0:03Next we have item D, which is amendments to the agenda.
0:06Does any council member have amendments to the agenda?
0:09Seeing none, we'll move on to item E, which is presentations.
0:13I'm going to start with our preservation month, Historic Preservation Month, or it's just preservation month, May 2026.
0:21We have a proclamation.
0:24Whereas historic preservation is an essential tool for managing growth and sustainable development, realizing neighborhoods positively impacting the local economy, fostering local pride, and maintaining community character while enhancing livability, and whereas historic preservation is relevant for communities across the nation, both urban and rural, and for Americans of all ages, all walks of life, and all ethnic backgrounds, and whereas it's important to celebrate the role of history in our lives and the contributions made by dedicated individuals in helping to preserve the tangible aspects of the heritage that has shaped us as a people, including the original inhabitants and protectors of Court d'Alane, the Court d'Alane tribe, and whereas Court Lane's Historic Preservation Commission is partnering with the Museum of North Idaho and the Corderlane Press to do a historic preservation outreach and education throughout the month of May.
1:19Now, therefore, I, Daniel K.
1:21Guken, Mayor of the City of Court Lane, Idaho, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2026 as preservation month in Court Lane, Idaho, and ask the people to join their fellow citizens across the United States in recognizing and participating in this special observance through a variety of historic preservation activities.
1:41And to accept this is Hillary Patterson, our community planning director, and Walter Burns, Chairman of our Historic Preservation Committee.
2:02I didn't realize we were doing it.
2:05All right, thank you.
2:08Mayor and members council.
2:10Uh this year we will be continuing our tradition of celebrating preservation month with a public reception, awards, city tours, and community outreach.
2:20Um we'll be at at the May 22nd at reception, which will be held at the Museum of North Idaho.
2:26We'll present our annual Heart of History Award to the Roosevelt School, recognizing the outstanding community effort that helped save this important piece of history from the Brecking Ball.
2:36We'll also be hosting a table at the Chamber's America 250 event in May 14th and have informational services available at City Hall and Chamber of Visitors Center throughout the month.
2:49The Idaho State Historic Preservation Office has chosen Quarter Lane for its annual statewide camp training program also on May 22nd.
2:59The training conducted by the National Association of Preservation Commissions will be held all day here at the library, and will be followed by city tours and the group's attendance at the Preservation Month reception that evening.
3:13We have another big event coming up.
3:15I'll take jump ahead a little bit.
3:18Our commission will be co-hosting with the Kootenie Historic Cootney County Historic Preservation Commission on July 3rd.
3:27We'll be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and at the same time the 100th anniversary of our landmark county courthouse.
3:38This will be a truly once in a century event, as we'll be opening a 100-year-old time capsule that was placed in the courthouse's cornerstone as it's at its dedication in 1926, and then placing a new time capsule to be opened a century from now.
3:55The event will also include remarks from Mayor Guken and others, patriotic music by a barber shop quartet in the music conservatory of Courtelaine, plus a variety of family activities and an ice cream social.
4:08It's going to be a lot of fun.
4:10Beyond these events, we've been busy as always with other initiatives, including the completion of the downtown survey, partially funded by the State Historic Preservation Office, pilot historic program recognizing Historic Sign Program, pardon me, recognizing key historic buildings downtown, and exploring the creation of a local historic roster and local historic districts, which will tell the story of Court Lane's rich history much more fully than the National Register of Historic Places, and we'll hopefully include a self-guided walking tour.
4:45We'd like to thank you all for your continued support and unwavering your continued and unwavering support of historic preservation in Court of Lane.
5:00We're going to move on to our second presentation, item E2, which is from which is the Tubbs Hill Foundation update.
5:08And it says that Annette is doing the presentation, but you don't look like Annette.
5:15But please introduce yourselves, thank you.
5:35I'm David Taylor, the past president of the Tubbs Hill Foundation, along with Dave Yaden, who's kind of our trails coordinator for several years now.
5:45And what we're going to do is speak to a little bit of the annual report that came out, and you all should have received a copy of that.
5:52It comes out every year, gives an overview of what we accomplished.
5:56And I like to thank the mayor for this opportunity to do the presentation.
6:00We have a great relationship with the city of Court Lane, in particular Parks Department, who provides both support, leadership, and also fully cooperation in terms of any kind of projects that are appropriate.
6:12I'd also like to thank Christy Woods for being our liaison for a number of years.
6:16She did a great job in linking us up with departments at the city, the police department and fire department, because it was valuable to have an opportunity to interact with them.
6:28So this is our current board.
6:31Annette is our new president.
6:36They took office in December, so they'll be kind of running the operations from this point forward.
6:43We meet on a monthly basis.
6:44It's open to the public.
6:45We meet here in the library in a room upstairs in the southeast corner of the building.
6:51It's very much open to the public, and any interaction, any information they would like to provide on Tubbs Hill, we'd welcome it.
7:00So this is our mission statement of pretty much unchanged from our beginning.
