6-22-2018

FERNDALE, Wash. — City of Ferndale leaders want more citizens involved in city council meetings, and Mayor Jon Mutchler says they’ve come up with a unique plan to get people to participate.

“If you come to your first-ever Ferndale City Council meeting, and you stick it out to the end, we’d like to give a gift card to Woods Coffee for ten dollars,” he said.

He says the Whatcom Foundation is paying for half of the cards’ value and Woods Coffee is donating the rest, so no city funds are being used.

Mutchler says a $10 gift card is just the right amount to get two people to sit down with a cup of coffee and discuss what’s going on in Ferndale.