good evening and welcome to the Tuesday
January January 23rd Committee of the
Whole meeting this is the meeting where
this acts basically as many of you have
been to some of our individual
committees infrastructure services land
in Shore this is basically a large
committee meeting so we don't make any
decisions here tonight but we get
information and one of the things that
I'm going to do here for 2018 is we will
take public comment a committee the
whole meetings but again because we're
not taking any action tonight as we get
done with individual issues you're
welcome if you have thoughts that you
want to share with us I'll offer people
three minutes but again if you're
looking to tell us to do something
tonight is not a night that we are doing
specific things tonight is the night
that we are listening by and large and
asking technical questions and with that
we're gonna start off with I do 187
Human Services presentation by Derek and
Vanessa from Human Services Commission
yes good evening so I'm Martha saseru
see Human Services and social
sustainability coordinator for the city
and so I just wanted to introduce our
Human Services Commission Chair Derek
Franklin and Vice Chair Vanessa allusive
asada will be presenting about the
Commission and some some of their
current and recent work yes
that would be helpful
great Thank You Martha members of the
council
good evening Derek Franklin serving his
chair for the city of Issaquah Human
Services Commission and tonight we will
just go through a few things
just a quick introductions we'll look at
our a grant review process again the
four grantees that asked the city for
funds to support the work the city's
prioritized we will talk a little bit
our about our process improvement
efforts over last funding cycle talk a
little bit about a grant vision
statement that we've been working on and
then again
familiarize council members with the
2018 schedule for then the 2019 2020
funding recommendations and next steps
so there were a few new faces I think on
council on that on the Commission our
commission members and if I ask if they
wouldn't mind standing up if you were
here
senthil chandran myself Derek Franklin
Loretta Jenkins and a Jimenez in mom
who's not with us tonight
Elizabeth mal palm in in disguise hi
Elizabeth
Matthew mayor vanessa Mousavi's a day
thank you
Rebecca Smith there's Rebecca hello and
a Christine chris webber so these are
the folks and thank you for your service
that have volunteered with me on the
Commission the group represents a
diverse mix of residents from the city
different backgrounds folks from tech
folks from human services parents folks
familiar with senior issues and cross
the board and we're looking forward I'm
looking forward to working with them too
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give ultimately council recommendations
for Human Services funding a little bit
about the role of the Commission the
major role of the Commission has
developed funding recommendations to the
mayor and the council for Human Services
support for the residents of Issaquah we
developed an annual work plan to address
ongoing work and emerging issues Human
Services issues there are critical needs
out there we will be bringing those to
you as part of our work such things as
the crisis around homelessness critical
need for behavioral supports in the
community and the fact that many
services simply aren't available with
footprints in the city of Issaquah all
those and many other issues factored in
to their recommendations that will be
providing other examples of the work of
the Commission include the chair serving
on the advisory group for the community
needs assessment conducted in 2017 the
Joint Commission meetings we attend with
the planning and policy economic
vitality group to inform the housing
strategy for in 2016 and 17 the
commission also tracks and provides
input to staff on issues including
senior services the senior center
community health engagement locations
and a community concerns around safety
and inclusiveness Human Services grants
so a little bit about the the grants
there on a biannual cycle applications
are received and reviewed in even years
for funding for the subsequent two years
for example applications were last
received and reviewed in 2016 for
funding in 2017 and 18 this this work is
part of a 17 city collaboration 17
cities in King County collaborate to use
a shared application process which
allows the different cities and
commissions of those cities to have some
sense of working collaboratively when
that's appropriate it also allows the
different appellants that might apply to
multiple cities to use a common
application process simplifying things
on that and giving us on this and
probably better information that we can
relay and look between cities
funding levels and the number of
applications of the last two cycles in
2016 the city receives 75 grant
applications requesting a total of
nearly $700,000 in funding the city has
a set of funding target of 370 $1500 for
annual Human Services funding the
Commission delivered previously a set of
funding recommendations then totaling
exactly 371 5,000 and those
recommendations were adopted as part of
the budget for 2017 and then later as
part of the budget for 2018 those are
organized the recommendations are in
goal areas the Commission uses five goal
areas to categorize programs akin to
buckets to organize the grants when they
come through the door
these goal areas or the former goal
areas established by the United Way of
King County and they're currently also
used by the cities of Bellevue Kirkland
and Redmond for their framework or
buckets to help organize the grants as
they come in those actually can't escape
the question yeah please are linking
right there
so in the there's two different human
services grant process one is the one
that runs through the Human Services
Commission the other is one that runs
through or me that's the same one that
runs through services and safety but has
ever called the amount requested in
previous years there I don't believe
there was such a large gap between the
amount requested and the amount that was
sort of in play for a budget is this is
this unusual to have such a difference
this time around because it seems like
in the past they've been a lot closer to
balance and matched well let me give you
my sort of year and a half perspective
on that and that's my day job is in
Human Services also I think there is
sort of a sense of that's this new
normal that's been happening for five
six seven years or more where the the
needs simply are outpacing the demand I
know this the last cycle saw more
applications in the cycle previously and
the amount varies with that I think part
of that probably is attributable to
the the coordination among the cities I
think there's probably better
information out there a better support
from your city staff and the other
staffs of the cities and the East Side
about supporting solid applications in
terms of the history I could perhaps ask
one of the staff to hop up really
quickly if you wanted to get a few more
numbers Martha may know that but at
otherwise I'm sure they've be able to
deliver kind of a history that's
specifically Martha you have two
thoughts on it yes I'd have to follow up
on the amount of the total funding
requests that we received in 2014 for 15
and 16 but the jump in in applicants
went from fifty-six fifty-seven
applicants up to 75 in the last cycle as
one measure thank you well thank you so
the the goal areas or buckets are food
to eat and roof overhead supportive
relationships within families
neighborhoods and communities a safe
haven from all forms of violence and
abuse health care to be physically and
mentally fit as possible and finally
education and job skills to lead an
independent life a few service
highlights from the the fundies or
grantees that from last year in 2017 and
in thanks the city funding 6040 for
meals were provided by katha community
services and sound generations 180
one-way trips for seniors were provided
for Eastside Friends of seniors 162
hours of advocacy arson support for
domestic violence survivors was provided
by life wire 62 rent utility and
security deposit payments were provided
through hope link Issaquah community
services and st. Vincent DePaul 27
medical care appointments were provided
it's a part residence that wouldn't
otherwise be able to have those by
health point those are just a few
examples of the services provided
through the grant process grants dollars
to the city a few a few grant process
improvement efforts that wanted we
wanted the council to be aware of and
again these are just a few visuals the
the one on the bottom isn't meant
necessarily to be read now but
represents some of the the process
improvement work that we've done one in
so first 2018 is an application year
will be receiving applications this this
spring and preparing funding
recommendations for the council by this
fall in anticipation of the application
process the Commission identified work
to improve the application review and
funding deliberation process that really
represents the majority of the work that
the Commission does when those grants
come in to go through a comprehensive
review process involving scoring online
scoring details looking at each grant
individually comparing grants putting
them in buckets depending on the city's
priorities about those buckets then
allocating funding based on the the
private the bucket priorities as well as
other things like a new upper-right
graphically represented is the community
needs assessment the city went through
that process in 2017 in creating the
community needs assessment for health
and well-being in Issaquah we're
currently using the CNA findings and
themes in our current discussions for
priorities and criteria this evening the
Commission actually has a meeting after
this this presentation will be providing
grant feedback on city specific
information that is provided as a
supplement to the shared application so
the city of Issaquah we're able to give
specific direction on the common
application that goes out to grantees
trying to best kind of hone their
responses to the kind of responses the
Commission's looking for based on
feedback we've got both from the
community needs assessment and from our
work in the city so this cycle the
Commission has several new resources
that are going to help with us I already
mentioned the community needs assessment
we've created a vision statement for the
Human Services Commission
colleague Vanessa will speak to that in
a moment but this the statements
specific to the Human Services grant
process and helps us provide some
clarity and direction the the diversity
and number of
over 70 that come in it takes some time
and some effort for us to help prot to
categorize those properly and creating
the vision that helps allow us to do
that has been I think a great step in
addition the the Commission will have
equity training the city of Issaquah
along the cities of Bellevue Kirkland
