City Council — October 12, 2026

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do this. Don't just be Zoom

or

whatever. I don't usually even have stuff going but...

It's all right no worries. I just want to get it on the calendar so we can start working on it. I'm feeling sick and I was like, don't know. I don't knock on what? Because if I say that, I mean, there goes you all that one week that I literally put out. Yeah. Did you announce this? Please stop. This is a community dinner. It's great, it's great. Great to everybody or just seniors in the family?

Community-wide, do you would like to volunteer? I'm just wondering. Volunteer? Don't look a gift card in their mouth, right?

Sorry Greg could you try one more time.

Sure no problem how are we doing?

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I thought Greg would have come for this one. Very nice.

Hello, Grace. All right, the time. Five minutes, five minutes.

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literally I can't remember anything this week and every single thing is like 7 million passwords and I have no idea what anything is right now. So like things I use multiple times every day and like I have no idea.

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forgot that

they were

out of school.

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to sleep

in at home. How old is your daughter? Can you stay home

alone? Yeah, I took it a month t It's it.

All right, Mr Murphy say something please so I can rest these are we okay now?

Yeah, thank

you. One last thing to worry about here

Before we get started since you have three proclamations this evening, is anyone actually in a time crunch who's like we need to just try to be mindful of anyone who needs to get back on the road quickly or if they have a fear of driving at night? If I can trim off a few minutes for anyone in direction. Great seems everyone's chill. Who drove here the farthest?

I don't have a proclamation for you.

We're going

to stay

for dinner so we're not in.

Great, you have now moved to the back. You will now go SBCAG breast cancer awareness and then domestic

violence. Great! We shuffled a deal.

Everyone

feel good on the tech? I think we're ready

to go.

You guys all good to go to start?

Yeah!

312 is that our order? Correct, 312. All right so

and Mr Mayor we also do not need to have closed session tonight although we will have it in two weeks when I will be present with you.

Okay so we go three one two and no closed session great then we will start with item number three recognition of Santa Barbara County Association of Government's 60th anniversary and I'll read the proclamation then we have our executive director here to receive and provide some comments if In recognition of Santa Barbara County Association of Government's 60th anniversary, whereas for 60 years local governments throughout Santa Barbara County have worked together through a regional partnership to address shared challenges and advance solutions that cross jurisdictional boundaries. And whereas following its incorporation the City of Buellton joined the Santa Barbara County Associated Governments in 1992 becoming the seventh city represented in the regional partnership and building upon a tradition of regional collaboration established more than 25 years earlier.

And whereas the partnership was created during a period of significant growth and change, when local leaders recognized that challenges increasingly extended beyond individual city and county boundaries. And that regional coordination could help communities plan together and qualify for state and federal funding. And whereas over the decades, the organization evolved alongside the region it serves, assuming important state and federal transportation planning, and in 1990 becoming the independent public agency known as the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments or SPCAG while continuing the regional partnership established in 1966.

And whereas today SB CAG brings together all five members of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and representatives from each of the county's eight incorporated cities, Buellton, Carpinteria, Goleta, Guadalupe, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and Solvang. Providing a forum for communities with different needs priorities and perspectives to work together on issues affecting the region as a whole. And whereas Santa Barbara County voters demonstrated their commitment to regional transportation investment through the approval of Measure D in 1989 and Measure A in 2008, providing locally controlled funding for transportation priorities throughout the county and helping leverage significant state and federal resources. And whereas through regional planning, funding advocacy and partnerships, SBCAG has helped advance investments in highways, local streets and roads, public transit, passenger rail, bicycle and pedestrian connections, and other improvements that connect people to jobs, schools, services and communities throughout Santa Barbara County.

And now therefore be it resolved that the city of Buellton hereby commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments and recognizes six decades of collaboration among the cities and county of Santa Barbara to address shared regional needs. Be it further resolved that the City of Buellton proudly recognizes its more than 30 years of participation in this regional partnership We are very fortunate to have our Executive Director from SPCAG, Margie Kuhn here to join us. So if you'd like to say a few words Margie and also a round of applause for Margie she does a lot

Mayor Silva and members of the City

Council, thank you for this recognition.

