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[0:36] Good evening,
[1:23] everybody.
[1:25] 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.
[1:34] Thank you, Pastor Thieson.
[1:37] Thank you very much.
[1:37] Let's start our heads together.
[1:38] We're going to pray.
[1:41] God and have it in front of these my friends.
[1:43] I want to thank you for my city's leader.
[1:46] I want to thank you for their servants' heart.
[1:49] 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.
[1:56] I thank you for their patience with us, the citizens of our town.
[2:01] I thank you that by the nature of what they do, they are involved in conflict with different opinions on so many different things.
[2:09] And the path forward is not always straight.
[2:12] So, God tonight, we invoke your presence on these proceedings.
[2:16] We invoke your wisdom to fill our minds that you would bring unity, a thought and purpose to our cities leaders,
[2:23] to affect positive change in this city.
[2:28] And so may you oversee all of this and may the ends be good and true and beautiful.
[2:32] And we pray to see in your powerful and perfect name, amen.
[2:37] Thank you, Pastor Thesisin.
[2:38] Would you please join me in the Flaixelute?
[2:44] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the root of the
[2:50] which stands one nation under the order of the individual with liberty and justice or all.
[2:59] Would our clerk please call the roll?
[3:03] Council member Candilius.
[3:06] Council member James.
[3:08] Council member Perkins.
[3:11] Council President Stevens.
[3:12] Council member Richard.
[3:15] Here.
[3:15] Council member Muller.
[3:17] Here.
[3:17] Council member Norton.
[3:18] Here.
[3:19] And Mayor Neary.
[3:19] Here.
[3:20] Thank you.
[3:21] A little bit later in the agenda.
[3:22] 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.
[3:39] Council to be of a motion to approve tonight's agenda.
[3:44] Don't move.
[3:45] Second.
[3:46] Motion by Council Member Richard seconded by Council Member Candilius, all those in favor of approval agenda.
[3:51] All right. Opposed? Any abstentions? Motion passes. Thank you.
[3:59] And I want to thank Griffin and Mike, who are online here for our legislative session update.
[4:08] They've been coming every month update on that. Now, a session just recently ending,
[4:11] they're going to give an end to the session wrap-up. So I'm not sure Griffin or Mike,
[4:16] which one of you is kicking it off, but we thank you for your work on our behalf this session.
[4:21] and then I'll turn it over to you.
[4:32] Get settled in here and get the share screen option.
[4:45] Thank you.
[4:56] Here we go.
[4:57] Let's start I'm looking for the share screen,
[4:59] but I'm not seeing.
[5:00] We'll just kick it off. Thanks for having us. We'll keep going. We sent the mayor a more detailed email
[5:08] right down of the. Yeah, let me counsel if you have on your, I did for the email to you with his, with their
[5:15] 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
[5:19] given permission to share the screen, or
[5:27] if you don't see it there. There we go. There we go. There we go.
[5:39] Oh, Mike's got it. Great. Okay, Doug. So just some brief, so session ended two weeks ago now,
[5:47] and then we'll cover something more recent. The mayor and I were out in DC this past week,
[5:52] and had the opportunity to meet with Senator Murray, Senator Canwell, and Representative
[5:57] Dope Benny's office to talk about some of our federal funding requests. We'll go over those a bit more
[6:02] in the interim priorities, but Mayor and I had a pretty productive visit on all those items that are
[6:08] back from all particularly from Del Benning's office is the number of projects that they have this
[6:14] time around has increased from 15 to 20 sort of feeling pretty good about submitting proposals for that
[6:21] a huge thank you to Jennifer and the rest of the team at the city for putting together a great
[6:27] packet of Mike for tying those things up and then what we're working on now is also inviting those staff
[6:35] members from Murray, Can't Well, and Del Ben is office to visit the various sites that
[6:40] have it. So they have additional context of those projects.
[6:46] And then Mike, if you can
[6:47] take me to the next one,
[6:52] I'll let Mike jump in here.
[6:54] Good afternoon, Mayor Council. I'm not sure why I've disappeared into my background, but
[6:59] we've got another time. So just a quick update on the CDS and CPF applications, all of the
[7:08] 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
[7:21] 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.
[7:34] I have heard from several of the offices as recently as today that their consideration windows are actually much shorter than normal.
[7:42] So we might be doing some quick virtual meetings, and then we can worry about side visits in the long term.
[7:48] The important thing is to make sure they're fully up to speed in the short term.
[7:53] Moving on to end of session.
[7:55] So these are a list of the key bills that some of the larger impacts on the city, your potential impacts to the city.
[8:02] So, House Bill 20, I'll pause after every bill if there's any questions,
[8:06] figurative bees here after each one rather than trying to remember at the end.
[8:10] And I'll go through just very briefly, like Griffin said,
[8:13] more details are included in the packet, and we're always happy to answer any additional questions.
[8:18] House Bill 2034 is the restatement of left one plan.
[8:22] It's currently at a very high percentage, and so they see that it's about a $4 billion
[8:28] are served plus right now and the legislature saw that as an avenue that they could essentially
[8:35] use safely as a one-time poll. So at the end of 2029 and in that by any, the fiscal 2729
[8:41] by any, it will terminate the fund, restate it, funded at 110% and move about $4 billion into a new
[8:49] account that they can then authorize transfers for to the state general fund. There was some
[8:54] resistance here from left one members as well as left two members who see this as a
[9:00] potential future for them. But the legislature authorized it. It is
[9:05] pending the governor signature. We haven't heard anything or seen any
[9:08] indicators that he won't sign it. The one interesting piece for the city is not
[9:13] included directly in the bill. But as a note, there is a requirement that the
[9:19] 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
[9:30] the pension board administration and medical liabilities for left one.
[9:36] That's seen as a nod to cities as a whole because cities have paid into left one.
[9:41] 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.
[9:48] It was the legislature's attempt to give back to cities as a whole
[9:56] and then moving on to Senate Bill 5880
[10:00] This one pertains to essentially broadening the availability of laboratories for blood alcohol testing for essentially beyond just using the Washington State toxicology lab.
[10:15] 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.
[10:28] And that essentially is what brings the fiscal now down to zero.
[10:34] The most beneficial use will be for future cases to speed up timelines on testing.
[10:45] Moving to Houseville 2266, this is Rep. Peterson's Step Housing Bill.
[10:51] It does impact the city's local control when it comes to zoning for these types of housing.
[10:56] as a reminder, step as an acronym, referring to supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor
[11:03] emergency housing, and indoor emergency shelters. That did, and it's final forms split out
[11:11] the first two from the final two, supportive and transitional from the two emergency types.
[11:17] It, the cities must allow transitional housing and permanent supportive housing in any zone
[11:23] within a UGA in which residential dwelling units
[11:26] or a hotel's are allowed.
[11:28] And then the emergency forms must be allowed in any area
[11:31] within a UGA in which hotels are allowed.
[11:35] It did break them out.
[11:36] That was one small change that was beneficial.
[11:39] This was a pretty divisive bill amongst cities
[11:41] with larger cities supporting it.
[11:43] You had some mid-sized cities
[11:45] who didn't like some of the control they were losing
[11:47] when it came to what limits or operational agreements
[11:50] they could implement.
[11:51] And then you had a lot more of the smaller or more rural cities who were just against it on principle.
[11:57] So this one did get pushed to because it was Rep. Peterson's number one priority and his chair of house housing.
[12:02] He was able to kind of move it through that way.
[12:05] And housing was seen as a
[12:07] The broader issue of housing was seen as one of the top two priorities this session.
[12:12] And this was able to fit under that bucket and is why it really got pushed through.
[12:16] There is one other benefit to cities that as it evolved and that they are able to require some
[12:24] Essentially permitting required add some permitting requirements around outreach, but it's really just
[12:30] the organization or managing entity as has to sign
[12:35] Swordsame and say that they have come a did these tasks or completed these tasks before going for final permanent
[12:44] on the very good news front
[12:46] Senate Bill 622
[12:47] which is the ALPR or driver's privacy bill saw some very positive changes from its
[12:54] original introduction. From three days of data retention to 21 days, which was very,
[13:01] very big improvement. Some advocates said three minutes was the right number. So it's
[13:05] 70 get 21 days. ALPR data is fully excluded from public records requests. There is an audit
[13:13] But it is just who had access and what they accessed.
[13:18] But when they accessed, that must be maintained for two years.
