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Tenino council approves fire‑marshal contract, street and energy grants, EV charging bid and surplus weapons resolution
Summary
At its Jan. 14 meeting Tenino City Council approved a contract for fire-marshal services, accepted a TIB street-grant for Old 99, approved a solar-plus-storage grant for a food bank, awarded an EV charging-station bid, and passed a resolution to surplus service weapons; council recorded no opposition and did not specify vote tallies in the minutes.
The Tenino City Council on Jan. 14 approved a package of routine and capital items, including a fire‑marshal services contract, transportation and energy grants, an EV charging‑station bid award and a procedural police resolution.
Fire-marshal services: Council approved an agreement with MJR Fire Consulting to provide fire marshal inspections and services for the Egg Park and as-needed business inspections. Matt Russell (introduced to the council) was presented as the contractor; the motion passed after a short discussion and no recorded opposition.
TIB grant for Old 99: Council accepted a Transportation Improvement Board grant for a grind-and-overlay of approximately 1,900 feet of Old 99. Staff and council clarified that Tenino’s local share is about $61,470 while the full project budget is roughly $500,000; the council approved the grant.
Food bank solar-plus-storage grant: The council approved the 290 Food Bank Solar + Storage grant agreement. Staff confirmed the project requires no local match.
EV charging-station bid award: Bids for the EV charging station were opened last week; staff reported nine bids, noted the low bidder misbid and recommended the award to Travers Electric. Council approved the bid award; staff said bids came in well under the original estimate (staff cited an original estimate of about $327,000 and qualifying bids around $176,000–$189,000), and that grant funding leaves margin for potential overages.
Resolution to surplus service weapon: Council approved Resolution 2025-01 to surplus a service weapon in line with typical police department practice when employees depart.
Votes and tallies: The minutes record motions, seconds and unanimous “Aye” responses in roll-call fashion for these items; the published transcript does not list a numerical tally or record named yes/no votes for individual councilmembers. No member spoke in opposition on any of the listed votes.
