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Mayor Jason Brown called the meeting to order at 5:00 PM with six members present (Council Member Grayson Stone excused). The meeting began with a moment of silence for the victims of the August 1st tragedy. The council unanimously approved the consent calendar, several action items, and the preliminary budget for FY 2026-2027. Public input addressed the weekend tragedy, surveillance concerns, and community needs. The meeting adjourned at 6:24 PM.
Eight citizens spoke during General Public Input (not including public hearing):
Good luck. Okay, I'd like to call to order the August 3rd 2026 meeting for the city of Twin Falls. I will confirm that we have a quorum. We have six members of the City Council in chambers tonight. And Councilman Stone is excused. We'll move on to our Pledge of Allegiance, and any of those that would like to participate in that, please stand. Thank you for that. We'll move on into our invocation. I will uh note tonight we will not have uh the invocation um tonight. We we wanted to make sure in uh light of the events that happened this weekend uh we changed that to uh to a moment of silence, and uh we'd appreciate everybody observing a moment of silence for uh the events that happened this last weekend, yes. I appreciate your willingness to participate in that with the city council. I will address this, obviously, uh, the events of this past weekend have shaken our community. It's uh very difficult to uh continue to move on as is business as normal. Um, but that's those are the way that we have to move forward and uh rebuild the situation. Also, want people to remember that emotions are still high, still very close to the surface. A lot of uh individuals in our community are still grieving and suffering. And uh at some level, we're all humans, we're all have emotions, we express those in different ways. Um I really do um appreciate this community. I am so grateful to serve in this community and see the response of individuals from our police department, Chief, your group, Travis, your office, uh, Chief Brooks, your office. I know that there were other individuals that I won't continue to name that uh stepped up. There's numerous accounts of individuals in our community coming to the rescue and the aid of others along that way. And it it makes me proud to serve as the mayor of Twin Falls, knowing that the community uh when tragedy tragedies like this occur can step up and rise to the occasion. We may not always agree on how things run, how things move, but I do know one thing that we all have compassion and we all have understanding is events like this happen. So I really appreciate our departments and understand again the motions are raw and and things uh you know we'll will pass on, time will move on, but uh I know that this city will never forget the the happenings on August August 1st. So again, thank you for everybody that responded, Chief. Really appreciate it. Again, as we as we continue to move forward, as we continue to talk about the budget and the and the uh the business side of what we do. I want to make sure that everybody, again, as we have over to the last little while. Make sure if you want to address the council tonight, please um sign in, fill the form out completely, name address the information on the form, and uh at the end of the meeting at the end of the budget, we'll make sure everybody gets their chance to be heard. We'll move on into the consent calendar at this time. Uh what are council's wishes? Move to approve. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar is is written. Any further discussion? Amy roll call vote, please. Ruth Pierce? Yes. Chris Reed. Yes, Craig Hawkins? Yes. Jason Brown. Yes.