[13:22] But you cannot public records request the actual data from the ALPR block
[13:28] or whatever machine the city might use.
[13:30] And then the last minute benefit was gross misdemeanors were fully included.
[13:36] No exceptions.
[13:38] Alongside felony Lawrence as usage authorization.
[13:42] There was some concern that we were not going to get all gross misdemeanors, but the last
[13:47] minute there was a good push by partisan push for gross misdemeanors to be fully included.
[13:56] House bill 2442 was rep burgs.
[13:59] Someone omnivis like local government fund used bill covered a lot of bases for city's counties,
[14:07] some other districts, lots of water districts, and in buyer districts.
[14:12] For cities specifically, there was an authorized,
[14:17] it expanded the authorized uses for local revenues,
[14:22] local sales and use revenues for housing and related services.
[14:25] And that included some maintenance and other,
[14:28] that's where the related services comes in and beyond just or housing.
[14:34] Several county and floods on control districts also got new uses.
[14:37] There's a new local sales news tax of 0.01% that was authorized to fund services for children and families
[14:45] and it extended the maximum length that 11 lead lift to be approved by voters.
[14:50] All of these require a councilmatic or voter approval.
[14:54] We're happy to provide that breakdown if anybody would like it.
[14:58] But this was seen.
[15:00] I'm pushed back because this looks like more taxes, but the majority caucus said, well, it's up to the
[15:05] count. The local legislative authority and or the voters. So this is just the idea here that it expands,
[15:12] the tools available, but it does not require any of them to be used.
[15:19] Senate bill 626 is the residential
[15:23] and commercial and mixed use zones bill. This was seen as probably the number one housing bill this session.
[15:29] The tenant governor spoke in both of the public comment periods.
[15:34] The governor's office, this was a heavily influenced from the executive side.
[15:40] It is a number one priority for the majority caucus.
[15:43] And we did see some bipartisan support as it pushed through in its final form.
[15:48] Because housing was seen once again as one of the top two issues this session from full caucuses.
[15:54] So prohibits cities with populations over 30,000 from excluding residential uses
[15:58] in Arizona for commercial and mixed use development.
[16:02] There's some exceptions related to industrial zones that are specified
[16:05] while gastrofineries, historic landmarks, military installations.
[16:09] Some of these apply to the city, some of them clearly don't.
[16:13] And then one thing that did change actually on the second side,
[16:17] when it moved to the house, it was a bit of a surprise,
[16:19] is the total area calculated for an exemption from this requirement was reduced.
[16:24] Originally, it said, the city could exempt up to 40% of its total area from this requirement.
[16:35] But that was changed and shrunk down to 40% of the total commercial and mixed use zones.
[16:40] It can be exempted from this requirement, meaning in 40% of commercial mixed use zones,
[16:45] the city could still require ground floor commercial or retail.
[16:53] And finally, the number one high profile bill this session, the tax on millionaires,
[17:01] Senate Bill 63, 46, broadly it's a 9.9% tax on individuals on incomes exceeding
[17:08] one million dollars beginning in calendar 2028.
[17:12] The state did include it in its budget projections for 2029.
[17:17] Broadly we believe that this was pushed through in an effort to get it in front of whatever
[17:21] challenges it's going to face, whether that be about the people, whether that be legal challenges,
[17:27] they really needed to get it out and about now so that they can face those challenges
[17:31] and deal with any repercussions before they get to that collection year. For the city specifically,
[17:38] the two biggest impacts, one is that a sales and use tax exemption is included for hygiene products,
[17:43] diapers, and over the counter drugs, beginning in January 1, 29, and there is no mitigation whatsoever
[17:50] included to offset that loss of city revenue. Additionally, the one good thing for the city in the
[17:57] bill, the outset, when it was introduced, was, and then was further increased. Indigent defense
[18:04] spent funding. It was a 90-10 split between counties and cities, but altogether was about $150 million.
[18:11] We need cities across the state. We're getting $15 million roughly. That wasn't a huge chunk of
[18:17] Once it was finally rolled out, but it was at least something.
[18:21] Instead, that got cut in the house, as a part of the striker changes that were made by
[18:27] Brett Berg, who was the house lead.
[18:30] That being said, she did include language when she made that cut, basically saying that this
[18:35] advisory council that's going to be put together to present prepare for this
[18:39] And tax will fully include some language on assisting cities and local jurisdictions with mitigation.
[18:49] 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.
[18:55] This is not going away just when the government governor signs it.
[18:58] It's going to be the conversation for at least the next year if not all the way up to 2020.
[19:04] If there's no questions on these, I'll pass them back over to Griffin.
[19:11] 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.
[19:36] For municipalities and the Association of Washington City is not very happy with this.
[19:42] At the end of the day, there was some discussion on if we wanted to push back
[19:46] harder on this, but I think Repurg has, well, that some of those fears in the meantime.
[19:53] There's in talk on the threshold being dropped to which centers springer.
[20:00] It said, you know, there's no reason, if you're not too expected at some point, and repurg said, over my dead body.
[20:07] So, we'll sure this will be the topic of hours of more conversation after the 24-plus hour, floor session on it.
[20:14] But we're hoping this addresses some of the concerns and revenue loss that cities will experience as it is written currently.
[20:21] Some other bills that we're expecting to come back next year in the longer session,
[20:25] Um, stone property and send it saying this seemed like it was going to get some more movement,
[20:30] but it will increase minimum sentencing for if the adopt the same where to bill for
[20:37] stone property crime and I think because the length of time, the majority caucus is not
[20:43] going to have the same luxury of saying it's a short session.
[20:47] We're not going to address property crimes or crime under 18 in the interim.
[20:51] So look for that to come back, we'll look for rep Cortez's bill for criminal offenses under the
[20:56] 8 of 18 to come back. The goal is to reduce overcrowding of facilities and for the majority
[21:02] caucus point to rehabilitative solutions for folks who are committing crimes under the age of 18 to keep
[21:11] them from the hope is to keep them out of armed substances. This will put some more fiscal pressure
[21:16] on the Department of Children, Youth and Families and trying to find more local rehabilitative
[21:20] options. So that'll definitely have a fiscal note to it. And then the last two, there's a lot
[21:27] of talk about e-motos. If you're close to the cities, you see a lot of Lyme scooters sitting around,
[21:32] but these are also becoming more available for commercial purchase. So there'll be a study this next year
[21:38] to determine what the true definition of an e-moto e-moto is as it's stated at the end of session
[21:44] that was motorized vehicle that looks like a bike that doesn't have pedals, but we're going to
[21:49] at some sort of legislation that would just define these away
[21:53] from e-bikes next year.
[21:56] And then the transportation budget, this year we heard a lot
[22:00] about, they weren't accepting requests for new projects,
[22:04] but that we've heard a lot of support for bonding for new projects
[22:08] or new transportation package, similar to move ahead Washington
[22:12] in this long session when we've got a little more time
[22:14] at the beginning of the biennium.
[22:16] So we've already spoken with rep Marcus and Senator Leah's,
[22:21] and we're hoping to get the rest of the big four
[22:23] after the projects in Mary'sville,
[22:25] our gets more information, Senator King,
[22:26] is over in the ACMO, so that'll be a bit of more of a challenge,
[22:29] but there's definitely an appetite
[22:31] to support Mary'sville's projects,
[22:33] particularly in the house side with rep Marcus,
[22:35] where we had probably the most trouble
[22:37] in the most resistance to funding you projects this year.
[22:43] Then Mike, if you can get me the next one.
[22:47] And then the interim priorities,
[22:48] 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.
[22:58] We've made that case in person in DC last week, and we're getting all those applications.
[23:04] Those funding requests in.
[23:06] After that, the visits for our legislators in the 38th and 39th in addition to the House of Transportation Committee leadership.
[23:14] So, want to make sure that these projects are all top of mind to folks and get ahead of that early
[23:19] so that we can get, you know, have sponsors in hand ahead of the legislative session on both the
[23:24] House and the Senate side and ensure that we get priorities include in the next by any
[23:28] budget.
[23:36] Any questions? Thank you. Council, any questions for Griffin or Mike?
[23:41] Councilmember James. You said that Rep. Barcus gave you the most
[23:45] the resistance on the transportation funding?
[23:48] No, no, the house transportation itself.
[23:52] There was a battle between the Senate transportation
[23:55] and the house transportation committees
[23:57] on each is philosophy around bonding
[24:00] for more funds for the transportation budget.
