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24:33 and take those off of the docket and be done with them. And then we can look at the other individual ones as the desire of the council or commission is. - So when you say take them off the docket, you mean vote for them? - Vote for them and be done with it, yeah. - We have a motion, it says voting for Evergreen, which has a zero proposed fee and Washougal, is that correct? - That's correct. - Both single and multiple family.

25:06 - I think we have a, uh-oh. - So this is Jose Alvarez, community planning. As it's a public hearing, you need to have public testimony. So you have to go through that for each one individually. That's why we set them up this way. - Okay, so we'll start again. Is there any more questions for Evergreen? Okay, with that said, we're now public comment. Okay, let me get this thing under control here. So now that we're done with staff questions, bring it back to us and now I'll go to public comment. Go ahead, I'm sorry. - I'm sorry to jump again. Leanne Bremer, representing all the school districts this evening. I might suggest that the way I saw it working, I do think you need to have a decision

26:04 on each plan individually. I don't really think you need the same presentation every five times. So you can open up each hearing item individually. Maybe point out the impact fee requests because they are different for each one except for Evergreen and Washougal and then take public testimony and then vote. It might speed it up a little bit, but I don't think because the staff did such a thorough job in their staff report going through each of the criteria for the CFP that they need to repeat that every time. That's the suggestion. - Thank you. - And I don't wanna repeat myself five times either. So what I will say for Evergreen school district is similarly what I would say for the other school districts is that we're following the format of previous capital facilities plans that the county has adopted since the mid 90s.

27:03 And we're applying the same formula and we are, so it's the same information but updated. And staff has confirmed that we meet the criteria and I agree. For Evergreen specifically, as been said, they have capacity in their current schools. They've done a professional enrollment forecast and found that their existing capacity can handle growth in the next six years. So that is why they cannot collect impact fees. We cannot demonstrate that new growth and development will have an impact on school facilities. So that is why their fee will be going to zero. And the other thing I wanted to say is, there was a question at the work session about the ratio between public funding and impact fees. I provided that information into the record. Hope you all saw that. And if you have questions on that, I'm happy to answer.

28:00 And then we also answered a question that came about through public comment on whether, why aren't the other school districts updating their plans during this year? And we addressed that to say that we're really, the four year update is based on when the county adopted the plan, not when the school districts adopted or their board made a recommendation. Because the board's recommendation on their CFP is just that, just like your recommendation to the council. It's not a final action. It can change between the time the board makes a recommendation and the county adopts the plan. So we consider the county's adoption the date they become effective and when impact fees are adjusted by code. So that is the date we measure four years from. And so for the other districts not before you tonight, they're coming back to you next year. In fact, all the districts will have to come back to you next year because there has been a change

28:59 in state law that requires impact fees to be scaled to the size of the dwelling. And the county has to do that for their impact fees. We have to do that for our impact fees. So we're coming back next year anyway. - Yeah, will you do me a favor? I'm gonna consider that you are the applicant's presenter, which just fixes it here. Would you just stay up here and then what I'll do right now is I'm gonna now actually open the hearing for public testimony. Jeff, will you go through this field here and then how we'll address if there's anybody else online or here officially now with asked questions. Sorry for the confusion. Jeff. - Please note, to be a party of record, you must submit written testimony before, during, or prior to the close of tonight's hearing or provide oral testimony at the public hearing

29:57 or request in writing to be a party of record. If written comments were received prior to July 16th, 2026, they were submitted to the Planning Commission members and posted on the Planning Commission website. Tonight's hearing is being transcribed by a court reporter, so please spell your first and last name and speak slowly. Public comment time is limited to three minutes. We will now begin with those participants that have joined remotely via computer or telephone. Please raise your virtual hand or press star three on your telephone to let us know you would like to provide comment. For those using the telephone options, press star six on your phone to unmute yourself when it is your turn to speak. Anybody? Okay, we will now begin with participants in the hearing room. Was anybody signed up to speak? - Leanne, Leanne is the only one. (laughing) Sorry, Leanne was the only one. - That concludes public comment.

30:54 Okay, so hearing no public comment, either online or in the room, I'll bring it back now to the commissioners, and we're talking about Evergreen, and I think how we'll shrink these for you is we'll try to just, that first part of these, you know, that's the same, they're redundant, but if you get to the very end of these, the meat of it, we'll ask that information be put forward on each one of these since we have to go through each one of them. Hopefully you don't have to go through that first part