when we're looking at the strategic plan
a lot of it is about
the work plan and the things that the
city focuses on
but then we're also trying to prepare
for budget obviously there's a lot of
interplay between the two of those
but are you looking for our
adjustments to strategic plan are you
looking for our work plan priorities or
are you looking for
budget properties that's a great
question because they are all
interrelated
i think what we're hoping to do is the
main focus of this
is to really be the look at the
strategic plan
and its first ever update review
so i'm not sure that we will get through
everything that might show up in the
budget in the fall
but we definitely want to get through
the council's thoughts on the priorities
that are listed in the plan
and where you want to see emphasis where
you want to see more movement
so we're not going to be talking about
swimming programs today
or vehicle replacement programs or
anything like that
um we will probably use the similar
philosophy we had in the last few years
presenting the rest of the items but
today is really focused on this
contingent plan
right
um so thank you for that but one of the
things
when we put this plan together that was
really important to me is one
that the strategic plan drove budget
priorities and then
two recognize that as good of a job as
we did two years ago and put this
together the world changes pretty
fast and dramatically and so it needs to
be
table so i'm very excited that we're
doing this periodic refresh because
one of the things you want to know is
are there things that are on here that
are obsolete they've been overtaken by
events that we
probably shouldn't be focusing on more
or as importantly are there things
on in our plan that are things that are
not in our plan
that we need to put in a plan because
the world has changed
actually fairly dramatically in the last
two years
and then finally um and i think this is
the big time
and provide guidance to the
administration as they
come forward with the 2022 budget
replacement
that's good any other comments or
questions before we
sort of get into some individual
conversations
sure i have a question one of the things
i well i see the word metrics
up there behind me sorry unknown sorry
there's another slide
the term metrics is used once
but um or did we not for
every element of the strategic plan
we came up with a metric where is that
question so last year
good evening last year
we went through a series of performance
council i think had two or three
work sessions talking about that the
strategic plan had suggestions
it did not have a forward measures so we
went through an exercise last
fall kind of squared through that so we
have a document there's a link in the
packet
but this needs to be updated through
that document
and putting together the agenda
concealing if there are
issues that you wish to talk about as
far as those matters or additional
measures
things are identified it's at the end
for a reason
there's not time to see there's all the
opportunities
but i think we would like to have a
discussion
of the metrics right and you're saying
now is the publishing of the
results uh we've we've been doing that
we've given the council two separate
updates
since january so as we're looking now at
22
are there changes you'd like to make if
there's time to see when you talk about
that great if not
we'll make time
any other comments or questions yeah
they're just another clarifying question
so is this now an opportunity
for us to kind of get high level remarks
about how we think implementation has
been strategic
and how the survey
informs updates or successes
in the strategic plan because i also
have thoughts on objectives and
potential actions but i see the agenda
i i think i think what council president
and i'm
reporting is that it's all of us so your
high level thoughts
and if you want to get into the
nitty-gritty and go through the rest of
yourself that's fine
what i want to make sure is that we are
doing an update we are providing
emphasis as deputy council president ray
said some things may have changed
but we don't have the public here
tonight so i just want to make sure that
what we're doing is staying within the
sense
of fan that we have and if we're to look
for something significant
uh and that could be at some point we
really need to have a different public
process
but for tonight this is everything that
you just said so you have
freedom to say thirty thousand thousand
all the way down to
there's a couple of particular
objectives and actually if you want
you can't just say which ones they are
that you wanna work on are reaction
steps and be more uh
explain it more when council president
deputy council president actually get to
those sections
that's up to you would you like to start
i'm happy to start yeah um so i have um
some general comments just on
implementation and then
um this actually works out perfectly
because the way that i've structured how
i looked at different objectives
potential action items that have either
come up while reviewing the community
survey
or kind of understanding the barriers
that um
to city services that happen during the
pandemic
avenues for us to explore with regards
to policy
i've kind of written down them with
regard to
questions they're more should we
consider these kinds of questions so i
think maybe what i'll do is just put
that all
out and throw it all up and make sure
it's recorded and then you can use that
thank you and thank you councilmember
inviting me
wally's trying to take it in
and keep track of stuff so that if there
are some questions embedded in places
we'll be able to
confess them okay perfect
so the first thought that i wanted to
share was just generally i think uh
outside of the pandemic i think that
implementation has gone quite well and
there are a number of successes
in the strategic plan to be really happy
about and we talked about that at a
previous city council meeting
um there are some lessons learned from
the 2021 community survey that i just
wanted to make sure are highlighted
um first and foremost i think we can all
agree that
