medical trial where he had to wear a
face face mask
good evening and welcome everyone i'm
calling the november 19th regular city
council meeting to order
uh i'd ask those who'd like to join the
council and myself in the pledge of
allegiance to please stand
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america
to the republic for which it stands
a nation under god
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all
first up on our agenda this evening is
audience comments this is your time to
address your counsel
the guidelines for public participation
are displayed on the overhead and please
limit your comments to three minutes
this evening
those who signed up on the sign up sign
up sheet will be called forward first
and if you did not sign up i will ask
for other speakers before closing this
portion of the meeting
and if you are here on behalf of a group
please identify yourself as spokesperson
for the group
and if you are in support of any of our
speakers this evening feel free to raise
your hand so council understands how
many in the audience are here to support
the speaker
and has anyone signed up to speak this
evening i have won liz mills
good evening my name is liz mills i work
for crisis connections as the director
of king county 2-1-1
we submitted funding requests for three
programs of crisis connections king
county 211 the crisis line and teen link
and we want to thank you for the
recommendations for crisis line and teen
link
and i'm here tonight to ask you to
reconsider the recommendation of zero
funding for king county two one one we
had previously and for years been funded
at five thousand dollars a year
we had asked that you take another look
and fund our program at this level or at
some level
we really very much rely on the funding
from the city of issaquah and and this
is a significant loss to us
in 2019 united way this summer informed
several of its uh grant recipients of
which were one that they're changing
their funding process it resulted in a
loss of a hundred and five thousand
dollars to king county two one one so
every dollar really does count
and the service we provide far exceeds
our annual contracted goals with the
city
last year we provided services at 350
percent of our annual goal and 2018 will
be similar
so why did issaquah residents call 2-1-1
well most called us with urgent needs
for shelter emergency shelter domestic
violence
finding affordable housing and food
resources we also help disappoint
residents with financial assistance for
eviction prevention keeping the
utilities on and moving costs these are
just a few examples
most of the callers were very low income
ninety one percent at thirty
ninety one percent of them at thirty
percent or less of median it's very very
low income forty eight percent reported
someone in the household with a
disability these are often people who
really need a coach they need help
navigating the system to be able to be
successful in getting resources and
we're happy to be of service
with or without your funding
we will serve visaqua residents we take
the next call that comes we just ask
that you'd help us pay for the service
thank you for your consideration
if there's no one else that signed up
would anyone like to address counsel
this evening during audience comments
sure come on up to the microphone
hi my name is tom huffnegle and i'm here
with my wife cheryl regal we're the
owners of the property
that is let me see if i can point out
where you see that number nine
so
we're kind of caught in this group now
that's having
our base height of our buildings lowered
and so what happened was
when we first came to the first meeting
we just came to find out what's
happening in neighborhood we didn't
realize our rules were changing also so
i was a little naive on that
and basically it's a lot it's 36 000
square feet does everyone have a copy of
this okay so i'm trying to just kind of
put it in sequence quickly how long do i
have i don't want to over
ship overshoot my time
three oh geez let's move fast so uh long
story short
one thing that was changed was we used
to have a base heights of 48 feet
and it's now been reduced to 40 feet in
this new set of zoning rules
and what we're asking for is to bring it
back to that
with issaquah
exploding like it is i went to that
anthology apartment buildings next to
the chevy dealer there's 398 units being
put in
let's figure two people per unit that's
800 people that'll be needing more
services
intensive commercial land is so precious
right now and so hard to find
that
we need every square inch of it also
going up in the air too so we're asking
for that
and i think when we had the meeting last
week or no at november first we had a
meeting where three of the members were
here
they said well two of the members
decided to vote
just to go with the cities because they
felt
uh the ppc meeting had agreed to it all
the owners said well the only two owners
that were there was
myself and my wife and mindy and her
husband over there who has the lot
across from us
and so
the only reason we kind of
didn't understand why it was being
changed was
when we spoke to keith about he asked
why do you want 48 feet at that time
this is the second meeting in
june on i believe it was the 26th
of june
and i said well possibly for apartment
buildings hotels we can put on there
a lot of different things maybe office
building
and keith was under the impression at
that time that our area wasn't zoned for
that so he said that's not a good reason
you can't even build that high anyway
because you're not zoned for it and i
said oh i didn't know that
long story short where i came up with i
was about nine years earlier i'd been
here in this building when they
presented us with the new rules and said
we could do all those things so i
thought oh great
we have access to that so we asked keith
for a meeting and he uh was real helpful
and he we met with him and we said keith
we'd like to have that 48 feet back
um because we can do all these things on
the property and he said well
that's true but i would prefer the 40
feet uh level
and so it's just
personal preference i i think he's
looking at it as how it'll look in the
community but uh we're in the industrial
section there basically of issaquah this
is intensely commercial
so he said you can go to the council and
ask them and if they
would agree with you then you know you
said i'll be fine with that otherwise i
would prefer that the 40-foot level so
um
is you know am i being fair here keith
what i'm saying everything i want to
make sure i'm not putting that's okay
address your comments to the council
thank you okay so basically
that's what we're mainly asking for is
the base heights get it back to 48 feet
because there's so much pressure
for that little bit of intensive
commercial land that's left people are
constantly contacting us wanting to do
things
because there's so little left that's
out there and
it's not my time that's three minutes
okay so bottom line is we're that lot
there and
we're not asking for anything we didn't
have six months ago we're just asking
for some of it back and that's what
we're
hoping that the council will consider
letting us have the 48 feet other than
that
we want to go along with what keith and
his department has come up with
thank you tom and thank you for bringing
copies tonight for council thank you is
there anyone else that would like to
address the council christina you want
to come up
well good evening i'm christina bruning
i'm a resident of old town issaquah
and madame mayer
and members of the city council
i moved to old town issaquah in 1991
to be close to trails for hiking and
cycling where i didn't have to get into
my car
i walk for transportation i actually ran
down here tonight so
i walk i do walk for exercise and
leisure
as a walking ambassador for the city's
sustainability program a few years ago
i'm also asked to continue lead rocks in
issaquah
a number of years ago our neighborhood
in south issaquah created a community
awareness initiative
and we did this so that we could better
understand what our needs were and the
needs of the community and how we could
all work together to move us forward
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our our neighbors are known to be
positive
contributors who live work and play here
we have several issues that have piqued
our interest over the years and those
have been around for a while you know of
them
well we have artificial turf and stadium
lighting that was being done at the then
middle school eight feet from people's
bedroom windows we worked to get two
fields up at central park
the rainier trail where folks did not
want their children walking because it
was kind of creepy
it is now a shift to it's an active use
trail
we have front street we've said it's
loud the traffic is fast and the
sidewalks are narrow we now have a
crosswalk so we can use both sides
just this past saturday actually i was
walking from old town to the state park
i was almost hit by a car
as somebody felt it was necessary to
make a left as a group of pedestrians
were in the middle of a crosswalk
it was so scary that somebody took a
water bottle and threw it at the car
the construction was another project we
worked on with the city and the
elementary school new clark elementary
and then currently we have the new
middle school that has stadium lighting
which is visible from our homes
old town sub area plan update this is
one we have been watching very carefully
we totally appreciate the mindfulness of
the council land and shore and of course
public the
planning policy commission
we love the idea of a walkable community
and of course the gathering places
as you know
we identify as old town
so front street clark
through front and second avenue when
that came up through conversations
throughout the last however many months
that was quite disturbing to us and
alarming to us
so we look forward to further
conversation as we move forward from
plan to implementation
the best solutions as we have proven
come from community engagement
and the folks on the ground so thank you
for considering these thoughts as you
move forward
thank you christina did you want to
leave your comments with the clerk if
you have them in writing uh possibly
okay thanks
is there anyone else that would like to
address counsel this evening steve come
on up
hi steve pereira old town about 10 years
now um so indeed the old town siberia
plan is indeed on the agenda tonight and
i do
and one of those who also like the old
town area very much it's kind of what
brought me attracted me to come to
israel in the first place it's obviously
received a lot of attention over the
years
i just put it in context i know that one
person had talked about the difference
between old between quaint and unique
and different
and old just being tired one down and
worn and we fought hard for the idea of
not letting
uh
and having to fight not keep the e in
old but if we change a lot of the things
that are unique about it while there are
a lot of good things in the plan i think
the height and the density changes
aren't in keeping with what we were
essentially promised in that old town
would stay unique and we wouldn't put
those
central israel plan standards into place
from
the cip which is where a lot of the area
was zoned for and now we're trying to
change the standards and the limits to
more match cip which was put in place
uh
it seems like if i went to any other
neighborhood in israel if i went to
telus if i went to
the highlands we wouldn't be talking
about he would be upgrade upset about
that very much and proposing it just
seems out of character with what we were
promised and told wouldn't happen
in taking cip plans and
applying them here
there's a lot of good things in the plan
as far as community gathering spaces and
there's good things i've seen those go
forward but i don't know that i agree
with i well i don't think i disagree i
know i disagree with
changes in
height and density there's not
room for those
were losing to someone's character and
unique and special
that we're not going to get back i think
a lot of that applies i think also to
uh
i'm sorry that's other scope i think
that applies to the state route 10 but
that's not up for consideration tonight
so i'm going to leave that off the
discussion
um
i'm just kind of
this pit of my side of my stomach as we
look forward to thanksgiving
i think this seems to be the last chance
that we have to ask your help and
support in
consideration in keeping old town the
unique and special place that it is
um
and i think we need to keep the density
at 65 percent and
i think that
i would like to keep with the two-story
limit that's in place today and i'd like
your support on that thank you
thank you steve is there anyone else who
would like to address the council this
evening
that i can call anyone wishing to
address the council
i don't think i can have you back up
oh
different comments come on up
steen is coming back up
well hello um christina bruning i am the
board president of the downtown issaquah
association
and madame mayer and members of the city
council as an old town resident i got
more involved in the downtown issaquah
association also known as dia
to bring forward the voice and the
spirit of old town residents
i'm pleased this evening to stand before
you and express our sincere support to
the city
the city council i look across at you
and i see you many of you at our events
whether it was at keep us aqua beautiful
day with your families
or wine walks and of course gas station
blues
issaquah goes apples which kicked off
scarecrows on front street and of course
our farm fresh market
the art commission their support and
candor
in challenging dia to strive for more
visual arts in 2019
is very much appreciated
so i hope you also in 2018 we did
complete the mural on the side of japan
ginger and we launched confluence jazz
parks and rec made confluence jazz a
reality for us at a sneak peek into 2019
that music event at confluence park is
going to go from a four hour event to
eight hours
the economic development
group
having a commitment of having a staff
member on our board has been imperative
to our success
we did want to highlight the old town
sub-area plan update
we certainly appreciate the city
striving to keep downtown historic
contemporary and vibrant
the planning policy commission
recommendation to move the
implementation up on certain parts of
the plan
was very well received
and we as an organization the downtown
squad association look forward to
partnering further
the goals highlighted align with the
downtown nissan association initiatives
and we recognize that parking traffic
and community gathering places
and the engagement of old town residents
are vital to thriving downtown
there are things that we need to do
better and we can need to keep talking
conversations in the cbd the cultural
business district
about a three-story building is
different than the current 45 feet as
this moves from plan into land use code
i anticipate through the feedback we
have gotten from our community that we
may hear some push back on that and some
concerns
whether or not the aas which is the
administrative adjustment of standards
for height is going to be retained
so that's something to we ask the
council keep that in mind
the height requirements are something
that are on everybody's top priority so
downtown squad association is excited to
continue to work with the city
and as we move forward with the
streetscapes plan and other initiatives
so thank you very much
thank you again christina
is there anyone else this evening that
would like to address counsel
i can call
and a last call if anyone would like to
address counsel this evening
seeing none audience comments are closed
move to the next portion of our meeting
which is committee and regional reports
starting with council member hunt
thank you madam mayor on november 15th i
attended the wyra8 salmon recovery
council meeting we had a
somewhat alarming update on salmon
numbers in our water resource inventory
area or wyra
salmon numbers in wyra8 indicated a poor
return year for all species
and the salmon counters estimated 6700
chinook thirty two thousand one hundred
sockeye and eleven thousand coho that
was sixty six percent eighteen percent
and forty eight percent of the long term
averages for chinook sockeye and coho
salmon so a lot of the discussion of the
meeting was around that 18
return for the long-term average for
sockeye and what that means for the
salmon in our region and the need for
more
efforts to
support salmon recovery
we also discussed
funding guidance for 2019 as well as our
2019 work plan for the salmon recovery
council
and we discussed the snohomish county
surface water management budget i don't
have an update on snohomish county
participation in the interlocal
agreement that i mentioned last time
but if i do have an update on that i
will
i will bring that forward to council as
soon as i have that information
and we also talked about the king county
2019-2020 surface water management rate
proposal
the next meeting is scheduled for
january 17 2019 it will now be
located in the department of ecology in
bellevue and be 2 pm
on november 15th i also chaired the
council infrastructure committee meeting
councilmember ramos was excused and
councilmember ray substituted on the
committee we had three items on the
agenda as well as project updates
the first item was
ab7687 request for right-of-way
encumbrance talus parcel 9.
