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This is a regular city council meeting of the City of Ocean Shores. It is September

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22, 2026, and the time is 6:00 p.m. The meeting is being held at the Ocean Shores

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Convention Center. The meetings are simulcast and archived on KOSW radio. Meetings

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are live streamed and closed captioning with closed captioning and may be accessed

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on the city website under council recordings. The meetings will be Viewed on cable

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channel 68 Thursdays at 12:00 p.m. and Sundays at 10:00 a.m. We have a roll call,

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please? Council member sires here. Council member Taylor here. Council member Grebel

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here. Council member Klein here. Council member Scott. Council member Wills here.

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Council member Julie here. Tom, can you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please?

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To the

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One nation.

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Can I get approval for tonight's agenda? Yes, Denise. I move to amend the agenda

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to remove item number 15, the executive session. Second Do we have a second, uh,

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any, uh, comments? All in favor? Aye. All right, thank you. Unanimous,

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um, I move to approve. I move to approve the agenda as amended. Second, all in favor.

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All right, thank you. All of. In favor All right. Uh, we don't have any ceremonies

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or proclamations. Uh, no announcements. We have a board and committee vacancies,

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2 vacancies on the radio board, 2 vacancies on the building code board of appeals,

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2 vacancies on the parks board, and 1 vacancy on the planning commission. There are

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no appointments tonight. No other reports, so we'll move right into public communication.

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Public communication to councils intended for communication to the city council regarding

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general council business or policy not on tonight's agenda. Address comments or questions

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to the city council body, not to an individual council member, staff, or audience

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member. Please limit your comments to 3 minutes. This is not a question and answer

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time, and the council cannot engage in conversation with the public. Personal attacks,

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abusive language, slanderous remarks, or disruptive behavior will not be tolerated.

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I will pause the meeting and address the disruption. No person may use the public

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comment, period, for the purpose of a campaign or advertisement. The time will begin

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once the citizen has started their public comment. At 2 minutes, you will see a green

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light followed by a yellow light indicating 30 seconds remain in the public comment

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period. The red light will notify the reader that the public comment time has ended.

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So, uh, what do we got, Scott? Alright, we have 3 that are general public comments

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tonight. The first, Tom Hamilton, duty, honor, and sacrifice.

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Tom Hamilton, Ocean Shores. Recently, the city had the honor of hosting the memorial

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for our fallen heroes. Cost of Freedom Tribute, including Vietnam War, 9/11 tribute,

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and Global War on Terror. What a great opportunity for the citizens to experience

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this moving exhibit. I first had the opportunity to visit the Vietnam Wall in our

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nation's capital 40 years ago. It's a powerful memorial to my fallen brothers and

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sisters. I want to give a, a, I want to give a public shout out to Stephanie Cobb.

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For bringing together a group of veterans and grateful citizens that gathered on

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Point Brown. With a flag salute honor our guard during the opening parade. She took

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the initiative to purchase the flags and encourage people to come out and participate.

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Lined up on the same locations, the weekly protests that are held on Point Brown,

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Vietnam and other veterans. Individuals who for 60 years have protested against injustice

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and against the war, and others stood for more than an hour holding more than 20

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flags along both sides of the parade route to honor this memorial. These are also

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among the same people who on a weekly basis protest against the injustices that they

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see today in our republic. They understand the sacrifices our sisters and brothers

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made so that they can exercise their freedom of speech, a freedom.

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Speech that this city administration wanted to take away or at the very least restrict

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with an ordinance a few months ago. It is unfortunate that the city administration

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missed an opportunity to include the local veterans in its own flag tribute on Point

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Brown. Instead, they ignored the chance for a more inclusive flag line, first asking

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Ms. Cobb to participate and then abandoning when she could provide many veterans.

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Only using paid city employees on the clock, not even providing each with a full-sized

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flag, at least two waving tiny flags, including the mayor. Shame on the city for

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not wanting to be inclusive. The veterans and protesters who understood the sacrifices

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that our fallen heroes made fully grasp the patriotic duty. Thank you to Stephanie

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Cobb and all those who took part.

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Katie Wallace, Public Arts.

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Hi, I'm Katie Wallace. I've lived here in Ocean Shores about more than 10 years now,

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and I'm here today to talk about public art. Um, when I first saw the whale out in

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the median, I was so excited. I thought we're gonna see public art here everywhere

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and we'll, we'll have more opportunity for that. Um, we have hundreds of artists

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here in Ocean Shores, so many of them, and of all sorts of different medias.

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Uh, but, and we keep asking in this town, what is our identity? What should it be?

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I think like beachy art town, it has worked for a ton of other towns that

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That are tourist towns and I think that should be part of our identity and we're

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already adopting that. Um, however, as much as I love to see the wood carvings. Um,

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there's other forms of media out there. I have a lot of ideas. Um, some of them are,

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we have a metal arts guy in town. I don't know if you've seen his work at the garage

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or over at Oakhead, but it's beautiful and that could be something that we would

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do. Oh, sorry, that, that could be something we could do, um, a giant metal arts

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display. Uh, we have Gavin Miller who used to live here, who's done some mural artistry

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here. Um, he's wonderful. Uh, we could do some more murals, uh. Some other ideas.

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We could make a giant screen here in the convention center and display all of our

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uh wonderful photographers like Skip Bradcliffe and Matt Cifer and TK Ramsey, make

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a giant thing. Skip could make a frame for it with his woodwork and that would help

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promote the nature and the beauty of ocean shores as well. Uh. Uh, we have Gina McCauley.

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She makes little felting things, but we, we could have her make a giant black bear

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and put it out there. You know, the lobby of the convention center. These are just

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a few of my ideas. I'm sure that the um artists here have many, many more. Um, and

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right now I don't know who gets to choose the art here and if the artists are being

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paid or not and any information that I've tried to get so far nobody really knows

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who's, who's choosing it. Um, the arts commission is kind of falling apart. So, um,

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on that note, I think the city council should try to make an actual arts board that

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meets and chooses and starts projects that we could do here in Ocean Shores. Um,

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That way, everyone chooses and more artists will get exposure. Um And we could

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start more, more festivals, work some of these things into the festivals like maybe

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we have giant ducks at the jeep thing that people paint. I don't know. Anyways, um,

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I, I think that that would be time. Thank you.

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OK, then lastly for general public comment, Taylor Priest, transparency, art, and

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traps.

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Thank you, Mayor and council members for this time. My name is Taylor Priest. I've

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been a Shores resident for about 8 years. And I'd like to start with a quote this

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evening by Joseph Pulitzer. There is not a crime, not a dodge, there is not a trick,

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there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. It is

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high time for a new mayor in Ocean Shores, one who practices transparency and respects

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the democratic process, rather than one who thinks democracy is owned by one political

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party. For all his talk of being nonpartisan, Frank Elderwin is anything but, and

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people on both sides of the aisle are well aware. People in shores who participate

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less need to be aware and beware. It seems that Mayor Eldwin has plans to place a

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statue of Poseidon, whose design is entirely inappropriate for ocean shores, at the

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north gate. Citizens have had no input into this, but they certainly should. Why

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is the artwork purchased and by the city and displayed here chosen by the very partisan

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mayor Frank Aldwin alone? Scott Anderson has stood in front of this body and boldly,

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I believe, knowingly lied about the trapping ordinance which absolutely allows whatever

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kind of contraption the trapper decides to use, including one that will kill the

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animal. It's in the ordinance. What Scott is keeping hidden is that this ordinance

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sets up the fox to watch the chicken house. The WCO, who is in charge of making sure

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sufficient preventative measures have been taken, only gets paid if they trap an

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animal. For these problems, William O. Douglas left these perfect words Sunlight

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is the best disinfectant.

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That concludes public comment. Next up we have a city administrator's report by Scott

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Anderson. Pardon me, I'm gonna do, uh, two things cause I'm gonna have to audible

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one and be prepared because I have absolutely no notes for it. So I'll just do this.

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Uh, so the first one is Ocean Forest Freshwaterways, and this I do have notes for.

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Uh, I live on, uh, the Bell Canals, and I just wanna briefly address the conditions

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of our freshwaterways. Um, I, I understand that we had a really, really beautiful

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waterway system up until the last few weeks. And this, we haven't had rain, uh, it's

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getting dry. And so I understand some of the firsthand concerns that are being expressed

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by our, by our residents. Uh, the waterways and the ocean shores are one of the things

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that make us absolutely unique. And when I bought a home on Ocean Shores, I, I made

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sure it was on the waterways themselves, so I could take advantage of this. Uh, I

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wanna emphasize the city has been working actively. To improve the health and quality

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of our freshwater systems in partnerships with our Freshwater Waste Advisory Board

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and its engaged community members, and the city has undertaken a number of efforts,

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including installing aerators to improve oxygenation and circulation, uh, conducting

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aquatic vegetation harvesting, implementing methods to reduce the car population,

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and is working to reduce phosphorus levels within our waterways. Uh, these efforts

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reflect an ongoing commitment to improving our water system. I also wanna say a shout

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out to our Freshwater Waste Advisory Board, which in my time of being here I believe

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is one of the most active and productive boards we've ever had in the city. So I

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really thank all the work they do. Now, currently we are responding to cyanobacteria

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or blue-green algae, uh, that's blooming in our canals. Uh, we're not alone in this

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section across Western Washington. You're seeing this. Uh, samples have been submitted

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for laboratory testing, and we expect these toxin results to come in on Friday, and

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appropriate warning signs have been posted at public docks and boat launches. Uh,

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until those results are received, however, we're asking everyone to use caution and

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when in doubt, stay out. Uh, avoid water with visible algae, keep children and pets

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away from affected water, and do not drink untreated surface water. There is no single

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or immediate solution to maintaining a freshwater system of this size. Uh, our approach

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must continue to be collaborative, science-based, and focused on long term improvement,

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and the city will continue working alongside not only the Fresh Waterways Advisory

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Board. But Herrera and some of our appropriate experts that we utilized uh to strengthen

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and maintain uh our this important asset to our community. So that's Freshwaterways

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update, uh, this one I'm just gonna ad lib because um I've been working on it all

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day today and since it got brought up, it was about, uh, the arts and ocean shores

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and what some of the things that we're doing. So some of the things may not even

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be known, uh, and I was gonna announce this actually at the next meeting because

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I just didn't want to get announced too much ahead of time. But, um, some of the,

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some of the art mediums that we're working on are with film. And we have entered

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into a sort of a partnership with uh Dark and Stormy Productions, which is trying

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to market Ocean Shores, and I'll try to get this all in as a destination to both

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shoot films. Um, and to highlight films and to bring in production companies, we

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have a lot of advantages that people don't have in places like California and that

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because you can actually drive right out to our beach and shoot. We've got some kind

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of esoteric landscape around us, and they're sort of been pushing this vehicle and

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they've received LTAC funding for their film. They have a film festival that's coming

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up, so I'd like to announce that the.

