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[0:04] Okay, we'll welcome everybody. Nice to see you, and a full audience. So someone's coming to a close, I think. All right, kids, we're talking about going back to school. Okay. So, um, man, I went by quick, but it's still pretty nice. So I'm going to do a silence with you. But thanks for coming tonight. We've got a special meeting tonight with a lot of audience and do it. So that's always fun.
[0:32] So we'll sort off with the mitigation.
[0:35] We would like our council members to bring these folks
[0:38] to open up in the kitchen.
[0:41] Thank you, Mayor.
[0:42] Our Father and Heavenly, we're so grateful for this day.
[0:45] The blesses that we enjoy on this earth.
[0:47] The opportunity to live in this city, this country.
[0:50] We're grateful for the workers who helped support us in our city.
[0:55] Everyone that works in the city, we are a family of workers.
[1:00] We ask our blessings to be with this council, give them inspiration, help them to lead the
[1:06] city in proper direction as we do these enormous projects you're coming for.
[1:12] We ask these things and they may I send you this Christ our Lord, amen.
[1:18] Okay, but I call the word of this, we call it the reading, Sunday, August 20th, a little
[1:30] No.
[1:36] No.
[1:37] I'm going to say a straight, straight, a straight line and just,
[1:53] I'm not going to say a straight line, I'm going to stand,
[2:01] I'm not going to say straight line, I'm going to stand.
[2:05] Councilmember Wagner here.
[2:10] Councilmember Robertson here. Councilmember Supper here. Councilmember
[2:16] Shiplynsey here. Representative Larsen here. I can't. Okay. We have a bunch of
[2:25] presentations tonight. We'll start off with the JustServe, which is a pretty big earnings
[2:38] TV. You got a lot of Maryland news. We're interested to come up to, I don't know, they
[2:44] will appear in the front or over there. Um, wherever you would do your show.
[2:57] You're the
[2:58] here in the area.
[3:00] Just serve is also now international.
[3:03] We're going to go over the place.
[3:06] I just want to acknowledge everybody who volunteered,
[3:11] especially our city manager who helps us for this.
[3:14] And also Rose.
[3:15] Roger.
[3:16] Raise your hand.
[3:17] Hello.
[3:18] We engage with the person who does a lot of.
[3:21] So, for a while, I'll start that.
[3:24] And water here, what is this presentation?
[3:28] So, floor is yours.
[3:29] Okay. Thank you.
[3:30] Thank you.
[3:31] Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
[3:31] Thank you, thank you.
[3:32] Thank you.
[3:33] But, there you go.
[3:34] There you go.
[3:35] There you go, thank you.
[3:35] There you go.
[3:36] There you go, thank you.
[3:37] Thank you.
[3:38] Thank you very much.
[3:39] You can even back up to one again.
[3:42] All right.
[3:43] Well, we're really appreciative, Mayor.
[3:45] That you have the loudest to be here tonight
[3:48] and to make a declaration
[3:51] of how important it is for service in the community.
[3:56] The city of Washington was certainly done that.
[3:59] City of Washington is definitely a standard
[4:04] for a lot of cities in the involvement of service
[4:08] and on your website, interesting little
[4:14] right in the beginning there in the orange
[4:16] the city of Washington volunteer program.
[4:19] It's the Washuga Way and that is great.
[4:23] So what is the Washuga Way for those that don't know
[4:26] and I don't know what audience we're speaking here to,
[4:29] but what is the Washuga Way?
[4:31] It's the Washuga Way is a spirit of community involvement,
[4:36] stewardship and pride that helps make
[4:38] Washuga a great place to live.
[4:40] It's how our community comes together,
[4:43] support local events, improve public spaces,
[4:45] preserve natural resources and build connections
[4:48] that make Wash Hugo stronger and talking to the mayor today,
[4:52] he is so impressed with the support that he has
[4:55] from all the staff, the city manager,
[4:58] all of you that are here this evening.
[5:01] And for those who don't know,
[5:02] some of the things that the city Wash Hugo
[5:06] is involved with, and there are many,
[5:08] but I'm going to list just a few just to give you an idea.
[5:13] To get food and basic assistance, food and clothing to people,
[5:17] There's something called the Dream Center.
[5:19] There's the Interfaith Treasure House,
[5:21] which is down on Highway 14.
[5:24] We've all seen that, meals on wheels,
[5:27] refuel, wash, ugl, serves the needy and the hungry.
[5:32] For the seniors, the area agency on aging,
[5:36] community in motion, those people need transportation
[5:40] to get out, they can't drive or get there on their own.
[5:43] And then, of course, the youth, the rising generation,
[5:46] how important is that? That's critical. And we have a representative here. Yes, student representative.
[5:53] And so a read Northwest helping kids to learn how to read the night commuting members working
[5:59] to support you. And I could go on and on. There are several in here. But if there's anybody that's
[6:04] deserving of this award that we're aware of, it is the city of Washington. And if you were to go
[6:13] to other websites of other cities and see what's on there. City of La Chugal definitely
[6:19] is out. Very deserving of this award. So, Marilyn, do you want to?
[6:24] Just a little bit back on whatisjustcert.org, that's what we represent.
[6:27] We forgot where are t-shirts. Just serve, t-shirts.
[6:30] But by the way, we don't know how to address the life.
[6:34] It's just so loud that it turned out that way in the city.
[6:38] But just so was created in 2012 in California, and it has spread across the United States
[6:44] into 17 countries.
[6:46] And by now over a million people have, plus people have signed on as, as, uh, registering
[6:51] on duster.org.
