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Good evening,

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everybody.

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Welcome, and we'll call the order, the March 23rd meeting of the Mary'sville City Council, and invite Pastor Rick Thieson up for this evening's invocation.

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Thank you, Pastor Thieson.

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Thank you very much.

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Let's start our heads together.

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We're going to pray.

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God and have it in front of these my friends.

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I want to thank you for my city's leader.

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I want to thank you for their servants' heart.

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I want to thank you that they open themselves up to be the servants and to represent so many different people, different kinds of people.

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I thank you for their patience with us, the citizens of our town.

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I thank you that by the nature of what they do, they are involved in conflict with different opinions on so many different things.

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And the path forward is not always straight.

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So, God tonight, we invoke your presence on these proceedings.

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We invoke your wisdom to fill our minds that you would bring unity, a thought and purpose to our cities leaders,

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to affect positive change in this city.

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And so may you oversee all of this and may the ends be good and true and beautiful.

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And we pray to see in your powerful and perfect name, amen.

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Thank you, Pastor Thesisin.

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Would you please join me in the Flaixelute?

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the root of the

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which stands one nation under the order of the individual with liberty and justice or all.

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Would our clerk please call the roll?

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Council member Candilius.

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Council member James.

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Council member Perkins.

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Council President Stevens.

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Council member Richard.

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Here.

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Council member Muller.

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Council member Norton.

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Here.

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And Mayor Neary.

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Here.

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Thank you.

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A little bit later in the agenda.

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So after our presentations, we will have public comment, if there's somebody in the room who wishes to comment, there's a sign of she public comment form over there on that table. If you don't mind just fill in that out and give it to the clerk there or hand it to one of us, that would be great and then you'll be recognized during that time.

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Council to be of a motion to approve tonight's agenda.

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Don't move.

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Second.

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Motion by Council Member Richard seconded by Council Member Candilius, all those in favor of approval agenda.

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All right. Opposed? Any abstentions? Motion passes. Thank you.

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And I want to thank Griffin and Mike, who are online here for our legislative session update.

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They've been coming every month update on that. Now, a session just recently ending,

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they're going to give an end to the session wrap-up. So I'm not sure Griffin or Mike,

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which one of you is kicking it off, but we thank you for your work on our behalf this session.

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and then I'll turn it over to you.

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Get settled in here and get the share screen option.

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Thank you.

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Here we go.

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Let's start I'm looking for the share screen,

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but I'm not seeing.

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We'll just kick it off. Thanks for having us. We'll keep going. We sent the mayor a more detailed email

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right down of the. Yeah, let me counsel if you have on your, I did for the email to you with his, with their

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end of session report. If you can open that up if he's not able to share the screen, I don't know if we've

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given permission to share the screen, or

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if you don't see it there. There we go. There we go. There we go.

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Oh, Mike's got it. Great. Okay, Doug. So just some brief, so session ended two weeks ago now,

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and then we'll cover something more recent. The mayor and I were out in DC this past week,

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and had the opportunity to meet with Senator Murray, Senator Canwell, and Representative

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Dope Benny's office to talk about some of our federal funding requests. We'll go over those a bit more

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in the interim priorities, but Mayor and I had a pretty productive visit on all those items that are

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back from all particularly from Del Benning's office is the number of projects that they have this

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time around has increased from 15 to 20 sort of feeling pretty good about submitting proposals for that

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a huge thank you to Jennifer and the rest of the team at the city for putting together a great

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packet of Mike for tying those things up and then what we're working on now is also inviting those staff

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members from Murray, Can't Well, and Del Ben is office to visit the various sites that

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have it. So they have additional context of those projects.

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And then Mike, if you can

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take me to the next one,

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I'll let Mike jump in here.

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Good afternoon, Mayor Council. I'm not sure why I've disappeared into my background, but

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we've got another time. So just a quick update on the CDS and CPF applications, all of the

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applications have closed and we have been submitted for Senator Cantwell, Rep. Larson because of the 156 project is halfway his and then Rep don't benefit all of the projects tomorrow

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I will be submitting the last applications to the Murray team there do Wednesday so we do have some time left just going to get those in settled and we'll have all of our applications in and we're working currently to schedule a state stop.

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I have heard from several of the offices as recently as today that their consideration windows are actually much shorter than normal.

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So we might be doing some quick virtual meetings, and then we can worry about side visits in the long term.

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The important thing is to make sure they're fully up to speed in the short term.

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Moving on to end of session.

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So these are a list of the key bills that some of the larger impacts on the city, your potential impacts to the city.

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So, House Bill 20, I'll pause after every bill if there's any questions,

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figurative bees here after each one rather than trying to remember at the end.

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And I'll go through just very briefly, like Griffin said,

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more details are included in the packet, and we're always happy to answer any additional questions.

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House Bill 2034 is the restatement of left one plan.

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It's currently at a very high percentage, and so they see that it's about a $4 billion

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are served plus right now and the legislature saw that as an avenue that they could essentially

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use safely as a one-time poll. So at the end of 2029 and in that by any, the fiscal 2729

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by any, it will terminate the fund, restate it, funded at 110% and move about $4 billion into a new

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account that they can then authorize transfers for to the state general fund. There was some

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resistance here from left one members as well as left two members who see this as a

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potential future for them. But the legislature authorized it. It is

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pending the governor signature. We haven't heard anything or seen any

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indicators that he won't sign it. The one interesting piece for the city is not

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included directly in the bill. But as a note, there is a requirement that the

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board. Excuse me, the select committee on pension policy conducts a study and reports findings by the end of the year on the feasibility of the state taking over

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the pension board administration and medical liabilities for left one.

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That's seen as a nod to cities as a whole because cities have paid into left one.

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And so while it may not have a huge impact on the city of Mary'sville, I know the total number of left one recipients right now.

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It was the legislature's attempt to give back to cities as a whole

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and then moving on to Senate Bill 5880

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This one pertains to essentially broadening the availability of laboratories for blood alcohol testing for essentially beyond just using the Washington State toxicology lab.

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To get the fiscal note to zero, they did change it so that if the city wanted to get their samples back from the Washington State Patrol lab, the city has to reimburse state patrol for that cost.

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And that essentially is what brings the fiscal now down to zero.

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The most beneficial use will be for future cases to speed up timelines on testing.

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Moving to Houseville 2266, this is Rep. Peterson's Step Housing Bill.

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It does impact the city's local control when it comes to zoning for these types of housing.

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as a reminder, step as an acronym, referring to supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor

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emergency housing, and indoor emergency shelters. That did, and it's final forms split out

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the first two from the final two, supportive and transitional from the two emergency types.

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It, the cities must allow transitional housing and permanent supportive housing in any zone

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within a UGA in which residential dwelling units

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or a hotel's are allowed.

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And then the emergency forms must be allowed in any area

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within a UGA in which hotels are allowed.

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It did break them out.

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That was one small change that was beneficial.

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This was a pretty divisive bill amongst cities

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with larger cities supporting it.

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You had some mid-sized cities

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who didn't like some of the control they were losing

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when it came to what limits or operational agreements

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they could implement.

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And then you had a lot more of the smaller or more rural cities who were just against it on principle.

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So this one did get pushed to because it was Rep. Peterson's number one priority and his chair of house housing.

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He was able to kind of move it through that way.

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The broader issue of housing was seen as one of the top two priorities this session.

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And this was able to fit under that bucket and is why it really got pushed through.

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There is one other benefit to cities that as it evolved and that they are able to require some

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Essentially permitting required add some permitting requirements around outreach, but it's really just

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the organization or managing entity as has to sign

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Swordsame and say that they have come a did these tasks or completed these tasks before going for final permanent

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on the very good news front

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Senate Bill 622

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which is the ALPR or driver's privacy bill saw some very positive changes from its

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original introduction. From three days of data retention to 21 days, which was very,

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very big improvement. Some advocates said three minutes was the right number. So it's

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70 get 21 days. ALPR data is fully excluded from public records requests. There is an audit

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But it is just who had access and what they accessed.

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But when they accessed, that must be maintained for two years.

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But you cannot public records request the actual data from the ALPR block

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or whatever machine the city might use.

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And then the last minute benefit was gross misdemeanors were fully included.

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No exceptions.

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Alongside felony Lawrence as usage authorization.

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There was some concern that we were not going to get all gross misdemeanors, but the last

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minute there was a good push by partisan push for gross misdemeanors to be fully included.

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House bill 2442 was rep burgs.

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Someone omnivis like local government fund used bill covered a lot of bases for city's counties,

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some other districts, lots of water districts, and in buyer districts.

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For cities specifically, there was an authorized,

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it expanded the authorized uses for local revenues,

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local sales and use revenues for housing and related services.

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And that included some maintenance and other,

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that's where the related services comes in and beyond just or housing.

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Several county and floods on control districts also got new uses.

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There's a new local sales news tax of 0.01% that was authorized to fund services for children and families

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and it extended the maximum length that 11 lead lift to be approved by voters.

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All of these require a councilmatic or voter approval.

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We're happy to provide that breakdown if anybody would like it.

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But this was seen.

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I'm pushed back because this looks like more taxes, but the majority caucus said, well, it's up to the

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count. The local legislative authority and or the voters. So this is just the idea here that it expands,

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the tools available, but it does not require any of them to be used.

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Senate bill 626 is the residential

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and commercial and mixed use zones bill. This was seen as probably the number one housing bill this session.

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The tenant governor spoke in both of the public comment periods.

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The governor's office, this was a heavily influenced from the executive side.

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It is a number one priority for the majority caucus.

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And we did see some bipartisan support as it pushed through in its final form.

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Because housing was seen once again as one of the top two issues this session from full caucuses.

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So prohibits cities with populations over 30,000 from excluding residential uses

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in Arizona for commercial and mixed use development.

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There's some exceptions related to industrial zones that are specified

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while gastrofineries, historic landmarks, military installations.

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Some of these apply to the city, some of them clearly don't.

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And then one thing that did change actually on the second side,

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when it moved to the house, it was a bit of a surprise,

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is the total area calculated for an exemption from this requirement was reduced.

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Originally, it said, the city could exempt up to 40% of its total area from this requirement.

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But that was changed and shrunk down to 40% of the total commercial and mixed use zones.

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It can be exempted from this requirement, meaning in 40% of commercial mixed use zones,

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the city could still require ground floor commercial or retail.

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And finally, the number one high profile bill this session, the tax on millionaires,

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Senate Bill 63, 46, broadly it's a 9.9% tax on individuals on incomes exceeding

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one million dollars beginning in calendar 2028.

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The state did include it in its budget projections for 2029.