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Dark and Stormy Film Fest will be at our Ocean Shore Cinema, and that will be on

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Saturday, October 17th, uh, and October 18th. They're gonna have a lot of neat like

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avant-garde horror films. Uh, before that, the evening before, they're gonna have

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the Rocky Shore Rocky Horror Picture Show, uh, on the 16th, and it's just kind of

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a fun way to sort of bring the community together through film. We also have our

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first commitment we've been working on this with the producers of a film that's gonna

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be called Neverland. Uh, and it's sort of based on Peter Pan. Uh, the, the production

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company is a legitimate real production company. They're gonna be hiring about 100

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extras. They're gonna be, first of all, staying in Ocean Shores for a number of days,

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which obviously brings in revenue to our city, but we're gonna have 100 extras for

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like a pirate fightout they're gonna have on the beach, Neverland as it pertains

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to Peter Pan. It's about him as an adult. Um, so if you have your pirate costumes

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and you want to be a part of that, they are looking for additional, uh, volunteers.

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Uh, that can participate in that photo shoot. But the whole idea is to kind of cast

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Ocean Shores as a quirky, unusual place to do some avant-garde filming where we haven't

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been on the map before. And if we can get this film festival going, and we can get

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some production companies to come in, uh, we have a lot of kind of ideas that we

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hope would grow long term. One of the things we sort of talked about today, today,

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and by, I don't think anyone knows this sitting at the table, including the mayor.

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Um, because it was just kind of a collaborative discussion we're having would be

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something like we're talking about, I need to talk to the Freshwater Waste Advisory

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Board and others, but something called Canalloween. And it would be 2 days before

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Halloween, the nights before, we would decorate some of the canals. Anyone who wants

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to put out, you know, their horror artifacts and their lighting or their, and then

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we would be able to give like boat tours through the Canal Brothers or anyone private

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like the Ocean Shores Yacht Club. That would do that would just be a kind of a fun

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thing to do in the October months. It would bring our community together, uh, and

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add some art and some public participation to some of the things we have here, uh,

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which might be fun. I don't know if we're gonna have time to get it off the ground

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this year, um, but we may, uh, it would be a fun thing, but I need to have work with

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a bunch of collaborative partners to do that. So we are trying to market Ocean Shores

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the best we can as an artsy touristy destination, and, uh, like I said, this is off

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the cuff, but I'll have more to come on that. So thank you.

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All right, thanks. Next up, we got a 2027 General Fund Preliminary revenue estimate,

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RCW 35A.33.135, and that'll be presented by our finance director, Sarah Logan.

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Good evening. So in your, uh, agenda packet tonight, you received what's the 2027

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preliminary general fund revenue estimates. And what we just did on this, uh, is

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summarize kind of our revenue stream and how it's coming in, in anticipation for

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2027. Um, the last, well, as long as I've ever known, we haven't done this piece

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as a part of the budget, and it is a RCW and a statutory requirement. They typically

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just will bring the levy documents and call it even because those are the ones that

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have to be turned into the county. However, In order for all of you to review our

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operational budgets, you need to see what our revenues are specifically for the general

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funds. So in your agenda packet, there's just a summary, and then I've kind of written

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out what that summary goes over and I'll just read it off and then if you have questions

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for it, we'll go over those. Uh, tonight we have presented the preliminary 2027 general

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fund revenue estimates in the council's agenda packet. Again, a part of RCW 35A 33.

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The city is required to develop these estimates of anticipated revenues and expenditures

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and present a budget that provides council with a clear understanding of the resources

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available to support city operations. The preliminary forecast that you see tonight

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is currently projecting 2027 at 0.5% lower than 2026, which anybody that Uh, council

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member Greble and schools, council member Scott and the municipality all know that

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that's kind of the trend right now. Several major general fund revenue sources are

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either declining or projected to remain relatively flat. Sales tax collections through

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July of 26 are approximately 5% below 2025. B&O tax has been affected by the closure,

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specifically to the Shiloh because that was a huge B&O tax revenue. Uh, permit related

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revenues have declined from their 2024 peak, and changes for services have experienced

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a downward trend for several years. We have talked in length for the last year and

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a half at finance committee if anybody from the audience or council follows along

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with those. Uh, about these and specifically to the building and permitting, we are

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coming way out of our building boom and going back to 2018's numbers. And those you

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can see in our Our archives, I mean they all show them there. The forecast also reflects

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the absence of significant one-time revenues that supported prior years. For example,

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2025 included nearly 2.2 million in the Department of Commerce erosion repairs grant

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revenue. That grant revenue went directly into our general fund. We don't see that

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now, even though it was an expenditure, we were able to project that into our previous

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budget because we knew that that grant had been awarded and we were receiving it.

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While the current 2027 estimate contains one time state revenue, in addition, the

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previous six years have included federal ARPA funding that is no longer available

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to the city. We have utilized those and we have, uh, closed out our federal grant

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process, so we're all done with those. Uh, those prior years therefore should not

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be viewed as a representative of the city's reoccurring general fund revenue capacity

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going forward. Another significant factor is the city's correction of its cost allocation

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methodology for enterprise and other funds. I have spoken about this in great length.

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Uh, the finance committee, along with the finance department have worked diligently

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in 25 and 26. Historically, others made up this process much more complicated than

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it needed to be, uh, but it seemed a little intentional on why they did it that way.

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Uh, money would.

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Come from the enterprise funds, moved to the shared utility fund, then moved to the

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general fund, then ultimately some of the money would allocate back to the enterprise

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funds sometimes. Uh, we referred in finance to that as the money swirl because it

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was, uh, essentially moving dollars from one fund to another and then moving some

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of those dollars back sometimes and again rarely ever, um. So we've corrected that

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as you all know instead of moving those funds through multiple funds, the enterprise

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funds are assessed their appropriate share costs which all the council received and

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has been online and in our finance committees our cost allocation plan that was updated.

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Uh, those amounts are credited directly to the general fund, which will reflect in

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its own section of the budget the finance committee has already seen. So, uh, instead

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of seeing how you would have in years past and, uh, to council members that have

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been on here for years and years, you would just see continuous transfers in and

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transfers out, transfers in and transfers out, and it's a section like this big and

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the narrative of, of what's happening. And there's no more calculating depreciation

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and basing more indirect transfers off of that. So, uh, the biggest point I want

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to emphasize to council, this is not simply a 0.5% revenue decline story. It's about

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establishing a corrected financial baseline after removing accounting effects and

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one-time revenues that can make prior years appear stronger than the city's ongoing

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operational position. This gives council and staff a more realistic picture of what

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reoccurring revenues can substantiate support moving forward. The expectation of

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the city staff and the mayor and city administrator. Given this financial outlook,

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the expectation for all department heads in 27 will be to exercise significant spending

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restraints specific to the general fund. And focus expenditures on essential operational

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needs. Departments will be expected to work diligently to reduce discretionary spending,

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defer purchases when reasonably possible, and carefully evaluate whether expenditures

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are necessary during 2027 budget year. The primary exception will be public works

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capital and infrastructure projects. Where dedicated funding levels are uh sufficient

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to support the work, where appropriate funding is available and the city should continue

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moving those projects forward rather than unnecessarily delaying needed infrastructure

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investment. Specifically because we did the cost allocation correction and the general

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fund isn't subsidizing more than it should have ever subsidized out of the rate paid

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enterprise funds, the enterprise funds are now healthy and can deal with our infrastructure

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and our maintenance. And so that's what, while we heal our general fund, that's what

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we'll focus on in 27 is specific our water infrastructure, sewer infrastructure,

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and our road maintenance. Uh, a road maintenance, and I say that that is general

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fun, but the storm system and the road maintenance that's available to do during

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that will be a big portion, and I'm sure the public works director will talk more

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about that later. Additionally, the departments are now told they will not rely on

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general fund to finance everything that they want current, ongoing, or future. Each

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department head will be expected to actively identify, pursue, and obtain available

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grant funding for departmental programs, equipment, capital. Improvements and other

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needs wherever grant opportunities are available. Grant funding should become an

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integral part of the departmental planning rather than being viewed as a supplemental

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effort after a need has already arisen, as the council knows, we've spent a great

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deal of time and success, uh, um, to Tim, Tim's success on public works grant projects

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while no other department has looked for any grants specific to their departments,

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which is a. Uh, quasi overlook on our part, um, and they can do way better. Fire

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used to write their own grants. Police used to write their own grants, finance. Uh,

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even the city clerk's office that I oversee, we got our grants for scanning and what

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have you by looking for them on our own because we know what to look for. I kind

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of tried to tell them to treat it like unemployment, like if you haven't looked for

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3 grants this week. You don't get paid tomorrow. Like, so it's a joke. It's on record.

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It's a joke. God knows what all the comment will be. The goal for 2027 is not to

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simply reduce spending from the general fund, allowing it time to heal and build.

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It is to align ongoing expenditures with a substantial reoccurring revenues while

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protecting essential city services and continue. And responsible investments in our

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infrastructure. The primary revenue estimates are being presented now, so the the

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council and department heads have this information before expenditure decisions are

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made and can approach the 2027 budget with shared understanding to the city's actual

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financial capacity. With that being said. As you go through the operational budget,

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you will see requests specifically from the public works director and not so much

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requests from those that are generated or paid out of the general fund. We are going

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to try and find other avenues and allow our general fund to build back up, uh, while

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we work on our infrastructure at the same time with the, um. I'm excited because

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those are the funds that aren't being allocated that then demand a rate increase

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later. So, that's the preliminary 2027. Money. OK,

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um, Scott, you had something? Yeah, I had 30 seconds more and it wasn't on yours,

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so I don't know if you were you gonna have council questions first or, OK, so go

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ahead and you do council questions and I'll go back to mine. Right. Questions? Yes,

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go ahead, Lisa Scott. I just wanna say thank you so much. I'm so glad we're moving

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to an annual basis, and it, you've cleaned it up so much, and that's exactly what

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we asked for, and it's, for me, at least, it's very transparent, and it's easier

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to understand. So, thank you, and uh I'm glad that the enterprise funds are, are

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getting figured out. Thank you.

