The Edmonds City Council met at 6:00 p.m. on January 27, 2026, in Council Chambers and via Zoom. The council approved the consent calendar, continued the 84th Avenue Street Vacation public hearing to March 10, adopted Ordinance 4429 restructuring council meetings/committees/study sessions, and approved sunsetting Resolution 1543. A motion to remove the ECC 1.04 item from the agenda failed 3–4, after which the agenda was approved. The meeting was adjourned at 8:34 p.m.
Good evening, and welcome to the Edmund City Council meeting for January January 27th. I will now call that meeting to order. Would you all please join me in the uh flag saloon? Which expands our nation under God, individual liberty and justice. Thank you. For the land acknowledgement, uh Councilmember Nan, please. Thank you. We acknowledge the original inhabitants of this place, the Snohomish people, and their successors, the two tribes, who since time immemorial have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands. We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water. Thank you. Can we have a roll call, please? Councilmember Eck. Councilmember Chen? Councilmember Barnett. Council President Dutch. Here. Councilmember Olson. Here. Councilmember Payne. Councilmember Nand. You have a quorum, Mayor. Mayor Rosen. Thank you. Next item of business is approval of the agenda. It's been moved and seconded to approve the agenda. I'd like to make a motion after this. Councilmember Olson. I'd like to remove or make a motion to remove the council business item three. Is there a second? Make her the motion. Further discussion on the motion to remove uh council business business item number three. Councilmember Nant. I am not in favor of this motion. We had four council members who were in favor of moving this forward to consent. However, um some of the dissenting council members did ask that this get put on council business. I don't think that further delaying um the majority of what this council's indicated that they would like to do in proceeding with um how we are going to approach our committee structure this year would be helpful or fruitful. We um with the council leadership, Council President Dosh and I have to go through and schedule items to come before committee, and right now we're scheduling under the old structure. And those items that we are putting on the extended agenda for future um consideration will not once this ordinance is passed, will have to be rescheduled. And I prefer that we create less confusion for our work in 2026, and we adopt the new structure that the majority of this council agreed with during our previous committee meeting, and then um start to schedule our council business that way. Thank you. Further discussion on the motion, Councilmember Payne. Thank you. And I apologize for being late. And we need to have our retreat in advance of any sort of set of study session items. We don't even know what this is going to be including. This is ad hoc committees are fine for, you know, you scramble them and then you let them go, but we need to have specifics that are directly related to our work plan before we start scheduling and changing our own code when we can go ahead and just schedule these meetings. I think that we need to have our retreat, decide our work plan, decide what topics, specifically topics that we need to apply to our study sessions. Don't object to study sessions. We can have those scheduled as needed. We don't need to change our code to do that.