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I'm ready. Is everything running?
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» Yeah.
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» Yeah, everything's good. All right.
Good evening, everyone. Thank you all so

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much for being here. It is 700 p.m. on
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026,

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and I now call to order the 2075th
regular meeting of the city of College

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Place City Council. Madame Clerk, will
you please take roll call?

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» Yes.
Council member Peterson.

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Council member Sherman,

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» Council Member Cleveland,
>> present.

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» Council member Williams,
>> present.

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» Council member Bole,
>> present.

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» Council member Sling,
>> present.

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And council member Green,
>> present.

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» We have a quorum.
>> All right. Thank you so much. Will you

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all please join me in the pledge of
allegiance?

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It's now time for public comment. Madam
clerk, did anyone submit a written

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comment in advance or request to speak
via telephone or virtually?

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» There were no comments.
>> All right. Thank you. If anyone in

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person in council chambers would like to
speak, please raise your hand.

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» All right. Seeing none, we're going to
move on to our consent agenda. Then the

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consent agenda consists of the agenda
for tonight, January 27th, 2026.

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Approving the council regular meeting
minutes from January 13, 2026.

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Approving the April 2025 financials,
approving the 26-001

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salary ordinance and employee contract
updates.

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Accept resolution 26-003,
David Evans and Associates.

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Accept resolution 26-004
for the Washington State Department of

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Health drinking water state revolving
fund loan for planning and design.

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And that's all for consent agenda. Is
there any item any member of the council

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would like to have removed from consent
agenda at this time?

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» I'll make a motion to approve the
consent agenda.

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» We have a motion to approve. We have
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consent agenda as presented.
All in favor say I.

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» I.
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» All opposed?
Any abstensions.

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» All right. The eyes have it and the
motion is passed.

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Tonight, Heather Lee, EMS director, will
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uh EMS levy and fire chief David Winter
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Well, it's only if Miss Lee needs your
support, but I somehow I think she's got

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it on her own. And if you can just press
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you go. Welcome.
>> Thank you. Thank you for giving me a few

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minutes of your time to talk about the
uh EMS levy for Walawala County. Um we

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have just a brief slideshow for you.
Next slide.

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So the RCW that is listed there
establishes the requirements um for the

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EMS levy both what the funds can be used
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it be a six-year a 10year or a permanent
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established here in Walawala County and
every six years we put it back before

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the voters to see if they would like to
continue funding EMS in this manner. So

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the RCW is very specific about what
those funds can be used for can be used

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for the personnel the equipment any
training that they may need. um also can

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be used for the structures that house
the EMS personnel. So, it does a really

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good job of establishing how those
dollars are used. We're going to we're

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requesting that the voters continue the
current EMS levy at the existing rate of

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50 cents per,000 of assessed value. And
if they approve it, this next levy will

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run for six years. So, it'll be January
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Next, please.
So, just a little bit of background. EMS

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was actually started in the valley in
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since then, it has grown to include six
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city of College Place. So, those eight
agencies cover over 12,000 square miles.

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They also serve over 60,000 residents
and visitors um to the valley. So it's a

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lot of work done by very few entities um
with Walaw Wala Fire Department starting

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in 1969. They actually started their
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system in 1973.
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oldest ALS agency in Washington state.
So they've established EMS uh for a long

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time in this valley. Next slide, please.
Some specific facts for College Place.

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When the levy was originally formed,
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Um, in 2025, there were over 1500. So,
it just shows the growth that we have

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every year that this levy has occurred.
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College Place started their basic life
support transport in November of 2018,

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making them one of only four
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this county. So, the majority of our
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it is just the city of College Place
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Department, and then fire districts four
and five. So if you think about those

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being the only transport agencies, they
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College Place specifically has 37 state
certified EMS providers. Um with that

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they have the majority of those are
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emergency medical technicians. They can
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that's kind of the foundation of EMS. It
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support providers that are basic life
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In 2025, they received over $500,000
from the EMS levy. I got updated figures

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today and it was actually $52,690
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levy. So, next slide, please.

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And really the purpose of this is
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enables agencies to crossrain their
providers as most of them are fire and

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EMS. It enables them to train together.
Gives them a funding mechanism that can

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bridge the gaps between what your
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insurance does not cover for a
transport. uh that fund can help with

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that. For fire districts specifically,
um it really allows them to save their

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fire dollars for that purpose. Fire
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they only have two funding sources,
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have or the EMS levy. So they don't have
some of the other options uh that cities

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do as far as supporting those business
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those dollars are vital for them.
And all of this enables us to build a

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prehosp system that allows for a tiered
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when you call 911, the dispatcher is
going to take your call. They're going

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to dispatch the closest uh fire
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closest and most appropriate
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So that enables us to use our limited
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the county.
That is all I have for you. Do you have

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any questions for me? All right, we
going to go through council members for

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questions, but real quick, u madam cler,
can you please verify that our YouTube

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um live stream is is working? Got some
feedback that it's not working. It's not

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showing.

