Council clarifies investment committee composition; parks mowing contract raises maintenance concerns

At the start of the meeting the council clarified two consent‑agenda items: an update to the city’s investment policy (item 6‑B) and the annual price agreement for parks and facility landscape maintenance (item 6‑Z), the contract that covers mowing and landscape services.

On the investment policy, a councilmember asked who sits on the city investment committee. Staff answered that the committee is composed of three council‑appointed members—Jack Valerius, Rosemarie Selman and Jordan (last name not stated in the transcript)—and that no sitting councilmembers serve on the committee.

On the parks and facility landscape maintenance annual price agreement, a councilmember raised a complaint about a particular park’s lawn care: the speaker said grass appeared to have been killed in a drainage area and that contractors had blown clippings into a nearby street during a farmers’ market. Parks staff responded that they would investigate the drainage area cleanup and that by contract and by city ordinance leaving grass clippings in the street is not allowed; staff said residents should notify the city if they observe violations so the city can enforce the contract and ordinance.

Both items remained on the consent/statutory agenda and no formal council action or vote on these specific items is recorded in the provided transcript; discussion was limited to clarification and a staff pledge to follow up on the park maintenance complaint.