Medical Lake commission needs operating rules

Medical Lake planning commissioners left their regular monthly meeting Sept. 24 with some homework to do before they next get together on Oct. 28.

The commission is being required by the city’s insurer to come up with and adopt a set of operating rules and procedures to be used to guide the conduct of its meetings. The Washington Cities Insurance Authority determined after a recent audit of the city that the procedures are needed, not from a financial standpoint but rather from reducing a potential liability for the city.

“We have to have this and this, otherwise we lose our pact with the pool...