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Right. Any other questions? I guess we don't have any other questions. I guess, go

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ahead, Scott. All right, I said this is the problem in ad libbing things, um, I forgot

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the important part, uh, or one of the important parts. Monday the 28th on Evening

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magazine King 5.

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7:30, uh, that's what they were down here filming today. This is one of the reasons

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I was working with them and, uh, so you're gonna see something kind of stormy spooky

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ocean shores. Uh, we're gonna be focusing on the Celtic Music Fest, uh, on the Katala.

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Um, we're gonna be looking at, uh, some of the other things on our canals. We got

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some great video of our canals and how spooky they are at night. But I also wanna

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say this ties into like a bigger tourism strategy that we have. One of the things

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that George and I are always discussing is that it's very easy to promote ocean shores

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in the spring and the summer. Uh, it gets more difficult to find activities and what

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we've always called them fallen back on is, is clam digging and storm watching in

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the winter. But I think there's more to the ocean shore story to that. And I think

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by bringing in the arts and bringing in sort of more of an avant-garde film community,

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uh, we can help focus on that. So it's one of the things we're doing. And then I

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do not know if this was discussed cause I, uh, had the privilege of being in Japan

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for the last kind of two weeks until now, where my daughter has been going to school,

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uh, and studying Japanese. But I did want to let you know that work on the sand.

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It's actually beginning really in earnest. And just in case it wasn't said, the Shiloh

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has been sold. So everyone knows and work has already started on that. And that ties

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into everything that George and I and everyone in this community that's working on

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marketing and engaging the city, uh, are, are doing because that is our flagship

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hotel. It's the flagship hotel for this convention center, and I'm really happy that

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sooner rather than later, we will have the sands back.

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The shy low back. See, I guess I may be strong jet lag. Sorry. Well, we'll be getting

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the sands back too, so that's good. All right, uh, next we got council liaison reports

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and we'll start with, uh, Kurt Dooley.

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I attended the Public Safety Committee meeting and signed warrants. All right, thanks,

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Richard. None of my liaison committees met since the last council meeting, so I have

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no report. Thank you. All right, Lisa Scott, ditto on that. We do have finance, uh,

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committee meeting on the 24th and public works on the 28th of this month. All right,

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uh, Denise Sires. I attended a gender review. I signed warrants. Uh, Lisa mentioned

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we do have finance upcoming on this Thursday and, uh, for the public who's interested,

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we do delve deeper into the budget at that particular committee. Uh, LTAC is coming

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up for the 2027, uh, start of request and that's on October 6th and the

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council budget study session. That was uh scheduled for this coming Saturday, September

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26th, has been rescheduled to November 10th prior to council, so we have uh more

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information. Right, thanks, Allison. I signed warrants. I attended the Public

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Safety Committee meeting, agenda setting, and our ad hoc committee for your home,

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our city, and then I had a training session with about half of the members in the

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pool for the ethics committee, and we'll be setting up a training for those who are

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unable to attend. For that, and then I have finance coming up this week and public

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works next week. All right, thanks, Lisa agreeable. Thank you, Mayor. I attended

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our ad hoc committee meeting. All right. Tom Taylor. I

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attended, um, public safety. And uh got some news on that. Um, one of the clerk that

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they're hiring. Is

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That report's coming up. OK, yeah. All right, thank you. All right, so we're gonna

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move on to council ad hoc committees, and, uh, this is, uh, your home, our city ad

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hoc committee report, and that's presented by council member Lisa Grebel. Thank you

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Mayor. Our committee met and interestingly enough, the public comment tonight and

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our city administrator's report both tied into our committee meeting. Our discussion

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was how can we promote our city to be welcoming and. Inclusive of everyone who lives

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here and visits here and the what we landed on was a a way to do that was through

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art and public art and the conversation was how could we develop a clear way of um

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commissioning art. Determining what the budget is for community art, different mediums

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that could be reflected and making sure that we're spreading that community art around

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to a variety of artists and so we talked about having some, uh, lots of cities do

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public art. Tests that uh the local artists submit ideas and and how what the art

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would be what while the city has a theme for that and so that's what we talked about

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and we'll I'll talk about that later at um future agenda items for perhaps having

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that as a discussion. All right, thank you. Uh, salary review ad hoc committee, and

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that'll be presented uh by Alison Klein. We met the uh council member Julie

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Wells and myself met and reviewed all of the documents that HR had provided for us

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and we have made recommendations to the mayor. All right, thank you. Um, next, uh,

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consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve? Yes, salad, um. Motion to approve

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the consent agenda. 2nd. All right, all in favor? All right, thank you. Unanimous.

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All right, we'll move on to the finance standing Committee. We have a resolution

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of the city council of the city of Ocean Shores, Washington repealing and replacing

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resolution number 760 establishing a plan for disposal and sale of accumulated beach

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approach sand, and that'll be. Presented by our public works director, Ricardo Victoriano.

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Uh, good evening, counsel. So what I have for you is The oh, I'm missing a page here

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we go. All right, so, uh, in the past we've done these sand halls, um, I'm not sure

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how the price was set historically, uh, but what I did was, uh, kind of what we do

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for, um, you know, establishing rates for meter installs and everything like that

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and make sure that we're not losing money on, you know, our typical work and things

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where it's just a set price and, you know, we use our work orders to, uh, just double

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check that and make sure that we're. Not, um, you know, being negligent in that,

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that, uh, Case, but so what I used was uh FEMA equipment rates uh for charging our

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our uh. Let me see, is there a In the back of the section of the agenda packet here,

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section 9, we have a work order that I drafted for um. It'll be an equipment operator

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and a spotter in a truck there to make sure that the contractors have tickets and

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make sure that they're staying in an orderly line, no one's doing anything dangerous

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and, you know, going up into the staging area without being asked to do so. Uh, and

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so we're billing a pickup truck. It'll be a 4 wheel drive half ton pickup truck and

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then a front loader to load the sand, um. And so kind of one full bucket of our front

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loader is about 3 yards of sand and so that's what we're basing it on is uh 2 minutes

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to load one full bucket of sand, uh, divide that by 3, charge that out per yard,

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um, so this work order is a total of 1027 for 3 yards, divide that by 3 and that

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gave us the price that we put in for 342 per cubic yard.

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And that's about double at least of what we were charging before on that. So what

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was going on prior to me getting here was the fact that uh the guys would get loaded

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up with sand and then they drive by the office and tell us how much sand they. Cook

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And um we changed that now where they gotta pay ahead of time for a ticket. Ticket

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goes to one of Ricky's guys, and then they load them up. And so we got better control,

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and we'll be uh receiving better funds out of that effort. So, that's, that's what's

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going on.

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00:38:13,003 --> 00:38:19,051
So council discussion. We got any questions for him? Yes, Richard. Do you have any

412
00:38:19,051 --> 00:38:24,071
idea around ballpark figures how much revenue the sale of sand it should bring in,

413
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,007
may bring in? Uh, just because it hasn't, it's only been tracked once. I don't know,

414
00:38:29,089 --> 00:38:33,035
you know, it could just be that we haven't done it in, I think, a year or two, but,

415
00:38:33,004 --> 00:38:36,039
you know, we get double the turnout than we did last year, so I, I don't think I

416
00:38:36,039 --> 00:38:43,054
could responsibly make an estimate. You know, at, at $10 a, a, a scoop, uh, you know,

417
00:38:45,004 --> 00:38:50,027
Just a wild guess. Do we sell 100 scoops? Do we sell 3 scoops? Wild guess. Yeah,

418
00:38:50,044 --> 00:38:54,015
so it, it, it's really different every time we get a good mix of contractors and

419
00:38:54,015 --> 00:38:58,014
private homeowners that will come out and want a trailer loaded up or a truck bed,

420
00:38:58,016 --> 00:39:04,019
and so, um. I, I would have to look at, at what the revenue was last year and, and

421
00:39:04,019 --> 00:39:09,057
base it off that. Not worth it. Thank you. Yeah, Richard, what, um, what kind of

422
00:39:10,088 --> 00:39:15,034
Makes that uh popular with the contractors is how many houses we have going in, and

423
00:39:15,034 --> 00:39:22,006
housing is slowing down on that. So, um, It's, it's hard to say. We stopped for the

424
00:39:22,006 --> 00:39:27,008
last couple of years because of the berm issues, and we did not wanna run out of

425
00:39:27,008 --> 00:39:31,088
sand if we needed sand, so we sat on that for a couple of years. Now we've got more

426
00:39:31,088 --> 00:39:39,002
than enough. Um, yeah, go ahead and then Kurt. My, my, my comment is. This is not

427
00:39:39,022 --> 00:39:44,005
gonna be a big revenue for the city, but I'm actually very glad that we are taking

428
00:39:44,005 --> 00:39:49,025
control of, and it's just not a free for all and giving it away. I promise I only

429
00:39:49,025 --> 00:39:56,014
got one bucket. So, thank you. Go ahead, Kurt. Just to clarify, we're, we're only

430
00:39:56,016 --> 00:40:01,059
trying to recoup costs, not make a profit, right? OK, thank you. It doesn't hurt

431
00:40:01,059 --> 00:40:08,021
to make a little bit. Yes, go ahead, Lisa. Um, I'd like to go ahead and make a motion

432
00:40:08,023 --> 00:40:10,057
to, uh, pass the resolution of the city council.

433
00:40:13,063 --> 00:40:20,052
Thank you. Sorry, we jumped to council questions, so sorry. Yeah, somebody changed

434
00:40:20,052 --> 00:40:25,014
the order on this thing on me. Um, do you got any other questions down at this end

435
00:40:25,014 --> 00:40:31,078
of the table? No? Any others? Oh, go ahead, Denise. I, I just wanted to comment with

436
00:40:31,078 --> 00:40:39,023
a, a big thank you. Uh, it is so nice to see actual, uh, time and material analysis.

