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HomeMy WebLinkAboutApproved Minutes - 2020-11-17 CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING +--+ MINUTES 0 NOVEMBER 17, 2020 OREOO� 1. CALL TO ORDER Mayor Studebaker called the regular City Council meeting to order at 3:03 p.m. on November 17, 2020. The meeting took place virtually. 2. ROLL CALL Present: Mayor Studebaker and Councilors O'Neill, Nguyen, LaMotte, Wendland, Manz, and Kohlhoff Staff Present: Martha Bennett, City Manager; David Powell, City Attorney; Anne-Marie Simpson, City Recorder; Megan Phelan, Assistant City Manager; Charity Taylor, Management Analyst; Shawn Cross, Finance Director; Erica Rooney, City Engineer; Dale Jorgenson, Police Chief; Anthony Hooper, Deputy City Manager/Public Works Director Others Present: Joe Buck, Mayor-elect; Massene Mboup, Councilor-elect; Rachel Verdick, Councilor-elect; Aaron Rapf, Councilor-elect; Lillian Tsai, TsaiComms; and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force Members Bill de la Cruz, Anil Shah, Daniel McArdle-Jaimes, Diane Grover, Emma Burke, Gary Rebello, Hazel Chu Lant, Lisa Strader, Mandrill Taylor, and Massene Mboup 6. CALL TO ORDER, CITY COUNCIL 7. CITIZEN COMMENT • Terri Kraemer Ms. Kraemer stated she was on the board of Respond to Racism and was present to speak on Agenda Item 8.3, Community Policing in Lake Oswego. The component in the initiative for a thorough evaluation seemed like a much bigger project than having discussions, and she inquired if the City had considered conducting focus groups now and to allow the incoming 2021 Council to decide how to best utilize City professionals and engage outside professionals with expertise in policing and race to conduct the thorough evaluation. The statement should explicitly include everyone in Lake Oswego including visitors, workers, those passing through the city, as well as residents. Respond to Racism would like a modification to the last sentence City Council Meeting Minutes Page 1 of 11 November 17, 2020 to make it clear that Lake Oswego wanted a police department where a person's race did not play a part in starting an interaction with the police and, if an interaction took place, they wanted to be sure that race did not play a part in the outcome. It would be a challenge to get people from marginalized groups to participate in the focus groups and it was hoped Council would be sure that their voices were heard and that businesses and the School District would be enlisted to encourage BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) employees and students to participate, and for community groups like Respond to Racism and the Chinese Council to help recruit focus group participants. • Pat Ginn Ms. Ginn requested her comments to be read into the record. She had lived and worked in Lake Oswego for many years and, as a woman of color, the experience was fraught with multiple challenges. It was important for Council to converse with and listen to the heart of the BIPOC community if the goal was to make the city a more inclusive place to live and work. Regarding Agenda Item 8.1, she appreciated the effort the City and the Task Force put into the completed focus group survey. She considered it pertinent to analyze whether the survey data included the perspectives of those who lived outside of the city and were passing through or visiting, and included age, ethnicity, and gender to ensure an even representation. If that data was collected, she requested that it be included in the report. Regarding Agenda Item 8.3 on community policing, she recommended that the BIPOC community be well-represented, that data be included from those outsides of the city, and that data be included on age, ethnicity, and gender. The last sentence of the City's statement said, "Our vision is to ensure that we have a police department where a person's race does not determine the outcome of their interaction with our officers and where all people feel safe," and she recommended it state "...does not precipitate a negative interaction with the police nor affect the outcome of such an interaction." • Frank Groznik Mr. Groznik said he was speaking as a long-term resident of Lake Oswego and as a former Lake Oswego Planning Commissioner and former City Councilor. He wholeheartedly supported Council's ambition of simultaneously assessing systematic racism in Lake Oswego policing while recognizing police work was important and challenging. The proposed statement said that the City would thoroughly evaluate the policing systems, structures, policies, procedures, processes, and practices, but no mention was made of analyzing the various duties of policing such as school resource officers (SROs), drug intervention, suicide prevention, domestic argument resolution, petty drug offenses, and crime prevention and investigation. He suggested starting the process after the new Mayor and the new Councilors were seated. He asked how Council intended to define the Lake Oswego community and whether it would include visitors, business owners who did not live in Lake Oswego, and people who shop in Lake Oswego, or if it would be only the tax paying residents of the city. He also inquired about who would establish the goals and objectives of the process, and how a facilitator and the City would ensure that the voices of those who have been subjected to police bias in the past were heard. • Kimvi To Ms. To stated she was the Chair of LO for Love and was speaking on their behalf tonight. They had three concerns about the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) findings: First, she asked if City Council Meeting Minutes Page 2 of 11 November 17, 2020 demographic data such as age, race, city residency, city employment, and Lake