Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

I have 601 on my phone. So, uh, I will call the meeting to order. Clerk, uh, please take the roll call. Mayor Frederick here. Deputy Mayor Winkler here. Council member Elliot here. Council member Walton here. Council member Gassik here. Council member Barrow here. Council member Thor here. And council member Wargo has asked to be excused. Mr. Mayor, I make a motion we excuse council member Wargo. Okay. Do we have a second?

Second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. Oppose. Thank you. Um, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Our flag and the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Now the first thing we have tonight is a time for public comments. This excludes new business and public hearing with a threeminut time limit. And if you come to the podium, state your name and address and we'll go from there. That was green. Pass. Hi, I'm Portland Williams, 3097 Hoffman Hill Boulevard. I'd like to thank you, mayor, and the city council for the opportunity to speak tonight. As president and CEO of the DuPont Chamber, I want to thank you for recognizing Women's History Month and for honoring the women who helped shape this community every day. I'm proud to be joined this evening by several women from our community, business leaders who represent the leadership, professionalism, and service that help Dufont thrive. Their work strengthens our local economy, enriches community life, and sets an example for others to follow. Women have long been central to the growth of our cities, our businesses, our institutions, and our civic life. In DuPont, women contribute every day as business owners, executives, educators, public servants, service members, military spouses, veterans, volunteers, nonprofit leaders, mentors, and neighbors. Their influence is felt not only in the work they do, but in the example they set for future generations. Women's History Month gives us the opportunity to reflect on the women who helped pave the way, to recognize those leading today and to continue building a community where opportunity, leadership, and contribution are visible and valued. This recognition matters because it reflects the very real contributions women make to the success and future of our city. Thank you for taking the time to recognize this tonight.

Do we have any any others who want to make a public comment? I'll take this. Oh, that's a good mic. Good evening, uh, mayor and uh, council members. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak tonight. Um, what a way to follow up on on the speaker before us. Uh, my name is George Consuelo and I'm here with my fellow commissioner Lug John Auror. Um, we are here as members of the Pierce County Charter Review Commission. Um, and we would like to um, let communities know like Dupont about the important countywide review that is currently happening right now. Good evening. So, the Pierce County Charter is the county's governing document. It lays out how our county is organized and how it functions. It's a 20 member uh elected citizen board commission. Um and it's three members from each district from each council district and there's seven of them. So, and we are reviewing the charter, which is the county's constitution, to determine whether there should be any updates and what should be proposed. This matters to all residents in Pierce County, including those in DuPont, uh, which make up part of district 6, which includes, um, the islands of Anderson, uh, Ketwan, um, McNeel Islands, Parkland, Silicon, JBLM, and the cities of DuPont, and Lakewood. Um, and to that, um, one second. Sorry, I lost my place. Work with me. Sorry, my phone's a little slow. Um, and this matters to all residents because any amendments proposed by the commission would go before voters in the

uh 2026 November general election um in just a few months. So, our purpose is simple. Uh, awareness and engagement. Uh we want residents, local officials, and community members to know that they can learn about the process, follow the commission's work, and share their ideas through the county's website. Um on and there's also on their website a frequently asked question section as well on how to be involved.

Community engagement is a big uh part of this for us. Um, so in addition, your three District 6 charter review commissioners, um, which includes Lisa Boyd, who current, uh, who was not able to make it tonight, uh, will be holding a listening session at the Dupont Community Center, um, in historic Dupont off Barkstdale Street um, this Saturday, the 28th, at 10:30 a.m. Uh, we welcome residents to attend, ask questions, share concerns, and offer ideas for the commission to consider. and we respectfully ask you to uh spread the word to DuPont residents uh about the process underway and how they can participate and know that there will be a local opportunity to be heard. Uh thank you so much for your time and your leadership to the great community of Dupont.

Thank you.

Do we have any more public comments? Carol Leep, 2470 Arnold Street. I just want to follow up on Portland. We have an exhibit in the museum going on right now uh honoring the women of Dupant starting with the Nusquali tribe um including our first lady mayor Paula Andre um who was from 1980 to 1989 the mayor of of Dupant and ending with a person that I a name at least that most of you recognize Lorraine Overmmy who um did almost everything in the city of Dupant. She served on the council. She was on the school board. Um she was uh on the committee that started the museum. Um and um so we'd like for you to stop by, take a look and help celebrate some of the women of Dupont. Thank you.

Anyone else? Okay. Well, seeing none, we'll um we'll move on to the approval of the agenda. I'm going to move item 8.1 to 5.1 um to help out some of our guests tonight, and I'll entertain a um a motion to approve the agenda as amended. I make a motion to approve the Yeah, I make a motion to approve the agenda as uh suggested amen amended. Do we have a second? Second.

It's been uh moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Hey, the agenda is approved. So, first tonight, as we amended the agenda, we have a a proclamation and that's going to be led off the night in kind of a new routine that we have here by Council Member Walton.

Thank you, Mayor. So, we going to make a different way of presenting the proclamation this time. So what we're going to do is read one paragraph each one of us as a council member. So proclamation for women's history month in the city of Deon. Whereas during this women's history month of March, we celebrate the extraordinary American women of our past and present who have strengthened our families and reached our culture, defended our values, pioneered our industries, and shaped our nation future. And

whereas for 250 years, strong women have brought our nation to countless new heights and moments of triumph. And whereas across every industry, women are champions of success, trailblazers in every field, and models in their homes and neighborhoods. And Whereas whether they There we go. Whereas whether they serve our nation as service members, government leaders, entrepreneurs, workforce members, or mothers, every devoted woman guides our nation's strength, prosperity, and a way of life. And

whereas this month we recognize and honor the incredible women who have built our nation, formed our conscience, and elevated our spirit. Now therefore, I, Ronald J. Frederick, mayor of the city of DuPont, on behalf of the DuPont City Council, do hereby proclaim March 2026 as Women's History Month in the city of DuPont, and encourage residents and members of the community to appreciate that women's legacies continue to inspire future generations of citizens to strive for excellence, lead proudly, and carry forth the enduring values that make America, Washington State, and the city of Dubant special. Sign this 24th day of March, 2026.

Okay, tonight uh we're starting off with our study sessions as uh as sorry, I think we talked about taking a picture after the proclamation. We're gonna present it to the group of women who is present here. Okay. Sure. So if it is okay I request everyone to step towards that direction all the council members we have a three proclamation to give it to you. So one somebody will take from mayor and two more will be taken uh take it from uh our city council members and we'll have a picture together and then we'll move on to our agenda items. Thank you. Okay,

just stand up here. It's fine.

So standing up here will be helpful. So we have a city of viewoint in the back. proclamation. So, mayor Count 10. So anyone You guys just know women should be one more Another

Okay. Okay. And now we'll move move forward with our study session. Um item 6.1 is the first item and that has to do with street parking. Um our city administrator can lead off the discussion. I'm sure our city attorney is going to give us some uh some of the laws as well. So go ahead Keith.

Yeah, thank you Mr. Mayor. So under the council rules section 4.3 under a privilege of the council, any council member with a co-sponsor can bring forward any agenda item. So, Council Member Elliot and Council Member Walton had requested a study session on street parking. Uh, tonight I'm have Chief Moore and City Attorney Car here to help. I think, uh, you know, legal matter is is going to be the first discussion we need to have. So, I'm going to turn it over to our city attorney to discuss street parking. Gordon, take it away, please. Mayor, get the microphone up to you there. Sorry. Mayor, council members, you I would think I would know better at this point. Could I uh get that PowerPoint? I brought a PowerPoint. Oh,

hey.

No, no, no. I'm a I'm a man of the written word. So, okay. Um, if we want to go to the first slide. Okay, so just some basics about vehicles. Vehicles are property. Um, that sounds obvious, but it has important legal implications. It means that they um are not subject and proper protected from seizure under the fourth amendment of the constitution as well as under our state constitution. Um, and they are a form of personal property. they have particular value attached to them which is why as we'll see just removing or taking someone's vehicle um through the power of the state in this case the power of the city government is something we can't approach uh lightly. Uh cars are unique in that in addition to being property themselves, they are also an enclosed space and they can have other property inside of them, which is why um there are warrant requirements. For example, if you want to search a car or search a trunk, particularly there's whole cycles of case law in Washington state about when you can or cannot search a vehicle, particularly a vehicle trunk. Um, and one thing I'll note is that even if a vehicle appears to be of little value or inoperable or or just garbage, um, it is still property and these rights are retained, right? Um, that's an unique other forms of garbage typically are not thought of as property. They're thought of as waste, but cars have a unique place in American juristp prudence and in American culture. And so even a junk vehicle or a vehicle that's just a shell could have value to the owner and therefore still protect the fourth amendment. Um, and in some instances, although we

will not be discussing this tonight, uh, but I just note it for the future. In Washington state, a vehicle can also be qualified as an abode, right? Someone can be living in it. And if that is the case, then um, additional protections apply in regards to similar to as if it were a home in terms of warrants, searches, and seizures, that kind of thing. So, uh, next slide, please. Um, again, be because of this unique nature of vehicles as property, only a law enforcement officer can impound a vehicle. Um, and when I'm going to use that word a lot tonight, empoundment, and that's just a fancy word for me taking and putting somewhere else, right? But that's what empoundment is. And, uh, there's a number of reasons why a law enforcement officer can do this. Some is discretionary, some is um um prescribed entirely by law, some is by because of a violation of the law. Um but uh in almost all those or circumstances I should say yeah virtually all those circumstances um the owner must be provided with adequate notice um that the removal is going to take place and must have an opportunity to rectify the situation that justifies the impoundment um or have you know prior warning that they're going to be impounded. And then uh in under state statute there are discrete list of circumstances we'll go into in more detail where a LEO has discretion to summarily impound. What that really means is you don't have to provide any notice you just have the thing towed away. Right? But those are pretty narrow uh categories. Uh next slide please. So, I want to go over some summary empowerment first, and I'll explain why in a second, but generally a law enforcement officer has discretion or state law to go ahead and just tow a vehicle, have a vehicle towed under a handful of circumstances. The one that's most appropriate or most relevant to the nice discussion is if a vehicle is parked in a public place um

and its tabs are expired by 45 more days, it can just be towed, right? Um, I I mentioned this because oftentimes when we have parked vehicle issues or uh something comes to me, you know, the first thing a law enforcement officer will say is, "I check the I check the tabs." And the reason why they're saying that is because the tabs were expired by another 45 days. They probably just have it towed, right? But if not, then we have to go through some other avenue if we we need to um have the vehicle moved. Again, some of the more obvious ways or reasons you could summarily impound is obviously if it's, you know, blocking traffic. um if it's been in an accident and it's inoperable and the driver's absent or deceased or in route to a hospital and of course if the vehicle is involved in a crime or is the vehicle is itself evidence of a crime or there's evidence of a crime in the vehicle then you can impound it so you can begin the warrant process to search that vehicle. Uh next slide please. So that's just sort of preamble. Let me get into the meat of uh vehicle regulations that really apply here to the city. So, I want to before I walk through this, I want to I want the council to think about two different tracks of law. You have nuisance regulations as one track of law and then you have parking regulations which are really about manage the the state or excuse me, the city's inherent right to manage its rights of way. Right? We have a uh the rights to wear are public emanes but we have tremendous authority over them partially because we own them as a as a corporate entity um but also because they are right of way there's al cycle of laws that we basically are obligated to maintain the rights of way so they're traveled okay um so under nuisance law this is a very old area of American jurist prudence and really what is it's when a city or any any jurisdiction use what's called its police powers um to ensure sure that

