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Votes at a glance: Tenino council approves consent items, project change orders and a resolution to preserve police funding
Summary
On Oct. 22 the Tenino City Council approved the consent calendar, accepted donated equipment, ratified agreements for a VFW veterans monument and EV charging station, approved wastewater and AG Park change orders, authorized a building services contract and voted to require police funding be held at 2024 levels in the final budget.
At its Oct. 22 meeting the Tenino City Council handled a series of routine and project items and took one notable policy vote affecting next year’s budget.
Votes and outcomes (summary):
- Agenda amendment to add a budget resolution (moved and seconded during agenda approval) — approved by voice vote.
- Consent calendar (payroll, claims checks and EFTs totaling $115,904.31) — approved by voice vote.
- Equipment transfer acceptance (CAPCOM equipment donated to the police department; item introduced as a past donation that was missed for formal acceptance) — approved by voice vote.
- Agreement with VFW Post 5878 for the Veterans Monument — approved by voice vote.
- Wastewater treatment plant engineering amendment to pursue emergency grant funding for replacement screens/membranes (cost to come from sewer fund) — approved by voice vote.
- EV charging station agreement (engineering and project management to be covered via a grant) — approved by voice vote.
- AG Park HVAC change order (variable speed supply fan) in the amount of $24,322 including tax, offset by a $26,000 credit with another contractor — approved by voice vote.
- Bathhouse archaeological and historical building investigation amendment (to support grant readiness) — approved by voice vote.
- Authorization to contract with a budget and fiscal analyst (mayor offered to apply his mayoral stipend up to $18,000 to fund the work); council authorized moving forward and asked for the consultant to present credentials at the next meeting.
- Building services agreement for a previously used building inspector — approved by voice vote.
- Budget resolution directing that the council will not accept any proposed mayoral budget that reduces Tenino Police Department funding below 2024 levels — approved by voice vote with at least one recorded nay.
Several motions were resolved by unrecorded voice votes and did not show a roll‑call tally in the transcript. Where specific tallies or individual roll‑call votes were not recorded, the meeting minutes show a majority voice vote carried the motion.
