Good evening and welcome to the January 26th, 2026 Tualita City Council meeting.

I'll go ahead and call the meeting in order.

First item on our agenda, it's a pledge of allegiance.

Tonight, led by uh Councilor Gonzalez.

Thank you, Councilor Gonzalez.

We have one announcement.

It's a proclamation for Black History Month, and that'll be read by Councillor Brooks.

Thank you, Mayor.

Here's our the City of Tualeton's proclamation for Black History Month.

Whereas Black History Month serves as both a celebration and a powerful reminder that Black history is American history, black culture is American culture, and black stories are interwoven into the fabric of the nation through shared struggles, progress, and aspirations.

And whereas historian Carter G.

Woodson established Black History Week in 1926 to recognize the significant contributions of African Americans selecting the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

And in 1976, the observance was formally expanded by Congress to National Black History Month.

And whereas the theme for Black History Month 2026, a century of Black History Commemorations, marks the 100th anniversary of the first national observance of Black History Week and honors a century of organized efforts to study, preserve, and elevate African American history, culture, and achievements.

And whereas the 2026 theme encourages reflection on the evolution of Black history commemorations and their enduring rules, role in shaping public understanding of African American contributions across generations, institutions, and communities.

And whereas during Black History Month, all are encouraged to reflect on the rich history, enduring lessons, and significant contributions of African Americans, and to recognize the progress, resilience, creativity, and achievements that continue to strengthen society as a whole.

Now, therefore, be a proclaimed by the City Council of the City of Tualton, Oregon, that Tualton recognizes February 1st through February 28th, 2026 as Black History Month, and calls upon the people of Tualeton to observe this month with appropriate programs, activities, and reflections, and to continue our efforts to create a world that is more just, equitable, and prosperous for all.

Introduced and adopted this 26th day of January 2026.

Thank you.

Okay, that brings us to public comments.

This is an opportunity for anyone to address the council regarding an item that's not on tonight's agenda.

Please keep your comments to about three minutes.

If there's anyone here who would like to address the city council, this would be the appropriate time.

If you uh get the urge to speak after these folks get uh have their three minutes, you can certainly come on up and uh give us your public comment, and then I'll go switch over to Zoom if there's anybody in Zoom who'd like to give public comment.

So first person I have is uh Chris Paul.

Chris.

Hi there, Mayor City Council.

It's me again.

I know we've been talking to you a lot this couple last couple of weeks, but uh I think it's important to be engaged with the community.

So first off, I just want to clarify that all my statements tonight are on behalf of myself as a private concern citizen and not as in any part of my role as on the ADEA committee.

Um I just want to come and talk to you tonight.

Uh I had a whole thing written and this week was crazy, so I had to throw it out and um just gonna kind of speak from the heart tonight.

But first I want to thank you all for the support that you've shown for the Martin Luther King Day rally.

Um I also want to thank there's several people who showed up for that uh in this room, so thank you to them.

But I just want to kind of talk about one of what I view is Toolaton's greatest value, and that is that we love our neighbor.

As soon as I moved to Tuala 10, I was immediately greeted by all of my neighbors to say, Hi, do I need any help?

Do I need anything moving in?

So I knew this was a community that really valued loving your neighbor and coming and helping them out.

So I just want to remind us of a few things and ways we can do that.

First, emergency preparedness.

I think emergency preparedness is extremely essential, especially giving the many, many possibilities for natural disasters that we have around here, wildfires, flooding.

We have volcanoes around, so just be aware of that, guys.

So just uh make sure that you guys all have your emergency preparedness talked up, and you have enough to share because maybe your neighbor didn't get together go to the grocery store that week.

So just keep that in mind, guys.

Um and then just I just want to remind you that everybody's your neighbor.

You know?

Our neighbor, it doesn't matter where they're from or how they got here, they're still your neighbor.

Doesn't matter what clothes they wear or what pronouns they use, they're still your neighbor.

Um then I just want to say, you know, I've made it obnoxiously obvious that I'm a follower of Jesus.

And a while back there was a phrase going around, what would Jesus do?

And I use that to guide my life.

Um I think Jesus would have showed up uh to meetings regularly to discuss with his fellow community members how they can make their city a better place.

I think Jesus would have stood on a street corner and called for justice.

And I think Jesus would have come to places where decisions are being made and reminded people that the most important thing is to love your neighbor.

So with that being said, I think Jesus would have come to city council meetings.

Thank you.

Thanks, Chris.

All right.

I have what this is gonna be a tag team effort.

Uh Kelly and Ed, come on up, and they'll be allowed six minutes since they're doing it together.

This is what we're gonna be referring to in our discussion right now.

What you're seeing here are our polls going up on staff or both.

That's what we're gonna be discussing.

Uh thank you very much.

My name is Ed Wagner.

Go ahead, sick, we gotta get you on the mics.

Okay.

I usually talk, I usually talk so loud I bolted on that.

So my name is Ed Wagner, and this is Kelly Bartholomew.

We are the two uh primary uh organizers of a group called Safe Stafford Road, which was formed in towards the end of 2023.

Uh we've been uh in opposition to these uh uh high voltage transmission lines from the Rosemont Road uh station all the way to Wilsonville now for uh almost three years going through the county and the Oregon Public Utility Commission.

And we've kind of reached the end of it because these polls are being uh installed as we speak.

Um the county approved a what's called a conditional use permit a few months ago.

Uh we have filed an appeal with LUBA, the land use bureau of appeals, and that is uh in process, but a decision won't be made on that now because the delay uh with the county, we're not sure when.

But the point we would like to make, and um we originally came in and and Mayor Frank, we appreciate your patient with patience with us because we've bombarded you with a lot of emails as we have with the other two two mayors.

We wanted to try to tie this to the IGA, but I think our theme tonight really has to be focused on there's a lot of dirt under the rug in the last three years, but I want to focus on this.

The county basically approved the permit based upon PGE's reference that the visuals on these polls would not be that significant to our rural neighborhood.

I want to stipulate that Stafford Road through the comprehensive Clackamas County um comprehensive plan is designated a scenic road.

The reason the comprehensive plan was created was to prevent industrialized uh infrastructure on this all the scenic roads in our in Clackamas County.

Twenty-three.

Big part.

23 of them.

23 of them.

And so we as an organization did a lot of analysis on on all of these polls.

Um I did uh right off of PG's website.

They have a dot that shows every pole, the before and after heights.

