Tacoma City Council
Study Session
Noon, Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Tacoma Municipal Building North
Room 16
728 St. Helens Ave.
Metro Parks contract
The City Council study session is scheduled to include discussion of a $3.3 million, five-year contract with Metro Parks, including defining specifications of properties to be maintained, service levels to be provided, recreation services to be delivered and performance measure expectations through the end of the contract on Dec. 31, 2008. The council will vote on the agreement during its July 13 regular meeting. The council is also expected to discuss the levy lid lift during the study session. The public may attend, but the council will not take public comment.
Tacoma City Council
Regular Meeting
5 p.m., Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Tacoma Municipal Building
Council Chambers
747 Market St.
City Charter amendments
The City Council is scheduled to make its final decisions regarding which of the proposed amendments to the City Charter will be placed on the November ballot for Tacoma voters. The council has already whittled the number of amendments down to 16 from an initial list of 23 proposed by the City Charter Review Committee. The proposed amendments are:
– To allow a general election to remove all elected officials, not only City Council members.
– To allow the City Council to set the number of required annual City Council meetings by ordinance.
– To allow for a summary of new ordinances to be published and authorizing the City Council to designate the effective date for certain ordinances.
– To add a new section requiring that the City Council review the City Charter at least once every 10 years.
– To clarify the process of initiatives and referenda.
– To provide for an annual performance review of the City Manager, requiring biennial confirmation of the City Managers appointment and authorizing the City Council to have specific contracting ability.
– To create a removal process for members of all city boards and commissions.
– To allow city employees and officials to hold other non-conflicting public offices.
– To clarify the definition of pecuniary interest.
– To delete language that is contrary to state law and to add new language prohibiting dual office-holding by elected city officials.
– To change the name of the Finance Committee to the Investment Committee.
– To remove the restriction of city funds being deposited in a bank only in Tacoma.
– To allow for the disbursement of city funds electronically.
– To provide for the Washington State Auditor to be the independent auditor of record.
– To increase the term allowed for lease of city-owned waterfront property to 75 years and modifying certain conditions for leases lasting less than one year.
– To cause the city to be divided, not later than the general election of 2007, into six electoral districts with the Mayor and two City Council members elected by the city at-large.
This is an incomplete agenda for the July 13, 2004, meeting of the Tacoma City Council. The Index prints as much as space allows.
