I'd like to call the order of city council study session of March 24th, 2026.

Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Deputy Mayor Bushnell.

Present.

Councilmember Diaz.

Councilmember Hines, absent.

Councilmember Palmer.

Councilmember Rumba.

Here.

Councilmember Sidalgay.

Councilmember Scott.

Here.

Councilmember Walker.

Here.

Mayor Ibsen, absent.

All right, thank you.

And just uh Councilmember Sidalgi, you're really uh light on the mic, and I'm not sure if that's us or you, so just a heads up on that.

All right, our first.

Yep.

Perfect.

There we go.

Thank you.

Uh, our first agenda item is Tacoma Creates spending plan, and I would like to call on Arts and Cultural Vitality Division Manager Rebecca Salverson to begin the presentation.

Thank you.

Uh Deputy Mayor, Council members, um, thanks for um for talking to us today.

My name is Rebecca Salverson.

I'm the division manager for the Arts and Cultural Vitality Division within community and economic development.

Good afternoon.

I'm Lisa Jarrett, program manager for Tacoma.

Oh, thank you.

I'm the program manager for Tacoma Creates, Lisa Jarrett.

We're excited to be here today to share an overview of our proposed spending plan for the upcoming Tacoma Creates program year, which will run from July 2026 through June 2027.

As a reminder, Tacoma Creates is the City of Tacoma's cultural access program that funds nonprofit arts, culture, heritage, and science organizations.

Each year we bring, we also bring a year in review presentation to council through the economic development committee to report back on the incredible work that's supported in the community through this funding, and we'll be doing that present uh the that presentation in the fall.

Today's presentation is focused on the upcoming year's proposed spending plan.

And this is a new presentation we're making today.

I wanted to share, I wanted to start by sharing why we're bringing this to you.

So you can see this will be the most boring slide, I promise, that we share, maybe, hopefully.

Um, when the code was updated last October, the section on the screen was added.

This new code language directs us to present our spending plan for the year ahead, including any one-time funds.

So we're sharing this prior to allocating funds to cultural organizations this year.

This presentation is meant to share information with council and the general public, and no council action is required by code.

As a reminder, Tacoma Creates funds are very restricted and can't be spent for any purpose other than what's outlined in the code.

And I'm gonna hand it over to Lisa to share some brief background and our spending plan and some great photos of the amazing work that we uh that we support.

Tacoma Creates was launched through a community effort in 2018 and a very successful public vote with a 67% approval.

And then our second seven years was secured just last October with the councilmanic vote.

The primary use of funds is to contract with eligible local nonprofit organizations with the primary purpose of arts, culture, heritage, or science.

Our funding goals are around supporting public programs and youth education programs in arts, culture, heritage, and science, with a focus on increasing access and supporting programming by and for historically underrepresented communities and supporting the sustainability of the cultural sector.

Funding to organizations is approved by the Tacoma Creates Advisory Board, and we have a couple of key partnerships that I wanted to mention here.

Tacoma Public Schools and Tacoma Public Library really expand the reach of the programming and amplify the impact of this funding.

In our most recently completed program year, which was July 2024 to June 2025, we contracted with 69 cultural organizations for a total of about six million dollars.

This includes Tacoma's major well-known cultural organizations with multimillion dollar budgets, and it also includes a majority of organizations, our smaller community-based organizations with budgets of less than 250,000.

These organizations reached over a million participants through nearly 1,500 programs and events, most of which were free.

The ones that aren't free usually have some kind of uh reduced price or scholarship option.

If you're interested in more details on last year's program, our full annual report is on our website.

We have a uh our funding comes from uh sales tax, one-tenth of one percent, and we have a deferred income model, a deferred spending model, where the revenue received in one program year is spent in the following program year.

And we have a reserves and fund balance policy.

Over the first couple of years of the program, we built up reserves with guidance from finance and in alignment with city practices, and these funds are protected for emergency use only.

The reserve amount is 20% of projected revenue.

When there are underspent funds at the end of a program year, they go to what we call our fund balance above reserves.

These funds are intended to be spent to sustainably support the cultural sector.

And we're sharing these one-time expenditures as part of our spending plan.

And based on code updates last fall, the key focus will be on capital funding starting next year.

Our current program year.

This chart shows projected allocations by cost center.

The cost center allocations are based on code.

The great majority of the revenue goes right back out to the community to cultural organizations.

The 84% shown here, the dark blue on the circle is higher than the minimum required allocation of 78%.

The funding to organizations is based on a competitive funding application process, which includes reviews by panel members, community members serving on review panels in addition to being approved by the Tacoma Creates Advisory Board.

In this current year, we're managing 79 contracts with cultural organizations, which represents a 15% increase over the previous year.

So here is our proposed spending plan for 2026 to 27.

It's a similar chart showing similar projected allocations by cost center.

Again, it's aligned with code, and again, support for cultural organizations is higher than the minimum.

For 2627, we are allocating $500,000 from the fund balance above reserves to support sustainability for cultural organizations.

We are anticipating some increases in our capacity building expense line, largely to support out-of-school time programs as well as capacity building for organizations in the areas of equity and access, nonprofit management, and youth development.

And a reminder that capital funding will be in next year's spending plan for 27-28.

Looking at the proposed allocations in another way, I mentioned that the cultural org uh allocation was higher than the minimum.

And so this slide shows how the allocations in code are compared to our proposed allocations, and it shows how the dollars from the fund balance above reserves impact the spending.

So the first column shows the category of revenue or expense.

The next column shows the percentage of allocations in code, and then the column after that shows what the dollar amount would be if we applied those percentages to the amount of anticipated revenue from sales tax.

Note that the funding to cultural organizations shows up as a minimum percentage, and the other three categories are a maximum.

So the next two columns shows on the funds available side, it shows the addition of the $500,000 from fund balance above reserves, and then the proposed allocations in expenditures.

The anticipated expenses are lower in some of the areas, so we can allocate more funding towards the cultural organizations.

And so the final column shows what the proposed allocations are by percentage.

One more chart to look at, which is a side-by-side of the current year projected and next year proposed with the dollar amounts for each line and the percentage change.

Overall, we're budgeting for a 5% increase in both funds available and expenditures.

And so that you know where we are in our process.

Our application deadlines are in March.

In fact, our the second of our two deadlines was last night.

Our application review panels work between now and May.

They make funding recommendations that go to our advisory board.

The Tacoma Creates Advisory Board reviews and votes on those recommendations in May.

