Look at that. We're right on time.
Welcome everyone. I'll call the June
15th uh Isqua City Council meeting to
order. And there are no excused absences
this evening. And we're going to start
with the pledge of allegiance. So I
welcome you to join me.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
>> And our first item of business tonight
is going to be ID 2035, recognation of
recognition of Isqua Hall of Fame
recipient Fred Nestrom. So Fred, I'm
going to have you meet me up front at
the podium.
So tonight we recognize Fred Nestrom as
an inductee into the Isqua Hall of Fame.
For more than 40 years, Fred has been a
tireless volunteer and community leader.
His decades of service with the Isqua
Schools Foundation, the Rotary Club of
Isqua, and many other community efforts
have positively impacted countless
community members. Fred represents the
very best of Isqua, and we are grateful
for his lifelong commitment to helping
others. On behalf of the city of Isqua,
thank you very much, Fred, for your
extraordinary contributions and
congratulations on this welldeserved
honor. And we have a certificate. We're
going to do a photo.
All about the photos.
And to show how efficient city of Isqua
government is, the Hall of Fame plaque
behind council member Boyd already has
Fred's name on there. Has already
happened and
it's all yours. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh
to the council members, to Trisha, to
Wall-E, and to my fellow citizens, it's
a real honor for me to be here tonight.
Um when we Marty and I arrived here
42 years ago, Esiqua was a very
different community. It has grown
beautifully. Thanks a lot to people who
were once sitting in chairs who decided
to get involved,
ended up on council positions or other
places where their vision could help
Isiqua grow. with me tonight. My wife
Marty in the bright blue dress.
>> Marty, you have to wave.
>> Yeah.
I have um my cousins Peter and Lorie
Skogland from Minnesota. And I would
like to say that they flew out for this,
but actually they're taking a cruise to
Alaska and just happen to be in town.
But I think that counts really. And my
daughter McKenna. I can't say enough
good things about McKenna. She's the one
who nominated me, much to my surprise,
and then did my acceptance speech at the
community awards banquet because Marty
and I were celebrating our 40th wedding
anniversary in Hawaii. And had we known,
we still would have stayed in Hawaii.
And behind them, or next to them, Matt
Funk and Ally Shields, McKenna's
roommates. They are new Isiqua residents
over the last two or three years. So,
we'll see if we can get them hooked into
some volunteer work. Uh I think they're
ripe for it.
This has been a wonderful journey for
our family in town.
It's been through a lot of ups and downs
from people loving and hating trees all
the way through to where we are with
some of the bigger more substantive
issues. Um, I want to point out um
particularly Marty and Chris Felstead. I
don't see him here yet. Um, Chris was
the commander of our police department
for many years. And after we lost our
son Tyler in 94 to suicide, we tried to
figure out how can we a heal, but how
can we give back to the community in a
way that changes things? And we found
out that the fifth grade teachers could
already identify students who weren't
going to make it through school. They
weren't going to get out of high school.
So we focused on them. We cobbled
together a scholarship and we chose the
DARE student of the year/titerister
memorial scholarship
and we introduced it in front of all
their classmates. And when we announced
the winner of this dear student of the
word, there were audible, you know,
surprise on most students face because
the person who got it was not a leader.
They weren't the most popular. They were
sometimes the quiet kid who sat in the
back of the room and didn't say didn't
say much. But we said the reason they
got it because they had great leadership
potential.
And then Chris few days later would take
the students out for lunch and ends up
having to be it was the community awards
banquet. So they got to be introduced in
front of the whole community have their
picture taken in the Isiqua press and
take a guess now out of the 50 students.
Oh pardon me I there's one other thing
we sent them to camp or Kyla for a week.
Um and we raised money through Rotary
and friends donations and again we
positioned it was because of their
leadership potential.
Over the years we sent 50 kids and each
one was an atrisisk kid. And anybody
want to venture or guess on how many
have made it out of high school?
What percentage or number?
Well, I'll help you out.
100% of them graduated from high school.
And it wasn't any magic. The the real
sauce that made the whole thing work was
for us as outsiders to see something in
that child that they didn't see in
themselves.
And when they hit dark times in their
lives, they could remember, I was I was
given an award for leadership potential.
And it helped pull them through.
So that's probably the thing that I'm
proudest of of the things that I've done
over the years and we've been kicking
around the idea, is it time to start
that again because the problem hasn't
gone away. So humbly thank all of you.
Thanks to the community. It's been a
great place to live and I plan to stick
around for a little bit longer. Thank
you very much.
See, that shows why Fred was so
deserving of the award. That's a great
story. I had not heard that story
before. Uh we next want to do ID 2054,
recognition of deputy city administrator
Andrea Leonard. And before we have
Andrea, yes, you can come on up. And uh
but before we have our city
administrator uh Wall-Ally make
comments, we are going to invite Souami
Mayor Jim Mayhew to come up and uh he is
asked to address the council. Mayor
Mayhew, the lectern is yours. Yes,
mayor. Um council members, thank you for
allowing allowing me a moment to join
you this evening. For those who may not
know me, I'm Jim Mayhew, mayor of
Snowqualami.
I'm here this evening because your
deputy city administrator, Andrea
Leonard, has accepted an appointment to
serve as Snowquami's next city
administrator.
On behalf of the residents of
Snowqualami, I want to thank you for the
role that you've played in Andrea's
development as a local uh government
leader and for the opportunities you
provided her throughout her career. Over
12 years with Isqua, Andrea was given
opportun opportunities to grow as a
leader, uh take on increasing
responsibility
and help guide one of our region's
leading cities.
As Snowqualami conducted its search for
a new administrator, it became clear
that Andrea possesses the leadership,
judgment, and experience needed for the
role.
While we are fortunate, she is fortunate
that she has accepted the appointment,
uh that opportunity is in many ways a
reflection of the investment you made in
her throughout her career. The good news
is that Andrea is not leaving the
region. uh the relationships,
partnerships, and collaboration that are
so important among neighboring
communities will continue and I know
both of our cities will benefit from
that. Thank you for the opportunities
you provided Andrea throughout her
career and for the investment you made
in her development as a local government
leader. The experience she gained and
the contributions she made here have
prepared her for this next chapter of
public service. We look forward to
working with her and continuing the
strong relationships between our two
cities.
Wally, it's all yours.
Uh first uh let me say Mr. Mayor that
was a incredible first of all thank you
for coming but that was an incredible
remarks. Uh I've been doing this a long
time. I've never heard of a mayor from
another community coming and saying such
kind things about uh uh taking a staff
member from his community. So
it takes the edge off just a little bit.
