Monday Meeting Reminder
Sequim City Council Meeting Information
Second City Council Meeting of January 2026:
Tonight — Monday, January 26, 2026 — is the second Sequim City Council meeting of the month starting at 6pm.
Location: Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar Street; first floor in council chambers.
Visit the ‘Attending a Council Meeting’ web page on the City of Sequim website to learn about how to attend meetings online via Teams meeting, how to participate during a meeting, and how to access meeting agendas.
Click here to see the full list of meeting dates for 2026
The next city council meeting will be February 9, 2026
Reposted from a Public Notice Issued by the City of Sequim
Public Notice – City of Sequim
Public hearing on extending for an additional six months the Emergency Moratorium on Master-Planned Overlay applications.
Date: Monday, January 26, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM
Any person may appear and be heard.
To provide remote public comment via Teams or phone, submit a request using the following form: https://www.sequimwa.gov/1219/submit-public-comments
Written public comments may be sent to clerk@sequimwa.gov and will be distributed to the Council prior to the meeting.
Any person needing special accommodations to attend should contact the City of Sequim City Clerk.
[Editor’s Note: Reposted from a public notice issued by the City of Sequim, found in the Friday, January 16, 2026 edition of the Peninsula Daily News]
Public Notices and the Sequim Website:
The public notice above is only available to the public in the newspaper (see email exchange at bottom of article).
The City of Sequim’s website, funded by tax dollars, does not include public notices that alert the public about public hearings.
They do, however, post news items such as the upcoming Sunshine Festival volunteer opportunities, the city council’s election of the new mayor, and application announcements for the 2027 Municipal Funding Program, according to their website on Sunday, January 25, 2026:
This means there are only three newsworthy items on the City of Sequim’s website. Based on what is currently shown as ‘news’ on the website:
They do not consider upcoming city council meetings to be news
They do not consider public notices to be news
They do not consider business development to be news
When actual news that involves the public, such as a public hearing, isn’t made available on the city’s website and only through a newspaper, that is not transparency — that is gatekeeping.
Considering the public notice is sent to a newspaper, that means it is a newsworthy item, yet it is only available in a newspaper that people have to pay for in order to find the public notice.
While there are dedicated pages on the city’s website to city council events, such as meeting dates for the year, it is still beneficial to the public to post public notices along with reminders of city council meetings as regular news items when there is such little news in Sequim as it is, demonstrated by the three items currently on the website.
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It is no longer 1996; it is now 26 days into the year 2026. More people now rely on digital sources, such as websites, to get news rather than newspapers alone. (Source)
Since people over age 65 rely on newspapers more than younger generations, and Sequim is known for its large retirement population, it makes sense to provide information in both newspaper format and digitally on the website, which is paid for by tax dollars and open to all without signing up for an account as is required on a third-party social media platform.
The City of Sequim has a powerful informational tool in the palm of its hands — the city website — that has the potential to reach more people than a local newspaper.
It is up to the city to harness that power to improve its digital civic infrastructure and catch up with the growth of the younger generations who are bringing new life to Sequim, and who expect more from civic websites.
Below is an email exchange between Jen, editor of the Sequim Monitor, and the Sequim city clerk regarding the public notice found in the PDN for the January 26, 2026, public hearing:
from: Clallamity Jen<clallamityjen@gmail.com>
to: clerk@sequimwa.gov
date: Jan 19, 2026, 3:31 PM subject: PDN Notice January 16, 2026
Hello,
I’m a county resident and live closest to Sequim. I received this information via email that was posted in the PDN:
In last Friday January 16, 2026 Peninsula Daily News (Notices):
Public hearing on extending for an additional six months the Emergency Moratorium on Master-Planned overlay applications on Monday, January 26, 2006 at 6 PM.
Any person may appear and be heard. To provide remote public comment via Teams or phone, fill our the request form:
https://www.sequimwa.gov/1219/submit public comments. Written public comments can be sent to clerk@sequimwa.gov and will be distributed to the Council before the meeting. Any person needing special accommodations to attend should contact the Sequim City Clerk.
I would like to know:
Is this notice available on the City of Sequim website anywhere? I have been looking for it and can’t find it.
Thank you,
Jen
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from: City Clerks <clerk@sequimwa.gov>
to: Clallamity Jen <clallamityjen@gmail.com>
date: Jan 20, 2026, 2:40 PM subject: RE: PDN Notice January 16, 2026
Hi Jen,
The Notice is not published on the City’s website, just in the newspaper.
Regards,
Heather Robley, CPRO
City Clerk
(360) 681-3428
NOTICE: This communication, including attachments and any reply, is subject to the Public Records Act (RCW 42.56).
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from: Clallamity Jen<clallamityjen@gmail.com>
to: City Clerks <clerk@sequimwa.gov>
date: Jan 21, 2026, 12:17 AM subject: Re: PDN Notice January 16, 2026
Thank you, Heather.
My understanding is that public notices are not required to be on the website; however, I am wondering if the City of Sequim has any plans to start publishing public notices on the website in the future?
I don’t receive the newspaper and am not interested in paying for it; while it is available online, my experience with it is that after a certain number of views access is cut off without paying.
Is there another way for the public to view public notices without having to pay for a newspaper subscription?
Thank you,
Jen
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A response has not yet been received. Should there be a response in the future, it will be published to the Sequim Monitor.
Once again, CJ, you're doing the work and holding the government accountable to its constituents. To not post public notices online in this day and age makes zero sense. Of course, the city will now say, well, we just don't have the staffing and/or funding, so unless city residents want to see their taxes increase to cover the cost of a 1/2-time employee plus their benefit package ....
I don’t know about the PDN but I see the Sequim Gazette posts its public notices online for free via wapublicnotices.com. No subscription required. Most newspapers post their public notices online.