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» Potentially not working. We're trying to
still see here, but Council Member

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Green, questions or comments for Miss
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» Nothing for me. Council member
Cleveland,

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» no questions, but thank you for coming
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» Council member Stline,
>> I just had one quick question. You had

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said um
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the presentation had 1,200. I was trying
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» I'm sorry, 1200 miles. Not quite that
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» I was trying to do the math and was
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» it did get a lot bigger.
>> Okay, that so the 1200's correct.

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» Sorry, it is 1200 square miles.
>> Thank you. No other questions?

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It's not.
>> Okay. Thank you. I'll tell them to

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verify. Council member Peterson.
>> No, thank you. Very nice presentation.

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Appreciate your work on this.
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» No questions. Thank you for all your
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» Council member Sherman,
>> no questions. Thank you.

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» And council member Boy,
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is for cross trainining and things. So
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» giving us some examples of what we're
going what we will lose.

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» So specifically to College Place, um it
would be that approximately $500,000

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uh that they would lose from their EMS
budget. Um what that does is the chief

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would have to to figure out with the
council members how to continue funding

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the service. Um for all of the agencies
it would mean the same thing is they

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would have to look at their existing
dollars and figure out if they could or

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how they would continue to provide the
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jurisdictions
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the EMS levy brings in about $3.9
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the agencies. So if it were not to pass,
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make up those dollars.
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» Thank you so much for that information.
You know, 500,000 is a huge hit for a

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city our size and especially for our,
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program. it's even a more significant
hit considering that we keep cost as low

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as we possibly can with all those
volunteers and still would lose that

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much money and that would be very
difficult. So, thank you so much for the

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efforts you put into this. Thank you for
coming and taking the time to um let us

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um know more about what's going on and
the need for the to continue the EMS. We

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really appreciate your time.
>> Absolutely. Thank you.

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» You have a good evening.

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I Yeah,
David said his job is done.

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» Good job, David.
>> Thank you, everyone. Have a good night.

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» Thanks for being here, David.

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» All right, so we have um some action
items on our agenda. We have first M.

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McAndrews with us is going to present on
the loan agreement for construction

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funding of the storm water decant
facility.

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Uh yeah, thank you mayor. Good evening
council. Um this is a grant agreement,

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not a loan. Um
I believe I'm second guessing myself

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now. Um
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» Yes.
>> Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Let me correct a

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grant agreement.
>> Thank you. Um regardless you guys, you

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all may recall we've talked about our
decamp facility several times before um

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JB engineers was hired um a few years
ago to start on design. We've completed

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design uh submitted that back to
department of ecology and they have

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funded us to con for construction of the
decant facility. Uh this is a storm

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water decant facility that allows us to
um when we pick up sweep beans and

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vector up catch basins and things like
that allows us to dump that material,

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let the liquids sort out um and then
make their way to the treatment plant

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and the solids to dry and typically with
proper testing those solids can then be

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used to fill dirt somewhere um and
doesn't become a hazardous material. So,

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um they're popular on the west side in
particular and and more and more cities

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on the east side have them. The city of
Walaw wall has one that that's kind of

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makeshift. Um but this will be pretty
state-of-the-art decant facility being

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built out near the wastewater treatment
plant. Um adjacent to there's a site if

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you want to pull up a site if you don't
mind. Um

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uh well that's kind of just the site
layout of it itself and then the larger

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site plan kind of shows on the map
general location of it um as you come in

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on Owens Road into the wastewater
treatment plant. It'll be kind of right

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first thing as you enter a property. So
there's the big silver barn. It'll be

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right next to that if you're familiar
with that area. So anyway, uh it is 95%

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grant with 5% local match. So um for the
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uh $50,000
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are grant funds and 102,500 are local
match. So it's a pretty good deal for us

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to build this facility and it's uh it's
going to be really useful for us now and

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into the future. Any questions?
All right, I'm going to start with

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Council Member Green, but I'm going to
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next question is starting on her side.
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» Council Member Green, questions or
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» Uh, just curious about the 102,000. I
assume that's something built into the

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existing budget and was anticipated for
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here, I still have to ask.
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it is budgeted. It will come out of our
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» That's all I've got. Thanks, Council
Member Cleveland.