7:07We act as an advocate for the park, and we advise and work with the city administration on issues pertaining to the park, and we coordinate volunteer efforts, and we do some fundraising and community relations through a whole series of things that we do with various entities within the city.
7:34So we've been around for 40 years.
7:36And I think you all were provided a book that Scott Reid had written about the history of Tubbs Hill and how various organizations over time put together the efforts that managed to survive, survive or save the 165 acres up there for the public use.
7:52It was a very interesting process that went through.
7:57Now I kind of talk about the report and some of the things going on in the Hill.
8:02There's a graph inside the report that deals with the amount of usage on the East Tubbs Hill interest entrance.
8:09This is the graph from the main entrance on Third Street.
8:13And as you can see, we're talking about big numbers of people using Tubbs Hill.
8:18I think when we first the parks department put out the trail counters, we had no sense of how many people were up on Tubbs Hill.
8:24And it's literally in the hundreds of thousands of people using Tubbs Hill every year, and that has consequences.
8:38More of the locals probably are using East Tubbs Hill Park.
8:43If you ever go up on Tubbs Hill, you may see some of us in this green vest.
8:47We're up there to try to answer questions that people may have, also to educate people about Tubbs Hill, and I guess I would describe it as encourage people to follow the rules.
9:08Those three primary issues, and then well, actually, there's probably four is bicycles being up on Tubbs Hill.
9:16It's not a heavy amount of bicycles on Tubbs Hill, but they are up on Tubbs Hill, and that's not an allowed use.
9:27Dogs, both dogs off-leash, and then dog waste.
9:31And dog waste can have serious ramifications because as everybody knows everything goes downhill, and that could eventually get into the lake and add phosphorus and artificial chemicals into the lake.
9:44And then litter is probably the other area that comes as a problem with that many people.
9:52And I would say from my perspective, walking fairly often on Tubbs Hill.
9:56I'm actually quite amazed we don't have more litter than we do.
10:00And we'll talk about some of the efforts we do, but I think large part of that is there are community members that on our own on a daily basis go up on Tubbs Hill and pick up litter.
10:14Without that effort by the community, I'm not sure it would look like it is.
10:18So it's a real benefit we have of our community participation in keeping the hill clean.
10:24Probably the biggest event last year was the fuel mitigation project that the parks department had a grant through the county to go up and remove some of the fuel load up on the hill itself.
10:37We supported that as an organization, both philosophically and financially.
10:42We were part of the matching funds that the city had to provide to get the grant.
11:00From my perspective, and I think a lot of other people, when he first saw the area after they were done, it looked quite stark.
11:06It was a little bit overbearing in some sense.
11:23So I think it's actually looking quite good from that standpoint, and only in six months recovery essentially.
11:30So it'll get better even as it goes on.
11:34There was tree planting that went on this spring, which is a really good thing, and it was done professionally, which we supported because we want to make sure they have a chance of surviving.
11:54Um as a laboratory, so to speak.
12:40Earth Day we had a cleanup.
12:42The biggest cleanup of the year will be on the 5th of July, because on the 4th of July, there's a lot of people up on a hill.
12:47And it's always remarkable what we find up on the hill, what's left behind.
12:52You know, can't either they've drank too much or something, we'll typically find coolers of beverage and food that had been left up on the hill.
13:01Um, we found fireworks up on the hill.
13:03Um so that's the biggest one of the year.
13:06And then in September, we'll sponsor one, usually beginning on East Tubbs Hill Park for kind of more local flavor and to hit that side of the hill.
13:14Um they will find some interesting stuff, particularly on the beaches.
13:18Again, as I mentioned, um, one of the big benefits of the keeping the litter down has been the pickup by local volunteers, including the picking up of dog poop that's left behind.
13:28We have one person that was on our board, we gave her a thousand bags about every two years that she used to pick up dog poop that was left behind.
13:36And there's also people that are bagging their poop up and but leave the bags behind, which I've never quite understood.
13:42But um, that's for a psychologist to work on at some point.
13:46Um at this point, I'd like to turn it over to Dave, who's gonna talk about one of our big volunteer efforts, which is the trail work.
13:53Because of the volume of visitors, our trails are suffering to some respect.
13:58Um, and so we put a lot of effort working with the parks department on trail work.
14:06Um we first put this uh program together.
14:13I thought that maybe David could do the whole thing, and I think you probably could.
14:16But Annette, for some reason, wanted me to come and give you some updates as well.
14:21But it's a bit of a deja vu here speaking in front of you, not talking about land use and and height very height regulations and and annexations and things of that nature.
14:34But I I can say that Tubbs Hill through the planning aspect 1979 when we were asked to develop the first plan for Tubbs Hill.
14:48And worked a lot with Art Manley and discussing different things about the Hill, and I developed worked on a plan for it, and Art was quite mad at me because I put together a list of scenarios, non-development, da-da-da-da-da-da.
15:00And I developed, worked on a plan for it, and Art was quite mad at me because I put together a list of scenarios, non-development, da-da-da-da-da-da.