one of the outcomes from the survey was
that we need to continue
how to continue focus on mobility um you
know we've already
been moving a lot in that space they see
you know one success we adopted the
mobility matching plan
one success we've done a very good job
advocating in the legislature for
improvements
um another success is i think a
continued investment in the payment
management plan which will certainly
have
a lot of benefits in years to come i
also see
some opportunities a couple that are
upcoming i mean the capital finance and
community task force is going to be a
huge one
and it is i believe outlined that's one
of the potential actions
um actually implementing the mobility
master plan
and then considering whether or not we
want to
put our time into advocacy
with regard to improvements to this
problem
the second takeaway that i have from the
feed survey that i wanted to share was
that well i'll just read it right from
it
you know israel residents would like to
see city leaders focus on the
preservation of natural areas such as
open space supplies
um i see an opportunity in this space to
potentially
um put a potential action in our plan
that focuses
less on just acquiring strategic
acquisition
of plans but also how we maintain those
plans and what is our goal 100 years
from now for how those
forested lands should look like so i see
potentially an
opportunity to work with dnr which now
has that new community and urban
forestry program to essentially allow
for
more technical support in urban forestry
best practices so that's just something
i'd like us to consider in the future
um and then i brought this up last time
too but
you know in the surveys that nearly 78
of survey respondents said they would
continue to work from home at least once
even after parenthood and of those
respondents
high-speed internet was listed as the
most critical amenity too
so i'll get a little bit more into that
i have a
suggestion that i would like to hear
some thoughts um certainly
not advocating that we do it right away
but something we might consider adding
to the brand or
future work done in the future so
i'll just quickly go through um
some thoughts on objectives based on the
pandemic the community survey
um and then also our equity work that
we've been doing deeply
in the last week so the first
for objectives i think about mobility
i think now that we've adopted the mass
mobility master plan
and committed ourselves to expanding you
know multi-mobile transportation
opportunities here in support should we
consider
adding a new objective a new broader
objective to focus
on those efforts that have to do with
multi-mobile transportation here
um second has to do with environmental
stewardship
and as the city begins its work on
developing a climate action plan
should we consider aligning an objective
with those clinicals are we satisfied
with how climate
currently sits in institutions um
we've got the potential actions um
the first one i already said is
providing mobility i think now that
we've adopted the
ability master plan that's great but now
we need to start thinking about what is
implementation gonna look like how long
is that gonna be
and um
environmental stewardship talked about
this already but you know
we have that objective to acquire
strategic lands so
how are we really ensuring that we're
preserving lands
with best practices or proven forestry
um
and thinking really really really long
term
um another one in environmental
stewardship um
was just i listened to a podcast a few
months ago
and read up on a few articles about it
and i'll admit i know very little about
it still but
um one of the things um that's part of
our climate goals
is how do we address our current carbon
footprint
so one question that i wanted to just
throw out there is should we start
considering
um as a city potentially purchasing
carbon offsets
in the market and how is that different
or how does that complement our
carbon
uh with regard to city leadership and
services
um should we consider adding the
adoption of
an equity framework for lens um as a
potential action and how else can we
align our current equity work in the
strategic plan
um and then the last one i swear um
when it came to internet you know one
thing i was thinking is you know during
the pandemic we've heard from a lot of
community members struggling
uh with a reliable internet connectivity
um
so should we consider potentially
a potential action uh to consolidate the
data that we have now from neighborhoods
that have said we have
important internet quality and it's
really difficult to work from home here
and in addition to that um develop a
neighborhood
internet connectivity survey to help
better understand which neighborhoods
are having trouble with regard to
internet connectivity
um to have a more fruitful conversation
with internet providers in the future i
see that as one potential path
um for accommodating those
nearly 78 percent of people who are
going to continue
those were my initial thoughts
uh would you like to go would you like
me to
pick a volunteer
um so i think
broadly the community survey
said that people do feel this is a great
place to live
and i think that's an assessment to the
fact that we are
making progress in the strategic plan um
despite all the challenges of the
endeavor because everything was done
during a pandemic
i thought affect the overall results but
it seems that despite that people
um still overall thought it's a great
place to live and i agree with that so i
think overall we're
providing services that people
in terms of how we're providing services
i think we're doing
doing well i think we also pivoted very
quickly during the pandemic to provide
services in ways that are um valued
so i think that um
okay um
so one thing that i
about while um the strategy plan is that
it's really
forward-looking in a lot of places for
example in mobility it talks a lot about
planning for light rail
and working on getting new transit and i
think we
may want to adjust to make sure we're
also looking at
recovery of transit because we're
actually losing
uh you know likely losing we're