And we went through an analysis, and the average pole height is somewhere around 65 to 70 feet.

And the average pole, the new pole height is going to be somewhere around 100 to 130 feet.

And what you're seeing in this picture right here are the first seven or eight, a representation of the first seven or eight that are going that are being installed right now.

PGE is accelerating the installation as fast as they can.

And I suspect they'll ask for for forgiveness later should we prevail with LUBA.

So I think Kelly, you might want to say a few words regarding your your photos and the pictures you've taken and you know your your position on this.

Sure.

Thanks, Ed.

Thank you, everyone, for allowing us to be here tonight.

This is going on three years of this.

I had a little talk prepared, but I'm just gonna say it like it is.

So my main reason for speaking with you all here tonight is because 20 years ago the urban reserves were established through a statute that said, hey, we're growing too fast.

We need to set aside some land for when the cities grow.

So they set aside the urban reserves, Metro did against what the cities wanted, because the cities said, well, we don't have infrastructure.

How what why are we setting this aside?

So litigation ensued, and the uh IGAs came out of that litigation, where the cities and the county and Metro all came together and said, listen, we can't have any development in this reserve unless we all agree, because whatever one does is gonna predispose what everyone else can do.

So under that pretense, uh the understanding is PGE is just going to upgrade the lines along Stafford Road.

This is not an upgrade.

This is major infrastructure.

They're gonna remove 260, 258 trees or something like that.

Uh and these are industrial power lines that are going to be in over 100 feet tall.

So uh they don't belong over homes, they don't belong on a rural scenic road, they certainly don't belong in the middle, as you can see in the map, the red line smack dab through the middle of the urban reserve.

So the IGA was created to protect you.

Um I'm I this isn't about our neighborhood.

This isn't about, I mean, it is about our neighborhood, but this is about more than our neighborhood.

It's about you protecting your seat at the table, because the county decided they're gonna approve this without consult.

I mean, maybe they did consult you all, I don't know, but I find it hard to believe that all three cities would be like, yeah, let's put these in on our rural scenic road.

That'll be great.

So if you weren't involved in the process, you're losing your seat at the table if you don't defend the IGA.

Because the IGA was created with the three cities to for your benefit.

So what we're asking here tonight is not to protect our neighborhood, but to protect your seat at the table so everyone gets a say.

And what that would require, since PGE is not waiting for the appeals to be completed.

They have decided to just ask for forgiveness later, I guess, if we win, um, is for you to um file an injunction with the court to stop construction until you can at least evaluate what is your role in this.

Should you have a seat at the table?

And if these go ahead, they'll be done before the appeals are completed unless you intervene.

So we are asking for the cities to please step up and defend your own rights in this situation.

And if anyone has any questions, um, I submitted comments uh that has my email if anyone has any other questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh next up I have is uh Wanda.

Welcome, Wanda.

My name is Wanda Lichtenberg.

I live at 223, 33 Southwest Stafford Road, Twellerton.

My husband and I purchased this property in 1986.

We moved here five years later.

Argonians have repeatedly heard from city, counties, state, and federal authorities that we should protect our environment.

PGE also reminds us with flyers in monthly statements.

I would say most, if not all of us moved into this area because of the environment.

It's characterized by agriculture, farmland, large acre lots, single family homes, and significant green spaces rather than dense urban development.

Stafford Road is characterized as a two-lane road in a rural setting, not designated for high density urban traffic volume.

Removing 250 trees to accommodate installation of new high voltage transmission lines on 55 industrial towers with larger conductors up to 140 feet tall, and condemning property without public input and minimizing fire safety issues doesn't seem like protecting our environment to me.

A new water treatment plant to supply needed drinking water will not apply here because as far as I know, all property owners along Stafford Road south of I-205 are on private wells.

Excuse me, I lost my track.

There is no public water service in our area.

The Oregon fires of 2020 were the most devastating record-setting destructive wildfires in modern history.

More than 1.2 million acres burned in 72 hours, destroying communities, thousands of home homes, and killing at least nine people.

Cambi also in Clackamas County, just as stones throw across the Willamette River from our area, was severely threatened and placed under evacuation orders.

By then the smoke was so thick I felt like I was suffocating inside my own home.

The 2020 fires are considered a transformative event in Oregon's approach to wildfire, significantly shifting policies on prevention and emergency response.

However, I am confident that if there were a fire in our Stafford Road area, we would suffer extreme loss.

Many homes do not have escape routes because of their locations.

In our unincorporated Stafford Road area, there are no water resources to mitigate destruction.

According to previous testimony, it took two hours for fire department response to a brush fire resulting from a down power line in this area.

Last year, a plan by PGE to cut down five acres of trees in Forest Park for a new transmission line was approved by a hearings officer, but it was appealed to the Portland City Council, which voted unanimously to overturn the hearing officer's decision.

So denial can be done.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next up I have is Jim Walker, Jim Walkie.

Jim?

Welcome, Jim.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you for saying the Pledge of Allegiance for the beginning.

That's refreshing.

My name is Jim Walker.

I live at 23232 Stafford Road.

I'm here to ask the city to protect my property, to protect the city.

And to intercede and stop this process.

The Stafford area is a residential area in a grid, electrical grid.

The distribution of it is there's transmission lines that are high powered.

And those are 112 kilovolt, which is what they're thinking of putting in.

And then there's distribution lines that are limited to 35 kilovolts.

So a residential electrical lines in a residential area are classified as distributional.

Top 35 kilovolts.

And that's for safety.

Except for this seems to be a less expensive way for them to route power through the area.

However, there's a lot of issues here, and as I agree with the previous speaker, most of the homes are driveway.

We have one driveway, it's along Stafford Road.

So if a power line goes down, we're trapped.

We can't get out.

And to respond for the fire department to respond to a fire related to a down power line, they have to be, they have to have confirmation from the electrical company that the power has been shut off.

So by the time all that occurs, you can forget about our lives or our property.

And it's well documented in research that when wind speed exceeds 60 miles an hour, the rate of failure of a power line increases 10,000%.

So we're not talking about something that may or may not happen.

This is a real risk.

And considering that Stafford is off to the east of Twalleton, it's a big issue for Twalleton.

Because when we do have these high winds, they're from the east.

There's one that was in Ventura County about uh seven years ago that traveled 20 miles in 20 minutes.

You know, people literally had five minutes to get out of their homes, and a whole swath of area was totally destroyed, and obviously we can see Altadina and the Palisades.

