Tumwater committee sends school resource officer interlocal agreement to council consent calendar

The Tumwater Public Health and Safety Committee voted unanimously to place an intergovernmental agreement with the Tumwater School District on the Sept. 16 city council consent calendar with a recommendation to approve and authorize the mayor to sign. The committee took the action during its Sept. 9 meeting with two members present and voting.

City of Tumwater Police Chief Feliz briefed the committee on the School Resource Officer (SRO) contract, saying the department and school district have worked on how SRO data “is collected and how it is cleaned up and moved into report format.” Chief Feliz also told the committee that “Detective Rollman has retired, and Detective Seth Stauffer has stepped in to take his place, and we’re very excited about that.”

Council discussion was procedural: one member moved to place the intergovernmental agreement on the Sept. 16 consent calendar with the recommendation to approve and authorize the mayor to sign; another member seconded the motion and both voted yes. The committee chair announced the motion passed unanimously.

The chief said the department and district have been working on data formatting and reporting “going forward,” and that SRO staffing had been updated with Detective Stauffer replacing Detective Rollman. The committee did not adopt or amend the intergovernmental agreement itself at the Sept. 9 meeting; it only advanced the item to the council consent calendar for action.

No statutes, ordinance numbers or budget amounts were cited during the committee discussion. The committee record shows the intergovernmental agreement includes a data-collection agreement as a listed element, but the committee did not vote on the agreement’s substantive provisions at the Sept. 9 meeting. The city will present the item to the full council on Sept. 16.