a kind of words

[48:52] that will not be opening tonight.

[48:55] I do want to add one context,

[48:58] a planning commissioner, Maxfield,

[48:59] pose an interesting question that I didn't have an answer to,

[49:02] but I do want to bring that answer today

[49:05] and his question was, how many structures are

[49:07] in the special clut hazard area?

[49:10] So I looked at our aerial maps, I just founding.

[49:13] And we have 85 structures and it's an estimation again

[49:18] is based on aerial photography, but 85 structures in the coastal, a high hazard flood zone,

[49:24] and they're all within city limits. And then we have estimated 375 structures in the revering

[49:32] flood zone, 35 in the urban growth boundary, and over 300 in within city limits.

[49:42] So there is uncertainty when looking at aerial photography for determining structures, but it's an impactful decisions that we're making tonight.

[49:53] It does impact several structures and lots. Rockway Beach has a very high percentage of its total land mass within a special flood hazard area.

[50:02] Yeah. Assuming that there are 2,500 structures in Rockway Beach, we would have 50% of structures

[50:11] within the special fleet as a barrier. It's a very rough estimation of how many structures

[50:15] we have. Again, structures are counting garages, sheds, dwelling units, commercial units. It's

[50:24] likely under estimation of how many structures we have in Rockway Beach. All right.

[50:30] Right. Moving on, why does the city regulate floodplain development? So, you know, why is it not FEMA who is regulating development or why isn't it the state the one that regulates?

[50:42] And there's basically three reasons for this. The first reason being that as a city and a legislative body, we have an interest in promoting public health safety in general welfare. So we have a stake in regulating floodplain development.

[50:56] It is a goal within our comprehensive plan and we are as a city invested in minimizing

[51:02] public and private losses due to flooding.

[51:06] Another reason why the city regulates floodplain development is that it's a responsibility

[51:13] that the state has assigned to local jurisdiction.

[51:16] So the state of Oregon has delegated the responsibility to local governments to regulate floodplains.

[51:22] And lastly, regulating the flood plain as a mirror noted allows us to participate in the national flood insurance program, NFIP, which offers more affordable flood insurance for participating communities.

[51:36] Additionally, in the event of a flood, the city would be eligible for disaster relief as a participating community.

[51:43] And as the city we currently participate in the NFIP and the proposed amendments ensure our continued participation.

[51:49] All right, City Manager Shepherd already mentioned the history of this amendment, and I wanted to highlight a couple additional components in that as well.

[52:02] I could have picked a date going further back than December 2023, but that seemed like a reasonable starting point.

[52:10] But DLCD did a visit of our jurisdiction and provider recommendations for how we could improve or improve our local floodplain management program.

[52:20] They provided a letter with a list of recommendations, so we took that to heart and they became an item within our five year strategic plan.

[52:31] You know, why didn't we do these things sooner in 2023? What we had pick them and the trying to decide what direction we wanted to go there.

[52:41] So the planning commission reviewed a version of the amendments before that included the pick-up items.

[52:50] In November 2025, City Council deferred adoption of pick-up requirements and directed staff to further amend the ordinance.

[52:58] And in this year, August, 2026, the planning commission reviewed that was that new code language.

[53:11] So, before I jump into a description, a detailed description of what is being amended, there's a couple, a key language that I want to bring to the top, which is the F-H-O, which stands for flood hazard overlay zone, which is the zone that regulates the special flood hazard area.

[53:31] So we have the overlay zone within our zoning ordinance that basically applies those regulations to areas designated as special flood hazard area.

[53:42] So in the mapping, those two are synonymous.

[53:45] The flood hazard overlay zone and special flood hazard areas.

[53:49] Another term I want to bring up is BFE, which is the base flood elevation, which is measured measured from the sea level.

[53:57] So, this map, it might be a little bit too small to see, but these lines know different

[54:03] based on elevations.

[54:05] So, for example, one of those numbers is 19.6.

[54:09] It doesn't mean that the structure would need to be elevated 19.6 feet from the grade.

[54:15] It just means that at its point of elevation, it would need to be 19.6.

[54:21] It actually would need to be one foot above that, so it would be 20.6 feet.

[54:25] So once that elevation is measured from sea level,

[54:29] that's the elevation it would need to be to be reasonably safe from flood waters.

[54:35] And the last term that I want to bring to the surface is development as for the flood hazard or flood plain development is broader than it is for the rest of the code for the purposes of managing the flood plain.

[54:52] that means any man may change to improve or unimproved real property,

[54:58] including but not limited to buildings or other structures,

[55:02] mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations,

[55:07] or storage of equipment or materials.

[55:09] So it's a much broader definition than it would live otherwise.

[55:14] We usually look at structures specifically just as structures,

[55:17] But for the clean purposes, we take a much broader view.

[55:26] For the fun part, I'm going to start diving into those changes.

[55:31] So I do have several slides that I want to get through tonight.

[55:35] And I'm going to try to keep these as brief and I'll keep us moving.

[55:39] So if I am moving a little too quickly, please let me know and I can slow down.

[55:44] And if you have any questions, please write them down.

[55:47] and we'll have time at the end of the presentation to address any specific questions.

[55:55] So I'm going to basically go section by section within our amendments and bring out what is going to change.

[56:02] So our first amendment is adding the statutory authorization for local administration of floodplains, have it explicitly within our code.

[56:14] We'll also include a clarified purpose for why we regulate development in the floodplain.

[56:22] So we're adding the purpose of the amendments to protect human life and health, minimizing

[56:28] expenditure of public money, minimizing for rescue and relief efforts, help maintain a

[56:35] stable tax base, participate in and maintain eligibility for flood insurance and disaster

[56:41] relief.

[56:42] So it's just again clarifying and having and writing what the purpose is our flood hazard

[56:47] overlay zone.

[56:51] We're also going to include clarification on the methods for accomplishing the purposes

[56:57] of regulating flood losses, so we're adding, and this is more of like a, what kind of changes

[57:03] or what kind of amendments are beneficial to achieving those goals.

[57:08] So we're adding, restricting or prohibiting development that it's dangerous to the health

[57:13] safety and property due to flood hazards requiring that development vulnerable to floods be protected

[57:21] against flood damage at the time of initial construction, controlling the alteration natural flood

[57:27] planes, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, controlling filling, grading,

[57:33] dredging, and other development, which may increase flood damage. Again, this is calling out the types

[57:38] the methods that we are going to be using or can use in the future to regulate the flood plane.

[57:48] We're adding a bunch of new definitions that weren't there before. Some important

[57:55] including appeal and variance and violation and just overall adding clarifying language. So what

[58:02] do we mean by historic structure or hydraulically equivalent elevation and whatnot? I'm not going

[58:09] list all of these but these are the ones that are being added.

[58:18] I'll also going to add a clarifying

[58:20] language between a flood hazard overlay and the Oregon specialty codes since those are two

[58:25] of different regulatory aspects that are often in conversation. So we have our building codes and

[58:31] then we also have our zoning codes. So it's clarifying what that relationship is.

[58:37] We're going to also clarify the applicability of the flood hazard overlay zone and penalties for

[58:44] compliance and adding some very basic administrative components as well, which is the aggregation

[58:51] and severability statements, interpretation guides, and warnings, and disclaimers about

[58:57] what has it over at least so.

[59:01] We're also clarifying the designation of a floodplain administrator

[59:05] to administer, implement, and enforce floodplain regulations,

[59:09] or denying development permits that designation of floodplain administrator is on our city manager or who the city manager delegates that responsibility to.

[59:21] We're also clarifying the duties and responsibilities of the floodplain administrator, including floodplain determinations, correct application of base flood elevations and substantial improvement determinations.

[59:35] again, we're adding just clarifying language. So a lot of this is processes that we've already been doing. It's just putting in writing exactly what the duties are of someone who is administering the flood hazard overlay zone.

[59:50] We're going to clarify and expand the information required to be attained and maintained by the city.

[59:56] So it's clear to all parties and these are most.

[1:00:00] Firstly, requirements that apply to us as a public and employees, more than it does to an applicant or a developer.

[1:00:11] We're also clarifying and expanding the requirements to notify the state and federal departments of local changes that impact for administration. An example of that would be any map changes if we do any annexations or urban growth boundary adjustments. Those were all changes that we would need to notify the state and the federal government as well.

[1:00:33] And then also adding a substantial improvement, a substantial damage assessment in terms of determinations fully determining when an improvement or repair equals or exceeds 50% of a structure's market value.

