City Council - Regular Meeting

of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mary Lynn, would you like to take roll call? Yes. Thank you. Heather Watland here. Rob Toyer here. Yavon Gallardo Venorum here. Michelle Bllythe here. Nathan Seth here. Tim Abrahamson present. And Licia Novak here. Thank you. Mayor Van I move for approval of the agenda. Second. Question.

All those in favor? I. Any oppose? None heard. Motion carries. Okay. Just like to start out our meeting tonight with recognition and presentation of the mayor's award to Jim Hunt. Tonight, it's my honor to present the mayor's volunteer award to Jim Hunt. Jim is the is the kind volunteer every city hopes for. Someone who shows up consistently, works hard without needing recognition, and quietly makes a better place. For the past couple of years, Jim has volunteered about six hours each month at the Stormwater Wetland Park removing invasive plants. He comes on site regularly to handpull and cut Himalayan blackberry. One of the most persistent invasive plants we face. Anyone who has tackled blackberries knows it's not easy work and it takes patience, grit, and followthrough. Jim understands that removing blackberries is one of the best ways to protect healthy habitat for the long term. Jim also protects beneficial native plants as he volunteers. He has documented native salmon berry plants and requested the area not be mowed so these native plants could establish. Then he returned and did the careful detailed work of removing only the blackberries around them. Protecting the salmon berry and giving it room to thrive. That is stewardship in action. Jim, your service reflects the best of Arlington. The behind the scenes work that improves our community for everyone. And on behalf of the city of Arlington, our staff, and the residents who benefit from healthier habitats and well-maintained public areas, thank you. It is my honor to present the mayor's volunteer award to Jim Hunt. Jim, if you'd like to step forward,

Okay. At this time, I'd like to open up if there's anyone from the public that would wish would wish to comment. Okay. None. Seeing we'll move on to the consent agenda. Mayor Vany, I move for approval of the consent agenda as noted. Second, question. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? None heard. Motion carries. Okay, we'll step right into the first item of new business resolution declaring certain property as surplus and authorizing its sales.

Thank you, mayor. Uh I'm standing in for some of the staff tonight. So it was u these are fairly small items. So I was just trying to give everybody a sunny evening off. Uh we have three vehicles on this list that are being surplus. They're all uh older patrol vehicles that have um exceeded their useless useful life for us and uh will be sent to auction. The remainder of the equipment that you see on here is stuff that's just small uh items that are u completely past their useful life. Um they've either been either will be destroyed or in some cases we we uh part them out and you know use the use what we can to make other pieces of equipment work. So these are all small items uh test equipment and things like weed eaters and blowers and stuff. So happy to answer any questions.

Any questions? Tim. Yeah. Do we get a certificate of destruction for any of the items we send for destruction? Just I mean we we keep track of them. Yeah. So that they file they they they have to report it as being, you know, ready for destruction. All of our um small and attractive items are asseted. So we we once they're destroyed, we retire the asset number. Excellent. Thank you. Other questions? Okay. None seen. Do I have a motion? Sorry.

I move to approve the resolution declaring the property a surplus and authorize the mayor to sign the resolution. Second question. All those in favor? I I oppose. None heard. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. We'll move on to item two. authorization to apply for recreation and con conservation office youth athletic field grant. Paul,

thank you again. Uh, this actually came forward to you a few uh weeks ago. Uh, Josh brought it forward requesting permission to apply for the uh the grant. It's been slightly modified. That's why it's coming back to you. We learned the Boys and Girls Club also wanted to put in for the grant. So, what we've done is combine efforts here, made it one larger grant request, but we've also doubled the amount of matching funds we're putting into it because the Boys and Girls Club will also uh put matching funds in. Uh, so it's still a project to light the fields down at Quake, the ones that currently don't have lighting on them. Any questions, Tim? Yeah, Paul, just want to confirm. So, our matching funds still 75 grand, correct? Correct. But boys and girls are also throwing in 75 grand. Okay.

Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. None seen. Do I have a motion? I move to authorize staff to submit a grant application to the recreation and conservation office for the Quake Park multi-use field and Arlington Boys and Girls Club lighting project. Second discussion. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? None heard. Motion carries. Okay, we'll move on to our third item, the grant acceptance from Stillwamage Tribe for the barricades and trailer. Paul,

thanks again. Uh this is uh we're asking for council to approve a grant we received from Stillwamish tribe in the amount of $125,000. This grant is specific to purchase uh some barricades uh and a trailer to haul them on. I've included in the packet some photos uh in the back. They kind of show what the barricades look like. Um these are much better than what we would normally use for road closures and stuff. So this would be uh some items that we deploy when we need uh a little higher level of um security on a road closure. Um, and so, uh, anyway, this is 100% funded by the tribe. There's two different purchase orders in there be because, um, when we priced it out, we could save some money by buying the trailer separately instead of buying them through the uh, vendor with the barricades. So, that's what we're doing. We're buying the trailer from one vendor, the barricades from another vendor. There's a little bit of uh, money left over. The total is a 123714. Uh so there's a couple of thousand dollars there that will be used for licensing and miscellaneous chains and things like that that ENO may need for the trailer.

Thank you. Any questions? No, I think this will Oh, Tim. Yeah, Paul. So, I noticed uh the quantity for the barriers is only 13. Is 13 enough for what? 13 is what we can afford. Okay. works for me. So, yeah. Yeah. And after seeing tonight's news, it looks like it's definitely glad we're getting these things. It sounds like we had another parade happen when a car decided to drive through the middle of the parade.

So, this is perfect to get these at this time. Okay. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the grant acceptance from the Stilogamish Tribe of Indians and authorize the purchase of the trailer and barricades not to exceed $125,000. Second discussion. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? None heard. Motion carries. Good. Okay. Do we have any comments from council members or reports? None heard. Oh, Nathan, you want to do it?

So, Heather and I al and Randy and uh quite a few of the city and community members were at the community Easter egg hunt that was sponsored by the Arlington assembly at Presidents over the weekend. And it's very rare to have a nice weekend for Easter weekend around here. And it was gorgeous. Um, thousands of eggs were out placed in different sections for different age groups for kids to go and have a Easter egg hunt and lots of local vendors and um church related events and rabbits for sale and lots of lots and lots of food. It was great to see our community come together uh and enjoy uh a great weekend. um got to see lots of faces that you don't really get to see um throughout this time because people are on break now so they get to go and relax. So it was great. I had a great time and got to see a whole bunch of kids eat a whole bunch of candy and go home to their parents. So it was great. Good job to the assembly and the city for doing that.

Yeah. Thank you. It was a great weekend. Uh with that, uh Paul, do you have anything to report out? I don't, but I want to call on Oscar to give us an update on some recent litigation. Great. Thank you.

Thank you, Paul. Yes, this is um this is a good news litigation report and it originally was going to be in executive session because we weren't aware that we were going to have a ruling from the court, but it involves um a land use petition act challenge, which is how you uh challenge land use decisions involving the Arlington uh gardens project where the hearing examiner um a few months ago issued a decision and um I'm strictly the messenger on this one. Um, Deputy City Attorney Emily Romanenko and our senior associate Drew Pollum um, handled the litigation and um, the challenge was over the validity uh, of the uh, wetland studies that were done and the uh, court ended up ruling in the city's favor. There was a lot of technical uh legal stuff going on about the doctrine of standing and exhaustion of administrative remedies and I'm not going to go into a lot of details unless uh the council has questions about that. Uh but we did get a favorable ruling from the court on Friday and uh there is a 30-day appeal period but for the moment at least um it's a win for the city and um if there's no appeal then that project should be able to move forward.

Can I answer any questions? Thank you. Any questions? Okay, none seen. Thank you. Okay, and I want to echo on the events that we had this weekend and the beautiful weather. I mean, it was great to see everybody out and about and enjoying it. With that, I think we are done. Do we adjourn? Move to adjourn. Second question. All those in favor? I I oppose none. We are journ Thank you all.