Redmond and Sammamish are working
together to bright and provide an equity
training to all human service
commissions in those respective Eastside
cities ahead of the application review
process this training will support the
Commission's effort to apply an equity
lens to its application review and
funding recommendations process we'll
have time for some questions I think
after the presentation for the second
part of this let me kick it over to
Vanessa thanks Derek as Derek shared
each funding cycle we try to improve the
process and outcomes in past cycles the
Commission has relied on the Human
Services element of the comprehensive
plan for some guidance in making its
recommendations the goals and policies
laid out in the element call out some
particular service areas and populations
but are otherwise fairly general in
their description of support feedback
from commission members after the last
cycle included a request for guidance
specific to the granting process so the
Commission decided to create a Human
Services grants vision statement the new
Human Services grants vision statement
supplements the overarching Human
Services element vision it reads the
Issaquah Human Services grants process
values equity and inclusion promotes
economic stability addresses underserved
needs and demonstrates impact in order
to better support a sustainable and
healthy community for all as we proceed
with our work to improve the funding
process the Human Services Commission
will use this vision statement as our
anchor additionally we hope that the
vision more clearly shares the intent
and importance of City supported funding
for Human Services in our community this
next slide is a look at milestones in
the
application process in March the
application will open and to funders
workshops will happen one in East King
County and one in the South the
application closes April tenth and then
staff will do an initially you of
applications and prepare materials for
Commission members the Commission
anticipates beginning its review and
deliberation of applications in May we
will meet five to eight times in total
to complete our review and
recommendation process our package of
funding recommendations should be
finalized at our September meeting and
go to Council via an agenda bill in
October or November contracts will go
into effect in January
also during past review processes there
have been opportunities to check in with
other Eastside Commission's to hear
updates on their funding deliberations
we hope to have a similar opportunity
this year before the application period
opens in early March staff will be going
before Council at the services and
Safety Committee meeting to set a
funding target for the 2019 and 2020
Human Services grants they went before
services in safety in 2016 ahead of the
last RFP as well application materials
will be finalized over the next five
years equity training will occur in
March the Commission will proceed with
its process improvement work through
April we now welcome any questions or
feedback that the council has for us
questions all thank you have a question
in your five goal areas which one would
would services for seniors fall within
so I'm just gonna jump into for some QA
with our chair and vice-chair so it
would depend on what program for a
senior so for example sound generations
meals-on-wheels falls into the roof
overhead category because it's providing
meals so it's it's based on the primary
services so if I remember correctly
didn't you said these are modeled after
the United Way categories but didn't
they D emphasized services for seniors a
couple years ago yes so United could you
update me on that the United Way of King
County no longer uses these goal areas
they came out with a new strategic plan
in 2015 with entirely new areas funded
funding areas so they no longer fund
senior programming as they have so we
have not just followed suit and so we
were staying with those older criteria
that's still we give consideration it's
not all targeted funding we give we use
our own criteria using these goal areas
we're not targeting as much as United
Way is no fkin county is correct so I
would advise that these goal areas be
considered as kind of categories and
framework so they just help us to as
Derek mentioned kind of bucket similar
programs and it's very much the intent
of the Commission to fund across
services across populations so taking
into consideration basic needs as well
as
areas of heightened need that we've
identified locally okay I do appreciate
that last comment because especially you
said across populations I was kind of
looking for that in the vision as well
so I'm just sharing that with from
everything I just received I was looking
for that and thanks for those words fill
it in for me thank you that's remember
right not even Crescent committee I
realize I should have said polishes it
comes from the winter snack but thank
you for pointing out my mistake doing my
job so so clearly there's a lot of unmet
need for human services in the community
given the disparity between the request
and the awarded so in 1718 cycle you
awarded 371 thousand dollars what was
your target for that biennial cycle for
funding so we had gone to services and
safety committee and council to set that
target amount well that that is the
target amount right on the on the nickel
yes so the Commission had that number to
work with as they were preparing their
recommendations okay and I'll mention
that's actually based on $10 per person
for the city's population plus there's
another lump sum that goes in addition
to that yes that had been set based on
kind of a per capita rate and then also
some targeted funding to better support
program serving folks experiencing
homelessness did you have a follow I'm
great thank you
that's my bootys Thank You Martha could
you just speak to generally the the goal
areas and the buckets are fairly new and
how that's helping and driving the grant
process sure and I also welcome
so Derek has gone through this process
before the funding application review
process and last cycle was the first
time we introduced the goal areas
because some of the feedback we had
heard from prior cycles is that
comparing at that time 56 applications
you know application a versus you know
application 26:45 rate and we wanted to
group like programs to better inform
funding decisions and so this framework
gave us a way to consider and you know
if there are two family shelter programs
the Commission can better kind of
compare outcomes and service levels
between those two programs and decide if
it would be best for example to fund
both or make a more significant
investment in one
and then just to follow up question it
what are the results that that you've
seen with that grouping does that mean
that for instance certain groups that
may have been funded in the past are are
not receiving funding because there are
so many within a category or are there
are there outcomes that you've that
you've talked about in your continuous
improvement process things that have
come out of using those goal areas no
defer to Derek just a moment here but I
would say that I'd I don't know that the
categorization necessarily led to you
know some programs not being funded
others being fun I think it was a way to
support making clearer comparisons
between like programs and also a way to
consider you know our you know relative
investment in one area like health care
versus another area like employment in
thinking about relative investment one
of the things we had also looked at
ahead of the last cycle was where we
were and investing those dollars Beit
within across the five goal areas and
found that there was a significantly
smaller portion of funds going towards
for example and employment and job
skills and so it helped us to identify
some areas where we potentially would
want to have more investment okay but
also understanding that there's a
funding cap and so not all applicants
would a receive funding or receive more
funding but Derek do you have anything
you'd like to add a few things thank you
I think the part of the work to had been
to you know identify as martha was
saying when we have multiple grants that
film to the same bucket or the same kind
of generally served the same folks it
would because we've got only so much
capacity meeting to meeting with so many
we would try to get through either one
or half of one or two at one meeting at
a time that would by putting them in
buckets it would allow us
than to for example say if we're dealing
with the issue of folks experiencing
homelessness and we have somebody who's
applying for funds from the city and we
would look at multiple categories sort
of next to one another for that for that
application so for example you know what
are the outcomes they're promising the
city based on the dollars and how many
of those outcomes which is maybe little
people served how many of those folks
live in Issaquah and and what is the
fiscal capacity of this grant applicant
versus the next grant applicant to be
able to provide these services and are
there any services being duplicated if
we have two qualities services and one
is saying they can serve more than that
so we kind of look at the the larger
picture that way and we also consider
the scope of what folks are asking for
if so if somebody is asking for say
$15,000 for a program that serves a
hundred people versus $2,500 for a
program that serves 10 people that may
be an equivalent however there's we need
to take an account also the
administrative cost and overhead of
going where do we do two grants for 1750
and pay double the administrative fee or
what if we can do one grant that would
better serve a larger number of people
and save that little bit of overhead so
having all those questions kind of lined
up next to each other makes it a little
bit easier I think when we're getting
sometimes very similar grant applicants
right thank you all right if you
continue and that wraps up the
presentation all right thank you very
much and then we will now I'm gonna
offer if there's anybody in the public
that wishes to speak to this measure
again we're not taking any action this
evening but I'm gonna offer an
opportunity to folks in the audience's
or anybody wishes to speak to this
before we move on I mean once going
twice
alright we will move on and next we have
ID
Oh one-seven-zero community
fun 2017 port and this is from Amy Dukes
our arts coordinator
hi I am Amy dukes I'm the arts
coordinator for the city and also
Development Officer and also part of the
staff team that supports the community
fun program so that just a refresher or
an intro the Community Fund program is a
program that supports capacity building
grants for our local nonprofits to help
them better meet their mission and
better serve our community and so in
2017 we funded eight projects to capital
projects and six projects that were
primarily for things like staffing
support staff development technology and
that totaled one hundred and thirteen
thousand dollars so tonight each of
