College Place council approves six resolutions and a change order; summary of motions and votes

The College Place City Council approved six action items at its March 11 meeting: one internal change order for the city’s community development software and five resolutions or contracts covering sewer planning financing, a fire-station energy retrofit grant, safe-routes engineering support, a community wildfire defense grant application and a water-system consolidation feasibility contract.

Here are the motions, sponsors and outcomes as recorded in the meeting.

Tyler Technologies — community development software change order The council approved an internal change order to add 184 hours of professional services from Tyler Technologies to finish the city’s Tyler community development implementation. The additional work was presented by Mr. Carlton and staff said the cost is $23,920 to come from the IT fund reserves. Motion to authorize the city finance director to sign the change order was made and seconded; the council voted aye and the motion passed.

Resolution 25-022 — financing agreement for updated wastewater/sewer plan Council adopted Resolution 25-022 permitting the city administrator to sign a financing agreement with the Washington State Department of Ecology (Water Quality Combined Financing Program) to update the city’s wastewater/sewer plan. Staff explained the update will refresh the citywide list of projects to qualify for future EPA and Ecology grants and loans; the estimated consultant cost discussed in the meeting for the planning work was $75,000. A motion to adopt the resolution passed on an aye vote.

Resolution 25-023 — fire station energy-efficiency grant Council adopted Resolution 25-023 authorizing the city administrator to sign a grant agreement with the State Department of Commerce for the College Place Fire Station Energy Efficient Project. Staff said the legislative earmark/grant is “just north of $1,100,000” and requires no local match. The motion passed on an aye vote.

Resolution 25-024 — Davis and Sager Safe Routes to School engineering application support Council approved Resolution 25-024 to support grant applications for engineering work on Safe Routes to School projects serving Davis Elementary School and Sager Middle School. The resolution authorizes staff to pursue philanthropic and grant funds for engineering and construction planning. The motion passed on an aye vote.

Resolution 25-025 — USFS Community Wildfire Defense grant application Council approved Resolution 25-025 to support a Community Wildfire Defense grant application. Staff said the grant would fund wildland fuels-reduction work in partnership with homeowners associations and can be spent over a multi-year period. The motion passed on an aye vote.

Resolution 25-026 — RH2 contract for water-system consolidation feasibility study ($70,000) Council adopted Resolution 25-026 authorizing the city administrator to sign a $70,000 contract with RH2 Engineering to conduct a water-system consolidation feasibility study covering Irrigation District 14 and the Villages of Garrison Creek HOA. The study is funded by a State Department of Health grant. The motion passed on an aye vote.

Consent agenda Earlier the council approved the consent agenda, which included the March 11, 2025 agenda, minutes from Feb. 25, 2025, excusing the absence of a council member and the 2025 equipment replacement plan that lists the purchase of three new vehicles.

Votes and procedural notes The transcript records the council-wide voice votes for each item as “ayes have it” or equivalent; no roll-call tallies with member-by-member yes/no were read into the public record for these items during this meeting. Where a motion and second were recorded in the transcript, those names are noted above. For items that will require future ordinance language (for example, any change to ordinances), staff said they would return to council with draft documents.