I'd like to call to order the city council special meeting of August 8th, 2025.

Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Councilmember Bushnell.

Present.

Deputy Mayor Daniels.

Here.

Councilmember Diaz.

Here.

Councilmember Hines.

Here.

Councilmember Rumba.

Here.

Councilmember Sidalgay?

Here.

Councilmember Scott?

Here.

Councilmember Walker.

Here.

Mayor Woodards.

Here.

Clerk, have we received any written public comment for today's special meeting?

We've received 31 comments.

Right.

And those comments are in our box at this time.

They have been emailed and I believe they're published online also.

Great.

Thank you very much.

All right.

So today we are here to take action on initiative measure number two as it is mandated within 30 days by our charter.

As I noted on Tuesday, we have two options per our charter.

Either to adopt the ordinance as is, either to adopt the initiative as is in an ordinance or reject it, which would require sending it to the voters.

Since we did not have an ordinance come forward before the materials were posted, we will only be considering the resolution to be submitted to the voters.

So item one, Clerk, will you please read Resolution 41733, a resolution calling for a special election on November 4th, 2025, providing for transmittal to the Pierce County Auditor as ex officio supervisor of elections of initiative measure number two for placement on the November 4th, 2025 special election ballot and directing the city clerk to transmit to the Pierce County Auditor a certified copy of this resolution?

I move to adopt resolution number 4173.

Second.

All right.

Thank you, Mayor.

Mayor, Deputy Mayor, members of City Council.

Steve Victor with the City Attorney's Office.

The reason that we call for a special election is that the general election by state law is limited to regular recurring topics.

So for example, council elections in odd years, you know, state and federal elections in even years.

Any topic that is not recurring regular is automatically by state law a special election.

So every ballot measure, uh whether it's an initiative or one the council puts on, is always a special election by state law.

And so when we uh adopt legislation uh referring something to the voters, it is always a special election it and city attorney and if there are any questions, please please um council.

If you have questions, let me know.

So I I'd never realized that is as long as I've been in politics, never realized that.

So does that mean like when the school district puts a bond or a levy on the November election or the park district, or even if we put the streets initiative on?

I'm just trying to get I'm trying to get really I want to really understand this.

Whenever that's on a November election, which a lot of times it has been, that's considered a special election.

That is, Mayor.

Um so the parks district, uh, school district, uh, any special district putting on an election or municipality uh that is not regular, that is not a political office, is technically under state law a special election, and so the legislation will call for that.

Councilmember Scott, thank you, Mayor.

Uh thank you, Steve, for that uh explanation.

Uh the other question I have just as a follow-up, and maybe this is why we didn't notice it was a special election type of thing.

Does it just show up on the regular ballot with everything else, even though it's still considered a special it it absolutely will be, but it'll be listed as you know in the voters' pamphlet and in the uh on the ballot as a special election, but it will be on the same ballot and the same voters pamphlet.

Thank you.

Never noticed there was a special election section on the ballot, just filled out my ballot.

All right.

Well, with that, um, we have this motion before us, and I just um want to offer an opportunity um for any council comments, either from those online or those here in person before we move to the question.

Are there any comments?