Several residents used the public comment period to press the council on local safety, sanitation and enforcement issues in downtown Shelton and waterfront access. Commenters described litter, fires on hillsides, chopped bikes, raw sewage entering Oakland Bay and the visible use of razor wire at a yacht club landing as symptoms of larger enforcement and maintenance problems.

One commenter said, "We should strive to walk in agreement with truth, justice, accountability, and most of all, safety for our citizens. I'm sick and tired of the obvious disregard of basic human decency that abounds in our community." Steve Jewett, who identified himself during introductions, described arriving at the yacht club and seeing razor wire, cameras and what he called "vagrants, garbage, environmental disaster," and asked the council to consider enforcement and cleanup priorities.

Speakers urged citizens to "come to settings such as this and voice our concerns" and to vote in local elections if they believed officials were not acting in residents' interests. The comments were recorded during the public comment period; no specific council responses or formal actions were taken at the time, though council members thanked speakers for their remarks.