council
recommended to deny the encumbrance of
foothills drive northwest
requested by ora talus 90
and the recommendation was to have this
come forward on december 3rd so that is
not on the
agenda this evening but it will be later
on december 3rd
and
the
deliberation on this focused around the
liabilities having to do with the city
construction going on in the
right-of-way where there are a number of
utilities which would be above the
proposed
tie-backs which is a structural
component of the wall that was proposed
by the applicant
the next item on the agenda at council
infrastructure was ab7538 this is the
updated water system plan this was one
part of many discussions that we have
ongoing on this topic and we reviewed
the supply options as well as a pro
forma with financial information for the
different options
then we also discussed ab7649 amendments
to imc chapter 13.90 water sewer and
storm water recovery contracts this is a
ordinance updating chapter 13.90 of the
issaquah municipal code and it reflects
recent amendments to state law regarding
these contracts
and then in project updates we had an
update regarding the southeast 67th
street uh construction work that's going
on
and um roadway is planned to open by the
end of 2018.
and this concludes my report
thank you councilmember ray
thank you mayor paulie uh the services
and safety committee met on november
14th at 6 30 here in council chambers we
had a rather full agenda we heard agenda
bill 7651
human services grant funding
recommendations and that will be on this
evening's agenda as regular business
we also received a presentation on the
public art for 62nd street from
the artist
susan
zaccola um
pretty cool stuff um i'm pretty excited
to see it in real life
uh agenda bill 7667
the arts grant recommendation and this
will be on regular business on december
3rd council meeting agenda bill 7652
hearing examiner appointment and this
will be on december 3rd's consent
calendar
agenda bill 7691 startup 425 enter local
agreement and this will also be on
december 3rd consent calendar
agenda bill 7689 amending the imc
3.63 school impact fees to allow
flexibility and adopting fees and this
will be on regular business on december
3rd council meeting and then finally
agenda bill's 7640 amending school
impact fees and this two will be on
regular business on december thirds
council meeting next services and safety
committee will be on december 11th the
east side fire and rescue board met on
december 8th at uh eastside fire and
rescue headquarters
the board chair pro tem was none other
than our own mayor paulie
the agenda included a
the board's approval of
a letter of agreement with the unions
related to
membership firefighter annual physicals
and special assignments and the board
was also asked to provide input into the
east side firing rescues 2019 agenda
their legislative calendar and the 2018
fire chief evaluation
and then finally i just wanted to let
everyone know that east side fire and
rescue does have a strike
force down fighting fires in
northern california so they should be
down there for about another another
week helping out with that
mess
and the next eastside fire and rescue
board meeting will be on december 13th
and that concludes my report this
evening thank you councilmember ray
councilmember ramos thank you mayor
on the 9th of november i attended the
east side transformation partnership
meeting and
we were working on the legislative
agenda which i mentioned earlier and
that will be on their agenda on the 14th
of december when i attend that meeting
to
to pass that if all goes as planned
also the emergency management advisory
committee will meet on december 12th as
well i'll be there the agenda's not set
yet
the regional transit committee will also
meet
i should say the sca caucus of the
regional transit committee will be
meeting on 1219 as we work on some of
those issues to break those into coming
into 2019 working with metro on some
some issues uh the next uh council
infrastructure committee will be on the
20th of december and the agenda has not
been set that for that yet
thank you thank you councilmember
romelus councilmember winterstein thank
you madam mayor
next thursday the 29th will be the next
meeting of the puget sound regional
council's
future sound regional council's growth
management policy board the agenda has
not yet been published though i suspect
it's going to focus on the psrc's vision
update that has been our primary work
plan for the year
and i also want to mention that the um
the issaquah chamber of commerce has
published a their legislative agenda for
the city
and um and it's so that is i think we're
going to start hearing
more from them i think there's there's
been a real focus on that they put into
legislative matters affected them here
in the city including of course economic
development transportation and housing
among them i just want to make my fellow
council members aware that that is not
available from them online
that concludes my report thank you
councilmember winston councilmember
goodman thank you madam mayor uh landon
shore committee next meets on december
6th at 6 30 p.m here in council chambers
and the agenda has not yet been set
that's my report
thank you
deputy council president
thank you madam mayor the east side
human services forum did not meet in
november and i'll give an update uh on
what's coming forward in december at the
next meeting
thank you
by council president martz
thank you madam mayor the sound cities
association public issues committee
uh met last wednesday at 7 p.m in renton
city hall
two particular items of interest we
looked at the 2019 sca legislative
agenda which hadn't changed
substantively from the version that you
all saw
moved that forward
recommended that forward
we continued to look at the regional
affordable housing task force
i will be
talking about that a little bit more in
good of the order because i want to
come back to it
i had gotten some feedback from folks so
i want to address it a little bit
further gmpc growth management planning
council will meet thursday november 29th
at 4 pm in psrc chambers and the primary
topic is is the affordable housing task
force recommendations that relate to the
gnpc and that concludes my report thank
you council president martz
now for the mayor's report
uh there will be an executive session
held this evening to discuss property
acquisition per rcw 42.30
0.110 paren one paren b this item is
expected to last 40 minutes and no
action is anticipated to follow an open
session
i wanted to talk a little bit about a
donation from lakeside industries this
evening i would like to thank lakesite
industries for their generous donation
of five acres of property to the lake
sammamish state park i would also like
to thank mountains to sound greenway
trust for their role in facilitating
discussions that ultimately led to the
donation of this section of creekside
property
the donation will result in better
connection between the park's trails and
the city of issaquah it will also aid in
the conservation efforts allowing state
parks to move forward with creek
restoration sooner rather than
originally planned
and we're very proud to have a company
like lakeside industries based here in
issaquah it's refreshing to know that
businesses like lakeside care as much
about the well-being of the people that
live work and play here in issaquah as
much as we do and we are very fortunate
to benefit by mountains of sound
greenway trust's dedication to the work
they do to conserve and enhance our
region's landscape
i also want to tell council about a
couple of community meetings that
happened over the last few weeks city
staff has recently facilitated two
community meetings for residents of the
neighborhoods of south cove and sycamore
south cove was the annual homeowners
association meetings it was on monday
that november 12th between 7 and 8 30 at
zambica
it was a check-in for the mayor with the
neighborhood and had 20 attendees
there's some follow-up items from
questions that were asked about pavement
management plans
who manages lighting in the neighborhood
and they wanted eagerly wanted to hear
an update on the washdot project
there was a neighborhood meeting for
sycamore on november 13th from 5 30 to 7
30 at the rogue brewery
this neighborhood is currently a mix of
sanitary sewer either as septic system
or sanitary sewer and this open house
quest was a question to gauge the
neighborhood interest in sanitary sewer
service through a local improvement
district or some other financing
mechanism the results of the open house
will be reported out to the community in
the next few weeks or so there are about
40 attendees for that open house
and lastly i wanted to talk about the
turkey trot happening this thursday
november 22nd at 9 00 a.m
please join me at the issaquah turkey
trot a fun and casual run walk or trot
through downtown issaquah on
thanksgiving morning it starts at 9 a.m
need you to arrive at 8 30 a.m to
participate and allow you to get to the
start line and the start and finish line
is on bush street between the food bank
and the community center
thanksgiving inspired costumes and
accessories are always encouraged and
the proceeds from this event go to the
issaquah food and clothing bank and if
you need more information
www.issaquahturkeytrot.org
thanks
next item on our agenda this evening is
the consent calendar this calendar was
distributed to council in advance and if
authorized the items on the consent
calendar will be considered together and
approved by one motion have the pay
payables and payroll been reviewed yes
thank you does any council member desire
to remove any item from the consent
calendar and consider it under regular
business
is there a motion
meta mayor i move we adopt the consent
calendar as listed in this evening's
published agenda second
it's been moved and seconded to approve
the calendar
uh all those in favor signify by saying
aye aye those opposed
that carries unanimously
the next item under the agenda is
regular business and first up is ab-760
human services grant funding
recommendations this item is coming out
of the council services and safety
committee and i'd like to invite
sustainability director david fujimoto
to make a presentation
excuse me
good evening madam mayor and council
members david fujimoto director of the
office of sustainability
i'm here tonight to provide a quick
overview of the human services
commission grant recommendations but
i'll be joined by our human services
commission chair derek franklin and our
vice chair vanessa moussa vis-a-day and
we also have several members of our
commission who have joined us here
tonight so we wish to express our
gratitude and appreciation for their
hard work over the past several months
real quickly as a recap the human
services grant
program is a two-year cycle
we work with about 17 other cities
through a collaborative in both north
northeast and south king county
to let an rfp to request proposals from
a variety of agencies
to
request funding from the city
this uh rfp covers a full range of
services uh we often talk about uh
services that range from prevention
through crisis intervention along one
spectrum and then along the age spectrum
from prenatal all the way through
seniors um and then we also have more
recently the benefit of some additional
work that provides some focus for some
areas for targeted attention
the process is outlined so that the
human services commission dedicates some
time
to reviewing and providing
recommendations on those grants and
they present those to the to the city
council which is why we're here tonight
which approves the overall funding and
the allocation
as i mentioned before we have some
additional information that was helping
to inform the process this year in 2017
we completed a community needs
assessment and that helped us to
identify some additional areas for
support and these are some of the the
primary categories with some examples of
the types of
targeted support that could be provided
or that were identified through that
body of work
this year and as with the last cycle we
also identified a
funding level this was something that
was adopted through agenda bill 7479
earlier this year which set a funding
level of 495 thousand dollars overall
and this was had two different
components to it it included a base
funding amount as well as a targeted
funding amount
in that conversation the targeted
funding related to those areas
identified for some additional need and
support
and with that i am going to turn it over
to derek and vanessa to go through the
process and the recommendations
good evening i'm madam mayor members of
the council i'm derek franklin of
service chair of the human services
commission um
talking a little bit as david said about
the overview of our process
the uh the review of the human services
grants is uh really the major work item
for the commission and we've been
working to improve the process with
every cycle um here you see an uh an
overall timeline of key dates and
commission grant review meetings in the
past year uh there were several
preparations leading up to the
application period itself and and
throughout the process some of these
preparations included one an overall
grant review
process review which we started late in
the fall 2017 to step back and look at
our process a little bit and check for
possibilities for updates
next review of several
inputs such as the comprehensive plan
human services element and the the
recently completed isoqua community
needs assessment
also preparation for a grant's vision
statement as uh
was developed to provide a high level
guidance or sense of high level guidance
for us as a group and alignment around
the desired outcome of the commission's
work
also i review an update of the
commission's scoring tools which we'll
i'll speak to in a few slides
preparation of a city supplement a
two-page summary of grant objectives and
priorities including those in the needs
assessment which was conveyed to all
grantees so in other words applicants
who applied to the city of issaquah got
a supplement
highlighting some of the specifics
around
applying to the city
the commission all received equity
training
and i'll speak to that in a moment as
well we onboarded new commissioners
this year three were new and uh or three
came on board with uh some experience
from last cycle i'm sorry and the others
were new
so it took some time to orient folks to
the to the somewhat complicated process
with help of city staff
uh and we we took the time this year to
implement a practice scoring round given
that uh there's several steps to the
process but a round that involved
the commission going through a mock
scoring scenario to try to work out
kinks ahead of time
we held a series of grant review
meetings as it says in that calendar may
through september eight meetings in
total we also participate in a joint
eastside commission meeting including
the cities of bellevue kirkland redmond
sammamish and issaquah and then finally
with our scoring we had three rounds of
review and deliberation the first round
was scoring
formally scoring
and initial funding suggestions within
each of five goal areas which i'll speak
to in a moment
the second round included refinements
and consideration across the full range
of programs that we're recommending and
then finally round three was to step
back a little farther and look at any
final tweaks or refinements that would
in our estimation give the council a
solid portfolio of services to
deliberate upon once recommended
i spoke to the equity training uh
that the council or sorry
that the commission went through uh we
we had the honor of working with a sarah
tran with a non-profit assistance center
a few takeaways from the commission uh
members were
one that we're really here to be
advocates for the community and not
judge and jury on these applications
um also to be aware of one's implicit
and unconscious unconscious biases
and do do the work ourselves and as a
group to practice dismantling them
to actively seek to invest in those
community-based organizations who we
believe can do the work in ways that
perhaps other mainstream organizations
may not be able to do
and finally to work together to choose a
group of organizations that will
collectively meet the unique needs
of the issaquah community and
recognizing that this requires multiple
approaches
so grant applications received
as a result of the request before
proposal from the city we received 91
applications representing over 1.1
million dollars in funding requests
compared to the
2017-2018 cycle this represents a 23
increase in the number of applications
and a 58 increase in the number or the
dollars requested of the city
in 2017 2018 on the cycle there for
comparison there were 74 applications
and 694
000 approximately in requests
so the commission review
