City Council - Regular Meeting

I call the Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 council business meeting to order. I met with the council members at 5 p.m. in the sixth floor council conference room for a briefing to discuss tonight's agenda. At 5.30 p.m., we moved here to the first floor chambers to conduct the council business meeting in person. and because we encourage community involvement we invite the public to join us in person attend via remote option through zoom or view on bcat please note that tonight's agenda has been amended to add a 10-minute executive session under item 8a and no action is anticipated The council will accept spoken public comments on items under the consent agenda. We also have set aside time at the end of the meeting for community comment. This provides an opportunity for community members to address the council on topics not included on the agenda but still related to the work of the city council. Each speaker will have 90 seconds during each spoken comment period to address the council from the lectern in the meeting chambers. As of this meeting, we are implementing our new process, which consists of an online registration form to sign up for a remote spoken comment and sign-in sheets in the chamber. Requests to comment via Zoom must be completed by noon on the day before the meeting. you can access the online request form on the City Council webpage. As always, written questions or comments are also welcome at any time at city.council at bremertonwa.gov or via mail. To be distributed to Council members in advance of a business meeting, written comments must be received by noon on the day before the meeting. The city is committed to providing accessible meetings. Requests for accommodations, including sign language interpreters, hearing assistance, or other accessibility services should be made through the city clerk's office by noon on the day before the meeting. To arrange for an accommodation, please contact the city clerk at city.clerk at bremertonwa.gov or 360-473-5323. We will start tonight's meeting with the consent agenda.

Thank you, Council President. For approval on the consent agenda are the following items. A, claims and check register. Approval of the following checks and electronic fund transfers. One, check numbers 415612 through 415838. And EFT numbers V46710 through V46859. And the grand total amount of $4,761,049.31. Two, regular payroll payouts for pay period ending June 30th, 2026 in the amount of $41,135.69. Three, regular payroll for pay period ending July 15th, 2026 in the amount of $1,289,734.35. Four, regular payroll payouts for pay period ending July 15th, 2026 in the amount of $30,337.70. Five, retiree payroll for pay period ending July 31st, 2026 in the amount of $41,396.15. B, minutes of council meeting July 15th, 2026. c minutes of study session july 22nd 2026 and d release a lease agreement with united states of america regarding historic building 50 puget sound navy museum this concludes the reading of the consent agenda thank you is there anybody who would like to comment on any of the consent agenda items

Hello, my name is Alden Bradford, and I'd like to comment on item D on the consent agenda, the lease agreement for the Navy Museum. I'm a big supporter of museums. I think that public culture and history is absolutely worth subsidizing with public dollars. I think out of all of the things that the Navy spends money on, public relations is probably the least harmful. But I do consider that when The government, specifically the military, does public relations. That has another name. It's called propaganda. The Navy Museum functions as a propaganda tool for the military. And I wonder if that's actually worth subsidizing with this lease at $0 to the military. I think it could be worth revisiting whether we really want to do that for the next 10 years. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there anybody else who would like to comment on anything on the consent agenda? Okay. We had no request to comment remotely on the consent agenda items. So, well, I've already invited everybody up, sorry. All right. Is there anybody here who didn't sign up on the sheets before that wants to comment on the consent agenda? We have a new process in case you're unaware. When you come in at the back, there's sign up sheets for commenting on agenda items or for just commenting on community comment. And I'm going to be pretty loose with those rules. If you forget to sign up after everybody who signed up comes up and speaks, then of course, we'll give you an opportunity. OK. Seeing as there's no additional comments, we will move to council consideration of the consent agenda. I will now entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.

I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

I second.

Is there any council discussion? There are no discussion. It says it right here. Seeing no further discussion, please call for the vote. Thank you.

Council Member Chamberlain? Yes. Rye? Yes. Camerata? Yes. Goodnow?

Yes.

Mockler? No. Tift?

Yes.

Rebelowski? Yes. Thank you. Motion carries. Six yeses, one no.

Okay, with no general business items tonight, next we have the mayor's report. Welcome, Mayor Wheeler.

