good evening
I'd like to call the November 5th
it's the Quad City Council meeting to
order welcome everyone
councilmember Goodman is excused this
evening and will not be joining us I'd
like to ask those who'd like to join the
council myself in the pledge of
allegiance to please stand so the next
item on our agenda this evening is
audience comments audience this is
audience members this is your time to
address the council the guidelines for
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comments to my presence five minutes
this evening I'd also like to announce a
new process for our council chambers for
visual presentations to ensure the
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who is helping us maintain the security
of our network system so this evening
those who signed up on the signup sheet
outside will be called up first and if
you did not sign up I will be asking for
other speakers before I close this
portion of the meeting if your here is
part of a group and be as a spokesperson
please identify yourself and if you are
here with a group and want to express
support for winner what any of the
speakers are saying this evening at the
lectern please raise your hand so
council can see the support in the room
there is also a public hearing tonight a
b76 mano proposed 20
budget and if you would like to make
comments on this topic you'll have an
opportunity to do so later in the
meaning when we open that public hearing
it shows anyone signed up to speak this
evening yes Gary Horvitz
good evening thank you all my name is
Gary Horvitz
I live at 198 one one tenth place
Northwest and shoreline Washington I'm
here because I'm the geotechnical
engineer of record on behalf of ORL us
and res mark here II I'm gonna get you
to pull the microphone just a little bit
closer to how's that perfect okay like I
said I'm the geotechnical engineer of
record on behalf of RA talus and res
mark and currently in charge of the
remedial landslide design at the talus 9
site I wanted to speak tonight about a
b7 687 which is our request that the
City Council approve installation of
permanent tiebacks
in the city right away the context of
the request is important because it's
time-sensitive work that will benefit
everyone involved in August or 8th Alice
admitted to the city it's detailed plans
for the fourth and final wall along
upper shangri-la way or a talus is ready
to begin construction as soon as the
city approves the plans these plans
proposed placing permanent tiebacks
under the city's right away to support
the wall on the slope these tiebacks
would be well below the city's utilities
or any other right-of-way needs of the
city the city approved similar tiebacks
in the same right away on September 16
2014 in connection with the pre
landslide designed for talus project
talus parcel 9 so there's a recent
precedent where the city's determined
that such tiebacks are appropriate and
authorized the plans we submitted this
past August were analyzed by city staff
and its engineering consultants only
recently the city has indicated that its
previous approval of a permanent
tie-back easement was an error on the
part of the city if the council denies
our request for tiebacks ori talus must
completely redesign wall for without
tiebacks
and from a practical point of view this
would be all but impossible for a
project of this size this will cause
months of additional delay and
stabilizing the slope
the city is not provided an engineering
justification for rejection of the
tie-back design if the city has one who
certainly would consider it and address
it in the agenda published for the
meeting city staff provided five reasons
why the council should deny approval but
those real reasons really amount to one
the city is concerned that the city may
damage the tiebacks in the future when
maintaining the right away but those
concerns are already addressed in the
design by keeping the tiebacks deep
below shangri-la another important point
is the benefit that this has to the city
construction of the tr4 wall would allow
the removal of substantial amount of
soil from in front of the wall currently
the soil acts as an increased
destabilizing load on the slant slide
material below it by allowing excavation
of this soil mass which is only possible
if tiebacks are allowed in the
right-of-way the overall stability of
the talus nine site as well as
shangri-la way and property above
shangri-la way will be improved
therefore there is a very real and
tangible benefit to the city of Issaquah
and allowing the granting of the
easement to go forward we respectfully
ask the council approve the ordinance
which would authorize the tie-back
design so that the final stabilization
wall can be promptly installed thank you
thank you Gary is there anyone else
signed up this evening to shop no is
there anyone else in the audience would
like to address Council this evening
that can call for anyone who would like
to address council during audience
comments in a last call seeing no one
will close audience comments and move to
committee and regional reports
councilmember hunt thank you madam mayor
I will be chairing the council
infrastructure meeting which will meet
on November 15th 2018 here at council