people are not using their property or public property in a way that is um a nuisance to others, right? And historically what this has meant is it's usually applied to private property. So generally we have very little authority to dictate how people use their private property or what they can or cannot do on it as long as it's not criminal. Uh but under nuisance laws, if something's declared a nuisance in an ordinance or statute, then if someone has their grass overgrown to the point where it's become a hazard, if they are leaving junk or garbage in their front yard, um letting toxic materials accumulate, that kind of thing, then the city can step in and begin the abatement process um and have that that dealt with. Uh vehicles also can be a form of nuisance. Um on private property, of course, they can be a junk vehicle and be an eyes sore or be leaking hazardous materials, but that goes for for public property as well. And the intersection between vehicles as nuisance and other types of nuance laws is unique in that again going back to my first slide, because cars are are considered valuable property that you have property rights in, it it adds a wrinkle in there. there's that fourth amendment component of seizure. So you have to go through some extra steps before you can remove a vehicle um even if it's a nuisance. Uh but again, you know, nuisance regulations typically are things that are obstructing a public rideway or a toxic danger or just an eyesore. So okay, uh next slide, please. Uh okay. So, nuisance junk vehicles um are are again in the same legal track of nuisances, but the state has stepped in and legislated uh a definition for us of what a junk vehicle is, right? And a

junk vehicle is one that is, and this is comes right from the statute, one three of the four following things has be at least three of them, right? Beth and I have talked at Great Lakes, so Beth is nodding along. uh it has to be three years or older is extensively damaged including but not limit to broken out windshields or windows, missing wheels or missing tires, missing motor or transmission or similar. So by damaged meaning it is damaged, right? It's missing parts a car needs to be a car or is apparently inoperable meaning you could not drive it away. um and or has approximately fair market value equal only to the approximate value of the scrap in it. So that's a relatively high bar to meet for most vehicles. Um, I I think this is important to point out that a vehicle that is dirty, that looks in disrepair, um, that uh is full of garbage, um, that has animals living in it, squirrels living in it, is not a junk vehicle by those things alone. It has to meet these definitions, right? Um, so if you can get in and drive it away, it doesn't really matter what the condition is. is probably not a junk vehicle. That's that's generally what you're looking at, right? And by get a driveway, I mean literally get a driveway, not like do 10 hours of work and then drive it away. So So that is the definition of a of a junk vehicle. Um, next slide, please. So once something has been identified as a junk vehicle, you go through the abatement process much like any other nuisance which begins by contacting the registered owner and asking them to remove it. Again, I want to equate this other nuisance laws much the same way that if we had a complaint about one of our residents and they had a bunch of garbage, you know, about their front yard and we come the first thing is we'd

say is we would just pick up the garbage, say, "Hey, you need to take care of this." Right? So it's same idea. Same with the registered owner of the vehicle. And if they fail to do that or refuse to do that or we cannot find the registered owner, then you begin a notice process um which includes uh you know if you can't track down the registered owner, you have to publish the notification that's going to be tow with a certain amount of time. You have to put notice on the um uh on the vehicle itself. And if it's parked in front of a residence, it's also a good practice to, you know, do do a knock and talk and with a law enforcement officer, say, "Hey, is is this yours?" Or, you know, go through those kind of steps, let people know, hey, we're trying to figure out who wants this because we we need it dealt with. And after that notice has been provided um and opportunity also been provided for the person to either rectify the problem or explain why they don't think it's a junk vehicle, uh then you can you can tow it. And again, in the absence of finding anyone, there is a process for doing that. Um, uh, but it again involves notice, reasonable notice. So again, it's a publication piece, posting piece, and then trying in good faith to try to track down the registered owner. The next uh slide, please. So I want to talk a little bit about abandoned vehicles. Um, this is a term that obviously has its common meaning, which is someone doesn't want the vehicle anymore and they've left it there more or less permanently or they've they've literally walked away from it. That is a that's that is an abandoned vehicle. I understand that. But as a lawyer, I got to say that abandoned vehicle has a very specific meaning um in in statute as a term of art. And so, uh, if a vehicle is legally parked and doesn't, uh, meet the requirements of a junk vehicle, it is not abandoned, right? It doesn't matter how long it's been there. Doesn't matter what condition it's in. It is not abandoned under the law. And what's important of that is because something

abandoned property means the owner no longer wants it and anybody can come and take it. And because of those fourth amendment constraints, the city cannot assume that a vehicle has been left for long periods of time is not wanted anymore. We we we don't have that authority. And so the only time a vehicle becomes abandoned under state law is under the following conditions. It's stored in an impound yard, right? Also defined as a safe place, a watch state, which is typically a a privately owned impound yard or or or a city-owned impound yard. subsidies are large enough to have vehicle impounds. So, it has to be in an impound yard. Notice has been given to the registered owner, usually through mail if you can't talk to them directly. And the vehicle is unclaimed for 120 hours or 5 days, right? Once all those conditions are met, now it is a abandoned vehicle. And what almost always happens in that case is the private tow company uh then takes possession and then sells that vehicle at auction or they scrap it, sell for scrap or if it has zero value, they just destroy it. Um it would be the same as if the city or state operated its own impound yard, same rules would apply. So if we were large enough to have our own impound yard, we'd do the same thing. Um and then after five days, we could we could get rid of the vehicle. So, that is what an abandoned vehicle is. And again, I just I'm harping on this because I know from our citizens, from council members, we we talk about abandoned vehicles. Um, and I understand that that commonly used word. And you're probably right in some literal sense. There's a high likelihood a vehicle could have literally just been left by the owner and they don't plan on coming it back. Um, but legally speaking, that's not abandoned, right? It's still property that someone is attached to that we have to go through the process of seizing that from them.

Okay. So that is the nuisance track right of of a nuisance vehicle that the city could begin the process of removing of seizing. So the next track is the parking track right. So I want to go to our next slide. And I want to talk a little bit about parking culture, right? What I mean by that is that here in the city, other than sort of those wellestablished state enforced or state legislated, we enforce them, parking restrictions like schools, fire hydrants, disabled parking spots, that kind of thing, fire lanes. Our city has no time or place restrictions on parking. Okay? And uh we are a primarily residential community and uh we can just see that many of our citizens rely on street parking to store their vehicles temporarily when they're not using them. Right? And it becomes understandable that a resident uh and and I I'll just say from personal experience. I lived in the city for a decade. I had a home here and I parked my truck in front of my house and it was my spot, right? And that's how I thought how many people think of completely reasonable, right? But the reality is that legally it's it's not their spot, right? Um, anybody can park in any part of the street so long as it's not one of those well-known designated zones. We can't park there. And, uh, because we have no parking restrictions on time or place, you could theoretically park a vehicle in our, you know, public ride ofway in the park designated parking area. And so long as it was not a junk vehicle and became a nuisance, it could be parked there indefinitely, right? We have no provisions in law to remove that vehicle. And again, that's what a it could look dirty. It could be have leaves all over it. Could be there for a year, 5 years, 10 years, doesn't matter.

As long as it is registered, you know, has has good tabs and it is not a junk vehicle that we begin the nuisance process with, it can lawfully stay there. um because that's where we currently at with our our parking regulations. So, next slide, please. So, having said that, we have the authority to enforce and and put into law parking regulations. Again, this goes to the city's inherent power to control its rights of way. This is, you know, anyone who goes to coma will see innumerable signs that see streets saying no parking here, parking there, parking between this time and this time, right? They have that authority and we do as well. Um, and you can impose those time, place, and and time and place restrictions pretty much on any of your public parking places, right? Um, and you can do it uniformally across the entire jurisdiction. You could do it by zone. Um, you know, some cities set up by certain streets, you know. Um, it it can be done pretty much any way you want. Next slide, please. So, so that gets to the probably the meat of the issue. As I', as I've said to many of you before, having me draft you an ordinance and you passing it is the easy part, right, of of any regulation. It's administratively managing that regulation or enforcing the regulation whether it be civil or criminal or whatever. That is where the rubber hits the road if you'll excuse the pun in this scenario that come on that was

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breaking my aame. Um and so a couple things to consider if you're going to do this. The first the big one is under state law you got have to have signage right and I did take a look I worked a little talked a little bit with our city engineer I was kind of hoping that there might be something very firm in the law that said every 120 ft you know something we could really but it's not signage has to be reasonable such that a person would know reasonably know what the parking restriction is um so in a city like DuPont that would probably be and and and and I would work with the city engineer, work with with law enforcement. We'd have to look at there might be some like best practices. We could see some other cities, you know, uh or from city engineering just generally, but it would probably have to be like on on both sides of the street that the restriction was on on every block, right? You would have to have a sign and the sign has to be uh specific to both the condition and the penalty, right? So, if you want to just be a citation, it could just say no parking here and then you knew you get a citation. But if you're going to have, and we'll go to empoundment as a penalty for violating parking in a minute, but if you're going to have empoundment be the first possible penalty, like right out of the gate, then you'd have to put that in the sign as well. Park here unlawfully, you could be towed. Um, and then of course, you know, the signage would have to be specific to where the restriction was. So if it just said no parking, that's easy. It said no parking between this time, this time or no parking here more than 72 hours, no parking here more than whatever, whatever we do. But but it can't just be no parking unless it means no parking, right? It has to be no parking A to B, no parking here and there, that kind of thing. So the sign has to be um specific

enough that a reasonable person would understand what the restriction was, right? And again, you ever been to, you know, driving a Tacoma or Lakewood, you can, you know what I'm talking about. Sign about so big, you know, and and we'd have to consider that if you're going to put a parking restriction in place, particularly a time and place parking restriction, which is, I might add, different than a restriction on types of vehicles being parked that you don't have to have signage for. Um, that's a different area of law. But if you regularly allow people to park in a place, it's understood that parking is allowed, but you're going to put a restriction. That's when you have to have the sign right there where they're parking. So they know what that restriction is. Um unlike uh nuisance regulations that are really driven more by more are like code violations. They're really complaint driven, right? That is to say, we don't have a a code enforcement officer traveling around the city looking for nuisances, right? we we a citizen tells us, hey, I I think this is a problem. So, we go take a look at and see if it's a nuisance. Uniform enforcement means that a parking restriction has to be enforced kind of all the time. We can't wait till someone says something to us, you know. Um, now that doesn't necess necessarily mean you have to have a dedicated parking enforcement unit, although some cities obviously do that, but it does mean that it becomes part of the regular rotation of civil violations that our law enforcement officer would have to be on the lookout for. No different than if they saw someone parked next to a fire hiker, if they saw someone parked in a disabled parking spot without a without a state issued placard. Right? So that's what I mean by uniform enforcement. We could not wait for someone to complain. We would have to have it be part of our normal um civil enforcement duties that law enforcement would would conduct in the city. And then that leads to how that enforcement would be done. And tracking is probably the most difficult part. Um

you know, obviously if you had a time and place restriction that that was no parking here between this time and this time, let's they're there between the two times and they get a citation or they get towed or whatever. If it says no parking here for more than 72 hours, then you've got to develop a method um to to be able to prove that this car has been here more than 72 hours. Right? Um and and not just that someone says that, but that the officer who would go on the stand if it was challenged could say, "No, I know that it was parking hours because we had this process and I had this timestamped photograph or we marked the tire." what whatever process they they developed to engage in enforcement, but it'd be something you'd want to think about if you're going to do this. Next slide, please. Um, again, this this takes us back to the end. Oh, I didn't put that graphic on. That's great. Did you do that? Who did that? Did Marcy do that?

