City of Craig, City Council Meeting 9-3-26

Just screw it to the wall and start cutting. Yeah, that's what I would do. It has two ways then.

I'm having to measure off of the windows because the place isn't level and they jacked it up. So if I put it on level, the siding's already running downhill. But when I started roofing—. You're in a whole different world. Yeah, so I think I get a measure like 3.5 inches from the way the window is right now when it was built.

And then just cut around, and then when I jack the front of the place up, it'll be—. That's Hardy Plank, right? That's Hardy Plank. Yeah, yeah, they want a 3/8 gap into the siding, so don't, don't cut it tight. No, no, I'm going to leave— they want huge— that's what they recommend, just on both sides, into every door, window, corner.

That's huge, but that it allows it to Not worried about expanding the trash. Yeah, I'll fudge on the inside of the windows. No big gap on the outside. Yeah, Shawna said she was going to call in and Chanel said she'd be about 10 minutes late, but she's coming. Okay.

My grandma had an old, old something bin, and that kicks off with a conversation. Oh yeah.

Oh, like a, like a mantle clock. Just a little clock. Okay. Oh yeah, like a gold one. Yes.

All right, 6:30. We'll call the meeting to order. Roll call, please.

Mike Kavish. Here. Noa Espinosa. Here. Dennis Turgeon.

Here. Shawna Thomas? I'm here. Okay. And Josh Bennett?

Here. And Chanel said she would be coming, so we will mark that when she gets here. All right. All rise for 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, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.

All right, moving on to open to the public. Care to speak, please rise, say your name. Wendy Hamilton. Um, two issues that I'd respectfully like to address. One is the speed bump on Tanner Crab.

Um, I already wrote a letter, so I'm not going to say too much more about that, but I want to say thank you to, um, the councilmen who make themselves so readily available when we have something to say. I know Michael and Shauna and Maury and Mayor, you were there, and I really appreciate being able to, um, come and say what I had to say and actually took the time to listen. The second thing I want to address is the, the parking near the harbormaster office where they have the sign 7-day limit or your car will be towed away at owner's expense. I know that there's an issue with parking everywhere. We don't have a whole lot of parking, and I know that people take advantage of the parking there.

I know that fishermen park there for— and always have parked there for longer than 7 days. And I know that they use— people use it, we use it, everybody uses it. I know that something has to be done. I know that there's things floating around, ideas floating around to correct the situation. I also understand that there was a notice put in the Island Post and hung up around town, but I personally never saw those notices.

I've talked to a few people, they have not seen those notices either. And I think that if vehicles are being towed away for $400 a shot, that someone needs to take notice and say, all right, we didn't get our notices out. Somehow the information's not going out to the people who need it. I received a text tonight about the water. Saying we need to conserve our water.

And maybe that would be a good way to put out those kind of texts, like for— all right, the sign is now going into effect at the Harbor Master office, and you're going to be towed at your own expense if you don't move your own vehicle. Something to that nature. I don't know who all got towed. I know my stepson Freddie got towed, and he got charged $400. You know, he volunteers a lot of time 3 days a week he's at the, at the, um, at the gym volunteering for the kids, and he does a lot, probably more than 40 hours a week.

And I just think that somehow those people need a little bit of consideration. I'm not asking that y'all eat the, eat the tow bill. I'm not asking that, just that, um, consideration be given and maybe a little more notice. Guess the last thing I want to say is, um, I just really appreciate everybody for being on the council. It's hard to be on a board.

Thank you guys for your time. Thank you. Well, my name is Heidi Marie, and I wrote a little letter type thing, but I made a few copies. I don't know if I—. Yeah, I see there's only 5 copies here, but, um, this is, um, in regards to the, um, communication tower site 2 on, uh, Port St. Nicholas Road.

And so I just want to let the city of Craig know, as well as the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, if any of their members are here. So my husband and I live on Port St. Nicholas Road at roughly 3.4 miles, which is Lot 74, and we have just become aware of the proposal to construct a communication tower behind our house. Apart from the lack of fair warning, if there is such a thing, and lack of communication to impacted homeowners, we must object to this location. The placement of the tower per Zone 2 in the packet, the amended packet, places our home essentially beneath that proposed tower. And we are not seasonal residents and we live here year-round, and so this proposed tower not only lowers the value of our property, but more importantly, it reduces the quality of our life here.

So all you can— you can do your searches for health effects of cell towers, and cell tower radiation has been thought to affect health, people's health, either through DNA damage or risk of cancer. As always, there is still debate on these issues, but why would anyone want to take that chance? And I certainly don't want that. So perhaps we would like to propose that that site, Zone 2, be discarded and no longer considered. If a second tower is absolutely necessary, perhaps a different location could be found that would be farther away from existing home sites.

So I, I would suggest that anyone in the situation, like anyone here who would be in a situation having a tower built in their backyard, effectively would probably feel the same way. And so, um, another thing that I think might be a problem is that people out on Port St. Nicholas probably have no idea that this is going on, because I certainly didn't up until 2 days ago. So, um, please take into account our concerns and please pursue options perhaps that would not entail building a communication tower for people where people live. So that's all I wanted to say. Thank you.

Please state your name.

My name is Kathy, and I'm here because somehow I missed the May meeting where there was discussion about speed bumps. And I guess they're called humps because they don't really look like speed bumps. Um, I'm used to speed bumps when we travel. We drive across them. The speed bumps I'm used to are very wide and sloping.

And they don't cross the center line. There's space on each side of it for emergency vehicles to go on so that when they're transporting people or getting to a site, they're not having to bang bang over the speed humps that I saw on Tanner Path. So I oppose this style especially of a speed bump. It goes completely across the road. There is no way for an emergency vehicle to safely get across the speed humps.

And I also ride a bike almost every day, and these speed humps completely go all the way across the road. There is no place, whereas like on normal speed bumps where there's space in the middle and there's space on the side where a bike can go past it. So I oppose this style of a speed hump, and I also oppose that just because an entity gets a grant for this, it does not mean we have to do it. I believe that we have— I have a lot of history in this town, nearly 40 years. I would like to see the data from DOT, from the police department, on how many tickets they've given out.

The actual need to place these in our town before you approve it, please.

Um, I think that this style is all wrong. My daughter has a brand new child. She drove up Tanner Craft to check it out without the baby in the car, and it's a drop. It's a hump and a drop. And you've got little babies in cars, you got kids on bikes, These are not the right kind of speed humps.

If we're going to put in speed humps, put the right kind in. We do not have to put these in. I oppose them for other reasons. I haul my boat out all the time, you know, I have a rickety old car, I don't need to be banging across the road anymore and having more damage done to my vehicle, but Ultimately, it's for my pleasure of riding my tricycle because I had a knee replacement. I don't ride a two-wheeled bike anymore, and that's going to be extremely difficult.

I'm going to get high-centered on that hump. If there was a bump like you see down south, I could go around it, but I don't think we really need them in this town. I would like to see the police department give us a really great report on how many tickets they give. I'd like to see some lines going across to see how fast people are going, get some data on this. And I really appreciate you guys stopping just the, you know, misuse of placement of these when you guys didn't even approve Hamilton Drive in the first place.

And please do not go forward with this until you get some citizen, you know, whatever you want to call it, whether we vote on it or what. But please don't move forward on this, you guys. I really implore you. So, um, other than that, yeah, just lots going on, but this was a big one to me, and I was really surprised. So thank you very much.

Yes, please state your name. I would— a few things I want to talk about. I do represent Lincoln High Day because of Alaska and second vice resident, and this land you're talking about is a sale between two private entities. And, uh, we reached out to the city and tried to buy land in the city where one tower would work for communication tower, and it didn't pass the vote of city council. They didn't want to sell a piece of land to a tribe.

