1 00:00:01,620 --> 00:00:31,600 I guess. I guess. Oh, really? So I couldn't figure that, because there's not going to be longer. I thought there was a fixed point. You just wanted to make it across. I think the cross is something good. I'm like this. I'm not doing this. But this is not the sort. That's why it passed you. I. I got you. He's still he's still being me across the finish line. It's fine. It's fine. It's not the fastest. I'm not. 2 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:37,960 mad about it all. I remember it. It was tough. Half a mile swim. And then the 3 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:42,120 part of the 5k was like this. Yeah. Did that running around because I that's 4 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,180 when you did it. Good job. That's hard. Did. I know she finished too. 5 00:00:45,380 --> 00:00:50,620 Wow. Yeah. Did not get DNF'd. Were you out there in your lawn chair? Were you out there in your lawn chair? 6 00:00:50,620 --> 00:00:50,880 Okay. 7 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:52,980 It's in there. 8 00:00:53,340 --> 00:00:53,780 Eating a cigarette. 9 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:55,700 I'm like, right. 10 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:56,120 Good job. 11 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:57,520 We'll serve. 12 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:08,440 Ready? 13 00:01:09,260 --> 00:01:09,780 Okay. 14 00:01:10,140 --> 00:01:13,700 Let's bring the city council meeting for September 8, 2026 to order. 15 00:01:14,180 --> 00:01:15,900 I want to inform the public of our disclaimer. 16 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,260 The city of Bonnie Lake uses machine-assisted live-close captioning. 17 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:24,240 We provide this for accessibility, though we are unable to guarantee the service's accuracy 18 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,040 or reliability to the nature of automated technology. 19 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,420 I pledge allegiance 20 00:01:32,850 --> 00:01:37,330 to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for 21 00:01:37,330 --> 00:01:43,330 which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 22 00:01:47,590 --> 00:01:49,270 Madam Clerk, would you call the role please? 23 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,350 Deputy Mayor Swatman. 24 00:01:52,670 --> 00:01:52,870 President. 25 00:01:53,250 --> 00:01:54,270 Council Member Baldwin. 26 00:01:54,630 --> 00:01:54,810 Here. 27 00:01:55,310 --> 00:01:56,070 Council Member Davis. 28 00:01:56,550 --> 00:01:56,750 Present. 29 00:01:57,150 --> 00:01:58,070 Council Member Fullerton. 30 00:01:59,030 --> 00:01:59,330 Here. 31 00:01:59,810 --> 00:02:00,730 Council Member Hewbler. 32 00:02:00,990 --> 00:02:01,130 Here. 33 00:02:01,550 --> 00:02:02,630 Council Member McClainman. 34 00:02:02,630 --> 00:02:12,790 Councilmember Ross, here, City Administrator Vodapitch, Police Chief Barry, Administrative 35 00:02:12,790 --> 00:02:20,070 Services Director McEwen, Superintendent of Public Works, McBee, and City Clerk, Sadie 36 00:02:20,070 --> 00:02:20,890 Shannonman here. 37 00:02:21,950 --> 00:02:22,530 Great, thank you. 38 00:02:23,030 --> 00:02:26,890 Then make a motion to excuse Councilmember McLeanman's from this evening's meeting. 39 00:02:27,190 --> 00:02:27,790 Second. 40 00:02:28,950 --> 00:02:29,110 Second. 41 00:02:29,110 --> 00:02:33,730 moved and seconded. All those in favor of excusing Councilmember McLean say aye. 42 00:02:33,950 --> 00:02:34,330 Aye. 43 00:02:34,930 --> 00:02:40,770 As opposed, you know, right? Councilmember McLean is excused. We have no agenda 44 00:02:40,770 --> 00:02:44,590 modifications. We now have Council reports. We have any Council reports tonight. 45 00:02:45,210 --> 00:02:47,190 I go to Councilmember Fullerton. 46 00:02:47,770 --> 00:02:50,330 I just do like all three. Yeah, whatever you got. 47 00:02:50,630 --> 00:02:56,770 I have. First of all, I have the Community Development Committee. We met last week at 48 00:02:56,770 --> 00:03:06,310 4.30 and we meet the first Tuesday of every month of stairs in the conference room. 49 00:03:07,030 --> 00:03:11,970 We did have committee reports from Public Services Director Sullivan. 