Oswego School District (LOSD) student status was captured for the focus groups because it was vital that the data reflected the concerns of the BIPOC community; second, it was not clear from the report whether the data reflected non-residents including those who work, learn, or otherwise visit the city because many could not afford to live in Lake Oswego but were an integral part of the character and functioning of the city; and third, the small sample size was concerning. She encouraged the DEI Task Force to consider conducting the focus groups and surveys a second time and ensure a larger sample size of the BIPOC community was included. Regarding the statement about community policing, LO for Love urged the City to recognize why the issue of systemic racism and unconscious bias must be addressed. The issue undermined the Lake Oswego Police Department's (LOPD) ability to provide services to all and endangered the lives and safety of the BIPOC community. LO for Love also requested the statement include specificity as to how systems and policies of law enforcement would be evaluated and who would be doing the evaluation. Third, the City's vision should not only be to ensure that a person's race did not determine the outcome of their interaction with the police, it should also ensure that race did not determine whether an interaction took place at all. Finally, LO for Love strongly recommended that the DEI Task Force become a permanent committee and that a Chief Diversity Officer be hired. • Willie Poinsette Ms. Poinsette stated she was a 34-year resident of Lake Oswego and President and Co- founder of Respond to Racism. Through their work, leaders and residents are learning how to recognize systemic racism and identify tools to dismantle it. She once again asked the City Council to make DEI a priority in the city by establishing a DEI Advisory Board made up of a well-balanced representation of ethnic and culturally diverse community residents to address systemic racism. The DEI Advisory Board must be empowered to look at all segments of the city to assess and make recommendations and/or commendations to the City Council. The information from the Advisory Board would assist Council to make changes to enable Lake Oswego to become a model of a welcoming, inclusive suburb for all people who live, work, visit, or pass through. • Doug Irving Mr. Irving requested his comments be read into the record. He believed the City Council's statement in Agenda Item 8.3 was not the statement of a City taking bold and urgent action. Instead, it cautiously noted that systemic racism needed to be evaluated, not rooted out and eliminated. It suggested identifying how police might better collaborate with people in the community and proposed a series of community dialogues to get feedback on what people expect, but not what they have experienced. He understood it was an opening statement and that the intent was to provide some direction without presupposing all the answers but, as the Council Report stated, a well-articulated statement needs to lay out the issues and clearly describe the desired outcomes. • Sandy Leybold Ms. Leybold stated she was a member of Respond to Racism. She urged Council to broaden the vision and scope for evaluating LOPD as laid out in Agenda Item 8.3. The recent deaths of City Council Meeting Minutes Page 3 of 11 November 17, 2020 George Floyd and other POC had crystallized the need for a transformative and accountable approach to community policing, especially in a predominantly white community such as Lake Oswego. Anti-racism work asked to consider why the city remained a predominantly white community and how its systems and structures supported the continued, de facto segregation. The stated vision did not go far enough and should be more about creating a community that is diverse, inclusive, and equitable and welcomed people from all backgrounds and identities to thrive. She urged Council to ensure that the recruitment of focus group participants oversampled marginalized persons from BIPOC and LGBTQ communities and other marginalized people. The LOPD evaluation should further a goal of creating a community that works for everyone, and should include accountability to the principles of anti-racism, restorative justice, and non-violence. The policing function and budget must be reviewed as part of a larger vision for protecting and developing the community and include housing, employment, treatment for mental health and addiction, and family health and support. Lastly, she urged Council to select consultants who were experts in anti-racism work and have a background in evaluating police departments using an anti-racism lens. • Kate Miller Ms. Miller's comments were read into the record. She spoke to the opportunity the City had to be inclusive in regard to capital projects such as the upcoming construction of a recreation facility and the wastewater treatment facility. Because Lake Oswego supported diversity in small businesses, an important consideration would be to require a certain level of participation from women and minorities for all City contracts beginning in July 2021. The Oregon Department of Commerce website and Metro provided resources that could be used to develop contract language. Results could be tracked by the City and a first step would be to establish an annual audit and create a transparent process with a list of upcoming projects, identify those that have not been put out to bid, and create a recommendation to integrate these goals into the final project requirements. • Trina Gluckman Ms. Gluckman thanked the City Council and the DEI Task Force for attention to their important work. She provided definitions of procedural, distributional, and structural equity and noted the City's work toward equity and justice should be an ongoing transparent process that affected all people who lived, worked, visited, or otherwise spent time in the community. A permanent, experienced Task Force was needed with a dedicated position in City leadership to achieve these goals. 