City Council - Regular Meeting

Well, good evening, everybody.

I'd like to call this Hybrid City of Edgewood Regular Council meeting of August 25th, 2026 to order at 7 p.m. Will you all please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag 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. And will the clerk please call roll?

Deputy Mayor Creeley?

I am here.

Council Member Pasarewski. Here. Ramirez.

Here.

Keith. Here. Rasmus.

Here.

Edwards.

Here.

Southerd.

Here.

And Mayor Olson has an excused absence this evening. Rolls complete.

Very good. Council Rule 9.3 allows a council member or the mayor, who's not here, to add or delete an item to the agenda if the necessity is explained and receives a majority vote of the council to suspend the council rules of procedure and add or delete an item. Are there any requests to add or delete an item from any of the council members? Okay, very good. Next on the agenda is a presentation. Tonight we have a presentation by Pierce County Library Systems Executive Director Gretchen, and is it Casarotti or Casarotti?

Thank you. Yes, indeed. Thank you. My name sounds German and Italian, and I am neither of those things, but what's in a name, as the old great Shakespeare would say. Thank you all so much for having me this evening to share a little bit of information about the Pierce County Libraries. um i have visited before so i've seen a couple of your faces um before in the past but uh appreciate the chance to just give an update about what's happening um at the library my colleague steve conway is here with me as well and he's our regional services manager so i always look to him to fill in some gaps if i if i don't have the answer to things uh go ahead next slide please Jeremy, right? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. In case you're not aware, the Pierce County Library System serves nearly 2,000 square miles of unincorporated Pierce County and the 15 cities that have annexed into our service area within. So we serve around getting close to 700,000 people as the county continues to grow. I share that because our Milton Edgewood branch is one of the 19 branches in our system. So we are able to share our resources across a really wide range of the county, as well as having reciprocal borrowing for people in this community who might work in King County or work in Tacoma. And so the net of resources that libraries offer to communities is much wider than what you might see if you come into your local branch. And next slide, please. I'll try to honor your time by being brief. The library is a junior taxing district, so we are funded primarily through property taxes. About 97% of our annual revenue comes into the library by direct way of property taxes. So thank you all for funding and supporting your local library. As we work to bring forward the literacy efforts that we have in our strategic plan goals, which I'll share a little bit about with you this evening. As you can see from our 2025 graph in our annual report, which is completely available on the library's website, the vast majority of our expenses annually go to our staff. Books come and books go. We really want to make sure we're investing in the people who make the resources come alive, who make sure our spaces are welcoming, safe, and inclusive, and who really make the work happen of the library in serving a community. Right now, our annual budget is around $50 million. That supports all those branches. We also have an administrative center in Mid-County that provides all the support for the district as well. For those who pay attention to taxes, we are at $0.33 for our current levy rate per $1,000. That has not changed. I've been with the library for four years, and we've pretty much held that levy rate steady as we work organizationally to deliver our mission. Go ahead, next slide. That tiny sliver of the non-tax revenue each year comes from self-generated revenue by way of our Pierce County Library Foundation and our Friends of the Library. And our foundation has an annual event as well as typical nonprofit annual giving that supports the library. So we just released information about the annual Trivia Bee, which is held in October on a Saturday, the 24th, I believe, this year. where people can come together and have a lot of fun with knowledge games and have a blind date with a book. And the foundation supports the library's work by way of the free books that we give away to children for participating in the summer reading program. They support many of our outreach activities outside of the buildings across the county. And our Milton Edgewood Friends of the Library group is a part of a larger coordination trying to work with some of the other library branches and Friends of the Library groups. So for folks who maybe have volunteer requirements for school hours or folks just looking to get involved, get out and get connected in community, I definitely would invite and encourage anyone in the community who's interested to get involved with our Friends of the Library. We really appreciate the book sales and the advocacy and the connections within the community that they bring to us. Next slide, please. Some fast facts, people, you know, despite the thing you hear online, libraries are not dead. We continue to be busy and active places within the community. 