City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everyone. I called to order the Gig Harbor City Council meeting of Monday, April 13, and ask assistant city clerk Element to please call the roll.

Councilmember Coronado. Here. Councilmember Martin. Here. Councilmember Rodenberg. Here. Councilmember Stone. Here. Councilmember Tessichini.

Present.

Councilmember Eckberg is excused. Councilmember Ahman is absent.

K. We will recognize him when he arrives. If you could please joy rise and join us for the pledge of allegiance. Before we begin this council meeting, we would like to recognize that we are gathered on not only the ancestral and traditional lands of the Squabash Band of the Puyallup tribe of Indians, but also on the site of one of the largest and longest standing historic villages of their people, the original inhabitants of the Gig Harbor area. Counsel, are there any changes to the agenda?

Seeing none, tonight, we have two presentations, and the first is to proclaim April as sexual assault awareness month. I'm going to read the proclamation, and then we'll come present it to Ella from Rebuilding Hope sexual assault center. We'll take a picture with counsel, and then you can say a few words if you'd like. And I need my glasses for this one. Whereas Rebuilding Hope sexual assault center was incorporated in 1975 as Pierce County Rape Relief and is one of the largest continually continuously operating community sexual assault centers in Washington state.

And whereas Rape Awareness Month week was established in 1979 by the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, expanded to Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the late nineteen hundreds, and was officially recognized in 2009 by President Obama for the month of April. And whereas, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost half of all women and almost one in four men in The United States experienced sexual assault, and at least half of our LGBTQIA 2S plus community is sexually assaulted, and at least one in four girls and as many as one in six boys are sexually abused before turning 18. And whereas awareness around the prevalence of sexual violence has improved in our communities' response to sexual assault and abuse, but intersecting forms of oppression continue to result in victimization, And whereas continued efforts to increase awareness about how sexual violence impacts individuals, institutions, and communities are critical to dismantling the myths, beliefs, behaviors, and systems that promote sexual violence. And whereas with more than fifty years of dedicated service as Pierce County's designated sexual assault center and three years of service as Kitsap County's designated sexual assault center, Rebuilding Hope remains committed to its mission to provide support, promote healing, and partner to end sexual violence.

And now, therefore, I, Mary Barber, mayor of the city of Gig Harbor, do hereby proclaim April 2026 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and encourage residents to seek information, education, and support related to sexual assault and abuse.

Thank you, mayor Barber, and to the Gigs, Gig Harbor City Council for supporting this proclamation. And I also wanna thank the folks who are joining us virtually via Zoom and also in person here in the room. It means a lot to, have y'all here and hearing a little bit about this experience that, unfortunately, too much of our community, survives, lives through, hopefully heals and recovers from. On behalf of Rebuilding Hope, I would like to express our great and genuine gratitude. We're truly honored by the city's, partnership in supporting victims and survivors and building communities free from sexual violence here in Gig Harbor and across Pierce County.

Establishing a month in honor of sexual assault awareness and prevention is itself a marker of our progress towards safer and more respectful cities and neighborhoods, but it also serves as a really stark reminder of the all too important work that's still ahead of us. As we noted in the proclamation, we know that sexual violence is an ongoing, insidious, pervasive, really universally experienced problem in a lot of our communities, not just in Washington but across The US. Nationally, almost half of women and almost a quarter of men will experience some form of contact sexual violence over the course of their lifetime. It's also estimated, as we said, that one in four girls and as many as one in six boys may experience that contact sexual violence before turning 18. Closer to home, our state's association of sheriffs and police chiefs have found that washing a Washington state resident experiences a sexual assault approximately every three hours on average.

