Name: Kalama City Council - August 6, 2026.mp4
Duration: 29 min 15 s
Description: So looking forward to it again next year and hopefully we won't have any even possible concerns about snow, but it was a great night.

[0:01] You should have known that.

[0:11] It's pretty sound. Yeah, I was in a different place. That's all. It was early next morning. You were in Empire. It's five. I know. It's like a uniform. It's not a uniform. It's not a uniform.

[0:30] It's not changes.

[0:33] Yes, thank you for the call. I did get it. Oh, okay. And you answered pretty much all my questions with the early conversation. Oh, okay. Great.

[0:49] All

[2:11] the city council meeting, a Thursday, August 6th, 20th, 26th,

[2:15] to order the extended length of it.

[2:18] Let's go to the student of the United States of America.

[2:22] The next two, we have a lot of literature stamps.

[2:25] One of the issues I clear to all of you

[2:27] in English is the whole liberty and justice for all.

[2:33] Recording in progress.

[2:37] Roll call, position one, two, three.

[2:43] Here.

[2:44] City administrator, do you have a city clerk?

[2:47] Here.

[2:48] Section 4 is out.

[2:49] 5.

[2:50] Here.

[2:51] Public Works.

[2:51] Here.

[2:52] Police Chief.

[2:53] Present.

[2:55] City Attorney.

[2:57] Here.

[2:58] City clerk.

[2:59] Here.

[3:00] Right.

[3:01] Are there any changes to the agenda?

[3:03] All right.

[3:04] All right.

[3:04] Okay.

[3:05] Let's bring this to a different sense of agenda.

[3:08] Oh.

[3:08] We have no presentation.

[3:09] So, yes.

[3:10] The agenda.

[3:12] I move the City Council group.

[3:14] the consent agenda as presented. Approved for payments are plans in 0-1-4-7362-4-7400

[3:24] plus an ECHDFD payments for the month of August 2026 through the amount of $338,415 at 52 cents

[3:34] for the documents included. Approval of meds of the City Council meeting of July 16th,

[3:40] 20 to 20 cents when you find them on a chance, anything there?

[3:44] I'll second. All right.

[3:47] It has been made and seconded.

[3:49] We're starting to have a position two.

[3:51] So position two.

[3:52] Yes.

[3:53] Three.

[3:54] Yes.

[3:55] Five.

[3:56] Yes.

[3:57] And locked.

[3:58] All right.

[3:59] And it has been brewed.

[4:02] All right.

[4:03] Then this brings us to, we have no public hearings.

[4:09] Unfinished business. We have policy updates. Once again, in 2015 we get the keeps on getting.

[4:18] And so are you taking this or not?

[4:22] Probably.

[4:24] Oh, gee, thanks. So we got our response back from CKTC regarding the house build tax.

[4:31] and they needed us to clean up some items, remove some wordy as all it is.

[4:38] So Emily and Kylie and I will work diligently again.

[4:43] Thank you you guys for sharing that.

[4:46] Got one of the people from CJT on the phone, let them know what are some of our changes

[4:54] where we updated some forms and we got to resmit it.

[4:57] And so, we just need your rights as a blessing to move on so that we can get our testimony.

[5:05] And the changes we're very minimal, very minimal, and don't get that.

[5:08] So, impact, there's no change, no growth change, okay, but also to say that's not true.

[5:15] Any questions or comments?

[5:19] No questions.

[5:20] Discretion, send any questions or comments?

[5:23] No questions.

[5:23] Is there any other questions?

[5:25] Later.

[5:27] It's right at the time.

[5:30] No.

[5:31] Okay.

[5:33] Do I have a motion to adopt policy?

[5:37] I motion that we adopt policy update 413 immigration consideration,

[5:44] but I also do want to take it on.

[5:49] Is that it?

[5:50] All right.

[5:50] Motion is made.

[5:51] Is that it?

[5:52] All right.