And, um, but maybe they just didn't want the tower in there too, you know what I mean? When you going to want upgrade in your town? What are you going to do when this tower fails? How many people have landlines? I'd just like to add that this is, this is under reading the correspondence.

So we had all got this at the same time as you. There has been— this is their public outreach, so everybody knows what's going on in the community. Um, so at no point in time has the council have any direction on this. We're, we're informed on this packet as well. So, um, and, and, uh, you know, um, secondly If, if this city doesn't want our entity being the Craig Tribe to keep improving our town, just let us know and we'll, we'll move our monies elsewhere.

It gets real simple real quick for our tribe. We have a vast area we can live on. We have 2 people complaining about speed bumps. I've got numerous calls about the speed bumps. To me, it's a great safety thing.

There's not one sidewalk on Tanner Drive. Where are the kids walking? They're walking on the pavement. Which was brought to you by Craig Drive. We are in the process of installing, getting monies for sidewalks.

Craig Drive Park is built at R&M Engineering. The amount of people that fly by our senior center is unreal. I believe a speed bump by the senior center would drastically slow down the people traveling down Hamilton Drive. So that's the thing, you know, if you want to complain about what we do We just won't do stuff here. I mean, people worry about us doing too much.

We're here for our town, you know, that's the bottom line. We do a lot for our youth. We donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to our youth. It's crazy how much we donate to our youth. Um, this other item I want to talk about tonight is the rates for water sewer.

So looking at your city website, every time my water meter clicks, I get charged the same amount for sewer.

So as a subsistence user, this year I processed around 80 sockeyes. Usually I do maybe more, maybe less. I usually put up a dozen kings here, halibut. The water I use out of my garden hose does not go down my sewer, and I can tell you how many times the city has ditched the area where I live in the past two decades—. Zero.

So there's been really no improvements in the drainage other than the sidewalks and the drains that I put in. So how are— how am I going to be fairly compensated when I'm using water that I'm not using down the sewer. And I could probably speak for a lot of people who subsist. The tribe gives out 20 stock tanks per household. A lot of them people use water that doesn't put on the sewer.

So you're billing me for something I'm not using, something that's not going down the sewer, right? Well, something I'm not using the sewer. Yeah, yeah. Now it happens with big leaks in the city as well. And yeah, we have a formula for that, but that is a—.

But you could base the formula on a yearly basis, you know. And why do I pay 4 or 5 times more in July and August than I do in May? You know, it's harvest season. I mean, we're using a lot of water, but that's why That's my final comment. I'll pay my bill.

Yeah, nobody's actually— I've never, I've never even thought about that, honestly. That's the first time I thought— I use that, I run my hose just like you do, taking care of fish at the house as well. I never thought about that. And it's tough to take, you know, today I was in the post office and got, got cursed at pretty harshly.

Yeah, that was a popular one, and, um, we'll continue more outreach and planning and all that good stuff and more community involvement. The two streets that were approved were, you know, right, you know, there was concerns. So, um, but no, I definitely appreciate it. Definitely appreciate everything you guys do. Anybody else?

One other comment. I just like to say I personally appreciate everything that Clive does for our island. The sidewalks, the kids, the work that you do. You're out there, you stick up for our town. So I just want to say that.

Thank you. This wasn't about—. This was about the kids. It's the highest density of kids in our village. Yes.

And I know I lose friends over a freaking speed bump, but it's come to that. Thank you. All right, any more hearing from public?

All right, thank you guys for coming and being involved. Um, moving on to consent agenda. Motion to approve consent agenda as written. So moved. Second.

All right, moving on to reports. City officials, I'm here if you have any questions. There's a lot of—. Listen to the public comments quite a bit, day and night. And, um, yeah, anybody need anything from me, I'm here.

All right, I've submitted a report for this month. Um, please let me know if you have any questions. I have a couple updates or clarifications I'd like to add. Um, they're in the employee handbook section of my report. I am nearly complete with the draft.

I do want to get that into a working session, however, with council so I can detail my thoughts behind it instead of just putting it in a package and expecting you to vote on it. Um, so that may come up again, uh, later on in the meeting in terms of like scheduling a working session, but I think that one I'm gonna have to hold off on before I can explain, um, all the very— all the minutia that I have in there in terms of changes, um, and talk it through. Second And, uh, I will be out of office next Tuesday and Wednesday, FYI, um, and again for Southeast Conference. That's the end of the month, starting on the 28th, going through the 2nd. So I may actually either need to come back early for the PACAP meeting or work something out.

Uh, third, unfortunately, I received the letter of resignation from our planner Ivy. Um, last week, as you're all aware, I texted everybody.

Um, we did have an individual come into the office yesterday looking for a potential position with the city, and he has previous planning experience. So I'm hoping we can get that filled relatively quickly. Um, probably not until November in his case, but we're also looking for other options there. Um, so we really appreciate everything Ivy's done. The city.

It's got a lot of hard work and without a lot of support at times. So thanks for putting up with us for so long, and we wish you well.

And then, um, the last— a lot of these issues that we keep coming up with really revolve around getting the word out to the populace, and I feel that's a— that's an area that I could work better at. And improve.

There was ideas like billboards, you know, the electronic billboards. I don't know that the text is going to really solve the problem, but it's a continuous issue with a lot of the complaints and a lot of the problems and a lot of people just not knowing what's going on. And, uh, that's going to be one of the two highest priorities between that and the memorandums of understanding between between the corporation and the tribe coming up in this next month. So, you know, I'm gonna double down my efforts on that one because it's continuously causing some issues. So, any kind of questions regarding that or my report?

Yeah, you mentioned Powhatan. Is something going on there? There's a meeting on the 2nd of October.

It's mostly that I got to shove a lot of it onto the Chamber of Commerce, unfortunately, based on my schedule. But we at least got the conversation started and they've taken up— taken the ball rolling on that one. It's going to be in co-op. So you're going to have an in-person meeting? Yes.

Okay. Do you— is it just— do you think it will just be a meeting, kind of a re-establishment meeting, or will you have an agenda of items?

Sure. So, um, Maury's been busy, so Karen Peterson, who was there at the very beginning of Pow Wow, has just agreed to chair the meeting. We're having it October the 2nd at noon at the Klawat Council Chambers. There will be a potluck that the chamber will host, the first potluck. After that, hopefully someone takes it up and does the next one.

We're hoping for quarterly meetings at least. Would be nice. Monthly meetings are great, but quarterly at least. And then transportation, I believe transportation is the first thing on the agenda. All right, well, thank you for helping out and picking that up too.

It's, uh, the roads, you know, anybody that drives around the island anywhere, just about between Craig and Kewaakw, it's not bad. Anyplace else, there's shortcomings in almost every highway and And so I think transportation is a high priority right now. It's not just the roads, but it's the postal service, transportation, the shipping, all that. But roads are—. They need attention.

Thank you.

Any other questions? So has notices gone out to all the entities that were involved before? For the Pow Cat? Yes. Um, again, Karen, I believe, sent those out.

Did you send them out? Karen? Yes, I did. Okay. And they're also being in the process of more.

And I, I talked to the Co-op administrator and she's going to attend, and so there's some local attendance for sure.

Maury and I had—. Mr. Governor Dunleavy reached out to us and actually had a meeting with Mr. Dunleavy and Governor Dunleavy and Prince of Wales and Wrangell qualify for what's called an Opportunity Zone. So that's something that's going to have a lot of money thrown at it here in the future and was just wondering what our needs in roads and water— I mean, we got our list, we hit them with our list, but there's potential to be coming to the island. And checking out Prince of Wales, and Maury was trying, reached out and invited him to the Powhatan meeting because they're going to have all the entities on the island at one time.

