Okay, good afternoon, everybody.

It is 3 p.m.

at March 17th, 2026, and I'm calling to order the Parks and Public Works Committee meeting.

Our first order of oh, I'm sorry, present.

We have Councilmember Eck who's on the committee, the ex officio member Michelle Dodge, the council president, um, and Shannon Burley from Parks, as well as Mark Delilla from Engineering and the Edmund City Kirk, who of course is putting on the broadcast.

So we will start with the first order of business, which is from parks.

It's for the summer market special event agreement.

And this is the first reading.

Um council seeing it.

Recurring event, though, of course.

Thank you so much.

Councilmember Olsen.

Um today presenting the Edmonds summer market.

Um this, of course, as you mentioned, is an ongoing staple for downtown Edmunds.

The uh there are only a few changes to the agreement from prior years.

The first change is that the 4th of July uh falls on a Saturday this year.

So there will be no market on the 4th of July to make space for the Fourth of July festivities.

And in exchange, the market will want will run one Saturday longer in October.

So it'll run uh a little bit later into October.

The second primary change is that the market um uh, you know, obviously the the market the way they make money is by expanding the number of vendors.

And there aren't a ton of spaces to expand uh in their current footprint.

So they requested the option to be able to extend down Bell Street a bit, um as depicted in the contract and on the map.

There are uh there is a business in there, there are some housing, there's a couple businesses in there, and there are some um apartment buildings in there.

And so the compromise that we made when we were working through the contract details was that they would need to obtain letters of support from any impacted business or um housing facility there before we would authorize it.

So um the way I drafted in the contract is not obviously the way it comes back from the attorneys.

It's the way it's drafted in the agreement uh as per the attorneys is that the city will has the right to um restrict access to that area at any time at their sole discretion, which essentially is contract language for the agreement that I have with uh the historical uh museum folks who are working on those letters.

I would not be surprised if they don't take um advantage of that new space at the start of the market as they're working through that process to obtain letters of support.

But um we will see.

I know that's something they're definitely working on.

I just got off the phone with the market manager and confirmed that that is definitely something that uh Arnie, who is their president, is taking the lead on doing.

Um, also confirmed that they are working with the vendor with the business owners along Fifth Avenue there um to ensure that the impacts are nothing but positive uh from the market's presence, which includes opening up 30 feet of storefront for one of the businesses who was new to the area and felt as if maybe their front entrance was being a little bit too blocked.

And so they have readjusted that, um, which is part of why they wanted to extend in a different direction.

Um and from a public safety perspective, I just want to point out that the police and the fire um obviously review these and have some lots of rules that they put on to each of these events.

But from uh public safety perspective, the key was that we don't create any dead ends where a vehicle might drive and then not be able to turn around in a heavily heavy pedestrian area.

And so um the way the layout is allows for vehicles to exit, egress um without having to do um without getting stuck, if you will.

So um the request that I have today would be to forward this agreement to the next consent agenda, and that that would authorize the mayor to sign the agreement, and we can have the market start up on time.

And I'm happy to answer any questions.

Okay, any questions from any of the other council members.

I do have one, Vivian.

So I saw the the thread back and forth that you initiated with the questions, and it I was trying to follow uh right before this meeting.

So it looks like there will not be any sort of impact potentially to those two entities.

The church and then also uh Ballet School.

So the um both of those actually aren't closed with their proposed.

So the church is fine.

The back alley is stays open that goes behind City Hall, kind of that alley.

Um that's not impacted by this addition.

And really uh the goal of the market is to have it end um just uh leaving the Barclay Shelton uh parking lot there open.

Um that's their goal.

So it's a really kind of a small uh space.

I think they're trying to get like four vendors in there.

Um hard to depict in the maps that they provide, but that's their goal.

Um, but they would still, I still would like to know that Barclays Shelton's okay with it, even though it doesn't block their parking lot.

I mean that's it, I mean that's their business.

I think it's the uh apartment community there and their access to their parking lot and where they park their vehicles that is gonna have the bigger impact and that we need to make sure they're satisfied before um we would be able to authorize that.

Okay.

Great.

And um, they do actually have classes on Saturday.

Um if they didn't, the Barclays Shelton thing would be less of an issue.

But I guess they have about 60 families that are in full classes on Saturday.

So um, you know, we are losing a couple more spots um for the market um parking as well as parking for people who are coming for those classes.