MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 28, 2021
The Edmonds City Council debates the reimbursement during its March 9, 2021 meeting.
$337 is not a lot of money. But $337 is the flashpoint that ignited an inflammatory and seemingly endless debate in Edmonds City Council.
“I think this was a witch hunt.” Councilmember Adrienne Fraley-Monillas
–Councilmember Laura Johnson
“I’ve been slandered tonight, and I’ve been accused of bias and I just want that to be on the record.”
–Councilmember Vivian Olson
The $337 is not the real story. The story is the internal council battle that, for the last several months, has pitted members against one another; much of it focused on the debate over a new police chief.
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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: March 10, 2021
Human Resources Director Jessica Neill Hoyson, bottom right, discusses with councilmembers the matrix of considerations for a contractor vs. an in-house social worker.
Story updated to clarify the amount requested for reimbursement was $337 rather than $307.
The Edmonds City Council Tuesday night agreed with a city staff recommendation to contract with a human services agency to provide a social worker rather than hire an employee to do the work.
Councilmembers also began going through amendments to the city’s just-passed tree code, although ran out of time and agreed to continue the effort at a later date. And they engaged in a sometimes heated discussion also continued to a later, yet-to-be-determined meeting about whether Councilmember Vivian Olson should be reimbursed for the $337 she spent to obtain a 67-page court document as part of her research into the background of former police chief candidate Sherman Pruitt.