So yeah, might be some opportunities for Prince of Wales, but we'll see what those opportunities are.

Maury, I'd like to say one thing. I remember when they used to say that John Bull Island had been tell the truth. And, and your, your reports are excellent. I don't think it leaves anybody to wonder what's going on with the city. So thank you.

All right, thank you, Marty. More questions? Moving on to Kimber.

I don't know if she was calling in or not.

She also didn't get a report in, so I'd be happy to forward anything at least. Um, and post that to the public. If she does get it, I would love to look at it. All right, thank you, Maury. Rebecca.

Um, sorry, still reading. So tomorrow is the last day for folks to submit their declaration of candidacy if people want to be in, run for anything in the election coming up. I've not received anybody for school board yet, so we do have 2 seats in that, in that race that need to have somebody for them. Um, my next question: coming up, we have the endowment presentation, uh, September 17th. I have reached out to, I think, most council members and just put that on their radar if they're going to be able to attend.

That will be here in the council chambers over Zoom with our representative. And then November, December, do we want to hold two meetings that, that month, those months for the holidays? There tends to be a lot of travel, school out, um, gets to be a conflict. So do we want to hold two meetings in December? Let's see what that all entails.

We may have a new council at that point in time. All right, sure we won't, but while we go one But I will be— that I will be out from the 16th to the 25th, so of this month. Um, no, that said, that's Nashville. I'm gonna learn how to line dance. So yeah, so then, and then Southeast Conference after that.

I'm still picking my dates.

All right, so I won't be here for the second meeting of September, okay, unless it's on the 15th. No, that is this— that's the 17th, and that's when we're going to have the—. So I will be—. Yeah, I will be out on that. Okay, okay.

And I'm—. If anybody has any questions, I'm able to answer.

All right, thank you.

Ivy. I submitted a fairly big written report. There is a lot that I've been kind of trying to neatly bow together, and I've been working with Karen, Maury, and Becca all on— I updated my job description. It is now 7 pages, no longer 3. Um, I feel it encapsulates a lot of what I've done in the past 2 years.

I've really appreciated everybody's support and leadership. I know between city staff, Public Works, council members, Planning Commission, Karen, the mayor, everybody's really been helpful. It's been a fun ride, that's for sure. Um, with the harbor parking, I'm sure that's going to be a very good question. We have to have preliminary site plans.

Um, I've been trying to figure out this R&M thing, and short of a lot of people having a lot on their plate right now, they're aware, we are aware, Karen is aware. She's going to be stepping in. She will be getting my emails forwarded to her and sorting them to show priority for Mori. Um, I believe that this will be hopefully a seamless transition. I'm trying to not leave the city high and dry.

Um, 90% of our maps have been sorted and organized in a fashion of one or another upstairs in my office. Karen will continue that organization. There will be a master sheet I just would like accessibility to be present for everybody. I think the community needs to know what's going on, the council, the city staff, and that's my main request is oftentimes maps. So I wanted them to be grab-and-go.

They have sleeves on them, sleeves are titled with the most information that the map has. So if you take one, please put it back. Please do not damage it. And over time, I know Becca will be getting them scanned in.

Um, short of that, we got power to the heaters, and they should be getting installed here soon. Um, that is being operated under a grant that I've been utilizing.

I've gotten a DEC report about lead and asbestos contamination. So that we're working on in-house, um, and we'll wait for grant funding to remediate quite a bit of the contamination. Um, and thank you. Yeah, I really appreciate you guys giving me an opportunity to figure this all out.

Say thank you. And if you need a letter of recommendation or anything like that, feel free to reach out. Definitely appreciate it. You've done a lot, and it is a lot. Would you recognize that?

Your job is about 3 jobs. You've done great. You did a good portion of it, uh, stirring the ship without somebody here for a long time, and totally appreciate it. Thank you. Wish you definitely the best in your endeavors.

Questions for Abby? Last question.

Shoot, Josh. Oh, I heard the parking. I heard it, so I'm good. Yeah, yeah, Josh, I heard it, so thank you. All right, moving to Fire EMS.

Uh, James is Still out of town, I believe. James got a caribou. He's successful. I got the biggest picture with the smile on his face. I told him if you're successful, send me a photo, and he's a happy camper.

So well deserved. Yeah, I need a late report. I can have him submit that and send it with the financial ones. Did you want to give it? I missed that one.

I know, terrible.

All right, Mr. Mayor, I submitted a written report. Um, be happy to answer any questions. Just two things to add to my report. We were able to get rid of one of our derelict boats today. We were able to haul it up to the landfill, get rid of that.

Um, it's a little sad, it was a 1927 troller, so it's a piece of history, but, um, it's gone now and it won't sink in our harbor. The other thing is Sean Seat had a dive company from Ketchikan come in to put foam billets under their drive-down float. It's a company I used to work for, actually managed the business for a while, and I was able to have a conversation with them. They're going to stay an extra day and they're going to help us put some foam billets under some of the floats in North Cove, and we had some of those on hand. We had enough for what I think will take to help level that area out under the ramp, as well as a couple ends of some of the floats.

So we're going to be working with them tomorrow. So happy to answer any questions if anyone has any.

Thank you, Lon.

All right, moving on to Chief. I submitted a report and be happy to answer any questions.

Nothing really much to add, just staying quite busy.

You don't get a break, that's for sure.

I do have a question, Mr. Mayor. Um, Ely, was—. Were you—. Were you—. Was— were you in your department, or was that going to fall back to the planner for engineering for the future design of the police department?

Uh, it would go with kind of combination of both the PD and the planner, as far as like the design. And now, because the biggest part of it, we have the location, you know how we want the structure of the police department, the jail, its layout, as far as hopefully anticipation of other entities maybe coming back into Craig that worked out, having space available for them, that type of entity.

Okay, thank you. Thank you, RJ. Oliver, how it works in facilities, submitted a report, and we'd be happy to answer any questions.

Yeah, I know this isn't the city's issue, but, uh, school started, you know, we have crosswalks that haven't been painted. I've had concerns about that expressed to me, and it's, you know, it's fair, it's a fair concern.

Um, last year council members did the same thing to me. I called the state and they came out in pretty short order and banned them. So I can do that again, maybe reach out. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, I reached out as well.

I don't know if people noticed, but the west side of AML, the school lights haven't worked at all. Yeah, so it makes it very problematic, you know, to catch certain speeders. I mean, if they come out by Wells Fargo and they turn left and they don't see that flashing light, and You come off cold storage, you should see the one that is working. Um, so those are the ones that we've stopped and addressed. But, uh, I'm not going to issue somebody a ticket if I can't go into court and win it.

Yeah, we're sitting at right now, uh, Michael, stop people, tell them to slow down, but issue a ticket— if they go into court, I'm going to lose it. So we haven't issued any tickets, but we've stopped a lot of people and we're trying to get the word out as best we can, that even though the light's not working, school is back up and running.

A couple— it's a pleasure being like going to the Clark City Council meeting one time, and the one thing I said that helped a lot doing the old highway audits with kids was that, uh, that speedometer that tells you how fast you're going, that slows down a lot of people through school zones and stuff like that. And I, I feel like when they— that did help because they had that roundabout coming in and out of that hill and nobody was slowing down around there either. And sometimes that visual, you know, flashing line, they're speeding up too fast, is one of the— one of the good deterrents for, you know, school zones, those type of congested areas.

But yes, we'll make sure the state's on that. I was just going to comment, I mean, they are very, very spendy. I would love to have one, but yeah, save the kids to schools.