reviews grant applications in five goal
areas or buckets uh these had an origin
in the united way process
they're used by other east side cities
that allows for
clear communications and comparison
the pie chart on the screen is a
breakdown of funding requests as
represented by applications we received
in each of the goal areas
there were several new program
applications this cycle they're listed
on the screen in front of you
we received 22 new
program applications in 2018
and we've not received applications from
these programs specifically that's to
differentiate from organizations
or a single organization can apply for
unique programs within their broader
umbrella
these represent programs we've not had
applications for in the past
so
the evaluation criteria itself
we focus on several factors in doing
this first the demonstration of need by
the the applicant uh considered two
aspects of that one the need for
services
using both qualitative and quantitative
data
did they provide services for example
that were not otherwise available so
taking a closer look at what they
propose their services would be and
aligning that with what
we have before us in terms of data
community needs assessment other metrics
from the city
and then also financial need the degree
of financial need that organizations
have for city support the impact of the
dollars
we also looked at the level and quality
of service the capacity to provide
services to issaquah residents
changes in service demands
consistency in services and meeting
demands historically
we looked also at accessibility issues
like affordability physical
accessibility for residents
transportation immediacy of services
cultural competence to meet the
population's needs and other criteria
and then finally at partnerships
that the ability for the grantees to
coordinate services with other agencies
to maximize impact and efficiency was of
consideration for the commission
funding recommendations
in addition the evaluation of
applications occurred at three levels of
consideration
individually at the individual level
commissioned members reviewed
applications applying criteria and
reviewing
applications across
basically for all the commission members
so every commission member had a chance
to read and review each of the
applications
we looked at the applications across
goal area the five goal areas identified
previously by the city
considering the suite of applications in
each of these areas this allowed us to
consider for example for multiple
applications for like services in one
goal era goal area so the council may re
may see for example
in a goal area around
providing shelter that there may be
recommendations for two organizations
that provide similar
similar services and then finally we
step farther farthest back and look sort
of portfolio-wide at what we what their
recommendations would be
looking at all of the needs in the
community how they and how
recommendations that we can provide
might function together as a package and
interact as best as possible with one
another
then recommendations do reflect the the
division goals and key areas of the city
the funding allocations
applicants that receive full or partial
funding that was in 63 of the 91
applicants
applicants that did not receive funding
were 28 total
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and there were applications that we said
as i said did not receive funding
and we realized right up front that this
uh the requests for applicants this
cycle
far exceeded our budget
while we as a commission recognize and
we're thankful and appreciative of the
council's decision to increase the
funding uh that they decided you decided
to give to human services this year uh
the the need continues to outstrip some
demand
our primary responsibility was to ensure
a fiscally responsible allocation to
organizations best suited to deliver
needed services and able to validate
effective use of funding with an eye
towards minimizing redundancy and we
also recognize the benefit of newer and
less proven organizations serving unique
populations and providing unique
services as the populations and demands
of the city continue to evolve
generally
all these
applicants are well respected and
provide confidence services it was a
very very difficult decision
uh to make to not fund these that
involved considerable deliberations um
next i'm going to turn it over to
vanessa who will cover the commission's
specific grant recommendations thank you
derek
good evening i'm vanessa mousavizade
vice chair of the human services
commission
i'm going to talk to you a little bit in
more specificity about the goal areas
but before i do the part about the
presentation that isn't that clear is
how much heart we put into our
deliberations
i want to elevate that for you because
we take our work so seriously and i
don't think it's a stretch to say that
each of us lost a little sleep in our
checking each other and advocating for
community needs
so
with that we'll go into goal area one
goal area one
covers services for basic needs
including housing and shelter it
addresses food insecurity food access
housing insecurity affordable housing
supportive services and a range of
homeless services to support four
populations including youth men women
and families experiencing homelessness
this goal area constitutes 47 of total
funding recommendations
it's it also involves 26 of 32
applications that we're proposing for
funding it represents about 233 000 of
uh almost 400 000 requested it's a
thirty three percent increase over the
last cycle requested and it includes
about fifty thousand in targeted funding
the targeted funding allowed for
increases in services specific to
homeless response system including
outreach day centers shelter housing
housing stability and homelessness
prevention notably this is a first-time
funding recommendation for the muslim
community resource center and ywca
issaquah family village resident
services and we'd also like to elevate
that we are
recommending friends of youth tlp or
transitional living program
focus on youth young adult homelessness
substance use disorder case management
and transitional housing we're also
like to highlight support for hope link
family development wrap-around case
case management focused on housing
stability prevention and homelessness
and significant investment in financial
assistance
as well as continued support of east
east side homeless response system
for goal area 2
this goal area addresses school
readiness
social and emotional support for youth
and families
adult independent living culturally
specific support services
information and referral and legal
assistance this goal area constitutes 14
percent of total funding recommendations
we had we're recommending 11 of 18
applications which represents uh almost
69 000 of 173 000 total requested it's a
25 increase in funding over the last
cycle and it includes 20 700 in targeted
funding which contributes to culturally
relevant navigation case management
language access and youth substance
abuse prevention leadership development
notably we're suggesting continued
support of east side friends of seniors
new targeted services including
culturally focused and language access
programs
and new programs with iaw influence the
choice and cultural bridges
for goal area 3
this goal area includes advocacy
domestic violence
legal services housing and shelter
counseling information and referral
the school area constitutes 11 percent
of total funding recommendations
we are recommending six of seven
applications be funded which represents
53 600 of nearly 147 000 total requested
it's a 36 percent increase from the last
cycle in this goal area it includes
nearly 18 000 in targeted funding
notably
we are recommending funding for dawn
this is new funding for shelter and
supportive services for domestic
violence increased funding for lifewire
shelter my sister's home
and new funding to lifewire's housing
stability program
focused on prevention financial
assistance rapid rehousing diversion
flexible financial assistance and
advocacy services
and for goal area 4 the school area
includes medical care dental care mental
health and behavioral health substance
use disorder treatment and supportive
services
five of the 22 applications are
recommended for funding represents 100
hundred of nearly three hundred thousand
total requested it's a fifty six percent
increase over the past cycle
it includes twenty five thousand six
hundred in targeted funding
notably
um we'd like to mention that we are
suggesting an increase in funding
recommendations in the school area is a
56 percent increase
funding all medical and dental programs
that were brought to us that includes
health point and international community
health services or ichs
expansion of funding and behavioral
health services mental health counseling
and recovery services treatment of
substance use disorders and psychiatric
treatment
and funding for health education in
schools
through nami
and then the last bucket is goal area
five
services in this goal area include skill
development and training
job placement
supported employment and child care
referral and technical assistance
services this goal area constitutes
eight percent of total funding
recommendations we're recommending six
of the ten applications for funding this
represents just over thirty nine
thousand of the over ninety four
thousand in total requests it's a four
percent increase in funding from the
last cycle this represents four thousand
two hundred in targeted funding
notably we see a significant focus
around employment and education services
for individuals with barriers to
employment in this bucket
in sum the human services commission
recommends funding 65 applications to
meet the funding level target of 495
000. the additional funding provided for
this year's grant cycle gave us the
ability to support a number of important
services in our community we are
experiencing an increase in demand for
services and the additional funding has
made an important difference in our
ability to support community needs the
commission has regularly reflected on
the critical impact this additional
target funding has made in filling
service gaps in our community
and finally i just like to recognize
david for his leadership and support of
the commission throughout he's done a
stand-up job in keeping us on target
focused organized and
the reason why we have a successful
recommendation for you on time is
largely due to him thank you and we
welcome questions thank you vanessa
before we move to council questions
could other members of the commission
that are here this evening just raise
your hand so council is aware
thank you for coming it's great
lots of questions
i think this may be
a panel
a panel question
um
so it's my understanding that some
organizations
had multiple grant requests in and some
of them got funded and some did not
that is correct okay
yeah i mean that's because you went
through the list of people who didn't
get funded and i i guess i was just
struck with they did get something for
other programs
in some instances so uh we do accept
applications on uh for programs that are
our specific programs or services and uh
an agency can choose to submit more than
one application so in several instances
there were
organizations that submitted
applications for multiple uh programs
and
may have received
some of the funding but not necessarily
all
is there a process in place or
envisioned to
circle back with those
entities that didn't receive funding
and do a debrief with them so that they
can understand what the thinking was of
the commission and
um looking forward to next year how they
might
align uh absolutely so we
are happy to uh we typically uh handle
those um as requested but are happy to
meet with the applicants or talk with
them by phone whatever is easiest to
provide whatever feedback we can
for this grant process and then
typically as a part as part of the
process for in future years we also have
application workshops and other
opportunities for a potential grant
applicants to understand the process
that's coming up thank you
thank you councilmember ray are there
any other questions
that's my brew interesting
thank you and thank you for the
presentation and the information i
really do appreciate all the time and
effort i know it's not an easy task i
think the comment was made something to
the effect how
even those that didn't receive a
recommendation from the commission many
of them deemed to be offering worthy and
important service to people within the
community so i know that makes it
especially difficult
i do want to ask one question
in the presentation at one point it does
say that you did actively seek to invest
in niche community based organizations
and i'm wondering if any of which that
you are
who might fit that uh description
uh within this
uh proposed funding uh certainly so
there are some organizations that are
more community based in their uh the
populations that they work with some
examples include india association of
western washington
muslim association
muslim community resource
center
there are also some organizations that
specialize in reaching
culturally based
cultural navigation such as the chinese
information services center
so some of those
outreach navigation services are um
more kind of tailored to those
populations
okay so it wasn't just
issaquah community it was a broader
community definition
it was the
their more based in uh or have
connections with those community members
um which include community members in
issaquah but by the nature of their
organization they're more affil they're
more oriented towards
those
cultural
characteristics if you will
yeah thank you
are there any other questions
for a motion
i'd like to move
to adopt the
2019-2020
human services grant funding as
recommended by the human services
commission second
and moved and seconded is there any
council discussion
let's remember ray i'd like to start it
off
first i want to
just amplify what councilmember
winterstein said and recognize the hard
work that the human services commission
put into making these recommendations
earlier this year we set the targeting
target for these grants and then gave
them the very dubious job of figuring
out how to decide which of this pantheon
of very
worthy organizations should be funded
and funded at what level and i also want
to recognize the leadership of derek and
vanessa and our and david in bringing
this home because this was a difficult
task and required a great deal of energy
to make it come together
i particularly um
like the process we went through and
having well-defined uh criteria to apply
so that we can say these are these are
the places that we selected and here's
why
and then also if we can circle back with
this goes to my question earlier with
those entities or those grants that we
didn't fund so that they understand why
and given that we have some constraints
what that methodology looked like so
i think this is a
heck of a good plan moving forward for
the next two years
thank you councilmember ramos yes i just
want to thank the commission and derek
and everybody on there for all the hard
work
and you know i was under on that
commission for almost 10 years and so i
know what excuse me what the hard work
is and having the increased number of uh
applicants makes it even more difficult
and the
i'm very happy that we got you increased
funding um which we got uh had the
ability to uh spread
those grants out more but when you got
the increased funding the the number of
applications also increased
proportionately it seemed like so you
had just a difficult job so i want to
thank you for your work and really
appreciate all that you do because i
know the hours you put in and the as you
mentioned the heartache of uh making
those decisions so thank you very much
thank you deputy council president
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so i just wanted to also thank the
entire human services commission david
and the staff and and i uh really
understand when you talk about
the heart that goes into the
deliberations is just never easy
um and it was amazing to see that we
were able to in increase that funding
but then seeing the increase in
applications as well so just never an
easy job i see that the binder has grown
even larger
than years in the past and this is not
an easy job
looking across all of the organizations
that work locally
that work regionally
and also the partnerships and and being
able to try to determine
the best avenues i
uh in terms of the process it's always
great for me to to see
how the process has evolved and i see
former
uh some of my
the members that i sat on the commission
with years ago and and seeing how the
process has evolved and seeing those
goal areas broken down
is really
impactful and so i love to see that