[1:00:56] Additionally, we're also clarifying what the floodplain development permit requirements are.

[1:01:03] So, in, for example, applicants must include the ribberine flood zone, the proposed elevation

[1:01:11] of the lowest floor, and I'll support of utilities in coastal zones.

[1:01:16] We don't look at the lowest floor, but we look at the lowest structural member.

[1:01:19] So those structures need to be elevated higher in the coastal zone than the ribberine zone.

[1:01:28] Based flood elevation data for subdivisions, proposals, this one doesn't come into play as

[1:01:33] much for us since we do have base blood elevation data for all our special blood hazard areas.

[1:01:43] Part of the information applicants must include essential improvement calculations for any

[1:01:49] improvement addition, reconstruction, renovation, or rehabilitation of existing structures.

[1:01:55] Again, this is a requirement that already exists now.

[1:01:57] we're just adding additional clarifying language

[1:02:00] and reorganizing where it lives in our code.

[1:02:04] And the last development or permit requirement

[1:02:07] that we'll ask is for the applicant

[1:02:10] to explicitly have the amount and location

[1:02:13] of any fill or excavation activities

[1:02:15] that are being proposed.

[1:02:23] I'll take a quick rest here.

[1:02:25] All right, so moving us along,

[1:02:27] we're also adding procedures and conditions

[1:02:30] for granting a variance. A variance of a flood standard is different than, for example, a setback

[1:02:37] standard. There are different criteria that need to be met. And this changes would be adding

[1:02:44] additional clarification of what needs to be added, as well as the city needs to provide a statement

[1:02:52] that when a variance is granted, flood insurance premium rates would be impacted against, again,

[1:02:58] And flood insurance premium rates are determined on how the structure is built to resist flood

[1:03:05] damage.

[1:03:06] So granting a variance may increase the building's risk.

[1:03:11] And that's where that impact may come from.

[1:03:15] Variances may be issued for lots that are of one half acres or less.

[1:03:20] So again, these are not, variances would not be eligible for larger projects.

[1:03:26] Various may be issued for development that cannot perform its for purposes unless it sits

[1:03:31] near water.

[1:03:33] If that development is protected from flood damage and does not create an additional threat

[1:03:37] to the public, you can kind of think like docks and water dependent uses.

[1:03:46] All right, so I'm going to spend more time going in more detail already, and I'm sorry,

[1:03:51] Yeah, into are the standards for development that are being added.

[1:03:57] There's basically three categories of standards.

[1:04:02] One that I'm going to start with, which applies to all of all our flood hazard areas.

[1:04:08] Then there are standard specific to a riverine of flood areas and then standard specific to our coastal flood areas.

[1:04:16] Most of these I would the feedback that I've heard is positive.

[1:04:21] We're adding a lot more flexibility in a lot of areas and I'll be sure to call those out.

[1:04:27] So the first standard that is applicable to all flood zones is a requirement that if

[1:04:34] there's an alteration of water course that flood carrying capacity be maintained and require

[1:04:40] maintenance of portions of the water course that are altered.

[1:04:44] And I'm thinking more public works when I think of this standard as they may have more

[1:04:49] of inches in water courses, but also thinking about large projects as subdivisions.

[1:04:56] We're also adding clarification or clarifying standards for anchoring. So clarifying that the

[1:05:02] anchoring must prevent forces that lead to flood damage, buoyancy forces. As additional,

[1:05:11] currently we do have that anchoring standard, but we're adding, you know, why that standard is

[1:05:16] important into the code. Electrical mechanical plumbing and other equipment, the requirement is

[1:05:24] that equipment and services be elevated at least one foot above the base flood elevation and

[1:05:30] designed to prevent water from damaging components.

[1:05:39] So another standard that would apply for all zones

[1:05:43] as tanks. These are usually tanks that store hazardous materials, but allow underground tanks

[1:05:53] of anchored, clarifying on the standard for above ground tanks and tanks in the coastal zone.

[1:06:00] Here, I added an example of an elevated tank. It's a propane tank in that case,

[1:06:05] but oftentimes the elevation is basically as long as it's anchored and is not in danger.

[1:06:13] floating away. We would be adding the allowance of, again, underground tanks that is currently not

[1:06:19] allowed within our code. For subdivision proposals and in larger projects, those projects must provide

[1:06:27] BFE data if it's not existing, if the project has 50 lots or is over five acres.

[1:06:35] So we're also adding provisions for a case baseline elevation data is not available again for all our flood zones. We do have that data available.

[1:06:48] For we're adding parity that for structures that are within multiple zones or are partially within a zone that that more restrictive requirements apply.

[1:07:00] We do have several lots that are both within the coastal flood hazard and also the riverine.

[1:07:07] So in that case, the coastal flood hazard would apply.

[1:07:11] Another standard that we're adding, and this one is a higher standard.

[1:07:15] So we'll talk more about it.

[1:07:16] But prohibiting fill prohibiting use of fill for landscaping or aesthetic purposes increases elevation by two feet.

[1:07:24] So we're adding that standard F. Well, again, we'll talk more about it, but this standard does not impact fill use for structural purposes or access to a lot.

[1:07:39] We're also adding a more clarity when it comes to flood events and flood events apply for all new and sorry, a bit of brought to your attention, but we're moving into the riverine flood zones and standards that apply to the riverine flood zone, which is flood openings.

[1:07:55] So all new construction and detention improvements with fully enclosed areas below the lowest floor,

[1:08:02] excluding basements but including crawl spaces must have flood vents. So basically if the structure

[1:08:11] sits on fill, then that structure is not required to have those flood vents, but if there is an enclosed

[1:08:19] space below the structure, then those flood vents are required.

[1:08:23] Flood vents equalize the pressure of water on the wall.

[1:08:26] Events basically, foundation damage.

[1:08:31] So the bench must be designed to automatically equalize hydrostatic flood forces, again,

[1:08:38] to have both the pressure on both sides of the wall be equal.

[1:08:41] The spaces that are enclosed be used solely for parking, storage, or building access, be certified by a registered professional engineer or architect to meet or exceed specific criteria and that criteria is listed.

[1:08:59] Also in the rib ring zone, adding additional clarity for attached garages that are below the BFE.

[1:09:08] So adding a specific requirements for garages, currently we treat garages as non-residential structures.

[1:09:17] This just adds a specific criteria for garages.

[1:09:21] So floodway standards supply will talk a little bit more of what a floodway is.

[1:09:26] Floors at or above grade are no less than one on one side.

[1:09:31] So the basically can't be a basement type garage.

[1:09:37] The garage is used solely for parking, building access or storage.

[1:09:41] The garage is constructed with flood openings.

[1:09:44] The portions of the garage constructed below the BFE are constructed with materials resistant to flood damage.

[1:09:52] And electrical and other service facilities are designed to prevent water from entering or accumulating within the components.

[1:10:01] All right, let's talk about floodways.

[1:10:03] So that we have a floodplain and we have a floodway, there are two different things.

[1:10:08] The floodway exists within the floodplain, but a regulatory floodway was basically when

[1:10:14] they prepared the maps, they found where if their development occurred within an area,

[1:10:21] it would negatively impact all other development within the floodplain.

[1:10:26] So they basically pushed the floodplain inwards until that floodplain was increased by

[1:10:32] one foot. And that's where they drew the line for where that regulatory floodway would be.

[1:10:38] In Rockway Beach, we don't have a regulatory floodway for our riverine flood zones.

[1:10:45] So this standard would apply. But in areas where regulatory floodway has not been designated,

[1:10:51] which is our riverine flood zones here in Rockway Beach, no new constructions, substantial

[1:10:57] improvement, other development, including fill, shall be permitted unless it is demonstrated that

[1:11:04] the cumulative effect of the proposed development would combine with all other existing and anticipate

[1:11:10] development will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any

[1:11:16] point within the community and will not result in the net loss of flood storage volume. So this is a very

[1:11:23] fancy way of saying that when a development comes in or there's a substantial improvement

[1:11:28] to demonstrate that development would not increase the flood water. So it basically requires

[1:11:37] a study prepared by an engineer, specializing in hydrology to demonstrate that that building

[1:11:44] is not going to be detrimental to other buildings within the flood plain.

[1:11:52] So oftentimes when someone asks me what is, you know, probably going to be the most impactful aspect of these adopted codes is this component.

