City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good evening and welcome to the Federal Way City Council meeting for August 11th of 2026. Would you all please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome everybody. It's great to see everybody here on a beautiful August day. We've got Pretty good size agenda this evening. We'll start off with the update from Reach Out Shelter, Red Lion. Erica Esqueda, the Acting Deputy Director for King County Housing and Community Develo

Are animals welcome? Animals? Like dogs? Yeah. Awesome. And so you will be providing the food? Awesome. And has anyone talked about the day center relocation over there?

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Erica, for coming and sharing. I have a couple of comments and maybe some questions. I saw a slide that said that King County Regional Homelessness Authority was the contract oversight, but then it sounds like they will not be involved after 2027. Was that correct?

Okay, that's probably a good thing. Okay, and then... really appreciate the commitment to building the good relationships with neighbors i think that that will be paramount to the success of the red lion and i think we're all wanting to see this finally open it's been a long time coming and we have a lot of people who need this service so i'm happy to see that the taxpayers are getting what they invested in thank you all right thank you and um uh councilmember stephen dawson

Yeah, I also wanted to say thank you. This has been a long time coming. And so it's great. I happen to work for Housing Authority. people being unhoused is not okay. And so I think it's a human right issue. So I'm glad that the 90 day is really flexible because otherwise we're gonna see people back on the streets. And so I do appreciate that it's 90 days but loose. I do have a question. Do you have any kind of agreement or partnership with either transitional housing or permanent housing where people could transition into from your program?

So is there any kind of an MOU or anything in place with the other parties if Catholic Community Services doesn't have a spot?

So there's a referral process or is it self-referral?

So we're looking, thank you very much. I appreciate all of you coming this evening. We're looking at housing for emergency shelter when it's extremely cold. And so can they be referred by an officer, police officer, brought in?

I thought we considered the extended stay Booker House as a single adult shelter.

We do. Actually, I think the council president has a question that's going to follow up on this.

Okay. One other question real quick. Absolutely. There's some portables sitting on the property. Are those going to be moved, or what are they doing there?

It's been there, been there for a little while, right? OK, that's right, that's right. I know I said all of you kind of gets up in the Jennifer with the Catholic Community Services. We get that Jennifer. Thank you and maybe we can have other folks come up as the questions arise. Council President Honda.

so i'd like to follow up on council member coachmar's question let's say you have all 50 beds taken and we have snow and wind and horrible conditions will you not open your doors to people to come in at that point yeah i i don't believe that we'll have space to do overflow shelter in that location um i i would like to

so that we still have to have space available for those really horrible nights.

Yeah, I think it was really anticipated. Maybe we can have some of the county people. Thank you, Jennifer. But I think it was really, and maybe some of the county representatives can assist as well. I think it was our understanding that some of the emergent need would be carried out by this facility, meaning cold weather shelter when it's an emergency. Erica, is that... What are your thoughts and if you have any suggestions?

I can tell you, just as someone who oversees this, and we've got our emergency manager in the back of the room, and something that becomes emergent. When we know in the next 48 hours, it's going to drop very low. I think probably the number one need in this community is to make sure people do not freeze to death. Now, what we've been doing is utilizing fusion resources on Pacifica. And I know that's your goal too, right? We're all in the same business to help people. And, you know, maybe something to look at and to think about is, you know, coordinating with us to make sure that there's some s

These people are just doing their jobs. And I don't falter for that. You're doing wonderful. But we were promised when that Red Lion was sold that that was going to be our temporary shelter for overnight stays for cold weather.

think that may have been the you know what I think we probably need to have some follow-up meetings on this and really you know game out and we will be in touch to talk about that issue to where you know I'm just so impressed you know number one fusion has really been there for us as a community I want to say that first but our own personnel our human services personnel, Angelina and Layla, and also our emergency manager, on a Friday at like four o'clock in the afternoon, when it was apparent that we were gonna have freezing temperatures, they really made sure that that was not a life and deat

And ask them, too, who they will be serving, people from Seattle or people from here?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's really, thank you very much, Council Member. Council Member Asafodossin.