2025, I think, reflects the... The multi-year strategy coming out of COVID. So when I came before, many of you weren't here yet, but it was really still kind of coming out of the pandemic experience and recovering. We've really focused on capacity building, development. We've created new training and development programs within the library and really focused on our infrastructure as an organization as we come back out of the pandemic. So that included strategies around programs, really leaning into our role in the educational ecosystem. So some raw stats there about who comes to programs and how many cardholders we have, but also at the local level, our Milton Edgewood branch is a very busy place that provides a lot of technology support and assistance. Fun fact, Christian fiction is one of your higher circulating genre within the collection, the print collection. So you all keep us very busy, and it's a charming little place with a meeting room and a lot of great services for the community. Next slide, please. We did launch a new strategic plan. If you participated in the survey or any of our community engagement, we thank you. Part of the process with the new strategic plan was updating our mission, vision, and values, which the board approved in the last year. And so we're really making sure that all of our organizational activities are centered and grounded around our mission, vision, values, and next slide, our four strategic goal areas to enhance the library user experience that includes digital environments as well. welcoming inclusive spaces to make sure that we are accessible for all the different ways that people come to a library for resources or support. We're emphasizing strategic partnerships as you saw with such a large geographic area and all the varied needs that we see across the county from homelessness to social service needs to senior isolation. to early learning and access to child care and child support. We couldn't do the work that we do alone. And so we've really built part of that capacity is to have strategic partnerships so that we can not duplicate, but rather bring in and connect people to resources that already exist in the county. We think that's a better way to use our resources widely and get people the resources they need. And then lastly, building a sustainable future. For us, we call it the triple bottom line, which is nerdy, but we're nerds. So we look at environmental, financial sustainability and social and economic sustainability for individuals. So that allows us to really think very broadly about what does it mean to be sustainable as a public library, as a government agency, looking into the future and what we need to be doing today to take steps to make sure that the library is here for the next generation of Edgewood residents as well. Next slide, please. Couple of upcoming events. We have a calendar of events that is available in the branch as a paper. Some people like to post it to their refrigerator. But you can also download the library's app where you can see the calendar of events as well as use the collections. So if you're unfamiliar with that, I encourage you or invite you to go check that out. It connects all of those different resources for library users. But we always have something for everyone. And... Before our next slide, before I leave you, I just wanted to share a story with you all. I think it helps to express some of the ways that the library staff create that magic, as I said earlier. And I wanted to just tell you about Shirley. So Shirley is a senior who came to the Milton Edgewood Library and she had a new smartphone, no computer at home, no printer, very limited access to technology and confidence in the skill of using that cell phone. And she came into the library openly exclaiming that she was desperate. She had received an important letter via text on her phone, and she was struggling, very frustrated to read, access, and use this letter in this tiny digital object on her phone. And she wanted to be able to print it, see it, hold it, use it. And she came to the library and the staff coached her through how to save it and then how to use our mobile printing service to be able to write from her phone using the Wi-Fi, send that image to the printer, have a free print to take and sit and read the letter that she was so struggling and frustrated with. And we offer the library offers free services like that at all of our branches across the system, but also that crucial service of having a staff member there who can directly support, help coach and teach somebody to work through and navigate this increasingly complex, complicated and challenging information ecosystem. We at Pierce County Libraries really want to turn all of those opportunities in working with people from not just having access to help building confidence and empowering people as one of our organizational values. So thank you so much for a few minutes of your time this evening, and I'd be happy to answer questions if time allows. Thank you.

Excellent. Anybody on?

One question.

Go ahead.

Do all branches have screen readers or are select branches?

Um, now the technology is built into the computers and we, um, did get a grant to do some accessibility work. And we realized that it's people don't know what's available on the systems that we have. So we do have a work group, um, that had been doing a pilot in Buckley to look at what kind of accessibility features. Um, but we don't have dedicated stations. It's really built into the existing computers. It's a great question.

