AUDIO LINKS - City of Sultan Council Meeting January 18, 2007

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Meeting Open, Changes to Agenda (Audio File A, 261 kb)

PUBLIC COMMENTS

  • Genevive Jelinek re safety issues (File B-1, 588 kb)
  • Loretta Storm - Re New Administrator Knight; newly-announced "Sultan Market" proposal, but dismaying public participation. (File B-2, 453 kb)
  • Gerry Gibson - Re SPD; citizen's distrust of city hall officials ; poor communicaiton issues; city needs to issue proper stats re SPD peformance (which he knows to be good) (File B-3, 429 kb)
  • Jeffrey Beeler - Re mess on Sultan Basin Rd.(SBR)/TR and lack of code enforcement there; especially at the top with potholes and bare gravel/earth with no pavement; also safety problems with snow clearing; needs to be a better job. (File B-4, 784 kb)
  • Kerry Ourada - Does not agree with $9,000 for lobbyist when city supposedly cannot pay for police; sthocked to learn of the proposed Sultan Market project and total lack of public advisement which "speaks volumes" about how Sultan operates. (File B-5, 448 kb)

    (Brief follow-up comment by L. Storm contained at the end of File B-5, above, confirming situation with SBR as detailed by J. Beeler.)

COUNCIL MEMBER COMMENTS:

Audio File C-1, 2:34 min., 452 kb:

Bruce Champeaux (re Jelinek and SBR conditions); Steve Slawson (did not know about Sultan Market, either); John Seehuus (also did not know about proposed Sultan Market)

Audio File C-2, 3:40 min., 646 kb: Jim Flower: Since this is an election year, requests courtesy by all; report on Snohomish Co. Health Board.

Audio File C-3, 4:37 min., 813 kb:

  • Kristina Blair - Misc. comments.
  • Derek Boyd: Re Gerry Gibson's comments re SPD: "If we had money in the general fund, we'd hire an officer [police] today." Also stated, "There's "no way to fund it"; and "I don't know if we can afford a police department in this city anymore."

MAYOR TOLSON COMMENTS, RE SULTAN MARKET (also short comment re Gerry Gibson's statements) (Audio File D, 5:35 min., 985 kb)

STAFF REPORTS:

CONSENT AGENDA (Audio File F, 20 seconds, 60 kb)

ACTION AGENDA:

DISCUSSION (Requested by Derek Boyd) - Subject - City's budgetary constraints to maintain police department.

PUBLIC COMMENTS (File I, 7:08 min., 1.3 mb)

Dave Wood, Director of the VOA; Gerry Gibson re WWTP issues; Traci Ourada re City responsibility re SPD budget accountability; Storm's response to C/M Blair's complaint that SPD $52,000 budget amendment for extra officers came as a surprise, was council's responsibility (for letting SPD Levels of service fall too low, for not requesting reports from city finance dept., etc.) and criticism for lack of city initiative in seeking/finding grants for police services, while going all-out for taxpayer money to "grow" new homes.

COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS (File J, 12:13 min., 2.2 mb): Derek Boyd in response to Storm's comments re SPD; Blair re Traci's comments, and brief verbal exchange; Flower thanking Wood for his offer of the Vol de Suca facility for the council retreat, etc.; Weidiger re SPD salary issue; Champeaux comment re lack of police grants (response to Storm comment).

 
   

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