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I did it with my mind. Um, so so the state law, as I noted before, has a series of things you can be impounded for by a law enforcement officer. We talked about that a little bit, but there's also provision that says a a municipality can have empoundment be a penalty for the violation of parking regulation. Now, again, you're talking about seizing uh personal property. So, you want to be careful. That's why if if the penalty for violating the parking restriction right out of the gate could be impoundment, you have to have that on the sign. They have to have notice that you could have their vehicle see it if it's not moved. Otherwise, typical process is to issue a citation. A citation says, "Hey, if you don't move your vehicle, we're going to tow it." Or, "If you get another citation, we're going to tow it the next time." And then they have notice that it could be seized, and that will be sufficient to cover that. Um, and I will note that I I I haven't surveyed every city, but I did take a look at a handful in their parking regulations, it seems, unless it is a what they call a towway zone. So, it's in front of a hydrant or or something like that, or the city creates a zone um that is specifically a towway zone, maybe for, you know, an event center or in front of a a public park, something like that. It's most typical particularly for street parking for it to be a citation first or even a couple of citations um and then then it gets towed. So um or we'll say the the nice thing about the citation piece is that it doesn't have to be in the same place. So you can track the citations and if you are giving your second or third citation you're looking on you know your report you're looking at your your officer is looking at their you know do or whatever database I have this in oh this is their third citation time to call a tow truck right um so that's how how that would work and that's really

the that's that's it I mean that is you know it's it's both simple but also aggravatingly complex like so many things in running a Um, you know, we certainly have the authority to impose parking regulations. Um, again, we can do it uniformly across the entire city. We could do it in zones. We could do it for some streets but not others. If we're going to do that, we have to be able to articulate why. Um, but but the thing I would, you know, remind you of is that once we do that, um, then it has to be enforced. And we want to make sure we have a a robust process in place to engage that enforcement. Um because seizing people's vehicles and then finding out later we shouldn't have is expensive, right? It's not like the end of the world. No one's going to go to jail, but it's time and money and also it's a disservice to the citizens um if we are accidentally seizing their vehicles when we should because people need those. They need them to get to their jobs. We have a vehicle culture in this country where people it's pretty necessary to have a car for most things in life. You can disagree with that model, but it's the model we have. So, um, and, uh, yeah, that's the long and the short of it. Again, I'm happy to work with the council if they want to start thinking about drafting some kind of ordinance. Um, but again, I would I would ask that you um, defer and uh, take counsel from your city engineer as well as from your law enforcement because I'm not the one who has to enforce it, right? I just got to write it down. So,

that's that's all I got. Thank you. I I might ask for council member Elliot, I think, on Walton 2 brought this forward. Uh what is it you're hoping to achieve? I might ask. Uh

I I think a parking ordinance is needed throughout the city. I am I Carrie I I took a bunch of pictures of cars and it really came to me. Uh, one of our citizens contacted me and they said, "This this vehicle has been sitting in front of my house for four years and it had a current license, but it had not moved in four years." And so then I went around, you know, I walk and I bike everywhere. So there are so many cars. I only took seven pictures, but I know there are at least 15 cars out there that have not moved in more in more than um some of them two to three years, some of them one year. So, it it it looks bad. It once you start down that road, then it invites other cars to park on the street, it it becomes a blight. And some of these cars, they look fine, but if you get closer to them, you'll see where there is moss underneath them. There's leaves all around them. They obviously have not been moved in years. Um, so I do think we need a parking ordinance because some of our streets are people do park on them and then they need to go to work. But if if cars are taking up the spaces, then there's not enough room for people to park who do need their cars on a regular basis. So, so to me it's a blight and um it clearly I think we need to do something to to um remove these cars. I mean I would start with I'm I'm for the citations and then uh going to to something more serious if need be. Um and I did look at some some cities have um I looked at Breton and they have a 5day period. I think Seattle has 24 hours. Um, another city has uh 72 hours, so people are all over. Um, I think we

could even be a little bit more liberal than that and add maybe 30 days, but anything where a car is sitting on your street for a year or more is just wrong in my opinion. Yeah.

Um, and just that was great, Gordon. Thank you. I don't think we're talking about certain hours of the day, certain days of the week. We're we're really talking about cars that have been parked 30 plus days and yes, I walk by some of those. It's really the excessive nature of that. Does that make sense? It's not a you can park on this street Saturdays and Sundays from noon to what? No, no, no, no. We're trying to be very simple on this. It's really cars that have well outstayed their welcome. And it impacts our citizens. It impacts your community values. Um it's not the safest thing. And I think it's a reasonable request of any city to say we have certain standards and certain expectations and if you get a couple of warnings hopefully you don't get to the empoundment place. I think that's more than reasonable. Um but you know rules benefit the many not necessarily the few. I get that. So I I would like to pursue this and not make it super complex but really deal with vehicles that have been there an excessive amount of time. I mean I could even go Yeah. like six months even or three months but something and you can see those they have been there and that is a true story that I saw squirrel family in one of them no kidding

so you're really so so you're really trying to to u prevent long-term storage yes of vehicles on the streets okay right no just gota so what would be the suggested

so I just want to say um because we are um a military community we have a lot of people that are being um deployed and they leave their home for more than six months, sometimes a year, you know, how how would we identify those people and protect them for, you know, leaving their vehicle behind because they don't have any other place to park it? So, I just want, you know, that that vehicle first of all, moss grows in my backyard within 30 days. So under the vehicle it can it can really build up quickly. So how do we identify and protect those people? I just want to make sure that we understand that there are people that are deployed and and they leave their vehicles until they get back and they could be on the street.

What would be the suggested ordinance that you're thinking about? 30 days or or what are we looking at here? What what do you think is reasonable? Well, I would start with 30 days and and I al also think a public messaging campaign is critical because like Robin said, I mean, there are service members that leave their cars, but if we get out a message in advance, give some people some grace period. Um, there are plenty of parking over at there's plenty of parking over at JBL for people who are leaving for a long period of time. They could move their cars there. And most people have most people in Dupont have garages or they have a parking space. So

just jump just jump in there. Just the signage piece if you have that helpful study session. Yeah. So couple of things I write it down when we were talking. So we do have a HOA. So does HOA rules also will help us or HOA? They don't control the streets. Just the if you parked it in your yard up on blocks, yes, they would do that. But if it's on the street, that's that's the city regulation. Just a thought. There's another thought was a collector's uh tabs. What do you do if you when you were going through all the garden list of items on the state uh the collector's vehicle, I mean, is not never going to expire.

That's correct. So, how do we deal with those kind of situation? It's just a Yeah. question. If it doesn't expire, it's Yeah, it doesn't exactly doesn't expire. So, that's not Samaran. Yeah. So, if there's a older vehicle, somebody just takes the collector's uh tab and just put it out on the street. We can't even touch. That's one of the things to think about it. And uh one more thing is about the trailers. So, I'm glad there was some pictures about trailers, too. So, how are we going to deal with the trailers? Is it any different or not? Well, it's not only trailers, it's boats, it's commercial vehicles, it's all kinds of things. It depends how deep you want to get in to the parking issue.

And so, you can see it can get complicated real quick. Now, even if you have a u an ordinance of say 30 days, that would require us to put signs up, would it not? Well, they Well, yes. Um any any sort of restriction like that, we would. Now, we we already prohibit oversized vehicles from being parked. You need a special permit. I think that's over 20 feet, isn't it?

Yeah, that's over 20 feet. Yes. Um and and that's a little easier because again, it's just folded into our our law enforcement's civil enforcement duties. Um they see one, they'll they'll leave a warning, but if you are parked there lawfully and you have a permit to do so, that you have to put it in the windshield. So, we we have a system in place for for oversized vehicles 20 ft or more. Now just a trailer um that also is is prohibited from being parked on our streets just trailers. Um again there are some exceptions to that. You can get permits but that we already have that. Yeah.

So one last thought process is uh suppose say we come up with some kind of ordinance saying 30 days or six month. So do we have enough resources to enforce it?

Well there's two different issues there. There's the enforcement issue and who's going to enforce it. And the other one is the sign requirement and you'd have to put signs. We can't just put signs on one street, right? We have to put the signs on all the streets. And I think uh I think our city engineer did a brief uh look at what it costs to put signs on all the streets. Um and that'll give you an idea because you have to repeat everybody the same. And that includes the village. The village falls under this too. So, um, I'll share a couple thoughts. This is a common complaint I hear. I hear it by email. I had one today by email. Um, and also when I did those, uh, community forums, this came out at both of those. So, yes, there's going to be some challenges, but there sounds like there's some cities that already have some things in place. And I would suggest we start there and look there and see exactly what they're doing in signage, you know, instead of spending a lot of time trying to figure it out. I think they've probably already figured it out. They've probably already figured out the code to do it. So whether they're 30 days or 60 days, I would like to see if we did another study session to see what other cities are doing to do to minimize this problem because I do think it uh it has gotten out of control and I think there are other cities that are probably already doing something and I would love to hear what they're doing and how they're doing the signs, how they're doing the enforcement and then we can really have a good discussion on can we do it or not, but without knowing what they're doing. Um, so I I would love to see that information.

Yeah. Now, keep in mind that other cities have different situations like you mentioned Seattle. Um, a lot of those houses and those communities in Seattle have no garages and no driveways and street parking is all they got. Right. So, uh, there's each city is a little bit different on what they what they see a variety. Yeah. Gus, did you want to share what you want to jump in on the sign thing if we have to go a sign route?

Uh, yes. Uh, good evening. So, uh, we looked at this from um, uh, different, uh, distances and and what have you. So, if we place the sign every 200 ft, and I essentially use the same, uh, uh, linear linear lane miles from when I did the neighborhood streets type work. I mean, we're looking at over 1,400 signs uh, to put up. If I did this at every 300 feet, it's almost a thousand signs to put up. So, uh, just simply looking at this at $500 a sign. So, that's the actual sign itself, the post, and then mounting in the ground with, uh, concrete or other things at $500, we're talking between three4ers of a million dollars to half a million dollars, uh, to install those signs citywide. So this is just rough, you know, just all I did is I took uh all the uh neighborhood roads and the collector roads and just uh divided it. Uh but when we actually get to the individual locations, we'll have to walk it and say, "Okay, hey, is this a place where we actually need, you know, two signs or three signs depending on how things are turned out within the street?"

