The Yakima City Council met on August 18, 2026, at 5:34 p.m. (adjourned at 7:29 p.m.) for a regular meeting that included recognitions, a discussion on state legislative priorities, public testimony opposing Flock safety cameras, approval of the Plat of the Vine preliminary subdivision, a public meeting on the Columbia Ridge Homes annexation, and a proposal to expend Affordable Housing (1406) funds.
I will uh call this regular council business meeting to order. Uh clerk roll call, please. Brown? Here. Five years. President. Glen? Here. Gonzalez. President. Patricus. Here. Roy. Here. And Berg is absent. All right. Uh stand with me for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag. All right. Interpreter services. Uh, yes, for the audience, we have interpreting services I provide uh through language connection in the radio. Thank you. Uh, next is open discussion for the good of the order, and we have Chief Boyle uh up first to recognize Nicole for 25 years of service. Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to recognize Nicole Sandino. Um, she has twenty-five years employed with the city, but she actually has twenty-eight years of service with the city. Started as an explorer, worked in their park patrol, was a reserve of the Yakima Police Department, and ended up serving some time in Union Gap when she was full-time hired here in two thousand one. She was a PSS one, a PSS two. Payroll. She used to put the gold sticker on when I get when we did our gold when I handed time back in the day. She was instrumental in bringing in TAMS to our department, or for all of you folks in the city that love TAMS. She helped bring it to us. She spent a little bit of time at dispatch, but came back to us. She was asked to come back because to the police department from communications because she did such an outstanding job. And then the community service officer position came open in twenty twenty-two, and she was one of the founding members of the team, and which is animal control parking, and then a plethora of other things we ask her to do and the group to do. Um, they handle thousands of calls a year, realistically. But the biggest thing I could say is she's raised her family here. She's but we've watched her grow up. It's kind of funny. I was talking about, I said we actually watched her grow up. She was a teenager, and now she's a young lady. We'll go with that. But she has an infectious smile, and she's always happy, and she's got some other things that she's brought to our the automated dog licenses and stuff that'll help instead of chipping animals, it's going to be a barcode reader, help find the owners. She doesn't show it, which is positive for us. So thank you for twenty-five years of working at the city, and hopefully you got twenty-five more or so. But thank you again, and and we appreciate everything you've done at our organization. Twenty-five more years. All right. Next we have item 4B. This is Vicki Baker and the introduction of Jen Harrison.