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Votes at a glance: key Ferndale council actions on May 5, 2025
Summary
The council approved the FY26 triennial budget and rates, passed a vacant-structure ordinance and fee, and approved the consent agenda (multiple items including grants, contracts and appointments).
At its May 5 meeting the Ferndale City Council recorded these formal actions and votes:
Votes at a glance
- Adopted the triennial budget for fiscal year 2026 and forecasts for FY27–FY28 and set FY26 tax, water, sewer and sanitation rates (motion passed by roll-call vote).
- Approved the consent agenda (motion passed by roll-call vote). Items on the consent agenda read into the record included: • Approval of the 04/14/2025 meeting minutes (7a). • Resolution honoring Elk’s Youth Week (May 2025) (7b). • Purchase order for spoils (street-sweeper/ spoils disposal) with Waste Management in the amount read as $35,000 (7c). • Appointments and reappointments to city boards and commissions (7d). • Adoption of an ordinance to amend Chapter 22 of the Ferndale Code of Ordinances for water system protection (7e). • Approval of a contract with RT Contracting Inc. for code-enforcement cleanup and mowing of city facilities (7f). • Grant agreement with USA Swimming Foundation: clerk corrected amount in the meeting to $4,500 (7g). • Approval of a community project funding agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the amount read as $704,669 (7h). • Park Ferndale signage installation to transition to pay-by-plate (pay-by-plate) listed in the meeting transcript as $45,007,718.70; staff did not correct that figure on the record (7i). • Approval of bills and payrolls as submitted by the finance director, subject to review by the council finance committee (7j).
- Adopted an ordinance creating a vacant-and-abandoned-structure registration (motion passed by roll call) and separately amended the fee schedule to add a six-month vacant-building registration fee of $600 and set a review of the fee and program for the first meeting in October 2025 (motions passed by roll call).
Votes that were taken by roll call were recorded as “yes” by the council members in attendance: Johnson, Polica, Kelly, Mikulski (Lukolski spelled in roll call) and Leaksmae. No “no” votes were recorded for these motions in the transcript.
Where the meeting record included a clerk correction, that correction is noted above (7g). For consent-agenda numeric items read aloud but not corrected on the record (for example item 7i), staff materials should be consulted for the official contract amounts.
The council’s actions included a mixture of policy adoption, budget action and routine approvals; where substantial sums or program changes were referenced, staff committed to follow up with full documentation and to return with details as needed.
