3-4-2025 City of Oak Harbor Council Meeting
Tara Hizon
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: The Oak Harbor City Council is still considering passing a Business and Occupation Tax to help keep the 50-year-old marina afloat, though there are still some hesitation and unknowns.
Oak Harbor Mayor Pro Tempore Tara Hizon issued a statement about the city’s “City Council Ethics and Code of Conduct” resolution, including the finding that former councilor Shane Hoffmire had violated the code of ethics.
2-18-2025 City of Oak Harbor Council Meeting
2-4-2025 City of Oak Harbor Council Meeting
WHIDBEY NEWS TIMES: When the Oak Harbor City Council approved the installation of the Angel of Creativity sculpture at Flintstone Park, planners began drafts to reconfigure the park to better suit the artwork. This included changes to or the complete removal of the roundabout driveway and possibly moving the Naval flagstaff to Veterans Memorial Park.
WHIDBEY NEWS TIMES: When Oak Harbor staff brought options to revise the fence height code to the city council in a workshop this week, most council members preferred to delay a decision because of an overlapping controversy with the mayor’s fence.