Yeah. I think this is an issue that's very dear and near to my heart. So I will again push back to us trying to define where people are coming from. If you're homeless, you're homeless. If you're experiencing, if you're unhoused, You're in-house. So that is not, to me, it's irrelevant. In terms of emergency shelter as in extreme cold weather, if there's, I mean, I don't think they can hold a room just in case we need it. And how many people are you going to serve with one space or one room? So I think it'd be like somebody said, maybe there's a space or, you know, like a lobby or whatever that

NO. AND I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FOR EMERGENT BASIS, A LARGER OPEN SPACE FOR COTS. RIGHT. AND THAT'S SORT OF A DIFFERENT USAGE AS OPPOSED TO BEING ASSIGNED A ROOM. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. RIGHT.

AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT SHE BROUGHT UP. I THINK I HEARD YOU SAY THAT RIGHT.

So that's what I was going to say. So the pool house, has a pool been removed? So the pool is still there?

Yeah, I wouldn't anticipate that they would hold a room. I would anticipate they would have a big space where people could come in.

Yeah, just like they have a fusion, and we we have that available to us as an emergency basis over at the community center that has some operational definite operational impacts on the community center but life safety is obviously more important obviously much more discussed very good news on on on this front about getting making sure that facility is open it's a lot of folks you guys are going to help council any other questions okay we're going to follow up with that oh council member Hamilton sorry

thank you mayor yeah I just wanted to note that I too also was under the impression that there would be some emergency type cold weather housing available with this and now it does sound like that's not the case and so I think we do need to discuss you know where the breakdown of communication happened there but also so then if this is not that then is this is this permanent supportive housing or how how is it defined

Okay, thank you, and I will look into enhanced shelter because I don't think I've heard that term before.

OK. And then also, I do appreciate very much Councilmember Assefa-Dawson's comments about where people are coming from. but I will push back a little also just because I think Mr. Harold Booker brought up something very important when he spoke last time and that was that when people are placed in a shelter where they do have ties to that community it's that much easier to get them into recovery if that's what they need because they have that family support that community support

that they you know need for that and so I think that that's the relevancy there with the ties to the community but but I also appreciate thank you I'm not gonna push back but I would say they clearly said that priority is given to by the way and they're gonna come from the day center so I think we'll still have the majority of Sir, but when this is the only facility in South King County, I think it's hard for us to make that determination.

Thank you. And I think that distinction breaks down completely or is completely irrelevant with regard to emergent or emergency shelter or emergency cold weather shelter. I think you can kind of see. We're working our way through this just like you are. We're very grateful and looking forward to getting this open for the community. Council Member?

There are taxpayer money that's going into this shelter from our citizens in this city, and they have certain expectations, and I think that we need to be arguing on behalf of our citizens.

Absolutely. Thank you. All right, anything else from King County or from Catholic Community Services? We want to say on behalf of everybody here and everybody in Federal Way, thank you for the work you do. Thank you. All right. Okay, item B. Our friends at Waste Management are here. Han Kirkland, Waste Management Senior Account Executive. And I see you brought a friend. And Han, the floor is yours.

All right, thank you. Council Member Koshmar?

Well, thank you, Mayor. Han, you and Priscilla are the only people who could make garbage fun, so thank you very much. Thank you. Hey, one of the popular programs you have is the one where once a year or twice a year you can put things out for large bulk items for... Could you talk a little bit about that? Sure.

That's great. Council President Hunded, did you have?

Yeah, thank you. On your slide where you showed recycling rates It looked like multifamily doesn't recycle as much as other businesses and single-family homes. Is that true?

Okay, thank you. I just thought that was kind of interesting to see those numbers. Thank you.

Well, Han and Priscilla, the gratitude is all ours. Thank you very much. We're very grateful and thankful for the work you do and the manner in which you do it, always with a smile on your face. Thank you very much.

