City Council - Regular Meeting

I call this hybrid regular council meeting of July 28th, 2026 to order at 7 o'clock p.m. Will you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

And will our wonderful clerk please call the roll.

Okay, council, any items to add or delete to tonight's agenda? Yes, council member Keith.

We have a live agenda item that was left off the agenda, the MDCC issue. It's a council decision, and so if they want to postpone it, we need to actually vote on that. So when it comes down for council business, we should either deal with the item and dispatch it from the table, or we should motion, second, and vote to table it. We can't just disappear it from the agenda. So.

Well, I agree. It can't just disappear from the agenda. But it was my understanding at our study session last week that we agreed that if Maley was not going to have sufficient time to review it, that we would postpone it to the next study session. And I thought we had agreement on that. Did I misunderstand something?

We have to vote. We still have to vote. You have to dispatch the item from the table.

Okay. Well, then how about if you make a motion to dispatch the item from the table? Okay, so we will add an item to council business. Is it your original motion that we're adding and then we'll dispatch it? Okay, so Jill, as our city clerk, if you're tracking that, we will add an item to council business. We will call that the motion for the one-year extension of the Mountain View contract. Okay. How are you doing, Maile? Are you good with that? Is that good enough for a clear enough explanation? We all know what it's in regards to. It's in regards to a motion that Councilmember Keith had mad

Okay. Council Member Keith has her hand raised.

Not that it's terribly important, but I'm dying to know what the difference in a good faith call and a false alarm call is.

the way that we track incidents did a complete 180 on us and we're still trying to catch up with that so next year you'll see totally different uh categories so yes council member pazaruski hey chief parkinson we met i think i believe last year at the chamber of commerce function um excuse my ignorance i just have a question regarding the um the new builds with the fire stations you mentioned in your earlier slides that Bonds are 18 cents per thousand dollar assessed value. So are all the new build fire stations coming directly from the bond money?

Expanding it to, because you said that bond's going to be in place to 2030-something.

That was my question. So, yeah, it looks like, I mean, it's great to get all these new fire stations and it seems like they're all good to go.

Council, any further questions for Chief Parkinson?

So with the new stations, what do you have? The new stations, Lake Taps and Talala? Holly. Holly. Did that bring in more employees or did you have to kind of shift around employees?

Okay. Thank you, Chief. Appreciate it. Okay, Council, next up is audience comment. Audience, this is your time to step to the podium. You've got five minutes. We have one person that signed up, Eric Page, and he would like to discuss the Shober Rezone proposal. And I'll forewarn everybody. You don't have to have signed up. So if you want to also speak after Eric, feel free. So Eric, you know, the routine step right up and take it away.

Okay. Thank you, Eric. Any other audience comment? Don't see anybody here. I don't see anybody online. Jeremy, can I just slip in a comment? And I don't know, hopefully this is okay, but can you just refresh our memory as to when we will, as a council, see the Sjobert rezone? When's it on our calendar? It...

So the soonest it would be coming to the council would be late September. Okay. Thank you. Just while that conversation is fresh, just wanted to get that. Okay, I'm not seeing any other audience comment. Takes us to mayor's report. A couple of things. I mentioned this during council comment last week and then in my afternoon at the mayor post, but just wanted to mention it here in a regular council meeting during the mayor's report about the Highway 161 update. I had a conversation with somebody in Olympia. They informed me that the project, the repair project, of the road is scheduled to go o

Okay. Well, there you go. It's not too late. So give that some thought if you want to be a host home. And then finally, just want to say that I attended Summerfest and it was a wonderful event back or down at the park and great job by that organizing committee of volunteers who did 95% of the work. And thank you to the other city staff for doing the final segment to contribute to that event. But the event went great. Second year in a row we've held Summerfest has been held at the park and it seems to be working out great as a location. So that concludes my mayor's report. Takes us next to the

Okay, it has been moved by Council Member Rasmus and seconded by Deputy Mayor Creeley to approve the consent agenda as presented. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, say no. Okay, motion carries. Okay, next up, Council Business. We have the motion to extend the Mountain View Community Center Heating and Cooling Center Agreement by one year. This was a motion by Council Member Keith a couple weeks back. And so I'll let... We don't really have a staff update on this item because we're still kind of working on it. So... Barring that, it takes us right to I'll entertain a motion on this

Okay, it has been moved by... Council Member Southard has moved to postpone this item to the August 18th study session, and Council Member Rasmus has seconded that motion. Council Member Southard, you have the floor.

Council Member Rasmus, you now have the floor.

Yes, I think that's fine that we can do that. We had it previously scheduled to all go out with the packet, but I think we can make a one-off exception to send this. So we'll send you the agreement on a separate one-off, and then you'll also see it again with the August 18th agenda packet. Okay, any other council comment on this motion on the floor? Okay, seeing no further comment, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, say nay.

Okay, motion carries. Takes us to council comments. Are there any council comments tonight? I'm not sure who was first, but Council Member Keith and then Council Member Ramirez and then Deputy Mayor Creeley.

I received an email from a Debbie Garrison who has bigger questions than I can answer about subdivisions, plots, septic stuff. Do I send her to Jeremy or Chuck? Jeremy. All right. Debbie Garrison is coming your way.

Okay. Council member Ramirez. So as we begin to talk more about the budget later on, in the year. I was wondering if we could also include a discussion on the possibility or what would it cost over time to add another officer listening to police chief talk about burnout among officers. And it's a real thing. And what our officers do with the community takes them away from their family. I know they do a lot of good stuff and I just want, to see how we can better support them. So if that could be done maybe on a separate line, or we could have a discussion on what that would look like compounded

Okay. Duly noted. Thank you. Deputy mayor Creeley.

Thank you. I'd also like to second that for, uh, Council member Ramirez, when the chief gave a talk to us, the per capita officer stats was surprisingly low. So kind of a big concern. So yeah, I'm interested in hearing about that too. Giving you an update on the parliamentarian, interview or the, you know, putting out the net there to try to find some folks that are willing to join us. I sent out about close to 50 emails, personal emails from a list from, I think it's Washington state parliamentarians. And I did get two back who are interested. And so I'm kind of wondering, do you want us to w

I think it would make most sense to put that on a study session agenda. And you can kind of, since you were tasked with that assignment, you can just kind of provide an update to the council at an upcoming study session.

Okay. And include their info in a package.

Perfect. Sounds great. Are you ready for August 18th or would you rather September 2nd or whatever? Give you those two choices. August 18th or the first Tuesday in September.

What's the 18th look like? I didn't take a look at the file.

Well, we have the Mountain View Community Center agreement. That's on there. And Yeah, fences and alarm systems. Well, I tell you what, Mark, why don't we, or Deputy Mayor Creeley, we'll shoot for the 18th. And if we decide it looks too crazy, then I'll reach out to you and see if you're fine with the first Tuesday in September.

As we get closer, I'll send that email to Jill so she can pass it on or put it in the back.

Perfect. Thank you. Any other council comment tonight? Okay, seeing no further council comment, we are adjourned at 7.37. Good night, everybody.