And then staff takes it from there with the contracting process in May and June, and then programming happening from July of 2026 through June of 2027.

So to close, here are just a few more of the dozens of arts, culture, heritage, and science organizations that benefit from and are stronger because of the City of Tacoma's cultural funding program.

Thank you all for your time and engagement, and we are happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much.

This is very exciting.

All right, uh we have first up, Councilmember Rubach.

I want to say thank you so much for coming with this, and um I really appreciate everything you had to say.

Um could you talk a little bit about what it means by reserves and if there's a like a required amount that we have to keep in reserves?

Sure.

So based on our consultation with finance, they are advising 20% uh based on um expected sales tax revenue.

Okay, all right.

Thanks.

That was really helpful.

And then I know that this is not about this, but it I know that we had um approved capital.

And how are we planning to get um funds into the capital bucket at some point?

Could you just talk a little bit about what that might look like?

Do you want to?

Sure.

Thanks.

Yeah, so um according to code that'll be um an amount equal to six percent of the amount that's allocated towards cultural organizations.

Um, and so that amount will be slightly different each year because it's a percentage.

Um, and we that will come from the fund balance above reserves if available.

Okay, that that's what kind of what I was gonna ask about.

So thank you so much, appreciate that.

Yeah, thank you.

Next up, we have Councilmember Palmer.

Hi, thank you for all of the information.

Um this is the first time, right?

You guys are doing this, so just maybe uh a suggestion for next year.

Um, you put you pointed to the full report online.

Um I didn't know it was there, and so maybe just next year we're we're that we point to that for council to look at maybe prior, and then so community can take a peek too.

Um and then yeah.

Okay, um, could you please define cultural organizations?

What does that mean?

Sure.

Um, we use that umbrella term to cover arts, culture, heritage, and science organizations.

We have really specific definitions that are in our guidelines and in the code that are that sort of broaden what those definitions are to be really specific and the types of public programming that they present.

Okay, thank you.

And then could you talk a little bit more about the panel review process as far as like how folks are picked for the panel and um is there certain like criteria that they create these organizations on?

Yes, the review criteria is super important.

Thank you for asking about that.

Um, it's in our published guidelines, so it's available to the public.

The um review panelists use the exact same criteria that we tell the um organizations applying for the funding to look at.

Um, and um there are four or five criteria areas depending on which program they're applying in, but they include programming merit, equity and access, community impact, and uh capacity and feasibility are the sort of the primary areas, and then there's a lot of sub-bullet points under those.

Um the panelists are um seated by staff.

We um network with different um community members to get uh different panel members to try to have a really diverse panel.

We always have members of our Tacoma Creates Advisory Board serving on panels as well, so that they are sort of um representing the advisory board through the panel, and then they can represent the panel process back to the advisory board.

Um we also have um uh there is a forum online for community members that are interested in serving on a panel, so that's an open uh opportunity, and um, there's often panelists selected through that.

And we also invite um members of organizations that are currently funded to serve on the opposite panel, so they're not serving on the same panel where their application is being reviewed.

Um, so we do that as well to support um both more information for the panel as well as a learning opportunity for those um staff members of funded organizations.

That's great.

Sound sounds like we're um reaching out to a diverse group of folks, and so that's super important.

Um I'll say, you know, coming in as a recent normal resident.

I maybe Tacoma Creates was one of the ones that I just didn't know much about, and I think you guys do like such great work.

Like I'm hoping that we can get more of a spotlight on kind of some of the stuff that you guys are doing.

So community knows like you guys are going through this amazing process in order to you know pick the programs that you guys are doing and and that sort of thing.

So thank you.

Thank you for answering the questions.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Baller.

Next up, we have Councilmember Walker.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor, and thank you guys.

Um, I uh really appreciate.

I know we added this this last year, but really appreciate this presentation to council, and this is really great.

Um, you may have said this, and I apologize I need to step out for a minute, but um, can you talk a little bit about the difference between the um the code and the guidelines?

You referenced the guideline document a couple times and the guideline document as I understand it can be updated year to year.

The code is a seven-year commitment.

Roughly yeah, and I I would also say we also have state law that allows the so we have the state law and then the municipal code that guides what we do, and then the guidelines are the administrative document that are that guide um uh the criteria, what we're looking for, get really into that nitty-gritty detail of the funding.

Does that answer your question?

Yeah, definitely.

So if the guidelines were to be updated, that would be the Tacoma Creates Advisory Board, right?

And staff, yeah.

Okay, yeah.

Great.

Thanks.

All right.

Any additional questions or comments?

All right.

Uh seeing none, just want to thank you both so much for all the work that you've done on this and getting this overview put together.

I'm really excited for all the programs that are gonna be funded next year and participating in them.

So that's it.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Next up, we have other items of interest, and our second agenda by item is the council action memorandum, a resolution supporting proposition number one Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma, Park and Recreation Facility Improvement and Safety Upgrade General Obligation Bonds.

I would like to call on Councilmember Walker to begin.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

Um, Councilmember Sidalgay, Councilmember Bushnell, Mayor Ibsen, and I are excited to bring forward, excuse me, Deputy Mayor Bushnell.

Mayor Ibsen and I are excited to bring forward a resolution tonight in support of proposition one.

This is the 2026 Parks Bond.

If approved, Prop One would allow Parks Tacoma to invest up to 155 million in more than 100 projects across the city.

This is not an increase in current taxes, it's a renewal uh specifically for parks.

Um I'm really excited about this bond because um of our partnership with Parks Tacoma.

Um, they have spent a great deal of time working with our community to identify projects that reflect values and priorities of our residents.

And I also want to um make a note uh councilmember Salgay and I serve on the parks policy boards.

We've been digging into a lot of these things lately and kind of pushing on some of those.

Um the equity of all the projects, and I've been really impressed with what Parks Tacoma has put together for the bond project or the bond package.

Some of the projects include environmental sustainability projects, playground and spray ground upgrades, natural areas and trail improvements, community center redevelopment and renovations, waterfront and zoo improvements, ADA upgrades, and much more.

And again, that partnership piece that we're always looking for with the city.

Um the improvements that they hope to undertake uh represent long-term community-driven investments and um really responsible stewardship of Tacoma's natural and cultural assets.

Um, as you all know, we are very fortunate to have some of the most beautiful parks in Washington State, including Point Defiance, but um, near and dear to all of our hearts, our smaller neighborhood pocket parks like Catherine Ishka's Gas Station Park, um, are such important parts of every neighborhood.