happening
and really great to see some of the new
programs that uh new groups that have
applied
like the ywca and some of the expansion
of
current programs like the food bank
groceries to go
and and i would um just stand
thank you for such an amazing job
and i would echo some of my former
or my council members
that are talking about circling back
around
with the groups that weren't funded
and also with the groups that maybe were
funded for certain programs and not
funded for other programs so they can
better understand
how to how to go forward in the future
thank you
thank you are there any council member
winterstein thank you
i have real mixed emotions about this at
one point that one side i'm
it is
i guess i could use the word proud i'm
proud that this
body the council and this and the city
in general mayor's office as well
supported the increase in funding it
certainly
i have witnessed over the 10 years that
the commission has existed
this community and our leadership
willing to extend ourselves more and
more to help more organizations help
more people in need within issaquah and
that's fantastic
at the same time i've seen i think we
had less than 200 000
the first year i was involved and not
nearly as many applications and at the
so at the same time the number of hands
that are reaching out for money
and the competition
uh for this funding uh is grown uh and
and it's i have a lot of appreciation
for human services
agencies
um unlike many of our business and
landowners seeking maybe 30 years of
certainty and predictability many of
these agencies are going one and two
year cycles on certain whether or not
they're going to be able to continue to
offer their same program that's that's a
very difficult challenging world
uh when uh the funding that you may be
dependent upon is so unpredictable
and and so that's where i'm torn that's
kind of the what makes it very difficult
because i'll say i mean
i've been very aware of 2-1-1 for a long
time and i know people
down here for the meals program that i'm
part of that
have spoken about using it and i've
pushed people in that direction to make
a call there as well
so to see to see that organization that
function um our this process
deemed that that that they um you know
aren't worthy of our funding
i'm not gonna i'm not gonna question
that tonight uh but boy they get to to
learn that it's gotten to that point
where an organization that my perception
is at least that serves so many with our
organization we decided that they didn't
or within our city um didn't deserve any
of our funding
i don't know what that means but what
i'm seeing in it is that
that again
more hands more competition even though
we've got more money that we're offering
making it uh is really a com and always
has been a competitive market
and i would just ask
going forward that
that especially when there's been
a long term in history
of of the city supporting a certain
organization
that some consideration be given to that
because of the difficulty it is to
constantly involve
your human services organization to
adjust to the increased competition that
there is for more and more voices and
hands being held out and seek of funds
so
so
i just that that
i just wanted to share with my
colleagues on the council and everybody
listening those that got funding that
did not that
i
seldom have i seen an application that
wasn't worthy of something
and
i know that the sources of funds
that you may be seeking
are diversified you have a lot of
different
people you're you're working with and
you all have different capabilities
within your staff to actually achieve
that funding level that you're seeking i
recognize those challenges i'm glad that
we can help where we are
and yet i'm going to continue to
challenge us and our city and the
commission
to continue to refine
what what you have been doing refining
your process and understanding what how
our limited resources can go to best
meet the needs within the community
thank you thank you council member we're
just saying any other comments
so if there is no further discussion all
those in favor of approving the 2019-22
human services grant funding as
recommended by the human services
commission signify by saying aye aye was
opposed
that passes unanimously
the next item on the agenda this evening
is a b 732
the old town sub-area plan update this
item is coming out of the council land
insurer committee and i'd like to invite
senior planner kristin leeson to make a
presentation
okay good evening madam mayor and city
council members i'm kristen leeson
senior planner with the development
services department
here to talk about the old town subarea
plan
so the purpose of this update is to
address some 2015 council goals that
came up
to update a plan that has really not
been touched since it was adopted in
1999 so about 19 years
to consider task force recommendations
that were made in 2015
and to you know issaquah is growing so
we want to be able to ensure that we can
maintain old town's character while
increasing its vitality
so just a little history
this was adopted in 1999.
in 2009 it was
amended just to remove any references to
the bypass
in 2015 there were some council goals
that came up regarding circulation and
establishing a task force so a task
force was formed and a recommendation
was made at the end of that year in 2016
the old town subury plan update was
begun
in 2017 pbc made a recommendation to
approve the planned amendments and
landon shore began review in march of
2018 landon shore our city council
actually referred the plan back to ppc
for further review we had some new
members by that time so we took them on
a big tour of old town which was a huge
hit
and then in july ppc held their second
public hearing went back to land and
shore in september of this year and here
we are
so just some format changes some you can
see from the pictures that the 1999 plan
was very very thick and it has
decreased in size quite a bit without
losing any of its
importance and relevance
the eis was included in the original
plan and that has been removed that's
not done anymore we made elements
consistent with the citrul central
issaquah plan so we added housing and
environment we removed the facilities
and utilities element we removed excess
background information to improve
readability for example then i was
looking the other day at the 1999 land
use element which is 37 pages long and
the policies don't start until about
page 30. so there was a lot of
information there and then we the
implementation section that was there
that talked about things like replacing
water lines and looking at certain
intersections
was replaced with a with an action
program
so some policy changes that we have
from 1999
encourage active use and these are
these are summarized
from the from the plan so not as much
details included here but encourage
active use of sidewalks to adjacent
businesses update standards for cbd and
mfh
increase and promote neighborhood
interaction
implement park strategic plan continue
the green necklace which is a new idea
since this has been adopted through old
town prioritize non-motorized facilities
and increase mobility options repurpose
underutilized city-owned properties
employ public parking management
strategies minimize negative impacts on
regional traffic
nope negative negative impacts of
regional trade there we go amen parking
requirements allow pop-up and
non-traditional retail ventures and
adopt residential architectural
standards reduce heights in higher
residential areas
i will say when this was remanded from
council back to planning policy
commission you all did ask them to look
at five particular things
one was to look at the old town sub-area
boundaries so things that they looked at
were
old route 10 which we're talking about
tonight
was removed from central isoqua and
there was a discussion about adding that
to the north end of old town
they also talked about removing the area
kind of south of clark where the schools
are on the east and west side of front
street from old town it just they didn't
feel like it had the same character
without the grid system and the same
type of architecture however once they
realized that we're going to look at the
standards this upcoming year they
decided to postpone any amendment so
there have been no changes that they're
at this time
but one of their action items is to
revisit the standards and the boundaries
one year after the standards are adopted
another one was to look at the proposed
plan structure in relationship to the
central issaquah vision
they talked about it but the vision
hadn't been adopted yet and they felt
like old town was unique and therefore
the plan for old town needed to be
unique as well
strategies or actions from traffic
calming efforts they didn't expand on
the existing policies that were there i
have in here that they provided a
description of cut through traffic but
that has since been removed
parking they agreed um with the idea of
employing parking parking management
strategies and the proposed zoning
changes such as building height and
impervious surface
they were supportive of the commit land
use land and shore committee's
recommendations and didn't make any
additional changes
that is my presentation thank you
kristen are there questions for kristen
not exceeding any second chance for
questions
uh motion all right madame mayor hang on
a second paul did you have a question or
no oh okay sorry
adam mayor i moved to adopt ordnance
number
2849
repealing and replacing the old town
sub-area plan a sub-area plan within
issaquah's comprehensive plan
is there a second second
is that paul
thank you
um discussion
well it's council president says the
mover i'm the mover because i was lucky
enough to uh sub as chair of landon
shore landon shore took a very
comprehensive uh review of this this
year and um i just want to say i
appreciate staff
managed a lot of punchlist items in
reviewing this up to and including after
the most recent land insurer
meeting so i
uh i just i believe this is a very well
vetted uh plan thank you
other comments
still no okay oh yes councilmember
winterstein seeing if you could read my
mind
when we set off on this actually if i go
back a little bit further
the council a number of years ago had
spent quite a bit of energy in
completing a couple major other sub the
central sub area then we put a lot of
attention actually into finishing the
parts of the highlands and it was upon
uh completion of those it was recognized
by the council at that time that
they're that this part of town which so
represents um much of
what people identify with as the heart
of issaquah
perhaps needed some of our attention
that was probably four years ago and so
this has run quite a long process i
think it's a very difficult task
when
i think we set off for ourselves on a
very difficult task
if you think of the neighborhoods within
issaquah some are newer
some are older and one's an original
and that original has probably seen more
change in the last 10 years than any of
the other neighborhoods
i think about squawk val squawk mountain
the change is a little bit slower uh
coming there
and and you could the newer you are the
less change you've seen
but it's a very difficult task to set
out to preserve
a character and i think it's in it and
because character is defined by
different differently by a lot of
different people
one of the ways that it is defined
preeminently around here is in the
buildings in the structure there's many
other aspects of course
and this is where this plan um is was i
think is innovative and bold in that
there was quite a bit of community
participation especially early on and
that data is in the bill if you haven't
seen that you should look at that there
was quite a bit of input given
um there's quite a and and and further
uh i think one of the um
uh biggest steps that's in here have to
do with building heights
uh you uh you want to change a place
and big
build much bigger buildings around older
smalling smaller buildings and tear down
a big builder
build bigger and and this uh we're
trying to reverse that trend here and
that's a big deal that affects people
here now
both
residents and and business and property
owners and it'll affect things for many
years into the future
so i i really do believe there's much
here
uh
and this is a bold plan to do what we
set out to do is to to to the best of
our ability to be fair and to try to
preserve that part of issaquah we think
is essential to our character and
identity
and i know that this is not just the
effort of this council as you as you
said earlier there are many commission
members and many members of the public
especially citizens who live in the old
town area that participated in this
and
i i certainly think we've done our best
possible job
and i'm looking forward to its
implementation
thank you councilmember winterstein is
there anyone else who would like to
comment
not seeing anyone
if there's no further discussion all
those in favor of adopting ordinance
number 2849 repealing and replacing the
old town sub-area plan
a suburb area plan within issaquah's
comprehensive plan signify by saying i i
closed
that carries unanimously
next item on the agenda this evening is
ab7643
central issaquest zoning for old route
10 east gilman boulevard
and intensive commercial areas this item
is also coming out of the council land
insure committee and i'd like to invite
not the planning policy manager but the
director of development services keith
niven to make a presentation
just seeing if you're paying attention
um
good evening madam mayor city council
keith divin director of development
services
so this evening we're going to discuss
agenda bill 7643
which is zoning for two areas uh of the
city which were taken out of central
isoqua as part of
the moratorium concluding the moratorium
so on may 21st we ended the moratorium
following the adoption of the district
visions as part of that process it was
decided that there were two areas that
just didn't really feel like central
issaquah
one was the east end of gilman and the
other was a portion of the property
zoned intensive commercial over by the
public works operations shop
in total we had 15 parcel zone intensive
commercial that we were taking out and
39 parcels zoned destination retail
by taking them out of central
it required us to go through and look at
zoning what would be the appropriate
zoning and what would be the standards
that would be assessed to those
properties
we went through a public notice process
where 150 notices were sent out to
property owners within 300 feet of those
affected properties and then
we held a number of meetings at the
planning policy commission to discuss
potential outcomes
we also came to
the council at a work session
through
id 0301
and we talked about this we talked about
alternatives and options um and that led
us then to a conversation at land and
shore
so to orient everybody
here's a zoning map of the city and the
area that we're talking about is really
kind of at the southeast end of
what would be what used to be the
boundaries of central issaquah
we have the properties in and they don't
show up as gray there but they're they
show up as white
up on the screen
those are intensive commercial and then
these ones that are kind of purplish
pink
those are the ones that were zoned
destination retail
the proposal that we're making is that
we actually have
we create an intensive commercial zone
outside of central issaquah so there
would be some parcels that were left
within central isoqua that would be
zoned intensive commercial and then
there would be a number of properties
zoned intensive commercial outside
similarly what we ultimately are
recommending for
what used to be destination retail
is to have a mixed-use zone within
central issaquah and a mixed-use zone
outside of central issaquah
so in in terms of the policy
considerations uh
first we have to deal with what zoning
is appropriate for these properties
and then the second uh piece of the
question would be you know when we
decided to take these out of central
issaquah was it envisioned that there
would be a down zone or any effect to
the to the property owners and so that's
kind of the the process we went through
as we started to talk about alternatives
so
go through my chart here with you guys
intensive commercial so option one that
was that's what they have now
um so this zoning is a remnant of
central is aqua so basically there's a
floor area
ratio requirement
there's the building heights there's the
setbacks and then there's the impervious
the second column this represents
the the the
standards that were in place prior to
bringing them into central liza so those
parcels in intensive commercial were
zoned intensive commercial prior to
the adoption of central isoqua and these
were the standards that applied
back in
2013-ish
2012.
