you were you're anxious tonight there
good evening I'd like to call to order
the Monday October 1st 2018 City Council
regular meeting and I'd like to welcome
everyone for joining us tonight
if I'd like to ask those who would like
to join the council myself in the Pledge
of Allegiance
to please stand
[Applause]
[Music]
I forgot a little housekeeping note here
councilmembers batiste and winter Stein
are excused this evening the first item
on our agenda is special business ID 0 3
4 1 substance abuse prevention month
Proclamation I'd like to invite
influence the choice chair Jerry
Blackburn and friends and members of the
Youth opposed to drug abuse advisory
board to join me at the lectern for the
proclamation
should be fun and Jerry too whereas many
of our young people do not develop the
skills needed to productively go through
adolescence substance-free and whereas
substance use prevention has a greater
impact the later intervention by
changing a child's early life path away
from maladaptive solution and towards
positive healthy behaviors and
productivity and whereas by stopping the
drug use before it starts we can prevent
the disease of addiction and create
stronger neighborhoods in this community
now therefore I Mary Lou poly mayor of
the city of Sukhois do hereby proclaim
the month of October 2018 as substance
abuse prevention month in the city of
Issaquah and call upon citizens to join
me in engaging in appropriate programs
and activities to promote comprehensive
substance abuse prevention efforts in
our community City Council thank you
everybody
my name is Jerry Blackburn I had the
honor of being the current chair of
influence of choice and and I just want
to introduce Katie Katie Mueller is our
special projects coordinator and she
really does all the work with the Yoda
group and then Yoda will take it from
there so Katie hi I'm Katie molar and I
have the honor of working with these
fine young students behind you and I
will let them introduce themselves good
evening mayor Polly and members of the
City Council my name is Morgan my name
is David my name is Brooke my name is
Noah and my name is Alex we are members
of Yoda Youth opposed to drug abuse the
youth voice for influence the choice
drug prevention Alliance for youth we
would like to express our gratitude to
the city of Issaquah for always
supporting and encouraging the efforts
of Yoda
and influence the choice and tonight
specifically for recognizing the work
that we do proclaim proclaiming October
as substance abuse prevention month
[Applause]
it's nice to start a meeting with such a
big young group thank you all for coming
the next item on the agenda this evening
is audience comments audience members
may address the council at this time and
we put the guidelines for public
participation up on the overhead if you
need to take a look at that before you
join that at the podium if you're those
who signed up on the speaker's list will
be called up first and if you didn't get
a chance to sign up
I will ask for other speakers before I
close this portion of the meeting if
you're here as part of a group can you
identify yourself at the group that you
are speaking for and those in the
audience here this evening that one
expressed support for any of our guests
that are speaking this evening please
raise your hand so council gets an
understanding of the level of support
and interest in the comments that were
receiving has anyone signed up to speak
this evening yes Russell Jo
[Music]
good evening madam mayor distinguished
members of the council my name is
Russell Joe business address is one six
zero zero one 27th Avenue North East and
Bellevue I'm a municipal manager and
relationship manager for Republic
Services and I'm here tonight because
Republic Services handles garbage and
recycling responsibilities for an areas
directly south of its cause border we
also have the contract for Sammamish and
for Bellevue and our trucks also roll
through roll through I 90 on their way
to North Bend so there's a significant
transportation impact on your community
and I wanted to reach out to you and let
you know that I'm available if there's
are any issues or problems with our
drivers or any of our personnel at all
my direct phone number is 14 five six
four six two five four one and reach out
to me at all hours of the day and night
if there's an issue and I'm happy to to
assist with any issues that might arise
the second reason I'm up here today is I
wanted to make you aware that this room
here most business days is also our
municipal court and when I was on the
council between 2000 and 2008 we work to
pull our court from the district court
system the King County district court
system and we made our own Municipal
Court and part of the reason we did that
was we wanted to increase the level of
service to our community members and
make sure we were more responsive to the
community's needs in terms of community
placement release for our people or
defendants on bond and release I had the
pleasure of serving as your Pro Tem
municipal judge for a couple of years
and it was a great honor to do that I
know how much pressure there is when you
do that and I wanted to point out to you
that the King County Bar Association I
think in April put out a judicial survey
of judicial officers and Scott Stewart
our municipal judge was rated in that
survey
that can be found at King K CBA org and
you can look at the 2018 judicial
officer survey
and when I looked it over and you can
come to your own conclusion but when I
looked it over judge Stewart came out
quite well or very highly rated by the
people that were in front of him and the
people that come in front of him were
typically the lawyers that will appear
at court in court with Scott Stewart and
so he's really out kind of a peer to
peer or a direct contact and service
level evaluation when when he does that
so I would encourage you to look at it
just so you can see how well the court
is working and you can reach out to
judge Stewart and let him know that he's
doing a good job if that's the
conclusion that you come to as well
finally I'd just like to thank you all
of you electives for doing what you do
as I said I served 8 years and I know
the trials and tribulations you go
through and the stress should go through
and it's all worth it in the end because
our community really appreciates
appreciates it as well
thank you Thank You Russell I think it's
awesome that he was a former council
member and judge pretend as well but if
I can get you to hold your applause that
would be great Thanks and thank you
Russell you're awesome
Shiva Kumar hello dear city Sequoia city
mayor and the council members my name is
Shiv muta Kumar I am a resident of
Issaquah I'm also one of the pastors at
Covenant Presbyterian Church of Issaquah
on East Lake Sammamish the address is 2
to 1 1 6 South East 51st place thank you
for the opportunity to address you today
on behalf of our church and being a
