Kenyon City Council, March 14, 2023

Jensen's request never produced an agenda item or a draft ordinance in anything we hold. The same question returned two years later, when Bailey Ament asked at the April 8 2025 meeting what the process was for allowing chickens in residential areas for homeschool instruction and a 4-H project, and asked to be placed on the May agenda. Staff then pulled Jensen's March 14 2023 comment into the May 2025 packet as background, which shows the 2023 request was never acted on.

5-13-25 council packet updated; 4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda · taken up again 2025-05-13

No revised estimate for the lift station or the Pearl Creek crossing was ever put before the council in anything we hold. What the record does show is the eventual bid outcome, with BCM Construction awarded the Pearl Creek Sanitary Sewer and Gates Avenue contract at $1,241,494.22 on June 13 2023 against an engineer's estimate of $1,536,065, or 19.2 percent under. Whether that estimate already carried the warned increase cannot be determined from our data.

factbook KENYON_BIDS.md; 4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda

The claim implies 159 prosecuted cases in 2021 falling to 55 in 2022, a decline of 65.4 percent. Nothing in our records independently verifies either count, and the prosecutor's own later fee request cuts the other way, asking in January 2025 to raise the retainer from $1,400 to $1,500 a month on the grounds of increased volume of reports, arrests, citations and overall prosecuted offenses. The written prosecution report and court case counts would settle it.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda; 1-14-25 council packet (1)

The two percentages do not sit together with the other figures in the same report. Sixty-five percent of 55 cases is about 36 traffic offenses in 2022, and a 71 percent decrease puts 2021 traffic at about 124, but the report also gives 159 total cases and 39 community offenses for 2021, leaving only about 120 for everything else. The numbers overshoot by roughly four cases, so at least one of them is approximate. The prosecutor's case-type tabulation for both years would settle it.

The report's own figures are mutually inconsistent: a 71 percent drop in traffic cases implies about 124 traffic offenses in 2021, more than the 120 non-community cases the same report's totals allow.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda

The stated drop from 39 to 19 community offenses is a decline of 51.3 percent, and 19 of 55 cases makes community offenses 34.5 percent of the 2022 caseload. Added to the 65 percent reported as traffic, that accounts for 99.5 percent of the year's cases, leaving essentially no other category. The prosecutor's case log by year would settle whether the categories are exhaustive.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda

If two-thirds of base fines returned $11,989.04, total base fines for 2022 were about $17,983.56. Set against prosecution cost, the remittance does not cover the service: at the $1,400 monthly retainer the prosecutor was paid $16,800 a year, and the requested $1,500 would make it $18,000, so the city nets a loss of roughly $4,811 at the old rate. The city fine revenue ledger and the statutory fine distribution schedule would confirm the split.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda; 1-14-25 council packet (1)

No geotechnical boring report for the Pearl Creek corridor is in our holdings, so the shallow bedrock finding rests on the engineer's statement alone. The project went ahead on that basis, with the contractor starting in October 2023 after a September start slipped. The boring logs in the project manual would settle it.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda; 9.12.23 Council Packet Agenda; 10.10.23 Council Packet

The $53,000 was approved 4-0-0 on a single unnamed quote with no competitive process in the record, and the loan that funded it was repaid in August 2024 with $4,979 in interest saved. By contrast the city took three quotes on the Muni roof a year later and awarded Chandler Roofing at $40,640 over an L and M quote that also stood at $53,000. The written City Hall roof quote is not in our holdings.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda; factbook KENYON_BIDS.md; 2.13.24 Council Packet and Agenda

No nursery availability or pricing for either rose type is in our holdings, so the claims that tree roses are discontinued and that scrub roses cost less are unverified. The only later trace of the Boulevard of Roses in the record is a citizen letter about the boulevard roses that Council Member Sjolander acknowledged on July 14 2026. Nursery quotes for both varieties would settle it.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda; 7.14.26 Council Packet Updated

The switch was reported to the council as a public works plan, added to the agenda as New Business item E, and received no vote, no planting plan and no cost figure. Nothing in our records shows how many roses were replaced or what was spent. The one later signal is the July 14 2026 citizen letter concerning the boulevard roses, which shows the plantings remained a live subject three years on.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda; 7.14.26 Council Packet Updated

The 5-0-0 line looks like a template rather than a count. The identical formula appears on the two other Depot Park liquor requests in the record, for Amanda Hollund and James Wagner on June 22 2024 and for Colin Lambert on July 13 2024, each moved by Helgeson and each recorded as carried 5-0-0. With Henke absent and the night's other votes recorded as 4-0-0 and 3-0-0, the tally cannot be right as written. Corrected minutes or the meeting recording would settle the actual count.

The minutes record a 5-0-0 vote on the Bleess liquor request although only four council members were present, and other votes the same night are recorded as 4-0-0 and 3-0-0.

4.11.23 Council Packet Agenda; 6.11.24 Council Packet and Agenda; 7.9.24 Council Packet Agenda