437
00:40:39,074 --> 00:40:44,037
Um, it, it, it, it's amazing compared to the way it was done in the past. So thank

438
00:40:44,037 --> 00:40:44,007
you.

439
00:40:46,009 --> 00:40:50,065
All right. If we have no other council comments or questions, we'll go to public

440
00:40:50,065 --> 00:40:57,002
comment. Any public comment out there? Yes, go ahead. Yeah, go to the mic, please.

441
00:41:09,094 --> 00:41:15,055
Sylvia Fain here. I'm just wondering, I've, I've kind of heard about this before,

442
00:41:15,068 --> 00:41:22,081
but I really never knew about it. So we sell sta sand to residents, if, if they wanna

443
00:41:22,081 --> 00:41:30,074
buy it. Like, is it a specific weekend or something, or is it specific days and

444
00:41:31,063 --> 00:41:37,001
It's uh Ricky, it's you can't answer me. That's right. I'm sorry. Anyway, I would

445
00:41:37,001 --> 00:41:44,007
like to know, um, Yeah, you know, how this works, when it works, uh, it's

446
00:41:44,007 --> 00:41:51,003
never really been. I, I mean, maybe people that are really active here know about

447
00:41:51,003 --> 00:41:56,056
it, but I don't think the community has known that much about it, so. If you're selling

448
00:41:56,056 --> 00:41:58,036
sand, I wanna know about it.

449
00:42:01,024 --> 00:42:03,059
Any other uh comments out there? Yes, go ahead.

450
00:42:20,002 --> 00:42:26,053
I'm Medina Ridge. I have nothing to do with the sand. Um, I remember a few weeks

451
00:42:26,053 --> 00:42:33,057
ago I read that, um, a lot of corners had a problem with gravel being all messed

452
00:42:33,057 --> 00:42:39,013
up from whatever the case may be. Um, that we're talking about the sand purchase.

453
00:42:39,007 --> 00:42:44,002
We can't talk about anything else, right? That should have been done during public

454
00:42:44,006 --> 00:42:47,061
comment, general public comment. OK, I'm sorry. That's fine.

455
00:42:50,073 --> 00:42:58,012
Anybody uh out there wanna talk about the sand purchasing? I don't see any Richard,

456
00:42:58,072 --> 00:43:05,046
so just uh for clarification. If a homeowner wants a couple of scoops of sand, you

457
00:43:05,046 --> 00:43:10,007
know, 36 yards of sand, that's a purchase. If I want 25 gallon buckets of sand, am

458
00:43:10,007 --> 00:43:15,066
I breaking the law if I go down to the beach and scoop up 25 gallon buckets? That's,

459
00:43:15,071 --> 00:43:19,022
uh, yeah, so I mean we're, we're not gonna have anyone out there with buckets while

460
00:43:19,022 --> 00:43:23,001
we have equipment on the beach. That's, that's not my question. So am I breaking

461
00:43:23,001 --> 00:43:30,008
the law because I just, hey Richard, uh, Rick, Ricky's not really, uh, um. Ready

462
00:43:30,008 --> 00:43:35,044
to make that kind of a determination. Legal question if you want a legal answer for

463
00:43:35,044 --> 00:43:38,048
that, email me and I'll get you one. Thank you. All right.

464
00:43:40,098 --> 00:43:42,058
Lisa, did you wanna go ahead now?

465
00:43:45,048 --> 00:43:49,007
I'd like to go ahead and make a motion to approve the resolution of the City Council

466
00:43:49,007 --> 00:43:54,035
of the City of Ocean Shores, Washington, repealing and replacing resolution number

467
00:43:54,035 --> 00:44:00,055
760, establishing a plan for the disposal and sale of accumulated beach approach

468
00:44:00,055 --> 00:44:01,009
sand. Second,

469
00:44:04,059 --> 00:44:08,082
All right. Any other comments from the council on that? All right, I guess not. Let's

470
00:44:08,082 --> 00:44:13,056
go ahead and vote. All in favor? Aye. All right, unanimous. Thank you. Thank you.

471
00:44:13,071 --> 00:44:14,003
Thanks, Ricky.

472
00:44:16,007 --> 00:44:22,041
All right. Uh, next, uh, public, uh, safety standing Committee. Um, Report and that

473
00:44:22,041 --> 00:44:24,029
will be by council member Taylor.

474
00:44:32,055 --> 00:44:40,001
I attended the Public safety, uh Meeting and uh we're, I liked what

475
00:44:40,024 --> 00:44:48,012
our Department's doing they're they're doing a lot more action with in

476
00:44:48,012 --> 00:44:55,098
uh holding people responsible for speeding and and violations and. Um Things

477
00:44:55,098 --> 00:45:01,003
and, and it, it's good to see them out there making contact. Um, they're warning

478
00:45:01,003 --> 00:45:07,089
people and not just citing people, but they're doing both. Um, so, uh, for

479
00:45:10,024 --> 00:45:18,021
They had 992 stops during the month and um They also

480
00:45:18,027 --> 00:45:26,021
had 25 citations. And um So that was, that's, that's a

481
00:45:26,021 --> 00:45:32,068
lot, that's good traffic for the officers and for the citizens, both uh residents

482
00:45:32,068 --> 00:45:40,021
and visitors. Um, it's, it's a balance actually, uh. Being a former law enforcement

483
00:45:40,021 --> 00:45:47,009
officer that tells the citizens that they're actually getting their service for for

484
00:45:47,009 --> 00:45:53,016
it so that looked that looked good. Also, um, the station clerk will be starting,

485
00:45:53,026 --> 00:45:57,092
um, in October about the 21st so that that seat be filled.

486
00:46:00,088 --> 00:46:08,062
I think they can hear me. They can't. OK. Um, so she'll be starting about, uh, October

487
00:46:08,062 --> 00:46:11,029
21st and that's I have somebody.

488
00:46:16,051 --> 00:46:21,007
October 1st, I'm sorry. Um, so, um, police department is doing good.

489
00:46:24,075 --> 00:46:30,064
All right, thanks. Um, next. What? Oh, OK, I'm sorry, um.

490
00:46:32,077 --> 00:46:35,003
Oh, you had a question, Lisa? Go ahead.

491
00:46:43,096 --> 00:46:46,007
I just had a question if there's anything about fire.

492
00:46:53,043 --> 00:47:01,005
Did not document that. I can answer that if it's allowed. Absolutely. Um,

493
00:47:01,089 --> 00:47:06,039
Allison and I were also there and uh the fire department mostly just talked about

494
00:47:06,041 --> 00:47:12,033
their own statistics, um, and what was going on with the South Fire Station, which

495
00:47:12,033 --> 00:47:19,086
is now manned. And uh and then toward the end I asked. She's heard about the

496
00:47:19,086 --> 00:47:25,052
overtime costs and Let him know that uh the council and the citizens are paying attention

497
00:47:25,052 --> 00:47:28,028
to that, and he needed to get a handle on it.

498
00:47:31,012 --> 00:47:36,043
All right. OK. So we'll move on to, this is under Public Works Standing Committee,

499
00:47:36,051 --> 00:47:42,078
but we will uh recess this regular city council meeting at 6:47.

500
00:47:45,092 --> 00:47:50,081
And convene into a special meeting of the Transportation Benefit District. This will

501
00:47:50,081 --> 00:47:57,067
be presented by our project manager, Becky Leach, and Public Works Director. Ricardo

502
00:47:58,017 --> 00:47:59,004
Victoriano.

503
00:48:02,011 --> 00:48:07,082
Hello everybody. We have a really exciting, much needed project for the transportation

504
00:48:07,082 --> 00:48:13,007
benefit district tonight to bring before you the, um, it's an asphalt project and

505
00:48:13,007 --> 00:48:18,091
it's taking place all over the city. We're doing asphalt repairs at the Overlake

506
00:48:18,091 --> 00:48:23,016
Bridge. If you drive on that, you know that that is really needed. 23 additional

507
00:48:23,016 --> 00:48:26,086
locations throughout the city that is in the agenda packet and then there's also

508
00:48:26,086 --> 00:48:32,039
areas of payment needed to be done at the Ocean Shores Airport, um. Project went

509
00:48:32,039 --> 00:48:39,023
out to bid. Low bid was $585,736 and that is from Puget Paving.

510
00:48:45,052 --> 00:48:52,075
All right. And any other, uh, you got any questions or? Yes, Richard. So, um

511
00:48:53,097 --> 00:48:58,048
This paving project is for all of the paving that needs to be done throughout the

512
00:48:58,048 --> 00:49:03,056
city, and my question specifically is, in the past we had an ordinance, I believe

513
00:49:03,056 --> 00:49:07,088
that we were supposed to tunnel under the asphalt instead of trench across it. So

514
00:49:07,088 --> 00:49:13,019
how much of this paving is a result of having trenched instead of tunneled or or

515
00:49:13,037 --> 00:49:19,076
piped under whatever the right word is. So, um, in some cases we, we have no other

516
00:49:19,084 --> 00:49:25,033
choice but to, uh, make a road cut. So, um, you know, times where equipment gets

517
00:49:25,033 --> 00:49:30,045
stuck under the road where we're trying to bore or push through, um, and I believe

518
00:49:30,045 --> 00:49:38,034
there is. 2 or 3 of those road cuts that need to be done. So, uh, the, the, the bore

519
00:49:38,034 --> 00:49:44,031
insulation and really, uh, Limiting factor on that, especially in our area, is that

520
00:49:44,031 --> 00:49:48,063
we can't get contractors that will bore anything bigger than 4 inches across the

521
00:49:48,063 --> 00:49:51,079
road. So I think any culvert that we have to install to improve our storm drain,

522
00:49:52,008 --> 00:49:57,063
uh, we have to cut that open 4 ft wide and, and get that installed. Thank you. That's

523
00:49:57,063 --> 00:50:04,001
a good answer. Thank you. Yes, Lisa Scott. I have a quick question. So the um

524
00:50:05,068 --> 00:50:10,063
On chance, you have the sewer installed. Is that the last bit of area that hasn't

525
00:50:10,063 --> 00:50:14,099
been paved yet? Yes, yeah, that, that's the one trench across the road there. Yeah,

526
00:50:15,018 --> 00:50:15,076
thank you.