[6:53] And it was created so as a gift to the communities, a free website, free bulletin board, besides
[7:00] your own website, you can have another exposure on duster.org.
[7:03] and we have a representative to Lisa Allen,
[7:09] lives, flow of clients, these help get some of your projects already on JustSurf.org,
[7:13] such as the Refuel Summer Meals on JustSurf.org.
[7:16] Try to pass donations.
[7:17] We can backpack program while she'll go win Trash Pickup.
[7:20] We think maybe we saw somebody on Saturday picking up Trash along her.
[7:23] I was 14.
[7:24] Good.
[7:25] I thought, well, good people.
[7:27] So we encourage you to use this free bulletin board for all your projects.
[7:30] at least it can help make that happen too with your questions and so we'd like to present you
[7:35] with this framed award that came from our headquarters saying, how low will just serve person?
[7:40] So, how do you want to do this man? Well, let's take a picture. Do you want to come on really?
[7:45] Plus, there's some other swag from headquarters. We can fight over these three t-shirts.
[7:52] Yeah.
[7:54] And there's posters on this.
[7:56] So.
[7:57] So.
[7:57] And there's so what I'm doing.
[7:59] Robert.
[8:00] Now, everybody, everybody come up to your rose picture.
[8:02] Well, rose in this picture as well.
[8:04] Yeah, you know what?
[8:07] I mean,
[8:07] I.
[8:09] Bring us all up.
[8:10] Alright.
[8:13] I'll be in the center.
[8:15] You want to get wheel to the center?
[8:16] Come on.
[8:17] Dave.
[8:17] I.
[8:19] Thanks.
[8:19] God.
[8:20] I'm going to be part of that.
[8:21] These little things.
[8:23] I'm going to be part of that.
[8:24] Thank you.
[8:29] Thank you.
[8:31] You guys are part of that.
[8:33] Ron Hill.
[8:34] Ron Hill.
[8:35] One should come up here at two points.
[8:37] This is with us.
[8:40] Jacob.
[8:41] You're ready?
[8:42] No, Jake.
[8:43] You're going to be part of this initiative.
[8:47] So there are a lot of moving parts here with who's involved.
[8:51] Maryland, I support all of southwest Washington, the state of Oregon, the state of Hawaii, but Lisa Allen and Trevor here have this local area and they're your contact.
[9:13] Thank you.
[9:14] Thank you.
[9:14] You're posted for me to work.
[9:16] Hi.
[9:17] It's just hard.
[9:18] It's just hard.
[9:19] You guys are so long.
[9:20] I'm a big group.
[9:22] Really?
[9:22] Yeah, someone else going with them.
[9:34] Thank you.
[9:35] So, I'll do something like.
[9:36] Hey, thank you.
[9:38] Thank you.
[9:38] Thanks, Governor.
[9:39] Thank you very much.
[9:41] Yes, nice to meet you.
[9:42] Likewise working.
[9:43] Oh, thank you.
[9:44] Salvatore of Seattle.
[9:45] Would you like a bit, another question?
[9:47] Wow, okay.
[9:48] I have a couple words.
[9:52] So, on behalf of the city, I look at大家 for the city.
[9:58] We, and we were talking about it, but a city cannot prosper on itself in these people
[10:07] to care.
[10:08] And it starts with neighborhoods, communities, and family.
[10:15] If we can solve those problems, I mean, I'm taking this up to 20, right?
[10:19] We need to solve these problems before the test decides into a thousand problems down the road.
[10:29] So, I am so proud of the city and so it's with our staff.
[10:35] We go to staff that is out there every day doing great things.
[10:40] cleaning up our parks, cleaning up free branches at both our community with our
[10:48] green bucket right out there. So they're out there doing that.
[10:52] Erie's County says the line's out there every Saturday cleaning up at the
[10:58] SAR 14. Not only thinking of trash but what was it on that? People there but it
[11:05] with service. And there's a lot of great people that every day they're about making this
[11:13] agreement together. Well, it's finest right there, right? They're out there keeping
[11:18] the safe all the time. Our fire. But I'm going to say I love our city workers. I love our
[11:27] churches and you were talking about. There's so many things where you fuel a lot. Salvation
[11:33] an army. We're all part of that. But Rose leads up a lot of tears. But people really care
[11:40] to engage in. Do you have a start by loving your seat? I'm wanting to make it a better place
[11:46] left. Now, if we can do that, we can grow that across girls, right? But it starts here. But thank
[11:53] you for recognizing this because I do too all the time. I see anybody doing something great.
[11:58] I'm always stopping, what's your name, what are you doing this, sometimes the mayor's
[12:03] award, but we're just lucky.
[12:08] I love people that are part of the solution and that's what it is and that's what we have
[12:14] here.
[12:14] That's what we have such a great thing.
[12:17] So thank you for this.
[12:18] We're going to be happy to see you in the next couple of days.
[12:20] Thank you.
[12:24] I appreciate that.
[12:25] Okay.
[12:26] And it's kind of the same place, into a great thing.
[12:30] Now we're going to do here's some service support.
[12:33] And again, you have great employees.
[12:37] They care about what they do every day.
[12:40] And that's why we're such a great city.
[12:42] So Teresa, I'd like to leave it.
[12:45] OK,
[12:49] so here's five.
[12:52] There's seven.
[13:00] I don't need to do that.
[13:04] I don't need to do that.
[13:10] There we go.
[13:17] I can just turn.
[13:22] Thank you.
[13:25] We were just talking about the watching this.
