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Committee hears fire and police 2025 work plans; citywide emergency exercise eyed for October
Summary
Fire and police leaders updated the Snoqualmie Public Safety Committee on 2025 priorities including emergency operations tabletop and a proposed citywide exercise, fire‑apparatus orders and an evidence-room completion and purge for the police department.
Fire Chief Bailey and Interim Police Chief Harase updated the Snoqualmie Public Safety Committee on departmental work plans and timelines on June 2, listing completed items and near‑term milestones including a tabletop EOC exercise in late June and a planned citywide exercise in the fall.
Chief Bailey said the fire department completed reaccreditation and its strategic plan and is assigning objectives to crews. He said an EOC orientation in April is done and staff will run a tabletop exercise with department heads "on the morning of the thirtieth" as a next step toward a larger, citywide exercise expected in October. "That would be kind of the culmination," Bailey said, describing the fall exercise as intended to involve outside agencies and the council.
On wildfire preparations, Bailey said forecasts do not show season pickup until August but that communications and public‑education materials timed around July 4 are expected. Bailey also reported apparatus updates: an engine is arriving soon with a celebration planned for the 14th; an a‑car has been ordered with delivery projected in fall 2026; and one planned pickup replacement is on hold for budget reasons.
Interim Chief Harase reviewed police priorities including the near completion of a construction project, a planned purge and inventory of evidence once the new evidence room is finished, contract work with North Bend, and implementation of a parking-ordinance review. He said the department renewed a Sunnyside and Yakima jail contract and completed a domestic-violence advocate contract in March. Harase noted a longer-term plan to scan and purge paper records and that most supervisor career-level certifications will be completed by July.
Harase described the evidence-room project as the "biggest lift so far this year" and said the department is beginning purging work and using an external property vendor to remove items on a monthly schedule.
Committee members asked whether second- and third‑in‑command would participate in exercises; Bailey said succession planning is part of the tabletop and full exercise design so deputies and alternates would be included. No formal votes were taken; staff will continue to refine schedules, coordinate with other departments and return to the committee with dates and results.