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Broadly we believe that this was pushed through in an effort to get it in front of whatever

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challenges it's going to face, whether that be about the people, whether that be legal challenges,

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they really needed to get it out and about now so that they can face those challenges

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and deal with any repercussions before they get to that collection year. For the city specifically,

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the two biggest impacts, one is that a sales and use tax exemption is included for hygiene products,

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diapers, and over the counter drugs, beginning in January 1, 29, and there is no mitigation whatsoever

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included to offset that loss of city revenue. Additionally, the one good thing for the city in the

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bill, the outset, when it was introduced, was, and then was further increased. Indigent defense

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spent funding. It was a 90-10 split between counties and cities, but altogether was about $150 million.

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We need cities across the state. We're getting $15 million roughly. That wasn't a huge chunk of

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Once it was finally rolled out, but it was at least something.

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Instead, that got cut in the house, as a part of the striker changes that were made by

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Brett Berg, who was the house lead.

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That being said, she did include language when she made that cut, basically saying that this

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advisory council that's going to be put together to present prepare for this

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And tax will fully include some language on assisting cities and local jurisdictions with mitigation.

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We think and we'll get to this shortly, but we already know there's going to be a trailer bill and this is going to be.

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This is not going away just when the government governor signs it.

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It's going to be the conversation for at least the next year if not all the way up to 2020.

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If there's no questions on these, I'll pass them back over to Griffin.

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Yeah, I said a build-off will Mike was saying, we're expecting some challenges, whether that's an initiative that's run, this interim, on the tax, the millionaires, we know Redberg is working with several groups and several fixes, hopefully that touches on the engine defense funding, and he's be addressed and also mitigating the loss to cities, and our conversations with other lobbyists.

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For municipalities and the Association of Washington City is not very happy with this.

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At the end of the day, there was some discussion on if we wanted to push back

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harder on this, but I think Repurg has, well, that some of those fears in the meantime.

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There's in talk on the threshold being dropped to which centers springer.

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It said, you know, there's no reason, if you're not too expected at some point, and repurg said, over my dead body.

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So, we'll sure this will be the topic of hours of more conversation after the 24-plus hour, floor session on it.

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But we're hoping this addresses some of the concerns and revenue loss that cities will experience as it is written currently.

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Some other bills that we're expecting to come back next year in the longer session,

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Um, stone property and send it saying this seemed like it was going to get some more movement,

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but it will increase minimum sentencing for if the adopt the same where to bill for

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stone property crime and I think because the length of time, the majority caucus is not

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going to have the same luxury of saying it's a short session.

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We're not going to address property crimes or crime under 18 in the interim.

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So look for that to come back, we'll look for rep Cortez's bill for criminal offenses under the

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8 of 18 to come back. The goal is to reduce overcrowding of facilities and for the majority

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caucus point to rehabilitative solutions for folks who are committing crimes under the age of 18 to keep

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them from the hope is to keep them out of armed substances. This will put some more fiscal pressure

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on the Department of Children, Youth and Families and trying to find more local rehabilitative

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options. So that'll definitely have a fiscal note to it. And then the last two, there's a lot

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of talk about e-motos. If you're close to the cities, you see a lot of Lyme scooters sitting around,

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but these are also becoming more available for commercial purchase. So there'll be a study this next year

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to determine what the true definition of an e-moto e-moto is as it's stated at the end of session

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that was motorized vehicle that looks like a bike that doesn't have pedals, but we're going to

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at some sort of legislation that would just define these away

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from e-bikes next year.

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And then the transportation budget, this year we heard a lot

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about, they weren't accepting requests for new projects,

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but that we've heard a lot of support for bonding for new projects

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or new transportation package, similar to move ahead Washington

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in this long session when we've got a little more time

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at the beginning of the biennium.

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So we've already spoken with rep Marcus and Senator Leah's,

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and we're hoping to get the rest of the big four

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after the projects in Mary'sville,

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our gets more information, Senator King,

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is over in the ACMO, so that'll be a bit of more of a challenge,

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but there's definitely an appetite

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to support Mary'sville's projects,

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particularly in the house side with rep Marcus,

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where we had probably the most trouble

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in the most resistance to funding you projects this year.

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Then Mike, if you can get me the next one.

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And then the interim priorities,

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The most immediate being our CPF and CDS requests, so as Mike and I mentioned, we're working with all of our congressional offices to get folks up for a visit as soon as possible.

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We've made that case in person in DC last week, and we're getting all those applications.

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Those funding requests in.

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After that, the visits for our legislators in the 38th and 39th in addition to the House of Transportation Committee leadership.

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So, want to make sure that these projects are all top of mind to folks and get ahead of that early

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so that we can get, you know, have sponsors in hand ahead of the legislative session on both the

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House and the Senate side and ensure that we get priorities include in the next by any

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budget.

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Any questions? Thank you. Council, any questions for Griffin or Mike?

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Councilmember James. You said that Rep. Barcus gave you the most

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the resistance on the transportation funding?

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No, no, the house transportation itself.

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There was a battle between the Senate transportation

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and the house transportation committees

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on each is philosophy around bonding

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for more funds for the transportation budget.

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The house was certainly more resistant to that.

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However, in our conversations with Rev Barcus,

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he was very supportive of our projects,

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to be a very productive meeting with him and on other solutions we could look to in this next

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bionium. But that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that

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that way, that the house in itself was more resistant. When you look at the budget proposals from each,

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there's a, there's a, Mike was a 400 million or greater gap between the two budgets and the

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houses budget was the, the lower one there. So there's less of a, there's more of a resistance on the

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transportation committee to spend more this year. Thank you. Tell some

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member Richards. Yeah, I don't have any questions. I want to say thank you

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fellas information. It's good stuff. And I've said this before. I'm it's

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really frustrating that Olympia continues to tell us how to zone our own

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communities. And every year.

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They come down with more policies and rules and changes where we have to follow their zoning rules

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when we know what's the best for our community, where it's frustrating. So, that's one of the

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but that out there.

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And we appreciate it. You're not alone in the frustration on being dictated to continue to carry that message.

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We have meetings with legislators down there.

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There are no further questions. I want to thank you too, Mike and Griffin. Really nice work. This session.

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And this is a great recap, I'll get a chance to read through your full report here as well

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as the Council members.

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And I know we appreciate the work you did on our legislative day down in Olympia.

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And I think your strategy for the interim is this is a solid one that we look forward to.

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And then the DC work that you're doing has been really nice as well.

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I know you've really worked closely with Jennifer and our staff to get those CDS requests in.

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and your help on that's been really, really great.

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So appreciate your hard work on our behalf and look forward

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to continuing that here in the coming months

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and our continued meetings with myself

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and in front of the council as well.

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Likewise, and we appreciate we're going to be all

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to great team up at the city.

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And if any of the members of the council

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have questions that Mayor, please feel free to share your email,

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I'm going to wrap your answer those any time.

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Cooper.

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Thanks, guys.

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We'll let you go and sorry your zags are done, but we'll let you get on with other

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business.

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There's next year.

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Thank you.

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Thanks, Mayor.

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Thanks, Council.

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Thank you.

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Take care.

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All right.

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And the other presentation we have, Councilor, will be the proclamation into the record

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on Community Development Week.

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And that is a proclamation declaring April 6th through 10th, 2026 this community development week in Mary'sville.

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Whereas in our growing city, it is essential that development occurs based on strategic, well-thought-out plans tailored to our community.

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And whereas our city's community development staff includes professional land use planners, building inspectors, program specialists, and more.

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who use expertise to work every day and whereas our community development department has

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streamlined the permitting process for residents and businesses to save time and make it

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easier to do business with the city and whereas another important department function is

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administration of the federal community development bot grant program and last year

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the city awarded just over $400,000 in CDVG grant funds for essential public services

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supporting our neighbors in need and capital projects including meals on wheels and volunteer

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for chair services for low-income seniors and disabled adults.

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Food for thought backpack program for low-income school children,

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housing hopes, supportive services for families at risk of homelessness,

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and comfort park upgrades with improved sidewalks and new lighting.

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Now, therefore, I, John Nuring, may or on behalf of the City Council

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and our community, do here by proclaim April 6th through 10th,

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2026's Community Development Week in the city of Mary'sville,

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in appreciation for the hard work of our planning staff and the important role

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community development programs play in our community. Under my hand in seal this 23rd day of March

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2026 and we will be looking forward to our new community development director join us here

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in a couple of weeks, director Zorns and we think our entire community development staff for the

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hard work that they do each and every day. Thanks council for that and that brings us to public

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comments and we do have one individual who is signed up. Connie Jackson will invites you up to the

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microphone? Thank you. First off, I think someone is checking on Mike. He was looking

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on the blue tonight. Yeah, indeed. So tonight I come with an issue that a national issue

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however is affecting Mary's will pretty hard. In spite of the best efforts of the council

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and I know they have in trying because the numbers are a lot better now than the used to be.

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Mary's will does remain a commuter city for the majority of working population.

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And this isn't Spide of Actions, like I don't

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Stephen Lifer on the Planning Commission,

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very big in favor of moving jobs to Mary's Valk.

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And that is something he is very passionate about.

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The Warren Iran has caused the gas prices in the area

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to reach as high as $5 a gallon in the cheapest areas

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and as high as $6 a gallon in the city.

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This means that the average Mary'sville citizen has just been one and a half to twice as much every month on gas just to put food on the table.

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Now, change that can defend against this can't happen overnight of course.

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There's no big switch in the back of this building that magically creates ten...

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1,000 jobs overnight in Mary's bill. Nor is there a switch that gives every one of Mary's

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will tell reporters to get to Seattle or ever to wherever they work.

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But in an initiative that

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the city could think about is helping provide bus passes for citizens that are truly struggling

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with rising gas prices. The city has the ability to, as recently spent $2 million on a third

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soccer field in the strawberry fields complex. The city could easily do this. It would cost a lot of money. Yes, but

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Mary'sville is one of the most financially stable

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Cities in the region. It always has a balanced budget which is something the council in the mayor are very good at

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They are very good at this and it always has a little bit left over so I'd like the council to

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consider this if possible and

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See if there's something they could do here to help our citizens. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate your

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comments.

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Did I miss anybody who intended to sign up? Okay, as usual we thank those who take

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the time to comment and attend the meetings very much and we appreciate that. We'll move on from

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public comment then to approval of minutes. Councillor, you have your March 2nd. Work session

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minutes before you are there any changes or corrections.

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There are none. We'll open the floor for

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any potential motion.

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Council member, council president Stevens, and then council member Candice.