Hey, Gretchen. I had a quick question before I ask my question. My family and I love our library system. We frequent the Sumner Library more than any other library. And shout out to the librarians there. They are very helpful and very kind. My daughter took part in that summer reading program. The librarians, I think, were more excited than she was. with entering the raffle. So before COVID, the library system did have the overdue book fines implemented, and then during COVID, they were lifted. My question to you is, since the fees are still lifted, have you noticed a difference in... how people are returning the books on time, and also, do you happen to know how much of the fees were a part of, like, the funding for the library? Was it, like, a drastic amount? Was it something that wasn't as much, obviously, as property taxes? And if there's any plans to bring back overdue book finds.

Thank you. That is a great question. So let's see, multi-pronged. The short answer to the fiscal impact is it was estimated to be about $55,000 a year. So in a $50 million budget, it really had not a material impact. What in the field of libraries research had shown is that overdue fines negatively impact the library users who need the resources the most. And so instead of returning it late, they never return it at all, get a lost fee, and never come back. And so by eliminating the overdue fines, we still have a system to say this book is overdue or overdue and you can renew it. And at a certain point, it still reverts to lost. And so if the person never brings it back, they still have to pay for that item that No one else can use if they keep it. So it's still fairly new. We don't have a longitudinal study to really look at it over time. But we do know that we've seen an increase in library cardholders, which is correlative. It's not a direct cause and effect, but it's a factor of many strategies we're trying to do to eliminate barriers to use. One more piece to your question related to Sumner is there's no direct funding from the way that the library fines and fees were collected. Those go into the general fund, and the majority of the construction is paid for by a bond that the voters in Sumner passed in 2023. Four, three, four. Let's see, did I get it all? One more piece I would just add to it then is what's next in increasing or improving the library user experience is looking at ways, particularly for busy families, how can we make it easier for you to use the library? So there are additional features that we can enable in our systems like auto renews. If no one else has a hold on that book, just keep it. Keep it till you're ready. If you have it for six months, just buy it. So we're really looking internally at more ways that we can increase the convenience and the service for people to just make it easier. Great. Thank you.

I had a question. Is there any new programs or ideas that you guys are working on that excite you?

Hmm. Well, I would not be a good librarian if I didn't talk about AI. So, you know, this is a radical, fast changing impact to our society and all of our systems. You can't open your email without Copilot or whichever platform you're using. My text messages tonight said, here's what the text is about. And the text was like six words. So we are doing some work in programming for education around AI as we're learning alongside everybody else. You know, the rapid tool comes with costs and impacts, but also opportunities. So it's a challenging kind of landscape for us to be in. Educating a community in an ecosystem that also impacts us when we care deeply about information literacy. And increasingly, this tool makes us question what's real and what's true. So I'm excited about it, just intellectually and kind of academically. I'm also really excited about the infrastructure you've put around early learning because that's going to enable us to provide more meaningful strategic support to communities. I think everyone knows kids are still struggling with kind of coming back to reading. There's competition for their attention. And I know that the librarians in the Pierce County Library System really embrace that learning is fun. and that there's many ways to learn and different ways to do that. So supporting children and families in the way that both in the buildings and outside of the communities and the way we're moving forward really excites me because we've got some great staff doing cool stuff.

Thank you.

Sure. I'd like to add, too, that I have an Amazon Kindle Fire, so I read a lot of e-books, and you're able to check out e-books from the Pierce County Library, and they've got a really nice selection there, so...

Thank you. Anyone who's got a commute, there's an audio book for you.

Audio as well. Yes. Anything else for Gretchen? Thank you so much.

Thank you all so much. Reach out if you have any questions.

All righty. Moving right along the audience comment section here. Um, we have, uh, Each speaker will have about five minutes to speak. Can somebody run the clock there for me, Rachel? Can you let the speakers know when their time is up? Yep, we've got it covered. You guys are great. Appreciate that. So five minutes to speak. It's a one-way communication. In other words, don't ask questions of the council. They're just there to listen to your comments at this point. And let's go to the list. And if anybody in the, I see we have two in the virtual audience, raise your hand as well if you'd like to speak. I'm going to go by the list that I was emailed here first. And Roseanne Tommen is first to come up and speak.