So um this is a fairly standard thing that we do in supporting our um agency partners, but you can see the details of the bond in your packet and um encourage you to support this.

Happy to answer any questions if I can.

Awesome.

Thank you, Councilmember Walker.

Any questions or comments?

Councilmember Scott.

Um sorry, thank you, Deputy Mayor.

Um, no specific questions.

I I will just say that I've had multiple opportunities to hear to see um uh just presentations from parks staff on the potential projects they outlined.

Um they have a really cool map that kind of lays out where all the projects are.

It really hits every part of the city.

Um I'm particularly excited about the money that is being dedicated towards the people center on the hilltop.

They're currently working on a feasibility study, and so I think um it's exciting to think about the future of not only that space, uh especially thinking about how the East Side Community Center really uh you know transformed that area and and giving them a really great resource, um, but also just a lot of these really cool spots that we have that will be enhanced by this project.

So I'm super excited about this.

Thank you.

Councilmember Sidalgay.

Hi, thank you.

I'll I'll try to keep it uh brief.

I'm just more than happy to be a co-sponsor on this.

Our community vitality uh is really enhanced by Parks Tacoma and having uh a continuation of a bond, so this is not a total increase uh in any taxes to maintain what we've been doing.

It's going to be really beneficial to so many neighborhoods, especially uh with you, Deputy Mayor, uh, the South End and the ability to uh conceptualize and design uh additional resources, but I'll let you talk about that.

But I'll let you talk about that.

I'm sure you have comments on that yourself and just to aid in the infrastructure we need to really support and recruit uh community.

So more than happy to be a sponsor on this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Rumbach.

Um thank you, Deputy Mayor, and I want to just echo both um all my council members and how supportive we are of this, but also just how impactful it will be to every neighborhood in Tacoma.

And I'm just gonna talk about Northeast Tacoma because I was at the um co-create to recreate event recently, and it was really great to have all of these people that live in Northeast Tacoma gather because it seems like no one lives there, but there's a lot of people who live there.

And um, people are excited about a dog park at Norpoint Community Center.

They're excited about an upgrade to our community center that hasn't been upgraded for 30 years.

Um can't believe it's been that long, but it has.

Um, which I think is a really great asset to our community.

It's a place where people a lot of people do fishing, and um they've had to come with um other ways to go fishing still, and so it's gonna be exciting that people can um utilize that dock again.

So I just want to thank my council members who um came forward with this.

I'm very excited to vote for it tonight.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's councilmember Rob.

I'll just uh ditto uh everything that my colleagues have said.

Um, and then as to Councilmember Sodalgay mentioned, um, really excited uh about uh potential community center in the South End.

Um a lot of folks utilize Eastside Community Center and the Star Center, um, but they're very far from uh a lot of uh population that could certainly use a community space of that nature.

Um I5 is basically like a wall, so it's very difficult to get to Star Center, and then the distance to Eastside is is not a small thing.

Um so really excited to support this and all the other projects all across the community.

I've had the chance to, as a as a young child, use the Northeast Tacoma Community Center many times.

Um so I'm glad it's it's long overdue for an update and upgrade.

All right.

Um any additional questions or comments?

All right, seeing none, we'll move on to our next uh CCR, which is Tacoma Create.

Oh, sorry.

Oh, it is our third agenda item is our Tacoma Creates funding spending plan.

That'd call on Councilmember Walker.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

I think actually Councilmember Scott is gonna kick us off on this one.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, Debbie Mayor.

Uh Councilmember Walker, Mayor Ibsen, and I are excited to bring forward a resolution regarding Tacoma Creates under spent dollars.

Last year we all put a great deal of work into reauthorizing Tacoma Creates for an additional seven years, and we became the first city council in Washington to reauthorize the cultural access program with Councilmanic Action.

Uh Tacoma Creates has helped our nonprofit cultural organizations provide more than 5,000 programs and events, reaching more than four million participants.

I think we all agree that our nonprofit cultural organizations play a vital role in our community.

Their programs remind people about our deeper connections to each other and to the world around us.

They bring us joy and foster friendships.

They expand our perspective and teach us new skills, and they are especially important to Tacoma, where creativity is a cornerstone cornerstone of our community.

While we worked on reauthorizing Tacoma Creates last year, we spent a great deal of time talking with various organizations that have received Tacoma Creates funding.

And during these conversations, we consistently heard that many of them are concerned about losing federal and state funding.

That is part of the reason why we worked hard to keep the programming bucket of funding robust last year.

We now have a great opportunity in front of us to provide some additional temporary relief for our nonprofit cultural organizations to help them sustain operations in this climate of uncertainty.

Thank you.

So as we have just heard, Tacoma Creates a uh awards uh every year funding to eligible organizations, and um some funding every year as it's gone has been uh underspent.

So since 2019, Tacoma Creates has accumulated about 2.5 million dollars in underspent funds under state law.

This money can only be used to support eligible nonprofit organizations through Tacoma Creates.

So just to be very clear, we cannot use these dollars to fix potholes or plant trees or anything else that we would want to do.

It needs to stay in the mandate of Tacoma Creates.

Um already at study session.

You heard Rebecca and Lisa present the recommendation for these underspent dollars or fund balance above reserves, it's the same thing for the 26-27 program year.

So the resolution that um we have put together is putting $500,000 back into the programming bucket.

This would enable Tacoma Creates to provide one-time support that can help fund more organizations at a higher amount and potentially increase the number of eligible organizations that receive funding.

And the number one thing we heard from everybody is get the money back into the community.

So that is what we're proposing.

Because we have a large amount of underspent funds, we're also endorsing adding an additional 500,000 in one-time spending for the 27-28 year, just to fully commit to the community that we're gonna put all this back into the community.

So 500,000 in this um programming year and 500,000 in the next programming year.

This bucket still leaves a robust robust amount of funding to cover the new capital budget bucket for many years.

And then any new underspent dollars still come back to Tacoma Creates every year.

So council member Scott and I want to thank Mayor Ipson for joining us on the resolution to support the plan, and we're looking to bring this forward next week for a vote.

So March 31st.

Happy to answer any questions.

Thank you both.

Uh Councilmember Wimba.

Um I want to thank um both Councilmember Scott and Councilmember Walker for bringing this forward.

I think this all makes sense to me.

I just I think I have a question for staff.

Um, I just want to understand.

