This meeting of the Cedar Rapids City Council will come to order.

Welcome everybody to the City of Cedar Rapids City Council meeting for Tuesday, September 9th, 2025.

Councilmember Dale Todd is the only council member who will not be joining us today.

I want to welcome our city manager, our city clerk, and our city attorney for being here today, and as always, the incredible city staff from Cedar Rapids to be here to answer your questions either during from council or after our meeting as well.

And reminder to turn off any cell phones or electronic devices that might distract from our proceedings today.

And note that all of our meeting agendas, minutes, videos are always available on live or replay on Facebook Live and always on our city's website as well.

We'll begin now with an invitation by public safety chaplain Dennis Miller, immediately followed by our Pledge of Allegiance.

Oh God, we come before you with gratitude.

We thank you for being a God of love who is with us now in this very room.

You never leave us or forsake us.

Your grace has brought us safe thus far, and your grace will lead us home.

We thank you for making us, each of us in this room, every person we meet, every citizen in this city and every city in your image with dignity and infinite worth.

We thank you for the calling you have given every one of us to be good stewards of your creation, to love our neighbors as ourselves.

We thank you tonight, God, or today, God, for your servants, our mayor city manager, our city staff, and our city council members.

I give thanks for the way of service they have chosen to take up on behalf of all of us here.

We all come to this room today as complex human beings carrying burdens, carrying joy and hope, trusting that you alone can hold us together, O God, in your love and peace.

Help us, Lord, to trust you more, more than our fears and our wounds and even our accomplishments.

May we lean on your everlasting arms today.

Amen.

Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice.

Welcome everybody.

We're going to begin with a proclamation to mark Hispanic Heritage Month.

So if you're here to mark the celebration, please join Councilmember Poe here at the Dais to read the proclamation.

Come on up.

Hi.

Everybody.

You all kind of joined the case, everybody.

Hi, welcome.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Hi, welcome.

Hello, welcome.

Hi.

We're so glad you're here.

Thank you.

This is a proclamation of the city of Cedar Rapids.

Whereas Latinos are scientists and engineers, revolutionizing our ways of life and making discoveries to improve them.

The advocates leading the way for social and political change, the farmers and the construction workers that contribute to Iowa's economy, and the professionals responding to medical health needs of our communities.

They are the researchers that educate our youth.

I'm sorry, they are the teachers that educate our youth.

They are brave soldiers who defend our most cherished ideals at home and abroad.

And whereas the Cedar Rapids Latino community has the same dreams, values, trials, and triumphs of every people in every corner of our nation.

And they show the same grit and determination that has carried this community forward for centuries.

And whereas we recognize that the country's remarkable story began with immigration.

And whereas we also recognize Latinos that help our community through the difficulties created by climate change, and that all Latinos and Latinas who organize themselves in nonprofits to advantage to advance inclusion and diversity, and all the Latinos and Latinas who serve in the U.S.

And whereas we also recognize Latinos that help our community through the difficulties created by climate change, and that all Latinos and Latinas who organize themselves in nonprofits to advantage to advance inclusion and diversity, and all the Latinos and Latinas who serve in the US armed services to defend our freedom, earning medals of honor, and other distinguished medals of military decoration for their leadership, courage, and patriotism.

Therefore, I, Anne Poe, on behalf of Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell and the entire Cedar Rapids City Council here do um by complaint uh proclaim September 15th through October 15th of 2025 as Hispanic Heritage Month and call this observance to the attention of all of our citizens because diversity, inclusion, and equity are the keys to moving forward and achieving a brighter future for everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Buenas tardes.

In nombre de Festival Latino Aqua in Cedar Rapids, quiero agradecer a la Signora Alcaldesa Stephanie Odano, a los membros de City Council, a los leaders de la comunidad for darnos el honor to receive esta proclamation.

In total aspecto cultural, the trabajo y de inclusion.