[1:12:01] Again, this is something that we are required to adopt of two being compliance with the NFIP. This is not a higher standard.

[1:12:08] This is a baseline standard.

[1:12:14] So, additional specific standards for the

[1:12:17] rubberine zone for residential construction,

[1:12:20] conversions to and substantial improvements of any residential

[1:12:23] structure shall have the lowest floor,

[1:12:25] including the basin elevated one foot or more above the base elevation.

[1:12:30] This is the current standard,

[1:12:31] what is being added is that conversion component.

[1:12:35] So, someone is looking to convert a garage, for example,

[1:12:38] into a living space.

[1:12:39] that conversion will need to meet the standards for residential construction.

[1:12:46] New construction, conversion to residential improvements of any structure

[1:12:50] with multiple primary uses shall conform to the standards of the residential construction

[1:12:55] when one of those, when one of those uses includes a primary residential use,

[1:13:01] this is a higher standard that we're adding, but it basically says that for mix use buildings,

[1:13:06] the entire structure will be considered as a residential.

[1:13:11] So if they have, for example, any enclosed face

[1:13:17] under the base flood elevation, then they will have to have flood fence.

[1:13:23] After spending a lot of time within our codes, this standard can already exist,

[1:13:28] but this is adding that additional clarity

[1:13:30] for really calling out that as a standard that makes you structures where they have commercial

[1:13:40] and residential that have to meet the residential requirements. The commercial component

[1:13:46] won't be the one that collapses, it's going to be the whole thing. So that's the reason for

[1:13:50] that. All right. For non-residential construction, again, also adding the conversion component,

[1:13:57] but new construction conversion to or substantial improvements of any commercial industrial other non-residential structures will meet the outlined standards for non-residential structures and those that are not set to change.

[1:14:12] Adding standards for manufactured wellings and also recreational vehicles, so manufactured wellings to be placed newer replacements or substantial improvements shall be anchored to prevent flotation and for recreational vehicles.

[1:14:28] be on a site fewer than 180 consecutive days.

[1:14:32] Be ready for highway use.

[1:14:34] And adding that definition of what a highway ready means.

[1:14:39] And all manufactured dwelling centers also apply to

[1:14:43] recreational vehicles.

[1:14:48] All right.

[1:14:48] We also adding clear standards for S3 uses.

[1:14:51] So these are sheds among other items.

[1:14:53] And all my pictures are going to include examples of accessory structures.

[1:14:57] But accessories.

[1:15:00] Actors are able to be granted relief from meeting elevation or flood-proofing requirements, if certain criteria are met. Again, complying with flood-way requirements, only being used for parking, access or storage, and not procurement habitation. Constructive with electrical mechanical, other services located and insults prevent water from entering and accumulating with the components. That's a phrase that's becoming standard.

[1:15:28] and compliance with state Oregon specialty codes.

[1:15:32] That's a fancy way of saying that they can be granted relief

[1:15:36] from elevating or foot-proofing

[1:15:38] if they obtain a building permit from Tillema County.

[1:15:47] Additionally, relief can be granted in residential zones.

[1:15:51] If the structure, the accessory structure, is less than 200 square feet

[1:15:55] for the commercial zone, if it's less than 400 square feet

[1:15:59] and has a setback of 20 feet or greater from the property line.

[1:16:04] And in the commercial zone, so sorry, I read that wrong,

[1:16:10] but in the residential zone for structures less than 200 square feet

[1:16:14] and then for structures that are over that or 400 square feet,

[1:16:19] that setback would apply.

[1:16:21] For the commercial zone, it's limited to 120 square feet

[1:16:25] for those accessory structures and include another accessory structure, which is a garage,

[1:16:31] or a shop. So, the last component for accessory structures is also that the portions of the structure

[1:16:41] below the baseline elevation are built using flood resistant materials. The structure is adequately

[1:16:46] anchored to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement, locating constructed to have low damage

[1:16:52] potential and not used to store toxic materials or gasoline for those that tank standards would apply.

[1:17:00] And here's another example of the accessory structure to be an awning or a gazebo.

[1:17:06] Then there's a couple other standards for adopting that are not applicable to Ruckway Beach.

[1:17:12] DLCDE suggests that we adopt them anyway in case that in the future they are applicable,

[1:17:20] but basically for adding standards for areas that have an adopted regulatory floodway.

[1:17:27] And then also standards for shallow flooding types, which is the A-H or A-O zone.

[1:17:33] Again, we don't have either of those within Rockway Beach.

[1:17:37] All right. I promise the coastal high hazard flood zone is a lot safer than the riverine.

[1:17:44] In the coastal high hazard flood zone, which is the VE zone, basically all we don't have

[1:17:53] that differentiation between garages, accessory uses, non-residential or non-residential, basically

[1:18:02] any structure within the coastal high hazard flood zone is treated the same.

[1:18:08] So all new construction and substantial improvements.

[1:18:12] One of the higher standards that we're proposing is that the proposed the bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member of the lowest floor, excluding pilings and columns is elevated.

[1:18:22] A minimum of one foot and six inches above the base foot currently is one foot, so we would be asking for it to be six inches higher than that.

[1:18:31] That we're adding standards clarifying that the wind load values used for anchoring calculation.

[1:18:37] That's going to mostly apply to Tillema County at the building permit stage, but adding

[1:18:43] that wind load value as a standard.

[1:18:48] As well, we're also adding the standards that the, sorry, I already mentioned that, a flood

[1:18:54] grouping of non-resensual structure is prohibited. Basically, any input space below the required elevation

[1:19:03] will have to either allow floodwaters to pass or be built with a breakaway walls. Again,

[1:19:13] for the coastal high hazard zone, the mentality is it's better to allow nature to do a thing than

[1:19:18] try to fight back. So when you try to fight back, that's when the structures are at a high potential

[1:19:23] damage. So we're adding a lot of additional or clarity and standards when it comes to

[1:19:30] breakaway walls. So currently our code doesn't have those standards for breakaway walls but we're

[1:19:35] saying if that space is going to be enclosed that these walls will have to be able to to recede

[1:19:41] if there's a water pressure and when that those walls recede for the structure not to be damaged.

[1:19:49] So adding specific load requirements for those walls and again that they can collapse under

[1:19:58] wind or water pressure. All right, so moving to the fun part, we're going to talk about my staff

[1:20:05] findings. I'm going to talk about the entirety before we go into the higher standards. Again,

[1:20:11] So I want to be able to go into veto on the higher standards more as we follow. But again, this is these amendments are our city council driven.

[1:20:26] But the criteria that we're looking at from our zoning ordinance, basically, we have, we have zoning ordinance criteria.

[1:20:39] And then we also have a comprehensive client criteria, but our zoning ordinance, the applicable criteria is Article 9 for amendments at section 9.010 offer authorization to initiate an amendment.

[1:20:53] But an amendment to the text of the ordinance or to a zoning map may be initiated by city council planning commission, or by application of the property owners contract purchases, purchase or purchases.

[1:21:06] or his or their authorized agent.

[1:21:11] So our staff findings is that the overall push is a City Council directed amendment.

[1:21:17] The Planning Commission did provide guidance and direction with those higher standards.

[1:21:23] And again, we'll talk more about those here in a bit.

[1:21:27] Additionally, another standard applicable to these amendments is the burden of proof,

[1:21:32] which is section 9.015.

[1:21:35] The burden of proof is placed upon the initiator of the amendment, and the burden shall be to prove that the proposed amendment fully accords with the applicable comprehensive plan goals and policies, and the proposed amendment is required to meet a land use need.

[1:21:51] So in the separate report report, you'll see that there are findings for each of these criteria specifically laying out based on that criteria.

[1:22:00] But to summarize, the comprehensive plan land use element policy to protect life property

[1:22:07] from natural disasters and hazards.

[1:22:09] This amendment falls right within that role.

[1:22:12] The proposed amendments seek to further the school by setting clearance, the septic regulations

[1:22:17] where possible for structures built in areas with 1% annual chance of flood hazard.

[1:22:25] Additionally, comprehensive plan coastal shorelands policy 7, the city will rely on the

[1:22:31] requirements of this flood hazard overlay zone to regulate development and flood hazard

[1:22:35] areas to ensure that the provisions of the national flood insurance program are met.

[1:22:40] Again, we're not going beyond the scope of existing maps, so we find that this requirement

[1:22:45] is met.

[1:22:46] That the comprehensive plan hazards policy three, the city will rely on requirements of the flood hazard overlay zone to regulate development and flood hazard areas.

