City Council - Regular Meeting

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Okay, I'll call roll call. Heather Watland here. Nathan Sim here. M. Abrahamson present. Yavon Vanord Gallardo or Gallardo Vard. Sorry about that. Michelle Blathe here. Leysia Novak here. And Rob is excused tonight. Move for approval of the agenda. Second discussion. All those in favor? I I.

Any opposed? None heard. Motion carries. Okay, we'll move on to our first item of the workshop. Uh, airport equipment purchase. We're in Good evening, Mayor Vanny, Paul, and council members. Attachment A is for a request to a approval to purchase a 2016 Genie Lift. A former tenant at the airport is selling the Genie Lift for a price comparable to others on the market. Since the lift is currently located on the field, uh staff will avoid delivery costs. Purchasing the lift lift will also eliminate the need for future rentals resulting resulting in ongoing cost savings. Mino IT and airport operations have identified this equipment as an asset that will support increasing operational demands and preventative maintenance activities. The cost of this purchase will be shared between the three departments. Happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Have any questions? Tim? Yeah, I appreciate you putting down and and talking about the other lift that you guys had purchased previously and showing that these had two difference. It's amazing that you found one was so few hours at the price. Yes. The question is is uh in the future the maintenance for that that'll also be part of your budget I'm assuming because that'll those things will continually need maintained. We do have a budget reserved for that as well as part of our yearly budgeting. Thank you. Thank you.

Great. Any other questions? None seen. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to the second item. Design professional services agreement with DA Engineering for perimeter fencing improvement project. Yeah, Lorine.

Attachment B is for the approval of a professional services agreement with DAO engineering for the perimeter fencing improvement project stage two in the amount of $99,14. The fencing project is a phase project with stage one being completed this last September 20 or excuse me September 2024. The project will involve the design portion of removal and replacement of approximately 3,900 linear feet of existing perimeter fence on the west side of the airport with replacing it with new 8ft chain link fence. The fence will also include three strand barb wire per FA technical specifications and also include four automated vehicle gates. The proposed perimeter fence is also critical for compliance with 14 CFR public protection and wildlife hazard management. Airport staff will be applying for FA grant funding on this project. Um like I said, this is for the design portion only at this time. Um it's anticipated that we'll receive 90% in FA grant funding for the entire project.

Great. Thank you. Any questions, Tim? This is a more of a statement. Again, I really appreciate having something that is very similar to a charter for this project to show what is in scope and who all the contacts are. So, that is just something that I really appreciated being able to see so that we can understand what we're paying for and getting. Thank you. Yeah, Dal is our on call engineer for the airport and they're excellent in providing all of their tasks and fees. Any other questions? I just have one real quick. Yes. So each phase we're going after each phase separately on grants.

Yeah. There'll be separate projects. Um for example, we're projected not even to do stage three until 2031. Okay. That's when the FAA indicated that we may see funding at that time. Good. Thank you. It's a long process. Okay. We'll move on to item three, construction administration amendment for taxiway alpha improvements project. Again, Lauren,

thank you. Attachment C like you said is for the construction administration amendment for DA engineering for the taxi alpha improvement project. Uh this project involves a middle an overlay of taxi alpha and we reconstructed taxi alpha connectors alpha 1 and alpha 4 to meet FA standards. The project was determined substantially complete back in September 2025. We're returning to council to request an amendment to the construction administration contract in the amount of $78,048. So, this will be an additional amount onto the original contract. This amendment includes additional construction administration services to support relocation of taxiway alpha 1 holding position per tenant and FAA feedback as well as additional services to include rectifying costs for additional quality assurance for geotechnical testing completed during construction. The FAA has also indicated that additional costs are eligible for 90% reimbursement through FA grant funding. Happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Any questions? Okay, none seen. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, it looks like we'll move on to item four, grant application for the youth athletic facilities RCO grant. Josh, mayor, a request for 30 for grants for Washington state.

Oh, okay. Excuse me. This is a request for authority to apply for the youth analytic facility grant through Washington State RCO uh for field lighting for Quake multi-use field. Uh the total park cost to upgrade the lighting is 300,000. Uh we requesting to use 25% for matching funds which is 75,000 currently in the fund available. We have 171,437 that we collect through field usage fees. Um 9 years ago the poles were removed for lighting due to the wood rotting out and for safety and there's no current lighting there. It limits the amount of time and hours the fields available for soccer and football through Boys and Girls Club and other youth leagues that use it like lacrosse. We'd like to apply for this grant so we can put in some uh lighting basically back and it would be through state bid pricing through Musco lighting.

