All right, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Tuesday, October 6th, Committee the Whole for Planning and Public Works.

All council members are in attendance, and we have a busy agenda, so let's get rolling.

First up, we have the adoption of the ordinance to formalize updates to Redmond Municipal Code, titles one, two, three, four, five, six, and nine.

Good evening, council.

Uh Chris Stinger, Acting Director Public Works.

Joining me tonight is Rob Crittenden, City Engineer.

And as discussed, we are here uh to talk about putting the following item on a consent agenda.

Uh this is the final phase of the comprehensive review we undertook to make sure uh municipal code is current, clear and aligned with how the city operates today.

Uh earlier this year, council approved titles 10, 12, 13, and 15.

And tonight we're bringing forward the remaining updates to titles one through six and title nine.

So

at a high level, these changes are intended to clarify roles, responsibilities, and authorities, remove outdated or inconsistent language, and better align the code with our current organizational structure, policies, procedures, and practices established through our APWA accreditation effort.

So

we've also completed uh public outreach processes associated with these updates.

We've received no comments or appeals, and the city clerk and city attorney have reviewed the proposed ordinances.

So tonight we're asking for council direction to proceed following that direction.

Public works.

We'll bring the seven ordinances forward for adoption on the October 20th business meeting.

And with that, I'll turn it over to Rob to fill in any detail.

You

did steal a lot of my thunder there.

Like ripping out pages of my script.

So, yes, as uh Chris had said, this is the final phase of our comprehensive update of the municipal code.

Uh we came to you all uh starting in June of 25 and uh went through 10, 12, 13, and 15, and which and you approved changes to those in April of 26.

Uh those were very complicated changes, as you may recall.

There's a lot of moving parts there.

The changes to uh titles one through six and nine are much simpler.

Uh it's quite a bit of of uh you know kind of cleaning up work and also making sure

that

any references that we created within 10, 12, 13, and 15 are correctly called out here.

The so the memo uh the council memo includes a uh attachment H, which is a listing of all the changes and also the rationale.

So I have that table along if we want to talk about any specific rationale items, and then I also have all of the ordinances up uh if we want to get to that depth.

Uh

the city clerk and the city attorney have gone through these, and so they're pretty much ready for prime time with council.

So the going to the some of the specific changes, what we did is we went through and we made sure that any definitions were current.

We uh uh corrected director titles, uh some of them were outdated titles no longer used or just incorrectly stated, or it would say like uh Department of Public Works Director or something like that.

We would we would clean that up.

They were kind of a wide variety as we went through code.

Then more importantly, we deleted sections that no longer reflect current practices.

My favorite is the uh 1965 uh section that that funded the current MOC building, not the one that we're looking to build uh coming up now, but funded the current one, and so that fund has been

uh

defunct for quite some time.

Uh

then we also uh looked at adding language, uh as I had mentioned uh for references.

Other parts of the code, we decided to take out specific language about delegates and designees because it was spread throughout the code in all sorts of fashions again.

So

we took those out and we referenced specific sections here, and so within title one and title two, we state uh essentially that for instance for the city engineer, the city engineer it is authorized it for these duties or his delegates or designees as uh as specifically assigned by the public works director or the mayor.

So we have that language in

there.

So those are kind of the key ones.

I like to say I would be glad to go through each of the items if you'd like.

Uh, but again, what we're asking for is just uh approval to move on to the regular council meeting on the October 20th.

Great.

Council members' questions.

I'll start with council member Percy.

Thank you.

There is an item for Noxious Weeds.

Um there is a section that I would love to consider adding.

Um there is currently um, I'm sorry, my browser just completely closed, and all of my notes went with it.

Um, but I will speak from my memory.