[24:03] The house was certainly more resistant to that.
[24:07] However, in our conversations with Rev Barcus,
[24:11] he was very supportive of our projects,
[24:13] to be a very productive meeting with him and on other solutions we could look to in this next
[24:18] bionium. But that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that
[24:22] that way, that the house in itself was more resistant. When you look at the budget proposals from each,
[24:29] there's a, there's a, Mike was a 400 million or greater gap between the two budgets and the
[24:34] houses budget was the, the lower one there. So there's less of a, there's more of a resistance on the
[24:40] transportation committee to spend more this year. Thank you. Tell some
[24:47] member Richards. Yeah, I don't have any questions. I want to say thank you
[24:49] fellas information. It's good stuff. And I've said this before. I'm it's
[24:54] really frustrating that Olympia continues to tell us how to zone our own
[24:57] communities. And every year.
[25:00] They come down with more policies and rules and changes where we have to follow their zoning rules
[25:05] when we know what's the best for our community, where it's frustrating. So, that's one of the
[25:10] but that out there.
[25:13] And we appreciate it. You're not alone in the frustration on being dictated to continue to carry that message.
[25:20] We have meetings with legislators down there.
[25:26] There are no further questions. I want to thank you too, Mike and Griffin. Really nice work. This session.
[25:31] And this is a great recap, I'll get a chance to read through your full report here as well
[25:37] as the Council members.
[25:39] And I know we appreciate the work you did on our legislative day down in Olympia.
[25:45] And I think your strategy for the interim is this is a solid one that we look forward to.
[25:49] And then the DC work that you're doing has been really nice as well.
[25:53] I know you've really worked closely with Jennifer and our staff to get those CDS requests in.
[25:58] and your help on that's been really, really great.
[26:01] So appreciate your hard work on our behalf and look forward
[26:03] to continuing that here in the coming months
[26:06] and our continued meetings with myself
[26:09] and in front of the council as well.
[26:12] Likewise, and we appreciate we're going to be all
[26:14] to great team up at the city.
[26:16] And if any of the members of the council
[26:17] have questions that Mayor, please feel free to share your email,
[26:20] I'm going to wrap your answer those any time.
[26:22] Cooper.
[26:24] Thanks, guys.
[26:24] We'll let you go and sorry your zags are done, but we'll let you get on with other
[26:31] business.
[26:32] There's next year.
[26:33] Thank you.
[26:34] Thanks, Mayor.
[26:34] Thanks, Council.
[26:34] Thank you.
[26:36] Take care.
[26:38] All right.
[26:41] And the other presentation we have, Councilor, will be the proclamation into the record
[26:47] on Community Development Week.
[26:48] And that is a proclamation declaring April 6th through 10th, 2026 this community development week in Mary'sville.
[26:55] Whereas in our growing city, it is essential that development occurs based on strategic, well-thought-out plans tailored to our community.
[27:03] And whereas our city's community development staff includes professional land use planners, building inspectors, program specialists, and more.
[27:10] who use expertise to work every day and whereas our community development department has
[27:15] streamlined the permitting process for residents and businesses to save time and make it
[27:19] easier to do business with the city and whereas another important department function is
[27:23] administration of the federal community development bot grant program and last year
[27:29] the city awarded just over $400,000 in CDVG grant funds for essential public services
[27:34] supporting our neighbors in need and capital projects including meals on wheels and volunteer
[27:40] for chair services for low-income seniors and disabled adults.
[27:43] Food for thought backpack program for low-income school children,
[27:47] housing hopes, supportive services for families at risk of homelessness,
[27:51] and comfort park upgrades with improved sidewalks and new lighting.
[27:56] Now, therefore, I, John Nuring, may or on behalf of the City Council
[27:58] and our community, do here by proclaim April 6th through 10th,
[28:00] 2026's Community Development Week in the city of Mary'sville,
[28:05] in appreciation for the hard work of our planning staff and the important role
[28:08] community development programs play in our community. Under my hand in seal this 23rd day of March
[28:14] 2026 and we will be looking forward to our new community development director join us here
[28:18] in a couple of weeks, director Zorns and we think our entire community development staff for the
[28:24] hard work that they do each and every day. Thanks council for that and that brings us to public
[28:32] comments and we do have one individual who is signed up. Connie Jackson will invites you up to the
[28:38] microphone? Thank you. First off, I think someone is checking on Mike. He was looking
[28:43] on the blue tonight. Yeah, indeed. So tonight I come with an issue that a national issue
[28:51] however is affecting Mary's will pretty hard. In spite of the best efforts of the council
[28:58] and I know they have in trying because the numbers are a lot better now than the used to be.
[29:02] Mary's will does remain a commuter city for the majority of working population.
[29:08] And this isn't Spide of Actions, like I don't
[29:11] Stephen Lifer on the Planning Commission,
[29:14] very big in favor of moving jobs to Mary's Valk.
[29:19] And that is something he is very passionate about.
[29:26] The Warren Iran has caused the gas prices in the area
[29:30] to reach as high as $5 a gallon in the cheapest areas
[29:34] and as high as $6 a gallon in the city.
[29:37] 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.
[29:50] Now, change that can defend against this can't happen overnight of course.
[29:55] There's no big switch in the back of this building that magically creates ten...
[30:00] 1,000 jobs overnight in Mary's bill. Nor is there a switch that gives every one of Mary's
[30:04] will tell reporters to get to Seattle or ever to wherever they work.
[30:09] But in an initiative that
[30:10] the city could think about is helping provide bus passes for citizens that are truly struggling
[30:16] with rising gas prices. The city has the ability to, as recently spent $2 million on a third
[30:26] soccer field in the strawberry fields complex. The city could easily do this. It would cost a lot of money. Yes, but
[30:33] Mary'sville is one of the most financially stable
[30:36] Cities in the region. It always has a balanced budget which is something the council in the mayor are very good at
[30:42] They are very good at this and it always has a little bit left over so I'd like the council to
[30:48] consider this if possible and
[30:51] See if there's something they could do here to help our citizens. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate your
[30:56] comments.
[30:59] Did I miss anybody who intended to sign up? Okay, as usual we thank those who take
[31:05] the time to comment and attend the meetings very much and we appreciate that. We'll move on from
[31:13] public comment then to approval of minutes. Councillor, you have your March 2nd. Work session
[31:17] minutes before you are there any changes or corrections.
[31:22] There are none. We'll open the floor for
[31:23] any potential motion.
[31:30] Council member, council president Stevens, and then council member Candice.
[31:34] I'll move to approve the work session minutes from March 2nd.
[31:39] I have a motion from Council President Stephen II.
[31:42] By Council member Candace to approve these minutes in final discussion, all those
[31:47] in favor.
[31:49] Opposed?
[31:50] Any abstentions?
[31:52] Motion passes.
[31:53] Thank you.
[31:55] Next is the March 9th minutes, any changes or corrections to those?
[32:00] Open the floor, then Council Member Perkins.
[32:02] I just a minor item number nine moved by Mueller seconded by Richards.
[32:11] There's a slight error there.
[32:14] I think it just said move by both of them.
[32:17] Oh, okay. Got it.
[32:18] As opposed to a second.
[32:19] Yeah, okay.
[32:20] Do we note it?
[32:23] Is there a motion to approve with that correction?
[32:30] Else member Richards?
[32:31] I moved to approve the amended minutes from March 9th, the City Council meeting.
[32:37] Motion by Council Member Rich is seconded by Council Member Perkins to approve these minutes with Council Member Perkins correction. Any final discussion.
[32:46] All in favour? Aye.
[32:48] Opposed? Any abstentions?
[32:52] 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?
[33:03] Okay, yeah, we'll open the 440 potential motion then.
[33:07] Council member Candace.
[33:08] I'll move to approve consent items 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
[33:14] Motion by Council member Candace and seconded by Council member James
[33:16] to approve consent in its entirety any final discussion.
[33:22] All those in favor.
[33:23] I'm fine.
[33:24] Opposed?
[33:26] Any abstentions?
[33:29] Motion passes.
[33:29] Thank you.
[33:31] And that moves us to review of Bids and project engineers, Benton, and Cross, I believe
[33:41] there's open, sorry, maybe not Benton.
[33:45] Thank you for attending.
[33:46] Hi.
[33:47] Good evening council.
[33:48] My name is Valerie Cross.
[33:49] I am the project engineer in charge of the really well pump replacement.