15:08And he was furious with me for the fact that you know it's it's got to be preserved the way it is.
15:14Well, we need to have the public statement.
15:16This is a public document, and we have to go through the process, and we get became good friends and everything.
15:22But early on, before the Tubbs Hill Foundation developed, it was a committee in the city that was in Tubbs Hill.
15:32And Art would be leading trail work up on the hill.
15:36And over the years, it that trail work didn't continue as such.
15:41Doug Eastwood did a fabulous job in doing some improvements to the hill and different things.
15:46But approximately seven years ago, our board started taking a hard look.
15:52We didn't know how many people were on the hill, but we knew it's things were looking a little sad.
15:58And we went out on the hill and looked at things of how people interact with the hill, how they get lost, where they're going when they're lost, and we worked with the city to put up signs, directional signs.
16:12And then we started looking hard at what was happening to the trails.
16:17And through my involvement with other programs in Washington State Parks where I do trail work on our cross-country trails, as well as some other places had trail experts, and we started looking at how do we make those trails sustainable.
16:35So we decided we'd re-amp up, work with the city to do trail work.
16:45And we enlisted volunteers.
16:48And some six years ago, and we're into the seventh year here.
16:52We started working on that.
16:54And in 2020, we have a chart here that talks about what we've done in the total of volunteers, the hours, and the dollar value of what those volunteer hours give to the city, back to the city.
17:11Because Tubbs Hill is important to the city, and it shows from the interest that we have from volunteers for this many years, and you can see it's a big number.
17:23500 plus folks have volunteered in those six years.
17:302841 hours of volunteer time, and there's an independent sector for gives a value based on per state, and taking those hours, it's 78,415.
17:46And I know the past park directors have been very, very happy that we're able to do that because over those years Tubbs Hill was our first natural area.
17:57We've developed other natural areas, which people love.
18:07Trying to fit the budget to take care of all that, plus take care of Kenny's old department and get the fires and things of that nature.
18:15So we're we're proud, and the volunteers are really happy to come back.
18:21You the smiles from 10-year-olds to 87-year-olds are out there working.
18:27Many are repeats for all of those years.
18:46But I'd invite you, if you want to come out, we have a work party on Friday.
18:52We have 17 volunteers, I think so far.
18:54Shane's bringing lots of stuff.
18:56But you too could have one of these shirts if you come out and volunteer and work with us.
19:01And we'd love to have you and uh David and I answer any questions you might have.
19:07Are there any questions for Dave or Dave?
19:12Uh we're so fortunate to have you and your board all these years focus on Tubbs Hill.
19:18And if you would indulge me, Mr.
19:20Mayor, we always ask the little kids to come up and get on camera so their grandparents can see them, but I want the rest of the board to come up so your grandkids can see you, and how much work you've done for this community.
19:35Get on camera, all of you.
19:42These are the people that day in and day out work on behalf of all of us, keeping that gem in the shape it's in.
19:51And they haven't just done it for one year.
19:53Most of these people have done decades dedicated to the city in the hill.
20:00I just can't the council can't thank you enough, and you're heroes.
20:08Anyone else want to order them around?
20:12Thank you, Dave and Dave and Annette and all of you who uh help make this just an awesome park.
20:18I mean, we got the lake, we got the hill.
20:21We have a lot of great things we're blessed with here.
20:25We're going to move on to public comment.
20:27I have one person signed up, Max.
20:42Dan Sheckley, how's it going?
20:45Dan Guk and Randy Adams.
20:47Troy Timeson's not here.
20:50I submitted an application to the city uh to construct a building.
20:54You guys have all heard about it.
20:56Um Randy Adams, our current city attorney that represents you guys in the city, states that the building, as long as I can uh satisfy my neighbors, then they would be inclined to allow me to continue with my construction.
21:17Sounds like coercion.
21:20Sounds like blackmail.
21:22Because Troy Timerson admitted that the city made mistakes.
21:27Hillary Patterson, this fine lady here said you're never getting your staircase.
21:34Randy Adams stated that I have to tone my behavior down.
21:39When you spend tens of thousands of dollars trying to construct a building, submit the application, go through the process, have four separate inspections along the way, have Randy stated that in addition, the wrap on the garage was never covered and the siding was installed without a final inspection.
22:01What's interesting about that is that your inspector that is now retired, uh stated that he never received any pictures, then called me from the same phone number to which I sent him pictures and goes, Oh, I did see these.
22:15So my confusion here just comes down to what's happening.
22:22Does the city administrative office not coordinate with city council?
22:26Does the city not the city attorney who represents the city not know what's going on?
22:31Is the administrative staff told not to approve or or do anything by legal?
22:36In fact, under Title 39 of the building code, it states that legal cannot intrude into an administrative uh administrative review process.
22:45And then states, well, that was before your client had to get a survey.
22:50Or presented a survey to the administrative staff.
22:53And it's hard for him to hear this, it's really tough.
