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sir hey you how are
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attorney also
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chance
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but I've got that much I've got
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think
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goad we request the county for and % of
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have one guy
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[6:34] thank
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[7:20] day don't ask me the last time I rot my
ti the nice lady that was there at the
[7:26] desk said well they can't know I can
[7:43] could
[7:58] you
[8:12] Mitch you hear
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[9:03] can you hear us Mitch can you hear us
[9:07] Mitch can you hear
[9:12] us he knows we're talking but I don't
think he can hear
[9:16] us can't hear you I can't hear you
either so he can't hear us and we can't
[9:22] hear him
[9:28] okay
[9:32] can you hear us now
[9:40] Mitch can you hear us
[9:46] Mitch well I don't know anything about
the
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[10:22] calling can you hear
us can hear you can you hear us
[10:30] yes okay oh nice we're ready to rock and
roll very nice all right let's go ahead
[10:36] and open up tonight's meeting the tight
meeting is going to be a regular one
[10:39] tonight oh been so busy I forgot to ask
for a volunteer for the
[10:44] prayer wow who will volunteer Dan says
no Alan Allan says yes Allan will say
[10:52] the prayer and I'll lead us and
[10:58] pledge
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[11:01] Lord thankful for this day thankful for
the opportunity we have to attend this
[11:05] city council meeting father we thank the
for those that dedicate their time and
[11:09] their services to to run the city and to
oversee the issues as they come up
[11:17] father we thank thee for the many
blessings that we have for the
[11:20] opportunity we had to live in this area
we say this in the name of Jesus Christ
[11:24] amen
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[11:28] amen United States of
America
[11:38] stand all
right en roll
[11:43] call all members of council are present
and accounted for except for Mr Hart
[11:48] joining us via television monitor there
we have our city engineer a city clerk
[11:54] and I would like to take a moment to
recognize the passing of our City
[11:59] attorney Greg Haney on March 17th of
this year he was a friend and a trusted
[12:05] colleague he did a lot of years of
service for the county for the city and
[12:11] for his
church and it is a reminder to us all
[12:16] that life is finite and short can happen
to any of one of us at any time so if
[12:21] you get that urge to text your kids or
to call somebody and say something to
[12:26] them do it because we don't know
tomorrow was not promised to any of us
[12:31] all right with that being said let's
move into minutes with the council
[12:36] please review the minutes of March 20th
[12:44] 2024 Mr May I'll make a motion that we
approve the minutes in
[12:49] March was
it
[12:53] second have a motion second to approve
the minutes dated March 20th of 2024 are
[12:58] there any questions or comments
regarding the minutes before I call for
[13:01] the vote I think they were very well
done
[13:06] yes good
job all in favor accepting the minutes I
[13:13] I
Council he said
[13:18] I Council please review count payables
dated March 19th through the 31st of
[13:25] March
2024 also please review payroll for the
[13:29] March 1st through March 31st the
[13:45] 2023
[13:58] okay
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[14:08] the chief's here yeah they were covering
shifts for spren break and stuff and
[14:15] then we also had some mandatory
training and we've been running two
[14:21] grants this month or that
month did you get all that
[14:28] Mitch
[14:39] any other questions or
comments
[14:43] uh I guess I have a question uh uh on an
item I've been uh
[14:50] anticipating on uh payables and that is
a an expenditure for marking the police
[14:58] cars you have a update on that Chief
yeah we're working on those just as gets
[15:04] time and of wait for warmer
[15:11] weather that's all I that's all
[15:18] you uh just kind of a general question
for director Hansen how's we getting the
[15:24] generator getting everything figured out
on the hydro yeah
[15:29] we uh had I had power switch out some of
the
[15:34] arresters cutouts on our supply side
side just stuff that's older than me
[15:42] that
probably didn't do with the intend but
[15:45] actually fixing the problem but it
couldn't hurt so I had him do that last
[15:49] week we fired up the hydrop plant
yesterday right now it's still
[15:53] on maybe it did
[15:57] solve so anyway which she did um the
troubleshooter did say that there were
[16:02] some you know connections on some of our
jumpers that weren't real
[16:06] tight so I said could have maybe just
kind of eliminating variables I figured
[16:12] we'd stop or start with the cheapest
good plan thing see fix it and work our
[16:17] way up but as it's been running for 26
hours straight which is better than the
[16:22] two hours it ran last time so okay
perfect thank
[16:26] you can someone just question on 1450
that EPA generation and
[16:33] transmission those are
some
[16:37] 76,000 that's the power we buy from
Bonville power and the transmission is
[16:43] the delivery to get it here over BPA
lines Pacific core lines whoever in
[16:49] between there and