They have that Safe Streets for All initiative, so we can reach back out and have that I'll send an email to Grace in the morning and see if it was part of the grant.

Uh, Mr. Mayor, I do have one, maybe two questions for Oliver. Um, I know this is kind of— I asked Mori a while ago, when can we post the garbage truck, the rear loader, and be done with it? Yeah, Mori asked me the same thing, um, about a month ago. The garbage truck was in Tacoma getting an auto greaser installed. And I still have not received a ship date when it'll be on AML in here.

So, you know, that, that's kind of my, my kickoff point right there. I've received some values for that. I'm pretty ready to do that. Yeah, but, uh, you know, I, I would hate to jump the gun, and it'd be— I mean, I mean, it's It was promised to us in a year when we purchased it. That was about a year and a half ago.

So, um, I wish I had a better excuse, but I, I'm doing the best I can. And, uh, that's kind of the kickoff point is when I know the truck is going to be here on site. We've had a few conversations with Sean C. about how we manage that, you know, and we're still a little bit conflicted. Are we going to put 90 new cans out? Are we going to put dumpsters?

Are we going to combination of the two. But we'll—. And that'll— that's—. So that's going to bring in public comment too, you know. When that happens, be ready for that and just know we're gonna roll with it and figure it out.

You know, we don't really have an answer. Our plan may not be that great. So when that happens, we would, uh, we would be able to— you know, Maureen and I have talked a little about going to an auction. I, I don't know if an auction— I bought a lot of iron in my life, and auctions aren't necessarily the way to go because you kind of pigeonhole yourself into a value if somebody lowballs it. So I would put it out, you know, to, uh, our procurement policy may require us to make a special accommodation to sell it.

Is—. I—. If Kawak wanted to buy it, our procurement process would require us to— Kawak does not want to buy it, by the way. We've talked to them. But for example, if they did, our procurement policy would require us to put out a public bid, and there's timelines and that type of thing.

So if I was to come in and ask for a, you know, or Morgan and I were to come in and ask for a special sale of that to somebody on the island, you guys would have to vote on it, and we would do that. So that'd be the preferred method. I have had a little bit of interest from the community of Pelican. We belong to a society that deals with solid waste in Southeast. They've shown a little bit of interest I understand that.

But that would be my first route, would be— we belong to a society called SEASWA, Southeast Alaska Solid Waste Association, and it's everybody in Southeast that deals with garbage. So there, those people all have garbage trucks and services and landfills. And so that would be my first. And I've floated the idea a few times already, so hope that answers your question. And then the last thing I don't know how much the city would have to really budget for the city morgue, the new structure, other than maybe conduit and maybe a service panel or, you know, power, you know.

Um, are we talking about a gathering structure? A gathering structure? Yeah. I, I think that it was well stated that several individuals, including myself, would be willing to go down there and put some time in there. Uh, Morty and I have had a meeting about— I gave him a thumbnail budget for what it would take to recreate the, um, gathering structure that's out at the ball field, 16 by 40, that's out there.

Grass on it. We, we could carbon copy that, local materials, or slab. I've, uh, I didn't get it to him in time for his memo, but we've, you know, we've kind of created a budget for that. It's about $31,000 to $32,000 ballpark for materials. Yeah.

If we made us— if we put a slab down and basically facsimile of what's out of the ballpark.

Thank you all. You're welcome.

Dawn, I submitted a written report. Um, something to add, the teen bonfire happened Um, since then went over really good. We had 25 to 30 kids there, ages 13 to 18, so all the way from middle school to seniors in high school were there. They had a lot of fun. They immediately started asking, when are we doing it again?

So let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you, doing a great job.

Aquatic Center. And he did submit a report, and I'd be happy to relay any questions. I do have something to add. She was, um, she does have prepared an argument for additional staff as they are unable to do like open swim for the kids and things like that without having some additional staff that are qualified and certified onboard. So that would mean additional hires.

Um, thought I'd put that in the packet for the next time, but I'm happy to circulate that around as well beforehand. I'm gonna get the polls ready to open full bore. I guess we start looking at full steam ahead, right? On the whole, as soon as possible, staffing and getting open to the public just like it was before with the amount of staff that was approved before. I'm sure she's gonna have a little tough time on— she has a few irons in the fire, but there's certs that come with some of that stuff, right?

So there's some shortage of certs, but yeah, absolutely. She has some people in mind and she'll have a staff. Yeah, yeah, and get it open for the kids, get up there and do some open swims.

Any more aquatic center? Moving on to Stephanie from the library.

She also submitted a report, and I'm happy to pass any questions.

Just like to acknowledge, she acknowledged one of the staff, Niva, that, you know, retired. And it looks like that person was really committed for, you know, 10+ years. So glad that she acknowledged it. Thank you, Niva.

All right, thank you, Council. Thank you, staff. Moving to reading of correspondence.

Southeast Conference heat pump flyer, just a heat pump incentive from Southeast Conference. It, uh, anybody can apply for and get funds, um, depends on your local income on how much they, they throw in there, but it is a heat pump incentive through Southeast Conference.

We got a ski bump letter from, from Hamilton and Teenage Tower proposal.

Nice question. And the Teenage Tower proposal going in town is I'm assuming that's private property. And the one that's outside of the city of Craig, I don't think we have much standing. That's what I was looking at, right? That's on Five Mile Hill, right?

And then you'd be cutting across on the hill to be up above. In the packet it said 3.4 miles. On the site map in the packet though, it shows the city water plant, which is at Five Mile. It shows going up the hill and cutting across, or no? The picture is not where the water plant is.

Okay.

The only concern from the— well, I mean, there's multiple concerns, but, um, one thing we were going to look into was proximity to the water and the water line. That could be a potential showstopper for them, but we need to do a little bit more homework. So are you—. Are you talking about the tower equipment? Right.

And is it being considered at the water treatment plant or farther out from that? It's unclear on their letter, so that's why I wanted—. I need to look into it a little farther. Okay. Can I say something?

Yes. Um, to be clear, if this This is from Dowell looking for commentary on potential effects on historic properties and cultural resources. This is not— so there's not a pinpoint anywhere out there? There's—. There—.

Well, this isn't like how we did it last time. Yeah, it's not an application just yet. It's okay. Yeah, this is, this is just a notice to the public to show what's going on. It's, uh, I mean, of course, I think it's out of city limits.

And, you know, and it's owned by corporations. The only thing the city has to do is with the road and the right-of-way out to the water plant. So, I mean, we would love to have everybody outstate Nick join the city and become City Linux. And, um, that would be— that's a great idea. I'm glad you guys brought that to us today.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I love a challenge. So, yes, can I ask, I mean We're all kind of gonna pucker on this because it kind of got sprung on us. Was there like a timeline to put this in this agenda instead of waiting to the next? There was a 30-day comment window.

Okay, 30-day comment window, but there was somebody that was out of town for a time period and it took us a significant amount of time for them to get back to us. This is being brought to the water treatment plant operator because this is looking like it's behind the water treatment plant, and he would know. They've got a little verbal right there, but that's from Google Maps, and we're better, and it's not where the water treatment plant is. But I mean, Dave has worked there for what, 20-plus years? His dad worked there before him.

You want to know that little house that's on the uphill side there? That's my house. It's lot 72. That's miles from the waterfront. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, that pin is wrong. The pins are wrong on the Google Maps right here. Oh, okay. Constantly. And so if it is being considered up there, I have a whole different view.

I see what you mean.

Right where Sean Seeps' bubble light is out there, there's actually an old road that used to actually go up there from where that rock pit was. That's been closed out for a lot of years because it's closed up now with alders. But all right, any council comments on— a lot of reading to do, clarification and I'm glad they brought it to us for comment and get involved. That's what we do, get everybody involved and see what's out in front of us.