So thank you for your time.

I mean I want to leave this here for you because this is PGE documentation from 21.

And this is a generational topic.

This is something that affects us today, but affects our grandchildren.

Uh and it's a serious health and safety issue.

Please intercede, stop this.

It's one thing if it's 35 kilovolt, it's another thing to put a transmission system through a residential area.

Nobody allows that.

Thank you.

Next up I have is uh Keith Okerstrom.

Keith.

Welcome.

Thank you.

I uh want to well first of all say hello.

Uh I've not been to this before.

Uh also um my fellow uh my neighbors who have spoken uh 100% agree with what they said, and I have followed this for the last uh three years with them uh giving and sacrificing personal time and money uh but them even more so.

They are uh definitely uh valuable assets to To Walleton and Westland as residents.

Uh I'll just add a personal appeal.

Please save Stafford, it's a gem of our area.

Uh it's something that is a treasure.

I know 20 years ago my wife and I were just married and we drove through Stafford on Stafford Road, and we dreamed they said, what if we lived here someday?

And it wasn't a dream that we had because of transmission lines, it was a lack of them.

It was the beauty of the wooden white fences and the you know, amber waves of grain.

Uh and we were able to do that 10 years later, and uh fix up a house a little bit and work real hard.

And you know, uh two nights ago there was a beautiful sunset.

Uh it was orange, and I did not have to look through 110-foot transmission lines to see it.

And then the next night we had a purple sunset, and you can see straight down the valley, and this is the Willamette Valley.

This is the view of a hundred years and more, and this is what we can save and protect, and there's the IGA, and I think that's a tool that your city attorneys can use for us to save our community.

Um, but this is gonna be a scar right down the middle of Stafford.

And I hope that other people will come and drive through Stafford and dream that one day they could live there through hard work and then you become a steward of the land.

I you know, I wasn't a farmer.

Now I have chickens and goats, and uh and when you invest in a home in Stafford, the cost of living there is about 30 times as much.

If you want to redo your driveway, it's it's a lot more than uh in a subdivision.

If you want to redo your fence, it's a lot more because the the lengths and the linear feet are all multiplied so many more times.

So, you know, I want future generations to want to live there.

I want them to want to invest their time and money in keeping up these little hobby farms and the and the community.

And one, the transmission lines are not going to help with that dream of future generations keeping this going.

And certainly it's not going to help anyone want to invest in their little farms and their properties when PGE destroys the property value.

But it's not about the property value.

But that is definitely a side effect.

It's about the aesthetic, and it's about people wanting to be there, wanting their grandchildren to be there, wanting new people to come into the area and keep it going.

Then the IGA will help help us protect that.

And really plead and beg as a as a resident of Twaloden, please help us.

Please.

Thank you.

Next sign up I have is uh Joe Raddy.

Greetings.

Welcome.

Thank you for this opportunity, Mayor and Council members, and thank you for the comfortable chairs to sit in as we go through this meeting.

Um, the first gentleman talked about preparedness.

And I'm here to ask you to consider being prepared for what can happen if you allow this project to go through.

These are industrial grade utility poles.

PGE has not been transparent throughout this whole process.

As other uh speakers have mentioned, we were supposed to be getting polls that would be unobtrusive, taller to accommodate the transmission, but nothing like this.

And if you've been on off Nyberg Road, you've seen what these poles look like.

And it's it's gonna be a travesty and a safety and a health issue for us.

PGE, as I mentioned, has not been transparent through this whole process.

They are saying right now that these poles are going to be carrying 120 kilovolts of uh power.

I have worked with Tacoma Power, I've worked with Idaho Idaho Falls Power, I've worked with Peninsula Light in the Gig Harbor area.

I'm telling you that these poles are graded to carry much more than 120 kilovolts.

And that is a safety concern for anybody who is on Stafford Road.

These poles and the wires are going to be in front of the if you've been on Stafford Road, there's a Catholic church, those wires will go right over it.

There's the uh Westland School Administration building, those wires will go right over that building.

There are homes that are maybe 50 feet from Stafford Road.

Those power lines are going to be right in their front door, uh right over their front doors.

So I urge you to really consider intervening in this process to get a better handle on what the heck PGE is trying to do.

And I would just add uh can I ask a question.

Has uh the county informed you of this process as I understand it.

Uh that the county is supposed to inform the cities that are involved in this IGA about any new development such as this.

Have they contacted you about has the county contacted you guys about this?

An email was sent to our planning.

And when was that?

How long ago?

Kevin Chiman here, our city attorney.

I'll have to look for the exact date, Your Honor.

Okay.

But they did send an email.

But I mean within a year.

Yeah, yeah, I would like to know the timing.

I think the timing is I I think the timing would be uh appropriate as far as that's concerned.

That's all I have to say, but please really consider this because this is not just aesthetic, it's safety as well.

Thanks a lot.

Okay.

The last sign up I have, there's no name which says safe uh safe Stafford Road, but it's Anna Gopante.

Am I seeing her?

Anna email address.

Okay.

No worries.

My name is Lenille van der Mullen.

Okay.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Yes, I'm a member of Save Stafford Road.

And ever since PGE planned these industrial-sized electric polls, probably more than six years ago now, it has practiced industrial levels of deceit against the Stafford Road landowners who stand to see those massive polls shrink our property values from between 30 to 40 percent, according to the realtors that we have contacted.

And for people who have spent their life savings trying to get a decent piece of property on Stafford Road, that means selling it at a loss at this point.

And I concur that there was a fire probably three, four years ago now at the base of our hill when a PGE transponder exploded, set the brush on fire, and our fire truck could not put it out until they got permission from PGE to do so, and it just raged for two hours.

It really threatened properties along there.

And I can see that problem being multiplied by these giant poles all the way up and down Stafford Road.

At numerous public meetings, PGE has told us different versions of their plans and bluntly dismissed the possibility of putting these polls along I-205 to connect to I-5, then go down I-5 where it's just a relatively short jump to its its um destination.

They they don't even want to talk about it.

They just say they can't do it, they don't have the right-of-yeah, and they use every excuse they could think of for avoiding the steps needed to get such a right-of-way.

Uh as a result, we've been forced to mount a legal battle against them, ending in this current LUBA appeal.

But PGE is already building during this appeal, building its massive eyesores along Stafford North.

And I think this city council should be angry that PGE has ignored its obligations to fully inform you of its application for a conditional use permit.