All right, good evening, Council, Council President. I've got, I think, a number of slides this evening. So we'll get started here. All right, so the... I wanted to share this with you. This is just some phenomenal work. Everybody involved, especially in the design features and the public art that put together what is turning out to be award-winning displays. So recently we were recognized by National Public Works Association for a Public Works project within the category that we were entered into. This one here is called the CODA Award, which is recognizing weaving notes, the artistic display up here of Quincy Jones. And so we have been nominated one of two in the state of Washington. And I'll be watching this and I'll report back how we did. But the fact that we were one of two in the entire state nominated for a public art feature is really pretty cool. Next slide. And just wanted to keep sharing this work Many of you have been on this journey with the city, with myself, when we took on the cleanup of Kitsap Lake. And at one time, it was close to being a lake that could not be used. It was unhealthy for the community. We determined as a city, all of us, council, of course, staff, myself, and the citizens who get behind the project like this, we got to work. Now this is the maintenance portion. This is an annual harvesting. You can see up here what's being collected, these plants that we're pulling out of the water. If not pulled out, they decompose and add to the phosphorus, which is part of the stew of an unhealthy lake. So many, many efforts go into this, and this is just one of them I wanted to highlight. Just great work on the staff, public works, parks, mainly public works on this one, of course coordinating with contractors for this particular work right here. Alright, next slide. Loxie Eagans. So a little bit of in-house work going on. Always proud to show the skill, efficiency and skill of our public works department. You can see here Some work's already started here and repaving next week, beginning late at night, Monday. It'll be at midnight. And then for the following nights, starting at 10 p.m. So we'll be doing the work at night. And you'll see considerable progress over next week. Next slide. Chib seals. I wanted to highlight this one. Now this is a good partnership. Again, these partnerships don't just happen. This is relationship building, trust building, and, of course, recognizing mutual areas where we can mutually benefit from coordinating and combining our efforts. So this one will be chip sealing. It will be occurring here soon. Manette, Brown Kitsap Way, and Oyster Bay. It'll be this month, as you can see up there, chip sealing followed by sweeping. And of course, 17 to the 21st, and then 25th and 6th, sweeping and fog sealing. So there'll be quite a bit of work done here for the remainder of August. So I'm looking forward to getting some feedback from around the city, and of course, getting reports from our own staff. This is an example here of the amount of work we can get done with this new partnership. And what I'm referring to is this slide for those who are just listening. All right. Thanks, Dave. Parks and Rec update. This summer concert series was a fantastic success. I hope folks got a chance to check in on it. I think the key for us is going to be consistency. We introduced something new to the community. This is a good event that's open to so many people. word of mouth, consistency. We're going to do it again next year. And hats off just to everybody that put in a lot of work. Berman and Arts Commission, the Washington National Guard, performers, vendors, volunteers, and Parks and Rec staff. And I also just want to highlight the Parks Commission's taken on a I like this effort. When we have these commissions and committees, we staff them to get a broad representation of our public that we serve. And they're actually serving also, but these are non-paid, non-elected positions. They're folks who are just volunteering a little bit of their time in the evening. For this one here, they are visiting all of the parks in the city. And they're offering their perspective from their background. We work to the best of our ability to get those differing perspectives. That's where you get, and I believe this, where you get the best outcomes when you can Get diverse perspectives, respectfully listen, sometimes not always agree, but make sure the environment is safe enough, welcoming enough where all those points of views can be heard. You will come up with the best outcome if you can do that. That's what we're working on with the Parks Commission right now. All right, next slide. Taste of Kitsap's coming. I thought I'd just put a quick announcement this Friday and Saturday. You can see the times up there, Bremerton Boardwalk. Of course, the Art Walk will be occurring at the same time, and they meet. There's lots of art downtown, Charleston District, over in Manette, even in the Perry Avenue Mall area, or excuse me, the Sheridan Plaza area. All right. We've got another one. And just getting you updated on this, and I want to make sure we keep highlighting this for our folks. We've got a lot of youth that can use ways to expend energy in a healthy way. And so the city of Bremerton contributes to the best of our ability to provide good, structured fun in a learning environment. So then, I believe, Dave, we have one more. Yes, indeed. Civics Academy's coming. And September 15th, you can see, and I'll just leave it up here, and for those who are just listening and not watching on TV or in the audience, we've got city management, public works, community development, planning and zoning, public safety, emergency services, parks and rec, finance information technology, city attorney and risk management, municipal courts and human resources. So I just, this is going to be, I believe, for us it's groundbreaking. We've never tried anything like this before and there's not many models out there that are quite like this where you get a city, full city immersion into the business that we do for the folks here in the city of Bremerton. And so more to come. There'll be updates. I want to thank the sponsors. So all of this, every expense that you see from this effort, which is a city-led effort by Dr. Janice Briggs, is paid for by sponsors. So Up From Slavery, Advantage Nissan, Kitsap Chamber of Commerce, Doc Loves the Kids, and the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, thank you. That concludes my report tonight, Council.