these groups is going to come to you and
give a really brief presentation all
right five minutes or less and let you
know how they used the funding what
impact it had and feel free to ask them
questions we're gonna start with the two
capital projects and then move on to the
others and we are gonna go in reverse
alphabetical order because we never do
so there was a curveball yeah the
village theater is up first just
couldn't get it cut down all right thank
you so much for your continued support
from the city I'm Frank still ignoring
the director of development at Village
Theatre in 2017 we were awarded 25,000
which was the first of we hope will be a
four year $100,000 total grant for this
project we've also received notice that
we that for 2018 of the same amount just
to start for those in the room that
village theater is currently the largest
fully producing theater in the Pacific
Northwest
with a current budget of over thirteen
point two million we have three
facilities in historic downtown Issaquah
at the Francis J garde theater at 303
Front Street
first stage theater which is where those
theater started on Front Street at
in the original 1913 building that we
rebuilt in its likeness seven years ago
and the Craig and Joan Watson production
studios the warehouse and artist
residence residency project will be
built adjacent to the tech studios we
currently own that land and are getting
ready to move forward with the project
and we thank the city for the support of
all of the projects they have since we
started building our Capitol and 1994
when we opened the French to stay go to
theater all of our buildings including
here in Issaquah house our three major
programs since in some way our main
stage that has currently over 20,000
season subscribers and serves in the
city of Issaquah over 120,000 people
annually first stage theater which is
dedicated to our new works and youth
education programs our new works
primarily our kids stage kids stage and
Pied Piper Pied Piper and kids stage
together serve over 57,000 youth and
their families annually and to date
we've created we have touched over 165
new works several have gone on to
Broadway and to of one Tony Awards next
to normal which was written by Esquire
resident and kid stage kid Bryan Yorkie
who also won Pulitzer Prize for that
musical and Million Dollar Quartet
probably the most famous of our shows
that come out of the city of this club
so since we last met and talked about
this project there was a huge change of
scope because we were also we've also
been looking simultaneously for a place
we house our artists often we currently
rent from the apartment building next to
the theater and we went back to the
architect and said what would this look
project look like if we were to add on
top of the warehouse six apartments with
a community space
for artist residency and would that even
be possible and how much would it
decrease the overall warehouse space the
decrease was not that much the actual
decrease has come because of the
easement that's had to come the 2040s
went between the two buildings that was
that is being required but we're going
to utilize that for parking so sort of
catch-22 but the the change of the scope
has also increased the overall cost of
the project obviously we originally
considered about a 1 million dollar
project it's added about a half a
million dollars to the overall project
for 1.5 we are still committed as an
organization because of the savings that
we will see from not having to rent
warehouse space not having to rent six
apartments will still have approximately
about a hundred and twenty thousand
dollars annually to put toward paying
off a mortgage that we will have on the
property as well and let's see currently
we're in the final design engineering
and cost of construction phase so we
don't anticipate it'll go much more than
1.5 million for the project and our goal
is to move in to permitting here in
early 2018 with an anticipated
groundbreaking in the fall of 2018 and
the facility opening approximately six
to seven months after we break ground
and we're really pleased to announce
that we received a naming grant for in
300 front in the tune excuse me $300,000
from the Anderson family so Danna Porsha
Anderson who are a longtime residents of
Issaquah and dan has been on our board
for over 30 years
and so this is their legacy dan has been
committed to these capital projects
since the beginning he heads up our
Facilities Committee on the board and we
got a early Christmas present we
actually received a call two days before
Christmas from his sons and the family
has come together and in their parents
honor and awarded this grant to us
any questions did you want to yeah you
want me to just advance it let's see so
this is what the current facility looks
like you can see it has nice windows
it'll overlook the city of viswas
facilities flat right now but we
understand that that won't always be
there but it's also comfortable very
close to confluence park there'll be a
private entrance on on the right as well
as outside entrance for the building and
warehouse space will allow for props
scenery and costume
storage down below and up above six
apartments are contracts with Actors
Equity require that each actor have
their own bathroom as well as a
kitchenette of some sort within their
place that they stay and so these allow
we've actually walked into areas that
are this big if you walk through IKEA
there are whole pod vents that are about
the size that have that will probably
end up looking very similar with a full
kitchen laundry facility with multiple
washers and dryers and a kitchen and
common area I think that's it
any questions from the dais all right
thank you very much thank you very much
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yep
good good evening council members I'm
Christy Gerard I'm the executive
director for Highlands Council and our
offices are at Blakely Hall and I'm here
tonight to thank you so much for the
$15,000 grant that we were awarded last
year to improve the acoustics inside
Blakely Hall we installed sound baffling
panels on the perimeter walls to improve
the overall acoustical experience and
protect the reputation of this beloved
community resource best told in pictures
I think at Blakely Hall we're busier
than we've ever been
we have 25 free clubs and groups that
are resident volunteer led in 2017 we
held six community-wide meetings many of
those were with partnership in the city
of us cloth we hosted five receptions
with art East as likely Hall serves as a
gallery space for this organization for
events by the Squa school district or as
cost Schools Foundation we had three
live music events and the photo that you
see here is from November
standing-room-only Veterans Day ceremony
which was really beautiful and so in
this photo you can see the panels near
the the ceiling of the room I think we
are well known as an organization as a
community for a very diverse population
and just in 2017 alone we hosted eight
different multicultural celebrations
that's these two photos while they're
not the best photos show the acoustical
panels at work and so the photo on the
left is from the Chinese Heritage's
clubs mooncake festival and on the right
is from October's Diwali celebration
and I would like to personally thank you
as the mentor for the Highlands youth
advisory board the this group of teen
leaders produce a events for their peers
at Blakely Hall and we did six events
last year and since the sound baffling
went in I go home with no headache
anymore so let's first just had to throw
that in there as a personal thank-you
and pictured here was the first of four
campaign forums that we hosted for last
summer and fall last Wednesday we had a
community-wide meeting in partnership
with the city of Issaquah to discuss
continue the discussions around traffic
and pedestrian safety and just in the
first quarter of 2018 is a list of the
events that we have on the schedule we
have a free father-daughter dance
Chinese New Year celebration a Bollywood
concert a seminar on Environment and
spirituality to gardening seminars a
Purim celebration Latino Club will
celebrate Children's Day and then a teen
flashlight egg hunt that takes you
through the end of March so we couldn't
we're able to host these events and make
it a really high-quality experience
because of the generosity of the city of
this quad I just want to say thank you
very much thank you any questions does
it look like there are anything thank
you yes all right
me next
I am Therese Farid zadeh and I am the
founder and executive director of the
tavern Learning Centre we provide a post
high school education solution with
people who have intellectual and
developmental disabilities and I want to
thank you so much for the ten thousand
dollar grant you gave us we used it for
business model development and staff
training it really helped us take our
program to the next level so with this
money we were able to complete our
business model as of October 1st which
was when we implemented it we had our
staff trained in task analysis positive
behavior support and functional
academics and as of the end of the year
75 percent of our members had
pre-vocational goal this is just a
visual of our program model so we serve
adults with intellectual and
developmental disabilities over the age
of 18 years we have four programing
areas daily living functional academics
recreation and community connection we
have a very hands-on or experienced
shell based learning we use peer coaches
in order to implement our programs so
most of our staff are our young people
in their 25 to 30 s and I intentionally
hire people this age being a mother of a
young woman who's 34 and has a
disability she'd much rather hang out
with her peers and hang out with her
mother so you know they just have
different different interests on our
program it functions in four different
environments our outdoor garden so we
have six acres up on black nugget road
where our facility is that's our what we
call our home center we have our life
labs so we've rented another house right
on black nugget where we do our
functional academics program and then
we're out in the community on almost
every day our outcomes are independence
friendship community connection
confidence self-worth having fun the
caregivers get a break and parents have
a peace of mind that their son or
daughter is continuing to learn in a
safe environment the learning portion in
order to have this type of a program it
was important that we were able to
educate our staff so we worked with
Terry Johnson who's an expert in
systematic instruction which is
basically taking a task and breaking it
down into very small parts so anybody
can do a piece of that task we had Terry
follow up with her staff in February in
March and then we worked with candy
steyr who created the starfish Darrell
curriculum for functional academics this
is a curriculum that is in the
transition programs in many high schools
across the country so those are the 18