22:56Randy also says that I have cameras at my home, yet also admits that he's never been to my home, but only takes the statements from the bells.
23:04The bells who have attempted to get three separate protection orders that have been denied via ex parte to the late Caldwell, was one of the judges, so God rest his soul, he seems like a reasonable man.
23:17I've done everything with the city.
23:19I've attempted to do everything by by the process.
23:22And I continue to get this pushback, this delay, this pushback, this delay.
23:26I mean, Hillary literally said, you're not getting your staircase.
23:29Put it on the inside, like we told you.
23:31What's interesting about this is there's no survey requirement for the city.
23:35So what happens is the standard operating procedure is you have an inspector that comes out, looks at the property lines or what he can assume is the property lines, and says, go ahead and construct.
23:46And then the city staff says, well, that's wrong after it's been constructed.
23:50They said that I provided him insufficient and incomplete plans, yet approved the permit.
23:58And shame on you, Randy.
24:00Come to the building.
24:00Look at the cameras yourself.
24:14We will move on to uh council announcements.
24:19Anyone on council have an announcement?
24:27Um, well, I I just want to acknowledge that um 11 years ago today on May 5th, um, my friend and co-worker, Sergeant Greg Moore with Cordelaine City Police was shot and killed in the line of duty.
24:41It was incredibly difficult for the police department.
24:44It's something you never get over.
24:46And unfortunately, our fire department is experiencing the same kind of pain now.
24:50This morning, uh the mayor and uh councilman English and I attended the uh memorial at the cemetery with the lane of the reef, and then we attended the memorial at his memorial in McKewin Park.
25:04And I just want to thank the police honor guard for um every year acknowledging the loss and uh knowing that the community will know that we will never forget.
25:17We will always remember Greg.
25:19And it was uh very difficult, but it has to be done every year.
25:27Anyone else have an announcement?
25:33And so we'll move on to the consent calendar item H.
25:37Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented.
25:42Including is there a resolution?
25:43No resolution today.
25:46Motion and a second.
25:47Any discussion on the consent calendar.
26:00We're on to other business, and item I 1 is resolution number 2603, which is approval of the transfer of a lease agreement from Concourse LLC to Inland Northwest Land Conservancy for a five-year term for the course, can course.
26:16Uh staff report by Adam Rouse, our interim parks and rec director, and Shane O'Shea, the trails coordinator gentleman.
26:24Yes, thank you, Mayor and Council.
26:26Um I'm actually just going to kind of use the opportunity to introduce Mr.
26:31So he was uh uh full-time with us in a lead worker capacity and has within the last few months taken the trail coordinator role over for Monty McCully.
26:40Uh and he's he's our resident expert, we'll say, on this.
26:44So he's gonna give you some more information as far as uh what we're looking at with this agreement and the transferring of it.
26:52Mayor, Council members.
26:53Uh this uh sale that we're hoping to push through the parks department backs this 100 percent.
27:00The city ownership that the parks department has up there is roughly 23 acres off of East Mountain uh Vista access.
27:08And if Cancourse LLC sells to the inland Northwest Land Conservancy, that would inline our mission and objectives for the natural spaces and thus bring in a total of 134 acres adjacent to our 23 that meet the objectives, like I said, for forest health and for recreation in perpetuity, because they would put that into a uh conservation easement, and then that borders Forest Service, and we would have constituents being able to access all of Campfield.
27:44I love a brief staff report.
27:46Yes, we like them too.
27:48Are there any questions?
27:51I said this at uh Park and Rec, and I'll say it again that Jason Evans is an incredible human being, and what a gift to the public.
28:01So I don't know if you talk with him a lot, but if you could just express that this is an incredible gift.
28:08We will share that with Mr.
28:11Any other questions?
28:14Looking for a motion.
28:17Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve resolution number 26-033, approving the transfer of the lease agreement from Cancourse LLC to Inland Northwest Land Conservancy for a five-year term for the CANCOurse.
28:31Motion and a second.
28:32Any discussion on the motion?
28:42And the motion carries.
28:44Moving on to item I2, which is resolution 26034, approval of a memorandum of understanding MOU with Cordelaine Little League to reserve property at the Canfield Sports Complex located at 5370 North 15th Street for the construction of an indoor baseball facility.
29:05Staff report by Adam Rouse, our interim parks and rec director, and David Everson, who is the Everson Powell architecture and design.
29:14And this sounds really cool, Adam.
29:18So just for some context, and I see Suzanne back here, so she knows about this type of an agreement.
29:26Very similar to what we uh what you all approved with uh special needs recreation.
29:31So uh an agreement to reserve a small piece of land out there at Canfield Sports Complex, which David will uh will show you on a on a slideshow here.
29:41Um for basically this is just giving them some peace of mind to be able to start a capital campaign, same as that special needs one to raise some money to build this facility which is gonna be a uh a multi multi-use for them for us uh in the off season, potentially some more partnership with Little League to do some camps and things like that.
30:01But I'll turn it over to David and let him share his before I get into the PowerPoint.