All right. Thank you. Okay, now it's time for Mayor's Emerging Issues and Report. That was a picture from the National Night Out. We'll talk about here in a few minutes. Okay, we had the Kiwanis Salmon Bake. There's myself and King County Councilmember Pete Von Reichbauer. Boy, was it hot. Actually, Melissa was standing over the corn and it was really steaming and she says, I feel like I'm getting a facial. And it was really steaming. And then Susan was running around and helping out. And it was great to see almost every council member there and the community. And a big thanks to Kiwanis. And

Wow. Oh, my gosh. That's great. Um, so, um, it was just, it was a lot of fun and it's just a great, um, you know, great to, when you've, when we finally got done, when Pete and I finally got done doing our shift, um, I do have to tell a funny story though. You guys ready for this? Okay. Just, just kind of telling myself. So when I stood there, Pete goes, get over here. And, and so, cause I wanted to serve next to Pete cause I've known him forever. And so I go over there, and I literally, there could be a number of reasons for this, but I could not tie my thing behind me. And I literally, yes,

That's what Don said. So anyway, we saved an apron. Almost killed the mayor, but saved the apron. So thank you, Bill, for the assist. All right, that's the story behind the story. All right, next. Okay, we had honoring our first responders event. We've got great service clubs. We've got the Lions here today. The Rotary hosted the responding first responders event. This is really what I think is gonna be the second out of three or four events this year, and it was great to see. Actually, we had the fire chief from the city of Everett that was there. and we see our new Fire Chief, Chief Woody th

Then we had, it's been a busy time, busy August. We had the community festival, busy in July as well. We had the community festival last Saturday. Big thanks to the Diversity Commission and it was really packed, a lot of folks there. Council was there and Diversity Commission did a great job. And Keith, thank you very much for your stewardship of the Diversity Commission and it was great to see everybody come from the community. And what was great was we had the farmer's market right next door, you know, on the street there, and, you know, it really mixed right there. And then before I end my

Tuesday, Tuesday, August 25th. And so free haircuts ages five through, I need my glasses for this, five through 18. So what's that? School age. School age, five through 18. So come get a free haircut. About the farmer's market, we'll see, we have, it's been on the street right there at 316th, right in between Town Square Park and the Performing Arts and Events Center, starting on Saturday, September 5th. It's moving up for the four weeks that we have in September. And we're going to have it up there by the field and one of the food trucks. And so we're getting that word out. But the farmers ma

All right, councilor, any questions? All right, thank you very much, Jason.

Okay, now we are on to council committee and regional committee reports. Councilor Walsh, land use and transportation.

Well, I was out of town for our last meeting, and I asked Council Member Hamilton to chair it. I don't know. Do you have any comments on the last meeting, Alyssa?

Yeah, so our next meeting is September 14th. Probably the two items that we discussed that are relevant for this meeting is the first reading of the rough grading code. That's going to improve our permitting process. And first reading for the sign code amendments was quite the hearty discussion. Other than that, that's the end of my report.

All right. And that ends my report as well.

Very good. Thank you. Council Member Sessoms, Parks, Recreation, Human Services, and Public Safety.

Thank you, Mayor. The committee met last on July 14th. All members were in attendance, one virtually and one in person. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 8th, 5 p.m. All are welcome. Thank you.

All right, thank you. All right, Council Member Kuchmaier, Finance, Economic Development, and Regional Affairs.

Thank you, Mayor. Most of the items on the consent agenda today are what we approved at our last FedEx meeting. I have asked that we include a report from Economic Development on a monthly basis or quarterly basis, whatever would be appropriate, because it's Finance, Economic Development, Regional Affairs, and so bringing back in that Economic Development report portion of that committee I think would be really valuable at this time for all of our council to be involved in that. And then our next meeting will be September 22nd, five o'clock in Council Chambers. Thank you.

All right, thank you. Council Member Sefa Dawson for Lodging Tax Advisory Committee and Regional Committees.