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I'll move to approve the work session minutes from March 2nd.

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I have a motion from Council President Stephen II.

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By Council member Candace to approve these minutes in final discussion, all those

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in favor.

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Opposed?

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Any abstentions?

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Motion passes.

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Thank you.

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Next is the March 9th minutes, any changes or corrections to those?

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Open the floor, then Council Member Perkins.

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I just a minor item number nine moved by Mueller seconded by Richards.

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There's a slight error there.

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I think it just said move by both of them.

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Oh, okay. Got it.

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As opposed to a second.

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Yeah, okay.

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Do we note it?

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Is there a motion to approve with that correction?

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Else member Richards?

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I moved to approve the amended minutes from March 9th, the City Council meeting.

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Motion by Council Member Rich is seconded by Council Member Perkins to approve these minutes with Council Member Perkins correction. Any final discussion.

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All in favour? Aye.

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Opposed? Any abstentions?

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That motion passes. Thank you. You've got four or five items under consent. Does anybody wish to pull any of those for further discussion?

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Okay, yeah, we'll open the 440 potential motion then.

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Council member Candace.

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I'll move to approve consent items 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

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Motion by Council member Candace and seconded by Council member James

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to approve consent in its entirety any final discussion.

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All those in favor.

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I'm fine.

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Opposed?

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Any abstentions?

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Motion passes.

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Thank you.

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And that moves us to review of Bids and project engineers, Benton, and Cross, I believe

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there's open, sorry, maybe not Benton.

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Thank you for attending.

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Hi.

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Good evening council.

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My name is Valerie Cross.

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I am the project engineer in charge of the really well pump replacement.

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I have a presentation.

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I'm not sure.

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Maybe

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I can hit

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this one down and put it

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down.

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So, present to you what I have meant.

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Yeah, just show me if I can pull it up on this one over here.

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I appreciate that, thank you.

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Hi, apologies for technical difficulties.

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I don't know, I have a power.

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There we go.

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All righty, so good evening. As I said before, my name is Valerie Cross, I'm the project engineer and charge of the rainy well pump replacement.

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As you can see from the map, I'm sorry, can you go back really quick. The start location is the location of our pump location here. It's on the south side of the still a glumished river, just north of Arlington.

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next week. All right, so the rainy well pump station has two pumps. The first pump is currently

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20 years old and was planned for a placement in 2026. However, in November of 2025 it was noted

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that there was mechanical failure and our internal teams had gone out on multiple locations

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to address this issue and through multiple site visits, they had found that our crews were

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not able to access this issue and we would have to shut down the pump in order to make

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it safe and then we would go out to fix the pump later with a contractor.

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Pump 2 was rebuilt and re-insult in 2021 as another project of ours.

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However, again in November when our crews were out there, it was noticed that this pump was

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also showing electrical issues and was also taken offline as it was something that we could

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not address internally.

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This is the same case with the check valve that had also failed around that same time,

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because we had had so many people out there, we had noticed all of these issues.

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All around the same time, this station is currently completely offline, so we went out to bid

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to fix to get this all replaced.

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This was sent out as part of the MSRC solicitation.

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It was competitive.

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00:36:57,660 --> 00:37:00,380
We received one bid from hold services.

448
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,640
They were found to be responsive and responsible.

449
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:11,180
The total bid amount to replace both pumps and the check valve was 175,937 dollars in

450
00:37:11,180 --> 00:37:17,200
need since. We have a 10% management reserve on this project, making the total allocation

451
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:27,820
$193,530 and $89. Should this be accepted? We anticipate a few weeks of contracting

452
00:37:27,820 --> 00:37:35,460
time in eight to nine weeks of lead time to order these materials and this would give plenty of

453
00:37:35,460 --> 00:37:41,320
time within our acceptable replacement window due to the location of this pump station. It is

454
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:48,580
under water from a good chunk of the year. It is on the bed of a river. So we have to go out when the water

455
00:37:48,580 --> 00:37:55,400
is quite low and this would be mid June to about end of September with our lead time being

456
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,600
Sometime in the summer, that would give us many months for us in our contractor to find

457
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,300
an agreeable time to get them out there.

458
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,180
They have 15 working days to do so.

459
00:38:09,180 --> 00:38:13,480
With that, the recommended motion, as I move to authorize the mayor to sign and execute

460
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:19,980
the Rainey Well Replacement Contract with whole services ink in the amount of $175,937,937 in

461
00:38:19,980 --> 00:38:27,940
the e-sense, including Washington State sales tax, and approve a manager reserve of $17,5993

462
00:38:27,940 --> 00:38:35,920
and 71 cents for a total allocation of $193,530 dollars and 79 cents.

463
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:36,420
Excellent.

464
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:37,480
Thank you for the presentation.

465
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,300
We'd like to have a few questions.

466
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:40,400
Councilman Rickindellius.

467
00:38:41,340 --> 00:38:42,060
Was that from most time?

468
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:42,440
It was.

469
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:43,120
I have a question.

470
00:38:43,380 --> 00:38:43,920
Go ahead.

471
00:38:44,220 --> 00:38:44,920
Here you've heard something.

472
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:53,100
With the bid from a halt compared to the engineers estimate, it's quite a bit lower.

473
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,140
You guys know why that is.

474
00:38:56,140 --> 00:38:59,380
I like it lower, but sometimes it's viciously lower, right?

475
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:07,960
We actually did base our engineers estimate off of an estimate that we had gotten from

476
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:13,220
old services. We do tend to send these out to companies that we have worked with in the past

477
00:39:13,220 --> 00:39:21,440
as they have a better connection probably to the companies that we do get these pumps from.

478
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:28,000
their estimate was from a different company than the company that they ended up getting

479
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:33,060
the pumps from is my understanding as I did reach out to them to address that same

480
00:39:33,060 --> 00:39:40,400
issue because I had also caught my attention because they have noted that the company that they

481
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:47,980
had originally gotten their estimate from tends to work with one pump company more often

482
00:39:47,980 --> 00:39:53,820
and tends to favor them, so when they switched to a different company they had a lower

483
00:39:53,820 --> 00:39:54,220
bit.

484
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,020
And then with pump 2 you said it was repaired in 2021.

485
00:39:59,460 --> 00:39:59,700
Yes.

486
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:09,040
At the time, did we have an idea of what the life span extension would be after those repairs? And is this in that ballpark?

487
00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:16,740
I do not have an answer to that one, but Kim Bryant is here, and I believe she might have a better understanding of that.

488
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:24,940
Yeah, so the pump was replaced and the motor was rebuilt. The motor has failed on that one this time, so that's what we noticed on that one.

489
00:40:24,940 --> 00:40:31,440
We will have a spare pump, so if this is approved and the pump and motor is replaced, that one will become a spare pump.

490
00:40:31,740 --> 00:40:32,440
Okay, thank you.

491
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:36,600
Very good.

492
00:40:36,620 --> 00:40:37,680
Thank you, Councilmember.

493
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:38,980
Council President Stevens.

494
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,240
Peter Kent or Councilmember Kindleus asked my question.

495
00:40:43,740 --> 00:40:43,920
Okay.

496
00:40:45,580 --> 00:40:46,160
Councilmember Richards.

497
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:47,400
Yeah.

498
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,560
Postman shutdown for a while now.

499
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,660
How much water do we normally get out of that?

500
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,180
How much can we actually get out of the river?

501
00:40:55,580 --> 00:40:55,720
Yeah.

502
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:58,180
So we can pump about 2,000 GPM.

503
00:40:59,180 --> 00:41:01,560
A day or what's that?

504
00:41:01,580 --> 00:41:01,940
A minute.

505
00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:03,440
So 2,000 gallons a minute.

506
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:04,720
OK, that's what we're doing.

507
00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:06,880
We operate a based off demand.

508
00:41:07,580 --> 00:41:09,520
So what's demand being lower in the winter?

509
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,320
We went around at 24, 7, but we do have that ability.

510
00:41:12,540 --> 00:41:14,140
OK, I just curious, because I know that we

511
00:41:14,140 --> 00:41:15,600
trying to not to buy out water from every,

512
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:16,460
and if we can get our own.

513
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,060
Yes, and this is one of the types of North.

514
00:41:19,180 --> 00:41:22,540
So with Edward Spring's pumps into the same zone.

515
00:41:25,450 --> 00:41:27,310
Any other questions,

516
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:31,940
open the floor for any potential motion?

517
00:41:36,810 --> 00:41:38,270
Council Member Muller.

518
00:41:39,670 --> 00:41:44,070
I moved out the rise of Mayor to sign and execute the rainy well-pumped replacement contract with

519
00:41:44,070 --> 00:41:52,170
Holt Services Inc. in the amount of 175,937.08 including Washington State sales tax and a proven management reserve of

520
00:41:52,170 --> 00:42:00,210
17,593.71 for a tall allocation of 190,530 dollars and 79 cents.

521
00:42:01,710 --> 00:42:05,390
Motion by Council Member Muller, I'm sorry, who's the second from?

522
00:42:06,710 --> 00:42:09,270
Oh, Council Member Candidates. Thank you. Any final discussion?

523
00:42:11,660 --> 00:42:16,440
All in favor. Aye. Opposed? Anybody abstain?

524
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,340
That motion passes. Thank you for the presentation.

525
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:20,480
Thank you.

526
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,360
No public hearings moving on to new business. We do have an interlocal with

527
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:33,740
a reasonable flood control grant. And that will be Project Engineer Benton.

528
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:50,340
evening council. Thanks for having me tonight. Adam Benton, project engineer for the City of

529
00:42:50,340 --> 00:42:55,380
Mary'sville. Here to speak with you, hopefully briefly. I can be a long-winded. I was

530
00:42:55,380 --> 00:43:01,340
last time I was here, sorry. Briefly about interlocal agreement we have with the Homish County

531
00:43:01,340 --> 00:43:06,760
for a flood control grant that we received a number of years ago. Next slide.

532
00:43:10,770 --> 00:43:11,990
So, start with

533
00:43:11,990 --> 00:43:14,930
a, I'm going to start with an overview because it's been a few years since we've talked

534
00:43:14,930 --> 00:43:25,150
of this project. This project started because we've had documented title overflows of our existing

535
00:43:25,150 --> 00:43:30,110
levees for about 15 years. Probably a little bit longer than that, but I think we're 17.

