Remarks by Bryan Stucky
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First off, love the newsletter. It's definitely important to get out there in all different kinds of medias and mediums, so I think that's great. And I just want to make sure with that public comment that we did follow up with the email one. Okay. Thanks.
A couple questions. In doing a little research on this, there are indeed other Washington cities that have a student representative, but most are a lot smaller than us. In general, in your opinion, what do you attribute that to? I mean, I don't see many... I mean, they're mostly cities of, like, Sultan and, like, a couple thousand people. Not that we're huge, but...
I don't see, and again, this would be pretty extreme, pretty controversial. I don't see a mechanism for removing a council representative.
Okay, yeah, the only reason I may, I mean, I don't think that we would necessarily get a student that would come in here and be disruptive, but what I would hate is someone say, yes, I'll do it, be all jazzed about it, show up for the first meeting, and then just go AWOL, and we have then no mechanism to remove them and replace them with a different one.
And then... As far as this one change, I would like, but it's just a one-sentence change, is the administration will provide a list of student applicants which will be reviewed by the mayor and a panel of one or two members of the council prior to appointment. Can we just change it to two council members, not one or two? I mean, considering that we're not gonna get an opinion, we're not confirming them, which I understand, can it just be two as opposed to one or two?
Yeah, I would strongly prefer it to just say two. And between seven of us, I think that we can get two people to do so. I would just like it to be changed.
Well, if it's Council, we need to step up and make sure two people, because I'm pretty strong on there being two individuals, considering this is a Council meeting. Considering they're going to be up here with us, considering this is a Council meeting, I think we need to have as much participation as possible. And I don't like the ambiguity of one or two. I just, two. That's my thoughts.
Yeah, I was going to say the two council members is the only thing I'm firm on. The other one, on the one hand, again, I agree with Council Member Marshall. We're probably going to get high caliber students. They're pretty highly vetted. I'm not really too worried about one coming up here and not acting appropriately or something like that. You know, the attendance could be an issue. I mean, on the one hand, I agree it's probably no biggie. And a call from the mayor of like, hey, you haven't been here for a little while would probably be sufficient to fix the issue. On the other hand, if it's…
Who else is paying this fee currently? Like, I don't need specifics, but can you give me examples?
And with this, if I'm understanding correctly, most of this is coming down to liability. I mean, $163 is making very little impact on the city budget. That is correct. I guess my only concern, because again, this is such a low amount that it's not really worth debating for hours on end. This locks them in that cost for some time, correct? Correct.
Because I just want to make sure that if for some reason it gets raised on everybody else, it also got raised on them. I didn't want them being locked in to that cost, even though we're talking about not much. I just want to make sure it's fair more than anything else.
And then also, is there anything that brought this up particularly?
In that case, we wouldn't have had much in the way of recourse because we didn't have this agreement.
I appreciate you looking out. Thank you.
I move to authorize the mayor to sign the Facility Use Agreement with Mariners Haven LLC.