Um, Andrea uh first came uh to Isiqua on
April 23rd, 2012 as the city's economic
development manager, a st position she
filled for 5 years. Uh and then after uh
some time where she thought the grass
was greener in another uh Seattle area
community, Andrea was rehired on April
16th, 2019 as the deputy city
administrator. So uh with those two
stints and as you know we have several
folks around who have had multiple
stints um we count them all together. So
12 years uh serving the residents of
Isiqua. Uh as economic development
manager uh she was very involved in the
uh growth of the presence of Costco here
in the community. U she uh began the
reimagining and finally redevelopment of
pedestrian park uh and the updated uh
downtown streetscape. Uh Andrea also uh
used I think one of the the most
important qualities of any economic
development manager and that's love and
I think she was well known and continues
to be well known of reaching out and
connecting individually with businesses
and that was another mark of her time as
economic development manager. Uh she
then came back in 2019 as deputy city
administrator. Um, and there are several
things I want to talk about, but really,
uh, the transit oriented development
opportunity center project is probably
her greatest legacy. I was hired as your
city administrator toward the end of
2019. Um, and one of my first meetings
with council president Mart was, "So,
what's going on with that to OC
project?" And I went to Andrea and she
said, "Well, you know, we haven't heard
much about it. You know, I think it's
just dead." And I said, 'Well, no, we we
we got to continue to work on that. Uh,
and Andrea said, 'Well, maybe I can look
into it. Um, and she regretted that that
and when she took took a POS meeting for
me. I think those were the two things
when she reflects on her time in a spa.
Um, but, uh, her tenacity, her refus
refusal to hear no on that project is
the single most important reason, uh,
that we are going to be having a
groundbreaking for that project this
summer. So, Andrea, uh, I'll talk about
some more accomplishments in a moment,
but we really need to pause and thank
you for your contribution to this
community that will be here for a very
long time. So, thank you for everything
you did to bring the TODC project to
school.
Uh, in addition, she's kind of sprinkled
her magic in all sorts of departments.
She worked with our community planning
and development department uh, to kind
of help bring it. If you recall, it was
development services. Uh she helped
reimagine that as our community planning
and development department, bringing
more of our engineering expertise in
house. Uh and really helped lay the
groundwork for the title 18 update. Uh
she worked with our public works
department, serving at one point as
interim director uh as we merged the two
departments, public works engineering
and public works operations together and
established a more collaborative working
relationship between our engineers and
our operators. Um she worked with this
the staff advisory boards, community
task forces, almost too many uh to name,
but dealing with infrastructure and CIP
and budget over the course of her time
here. In addition to serving as interim
public works director, she also did a
year as interim finance director. Um and
then uh icing on top of the cake uh
helped save light rail. So Andrea, by
any measure, uh your time here in Isiqua
has been extraordinary. uh you always
focus on the staff. You have been the
great keeper of our salmon values and
whenever we've had a tough issue arise
uh she always points to the salmon
values and says you know what how do we
measure what we're doing against those
values. Um, it's been one of the great
pleasures uh and honors of my career in
local government to work with you uh
during our time together in this. And on
behalf of uh all of us, Mayor Mullet has
a presentation.
We now get to do the thing you're
normally watching and that's you receive
a plaque.
So, how uh Wally, did you want to
Oh,
>> he's getting a whole He's mixing it up.
The highest tribute.
>> Okay, now the mic is yours.
Well, uh, thank you so much.
Uh, you know, I had some remarks
prepared, but I think Wall-E pretty much
said it all in terms of all of my uh uh
things that really I have done with the
support of this council, past councils,
and really a lot of the community um
including uh Mr. Nestrom
and my economic development today has
worked a lot on tourism together. So, um
I really just would like to take the
opportunity to say thank you. Thank you
uh to um all the members of the
community who I have been able to work
with and learn side by side as we've
done some really amazing things together
which I think Wally listed off a bunch
of them. Um, this community has a wealth
of smart, engaged community leaders who
all have a very deep love for this
community and I'm just have been honored
to serve them and to work with them. Uh,
including members of council, staff, uh,
Wall-E and, uh, Mayor Mullet. So, I just
want to say thank you and, uh, thank you
for the enormous amount of trust that
you have placed in me to tackle the hard
stuff and some really fun stuff along
the way. um and also for the shared
enthusiasm in terms of protecting and
maintaining the quality of life that we
all enjoy in Isiqua. It's very hard for
me to leave uh but I will just be a
short trip down the road and really look
forward to working with you all as a
neighbor. Thank you.
Okay. The next item of business is ID
2029, the Junth day proclamation. I want
to invite Annie Hudson Knight, a board
member and secretary of the Onyx Fine
Arts Collective and Gallery to Lectern.
Come on up.
Come on here.
>> Whereas Junth recognizes and
commemorates the day of June 19th, 1865
when enslaved African-Americans in
Galveston, Texas were informed of their
emancipation by the Union Army over 2
years after President Abraham Lincoln
issued the Emancipation Proclamation
ending 246 years of chatau slavery. And
whereas slavery was formally abolished
in the United States by the ratification
of the 13th amendment on December 6th,
1865. And whereas on June 19th, 1866,
the freed African-Americans in the state
of Texas celebrated the first Jubilee
Day, the holiday we now known as Junth.
And whereas Americans continue the
tradition of celebrating Junth
Independence Day, as inspiration and
encouragement for future generations.
And whereas while celebrating Junth is
partly about celebrating the liberation
of African-Americans, no true
celebration can be achieved without our
commitment to working together toward
equity for all and expanding economic,
educational, and career opportunities
for everyone in our community. Now,
therefore, I, Mark Mullet, mayor of the
city of Isqua, do hereby proclaim June
19th, 2026 to be Junth day in the city
of Isqua, and I invite the community to
join me in the celebration of freedom
and commitment to eliminating prejudice
everywhere. How many years has this quad
been celebrating Junth?
>> I don't know the answer to that.
>> A couple or or like three years or
something like that?
>> I think. Yeah, I think two or three. I
thought so. Yeah.
>> Okay. We're going to do a photo and uh
and this is yours to keep the
proclamation.
>> Oh,
thank you.
>> Go ahead. You can make your remarks.
>> Okay.
Oh, I'm so happy to be here. Um, we're
so happy having our third art exhibit in
Isiqua titled Eyewitness to Greatness,
the joys of black arts creativity.
That's the title. And we have 14 artists
participating in 24 uh works of art on
display. It's so good to be at Isiziqua
Highlands Blakeley Hall Gallery for the
second time and so happy to be here
third year. I like coming to Isizakiqua.
I was born here in Seattle 78 years ago.
I mean in the in Washington 78 years
ago, but I like driving to Isiziqua.
It's it's like going to another country.