Okay, it's on.

I always mess that up. Roseanne Tommen, 11416 34th Street East, Edgewood. Good evening, counsel. I sent you an email with the historical and legal context behind Resolution 23-0682 and the MVCC heating and cooling contract. So I won't repeat all of that tonight. It was long. But I do want to make a few points. First, it has been made clear to all involved that the proposed changes to this agreement are council-driven. If that is the case, I think it's fair to ask, what problem are you actually trying to solve? I have watched these discussions in the public meetings, and I have not seen council push this nearly as strongly in the meetings as it appears to be being discussed outside of them. I also have not heard the historical context I provided in my email brought into those discussions. That history matters. This agreement was deliberately structured as a municipal service, not direct funding of MVCC programming because of public funds legal restrictions. It allows the city to support Mountain View while paying for something the city actually needs. There is also significant benefit to the city under this framework. that I don't want to lose sight of. Having an actual heating and cooling center service in place gives Edgewood a reportable, functional community service that supports our emergency preparedness, housing, and community resilience objectives and helps demonstrate participation in broader county and regional efforts around emergency and affordable housing. This is a requirement. that is a benefit to the city not simply mvcc the current agreement is functioning the director has also told council directly that if your goal is to support mvcc continuing this existing agreement is the way to do that so i genuinely want to know what problem does this does changing this solve because i can identify things changing could put at work at risk particularly the legal structure of the payment and potentially the continuation of the agreement itself but i have also i have not heard what problem The current agreement requires fixing. There is another concern I want to raise candidly. If the goal is genuinely to support Mountain View, I believe the existing agreement does that. If the goal is instead to move away from supporting Mountain View and get further into directing or scrutinizing its programming, that is unfortunately what this process can look like from the outside. And there is a larger issue here that concerns me as a former council member. In the past, when a complicated legal or procedural issue came before the council, staff and the city attorney would explain the issue in the public meeting. If a legal limitation was found or someone had a legal question, that information would be discussed and followed up publicly. So the public could see how council got to its conclusion. Those discussions were also opportunities for council members to learn for the next process. From the outside, I'm seeing more instances where we're hearing the individual council members, the mayor, and our staff has spoken with the attorney or that there is a legal or procedural issue, but we don't then see the substance of that guidance or the resulting reasoning brought back into the public discussion and shared with the full council. The recent Zoom discussions is another example of why I think that's important. I don't know the details of what legal or other issues may have arisen there, and I'm not suggesting that I do, but if a legal concern caused council to move away from that issue, I think the public and the council itself benefits from hearing that explained on the record and understanding why the issue was resolved that way. That's what transparency and council training accomplish together. It's not about telling council what decision to make. It's about making sure council has the information and legal context to make the decision and that the public can see how you got there. So my request tonight is pretty simple. Before changing this agreement, identify the problem that needs to be solved and communicate that to the public. Identify that the public funds implications have clearly been addressed and consider the value to the city of maintaining the existing service and the support that comes with it. If the goal is to continue serving Mountain View, the existing agreement already does that, and it does so in a structure that was intentionally designed to make that support possible. Thank you.

Thank you, Roseanne. Next up is Parker Thomas.

Is this working? Okay. Hello, Council. I just wanted to say that I hope that you will do what's best for the community center in the upcoming discussion about the contract. I have seen a lot of need for the kinds of things that it offers, like the heating and cooling. There are oftentimes a lot of people in there, so it'd be nice just to keep that going. Thank you.

