The Edmonds City Council is hosting a public town hall from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, April 18 and encourages residents to attend the meeting in person or via Zoom.
“This represents your council wanting to take our public engagement up a notch,” said Council President Vivian Olson. “Your councilmembers look forward to the conversations.”
The town hall will be at the Edmonds Public Works Building, 7110 210th St. S.W. The range of discussion topics are not limited but may include the city’s budget challenges and proposed steps to fiscal resiliency, options for Edmonds fire services, and the 2024 Comprehensive Plan. Questions will be taken from those attending in person or remotely via Zoom. Councilmembers will alternate providing brief responses.
Questions can be submitted in advance via email to council@edmondswa.gov. To participate in the Town Hall via Zoom click zoom.us/J/95798484261 — or paste the Zoom meeting link into a web browser using a computer or smart phone.
Here it is folks. This is what many of us have been asking for, for some time now. Barring some sort of personal emergency I plan to attend this meeting. I would love to hear CM Eck expand on her views of what “equitable housing” is and would/should look like. I’d like a better explanation from CMs Chen and Nand of why CM Dotch’s alternative plan was such an immediate thumbs down for them. I’d seriously like to hear their views on what they want the Hwy 99 International business District to look like in the future and their views on how population increase can be paid for in terms of our already stressed local infrastructure in all parts of our fine city and who should control our fire and police services. I’d love to hear from all of them, their personal view of how protection of our wonderful gifts of nature will be assured in light of hundreds more people being encouraged to move here at the State and County’s behest.
Amen, Clinton. I second that.
Hi Clint, be sure to send your questions to the link above.
Darrol, I’ve just been informed by a reliable source that the meeting will have a tightly controlled format with alternating CM’s who will rotate in answering audience questions and not all CMs will be participating in it. I see that the link you reference is to the Council writ large not individual members. I will submit some written questions but I don’t really expect too much in the way of real solid answers or any sort of follow up questions being encouraged.
I’m a little concerned about what seems like this notion from the openly Democratic Party members on our City Council (that is supposed to be non-partisan in nature) that anyone who wants to live in Edmonds, or Mountlake Terrace or Brier, for that matter, just “deserves” to; like it is some sort of unwritten entitlement or something. To me the only people that “deserve” to live anywhere around here are the Indigenous People who George Backett and the other early timber exploiters stole the land from in the first place. If they are really sincere in this belief, maybe they should give the tribes back the WFC, Yost Park, Civic Field Park, and the dog beach that used to be really great for clam digging.