On the agenda: Electric City Council Minutes August 11, 2026 — flock camera (Aug 11)

CITY OF

ELECTRIC CITY

The Electric City Council Meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm by Mayor Blake Martin on Tuesday,
August 11, 2026.

Present by Roll Call: Council Members Robbin Boyce, Brian Buche, Matt Gilbert, Joe Higgs, Cheryl Hoffman

Staff Members Present: Travis Irwin/Electric City Public Works Director, Ashley Landeros/Electric City Deputy
Clerk, Peggy Nevsimal/Electric City Clerk/Treasurer, Mark Payne/Electric City Fire Chief

Pledge of Allegiance

Approval of Agenda
e Amotion was made and seconded to amend the agenda by changing item 6.3. “WWTF Judgement
Document” to 6.2. because of attorney time constraints, to change 6.4 “Police Contract RFP, update”
to “Police Contract RFP, m/s, and subsequently reordering the item numbering in Unfinished Business.
M/S (Hoffman/Gilbert) CU

e A motion was made and seconded to approve the amended agenda.
M/S (Gilbert/Boyce) CU

Consent Agenda
e A motion was made and seconded to approve the consent agenda, which included:
@ Vouchers 17534 -- 17570 in the amount of $138,441.66.
M/S (Buche/Higgs) CU

Public Comment
e John Beck (111 Grand Ave. W, Electric City) would like there to be better control of a neighbor who
seems to be entertaining/housing drug activity.
Executive Session

e The council went into an executive session at 6:40pm to discuss pending litigation as allowed by RCW
42.30.110(i)

e At 6:50pm the mayor called the regular meeting back to order.

Unfinished Business

e Department Reports

© Code Compliance — Two properties have been sent notices of noxious weeds on property. If the
weeds are not remediated within 10 days, the council was asked if they would agree to

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authorize public works crews to mitigate the vegetation and bill the property owners for public
works labor.
= A motion was made and seconded to authorize public works crews to mitigate noxious
weeds at 210 Sandy Lane and 51 Diamond and bill the property owners for labor costs.
M/S (Gilbert/Higgs) CU

o Community Wildfire — this ad hoc committee has now been dissolved.

o Fire Department — There were 7 fire calls since July’s council meeting. Calls included 3 mutual
aid calls, 2 calls to campgrounds, and 2 calls to residence.

co Law Enforcement — There were 27 calls for service in the month of July. 16 were service calls
and 11 were traffic stops. The council is concerned that the City is paying for 2 flock cameras to
be installed within the city limits, and to date only one has been installed.

co Public Works —Spot weed spraying, watering and mowing is being done throughout the city.
Two weeks were spent prepping ground and placing rubber mulch and sod at the new city park.
Cross Connection survey was distributed to all area property owners.

o Wellness - Employees completed “Just Move July” step challenge. On July 16 the City hosted
the 3 annual Community Appreciation BBQ, Over 100 adults and children attended the BBQ.
This fulfills Well City Standards — Section 4.4 Focusing on Inclusion.

e Engineering Report
0 There continues to be no formal lease agreement between the Wastewater Treatment Facility
property and the USBR.
© TIB applications will be submitted in November requesting funding for continued street.
improvement projects.
© Agreement with TD&H Engineering to develop a Road Safety Action Plan and Downtown
Corridor Plan
«A motion was made and seconded to authorize TD&H Engineering to develop a Road
Safety Action Plan and Downtown Corridor Plan that will be funded by USDOT’s Safe
Streets for All Grant.
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© Police Contract
o Amotion was made and seconded to revise the Police Contract Request for Proposal modifying
the length of the contract and dropping the need for daily logs and re-sending it to the original
distribution list.
M/S (Hoffman/Buche) CU

New Business
* City Code Re-codification
© Amotion was made and seconded to approve hiring General Code to begin the process of re-
codifying the City Municipal Code.
M/S (Buche/Boyce) CU

¢ Credit Cards at Transfer Station
© Progress is underway to partner with the Transfer Station’s weighing system to offer customers

the opportunity to pay their Transfer Station payments with credit cards, as the current options
of cash or check.

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© Building Permit Committee
o Amotion was made and seconded to move the topic of forming a Building Permit Committee to
the September council meeting.
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¢ Bowen Variances

o Mr. Kevin Bowen owns multiple parcels of land at the south end of Lincoln Avenue and Electric
Place. The parcels are currently not developable because of size, shape and minimum
residential square footage requirements. He wanted to know if the council would consider
variances on minimum square footage size.

c Council members and Mr. Bowen agreed that the best course of action would be to wait until
the updated comprehensive plan is completed and submitted to Department of Commerce in
June 2027 as there are new Washington mandates taking place regarding inclusion of tiny
homes in municipalities.

* Bond Reinvestment
o Amotion was made and seconded to invest $501,035.00 in a 4-year, 10-month Federal Farm
Credit Non-callable Bond (3133EWTC4} with a yield of 4.28%.
M/s (Gilbert/Higgs) CU

Reports

* Council member Robbin Boyce reported that the WWTF application had been submitted to the
Department of Ecology on August 14.

¢ Council member Brian Buche has been named the chairman of the Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint
Board of Operations.

A motion was made and seconded to adjourn at 8:21pm.

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Peggy Nevsimal, City Clerk/Treasurer

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Blake Martin, Mayor

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