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BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDA STATEMENT
Item No. 7.B.
For Meeting of: December 3, 2024
ITEM TITLE: Resolution adopting the City Council regular meeting schedule for
2025
SUBMITTED BY: Rosalinda Ibarra, City Clerk
SUMMARY EXPLANATION:
As part of the City of Yakima Strategic Priorities, attached is the Council Business meeting schedule for
2025, which can be amended by a majority vote of Council members.
ITEM BUDGETED: Yes
STRATEGIC PRIORITY 24-25: An Engaged Yakima
RECOMMENDATION: Adopt Resolution.
ATTACHMENTS:
Resolution_2025 Council meeting schedule
MRSC inquiry
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RESOLUTION NO. R-2024-
A RESOLUTION adopting the City Council 2025 regular business meeting schedule.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act, the Council is adopting an annual
meeting schedule totaling 24 meetings, consisting of two business meetings per month; and
WHEREAS,the proposed schedule provides for regular meetings to occur with starting times
of 5:30 p.m. on specified Tuesdays of each month with exceptions provided for recess periods or
when a meeting would fall on a City, religious or cultural holiday or Election Day or another event;
and
WHEREAS, regular meetings of the City Council shall be scheduled to commence at 5:30
p.m. unless otherwise noticed in this resolution or revised in the future and legally noticed and
posted for a revised meeting time; and
WHEREAS, the City Council deems it to be in the best interest of the City of Yakima and
its residents to adopt a full meeting schedule for its general business meetings for the year 2025,
now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That the City Council of the City of Yakima adopts the 2025 regular meeting schedule
as follows:
January 7 and 21
February 4 and 18
March 4 and 18
April 1 and 15
May 6 and 20
June 3 and 17
July 1 and 15
August 4 and 19 (first Monday&third Tuesday due to National Night Out Activities on August 5)
September 2 and 16
October 7 and 21
November 3 and 18 (first Monday &third Tuesday due to Election Day on November 4)
December 2 and 9 (first and second Tuesday)
Section 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution, any regular meeting of the
Council may be set, canceled or rescheduled to a different date, time or location by motion duly
adopted by the affirmative votes of at least four members of the City Council or by any other
manner as provided by law. The date, time and location of any meeting set or rescheduled to a
different date, time or location shall be noticed and posted in the manner provided by law.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 3rd day of December, 2024.
ATTEST: Patricia Byers, Mayor
Rosalinda Ibarra, City Clerk
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Question:
Our regular city council meetings are on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Do we need to
submit a notice to the newspaper that a meeting will take place for each occurrence?
Answer:
Once you have formally established a regular meeting schedule for the city council by ordinance or
resolution, there are no further notice requirements in the Open Public Meeting Act itself for those
regular meetings. So no notice to the newspaper is required for that regular meeting.
However, note that RCW 35A.12.160 requires that every city is to establish a procedure for notifying
the public of the preliminary agendas for upcoming council meetings. This does not mean it has to be
published in a newspaper, and few cities require that. But some procedure must be established - we
believe most cities publish the preliminary agenda in advance on their website or physically at city
hall or both. This would be sufficient to satisfy the statutory requirement.
So no additional notice of the regular meeting itself is required, but some method must be
established to notify the public of the preliminary agenda in advance of the meeting.
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