radio over there. 6:00. There we go. 6:00. Let's call the Tuesday July 8th, 2025 Farbull City Council meeting to order. First item on the tonight is roll call. Council member Barnes here. Jimuya here. Ross here.
Rowan here. Ben Sloo here. Teal here. Mayor Spooner here. And 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. Item number two would entertain a motion to approve the agenda. So moved. Second. That's Van Sloo and Teal. All those in
favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion passes. presentations and introductions that at the end, right? Yeah. Um, we're going to move on to approval of the minutes. So, June 24th,
2025 and July 1st special city council meeting and July 1st, 2025 special city council meeting close session. Approval of the minutes. So moved. Second. Uh, second by Don Buy. All those in favor signify by saying I
I motion pass. Um number five, request to be heard. Martha Brown, would you like to speak? Thank you, Mr. Mayor and honorable council members and staff.
My name is Dr. Martha Brown. And as you know from your recent work session with Chief Sherwin that cleaning up or banning encampments for unhoused people does not work because it does not solve the problem of homelessness. People can lose their housing for a variety of
reasons including job loss, evictions, substance abuse, and mental health. And entire families can be living in their cars. Unhoused people are people and they're human beings worthy of dignity and respect. Many people in this community are just
one accident or one paycheck away from disaster. So, we should have empathy for unhoused people and not treat them as garbage that needs to be cleaned up. I applaud and really appreciate the efforts of the Farabbo Police to connect unhoused people in the encampments to
resources, but there's more that we can do. I'd like to propose the formation of a regional task force comprised of several for former or current and current unhoused people, local service organizations, governmental agencies,
and interested citizens who would be willing to explore and present alternatives to encampment cleanups. If we all do our homework and approach homelessness with an open-minded heart, I'm confident we can find a more humane solution and one that is respectful and
based on the unhoused community's needs. Heather will email you all some, if she hasn't already, some information that I gathered for resources. Um, and I do want to note that the National Alliance to End Homelessness, um, says that government should not
criminalize people for just being homeless. Um, and there are other, uh, principles that that you can look at, but I'd like to just close with a personal story. The church I attended in Delray Beach, Florida, was run by um,
Alexis, Pastor Alexis, who was amazing. And one day a week, same day every week, she went to the local park where a lot of um Del Rey's homeless people were there showering and just hung out and just talked and ministered to that community. And as a result, we had a lot
of homeless folks attend our church and we got to know them as people. We got to know them by names. We missed them and worried about them when they weren't there. And um one such couple was Rodie and Lynn. They'd been together forever. Rodie worked the boat ramp, helped
helped people load and unload their boats onto their trailers all day long. Um, and we were devastated to hear that one night he was killed when he was hit by a train. But because of that community and connection we had established, we were
able to grieve Rod's loss. He was really a great guy and to provide support for his partner Lynn. So, I encourage the council to really consider what I have to say, do a little homework, and see if we can't do a better job at helping
these folks. Thank you. Uh, we're going to take the information um that Heather's going to send out. We'll talk with staff and everything, and I'm sure at the next uh work session here shortly, we will take it under will hear from us. So, thank you for
showing up tonight. All right, on to item number six, consent agenda items 6A through 6 I. Does anybody want anything? Mayor Spooner. I will make a motion to approve consent
agenda items 6A through 6 I second. Motion by Ross, second by Vance to approve consent agenda item 6 A. I I all opposed. Motion passes.