Apparently they sent an email.

It's pretty easy to miss an email.

And it's required by law that they do inform you.

And in the end, I want to know if you're going to ignore this rogue company's arrogance towards the homeowners, property owners along Stafford, or can you do something to resist them?

PGE has acted in bad faith from the beginning.

Driving over Stafford Road residents like a bulldozer and ignoring proper legal processes.

So I hope you can get creative in giving us some relief from this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Your Honor, yes, just to follow up on your question, Clackhamus County notified Steve Coper in the planning commission on August 26, 2025.

Transparency.

It's fine to come up if you want to do that.

This would be the time.

That's not the whole pole.

The ground that's on the ground.

So the pole that's going to get added to that pole, the right picture or picture of Kelly is the next section that goes on to it.

Just so you know what you're looking at there.

All right.

Uh do we have anyone in Zoom?

Oh, do you want to come up?

Yep.

Right, just state your name.

You don't have to say your address.

Uh my name is Susan Vandenberg.

I'm on Stafford Road.

So I wasn't planning on speaking, but um I admire my neighbors for doing so.

Just to put a little personal point on this.

Our piece of property is on right on Stafford.

We have four power poles on our property that are going to be replaced.

They are approximately, I think I measured it, but I can't remember now, 70 feet from our deck where we look out over Stafford, and all of our living is right there.

We're going to have four of these giant things right at 70 feet from our bedroom, from our living room, from our deck.

And it's just going to, as far as property values, not only the fire hazard, because it's also surrounded by a pasture there.

So if it goes down, it lights the pasture, it gets the house.

And then property values.

I mean, it's would you buy a piece of property even though the house was nice with four giant power poles 70 feet from your window?

That's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Anyone else in the room?

Can I have 30 seconds?

Sorry.

No, no.

Anyone else?

Okay.

Anyone in Zoom?

All right.

Okay.

Just thank you all for attending tonight.

I took lots of notes.

It's it's a frustrating situation.

I saw the emails coming back from uh Mayor Buck and Mayor Rory from Westlin to Kelly and to Ed.

Our city attorney is still trying to talk to the other two city attorneys, but uh right now it's TBD and what you know what we're gonna do.

But I very much appreciate you all coming.

The whole city council has heard you rather than just me, which is good.

But again, thanks you for coming tonight.

There's not probably a resolution tonight, but I do appreciate you coming.

Sure.

Uh that brings us to our consent agenda, our consent agenda, those items considered routine.

They will be adopted by one motion unless someone on the council would like an item removed and heard separately later tonight.

The consent agenda tonight consists of two items consideration of approval of the work session and regular meeting minutes of January 12th, 2026, and consideration of resolution number 5941-26 authorizing the city manager to execute deed acquiring the Gertz Construction Company property for a public right-of-way.

Would any city counselor like one of these items removed from consent?

If not.

I move that we adopt the consent agendas read.

Second.

I have a motion, a second to adopt the consent agenda.

The consent agendas read.

Any comments on those motions, discussions on those motions?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstentions.

It's unanimous.

All right.

That brings us to special reports.

Our first special report is there are an outside agency grant awardee, Twalton Valley Pride, and that will be Kit.

Welcome Kit.

Bush.

Welcome to Kit.

Hello, Council and Mayor.

Um first of all, I just want to say thank you for allowing us to come and tell you a little bit about our organization and what we try to do for our community.

Um as you know, I am Kit Laura Lee, uh at least all of you know by this point.

Um I've worked as a librarian at the Twelleton Public Library for 17 years.

So seems way long and way short all at the same time.

Um I also have a kid in high school at the in this in the uh city and live in this within the city limits.

Um last year.

Uh after I sued the state of Oklahoma in order to get an X on my birth certificate and went through the ups and downs of that process.

Um, I began to realize that things needed to change, and the way to do that is locally.

Um, and so that's when I uh founded uh Toalton Valley Pride and uh president and founder, and here's the rest of my board.

Hello.

Um my name is Andy Duttinger.

Um I work for the Oregon Department of Human Services.

I'm not there as a representative, but that's my job.

Um I've lived in Twelleton since I moved to Oregon five and a half years ago.

Um, and I'm the treasurer.

So I do money stuff.

Hi, I'm Rachel Grime.

Um, I use she her pronouns, and I am the Secretary of Twalton Valley Pride.

Um, and I work at the Oregon Primary Care Association on the HIV SDI team.

All right.

Our mission here, as you can see, is we're trying to just create community for the for people that are then the queer community here in Towallaton.

Um we're following the footsteps of some people that um have started growing uh the uh community events that we have, and um we just wanted to provide uh space for people to be able to get together to celebrate to feel safe, and eventually we'd love to grow into something a little larger where we can provide resources and connections uh in that manner.

All right, so um our organization really came out of the annual pride event that's been happening in Twilighton since 2023, thanks to a lot of folks in this room.

Um so yeah, kind of as Kit mentioned, the organization was founded mostly to help that annual event be sustainable and to help it grow.

Um and so that is our main goal.

We are also hosting smaller events throughout the year, and we do hope to again uh just grow a little bit larger and continue to support the community throughout the year as well.

Um, and our main goal is really to make sure that we can celebrate the queer community in Twalaton in this big uh event at least once a year.

Awesome.

Um Twiliton Valley Pride was awarded uh 400 from the outside agency grant award, um, and we will be using that to support outreach and marketing for our 2026 uh Pride event that will go hopefully towards a banner that will go on Martin Nazi, very similar to the one that you see, except we are hoping to make it slightly more generic so that we can add the date on it.

Um the idea of having a million discrete banners makes me break out in hives.

Um yeah, and so it won't cover all of the costs, but we are super appreciative of the funds, and we're hoping to be able to use our banner for many years.

Um just so you know, we did have uh just this last week.

We've confirmed our dates, it'll be on May 31st.

We're working with the city to use the the splash pad again to have a little walk around the the square.

So we invite anybody who would like to come out or um learn more about us.

Um we do have our website, it is toallatonvalley pride.org up on online.

Um, and we're excited.

So hope to see you there.

All right, uh questions for the board.

Uh Council Brooks and Council President Pratt.

Uh I just want to thank you all for your leadership and um and also I I've worked in with uh focus on um HIV/slash AIDS patients when I was a clinician, and so I really appreciate the work there as well, and the idea around resources.

