Council member says traffic, transparency top public concerns

MOSES LAKE — When he sits down two days every week at the Red Door Cafe to meet with constituents from across the city, Moses Lake City Council Member David Eck said one issue dominates the conversation more than any other. “Typically, it’s about something that’s been in the newspaper that relates to either traffic, or traffic, or traffic,” Eck said. “We get lots and lots of comments about traffic.” A semi-retired financial advisor who was elected to the city council in 2019, Eck, 75, has been sitting down at the Red Door Cafe on the corner of Third Avenue and Ash Street in downtown Moses Lake nearly every Monday and Wednesday afternoon from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and holding “Coffee with a Council Member” to talk with constituents, listen to complaints and suggestions, solicit opinions and information from the residents of Moses Lake and try to foster a better sense of how government works.