[13:28] Riley, no, it's been like the five years.
[13:39] Didn't you just graduate from high school?
[13:41] I didn't.
[13:42] He was just full of my daughters.
[13:44] Basically, really hard for me to see my kids.
[13:46] It's one of our best.
[13:48] The animal, the raw.
[13:50] No, I don't have that.
[13:52] Wonderful.
[13:53] Yeah.
[13:54] Thank you so much.
[13:55] Thank you.
[13:56] You're welcome.
[13:56] Yeah.
[13:57] Come on.
[13:59] She's very happy to support me.
[14:01] can't wait to get back on the board.
[14:04] What kind of thing can happen?
[14:05] I'm not scared about it.
[14:07] Part of what?
[14:10] Be speaker,
[14:14] right?
[14:23] This is what
[14:26] you were talking about.
[14:27] It is I'm not going to make it through the deals.
[14:29] But what we have started to range the roll.
[14:34] A
[14:49] lot of things start to work.
[14:51] I'm going to look at what kind of function we have.
[14:53] These chairs.
[14:54] Rose is telling them what to do.
[14:56] It's been 25 years, number one.
[15:03] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
[15:17] Thank
[15:24] you everybody.
[15:44] Come on, family. Come on, guys. Come on. This is why we're going to be there.
[15:52] No, I'm sorry about that.
[15:55] Because no, we
[16:01] can't sleep in the sleep.
[16:03] We're going to sleep in the sleep.
[16:07] We're going to sleep in the sleep.
[16:14] We have some that we're not able to make, but that's always
[16:29] a fun sound, but it is the
[16:30] people that make our city.
[16:32] We got to know it.
[16:38] Okay, now we're going to, um,
[16:40] and to the agenda.
[16:42] Don't say everything you need to do.
[16:47] The guns, we will move on to a public complex.
[16:51] So it's our opportunity.
[16:53] If anybody wants life to the council,
[16:55] please come forward, say,
[16:56] do you name the three benefits?
[17:01] Where you live?
[17:02] Anybody in the audience have wants to address us?
[17:05] It's also good time to meet you.
[17:07] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[17:23] Okay, so that takes us to our consensus agenda Council. We follow it. I didn't send our consensus agenda because you told you.
[17:32] First, maybe I'll leave it to me, he asked me to ask Steve that what's at the very end of the day.
[17:42] For some of the generous percent.
[17:44] All right.
[17:44] Thank you.
[17:46] Thank you.
[17:49] Thank you.
[17:49] Thank you.
[17:50] Thank you.
[17:50] Thank you.
[17:50] Thank you.
[17:50] Thank you.
[17:51] Thank you.
[17:57] Thank you.
[17:58] Thank you.
[18:00] And those will be visiting the office.
[18:03] Good evening, Mayor and Council.
[18:06] So we actually have quite a few tonight.
[18:08] I bring them to you in batch.
[18:09] So we have two on the last question.
[18:11] Which I know the arts commission is comprised of five to nine members.
[18:15] We actually have several vacancies right now.
[18:18] So I think we're going to have a better application.
[18:22] And John Kilburn.
[18:23] John Kilburn actually was the last year for an uninspired term serving only one year.
[18:29] So he's asking now to be reappointed for this full three-year term, and Siemens, who
[18:37] are looking to appoint her to an expired term as well, but it only has two months left.
[18:42] So instead of me coming back in two months, but the October expiration also has to be appointed
[18:49] to the existing and expired term for two months, and then add additional three years.
[18:55] And then the Valerie Commission, we have several applications, that's a five-member board,
[19:01] also through the fire of the mayor.
[19:03] And that's a four-year term.
[19:06] There are currently two vacant seats.
[19:08] Our grass has been smoothed on the board and the position was asked for to be reappointed.
[19:15] And then we have a new applicant, Jason.
[19:16] I'm sure to announce it's name.
[19:18] He, Jim Koma, he would be a new applicant for a full four-year term.
[19:22] We have a full salary commission and arts commission would be almost full.
[19:29] We sell a vacancy for our student position.
[19:32] So, you know, I've been a student.
[19:33] It's a great success.
[19:34] Did you say it was Jason?
[19:36] It got remote.
[19:37] Yes.
[19:38] Oh, that's how you pronounce it.
[19:39] You know?
[19:40] How do you pronounce it?
[19:41] So, and our recruitment efforts are on the regular recruitment on the website.
[19:47] But we're also casting them into all our citizens academy graduates.
[19:50] We've been able to place four or five of them on to four. It's already we have 50 graduates, so we'll continue to use that as our big pool.
[19:59] And these are all graduates.
[20:02] No, not all of them are graduates.
[20:04] But we've appointed I think this will be five graduates altogether.
[20:09] So it's been a pretty successful program for us.
[20:12] So that being said, the workman's action is to prove the appointment as Fred and Submarine
[20:20] statement.
[20:21] That was so well.
[20:23] We approved the appointment, so that's presented by all the papers.
[20:29] Say aye.
[20:30] Second.
[20:32] discussion.
[20:34] discussion.
[20:35] Okay.
[20:36] All the papers say aye.
[20:37] Aye.
[20:38] Aye.
[20:38] Aye.
[20:38] I will say this all about the systems academy. I mean, we get a lot of people coming forward
[20:51] on that because they understand what the cities and different areas where they can serve.
[20:59] So, we read from the graph. We get people in case they are part of our volume group.
[21:06] Thank you.
[21:06] Thank you.
[21:07] You're welcome.
[21:07] You're taking the program, too.