527
00:50:19,001 --> 00:50:27,001
Any, uh, anything else? Yes, uh, Denise. Uh, I, I was, uh, I'd, I'd

528
00:50:27,001 --> 00:50:32,019
like you to explain there has been a lot on social media about individual areas that

529
00:50:32,053 --> 00:50:39,063
Need to be fixed. Uh, can you explain why we, um, put them all together? In a bid,

530
00:50:40,001 --> 00:50:46,051
yeah, so, um, I, I guess I'll do my best. I'm not a, not a lawyer, but, uh, so we

531
00:50:46,051 --> 00:50:51,008
have, uh, bid laws that we stick to and so when we know that there's a, you know,

532
00:50:51,017 --> 00:50:55,009
a certain amount of work that has to be done, which in my mind this was starting

533
00:50:55,009 --> 00:51:00,024
out somewhere around 1000 to 200,000 and then we added the Overlake Bridge that desperately

534
00:51:00,024 --> 00:51:04,072
needed to be done, uh, the area in front of the elementary school is gonna be completely

535
00:51:04,072 --> 00:51:11,005
removed and repaved, um. And so you know that puts us over the $300,000 mark. And

536
00:51:11,005 --> 00:51:14,053
once we're at that point, we have to have an engineer's estimate for the work to

537
00:51:14,053 --> 00:51:18,008
be done. And at that point there's a lot more that goes into the bid information.

538
00:51:19,001 --> 00:51:23,008
We spent probably close to a month going back and forth with engineers, um, working

539
00:51:23,082 --> 00:51:29,077
on, uh, the load calculations for the Overlake bridge, and so, um. The grinding equipment

540
00:51:29,079 --> 00:51:33,022
that's gonna be used for most of the work can't be used there. It has to be peeled

541
00:51:33,022 --> 00:51:39,018
off with an excavator for the majority of the day, sadly. But um back to the, I mean,

542
00:51:39,035 --> 00:51:43,017
you know, Doing everything at once versus splitting it up. If we were to split it

543
00:51:43,017 --> 00:51:47,033
up and do it in 3 sections so that we didn't have to do all the extra steps, then

544
00:51:47,033 --> 00:51:50,001
that would be bid splitting and they would kind of point that out in our audit.

545
00:51:52,036 --> 00:51:57,032
Well, it'd be a lot more money also that you know because you gotta pay for mobilization.

546
00:51:57,088 --> 00:52:02,096
People are already there now to do the work. They gotta come back out and you probably

547
00:52:03,004 --> 00:52:07,096
double the cost on that. Anybody else got anything they'd like to say?

548
00:52:10,007 --> 00:52:15,061
I guess not. So I guess we can, uh, hold on. They, they need to make action. They

549
00:52:15,061 --> 00:52:22,032
have to approve this request. That's not in here. Yeah, it's, uh, it's because it's

550
00:52:22,032 --> 00:52:29,051
a special meeting within a meeting. It's on page 25. 2626 yeah I don't have that

551
00:52:29,053 --> 00:52:31,047
page of your big agenda.

552
00:52:33,063 --> 00:52:38,038
You got that. Thanks. OK, so I'd like to go ahead and make a motion to approve a

553
00:52:38,038 --> 00:52:42,069
request of the City council of the City of Ocean Shores awarding the citywide paving

554
00:52:42,069 --> 00:52:48,076
project to Puget Paving. Nope, wrong one. You gotta in the agenda packet you gotta

555
00:52:48,089 --> 00:52:55,051
approve the request for the TBD uh board to approve the 2026 budget request number

556
00:52:55,051 --> 00:53:01,058
4 as the TBD board. OK, my bad. I flipped the page. Sorry, let me try that again.

557
00:53:02,029 --> 00:53:07,043
So I'd like to make a motion to approve a request of the Transportation Benefit District

558
00:53:07,043 --> 00:53:14,045
Number 1 board to approve the 2026 budget request number 4. Second

559
00:53:15,049 --> 00:53:21,036
All in favor. Aye. All right, thanks. Unanimous. So, um, we'll close this special

560
00:53:21,036 --> 00:53:25,036
meeting in the Transportation Benefit District and reconvene the regular city council

561
00:53:25,036 --> 00:53:28,056
meeting at 6:52.

562
00:53:32,041 --> 00:53:36,024
All right, so next up we have a request to the City council of the City of Ocean

563
00:53:36,024 --> 00:53:42,039
Shores Washington awarding the citywide paving project to Puget Paving presented

564
00:53:42,041 --> 00:53:48,088
by project manager Becky Leach and Public Works director Ricardo Victoriano.

565
00:53:52,004 --> 00:53:57,003
I'm going to read down through the agenda bill which covers pretty much everything

566
00:53:57,003 --> 00:54:00,024
that I just said, but since we have it, I'm gonna go ahead and cover the agenda bill.

567
00:54:00,077 --> 00:54:04,099
The city has identified asphalt pavement repairs at multiple locations requiring

568
00:54:04,099 --> 00:54:09,063
corrective work to preserve existing infrastructure and maintain safe and serviceable

569
00:54:09,063 --> 00:54:14,053
roadway conditions. The citywide asphalt paving project includes asphalt repairs

570
00:54:14,053 --> 00:54:19,005
at the Overlake Bridge, 23 additional locations throughout the city, and designated

571
00:54:19,005 --> 00:54:23,077
areas of pavement at the Ocean Shores Municipal Airport. Prior to solicitation, the

572
00:54:23,077 --> 00:54:31,037
estimated project estimate cost was $603,493. Following the competitive bidding process,

573
00:54:31,005 --> 00:54:35,085
the city received two bids with Puget Paving submitting. The lowest responsive bid

574
00:54:35,085 --> 00:54:42,025
in the amount of 585 to $736. So, it's always nice when our projects come in with

575
00:54:42,025 --> 00:54:46,064
a lower bid than what the actual estimate is from the engineers. The proposed work

576
00:54:46,064 --> 00:54:51,032
will address identified pavement deterioration, improve roadway conditions, and help

577
00:54:51,032 --> 00:54:55,004
prevent further degradation that could result in more extensive and costly repairs

578
00:54:55,004 --> 00:54:59,008
in the future. Staff recommends that the city council approve the citywide asphalt

579
00:54:59,008 --> 00:55:04,044
paving project and authorize the award of the construction contract to Puget Paving

580
00:55:04,044 --> 00:55:08,092
in the amount of $585,736.08.

581
00:55:11,061 --> 00:55:18,001
All right. Um, any comments or questions from the council? I see none. How about

582
00:55:18,001 --> 00:55:18,009
from the public?

583
00:55:21,017 --> 00:55:29,002
No public comment. All right, um. You have counselor Oh, sorry. Yes,

584
00:55:29,015 --> 00:55:34,046
Allison. So, I'd like to make a motion to approve a request of the City council of

585
00:55:34,046 --> 00:55:40,076
the City of Ocean Shores awarding the citywide paving project to Puget Paving. 2nd

586
00:55:40,094 --> 00:55:46,085
2nd. All right, we have a 2nd. Any other comments? All in favor? Aye. All right,

587
00:55:46,098 --> 00:55:53,095
thanks, unanimous. All right, next up we have a request to the city council. Of the

588
00:55:53,095 --> 00:55:59,003
City of Ocean Shores, Washington to approve groundworks to perform repairs on a failing

589
00:55:59,003 --> 00:56:04,034
city-owned culvert in the IGA parking lot. And that is presented by Public Works

590
00:56:04,034 --> 00:56:06,043
Director, Ricky Victoriano.

591
00:56:09,013 --> 00:56:15,046
Um, yeah, so this is a, um, I'm sure, uh, the barricades have been a hot topic. Um,

592
00:56:15,069 --> 00:56:20,016
so we actually set up cones and we had delivery drivers that were moving them to

593
00:56:20,016 --> 00:56:26,002
get through, so we brought barricades out. Um, we have, uh, detected, I guess, um,

594
00:56:26,045 --> 00:56:32,064
the best way to put it, a large void under the road measuring about 25 by 45 ft.

595
00:56:33,016 --> 00:56:39,018
Uh, as deep as 12 ft in the center, uh, so there's a hole in the culvert, the aluminum

596
00:56:39,018 --> 00:56:44,064
culvert going through the, uh, or the galvanized culvert, galvanized steel, um, going

597
00:56:44,007 --> 00:56:48,089
underneath the parking lot there, um, carrying the Oihut ditch into the north end

598
00:56:48,089 --> 00:56:54,086
Grand Canal. Um, and so what that does is kind of like the tide, it liquefies the

599
00:56:54,086 --> 00:57:00,005
sand and kind of turns it into a slurry and pulls it with it. Um, and so two things

600
00:57:00,007 --> 00:57:04,093
that we'll fix here is we'll, uh, stop pulling sand from the ground, putting it into

601
00:57:05,025 --> 00:57:12,001
the North End Grand Canal, and we will, um, fix the void, seal the pipe, and re-support

602
00:57:12,001 --> 00:57:16,074
the foot thick asphalt that's there because I guess it's been a problem for a while

603
00:57:16,074 --> 00:57:24,069
and they just keep paving over it. So, um. The uh The I don't

604
00:57:24,069 --> 00:57:30,045
know anything about this work. Um, I've watched videos. I've listened to, uh, the

605
00:57:30,045 --> 00:57:34,031
crews that were out here, and, uh, I think that this is the best way to fix it. We

606
00:57:34,031 --> 00:57:38,009
don't have to open anything up, um, you know, when, when you're talking about something

607
00:57:38,009 --> 00:57:41,072
that big and that deep, uh, especially with the soil that we have, you know, you're

608
00:57:41,072 --> 00:57:46,033
sloping in a 1 to 2 slope to make sure that, uh, you're not having anything cave

609
00:57:46,033 --> 00:57:51,081
in, and that is a huge work area where we would have IGA move all of their shipping

610
00:57:51,081 --> 00:57:56,056
containers. Remove their fence, hopefully put it back the right way, and this is

611
00:57:56,056 --> 00:58:01,035
a non-intrusive way to fix it with cameras inside the culvert to make sure that we're

612
00:58:02,088 --> 00:58:03,009
Fixing it the right way.

613
00:58:07,014 --> 00:58:12,016
All right, thanks. If any of you have been on the uh east side of uh IGA you've seen.