Thank you, Mayor. Next up is council member reports. This is an opportunity for council members to provide an update on any issues or events taking place in their district, announce any events they've recently attended or plan to attend, or to speak on any other city-related topics. Since this is the first council meeting of the month, we will start with District 1 Council Member Jennifer Chamberlain. Okay, do I have any slides? It says you have one.

All right, that's my annual slide. Summer cleaning, let's see, the next opportunity will be August 15th. Get your coffee, get your t-shirt, have some fun. Show up at Cafe Perfetto. I think that's the only slide so you can take that down. I have a little art project that I created with, what was that? Where is it? It starts at Cafe Perfetto. I'm sorry. Let's talk later, Suzanne. I have a little art project that I created with Rima from Spread Supplies, and I want to share it with you today. So there's signs that have been around our community that you may or may not have noticed. Safety for all. What about our families and the elderly? And I wanted to let you guys know I did a little bit of a fixed job for that. I corrected it. because I felt like it was lacking the proper information. Safety for all means all. What about our unhoused elderly? How about that? What about the unhoused elderly? They make up about 8% of our unhoused community. Here's the next sign that I've been seeing around town. Public hearing proposed homeless encampment. And it gives the date, the updated date. There's definitely some erroneous information on this, especially the terminology. So I fixed it for this group. Public hearing on the proposed tiny home community. Monday, August 17th at 5.30 here. So please show up. and support this tiny home community proposal. Just full transparency, there is an executive session afterwards and they're gonna talk about, we're gonna talk about a proposed or an action that was taken against me for some emotional language that I used for someone who was in our privileged spaces in our council meeting. They made a claim that I shouted at them, but that's untrue.

Jennifer, point of order. Sure.

Okay, let me skip forward.

An executive session is for...

I believe I have the right to make an executive session public. So I'll do that when we're back there. So I stand 10 toes down because I believe most Bremertonians do not oppose this tiny home community. And I'm tired of the can getting kicked down the road. The mayor had a proposal a couple of years ago that we voted down. Now we have another proposal. And I think we need to figure out how to make it work. I just really believe that we're on the wrong side of history if we don't make it work yet. So that's all, thank you.

Council Vice President and District 2 Council Member Denise Fry.

I have held back from speaking publicly about the proposal on Sheridan Road and I'm going to maintain my professionalism as a city council member and not discuss it publicly because it is currently under consideration by the planning commission and will come to the council in due time. I hope those weren't the signs that were stolen that were then corrected. Okay. Let's go to my side, please. We have an open house coming up. There's a great project we've been talking about. and planning for for over 10 years in my district, and this is Safe Routes to School at View Ridge Elementary School. I encourage, of course, people in my district, especially those folks that live in Viewcrest or right along Elmira, come to this open house and learn about what all is gonna be taking place. There's gonna be a lot of construction, And there's going to be some detours. We're going to try to mitigate as much, you know, challenge to that that community which already faces a lot of challenges. as possible, and I think our team has done a really good job. We're gonna have this open house at View Ridge, and anybody that's interested, really, in a Safe Routes to School project for their school or for their district, come on down to this, because it's a good place to learn about what is Safe Routes to School, what is the program, how is it funded, what's it supposed to do, all of that type of thing. So I encourage folks to come down to the open house. It's a long time in the making, certainly since long time before I came on to council. But it's been one of my favorite projects to cheerlead along the way. Bremerton is very fortunate this is fully funded, and so there's no challenges coming up on this. I will say that we recently had an accident at the corner of Elmira and Rydell, which is where this project ends. It's a horrible intersection. It's well known by staff and all of us who live in Bremerton as being a dangerous intersection. And so I've been advocating, I have been for a long time for that intersection, but maybe now Katie Walters in the county can come together with the city. Let's do something about that intersection before somebody else gets hurt. It was a very serious accident there on the corner of Elmira and Rydell. So whatever we can do to fix that would be much appreciated. And that's it for me tonight. Thanks.

Thank you. Next is District 3 Councilmember Christy Camerota.

