City Council - Special Meeting

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It is 719 p.m. and I now call the regular meeting back to order. Special regular meeting? The meeting back to order. So we did have executive sessions. No decisions were made pursuant to the RCWs. It is. Let me see where we are now. So we will start with our action items. So first action item is council position number four appointment. Nominations and voting to appoint candidate council position number four with term expiring on December 31st, 2027. Do we have a motion for appointment for council position seat number four?

I'll go. He just raised his hand.

uh I would like to make a motion to appoint or to nominate uh David Lopez to Council position number four okay we have a motion on the table for David Lopez is there a second I second that is Cleveland and next uh stick line all right then we vote for the nomination on the table All in favor of appointing David Lopez to council position number four, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? All right, the ayes have it and the motion is passed. David Lopez is appointed to council position number four. And next is council position number 5 appointment nominations and voting to appoint a candidate to council position number 5 with term expiring December 31st, 2027. Is there a motion for an appointment to council position seat? Number 5.

And I can make, I'd like to make a motion to nominate Dana Evans to council position five. I'll second.

We have a first and a second for appointment of Dana Evans to council position seat number five. Let's vote all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? The ayes have it and the motion is passed. Dana Evans is appointed to council position number five. Congratulations. Mayor Hernandez was the second council member Boyle. Okay, thank you. Sherman and then Boyle. All right. So the official, David Lopez is not here to congratulate, but thank you all. We do. Council members, would you like to anybody have to say anything? Council member Cleveland.

I just want to say thank you so much for your interest in supporting and this community and serving this community. Keep an eye out for any boards or commissions that have vacancies. You guys were really excellent candidates. It's very hard to determine who I like best, who I wanted. It's just so close. Thank you very much all for coming.

And anyone else?

i'll just echo because it was not a this was a lot of conversation and going through each individual like detail and person and question and element and it was it was actually a really great opportunity for conversation on this side of things because you guys gave us a really great challenge and we appreciate that and so truly um we hope that we'll see your guys's names and committees and commissions and getting involved so we can get to know you guys better

And I too would like to thank you all for stepping up, taking and submitting your application. This is not an easy process. As someone who's been through it twice, you're putting yourself out there. So I totally understand and we are grateful that you did so. And please do not see if you are not appointed as A negative, you know, a lot of discussion is what the needs are at the table right now and, you know, where we are at and going forward. But you all were. We were mentioning how we sure were glad that when we were. Appointed that we weren't running up against all of you. Because that would not have fared well for us had we had to go against you. So that says so much of how much we respected you being part of this process. So thank you all very much. um and miss um evans we do need to ask if you want to take the oath of office now or do you want to wait till the next council meeting in if you want to have friends or family or anybody here for that process or if you just want to take the oath of office now okay all right madam clerk

Do you want me to go right here? Yeah, that'd be great. Thank you. Thank you. That's my good sign.

I, Dana Evans, do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United States, and of the state of Washington, That I will support the Constitution of the United States. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington. And the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington. And all ordinances. And all ordinances. And that I will faithfully. And that I will faithfully. And impartially discharge. And impartially discharge. The duties of the Office of City Counselor. The duties in the Office of City Counselor. For the City of College Place. For the City of College Place. According to the law. According to the law. And the best of my ability. And the best of my ability.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. Appreciate the opportunity.

Didn't she come sit down up here?

No, I'm serious. You're on the council now.

all right so um we are now to any um other business for go to the order from any council members i just wanted to give a shout out to um city clerk and city staff for a wonderful spring block party it was wonderful to see lots of folks there and i was just just exciting to see it all come together

yes here here um i'll say one for public works um the public works week today i got to go or this yeah is this week and i got to go on the tour um which was a little bit different than the one that they did for our council members last year but it was really cool to be with a number of staff and to see a few different things and then tomorrow there's the public works rodeo or something you have information in your email um but that will be good too but they've done a nice job putting everything together

All right. Any others? Council Member Cleveland?

Next week, Thursday. Farmer's Market.

And Fishing Derby.

And Fishing Derby.

All right. We're going to do the kickoff for the Farmer's Market and Fishing Derby. The Fishing Derby sure does bring a lot of kids out. All right. So hopefully we will see you all there, do some shopping and support our local vendors. Mr. Rayburn.

And one more quick thing with related to the farmer's market. You should see in your City of College Place email inbox an invitation from Visit Walla Walla with regards to the June 4th meeting.

All right, let's keep a lookout for that email, please. All right, anything else? all right madam clerk thank you so much for all your hard work and getting this i know we got back to back unexpected news so thank you for scrambling and getting this done we really appreciated it and you know i know you couldn't find all the old documents and but thank you we appreciate it yeah all right so that being said do we have a motion to conclude okay that's how we started the meeting and it's appropriate that that's how we end it all right so do we have a motion to conclude i'll move all right councilmember stecklein is there a second a second councilmember boyle we have a first and a second so there's no objection this special meeting is concluded at 7 29 p.m thank you all again very much

Thank you very much. Thank you.