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Council approves multiple items: public-communications policy, Amazon amendment, police bond resolution; schedules workshop and appoints budget committee
Summary
At its Feb. 18 meeting the Umatilla City Council approved an administrative public-communications policy, an Amazon enterprise-zone amendment and a resolution calling a bond election; it also confirmed budget committee appointments and scheduled a policies workshop for March 11.
The Umatilla City Council on Feb. 18 handled several administrative and procedural items, approving an administrative policy on public clearance and communications, confirming budget committee appointments, scheduling a policies workshop and approving prior notable resolutions.
Key approvals and actions:
- Public-communications policy (Resolution 20-2025): Council approved a resolution adopting administrative policy and procedures for a public-clearance communications plan. Staff said this draft incorporated council feedback and the new system implementation was already under way.
- Amazon enterprise-zone amendment (Resolution 21-2025): Council approved the second-amendment agreement for the long-term rural enterprise-zone tax abatement with Amazon Data Services, Inc.; see separate coverage for details.
- Police-facility bond (Resolution 22-2025): Council approved a resolution calling a city election on a general-obligation bond measure not to exceed $19.8 million to finance a police facility and related capital improvements; see separate coverage for details.
- Budget committee appointments: Council approved three appointments to the budget committee — Andrea Barrera, Denise Pratt and Delfino Orsorio — to fill three openings.
- Workshop scheduling: Council set a policies-and-procedures workshop for March 11 at 5 p.m. to continue review of the draft council policies and procedures manual.
Procedural notes: The council approved the meeting agenda change to add an agenda item (5.2) earlier in the session. All listed resolutions and motions were adopted by voice vote during the meeting; the transcript records approval declarations but did not include roll-call tallies.
Ending: Staff will implement the new communications system, proceed with bond-measure preparations and return refined policy drafts to council following the March 11 workshop and any required legal review.