Great. Happy to ask questions. Devon. Oh, okay. Sorry. Um, I just wanted to ask really quick with it being not with not with the limited hours of nighttime. Are we going to add a lot more expense to to I'm all for these lights and I think it's great that we're trying to give more ability, but how does it affect our manpower and staffing? It should affect our manpower because that location we have the bathrooms open 24/7 uh during this time of year and that would be the only thing that would be like locked or unlocked if that was

uh the bathrooms are in the evening. We leave them open this time of year. And then the field lighting, actually with the new Musco lighting, they would automatically turn off in the evening off of like a manual turn off. So even if they don't turn them off for field usage, they would automatically turn off at 10 p.m. And we could do it through an app on our phone with the new technology out there and it' be all LED lighting. Okay, good. Thank you. Any other questions, Nathan?

Um, for future reference, is this just for Quakefield or are we thinking of Evansfield as well? So, this is the first phase we're applying for through MU, excuse me, RCO. And this is just for Quakes multi-use field uh due to the fact that they don't have lighting there. Evans field right now has lighting and same with Quake North and South Ball Fields. They all have lighting, but they need to be upgrades in the future coming up. So, we're hoping that if this works with this one, we'll next year maybe apply for the following fields following this. Okay. Thank you, Heather. Um my question is would the 75,000 that we have to match come out of the um athletic field improvements fund?

Yes, that would be an intent. Uh the actual grant only we actually qualify for only 10% needed but we're going to try to put it for 25% because if we put more money towards it then we actually gain more points and we have a better chance of getting the grant. Any other questions? Okay. Unseen. Thank you Josh. Okay, we'll move on to the next item, the monthly financial report, shall we?

Good evening, Mayor Vany and council members. Um, so I'm here to talk about the January 2026 financial report. We're going to start off with sales tax, which is always our favorite topic, right? um most important uh in many ways but um represents 27% of the general funds budget. So that's why we always start with it. Uh this is through January uh revenue collected but keep in mind the um we are always there's a twomonth delay between when we receive the funds from Snomish County. So this is actually November sales tax trend. So uh for 2026 and this is just through January. So, just one month so far. Um, we're experiencing 11% increase over 2025, which is good to see. Um, and so we're hoping that this trend continues obviously, but we did budget um for 2026 a 5% increase over 2025. And so, uh, seeing that we're up already for January is good news and we hope that continues because, um, this budget will be hard to meet in other ways. Um, specifically because in 2025 we fell short of the budget and so um, hoping you know this trend continues essentially. So the three major uh, sources of sales tax revenue are always usually uh, retail, services and construction. And retail stays um, pretty stagnant each month. um but it is the biggest category. So it represents 42% of our sales tax revenue from January and um it's been experienc a steady decline of 2% every um year since 2023 and so um can't focus as much on the retail sales tax side but on these two other categories this is where we're experiencing the increase. So, in services, which makes up 27% of our sales tax revenue uh for January, we're seeing a 27% um increase since 2024. Uh so, that's good to see. And then in the construction sales tax side, which makes

up 15% of January's total, uh we're experiencing a 31% increase compared to January of 2025. We talked about construction sales tax the past couple months um together. Um and essentially um that's been we're experiencing an increase in construction sales tax with more projects going on within city limits um right now and we're hoping that uh continues because that'll help drive up um some more sales tax revenue. We the last time that we experienced this high of construction sales tax was um many years ago because it had a it's been declining for the last couple of years and then we had our all-time high in um 2022 with the Amazon project. So, hey Shelby. Yes.

Just because we do have some new c newer council members and stuff, I just thought we could mention since construction sales tax is such a large portion of our sales tax. We don't use construction sales tax for operations. So, construction sales tax goes into just capital funds for improvements because it is so volatile because it has all to do with what's going on out, you know, in the construction world. So trying to rely on that for operations puts us in a really bad spot every time the economy goes up and down. It's bad enough as is without construction sales tax in there, but if we added it in, it would be even harder to budget uh for. So it is just used for capital and that's usually how we fill our like our uh parks and our um facilities and stuff capital funds is with that revenue.