minister I feel bound to speak from the
Bible if you will please allow me to
quote two verses when Israel was exiled
by God God spoke through the Prophet
Jeremiah and said but seek the welfare
of the city where I have sent you into
exile and pray to the Lord on its behalf
for in its welfare you will find you
welfare this is also the call of our
church we are committed to the welfare
of the city of Issaquah now when Jesus
walked the earth he said to his
disciples let the children come to me
and do not hinder them for such belongs
the kingdom of heaven as a church we are
commanded to welcome children and to
nurture them so that's our twin mission
to bless the city and to welcome the
children we are a congregation of about
350 members that includes many young
families our church property is used by
two other churches with under hundred
members each between these three
churches we have about 200 children
under the age of 18 in addition there
are other mentoring services for
children that are held at our church
property all this to say that our church
property is filled with children ranging
from infants to high school throughout
the week particularly on Sunday morning
for worship Sunday school youth group
home schools support groups and choir
practice throughout the week as leaders
and members of our church with me is Ed
Harper who is one of the elders we are
deeply concerned regarding the proposed
establishment of a retail marijuana
store next door to us with the address
to to 1:06 South East 51st place we have
two main safety concerns for our
children firstly the close proximity of
marijuana to minors the proposed site is
adjacent to our church building and
please note that it is accessible today
only via an easement through our
property I note that this easement was
granted over 60 years ago for
residential purpose only and also this
easement goes right next to the
playground so that's the second point of
concern is the traffic safety the
increased retail customer traffic makes
the easement accident-prone the easement
was granted only for residential use and
for residential
traffic so in view of this these two
concerns we as a church very humbly and
respectfully oppose the retail marijuana
store at its proposed location we
request the City Council and the mayor
to help us ensure the safety of our
children by not approving the store at
this location or in close proximity to
our church and I just want to say thank
you very much for what you do as leaders
of our city for making it a safe in an
enjoyable place for us to live to work
to play and to worship thank you and god
bless you thank you thank you for coming
tonight
Thanks next week at Harper Thank You
counsel Thank You mayor again my name is
Edie Harper I am an elder at CPC and I
wanted to present a letter to the
council and some signatures from
attenders and members of our church in
support of the opposition so if I could
have a grade you can hand it to Emily
right here did you also want to address
the council just briefly Your Honor if I
could I'd like to introduce some of the
tenders here with me we have a few of
the children that attend the mentoring
services Peter and Zaarly Schmidt and
grace Burt and I'm sorry Hanna thank you
and so these are a few of the members of
our mentoring services at our church
that meet there during the week briefly
about my history and I'm very much our
church is very much in support of your
proclamation today I think it is more
than ironic and it's not a coincidence
that we plan to come here and that you
had the proclamation on the same evening
it's not something we planned but it
couldn't have been more fortuitous so
thank you your honor for doing that and
we think we're at the frontlines of
stopping even substance abuse from
starting for children such as this that
might be exposed at a at a very young
age and as we know the studies show that
the
increase in drug abuse happens when even
preteen if they're exposed to drugs and
so that's one major reason why we oppose
that location we understand the
licensing issues with the state and we
think that churches should be included
in the thousand foot buffer but that's
the state law and we understand but
we're taking steps in that regard as
well and personally on a personal note
drug abuse has hit my family personally
I started out with five cousins and I'm
the youngest of those five and I only
have one left and they've all died
because of drug abuse or alcohol abuse
substance abuse and they were all
younger than 65 and and I was a drug
user two in high school because a friend
introduced me to marijuana when I was in
ninth grade and it's it's affected me
today and I think it's hindered my
growth as a person and I still have
regrets really at age of 14 children
don't know what they're doing and what
they're putting in their body for
personal so my personal testimony is
please do whatever you can to support
this proclamation we will do whatever we
can to support the proclamation feel
free to use our church we have a great
sanctuary if it sees 400 people if you
want to have meetings there we're happy
to open up our church for this type of
thing so please take it upon yourself to
help us in stopping the spread of drugs
in one way you can do that it's not
allowing the green grotto to go right
next door to our church thank you for
sharing your story at you it shows there
anyone else I go Cyrus Crone
good evening my name is Cyrus Crowne I
live at 300 southeast Bush Street I
wasn't gonna come in here and talk about
this but I'm struck by what I just heard
I was actually on my way to the brew
house and and then to listen to Yoda and
to hear you and not being aware of the
store being where it's being proposed I
think there were a mosque or a temple or
a synagogue or a church everyone would
be equally opposed to having something
like that in their proximity so I guess
I stand in support of them if you want
to log me kind of ad-hoc here the real
reason I came was to thank you for what
you did with the streets I emailed you
recently I came home in Old Town and I
came down and all of the temporary speed
humps have been removed and then they
put in these new ones that didn't look
so good so I was firing off emails
rustle you probably heard this from
citizens getting upset so I want to make
sure you address the council because yes
council I apologize I want so I just
came to thank you because at first it
didn't seem like they were gonna be
beneficial and in fact they were I came
home early from work with my phone and I
was flagging it for a couple of hours
and my wife said how's it going and I
turned to her and I said I actually
think they work pretty well and then I
sent you an apology so it's easy to
lambast and get upset and give the
councilmembers a hard time it's a lot
harder to come in and say thank you and
I hope more people do it when they
appreciate what you do so thank you very