50 00:03:12,690 --> 00:03:19,230 He just wanted to let us know that they haven't always stopped now at Church Lake and West 51 00:03:19,230 --> 00:03:25,970 caps drive. And on 200th Street and South Prairie, they're doing 52 00:03:25,970 --> 00:03:31,410 channelization plan to help the flow of traffic better. They're 53 00:03:31,410 --> 00:03:36,390 going to do signage and pavement signages in order to help 54 00:03:36,390 --> 00:03:42,430 that flow of traffic and let people understand where to go. They 55 00:03:42,430 --> 00:03:49,590 We did bids on the police building roof, roof award and new carpets. 56 00:03:49,790 --> 00:03:52,970 So they're going to do the roof first, and then they're going to do the new carpets. 57 00:03:53,110 --> 00:03:56,830 The roof should hopefully be finished by the end of September, and then they'll start 58 00:03:56,830 --> 00:03:57,510 on the carpet. 59 00:03:58,710 --> 00:04:04,390 October, they're going to start doing quarterly reports at the CDC meeting so that we can 60 00:04:04,390 --> 00:04:09,450 have kind of updates with the public services to understand. 61 00:04:09,450 --> 00:04:23,510 And kind of we have all of these different items that we want them to work on and so they're going to give us updates on that quarterly so that we can kind of get a feel for how things are moving behind the scenes that we don't always see. 62 00:04:24,350 --> 00:04:36,370 The mayor let us know that the economic development board is working on a new marketing program so that we can bring job growth and more business into Bonnie Lake. 63 00:04:36,370 --> 00:04:46,190 and we think that when they finish 167 that will also help with the moving of the, you know, kind of putting us on the map a little bit. 64 00:04:46,590 --> 00:04:47,530 Hopefully in a good way. 65 00:04:48,650 --> 00:05:01,610 Then we discussed resolution of the City of Bonnie Lake Pierce County authorizing the transfer of $50,000 from the Park CIP, 66 00:05:01,610 --> 00:05:08,590 wayfinding and interpretive signing signage for an on-call engineer service 67 00:05:08,590 --> 00:05:14,230 contract with David Evans and associates to design the phenylcrete bridge 68 00:05:14,230 --> 00:05:25,230 repair, peer repair from 2025, permit summary. So basically they did an 69 00:05:25,230 --> 00:05:33,670 assessment and there is some fixes that desperately need to be done. We did ask if the insurance 70 00:05:33,670 --> 00:05:42,530 would cover it, but it's out of term and we're not sure who the insurance company that we're 71 00:05:42,530 --> 00:05:48,310 going to check on that, but I don't think that was something that was covered. And it's been the 72 00:05:48,310 --> 00:05:55,090 the waterway has been taking in a lot more water because of all of the 2025 water 73 00:05:55,090 --> 00:06:00,890 storms and flooding and everything. So that's really needing to be repaired. So 74 00:06:00,890 --> 00:06:08,610 we went ahead and did that. That will be on tonight's consent agenda because we're 75 00:06:08,610 --> 00:06:18,190 not asking for any more money. It's already within the budgeted items. Then we 76 00:06:18,190 --> 00:06:23,730 We talked about authorizing the mayor to sign a professional services agreement with 77 00:06:23,730 --> 00:06:30,650 Century West engineering for the rehabilitation of the sewer pump station 17. 78 00:06:32,170 --> 00:06:37,470 So we went ahead and put that on tonight's consent agenda as well. 79 00:06:38,410 --> 00:06:45,670 That was City Engineer Gills spoke to us about that and all the repairs that need to be made 80 00:06:45,670 --> 00:06:51,310 to the pump station number 17, and we had development services manager 81 00:06:51,310 --> 00:07:02,010 Baliske talked to us about the emergency storage systems, the ESS facilities, 82 00:07:02,790 --> 00:07:10,870 which is those big battery things. So we're talking about keeping that 83 00:07:10,870 --> 00:07:20,350 That moratorium going, however, there was updates to allow for mobile EESS temporarily 84 00:07:20,910 --> 00:07:29,110 to come in would only be allowed for like 90 days up to an extended of one year depending 85 00:07:29,110 --> 00:07:30,610 on emergency needs. 