Great.

You ready, Mayor?

12 minutes, yeah.

Yep.

Okay.

So uh no public comment will be taken.

The council will take no formal action, and the topic is police facility.

All right.

Thank you, Mayor members of the council.

We have a two-minute presentation.

Next slide, please.

Uh tonight the purpose is to reach consensus on whether to place a 29.5 million dollar bond to construct a new police facility on the November 2026 ballot.

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We already know this part.

Next slide, please.

A lot of background associated with it.

The only one I would recap tonight is that we did apply for a three million dollar state grant in February 26.

Unfortunately, we were not successful in obtaining that grant.

Um so the uh the bond amount was reflected at 29.5, which is what it was originally.

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I'm gonna turn it over to the chief.

I thought we were gonna keep on going.

But anyways, we'll jump to a lot of this next slide.

Jump to the slide eight.

Uh, as a recap, uh the city levy expires in 2028.

Normally ballot three elections, you know.

We we ballot uh well, we want to ballot the uh uh city levy of at least three elections prior to its expiration, which uh would place it on the May 27th, a 2027 ballot.

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And here's what the timeline to look at if we go for a November 26th ballot.

Uh so as mentioned as Jesse mentioned, the polling took place in January this year.

Uh we would have to provide council a resolution approve approving ballot title question summary by July 13th.

The last day for the uh ballot title is August 14th.

Our notice of measure and explanatory statement is due on September 3rd.

Uh last date of file arguments is on the 7th, and the ballots are uh mailed out on the 14th, and the election is on the third.

Again, if we want 27 uh the timelines there, we'd have to have uh the ballot and uh title and question and summary by the 25th.

Uh the ballot title due is on the 26th of February.

Uh the notice of measure and explanatory statement would be March 18th.

Final day for arguments is the 22nd and ballots as stated is April 28th, and the election would be on May 18th.

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So, Jesse, do you want to take this one?

You want me to keep going or why?

Okay, no.

So this is a big election coming up in November 26th.

I'm not going to go through all of those, but it is six months from the operating levy.

It will be 1.5 years since the police facility ballot.

Um, November of 2026 was initially looked at by the council.

It allows a little bit more time for a communications plan over the summer.

It would not require cost in the police facility.

Go to the next slide.

The May 2027 ballot, it's what's called a small ballot.

It is.

We are planning at this point, at least for the city operating levy to be on there.

One thing that was strongly recommended from the pollster was not to have two local revenue measures on the same ballot.

So the operating levy and the police levy on the same ballot.

Strongly recommended not to do that.

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This is generally a communications plan.

So uh if you can look through March and then go all the way through September, November, there is a period where there can be some advocacy once the ballot title gets approved, then it turns into education, except for a political action committee that could get formed.

Staff cannot participate on that political action committee during work hours, obviously.

And then the mailer, uh open house, public safety open house outreach would occur not only through the summer, but specifically in September through November.

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Questions and discussion.

Okay, any questions?

Go ahead, Councilor Falconer.

Uh Jesse, I really appreciated that one of the last points you just made, which is that you know, once it's approved to, you know, for the once the ballot's approved, city staff can't advocate for it during work hours.

Right.

I would just strongly, if we are gonna do that, you know, if we're gonna do this, I think it's really important that you know everyone participate in making sure that this thing passes.

I know city council was actively involved last time.

We filed a voter pamphlet statement.

I would encourage any staff who are really interested in this thing passing that they be active on their off-duty hours and making sure that it that it is successful.

Go ahead.

Yes, and and follow up.

Did you get any answer from the attorney on how uh boards and commission members are classified?

I haven't yet.

I think we've always generally treated board and commission members as volunteers.

Um, but I do appreciate the clarification, Councillor Falconer, that staff can't work on this off hours.

Um they just can't do it during any kind of work time or use any kind of city resources whatsoever associated with it.

But the police union members, they can absolutely do it on their own time.

Yes, of course.

Yep.

Any other questions for staff?

So at the last work session, you know, we had a robust discussion about um general feelings and uh about creating a pack.

So then I asked counselors to reach out to your networks, your people, and you know, do you have anyone interested in being on the pack or supporting this?

Because the pack is really going to be the group that fundraises that drives education to help get this done.

And so I'm just wanting some feedback of like how you all did.

If you don't I talked to I have two people that have committed to to helping on the pack.

Anyone else?

I mean, the short answer is yeah, yeah, I think there's absolutely is there to okay.

Anyone else?

Not really.

Okay, so let's let's start at the beginning.

Do we want to go?

Do we want to ask for a bond for the police facility?

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Councilor Govston, yes?

Okay.

So then the when do we want to go?

I hear November.

Okay.

Yeah, I see consensus for November right now, too.

Okay, so we're gonna go for November.

Sweet.

That's great news.

Thank you.

That's all you needed from us.

Yeah, that was it.

Okay, great.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Okay, we're gonna reconvene at 7.05.

You're welcome.