Sorry to stop. Oh, no. That's great. Um, it's, um, so it comes in the same bucket of sales tax revenue, though, so it does help us get to our budgeted uh, revenue goals, but then we transfer it then to so that's not just sitting in the general fund um, since it's volatile and we can't expect it all the time. Okay. The next category I'm going to move on to is utility tax revenue, which um, I don't think we've talked um, very much about. Um so I'm going to go into a little bit more detail about what it how we earn this um revenue essentially. Uh so it makes up 13% of the general fund budget. So in a lot of ways if this is um increasing and sales tax isn't it can kind of balance out um the fluctuations um monthtomonth. Um utility tax is um based on our um code the percentage that we uh require all the utility providers to pay us. Um so these are utility providers including water, sewer, natural gas, garbage, cable TV, telephone and electricity. So for example the um so much county PUB will remit a portion of their um usage um to us in um in the form of this tax. So for January we received a little over 300,000 uh which is below the typical monthly average of about 341,000 a year. So, um, this is, you know, uh, something to look at and notice that January is lower than what we've experienced in the last couple of years, but also we've had a mild, uh, winter this year. So, um, like natural gas usage, for instance, is is lower. And so, uh, we're receiving less tax for, um, natural gas. Also, we've continued to see a decline in revenues from cable TV um because a lot of um uh you know customers are no longer um buying uh cable TV and moving to streaming services. And so we've seen this over the last few years and have noticed a decline there. Um but we're watching um that. And so um overall,

just in comparison to January 2025, we received 403,000 in overall utility tax revenue. And so this is 24% lower than this time last year. So, we still think that we'll be able to meet our um budget goals. It really fluctuates from month to month and uh depending on the weather and all kinds of um uh factors. So, we're hoping that the it'll all even out um because we did exceed this budget by 5% compared to 2025, but um hoping that we'll be able to get there by the end of the year. You can see in the chart how it goes up and down um every month. So um just looking at the last year and then um so January is kind of a slow start um to revenue. So I just want to keep that in have you keep that in mind when you're um looking at January as a whole. Um and one of the main reasons is because not all of our revenues come in monthly. Property tax, for instance, we only receive huge amounts in two times a year. Um and so the rest of the time we're just you know waiting for those revenues to come in and um float us as far as cash for the rest of the year. And then there's other things like um leaseold tax which we get in quarterly distributions and then all of our other taxes like affordable housing, criminal justice, natural gas use tax. um those come in very small amounts and so we don't usually highlight them in this presentation because they do come in monthly but they're they don't make a big fluctuation um in our reporting. And then overall expenses in the general fund, we um uh considering the 2026 budget amendments that you approved in December, everyone is spending so far within their budgets, but that's uh definitely good to hear since we're only one month in. And then um other funds for the airport uh fund, airport rental income is uh 9% uh more than this time uh last year. So uh good start there for um the airport.

And then just giving you an update on audits. We're uh hopefully in the final stage of our audits. We're trying to finish up um three specific types right now. So, the 2024 financial statement audit, the 2024 federal single audit, and the 23 and 24 accountability audits. And these are all with the state auditor's office. And we're experiencing a delay and trying to finish these up um for a couple of reasons. Uh there's scheduling constraints with the state auditor's office. They do the audits for all of the um governments within the state. And so they have quite the demand right now finishing up all kinds of audits from COVID money past years and things like that. And so uh trying to keep them on schedule and get this finalized. And then there's one remaining component um that they've been stuck on. And so we're hoping to get our um uh results and recommendations here soon. So hopefully within the next month and we'll have an exit conference and be able to out the results. And then uh next month I will be able to present to you the 2025 um final report for the year. Uh I think last month I told you that I'd be able to present it this month. Um but we're not quite done with it. So we'll have that next month and then I'll also have the regular February um month end report. So an extra one uh for next time.

Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? None. None seen. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to our next item, the community engagement quarterly report. Sarah,

good evening, mayor and council members. So, I'm here tonight to present our uh report for the last quarter. Um, so we have some current and new projects that we're working on in our department. Um the mayor Vanny is going to do the state of the city on March 10th to the Chamber of Commerce. So we've helped him uh with a presentation. Um we also are currently working through um our civic wreck, our new website that is for facility scheduling. We're working out the bugs. It's online live now. Um people can go in and schedule ball fields, pop-up shop, the garden, um all the picnic shelters and the parks as well as special events through the site. um it will accept credit card payment and people can schedule on their own. So, this is taking a lot of the staff work out of it. It's just the um issue is setting it all up correctly. So, we're working on that. Um we're also working through um the new ADA requirement for our um all our digital media and website to be compliant. So, that's an ongoing thing we're working on. And then um we will be working on a new citizen portal for citizen tracking because um the CED department is phasing out I works and another program we use is called seamless docs. So we will be um creating a new portal through um civic plus which we use currently for our website. Um let's see what else we're doing our uh meet in Arlington website. But we have that website and we have hired a consultant to just go through it and make sure um all the bugs are worked out and that all the connections are working and um just make sure the website is all good to go. Um we're planning music in the park series which also includes the

street fair music and we're trying to do a Smoky Point music series on Friday nights u once a month. And then the youth council is going to be bringing a teen concert to Legion Park on um possibly two Fridays in May or June. So they're working on that. Um we're busy with special event requests. Um it's kind of like first of the year. Everyone wants to get their event request in on the calendar. Um which takes some work. And then u we have our new public art projects that we can go through and we have some new grants. And um next month we'll be bringing forward a proposal from a design team to um contract with a design team to create a design for a food truck park. So we're moving on that. Um Arbor Day is planned for March 14th at 10:00 a.m. with the park commission and um our maintenance staff. Uh the current park projects with uh public works are the Jensen um park project with um restrooms have been installed and we will be working with um Arlington Rotary on the uh bike park there. So that will be coming forward this spring. Um and then last quarter with the recently completed projects, we did the hometown holidays which we um had about 20,000 people at the kickoff. Um we just finished up the Eagle Festival. Um we pushed out a mailed newsletter in October. The reader board is up and running downtown. Um, we received the tree city reertification and then the pickle ball project is finishing up and we'll have a ribbon cutting with council in the springtime. There's just a little bit work that

needs to be done on two of the courts. Three are playable. Um, for communications, um, Mandy set out sent out a list of press releases. um a lot of them had to do with the flooding and then a few um law enforcement press releases that she worked on with the police department. On page two, um up and coming, we have the May 2026 mailed newsletter that will go out. Um that newsletter goes out twice a year. So the May edition will be focusing on summer activities. We do a weekly e newswsletter through constant contact and that's um remains steady uh with about 1,300 people opening it. We also do a weekly staff bulletin that you should receive. Um our website, there's a little bit of information here about the top pages which uh were the Eagle Festival, um the food truck calendar, which is interesting, utility billing, the police page, um permit applications, and employment uh sources. On our Facebook page, we are steadily gaining followers. We have about 16,800 currently. Um the police department's Facebook page also has about 16,000 followers. Um we're helping them with the emphasis on recruitment currently on the Facebook and Instagram pages. Um the YouTube channel is holding steady with about uh 400 subscribers and we push out the well the city pushes out the council workshops and the planning commission meetings. Um, let's see, next page. Our tourism projects. Um, we have received several grants from

the city um for the Eagle Festival, the outdoor music series, and the Hispanic Heritage Event. So, we'll be um working on those this year. And we also received a couple grants from Snowish County. Um we received funding for well we're still waiting for funding but we've heard that we will receive funding for our parks brochure and um a project uh for the World Cup to bring u visitors into Arlington for uh we received about $9,500 for marketing for that. Um, and then as I mentioned, there were approximately 20,000 people in town for the um, November 29th hometown holiday kickoff. Um, we got that information from a company called Placer AI. Um, the Meet Me in Arlington program is going strong and I thought maybe the next report we could have Mandy come in and talk about that program for the new people on the council. Um the pop-up shop is uh pretty booked on the calendar through the spring and then we're continuing the business class series with the chamber of commerce. Um we the city um gives money to the chamber and they provide the different classes for the businesses. um the youth youth projects. We have our youth council. They have u many focuses this year um doing really well with getting them engaged with um the police department and the downtown business association um so they can get started on their projects. Uh we're also part of the youth coalition um and Manny attends those meetings and they have several projects they're working on. And then uh Friday Funday is still a thing at uh Legion Park and the city did donate some money to put

