Next we have item D, which is amendments to the agenda.

Does any council member have amendments to the agenda?

Seeing none, we'll move on to item E, which is presentations.

I'm going to start with our preservation month, Historic Preservation Month, or it's just preservation month, May 2026.

We have a proclamation.

Whereas 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.

Now, therefore, I, Daniel K.

Guken, 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.

And to accept this is Hillary Patterson, our community planning director, and Walter Burns, Chairman of our Historic Preservation Committee.

I didn't realize we were doing it.

And there you are.

All right, thank you.

Well, thank you, Mr.

Mayor and members council.

Uh this year we will be continuing our tradition of celebrating preservation month with a public reception, awards, city tours, and community outreach.

Um we'll be at at the May 22nd at reception, which will be held at the Museum of North Idaho.

We'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.

We'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.

The Idaho State Historic Preservation Office has chosen Quarter Lane for its annual statewide camp training program also on May 22nd.

The 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.

We have another big event coming up.

I'll take jump ahead a little bit.

Our commission will be co-hosting with the Kootenie Historic Cootney County Historic Preservation Commission on July 3rd.

We'll be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and at the same time the 100th anniversary of our landmark county courthouse.

This 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.

The 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.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Beyond 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.

That's all I have.

We'd like to thank you all for your continued support and unwavering your continued and unwavering support of historic preservation in Court of Lane.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay.

We're going to move on to our second presentation, item E2, which is from which is the Tubbs Hill Foundation update.

And it says that Annette is doing the presentation, but you don't look like Annette.

But please introduce yourselves, thank you.

Well, good evening.

I'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.

And 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.

It comes out every year, gives an overview of what we accomplished.

And I like to thank the mayor for this opportunity to do the presentation.

We 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.

I'd also like to thank Christy Woods for being our liaison for a number of years.

She 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.

So this is our current board.

Annette is our new president.

They took office in December, so they'll be kind of running the operations from this point forward.

We meet on a monthly basis.

It's open to the public.

We meet here in the library in a room upstairs in the southeast corner of the building.

It's very much open to the public, and any interaction, any information they would like to provide on Tubbs Hill, we'd welcome it.

So this is our mission statement of pretty much unchanged from our beginning.

We 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.

So we've been around for 40 years.

And 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.

It was a very interesting process that went through.

Now I kind of talk about the report and some of the things going on in the Hill.

There's a graph inside the report that deals with the amount of usage on the East Tubbs Hill interest entrance.

This is the graph from the main entrance on Third Street.

And as you can see, we're talking about big numbers of people using Tubbs Hill.