>> It's so cool. Yeah. And and I live in
Bonnie Lake. But anyway, um uh my
brother and uh artist Robert Lever
Horton um had uh out of Washington
exhibits um one in Sacramento,
California in a first time
African-American fine art show in autumn
2004. This is part of inspirations for
the start of Onyx Fine Arts Collective
and Gallery Onyx and in and then the
other one was in Baltimore, Maryland in
the winter of 2005 at their 10-year
Baltimore Black Heritage Art Exhibit.
And we were so impressed with that. We
because there just weren't there weren't
venues that were uh having um uh art
exhibits
as a as a as a settled
situated venue to to celebrate art uh uh
African-American artists work and
everything. And so we were so impressed
to go to that place in in uh Baltimore
because it was 10 years old doing that.
We thought, "Wow." And the one in
Sacramento uh California was that was
the first time. I don't think they've
they've done that consistently since
then. But anyway, um
the
African-American Fine Art Show in autumn
2004 in Baltimore 2005.
Um, Robert was so inspired by these and
while he and I were there at the
Baltimore exhibit, he said, "When we get
home, let's invite artists I know to a
meeting to offer them an annual art
exhibit to support them as
African-American artists." So, we met
several at the Rainineer Beach Library
in South Seattle and began our first
exhibit with seven of them in June 2005
at Artist Gallery of Seattle in Pioneer
Square where Robert had a membership. We
named it Northwest African-American Art
Show. By 2007, artists who exhibited
with us said we should expand the
exhibit to do several exhibits a year
versus one annual. And Robert and I were
impressed with we we we were wishful
that uh people would join us and help us
to expand and help us to stay here a
lifetime and and and be a venue that's
that's here for a for life. And so um
we agreed and they renamed it Onyx Fine
Arts Collective and Gallery Onyx. We're
now celebrating 21 years of existence
and so happy that artists expanded us
and uh two of our artists are our
president and vice president now. They
helped start Onyx
and we have exhibited uh 800 plus
artists by now. So, we're we're just so
happy. But now there are a lot more
several more um uh art galleries and
exhibits that that happened for a
African-American artist. Uh whereas in
2005 there weren't any. But now there's
several and we're happy about that, too.
We're just so happy to be here. And I
love coming to Isiziqua. It's such a
especially Isqua Highlands. It's so
different. It's it's beautiful. The the
architecture is beautiful, the houses,
the businesses. It's just gorgeous. And
I love driving and coming to good scenes
like this, you know. Yeah. Thank you.
>> Wonderful. Yeah.
Oh, Council President Marks 2021 Annie.
So, this is yes, five years. And the
next item on the agenda is audience
comments. And so, for those of you who
signed up, you will be called on first.
And if you're virtual or on the phone,
you can also make audience comments. If
it's on the phone, it's star three. And
uh and we are going to have a public
hearing tonight on the six-year
transportation improvement program. And
uh and there will be a chance for
comments during that public hearing
later in the meeting as well. And city
clerk, is there anyone signed up for
audience comments?
>> Yes. Excuse me. Dave Wgner,
>> Dave, you know the drill.
>> There we go. Thanks, Lindsay. Uh, good
evening, council. Uh, my name is David
Wagner. I'm a citizen of Isiqua. Uh,
live up on Providence Point. The address
is 22529
Southeast 42nd Terrace.
I've lived in Isiqua since 1945.
Uh, so I don't know that there's anybody
in the room that beats that.
Andrea, I got some bad news. And the bad
news is uh Isaac and I are members of
American Legion Post 79 in Snowqualamy.
So you'll see us again. I promise.
Um I also have some other bad news. Uh
do you know that today a B-52 crashed at
Edwards Air Force Base and that killed
eight uh airmen? So, we're sorting
through all that and I can tell you as a
veteran that anytime that happens, uh we
all hurt because uh there are comrades.
So, if you do pray, please uh include in
your prayers tonight the prayers for
those families of those eight airmen.
And uh
and this is just a sad sad day for us.
I want to talk to you about Purple
Hearts. Tish called me not too long ago
asking me, "How many Purple Heart
awardes do we have?" Well, first and
foremost, let me tell you, none of us
got into the service hoping we would win
a Purple Heart. Okay?
We have probably hundreds out there. I
can tell you for our VFW post 3436
that we don't have as many. In fact,
right now I'm the only one that I know
of. So, uh, those numbers are limited.
But I want to remind you of something
very important.
You got a monument right over by the
senior center. And on that monument,
there's 19 names.
Two from World War I. They both got
awarded Purple Hearts postumously.
There's uh 13 from World War II.
12 of them probably got I wasn't there.
Probably got the Purple Heart
postumously.
One did not. It was a female wasp. She
was in training and I am working very
very hard to see her get her awards. Uh
she's buried in Lake View Cemetery in
Seattle. She was killed in a head-on
collision on April 16th, 1944.
I was born two weeks before that on
April 2nd, 1944.
But I feel like I know her. I've
I'm obsessed with her history and what
happened to her. And there's four that
were in Vietnam.
One EMTT Macdonald and Mayor I think I
uh talked to you at one time about how
important EMTT was. He's the only MIA
that we have from Isakqua missing in
action.
What you're going to do is pass this
ordinance to make this wonderful city we
call home a Purple Heart city. You can't
even believe what that means to a Purple
Heart uh awardee like myself that my
hometown is going to be a Purple Heart
city.
uh especially for our VFW post. They're
extremely excited about that. So,
whatever magic it is you have to do,
please do that tonight. I think you're
going to talk about it tonight. At least
that's what I saw on the agenda. And I
want you to know that our VFW post is
extremely honored that you'll remember
them.
Please uh don't forget our eight airmen
and thank you for allowing me to do
this.
>> Thank you very much Dave and thank you
for bringing that to our attention that
that was an option to pursue the p
purple heart city designation. Uh city
clerk next.
>> Yes. Uh no one else has signed up in
advance. We do have a few members of the
public with us virtually but I don't see
that any of them are intending to make
comments.
>> All right. If you're in the room, you
want to speak now, wave your hands
around orever
hold your peace.
Okay, with that, audience comments are
closed for now. And
we're going to now go to the next item,
which is our consent calendar. I do not
have any remarks on the consent
calendar. Do the committee chairs have
any remarks on the consent calendar this
evening? Looking looking, not seeing
any. Uh
with that, the consent calendar was
distributed to the council in advance.
If authorized, the items of consent
calendar will be considered together and
approved by one motion. Have the
payables and payroll been reviewed?
>> They have.
>> They have.
>> All right. Does any council member want
to remove any items from the consent
calendar considering under regular
business?
Not seeing any, I will wait to see if
there's a motion. Council President.
>> Mr. Mayor, I move we adopt the consent
calendar as listed in our agenda this
evening.
>> Second.