And I think that's great information, but that's why I think we need to know what other cities are doing. Are they doing that? you know, and if they are, that is the cause. But until we know for sure they're doing it, um, you know, I like to see how they're enforcing it. Oh, one more one more thing. Let's add cost. And cost would be staffing. Somebody who's going to be driving around and marking these vehicles or or taking photographs of these vehicles. That's going to take um uh law enforcement time and hours. Yeah, Chief, you can jump in there if you like to see what

So, I'd just like to say I don't think anyone at this table, well, I I shouldn't say that. I know city council does, but the police department certainly understands that parking is a community concern. We receive complaints on the regular. Uh, and Gordon's laid out a lot of the hurdles that we have to overcome to actually remove a junk vehicle. And a lot of times, uh, folks in the community don't understand all the legal, um, issues involved. Uh, so we have to try to explain that the best we can, but we don't always get to resolve the issue uh by impounding a car. Um, so I'm not opposed to exploring options for parking restrictions. Uh, but you know, it it just depends on how we're going to go about it. If we're talking about adding parking restrictions to every residential street or even zones, um, obviously that could become quite a laborious task uh for our officers. And uh in order to pre prevent any disparit uh enforcement, we would have to conduct uh that parking enforcement on a regular basis uh which you know in my opinion would pull officers from uh doing other proactive enforcement efforts that I would consider higher priority um for crime. So uh and a lot of the well I should say many cities that are doing this type of um parking enforcement for parking restrictions have you know many of them have dedicated parking enforcement officers uh because of the amount of work and followup that is required for some of these violations especially when you're talking impounds. Um, so if we are going to consider something like this, um, I just ask that we take that in consideration, the amount of staff time that something would take. I mean, if we're talking like a 30-day type thing, that would obviously be less, uh, of a followup in enforcement efforts and work on on our police officers than like maybe a 72-hour or an hour's

restriction. So, um, yeah, I mean, that's kind of where I sit on. I had a question for Gordon, actually. Um, if we were to do a 30-day timeline, uh, for a nuisance vehicle or a vehicle that's parked somewhere for too long, uh, does that require signage or is that just something that we can change our city code? You still have to have signage. So, you would still have to have signage? Yeah, you still 300 feet or whatever on all of our streets. Well, I don't think I've seen signage like that in Tacoma.

Well, I can't speak for Tacoma. I just know that signage, any sort of parking restriction in a public parking space is effectively uninforceable without signage. It's considered a nullity. There's multiple cases that talk about this. Can can someone provide us an example of a sign that says something about a 30-day limit for parking? Because I've never seen one anywhere ever. So, that's why I'm thinking, why do we have to have a sign for that? That would just seem to be a municipal code. Well, all I can say, the state supreme court has a whole series of cases that basically say if you have a parking restriction of any kind in your public place and you don't have signage that indicates what that restriction is, it's a nullity, right? You can have the ordinance, but you can't enforce it even for just nuisance vehicles only.

No, nuisance vehicle is different. It's not a park. It's not a parking vehicle. It's not a parking violation. Nuisance vehicle can be on private property, public property, could be anywhere. Could you redefine what a nuisance vehicle is or is that a legal term that we can't touch? Unfortunately, that is, I suspect, why the state stepped in and created their own definition of what a nuisance vehicle is because of that reason. Yes. Okay. So, no, we cannot. We have to go with the state's definition of a nuisance vehicle.

There there's another thing we could do that we've talked about without we've talked about this before without signs is the street sweeper routine. don't need any signs in the city except for, hey, we're going to have a street sweeper on this particular street on next Wednesday and all the cars need to be off there. That would force them to move, right? Or can ticket or something. We wouldn't need all the street signs then. Other than the time that, you know, the portable ones that we're going to use um to let them know in advance that we're going to do a street sweeping there.

That's a possibility. You know, another one is too is is sometimes when you go into cities, you see a sign that says um the speed limit in the city is 25 miles an hour unless unless

otherwise both marked. So, couldn't we have a a sign at the entrance of our city saying that on all residential streets, uh parking is limited to 30 days? So, you're only talking about four signs. I I I wouldn't appine whether that would work or not, but I have to do the research on that. I mean that, you know, that might be something that's again the unfortunately it doesn't say the sign has to be here, here, and here. The sign has to be in a place where a person would reasonably understand a restriction, right? So, I certainly would be happy to take a look and see if that's something we could we could do. What I'm going to suspect is going to happen is I'm not going to find anything that's that's quite that on point. Um um I'll have to find something that's a similar principle and see if we can apply it and then we could try that. You know, the risk is that if we empower someone's vehicle and it gets challenged and we eventually get a court says, "No, you can't do this." But but I'm but that's that's an interesting thought. I'm happy to take a look at that.

Okay. Thank you. And and then Brian, just a quick point, too, is most of the time neighbors will call the police department and say, "Hey, this car's been here for a long time." So officers really wouldn't have to go out of their way all the time to to look for marked cars because usually neighbors are going to notify you. They still have to.

Uh yeah, and they do now. But when we're when we're talking parking restrictions in order to remain defensible, officers are going to have to conduct that enforcement on a regular basis and um not uh conduct disparit enforcement just because somebody is calling. So that's one thing that we would have to consider that it's a it'll be a regular practice. Um so Beth, a question for you. Did you say Breton? Is that the city that you referenced?

Well, let's see. Sorry, I gota It's I looked up Breton. They do five days. Kelso does three days. Seattle 24 and Burian 24. Um those are just the ones I days or hours on 24. 24 hours. Yeah. Right. Nope. I I would recommend we did 30 days. I mean to be generous. Yeah. See what they do. Yeah. Yeah. I think we need to find a a a as close to a like city as possible that might have a a day restriction and then really see how far they put their signs, what type of signage they use,

um, and how they enforce it and then we can really come up with a cost estimate. But I do think we really need to dig deeper into this because I receive numerous regular complaints about this. And unfortunately, the issue is it's is it's that it's one of those it's reasonleness. What is reasonable? You know, what is a reasonable way of getting people to understand what the parking restriction is? And yeah, maybe one sign is enough. I don't know. You know,

I would I would challenge the sign requirement if you could do more research on that because I've never seen a sign that says anything about no parking for more than 30 days. And I just did a quick search, couldn't find anything, but it just doesn't sound right to me. So, it seems like we could, you know, go in and change the code a little bit without having to put a sign in. Um, it would be DuPont Municipal Code, correct? But we don't have one yet. But we could we could create a code. Create a code.

Yeah. Uh so I I just have never seen any signs pertaining to the length of parking allowed other than you know for the day or you know a two-hour limit. So I would be very curious to know what the uh what other cities have done. If there's if we find a similar sign somewhere then I stand corrected. But I've never seen anything ever. Yeah. And it certainly could be a situation where for those long-term situations, a sign that is in one location, yeah, you know, entrance to the city is sufficient. I'd have to find out. Okay. Yeah, that I'd be interested to know about that, too. As would I. Go ahead.

I also think that uh we have a long roads like you you talk about the McNeel and Hoffman Hill and those streets are pretty long and if we put one sign in the beginning of the street, I think it should be enough. Also, I think there we have some already established sign poles. So maybe we can just stick in the two signs on a one pole so we don't have to go through the whole nine yard 9 yard of digging more po I mean you know more and more put it in. We also have a lot of light poles and some of the cities I have seen that they put the signs on light poles. So we have a street lights and we have a polls and we can just put the sign on that those poles and I think that might cut down to maybe 200 signs. I don't know not required thousand signs in that's just I was thinking about it.

I think the light poles are owned by PSSE so we'd have to work with them. it's their property. But yeah, but that's the collocating the signs is certainly Yeah.

I I just wanted to comment. We we've had discussions with Gus about being proactive with our road maintenance, being proactive with our tree plan, always with the anticipation that we're going to get a double population and the idea to anticipate what's coming and proactively address it. Um I don't think this is any different. we have a significant problem because I get the emails, you guys, you know, meetings with with folks and citizens. Um, so I think what is affecting a few people could very easily start to affect all of us. We're a community. We have high standards in this city. We love it. It's beautiful. People are respectful. Um, and I don't have this around my house, but I could. But I'm here to represent people that this is affects their property value. It affects their maybe some safety issues. So, it's interesting that we're always looking proactively at other things, but in this one, it's all the and I know money is a big deal, trust me. But I think we need to look at this with a more proactive approach and find the things that could work around signage, not all the reasons this would be hard. Um, and Ron mentioned Seattle. I don't I mean, love Seattle. I don't want to be Seattle. I don't want to wait until year after year after year and then you got a massive problem and it's out of control. Like I talked to Gordon a lot about the the camping thing and thank goodness that Senate bill didn't pass. Um we we love this community. We need to maintain its integrity and its sense of safety and this is a proactive thing to at least explore in my opinion.

Oh go ahead. You just jump in. That's a study session. Um, I would like to talk about maybe having a separate ordinance that really addresses junk and and um nuisance vehicles and and that could be a total separate item. We don't have to have signage for that. And um I think that is something we could look at as as a possibility as a just a separate ordinance. Don't we have that already? We do. We do. Yeah, we do. We have a junk we we have a junk vehicle is declared as a nuisance. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then so for the community then they just have to call and notify call us and say we believe there's a junk vehicle out there.

Yeah. That's more of a code enforcement and just like traditional code enforcement we usually rely on people filing a complaint of some kind and then we go out send the appropriate person to go out and make an assessment as to whether it meets the criteria. Okay. Now now people will often say it's a nuisance or a junk vehicle but it has to meet the the criteria, right? Yeah. still would have to meet the criteria of a of a of a junk vehicle as we have defined it as defined the states. Yeah.

Yeah. And actually, you know what, Rob, this is a this is a good point. So, I I'll note that our junk vehicle statute says abandoned vehicles is the wrong word because it was I just got done saying they're not abandoned. They're nuisance. Um but so it's there's part of that confusion, but we do have have that ordinance already. Yeah. and and it I should take a look at it because it may be something that needs to be cleaned up. You know, I mean, um I'm not, you know, the state has not changed its definition, but we might be able to streamline ours, not the definition, but our process. Um so, we can look at that as well.

Well, I guess my request is in summary is that the staff takes this back, does some more look, come back in a reasonable period of time. I know there's a lot of things going on and it might take a couple months, but come back at some point where you think you have enough where you've looked at cities that might have similar deals and then we can really really try to determine um is this doable or not. But I think we need to

turn it back over to the staff and ask that you guys come back after you've had a chance to explore it. I I am intrigued by this notion of of having having some sort of signage just at the entrance to the city. Um, you know, I mean, uh, Shauna makes a great point. You know, those kind of long-term parking things are typically you don't see a sign everywhere that says that. Um, I just know what the law says, what I've read, but there may be some provision that's different. That may be a not a parking restriction. It may be some sort of fall under like usage, like right-of-way usage, which is different, not the same as parking. and I was focused on parking. So, I will take a look at that.

You know, what and one of the challenges of our community, good and bad, is there's not a lot of ways in and out. So, there there are not lots of places. I I think that's only a couple ways to do it. That's a fair point. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So, I have a quick question for Gus. uh if he knows uh answer on top of your head or we can come back or anybody knows how many total names of the streets we have in the city do we know because usually when you start a new street there the names usually so just wondering

yeah I unfortunately I I don't have that off top my head there was a great gentleman named Bill Anderson he passed away he was our former building official he was the architect of how our things and he had a whole list of names of uh streets and what have you. Interesting enough, they're all trees and regional significance, right? Like uh Toli and things like that. So So someplace in our files, we have something that has all of those on there. Unfortunately, uh uh Mr. Anderson has passed away, so he can't just say here here it is. Yeah. No. Okay. Well, we can always get the answer.

