City Council - Regular Meeting

H good evening and welcome to the city council meeting for North Bend for April 21st, 2026. Will the clerk please call role? Mayor Prom Arrow Tremolada here. Council member Brendan Elwood present. Council member Mark Joselyn present. Council member Heather Coen here. Council member Rob McFarland here. Council member Christina Rustic present. Council member Susan Toruson here. All are present, your honor.

Fantastic. Thank you so much. Will the clerk please um um do the flag salute tonight if you don't mind? Hereby to the republic nation indivisible with liberty and justice for

Okay. Well, excellent. Good evening everybody and welcome. Um before we get moving on to Mr. Tremollet, I'll go to you in a second. We're going to have a slight change to tonight's agenda and add an exec session per RCW42.30. 30.14B and that'll last uh with no decision made for five minutes. Um so Mr. Tremolada, Mayor Prom, will you please make the motion to approve tonight's agenda? Yeah. Motion to approve the agenda as written for April 21st, 2026. Second. Thank you. Uh thank you. Motion by Mr. Tremolada. Thank you Mr. Joson for your second. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? I was going to ask say I think we supposed to say as amended because we added something to it. Wasn't that supposed to be not just as written but as amended? Yep. Correct. That's correct. Okay. So, that didn't happen. So, I just want to point that out. But yes, I we'll take note of that in the record. Thank you very much, Susan. Um, okay. Moving on to consent agenda. But before we do, council, uh, does anyone wish to pull an item off consent and for debate? Seeing none, let's move on to audience participation. Your honor, of approval of the consent agenda as presented. Uh, can I have a second? Second.

Okay, we're gonna toss for that one. Motion by Mr. Johnson, second by Mr. McFarland. Thank you very much. Audience part audience participation. If there's anyone wishing to speak on an item on Should we vote? I'm having too much fun. Okay. Um, let's play vote on the consent agenda. We're going to vote on the consent agenda. Thank you all so much. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much. And now the long- aaited audience participation section. Obviously, I want to hear from everybody out there. And um if there is anyone who wants to speak uh on an agenda item or some item that's not on the agenda, you're welcome to come to the podium at this time. Please state your name and uh uh spell your name for the record or for the clerk, excuse me. And uh you have three minutes to speak. Is there anyone out there? Anybody online? No tonight, your honor.

Okay, we're quiet. I waited for almost like basically nothing. Okay. Announcements, presentations, and appointments. We have a presentation um 2027 2028 bannual budget planning calendar. Mr. Chaw, can you please let us know inform us all and thank you so much.

Thank you, Mayor. For the record, Martin Shaw, finance director. Uh this is agenda item number five, a presentation of the 2728 BU budget calendar. My apologies. Let me try to reshare the uh screen again. Oh, I'm having technical difficulties. Mayor, I'll just go ahead and just start. Uh, this is included in on page 15 of your agenda packet. Uh, what I'm reviewing for you is the uh 27 through 2032 uh budget calendar. Uh for the listening audience, um state law authorizes cities to that operate on a annual or bal budget. Um and the city of Northbend operates on the benal budget, which means for the 2526 budget, we are operating under the bal budget. It runs from January 1st, 2025 through December 31st, 2026. Uh we're in the last year of the 2526 benium which means we're starting to plan for the 27 through 28 bal budget. Uh tonight what I wish to do is to overview uh with you the uh budget development calendar and key milestones for council. Um again the materials here and include in your packet on page um on page 16. I have just an overview and a refresher for you council as to the um as to the management of the city's uh budget. We manage our budget through uh 29 different funds. Um each fund is

balanced with uh sources equal to uses. Um and for the uh 2728 budget, we plan to prepare the spending authority uh over the next uh 24 months uh for each fund. There is a midbal uh budget review that's authorized and that would occur in November of 2026. Um in terms of budget milestones, this is on slide 17. Council um there are several key dates for you. I have these colorcoded. Uh obviously the first three months of the year has um gone by already. We've had our council retreat on February 10th. Uh and staff has started the um the budget planning process. Uh we started that in March. Uh we have the mayor's state of the city address coming up on April 29th, which is uh next week. Um followed by uh her reviewing the uh department's budget requests uh that occurs uh between June and July. And uh the mayor will finalize her uh budget and then present the preliminary budget uh targeting for September 1st. In terms of council touch points which are listed in blue, uh we have a work study uh scheduled for May 26. Um that will include an economic update, a review of policies and priorities and then a second work study on June 23rd uh at which time we will review uh revenues, expenses, and a preliminary financial forecast uh for uh for the city. Following the mayor's um presentation of the preliminary budget, um we launch into the council's review and this includes two uh public hearings as required under RCW. Uh the first one will occur on September 1st uh which will include property taxes and revenues and then the second one would be a review of the of the mayor's preliminary budget on October uh 6.

Uh we also have uh several council budget workshops scheduled for September 22nd, October 13th, and October 27th. And um uh we have um adoption of the 2027 property tax ordinance scheduled for October 20th. Um and then in um in November either on the uh 3rd or the 17th um we have um planned uh uh council adoption of the omnibus budget ordinance as well as the CIP budget. Um again in um in November prior to the Thanksgiving holiday and then once all that occurs then in January of next year uh we turn our attention to publishing a final adopted budget book. Um it's our intent uh council. This is on um the last slide or u page 18 of your um materials uh to secure the distinguished budget presentation award uh for the 2728 budget. As you recall, we were able to uh secure that award for the 2526 uh budget. And that concludes my remarks. Um any questions? I'll be happy to answer.

Thank you very much, Mr. Cha. As always, uh, council, do you have any clarifying questions for Mr. Chop? Seeing none, I Oh, sorry. Yep.

A little late. Um, Martin, I first off, um, commend particularly the budget work studies that I'm seeing there. That's great. I noted that, uh, the first one is talking about policies and priorities. I think that's also very good that we should start off by talking about policies. Council members, I know I've mentioned in a couple committee meetings, policy ideas that interest me and perhaps um the administration could kind of put a running list together that we could all see of things that we're wanting to be sure that we're talking about ahead of time. So, that's that's one comment question for you. Uh, and then I'm was curious, mayor, are you're addressing the budget in your discussion with the city uh in April. Are there particular but I'm not sure why that's pertinent to the budget presentation. I just wonder

verification on that. Are you talking about the state of the city versus September's budget? I I just was curious since it's not to council. It's just to um talk through it's a very short piece in the state of the city for fiscal stability and what we're looking at. It's nothing to do with the planning for the next budget. It's what we're currently doing. Great. Thank you.