It's for eso que Festival Latino in su 14 annual getting invited at those ustedes to celebrate in Magrava Amfitre este Sabado 13, the 11 a 6 de la tarde.

Gracias.

And behind the old festival Latino and the Lucy, we want to thank you to you, Mayor Staffel Odano, to City Councils, and to the leader in Ciro Rapids.

It's an honor for us to receive the Hispanic Heritage Ban proclamation because this is I mean the everybody celebrate our culture.

Our food, our values is important in this city.

I want to invite you guys to the Festival Latino in Maghreb Anfitter this Saturday, 13, the 11 to 6 p.m.

Everybody come enjoy.

And the food, the music, the dancers, so come and be involved with our community.

Thank you.

Have a nice night.

Just as information for our organization, Lucy, we're going to leave a few brochures by the entrance door, so you can get some more information on why not donate some money for scholarships.

You can see how that works on Saturday when you come and visit us at the Festival Latino.

And thank you.

Thank you all for being here.

Thanks, everybody.

Thank you.

See you Saturday.

Next up, we have a presentation.

Uh City Council priorities.

Director Jennifer Pratt is here to outline those for us.

Jennifer, I will officially recognize you.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um, it's the wonderful time of year again to come and give a report on the city council's priorities.

So again, the purpose of the priority setting that council does is to ensure the continued alignment with Envision CR as well as all is all of our plans here at the city, um, and also to highlight um those council's priority initiatives.

So again, these aren't the only things that we will be doing at the city, but they are uh priorities that we want to bring to we want to highlight.

Um again that provides transparency and a clear message to the public.

It also um helps the city manager and executive team to better be able to prioritize uh limited resources, um, and then obviously emphasizing communication on the progress of these throughout the year.

Um, one of the the ways that we do uh do enhance communication on these priorities is through the quarterly reports.

So each quarter this is um compiled to show the accomplishments specifically supporting council priorities, and these are also found on our website as well.

And in addition, for every council agenda item that comes before you, the cover sheet does identify which of the council priorities it is supporting.

So tracking these for FY25, and we found nearly 670 council action items that support these priorities.

So again, the special meeting of City Council was held on June 17th this year.

Again, this serves as a work session for council members, so it is published in an open meeting.

One of the activities we do is to find out what are one or two of council's top accomplishments that they are proud of from the previous year.

So just highlighting some of those.

Is noted, the Mount Vernon Road roundabout, as well as some trails projects that make a big difference, the Edgewood Road bridge crossing, as well as these photos here show a before and after of the Bowling Street reconstruction, which is such a benefit to that neighborhood and helps with connectivity.

Another top accomplishment is the focus on the riverfront activation.

So the downtown vision plan implementation is happening.

Some of the very visible signs are the Cedar Rapids sign and the tree planning on Mays Island, as well as the Alliant Energy Light Line and Light Line Loop groundbreakings.

We also participated in a Bloomberg-Harvard Innovation Program and generated over 995 ideas from the public as well as staff with 15 new ideas being explored further.

Again, really creating that community support and excitement for the riverfront activation.

Public art was also noted.

So again, a lot of neighborhood art initiatives with the 15th Street local artist has been selected, and that neighborhood engagement is beginning, as well as the Delaney Park Basketball Court mural, and then partnerships with working with the school district to have students help with artwork on our trucks, as well as murals at the Ground Transportation Center and the Eighth Avenue Bridge Trail, the Rainart, and also engagement.

So a second mobile art tour has been launched for the Czech Village New Bohemia area.

And then the other thing that is we're very proud of is the sustainability of our art, our public art program, which is looking at maintenance of our collection.

So with the Statue of Liberty replica and the Crystal Impression receiving some of that maintenance.

Also under top accomplishments, the homeless systems management.

So again creation of a coordinated street outreach team that's been very effective in working with our police department.

And then also the launch of the landlord tenants success initiative, which has been funded through the Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust.