8. STUDY SESSIONS 8.1 Lake Oswego Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force Findings The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force members presented their findings via PowerPoint on the work done in response to Council's charge to identify barriers to DEI in participation on boards and commissions, City employment, City facilities and services, necessary staff skills, and relationship-building with people not traditionally involved with City services. The Task Force's community outreach strategy included online surveys and virtual focus groups on five topics: Boards and commissions, community engagement, youth City Council Meeting Minutes Page 4 of 11 November 17, 2020 engagement, human resources, and facilities and programs. Demographic data of the participants was also collected. The Task Force identified common themes under each topic in the responses received as follows: • Boards and Commissions: Perceptions of exclusion and bias and a need to increase community engagement and the barriers to it. • Community Engagement: Challenges to participation based on lack of knowing who to contact or what actions to take, accountability in communication and relationship-building, inclusiveness to include translating, and systemic changes. • Youth Engagement: Polarization and lack of opportunities for inclusion especially for younger students, cultural concerns, and accountability in relationship building. • Human Resources: Culture within various City departments, hiring and retention practices, and barriers to employment and employee engagement. • Facilities and Programs: Accessibility and safety, diversity in types of programming offered. The final question asked what additional steps the City should take, and creative ideas were offered by 67 percent of the respondents addressing all of the focus areas. Councilor Manz thanked the Task Force and noted their work was the beginning of the process and that problems would not be solved overnight. She believed it was vitally important for the citizens and herself to understand the issues raised about racism in the city. The delays caused by COVID-19 and the wildfires had provided an opportunity to pause and to elongate the project which could provide a deeper and richer understanding of what needed to be done. She stated she meant no disrespect to the current Council, but wanted the new Council to be involved on some of the initiatives, such as the statement and other pieces of the work. Councilor Wendland expressed his thanks for the work and the Task Force's presentation. He believed the work would continue into next year and strong reasons existed to have a DEI Standing Committee because the subject matters raised showed a lifetime of work to be done. He was supportive of having the new City Council engaged in the work. Based on the information shared by the Task Force, some issues could be worked on and accomplished as a city and some needed to be done by society. He asked for the Task Force's recommendations on what Council could do. The City had almost 400 employees and that was the first point where work could be done concerning onboarding and policies that would give City management the support needed to help the City's employees be successful. He also noted a lot of common ground with the community's youth and adults, and would like recommendations on working with the LOSD so efforts were not duplicated. He would also like suggestions on how the young and old in the community could work together. The most important recommendation from the Task Force would be which issue on the lengthy list Council should work on first and hardest. He would be pleased to identify some accomplishments for 2021. The Task Force had listened to the aggregate input, and it would be helpful to understand the major opportunities followed by working together with the Task Force on how to move forward. Councilor Kohlhoff said she anticipated the Task Force would be turned into an advisory committee and suggested hearing the recommendations now and then actions upon them could start taking place in 2021. City Council Meeting Minutes Page 5 of 11 November 17, 2020 Councilor LaMotte believed the Task Force presentation was a model for other boards. He noted a delicate balance of qualitative and quantitative information would be necessary due to the small sample size, but agreed that some practical, pragmatic recommendations could be made for the current Council to pursue. Those tasks could then be sent to the next Council along with others that could be accomplished in the short- and long-term. He would like to hear more from Human Resources about adjustments that could be made to what was currently done to recruit and hire. He wished to avoid the impression that nothing was being done right now. Councilor Manz clarified that she did not expect the Task Force to continue on through 2021, but simply wanted to allow the incoming Council to have a say in the final product. Mr. de la Cruz spoke to Councilor Wendland's point about issues specific to the city and those specific to society. He had been working with leaders across the country and some of the conversations concerned how to support the messaging and conversation necessary for the community and how to break down some of the divisiveness in the country. Council, as leaders, could still play a large role in messaging and modeling to the community. He believed Councilor LaMotte was on the same track as the Task Force in terms of considering quick wins because best practices were already happening in the City that were not necessarily being shared with both groups. Organizational change theory says it takes three to five years to shift the culture of an organization, so a commitment was necessary to the marathon approach. 