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1. Letter from Dave Dion regarding street improvements
2. Letter from Camille Bissell regarding City employees
3. Letter from Lyle and Versa K'ang regarding the Senior/Disabled Home Repair Program
4. 3rd Quarter 2013 Municipal Court Office Statistics
5. Community Review Board meeting agenda for November 6, 2013
6. City Meeting Schedule
7. Preliminary Future Activities Calendar
8. Draft Preliminary Council Agenda
9. Draft Council Study Session schedule
10. Newspaper/Magazine/Internet Articles:
*"Editorial: Reform the medical -marijuana markets, The Seattle Times, October 26, 2013
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Dave Dion
7817 Loren Place
Yakima, WA 98908
(509)965-1650
October 25, 2013
Mr. Tony O'Rourke
City of Yakima
129 N 2nd Street
Yakima, WA 98901
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CITY OF YAKIMA
OCT 282013
OFFINCE OF CITY MANAGER
Dear Tony:
I would guess that most of the letters/emails/calls you receive from the citizens of this
city are negative in tone, reflecting some gripe or complaint. I thought I would take a
different tack and throw you and your team some kudos. I have absolutely loved the
improvement in our city's streets.
I travel on Tieton, Summitview and 40th Avenues a great deal. The improvement on
those roads has been wonderful. All of the connections to "old sections" are smoothly
done and the utility holes at intersections have been completed without huge bumps or
dips. Other streets also have been improved tremendously too. This job was handled
professionally and the result is a vast improvement over our earlier roads.
Please pass on my great appreciation to all who made this possible. They improved the
quality of life in•this city in a very short period of time and a minimum of interruption.
Bravo to all for a job well done.
Sincerely,
RECEIVED
CITY OF YAKIMA
OFFICE OF CIT' MANAGER
October 22, 2013
City of Yakima Council Members
C/O City Manager's Office
129 S. 8th Street
Yakima, WA. 98901
Dr. Mr. Matthews:
RECEIVED
CITY OF YAKIMA
OCT 2 3 2013
OFFICE OF CITY COUNCIL
We recently were fortunate enough to receive a grant from the City ofYakima's Senior/Disabled Home Repair
Program. We cannot say enough about the wonderful service and professionalism exhibited by each contractor
from start to finish of our project.
Senior Progam Supervisor, Orville Otto, inspected our home, saw critical needs and arranged for scheduling and
repair. He and his staff were very efficient, patient, helpful and should be commended.
The contractors were:
DAVE'S HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING...installation of proper venting mechanism for our gas furnace
and carbon monoxide detectors. ( Mrs. K'ang no longer experiences dizzy spells or prolonged coughing since this
work was done...the cause of which had been puzzling to her and her physician.)
YAKIMA GLASS...energy efficient windows and front door. Great care was taken to assure that all lead residue
was removed and disposed of as the work was being done.
S & R GENERAL CONTRACTORS, ...exterior removal of lead paint, prep and painting of the
house....Absolutely beautiful job, efficient and precise.
Each contractor and worker for each phase of the project was pleasant, expert, efficient and took pride in their
work. A job well done all the way around and we were privileged to know each of them as they worked.
Lyle and Versa K'<
910 S. 25th Ave
Yakima, WA. 98902
(509)-9018938)
MEMORANDUM
November 5, 2013
TO: The Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
Tony O'Rourke, City Manager
FROM: The Honorable Kelley Olwell, Presiding Judge
Linda Hagert, Court Services Manager
Debbie Baldoz, CPA
SUBJECT: 3rd Quarter 2013 Municipal Court Office Statistics
The City of Yakima Municipal Court operation was created in late 1996 and has been an
independent judicial arm of the City since January 1, 1997. The Court adjudicates all traffic
infractions, misdemeanors, and gross misdemeanors cited in the City. The Court operates
with two full time Judges, one of whom presides over the Court's activities, and a part time
Court Commissioner. The City Council adopts the Courts budget annually; the Court is
otherwise independent from City Administration.
Following please find summary statistical reports for Municipal Court 3rd Quarter activity
through September 30, 2013. Detailed reports are available from the Office of the Municipal
Court. Prior year totals for 2012 are included for comparison.
The following summary information for each quarter includes:
I. Municipal Court Infraction Statistics
II. Municipal Court Criminal Statistics
III. Public Safety Education Assessment (PSEA) Statistics
IV. Collection Statistics -- Municipal Court Outstanding Time -Pay Contracts
V. Outside Agency Collection Statistics
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2013 3rd Qtr MuniCt
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Yakima Municipal Court -- 3rd Quarter 2013
I. Municipal Court Infraction Statistics
2012
Prior Year
2013 Prior
Qtrs.