So we know that that we are not immune. There are many things that our community is doing better than a lot of folks, in other parts of the country, but this is one place where we also are still feeling the effects of, this epidemic form of violence. But what we do know is that every day, rebuilding hope's team of advocates, therapists, and educators show up in Pierce County and across our communities for victim survivors who have lived these very statistics and these very experiences in emergency departments, attached to hospitals, in courthouses, and in schools in the middle of the night and at every hour of the day, in support of survivors in the first moments after they realize the trauma that they've experienced and for those survivors who are decades later still recovering, still healing, rebuilding hope is there. No matter their age, their gender, their relationship to the offender, if there is any relationship at all, or the nature of the sexual violence endured, no matter whether they reported to law enforcement or if they never told anyone else at all. Every victim and survivor in Pierce and Kitsap Counties deserves and will receive compassionate, trauma informed, and survivor centered support.

We're proud to deliver that support at Rebuilding Hope. Our agency wide vision is to build communities that do not tolerate oppressive social norms, behaviors, or systems that promote or excuse sexual violence or exploitation, communities where those who have been harmed are believed and supported in pursuit of their individual paths of healing, communities where sexual violence does not exist and where people are educated and empowered to center their full choice, their full consent and safety and healthy relationships. I'm here today to accept this proclamation and also to accept our our rather express our great gratitude that we stand together in support of that vision. I ask you to join my colleagues and me and to take action to make that vision for our home our reality. I hope your action starts with learning and sharing the history of the sexual assault awareness movement, how we trace our work back to the roots of our country through women's rights movements and suffrage and enslavement and war and colonialism.

I hope you take action in our shared present by connecting with Rebuilding Hope through our website, social media, or newsletter to learn how sexual violence is impacting our community locally, how we're addressing it and challenging it, and how you can be part of the movement to disrupt sexual violence to cocreate safer communities. And I hope you'll look forward to future action, and join us at the events and activities Rebuilding Hope offers to educate the community and to raise support for our healing services, including many events this April in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. I hope that you'll remember that each of these actions matters to the survivors around us. And I hope that you'll bear in mind that sharing your knowledge of rebuilding hope's vision and work makes a difference and increases access to support for your neighbors and your loved ones, our neighbors and our loved ones. Together, we can draw on the lessons of the path past, cultivate our work in the present, and look forward to our responsibility in the future.

We create the safe, protective, and supportive community that we across Kitsap And Pierce Counties deserve. So thank you for your time today, and thank you so much for sharing a little bit of that time and recognizing the important work of advocates and communities across the country and specifically here in Gig Harbor to support survivors.

Thank you very much for being here tonight, Ella. We really appreciate it. The statistics that you quoted are very sobering and something that I think that everyone here is committed to trying to lower those statistics. If there is anything that we can do specifically to help you, please please let us know. Did you wanna speak? Okay. Yeah.

I just wanna express my gratitude to the mayor for leading on this proclamation. This is the second year that we've been able to do this in a row, and grateful for your partnership at Rebuilding Hope. For anyone in the community, they have preventative resources. They have, support resources, in the event that something does happen for humans of all ages, people in our community. Really grateful for our law enforcement for having compassionate responses for survivors who do choose to come forward. I've spent fifteen plus years of my career working with sexual assault survivors, and it's really an honor to be able to be part of this proclamation and make sure that folks in our community know that we have a really incredible resource right here in our own community leading in Pierce County. So thank you.

Thank you. So I would like to acknowledge that council member Aman has joined us. Thank you. And we will move on. You're welcome to stay, as I said, Ella, but you don't have to. The sun is, I think, out. I'm not positive. Looks better than it did earlier. Our next presentation is from the Gig Harbor junior sale program. Joan Storkman is here with a cast of thousands, and I am going to take the chair's prerogative. And I would like to acknowledge Joan Storkman's mother who is here with her tonight, and I wanna be like her when I'm a 101 years old.

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, mayor Barber. Good evening, mayor Barber, city council, city staff, and guests. I'm Joan Storkman, volunteer program director for Gick Harbor Junior Sailing, and, also retired school social worker that in 1975 remembers when rape relief started and what a wonderful program that was and supported us in our work in the school. And with me tonight are

I'm Lisa Envec. I'm the administrative assistant for Dick Harbor Junior Sailing.

My name is Ripley Morris. I'm the sail camp director, and I'm an alumni of the program.