[33:56] I have a presentation.
[33:58] I'm not sure.
[33:58] Maybe
[34:06] I can hit
[34:10] this one down and put it
[34:21] down.
[34:21] So, present to you what I have meant.
[34:24] Yeah, just show me if I can pull it up on this one over here.
[34:28] I appreciate that, thank you.
[34:31] Hi, apologies for technical difficulties.
[34:35] I don't know, I have a power.
[34:51] There we go.
[35:00] 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.
[35:09] 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.
[35:22] next week. All right, so the rainy well pump station has two pumps. The first pump is currently
[35:33] 20 years old and was planned for a placement in 2026. However, in November of 2025 it was noted
[35:40] that there was mechanical failure and our internal teams had gone out on multiple locations
[35:49] to address this issue and through multiple site visits, they had found that our crews were
[35:57] not able to access this issue and we would have to shut down the pump in order to make
[36:04] it safe and then we would go out to fix the pump later with a contractor.
[36:10] Pump 2 was rebuilt and re-insult in 2021 as another project of ours.
[36:17] However, again in November when our crews were out there, it was noticed that this pump was
[36:22] also showing electrical issues and was also taken offline as it was something that we could
[36:27] not address internally.
[36:30] This is the same case with the check valve that had also failed around that same time,
[36:34] because we had had so many people out there, we had noticed all of these issues.
[36:37] All around the same time, this station is currently completely offline, so we went out to bid
[36:47] to fix to get this all replaced.
[36:52] This was sent out as part of the MSRC solicitation.
[36:55] It was competitive.
[36:57] We received one bid from hold services.
[37:00] They were found to be responsive and responsible.
[37:02] The total bid amount to replace both pumps and the check valve was 175,937 dollars in
[37:11] need since. We have a 10% management reserve on this project, making the total allocation
[37:17] $193,530 and $89. Should this be accepted? We anticipate a few weeks of contracting
[37:27] time in eight to nine weeks of lead time to order these materials and this would give plenty of
[37:35] time within our acceptable replacement window due to the location of this pump station. It is
[37:41] 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
[37:48] is quite low and this would be mid June to about end of September with our lead time being
[37:55] Sometime in the summer, that would give us many months for us in our contractor to find
[38:00] an agreeable time to get them out there.
[38:02] They have 15 working days to do so.
[38:09] With that, the recommended motion, as I move to authorize the mayor to sign and execute
[38:13] the Rainey Well Replacement Contract with whole services ink in the amount of $175,937,937 in
[38:19] the e-sense, including Washington State sales tax, and approve a manager reserve of $17,5993
[38:27] and 71 cents for a total allocation of $193,530 dollars and 79 cents.
[38:35] Excellent.
[38:36] Thank you for the presentation.
[38:38] We'd like to have a few questions.
[38:39] Councilman Rickindellius.
[38:41] Was that from most time?
[38:42] It was.
[38:42] I have a question.
[38:43] Go ahead.
[38:44] Here you've heard something.
[38:47] With the bid from a halt compared to the engineers estimate, it's quite a bit lower.
[38:54] You guys know why that is.
[38:56] I like it lower, but sometimes it's viciously lower, right?
[38:59] We actually did base our engineers estimate off of an estimate that we had gotten from
[39:07] old services. We do tend to send these out to companies that we have worked with in the past
[39:13] as they have a better connection probably to the companies that we do get these pumps from.
[39:22] their estimate was from a different company than the company that they ended up getting
[39:28] the pumps from is my understanding as I did reach out to them to address that same
[39:33] issue because I had also caught my attention because they have noted that the company that they
[39:40] had originally gotten their estimate from tends to work with one pump company more often
[39:47] and tends to favor them, so when they switched to a different company they had a lower
[39:53] bit.
[39:55] And then with pump 2 you said it was repaired in 2021.
[39:59] Yes.
[40:00] 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?
[40:09] 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.
[40:17] 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.
[40:24] 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.
[40:31] Okay, thank you.
[40:36] Very good.
[40:36] Thank you, Councilmember.
[40:37] Council President Stevens.
[40:40] Peter Kent or Councilmember Kindleus asked my question.
[40:43] Okay.
[40:45] Councilmember Richards.
[40:46] Yeah.
[40:48] Postman shutdown for a while now.
[40:50] How much water do we normally get out of that?
[40:53] How much can we actually get out of the river?
[40:55] Yeah.
[40:55] So we can pump about 2,000 GPM.
[40:59] A day or what's that?
[41:01] A minute.
[41:02] So 2,000 gallons a minute.
[41:03] OK, that's what we're doing.
[41:05] We operate a based off demand.
[41:07] So what's demand being lower in the winter?
[41:09] We went around at 24, 7, but we do have that ability.
[41:12] OK, I just curious, because I know that we
[41:14] trying to not to buy out water from every,
[41:15] and if we can get our own.
[41:17] Yes, and this is one of the types of North.
[41:19] So with Edward Spring's pumps into the same zone.
[41:25] Any other questions,
[41:30] open the floor for any potential motion?
[41:36] Council Member Muller.
[41:39] I moved out the rise of Mayor to sign and execute the rainy well-pumped replacement contract with
[41:44] Holt Services Inc. in the amount of 175,937.08 including Washington State sales tax and a proven management reserve of
[41:52] 17,593.71 for a tall allocation of 190,530 dollars and 79 cents.
[42:01] Motion by Council Member Muller, I'm sorry, who's the second from?
[42:06] Oh, Council Member Candidates. Thank you. Any final discussion?
[42:11] All in favor. Aye. Opposed? Anybody abstain?
[42:17] That motion passes. Thank you for the presentation.
[42:19] Thank you.
[42:23] No public hearings moving on to new business. We do have an interlocal with
[42:27] a reasonable flood control grant. And that will be Project Engineer Benton.
[42:44] evening council. Thanks for having me tonight. Adam Benton, project engineer for the City of
[42:50] Mary'sville. Here to speak with you, hopefully briefly. I can be a long-winded. I was
[42:55] last time I was here, sorry. Briefly about interlocal agreement we have with the Homish County
[43:01] for a flood control grant that we received a number of years ago. Next slide.
[43:10] So, start with
[43:11] a, I'm going to start with an overview because it's been a few years since we've talked
[43:14] of this project. This project started because we've had documented title overflows of our existing
[43:25] levees for about 15 years. Probably a little bit longer than that, but I think we're 17.
[43:30] So I remember about 15 years of them. We've had overflows that we're documented in 2012, 2016,
[43:38] and 2022 that we're noticeable enough that we had our spawn with city crews. We'll see
[43:43] pictures here in a little bit. Some of the pictures up on the screen do a
[43:47] pre-decent job of explaining what's happened. Typically what we're seeing is
[43:51] title overflows. Now coming over the trail, the existing EV trail, the real
[43:57] problem is when we have title overflows come over the trail near public
[44:00] works. In those cases and we'll have a video here shortly, that's pretty brief. The
[44:06] troubling thing that's happening now with these overflows is they are starting
[44:10] increases that they're coming over the levees impacting our ditch network at the public
[44:15] work site and they run the risk of us flooding again like we did in 2010 when we had 80
[44:22] Columbia flood with about two feet of water. Those ditches control the storm water and if we
[44:27] don't deal with that problem we could have bigger issues. Following 2012 city crews raised the levee
[44:35] to 13.1 feet in an attempt to address this issue,
[44:39] unfortunately, our tidal overflows are increasing,
[44:42] because we are seeing the beginning signs
[44:44] of what appears to be sea level rise.
[44:47] So where we used to be able to control our tidal overflows
[44:50] at 13 feet, we're now seeing a number of inches of water above that,
[44:54] depending on what wave run-up looks like from winds,
[44:57] and what the tidal anomalies are, we're seeing more water than we're.
[45:02] 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.
[45:20] One point of note here that I think is important for us to understand about our slew
[45:24] at something that I have learned a lot about in the last year to we were tested in this
[45:29] recent flooding event.
[45:31] Our slew is not influenced by riverine influences.
[45:34] We are so far down the river and we are so far out on an outside channel that our flooding
[45:41] is controlled almost primarily by tidal influences.
[45:45] So we are seeing influence from the sound not from the river.
[45:47] 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,
[45:55] that's going to impact the water levels in E.B.
[45:57] So, you're not what we see from large rain events that cause riverine flooding and snowmissure Monroe
[46:03] or any of these other areas that we're seeing.