and so
what we're recommending now is kind of a
split between the two so
as as you heard earlier from one of the
property owners we're recommending
um that the building height go back to
40 feet and not stay at 48. the
difference between those two is roughly
one story you can build three stories at
40 and you can build four stories at 48.
um but what this what this also says is
there's a maximum of 65 feet
that would be allowed so that's five
stories
and that is that's current that's
consistent within all three
recommendations so we not we did not
make a recommendation to remove that or
reduce that in any way
that was consistent with what they had
prior to inclusion in central
and there's
provisions within the city code which
tells you how you get basically from 40
feet to 65 feet
from a setback standpoint the
conversation we had with the property
owners
is the land uses within the intensive
commercial zone uh they're they're
really they're very auto oriented um so
things like setbacks
um front yard side yard rear yard
setbacks all made sense for those
property owners
as you can see what they have now are
zeros
and part of the reason for the zeros in
central is
we want all our buildings to be right
next to each other it promotes
walkability and pedestrian
interest
i think when we decided to pull these
properties out of central issaquah
there's also an acknowledgment that this
area is really
not pedestrian oriented it really
remains very auto oriented and so these
setbacks are more in keeping with
a more suburban style of development
what we did though
we also kept the 90 impervious
um from central and one of the reasons
why we didn't revert that back to the 65
percent
is you know as i think we agreed with
the property owner that testified
earlier there's really not that much
land in intensive commercial left
we don't have a storm water limitation
that would warrant limiting it to 65
percent and so leaving it at 90 percent
seemed like that was a good compromise
with property owners
so flipping now to destination retail
the conversation we had is you know
really there's
nothing that requires those properties
to stay retail and so having it be
called destination retail really didn't
make sense uh long term for the city so
that's why we were proposing mixed use
um under the um current standards again
there's an far requirement within
central issaquah where we're going to
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the preferred option from the
administration
really not much has changed the big
conversation was about front yard
within central
there's really a build to line again
getting back to that expectation that
properties would build up to the street
right away to promote walkability
as we talked about it primarily with the
grange and bombs and sam kyle
i think there was a belief that you know
those properties really wanted a little
bit of a setback from the right of way
and so we changed it from
basically the zero build two line to a
ten foot front yard setback but all the
other standards
were proposing to remain the same
so that's the recommendation
from the administration is really uh
option three of for both intensive
commercial and
uh for mixed use
and i think that's the end of my
presentation
questions
council member winterstein thank you
keith what are the ways in which a
property owner can
build up to 65 feet if the
base height is 40 or 48
how do they get to 65
so
so in central the way that you get above
the base height is there's a density
bonus program or transfer development
rights
outside
it's specified in the city code
and i don't have that list memorized i
apologize
but it's a specific list of criteria
that you have to satisfy to be able to
go above
um the base height
you could phone a friend but none of
them were here
council member if that would be helpful
um could you talk about what percentage
of the um property owners
were able to discuss the changes with
you in the series of um meetings that
were conducted
sure um
so uh we didn't have
you know as as i mentioned earlier we
sent out over 150 notices to affected
property owners
for the
destination retail we primarily had
three property owners
it was boehms and
lagrange and sam kyle
for the intensive commercial
there was either only two or three
property owners that engaged in the
conversation so not that many um this is
kind of planning standard stuff which a
lot of people don't get super excited
about but
um but the there was opportunity it just
was not that many
and those 150 notices were they mostly
homeowners that are nearby because there
weren't that many parcels so primarily
homeowners
so it would
definitely all of these homeowners would
have gotten notice
the ones over on this side you're
talking like lakeside
and the the properties that are outside
of central so which would be some more
commercial properties but here you would
have picked up you know you would have
picked up
dairy golden and
la-z-boy and those kind of properties as
well as some of the neighborhood back in
here
i had one more clarification on the
on the destination retail you were
talking about how it it might not be
retail in the future but it also
currently has residential in in that
area with the
condominiums
it does
so mix use again seem like a good um
kind of outcome zone
because it also allows retail office and
residential as allowed land uses
thanks
councilmember ray
so keith what was the rationale on
intensive
commercial to go
to 40 feet versus 48.
so part of it um
was you know there there were
there were
some up zones that happened as part of
central um but it also includes things
like structured parking and far
and so it seemed like when we were
pulling it out
um and most of the properties in
intensive commercial
are fairly um
they're developed at fairly low
densities now most of them are single
story or two-story buildings
um it seemed like uh having
the larger building height as a base
height um seemed like it was pushing too
much density in an area that might be
underserved from an infrastructure
standpoint
primarily streets um
so for option three
these
buildings would not have an far
requirement nor
or structured parking so we could have
street parking and
okay great thank you
deputy council president bautiste
thank you keith i just had a question on
timing in terms of the recommendation
that talks about housing density
the housing density and diversity and
completed in 2019
uh and then the question
for my first question is do we have it
uh where
when in 2019 would that
be proposed to be done
so that's the next agenda bill oh i'm so
sick it's okay
so sorry you're jumping ahead we can
talk about that now if you'd like but
hold those questions
some of these i some of our agenda bills
this evening have a significant amount
of overlap there is a laugh yes
questions uh council member ramos um
yeah so just following up on on the uh
the logic to stay to 40 feet where
and i understand what you're saying on
that side but to me the other side is
pretty much also predominantly single
story a little bit of two story um but
you went to 48 feet for um
for mixed so
why is the difference on those those two
pieces is what i guess so sam's kyle sam
kyle's building uh seems to set a pretty
big scale it's
you know it's uh it's three
it's three big stories now plus it's a
big building so i think the conversation
and plus the um
the i think the street access uh east
gilman's huge
um i don't know that we'll ever build
out that entire right-of-way because
it's giant um so it just seemed like it
the capacity to handle maybe bigger
buildings made sense
um
so
i think it was it was simply that it
just seemed like it it had the capacity
to handle bigger
bigger outcomes
thank you
additional questions
is there a motion
yes madam mayor i moved to adopt
ordinance number 2850
amending the official zoning map to
rezone those parcels zone destination
retail and intensive commercial that
were removed from the central iskawa
plan boundary as part of the adopted
central park neighborhoods central sorry
central plan neighborhood vision
amending imc 1806 establishment of
zoning districts to add a mixed-use zone
amending imc
18.07.360 district standards table to
add a mixed use zone and amend the
standards of the intensive commercial
zone and amending chapter 4.0 zoning
districts uses in standard summary and
chapter 9.0 signs of the central
issaquah development and design
standards
to remove all references to the
destination retail zone just for a
second
thank you is there a discussion
so if there is no discussion i'm not
going to reread that motion that was so
well read by the council president um
all those in favor of adopting ordinance
number 2850 signify by saying aye aye
opposed
that carries unanimously
next item on the agenda this evening is
ab7
proposed amendments to central standards
table 4.3 b
permitted land uses this item is coming
out of council land and shore and we'll
keep keith up at the microphone for a
presentation okay thank you um
so another
i think one of the reasons why this
agenda bill and the previous one kind of
seemed like they
weave back and forth is they both
were
follow-up outcomes
from uh
the adoption of the visions and closing
out the moratorium
this one
initially started with a discussion
about
limiting hotels and self-storage units
in central and ultimately when that
conversation
was finished
the question was asked should we go back
and look at table 43b
which is what this agenda bill's uh
affectionately called um and see if
there are other land uses that may not
make sense in central israel based on
the new visions that were adopted
so we went through that and we came up
uh
we had some conversations with the
planning policy commission and we came
up with a list of land uses that we
thought made sense to
uh
limit in central isoqua so correction
facility jails
hazardous waste storage and treatment
facilities
heliport helipad helistop
automotive wrecking or dismantling yard
not too pedestrian oriented
agricultural food processing and storage
boat building sales and repair building
materials storage and sales distribution
center and feed store agricultural
supply
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so this was a list we talked about at
planning policy commission we came
through
council committee and
ultimately we were
ready to adopt this and there was a an
ask to go back and look at one of the
recommendations that came out of the
planning policy commission which was to
limit duplexes triplexes and fourplexes
from
the core
and the mixed-use zone and
you know as we talked about that
you know there were there were a number
of questions that really came up and
a lot of it has to do so this one kind
of has a new name uh other than 43b
which is
density and diversity and so it's about
talking about housing density and
housing diversity and you know right now
um the core and the mixed use zone make
up 531 acres that's that's all that's
over half of central issaquah
and a big part of our valley floor and
if you're not going to allow duplex
triplex and fourplexes within
those 531 acres
what kind of housing are you going to
get and we have a pretty aggressive
housing target as part of the regional
growth center and if it all ends up
being stacked flats
and if nobody's building condominiums if
all we're getting is apartments then
that's a lot of apartments that we're
we're headed towards in our city
and so that part of it um
you know is is kind of then
counterbalanced with a conversation
about well we need density
and if we're allowing duplexes and
triplexes and maybe fourplexes they
start to kind of pivot towards more
dense housing but if we're starting to
allow or get
um a lot of our
core and mixed use area being
redeveloped at a lower density housing
product then are we going to be able to
reach our targets and are we going to
support the transit that we're really
after for this portion of our city
and so
really
what it came down to was we need to do a
lot more analysis on what those outcomes
might look like
so that we could have a better
conversation with the city council so
what we talked about at committee was to
basically
make a recommendation to
adopt the limit of those land uses that
were identified on the second slide
but to defer an action on duplex triplex
and four plexes until after the
administration can provide some analysis
and a better conversation with the city
council so that's the item that we had
identified the other night at budget to
work on in 2019
and to answer
deputy president batista's question
i think what i would expect is we could
get to that probably by start it um
february march
because we're going to probably need a
consultant to do that work that's a part
of the budget conversation that we still
need to have and i think we're planning
to have on the 10th but then you know so
if we start february march then we would
be done by august september so sometime
mid part of the year i think
that analysis will be done we'll be able
to present that back to the council and
then you guys could make a decision on
what to whether or not to
include duplexes triplexes and
fourplexes in the limited land uses for
the core and mixed use so kind of mid
part of the year i think we'd be ready
to bring that back to the
ahead council follow-up question
so apologies for skipping ahead and
popping forward uh but thank you for
answering that so
mid-2019 and that analysis needs to be
done first
and so then that
uh
part of part of the question was then we
would be able to go and have that
conversation
after that analysis is done so that
would happen in 2019 right as well right
because i think it's going to be very
much a character and policy driven
conversation with the council in terms
of what you would like to see central
look like
will drive the outcome of that
but you need to have
a good understanding of you know what
the potential unintended consequences
might be of
deciding that either one way or the
other
thank you yeah any questions
is there a
motion member hunt
i would move to adopt ordinance number
two
adopting by reference amendments to the
central issaquad development and design
standards
including table 4.3 b permitted land
uses as recommended by the council land
and shore committee and
direct the administration to conduct an
analysis on housing density and
diversity to compete to be completed in
2019
and revisit removal of duplex triplex
and fourplex units from the mixed use
and urban corazons of central isquad
following this analysis
second
the moved and seconded discussion
that's my friend
i am glad that we will be looking at
this in more detail
as as a council because i think it does
have implications for the character of
this area where we expect to see a lot
of
residential land use in the not too
distant future and i also think it has
big implications for the community in
terms of the housing options that will
be available
i
i
as a starting place i think that the
mixed use and urban core descriptions
and intents of the zoning
districts they do set
they set
descriptions of the residential
density as being different for the mixed
use area and the urban core area and i
think that having more analysis in terms
of how we can achieve those differences
that were put forward in the plan
will be really helpful
and i also i am looking forward to
getting more information about how this
will affect the
the diversity of housing types that are
available we know that there is this
missing middle housing types it was in
our housing strategy work plan that we
need more of these missing middle
housing types i think that there are
individuals who um
who would like to have
both a rental option with stacked plots
but also a ownership option and as we
know there are not a lot of condominiums
being built currently and we don't know
when that will change so i would like to
see more analysis on this because i
think it is a complex
issue and it has real implications for
how this area looks and feels in the
future
other comments councilmember goodman and
i want to thank
keith thank you for your work on review
of this table
i i very much appreciate it i think it's
part of our
continued due diligence to make sure
that we have the centralisation plan
how it should be so that we get
what we have envisioned not just what we
allow and i'd like to thank council
member hunt for
raising the housing issue it's this is
an extremely important topic and i look
forward to having that conversation next
year
any other comments
that's remember winterstein thank you
actually this keith you mentioned it
earlier this started when the proposal
was to remove the storage units and i
actually didn't support that legislation
because i felt that that even a
residential core was that was still a
needed service but that did precipitate
i think as council member goodman
suggested well let's look at the rest of
the options and i look at the ones that
in front of us this evening it is
difficult to imagine how
a primarily dense residential area
would need those i think it's a little
bit different than the storage so i can
support that list further i also want to
thank councilmember hunt about the
housing and a moment ago she said
she used the phrase missing middle and i
want to add a little bit more and this
is why i actually support this variation
of taking the the the
triplex's fourplexes um
off the table today for reconsideration
as this motion specifies is that also
their construction materials are
generally going to be different from
stack flats especially if they get
taller
generally they're going to be wooden in
structure and and and that also means
that they tend to come into the market
at a different price point a lower price
point
than when you've got concrete and steel
in your construction
and so i would add in addition all the
questions that you put up there about
about should we allow or deny these type
of structures we have to look at the
affordability component and what that
would mean as well i don't have an
answer to that but i but this is the
comprehensive we're going to look at
this comprehensively we have to weigh
that component of it as well
uh
it's in and we haven't really i think
this is an interesting topic now
in that
we we had a vision and we wanted we
constantly have been um striving for
better ways well more recently we've
been striving for better ways to help
achieve those visions
uh and yet and yet uh the issue of
housing affordability and housing stock
affordable to more people who live here
is elusive and we have a housing
strategy and this type of structures can
be a key part of it and so whether or
not we think they should also be allowed
in these two zones is the right question
for us to be considering
thank you thank you any other comments
uh deputy council president batis
so i would just like to echo some of my
fellow council members uh comments uh
thank you keith for the work that's done
has been done here and uh thank you to
councilmember hunt for raising the
question a really i think really
important question as we go forward and
look um at housing and i look forward to
being able to have that conversation
regarding the duplexes triplexes
in 2019
thank you any other comments
okay
if there's no further discussion all
those in favor of adopting ordinance
number two eight five one adopting by
reference amendments to the central
squad development and design standards
including table 4.3 b permitted land
uses as recommended by the council land
insurer committee and directing the
administration to conduct an analysis on
housing density and diversity to be
completed in 2019
and revisit removal of duplex triplex
and fourplex units from the mixed use
and urban core zones of centrosqua
following the analysis signify by saying
i i
was opposed
that carries unanimously
the next and last item under regular
business this evening is
ab7705 council vacancy process
look at my notes here
so
i have
to first
give a little background on why we have
a vacancy
um congratulations to one of our sitting
council members council member ramos has
been elected to represent
state legislative district five in
olympia
and we have received a resignation
notification effective january 1st 2019.