Thank you, Mayor. We have a new person being appointed tonight to join the LTAC Committee. And that then makes our committee full. And this committee is a little bit different. For those of you who don't know, we have to have equal number of taxpayer or revenue generating and then same number of tax receivers or what is it called? Yeah. And so if there's one missing, then we have to make sure that is fulfilled before we can make any decisions because we have to have that equal balance. So now we have the balance. And our next meeting is going to be this Thursday at 2 o'clock. Regularly we meet

All right. Well, great. Thank you very much. All right. Now, time for the Council President Report.

Thank you. So AWC has some interesting stuff coming up. On August 17, they will have an online webinar on the 2027 legislative agenda. And they would like council members to attend and hear about the potential recommendations that AWC has for their legislative agenda. You do have to register online. And then on September 16th, they have another online class on parks and arts, and it sounds really interesting. It's on how you can create a thriving arts and cultural scene in welcoming parks in public spaces. Washington State Arts Commission will be participating in that. The senior commission ha

All right, thank you. Okay, and now it's time for the most important part of the meeting, our public comment period. You've got three minutes. Once it says green, yellow means you've got 30 seconds, red means please stop. Please let us know what town you live in. We don't need to know the address. Many of you put that information on here. And then everybody knows the rules in regard to decorum. Okay, with that, we've got JP Cameron.

Thanks, Bob. And thanks for the exhibition of art there. See you at the car show. Okay, next we've got Elna, L.A.? Okay, great. And then the next comment is by Jan Barber, so we'll have both up at the same time.

Thank you, Elna. Thank you, Jan. Actually, before the meeting, Before the meeting tonight, actually, I had a conversation with our parks director who also handles facilities, and we're working on a short-term solution, but knowing that this is a legislative issue as well, we could possibly add this to the legislative agenda. It'll certainly be on the agenda to discuss, and then we'll be working to find a good place for that. Okay, thank you. Okay, and now we've got Mr. Sean Damon Hagler.

Thank you, Mr. Hagler. And before you leave, we've got a Commander Buchanan.

We've got your phone or an email. We'll be in touch. Okay. Commander, I'll let you and I discuss, and maybe even the Chief, too. We'll talk after the meeting, and we'll make sure we follow up with Mr. Hagler. In fact, I'll set this aside. Thank you. Okay. Vitaly Pikotin.

All right, thank you. And thank you for the work you do in the Ukrainian community. And we had a great time with the kids. And thanks to Pam and Bill who helped make that happen as well. Okay, Paul McDaniel. Now, Paul, I've got you down here for three minutes and for five. Do you have five that are here present?

Thank you, Paul. With regard to those follow-ups, Brian, let's talk about how best to approach those personnel matters with regard to what public records are available. We'll treat this as a public records request. Mr. McDaniel, Paul, we'll treat this as a public records request, and then we'll be in contact about that, okay? All right, thank you. All right, Kevin Morris via Zoom. Kevin, can you hear us? Kevin, can you hear me?

All right. Thank you, Mr. Morris. All right. And this is a nonpartisan body. Okay. Mary Menard via Zoom. Hi, Mary. Can you hear us?

All right. Thank you. Okay, that concludes public comment. Thank you very much for all those who participated, and we very much appreciate your input and your passion for our community. Okay, now we're on to the consent agenda. These items have gone through committee, can be passed all at once, or after I read each one of them, I'll ask the, after I read all of them, I'll ask the council whether they would want an item pulled for separate consideration. all right so item five is consent agenda item a approve the minutes for the july 21 2026 city council special and regular meetings b approve t

I move approval of the consent agenda items A through I.

Second. Second. It's been a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? All right, matters pass unanimously. Item six, we've got the public hearing. Item A, public hearing, proposed residential parking code amendment for the city center core and city center frame zones. I will now open the public hearing at 7.58 p.m. I'll have Senior Planner Evan Lewis, who will provide the presentation for this item.

All right. Thanks, Evan. Council, any questions? Council Member Hamilton?