Yeah. We can do some more research on some of these items. In the meantime, one thing that has gone unmentioned here that I have done in similar situations on my own street, you might talk to your neighbor. And uh I I've talked to neighbors. Hey, you keep that. How long are you going to keep that trailer here? And um you know, there's only neighbor neighbor. We have neighbor law, too, right? Yeah. Sure. Anyway, we'll we'll go uh we'll we'll gather some more information and come back like Mike says and and go from there. Everybody okay?

Real quick, I did find the city of Anaheim in California does have a sign that limits the parking to 72 hours and they cite their code. Um so that might be something to look into and see what their verbiage is. I understand it's not state law the 72 hours. Is it okay? Oh, there you go. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. But I do have a sign. That's the thing is just before we wrap up, Sean, you make a fair point. It's like I was really thinking about parking restrictions, right?

But but I will I will divert my research into more like usage, right? Because this may be an issue of not parking but how the rightway is used and they are not the same thing. So something like that kind of restriction much in the same way that like we can restrict heavy vehicles on certain types of roads because of the size of the vehicle that kind of thing right. So and we don't and and we may have to have one sign as at the entrance that that road saying hey no heavy vehicles over this weight but we don't got to put a sign every 10 feet. So it may be a usage issue and I had thought of it that way but like maybe it's like hey you can't store vehicles here which is not the same as parking. So that's a great Yeah, I will look at that avenue. Maybe maybe that's that is the way to go.

Yeah. Hey, I just want to thank everybody. This was a good discussion and I look forward to what we come up with.

Okay, we'll move on to um the next presentation here. Um and that'll be Chief Moore. you you can go ahead and uh do your presentation in this format and then after we're done with that we'll move back up to the DIS for the rest of the Okay. Okay. Um, while I'm waiting for my computer to fire up, I'll go ahead and just look at the big screen. Uh so I'm going to provide a a public safety police department update for uh what we've done in 2025 a little bit towards the tail end of 24 and what we're looking um some of the things we might be looking at for 2026. So next slide. Uh, I always, especially for our newer council members and for folks in the audience, I always just like to give a quick review of our department mission. Um, it's stated up there, protect life, fight crime, uphold individual rights, and support the community. I think they're kind of self-explanatory. Next slide. And then our core values uh which not by accident uh are consistent with our acronym of DPD duty, professionalism and dedication. So uh our duty obviously our moral or legal obligation or responsibility uh the kind of professionalism or uh competence or skill that is expected of

a professional and dedication is our commitment to a purpose or a higher calling. Next slide. So I in 2025 um when I first took was appointed as chief I was working off of a loose road map in terms of a strategic plan and in 2025 we solidified it uh and largely based on some uh internal stakeholder input in the form of a survey uh and uh I'll go over what we came up with and then I'll go into some detail well on things that we've acco accomplished in terms of our objectives. But our goal and it's a three-year strategic plan, but our goal is, as stated, to provide the highest quality police services possible to maintain the quality of life that is cherished by those who live, work, and play in the city of DuPont. Next slide. So, our strategic plan uh is broken down into four main objectives. uh and u one is to provide the necessary equipment and resources for optimal service and operational efficiency. Uh to focus on professional and pro uh personal and professional growth for all department members, uphold the highest level of transparency and accountability and finally expand community engagement and education programs. Next slide. So under objective one uh we have a couple different parts of that. First being uh recruiting and retention. We also have um updating and replacing missionritical equipment as needed and then enhancing the use of uh our software and technology. Next slide. So up on the screen is a a look at our

organizational chart. Uh you can see all of our staff members to date and you can also see that we have two vacancies. One is the deputy chief position and we also have one officer vacancy. Uh both of those are currently in the process. We have uh we're currently interviewing candidates for the DC uh deputy chief and uh we're looking at starting um a hiring process for lateral or exceptional entry officers. Uh laterals uh being those that already have police experience from another agency. Uh so um we are in that process. Now if uh just in terms of of numbers for 20 the end of 24 and 25 we made some pretty good strides in the recruiting and retention um aspect of things. We we had two lateral hires at the end of 2024 and then we had two additional lateral hires and one entry level hire in 2025. So we brought on quite a few new folks uh fully staffed which you know I hope to be this summer. uh early part of the summer um or tail to towards the tail end of the first quarter of the year. Uh we're up to 16 commission personnel. So of the 16, 12 of those are in uniform patrol. And then of course we have two professional staff. So just to give you an idea of where Dupant uh sits in relation to the rest of the state even nationwide I don't think it's any secret that the state of Washington is uh ranked 51st in the nation for u per capita average of officers to residents and they're 51st only because they've included the District of Columbia and we've been 51st

for probably 10 to 15 years. Uh so this current uh state per capita average is 1.37 officers per thousand residents which is actually down from last year. It was 1.38 last year. So trending in the wrong direction. Um the national average is right around 2.3 2.4. Right now based on our staff the number of residents in Dupant were we sit at about 1.6 six officers per 10,000. Um, which, you know, isn't ideal. Obviously, I always advocate for more police. Um, however, uh, in terms of of how we're doing compared to the rest of the state, you know, we're we're above our that average, so doing okay. And the reason for that is we we've made, you know, a couple of of moves. We converted, we had a a vacant sergeant position on the books um for a little bit and we converted that which was a a costneutral move. Um but we were able to convert that sergeant position and add another police officer on the street. We also uh we added an additional shift. So we were operating under two anchor watches which was basically a day watch and a graveyards. And we added a mid shift or a swing shift in between which covers the hours of uh 2:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. which effectively puts more police cars, more cops on the street during our peak call volume. And uh we've seen some benefits of of doing that which I will get into later when we start talking about crime statistics. Okay, next slide. So um the other aspect of uh equipment and resources is obviously our mission critical equipment. We've we obtained a lot of uh of new equipment,

much needed equipment in 2025. We we we got two new police vehicles. uh was able been able to work with our city administrator uh to make some adjustments for on our err a replacement schedule when our vehicles are getting in between 75,000 and 100,000 miles. Um last thing we we want is for one of our vehicles not to be able to respond when needed, right? So, um we've got that in place. We've updated our tasers. Uh they're also known CED conducted energy device. We were you using an out of warranty device purchased back in six uh 2016. Uh we now have the latest Taser 7 technology. We've also provided uh training to one of our department members to train the entire department every two years on this piece of equipment. We've also updated our duty firearms. Uh we were using a Glock 45 caliber. We've since switched to a Glock 9 millimeter with a red dot sighting system, which allows for a more stable shooting platform and improved accuracy for the greatest number of users. We've updated our Axon bodywn cameras, renewed our contract, got new equipment related to those, and uh we've also uh received a charitable donation for 10 uh automated external defibrills, 10 AEDs. So, uh before that we had uh two in our fleet. We currently now have 10. Uh so that means out of the 12 patrol officers, every officer has an AED in their car uh to be able to provide critical life-saving measure measures to someone in a cardiac experiencing a cardiac event. Next slide. So under objective two, personal professional growth is is obviously

something else um that we're we're focusing on. We have uh under that falls ongoing training and education opportunities, leveraging our allied agency partnerships and implementing a comprehensive wellness program. Next slide. Uh, next slide. Go back. Go back two. I think you read this one. Let's go back to the previous one. This is the one guardian background. Oh, okay.

Uh, software and technology. Um, so, uh, the third piece of, uh, our, uh, equipment and resources. Um, we've obtained some uh new software. Software uh is really one of those things that, you know, always uh obviously costs money, but it certainly makes us more efficient and um be able to do things in a more timely manner. And one of the things that helped contribute to our recruiting and retention e efforts was this Guardian uh background investigative software that we're now using. It's a cloud-based uh software designed for public safety hiring and uh it accelerates our hiring process by uh automating applicant screening, offering social media checks and also has a national database so we can see where our applicants have applied uh with previous agencies and what information they've provided uh during that application process. The Axon redacting software is something that we added to our Axon contract. This allows our uh professional staff to be able to uh redact bodywn camera footage in a fraction of the time um because it's automated. So, we'll be able to produce um footage for prosecutors and uh public records act request uh in a much more timely manner. And then of course, I've talked about our policy. Um, we completely overhauled our department policy in line with national standards and accreditation standards. And, uh, having this technology in the software system allows, uh, much more, uh, ease of use for our officers to be able to locate information in the field related to policy and give them direction. Next slide. Okay. um

professional growth. Okay, I went

did that one. Okay, so training and education um in 2025. This is just a list of just some of the training that our officers uh took last year and that they they pretty much do every year. We have perishable skills training that you have to do annually or by annually. EVOC is our emergency driving, firearms, defensive tactics. Obviously, uh, each officer goes through at least 20 hours of online training courses. Uh, and that's just on our side of the house. Sometimes we'll get others from HR and things like that. Uh, patrol tactics. Oh, let me back up. There's also training that they elect to do or they do for their own development and some of those are listed here. Everything from patrol tactics, um, instructor development, investigative courses, and things like that. and then also focusing on their personal growth. Uh we partnered with Grand Canyon University to provide higher education uh opportunities at extremely discounted rates for current, former military and uh public safety. Next, allied agency partnerships. Um we're really trying to leverage that by working with uh our neighbors. Uh Lakewood's one example where um we're taking part in some of their patrol tactics training, active shooter training um and then most recently uh civil service response training and then um we're part of obviously several regional teams which is an ongoing thing. Honor Guard, regional honor guard is one, our Metro City SWAT team, and then the PC fit and crew are our acronyms, but they're both basically both investigative teams that uh were a part of regionally. Next slide. So officer wellness this was something

that um is near and dear to my heart and uh I think is extremely important uh for the longevity and uh longevity of our our folks and their careers and uh ending a career on a healthy note. But we were able to obtain a uh a grant from CJTC. It was a small award, but it was enough to get this program off the ground. And uh we implemented a a peer support team comprised of uh department members. Uh and then added to that was is also clinical oversight by a social a clinical social worker who uh we can refer employees to if they uh have a need beyond peer support. And they also uh can assist with critical incident debriefs. If we have a critical incident where officers uh experience a traumatic event, then she can come in and do what's called a stress debrief for them. Then of course access to other resources related to wellness, physical, emotional, spiritual, whatever that may be. And that's where chapency comes in. We have a strong chaplain program. Uh and uh that also falls under the wellness umbrella. Next slide. Transparency and accountability. uh obviously uh you know maintain um update and maintain our department policy in line with best practices. I talked about Lex pull our our department policy is posted on our website for everyone to see uh update process uh for filing complaints and managing critical records. This is something we're looking forward to in the future. Um we're currently exploring and looking at but this goes back to that uh efficiency thing that I was um speaking to earlier. Um, you know, just just getting with uh current times in terms of how we uh manage our complaint system and our critical records such as pursuits and

use of force uh that have obviously state reporting requirements now and all of those things lead eventually to accreditation. So that's the purpose. Next slide. community outreach and education programs uh utilize community partnerships to help meet our strategic goals and continue to improve outreach efforts that uh focus on public education. So, I'll get into that in the next slide. Um some of the community partnerships we developed uh obviously uh DuPont Emergency Services Foundation that we're working with uh worked with last year and continue to work with on our public safety day. uh charitable donations that we received. I talked about the AEDs and then uh grant opportunities uh specific that specifically meet our strategic goals. Next slide. These are just a list of the community events that uh we participate in. I'm sure we're all familiar with those. Everything from Wear Blue to Fourth of July to Hudson Bay. Uh two of the things that we added for 2025 was the public safety day as I mentioned. Uh but also the uh bike rodeo that we did, we have not done that before. That was an opportunity for us to uh educate some of our school school age children on bike safety within the community. And we were able to give away some free helmets and bike locks, too. Next slide. Uh these are just some success indicators. you know, obviously staff increases, employee satisfaction. We eventually acquire the equipment, uh, technology and software that we're looking to obtain, um, maintain low incidence of crime, uh, in our community partnerships, things like that. These are some things that we'll be looking at to make sure we're meeting our strategic goals. Next slide. Okay. Um, breaking away from this the strategic plan to get into the the numbers. Um,