Can can we approve both 500,000 this share and five thousand five hundred thousand for next year today in this resolution or not?

So we worked closely with staff on that, and yes, we can.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

I think she's good.

Do you have additional context?

Okay.

All right.

Any additional questions or comments?

Councilmember Palmer?

I think this is very cool too.

Um, I'm question I'm I'm curious about I guess is there some kind of criteria for what the organizations could spend, like the 500?

I mean, obviously it's gonna be split between works, but so this goes back into the same bucket that they're that we do the process with.

So it's the same criteria, the same guidance that the staff walked through.

So we're not creating anything new, we're just putting more money in the pot.

Oh, okay.

Um has there to our knowledge been like any kind of concern about you know, because as we know, there's less and less funding for things like this.

Has there been concern about okay?

I how am I going to maintain the work that we're doing?

And so I guess my my worry is like the 500k that goes out now.

Can we make sure that that's going in some kind of way going towards like um resilience for these these organizations so that you know when it's not if it's not there in the future, um, they're able to um kind of bulk up now to prepare for that.

You want to talk about that?

Um I mean, I would just say that it's they're aware that these are like that this isn't a for everything, that there's a potential that it maybe in a few years it's it's less that goes to it, or like maybe if we're lucky, there's there's more that can go to it.

Um, I the the funding goes to their operational costs, so um, or you know, whatever they are applying specifically for it to go to.

If and you you can chime in if you want, or if there's any other need for staff too as well.

But I it's I think there are there's other support that is offered um just in general that kind of helps people to um you know as they're facing these struggles, whether it's potentially connecting them with other resources, um finding collaboration, things like that that we can guide them to.

I don't know that we can specifically when they've applied for this money, tell them that they have to use it in some specific way to um kind of help ensure their long-term stability, if that is what they choose to do in some way with it, as long as it falls within the parameters of what um like when they applied for the funds and what they when they get it, how it's allowed to be spent and allocated.

Um, they can if it is if they find some way that they're able to kind of ensure their longevity um by using these dollars now, um, then I think that that's kind of where that lies rather than then um just the broader um network of CED, um the advisory board and things like that, being able to provide any like other resources if some if one of our funded organizations were to come to us and say having these troubles, um, you know, maybe it's on a clerical side, administrative side that we can help with.

Um if it's like I you know, I'm looking for other grants, maybe that's connecting them with somebody that can help them through that grant process and and things like that.

Hopefully, if that let me know if that answers the question.

I think it does.

I guess maybe I would I'm hoping for like we have the criteria that we look for, um, or I guess the panel, right, is the one who decides.

And so maybe there's an option to like encourage that type of um building into what the funds are being used for as that being like a a weighted thing that we we look for when we're looking into the words.

I don't know.

I mean, I think part of the part of the piece of criteria is the feasibility of it.

Um so hopefully when people are applying, they're applying for a program that they can feasibly do with some amount of the money that they might be offered.

Because even when they apply, they don't know that they're gonna get the full amount that they applied for if they're gonna get less.

Um so I don't I'm not 100% sure, especially now because the application process for this has already people have already submitted their applications.

I think the deadline for the last bit of applications was this week.

Um, and so it might be something if there is some language in there that can be added, maybe in the future that can I'm sure maybe staff would be happy to kind of talk about what you're hoping to aim at.

Um, but I think that because the underfunding of arts and cultural things throughout not just our area but in general, are seeing less infusion of dollars.

I think people are kind of already in that mindset.

Um, and so hopefully, you know, with what we have and the partners that we have and how we and the resources that we're connected to, we can kind of continue to foster people to think in the mindset of longevity and sustainability.

But you know, I wouldn't say that piece about feasibility and as such is in the criteria that they are looking for.

So I think people are hopefully that's encouraging people to think about the programming they're offering, what they're applying for, um, and like what the actual value of the potential dollars are getting.

Because I know with with the arts and uh especially like in that creativity mindset, um you think that you just think big sometimes, and and you want to do the most uh um to kind of bring a vision to life, but um that piece in there that the criteria is looking at the feasibility of it.

Hopefully, it's keeping people to really stay grounded in what is possible in this funding cycle with these dollars that may be available to them.

That's helpful.

Thank you.

All right, next up we have council member Diaz.

Thank you.

Um I apologize if this was stated by one of the presenters and I just didn't hear it the way I'm asking it, but um, since the application deadline was uh last night or last week, is the amount that is unable to be funded um with current funding 500k, or is it more than that?

I guess I'm I'm wondering do we know that answer yet?

Um really what I'm getting towards is why is there 500 in this proposal for this year and 500 for next year?

If I'm wanting to make sure we're not leaving anybody out who's already applied for this year.

So the um the amount of funding that was that we are budgeting for we made that budget before applications came in, right?

So we're gonna be looking at the application amounts over the next couple of weeks.

Um we are already funding um at a really high percentage of the request, and typically speaking, we are able to fund a majority of applicants at a pretty high percentage of their request.

And so that's this enables us to continue to do that in a sustainable way.

So I'm not sure if that's answering your question.

So we don't know the total amount that was requested in the current application period that just closed.

Not yet.

Okay.

It closed yesterday, right?

Yeah, yeah.

That's fair.

We don't know it yet.

Um, so I guess my question then I think for the sponsors is would you want to wait to find out what that amount is so that you can adjust the allocation so we're not leaving anybody out this year to save money for next year?

So thank you for asking this because we talked about this at length.

I wanted to put all 2.5 million out there.

Like, let's get get everything out of the community.

And staff said based on past years, this is a pretty accurate um request.

Um, if we are over, if we only need 400,000, um we that can roll over to next year that would be considered underspent dollars again.

If there's wildly above 500,000, could we revise this?

I think that's within our authority to do.

So um maybe that's a just a request to staff to let us know.

You know, if if by some reason there's three million dollars over this year, you know, we could look at funding more.

Okay.

Um, but this felt like accurate to past years, kind of roughly.

Thank you.

Right.

Uh thank you.

Great questions.

Um, I'm happy to support this.

I think it makes a lot of sense.

Um, I don't want to leave dollars on the table, especially as a lot of organizations are currently struggling, um, especially given all a lot of the changes um across all kinds of different arts and culture programming across this nation.

All right.

Um, any other final questions or comments?

Seeing none.

Next up we have uh committee reports and oh, yes.

Oh, excuse me, sorry.

Um, sorry, not it is not committee reports.

