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City Council - Committee Of The Whole

Regular Meeting

Bellingham, WA · October 13, 2014

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City of Bellingham Committee Of The Whole Meeting Minutes 10/13/2014, 1:20 PM Mayor Kelli Linville Contact: (360) 778-8200, ccmail@cob.org Council Members Jack Weiss, Gene Knutson, Cathy www.cob.org/council Lehman, Pinky Vargas, Terry Bornemann, Michael Lilliquist All meetings are held in the City Hall Council Chambers at and Roxanne Murphy 210 Lottie Street, Bellingham, WA unless otherwise noted. Call to Order Council Standing Committee Meetings: Committee Of The Whole 20579 1. Discussion of City Legislative Objectives Gene Knutson/Terry Bornemann moved approval of 2015 legislative objectives MOTION CARRIED 6-0. Michael Lilliquist moved to add our own City objectives to the legislative materials MOTION CARRIED 6-0. 20580 2. A Resolution Recognizing the Second Monday in October as Coast Salish Day Roxanne Murphy/Gene Knutson moved to recommend approval of the resolution. MOTION CARRIED 6-0. 20581 3. Whatcom Mountain Biking Coalition's Contributions to the Community and the Economic Impacts of Mountain Biking to the City of Bellingham INFORMATION ONLY 20582 4. City Sources of Revenue 1 INFORMATION ONLY 5. Approval of City Council Committee and/or Special Meeting Minutes Gene Knutson/Terry Bornemann moved to recommend approval of minutes for September 22nd and October 6th MOTION CARRIED 5-0. Abstained: Pinky Vargas 6. Old/New Business Michael Lilliquist/Gene Knutson moved to recommend approval to add our name to the op-ed he circulated last meeting relating to PSE's use of coal. MOTION FAILED 2-2. Opposed: Terry Bornemann, Roxanne Murphy; Abstained: Cathy Lehman, Pinky Vargas The Mayor announced that the ASB trail will likely be open in the spring. Cathy Lehman had an initial meeting on local jurisdictional criteria for bid preference and she would like the Council's Senior Policy Analyst Mark Gardner to research this issue. Council gave its consent. 20583 7. Work Session on the 2015-2016 Biennial Budget The Mayor presented her budget on the topics of the Public Development Authority (PDA) and the Executive and Legislative offices. Council Members were in agreement with the Mayor's decision not to fund the PDA in this biennial budget. Brian Heinrich presented the Executive and Legislative budgets, with Brian Henshaw explaining some errors in the Council budget that will be corrected. Special Budget Meeting of the Committee of the Whole adjourned at 3:25 Executive session was convened at 3:25 Adjournment at 3:45 2

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City of Bellingham Committee Of The Whole Meeting Agenda 10/13/2014, 1:20 PM Mayor Kelli Linville Contact: (360) 778-8200, ccmail@cob.org Council Members Jack Weiss, Gene Knutson, Cathy www.cob.org/council Lehman, Pinky Vargas, Terry Bornemann, Michael Lilliquist All meetings are held in the City Hall Council Chambers at and Roxanne Murphy 210 Lottie Street, Bellingham, WA unless otherwise noted. Call to Order Council Standing Committee Meetings: Open to the public to attend. Note: there is generally no public comment period for Committee sessions. Standing Committee Members receive reports and information, ask questions and, when appropriate, vote on a recommended action for consideration by the full Council at the Regular Meeting. Committee Chairs give a report of the Committee Meeting at the Regular Meeting in the evening prior to deliberation and formal vote in the order shown below: Committee Of The Whole Cathy Lehman, Chair Jack Weiss; Gene Knutson; Pinky Vargas; Terry Bornemann; Michael Lilliquist; Roxanne Murphy 20579 1. Discussion of City Legislative Objectives p. 1 20580 2. **A Resolution Recognizing the Second Monday in October as p. 3 Coast Salish Day 20581 3. Whatcom Mountain Biking Coalition's Contributions to the p. 7 Community and the Economic Impacts of Mountain Biking to the City of Bellingham 20582 4. City Sources of Revenue p. 8 5. Approval of City Council Committee and/or Special Meeting Minutes 6. Old/New Business 20583 7. Work Session on the 2015-2016 Biennial Budget p. 9 Adjournment 1 ** INDICATES THE INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCE/RESOLUTION Agenda Information: Council Committee and Regular meeting agendas and agendas packets, which contain the supporting documentation for agenda items, are available to the public Thursday afternoon prior to the meeting. They are posted at www.cob.org/meetings on the Bellingham web site. A hard copy of the agenda packet is available for review from the reference desk at the Central Library or the Finance office at City Hall. Accessibility: The Council Chambers is fully accessible. Elevator access to the second floor is available at City Hall’s west entrance. Hearing assistance is available and a receiver may be checked out through the clerk prior to the evening session. For additional accommodations, persons are asked to contact the Legislative Assistant at 778-8200 in advance of the meeting. Thank you. Next City Council Meeting 10/27/2014 Deadline to submit material for the public hearing for inclusion in the published agenda packet is 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday prior to the meeting. 2

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