Council MIN 07-06-2004 Special
FEDERAL WAY CITY COUNCIL
Council Chambers - City Hall
Special Meeting
July 6, 2004- 6: 15 p.m.
Minutes
1.
CALL MEETING TO ORDER
Deputy Mayor Kochmar called the Special Meeting of the Federal Way City Council to
order at the hour of 6:20 p.m.
Councilmembers present: Deputy Mayor Linda Kochmar, Councilmembers Jeanne
Burbidge, Jack Dovey, Eric Faison, Jim Ferrell, and Mike Park.
Deputy Mayor Kochmar excused Mayor McColgan's absence, who later joined the
meeting at 6:40 p.m.
Staff present: City Manager David Moseley, City Attorney Pat Richardson, and City Clerk
Chris Green.
II.
COMMUNITY CENTERJBADMINTON COURT
City Manager David Moseley gave a brief introduction and asked Interim Parks,
Recreation, Cultural Services Director Donna Hanson to introduce the citizens who will be
addressing Council on this issue.
COUNCILMEMBER FERRELL MOVED TO SUSPEND COUNCIL RULES TO
ALLOW CITIZENS TO SPEAK MORE THAN THE ALLOTTED THREE
MINTUES PER PERSON; COUNCILMEMBER FAISON SECOND. The motion
passed unanimously as follows:
Burbidge
Dovey
Faison
Ferrell
yes
yes
yes
yes
Kochmar
McColgan
Park
yes
absent
yes
Dr. Su, spoke in support of placing a badminton facility in the new community center.
H. David Kaplan, spoke in opposition to making modifications at this point to the
community center facility for requests made from a small fraction of the community.
Peter Townsend, spoke in support of modifications being made to the community center
facility to allow a badminton tournament court.
ORt GINAL
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Councilmembers discussed the potential costs in making the requested modifications, and
further discussed the various program cutbacks and modifications that have already been
made to keep the project within the budget.
COUNCILMEMBER DOVEY MOVED TO LEAVE THE COMMUNITY CENTER
PLANS AS IS; MAYOR MCCOLGAN SECOND. The motion passed 6-1 as follows:
Burbidge yes Kochmar yes
Dovey yes McColgan yes
Faison yes Park no
Ferrell yes
III. ADJOURNMENT
There being nothing further to discuss regarding this matter, Deputy Mayor Kochmar
adjourned the Special Meeting at 7:01 p.m.