July
August
September
2013
YTD Total
Filings -- Proceedings
During Year:
Infractions Filed
Violations Charged
Mitigation Hearings
Contested Hearings
Show Cause Hearings
Other Hearings
On Record
Total
Dispositions During Year:
Infractions Paid
Failure to Respond
Committed
Not Committed
Dismissed
Amended
Total Disposed
Municipal Court Traffic
Infraction Revenues
Budget
9,079 5399 1,021 1,328 834 8,382
12,246 6,909 1,410 1,701 1,227 11,247
1,139 650 124 107 99 980
282 105 24 18 21 168
98 63 16 14 16 109
2,243 917 181 110 139 1,347
25,087 13,843 2,776 3,278 2,336 22,233
2,155 1.224 265 267 197 1,953
1,340 66 17 10 5 98
3,788 2,157 509 444 372 3.482
150 45 20 14 17 96
1.843 873 176 126 132 1,307
18 11 2 0 1 14
9,294 4,376 989 861 724 6,950
$926,925
$505,570 $96,937 $76,052 $78,623 $757,182
$1,000,000
$890,000
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$41,021
Yakima Municipal Court -- 3rd Quarter 2013
II. Municipal Court Criminal Statistics
2012 Prior 2013 Prior
Year Qtrs. July
Filings During Year:
Citations Filed 5,306
August September
2.584 260 361 311
Violations Charged 6.300 3,043 329
Trial Settings
During Year:
Non Jury Trials Set 2 4 1
Jury Trials
Proceedings:
Arraignments
1,542 888 135
4,455 2,222 292
441 372
4 1
2013
YTD
Total
3,516
4,185
10
140 101
1,264
208 322 3,044
Non Jury Trials 0 0 1 0 2 3
jury Trials 14 9
-
1 2 1 13
Stipulations to Record 5 4 0 1 0
Other Hearings 5,280 2,696 518 377 421
Dispositions:
Bail Forfeitures 1 0
Guilty 3,860 1,927
Not Guilty 5 2
Dismissed 2,278 1,180
Amended 245 142
Deferred/ Driver 531 269
Prosecution Resumed 116 51 12 8
1Total Disposition 7,036 3,571
Criminal Fines Revenue:
DWI Penalties $100,095 $60,705
Criminal Traffic 136,510
0
315
5
4,012
0 0 0
313 271 2,826
0 0 0 2
134 130 108 1,552
14 11 5 172
44 75 69 457
Non -Traffic Misdemeanor
Recoupments
Total Fines
Total Budget
135,441
163,067
4
75
511 541 461 5,084
$9,660 $7,386 $6,259 $84,010
76,365 13,322 11,620 10,499 111,806
47,637 7,330 2,639 7,665 65,271
102,079 10,709 9,340 8,605 130,733
$535,113 $286,786
$555,000
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$30,985 $33,028
$391,820
$580,000
Yakima Municipal Court -- 3rd Quarter 2013
III. Public Safety Education Assessment (PSEA) Statistics
Public Safety
Education Assessment
(PSEA) Payments *
2012
Prior Year
$1,370,696
2013 Prior
Qtrs.
$741,648
July
$117,479
August
$123,881
September
r
$110,108
2013
YTD Total
$1,093,116
* Required payments to State Public Safety Education. Revenue for these payments is included as part of the
total fine. Revenue figures presented are net of these payments.
IV. Collection Statistics -- Municipal Court Outstanding Time -Pay Contracts
Outstanding Municipal Court Time -Pay Agreements**
As of
9/30/2013
$3,727,424
**After judgment the offender makes arrangements with the court to pay their outstanding fines. If the offender
does not make a payment in 30 days and does not make an effort with the court to make other arrangements to
pay, the account is considered in arrears. A final notice is mailed to the person in arrears. If ignored the account
is then turned over to collection.
The collection agency is mandated by the state of Washington to write off accounts still owing ten years after the
judgment date due to the statute of limitations. The statute of limitations covers all fines and restitution.