towards uh their snacks and sponsorship. Our volunteer program um we've done several mayor awards and there will be one coming forward in March and another one in April. Um we've had a lot of volunteer assistance for special events including the Eagle Festival and Hometown Holidays. many park commissioners and city council members were helping with those events. Um we've recently had a request from Smoky Point Community Church to do litter pickups. So um those type of events really pick up in the springtime. And then I listed out the park projects which I think you're all aware of. Um, see the public art projects, those have um really started up right now. We um just finished the gateway sign repaint on on SR9 and that was a 2025 project. We have two chainsaw carvings that are ready for installation for the Division Street roundabouts. So that should be soon. The cougar bench was restored during Eagle Festival by the original artist. He came out and restored it for us um for a fee. And then our 2026 projects I listed uh the Native American mural. The Stilig tribe forwarded me some artists that we will be um creating with for design for that mural. And then the utility box wraps. We're working with Lorraine to um contract with a uh sign installer and then we'll be doing a call for art for aviation for two utility boxes. um the turtle sculpture. I included a photo um in this packet of a little mockup of the turtle that was approved

for um Hower Park. And um also we're going to try to repair the mural on the back of the bowling alley this year. It's a little bit worn and the artist is ready to fix work on that. um included a list of 2026 events now through June. Um I just wanted to show the new events here listed here. Um June 6th, Legion um the American Legion wants to have a a event in the park with the farmers market. So we're working through that for the public event for the public. And then on the 21st of June, there'll be a new event, um, which is a Sunday for Father's Day, a barbecue kickoff, a barbecue event, um, where they'll have different competitions and food trucks and activities. It's on a Sunday. And then the uh, the library will be hosting a large event at Smoky Point on June 27th. And then a new uh Christian school is working on hosting an event on June 6 at Smoky Point Park. Um I think that's pretty much it. And then the photos are attached with um some stuff I thought you would think was a little bit interesting.

Any questions? Unseen. Okay. Thank you, Sarah. No questions. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to our next report. the airport quarterly report. Marty, did you write the library? I'll come up with something.

Good evening, mayor, council people. Um, airport's been busy. Give kind of a rundown of current current projects and projects that we're wrapping up kind of for the fourth quarter. Uh, the airport master plan is ongoing. Uh and that's that's the purpose of that is to create airport development plan and attract new businesses to the airport undeveloped areas. Uh the presentation of the preliminary alternatives to the FAA have been submitted. That's a fancy way of saying that they we've kind of got a good idea of what we what what the future is for it. We've submitted to the FAA. They approve the master plan when it's all done. This project is fully funded nearly $800,000 and it's ongoing uh roughly about 85 completion percent completion at this point. Um the taxiway mill and overlay project Lorine kind of alluded to that. Uh that was that we're wrapping that up uh as far as payment waiting waiting close out um and reconstruction of alpha 1 and alpha 4. Uh if you if you're not familiar, the alpha taxi way is the one that runs parallel to the runway and that's kind of our main access for businesses and that sort of thing. And that the whole thing was redone um to new standards. Uh we received over $6 million in grant funding for that. And so we're looking to wrap that up. U the taxiway alpha hold short amendment that we just talked about tonight. I kind of wanted to do a little bit more of a deep dive in that. That's still part of the project that we did. But after the alpha taxi was completed, we realized there are a couple design flaws. I talked about a hold short. That's a spot where a plane comes up and waits to get on the runway. And we found that where the hold short line was, it'd be a plane sitting there. And then we have another runway. So that's this way. And you don't want aircraft passing over the top of one that's sitting there. So um we have to do a redesign and just move that line back. But you have to move the line back. You have to move the signs back and reelect electrical. So that's that's

