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The committee moved its November meeting to Thursday, Nov. 18, 2025 (the motion passed by voice vote). The December meeting was rescheduled to Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025; that motion also passed by voice vote.

Committee members discussed quorum availability for the new dates; multiple members said they expected to be able to attend but several noted conflicts. Staff and the chair confirmed the committee has sufficient members to proceed on the new dates as scheduled.

On committee communications, member Mary Wilkos said she did not want her personal email published as public record and that she would share a committee email address instead: “I don't want my personal information shared as part of the public record. So I would only be willing to share my committee email address,” Wilkos said during the meeting.

After discussion, the committee voted to share individual committee email addresses (not personal email or phone numbers) for the purpose of official committee correspondence. Staff described a process whereby members who create or designate a committee email would send that address to the board clerk; the clerk would distribute a blind‑cc list so committee members could contact one another without creating a public three‑or‑more‑member conversation that would violate Idaho’s open‑meeting restrictions.

At the meeting’s start, staff also read Idaho Code § 74‑204 (Open Meeting Law) language on agenda amendments and reminded the committee that adding items after an agenda is posted requires a stated good‑faith reason and that no final action may be taken on an added item unless an emergency is declared. Staff said an August committee motion to add an agenda item after a meeting began did not conform to that statute and noted there was no final action on that item.

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Committee Chair Christine Moon framed the timetable as a submission goal rather than a guarantee of council approval. “Goal 1 is to submit a sustainability plan by June 2026,” Moon said. She and other members emphasized that the plan must be consultative and tightly coordinated with council and other local committees.

Committee members discussed sequencing: draft internal work now, structured public engagement in January and further revisions before submission. Several members said a January scoping meeting should be well organized — with exercises such as breakout tables or post‑it clustering — so public input can be converted into defined priorities rather than a long list of disparate suggestions.

Members raised the need for baseline data (for example greenhouse‑gas or water quality baselines) to inform measurable goals. Moon and others said city staff time is limited: “We have also been told by the mayor and by Jason Welker that there's basically 0 funding,” Moon said, noting the committee may rely on volunteers, university partnerships or other outside help for technical data gathering.

Volunteers and next steps identified at the meeting include:
- Mary Wilkos said she will review the Whitefish, Mont., sustainability plan and make it available to the committee for comparison.
- Deborah Dickerson said she ran a comparative query and recommended the committee narrow to two or three peer towns to study in depth before the October meeting.
- A committee member volunteered to gather water‑quality baseline data from regional sources such as Idaho Conservation League (ICL) contacts.

Members proposed a January public workshop and discussed logistics and city support. Staff cautioned that any special meeting or public workshop requires legal noticing and staff support; one staff member said notices must be posted roughly three weeks in advance and the city’s notice calendar operates on Tuesdays, which effectively requires planning about a month ahead.

Committee members also suggested low‑hanging public projects to raise the committee’s visibility while the plan is developed: battery and small‑electronics recycling drives, tree‑planting projects or a recurring monthly sustainability column in local papers. The committee agreed to compile reading links to three peer towns’ plans (Whitefish, McCall and Moscow) and asked volunteers to review them in advance of the October meeting.

The committee discussed outreach to regional universities for technical help; Chair Moon said she had spoken with city staff about at least one regional university contact who might connect the committee to graduate programs for research assistance.

Members agreed to return in October with proposed plan categories, suggestions for the format of a January public meeting and proposed January dates. The committee recorded no formal vote on the plan timetable at the meeting; the June 2026 target was framed as a submission goal and contingent on public engagement, staff capacity and subsequent council review.

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The advisory group will advise on outreach and design decisions for the project area, described by Public Works Director Holly Ellis as extending “from Church and First Street as far south as we can make it” and possibly to Superior. Ellis said the project is funded by the Sandpoint Urban Renewal Agency and that the city’s “rough number” for available funding at this stage is about $3,000,000.

City staff told the committee the advisory group will include city staff, the engineering design team, downtown businesses and community partners and that the city is seeking one representative from each citizen commission or committee. The commitment staff described is five formal advisory meetings and additional touchpoints between now and August of next year.

“This is a public works project…we’ll have both Jason Welker, our community development director, involved, as well as Bill Dean, our city planner,” Ellis said. “The commitment we’re looking for the advisory group is 5 formal meetings, 5 touch bases between now and August.”

Ellis said the city has an engineering RFQ under way and expected the contract award to come before the City Council on Oct. 15; once the contract is awarded the design team would set milestone dates. She said staff is targeting a kickoff meeting in mid‑October but that dates are contingent on council award and the engineer’s schedule.

Committee Chair Christine Moon introduced Duke’s nomination during the meeting; Duke accepted and the committee approved the selection by voice vote. The meeting transcript shows a voice vote of “Aye” with no roll‑call tally provided and no recorded second on the motion. The committee’s selection will be forwarded to the mayor for appointment, per the packet language the city circulated to committees.

Staff emphasized likely downtown impacts and outreach needs, listing pedestrian and bicycle connectivity, traffic calming, underground utilities and lighting among likely design topics. Ellis also noted potential business disruption during construction and said the advisory group will help build early buy‑in.

Project manager Eric Bush is named in staff materials as the city’s point of contact for the project; staff said Bush would lead coordination once negotiations and the engineering contract are under way. The city described the advisory group as a bridge between the project team and downtown stakeholders, with staff and the engineering team setting the design schedule.

Mayor Grimm, community development director Jason Welker and city planner Bill Dean were identified by staff as involved city stakeholders. Staff said final advisory group dates and detailed scope will be available after the council award and when the engineering team establishes milestone deliverables.

The committee’s nomination and staff’s schedule and funding outline conclude the committee’s role in naming a representative; the advisory group itself and the contract award will be handled through staff and council processes.

","The Sandpoint Sustainability Committee selected a member to join a new advisory group for the downtown revitalization Phase 3 project. Public Works and city staff described the project scope, a rough $3 million Urban Renewal funding level, a design schedule tied to a council contract award and a five‑meeting advisory commitment.","actionData","errors"]

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