And I have the no slides, the slide of shame. This week my update is I have actually made Survey to come out to the brick-and-mortar businesses that we have here in Bremerton to kind of capture from their point of view how they feel about our Large-scale special events that we have and so I was lucky enough to be able to conduct my first one Which I thought was only going to take about 30 minutes and because I'm chatty it took an hour And I may or may not have shopped on my way out of said store but it was I think it's going to be really neat and the design of it is so that it's not just the downtown section, but I have the events that we have on Callow and the ones we have over in Minette and Waze Goose, which is over in Harrison Heights area kind of thing. So that is one of the clunkiest things about it is because I'm trying to make sure it's one survey with one questions that all businesses are asked equally. But when you're in a different section, you're like, how do you feel about this? And they're like, it's not over here. And you're like, okay, and this one, not over here. But I would say that the very first one has been very successful. And my intention of it is to compile them all when they're done. and make them public. So when I have discussed it with folks, they know that these documents are fully disclosable. Any answers that they give me should be treated as such. And so I've been doing that, like I said, with the brick and mortars. And I also have a separate one that I've been doing with our large scale event planners here in the city so that we can capture the voice of what it takes to do these events. The intention of this, is because we absolutely love these events. They bring in a ton of joy and money, and it's incredible for our community. But what we can't have forgotten is our brick and mortar businesses that we have here, and we need to make sure we're capturing their voice too, because these should all be things that are widely celebrated. So I'll be coming around with a raggedy clipboard that I have from college days that are still hanging on, so I haven't bought a new one. and coming out to our brick-and-mortar businesses to kind of do those surveys. So that is my whole update. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Next, let's hear from District 5 Councilmember Michael Goodnow.

Okay, let's go through some slides. First up, there is a new mural going in on the side of spread supplies. So it sort of faces, I guess, Lafayette, kind of the U-Haul center over there. Anyways, it's a great way to bring some color and stuff, and I just love the idea of that area being almost like a little mural district. Next slide. The district, the Charleston Business District wants to thank the city for donating or I guess relocating more planters from other areas of the city that were no longer being used down onto Calo so they can care for the plants and bring some green down there. Next slide. The Cars on Callow, which I think this is the third year, is having its next planning meeting on August 6th. Is that, what's the day?

August 6th is tomorrow.

Okay, thanks. Tomorrow, 6 p.m. at Typewriter Fever. And so if you'd like to get involved, they can certainly use all the help they can get or would welcome all the help. I don't know if they need it. Next slide. Let's see. Their next meeting, their next Charleston Business District meeting is August 18th, 6 p.m., also at Typewriter Fever. That's at 620 North Callow. Next slide. And the new Charleston District newsletter is out. There's a QR code you can scan for that. And the highlight is the new owner of Calo Fibers, which is a brand new business on Calo. And I think that's all I have for slides. But I will mention that a new business opened on Callow today. The Ship Shaped Bottle Shop, a wine shop, opened up on Ship Shaped? It makes me think of the Brady, anybody remember pork chops and applesauce? Okay. What does ship shape have to do with that? Sorry. With what? The Brady Bunch? Okay, I'll tell you later. Okay, so it sounds similar. Anyways, so I went down there today and it was a really fantastic shop, but I didn't have time to get photos into slides or anything like that. uh i did want to highlight a couple of things that are going on in downtown uh tomorrow is sorry friday is the art walk but also on friday night in quincy square they're doing zine fest so sort of a craft magazine kind of movement and that'll also continue on saturday also this weekend downtown is the west sound film festival There are internationally submitted films. This is, I think, the ninth or tenth year of the film festival. One film that I'm excited about is called Dead Deer High. It was made locally. It was made by educators. And the final scene is filmed in the Roxy. And so while you're watching, so it's a film about a slam poetry, high school students in a slam poetry contest. But it'll be really meta to sit in the same seats as the people who are watching the slam poetry thing will happen. The film premiered at South by Southwest. This is a really fantastic film. Really excited to bring it back home into the Roxy. There's a lot of other great films, too many to mention. You can go to West Sound Film Festival's website or social media or the Roxy's and find out more information. But we've got a lot of things to do this weekend, so hope to see you out and about.

Thank you. Next, let's hear from District 6 Councilmember Anna Mockler.