Thank you again. Uh let's move on to commission and committee reports. Uh let's start with community and economic development. Council member and chair Toruson, please. Well, we just had our meeting. Here we go. Um, we had I'm getting this closer to me. So, today at 4 p.m. we had the community and economic development um committee meeting. Um, we had a lengthy amount of items on our agenda and we took two items off and we still were over by 35 minutes. So, um, we had a lot to talk about. Uh first we talked about the uh an annexation um petition by a local property and um yeah property owner. Um that was a lengthy 45minute conversation. Um lots of good information. Then we discussed the Northbend Downtown Foundation funding um and the contract that ended last year and we talked about um potential things going forward. um we agreed that we wanted to figure out how to do some sort of patchwork for that and then in the fall we would discuss something um a little bit longer and a little bit more detail but we seem to be kind of in a little rush right now. We need to figure out how to fund them as we don't have a contract in place. Uh and then um after that that was another long conversation. Um we spent a few minutes to talk about uh other three items which was the Northbin municipal code um for permitting time frame amendments which matches what the state requires and um the purpose of it is to reduce the time frame and we're hoping that and the staff is hoping they can do whatever they can to make that happen. Um, also, uh, we discussed, uh, two more, um, grant grants that are

coming in and those will be on the May 5th council agenda. And so, it's always exciting when we have grant money to help out our, uh, local city. And, um, that's it. Fantastic. Thank you so much. Uh, Miss Rustic, finance administration, please. Thank you. So, uh, finance and administration committee met on, uh, April 7th at 2:30. Um, on the agenda was the discussion about the Northbend Downtown Foundation, similar in nature to what was just shared by Council Member Toreson. Um, we also had a conversation about what the item that's on the agenda tonight, uh, agreement with the Bosch for security upgrades to City Hall annex. Um, we also discussed also on the agenda for tonight the 202526 budget amendment number five. And then um we did have such a lengthy discussion that we did run out of time but um audit status updates include the completion of the 2023 um audit and I know council we all received the report and then the in progress is the 2024 um state audit. So, and that was that was it. We ran out of time. So,

thank you. Thank you so much. Public health and safety chair Elwood.

Thank you, your honor. Public health and safety committee met April 7th at 400 PM here in city hall. We had uh several items on the docket. There was a fire update and police services update uh which is always fantastic. So, if anybody member of the public is interested in hearing what's going on, you can tune in to our public health and safety committee uh meetings. Um we also had a discussion with uh Chief Hall regarding North Ben's uh policy, policing policy, and participation with ICE. Um we've talked about it a few times at regular council meetings. Um so, there's great information out there on on that. And then uh we talked about uh trying to get Miss Emry is trying to get fishing from us actually for our public health and safety work plan. Uh she's doing a great job beating it out of our heads, but hopefully we've got one started and we'll we'll be hitting the the ground running here soon. And then also future agenda topics, walk-ons, and so forth. Our next meeting will be May 5th at 4 p.m. in the city hall adjournment room. Thank you.

Wonderful. Thank you so much. Uh, TPW, Transportation Public Works. Uh, Chair Coen.

Yes. We last met on March 24th at 3:00 in the meeting room, the adjournment room. The first order of business was we had a monthly update on Metobrook sewer Ulid project. We next had a monthly update on number four, SR202, the shared use trail project. We had we talked about a resolution approving a project close out for bridge 1135-3 and 1135-4 deck repair project. Uh we had talked about a resolution approving a project closeout for the wastewater treatment plant fence project which is on our agenda tonight. We talked about resolution approving project closeout for scattera upgrades project. It's a housekeeping project. We talked about review park and main intersection improvement project designs as requested in the March TP TPW meeting. Um we discussed on prioritization of complete streets phase one and the starfish roundabout projects. We talk about a lot of things. We talked about our first review of city's 2027 2032 six-year transportation improvement plan. It's better known as the tip. So that is it. Our next meeting will be April 28th in the adjournment room at 3:00 which is our new time. Thank you very much, Mayor Prom. Council member Trevolada.

Uh we've had a city council works study on March 24th. Uh few different topics discussed. We had a update on project 34. Um which is quite exciting and seeming to come to fruition slowly but surely. Um a lot of players involved. Um looks like we'll have quite a bit more information as the year goes on. if not sooner than later. Uh we additionally then sparked the original conversation I think from about the Northbend downtown Foundation contract. Um I think the takeaway there is there's likely another work study ahead um more conversation with this council about um how we figure this out um and the best use of funds and um the strategy going forward. We also had a review of the criminal justice sales tax option um that is uh being considered by many cities right now as well as us.

Thank you so much. East side fire and rescue council member Rustik you fire and rescue met on April 9th at 4 o'clock. Uh there was a

there was a retirement uh for deputy chief Greg Karat and a promotion of deputy chief Jeremy Hicks. Um we did a review of uh the staff report which and uh that gets shared at uh public health and safety so I won't go into that. Um the key element for the meeting was to talk about uh for East Side Fire and Rescue long-term um financing options. And there was a lengthy presentation by the East Side Fire and Rescue attorney. And I handed out to each of you kind of a one-page summary because I thought it was a good visual to uh kind of give you an FYI on some of the conversations that are going on. the current uh structure for East Side Fire and Rescue is is an ILA. So, that's the first column. Uh some of the things they're looking at though, and it's um it's it is not dependent on whether or not the city of Northbend uh enters into an RFA with District 38. Um we can I just wanted you to know they're looking at forming a potentially a larger RFA across uh multiple uh cities. So, kind of gives a side-by-side comparison. So, again, this does not impact Northbend's ability to have a conversation with District 38 about entering into an RFA, but I just wanted everybody to be aware that East Side Fire and Rescue is is considering an option to form a larger RFA. So, and you can kind of see at the bottom what the requirements are for voter approval of each of those options. Um, I was given an update today by um, city manager that the uh, district 38 did approve to send the city of Northbend a letter saying they're interested in uh, pursuing an RFA with Northbend. So, that concludes my update.

Thank you so much. Uh, Planning, Parks, and Economic Development Commission, James Henderson.

Yeah, good morning. Uh, good evening, mayor and council members. Uh, the planning commission met on March 18 and held a public hearing and provide a recommendation on amendments to the city's permitting time frames established in the Northbend Municipal Code 20.05 for consistency with state law. The plan commission did not meet in April. Uh the planning commission will next meet on May 6th and will review draft union lot subdivision regulations addressing requirements of recent state legislation to enable this simplified form of lot division for certain types of residential development including cottages, town homes, and accessory accessory dwelling units. Uh the park commission met on March 25 and discussed draft amendments to the park element, including prospective amendments to the park's capital facilities plans, comments received from the Snowqualami tribe, and amendments needed in consideration of an update to the park's impact fee rate study being performed by the city consultant Bowman. The parks commission will next meet tomorrow, April 22nd, and will continue review of the draft amendments to the parks element and discuss public feedback received uh from the bike survey and how that may inform potential bike related capital projects in the park's capital facilities plan. The parks commission will also discuss work to date for future ped pedestrian and bicycle wayfinding signage improvements. And finally, the economic development commission met on March 26 to review and discuss five common priorities that were developed jointly with the snowcom economic development commission. The five priorities included mountain town character, business and entrepreneurship, family friendly family-friendly communities, city beautifification, and affordable housing. To support the priority of business and entrepreneurship, the commission will kick off a 1 million cup project in North Bend beginning on May 13th at 10 a.m. at city hall. 1 Million Cups is a nationwide initiative of the Kaufman Foundation to support local businesses and entrepreneurs. Each Wednesday, communities across the US host a 1 million cups gathering to provide networking, problem solving, and best practice sharing among local