much Cyrus thank you very much anyone
else signed up no is there anyone else
here this evening who would like to
address the council
what up Steve Kathy followed by Steve
grab Kathy
Kathy McCrory 155 Northwest Gilman
Boulevard I'm the CEO for the Chamber of
Commerce and that's the first thing that
I'd like to address this evening I just
want to thank all of you and all of the
staff at the city we're about to welcome
a lot of guests to the community this
weekend
with salmon days and it does truly take
a village so thank you everyone for
supporting the opportunity thank you
Mary Mayor Polly for our Proclamation
today city is officially fish aquifer
the next few days in celebration of
seven days and again our thanks for all
of your support and everything that the
city staff does to bring us seven days
I'm also here today as a as a personal
citizen but also a recent employ a
pointee to visit Issaquah DMO board of
directors and I just want to thank you
for the opportunity to serve on this
exciting new board and to give you my
commitment to make sure that we do
everything possible to make sure that
everyone's aware of the wonderful sights
and sounds and values of Issaquah and
that we do our best to bring tourism to
our community thank you
Thank You Kathy Steve
you know all steeper our old town for I
guess is about 11 years now so I wonder
set in context yes first couple things I
wanted to thank both the Issaquah
Highlands Council and the City Council
or city leadership for recent
legislation forums that were held both
in the whisker Islands and here in the
City Council democracy is a good thing
so I I'm glad to see had a chance to for
them have candidates president and have
questions answers so thank you all what
brings me here today is the old town
neighborhood district plan is going to
come before one of the city council
committee me and so I want to talk about
that but I want to talk about with all
of you instead of just with the new with
individual council subcommittees and I
wanted to tell two stories the first was
in 1976 I became a teenager but it's
also the year that they introduced the
best nail ice eternal coins on the
quarter of the 50 cent piece the silver
dollar and dollar bill and for me it was
just kind of this idea we hearken back
and remember our roots who we came from
where we are and that kind of seems to
set in for what the Old Town
neighborhood is a cultural business
district and something looks and feels
unique and different while there are a
lot of good or the first story said in
context the second story was sometimes
we have a chance at night to walk around
is hard when it's not raining and not
overcast and look up and see the stars
and sky and we that kind of sense of is
kind of disappearing that has immense
value I think we ought to consider that
as one of the intrinsic values that is
part of who is why is and who we want to
become am long to remember and not just
have lost because two of the things that
I disliked in Basel or increasing to
three stories and the increase of
previous impervious surfaces from 65% to
95% you're gonna get a whole different
look and scale and size and scope of
buildings that aren't in keeping with
that district it's not within the scope
of what the people who lived here when
the central plan was put up we've we
said this area's specifically excluded
for
it was not what the plan of the scope
was it's out of scope and character for
the neighborhood it's not what we were
promised to to put those increased scale
on scope of buildings in that area well
there are a lot of good things in the
plan I don't think three stories or the
ingress impervious surfaces is in
keeping with what we were promised and
what we're committed to and I'm looking
to all of you to kind of help rein that
back
and another thing stands out a lot of
times in the documentary talks about how
to do these things in conjunction with
the downtown is a quad Association and
I'm glad to see they're involved but I
don't like to see them called out so
much that they're having a large driving
vision I like to see the neighborhood's
involved but let's see the neighbors
involved I'd like to have them called
out just as much of stakeholders as
downtown is quads association because
they have a scope and a vision and a
plan for what they want and that's
having to large urban scope and a scale
for what this area deserves it wants to
be so I would like your help in kind of
curtailing that or at least making sure
that that is reflective of what the
whole neighborhood and community wants
and not just what dia wants thank you
thank you Steve is there anyone else who
would like to address the council Jeff
come on up good evening madam mayor good
evening council members I want to echo
what Kathy said I was recently added to
the board of the the DMO which is going
to be visit us a qua and I just want to
say that we have assembled a really
great group of people talented solid
individuals who have diverse backgrounds
that all have the same vision of
bringing visitors to Issaquah both to to
see what we have to offer from a retail
and business standpoint as well as
recreation around the area in the region
and to possibly bring new ideas events
and other things to the area that will
drive more and more people around not
just the Seattle area about all the
country to come over and visit our
wonderful place so I just wanted to
thank you guys for your support I know
it's been a long time coming that this
board has been you know working to get
together and at
we move forward we're gonna we're gonna
be good stewards of the funds that are
coming our way to do the right things
and grow the interests in this city so
thank you very much
before you leave I know who you are for
the ones so sorry can you state your
name and address I forgot who I am my
name is Jeff Walker and I have an office
at 58 East sunset Way Issaquah 9 802 7
and I'm also the chairman of the urban
village Development Commission but I'm
speaking on behalf of myself and the DMO
so thank you thank you is there anyone
else here that don't come on up good
evening my name is Sarah Holley my
residential addresses 1328 to 54th place
southeast technically Sammamish
sometimes comes up as a quad depending
on your search tool I've been a resident
of this area originally Issaquah living
in kahani for about six years and I have
also been appointed to the visit us aqua
board along with Jeff and Cathy and a
few others here tonight so they've
already kind of spoken to what we're all
about I'm really excited to be part of
this board and I just wanted to
introduce myself and thank you for your
support really nice thank you Sarah
anyone else who would like to address
the council this evening ii comb and
last call for anyone who would like to
address the council this evening I want
to thank all of you who took the time to
talk with your council tonight and
myself and we all recognize how hard it