chambers at 6:30 we have three items on
the agenda first is a b7 687 requests
for right-of-way encumbrance talis
parcel nine this is an action item
second is a b76 for nine amendments to
IMC 13.9 zero water sewer and stormwater
recovery contracts this is also action
item and the third is a b75 3/8 water
system plan this is a discussion item I
also have three regional committee
reports on October 17th I attended the
king conservation district advisory
committee meeting this is my my first
report out on this committee so I also
wanted to give a little bit more context
around kc d the king conservation
district kc d promotes conservation
through demonstration projects
educational events and provides
technical assistance and provides or
points the way to funds that are
available for conservation the advisory
committee is working on a theory of
change analysis this is a analysis to
understand and improve the outcomes from
k cds programs and services and it
involves defining the goals and then
middle and long term outcomes and
targets and how how the districts will
meet those goals in the in this
discussion the committee also discussed
the importance of engaging with young
people and engaging with a more diverse
audience the overall mission of kc d
which this theory of change analysis
will support is to promote the
sustainable use of natural resources
through responsible stewardship on
October 25th I attended the cascade
water Alliance board meeting there were
only items on the consent consent agenda
and it was a very short meeting these
included authorizing the sale of a
forklift as surplus property as well as
authorizing a replacement forklift and
authorizing purchase of replacements
barrier boom material for the Lake Tapps
reservoir the next meeting of cascade
water Alliance board will be November
28th at 3:30 at the cascade office in
Bellevue and then lastly the Huayra 8 -
salmon recovery council meeting will
meet on salmon recovery council will
meet on November 15th and I wanted to
let you all know about one item which
will be on the agenda
for that meeting on October 31st all
partner jurisdictions of the Huayra
eights interlocal agreement for salmon
recovery received a notice from
Snohomish County that they anticipate
not being able to pay their 2019 cost
year to the interlocal agreement due to
their budget constraints I'll provide a
little bit more information about this
at good of the order and this concludes
my report
Thank You councilmember Wray Thank You
mayor poly the services Safety Committee
will meet on November 14th at 6:30 here
in Council Chambers just to note this is
a move from our normal Tuesday meeting
in time we'll be meeting on Wednesday
this week to accommodate the council
budget session that is scheduled for
November 13th the agenda will include
agenda bill 76 52 Hearing Examiner
appointment agenda bill 76 91 startup 45
interlocal agreement southeast 62nd
Street public art agenda bill 76 67 our
grants recommendation gender bill 76 51
Human Services grant funding
recommendations agenda bill 76 89
amending imc 3.6 3 school impact fees
and agenda bills 7640 amending school
impact fees a rather full agenda for us
each side Fire and Rescue board will be
meeting on November 8th at 4 o'clock at
the Eastside Fire and Rescue
headquarters the agenda will include a
review and approval of letters of
agreement with the Union related to
union membership firefighter annual
physicals and special assignments the
board is also being asked to provide
input into the 2019 legislative our
agenda items the 2019 legislative
calendar and the 2018 fire chief
evaluation and that concludes my report
this evening thank you council member
Ramos Thank You mayor um
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I want to thank councilmember hunt for
chairing the Infrastructure Committee
this month because I can't make it and
I'll report on last month's
Infrastructure Committee which was on
the 18th of October and there we had two
items
one a b 76 49 is on the consent calendar
to refer it back to committee for a
little additional work we looked at it
and each of them more staff work and
some things cleared up so they'll be
back in committee this month and then
non consent is also at 76 47 and consent
today on water charges and that is here
that last Friday I was in Washington
State Public Works board and also I'll
be there on the 7th of December working
there a lot with dealing with more money
coming in finally to get loans out to
cities and and water districts and so
forth to get new infrastructure projects
done funded in a more cost efficient way
and we're working really hard with the
legislature to fully fund that program
for next year so that will be even
better and so we're working on really
getting some some systems in place to do
that their books are looking at that the
Public Works board is really effective
in getting money out and loaned out and
returned back to our other projects and
so other folks on the legislature are
looking to use that in expanded way so
we're dealing with that as well it's
very funny
East Side translation partnership is
coming up this Friday I will be there I
sent you all a note with a copy of their