Um I think that it's really good leadership in a time like right now where I think if people got to know each other a little bit better, um some of the ways that uh this dehumanization happens and so much violence follows.

Um I appreciate you bringing the awareness, your lived experience, and um and you know, more peace and possibility to our community.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And keep in touch with anything I can do.

Thanks.

Oh, I just wanted to say thank you for coming tonight.

We gave you 400 and you came and gave us this great presentation.

And you're um it's it's it's always good for us to know what's happening with the money.

So thanks for your thank you.

Councillor Sacco.

Thank you.

Um I just wanted to um acknowledge the work um that you've done um thus far and part the participation in the concert last year.

Uh I'm wearing my bracelet.

Um earlier tonight uh we that the council approved a Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation that we'll read next month, but I just wanted to make sure that everybody was aware of that as well.

So um thank you for all the work that you do.

It's greatly appreciated.

I feel like we should have a circle of appreciation here because I we we heard that tonight too, and and you know, as a trans member of this community, I feel a lot of support from this council.

I really appreciate it.

So March 23rd.

Okay.

Well, thank you for covering tonight.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right, that takes us to our second special report, which is uh Republican Services 2024 annual report, and that'll be delivered by Cindy and Travis.

Welcome.

Thank you for calling it special.

Yeah.

You have the power.

I can't be responsible.

Good evening, Mayor and Counselors and those attending both in-person and online.

My name is Cindy Rogers, and I am your municipal relationship manager for Republic Services, and I'm joined here by Travis Comfort, your municipal contract administrator.

Our presentation this evening is a review of the essential services that we provided for the city of Tualeton in 2024.

I do apologize.

We were supposed to be here in November of the last year, but I ended up getting sick and I didn't want to share the love, so we rescheduled for tonight.

So my apologies.

Next slide.

You have the power, remember?

Okay.

In 2024, our drivers were at the homes of over 6,000 households 12 times a month.

This is about a 2.5% increase over 2023.

The 35-gallon trash container continues to be the most popular.

The residents of Tualaton have a robust waste and recycling program.

Resident residential service includes trash, yard debris with food waste, commingle recycling, and the glass bin.

That's all weekly.

As a reminder, customers can put motor oil and batteries in their glass bin.

We also offer additional services, including recycle plus for hard-to-recycle items, bulky waste pickups for items that won't fit in your roll cart, and drop boxes for larger projects.

In 2024, we collected nearly 9,000 tons of material.

This averages out to be 1.5 tons per household.

This is consistent with what we saw in 2023.

Slide, please.

For businesses and multifamily, we offer trash up to six days a week, commingle recycling up to five days a week, and food waste four days a week, and then glass is weekly.

In 2024, we service 66 multifamily customers and 686 customer uh commercial customers.

We saw four four percent decrease in tons in 2024.

The total commercial tons in 2024 was 12,722 versus 13,260 in 2023.

Slide four shows the number of industrial halls that we did in 2024, and then industrial halls are drop boxes ranging from 10 to 40 yard or compactors.

In 2024, we did 8,573 industrial halls.

This is nearly identical to the number of halls that we did in 2023.

We hauled over 22,000 tons of material in 2024, which is slightly up from 2023.

This means that the average haul that we did for drop boxes and compactors was 2.6 tons in 2024 versus 2.5 tons in 2023.

So again, very consistent year over year.

Tualeton residents and businesses have free access to our recycling depot on Ritter Road in Wilsonville.

The recycling depot is open 8 to 5 Monday through Friday and is staffed by a Wilsonville High School graduate.

And I will say that the customers just adore him, and we are very grateful to have him on our team.

People can drop off cardboard, electronic waste, glass bottles, scrap metal, metal cans, paper, plastic, jugs, and tubs.

Oregon's new recycling law went into effect July of last year.

Even more items can now be dropped off.

So this includes black, green, brown nursery pots, large plastic uh storage totes, pots and pans, and then uh liquid cartons that you would buy, like broth or juice in the aseptic containers, what they call them.

And then now you can also leave your lids on your plastic containers.

In 2024, we did over $13 million in revenue and paid over $275,000 in franchise fees.

The schedule of expenses of expenses shows to disposal continues to be by far our large our largest expense at $5.4 million, and labor is our second at $2.4 million.

We attend a lot of community events, and the most common thing that I hear are the how awesome our drivers are and how helpful our staff is at their Wilsonville office.

Many customers know our drivers by name, and if they don't know them by name, they definitely know their faces.

So when Travis and I are all tabling an events, we always make sure that we share those compliments with their supervisors because it's really important that they hear the feedback that the work that they're doing in the community that the community values that work that they're doing.

So I will pass it off to Travis and he will talk about more fun things like the opportunity to recycle, the recycling monetization act, and then our community engagement in 2024.

Thank you, Cindy.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council, staff, uh ladies and gentlemen.

Uh it is a pleasure to be with you all here this evening.

Thank you for giving us this time.

Um as you may remember, uh, the City of Twalton ran a pilot project for residential food scraps to see if residents would be interested in putting this material into their bin.

And with the success of that program, the city did formally adopt it in 2023.

In terms of our chart here, you can see that winter storm data does kind of impact uh it a little bit with the ice storm in 2020.

Um, but we are seeing uh more participation each year in the program.

Uh and we will continue, as Cindy said, in our outreach events to continue to remind residents that this is an opportunity that they have with their service.

Uh we also work with Twalton businesses.

A lot of them are still getting up to speed on the Metro Food Scrap Separation Mandate, and the county has ramped up their enforcement.

Um, so we have even worked with businesses on enclosure challenges or service uh frequency challenges as well.

Um, and all that work is going very well.

Uh Oregon Law requires cities over the population of 4,000 to implement recycling programs, giving residents and businesses the opportunity to recycle.

Uh we work directly with Lindsay and Washington County staff to ensure that Tualton and it meets all of its service and outreach requirements per Oregon statute.

Here you can see the updated recycling guide that we just sent out to all of our Tualeton residents and businesses in November of 2025.

And we also brought copies for you all.

So the one that was emailed out has the English and Spanish on each side, and then the additional one.

I'm still working on the Spanish translation for the batteries, but we've been really pushing uh how to properly prepare your batteries for recycling as well.

Um on the right hand side, you can see the list of the top five contaminants that we find in the recycling stream.

Contamination reduction is a new component to the city's uh annual obligations for the opportunity to recycle, and we will be working with Washington County to ensure that compliance is met on this as well.

