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[0:13] Any further than your patient. My pleasure,
[0:31] Larry.
[0:40] Let us pray. Lord, I just pray blessing over
[0:43] this gathering here tonight and I especially want to lift up the members of law enforcement,
[0:48] the men and women who serve this community fearlessly. God, I pray that you guard their
[0:54] hearts and minds, from all the things they see on a daily basis and they fearlessly run in
[0:59] the harms way to protect this community. God, I pray blessing and protection upon every
[1:03] member of the city council or city leadership and that they would make decisions thoughtfully
[1:11] and wisely to bless our community, Lord God. We just ask these things in the mighty name of
[1:18] I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the Republic of America which stands
[1:26] in the United States of America and to the Republic of America and to the United States of America.
[1:33] Can
[1:37] you please take the role?
[1:40] Council Member Harvey.
[1:41] Here.
[1:41] Council Member Wood.
[1:43] Here.
[1:44] Council Member Hill.
[1:45] Here.
[1:46] Council Member Cardinowski.
[1:47] Here.
[1:48] Council Member Alexander.
[1:49] Chair, Council Member Collins, Mayor Anderson.
[1:54] Here.
[1:56] Do I have a motion to approve or amend to my agenda?
[2:03] Discussion?
[2:05] All those in favor?
[2:07] The post motion carries.
[2:10] Do I have a motion to approve or amend the draft minutes
[2:14] of the July 21st, 2026 regular council meeting?
[2:21] Discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. We have a proclamation tonight.
[2:28] Chief Flussard, do you have something to say before I read the proclamation?
[2:32] If you don't mind reading a person, I'll make a comment.
[2:34] Okay. Proclamation, City of Kielso, National Night Out, August 4th, 2026.
[2:40] For us, the National Association of Townwatch, N-A-T-W, is sponsoring a unique nationwide crime, drug, and violence prevention program in August 4, 2026, entitled National Light Out, and whereas National Light Out provides a unique opportunity for the City of Kelsa to join thousands of other communities across the country in promoting cooperative, police, and community crime prevention efforts and relationships.
[3:09] And whereas it's important that all citizens of Kelsal be aware of the importance of prime
[3:15] prevention programs and the positive impact that their participation can have on reducing
[3:21] crime and drugs in our neighborhoods.
[3:23] And whereas neighborhood spirit and cooperation is a theme of national night out and plays
[3:29] an important role in helping the Kelsal police to fight the war on crime and drugs in our
[3:34] community.
[3:35] And, whereas, this initiative is much more than a single night, as it symbolizes the
[3:40] strong partnership between communities and law enforcement, united in a common cause
[3:45] of public safety, intolerant of crime, and all its form.
[3:49] Therefore, be it resolved that I, Drill Anderson, mayor of the City of Kessel, formerly declared
[3:54] August 4, 2026, as National Light Out, and encourage all citizens of the City of Kessel to shine
[4:01] their lives and add their voices to the outcry against criminal acts that
[4:05] compromise the quality of life in our city. In witness wear up I am here to set
[4:10] my hand and cause the seal as the City of Felsow to be a fix this first day of
[4:14] August 2026.
[4:29] Chief Fletcher. So thank you Madam Mayor of the Black Nation. As you
[4:33] all aware National Light Outers and Event Board of the community and city
[4:36] leadership assembles to demonstrate and express their intolerance but
[4:42] crime and this event would not be possible with all city leadership in
[4:46] print tonight and I want to thank Mr. Macon and his public work staff for helping
[4:51] set up the event tonight and I'm hoping he'll be here after work to help
[4:54] clean it up as well but thank you very much for your involvement and I also want
[4:59] to recognize Kelsa Police Officer David Sitzman. He is our organizer of this event
[5:04] he begins organizing this event early in the year and coordinates all of the
[5:09] vendors, food, the family, events, and work for Ross or Sitsma, we would have a success
[5:18] that we have every year. So I'm going to invite you to give us a few words to share with you.
[5:29] Hello, Officer Sitsma, here's what this is for me. Thank you everyone for coming.
[5:33] City Council, everyone in the community that's come today to join us
[5:37] We're going to be stressful right now.
[5:38] We're going to be possible without our vendors that have donated.
[5:41] Everything that is here today.
[5:43] First to enjoy.
[5:44] I'm going to put in the food and the vendors that are here to share
[5:47] what they do in the community.
