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I. CALL TO ORDER
Chair Peloza called the meeting to order at 3:50 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,
Finance Director Shelley Coleman, City Attorney Dan Heid,
Emergency Preparedness Manager Sarah Miller and Police
Secretary /Scribe Heather Shaw.
Others present: Auburn Reporter representative Robert Whale.
B. Announcements
C. Agenda Modifications
II. CONSENT AGENDA
A. September 8, 2014 Minutes
The Committee recommended a revision to the proposed minutes.
Vice Chair Osborne moved to accept the Minutes as amended.
Member DaCorsi seconded. Chair Peloza concurred.
MOTION PASSED: 3 -0
III. ACTION
A. Resolution No. 5103 (Coleman)
Director Shelley Coleman presented the committee with the
proposed Resolution No. 5103. This resolution would allow for an
inter -fund loan to cover the additional project cost to the Auburn
Municipal Airport T Hangar Row 3 Enclosure project. The inter -fund
loan will be repaid with interest over a five year period with revenues
generated from rentals. The committee recommended minor
grammatical revisions.
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Vice Chair Osborne recommended that Resolution No. 5103 to be
moved to full council for consideration as amended. Member
DaCorsi seconded. Chair Peloza concurred.
MOTION PASSED: 3 -0
B. Resolution No. 5097 (Miller)
A resolution of the City Council of the City of Auburn, Washington,
formally accepting a grant from the Washington State Military
Department in the amount of fifty five thousand seven hundred
twenty four dollars ($55,724.00) from the United States Department
of Homeland Security Emergency Management Performance Grant
Program.
Emergency Preparedness Manager Sarah Miller briefed the
committee on the annual Emergency Management Performance
Grant which can be used exclusively for emergency management
items and activities. The city uses the grant primarily for a contract
employee to conduct planning activities and provide public
education activities and supplies.
Vice Chair Osborne recommended that Resolution No. 5097 to be
moved to full council for consideration as amended. Member
DaCorsi seconded. Chair Peloza concurred.
MOTION PASSED: 3 -0
IV. DISCUSSION ITEMS
A. Crime Activity Report (Lee)
Police Chief Bob Lee provided a crime activity memorandum as
requested by the committee for review. The memorandum provided
details on a number of individual reports produced by the
department's crime analyst. The first report is a weekly generated
stat report that includes the Total Arrests, Valley Com CAD calls,
Case Reports, Collisions and Domestic Violence reports. Additional
reports that are provided to only other law enforcement agencies
due to their confidential nature are the Information Driven Policing
Report and the Weekly /Daily Crime Analysis Reports. The
Information Driven Report is a regional & local intelligence sharing
report that is sent to other law enforcement agencies covering:
persons, locations and crime trends. The Crime Analysis report is
provided to the department on both a daily and weekly report to
officers. This report covers auto thefts, auto theft recoveries,
residential and commercial burglaries, theft from vehicles and all
felony crimes. The final item that Chief Lee provided was the
information on how citizens can access the city's crime mapping
feature located on the city web page. These maps will provide
neighborhood data to search crimes located in the city. Mayor
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Backus requested that the weekly stat report be provided in moving
forward to the Mayor's Office staff and council for review.
B. Ordinance No. 6519 (Held)
An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Auburn, Washington,
creating a new Chapter 2.92 of the Auburn City Code, providing for
a Code of Ethics
City Attorney Dan Heid provided an updated Ordinance No. 6519
and Ordinance No. 6524 to the committee for review and discussion.
This topic was brought to the committee for discussion due to a
previous invitation to the council to attend a Muckleshoot event. The
state law provides that any value less than $50.00 is permissible to
city employees.
Currently the city does not have a city code of ethics for municipal
officers and therefore does not have a policy in place for determining
whether there is a benefit for public officials to attend or participate
in events, activities or functions. Chair Peloza questioned what other
surrounding cities did and if they had an ethics code. Attorney Dan
Heid indicated that many do not have an ethics code and most rely
on the state statute. Member DaCorsi referenced section 3G of
Ordinance No. 6519 and questioned how one would determine the
value of benefit to the city should a council member receive an
invitation to an event and wish to attend. Committee discussion
followed regarding what state law provided for and whether
Ordinance 6519 as written would allow city council members to
attend events if there was a benefit to the city for attendance.
Questions from the committee regarding whether the city needed an
ethics code officer and who would make up the ethics officer
followed. After committee discussion, Ordinance No. 6524 appeared
to be a more streamlined and understandable ordinance for the city
with specific revisions and re- wording as requested by the
Committee and Mayor. It was recommended by the committee that
Ordinance No. 6524 move forward with amendments to the
language.
C. Project Matrix
The following update was identified for the Project Matrix:
81: To be removed.
V. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 p.m. The next regular meeting of the
Municipal Services Committee is scheduled for Monday, October 13,
2014 at 3:30 p.m. in Conference Room 3 of City Hall, 25 West Main
Street, Auburn, WA.
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Signed this 13 � day of October, 2014.
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Bill Peloza, C Ar FfeWer Shaw, Police Secretary/Scribe
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