536
00:43:30,570 --> 00:43:37,890
So I remember about 15 years of them. We've had overflows that we're documented in 2012, 2016,

537
00:43:38,030 --> 00:43:43,970
and 2022 that we're noticeable enough that we had our spawn with city crews. We'll see

538
00:43:43,970 --> 00:43:47,070
pictures here in a little bit. Some of the pictures up on the screen do a

539
00:43:47,070 --> 00:43:51,330
pre-decent job of explaining what's happened. Typically what we're seeing is

540
00:43:51,330 --> 00:43:57,030
title overflows. Now coming over the trail, the existing EV trail, the real

541
00:43:57,030 --> 00:44:00,510
problem is when we have title overflows come over the trail near public

542
00:44:00,510 --> 00:44:06,390
works. In those cases and we'll have a video here shortly, that's pretty brief. The

543
00:44:06,390 --> 00:44:10,250
troubling thing that's happening now with these overflows is they are starting

544
00:44:10,250 --> 00:44:15,870
increases that they're coming over the levees impacting our ditch network at the public

545
00:44:15,870 --> 00:44:22,650
work site and they run the risk of us flooding again like we did in 2010 when we had 80

546
00:44:22,650 --> 00:44:27,230
Columbia flood with about two feet of water. Those ditches control the storm water and if we

547
00:44:27,230 --> 00:44:35,510
don't deal with that problem we could have bigger issues. Following 2012 city crews raised the levee

548
00:44:35,510 --> 00:44:39,310
to 13.1 feet in an attempt to address this issue,

549
00:44:39,670 --> 00:44:42,350
unfortunately, our tidal overflows are increasing,

550
00:44:42,810 --> 00:44:44,690
because we are seeing the beginning signs

551
00:44:44,690 --> 00:44:46,490
of what appears to be sea level rise.

552
00:44:47,830 --> 00:44:50,550
So where we used to be able to control our tidal overflows

553
00:44:50,550 --> 00:44:54,490
at 13 feet, we're now seeing a number of inches of water above that,

554
00:44:54,530 --> 00:44:57,130
depending on what wave run-up looks like from winds,

555
00:44:57,510 --> 00:44:59,990
and what the tidal anomalies are, we're seeing more water than we're.

556
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:19,180
In 2022, we had a king-tide event, which is a title overflow that actually overtopped our improvements from 2013. So in the course of nine years, the improvements that we had hoped would fix these problems are not doing a job anymore.

557
00:45:20,340 --> 00:45:24,560
One point of note here that I think is important for us to understand about our slew

558
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:29,460
at something that I have learned a lot about in the last year to we were tested in this

559
00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:30,860
recent flooding event.

560
00:45:31,460 --> 00:45:34,020
Our slew is not influenced by riverine influences.

561
00:45:34,420 --> 00:45:41,000
We are so far down the river and we are so far out on an outside channel that our flooding

562
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,100
is controlled almost primarily by tidal influences.

563
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:47,620
So we are seeing influence from the sound not from the river.

564
00:45:47,620 --> 00:45:55,000
So, as we see sea level rise, if that occurs, which the model tend to indicate that it will over the next 52 hundred years,

565
00:45:55,460 --> 00:45:57,620
that's going to impact the water levels in E.B.

566
00:45:57,740 --> 00:46:03,600
So, you're not what we see from large rain events that cause riverine flooding and snowmissure Monroe

567
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,720
or any of these other areas that we're seeing.

568
00:46:07,660 --> 00:46:08,060
Next slide.

569
00:46:11,340 --> 00:46:16,400
So, to that end, in 2022,

570
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:24,820
So I'm a county open to grant opportunity with ARPA funds, COVID relief funds, and Gloria

571
00:46:24,820 --> 00:46:31,520
brought that to Jeff and I has attention in the very beginning of 2023, and we decided

572
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:36,780
as a team to address some of these concerns, we put a grant application out for this grant

573
00:46:36,780 --> 00:46:41,660
opportunity for a quarter of a million dollars, and I'll get into the details of what

574
00:46:41,660 --> 00:46:47,760
grant was supposed to do for us, but ultimately we were successful in receiving that grant.

575
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:56,100
So grant came out in 22. We submitted in 23. We received our contingent award letter in February

576
00:46:56,100 --> 00:47:03,180
the next month. We worked with Snomish County a bit on what the work would be with the grant.

577
00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:08,580
And in September we came back to council here and we asked you all to approve that interlocal agreement

578
00:47:08,580 --> 00:47:12,360
it's not home-ish county to accept that quarter million dollars from them to do this work.

579
00:47:13,180 --> 00:47:19,100
Following that, we went out through consultant selection processes like we always do and we selected

580
00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:24,880
environmental science associates. They've been working with us ever since to advance this project.

581
00:47:27,500 --> 00:47:31,640
So what is the essay doing for us right now with this work? They're developing,

582
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,560
they developed a

583
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:42,400
are consultant, fine-tuned at four of the Mary'sville area, specifically.

584
00:47:43,860 --> 00:47:47,460
We also are going to develop and finalize the sea level rise report.

585
00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:54,660
We'll have an alternative analysis, which is there will be three alternatives for raising

586
00:47:54,660 --> 00:47:58,840
the levees as vertical levees and one alternative as a horizontal levee.

587
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,880
That's a kind of a different approach that we don't see too much up here in Mary'sville

588
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:07,320
but we want to take a look at that because it may have some other benefits down the road for

589
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:07,980
city.

590
00:48:10,220 --> 00:48:15,120
We will then wrap that up with Alternatives Analysis and the stakeholder group which

591
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:21,940
is comprised of staff and management and maybe a director will then go ahead and select

592
00:48:21,940 --> 00:48:27,700
the Alternative that we all believe is the best alternative for the city and we will then

593
00:48:27,700 --> 00:48:35,440
move forward with preliminary design documents not 30% but something conceptual primarily so

594
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:40,140
we can take that design document and try to receive more grant funding to advance this design

595
00:48:40,140 --> 00:48:46,800
further and then ultimately try to receive grant funding to build to improve our

596
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:51,780
levees to protect us from flooding so we would be building our levees up to ensure that

597
00:48:51,780 --> 00:48:56,700
we don't have title overflows anymore and that sea level can't affect public works and

598
00:48:56,700 --> 00:49:00,920
especially wastewater treatment plant because as we all know our wastewater treatment plant

599
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,340
is down on the EB slew.

600
00:49:03,140 --> 00:49:04,840
It's at about 13 feet.

601
00:49:05,940 --> 00:49:08,080
We suspect that we'll see some form of sea

602
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:09,720
overrises in the future and right now

603
00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:10,960
we're already having overflows.

604
00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:13,560
So if we don't do something about this problem,

605
00:49:13,700 --> 00:49:15,440
we will end up having our wastewater treatment plant

606
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,200
in and data during flooding events.

607
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,600
One of the last things that we'll get out of this project

608
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,580
with ESA is we do have a public engagement strategy.

609
00:49:25,220 --> 00:49:29,020
We will develop a brief O&M manual for Levy maintenance

610
00:49:29,020 --> 00:49:36,020
in the future. And again, we'll have those design documents for the alternatives. Can you hit

611
00:49:36,020 --> 00:49:44,400
the video on the left? So this is a video from 2022 that shows the overflow back by the corner

612
00:49:45,240 --> 00:49:50,220
of the public works property at the end of our access road on that would be Columbia.

613
00:49:51,380 --> 00:49:58,420
So you can see that it's not an insignificant amount of flooding. This can carry on for hours,

614
00:49:58,420 --> 00:49:59,760
sometimes in the starts.

615
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,480
So, pretty big impacts to our public work facility. Go ahead and hit that.

616
00:50:07,060 --> 00:50:08,680
Let's go ahead and move forward.

617
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:16,280
So this is what we see on the trail. So this is up above where the previous video was taken.

618
00:50:16,980 --> 00:50:20,940
And you can see that there's two to three inches of sheet flow coming across the trail.

619
00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:24,640
Essentially what we're trying to do is fight the ocean. It's a losing battle.

620
00:50:24,980 --> 00:50:27,400
We will never win this battle if we don't raise our levies.

621
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,000
Let's move on to the next slide.

622
00:50:33,820 --> 00:50:38,920
So, our primary concern when we went out for this grant was to deal with our levee elevations.

623
00:50:39,180 --> 00:50:43,120
The secondary concern was, and it was a concern that we shared with the Homish County, which

624
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:48,000
is why they've been a great partner on this project for us, was the levees were maintained

625
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,440
by Diking District 3 for a long time in the past.

626
00:50:52,440 --> 00:51:00,260
Day King District 3 basically became defunct somewhere in the 2011-2013 years.

627
00:51:00,740 --> 00:51:05,000
I dealt with them very early on in my career as a surface water specialist and then we kind

628
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,280
of lost rack of them.

629
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:13,980
The county was in favor of dissolving Day King District 3 because they have not been a

630
00:51:13,980 --> 00:51:14,660
Day King District.

631
00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:18,520
They hadn't voted on abortive commissioners in seven years.

632
00:51:18,660 --> 00:51:21,520
They hadn't spent money on a project since 2013.

633
00:51:22,020 --> 00:51:29,680
So there was a mutual benefit to the county and removing the diking district from their books because it was a financial problem for them.

634
00:51:30,260 --> 00:51:36,120
And there was a benefit to the city and that when the diking district was dissolved, which happened earlier this year,

635
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:41,280
the city was in we are now in our seat of the leftover monies in the diking district.

636
00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:47,620
So we received somewhere on the order of $177,000 that was left over in the piggy bank of the diking district.

637
00:51:48,180 --> 00:51:53,340
That happened, I believe, and March of this year, maybe I don't remember exactly, but

638
00:51:53,340 --> 00:51:55,160
that money is in our coffers now.

639
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,960
The county doesn't have to deal with the district that's not doing their work, and the city

640
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:03,360
will take on those responsibilities for maintenance, which, honestly, we've been doing since

641
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:04,440
2011 anyways.

642
00:52:09,270 --> 00:52:16,490
The reasons for the supplement, the reason I'm here today is we are about 50% of the way

643
00:52:16,490 --> 00:52:19,730
through this project, we will finish later this year.

644
00:52:19,730 --> 00:52:26,250
We did have to move forward and reallocate some unspent funds from task one, which is our task for the

645
00:52:26,250 --> 00:52:31,850
dayking district. We allocated something like $25,000 to that task and it only ended up

646
00:52:31,850 --> 00:52:38,150
costing about $3,000 in staff time to get that worked done. We asked the county to transfer that

647
00:52:38,150 --> 00:52:43,490
those funds to other tasks in our project. See, level rise report, the alternatives analysis,

648
00:52:43,490 --> 00:52:48,270
things that are actually pretty beneficial to us as a city. So that's the one of the reasons

649
00:52:48,270 --> 00:52:53,530
I'm here, the other reason is we would like to extend this grant out to October 31st to assure

650
00:52:53,530 --> 00:52:58,770
that we have adequate time for our stakeholders groups to review our reports, review our

651
00:52:58,770 --> 00:53:00,570
alternatives, select a preferred alternative.