[5:53] Position 2.

[5:54] Yes.

[5:55] Three.

[5:56] Yes.

[5:57] Five.

[6:01] Yes.

[6:02] And one.

[6:04] Right.

[6:06] You see how many times we have to keep going back to this well.

[6:10] Um, hoping that wasn't it.

[6:12] Hoping that's it.

[6:13] All right.

[6:18] Council rules discussion.

[6:20] I apologize for the late email, but I didn't want to just.

[6:24] I don't intend for this to be the discussion tonight to get into it.

[6:28] What I was hoping is to get your guys' approval of my suggestion, which is some of you might

[6:36] recall.

[6:36] We did have an earlier workshop, much earlier this year, but before we had all the age

[6:42] and bruises, you were so both pretty new to Council.

[6:45] We've had sufficient time to get everyone accolated.

[6:48] I thought that format really worked well for us for that informal setting.

[6:52] and so what I'm suggesting proposing is that we schedule a workshop prior to the next Council meeting in August for an hour, like we did last time sit around, discuss it, remember workshops, no formal action be taken so we can all kind of you guys can all go around and highlight different things that you might want to change or revisit or add or subtract and then staff listen can kind of make the list.

[7:21] We can then have that compiled and then send out to you guys for you to consider before we then add to the first mediums agenda.

[7:30] It's kind of so that gives everyone a chance to kind of make change it or suggest changes.

[7:37] Listen to what other people have think about it and then have sufficient time before we actually get to it.

[7:42] So obviously you guys can choose to do whatever you like.

[7:47] I was also favoring this timeline because it then hopefully gets this all squared away

[7:51] before we get the budget season.

[7:55] In just in case anyone in the public was curious why I've brought this back up.

[8:03] The so-called Washington City's really does recommend that not only do

[8:08] councils have adopted policies from procedures, but that they revisit them every three to five years.

[8:15] And so ours is definitely up for summer revision,

[8:20] up for summer modifications, or at least just to shake off the desk to make sure this is still

[8:24] the policies and procedures that you as the body want to maintain.

[8:30] So that's what I'm suggesting.

[8:34] Go around the horn.

[8:37] Stellar?

[8:37] Yeah, I think that's a great idea.

[8:39] And now I'm calling some of the places.

[8:43] Hopefully, all of you will be present.

[8:45] And we'll do it together.

[8:46] And I'm going to just get an update.

[8:49] As you said, every three to five years.

[8:51] It's a great idea.

[8:53] And with the 6 p.m.

[8:55] before the next meeting, we're for you.

[8:56] That's that one.

[8:57] Okay.

[8:58] Ms. Richardson, what about you?

[9:01] Yeah, I agree.

[9:02] I like the workshop.

[9:02] It's easy.

[9:03] It's easy for us to have a discussion that way.

[9:05] And then I'm also good.

[9:06] Good, let's talk about the next meeting.

[9:09] Okay, and I know he's not here,

[9:11] but I did touch base with Mr. Caliogi

[9:13] as all of the okay with this proposal.

[9:16] So, good, you're good, okay, Mr. Kerbal?

[9:19] Yeah, I'm good, that, okay.

[9:21] Great, all right, well, we'll get that posted.

[9:24] And obviously you have the current version

[9:27] on this agenda, so you just call that off.

[9:32] And again, if you have any questions,

[9:34] feel free to reach out to me.

[9:35] I'm happy to, again, I'm just a facilitator of this.

[9:39] So, all right, well thank you for that.

[9:43] This brings us to new business, I am paying the Cloverdale subdivision, I believe, Todd,

[9:50] your taking this.

[9:51] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, good evening, members of the council.

[9:55] We have the planning commission's recommendation for preliminary planning approval for the Cloverdale

[10:02] subdivision.

[10:04] This is a subdivision that's out of the Cloverdale Road.

[10:09] It's about 41 residential lots.

[10:11] I prepared a staff report.

