Due to the passing of a city staff member, the Council postponed several agenda items (J, K, L, N) to a regular meeting before the end of 2025. The meeting proceeded with public input, consent agenda, a proclamation for Indigenous Peoples' Day, and the adoption of the 2026 budget. The Council also adjourned to executive session to discuss the City Manager's performance evaluation.
I will call to order the city council meeting for October 14th, 2025, and we will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God with Liberty and Justice Brought. Clerk back, can we do a roll call, please? Mayor Monguette. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Wong. Here. Councilor Barnes. Good evening. Councilor Friedland. Here. Counselor Gallegos. Good evening. Councilor Sampson. Here. Councilor Tapia Vega. Here. Mayor, we have a quorum. Thank you. Apologize for the late start tonight. Just wanted to share with the community that unfortunately because unfortunately the city faced the passing of one of our city staff members. And so due to that, we will be adjusting our schedule for tonight and postponing certain items. And we will pick up some of these items at a later meeting that council will vote on and decide tonight when to move forward. So just wanted to give you all that background. So I'm gonna look to our city attorney here. Some of the items that we do still need to discuss tonight. Proclamation for Indigenous People's Day will be discussed tonight, item which is item I and the executive session item Q will occur tonight as well. All other items, um, and we'll do we'll we'll do the consent agenda as well. Um so items um J, K, L, and N. Uh we are seeking to postpone them to um a later date. Okay, mayor, in order to postpone those items, uh, I would recommend that the council uh make a motion to postpone the items and list them by the letter on the agenda and that you postpone those items to a regular meeting before the end of the year, subject to notice on an upcoming agenda. So what that will do is allow council to postpone those items uh to a it's not quite a date certain, but for sure before the end of the year, um, so that the public can know if they'd like to be here for one of those uh items on a future meeting agenda that they just need to check the meeting agenda um to see when those items are rescheduled. Uh but that would give our uh city manager and council the flexibility to uh set those agendas as there is room to accommodate those items. So to be clear, uh mayor, in summary, I do recommend that uh council make a motion to postpone these specific items you will list to a regular meeting before the end of the year, subject to uh notice on those upcoming meeting agendas. Uh go ahead. Um ready for a motion. Yep. I move to postpone items JK L to a future meeting um that will occur prior to the end of 2025. Second. All right, motion and second for the discussion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed, none opposed, that passed unanimously. Okay, um, so we do have public input tonight still. Um, however, if you'd like to save your comments for a late in meeting, or um, please feel free to call council or email us. Um we'll do our best to respond to you. However, you're still of course more than welcome to speak tonight if you'd like. Um, so we will begin with uh Sharon Stetz. Good evening. My name is Sharon Stetson.