[5:48] Our community members just see us in a different light
[5:51] rather than in the street.
[5:52] They're full of our patrol cars and uniforms here.
[5:54] We're sure to see how they're wanted.
[5:56] Enjoy the event.
[6:00] Thank you for all the hard work and putting this together.
[6:04] Now we come to the citizens' business portion of our agenda.
[6:07] This is a portion of our business meeting and council sets aside for citizens to express
[6:13] opinion for something that is not already on the agenda. Public comment portion of our
[6:19] meeting is limited to 30 minutes with comments limited to three minutes per person or as
[6:24] a group. It is not intended to be a time when we are able to engage in discussion or debate
[6:29] with council or staff. All remarks should be directed to the mayor. Public comments must
[6:35] be courteous and respect proper decorum. Please refrain from derogatory remarks, personal
[6:41] attacks, campaign speeches, and applaud. Do we have anyone who wants to speak before
[6:46] the council tonight? If so, please come to the microphone next to the flight.
[6:52] No one
[6:53] here that wants to speak to the council tonight?
[6:58] And guess not. Okay, we will move on to action
[7:02] on item number 6.1, Chief Pleasier.
[7:08] On the agenda tonight is the ordinance
[7:13] regarding the House bill of 2014 Public Safety Sales Tax.
[7:17] This is the second reading and I have no further information to provide
[7:20] other than what I provided at the last meeting.
[7:22] And I'm just requesting that the Council approve this on the second reading.
[7:26] Mr. Wood.
[7:27] Madam Mayor, I need that we postpone this action to our next regular lease.
[7:33] This meeting, a national night out, provides an excellent form of which the police officers and our public safety officers can showcase the good work they do for our community.
[7:42] However, it does not provide a good form at which our citizens can provide climate on a matter as substantial as a tax increase.
[7:53] I think we owe it to our citizens instead of a full sum in complete discussion about tax increase and not Russia.
[7:59] Therefore, I move that we postpone to our next regularity schedule meeting.
[8:04] Is there a second to that motion?
[8:09] No, second. Madam, third, can you read the ordinance by title only?
[8:15] In order to set the city of Kelsal Washington and acting in additional sales and use tax of one tenth of one percent
[8:22] And as authorized by 201, Chapter 315,
[8:26] Laws of Washington, 2025, for criminal justice purposes,
[8:30] adding a chapter of 3.11 sales and use tax
[8:33] for criminal justice to this also useful code
[8:38] and providing for severability and establishing
[8:40] a effective fit.
[8:42] We don't have a second to the motions.
[8:44] We have a motion to approve the ordinance on second reading.
[8:51] discussion, all those in favor?
[8:53] I do have a quick, sorry, discussion, yes, can I?
[8:55] So, first of all, I want to apologize for not attending our last meeting.
[9:00] How I've been here, I want to share these stuff that, having this agenda by the way, last
[9:06] meeting was part of the reason why I came to second Council Member Wood's motion to table
[9:23] I'm going to be a no-go on this, not because I don't agree with these end-result, or the mission on what this is going to be fun, but I would like to see this bill to vote for the people.
[9:35] as I mentioned quite a while ago it originally came from us also I would like
[9:41] to see a sunset bug on a task like this I would like to see a sunset clause on
[9:48] a task like this that way it would expire when that sunset clause comes out
[9:54] instead of relying on the proactive work of a future council to prove this
[9:59] So for those reasons, I'm going to be no vote on this.
[10:04] Is there any more discussion?
[10:07] Okay, we have a motion and a second.
[10:08] All those in favor.
[10:11] Opposed?
[10:13] Motion carries.
[10:16] City manager reports.
[10:17] Mr. Hamilton.
[10:25] Good evening, Mayor and Council. Just a couple of things. I'd like to thank our
[10:30] National Right Out Coordinator David Sissman for work on this event. Also our
[10:35] public works who have the parks looking very good. I also want to thank our
[10:40] partners here in Tano, Kelso Bay Roof, Kelso Youth Baseball, Girl's Softball, KSD, LCC, and Kelso Boxing Club, along with Kelso
[10:52] Red Council, and others who help our partners. It feels great. What a great run for the Kelso 13-year-olds, getting to go to the Pacific North
[11:03] rest regionals, and then the 16 U team, they were the all-stars at the Washington, came
[11:12] out number one at the Washington State, Bate Ruth earlier in July, winning 12 to 2 in
[11:18] their final game, and they're currently in Branson in the World Series, the tournament
[11:24] which runs tomorrow to the 16th. I also wanted to remind everybody of the Kelso Highlander
[11:31] event coming up here at TAMO, the 12th and 13th. That'd be the end of my report, thank you.