30:09I just wanted to uh introduce myself to you guys.
30:12Um my name is David Everson.
30:14I'm here as a board member, a coach, uh former player of Quarterlane Little League and Quarterlane Park and Recreation Baseball and also as the project architect for what we think is a very exciting potential project for our youth in this community.
30:31Um I was very fortunate to grow up here in Quarterlane, uh play youth sports all the way through Little League Thumpers and Quarterlane Park and Wreck through high school baseball at Lake City High School.
30:43Uh if you look behind me, you'll see a number of our little leaguers uh here with me today, including a few of my own children.
30:51Um my children uh represent the fourth generation of Eversons to play in these parks and on some of the same ball fields that their great grandparents played on as far back as the late 1920s and early 1930s.
31:06My great-grandfather, or sorry, my grandfather Ken Everson graduated from Quarterline High School in 1939.
31:13After returning uh to Quarterline after World War II, uh he started his own family here and shortly after became uh president of the Bryan Elementary PTA.
31:24Early in the 1950s, uh, it was when uh the PTA entered a joint partnership agreement with the city of Quarterlane, acquired about a two-acre parcel on the corner of Harrison and 10th Street for the purpose of constructing a youth baseball field, outdoor basketball courts, a playground, and public restrooms.
31:44We still know this park as Bryan Playfield today.
31:47Quarterlane Little League has been serving our community of baseball players for generations now.
31:52It was originally the Kootenai League in the 1960s and 70s until becoming the Dalton League in the 1980s, which a lot of us from my generation played in, and then uh adopting its current charter in 1995 as Quarterlane Little League today.
32:08Uh similar to park and recreation baseball leagues but very different than Select or Travel Ball teams.
32:14Uh Quarterlane Little League doesn't turn any kids away.
32:18Uh all who sign up are eligible to play.
32:21We do have player evaluations for our older kids' programs, but those are strictly to place them in the appropriate league or team for their skill level.
32:31Uh we don't cut any kids from our program.
32:34They all play baseball.
32:36As we've seen over an evolving landscape of youth sports where exclu exclusivity becomes the norm, Quarterlane Little League and Little League International will never change this core principle to give every kid a team to play on.
32:51The city of Quarterlane has been a great partner to Quarter Lane Baseball for many generations now.
32:57In the early 2000s, the city and CDA Little League acquired and built our incredible Canfield Sports Complex that we jointly use for both of our baseball programs today.
33:08This complex is now service is in service for more than 20 years and is in use every day and every night of the week in the spring and summer by either one or both of our baseball programs.
33:21Our long list of volunteer board members, coaches, parents, and grandparents put countless hours into field preparation, game scheduling, uniforms, sponsorship, and rooting on our youngsters.
33:32But we could not run this league without the city fields that we play on or the park and record department.
33:38We're truly grateful for the City of Cordelaine and for its continued partnership.
33:44One of the wonderful things about Quarterlane and North Idaho in general is our four seasons.
33:49Unfortunately, for those of us who love baseball, fall, winter, and early spring make it very difficult with the weather, early early evenings or short days to do any baseball activities whatsoever with our kids.
34:06For most of our lives, this has been the accepted norm for baseball in this area.
34:11But in the last 15 to 20 years, this has started to change.
34:14Both of our high schools now have indoor hitting facilities with batting cages, pitching mounds, and fielding turf to keep their baseball and softball teams in shape year-round.
34:24And a lot of the younger travel ball teams who charge a significant amount of money, rent facilities or drive to Spokane to practice at indoor facilities when the ground is too wet or snow covered for practice outside.
34:38We want to bring this opportunity to our quarterlane little leaguers, and this new indoor baseball facility would give us that opportunity to do that.
34:48We're proposing this building at the current uh Canfield Sports Complex, and I'll go through that in a minute with you to show you the site plan for that.
35:00To provide those interior batting cages, a fielding area, bullpens, and uh for pitching, and a much needed public restroom to be accessed from the outside of the building by the public.
35:07This would allow us to remove the porta potties that are currently on site and have some permanent restrooms that would be very centrally located to the entire park.
35:18As an architect, I've done countless projects of all types, sizes, and scopes.
35:22This is a special one for me.
35:24It's a reward for me to volunteer my time for a project like this that is truly devoted to serving kids in this community.
35:32We have a long history of sports and recreation in Quarter Lane, and it's now our generation's turn to continue that legacy.
35:40Every time I drive down Harrison Avenue, I cannot help but think of how many tens of thousands of kids have played a baseball game or shot a basketball hoop at Bryan Playfield.
35:51Since my grandfather helped to build that over 70 years ago.
36:21Thank you for the opportunity to present this exciting project to you.
36:25The council has questions and comments.
36:27I'll get to those after the slideshow, but I also wanted to introduce our Quarterline Little League president, have her come up and introduce yourself to you guys.
36:41With the proper jacket.
36:44Hi, my name is Lauren Everson, and I am our Quarterlane Little League president.
