The Valdez City Council met on October 21, 2025, at 7:00 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting covered routine consent agenda items, approval of a community jail contract, reconsideration of a Parks and Recreation Commission appointment, a discussion on the disposal of the former Pipeline Club property, adoption of three ordinances, approval of three resolutions, and council business including a request for a revised CSO application from the Valdez Avalanche Center. The meeting also included a city manager report and ended with a recess prior to executive session.
Hello, Reggie. Hey, Olivia, can you hear us? Yes, I can, thank you. I just can't see you all. We can see you both. So we'll get started here in just a minute. Thank you. Great. Thank you. So next item is public business from the floor. So if anybody has public business from the floor, please come up to the podium, state your name, and you have five minutes on your topic, not agenda topics, please. Next, we have the consent agenda. There's three items on the consent agenda. We have approval of amendment one to the care management service agreement with Personify Health. Number two, approval of exceptional use agreement for the Valde Civic Center by Aliesca Pipeline Service Company. And number three, approval to go into executive session regarding discussion of implications for city revenues and litigation strategy regarding Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Advilum tax issues, discussion of ongoing escape property legal issues, and discussion of local regulation and assessment of oil spill prevention and response property. Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed. Aye. We have six yes, one absent. Mayor Fleming. Consent agenda passes. All right. Next up on the new business. We have approval for FY 2026 community jail contract with the state of Alaska. Do we have a motion? Motion to approve. Second. It's been moved by Councilmember Devon, second by Council Member Lally to approve the FY 2026 community jail contract. Any council discussion on the item. How about uh council member green or council member foster anything? No. Right. Um, I will I will just say that I and I find it unfortunate that we were that our funding was decreased and there wasn't a lot of information on why that was happening. But otherwise, nothing other than that. Thanks, cancel council member Foster. Um I have a similar, I guess, comment in that regard. You know, I think this is something that you know when we go down to Juneau and uh talk with our representative, we have Representative Raucher here tonight and uh talk about increased jail funding across the board so that um we can help the you know offset those costs for the operations that we're providing. This is definitely something that we've been uh advocating for for the last few years with Chief Hinkle, and then we'll have hopefully with Chief Kalen as well, came as well. So yeah, something to add to the uh lobbying efforts, I think. Hey, did you have anything? Uh no, I was just gonna say it's uh it represents a status quo contract. Uh, there was some discussions about uh Department of Public Safety taking over the electronic monitoring program. Um that is still included in this contract. Uh just being frank, it's impractical for the state to manage that program for the cost that we're doing it for them on their behalf, and so I think they kind of saw that and said let's continue to include that in the contract. Um as it relates to the cost reduction that was that budget in and of itself was reduced, and so it was essentially a across the board reduction for all the jail contracts, as far as as far as we've been told.