Votes at a glance: Aberdeen council actions Oct. 22, 2025
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Summary
The Aberdeen City Council approved multiple routine and substantive items during its Oct. 22 meeting, including a resolution honoring first responders, ordinance readings, land-use ordinances and several administrative authorizations. Below is a concise list of items the council voted on and their outcomes.
Aberdeen — At its Oct. 22, 2025 meeting the Aberdeen City Council took the following formal actions.
- Resolution: Declared Oct. 28, 2025, National First Responders Day in Aberdeen. Motion moved, seconded and adopted. (Resolution introduced by the mayor.)
- Donation: Authorized donation of a Native American wooden sculpture to the Quinault Indian Nation/Quinault Enterprise for display. Motion moved, seconded and adopted.
- Ordinances (readings and adoptions): • Bill 25-11 — First reading of the 2025 property tax levy for collection in 2026 (moved to second reading). • Bill 25-12 — First reading of the 2026 delivery budget (moved to second reading). • Bill 25-10 — First reading of a 2025 supplemental budget ordinance (moved to subsequent reading). • Bill 25-88 — Vacation of a portion of an alley between Union Pacific Blocks 10 and 11 (council treated second reading as third and adopted the ordinance). • Bill 25-09 — Amended zoning ordinance to allow for minimum square footage housing types (council treated second reading as third and adopted the ordinance).
- Agreements/Reports: • Accepted report to proceed with discussions on a potential interlocal policing arrangement with the city of Cosmopolis (motion adopted). • Authorized the public works director to execute task order No. 2 with GME (motion adopted).
- Personnel/Classification: Adopted a job description and created the job classification for a public works equipment rental and mechanic position; filling the position will require a future supplemental budget.
Where the record shows motions were moved and seconded with an in-favor voice vote, the item is recorded as adopted. Where an item proceeded as a first reading, the council moved it to the subsequent reading rather than adopting the final ordinance on Oct. 22. If the transcript did not record a roll-call tally, this summary records outcomes as noted in the meeting transcript.