86 00:07:31,490 --> 00:07:37,870 So that would be a mobile service that could come in if there was ever like a Lahar or a super 87 00:07:37,870 --> 00:07:44,730 emergency where we were unable to have the power that we need so these emergency mobile 88 00:07:44,730 --> 00:07:57,010 services can come in and so even though we have a moratorium on the BES, the battery emergency 89 00:07:57,010 --> 00:08:05,050 system storage systems, this would allow in an emergency where it could be overridden also 90 00:08:05,050 --> 00:08:10,830 So we did not touch anything having to do with residential zoning. 91 00:08:11,430 --> 00:08:18,850 So therefore the testless and all of the home battery backup systems would still be allowed. 92 00:08:19,330 --> 00:08:25,730 So for businesses and residential, we chose to allow those and leave those in because 93 00:08:25,730 --> 00:08:34,370 we don't want to affect the public in any way to be able to have power when they need it. 94 00:08:34,370 --> 00:08:55,230 Let's see. Then we talked about, oh, manufactured homes. So we had an open discussion of the manufactured homes and we have the service director Sullivan is going to be looking into the 95 00:08:55,230 --> 00:09:04,770 ordinances as well as legal to see if there's ways to get around some of the wording as far as the 96 00:09:06,210 --> 00:09:12,930 having it in a manufactured home park or a mobile park or an RV park if there's a way to allow 97 00:09:12,930 --> 00:09:20,850 for them and not have to be a double wide. And we talked about the ADUs, the rules for the size of 98 00:09:20,850 --> 00:09:26,810 the ADU's versus the rule for the size of a manufactured home, and so we're working 99 00:09:26,810 --> 00:09:31,910 on that. That's just something that we had that open discussion. There was no pushing 100 00:09:31,910 --> 00:09:33,570 that into the agenda yet. 101 00:09:35,610 --> 00:09:44,030 Then I did not attend the CFF. However, at the Lions Club, 102 00:09:44,330 --> 00:09:49,610 one of our former council members had gone to the CFF, so there's just a few updates 103 00:09:49,610 --> 00:09:59,390 on that, which is the communities for families. The Bonnie Lake beautify Bonnie Lake is coming 104 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:06,890 up on September 19th, and they're going to have Seahawks themed t-shirts this year, which 105 00:10:06,890 --> 00:10:12,090 are free, and they'll have pizza, so they have opportunities to sign up on the website 106 00:10:12,090 --> 00:10:17,290 to volunteer for beautify Bonnie Lake, and that's for community members, and if any council 107 00:10:17,290 --> 00:10:20,450 members would like to join. You're welcome to do that. 108 00:10:22,810 --> 00:10:25,630 Then we talked about the 109 00:10:25,630 --> 00:10:32,230 big give is coming. So there's opportunities to sign up for the big give to 110 00:10:32,230 --> 00:10:38,810 volunteer to drive the food services around. They have also opportunities for 111 00:10:38,810 --> 00:10:48,950 you to donate to the big give if you want. And the Lions Club did vote to provide $500 112 00:10:50,830 --> 00:11:00,110 all-star sponsorship, which was nice that they did that. Also coming up soon is the 113 00:11:00,110 --> 00:11:11,050 new community toy box. So there's volunteers for signing up to volunteer for sorting toys, 114 00:11:11,350 --> 00:11:18,970 setting up tearing down and toy distribution. You can also bring in contributions to the 115 00:11:18,970 --> 00:11:27,190 Gordon family YMCA. They would like new toys or gift wrap ribbon and tape gift cards and monetary 116 00:11:27,190 --> 00:11:34,150 donations. So those can all be accepted at the Gordon YMCA and Sumner. So that was for CFF. 117 00:11:34,430 --> 00:11:42,070 And then for the Lions Club, we did help 114 kids go back to school this year. We had social 118 00:11:42,070 --> 00:11:51,390 barber. We had a truck barber come in and hair stylists. We were able to help 47 kids get haircuts 119 00:11:51,390 --> 00:11:58,790 get their hair styled and done. We provided backpacks and supplies. Those backpacks and supplies 120 00:11:58,790 --> 00:12:05,830 will be available at Lions for Kids House until the end of October or while supplies last. 121 00:12:09,950 --> 00:12:17,050 And I think that's everything. Thank you. Thank you. Other reports? 