[46:07] Next slide.
[46:11] So, to that end, in 2022,
[46:18] So I'm a county open to grant opportunity with ARPA funds, COVID relief funds, and Gloria
[46:24] brought that to Jeff and I has attention in the very beginning of 2023, and we decided
[46:31] as a team to address some of these concerns, we put a grant application out for this grant
[46:36] opportunity for a quarter of a million dollars, and I'll get into the details of what
[46:41] grant was supposed to do for us, but ultimately we were successful in receiving that grant.
[46:49] So grant came out in 22. We submitted in 23. We received our contingent award letter in February
[46:56] the next month. We worked with Snomish County a bit on what the work would be with the grant.
[47:03] And in September we came back to council here and we asked you all to approve that interlocal agreement
[47:08] it's not home-ish county to accept that quarter million dollars from them to do this work.
[47:13] Following that, we went out through consultant selection processes like we always do and we selected
[47:19] environmental science associates. They've been working with us ever since to advance this project.
[47:27] So what is the essay doing for us right now with this work? They're developing,
[47:36] they developed a
[47:38] are consultant, fine-tuned at four of the Mary'sville area, specifically.
[47:43] We also are going to develop and finalize the sea level rise report.
[47:48] We'll have an alternative analysis, which is there will be three alternatives for raising
[47:54] the levees as vertical levees and one alternative as a horizontal levee.
[47:59] That's a kind of a different approach that we don't see too much up here in Mary'sville
[48:02] but we want to take a look at that because it may have some other benefits down the road for
[48:07] city.
[48:10] We will then wrap that up with Alternatives Analysis and the stakeholder group which
[48:15] is comprised of staff and management and maybe a director will then go ahead and select
[48:21] the Alternative that we all believe is the best alternative for the city and we will then
[48:27] move forward with preliminary design documents not 30% but something conceptual primarily so
[48:35] we can take that design document and try to receive more grant funding to advance this design
[48:40] further and then ultimately try to receive grant funding to build to improve our
[48:46] levees to protect us from flooding so we would be building our levees up to ensure that
[48:51] we don't have title overflows anymore and that sea level can't affect public works and
[48:56] especially wastewater treatment plant because as we all know our wastewater treatment plant
[49:00] is down on the EB slew.
[49:03] It's at about 13 feet.
[49:05] We suspect that we'll see some form of sea
[49:08] overrises in the future and right now
[49:09] we're already having overflows.
[49:11] So if we don't do something about this problem,
[49:13] we will end up having our wastewater treatment plant
[49:15] in and data during flooding events.
[49:19] One of the last things that we'll get out of this project
[49:21] with ESA is we do have a public engagement strategy.
[49:25] We will develop a brief O&M manual for Levy maintenance
[49:29] in the future. And again, we'll have those design documents for the alternatives. Can you hit
[49:36] the video on the left? So this is a video from 2022 that shows the overflow back by the corner
[49:45] of the public works property at the end of our access road on that would be Columbia.
[49:51] So you can see that it's not an insignificant amount of flooding. This can carry on for hours,
[49:58] sometimes in the starts.
[50:00] So, pretty big impacts to our public work facility. Go ahead and hit that.
[50:07] Let's go ahead and move forward.
[50:10] So this is what we see on the trail. So this is up above where the previous video was taken.
[50:16] And you can see that there's two to three inches of sheet flow coming across the trail.
[50:21] Essentially what we're trying to do is fight the ocean. It's a losing battle.
[50:24] We will never win this battle if we don't raise our levies.
[50:29] Let's move on to the next slide.
[50:33] So, our primary concern when we went out for this grant was to deal with our levee elevations.
[50:39] The secondary concern was, and it was a concern that we shared with the Homish County, which
[50:43] is why they've been a great partner on this project for us, was the levees were maintained
[50:48] by Diking District 3 for a long time in the past.
[50:52] Day King District 3 basically became defunct somewhere in the 2011-2013 years.
[51:00] I dealt with them very early on in my career as a surface water specialist and then we kind
[51:05] of lost rack of them.
[51:07] The county was in favor of dissolving Day King District 3 because they have not been a
[51:13] Day King District.
[51:15] They hadn't voted on abortive commissioners in seven years.
[51:18] They hadn't spent money on a project since 2013.
[51:22] 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.
[51:30] And there was a benefit to the city and that when the diking district was dissolved, which happened earlier this year,
[51:36] the city was in we are now in our seat of the leftover monies in the diking district.
[51:41] So we received somewhere on the order of $177,000 that was left over in the piggy bank of the diking district.
[51:48] That happened, I believe, and March of this year, maybe I don't remember exactly, but
[51:53] that money is in our coffers now.
[51:55] The county doesn't have to deal with the district that's not doing their work, and the city
[51:58] will take on those responsibilities for maintenance, which, honestly, we've been doing since
[52:03] 2011 anyways.
[52:09] The reasons for the supplement, the reason I'm here today is we are about 50% of the way
[52:16] through this project, we will finish later this year.
[52:19] We did have to move forward and reallocate some unspent funds from task one, which is our task for the
[52:26] dayking district. We allocated something like $25,000 to that task and it only ended up
[52:31] costing about $3,000 in staff time to get that worked done. We asked the county to transfer that
[52:38] those funds to other tasks in our project. See, level rise report, the alternatives analysis,
[52:43] things that are actually pretty beneficial to us as a city. So that's the one of the reasons
[52:48] I'm here, the other reason is we would like to extend this grant out to October 31st to assure
[52:53] that we have adequate time for our stakeholders groups to review our reports, review our
[52:58] alternatives, select a preferred alternative.
[53:01] We don't want to rush that if we don't have to.
[53:04] This supplement would extend the grant four months from June to October, so we would finish
[53:09] our work by October 31st if you all pass this.
[53:13] And then the other, the final thing we did with the supplement is, we got this money under
[53:20] ARPA.
[53:22] The rules and restrictions around how you spend that money are pretty tight when the new
[53:27] administration came in at the federal level, they actually decided not to fund this project,
[53:31] but the county was kind enough to fund this project for us out of their coffers.
[53:35] So we were able to reduce the restrictions on those, the language and the agreement a little
[53:41] it. And we are now allowed to move money between tasks until the very end of this project,
[53:46] which basically just allows us to maximize our reimbursement from the county for this
[53:51] grant. It'll make a lot easier for us to get to the $250,000. Because we can move leftover
[53:56] money to new tasks where we still have work to do. So that's the reason that we're here for
[54:00] supplement number one today. Next slide.
[54:07] Yeah.
[54:08] Baking District 3. How large was it before me? What area does it go to? It was just the
[54:13] dikes down along the Portinga farm. So down along sunny side, down along the first
[54:19] tree bypass, all of that used to be farm fields. It was the diking district that managed
[54:23] all of the farm fields that got flooded when the food actually was breached.
[54:28] Yeah, and we got a couple loads of rock from them in 2010, I think, but they were basically
[54:35] not there by the time that I was working, yep. So that's what DD3 was originally, I just
[54:43] wanted you how far north or south it went. Just down on our waterfront.
[54:49] So real briefly
[54:51] project status, we have dissolved aching district 3, that's done. Stakeholders are currently
[54:57] engaged in reviewing a vulnerable.
[55:00] 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.
[55:06] And basically fact checking what our consults have done as far as identifying what vulnerabilities are most important to the city.
[55:14] We'll start the review of the draft seal of a rise report in a couple of days.
[55:20] 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.
[55:34] 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.
[55:42] preliminary design docs will go all the way from June to October and then in October we
[55:46] finalize the plans and we have our preliminary design documents in hand and we go
[55:51] forth and try to find more money to advance this project. Next slide.
[55:59] I think we're to
[55:59] questions. Excellent. Councillor Miller Miller. Yeah. We can raise the dikes so we can lower
[56:07] the floor and we, you know, we used to have advocated for Dredgen and said anybody
[56:12] that uses this channel knows you get the pre-suppointments, right?
[56:15] So, is there an opportunity for us to leverage this, it's in it, to potentially start a conversation for
[56:24] Dredging, Eevee Sloan, clearing up some of those channels?
[56:27] I do not have an answer for you on that.
[56:29] I couldn't tell you, it's not something that we've looked at.
[56:32] I think that the issue from my perspective is that if you dredge the channels, you're removing a couple of
[56:37] feet of material, but you're still getting indated by the ocean.