36:50I've volunteered with this organization for some of a baseball mom, but I've been with this organization in some capacity for the past 10 years.
36:58My husband, our three boys, have all, and along along with several other cousins in the community, have had a chance to play at Canfield and experience Quarter Lane Little League.
37:10We currently have our two in the league.
37:13We've got we also have some of our other divisions here if you guys want to come over here.
37:26We had a record breaking year of registration this year with all the growth coming into Cordelaine.
37:33We had over 475 kids register this year, and placing that and working with our rec department has been amazing this year, being able to accommodate all these kids to be able to play.
37:46Canfield of Dreams would be an amazing addition to Canfield Sports Complex, providing our league the opportunity to utilize it for clinics, camps, practices.
37:57A great resolution to our constant battle with snow and sleet and rain.
38:02And as much as we all love porta potties, this baseball mom is so excited for a permanent restroom opportunity along with our other baseball moms in the audience here.
38:13And we know with the community support and amazing families coming together to kick off this campaign.
38:20We respectfully ask the council to support this endeavor.
38:23We have big dreams for the future of baseball in Quarterlane, as you've you've heard the history, and we hope the council will support our dream to make Canfield of Dreams a reality.
38:43So future of Campfield Sports Complex, a collaboration between the city of Quarterlane and Quarterlane Little League to share the love of baseball for years to come.
38:53This year-round opportunity for events, clinics, and our youth to practice baseball and participate in athletics year-round.
39:06If you're not familiar with our complex, Canfield Middle School sits right up about in here.
39:32We have four fields for little league fields in this park.
39:36So this is what we call field one right here.
39:38Field two is right over here, field three, and then field four falls in down here.
39:43So we're proposing the location of this building would be over an existing section of the parking lot that's sort of furthest away from everything and is central to where the existing soccer fields are up here to the north and where our field one field is here to the east.
40:02The public restrooms that we're uh suggesting would be right here accessing the public walkway and centrally located so it really actually serves both the soccer fields and the baseball fields uh at the same time.
40:20Uh the structure itself, uh what we'd propose would be a pole building type structure, so a metal building.
40:26Um we'd use a in the past a lot of these buildings are wood posts that are just embedded in the ground.
40:32Now we use uh a concrete permacolum to make a much more permanent structure, longer lasting, and it's much less susceptible to movement with the ground freezing thaw that we have here in Idaho.
40:43The restrooms are shown right here, which so this would be the northeast corner of the building.
40:48Uh we'd have roll-up doors for equipment and vehicles to access or move things in and out, and then our accessible entry front entryway would face field one, so face the east side of the build or on the east side of the building.
41:05Just walk you around.
41:06This is uh a view, just slightly different view.
41:09Here's the restrooms again, the roll-up door, and then our front entry door.
41:13And then this would be the south view.
41:16So uh this would access the parking lot that's there now with a V uh with a roll-up door on the south side.
41:26And with that, I would certainly open it up to any comments or questions that you might have for us.
41:32Any questions for David?
41:35As a past board member and a coach of some of the Eversons back in the day, and a 30-year coach at Cordelaine.
41:41This is a great thing because we've done that pilgrimage so many times to Spokane and even down to Lewiston to try to find facilities to play, and I'm all in on this, so great job bringing it forward.
41:54So I have two questions.
41:56So if Can is your grandfather, then Barb is your grandmother and Courtney is your mom?
42:03Barbara is my mother.
42:05Yeah, Gary's my dad.
42:07Can Gary, so I was I was thinking, oh my gosh, did I miss a whole generation?
42:11But I think I think I'm on track.
42:13Gotta clear that up.
42:15Um the parking and the main entrance.
42:18Um you had a map there that showed that.
42:20I guess my question is, are you planning ahead for what could happen with this complex, bringing more people in for congestion, either going into 15th Street and/or uh it looks like it kind of goes out onto Dalton and exits that way.
42:38Which one is the primary?
42:40The primary is from 15th Street, which is way over here to the to the west.
42:44Uh this is the can't remember which the street name is.
42:48It's a residential road.
42:53And that really is not the primary entrance because it it's really a residential road there for that.
42:59I say it's a new housing complex, but it's been there for probably 20 years now.
43:03Um so and we did talk about that with Adam.
43:07We don't we really don't have any concerns about you know creating parking issues because that section our parking lot is not used a lot, and we don't anticipate you know having having baseball games going on while this facility is necessarily in use, uh, since it would primarily be used for practices in say the off season or at times when the fields aren't being played on.
43:31So I don't I don't really think we have a concern about that, and I didn't I don't think the city does for their use of it either.
43:43Well, just to say this is terrific, and uh I remember as a kid attempting to play uh little league several times.
43:54You know, and if it wasn't for that hitting and throwing and running part, I would have been great.
43:59I I remember my uncle George English one time saying, Well, did you play it today?
44:06And I said, Yeah, but we won anyway.
44:14I just wanted to let council know that uh this was reviewed by Park and Rec and it was unanimous decision to bring it forward to council that do pass recommendation.