122 00:12:17,050 --> 00:12:24,470 It wants to go first. Oh my council member Heuber. No, I was the assultant Dan if he wanted to go ahead. 123 00:12:25,470 --> 00:12:32,050 Okay, so I sell some 911 meeting for August. I almost said October after you said October, 124 00:12:32,050 --> 00:12:39,850 now my brain went October. So August, so we had a presentation from the 988 program and volunteers 125 00:12:39,850 --> 00:12:49,210 of America, Western Washington. The program is still fairly young program. It was started in 126 00:12:49,210 --> 00:12:56,090 2022 with information gathering. Summer of 2023, pilot program went co-live. And then in 2025, 127 00:12:56,190 --> 00:13:04,470 it was transitioned into a permanent program. There are licensed health people within 988 programs, 128 00:13:04,470 --> 00:13:09,890 so that they're able to work with each of the call takers in the volunteers of America. 129 00:13:11,230 --> 00:13:14,890 It is the one and only collaborative 130 00:13:17,310 --> 00:13:24,750 between a 9-1-1 and a 9-8-8 center in Washington state. So our 9-8-8 program is within our 9-1-1 131 00:13:24,750 --> 00:13:31,130 building, so they are able to work together side-by-side. If there is a call that comes in for 9-1-1, 132 00:13:31,130 --> 00:13:37,410 But it sounds like it's more of a 988 thing. They're able to hand that directly off to the 988 dispatchers and volunteers 133 00:13:37,410 --> 00:13:42,770 And then they are able to help them if somebody needs to call in to 988 134 00:13:43,450 --> 00:13:44,850 They're actually different 135 00:13:46,010 --> 00:13:49,790 Choices when you call in so there's like one that's just for veterans 136 00:13:50,310 --> 00:13:58,790 There is one that's just for Native Americans. We are actually the only one in the country that has one that is just for natives and then 137 00:13:58,790 --> 00:14:04,690 And if somebody else feels that they know somebody that is having a mental health crisis, 138 00:14:05,230 --> 00:14:12,210 you can actually call in or 988 and let them know that, hey, I think this person's 139 00:14:12,210 --> 00:14:16,850 having a crisis, I would like to get them some help, how do I get them some help, and 140 00:14:16,850 --> 00:14:18,770 they will walk you through steps of how to get help. 141 00:14:20,370 --> 00:14:24,690 The funding source will not dry up as long as cell phones and phones exist. 142 00:14:25,010 --> 00:14:27,670 It is tied to our phone carrier plans. 143 00:14:27,670 --> 00:14:34,730 So every person that has a phone line pays 40 cents per line, and that goes to 988 services. 144 00:14:35,430 --> 00:14:39,350 So even as the state has to cut budgets, 988 will not be cut. 145 00:14:42,210 --> 00:14:48,990 And then, we are also working on the budget for... 146 00:14:53,230 --> 00:14:56,390 I'll have more on that next month, but we're working on that. 147 00:14:56,910 --> 00:14:59,970 But we do not have to make any cuts or anything like 148 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:10,160 That, so it is doing well. And then that's that, that's in that one. Homecoming 149 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:15,360 parade is October 1st. I want to make sure everybody knows that. Parade starts at 5 p.m. 150 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:23,840 Council mayor, everybody is invited to attend. Staff will have the truck and trailer out 151 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:30,700 again this year. Just bring candy. Seedings from 3.30 to 4.30. So make sure you're back there 152 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:32,820 so we can get you on the truck and trailer. 153 00:15:33,660 --> 00:15:41,660 And then my biggest announcement is our Money Lake High School and Sumner High School 154 00:15:41,660 --> 00:15:43,580 Marching Bands Qualified for the Rose Bowl. 155 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,560 The Rose Parade is the most prestigious parade in America. 156 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:57,760 And these students are one of only 20 Marching Bands that qualified and they are only one 157 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,520 of six that are high school level that would qualify for this. 158 00:16:02,220 --> 00:16:09,220 So our band director at Bonneley High School, Mr. King, he came or went to the band director 159 00:16:09,220 --> 00:16:12,980 down at some of our high school and said, hey, I think we should do this collaboratively 160 00:16:12,980 --> 00:16:13,700 and work together. 