businesses. Future Northbend 1 Million Cups will take place on the second Wednesday of the month from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at city hall, and the commission will meet uh this coming Thursday, April 23rd. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Henderson. Moving on to regional committee reports anybody on council anything that they'd like to share. Mr. Johnson

sorry I missed you over there. Sorry. That's okay. It's

either one of us can go first. It doesn't matter. Um the I'm part of the regional law safety and justice committee and through SCA and we met on March 26. That's our first meeting of the year. Um we discussed um the election of a caucus chair um during our caucus time. We listened to um the King County presentation regarding gun violence prevention earlier in the morning and then um we talked about uh the future of topics that we're going to have. Um, and one of them actually I I've been asking for or advocating for was about um substance use um abuse and how can we um help out uh people. Um and I was able to get someone to be a speaker who her daughter had passed away from drug o drug use overdose of um fentanyl and so um she's going to potentially be one of the speakers. So super excited about that cuz she can give insight to King County on potentially how to improve things to make less issues um make things better for people in addicted state and have better avenues going forward. So excited about that and um then our next meeting is going to be this Thursday um at 7:30 a.m. and in 2 p.m.

Thank you so much Mr. Joslyn.

Uh thank you your honor. Um the Sound C city's association public issues committee met on April 8th uh in Reon at the city hall. The first topic was a review of the King County Transportation District who had met uh earlier in the month to consider imposing a onetenth of 1% sales tax across the county. The Sound City the Sound Cities Association had presented a letter to the transportation districts suggesting two things. city involvement and allocation of funds and that there be a pass through uh to the cities as 95% of the revenue generated from the sales tax would be coming from cities. Um the King County Transportation District essentially took three different votes at different pass through levels, 25, 20, and 12% I believe. And allegiances continued to shift such that there was never an affirmative 4 to3 vote in favor of any of those pass through amounts. Although during the process, I believe seven of the nine county members uh board members did at some point vote in favor of a pass through. Uh then the kind of a wrench was thrown in the works when it had been believed that or been been presented by the county that the board needed to take action such that uh the tax could be imposed by April 17th and revenues start coming in to avoid cuts later in the year. But the county executive's office uh dismissed that concern and no action was taken. It will be picked up again at the May meeting for conversation. It's expected that they'll come forward with a unified proposal. Uh and if any action is taken, collection would then start the beginning of 2027. There you go. Uh there was also an extended conversation

about 2027 proposed sewer rate increases. Uh the wastewater treatment division is proposing a 12.75% monthly sewer rate increase. Now the good news here is while we do have incurred significant indebtedness for our city with our own wastewater treatment plant, we do not pay sewer rates to the county and we are exempt from what looks like a rate schedule. The the language that was used was quite uh colorful, you know, insane and crazy and untenable and all sorts of things. Um but uh again thankfully and because of foresight by some people in this room we are not exposed uh to those increases. There was a summary presentation given by senior policy analyst for the Sun Cities Association AJ Fultz on uh the past legislative session what wins losses uh things that went well. Um, a repeated takeaway was the importance of cities engaging with their state representatives when they're not in session, when they're back at home to reach out, share priorities, let them understand better what's happening on the ground, how the decisions they make impact uh folks in their daily lives. Um, the next meeting of the Sound Cities Association will be held uh of the public issues committee will be held Thursday, May 13th. Then I've got another one which is the Pugesan Regional Council Executive Board uh which met uh Thursday, March 26th. Um there was a presentation by challenge Seattle uh which uh Christine Gregoire, former governor was there and presented and spoke uh to this about uh regional economic challenges of which there are

some uh I did earlier tonight share with all of council two presentations. the CH in Seattle presentation also a economic development study done on behalf of King County uh or I'm sorry the Peterson regional council that speaks to similar issues um former governor Gregoire suggested that uh or reached out for feedback. What's the biggest barrier to our region's economic competitiveness? Priority actions. What is the one thing our region could do to strengthen competitiveness and what would it take to get it done? and high impact partnerships. A challenge Seattle is primarily focused on building public private partnerships in support of regional uh economic growth. There was conversation along around uh signing on to a letter supporting funding for fairies that was relative to the state legislative session which is now wrapped. Uh and there was some additional funding although there were differences of opinion. Um and that's it. Uh the next Puget Assan regional council executive board meeting will be in two days on Thursday, April 23rd. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Anybody else have any comments, please? Okay, we'll move on to um main agenda. Item number six is a public hearing ordinance amending AMBMC chapter 18.06. Miss Burrell, I turn it over to you to inform council and thank you.

Okay. Thank you. So before you tonight, uh, as the mayor just described, are Northbend Municipal Code Chapter 1806 definitions and 1810 zoning districts, which were approved with the 2025 work plan. The amendments are intended to modernize and streamline zoning questions that we receive almost every day. So with the help of our summer intern last year, these changes uh clarified over half of our 270 land use definitions so that they align with our permitted, conditional, and prohibited uses table to reflect what we've heard from the community. Uh respond to recent state legislation and address various technical updates related to bulk and dimensional standards. The proposed amendments do not change any zoning designations and are consistent with the city's comprehensive plan. Key elements include updates to comply with Senate Bill 5509, which requires that cities allow child care facilities in all zones. A new provision implementing House Bill 1757, which permits up to 50% more residential density in existing buildings where multifamily housing is allowed. Consolidation of tattoo and body piercing studios and pet businesses into the existing personal services category by removing location specific or prohibition standards and additional minor updates to table 181040 which is bulk and dimensional and table 181050 which is performance standard to ensure consistency and clarity across the zoning code. The planning commission provided a recommendation of approval for these amendments September 15, 2025 and a public hearing is being held tonight due to the time that has passed

and the removal and addition of some amendments which I'll quickly go over. So due to council feedback following planning commission recommendation adjustments to the neighborhood mixed use the NMU zone to allow additional residential on the ground floor behind required commercial uh was removed. Additionally council did not support removal of the 10 unit cap per building for the multifamily in the IMU zone. So those two were removed. New amendments since the planning commission recommendation are clarification that town homes and town houses adhere to multifamily design standards an allowance for pet services as I mentioned under personal services uh which is different than kennels and are required to comply with provisions of King County code and allowance for convenience store retail and drive-through fast food in the EP zone. with performance standards specific to the Middlefork master plan development commercial area which were supported by the hearing examiner's recent decision as some of the potential future uses that we might see there. So, at this point, I will um uh be able to answer any questions you have. And also just note that this last went to uh CED committee on February 24th and they recommended full counsel.