I'm sure this will be of interest to everyone. Uh, get into some crime statistics, but uh, first this was our calls for service for 2025. You can see 10,877 calls. And that drop- down list of bullet points are just a list of some of the the types of uh, calls that we go to. Next slide. So, um you you can see that uh calls for service were down slightly from last year. Um down about 8% um which is not necessarily a bad thing. Uh and as I go through these slides, you'll see that uh you know, generally speaking, we had fewer incidents of re and fewer reported crimes, which would make sense to have lower call volume. Next slide. Uh it's probably the most exciting slide for me as a chief. Um you know, we have I I spoke to uh the fact that we have a lot of newer officers, a lot of younger officers. Um they're out there doing a lot of great work and they're making a lot of arrest. You can see our arrest numbers are up 107% from last year. That's a big jump. And uh some of that uh pertains to domestic violence, which you know uh is is something that a lot of agencies go to on a regular basis, but they're also making great stops for things like, you know, DUI, uh drug possession, warrants, driving on suspended licenses, things like that. So, um arrest numbers are up significantly. Next slide. And talked about the domestic violence. You could see where the numbers compared to the last two years. These numbers, by the way, are 23, 24, and 25. So the blue is in 25. Um, domestic violence is up over 50% from last year. Uh, not all those resulted in arrest, but quite a few of them did.

Next slide. Uh, assault, uh, just down one from last year, but on par for with 2023. Um, usually these are folks that um where it hasn't met the elements of domestic violence. It could be uh at the end of a road rage. It could be co-workers or, you know, folks at a a bar or restaurant or something like that. But those numbers didn't change too much. Next, vandalism up just a little bit. 27 uh and 25 is compared to 20 uh from last year, but still down significantly from 23. Uh most of these are things like vandalisms to vehicles where the parties know each other. Some of it has to do with public property. Some of our park restrooms have been victims of some of this vandalism. So, something we're obviously keeping an eye on. Next slide. Uh, another good indicator of where we sit in terms of crime, uh, in Dupont. So, theft from vehicle, this this this is actually if someone's breaking into a car to steal items from inside it, whether it's locked or unlocked. Uh, but those numbers went down significantly from the last two years. Um, down about 77%. Uh, which is, um, again a good good number for us. Next slide. This is motor vehicle theft. So, this is actually stealing the vehicle itself. Uh, still down uh seven compared to 12 last year and obviously uh quite a bit more in 2023. I think these numbers are consistent with what we're seeing across the state. A lot of that has to do with the fact that officers can now pursue uh but also um the the juvenile crew that was committing a lot of these have all been arrested. Uh so um also good numbers. Next slide.

Theft. I mean this could be mail theft, package theft, theft from a retail center, but uh down from last year. Burglary. This represents uh these numbers represent both commercial and residential. So it could be a construction site or a business for the commercial side of things. um up just two crimes from last year uh down uh from 2023. So we're we're in line with the trend uh but something that we continue to push out in terms of um messaging for that target hardening and ways to improve uh your odds of not being victimized in a burglary. Next slide. So, um, also a good indicator of where we sit and I I I have to, you know, give a lot of credit, uh, to our officers and the enforcement that they do. Obviously, the traffic, uh, camera systems have contributed to this. Uh, but, you know, we have an officer that consistently writes over 2,000 tickets a year on Center Drive, Dupont Silicon Road, uh, McNeel. Um, and, uh, and and they're they're moving. I mean, they're they're not just doing 40, you know, sometimes it's as much as 70. And and typically those folks are also driving on a suspended license times three and they end up going to jail. So, um, we can see motor vehicle collisions are down and that number represents about a 32% decrease and that's the that's where we want to see it to continue to trend. So, and I always end every presentation with our vision vision statement. We never terminate the pursuit of excellence. And that concludes the public safety update. Are there any questions?

Um I had some questions. That was a great presentation. You must be proud of those numbers, too. That That was good. I'm I'm very proud. I'd be more proud if they continue on. Yeah. Yeah. Um when you had the first slide that listed all of the calls, 10,877. Is there any way to get a percentage? I think it was um uh domestic violence was the most. I'm assuming they were in chronological order from most to least. Is there any way to get a percentage of those 10,000? How many were domestic violence? And if it's too much, I'm just curious how they they're weighted going down that list. Does that make sense? That list was in no particular order. Oh, it wasn't.

No. No. Um but I um I can tell you that yeah obviously domestic violence we saw quite a jump. I don't have a percentage. Okay. Okay. Um but also some of that is also um the the officer initiated is also included in that. So if they're being proactive that'll um also reflect in those numbers. Two more. Do you do any data collection when you make an arrest or there's domestic violence or assault? How much of that is connected to drugs at all? Because I'm just typically not unless it's a contributing factor. It might be

uh mentioned in narrative of the report or it would be but there's no statistics kept on on that. That's probably a good thing. That means it's not something to watch. Um and then my last one, how do you deal with the vandalism? Is that vandalism do you know maybe committed by adults? speaks. I know if it's committed by juveniles, which is sometimes typical. Boy, it hard to arrest juveniles. Um, what do you see with that? Is that more a juvenile crime or an adult crime when it comes to victims? Juveniles. Yeah, I had a feeling.

And how do you how do you navigate that when someone is underage, but they've committed obviously a crime? Um, what's your process for that? Well, typically, um, there's a couple ways we can go about it depending on, uh, the the gravity of the offense. I mean, we've had vandalisms in the past where they've reached the felony level and then, um, it it typically uh our our juvenile detention facility will not take a juvenile in custody for a crime like vandalism. Um, we always try, but it it it typically doesn't happen. So, we go through the petition process where we petition the court in a filing and follow through that way. Um,

you know, and for some we we'll still take a report and uh request a filing uh with the prosecutor, but uh at the same time, if we have custody of the juvenile and we know who they are, then obviously we're doing follow-up with the parents as well. Yeah. Good for you. That's great. Thank you.

I don't have any specific questions, but I want to take a moment to thank you and your entire team. Uh, you make DuPont a great place to live and you make it safe. I realize that due to the nature of your work, people aren't often excited to see your team. Uh, that's usually their problem and thank you for taking on those tough duties to help making us stay safe. I also realize that many citizens may not realize the difficulty that they want you to do it faster, quicker, but there's laws that hold up those things, those laws that you have to follow to get done. And I ask patients from the community to realize that there are steps that you have to do and and thank you for doing those steps while still persevering and going through it. I also want to thank you. Um I everyone here realizes when we do our legislative priority, Brian and his team are an important part of it to make sure that we're representing your concerns and why it's so important for us to be in the legislative action side to voice the concerns of the law enforcement. Uh legislative action can hurt, which it did several years ago. Fortunately, collectively working together with the law enforcement team, uh we were able to change some of those laws back to where you can pursue. So, thanks to you and your entire team for all that you do.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Appreciate it. So, quickly, I just wanted to make uh one quick comment on it. Thank you for the presentation, but also specially thank you on behalf of maybe a council for two things. We got the defab defabators, the ad machines, right? And those 10 of those somebody uh donated I mean we can say thank you to them if needed we can send it a message to the donor. I think that will be really appreciative. The second thing is uh GCU the university correct

they also give I I'm hoping that's an online programs not like a in person so people can do it while they are working. So absolutely have thank you to GCU also. So just wanted to pass on the thank you on behalf of council to both of them. Thank you. Any other comments? Okay, let's take five minutes. Be back up on the dis at 7:45.

Yeah, we got a lot of stuff. We've had longer. Yeah.

Okay, it appears like everyone's back. So, uh, I'll call the meeting back to order and, uh, entertain a motion for approval of the consent agenda. Council member Elliot, I'll make a motion to approve the con consent agenda. Council member Barl, I'll second that.

Any further discussion? Okay, seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. Oppose. Okay, the consent agenda is approved and we have a bunch of new uh business items today. Uh item 10.1 is the first one, resolution number 26-005, reiterating state law and local policy assuring the public of the same regarding federal immigration enforcement. And uh the sponsors of this are council members Walton and Tor. Um are you going to start the conversation with that or Yeah.

Don't get you here. There you go.

Green is good. Um well when Juel and I have met um several times multiple times with Keith um with mayor um with our chief of police and Gordon just wanting to clarify with so so much miscommunication such heightened concerns in our community nationwide statewide around this issue. Um to be really crystal clear on what our police can and cannot do. super important and just a commitment on our part that this subject is important to us as citizens. It's important to our chief of police. It's important to all of us as council members. So, we worked closely, I guess, give uh give it up more for Gordon to take it from here. But how could we make sure that our the voice of our police chief and department was there and reassure our community that um this was something that we don't take lightly and we're we're aware of how serious it is. I don't know if that set it up perfectly, Joo, but I I want to give credit to Chief Moore. He was great to meet with multiple times, one-on-one, big group. Thank you to Keith Gordon, the mayor. Um, we really appreciated the community and the collaboration around this. So, thank you to all those gentlemen.

Council member Theor. So I agree with uh what Susan said so not going to repeat it but uh when we talked about it with Gordon and Brian and our major one of the question was how do we protect everyone's uh constitutional rights and uh as we know that we have a constitutional rights and amendments which was made by our forefathers and we also have a separation of power between federal state and the city. So how do we protect everyone's power within the separation or constitutional rights within the separation of the power and so we are not creating any new uh guidelines or laws is just uh making sure that federal laws and the state laws gets implemented. That's what our goal was. Thank you.

Okay. um in that there is nothing new here and somewhat superfluous in that regard. But uh did uh were you counting on city attorney to make come up comments on this? Oh, okay. Well, go ahead. Before we take questions, I would like Gordon to kind of explain the context because uh he has that legal lens of course um and then open for discussion. That way we just get all of the information out front. Would that be okay for with everybody to hear that because we kind of talked with Gordon to kind of lead that piece of the discussion. Thank you.

