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Votes at a glance

1) Consent agenda — Outcome: approved
Motion (as read): “I move to adopt the consent agenda as presented.”
Recorded outcome: Motion passed (voice vote).

2) Reappointment — Chris Blessing to Mesquite (district) board — Outcome: approved
Motion (as read): Mayor’s nomination moved and seconded; voice vote recorded: “All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes.”

3) Annexation petition (Allen Wheeler Road parcel) — Outcome: council accepted the annexation petition to proceed with consideration, agreed to apply city future land-use designation(s) and to require assumption of city indebtedness by the annexed area
Motion (as read): Council moved to accept the proposed boundary, to apply the city future-land-use designation of commercial (northern portion) and residential (southern portion) and to require assumption of related indebtedness; motion seconded. Recorded outcome: Motion passed (voice vote).

4) Grant County Health District interlocal agreement (2025 funding) — Outcome: approved
Motion (as read): Authorize interlocal agreement (ILA) as presented (2025 contribution adjusted to $70,000 per the 2025 budget). Recorded outcome: Motion passed (voice vote).

5) State Auditor’s report (2021 audit acceptance) — Outcome: accepted
Motion (as read): Move to accept the 2021 State Auditor’s report as presented. Recorded outcome: Motion passed (voice vote).

Notes on the record

- Several items were discussed at length before motions (for example, water-system presentations and UGA requests); council directed staff follow-up (technical meetings, workshops) but those directions were non-binding policy directions rather than formal ordinance or code actions.
- Vote details (individual yes/no counts) were recorded as voice votes during the meeting. The minutes record outcomes but do not contain roll-call vote counts for each item in the transcript excerpt provided.

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Brianna Murray and Colleen Meiners of Gordon Thomas Honeywell advised the council to adopt a one-page legislative agenda that lists three to five top priorities and one or two targeted funding requests. They emphasized three procedural points: (1) this is a budget year with a new biennium and a new governor, (2) the capital budget is the most stable budget to pursue community projects, and (3) the legislature increasingly wants projects to show other grant or matching funds and ability to spend the money in the 2025–2027 biennium.

Key guidance and recommendations

- Prefer capital requests under roughly $800,000 to increase the chance of allocation; larger, multimillion-dollar appropriations are rare and require broad coalitions and unusual circumstances.
- The capital budget is the highest-return target for city-owned infrastructure (water, sewer, parks, community buildings). Transportation funding is handled in the transportation budget and typically requires regional support and a nexus to the state system.
- Operating-budget asks are harder to secure in 2025 because of a projected multiyear shortfall; the lobbyists said operating requests should be focused, short-term pilots or replacement items.

Water is recommended as the top priority

Murray and Meiners said they understand Moses Lake’s water constraints and recommended water be the city’s top priority for the 2025 agenda. They outlined the practical approach: identify a specific capital project or funding gap (for example a treatment, storage or surface-water intake project), show other funding commitments and explain how state funds would be spent in the 2025–27 biennium.

Next steps and schedule

The lobbyists asked councilors to provide suggested agenda items so staff and the lobbyists can draft a one-page agenda for council approval. They proposed a deadline one week from the presentation for council feedback and offered to produce a draft agenda for adoption by the end of the month. Council members asked staff to coordinate with department leaders to identify projects and probable matching funds.

Ending

Lobbyists said their near-term focus will be getting a clear, short legislative agenda from the council, then using their state contacts to advance a capital funding request that fits the legislature’s expectations and timeline.

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City transportation and stormwater staff said the city’s traffic studies show a number of intersections and ramps near I‑90, Hanson Road and the west-side frontage roads could reach or exceed capacity as growth continues. The 2019 Perti study modeled multiple intersections and forecasted level-of-service deficiencies at several locations if an off-ramp were closed; staff told council that the state later decided not to close that off‑ramp in the near term, which changes impacts.

Sewer and redundancy concerns

City staff and consultants also emphasized sewer-conveyance constraints out of May Valley. Richard Law noted that “we have a single umbilical cord, if you will, across the I 90 bridge for our all sewer out of May Valley” and said the city will want redundancy or upsizing on that crossing before accepting large volume growth routed to the Sand Dunes treatment plant. Staff discussed alternative force-main routings and the possibility of a new west-side treatment plant for long-term build-out in the valley.