>> All right. There has been a motion and a
second. All those in favor, please say
I.
>> I.
>> All those opposed, no. And that passes
unanimously.
Now, the next item of business is public
hearing agenda bill 9135, the 2027 2032
six-year transportation improvement
program. We will now conduct the public
hearing. The public hearing on the TIP
was conducted on the June 1st city
council meeting. The city council then
moved to continue the hearing to
tonight's meeting. Before moving the
public hearing, I'd like to invite
Transportation Engineer Manager John
Mortensson to provide another
presentation.
Thank you very much, Mayor. Good
evening, council members. I'm John
Mortonson, transportation engineering
manager.
Tonight I'm here to talk about the
six-year transportation improvement
program.
The purpose of tonight's item is to
review the updates to the 2027 to 2032
transportation improvement program,
continue the public hearing on the
transportation improvement program as
required by state law, and to provide a
little bit of additional information
based on the discussion from two weeks
ago.
I want to remind the council the themes
of this update, which are to emphasize
smaller scale, easier to implement
projects, prioritizing maintenance over
new construction, and the more extensive
use of debt, specifically
funded by the transportation benefit
district sales tax that does sunset in
the future.
So as part of giving a little bit of
more background, I want to talk about
the diff how when the tip was put
together, the thought process on
balancing the different modes of
transportation. As many of you know, the
mobility action plan and the
transportation element of the
comprehensive plan. Those two documents
are really tied together and they talk a
lot about building up a network that has
a lot of multimodal modal choices
whether it's transit so people can take
bus or light rail
or bicycle so people can take their kids
to
daycare on their cargo bike. Um walking
that way people can walk to go see their
neighbors or to the grocery store
hopefully. Um or also by car. And the
the goal is to give it where residents
and people who work and come to Isqua to
play that they have transportation
options, but right now for most Isqua
residents, the only option that they
have is to travel by car. And so they're
having to deal with the brunt of the
traffic congestion that the city
experiences.
And they've been asking for relief. And
the
community survey from last year, the
highest priority from that survey for
the city to work on was the flow of
traffic on the city streets.
And I also want to talk a little bit
about the puzzle that was put together
for the different revenue sources and
that a lot of thought and intention was
to put to identify revenue so that way
this community could have the maximum
benefit. And so projects were matched
with different funding sources, whether
it's an outside granting agency
identifying projects that meet the
community's values that are good
candidates for our funding partners, but
also to utilize the funding sources that
the city does have, whether it's the
traffic impact fees or the pedestrian
and bicycle mitigation fees with the
eligible projects. And so I say all this
because while it is possible to move
revenue from one project to another, it
is difficult because
project A will have one funding source
and project B wouldn't be a good
candidate for that funding source from a
granting agency or is just not eligible
to do that. So I just wanted to put a
little bit of context into the revenue
puzzle that was put into this six-year
TIP.
And I also want to talk a little bit
about the different bicycle
improvements. And some of it is or items
that are in the six-year tip. And I also
want to call out something that we're
doing outside of the six-year
transportation improvement program. And
that is we're working on updating the
street standards to um incorporate the
latest for bicycle design, especially at
intersections because for bicyclist that
is a dangerous place to be at. So, that
is something that behind the scenes
we're working at um on and it'll be
implemented. Um but I also want to
highlight some of the all ages and
abilities bicycle facilities that will
be open for riders during the six-year
transportation improvement program time
frame. And the first one's the Northwest
Seamish Road non-motorized project. This
is going to construct a shared use path
from 193rd place to Lake Samish State
Park. And then the next one's the TR22A
Newport Way. This is the first phase of
the SR900 to 54th Street project. And so
the first phase will go from 17th or
SR900.
And it'll go to the I want to say the
1800 block. It's going to go about 8 or
900 ft to the west. and it'll have
painted bike lanes and then a shared use
path. The the shared use path is the one
I'm going to highlight as the all ages
and abilities, not the painted bike
lanes, but they'll serve different
bicycle users. And then the Newport Way
Maple to Sunset project, the first phase
would have protected bike lanes and
we're showing it from Maple to south of
Holly. And then a small project is
extending the shared use path that the
Juniper Trail that right now it stops at
7th and going to continue it on to New
to Newport Way so that way it can tie in
to the improvements on Newport Way.
And there have been a lot of questions
about project TR12. This is the
intersection improvement project at
Front and Sunset. And so right now the
way that the signal is configured, it's
a very inefficient signal and it has
what's called split phases where when
traffic that is eastbound gets to the
signal and they get the green because
there's one lane for all of three
different directions, people turning
left, going straight, and turning right,
it means that most of the other
movements can't happen at the same time.
And so if you think about a intersection
is it's only as efficient as its weakest
link. Well, this is the weakest link.
And that's what this project is really
working on is the weakest link to help
make this intersection more efficient.
It will help move transit. It'll also
help residents get around town. Um, but
there are also some concerns about
pedestrian safety because in order to do
it on the southwest corner, we'll most
likely need to lose the existing curb
bulb out.
The good news is that um
there's room to put a curb bulb out on
the northeast corner, which actually
when looking at the traffic counts, it
has more pedestrians crossing on the
northeast corner than on the
southwest corner. But other safety
countermeasures are going to be
implemented as part of this project. One
of them is leading pedestrian interval.
This is where the pedestrians are given
a three or 4 second head start before
traffic in the parallel direction are
given a green which gets the pedestrians
out in the intersection in a more
visible
position. And then I mentioned how this
intersection because of its current
configuration it's inefficient. And so
that limits what we can do with the
signal timing. So if you think about it,
and I'm just going to say let's say that
there's 2 minutes for the signal to go
through all the different movements. So
that's what its cycle is. And so you've
got 2 minutes and you're trying to
figure out how to best handle the users,
whether it's the cars, the buses, or the
pedestrians. Well, there's ways that you
can make it better for the cars. You
could say, "Well, we've got a lot of
cars going in the southbound direction,
so instead of two minutes, we're going
to have two and a half minutes of a
cycle." But then for the pedestrians,
you have a longer time to wait to cross.
Uh, you could also say, well, we're just
going to keep it at two minutes because
we want to optimize it for the get it
have it better for the pedestrians, but
then you only have so much time to play
with when you have an inefficient leg to
an intersection. So, by making this
intersection more efficient, it'll allow
the traffic engineers who put together
the signal timings plans for the city to
have more flexibility, whether it's
shorter wait times for pedestrians,
whether it's faster movements for the
bus, that there's it just has a lot of
flexibility. And so um right now this
project we have a traffic consultant
working on doing an evaluation to see we
know for sure that the eastbound leg is
inefficient and also looking at okay
should we also do the parallel
improvements on the westbound leg or not
and it's going to be a datadriven
process. It's going to utilize the goals
in the mobility action plan and the
priorities and it once it goes to
design, this will be a project that will
emphasize pedestrian safety and the
environment for the pedestrians will be
safer once the project is completed than
it is today.