44:23But also, can we know the names of the little guys so their grandparents can see them?
44:28You guys come up and introduce yourselves?
44:30Come up, do the microphone though.
44:31Oh, so you don't have to if they don't want to.
44:35We just I just want them to be on TV.
44:39Uh hello, my name is Hunter.
44:47Hello, my name is Brendan, and I'm seven years old.
44:53Hi, my name is Case, and I'm 12 years old.
44:57My name's Cooper, and I'm 11 years old.
45:04Okay, any other questions.
45:07Look for a motion then.
45:14Memorandum understanding with Cordlean Little League to reserve property, Campfield Sports Complex located at 5370 North 15th Street for the construction of an indoor baseball facility.
45:26Motion and a second.
45:27Any discussion on the motion?
45:37The motion is carried.
45:39Look forward to that facility.
45:43Moving on to item I 3, which is resolution number 26035.
45:47Approval of a contract with Poe Asphalt Paving Incorporated for the 2026 Chip Seal Project in the amount not to exceed $883,000 here up since 5 a.m.
46:01is Todd Fusair, our streets and engineering director.
46:08So good evening, Mayor Gukin and Council members.
46:11I'm excited to come forward with our 2026 Chip Seal Project.
46:18Looking to uh for the approval to award the contract to Poe asphalt and paving.
46:25We try to do this annually, as you know.
46:28Um we sometimes will switch on and off from paving or chip seal uh to do more of either one.
46:36Uh volume dictates the price.
46:38So the more we can do of chip seal, we get a better price.
46:41The same goes for paving.
46:42So some years, if we have a bigger goal to do chip seal, we will just do chip seal in that season.
46:49Uh that is what we have in front of us this year.
46:51Um so the dollars have shrunk just a little bit.
46:55Um we're trying to be creative.
46:57Um we have several streets that we're gonna do that are long overdue.
47:01They're to the point in their uh lifespan to where if we don't do something soon, we will have to do a full replacement.
47:08So that's what we look for.
47:10Um you're familiar with this as they come into town.
47:15Chip seal is not a clean process, but it is quick.
47:20Uh you know, you're normally gonna experience a day or two of really extreme discomfort, and then it goes away.
47:27Then they come back and they will uh fog seal it and turn it black.
47:32Um so uh we have several areas.
47:36Um this one here that's up first is uh Sherman Avenue.
47:41I think my slides were backwards.
47:44Anyway, uh Sherman Avenue to Ashton Drive.
47:47Uh this section of road, we did a chip seal about four years ago.
47:51Uh we are looking to make some changes.
47:53The old paint lines are bleeding through.
47:55It's making it very hard to tell where you're supposed to be.
47:59So we are gonna redo this portion of the road.
48:02Uh for this portion of the road.
48:04Um, I had asked in the 2026 budget to uh reserve some funds uh back when the city of Corlane took over this section of road.
48:13ITD had given us funds for maintenance.
48:16Uh I need to come before you to ask to utilize those.
48:19So I had put in our budget this year $30,000, knowing that we were going to do this.
48:25So uh that money is going to be used to do this section of road.
48:30Hey, Todd, real quick while you're on this.
48:33Um Quidling Lake Drive.
48:35We did receive funds for that.
48:38It'll be very difficult for Ron to answer.
48:42But wasn't it quite a bit of money for Courtney?
48:46Um yes, I believe, and uh I from if my memory serves me correct, it was approximately six hundred thousand dollars that we set aside for maintenance for this section of the road.
48:58So I've came to you once before.
49:00We need to upgrade some push buttons and things on the signal.
49:03That was part of that deal, and then out to uh Silver Beach is what the section that the city of Corley maintains.
49:11So that money is yes, sitting there.
49:13We just as we need to do some maintenance of the road, I come and ask you for permission to use that money.
49:19So that's what I remember of it.
49:22Um I've talked to Katie, and she says the money's still sitting there, and that's what it's meant to be used for.
49:31Council know this is restricted fund balance.
49:33So this is not what we're going into to balance the budget.
49:35This is money that is set aside.
49:39Um another area we're moving to is uh legacy place subdivision in Heartland.
49:45Um if you live up there, you've already seen crews up there prepping for the chip seal.
49:50Uh we will spend, we've probably been doing this prep work for the last three to four weeks, and we will continue for the next month and a half.
49:57All these areas I'm going to show you.
50:00We have to do prep work in front of the project.
50:02So we are currently up in Heartland and we are doing crack sealing.
50:07Uh we are replacing the asphalt around manholes, getting ready for the chip seal project.
50:14We will be redo uh we will chip seal the section of honeysuckle that streets and engineering paid lat we paved it last year in-house.
50:23Um so now we want to seal that section of road so that we get the maximum lifespan.
50:28That will be from Best Avenue all the way up to 4th Street, and we will put chip on that to get the maximum life out of that section of road.
50:37Uh Appleway Avenue to Hanley.