I'm a little turned around here.

Uh next up we have a council consideration request, and I'll be calling on council member Diaz.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

Um, and I want to thank everyone in advance for taking a look at my council contingency fund requests in your attached materials today.

Um, the one I'm presenting today is for $1,500, $15,000 for the um Northwest Immigrant Rights Project to be a sponsor of their work through their upcoming 2026 scala and to do a public declaration of our solidarity with their core values.

And I would like to thank council members Heinz and Palmer for co-sponsoring this request.

Um this council contingency fund request will help the city of Tacoma make very clear to the community and SUNERP that we stand in solidarity with our immigrant and refugee community.

It really builds on the work that the council and our city has done since um I think before this time, but in 2020 in 2015, the city um named itself a welcoming city and has since been working closely with NERP to make sure that we have tangible resources to them as they're helping folks navigate the immigration process and um help those who are detained in the Northwest Ice Processing Center.

Um NERP has been a really vital partner in that worked by co-sponsor by sponsoring this um upcoming Gala, the City of Tacoma will make a really public declaration that we stand in solidarity with NERP's values.

Um I'll go ahead and read those values so folks know what they are.

They stand for dignity, so that we all deserve to have our human dignity and fundamental rights respected.

Fairness, laws and policies should be fair and equitable when liberty or fundamental rights are at stake.

All people are entitled to meaningful due process and competent legal representation.

Solidarity, we are connected by our common humanity, by global forces that affect our lives and by historic patterns of oppression, discrimination, and inequity.

For society to be just and whole, we must work together to undo systemic oppression in its many forms.

Self-determination, society thrives when people all people have opportunities to live their lives to their fullest potential.

And safety, people and communities thrive when all feet all feel and experience safety.

Safety should never be used to justify oppression and inclusion.

We see diversity and inclusiveness as a source of our strength.

And I think that these values really do align with the city of Tacoma's values and all of our work and policies.

Um the City of Tacoma's shared values by including the city's name in the event program and slideshow and in pre-event recognition on the website and emails reaching over 40,000 people statewide and in their social media posts.

This item is gonna come before us next Tuesday, March 31st.

And for those who don't know, I just wanted to make sure it was um clear.

The Northwest Immigrant Right Project is a local nonprofit that promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.

So they help all folks in the community from all walks of life getting legal services through their attorneys or by helping folks um navigate the network and give uh referrals out to private lawyers as well.

So I should have started there with what they are and then um end with thanks and um hoping folks will consider this and welcome any questions folks may have.

Thank you so much for bringing the support, Councilmember Diaz.

Um Councilmember Sidalga, did you yeah, you see your handray goes ahead?

Go ahead.

Hi, uh thank you, and I want to thank Councilmember Diaz and the rest of the sponsors for bringing this forward.

Um I am really proud that I sit on a council that is 100% unanimously um in agreement in um in things around uh immigrant protections.

I think that's really important because we live in a region where not everyone is.

Uh and whatever your your opinions are at the end of the day, legal representation.

Um, unfortunately in the world in which we live, you have an orders of magnitude increased uh uh ability to be uh uh released um and to continue your cases uh out of detention when you have legal representation.

That's one of the most important things that immigration rights uh um brings by uh by providing this legal representation.

Uh I'm more than happy to and proud that we're a city um that is willing to do something like this.

So uh once again I want to thank all my colleagues who sponsored this.

I cannot um wait to vote for it.

Thank you all.

Thank you, Councilmersidalgate.

Councilmember Palmer.

I just wanted to thank uh Councilmember Diaz for bringing this forward and allowing me to co-sponsor on this.

Um I think community's been asking us, you know, show us put your money where your mouth is, and I think this is an opportunity for us to do that.

Um, you know, we're looking for trying to get creative and looking for every opportunity to support these groups that are supporting immigrants um in what they're dealing with at these these um detention centers.

So um thank you again.

Thank you, Councilmember Walker.

Yeah, just uh quickly kind of ditto uh what other folks have said.

Thank you, Councilmember Diaz, for bringing this forward and for continuing to support.

I know you've led on a couple other things over the years to support particularly the this organization and the great work they do.

So um happy and excited to support it, hoping um we can all attend and and support their work in other ways.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Um the last thing I would add is I think something council member Sidalgay said helped um make it um help bring back the the concept to my mind that folks may not be aware that um in this country we have um rights as citizens to due process and to civil legal aid.

Um but if you are undocumented in this country, you do not have those rights or access.

So folks are being held for longer than normal times um because they are not guaranteed due process in a timely manner, and folks are not guaranteed a lawyer.

So one of the biggest gaps that NERTPELS fill in our state is that legal aid um for folks who don't have it otherwise.

Um and I wanted to highlight that the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project does also have an office here in Tacoma, so they do often have local events.

A lot of the lawyers are here and live in our community because of the proximity of the detention center, and because they are just uh folks in our community, and so I think it it really does have a local tie for us, even though the gala and the organization is based in Seattle, they do have a really big flagship here in our city.

All right.

Thank you, Councilmember Diaz for bringing this forward.

I'm enthusiastically in support and just really want to echo all the sentiments.

Um, you know, as a child of a refugee, um, this is very near and dear to my heart and trying to support everywhere we can.

Um and I know we've been doing a lot of work around this space for years, uh, even beyond both our times on council uh as a city, and so I'm really excited to to continue that effort in solidarity with our immigrant and refugee uh folks out in the community.

Um that is it, any final questions or comments?

All right.

Uh thank you so much.

Next up we have community reports, and I will call on Deputy Mayor Bushnell.

Uh so we uh I would like to provide an update from our special OSAC meeting, the operational strategy of the administrative committee.

Uh for those that are unfamiliar with the acronym.

At OSAC on Friday, the 20th interim city manager Kim provided an overview of his draft work plan, which included key performance indicators in the areas of organizational performance, community safety, housing and homelessness, and business friendliness.

OSAC members provided preliminary input in a draft of the work plan was sent to council via email from Ben Thurgood on Friday the 20th at 1147 a.m.

Interim City Manager Kim is working to update the work plan for an additional review at OSAC this Friday and before the work plan goes before the full council on next Tuesday, March 31st.

Uh council members are encouraged to provide feedback they would like to incorporate it into this Friday's updated version to interim city manager Kim.

Well, it should be City Manager Kim at this point, um directly or to connect with one of their colleagues who serves on the OSAC committee.

All right.

