City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening residents of Everett, Washington. I would like to call to order the Everett City Council meeting of June 17, 2026. For information on council meetings and how to participate, please visit everettwad.gov slash city council. Please note, we do not allow comments of any kind of campaigning, whether for or against ballot measures or candidates running for office. We also do not accept comments focused on personal matters that are unrelated to city business. We ask the audience refrain from clapping, cheering, or booing, and no signage or loud in the chambers. We ask that everyone take a seat and not gather in the entryway. Clerk, please take the roll.

Mayor Franklin.

Excused.

Council Member Weir. Here. Council Member Zerlingo.

Here.

Vice President Ryan.

Excused.

Council Member Bourbono.

Here.

Council Member Toohey. Here. Council Member Bader.

Here.

President Schwab.

Here. And at this time, I'd like to ask Councilman Bader to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Please join me in the class. 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.

Thank you. At this time, I'd like to ask Councilmember Weir to read the land acknowledgment.

The City Council wishes to acknowledge the original inhabitants of this place, the Stoogesha people and their successors, the Tulalip tribes. Since time immemorial, they have hunted, fished, gathered on, and taken care of these lands and waters. We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water. We will strive to be honest about our past mistakes and bring about a future that includes their people, stories, and voices to form a more just and equitable society.

Thank you. We'll begin with old business. Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes for June 10, 2026? So moved. Second. Motion and second's been made. Clerk, please take the vote.

Councilmember Weir. Yes. Councilmember Zarlingo.

Yes.

Councilmember Burbano. Yes. Councilmember Tui. Yes. Councilmember Bader. Yes. President Schwab.

Yes. Now it's time for public comment, which includes written comment acknowledgement. Under our rules, written comment shall be considered in the same manner as an oral comment. The person submitting the comment must provide their name and city of residence. Written comments require this to be made part of the official council record. Good evening, Angie. Do we have any written comments and anyone signed up to speak?

Good evening, President Schwab. We have no written comments, and we do have quite a few people here in chambers wishing to speak. So we will start with William. If you could please come to the podium.

How's our online? No one online?

There were a couple signed up, but they haven't appeared yet.

Okay, thank you.

And please hit the button on the base of the mic. State your full name, city of residence, and you have three minutes to speak.

William Parent, Silver Lake. I just slapped this together. I got gas. This is for consumer protection and fuel quality oversight in Everett. This is the second time this happened. I go down I-5, down the 101, right? I get gas at the AM, PM, the first time this happened. You know, I fill up. It cost me three quarters of a tank of gas, right? Get down to the Hood Canal, shoot back, right? So last night, I got 50 bucks. I went to the Safeway. I put it in my gas tank. I shoot all the way down to the Hood Canal, right? I land there on E, right? Give or take, you know, gas stations are kind of far apart. So I make it to the second gas station. It's a dollar cheaper. We're not talking price now. We're talking quality. I get, because I just threw this up in like 10 minutes. So I fill up my gas tank to the top, you know, top it off. I jump back on the 101, I shoot up here, no rush hour traffic, hit it at 1030. I shoot all the way back to Everett, down 101, back up to 105, and I land back in Everett with a three-quarter tank of gas. Now, that's horrible. If I can shoot down there with a half a tank of gas and shoot back up here to Everett and only use a quarter tank of gas... Yeah, I just want to mention that.

That's the second time that's happened. for buying gas. I don't want to buy gas out of Everett. That's not how you force me on the bus. That's how I feel. You're forcing me on the bus. Because, you know, there's no bus stop to go to my work. And it's costing me way too much to be buying Everett gasoline to go back and forth to work every day. When I can just shoot down, grab a few gas cans, shoot down at the Hood Canal, it's like so much more worth it. So I just want to put that out there. I mean, I could... go into more detail write an email about it but i just had to say something about the fuel quality in the city of everett is horrible so i mean all the cars are stuck here it's not that they can't get away so yeah i just need to say something about the gas station school fuel quality thank you thank you and john if you could please come to the podium

John Van Dalen. Oh, sorry.

That's okay.

Okay. Please state your full name and city residence in your three minutes.