to 21 year old programs where where
people with disabilities can transition
into after high school we're the first
adult program that is using this this
curriculum so they're really excited to
see our outcomes with this and that's it
questions
thank you so much thank you
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hi I'm Erica Manny as I'm with the
Issaquah history museums and we received
a grant of three thousand dollars to
help support our individual fundraising
so a few years ago just to put this in
some context our organization did a lot
of strategic planning in order to try
and figure out how we were going to meet
the needs of its akua's today's
community the contemporary community
that's living here and from there we
went on to a facilities plan and the
city kindly helped pay for a feasibility
study to figure out the best place and
the best way to store our artifacts and
so the the emphasis on fundraising came
from the idea that we were soon going to
be launching a capital campaign so we
did a project with the u-dub the
fundraising certificate program and one
of the things that they recommended in
order to improve our fundraising and
development was to invest in a donor
database and to do some donor
strategizing so funds from the city
enabled us to to invest in donor search
was a which is a prospect database and
we were able to identify the people that
we currently have as prospects who we
should develop and come up with a
development plan for them it also helped
us identify about 2,500 other prospects
who we can reach out to and so in the
coming year we're planning on having a
couple different mailings to these
people to let them know about our
programs and our events and to try and
start building a relationship with a new
group of potential donors who we haven't
reached out to in the past it's a small
gift so it's sort of a small report but
it's made a huge impact and I'd be happy
to answer any questions you guys have
thank you so much ok thank you
the mouth hi my name is Jennifer doot
I'm the executive director of friends of
lakes Manor State Park and I want to
just thank the council for your ongoing
support our 2017 grant award was a 25
thousand dollar capacity building grant
for staffing thank you
and so you're a grant I'm going to jump
right into some of the things we've done
in 2017 we really we've done a lot of
enhancements to the park you can see we
installed and dedicated a native plant
trail in partnership with the Snoqualmie
tribe we part we've done numerous
restoration events in the park with
mounts to Sound Greenway our AmeriCorps
service member in the city of Issaquah
and we continue to do those restoration
events if not monthly every other month
we publicize not only our own we have
for signature felissa events but every
month we're publicizing three to four
events in the park because the park the
state parks don't really have the
bandwidth to do that so we've brought in
you can see we brought in almost more
than five thousand guests into the park
with our own events and promoting the
AVP beer garden special needs play days
and get outdoors Expo which is a big
event which promotes all kinds of
activities to get outdoors and then
there's a myriad of other events and you
can see that Park attendance has
increased 150 cents since the opening of
the all-access playground in 2016 and so
these are just some of the things that
we do we really advocate and just
support everything that's going on in
the park
and I know last time we had a big
discussion on our finances and how our
revenue was heavily grant-based and you
can see in the last couple years we've
made really strong strides the blue
portion is grants the orange is
fundraising and the remainder is
individual giving so you can see how the
percentage has really flipped from
relying on the grants from the city of
Sammamish in the city vista qua down to
in 2018 our conservative budget is that
your grants are less than half of our
entire budget so I think so what would
that if if I was looking at that in
absolute dollars rather than fractions
how would that look over time well our
budget in 2018 is about ninety six
thousand dollars and the grants make up
about thirty-five thousand dollars of
that and how would that compare let's
say to 2015 well 2015 the grants where
you could see we're almost the full
percentage of our budget which was maybe
forty fifty thousand dollars back then
so these grants have really enabled us
to grow capacity in terms of staffing in
terms of what we can accomplish as an
organization right thank you
other questions I think I have one more
slide here when we just we wanted to
refer to the importance of our group in
terms of tourism and as well we all know
that the park is amazing and that it's a
respite for humans and important to the
wildlife in our area but we also want to
make sure that we bring in in tourists
into this area and the park was
identified as one of the six most
important places and it's a quad that
tourists want to come to and so when you
support the Friends group you help us
advocate and support the park which is
really integral to bringing tourism
dollars into Issaquah and Sammamish
because when people come here obviously
they shop they eat in restaurants and so
we just wanted to and this was based on
a 2014 study that the city of us are
quite did on tourism
and so we just wanted to thank you for
your ongoing support
you're obviously integral to our success
this grant has enabled us to increase
executive director hours we're now at 25
hours a week and we've added an
Operations Manager and we have a social
media consultant so you've really am you
know enabled us to really do great
things in the park we want to thank you
for that it's like there are any other
questions thank you so much thank you
thank you good evening and thank you for
supporting Phish I'm Robin Kelly
executive director of Friends of the
Iroquois Salmon Hatchery for fish and
you awarded to us $10,000 this year
because mid year last year our executive
director gave her notice it had been a
part-time position but the board was
fully aware that it needed to be a
full-time position so when she left they
made it a full-time position but it was
mid budget so they hadn't budgeted for
that increased salary and so this really
bridged that gap so we appreciate it and
increasing that time allowed me as the
executive director to put much more time
into research and strategies into
funding organizations and funding
sources that we hadn't ever been able to
do before because there just wasn't time
so with that not only was I learning the
job it took a little bit longer for us
to use the hours for the fundraising
training because I was also learning the
job but that worked out well because it
integrated together with the training so
as I was learning it the job I was
learning how I could do it better and
more efficiently and so we we were able
to spend a lot more time on potential
funding organizations we still do that
what I've learned through a lot of my
training I'm able to keep implementing
also with the
additional staff time last year we were
able to submit and be awarded the
community environmental award from the
city of Issaquah and the Community
Citizen of the Year from the grange
organization in Issaquah and why that's
important is because often as new
applicants for grants you're not known
and so it helps add to our collateral
materials and credentials as we do apply
so with the professional training
there's a series the spark the fire
grant writing that covers a lot of the
different elements and even though I
come from an organization that did a lot
of sponsorships those are different than
grants and what they're looking for is
different so that really helped me
understand it I also was able to work
with two different mentors who looked at
the property that we have in the assets
that we have and talked about what kind
of organizations would be interested
that maybe we hadn't ever approached
before we talked about the stem
awareness now in our school district
because so much of what we do is
education with youth and so how we could
make sure that the story our our story
brought that to the forefront so that as
we were approaching foundations that had
more of a science base that this would
align more obviously for them and then
also we were able to subscribe to a
weekly grant publication that we'd not
had funding to do before that gave us
the ability an easier way to have access
to a lot of potential new grants with
the increase of time and the skills and
knowledge we increased one grant alone
by four times and I think that that's
significant just with one we were able
to take on the new project with the
additional time and work with the Arts
Commission to do a community project
where we worked with all different parts
of our community to have a mosaic
stained glass salmon wall at the
hatchery and
again part of why that significant is it
builds awareness of the organization it
empowers and incorporates more of the
community into the organization so when
we're talking to groups then the name of
friends and fish is known more readily
than it had been in the past and with
that it also gave us the chance for
media coverage that we wouldn't have had
without that project so there was a real
value to that attention as well the
other new project we were able to do was
work with an Eagle Scout candidate on
his Eagle Scout project which was the
commemorative bricks or pavers and that
generated over ten thousand dollars of
anticipated income for us which was
significant and it's ongoing because it
didn't have an end in sight that also
gave us the opportunity for much more
media attention and public outreach than
we'd had in the past
and just as some numbers we were able in
the previous year to submit grants to
about 12 funding organizations or do
significant work to know if it was
appropriate to send to those twelve and
in 2017 there were 27 organizations that
we identified as real potential funders
and depending on their funding cycles we
might have missed their funding cycle
but now we understand it and know it and
can move forward with that information
and with the mentors and this additional
outreach we also had 13 additional
sponsors and donors that were identified
that would align with the type of work
that we do we also have salmon talks
which are relevant topics to attract
corporate sponsors we're paying more
attention to those we presented one in
2017 and we already have three planned
for 2018 and again relative to the
outreach and the contacts that will
align with our mission and initiatives
we're looking at another art project
because that was so successful and
brought so much
attention to the organization and also
built a lot of community in what we do
where it wasn't just the school kids
coming on the buses in the fall but it
was really people that were engaged in
our activity centers throughout the year
we're working on our summer camp
enrollment with this extra time and with
sponsors and corporate funding to make