Okay, moving on to consideration resolutions and ordinances. Resolution 2614, Clowak Dispatch Agreement. Move to adopt Resolution 2614. Second.

Open for comment. Under Section B, it says radio monitoring and officer safety, uh, for the co-op officers. And, uh, B2, it says monitor and document co-op officer transportations to Craig's jail facility, transportation duration exceeds 5 minutes, Craig dispatch will conduct a status check with the transporting officer.

You know, it's highly unlikely any trip from Kawak to here would be 5 minutes, so do you anticipate that you would just check in during all transports? That's what Kawak wanted, for that specific verbiage. Okay. If over 5 minutes. It's the policy that has existed since I first started here almost over 20 years ago.

Anytime an officer is doing anything interacting, if it goes more than 5 minutes, there is a code that is sent out to the officer to make sure that he is okay, he or she, and they acknowledge. If they don't acknowledge, there's policies in place that you try a different frequency, you try their cell phone. Number. That doesn't work, then you send out another officer to make sure that the person is still okay. It's been done since— the history has been done since the new chief came on board over there.

Yeah, but evidently there might have been one that was like 5 minutes and 10 seconds, and he wanted the verbiage in the agreement. Okay. I just—. Even though there's language that says that they have to follow the communications policy of the Craig Police department just like we do, and it's basically— it's welfare check every 5 minutes. Okay.

All right. Yeah, it's— I would have to give Maury credit because he went above and beyond what I would have. I mean, I— if Maury wasn't here, I wouldn't sign anything that they proposed. I'll put it that way. And since we're being recorded, I'll be nice.

I, I personally like this. This took 3 years and we got it in a couple of months. Thank you. And this is good to have a final agreement with Room to Grow. Yeah, any more discussion?

Roll call, please. Josh Bennett? Yes. Shanelle McKinley? Shawna Thomas?

Yeah. Jen Georgin? Yes. Millie Scoville? Yes.

Michael Kempner? Yes. All right, thank you, Council.

Josh, you're dealing with your papers again. Everybody who's watching can yell at you.

That's the one thing, shuffling of papers, everybody's like, I can hear here until people start shuffling the papers. Moving on to Resolution 2617, City Council Meeting Policy and Procedures. Second. Open for discussion.

Pretty thorough. Yeah, good job. Thank you.

No discussion. All right, I think this is great. Reading through it, you know, it clarifies or it reminds you of a lot of procedures that we— you know, it's easy to— I don't think there's— I know there's not an intent to short-circuit a process, but it's easy to do in a small setting like this. And so this reminds you of the proper process. And it makes everybody aware what the proper process is also to the public too.

So when we're doing stuff and we have meetings, we got a lot of people here and following the 3 minutes and we're doing all the guidelines of, you know, the reasons why we, why we do it and just what every municipality does for the most part. So no. All right, I guess we will go with a roll call. Okay. Michael Kempich?

Yes. Ellie Scooter? Yes. Shannon Churchland? Yes.

Shawna Thomas?

Yes. Chanel is absent. Josh Bennett?

Yes. All right, thank you, Council. Moving on to unfinished business, we got the Chop Shop lease amendment.

Move to approve Chop Shop lease amendment granting $2,500 credit on each of the remaining 4 years of this lease. Second.

Uh, I, I moved to postpone this subject until we have more of a clarification, and I have a couple of recommendations for the council to look at, and it needs to go to the Planning Commission. I don't disagree with this, but there's several things, and I think it's Title 10 and it's 18 in there 16 and 18 that need to, need to clarify that we can do this. And if we change the code, then we'll be in the right precedent. So I, I moved to postpone until after Planning Commission has reviewed and approved, which is, I think, probably a month or two. Because of the calendar.

I mean, this year is already paid for, so next lease payment won't be until January. So January— so March, we do have time. March. Yeah, yeah, keep paid in March.

Mr. Mayor, may I have statement? So Title 18 is up to the Planning and Zoning Commission to alter, edit, and they bring suggestions, as you've seen under consent agenda. Title 16, however, is not.

Um, we did have about 3, 4, maybe 5 months worth of Title 16 meetings every Monday night when I first started here, and we went through it in great depth. We had somebody that had a wealth of knowledge, and we did what we thought was best. If there are edits, I highly suggest that it— it makes sense to put it out there. It makes sense to make it clear. Um, Title 18 is not finished yet, uh, not by far.

There are some things that I've been informed of that should not be in there, um, just because they're voided. Nowadays. So, um, the next meeting is October 22nd. The Planning and Zoning Commission also did ask that if anybody has recommendations for edits in Title 18 to come to the meetings and address it. It's hard for them to make these decisions without knowing the root cause.

They're very, very present bodies in the community, and they care about the community, but if they don't know what the objective is, then they don't know how to meet the needs.

Um, so that's just my statement. Title 16, I believe, is up to you guys. I would have somebody double-check that, but Title 18 is up to Planning and Zoning Commission, and I do respect you guys for making sure that line stays pretty solid.

I'm good with that. I'm good with that. Okay, to postpone. I see it accepted.

Yeah, it's unknown what date, you know, maybe December. October 22nd is the next planning commission meeting. Remember, this is a substantial amount less than we were talking about before, the $10,000 compared to the $30 $4,500, $8,700 a year. Yeah, we just received a beautiful letter after the fact, and from a member in the community that stated that we need a fixed code. Well, no, that's, that, that's fine.

I was just, uh, we, on this one, it was a, it was a $10,000, which we had talked before. It was a $34,000, so it looks like you guys have come up with a dollar amount. So, um, it looks like we are going to kill this until further notice with the Planning Commission.

All right, all those in favor? All right, thank you. Moving on to speed humps installation.

Spare, I did submit a memo discussing the, the issue around the speed humps, um, highlighting that they were approved for Tanner Crabbe and to click and hide. However, some notice went out for Hamilton. We rescinded that notice, but I wanted to bring it up for further discussion and direction from you guys. Um, there are— I received several days' worth of phone calls both for and against the speed bumps. Um, so I, you know, I think we could go back and look at location.

We could do additional studies. There are various options. I just want to know which way to go, um, from your perspectives. Go back to the drawing board on a study. Do we go ahead forward with Tanner Crabbe, that DNA They're kind of crowded teenage streets.

Um, how would you like to proceed? Didn't AML— weren't they here doing a safety audit in the community here a few months back? Safe Streets for All. Yes. Okay, Safe Streets.

Yeah, so, so they were here, um, this year and they've done a safety audit. We got some that they're still working on. Yeah, they got some good information on, but, um, ask her about speed, apparently.

Mr. Mayor, this is Shawna. Yes, Shawna, go ahead. Um, I go on Tanner Crabb Court at least 3 or 4 times a week to go see my son and my dad, and I have a small car. It has no impact on my car whatsoever.

I didn't feel like it was in a bad position. Other, you know, if— I don't know if it would need to go further down, like closer to the beginning of the street, um, for people that are going to the ballpark, or just to slow people down when they turn the corner.

I personally I mean, this has been advertised for months that we were going to put in speed bumps on Tanner Crab Court, on Lincoln Heights Street, and on Hamilton Drive and East Hamilton Drive.

The council approved Lincoln Heights Street and Windy Way, right? Not Windy Way. Lincoln Heights and Tanner Crab. Lincoln Heights and Tanner Crab. Sorry, I'm sorry.