Good afternoon. John Van Dalen. I live in Everett, North Everett, 1316 Hoyt. And I have been, or I came here to invite you to next week's Amateur Radio Field Day, which is a nationwide and worldwide event that is put on each year. It allows testing equipment should we have an earthquake or a volcano again or something like that. City of Everett does have a CERT program that has quite a few amateur radio operators in their group and they They converse Tuesday mornings at 9 o'clock and 9.15 on two different pieces of equipment in Everett. But I'm not sure if they go out unless they belong to a club. And basically... test their equipment a little bit more. We're going to be at Regent Park, starting at 11 o'clock. Next Saturday, we were running through the evening into Sunday morning. And then we'll close down our site. You have a picture and comment sheet that I gave you earlier. And I appreciate the time. Is there any questions? Thank you.

Thank you. Dustin, if you could please come to the podium. Please state your full name and city residence. You have three minutes to speak.

Hi, my name is Dustin Graves. I'm from Lake Stevens, Washington. I'll start. Thank you for your time and your continued support of skating. I am representing Everett Figure Skating Club and youth programming. I want to specifically thank the council for its past grant for support of the Everett Figure Skating Club for Wintertide. That support helped our club at the time to put on programming for the community. I'm speaking today as a parent, a volunteer, and a board member of the Everett Figure Skating Club. I formally joined the Everett Figure Skating Club board in March, but my family has been involved with skating at Everett much longer. When the rink first announced without notice to the public that it intended to take over a figure skating programming, I wanted to understand how I could help. From my perspective, a longstanding nonprofit club was being pushed out of programming it had built in a public facility. I bring relevant professional and volunteer experience to the issue. I have nonprofit and board experience, experience in finance and engineering, and business ownership experience. Those experiences have taught me the importance of governance, documentation, clear authority, financial responsibility, fair policies, and accountability. Because this is a public facility, I believe the appropriate path was to raise concerns through oversight channels. Everett Figure Skating Club has raised concerns involving governance, billing, programming authority, public facility access, contractor and employment practices, conflicts of interest, financial viability, and the impact of rink management decisions on nonprofit user groups and youth athletes. Everett Figure Skating Club has raised documented concerns about Oakview Group, or OBG, and its treatment of coaches, contract language, and written communications tied coaches' ability to offer private lessons at the rink to participation in rink-operated programming. In our view, that raises serious concerns about worker control, contractor classification, and whether those practices are appropriate at a public overseen facility. Everett Figure Skating Club also raises concerns about financial viability of rink-operated programming OBG was proposing. Based on the information available to us, we were concerned the programming could create financial risk rather than benefit being represented. Those concerns were not meaningfully reviewed or addressed. We specifically raised these concerns with Chairman Crowther and the Everett Public Facilities District, EPFD, since they are the public body responsible for oversight of the facility. We are not asking the city council or EPFD to micromanage skating. We are asking for meaningful oversight When a private operator's decisions, sorry, of the facility, we're not asking, we're asking for meaningful oversight when a private operator's decisions were threatening a longstanding nonprofit club, its programming, its coaches, and its skaters. Many of the concerns Everett Figure Skating Club raised involved decisions being made by OVG as the operator and agent acting on behalf of EPFD. When those decisions affected access, programming, billing, scheduling, and our club's ability to operate, we repeatedly asked what policy or authority supported those actions. Too often, instead of receiving clear policy answers from the public oversight body, we were redirected back to the operator and their legal team. For example, when Everett Figure Skating Club attempted to bring its contract forward for renewal after it was allowed to expire, we had to push to just receive time for the EPFD board to consider it. Initially, we were told reasons why it cannot be considered that did not appear to match EPFD's own bylaws or process. That raised serious concerns for us as to whether there was a clear understanding of the board's role, authority, and responsibility for oversight. Instead, our experience has been deeply concerning. When we raised these issues, we did not receive the level of public oversight or support we expected. Too often the concerns appears to be routed back through Oakview Group or Oakview Group Legal, the same organization whose conduct we were asking to be reviewed. At points, rather than receiving meaningful reviews of the issues, we were threatened with consequences related to our ability to continue operating at the facility. That is very difficult to understand when the club was trying to raise good faith concerns about a public facility, public oversight, and the treatment of nonprofit youth sports. This is placed Everett Figure Skating Club in an extremely difficult position. The club is trying to serve skaters, support families and coaches, continue to pay its bills. We've had to spend a significant time with volunteers responding to legal threats, billing disputes that undermine the club's ability to operate. This is not just a disagreement, but we're requesting that the city provides oversight. Thank you.

Thank you. For the record, that was your five minutes. What's that? For the record, that was five minutes. We get you pre-approved that.

Oh.

And you had it timed perfectly.