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» No questions, but thank you to all our
staff for the hard work in securing

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these funds that our local residents
don't have to fork for fork out for our

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facilities. So, thank you very much,
>> Council Member Cleveland. I'm sorry,

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Council Member Stline.
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» no questions.
>> Council member Peterson.

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» No questions. Thank you. Council member
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» No questions. I've been looking forwards
to this, so glad it's here.

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» Council member Sherman.
>> Ditto. This is exciting.

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» And Council Member Bole,
>> no questions. Great job. Thanks.

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» Mr. Mcanders, can you tell us how this
um decamp facility differs from what

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we're already we're currently doing?
Yeah. So, currently, um, when we collect

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leaves and things like that, there's a
muddy spot in our yard that they get

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dumped and liquids sort out. It really
is a mess. Um, certain things will get

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hauled out, you know, in this vicinity
out near the gun range and dumped. Um,

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but
we really don't have a facility that can

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handle this type of waste. And so this
will be really nice to have, you know,

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state-of-the-art facility that's set up
to handle this type of material.

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» Probably makes us better stewards of our
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» Absolutely.
>> Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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Council member Peterson,
>> I guess I do have a question. So ecology

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got involved with this and so the
potential for an adverse impact on the

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environment that's obviously why they're
giving us the funds and that is the

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containment of the of the fluids more
and or just the whole ball of wax.

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» The the whole ball of wax they
as it stands a lot of the liquids get

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sorted out. If you dump a pile of wet
leaves, the liquids eventually sort out

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and they find their way sometimes across
the pavement. They might make their way

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into a catch basin into the storm
system, which isn't good. So, this

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ensures that that's going to the
treatment plant instead of the storm

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system and the creeks. And then it also
um with proper sorting and and and

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rotating the solids, it allows them to
dry so that they can be put back to the

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earth in a safe manner without
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» great. Thank you so much. Y
>> I'm just going to make a quick comment

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is I once asked Robert what we do with
our leaves because I'm a gardener,

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right? So, I like to throw leaves into
my garden.

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» And I was answer asked him what we do
with her leaves. And his he didn't even

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answer my question. He just says, "You
don't want to put what's in these leaves

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in your yard or in your garden." So,
>> well, and that's true. I mean, the

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leaves we pick up are coming off of the
street, the Department of Ecology would

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consider them contaminated. um any
sweepings or anything like that that

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comes off the street have road grime and
oils and things in them and generally

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aren't going to be something you would
want to put in your garden. So,

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» sure,
>> this process helps change some of that.

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» And that's great because even though
we're dumping them still somewhere off

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by the gun range, it doesn't matter.
It's still going into land that's

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affected in within college place. So, I
think it's um so important that we take

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this next step. So, thank you for that.
All right. If there's no other questions

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or comments, do we have a motion on
resolution number 26-002?

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» Motion to adopt resolution number 26-002
to authorize public works director or

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designate to sign agreement with
Washington State Department of Ecology

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accepting $1,947,500
in grant funding with the required local

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match of $102,500
for the construction of new storm water

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decant facility.
>> All right. Thank you. We have a we have

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a first. Is there a second?
>> I'll second.

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» Council member Green. Second. Any
additional discussion?

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Hearing none. All in favor say I.
>> I.

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» All opposed.
Any abstensions?

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All right. The eyes have it. And the
motion to adopt resolution number 26-002

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has passed.

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Next on our agenda, um, sorry, is Mr.
McAndrews will present an agreement to

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accept a grant for the 2025 2027 bianial
storm water capacity for council

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approval.
>> Yes, thank you, mayor. Um, again, some

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of you that've been here for a while may
recall this. This comes up about every

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two years. Department of Ecology offers
uh what they call a storm water capacity

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grant. um which is 100% grant funding to
help cities like us um

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enforce and operate um under the NPDS
permit, the National Pollutant Discharge

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Elimination System permit that we're
bound to by Department of Ecology. So it

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covers things like public education and
involvement, elicit discharge detection,

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activities supporting programs that
control runoff from new development,

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redevelopment, construction sites,
pollution prevention, establishing and

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refining storm water utilities and rate
structures, water quality monitoring,

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source control for existing development
and equipment purchases that result

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directly in improved compliance. So, um
the city can put can and does

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historically put in for reimbursement
from ecology for certain activities like

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that fall in under those parameters
essentially. Um again, they're offering

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us the $120,000 for the next two years.
This is essentially retroactive from

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July 1st of 25 and will uh be in place
till March 31st of 2027 should we accept

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it.
Uh I guess I'll open up for questions.