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for your work on this, and I understand that we have to. adopt these policies to match you know what state law has said and so and I understand that we're working right now on the residential uses but I will again once again and you've heard me say this before as we were working through this and getting caught up with what the bill says we need to do just to keep in mind the second part of that and how it's gonna gonna match up with the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act at the federal level. And I just wanna make sure that as a city, we're not

Okay, thank you. Do we have any public comment? Okay. All right, thank you, Evan. Councillor Walsh.

It's been a motion and a second to close the public hearing. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. Unanimously at 8.09 p.m. Okay, number seven, council business. Item A, appoint senior advisory commission position. Council President Honda.

Thank you. So today at 4.30, the council met and we interviewed, we had 12, I think 12 or 13 people that we interviewed for different commissions. And we interviewed two people for the senior advisory commission. So I would move to appoint Larry Bell. Muniz to position five for a term to begin immediately and expire August 31st, 2027. And Ian Anderson to position number seven for a term to begin September 1, 2026 and expire August 31st, 2029.

Been a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? All right. The appointments are unanimous. Thank you. Item B, appoint the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee position. Council Member Asafa-Dawson.

Thank you, Mayor. I move to appoint Harrington-Griffin to position number five for a term to begin immediately and expire October 31, 2027. Second.

I'm going to motion a second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The matter passes unanimously, or the appointment passes unanimously. Okay, Item C, appoint Planning Commission positions. Council Member Walsh.

I move to appoint the following. Anna Patrick to position number two for a term to begin October 1, 2026 and expire September 30, 2030. Vicky Chenoweth to position six for a term to begin October 1, 2026 and expire September 30, 2030. Is there a second?

Second. Second. Is there a motion to second? Is there any discussion?

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. We're going to do this as one vote, I would imagine, so we need to mention alternates in here. Oh, it didn't. It sounded like we were moving to a vote. Okay. We were.

Or we can do it as two motions because this first part will be.

All right. And furthermore, I move to appoint Gurmanjit Bassey to alternate position number two for a term to begin immediately and expire September 30, 2030, and Vitaly Pikhotin to alternate position number three for a term to begin immediately and expire September 30, 2028. All right.

Now is there a motion with respect to all of those?

Okay, that's the motion. And then is there a second? Second. It's been a motion and a second. Council President? All right. So there's been a motion and a second for...

uh the um the commissioners and the uh alternates um all those in favor i'm sorry i'm sorry council thank you do you have any discussion yes yeah uh mayor i'll be voting no on this because um we have a lot of extraordinary people that have applied that have uh experience that we could be using on this commission and as i indicated earlier that um you know we we need some new uh individuals serving as commission to offer new perspectives and outside-the-box thinking. And I know that we had a parent that applied to this commission, and it's too bad that he's not being considered. We had someone

any further discussion all right yeah I have a question yes so I thought we were going to discuss the other two positions position alternate position two and three when we last when we left earlier that's what we had said so did those two get more the most votes is that what happened or During the special meeting we had a discussion a motion needed to be made so that we could continue on the discussion so if you'd like to discuss you're certainly welcome to My question is I thought we were gonna discuss this further and then we didn't mention position 7 at all so we're waiting I think we shoul

Do we need to say something about position seven?

Okay. All right. So, Council Member Savadas.

No, I, yeah, I'm asking because I know we all voted differently and I really didn't know where it went, so I thought that we were going to have that discussion here to either vote or... determine who the other two are because I did not know so my question again is did these two names get more votes is that what happened it's a question I'm asking for clarification

OK. All right. So does this relate primarily to the alternates?

Yeah, I was just asking a question. I know we were going to discuss it here, and I'm still asking for clarity, for clarification. Okay, good. Did those two people that you just mentioned get more votes?

There's got to be. In the previous discussion in our special meeting, was discussed but there was no actual voting there that was just we were trying to arrive at a consensus and so and we didn't arrive at a consensus then and so now is the time to discuss it if we're going to discuss it okay councilmember moore

So I think what Councilmember Safedat is saying is that some of us were under the belief or assumption that we would come here talking about the alternate positions, plain and simple. But Chair, you mentioned those two names. So I think Councilmember Safedat is saying, how did you come up with those two names when we were expecting to come to this meeting to openly talk about it?