614
00:58:12,098 --> 00:58:18,081
The Jersey barriers were brought in. And uh the reason was, is uh Ricky had that

615
00:58:18,081 --> 00:58:22,077
all coned off and flagged off, and the truckers moved it and drove over it anyway.

616
00:58:22,093 --> 00:58:28,073
So, we had to do something a little more serious with that. Um, anyway, uh, council,

617
00:58:28,078 --> 00:58:35,019
have any comments or questions? Yes, uh, go ahead. I don't, I don't wanna make an

618
00:58:35,019 --> 00:58:40,007
ignorant question, but isn't this private property? It is private property, but it's

619
00:58:40,007 --> 00:58:43,095
our culvert. OK, created the problem. Got you. OK, yeah.

620
00:58:47,024 --> 00:58:51,038
All right. I can see nothing more from counsel. Any public comments out there?

621
00:58:53,044 --> 00:59:01,044
Seeing none. Um, Yes, Lisa. You got it. OK. I'd like to approve a request of

622
00:59:01,044 --> 00:59:06,011
the City Council of the City of Ocean Shores, Washington to approve groundworks to

623
00:59:06,011 --> 00:59:13,012
perform repairs to a failing city-owned culvert in the IGA parking lot. Second. All

624
00:59:13,012 --> 00:59:17,096
right. Any other comments from the council? All in favor? Aye. All right, thanks,

625
00:59:18,001 --> 00:59:24,097
unanimous. All right, thanks, Ricky. Thank you. All right. Uh, under special agenda

626
00:59:24,097 --> 00:59:30,079
items, uh, we have an ordinance of the City council of the City of Ocean Shores amending

627
00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:38,075
the Ocean Shores. Municipal code section 5.10.050 sensitive use

628
00:59:38,075 --> 00:59:46,011
buffers to reduce certain cannabis retailer buffer distances from 1000 ft to 300

629
00:59:46,011 --> 00:59:51,031
ft providing for servability and establishing an effective date and this will be

630
00:59:51,031 --> 00:59:56,044
presented by our city administrator Scott Anderson. All right, so this is a kind

631
00:59:56,044 --> 01:00:00,072
of 3rd time the charm, although it actually relates to something we did a while back.

632
01:00:01,005 --> 01:00:04,008
Um, so a while back we, uh, decided we were gonna follow state regulations with the

633
01:00:04,008 --> 01:00:10,001
licensing of cannabis retailers and allow basically as many as the state would afford

634
01:00:10,001 --> 01:00:16,094
us, uh, before we had a limited one. Um, and that was, that was when they first came

635
01:00:16,094 --> 01:00:21,007
in with regulations from the state to allow marijuana or we should say cannabis retailers,

636
01:00:21,031 --> 01:00:24,058
uh, that has since changed. The state has allowed more than one per community under

637
01:00:24,058 --> 01:00:29,038
10,000, um, and so, you know, competition never hurts and obviously you can see,

638
01:00:29,043 --> 01:00:32,056
you know, one can go out of business and then suddenly we're left with none. So the

639
01:00:32,056 --> 01:00:37,006
original idea was to allow that and that passed council, I think like almost 3 months

640
01:00:37,006 --> 01:00:40,074
ago or so. Uh, and then we had to look at some of our distances. We kinda have some

641
01:00:40,074 --> 01:00:44,006
unique challenges within the city of Ocean Shores and that we have to limit it to

642
01:00:44,006 --> 01:00:49,014
the sort of our commercial, you know, commercial B1 zoning, um, where to put them.

643
01:00:49,019 --> 01:00:53,014
But we have a number of problems with that. We have, uh, the skate park, which is

644
01:00:53,014 --> 01:00:57,009
part of our golf course parcel, and I'll go into a little more detail on that. Um,

645
01:00:58,007 --> 01:01:03,034
we've got Playtime Family Fun. We've got the Pacific Paradise Arcade, we've got Tugboat

646
01:01:03,034 --> 01:01:08,005
Grammys, and it just makes it so there's just not really a lot of places where you

647
01:01:08,007 --> 01:01:12,042
can put a marijuana or cannabis retail outlet within the city of Ocean Shores and

648
01:01:12,042 --> 01:01:15,069
keep it in our business. District, uh, there's just restrictions on it. If it has

649
01:01:15,069 --> 01:01:19,053
a 1000 ft buffer and almost everywhere you go, you're kind of blocked. It would be

650
01:01:19,053 --> 01:01:22,065
like a, you know, kind of a classic video game where you, you really can't move out

651
01:01:22,065 --> 01:01:25,089
of the position that you're in. So we started looking at it and eventually we went

652
01:01:25,089 --> 01:01:29,077
to the planning commission and we said, well, let's, let's move it to 500 ft. Um,

653
01:01:29,098 --> 01:01:33,029
and we kind of went through that process and it looked great until then we realized

654
01:01:33,029 --> 01:01:37,058
that once again, that because of playtime, family fun, because of others, um, we

655
01:01:37,058 --> 01:01:41,012
were still blocked out of almost every location. So like, what could we do to do

656
01:01:41,014 --> 01:01:45,002
this? So, there's a couple of things that I just have to have some facts before we

657
01:01:45,002 --> 01:01:49,031
do this. And one is that the method of measurement is really important in Washington

658
01:01:49,031 --> 01:01:56,003
state law. So this is the WAC 31,455,050, and state law requires buffer distances

659
01:01:56,003 --> 01:02:01,011
to be measured as the crow flies in a straight line from property line to property

660
01:02:01,011 --> 01:02:07,004
line. Part two, local municipal authority states set the default rules of a 1000

661
01:02:07,004 --> 01:02:12,085
ft buffer in local municipalities, but they're explicitly empowered to pass ordinances

662
01:02:12,085 --> 01:02:19,044
relate reducing non-school, non-playground buffers down to as low as 100 ft. That's

663
01:02:19,044 --> 01:02:24,006
the lowest you can go under state law. Um, elementary, secondary school, and public

664
01:02:24,006 --> 01:02:28,096
playgrounds, which our state park is considered, must permanently remain protected

665
01:02:28,096 --> 01:02:35,077
at 1000 ft. Um, then we have the classification of commercial entities and, um, that

666
01:02:35,077 --> 01:02:40,037
is so Playtime Family Fund, Playtime Family Fund Center, and Pacific Paradise are

667
01:02:40,037 --> 01:02:45,001
classified by the state as restricted commercial recreational entities due to their

668
01:02:45,001 --> 01:02:50,027
central positioning. The 1000 ft radii overlap and effectively lock out any business

669
01:02:50,042 --> 01:02:55,069
that wants to relocate, uh, in that part of the city. So that we have to have a buffer

670
01:02:55,069 --> 01:03:00,009
reduction for and that the state does allow for and then. Two more of these building

671
01:03:00,009 --> 01:03:07,007
structural standards and restrictions. This is from WAC 31455086. Uh, retailers are

672
01:03:07,007 --> 01:03:12,091
legally barred from operating in multi-tenant buildings with shared interior walkways.

673
01:03:13,011 --> 01:03:17,089
So Driftwood Plaza, another place that you could potentially put one otherwise, cannot

674
01:03:17,091 --> 01:03:21,066
be used. So you're trying to see we'll just get locked out as we go. So the only

675
01:03:21,066 --> 01:03:27,002
real solution we had to allowing, um, more than one cannabis dispensary, and frankly

676
01:03:27,002 --> 01:03:31,042
might only be allowed one, because of some other information that's come to light,

677
01:03:31,075 --> 01:03:36,033
uh, even if it is only. One that ever gets in is we have to adopt at least a minimum

678
01:03:36,033 --> 01:03:42,001
of a 300 ft buffer for non-school, non-playground entities, and that would resolve

679
01:03:42,001 --> 01:03:48,008
the overlapping commercial radii, uh, and the and allow viable commercial sites,

680
01:03:48,026 --> 01:03:52,005
uh, on Point Brown as well as one of the places people have looked at is the Martin

681
01:03:52,005 --> 01:03:56,044
Bruni liquor location and then that would be allowed even though it's somewhat adjacent

682
01:03:56,007 --> 01:04:01,017
playtime family fun, but it's not 300 ft away from that. So those are really kind

683
01:04:01,017 --> 01:04:07,009
of our only options in doing that is the 300 ft um it's not an entirely, you know,

684
01:04:07,018 --> 01:04:13,077
a number that is uh 500 didn't do it the lowest we can go is 100 so we filed this

685
01:04:13,077 --> 01:04:17,081
under our business licenses and changing our business license and regulations we're,

686
01:04:17,094 --> 01:04:22,061
we're viewing this as a business, uh, regulatory change and not a zoning change and,

687
01:04:22,066 --> 01:04:27,033
and obviously you have the amended language that's in your packets, uh, and with

688
01:04:27,033 --> 01:04:32,048
that I guess I can turn over to council questions. Right. Any questions? Yes, Lisa?

689
01:04:33,093 --> 01:04:38,056
Wouldn't the um liquor store property be considered a multi-tenant building? It's,

690
01:04:38,069 --> 01:04:42,076
well, here, here's the cure language, yeah, and yes, you are right, but there's a

691
01:04:42,076 --> 01:04:48,012
second clause in that, and it says retailers are legally barred from operating multi-tenant

692
01:04:48,012 --> 01:04:53,008
buildings with shared interior walkways. So that's what Driftwood Plaza has, as you

693
01:04:53,008 --> 01:04:56,068
can go through it, but that's why the Martin Bruni location would be allowed. OK,

694
01:04:56,081 --> 01:05:03,088
thank you. All right. Any other questions from council? Comments? Yes, Lisa Griebel.

695
01:05:04,027 --> 01:05:10,092
Thank you, Mayor, and uh Well, I, I wanna be supportive of community members who

696
01:05:10,092 --> 01:05:15,067
access cannabis for medical reasons, I guess my question is, what is our benefit

697
01:05:15,069 --> 01:05:21,056
to the city by having a, uh, another cannabis business? Well, right now we have none,

698
01:05:21,073 --> 01:05:27,028
so there's one that's located outside the city, um, and so obviously the city's benefit

699
01:05:27,028 --> 01:05:30,096
is, uh, you don't have to drive outside the city on a slightly dangerous intersection.