is to get up on a microphone especially
on camera it was great to hear from
three different folks about the visited
Sequoia organization which is on our
agenda for as an item this evening and
also to get to talk to get a
reintroduction to Republic and to hear
from some covenant purpose presbyterian
church members talking about land use
decisions hearing from folks about speed
control and salmon days and our old town
plan thank you all so much for coming in
and sharing your thoughts with us
tonight
now now that audience comments our
clothes will move to Committee and
regional reports and we'll start with
councilmember hunt thank you madam mayor
on September 20th I attended the riot 8
salmon recovery council meeting and we
had two action items the first one was
recommending investment to conduct a
feasibility study of options for
addressing elevated temperature and low
oxygen in the Lake Washington shipping
canal salmon require well oxygenated
water and cold water so the conditions
in the shipping canal are a concern and
it was recommended to have a review and
since synthesis of the data and
literature and then convene up to four
stakeholder workshops on this topic the
second action item was to review and
consider the 2018 riot project
subcommittee grant funding and there is
a list of the projects that are
recommended with and there's a lot of
detail in that list and it's available
on the Rite Aid salmon recovery website
but one thing that was interesting is
that the funds for the Puget Sound the
funds are for Puget Sound acquisition
and restoration grants and they come
from the state capital budget the
allocation and the allocation of grant
funds entailed a trader swap of fund
between Raya 8 and other riah's so in
this case there was an less than the
full amount allocated within Raya 8 and
so they swapped funding with Raya 7 and
Raya 14 and then in a future grant
rounds it will be returned back to riot
so I thought that was an interesting
swap of funding for a number of very
important restoration and acquisition
projects and then the salmon recovery
Council funding board recommended
several projects including meadow Dale
Beach Park and estuary restoration and
Wilmore floodplain restoration
we also heard from the Army Corps of
Engineers about recent funding awarded
by Congress for Ballard lock repairs
this is a issue that has been very
important for salmon recovery and the
funding will be used to replace large
lock valves and machinery the next
meeting of the salmon recovery Council
will be Thursday November 15th and will
be at the Mercer Island Community Center
and then I also have a new regional
commitment which will be as an alternate
on the king Conservation District
Advisory Committee and so the next
meeting of the King Conservation
District Advisory Committee will be
October 17th at 4 to 6 p.m. at the
Mercer Island community & Event Center
and that will be my first meeting on the
committee thank you that concludes my
report
great councilmember Rea Thank You mayor
Poli the services and Safety Committee
had a special meeting on September 18th
and we had three items on the agenda we
heard agenda bill 7640 which is amending
school impact fees agenda bill 76 55
expedited traffic enforcement pilot
project summary report and extension and
we also received a most enlightening
report from city administrator moon on
entitled city gives which describe the
various ways that the city supports our
nonprofit community it was was very
helpful to see all the different avenues
that we have and how they come together
into a package of of support the next
meeting of services and safety will be
on October 9th at 6:30 p.m. in Council
Chambers and the agenda has not yet been
set aside Fire and Rescue the next East
Side Fire and Rescue Board meeting will
be on October 11th and the agenda has
not been set and that concludes my
report this evening thank you council
member Ramos Thank You mayor the council
Infrastructure Committee met on
September 20th last Thursday and there
were four items on the agenda two of
them were
missional updates on when a Providence
point the other one on North Newport way
Northwest regarding retaining walls we
had two items that of action that are on
the consent agenda tonight a be 76 46
the amendment to sewer rates for the
city and also a be 73 39 the holiday and
lift station both those aren't consent
on the 19th I attended the regional
transit committee meeting and we had a
couple items there of interest one is
talking about the development of the
Metro 1920 budget and the good news is
they're having a budget the bad news is
is not as much going to the expanding
the system as they'd like so that's not
on the the course we would like to have
it ons but we'll keep pushing on them on
that another thing on there is a bus
based capacity and they need more bus
bases that is the limiting factor in
expansion of Metro Transit there's just
no more place to to park or maintain
buses and so they're working very
diligently on getting at least one more
base and a second one eventually as well
so they give us a plans on how they're
trying to get that done and that
concludes my report thank you
councilmember Goodman Thank You mayor
Polly
Landon chore committee meets this
Thursday at 6:30 p.m. here in Council
Chambers and on the agenda we will be
getting a report central Issaquah
monitoring report and dashboard agenda
bell 73 26 Old Town sub area plan an
agenda ville 76 61 proposed amendments
to central standards table 4.3 B which
is permitted land uses and that's my
report thank you council president
emergence thank you madam mayor sound
cities association public issues
committee will be meeting on Wednesday
October 10th the pre beds at 7 p.m. in
Renton City Hall the pre pick workshop
that starting at 6 p.m. is going to be a
focus group on homelessness with future
laboratories future laboratories is
going to invite SCA members to
participate in a focus group around
getting homeless systems to a customer
driven rather than a funder driven model
for the purpose of improving equity and
impact some cities members have a unique
invaluable perspective in approaching
regional and systemic solutions future
labs would like to ask for your
expertise in approaching homelessness in
Seattle and King County and this is as
with all pre picked meetings open to all
city council members so if anybody is
interested in attending I don't actually
know much about future laboratories so
this should be interesting I plan on
being there but if anybody wants to join
me you're welcome
there's two potential action items one
is the 2019 SCA legislative agenda I'll
be addressing that in four good of the
order and there's also a placeholder for
regional affordable housing task force I
don't believe that we have specific bill
in front of us yet but as soon as we do
I will let everybody know that concludes
my report thank you for the mayor's
report we aren't trying out a slightly
