City Council - Regular Meeting

Ready? Okay, I call the meeting of September 8th, 2026 to order at 6 p.m. Will you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. All right.

So I will call on Greg Newart for our invocation, please. Thank you so much.

give them courage and authority to do good, serve others, and love people. And tonight, each of you has that opportunity with authority, not simply to make decisions, but to use that authority to serve the good of the people of Sumner. With that in mind, would you please pray with me?

God, we thank you for the city of Sumner, for the people who call this community home, and for those who have been trusted with the responsibility of being here. We ask that you would give the council wisdom,

when the right path is not easy, humility to listen well, and compassion for every person they represent. May their authority be used to do good, seek what is best for this community, and to serve their neighbors with integrity and love. Guide their conversations tonight, give them unity where there can be unity, grace where there are differences, and wisdom in every decision. May Sumner continue to be a place where people can flourish, where neighbors care for one another

Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Will the clerk please call the roll?

Alphers. Council Member Alphers is absent. Evers. Here. Hockstetter. Council Member Evers. Here. Hockstetter. Council Member Hockstetter is absent. Isaacs.

Here.

Kenna.

We're trying.

There you go.

Here.

Malcolm?

Here.

We'll see.

Here. All right. Council Member Hockstetter and Deputy Mayor Elpers have notified myself and the city administrator of their absence tonight. Could I please have a motion to excuse Council Member Hockstetter? I'm trying. So our... system up here. Everybody is permanently on right now. Okay. Go ahead.

Sure. I'll make a motion to excuse Council Member Hockstetter.

Thank you. Is there a second?

Seconded.

Moved and seconded to excuse Council Member Hockstetter from tonight's meeting. All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? None. So the motion passes. And then could I please have a motion to excuse Deputy Mayor Elfers? I need a motion first, so let's see. I'll try Malcolm.

I'd like to move to excuse Deputy Mayor Elfers.

Thank you so much. Is there a second? Council Member Isaacs.

Yes, I'd like to make a second to excuse Deputy Mayor Elfers.

Okay, thank you. So let's see. So we've had the motion, so let's take a vote. All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. So this meeting will now be adjourned into executive session for 15 minutes for the purposes of pursuant to RCW 42.30.1101G to review the qualifications and performance of an applicant for public employment. action will be taken for this item. So we'll go ahead and gavel out at 6.04. Thank you.

Thank you. Music.

Really quick, Matt, I take my wife to a Sanders game.

So it's 619, and we will reconvene the regular council meeting. Thank you. Will the clerk please read the consent agenda?

Item number one, annual Tyler Technologies renewal license. Item number two, annual Microsoft license renewal. Item number three, wastewater treatment facility building improvements. Contract award for resolution number 175. 5. Puget Sound Energy Grant Acceptance for Wastewater Treatment Facility Biosolids. Item 5, Valley Avenue Water System Improvements Partial Acquisition, gray. Item 6, Valley Avenue Water Systems Improvements Partial Acquisition Delay, dally. Item 7, Approval of Electronic Payments in the amount of $3,000,000. $646,430.69. Item number eight, confirming the mayoral appointment of Julie Cree as city attorney and approval of the related employment agreement. Item nine, approval of the council meeting minutes from the following meetings. August 17th, 2026, regular council meeting. August 24th, 2026, special council meeting. and the August 24th, 2026 study session.

Thank you. Council Member Malcolm, would you please make a motion to adopt the consent agenda?

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to make a motion to adopt the consent agenda for September 8th, 2026.

Can I get a second? Council Member Evers. Second. Thank you. Council Member Evers made the second. So it's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Would any council member wish to remove an item? All right. So, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay, it passes unanimously. Thank you. So, now we will move on to public hearing. We have nothing tonight. And we will move on to regular business. which would be unfinished business. So A, Ordinance Number 2974, Intergovernmental Transfer of Bill Heath Sports Complex to the Sumner-Bonnie Lake School District. Calling on City Administrator Jason Wilson. Council Member Evers, would you like to make a motion?

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance number 2974, Intergovernmental Transfer of Bill Heath Sports Complex to Sumner-Bonnie Lake School District.