And we have now over 20 folks that have been housed, as well as 54 landlords that are enrolled and willing to work with us on this project.

So here are the seven council priorities, and these are consistent.

Council is committed to these, which were the same as last year.

But I would say in the discussion at the priority setting, it was very noticeable about some of the interdependencies that these have with each other.

So for instance, when we're doing recreational and cultural amenities, how that helps us to attract and retain skilled workforce and how that is creating a business-friendly environment for our community.

So I'll just run through these really quickly.

Flood control system remains a high priority.

We continue to look for and secure funding for the remaining costs of that, as well as coordinate the construction to minimize adverse impacts and optimize our projects.

So again, making sure we're enhancing that environment.

Housing options and affordability, again, the continued emphasis on public awareness of the spectrum of housing that is needed for a healthy for a healthy community and seeking private and public resources to create more affordable units.

We continue obviously with our roots and multifamily new construction, but we also need those workforce housing projects as well.

And strength and stabilized neighborhoods.

Again, this is consistently a focus of the city.

It is very much about implementing those neighborhood and area action plans so that we are making an impact throughout the community.

And then the recreational and cultural amenities, again, this is critical to attracting and retaining workforce.

And then as mentioned before, homelessness, um, again, constantly messaging that the individuals experiencing homelessness are our friends, family, and neighbors.

And so continuing to collaborate with Lynn County with our local nonprofits to make measurable improvements in our community and with the goal of ending preventing and ending chronic homeless in our community.

And then clean and safe.

Again, building on community pride, providing ways that people can participate and really investing on those ongoing operations and maintenance that's necessary as we build new things, making sure we're taking care of those things we already have.

And business friendly, again, promoting Cedar Rapids, providing those clear defined goals and uh creating that open communication and continuing that with our existing businesses and partnering on key initiatives like workforce development, um, like um the collaborative um growth initiative.

So again, we are still committed to quarterly updates to city council, and those will also be on the website and um communicating as actions come before council showing how those do support your priorities.

So with that, I'll turn it back to the mayor.

Thank you so much, Jennifer.

Council, any thoughts on this?

I know you're all experts on this, but all right.

Thank you for sharing that with everybody.

It's now time for public hearings.

I want to remind everybody who wishes to speak today of just uh whether it's during a public hearing or during one of the public comment or public input periods of just a few matters we need to have in place to ensure orderly meetings.

Remain at the lectern.

If you have any documents you want to share with us, please give them to the officer on your right.

She will get them to us.

Second comments are limited to five minutes of speakers.

So when the light on the console turns yellow, you have one minute, and when it turns red, we'll invite you to take your seat again.

And then be aware that all comments must be directed to the matter of the public hearing and that um abusive, obscene, loud, threatening, um, irrelevant comments won't be allowed.

And finally, we need to hold an orderly hearing.

So we ask for no applause, cheering, or other disruption or distraction from the audience today.

So we thank you in advance.

Does the clerk have any written comments or objections in regard to any of the public hearings on our agenda today?

Uh, Your Honor, there were no written comments or objections filed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Onward with number one, a public hearing to consider the vacation of portions of B Street, 17th Avenue, 19th Ave, and 20th Ave, and associated alleys, generally bounded by A Street and C Street between 18th, 18th Avenue and 21st Avenue Southwest.

Kendekaiser's here.

Can I recognize you?

Thank you, Mayor.

City Council, Kendakaiser City Engineer.

Um, this area being vacated or the existing uh alley and and street rights away within the area known as the light line loop.

It's about 2.8 acres.

So all the city utilities within these former Riceway and alleys have either been vacated or reconfigured to serve the future park facility and redevelopment sites.

And this is the first step toward a number of things happening out here, including a final plat that the council will see soon, uh, which will allow for future areas of uh greenway, uh areas reserved for the light line loop, uh colluding the roundhouse and the parking lots, as well as three uh development sites for for future private development, which is indicated on this this concept here.

