Video recording of the Oak Harbor City Council workshop of Tue., May 27, 2025.
Tara Hizon
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Oak Harbor officials’ plan to adopt a business and occupation tax to help fund marina dredging, the construction of a marina breakwater and a city recreation center fell apart during vigorous debate at a city council meeting Tuesday.
CITY OF OAK HARBOR: Video recording of the May 20, 2025 city council meeting, including discussion of a proposed business & occupation tax.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: The city of Oak Harbor is looking at potentially changing the way it responds to emergencies.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: As the Oak Harbor City Council prepares to make a vote on the proposed business and occupation — or B&O — tax next month, Deputy City Administrator and Finance Director David Goldman returned to the council chambers with a new option.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: The Oak Harbor City Council granted a developer a two-year extension of an agreement related to a large-scale housing development on the hillside above the Safeway and Walmart.
3-253-2025 City of Oak Harbor Council Workshop
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Oak Harbor’s elected officials decided to save the parking lot next to the newly installed sculpture on the waterfront and leave a flagstaff alone, following apparent community sentiment but breaking with recommendations from two volunteer committees.