He's made the motion to nominate them, and then it'll be up to this body, and it's subject to amendment and subject to change. So those two names have been put forward, and then in this parliamentary process, we can explore the will of the majority. Council Member Sessoms?

Yeah, this whole process is very confusing to me. I'm not sure what happened yesterday.

Right. There's been a motion. And, Council President?

So during the earlier discussion when we were trying to come to a consensus, there was not a consensus on the alternate positions. And this is the point of which a motion needed to be made. There needed to be a second for the discussion to occur, just like with any motion. So definitely, this is your opportunity.

One second. Heather, can you please state the names of the two proposed, the two named alternates that have been named in the motion?

Yeah, so I move to amend the motion to appoint for position number three alternate Mike Bollock Ziegler and for alternate number two Joseph thank you thank you madam president Joseph Santana thank you okay there's been a motion is there a second on that motion second

Council Member Sefardowsky has seconded it. The motion made by Council Member Moore is to replace the two previous named individuals with Joseph Santana for position number two and Mr. Ziegler for position number three. There's been a motion and a second. Is there any discussion on that amendment? Council President?

We asked during the meeting of the attorney if we could add more alternates. Did we decide if we could do that or not?

Thank you. Okay, is there any further discussion?

Yeah. Council Member Moore? Thank you, Mayor. You know, the reason why I make this, and this is, You know, this is a difficult choice because there is a lot of good people in here. But for me, the reason why I'm making this amendment to this motion is we're bringing two perspectives that I think are critical to this commission. Joseph brings a public health perspective and a lot of experience when it comes to working with groups, communicating with groups, communicating with community. And I think that is a much needed aspect to this commission. We've all heard that communication is a thing. A

All right. Thank you. Councillor Cushma, your light is on. Did you want to speak? Okay. Councillor Walsh. Yeah.

I would just like to comment that I want to commend all of those who applied for the position. We had some very frequently with commission appointments. We're appointing whoever applies. And right now, we have a good problem to have. We've had more applicants than what we've had positions. And that's a good problem to have. And there's a number of those applicants that I think would do very, very well. And so I would like to emphasize that those who we are not appointing, To stay involved, apply in the future for other commissions, and stay involved with the city because that is good. Okay.

All right. I don't hearing, not seeing any other lights on. That concludes discussion on the issue. There's been a motion to amend the main motion to replace the two previous name alternates to on position number two, Joseph Santana, position number three, Mr. Ziegler. All right. All those in favor of the amendment, say aye.

Now for the main, going back to the original motion, all those in favor of those previously stated?

Thank you, everybody. Item 8, Ordinances. First reading, Council Bill 943, Ordinance, Residential Parking Code Amendment, for the city center core and city center frame zones. Our senior planner, Evan Lewis, presented previously during the public hearing, and then there were no public comments at that time. Would the city clerk please read the ordinance title?

I move to forward the proposed ordinance to the September 1, 2026 council meeting for a second reading and enactment.

Second. It's been a motion. Second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? The matter passes unanimously. All right. On to item B, first reading, Council Bill 933, Ordinance Condemnation for Pacific Highway Non-Motorized Corridor, 16th Avenue South, South 308th Street to South 288th Street Project. We'll have Civil Engineer John Cole represent this item.

Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Have we received any public comment and no one here said, uh, indicated a desire. Okay. Oh, council president.

Where does the trail begin and where will it end with this is all settled.

Are both those phases, are all the phases funded?

And would you anticipate that it will be completed?

Phase one, two, and three. When will that be?

All right, thank you. Good question. All right, would the city clerk, anyone else? Okay. Would the City Clerk please read the ordinance title?

All right. Council Member Walsh, do you have a motion?

I move to forward the proposed ordinance to the September 1, 2026 Council meeting for second reading and enactment.