700
01:05:31,024 --> 01:05:35,039
And we're collecting the tax revenue by opening it rather than them and we're affording

701
01:05:35,039 --> 01:05:39,094
a business license and bringing jobs into our community. Right, which is what my

702
01:05:39,094 --> 01:05:44,059
question was. What was the benefit to the city? So you're saying, uh, business license.

703
01:05:44,082 --> 01:05:48,012
I'm saying, yeah, the business license is jobs, business license, and taxes. That's

704
01:05:48,026 --> 01:05:49,069
hopefully I answered that for you.

705
01:05:52,005 --> 01:05:55,032
Alright, yes, go ahead. In addition to the medical needs of our community, sorry,

706
01:05:55,042 --> 01:05:58,067
because that's a very important part of it. There are a lot of people who are veterans,

707
01:05:58,085 --> 01:06:03,024
seniors who really do rely on and or people have had chronic health conditions that

708
01:06:03,024 --> 01:06:08,019
really do rely on it. So that's another part of it. Just a quick, we did already

709
01:06:08,019 --> 01:06:15,023
vote on allowing more additional. This is just for the reduction of the actual square

710
01:06:15,023 --> 01:06:20,001
footage or the actual that is correct. Thank you. Yes, Richard.

711
01:06:22,095 --> 01:06:26,098
Details are in the weeds and so I'm in the weeds a lot because you can't build a

712
01:06:26,098 --> 01:06:30,009
structure without details, without the weeds, without structure. My question is,

713
01:06:31,015 --> 01:06:37,018
and this is very closely related, isn't the Washington RCW that uh uh if you have

714
01:06:37,018 --> 01:06:42,046
a cannabis store that if you walk into the lobby of that store, none of that cannabis

715
01:06:42,046 --> 01:06:48,007
product and and perfume and all of that. Stuff that can't be in the public access

716
01:06:48,023 --> 01:06:52,034
you have to go behind the counter behind the door is that is my memory correct? You,

717
01:06:52,043 --> 01:06:57,001
you are correct. It's not addressed by what we're doing here tonight, um, because

718
01:06:57,001 --> 01:07:01,083
there's a whole host of ordinances and wax that come with, you know, the licensing

719
01:07:01,083 --> 01:07:06,003
and distribution of any cannabis retailer, um, but that is more or less correct.

720
01:07:06,055 --> 01:07:11,092
That's a liquor control board issue. That's kind of what we did is we turned it over.

721
01:07:12,011 --> 01:07:17,001
The first time we voted on this, we turned it over to the Liquor Control Board to

722
01:07:17,015 --> 01:07:20,086
monitor and, and to make the rules up for that, so the city will be out of that.

723
01:07:21,085 --> 01:07:25,061
Thank, thank you for the clarification and the, and, and my point was, is we are

724
01:07:25,061 --> 01:07:29,008
not just putting up a street corner marijuana and come on down, get your drugs like

725
01:07:29,008 --> 01:07:35,026
they do in, in, in, in, in Holland. No matter what we do here, it still has to pass

726
01:07:35,033 --> 01:07:40,004
the Liquor and Cannabis Control Board regulations and so that's this is just saying

727
01:07:40,004 --> 01:07:43,066
this area can be used, but you will still have to meet all their requirements.

728
01:07:45,075 --> 01:07:52,006
All right. Anything else? Yes, Lisa Scribble. So, but Scott, there are other areas

729
01:07:52,006 --> 01:07:57,094
in B1 zones that if there weren't, if we didn't lower the restrictions, there are

730
01:07:57,094 --> 01:08:02,076
still other places in our city a business could go in. I think according to our own

731
01:08:02,082 --> 01:08:07,057
city code, the only places they can go is within that box. That's not an RC that

732
01:08:07,057 --> 01:08:11,085
is not the state regulation. That's according to our city code and how we've zone

733
01:08:11,085 --> 01:08:16,061
it. So the places they could go are from Ocean Shores Boulevard to Point Brown Avenue,

734
01:08:16,009 --> 01:08:21,000
um, to, you know, you could go as far south as, uh, Chancellor La Mer and the south

735
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:24,085
side of Chancellor La Mer and then obviously as far north as where Ocean Shores Boulevard

736
01:08:24,085 --> 01:08:28,073
loops around. I'm not sure there are other places you could relocate that within

737
01:08:28,073 --> 01:08:32,012
the city under. Our current, our current zoning laws.

738
01:08:34,075 --> 01:08:42,049
Right. Any Anything else? All right. Uh, no. Hang on for that. Um, we've got,

739
01:08:42,055 --> 01:08:47,083
uh, public comment coming up and, uh, AJ Peters, if he's here, he can come up and

740
01:08:47,083 --> 01:08:52,052
speak. And then uh anybody else in the crowd that would like to comment, OK, you'll

741
01:08:52,052 --> 01:08:53,006
be next.

742
01:08:58,066 --> 01:09:02,057
See if I can speak loud enough at this time. Good evening, Mayor, members of the

743
01:09:02,057 --> 01:09:07,049
city council. My name is AJ Peters. I am a resident of Ocean Shores. I'm speaking

744
01:09:07,049 --> 01:09:11,041
tonight regarding the proposed cannabis buffer zone regulations. I urge the council

745
01:09:11,041 --> 01:09:17,053
to reject that 300 ft buffer and instead adopt the 100 ft buffer. The city of Pacific,

746
01:09:18,018 --> 01:09:24,037
small, brought it down to 100 ft. Um, I personally, uh, been working on this for

747
01:09:24,037 --> 01:09:31,008
about a year. Finally, the cap's been lifted. And Have a Heart is now being bought

748
01:09:31,008 --> 01:09:35,068
out by Cannabis 21, which is the other one on Hogan's Corner, which is the other

749
01:09:35,068 --> 01:09:41,004
one in Hoquiam, Aberdeen, so they're kind of getting the full stretch. I'm not opposed

750
01:09:41,004 --> 01:09:48,039
to that, but at that same time with him getting that or them getting that store location,

751
01:09:48,085 --> 01:09:54,078
they're also shopping for real estate now as well. Um, I'm guessing that inflicted

752
01:09:54,078 --> 01:09:59,061
with the, the buffer issue. So whether or not they stay there or they go elsewhere,

753
01:09:59,065 --> 01:10:03,084
if they go elsewhere, we're not looking at a whole lot of places that we can put

754
01:10:03,084 --> 01:10:10,027
a cannabis store. Um, as far as, uh, I kind of wanted to pick on your little question

755
01:10:10,027 --> 01:10:15,093
there. You can't have anything visible from outside for cannabis liquor control board.

756
01:10:16,058 --> 01:10:22,004
Um, however, like have a heart, you'd walk through the door and cannabis is clearly

757
01:10:22,004 --> 01:10:28,011
visible. I think that if that is something for our community to be looked at, that

758
01:10:28,013 --> 01:10:33,044
there should be some kind of an entryway where nothing is, which was kind of my idea

759
01:10:33,044 --> 01:10:38,024
in general, just to keep our community and visitors and guests from walking into

760
01:10:38,024 --> 01:10:42,035
such a situation like that and make it to where you come in, you're greeted at a,

761
01:10:42,037 --> 01:10:46,007
a medical, like a medical office and invited into the back. I think that that would

762
01:10:46,007 --> 01:10:51,078
be something that council might think about enacting um whether or not it's for me

763
01:10:51,078 --> 01:10:58,014
or for somebody else I don't really care but at the same time 100 ft to a 300 ft

764
01:10:58,014 --> 01:11:02,058
as a crow flies it would be nice if it was just take out a tape measure and go you

765
01:11:02,058 --> 01:11:07,066
know but they don't do it that way and with this being such a small little. Nook

766
01:11:07,066 --> 01:11:12,007
and cranny, they're literally real estate. There's none. Um, the way that it's looking,

767
01:11:12,092 --> 01:11:18,032
uh, I put a lot of time and, you know, stress, mental and physical time and all this,

768
01:11:18,035 --> 01:11:25,018
um, but I'm not seeing really a, a, a factor where we can accommodate a second license

769
01:11:25,018 --> 01:11:31,013
at this point. If we keep these buffers the way they are, I mean, we, we're a family

770
01:11:31,013 --> 01:11:36,092
fun town, um, yes, we all want to keep it that way, so you know if we have one, we

771
01:11:36,092 --> 01:11:42,076
have two, it's, it's great, but at the same time I think that it needs to be a 100

772
01:11:42,076 --> 01:11:47,016
ft buffer to make it work if we're going to actually try to get another store in

773
01:11:47,016 --> 01:11:51,016
here, otherwise it just makes it to where have a heart can reopen under cannabis

774
01:11:51,016 --> 01:11:56,064
21 under that 300 ft rule and it still kind of kicks everything to the curb. Thank

775
01:11:56,064 --> 01:11:56,008
you.

776
01:11:59,039 --> 01:12:00,007
All right, next. Yeah, go ahead.

777
01:12:09,088 --> 01:12:15,058
Uh, I just wanted to mention to Lisa's, uh, comment, a real benefit that I think

778
01:12:15,058 --> 01:12:20,086
would be to have one in town. So far since Have a Heart is closed, I've seen many

779
01:12:20,086 --> 01:12:27,038
people walking out to Cannabis 21 on 115 and I don't know if you've ever walked on

780
01:12:27,038 --> 01:12:33,005
115, but it's dangerous and so that would be an immediate benefit to stop people

781
01:12:33,005 --> 01:12:37,058
from walking out there. That's, that's my only thought on that.

782
01:12:40,012 --> 01:12:47,014
All right. Any other uh public comment out there? Uh, seeing none. All right. Uh,

783
01:12:47,023 --> 01:12:52,014
yes, Lisa. I would like to go ahead and make a motion to approve an ordinance of

784
01:12:52,014 --> 01:12:56,078
the City Council of the City of Ocean Shores, Washington, amending Ocean Shores Municipal

785
01:12:56,078 --> 01:13:03,098
Code Section 5.10.050, sensitive use buffers to reduce certain cannabis retail buffer

786
01:13:03,098 --> 01:13:10,012
distances from 1000 ft to 300 ft, providing for severability and establishing an

787
01:13:10,012 --> 01:13:17,018
effective date. I have one more question if I can before we go to the vote. You can

788
01:13:17,018 --> 01:13:24,051
do that after 2. All right, we have a second, uh. And so then I do have another comment.