Mr. Mayor, my only point of discussion is the— I believe the placement of the current speed bump is in the wrong place. I've lived on Tanner Crab since like '09, and I lived further up at one point. And what I say is, it— there's a, there's a point in Mrs. Hamilton's letter where it is on a downhill slope and and it will probably gain ice, but they will be removed during snow. But it should have been placed right in between Jose and Christine's in that corner, because even myself, I've come around that corner, and since Mr. Cook has stated there's no sidewalks, there's no bike lanes for, you know, individuals, The kids are in the street and that's the blind corner where people need to slow down before they go up the straight stretch. And I've had some close calls with kids.

That's the only issue I see with this current one. I think it is for the kids. If we could have more conversations with the CTA, maybe we can get sidewalks. Porterville looks amazing. If you guys haven't been up there lately with the lights.

Sidewalks and lights. Um, I, I would be glad to ask for more.

I just, you know, I guess we should have canvassed the— I don't know if we did that, but we probably could have canvassed residents of those areas just to see what they're feeling, or, you know, so we get a full perspective of interests, or those, you know, in support or those not in support.

I guess— I have one other question or comment. Can you please clarify, was this under the direction or recommendation of the Craig Tribal Association? Did the city approve certain areas where these would be put, or it was just granted that the Craig Tribe can place them where they thought they would be best suited? If I went back on the recording, I would say that when it was proposed to the council, I recommended getting together with Oliver and RJ and Carter and they could get together and look at the locations that they needed to go. And those two locations that were approved in that meeting by, by the council, I would be pretty spot on to say if you went through the recording, that was what was suggested.

Yeah, the talk in the— during the approval meeting was that our— that Oliver and and Carter coordinated locations. One concerned citizen said, you know, there's offsets and we want to make sure that we're abiding by, by streets regulations as well. So, um, but yes, it has, it has sparked a lot of discussion and emotions in the community over this. Spent a lot of days answering phones. Um, Oliver, you have something?

Yeah, just, you know, these things are hard to pinpoint. I mean, even if we could have got an engineering report done and put it there and then got all the community, you know, feedback from the community, and, and maybe the best choice is to move it down, right? You know, so that's— I just like to say that tribe does a good job, you know, doing that kind of stuff. They— I believe you have sidewalks for Tanner Crab, correct? I mean, it's in the planning phases, but you know, they— there's— sometimes you don't get it right and we got to adjust it.

And that would be my comment on that is, uh, you know, we got a lot of feedback. So as soon as we got the feedback, we talked to the— we talked to Carter and said, all right, we'll hold off, let's come up with a better plan. And that's really where we're at, you know, feedback drives it. So, you know, people think it needs to be moved, that's great feedback, we can try that. You know, they're going to be removed so we can plow.

They are removable, so that's the good part. And so we can put them back in a different spot. I don't think the tribe would be reasonable to move them 100 feet if we had to put them back, right? I don't think we amend it. No, I don't think— I know our engineer did look at it.

You know, they do all the speed data more than anybody. So, so now I think the chief's happy with speed bump. My comment would be we can make adjustments. Yeah. So here, here are the community loudnesses.

And yes, we do have preliminary design on—. Yeah, likes to Uh, we can get lights. Yeah, I mean, if I may, Danny Capri, he built them. Yeah, he's out here in Klamath. No tie anymore because it's not scanning them, but he loves the street lights.

If I could just comment from the enforcement side of it, Tanner Ave is probably— that and T&H Street is the two hardest locations to work radar. Safely because there's, there's just no way that I can position somebody unless I go clear up to the top. Um, and then logistically, yeah, I've been short an officer for over a year. My code enforcement guys have been tied up to a dispatch, and so I don't have the convenience of being able to put somebody out there every day to work radar. Even like East Hamilton, what I call South Hamilton, Hamilton over by Pinetetra, West Hamilton And if I had the time to sit on any one of those streets, I could write tickets all day long.

We get complaints on those two streets weekly.

It's a matter of prioritizing certain things. You know, we've unfortunately had a lot more elevated crimes this year, the felonies that require so much extra follow-up. You know, the unfortunate deaths that we had a 6-week time span. But, um, it makes it tough. A speed hump does probably 90% of my work to get people to slow down.

And as far as— I mean, I've driven up and down Tanner Crown. I had to leave town, and when I got back— so I wasn't here when it actually got put in, but I heard about the feedback, so I went out there with my truck, and I have no issue going over back and forth, whatever. The ambulance— I haven't had the opportunity to be in the ambulance and drive over, but if they go over nice and slow, it's not going to cause a problem with the patient or anybody in the emergency response vehicle. There is enough room on each side, um, for a two-wheel bike to easily not hit the speed bump. Yeah, a three-wheel one, yeah, I don't see how that's going to happen.

But I mean, if you go over it slow enough it's not a problem. And I think the whole key thing is West Hamilton, East Hamilton, is get people to slow down. I mean, it's— that's what it boils down to. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely.

Mr. Mayor, I just— I wasn't going to say anything, but I need to. I'm a lifelong resident of Craig. I remember when Craig was very small. We didn't have the issues that we have now. I've watched this place grow.

I've been with the city for 27 years. I've been with the tribe much longer than that. Everything that the city does, everything that the tribe does, the number one factor is safety. Safety. Those speed bumps went in because of safety, because we have little kids on both streets.

I live on West Hamilton, and in the spring and summer when there's baseball or any activities out at the ballpark, I mean, I've been outside working in my so-called yard, and my husband's been out there, and we had to holler people doing at least 40 miles an hour, and there's kids walking both ways. You know, we just don't dream this stuff up for somewhere to put speed bumps. There is a purpose and an intent behind it. So this evening I'm feeling very frustrated because I feel like we're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't. Um, both councils work very, very hard for the safety of our community.

Um, I've watched Parks and Recs grow. That has really helped our youth, and we really appreciate our youth center and all that they do for all ages. So I'm just feeling very frustrated, and I know that you can't please everyone. And I'm one of those people, I have a hard time with change too.

You know, we had public meetings at the tribal hall in regards to the cowards, you know, and we're— and I don't get me wrong, I understand both sides of this issue. We all know that we live in an electronic age, and if those towers go down, we're dead. We're dead in the water. The grocery stores can't use their tills. We can't use our partners.

You know, we're dead in the water. So we do need to keep up with the times. I just had to get my two cents in. Sense out there. Thank you.

Thank you, we appreciate that. This is the—. This is—. Excuse me, excuse me, you can be— yeah, um, uh, this is the one time I think somebody in here said it and hit the nail on it, you know. This is the city and the tribe trying to be proactive instead of reactive.

We are reactive so many times in this community when something bad happens, but as we start looking at proactive solutions to problems that are in the community This is, this is what the councils both— and both councils got beat up alike. It wasn't a city and CTA, it was the city and CTA doing something in the community together. And we're going to see a lot of that coming up. We've got a, we've got a lot of— we're building new bridges, we're getting over the past. And, um, and we're not doing it to spite anybody, but public comment is a huge thing in every step of the way.

And just keeping people informed And so those two locations, when I seen the CTA coming in through two streets that they're prominent on, I, you know, felt that they had done their due diligence, and that was what swayed my decision on— I didn't have a vote, but was, you know, was that those speed bumps went on those two streets without a huge thing because these guys already had their discussion on to go in those streets. The other streets were going to come with a lot more discussion in the community, um, you know, just outreach and, you know, as well as the streets that they're on. I think safety is a way that we're— things we have to look at. And if it wasn't for the kids, I think everybody in this room wouldn't live here. I think that is what we have.

Without our children, we don't have a community. Without our schools, we do not have a community. All these rural areas in Prince of Wales Island Without those kids, those communities would fail. And if we stop looking at what we can do for our kids, this place will be a retirement community. It already is going that way, but we have to be here for the kids and the safety.