Thank you, Parker. Next up I have Angelina Koenig.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor Creeley and City Council. I'm choosing to speak to you tonight on behalf of Mountain View Community Center as the Executive Director because I will not be here over the next two weeks while you will be discussing and asking more questions about the contract. What I do want to share with you as a director of a nonprofit organization, my privilege and my responsibility is to be a good steward of all of our resources no matter how they come to us when i arrived at this position i knew that this city contract was a great long-standing one that the city of edgewood and mountain view community center have had together for years to me that brought me joy as a non-profit leader and i was excited that we already had a good foundation of a great relationship because of this contract. However, my joy has diminished since January and the consequent conversations that have happened without me at the table when I was told that I would be invited to the table. And I do appreciate what Roseanne said about what solution is there going to be or what are we trying to solve. i as the director of mountain view community center truly am baffled by what thing we are truly trying to solve because there's been no clear communication with me as to what the full concern is i've only heard bits and pieces at the city council meetings whether they be public or whether they be study sessions And I would ask you to, before you have any further discussions on this, to really pause before you have a discussion with the mayor or anyone else in these chambers and say, who needs to be part of this conversation? And make sure that that person is part of the conversation, especially me as the director of Mountain View Community Center. because I do understand how contracts work. I do understand what my fiscal responsibility is, and I do not take them lightly. However, through this process, again, I share with you, I've been disheartened by it because I've not been at the table. The other thing is I've been quite discouraged around this process because there's no clear ending goal in sight. This contract discussion keeps getting pushed and pushed further down the road. to where it can be eventually delayed so much that it will not even be allowed to be discussed any further at City Council meetings and therefore by whatever decision to be made can be cut out of the budget, which would be a great disservice to the citizens of the City of Edgewood as well as to Mountain View Community Center. We think that, or we have heard the rhetoric, five days for $50,000 is a waste of money. We are open over 1,048 hours a year. We are open four days a week. Those numbers of days and hours will increase starting in September of 2026 to more than 36 extra hours per month. week. That is a lot of hours that we will be opening. And the thing is, our heating and our cooling is not going to get any better. We know that from the climate thing that is happening, climate that is happening in our world. Why do we have a climate advisory team for the city of Edgewood to produce a resilient community if we don't believe that climate is an issue? And yet we want to harp on little insignificant, non-consequential or on um relatable things to the contract and what i can tell you is that everybody who comes into the community center during the winter months is provided a warm place with warm temperatures and warm hearts and warm welcomes from my staff. In the cooler months, no, excuse me, in the hot months, our community center is open with a nice cool temperature and also our staff receiving everybody still with a warm welcome. But nonetheless, we are there throughout the whole year, ready 365 days a year to be open longer hours, more days in severe weather events. Again, that is not just what we are about or what we do. The other thing that I want to share with you very quickly, I was very discouraged to know that the City of Edgewood hosted a movie night this past Friday on August 21st when we have a memorandum of understanding in place between the City of Edgewood and the Mountain View Community Center that we would work in tandem on marketing, on dates, on everything together. And I, myself as the director, Mountain View Community Center and my staff were left out of any conversations, were left out of any planning for this last movie night that was held here at City Hall. Actions sometimes speak louder than words. Thank you.

Thank you, Angelina. Pastor Andrew Conley Holcomb.

Thank you for the privilege to address you tonight. I started at Mountain View Lutheran Church in January, so just the beginning of this year. And one of the reasons that I was excited to be called to this place was that Edgewood is an up and coming city, that there's a lot of changes that are going to happen. And over the next 10 years, I think the future of Edgewood is really going to be established and defined. One of the reasons I was excited was I saw that this church was planted in this community and connected a network and web of relationships that were seeking to advance the goals of being a livable, healthy and inclusive city. And one of the places that I saw that was the relationship between Mountain View Lutheran Church and Mountain View Community Center. The community center already had an active and thriving program that brought in vulnerable adults as well as children and families, providing services that the church could connect to and also amplify and support where folks might not trust organized religion, might not trust our particular denomination or Christianity in general. And I can't blame people for seeing what they see. But I see the community center as an avenue for delivering services and connecting with folks and being able to be a support in the community. And I was also excited that they had these relationships here with City Hall, that this was an environment that was fostering collaboration so that we could expand and reach more and more of our people that are finding themselves more and more isolated in today's world. And after hearing what's been spoken today, I'm disheartened and disappointed that something that seems that it should be so clear and easy to accomplish has been consistently delayed without any real expectation or clarity to your constituents. And so I would just like to see an investment in transparency. I mean, I think more than anything, One of the reasons people don't trust religion is the same reason that people don't trust government. And it's a lack of transparency and it's a lack of accountability. So I'm hoping that there's an investment in both of those things so that we can move forward with creating contracts and agreements that actually produce a healthy standard of living for the people in our community. you know, this is a city that wants to grow. This is a city that wants to become more inclusive, and it's going to be really challenged as property values and things change the accessibility and places like Mountain View Community Center are making this city more accessible to more and more people. And as especially as those economic circumstances continue to change, we're going to find that places like this are even more valuable to the city as a whole and our identity as a community. So I encourage you to think about those issues of transparency and accountability. We manifest them as respected leaders in our community. Thank you.