V. Outside Collection A enc , Statistics
Outside
Collection Agency: ***
Accounts Assigned in Prior Years
Accounts Assigned in 2009
Accounts Assigned in 2010
Accounts Assigned in 2011
Accounts Assigned in 2012
Accounts Assigned in 2013
Total Assignments
Dollars Collected Since Assignment (Cumulative
less purged) (as of 9/30/13)
Collection Performance Court Accounts
2013 and
Prior Years
$16,054,783
4,726,466
4,093,561
5,960,014
4,246,569
2,536,714
$37,618,107
$4,744,408
12.26%
*** Net of cancellation
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COMMUNITY REVIEW BOARD MEETING
AGENDA
November 6, 2013
5:30 p.m. - Council Chambers - City Hall
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. ROLL CALL
C.R.B. Members Staff
Judy Pozarich Joe Caruso
Phyllis Musgrove Tammy Gilmour
Bob Mason
Ben Shoval
Mei-Lynne Statler
Richard Marcley
Gregory Bohn
III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A. Approval of the minutes from the October 16, 2013 meeting
IV. HEARINGS — CODE COMPLIANCE CASES
A. 1529 McKinley Avenue
Alvin Raymond Cleaver/The Estate of Alvin Raymond Cleaver, Deceased/Mox L. & Doris Miller/
David W. Lynch/Occupant
Code Compliance # CAC -13-0949
B. 1105 Jerome Avenue
Jesenia & Delores Munoz/Lorenzo G. Espinoza/Lorenzo G. Espinoza c/o Escrow Pacific/
Beneficial Washington Inc. /Jesenia & Delores Munoz c/o Escrow Pacific/Occupant
Code Compliance # CAC -13-1217
V. HEARINGS — RIGHT-OF-WAY USE PERMITS (FENCE)
A. None
VI. CODE ADMINISTRATION MANAGER'S STATUS REPORT
A. Code Compliance Statistics for the month of October, 2013
VII. NEW BUSINESS
A. None
VIII. OLD BUSINESS
A. None
IX. ADJOURNMENT
CITY MEETING SCHEDULE
For November 4, 2013 — November 11, 2013
Please note: Meetings are subject to change
Monday, November 4
10:00 a.m. City Council Media Briefing — Council Chambers
Tuesday, November 5
10:00 a.m. County Commissioners Agenda meeting — Council Chambers
6:00 p.m. City Council meeting — Council Chambers
Wednesday, November 6
5:30 p.m. Community Review Board — Council Chambers
Thursday, November 7
9:00 a.m. Hearing Examiner — Council Chambers
Monday, November 11
CITY OFFICES CLOSED
Office Of Mayor/City Council
Preliminary Future Activities Calendar
Please Note: Meetings are subject to change
Meeting Date/Tlmei
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Mon. Nov. 4
10:00 a.m.
Tue. Nov. 5
12:00 p.m.
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4:00 p.m.
Mon. Nov. 11
Tue. Nov. 12
8:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
Wed. Nov. 13
2:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
Thur. Nov. 14
1:00 p.m.
5:30 p.m,
Mon. Nov. 18
10:00 a.m.
Tue. Nov. 19
12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m,
6:00 .m.
Wed. Nov. 20
12:00 p.m.
3:30m.
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Pension Boards
City Council Study Session
Miscellaneous Issues
TRANS -Action Meeting
Yakima Planning
Commission
Davis High School
unveiling
Harman Center Board
YCDA Board
City Council Media Briefing
Miscellaneous Issues
Yakima County Gang
Commission
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DRAFT PRELIMINARY FUTURE COUNCIL AGENDA
November 12, 2013
10:00 a.m. Study Session — Council Chambers
10 a.m. Pit bull / Dangerous Dog Ordinance (audience comments 10:45 — 11 a.m.)
11 a.m. Transit (audience comments 10:45 — 12 noon)
November 19. 2013
(T) 5:00 p.m. Executive Session — Council Chambers
6:00 p.m. Business Meeting — Council Chambers
• 2014 Business Plan
• 2014 Strategic Plan
• 2013 3rd Quarter Capital Improvement Projects Report
• 3rd Quarter 2013 Financial Trend Monitoring report
• Quarterly Gang Free Initiative report
• Resolution accepting 2014 Office of Public Defense grant
• Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a "3 -Party Wholesale Service
Agreement" with the City of Union Gap and the Terrace Heights Sewer District
Resolution authorizing a Professional Services Agreement with Bell &
Associates, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $7,455.00 to develop and provide a
Solid Waste Cost of Service Rate Study.
• Resolution authorizing an Inter -local Agreement with Yakima County for
reimbursement of $80,085.55 for Greenway Trail improvements related to
riparian zone outfall alternatives at the City Wastewater Treatment Facility.