so i'd like to invite city clerk tina
eggers to present the proposed process
and timeline for filling the vacancy hi
thank you
um yes we um have a vacancy that would
become effective january 1
and with that the council has 90 days
from that time period to appoint a
qualified person
that individual must be 18 years or
older a registered voter and have one
year residency within the city limits
that term would be valid through
november of 2019
that's because
the elections office and state law puts
a higher weight on an individual who's
elected rather than appointed
so the person who would be
serving
in the four-year term that would start
in january of 2020 actually
starts earlier to
carry out that
service tonight's agenda bill
we have the timeline and process that
we'd like you to
approve or amend or
indicate that you'd like to
take more time to discuss it
review the supplemental questions
applicant presentations visuals and if
you had any other
changes or questions for us
what i put together was a proposed
timeline
again it's proposed
there is some flexibility here if you
wanted to make some changes
in your agenda bill you will see
that those dates correlate to what was
proposed to you
we could start there
if that's where you're comfortable and
then we can delve in a little bit deeper
if you'd like
thank you
questions for the city clerk
council president martz well did you
do you want to walk people through that
calendar sure so if you're ready to
approve a process this evening we could
begin the recruitment as early as
wednesday um we
followed the same timeline or same sort
of process that we did previous there
was a couple of nuances i'll point those
out
we would um you know
push this out through social media and
all our other variations and and look
for others to to be helping spread the
word as well
uh 10 a.m deadline works well with
trying to package up materials for
the public to review and for you council
members to take a take a look at
this this proposal uh
would have a meet and greet occurring
before
the applicant presentations not
immediately before because of the amount
of time that's needed um last year when
we did council presentations you started
at 5 p.m
and then you went into executive session
you had dinner
and then at 8 00 pm you started your
regular meeting and that was not
concluded until about 11 15. so it could
make for a very long day if you're
trying to
have a meet and greet on the same day if
that was important to you then i would
suggest that you look at having your
meet and greet and council presentations
on a different date like a non-council
meeting date
let's see
and then
following the same timeline you could
be prepared to
to take action and fill the appointment
february 4th
there was some interest in
looking at possibly narrowing the scope
of the
pool of applicants
you
that would be a good suggestion if you
had a large applicant pool it may not be
necessary if you have
a low number
but this does provide that flexibility
and then
you
this timeline would include sort of a
open q a of of applicants or of the
finalists
and
again you could recess into executive
session but
caution you to only be discussing the
qualifications of applicants and if you
were ready you could
move to
appoint the individual and that agenda
bill that would be coming back on the
22nd
would sort of outline
who the applicants are and what the
process is and how the nomination
process goes
thank you
more questions
let's remember when you sign followed by
council member goodman
thank you
this process uh
allows for the
narrowing of the pool of applicants but
and you have it slotted up there but
what mechanism might we work use
has that been discussed
it's
it would be an all new invention
wouldn't it it would be new
yes
can we discuss that further i'd like to
get a good idea of what we might be
thinking because
if we have 12 is 6 the right number if
we have 10 is 4 the right number or
or something else and then how to do
that
you're like council president mart's
waiting because we have discussed this a
bit yeah so the genesis of this is the
sense that
uh
we have typically what happens is we
have a whole bunch of people who come to
the last meeting of this process
and
many of whom
do not get nominated and and go through
a long process and so we thought
the possibility if we had a large number
of applicants
that would make sense to perhaps narrow
it down and then that would allow us to
focus in and spend more time with a
smaller number of candidates for whom
there was some
expressed interest from the council in
understanding better i think the idea
was perhaps three
um
and that i i suspect although i'm open
to suggestions that we would just open
it up for potentially up to three
nominations
on that evening although like i said um
you know we hadn't we hadn't fully
detailed this one out but i think the
idea would be
taking up to three nominations and then
if there weren't um three
if there were only two we could do two
and if there was only one
they would have the possibility of
potentially making a decision that
evening before we had done q a
that outcome seems unlikely
okay and if i may summarize then you
envision this as a very uh public
process of of
of identifying and with count the whole
council somehow
uh participating in who gets put on the
short list if we go that way very public
correct very public all right thank you
hi councilmember goodman
um so i will
follow up
that
conversation with
thoughts about
coming up with a
number to reduce to in advance of
knowing
how many applicants we have and what the
what the qualifications i know there are
hard qualifications and there are soft
qualifications i think it's kind of a
difficult thing to decide
um
because that's
that's different with every
vacancy
goal that we have
so that's my comment on that i'm not
opposed to the idea however because i
can
see how that may
be
a little more efficient and
um
potentially friendlier to the folks that
that come and don't get nominated um
the
have comments about the meet and greet
um i think that was an addition to the
last process that we went through and i
thought it was overall a good idea
um in practice however i felt it to be
um not not structured enough and it was
awkward felt awkward to me
and i think we've gotten some feedback
from applicants that that was awkward
so um
one idea
and we don't have to decide that tonight
but one idea i had thought about is
um
lack of a better description
kind of a speed dating thing
where
um we would have two or three council
members
together
and then the applicants would move
through and and
um one at a time
who the council members would have an
opportunity to ask questions and have a
conversation
um
so that we at least
you know every council member gets to
have some sort of a q a or discussion
with every applicant um and vice versa
and we didn't have that last time
well i
one idea is to have i think idea is to
have it more structured that's just one
thing i thought about thank you i saw
council
member batista and council member ray
followed by council member hunt
so i'm going to agree with the speed
dating
aspect i i think that um i'm joking but
uh
i
i too uh think in regard to that uh
that last year it was um it was a bit
awkward and it was also hard for the
candidates to know how to move around
and have a touch with each council
member and i think it was also hard for
the council members to know how to move
around and have a touch with each
of the
applicants um
the the other uh so i i feel that that
was a that
i agree with uh councilmember goodman i
think that that needs to be looked at
uh the other that uh the other
small point that i was going to ask
about is
the eagle room gives us more room to do
that
yet
and i'm not sure we have enough room
here
but we're we're also walking over to a
council work session which was also an
awkward
component of that to have to
look at your watch and say i've got to
go now
and it would probably flow a little
you know a little better if we were here
and then everyone was recognizing
there's a council work session
i'm just not sure there's enough room
work on process council member ray then
council member hunt oh i love the idea
of an informal meet and greet i like the
idea of making it more formal in the
round robin aka speed dating structure i
think
45 minutes is inadequate particularly if
we have a turnout like we had last time
and i also am concerned that as
deputy president batiste just mentioned
if we have an event that we're all
scurrying off to at the end of it
that creates some conflict and i know
nobody wants to put another night here
on their calendar but it might be
something that's important enough to
allocate some dedicated time to so that
we can do this
correctly and more importantly that we
can give the applicants for this vacancy
the respect that they really deserve
accounts member
hunt um
and i had a couple comments i like the
idea of the more structured uh meet and
greet as well i think that that as well
as the
um
as well as the narrowing down process
really depends on how many applicants we
have i think it's less critical that it
be structured if there's fewer
applicants but if there is a lot of
applicants then i think that would
it would i think help the applicants
know how to
identify with and speak with all of the
council members if we did have more of a
system in place for doing that i also
agree that potentially 45 minutes is not
adequate time and it could be its own
standalone
standalone event or it could be before
another meeting but with more time
and
the other thing
that i wanted to comment on was about
the 10-minute verbal presentations about
the possibility for
other sorts of presentations i think
that on council we talk
we regularly talk and deliberate on
issues without visual aids and so i
actually prefer to have
the
applicants make their case and describe
their vision for issaquah without visual
aids so that would be my that would be
my preference because that's what we do
weekly or sometimes multiple times a
week we talk about our vision for
issaquah and we deliberate
face to face and
talk it through
so before i go to council president
martz i just wanted to say i'm noting
down that we have three things at least
to discuss here
the use of visual aids or not
whether or not
we will have a separate meeting with
additional time and
i can't read my other note but i'll get
to it council president mart's followed
by
have you spoken yet paul i can't
remember yes but i have an addition i'll
come back to you too okay council
president so i was gonna yeah also agree
that there's to me there's a question
around the 10-minute presentations um
but i wanna i wanna i think we should
talk to that um as a separate point um
and then also the question around uh
visual aids or not but um back to the
issue of uh the calendar and meeting
ahead of time so i i think i actually
think about this a little bit
differently than everybody else does
which is in terms of
what that event is for
i think of that first and foremost as an
event for the public
and then
a chance for us to see the applicants
uh
interacting with the public right
so
that event when we had it over in the
eagle room one of the reasons why it was
funny and we spent um
i mean the mayor and i reviewed the the
feedback from from the applicants um
last year
was there weren't many members of the
public there right i think council
members outnumbered the public but i
think the intent was um that's the pl
okay i'm seeing a headshake um
i i think the intent of that activity
was um to allow the public uh to get a
chance to meet with those applicants and
again for us to see
the public meeting with them and so uh
you know i it's one of the reasons why
we
talked about moving it to this location
before the council meeting specifically
because we think it would have the
opportunity of producing a larger public
turnout and a larger number of public
members to
to speak to the applicants
in terms of our opportunity to speak
with the applicants one of the things
that i want to add to the list of things
to talk about later is
i think that we should consider in the
instructions
to encourage candidates to consider
reaching out individually to council
members because we all know that some
applicants did and some applicants
didn't
and then the other
revolves around
encouraging or at least
acknowledging the possibility of letters
of recommendation which some applicants
have said that they didn't really
understand during the process that that
was an option
so that also comes from the feedback
so
um
uh i guess that is the summary of my
thoughts um i think the meet and greet
is really about the public
and uh it's the public's only chance to
directly interact with the applicants uh
before we uh before we bring the the
process back into this room
what's remember winston thank you i
actually have a couple questions so
please bear with me tina do you remember
the order of things last year
my recollection is that the
presentations to counsel happened before
the meet and greet it did
and and thank you
and so this is different
and and and tola
my memory also serves me that i was the
one who suggested the meet and greet for
the purpose of giving council members an
opportunity to interact with a in a less
structured way
up close speaking perhaps one-on-one or
at least in a small group of people so
that proposal was to create something
beyond just
the presentation they gave us and the
maybe the chance that they had to talk
to us one-on-one if they reached out to
us it so the
my original intent at least was to
create a place
where candidates and council members
could have more unstructured
conversation and in that regard it did
accomplish that but i do agree with the
observations and that could be even
better
as well because i do remember going
there go okay i remember you saying this
now i want to ask you in a direct
response to that
and and i thought that was actually very
helpful to me and so and so this order
sorry mayor
i mean you know
this order actually challenges me i like
the idea of that afterwards i want to
hear them and then have a chance to talk
with them about that
um and
the other thing i'll say is
you know with apologies to my colleagues
here on the council that
we're going to get to the questions but
there are three of them that i want to
discuss changing the wording of okay
i am going to keep the discussion going
to see if there's anything else to add
to the list of items to have you discuss
did i see your hand go up mariah
it sounds like you've got the list i
have more comments about what we're
already discussing you're asking for
additional
no you can't you can do both if you
would like to make more comments on the
process
please feel free to do that and then
when everybody is done i'll kind of read
back the list and see if i've captured
all the
you know items to be discussed so you
feel free okay
well i think
as as i think this through i think
we have a decision to make about um
sort of the purpose of that of that meet
and greet and and if it ends up being a
a dual purpose um that
that would that would be fine
uh for both having the public there and
um having conversations with candidates
i would uh council member wenderstein
just talked about the order and now that
i think about that
that does make more sense to me to be
able to listen to the
to the applicants uh speak and then be
able to because then you might have
follow-up questions that that you could
uh talk with them about
um
if we are uh if part of our purpose is
to involve the public which i believe it
is then
having
