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7:11 with dementia are valued, that care partners are seen, and that our community is committed to walking alongside them. As we recognize the month of Hope, I encourage everyone to learn a little bit more about dementia, about brain health for ourselves, reaching out to a family that may be caregiving, and look for ways to make our community even more welcoming than it is, more understanding, and more inclusive. Because when a community understands dementia, families are stronger, care partners feel less alone, and people living with dementia can continue to live with dignity, purpose, and connection, something we all need. Thank you for helping make Vancouver a place where no one has to walk the dementia journey alone. Thank you so much. - Thank you, Julie. (audience applauding)

8:09 That concludes our proclamations and brings us into community communications concerning the consent agenda. I do not have any cards on anyone that would like to comment on the consent. Councillors, are there any items that you would like to pull? We have eight of them. - Mayor, number six, please. - Item number six, and item number eight. Any others? Okay, I'll entertain a motion for items one through five and seven. Hanson, seconded by? - Perez. Hanson and Perez. All those in favor, say aye. - Aye. - Opposed? Motion passes, thank you very much. Councillor Stover. Item number six.

9:08 - Mayor, this is the item regarding the master plan for Pearson. And really, this is commentary, commentary that Camas Washougal, you can sit down, Mayor. Port of Camas Washougal is also doing master planning on Grove Field and just expressing a desire that we are coordinating with them in the master planning process. And I'll make another commentary. Boy, it would be great if, say, Clark County had a coordinating body for all the airports in Clark County, and they had an aviation advisory board, but neither here nor there. But just the request that we're coordinating with Camas Washougal on master plan. - Meredith, would you just push that, there you go, thank you.

10:07 - Oops, nope. - Hold it, there we go. - There you go, you got it. - Are we on? - Okay, start again, Meredith Fox. - Hi, airport manager at Pearson Field. I recently attended the AEC meeting of Camas, so I'm already coordinating and working with the airport manager over there, so. - Wonderful, thank you very much. Meredith, before you go, so this is a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to develop the master plan, airport master plan project, and it authorizes the city manager to execute an agreement. Could you talk a little bit about the process here? - Process of the master plan? - Of who's going to be helping with that master plan. - So we went out to RFP and Century West was selected already. We were just waiting for the grant acceptance with the FAA that we need signature for,

11:06 and then also Wash Dot is going to provide a two and a half percent grant as well, and they needed this to be approved first before getting that, and then it's just the order, the schedule of doing this first, and then getting the Wash Dot grant to award Century West their contract, so you'll see me at a next future meeting. - Okay, and you also have an aviation advisory commission over at Pearson, so they'll be involved in this process also. - Absolutely, AAC, and then we'll also have another group called PAC, which will include Clark County representation, public representation, city representation, the AAC, and we'll have multiple open houses for public comment as well. - Good, thank you. Councilors, do you have any questions? All right. - Mayor, move to approve item number six. - Stover, seconded by?

12:06 - Fox. - Fox, all those in favor say aye. - Aye. - Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, Mayor. - Thank you. - All right, let's jump over item number eight. Councilor, Mayor Pro Tem Fox. - Yes, this is just about approving our invoice payments, and usually, there's a lot of items on here. I mean, it's $40 million overall, just to give everyone kind of a scope of what this item includes, but a couple things stood out that I hadn't maybe noticed before, but I'm wondering if we have a policy on sponsorships from the city. Again, kind of building on some of our financial policies, and why I ask that is because there's a payment to the Oregon City School Foundation Grad Night, and it seems a little odd that we would be spending money on an Oregon City School Foundation Grad Night,

13:05 and I'm assuming it's a sponsorship or something like that, but does staff or anyone have any information about one or the other? Like, do we have? A policy on sponsoring such activities, or any of these type of Grad Night activities? - Sorry, I was trying to find where that is at. - Well, it was 31761, so it's, I don't remember what exact page. I don't have the page pulled up. There's 37 pages for everyone in the audience to understand, but I could find the page, but that was the check number was 3170. - Yeah, let me do some research on that, 'cause I know that while we do have policies related to sponsorships, it's generally very restrictive

14:04 because of the gift of public funds doctrine in Washington that we are very limited in what we can do as far as any type of just sponsoring an event or something like that. We have more flexibility if their mission is in alignment with ours, but as I say, in general, we don't have much ability to just do a straight sponsorship. There has to be a contract or an expectation of service in general for us to be able to do something like that. - That's what I understood, too. That's why it seemed a little strange, and there's other organizations throughout this, you know, our list of checks and whatnot, but most of them are things like refunds, which you assume, even if they're from out of this area, like there's, I think, Central Catholic High Schools on there, but my assumption is maybe they rented a facility or something along those lines, but yeah, this one just stood out as kind of, I know it's a small amount, but like I said, it's, when you read through 37 pages every week,

15:01 you don't always notice these abnormalities, I guess, so I would appreciate some information back, either if there is a policy or what in particular this item is about. - Unless, Counselor, as you pointed out, it's a refund for a rental that they didn't use. - It doesn't say refund, it says payment. - Thank you. - Yep, I did find it, so I've got it flagged. - So I'm not, I'm not sure if the action is to approve all of the payments and refunds, except for this particular item, just to move this forward. I'm looking to the two of you for guidance. - Mayor Pro Tem, it's up to you, you could do either.

15:56 - Okay, well why don't I move all of our payments and refunds to move forward tonight with the exception of that singular one until staff can bring us back information next week. - Second. - Any other further discussion? - Mayor. - Yes. - Thank you, Council Member Fox, for coming through and finding that, so appreciate your diligence. - Okay, motion by Fox, seconded by Harless. All those in favor say aye. - Aye. - Opposed? Motion passes, thank you. That concludes the consent agenda, now we move into the communications from the councilors. Councilor Harless. - Yeah, we're all back for break, so hope you all got some family time in. I just wanted to quickly mention that there's,

16:54 for those that maybe didn't notice, that there are tours of the Wastewater Treatment Center, and I brought my 17-year-old and was surprised he actually still had fun. So that was always good. So it was a great educational tour, there was lots of kids, so just big appreciation for the staff that is doing that. They, all the kids and the adults learned so much and definitely walked away. Yeah, lots of community events over this break went to, but just particularly wanted to call out those staff that did a phenomenal job. - Councilor Perez. - None for me tonight, thank you. - Councilor Fox. - Sure, although I was joining remotely at the beginning of the meeting tonight, I was driving back from being on a panel at the Pacific Northwest Climate Week kickoff event today in Seattle, and just wanted to say that that event is happening all over, 'cause it is called