[21:10] Great.
[21:11] That's great.
[21:12] That's great.
[21:12] It's even going to be on my phone.
[21:15] I'll be holding it.
[21:17] Thank you.
[21:18] All right.
[21:21] Thank you so much.
[21:22] Thank you, Rose.
[21:24] Okay.
[21:25] It takes us to the next one.
[21:26] Tomorrow.
[21:27] The Foster Family Farms.
[21:30] Notice of the 10-2 events.
[21:34] Yeah.
[22:07] Thank you, Mayor.
[22:09] Council.
[22:10] This evening, the Foster Family
[22:12] farm's LLC annexation discussion, just to make you aware and actually just get some preliminary
[22:19] feedback regarding the annexation. So what we'll cover is the a little bit annexation background,
[22:26] what the request is, where the property is located, and then kind of talk next steps.
[22:33] So a little bit about annexation within the city of Washington, state law, RCW-35A-14,
[22:45] The city of Washington uses the direct petition method or the 60% method and the first action within that process is for a property owner to file a notice of intent to commence annexation petition.
[23:01] And that has to be filed by no less than 10% of the assessed value of the property for which it's being sought.
[23:07] So the representation for that, that's this the notice part, just to put us on notice that they intend to annex and the city.
[23:18] What this request is, it's for one lot, property is currently zone business park and it has an urban holding overlay over the top of it.
[23:28] However, it has been identified within our preferred alternative plan from 2016 as having
[23:35] three actually zoning destinations that go across at R15, R110 and R15.
[23:40] It's a 51.1 acre property, it's currently vacant, and there's three owners of the property,
[23:48] all of whom have signed the notice of a 10-per-minute annexation.
[23:54] So, the property looking at our city is something that is north west or the growth boundary.
[24:01] It's actually right at the edge there.
[24:03] You can see the property is highlighted in blue, 23rd, southeast 23rd to the north, and
[24:09] 300 third to the east.
[24:13] There are six properties that are located in the northwest.
[24:17] That's really kind of the why I brought this forward this evening.
[24:22] I have shared this with the CD committee and talked to them about this by looking at reaching
[24:30] out to those individuals to gauge basically their interest in annexation.
[24:35] And that's really what I'm seeking from the Council this evening is, there's any desire
[24:40] for me to reach out to those individuals and say, you know, we have this annexation petition.
[24:46] And now, are you interested at all with annexing as well?
[24:49] And then I would report back to that, we'll have a formal presentation of the annexation
[24:55] petition where a council then will either accept reject or geographically modify the annexation
[25:03] request.
[25:03] It doesn't matter what the other people do, it doesn't matter what the other people do.
[25:08] They don't have to be part of it, but what it comes down to is because it's a 60% at the
[25:21] time when you file an annexation, property owners representing 60% of the area to be annexed
[25:26] have to sign on and be okay.
[25:28] And so if you look at the assess values of all those properties, if none of them want to
[25:32] come in, then I don't know what the council's desire would be to do that, but if they didn't
[25:38] equal 60%, then we wouldn't be able to bring them. If half of them want to come in, then
[25:46] maybe it's a decision that the council would have to make is that do we bring them all in now,
[25:50] because we do have the numbers. Once I get that information back from them, I'll have a spreadsheet
[25:56] that basically puts the value in, and whether or not they're poorer against it, and whether or
[26:00] not, you know, where you can go with the annexation.
[26:04] But typically the council in the past has not done that.
[26:08] In the appendage bench at the annexing end,
[26:12] the four out there, more pretty public works,
[26:16] and all that stuff, sewage and water and all that stuff.
[26:19] They might want to be involved
[26:22] in the really things that they meant to be an engineer.
[26:25] Well, that and, you know,
[26:27] just whether or not they're what their attendance,
[26:28] right now with their zoning being urban-holding,
[26:32] that's a 10-acre minimum, they decided they wanted to divide their land up,
[26:36] at some point they wouldn't need to go be annexed into the city
[26:40] in order to do that.
[26:45] As far as it's in our growth boundary, so it is in the plan
[26:48] within the next, although ideally in the next 20 years
[26:53] this plan is where we're going to grow.
[26:55] Oh, so that was our infrastructure up there.
[27:01] There are some challenges and actually with this development, you know, sewer is one of the bigger ones that we're looking at.
[27:08] They have submitted some information to us to look at that and how, with the best way to serve this and whether or not, you know, it will pencil out in order to make that happen.
[27:21] And there are a lot of, in the future sewer plans, there are lines that actually go down
[27:29] Woodburn, which is, if you look at our map, I can't get on this map, but the area along
[27:38] the Washu River, which is outside of Europe and all that land really has to come in in
[27:43] order to really start making that sewer line something that is probably reasonable for a developer
[27:50] to look at doing. We do have. They have to do that. Yeah. But the, you know, the idea is that
[27:57] this property, and actually, if you recall, just to the southeast of this, that I can go back to
[28:03] that, these portions of property that are over here, it's part of the HIKI NESBIT viral annexation
[28:10] that we did a few years ago, which is already in the city. You know, they have some of the same
[28:15] challenges regarding that sewer and whether or not that will work. They're looking at other
[28:21] options as well that would actually bring that sewer down through Reddit Highlands. And so there's
[28:27] some challenges that we have there with sewer and whether or not this is something that they can
[28:34] we can work through with them in order to make that happen. But what subdivisions? That's the north side.
[28:41] That's the all the north side development. Yeah, there's actually if you go out there now this development is portions being developed right now, it's
[28:50] So Ryan
[28:51] Can we do it?