[1:22:57] Again, we're using the tools given to us by the comprehensive plan and not going beyond those tools.

[1:23:04] So we find that this also this comprehensive plan a goal was met.

[1:23:08] And then the proposed zoning ordinance to floodplain management regulations are designed to promote the public health safety in general, well for of its citizenry, which is an ongoing land use concern and need.

[1:23:23] So we find a requirement to be met as well.

[1:23:26] By way, I'm saying staff, I want to clarify.

[1:23:29] The council can have its own findings as well.

[1:23:33] So, another component that we looked at as well is the statewide planning goals.

[1:23:41] So, reviewing all planning goals found that four planning goals are applicable or could

[1:23:47] be perceived as applicable to these requirements.

[1:23:51] So, we staffing through the findings to these, the goal one, which is citizen involvement, in

[1:23:58] In addition to all the noticing and hearings that we've had, the Planning Commission also

[1:24:03] held a discussion on the proposed amendments during the June 18th, 2026 meeting.

[1:24:10] This meeting really focused on those higher standards and the Planning Commission provide

[1:24:16] guidance and help staff formulate what those higher standards would be.

[1:24:21] The Planning Department also meant and corresponded with members of the public and provided technical

[1:24:26] assistance when requested. I received a lot of several calls and walk-ins and emails

[1:24:32] regarding these changes. A lot of technical questions, so I sat down with everyone who

[1:24:38] requested to meet and provided answers to their questions.

[1:24:45] Goal 2, Landy's planning. The proposed amendments are implementation measures,

[1:24:50] consistent with adopted plans related to state laws and administrative rules.

[1:24:56] This goal is also reiterated in findings to the burden of proof.

[1:25:03] Again, these implementation measures being consistent with our comprehensive plan

[1:25:10] helps us find that goal two has been met.

[1:25:14] Goal seven, which is area subject to national hazards. The proposed amendments

[1:25:18] The amendments reduce the risks to people and property from flood related natural hazards.

[1:25:24] The proposed amendments are consistent with available inventory information provided by the flood insurance rate map firm, which is the and the flood insurance study, the fist, which is the big reasoning to why the map is the way it is.

[1:25:39] Both of these were, again, effective September 28th of 2018.

[1:25:43] Our amendments are not changing these either the flood insurance rate map or the additional

[1:25:50] findings to the flood insurance study.

[1:25:53] And the last goal that the staff found to be relevant is a goal 10 housing.

[1:25:59] The proposed amendments include significant improvements to the predictability and development

[1:26:05] process housing by clarifying floodplain development permit review requirements.

[1:26:09] The standards for open needs, for example, and application of residential standards to mix

[1:26:16] used development.

[1:26:17] These are amendments that are facilitating the predictability of going through application

[1:26:25] process.

[1:26:27] The proposed amendments aim to promote safe housing options for all residents as found

[1:26:31] in goal seven, and additionally continue community participation in the National Plansurance

[1:26:37] Program.

[1:26:38] It ensures that property owners, renters, and businesses continue to be eligible for NFIP

[1:26:43] provided flood insurance, which helps the community recover faster when flood waters

[1:26:48] recede.

[1:26:49] Additionally, I didn't include this as a goal, but it was definitely in the back of our minds

[1:26:55] as we went through this process.

[1:26:57] With doing these amendments, it may also increase the rating of our community within the NFIP

[1:27:05] IP community rating system, higher rate of communities receive or are eligible to receive

[1:27:13] discounts from flood insurance community-wide, not just for houses within the flood plain,

[1:27:19] but again, community-wide flood insurance discount. So some of these higher standards are

[1:27:25] specific to increasing that standing. We're, again, level 10, which is the lowest community

[1:27:32] the community level, but once these amendments are adopted, I'll start pushing more and

[1:27:41] notifying FEMA that we're interested in being evaluated for that again,

[1:27:48] noticing the hard work that we've done, both from a regulatory perspective,

[1:27:52] but also infrastructure perspective to be eligible for discounts in flood insurance rate.

[1:27:59] All right. Last thing, I promise. We're going to go through our proposed higher standards.

[1:28:08] I want to just spend more time on these because these, again, these are the ones that Council

[1:28:13] has a more mostly way in amending or changing or outright saying no, we don't want this

[1:28:21] without impacting our NFIP standing. So there are four higher standards that were included

[1:28:30] within the standards that I presented.

[1:28:32] FEMA and DLCD encouraged local governments who adopt higher standards that make sense for each community and they're unique flood risk.

[1:28:40] Adopting higher standards, again, can improve city standing, the community rating system, which can lower insurance premiums community wide.

[1:28:48] Additionally, the planning commission, oh, that ignore that, that was a change from my planning commission presentation.

[1:28:54] But the four standards that we have are substantial improvement.

[1:29:00] We're adding a five year cumulative substantial improvement calculation,

[1:29:05] prohibiting fill used for certain landscaping or aesthetic alterations,

[1:29:10] adding that standards for residential structures to apply to multi-use structures

[1:29:15] or mix-use structures, and then increasing the BZone pre-board,

[1:29:19] basically the elevation above the BFE for structures within the VE zone.

[1:29:26] So those are the four higher standards and now I'm going to again go one by one

[1:29:30] and spend more time on these.

[1:29:34] So for substantial improvement, a substantial improvement is to find

[1:29:38] as any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvements of a structure

[1:29:43] or the cost of that improvement exceeds 50% of the market value of the structure before

[1:29:50] the start of construction of that improvement.

[1:29:53] Again, this is the standard that this 50% standard already exists within our code.

[1:29:58] Thank you very much.

[1:30:00] Fair standard that we'd be looking at is adding a substantial improvement calculation window for basically any improvement within a five-year window of that first improvement would be added to that cost would be added to determine whether or not the cost would be over 50% of the market value of the structure. The language within that higher standard is language recommended by FEMA for this higher standard. This is a

[1:30:29] of a higher standard that FEMA has quite a bit of information on regarding adopting.

[1:30:37] But basically, the city would keep track of improvements to a structure, and when any

[1:30:42] combination of those improvements within the five year period exceeds 50% of the structure

[1:30:47] market value at the time of that subsequent improvement, the structure would be considered

[1:30:53] successfully improved. If a structure is substantially improved, then it wouldn't need to meet

[1:30:59] the flooding requirements of our flood hazard overlay zone. So, for example, let's say a

[1:31:07] structure currently has an enclosed space below the BFE that they're using for storage, for example,

[1:31:14] if it is, if they do meet that 50% threshold, then they would be required to put flood vents.

[1:31:21] and that would be one example of what changed that would be impacted by meeting that 50% of threshold.

[1:31:31] I'm going to go through all the four of these and then we'll pass it back to the mayor to help us with questions.

[1:31:38] So the next higher standard is prohibiting certain type of fill within the flood hazard overlay zones.

[1:31:47] So fill is defined as placement of any materials such as soil, gravel, crushed stone or other

[1:31:54] materials that change the elevation of the flood plain.

[1:31:58] And the special flood hazard areas, the placement of fill is considered development.

[1:32:02] This amendment would prohibit the use of fill for landscaping or aesthetic purposes and increase

[1:32:07] the natural elevation of the ground surface prior to the placement of fill by two feet.

[1:32:13] use of in this special flood hazard area diminishes natural flood plain water storage capacity and has a potential increasing flood heights and velocities of displaced water.

[1:32:25] This is one of the reasons why in a non designated floodway projects are required to demonstrate that they're not increasing of the chance of flooding by one foot.

[1:32:36] So what this amendment says is that we're going to prioritize structures such as residential

[1:32:41] or non-residential structures over types of development like a fill for gardening or

[1:32:50] aesthetic alterations to the landscape. That two feet, why two feet of a placement of fill

[1:32:59] for the surface is to allow for planter boxes for more accessible planter boxes.

[1:33:07] So there are still some leeway where we're really targeting with this is the larger retaining

[1:33:11] wall type projects that can just place quite a bit of flood waters.

[1:33:19] We already talked a bit about the multi-use structures, but again adding clarity that for structure

[1:33:25] that have multiple primary uses that we will be applying those residential standards.

[1:33:32] This is a standard that would only apply for the riverine flood zone again because in

[1:33:38] the coastal flood zone all structures are required to meet the same standards.

[1:33:45] And then the last one is the elevating the free board which is that space between the BFE,

[1:33:52] the base flood elevation and where the jurisdiction requires structures to be elevated.