You might have already seen or heard of the recycle on Oregon branding featured here at the bottom.

Uh, this was created by the Recycling Partnership, specifically for Oregon's new system, and it was paid for by the producers of paper and plastic packaging and made freely available to all jurisdictions in Oregon.

These materials come in more than 20 languages and offer many forms of customization for different communities across the state.

As many of you may know, Oregon's new recycling modernization act took effect on July 1st of last year, and there are three key takeaways from tonight's presentation.

Number one, it established Oregon as an extended producer responsibility system, meaning that producers of paper and plastic packaging now have to pay into the system based upon how recyclable their products are.

Number two, it established a uniform statewide collection list for curbside commingled recycling, and that means that residents in Washington County can uh recycle the same as those in Malhir or Curry Counties.

And number three, there will be even more education outreach to customers supported by producers, haulers, Washington County, and Twalton staff.

Part of that support was establishing these universal outreach materials and campaigns that can easily be translated and tailored for each community.

Here at the bottom, you can see that both government and private enterprise are working together to implement the new law.

One of the best parts about our job is when we can be out in the community.

Our community partners are an amazing help in connecting us with the people who across Twalton.

And as you can see, this is our list of the annual events we participated in in 2024, and most of them, like I said, are annual, so we do these each year in 2025 was the second year we partnered with Safety Town.

Um, and that's a great uh partnership and amazing opportunity for kids.

We appreciate it because our number one priority is safety.

Um so they let us bring a truck down, the kids really had a lot of questions.

They liked getting in it, seeing it, looking around it, um, and that in-person connection is just very important.

Umalton really enjoy garbage day, as you can imagine.

Uh, most of them do know all three of their drivers, trash, recycling, and yard debris.

And um, as you can see in these uh pictures, we do when we can set up uh little truck parades and stops for the kids on their birthday.

Before you go off of that slide, I don't see on there our holiday light parade, which um you have you have participated in for the last couple of years, which is awesome.

And we love that.

If you saw our electric truck this year, uh Leanne, our operations supervisor, she went above and beyond.

Um we're gonna do that again next year because it looked really really cool.

Cool, yeah.

So I apologize for not including a photo of that.

Um you'll just have to have us back again this year, and we'll we'll be glad to show you that.

Um, because that was a lot of fun.

And both the driver and Leanne enjoy participating in that parade as well.

Uh so and then the annual bulky waste event uh has been very successful.

We have more participants each and every year.

In 2024, we saw more than 240 vehicles bring in almost 29 tons of material.

Uh and this event is also a great fundraising and donation of collection event for the city.

Annual cleanup events in Los Casitas neighborhood are done in participation with the city, and they are well utilized.

Residents of this neighborhood were able to get rid of 3.14 tons of material on September 20th, 2025.

This is solid participation for a neighborhood that has the event each year.

So that's really good participation.

Um we did receive our first electric truck in October of 2024, and we received two more in August of 2025.

The electrification of garbage and recycling trucks complements Twalton's climate action plan and the city's goal for reducing carbon emissions.

There are many advantages to going electric besides the low emissions.

The electric trucks have more safety technology built into them, including 360 degree cameras and the larger windows you can see up the front for driver's visibility.

And again, we really want to thank you for giving us the time today.

And if you have any questions, Cindy and I are always available.

Questions?

Sorry to talk so fast.

Oh, it's good.

Thank you.

It's always nice to see you, and we're glad you're healthy again, Cindy.

Thank you.

Um, so um in addition, uh so I have people in the community talk to me all the time about did you know that you could call Republic Services, and if you have things you want to get rid of, you put them in your driveway and they come and they mush them up into this little thing and they take them away for a great price.

So could you speak a little bit more to that, please, and how amazing that program is.

Yeah, I think what you're talking about is the bulky waste pickup.

Well, it's the I think you compact things, maybe.

It goes into a rear load truck and it gets compacted.

So like if you have a career.

If you have a couch, if you have a mattress, if you have you know an old child's car seat that you can't donate, um, all of those things.

So those are called bulky waste pickup, and for a small fee, we'll come out and we'll pick those because a lot of people don't have transportation.

We have the bulky waste events, which are great, but if you don't have a pickup truck, and even if you do, a couch is kind of hard to move, right?

So we'll come to people's um houses and pick up the bulky waste.

Yeah, and I've heard people like kind of getting together in their neighborhood, putting things together, and so I just I think that's such a great service that I guess I wasn't aware of, and I just wanted to be able to raise that up here, and of course say thank you for your I think you also participate in the big truck day too.

Do you not participate in that?

Yeah, you need to shoot your horn.

Let's do that.

I know we try.

I know.

I'm teasing you, but we anyway.

I just wanted to say thank you for for all you do.

Yeah, and and as far as that sharing too, like the recycle plus program that we have, we really encourage people like maybe you don't have enough um plastic film, you know, but you can share with your neighbor, so maybe your neighbors gets the little purple tote, you know, and you just split it with them or something like that.

So we want to definitely encourage people, helps to keep the cost down to share, and bulky waste is a great way to do that too.

Yep.

Council Rice.

Just some curious questions.

Um I did try to go, I was off on a it was a holiday, and I tried to go and drop off some like stuff at the uh at your location, and it was closed.

So you're not you're not open on holidays, and I think that would be a good idea.

Is that am I correct?

Because it was on a holiday you were trying to go there.

Um yeah, because um I didn't work yeah that day, so I think it was like a Monday or something like that.

Yeah, and we were closed for a while because of the road construction.

We were closed for several weeks because of that road construction because we had all every truck, every passenger vehicle was always going in and want one entrance, and so we are down to only one entrance, and so we had to close it because it wasn't safe.

So it might have been during that period too.

But yeah, some we are closed sometimes on holidays, even though our trucks run on holidays except for Christmas and New Year's um or Thanksgiving in some cities, but uh yeah, we might have been closed.

The depot might have been closed, but it also could have been due to the construction because there was a spell where we were closed.

Yeah, other than Christmas New Year's, it should have just been it's probably the road construction.

Yeah.

I just wanted to make sure because it says you're open Monday through Friday and all these, and I didn't I was hoping to go on a it was a holiday, so it just you're you are close on some holidays.

I think we are close, like on Christmas, um, Christmas and New Year's should be the only days that and then like I said, during uh doing that construction.

Okay, yeah.