proposed legislative agenda for 2019
asking for comments they don't want to
be voting on it in their December
meeting so they'll be discussing it
there more so than getting comments back
that folks brought so if you have any
comments for that please try to get them
to me by Friday they'll be great we can
get them included it's it's very similar
to last year so it's now dramatic change
but one of the things that of note is
they are also pushing as many other
organizations they're encouraging the
legislature to fully fund the Public
Works board that I just talked about the
account as we are as well to fund that
so that's a lot of a lot of good work
support of that process on the
fourteenth I'll be attending the
emergency management advisory committee
and
that agendas not set yet and that
concludes my report Thank You
councilmember winter Stein thank you
the growth management policy board Matt
last Thursday November 1st at PSR C
headquarters in Seattle
the main item on the agenda was the
discussion and deliberation on the very
the options to be evaluated as in the
draft supplemental environmental impact
statement that goes along with the
vision update the vision 2050 update the
three different alternatives that were
approved by the GMP beware one which
would stay the course which is the
typical no action alternative he is
always requires a no action alternative
and that would that option we'll go look
at how continuing the growth shares
among counties and cities as they are
allocated in the current vision the
section alternative is something called
transit focused growth which would
direct more than is currently allocated
to areas with existing or planned
high-capacity transit so they call that
the transit focus growth and then
there's a the third alternative they'll
be stuttering studying is something
called the reset urban growth which
would actually see less growth in these
high-capacity transit centers and more
spread out around the counties and
cities than it is today so those are the
three alternatives that will be
evaluated as part of the draft EIS and
that is something that will be complete
and available to inform the final vision
completion in 2019 that concludes my
report
Thank You deputy council president patís
pinkey madam mayor on October 18th the
Eastside Human Services forum board met
we spent the majority of the time in our
meeting discussing the work plan that
the draft work plan and getting board
feedback on those goals also first
chance to review the proposed 2019
legislative agenda so more about that as
that comes together and then the
proposed 2019 budget the next meeting is
November 15th in Bellevue thank you that
concludes my report
thank you council president Mertz thank
you madam mayor
so Sound city's association public
issues committee has a meeting coming up
on November 14th a couple of things of
potential interest to this council one
is I believe final action on the 2019
SCA legislative agenda I have sent you
all two things related to this one is
the minutes from the last SCA meeting I
would I think I characterized that
conversation is robust last time and
robust it was so you can see that in the
minutes the second thing I sent was the
updates from the board from the 10/22
meeting that shows the revised
legislative update I would say that the
net outcome of the pic meeting was
relatively minor sort of I don't want to
say typo level but I think if you come
in herre the legislative agenda that was
in the October pic packet with what's in
the front comes out of 1022 meeting
there are not substantial changes but if
you have any further thoughts on that
packet on that proposed legislative
agenda please let me know the second
piece is the other robust conversation
we had that evening which was around the
regional affordable housing task force
and the minutes will show what I mean by
a robust conversation there was lots of
feedback so that one doesn't have any
final action and it's still listed for
this upcoming meeting as a potential
future action item which means we are
not yet on the first of the two formal
formal reviews that would be necessary
prior to a regular adoption by the SCA
pic I see no reason why we would have an
emergency one meeting adoption so the
punchline is that this one is not coming
up fast but it is for anyone interested
in this topic a good glimpse to how a
number of cities are looking at this
proposed plan oh and there is a pre pic
workshop that I don't know if this
interest people but I will just say the
title is don't feed the trolls
addressing toxic social media in York
community so that would be the prefect
meeting that concludes my report thank
you unto the mayor's report there will
be an executive session this evening to
discuss pending and potential litigation
for RC W 42.3 0.11 o / n1 / ni and this
item is expected to last 30 minutes no
action is anticipated to follow in open
session for the rest of the mayor's
report I'm going to provide you with a
brief update on a couple of projects and
a program new part way round about this
under construction roundabout outside of
the anthology also known as Gateway
project apartments a new part way has
been under construction for about 18
weeks weather permitting the following
