Tacoma City Council Meeting - Jan. 19th, 2010

Tonight’s Tacoma City Council meeting had an extremely short agenda. It was a nice and easy warm up for those new Councilmembers … The meeting began with the swearing in of newly appointed Councilmembers David Boe and Ryan Mello. David Boe even wore a suit. No tie, but a suit nonetheless. Here are the rest of our notes:

PROCLAMATIONS, RECOGNITIONS, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mayor Strickland proclaimed January 22nd and 23rd, 2010 as Community Music Anniversary Celebration Days in the City of Tacoma to recognize the 30th anniversary of the University of Puget Sound’s Community Music program.

R E G U L A R A G E N D A

RESOLUTIONS
Purchase Resolution No. 37974 awards a contract to:
Petrocard, Inc., in the amount of $5,130,562, including applicable tax, for a cumulative total of $11,640,562; and PNEC Corporation, in the amount of $3,216,000, including applicable tax, for a cumulative total of $9,216,000, budgeted from various departmental funds, to increase and extend the contracts for mobile/cardlock biodiesel fueling services and car wash services through February 20, 2012.

Resolution No. 37975 authorizes the execution of an agreement with the Metropolitan Development Council, in the amount of $425,116, budgeted from the Human Rights and Human Services Special Revenue Fund, for the Housing First Chronic Homelessness Project, effective January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2010.

FINAL READING OF ORDINANCES
Ordinance No. 27870 creating a new fund in the Treasury of the City of Tacoma to be known and designated as the Permit Services Fund; and making the establishment of the Permit Services Fund retroactive to January 1, 2009.

Nobody came forward during public comment. There were few questions from the dais. This was the shortest City Council meeting in recent memory. Goodnight.