8.2 2021 Master Fees and Charges Mr. Cross presented the Council Report for this item which included a review of the utility funds' current balances and the expected amounts to be used from the funds over the next several fiscal years. He also presented the requested utility rate increases for Council's consideration. He would come before Council on December 1 for the public hearing and adoption of the master fees and charges. 8.3 Community Policing in Lake Oswego Ms. Phelan introduced the facilitators hired for the project and asked for Council's feedback and direction on a proposed statement and process to engage in a community conversation about policing. The statement was developed based on the feedback and consultation with the City Manager and the Police Chief. She emphasized the importance of being very clear as to what was intended both on what was hoped to be achieved but also on what the project did not include. The complete statement was in the packet and she touched on a few points as follows: • The first sentence said Lake Oswego was committed to providing high-quality services to every person in the community. Later it said community dialogues would be held to identify ways to strengthen how the police department collaborated with all of the people in the community to provide public safety. She clarified that "all" also referred to people who worked, had businesses, and traveled through the city. • The City's systems, structures, policies, procedures, processes, and practices would be thoroughly evaluated with a goal of building public trust and relationships. Staff's intent was to be all-inclusive. Job descriptions and duties that police officers perform throughout their daily activities would be included. City Council Meeting Minutes Page 6 of 11 November 17, 2020 • In July, after hearing from the focus groups, Council stated it wanted to be involved in the work and the recommendation process. Staff would like feedback if Council's desires had changed since then. • The opening statement discussed how systemic racism needed to be evaluated in law enforcement and, given the fact that the City was part of the system, it signified that the work would include addressing issues of race. • She acknowledged the concerns expressed about the wording of the last sentence in the last paragraph, noting that staff had not intended that interactions would take place with people because of their race. The phrase "the outcome of" could be eliminated or moved to after the word "interactions". Staff had intended to state that a person's race should not determine whether or not they have an outcome or the interaction of the outcome with the police department. Chief Jorgenson confirmed he was comfortable with the statement and believed Ms. Phelan had succinctly addressed the issues expressed about the statement during Agenda Item 8.1. Ms. Bennett noted staff had been trying to avoid long lists in the statement, but it was their intent to engage with visitors, employees, business owners, and folks who pass through the city as well. They did not want to risk leaving anyone off of the list and chose to use the words "all people". Staff would work to clarify the last sentence. Councilor Nguyen reiterated the point he made in the July Council meeting where he expressed that Council needed to allow those creating the recommendations to do so independently of Council's involvement. He had not been stopped by the police often and did not have many interactions with law enforcement, and therefore believed that involvement on his part in creating recommendations would be premature. He believed that having Councilors or others from leadership in the room would make it much more difficult for people discussing structures of authority. He wanted consideration given at least in the early stages to giving space to people to come forward and talk about their experiences with law enforcement. Councilor Manz asked if Ms. Tsai, based on her many years of work with police departments, believed the statement was general enough that it would allow for Councilor Nguyen's suggestion; for example, a new Council could use it as a preliminary statement to give people enough leverage or leeway to expound or expand on it. Ms. Tsai responded that the more general the statement, the better, but that would not satisfy the expectations of the BIPOC community. It depended on the city, and Lake Oswego was very different from other regional cities. She had friends who were police officers and has had extensive conversations with sworn police officers and police chiefs and did not like to have a sweeping statement with the intent that it would work for them all. She supported Councilor Nguyen's idea and recommended that different people be vetted because the more data the team had, the more able it would be to serve the community's needs. Councilor LaMotte would like the City's police officers to be part of the interview process to find out what they learned about other communities before they joined the LOPD, what they learned at the academy, their perceptions of the community, and their opinions about the DEI initiatives. He asked Chief Jorgenson for an update on the SROs and whether the policing review had anything to do with them. Chief Jorgenson replied he could not speak to how the School City Council Meeting Minutes Page 7 of 11 November 17, 2020 District was conducting its review, but noted