Buellton joined shortly after

becoming a city and for more than 30 years you have been important part of our regional partnership. Today I want to honor the mayor of Silva's leadership on our SBCAG board. He currently serves as a vice chair of SBCAG, soon-to-be chair hopefully and will be helping lead the board that brings together all eight cities in the county to work together on our transportation issues that connect our communities Buellton is particularly a good example of why this regional connections matter.

A few years ago, we did a study and a close look at how people actually travel throughout our county. One of the findings was that Buellton has the longest commute trips, an average of 26 miles, the longest average commute trip in any of the cities in Santa Barbara. About one in five of those work trips stay only one in five in those work trips stay in Buellton People are traveling throughout our county, throughout the San Yanez Valley and to other communities across the county.

This tells us something important. Transportation does not stop at our city limits. It raises important questions for our future. How are transportation needs changing in Buellton? And what should we be looking at as we plan for years ahead? Mayor Silva and Council Member Mead have started some of those conversations, actually we just had a meeting today about that. Exploring our opportunities for future transportation planning studies that will help develop the city in the community.

We're doing this work in other communities throughout the county especially in North County In the Lompoc Valley, we are preparing to begin a transportation study of the Lompoc Valley including the City of Lompoc, the County of Santa Barbara and Vandenberg Space Force Base to better understand how people move throughout the valley and what improvements should be priorities for the future.

And then in Santa Maria and in Orca, we're doing a similar process. We are working with the City of Santa Maria County and Caltrans on State Route 135 and preparing a comprehensive corridor study that looking at our long-term transportation needs along Broadway and State Route 135. Each community is different. These studies give us a way to understand those differences, listen to the people that live here and use those transportation systems every day and help plan our future together.

We have a great example of that partnership in the San Ynez Valley. Buellton was the leader on this, starting our San Ynez Valley Trail project. Buellton, Solvang and the County of Santa Barbara and the San Ynez Band of Chumash Indians are planning approximately a nine mile multi-use trail connecting all of our communities across the valley. All of this reflects the same idea that brought us together 60 years ago to this month.

Some things simply work better when we work together on them. On behalf of the Santa Barbara County Board, Santa Barbara County Association Government's board and staff I want to thank you for this recognition for more than 30 years of partnership and for leadership that Buellton continues to bring to the region and to the North County and to the Santa Barbara County as a whole. So thank you so much appreciate what you do.

And we will take that. But I just also want to take a moment to thank you for your service, the fact that SPCAG was willing to help us all go out to Washington D.C. and help close that grant that was able to get from the federal government of, I believe 1.4? 1.3?

Okay, I'm not sure which one you're talking about. You got

several grants. That's the first $300,000 grant you've got from the state and then and then the federal grant yes. Well, I really jumbled my thank you on this one. What I wanted to say is it means a lot when the smallest agency in the county that you guys have been willing as SBCAC to go out and put so much staff time and bring those resources back to us. And so I just really want to thank you that as much as you have large cities like Santa Barbara and Lompoc and Santa Maria who you are taking care of, you have really made sure that a city like Buellton's well represented. And so thank you for your staff. We're very fortunate to have you. And I'm looking forward to you guys helping us get this river trail realized. Thank you Margie for always making sure that from the largest population to the smallest population city, you make sure everyone's represented.

So I really want to thank you for your service on that.

Thank you. Thank you appreciate that

and now let's take a photo.

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One, two, three. Okay one more. One, two, three. Great thank you. All right.

And then next up this evening, we'll be moving to our proclamation recognizing National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I believe we have a speaker who will be joining us after I read the proclamation. We'd be saying if you perfect all right so whereas national breast cancer awareness month observed annually in October is a nationwide campaign to increase public awareness of breast cancer educate the public about early detection and regular screenings internal research for better treatments and a cure And whereas breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women, and while family history of breast cancer is a risk factor, the overwhelming majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of the disease. And whereas breast cancer can be diagnosed in women and less frequently in men of all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds, it is imperative that early detection and heightened awareness remain central to our efforts in combating this disease.