Um I think that's that's the end of my that's that's the final part of my report.

Um I do know that um we had a really robust conversation and we really wanted to make sure that we're getting uh valuable input from our colleagues.

So uh obviously the city manager works for all of us, and so uh we kind of got together and you know did a preliminary talk about what that work plan looks like, had a lot of a lot of really great feedback.

Um, and I would also encourage you guys if you have the opportunity to sit down with the city manager and really talk about that work plan as well and and where he thinks uh it might go because this is a partnership between the council and the city manager.

Um if there are any additional questions or comments, Councilmember Walker.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor, and second your comments about the robust conversation on Friday.

Um, did you say when the latest draft will be available?

Do we know that yet?

Um Ben or or maybe we'll I'm gonna call city manager down um because we're working with him together on it.

So thank you, Deputy Mayor, uh, members of the council.

Uh for the record, Kyon Kim, your interim city manager.

Um, Councilmember Walker, I am working right now to solicit uh feedback from other non-OSAC uh committee members uh for input.

I look forward to talking with as many folks, not on a serial meeting cadence standpoint, just directly what was sent to you on Friday.

Um I plan to have something for OSAC on Friday, the day of, if not Thursday, if I can get enough feedback.

At this point, I can tell you dynamically, I am getting some feedback directly tied to the homelessness areas.

Um the feedback I've received um from an individual council member um is uh the nature of where does the policy lay with the administration of the city's operations and you know you are a conversations being a council function, is that belonging your work plan?

So I'm thinking about these things.

I am so I hope to have something for OSAC by Thursday, if not the morning of it's a great great insight and way to think about it.

Um hold tight there.

Maybe there's some more questions.

Councilmember Rombach.

Thank you very much.

And I think that I agree.

The unified regional approach is something that we're working on with the county, so I don't really see that as your bucket of work.

But um, I just curious like you called yourself interim city manager.

Can you explain like how um it works that you get your con.

I mean, I thought we'd do a contract and then a work plan.

I don't understand what's happening.

Can I thank you for that prompt uh council member Rumba?

Um, I am your interim city manager.

Um council has taken an affirmative vote to enter into contract negotiations.

Um I would share with you that there is a desire amongst um uh perhaps some of a council on um buttoning up a work plan to go along with a uh employment agreement um and as your as your city manager soon to be.

Um I share in the sentiment of being more transparent with the community.

Um part of the um the charge here and opportunity for the city of Tacoma is anything we can do to demystify the city manager role and having a robust work plan for this next year to go along with that employment agreement makes a lot of sense.

So I I'd share that with you that um we are working um hard, I think, to have OSAC bring something as soon as the 31st to the broader council in a study session to get that buttoned up, and then I I do expect that the employment agreement would come after that point.

Okay, I'm I'm gonna interject a little bit.

Uh thank you, Councilmember Rom for bringing that up.

I um, at least from my perspective, I I agree that having a transparent robust work plan is really essential to a part of this, um, but I do think that uh predicated on an employment contract and bringing you on board as the full city manager.

So I I at least from my perspective, I think it's really important that we try and get that buttoned up and nailed down as soon as possible as we continue to work on the work plan and make sure that what I would like to see is actually on the other side of it, is where we button up uh and close out your interim work plan and see what needs to be rolled over into the the new work plan as a permanent um and and then you know where the status of things are on that because we did have very specific goals in mind uh what during your interim period and from from my perspective it should be employment contract and we can refer to a work plan and then work on the work plan.

So that's just my perspective.

I'm happy to hear from other colleagues if they have a different idea on that.

But I know sorry, I jumped the gun ahead of uh council member Diaz.

Go ahead.

Um I just want to be clear what my instructions are as a non-OSAC member.

I should talk to the interim city manager about what I would be interested in in your work plan.

That is the prompting that I've received from OSAC is that um from Friday's meeting that I would um work with um uh non-committee members to make sure that you're aware.

So you've received that from Ben on Friday as the draft.

Um my staff also has received my interim work plan on Friday, and I just patted my my partner in PDS and just said, hey, I know this is the first time you're seeing this as well.

I'm asking them also to bring me feedback too.

So we're moving this ahead in the spirit of trying to land this plane with both an employment agreement and a work plan.

Um I relish this opportunity, I would say it that way.

Um I know this is tough because there is the chicken and egg conversation of Sir Um Deputy Mayor, your your mentioning of even the interim work plan.

Um for the record, I am your interim uh city manager.

I am under contract with the city of Tacoma to June.

And so uh closing that out is a desire that I have as well on behalf of the staff as far as what the staff has been able to do.

I want to come celebrate some of the things, and actually, we do have some we have good news as well as some feedback of here's where we didn't land uh this pilot program or this.

So yeah, I just love to hear about all that.

So that that's the intention that that I would work directly with you from here to Friday, it's it's like an hour.

So I I know that's difficult, so I will try to get um something on the books with all of you.

So cool.

Thank you.

I just wanted to be sure I don't watch OSAC, I I don't subscribe, so I just wanted to make sure that I am I am well on my directions and marching orders.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Diaz.

Council Member Sedalga.

Um hi, thank you.

Yeah, I share some of the the same questions and concerns that Council Member had, and I should agree with you, Deputy Mayor about closing out um the interim uh we'll plan a little one.

Uh and also want to point out that that shouldn't be stopping a contract uh from being signed to move uh to terminate.

Um and another thing again as a non-OSAC member.

Um you know, maybe it's a chicken and egg, but I don't see every chicken and egg.

Well, I think a work plan is intimately uh tied to a budget budget work.

And I think a work plan may take a little while to really button down based on um initial discussions that we have as policymakers around the budget.

Because at the end of the day, if we have things on that plan and they're effectively unfunded mandates, then they really shouldn't be there.

Um and then um I have to see at least that first draft.

I do want to also think about the fact that um well, I'll also think about the fact that the city manager is our single employee that is uh managing the organization and the employees that are the city of Tacoma.

Uh and I'd like to see a little bit more on that work plan around what are we doing about um not just a survey, but more on the management welfare and um consideration for uh leadership and for um individuals that work for this for our city that do the good work every single day as well.

Again, all of those things are intimately related to the budget.

So a part of me thinks to this should be an ongoing conversation as we go into the budget season.

Great.

Thank you very much, Councilmember Sidalgay.