Thank you. Thank you, Miss Burell. Any clarifying questions from council? Um let's go with Heather and then Chris. It's probably simple. What is the difference between a town home and a townhouse?

Yes, we said both because they're interchangeable really. Um, and the clarification was that uh they function as a single family um attached unit. So, usually they're it could be like a condo. A town home is vertical. So, a lot of times you share the sidewalls, but they're individually owned. Um, and our code was putting them in the bucket of of single family detached. So, they still appear like a multif family from the outside and function that way with parking and things, but town home, townhouse, same. Yep. Thank you. Um, M council member Rustic.

Uh, yes. Thank you. I have three questions. That's fine. Okay. Thank you. Uh, I'll start with the easy one. Um I noticed uh there was reading through all this there was cottage the word cottages was crossed out in some cases. Was the intent to uh re retitle what the cott what we've called cottages I believe. So it's a pretty thick document that we've been working on for quite a while. But um my assumption is they were either not caught before. So we changed our cottage to medium density residential.

Yeah. So, it was probably some of that um that was missed before and um yes, it's it's really a smaller single family home. That's probably what that was. Thank you. Uh my next question is, can you um with the um change of tattoo parlors and body piercing studios into personal services? What does that mean as far as a change? I mean, it's fine to reclassify it, but what does that actually look like then?

There were some performance standards um probably on page 56 of the 19 and 56 is where those show up um of the packet and it it did limit where you could put those. Um and so we I think we have two businesses in town now. Um probably demand's going to dictate where future ones go. And I guess um you know we felt like we wanted to get out of the business of regulating you know again people come to the counter can I have this use well you can have it here but not here and it didn't really make functional sense as to why it was so limited in a specific zone. So it just took out that performance standard essentially and just lumps it with um the personal services category.

Okay. I apologize because I did try to go to the reference pages and still was unclear. So, thank you for answering that. My last question is uh the last item that relates to uh drive-through fast food within the EP zone. Um understand collectively, is it possible with we don't have very much classified as EP, but can is it possible that a fast food restaurant could back up to residential homes? um zoning map here. Um something that would prohibit

there. Um no, not in that area. It's completely EP one and then surrounded by umund by streets and so no. Okay. Thank you. Wonderful. Any other clarifying questions for Miss Burrell? Seeing none. Okay. I'm going to do that. We're going to um gavvel our opening of our public hearing. Uh if anybody is wishing to speak on this item tonight, please come to the podium and state your name. Please spell your name for the clerk and you have three minutes to speak. And thank you. Welcome. Thank you.

Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Aaron Hemings and last name is spelled H E M I N G-S and I live here in beautiful North Bend. I wanted to start off by saying thank you. Thank you for your time and for your care and for the thought and especially to the planning teams for helping with all of these zoning updates. It really shows that you care about the future of Northbend and I'm just incredibly grateful to be part of this conversation in general. Um I'm here tonight not only to say thank you, but to let you know that I'm in the process of opening up a small business. It's called Bark at the Moon Valley. It's a dog daycare that has a retail space with it as well. And it's designed in a Pacific Northwest nature inspired theme. I feel that this reflects the community because it'll be calm, well-managed, and be a good neighbor in every sense. But I do want to clarify touching on something that Jamie said earlier. This is not a kennel. It's a daytime only care similar to child care. Dogs are dropped off in the morning. They have structured supervised environments and then they get picked up in the evening. It is calm, clean, and intentionally designed to be low impact and communityfriendly. That's why I'm encouraged to see these updates recognizing pet care as personal services because at its core, that's exactly what it is. We're going giving back a service that supports local families and fits in naturally to a commercial setting. And a place like Northbend where so many people come to visit, hike, ski, and snowshoe and explore, it creates an opportunity for visitors and residents alike to know that their dogs are safely cared for while they enjoy everything that this area has to offer. They can spend more time supporting local shops, restaurants, and other places before heading home. When I moved here, I

couldn't find a place for my own four dogs. Yeah, I've got a lot of dots. But I couldn't find anywhere that felt safe and warm and aligned with the level of care that I was looking for. I knew I couldn't be the only one. So, as Northbend grows, my goal is to create something that truly supports local families and reflects the care and the character of the community. I'm incredibly grateful and humbled for the opportunity to do that in Northbend. If anybody would like to know more, I'm happy to connect or you can look us up at barktheon valley.com. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Anybody else wish to speak? Anybody online tonight? Phil,

not tonight, your honor. Thank you so much. Okay. Going forward, I believe this came through. Uh, let's see. CED. Mr. Torus. Uh, yes. Um, motion to approve AB2. I forgot to You need to close the public hearing. Excuse me. Pardon me. Closing the public hearing. Thank you, Amber. Now you can proceed. Excuse me. Okay, I'll start again. Y um motion to approve AB26-034, an ordinance amending Northbend Municipal Code Chapter 18.06 definitions and Northbend Municipal Code Chapter 18.10 zoning districts as a first and final reading. Second.

Okay, thank you. Motion by Miss Torus and second by Mr. Elwood. All in favor, would you like to speak anything? Sorry. Would you like to comment? Um, this is, uh, basically cleanup work. Um, a lot of work went into it. It wasn't just a little bit of work, but, um, it's definitely needed to be done. And, um, so yeah, I'm going to vote for this. Fantastic. Mr. Elwood, would you like to come? I'm really happy, your honor, that um, it did go through rounds of discussions and debate on the committee, which is why it's here, obviously. So, I'm looking forward to hearing the discussion from the rest of you. Thank you. Terrific. Anybody else on council wish to comment?

No. Good. Okay. Thank you. All right. So, motion to approve AB26-034, an ordinance amending Northbend Municipal Code Chapter 18 uh 06 definitions and the Northbend Municipal Code Chapter 18.10 zoning districts as a first and final reading. All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Thank Thank you all. It's passed unanimously. Point of order or clarification. Your honor, did you ask for any discussion after we seconded or did you only ask for Okay, I just want to make sure that I understood. Thank you.

No, that's correct. Okay. So, that was uh motion passed unanimously. Thank you so much. Kendra, would you like to I in case it was helpful, Mayor. Yes, you did open the floor after the second on the motion for council comments and that would be the time for discussion and debate as well before the vote. Okay. Well, we'll backtrack a little bit. I can't wait. I don't think we can do that now. No, you did. There is no need to. Oh, good. Okay. Good. Good.

Good. Yay. Okay. Um, that passed again unanimously. We're going to move on to item number 7 AB26-035. Also public hearing resolution adopting the six-year TIP 2027 to 2032. Uh Mr. Moore looking towards you to inform us tonight. And thank you.

