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Pine View students seek city support for homecoming parade; council urges event permit filing
Summary
Student leaders from Pine View High School presented a homecoming parade plan for Telegraph on July 9, asking the city to support traffic closures and community activities at Veterans Park. City staff and police described staffing needs and instructed students to file an event permit.
Student leaders from Pine View High School asked Washington City Council on July 9 to allow the school's annual homecoming parade to proceed down Telegraph, bringing feeder elementary and intermediate schools to Veterans Park for pre-parade activities.
Principal Brett Gifford opened the presentation and said, "It's always a great day to be a panther," before student council members outlined the proposed plan: staging on 100 West (a vacant lot next to the grocery store), a 7 p.m. eastbound parade down Telegraph from 100 West to 200 East, community activities at Veterans Park beginning about 6 p.m., and an estimated parade duration of roughly 20 minutes.
Students said the eastbound routing was chosen to avoid directing participants into the sun and to provide safer viewing conditions for young children. The school asked the city to divert traffic at Main/200 North and provide police and public-works support for signage and clean-up. Lieutenant Corey Klotz told the council the police department typically assigns nine to ten officers for the event, and recommended placing advance signage on Main Street and Telegraph to reduce unexpected traffic congestion. He also said shifting the traffic detour to 200 North would be workable with additional officers stationed at critical intersections.
City Manager Jeremy Redd and staff advised the student organizers to submit an online event permit to the city recorder, Tara, and to include both the Veterans Park activities and the parade on the permit. The students were responsive to council questions about timing, staging and cleanup and received broad support from council members, who encouraged organizers to coordinate signage and finalize staffing with police and public works.
Council and staff did not take a formal vote to pre-approve the route; instead they endorsed the plan in concept and directed students to complete the event-permit process so staff can review staffing, signage and traffic detours.
