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Home My WebLink About12/15/1997 - City Council - City Council Meeting MinutesCITY OF EAST WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON REGULAR SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL CONVENED MAYOR DAWN COLLINGS PRESIDING DECEMBER 15,1997 6:30 P.M. ROLL CALL Councilmembers Present: Councilmember Nash, Councilmember Mikow, Councilmember Carson, Councilmember Hendricks, Councilmember Lacy, Councilmember Frack, Councilmember Aiken, Mayor Collings. Staff Present: Virginia Oestreich, Linda Countryman, Stuart Campbell, Randy Harrison, Bob Goodman, Darin Bender, Chuck Zimmerman, Nick Wiltz, Bruce Nash, Christy Patterson. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE CITIZEN COMMENTS Bill Stroud, 407 19th St. NE, East Wenatchee, asked Council to get more information out to the public and keep them more informed on issues, possibly in the form of a newsletter. MAYORS REPORT ' Mayor Collings reminded Council of the East Wenatchee Chamber meeting on Tuesday at the Four Seasons at 12 noon. She said Representative Ballard will be the speaker. She asked Councilmembers Hendricks and Lacy if they would appear again on KPQ. Councilmember Lacy could not, but Councilmember Hendricks said he would. She said the Chelan County Commissioners had sent a card for all councilmembers. Mayor Collings thanked Councilmember Larry Frack for his two years of service on the Council. She added a replacement would be needed for representation at RTPO. She said Councilmember Carson had been the LINK representative; he said he would continue unless another Councilmember wished to do so, although he did think an alternate member would be appropriate. Mayor Collings wished everyone a Happy Holidays. DEPARTMENT REPORT Planning Director Campbell asked Council for direction on how to move forward on the Baker Street improvement project. Discussion followed regarding the city's matching funds, how to do a conceptual plan, and time frames regarding the grant applications. Superintendent Goodman said the project was t very important and was a Council priority, however, it was not included in the 1998 budget and possibly could be delayed for a time. Council agreed by consensus to move forward with the project as to getting more information, however, not spend any 1998 budgeted dollars on the expansion of Baker Street. 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The motion caffied, 7-0. ' Council then discussed the Growth Management issue and tentative costs for this item. Council Action: A motion was made by Councilmember Lacy, second by Councilmember Carson to authorize up to two thousand dollars for ongoing Growth Management issues. The motion carried, 5-2. (Aiken, Hendricks) ORDINANCE 97-12-02 An ordinance establishing the 1998 East Wenatchee budget Mayor Collings said before she read the title of the ordinance and before discussion she wished to make the following statement: As the Mayor, I am required to submit a preliminary budget to Council. Included in that budget is a letter which lists the proposed revenues and expenditures for the upcoming year, as well as any comments I wish to make regarding the preliminary budget. This year, in a manner similar to last year, my letter stated what the budget does include, what the budget does not include, and what optional revenue sources there were. ' Recalling public sentiment form last year's budget process, and listening to Council comments during our first two budget workshops this year, it became abundantly clear that Council was not interested in generating revenue through additional taxes. Therefore, because of my continuing concern over the City's financial condition, I felt it my duty, as the Mayor, to bring alternative suggestions to the table for Council discussion. While 1 expected some disagreement over these suggestions, I certainly did not expect the behavior I have seen displayed by some. Instead of focusing on facts, and making wise, but difficult decisions for the future of our community, the focus of some has been on pointing fingers and laying blame. But, regardless of whether or not we like the "facts" about the City's financial conditions, they are the "facts". And the only thing we can do to change them, is to make some tough decisions now. In thinking about some of the comments I have heard regarding the $100,000 cut in the Police Department budget, I decided to research past budgets. Since 1990, the Police Department has gone over budget every year, except one, ranging from $13,909 over to $64,615 over. Adding up the figures for the six years the Department went over budget, and subtracting the one year they didn't, comes to a total of $109,860. We have been fortunate to have the size Police force we've had. But even with the unfortunate layoff of one officer, we will still have more officers per capita than any other law enforcement agency in the valley, and we'll still have one more officer than we did before we added officers in anticipation of the large annexation, which we all know didn't occur. In addition, we'll still be able to have the DARE program, and Kids Night Out, which we know from the public hearing are so important to the community. ' At the request of Chief Harrison, Gil Sparks, who is one of our city attorneys, and I met with him to discuss proper layoff procedure. 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ADJOURNMENT -- 8:30 P.M. Virginia E. estreich CMC/PFO City Clerk/Treasurer 1 1 t -5-