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» Council member Boy.
>> No questions. Thank you.

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» Council member Sherman.
No questions. Council member Williams.

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» No questions. Thank you. Council member
Peterson. No question. Second.

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» Council member Stline.
>> Um, I just wanted to say thank you and I

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appreciate the part uh about the
education piece because I think it's

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really important to educate people about
storm water and what happened. So, I'm

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excited to hear about that. That's all.
>> Council member Cleveland.

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» No questions.
>> And Council Member Green,

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» no questions.
>> All right. So, we have no questions or

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comments or further comments. Do we have
a motion on uh resolution number 26-001?

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» I'll make a motion to adopt resolution
number 26-001

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to authorize the public works director
or designate to sign an agreement

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accepting $120,000
for the 2025 to 2027 bianial storm water

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capacity grant.
>> Second, Peterson.

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» Thank you. We have a first and a second.
Any additional discussion?

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hearing none. All in favor say I.
>> I.

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» All opposed.
Any abstensions.

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All right. The eyes have it. And the
motion to adopt resolution number 26-001

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has been approved or passed.
Um, next on our agenda, Mr. first is

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going to present the ordinance um
present ordinance 26-002

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for the transfer of the franchise
agreement from Ziply Fiber to BCE

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Holdings Corporation.
>> Great. Thank you, mayor. So, yeah, it's

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it's kind of tough to follow somebody
gives you all this money and now here I

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come along with nothing. So, um but uh
put me at the front of the the line next

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time. Um anyway, no, just uh long and
short of this is a situation that's been

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going on for quite some time. The coun
some of the council may recall uh that

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we initially started talking about this
back in March of 2025 and it was based

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on a letter from Zipley who is uh who
has a current franchise with the city

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college place uh for wireless services
uh that was adopted in 2022. And so this

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letter basically came along in the end
of December of 24 and was asking uh

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because they were currently in
negotiations and had signed a merger

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agreement. Their parent company uh
called Northwest Fiber uh had signed a

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uh a merger agreement with uh BCE
Holding. And I am not going to put us

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all to sleep with describing the the the
food chain of how that works. But

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essentially what it comes down to is BCE
Holding is a uh US uh corporation,

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United States subsidiary of Bell Canada.
Bell Canada then is uh is also uh owned

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by a publicly traded company out of
Canada called BCE Inc. Uh and so uh long

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and short of it is their parent company,
Ziply, who is who has your franchise in

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the city of College Place and lots of
other places around here, uh is uh

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requesting consent based on the
franchise they signed with the city back

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in 2022 and your ordinance. It refers to
your ordinance. It basically says that

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the city uh the part that's I'll try to
get through this real quick just so it's

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in the record but uh uh it basically
says the the assignment or transfer of

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any business registration franchise or
lease subject to this title meaning your

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title uh 20110
may not directly or indirectly be

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transferred assigned or disposed of by
sale lease merger consolidation or other

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act of the grantee franchisee or lei by
operational law of otherwise without

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prior written consent of the city which
consent shall not be unreasonably

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withheld or delayed except as as
expressed by ordinance and then only on

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such reasonable conditions as may be
prescribed therein. So, a lot of fancy

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words just to say they need your
permission to uh because this is a

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merger uh they do need uh the city's
consent uh because now their ownership

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has changed and so they have this letter
that that's in your packets there that

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they're asking for uh the mayor to be
able to sign. uh the uh the reason for

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the delay may be saying, you know, why
did it take almost over over a year to

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uh to get this done. Uh and again, uh
there was uh some issues, let's say,

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with the current franchise and some of
the subcontracted work that was going on

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in the city. Uh and one of the things
that Mr. McAndrews wanted to make sure

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of is that uh we didn't consent to this
uh with uh the uh current status of some

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of the outstanding permits. So, it was
uh quite the ordeal, but we got there.

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It only uh it only took a year, but uh
it sounds like we're good to go and and

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everything is in good shape. Uh much
better than than when we started. So,

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it's kind of an opportunity, a
fortuitous uh scenario. So, long and

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short of it is we're here just to get
permission uh to uh authorize the mayor

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to sign uh the letter uh which is ironic
because norm well in my world it is

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because normally you don't pass an
ordinance to sign uh a letter. Uh it's

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like you know kind of sawing a toothpick
with a chainsaw. It's a little much, but

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uh in this particular case uh you have
to do it that way or our our opinion is

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that we should do it this way because uh
the original franchise was passed by

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ordinance and as I'm sure you all are
very well aware, you can't amend an

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ordinance with a resolution. You have to
have another ordinance. So, long and

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short of it is uh it it got kind of
stuck in the hard to do box for a little

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while there. So, anyway, that's what
we're here tonight to do is to get this

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finally off everybody's plate. Uh, and
nobody is gonna be more happy uh than

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Jessica Epley, the vice president with
Zipley, who uh is is is now mine and Mr.

