Special Aberdeen City Council meeting scheduled for Monday night

Will not include public hearing on Michigan St homeless camp

The Aberdeen City Council is holding a special meeting Monday night, which will not include the public hearing on the temporary use permit for a longer-term homeless camp on newly-purchased city property at 421 S. Michigan St. scheduled for the canceled Sept. 25 meeting.

That hearing will be held at the regularly scheduled Oct. 9 City Council meeting.

The hearing announcement is listed on the agenda for tonight’s meeting; however, it is listed as a non-action item, meaning public comment will be accepted only during the second comment period tonight, which is open to all city topics.

Also on the agenda will be a third reading of an ordinance to allow the city to prohibit public access to city-owned property waterward of the South Side Levee for safety reasons. Some homeless camps have sprung up on the property since the city cleared the River Camp on the north side of the Chehalis River.

Agenda items include hiring consulting firm Rice Fergus Miller to perform a feasibility study to use the 2-story Boeing building as a location for the Aberdeen Museum of History. The building is located off of River Street under the Chehalis River Bridge and is currently privately owned by Larry Goldberg, who has authorized the study. The cost of the study would not exceed $38,000.

The council will also consider a bid from Rognlin’s Inc. of $498,354.75 to demolish the Armory Building, which housed the museum until fire gutted the building June 9, 2018.

Tonight’s meeting starts at 7 p.m., rather than the usual City Council meeting starting time of 7:15 p.m.