The recommendation from the
administration is to approve resolution
2026-15
adopting a six-year transportation
improvement program and directing the
same to be filed with the state
secretary of transportation.
The timing and next steps went over this
last time where it went to the
transportation advisory board and then
environmental board mobility and
infrastructure committee. We began the
public hearing two weeks ago on June
1st. Tonight, the public hearing has
been continued
with the plan of adoption of the
six-year transportation improvement
program. There is a June 1st or not June
1st, July 1st deadline to file the TIP
or to actually adopt it and then send it
to the state of Washington. And then the
timeline that staff are looking at are
is the July 31st because there is a
grant program and the administration is
pursuing three grants um for different
projects and that is part of applying
for this grant program with the
transportation improvement board. The
projects do need to be on the approved
six-year transportation improvement
program.
And with that, that concludes my
presentation.
>> All right. Thank you very much, John.
And with that, at 7:42, we're going to
go ahead and open the public hearing and
we will give another opportunity at this
point for audience comments on this
topic. Uh, city clerk, is there people
signed up to speak?
>> Yes, the first person signed up is John
Girt.
>> All right, John, come on up.
Uh, hello, my name is John Gert. I am a
32 resident in the same house, but we
were only part of Ishqua for a little
over 20 years as we were annexed in. Uh
we live in South Cove and because of
that, the project TR28 is definitely
high on our list. Although I'll have to
say I was a little disappointed in the
way it was passed as the council picked
the most expensive version of the plan
as opposed to the one that I feel was
the safest. Uh it it because it puts the
bicycle traffic and the pedestrian
traffic on the same pathway, requiring
bicycle p uh traffic coming east on Lake
Spamage Parkway to cross the street and
then get on the trail and then cross
back to get in normal bicycle traffic
lane. also disappointed that while we
were promised when we were annexed in uh
pedestrian uh routes into the city, that
193rd is not that close to where we
live. Uh the south whole South Cove area
goes all the way to Sunset Elementary
School. Sunset Elementary School has
kids living less than a tenth of a mile
away that can't walk safely to school.
Uh, you know, I think that's a an
opportunity for the school district to
uh, you know, cut back on the number of
buses they need. I think the I I'm so
happy that the project's under the way.
Schneider Creek is actually moving and
something's going to happen there, but I
think the longer term plan, somebody
looks at how do we extend it from 193rd
all the way to the traffic circle at
Sunset Elementary.
Thank you.
>> Thank you very much.
Landon Halverson is next.
>> Thank you, members of council. I
appreciate it. I no longer have isqua
symphony practices on Monday, so I get
to be present for public comment, which
I'm fortunate uh or or thankful for. Uh
really, I I wanted to speak a little bit
more on uh TR12. I was very thankful for
the staff presentation um and uh for the
information he provided. Uh but just a
little bit more on that. The first thing
I want to share is I've had the
opportunity to connect uh with several
dozen neighbors. Uh and the first thing
is that I absolutely agree with um the
conclusion that neighbors are worried
about traffic. Uh traffic continues to
be something that is arguably the
biggest issue for folks uh here in the
Oldtown neighborhood. Um for those on
council who don't know, I live here in
the Oldtown neighborhood just about 500
feet that way. Um, so this is uh this
part of the project is is something that
that really impacts us. Um, so for for
folks of all different ages, income
groups, backgrounds, that's a really big
thing. Uh, the second thing that is
really really important for Oldtown
residents from a variety of of walks of
like life is preserving our sidewalk
space. Uh, the first thing I want to say
just individually, I was very happy in
the presentation to see something about
a bulbout on the northeast corner. I
think any sort of design that is made
for this project needs to prioritize um
pedestrian safety of course, but also
really um ensuring that that corner that
those four corners to the best extent
possible remain pedestrian friendly. As
an Oldtown resident, I look at that as
really being kind of the intersection,
the corner of our Oldtown. Uh, and it's
something that we've been able to
create, or I shouldn't say we, that the
people who have came before me were able
to create, um, where they were able to
create a really walkable, vibrant
community that I know we as current
residents want to, uh, protect because
it's something that makes us unique.
There are not many cities, uh, like us
that have this unique, uh, beautiful,
walkable old town. Snowqualami is
another city that has one. I hope
they'll, you know, do their due
diligence to protect it. But in any
case, uh, working on our city here,
working to protect that for everybody.
Um, mentioned small town walkability.
Uh, and then finally, one option that I
would encourage council to consider both
for pedestrian safety and just to ensure
that pedestrians are able to get across
as efficiently as possible is
considering the introduction of a
traffic scramble. Now, I will be the
first to say that I am not a huge fan of
the traffic scramble on Juniper and
Gilman. Um, I often find that it holds
things up. It feels a little bit
frustrating when it's for one person.
Um, and frankly, my frustration with
that comes more from the way that that
intersection is designed and the lack of
traffic on that intersection. I've
always said that I feel if there's any
one intersection in our city that should
have some sort of traffic scramble, it's
front and sunset. Uh, particularly
during peak times. When I talked with
neighbors about uh doing it alternating
during peak times, a lot of folks
questioned whether or not that would be
necessary or feasible. A couple folks
questioned whether or not that would
confuse drivers and others who use that
intersection to have rules where it's a
scramble sometime and not a scramble
others. Um, I think it's fair to say,
you know, folks want that consistent,
but it would be something that I would
uh encourage folks to consider,
especially as we think about the
long-term trajectory of what we want
Oldtown to be, what we want Front Street
to look like in Sunset. For me
personally, as an Oldtown resident, I
would encourage you to think about a
future um where Oldtown becomes even
more walkable um and even more
accessible. We don't want to see cars go
away, or at least I don't want to see
cars go away in Oldtown. But I do want
to make sure that whether you get around
by bike, uh by bus, um eventually by
light rail or whatever mode of transit
you get around with, um that you're able
to do that efficiently and effectively.
Um so just kind of in summary, uh
congestion remains top of mind for folks
here in Oldtown. That's something that I
have yet to hear somebody say, "Yeah, I
don't think traffic is that bad." Um it
especially during peak times here on
Front Street is. Um, and then finally,
uh, the only other thing that I would
caution council against or or caution
council to maybe consider and think
about is that while it's very important,
uh, to improve the efficiency of
intersections and improve the way the
efficiency of the way that people get
around in our community, when you do
that for an intersection or for an area
that is already predominantly pass
through, you have the potential side
effect of incentivizing more pass
through traffic through our community.