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McAndrew's best friend. So, anyway,

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» happy to answer any questions.
>> Council member Green,

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» I got nothing.
>> Council member Cleveland, Council Member

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Stline,
>> no question. Council member Peterson,

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you
>> know, Ziffy, it's interesting there. Um,

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the service they offer our city is an
alternative to, you know, what else is

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out there and I I hear, you know, good
things and whatnot. Um, it is

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interesting that there are whole swaths
of our city that aren't that simply

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cannot go through. I think that's
underground cable areas. They go off of

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telephone. In other words, it's it's um
it's a service that is could really

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benefit many of the people of the city
of College Place with lower rates

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compared to some of the other services
that are out there, but yet there are

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large swaths that will never I guess see
Ziplo's

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business. Any thoughts on that, Robert,
or

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um I think that is somewhat by their own
choice. I don't believe the city's doing

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anything to hold them back from that,
but they

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pick and choose where it makes the most
sense for them. And I don't think the

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city has any say in how that goes. Um,
the only thing that I can think of from

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the city standpoint that could
potentially hold them back is

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moratoriums on new overhead lines in the
downtown corridor, but they could

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certainly go underground. Um,
>> and I think this is too a case of people

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getting along and saying, "Can I use
your underground?" And the other party

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can say no.
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» sure. And it does I mean it does become
expensive to go underground to put new

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trenches in and new conduit and things.
It's costly and so

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» um that's unfortunately a challenge
anywhere there's already existing

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development is adding new underground
infrastructure.

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» Yeah. Yeah. Something we'll have to deal
with. Yeah. Great. Thanks, Council

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member Williams,
>> no questions. Thank you.

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» Council Council Member Sherman,
>> no question.

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» And Council Member Boy,
>> no questions. Okay.

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» Um, Mr. Fergus, I I have a quick
question. Just this is just a procedural

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question. Did we make um error is not
the right word, but I'm going to use the

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word error in approving this contract by
ordinance in the first place?

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» No. That's that's a fantastic question
because uh that is something that is one

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of the few uh rare things where uh our
our wonderful revised code of Washington

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uh will oftent times not say anything
about how legislative bodies at the

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local level need to uh uh process
process certain things. Franchises

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ironically are really uh unique in the
sense that they are a contract that is

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also an ordinance. So, your uh
ordinance, I got to visual aid here, but

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ordinance 2022-023
starts out just like a regular ordinance

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and then literally moves the second page
moves into a contract. So, it's one of

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those rare situations where the statute
requires it to be done by ordinance. Uh,

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and for some odd reason, you can't do it
uh within 5 days after it's first been

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presented to council. You must wait five
days. That's got to be something to do

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with the railroad there because you know
how that always you know it's got to be

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there's there's got to be a story there.
>> Yeah. Interesting.

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» Yeah. So, uh but no, it's it's an odd
thing, but no, absolutely. We have to do

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it by ordinance. So, okay.
>> Yeah. Great question.

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» Listen. All right. Thank you. Any other
questions or comments?

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Um hearing none. Do we have a motion on
ordinance number 26-002?

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I'll make a motion to approve ordinance
26-002

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authorizing the transfer of franchise
agreement from Ziply Fiber to BEC

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Holding Corporation.
>> Thank you. We do have a motion from

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Council Member Green. Is there a second?
>> A second.

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» Council member Sherman. Second. We have
a first and a second. Any additional

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discussion?
Hearing none, let's vote. All in favor

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say I. I.
>> Any opposed? Any

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abstensions?
All right, the eyes have it and the

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motion is passed for ordinance number
26-002.

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Oh, wow. We kind of went right through
those. Um, so there's twoformational

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packets in your review. I mean, in your
Let me try this again. There's

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twoformational reports in your packets
for to review. If you haven't already

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done so, please make sure to do that.
um and reach out to any um departments

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if you have any questions on them. Is
there any other business for good of the

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order?
We are already down to um closing items.

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All right, seeing none, do we have a
motion to conclude the meeting?

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» So moved.
>> Thank you. That was for council member

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Bole. We have a motion to conclude the
meeting. Is there a second?

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» Second. Council member Peterson second.
If there's no objection, the meeting is

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concluded at 7:33 p.m.
Thank you all very much. Appreciate it.

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» Okay, we're