And whereas, although some progress has been made in the fight to combat breast cancer, the battle for a cure is far from over. Meaning that there's still a great need for widespread outreach, increased awareness and accessible resources for all. And whereas the city of Buellton proudly joins communities nationwide this October to celebrate breast cancer survivors, support those currently battling disease, honor the many lives lost, recognize the families affected and admire the medical professionals and researchers dedicated to aiding those with breast cancer and striving for a cure.

Now therefore I, Mayor David Silva on behalf of the Buellton City Council do hereby recognize National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the city of Buellton presented this 12th day of October 2026. I'm very honored to have you join if you'd like to say a few words if you could introduce yourself for the audience they know and we'd love to hear what you have to say.

Thank you Mayor Silver and I thank you also council members for that recognition of breast cancer in this serious citizen among women particularly amongst younger women these days. I serve on the board of the Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara County and And I'm here with Pat Nika who you know, I know very well and Pam and her organization. They provide over 400 Meals on Wheels a day to people who need this in this city.

And amongst those are a number of cancer survivors, breast cancer survivors. The Cancer Foundation is proud to be able to help support special meals to those people who are undergoing treatment Nutrition is critically important and often when you are going through treatment it's very difficult to make yourself cook and even to eat, so we're happy to support that. I would like to thank you for this recognition and also the City of Buellton for honoring it. Thank you ma'am.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mayor Silva and City Council members. I didn't know I was going to speak but we are really honored to work with the Santa Barbara Cancer Foundation. They have made it really easy for us to go out and actually individually meet with the families going through treatment And we have a notebook and we go through and we talk to them about what their needs are, how we can help. And then there's they also sponsor a caregiver program. So if the families are going through treatment, a lot of times if you've been sitting either in radiation or chemo all day, you don't feel like going and making dinner or going to the grocery. So they call us. We have salad frozen soups and bread. They come, they pick it up And then they can take it home, just microwave it or whatever.

And then they have dinner so they don't have to worry about that. It just takes one less thing off their plate. But this is the third year that the Cancer Foundation has helped support these special meals and this special program in Buellton. So thank you very much for honoring them and for recognizing breast cancer awareness.

Thank you and I do have a question for you. We both get to have the sad privilege of being in the honorary group, of being affected by cancer and for caretakers and anyone out there if they are in need of support or if they were wanting to utilize these services where would it be best for them to reach out so that they know like who should they contact if they need to get this?

So they can contact the office at St. Ann's Valley Community Outreach and then they will be directly directed to me. I probably have the most experience With cancer nutrition and cancer treatment. So, and I take it very personally about going out and helping and working with our seniors out there. And the curious coming, and I'm not sure if everybody listening in the council knows this.

But the pink ladies here in the Sandy valley was able to raise the 2M dollars to put a multidimensional mammogram in our Sandy Nass Valley hospital and the radiology department. And that sounds like a little thing. For me personally and my family, if that had been here 11 years ago. We wouldn't be we would not have been as informed about this journey it would have been is very easy to early detect and so it is amazing that we were able to do it and get it here in our small valley to have a multi dimensional mammogram machine is incredible.

So thank you. Thank you.

Just giving space for anyone to have any comments before we invite them up for photos. Are we all good for a photo? Okay, would you both be willing to come up and take a photo with us at this time?

Priscilla's on our board of directors. I like your pink.

One, two, three. Thank you.

There we go. Our white balloons kind of stay down. Thank you.

Now we will do our recognition for recognizing domestic violence awareness. And we do have, I believe from the domestic violence group. I don't know what your full title is today. Domestic Violence Solutions will be here to receive that and make a few comments if you'd like. So whereas Congress designated October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in 1989 and the 2026 theme, With Survivors Always calls upon communities to move from awareness to action by centering survivors' voices needs and experiences throughout the year. And whereas Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention month provides an opportunity to honor the courage and resilience of survivors and recommit ourselves to creating a future in which every person can live free from fear and abuse, in which relationships are rooted in respect and which homes are places of safety.

And whereas Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County, DVS provides comprehensive support to survivors throughout Santa Barbara County including emergency shelter, a 24-7 crisis line, housing support, counseling outreach and prevention with the goal to help survivors move from crisis towards safety and stability. And whereas each October to October DVS hosts its annual brunch, which center survivors voices and features former DVS clients who have chosen to share their experience advocate for themselves with others inspire hope among survivors throughout our community.