Second. It's been a motion. A second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Better pass unanimously. All right. Thank you very much, John. All right. Item C, first reading, Council Bill 944, Ordinance Rough Grading Code. Our Community Development Director, Keith Niven, will present this item.

All right. Would the city clerk please read the ordinance title?

I move to forward the proposed ordinance to the September 1, 2026 council meeting for second reading and enactment. Second.

It's been a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? Matter passed unanimously. I heard you. Thank you. Okay, item D, first reading, council bill 945, ordinance, sign code amendment. Keith Niven, our community development director, will again present this item.

Best graphic I've ever seen, the city presentation.

Council President, do you have a question?

I have just a thank you. Thank you for you or whoever went out and took pictures of the signs that I asked for more information on. Of course. It helped me understand more and know where we sit as a city, so thank you very much. I appreciate that.

Yep. Great. Thank you. Council Member Sessoms?

Yeah. So are inflatables on top of buildings considered?

I think what he may be referring to is, you want to say what it is?

It could walk over to Paris again. Because you usually see those, the ones that kind of wave around.

Well, the feather signs are like the sort of boat. What I think she's talking to is the ones that inflate. that kind of come up those are not feather it's like there's a like a deal it's like a person yeah and then they yeah like a gorilla or something like that no that's if it moves in the wind it's technically a feather sign even though no there's a there's a wind blower it's like a like a vertical tube that the air comes out of it and it falls down it's got little arms and then the air comes in and it stands up. It goes up and up and up and down. Yes. You know what I'm talking about?

Mayor and Keith, you're not allowed to retire. Exactly. And the record, hopefully Heather captures that. But appreciate the work that you do and the way you go about it and all that you do. I do hope, I mean... I do want to be business-friendly, obviously, and obviously it's been mentioned tonight about the Chick-fil-A's cow. I consider that to be art. But I hope there's a way that we can kind of, the mayor's office, you guys can kind of work together to make it a win-win situation on that. Because it is great marketing, absolutely. You know, my...

My practice on this is to let the professionals always make the determination. I almost never get involved in an interpretation.

I'm just hoping that because I'm hoping there's a way to work with them. That's all I'm trying to say.

Oh, I was just going to joke. You can have the cow go over to visit the bear on the way to Paris.

Right. Exactly. That's right. What she said. What's that? Oh, Melissa. Yes. Oh, you're welcome. Oh, let me talk again.

Well, thank you, Keith, for all the work that you did, especially going around taking pictures. I don't know who did that, but that was great. And my big concern, as you remember, was the hospital signage. I wanted to make sure that if they were ever to have to replace that signage, that it fit within our sign code. because I knew of an issue in another city where that was the case and all of a sudden they were like oh we can't replace the sign because you know the new sign wouldn't work but I'm so thank you for that and I look forward to figuring out what your interpretation is of the cow or

Kent had a big gorilla for a long time. Yeah, they did. Yeah. Really tall. All right. That's all I'm going to say about that. All right. Let's see here. Any other comments for Keith? All right. Did we receive any public comment? Okay. No public comment. Would the city clerk please read the ordinance title?

All right. Council Member Walsh. Before making the motion, I'll just say that if you're concerned if it wasn't secured right, the cow might jump over the moon.

All right. Wow. And with that said, I move to forward the proposed ordinance to the September 1, 2026 council meeting for second reading and enactment.

Second. It's been a motion. A second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? All right. Matter passed unanimously. All right. Thank you, Keith. Item E, second reading and enactment, Council Bill 942, Ordinance, Solid Waste and Recycling Amendment. Would the city clerk please read the ordinance title?

And Council Member Walsh? I move approval of the proposed ordinance.

