Note: The agenda and transcript indicate this meeting occurred on Monday, March 23, 2026, but the instruction requires using April 7, 2026. This discrepancy is noted here; the summary follows the instruction's date.
The Ferndale City Council met on April 7, 2026 (per instruction), from 7:02 PM to 10:32 PM at City Hall. The meeting included presentations, public comments, and votes on several ordinances and purchases. Key actions included adoption of an immigration enforcement ordinance, expansion of the social district (patio zone), approval of a special event permit for Ferndale Pride with a suspended patio zone, amendment to the animal sales ordinance, and approval of two major sewer equipment purchases.
Good evening. I call this meeting to order at 702. If you're able, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the plague of the United States of America. And choose a republic of which it's hins, one nation, under God, indivisible. With liberty and justice for all. Can we have a roll call, please? Johnson. Here. Kelly. Here. McColsky. Here. Sabatini. Here. Leaks May. Here. Approval of the agenda. Madam Mayor approved the agenda as presented. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Right. We're moving on right on to our presentations tonight. Our first presentation will be the Giggle Pickles robot presentation. Yes. However, you get your if you're here. So you can present right up here if someone wanted to speak at the podium. The podium's there. So you just the floor is yours. Right here. Oh, thank you. Before we get a demonstration, does someone want to explain at the podium what we're going to be seeing? Oh, that's important. Yes. Hello. All right. Um my name is Desmond Kahler. I'm representing the back to back state championship robotics team, Giggle Pickles. Um, we're here to show you our amazing robot that we spent a lot of time on. So there it is. Oh we have our turret, which helps us shoot on the move facing any direction with our robot, which we're about to demonstrate in a second here. Uh it's been since like August. We our state championship competition. Oh, there goes the turret. Uh our state championship competition was in December. So August to December, we spent multiple multiple hours on it. And then uh since then we've been preparing for nationals in Houston by adding our turret and multiple other different little tweaks to our robot. Worlds. My bad.