And we also have some race team a race team parent here tonight. Nice to have you here. Thank you. And one of our razors is here tonight as well and one of our board members. So thank you for being here as well.

Also, my husband is here tonight as well, a great supporter of the program. So the last time we addressed city council was three years ago, and so we have some really exciting updates tonight. And our, these are our year round employees, and we have one other employee, Dalton Lovett, who's on the water coaching tonight. So we appreciate him being out there doing that. Tonight, we'll be sharing the seventeen year journey of Gig Harbor Junior sailing. How many of you have seen those little boats with the sails on the waters of Gig Harbor? Yeah. Yeah. Most of us have. Even the city's logo is sails.

So sailing is a unique sport. For those of you that maybe haven't tried it, it it's empowering because you don't have engines or paddles. You have to figure out how to move those sails and your rudder to make that boat go forward into the wind. By the afternoon of day one, most of our campers are steering their own boats, and it is just so exciting for those kids. While there are other boating programs in Gitt Gick Harbor Harbor, Junior Sailing is the only one solely for kids.

We also employ 30 staff during the summer, making it the largest maritime employer in the city. Ripley and Lisa are gonna share about the two vital component components of Gig Harbor Junior Sailing, our sail camp and our race team.

So I'll start out by sharing a little bit about our sailing camp. So throughout the summer, we offer ten weeklong sessions for ages six to 18. The younger kiddos have a half day option, which makes it very accessible and a good starting point for everyone. We offer a variety of different skill levels all the way from beginner to intermediate and even advanced level sailing camps. We run these camps Monday through Friday from around 9AM until 04:30. And as I mentioned, they just have that wonderful arc of progressions that no matter the age of the camper, there's a starting place for them.

Hi. I forgot to mention that I became involved with the program as a parent. Two of my children have come through Gig Harbor Junior Sailings. I've gotten to witness firsthand the benefits of the program. If they love the program, they can continue on onto the Narrows race team after camp, and that serves kids from ages eight to 18. There's a variety of competition opportunities. They practice nine months a year. You probably saw them out there at the March wondering who those crazy people were on the water. That's our kids. But they get lots of opportunities to compete.

We had Gig Harbor High School went to two national regattas. They were in the top 20 teams out of hundreds in the nation competing for at two separate events last spring, and we're on track to send more teams again this year. So we're super excited. And the nice part is is our racers then come back to work with those kids at sail camp. Many of our racers not only race all summer long, they'll work an eight hour a day at sail camp teaching younger kids how to sail and sharing their love of the sport with them.

So our journey started in 2010. We were started by Kitkaba Yacht Club members. It be it's a totally separate nonprofit from the very beginning. We never received any funding from the yacht club. I'm a member there, but, and we started with six boats, 30 campers, and no scholarship program, but we were off the ground.

Five years later, we in 2015, we had 14 boats, 97 campers. We started a scholarship program, which the board was insistent. We needed to reach all kids. We also started Nearest Race Team then, and we Penn Met allowed us to store, boats and equipment at the old Penn Met Gardens. So we really appreciated that.

No rent on that for nine years. In 2020, we had 37 boats, a 153 campers. Our scholarships continued, and we're able to be open during COVID, which was really a lifesaver for a lot of kids. We had our first full time director, and, we also gathered Tacoma Yacht Club. Their program was gonna shut down.

They didn't have a committee to run it, and we our board said, let us run your program so we can keep their We'll Watch It program going and double the amount of kids out on the water. In 2025, last summer, we had 49 boats, 632 campers, and $26,000 in scholarships. We have a new storage at the barn, and, our our board worked to get that in shape. We also it was our third year with a partnership with Boys and Girls Club. They bus the kids out here.

Some of them have never been on the water, in the water. They just love it, and then we love reaching more kids. We also had a big we always talk about the employee pipeline, and we were really excited. Ripley and Dalton both grew up in our program and now are running our program along with Lisa, and we're just thrilled about that. And Lisa's gonna share a little bit now about what about that pipeline and what Get Cover Junior Sailing has given to our community in the last seventeen years. Is that right? Or is that real quick?