[16:53] here I think we budget about 2 million a
year okay for power and transmission
[16:59] thank you for
that I don't think has anybody did a
[17:03] motion you guys still running through oh
no I just no I'm just making sure you
[17:08] guys get your questions in first before
we go down that road Mr Mayor I make a
[17:12] motion that we accept the payroll and
the accounts payable dated 3:19 through
[17:17] 331
2024 I'll second that all right we have
[17:22] a motion a second to accept the payables
dated for the month of March under
[17:26] payroll dated for the month of March
calendar year of
[17:29] 24 I'll ask one more time because it
usually is one are there any other
[17:33] questions or comments regarding
payables or payroll before I call for
[17:38] the vote Yes Mr Mayor line item 5400 ITC
Solutions set up email for Paul griton
[17:48] $94
$94 to set up an
[17:52] email are we um are we getting a
shellacking here because you know last
[17:58] time I set up an email through Gmail it
was 100% free I called Randy because my
[18:05] system got hacked and we did it all over
the phone and he's pretty professional
[18:10] he had both of us that day yeah he
does you know maybe there's somebody
[18:17] else that can do just as good but he
does a good job getting you back online
[18:20] and keeping things going you know if I
made 100 bucks every time I did it I'd
[18:24] be pretty professional too are you are
you questioning your your career choice
[18:29] right I'm thinking about it I mean I
don't know always told never Mess With
[18:35] The Tech Guy yeah well maybe they
haven't put me in my place but
[18:42] uh I got it I got it yeah
just a bur under my saddle fair
[18:50] enough all
right all in favor of accepting the
[18:54] payables and the
payroll hi hi
[19:00] was that an IM
[19:04] Mitch okay thank
you all right up next citizen input I'm
[19:10] going to open floor for citizen input
floor is now
[19:18] open spring is
coming you said something well I didn't
[19:24] wash my car so spring is coming I'll
step up and please Debbie please I'm
[19:30] sorry fill the awkward silence with your
your words um a couple things um one is
[19:35] about Chamber of Commerce just want to
let you know our uh next meeting is
[19:39] tomorrow at 3 o'clock at Enders you guys
are all welcome to come stop by and see
[19:44] us um also um tomorrow I'm going to
announce that we have set up a workshop
[19:51] um for everybody here in town for free
um the uh State Small Business
[19:57] Association is going to come and do some
trainings you know just a couple
[20:02] sessions three sessions and
um cover a couple different topics and
[20:08] then Molly I can never say her last name
barar basar yes um she's going to do one
[20:14] as well and so that will be on the 15th
of this month as well so just kind of
[20:20] I'm going to announce that tomorrow but
then I realize you guys won't have
[20:23] another meeting before then so I'll just
let you guys know now um the other thing
[20:28] is the last meeting um we discussed
um the survey for Enders um and I just
[20:36] wanted to let you guys know that um
Joanna Ashley and I met yesterday for
[20:39] about two and a half hours and kind of
put together a plan for it um so we'll
[20:45] probably meet a couple more times
probably the next time we'll have
[20:49] something to come to you guys
with next time being Nick's Council
[20:53] media yeah and hope will you shoot me
some of your notes yeah about that just
[20:58] kind of I've got a few few things and
then we'll uh kind of call it a r draft
[21:05] and get it from the council for sure
yeah so we're just I just want to let
[21:08] youall know that we are meeting on that
and kind of trudging ah head on it did
[21:12] you also shoot me too absolutely all
your shooting him shooting him sure sure
[21:17] yep and might as well might as well
shoot us all sure yeah uh let us get our
[21:24] our uh stuff together first yeah I was
going to share it with everybody but
[21:29] yeah let us kind of get our ducks in a
row okay first um our plan is to kind of
[21:33] like do a a little summary so that we're
not like throwing everything out there
[21:38] and then saying like if you guys want to
dig into the nuts and bolts of it you
[21:42] guys can go here and dig into the nuts
and bolts um but here's our summary and
[21:47] then here is a survey okay that's kind
of where we head I've got a whole list
[21:52] of things but I didn't want to inundate
you guys with
[21:56] and uh and intentionally bias your your
survey so nope okay we're I think we're
[22:03] both real professional yeah I think
we'll do good on that you thank you
[22:11] guys go ahead and close the
floor door is now
[22:17] closed next local exhibit donation to
the S springs Historical Society who's
[22:23] taking the lead on that one Chelsea oh
all right first you want to come up
[22:31] here oh
gosh so what are these so these are like
[22:39] this picture and Coach dad can probably
go on about this a little bit more in
[22:43] depth than I could but the
um Andrea got the city of grant for The
[22:52] Spark Museum and she worked with the
Caribou um the Soda Springs Historical
[22:58] Society Caribou Caribou okay so um she
worked with them a lot and they found
[23:03] all these like really cool pictures so
there's a bunch there that they kind of
[23:06] cook from like magazine articles and
stuff some of these are the last chance
[23:11] canal and then the rest of them are
pieces from a newspaper from July 4th
[23:17] 1940 and stuff like that she got but
Robin
[23:22] Thomas with
her heartsy skills scanned all these and
[23:28] and collected all these we just put our
name on it so we displayed these at um
