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The Coeur d'Alene City Council met on October 20-21, 2026, to handle consent items, public comments, reports, and a tree removal appeal. Key discussions included ICE enforcement concerns, alleyway garbage service issues, fireworks violations, and a successful appeal to remove a Douglas fir tree.
Good evening. It's October twentieth, twenty twenty-six. This is a meeting of the Cordelaine City Council, which I shall call to order. The clerk will take the role. Here. Wood here. English. Here. Gabriel. Here. Sheckler. Here. Miller. Here. Excellent. We're all here. We would like you all to rise and join Leslie Watson for our invitation. This is Spirit of Life and of this community by Chaplain Scott Campbell. We come together again to do the work of governance, to listen, to weigh, to decide, and also to answer for what we decide. But we are rooted in the same soil. And what nourishes one of us in the end nourishes us all. When they differ, and they will, may they differ without contempt. Holding fast to the truth that people who disagree can still labor side by side in good faith. May they bring curiosity where there might be suspicion and steadiness where there might be haste. May the work done here tonight leave this city a little more whole than we found it. May it be so. Thank you, Leslie. Kiki, could you lead us in the plan, please? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republicans stands. Maybe seated. Council, are there any amendments to the agenda? Seeing none, we'll move on to the next item, which is public comments. I have a sign-up sheet in the back. This is a sign-up sheet for public comments. There is a hearing later on, and that will have a different organization if you signed up for the hearing instead. We'll start with Lauren McCroskey. Thank you, Mayor Gukin and City Council. I represent Idaho for All, a group of concerned citizens advocating for the fair and equal treatment of all Idahoans. This evening, we'd like to voice our concern about actions of our federal government that have no place in a healthy, business friendly and welcoming community such as Courtelain. I'm speaking, of course, of the horrific abuse and dangerous ways of ICE in its treatment of immigrants who are mostly not criminals, but law-abiding taxpayer taxpaying members of our society. That's why it was very alarming recently when Post Falls entered into an agreement with ICE to apply its heavy-handed intimidating ways to local matters and local law enforcement. We believe such arrangements divert resources from local matters, spread fear of police officers, and threaten immigrants who have done no harm and are playing by the rules to be here legally. Idaho for all is very encouraged that the city of Courtalane has not so far not entered into such an agreement. But because Court Alane has at times been in the news for the wrong reasons, we believe this is an opportunity for the city to declare a different path and set a positive example for other communities in North Idaho. An example that discourages racial profiling and federal overreach into local policing and rejects the invasion of privacy that this can cause. One that instead maintains trust between citizens and law enforcement and affirms the value of its law-abiding immigrant neighbors.