The Saco City Council met on Monday, July 28, 2025, at 6:30 PM. The meeting covered committee reports, public comments, approval of minutes, consent items, several action items including a debate on downtown surveillance cameras, and a workshop on beach management. The council also entered executive session and made appointments.
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Sacco City Council meeting for Monday, July twenty-eighth, twenty twenty five at six thirty PM. I would like to make recognition of all members of council present this evening, including City Administrator Bahankel. Would you please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance? Pledge allegiance to the flag. And to the republic for which it stands. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item number four this evening. There is no general. Item number five is committee correspondence to council. Are there any counselors members wishing to share? Councilor Berman, then Councillor Redwoods. Yeah, thank you, Madam Mayor. Uh this is from uh the bicycle pedestrian advisory committee. And they'd like to note that uh we've seen an increase in e-bike usage in Sacco and several city departments and advisory bodies are collaborating to incorporate e-bike safety messaging into the city's ongoing safe streets educational campaign. This is in in particular in response to some e-bike accidents and incidents that that have resulted in injury. As a result of this, there's gonna be a newly printed flyer and ongoing digital postings that are gonna stress the importance of writing e-bikes safely, explain what rules and regulations are in place, and direct viewers to additional training materials. The flyer is gonna be handed out at upcoming city events, including National Night Out and Harbor Fest, and is gonna be distributed through the city's online platforms. I'd like to thank the Sacco Police, Fire Planning, and Communications Department, and SACO's traffic safety committee for working together to connect community members to this important information. And if you want to learn more about what the city is doing for safe streets, you can go to SacoMain dot org slash safe streets. Thank you. Thank you very much. Councilor Edwards. And you can come and bring your chairs and listen to some great music. Also, age-friendly Sacco on the 14th will be having another delicious luncheon. Um on Thursday, uh, August 14th, the doors will open at 11 30 a.m. And that's at uh the 68 Ocean Park Road, Sacco. That's the Elks Club. If you are from around town and you know where you are. Registration will be required. You want to go to the website, age friendly Sacco dot org, I believe, to register. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Councilor Hewitt. Um, the Dyer Library on August 15th is gonna have a preview night for their annual book sale. And then on August 16th through 30th, the book sale will continue. Thank you. Anyone else? Councilor Johnston. Thank you. Uh the last traffic safety meeting. Uh guess that was a week and a half ago. Um, the committee voted to forward a request to council to um petition the state to do uh evaluation of the speed on the Jenkins Road. So that should be coming our way at some point in the future. Um it requires council to approve it and request that the state do a speed study and uh uh evaluation for any potential changes. Uh then additionally the well, it'll be a special joint meeting with BPAC for uh August that will be a facilitated meeting where we will be reviewing a matrix of uh sidewalks and other pedestrian-related related amenities, hopefully to come to one consensus for future pedestrian amenities as part of the master plan that we are currently working on. So I thought that was important to get out there, potentially, you know, other counselors might want to attend. Um, and then lastly, uh it was recently discovered at the most recent Parks and Record Advisory Board meeting that because of our recent change to the charter, where we now require uh appointee members to be registered voters. Uh it we've always I should have said this first, we've always had uh student member of those, and so now that they're required to be registered voters, we have a problem with having a student member. Um so that's a potential change for charter.