[1:33:58] So currently, that free board is one foot. This higher standard would be to increase it to one

[1:34:03] foot and six inches. And this is to address projected 28 levels sea level rise and also coastal

[1:34:13] elevation rounding. When they determined what the BFE would be for coastal zones, they did round to

[1:34:19] the nearest half-foot. So a slight increase may be more impactful than it would seem on the surface,

[1:34:29] and that's just because of the rounding of that mapping method. Again, free board is just adding

[1:34:35] that extra layer of protection for extra-level protection for changes within a flood zone.

[1:34:47] And with that, my staff recommendation, the planning staff finds that the proposed ordinance

[1:34:54] amending the city of Rockwood Beach zoning ordinance related to flood hazard overlay

[1:34:58] zone is consistent with a Rockwood Beach comprehensive plan.

[1:35:01] Zoning ordinance and statewide planning goals and staff recommends the approval of the amendments

[1:35:07] to the city of Rockwood Beach. Zoning ordinance as recommended by the planning commission.

[1:35:11] I do want to do a shout out to the planning commission. They did a lot of excellent work with refining

[1:35:15] the language, capturing or noting grammar mistakes either on my part or that had been already

[1:35:24] existing within our flood hazard or the lay zone. And with that, I'll leave the suggested motion

[1:35:29] on the screen, but I'll pass it back to the mayor to help us with the rest of the hearing.

[1:35:36] So unless I have any disagreement, I propose that we take a five minute break this point for anybody

[1:35:43] needs to use the restroom. So we're reconvened at 741.

[1:41:22] It's basically beat that.

[1:41:28] 741 will resume in the meeting.

[1:41:31] All right, we're moving on to council questions for staff.

[1:41:34] Thank you, Planner Tapia. That was detailed and perfect for the purpose of tonight's meeting.

[1:41:41] So really appreciate all the hard work you put into it.

[1:41:44] Does the council have any clarifying questions for staff regarding the proposed and

[1:41:49] I just want to echo what you said. I want to thank the Planning Commission and the City

[1:41:57] Planner for all this work. It is, it involves state agencies and federal agencies and it's

[1:42:04] so important that we understand and know what the amendments, proposed amendments are. So

[1:42:11] thank you for making sure that we had the information that we need.

[1:42:16] I know

[1:42:20] it was lengthy and I know it's very technical so it can be hard to follow, so I appreciate it.

[1:42:27] The five years standard.

[1:42:29] Yeah, let's talk about that.

[1:42:31] Can you talk a little bit about why five years versus zero or ten or somewhere in between?

[1:42:37] How did the staff and the commission come to five years?

[1:42:42] Yeah, so definitely determining that day or that time period is a balancing act

[1:42:48] between, you know, having a longer period, some jurisdictions, for example, have a lifetime

[1:42:54] of a structure for making that determination. It's a balancing aspect between the city's ability

[1:43:00] to keep records, detailed and accurate records, with finding that incentivizing or encouraging,

[1:43:11] or finding that structures that are prone to flood damage to be a hard end for flood risks.

[1:43:21] So initially, when we were workshopping it with a planning commission, we were thinking

[1:43:27] about a 10-year window, the community credit system or community rating system has a different

[1:43:35] credit rankings for a 10-year window or five. For a 10, it's a total of 40 points for five,

[1:43:43] it's at 20 points. Again, this would increase the ranking of the community. And so that's where the

[1:43:49] five year, why the five years, as opposed to three years, comes in. But the goal is to, again,

[1:43:56] balance ultimately, it's a legislative policy decision. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions?

[1:44:05] I have a sort of a place location question.

[1:44:08] Can you give us specific examples?

[1:44:10] I'm still trying to sort in my mind

[1:44:12] the difference between a floodplain and a floodway.

[1:44:15] Can you give us a specific example

[1:44:18] of each of those located in Rockaway?

[1:44:21] Where it would be?

[1:44:23] So for Rockaway Beach,

[1:44:25] our floodplain would be the areas in blue

[1:44:28] within the FEMA map.

[1:44:31] We don't have a floodway in Rockaway Beach.

[1:44:35] Okay.

[1:44:35] You don't have a regulatory floodway in, and is it possible to bring up the presentation?

[1:44:43] I could, a photo, I should have drawn attention to it, but it was from the Nahalem River that

[1:44:52] It has a,

[1:44:56] but basically the flood wave.

[1:45:00] In a map, we'll have a red dash, and there are additional standards that would apply to development within a floodway. Usually it's really restrictive, almost to the point of no development is allowed in the floodway. We are adapting adopting standards for a floodway, but in Rockway Beach, we don't have that designated floodway. So here in this map, for example, following the river, the areas that are dashed in red or pink.

[1:45:27] of those areas within the regulatory floodway and those areas in blue are the floodplain.

[1:45:34] So again, all of this would flood within a one percent of flood chance or is expected

[1:45:40] to flood.

[1:45:41] But the regulatory floodway is to again prevent development from increasing flood waters

[1:45:47] by one foot.

[1:45:48] Well, that's helpful, especially when you, for me, especially when you said we don't have

[1:45:52] any floodways in Rothbard.

[1:45:53] Yeah, yeah, again, it said it's a specific like regulatory designation and at the point

[1:46:01] of adopting that map, we didn't have a regulatory designation.

[1:46:06] There's not so much of a physical characteristic of a footplain, but oftentimes, footwaters

[1:46:12] are more intense and footwear.

[1:46:15] All right,

[1:46:19] move on to correspond and say we received any additional correspondence regarding

[1:46:24] to propose amendments beside what was included in the staff report.

[1:46:28] Yes, the council received a written testimony from Edward Brennan, advocating that the council

[1:46:35] eliminated five year human and attractive requirement for substantial improvements.

[1:46:41] The council has a copy of that testimony before you, and it's been posted online with the

[1:46:45] policy of this meeting.

[1:46:46] Thank you.

[1:46:47] Thank you.

[1:46:48] All right.

[1:46:49] We are now going to move on to public testimony, and I'll begin with the required statements.

[1:46:55] We will receive public testimony in any person with an interest in the proposed amendments

[1:47:00] may offer relevant oral or written testimony, or both, but please only speak when I identify

[1:47:05] you for that purpose.

[1:47:06] Please remember the testimony must be directed towards the applicable standards and criteria

[1:47:10] for which application was filed and is outlined in the staff report.

[1:47:15] We'll now begin public testimony with those wishing to speak in favor of the amendments.

[1:47:20] I have the sign-up sheet for those who have requested to speak.

[1:47:23] Anyone joining us remotely who wishes to provide comments and support of the amendments can notify the city recorder now by clicking the raise hand icon.

[1:47:32] And we will add you to the sign-up sheet.

[1:47:35] Do we have folks watching remotely for public comment and support of the amendment?

[1:47:39] We have nobody signed up here at the meeting and nobody online.

[1:47:43] So we will now receive public testimony from those wishing to speak in opposition to these amendments.

[1:47:51] If you have a sign-up sheet, anyone joining us remotely who wishes to provide comments and opposition to the proposed amendments, can notify the City Recorded by clicking in the raise hand icon now and we will add you to the sign-up sheet.

[1:48:03] Do we have remote guests who wish to comment in opposition?

[1:48:06] Okay, nobody wishes to comments in opposition so we will move on to public testimony that

[1:48:13] is neutral or has questions about proposed amendments.

[1:48:17] And I do again have the sign of sheet anyone joining us remotely who wishes to provide comments

[1:48:23] that are neutral or have questions about this proposal can notify the city recorder but

[1:48:27] clicking the raise hand icon now and we will add you to the sign of sheet.

[1:48:31] Do we have remote guests who wish to?

[1:48:36] With that, the Council will have nobody for comment.

[1:48:40] We'll move on to Council questions.

[1:48:41] The Council may now ask any further,

[1:48:43] clarifying questions of the staff as a reminder.

[1:48:46] This is not the stage at which City Council will debate the merits of the application,

[1:48:51] but an opportunity to City Council members to obtain clarity on statements and arguments made during the presentation.

[1:48:59] Councilors, any additional questions?

[1:49:01] Not I. That's a minute. Okay. All right. Does the staff have any final comments?

[1:49:13] I do not. Not this time. Thank you. Since there are no comments, I will close the public hearing at this time.

[1:49:26] We will move on to public comment on non-agenda items. The public comment period is an essential part of local government meetings.