[23:35] Enders when The Spark Museum was there
and while uh so it was kind of like a
[23:41] museum of the county SLS spark exhibit
kind of thing and so for the Carib
[23:49] historical society's help in getting all
of these um we are donating all of these
[23:54] pictures to them so that they can
display them or show them off or
[24:00] whatever they want to do with
[24:06] them a good story on the last chance
Canal during that
[24:12] exhibit so if you get a chance to talk
to Bill about that last chance Canal
[24:16] it's a good story about not giving up I
I would like to talk about this one a
[24:20] little bit that guy right there the
third picture on the top row stand
[24:26] Matthews 1
and my uh
[24:32] father-in-law was his son and uh from as
long as I can remember hanging above the
[24:38] door in their office was this picture
only it was only about 6 in high and
[24:43] about 2 ft long was taken in 1919 off a
water tower that set right up just east
[24:51] of the depot and uh
when Robin blew it up all the little
[24:58] details that you couldn't see then like
the guys standing in front of the depot
[25:03] and the hotel little cars and stuff and
even the names on the buildings downtown
[25:07] are
readable so this is pretty cool you see
[25:11] this guy wearing like a tie and
everything's kind of cool and and when
[25:15] you look at it you can recognize
buildings and stuff that are either
[25:20] there or not quite there like Courthouse
isn't quite there even though you said
[25:24] it was built 1919 so we're kind of
excited about having this yeah
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guess my
[25:43] arm what's awesome I might go but now
okay okay I just didn't wanted to fall
[25:50] these were hanging all around the
outside of the actual spark
[25:55] exhibit we were grateful for all
[26:08] [Music]
[26:13] weread
[26:17] huh oh and I probably should mention the
scanner she
[26:21] used belongs to the library but it is in
the Museum's possession because they
[26:26] didn't really have enough space for
so Robin took the opportunity to figure
[26:33] out how to use it and uh this picture
here is under glass and we didn't dare
[26:39] take it out and she did that with the
frame and the glass still on the picture
[26:44] so and Bill you guys have like a like a
place now don't you what's the address
[26:50] of the place you 100 East
Hooper and uh we'll try to be
[26:56] open on Saturdays all summer and if we
get some more volunteers and members
[27:01] maybe even more
[27:04] days we thank you Bill for for keeping
the the fire alive thanks for the
[27:13] opportunity I was really tickled about
this last chance Robin put me on to that
[27:17] that's why I talked about it because the
spark thing was
[27:21] the the uh theme of it was the spark of
innovation and so they were uh
[27:30] she was looking at the last chance and
she said this ought to be all of the
[27:34] county not just so Springs and when you
read the story about the last chance
[27:38] it's called the last chance because they
were about to lose their water right if
[27:42] they didn't put water in the ditches and
one of the things they did was they
[27:47] plowed a canal through the snow drift
and run the water through it to get it
[27:51] in the ditch
before it was frozen before they
[27:55] actually lost their water right and then
they did it right after so
[28:02] but and and they tried numerous times to
get the water and and failed every time
[28:08] until they were right up against the
wire
[28:12] so well we thank you Bill and Jerry for
like I say opening up the store over
[28:18] there in the museum and keeping the fire
going for the history of our area you
[28:24] know history you know shows us where we
might be going in the future if you look
[28:28] at it hard well if you look at it you
can see where you made mistakes and
[28:31] where you got darn
right not make the same one again and we
[28:37] appreciate this and I wondered what you
were going to do with them but now I
[28:42] pretty you know they're incapable hands
I'm sorry it took so long bill there's
[28:48] been a lot of changes in in the office
yeah we're GNA go now so
[28:54] thanks thank you all right let's dive
into section four unfinished business
[29:01] appointment of city clerk Treasurer both
of office that's me we are going to
[29:07] appoint Andrea Hatley to be our new city
clerk
[29:12] Treasurer I'm going to give her the
openal office you want to take pictures
[29:16] while we're do you're
good good thing you're sitting next to
[29:21] him he he'll handle it for
[29:27] you
[29:32] I'll read it you just affirmed
you
[29:38] sure why the UND signed you solemnly
swear that I support the Constitution of
[29:42] the United States and the state of Idaho
and the laws and ordinances of the city
[29:45] of Soda Springs and that I will
Faithfully discharge the duties of city
[29:49] clerk Treasurer in the city of Soda
Springs according to the best of my
[29:52] ability I
[29:55] do welcome AB board
[30:02] some special
[30:09] effects congratulations Andrea thank
[30:15] you all right project list update Allan
now that do I dare say spring is here
[30:23] again how are things shaping up on our
project list um two or three changes I
[30:29] made and then a couple other items
um just trying to find them on here the
[30:35] first one is Main Street
upgrade we will go out for bids next
[30:42] week on the whatever th two Thursdays in
a row we plan a site visit and a walk
[30:50] through a pre- bid conference on the
19th pH will be du on the
[30:55] 26th so we've got to we got to have two
weeks of advertisement we'll do the walk