Was that That's fine. I'll go for it. So since the beginning, we've served over 4,000 campers. We are trying to compile our statistics, but as you can see, we've given over a 165,000 in scholarships to make sure that the ability pay to pay doesn't prevent any child from having this experience if they want it. We had over a 100 race team athletes total.

Right now, we have 45 on the race team. We've had employed over a 100 instructors. It's at this point, this summer, I think we're at about 20 to 30, somewhere in there. But those campers become racers. They share their passion.

We have a we call it our junior instructor program where they get the ability to volunteer before they're old enough to work, and they volunteer and assist and instruct as much as they're willing to give during the summer. Then they become an assistant instructor with us where they work with a more experienced instructor, and then we have lead instructors that eventually lead our sites and then hopefully come back and join us as employees. It's a beautiful cycle, and we're actually starting to see parents of our campers that have memories of going to sail camp as well. And, last year in sailing, we were awarded the more than ten years of hallmark performance from US sailing. So against all the other community sailing programs in the nation, we received that award.

And, Ripley, you're gonna share beyond high school, please? Thanks.

Alright. So one of the great things about Reese's team is that the skills that folks learn translate to the work environment, college. There are plenty of ways that the skills that they learn are applicable. Some of the highlights that we have, we had a sailor who attended the Maritime High School in Des Moines, and they went on to attend Cal Maritime. So there are lots of parallels within, like, the maritime industry, engineering, math, science, environmental studies that can all be picked up from the skills that they learn.

In addition, it just fosters a huge amount of resilience, teamwork, problem solving, really great skills that can be applied in their day to day life, in a variety of job settings. We've also had various alumni go on to sale at the collegiate level and then even national events once they've graduated college. And we do also have a previous member of our program who now runs a sail loft in Seattle. So there are lots of great highlights to be seen from our former sailors.

So as Joan may have mentioned, we have, our facilities, we have two main homes. We have we run out of Westshore Marina and, Tacoma Yacht Club's Woolachette Bay Outstation. We're really lucky to have both those facilities, but we are working very hard, as you know, on making Westshore Marina our permanent home, with an office and a building and the actual things you need to run a nonprofit. That will just ensure our future and make sure that we can continue offering this amazing program to the children in this community for years to come. We are still, as Joan mentioned, we were lucky enough to have Penn Med storage for nine years where we did not have to pay rent.

And we're currently finding ourselves in a situation where we found our off-site storage, but it does cost quite a bit of money in rent. So that is one of our long term goals is to find a different storage facility that hopefully will be lower, no cost to us to help put that money right back into the program to help the kids. We do have I believe it's about 42 trailers. Well, not no. Sorry. 17 trailers to store that haul the that was a different yeah. 17 trailers, that do need a place to be parked, and we have, safety boats that need a place to be stored in the winter. And that's a huge piece of why we need off-site storage. As you all are aware, Westshore isn't that big. Next

slide. Yeah. I think this one's awesome.

So as we've mentioned, our annual programs serve about six to 650 campers. We're hoping our enrollment is through the charts again this year, and we're hoping to get about 700 kids in camp this summer. We have two full time employees and seasonal staff and our annual payroll with the seasonal staff that's basically going right back into the community because these are all local teenagers. It's, just over $300,000. Yeah.

And then was we we mentioned we have 65 dinghies and nine safety boats. So we have quite a bit in assets right now, and that kinda goes back to the off-site storage as those trailers and boats all need a place to go, especially during the winter.

So we're here tonight to ask everyone to support our mission for the kids is our motto. For the kids. And, we always have our usual fundraiser, annually to get boats and equipment. As you can imagine, having kids on the water running into each other, holes in the boats, we need to do a lot of fundraising for repair and replace replacement. So we have an annual fundraiser. The kids serve the dinner. My sister-in-law prepares the dinner. Mayor has been there and supported us. We so appreciate it. So that'll be October 1 this year.