what that's all about. So just kind of give you an understanding of why we're amending that. Um let me see. In uh 2025, airport staff oversaw the installation of 10,831 ft of fiber. Um the purpose of the fiber installation is is is this is the third phase. It's to kind of encapsulate and circle the whole airport. with the fiber. It allows us to um essentially businesses that come in can utilize that fiber for internet and that sort of thing. It also it's part of our our plan to to access all of our gates. About half of our gates have fiber, the other half don't. And you can kind of see what we're doing with the fencing, all that phasing. We're looking to close all of that up, tighten it up. that'll help with with, you know, transient homeless encampments, wildlife, and security. And so, we've kind of got a mismatch of of of gates and stuff that don't look like they fit. You have a big giant gate next to it. You have a 4ft fence. That's all going to work out eventually. Um, and the fiber kind of entire allows us to do that. We're with working with it. Uh the fiber program has we have cameras at each at each gate so we can see who's coming, who's going, prox card to get in and out, and now we have license plate readers. So if they give us their license plate, the car they're driving, we put that into their plan and they all they got to do is drive up, it goes, "Oh, it's you." And it opens up. So it's pretty cool. And a long ways from where we started and we have a ways to go. But that's kind of what we're doing is is to secure that. Um, I put FAA compliance and grant assurance. That's just an ongoing thing with our grant assurances with the FAA. We have compliance things that we need to make sure that we're doing right. So, we're within the uh grand asurances. Upcoming project on SR 531 widening uh acquisition of the

southside strip of airport safety area. So that where that um uh the the the uh the turf farm is, there's we're going to end up essentially selling a portion of that, a strip of that to uh the state of Washington so they can widen that effectively. With that, we have an approach lighting system that now has to be moved because it's in that. So it's it's a little more complicated than just selling the land and that sort of thing, but we will receive, you know, monies for that land. We're in the process of that now. um let's see uh EV charging station at the airport. So, uh we're going to be kind of some of the first charging stations in the city and we're installing it there in our our um just where our solar panel, you know, carport is in the back there if you've seen that. Um it's a long time coming, but we've we've done some work. Uh Lake Stevens uses a similar or charging station that we're using. So, we've kind of got a precedence of of how it'll work. And we'll be coming back uh to you guys for um our fee structure because we don't know how that's going to look like yet. We just got to get it in and working and then they can, you know, buy the the electricity for charging it. So, um we're kind of setting the standard for for the city at this point. Um let's see what else we got here. uh possible PUD easement acquisition for transmission lines on 59th Avenue. Uh we're awaiting permit and proposal uh approval from PUD. So that's kind of an ongoing thing. Uh more more will be revealed on that if if that if that goes through. Um we're also uh we're just wrapping up the completion of the Westside hanger demolition and cleanup. So, we demoed some some some hangers over there that were pretty old and kind of useful life had had uh long since

passed. So, with that uh we're waiting u some sample testing cuz years and years and years of of of operation in that there's they use lowleled fuel in aircraft. So, there could be some other things. It looks good so far. Once we get that squared away, we'll go ahead and we're going to grade it and and clean it up with some of the dirt that we used from the alpha project. Along with that, we've been propo uh we've been approached about there's two giant mounds. One are millings from the asphalt and one is dirt. We elected to keep that for use for construction purposes around the airport later. Uh we've been approached by a construction company that wants to buy it all and uh which is great. you know, then we can get rid of that and we we actually make money on the dirt that would normally just go away. So, um and we get to keep whatever we want out of that for our own purposes. So, we're working on that and we'll let you know when that that takes place. Um the hometown flying lastly, the hometown flying and community airport day event will be on August 21st through the 23rd. The last day of that event will will be our uh community air appreciation community airport day which we've always had where we fly the kids for the Eagle Young Eagle flights every year. We fly at least, you know, 175 to 200 over 200 kids uh in a day. So, and then the flyin will be part of that. We'll be camping and we're we're kind of growing that that event. It's a free event. We're a lot of fun things we're excited about. uh staff attended a trade show in Puallup over the weekend and uh we got just positive glowing you know enthusiasm for this this event. A lot of volunteers looking looking to help. So we think it's going to be pretty growing. We hope that it grows slowly so that we don't we're not overwhelmed.

Careful what you wish for kind of thing. Um but we're all excited about it and uh I think it's going to work out real well. That's That's all I got. Do you have any questions? Great. Thanks. Any questions? No. Okay. None seen. Thank you.