[10:13] I've included all of the findings from the planning commission.

[10:18] At the planning commission hearing, they did choose to add three additional conditions,

[10:27] which are noted at the bottom of the conditions.

[10:29] I copy all the conditions forward from the SAP recommendation.

[10:34] So, everything is there.

[10:35] If you have any questions, I've been certainly addressed those.

[10:39] Okay.

[10:40] So, is there any questions or comments?

[10:44] I don't after I reviewed all of the documents.

[10:49] I don't get it looks like it's been going on since 2023 is when I was started.

[10:54] I don't have, I already have a question about it and it doesn't look like that, so we're

[10:59] going to have to.

[11:01] So I have no questions.

[11:04] Ms. Christianson, any questions or comments?

[11:07] Just more for question.

[11:08] I did look at it, but so with 41 residential lots, is there additional green spaces in there that

[11:13] I just don't remember seeing?

[11:15] There are no green spaces in there.

[11:18] What they're doing is proposing to utilize the fee in lieu of parts so they're not creating

[11:23] neighborhood parks in this, they do have a couple of duplex plots in there that they've added.

[11:32] Common wall type units, but they did that when they revised the plan to bring the stormwater

[11:39] facility on site in order to avoid losing a larger number of units.

[11:44] But they are not proposing to construct any parks or green spaces internally,

[11:48] but instead continuing into the city's people parks,

[11:52] the end lieu of, and plenty of admission accepted that

[11:56] with the note that the park that was identified

[12:00] in the application is being the closest

[12:01] to the fact that the closest park,

[12:03] there's those ones, which I don't know.

[12:06] They did accept the applicants,

[12:08] the close one, and recommended it for a little bit of that.

[12:11] Okay, thank you.

[12:12] I just remember very fast.

[12:16] Okay.

[12:17] Is there any questions or comments?

[12:18] I can't squint our nut to see how many units we talk at 41, say I include the townhouses

[12:24] and the books.

[12:26] We'll do a pledge if you talk about that, that's yeah.

[12:28] So is that 41 units plus the new flex, it's 41 residential units total, okay, and then

[12:37] there's any allocation for parts, the parts will be addressed through the city's option

[12:44] to pay a fee in lieu of creating a part of internal parks are a requirement for some divisions,

[12:49] but the city does allow them to pay a fee per law in lieu of constructing a part of

[12:55] them there.

[12:55] They're not upset.

[12:56] They're not supposed to construct any parks and set the pay a fee for every law that gets

[13:03] developed out there.

[13:05] And as a city will reallocate that money to you to recruit existing parks or to the

[13:08] fire news.

[13:09] Okay, thank you. And I believe it's $3,000 per lot past the first one. That's correct. Yeah, so it's real money, $120,000.

[13:19] Yeah. You're good. Thank you.

[13:21] So, do I have any questions in comments?

[13:25] No, I just wanted to say, I appreciate the many questions. You sort of got a lot of the two things.

[13:34] So I hope they can all have something so different than everything around there.

[13:41] And we, I see one there, right?

[13:43] We're going to have an opportunity to agree the side of the field line.

[13:47] So yes, the final plan will also be back to you all before recording.

[13:51] But at that point, there's not much that can change.

[13:53] If you want to change anything substantive about it tonight,

[13:56] is denied to bought it by my English recommendations,

[13:59] that's why I think the project itself,

[14:04] once it gets to final flat,

[14:06] all your structure will have been constructed,

[14:08] the roads will be in, the utilities will be in,

[14:11] the loss will all be saved.

[14:14] So at that point, basically you're just accepting

[14:18] the final flat.

[14:19] So you can see the tree names.

[14:20] And I suppose at that time if you object

[14:22] to the naming of the tree, you can change that group.

[14:25] But it was very much at any point.

[14:28] Right.

[14:30] Regardless.

[14:31] At least that we wouldn't have heard those stories outside of the park.

