[0:01] 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.

[0:31] mad about it all. I remember it. It was tough. Half a mile swim. And then the

[0:37] part of the 5k was like this. Yeah. Did that running around because I that's

[0:42] when you did it. Good job. That's hard. Did. I know she finished too.

[0:45] Wow. Yeah. Did not get DNF'd. Were you out there in your lawn chair? Were you out there in your lawn chair?

[0:50] Okay.

[0:52] It's in there.

[0:53] Eating a cigarette.

[0:54] I'm like, right.

[0:55] Good job.

[0:56] We'll serve.

[1:07] Ready?

[1:09] Okay.

[1:10] Let's bring the city council meeting for September 8, 2026 to order.

[1:14] I want to inform the public of our disclaimer.

[1:16] The city of Bonnie Lake uses machine-assisted live-close captioning.

[1:19] We provide this for accessibility, though we are unable to guarantee the service's accuracy

[1:24] or reliability to the nature of automated technology.

[1:27] I pledge allegiance

[1:32] to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

[1:37] which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[1:47] Madam Clerk, would you call the role please?

[1:51] Deputy Mayor Swatman.

[1:52] President.

[1:53] Council Member Baldwin.

[1:54] Here.

[1:55] Council Member Davis.

[1:56] Present.

[1:57] Council Member Fullerton.

[1:59] Here.

[1:59] Council Member Hewbler.

[2:00] Here.

[2:01] Council Member McClainman.

[2:02] Councilmember Ross, here, City Administrator Vodapitch, Police Chief Barry, Administrative

[2:12] Services Director McEwen, Superintendent of Public Works, McBee, and City Clerk, Sadie

[2:20] Shannonman here.

[2:21] Great, thank you.

[2:23] Then make a motion to excuse Councilmember McLeanman's from this evening's meeting.

[2:27] Second.

[2:28] Second.

[2:29] moved and seconded. All those in favor of excusing Councilmember McLean say aye.

[2:33] Aye.

[2:34] As opposed, you know, right? Councilmember McLean is excused. We have no agenda

[2:40] modifications. We now have Council reports. We have any Council reports tonight.

[2:45] I go to Councilmember Fullerton.

[2:47] I just do like all three. Yeah, whatever you got.

[2:50] I have. First of all, I have the Community Development Committee. We met last week at

[2:56] 4.30 and we meet the first Tuesday of every month of stairs in the conference room.

[3:07] We did have committee reports from Public Services Director Sullivan.

[3:12] He just wanted to let us know that they haven't always stopped now at Church Lake and West

[3:19] caps drive. And on 200th Street and South Prairie, they're doing

[3:25] channelization plan to help the flow of traffic better. They're

[3:31] going to do signage and pavement signages in order to help

[3:36] that flow of traffic and let people understand where to go. They

[3:42] We did bids on the police building roof, roof award and new carpets.

[3:49] So they're going to do the roof first, and then they're going to do the new carpets.

[3:53] The roof should hopefully be finished by the end of September, and then they'll start

[3:56] on the carpet.

[3:58] October, they're going to start doing quarterly reports at the CDC meeting so that we can

[4:04] have kind of updates with the public services to understand.

[4:09] 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.

[4:24] 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.

[4:36] 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.

[4:46] Hopefully in a good way.

[4:48] Then we discussed resolution of the City of Bonnie Lake Pierce County authorizing the transfer of $50,000 from the Park CIP,

[5:01] wayfinding and interpretive signing signage for an on-call engineer service

[5:08] contract with David Evans and associates to design the phenylcrete bridge

[5:14] repair, peer repair from 2025, permit summary. So basically they did an

[5:25] assessment and there is some fixes that desperately need to be done. We did ask if the insurance

[5:33] would cover it, but it's out of term and we're not sure who the insurance company that we're

[5:42] going to check on that, but I don't think that was something that was covered. And it's been the

[5:48] the waterway has been taking in a lot more water because of all of the 2025 water

[5:55] storms and flooding and everything. So that's really needing to be repaired. So

[6:00] we went ahead and did that. That will be on tonight's consent agenda because we're

[6:08] not asking for any more money. It's already within the budgeted items. Then we

[6:18] We talked about authorizing the mayor to sign a professional services agreement with

[6:23] Century West engineering for the rehabilitation of the sewer pump station 17.

