The Tacoma City Council and the Tacoma Public Utility Board held a joint study session on February 11, 2025, to discuss post-issuance bond compliance training, the 2025 federal legislative agenda, a proposed wholesale water supply agreement with the Cascade Water Alliance, and the One Tacoma Comprehensive Plan update. The meeting also included announcements of upcoming resolutions on immigration protections and LGBTQ+ reaffirmation, as well as an executive session.
I would like to call to order the joint city council public utility board study session of February 11th, 2025. To order, clerk, will you please call the roll? Board member Clos McGann. Present. Board Member Gallagher. Here. Board Member Watson. Absent. Vice Chair Bridges, absent, Chair O'Lachlin. Present. Councilmember Bushnell. Present. Deputy Mayor Daniels. Here. Councilmember Diaz. Here. Councilmember Hines. Absent. Councilmember Remba. Councilmember Sidalgay. Councilmember Scott. Absent Councilmember Walker. Mayor Woodards. Here. The study session material is sent to you at 10 59. All right. Thank you. Today, as you can tell, it is our joint meeting with Toma Public Utility Board. And at this time, I'd like to call on a public utility board chair, John O'Lachlin to provide opening remarks. Thank you, Mayor. Johnny Oh. Yes. First of all, I just like to say that board member Bridges and Board Member Watson send their can uh regrets they couldn't make it. Um and uh additionally on board member Watson. You might be aware he recently submitted a temporary resignation. He's undergoing some uh um health issues, and he uh recognizes the challenges with the five member board uh that quorums and whatnot. So he is courageously decided to temporarily step down, and we look forward to getting his voice back on the board when he is healthy and up to it. So that'll be something that's coming to the GPFC soon. And um, I'll let my colleagues introduce themselves, but um I do want to say one thing about the proposed Cascade Water Alliance, not to steal any thunder, but this is a once in a generation opportunity. I mean, these sorts of things in the very long-lived infrastructure world of providing water services um don't come around very often. And they're significant, and um a lot of thought has gone into this, but I'll leave it to the uh presenters to describe the rest of it. But I'm really excited about that. Great. And and John, thank you so much um for those opening remarks and also um updating the full council on on uh on uh on board member Watson. I want to I keep wanting to call him by his first name. Yes, yes, yes. Um, and I did have an opportunity to talk with him, and so we will be moving through a process. Um, the process will be the appointment. I since the appointment belongs to the mayor and it's a temporary appointment, um, and because we need to do it quickly. I'm just gonna make an appointment and then and then um should we have to do something different in the future, then it will go through GPFC.