Thank you. Do we have a second? Council Member Malcolm. Seconded. Thank you. Seconded by Council Member Malcolm. So it's been moved and seconded to approve ordinance number 2974, Intergovernmental Transfer of Bill Heath Sports Complex to Sumner-Bonnie Lake School District. So now we'll call on City Administrator Jason Wilson.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. Tonight is, for your consideration, an ordinance that would surplus the Bill Heath Sports Complex and transfer it via purchase and sale agreement or intergovernmental transfer to the Sumner-Bonnie Lake School District. A little bit of history. If you may recall that the city acquired the land that the sports complex is on in the late 70s and early 80s. It was donated to the city by a variety of different landowners. In the early 1990s, Rotary raised considerable funds to construct the park. And in 1998, the park was completed and dedicated back to the city. In 2001, we acquired some land from the Catholic Church and built and opened a skate park. And in 2016, the city council changed the name of the sports complex from the Daffodil Valley Sports Complex to the Bill Heath Sports Complex. That was really to honor Bill Heath for all of his time that he spent at Rotary, raising funds to put the park together. If you don't know who Bill Heath is, Bill Heath is a pillar of our community, was a World War II veteran, and also a longtime principal at Sumner High School, and then a longtime Rotarian. So very fitting honor for him. As a reminder, the city portion of the park is approximately seven acres. It consists of a grass baseball field with lights, a volleyball court, which is mostly on the school district property, a basketball court, also mostly on the school district property. Five percent of that's actually on the city. And then tennis and pickleball courts, which, interestingly enough, the city property line goes straight down the middle of. We have a concession stand out there parking and really the primary users of that field for a long time have been the school district as well as Wolfpack football. There have been some challenges over the years at being a grass field. The city has been trying to upgrade that to synthetic turf for about 20 years now. We've also had some challenges with the field lighting. It's at end of life and then just general lack of lighting. At the time that the sports complex was built, There was a lot of debate over, you know, should you have parking lot lighting? Does that increase vandalism? Does it prevent vandalism? And so times have, and the science behind that have changed over the years. If they were to build it today, it would have to have lights. And then reservation management has also been a challenge. We currently contract with the YMCA to help us manage the reservations of that. So as I alluded to before, the whole complex is about seven acres, but the property is split by two different owners. So the school district currently owns the northern half of the park, which consists of two baseball fields. And then the city owns the lighter green portion to the south, including the large hardball field, the site of the former skate park, and the parking lot. So a while back, the school district approached the city about wanting to acquire this because they had some desire to improve the field for their high school sports teams. They, in their bond, have the capability of building new synthetic turf fields with lights, upgrading the restroom and concession stands, adding a toddler playground, and then also ensuring the tennis and pickleball courts are maintained. So after a couple years of negotiation, the city and the district reached this agreement. They would purchase the city portion for $3.3 million and some change, which happens to be the assessed valuation. The Bill Heath name will remain for at least 15 years. The school will build a new children's playground, which will be open essentially dawn to dusk, as well as the basketball and tennis courts will remain open. And then public parking will remain available consistent with other district properties. Because the land was donated to the city, there are some deed requirements for any sale proceeds. The deeds don't prohibit us from selling it. It just says if we sell it that the proceeds need to be used for recreation or playground purposes. So the proceeds will be deposited in a parks capital fund, which will be allocated during the budget process. And our current staff recommendation will be to utilize those funds for a new park development on the Bennett property, which is just south of the Creekside neighborhood. So the process, we went through and negotiated a purchase and sale agreement. We set the public hearing on July 20th. We actually held that public hearing on August 17th. And before you tonight is the final action on the ordinance to surplus the property and transfer the ownership. Happy to answer any questions from council.

Any questions? Okay, I see none. So a public hearing, thank you. A public hearing was held for this item on August 17th, 2026. So we will not be accepting public comments tonight. Would any council member like to make a comment?

Council Member Evers. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I had some concerns at first, not as the council person per se, but as a Rotarian. I spent a lot of time with that field over the years, baseball related. I guess the main thing that comes out of this is the district locks down the fields for vandalism reasons. The big field, which the city currently owns, will not people won't have access anymore but I'm happy that you know with the turf there the Sumner School District our partners they need a field bad for the couple of them so the lighting is going to be great the basketball and tennis will still be open to citizens of Sumner and then there's going to be the new playground equipment which I think I'm probably too old to go on, but I'm sure that families will enjoy that. A little bit of heartburn is the 15 years on the building. I joined Rotary right after this project was done because there was lots of shoveling and work involved, so I said, I'll wait until they get done with that. But anyway, to me, that's the biggest thing you see in Sumner for Rotary is that field. If the district decides to change the name in 15 years, I'm going to be down there in my walker or wheelchair or whatever to voice my discontent about that. But I think this is a good thing and it's going to be going to another new park. So I'm excited about that.

Thank you, Council Member Evers. Council Member Malcolm.

Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, I'd like to commend the city and the school district for working through this. This was a bugaboo of deeds and intent and I know they came in at one point for a dollar amount that we were not happy about, and they came back and we negotiated a better dollar amount, so I was very happy to see that. But I just wanted to comment on how this is just such a win-win-win. I mean, rarely do we get... A win-win is always ideal, but this is on multiple, I guess, facets to this. I mean, that park needs some investment, and we get to avoid some of that cost that we would have to probably put in if we're really going to be good stewards of that, and the school district takes that on. They're the primary users, so it's nice to see that. It'll be a better facility with the turf. We'll have a toddler park. We'll have probably some more investment on the tennis courts and everything, and I'm really happy to see that going into it. And then just the real, the third win in all of this is that we get a huge chunk of money to seed the Bennett Park operation, which I think we've all been looking at and thinking about, how can we, you know, how can we kickstart this? And I think there's intent on the council, at least at this point, that we'll take these funds and be able to build a equally as nice and probably kind of a broader use park at the north end of town where... where we really don't have a lot up there. So I was really excited to kind of see all three of those wins come together. So good job to the admin and good job to the school district.

Thank you, Council Member Malcolm. Anyone else? All right. Will the clerk please call the roll? Kenna?

Yes.

Malcolm?

Yes.

Isaacs?

Yes.

Wilsey? Yes. Evers? Yes. Pass 5-0.

Thank you. All right. So we will now move on to public comment. The limit is three minutes for each speaker. Michelle, did anyone sign up for public comment? Yes, Mayor.

We do have two people who have signed up for public comment. The first person is Don Land from Milton.

Okay. Is there anyone on Zoom who would like to make a comment? Mr. Steffens? Okay, thank you. So I'm going to read the rules for public comment for the folks in the audience that will come up. So the purpose of these meetings is to conduct the important business of the city, and that often means the city council is making difficult policy or budgetary decisions. With that said, I want to share a few rules and reminders that I will be enforcing to Encourage respectful and orderly public comment. As a reminder, the public comment section of the meeting is a time for the Council and myself to hear from members of the public on topics not on tonight's agenda. And while it may feel awkward, this is not a time for the Council or myself to answer questions or engage in back-and-forth debate. At the conclusion of your comments, I may request that the appropriate staff member contact you for further discussion. 1. Please keep your comments relevant to City business and about matters over which the City Council has control. 2. All Council members and City staff deserve respect and dignity. Please refrain from disorderly or disruptive speech or conduct, personal attacks, name-calling, rude or offensive statements, obscenities, derogatory comments directed at individuals, and hate speech. If you don't comply with this rule, I will interrupt you with a reminder and then may choose to suspend you from continuing or have you removed from the meeting. Three, we have behavioral expectations. We will all model courtesy and respect. This includes those of us on the dais and members of the public are expected to do the same. Audience members, to ensure every speaker feels comfortable speaking, please do not clap, boo, or speak while another person is addressing the council. Please speak into the microphone. Comments are broadcasted and recorded via the mic. If you leave the microphone, your comment time ends. So now that I've reviewed the rules that will apply, I invite the first speaker to the microphone. Please start your comments by stating your name and the city in which you reside for our records. You will have three minutes to speak. Thank you. All right.

Hi, my name is Dawn Land and I'm here today to again ask the Sumner City Council to pass a city ordinance making it illegal for minors to be exposed to adult entertainment such as drag queens.

Excuse me, can you just tell us the city you reside in, please?

Oh, yes, I'm sorry. I reside in Milton. Thank you. All right. Now, in 2023, the state of Florida made such a law. It was fought in courts, and last month, the Supreme Court upheld the Florida law. So there is a precedent at the federal level in support of such a law. This ordinance is important and necessary to protect the children of Sumner. On August 30th, I attended Plateau Pride in Hopps Alley. The organizer of the event, Abby White, has a history of exposing minors to adult entertainment in the form of drag queens. She didn't like that I publicized videos and pictures from her event last year. Abby tried so hard to prevent me from documenting her Plateau Pride this year. She even threatened to sue me for defamation. Because of this, I went in disguise. This year, instead of openly enticing kids to attend with a bouncy house, Abby's schedule called for kids to meet at her booth at 3 p.m. so they could be led out of sight to an undisclosed location for Drag Queen Story Hour. I was told by a Main Street merchant that Drag Queen Story Hour was in the back of the bookstore. When I inquired inside as an adult with no kids and told, I was told it was in the alley and I could not exit the store through the back. There were no kids on the patio behind the bookstore and many of us witnessed adults leading kids through the front of the bookstore. I saw two women leading a group of kids to the front of the bookstore, and one of the women said to the other, it's ridiculous. We have to resort to this. When it came time for the drag queen's performances, there was a group of high school kids front and center. At one point, the MC drag queen targeted the high schoolers, pulling them onto the dance floor to dance with them. That drag queen spoke about those high schoolers on his Facebook page that evening, proving he knew that they were minors. Every one of those high schoolers appeared to be at the plateau pride without their parents' knowledge or consent. High schoolers are still minors. they still need to be protected from adult entertainment. It's really telling that everyone was fine, everyone at the event was fine with me filming. As my disguise, I looked queer, yet conservatives were not permitted to film. A young woman with a beard even spit on one of the conservative males. Please protect all kids. Please pass an ordinance protecting kids from adult entertainment in Sumner. Thank you. Thank you.