Public hearings, we have none tonight. Items for discussion. Ordinance 2025-8, vacate a portion of the drainage and utility easement at 190 20th Street Northwest. Director Dave Wberg will give us
Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. Earlier this year, you took action on several applications related to the Mala Auto Body. Uh, one of those was actually a vacation of an existing drainage and utility easement. Unfortunately, one uh
the application uh missed one of the um drainage utility easements that needed to be vacated um and that was caught before we um went ahead and and filed the paperwork and the plat for this. So, we do need to vacate that. Just as a
reminder where this is located, it's really at the intersection of 20th Street and Second Avenue or Highway Three. Um, and the property that we're talking about and why this happened is, uh, Malica Auto Body has, you know, they
purchased the property to the north, the house to the north, and there was a belief at the time that there wasn't easements around that existing house. It turns out there actually was and the surveyor had missed that. So, um we're going back now and and looking at
vacating the easements on that former house lot. Um and with the plat that you've already approve approved, it has the necessary easements on it. We just need to vacate these easements because this is where the new building is going
to sit. With that, the planning commission uh went ahead and recommended approval. So did the DRC and that was unanimous. So we are recommending approval of the vacation with the ordinance that you have before you tonight 2025-8. Um based on the criteria and findings in
that ordinance. Happy to answer any questions you might have. Any questions for staff? I just have one oddball question. The address 190 second street 20th Street. 20th Street. Correct.
If this is on the second piece of property should not it uh you approved a plaque that combined the two lots that you um the two lots that were there. So it's one lot. There's one lot. So it's no access off of
second. It's only off of 20th. Got it. Okay. Mayor Spooner. Yes. I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 2025-8. Second. Motion by Ross, second by Barnes. This
is an ordinance. Therefore, it is a council member Barnes. Yes. Simuya. Yeah. Ross. Hi. Rowan. Hi. Bus. Hi. Teal. Hi. Mayor Spooner. Hi. Back in two weeks for the second reading.
Actually, administrator, we will have a special meeting before the work session and we'll take care of it. the second reading at that meeting. Yep. All right, perfect. That'll be easy. Uh bids, we have on boards, commission
reports and announcements. We have Yeah. Um I will ask uh Rochelle Anderholm Parsh who is our new parks and recck director on her second day of the job to come up and introduce herself. And as she's walking up here, I'll let you know that um we are having a public
open house for her at um Buckham West from 3:30 to 5:30 on the 22nd. So, we'll have a regular council meeting at 6 p.m. Um but hopefully you'll be able to stop by and and meet Michelle and talk a little bit more. Um there's been a lot of uh questions and curiosity from
community members about her. So, Michelle, well, welcome mayor, council. Um, thank you um for this opportunity and um Jessica for so I appreciate it and just wanted to take an opportunity to say hi and I'm
hoping to speak with you all get used to things. It's officially my second day and um I was pretty thrilled that my computer started to work so small steps at this point. Um but yeah, just a little bit about me and maybe you guys know a little bit about this but um I grew up in Alexandria, Minnesota.
Lived there um all the way through went to Fargo, North Dakota, got a degree in park, moved out to the west coast and lived on the west family here. So, we wanted to get back home and really really looking forward to
I can build on what Paul did, which is a lot of really great things. Starting to set up meetings. I'm hoping to meet with the parks board and, you know, figure that out. Welcome, welcome aboard. Y
have some other announcements. Um just as a reminder, tomorrow night is our monthly council chat at 6 pm and it's going to be at the airport. So we're we're going to have some information for people coming out about what happens at the airport because it's often a place that people don't visit. And then just a
few more things to talk about related to um our our taxi lane project that uh you all had approved here recently. Um so please please join us for that. Um it will not be sitdown presentation style kind of be you know more up and mingle
come and go like we did for the the damn discussion. Um and then the other reminder um Dave mentioned the special meeting on the 15th. The other reminder, uh, we'll have an agenda coming out next week for a joint work session with the Housing and Redevelopment Authority here in this room, um, July 21st at 5:00 p.m.
And so, uh, we'll we'll have a lot of information in that packet, which will help direct kind of the the scope of that meeting. So, that's all I have. Tomorrow night, 6 pm, correct? Tomorrow night, 6 pm. Administrator, I'm sorry, I missed the
time for Rochelle's welcome. 3:30 to 5:30. going to promote Paradise Theater is um the play Assassins is starting July 11th and also Concert in the Park is Thursday, July 10th at 7 p.m.
Anybody else? Make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Motion by Duoya, second by Vance Loose to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. We are adjourned.
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