sure that we can have it be attractive
and robust to attract other families and
donors and then also as I mentioned
before just the stem-based outreach
because it is science-based curriculum
the schools are changing how they're
looking at science fairs and those types
of activities with the school and the
students and so making sure that we
understand their new approach and
dialogue and that we align with it so
the students aren't hearing one thing at
school and then they get to the hatchery
and we're using some other vernacular
terminology where there's a disconnect
for them and their families and if there
are any questions I just want to say
that mosaic is gorgeous really it was
beautiful when it went in and saw that
the first weekend that was there and so
it's it's it's really added quite a bit
thank you I have to share literally
today we had someone come into our
office from Arizona who had done a
Google search of mosaics and it came up
and she was coming to find the mosaic
that was at the hatchery it's awesome
yeah whole new revenue stream for
tourism
thank you thank you
good evening everyone
thank you for your ongoing support of at
work and for the $20,000 capacity grant
and I'd also like to commend you because
not often do funders invest in
infrastructure and capacity it's really
hard to fight those kinds of resources
and as you can tell is making a
significant impact as it did for at work
over the last couple of years at work
has been working on a technology
improvement project and we have become
electronic ID we have no paper files for
the people we serve the staff that work
with people out the community they enter
all of their case notes and time they
spend through mobile apps and a
customized system that allows us to
really capture what we're doing and
track our outcomes and for at work our
name is our goal we help people with
intellectual and developmental
disabilities get good jobs because it
gives them full and meaningful life and
all of those intrinsic things that you
get from contributing and working and
they pay taxes and they contribute to
the bottom line of many businesses here
in Issaquah and throughout all of King
County and so that's our primary goal
plus the goal of this project then was
to increase our effectiveness through
technology improvements and these are
all folks who either live and/or work in
Issaquah at places like Microsoft the
glass lamp Bar and Grill and YMCA and
Costco so you helped us purchase some
new software you helped us hire IT
consultant and really drill down into
what we needed to take the next step in
that electronification so we needed
electronic timekeeping time and
attendance we needed a really good human
resource management system that could
help us not only track time so that we
could do better work and more efficient
work but to track the staff training
that's required for our staff to be
credentialed and work out in the field
and so we have a whole new system in
place that staff have been trained on
that has been functional for the last
several months and is giving us a lot
better data that managers can use to
serve people better and more effectively
then we'd went to the next step of
really looking at our financial software
systems because it all needs to tie in
with the time and attendance and the
record-keeping for the kinds of services
we deliver so we can calculate the cost
benefit and know that if we're spending
our time in a certain area well actually
getting the return on the investment
that we want and that we're not wasting
money on additional admin or things that
aren't getting us to that goal of a
really good job for someone so we really
did some in depth needs analysis and
didn't get to the place of actually
picking the final software we will do
that on Friday of this week we got
because we had another a couple of new
software introduced as this consultants
working with us really understood our
situation and we have a really big hairy
audacious goal to serve 1101 people by
2021 and right now we're at about 350 I
think and this has allowed us to get a
lot closer to that so we really are
looking towards the future with those
decisions that we're making and so we
had some outcomes that we had put in the
grant and we exceeded them we said we
would start we would serve 50 new people
there's about 5,000 people in King
County that want employment services
that have an intellectual and
developmental disability we were able to
serve 80 which is twice the number of
people most people we've ever brought in
new in any previous year so and that's
not all the technology improvement
project but a lot of it is of managing
caseloads and geographies and time that
staff has been increasing billable time
being able to capture what a staff does
and if it's available being able to
build that to our government funders
that is a lot a result of this project
so a twenty thousand dollar investment
for her three hundred thousand dollar
return is pretty good and some of that's
from those new people coming in that are
bringing fees it's also from that
efficiency we gained it's huge
you know staff have gone from billable
time of a hundred hours a month to one
hundred and thirty and that means a lot
more people are getting served
and getting the dream jobs that they
want and it allowed us to hire more
staff and it also allowed us to increase
compensation for staff to be more
competitive in our area to reduce
retention
I mean reduce turnover and improve
retention which is really important we
had 75 job placements last year the most
ever in the first quarter of this year
we've already placed 25 we're going to
hit over a hundred this year we know for
sure nine new job placements in Issaquah
Malarkey's Safeway Papa Murphy's do on
at work's
owned landscaping business QFC the
corner bakery cafe and fred meyer we're
supporting right now 30 Issaquah
citizens with supported employment
whether that's job development training
or coaching and keeping them in their
job and this was a huge goal of ours we
were having to keep our front door shut
people were knocking help me serve me
help me find a job and we kept having to
shut it when we would get to capacity we
had a goal to keep the front door open
and guess what it is now so thank you
very much questions don't remember right
I have a quick question we'll also a
comment I mean I think it's amazing what
you've done with a little bit of seed
money to to really turn things around
how big is the organization organization
at work has grown in the last five years
from three and a half million to six and
has grown from serving about 200 people
to close to 400 next year and 70 staff
now we used to have five employment
consultants when we really started
focusing on community integrated
employment and now we have 35 awesome
thank you you're welcome
any other questions all right thanks
hello I'm Jennifer right I'm the
executive director at our East and I'm
the last presentation so it's kind of
exciting I wanted to talk about our
expanded education program and really
just thank you for being able to support
us on this we are an organization that
does education exhibitions we have a
juried gallery we support a lot of the
community events and we are really
focused on our volunteers we have a huge
base of volunteers and they're really
excited so in the past they've always
said if somebody wanted to do a class
they'd say hey that's great and they
just put a class together and so we kind
of had a schedule where it was a little
bit ad hoc and we couldn't really
predict what our results were or predict
finances for it so by having a single
point of contact for our education
program and have an education manager we
have really changed the way that we're
able to just represent the community and
be able to build programming for the
community so what we wanted to be able
to do was actually look at things from a
programming perspective which we are
we're looking at all of our constituents
of kids teens and adults and be able to
provide programming around that we have
been able to manage and market camps for
kids which has been really valuable we
hadn't done that in the past as much and
more importantly just be able to provide
a consistent calendar of always having
classes open I guess the next night
either arrow key and then there we go so
some of the things that we were able to
do with this funding was be able to flex
with our needs for the people we were
trying to reach and the things that we
knew were popular so we were able to
leverage some different marketing
outlets to be able to reach more kids
and be able to do more camps we will be
we were able to reprioritize the way
that we were communicating with people
we've had a website if you've been to
our website I'm sorry
we're changing it it's really hard to
register for classes and it really kind
of has
has stifled some of our growth in that
area so that's something that we're able
to focus on now because we've had a
single point of contact for the
education program and we were able to
remodel some of our underutilized spaces
like the annex we've been able to do
classes we saw that there was a need for
more glass classes we were able to take
one of our spaces and change that so we
can do more classes there and the
outcomes are just we've been able to
flex so if we have more kids that want
to do more summer camps we've been able
to change that where before we weren't
able to make those adjustments so
quickly because we weren't able to look
at something holistically we've been
able to get a lot more repeat students
especially with our teams we have six
and eight week classes and there's a lot
of people that are signing up for those
so that's exciting we have been able to
increase our class size each quarter and
in the summer camps up 60% from 2016 so
a lot of growth a lot of repeat people
in the community and we think that's
great
and again just make it making sure that
we've got a consistent schedule of the
things that we're doing and this is one
of the grants where you provided fifteen
thousand last year we've got ten
thousand for next year and that kind of
programming of being able to help us
figure this out and build a foundation
has been so helpful for us because now
that we've been able to see that we can
flex and see that we can provide this
kind of programming we've really
expanded for 2018 to say that across the
year we have four themes that we will
build to and on those themes we will
have studios free Studios from people to
come in and try new art classes that
follow that and then be able to work
with Dia to have big Saturday events
that all map to those themes so by
having a consistent resource in
education we wouldn't have been able to
do that without that so thank you did
you have any questions Oh looks like we
don't thank you very much
anything else Amy unless you have
questions for me it was a requirement of
the grants that they would come report
back to you on their outcomes and so
John twenty-eight our 2019 the 2018
group will come do the same kind of
