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Home My WebLink About1/25/2011 - City Council - City Council Meeting Minutes1 CITY OF EAST WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON REGULAR SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL CONVENED MAYOR STEVEN C. LACY, PRESIDING JANUARY 25, 2011 6:30 P.M. ROLL CALL Mayor Steven C. Lacy Councilmember Sandra McCourt Councilmember Wayne Barnhart Councilmember Chuck Johnson Councilmember George Buckner Councilmember Harry Raab Councilmember Dave Bremmer Councilmember Dennis Hendricks EMPLOYEES IN ATTENDANCE City Attorney Devin Poulson City Clerk Dana Barnard City Treasurer/Finance Director Nick Gerde City Engineer Don McGahuey Community Development Director Lori Barnett Events Coordinator Dawn Collings Court Administrator Joan Sims PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE DEPARTMENT REPORTS Community Development Community Development Director Lori Barnett reported on the Downtown Business meeting in which downtown businesses discussed; what the downtown area should look like, sufficient parking, enhance the access to the downtown area, additional lighting, and parking lot improvements. The result of the meeting was to try to involve more businesses and create a vision and identify some projects to enhance the downtown area. Ms. Barnett said a follow up meeting has been scheduled and a meeting notice has been sent out targeting all business owners from the Wenatchee Valley Mall north to the Douglas County Public Utility District. This meeting will provide for some brainstorming to see how much support there is from other business owners in that area to form some type of an organization similar to the Wenatchee Downtown Association and if there is a significant amount of interest, Ms. Barnett would like to see this progress into doing a project in that area. Councilmember Buckner, Councilmember Bremmer, and Councilmember Raab said they would attend the meeting. This meeting will take place at the Clearwater Steakhouse and Saloon on Tuesday, February 1"at 12:00 p.m. Finance Department Finance Director Nick Gerde said Councilmember McCourt, Councilmember Johnson, and Councilmember Johnson along with Mayor Lacy and himself are the budget committee for 2011. 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The motion carried, 7-0. 11-01-04 Authorization for the Mayor to sign a Dollar Volume Agreement with the Wenatchee World. Presented by City Attorney Devin Poulson. Council Action: A motion was made by Councilmember Johnson, second by Councilmember Hendricks, authorizing the Mayor to sign the Dollar Volume Agreement. The motion carried, 7-0. 11-01-05 Authorization for the Mayor to sign a Fuel Tax Grant Distribution Agreement with the State of Washington Transportation Improvement Board for the Eastmont — Grant Road to 3rd Street NE Project. Presented by Public Works Director Don McGahuey. Council Action: A motion was made by Councilmember Hendricks, second by Councilmember Johnson, authorizing the Mayor to sign the Fuel Tax Grant Distribution Agreement. The motion carried, 7-0. COUNCIL REPORTS Councilmember Bremmer said he received a letter from the Community Foundation of North Central Washington requesting the City of East Wenatchee contribute $1,000 per year for the next three years for the continued support of the Chelan Douglas Trends website. Mayor Lacy asked Councilmember Bremmer to give the information to the City Clerk to be included on the next Council agenda for review. Finance Director Nick Gerde said the City contributed to the initial start up of the website in 2008 by contributing $5,000. He said this website was created to provide comprehensive indicator data for Chelan and Douglas Counties on: People & Population, Culture & Leisure, Economic Vitality, Education, Environment, Health, Housing, Public Safety and Transportation in Chelan and Douglas Counties. 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