652
00:53:01,270 --> 00:53:03,250
We don't want to rush that if we don't have to.

653
00:53:04,630 --> 00:53:09,190
This supplement would extend the grant four months from June to October, so we would finish

654
00:53:09,190 --> 00:53:13,950
our work by October 31st if you all pass this.

655
00:53:13,950 --> 00:53:20,030
And then the other, the final thing we did with the supplement is, we got this money under

656
00:53:20,030 --> 00:53:20,490
ARPA.

657
00:53:22,010 --> 00:53:27,830
The rules and restrictions around how you spend that money are pretty tight when the new

658
00:53:27,830 --> 00:53:31,410
administration came in at the federal level, they actually decided not to fund this project,

659
00:53:31,470 --> 00:53:34,810
but the county was kind enough to fund this project for us out of their coffers.

660
00:53:35,710 --> 00:53:41,150
So we were able to reduce the restrictions on those, the language and the agreement a little

661
00:53:41,150 --> 00:53:46,450
it. And we are now allowed to move money between tasks until the very end of this project,

662
00:53:46,610 --> 00:53:51,250
which basically just allows us to maximize our reimbursement from the county for this

663
00:53:51,250 --> 00:53:56,670
grant. It'll make a lot easier for us to get to the $250,000. Because we can move leftover

664
00:53:56,670 --> 00:54:00,870
money to new tasks where we still have work to do. So that's the reason that we're here for

665
00:54:00,870 --> 00:54:03,550
supplement number one today. Next slide.

666
00:54:07,270 --> 00:54:07,270
Yeah.

667
00:54:08,390 --> 00:54:13,650
Baking District 3. How large was it before me? What area does it go to? It was just the

668
00:54:13,650 --> 00:54:19,310
dikes down along the Portinga farm. So down along sunny side, down along the first

669
00:54:19,310 --> 00:54:23,390
tree bypass, all of that used to be farm fields. It was the diking district that managed

670
00:54:23,390 --> 00:54:27,490
all of the farm fields that got flooded when the food actually was breached.

671
00:54:28,370 --> 00:54:35,450
Yeah, and we got a couple loads of rock from them in 2010, I think, but they were basically

672
00:54:35,450 --> 00:54:43,290
not there by the time that I was working, yep. So that's what DD3 was originally, I just

673
00:54:43,290 --> 00:54:47,390
wanted you how far north or south it went. Just down on our waterfront.

674
00:54:49,650 --> 00:54:51,110
So real briefly

675
00:54:51,110 --> 00:54:57,810
project status, we have dissolved aching district 3, that's done. Stakeholders are currently

676
00:54:57,810 --> 00:54:59,810
engaged in reviewing a vulnerable.

677
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:05,520
The bill of the assessment, which basically means they're looking at all of our pertinences and all of our improvements down on the waterfront.

678
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:13,700
And basically fact checking what our consults have done as far as identifying what vulnerabilities are most important to the city.

679
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:19,740
We'll start the review of the draft seal of a rise report in a couple of days.

680
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:33,960
I'll turn as an Alice. We'll begin in April. That's where we talk about the four alternatives that we've developed and we start to educate our stakeholders on what we're talking about so that they can make decisions about what our best alternative is.

681
00:55:34,340 --> 00:55:42,020
We'll do that in May. That'll be our preferred alternative selection and then the alternative analysis report will probably be finished in July.

682
00:55:42,020 --> 00:55:46,580
preliminary design docs will go all the way from June to October and then in October we

683
00:55:46,580 --> 00:55:51,620
finalize the plans and we have our preliminary design documents in hand and we go

684
00:55:51,620 --> 00:55:57,140
forth and try to find more money to advance this project. Next slide.

685
00:55:59,650 --> 00:55:59,970
I think we're to

686
00:55:59,970 --> 00:56:07,690
questions. Excellent. Councillor Miller Miller. Yeah. We can raise the dikes so we can lower

687
00:56:07,690 --> 00:56:12,170
the floor and we, you know, we used to have advocated for Dredgen and said anybody

688
00:56:12,170 --> 00:56:15,050
that uses this channel knows you get the pre-suppointments, right?

689
00:56:15,790 --> 00:56:24,330
So, is there an opportunity for us to leverage this, it's in it, to potentially start a conversation for

690
00:56:24,330 --> 00:56:26,910
Dredging, Eevee Sloan, clearing up some of those channels?

691
00:56:27,450 --> 00:56:29,190
I do not have an answer for you on that.

692
00:56:29,190 --> 00:56:31,770
I couldn't tell you, it's not something that we've looked at.

693
00:56:32,070 --> 00:56:37,250
I think that the issue from my perspective is that if you dredge the channels, you're removing a couple of

694
00:56:37,250 --> 00:56:40,650
feet of material, but you're still getting indated by the ocean.

695
00:56:41,730 --> 00:56:48,670
So, that volume of water that's coming up the slew is going to fill up the little bit of space we free up before we ever even get.

696
00:56:48,670 --> 00:56:53,170
Yeah, I don't know if we've ever actually, I mean, out there it's obviously noticeable.

697
00:56:53,370 --> 00:57:00,910
I don't know it out in front of us how much sediment has raised the bottom of the slew out there.

698
00:57:01,110 --> 00:57:04,690
Yeah, I couldn't tell you we've never surveyed the foul wag of that river before.

699
00:57:05,230 --> 00:57:06,590
So, not since I've been here.

700
00:57:06,590 --> 00:57:11,650
But it'd be nice from an economic standpoint for the city if we could leverage that potential.

701
00:57:11,670 --> 00:57:13,450
At least start a conversation with the port.

702
00:57:13,570 --> 00:57:15,170
I know the port, I think, doing some stuff.

703
00:57:15,310 --> 00:57:21,550
And back when I was at kid there was a huge, I mean, all of Dagmar's is built on a huge dredging.

704
00:57:21,550 --> 00:57:23,330
Well, I think we'd have used for the material.

705
00:57:24,030 --> 00:57:24,730
Yeah, I think we do.

706
00:57:24,910 --> 00:57:27,710
But it'd be nice to at least start down that conversation.

707
00:57:28,170 --> 00:57:28,550
Let's see.

708
00:57:28,710 --> 00:57:31,210
You can, I can talk to you, I say a little bit about that.

709
00:57:31,250 --> 00:57:32,930
And see what we got free money to do.

710
00:57:33,070 --> 00:57:33,470
See what's going to happen.

711
00:57:33,670 --> 00:57:35,270
Maybe they can start the conversation.

712
00:57:35,270 --> 00:57:37,430
I'll advance that conversation with the consultants.

713
00:57:40,340 --> 00:57:41,380
Thank you.

714
00:57:42,970 --> 00:57:43,850
There are no further questions.

715
00:57:44,030 --> 00:57:44,750
We'll open the floor.

716
00:57:45,370 --> 00:57:45,950
Council Member James.

717
00:57:46,390 --> 00:57:47,130
Yeah, just real quick.

718
00:57:47,510 --> 00:57:50,710
Is there a coordinated communication and a coordinated

719
00:57:50,710 --> 00:57:56,070
efforts on the wastewater treatment plant, the new design

720
00:57:56,690 --> 00:57:57,210
fix?

721
00:57:58,470 --> 00:57:58,490
Yes.

722
00:57:58,830 --> 00:57:59,150
And this.

723
00:57:59,790 --> 00:58:00,470
So there are.

724
00:58:00,470 --> 00:58:01,270
And public works.

725
00:58:01,710 --> 00:58:02,270
Working together.

726
00:58:02,670 --> 00:58:05,090
There are a lot of, there is a lot of adjacencies there.

727
00:58:05,670 --> 00:58:05,690
OK.

728
00:58:05,890 --> 00:58:06,290
OK.

729
00:58:06,350 --> 00:58:06,630
Fantastic.

730
00:58:07,270 --> 00:58:07,470
Yep.

731
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,160
I was ready to make a motion if you ready.

732
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,060
I moved to authorize the mayor to sign an execute amendment number

733
00:58:20,060 --> 00:58:20,420
1.

734
00:58:20,580 --> 00:58:26,340
The interlocal agreement CLFR-19B with snowmish county for the

735
00:58:26,340 --> 00:58:28,740
Marisville flood control grant project.

736
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,980
Motion by council member Norton seconded by council member

737
00:58:32,980 --> 00:58:34,220
Muller and final discussion.

738
00:58:36,100 --> 00:58:36,680
All in favor.

739
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:38,720
Opposed?

740
00:58:39,460 --> 00:58:40,220
Any abstentions?

741
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,140
Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, Council.

742
00:58:45,540 --> 00:58:48,500
Director Belentous has ordinance. What would be ordinance?

743
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:51,160
3376.

744
00:58:52,940 --> 00:58:54,320
3376. Go ahead.

745
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,480
Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

746
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:15,320
Heidi Belentous has finance director. The for each night is an ordinance to approve the amended 2025 2026 by any old budget.

747
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:19,480
This does represent the first budget amendment for 2020-26.

748
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:25,360
To summarize, the current citywide budget, the beginning fund balance is approximately

749
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:38,300
$94 million, our total budgeted revenues is $444 million, total expenditures at $436 million,

750
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:43,120
and this results in an ending fund balance of $62 million as budgeted.

751
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:56,500
The proposed amendment reflects updated financial information and adjustments since the original budget was adopted as well as since the most recent budget amendment that occurred in September of 2025.

752
00:59:56,500 --> 00:59:59,980
as these changes would increase total revenues by

753
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:07,380
$36 million, increases expenditures by $12 million, and that has a net effect to our ending fund balance

754
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:18,900
at $24 million. So I've broken out our budget amendments into categories. Sorry, Elliot, this thing seems to.

755
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:29,800
Okay, sounds great. Thank you. So I've broken out the amendment into categories. The first category is general fund reappropriations

756
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:38,400
or carry over. This category is primarily used to adjust our beginning of fund balances for

757
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:45,900
2026 based on where we actually ended in 2025. What it also includes is carry over of projects

758
01:00:45,900 --> 01:00:52,020
that had already been budgeted and previously approved by Council, but due to timing for shifting

759
01:00:52,020 --> 01:00:56,840
of the activities from 2025 into the 26th of school year.