discussions about procedures and processes would include the SROs. The School District would follow its processes in parallel but separately from the LOPD and the District had the authority to state what would be done with its schools. At some point, the two processes would be joined. The LOPD had a great relationship with the School District and he, Captain Simon, a couple of administrative officers, and two SROs had interviews with the School District's facilitators and were now waiting for the completion of the School District's process, anticipated to be in mid-December. Councilor Kohlhoff stated it was very important to her to see that this process was being handled independently from DEI because including the issue of the police would complicate matters. For example, something as simple as gender might very well have big DEI implications. Many white heterosexual women never have any problems with the police, but a woman who was a lesbian and white might have problems. Mr. de la Cruz said he had been working with Chief Jorgensen on how to structure the interviews with the Lake Oswego Police Department to include not just the police but also 911 operators and everyone else associated with the department because the issue was about more than just policing. Initially proposed was a kickoff community meeting to give Councilors the opportunity to share their perspectives and to talk about why this work was important, followed by an engagement process with members of the community. The most important piece to consider was how and what community would be invited into the conversations. He believed it would be a larger group of interests than what was seen from the DEI Task Force work. Council would need to consider how to recruit and how to make sure it was a diverse group. To lead with race, it would be necessary to make sure that the BIPOC community's voices were a part of the conversation. The initial community kickoff was designed so the community could see the commitment of the City Council and the City to the value of the work and how each would approach it. Community focus groups would be set up after that and would include only the facilitators and community groups without City Councilors present. His team was facilitating questions that Council believed were important, and Council needed to determine the process it wanted to use to create the four to six questions that would be part of the focus group process. The team had planned for a mid-point check-in report to Council, to finish the focus group process, and to then gather the data and craft recommendations. The questions would be an important part of engaging the community to determine what was important to them, ensuring the focus would be impactful for Council as leaders who would implement the recommendations, and for the community to feel like the process was beneficial and transparent and that their voices mattered. Ms. Tsai provided examples of questions she liked to ask such as: "What do you believe to a police officer sees as the most important thing for the community to understand about the police department?" and "What's important for the community to understand or know about you as a human being and not just a police officer?" She asked the questions because many people forget that police officers were real flesh and blood people, and her goal was to understand the person inside the uniform. Police officers were often stereotyped many times in a very negative manner, so another question could be, "What stereotypes about police do you struggle with the most?" Other questions inquired about their experiences growing up and with different cultures, for example, in the city of Lake Oswego. Her team worked in close collaboration with the City Council Meeting Minutes Page 8 of 11 November 17, 2020 stakeholders like Chief Jorgensen, the City Manager, the Mayor if desired, and with the City Council members and the community. Councilor Wendland believed giving people a free forum to express themselves without Council present was extremely important and believed it should be a part of the process. He approved of the statement, though it could use input from a few more people. Overall, he hoped that at the end of the process, Lake Oswego would have the very best community policing model for other cities to follow. It was necessary to focus closely on the subject of race. He believed the process was set up correctly, the statement was comprehensive, and in the end, it would create a better community. Councilor LaMotte agreed with not demonizing the police, and noted they were very hard- working and should be viewed as human beings trying to do the job of protecting the community every day. He would like to know what could be done better and would like to drill down a little bit on processes already in place such as "You and Blue" and "Coffee with a Cop" to determine if they were successful and if people knew they were available. He had heard positive comments about "Coffee with a Cop" when it was taking place before COVID-19. He believed Lake Oswego was more advanced than most suburban departments he had worked with and that the LOPD could be a model for 21st century policing if the process was kept calm and respectful and everyone learned from each other. Councilor Nguyen asked if a timeline was available for the kickoff event and focus groups, etc. Ms. Tsai replied it was undetermined; her group's recommendation was to pause the project until the new City Council and possibly new Mayor were seated next year to ensure continuity. Ms. Phelan noted the additional challenge of conducting a community process over a relatively busy time in people's lives like the holidays. Participation in the DEI Task Force focus groups was a challenge