[28:57] We actually have a meeting of next September first scheduled to discuss that as well
[29:04] And I'm not asking you what you're all I'm asking you for at this point in time is
[29:09] is the council agreeable that I reach out to those individuals to the north here to
[29:16] gauge their interest in annexation.
[29:21] I wouldn't necessarily reach out to the folks to the south because they've historically
[29:24] not been keen on annexation in the city.
[29:30] The folks that I have talked to, there's still pretty much in that same camp, but I will provide
[29:37] all of them notice of what once the annexation decides.
[29:43] So potentially that's going to be a new to that.
[29:47] How many of us would you like to meet?
[29:49] I think we'll have one.
[29:51] Yeah, they've looked at, I can't remember the number off the top of my head, 192, thank you.
[29:58] Um.
[30:00] And they're looking at detached. All
[30:06] right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
[30:17] I appreciate that. I was there. I was in attendance. I could bring you up. Yeah. You're a little more about it. Okay. That takes me to item C city management. The point of the appointment committee are a word. Okay. Thank you. You're working on this.
[30:38] Yes, so as Daniel mentioned when he was giving the presentation about the budget's
[30:45] strategy, the regional fire authority is effective, excellent, so a board will be seated.
[30:51] They operate really January, really operate and get their funding, but Queen September 1st
[31:00] in the end of the year is kind of to get it ready to go, fate will be a governing body.
[31:05] And as you recall from the RFA plan, that governing body assists individuals three council
[31:13] members from West Google appointed by the West Google Council and the council members
[31:18] from Canvas appointed by the Canvas Council.
[31:22] So the appointment committee had a formal meeting but had conversation with me and has a
[31:32] slate of re-individuals to bring forward to be on the RFA board and those individuals
[31:41] are council member Robertson, council member Wagner, and council member Shasplitsky.
[31:52] So the recommended action would be, so that is the report of the appointment committee and
[31:58] and the recommended action would be to approve the report
[32:02] of the appointment committee making
[32:04] those three appointments to the regional fire board.
[32:08] Question.
[32:09] How long do they serve at the point?
[32:13] That is at the pleasure of the council.
[32:16] That's a good question.
[32:17] You could have a question.
[32:19] Yes, that's true.
[32:24] I'm just curious, you know,
[32:25] I would think you would want to make this appointment
[32:27] through the end of next year,
[32:31] probably at the beast, and then move it into the regular cycle that you have at the end of every year.
[32:39] Instead of putting it into the cycle again in three months or four months to kind of a 16 month appointment is what I would recommend.
[32:50] Thank you for asking that because that would have left that open ended.
[32:53] So it would bypass the appointment committee process coming up in November and December and January.
[33:02] Very soon since these will just be starting. That will give continuity for that board.
[33:08] And then at the end of next year, we can get a decision and actually how that will work.
[33:14] There are council election next November.
[33:19] and there are several seats better up though, usually what happens is you're just going to see what happens at the elections and then you make your points after that.
[33:29] So that would be great.
[33:30] Yeah, so the emotion would be to accept the appointment committees recommendation to appoint those three councilmembers to the RFA Board 3 at the end of 2020.
[33:39] So it's a lot of inter-entertained motion, whereas DBI moved that we accept the nominations
[33:46] for the RFF committee through the end of 2027.
[33:56] I can't.
[33:57] Oh, they're going to.
[33:58] Thank you very much.
[34:00] Thank you very much.
[34:00] So discussion.
[34:01] Now, I'm all sort of, so this has been a long process, like the other day, and it's going
[34:09] be fluid pretty fine if we get a pass I think it's good for our sending but it is going to be fluid
[34:18] and there's been a lot of work to get us to this point which is place and you know Michelle's
[34:26] on the line she was a big part of it so Michelle I'm glad you're a part of this Tia I'm glad you're
[34:33] part of this and they look forward to which you can contribute to this.
[34:41] We're providing a better
[34:42] service, I think, for our community.
[34:47] Yeah, this is going to be going forward. So I'm going to say
[34:52] all in favor? All opposed? Okay. The best. Thank you, Dave. Michelle and Dia for
[35:03] stepping up, please. We should have happy. All right. Let's go. All right, then take this on to our
[35:10] reports of common impatience. They've got some magic. I think I might have to work
[35:16] So mine, I have a couple, so going back to Boeing Tourism, so I was able to host a local
[35:26] connections.
[35:27] It's all the leaders of Hamas, some white shugal business people, and every month they
[35:34] go to a different business, and I got to host the last one, probably doing that, because
[35:40] because always crashes, like, yeah, I got this thing.
[35:44] But really, I get leadership, right?
[35:48] Everybody there was people that bring solutions
[35:52] to our city.
[35:54] And we had representation from Northport,
[35:57] from our city, even closer, Joe was there.
[36:04] We had city council members from campus to we're there.
[36:08] And I feel it's a lot, it's like we're stronger together and we talk about this.
[36:15] But you wanted to be sure all by people that are part of solutions that problem.
[36:20] So just agree to bring people together to each other to talk about things.
[36:27] I know that if there's a problem, I don't have the answer.
[36:31] that advice around myself by the smartest people,
[36:34] somebody in this room has an answer that I've got.
[36:38] That's what men's existence is.
[36:39] So that's what's really cool about having those type
[36:42] of meetings.
[36:44] I have the honor of giving out a marriage award there.
[36:48] So usually I try and do that.
[36:51] And I can give you a couple examples of great people
[36:55] doing great things of and beyond for the city.