We'd invite you to attend. We also have second. That's right. Yes. That's one. Thank you. So we also have a large equipment and boat donation program. People donate things, then we sell them, and that money goes for the kids. We have donation sponsors, grants, so that's that will go on every year. But we you might have also heard there's a second fundraising that we're doing, and that's for this building.

And Stan Sterns called me one day and said, I know you've been working for five years to find a location for your home for junior sailing, and he's been a great supporter. And he said, how about if I give you a million dollars for that building? And I said, well, that would be very nice. Thank you. So that is wonderful.

But we also and it will provide, as as Lisa said, restroom, storage, office space for the staff, but it it will require 2,000,000, dollars for this building. So we will also be fundraising for this. So I know our community, it's a lot to to keep track of. So just wanted to make sure you were all aware of of the two fundraising that's going on in our community. To in closing, I just wanna thank all of you, the council, mayor, all our volunteers that that work on boats.

We've got some retired builders and architects that are helping us build the building. We try and do everything we can for zero is usually our what we what we all ask for and look for and and oftentimes give. Our community has been tremendously supportive. We have wonderful staff, and we just appreciate our GitHubber community, all you give, all the support to us. So thank you so much.

Thank you very much for everything that you do for the community. And for council, if you haven't been down and had a tour of the West Shore Marina, you need to get in touch with Joan and go do it because it's really fun to watch all the kids so excited before they get out on the boat the first time. And also listen to the briefing. Jeff, you need to hear the briefing. No. Councilmember Martin. Thank you for

the presentation. I just wanted to share that you were mentioning that sometimes these life or these sailing skills impact a person's life outside of that. And I was just speaking to someone the other day. I don't know the person's name that they were referencing, but they said their granddaughter started sailing and was a very shy young teenager and was out there on the boat. And they said, every day, we could see just a little confidence building up.

You know? And every single day, there was just something more. And by the end of those five days, they didn't recognize this young woman who was very shy and introverted, had very strong skills, had confidence that they've never seen before, and continues with that confidence. So I wanted to to say thank you, and it is recognized by a lot of people out there, the good work that you do out there. I'm a person that doesn't like to sell much. That tippy thing gets me freaked out, and so thank you for all that you do. Appreciate it. Alright.

Thank you. Thank you very much. And just like our previous speaker, you're welcome to stay, but you don't need to. So I will now move on to public comment on consent agenda items. If there is anyone in the room who would like to speak on an item on our consent agenda, please come to the podium at this time. Or if you're on Zoom, please press the raised hand button. And not seeing anyone, I will close public comment on consent, the consent agenda, and open it up to a motion from counsel to approve the consent agenda.

I move that we approve the consent agenda.

I second.

It was moved by council member Martin and seconded by council member Rodenberg to approve the consent agenda. If you could please vote on your screen. And the motion passes six to zero. So for my mayor's report tonight, again, happy spring to everyone. It certainly has sprung.

I don't know about you, but I've been washing my car almost every day, and it is covered in pollen. Our driveway looks like my husband's been doing a wood project out there, but it's pollen everywhere. So I hope everybody can get some relief from itchy eyes and that kind of thing very soon. Just two quick things. This morning, I participated in a call with our sister city organization, our sister city in Buda, Norway.

We had a wonderful call with a staff person from the city and also the mayor and several people from here in Gig Harbor who are interested in rekindling the relationship between our two cities. I think we all left the call looking forward to future cultural and especially educational opportunities. So, we'll be bringing forward a new MOU to counsel for review and approval on that. Last Monday, the first two sports fields at the Gig Harbor Sports Complex opened for use as a precursor to the ribbon cutting on April 24 at 5PM. I hope you're all planning to join us.

It was incredibly moving for many of us to see the fields actually finished and being used after more than ten years of work on part of the city. The pace of government can seem slow, but when projects like this come to fruition, it's definitely worth the wait. I wanna remind everybody that in 2014, the land where the fields and the Doris Heritage Park stand was designated to be an office park. Thankfully, elected leaders at the time knew there were better uses for that land. They saw fit to purchase the property and conduct an extensive public process that led to the sports complex master plan.