activities will be completed this week
hopefully final paving and remaining
concrete work for the sidewalk in the
center roundabout next couple of weeks
permanent signs will be installed and
the crossing on the Anthology side will
be paved which is a portion of the
mountains to Sound Greenway Trail System
and over the next couple of months the
crossings of Newport Way will not be
open until we have permanent pavement
marking and rapid flashing crosswalk
beacons installed in March of 2019
permanent lighting fixtures will be
installed in this area as well new
roundabouts features multi-use pathways
as well as crosswalks for the roadways
on street bikes may merge with traffic
to travel through the roundabout or use
the ramp connections from the road to
the multi-use trails and crosswalks
second project I wanted to give you an
update on tonight was the forest rim
booster pump station this is up at the
top of squawk Mountain this project is
being this pump station is being
constructed to replace an existing
booster pump station that has reached
the end of its useful life once complete
the project will increase the
reliability and resiliency of water
service to the highest Issaquah
neighborhoods on squirt Mountain as
Friday this construction project reached
a milestone when two 9 stage high head
vertical turbine pumps were lowered into
place inside the new pump station
construction continues on budget and is
proceeding on schedule
we startup expected to occur before the
end of the year in the last item I
wanted to include in the mayor's report
this evening was the 2018 farmers market
season wrap-up report 2018 farmers
market at Pickering barn ran from May
5th through September 29th City Parks
and Recreation Department is responsible
for the management of this great weekend
activity a total of a hundred and
fifteen different vendors participated
throughout the season 25 of those
vendors were new to the market this year
it was a great mix of traditional and
new total sales for the season set a
record at one point 104 million dollars
previous record was last season in 2017
so we're trending in the right way our
produce vendors donated over 16,000
pounds of produce to the Issaquah food
bank throughout the 22 Saturdays of this
season and there were 45 performances by
a variety of entertainers throughout the
season adding to a great family friendly
friendly feeling at the market so hats
off to Parks and Recreation employees
gerra Cynthia and Nina for their
fantastic work managing and coordinating
the successful city program and that's
it for the mayor's report this evening
we'll be proceeding to the consent
calendar the consent calendar was
distributed to council in advance and if
authorized the items on the consent
calendar will be considered together and
approved in one motion of the payables
and payroll been reviewed yes thank you
deputy clerk has a minor correction that
she'd like to put on the record before
moving to the approval of the consent
calendar to a b7 six eight four position
reclassifications
a correction to the motion replacing
sustainability coordinator - with
resource conservation coordinator one
Thank You Danny councilmember desire to
remove any item from the consent
calendar and consider it under regular
business can I get a motion madam mayor
I move we adopt and sudden calendar is
listed in this evenings published agenda
second
it's been moved and seconded all those
in favor signify by saying aye opposed
that passes unanimously next item on our
agenda this evening is public hearing a
b76 bono the proposed 2019 budget this
is the first of two required public
hearings on the 2019 budget and I'd like
to invite Budget Manager Christina eller
to make a presentation
Thank You mayor closer the preliminary
budget was presented by you on October
15th 2018 and was filed with the city
clerk tonight I will do a brief overview
of the preliminary budget and then there
will be a public hearing state law
requires us to hold public hearings
during the budget process as a means to
accept public comment on the preliminary
and final budget so tonight will be the
public hearing on the preliminary budget
a public hearing on the final budget
will be held on December 3rd 2018
much of tonight's material has been
provided and is available at the city's
website at City Hall and the Issaquah
library the 2019 preliminary budget
authorizes one hundred and forty four
point five million dollars in
expenditures in 2019 fifty two point
seven million of that is general fund
this budget also authorizes two hundred
and seventy five point three eight FTEs
up from two hundred and sixty four point
eight eight FTEs in 2018 this is a
combination of new and converted limited
term positions the mayor's preliminary
budget proposes to preserve core
services and emphasize customer service
for residents improvements in the city's
information technology cyber security
will protect data infrastructure and
public funds it invests in customer
services in interacting with city
government including self-service tools
utility billing utility billing and in
recreation and it plans to update the
city's website there's also a proposal
for a new customer response management