Councilmember Scott.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

Um I was wondering, so as far as like closing up the interim city manager work plan, um how long would it how long would it take you to kind of like uh kind of assess where those things I mean last time we got an update, you kind of gave us a progress report on where you're at.

Will it does it take much time for and I and I forgive me, it's sometimes my you know the thing that was in my head yesterday is not there today because now there's a bunch of new information.

But when we talked about the draft of your of the work plan, um I thought I remembered seeing some of those things that were in your interim plan that are in this work plan.

So it seems as though you've already kind of started moving some of those things that you know won't necessarily be wrapped up or that you know the work is continuing into this new draft that you have.

Yes, ma'am.

Um I I could be as ready as even um next week to speak to uh my interim work plans um as you saw from um the visualization of the start stop go of the in so um balancing a mid mod complete.

You know, that's council's done that.

We've gone to a place where we're at right now.

Some of the pilot programs we've launched, those are still in process.

I would like to make sure that to tether those and bring those along, especially with the the concurrent um the missing middle uh pilot program for um uh permitting uh for residential um uh multifamily.

Um I'd like to bring those along.

There's some other programs when it comes to council staffing that was an element in my interim work plan.

That's not gonna be ready for you all because you have not made a decision uh as far as what where we're going with that, and that's also to council members that always went that's predicated on the budget as well.

So I could be ready is I can bring that and incorporate that into uh the discussion with the council in a study session, a robust dialogue.

Um, and then I guess my I just wanted to understand that so that I could I think um I get that people um are wanting to get the contract negotiated, and I appreciate that.

I think we have an interesting advantage because the person we're negotiating the contract with is already under contract with us.

Um and so it's not like I think part of the reason is you know that I heard my colleagues say is that it helps that transition because you're already here doing the work and you're gonna be continuing to do the work.

Um, and so I think that we and knowing that we have the opportunity, like as we saw with the other work plan, you came back to us and you're like, this is gonna take longer, or this is gonna, and we need to adjust here.

So it's not like whatever we if we were to agree on something by next week on Friday, that that thing still couldn't be shifted and adjusted even after your contract is absolutely completed.

Um so I I think that it's okay for us to work knowing that you are kind of integrating interim work plan stuff into this ongoing work plan, um, that we do have the ability to shift the work plan, um, and also that I think it really is important again, as you mentioned, like demystifying your role to the community.

Um, but also I think that it provides you with some clarity going forward, it provides staff some clarity, it gives us an understanding of like where our starting place is.

Obviously, there are things that are gonna have you know budget things aligned to that.

I think you know, we can we can say that these things are contingent upon budget, and that obviously would trigger a time where we need to come back and maybe adjust some things.

Um, but I I ultimately what I'm saying is that I think um we can continue on this process, um, and because I think it's going to be important for the community uh as well to know that this contract comes with some sort of specific accountability of things that we're looking for.

Um not saying that you know, want to avoid changing it for the sake of like, oh well, we we we're thinking he's failing, we're trying to obscure it.

I'm you know, not like that, like, but if as we get more data and more understanding, I think it's um okay to shift um as long as we are being clear why that shift is happening.

So I guess I'm speaking around a lot of things, but I think mostly what I'm saying is that I actually think that having this piece in there go like it makes me feel more comfortable coming to that point of signing that final contract because it gives everybody a clear starting place.

It it clarifies that obviously there are things that can change over time, um, but I think when you start a contract with specific expectations, it's clearer for everybody.

And um, I think it also does that piece of um providing that transparency for the community.

And again, if we I've said it in other situations, if people have to ask for transparency, if they have to ask for um accountability, it kind of defeats the purpose, and it doesn't really help us build that belief and trust.

And so um, I think as long as we are being very clear and open about how this can shift, um, I don't see a problem, and because you are already under contract with us doing this work, I don't see the problem with trying to make sure that this is worked out, especially if you agree that this is something that you'd like to get done in conjunction with that contract.

So yeah, I would just say that I'm okay with that.

I don't think we need to do one before the other.

I think that we can work on them both and and land the plane, as you say.

Council Murra Pulmer.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

Um you please help clarify what the work plan is and what it is not.

Um, because there was we got kind of like an update after OSAC about um for us to look over and give our opinions on input on.

Um, but it was a little bit confusing to me as far as it was like this isn't uh like in-depth thing, but it's like an overview, but we would need as much uh details.

So please.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um councilmember Palmer, um, a traditional work plan upon the city manager is a uh it's a document, it's a dynamic document to the point of it's not a static here are the things that you're gonna get accomplished.

It's essentially the destination.

And so your city manager, I guess the visualization I would share with you is uh for the community that's listening as well.

Uh a work plan is essentially the the one year or whatever the predefined timeline would be is here's where we're going.

You know, the what's not in constant and does not need to be in the work plan is the things that are predicated of a city manager operating the day-to-day operations of the city, uh balancing a budget that's in constant state law, as well as that is what the city manager should be doing with the department directors, um, supporting our staff.

Those elements that council member stuff, those also could be the destination.

If you want to see a more vibrant workforce upon which we provide more resources, even devoid of the context of hard, you know, hard things that are coming from a decision standpoint.

Work plan is the things that are the performance elements that you would like me to concentrate my efforts with my staff on uh for that giving timeline, traditionally a year.

Um the work plan usually in sequence it lines up with your efforts on a council priority setting.

Uh that started in February, and Director Cologne has been supporting facilitating those conversations.

That's also somewhat in flight still.

Um, and and that's also a dynamic thing.

Um many of the elements there are seven um uh proposed uh measurables that I proposed in my work plan for your consideration.

This is a starting point.

Um I would share with you some of the conversations I've had with the mayor, who um is at another appointment for the city representing the city of Tacoma at uh another venue.

Um he wants less to do from the standpoint of be really laser focused on accomplishing, you know, you know, three, four, or five.

I'm used to seven to ten um elements because when you add too much into that work plan, I then have to start ordinary ranking weights into where I spend our resources, our our staff time to try to address those things.

So that's like I'm going on a tangent here.

A work plan is a set of performance measures upon which you would like me to concentrate my efforts in return.

I work for the city council at your pleasure.

That work plan is what you would be grading me on in six months, a year from now, as to how that performance, how I did that on that performance.

Um that's notwithstanding, there are other things that come up that would be used as well to evaluate the performance of your city manager as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Rumba.

Um thanks.

I just have um one more question based on what you just said.

Um so you know, I kind of think of it as like an ILA, this work plan.

So that's supposed to be more general.

