CITY OF SHORELINE
SHORELINE CITY COUNCIL
Monday, April 12, 2004 Shoreline Conference Center
PRESENT: Mayor Hansen, Councilmembers Chang, Fimia, Grace, and Ransom
ABSENT: Deputy Mayor Jepsen and Councilmember Gustafson
1. CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 8:06 p.m. by Mayor Hansen, who presided.
2. FLAG SALUTE/ROLL CALL
Mayor Hansen led the flag salute. Upon roll call by the City Clerk, all Councilmembers were present, with the exceptions of Deputy Mayor Jepsen and Councilmember Gustafson.
Upon motion by Councilmember Fimia, seconded by Councilmember Chang and unanimously carried, Deputy Mayor Jepsen and Councilmember Gustafson were excused.
(a) Proclamation of “Judge James T. Ronald Day”
3. CITY MANAGER’S REPORT
Steve Burkett, City Manager, described next week’s agenda.
4. REPORTS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
Councilmember Grace reported that 54 individuals testified at the three public forums and provided much valuable input that will be discussed at the Council Retreat.
5. PUBLIC COMMENT
(a) LaNita Wacker, Shoreline, distributed a document entitled Fircrest School: A Center of Excellence, which she said she had delivered to City Hall but she was not sure Council had received. She suggested that citizens receive acknowledgement of information provided to the City Council. She went on to say that Fircrest is the second largest employer in Shoreline, and its closure will have an economic impact on the community. She felt that Shoreline’s jobs are being outsourced to Pierce County. She noted that 50 – 62 percent of the funds that operate Fircrest come from the federal government and this income to the City will be lost if Fircrest is closed. She regretted that Council has not lobbied to keep Fircrest open.
6. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
Councilmember Fimia moved approval of the agenda. Councilmember Ransom seconded the motion, which carried 5 – 0.
7. CONSENT CALENDAR
Councilmember Ransom asked that the two sets of minutes of the community forums be pulled. He moved to approve the consent calendar as amended. The motion was seconded by Councilmember Fimia and the following consent calendar items were approved:
Minutes of Workshop of March 15, 2004
Minutes of Regular Meeting of March 22, 2004
Approval of expenses and payroll as of March 26,
2004 in the amount of $1,263,175.05
Resolution No. 214 authorizing the Retirement Health
Savings Plan Benefit to the Employee Deferred
Compensation Program
Motion to authorize the City Manager to execute the
Interlocal Agreement with King County for Court Services
Motion to authorize the City Manager to execute an
Intergovernmental Cooperative Purchasing Agreement
with King County Director’s Association
8. ACTION ITEMS: OTHER ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND MOTIONS
(a) Resolution No. 215 adopting the Hazard Mitigation Plan
Police Chief Denise Turner explained that Council had reviewed the draft plan on March 15 and the document before Council tonight has not changed. She said that the two changes suggested at the workshop were not incorporated and explained the reasons. She said that adding a Councilmember to the Emergency Management Council could be accomplished through an amendment to Ordinance No. 238, not this plan. She noted that staff did not recommend this change, since this group was established as an interjurisdictional administrative group, under the direction of the City Manager, to implement the emergency plans and policies established by the City Council. She said the second suggestion was to sort the 28 mitigation strategies in short, medium and long term projects and have a cost-benefit analysis done for future funding. The strategies are already rank-ordered in the plan and no changes were recommended. She said that as the strategies are considered for implementation, cost-benefit analysis will be done.
Councilmember Ransom reiterated his recommendation that an elected official should serve on the Emergency Management Council. Mr. Burkett reiterated that this would be a separate legislative action. Mayor Hansen supported the staff recommendation because this group basically is a staff working group.
Councilmember Grace asked for regular updates on the status of the strategies. He also confirmed that their adoption does not commit any funding.
Chief Turner concluded that once Council has adopted the plan, it will be forwarded to the State of Washington for its review and comment. Then the City will consider this feedback and the finalized document will be forwarded to FEMA.
Chief Turner said that some of the initiatives, such as the hiring of the Emergency Management Coordinator and the production of education materials, are already funded. Mr. Burkett added that the City is receiving some grant funding.
Councilmember Fimia noted that the City is not precluded from spending money on these strategies before the final plan is submitted to FEMA. Then she noted a hazard just outside the City’s southern boundary and felt that this facility should be noted on Shoreline’s map.
Chief Turner noted that the map is only of the City of Shoreline, except for Pt. Wells, which can only be accessed through Shoreline and for which Shoreline is the primary responder by contract.
Councilmember Fimia felt the City would surely want to know about hazards adjacent to our borders.
Chief Turner said adjacent jurisdictions are going through a similar process of mapping hazards and producing similar information about them. She felt it is not appropriate to include hazards that are handled by other jurisdictions on our map.
Mayor Hansen added that there are mutual aid agreements to provide help with hazards in neighboring cities.
Mr. Burkett added that all the jurisdictions will review the plans of their neighbors and so through this sharing of information, everyone will be aware of the big picture.
Upon motion by Councilmember Grace, seconded by Councilmember Chang and unanimously carried, Resolution No. 215 adopting the Hazard Mitigation Plan was approved.
9. ADJOURNMENT
At 8:45 p.m., Mayor Hansen declared the meeting adjourned.
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Sharon Mattioli, City Clerk