Thank you, council members. Thank you, mayor. Um yeah, so this is a resolution um that brought forward by, as you noted, council member Walden, council member Tor. This is a resolution that reiterates some important uh points on behalf of the council if you were to vote it into existence. Uh the first is that um you know obviously uh federal immigration customs enforcement has an important role u but it is a federal role. It's not a state role. Um, I know the council members were as as many were concerned about some of the conduct of federal officers in some other states and that was the purpose of bringing this resolution forward to make a clear delineation. Uh, that uh our police department um by as a matter of both policy but equally importantly as state law um does not enforce immigration laws. It does not participate in the enforcement of federal immigration law. It does not provide funding, information, or logistics. Um, their one and only primary duty is to enforce laws here in the city and to keep the peace. Um, and they're all trained in these laws and policies. Um, and uh, and obviously, you know, would interact with federal officers in an appropriate manner. Um, importantly, and this was important for both council members who brought this forward to reiterate to the citizenry that all residents of of any background or description should call 911 if there's any public safety issue of any kind and that you can be assured the DPD will respond and will enforce uh state and city laws and maintain public safety and uh the council uh or excuse me these the sponsors also wanted to recognize that the state legislature including for example the uh keep Washington working act which is essentially an act that uh forbids uh state law enforcement from uh enforcing immigration laws

um that the state legislature is considering or has passed other laws um which direct the conduct and interaction between our law enforcement in here in the state and with federal law enforcement officers particularly immigration officers. Um and so the purpose of the resolutions is my understanding is to uh assert assure the citizenry uh that this is is in fact how we conduct our business here. uh that we will uphold these laws and abide by them and that 911 is to be called by anybody who who views a public safety issue and that we will we will respond. Um and that's that's uh my understanding of the resolution. Um and yeah, thank you both for the comments and and obviously if a legal question I could take it, but if you have a a more policy question or a reason question, I'd suggest you talk with either of the co-sponsors. Thank you.

Okay, we'll have more discussion after there's a motion. Is there any council member that wants to make a motion on this? Council member Elliot. I'll make a motion to adopt resolution um 26-005. Is there a second? Council member Walton. Yeah, you can. Can I do that, Gordon? Uh I probably should clear that. I second that. Okay. Uh, now is the time for uh discussion. Council member Gassic.

Thank you. I did take the time to read the resolution and I understand the concerns that other council members have, but I will maintain my stance that this is not a municipal issue. We have no business creating any sort of a resolution regarding immigration. I don't think that there's any need for us to restate what our policies already are. If we were going to do that at every council meeting, we would be really busy. This is a non-partisan entity. The city council is nonpartisan. We have no business getting involved in a divisive issue that is clearly a partisan issue. I will be abstaining from this vote. I'm not going to vote no. I just don't even think it belongs on the agenda. Any other discussion? Okay. Council member, Deputy Mayor Winkler.

Um, I'll take a slightly different approach. I concur that this is reiterating the law. U, I think it's important though that everyone knows that the city is very aware of Keeping Washington working act which passed in 2019. This resolution simply states that we understand the law and that we'll follow it. So, uh, I will vote for it in that light. The law required the Washington State Attorney General to publish by May 21, 2020 a long list of guidelines, FAQs. It's published on their website for for law enforcement. And so, as I read this, you know, restating the law so that citizens realize that we're we're going to follow the law. I'm I'm very comfortable with the one thing I will share a cautionary note on is the very last whereas I would just like to remind all the council members that um the legislative session is done any of those laws are over with any future laws since we don't even know what they will be needs to be brought here um for our team our full-time team and the council to review. you know, there may be some that we may very well agree with, but we don't even know what they are. So, I'm fine. I'm not asking for a rewrite. I'm just putting a cautionary note that that whereas in the last one, at least from my viewpoint, um any future laws that are entered that we take a stance on, whether it's about this or anything, we we review them. We have our legal team review them. And so, that's a cautionary note for the next legislative session. But that's my thoughts and I appreciate everyone's input um and thoughts on it.

Do we have other comments from the council members? Okay. Um I'll call for the vote then. Uh all those in favor Oh, you have another comment, Mike. Okay. All those in favor say I. I

oppose. Okay. Um, it appears we have the positive vote on that. So, that uh resolution passes. We'll move on to re resolution number 26-006 approving anou with the town of Stelcom for use of recreational space and facilities. And to explain this, we have uh director concaid here tonight. Go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor Council. So, I'm here to present this on behalf of Amy Walker. She really did all the heavy lifting on this resolution that you have and did a wonderful job negotiating um with Stilicum. Uh so, what you have attached to your resolution um is theou that the Silicom City Council has already approved um and is as stated, it is for the use of the recreational space. So basically it's Stilicum Community Center. This the city of DuPont could use that with this uh memorandum of understanding um to be able to hold events and run programs. So it expands our facilities which we desperately needed. Um and it also is a win-win situation because Silicon um they don't have a parks and recreational program. So often times their people are coming to you know they're they're they're participating in in the uh DuPont programs and events. So this is a a great way to be able to um partner uh as we have been uh working towards building those partnerships. So that's the the overview and I'm happy if you wanted to get into any of the details uh in theou um to go over that with you if you'd like. Any questions for uh our director? Okay, council member at the core.

So only one question I have and one suggestion. So why are we going only until 2027? Why can we not have a longer period of time? Well, I think it's probably a good practice, a best practice to be able to uh you know see how it's going to work out. I think it gives us a year to to just figure out how it's working and then it can be I mean there's a provision that it certainly can be extended. Okay. Otherwise it's a great uh way of working with our closed towns. Yeah.

So uh that leads me to the second just a thought about it. Can we also not explore the similar opportunities with the university place because University Place also has a lot of good venues out there. Oh, I'm sorry. Could you repeat? So, University Place UP has a lot of good venues and uh maybe we can explore the similar kind of uhou with the up. That's what my suggestion would be. Great. Thank you. Y Deputy Mayor Winkler.

Mr. Mr. Mayor, if there's no other discussion, I move we pass resolution 26-006 approving with the town of Stelum. Council member Walton, I second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Council member Barl.

I just want to say it's a really great opportunity for us. I was just there this past weekend for the puzzle competition. There were well over a hundred people and the number one team that won the competition was out of Stilicum and DuPont team took third place. Um so yeah it it definitely and we did draw people from out of town as well. It's really a nice facility and I I know that um Amy and a lot of other um other community members are looking at some opportunities to use that facility. So, I think it's really a great opportunity for us.

Any other comments? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. Oppose. Okay, that R resolution passes. Next, we've got um resolution number 26-007 awarding a contract for the systemic pedestrian uh safety improvements. And we have our city engineer, Gus Lim, here to go over that with us. Go ahead, Gus.

All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, let's see. In inside your packet, also on the screen is um I got a two slide presentation and and this will help describe the scope of this project. We have eight locations uh throughout the city where uh essentially crosswalks will be laid down. Uh ADA improvements to the concrete sidewalks uh and also uh pedestrian signage uh will be at those locations. Uh two of those locations will have rapid flashing beacons and I'll explain you know within this where those are. uh the eight locations uh there they are marked as uh squares red uh correction black squares in the your council packet and also on there. Let me just start off going from left to right. So first location is at Hoffman Hill Boulevard and Sinclair Drive. This is a location where we have a trail uh crossing. This ends up putting uh two crosswalks in the ground. Another one is Hoffman Hill Boulevard near Packwood Avenue. It is a trail crossing. Uh this is on a slope. Uh this has one crosswalk. Another one is Ridge View Drive in Sinclair. This is near a corner of Chief Lehi Park. This has two crosswalks. Another one is Jensen Avenue and near Wallace Street. This is essentially a trail crossing that is near that connects to Jensen Park. Another location is McNeel Street and Bob's Hollows Lane. Um this is um one of those interesting crossings. This is uh if you you ever watch the people that do wear blue run to remember, this is one of the corners that they they um um uh cross at. The next one is um near Gary Oaks Park. It is McNeel Street and Gary Oaks Avenue. This location will have four crosswalks. Next one after that is Bob's

Hollows Lane and Gary Oaks Avenue. This is near the corner or at the corner of of Powder Works Park. This will have three crosswalks. And then the last one's probably the most uh um uh probably intensive as far as location is Bob's Hollows Lane and Ren Road. This is a location by Paddle Works Park and uh Pioneer Middle School. Uh so this will essentially also have uh three crosswalks in in this location. Uh if you can move to the next slide. The next slide in here is is what a rectangular rapid flashing beacon uh looks like. You've probably seen this in other locations uh throughout the country, throughout the state of Washington. Uh these are electrically uh connected uh when a person uh is desiring to cross the street. They'll push the button um that upper portion uh where you uh above the pedestrian uh sign, you'll see the rectangular portion of the flashing beacons. Those will rapid flash and then hopefully they'll catch the uh any mo motor motorist attention cause them to slow down or at least stop uh so that a pedestrian can cross the street uh from this location. There are two locations for where these are going. One is at Hoffman Hill uh near Pacwood Avenue uh and the other one is over at uh uh Bob's Hollow Lane and Ren Road. Um so this is the scope uh of the project. Uh thank you. Um that's it for the presentation. This is the scope for the project. Uh it's a little bit of a good news story for us as well. Uh let's see. Um when um we had gotten this uh grant award, uh it was a a it was originally intended as as 100% grant, no city match. Uh prices increased um um uh during that time frame. And um and we're able to get a bump up. we're able to get a bump up specifically to the construction component to it where we're over

$900,000 of available budget uh for the construction. The the the actually next thing was uh I was we did advertise this in January. Uh I was pleasantly shocked we got 12 biders on this job. uh none were disqualified in in this package is is the bid analysis and bid tabulation that that you have in here. Uh interesting enough that engineers estimate on you know one of the reasons why we did get a bump up is at you know $719 uh,000 which is near the upper end of uh or almost at the high bid mark. Uh from that point, uh we did get a a very uh competitive bid with Diversified Holdings Northwest at $456,000. There was about uh within the as you can see within the bid tabulation, there was essentially about three biders uh between the 450 to 500 and then um and then a larger group between 550 to 600 uh50 and then uh over at 700. So in this packet uh package uh we do have a companion one that I'll talk about a little bit later which is the construction management but but also within here is part of the scope of work for this for this grant was also improved street lighting at at two locations those two locations where the rapid flashing beacons are. So we're uh I'm working with Puget Sound Energy because they own and operate our street lights and essentially that part of the scope we're going to ward through Puisan Energy. So, you'll see me again uh next city council meeting to award a uh component of this uh to Puget Sound Energy. It just wasn't ready uh yet at this point in time. So, my recommendation is we award uh this construction contract to u Diversified Holdings Northwest. And once we'll uh we

have an opportunity to award this, then u I'll have u uh uh an uh an opportunity to receive the construction schedule uh for this and I'll be able to push this out to the community and engage with uh property owners who are adjacent to these locations to advise them of the work that's coming up uh in this immediate area there. Um and that's all I have subject to your questions for this project. Thank you Gus. Any questions for Goss Lamb? Well, we'll entertain a motion then. Let's see. Uh, Deputy Mayor Winkler. Mr. Mayor, I move we approve resolution number 26-007 awarding the contract for the systematic pedestrian safety improvements.

Council member Elliot, I'll second that. Any further discussion? Deputy Mayor Winkler. Special thanks to the whole team for going out and getting the extra money and really made this possible. Thanks guys. Council member Elliot. Yeah, just kind of ditto. I mean, this is one of our priorities in 2022, so it's really nice to see that it's coming to fruition. So, thank you so much for being so diligent.