Okay, and then the MOU would be the more detailed part where how we figure out.

I just want to make sure that um this is something that that we feel makes sense to get done this quickly, that we're not rushing.

And I also want to recognize that, yeah, you're the interim, but we hired you as the city manager, and that's a different pay scale.

And that means there's several, like a month or two months maybe that you're gonna go with the same just in my uh just what I'm seeing.

I just want to know that we're doing this in good faith and treating you the way we should be treating you, and I don't know how they do it at other cities because I haven't done this before, but I just want to make sure this makes sense and that um this is how they would do it in another city, that they would hold you to the I feel like kind of it feels a little, I don't know, like just a little prescriptive right now.

So I'm just trying to understand that because I it seems like we're expecting you to do something quickly that might have taken more time and we would have more input from everybody, whereas we can it kind of feels a little bit rushed as off.

Yeah, because I I think we want to get you that contract.

I'd like to see your contract happen right now and have it say the work plan and then have that work plan be much more um inclusive of the whole council rather than just OSAC and then us having to like talk to you.

That's all just it seems that's my question, and just or a statement.

So thank you, Councilmember Baugh.

Um and you know, I uh we talk about transparency and accountability that that really comes through in our annual review.

Um, and one of the questions I have is when does that annual review process start, right?

Because I want to be starting now and getting to our object, build out the work plan, get it done so we can have something to review you uh you on.

And does does that annual review timeline start after you sign the contract, or was it when we voted to go into negotiations, or are we backdating it to when you started as interim?

So that's kind of where I'm trying to think of like at what point do are we going to hold you accountable for the the work product, right?

And what does a one year look like?

Right.

Um, I I would that's that's also a statement that you don't need a response, but I would share with you you'd probably look towards your colleagues here as far as how you want to set that.

Traditionally, what I'm expect, and I can't give you advice here from the standpoint of this is uh potential employment agreement from me and and the city of Tacoma through the council.

Um so I'd look towards your city attorney here today if that's something you want to traditionally.

What I'm what I experience is within the employment agreement, it would specify um how the evaluation period would be handled.

That is uh fairly that's what I'm accustomed to again.

That's not something that that's something you want to do.

And then um to council member uh Rumba's statement.

Um, I'm gonna try to deploy some brevity here.

Um this is um I've been a city administrator, I've been a city manager.

Um I've never been an interim city manager.

Quite frankly, I have not really understood the the distinction.

So, in a lot of ways, um I am operating as your city manager right now.

I am working with the staff um from the standpoint of what we're trying to do here, and um I have felt the support of this council in partnership as well as the support of our uh department directors.

So I will keep doing what I'm gonna do, and and you'll hold me accountable to that from the standpoint of this transition as well.

Um, so I understand that, and that is both on us to figure this out.

Yep, I I absolutely appreciate that.

Um, you know, that being said, I think it's just like I think it's at least the contract is it's an employment contract, it's not rocket science.

Uh and so I don't know.

I just I'm struggling to understand why is this becoming such a big deal when the real performance and transparency measures is through the work plan and our annual review goal setting as a council, and that could happen in June after your current uh contract expires, or we can just go ahead and get the employment contract done and work through all of this regardless.

And so we don't have to be in a rush, but at least from my perspective, I think it's really important to show that we are committed to making sure that your um your employment contract is done in a timely fashion and we get to work.

Um, and I would expect that of anybody, any city employee or any employee generally, you know, get the contract done, let's get to work.

So that's just my perspective.

Um, thank you.

Um, any additional comments or questions?

All right.

Uh, next up we have um council member walker.

Um we go ahead.

Well, let's just take it away.

Yeah, thank you, um, Deputy Mayor.

Um this is um something I plan to walk on tonight.

It is a letter of support for one of our community organizations, Thrive Center of Tacoma or Thrive International.

Um, they are looking to purchase their building, the one that they are in now, and renovate that to preserve the 115 units of deeply affordable housing for refugee asylum seeking and immigrant families in Pierce County.

Um, they have been a great partner, we've been a great partner with them.

They're looking to um stay here and keep their roots in Tacoma and obviously supporting a vulnerable population that we care deeply about.

This is a letter to um Senator Murray, and there is one um for Representative Strickland as well, and I'll be bringing both of them forward.

Many of you or all of you may have gotten this already in your inbox directly from Thrive.

I talked to them about getting one letter with all of our names on it, which of course means we need to bring it forward at an official council meeting.

Um, I will forward the email that I received, and Deputy Mayor Bushnell, I know already um signed on to one for Senator Cantwell.

So um this is hopefully relatively familiar, but I'll send it so you have the direct the specific language and hope we can all support that um to send that off to our federal delegation.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for bringing this up, Councilmember Walker.

I did send um this exact letter uh from from my office specifically to Senator Murray's and Cantwell.

I didn't realize that they I it was my understanding that they were on a timeline, and so I was like, okay, let me get it out there as quick as possible.

Um, but it sounds like we have a little bit more time, but the the Murray deadline is tomorrow, so it's uh normally we don't walk things on.

We try to give people ample opportunity to a week prior to, but sometimes emerging issues happen.

So I just appreciate you uh bringing this forward, and I think it would mean a lot for this organization not to have to reach out to all of us individually to send letters, but that we can jointly send a letter together to our uh federal delegation to support them and the great work that they're doing.

Uh Councilmember Sidalgay.

Uh I just want to thank you, Councilmember Walker, for uh recognizing um the timing issue and and walking it on tonight.

Uh you and I have both been to Thrive as well as with uh um uh deputy mayor uh schnell over there.

They do some wonderful phenomenal work in our community.

And Northeast Deputy support.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh any questions or comments on that.

All right, uh thank you very much.

Next up we have item number five agenda review and city manager's recall report.

I call on Deputy City Manager Alison Griffith.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

Um, just running you through the agenda for the evening.

There are no ceremonials on tonight's agenda.

Um, however, there will be a presentation by Perks Tacoma this evening.

There are no modifications to tonight's agenda, although you just heard from Councilmember Walker that she will be walking an item on.

There is one opportunity for public comment this evening.

That opportunity is under regular public comment regarding motions, resolutions, and ordinances on tonight's agenda.

Please let me know if there's any questions related to tonight's agenda so that staff can be prepared to respond accordingly and for your review attached to the excuse me.

It's been moved in second.

All those in favor to convene an executive session signify by saying aye.

Those opposed signify by saying nay.

So we stand in recess.