a separate meeting on a separate date
where where we don't have
the council work session i'm
love to hear what everyone else thinks
about this but i think we might have
less public engagement in that regard
i'm not sure we if we have a council
work session and there are people that
are coming
to
that are interested in the council work
session then we just might have more
public participation
i wanted to speak on the
the visual aids
so this is this is coming directly for
me as being
someone who went through the appointment
process
in terms of visual aids
for me and just
the way that i work it's very hard for
me to read
off of a script and that was actually
the hard the hardest part for me
is that you're you are putting together
all of your thoughts
um and then you don't it doesn't seem
like you get as much of a chance to
interact with counsel because you have a
harder time
looking up unless you have the whole
thing memorized
and so being able to look at a
powerpoint and actually talk a little
bit more
i guess off the cuff
seems
seems to go toward what council member
hunt brought up in terms of we're
deliberating
we don't always have something in front
of us but to me
bullets on a powerpoint where i'm just
speaking about certain things so it's
more
kind of coming from my heart and i'm not
reading it off a page seems to make more
sense to me that that was definitely my
feedback after
going through the appointment process
and
i had one more thought but i'm going to
wait because it went out of my head
so i think we're going to have a very
interesting conversation since five of
the eight of us have been through
that process so this is going to be fun
any more discussion anything else to add
to the list i did note down to that you
had some suggested question edits as
well anything else to add to the list
because if not i'm just going to
move through these one item at a time
and see if we can get resolution
that's present i'm sorry didn't paul you
said you had three more things to add to
the list did i hear that right
well that was in the questions so i have
the wording of some of the questions i
want so i think we can carve that off
separately i was going to see maybe if
we could put that up and go through the
questions
um so i'm not sure in what particular
order or which is an easier not easy
question to answer but
let's start with the slides or no slides
and do a thumbs up or thumbs down so
that we can leave it in i want to be
really clear with those that are
applying that they understand what the
presentation
requirements are so anybody have
thoughts on that
or just want to give me some sort of
indication of yes or no
yeah i was just
sort of
one key point here is that if
you know there's one question about do
you allow that
and then there's another question about
how how many slides would you allow so
they're they're kind of i think our
suggestion was one slide one slide yep
well to be fair one one council member
actually wanted to chat about the
possibility of more than one slide but
i
since i have the floor i'm actually
swayed by council member hunt's uh
suggestion that uh asking people to
present the way that they would up on
the dais uh makes it so that i'm no
longer interested in more than one side
i'm interested in zero slots zero slides
uh if we're only going to have one slide
then that
probably wouldn't work in terms of what
i was just speaking to so one slide i
think it would be super dense
i guess i would still vote to at least
have one slide but it doesn't it's not
exactly what i was uh speaking to so if
other council members feel
that um otherwise then i would say no
slides i'm gonna tell i'm just gonna
move right down
and sort of get a
indication and i'll come back to you if
that's okay
i'm sorry can i just suggest that if if
the vote is to not include slides we
don't have to worry about it but the
vote is to include slides so we can have
the follow-on conversation
councilmember goodman
i was just going to say that i'm
i too
i'm not supportive of the
visual presentations because at some
point
it becomes
it could the potential is there for
all of the applicants to do something
completely different
and
then
i start thinking about
well
we're not really comparing apples to
apples it's apples to oranges and so if
somebody does some bang-up job on slides
then
then you wonder if that same other
person that was so impressive could also
do a bang-up job on slides and so at
this point i'm not supportive of
anything more than just what we have
traditionally
allowed thanks bounce remember
winterstein no visual aids individually
it's councilman ramos
oh pass
councilmember ray
i'm kind of thinking of this
presentation a bit like a candidate's
forum where you don't get to bring
visual aids so i'm a no visual aids okay
sounds like that's where we're landing
that we will have our 10-minute
presentation as we did before no visual
aids
next one do you want to have well i had
two on the meet and greet do you want to
have it on a separate date with a longer
amount of time and where do you want to
sequence it in the schedule
remember goodman i'll just start with a
suggestion what if we just flipped the
two meetings we had on january 14th we
had a special
special meeting just with the council
are the presentations
and then on the 22nd
um
the council that's a regular council
meeting because it's the day after
mlk day yeah it starts at seven
so
my question about that day is would
that gives us an extra half an hour
and we could start at five or five
thirty maybe five
um and then go on to our
council meeting
um
and then
making sure i understand what you're
suggesting is keeping the meeting on the
14th
which would be the 10-minute
presentations
and moving the meet-and-greet to an hour
and a half before the january 22nd
council meeting
okay
can i point out that
um
the council presentations an executive
session was a three-hour
meeting mm-hmm
and the council meeting did start later
when we did this last year
so if it were to be on the 14th and it
were to be three hours long it would
delay the work session
and make for a very long night
um
so there is a there is a work session
there is a work session now on the 14th
yes um is it do we know what's
there's the opportunity of moving the
work session items it's the first work
session in january i don't know how
packed it's going to be maybe we just
cancel it
could be an option looking at the city
administrator
council president mart and to speak to
that i mean we were talking about adding
if we had nine applicants 90 minutes
right so we're not i mean that
in terms of the modifications the 14th
it would just be plus
somewhere between one to two hours it
wouldn't be plus three hours likely
unless of course unless we have 18 hours
i think we
14 and then executive sessions so
if you're comfortable with that we can
for now
advertise that we will have the
ten minute presentations that night that
would move that to the council chambers
so that you would be able to recess into
executive session and then begin your
work session
if we have a work session which i'm
guessing we will probably have a work
session
is
council member goodman we can play with
the times we can that we start both of
those special meetings on the work
session
based on what ends up to be on the work
session agenda and
number of applicants yeah and move those
agenda items if we can and
council member hunt was correct when she
said what drives a lot of this is how
many applicants we get sure
so does that look like a plan oh council
member ray no i was just going to say i
like the resequencing too i think it
makes sense
to do the presentations before the meet
and greet and it'll make the meet and
greets more effective i believe
okay
um
so
we have done the meet and greet
sequencing the length of time
the no slides
um and i think um this was really not so
much for discussion but it was a
suggestion from council president that
we make it clear in the materials that
we advertise
about
encouraging candidates to meet with
council members to
do letters of recommendation and
endorsements
on the last page of your packet is the
instructions that says uh let's see
you're encouraged to learn more about
the role of a council member attend
various council meetings talk with
current or former council members submit
letters of support or reference letters
to the city clerk
and to review the public financial
disclosure responsibilities that's great
tina is that satisfactory
great council member goodman and the um
the format of the meet and greet is that
something we would talk about later yep
have some time
um then i would move on to councilmember
winterstein's
proposed discussion of several questions
applicant questions thank you
there are three questions four seven and
nine that kind of inject
um
judgment uh into the statement
um and
regardless if i agree or disagree it's
just the wording of one so for example
four reads if you are on council
you will be looking at having to make
decisions in a divided community
occasionally
how would you make the decisions on
issues that divide the community and so
maybe this one isn't as clear as maybe
seven and nine are
um
i would propose a rewrite of that one to
um
put more of an emphasis on
you know the fact that
some dif there may be strong sediments
held on multiple sides of certain issues
uh and trying to understand how somebody
would operate in that environment so
something like how would you make
decisions on issues where the community
has strong sediments and they are not
all in agreement
for discussion
what i'm trying to do is just taking
that divided community
piece out of there i understand the
intent sometimes it's hard because we're
not on because there are strong
sediments within the community
better or stay with the original
thoughts um
no i
i
i like the
idea to
revise it
um
and
noting that you know there are different
sentiments in the community and so
um
you can maybe we
can one is word-smithing it
especially anybody who's ever been a
good editor that's remember right yeah i
i'm just struck with we're not a divided
community so the word divided is the
wrong word we you know we may have
different points of view we may have
different objectives we may have
different sentiments so i'm agreeing i'm
just throwing out some words that are
not divided because i don't believe we
are okay
so some wordsmithing on that one to make
it clearer that it's
different sentiments different points of
view
and getting away from the connotation of
a divided community
okay right because the question comes in
the second sentence how would you make
decisions so i tried to retain that part
of it and and and you could discuss that
allah and so i retained how would you
make decisions
then i i i
in the case where there are strong
sediments
on different sides of the same issue
sounds like we're getting head nuts that
that's a good direction to go question
seven
it starts with is a guaja's growing
pains what can be done to better manage
these
time manage these times of rapid growth
in a way that protects our existing
residents quality of life and preserves
as aqua's essential character
and
and
again your leading
candidate
and i thought about maybe a more open
way of doing it how do you view the
city's growth and what would you do to
protect our quality of life and
character
thoughts
let's remember i think i think paul just
hit on it i think you could just go with
what do we have to do to maintain our
residents quality of life and preserve
esqua's
um essential character that's the
question
the rest of it's
you know preamble well it is and and i
thought a key
if you've run a campaign in the city you
know the word growth is a four-letter
word to many people so i think keeping
it in the question
and allowing a candidate to express
their
perception their
their
how they view growth
explicitly calling how do you view the
city's growth
and what would you do to protect our
quality of life and character so there
is two parts to the question and i
deliberately wanted to keep the growth
in there that's that was my thinking but
i appreciate your support supposed to
merts yeah i agree that growth should be
should be kept in it
i want to know how they view growth
specifically okay
comments
head nods good let's go to excuse me i'm
sorry so how do you view the city's
growth and what was the second part and
what would you do to protect our quality
of life and character
i took that the word essential two
questions it is
and and and i
so that's a good point i agree with that
there are two questions
except with an and
because it is it is an attempt to get at
i think the two sides of the same coin
there's growth and then how it affects
quality of life and character how about
if it starts with
when considering the city's growth comma
what would you do to protect the quality
of life an essential character
i think that was more that was the
original intent was to link those two
right and so that's a good way of saying
it
yes
um vicky
it's a minor comment but i think the the
intent was to remove the word essential
is that right yes
what
and some head nods let's move to nine
isquad is becoming again it's kind of
leading it's a leading question is
becoming increasingly unaffordable
whether you agree or disagree with that
we could maybe write that just and and
as a question please word smith yeah
describe your perception of housing
affordability in issaquah
and what would you do to address it if
it is a problem so
it may
be beyond just how it might be more than
housing be unaffordable
well so so that's a good point and and
my perception was
um uh yes i'm injecting housing in there
because that's what i thought it was and
if if
we think it's intended to be broader
than that i'm all ears
it's generally what you hear
affordability and the housing has a lot
of cost elements to it in addition to
property taxes yep
so what what phrasing did you suggest
paul
i'm less wedded to this one but it says
describe your perception of housing
affordability in esqua
and
i'm trying i want to hear what they
think about affordability
uh they um and because our currently it
says it it's judgmental is becoming
increasingly unaffordable it's it's a
statement of like it's fact i would
actually like to hear with the candidate
um um
what their perception affordability is
and then i went on and what would you do
to address it if it is a problem
see there i got presumptive that if it
is if
not
have a question what are we trying to
get at here
i mean what are we
this one's a little bit
of all of them this is one i could take
out and not feel like we lost much but
so i'm just trying to figure out what
what we're really trying to
unearth in
in a candidate's thought processes
i had definite thoughts about this i
think housing affordability is one of
our toughest nuts and and any i love
crowdsourcing solutions when possible
and that so so
in the off chance there's some genius
would drop some brilliance upon us i
wanted to keep the question in
there box
uh councilmember goodman council member
hunt
it is
so specific
um
that
i agree with
guess that this is one that i could do
without
um
gotcha
councilmember hunt batiste
so i think if the intent is to
to have the applicants describe housing
strategies for
affordable and or workforce housing
i don't know that the question actually
will
generate those responses because as it
is worded now it's describe your
perception of affordability and issaquah
could also be up for businesses
or
pools it could be yes it could be a
number of things
so i wonder if it would be
um
i wonder if we do want to have it be a
specific question
about housing