different format tonight so feel free to
comment on it at forget of the order or
after the meeting there is no executive
session this evening in addition to the
proclamation I presented earlier this
evening I wanted to let you know about
two additional proclamations that were
issued for October 2018 this is domestic
violence Action Month and I urge all
citizens to speak out against domestic
violence and support life wires efforts
to prevent and end domestic abuse in our
community and as was mentioned in the
audience comments it is fish aqua
weekend coming up earlier today at the
aquarium in hatchery I assured a
proclamation declaring the first weekend
of October 2018 to be known as its
acquire will be known as fish aqua in
honor honor of the Issaquah salmon Days
Festival this weekend
this month we're beginning the
deliberation phase of our budget
development season this afternoon City
Administrator moon sent councilmembers
our budget in brief publication which
provides a very high level snapshot of
the total preliminary budget and the
budget calendar
in addition we sent a fund level summary
of total anticipated revenues and
expenditures to the council budget and
brief will be posted on the city's
budget web page official click off count
of councils work on the preliminary
budget will be during the October 15th
regular City Council meeting where I
will deliver the budget message and the
entire proposed budget to the City
Council and the community budget
presentations and council review
sessions begin on October 22nd on
September 22nd a new teen Center called
the garage teen cafe located in Renick
there we go
located adjacent to the city of Vista
Kroc community center in Old Town held
its grand opening we are so proud to
partner with Kaley Jake and Barb D
Michelle and Friends to make this
reality in Issaquah council president
Tola Mertz conducted the ribbon cutting
for the well attended event
we're also checking back in with our
community right now on the progress on
our Issaquah our strategic plan and we
have launched a survey on our website
that went live last Wednesday these tell
us if we're on the right track by taking
a brief survey found it it's a koala
duck of slash our Issaquah I know it's
disappointing to have our beloved and
well used community center closed but
the new flooring project is awesome a
couple more coats of stain over the next
week or two while the new flooring on
the second floor we will be getting a
couple of new coats of stain and working
on the flooring on the second floor of
the community center the second floor
track and fitness area will be getting a
new synthetic flooring surface while the
rainy room on the second floor will be
getting hardwood there will be some
activity relocations when we reopen to
make sure we schedule activities that
are well matched with our new facility
flooring this project is on schedule and
within budget and will be back we need
to be back open for everyone's use on
November 13th in April the city
completed at traffic comic pilot study
in the old town neighborhood the pilot
study showed that temporary traffic
calming in Old Town was providing the
expected results in terms of reduced
speeds and I'm pleased to let you know
the permanent installation was completed
last week the area's improved included
streets both north and south of sunset
way speed humps are designed for little
to no discomfort at low speeds but will
cause discomfort at higher speeds our
next steps will be to remove temporary
traffic circle at fifth and Andrews and
replaces it replace it with a traffic
circle this fall and in November after
all the traffic calming has been
installed the city will continue to
monitor speed and traffic did to confirm
that the devices are reducing speeds and
volumes the project is within budget but
was slightly delayed this summer by a
contractor strike on Friday September
28th the city and its contractor
combined construction completed
structural engineering structural
strengthening of the Newport Way bridge
over Tibbets Creek the work included
installation of carbon fiber strips
which were attached to the underside of
the structure a technique that allows
work to be completed under the bridge
avoiding traffic impacts the work was
performed to ensure water quality was
protected as the material was applied
the expeditious completion of this
project enabled the city to avoid poison
posting load restrictions at this bridge
this project was completed on schedule
and under budget and lastly its salmon
days it is the 49th year this October
6th and 7th we will celebrate one of its
acquits greatest treasures that annual
return of the salmon look for the city's
booth where you can take your photo with
sasquatch and visit is ceccacci amber
calm to learn more about all the
different events vendors shuttles
concerts and carnivals and more and that
concludes the mayor's report proceeding
to the consent calendar the consent
calendar was distributed to council in
advance if authorized the items on the
consent calendar will be considered
together and approved by one motion have
the payables and payroll been reviewed
they have thank you is any councilmember
desire to remove any item from the
consent calendar and consider it under
regular business I can have a motion
madam mayor I move we adopt the consent
calendar is listed in this evenings
published agenda second it's been moved
and seconded all those in favor signify
by saying aye
right it was opposed passes unanimously
the next and only item on regular
business this evening is a b7 631 visit
Issaquah destination marketing
organization bylaws this item is coming
out of the council services and Safety
Committee and I'd like to invite
economic development manager Tim Dunn er
to make a presentation good evening
council members mayor administration
we're here tonight to discuss economic
development manager for the city Tim
better we're here tonight to discuss the
bylaws of the visit acqua organization
this being the only item I wasn't sure
if I should be excited or terribly
nervous but I'm excited I'm gonna go
with excited we have four board members
in the audience tonight Quinn's actually
is here as well so I'm excited to have
their support have them here so if we go
back in May I was directed to file the
Articles of Incorporation and to form
that panel of five members to choose the
board of directors when they did that
they created slots through the bylaws of
certain positions that they wanted to
have filled and if you look to the right
if you can tell them kind of a visual
person you see who is represented in
those slots from the two hotels we have
wil Parkinson and Quinn Pham marketing
representative would be Jeff Walker the
restaurants are still in the process of
finding that individual I believe will
is making progress on that the two
amenities and attractions Jennifer
Fink's from our Parks Department is
represented because our parks are one of