Resolution authorizing acceptance of a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service for $25,000 toward environmental improvements related to Riparian
Zone Outfall Alternatives at the City Wastewater Treatment Facility.
• Resolution authorizing a Site Use Contract of the Miller Park Activity Center with
the Yakima Police Athletic League (Pitney)
10/31/2013
9:22 AM
• Downtown master plan issues and creation of Implementation Committee and
Retail Task Force Committee
Public Hearings
• Public Hearing on Revenue Sources and Consideration of Legislation pertaining
to Ad Valorem Taxes to be levied for collection in Fiscal 2014 Year:
• Public Hearing on the proposed 2014 Revenue and Expenditure Budget for the
City of Yakima and Ordinance Adopting a Budget for the City of Yakima,
Washington for 2014
10/31/2013
9:22 AM
Nov. 12
Nov. 26
10/30/2013
11:10 AM
2013 DRAFT STUDY SESSION SCHEDULE
Council Chambers
10:00 a.m.
1) Pit bull / Dangerous Dog Ordinance 2) Transit issues
Mill site issues
Editorial: Reform the medical -marijuana markets 1 Editorials 1 The Seattle Times Page 1 of 2
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Winner of Nine Pulitzer Prizes
Editorials
Originally published Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 4:08 PM
Editorial: Reform the medical -marijuana markets
The Legislature must merge the medical and recreational marijuana markets, or put at risk voters'
bold leap forward.
Seattle Times Editorial
FOR most of the past 15 years, the state
Legislature has had a marijuana
problem.
In 1998, Washington voters leapt way out
ahead of lawmakers in legalizing medical
marijuana. The Legislature seemed as
comfortable with the idea as if it was being
forced to wear a hair shirt, chafing at
making necessary tweaks to the law.
Lawmakers' boldest act — a 2011 bill written
by Sen. Jeanne Kohl -Welles, D -Seattle, to
regulate medical -marijuana businesses —
was gutted in an irrational veto by former
Gov. Chris Gregoire. Since then, the
Legislature has mostly sat on its hands, even
as voters, once again, leapt past Olympia to
embrace full legalization with Initiative 502.
This time, the Legislature can't futz.
Retail marijuana stores created by Initiative
502 are set to open in early 2014 under
rigorous rules, oversight and heavy sin
taxes. Meanwhile, hundreds of medical -
marijuana dispensaries statewide will
operate without any such regulation, tax
collection or meaningful barrier to entry.
That is an untenable legal and commercial conflict. The logical response is to fold the medical -
marijuana storefronts into the I-502 recreational market.
Creating a single, tightly regulated system is critical if Washington is to avoid federal
intervention with Initiative 502. In an Aug. 29 memo, U.S. Department of Justice said it would
stand aside, for now, as Washington experimented with legal marijuana, so long as access was
tightly controlled.
http://seattletimes.com/html/editorials/2022125488 medicalmarijuanaedit27xml.html 10/28/2013
Editorial: Reform the medical -marijuana markets I Editorials 1 The Seattle Times Page 2 of 2
That same memo explicitly puts a bull's-eye on Washington's Wild West dispensary scene. The
threat is real. A federal crackdown on dispensaries would be bad for patients, and set up
Washington's grand experiment for an embarrassing failure as the world watches.
At the Legislature's request, three state agencies released draft rules this week for merging the
two markets and effectively closing dispensaries by 2015. These are a good starting point.
Lawmakers must protect access for legitimate, suffering medical -marijuana patients, allowing
them or their providers to grow at home, or giving them a break from the steep marijuana sin
taxes if they opt for recreational stores. To differentiate between patients and recreational
users, the Legislature finally set up a patient registry. Washington is the only medical -
marijuana state without one.
The most critical work will be to squeeze down the definition of a legitimate medical -marijuana
patient so that it no longer is a wink -and -a -nod joke. A vague definition of pain has been
exploited by rubber-stamp patient authorization clinics. Just four medical professionals, all
naturopaths, have been disciplined for abusing the law, three of the cases stemming from a
Seattle Times reporter's dubious medical marijuana authorization at Hempfest in 2011.
It's going to be messy political work, because noisy corners of the medical -marijuana industry
will fight tooth and nail to preserve its regulation -free status. Ironically, its success at fighting
even basic rules now mandates the industry give way to a truly regulated recreational market.
It must be done, or the Legislature risks clipping off, mid -jump, the voters' great leap forward
last fall.
http://seattletimes.com/html/editorials/2022125488 medicalmarijuanaedit27xml.html 10/28/2013