So, I just wanted to also really quickly
remind members of council um that as
part of the ST3 plan, they are opening
new toll lanes between Belleview and
Reton. Um that I believe will uh shift
traffic uh away from Front Street uh and
Isizakqua Hobart and towards uh the new
toll lanes and 169 um as as that gets
built out. Um so I think there are uh
larger regional transportation projects
that are happening right now that are
likely to shift the flow of traffic in
our communities. Um, and I would
encourage council to think about those
things as they designed this
intersection as well. Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you very much.
>> No one else has signed up to speak.
>> Okay. Is there anybody else who didn't
sign up and does want to make comments
for the public hearing?
Okay. Not seeing any. Uh, council, is
there any objection to closing
the public hearing at this time and then
going to council questions?
Uh
okay. I will then
okay so we are now going to close the
public hearing.
We will now I think give John a chance
to come back up and we will go through
council questions on the tip.
And I see we have Deputy President Jen
is online and
I am looking around not seeing
any questions.
Oh, Council Member Nichols.
>> Thanks. Um, first of all, thanks for the
the presentation and putting this all
together and and uh taking the feedback
over the the various touch points this
has had. Um I've I've got a question on
the uh indirect uh aspects of this in
terms of the impact of the total cost of
the the total dollar value of the tip
and how that impacts our traffic impact
fees. Um could you
help educate us on how direct that
relationship is?
>> Great question. I I'll start at a high
level generic
answer and then try and find tune it
down to this specific scenario. So the
way that our traffic impact fees are
calculated, there's a list of projects
that are
the traffic impact fee projects and then
they're divided up into ones that add
new transportation facilities where none
exist. So basically building the street
grid in central Isiqua. There's so there
are those projects and then there are
the projects that are in the fee
schedule that add a turn lane or a
second southbound lane on Newport Way.
And so the ones that add a facility
where none exist, they are 100%
trafficked impact fee eligible. And the
ones that
are enhancing an existing facility,
they're about 35%. and I don't remember
the exact amount. So the way it's
calculated is you have the list of the
projects,
then the percentage that is eligible for
traffic impact fees, and then you
subtract out the assumed grants, and
then you come up with a total total
dollar value. And then the traffic
impact fee looks at the land use and
how it's going to change over the next
I'm going to say 20 years. I don't
remember exactly how many it is. And it
says, okay, there's going to be this
many trips. And then it's converted to
people trips or person trips, which is
about 1.51
person trips per vehicle trip. And then
it's just a little bit of math. And so
you take the total dollar value and you
divide it by the number of trips and you
come up with the rate and then it's
converted into a table for developers to
you use when they apply for building
permits. Now, the city has not done a
rate study since 2019, and
so I don't anticipate that this
transportation improvement program
directly will feed into the next rate
study. I know that's something that will
happen soon, but I think that there will
be a lot of policy discussions on, okay,
is this project really needed? and um
looking at
what goes into that calculation. So I
guess the answer is I don't anticipate
taking the dollar values from this
transportation improvement program and
doing the math to calculate a new
traffic impact fee. I would like to look
at the project list, especially the
long-term project list, very carefully,
understand the impacts of building or
not building a project and then
do the math. Um, knowing that it is a
priority of this council to lower the
traffic impact fee. So that that is the
approach that I would like to take for
it. Did I answer your question?
>> Uh, partially. That was a great start.
So just specifically, so things like uh
for example, a topic we've discussed a
couple times recently, the the I90 um
crossing. So
having that in our tip versus not at the
moment, are you saying that does or
would not impact our near-term traffic
impact fees?
>> It will not impact the near-term. Um,
and then I will say that
just because a project is a capacity
building project does not mean that a
city council needs to include it in its
math for doing the traffic impact fee.
So, we can leave the I90 crossing
project in there and then if it's still
in there when we do the math, we can say
the council can say, I shouldn't say we,
the council, you guys can say we don't
want to include this project in the math
and then it's not in the math and then
the fees lower. So, you're you're not
binding yourself to include a project in
the calculation tonight.
>> Okay. And we would do that when we next
revise our fee schedule. Is that when do
we do that, I guess?
I'm going to say over the next two
years. I I don't know the exact date. I
know there's a lot of work that
community planning and development is
doing to uh incentivize housing and
building. I I watched a council meeting
where you guys gave a lot of feedback on
that and included in that was wanting to
lower traffic impact fees. So, I don't
know the exact timing of it tonight, but
I'll say over the next two and year and
a half to two years.
>> All right. Thank you.
>> And I can second that. I think our goal
is to have it done at some point in
2027. I don't know if at what point in
2027 that it be done, but I think it
does involve us. I mean, there is
consultant work involved to basically do
the traffic impact fee process,
but is going to happen
for sure. Uh, are there any other
questions?
Council Boyd, I can't tell if that
that's that far mic is not up right.
Okay.
Okay. Not seeing any other questions. I
will look to see if there Oh.
Oh, Deputy President Jen.
>> Hello. Um, thanks for letting me join
remotely today as I'm not feeling well.
Um, so we heard some feedback from folks
in Oldtown that they're interested in
having a pedestrian scramble. Is that
something that could be included in TR I
believe 28 as it exists now or would it
have to be an amendment to the project?
>> So you're talking about the front and
sunset project. Is that right deputy
council president? Okay.
>> It is something that could be included
in the project and right now we are
doing a traffic evaluation and updated
cost estimate on the project and as part
of it we are looking at a scramble
intersection. That said, the city also
looked at it in 2018 and at the time the
recommendation was not to do a scramble
because of what it would do to east west
traffic on sunset and I don't remember
the exact I think it was like 10 minutes
of delay which I think um yeah that's
what the model says. I think at that
point people were going different
directions. But point being that it was
really harmful to the east west traffic
on sunset. But that said, sometimes
things change over the last eight years
or maybe some assumptions were made that
are no longer true. So I think it's a
worthwhile endeavor to look into it.
It's something that the transportation
advisory board has mentioned multiple
times. So, we're turning that over that
stone and um we'll see where the
evaluation leads.
>> Yeah. And I think I could say that our
plan was if the project does go forward
that once you have the intersection
improved, you're going to revisit the
signal timing to find out what's ideal
for that section. And so, I think
everything's on the table during that
revisiting of the signal timing. Uh
Council Member Walsh,
>> thank you. Um, John, I asked over email,
but I want to kind of make sure to
surface here. So, um, this is a
transportation improvement plan. So,
this is not a budget. This is not
project approval, but can you kind of
talk about what the difference is there?
And so for some of these projects where
we've heard specific questions on it,
what are the additional touch points
that we will have as a council before
money is spent, before the project is
completely approved, etc.