Thank you, mayor and council. Uh every year is required by Washington state law. The city must develop and adopt a six-year transportation improvement plan, including a public hearing. This program lays out plan uh out a plan for improving and maintaining the city's transportation system. On page 151 of the packet, you'll see the tip table showing all the projects and the projects highlighted in yellow are the ones that are actively being designed by staff and consultants. Uh following the tib table in the packet, you'll find the narrative sheet which gives project descriptions and then a map uh with all the project locations as well. Uh there are several benefits derived from the annual update and adoption of the transportation improvement plan including uh the tip as a management tool for city council and city staff. It provides valuable information to committees, commissions, citizens, developers, and businesses interested in the development of the city. It assists in leveraging available resources through improved timing of projects, improve coordination of city projects with those of private and other public entities. It helps to uh protect the city's current infrastructure and to plan for new infrastructure. And lastly, uh many grant uh sources require that projects be adopted in the city's TIP prior to turning in applications for those grant sources. Um significant changes from last year's TIP to this year's TIP. Uh we removed all the projects that are planned for construction this year as it's a forward-looking document. Uh, we moved project T067, the complete street segment 4, which is the segment of Northbend Way from the entrance to Toruson Park to the roundabout at 436th Avenue. Uh, we moved that up the priority list. Uh, we added project T073, the Ballerat Avenue South Roadway and Parking Improvements Project. That's the section of Beret off of Park Street on the east side, that short section on the east side of Taylor Park. uh that project that design's uh 100 com 100%

complete at this point. Uh we added the Beret Plaza project and we added the 2027 sidewalk gaps project. Other than that uh the tip uh remains largely unchanged. Uh the transportation and public works committee reviewed this item on the on the March 24th 26 uh uh committee meeting and uh recommended approval on the to the main agenda for discussion as you see it now. Uh we've only received comments uh from the tribe at this point. We received comments this morning. This morning we forwarded those to uh uh council uh this morning as well. Uh and before the six year tip is adopted by city council which is scheduled for the May 19th meeting. Uh public hearing will be open tonight and remain open until that May 19th meeting. Uh with that I'm happy to answer any questions council may have.

Thank you Mr. Moore. Any clarifying questions for Mr. Moore? Council. Seeing none, we will go forward and open up the public hearing. And if there's anybody in uh chambers or online tonight who'd wish to speak to this item, please come to the podium first. We'll take chambers. Anybody? Anybody online? Not tonight. You're on. Great. We're going to leave this uh public hearing open. Um let's see. It came through TPW. Miss Colen, please make the motion.

Yes. Motion to approve AB26-035, a resolution adopting the six-year transportation improvement plan 2027 through 2032 as a first reading and continue the public hearing until May 19th, 2026 city council meeting. Thank you very much. Second. Okay. Um motion by Miss Cole and second by Mr. McFarland, thank you much. Like to speak to your motion at all?

This is a regular thing that we do. It helps our staff put things in order of what needs to be done, how to budget our money for these projects and how what we deem most important. Um, I would like to add I did read the letter from the tribe this morning and I think we should communicate with them on some of their concerns. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. McFarland. Would you care to add anything? Thank you, Mayor. Um,

yes, I also read that letter. I'm sure each council member, if they've seen it, will certainly take it into consideration uh and invite more feedback. Uh as a member of the committee, I just want to remind council members who are not um if you have um anything there that you want to give feedback, the committee will be meeting again before um the next hearing on this and so would invite that feedback. Thank you.

Thank you, Rob. That was great. Yes, you sir can. Thank you. Uh yes, also as a member of TPW, um you know, we take a look at these. It's always difficult to prioritize what's the most critical, but we take into consideration public safety, um um in our in our conversations and then, you know, just what what elements are in need of repair. Um so please as as was mentioned the tribe has commented but if anybody else has any comments we welcome them um for anything that we haven't considered in this that's all I had. Thank you. Wonderful. Any other comments? Mr. Tremolada.

Yeah I'll just comment um as I think infrastructure is probably my most um interested and important factor of being a council member. I although we have them marked on here as significant changes, I think we should underscore um the work from TPW to to bring up a couple items in a priority list, both Complete Streets and the Balorat Avenue. I think um that really shows a change in scope for council to look at investing in the downtown corridor directly through the way that we best can, which is infrastructure. Um and we just heard from an individual that wants to invest in a small business in this town. I think those are the things that we can do and the levers we can pull to make those realities come to fruition quicker, support them as they do open their businesses by adding parking, adding better accessibility. So, um, just I applaud the group. I think that's good work. I I just look for us to do more of that where we can and um I I'm happy with the changes and look forward to kind of pushing this forward.

Great. Anybody else I might have forgotten? Mr. Joson?

Uh, just a couple things, your honor. I did there is this important column on the tip list which is federal dollars that are leveraged in putting in place this infrastructure which on the list before us tonight is almost $50 million. Uh and again I just want to acknowledge staff that doesn't happen without the engagement of staff, their hard work and efforts uh their forward thinkingness and in fact you know having in place a six-year transportation improvement plan. All of that facilitates um bringing additional dollars into town that isn't coming out of the pockets of folks who live here at least directly. Um, I want to uh thank Congress uh council member Coen for pointing out and and council member McFarland as well the tribe reaching out. It's very important. It's a it's a good letter. It's well thought out and and one of the primary asks in there is reach out early and often as I know staff is aware. the sooner you engage, the more support and the more influence that is provided to ending up with a win for everybody as much as possible at the end of the day as these things uh move forward. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Did I forget anybody else? No. Okay. Motion to approve AB26-035, a resolution adopting the six-year transportation improvement plan 2027 to 2032 as a first reading and continuing the public hearing until the May 19th, 2026 city council meeting. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you one and all. Um, moving on to item number eight, AB26-036. Motion authorizing contract with Bosch Building Technology. Mr. Chaw, we look to you again. Thanks.

Great. Uh, thank you, Mayor. Again, for the record, Martin Shaw, finance director. Council, this is agenda item number 8, AB2636. This is a motion authorizing a contract with Bosch Building Technologies. Uh by way of background, the federal criminal justice information services um section establishes security standards for securing uh personal information uh related to uh um the criminal justice system. Uh this covers the access storage as well as transmitt of sensitive information uh at the city hall annex which is where the King County Sheriff's Office will be held uh will be housed. Uh the motion here is to authorize an agreement with Bosch Building Technologies to make security improvements uh to the city hall annex. Uh this item was approved uh was reviewed by the FNA committee on April 7th uh with the recommendation for approval by full council. Um in terms of the investments that's being proposed um first is uh tenant improvements for nobleis construction. This was approved uh prior under AB26017 um at a cost of 47,252. Um again, these were uh interior tenant improvements to the city hall annex as you recall. Um in addition, the King County uh information tech uh technology division uh has installed highspeed internet wiring for the city hall annex at a cost of um $20,000. And then lastly for this item uh would be the sieges u mandated security improvements at a cost of uh not to exceed uh $80,000 of which um the King County Sheriff's Office will contribute uh 10,000. So in total uh the overall investments for the city hall annex uh uh King County is contributing a total

of 30,000 and the city is contributing uh between the nobleis uh tenant improvements as well as the uh sieges security improvements a total of 127 uh 252. Um be aware council that we did negotiate um aggressively with King County uh the uh costs. Uh we were able to bring down the uh CEUS costs slightly uh by pushing back on some on the um on the on the recommended improvements to make sure that they were limited to only those improvements that met CUS requirements. Uh that concludes my remarks. Uh I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

You Mr. Cha. Once again, any clarifying questions from Mr. Cha Brennan. So, musthaves are included in the price, not nice to haves. That's correct. Thank you. But oh, Mr. Rustic, do we anticipate any additional um costs coming in 2027 2028 budget for the annex for police services?

