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Buckley council reviews 2025 work plans for senior, citizens and planning commissions
Summary
Council reviewed commission work plans including senior-center priorities, Citizens Advisory Commission items (wayfinding consultant funded at $5,000, public art and park applications) and the Planning Commission27s code-update schedule emphasizing state housing law compliance and commercial-vehicle and tree-preservation items.
At its Jan. 7 study session, the Buckley City Council reviewed 2025 work plans for several advisory bodies, including the Senior Center Advisory Commission, the Citizens Advisory Commission and the Planning Commission.
The Senior Center Advisory Commission’s draft work plan lists ADA review of public buildings, creating a fee-and-trip policy and scholarship fund, producing a quarterly newsletter, increasing youth engagement, reviewing sidewalk connections and transportation projects, contributing to hiring and onboarding, developing volunteer training and bringing CPR/AED training to the senior center.
The Citizens Advisory Commission outlined a longer list of priorities, including a wayfinding plan for downtown signage and trail signs, capital-facility asset-management review, review of public-art and park-enhancement proposals, and implementation oversight of previously adopted policies. Council staff noted the council has set aside $5,000 in the current budget to hire a consultant to assist with wayfinding design work. Staff and councilors discussed options for funding public art in the future, including a municipal 1% for-arts set-aside or a designated revenue stream from venue fees, but staff said no dedicated local public-art funding currently exists.
Senior Planner Farnsworth told council the Planning Commission will focus early in 2025 on code updates needed to comply with recent state housing laws, including accessory-dwelling-unit (ADU) provisions. Farnsworth said the commission expects to use the city’s comprehensive-plan consultants to help craft those updates and that internal permit-processing procedures will be handled by staff. The planning work plan also highlights possible new code topics such as tree-preservation rules and rules governing where commercial vehicles may be parked at residences; councilors said the commercial-vehicle item responds to repeated neighborhood complaints and will require careful calibration to balance workers27 needs and neighborhood impacts.
Councilors asked clarifying questions and suggested additions. Several councilors supported bringing CPR/AED training to the senior center with help from the fire department. Council discussed outreach tactics and the possibility of a future mass solicitation for public-art proposals, but staff said any long-term funding or a mass call-for-art would require a policy or revenue source to be adopted separately.
No formal motions were made; staff will incorporate any council edits into the final work-plan documents that will appear on the council27s Jan. 14 meeting agenda.
