City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Kent City Council meeting for Tuesday, August 4th. This is a regular meeting twice a year. We have our meeting at 5 p.m. tonight. Following this meeting is National Night Out. So you can see everyone up here representing. We're excited to get through the items on this agenda and then we'll be headed out into the community. So with that, if everyone could please rise and join me in the flag salute.

Melissa, could you please call the roll?

Yeah, thank you Thank you. Item number three is approval of the agenda. Are there any changes this evening? No changes from staff your honor We do have an executive session or closed session approximately.

Thank you. Hearing no changes, a motion would be in order to approve the agenda as published. So moved.

We've got a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. We're going to move on to public communications. We have two items under public recognition this evening. The first one is employee of the month. Each month, employees here at the city get together and nominate one of their coworkers that consistently exemplifies the mission, vision, values, and goals of our city. I am very pleased to announce that our August employee of the month is Brian Cortines. Brian started working for the police department on January 2nd, 2015 as a police office

Thank you. Congratulations to Brian, and thank you for opening that door, Sarah. I just want to say, and I know all of the council up here, thank you so much for everything you have done for this city. I know you're headed off on a new adventure, but we are so grateful for the legacy that you are going to leave here. All of the programs, all of the things that you have done to help the city, help our residents, we're really, really grateful and wish you nothing but the best. in your next chapter, so thank you. All right, the next item we have is a proclamation for National Emergency Management

All right, Council President, community events. Thank you, Madam Mayor. We have SSO Showroom Center on August 16th. There's Pacific Cascade Mustang Club car show happening. And August 30th is Mamamoo. And September 19th, there's a Bollywood singer concert happening for Sonu Nigam. And September 28th, Seattle T-Birds Home Opener versus Prince George Cougars. And the tickets will go on sale on August 26th at 10 a.m. Entire 2026-2027 season tickets go on sale on September 2nd at 10 a.m. And you can get those tickets on assessoshowercenter.com.

All right. Thank you. All right, we are gonna move on to item number five, reports, opportunity for all of the council members to provide reports on activities that they have outside of our regularly scheduled meetings. I am going to start off and keep it extremely short, given that we've got National Night out waiting for us, with just a simple reminder that today is primary election day, and if you've not returned your ballots yet, you have until 8 p.m. to get those in drop boxes located all around the city. You can go to King County Elections and find out where those drop boxes are if you'v

All right. Council President. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I will also, we have council newsletter coming out tomorrow, so all the updates from council will be in there, and I think my colleagues are on the same page, so we will be skipping those tonight. Back to you.

Thank you. All right. Thank you. Item number seven is public hearing or six is public hearing. Item number seven is public comment. Do we have anyone signed up for public comment? All right, we're going to move on to the consent calendar. The consent calendar is a compilation of items that council has previously deliberated over both workshops and committee of the whole. These items have had an opportunity to ask questions and be provided with information they've passed out of committee of the whole without controversy. Tonight we have items A through H Is there a motion to approve the consent

It is 5.23 p.m. And I'll turn it over to our HR Director, Carrie Endicott, to present.

Thank you. Council, any questions? All right. Is there a motion?

I move to authorize the mayor to sign a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the AFSCME Local 2617 Union effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028. I second.

I've got a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries 6-0. Thank you. Thank you. With that, we are at the bottom of our agenda. So we're looking forward to going out and visiting with the committee tonight for National Night