And to where we are today. I am extremely grateful for the staff and the elected leaders who had that foresight, and I know that many in our community are also grateful. And that's all I have, and I will now turn it over to acting city administrator Jeff Langhelm for his report.

Thank you, mayor. Good evening, council. A few quick items. City is working with Tacoma Tree Foundation and Greater Good Harbor Foundation and the KGI Watershed Council to host a tree giveaway this Saturday at 11:30 at at I'm sorry. Next Saturday, the twenty fifth. Thank you, Jennifer. At 11:30. It is gonna be held at Donkey Creek Park, and they are going to start at 11:30 and continue until all the trees are gone. Last year when the same event was held, the trees were gone in about an hour. So get there soon if you want trees.

Tomorrow morning, our operations crew is going to be removing a crosswalk at Harborview Drive in Pioneer Way at the intersection. This was in your department updates. But I wanna let you know it has been set for tomorrow morning. I crews are gonna be out there right around 07:00, and it should take just a few hours flagging, traffic control, that kind of stuff. This is a pilot project where we are intending to see improved pedestrian safety and improved efficiency overall at the intersection.

We're gonna reassess in fall, see if we can identify improvements. And if we do, we will then come back to council with a final plan. If not, we'll put it back together the way it was. So and then following up on something that city administrator Knutson presented to council at her report in the last meeting in March on the twenty third, the city's contractor is now completing the planting of the stormwater pond over at Harbor Hill Drive and Burnham Drive. So if you've driven past there, you'll see quite a bit of work that's been done and a lot of starts, trees, shrubs that have been placed.

They will likely be completed by the end of this week, and then we'll just get it irrigated and watch those things grow. And then lastly, one more item also in your department updates. I just wanted to highlight it. Based on increased comments, we have continued to see from the community. The police department has been conducting many more traffic stops.

And from 01/01/2025 through 04/06/2026, that increase of more than a 111% has occurred. And it totals from the the numbers are 512 traffic stops previously and 1,081 traffic stops now. So significant number of increase in traffic stops. We hope that will have an impact on our traffic along with some more traffic calming that we are going to be doing as part of a future project. So put that all together, and we'll just continue to improve safety. So that's my report, and I'll hand it back from there.

Thank you for that report. We have two business items tonight, and the first business item is the professional services contract with Dowell for a manganese feasibility study. I will now turn it back over to now our public works director, Jeff Langhelm, for the staff report.

Thank you, mayor. Yes. Jeff Langhelm, public works director hat today. So as noted in the agenda bill, the city is requesting approval of a professional services contract to complete a feasibility study. This feasibility study will help to the city prioritize for future construction of manganese treatment for the city's water system.

I noted in the agenda bill that manganese is not a primary contaminant according to the Washington State Department of Health, But the city's six wells do produce a high concentration of manganese, and that creates aesthetic issues. It creates operational issues and just overall water quality issues throughout our water system. We end up as a result, end up having to flush a lot of water out of our system to get the manganese out of our water mains. Not ideal. It costs a lot of money in lost water.

Costs a lot of money for staff to be out there doing this work for quite a long time, twice a year. So it also impacts our our customers. It it negatively impacts fabrics that they may wash, appliances, and other things. And so this we have been promoting this feasibility study. It was part of the original 2526 city budget, and we do we're now implementing this with approval of this contract.

We hope to be able to have this feasibility some come back and provide us with information for future budgets for construction of treatment facilities and identify, prioritize where those are gonna go and into the future. As part of the scope, there is a meeting that's going to be occurring April 16 as part of the study session. If this is approved tonight, consultant will be here on a on April 16 to talk with counsel and provide you more details and timeline for the study and and what to expect and answer questions. And then we'll return to counsel with for a conversation on the outcome of the study at the conclusion of the study. So that's what you can expect moving forward.

Happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Council have any clarifying questions? I'm not seeing any hands raised. So I will now open public comment on this agenda item. If you're in the audience and wish to speak, please come to the podium now. Or if you're on Zoom, please press the raised hand button. Seeing no one, I will close public comment and open it up for council deliberation and action. Somebody wants to make a motion? Maybe.