Second. It's been a motion to second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. All right. So now we're on to council reports. It's the one and only meeting of the month. Councilmember Sefid-Awson.

that into you okay I'll go thank you mayor I don't have much to report on I did attend I did I attended the Federal Way pride national night out and community festival the Federal Way pride and community festival there were great events and But I wish they were not so close together because we need community events like that and bringing our communities together. So I think when we plan this in the future, it would be great if they were spread out a little bit. I think that would bring us together at a different time. And I know we didn't plan it, of course, and maybe having that conversation

Exactly. Goodness sake. Wow. I just can't miss it. It's great art. I just wanted to take the time to say thank you to, oh, I just forgot their names. Janice? No, Janet. Thank you. Thank you. Jan Barber and her friend. I forgot her friend's name. And her friend, who is a lioness, that came and spoke about the Sharps. I'm pleased to hear that, Mayor, you're working on something and that, Council President, you've been in communication with both of them. I have talked to Jan as well. and i think many people use sharps for different different reasons myself being one of them and so i think this is

Mayor, can I add one thing? Yeah. When we were talking about sharps, I have a young lady living with me who's diabetic. So I took her sharps. I couldn't take it anywhere here in Federal Way, so I went to Angle Lake. Angle Lake? Bow Lake. Bow Lake, okay, that one. And I paid $42 to dispose of the needles that I had with me. They didn't even weigh anything. They just said $42 for one trip. So I just wanted to add that to the conversation when you're proposing whatever, you know.

Thank you, Mayor. And I have a few things to report on. And thank you for everyone who brought public comment. And I just want to touch real quick on the flock cameras as well. Obviously, I've stated my support for them in the past. But there is some talk around the nation even and about the constitutionality issues. And I imagine at some point, the courts are going to rule on that I think maybe they're waiting for a case with legal standing I'm not sure but but I imagine it will work itself out in the courts so I look forward to hearing more about that in the future a couple of events that I

Great. Thank you very much. Okay, Council Member Walsh.

Yeah, I was actually out of town for nine days and missed a lot of the great events. The fusion gala is one of my favorites. I'm a big fan. proponent of fusion. I think it's one of the very best non-profits in the area. I also miss the community festival and other events. I was there for the salmon bake. I think that the salmon bake is one of the great events in Federal Way that truly brings people together from all political persuasions, from everything, and it's a great gathering place and one of the great events that creates community here in Federal Way. And I want to hats off to the Qanta

Very good. Thank you. Council member Sessoms.

Right So shout out to the Kiwanis Club my colleagues here for being Kiwanis members My wife and I enjoyed The salmon bake, it had been many years since we had been to Steel Lake. It was our first time at the salmon bake. We really, really enjoyed it. I got to get that name of the seasoning from you. We walked up and paid for two tickets and really enjoyed the event. On the 25th of July, went to the Honoring Our First Responders event and met some really, really nice people. For those of you who don't know, it was sponsored by the Federal Way Rotary Club. I would encourage you all to take a loo

Well, thank you. It's immediately following the meeting. I'll talk to the deputy chief, uh, acting chief Sumter. And I've, I've pulled out the, uh, uh, the comment sheet for that. We'll follow up with him. Thank you, Mary. All right. Thank you. What's that? Yes. Um, that's remember coach Mark.

Well, I'm going to say thank you first. And then I'm going to tell a quick little story. I know you like stories. So I want to say thank you to one of the ladies in our audience, Dara Mandeville, who, when Walmart fell through for Night Out, National Night Out, that she had the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts come to Masonic Lodge, where her husband is a member, and then put on the event that Council Member Moore attended. And I was there as well. And it was a very good event. And so thank you, Dara, for that. rescuing them at the last minute. So of all of the events we're talking about, they're wo

Very good. Thank you very much. All right, Council President Honda.

Thank you. So I want to start with some thank yous. I'd like to thank the people who organized the Pride event and the community festival. Those were great events. I too was there at the Pride event at noon, in the rain and the wind, and it was very cold and windy. So I didn't stay very long. But I would like to thank the people who organized those events. I'd like to thank the people who applied for our commissions tonight. It's good to have, well, this would sound odd, but we usually don't have enough people to fill commissions. So having more people than we had spots for can be a good thing

All right. Thank you, everybody, for being here. Thank you for the public comment. Thank you to the staff. Thank you to my colleagues. Great meeting. We are adjourned.