The city council met on January 6, 2026, at 2:00 PM (strategic planning) followed by the regular meeting. The agenda included final reading of ordinances, first reading items, resolutions, purchases, and committee reports. Notable highlights included a presentation of the fire department's 2026-2028 strategic plan, discussions on several zoning cases, and public comment on homelessness displacement.
All right, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and happy new year. Welcome to our January the sixth City Council meeting. This afternoon as duly chosen by our by the majority of this council at our two PM strategic planning meeting. All right, we have no special presentations this afternoon. Could I get a motion on the minutes? All right. We have a motion on the minutes with a proper second with no objections. The minutes will stand as recorded. All right, this afternoon we will be discussing our agenda purchasing questions and looking at future considerations in the way of committees. We do have a public safety committee this afternoon. I'll be presented by uh Chief Knowles. Thank you for being here. You're a prestigious fire command. A good looking group. Uh we'll also have a planning and zoning committee uh chaired by uh Chairwoman Burrs. Uh so at this time, if you would look at this week's uh agenda under final reading, we do have the horse drawn uh carriage ordinance and council. If uh if you would um uh since I'm in the chair position, I will not be able to make a motion for that. I would appreciate uh your assistance with that. We do have one other planning item on um on the agenda for final reading, and um councilman Clark, any questions or comments concerning that? Uh not at this moment. I think thank you, uh Chairman Henderson. I think we've uh exhausted some of the concerns. There was a nearby neighborhood called Waterhaven that was not in my district uh that was concerned about notification of this process, and I think we addressed it in the fact that the people who live in the surrounding areas, including myself, uh were involved in a really good community engagement process where I think is it Mike Price who's the person on this who's consulting on us. I can't remember who it is. I mean with so many uh okay. Um we did the community engagement process by going door to door, um, and I'm excited about this in the district. Um, and tonight I plan to approve it on final reading. So if there's no objection from the council, I will be taking uh 7A and B together uh as a package then if there's no objection. All right, under ordinances first reading, and like I say, we do have uh a planning committee uh schedule for today. So the planning item that's on here. If you have a question, we'll just wait till uh we have a committee, and then we have um uh an abandon abandonment. We can uh take that at that time. Uh and then under police. Any questions on the and I think this was in district two. Is that correct? District two? Yes, sir. Uh, and as far as did we make contact with councilwoman heel or chairwoman heel, she's good with with this item. To my knowledge. Okay. All right, moving into resolutions. I'm sorry. I'm gonna sure. I'm sorry, Councilwoman Burr. Yeah, I just uh had a quick question about the two that you wanted to read as a package. Do we have anybody that's here that plan to speak on on either of these matters? Well, typically we have our uh public hearing during first reading. Okay, so if somebody was here to speak, that we typically they missed their opportunity. Yes, okay, all right. That occurs during first reading.