7/17/2026 Vancouver, Wash. · Vol. 47, No. [unclear]
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Washougal City Council Convenes in Physical Room; Meeting Confirmed to Have Occurred

By Wade Salmon-Creek · County Desk & Bridge Watch ·

WASHOUGAL — The Washougal City Council convened an in-person workshop and regular meeting Monday, and multiple sources place the council inside a single physical room.

This paper confirms nothing, as a matter of policy, but this is the closest it has come. Witnesses describe councilmembers seated in chairs, visible to one another, in a space independently characterized as “municipal.” Two attendees report the room had carpet. A third called it “more of a berber.”

Virtual attendance remained available, and one member is understood to have used it from a location witnesses believe was elsewhere in the same building.

“They were right there,” said a resident who attended to comment on stormwater. “You could just look at them. I did.”

The city says minutes are forthcoming, a phrase this paper observes carries no deadline, and never has.

Filed after: Washougal's July 13 return to in-person workshop and regular meeting, virtual attendance still offered. Real. — Ed.