system this budget includes funding to
complete the city's first strategic plan
which will form the basis for linking
the two 2020 budget and the capital
improvement plan with the city's
strategic priorities
total revenues for all funds is budgeted
at one hundred and thirty-four point
nine nine one million dollars over fifty
percent of this is from taxes and
charges for services total expenditures
for all funds is appropriated at one
hundred and forty four point five five
million with over 50% on personnel and
capital expenditures again the city's
general fund is presented as a balanced
budget with revenues and expenditures
both budgeted at fifty two point seven
million dollars council has begun
holding work sessions which will
continue through October and November
the final public hearing and anticipated
budget adoption is scheduled for
December 3rd 2018 thank you this council
have any questions questions the
guidelines for city at citizen comments
also applied to those being made under a
public hearing and tisha can we get
those back up on yeah ever have things
I'm going to open the public hearing at
7:27 and ask if anybody has signed up to
speak this evening Daphne Gann on up
Daphne
hello I'm Daphne Gann - to 5:39
southeast 45th Street
I live in Providence Point I regularly
watched the council's meetings and the
budget meetings on channel 21 and it has
given me a very good understanding of
the challenges facing the council I
understand that there has been comments
about a traffic light on 43rd Street
which is southeast 43rd Street which of
course is very important to the people
in Providence point there have been
discussions that maybe this was a legacy
issue for the city and though there was
never a written agreement there were
many people who lived in Providence
point 15 years ago and they were left
with the strong impression that if they
voted to join Issaquah the city would do
something about a traffic light on South
East 45th Street now I'd like to tell
you a little bit about Providence point
especially for those folks who don't get
up there often Providence Point has
about a thousand over 55 units they have
1,500 residents the average age is about
78 this is an active friendly community
they are drivers and they vote they have
one of the highest voting records in the
city now I think you'd probably like a
little to know a little bit about what
the people in Providence Point do to
support the city of Issaquah the city of
Issaquah has volunteers at Eastside
beside children's corner pub Davie
corner they have volunteers at the food
bank they have volunteers that several
the museum's
the fish hatchery the
sound - Mountain Greenway the Belwood
Foundation which is a senior citizens
assisted living home and in addition to
that they also spent a lot of money in
Issaquah I oftentimes see many people
from Providence point when I go shopping
at Fred Meyer or Costco now I think you
would also like to know a little bit
about what the people in Providence
Point worry about okay first of all they
worry they're going to be hit by an SUV
when they go shopping because they have
to make a left turn onto southeast 43rd
Street they also worry about is their
vision going to fail is there going to
be a cure for cancer are the Seahawks
ever going to win another Super Bowl and
surprisingly they worry about whether or
not their savings are going to outlast
them their lifespan now I know that that
the city of Issaquah has a lot of
demands on them I listening to you talk
about all the problems that that you're
handling quite nicely but I do think
that this and I realized this is not
probably the place you're going to
discuss it tonight but I do think that
that it would be wonderful for the
people in Providence point if we knew
that you were going to fund that traffic
light I also want you to know that it's
not only the people in Providence point
just two Thursday's ago there was an
accident at that intersection the people
involved in the accident
one was a workman with a pickup and the
other were two youngish people in a car
so it's not only the people in
Providence Point who are going to
benefit from the improvements to a very
scary intersection
thank you Thank You Daphne Bruce editor
well it's hard to follow up that dynamic
presentation by Daphne I'm president of
Providence Point Bruce Eder at 42:51
Providence Point Drive and this has been
something I've been in Providence Point
ten years this is something that's been
on everybody's mind there for a long
time as Daphne said we're a 55 plus
community 1500 plus residents and a
thousand eight units the campus consists
of seven villages
six of the seven villages are located on
north side of 43rd where the Town Hall
and Clubhouse and the north community
building are located a one village the
second largest village over 200 units is
located on the south side of 43rd
currently there's no safe way to cross
on foot for sure and it's difficult even
in a car even crossing in cars hazardous
given the speed of cars driving up the
hill there's no way to turn left onto
43rd from the main exit turning left
from Forest Village side is also
difficult compounded by the high speed
of the traffic on 43rd that's awfully