So, with that public works department recommends approval of the first reading of this ordinance.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ken.

This is a time and a place for public hearing on this matter.

Does anyone here wish to address council?

All right, let the record show public hearing has been held with no objections for the record.

That brings us to council.

Okay, seeing none, the approval of this ordinance on its first reading has been moved by Councilmember Scott Olson, seconded by Councilmember Van Orney.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries thank you.

Item number two is a public hearing to consider an agreement for an underground electric line easement with Interstate Power and Light Company on 10 feet of formerly vacated B Street Southwest between 16th Avenue and 17th Avenue Southwest.

And rear of lot 10, block 15 adjacent to 17th Avenue Southwest as requested by the city.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have combined uh items two and three into one presentation, though there will be a separate public hearing for each.

Uh these uh easements are at the request of the city so that Alliant Energy can uh construct uh electric services across the areas uh behind Czech Village that will help serve the uh the parking lot lighting and and other uh electrical service for the light line loop.

So uh as shown here in orange, there are uh four different easement areas.

Uh three cover these lots, uh 10, 11, and 12, and then and then a section here for the former B Street, which is now part of the uh gonna be part of the promenade for light line loop.

And uh again, this is support of uh the city's light line loop project.

And with that public works department recommends the adoption of these resolutions.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ken.

Uh we'll begin with item number two.

This is the time and a place for a public hearing on this matter.

Does anyone here wish to address council?

All right, let the record show a public hearing has been held with no objections for the record.

Council.

Seeing none, the adoption of this resolution has been moved by Van Orney, seconded by Poe.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries.

Now we'll hold a public hearing for item number three.

This is a time and a place for that.

Does anyone here wish to address council?

Let the record show a public hearing has been held with no objections for the record.

Council.

All right, seeing none, the adoption of this resolution has been moved by Poe, seconded by Overland.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries.

Thank you, Council.

Moving on to item number four, a public hearing to consider renaming 16th Avenue Southeast from the Fifth Street Southeast slash 16th Avenue Southeast Roundabout to 10th Street Southeast and Fifth Street Southeast.

Carrie Polly is here.

Carrie, I recognize you.

Thank you, Mayor, and City Council Carrie Paulaye, City Traffic Engineer.

Um, so the proposal that we're bringing to you is renaming 16th Avenue Southeast from the intersection with 5th Street Southeast at the roundabout easterly towards to the endpoint at 10th Street Southeast.

Um, this renaming brings the Fifth Street Southeast Street to more of a through alignment where it connects to 10th Street.

It also supports the naming convention for future Newbow Street Network expansion.

There are two properties addressed off this section.

They are both they were both notified of the change.

One is a city property on the north side.

Um there were no objections to the street rename renaming.

Public works department recommends approval of the first reading of the ordinance, proposing to rename 16th Avenue Southeast to Fifth Street Southeast.

Thank you, Carrie.

This is a time and a place for public hearing on this.

Does anyone wish to address council?

Let the record show a public hearing has been held with no objections for the record.

Council.

All right, seeing none.

The approval of this ordinance on its first reading has been moved by Overland, seconded by Councilmember Tyler Olson.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries.

Item number five is a public hearing to um consider renaming the private portion of XL Drive Northeast, which runs east-west between Fountains Drive and the North South public portion of XL Drive to Reserveway Northeast as requested by the Fountains LLC.

Carrie, I'll recognize you again.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, this street naming is a private street rename change that was requested by the fountain's LLC.

Um the current naming is Excel Drive, which is consistent with the north-south portion of Excel drive that intersects with Blair's Ferry Road.

Uh the renaming is requested due to a development on the south side that will be addressed off this property.

Currently, there are no properties addressed off this street section.

Um they have been appropriate notified of this, and this is the reason for the street private street name change request.

Public works department recommends approval of this first reading of the ordinance to rename the private portion of Excel Drive Northeast, Reserve Way Northeast.