Okay. Reese, if you could please come to the podium. And feel free to adjust the mic to your preference there and then state your full name, city of residence, and you have three minutes to speak.

Good evening, City Council members. My name is Reese. I am 12 years old. I have been a competitive figure skater with Everett Figure Skating Club for the last four years. First, I want to thank you for your time and for your support of skating in Everett. Skating means a lot to me. I am grateful that our community has a rink where kids like me can train, learn, and grow. I'm here tonight because of the ongoing situation at the rink has affected me personally. I recently found out that my coach of over two years is leaving this month for another rink. That was really upsetting because she knows my skating, my goals, my programs, and what I need to work on. I understand that the ongoing situation and uncertainty at the rink are part of why she's leaving. Because of this, my training may become less consistent and my family may have to split time between Everett and Lynwood while we figure out our coaching options. Some of my skating friends have already left Everett and are planning to leave because of the conflict and uncertainty at the rink. That is really sad because skating is not just training for me, it is community. I hope the city understands that what is happening at the rink affects real kids and families. It affects our coaches, our training, our friendships, and the skating community that has been built here over many years. I want Everett to continue being a place where figure skaters can train in a stable and supportive environment. Thank you for listening, and thank you again for your time and support of skating in Everett.

Thank you. Dottie, if you could please come to the podium. You sent your full name and city residence. You have three minutes to speak.

Hi, my name is Dottie Medaglia, Arlington, Washington. And I just want to say I'm so proud. I appreciate your time to listen to us today. I am the president of Everett Figure Skating. I am a US figure skating official. I am treasurer of Pacific Northwest Interclub. I'm a former competitive skater, and I've been involved in the sport for about 40 years. I also directed Learn to Skate, for about four years since after COVID. I attend several U.S. figure skating governing councils and I have been to two club educations and even hosted one here in Everett where other clubs could learn how to run a board like yourselves. I say this because I know a little bit about the sport. Since COVID, I was asked to come in and actually shut down Everett Figure Skating Club. They had had no rink support for years and they didn't have any other answers. A lot of their skaters had left and a lot of their board wanted to leave. So as an inter-club representative, I was asked to come in and just get rid of Everett Figure Skating Club. And I said, well, I have an Everett hockey player that's about to start playing there. Why don't I revive it? And they're like, well, if you're going to do it, you're going to do it by yourself. And I'm like, I can do that. So their current Learn to Skate program at the time only had about 80 skaters. They had never been over 100. And they ran about three days a week. And they had about seven coaches. asked my coach of the 80s, who's an international skating coach, to come in and partner with me, be the skating director, and let's help raise a rink that figure skating and hockey can be in one building at the same time, not fight, not argue, and show that we can all be one happy community. We got up at one time to about 22 coaches, and we got up to about 280 kids at times on three different sheets of ice. The reason that this is an important fact is that before they ran from about 2003, I think was when the building started, to up until COVID, about 2019, 2020. They were only bringing in about 12,000 per session and they weren't running. They were only running about four to five sessions a year. And after you pay the coaches and the ice time, that brings you to only making about 5,000 on a test. I mean, on a learn to skate session. Why this is important is that we raised it to the average of 235 skaters on the same still three sheets of ice. We were not allowed to have more ice and the prices were raised a little bit. So now we are bringing in after coaches are paid, ice is paid. averaging about $27,000 per session. And we made sure that there was six sessions a year. That was a huge amount of money going into the rink, not saying that we're competing with Everett Youth Hockey or things like that, but for their own program, that's what we helped them raise to turn around and get told, well, you need to do it for free. And we're going to give you also privileges for Everett Figure Skating Club. We were told several times when we had these concerns to not go to the PDF board. If you go to the PDF board, you will have consequences. If you go again, we're going to take away your programming. And that's exactly what happened.

Please.

So I'm please asking you to change the leadership where we can be protected at the club. Thank you so very much.

Thank you. Linda, if you could please come to the podium. Please state your full name, city residence.