try off and traveling 50 miles an hour
coming up there I just want to ask the
the council to consider funding this
it's been a long time in coming
Forest Village on the other side was was
built more recently and we've had
tremendous increases in traffic coming
up and down that hill and I think this
is a very worthwhile project certainly
for the community and I thank you thank
you Bruce no anyone else like to address
the council during this public hearing
a second call to see if anybody would
like to address the council and a third
and final call I'm closing the public
hearing at 7:34 and there is no proposed
council action on the budget at
tonight's meeting budget deliberations
will continue at work sessions scheduled
for November 7th November 13th in
tentatively of needed on November 17th a
public hearing on the final 2019 budget
will occur at the December 3rd regular
council meeting next item on the agenda
is under regular business a b7 six one
one proposed 2019 budget levy and
revenue sources the required public
hearing on this item occurred on October
22nd special council meeting tonight
council action is requested to adopt the
proposed ordinance I'd like to invite
Revenue Manager Ruth riddle to make a
presentation good evening how is
everyone tonight we are going to be
proposing the adoption at this second
hearing of the 2019
proposed property tax levy but before we
do we are going to answer a couple of
questions that came from the first
public hearing and so the first question
was how is the property tax increase
calculated so we're doing a little math
and we'll just walk you through how the
increase is calculated so we start with
the prior year actual and we multiply it
by 1% so a fairly simple calculation and
then the county provides us the
estimated revenue new construction which
we add to that amount so the total in
the
the proposed property tax level is the
amount you see there the 9.1 million so
any further questions on the answer to
question number one yes
I'll ask how's that that 195 or almost
196 how does that compare to recent
years is that a is that a healthy number
this year is that lower than the last
few I don't know how it compares but
it's not unusually large it's fairly
typical it's an estimation and that
could typically go up City Administrator
moon if I recall if I recall off the top
of my head I think the average over the
last couple of years has been a little
bit closer to 230 so it's a little bit
lower than average a little bit lower
than we expected we actually
double-check that number a couple times
with King County that's the number
that's ringing a bell in my head but
it's still within the range that we have
seen it does vary a little bit more than
you would expect from your deer thank
you
additional questions okay so we'll move
on to question two so what is the
property tax levy rate for 2019 and that
is another calculation and so you start
off with the assessed property value and
the calculation is that you take the
assessed property value which is 11
billion and you divide that by a
thousand and then you use that result to
divide into the allowable levy per King
County that comes on their worksheet and
so the formula is as you see there and
the result is 0.8 Oh 7 8 5 and that is
the levy at the current time the
it's a moving number any other questions
on that I can still understand
just to clarify thank you for that Ruth
I think I asked the question I
appreciate it and I think you called it
the allowable level levy did thatting is
that at 101 percent then of last year so
that includes the 1% no that is beyond
what we're actually proposing that we
levy this year so the proposed levy is
the 9.1 million but the allowable levy
on the King County worksheet is the nine
point two six six okay so the point
eight zero seven eight five is it's the
allowable not with the extra 1% it is
not based on what we're proposing that
we levy which is just to increase by the
1% so we could increase further that's
the allowable levy Ruth is that because
of the banked capacity that we have not
elected to utilize we have Bank capacity
yes and I could go through those numbers
if you're interested but the allowable
levy is the levy that we could choose to
adopt but we are only raising we're only
proposing that we raise 1% we think it
might be helpful to explain banked levy
okay we had five years I think beginning
in 2008 we went for five successive
years where we did not increase our
property tax levy by the legal 1% and so
that lack of increase is banked but over
time that banked amount goes up and down
at
actuates and so at the current time I
think we have a bank capacity of about a
hundred and seventy eight thousand
beyond our one percent increase that we
could levy winter signs let me ask it
another way because I might be confusing
myself so thank you for your patience
Ruth point eight zero seven eight five
is that the number used in the proposed
budget to calculate the property tax
collections the actual calculation
against the proposed levy would be less
than that because this is using the
allowable levy okay so then the rate
that is proposed is is less than that I
don't have it in front of me but it
would be 0.7 something straighter moon I