Um and some people haven't signed up for it, but you can sign up for text alerts, and then so when there are holidays or storm delays, those do go out over text message, but a lot of people have not really signed up for that yet, though.

I like that.

Okay.

Um and the app does have those as well.

Not that you need another app on your phone.

I know we get a phone call too.

Yeah, we don't get a phone gap.

So, yeah, if you haven't signed up for text alert, you automatically get the phone call.

Um again, these are all curious questions.

So um why lids are now you can throw you say you can use you leave the lid.

Why why what what what changed?

Well, the recycling modernization act changed, so they found that they can recycle the lids.

So, like, say you have um I don't know, like a plastic bottle that's not like a deposit bottle.

As long as you keep the lid screwed on, you can keep the lid on there, and then the lid will get recycled as long as it's still attached.

So it was this is part of the recycling modernization act where they did a lot of studies.

They found that they are recyclable.

Um I mean, I don't know.

I think probably for a long time they've been recyclable, but they just they looked into it and they found that they could recycle them.

And we all, yeah, like Cindy said, you gotta crush it so that like when our truck compacts that it doesn't pop the lid off.

Oh but yeah, if if you you know crush your milk carton down and put the lid top on there, because it it's often denser plastic too than the jug or the liquid container.

Okay.

That makes thank you.

I mean, I'm like I say they're just curious questions.

Um the other just because I've been a huge promoter of batteries on your um glass container that it's on your ziploc thing.

Has that improved?

I'm just curious.

And your fires have gone down.

I mean, did you guys because I remember that was a big deal?

Fires, it's a big deal, and there actually is a piece of legislation that's coming up in this short short session.

We'd love to have the city support on that, which is gonna make batteries part of an extended producer responsibility, just like this plastic packaging that we're talking about that went into effect in July.

They want to make it so that the producers of batteries pay into the system so that they can do more education, because really it's about messaging and education that they don't belong in your recycle, they don't belong in your trash, they need special handling.

And so the this piece of legislation uh that will hopefully pass in this short session, um, would help that.

So, yeah, we have seen a decrease in fires.

We have but everything uses a battery.

I mean, it was not an external battery, it's an embedded battery.

I mean, it's an e they're in everything now.

Okay.

And participation's way up.

Yeah.

We're collecting the bigger.

We are getting more.

It's but it's like about getting the message out there.

And so when Travis and I table an events, we try to make sure we bring samples of what it looks like, how to properly prepare them, and we still come across a lot of people that say, Oh, I didn't know you could do that.

And just another um, like I say, just things that I observe uh throughout the year with people that I talk about this.

Um there's a big emphasis in recycle, but I feel like out of the three R's, I know that the one the more one of the most important ones is re uh reduce.

So there is there any like promoting material that helps people reduce or at least think about what when buying bananas and not buy like 20 instead of you know buy maybe four that you can eat.

So I mean that kind of reduction uh helps actually with all the waste though, it goes because a lot of people think about recycle, and so they go and they buy a bunch of stuff because they're thinking, oh, I can recycle this, but the educational part is teach them to reduce and buy less.

So is there any promoting materials or anything that will emphasize reduce?

Yeah, we do talk about that when we're out tabling at events, like just making sure that you're not buying things that you don't need.

Because the reality is is that um to your point, it's kind of like on a consumerism issue.

Um recycling is great for things that we need to buy, but we do promote that, and I think part of the OTR, there is some Yeah, waste reduction is part of like what we do with the county.

So there's promotion on like food waste prevention, like don't buy too much.

The rotten apple camp campaign, you know, try to rotate in your fridge, that kind of thing.

Yeah, yeah, there's like the rotten apple campaign that they did.

Um and so yeah, we we try to message all of that out too.

Right.

Uh I just think of other things that I you know, because people do think, oh, I can recycle later, I'll just buy it.

And the reality is that it it's actually the reduce of that.

Do you really need it or not?

And I'm not gonna like talk to people, whatever they can do whatever they want.

But I just, you know, I just feel like it's good marketing to continue promoting that.

And thank you for doing all the stuff you do with Las Casitas in the city and helping people there with all the bulk bulk uh collections and all that you do every year.

Thank you very much for that.

You're welcome.

Yeah.

Other questions or comments.

Council Brooks.

Thank you very much.

One of the things you didn't mention about the EV is that they're quieter, which I really appreciate.

The weeks that the quiet ones come is my favorite weeks.

And even my and my puppies.

So my question is with is there a place right now that we can recycle styrofoam anywhere?

There is a place that is taking styrofoam.

They do charge for it.

I don't know if they're open to the public yet.

They were trying to get a piece of equipment called a densifier, which basically so styrofoam is like puffed up plastic.

So it lengths needs to get the air out of it.

And I believe they got the piece of equipment.

I'm not sure if they have opened up to the public.

They're called Green Century.

Green what?

Green Century.

They're in Portland.

I know that they were trying to do like a slow rollout because we had some big um more industrial customers that we wanted to take material to them, and they were like, we're not ready for that yet.

So I'm not sure where they're at in that process, but I know that they are taking some styrofoam.

Okay.

So I think I think they are taking it from the public.

Um sorry, I don't know the fees that they charge, but no, no, it's fine.

I just was actually had some stuff in my garage and that other place closed.

And then I'm like, where do I go?

And I haven't been able to find it, and nobody has an answer.

So I'm like, this is my opportunity.

But um I've been using the um the food uh part of the recycle for the green, which is really one of my favorite things.

Um my husband loves our own compost, and but we can't compost everything, and so I really like it.

Um and I don't know if I've mentioned that in here before or not, but I just put everything like that in the freezer until the day of um because I know sometimes the reason why we can't put it in the compost is too sweet, or you know, it's not the right balance and a lot of it'll attract a lot of ants and stuff like that.

So I just want to put that out there in case anybody was looking for a solution for getting that stuff into the green bin.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your work.

I appreciate it, and I see you everywhere.

Thank you.

I do the same thing that you do, especially during the summer, because I don't want to put it out.

My service day is Friday, and I don't want to put it out on Monday and have it be out in the heat.

And so I just keep it in one of those reusable like ziploc bags and put it in the freezer on my food scraps, it's labeled food food, you know, food scraps, and then I just pop that, and it's like a little food waste popsicle.

Yeah, and uh put it in the you know, yeah, and then it's not smelly, right?

And then it's yeah, and yep.

And for that card as well, we also do a free washout every year.