[14:34] But then.

[14:37] That's all I have.

[14:38] Hi.

[14:38] That's right.

[14:39] Kelly, are you comfortable with our infrastructure, sewer, water, roads for this thing?

[14:45] Absolutely.

[14:46] And it will be right now we're just getting through the process to where the next step will

[14:53] be the civil design which will be more in-depth everything underground. But we do have a question.

[15:00] Classy and the sole plan, you have the capacity, and the water veins, and the capacity of roadways,

[15:06] and aggressive rescue from property. Okay, thank you.

[15:10] Just said. And the House, that will be an employee-purchase, and all the staffing.

[15:17] I think so, it's going to be additional work, but, right?

[15:21] not necessarily it's it's no different than our we project 25 new homes here reality is when this

[15:31] is comes to file unless something drastic happens in the market and rates go down to 3%

[15:38] you'll probably see seven to 10 homes depending on what price range should they come in at but we

[15:45] We fully have the capacity of staff to handle 47 permits.

[15:52] And with our new camp strap years, they're cried by easy reeds, so there's less time.

[15:58] Thanks for having me.

[16:01] I have one other question.

[16:02] I just need my memory.

[16:03] A little bit calmer with parking.

[16:06] I forget how many spaces do they have.

[16:08] How does that work again with parking?

[16:10] It's in like 1.9.

[16:11] there are two spaces for residential. I believe the 1.9 is when you go to the full multi-family.

[16:25] That doesn't apply to a townhouse or a townhouse or two spaces.

[16:28] I think that I if I remember the zoning correctly, the townhouse are a part two medium density where the apartments would be a full high density R3.

[16:41] and this is this property so in order to or both of this from come back to which is for the town.

[16:48] Okay, thank you.

[16:54] Okay, so obviously we the council has the possibility of accepting the subdivision

[17:05] with staff or nations modify recommendations.

[17:09] all the list of different options, so I'll lead it to one of you to make a motion.

[17:18] I'll make a motion to accept the planning and commission's recommendation of approval,

[17:21] with conditions and preliminary approval for one of the very best.

[17:27] Okay. All set, good.

[17:28] Seconds.

[17:30] All right.

[17:31] Since June.

[17:32] Yes.

[17:33] Three.

[17:34] Yes.

[17:36] Five.

[17:37] Yes.

[17:37] And one.

[17:37] Alright,

[17:43] thank you, thank you, Mr Johnson. This brings us to public comment and serves please

[17:52] observe five minute limits. How do you, is there any, doesn't appear to be anybody on the

[17:58] They shine up the board right here in the top.

[18:00] See anybody?

[18:02] No.

[18:03] I don't want to use the board, but it's OK.

[18:08] All right.

[18:08] Well, we've been around a long way.

[18:10] We have no words of resolutions, no correspondence.

[18:13] Mary Cosmer reports off, say, despite TDNs trying

[18:21] to, you know, just assured what's going on.

[18:25] National night out was a lot of fun.

[18:26] So looking forward to it again next year and hopefully we won't have any even possible concerns about snow, but it was a great night.

[18:37] And yeah, I'll just leave it at that.

[18:40] So we're welcome.

[18:42] They met with a pilot to sleep just a chapter a little bit, get a general understanding

[18:47] of what we're doing, and that being really first sharing, shared with me that this July

[18:55] was the second month that we slept, investment returns into the general fund, and June's contribution

[19:04] for testing, that same resolution that we passed to was about 25, was about 0.5 grand,

[19:15] and July's was about 0.3 grand, and July's was about 0.5 grand, those funds are probably

[19:25] the painback of the air bomb models, he said he thinks those are all on track.

[19:32] and sales tax revenue, so I mean kind of sluggish,

[19:36] but a target percentage for this part of the year,

[19:40] July, the shipping cost is about 58%,

[19:41] whether they bought a question,

[19:43] there's almost 70% offload of that.

