The Kirkland City Council met on April 21, 2026, for a study session at 5:30 p.m. and a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. The council addressed a wide range of topics including prosecution services, a potential church property acquisition, zoning code amendments for the NE 85th Street Station Area, the 2026-2028 Planning Work Program, updates to council policies, a resolution on immigration enforcement, and a downtown valet parking pilot. Several votes were taken, with key items postponed or approved with amendments.
Meeting of April 21, 2026. Before asking the clerk to call the role for tonight's meeting, I'd like to note that Councilmember Pascal is absent from our study session. We'll be joining our regular meeting. Is there a motion to excuse Councilmember Pascal? So moved. Second. And moved by Deputy Mayor Black, second by Councilmember Arnold to excuse Councilmember Pascal from tonight's study session. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries six zero. City clerk, will you please call the roll? Councilmember Tim Chison. Here. Councilmember Arnold. Here. Councilmember Prem. Here. Council Member Felcone. Here. Deputy Mayor Black. Here. Mayor Curtis. Here. And Councilmember Pascal has been excused. Thank you. Our study session tonight is on two items. First, we'll hear an overview of prosecution services in Kirkland. Second, we will discuss a potential property acquisition. We expect to reconvene our meeting at 7:30. Hello, Judge Illson. Nice to see you. All right. Thank you. Madam Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Barbara's Council. So you just did what I was going to say acknowledged we have our special guest, our Kirkland municipal court process uh Judge John Olson here's here watching as well. But we have our Kirkland prosecutors here today to give you an overview. They work with our city attorney, so I'm gonna turn it over first to Darcy Eilers to say a few words, and then she's gonna turn it over to our panel. But welcome everybody. Good evening, Mayor, Deputy Mayor Council. I am gonna do just a quick intro slide to explain how the relationship between the city and Moberly and Roberts, our prosecutors, and rather than duplicate um introductions, I'm gonna let Lynn introduce her team in just a minute. Otherwise you'll hear it multiple times. So if we go to the quick next slide, I can um just say maybe. Oh, we went a little far. Uh well, I can I can just jump in on it and say the City of Kirkland um contracts for prosecution services, and so we have contracted with um Mowerley and Roberts since 2006. Uh pursuant to our procurement uh process and code. We go out for um we go out for a request for proposals every so uh every few years um and then we build into those contracts extensions one year extensions. So right now the uh contract with Morley and Roberts goes until the end of or till October, end of September 2026 with one more opportunity for extension, and then we'll have to do a new request for proposals. Um but as I indicated, we've uh uh uh contracted with Morey and Roberts since they've been the winning request for proposal uh since 2006. I I think that I had the wrong um year in the packet.