Not for the annex. We were very we were very vigilant and aggressive in Mickey in in discussing that with the uh county sheriff's office to ensure that um uh this would be the um the last item uh council woman that we needed to bring the annex up to county standards uh prior to the sheriff's office occupancy. Great. Council member Rustic, if I can add to in our conversations again, we had a meeting last week. That's why it says not to exceed because I anticipate we might be able to bring that down even further. We'll continue to have those conversations and talk about what uh any other items we can slim off. So that's why we have an NTE on there and not an exact amount.

That would be appreciated. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else from council? Miss Torres, is that a hand up? Okay. You said not for the annex. Is there some other expenses that's they'll be like maybe at the mlet mall or something like that that we we need to do for police services?

Not for the outlet mall counciloman. Um that one is um we we will have a lease agreement between the city and Simon Properties. Uh but the interior um improvements that they would need at that while that would be between the sheriff's office and um Simon Properties. Council member Torgensson, if I can add to that piece, the council would you bring this up in public health and safety a lot. There will be policy decisions that council can weigh in on and say we want this for our city that would be over and above and beyond what the service packages that we, you know, have. That would be then your decision at that point that we want to purchase this piece of equipment that is not necessarily on that person when they suited on in unincorporated. We want it for like the explorer program that Maple Valley and Seamish do. That's something that they do on the side. that's not included in the contract. So, there is things that will bring forward, but nothing that is a purchase piece. Um, to that point, council member Torson.

Anybody else? Okay. This came through finance and administration. Mr. Rustik, would you make the motion, please? Uh, yes. Thank you. Motion to approve AB26-036 authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with Bosch for security improvements to the city hall annex in an amount not to exceed $8,000 in a form and content acceptable to the city attorney. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. McFarland. Motion by Miss Rustic. Can you would you like to speak to your motion? Just uh I think uh council member Elwood hit it. Uh this is a really a must do. um wasn't part of our original uh known plan, but it is additional that is required.

Thank you. Mr. McFarland, would you like to speak to your motion? Yes, thank you. Um just pointing out Yeah, it is almost double what we anticipated originally and so we're up there again. We're investing in an old building that has some concerns. Overall, it's not a lot of money. looking at our chief and saying little things do get missed when we're talking about big change. Um obviously it's appropriate and uh and and in this case required uh and so I do do support it um and I hope the we're not seeing more.

Thank you sir. Anybody else from council wish to comment at this time? Miss Toruson, I concur with what all of these council members have just said. Um, it's a surprise, but it's a a necessary item that we need to do and so that's why I'm supporting it. Think one more time. Anybody else wish to comment? Okay, moving on. Uh motion to approve AB26-036 authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with Bosch for security improvements to the city hall annex in an amount not to exceed $80,000 in a form and content acceptable to the city attorney. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? Uh that passes unanimously. Once again, thank you all. Much appreciated. And uh moving on to our last item, AB26-037 ordinance amending 2025 2026 bianual budget. Mr. Chaw, thank you so much.

Thank you, Mayor. Again, Martin Shaw, finance director. Uh this is the last item on your agenda, council, AB26037. This is an ordinance amending the 2526 budget. This would be a budget amendment number five. Uh as um as with the previous uh budget amendments that we've approved, uh periodic amendments to the budget um is necessary uh to recognize uh either additional um uh projects that uh that are needed for the uh city's operations or to recognize additional revenues that have been received. Uh this ordinance would amend the omnibus budget ordinance adopted through ordinance 1823. Um this item was reviewed with the finance and administration uh committee on April 7th with the recommendation would do pass uh for the this full council. Uh in terms of the contents for this uh budget amendments council, there are four items. Uh the first one is a $75,000 item for professional services for project 34. Uh this uh the funding for this would come from fund 108 which is the economic development fund. Um the next item is also for project 34 but this would be the city match uh for a state funded feasibility study. Um and this uh would also come from fund 108 again the economic development uh fund. The next item uh is the item that we just discussed which is the city hall annex um sus mandated security improvements. This will come from the general fund fund balance again in an amount not to exceed $80,000. And then the last item is a um amendment to the 2026 uh salary schedule council uh to reclassify a public works project manager to a development review storm

water manager. Uh this position will be funded through multiple funds. Um and it is 100% cost recovered through development fees. Uh, as you recall, council, the 2026 salary schedule was previously approved by council on February 3rd of this year, um, under AB26-012 and ordinance 1848. Uh, this amendment uh, that we're bringing to you tonight is limited to amending the salary schedule only uh, for this subject uh, position. In terms of the reclassification of the position council, um again the public works project manager uh uh position and you'll find this in your um in your packets in terms of the salary schedule. Uh the salary range ranges from 9,220 to 12,25 uh4 per month. Uh the revised uh uh salary schedule for the uh reclassified position uh is from 11,314 to 14,490 uh for a difference of between uh just under 2100 to 2200 uh per month. The fiscal impact for this year for 2026 is 11,646. And as you can see from the funding breakdown, half of the cost would come from the general fund and the remaining half would come from the water sewer and storm water programs. And again, the uh financing for this uh reclassification would come from uh development review fees. Uh that concludes my remarks. Um any uh questions I'll be happy to answer.

Thank you, Mr. Shaw. Any question clarifying questions? Mr. Mr. Mc McFarland. Um, Martin, thank you. I I'm familiar with all four of the items you're talking about. On the first one there, though, I want to be sure we're clear. Project 34, professional services 75,000. Um, does that contract still include funding for project ballet as well?

Yes. And per the contract that was approved prior, those costs are be segregated. All right. So this budget adjustment I don't have any qualms about. Just wanting to point out again though this is covering two projects now just one. Correct. The original contract covers two projects. We write project delay and project 34. this amendment here specifically for project 34. Yes. Thank you. Any other clarifying questions for Mr. Chaw? M. Toeson.

Um the the uh on the document here it says it's a reclassification for a a job title. Um but it's also a pay scale change as well. It it doesn't seem like that's indicating that here. Is that included in all of lists indicating that there's a pay scale change? This is um Councilwoman Torus. This is uh if you uh look at page 186 of your council packet, uh you'll see two lines that are highlighted in red. Uh the first line shows the uh original position, the public works project manager. um this position existed in 2025. Uh in 2026 it would go to zero FTEES although the pay scale is still shown for the record. Um and then the uh position would then shift to one FTE for the development review storm order manager. So the total FTEES stays the same at 51 uh positions. Uh the only difference would be the recognition of the pay scale for this um for this new position.