[1:49:33] Each person has four minutes to speak. Our governing body takes a good into consideration.

[1:49:38] However, an observance of Oregon over meeting laws, this is not the time for dialogue,

[1:49:42] but rather a time for us to listen to you. Our city manager is taking notes of action as needed.

[1:49:47] The electronic aid next to our city manager will count down.

[1:49:50] Giving speakers a one-minute warning by turning yellow. After four minutes, the time will turn red.

[1:49:55] Please conclude your comments at that time. When the chair recognizes you to speak,

[1:49:59] please approach the podium. State your full name and indicate the city of your principal residents.

[1:50:03] You may indicate if you own property or business within the city of Rockaway Beach.

[1:50:08] I have the sign-up sheet. Anyone joining us remotely wishes to provide comment can notify

[1:50:12] the meeting monitor now about clicking the raise hand icon. And we will add you to the sign-up sheet.

[1:50:17] Do we have remote guests who wish to comment? We have no one wishing to comment. So we'll now move on

[1:50:25] to Old Business, and we have no Old Businesses evening, so we will move on to new business.

[1:50:31] And we'll begin with the first and second reading of ordinance number 2026-05 and ordinance

[1:50:37] amending city of Rockway Beach, zoning ordinance 143, code chapter 155, related to the flood

[1:50:43] hazard overlay zone.

[1:50:45] We conducted the public hearing on this item this evening.

[1:50:48] It is now time for consideration to perform the first and second reading of ordinance number

[1:50:52] the 2026-05 according to the City Charter, the Council may adopt an ordinance at a single

[1:51:00] meeting with the approval of at least three voting counselors.

[1:51:04] Provided the proposed ordinances is available in writing to the public at least one week

[1:51:08] before the meeting.

[1:51:09] Any substantive amendment to a proposed ordinance must be read aloud or made available in writing

[1:51:14] to the public before the Council adopts the ordinance at that meeting.

[1:51:18] All documents have been available for inspection as required by the City Charter.

[1:51:22] The chair will now entertain a motion to perform the first and second reading by title only of ordinance 2026-5.

[1:51:32] I move to perform the first second reading by title only of ordinance number 2026-05.

[1:51:39] Second.

[1:51:40] Second.

[1:51:41] It's moved and seconded to perform the first and second reading by title only of ordinance 2026-05.

[1:51:47] Is there any discussion from council?

[1:51:50] So,

[1:51:52] since there's no discussion, let's vote.

[1:51:56] Council President Chi.

[1:51:57] Yes.

[1:51:57] Council Conrad.

[1:51:58] Yes.

[1:51:59] Council Martijn.

[1:52:00] Yes.

[1:52:00] Council Meetings.

[1:52:01] Yes.

[1:52:01] Council Ryan.

[1:52:02] Yes.

[1:52:03] Motion passes unanimously.

[1:52:06] I will now read, I do the first reading of the ordinance.

[1:52:11] Ordinance number 2026-05, an ordinance amending city of Rockway Beach Soning, Ordinance

[1:52:16] 1-4-3.

[1:52:17] Code chapter 1-5-5, related to the flood hazard overlay zone.

[1:52:21] I will now perform the second reading by Title Only ordinance number 2026-05 and ordinance

[1:52:27] amending City of Rockway Beach zoning ordinance 143 Code chapter 155 relates to the flood

[1:52:32] hazard overlay zone. The chair will now entertain a motion to approve the first and second

[1:52:38] readings by Title Only of ordinance 2026-05.

[1:52:43] I would move to approve the first and second readings by Title Only of ordinance number

[1:52:48] or 2026-5.

[1:52:50] Seconded.

[1:52:51] It's moved and seconded to approve

[1:52:53] the first and second readings

[1:52:54] by title only of ordinance 2026-05.

[1:52:57] Is there any discussion from council?

[1:53:00] Since there's no discussion, let us vote.

[1:53:03] Council President Cheek.

[1:53:04] Yes.

[1:53:05] Council Conor.

[1:53:06] Yes.

[1:53:06] Council Maritime.

[1:53:07] Yes.

[1:53:08] Council McGinnis.

[1:53:09] Yes.

[1:53:09] Council Orion.

[1:53:10] Yes.

[1:53:11] Emotion passes unanimously.

[1:53:14] Consideration to adopt ordinance number 2026-05

[1:53:17] and ordinance amending City of Rockway Beach zoning ordinance 143,

[1:53:21] Code Chapter 155 related to the flood hazard overlay zone with the first and second reading

[1:53:27] now complete ordinance 2026-06 is ready for adoption. The chair will entertain a motion

[1:53:32] that Rockway Beach City Council adopt ordinance number 2026-05 and ordinance amending City of Rockway

[1:53:39] Beach zoning ordinance 143, Code Chapter 155 related to the flood hazard overlay zone.

[1:53:49] you're asking for it.

[1:53:51] Okay, you just looked at it.

[1:53:52] Oh no, I was looking this way,

[1:53:54] and then you looked at me and got my day.

[1:53:57] I moved based on the facts

[1:53:58] and evaluations presented

[1:54:00] in the staff report,

[1:54:02] and evidence presented to adopt ordinance

[1:54:04] number 2026-05,

[1:54:07] amending the city of Rockaway Beach,

[1:54:09] zoning ordinance,

[1:54:11] provisions related to the flood

[1:54:12] hazard overlay zone.

[1:54:14] Second. Second. Second.

[1:54:17] second that Rockway Beach City Council adopted ordinance number 226-05 and ordinance amendments to

[1:54:22] the Rockway Beach zoning ordinance code chapter 155 related to the flood hazard over the zone.

[1:54:27] Is there any discussion?

[1:54:30] No, you can just thank the city or the planning commission and the city planner for the tremendous

[1:54:35] work done on this. It was a lot. You're here. I agree and I appreciate the proactive approach

[1:54:42] on these higher standards. It's just getting in front of things that are eventually going to be

[1:54:48] coming down the line. And so, to take this approach to mitigate these before they start to happen,

[1:54:55] it's just good business as far as I'm concerned. So thank you for all the work on that.

[1:55:02] Since there's no further discussion, let us vote.

[1:55:04] Council President Cheek. Yes. Council Conor. Yes.

[1:55:07] Yes.

[1:55:08] It's our time.

[1:55:09] Yes.

[1:55:09] Councilor McGinnis.

[1:55:10] Yes.

[1:55:11] Yes.

[1:55:11] Councilor Ryan.

[1:55:11] Yes.

[1:55:12] The motion passes unanimously.

[1:55:16] Consideration of proclamation of a proclamation.

[1:55:19] Water professionals appreciation week.

[1:55:21] I will not read the proclamation.

[1:55:23] Water professionals appreciation week.

[1:55:25] Safe and reliable drinking water is fundamental to public health.

[1:55:29] Environmental stewardship, economic vitality, fire protection.

[1:55:33] And the quality of life enjoyed by residents and visitors of Rockley Beach.

[1:55:37] In 2026, the Oregon legislature established Water Professionals, Appreciation Week to recognize

[1:55:43] the dedicated professionals who provide drinking water and wastewater services throughout

[1:55:48] the state of Oregon.

[1:55:50] The City of Rock who meets is fortunate to be served by an exceptional public works team

[1:55:55] whose members bring decades of combined experience, extensive training, professional

[1:55:58] certifications, technical expertise, and an unwavering commitment to public service.

[1:56:03] Every day these professionals operate and maintain critical infrastructure, monitor water quality, protect drinking water sources, respond to emergencies, and ensure compliance with rigorous state and federal standards.

[1:56:15] Their efforts help guarantee that our community has access to safe, clean, and reliable drinking water while also protecting public health, preserving our environment, and supporting the long-term resilience of our community.

[1:56:26] The professionalism and dedication of Rockwood Beach's public work staff has contributed to

[1:56:31] statewide recognition including the Oregon Health Authority outstanding performer designation

[1:56:35] in the 2026 Drinking Water Source Protection Award honors award to only a small percentage

[1:56:40] of public water systems in Oregon.

[1:56:43] Now therefore I challenge million mayor of the city of Rockwood Beach on behalf of the Rockwood

[1:56:47] Beach City Council do your right proclaim October 3rd through October 11th, 2026 as water

[1:56:52] professional appreciation week. I encourage all residents to recognize and thank the dedicated

[1:56:56] water and wastewater professionals whose experience, training, certifications and daily commitment

[1:57:02] ensure that our community continues to enjoy safe drinking water, reliable public services

[1:57:07] and a high quality life. The public comment period is an essential part of local government meetings,

[1:57:16] guests speaking, shall address their comments to the council as a whole. Keep their comments

[1:57:19] the four minutes. The electronic egg next to our city manager will count down.

