2018-09-27 Council Minutes - Special' ‘66., CITY OF
Federal Way
CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING MINTUES
Council Chambers - City Hall
September 27, 2018 — 5:30 p.m.
1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER
Mayor Ferrell called the meeting to order at 5:31 p.m.
City officials in attendance: Mayor Jim Ferrell, Deputy Mayor Susan Honda, Councilmember Lydia
Assefa-Dawson (via telephone) , Councilmember Jesse Johnson, Councilmember Hoang Tran,
Councilmember Mark Koppang (via telephone), Councilmember Martin Moore, and Councilmember
Dini Duclos.
City staff in attendance: City Attorney Ryan Call and City Clerk Stephanie Courtney.
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Mayor Ferrell led the flag salute.
Mayor Ferrell announced Councilmember Assefa-Dawson and Councilmember Koppang were
participating via phone.
3. BUDGET WORKSHOP — 2019/2020 BIENNIAL BUDGET
a. Department Presentations continued from September 26, 2018 Study Session.
• Municipal Court budget was presented by Judge Larson.
• Lodging Tax Advisory Committee and Economic Development budgets
were presented by Director Tim Johnson.
Citizen Comment:
Karen Schwisow, owner of Three Trees Yoga, asked Council to continue to support the
Small Business Development Center which has been instrumental in helping her grow her
yoga studio and school.
• Law Department budget was presented by City Attorney Ryan Call.
• Police Department budget was presented by Police Chief Andy Hwang.
Citizen Comment:
Scott Chase would like to see the Police Department better funded. He is concerned over
increasing crime that is pushed to South King County and feels the community is hungry for
more proactive engagement from the Police Department.
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Dana Hollaway is pleased to see the budget proposal does not include the Transportation
Benefit District. She would like to see the Council find sustainable revenue and address
workload and salary issues for the city staff who are providing basic and essential city
services.
Lamont Styles spoke in support of the presentation earlier in the evening regarding
Community Court. He sees value in this program and would like to increase programs that will
help reduce crime levels and individuals in the system. He would like to see more programs
and ideas such as this one.
Clifford Gehrett spoke in support of allowing retail marijuana in the city. He feels the budget
meetings show a need for additional revenue and he estimates four stores in Federal Way
would generate over $20 million in sales which would generate sales tax and excise tax
revenue.
Judy James spoke in support of allowing retail marijuana stores in Federal Way. She owns
three stores in a neighboring jurisdiction and said her customers are the same customers who
purchase a bottle of wine and return home. She has not experienced neighboring businesses
leaving or negative experiences in or around her stores.
• Community Development Department budget was presented by Director
Brian Davis.
b. Council Discussion/Questions
The Mayor and Council thanked the Department Directors for their presentations tonight.
4. ADJOURNMENT
There being nothing further on the agenda; Mayor Ferrell adjourned the Special Meeting at 8:41 p.m.
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