[19:45] So I'm saying, so can we track this slow?

[19:48] And the same fact, there's fewer newer residential

[19:52] construction products,

[19:53] and lower than expected of these revenues.

[19:56] You could say a lot of positive notes.

[19:57] their tourism funds were doing well, and there were a handful of prospective developments

[20:05] in early percent of the sales.

[20:08] We also mentioned that the utility revenues were doing well, tracking just a portion of

[20:12] hundreds and slightly more to 70, and he's in overall to write about the status of the final

[20:20] numbers.

[20:31] So they had some final statistics for the summer reading program, so there were 73 children

[20:39] that got registered for the reading program and 86 of those bookmarks got fully stamped

[20:45] and got their ice cream going from the reader bar from that.

[20:50] and we really appreciate the three of our owners.

[20:54] She's been hosting over in New Horizontal Health

[20:57] for their support of that program.

[21:02] And thank you, Mayor Sandal, for locking in the parade with the 11 children

[21:08] that went with the library and the library patients.

[21:21] I know that the county got a grant for free most of the kids, is there a way that we can look into that same grant or attach into that or that something that's spread around the county or don't you know?

[21:33] You know, from being at the library board meetings, I haven't heard anything about that but they have had library books that they handed out at Easter.

[21:43] and so they do get some library, but it was quite accessible.

[21:47] Brand for Books for Kids.

[21:48] Yeah.

[21:49] I can do them all.

[21:50] Thank you.

[21:50] Yeah, thanks for that.

[21:52] Thank you.

[21:54] Is that it?

[21:55] Absolutely.

[21:55] Perfect.

[21:56] That's suspicious.

[21:57] Anything report?

[22:00] Nothing's a report, but I appreciate you a part.

[22:02] All right.

[22:03] Nice to have you.

[22:07] Mr. Rear.

[22:08] No, I'm good.

[22:09] Thank you.

[22:10] Hey.

[22:10] Just keep doing a good job.

[22:11] Kill it.

[22:17] I don't have anything to report tonight.

[22:20] You heard a lot from me.

[22:21] I thought I'd give everybody a break.

[22:24] So, I'm happy to answer any questions.

[22:26] It's somewhere to lose clapping.

[22:28] Yes, somewhere to lose dice.

[22:29] This is the point.

[22:30] If he's not here to appreciate it.

[22:33] All right.

[22:33] It's possible.

[22:34] You all have my public works report.

[22:37] It was quite a long sit between meetings.

[22:40] So, that's why there's 24 items to answer any questions if there are any on any of that.

[22:47] And today we received notice from Department of Health that we are selected for the 2025

[22:57] Drinking Water State Revolving Fund construction loan.

[23:01] So that's good news.

[23:02] In the coming month, we'll be working with Department of Health on the contract.

[23:10] We'll be bringing to Council for Council Maggaction.

[23:14] This is a $3.5 million loan at a 1% loan fee and a 2.25% payment annual payment fee on

[23:26] a 20-year term with a 0% subsidy.

[23:29] And this is for our drinking water filtration treatment upgrade, which is adding a third filter,

[23:38] upgrading all of the electronics, motors, sun pumps in our plant that was put into operation,

[23:48] is in 2020, 2000, 2002. Yeah. Let it go along with the plant life, 2002. Yeah. Remember

[24:01] what the plant says in the next morning. So, as you all know, the electronics don't last that long,

[24:07] and the plant has filled the money.

[24:12] It's much needed, and it'll get us the next 20 to 30 years.

[24:16] So that's exciting how also working with the pork and raw cheap with their elevator over

[24:24] mass project, but then the next three weeks we are going to be shutting down our 12-inch

[24:30] main that will affect some industrial sites and the housing authority of the bottom of

[24:38] street. I'm going to try to schedule the schedule for after-mallers, so O-Dark 30, when

[24:45] everybody's so bad in the sleep. But right now, I've got some infrastructure that is going

[24:52] to be directly underneath where their elevator's going to be. So, that's just the worker.