This is a time and a place for public hearing on this.

Does anyone wish to address council?

All right, let the record show.

Public hearing's been held with no objections.

Council.

All right.

Seeing none, the approval of this ordinance on its first reading has been moved by councilmember Tyler Olson, seconded by Councilmember Hager.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And the motion carries.

Thank you, Council.

Uh, just to note that public hearing number six has been canceled at the request of the public works department.

So there will be no staff presentation or vote on this.

However, does anyone here wish to address council on this matter?

All right.

Seeing none, we will move ahead to our first public comment period.

And we have no one signed up for that period, so we will officially close out the first public comment period.

City Manager Pomrance, do you have any changes to the agenda?

No changes, Your Honor.

Do any council members need to recuse themselves on any agenda items or make any changes?

Council Member Meyer.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to recuse myself from agenda item number eight, please.

Thank you.

All right.

We are gonna recuse Councilmember Meyer.

Item number eight.

Councilmember Poe.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

I just have a question about uh council or about item number eight.

If we could um uh remove that from the consent, please.

We will absolutely remove item number eight and put that on the regular agenda.

Anything else?

All right that brings us from motion to approve the agenda as amended.

The approve of the agenda, the approval of the agenda has been moved by Hager, seconded by Meyer.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And the motion carries, thank you, council.

That brings us to the consent agenda.

The approval of the consent agenda has been moved by Meyer, seconded by Councilmember Scott Olson.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And the motion carries.

Thank you, Council.

Uh we'll begin our regular agenda with item number eight, which is a resolution authorizing fiscal year 2026 hotel motel tax allocations and the amount of three million five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars for outstanding city commitments.

Councilmember Poe.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi, Abby.

Um I just have a real quick question.

Um in this, um, I know the newboard city market, we allocated 50,000 for the grocery store.

Can you kind of give me an update on where that where that kind of is lies right now and what's happening with that money that we've set aside for that?

Sure, perfect.

Uh thank you, Mayor and Council uh Abidesh Pandey Finance Director for the record.

So the the item that uh uh is in front of you for newboard city market expansion uh that was based on the the council's resolution last year, 100,000 commitment over next five years in 20,000 annual uh payment towards that commitment.

What the this current uh item does is basically yearmarks that hundred thousand um uh over next two years.

So this year we are going to earmark 50,000 and the next year you will see the same 50,000 item, and we are earmarking that.

That doesn't mean that we are sending that payment at this point.

Uh we just uh accounting that in our hotel motel fund that is a commitment from the city.

Uh the payment will be going like 20,000 as annually, however, as uh the the resolution talks about this is about the expansion of the grocery store.

So um this payment will be only uh dispatch or disperse for eligible items towards expanding that grocery store item in the Newboard City Market.

Um the way that uh there are a few things that we could manage this particular item is um we will hold this 100,000 in our city's uh year mark account.

And there could be um where the city market, the new bo city market will be asked to submit the receipt eligible receipts and the reimbursement basis, and that will uh send the payments for eligible grant items.

Does that answer your question?

It did.

Thank you so much.

I I wanted to just um understand that it was on a reimbursement basis as well.

So that's appreciate that.

And and most of the you know, some of the hotel motel grant funds we disp disperse in the same fashion as well, like where has to be like some items are reimbursement basis only.

So that this is the this this particular commitment.

We'll treat it the similar way.

Got it.

Thank you for your explanation.

Appreciate it.

Okay.

Thank you, Mayor.

Any other questions on item number eight?

Okay, if there are no further questions, the adoption of this resolution has been moved by Van Orney, seconded by Poe.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And the motion carries.

We'll move on to item number 21 on the regular agenda.

This is a report on bids for the 26th Street Southwest over Prairie Creek Bridge Deck Overlay Project with an estimated cost of 410,000.

Doug Wilson is here.

Doug, I'll recognize you.