760
01:00:57,740 --> 01:01:02,680
Our second category is general fund amendments, and these will reflect changes to the budget

761
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:08,760
based on new information, and in many cases, these items have already been presented to

762
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:14,880
Council in the form of a council meeting or a committee meeting, so they are included here

763
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:19,080
really to formally incorporate these updates into the budget.

764
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:29,820
The third category is non-general fund reappropriations or carryover and that is similar to the general fund category, but applies to our non-general funds.

765
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:38,400
And the fourth category is non-general fund amendments, which like the general fund reflect updates based on the new information that we have available.

766
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:44,180
And so we'll go into the details of each amendment starting with general fund reappropriations.

767
01:01:44,180 --> 01:01:49,800
For reference, the details that I'm sharing with you today are included in Exhibit A of the

768
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:50,300
ordinance.

769
01:01:50,980 --> 01:01:55,680
And if you'd like to see the impact at the individual fund level, that would be represented

770
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:57,080
in Exhibit B.

771
01:01:58,280 --> 01:01:58,580
Next slide.

772
01:01:58,740 --> 01:01:59,360
Thank you.

773
01:01:59,860 --> 01:02:04,740
The first item adjusts the general fund's beginning fund balance to match the actual cash balance

774
01:02:04,740 --> 01:02:07,020
as of January 1, 2026.

775
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:12,760
This adjustment would increase both our beginning and ending balances by $5.6 million.

776
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:18,340
And what this does is it's reflecting a higher carry forward than what we had originally

777
01:02:18,340 --> 01:02:25,120
budgeted for in 2020. So this is a good sign. The next three items have no net impact

778
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:30,800
on the overall budget. As you can see, there are zeroes across the table. What this is is really

779
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:37,840
a shift of revenues and expenditures from 25 to 26. So no net effect. On September 22,

780
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:42,680
2025,

781
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:48,340
with the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, and this item carries forward

782
01:02:48,340 --> 01:02:57,040
1,633 dollars into 2026 for pre-trial service-related cost as well as the associated reimbursement

783
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,120
from that grant.

784
01:02:59,140 --> 01:03:06,560
Next is a carry forward of, are they not, Eliot, the slides for, can you see it now?

785
01:03:09,510 --> 01:03:11,950
I think first I'll, there we go.

786
01:03:13,970 --> 01:03:15,850
So we're on the third item here.

787
01:03:16,510 --> 01:03:24,190
The next is a carry forward of $1,332 and $7113,2,711 dollars.

788
01:03:24,630 --> 01:03:30,710
For general fund capital projects and equipment purchases that were not completed by December 31, 2025.

789
01:03:31,510 --> 01:03:34,250
This would include the jail railing extension project.

790
01:03:34,250 --> 01:03:44,030
Street Light repairs a retro reflectometer for streets. I do have the definition of community that and the waterfront redevelopment in a four-fill.

791
01:03:44,770 --> 01:03:56,030
The last re-appropriation here carries forward $84,073 in unspent public art funds and what this will allow is the continuation of the traffic rat program in 2026.

792
01:03:56,990 --> 01:03:58,010
Next slide please.

793
01:03:58,950 --> 01:04:04,470
Moving on to general fund amendments or new items proposed for incorporation into the budget.

794
01:04:05,930 --> 01:04:09,190
The first is to adjust allocations for general fund service charges.

795
01:04:10,170 --> 01:04:15,210
So as a background, the general fund does provide central internal services, citywide.

796
01:04:15,710 --> 01:04:20,810
This would include council support, executive, legal, HR and finance services.

797
01:04:20,810 --> 01:04:28,050
These costs are allocated through what we call an indirect cost allocation in which we do have a policy for.

798
01:04:28,610 --> 01:04:32,690
Adjustments are needed in this budget amendment to reflect a revised methodology.

799
01:04:33,510 --> 01:04:38,130
That more accurately charges funds that directly benefit from these services.

800
01:04:38,730 --> 01:04:46,190
And this is based off of a two year look back of actual spending, which is a very common practice in an indirect cost allocation plan.

801
01:04:46,190 --> 01:04:51,050
And not all funds are eligible for such a plan, so as a result,

802
01:04:51,290 --> 01:04:55,890
to general fund revenues for the services are reduced by $49,000.

803
01:04:56,570 --> 01:04:59,510
Add you to that change in methodology, which is more accurate.

804
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:09,940
So this does adjust the funds that are benefiting from these services, including the general fund, but overall reduction of 409,000.

805
01:05:11,580 --> 01:05:18,240
The next amendment increases personnel benefit expenses by $657,729.

806
01:05:19,300 --> 01:05:24,300
This is to cover higher than budgeted employer contributions to workers compensation.

807
01:05:24,300 --> 01:05:33,120
This increase reflects the Department of Labor and Industries reported average rate increase of 4.9% compared to 2025.

808
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:39,420
This also does relate to the city's own experience and past claims activity.

809
01:05:40,060 --> 01:05:49,300
As you might know, the state has made some in recent years changes to what is a qualified condition that can be claimed under workers compensation.

810
01:05:49,300 --> 01:05:52,460
And so governments, like the City of Mary'sville,

811
01:05:52,740 --> 01:05:55,840
are kind of experiencing the financial impact of that.

812
01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:00,540
Next is an amendment to provide $260,000

813
01:06:00,540 --> 01:06:04,620
for an axon contract that is used by the police department

814
01:06:04,620 --> 01:06:07,840
for body-born cameras as well as other systems.

815
01:06:08,500 --> 01:06:13,740
This agreement was approved by Council in September 22nd, 2025.

816
01:06:14,460 --> 01:06:16,500
So this is just as updating the budget

817
01:06:16,500 --> 01:06:18,780
to agree to what was already approved.

818
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:29,580
Next we have $140,836 from the general fund to our fleet services fund 501, a transfer

819
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,600
for the purchase of a snow plow truck for streets.

820
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:42,360
That was approved late last year, as well as the police department is replacing five of

821
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:49,420
ford fusion, leases for five, for broncholases, this is deemed more ergonomically and operationally

822
01:06:49,420 --> 01:06:56,280
effective for the department. The next amendment recognizes a $3,000 contribution, a private

823
01:06:56,280 --> 01:07:03,140
contribution for the Tom King Memorial Black and Bench. And lastly here, what we have is a contribution

824
01:07:03,140 --> 01:07:11,380
to dental and vision self insurance programs. Starting this year, the city has started to self

825
01:07:11,380 --> 01:07:18,000
for these programs, dental and vision. It has been a recommendation from our third party administrator

826
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:25,080
to provide an initial investment in which you'll see in the cement at 47,236 dollars.

827
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:31,200
And this is based on ensuring that we meet solvency requirements. There is a state requirement

828
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:37,380
for ensuring that we have adequate reserves in our programs to ensure that we can pay for these

829
01:07:38,220 --> 01:07:40,400
This is a one-time investment.

830
01:07:42,650 --> 01:07:43,710
Next slide, please, Elliot.

831
01:07:45,370 --> 01:07:48,430
Moving on to you, non-general fund re-appropriations.

832
01:07:49,110 --> 01:07:53,650
The first item, adjusts the beginning fund balances for all non-general funds.

833
01:07:54,330 --> 01:08:02,710
Similar to the general fund, this is to align our beginning fund balances with actual cash represented as of January 1st, 2026.

834
01:08:02,710 --> 01:08:08,810
and the total of this is $24.4 million across all non-general funds.

835
01:08:10,370 --> 01:08:17,570
As similar to the general fund, the remaining appropriations have known that effect on revenues and expenditures in our purely timing adjustments.

836
01:08:18,610 --> 01:08:29,870
At the next item carries forward $479,266 in transfers from the Transportation Benefit District Fund 114

837
01:08:29,870 --> 01:08:34,930
For Approved Capital projects that were not yet completed as of 1231-25,

838
01:08:35,870 --> 01:08:40,210
these projects do include our 2025 street overlays,

839
01:08:41,050 --> 01:08:43,550
a sunny side Boulevard in 53rd Avenue, Northeast,

840
01:08:44,070 --> 01:08:48,830
67th and 52nd Street, the 67th Avenue Northeast overlay,

841
01:08:49,510 --> 01:08:51,790
as well as the comfort park sidewalk projects.

842
01:08:53,890 --> 01:08:59,470
The next item carries forward $3,130,992 in revenues

843
01:08:59,470 --> 01:09:11,350
And $7,445,471 expenses to support ongoing street infrastructure improvements that were not completed as of 1231-25.

844
01:09:12,310 --> 01:09:18,090
These projects are listed in Exhibit A, but you can also find them in the approved capital project.

845
01:09:18,990 --> 01:09:20,410
Sorry, capital improvement plan.

846
01:09:21,630 --> 01:09:32,110
The next item carries forward $2,674,144 and expenses for Parks Capital projects that were

847
01:09:32,110 --> 01:09:34,030
also not completed by 2025.

848
01:09:34,930 --> 01:09:42,190
This is the EB Waterfront Trail, Bayview Trail, Lake Stevens Connector, Twin Lakes Park Improvements,

849
01:09:42,350 --> 01:09:45,230
and Strawberry Fields turf phase two.

850
01:09:45,230 --> 01:09:58,850
The final item on the slide carries forward $40,000 in revenue and $105,949 in expenses for facility capital projects, not yet completed by 2025.

851
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:11,800
There are two, one is the Police Department evidence building upgrades, primarily HVAC, and the electric vehicle charging stations will be in the parking lot north of the police building.

852
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:15,320
Next slide, please.

853
01:10:17,490 --> 01:10:25,750
Continuing with our re-appropriations, the next item carries forward, 738, 456 dollars.

854
01:10:25,750 --> 01:10:32,750
For maintenance and transfers not completed by the end of 2025 within our utility fund 401.

855
01:10:33,170 --> 01:10:45,210
This includes $341,192 dollars for critical maintenance repairs and procurement primarily needed for daily water production and treatment operations.

856
01:10:45,210 --> 01:10:54,690
There's also a transfer of 397,000 from our utility operating fund 401 into fund 402,

857
01:10:54,850 --> 01:11:00,730
which is the utility capital project fund that will provide support for the public works

858
01:11:00,730 --> 01:11:02,310
relocation project.

859
01:11:03,650 --> 01:11:14,250
The next item carries forward $2,468,736 in revenue and $5.4 million in expenses for

860
01:11:14,250 --> 01:11:21,070
utility projects that were not completed in 2025. These do range from storm water improvements,

861
01:11:21,510 --> 01:11:27,550
water system upgrades in sewer system improvements, also the detail of these projects are in the

862
01:11:27,550 --> 01:11:34,490
exhibit A. Our next item carries forward $2.2 million for the golf course irrigation project,

863
01:11:35,570 --> 01:11:43,390
and it also carries over $360,000 in our debt service payment for the LTEO bond. That was

864
01:11:43,390 --> 01:11:48,770
issue last year, there was a timing discrepancy of when those were going to be paid.