Okay. We'll move on to our next item, maintenance and operating quarterly report. Josh, good evening again. So, squeezing six months into a few pages here. So tried to only do the highlights. So start out for staffing. This is going back all the way to October till now. We have 15 full-time staff positions that are currently filled. We have two staff that are going on paternity leave. One for 6 months and one for 2 to 6 months. That'll be happening this week and and potentially next month. Uh we have two winter seasonals that are finishing out in March. They were great to have this year and we hope we can continue that program. Uh we're in the interview process right now for seven seasonals um positions for 6 months and then three uh college students for 3 months. In December we also have um excuse me in December to March we'll have one more staff member getting their CDL. We had one complete in December and when starting in April, we will have full-time staff moving to uh year- round rotation for weekend coverage along with two seasonal staff year round is the goal. With all these events growing, we realize we need more staff on the weekends. Um for the months of October through February, DOC crews were reliable. Uh they also been coming with a reliable number of inmates too, five to six. Their focus has been on like the parks, vegetation, larger projects, holiday preparation for all the events. And it were really helpful with the winter storm we had in December. We asked for more crews in December the DOC. So they gave us every available for the whole entire year because they project the whole year's calendar out. So they gave us one to two additional teams per month, which is a huge help to us and

storm water. The storm water department now is borrowing roughly uh one crew a month. So it's been a great help. um with the winter storm, they helped out greatly with that with all the cleanup. A lot of limbs to be picked up and it was nice having five to six inmates to help that. Um they also helped recently with a homeless camp that was quite large on 168th behind Amazon. Um worked with police and got that cleaned up. It worked out really well. For streets, lots of numbers of potholes and street signs replaced. We've been busy with that. uh keeping up with it and logging all our stuff and um a lot of citizen complaints that come in that we've been addressing quite uh quite fast this last 6 months. For November uh for facilities, we completed our HVAC quarterly maintenance and then January we were tasked with uh doing the police impound move and project. So, we assisted with that, building the walls, building working with the contractor for the fencing, installed a new electronic gate in the front of um solid compost area so the police can pull up and it automatically opens the license plate reader. Work with it. That was a nice project between our department, IT, and public works all working together to get that completed on time. Um, in February, we completed our annual HVAC service and then parks. Some highlights. In October, we completed the installation of the two swings on Centil Trail with the art. We have two more to go on the airport trail area that'll be going in the spring. In November, we completed the 14 uh trees planting for so much PUD on Centennial Trail. In December, we had the storms. Uh with the storms, uh we saw a lot of flood damage obviously we assisted with and then all the tree damage that we helped clean up. Uh we still have a few things that were pending for repair on

uh Zimmerman stairs. Uh just waiting on FEMA funding and stuff like that, but is usable and safe right now. In January, uh working over the winter that got delayed because of the storm. Uh the Hower Park new staircase was completed. It's great addition of everybody knows going down that hill. No kids sliding down hopefully. Uh that was actually a coordination project between us, Snomish County, and Washington Trail Association. WTA uses Snowmer County's building down by Clover Park uh for space. So, they give them so many work hours for projects and then they knew that this would be a great addition to the city and the county with the trail there. So, we actually got that staircase with at no cost essentially. So, it was great addition and a lot of volunteer hours from WTA. They were great to work with. Um the ball fields in January, the ball fields are closed during January's um and during that time we completed uh new safety netting. Uh we replaced the back top back stop padding. Uh we actually have new logos on them now. So it looks really nice. Uh we replaced the score booth uh numberings that were gone out and stuff on the LED score booths. Uh replaced all the field lighting. We always do that in January. So, right before ball fields start or get used for the season, all the lights are in 100% working condition mostly. Uh, we checked and replaced um Oh, and then we did the completed the pitching warm-up area. So, we completed there was an injury last year um on that area. So, we revamped the whole area where we made it two lanes safer with safety netting in between uh stationary pads that are more permanent. Um, one way in, one way out. um observation area on the side so anyone not going to get hit by baseballs while they're p practicing warming up. Um so that was a good success project. In February we completed helping with the eagle festival. We transport all the logs and also help with the staff

working the weekends for the event helping to keep clean. And the airport is the biggest project I think we've had in a while. Uh, as Marty said, we took down all the ultral light hangers on the west side. Um, we did that all in house. Um, it was actually a really fun project. We ran all the equipment, coordinated all the dumpsters, and now we're just waiting for the dirt samples come back to complete the dirt side of that. That was a great project. It was nice to get under budget so far. And yeah, it was great to work with the airport on that one. Um online citizen requests as you can see from the numbers there we did 161 requests in 2025. Um it fluctuates usually the time of year we'll see usually that with the weather once we get deep freezes then it warms up asphalt will usually start popping and then we'll get pole complaints. So more will come in so it comes in waves usually with the weather too. So that's usually the typical scissor request follows the weather too.