[11:38] First and foremost, Mr. Mammazam, staff reports, Mr. Butterfield.
[11:44] I have no report, but I'd be happy to answer any questions.
[11:49] Mr. Mammazam?
[11:53] I do have no report, but I'd have to answer any questions.
[11:58] Mr. Curtis,
[12:06] two flusher?
[12:08] I'm not necessarily in report, but I just want to thank you all for attending the night.
[12:11] hopefully you stick around for the next two hours and enjoy the event, I hope everyone has a good time today.
[12:17] Any other staff present? I don't believe so.
[12:19] Do you have any?
[12:21] Okay, Council Report.
[12:24] Mr. Harvey.
[12:26] Thanks, Madam Mayor. I'll be brief.
[12:29] Mayor Anderson and I got the opportunity of giving a quick presentation to the students with our sister cities program.
[12:38] That was really fun to see the two students from the town and give them a tour on the city of Kosovo.
[12:46] Let's see in America.
[12:51] Super.
[12:53] Very poor. Thank you for asking.
[12:55] Mr. Hino.
[12:58] Couple of quick names. First of all, the 16 new kids can see it.
[13:05] We watched their games actually on television just Google,
[13:12] tell us all 16 news and a couple of sites that come up
[13:15] and you can watch those kids play back there.
[13:18] And that's a remarkable thing.
[13:20] And let me tell you the reason they're back there,
[13:22] folks, is because volunteers of our community made it happen.
[13:26] And that's a remarkable thing, by far.
[13:31] Second, we're making real progress
[13:33] with an organization, acronym is LAP stands for Longview Plops and Media Project in the working on the Arts District designation for County.
[13:51] It's a county-wide effort listing, basically all the state pollers and various downtown organizations and interested parties.
[14:01] So we are making progress, we have become a 5-0-1-C, we are going to be looking at our City Council and Council, not the Council itself, but the membership to help us put this program into place.
[14:18] It's going to be a real economic driver for our community and our small businesses.
[14:22] And then, you're going to be hearing a lot about next Tuesday night, August 11th.
[14:29] We're holding a Council Hall Community Discussion on Fireworks.
[14:35] The State Fireworks will be here.
[14:38] We're going to have the state lobbyist, who represents the Fireworks Industry and Olympia.
[14:47] Here, we're going to have a couple of the important discriminators.
[14:51] and as well, this is going to be a community discussion.
[14:58] Folks, and we...
[15:00] I want to invite everyone to come in, participate, listen to what the experts say. It's going to be some technical information about certain devices. It's going to be statistics, but it's going to be an educational, informational meeting. And I want to, again, invite anybody and everybody interested to attend this. It's at Catlin Community Center, one on six in Northwest.
[15:32] Next to this very part and folks it's time to have a quiet discussion about our works and issues around the bill for communities in our neighborhood.
[15:46] So please attend if you can. That's me and my report.
[15:51] Mr. Kenoski?
[15:53] Thank you, Mayor.
[15:55] The APCA had a successful kids marches on Friday,
[16:00] on 20 February over 30 kids selling their items
[16:04] and their temperament at Tuesdays,
[16:06] due to marshmallow launchers and ovens,
[16:09] so good opportunity for their kids
[16:12] and the kids that sell their little beds
[16:15] and the kids sold their own.
[16:20] So, is it in here?
[16:24] Right here in the Capitol.
[16:27] They're now talking locally in September
[16:31] and groundbreaking in the Capitol in May
[16:33] about the need to place three of your instruments
[16:37] in the Capitol in the Capitol.
[16:42] Is Collins?
[16:59] So I did, as Kenan said, met with the Japanese delegation and they were very happy to be in Kelso. It was a good time.
[17:05] And the kids market was really a lot of fun. The kids were the ones that turned into business plants,
[17:11] and then five of them got prizes for their best business plan and they were really excited about it.
[17:17] Is there any other business for the council?
[17:19] If not, it is $6.17 and I'll turn the meeting fee.