[6:32] So we went ahead and put that on tonight's consent agenda as well.

[6:38] That was City Engineer Gills spoke to us about that and all the repairs that need to be made

[6:45] to the pump station number 17, and we had development services manager

[6:51] Baliske talked to us about the emergency storage systems, the ESS facilities,

[7:02] which is those big battery things. So we're talking about keeping that

[7:10] That moratorium going, however, there was updates to allow for mobile EESS temporarily

[7:20] to come in would only be allowed for like 90 days up to an extended of one year depending

[7:29] on emergency needs.

[7:31] So that would be a mobile service that could come in if there was ever like a Lahar or a super

[7:37] emergency where we were unable to have the power that we need so these emergency mobile

[7:44] services can come in and so even though we have a moratorium on the BES, the battery emergency

[7:57] system storage systems, this would allow in an emergency where it could be overridden also

[8:05] So we did not touch anything having to do with residential zoning.

[8:11] So therefore the testless and all of the home battery backup systems would still be allowed.

[8:19] So for businesses and residential, we chose to allow those and leave those in because

[8:25] we don't want to affect the public in any way to be able to have power when they need it.

[8:34] 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

[8:55] ordinances as well as legal to see if there's ways to get around some of the wording as far as the

[9:06] having it in a manufactured home park or a mobile park or an RV park if there's a way to allow

[9:12] for them and not have to be a double wide. And we talked about the ADUs, the rules for the size of

[9:20] the ADU's versus the rule for the size of a manufactured home, and so we're working

[9:26] on that. That's just something that we had that open discussion. There was no pushing

[9:31] that into the agenda yet.

[9:35] Then I did not attend the CFF. However, at the Lions Club,

[9:44] one of our former council members had gone to the CFF, so there's just a few updates

[9:49] on that, which is the communities for families. The Bonnie Lake beautify Bonnie Lake is coming

[9:59] up on September 19th, and they're going to have Seahawks themed t-shirts this year, which

[10:06] are free, and they'll have pizza, so they have opportunities to sign up on the website

[10:12] to volunteer for beautify Bonnie Lake, and that's for community members, and if any council

[10:17] members would like to join. You're welcome to do that.

[10:22] Then we talked about the

[10:25] big give is coming. So there's opportunities to sign up for the big give to

[10:32] volunteer to drive the food services around. They have also opportunities for

[10:38] you to donate to the big give if you want. And the Lions Club did vote to provide $500

[10:50] all-star sponsorship, which was nice that they did that. Also coming up soon is the

[11:00] new community toy box. So there's volunteers for signing up to volunteer for sorting toys,

[11:11] setting up tearing down and toy distribution. You can also bring in contributions to the

[11:18] Gordon family YMCA. They would like new toys or gift wrap ribbon and tape gift cards and monetary

[11:27] donations. So those can all be accepted at the Gordon YMCA and Sumner. So that was for CFF.

[11:34] And then for the Lions Club, we did help 114 kids go back to school this year. We had social

[11:42] barber. We had a truck barber come in and hair stylists. We were able to help 47 kids get haircuts

[11:51] get their hair styled and done. We provided backpacks and supplies. Those backpacks and supplies

[11:58] will be available at Lions for Kids House until the end of October or while supplies last.

[12:09] And I think that's everything. Thank you. Thank you. Other reports?

[12:17] It wants to go first. Oh my council member Heuber. No, I was the assultant Dan if he wanted to go ahead.

[12:25] Okay, so I sell some 911 meeting for August. I almost said October after you said October,

[12:32] now my brain went October. So August, so we had a presentation from the 988 program and volunteers

[12:39] of America, Western Washington. The program is still fairly young program. It was started in

[12:49] 2022 with information gathering. Summer of 2023, pilot program went co-live. And then in 2025,

[12:56] it was transitioned into a permanent program. There are licensed health people within 988 programs,

[13:04] so that they're able to work with each of the call takers in the volunteers of America.