>> Yeah. So the the next big touch point
for council is the budget. And as you
mentioned, Council Member Walsh, that
this is a plan, and
come later on this year, you guys are
going to be working really hard to
develop a budget, and that's where
things get funded. It's a two-year
budget, and this um you'll be making the
decisions. You'll have the
transportation improvement program as a
starting place, but it still needs to go
through the budgeting process. And then
I would I'm going to also mention an
indirect touch point in that council had
a big hand in shaping the transportation
policies whether it's the transportation
element of the comprehensive plan or the
mobility action plan. And so those
documents and the priorities and the
goals feed into the design. So we might
not come to the council and say give us
feedback on this particular aspect but
we're going to go to the document that
the council adopted and use it as
guidance to say okay as we are
considering this design we need to meet
these goals that the city has for
transportation. And then uh depending on
the size of the design consultant
contract it may go to council or it may
not. And then u the construction
contract well I guess on projects where
we have a grant that council approves
grants. So for example the front and
sunset project we are anticipating a
grant. If the city is successful the
results will be known in early November
that
administration will want to jump on
getting council to authorize the mayor
to sign the grant agreement. And then u
the big one will be uh approving the
construction contract for the project
and then accepting the project
afterwards. So those are the big
anticipated council touch points.
>> All right. Thank you very much. Okay.
Not seeing any other questions. I will
ask to see if there's motion. Council
president Marks.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to approve
resolution number 2026.
Sorry. Say that again. 2026-16
adopting a six-year transportation
improvement program and directing the
same to be filed with the state
secretary of transportation.
>> Second.
>> There's been a motion and a second. Is
there any further discussion?
Not seeing. The motion where the council
is to approve resolution number 206
adopting a sixear transportation
improvement program and directing the
same to be filed with the state
secretary of transportation. All those
in favor, please say I.
>> I.
>> I.
>> All those opposed, no.
And that passes unanimously. The next
item of business is regular business,
which we don't have regular business
items tonight. Before we go to the
committee reports, uh, city
administrator, do you want to speak? I
think Dave mentioned the Purple Heart
City process. I know we've done some
research. You want to update the council
of what this process looks like?
>> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Premier, members of
the council, uh the city has taken its
major step and that is to adopt a
resolution uh indicating that it would
like to become a a a Purple Heart city.
Uh we then forward that resolution uh uh
to the Purple Heart uh society which
maintains a list of that. Uh they then
make signs available that we can post at
entry points to the city. Uh in August
is the annual Purple Heart Day. uh and
we're working uh with the VFW and others
to identify as many uh Purple Heart
recipients who are residents of the city
of Isiqua uh to join us uh at the city
council in August uh for that. So u the
the city has really taken the major step
this evening uh by uh self- adopting
which we then just register with the
society.
>> Thank you very much for that update.
We're now going to go to the committee
reports. Uh, Council Member Boyd,
>> thank you. Um, I am, uh, I had my first
Epher board meeting last week, so I'll
defer. I'm an alternate, so I'll defer
to my fellow uh, regular members of
that. And then, uh, I am have one more
uh, round to clear to be appointed to
the um, PSRC Transportation Policy
Board. So, still not on that yet, but
stay tuned.
>> Excellent. Council member Bair.
>> All right. I actually have three reports
today. Uh where's the quick one? Uh the
services, safety, and parks committee
meeting that was scheduled for tomorrow
has been cancelled due to lack of agenda
items. So that next meeting is now
scheduled for July 21st.
Uh second report uh as part of being on
East Side Fire um the while the larger
meeting will defer to council member
Walsh. Uh I'm also on the financial and
administrative committee of East Side
Fire and we had a meeting on June 9th
which to kick off the budget process for
2728 uh where we went over the process.
We did the they presented kind of their
initial asks and status. Um it's the
first meeting and we're working on de
you know to develop and finalize the
budget along with our partners. Uh this
first draft proposed is not a small
increase at the moment. Um but there's a
lot more digging and work to be coming
with that. So I will have more detail as
we go further into that process and as
that number gets adjusted. Uh but there
there is work to be done there. Um then
my third report is that um because uh uh
council president uh uh Mars was uh ill,
I was stepped in to do the SCA pick. Um
so I was representative uh and the main
agenda items was the solid waste rate
response letter to be sent to King
County SWD due to their recommendation
for an 8.5% rate increase. Um, while
this is slightly less than their
original proposed rate, it's still a big
jump and raises affordability concerns,
especially when coupled with the other
increases going on. So, the committee
approved proceeding with a response,
which will be drafted and amended uh in
the next meeting. Um, we also reviewed
uh responses to the SEA's survey on the
December 25 flood response and how
different jurisdictions felt about the
response and what could be better. Um
overall response during the during the
event was mostly adequate but with some
minor challenges. Um uh that the big
kind of concerns was the communication
and coordination afterwards uh being a
bit inconsistent and a fair amount of
uncertainty on who or what entity was
handling the different recovery tasks.
So there was some desire for some better
regional planning and coordination and
to get better prepared for future
events. Uh and that concludes my reports
for today.
>> All right. Uh, Council Member Nichols.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The King County
King County Conservation District
Advisory Committee met on uh, April,
sorry date correct?
On June 9th, uh, we discussed several
topics. Uh, principally, the King County
Local Food Initiative, uh, process
that's underway to encourage, uh, local
food production as well as the King
Conservation District urban forest
health uh, projects that are underway.
Um, happy to answer any other questions
on those if they come up. And uh, that's
that concludes my report.
>> Right. Council Walsh.
>> Thank you. Uh, the planning,
development, environment committee met
on June 2nd. We approved the goals and
outcomes chart for um kind of our
two-year land use um, improvements and
we moved three areas forward. Um, those
will come to council on June 29th. So,
I'll share more on that discussion um
later, but it was the clarifying
amendments um first approach to
stepbacks and opening open amenity
spaces. And so, the next meeting for PTE
is on July 7th. Uh East Side Fire and
Rescue, we met last th Thursday. Um the
agenda included three items. Celebrating
uh retirements and commendations.
Considering a response on the Cascadia
Ridge Resilience Energy Storage Project
or BES, um which we decided wasn't
necessary since uh we already contribute
uh commentary there. And then obviously
the big one, the next steps on the
long-term governance and financing
options. Um the board had a really
nuanced conversation um where each
member was asked for um kind of the
benefits and drawbacks of each of the
variations. We did not provide a
preferred option um but we did direct
the chief to start education of member
cities and fire districts um as they
will be the uh decision makers for the
next stage. And then we also asked him
to come back with um some additional
presentation ideas where we're showing a
floor and a ceiling of what the
possibilities would be for costs um and
what the timeline would look like. Um
and then two small reports um the
regional coalition for housing uh arch
committee of electeds. The next meeting
is July 23rd. I don't have an agenda for
that. and the King County affordable
housing. Um, next meeting is July 9th,
but I will miss it due to an overlap
with East Side Fire and Rescue. That
concludes my report.
