City Council - Regular Meeting

I call the Wednesday, July 15th, 2026 council business meeting to order. I met with the council members at 5 p.m. in the sixth floor council conference room for a briefing to discuss tonight's agenda. At 5.30, we moved here to the first floor chambers to conduct the council business meeting in person. And because we encourage community involvement, we invite the public to join us in person, attend via remote option through Zoom, or view on BCAT. The council will accept spoken public comment on the items under the consent agenda. We have also set aside time at the end of the meeting for communi

I have a question for you. Besides the big poster that the health department has, can you leave up at the council office some smaller ones? And that way when we have council meetings, we can just bring them down here so people coming in.

I really appreciate you coming in and talking to us.

Is there, well, is there anybody in the public who would like to comment on the consent agenda? And Mr. Runyon did ask that he could do it remotely, but I see you're here in person, so, okay.

Well, we did discuss it at last week's study session, but perhaps our city attorney or finance director could just give a very brief, it's a code cleanup. It's not adding anything at this time, it's cleaning up the code. In what respect?

All right, thank you. Thank you. Mr. Camacho?

Can I talk? Who would like to speak next, please?

Thank you. Anybody else like to speak on the agenda?

Ma'am, right now at this point of the agenda, it's just about things on our consent agenda. Later on in the meeting, you're allowed to come and talk about any subject that you would like to.

Thank you for your comments. Is there anybody else who would like to speak to items on the consent agenda? Oh, is there anybody? I think the only person who had signed up is here in person. So, all right.

That's it. That's it? Okay. So nobody else wants to speak on this, all right. Seeing no additional comments, we will move to council consideration of the consent agenda.

Do we have a second? I'll second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Is there any council discussion? I'm reading the script.

Yeah, I'm reading. OK, I call for the vote, please.

With no general business items tonight, we have next the mayor's report. Oh, I'm sorry. Mayor, I'd like to invite Shannon Turner up first. I'm sorry. So Shannon is our newest Bremerton Housing Authority board member. The mayor appointed him and we approved his appointment tonight. So do you want to say a few words to the community?

Thank you. Okay. Next up. Welcome Mayor Wheeler.

That's all right. All right. Well, good evening council, council president and counselors. Just a couple couple slides for you tonight so that the fun at the playgrounds that that continues. And again, this one this runs till August 14th. As you can see, Friday from 11 AM to 2 PM. Blueberry Haddon Park. And I encourage, again, those who are watching tonight, spread the word. We would love to see as much participation as possible. An example of some of the things you get to learn are on some of the slides below. So our students, that the last session got to learn from the Bremerton Police Depar

Thank you mayor Okay, next is councilmember reports This is an opportunity for council members to provide an update on any issue or events taking place in their district, announce any events they've recently attended or plan to attend, or to speak on any other city-related topic. Since this is the last council meeting of the month, we will start with District 7, Councilmember Rick Tiff.

Okay, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. I don't have a formal report tonight. However, I did have the privilege of attending the change of command ceremony on behalf of the City Council for Group 9, which is located at Bangor. Admiral Nash was relieved by Admiral Figenbaum, and Group 9 is the admiral responsible for the operation of submarines and their crews stationed at banger washington so that concludes my report thank you next is district 6 council member anna mochler hi

So this is about 100 feet south of my district. I'm poaching on District 5 Michael Goodnow. But I met this guy, and we got talking. And I went up to view this manufacturing place called Talon and Claw. I had additional photographs, but they disappeared in the ether while I was sending them. But here we have more than 12 live and wage jobs, light manufacturing, right here in Bremerton. They make cutting boards and this Dungeons and Dragons thing. It's a Dungeons and Dragons thing. And they make additional wands, cribbage boards, die holders. It's some beautiful laser cut and then hand finished

Thank you. Next, let's hear from District 5 Councilmember Michael Goodnow.

All these things make me think of other things. We're going to hold on this slide for a bit. I used to serve on a submarine in Group 9, so that brought up memories and obviously the air conditioning. Thanks for the shout out. Actually, I want to talk about something. So a week ago, so last Wednesday, I believe, there was a violent attack up by the bus transfer station on Wheaton Way. the person's known to me and uh i just wanted to really think thank the the police department and uh officer knox rk9 if you haven't seen the account uh it was a very it's pretty violent a random attack and It was

that's all i have thank you happy pride thank you next let's hear from district three council member christy camarada i think you have slides

So I tend to wander. And so this is a report from not district three because I was lucky enough to be over in Rick's district in district seven at the air show this weekend. I think it's just this slide and another slide of like not so good photography from the absolute very beginning of it because I had every intention of taking good photos while I was there because I was working and doing my job. But about three planes into it, I got completely distracted. It was a wonderful time and realized as we're leaving, I didn't take any more pictures. So these are like the worst pictures for the best

You actually had another minute, but that's okay. Next, let's hear from Council Vice President and District 2 Council Member Denise Fry. I have no report tonight.

right that's it thank you next i have a couple slides my good next one please um fourth of july it was a mess all over town um the ordinance as we have it was not followed Several years ago, before I was on council, the ordinance was changed to allow people more days to shoot off fireworks. And then we don't have the police to go around and enforce us because they're busy with a lot of calls on the 4th of July. I've been asked by some to start a petition to consider a county-wide ban, but I'M ELECTED OFFICIAL. I CAN'T DO THAT. IF YOU WANT TO START A PETITION, IF YOU FEEL THAT IT'S IMPORTANT, P

Let's have Monica come up and speak, please.

Okay, you don't have to do anything. It's on, so that's going to... Okay, we'll start it right... If the light turns yellow, that means you have 30 seconds left, and when it turns red, you're done. Can you tell me when I start? Okay. Start now? Right now.

Thank you, Monica. Do we have other people who signed up? Okay, so now anybody who would like to come up, one by one, please, to give comments, if you like.

Thank you. Are there other people who would like to speak?

Thank you, Mary Lou. Are there other members of the public who would like to speak?

Thank you. Are there other people who would like to speak?

Is there anybody else in the public who'd like to speak?

Can you talk into the microphone, please?

Thank you. Is there anybody else in the public who would like to speak?

Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who'd like to speak tonight?

Thank you. Are there any other people here who would like to give your comments? No, I'm sorry, Monica. OK, well, if there's no other community members who would like to talk, I adjourn tonight's meeting. Thank you, everyone, for coming.