our amenities and attractions and Ron
fall to represent the outdoor biking
industry the local Association is the
Chamber of Commerce with our CEO Kathy
McCrory and then four at-large members
Sarah Holly Patti Hagar and Fabrice
Yacht there's still two seats open that
they need to pursue it that they can
pursue they saw the restaurant seat open
and they still have one at-large member
still to be placed in a position the
bylaws the board of directors their
first term will begin on December 1st
just because we had to buy some time I
didn't know how long it would take that
panel to form the board so their
official date will start on December 1st
and then at that
already chosen if they're serving two or
three years terms and then after that
every terms a three-year term like most
board of directors they have a chair a
vice chair they wanted me to combine the
treasurer and the secretary so that was
done and in their meetings call for no
less than nine annually which buys them
a little bit of wiggle room I would
assume that they would meet twelve times
a year but sometimes things come up and
you know if y'all know quorum sometimes
you don't have those meetings so that
gives them a little freedom in that area
so this went to services and safety and
it was presented as services and safety
it was voted on and it went through
three Oh at that meeting
councilmember hunt asked me if I had
sought legal review on the bylaws and I
made a mistake I had sought Jim's advice
Jim and I talked about thorak
eliminations certain portions of the
bylaws but I hadn't gotten them in front
of the clerk's and four in front of Jim
for complete review so when we did that
like most attorneys he caught some
inconsistencies and they're fairly minor
what we discussed was is this
organization an independent nonprofit
organization or is it a sub agency of
the city and we decided it's a
non-profit independent organization so
once we had clarified that then we
needed to go back and these are the
changes that we had to make that they
don't need to I had my mind an LTAC row
when I wrote the our cw2 public notice
meetings just like the alt tag has to
and most of our Commission's do but they
don't need to because they're a
non-profit independent organization so
they had the choice to do that that can
hold open public meetings but they don't
have to so we cut that out of the bylaws
the second part at dissolution at the
very end of the bylaws called for the
city to approve if the organization was
going to dissolve but since it's not a
sub agency of the city that didn't make
sense as well so we took that portion
out and then the third and final portion
was again had to do with dissolution
basically changing the language of that
sort of matched the state law I have one
more slide the next steps for the DMO
developed there 2019 budget requests of
the el ataque they've already done that
they've requested their budget it's in
I'm secure the funding from this year we
need to get them we need to move the
funds from the city coffers into their
account which we're in the process of
doing through the economic
Department they need to append these
bylaws on October 17th
I wanted them to get them amended before
because they've already adopted them
they adopted them
June 21st okay
they'd already adopted them so I wanted
to get them to amend them before I came
here tonight but the bylaws say you have
to get 10 days notice so hopefully they
will adopt these at October 17th these
these amendments and complete the job
description for the executive director
in postage position and then to hire
their executive director so they're
moving quickly I know they want to put
in a lot of effort I want to thank all
the board members I want to thank the
panel for moving so quickly I know you
guys are meeting every two weeks so
thank you for all of your time and
effort in this questions thank you Tim
questions and Chris as chair of services
did you have any additional information
dad no I would totally make a movement
our motion are the questions I come to
my parent so regarding the change or
dissolution could you go back to that
jerk slide please
what is it what does it mean at the end
when it says membership clarified under
dissolution sure so do you remember when
we discussed that the services and
safety that it has to be a
membership-based organization the
membership consists of the board of
directors but at any given time in the
future they can add additional members
for example of the city of Sioux managed
wanted to become a member they could
write a procedure and a process for what
that looks like to include other members
but for now it's just the Board of
Directors so when we read the language
and Jim might have to clarify some of
this for me when we read the language it
said that to dissolve the Board of
Directors means to make a recommendation
to the membership to dissolve and that
wouldn't make sense if you didn't have
any other membership besides the Board
of Directors so the language that is
stated in your packet basically says if
no other membership exists besides the
Board of Directors then that
recommendation is final okay and with
the if they did choose to have
additional members beyond the Board of
Directors would they what role would
they have
it would be up to the board of directors
to design what that looks like but to
make it a c6 it had to be membership
based so when I've worked with other
demos and did some research basically
they're all 501 C 6 because the C 3s are
reserved for terrible organizations
religious organizations and educational
organizations which this doesn't
necessarily fall under they might grab
aspects of the educational components
but they need to be a c6 so when I'm
speaking to the other demos they use the
board as the members membership based
organizations they could do it a number
of different ways they could create
criteria and a process and an
application process or approach certain
partners however they want to do it
but at this time the membership is just
the board of directors it leaves that
door open okay and then one more
question on the dissolution the
it says the assets of visit Issaquah
shall be distributed in accordance with
state law could you elaborate a little
bit on what that would look like
all right Jim's let me see if I've got
this right first all the debts get paid
off everything goes back to where it's
supposed to go what's the third one
charitable organizations well Jim is
looking are there any other questions
okay then we'll wait for the answer okay
so the first the first is that all of
the debts get paid that's the first
thing that happens then after that
assets which are held by the corporation
and which were given to the corporation
on condition that they be returned if
the corporation ever dissolved those go
back to those those organizations that
gave them third is any assets which are
permitted to be used only for charitable