Here. I motion.

Council member Coronado would like to council member Coronado would like to move to authorize professional service

contract with Dowell for the manganese feasibility study.

Is there a second? Second. Okay. It was moved by council member Coronado and seconded by council member Stone to authorize the execution of the contract with Dowell. If you could please vote on your screens.

What? Okay. No one has

Yes. Yes?

Okay. Motion passes five to zero with one abstention from council member Tessichini. So our second business item is rev resolution thirteen fifty five, naming the Richard h Shaw Loop Trail. And I will turn it over to parks manager, Jennifer Harrow, for the staff report.

Thank you, mayor Barber. I'm Jennifer Harrow, the parks manager here at the city. We're here tonight to talk about the naming of a trail in phase two of the Tualacuth Conservation Area. The city acquired this property in 2022 using city funds and Pierce County Conservation Futures to purchase the property. Phase two is made up of six parcels totaling approximately 24 acres.

One of the previous owners was Richard h Shaw. He added a provision in the purchase and sale agreement that the city agreed to that a portion of the park would be named after him. A naming agreement was executed in January 2023, which is included in your packets. Mister Shaw was a local builder, developer, farmer, and businessman who owned Pleasure Craft Marina here in Geek Harbor and many other businesses around the state. He passed away in October 2023 after we had executed this agreement.

The trail is ready to be open very soon. We are just waiting for signage, which we can order if this resolution passes. The trail is a point six mile loop, and I'm gonna share a map of it, that is only accessible from the Cushman Trail. It is three quarters of a mile from parking at Wilkinson Farm Park and about two thirds of a mile from the Rosedale Street crossing. It's just under half a mile from 96th in the North.

So north is to your left if you're looking at this map. So but this will be placed at the trailhead, with whatever name it is given, but with Tolkoth Conservation Area being the overriding name. Naming the trail, the Richard H Shaw Loop Trail will meet the obligations of the agreement and does not obligate us to any further naming rights. There are no other naming agreements for any other part of the conservation area. Mister Shaw's family and former business partners are supportive of this of naming the trail after mister Shaw.

And at on the April 1 Parks Commission meeting, the parks commissioners voted unanimously to recommend the council approve the request in order to honor the agreement. If the resolution is adopted, we will move quickly to order signs and get the trail open to the public. That concludes my staff report. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Councilmember Rodenberg.

Is this mister Richard Shaw the same individual that Shaw Park is named after as well?

No. That's my understanding. I'm not familiar with that Shaw, but it is a different Shaw.

Thank you. Are

there any other clarifying questions from counsel? I'm seeing no hands raised. Okay. Then I will open public comment on this agenda item. If you're in the room and wish to speak, please come to the podium now. If you're on Zoom, please press the raised hand button. Seeing no one, I will close public comment and open it for a motion from council. Council member Martin.

Thank you. There we go. I move to approve resolution thirteen fifty five naming the trail in the Troxell Conservation Area, the Richard h Law Shaw Loop Trail.

Is there a second?

I second.

It was moved by council member Martin and seconded by council member Aman Aman to approve resolution thirteen fifty five naming the Richard H Shaw Loop Trail. If you could please vote on your screens that hopefully are showing you. Motion passes five to zero. So we're missing council member Martin. Oh, I said yes. Thank you. Okay. Motion passes six to zero. Thank you. So I will now we are finished with our business items, so I will now open welcome public comment for any comments on non agenda items.

If you are in the audience and wish to speak about something that is not on the agenda, please come forward at this time or press the raised hand button if you're on Zoom. Seeing no one, I will close public comment on nonagenda items and ask if there are any reports from council. And I'm not seeing any of those either. So a list of upcoming meetings is attached to the agenda and also online. They're in the back of the room and also online. So that is the end of our agenda. Is there a motion to adjourn?

I move we adjourn. Second.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye. Meeting

adjourned. Thank you very much.