Thank you, Pastor. John West. Good evening.

Hello, Council and staff and public. It's good to see so many wonderful faces that I truly do miss. I wanted to come up here and speak in support of the Mountain View contract and your extension or renewal of that contract. And let me just get my talking points here. You know, one of the things when I was on council, I was part of the council that helped to craft and consider and approve this contract. And one of the reasons that this was important for me, it spoke to a need in the city that we just don't have, right? The city of Edgewood doesn't have its own community center and Mountain View provides a 10,000 square foot facility. That is open throughout the year and it is being used. There are seniors in our community who use it for lunches, exercise classes. It's air conditioned in the summer and it's heated in the winter. So it's a facility that's not waiting to be used. And unlike some of our neighboring cities, I mean, no, no, no, no offense to them. I've been there. I've used their their facilities and they're empty. And it does cost to use it. And EDUA doesn't have to staff this place. It doesn't have to pay the utilities. It doesn't have to pay the taxes on the facility. So for the small fee that we do, and I recognize the... you know, the city's financial situation, being a member of the council here until December last year. It is a challenge, but I think it's a vital service that you get out of this. And for that fee that the Edgewood residents actually get services real time, right now. And it's staffed. The utilities are paid for. So it's a valuable facility. And if you come out there and see it, there are people literally every Thursday. There are upwards of 150 to 200 people having dinner, families. There are seniors there three days out of the week and Tuesdays having lunch. So it's a used facility. And I think the benefit far outweighs any negatives you could find in this. I think I would encourage you all to look at it from a holistic perspective, what you're getting for your citizens and what the city doesn't have. And look at this special place that's in our city and consider renewing this contract. And by all means, come out and use the facility and see it. I think you'll be happy with what you see. So thank you very much.

Thank you, John. If you did not sign up, we would still like to address the council. Is there anybody in the audience who would like to come forward? And please do, yes, come forward. And just give your name and that you're either a resident or not a resident of Edgewood. Thank you.

Good evening, council. I wasn't aware you could see us, Mark.

It's just like big brother here, yeah.

I'm Lucy Lowry. I'm here representing the Board of Directors at the Community Center. I did not intend to speak because I have supported the Community Center and vocalized that to you in the past. I would like to give you perspective of my being involved with the Community Center over the last five years. We have grown. We have grown from a little local concern that's done a lot of local comfortable niches in the community to now we have a new director. We have a new energy at the community center that is felt if you walk in there. And I think you probably felt it when you had the people speaking tonight. That is going to grow. I'm encouraging that that's going to grow our profile in the community is taking a higher profile. Some of us, I just talked informally to the. To Jeremy that we will be meeting with him hopefully to. look for a solution to getting the word out about what the community has to offer, not just in heating and cooling, but all programming, which impacts people feeling warm and welcome. I support us. We have a fundraiser coming up in October. I will not be able to be there. However, I'm sponsoring a table. If we have anybody that's interested in sitting at the Lowry rental tables, please contact me. or contact Angelina, and I would be happy to pay for you to be there. Please join us. It's going to be really a lot of fun. Thank you.