[31:00] through on Friday and then the bits will
do the next Friday so by the end of the
[31:06] end of uh April we should have a
contractor picked and put the schedule
[31:13] together in between there we will have a
public an open house type public meeting
[31:20] with the business owners and everybody
along Main Street who can do that while
[31:24] we're doing the
bidding so that's coming so bid by the
[31:28] end of April you said the bids will be
due April
[31:33] 26th then whatever time it takes to do
the evaluation probably won't be
[31:38] presented
until the following Wednesday night at
[31:42] city council for
approval that up real quick if I can get
[31:47] it to full
[31:55] up so I would look for approve on the
1st of May that's our first council
[32:00] meeting after the bids are due so we can
get the the bid tabs put together bring
[32:05] it to to the council for approval be the
first to
[32:09] make then we can go from
there
[32:14] um another one Justin has more
information but I guess the new snow
[32:21] plows will be to
the next phase by the end of next week
[32:26] start putting everything together I if
you want to say anything on that I just
[32:31] kind of marked it that way oh that's
fine yeah they'll both one unit is in
[32:35] boy at Rush Truck Center away from the
other one then they'll take it to the up
[32:40] there next the end of next week so we'll
get them by next year
[32:46] about the reverse Jinx yeah we know
spring will be here because we got new
[32:50] snow
[32:54] CL
um I guess the other ones to talk about
[32:59] met with Russ rer this afternoon for a
few minutes the county is looking at or
[33:07] him with
the emergency coordinator which is R
[33:13] Myers for the LDS church are meeting
together they're going to meet with
[33:17] Commissioners Monday and start
discussions on a proposal to change
[33:23] signs on County Roads around the area
the GRE ones that are all worn out now
[33:30] um that could affect the city it'll be
as People Want it That as they put that
[33:36] plan together we might be in a position
to request signs for some roads some
[33:41] houses type thing so just so you know
that's just starting on Monday with the
[33:48] County Commissioners more of a county
issue but it will overflow into the city
[33:52] so we might have the opportunity to
upgrade some of our street signs road
[33:56] signs basically is what they're looking
at yeah stop by my shop and ask a couple
[34:02] questions and uh one of the questions
that I didn't have an answer to Is is
[34:06] there any ordinances that dictate uh
addressing in the city limits for what
[34:14] marking or for yes for for the the
residents res are required to have house
[34:20] numbers on their houses it's in our code
it's in the state c
[34:25] um addressing itself is Hand by the
county even in the city they they
[34:31] designate addresses to each parcel so
that's a county function but the city
[34:36] does require numbers of houses
so so that's just you know that's coming
[34:43] down the road if you hear anything about
it we'll get more information definely
[34:46] as we go go
ahead a little bit
[34:51] yeah uh part of what they're doing is
also reing houses and just making sure
[34:57] number are on there and stuff we do have
one Hiccup and that is our ordinance
[35:02] requires those numbers to be 4 in and
the county
[35:07] three so to get in on that I don't know
why we have to change that
[35:15] or was
[35:19] thatum
minimum and that's what our
[35:24] code
so you know all of that will be
[35:29] developed as we get into this just so
you're aware that's coming um Andrea
[35:34] will you pull up the let me see what's
first click on the one the two the
[35:42] Transformer and the Transformer to okay
if you want to open that on your
[35:48] iPads
[35:52] um kind of just a stockpile of
Transformers we have in the yard Justin
[35:58] approached me and said why don't we have
the guy that's buying the Transformer
[36:02] out in the industrial park look at these
so I'm putting together Justin's under
[36:06] the inventory I got to put together some
pictures and send to him but um in short
[36:12] there
[36:15] are we have 57 total Transformers din
out of service out of service put there
[36:22] by Rocky Mount power when they come out
we don't know if they're good or bad so
[36:27] some of them may be good but anyway I'm
going to send pictures of each
[36:31] Transformer to this guy then I'll bring
it back to council for approval but we
[36:35] might be able to get rid of them of them
there's 57 of them there and so it's a
[36:43] lot you'd rather buy new and have we
never do anything with her no we don't
[36:48] anytime we have a a Transformer fail
rocket my power just put a new one for
[36:52] us and then they take the old one down
and bring it to our yard my assumption
[36:56] is is that every trans for we have in
the yard is not good that's probably a
[37:01] fair assumption and and you know we're
looking at4 to 5,000
[37:05] assuming they're all PCB free and they
can just take them under the assumption
[37:09] they have to rebuild them there may be
some there the other way but we will
[37:14] bring back a proposal to the council for
approval before we commit to it but
[37:18] we're we're starting that process and
you can see in those two pictures just
[37:22] just an overview of what's
there um
[37:29] go to the Maverick tank foundation and
then after that just Maverick
[37:36] Foundation the first one on on your iPad
the tank
[37:41] Foundation come on open up looks a
little rocky that's the rock they've got
[37:46] about a 25 foot hole on the east west
side of it and they're working that way
[37:53] if you go to the next picture that the