You have three minutes to speak. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. My name is Linda Park, and I live in Linwood, Washington. And I am just a parent representative whose daughter is a member of the Everett Figure Skating Club. And I just came here in support of Dottie And and all of the efforts that she has made to make this program a rewarding and a very valuable experience for my daughter and many of the kids who are members of the club. I think that I just want to reiterate the fact that we are a community and being in Linwood, I have access to the Olympic Arena skating rink. I also have access to the Kraken and the Linwood ice rink. So I have many options of where I could take my daughter to. And I chose Everett because I follow Dottie. She is a great community builder. She finds amazing programs for my daughter. with amazing coaches and not only locally, but from all over the world. And we appreciate that. And we are a great community. And when the girls go and the boys go and compete, they wear the jacket much like the jacket that Reese is wearing and they represent Everett. And when they win competitions, they represent Everett and they're proud of And so I respectfully ask that you support the Everett Figure Skating Club. Don't force us out and show us that we are an accepted member of this community because we certainly represent all of you when we go to compete. Thank you. Thank you.

Jeannot? Jeannine? Oh, sorry. Please state your full name and city of residence. You have three minutes to speak.

Jeannine Demery, Everett, Washington. Good evening. Missing Mayor Franklin in council. I ran into the mayor yesterday and she tried to butter me up about this stadium. I am not anti-stadium. I'm just pro-humans. She suggested I see the budget, and while I appreciate that, no budget regarding a demand for our tax dollars for societal luxuries would be considered reasonable when the Mariners can pay for it. She informed me that no pro team has ever paid for these upgrades. My answer to that is there is always opportunity to change what no longer serves us. We have the actual power to do this differently if it was wielded for the good of the people first." A good friend of mine surprised me by voting for Scott Murphy. It was because he believed Cassie is immovable when it comes to her position. I disagreed because I have moved you. You were here. And after I expressed my immense displeasure with the disastrous handling of the Bywater case, you followed me out of this room all those years ago. I think you and most of the people on this council want to move our lives in a better direction. The opportunity for real change is here. I urge you now. This is the time to be bold and govern from a place of empathy first. I ask, what would happen if you had said no to this, to have publicly asked the Mariners why should a city that is also the county seat that deals with the majority of homelessness and crime issues foot any portion of the stadium bill? I ask you women specifically on this council, if you had $2.35 billion, would you demand that a city that has these current challenges to fund any part of a stadium or else? I do not consider that approach of a person or an organization as signifying a genuine community partner that is a slave master relationship between the haves and the have-nots. My last bit, it's all of our favorite topic, Planned Parenthood, and falls into the, are we really going to continue to allow the harassment and terrorizing of women outside of Planned Parenthood? We, you on this council, everyone in this room, this community and world, have turned a blind eye to the bastardization of the First Amendment to allow the abuse of women seeking health care. I didn't realize that was anybody else's business. Should I stand here and ask the men in this room if they're circumcised or if they have Peyronie's disease? Are you disgusted and uncomfortable right now? I hope so. I hope it made you think about how gross it feels to know society doesn't care if you are treated by strangers as an object and not a person to be discussed and questioned in such a way. These rules are made up by us. They are not set in stone. They are not divine, and they can be changed. I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes from former governor of Texas, Ann Richards. There is no work that is more rewarding than public service. You may go somewhere else and you may make a lot of money, as she would say, but you will never receive the kind of gratitude that you receive from looking someone in the eye that says, thank you for making my life better. That requires changing what does not work. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Daryl. If you could please come to the podium. Please state your full name, city residence, you have three minutes to speak.

City Council, fellow citizens, my name is Darryl Sullivan. I reside in Everett and I'm here today to speak about the proposed merger between Community Transit and Everett Transit. Hey Scott. So I'll be speaking from three different perspectives. The first one is that of a proud Everett Transit driver. Everett Transit, as you all should know, has been serving Everett for over 100 years, and they do an excellent job. The second perspective is that of a public transportation user. I use it all, light rail, sound transit, community transit, Everett transit, and they all have their specific roles, their individual specific roles. And together, working independently, they serve the whole community, Everett specifically, very well. Community transit can't do what Everett transit does. Everett transit can't do what community transit does. Did I say that right? but they do well working alongside each other independently. Local service is the key of what I'm trying to get across. We serve the residents the best because we're in touch with the residents locally, small. Community transit, Sound Transit, they do a great job of bringing people to Everett and we get them home or to work. or to the waterfront for the soccer watch parties. My third perspective, that of a consumer in Everett. Now I know everyone here knows that the tax rate would go up, the sales tax rate would go up by 0.06 if this merger happens. We'd be paying more in the way of sales tax and giving less good bus service. I'm just a Cascade High School graduate, but even I figure that's not a good deal. So all three of these perspectives scream to keep Everett Transit local and the Everett citizens demand it. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. And Richard, if you would like to go to the end of that table.

Thanks.