Any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. Oppose. Very good. That resolution has passed. The next one is resolution number 26-008 awarding an engineering contract for construction of the systemic pedestrian safety improvement. Also, Mr. Lim, go ahead.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, tonight this is the companion project associated with this. So, the first one was the with the construction contractor. This is with essentially the construction management, inspection, and material testing. So, what's also always nice is if we can have the design team, which is SCJ Alliance, then carry this over to the inspection size because they did the design. They know where this location is. It makes sense uh for them to uh continue with the inspection and the execution of this project. This this amount is fair and reasonable. It's based on uh essentially hours of inspection. Uh if this project goes faster, then we'll probably use less of this. But these funds are tied with the uh construction phase of what we had gotten in the in the um uh the Washington DOT grant. My recommendation is award this to SCJ Alliance um as a companion project for the uh construction management inspection and material testing for the um associate project.

Any questions for Mr. Lamb? Okay, we'll entertain a motion. Council member Elliot, I'll make a motion to pass resolution number 26008 awarding an engineering contract for construction of systemic pedestrian safety improvements. Council member Thor, second. Any further discussion?

Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. oppose. That resolution has been passed. Next is resolution number 26-009 approving a contract for the risk and resiliency study on the city's water system. Also, Mr. Lim.

All right. Thank Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So um as part of the safe drinking water act with US EPA and the water infrastructure water infrastructure act uh those water providers that provide water to more than 33,000 people have to do the study and essentially what this study is is it looks at okay what are what are natural hazards what are man-made hazards that can actually impact the delivery the safe delivery of water uh to the community and once that assessment is done then we move forward to essentially doing a um um uh emergency response plan. This is required uh for us. Believe it or not, the last time I was here, it was the last time we did this. It was 2021. Uh it yeah, it it was 2021 when I when we executed this work. Uh but I I can tell you that the threats out there have just gotten more uh what's the right term? Um mature uh I guess intense. Uh uh from that perspective, uh things just don't let up. Um it used to be before we just worried about juvenile vandalism, trying to break into our location. Uh but now there's there's other things out there that we we have to make sure that we're protecting ourselves as a so we can ensure safe delivery of our water uh system. Uh this is essentially refreshing the previous study and the previous um uh emergency response plan. uh organizationally we're slightly different than 2021 but that will get updated uh within within this or um uh uh plan and and what have you. And the last piece is then the city will certify that we accomplish this to the US EPA um for both the emergency response plan and also the analysis uh from there. So my

recommendation is we award this to Gra Osborne and their subconsultant various. Both of them were involved in the previous study and this will essentially refresh and update um uh our previous uh studies and analysis from there. Uh thank you. Any questions for Mr. Lamb? Council member Walton. No. Do we have any motions then? Council member Walton

jumped too fast. Um I move that we um accept accept resolution number 260009 approving a contract for the risk and resilience study on the city's water system. Council member Theor. Second.

Any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. Oppose. That resolution has been approved. Uh, next we have item 10.6, an ordinance regarding the electric vehicles in the city of Dupant. This is a first reading and director Concaid will cover what this is about.

Thank you. This is just the best to last, right? So you have pages of code revisions uh attached to this and um this is a first reading as mayor said uh an ordinance that would uh propose to amend DuPont municipal code. There's several chapters. Um it's all within title 25 which is our land use uh chapter or or section and um this is something that has been through the process uh with the planning commission and uh they held did workshops and held public hearing and made a recommendation. So this um attached dot these code check sections that you see attached are the recommendation from the planning commission for you to consider adopting. Um what you have here is a um state law that passed in 2009 to really uh ensure that cities you local governments within the state of Washington were encouraging electrical vehicle use to be able to expedite that. And so um this is um we already had done code work at that time, but this is a proposal that would further meet the uh legislative um goal of of expediting. And why I say that is because the existing code, yes, it does allow as the state law passed, you have to allow um electric vehicle infrastructure and the infrastructure included in that are um the charging stations and the battery exchange. Basically, you must allow that all in all zoned areas except for you have some flexibility in residential and critical areas. So, our current code, you've probably noticed all the striketh through underlying stuff, but um the

current code really does allow it, but it it allows it as an accessory use and not as a primary use. So, what this proposed these proposed code amendments would do is um first of all, in the definitions, which is found in 2510, you see a lot of looks like crossed out moves, but that was just maybe moving stuff around. It wasn't that we eliminated a lot of definitions. We condensed all of the definitions that were really relating to electric vehicle definitions and made sure it said it was in the e in the e section um for ease of use for not only administrating that code but also for the user to be able to understand that all of our electric vehicle definitions are found in one section under E for electric. So that was pretty much what we um did in 20110. There are just a few new the other thing I did is made sure that those definitions matched um and are up to date with the state with the state definitions um that commerce produced. There are two new um two new definitions that we're missing and that's uh 25105035 for charging station and 036 for charging station ready. The reason why this was important both of these really to add is that we wanted to make sure the other thing that the current code doesn't do as adopted is it doesn't really differentiate between these different levels of charging stations. So, you know, they have charging levels one, two, and three. The ones and the twos are are very common uh to allow in, you know, it's your your home vehicle that you might have an EV vehicle and you're going to go drive home and you're going to have a uh a plug-in that's a that's a level one. There are faster ones that people will um have in their homes that are level two, but the level three charging

stations are really more of a commercial. there the rapid charging and they require considerable amount of energy and infrastructure. So we wanted to make sure that we were differentiating between those three and that in the residential areas that if you own an electric vehicle or you purchase an electric vehicle, yes, you can have an electrician install that charging plug. You do not need a permit to do that. However, so the code is is clear on that and and in these definitions, it it it allows us to understand how how that is different in these different zones. The um charging station ready definition that we've added is important because um first of all you have uh you you have the building codes that are now uh they're now requiring that a certain percentage in commercial new development include um either a number or a percent of existing already wired so to speak uh electric vehicle charging stations and this sort of percentage that where they're ready, they're charging station ready. That means that they sort of have to run the they have to run the um just enough to make sure that the um the I don't let's see the I guess I would say it's not full-blown infrastructure, but it's enough that you know if you think about um like fiber optics for example, you're running that, but you're not lighting the the fiber yet. So this is where in the development of a new new commercial use um they could be easily um turned on to be uh functional charging stations. So, that's why we wanted to make sure because the building code created that. Um, and we want to make sure that in our code, people

understand what we're talking about when when in the subdivision laws or in when our building official is reviewing something, a plan said and and marks it up and says, you know, you don't have enough charging station ready uh spaces here. The uh code section specifically in addition to the definitions are the 2525 which is our commercial, the 2527 which is our community business district, 2535 and 36 which are our mixeduse districts. So these zones are the ones that very minor uh tweak in there. It's just saying instead of uh this uh level three charging uh station or the infrastructure e electric vehicle infrastructure which could be a charging station or battery exchange or combination um could be allowed as primary use. So this doesn't have to be an accessory use. And why that is um you know being proposed here is that if you think about how um if the way the code is written right now, if you had a location and you had a uh developer that was interested in in in putting one of these electric vehicle charging stations, they could not do it as a standalone. They would have to build something else and then, you know, build this. and that isn't the way that the development world works. I mean, you've got developers that do this thing and they got developers that do the other thing. But so that that's why it just wasn't working uh in in terms of meeting really the intent of the legislature as written. I believe that this uh change will meet that. And so that's why I'm proposing that in the commercial, in the mixeduse districts, and in the community business district that we consider that you consider um making that a primary use instead of an

accessory use. In chapter 2558 in the old Fort Lakes sub area, we um you'll see that table. Um when we took that through, we hadn't really I hadn't really wrapped my brain around all of this electric vehicle infrastructure business. So we were just thinking, sure, let's let uh you know, EV charging stations exist. So, we went through and we again we we changed that use table so that it's consistent with what I've just said uh residential um in u multifamily but pulling out specifically if we're talking about a rapid a level three rapid charging station then it would have to go through conditional use permit. Um, then that gets us into 25126, which is the actual electric vehicle code section. And that is the one where you see where everybody wants to know the million-dollar question is how does this actually work when you get an application? So, we're proposing that it be processed um because we're saying it's uh you know in in a redevelopment, new development that would we would be processing the rapid charging and uh a battery exchange as a type two. And what that would mean um is in these code in these different zones that um it would require a sea checklist. It would require um a level a higher level not quite to the level of conditional use where it has to go in front of a hearing examiner but it it's a a much higher level for what is required in the submitt and what would be uh reviewed in terms of its compliance and if there were any conditions that needed to be added. So, it's it's a step above. It's still done

administratively, but it's um it does it does require more um u more that the applicant provide and document the kinds of things that we would absolutely need to see for the public safety and the benefit and the welfare um of our community. So, that is what you have in front of you. Um, I'm happy to go through page by page if you feel like you would like to do that or if you have specific pages where you're like, "This says this and I don't understand it." But, um, please let me know if you have questions. Thank you. Any questions for director concaid?

Well, this is uh we can let this ride till the next meeting on a second reading or if anyone wants to move that to a second reading now, they can do that. I guess we're letting it ride to the next meeting to do our second reading. Okay. Uh thank you for the information and uh we look forward to hearing more about the EV charging stations. Thank you. Now is the time for the mayor's report. I don't have anything further or is there any comments from uh the council on the council reports?

Council member Barl. Hi, I would um I would just like to make a recommendation to our council. We have eight um uh we have eight public markets over the summertime and I think it would be a great idea. Joo and I have talked about this about having one or two council members at every um one of the U markets so that we could talk to our community, give them some insight on what's happening within the city and um and and just, you know, communicate with them. It gives them another opportunity besides their three minutes at a council meeting to be able to interact and see what's happening within the city. And so I would just like to um put that out there for some of us to to think about. Thanks,

Council Member Elliot.

Yeah. Um, we had, well, I went to the Alliance for Sustainable Climate Action last Friday, and I just wanted to thank Barb for uh, putting together a list of items that our city would like to see happen. And the goal of this alliance is that all the communities would come together and it's going to flow through Pierce County where they will they will match cities needs to grant requests so that they're simplifying the projects and then um hopefully s simplify the funding throughout that that will come through. So thank you for providing that list. You kind of kicked us off and other communities submitted theirs too. So thank you Any other council comments? Okay, then we'll move to the city administrator. Keith, you have anything for us tonight?

Yeah, really quick. Um, just wanted to talk about Patriots Landing is honored to have three residents participating in the journey of heroes which is hosted in conjunction with the wish of a lifetime from AP and the Vital Life Foundation. The three nominees are Thomas, John, and Carol Lee. In our bits and bites, we have their bios. What they're asking is for citizens or community members to write little cards and letters thanking them for their service. There's information on what to participate and how to participate. Letters are due on April by April 10th. So, um, just want to encourage everyone to take a minute, look at their bios, and maybe just send a short little note or letter to those three nominees, Thomas, John, and Carol Lee. Their bios are in there. They're well worth reading at the very least. They're they're great Americans. So, just wanted to recognize that program, encourage participation, and with that, Mr. Mayor, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Any questions for Keith? I don't see any. So it is now um 8:27 the