one that shows the fuel tank
[37:58] TS there's three tanks up there on site
they've got to get probably 30 ft deep
[38:04] to set them in and cover and how far did
how deep did you say the hole is now I I
[38:10] think it's 25 on the west end it's
probably only
[38:14] 15 on the East End and that's where they
were hammered today but it's they've
[38:20] been hammered for two weeks on it so
rock did they give you an idea how much
[38:25] longer they'd be doing the hammering
no they called and asked about
[38:31] Dynamite my really asked for a plan and
I haven't heard back from them they just
[38:38] keep hammering so I'm assuming they're
going to handle it that way so they test
[38:42] drill hole was off no that whole that
whole site all of that F ground back in
[38:48] there is within 3 to 5 feet you're in
solid L Rock that's why it's never been
[38:53] developed they knew what they were
getting into oh yeah yeah well it should
[38:57] have
yeah and then if you look at the one
[39:01] that shows I think it's Maverick
Foundation that is what's going to be
[39:07] under the
floor inside the building you can see
[39:11] the stem walls around the perimeter
they're already for that's what that's
[39:16] do it and whatever else lines that that
are put in
[39:21] there they're working that way but
there's a ton of ton of conduit under
[39:26] there and then the next picturers
are where did they
[39:33] go I see that one right there see did
you see it right yeah it's the Mountain
[39:38] Dew Fountain yeah big bike big bike for
you I didn't put them on but I have two
[39:44] pictures if you're interested of of the
steel structural steel going up on
[39:49] Liberty Dodge they started hanging still
I think yesterday and and they were in
[39:54] the process today so the building
structure is starting to go
[39:59] up
um I think that's it for
[40:04] project somebody has questions do
members of council have questions
[40:10] regarding the project list or any of the
photographs that you have viewed for Mr
[40:16] alen
Skinner so uh what the plan for
[40:21] communication for mainstream for
businesses and well the first thing
[40:25] we'll send letters to everyone inviting
them to a public meeting okay that's
[40:30] that's where we're going to start I
don't know the answers past that
[40:33] there'll be more but we'll develop that
plan based on what they want what they
[40:38] need so we'll start there we'll do that
in between while while got forbid we get
[40:45] Letters Out get
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[40:49] meeting hopefully we'll get good
attendance and we can put a plan
[40:53] together with those affected here
listening to it right I'm sure you
[40:59] have we'll have Justin and Dan both
there they've been involved in this
[41:05] whole process from the very
[41:09] beginning and the chief too
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[41:15] yeah yeah you
have all right if there isn't any other
[41:20] further questions regarding project list
or the photographs you viewed let's move
[41:26] to City cleanup wheek scope and schedule
it has Justin and Mitch's name on it uh
[41:32] Justin you want to take the lead on that
or
[41:36] Mitch I'm not standing up there I talk
too much when I
[41:41] go we'll let Mitch take all
[41:56] right
[42:26] for
[42:37] are you are you wanting to do what we
did previous
[42:42] year so last year worked really really
good for us as a crew um
[42:49] just finishing within the time frame you
know that we're basically that we have
[42:56] by the end of the week by just you know
being able to take stuff and I think
[42:59] it's important to remember that we're
still providing a
[43:03] service to the residents of the city and
others that come that aren't residents
[43:09] of the city sorry just had to throw that
in there for fun but uh anyway I think
[43:13] it's still a service you know we're
still hauling off things we're still
[43:17] taking people's refrigerators you
know and anything pretty much back and
[43:25] so it worked out good because like I
said it allowed us to have eyes at all
[43:28] times on the yard we didn't have
problems with people just throwing stuff
[43:34] carpet and garbage in a metal bin which
when you get a truck full of garbage
[43:39] thrown in a metal bin it is not fun
going in there fishing It Out by hand so
[43:45] it works
[43:49] good that
would
[43:54] yes I'm in agreement with that because
you've had instances in the past that
[43:59] you could
spend what seven truck loads on one home
[44:05] versus maybe one truck load or two on
one well it it got to and we've you know
[44:09] we've talked about this before it got to
the point to where people were
[44:12] coordinating their large tree removal
with cleanup
[44:18] week
um I think that I think that is a little
[44:24] bit of a what's the word I'm looking for
or I don't know it's it's not a
[44:29] contradiction but it's a taking
advantage of that situation that's not
[44:33] what cleanup week is for is to take out
100 foot pine trees out of yards that I
[44:38] mean that's it's just not that's not why
we started it we started to get rid of
[44:42] people's junk so bring it to the yard
we'll haul it
[44:46] away the other towns around the surround
us do the exact same thing they provide
[44:52] they provide rolloffs in their city
property people can bring stuff down and
[44:56] then they manage it from there so this
isn't it wouldn't be
[45:01] us not doing what
[45:05] other at last meeting you mentioned the
possibility that the city could be
[45:10] competing with like for instance tree
removal uh businesses and so I like I