believe it's in your packet I think it's
point seven nine three three eight the
route just to clarify at some future
date if the council chose to in a given
year use the 1% they also could opt in
that time to use their Bank capacity
it's something that they can draw on at
a later date correct it's not been
proposed that we use any of that this
year we're just doing this simple one
percent correct okay and and so that
proposed rate thank you it's an it is in
appendix D point seven nine three it can
round doesn't is include the one percent
increase correct any other questions
that's president Mart's so I'm sorry is
it point seven nine something or is a
point aides or something that we're
actually talking about tonight it's
point eight zero seven the calculation
based on the allowable but it's point
seven nine the amount that Emily red and
Exhibit D in our purple
Neri budget in our proposed preliminary
levy property tax let the answer to the
question is what is the property tax
levity rate rate for 2019 in the
preliminary budget is the number that
Administrator moon stated and the
maximum allowable is what they're seeing
here correctly that's clarity okay so if
we pass the the bill that's in front of
us this evening
what will our tax rate be point seven
nine I believe Emily read it seven nine
three three eight three three eight how
does that compare to other
municipalities on the east side well I
happen to have brought that comparison
so 2018 King County levies so for
example the levy rate in Seattle is nine
point five six the levy rate in Auburn
is fourteen point one the levy rate in
Bellevue is nine point one one nine
there are many others so this is quite a
bit lower so that nine point something
what per what's that's eighty cents per
thousand assessed value and 9 point
something is in what for what for
Bellevue yeah what's the unit's because
that's a order of magnitude larger than
the number that were in point seven nine
three put a zero in front of it yes
point oh I see it's food okay so
Bellevue is 0.09 one nine right Seattle
is 0.09 five six correct
that's yeah I'm sorry it's not zero it's
not point zero nine nine sorry point
nine okay so okay so we're lower than
those cities that you mentioned we are
do you would you happen to know Kirkland
or a Redmond Sammamish Kirkland point
nine nine do you know Redmond er
samanage redmond point nine seven and
our friends our friends up on the
plateau last but not least Sammamish is
the last one I promise
point one Oh a 1.0 right so we're lower
than everybody
mentioned everybody that I asked for
Seattle and Bellevue Kirkland Sammamish
we have a lower Miller rate than all
those people it appears we do yes
awesome
that is good news and what I was hoping
to hear from you
thank you your question on that if the
council were to opt in the future to use
the Bank capacity would we be in the
same range as those other cities well it
would it would increase it as we just
saw with this example if we use our
allowable it's higher than just raising
it the 1% just 2.8 Oh 75 would you still
significantly lower thank you any other
questions
Thank You Ruth okay so I believe we're
requesting council action tonight loving
the general taxes for the city of
Issaquah for the fiscal year commencing
January 1 all property both real and
personal which is subject to taxation
for the purpose of paying sufficient
revenue to carry on the services of the
city for the ensuing year as required by
law
Thank You Ruth is there a motion it's
madam mayor I'll move to adopt ordinance
number 2 8 for 8 levying the general
taxes for the city of Issaquah for the
fiscal year commencing January 1st 2019
on all property both real and personal
in said city which is subject to
taxation for the purpose of paying
sufficient revenue to carry on the
services of said city for the ensuing
year as we required by law second it
moved and seconded is there any council
discussion new council discussion
council member we're interesting thank
you I just wanted to point out one of
the things I've been trying to do is
track the levy rate over time there's a
complex
question if you're not aware it's state
law that restricts that we can only
collect up to one percent more than our
then we did the year before as the
calculation was shown there but because
of our increasing values of our
properties since just my own property
since 2013 has increase in value
sixty-five percent but my net
out-of-pocket taxes has only increased
16% over that time for this percentage
there's there's a lot of other property
taxes on our bills their school their
state there's many other there's the
water there the Library District but for
the city portion that we just discussed
in this time when when my house is
increased in value assessed value of
sixty five percent the city's collecting
only sixteen percent more than it was in
2013 just another way to kind of look at
that I think largely because we're very
dependent upon sales tax as a primary
source of revenue for our general fund
which is about thirty percent of our
revenues and the this property tax is
about eighteen percent revenue of our
total general fund revenues as well and
that's one of the reasons we have a