And then please state your full name, city residents. You have three minutes to speak.

Hi, my name is Richard Brenison. And I came in here with an unwanted sign. I live in Everett. I live at 3915 Colby Avenue in a senior community. I currently, because of a neck operation I had, am in a wheelchair. I could stand up to talk to you about this for a minute. So I'm just going to try to stand up, although I can't do it for very long, to make a very important point. If you take out Everett Transit, You take out my ability to get around. You take out my freedom. You take out my ability to move around this community. Community transit runs dark. Dark always screws up. They're always 45 minutes late getting you anywhere. They are horrible. We can't have a tax increase to get rid of it. Transit has been around for a long time. It works fine. Please, I beg you, keep Everett Transit. You know what? I don't care about a stadium. I care about my freedom and the ability to get around. So I'm asking you to please keep Everett Transit alive. Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you. Sherry, if you could please come to the podium. State your full name, city residence. You have three minutes to speak.

I am Sherry Ayerson, a proud member of the Delta neighborhood and Everett resident. I'm a member of also the Everett Charter Committee, and I do realize I am a week late. I apologize I couldn't attend last week's meeting to make comment. I was ill, so I'm going to do it tonight because I made a commitment to my neighbors to come talk to you. Before I do that, I do want to thank the staff liaison for that committee. She did an incredible job. Thank you, Ms. Gregerson, as well as our chair and co-chair. It was an incredible group of diverse voices from across the city. I thought, even though we didn't always agree, we had really fruitful conversations and I appreciate the thought that council is taking in looking at the propositions that are being proposed for the ballot. In my discussion with my neighbors, we spent a lot of less time talking about the charter when they found out it didn't have anything to do with schools or speed limits. But I did come because I learned a few things from my neighbors that I wanted and I committed to sharing that with their council members that represent them. First of all, most of them don't know who any of you are. Please don't take that as an affront. I talk to a lot of working families, a lot of families with young kids. They can't come to meetings like this. They don't really know how to interact with you. I am heartened when I listen online that I know you're attending a lot of the neighborhood meetings and trying to get out there into the community. I just, from their plea to you all is most of these meetings are taking place on the weekends or in the evenings. That's the busiest time, if you have kids at home. So they would love to be able to engage with you and learn what you do in other manner, maybe not in person but through social media or email. So that was the first thing that they asked me to bring you. The second thing was, is both in a conversation with my neighbors, but also with the committee itself, and I believe Council Member Weir addressed this a little bit in the previous session, is deepening the bench. And what we mean by that is when we were talking about things like term limits, or if you could hold multiple elected offices, the question kept coming up is, who's in the wings to take your places? how are those future leaders being built and sought out after I don't have an answer to that question I'm just bringing it to you all as you look towards the future and who's going to be sitting in your chairs how those future leaders for our city are being developed thank you so much thank you Mina if you could please come to the podium and please state your full name city residents you have three minutes to speak

Mina Ekladius, and like I live in the city of Everett. I am, well, thank you all for having me here and giving me the chance to speak. I'm a financial advisor. I've been in the wealth management industry for about like 15 years. I work for Royal Bank of Canada, Wells Fargo Advisors. And I originally am from Egypt. And I've lived in the US for about 15 years. I've actually gained a lot of experience in the investment region. And I've talked like a lot about like, well, how wealth is done in this country. And I've got to understanding that there is a way, there is a problem of actually management in the way that it's done. I have no idea who do I talk to. And I've actually tried to even reach to the formal parties that I can actually talk about ideas and things that I can actually solve things like universal income. Like for instance, I'm come from Egypt. We do not have, we have, very low income like on a monthly basis for people who do not have a problem with home ownership we don't have problems with homelessness and i have no idea and i find it very weird that like i actually just moved recently from new york myself and i was working on the fifth avenue i've got the experience of the new york and i loved it but like moving out to here to every i come to the church and i found a lot of homeless people still there's a problem and i think it's just about managing it it's not like in my opinion and again in a very small perspective but It's either that there's just not enough ideas that was presented to the right people or that they don't understand how these funds that we can use and utilize just fund these kind of dreams. So anyway, things like that. That's what I just wanted to share. And maybe like anyone here that can want to even put me in front of someone that I can address some ideas formally to actually deal with the problems that we face. all of use having here in this like country right now especially with home ownership again i have no idea we don't have a problem with land we don't have a problem with property and like like i mean like trees we don't have a problem with like in the the the requirements to actually obtain a home it's just fundamentally now insane that there's just no way people like, especially youngers and like people coming out of college to actually obtain or even have that dream entirely. And again, like working with the wealth management, I understand that it's not that big of a deal and it's actually doable. And if you just put yourself into investment, so it's direct and money from one place to another, so you can solve a problem. So I have no idea who do I talk to in order to tell them, hey, this is the problem and this is how to solve it. If you guys want to listen, I can talk about it, but that's it.