The next person who has signed up is Randall Adams.

Randall Adams, Sumner. I sent you a number of PDFs and files today. I'm only going to go over the front page of one of them. Regarding me having a stop best two sign at the Friday channel 13 event, guess karma bit me on that one as best two has a unique second meaning versus best 2.0. You can go to the Google later and enjoy my embarrassment. Thank you, the council member Malcolm, for attempting to warn me. Sometimes bad publicity creates as much attention as good publicity does. My focus was to bring to attention the fact that the City had already filed for a permit on August 10th and approved a somewhat deceiving SEPA on August 17th. I sent over to you my specific comments regarding that SEPA. Importantly, the City put forth an ordinance for the Planning Commission and the Council to approve as submitted without any input or changes and even left an open date to be filled in when you actually approved what they submitted. Seeing the ordinance should have been drawn up after the Planning Commission goes through their process and recommends what their conclusions are, and the same for the Council to do, not to have it mandated what your conclusions are supposed to be. While this is still a better process than what happened with Best 1.0, where you were, in baseball terminology, ronstatted, meaning the staff blew by you, this process still has the cart before the horse. We have been told that process matters, so please consult together on what you want for Best 2. and then create an ordinance that then defines what your preferences are. Personally, I think you should wait until after Derringer is online for you to tour it to see if they actually have set up to address one million gallons of water being poured there if in fact there is a fire and where is it going to go? Is it going right down through the gravel? And how loud is the site when it's up and running? That will give us an idea of what citizens will deal with from lithium battery sites that are only 15 feet from their property, right next to you. During the public comments of the Planning Commission, the best representative disagreed with what was being proposed. He instead said that there should be no setbacks whatsoever for ones the size of the Derringer site. And that severely restricts their ability to have more sites within Sumner. They do not live here and the risk to us is not to be considered in their pursuit for more money. This should highlight the importance of you to stop such insanity and further question their motives, just like why they would call Derringer's site Greenwater, suggesting it is away from people versus the middle of the valley near Lakeland Hills, which is where we were told the toxic fallout would go. Next to the railroad tracks and East Valley Highway. And the ditch that drains right down to the PSE flue that runs to the White River. If it's in town and we have all that water, where's it going to go? Is it going down to storm drains and right to the river? Or is it going to the switch plant and have a toxic hazmat site there?

Thank you. Anyone else? Mr. Bierman. Please state your name and the city where you reside.

Yeah, Nick Bierman's here in Sumner, Washington. I also attended Plateau Pride. I didn't witness anything being forced on anybody. People were there voluntarily of their own accord. And if they brought their children, it's because they wanted to bring their children. I didn't see any children being exposed to anything that their parents didn't want them to. Let's just say lay the facts out there from an objective point of view. So just so you know, thanks.

Thank you. Anyone else? All right, we'll move on to new business. Okay, we'll see how we get through this one. All right, we're going to give this a good go. We do. So we will move on to ordinance number 2977, e-bikes and e-motorcycles code amendment. Council Member Wilsey, would you like to make a motion, please?

Yes, I'd like to make a motion for ordinance number 2977, e-bikes and e-motorcycles code amendment.

Thank you. Can I get a second? Council Member Kenna.

I'll second.