[56:41] 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.
[56:48] Yeah, I don't know if we've ever actually, I mean, out there it's obviously noticeable.
[56:53] I don't know it out in front of us how much sediment has raised the bottom of the slew out there.
[57:01] Yeah, I couldn't tell you we've never surveyed the foul wag of that river before.
[57:05] So, not since I've been here.
[57:06] But it'd be nice from an economic standpoint for the city if we could leverage that potential.
[57:11] At least start a conversation with the port.
[57:13] I know the port, I think, doing some stuff.
[57:15] And back when I was at kid there was a huge, I mean, all of Dagmar's is built on a huge dredging.
[57:21] Well, I think we'd have used for the material.
[57:24] Yeah, I think we do.
[57:24] But it'd be nice to at least start down that conversation.
[57:28] Let's see.
[57:28] You can, I can talk to you, I say a little bit about that.
[57:31] And see what we got free money to do.
[57:33] See what's going to happen.
[57:33] Maybe they can start the conversation.
[57:35] I'll advance that conversation with the consultants.
[57:40] Thank you.
[57:42] There are no further questions.
[57:44] We'll open the floor.
[57:45] Council Member James.
[57:46] Yeah, just real quick.
[57:47] Is there a coordinated communication and a coordinated
[57:50] efforts on the wastewater treatment plant, the new design
[57:56] fix?
[57:58] Yes.
[57:58] And this.
[57:59] So there are.
[58:00] And public works.
[58:01] Working together.
[58:02] There are a lot of, there is a lot of adjacencies there.
[58:05] OK.
[58:05] OK.
[58:06] Fantastic.
[58:07] Yep.
[58:13] I was ready to make a motion if you ready.
[58:17] I moved to authorize the mayor to sign an execute amendment number
[58:20] 1.
[58:20] The interlocal agreement CLFR-19B with snowmish county for the
[58:26] Marisville flood control grant project.
[58:30] Motion by council member Norton seconded by council member
[58:32] Muller and final discussion.
[58:36] All in favor.
[58:38] Opposed?
[58:39] Any abstentions?
[58:40] Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, Council.
[58:45] Director Belentous has ordinance. What would be ordinance?
[58:50] 3376.
[58:52] 3376. Go ahead.
[59:04] Good evening, Mayor and City Council.
[59:07] Heidi Belentous has finance director. The for each night is an ordinance to approve the amended 2025 2026 by any old budget.
[59:15] This does represent the first budget amendment for 2020-26.
[59:20] To summarize, the current citywide budget, the beginning fund balance is approximately
[59:25] $94 million, our total budgeted revenues is $444 million, total expenditures at $436 million,
[59:38] and this results in an ending fund balance of $62 million as budgeted.
[59:43] 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.
[59:56] as these changes would increase total revenues by
[1:00:00] $36 million, increases expenditures by $12 million, and that has a net effect to our ending fund balance
[1:00:08] at $24 million. So I've broken out our budget amendments into categories. Sorry, Elliot, this thing seems to.
[1:00:21] Okay, sounds great. Thank you. So I've broken out the amendment into categories. The first category is general fund reappropriations
[1:00:29] or carry over. This category is primarily used to adjust our beginning of fund balances for
[1:00:38] 2026 based on where we actually ended in 2025. What it also includes is carry over of projects
[1:00:45] that had already been budgeted and previously approved by Council, but due to timing for shifting
[1:00:52] of the activities from 2025 into the 26th of school year.
[1:00:57] Our second category is general fund amendments, and these will reflect changes to the budget
[1:01:02] based on new information, and in many cases, these items have already been presented to
[1:01:08] Council in the form of a council meeting or a committee meeting, so they are included here
[1:01:14] really to formally incorporate these updates into the budget.
[1:01:19] 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.
[1:01:30] 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.
[1:01:39] And so we'll go into the details of each amendment starting with general fund reappropriations.
[1:01:44] For reference, the details that I'm sharing with you today are included in Exhibit A of the
[1:01:49] ordinance.
[1:01:50] And if you'd like to see the impact at the individual fund level, that would be represented
[1:01:55] in Exhibit B.
[1:01:58] Next slide.
[1:01:58] Thank you.
[1:01:59] The first item adjusts the general fund's beginning fund balance to match the actual cash balance
[1:02:04] as of January 1, 2026.
[1:02:07] This adjustment would increase both our beginning and ending balances by $5.6 million.
[1:02:12] And what this does is it's reflecting a higher carry forward than what we had originally
[1:02:18] budgeted for in 2020. So this is a good sign. The next three items have no net impact
[1:02:25] on the overall budget. As you can see, there are zeroes across the table. What this is is really
[1:02:30] a shift of revenues and expenditures from 25 to 26. So no net effect. On September 22,
[1:02:42] 2025,
[1:02:42] with the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, and this item carries forward
[1:02:48] 1,633 dollars into 2026 for pre-trial service-related cost as well as the associated reimbursement
[1:02:57] from that grant.
[1:02:59] Next is a carry forward of, are they not, Eliot, the slides for, can you see it now?
[1:03:09] I think first I'll, there we go.
[1:03:13] So we're on the third item here.
[1:03:16] The next is a carry forward of $1,332 and $7113,2,711 dollars.
[1:03:24] For general fund capital projects and equipment purchases that were not completed by December 31, 2025.
[1:03:31] This would include the jail railing extension project.
[1:03:34] Street Light repairs a retro reflectometer for streets. I do have the definition of community that and the waterfront redevelopment in a four-fill.
[1:03:44] 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.
[1:03:56] Next slide please.
[1:03:58] Moving on to general fund amendments or new items proposed for incorporation into the budget.
[1:04:05] The first is to adjust allocations for general fund service charges.
[1:04:10] So as a background, the general fund does provide central internal services, citywide.
[1:04:15] This would include council support, executive, legal, HR and finance services.
[1:04:20] These costs are allocated through what we call an indirect cost allocation in which we do have a policy for.
[1:04:28] Adjustments are needed in this budget amendment to reflect a revised methodology.
[1:04:33] That more accurately charges funds that directly benefit from these services.
[1:04:38] 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.
[1:04:46] And not all funds are eligible for such a plan, so as a result,
[1:04:51] to general fund revenues for the services are reduced by $49,000.
[1:04:56] Add you to that change in methodology, which is more accurate.
[1:05:00] So this does adjust the funds that are benefiting from these services, including the general fund, but overall reduction of 409,000.
[1:05:11] The next amendment increases personnel benefit expenses by $657,729.
[1:05:19] This is to cover higher than budgeted employer contributions to workers compensation.
[1:05:24] This increase reflects the Department of Labor and Industries reported average rate increase of 4.9% compared to 2025.
[1:05:34] This also does relate to the city's own experience and past claims activity.
[1:05:40] 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.
[1:05:49] And so governments, like the City of Mary'sville,
[1:05:52] are kind of experiencing the financial impact of that.
[1:05:57] Next is an amendment to provide $260,000
[1:06:00] for an axon contract that is used by the police department
[1:06:04] for body-born cameras as well as other systems.
[1:06:08] This agreement was approved by Council in September 22nd, 2025.
[1:06:14] So this is just as updating the budget
[1:06:16] to agree to what was already approved.
[1:06:20] Next we have $140,836 from the general fund to our fleet services fund 501, a transfer
[1:06:30] for the purchase of a snow plow truck for streets.
[1:06:34] That was approved late last year, as well as the police department is replacing five of
[1:06:42] ford fusion, leases for five, for broncholases, this is deemed more ergonomically and operationally
[1:06:49] effective for the department. The next amendment recognizes a $3,000 contribution, a private
[1:06:56] contribution for the Tom King Memorial Black and Bench. And lastly here, what we have is a contribution
[1:07:03] to dental and vision self insurance programs. Starting this year, the city has started to self
[1:07:11] for these programs, dental and vision. It has been a recommendation from our third party administrator
[1:07:18] to provide an initial investment in which you'll see in the cement at 47,236 dollars.
[1:07:25] And this is based on ensuring that we meet solvency requirements. There is a state requirement
[1:07:31] for ensuring that we have adequate reserves in our programs to ensure that we can pay for these
[1:07:38] This is a one-time investment.
[1:07:42] Next slide, please, Elliot.
[1:07:45] Moving on to you, non-general fund re-appropriations.
[1:07:49] The first item, adjusts the beginning fund balances for all non-general funds.