Okay, thank you. And that concludes our public comments.

Okay, thank you very much. So we'll move on to our council comments. We'll begin with Council Member Weir.

Hello. First, thanks to all the engaged folks that came out to speak. We appreciate you coming in today and taking that time. And I want to give a big congratulations to all of our Everett School District, Everett Community College, and Wazoo Everett Campus graduates. Big accomplishments across the board there for those students, so well done. And with that summer event season is in full swing and bringing lots of community members out. We have just I can't express how much appreciation I have for all the city staff and the volunteers that are doing the big lift to make these events possible. The sort of culture many of you probably know. Hopefully had a chance to visit in downtown Everett a couple weeks ago. The downtown Everett Association placer data shows that they had nearly 12,000 people in downtown over that weekend for sort of culture and the restaurants and the businesses were experiencing that influx of people and it was really great to see them hop in. Then the FIFA watch parties on the waterfront. Last weekend, there were approximately 6,000 people over Thursday and Friday that attended the watch parties down at the port. And so much fun. Great energy. If you didn't get down there last weekend, be sure to check it out. There's a... Thursday and Friday of this week, they have two more of those games, and it's really a great setup. Lots of kids' activities, food trucks, the big giant screen, music. They're going to do a foam party, I think, on Friday where you can run through a big pile of foam. Just a good time. And then Saturday, Everett Pride is having their block party in downtown, and it's at the footprint just right outside here where the farmer's market generally is based. So all just great things to look forward to. Hopefully the weather continues to hold out for us, and that's it for me.

Council Member Zuniga.

Well, thank you. First of all, thanks for our public commenters. I guess I'll put a sharper point on what Mr. Van Dalen said in terms of the implications of the ham radio folks in their field days. Part of the idea there is that they are radio amateurs that have their own equipment. their own radio channels, their own power in a lot of cases. If we have a major disaster around here, earthquakes, some hacking, fires, that sort of thing, that brings down some of the very sophisticated and very capable electronic network systems we have. Those folks still have analog radios. They have independent power and their own equipment. So they could set up and offer community-wide and region-wide communication to help us get past those disasters. So that's why it's kind of a cool thing. I had friends who used to do that. Let's see, for my own part, a couple of neighborhood meetings, Pioneers Beverly Park, a couple of days ago, kind of reconstructing that group. And we had a briefing by Assistant Chief of Operations, Seth Albright from Everett Fire, discussing the upcoming AMS levy measure. I also attended for Council Member Ryan, the Valley View neighborhood meeting last night, I guess it was. And once again, Assistant Chief of Operations Albright spoke there and explained that. We also had a presentation from a person from the Everett Public Library, we should have gotten the name. about the resources they provide beyond books and internet. And that was a little bit of an eye-opener to me. I knew they do more than books and internet services, but they do meeting rooms, classes, electronic books and resources. They host some clubs. They offer a bunch of trainings and instruction, things like sewing, bike repair, legal. You can check out a sewing machine from the library. I didn't know that. They do a lot with a modest budget and ever public library system offers a connection to a total of four libraries, so, in addition to everett snow our libraries, you get a card from there, if you're in everett also King county libraries and. and Seattle Public Libraries. So that's a lot of opportunities, a lot of resources that way on a fairly modest budget. I wish we could do more. And then two other meetings. I'm a member of this Regional Law and Justice Council for Snohomish County. A recent meeting focused on health resources. General behavioral health issues are a really major factor behind homelessness, and substance abuse. And this nexus of these problems is really a lot of what we see on our streets and in other areas. It's a challenge for the justice system to handle these things appropriately. Their traditional focus was more on straightforward criminal activity. And a particular challenge for safety, both the individual, the public, and our first responders, are mental health crises. One solution is the recently opened Crisis Care Center in Linwood, an organization that can handle our facility that can handle mental health crises at any time of the day or night for a duration of 24 hours and provide appropriate resources for that first 24 hours and references to further help. So again, that's something that fills in a gap, one of the number of gaps and complex interactions between our various social services capabilities. And then lastly, attend, represent Everton, the Puget Sound Regional Council's Transportation Policy Board. They're working on a regional transportation plan. And in this meeting, the most recent meeting, the different cities involved described what they're doing for the World Cup with a focus on transportation and transit and safety. I gave a briefing to the group for whatever it's been doing, taking advantage of Everett Transit's service, the free shuttle from Everett Station and local parking, several local parking lots, and eight stops on the way to the fan zone waterfront watch parties that Council Member Weir mentioned. Nine stops on the way back. This covered not only the parking lots, but hotels, restaurants, and other businesses. So that helps Everett businesses and helps Everett citizens and visitors. And I really want to convey my appreciation to all who made that happen, including the Fans on website, administration, Everett Transit, and their particular Know Before You Go section on the website. And it's gone well so far, as Council Member Weir mentioned, with thousands of attendees and good weather. And actually, in some ways, we seem to be doing better than Seattle did in terms of attendees, in terms of Seattle actually saw some year-over-year declines in terms of things like hotel reservations. So I think we've made the best of that with a lot of work that's been going on by a lot of people over the past two and a half years or so.

