Remarks by Ronnie Wright
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Great. Thanks, David. So first, I will open the public hearing, confirm no public comments have been received. Sabrina?
Great, and is there anyone here with us this evening that would like to step forward and make public comment on this issue? Hearing, seeing none, I'm going to close public comment, or close the public hearing, I'm sorry, and then call upon council for their comments. Council Member Merrill.
Yes. Next, anybody else? Comments? I just want to remind everyone, too, that it's important to point out that we are setting those monies aside for replacement funds, too, for assets. That's something that we've never done as a city before. So we are setting ourself up for success going forward. So that's part of the reason that you have some of those orange numbers or lines. All right, with that then, that was just all the information. So we will do this again, I guess, next week and we'll be going into capital expenditures, right?
All right. Next up is ordinances and resolutions. Proposed ordinance number 2047, adopting a new Oak Harbor Municipal Code section 1.04.050 relating to student representatives. And here to introduce this topic is our city administrator, Sabrina Combs.
All right. So before I turn it over to council, I'm going to first confirm that we've received no public comment on this issue.
OK. And is there anyone here with us this evening that would like to step forward and make public comments on this issue? All right. Hearing, seeing none, I'm going to close public comment and call upon council for their comments at this time. Yes, Council Member Stuckey.
I was just going to say I'll piggyback on that by saying that through Wasele, I've already forwarded all of our information to five other cities who want to follow in the suit. So it's just a matter of I think that they haven't done it and they were looking for some help or like a push. So... but more people are looking at it, yes. And they're bigger than us even, so.
I would agree. You would think we could do that, but sometimes it's impossible.
My turn. Anybody else? Yes, Council Member Marshall.
Maggie has also, obviously, they're on vacation right now. But we have a message into the civics teacher, is that her title? I don't know. Yeah, she works with the students. But anyway, so we are working with her too as soon as they're back. I think they're back next week.
Anybody else? Sandy, did you have a question?
I was going to do that. Okay. Sorry. No, that's okay. That's perfect. You take it. Go. Yeah.
I think that they're unanimous that they want the two. So that's definitely, we want to edit that to include two. But then I think that they're not all in sync with putting a mechanism on there. So I'll leave that up to them.
Do the same rules on the commissions apply to the students that they do to the commission members?
So then we have the same issue on the commissions, too. I mean.
So Hillary, do we just use the same language that's on the commissions? But I guess my question was, the students aren't really being held to that standard anyway. So I'm confused.
So I just wanted to clarify, we can't do all of the changes right now, which hints why government moves so slow. So...
No, I don't want to do that. I think the suggestion, we want to just adopt what's already in place for our other. That's what you guys are looking for. You want it to be the same as what's in the commissions? Yes, Council Member Marshall.
Well, that's up to you guys. This is, yeah, so one second. I'll call back on you, Council Member Stuckey. So if that's the case, then we just need the motion with the amendment to change that to two council members, which I think you are all in agreement on. So, yeah, Council Member Stuckey.
So I think the only person we haven't heard from is Council Member Arms. Do you want to weigh in on this, or are you good?
Oh, I'm sorry. Mayor Pro Tem, did you want to weigh in on this? I excluded you because I don't have you sitting next to me. I'm sorry.
All right. So if you guys are in agreement and you want to move this forward tonight, the motion with the friendly amendment needs to be made, and then we can move forward or we can table it. It's up to you. Yes, Council Member Marshall.
All right. So we have a motion to approve ordinance number 2047 with the amendment of two council members. So we'll make sure that that's included. And then that was seconded by Council Member Romero. Is there any further discussion before I call for a vote? Hearing, seeing none, all in favor, raise your right hand or left hand. All right. That passes unanimously. Thank you very much. That was fun.
All right, next up is contracts and agreements. We have a facility use agreement with Mariner's Haven, and here to introduce that is our harbor master, Elise Henry.
All right. I will first confirm that we receive no public comments on this issue. Sabrina.