lower rate and I think it's a good sign
that we've continued to be very good
stewards and and managing both their
demand for funds and and our revenue
sources over this period of time thank
you thank you
any other comments okay
if there's no further discussion all
those in favor of adopting ordinance
number two eight four eight levying the
general taxes for the city of Ithaca for
the fiscal year commencing January 1st
2019
on all property both real and personal
in said city which is subject to
taxation for the purpose of paying
sufficient revenue to carry on the
services of said city for the ensuing
year as required by law
signify by saying aye aye as opposed it
carries unanimously the next item on our
agenda this evening is good of the order
do council members have anything
hundred of the order councilmember Han
thank you madam mayor I wanted to update
the council a bit with a bit more
information about the ongoing
development regarding the yr8 salmon
recovery council which i mentioned in
the regional report so on October 31st
the partner jurisdictions including
Issaquah were notified that Snohomish
County anticipates not being able to pay
its 2019 cost share to the interlocal
agreement which funds the yr8 salmon
recovery council work and Jason
Mulvihill Cohen sees the salmon recovery
manager wrote a also provided
information I wrote a letter to let the
membership know that the partnership
remains strong and additionally they are
evaluating possible solutions that would
maintain the county as a partner
although this know how much county
council is still considering the
county's draft 2019 budget and could
restore funding they they took the step
of sending this notification letter and
we will be discussing the possible
implications and what this means for the
budget for the salmon recovery council
at the November 15th meeting so I wanted
to let the council know about this
development I will be providing more
information as as after that discussion
and if there are further developments
but if there are any questions for me or
feedback for that November 15th
discussion please let me know that's it
thanks Thank You councilmember hunt and
thank you for the update you gave me
this weekend as well that was something
I had question two about as well that's
a member right so it's November which
brings us Movember and no-shave November
both of these campaigns are designed to
raise awareness of and funds for men
health issues including prostate cancer
testicular cancer and mental health that
stick Euler cancer has doubled in the
last 50 years prostate cancer rates will
do the same in the next 15 years and
500,000 men will take their own lives
this year there's widespread stigma and
silence surrounding these and three
health issues but thanks to Movember and
no-show
November the state of crisis men's
health is currently finding itself a
little written to finding itself being
reverse so if you see your friends or
family or coworkers looking a little
scruffy like President marks that's
about men's health issues and what they
can do to improve outcomes for our
brothers fathers sons and friends thank
you
anything else for good of the order I
had one item our Communications Manager
automata han had sent you all an email
asking about for some input on
neighborhood feedback she gave you
several options and several choices of
how you could do it part of our
neighborhood engagement program several
years ago me adopted it was making sure
that we provided information to council
to help you engage and help you
understand what's going on
so I'm not sure if she put a deadline on
that or not but it would be great if we
could have some sort of feedback by
Friday that would be nice and it could
be a realist simple report it can be
more robust it's kind of up to you also
we'd love to hear back on that and the
next thing I had was just talking about
some of the meetings that are coming up
we talked about some budget work
sessions November 7th at 6:30 p.m. here
in chambers November 13 6:30 p.m. here
in chambers and a potential tentative
Saturday budget session on November 17th
starting at 9 a.m.
council the administrator moon I don't
remember where the location of that one
is also in chambers in chambers as well
November 19th regular council meeting at
7:00 p.m. has the following potential
agenda items on it the old town sub area
plan update approval central desk was
owning for old route 10 and intensive
commercial areas approval Human Services
grant funding recommendations and
proposed amendments to the central
standards table 4.3 be permitted juices
in central issue quo us next thing on
our agenda this evening is an executive
session as earlier announced there'll be
an executive session held this evening
to discuss items related to pending and
potential litigation for our CW 42.3
0.11 Oprah and
Fran I this item is expected to take 30
minutes no action is anticipated to
follow an open session and so we will
now recess into executive session at
7:50 for
you
he's part of that no interesting you
wouldn't ever dress so we are back in
open session at 8:29 p.m. and there
being no further business this meeting
is adjourned at 8:29 p.m.
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