Happy answer. Thank you. Anybody questions, Tim? No, I just wanted to say uh thanks for uh working on that project to put that staircase in at Holler Park. H being somebody who uses Centennial Trail as a runner, it's nice to know that if I'm at Holler Park, I don't have to walk out into traffic to get back onto the trail because that is a steep hill. So, it is nice, you know, for erosion, but also, you know, as a good way for people to access from Hower Park to Centennial Trail as well. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. Most of the credit should be given to S County though and WTA for that. They did a great job. Heather,

um I just wanted to say thank you. This is a great report and you guys always do a lot of really great work and um my son's doing baseball again. So, we had the opportunity to try out the um the new pitching area. It's a lot better and the um the logo on the mats looks great. So, thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Any other question? Yvon,

I just want to say thank you to um uh the Heler Parkster case. I'm sure there's a lot of disappointed kids that won't have an excuse to run down that hill, but the moms, I'm sure, are excited to have that excuse to have it there. So, thank you to WTA and Snomish County for that. And um same thing for the Ball Fields. That that's amazing. It's a great resource that we all definitely need. And uh thank you for all the hard work that you put into that. Thanks. Yeah. No, I echo that too. All the all the projects look great and appreciate all the volunteer hours for it and it's amazing how that view over on the west side has totally changed. Yeah, it's exciting to see what's going to come day. No, exactly. Thank you. You're welcome.

Paul, do you have anything for tonight? I can't follow that. So, I'll just say no. That's enough for tonight. Yeah. And I I don't have anything tonight either. Do we have any comments or reports from the council members? Tim? Yeah, I just wanted to bring back uh our policies and procedures forward. I just wondered if we had uh any updates on moving forward with getting something that we can put in front with those updates for policies and procedures. Yeah, we we've been working on them. Um we're just not quite finished with them yet, but yeah, they'll come back to council. Thanks for the reminder. Okay, any others? You have one?

I have a few. No, I have like three. Um, I just want to uh give while I was listening to the airport um updates, I was thinking about it and uh when I was in the ride along last week, um one of the things that was really fun to see was the police department out there at the airport training and doing some nighttime drills. So, that was really exciting. Another great use of our airport and being able to use that run one way. Um so, thank you for that great collaboration and making sure our staff um has the right training that they need. Shout out to Economic Alliance. Um, their military affairs committee is brought has been returned. I saw Mayor Vany there. Um, and I'm really excited to see that get kicked back on. It's been off for about three, four year. I don't know, a long time for a while. So, it's really exciting to see that they're trying to collaborate again. The naval base is really important as it was my last duty station. So, of course, I'm a little biased, but um I do think there's a great connection there and always need needing to make sure we keep in track with our military force. Um, and then, um, I just want to say thank you to, um, county council member, uh, Nate Nearing. Um, he put on a great, uh, coffee with Brian Sullivan, the treasurer for the county, and I got to go out to Stanwood and have coffee with him and, um, Brian and a a few others. Um, so I just really appreciate the time to get to meet our treasurer, learn a few more things. Actually have documents to bring back to you, copies of things that I wanted to show you and I forgot about. Um, but I really appreciated that that effort and that energy that sometimes you just never know who's going to be there and so it was great to be there. Thank you.

Thank you. This time, do we have any members of the public that would like to speak? None seen. Okay, we'll move on to the consent agenda.

I'm adding a couple of items next week, but they're small. You always say that. I was I was gonna nothing. Yeah, I was going to say I'm good with one through four being on the consent. The rest of them are info, so they won't come back. Okay, so one through four. Okay. Okay, perfect. The whole thing. Exactly. Okay, Robin, happy with you. With that, I think we're ready to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second discussion. All those in favor? I I. Any oppose? Motion carried. We're adjourned. Thank you.