>> All right, Council Member Joe.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Three quick items.
The June mobility and infrastructure
committee was cancelled. The next
committee will next time the committee
will meet will be July 14th. U, the
agenda has not been set yet. for Cascade
Water Alliance. The board me the board
meeting is the 24th of June and June
16th tomorrow will be the finance
committee meeting that I'll be
attending.
Lodging tax advisory committee last item
will be scheduled for July 20th. They
are opening up as I think I mentioned in
the last meeting $100,000 in new
spending uh for the second shoulder
season and uh grants can be up to
$55,000
I believe. Um, so any organizations that
would want to uh apply are encouraged to
do so. And uh that concludes my report.
Thank you.
>> Council remarks.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The uh Sound
Cities Board of Dire Sound Cities
Association Board of Directors will be
meeting this Wednesday morning, 10:00
a.m. till noon at Renton City Hall. Uh
we have a couple of items on the agenda.
One is uh to hopefully adopt the solid
waste response letter that council
member deer mentioned earlier that is
coming out of pick. Uh the other is to
uh do appointments to committees and
hopefully get uh our council member on
PSRC TPP. So uh
uh not a lot on the agenda but a couple
things near and dear to Isiqua. That
concludes my report.
>> Well, thank you very much. Uh oh, Deputy
President Chang. Sorry, there we are.
Sorry, that was user error by me.
>> One uh quick report for tonight. The
East Side Transportation Partnership met
last Friday, June 12th, at Woodenville
City Hall. We received um presentations.
We received two presentations. One was
from the Port of Seattle about the
airport expansion at what they are
calling the SEA airport, otherwise known
as SeaTac, but they are officially
trying to be branded by their
threeletter airport code. Um, and from
King County Metro on the Metro's Next
Stop uh plan, which is basically how
Metro plans to expand service over the
next 10 years or so if they're able to
secure additional funding. With their
current funding situation, Metro is
expecting to face a fiscal cliff by
around 2029. And so, uh, Metro is also
going to be presenting to the King
County Council and there's some talk on,
you know, how they are going to try to
fill this budget gap. So, more to come
there. And that concludes my report.
>> All right. Thank you very much. Uh, the
mayor's items. We are pleased to
announce last week that Steve Milelet
will be the new chief of police uh for
the city of Isiqua. He has 35 years of
experience that goes to a town sort of
similar to Isacross called South Lake in
Texas which is in between Dallas and and
Fort Worth. He was also chief in
Belleview for 6 and a half years. He was
in an Akran Ohio and Warthingington,
Ohio and would be moving back to an area
that he loves. Uh the goal is to have
the new chief starting on July 16th. Uh
I think you will get a chance to meet uh
Chief Millet uh at the end of this month
I think is the plan. Uh he will be here.
So for the June 29th council meeting, I
think our goal is to have confirmation.
Uh it's I was at the National Mayor's
Conference last week and we did receive
an honorable mention from United States
Conference of Mayors for our Brazilian
subs. So I I thought it seemed like a
very common sense idea, but evidently
it's a little more unique than we
realized and and so it was a nice perk
for our community to be acknowledged for
the idea of having these resilient hubs
placed throughout a community. and we
saw during the bomb cyclone that they
paid dividends. Uh the Junth celebration
will be at Blakeley Hall this Thursday
night from 7 to 9:00 and I will be there
and encourage everyone who wants to to
attend and the Onyx Fine Arts Collective
will also be there. Uh their exhibition
is called Eyewitness to Greatness. We
also have Fenders on Front Street this
Sunday, Father's Day, on June 21st, 8:00
a.m. to 3 p.m. Live music and cool cars
and yes, Burger Master's open so you can
get a Burger Master burger while you do
Fenders on Front Street. Uh we'll see I
think it's going to be over 100 classic
and vintage cars will be there. Uh
ebikes try and apply event. There is a
window of opportunity that open today
from June 15th to June 29th is where
residents are eligible for a rebate on
ebikes. Uh the event we're going to do
is pedal forward east side uh try and
apply event. This is going to be
Thursday, June 25th from 4:00 to 7:00
p.m. at Pickering Barn. So you can ride
a variety of different types of bikes,
but we do want to make sure people know
that there are going to be local bike
shops where you can get ebike grants
where you can get rebates ranging from
$500 to $2,000. Uh so that is really
exciting. I would also like to highlight
that since we last met on June 1st, we
do have the isquest spotlight is up and
running and live and uh I encourage
folks to check that out at
isquestpotlight.org.
I'm not exactly sure what their website
is. And and one piece of not so great
news, I did go to testify in person at
the King County Transportation Benefit
District last Friday as the King County
Council benefit District Committee,
which is the same exact same members as
the King County Council, did approve a
0.1% sales tax. We had been encouraging
them to adopt the council member Fain
amendment, which would have given cities
like Isqua a larger portion of that
funding. And that amendment
did not pass. It failed on a 5-4 vote.
Our council member uh Perry did support
the amendment, but at the end of the
day, it was
and so it was myself and deputy mayor uh
Black from Kirkland was there, but there
was a lot of people who did show up at
that meeting from Seattle who pushed
back really hard about the suburban
cities getting uh a slightly larger, you
know, than just their programmatic
funding share. And so that being said,
with its passage, I do think we will
receive roughly $230,000
of this $100 million tax when it goes
into effect. It would have been nice if
the number was higher, uh, but the
number was not. With that, let's go to
good of the order.
Not seeing any good of the order. Uh, I
will say our next council meeting is
June 29th. Uh, anticipate an agenda
item. Squa school district joint use
agreement, the park bond renewal uh for
the November general election. Title 18
land use code uh amendments and then we
will have this is exciting. The purchase
and sale agreement will be in front of
the council for the opportunity center
project. And so we do have a number
finally. It's in the ballpark of $7.5
million. We do have that money set aside
from years and years of planning and
saving going back to Council Member John
Writtenhouse in 2008. That million
dollars will finally get a chance to be
spent and and so we will have that for
you at the next meeting. Uh
what what was I looking at here? Uh
okay, I think that is good of the order
from my side. We are now going to
executive session. So, the council is
going to executive session this evening
to discuss pending/potential litigation
per RCW42.30.110
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qualifications of an applicant for
public employment for RCW42.30.110
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is a closed session expected to take
roughly 20 minutes. So, we will be in
executive session until 8:40 p.m. Uh, it
may be extended. If we do decide to
extend it, the clerk will make an
announcement. There is no action
anticipated to occur after the executive
session. So, this session is closed to
the public and we now go to executive
session at 8:17 p.m.