City Council - Committee Of The Whole

City of Bellingham Committee Of The Whole Minutes August 19, 2019, 2:50 PM Mayor Kelli Linville Contact: (360) 778-8200, ccmail@cob.org Council Members Gene Knutson, Chair www.cob.org/council Terry Bornemann, April Barker All meetings are held in the City Hall Council Chambers at 210 Lottie Street, Bellingham, WA, unless otherwise noted. Call to Order Roll Call 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. The notice of Committee Meetings identified below also serves as notice of Special Meetings of the City Council at the times identified as Council Members who are not members of the committee routinely attend and participate in the Committee Meetings. 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 Daniel Hammill, Chair April Barker; Gene Knutson; Pinky Vargas; Terry Bornemann; Michael Lilliquist, Hannah Stone Please be advised that if the City Council is ahead of schedule, they may start with old/new business before the official Committee of the Whole meeting time. 1. Approval of City Council Committee and/or Special Meeting Minutes Gene Knutson / Terry Bornemann moved to recommend approval of the July 15, 2019 Committee Meeting Minutes as submitted. MOTION CARRIED 6-0. Abstained: April Barker 2. Old/New Business Councilmember Bornemann would like to get an update from the Port on Waterfront redevelopment. Committee Of The Whole Minutes Page 1 August 19, 2019  Councilmember Hammill met with a company called Abilitrek that does accessibility consulting and analysis. He would like them to do some level of accessibility for the at least the Council Office and City Council Chambers. Councilmember Hammill reported that the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force (IPRTF) recently unanimously adopted a focus on prevention. The IPRTF may form another committee that would be focused on upstream prevention. Adjournment Committee of the Whole entered executive session at 3:09 PM to discuss the following items: 1. Police Guild Settlement, Arbitration Award (Johnson, approx. 5 mins) 2. Litigation: Appeal of Critical Areas Permit CAP2019-0059 (Erb, approx. 15 mins) 3. Litigation: Ginn v. City of Bellingham, et. al. (Brady, 20 minutes) 4. Litigation: Young v. Pena et. al. (Brady 15 minutes) Council President Pro-Tempore Michael Lilliquist reconvened Committee of the Whole to adjourn the meeting at 4:09 PM. Committee Of The Whole Minutes Page 2 August 19, 2019