presentation wonderful and with that
I'll ask if there anybody in the public
that wishes to speak to the Community
Grants No
all right Paul I just want to make
comment Amy I remember maybe two years
ago when you and others within the staff
proposed taking this program and
changing some of the criteria and
allowing for capacity building not just
capital but also in soft skills and
capabilities and this is a really great
demonstration thanks for everybody who
did show up just seeing these results
knowing that we can take our public
money and enable you to be more
effective and reach more of your clients
and have that broad of an effect on
members of this community is this
thrilling to see and the whole concept a
lot of that concept came from Amy and
others and the staff so thank you and
thank to thanks to all of you as well
yeah I think a few of our grantees
pointed out this is really difficult
money for them to receive I mean funders
really aren't lining up to fund you know
new payroll systems but it's something
that can truly make a difference and
really help them meet their mission so
we're really pleased with where it's
going excellent alright and with that
we're gonna move on to ID 0 180 3 which
is the i-90 interchange justification
report
and it's can be presented by Cathy
George with the Washington State
Department of Transportation lost your
quorum there
you're probably gonna have to show me
how to use this thing okay
you sure that's not if the count
which one's ours is this it yeah
yeah yeah we do these are the challenges
we have when we have one common
operating system and one common
presentation tool just think didn't how
much harder it would be hi I'm Cathy
George I'm with the Washington State
Department of Transportation
I am the engineering manager over a good
chunk of the connecting Washington
program in King I should be loud enough
I pick King in Snohomish County and we
thank you for inviting us today to talk
about the project so before I start I'm
here to talk about the i-90 Front Street
IJ our project that the legislature
funded as part of connecting Washington
but before I start like to introduce our
team my boss John White who is the
assistant Regional Administrator of King
and Snohomish counties is not here today
but Tim now is my assistant project
engineer Adam Emerson and my consultant
team working on the project Hilma
Jimenez and Dennis Sandstrom Hilma is
with a BAM and Dennis is with enviro
issues so couldn't do it without them so
why we're here so since you probably
don't know what an IJ are is I'm going
to give a very brief overview of the
interchange and just a justification
reports provide an introduction to the
i-90 Front Street project and then give
you some last minute updates on some of
the other big projects we're doing
through connecting Washington on the
i-90 corridor
what is an ijr and and how is it used
so interstate justification report which
is what ijr stands for is a report
required by the Federal Highway
Administration to make a break in
interstate access so revised and
existing access or add a new one and
what we do as part of that report is
look at traffic existing and future
traffic existing safety and project
safety in the future look at planning
and make sure that whatever is getting
looked at is consistent with whatever
you're planning growth is and the big
thing with the IJ R's and the feds is
that the big goal is to show no
degradation to the existing I'm sorry
not used to using these show no
degradation to the interstate due to its
its importance to the region not that
it's not just important to you but at
the same time they concede that you know
that's also the access point for all the
local communities and you know it has an
impact on your transportation system so
how we tie this together is to balance
the local the regional and federal
purpose of the interstate is that we
have to answer a question for them would
local improvements meet the purpose in
need of the project and if it's yes then
we don't do an IJ are we pursue other
options and they're balanced I'm going
to get into that with this and then if
not then we move forward with the
interstate justification report so
little history where this came from
in 2012 we put together a corridor study
out along i-90 it went from Bellevue out
to North Bend it was a commitment that
we made to the federal highways
following the sunset interchange project
they wanted to make sure that we had a
30-year vision of what was priority out
there and and as a result of that we
identified 12 improvement projects three
of which were in the city of Issaquah so
those three projects or three projects
were the i-90 PQ shoulder project which
is under design at the moment and then
improvements at Front Street interchange
to options that they identified as a
starting point in the study were a tight
diamond interchange at Front Street
which is similar to a normal interchange
the ramps are just a bit closer and the
signals work are coordinated together to
work in unison and single-point urban
interchange which is top right corner
and that all the ramps go through one
signal it's a lot more efficient than
two signals but as you can see it takes
a lot more space right now we have these
there's one down near Safeco Field one
up in Everett at 41st so if you're if
you've ever driven those that's what
they look like
nationwide solution statewide solution
they're all over the state the other
thing that came out of that report was
identification of some new crossings in
central Issaquah so either something at
11th or 12th to connect north/south a
multimodal option to get traffic across
the highway since existing I think am i
right that there are three ways to get
across right now if you don't count West
Lake Sammamish Parkway so you know that
would be front the new one which of
course fourth thank you fourth and then
17th which is State Route 900 so anyways
as part of this ijr study all of this
gets encompassed in it's not just Front
Street it incorporates everything that
came out of those studies and we're also
showing the central Issaquah plan B
because that actually identified these
projects also so let's say scope so what
are we doing as part of this project
we're developing an interstate just
offical we're looking at developing a
preferred alternative for potential
improvements for Front Street
interchange area and as part of that
study we're looking way out to 18 all
the way to 405 quite a ways south which
I'll discuss further the study that
we're putting together is we're required
to complete it by June of 2019 but our
goal is to get it done by December and a
December so that the city or other
interested stakeholders can pursue
funding to move further with whatever
preferred alternative would be and our
budget for this project is about 2.3
million outcomes of the study are
identifying existing and future traffic
demands identifying impacts from
different potential improvements on the
regional road network we want to make
sure that whatever we pick it doesn't
screw it you know have unintended
consequences select a preferred
alternative and have a document so that
people can pursue further funding so
this is a overview of our study we had
noticed to proceed last quarter late
November I believe we are currently in
the process of collecting data and
getting stakeholder input which I'll
discuss a little bit further after we
get off of this be doing further travel
demand forecasting and and looking at is
there a local solution that doesn't have
to touch the freeway
that's always a possibility it doesn't
happen very often but and if there is
then we conclude the ijr study and have
to discuss next steps if no then we go
to well the next phase but actually
before you get there
local improvements if it so the next
step then would be identified
identifying and selecting a preferred
alternative to the solution it's not
necessarily an interchange but it's the
outcome of the of the ijr so it's
whatever's going to work best and then
put together the interchange
justification report and environmental
scan so it's a preliminary environmental
report until you really get funding for
design really doesn't make sense to
start a significant environmental
process because it expires and and that
would also involve some preliminary
engineering and a conceptual level cost
estimate so
let's see so as I mentioned we're doing
data collection right now this is how
big of an area we're looking at the
model we're using is the Puget Sound
Regional Council model and what's slight
am I on 11 I think so we're using the
Puget Sound Regional Council model and
updating that with data that we're
collecting in town and modeling starting
an initial model to make sure that that
what we're starting with is reflective
of what is actually happening in
Issaquah in the previous slide you
talked about a local solution that
didn't touch the freeway or something
like that could you give me an exam what
were you what's an example of that well
you know potentially a crossing would
not require an AI jr. so if I did
something over the freeway the feds
would want to be involved in that but I
might not have to do a full study local
roadway improvements it doesn't happen
very often and I don't anticipate it
here because you're kind of constrained
in the north end with you know parallel
streets but say up in Marysville they
didn't have a very complete local
network so some of the things they had
to show first is that all they connected
together their local network and that
they weren't relying on the freeway to
solve the city problems I don't see that
happening here you have a lake to the
north you have a lot of streets to the
South that are constrained right now
so the original corridor study I thought
you said earlier did identify the
intersection number gets
17 at Front Street that that it had
there was a need for improvements there
so it autumn I mean just the scope of
that that report I thought it was what
justified the age our I mean we're
looking at the intersection we're
looking at that location but again we're
gonna look at a need and then make sure
that whatever the solution is addresses
that need that was kind of a very
cursory look as part of the corridor
study this actually looks specifically
at that location so there's some cry
tears some way of measuring the
performance of interchange let's say at
Front Street mix number 17 and this
study will look at that in more detail I
don't know what those parameters are and
and maybe determine that no improvements
are possible or not needed I'm still not
sure well it depends what our overall
need is if you're trying to get traffic
north and south and you've got a
two-lane facility going on Front Street
you know the question is is will the
interchange solve all the problems
you're looking to solve or are there
other options that might help with that
you're saying then we city of Issaquah
because the that particular project is
within kind of our boundary where the
key stakeholder that obviously there's
other stakeholders but we have some type
