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SPECIAL MEETING
March 26, 2019
City Hall — Council Chambers
5:30 p.m. Agenda Preview Meeting — MINUTES
1. Roll Call
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Council: Mayor Kathy Coffey, presiding, Assistant Mayor Dulce Gutierrez, Council Members Kay
Funk and Brad Hill
Staff: City Manager Moore, City Attorney Cutter, Communications & Public Affairs Director
Beehler and City Clerk Claar Tee
Absent and excused: Council Members Holly Cousens, Carmen Mendez and Jason White
2. Agenda preview for April 2 and 16, 2019 draft agendas
City Manager Moore reviewed the April 2 and 16, 2019 draft agendas.
3. City Manager update
City Manager Moore provided an update on the Police Chief search. He also discussed a
community member's request for an Attorney General's opinion regarding Initiative 1639, on
which Council took no action.
Communications & Public Affairs Director Beehler reported on the recent legislative meetings in
Olympia.
City Manager Moore updated Council on the following events: Police Promotion Ceremony on
Friday, March 29, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. at the Harman Center, joint meeting with the Yakima School
District Board on April 25, 2019, at 6 p.m. and the State of the City Address at the Convention
Center on May 8, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.
4. Council Committee update
Assistant Mayor Gutierrez shared information from a booklet entitled Self -Referral, Deflection and
Diversion—Pathways to Community, which will be discussed at the Council Public Safety
Committee meeting this week.
5. Adjournment
MOTION: Gutierrez moved and Hill seconded to adjourn to the next City Council regular
meeting on April 2, 2019, at 6 p.m. at City Hall. The motion carried by unanimous vote, Cousens,
Mendez and White absent. The meeting adjourned at 6:11 p.m.
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