Thank you. It has been moved and seconded to approve ordinance number 2977, e-bikes and e-motorcycle code amendment. I'll now call on Lieutenant Justin Gregson.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council. Tonight I'm going to be presenting on Ordinance 2977, which is our electric bicycle and e-motorcycle ordinance. The goal for this ordinance is pretty straightforward. We're looking for clear classifications, safer operation, and consistent enforcement. We want to be able to protect pedestrians and other users of streets, sidewalks, parks, and trails. So the ordinance responds to three related issues. First is the growth of these devices. Drive down any street in Sumner and you're going to see all sorts of electric devices, e-bikes, e-motorcycles, scooters. The second issue is the safety. The ordinance cites some numbers from some medical encounters at UW facilities. In 2020, they only had three e-scooter related medical encounters, and that rose all the way to 151 in 2023. And of those people that were involved in the incidents, they reported very low helmet use at only about 18%. Third, the state law draws a line at 750 watts and creates three different e-bike categories. But that's kind of broad terms for what we actually see on the street. There's a lot of different devices that don't fit neatly into these categories. So other cities are doing this too. They're coming up with their own e-bike and e-motorcycle laws. We're not unique in that fact. Bellevue decided to look at the different classes of bikes, one, two, and three. And they said class one and two generally follow bicycle rules, whereas class three and e-motorcycles, they kind of group together. Mercer Island, they came out very early in this, and they adopted a bunch of e-motorcycle rules and came up with some stiff penalties for e-motorcycles, including impoundment. And then they said e-bikes will come up with that later on. So why now? We're looking at this as a trend-driven issue. This isn't just one local triggering event. It's because of the growth in the regional injury data that the ordinance cites. So I'm gonna try to break this down as simple as I can with the variety of devices that are out there. I also have a slide with some photos that'll try to give you guys a better representation of what these are. So this ordinance breaks it into basically three categories. We have our bicycle, which is all your typical bicycles and class one e-bikes. Those are your lower speed pedal assisted bikes. They're treated just like a bicycle. And so all the parks and trail rules distinguish where those can be operated. Then the ordinance created this new term, the MTD or motorized transportation device. And what that does is that captures everything kind of in the middle. So that's got your class two, class three, it's got motorized foot scooters and all these similar devices and puts them in a category. Then there's the e-motorcycle, which is your higher powered over 750 Watts can go over 250 mile or sorry, over 20 miles an hour and has no operable pedals. So here's some photos. The hard thing about using photos is they can look like anything. So they aren't defined by just how they look. So these are kind of representative images. So you'll notice the class 1, 2, and 3 all look very similar. There's mainly in how they function is kind of the differences. And they are required to have a little placard on the frame of the bike that tells what it is. So the Class 1 bike on the top left, that's going to fall under the Class 1 e-bike. The next four images there all fall under the motorized transportation device in this ordinance. And then the outlier is the e-motorcycle. It could look kind of like that or like a dirt bike style. And that falls under its own category, e-motorcycle, in the ordinance. So what this ordinance does is it sets practical operating rules for these devices. So it treats e-motorcycles like motor vehicles, which is how the law recognizes them. And so to operate an e-motorcycle, you have to be licensed. You have to be over 16 years old. You have to have the vehicle itself licensed with the Department of Licensing. You have to wear a motorcycle helmet. And you can't ride on sidewalks or pedestrians just like you wouldn't with a normal motorcycle. The motorized transportation devices, the MTDs, you just have to follow the rules of the road. You can't operate negligently or in an unsafe way. You have to wear a bicycle helmet and you have to have short handlebars. You can't have very tall handlebars. So I'll tell you kind of giving officers these enforcement tools. Here's two kind of typical stops that could happen. So the one on the left, a juvenile stopped for some kind of a violation. The officer would classify the device, find out what category we're in, and then confirm if there is a violation. Then you would find out if that was the first offense in the last 365 days. If it is the first, he could give a written notice, and he also can hold the device until a guardian claims it, which is a tool that gets the parents involved in the conversation with the police officers as well, instead of just a verbal warning where they can go on and go home and don't have to ever tell mom or dad that they were stopped. The second is if this wasn't the first offense, they can receive a fine up to $100, and their bike could be impounded for up to 30 days. The situation on the right is the e-motorcycle. So something like a person riding an e-motorcycle without an endorsement. They would be stopped by police. You verify if it's an e-motorcycle with no endorsement. And they can receive a traffic infraction on the first violation up to $125. And if they get subsequent ones, it can go up to $250. There's also an impound feature there. If no, well, they're not legally allowed to ride it. So we have to come up with some kind of a lawful arrangement to remove that bike or have someone else ride it. If we do decide to impound, then it could be secured and there's a notice or appeal process. For the juveniles also, there's a student court option, which will replace some minor penalties. The impound is discretionary, so officers can choose to or not. It's just another tool that happened. While I was preparing for this, there were some juveniles who were riding some motorized transportation devices and were stopped and talked to by police officers. And they said, oh, sorry, sorry. Went down the road five minutes later, another officer saw them doing the exact same thing, and we didn't have any enforcement to stop them from doing anything further. It's just lots of warnings saying, please don't do this. These are some of the revisions. I won't go into detail about this. These are the revisions since the last time this was presented, but with the additional amendments I could add to this slide too. But since this was last presented to city council, this is some of the changes that happened. The enforcement for this is graduated. It has due process in it. So the general violations are generally up to $100 for device violations. For e-motorcycle, which is your higher powered devices, it can go $125 up to $250. There's a helmet violation that's up to $50. There's a city-held impound release. So if we take and stow the motorcycle or the electronic device, they could pay up to $75 for that. For a first offense for a juvenile, one of the great things is we can take it and just hold on to it until a parent comes and gets it. Again, that creates that conversation, which is sometimes lacking. And that is it.

Okay, thank you very much. Council Member Kenna, I understand that you have three amendments. Would you please state your first amendment?

Sure. Thank you, Mayor. So the First Amendment is under Section 5, Subsection E, after shall insert negligently or in an unsafe manner.

Okay. Is there a second?

Mark Isaacs.