of performance outcome that we would
like to see and so that'll be your
primary project objective well I think
so if we go a little one of the things
we'll be doing with our stakeholder
group which is going to involve the city
and it also includes a lot of other
stakeholders is identify what need we're
trying to fix and make sure everybody's
on board then we collect data we we do
models to see how each alternative that
can possibly you know that I'm sure
they're more than two alternatives that
can solve it
a lot of times some of those just don't
work and some some do so I don't want to
say there are only two ways to fix it I
guess I'm still a little bit confused
because when you jump as far as earlier
you mentioned you know potentially a
tight diamond or something like that
when you go as far as identifying
potential solutions that tells me
somebody's pretty sure there's an issue
that needs to be resolved so now I'm
hearing well we don't really know what
the out Stan what the issues are well we
have congestion there but I need to make
sure everybody's on the same page as to
what issue we're trying to solve and you
know is it getting people on the freeway
is it getting people away from the
freeway the bottom line is you've got a
lot of traffic going down Front Street
right now mm-hmm
fixing the freeway might not solve that
problem if that's what the goal of the
study is okay so what so you had your
time did you have a time line up earlier
was that a time line or those are just
phases they're just phases but the time
line is we'll have in six months where
we're expecting that we will know is
there a local solution or is it a
freeway solution I'm not after after
after all the stakeholders agreed to
what problem is we're trying to solve or
exact performance level we're trying to
achieve which we don't have yet
and I can't build on what you're talking
about right so this is my understanding
from what you're saying we did the
corridor study and we said the French
Street interchange is not operating in
an optimal manner from that study I have
the same questions that councilmember
winter Stein has which is okay well but
what is the problem we're trying to
solve so what I'm kind of picking up
from you so you can tell me if I'm wrong
is that we will now go into a study
period to say okay what is the
underlying cause of the congestion we
see on
on exit 17 and therefore is there
interchange solution to it or is there
another solution to it or is there no
solution to it am I on base Rob I think
that's reasonable okay and remember it's
been five years an awful lot of traffic
growth since then do I do do I think
there's another solution I mean anything
we do when they did this corridor say
they did not do a big model that looked
at everything and we want to make sure
that whatever gets done out there it
doesn't have unintended consequences
elsewhere that people didn't anticipate
that takes a traffic model to confirm I
think the key point for me because I was
kind of struggling also trying to
understand what your goal was because
you were then talking about well then
we'll look at our goal so really we have
identified a problem and now our next
step is to really unravel that problem
to understand well you know what the
root cause is and what solution might be
that's correct
had I been organized well enough I would
have picked up as I you know that I
would have brought up the identify the
need and yes congestion is the need you
know getting rid of the congestion is
the need but you know we'll we'll put
together specific goals and we'll be
able to answer them with the modeling
that we do let me try to put wrap it all
together and put a bow around it the
study's supposed to be finalized in June
of 2019 it's a two point three million
dollar study part of this study it
sounds like is you're going to be coming
back and saying what your understanding
of the the problem is what you've heard
from the stakeholders and and what
potential solutions would do to address
the the problems that you've heard with
it with the interchange that's correct
okay great good good we should move on
please Thanks
all right start sorry for the confusion
that's why we're here get to answer
these questions so again as I said
we look at the model the other thing
that we're going to pull in is something
called a dynamic traffic assignment
model so what that does is for each
alternative we have it says what traffic
'l where traffic will move around as we
all know there's something called google
maps if it's faster to go another way
people will go that way
that's can't stop them unless you make
it slower so there are improvements
going on projected to go along 18 that
i'll talk about a little bit later if we
make fixes does that bring more traffic
to you you know those are the things we
want to make sure more traffic to
something you know that we're fixing so
and what that does is it takes into
account congestion other drivers transit
signal timings it's it's more than we
usually do on these studies we're doing
this up in Lake Stevens as part of our
u.s. - we looked at it to see where
people are going and and what changes
would reflect that so so let's see you
can move on so what else we're doing is
collecting data from all these signal
locations in the city so make sure we
have a firm grasp of what's going on and
what will happen when we make
improvements each alternative how it how
it performs a question here yeah
Sheldon you may be able to help us as
well in the not-too-distant future there
will be new intersections in town in
proximity to this interchange that I'm
guessing would have little red circles
around them - if they were actually
operational today but they're gonna be
very soon so so with the chance so it's
a dynamic environment we have the 62nd
Street extension that's under
construction should be complete by the
end of this year
what's the impact of not including that
or how should we how should we view the
fact that this study won't account for
what what the impact of that project is
gonna have washed out is aware of that
project and its completion date and I
believe that will be included in the
model I just right now it's not possible
to collect data right on those
intersections because they don't exist
yet right and I think I heard him say I
think Cathy said earlier that you're in
data collection right now and so yeah
that's that's gonna so there's nobody
traveling and on 4th Avenue right now
that's the one that's closed she
mentioned the three and but that one
that it was opened back up I mean the
the patterns of circulation inside
Issaquah will change when 62nd Street is
done right one of the first things that
we'll be doing in our analysis is
identifying a list of projects that are
gonna be open in 20 years and open in 40
years or some area within that and our
model then includes then we use the data
from today to calibrate the model for
today and then we show these
intersections open in different years so
you will be able to see all the projects
that you have planned within the city
that are capital funding funded projects
those will also be included in our model
for what we call the year of opening
which is almost like a projection of
when the project would be completed
which right now we're thinking is 2025
and then we will be looking also at
projects that will be open in 2045 which
is probably gonna be our design year and
we're not only looking at your projects
but we're also looking at projects from
Sound Transit all the other King County
all washed-out projects everything
that's funded within the study area the
large study area that Kathy showed that
are projected to be open and are funded
right now okay so the sickest 62nd
Street extension though you're
collecting data now at those red circles
all we can do is model what's going to
happen on 62nd Street
and we will use that we will so we will
use the timing and the information we
have now to calibrate the models to make
sure that the models are telling the
truth or at least closest to the truth
based on what we know today and then we
use then those models at the new
intersections to them predict use some
of the DTA analysis the dynamic traffic
assignment analysis that Kathy just
mentioned to see how traffic will shift
once I open up a bottleneck in one area
does it move the traffic to this other
area and based on the capacity of the
new intersection you'll be able to tell
just about how many vehicles would show
up at that intersection though because
we don't have the information today yeah
then that's vitally important because
I'm pretty sure today there's a lot of
Issaquah residents and even
non-residents that are mingling with
your I 90 customers just to circulate
inside the city and when 4th Street
opens back up in the 62nd Street
extension oaks of those Issaquah
residents we're just trying to circulate
in town I won't be mingling as much at
exits number 15 and 17 that'll change
absolutely and one of the things that
what we're doing right now is that we've
done a pretty extensive big data
collection through self cell phone
tracking of origins and destinations so
right now we're quantifying this big
data to see how many vehicles are
actually just going through the
interchange that have no business in the
city of this across started someplace
and ended someplace else and or vehicles
that are coming in are stopping within
your city and what are the patterns that
they're taking we're using all of this
information to calibrate our models and
make better predictions so that what we
can solve them we're trying to identify
what that actual problem is as opposed
to what the perceived problem may be and
what you're using the data to tell us
what that is thank you thank you for
that explanation so I think the other
thing is also pulling some data from
before you closed forth because because
of that is Sheldon close fourth we
didn't close
well we didn't help things out with our
fish passage a little bit sooner than
that so let's see so as I said we're
working with with local stakeholders
we've identified these stakeholders that
we're going to be interviewing this is
not a total list this is what we're
starting with as other stakeholders
regional stakeholders on this list get
identified that that there's value that
that we're told that there's value in
interviewing they will be added to the
list and then some of these stakeholders
are invited to be on our support team so
as we put together the IGR
I'll get to that in a second they're
gonna be active in in the ijr helping us
but I'll get there in a second we're
also going out interviewing local
stakeholders to get their views on what
the issue is observations we found this
very valuable on our i-90 PQ shoulder
and on our project up on us to to go out
and talk to stakeholders before we
started not going in with pre assumed
assumptions because you guys are the
people who use it the the region you
know we're over in shoreline and don't
live out here so this gets us some of
that data
we're also if there enough of these