[24:58] That's all I have on my knees.

[25:00] If you have, yeah, you've got my report, there are many questions, answer them.

[25:07] The mayor saw my friend on our national night out, it was a mess, and then somebody

[25:12] put out them.

[25:13] And it was canceled, but we had a great time and I appreciate everybody that they show

[25:18] up, show up, especially to other agencies in our village.

[25:23] Final planning for our touch goals, which is, I think, a Sunday, the Clamacultural Festival

[25:29] that works at the end of the month,

[25:31] and then the minimum's breakfast is soon.

[25:35] Got a busy couple of weeks.

[25:37] We did hire a contractor to assist officer Moore

[25:39] with methods.

[25:41] He's a former evidence tank out of Longview.

[25:44] So I'll just give him a officer Moore

[25:47] to cover up in crystal depth.

[25:49] So he's done a great job getting in there and figure things out.

[25:53] We'll end up cleaning a little bit of that out.

[26:02] I've had to see lots of new things in kind of the direction we were going in.

[26:06] I do want to put a reminder out to the citizens to lock your doors, lock your vehicle doors.

[26:13] Okay, take all your buttons out of your vehicle.

[26:16] We did that a couple of nights ago, so this interstate is an IQI, people that come in,

[26:26] see a soft target, and they're gone, so please, please do that.

[26:33] And I did get an email the day from the port of the number of visitors we had for the July

[26:38] It was the 9,400 visitors that visited it for, that's up 100 from 2024 and almost 1,000

[26:48] and 3,000.

[26:49] So it was heavily agitated, but very successful.

[26:53] So I'm assuming.

[26:54] So that's it.

[26:55] And that's all I have.

[26:58] Thank you.

[27:00] Mark.

[27:02] Okay.

[27:03] But the Daily News published our RFP request for proposals for the community building.

[27:09] So we are moving forward on that project. We post it on socials today.

[27:15] There are multiple documents you can click on. One is the guide, the nonprofit. One is the details

[27:21] of the request for proposal a little bit about the property. And then we have images of the building,

[27:29] not a ton of images, but people are, there's information. I was emailing a number and then

[27:35] our mailing address. If people wanted to get more information, they're welcome to, we have

[27:40] posted with Department of Commerce, Daily Journal of Commerce, sorry, with Seattle, and then we'll

[27:49] be working hopefully tomorrow. We've sent out the notice and then multiple other agencies that we

[27:56] will plan to post tomorrow and this coming week. Some of it is tracking down and going

[28:03] to contact me because we don't usually post with these other agencies, so we will do

[28:07] that. How's your priorities and EPC outcome? Thank you.

[28:13] If you have a day to show us today.

[28:15] It's supposed to be. I'm going to be with you today. Thank you for looking.

[28:20] If you have any question or feel that there is a specific picture missing that you'd

[28:24] like to see if we can add that,

[28:26] just to contact the information on the post.

[28:31] And then,

[28:34] yeah, that's all I'm going to say about that.

[28:37] But if you were signed up for notices from our app,

[28:41] which I haven't got a campaign yet,

[28:42] but I am signed up and it's what nice to be gone.

[28:45] And I posted a notice to go to those notifications as well.

[28:48] So if you were signed up,

[28:49] you should have received it on your own.

[28:51] It best as well.

[28:52] Do

[28:57] you have a question or is there anything about it?

[28:59] No.

[29:00] No report.

[29:00] All right.

[29:02] Perfect.

[29:03] There's no exact session.

[29:04] And so no further business.

[29:06] The speeding is adjourned.

[29:10] I saw bliss.

[29:11] Happy bath.

[29:12] Happy bath.

[29:12] That's your bath.

[29:13] Good night, guys.

[29:14] Happy bath.

Kalama City Council - August 6, 2026.mp4

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