That's all right. Let me get to you here. Go ahead.

Mark Isaacs. I will second that.

Thank you. So it has been moved and seconded to insert negligently or in an unsafe manner after shall in Section 5E. Council Member Kenna, would you please address your amendment?

Sure, Mayor. So this is just kind of a clarification and better defining the manner in which somebody can operate these devices, a motorized transportation device. I was particularly just a little bit concerned about the towing aspect in this subsection and just wanted to really demonstrate that if that is done negligently or in an unsafe manner, then you're looking at enforcement actions. But otherwise, that wouldn't be impermissible by code.

Great. Thank you. Do we have any comments on the amendment from the public? Do we have anyone on Zoom? Thank you. All right. Any comments from the council? I see none. Will the clerk please call the roll on this amendment? Kenna?

Yes.

Isaacs?

Yes.

Evers? Yes. Wolsey? Yes. Malcolm?

Yes.

Motion passed 5-0.

Thank you. All right. Council Member Kenna, you have a second amendment.

Yes, Mayor, halfway there. So this is under Section 11, Subsection M. So that would be after the word B, we're going to strike permitted and insert written or operated.

Is there a second? Council Member Malcolm.

Seconded.

Thank you. Council Member Kenna, would you please seconded by Council Member Malcolm. Clerk. Thanks, Michelle. Councilmember Kenna, would you please address your amendment?

Sure. Again, this is just more of a clarifying amendment. I was just concerned initially that walking or parking an e-bike or motorized transportation device in a park would be impermissible, but this amendment makes it clear that if you're riding or operating the device in the park, that is what is impermissible.

Okay, thank you. So it has been moved and seconded to strike permitted and insert written or operated. Council Member Kenna, do you have any comments?

I just did.

You're good? All right. Well, we have you on here twice, so you're good. You have a lot going on. Any comments on the amendment from the public? Anyone on Zoom? Thank you. So any comments from the council? Okay, we look good there. Will the clerk please call the roll on this amendment?

Evers? Yes. Malcolm? Yes. Woolsey? Yes. Kenna? Yes. Isaacs? Yes.

Motion passed 5-0. Thank you. All right. Council Member Kenna, you have a final amendment.

Okay, yes, Mayor. This is in Section 7, Subsection B2. That is after the word motorized, we're going to strike foot scooter and insert transportation device instead.

Thank you very much. Is there a second? Seconded. Council Member Malcolm, thank you. It has been moved and seconded to remove the words foot scooter and add the words transportation device to Section 7B2. Council Member Kenna, do you have any comments?

Yes, and this one was identified by staff who just caught one part of the code where foot scooter was still referenced, and that's one of the ones we're changing to the motorized transportation device. So we're just cleaning that up and making it clear there.

Okay, thank you very much. Do we have any comments from the council? Okay, I see none. Will the clerk please call the roll? Malcolm?

Yes.

Kenna?

Yes.

Wilsey?

Yes. Isaacs?

Yes. Evers? Yes. Motion passed 5-0.

Thank you. So now we will address the ordinance as amended. The proposed ordinance now contains the revisions to sections 5, 7, and 11 that we just adopted. Do we have any comments from the public on the ordinance as amended? Yes, I see. Mr. Bierman? Here I thought we were just rolling along.

Nick Beerman, Sumner. I would just like to thank Council Member Canna for taking the time to digest the ordinance and going through and offering these amendments. I think doing the work of the people, which is hard sometimes, but it requires a lot of that kind of diligent work. So thank you for taking the extra time to do that. I think we got a good ordinance. Thanks.

Okay, thank you. Do we have any comments from the council on the ordinance as amended? Council Member Malcolm.

Yeah, just a point of order on this. Did we properly move and second that second amendment? Will that jeopardize the whole thing?

I was wondering the same thing.

Yeah, I don't think we went through that process with the second addition that we had. And I'm just curious if that will create a problem for us down the road.

Just hang on here. I'm going to look at this. Did we, we had three votes. We need a fourth vote. Do we need a fourth vote or are we good?

A three majority is all you need, so three out of the five.

But number of votes. So we did vote on, if I go back, you guys did vote on.

We moved the First Amendment, seconded it, and voted on it. We didn't move the Second Amendment or second it, and then we voted on it. And then we did the last one properly, the third one we did properly. So that second one, I'm just.

So I see what you're saying. So you're saying that you guys didn't vote on it. on that it's been moved and seconded to remove the words foot scooter and add the words transportation device. So then council member Kenna gave his comments and then we were looking for any comments from the public. And so we did vote three times and three times it passed five to zero. So which one are you thinking we should have voted on that we didn't?

We just didn't move it and second it appropriately.

So that now we will address the ordinance as amended. The proposed ordinance now contains a revisions to sections five, seven, 11. I asked for comments. I was going to get there. It's like in two more boxes.