So if you got a lot of organic material cake in the sides, we we do wash them out.

So we'll just swap them out.

Yeah, yeah, we'll swap in we'll bring in a clean one, yeah.

Thank you.

Well, you know, my favorite part of tonight is that you have this nice 15 and a half percent profit, so you're not asking us to increase our rates.

So thanks for making that part of our evening.

It's great for us too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, um, I wanted to thank you for this.

I wondered, do you ever um send them out about the um food compost in the yard debris bin?

We haven't sent it out on the bin, but we uh have gotten with the county we're ordering stickers to start stickering all the carts.

So this the carts will have uh rain resistant sticker on them going through.

Oh, great, because I think uh that's the one where I tell people and they're like, really?

So like no, you really can do this.

So thank you.

And then I want to say to your drivers, um, I didn't realize this, but my husband's retired, and I have a neighbor that's retired, and they yeah, put those drivers, and they're so polite to them.

So thank you for this great service we get.

Thank you.

I do want to do a shout out to your drivers as well because because sometimes when they're dumping the debris, trash will fly out versus them driving off, they get out the truck and they pick it up and that and I see that often.

So thank you for the training to give them a good shout out for all of us.

Okay, great job.

Thank you for sharing that.

Like I said, we do make sure that they're supervisors or we tell them directly if we know who the drivers are, so thank you.

Any other questions for comments?

Go ahead.

One more question.

Um I know clothing uh it's not one of those things that you pick up or do you do that through the recycle plus recycle.

It's part of recycle plus and is that a specific bin that they people can use, or is it um any of the three bins that we get?

So it's an additional service, it's the purple bin.

The purple bin.

Uh the way the purple bin or recycle plus works is that there's a monthly subscription fee of 250.

Um, and that's just have the bin delivered and then have it, and then uh there are two pickup opportunities each month.

Um and so you just call up uh or send Debbie an email.

So once you get signed up, you have our local clerk's contact information, um, and then she'll set you up for the next pickup.

And then it's 1125 uh for each pickup.

Okay.

Okay, so like Cindy said, some people share it, and then if you don't need a pickup this month, you just don't need to call for a pickup.

So then it's just the 250 flat fee.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah.

Other questions or comments.

I just got two quick ones.

Uh one, remind me the cities that you serve out of your Wilsonville facility.

Lake Oswego.

Uh we do drop boxes in Westland.

We do um Wilsonville, Lake Oswego, of course, to Walleton, and unincorporated Clackabus County and unincorporated Washington County out of our Wilsonville location.

And then this one you don't have to get to me tonight.

You know, my little favorite um thing to pick on is the metro uh tipping fees.

Yeah, if you could let me how much money you donated to uh metro and donation in 24.

Great way to put it.

Or are you talking the regional system fee or you talk with the tipping fee?

Because those are two metro fees.

Both both would be good.

I just just so I know how much is going to Metro and I can find out how much.

Again, I don't need that argument immediately, but um, you know, that's one of the mayor's favorite topics to talk about with Metro.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, and we appreciate it.

Because like Cindy said, it's definitely our largest expense by far.

Yeah, it's by far our largest expense.

Uh we did get a reprieve last year, and the increase wasn't necessarily as much as we thought it was going to be.

I was at 5.5%, but as you recall, the year before that, it was almost 12%.

Uh and they do have a 275,000 dollar or million dollar, sorry, million dollar uh facility plan that they'll need to be funding.

So we will see what happens in July.

Um, but we can find out what our donation was.

That would be that's not a problem.

Because it's the pass through that always irritates city council, every city council.

I know that uh it's out of your control that we people don't realize it's going to Metro, it's not going to you, it's not going to us, it's to pay for Metro stuff.

I did have one last thing to say for Councillor Brooks.

So with polystyrene, not to go back on topic, but it is a producer responsible organization item.

So circular action alliance, the pro that's responsible for hard to recycle items like propane canisters and the plastic graph, they do have to address polystyrene.

Uh it's been a slow rollout because California had a temporary ban that went into effect, so the organ was kind of waiting to see if that stayed in effect or not.

Um but they are moving forward, they are funding some densifiers, so there should be some word coming soon.

But part of that law also means that the material has to go to a mechanical recycler, not a chemical recycler, which Agilex and Tiger was a chemical recycler.

And so that's in part why that's no longer around.

To your question, Mayor, did you want just like the part that is applicable to all it?

Okay.

If you can't, if you have that correctly, yeah, we should be able to.

It's just we just need to look at the weight wet uh wet waste tons that we generated and do the math.

Yeah.

Appreciate it.

I just can't do that on top of my head.

So don't worry about that.

All right.

Well, thanks for coming tonight.

Thank you guys.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Uh that concludes the special report section of our program tonight.

Uh next up, I don't see on the agenda, but normally we do any items removed for consent.

We didn't have any.

So then I'll move on to council communications.

Uh, Council Hillier, you had one.

Yes, I was wondering, and I'm sorry I didn't bring this up sooner, but I've been contacted by several community members saying that the um permanent uh prescription drug drop box is no longer at the police department.

And I assured them that that it is, it's probably just the floors being redone.

So I was wondering if Chief could give us an update on that so I can give people a response.

Sorry about that.

Since I helped put it in there, I'm a little bit uh wetted to its status.

Yeah, so that box was removed uh when they removed the flagstone from the front, and and they're still working on the floor, there's still some drying issues that are going on, so it's not been replaced yet.

So tell like hold on to your stuff for a couple months, and just say like that's some like no chief will tell us I know that should be back.

I will put that in my newsletter or something.

Thank you.

I'm sorry to pull you up here and email, but I'm like, okay.

If I don't do it now, I'll forget.

So thank you.

I'll let community members know.

All right.

Other council communications.

Council President Pratt.

Um just because of what's been going on, I've chief.

I wanted to thank you and the police force.

Um, I know you promote the training for de-escalation, and you guys have done the trauma unformed training, and um, I wonder just read it, I guess, like what I wrote, and that your your skills and de-escalation ensure that our community is safe and um you maintain the dignity of individuals you encounter while you're um enforcing the laws and keeping us safe.

So I just wanted to put out a thank you for that and for how our I I see how our community reacts with the police and I I just really appreciate that.

Other communications.

All right, Cindy.

I was what's happening.

I was thinking, sorry.

I move to adjourn.

Second.

Motion is second adjourned to meeting all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye, opposed, it's unanimous.

Have a good evening.