865
01:11:50,330 --> 01:11:55,950
The final item on this table carries forward 296,000 for fleet vehicles that were ordered

866
01:11:55,950 --> 01:12:01,430
in 2025, but are not expected to be delivered and paid until this year.

867
01:12:03,820 --> 01:12:05,560
And lastly, next slide, Elliot.

868
01:12:06,740 --> 01:12:08,540
Lastly is non-general fund amendments.

869
01:12:08,540 --> 01:12:15,020
The first amendment adjusts the allocation of central internal service costs to the non-general funds,

870
01:12:15,140 --> 01:12:24,880
as I had shared with you the indirect cost allocation plan has a reduction to general fund revenues by 409,000.

871
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:31,320
So this amendment here reflects the reduction to expenses for the funds that were previously contributing.

872
01:12:32,540 --> 01:12:40,580
The next item increases personal benefit expenses by 111,524 dollars, similar to the general

873
01:12:40,580 --> 01:12:40,900
fund.

874
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:46,840
This is just the non-general fund's portion of the L&I or workers compensation rate increase.

875
01:12:48,900 --> 01:12:53,820
Our next amendment recognizes $25,000 that was received from the telelipped tribes to

876
01:12:53,820 --> 01:12:59,040
care community impact funds. This was directly provided to the

877
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:03,720
mayor's will police department and has been reported within our tribal

878
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:07,640
gaming fund, with that can only be used for law enforcement purposes.

879
01:13:09,440 --> 01:13:16,140
Next is amendment that provides 241,644 dollars from our hotel motel fund

880
01:13:16,140 --> 01:13:23,380
105, and this will fund our 2226 tourism grant awards that were previously

881
01:13:23,380 --> 01:13:25,120
approved by Council in November.

882
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:31,620
Next, we have an amendment that increases transfers from our Transportation Benefit District

883
01:13:31,620 --> 01:13:34,620
to fund $14 by $4 million.

884
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:43,180
I believe our engineering services director did provide a presentation on January discussing the

885
01:13:43,180 --> 01:13:44,320
use of these funds.

886
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:47,240
Next slide, please, Elliott.

887
01:13:48,900 --> 01:13:56,100
The next amendment increases revenue by 128,000, $70 in our school mitigation fund.

888
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:02,680
By law, school districts are unable to collect their own mitigation fees, so we collect

889
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:05,880
them on their behalf and we remit them to the school district.

890
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:11,800
This amendment is really to right size revenues by the expected expenditures for the year.

891
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:14,940
It is yes.

892
01:14:14,940 --> 01:14:18,720
The next two amendments establishes two new funds.

893
01:14:19,180 --> 01:14:22,880
One is fund 1117 for transportation mitigation fees.

894
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,700
And another fund 118 for Parks mitigation fees.

895
01:14:27,220 --> 01:14:32,060
These are currently reported historically within our capital projects fund.

896
01:14:32,420 --> 01:14:35,980
For really transparency and to be able to cleanly see these,

897
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:37,620
like we do with our school mitigation,

898
01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:41,280
we thought it was beneficial to create the new funds.

899
01:14:42,480 --> 01:14:48,780
Our next amendment increases capital expenses by $2.9 million in the street capital projects fund.

900
01:14:49,480 --> 01:14:53,900
So these are what's being funded by the TBD dollars that are transferred over.

901
01:14:54,540 --> 01:14:59,960
And that would be including the pavement preservation, as well as multiple sidewalls.

902
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:13,060
The final amendment on this slide adds $210,000 to the strawberry field turf phase 2 project, and this is really to match the awarded contract amount.

903
01:15:13,460 --> 01:15:22,260
Project costs are recorded in fund 310, and they are supported by the residential density incentive fee funds from 315.

904
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:25,260
Next slide, please.

905
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:35,300
The next item is a $253,469 budget amendment for the rainy well replacement project.

906
01:15:35,860 --> 01:15:39,860
This amount is different from what you had just listened to.

907
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:44,660
I just wanted to let you know that this budget amendment is really a timing issue.

908
01:15:45,060 --> 01:15:48,660
So at this time, the quote that was mentioned is what was provided.

909
01:15:48,660 --> 01:15:50,960
So, there is that discrepancy.

910
01:15:53,060 --> 01:16:00,100
The next item provides $217,000 to fund additional needs for all comprehensive plans,

911
01:16:00,440 --> 01:16:02,060
service water, sewer, and water.

912
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:09,860
The next one is on November 10, 2025, Council approved ordinance number 3372.

913
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:15,060
This revised our solid waste rates, really gearing up for worth the expected increase

914
01:16:15,060 --> 01:16:20,560
from the snowmish county tipping fees, as well as state taxes and inflationary pressures on

915
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:22,440
our recycling contract.

916
01:16:24,180 --> 01:16:29,120
The next item reflects a transfer from the general fund into the fleet services 501 fund,

917
01:16:29,580 --> 01:16:35,580
and this was for the Ford Bronco and Snow Plow Truck that was discussed previously.

918
01:16:37,100 --> 01:16:43,180
The final item here is for unemployment compensation, which is within our insurance fund

919
01:16:43,180 --> 01:16:49,500
510, we are increasing the budget by $32,000 based on recent trends.

920
01:16:50,260 --> 01:16:54,880
So as a self-insured employer, the city does pay our unemployment claims directly.

921
01:16:55,840 --> 01:17:02,220
This adjustment ensures that our budget reflects our anticipated liabilities for this year.

922
01:17:04,440 --> 01:17:12,680
The next item provides $233,570 in insurance fund $511, and this is insurance

923
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:19,820
recovery revenues that were received this year related to a rental vehicle water damage that occurred last year.

924
01:17:21,020 --> 01:17:27,220
And our final amendment of the night relates to the city's transition to a self-insured dental and vision program.

925
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:35,560
We did create new accounts within our medical insurance fund 512 so that we could report on these programs separately.

926
01:17:36,300 --> 01:17:42,360
In addition to the initial investment that's coming from the general fund, the remaining revenues

927
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:48,280
are payable based allocations, as so each department does provide a set amount per employee,

928
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:51,720
and that is what will continue to fund the program going forward.

929
01:17:53,480 --> 01:17:54,000
All right.

930
01:17:54,460 --> 01:17:55,120
There are any questions?

931
01:17:56,820 --> 01:17:58,020
Thank you.

932
01:17:58,100 --> 01:18:01,160
Councilman James, was that an old, old, old, old, old, old?

933
01:18:01,340 --> 01:18:01,600
Okay.

934
01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:02,460
Any questions?

935
01:18:02,460 --> 01:18:03,420
Thank

936
01:18:07,740 --> 01:18:09,320
you for the detailed presentation.

937
01:18:09,900 --> 01:18:17,240
If there are no questions, we'll open the floor for any potential motion on ordinance 3376 Council Member Richards.

938
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:21,580
I moved to adopt ordinance number 3376.

939
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:25,000
Motion by Council Member Richards.

940
01:18:25,060 --> 01:18:28,620
Seconded by Council President Stevens to adopt ordinance 3376.

941
01:18:28,620 --> 01:18:29,440
Any final discussion?

942
01:18:31,140 --> 01:18:31,460
All favor?

943
01:18:33,340 --> 01:18:33,820
Opposed?

944
01:18:34,700 --> 01:18:35,320
Abstentions?

945
01:18:36,480 --> 01:18:37,100
Motion passes.

946
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:38,160
Thank you.

947
01:18:39,020 --> 01:18:42,680
And with that, we'll go to item 11, Dr. Hodson.

948
01:18:45,020 --> 01:18:46,180
Good evening, Mayor and Council.

949
01:18:46,300 --> 01:18:47,720
Thank you for having me here tonight.

950
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:52,000
I have before you request and recommendation to approve

951
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:56,420
an amendment to the City's administrative services contract with Premier Blue Cross.

952
01:18:57,080 --> 01:19:00,860
Premier has served as the City's third party administrator for our self-insured medical

953
01:19:00,860 --> 01:19:03,020
and pharmacy plans since 2020.

954
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:06,420
This amendment addresses a 3% increase in

955
01:19:06,420 --> 01:19:11,960
admin services fees for processing in 2026, which is within our budget, it amounts to about

956
01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:19,800
a $5,000 cost increase to the city annually, and is separate from our projected claims

957
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:23,720
liability, without I'm happy to answer any questions.

958
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:24,500
Thank you.

959
01:19:24,700 --> 01:19:25,520
Any questions, Council?

960
01:19:29,110 --> 01:19:29,570
Open the floor.

961
01:19:29,750 --> 01:19:34,610
Then, for any potential motion here, Council member Candidates, I'll move to authorize the

962
01:19:34,610 --> 01:19:38,430
to sign a next to get the Premier Blue Cross administrative services contract.

963
01:19:39,830 --> 01:19:43,270
Motion by Councilmember Condolius, second by Councilmember James, any final discussion?

964
01:19:45,150 --> 01:19:45,710
All in favor.

965
01:19:46,410 --> 01:19:46,910
All right.

966
01:19:47,570 --> 01:19:47,850
Opposed?

967
01:19:48,830 --> 01:19:49,930
Any abstentions?

968
01:19:50,890 --> 01:19:51,770
Motion passes.

969
01:19:51,970 --> 01:19:52,230
Thank you.

970
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:57,680
Just a couple items under Mayor's business.

971
01:19:58,080 --> 01:19:59,840
I did want to mention.

972
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:09,360
And I'm appreciative of and impressed with the work of Mike and Griffin at Stadgy 360. You know, I think

973
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:14,780
you've all had some interaction with them quite a bit, probably this year as well. But you know,

974
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:20,020
they're brand new and Stadgy's under no ownership. But they've, they've been particularly

975
01:20:20,020 --> 01:20:25,240
effective and I know Jennifer and I've had conversations to in just getting some of these

976
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,000
you can actually direct it spending requests.

977
01:20:28,020 --> 01:20:29,900
And we get the information of them and they're

978
01:20:29,900 --> 01:20:34,300
pilein' all that stuff in and really directing staff

979
01:20:34,300 --> 01:20:36,100
on what information is needed for it.

980
01:20:37,180 --> 01:20:38,000
And it's just very helpful.