Debate over traffic modeling and new corridors

Developer consultant Dave Dormeyer said his traffic modeling shows different routing assumptions than the city’s earlier analyses and questioned an assumption in one study that 50% of Paradise Point traffic would go west instead of toward I‑90. Dormeyer argued that new local roads and a planned north–south corridor (road 5/drumheller) would change routing patterns and could relieve pressure on Hanson Road. Council members said they wanted to see modeling that reflects potential new connections.

Future-streets map and next steps

Planning staff presented a proposed “future streets” element for the comprehensive-plan update; the planning commission recommended denial of a related transportation-element amendment and asked for more stakeholder review. Council asked staff to hold a workshop to review the map, the transportation-element changes, and the engineering basis for suggested corridors. Council scheduled a focused study session for January 21 at 2:00 p.m. to allow engineers, DOT representatives (as needed), developers and council to resolve technical differences and set the public review sequence.

Ending

Council members said they want to balance predictable roadway planning with realistic funding and sequencing; staff was asked to bring back the traffic model inputs, pump/pipe curves where conveyance is in question, and a clearer project and funding timeline for May Valley corridors and river crossings.

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Richard Law, a city presenter, opened the study-session briefing by saying, “So, water system, that’s always the, the pink elephant in the room,” and walked council through a water-system plan update submitted to the state Department of Health in late 2024. The plan projects capital needs that include PFAS treatment at well 29, a new storage tank in the Moses Point zone and distribution upgrades. The capital-improvement program in the plan totals roughly $38,000,000 through 2030.

Why it matters: City officials said the limiting factor for growth through the 2030s is the source (the aquifer and wells). Staff and consultants said several zones were being pumped at or above the Department of Health’s recommended 20 hours a day during summer peaks; in Knowles Vista and Larson zones some wells were operated continuously in the peak weeks reported.

Key details from the presentation:
- The city reported roughly 13,000 customer connections in 2023 and an ERU (equivalent residential unit) count above 14,000. The plan uses conservative consumption assumptions while citing improvements from 2023–24 conservation efforts.
- Several wells show declining static water levels year-over-year; well 33 in Knowles Vista has declines approaching 20 feet per year and well 29 (the PFAS well) shows only minor decline but requires treatment. That decline reduces sustainable source capacity over time.
- With the capital improvements the plan models, the city’s limiting factor shifts from source capacity to water rights sometime after the early 2040s.
- City staff emphasized storage shortfalls in some zones and the need to decide whether developers should share in financing new tanks, mains and treatment.

Developers asked for one-time letters

Developer representatives said the projects they are pursuing in the urban growth area (UGA) cannot move through SEPA and platting without a city “availability” determination and a path to an extraterritorial utility agreement (ETA) or annexation.

Dave Dormeyer, a consultant representing several projects, told council those requests are required by city policy and asked the council to authorize water-availability letters so the county can complete SEPA scoping. Dormeyer said Moses Point and other UGA projects plan to use irrigation water from the Moses Lake Reclamation District (MLRD) for landscape irrigation, limiting city potable demand for outdoor use: “All these developments in the UGA... are developed into saving water,” he said, describing an estimated annual potable-water savings from irrigation reuse.

Council reaction and next steps

Council members said they want a rapid but rigorous path forward. Council and staff agreed to schedule follow-up meetings that include city engineering staff, the city’s water-system report authors, and the developers’ engineers to resolve assumptions (ERU definitions, peak-factor methodology, pump curves and tank sizing). Council also asked staff to return with a clearer picture of financing options for the planned capital projects (e.g., bonding, developer participation, grants) and asked for the water-system plan materials that are currently under Department of Health review.

At the meeting’s close the council directed staff to set a working session for city staff, council representatives and the applicants to review pump and storage modeling and to begin drafting extraterritorial agreements or annexation terms; council members requested the city’s most recent water-system tables and pump-run data be made available to the applicants’ engineers.

Ending

Council members said they want to balance facilitating housing growth with protecting service reliability for existing customers; staff committed to convening technical meetings and returning with clearer, documented choices on annexation, ETAs and developer participation.

","City staff told council the water system is nearing source limits, with some wells running beyond recommended hours. Developers seeking extraterritorial service or annexation asked for water-availability letters so SEPA and plats can move ahead; council agreed to reconvene staff, engineers and developers for detailed follow-up.","actionData","errors"]

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