789
01:13:24,088 --> 01:13:29,079
I have another question, and this is for Scott. Uh, you have obviously done a lot

790
01:13:29,079 --> 01:13:33,051
of research on this and understand better, so I'm thinking about the gentleman who

791
01:13:33,051 --> 01:13:40,002
just spoke about the 100 ft buffer is. Is that something that the council should

792
01:13:40,062 --> 01:13:47,087
uh uh discuss and consider uh is. As I understood that comment, it was more about

793
01:13:48,029 --> 01:13:52,084
providing the opportunity for competition. And if the one available property is bought

794
01:13:52,084 --> 01:13:57,085
up by Pony One, then we have a virtual monopoly from here to, to, you know, Am I

795
01:13:57,085 --> 01:14:00,073
making any kind of sense? No, I do know what you're saying. And like I said, you

796
01:14:00,073 --> 01:14:05,017
know, the difference between 300 ft and 100 ft, it, it is arbitrary. You are allowed

797
01:14:05,017 --> 01:14:09,021
to go down to 100 ft. Originally, like I said, we'd had the planning clinician look

798
01:14:09,021 --> 01:14:14,057
at 500, determine that would not be enough. Uh, 300 would allow, allow for actually

799
01:14:14,057 --> 01:14:21,093
multiple locations within the city. There would be at least 3 to 4 options, um, that,

800
01:14:22,014 --> 01:14:26,029
that could use that, that I know of. Uh, there, there might even be more. Uh, it

801
01:14:26,029 --> 01:14:29,037
just sort of solves our problem and with that, the planning commission was happy

802
01:14:29,037 --> 01:14:32,041
with that number. I don't want to speak on behalf of the planning commission and

803
01:14:32,041 --> 01:14:38,029
have them change that at this point. Your answer that there are multiple potentials

804
01:14:38,029 --> 01:14:44,008
at the 300 ft answers my question. Thank you so much. All right, thanks. Any other

805
01:14:44,008 --> 01:14:50,079
comment? Questions by counsel? All right, we have a motion in a second. All in favor?

806
01:14:51,026 --> 01:14:54,027
Aye. All right, unanimous. Thank you.

807
01:14:58,065 --> 01:15:04,036
All right. We'll move on to future meeting topics. Um, if any council members would

808
01:15:04,036 --> 01:15:12,024
like to make a motion to add an item to a future. Uh, topic list, uh. Yes, Lisa

809
01:15:12,024 --> 01:15:18,045
Greebel. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, my suggestion from our ad hoc committee is to, uh,

810
01:15:18,058 --> 01:15:24,098
for a future agenda topic is a council discussion on forming a community art committee,

811
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and that discussion would include why we would, uh, why we would need one, the purpose

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of that committee, what, who the members would be comprised of, and how they would

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be. selected and then just for the opportunity to um use that community art committee

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to work with our city and our community members to continue to improve uh the appearance

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of our town. Which would, you know, fold into marketing, whether it was the appearance,

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whether it was people attracted to our community to see art, whether it was the increase

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in art festivals or other opportunities, and then again just to try to increase the

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mediums that are used and the um To, uh, the artists as well as a, a

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really transparent way to Solicit art from all of our community members and have,

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have an opportunity to participate.

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All right, Annie. Yes, go ahead, Lisa. Lisa, were you looking to put that on at the

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next meeting, or are, are you like looking for a, a quicker time frame? I just was

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curious, so, oh, I would love to have it on the next one. The reason why is the,

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the miss uh budget issue because, uh, while we all wish everyone would donate their

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art, art to create art is expensive, and the time artists put in to create art is

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expensive, so Or you know, knowing what a possible budget could be or the impact

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as we move into the budgeting process. So sooner rather than later. Perfect. Well,

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I was just on agenda setting. I see our city clerk as a, are you making an official

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motion to add something to the future agenda items, then you need a second. I love

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that. I would like to thank you. I'd like to make a motion to put that on the next

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agenda.

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OK, we have a second. Are you, so is your motion to add it. As a future agenda item.

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Like in the list of future agenda item list. I would like it on the future agenda

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item list and if possible also on the next agenda. Sometimes they still need to stay

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on the agenda list because we may not, if, if it's a discussion, be ready or yeah,

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get anything done.

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Well, I can be brought up uh on Thursday. On that.

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Yes, Richard, I would make a friendly, a friendly motion to put it on the next agenda.

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I think that it really needs to be there. No, she put it on both an option. I would

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amend the motion to put it on the next agenda.

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Um Where the motion was to put it on future agenda items. You've got council members

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Siers, Taylor, and Scott. They can make the, uh, you know, they can put it on the

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next agenda. If the council votes on it, then it's not up to 3 people, it's up to

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the council. So we still don't have a 2nd for the initial motion. 2nd, yeah, we had

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a 2nd already. It was Richard.

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Yeah. So let's uh take one step at a time, Richard. How about that? All right. So,

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um We've got a motion a second. We're done discussing it, I assume. So all in favor

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of putting this on future agenda items. All right, that's unanimous. OK, yes, Denise,

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uh, I'll, I'll just say that I will coordinate with, uh, council member Grebel to

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see whether it is ready for the next agenda or whether it would be for the one following

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that.

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Is that, are you good with that, Richard? I'm good with that with, with, with uh

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uh council member Sire's, uh, input there. Yes, that, that works. Thank you. OK,

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that's good. All right, so we'll, we'll move on to agenda review committee and, uh,

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Thursday, October 1st, 9 a.m. nice and bright and early. Uh, council members, uh,

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Sires, Taylor, and Scott will be on that, uh, agenda review committee. So we'll move

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on to uh go to the order and we'll start with uh Tom Taylor.

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I have nothing for tonight All right, um, Lisa Grebel. Thank you, Mayor. I would,

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uh, just like to thank all of our council for patience as we muddle through future

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agenda items. We'll get, we'll get it figured out. OK. Let's hang in there. We got

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our committees figured out, I think, and our our liaison reports versus committee

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reports. We've got that mastered, and I have complete confidence we'll master future

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agenda items as well.

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01:20:21,058 --> 01:20:28,074
All right, uh, Allison. Yeah, um Thank you to the people who talked about bringing

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more art in our city. That was something that council member Greebel and I were very

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excited to hear, um. My other thing is. If you did not have

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the opportunity. To attend the opening ceremony for the Vietnam Wall

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or the 9/11 Memorial, please go online and watch it. It is probably one of

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the most moving um speeches I've ever heard, and. Acknowledging

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our veterans, and I know I cried for a long time and I was not alone, was I, Chief?

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It, it was very, very moving and I was very proud to be able to volunteer with Avert

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to be here and um thank you to all the people that put in all the work to bring that

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here because I know that was a huge undertaking and I know a lot of people lost a

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lot of sleep and went through a lot of stress because they wanted to make sure everything

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was perfect. And in my eyes, it was. So thank you to everyone who did that and like

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I said, please um watch. The mayor made one statement in his speech and the tears

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started and didn't stop for about 3 hours.

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01:21:55,044 --> 01:21:57,071
Well, thank you for that, um, Denise.

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I wanted to uh shout out again our public works department and the leadership they

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are showing in getting projects done. Um, I'm not on public works this year but I

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was in past years and uh the number of needed improvements in,

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in the city were, were really um formidable and um uh pretty daunting.

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And seeing our public works go um slowly but surely through the, uh, through each

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of them, um, uh, along with Ricky and, and Becky and getting these projects done

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and uh I thought it was important to talk about going out to bid because people have

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been complaining about the streets, uh, not really truly understanding. Uh, the requirements

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that we have for, for state bids and also the, the most important part of that, it's

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not just the regulations it that we can do it, uh, much more economical if we group,

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uh, projects together. So, uh, thanks to our public works department. Thanks, um,

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Lisa Scott. Just to piggyback off Allison, I had the privilege of attending one of

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the days of the 9/11 or the um Vietnam Memorial, um, along, along with the tribute

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to 9/11 and some Korean War memorial stuff. And it was um very moving, very, very

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moving, a lot of, lot of, uh, a lot of wet eyes around the room. I've had the, I

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guess, the luxury of being able to actually visit the wall. Um, not very many people

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have a chance to do that, and it is, um, It's a testament to the dedication of our

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01:23:49,038 --> 01:23:53,081
veterans, uh, most definitely, and thanks to all of the volunteers who made that

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happen. Thank you, uh, Richard. So thank you. Uh, I want to, to piggyback on what

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both the customer sires and customer Greeble said. Uh, I absolutely support the public

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works and the job that, that, uh, Ricky and, uh, Becky are doing, a phenomenal progress

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made in public works, and I'm really excited about this, this discussion, this committee

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about the art throughout the city. Uh, Ocean Shores has, has a bunch of really, really,

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01:24:22,085 --> 01:24:28,078
really high quality, very competent artists. And the things that makes a city an

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attractive place to visit is when there's something to do and looking at art is something

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to do and so that will be a major step in improving our, uh, our tourist attraction,

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uh, our ability to attract tourists. So, uh, and the sentiments about the Vietnam

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Wall, uh, I, I mirror those, uh, we owe those veterans a great debt of gratitude.

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Thank you.

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01:24:55,034 --> 01:24:55,078
Hurt

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Canalloween is my new favorite word. Do you? OK. Beyond that I have nothing. All

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right, thanks. Uh, the thing about the wall, I just wanna say I was impressed with

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the amount of people that, uh, came out and helped out and it was, uh, from all,

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all different, uh, political sides and, uh, I thought that was really special that

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we could rally behind something like that and not, uh, let our personal feelings

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with our politics get in the way. So, um, it was a great event and I hope, uh. Most

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of you got to see it. It's worth, it was worth looking at. And I'll tell you, you

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know, I went to the, I just wanna say this quickly. I know everybody wants to get

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out of here. But when I went up to the Casino where they had it um and I have a relative

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on the wall and they uh um gave me the the number what what panel you know to go

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find them here when you asked uh for that information the persons people that were

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01:26:04,061 --> 01:26:09,049
working there with the computers to find that information personally walked the people

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out to the section and helped them find their name and I thought that was a special

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little touch to the whole thing on that so. Anyway, um Can I get an adjourn? Move

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to adjourn. All right, we're adjourned.