then
we should probably put the word
housing in there because i think if i
were
um
i think it we might get applicants that
read this
as meaning something more general
um
well i guess
i can totally understand what
councilmember hunt was
just referring to but
i
for me i i actually like the the more
broad question about
issaquah
being unaffordable to to open it up to a
variety of different topics um
housing is definitely part of that
maybe there's a way to word it where we
really cover both
so you could talk about two different
two different things if you had another
idea that you wanted to offer
about why you felt that was happening
so to be completely contrarian uh i
really would like to focus on housing
affordability i think the variability
the very the regional variability is in
the price of housing right in terms of
overall cost of cost of living
and i think that
as i've said many times before the uh
the way the region and our city in
particular responds to ongoing growth is
is our just our biggest challenge but i
think one of the most important facets
of that to me is housing affordability
so what however it's worded
i would like to know how candidates feel
about housing affordability in the city
and what they see the council's role in
responding to that
okay looking to wrap this up
councilmember interesting
the other thing that this question does
is because this is an active issue in
front of us we are still working on our
housing strategy and i actually remember
vicki's answer
because it demonstrated that she had
looked at
legislation that was in flight
and
this gives
candidates that same opportunity which i
think
i would like to see
uh councilmember okay i'm gonna just
kind of go
in a way off in the stratosphere here
but possibly it is describe your
perception of the council's role
relative to affordable housing in
issaquah
it's not stratosphere okay
the only thing i would change about that
is affordable housing or housing
affordability right affordable housing
has a very specific definition
i could i could go either way on that
but i'll just repeat that please
i don't know that i can do that
um
describe your perception of the
council's role
in
housing affordability in issaquah
that's good
does
is perception the right word or is it
describe counsel
describe
your
um
yeah what you believe the role should be
no okay what do you believe the
council's role should be
relative to housing
affordability affordability in this call
you're taking the what would you do if
there is a problem out of the question
right
now
good question
gets you where you want to be
okay did any other council members want
to talk about any of the other questions
on that list councilmember hunt
uh on
question six
um that one currently reads in addition
to council committee assignments council
members each serve on one or more
regional board or commissions
and what are your views on serving
regionally and what areas would you like
to serve as why regionally what
qualifies you for that service so i
think that this is a really important
question i
i would
recommend
streamlining it more and removing that
middle piece what are your views on
serving regionally i think i
would like to see it be more like the
rewritten um
number nine actually so describe your
your
view on the role of issaquah in the
region and then
and then what areas would you like to
serve and what qualifies you for that
service
thoughts on that edit
what's a head nods that's right okay
i'll let tina get that in so describe
your view
of the
role of issaquah in the region
and then
of israel's role regionally
yes did this close around the region
and i would remove the what are your
views on serving regionally because i
don't think that that's a
question that's going to generate much
insights but this this question about
issues role in the region i think
um
did you and you want the first sentence
in there as well to set the stage
i think it could be shortened so i think
it could be council members serve on one
or more regional boards or commission
council members each served
thoughts
lots of head nods
do any council members have any comments
or edits for any of the other questions
that's remember goodman
um
the second part in what areas would you
like to serve as aqua regionally
um
i think it should be more in what areas
do you
see yourself serving as a whole
regionally and why
because it sort of suggests that you
just get to
do what you like do what you want
and council member batiste comment on
that
no no different okay let's wrap this one
up number six with um councilmember
goodman's edit
better
okay councilmember petite so in several
of the questions we're asking uh about
how they feel specifically and then in
number 10 we ask about how the city
council can better solicit and
incorporate
incorporate community
feedback
and i guess i'm struggling with word
feedback
that's important but community
engagement
would be more broad
and i'm also thinking about um
just just layering in what you know more
what are your ideas if we want to ask
specifically about how city council can
do a better job
but also to understand what their ideas
are
it's interesting it is a question about
council performance versus
what
your ideas are
um
how might the council better solicit and
incorporate community feedback
oh i guess that's i guess that's that
that's the same
i i'm i'm more saying
uh
you want to know what their ideas
i would like to know what their ideas to
um to solicit and incorporate community
engagement we could say feedback and
engagement maybe those are the same but
i'd like to know more about them
personally
so so possibly the question might be if
on the council how would you engage with
the community to solicit their input
that better
i like that
it is this make me do it again a
replacement question
or a new question a reworking of number
ten okay
it again if on the council
how would you
engage with the community and solicit
their input
now that i'm looking at it
now engage with the community and
solicit their input
i just wonder if if it's too complicated
to ask both
questions because
there are two different questions how
would you directly engage
um and also how could the council do
a better job with engagement and i
actually like both of the questions
um
thoughts how can
i'm wordsmithing in my head so if i hear
you correctly mariah what you're saying
is you would keep both parts in there
okay thoughts
is that um
what you are intending or is it too much
i just think it's important so some
some applicants might come at this from
two different angles
in that way and talk more about
themselves personally but they are two
two very important questions
um and uh two different answers that you
would get so i like having both of them
but
uh council president mertz about
something like
uh
how is
how well does the city council engage
the community and what would you do
to
whatever whatever
in other words
it's a feedback on how we're doing
currently
and then what would they do differently
yeah i'm a little bit apprehensive to do
that because
um if i was a candidate or an applicant
and i wanted your support and i said you
guys are terrible at this i wouldn't
want to answer that so although i know
people from last time that would be that
would be happy to answer that but but i
think that the the point is this when we
ask how we're doing that's a question
about um you evaluating us which is not
the intent i don't think right so i
think the
um i think it's really important and i
think it's great feedback to get but i
don't think this is the forum to get
that feedback i think what we want to
know is how would you do it if you were
on the council
that will help inform us in terms of
who's so your suggestion would be to
just have the first one in the square
brackets if on counsel how would you
engage the community in solicit input
my preference that's the suggestion
thoughts
and what you could do i was just going
to say what you could do is you could
also word it in a way i i like that
um you could add if on the council how
would you engage or do
something about
do you have ideas about how the
council could be doing more outreach i
guess that gets to chris's question i
i feel the same way i think it's hard to
directly ask the applicant uh about how
council is doing so i'm just going to go
back to my original comment about i like
how would you engage
the community in solicitors am i seeing
head nods
you puzzled faces i'm not sure if we're
there yet
remember interesting i don't want the
good to be enemy of the perfect i'm good
with it good with it
generally good
any other questions on the application
that you would like to discuss
okay
at this point if there's no more
questions on process it would be great
to have a motion
actually i have one more question so are
we
still how do people feel about the
potential down select between the second
and the third meeting because i'm not
sure i heard consensus
support for that yeah i think i heard
that we want to potentially not
talk about a specific number of nominees
uh
to go to the third night
what i think i heard and what probably
makes sense is just say whoever somebody
wants to nominate gets to go to the
third
night and if
that's who goes to the third night who
gets at least one support from one
council member to do so and one
clarification is that when the city
clerk wrote this up she wrote may
so you're not locked in
to reducing
it's an option in your process
but i would like to know how people feel
generally about that good question
i i think it's a great idea
and i i think your
methodology if there's somebody who will
support a candidate then they move
forward
it's memberhead
i'm also in support i think it gives
especially if there are a large number
of applicants it gives the applicants a
little bit more information about how
the process is going in in between the
steps because there are so many
different steps and so i think it's it's
respectful to give them information
about where they stand
if there is a large number of applicants
if if there's fewer applicants then i
think
this process probably doesn't need to
come into play so i appreciate that
there's the the council may
narrow the pool
thank you
uh council member batiste
uh plus one
so it looks like we're going to leave it
in with a may
and see what the applicant pool size is
anything else
thank you this was a late edition
waiting for election results to be
finalized
you did great we had it on regular
business tonight which is awesome
and so i would entertain a motion
madam mayor i moved to approve the
process and timeline for filing the 2019
vacancy of position number four is
presented
second
it's been moved and seconded is there
any council discussion
there's no discussion all those in favor
for approving the process and timeline
for filling the 2019 vacancy of position
4 as presented and amended signify by
saying aye aye closed
council member ramos vote
okay
passes unanimously
um i'm going to suggest that we take a
five minute break at this point in time
before we move to the next items which
are good of the order and upcoming
council meetings and executive session
so we'll take a five minute break
so we are back in session and we're
going to adjust our agenda slightly
i'm going to
move good of the order and
upcoming council meetings till after
executive session so we'll be entering
executive session shortly as earlier
announced there will be an executive
session held this evening to discuss
property acquisition for rcw 42.30 0.110
for n1 plan b this item is expected to
take 40 minutes no action is anticipated
to follow
in open session we will now recess into
executive session
at 10 40 9 46.
thank you thank you
and we are out of executive session
um back in regular session at 10
54.
um on our agenda still this evening
we're going to go through good of the
order
um and council president martin item
thanks i'll try to make this fast so
we've been talking about the regional
afford affordable housing task force
action plan five-year action plan and
this is something that sca
uh has been looking at and been giving
guidance
i did hear back
from the mayor
but i want to ask again if if i want to
solicit feedback from everybody ahead of
a
final vote at sca
i just wanted to uh so i've sent you all
the updated document um i'm just going
to read you some excerpts from uh from
sca
at its meeting on october 24th the task
force amended the action plan in
response to pick feedback to clearly
state that the recommendations of the
task force are not mandates for cities
rather the task force recognizes that
the housing market in different parts of
the county will call for different
solutions to most effectively preserve
and increase the supply of affordable
housing sca representatives on the task
force have emphasized the need for
technical assistance shared information
and recommended strategies that will
support cities and their efforts to
tackle the region's affordable housing
crisis i will say our city has provided
technical input to sca is an example of
what we came up with in exiting the
moratorium puts us ahead i think of a
lot of other cities as to how far
they've thought about this issue
in addition to recommending potential
strategies the action plan calls for
establishing a framework of ongoing
collaboration among cities and with king
county to support implementation of
those strategies and monitoring results
this is proposed to come in the form of
a standing committee of the king county
growth management planning council the
task force considered a range of options
to support implementation and the
preferred option was to utilize an
existing body the gmpc rather than stand
up an entirely new organization to both
conserve resources and enable the region
to move forward more quickly this would
be significant a significant new body of
work for the gnpc and king county is
currently considering redirecting
staffing resources to support the new
standing committee as part of its budget
deliberations so once again if you have
any thoughts for me on the revised
document if you could let me know within
the next couple of weeks i would sure
appreciate it that's all i have this
evening thank you anything else for good
of your order that council remember
interesting thank you
last thursday
david fujimoto sent out an email to the
council and uh
titled village theater i wanted to
follow up on that i
at during the budget
a deliberation meeting that we haven't
i had made a mistake and i was had
convinced myself that we were looking at
year four or four
uh for that and i thought i had the
information i had looked at it multiple
times david helped me see that i was
actually reading that wrong
and so i just wanted my colleagues to
know that um that was an honest mistake
uh and uh we are we were not we were
deliberating
uh
um a third year of of a four of a
four-year program that they had hoped
for
so um i don't know if you if you saw
that email from david but that was uh i
do want to own up that that was my
mistake and it wasn't not intended to be
deceitful at all it was just a mistake
thank you anyone else forget of the
order
um i just want to let you know that on
december 3rd there will be a special
counseling meeting to begin at 6 15 pm
for the purpose of an executive session
item
and some of the other items that will be
on the december 3rd potentially on the
december 3rd agenda are the public
hearing on the 2019 final budget
2019 arts grants recommendations
um proposal to amend school impact fees
and a request for right-of-way
encumbrance for talis parcel night
anything else
we are adjourned
at oops
you