So instead of yelling at somebody, you know, at a public place, come to the meetings. The people who are here come to the meetings, I applaud you because there's times— the only time we have people come to the meetings is usually to express heavy concerns over something that has been discussed, um, before. But that's all I have to say.

I wasn't going to say anything.

Any more discussion on speed humps?

Getting EMS and fire involved in this as well. I mean, speed humps are— they're great for the kids, I totally believe that, you know. They need to know what they're getting into before an emergency takes place and they get addressed with it then and there, or trying to be proactive, not reactive. Yeah, there was no discussion on Hamilton or those areas, but the areas that they we had people involved in, in those decisions. I had conversations with EMS and fire about speed humps, and they're in favor of even more locations.

Do they? I understand that, but I think you said the ambulance hasn't gone over them. How? I said I haven't been— okay, ambulance to go over it to be able to give in person, but I mean, I could easily— I could do that tomorrow. I mean, I just, you know, yeah, but I mean, my truck and an ambulance going over that little speed hump, um, there's not going to be an issue.

Okay. All right. We got the call, we went out and drove it that day. Fire chief is on my staff, 5 of the EMS guys are on my staff. We haven't heard of— I haven't heard anybody yet.

So sweet. Thank you, guys. All right.

No more speed bumps. We'll move on to new business. Well, do you want to— we're proceeding with Tanner Craven, 2-inch. Is that the decision? I would like— personally, I'd like to see all other proposals, like where they're going to be.

Go ahead. Or, or all of the proposals, even the other 2 suites they're asking for. Okay. Um, and, and maybe If council members are interested, we can do a walkthrough. See, right there— no, not right there.

I, I, you know, I think maybe putting, putting something up before the speed bumps get there, ribbons, you know, that people can visually look and go see where they are. But, um, right now the two roads that we're talking about are the ones that were approved by council. Um, we're not ready to discuss any other areas in town. We'll probably them, uh, town hall meeting, get people involved, get people, you know, discussing it. But the two areas that they're— that were approved by the council is what Mori's looking for direction for right now, if any.

Well, I would like to see the other recommendations for Hamilton's—. Hamilton Street, Teenage Street. No. Yeah, well, we already approved those and they haven't asked for Hamilton, so I'd like to see that. Right now everything's on hold.

So yeah, the two that— the two that the council approved, they're hold hold them off on Intelligent Council direction, um, because of the outreach from the community. So, all right, so, you know, Hamilton is a small street, but if that wasn't part of the approval— I mean, sorry, TNH is a small street, but if you— I do go, I have family on the street, and there are people— it's not necessarily up, it's down, and you'd be surprised within 3 houses of this highway, how fast people can actually take.

Logan, we are talking about Teenage Street. You know, we do have a water problem at the end of the street. Um, it's probably going to need to be dug up and a French drain put in there. It is a safety hazard because when it freezes in the winter, it's, you know, you can slide right out the road just from drainage. Same with Tanner Crabbe.

I spoke with Oliver Tanner.

It's, it's pretty, it's pretty interesting because I'm there every winter and it's, it's, it's, uh, Oliver and I've spoke about it and maybe a French dream. So there's something in there, a spring.

I need to get the DOT's number to reach out to him directly because the storm drains are still having it pumped out by them. Now that since they haven't been pumped out down by the corner of, uh, Tyler Reynolds, uh, the two storm drains coming down the hill are— they got grass going down. They're so plugged because that one is plugged up, is plugged up those other two drainages coming down, coming down that hill. I noticed that when I was looking at the streetlights, uh, a couple of days ago. And I believe if we actually tried to clean those without cleaning the downstream ones It would be pointless.

So I think that they, they need to kind of take responsibility for why they are cleaning those other ones, that we have them take care of those ones on that road as well. But back to the— back to the speed bumps. Yes. Um, what I'm hearing is we want to continue with Tanner and T&H streets. I'm a little vague on location relocating.

Um, I think that one of the directions was to relocate it, the one that's currently installed. Um, I'm happy to continue forward with that until we have time for the additional streets, or table it, or whatever you guys would like. The only thing I got to say about relocating is what's the date that they get pulled, you know? Are we—. Terms of like, yeah, you know, are we waiting is it gonna— it's gonna start getting chilling off now.

So if we have any precipitation, then it's going to freeze. So I don't want to move it if we're going to move it within the next 2 months. Personally, I think the model was if it snows, we take it out. Oh yeah, less of a seasonal thing. Yeah, more of a reaction to— I might have done it.

Like I said, Josh might pick a date like our snow, you know, like our studded tires. I mean, knowing that November comes, it could start snowing. I can do that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's a great, great idea. Change it to the state studded tires requirement and then they get pulled.

Okay, because they don't want them getting chewed up anyways. So just leave it, go ahead and put them down, and then if they look like they're in the wrong place, we can deal with that next season. Is that kind of Because we're not done in placing them. We have the one down, but there's more, I think. I don't know.

We could do the whole town. Do you want to make a motion?

Currently, this is a recommendation. So if I may, we were thinking the entire day, right? October 1st. Yeah. And believe me, the pumps will do more damage to your stuff than the guards.

And just so the council's aware too, the commissioner every year changes the entire days by statute. September 15th. They, um, but I mean, I've seen them extended out to October 15th, so it varies year to year to year. I think it's mandated in Anchorage, they got to have 30 accidents before everybody puts their snow tires on, and they're like, hey, it's snow tire time. We put the plow and the sander on our dump truck, which limits it from working on about October 15th, so that any of those days would work.

Awesome. Perfect. The council all agree? Yes. So what is it?

What are we agreeing to? This agreeing, probably moving forward on— well, since it's a recommendation, just want to, uh, moving forward on the two streets that are approved to the council.

Um, I move to change the removal and install to follow with the state requirements for studded tires install and removal, continuing with the already approved.

No, we'll ask you to repeat it. Yeah, can you—. I move to continue following with through with Tanner Crab and Teenage Streets with the previous motion and remove and install on the state requirements for studded tires, whatever dates they are.

Second. Second. We discussed it. Any more discussion?

Roll call.

Michael Kettledge.

Yo. Lacey Goodover. Yes. Jen Trosden. Yes.

Charlotte Thomas.

Yeah. Josh Bennett.

Yes. All right, thank you, Council.

Move on to EMS Co-op Craig MOU.

Community Gardener Policy Approval. There we go. All right, moving on to that.

Mr. Mayor, the only thing I see— it was nice for them to You know, put a date to the beginning of the season. I like that. The only item I have is, is this a city-maintained bank account? Who holds the funds? Where do these funds go?

This is funds that the chair, vice chair, secretary at large members have, or, you know, This is the state proper— or city property. This is— should be a state— or sorry, city, city account.

I can answer that. Um, so I think what they were thinking was they wanted to pay all those fees into their own account so that they could then spend it on the garden and it didn't just go to the general fund, was the idea that inside their policy. Just a point of order that there wasn't a motion on the floor for, for any discussion. Oh, this is only update, there is no discussion. There's no discussion.

Yeah, there's no motion to be made on this, this is just an update. All right, update for no discussion, no action is needed. There's no action needed, just I mean, that is, it is a good question. It's an appropriate question. I hadn't thought of that, but it's city property.

How does the bank account work? And I don't have a problem with it, but just what is the proper way to do that? You know, the problem, I mean, depending on what they're, if they, what they're going to qualify under. I mean, are you guys looking at, I mean, like your EIN under because I mean there's certain— we kind of— doesn't like fire EMS, they have accounts that are associated with the city, but they manage those accounts in order for that stuff to go right back into the fire hall and EMS. So we already do that.