Thank you, Lucy. Anyone else who has not signed up but still wants to speak, you're welcome to come forward. Okay. Seeing no takers and no hands online.

Deputy Mayor, you are muted.

Oh, of course I was. All right. Well, thank you, everybody, for your comments tonight. And if there's anybody else who's not signed up and would like to come forward, please do. Anyone?

No? Okay.

We'll move on to the consent agenda. Are there any items to be amended or pulled from the consent agenda? No. Okay. All right. Seeing none, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? So moved Edwards.

Second Keith.

Okay. It's been moved by council member Edwards. Second by council member Keith. Any, well, let's go ahead with discussions. Council member Edward. Nothing to add. Just standard business. Okay. Council Member Keith.

Normal business. No comment. All right.

Anybody else have any comments on the agenda or the consent agenda?

All right. That's moved and seconded.

And all in favor of approving the consent agenda as presented, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Since agenda has been passed. Next on the agenda is AB 260714. Ordinance related to electric security alarm systems adopting amendments to the EMC Title 18. And tonight we will have Director Metzler brief us on this subject.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Good evening, Council, members of the public. This is the item that's been discussed for the last few meetings. We had good discussion at the last study session. We have updated the performance standards for electric security alarm systems and fences to more clearly accommodate personal livestock animal uses as highlighted in the attached red lines. So happy to take any questions you may have. Looking forward to potential action this evening.

No questions? Okay.

Do I have a motion to adopt Ordinance 260714 related to electric security alarm systems adopting amendments to AMC Title 18?

So moved, Southerd. Second.

All right. We have a motion to approve by Councilmember Southerd. And second by council member Ramirez. Council member Southern, comments?

Well, thank you to staff for working on this, especially the last minute corrections that we asked for. I appreciate the input from the community about what kind of changes can this prevent in the future with that awful set of events with that business owner. But thank you for doing all that work. Thank you, Jeremy.

Council Member Ramirez.

Thank you, Josh and Jeremy, and especially to Planning Commission for all those late evenings of retaining walls and fencing. And it's just nice to empower local business to protect their stuff. So thanks.

Very good. Anyone else have any comments? All right. It's been moved seconded to adopt AB260714. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed say nay. Okay. Motion has passed. We are moving right along folks. Good job. All right. Next on the agenda is council comments. Who has some council comments? Just raise your hand and Council Member Keith.

I was Surprised and concerned about the movie night. I, when it was announced that we were doing the Sandlot and the mayor announced the date, it wasn't clear to me that it wasn't part of the Mountain View contract. We have an MLU that's very detailed about movie nights with Mountain View. And I... I guess, I assumed that there's old sayings about assuming, but I assumed that it was part of the MOU. So I was concerned about that. So I would like to make a motion to review the event, the MOU. I'm specifically looking to learn about the budget for this event, about risk and safety issues, were there additional insurances? I mean... We cooked food. Did we have food handling permits? There's supposed to be special permits for temporary restaurant activities. Did we have those permits? And I'd like to know more about how come we're moving away from an active contract on movie nights. I did read on social media that we... Had s'mores. Like to know how they were cooked. Food handling permits. Were they outdoor burned? We have a burn van going on. So I'd like a full rundown of the event at the next study session. That's a motion. And I would need a second for that.

I will second that. I think it's

Deputy Mayor, you are muted once again.

Oh, of course I am. I seconded. Sorry if I was muted to be the second. And shall we open this for discussion? I think it's reasonable.

You can, Mark. I mean, but our bylaws say that a first and a second is enough.

Got to get it on the agenda. Correct.

Even though that's our bylaws, could I ask a quick, is it okay to ask a quick question here? Since the person that would be most likely providing this information would be Mayor Olson, do we know if he'll be back in town before the study session next week? Okay.

Very good. Okay. All right. Any other council comments? Seeing none, and there being no further business to come before the council, I call the meeting adjourned at 745. Good night, everybody.