The Bainbridge Island City Council held a regular business meeting on September 22, 2026, at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting included a proclamation, public comments on multiple topics, a public hearing on interim zoning, and discussions on a CHIP grant application for the 625 Winslow Way affordable housing project, a contract amendment with LMN Architects, the 2027-2028 proposed budget, and legislative priorities. Key votes included approval of the CHIP grant application (4-3), unanimous approval of the LMN contract amendment, and unanimous endorsement of legislative priorities with modifications.
Item 8C – CHIP Grant Application for 625 Winslow Way:
Item 8B – Amendment No. 3 with LMN Architects:
Item 8D – Legislative Priorities and Policy Document for 2027 Session:
Item 8A – 2027-2028 Proposed Budget and 2027-2032 Capital Improvement Plan:
I'd like to call tonight's Bainbridge Island City Council regular business meeting for Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026, up to order. City Clerk, would you please call the role? Yes, thank you, Mayor. Christine Brown, City Clerk. Please state for the record if you're present after I call your name. Mayor Morwaukey. Present. Deputy Mayor Hytopolis. Present. Councilmember Matthews. President. Councilmember Fantro Johnson. President. Councilmember Nelson. Present. Councilmember Land. Present. Councilmember Schneider. Present. Thank you. Thank you, City Clerk Brown. Thank you, colleagues. And now for tonight's land acknowledgement, the school has just gotten in session, so they haven't set up which students will be uh reading this, but for tonight, asked our my colleague uh councilmember Ashley Matthews to read the land acknowledgement. Thanks, Mayor. Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Chief Seattle, 1854. We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the Suquab, people of clear saltwater, Sequamish people. Expert fishermen, canoe builders, and basket weavers, the Suquab live in harmony with the land and waterways along Washington's Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the Suquab live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations, as promised by the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855. Thank you, Councilmember Matthews. Now we'd like to have a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Don't jump all at once. So moved. Thank you, Councilmember. Thank you, Councilman Nelson. Moved by Councilmember Franklin Johnson, seconded by Councilmember Nelson to approve tonight's agenda. Any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed. Council votes 6-0. Chair votes aye. Vote is 7-0. There are any conflicts of interest to uh disclose tonight. Seeing when I move to presentations, and I have the honor of reading tonight's proclamation, a proclamation by the City Council of the City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, declaring the month of October 26th as Philippino American History Month. Whereas the earliest documented proof of Filipino presence in what is now the continental United States was in October 1587 when the Lazones Indios set foot in Moral Bay, California. And Philipino American History Month was first celebrated in the United States in October 1992, and in 2019, the state of Washington passed a bill permanently marking October as Filipino History Month here. And whereas Bainbridge Island is the home of a historic Filipino community with the earliest record showing a Filipino person employed at the Port Blakely Mill in 1883, who was also the first known employee from the Philippines in the Pacific Northwest. And whereas at least 65 early Filipino farmers on Bainbridge Island owned up to 20 acres of land each, growing raspberries and strawberries to support their families.