Back up. Yes. Our records show that Council Member Malcolm seconded the second one.

And the third.

And the third.

So now we're going to have a final vote. We're going to have a final vote. So based on what you just said, Council Member Malcolm, I'll just share with you because doing all of these amendments and then voting, so what I do is I keep track of if we voted, if we passed, and what it was passed by. So I'm almost there. I think it may satisfy what you're asking. And if not, we can talk about it after. So any comments from the council on the ordinance as amended? Is Council Member Kenna?

Yeah, I will just state that I know at Sumner University, I heard a number of comments about these types of devices, whether that's e-bikes, scooters, e-motorcycles. And it's hard for the layman's, like myself included, to know the difference between the devices. So I think this helps clear that up. Lieutenant Gregson, thank you for really walking us through that and holding our hands because it is difficult. This stuff is moving so rapidly. Keeping up with that can be a challenge. So, you know, we're doing the best we can I want to thank staff for that But I know it is a concern in the community I see I have class 2 e-bike and I now know that thanks to this presentation But I see I see lots of folks operating vehicles and have kids the same age as my kids that are on scooters going 15 or 20 miles an hour and I to each their own. You know, there's going to be code, hopefully, assuming this passes, that will address some of the safety impacts. But I know I work in the transportation space, and most of my colleagues will not get on some of these really fast devices, regardless if they have a helmet or not, because they are unsafe. you're weaving in and out of traffic onto sidewalks and those types of things. So we needed something. I think this gets us to a really good place where, you know, hopefully people really take the time to think about what kind of device they're operating and where they should be operating that and how they should be. So thank you, staff.

Great. Thank you. Any other comments? All right. Will the clerk please call the roll?

Isaacs? Yes. Malcolm? Yes. Evers? Yes. Wilsey? Yes. Kenna?

Yes.

Ordinance as amended, pass 5-0. Okay, thank you.

All right, so it's passed. There you go. Is that what you were looking for, Council Member Malcolm? No, but we'll look at it. Okay, perfect. Thank you. I'll show you my notes. Okay, so we will move on to reports. Okay, we're going to move on to reports. So we'll start with Council Member Wilsey.

I just have the public safety report. So always a fun favorite committee for me. We get updates of the fire department stats and the police department stats. We're actually looking pretty good right now. Stats are actually low, which is great. We always want to see everybody safe and doing well. And then we also talked about the action point for that committee was the e-bikes. So we kind of went through that with a fine-tooth comb and didn't quite catch as much as you did. But yes, we were looking at the public safety aspect of this amendment. So that's the public safety report. Thank you.

All right, Council Member Evers.

Oh, no report. The only thing I'll say is I had a great week in Canada driving around with my wife. And I don't really have a bucket list per se, but that was a bucket list to go to Banff and Jasper. And it's just beautiful. I didn't really want to come back, but my wife was driving, so... I didn't want to get stuck up there by myself, but if you have a chance, it is just the Rockies, Canadian Rockies. It's beautiful. Highly recommend it.

Thank you. Council Member Malcolm.

Thank you, Mayor. I'd love to commend the city staff for putting on the retreat we had last week. It was, I think, time well spent, very well, great information, well presented. And just I know the effort is a lot to get that stuff pulled together and put in front of us So really appreciate it and I really feel like we walked away with a much better and broader, you know understanding of what's going on Across the city, which I think was you know us being such a young council. I think was it was much needed So thank you for that effort. Thank you for the presentation looking forward for all the good fruit will bear from that meeting.

So, thank you Thank You councilmember Malcolm councilmember Kenna

Sure, I will first update on the Public Works Committee meeting we had in mid-August on the 18th. We discussed a couple things that are on the consent agenda tonight, so those have already been passed. But one of those items I just wanted to highlight was the Wastewater Treatment Facility Building Improvements Contract Award. and we gave that a due pass and then passed that tonight. So this is basically a building assessment and a master plan for the facility. I've learned a lot as I've been on this group with Michael over here and the rest of staff in Public Works about the history of the wastewater treatment facility and just how there's some really cool satellite imagery of just the facility back in the 50s, is that right? when it first started and then how that's grown within the decades, and we just kind of pieced that together. It's really quite interesting, but with that change and evolution of the facility, we kind of need to look at that on a wholesale level and see, like, how does the actual building and facility keep up with the times. Where are the deficiencies? Where are the improvements we can make? Does it need remodeling in some areas? So that's really kind of a big master plan effort for the facility to kind of keep us current there. We also discussed some property acquisitions that are kind of fairly routine along Valley Avenue and SR. 162 to exist or existing water main systems in the area. We do have a meeting Next Tuesday the 15th at 4 p.m. As well. I also just wanted to note I I was pretty struck Separate from city business that this was the 25th anniversary coming up for 9-11 it's pretty It's just crazy that that has gone by so fast. We're now at this, you know, kind of landmark time, 25 years in, and don't have much to say other than just kind of take a moment to pause and reflect about our country and that moment in time and, you know, where we've been, where we've come, and just the impact that that had on our country. So that's all I have for you, Mayor.