and she wanted to pick a time of year when people were not otherwise busy with other obligations. Mr. de la Cruz reminded that the process was being built as time went on and missteps would be made. It would be necessary to show a lot of grace from the community side and from the City side. Conflict would arise, but it was part of the process, and the facilitators were comfortable with conflict and knew how to use it as a tool to support the conversation. They understood the urgency, but asked for patience because if they pushed too fast to get something done, steps would be missed and require backtracking which would be very hard. The team wanted to work with Council to determine a good timeframe that did not disrupt people and would provide the most opportunity to get people engaged. They had the process and would work on the logistical pieces with Council and the City Manager's Office to determine the timeline and the following process. They would want to interview the new Councilors and Mayor to give them the opportunity to provide feedback. 9. COUNCIL BUSINESS 9.1 Approval of Additional Consulting Services Expenditure on the Public-Private Partnership (P3) Project to Build, Design, Finance, Operate, and Maintain a New Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Foothills Area City Council Meeting Minutes Page 9 of 11 November 17, 2020 Mr. Hooper presented the Council Report and requested that Council approve an additional $335,000 for work to continue on the wastewater treatment plant project to about mid-April. The project was to determine if it was in the City's interest to move forward with a brand-new, state- of-the-art wastewater treatment plant that was aesthetically pleasing, had environmental benefits, that had a much smaller footprint and a much more efficient lifecycle cost than to invest in an old 1965 plant in Foothills that was owned by the City of Portland. One requirement was that the rate impact would have to be the same as choosing to stay with the existing plant and it would also need to meet the City's needs technically. He noted that Council had approved $450,000 in January which had been expended as anticipated, and this was the opportunity for accountability, to update Council on the progress, and to move forward on the project in smaller pieces. The piece tonight would lead to the preliminary services agreement in mid-April. All three teams were working very hard on proposals for the City to be submitted in either January or February. Staff had done a lot of work up front to create the parameters for the project to provide guidance to the teams. Councilor Wendland moved to authorize staff to spend an additional $335,000 in consulting services to continue to explore the feasibility of Public-Private Partnership Project to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a new wastewater treatment plant. Councilor LaMotte seconded the motion. A roll call vote was held and the motion passed, with Mayor Studebaker and Councilors Nguyen, LaMotte, Wendland, Manz, Kohlhoff, and O'Neill voting `aye.' (7-0) 9.2 Resolution 20-38, A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake Oswego Authorizing an Increase in the Solid Waste, Recycling, and Organics Collection Rates by Republic Services of Lake Oswego Ms. Bennett explained that this agenda item would be delayed to the next City Council meeting because Metro was contemplating rate increases in response to the significant decrease in volume due to COVID-19. In a meeting about the rate increase, staff learned some of the fees should be incorporated into the City's rates and be treated differently, but they had not had enough time to redo the rate schedule after the information was received yesterday afternoon. 9.3 Ordinance 2852, An Ordinance Annexing to the City of Lake Oswego One Parcel Consisting of 0.28 Acres at 5950 SW Harrington Avenue and Public Rights of Way at Harrington Avenue and Mellon Avenue; Declaring City of Lake Oswego Zoning Pursuant to LOC 50.01.004.5(a-c); and Removing the Territory from Certain Districts (AN 20-0005). This item was continued to December 1, 2020. 10. CONSENT AGENDA 10.1 Ordinance 2853, An Ordinance of the Lake Oswego City Council Amending LOC Chapter 50 (Community Development Code) for the Purpose of Clarifying and Updating Various Provisions (2020), and Adopting Findings (LU 20-0015). 10.2 Approval of Meeting Minutes City Council Meeting Minutes Page 10 of 11 November 17, 2020 October 6, 2020, Regular Meeting Minutes Mayor Studebaker noted a correction to be made in the third paragraph on Page 11 as follows, "He believed that rivers drivers had...". Councilor Wendland moved to accept the consent agenda. Councilor Manz seconded the motion. A roll call vote was held and the motion passed, with Mayor Studebaker and Councilors Nguyen, LaMotte, Wendland, Manz, Kohlhoff, and O'Neill voting `aye.' (7-0) 11. INFORMATION FROM COUNCIL There was none. 12. REPORTS OF OFFICERS Ms. Bennett stated the City would continue its current practice around the new COVID-19 restrictions which was to educate first, warn second, and cite only as a matter of last resort. Some mention was made in the media regarding more aggressive enforcement on people, who might be having parties in their homes, but the City's approach would not change and no citations have had to be issued since the beginning of the pandemic. Mayor Studebaker announced the Christmas Tree lighting would take place tomorrow at Safeway and would be online. 13. ADJOURNMENT Mayor Studebaker adjourned the meeting at 6:41 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Kari Linder, City Recorder Appro e d by the City Council on January 5, 2021 Joseph M. Buck, Mayor City Council Meeting Minutes Page 11 of 11 November 17, 2020