[36:59] but I, the owner of Recognizing Bernie for this award.
[37:05] And I did that because I almost started to have this with it.
[37:11] But Bernie, not only one, is an incredible cornerstone
[37:17] to the city of Washington is done so much.
[37:21] And like one of the strongest guys I know,
[37:25] and I'm a Marine Corps 30 years, right?
[37:27] But Ernie, no matter what, comes down as on his plate, he is there, and he's always asking me,
[37:38] like, hey Dave, what can I do for you? What do you mean? I'm like, dude, you got your own problems,
[37:44] you know, but he's asking me what he can do to help me, which I so appreciate. But Ernie is then a
[37:53] mentor, a shipmate, an ally, great friend, right, and a community leader, and he continues
[38:05] to just keep charging and being one of the members that is always there.
[38:11] And so I wanted to recognize that it's people like you.
[38:17] There's a lot of us in the city, but to emulate what people do to make this city.
[38:23] These are great.
[38:24] So I want to recognize already at this meeting,
[38:28] and award that to them.
[38:29] So thank you, thank you, thank you.
[38:35] Hello,
[38:38] the multi-night, so thanks for bringing that up
[38:41] tonight, Joe, talking about that.
[38:43] So again, we've got a lot of community things going on.
[38:47] You know, we ended up on Friday market, down in our little square,
[38:53] which I think was a huge success.
[38:56] people coming from all over to see Washington. It's great to see that. We've got
[39:03] very talked about it but we've got the waterfront project going on. The chamber
[39:11] function lunch is gonna be talking about that but we've got the waterfront. We've
[39:16] got our downtown revitalization. We've got something people don't even see with
[39:21] a waste flutter. But, you know, I did a tour there. I took the sail time for the people to
[39:27] play there. On the wirefront, I was talking to Larry and one of the buildings they're doing
[39:37] walkthroughs. They have potential people now. So that's really. They're going to start
[39:42] with it. Yeah. Yeah. And they're already starting to do this. And it would be great. They have
[39:48] project when it's done is going to be credible. There's still people that don't like it, but it's going
[39:55] to be great for us. But I just got to say,
[40:01] going back to it, I am so grateful to be surrounded by
[40:05] people that are part of the solution and this city is right. And we can't do it alone, but we've got
[40:14] such great people that volunteer that our city is rocked. So very proud of that.
[40:22] So that's it for my comments. Let's take it around the horn.
[40:26] Good, Ernie. Thank you. As you know, I was gone for about a week now, but
[40:32] saw some other volunteer stuff going on, which was really exciting. I really want to thank them there
[40:38] in the city for the award. You know, you're humbled, you don't think you deserve it, but you know,
[40:43] I like being at the events they have, but I can support them getting volunteers to help
[40:50] us.
[40:51] Some of our major projects has always been a good first thing for me.
[40:56] I will be at the luncheon on Wednesday, hosted by the Chamber, and I think that's about
[41:04] all that I have at this point in time, rather than just, you know, summer's coming to it
[41:10] in.
[41:10] it's been a great, great summer I believe for us, a lot of ways. Our project is almost
[41:17] on date over here. Sounds better? Yeah, most. Almost.
[41:22] Okay, so that's that. We got the library. It's going to be in the library and talked about that.
[41:28] The connections meeting, we showed a few bucks but you know they're going to start anyway,
[41:33] which is really great. It's going to be great to have that there. I'm going to pick her that
[41:38] the city, how to bring in people.
[41:42] It's going to be really great.
[41:44] It's going to be awesome.
[41:45] It's going to be great.
[41:46] When we came here, the library was down the street
[41:49] and that little bakery they had.
[41:51] It was about maybe 12 feet wide, maybe 15 feet deep.
[41:59] And that was the library first came in.
[42:01] So it's really exciting.
[42:06] Appreciate everybody.
[42:07] Everybody does.
[42:07] especially the staff. What they do. It's really great.
[42:15] Today we'll take it to our student government.
[42:19] Well, school starts on Tuesday, summer's finally come to an end.
[42:23] I'm actually, you know, I'm minority. I love when school starts.
[42:26] One of my favorite times of the year.
[42:29] But, you know, not everyone feels that way.
[42:32] But also, something cool. Tomorrow is one year since I got sworn in.
[42:38] City Council student representative so we're about a year which I mean reflect it back on it
[42:43] It's been a great time. Sorry, I miss pretty much every meeting this summer. I've been out of town
[42:51] But yeah, I'm gonna set for school to start. It's going to be an interesting year
[42:56] As the student representative of the school board and the city council
[43:00] There there's a lot of stuff happening this year on at the at the school district that is
[43:06] I don't know how it's gonna go
[43:08] So, I'm interested to see what will happen with you guys in the loop on all of it.
[43:15] The ball team this year, very, very large swaths of freshmen trying out.
[43:21] So hopefully our football team can replace all the good seniors that left and we can do
[43:25] really good against here.
[43:27] And that is all I have.
[43:28] So I'm excited for you. We're seeing you.
[43:34] You're part of the leadership there.
[43:37] Make it up. It's going to go by quick. Let's know how we can help out and
[43:45] over your superintendent. So how are we can partner and make great things happen?
[43:54] It's going to be back in the chair instead of doing a Zoom meeting and a nice conversation
[43:59] with the police chief last week by my conversation about budgets and expectations and a lot
[44:07] of different things.
[44:09] It's a good idea.