[45:17] like your idea well when you asked May
about the the dump truck load so I want
[45:22] to say it was I can't remember was two
summers ago or two years ago or three
[45:26] yeah there was an instance where we had
literally three or
[45:29] four large trees and I remember that
when we're when we we've got one week
[45:34] and we do it by the day of the garbage
route right so on Monday's garbage route
[45:38] that's we just follow the garbage route
basically when we do pick up and that
[45:43] one residence took us half of that one
day that we had to do basically a third
[45:48] of the entire town it took us half a day
to do one
[45:54] house drive on by those with the clear
understanding of the public that we
[45:58] don't do it
or which my guess is that will upset
[46:03] people more than just saying we're going
to not do cide pick up bring your stuff
[46:07] to the yard is my feeling on that well
I'm I'm in agreement that we proceed as
[46:13] we did the previous year are there any
other comments or questions from members
[46:18] of council regarding this
[46:22] issue does council agree to
continue with what Justin has laid
[46:31] out motion I don't think so just a
thumbs up it's not I mean it's
[46:37] just it's just saying
yes I support the
[46:42] proposal that's all he needs to hear is
that you guys got his yeah got got you
[46:47] know your support I want to make sure
we're on what we're going to do so if
[46:51] somebody asks you'll be able to tell
them yes it was Justin Hansen's idea
[46:56] yeah you know you're more than happy to
or more than welcome to relay that
[47:00] message my only my only res reservation
was when we were doing curb side it was
[47:06] a it was a great opportunity for people
and they didn't have the right equipment
[47:11] to to uh really clean out their
backyards do that I mean and I'm telling
[47:17] the the full trees that's ridiculous it
is it's
[47:22] wrong but what it does is a lot of that
is it's really nice for you know then we
[47:27] put our money where our mouth is right
and really have those folks to say okay
[47:32] we we have all this stuff out and I
think one year we even did
[47:36] metal um it was a number of years before
you came on curb side on curb side and
[47:44] I I'm okay with what we're going forward
with I I used both of them and it was it
[47:49] was great so sorry I'm be laboring this
Mitch is over there looking like move on
[47:57] um so it used to be different right we
used to pick up lots everything off the
[48:01] curb and then people could also bring
their limbs down when we did it down at
[48:04] the Gravel Pit he just brought it down
there that turned into I wasn't here but
[48:09] I understand that was not the most ideal
situation the reason we we stopped
[48:14] taking anything but bagged leaves and
items and limbs was because we actually
[48:19] have to separate it what we Haul now
when in those days you could just throw
[48:23] it all together take it down and now you
have to have hassle separate from trees
[48:28] and limbs you can't have any metal you
can't you know have tires the old days
[48:32] they just threw it all in there and
dumped it so that the Landfield does not
[48:35] allow us to do that so it is the first
week of June
[48:40] officially count and I
heard all right well we'll make sure
[48:44] that we get that out out to the public
so they can make preparations and I can
[48:48] make preparations because I got stuff to
bring in all right let's move on to the
[48:53] uh next item on unfinished business
nutrient donation agreement
[48:58] Alan I put the three there the the
agreement itself the license agreement
[49:05] and the maintenance agreement um Mitch I
think sent them out too and so if you
[49:11] want to review them they're in there
basically the agreement
[49:15] is um Nutri and agrium New West will
donate 608 acres of land to the city
[49:27] um our agreement is we'll pay half of
the escrow fees we have we have
[49:34] U contacted Alliance Title they will
close the deal without requiring title
[49:40] insurance I did look up the title
insurance was about
[49:45] $30,000 but Alliance will close the deal
as a donation to the
[49:51] city um they're
also
[49:55] donating $50,000 to develop the land as
recreational
[50:01] property they're agreeing to under the
maintenance agreement 105,000 which is
[50:06] three years of 35,000 a year to continue
spraying weeds and do fence
[50:13] repairs they have paid for us $225,000
for a survey that's completed and
[50:19] they're they're um willing to assist in
design and Engineering to some degree on
[50:26] developing the
properties um I guess what we're what
[50:30] they're on here for tonight is to get
council's thoughts and ask for approval
[50:35] for the mayor to sign it when we when
we're ready to close water rights there
[50:40] are three water rights included they
have they have changed those water
[50:46] rights in applications for the
adjudication I talked with water
[50:50] resources they said once you have the
property to a change of name on the
[50:56] water water rights and then we will
reapply to sustain all of I think
[51:00] there's a little over
4.8
[51:05] CFS so we'll start that process as soon
as this is closed our mid fo out of
[51:10] schedule our goal is the 15th of of
April to close on
[51:15] this then Mitch probably has a lot more
information than that but that's kind of
[51:20] what I gleaned out of reading
[51:25] it
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[51:55] e
[52:15] Mitch I just have one question on the
licensing
[52:19] agreement um it says on uh subheading 2
new West and New West employees agents
[52:26] and invitees may use the property for