Okay. Um and we have not voted on this yet. Have we changing this salary schedule? Kendra, would you city attorney please? Kendra, would you please weigh in? Thank you.

Yes. And I'll just uh reiterate actually Martin already touched on this in his staff presentation. What he noted was in um tracking the recital is the history of each budget amendment. He specifically called out about four or five minutes ago that city council adopted ordinance number 1848 on February 3rd, 2026 establishing the 2026 salary schedule. Uh the city council did adopt the 2026 salary schedule including this. Okay. Um,

if I may, um, I don't know if that was directed to me or Martin, but I might just jump in since I made the last remarks. And that is the highlighted change on page 188 of your packet that Martin has um described is the amendment to the 2026 adopted salary schedule. That is the only position that is being discussed as to a reclassification. Okay. So, we haven't voted on this change. That's what we're doing today. We made a salary schedule in February, but this is a change to the salary an amendment to the change of the of the salary schedule in February. Correct. That's correct.

Okay. So, um I guess my my challenge with this particular amendment is we have so many different ones in here. Um you've got project 34, you've got the city hall annex. Now, the city hall annex, we approved that just a few minutes ago. Um, and then now we have this amendment here, but this is a first. This is this is not being done on its own. And um, so I'm just going to make it for example. If if a council member disagreed with any one of these in the past that have been voted on and now we're being asked to vote on all of them, it's requiring us to vote no on all of them if we wanted to be consistent with our previous vote. So I feel like that's unfair and it's not transparent either. I feel like all of these should be separate unless they're the same like project 34, you know, that's very similar, right? But um these are separate identities and so as council members we should be able to vote on them separately. Um so I have a that's why I have a problem with this particular agenda bill. Um the the other thing is because they are very different. Um, say a say a a citizen wants to do a search and learn about some amendments and they're looking for only salary schedule information, they're not going to find it because it's going to be buried in here and the salary schedule is not going to be part of this particular thing. So like I know there's this thing called digital um you do it Brendan it's called digital something or other archive digital archive and so you can look to see all the all the amendments. Well, this one's going to be one of those things you just

can't find. You can't find this particular edit. So, that's what I have a problem with this particular agenda bill item. Um, I would like to separate that out. Um, Madam Mayor, if I can, but but what I would like to say is because because of that, I'm going to vote no on this. Okay. I'm going to ask our council to weigh in. A city attorney wants to weigh in. They have their hand raised.

Thank you. And I just wanted to clarify if I could. So in our ordinance, the operational sections do track exactly what is being amended in your budget. So if you haven't had an opportunity to study page 184 of your packet, section one and section two do clearly track the amendments that are occurring. This was published for the public in advance and it dictates the appropriation and expenditure changes and then as well as the salary schedule with the highlights. I hope that answers the question. Um, this is how Northbend prior budget amendments have been processed as well. I've reviewed that history and looked at that and it's a way for um, council and the public to be able to track the bannual budget as amended by council each time the council touches it through those operational sections that are clearly set out through the ordinance.

Thank you so much. Any other clarifying questions? Seeing none, uh, let's go back to finance and ad administration. Chair Rustik, thank you. A motion to approve AB26-037, an ordinance amending the 2025 2026 budget as adopted in ordinance number 1823 and is amended by ordinances 1826, 1837, 1847, 1848, and 1853 as a first and final reading. Second. Thank you so much. Uh, Miss Rustic, would you like to speak to your motion?

Just to say that, um, while these I do agree these being lumped together can be a challenge, um, we've actually voted on all of these, whether we agreed with them or not, they've been voted on, and so now this is just, um, matching the books with what has been approved. Thank you, Mr. McFarland. Thank you, mayor. Yep.

Um, I thank the chair for reading that for one. Uh, yeah, the budget amendments, regular occurring items. This one, as was discussed at the committee level, felt a little unusual in that we had taken action on some contracts such as project 34 prior to the budget being there. This is cleanup. That again is not all that unusual. We do clean up typically at least quarterly. Um and so uh I I think that's still within the normal uh course of business and so these four items I think are just keeping up with changes that we've been made. Thank you.

Thank you. Um Miss Tortois, we voted on all of them except for the salary schedule one. that one. This is the first time we're voting on that particular change. I just want to make sure that's clear. Um our council, would you like to weigh in on that? If it's helpful, if anybody has clarifying questions, I'm happy to. But again, um the salary schedule as a whole was adopted by the council in February of this year and then the highlighted change is the only modification.

Thank you again. Anybody have any other council clarifying questions? No. Okay. Motion to approve AB26-037, an ordinance amending the 2025 2026 budget as adopted in an ordinance number 1823 and as amended by ordinances 1826, 1837, 1847, 1848, and 1853 as a first and final reading. All in favor? I. Any opposed?

Opposed? No. Okay, that's uh passes 6 to1. Thank you for that. Um screwed up my whole I think we're going to go on to committee. Okay, where are we? Mayor and council and initiatives. Here we go. Let's have some fun. And I'll start with uh Brendan, please.

Thank you, your honor. And uh thank you for the business owner who showed up tonight. I'm excited to see new business come in and I'm excited to see policy decisions having that kind of an impact on our community. So, that's well done and well done staff. That was a lot of cleanup. So, I appreciate all the hard work that went into that uh tonight. As far as anything going on, uh Importance of Being Earnest is a play at Valley Center Stage. Uh Valley Center Stage, just as a reminder, is a cooperative uh effort with Salo Graange. So, it's two nonprofits working together. Uh, closing weekend is this weekend. It's uh I'm I'm checking it out myself this weekend and I've heard nothing but great reviews on it. So, as we were talking earlier, it's just a walk right across the street quite frankly. So, it's easy to get to part of our tagline and uh hard to leave, right? Um any rate, check out Valley Center Stage. You're supporting two uh nonprofits that are really all volunteer run. everything's 100% volunteer and just doing what they can to to bring arts, performing arts, uh, alive and well here in the community. So, thank you for that,

Mr. Elwin. Mr. Torus, I have nothing this evening. Thank you so much, Miss Coen. I would just like to say it's nice to see our new chief hall sitting back there and I'm excited to meet our new officers when they come on. So, thank you. Thank you, Miss Rustic. Thank you. I don't have anything this evening. Um, let's see, Mr. Johnson. Uh, thank you, your honor. Um, let's see. Council member Elwood has offered us the opportunity to tend to either the health and public safety committee or the importance of being earnest.