[44:11] He's got some plans and he thinks it's easier for all,
[44:17] which then takes us to the City Audit
[44:20] review, and we should be very proud of that. Some of us on the council group called last week,
[44:25] and it's nice to get a nice clean bill of health, and that just, again, we just reflects on staff,
[44:32] and it's looking through the invoicing of checks. It's so amazing, all the little notes, and everybody's
[44:39] accountable, and there's nothing so very proud of that. And the stakeholders conversation last week,
[44:48] I'll find somebody that I don't know, I'll never find somebody who's subscribed, but I hope it was shot.
[44:54] That was pretty cool. I attended the Port Commission meeting last week.
[45:00] It was kind of nice, a lot of the conversation at the board is going up with extra coffee with
[45:13] Larry on Thursday, just talked about other things. So it was a busy week, just contending
[45:18] different meetings, but it's like you, it's an impressive city. A lot of great.
[45:29] Yeah, staying on theme for the evening. It's going to be the time of the year now. It's
[45:33] football season and so we're back out there with the little guys you want to talk about something
[45:37] impressive is all these volunteer coaches that we have go through all of these sports programs throughout
[45:43] the year. They keep cranking up the required training for all of us to go out there and coach those
[45:48] little guys and how to run and do each other properly, but we had, I think, for CCYF
[45:54] loaners, almost close to 200 coaches out there getting trained.
[45:59] And, you know, while Google is unique in CCYF, that's just for those that don't know.
[46:05] That's a third of the league around here, it's not Bob Warner, it's the other one.
[46:08] While Google is the only used program that I know that coordinates with high school.
[46:14] So every year we'll have a meeting as coaches, every coach, a coaches football, in one shoe
[46:19] we'll meet together, and we will talk about what's going on in football season, where
[46:24] our same language is getting taught to the senior that is getting taught to the second
[46:28] grader.
[46:29] So in that way, as we go up, we hand these kids off to the people to know more about football
[46:34] than us.
[46:36] They're able to participate and see the amount of people that come in there and really
[46:40] show support whether it's a school district. It's the volunteers who go through and do it to the
[46:45] folks that at the high school to seniors that come out and play with these kids really, really close.
[46:52] Also Larry and the board, I wanted it as a commuter community. So out of this community to go to work
[46:57] for one long time. Thank you for fixing the bridge. It's been pretty nice. It's a really nice bridge.
[47:04] Now, let's hope it will last that last for the first freeze.
[47:09] Yeah, that's that's up to the marriage.
[47:11] So, all right, but I am working on it.
[47:14] So, September 17th, no money, no money.
[47:18] So September 17th, I've got Jake, like, yeah, the chair of transportation.
[47:24] Let me know.
[47:25] And I'm going to be washable, canvas and the port.
[47:29] And we're going to give them a tour.
[47:32] I'm actually going to put a lot of code and take them underneath that and see how we
[47:38] So that's a band-aid fix. I was bogged. We wandered down here last year to see when you can
[47:44] look from the bridge and see the water. Now it's all paid. So it's a problem.
[47:51] But we've got a lot. We'll see a long map. Yeah, but yeah, we are a preacher with work to put into that.
[47:58] I mean, that's, it's definitely helpful. So whoever, even if it's a remediated fix,
[48:03] that's still media every day. It makes it a lot nicer. It's better. So that's all I have,
[48:11] thanks. Thank you for coming. Geo.
[48:15] Yeah, hi, guys. Yeah, I'm also very appreciative of that
[48:18] slew ridge repainting. I know the timing didn't work out really great, but oh my gosh, it makes
[48:23] the commute so much easier heading out to Vancouver when I have to do that. So to share everybody who
[48:28] did that and put the work in because it looks great for now. We'll see how long.
[48:34] First, RFA meeting on September 2nd scheduled at 4 p.m. Looking forward to that.
[48:40] I know I don't know everything, so that's a good thing to going in,
[48:43] because I don't know everything, so it'll be a nice entry point.
[48:48] Also looking forward to attending the first home game at Washington High School on September 18th.
[48:53] against Ridgefield, we go every year, we don't have any kids that play but we love to go and watch anyway, so we're going to be there cheering on
[49:01] Vanthers, and then
[49:03] canvas washable fire department has their open house on September 26th, and I know we're not in September yet, but we're headed there, so at station 42
[49:11] up on
[49:14] on parker streets, sorry, I'm trying to get my directions, up on parker street up
[49:19] By the lake anyway has their open house at starting I think at 10 a.m.
[49:23] It goes to two so they'll have lots of giveaway things for the kids.
[49:28] They usually do demonstrations fire demonstrations they'll go through.
[49:32] Like in past years they've given up batteries for smoke detectors and they give out bracelets and all kinds of fun stuff.
[49:37] And then there's usually like food and ice cream so definitely worth it to come take a look and see what they do.
[49:43] They do a lot of great stuff and the demonstrations are definitely worth it to have cars on fire and other things that you know
[49:49] You get to all right the hoses and get those things put out. So that's all I got
[49:56] All right. Thanks, Tim. Let's show
[49:58] Yep. Just a second Saturday event coming up on the 12th. It'll be a disc golf event along with reading around the barn
[50:07] um
[50:08] for
[50:09] Volunteers that are interested and also last year's disc golf included kind of a
[50:15] a disc golf clinic. I know they gave out this last year, but I don't know if that's
[50:23] the plan this year, but I'm guessing they probably will. Again, those are 10 a.m. to
[50:30] two on the second Saturdays, and that's up at Hartwood Park. I have an art commission
[50:44] be out in Florida celebrating my daughter's 21st birthday, so if my alternate, which I believe is you, Dave, is interested in attending.