[1:57:24] Giving speakers a one minute warning by turning yellow. After four minutes, the time will turn red.

[1:57:28] Please conclude your comments at that time. When you're recognized to speak, please

[1:57:32] approach the podium. Stay in the name and indicate the city of your principal residence.

[1:57:37] You may indicate if you own property or a business within the city of Rockwell Beach.

[1:57:41] I have the sign of sheet anyone joining us remotely who wishes to provide comment.

[1:57:45] Can notify the meeting monitor now by clicking the raise hand icon.

[1:57:48] and we will add you to the sign-up sheet.

[1:57:51] Do we have remote guests for public comments

[1:57:53] on the proclamation?

[1:57:55] We have nobody for comment, and so with that,

[1:57:59] the Chair will entertain a motion

[1:58:00] that Rockway Beach City Council approved the proclamation.

[1:58:04] Water professional's appreciation week.

[1:58:06] Moved to proclaim October 3rd through October 11th,

[1:58:09] 2026 is water professional's appreciation week.

[1:58:13] Second.

[1:58:14] Second.

[1:58:16] It is moved and seconded that Rockwood Beach City Council approve the Proclamation and Water

[1:58:21] Professions Appreciation Week. Is there any discussion from Council?

[1:58:27] Just a comment. I mean, this is still appropriate. And I think of when Councillor McGinnis and

[1:58:34] Councillor Cormick and I toured with Dan had the water filtration plan and the pride and

[1:58:42] And an excitement he had in just explaining process to us, there is no question, the level

[1:58:49] of dedication that he and the rest of the staff have.

[1:58:53] And that staff across the board for the city have, have, have, have, or, acknowledging

[1:58:58] his particular proof, but that is across the board for everyone here.

[1:59:03] And it just, it's a good feeling to know that there's that kind of pride and appreciation

[1:59:09] for one another in the work that they do for this city.

[1:59:12] So thank you, on and off for that.

[1:59:14] You're here.

[1:59:17] All right, since there is no further discussion,

[1:59:20] let's vote, Council President Chi.

[1:59:22] Yes.

[1:59:24] Councilor Conner.

[1:59:25] Yes.

[1:59:26] On time, our time.

[1:59:27] Yes.

[1:59:27] Councilor McGinnis.

[1:59:28] Yes.

[1:59:28] Councilor Ryan.

[1:59:29] Yes.

[1:59:30] The motion passes unanimously.

[1:59:32] Consideration of Resolution number 2026,

[1:59:35] scratch 34, Rubin Twin Rocks,

[1:59:37] Rural Fire District Intergovernmental Agreement.

[1:59:40] So a roll chain approves an inter-governmental agreement between the city and to interrupt

[1:59:44] water district for the city to provide fire protection.

[1:59:47] The public comment period is in the central part of local government meetings, guest speaking

[1:59:51] shall address the comments to the council as a whole and keep their comments to four minutes.

[1:59:56] The electronic egg next to our city manager will count down, giving speakers a one minute

[2:00:00] Good morning, my turn on yellow. After four minutes, the time will turn right. Please complete your comments at that time when the chair recognized you to speak. Please approach the podium state will name and indicate city of your principal resident. We may indicate if you own property or business within the city of Rockaway. By the sign-up sheet and when joining us remotely wishes to cry comment, in note of the meeting monitor now by clicking the raise hand icon and it will add you to the sign-up sheet. Do we have remote guests for public comment?

[2:00:27] That given that we have no one for public comment, the chair will entertain a motion that

[2:00:34] Rockley Beach City Council approve resolution number 2026-34, approving to enrol for

[2:00:39] the Royal Fire District Intergovernmental Agreement.

[2:00:43] I move to approve resolution number 2026-34.

[2:00:49] I'll second it.

[2:00:50] I move to second it, that Rockley Beach City Council approves resolution number 2026-34,

[2:00:55] We're looking to in what's real fire district intergovernmental agreement. Is there any discussion also?

[2:01:02] No, it's just appropriate that we provide the fire protection emergency management because

[2:01:08] You literally like live on one side of the street and you're in twin rocks and you live in the other side of the street and you're in

[2:01:15] Rockaway, so it's it all flows together.

[2:01:18] I think the other key key thing to know about about this resolution is it's a step

[2:01:25] forward in making sure that it's a fair and equitable relationship from a financial standpoint

[2:01:32] that it costs far more money to deliver the service than we have previously been paid by

[2:01:39] the district and they were more than willing to step up. They're very happy with the service,

[2:01:45] they appreciate the service, they don't want to go anywhere else and have not surprised me to

[2:01:51] agree to the fact that they have been getting a great deal.

[2:01:56] And we'll continue to get a great deal going forward.

[2:02:00] Go ahead.

[2:02:01] I'm done.

[2:02:02] I was going to say it's just one more of many examples of the great partner.

[2:02:07] Yeah.

[2:02:07] The city.

[2:02:09] Right.

[2:02:11] Since there's no further discussion.

[2:02:13] Let's vote.

[2:02:13] Council President Cheek.

[2:02:14] Yes.

[2:02:15] Council Conor.

[2:02:16] Yes.

[2:02:17] That's my time.

[2:02:17] Yes.

[2:02:18] Councilor again. Yes. Councilor Ryan. Yes. Notion passes union in three. We're going to move on to council comments. Now Councilor Conor of has an announcement to make this evening. So I'm going to have her speak after the other councillors.

[2:02:34] So but we will still begin with council president chief. Oh really? Well, I don't really have much to say.

[2:02:44] So I'm just going to pass it on.

[2:02:47] I said, my time.

[2:02:49] OK, about a week and a half ago, I got a conversation with the person that's orchestrating the boat races.

[2:02:54] We've had to play glider for many years.

[2:02:56] And told me that if they stopped after a while when we had that new fishing dock put out there

[2:03:02] and extended a little too far out into the lake.

[2:03:05] But he said that if we can get our lake cleaned up with the mill poil.

[2:03:10] and so we'd be willing to come out and try to come up

[2:03:14] with a way to do the vote ratios here again.

[2:03:17] I don't know.

[2:03:22] Councilor McGinnis.

[2:03:24] I want to first of all recognize that we just had

[2:03:28] Labor Day last weekend and I want to thank our city employees

[2:03:32] and the fire department volunteers and the sheriff's deputies

[2:03:36] that we contract with for the work they do for the city.

[2:03:41] The City Council, I always say this, the City Council makes the policies, but we don't

[2:03:45] actually do any work as far as overseeing them.

[2:03:49] It is the City employees who actually do all the work for the City to make it run so

[2:03:53] smoothly.

[2:03:54] Day after day, they save lives, clean restrooms, pay bills, and well, just anything you can

[2:04:00] think of.

[2:04:01] And so I just want to recognize them on a belated Labor Day, thank you.

[2:04:10] And also we have an election next month.

[2:04:12] There are only two Rockaway Beach positions up for election this year, and that's Councillor

[2:04:17] Pat Ryan and Mayor Charles McNeely.

[2:04:20] And neither have an opponent, but there is a city charter update on the ballot.

[2:04:24] It's important to vote.

[2:04:26] There's also state representative and state senator and other things on it.

[2:04:31] I attended one of the county clerk's election meetings a couple of weeks ago.

[2:04:36] And both the county clerk and the Oregon Secretary of State advised that to be sure your ballot gets counted.

[2:04:42] Voters should use the ballot boxes rather than mail in.

[2:04:47] Rockaway Beach Beach's ballot box is located in front of City Hall here.

[2:04:52] and you can also take it your ballot directly to the county clerk's office and tell them up and turn it in.

[2:04:59] Mailing your ballot is still an option. It's just not one that the county clerk and the secretary's state advised.

[2:05:06] And the reason for that is they said statewide in the May election, 13% of, to me a high number, 13% of the voters ballots didn't get counted

[2:05:20] because they were postmarked too late. So in order to avoid that, they said it's best to drop it

[2:05:26] in ballot box. And that's their advice, not mine. Also, I want to mention that our City Council

[2:05:36] worked up today. So we had a spare to discussion about nonprofits. And I thought afterwards, I thought

[2:05:44] But this is interesting, we have this report on the floodplain and we have contract negotiations

[2:05:52] and the most spirited conversation was around nonprofits.