That's it. Thanks. Councillor Rubano. I'm not going to this week. Thank you. Thank you. Councillor Tewitt.

Just a couple things. I want to thank all of our speakers tonight. Really appreciate everything you brought forward. And we'll look into some of this stuff. We'll work with Jennifer on that. And then I did get to attend one of the watch parties, which was great. Great fun. Beautiful event. view and it was just a lot of fun, a lot of excitement in the air. And then the last thing is our July 1st Community Health and Safety Committee meeting. It will be canceled for the month of July. Thank you.

Thank you. Council Member Bader. No report, no comments.

Thank you.

I just have a couple things. I am on the statewide select committee on pension policy. And we got a report that gets good news. I know there's a lot of talk about how the state funding isn't challenged. but the pension funds are as far as a funding rate or one of their highest rate they've been in years. So good news for that. Also, I attended an event sponsored by the United Soccer League. They're in the process of meeting with local potential owners. So no owner, no announcement yet, but that's the goal is to get someone from our community that is interested. Okay, so we'll move to administration.

I don't have anything to update. Yeah. Okay.

All right. How about our city attorney's office?

No updates and no executive session.

Okay, thank you. Then so we'll move to our consent items. We have quite a few of them. We have 12 consent items. Do I hear a motion?

Move to approve the consent items.

Okay. And second. Motion and second is made. Clerk, please take the roll.

Council Member Weir. Yes. Council Member Zerlingo. Yes. Council Member Bravano. Yes. Council Member Tuohy. Yes. Council Member Bader. Yes. President Schwab.

Yes. Okay, so we'll go to proposed action item. Item number 13, Council Bill 2606-31. It has been read on the record and the final reading is June 24, 2026. Are there any questions or comments from Council? Dave Kuntz, Is there any report from admin at this time. Dave Kuntz, Okay, so we'll move on to item number 14 council bill to 606 dash three to first reading adopted ordinance amending ordinance for 089 dash two five entitled edgewater park renovation project third and final reading is July 1 2026 is their presentation. Dave Kuntz, Does Council have any questions or comments. Okay, we'll move on to our next item our action item, which is item 15 council bill to 605 dash 30 third and final reading adopt ordinance creating a special improvement project entitled California street ped bike corridor phase two. Is there a motion.

Mayor Mrakas, Second motion.

Mayor Mrakas, motion and seconds been made, is there any questions or comments from Council. Okay, hearing none. Clerk, please take the call.

Council Member Weir. Yes. Council Member Zerlingo.

Yes.

Council Member Burbano.

Yes.

Council Member Tuohy. Yes. Council Member Bader. Yes. President Schwab.

Yes. All right, I'll just open this up for a potential new business item, which would be create a resolution for charter changes. We had a committee earlier before pre-meeting, and I'll just summarize. We talked about, in general, combining some of the proposals. So I have one in four. potentially include item two, combined three and eight, potential five, item six within a change of 11.3, and then a potential additional item number nine. So that was kind of a general idea from our council committee meeting. So if this body wants to pursue Dave Kuntz, A direction for administration to create a resolution. Dave Kuntz, let's open it up at this point yeah emotional.

Dave Kuntz, Smart beta will move the preceding items. Dave Kuntz, Except for item number nine and with the. Dave Kuntz, With item number. John Potter, Fix was that separate. John Potter, Removing. John Potter, Not not including a recommendation for us 60 day initiative process vice.