[1:07:54] Similar to the general fund, this is to align our beginning fund balances with actual cash represented as of January 1st, 2026.
[1:08:02] and the total of this is $24.4 million across all non-general funds.
[1:08:10] As similar to the general fund, the remaining appropriations have known that effect on revenues and expenditures in our purely timing adjustments.
[1:08:18] At the next item carries forward $479,266 in transfers from the Transportation Benefit District Fund 114
[1:08:29] For Approved Capital projects that were not yet completed as of 1231-25,
[1:08:35] these projects do include our 2025 street overlays,
[1:08:41] a sunny side Boulevard in 53rd Avenue, Northeast,
[1:08:44] 67th and 52nd Street, the 67th Avenue Northeast overlay,
[1:08:49] as well as the comfort park sidewalk projects.
[1:08:53] The next item carries forward $3,130,992 in revenues
[1:08:59] And $7,445,471 expenses to support ongoing street infrastructure improvements that were not completed as of 1231-25.
[1:09:12] These projects are listed in Exhibit A, but you can also find them in the approved capital project.
[1:09:18] Sorry, capital improvement plan.
[1:09:21] The next item carries forward $2,674,144 and expenses for Parks Capital projects that were
[1:09:32] also not completed by 2025.
[1:09:34] This is the EB Waterfront Trail, Bayview Trail, Lake Stevens Connector, Twin Lakes Park Improvements,
[1:09:42] and Strawberry Fields turf phase two.
[1:09:45] 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.
[1:10:00] 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.
[1:10:14] Next slide, please.
[1:10:17] Continuing with our re-appropriations, the next item carries forward, 738, 456 dollars.
[1:10:25] For maintenance and transfers not completed by the end of 2025 within our utility fund 401.
[1:10:33] This includes $341,192 dollars for critical maintenance repairs and procurement primarily needed for daily water production and treatment operations.
[1:10:45] There's also a transfer of 397,000 from our utility operating fund 401 into fund 402,
[1:10:54] which is the utility capital project fund that will provide support for the public works
[1:11:00] relocation project.
[1:11:03] The next item carries forward $2,468,736 in revenue and $5.4 million in expenses for
[1:11:14] utility projects that were not completed in 2025. These do range from storm water improvements,
[1:11:21] water system upgrades in sewer system improvements, also the detail of these projects are in the
[1:11:27] exhibit A. Our next item carries forward $2.2 million for the golf course irrigation project,
[1:11:35] and it also carries over $360,000 in our debt service payment for the LTEO bond. That was
[1:11:43] issue last year, there was a timing discrepancy of when those were going to be paid.
[1:11:50] The final item on this table carries forward 296,000 for fleet vehicles that were ordered
[1:11:55] in 2025, but are not expected to be delivered and paid until this year.
[1:12:03] And lastly, next slide, Elliot.
[1:12:06] Lastly is non-general fund amendments.
[1:12:08] The first amendment adjusts the allocation of central internal service costs to the non-general funds,
[1:12:15] as I had shared with you the indirect cost allocation plan has a reduction to general fund revenues by 409,000.
[1:12:25] So this amendment here reflects the reduction to expenses for the funds that were previously contributing.
[1:12:32] The next item increases personal benefit expenses by 111,524 dollars, similar to the general
[1:12:40] fund.
[1:12:41] This is just the non-general fund's portion of the L&I or workers compensation rate increase.
[1:12:48] Our next amendment recognizes $25,000 that was received from the telelipped tribes to
[1:12:53] care community impact funds. This was directly provided to the
[1:12:59] mayor's will police department and has been reported within our tribal
[1:13:03] gaming fund, with that can only be used for law enforcement purposes.
[1:13:09] Next is amendment that provides 241,644 dollars from our hotel motel fund
[1:13:16] 105, and this will fund our 2226 tourism grant awards that were previously
[1:13:23] approved by Council in November.
[1:13:26] Next, we have an amendment that increases transfers from our Transportation Benefit District
[1:13:31] to fund $14 by $4 million.
[1:13:35] I believe our engineering services director did provide a presentation on January discussing the
[1:13:43] use of these funds.
[1:13:46] Next slide, please, Elliott.
[1:13:48] The next amendment increases revenue by 128,000, $70 in our school mitigation fund.
[1:13:57] By law, school districts are unable to collect their own mitigation fees, so we collect
[1:14:02] them on their behalf and we remit them to the school district.
[1:14:06] This amendment is really to right size revenues by the expected expenditures for the year.
[1:14:13] It is yes.
[1:14:14] The next two amendments establishes two new funds.
[1:14:19] One is fund 1117 for transportation mitigation fees.
[1:14:23] And another fund 118 for Parks mitigation fees.
[1:14:27] These are currently reported historically within our capital projects fund.
[1:14:32] For really transparency and to be able to cleanly see these,
[1:14:36] like we do with our school mitigation,
[1:14:38] we thought it was beneficial to create the new funds.
[1:14:42] Our next amendment increases capital expenses by $2.9 million in the street capital projects fund.
[1:14:49] So these are what's being funded by the TBD dollars that are transferred over.
[1:14:54] And that would be including the pavement preservation, as well as multiple sidewalls.
[1:15:02] 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.
[1:15:13] Project costs are recorded in fund 310, and they are supported by the residential density incentive fee funds from 315.
[1:15:23] Next slide, please.
[1:15:27] The next item is a $253,469 budget amendment for the rainy well replacement project.
[1:15:35] This amount is different from what you had just listened to.
[1:15:40] I just wanted to let you know that this budget amendment is really a timing issue.
[1:15:45] So at this time, the quote that was mentioned is what was provided.
[1:15:48] So, there is that discrepancy.
[1:15:53] The next item provides $217,000 to fund additional needs for all comprehensive plans,
[1:16:00] service water, sewer, and water.
[1:16:03] The next one is on November 10, 2025, Council approved ordinance number 3372.
[1:16:10] This revised our solid waste rates, really gearing up for worth the expected increase
[1:16:15] from the snowmish county tipping fees, as well as state taxes and inflationary pressures on
[1:16:20] our recycling contract.
[1:16:24] The next item reflects a transfer from the general fund into the fleet services 501 fund,
[1:16:29] and this was for the Ford Bronco and Snow Plow Truck that was discussed previously.
[1:16:37] The final item here is for unemployment compensation, which is within our insurance fund
[1:16:43] 510, we are increasing the budget by $32,000 based on recent trends.
[1:16:50] So as a self-insured employer, the city does pay our unemployment claims directly.
[1:16:55] This adjustment ensures that our budget reflects our anticipated liabilities for this year.
[1:17:04] The next item provides $233,570 in insurance fund $511, and this is insurance
[1:17:12] recovery revenues that were received this year related to a rental vehicle water damage that occurred last year.
[1:17:21] And our final amendment of the night relates to the city's transition to a self-insured dental and vision program.
[1:17:28] We did create new accounts within our medical insurance fund 512 so that we could report on these programs separately.
[1:17:36] In addition to the initial investment that's coming from the general fund, the remaining revenues
[1:17:42] are payable based allocations, as so each department does provide a set amount per employee,
[1:17:48] and that is what will continue to fund the program going forward.
[1:17:53] All right.
[1:17:54] There are any questions?
[1:17:56] Thank you.
[1:17:58] Councilman James, was that an old, old, old, old, old, old?
[1:18:01] Okay.
[1:18:01] Any questions?
[1:18:02] Thank
[1:18:07] you for the detailed presentation.
[1:18:09] If there are no questions, we'll open the floor for any potential motion on ordinance 3376 Council Member Richards.
[1:18:18] I moved to adopt ordinance number 3376.
[1:18:23] Motion by Council Member Richards.
[1:18:25] Seconded by Council President Stevens to adopt ordinance 3376.
[1:18:28] Any final discussion?
[1:18:31] All favor?
[1:18:33] Opposed?
[1:18:34] Abstentions?
[1:18:36] Motion passes.
[1:18:37] Thank you.
[1:18:39] And with that, we'll go to item 11, Dr. Hodson.
[1:18:45] Good evening, Mayor and Council.
[1:18:46] Thank you for having me here tonight.
[1:18:48] I have before you request and recommendation to approve
[1:18:52] an amendment to the City's administrative services contract with Premier Blue Cross.
[1:18:57] Premier has served as the City's third party administrator for our self-insured medical
[1:19:00] and pharmacy plans since 2020.
