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YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDASTATEMENT
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Item No. 2.
For Meeting of: January 9, 2018
ITEM TITLE: Resolution announcing Council Business meeting schedule for
2018
SUBMITTED BY: Sonya Clear Tee, City Clerk
SUMMARY EXPLANATION:
At the January 2, 2018, City Council meeting, this item was postponed to January 9, 2018 with
suggested revisions incorporated herein.
ITEM BUDGETED:
STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Public Trust and Accountability
APPROVED FOR
SUBMITTAL:
City Manager
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt resolution.
BOARD/COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION:
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RESOLUTION NO. R -2018-
A RESOLUTION adopting the City Council 2018 regular business meeting schedule.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Open Meetings Act, the Council is adopting an annual
meeting schedule totaling 23 meetings, consisting of two business meetings per month; and
WHEREAS, the proposed schedule provides for regular meetings to occur with
starting times of 6 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, a majority of the Council may call special meetings or revise the
regular meeting schedule when necessary; and
WHEREAS, unless otherwise specially revised in the future, regular meetings of
the City Council for calendar year 2018 shall be held on the days set forth below.
January 16
February 6 and 20
March 6 and 20
April 3 and 17
May 1 and 15
June 5 and 19
July 10 and 17 (second and third Tuesday)
August 7 and 21 (August 7 meeting to be held at 2 p.m. in honor of National Night
Out Activities)
September 11 and 18 (second and third Tuesday)
October 2 and 16
November 6 and 13 (first and second Tuesday)
December 4 and 11 (first and second Tuesday)
Regular meetings of the City Council shall be scheduled to commence at 6 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, in the event the City Council fails to adopt a resolution to establish
regular meeting dates for any calendar year, the regular meetings of the City Council for
such calendar year shall be the first and third Tuesdays of each month, except any
Tuesday which falls upon the day of an authorized City holiday, in which event the first
Tuesday thereafter which is not a holiday shall be a regular meeting day; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
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WHEREAS, this resolution shall supersede and render null and void the provisions
of any prior resolution to the extent such provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of
this resolution. The resolution shall become operative on January 9, 2018; and
WHEREAS, the City Council deems it to be in the best interest of the City of
Yakima, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
That the City Council of the City of Yakima adopts the 2018 regular meeting
schedule on specified Tuesdays as indicated.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 91h day of January, 2018.
ATTEST: Kathy Coffey, Mayor
Sonya Claar Tee, 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?
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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.
5o no additional notice of the regular meeting itself is required, but some method must be
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