[13:11] It is the one and only collaborative

[13:17] 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

[13:24] building, so they are able to work together side-by-side. If there is a call that comes in for 9-1-1,

[13:31] 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

[13:37] And then they are able to help them if somebody needs to call in to 988

[13:43] They're actually different

[13:46] Choices when you call in so there's like one that's just for veterans

[13:50] 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

[13:58] And if somebody else feels that they know somebody that is having a mental health crisis,

[14:05] you can actually call in or 988 and let them know that, hey, I think this person's

[14:12] having a crisis, I would like to get them some help, how do I get them some help, and

[14:16] they will walk you through steps of how to get help.

[14:20] The funding source will not dry up as long as cell phones and phones exist.

[14:25] It is tied to our phone carrier plans.

[14:27] So every person that has a phone line pays 40 cents per line, and that goes to 988 services.

[14:35] So even as the state has to cut budgets, 988 will not be cut.

[14:42] And then, we are also working on the budget for...

[14:53] I'll have more on that next month, but we're working on that.

[14:56] But we do not have to make any cuts or anything like

[15:00] That, so it is doing well. And then that's that, that's in that one. Homecoming

[15:10] parade is October 1st. I want to make sure everybody knows that. Parade starts at 5 p.m.

[15:17] Council mayor, everybody is invited to attend. Staff will have the truck and trailer out

[15:23] again this year. Just bring candy. Seedings from 3.30 to 4.30. So make sure you're back there

[15:30] so we can get you on the truck and trailer.

[15:33] And then my biggest announcement is our Money Lake High School and Sumner High School

[15:41] Marching Bands Qualified for the Rose Bowl.

[15:45] The Rose Parade is the most prestigious parade in America.

[15:50] And these students are one of only 20 Marching Bands that qualified and they are only one

[15:57] of six that are high school level that would qualify for this.

[16:02] So our band director at Bonneley High School, Mr. King, he came or went to the band director

[16:09] down at some of our high school and said, hey, I think we should do this collaboratively

[16:12] and work together.

[16:13] And so they did the application.

[16:15] They worked for months and months and months to get everything put together, put all their

[16:19] videos and all that stuff.

[16:21] And they were told by someone that's on the committee, well, a person at Bonneley High

[16:27] that knows someone that's on the Rose Parade Committee was told that it was an absolute

[16:32] no-brainer when they saw the application for our school district bans to be able to go.

[16:38] So they will be asking for help throughout all the communities in funding this because they

[16:45] were told that if you qualify every student including the graduated ones are allowed to go.

[16:52] So they do need to be able to help all of the students.

[16:57] So it's the students that graduated in 2026.

[17:03] And the students will graduate in 2027 are invited to go.

[17:06] And it's not until January 1st, 2028.

[17:10] So they have 15 months to fundraise, but they have a lot of fundraising.

[17:13] They are expecting to have to fundraise about a million dollars.

[17:18] So they will be asking for lots of options, lots of ways that both cities, communities,

[17:26] everybody can get involved and help them in raising all that funding.

[17:31] So they don't, the school district doesn't want to turn of anyone away and they will be

[17:36] working with the school district on seeing how much budget they could get from the school

[17:39] district and how all the funding could be done through the district rather than separately

[17:44] through their band boosters since they have to collaboratively work together to fundraise.

[17:49] So if anybody wants, I'll send out the website that our band director at Wine Lake High

[17:56] School put together so that you can see their application, their videos, and everything

[18:03] like that. So it's a really big deal. Sumner High School the last time they went was 1998.

[18:10] a Washington State Band has not been invited since, I think it was like 2015, so this is

[18:20] a big deal, even for Bonnie Lake and Sumner Washington, our cities themselves, because

[18:26] all new stations will be coming out to interview the schools, the cities, the people, the students,

[18:36] The lady that runs the Rose Parade, she will be coming in there hopeful she'll be here

[18:44] for the daffodil parade.

[18:46] So at that time she will be seeing how do our cities look, how do our cities run asking

[18:50] questions looking at us and because it's a huge ordeal and they want to know everything.

[18:55] So over the next year we can expect to see a lot of news media channels coming in to do

[19:01] things.

[19:01] And so it'll be a huge help.

September 8, 2026, City Council Meeting

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