Whereas standing with survivors always requires sustained community investment in the services, resources and opportunities survivors need to build safe stable futures for themselves and their children. And now therefore be it resolved that the City of Buellton recognizes October 20-26 as Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month and encourages all residents to stand with survivors raise awareness promote healthy and respectful relationships and help Santa Barbara County be a place where all people promote zero tolerance of domestic violence Thank

you for recognizing October's Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Prevention Month. My name is Tina Buellton, I'm the Director of Development and it's an honor to work for this organization. This year's national theme is With Survivors Always and those three words may seem very simple but it's an enormous promise we're making. With survivors means we're not only dedicating to someone whose life should look different for them. We are here to listen to them, believe them, respect their choices, walk beside them as they determine what safety healing and independence may mean for them.

The always reminds us that support does not end in a moment of crisis because leaving is not always the finish line sometimes it's really just the beginning It can be the beginning of finding safe housing, of rebuilding financial independence, helping children find security again, counseling or healing. This is why DVS is there in moments when somebody as courageous enough to make that first call. We have a 24-7 crisis line that's answered by one of our nine advocates.

We are there through counseling, housing support, advocacy, employment, financial wellness and countless of steps it takes the moment someone decides to leave. But perhaps we're most importantly there for what comes next. We watch our former clients return at our brunch and other events where they now become advocates. They use their voices to help someone else.

Some have taken the stage at our annual brunch which was actually yesterday And they share their own story. This is what with survivors always means. It means that we're there in crisis, but we're also there for when somebody's ready to rebuild. Domestic violence is not something one organization can solve on its own, it takes all of us. The leaders in this room today are law enforcement, service providers, businesses, neighbors, families, community members choosing to believe survivors support them and work towards a future where violence is no longer accepted.

And today with this proclamation that is just part of the commitment To anyone who's listening, who may need help, maybe worried about someone they love, may even just have a question. You may make that first call today or your fourth call or your fifth call. We're always there. Domestic Violence Solutions has a confidential information and crisis line again available 24-7. Somebody answers that call. The number is 805-964-5245. You can also find us on bvsolutions.org On behalf of our staff, our board of directors, our survivors and the families we have the privilege of walking alongside. Thank you.

I just want to thank you for being here because directly behind you Pam Niko has dealt with a lot of our domestic violence cases here in the Valley so it'd be great to make sure you two can connect since bringing these resources to our valley is really critical for us and I thank you for making the trip here tonight. Any questions before we take our photo? Ready for your

photo time? Thank you. Thank you so

much. Okay, one two three and one more. One two three thank you.

Thank you so much for making the trip. I hope you enjoyed dinner tonight and now with that we will now move to public comment for any items not on the agenda are there any public comments this evening? Okay, we'll now move to the consent calendar which we have items four five and six. Any council member like to pull an item or if not make a motion to approve?

I move to approve. Second.

All right, we'll now go to any public hearings this evening? No public hearings this evening. Okay, we'll go to council member comments and items not on the agenda at this time. Council Member Hornick, any comments or items?

Yes I am proud to have a flyer from the Santa Ana Valley Community Outreach about the community Thanksgiving which is Thursday November 19th. I don't know if anybody can see that probably not but it is here right Miss Nico? It is at Hanada Gym, okay. Here at Buellton, Hanada Gym everybody is welcome. You can RSVP, you can volunteer, you can come with your family and eat.

The number's 805-688-4571. Donations in Turkey is accepted to San Ynez Valley Community Outreach. Am I missing anything? No? Okay. That's Thursday, November 19th. I had a couple of comments. We attended the Cal League of Cities annual summit a couple weeks ago. I missed the last City Council meeting so I didn't get to update but from that I wanted to share some takeaways I discussed some of these with City Manager Scott Wolfe.

Basically, I can attend to some of this with the committee reporting but some of the stuff that I thought might be relevant for us moving forward as a city is some of the AI trouble that cities are having particularly smaller communities are getting hit with public record act requests via AI bots and so what some cities are doing They're counteracting requests for disclosure by publicly posting frequent requests for documents, documents they have frequently requested to just post publicly. And also using AI as part of their workflow to sort of assess and triage, like summarize a lot of documents, summarize a lot of the requests, flag things they think might be AI.

