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Council approves settlement agreement authorization after executive session; city attorney says no monetary obligation
Summary
City Attorney Joanna reported that developer QMC (referred to also as Cortera) and neighbor David Grampa reached a settlement; council entered a 10-minute executive session under RCW 42.31.110(1)(i) to discuss litigation strategy and then authorized the mayor to execute Resolution 1883; Joanna said the settlement contains no monetary obligations for the city.
City Attorney Joanna briefed the council on Resolution 1883, describing a settlement reached today between the developer identified as QMC (also referenced as Cortera/QMC) and a neighboring property owner, David Grampa. Joanna said two other appeals related to the developer’s mixed-use permits had been dismissed as insufficient and that Mr. Grampa’s appeal remained, but negotiations produced an agreement that QMC and Mr. Grampa had signed.
Joanna said city staff and the city attorney participated in negotiations and that the settlement terms that the city would agree to were nonmonetary. She recommended council approval and asked the mayor to authorize a closed executive session under RCW 42.31.110(1)(i) to discuss litigation. The council recessed to an executive session at 7:36 p.m. for 10 minutes, returned at 7:46 p.m., and then approved Resolution 1883 authorizing the mayor to execute the settlement. "None of which are monetary on the part of the city," Joanna said of the city's commitments in the agreement.
Council voted to authorize the mayor to execute the settlement; the resolution language submitted to council described the parties as QMC (Cortera) and David Grampa and authorized the mayor to enter into the settlement agreement.
