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WASHINGTON MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Peloza called the meeting to order at 3:30 p.m. in Conference
Room 3 of City Hall, 25 West Main Street, Auburn, WA.
A. Roll Call
Members present: Chair Bill Peloza, Vice Chair Wayne Osborne
and Member Claude DaCorsi.
Staff present: Mayor Nancy Backus, Chief of Police Bob Lee,
Assistant Chief of Police Bill Pierson, City Attorney Dan Heid,
Community Development and Public Works Director Kevin Snyder,
Public Works Assistant Director Randy Bailey, Planning Services
Manager Elizabeth Chamberlain and Police Secretary/Scribe
Heather Shaw.
Others present: Auburn Reporter representative Robert Whale.
B. Announcements
C. Agenda Modifications
CONSENT AGENDA
A. August 11, 2014 Minutes
Vice Chair Osborne moved to accept the Minutes as presented.
Member DaCorsi seconded. Chair Peloza concurred.
MOTION PASSED: 3 -0
III. ACTION
A. Ordinance No. 6529 (Heid)
City Attorney Dan Heid briefed the committee on the requested
amendments to sections 6.01.050, 6.01.070 and 6.01.100 of the
Auburn City Code, relating to animal control. Chair Peloza
questioned the wording in the code regarding "reasonable notice" to
the animal owner. Dan Heid explained that additional language was
added to both sections 6.01.050 and 6.01.070 as to what was
reasonable notice. He would follow up to clarify written notice�og T of 4
animal owner.
Vice Chair Osborne moved to forward Resolution No. 6529 to full
council for consideration. Member DaCorsi seconded. Chair Peloza
concurred.
MOTION PASSED: 3 -0
B. Resolution No. 5093 (Held)
City Attorney Dan Heid provided Resolution No. 5093 which
declared a "city vehicle" as surplus and authorized its disposal.
Vice Chair Osborne Osborne moved to forward Resolution No. 5093
to full council for consideration. Member DaCorsi seconded. Chair
Peloza concurred.
MOTION PASSED: 3 -0
IV. DISCUSSION ITEMS
A. Ordinance No. 6525 (Chamberlain /Held)
Planning Services Manager Elizabeth Chamberlain briefed the
committee on City of Auburn Ordinance No. 6525. The city's
Planning Commission voted in favor of (5 -1) to recommend to the
City Council the Ordinance allowing the city the ability to enforce
State marijuana regulations without the City being the licensing or
approving agency. This proposal would amend Auburn City Code
sections 1.04.060, 5.10.060, 5.10.040, 9.22.010, 18.02.020 and
18.07.010, relating to production, processing and /or retail outlet and
sales of marijuana, and terminating the moratorium implemented
pursuant to Resolution No. 4992, which was passed on September
16, 2013. As part of the work plan as established in Section 5B of
the moratorium, Planning and Legal staff have engaged in a
collaborative research and analysis effort and prepared Options for
Planning Commission to consider. After careful considerations,
the Planning Commission recommended Option 2 of three total
Options provided.
Chair Peloza provided his thoughts on the topic: State law appeared
to be an unfunded mandate on cities, no sales tax revenue from the
state, no city law enforcement funding for potential problems with
dealing with the marijuana issue, need more time to figure out what
state will or will not do in 2014 Legislative session and favored
extending the moratorium. Vice Chair Osborne questioned whether
it would be beneficial to extend the moratorium pending the outcome
of City of Fife's pending litigation with the Attorney General due to
their city's decision to outlaw marijuana sales /production. Dan Heid
commented that City of Fife's case will take an extended period of
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time due to the case being just recently filed. He strongly
recommended that the city not extend the moratorium too far into
the future as there is a history of the State Supreme Court coming
down harshly on local jurisdictions that have extended moratoriums
that could be considered an unduly delay of the issues. Committee
discussions followed concerning the option for an extension of the
moratorium and what conditions would have to be in place in order
to extend the moratorium. Member Claude DaCorsi recommended
that the city extend the moratorium for six months to allow for the full
council to discuss at length the options and how the city would like
to proceed. Vice Chair Osborne was not sure of a moratorium at this
point in time.
B. Shopping Carts (Bailey)
Assistant Director of Public Works, Randy Bailey provided a
proposed update to Ordinance 6530 that was previously requested
by the committee. Suggested changes were made to Section
8.18.040 (B), allowing the City the "option" to choose whether to
impound carts or dispose of carts if deemed necessary after
reasonable notice is provided. Chair Peloza was concerned of the
additional city costs for this optional program. Committee discussion
followed.
Vice Chair Osborne moved to forward Ordinance No. 6530 to full
Council for consideration. Member DaCorsi seconded. Chair Peloza
concurred.
C. Auto Thefts (Lee)
Chief of Police, Bob Lee reported on auto theft statistics for the city
from 2005 through 2014, year to date. Statistics provided were for
both the city alone as well as a comparison between the City of
Auburn and other local cities in South King County. City of Auburn's
average amount of auto thefts over the period provided are
reportedly higher than the other local cities provided in the report.
Also provided were the most frequently stolen vehicles in the city.
In addition to the report provided, Chief Lee provided additional
statistics for the department. City of Auburn's Police Department has
one officer completely designated to an auto theft task force based
out of Des Moines. This task force is funded through traffic ticket
revenue in the state. January through June of 2014, the task force
opened 66 cases and recovered 89 stolen vehicles at a value of
approximately $625,000.00.
D. Project Matrix
The Project Matrix was reviewed but no changes were identified.
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V. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 4:25 p.m. The next regular meeting of the
Municipal Services Committee is scheduled for Monday, September 8,
2014 at 3:30 p.m. in Conference Room 3 of City Hall, 25 West Main
Street, Auburn, WA.
Signed this day of September, 2014.
Bill Peloza, Ch it e t r Shaw, Police Secretary /Scribe
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