161 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,040 And so they did the application. 162 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:19,660 They worked for months and months and months to get everything put together, put all their 163 00:16:19,660 --> 00:16:21,000 videos and all that stuff. 164 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:27,600 And they were told by someone that's on the committee, well, a person at Bonneley High 165 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,520 that knows someone that's on the Rose Parade Committee was told that it was an absolute 166 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:37,720 no-brainer when they saw the application for our school district bans to be able to go. 167 00:16:38,740 --> 00:16:45,820 So they will be asking for help throughout all the communities in funding this because they 168 00:16:45,820 --> 00:16:52,760 were told that if you qualify every student including the graduated ones are allowed to go. 169 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,040 So they do need to be able to help all of the students. 170 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,960 So it's the students that graduated in 2026. 171 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,120 And the students will graduate in 2027 are invited to go. 172 00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:09,460 And it's not until January 1st, 2028. 173 00:17:10,020 --> 00:17:13,000 So they have 15 months to fundraise, but they have a lot of fundraising. 174 00:17:13,620 --> 00:17:17,300 They are expecting to have to fundraise about a million dollars. 175 00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:26,220 So they will be asking for lots of options, lots of ways that both cities, communities, 176 00:17:26,220 --> 00:17:31,460 everybody can get involved and help them in raising all that funding. 177 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,220 So they don't, the school district doesn't want to turn of anyone away and they will be 178 00:17:36,220 --> 00:17:39,800 working with the school district on seeing how much budget they could get from the school 179 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:44,500 district and how all the funding could be done through the district rather than separately 180 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:48,720 through their band boosters since they have to collaboratively work together to fundraise. 181 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:56,000 So if anybody wants, I'll send out the website that our band director at Wine Lake High 182 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:03,800 School put together so that you can see their application, their videos, and everything 183 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:10,240 like that. So it's a really big deal. Sumner High School the last time they went was 1998. 184 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:20,660 a Washington State Band has not been invited since, I think it was like 2015, so this is 185 00:18:20,660 --> 00:18:26,460 a big deal, even for Bonnie Lake and Sumner Washington, our cities themselves, because 186 00:18:26,460 --> 00:18:33,320 all new stations will be coming out to interview the schools, the cities, the people, the students, 187 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:44,280 The lady that runs the Rose Parade, she will be coming in there hopeful she'll be here 188 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:45,360 for the daffodil parade. 189 00:18:46,020 --> 00:18:50,400 So at that time she will be seeing how do our cities look, how do our cities run asking 190 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,100 questions looking at us and because it's a huge ordeal and they want to know everything. 191 00:18:55,400 --> 00:19:01,180 So over the next year we can expect to see a lot of news media channels coming in to do 192 00:19:01,180 --> 00:19:01,540 things. 193 00:19:01,540 --> 00:19:03,800 And so it'll be a huge help.