General Legislative Session - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everyone. Snohomish County Council is called to order for our administrative session. Today is Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 at 9 a.m. We're meeting in the Jackson boardroom and also remotely. I'll read the script for public comment and then our clerks will take role. We'll take public comment beginning in person and then remotely on Zoom. Click on the hand icon to raise your hand. If you're calling in by phone, press star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute. And each speaker will have three minutes to speak. Please start your comment with your name and city of residen

Thank you. Thank you. Were there any speakers to the resolution? I'll just quickly say I appreciate bringing this forward every year, and we have two special guests to speak to the resolution. So if you wanted to come up to the podium. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Well, it's easy for me to remember because my family's been deeply impacted by cancer. My husband, my father, my sisters, my mom have all had some form of cancer. My mom's had cancer three different times. And she jokes and says she needs a new hobby. But, Reese, you are so strong for standing up and doing this and surviving what you went through, not just surviving but thriving. So I think your dad and mom have a lot to be proud of today, and I know that we're all really proud of you, too. So thank you so much for coming here today and speaking. Did any councilmembers want to add a

I think Reese summed it all up. I don't want to follow anything she said. So thank you for sharing your story today. It was incredible. Thank you.

Any council members online? Okay, well, we really appreciate you coming today. Thank you so much. So we will take a brief recess for a photo. So council's now in recess. Oh, sorry, we did not vote on it. Is there a motion to approve the resolution?

I move approval of resolution 26-044. Second.

It's been properly moved and seconded to approve resolution 26-044. Any additional discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Chair votes aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes 5-0. So we're now in recess. Thank you. Council has returned from recess and we will continue with our agenda and next is item D public comment. Did anyone wish to provide public comment? Okay, anyone online? No hands are raised. Okay, so we will close public comment and move on. We have introduction and assignment of legislation to committees. You can see the items that have come in and the different committees. I'll read through Committee of the Whole and we have one item for action, but we have item A is for assignment to move to Septe

Questions from council? So language added in by council in our budget process, mainly?

So do I need to move it as a corrected motion or just move it as the motion?

Okay. Any other questions from council? Is there a motion?

I move to set time and date for motion 26-387.

Tuesday October 20th 2026 at the hours of 1030 a.m. And 6 o'clock p.m. Second It's been properly moved and seconded to set time and date for a budget motion 26-3 8 7 any discussion Hearing none on favor. Please say aye.

Chair votes aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes 5-0. Next is the clerk's report on pending legislation. You can see the report linked in the agenda. Reports of council committees. Council committees are suspended through the budget process. And then reports of outside committees. Are there any outside committee reports? Council Member Lowe.

Yeah, I attended the WASAC Timber Caucus meeting virtually last week. The DNR commissioner was on there. He talked about... a plan to raise rates for managing the DNR lands. Currently, that's at 25%. He's going to make a proposal to raise that to 27%. That'll be introduced to the commissioners next month, and then they plan on voting on that in November. An increase to DNR's management fee would mean less money for our junior taxing districts, so there's a lot of concerns from people, other WASAC members, and so I'm sure you'll hear a lot more about that. If you have further questions, I would

Thank you. Other updates? Last week we also had the Association of Counties board meeting and legislative steering committee meeting that I attended and we passed the initial budget to be approved by the membership with a recommendation to pass and then also created a new arm of Association of Counties, like a for-profit arm that'll have its own board and its own executive director so that WASAC can get sponsorships for events to help reduce the burden on some of our counties for our dues fees and reduce some of the budget that we pay into that. And then for Association of Counties, we... made

Thank you. Any questions? Okay. We have nothing under full council actions. Other business, please review motion 26-386. We have no executive session, and we have a walk-on motion today.

I move the council to hereby authorize and approve the expenditure of $320,000 to resolve the civil damage claim of Dana Jo Martinez as negotiated by the prosecuting attorney's office through mediation on September 14, 2026. and to authorize the county executive or his designee to execute the documents necessary to memorialize the agreement in consultation with the prosecuting attorney.

A motion has been properly made and seconded. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Chair votes aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes 5-0. And we are now in recess? Adjourned for the day? We're adjourned for the day. Council's now adjourned.