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Public commenter urges referendum after electoral-board ruling; council approves consent agenda and warrants
Summary
At the Jan. 13 Galena council meeting, resident Elizabeth Boggess urged the council to place referendum questions on the ballot after the municipal electoral board sustained objections to citizen petitions; council approved the consent agenda (including a $3,650.54 Parker-project litigation payment) and approved warrants.
Elizabeth Boggess, identifying herself and giving her address, urged the council to 'ask the people what they think' after the municipal officers electoral board upheld objections to three citizen referendum questions.
"So the idea of a referendum made sense. Ask the people what they think," Boggess said, adding the electoral board "unanimously found in favor of mister Wheaton Heff's objections. All 3 questions were found unacceptable," and suggesting the council could draft and submit its own questions before the filing deadline so petitioners would not need to gather signatures.
Following public comment, the council handled routine business. A motion to approve the consent agenda (CA 25-1) was made and seconded; council discussion noted that consent item 25c-009 included an additional litigation payment of $3,650.54 for the Parker project, which brought the fiscal-year spending to $65,858.49 and the grand total to just over $177,000 as presented to the council. The motion to approve the consent agenda carried.
The council then moved to warrants (item 25c-0012). A motion and second were made to approve the warrants, and the council approved the item in roll call. Several council business items and citizen requests followed, including a request for an update on comprehensive-plan survey responses and a resident suggestion to investigate a downtown parking pass or tag for local residents.
In the city administrator report (read by the meeting facilitator on behalf of Mark Moran), the facilitator noted that bids were out for temporary repairs to the Dewey Avenue bridge over Hulett Creek (bids to be returned at the next council meeting), bids were out for concrete work on new pool shade structures (to be returned at the first council meeting in February), and staff had begun developing the next fiscal-year budget schedule and would circulate the proposed schedule later in the week.
There was a motion and second to adjourn; the meeting concluded after roll-call affirmation.