Get them out of any sort of duty to report, at least not yet. But that is something that other cities are grappling with and something that perhaps our city should look into as well. Another interesting thing was related to housing trust funds. I know that's an ongoing item for the city, this housing trust idea that I know staff and our City Attorney are looking into.

Housing trusts are apparently smiled upon at the state level. There are apparently state matching funds for housing trusts. There are acquisition loans Um, I think there's a variety of different financial options in terms of funding these housing trust something. I think that staff can look into in the future and future city councils can sort of provide guidance upon housing trusts. The main thing that was going from all these meetings was.

I'm going to talk a little bit about housing trust. Basically, funding seems to be a priority establishing some sort of permanent funding for housing trust is key. They suggested things like using affordable housing in lieu funds development impact fees. They're also state matching funds for housing trust and they also encourage employer philanthropic contributions. So, yeah I just thought that I would bring that to everybody's attention and you know if that comes up in a future agenda item I'm sure that staff will be made aware.

Are you looking for consent on anything? Nope. Okay great. Council Member Lewis?

No comment.

Council Member Sanchez? No comment thank you. Vice Mayor Meehan?

Sure, I just wanted to bring it to the attention of counsel. There's been a lot of public comment about this and I'm hoping to get some council consent. I would like the city's attorney's office to put a report on vacant and blighted property ordinances and bring it to us so we can better understand how those ordinances work and then. We can discuss whether we'd like to give direction to the city attorney or the city staff to prepare an ordinance like that for Buellton. So I'm looking for consensus to basically ask the City Attorney's Office to put together a report on vacant and blighted property ordinances from other cities, and then once we look at them perhaps move forward with our own. So i'd love to get consensus on that from everyone please.

I'm comfortable with that

yes okay we don't currently have anything like that? We do not. Okay yeah

great

thank you

That's all I have. Thank you.

I had two items. One was just, I think something that might be helpful and I know that we received some information of people open and willing to engage with it. I know that as we are going through our ADA playground equipment that it might be helpful for us to enroll some community members with greater background information training and education knowledge in that space. So I was curious is as we look into this ADA playground equipment if it might be helpful for us to We have an ad hoc committee, two council members and maybe three community members. Something that we could work through but I just think it might be a good chance for if we have experts in the area to help diversify that perspective and roll them into it so we can be moving forward in that space.

So I was curious if that's something that we could maybe bring back as we further that discussion?

I would very much like that. Is

there a location? Are we talking about the one by the schools? Well, I

know we started... Yeah, we're starting with the Oak Park one. I know eventually we'll be talking Riverview so it might be good just to get the infrastructure built out now.

Usually when you're at Oak, you pick somebody who's in their neighborhood.

Yeah,

I mean, I think we've got to bring it back to form it and all that. But yeah, we

need to have it on the agenda before we could discuss it. I think all we can do this evening is get consensus to bring it back and put it on the agenda.

And that's an ad hoc committee for discussing accessibility of the Oak

Park playground. I would like to start maybe there and then expand it. But I think that it would be good for us to not just have it be, I would like it to be some council and some community member outreach see if there's anyone maybe with backgrounds in professional training in this space that we could bring into it so that they could help us funnel and make a more thoughtful decision for us. Like bring some recommendations back of what we want to do moving forward.

I

thought staff was looking into that.

So, at our last

meeting we had a presentation. There was a presentation last week, I guess but are you saying that you want to standing ad hoc committee meeting?

I would like to just create a group that would be two council members and look into how we'd structure it further, but that we could then enroll some community members with training background certification. Maybe we put a call out to people to see who are interested do it so that we can have experts or more more qualified people to help bring their perspective into it. So as we make a decision there could be a thoughtful recommendation for that.

Starting with starting. I'm sorry, but I just want to be clear are you expanding the idea that this is going to be accessibility for multiple playgrounds or is it just a park? I think I'd like to start

with because that's what our presentation was on eventually the plan will be to bring back Riverview Park as well and so it would be good to maybe begin this process for Oak Park and then if it's successful we could look into Riverview as the next 1

and successful is expanding it. It's accessibility that's for successive.