purposes go to charities for other
assets would be distributed then in
accordance with any provisions in the
Articles of Incorporation the Articles
of Incorporation can have provisions in
them and then last
if there's anything left over after all
of that any remaining assets can be
distributed to corporations whether
profit or nonprofit as specified by a
plan of distribution adopted by the by
the Board of Directors so there's a
specific hierarchy in the state law as
to how you distribute the assets and
rather than repeating all of that in in
here and particularly because it could I
suppose change although it hasn't since
1967 we just decided to say that it
would be distributed as provided in
state law could you explain why the
secretary and the treasurer are together
as one position yeah that was a request
made from the Board of Directors I
believe it this time that they just
didn't want to create too many slots too
many officers so they just requested
that I combine the treasurer and the
secretary is one person I would imagine
down the road that could change under
their bylaws but being in start-up mode
it might make sense to have that person
do both of both of those tasks and she's
here tonight Tim I wonder if you could
use had mentioned that there was some
positions that were yet to be filled
yeah um would you be able to tell the
council how those positions get
advertised sure so when the service is
in safety I put the slide of how the
public notice went out we used our
channels the Chamber's channels to put
out the information that these positions
are open they did application process
that process did closed so I would have
to defer to the board ask how they're
how they're letting people that know
that yeah question
so Tim how many applications did we get
for board membership 30 around 30
okay thank you there's no other
questions I'd entertain a motion I'm
gonna make a slight modification from
the language that's included here and
move to the City Council endorsed the
visiting squad bylaws with the
recommended amendments as shown in
Exhibit C to the agenda bill okay you
say that one more time
City Council would move to have the
Issaquah City Council endorse visited
squad bylaws with the recommended
amendments as shown in Exhibit C to the
agenda bill is there a second
it moved in seconded is there any issue
with the adjustment yeah our tisha sorry
great it's been moved and seconded is
there any discussion that's a member
right I just want to make a couple of
comments on this I'm really excited
about this opportunity there was a lot
of work that went into taking this
concept forward and getting us to this
place that we're at right now I think
that it will really help us share our
community with others near and far as we
start to draw in a larger base of
visitors to our community it's going to
take a great deal of effort and work to
achieve the mission of visit district
wah there's this is no small feat and
and as a community our success is rooted
in inclusion and working together and
openly and so as this organization goes
forward is my firm belief that its
success will be rooted in that
collaboration and openness and I'm
excited that we're ready to launch visit
us at quad it's been a long time and
then finally I just want to recognize
and thank Tim that are for the work that
he has done in shepherding this concept
through to completion so thank you Tim
Thank You councilmember Wray thank you
that's member hunt you had your hand up
thank you I I wanted to make one comment
which is that I think that dia the
downtown Issaquah Association they are a
very important part of tourism
in Issaquah they organized a lot of
events and have a lot of knowledge about
why people are coming to its akua's
visitors and and how to make their place
make their stay pleasant and I think
that involving them in some way is
important when it when this came up in
the services and safety meeting I asked
if there was a connection between this
organization and downtown Issaquah and
it sounded to me like there isn't and I
really think that it is important that
that there is a way for visitors Watts
work with Dia
so that that's one concern that I have
and then the other thing is I I
understand the reasoning for why the
secretary and the treasure would be
combined I think that with the number of
board directors just it would be my
suggestion that positions not combine
too much because I think that different
people on the board of directors could
play those different roles as they're
laid out in the bylaws and I also know
that the bylaws can change over time and
probably will change over time and the
last thing is that with the with those
last two positions I hope that there is
a real outreach effort and that there it
sounds like there has been a lot of
interest in the community for all of the
positions and hopefully that continues I
I think that there are a lot of other
skills that could be brought in and I'm
I am overall very excited to see what
the visitors qua organization does so
thank you Thank You councilmember hunt
is there anyone else who'd like to speak
Katzman Ramos just couple quick things I
think this is great and I can say we've
been looking forward to getting this
going for quite a while the question
just to clarify some things you said
that I think that's it's pretty clear
that this is going to be their own
separate entity so as you said the
council will not have any kind of you
know legal connection and all they're
going to be doing stuff of course we
will work together as needed whenever
possible and I just
the difference comes over a and
originally was support versus endorse
because they're gonna go forward and do
this and we're basically just at this
point just you know saying yes go
forward but we have no authority except
worth letting the world know where's
behind them but the council member rien
question if I felt like endorse was a
stronger verb than was support and I
wanted to use that stronger word go
forth and do good work any other
comments or questions before I call for
the vote okay all those in favor of
these Quest City Council endorsing the
visit Issaquah bylaws with the
recommended amendments as shown in
Exhibit C to the agenda bill please
signify by saying aye as opposed the
passes unanimously
thank you the next item on the agenda
this evening is good of the order and I
know the council president marks has
already said that he has at least one
item for that thank you madam mayor so
at the last council meeting I referred
to a one-page basically a one pager that
was the SCA legislated the proposed SCA
2018 legislative agenda for the 2019
year and I asked council members to take
a look at that there are three main
items three main elements to it
adjusting the property tax cap investing
in public health services and addressing
the housing and homelessness crisis and
so what I want to ask you this evening