Hi. So one of the things that I have been hearing from constituents and non-constituents is how to get a hold of city council. So this is announced at every open meeting, city.council at Bremertonwa.gov. That goes to our staff, our extremely overworked staff. So if you're not hearing back in a week or so, I'd give it that much time. You can easily find out who is your counselor by going to the interactive council districts on the council page website. I'm going to shout out something that happens in District 5, but three of the key holders of the People's Exchange are my constituents, so I'm grabbing them. Just to let you know again that on Thursday evenings, usually about 4 to 7, there is often a medical bus. There is always a ton of food, you know, food to take home with you, groceries, food bank type food. clothes kitchen utensils and a new thing that they're having is legal help it's just a folding table set up inside packs which is short for people's exchange and they will give you basic legal help and the thing I really liked about the person who was working there is they said what they knew and what they didn't know. They didn't try to give you happy answers. I don't have a slide for it, I'm sorry, but I stopped by the celebration on Friday at Lulu Haddon Park last week and it was great. There were five people there, well five adults and innumerable small children running around and there was a huge carton of art supplies and they had put up art and they had strung it like prayer flags along the pavilion. That was pretty all right. That's pretty much it for District 6. Again, let me remind you that on September 10th from 4 to 7 p.m., the Star of Hope will be presenting to the neighborhood, for everybody, but especially for District 6, what they are planning to construct now that they have basically all the money that they need. That'll be at 1117 North Callow, St. Vincent de Paul. You guys all know St. Vincent de Paul.

okay thank you have a good week thank you um next district seven council member rick tiff do you have a report today um i do not have a report tonight thank you okay thanks so i think i have a couple slides dave Also on the city website, the council page, it does list our phone numbers. We all have a city phone number, so you can always call that or text to that number also. So I want to thank everybody who did the community budget survey. We got about 140 people at last count. And the results are gonna be shared at the August 12th study session. And information that we gathered from community members are gonna be factored into the 2027 to 2028 budget planning. So thank you for filling those out. Next slide, please. So upcoming meetings, we have a study session next Wednesday at five upstairs in our conference room. Public Works Committee meeting is August 18th at 2 p.m. You can zoom into that and the Zoom link will be on the City Council webpage. And then our next regular council business meeting will be August 19th at 5.30 p.m. And that's it for my report. So before we begin community comment, I want to remind everyone, city council meetings are business meetings for the city of Bremerton and are also a workplace for city employees. Community comment is an opportunity for members of the public to address the council on matters that are or are not listed on tonight's agenda, but are still related to the work of the city council. Your spoken community comment must refrain, I'm sorry, remain focused on matters related to city business. The city also has an obligation to maintain a workplace free of harassment. Harassing language, including but not limited to ethnic, racial, or sex-based slurs, is not germane to city business and will not be permitted. If the speaker uses harassing language or otherwise violates these standards, I will provide one warning. If the conduct continues, the speaker will be directed to stop speaking and return to their seat. We will begin with those who signed up to provide community comment. So our city clerk is going to list those names for me. And you'll have 90 seconds to address the council. If you would like your name included in the meeting record, please state your name clearly before beginning your comments.

So first we have Sally Haft.

Good evening, council members. I'm Sally Haas, as you all know. I'm here to talk about something that I know very little about, but to advocate for it. I've heard recently that the University of Washington provides some grants that you can apply for. And they have one called Livable City Year, which is a partnership with municipalities where students and faculty Faculty members do research across the disciplines of finance, accounting, public policy, and urban planning. I'd like to encourage you to investigate and possibly to apply for one of these grants if you feel it would be valuable to us to have some extra help on some of these topics. If I can be helpful at all in being an advocate for this, please contact me. Thank you. Thank you.

Next we have Zach Martin.

Good evening. My name is Zachary Lee Martin. I've been homeless for 11 years. My only income is EBT. I have no other income. I am banned from the local shelters, and I am banned from Kitsap Transit until June 2027. So I have no legal place to sleep in Bremerton. Your law, chapter 9.32, says I can't camp if a shelter bed is available, but a bed I'm banned from is not available to me. That means every night I'm breaking the law just by trying to sleep. I'm asking you to amend the law to allow nighttime rest. Allow people who have no shelter option to sleep in parks or on sidewalks from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., not to camp all day, just to sleep at night. And please add an exception. If a person is banned from the shelter, that bed should not count as available and change it from a crime to a service referral. After 11 years outside, I know how to be a good neighbor. I just need a legal place to exist at night. Thank you.

Thank you.

Christy Schultz.