50:40Um, so if you remember a few years ago, we've done a couple projects up there.
50:44We paved it, and so now it's been three years since we did that, most of that work.
50:50We need to put the chip seal on top again to get the maximum amount of life out of that section of road.
50:56Uh, we're also gonna do a section of Pine Grow Drive from Hanley Avenue to Welbur.
51:01Um, that road, if we don't chip it this year, and I was to push it off, we would probably be looking at milling it up and doing a complete reconstruct in the near future.
51:12Uh we're also gonna do Kathleen Avenue, Ramsey Road to Atlas Road.
51:17We paved that last year.
51:18Um, so we're gonna seal that one up, and we should be doing uh Kathleen Avenue to Dalton, uh St.
51:27That those were all part of last year's paving project, so we're gonna chip seal those as well.
51:33And then uh as a bid alternate this year, we put that in because we weren't sure where the numbers were gonna land with the rising oil prices.
51:42Um so we put a bid alternate in so we could add it or remove it.
51:46There's a section of 15th Street that was torn up uh a year ago uh for a water project, and then Thomas Lane, 15th Street to East Thomas Hill Drive.
51:58So we're gonna seal those two roads up as well.
52:02Um we have uh just some general tips for drivers.
52:08It's a multi-stage process.
52:10You know, please follow traffic control directions.
52:14Uh again, it's quick and it's messy.
52:17They move in, they move out just as fast as they got there.
52:21So just be patient, please.
52:23If traffic signals not operation, treat it as a uh stop sign.
52:27That's something a lot of the public doesn't realize.
52:30If a stoplight is black, it's still a stop by law.
52:35Um expect loose rocks uh until the final chip.
52:41So we're gonna um probably we use a new oil now, so in years past you had to let it sit for a couple days and let it bond.
52:49Uh the oil that we use is a fast set, so they can actually put the chip down on a Monday and sweep it on Tuesday morning.
52:58Um so that that helps keep it a little bit cleaner.
53:02Um we ask that you reduce your speeds to the construction area, construction areas uh and definitely increase your following distance unless you want to get a new windshield.
53:14Um motorcycles and bikes use caution and expect delays before the striping is completed.
53:21So we're excited for this project.
53:25Um staff recommends awarding both the base bid and the alternate for the 2026 chip seal project to pull asphalt and paving for 883,288.
53:41Um where the numbers have come in.
53:43We are looking potentially to come up with a little bit more money, which uh hopefully I could come back to you at the next meeting if we think we can add to this project.
53:54So uh, but right now that is the number we hope not to pass.
53:58So I would stand for any questions.
54:00Are there any questions?
54:05Um Todd, is there a place where the general public can see what roads are gonna be done based on a certain time uh month?
54:13Are they concurrent?
54:14Are they running consecutively?
54:16So the chip seal project um will be all at once with street by street by street.
54:23So they're not gonna start, stop, start, stop.
54:26So it's probably gonna for this amount, you know, be a week or two.
54:30You're gonna see chip sealing.
54:33That's why I'm going with it.
54:34Didn't mean to interrupt you, Todd.
54:35I guess what I'm going with it is um for uh the newspaper or media.
54:40Like for Ramsey Road, for example, there it's sometimes bumper to bumper through uh up there, and then if it's gonna be pushed to one lane for a certain period of time, if it gives people a plan a chance to plan ahead for that.
54:52So it will be on our website.
54:54We will probably put it out in the press.
55:07Um because of the type of work we're doing, this cannot be night work.
55:12You have to have the daytime temperatures to do chip seal, so it's not recommended to do it at night.
55:17So we will try and get it out on the Cor Lane TV, uh, our city website all before um we start the work.
55:26And so we'll do the best we can to get the message out there.
55:29Ramsey Road is the trickiest of all those as we're experiencing right now with other delays.
55:35Anytime you shrink it to one lane, it's it's going to be bumper to bumper traffic.
55:40The only thing with the chip seal, it is very quick.
55:43So I mean, they're gonna be there the next day.
55:45It probably won't be like that.
55:47But yes, we will do the most we can on advertising.
55:50Everyone appreciates that.
55:53And we don't know what time of year yet.
55:55Uh after tonight, we will set a meeting with the contractor.
55:58They were forecasting uh mid-July at this point.
56:03Um we like anywhere from mid-June to mid-August is our kind of our sweet spot to do this type of work.
56:11Any other questions for Todd?
56:13Huge project coming up.
56:15Okay, let's see if we can get a motion out of council.
56:23I'd make a motion to approve resolution number 26-035, approving a contract with Poe asphalt paving ink for the 2026 chip seal project in an amount not to exceed 800,83.
56:37What did I just say?
56:44Is that the right number?
56:53Okay, as long as you're okay with that.
56:54I don't know why that just got stuck in my tongue and it would not come out.
56:59And we have a motion and a second.
57:00Any discussion on the motion?
57:13Item J is adjourned.
57:16Mayor, make a motion to adjourn.
57:24Thank you, everyone.