We have— now that we know, we have oversight on those counts. Um, so, uh, but it also qualifies them for funds that we're not qualified to get at times. Um, or do things that we're not qualified to do because it's not the city's. So this committee is under Parks and Rec, right? Yeah.

So I would imagine that it would— Parks and Rec comes out of the general fund. Yeah, somewhat. Yeah.

But it's a good— I guess most of the money that I was told that has been put into that has come from the community members on the development and the beds and, and everything like that. I'm not interested in putting their dollars in the general. Yeah, I'm interested in the clear— yeah, management. Yeah, yeah, not having something get away with us, like away from us, like has happened in the past. Yeah, don't want any surprises, or I'm thinking raffles and stuff like that that the MSU, that the city don't do.

Um, that, that's this type of qualifications that they had, that, that money went into their account. Um, it took me some digging until I realized that we actually had a say in that account. A couple of years there, but it's totally didn't. So we figured all that out. So it could be something like like that, you know, structured like that.

We haven't set up the account for them yet or anything like that, so we're just— we're into—. I would definitely have a follow-up. Yeah, that's my only question. You know, we can start an account.

Can I ask what action do you guys want from the committee so I can pass that along? Uh, I think Lori will just work with me and Kimber on setting up the account and oversight over that. Okay.

That's exactly what I was going to ask for, just some kind of protocol for the city, you know, so we're informed and we have some kind of idea how the process works. Right. And wouldn't they have to come up with policy and procedures when money is involved? Yes. Yes.

And then it would have to be approved probably all the way on this end. Yes. So it's, it's something that we should look at. That's okay. Yeah, yeah, it's not a bad thing.

What they've— they've done a lot of— everyone's done a lot of work, and I'm happy to see that they have this community active. Everything's great, it's just small stuff. Yeah. All right, thank you, Council. Moving on to EMS MOU, Pollock and Craig.

Sort of James and, uh, on our side and Anna on the other side, nobody had any issues with the MOU as projected.

We move to approve Memorandum of Understanding for Mutual Aid Emergency Medical Services Assistance between the City of Craig and the City of Co-op and to authorize the mayor and the EMS coordinator to execute the MOU on behalf The city of Craig. Second. Open for discussion.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes, you are all reserved. Good housekeeping. Uh, roll call please. Josh Bennett.

Yes. Chanel McKinley. Yes. Shawna Thomas. Yeah.

Jen Trojan. Yes. Millie Scudder. Yes. Michael Kent.

Yes.

All right, thank you, Council. We want a letter to Kewlock Island Adventures.

Here's the draft letter, you know, you guys asked for from the last meeting, the strongly worded letter to KIV regarding use of our trails and, you know, potential for fines. And I've got that in there. Just looking for concurrence or edits to that before submitting. I talked to Mayor Eden Shaw a little bit. Um, her position is that we don't— they don't have to send anybody to the City of Craig, but I gave her a heads up that we were going to be sending her a letter so she didn't get blindsided.

There's plenty of people in the city that would be happy to not have tourists visit our city, but others make some money off of that with tax revenue, sales, so I mean, to me, this letter just clarifies what we had understood the agreement to be, and I agree. But I also, after this last issue, I think they just— they know that they just need to be reaffirmed that, hey, remember, it's you guys we have a lease with. And I mean, I thought that they responded well. They acknowledged it and had a talk with the out-of-compliance vendor. I thought they handled it well.

One thing you have to remember is we're liable. That's city property. So I like it. Okay. All right, good job, Warren.

Thank you. Moving on to City Harbor parking plan.

Put this plan together. I'm more interested in opening the discussion. Um, I didn't need an action from you guys, but I wanted to open this up. Uh, there's other parties that probably need to be involved with it. I just want to vector check on whether this is a good idea.

If you guys feel like we should move forward with something like this. Clearly it's not the final plan, um, it's going to require some surveying and some additional work before we can get to that point. But, um, bringing it to you so you know where I'm thinking, um, on the paid parking issue or the parking issue in general. Um, let you chew on it, let me know what you think.

Yeah, I mean, I think it would be fair to request feedback from the Harbor Committee on this too, and that's kind of what they're supposed to be helping us with, these kinds of things. So absolutely, I think this is something that's going to probably take a lot of, you know, at least a few public meetings and discussions about and seeing, you know, our more direction of seeing this is going to be a huge huge feat. We've already been writing tickets. We start throwing meters up and deciding how to figure out how we're going to charge for parking and enforcement and all that stuff. It's all great suggestions.

I—. You did a great job. It's, uh, gonna be probably a little more outreach than— absolutely, yeah, it's probably gonna be like a 5-year plan. Yeah, this is not coming tomorrow. This is going to need some, uh, community buying, I think.

If anybody comes up with something and they have a good idea to add before the next Tower Group committee, I'm able to get that in front of them. Let me know, my door's open. This is public too, so if anybody wants to look at the packet and see what I've submitted, then please Happy to get into it.

All right, thank you, Lori. Moving on to Planning Commission. We have 2 letters of interest, recommended to appoint both of them. You want to appoint both of them in one motion? That'd be great.

Move to appoint Sherilyn Zilhuber and Barb Stanley to Planning Commission. Second. All those in favor? Aye. All right, thank you.

Council comments?

Motion for adjournment. Oh, Mike, go ahead. Yeah, I just want to say, you know, if there is a project, uh, you know, I've brought this up numerous times before and I, I continue to see the issue. The seams in a lot of our streets are very clearly degrading and they will start breaking up with the freeze-thaw cycle in the winter. There could not be a better project for the tribe and the city to work together than to seal these seams with hot oil and tar, keep the water from infiltrating there because once they start breaking up, we've seen down at the cornering down here.

Then they, they grow in a hurry. Yeah, I had one family member who hasn't been here a while, and he walked the streets since he had a bunch of free time, and he said, just said, you've spoken, you guys need to start doing something. Beach Road is very close. And he said a couple other things. Where's everybody at?

But it's— we were gifted those roads. We, we're going to lose them.

Um, the thing from Mr. Jordan, Mr. Jordan, is this just information? It was comments for the, the tower. Okay, actually, Mayor, I do have one question to this. The, the KRBE radio, radio tower station was never approved there. It was approved in one location and it's still there.

The, the amount of oversight that we run into, and then an entity can just put it in a place that let alone the cell phone tower, a big stink. And now we have something that was just placed there with no ask from the council. Is—. It should be a power where we all agree. Yes.

And, um, when that arose, it was almost like another incident that happened really quickly. Um, our guys were being proactive And, uh, when they heard the issue, they were like, well, this was a temporary— and I talked to KRDD and I said, yeah, we did not approve that, um, and you can't put it there. We have a, you know, we have to move the, the call-out siren, um, and it looks like— yeah, um, and he said power really didn't work, and we— and it was like, so I've been waiting for this but I think their next proposal was to put it on the, um, the old boiler building, that the boiler— where the boiler was, and abandoned. Yeah, yeah, I have an email from them said it was going to be 3 weeks. Yeah, exactly.

And I mean, yeah, and, uh, yes, that's our tsunami evacuation site. And well, when it's in need we're going to need that, that whole mountaintop. Well, I mean, then yeah, like, yes, yes.

So let's follow up with KRVD and see where they're at with, um, because I asked them, I heard rumors that they were like, oh no, we can't put it until we have backup funeral home. Like, what? Wait, now what kind of pressure would you like me to put on here? I, I would just, uh, I've got him on speed dial as well, um, but I would, I just reach out to him and say, what are you guys' plans? We need to know them, you know, ASAP, because, uh, yeah, we need this resolved.

Move to adjourn. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Right on.

Thank you, Council. 8:05. 8:05.