is if you have any feedback that you
want me to convey to pick when we
discussed this because it's my
expectation that there will be a motion
to move this as written to be the picket
legislative agenda so
just wonder if anybody has any thoughts
or concerns some never Ray looks no I'm
just I just usually have a thought no
all right well then I will assume well
with this stuff we have on our
legislative agenda as well which is
great that's SCA zwey there i have a
great pulse on what the cities are
interested in working on
I completely agree so I'm glad it sounds
like we're pretty good chums member hunt
did you have it yes and it's more of a
question so with the with the 1% cap it
talks about how the the it that the tax
is a revenue source for supporting
critical services or was there a
discussion about potential impact on
critical services or well I think it's
an ongoing conversation at pic about how
the 1% basically steers when you're
trying to look for additional monies it
basically steers away from some of the
more progressive forms of Taxation so
this this one has sort of a long history
with municipalities feeling like this
this hinders the ability to have a
comprehensive conversation about where
we're going to fund the things that we
want to that we want to offer our
citizens that answer your question it's
a very good question that we will
revisit during budget deliberations as
we talk about new revenues and what we
collect what we anticipate collecting
and what you will be able to purchase or
service than that so that's a really
great question that you will revisit in
our budget Thanks
I mean I'll say this one hits
established communities harder than
growing communities right I think it's a
quest sees a lot of funding options that
you know cities like you know shoreline
that are just further along and
and have less growth occurring you know
I mean so some growth is occurring
throughout the county but different
municipalities have have different
amounts of it and and this 1% there's a
lot of communities for whom that is the
primary source of revenue and so the 1%
really really really constraints the
conversation they can have about what
services to offer any other good of the
order a couple of items I was gonna add
thanks thank you
the council member were interesting
council member Ramos and myself attended
two different ruckus house roadmap to
Washington's future bill and I happened
to attend the one together and I thought
I would just give you a kind of a quick
update on what ville and I had heard and
the kind of conversation we participated
in the question is is this working the
way we thought it should growth
management act and it was structured
around what is specifically working and
what is not working and what data and
information we may need to have in order
to make some policy recommended policy
changes this what is specifically
working that couple of big things that
came up were holding the line and
preventing sprawl which ended up
resulting in preserving open space in
real space that's the obvious that's
what it wanted to do and it did do that
what is not working had a few more
points to it decision-making is very
complicated and has many layers it's a
very problematic system there's a
one-size-fits-all approach whether
you're in the center of a growing area
or at the edge of it infrastructure
schools and utilities are currently not
keeping up intern pace and they are not
supported by state dollars so there we
are lagging and we're not seeing funding
sources for that and not connecting the
dots between the RIC where the
residential growth is occurring and
where the jobs are being added meaning
we have missing transportation modes
missing capacity links and we don't have
a funding strategy for that need what
kind of data what what what kind of data
we need data on what has happened in the
last
five years so where did the house and
get at it since GMA came where did the
jobs get at it
can we see a geographic distribution of
where transportation investments have
been made on the same layer as where
jobs and housing have been created and
how did land on economics impact growth
patterns so understanding a bit more of
the economics for it
schools are having a hard time not only
finding land but fording land and that's
not going to get better and we're not
near where we thought we'd be in terms
of our size and the economics of why did
the housing end up so far away from the
jobs why was there no link between where
job creation was happening so that was
kind of a high-level bill if you can
think of anything else that came up I
thought I'd share and the other one was
I had come to you with three cascade
ball policy questions for their budget
cascade who have wanted to go to
biennial rates buy-in on biennial
connection charges and to start reserved
for emergency preparedness we had a
Issaquah had a bit of a concern that
biennial rates might give us a cashflow
hit in a year where we might turn part
of our system off and buy more water and
Walia 20 ner for smoothing it's moving
the word we seem to hear a lot of lately
nobody had an issue with biennial
connection rates we all thought that was
a great idea
and I misspoke when I talked about their
resiliency fund this was really not a
new fund setting aside some ending fund
balance for a new reserve it was
actually taking money from a reserve
they have called risk and putting it in
one they called resiliency while they
work on the policy language as to how
that will be spent and how to coordinate
with jurisdictions and then the only
other one correction I wanted to make I
think in a meeting that councilmember
hunt attended there had been mentioned
that there had been an audit finding and
actually what there had there was no
audit finding for cascade I don't even
know if they've ever had not at fighting
but they did have a recommendation for a
best management practice I just wanted
to clear that up and then the last thing
I had was some upcoming council meetings
unless somebody else has a good of the
order item they want to share October
8th is a council work session and the
items include the arched parity update
conversation
it's the craft food and clothing bank
presentation and Eastside Fire and
Rescue budget overview and on October
15th council work session at 5:00 p.m.
dinner will be provided the agenda items
include strategic plan goal statements
and objectives and October 15th regular
council meeting agenda items include
proposed 2019 budget mayor's
presentation public hearing on the
vacation of a portion of Northeast
Gilman Boulevard and amending school
impact fees anything else could you
repeat the time which ones starting at
five o'clock the October 15th council
work session will start at 5:00 and
dinner will be provided great there is
no executive session this evening and so
if there is no further business we're on
darnit
804 we will be adjourned at 8:04 the
work session
you