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Votes at a glance: Woodland council approves vouchers, biosolids contract renewal, 2025-27 union contracts, TIP amendment for Pacific Avenue sidewalk
Summary
The Woodland City Council unanimously approved vouchers, renewed a biosolids contract with Natural Selection Farms Inc., ratified clerical and public-works union contracts for 2025'27, and amended the transportation improvement plan to include the Pacific Avenue sidewalk project funded by the Transportation Improvement Board.
At the meeting the council recorded votes on four items: approval of vouchers, a contract renewal for beneficial use of biosolids, ratification of union contracts for 2025 through 2027, and an amendment to the city's Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) to include the Pacific Avenue sidewalk project.
Votes (motion outcomes):
- Motion: Approve vouchers (December second half, 2024). Outcome: approved. Vote: Council members Rounds, Burke, Dowdy, Hall, Freimark, Houston and Friend voted "Aye."
- Motion: Authorize the mayor to sign a contract renewal with Natural Selection Farms Incorporated for the beneficial use of biosolids. Outcome: approved. Vote: Council members Rounds, Burke, Dowdy, Hall, Freimark, Houston and Friend voted "Aye."
- Motion: Authorize the mayor to sign collective-bargaining agreements with the clerical union and the public works union for 2025 through 2027. Outcome: approved. Vote: Council members Rounds, Burke, Dowdy, Hall, Freimark, Houston and Friend voted "Aye." The council noted the unions will pay 6% of medical and described the split as a "90 4 6" arrangement; management currently has a "95 5" split and council said management will move to a 90 4 6 arrangement as well.
- Motion: Adopt Resolution No. 798 to amend Resolution No. 784, adding the Transportation Improvement Board-funded Pacific Avenue sidewalk project to the 2025'2030 TIP. Outcome: approved. Vote: Council members Rounds, Burke, Dowdy, Hall, Freimark, Houston and Friend voted "Aye." The council said the TIP amendment is required to accept the already-awarded TIP grant dollars for the project.
All four motions carried by recorded voice/roll-call votes as shown above; the transcript records unanimous "Aye" votes for these items.
No further conditions, amendments, or abstentions were recorded in the meeting transcript.