[51:05] I believe you're the arts commission alternate.
[51:10] It's the 26th that 4pm and Rose can probably send you a meeting agenda link or I can forward you what I get if you're available.
[51:23] Yeah, I'll make that work. Just give me a link.
[51:26] All right, thank you. And that's all I have.
[51:30] Thanks, Michelle. All right. Bring us on.
[51:34] Occasionally, as part of my updates,
[51:36] I brought up Navel Kirk Park.
[51:38] You might remember, because it was November, December,
[51:41] I had shared about a planting I was taking place,
[51:43] which was a collaboration between a number of organizations.
[51:48] I go to the park periodically,
[51:49] but I was most recently there on August 17.
[51:51] And I just wanted to kind of call out that it looks great and the plantings that were
[51:57] done have really taken off and you can kind of see like they're living, they're growing.
[52:02] So the park looks really good, but what really struck me was I counted 12 ducks in the
[52:08] water and two snowy eagre.
[52:10] So if wildlife is there, I, to me, that's the ultimate of, hey, the effort there to bring
[52:16] about restoration are proving to be successful. Completely not scientific, but but now it looks
[52:26] good. As was mentioned, I participated or sat in on the exit audit. I would say the same thing,
[52:33] the state auditors office team specifically called out Daniel and Monty and how great it was to work
[52:41] with them, the cooperation, and how promptly we're providing information for requests.
[52:47] It was an unmodified opinion, as far as approval, and they were just very positive and
[52:57] speaking about working with the city, especially with Daniel and Monty.
[53:02] Autumn's coming up, so that'll mean the washroom of Ivy League events will start up again.
[53:07] The first one will be September 26 in conjunction with the watershed council cleaning up lack of a slate.
[53:14] There would be another one on in October partnering with the
[53:19] Conservancy the Gorge Conservancy to do a project and then in November to partner with the port probably to do a project at
[53:27] Kotlin for 9.
[53:30] Hike the dyke is coming up on September 19th. I am registered along with our dog Bia
[53:36] And I was glad someone sent a note about Paul's team because I actually put myself on that team because otherwise I would have been an individual.
[53:44] So I'll be walking as part of Paul's team and it's open to whoever else wants to sign on to be Paul's.
[53:51] Paul for those don't know Paul really passed away was very active in our community and a lot of former counsel person was also very active in the community with other things.
[54:04] Also, empty bulls have us, I mean, the name kind of bugs me a little bit, empty bulls can't
[54:12] be so much shrewel.
[54:13] Anyway, it's a fundraiser by the Interfaith Treasure House.
[54:16] It's going to be held at the Black Pearl, and it is coming up on the 22nd, 6 a.m.
[54:26] And they're going to serve handcrafted soups made by local restaurants, and then you can
[54:31] also take a bowl with you. I bought tickets for myself and my wife today and $35 a ticket
[54:38] or you can have sort of the early entry for a little bit more for $70 but it's a fundraiser
[54:44] supporting the interfaith charter house. If anyone is interested in that, obviously a very
[54:50] calls. And that's all that I have. Thank you. Just real quick
[54:55] convention since the number of members mentioned. I don't know
[54:59] again whether the state's going to release or not it was released
[55:04] or released or not.
[55:08] Okay, so another clean audit. We can clean
[55:13] How many in a row now are we?
[55:18] I
[55:20] think it's a big deal.
[55:22] I think it's a big deal.
[55:23] Why do you want to be part of the finance first?
[55:28] Or is he?
[55:30] But you know what, going together back to studies,
[55:34] you know, if your finances are good, you squirky clean audits,
[55:38] you know people are doing the right thing,
[55:40] trust, respect, and all that stuff.
[55:43] but our finance team has blocked our own time.
[55:47] Sorry.
[55:48] Appreciate that.
[55:49] Thanks for leaving.
[55:52] Pass it on to the staff.
[55:54] Yeah.
[55:55] OK.
[55:56] All right.
[55:57] That will conclude our regular meeting.
[56:03] We're now going into executive session.
[56:06] So at that point, everybody has a lady.
[56:10] We're going to go on the executive.
[56:11] then we'll come back but no action to follow.
[56:14] But I want to thank everybody for being here.
[56:18] So thank you.
[56:18] Thanks for being here.
[56:19] You only got one in statement for that.
[56:21] We're all good.
[56:22] I don't know what else I have.
[56:24] Yeah, but we appreciate it.
[56:26] Thanks for everybody.
[56:27] And so, I'll write it, too.
[56:29] I'll be in touch.
[56:31] Go.
[56:35] We have to announce how long it's going to take.
[56:38] Yeah, we want to take a break and go to the games.
[56:43] So, why don't we start at a clock, let's start at 8.
[56:51] So this is what it is, potential litigation, RCW, 42.30, 0.0,
[57:03] no action to plot, 20 minutes,
[57:07] 20 minutes.
[57:08] 20.
[57:08] and we'll come back in session.
[57:11] Okay.
[57:12] So, how is starting today?
[57:14] A 20.
[57:14] Oh my goodness.
[57:16] Two.
[57:17] Two.
[57:18] Well, be careful now.
[57:20] Well.
[57:21] Okay.
[57:22] I would like to bring us back into our regular meeting.
[57:27] Having all our city business done,
[57:29] I will come into a journey.
[57:31] Thank you.
[57:32] Our next meeting will be September 14th.
[57:35] Workshop at 5, Council meeting itself, we are now adjourned.