[2:05:57] And I think what that speaks to is the importance of nonprofits to our community.

[2:06:03] The welfare and vitality that they provide to the community is immeasurable and for the

[2:06:10] future growth of the city.

[2:06:11] and they do it with very few resources. A couple of weeks ago I went I went

[2:06:17] through all like the top 10 nonprofits that are tourist-facing kind of and I

[2:06:24] made bullet points of all the activities that they do and it came to like a

[2:06:28] page and a half and like I said they do it with very few resources. This is going

[2:06:35] to continue to grow and some of the nonprofits do in like the Friends of the

[2:06:41] library. They provide the building and the furnishings for the library. Without them, we simply

[2:06:46] would not have a library in Rockaway.

[2:06:50] The in-cam music festival, senior meals, I think I read in

[2:06:56] their website and I know Councillor Cheek and Ryan or Pat Ryan are involved with that, but I think

[2:07:04] read that they furnished 60,000 meals last year and that includes also to their new children

[2:07:11] and families program as well as senior meals. So you start looking at them, all the things,

[2:07:17] the fun activities, but all the really fun things, I mean important things that our nonprofits do

[2:07:24] and so I just I think it speaks like I said to the importance they have in the community

[2:07:34] that we had. So I have a solution. It's not going to help this year. But that's for the budget committee just to fund more money for the grass. And then there's a bigger slice of the pie for everyone.

[2:07:48] That's it.

[2:07:48] All right, thank you.

[2:07:51] I'm surprised.

[2:07:54] Hi, Peco.

[2:07:55] Most everything that.

[2:07:58] For me, again, a set.

[2:07:59] I don't disagree with any of it, but some of them I'm going to say myself.

[2:08:02] You know, as the sun sets on our summer season here, and it's been a great season.

[2:08:08] And in and amidst all of the fun that went on, we had things like.

[2:08:12] Working out a deal to get fiber optic into town.

[2:08:15] working to purchase property up on 3rd street for the resiliency hub and the storage units

[2:08:23] for equipment that's going to be coming in.

[2:08:27] By early morning walks, new planter boxes around town and everything being maintained,

[2:08:33] the cleanliness of the city, the start of the work on Lake Lightle Project, wrapping up

[2:08:39] of the Nanada Beach project. There is just so many things that go hand in glove with the

[2:08:47] tourist community that makes this function so well. And so once again, thank you to everyone

[2:08:54] that makes all of that happen. And thank you for allowing me to be a part of it.

[2:09:03] Councillor Conner. Okay.

[2:09:05] Okay, dear Mayor, members of the City Council and community.

[2:09:13] After a great deal of thought and consideration, I have made the difficult decision to step down from my position on the Rockway Beach City Council.

[2:09:27] This is not a decision that has come easily.

[2:09:31] Serving on the City Council has been an incredible honor.

[2:09:35] And I'm sincerely grateful to

[2:09:41] the residents Rockway Beach for electing me and placing their trust in me.

[2:09:44] to represent them.

[2:09:50] That trust is not something that I've ever taken lightly.

[2:09:54] I have thoroughly enjoyed my time serving this community. I am proud of the

[2:09:59] opportunity I've had to listen to residents participate in important

[2:10:03] conversations, help make decisions that affect our community and be a small part

[2:10:08] of shaping the future of a place I care so deeply about.

[2:10:13] My decision to step down

[2:10:14] is directly connected to a significant career opportunity and a career path that I have

[2:10:20] been passionate about pursuing for many years. While I am excited about what this next

[2:10:25] chapter holds, that excitement does not make leaving this position any easier. There

[2:10:32] is a great deal of pride, connection, and responsibility that comes with serving our community and I

[2:10:38] will genuinely miss the table.

[2:10:42] Although I am stepping down from my position, I am certainly

[2:10:45] not stepping away from my community. I will always be a listening ear from my neighbors

[2:10:50] and community members, and I will continue to be an advocate for the people and the community

[2:10:56] I care so much about. I hope that this is not a goodbye to the public service, but simply

[2:11:02] I see you later. I would be honored to have the opportunity to serve again in the future.

[2:11:09] Thank you to my fellow councilor members, city staff, and most importantly the residents who gave

[2:11:14] the opportunity to serve. I am grateful for the experience, the conversations, the challenges,

[2:11:21] and the relationships that have come from this experience. It is in a true privilege.

[2:11:27] Although I am stepping away from the role as counsel, I have a feeling you haven't heard

[2:11:32] the last of me just yet. I fully intend to remain involved, keep listening, and probably offer an

[2:11:38] opinion or two when nobody asked for one. After all, some habits are hard to break.

[2:11:44] Thank you again for allowing me the privilege of serving our community.

[2:11:49] I leave this position with tremendous gratitude.

[2:11:51] Great respect for work ahead and I hope that I will have the opportunity to serve again someday with some due gratitude.

[2:11:59] Kylie, thank you.

[2:12:03] The

[2:12:08] chair will now entertain a motion that you will have an opportunity to listen to and I've been waiting for this.

[2:12:15] I understand. The Chair will now entertain a motion that Rockwebeach City Council declare

[2:12:21] Council position three vacant. I make a motion that we declare the Rockwey City Council position

[2:12:30] number three vacant. Second, I'll second it. It is moved and seconded that the Rockwebeach

[2:12:37] City Council declare Council position three vacant. So let me begin the discussion by saying

[2:12:43] that it has been a distinct pleasure and privilege to serve on City Council with Councillor Conriff.

[2:12:52] Councillor Conriff brought a refreshing perspective, a bias for listening, and a love of

[2:12:57] broccoli beach to our deliberations and discussions. I salute her for pursuing her passion for

[2:13:03] law enforcement and know that she will be a credit to the Sheriff's Office.

[2:13:07] best wishes, Councilor Conner, discussion from councillors.

[2:13:16] Sorry, that you're going to be living.

[2:13:19] You've got a future that's going to be fantastic.

[2:13:21] Not going far.

[2:13:25] I'll still see you around the corner.

[2:13:32] That's a nice thing.

[2:13:34] You're still going to be a resident of our community.

[2:13:36] But I sincerely appreciate the integrity and that you brought to this position and I don't want to cry. So you set the bar high for the person who's going to replace you.

[2:13:55] I'll just say that.

[2:13:57] Yeah, it's been a delight. It's only been a little over a year for you and me, but you

[2:14:03] know, like mentioned, the tour, we did the tour. You have that perspective, the energy,

[2:14:10] the enthusiasm. I would get Raider's Cranchist watching you write during meetings. You're so

[2:14:19] diligent in to be able to follow up on things and I wish you nothing but the greatest success

[2:14:27] in your new adventures and endeavors but we say we know where you live and then you will be

[2:14:37] around town. I definitely look forward to that. Thank you.

[2:14:42] All right so there's no further discussion

[2:14:44] Let us vote, Councillor Preston.

[2:14:46] Yes.

[2:14:47] Councillor Mortign.

[2:14:48] Yes.

[2:14:48] Councillor McGinnis.

[2:14:49] Yes.

[2:14:50] Councillor Ryan.

[2:14:51] Yes.

[2:14:51] Motion passes unanimously.

[2:14:54] May

[2:14:57] I report?

[2:14:58] Please.

[2:15:08] All

[2:15:11] right, we held our monthly coffee with the mayor and city manager on Thursday, August 27th,

[2:15:16] and we included a summary of the conversations in the meeting packet. This is my inviting you to join us.

[2:15:25] Thursday, September 24th at 9 a.m., in the second floor, conference room, it's a great opportunity to

[2:15:30] to meet your neighbors, share your thoughts,

[2:15:32] get your questions answered,

[2:15:34] see the measure chef and I look forward

[2:15:36] to these meetings and look forward to you attending.

[2:15:42] And then if you have ideas to share,

[2:15:43] questions or concerns about what's going on

[2:15:45] in the city of Rock or Beach, please email me.

[2:15:48] I wanna hear from you and would welcome

[2:15:50] the opportunity to meet.

[2:15:53] And as always, thanks for your time and attention

[2:15:56] to the meeting.

[2:15:57] May I have a motion to adjourn or a meeting?

[2:16:00] second. Second. Second. Second. desencoooooved and seconded. Council President

[2:16:14] 29th, 2026.

City Council Regular Meeting

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