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City Council Workshops · May 18, 2026 · 1:22:34–1:22:55 · Watch on CVTV ↗

City officials highlighted the use of state and federal grants to support community initiatives, including a Washington Department of Commerce grant funding the city's climate planning engagement through 2027. Additionally, the council discussed pursuing state grant opportunities to finance a $150 million infrastructure project that would reroute heavy freight traffic away from Fruit Valley's residential areas and schools. However, staff emphasized that while these grants provide crucial near-term support, grant funding alone will not be sufficient to achieve the city's broader, long-term climate and community goals.

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1:21:27 getting them away from the park is something that is extremely important and has been 16 years in the works. We know right now it's a $150 million project that needs to be identified, put into phases, put into different categories. But as all of these residents and businesses and as your advisory group is looking at it, they need to understand that there's a great opportunity here to remove all of that freight away from the neighborhood, bring it around the west side and putting that into a priority action step that is going to make a world of difference for many of the priorities that they have on that list. >> Absolutely. That's something that is consistently echoed amongst community and the committee as well.

1:22:23 >> Yeah. So let's see if we can't -- as we are prioritizing land use, budgeting, transportation, we have state grant opportunities for new bridges, new roadways, new freight corridors, and it would be a huge asset to this particular project. Diana, let's start with you. Sorry I missed you the last time. Do you have anything on this particular topic? >> I do. Thank you, Paul and Shannon. My question really is a little bit tied to what the mayor is asking, but it seems like the environmental health and climate appears as a category without any elaboration on what the residents have actually said about pollution or air quality or industrial impacts,

1:23:23 and this really has to do about identifying any specific pathways to address accountability or mitigation commitments. So that's the one thing that stood out for me at this point. >> Have you talked about that or is there a way to -- is that the next step in identifying these paths or to be a little bit more specific on what about pollution? Is it the diesel truck? Is it the railway? Is it some specificity?


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priorities that they have on that list. >> Absolutely. That's something that is consistently echoed amongst community and the committee as well. >> Yeah. So let's see if we can't -- as we are prioritizing land use, budgeting, transportation, we have state grant opportunities for new bridges, new roadways, new freight corridors, and it would be a huge asset to this particular project. Diana, let's start with you. Sorry I missed you the last time. Do you have anything on this particular topic? >>

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