recreational purposes this
[52:31] term uh goes either five years from
effective date failure to comply with
[52:36] the agreement or as soon as the City
opens the property up to General
[52:41] Public that's going to be a while we
really want new anybody who works for
[52:48] nutrion usest to go out
there I I don't see it being a problem
[52:53] but it
just
[53:26] well are we going to open it up for it
it'll be behind closed locked gates to
[53:30] begin with okay we can we
can
[53:36] yeah a key will be locked for the
general public
[53:44] initially concern I kind of struggle
with that a little bit if we if the city
[53:48] owns the property how come they get to
go out there and none of us can oh I
[53:53] don't think there's anything that
stops
[53:57] we can allow that whether
it's general public or whatever going to
[54:03] open it up to General Public eventually
yeah I guess the council will decide
[54:07] when that would be but
[54:17] yes that didn't catch
[54:25] that
[54:45] okay well I
think if they get
[54:50] to there's nothing to restrict yeah well
I just City well resident or I think
[54:57] we're going to you know we can open it
up you know if we're not going to do any
[55:01] construction or work out there AG we
should allow everyone to go walk their
[55:05] dog I mean if we're going to and they
should have brought the mask but if
[55:08] we're going to there's 80 acres I
believe borders them to the north if
[55:17] we're going to open that up for an
access point it's either there through
[55:22] the gravel pit gun range or right next
to the Bing Creek Bridge there may be a
[55:27] time where there's construction going on
one or more we'd want to restrict it but
[55:32] other than that it ties right in Bailey
Creek Road on two of those
[55:36] three
places um city property right against
[55:41] Bailey Creek Road something to talk
about after we go through some I don't
[55:47] think their intent was to restrict okay
anybody else but they still wanted to be
[55:51] able to use
[55:55] it
all right anything else regarding the
[55:58] nutrient donation agreement then yeah I
just say that I'll Echo again that I've
[56:04] said it before is I just like to
appreciate note of appreciation to
[56:09] councilman
Hart
[56:12] um uh director Skinner and
um attorney Haney for their hard work on
[56:21] this cuz
it's it was certainly a lot of work so
[56:25] thank you
Mitch and Alan thank you very
[56:32] much done without you I
[56:37] think did you want a
[56:41] motion men should
[56:55] pre-authorize
[57:17] second have a motion a
second to authorize the mayor signatures
[57:24] subject to final review by
nutrient and us the other party involved
[57:31] and then we all come to an understanding
an agreement and that the signature will
[57:35] be take place at closing I try to
paraphrase as much as I
[57:41] could second right yeah yeah ran did now
is any other questions or comments
[57:47] regarding the
motion all in
[57:51] favor
[57:55] yes
[58:25] for
[58:30] [Music]
[58:38] [Music]
[58:51] okay all right all in
favor
[58:57] hi
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[58:59] hi hi
okay all right let's dive into section
[59:05] five new business employee pay increase
Paul Ian by it yes it does uh pretty
[59:12] simple I uh and and if this is not the
appropriate form for this let me know
[59:18] but I would like to make sure that our
new city clerk is compensated at the
[59:25] same rate that the outgoing city clerk
was compensated yes and we've had that
[59:31] her and I have had that
[59:36] conversation yeah she like
yeah
[59:42] decision and I would also request it be
retroactive to when
[59:47] she absolutely yeah
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[59:50] that um any questions or comments from
Paul
[59:58] yes that's happening okay all right uh
forecast contribution letter
[1:00:07] 2025 which you guys have here in the
Idaho Commerce department is this our uh
[1:00:14] fiscal year that we give to that program
Andrea um yes uh so this is the preet or
[1:00:21] is the next budget the annual for Molly
because um she has to submit everything
[1:00:27] to get her I think it's $30,000 from the
[1:00:32] state U Mr Mayor I'll make a motion that
we uh give you the authority to sign for
[1:00:38] the pre letter for the for
Cassy
[1:00:46] uh the for the fiscal year of 2025 for
our commitment of $3,000 and also an in
[1:00:53] kind donation of City Hall space
valued at
[1:01:02] $4,800 and also Molly's doing a great
job she's a hustler she's I tell you
[1:01:07] what she's phenomenal absolutely
phenomenal we're getting we're getting
[1:01:11] our money's worth I drive her nuts on
almost a weekly
[1:01:15] basis so yeah what was that Debbie I
said I'm glad I'm not the only one no
[1:01:20] you're
not no she's a goet like she has so many
[1:01:24] in and a lot of things and a lot of the
grant stuff is coming from from this
[1:01:29] program to us so yeah I think it's well
worth it so we have the motion the
[1:01:35] second to uh commit to the for Cassie
fiscal year of the $3,000 and a donation
[1:01:41] of in kind space and City Hall up to
4800 are there any questions or comments
[1:01:46] regarding that letter before I call for
a
[1:01:49] vote all in favor I
I MIT m i
[1:02:00] okay all right going open up the floor
to Citizen
[1:02:05] input door is now
open I just had a couple of comments
[1:02:11] questions um the first one is on the
Main Street revamp that is going to
[1:02:16] include those local businesses um I
think even though my business my house
[1:02:21] isn't in that area it's going to affect
everybody in this room is that something
