He has spread Christmas cheer to the Marysville City Council and city staff leaders by giving them tree ornaments.

Peter, 16, has been coming to City Council meetings with his parents for years.

It all started when Peter was in the fourth grade. He loved to write and contacted then-Mayor Dennis Kendall for an interview. After an hourlong session, Kendall invited Peter to a council meeting. He’s been going ever since.

Peter gave out 15 ornaments at the council meeting Dec. 8.

In other council news:

• Public Works Director Kevin Nielsen said his workers are preparing for the perfect storm. Heavy rain and high winds are in the forecast Tuesday through Thursday so city employees are packing sand bags for possible flooding on the waterfront as a high tide also is coming. He also said power outages are possible.

• Parks director Jim Ballew said he hopes the storm is done by Thursday because that’s when the Tour of Lights at Cedarcrest Golf Course begins. He also said flooding problems should be fixed at Ken Baxter Community Center the first week of January.

• Mayor Jon Nehring said an effort is being made for cities along the train route to receive mitigation fees. He also talked of the cities’ legislative agenda asking the state not to take money away from them to balance the budget. He also said Community Transit is buying a double-decker bus and the schedule is being moved up because it now takes 100 minutes to get from here to Seattle in the morning. “It is not a pretty picture out there,” he said.