Good evening. My name is Christy Schultz. I live out in the UGA, up past the Sheridan-Trenton intersection. People are in quite a tizzy over this hybrid shelter thing on Sheridan. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. I think that there is a need for this, but I'm not sure you picked the right spot for it. We seem to be as a community drawing a significant population of regional homeless. The shelters are a band-aid fix. Our city managers need to be digging just a little deeper. to solve the problem. That's why you get paid the big bucks. In the meantime, I have serious concern about the proposed Sheridan hybrid shelter. There's too many to detail. I think better on paper, so I think I'm going to send you an email. But one prime one I'm running into as I talk to people around the community is that there are no clear plans for maintaining security and or police coverage of this. We've seen situations with other shelters. There have been crimes, drugs, you name it, have gone on, and we need to head that sort of stuff off the pass, okay? Were you planning to give the police a few more resources to help them out? there's no clear plan either to maintain reasonable neighborhood aesthetics. It's pretty trashy up on places in Trenton, and I don't want it to just become a continuum coming right on down Sheridan and into the school zone. So I'm not exactly against it, but I'm not exactly for it either. I will be sending you an email. Thank you for your time. Thank you.

Okay, those are the only folks who signed up, but I welcome other people who didn't sign up if you have something you would like to come up and discuss.

Hi, can you hear me? I'm Suzanne Griffith. I live in District 1, and I have for many, many years. I wanted to... to give a little wave to Jennifer. I liked what you had to say about the proposed work for the homeless. And I like what's going on in Calo. Whatever you had to do with it, it's really looping down there. It's great. And from what the mayor said, there are a lot of really lovely things going on in Bremerton. And people are participating. But the homeless projects don't seem to be moving along at any reasonable speed at all. And this is not a new thing. People move here and they think it's a new thing. It's been going on for many, many years. And it just gets sadder and sadder. And people who are chronically homeless, in my From watching them, I have discerned that they become weird. If you're being moved along all the time, you don't have anywhere to rest, you don't have any normal socialization, you don't have regular meals, you don't have regular showers, and a great number of things you don't have. You're not really part of a society. And this affects people over time, and they need to be re-socialized, and we need to take that into account.

Thank you. Thank you. Are there other people who would like to speak tonight?

Hi, I'm Joslyn. I'm with the Bremerton Prayer Walk. And I just want to say that I am so grateful, Jennifer, for your courage right now, because I think we need somebody in leadership that's willing to lead with compassion. We literally have people dying. We just had another death the other day from people being moved along from people This incredibly aggressive anti-camping ordinance that was passed, it's one of the most aggressive in the country. We don't need to have something like that in order to solve both sides, to keep both people happy, to keep everyone happy. We don't need to, there is such an opportunity here for us to lean into an opportunity to do something Pretty remarkable where we have constant interruptions of hope. And we've seen it. We've seen when we constantly interrupt hope that people start getting that hope themselves. And then they do more than we can ever. I've got stories after stories coming out of the prayer walk of people just completely... define everything that everyone had ever sent against them. And it is pretty special to see. But we have people dying. We have this anti-camping ordinance. And we have this inability to do anything for shelters because nobody's willing to take a risk to do something different. And we need to do something different. We cannot speak. That's the definition of insanity. And we should not be insane. Thank you, guys. Thank you.

Is there anybody else who'd like to speak?

Jose Camacho, Friends of Smith's Cove, Rock the Block. On May 20, not too long ago, there was an Opportunity Zone hearing in which I argued, why would we want to do a round two of Opportunity Zone when Southwest Group is under a dark shadow of Opportunity Zone securities fraud by its own securities experts? Why would we want that? Denise Fry responded, and Andrea Spencer, while we need developers, Denise Fry then said something like, I hope there's developers, or if there's developers, I hope there will be. Emails now show, we recently obtained, that she directly colluded with Southwest Group, Jack Paul, and we see Wesley Larson starting in October of 2024 with Jack Paul, recruiting government officials to help him with a master plan in Harrison Heights. And at the point where Denise Fry is invited into the Master Plan Club, at that point is when she does her 180 turnabout on the shelter. You see her reaching out to Jack Paul and Andrea Spencer, divulging a confidence in which she asked for their help creating the argument to shut the project down. It's collusion, it's illegal. She should be out of office.

Is there anybody else who would like to speak tonight? Okay, under item 8A, the council will now meet for 10 minutes to receive and evaluate complaints against a public officer or employee as allowed under RCW 42.30.1101F, and no action is anticipated. We'll be back in 10 minutes. Thank you.

Recording stopped.

This concludes tonight's regular council business meeting. Meeting's adjourned. Thank you for coming. All that for nothing.