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Continued from A1 City Administrator Jori Burnett said that he expects some kind of federal audit at the end of all the disbursing to make sure of compliances.

In just a 48-minute meeting: rough 2024, the upper cap on Nel- son’s monthly earning is raised to $12,000 (from $9,000) although the pay rate is kept at $150 per hour. e council’s packet cites a greater volume of cases and their complexity, plus new elements of criminal prosecution and review. e city prosecutor position is now approaching the equivalent of full-time, Burnett wrote.

• Council raised the pay that could come to both contracted city prosecutor David Nelson and to any attorney who provides public defender con ict counsel.

Defense con ict counsel lls in when the city’s normal public defender has a con ict in a case. Compensation goes to $400 (from $350) for some cases, and to

$600 for complex cases such as driving under the in uence and fourth degree assault-domestic violence.

• Ferndale shares in an opioid settlement that was negotiated by Washington state.

Approximately $15,400 will be received for 2022 and 2023, and payment will continue at about $7,700 per year over a decade.

• In discussion of council committee and intergovernmental liaison assignments, councilor Robert Pinkley agreed to take over Ali Hawkinson’s link with Ferndale Planning Commission.

• Mayor Greg Hansen publicly commended citizen Sherry McDaniel for picking up trash from public spaces in early mornings.

• During councilor input, Jon Mutchler read a statement in connection with Black History Month declaring the in uence of many Black jazz musicians upon his life’s musical development.

• Four city vehicles of about 2007-2008 vintage will be surplused and sold.