John Potter, Okay, summarizing that credit just for clarity, so you want to include. John Potter, One through eight. Correct. And with one addition to the item number six, which, which would be the 7.3 excluding the 60 day notice.

Correct.

Where's the motion to have a second.

Seconded.

Okay, so we'll have a second. So that will start us. So, Jennifer, could you repeat just in your mind what we did. So, I actually can.

That would be great.

Yeah, so I would ask for a friendly amendment if you want could combine one and four and three and eight.

Sorry, that was the intention of my motion.

Thank you. The second, would you accept the friendly.

Okay, yes.

PB, Harmon Zuckerman, Right. So we are right now we have a motion for one to combine one and four include to combine three and eight include five PB, Harmon Zuckerman, Include six with adjustment 11.3 to the original language and then PB, Harmon Zuckerman, Both clarification was that seven and nine also

I move seven, but I did not. Okay.

So the motion includes seven also not nine. Currently that's where we're at.

Just a brief comment. I did all respect for my fellow council members, including council member, to ease request for nine, which I generally support the concept. My goal is to move the recommendations of the Charter Review Commission forward with the sole exception of, I think, the language of the 60-day notice or 60-day period for the initiative process, I think would create some legal challenges for us. Thanks.

Okay. So right now, yep. Go ahead. Do you have a clarification?

I do. Yeah. Okay. So based on the discussion, we had further discussion at the committee for a little bit before this regular meeting. So We're combining one and four. Those are the eligibility items related to council, the council seats, no second elected office, the one year residency, and that you have to take an oath. It's also true for the mayor. It keeps number two, that sets a different threshold for council, the number of council meetings. It takes number three, which, um, allows the clerk to have our ordinances kept, um, on our website and not in a book and combines it with what we had as number eight, which also relates to website noticing of a lot of different things that are talked about in the, in the charter. Um, in the case of number eight, most of those were like as an alternative to newspaper noticing. Number three, which is articles three, four, and three, five, it is more explicit about the website being the home for those ordinances. And earlier we talked about the Public Records Act and how folks do have an opportunity to either access computers at the library or to come to the clerk's office to see things in print or do records requests. Combines 4.10, that out-of-office thing, I mentioned that already, keeps the civil service keeps most of the initiative and referendum changes with the exception of when folks can file referenda, keeping that the same as the existing language in the charter. The motion keeps number seven, which would be that we do a charter review process again in five years. And then we already talked about number eight. Yep.

That's what the motion and second is. So that's the starting point. We begin the process. So, um, or any other comments or questions or additional

Well, I didn't realize we were going to vote on all this.

I would also add that your motion to clarify that two up two parts, two other notes. This is to ask staff to bring back an ordinance because you'll adopt this by ordinance. So we'll have three readings for that.

Yes.

So we can amend, you can amend the original or we can wait until we get the readings. You can add at any time too. So this is just to get it written. Anytime we can start net, we can do it now, or we can give you more direction or we can wait.

Well, I, you know, obviously I feel strongly about number nine and, you know, having it in there would be great. Would you like to make a motion? I would like to make a motion to amend that to add number nine, number nine. Thank you.

Is there a second?

A second.

Okay.

So number nine is to add term limits, a new section that would set term limits of what had been discussed at the committee was three consecutive full terms.

And this is just for the direction for you to create the resolution, not to pass it.

Yeah. So if you were to approve that amendment, I would fold that into the ordinance that'll be in the packet next week. And then you'd have your readings and you'd be able to

Continue to make changes or additions or deductions at that point.

Yeah.

Okay. You have a question. Yeah.

Just to clarify for public who are watching our process and maybe to make sure I've got a correct council president where we're asking staff to do something requires two council members to do that. And I think that's in accord with what we're, we're asking today to ask staff to do something to bring back to us. Right. Yeah, absolutely.

We're being a little bit more formal because we're doing as a whole, which is appropriate.

Good point. Yeah.

Okay. All right. Let's hear no questions. So we're asking staff to come back with a resolution and a first reading for our next meeting with those items.

Yes.

Okay. Clerk, please take the line.

Council member Weir. Yes. Council member Zarlingo. Yes. Council member Burbano. Yes. Council member Tuohy. Yes. Council member Bader. Yes. President Schwab.

Yes. Okay. And with no further business, we are now adjourned.