Regular Monthly Meeting - August 2026

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[0:00] Okay. >> Awesome.
[0:02] Well, thank you because you saved the day. Otherwise we
[0:05] » Oh, good. >> adjourned without quorum. But I found
[0:08] the sign correctly. Okay, good. So, um
[0:15] Let me call uh order of the meeting and get started.
[0:22] EJ, if you could please read out uh the the standard protocols, please.
[0:27] » Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor. To begin, I ask everyone ensure their phone is on
[0:30] silent. As a reminder, this meeting is being recorded and will be posted on the
[0:34] town's YouTube. For those in the room, it is important that you remain quiet
[0:37] unless participating in the discussion. And if you are participating in the
[0:41] discussion, speak audibly into your microphone. For those on Zoom, it is
[0:44] important that you keep your camera off and microphone muted unless
[0:47] participating in the discussion. If you are participating in the discussion,
[0:50] please unmute yourself and turn on your camera. If you are a resident who would
[0:53] like to make a comment, please use the raise hand feature. For speakers both in
[0:56] person and over Zoom, please state your name and the street that you live on for
[0:59] record keeping purposes before you make your comments. If this meeting gets
[1:02] interrupted for any reason, I will immediately end the Zoom and send a new
[1:05] link via email. And now I'll turn it back to you, Mr. Mayor.
[1:08] » Oops. >> Thank you, EJ. All right, so are there
[1:11] any requests cuz there's nobody in the room?
[1:14] Um are there any requests uh from the public?
[1:19] » I do not see any.
[1:23] I do not see any.
[1:28] » I um
[1:32] Let us then move on to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion
[1:39] to adopt the consent agenda? Oh, a vote sorry, first sorry, sorry,
[1:45] sorry. The consideration of the agenda of the
[1:47] meeting itself. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda of
[1:51] the meeting? >> Well,
[1:53] I I wanted to um
[1:57] I wanted to suggest to that um you know maybe we look at there's
[2:02] been a lot of notes that have come through from
[2:05] the public safety committee and then also from the development committee in
[2:10] terms of um
[2:14] questions about the changing of the code that we would be perhaps adopting
[2:19] tonight and I wanted to see if there was any interest in bringing that back to a
[2:27] work session and really talking through some of the differences in language that
[2:33] the other people have made. >> Okay, so do you have a motion or
[2:39] Council President do you have a motion? Do you want to you want someone to make
[2:42] a motion if you >> I can make a motion that we defer this
[2:45] to the September work session. >> I would second that.
[2:51] » Yes. What are we deferring that they can
[2:53] » We are deferring item five, adoption of an ordinance to amend the building code.
[2:59] I believe the motion is to defer this agenda item and to discuss it at the
[3:05] next work session of the council. Is there a second move?
[3:10] » I got that. >> We have at least two seconds. Any
[3:14] discussion? No discussion, so with that we will
[3:19] defer that agenda item and we will have a discussion at the work session on
[3:26] September the 22nd. Very good. With that the agenda I
[3:31] believe with that amendment the agenda is
[3:33] adopted. Is there a motion to
[3:37] adopt the consent agenda? >> I'll make that.
[3:42] » I'll take that as Someone moved it and someone seconded
[3:45] it. You guys let you decide who who moved
[3:49] and who seconded. Um
[3:51] any discussion? There isn't any, so good. Let us move on
[3:55] then to agenda item four,
[4:00] adoption of an ordinance to add a new chapter five on ethics.
[4:06] So, we introduced this at the last council meeting in July,
[4:12] and today it is up for adoption. Is there a motion to adopt the ordinance
[4:19] to add a new chapter five on ethics? >> I can make a motion.
[4:23] » We have a motion. >> I'll second.
[4:25] » Any discussion?
[4:29] No discussion, so I consider the motion to adopt the ordinance to amend to add a
[4:35] new chapter five on ethics as approved.
[4:41] Is there a motion to adjourn? >> Oh, I'll make that motion.
[4:45] Motion to adjourn. >> A second to adjourn.
[4:48] » Wow, that was the fastest council meeting ever.
[4:52] » We're trying to get faster with each one.
[4:54] » [clears throat] >> It could be a new record.
[4:56] » All right, very good. With that, the meeting is adjourned.
[4:59] » All right. >> Thank you very much to everyone.
[5:01] » Thank you. >> Thank you.
[5:03] » Thank you. You did that the right