981
01:20:38,180 --> 01:20:40,340
And then that's at the federal level there, you know,

982
01:20:40,420 --> 01:20:42,980
basically our state reps, but they're double-teamin' it

983
01:20:42,980 --> 01:20:45,880
with the federal stuff as well.

984
01:20:47,260 --> 01:20:49,460
And at the state legislative offices too,

985
01:20:49,500 --> 01:20:50,060
very effective.

986
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:52,580
This was a tough year for cities all around.

987
01:20:52,580 --> 01:20:56,840
AWC is mentioned that, you know, and it just wasn't any,

988
01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,440
as was mentioned, there are any funding for new projects this year,

989
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:02,100
but they've done a really nice job team ours up.

990
01:21:02,620 --> 01:21:04,780
We have good broad support from the Senate, particularly

991
01:21:04,780 --> 01:21:06,480
Senator Leas, I think, for our projects.

992
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:11,880
And then finally I was just, I was impressed, you know,

993
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:15,440
I was in DC on AWC business, AWC paid for the whole trip

994
01:21:15,440 --> 01:21:17,480
with my, you know, come in, I know, I presentential years.

995
01:21:17,980 --> 01:21:21,240
So had a full slate of meetings for AWC,

996
01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:23,420
both stuff that they did at the NLC Conference,

997
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:25,920
and then legislative meetings with the senators

998
01:21:27,660 --> 01:21:30,380
and congressional delegation across the state.

999
01:21:31,020 --> 01:21:34,500
And there was just a few thin time slots in there.

1000
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:37,380
I told Griffin, as I probably not much point

1001
01:21:37,380 --> 01:21:40,420
and you come back and he insisted on trying to,

1002
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:42,680
and he managed to slot all the Mary'sville meetings

1003
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:44,880
into the fewer meetings slots that were open.

1004
01:21:45,240 --> 01:21:46,740
So made for some long days of it,

1005
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:48,500
ended up getting all the city business done,

1006
01:21:48,500 --> 01:21:52,180
which I completely not expected, you know, on an AWS C-trip.

1007
01:21:52,480 --> 01:21:55,100
So he was, you know, and that's tough thing to do.

1008
01:21:55,240 --> 01:21:56,640
It's tough to get those guys to schedule.

1009
01:21:56,820 --> 01:21:58,220
Even when you have wide open schedules,

1010
01:21:58,380 --> 01:22:00,720
you have to loan to cram it into a few open slots.

1011
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:02,320
And so his persistence paid off.

1012
01:22:02,420 --> 01:22:06,200
I think the last meeting he slid in about an hour before it actually happened.

1013
01:22:06,700 --> 01:22:08,420
And so he just kept at it.

1014
01:22:08,620 --> 01:22:10,160
And, you know, sometimes tenacity pays off.

1015
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:13,540
So I just wanted to report to Council just some of that on the ground stuff

1016
01:22:13,540 --> 01:22:17,540
that, you know, while they're not as experienced as some of our past,

1017
01:22:18,780 --> 01:22:25,280
folks at strategies they are very high level of work ethic and I think when you read through

1018
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:29,420
their final report you'll notice the professional level of professionalism is probably

1019
01:22:29,420 --> 01:22:34,980
as good or better than we've seen you know in quite some time so anyway that's I'll leave

1020
01:22:34,980 --> 01:22:39,320
that there and if council has any thoughts I want to discuss that to some more happy to do

1021
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:45,040
that as well and then lastly before we go to stop business I did want I think most of you

1022
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:51,240
Lauren, but did want to introduce Lauren Homiak, our new communications manager, and I'd

1023
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:56,480
invite her to come up and just share briefly, really excited to have Lauren on. This is her first

1024
01:22:56,480 --> 01:23:00,980
day. We're going to make it a long one. We're going to make sure she goes home and then realizes

1025
01:23:00,980 --> 01:23:06,100
a 13 hour day or so, but we appreciate Lauren's background in what she's going to bring to a city.

1026
01:23:06,380 --> 01:23:10,020
Lauren. Great. Thank you for the warm welcome. Good evening, Mayor and council.

1027
01:23:12,660 --> 01:23:16,080
I'm excited to be here as your new communications manager.

1028
01:23:16,480 --> 01:23:17,340
Today is my first day.

1029
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:21,420
It's been super smooth and exciting to meet some of my new co-workers.

1030
01:23:22,060 --> 01:23:26,100
I come to you with about 10 years of experience in local government communications.

1031
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:27,800
I work for the City of Mercer Island.

1032
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:33,160
And then most recently just completed a stint at the City of Kenmore for the last six years

1033
01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:35,480
as their communications and tourism manager.

1034
01:23:36,340 --> 01:23:41,920
super passionate about all things in communications. I love creative storytelling and I love

1035
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:47,020
community engagement and finding ways to connect residents to their local government. So I

1036
01:23:47,020 --> 01:23:53,020
see a lot of opportunity here to do that. I also am excited because the splash pad next door

1037
01:23:53,020 --> 01:23:57,000
is my two sons favorite park to come to in the summer and they think it's super cool that their

1038
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:03,260
mom is working right next door. So yeah, I look forward to serving this community. I look forward

1039
01:24:03,260 --> 01:24:06,260
serving this council and I'm very happy to be here. Thank you.

1040
01:24:06,820 --> 01:24:10,480
Next one. Thank you so much Lauren. Welcome aboard.

1041
01:24:12,100 --> 01:24:15,100
Was there anybody else from staff who had a report tonight?

1042
01:24:17,330 --> 01:24:20,470
Great. Everybody's stairs at a turning walker and he's

1043
01:24:20,470 --> 01:24:21,890
stayed seated, so that's good news.

1044
01:24:24,110 --> 01:24:24,990
Thank you.

1045
01:24:25,190 --> 01:24:26,750
Councilmember Condo, can you start this off?

1046
01:24:26,810 --> 01:24:29,890
The only thing I had is last Friday, March 20th,

1047
01:24:29,970 --> 01:24:31,830
was the anniversary of our city's incorporation.

1048
01:24:31,830 --> 01:24:37,850
Yes, the Maryville 135 years old now and looking pretty good. That's all I had. Thank you.

1049
01:24:39,050 --> 01:24:42,810
Council member James. Welcome aboard Lauren. Good to have you here.

1050
01:24:43,790 --> 01:24:47,610
And thank you to those who showed up tonight and stayed for the whole meeting.

1051
01:24:47,870 --> 01:24:51,890
It's very nice. It's encouraging to us up here in the Council to see engagement.

1052
01:24:52,390 --> 01:24:55,770
So thank you. Thank you. Council member Perkins.

1053
01:24:57,130 --> 01:24:59,630
Happy birthday Maryville and Lauren.

1054
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:27,820
Good to have you here. Welcome. Thanks. Council President Stevens. Welcome, Lauren. I'll excuse me, I look forward to working with you. And I wanted to also just echo how impressed I have been with the two guys, the strategies, just the reports and the briefings. It's very thorough. Thank you. Council member Richards. Yeah. Welcome, Lauren. It looked forward to all of you off some stuff you're going to do.

1055
01:25:27,820 --> 01:25:56,300
I guess since we met last, those two students that were here last meeting, I actually went to their school on the next day and met with both of them and their teacher and had a nice little conversation with them and they were, and I also believe they met with director Lake Hock later, so they had a good plan. It was good to see that. So what else? We had public safety meeting. I got to fill in for council member James, so I got to go to my first public safety meeting. It was a good meeting as always. So and then public works.

1056
01:25:57,820 --> 01:26:07,280
We're over the 2026 CIP updates, also went over the 108th street sidewalk that the two MP students had come with us.

1057
01:26:07,460 --> 01:26:17,340
And then roadside memorials that we're working on coming up with some plan to have something on the books that the roadside memorials can be handled more delicately.

1058
01:26:18,100 --> 01:26:19,000
And that's it.

1059
01:26:19,480 --> 01:26:20,200
Thank you.

1060
01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:20,980
Councilmember Miller.

1061
01:26:21,540 --> 01:26:23,820
I already said hi but welcome again, Lauren.

1062
01:26:23,820 --> 01:26:26,300
And yeah, I too was impressed.

1063
01:26:26,520 --> 01:26:29,000
I was concerned with the ownership change

1064
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:31,680
at strategies, but both them really stepped up

1065
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:35,660
and did, like I said, I think it was a refreshing to see.

1066
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:39,920
I think, yeah, so it's both well for their future,

1067
01:26:40,420 --> 01:26:42,380
the strategies hopefully in our relationship.

1068
01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:44,420
But that's all I have for things.

1069
01:26:44,740 --> 01:26:45,120
Thank you.

1070
01:26:45,380 --> 01:26:45,840
Councilmember Norton.

1071
01:26:46,380 --> 01:26:47,840
Yeah, I'll add my welcome, Lauren.

1072
01:26:49,060 --> 01:26:53,100
And also just did out to what's been said about Mike

1073
01:26:53,100 --> 01:26:58,940
and Griffin just appreciate the information and the sharing throughout the session.

1074
01:26:59,960 --> 01:27:06,940
I just have one committee report, Public Safety Committee, I met on March 17th, and we talked

1075
01:27:06,940 --> 01:27:10,940
about quite a few things we talked about the state bills that were passed and potential

1076
01:27:10,940 --> 01:27:16,840
impacts to the city and specifically law enforcement, reviewed the crime statistics, which

1077
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:24,800
again look really good still large drop in the crime numbers compared to last year. Recruiting

1078
01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:31,060
at the time of the meeting there were seven patrol openings, three custody openings and records.

1079
01:27:31,980 --> 01:27:36,040
I think they still had some people going through training but we're really close to being fully

1080
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:41,580
staffed and operational there so that's great news. The jail fencing project is also almost complete.

1081
01:27:41,580 --> 01:27:50,360
And then we did have a discussion, I know some people have, I've talked to about this, you may have seen whatever it did recently,

1082
01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:56,660
a law they recently passed in regards to protecting children from fentanyl exposure.

1083
01:27:56,900 --> 01:28:08,160
And so we had a brief discussion there and will work through that at the committee level and may come to the council at a later date to address that gap that we have in state law.

1084
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:13,860
So looking forward to that and that's it for me tonight. Thanks. Thank you appreciate that

1085
01:28:14,500 --> 01:28:16,240
Anything else for the good order

1086
01:28:17,220 --> 01:28:19,400
We have motion to adjourn

1087
01:28:22,020 --> 01:28:28,130
Second counts remember Mueller and seconded by Council President Stevens all in favor of adjourning

1088
01:28:28,970 --> 01:28:29,570
Hi

1089
01:28:30,830 --> 01:28:32,390
Media adjourn thanks everybody