Thank you so much. Council Member Isaacs.

Yes, in agreement with a few council members, last week for the budget retreat was incredible. Not only meeting other staff, but the information and education that you provided. Field trips were really nice to see, hands-on, both places. The watershed as well as the senior center was really nice. Lieutenant Gregson, thank you for your presentation. I appreciate that, educating us. And... and educating the public. It's about safety, not only for the riders, but also for the pedestrians and other people in motorized vehicles. And excited to see the Bill Heath complex get revamped. It's going to be nice for the school district, which means it's nice for the city, and it just brings forth a little bit of a community effort with some nice facilities that the high school will be able to use and our children. So that's it.

Great. Thank you so much. I'll now call on City Administrator Jason Wilson.

Thank you, Mayor. Coming up at next week's study session, we're going to be reviewing the budget survey results from our third-party contractor that took care of that for us. We'll also be hearing from Judge Berry. She'll be coming to give us an update on the Municipal Court. And then Chief McCurdy will be giving an update on everything public safety related, so crime stats and also the good work that his his officers are doing every day out in the community, just build relationships and trust. On September 21st, at the regular council meeting, you'll have an ordinance amending our personnel code related to paid time off. You'll have an ordinance for the third quarter budget amendment, and you'll also consider an ordinance to implement a public safety sales tax and a resolution regarding petty cash. But that's not all. After the regular council meeting, we're going to start budget. So we'll have a special study session to go over the budget review and kind of where we're going over the next several months. And just as a reminder, from basically September 21st until the end of the year, which right now is scheduled to be December 7th, it's going to be largely budget meetings. And any time you have a regular council meeting, there will also likely be a special study session. Buckle up. It's going to be a fun fall. So any questions?

I'll make a comment. I would just like to add that if we can't get it done during the week, we will have to meet on Saturdays to have a balanced budget by the end of the year. Is that real? That is real. That is real. We have to have a balanced budget. Keep that in mind. We have to. So anyway, it'll be good. It'll be good. It'll be fine. Yeah. All right. Thank you so much. All right, so for my report, I do want to thank Council Member Kenna for bringing up 9-11. You know, for those of us that had people that were there and were impacted by it, and that it was a very, very hard time. I would just share one small thing. My mom, at the time, she was still alive, and all three of her kids. One was in Mexico, one was in Europe, one was in Canada. And it was a very horrifying impact on her because none of her kids were home and people didn't know what were happening. And she didn't know where we were. And two of her three kids had flight paths out of the areas where the planes were taken. So just thank you for bringing that up because it's very key that we don't forget that. Then the next most exciting thing is we have a shred truck coming to town. So Pierce County is hosting a shred event. Saturday September 19th from 10 a.m. To 1 p.m. So it'll be here at City Hall in the back parking lot and you can bring up to three bags of sensitive documents to be safely shredded So keep that in mind He's writing it down. All right, then It is a big deal. It really is then last week Myself Carmen Palmer Ryan Windisch and City Administrator Jason Wilson. We went over to Belmont Cabinets here in Sumner, and we were given a tour by Casey Bell, one of the owners, and Keaton Dulfrey, one of their salespeople. And we had reached out to Keaton because we really want to get some nice cabinets for the senior center. And like most people here, we want to keep our money here in our town and we want to support local. So that factory, if you've never had a chance to go through that, for those of us that have been in manufacturing for a number of years, if you want to see, I would just say it's a 10 out of a 10 operation going on in their factory. It is phenomenal. I mean, I've had the pleasure of touring the world looking at factories and helping people learn how to do what these guys have done. So for me, I was right in my jam. I mean, I was really excited about it. You have to admit, it was a fun time. But they are doing great work. They employ a lot of people. They love it here in the city of Sumner. So it was a really good tour. I really enjoyed it. I think we all did. And they enjoyed the fact that we came to see them. But they make great products there. So just remember the importance of the local jobs and the local manufacturing areas that we have here. And then we have the utility box wraps. So please go on our website, www.sumnerwa.gov, by September 27th, and vote for the new utility box wraps because that's where people have a choice. We can decide what we want. So I've gone on and done my vote. If anybody asks you why the one on Thompson Street isn't included, it's because it's not ours. Right? It's not ours. So there are two. But with that being said, if you could do that, it would be great. So I think that's all I have for tonight. With no further business before the council, this meeting is adjourned at 7.10 p.m.