Thank you, Mayor Doug Wilson, Public Works Department.

This project includes deck patching and uh deck concrete resurfacing.

Uh this project uh will be uh starting this month and be completed in October.

We received three bids on September 3rd for this project, ranging from 224,554 dollars and one cents to 422,215.

The public works department recommends awarding and approving the contract to Jasper Construction Services.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh any questions from council on this.

All right.

Seeing no further questions, the adoption of this resolution has been moved by Poe, seconded by Overland.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And the motion carries.

Item number 22 is a report on bids for the Jones Dog Park and Park Project with an estimated cost of 1.8 million dollars.

Steve Krug is here along with the Director Kerry.

Thank you so much.

We'll recognize you both.

Thank you, Mayor.

City Council.

We're happy to be back uh this week to report back on the bids for the Jones Dog Park.

With that, I'll turn it over to Steve for a short recap of the project.

Uh thank you.

Uh as stated previously, the development of the Jones Dog Park has been shown on plans since the adaptive reuse study of the Jones Golf Course in August of 2021.

Uh the new dog park will include um a main dog area, a small dog area, uh divided training area, and a rentable area with a shelter.

Uh the park will have its own entry office C Street Southwest with an accessible parking lot.

All paved walking areas will be fully accessible, and there will be water, electrical, and portable restrooms.

Um the estimated project cost was one million one million eight hundred thousand dollars.

Uh there were nine bids received on August 27th, 2025, ranging from 1,497,000 to $2,088,000.

Uh after reviewing the bids received, the parks and recreation department recommends awarding the contract to the low bidder Midwest Concrete Inc.

for $1,497,000.

Uh questions.

Thank you.

Council.

Councilman Meyer.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, just a question.

Uh, it's great to see so many bids returned.

Do you have any insights as to why this particular project had it would seem to me a high number of bids returned.

Uh I don't have any major insights.

I think going into fall, there a lot of contractors are filling their jobs for the fall to you know, I guess I'm just not sure how many uh jobs are out there.

So this would indicate that they're looking for work.

Great.

Thank you.

Councilmember Van Orney.

Yeah, um, thank you for this.

Uh I'm glad to see that it came slightly under.

Um, I know we had a really thorough discussion at development committee about um doing an inventory in terms of uh throughout the city inventory of public restrooms.

Um specifically that conversation was with regard to our unhoused population and how to support and just navigate where we might need to be looking for more public restrooms and or at a future date public showers.

Um I I appreciate that there was not a huge gap um in the bids that we had.

I think there was a lot of public conversation uh with regard to how much everything costs and some some sticker shock to that.

But um, as we discussed at the council meeting and at the development committee meeting, you know, a public restroom is generally about 300,000, which people don't necessarily associate with that uh because they may be used to like a 10,000 or $15,000 personal home bathroom renovation.

Um so it's a little bit different when you're doing industrial and you're putting it out in the middle of nowhere when you're adding uh you know uh yards and yards of uh piping and things like that, and have to have this be something that is also um that withstands direct shows and uh you know snow and and all the seasons.

So certainly appreciate the effort and uh I think it just gives a little bit more credibility to the estimates that we received before, regardless of that public um kind of shock with that amount.

So appreciate your work on this.

Anyone else?

Okay, seeing no further questions.

The adoption this resolution has been moved by Van Orney, seconded by Poe.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries.

Thank you.

That now brings us to the ordinances.

Uh ordinance number or item number 23, rather, which is an ordinance vacating uh.10 acre parcel of right away on fourth street southeast between 8th Ave and 9th Ave Southeast, as requested by Loftus Holdings LLC.

The approval of this ordinance on its second reading has been moved by Overland.

Councilmember Overland, seconded by Councilmember Tyler Olsen.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries.

Thank you, Council.

Councilmember Poe.

Thank you, Mayor.

I move the rule requiring three readings on three different days, be suspended, and the ordinance be adopted on its third and final reading.