It sounds like we have consent to bring it back for discussion at the next meeting is that correct do we have this at least for that. So, are we discussing

it or forming an ad hoc now?

I would like to form an ad hoc right now it's just we're just that the

so you can't get to make an ad hoc committee needs to be 2 council members that's on how can be as to that's correct and if you could to I'm looking to help us as we saw in the last meeting. I think that it'd be good for us to have a community outreach perspective that would be maybe we recruit or we see if this committee members who are trained certified volunteer in the space you can provide their perspective so that There could be recommendations brought back to the council so that it's not

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I'd like to have an agenda item to bring back to form an ad hoc committee for Oak Park accessibility, but we can't form an ad hoc committee so I'm asking for consent to bring it back as an agenda item to form an ad hoc committee.

Are

we okay with that?

I think that's a good point.

I think it's important to recognize that the city has merit at that time. I know we've been talking about school zone and daylighting, but I think it might be worthwhile if at that conversation or in a future one it would be great to have our public works director and law enforcement agency. I know we partner with Move Santa Barbara and the Safe Routes to School. I think it might be good for us to just have either an audit or review of is there anything the city could be doing Some of these situations come up. Are we doing everything we can to protect kids? Is it something that we need to discuss more protected crosswalks? Is there something just I think that with two instances back-to-back, it was a school board member who reached out at what's the city doing to help address this and I don't know where to begin with that but it might be worthwhile for us to look into if public works are law enforcement agency and if it's safe house to school move Santa Barbara that's the I think it would be good for us to examine that and make sure we're trying to see if there's any slow hanging fruit.

We can help to prevent these from happening in the future, if there's anything that we could

Yeah, I'm happy to talk to with our public works director and reach out to both. Move SB as well as our local law enforcement and see what we can't put together in that light.

I think we have a plan and then there's

these pretty generic of the incidents were referring to were very had very specific causes that are not likely to have been helped by normal means of preventing that but there are certainly other incidents it could be prevented by. I

think it just brings a light to it like we might be worthwhile for us to talk through that in at least write you some education on understood thank you. And moving along now go to any written communications Thank you very much.

Things that the city is happily already doing, a small and rural playbook. The challenges for small cities, some of them most relevant for us are having a long-term financial plan. That long term financial plan should have projected expenditures and liabilities. I believe we already do a five year and ten year best which is best practice financial projection.

They also suggested potentially adopting a policy for the use of one-time revenues. Otherwise, one-time revenue usage becomes recurring light items so you should plan accordingly. That can be sort of incorporated into a rebranding of the city. I was thinking vis-a-vis our website rebranding thing that Council is moving toward. They also suggest maintaining compliant investment policy, which can be benefited by if you find capital improvements. You can sort of secure a pay as you go funding financing.

They also suggest public and private partnerships if you have large capital improvement projects. Also potentially teaming up with those private developments for transparent business incentives something like revenue sharing. And that is accomplished through transient occupancy tax, things like that. And that's it.

Great. Council Member Lewis, any committee reports? No. Council Member

Sanchez? Not really a committee report but I did go to the ribbon cutting at Vega Vineyards and it was a nice deal they had in the ribbon cutting and some brand new kitchen that they were initiating so I want to thank Kathy for inviting me and appreciate being included It's a new place to go see them. They did a nice job out there.

Thank

you.

Vice Mayor Meach?

No, no committee reports.

The only one is just in reference that was brought by SBCAG we did have a meeting today with the SBCAG staff just to discuss how corridor studies work opportunities for partnership for grant funding on how to best leverage SBCAG as we look to discuss further the 101 and the 246 and how those interact so hopefully we'll hear back from them but they basically just did a whole training for And then moving right along, I'll pass it over to control now for our city manager as we move to business items.

Thank you Mr. Mayor, business item number seven which is a consideration of approval for Fall Fest special event and funding request for the Fall Festival event. Our staff contact on this is our Planning Director Andrea Kiefer

Good evening, Mayor and members of City Council. An application has been filed by the Fall Festival event coordinator Andres Nuno for the Fall Fest event. The event is scheduled to take place Friday November 6th through Sunday November 8th with set up beginning the day before and concluding and tear down concluding the day following the event The event will be held on median three and the adjacent 518 property similar to or the same as all previous years.