The Kirkland City Council convened on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, starting with a study session at 5:30 PM and the regular meeting at 7:30 PM. The meeting covered a wide range of topics including updates on the Kraken Iceplex partnership, speed limit policy, synthetic turf feasibility, a quasi-judicial master plan amendment, reaffirmation of the city's inclusive values, and allocation of 4Culture grant funds. The council also heard public comments, approved the consent calendar, and received reports from council members and the city manager. The meeting adjourned at 11:15 PM after a closed session on collective bargaining.
I'd like to call the order of the city council meeting October 7th, 2026, before asking the clerk to call tonight's roll. Is there a motion to excuse Councilmember Sweet? So moved. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries zero. City clerk. Councilmember Tim Chisholm. Here. Councilmember Black. Here. Councilmember Falcone. Here. Councilmember Pascal. Here. Deputy Mayor Arnold. Here. Mayor Curtis. Here. Our study session tonight is on two items. First, we'll receive an update on the Kraken Iceplex and the community center. Second, we will receive an update on the speed limit setting policy. We expect to reconvene our regular meeting at 7 30. City manager. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Deputy Mayor, members of the council. So as I said, we have two topics tonight. We're going to hopefully have about 45 minutes for each topic, but we'll keep an eye on that. To make the presentation tonight, we're going to update you on what's happening with the Seattle Kraken partnership discussion. Our presenters are going to be our deputy city manager of external affairs, Jim Lopez, and our city attorney, Darcy Eilers. But as you saw in the packet, there's a list of all of the staff working on this. There's there's a dozen or more folks who've been working really hard, and uh this represents a lot of their work. So appreciate all the team, but these two are going to give you the presentation. Others are all standing by to help if needed. So with that, Mr. Lopez, take it away. Thank you, City Manager, Madam Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and Council. It's great to be here tonight presenting on the Kraken project. Uh one of many presentations we've made. This is a continuum of that. And we're going to go through what we hope to be some of the high-level issues for your review as we can move towards a very big negotiation session that we're going to have with them on October 14th. And we'll talk a little bit more about that. I'd also like, as the city manager noted, to call out Deputy City Manager Julie Underwoods here for questions about particularly about the uh vault uh surface water vault. And our Parks Director Lynn's Waxcher could talk in more detail about the negotiations we're having around the recreational center, community center. So jumping into the agenda tonight. We have several items. Uh project context. We'll talk a little bit about the project context for folks that are coming into this new. It's a very uh forward thinking public-private partnership.