[1:02:24] that'll be an open meeting for all
I think
[1:02:27] initially yeah I mean it can be I guess
okay I I mean I I would have a lot of
[1:02:33] interest in being at least able to view
and listen to that um so yeah that'd be
[1:02:39] great and I would like to commend um
city councilman griton for posting on
[1:02:43] Facebook the meetings and YouTube and we
watched YouTube on an airplane last week
[1:02:49] for the city council meeting it was
wonderful uh the second comment you ever
[1:02:54] it was great we watched it so that's
awesome I am also in agreeance with uh
[1:03:01] Justin's um city ordinance clean up not
to have the curb side um I would
[1:03:09] just as a
caveat um it's quite expensive to
[1:03:14] discard junk tires we have a lot of
customers that will take them and not
[1:03:16] want to pay the disposal fee and they'll
save those up until the county does the
[1:03:21] county cleanup and turn those in for
free which I am all for um I would warn
[1:03:26] you that some people just don't ever do
that and you'll have these same people
[1:03:29] that'll I'll save this for the cleanup
and it'll it'll just end up being
[1:03:32] dirtier and dirty and just absorb more
and more garbage um so I would hope that
[1:03:37] the city decides to maybe enforce some
City cleanups because as of yet you know
[1:03:43] across the street from my business it
still looks bad there's a couple of
[1:03:46] burned out buildings there's some issues
around town that I think need to be at
[1:03:50] least addressed and that would be my
only concern of that but I am all for
[1:03:54] the way that Justin has set as of now
good
[1:03:58] job anybody
[1:04:02] else I I'll make a quick comment on on
the cleanup like maybe we can get a
[1:04:07] youth group or something to be available
to like help elderly people who aren't
[1:04:12] able to
get stuff done yeah that's you know I
[1:04:16] mean nobody stopping anybody from
helping helping their neighbors if if a
[1:04:20] group wants to get together like the
young men's or or you know the Boy
[1:04:24] Scouts down the street here they're than
welcome to go door to door and help
[1:04:28] people load I think like maybe you know
there's going to be some elderly
[1:04:33] people for able to and you know maybe we
can do something what about the hope of
[1:04:39] Recovery Center too well they've been
asking for a
[1:04:44] project that would be a really good
project reach out to
[1:04:48] Melissa yeah we'll we'll hit them up
because they they are looking for a
[1:04:52] project specifically that group is that
would be a really good project for I
[1:04:56] would too I just want no thank you
Debbie can I ask a question get up and
[1:05:05] ask what's your
address um on that donation of property
[1:05:12] is that gonna increase city limits or
what's the goal for that will it just be
[1:05:17] natural yeah we can't really develop it
for anything like that because of the
[1:05:21] wetlands portion of that so it will be
recreational property only so um think
[1:05:27] of another Park and the eventual plan is
to connect all the trails on that side
[1:05:33] of the
city and and our our initial plan is to
[1:05:39] have public input and have a map and
maybe get a committee together um and
[1:05:46] say you know this is the 200 Acres we
can't touch that's by we nor do we want
[1:05:51] to um but what do we want to see with
this this 400 acres are we talking
[1:05:57] strictly Trails do we want to see you
know Motocross do we want to see bicycle
[1:06:02] Park do we want to see running pass you
know whatever so this is kind of a
[1:06:07] really cool spot that we're in right now
we don't get given 600 acres of land for
[1:06:13] and money at the same time and water
rice that but it's outside cting yeah so
[1:06:19] south of the gravel pits um just this
side of yeah yeah just this
[1:06:24] side all the way to the bridge so right
now the plan is to not screw it
[1:06:30] up that's the Impact Zone right now
is yeah and we did get a grant but we're
[1:06:40] not so are
we still working on there still working
[1:06:46] on because of where the road lies and
their boundaries it's a matter of
[1:06:53] feet for yes it's it's the federal
government yeah if you think we're a
[1:06:59] problem you to deal
with
[1:07:07] specific yeah
exactly all right I'm go ahead and close
[1:07:13] the floor to Citizen
[1:07:18] input that's all I have on my agenda
except for Section s which requires
[1:07:24] Council make a motion that we go into
executive session per Ido code
[1:07:31] 74206 uh one a consider the evaluation
dismissal or discipline of an
[1:07:41] employee second have a motion and a
second to enter into executive session
[1:07:45] pursu code 74- 2061 a to consider the
evaluation dis dismissal or dis of
[1:07:54] employee
recess 3 minute recess use the bathrooms
[1:07:59] if you need
[1:08:03] to how how do
we
[1:08:08] Ian I haven't got any fan mails I think
it's it's back a little bit it's hard to
[1:08:13] see you can hear but I can see real
[1:08:18] good listen to
[1:08:23] it good though it's nice it's great
[1:08:31] yeah she's not
[1:08:39] doing my best seemed like
getting I'm
[1:08:45] just I spend all day KN down working on
a car so just old worn out Ry
[1:08:52] gets you have those cars up high it's
much easier I'd rather stand all day KN
[1:09:00] down we put in the wrong spot there's
where it sat had a de day for a
[1:09:05] while electric e BRS on a F-150 super
fun yeah really yeah you
[1:09:14] know oh he's gonna get serious oh I was
just gonna say we've had a lot of
[1:09:18] systems that work good for 70 years and
then some guy says we can make this
[1:09:22] better yeah turns out you can
go back to