stakeholders interested and other
business groups that get identified we
will be looking at a study interest
group to brief them separate than the
technical the technical committee that's
just going to get a little bit too big
if we if we have both groups together
but to provide briefings to this and
then this is our support team so as
Hilma puts together the ijr and works
with her team of consultants she'll be
presenting this data to
this support team and and others if
others are identified who can question
question what we're coming up with ask
other questions make sure we're not
missing anything so stake holder but
what how many meetings in the next six
months
IG our support 7ij our support meetings
in the next six months six months we're
interviewing seven stakeholders between
the two back and and more if necessary
so we're hoping from this that you know
we can get stakeholder perspective in
addition to the data that we're
collecting as Helmut said to make sure
then that was a very good clarification
that the actual need is consistent with
the perceived so IJ our support team
their role will be to help develop the
purpose and need statement based on the
data provide guidance and support to our
I J our consultant do T team evaluate
data based on on what we're providing
identify help us identify alternatives
that can solve whatever problems issues
that we're seeing and review their
results and they'll help make the
recommended recommendation on the
preferred alternative so we are looking
forward to moving on with with this
project and can be back within the next
six months or when we get you know
recommendation from Sheldon that we have
enough information that you guys would
be interested in but definitely before
we move forward with a preferred
alternative so that's all I have to say
about i-90 okay Kathy on your regional
partners slide I understand the
proximity of the Snoqualmie tribe but
you also lists the Stillaguamish and the
mukil shoots what what is there what's
their stake in this
those are what native and accustomed
hunting fishing grounds
so we're required to include them in
there they're not as far as I know they
haven't shown interest but we're
required to contact and see if they have
an interest in participating so usually
I mean still why I actually I knew the
Yakama because we ran into that with the
PQ shoulder project but the
Stillaguamish kind of surprised me but
on the whole if it's not you know if
we're not impacting fish culverts
typically not a lot of interest in being
involved in the project I would expect
that the Snoqualmie and that when the
project moves to the next step
during the environmental phase those
tribes will probably have some interest
although I think it's no call only it'd
be the primary tribe interested okay and
on that slide there there's enough
there's a I con or whatever in the
bottom right I can't read it go back
keep them all right what's the bottom
right that's a little Amish I think
that's no Stillaguamish it's another one
of the tribes it's a tribe okay thank
you I just want to make sure that one of
the things that you said was coming back
to us when you and Sheldon agree that
you have enough information to to want
to talk to us and before moving forward
with a preferred alternative correct so
I I want to make sure you're saying cuz
I thought you don't move forward with a
preferred alternative until the study is
finalized in June of 2019 what am i
misunderstanding we don't move forward
or preparing an IJ are on the preferred
alternative so yeah we can't move
forward with the project until the ijr
is completed and in environmental
documents completed but the
environmental document isn't part of
this phase so so you're gonna detail as
part of the IJ are one of the
deliverables isn't just where the
problems are and what potential
solutions would do to address the
problems that are that it will be
identified but rather you are gonna
flesh out a particular solution
more so than other solutions that would
be correct and that will also be
delivered in June of 2019 that's correct
yes if I could put a little bit more
clarification to that excellent
questions councilmember marks the
process of the ijr is going to identify
some alternatives before a preferred
alternative is selected to be able to
move forward to the final portions of
finishing the ijr we're going to be back
in front of Council informing the
council of alternatives and being able
to have a conversation about it so that
we're all on the same page moving
forward with a preferred alternative so
there is going to be another point in
time during the study which the council
is going to get information when there
are alternatives not just here's the
preferred very helpful other questions
Keith thank you there were in our packet
there's one more slide at the end it
just talks about other i 90 corridor
project okay you're going to cover so if
there's anything else on Front Street I
figured I probably should have put the
question first so we have two other
major project improvement projects you
know there are some preservation panel
replacement projects which I don't have
information on with me but the i-90 East
Gate - sr 900 project we are looking at
construction scheduled for 2019 we are
putting together plans on that project
and what we're looking at at this point
is a project that goes from the Lake
Sammamish interchange with with an
auxilary Lane up to east gate in the
westbound direction same in the
eastbound direction in the westbound
direction will also be constructing an
extended off-ramp to get some of the
traffic off out of the congestion we had
originally proposed to go out all the
way or start the lane and as her 900
what we found with the increased traffic
growth is that if we started it at SR
900 we were going to make everybody's
trip longer so this improves the trip
for Issaquah but one of the big things
that we're struggling with is that
there's not enough capacity at the 405
interchange a lot of people are heading
up to Bellevue and until that
interchange gets addressed you know
we're we have limitations on how much we
can address traffic but it does clear up
a lot of the congestion in Issaquah in
the morning so and contact for that and
you know we can e-mail this out if you
need it is Masuka Enda who actually
works for me in my office sr i 90 s are
18 interchange a big hundred and fifty
million dollar project it includes a
rebuild of the interchange and
relocation of the weigh station that is
on the north side of the interchange and
also widening I 90 quite a distance
south so that project they are just in
the process they have selected a
consultant ch2m Hill and they are just
about I think they're just about ready
to start putting together scoping the
the contract to develop that work public
engagement design begins this summer and
constructions quite a number of years
out we've got to actually go through an
ijr at the moment they're talking about
a diverging diamond interchange which is
a new concept and I suggest if you're
interested in it to Google it it moves
it does some strange things but you know
when you come into an interchange it
actually
you you cross over to the the instead of
staying on the right you cross over to
the left I have a free turn onto the
onto the the ramps so less impact with
signals they've they're constructing one
down in lacy at the Hawks Prairie
interchange and they've got quite a
number of these around the country and
they are pretty effective with traffic
the other thing is as our 18 has an
awful lot of sensitive areas streams and
wetlands on both sides improvements
there are going to have impacts on the
environment and so they're going to have
a pretty significant environmental
process I don't know the exact
construction timeframe but my guess is
it's about four years out for start on
it can I ask what's the order of
magnitude of the budgets on those two
projects the i-90 east gate is about
sixty nine million dollars the i-90 SR
eighteen improvement project is one
hundred and fifty million and in front
streets just to study but my guess is
it's a it's a it's going to have a
pretty hefty front price tag depending
on what you do
spell and that project manager is is one
of my peers he's over portion of the
program that the legislature advanced
this past session so he's over this and
and another project up in Redmond on
their 520 what is that over lake over
Lake off-ramp out near the over lake
station and then something down in
Federal Way so and that is the end of
the presentation do you have more
questions right
do we have any other questions no all
right well thank you very much thank you
for joining us this evening and
answering all of our questions we really
appreciate it
do we have any public comment on this
item yes
if you'll come to the microphone you
have three minutes Lindsey Walsh
speaking as an individual here this
presentation left me with a lot of
questions here I'm I know that the
citizens of Issaquah really care about
this interchange so I'm just gonna list
my questions cuz I've got a ton what's
the next feedback touch point for the
council and what can we expect to see at
this point can we get a full timeline on
those various meetings the decision
points the things that we should be
aware of can we how can we have more
transparency on this process the this
presented some information but it was
very obscure with when are things
actually going to happen how can the
public get involved right now is there a
sign up for any of the stakeholder
groups is there an informational email
list is there an online survey something
where somebody can provide feedback from
the council's standpoint how can the
council and the city take the next steps
to kind of be prepared to meet any of
washe dots needs any of the information
they're going to request how can we look
at you know the the discussions they
were having for the IGR meeting where
the interchange problems some of the
potential solutions what a local
solution would be how can we anticipate
that get ahead of that problem start
thinking about it internally to make
sure that we're not holding up the
process do you have a council
representative on the IGR stakeholder
group or is it a city staff member and
how is that information then going to
come back to Council
Melissa T get the data that washed-out
is completing with their traffic studies
and how can we better use that for City
benefit so that we're using that as
we're looking at our overall traffic
problems and then how does this project
timeline work with the new
Transportation Commission that's coming
on this year are they going to be
involved at all in that process can they
be looped in as that becomes available
so thank you
thank you for your comments any other
public comment this evening
nope alright well thank you very much
now we are going to move to reports on
regional activities or issues so does
anyone wish to give a report this
evening
ooh all right well with that then we are
adjourned thank you very much
you