[1:19:03] This amendment addresses a 3% increase in
[1:19:06] admin services fees for processing in 2026, which is within our budget, it amounts to about
[1:19:11] a $5,000 cost increase to the city annually, and is separate from our projected claims
[1:19:19] liability, without I'm happy to answer any questions.
[1:19:24] Thank you.
[1:19:24] Any questions, Council?
[1:19:29] Open the floor.
[1:19:29] Then, for any potential motion here, Council member Candidates, I'll move to authorize the
[1:19:34] to sign a next to get the Premier Blue Cross administrative services contract.
[1:19:39] Motion by Councilmember Condolius, second by Councilmember James, any final discussion?
[1:19:45] All in favor.
[1:19:46] All right.
[1:19:47] Opposed?
[1:19:48] Any abstentions?
[1:19:50] Motion passes.
[1:19:51] Thank you.
[1:19:55] Just a couple items under Mayor's business.
[1:19:58] I did want to mention.
[1:20:00] And I'm appreciative of and impressed with the work of Mike and Griffin at Stadgy 360. You know, I think
[1:20:09] you've all had some interaction with them quite a bit, probably this year as well. But you know,
[1:20:15] they're brand new and Stadgy's under no ownership. But they've, they've been particularly
[1:20:20] effective and I know Jennifer and I've had conversations to in just getting some of these
[1:20:25] you can actually direct it spending requests.
[1:20:28] And we get the information of them and they're
[1:20:29] pilein' all that stuff in and really directing staff
[1:20:34] on what information is needed for it.
[1:20:37] And it's just very helpful.
[1:20:38] And then that's at the federal level there, you know,
[1:20:40] basically our state reps, but they're double-teamin' it
[1:20:42] with the federal stuff as well.
[1:20:47] And at the state legislative offices too,
[1:20:49] very effective.
[1:20:50] This was a tough year for cities all around.
[1:20:52] AWC is mentioned that, you know, and it just wasn't any,
[1:20:56] as was mentioned, there are any funding for new projects this year,
[1:20:59] but they've done a really nice job team ours up.
[1:21:02] We have good broad support from the Senate, particularly
[1:21:04] Senator Leas, I think, for our projects.
[1:21:08] And then finally I was just, I was impressed, you know,
[1:21:11] I was in DC on AWC business, AWC paid for the whole trip
[1:21:15] with my, you know, come in, I know, I presentential years.
[1:21:17] So had a full slate of meetings for AWC,
[1:21:21] both stuff that they did at the NLC Conference,
[1:21:23] and then legislative meetings with the senators
[1:21:27] and congressional delegation across the state.
[1:21:31] And there was just a few thin time slots in there.
[1:21:34] I told Griffin, as I probably not much point
[1:21:37] and you come back and he insisted on trying to,
[1:21:40] and he managed to slot all the Mary'sville meetings
[1:21:42] into the fewer meetings slots that were open.
[1:21:45] So made for some long days of it,
[1:21:46] ended up getting all the city business done,
[1:21:48] which I completely not expected, you know, on an AWS C-trip.
[1:21:52] So he was, you know, and that's tough thing to do.
[1:21:55] It's tough to get those guys to schedule.
[1:21:56] Even when you have wide open schedules,
[1:21:58] you have to loan to cram it into a few open slots.
[1:22:01] And so his persistence paid off.
[1:22:02] I think the last meeting he slid in about an hour before it actually happened.
[1:22:06] And so he just kept at it.
[1:22:08] And, you know, sometimes tenacity pays off.
[1:22:10] So I just wanted to report to Council just some of that on the ground stuff
[1:22:13] that, you know, while they're not as experienced as some of our past,
[1:22:18] folks at strategies they are very high level of work ethic and I think when you read through
[1:22:25] their final report you'll notice the professional level of professionalism is probably
[1:22:29] as good or better than we've seen you know in quite some time so anyway that's I'll leave
[1:22:34] that there and if council has any thoughts I want to discuss that to some more happy to do
[1:22:39] that as well and then lastly before we go to stop business I did want I think most of you
[1:22:45] Lauren, but did want to introduce Lauren Homiak, our new communications manager, and I'd
[1:22:51] invite her to come up and just share briefly, really excited to have Lauren on. This is her first
[1:22:56] day. We're going to make it a long one. We're going to make sure she goes home and then realizes
[1:23:00] a 13 hour day or so, but we appreciate Lauren's background in what she's going to bring to a city.
[1:23:06] Lauren. Great. Thank you for the warm welcome. Good evening, Mayor and council.
[1:23:12] I'm excited to be here as your new communications manager.
[1:23:16] Today is my first day.
[1:23:17] It's been super smooth and exciting to meet some of my new co-workers.
[1:23:22] I come to you with about 10 years of experience in local government communications.
[1:23:26] I work for the City of Mercer Island.
[1:23:29] And then most recently just completed a stint at the City of Kenmore for the last six years
[1:23:33] as their communications and tourism manager.
[1:23:36] super passionate about all things in communications. I love creative storytelling and I love
[1:23:41] community engagement and finding ways to connect residents to their local government. So I
[1:23:47] see a lot of opportunity here to do that. I also am excited because the splash pad next door
[1:23:53] is my two sons favorite park to come to in the summer and they think it's super cool that their
[1:23:57] mom is working right next door. So yeah, I look forward to serving this community. I look forward
[1:24:03] serving this council and I'm very happy to be here. Thank you.
[1:24:06] Next one. Thank you so much Lauren. Welcome aboard.
[1:24:12] Was there anybody else from staff who had a report tonight?
[1:24:17] Great. Everybody's stairs at a turning walker and he's
[1:24:20] stayed seated, so that's good news.
[1:24:24] Thank you.
[1:24:25] Councilmember Condo, can you start this off?
[1:24:26] The only thing I had is last Friday, March 20th,
[1:24:29] was the anniversary of our city's incorporation.
[1:24:31] Yes, the Maryville 135 years old now and looking pretty good. That's all I had. Thank you.
[1:24:39] Council member James. Welcome aboard Lauren. Good to have you here.
[1:24:43] And thank you to those who showed up tonight and stayed for the whole meeting.
[1:24:47] It's very nice. It's encouraging to us up here in the Council to see engagement.
[1:24:52] So thank you. Thank you. Council member Perkins.
[1:24:57] Happy birthday Maryville and Lauren.
[1:25:00] 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.
[1:25:27] 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.
[1:25:57] We're over the 2026 CIP updates, also went over the 108th street sidewalk that the two MP students had come with us.
[1:26:07] 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.
[1:26:18] And that's it.
[1:26:19] Thank you.
[1:26:20] Councilmember Miller.
[1:26:21] I already said hi but welcome again, Lauren.
[1:26:23] And yeah, I too was impressed.
[1:26:26] I was concerned with the ownership change
[1:26:29] at strategies, but both them really stepped up
[1:26:31] and did, like I said, I think it was a refreshing to see.
[1:26:35] I think, yeah, so it's both well for their future,
[1:26:40] the strategies hopefully in our relationship.
[1:26:43] But that's all I have for things.
[1:26:44] Thank you.
[1:26:45] Councilmember Norton.
[1:26:46] Yeah, I'll add my welcome, Lauren.
[1:26:49] And also just did out to what's been said about Mike
[1:26:53] and Griffin just appreciate the information and the sharing throughout the session.
[1:26:59] I just have one committee report, Public Safety Committee, I met on March 17th, and we talked
[1:27:06] about quite a few things we talked about the state bills that were passed and potential
[1:27:10] impacts to the city and specifically law enforcement, reviewed the crime statistics, which
[1:27:16] again look really good still large drop in the crime numbers compared to last year. Recruiting
[1:27:24] at the time of the meeting there were seven patrol openings, three custody openings and records.
[1:27:31] I think they still had some people going through training but we're really close to being fully
[1:27:36] staffed and operational there so that's great news. The jail fencing project is also almost complete.
[1:27:41] 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,
[1:27:50] a law they recently passed in regards to protecting children from fentanyl exposure.
[1:27:56] 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.
[1:28:08] So looking forward to that and that's it for me tonight. Thanks. Thank you appreciate that
[1:28:14] Anything else for the good order
[1:28:17] We have motion to adjourn
[1:28:22] Second counts remember Mueller and seconded by Council President Stevens all in favor of adjourning
[1:28:28] Hi
[1:28:30] Media adjourn thanks everybody