You can choose. Uh, it was pointed out at the beginning of the meeting that perhaps council member McFarland and I should coordinate wardrobes before meetings. Um,

yes. I also wanted to share and this could have been in my uh Pugetan regional committee report but um I'm just going to read briefly a note from Josh Brown who's the head of the Pugan regional council. As many of you know we've spent the past few years supporting the development of a housing research center in Washington state. I'm excited to invite you, which includes any of us, to join PSRC and the University of Washington to celebrate the launch of the Housing Futures Center on April 22nd, which yes, it's tomorrow. I am remiss in being so late. Uh there is a lunchin tomorrow in downtown Seattle to celebrate the opening of the housing future center uh which is a research-based institution to help you know come up with solutions and proposals and do work around the issue of housing which I know we're all concerned about. Uh my last note for the evening uh which is relevant uh for those of us who live in this community and the surrounding areas which is folks at the federal level have decided to essentially eviscerate the US forest service as we know it. Uh I don't know the explicit uh impact that will have on our local ranger station the sidewalks and parking lot of which were just so nicely repaired and fixed. It's a beautiful facility that I have been proud to have in this town. My concern is it too will be going away along with the research centers in over 31 states across our country. I worked uh for nearly a quarter century up the hill at the Ceda River wershed. Uh the habitat conservation plan that supported that effort was strongly supported and cooned by members of the US Forest Service without whose expertise, insight and researchbased focus, you know, it simply wouldn't have been put in place. The protection for uh threatening endangered species and all of it is being uh put at risk and and shipped off for no clear reason. and it it uh hurts my heart. And

to the degree anyone might choose to reach out to our federal representatives and push back, the effort that's currently underway is expected to be fully implemented by the summer of 2027. Thank you, your honor. Thank you, sir. Mr. McFarland,

thank you, Mayor. Um I shall endeavor to be more careful about my attire in the future. Um I can't believe I'm getting to steal the thunder being the last to speak for council tonight. Uh, you know what else is tomorrow? Okay. Well, I'm gonna get you. Earth days tomorrow. I spent many hours this past week digging in the earth. Uh, encouraging some plants, discouraging some others. Uh, I totally remade my little patch of earth. Um,

yeah, exactly. And I could show the snow clip as well. Um but you know ground covers, trees, shrubs, vegetables, different zones, different areas. In fact, I revised my comprehensive plan with various zones for vegetables and these types of things, right? It kind of reminded me that that's a lot of what we do here legislating uh for what you tell us, the public tells us, and what we believe is in the community's best overall interest. Um, I don't know that I got it right digging in the dirt the last few weeks. We'll see. But hopefully some things come out better. Yeah, you ask. What's the big picture? Well, that's the steps we're taking towards it. What's working out as envisioned? What's not working out as envisioned? That's a lot of what we do as we consider items from regular time here. Tonight's song, as I have always done since coming to council here, is from Phil Ox. Uh, a great songwriter, political commentator who wrote over 200 songs during the 60s and 70s and unfortunately died by his own hand in 76. These lines are from just one of those songs. This is 1965 titled I ain't marching anymore. Uh these true two lines seem to ring very true again these past months. It's always the old to lead us to the wars, always the young to fall. I hope you'll give that a listen and uh maybe some others by Phil Ox. Great person. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, I'm sorry. I was remiss. Your your gardening reference reminded me that uh on Saturday I came participated the landscape uh recycling program and as the person uh st you know I was in line for a long time along with a whole lot of other residents and as the gentleman said it's the hottest ticket in town. So thank you. Excellent. Mayor Prom Trimmlada.

Yeah, I've got a couple of things. Um, and I will be careful on how to approach this, but I did send a note to some staff and uh some council members as well um to acknowledge and I just I'll say it out loud so council can hear it. And I think we should review and consider uh speaking of land use uh and comprehensive plans. Uh our neighbors are having a hotly uh and exciting debate uh right now about a best facility. Um, I think I have a lot to learn about it, but I'm learning from the periphery. Um, but I do think it's it's an important item to note for us that even though we don't have a direct um, you know, conversation here in our town, I think it's something that we should learn about. Um, I think there are some fairly significant environmental and public health and safety items uh, tied to this type of facility and I think we should be cognizant of what it is. it's not too far away and how that could or couldn't play a role in our town in the future. Um, and maybe even take a step at council discussing whether we should put uh some sort of uh temporary moratorum in place so that we can at least have that conversation and discuss it and learn about it. Um, it's new, it's changing, it's something that's never really been considered. So, um, I would just encourage us to to keep eyes and ears on that conversation over there. um it's it's become aggressive it sounds like uh and every day something else comes out but anyways that type of technology is here to stay uh no doubt and so I I think we have to to council member McFarland's point things are changing we have to figure out how do you work that into a land use plan or should you or do we you know just do we want to have that conversation as a council um and then mental health awareness as I've been talking about forever um one in five US adults experience mental illness each here. One in six US teens have a mental health condition, but only half of them get

treatment. 50% of mental illness starts by age 14 and 75% by age 24. So, I just want to talk about mental health. One of the best ways to raise awareness is just to start the conversation. So, I encourage everyone to talk to your friends, talk to your family, and just continue the importance of the conversation of mental health. Uh, don't let the hard days win. Thank you, Mayor Prom. Miss Emory, Miss Emry, I was gonna ask Tom for the hottest ticket in town, how much we actually um collected on Saturday. Tom Moore, I think it was about 120 compacted yards in those uh three bins. A lot.

A lot. So, yes, thank you for shout out and to our staff that that um man that this weekend, thanks to them.

We And that's my only update, Mayor. I'll kick it to you. That's a good one. Thank you. Okay. Please join me on Wednesday, April 29th at the North Bend Theater for my annual State of the City address to hear updates on economic vitality in the city and some exciting upcoming projects in 2026. Doors will be open at 5:30 and the event starts at 6:00 p.m. Also, we have a band also at the end of the evening starting around 7:00. So, stay for that, please. In honor of D Earth Day, which has been brought up, thank you, Mr. McFarland. Uh, the city invites community members to join us for Northbend Beautifification Day tomorrow, April 22nd. Please meet up at the train depot at 900 a.m. Uh, Valley Animal Partners, a local nonprofit organization along with Seattle Veterinary Outreach, is offering free vaccines and lowcost vet care for dogs and cats owned by people living unhoused or with low income on Wednesday, April 29th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Pet Place Market located at 213 Bendigo Boulevard North. Uh the city in conjunction with the Snowqualami tribe will be holding a special recycling event on Saturday, May 2nd from 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Snowquami Middle School. The event is open to all King County residents wishing to dispose of scrap metal, appliances, electronics, fluorescent bulbs, tires, and batteries. Northbend Jazz Walk will be held from 5:00 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, April 25th in downtown Northbend. The event features 18 different venues playing a fantastic selection of jazz music. more information about all these events and how to purchase tickets for the jazzwalk, please uh visit the community calendar on the city website. And thanks again to our wonderful uh public works crew for all their efforts uh and the very successful albeit 120 compacted yards collected uh yard event. There's going to be more coming forward, so please stay tuned for that and information. Um you guys rock. Thank you. and we're going to move into an

exact session uh pursuant to RCW42.30.140B. I hope I got that right. Um should last about five minutes with no no decision made. Um hope you can wait around for at least five minutes. We'll be back. Thank you.