Thank you very much.

Councilmember Poe.

The adoption of this ordinance on its third and final reading has been moved by Poe, seconded by Hager.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries.

Thank you.

Before we vote on the resolution for this item, does the council have any comments or questions?

On this, okay.

If there are no further questions, the adoption of this resolution has been moved by Hager.

Councilmember Hager, seconded by Councilmember Meyer.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries.

Thank you.

And that closes out our formal business today, bringing us to our final public input period.

This is a chance for the public to address the city council on any subject pertaining to council business.

As with the earlier public comment period, we are here as a council to listen.

I will remind everyone to remain at the lector and comments limited to five minutes, and we ask for no abuse of loud, threatening comments.

This is to speak uh follow-up on the fire lane, no parking.

Again, I want to thank all the city managers and council and the mayor for this time.

I wanted to give you a follow-up because of the last city council meeting.

Uh Mayor O'Donnell uh told me to that the fire chief was here and talk to the fire chief.

And um I want to give you the results.

And for those that don't remember, this is about posting fire lane, no access on private property.

Okay, that's that's important.

Um so uh uh I did talk with uh fire chief Greg Smith.

We walked all the way out to 2nd Street.

I uh was kind of disappointed because it basically what I heard was it's a done deal.

You do what you gotta do.

Okay, I was I was disappointed in that.

Um I had a meeting then on uh 829 with uh fire marshal Stephen Mass, and these are the results of that meeting.

Um I asked when we originally got this letter from uh the fire marshal, it basically was saying that there was there was ongoing issues.

Uh we weren't following issues, whatever.

I asked Stephen for any documentation.

He had none, no documentation of any violation or anything.

Okay.

Um I was surprised.

He said the only documentation he had was the meeting held in 2019 with then the fire marshal and fire chief Greg Smith, in which the residents we got together and had a meeting, and the whole issue was dropped until six years later.

I um I wanted to uh remind when when uh Mr.

Parmeront's appointed uh the fire chief uh Smith that he he had a vision and it said embody the process of excellence through continuous improvement for the safety, welfare, and enjoyment of the residents.

You have a lot of residents that are not enjoying this.

This is private property, it's a free country, it's private property.

The other things I requested at the meeting was I said, can you give us an extension?

So that we were looking for a less than true trusive solution to this problem with the neighbors and stuff, and I was told no.

Stun deal.

Um I asked for a third party to mediate.

I said, can you listen to a third party?

Because we're all disagreeing with this.

I was told no.

Basically, it's it's gonna happen and it's gonna stay on schedule.

Um, I also want to let you know it's I think there's some confusion on the fire codes in general.

Two of the properties on the first view edition on the east side, the back of the house, the part that's furthest from O Avenue is less than 150 feet.

And the code says 150 foot.

I need somebody to help me explain why this and this there's no obstruction on on the west side, there is an obstruction, which is the wall when they rebuilt uh uh O Avenue, they put the wall in.

There is an obstruction, which is the wall when they rebuilt uh uh O Avenue, they put the wall in.

So I'm trying to look for for other uh solutions.

I I don't want to keep coming here to council meetings bothering you.

I Lisa, your uh uh executive, she's trying to get a I understand the procedures.

I got to talk to Jeff first, and then I'll talk to the city attorney.

By the way, when I ask Stephen Mask, was the city attorney consulted?

Uh he said no.

He said we have our own attorney.

I don't quite understand that.

So anyway, that's all I have to say.

Thank and I wanted to thank those of you that come out and took pictures that that come out and talked about the issue and really seem concerned.

I I appreciate I appreciate that so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And that will close out our second public input period.

City Manager Pomrance, do you have any communications for us today?

No communications, Your Honor.

All right.

If there's no further business to come before the council, Councilmember Tyler Olson moves to adjourn, seconded by councilmember Overland.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye aye.

Those opposed say no.

And this motion carries, we are adjourned.