potentially using
more of our transit options in the near
term and
um and there's a big concern around that
so i think
the emphasis at that point because since
then we've been overtaken by
events
i think we've taken a step backwards
unexpectedly in some of these areas so i
think just
making sure that we have the emphasis on
recovery
would be good so i have some adjustments
for that
similarly i think that
there has been over the last uh over the
pandemic there's been
a lot more um
clarity around what sort of services
people need in
emergency and there isn't actually a lot
of
there isn't a lot of that in the
strategic plan but since we
were able to put in pandemic and since
we
have since then had very high heat for
example i thought we might want to have
an area of the plan where we addressed
that
as well and
then two other areas where i thought we
could add
emphasis or on um
i i similar to council member hall uh
i think they're from the community
survey and just from living here people
are very enthusiastic about our open
spaces it is in the strategic plan
already
but it isn't really um first of all we
haven't made
as much progress in that area as as
i think we all probably would have liked
and again it has to do with pandemic and
lots of other things happening but
i think prioritizing that for the second
half of the strategic plan we might
actually
make that progress and then i think um
including climate change in that section
and so i have some
specific proposals for how we might do
that but over the last couple years and
also in the community survey
there's a growing awareness of climate
change and the fact that it's
actually affecting um
affecting the community already
including in the heatwaves that we've
seen
which wouldn't have happened without
climate change so
i think uh including that in the
environmental section is another area
that would
consider as a council and then
prioritizing that
area and
um lastly
lastly under city leadership and
services over the last
year plus we've done a lot of work on um
making sure that people feel safe and
disappointed a lot of conversations
about what that means how that might be
different for different populations
and how different groups might
see that differently so i think um
adding some
of that uh emphasis as well
including um i have some specific
actions but things like expanding
support services
such as the homelessness average
coordinator
that we have now so that's those are my
areas of
where i think we could prioritize
differently and make
progress i did want to mention that on
the website there's a really nice
graphic of
the action accomplishments that i really
liked um and so i think we animate a lot
of progress and favorite
emphasis for this um in terms of things
so that you know it's kind of a lot of
things to add essentially in terms of
things to
reduce emphasis on from the survey
people
get their information from the website
so emphasizing
getting information to people where they
are on the website social media
and reducing the emphasis on cable where
very few people are getting information
from and likely will continue
some source of information those are my
areas of
emphasis and overall perspective
because i know your schedule is whatever
it is but feel free
to jump in just let me know i'm looking
around the room
uh let's go with councilman council
president
thank you um well i think that one of
the things
that if not today we should do and i
think that somebody else suggested this
earlier is i think we need to foursquare
this
on importance to the community and
satisfaction level
we need to target the things prior to
of course the highest is things that are
important that people are dissatisfied
with
and then it's perhaps things that are
less important but also dissatisfied
than the things that people are think
are important and satisfied
or well after the third and fourth but
uh you know i'm gonna attempt to talk a
little bit
to that um from what i see in the
metrics
that we have and what we've heard in the
community survey
uh we all know traffic um
i'm confident that many people speak to
it um
the some of the things that were perhaps
a little surprising
um our housing supply actually dropped
uh which is wild um i don't think
anybody anticipated that
um the economic environment was really
interesting because the rating of
economic
development uh environment
has been down consistently multi-year as
has economic and social vitality
satisfaction
which is which i think is really
interesting it points to a need
for some emphasis perhaps more
than we have had in previous years the
one that the one that's kind of funky is
public
safety because as i looked at the data i
tried to not just say
well this last year is hard to you know
it's an outlier
year right but i think there's also a
perception that public safety
may have changed in the last year and a
half as well that
a change in numerical story isn't just a
function
of uh the unprecedented year that we've
had but but really
it indicated some longer-term trends so
um i don't know what to do with those
four pieces but
i i think they're the ones that if we
did if we had our four square up i think
we would see housing traffic
economic environment and public safety
is the poor that need
additional attention i think um i i
hear a lot about the environment and of
course the environment is very important
but the data says both
uh quantitatively and qualitatively that
we're doing a pretty good job
which is good because we invest a lot of
money so
i don't know what to do about those
other those those four areas but i
i do want to call it out as i think we
can say that um
both from what we've heard from the
community community and
equally important the actual empirical
evidence these are areas that need
attention
um in the coming couple of years and i'd
like us to talk more about them as we
as we build towards the budget this year
so councilman remarks thank you for that
because we are collecting everybody's
ideas right
goes through our prior prioritization
and we may only have four things to talk
about tonight unless you're willing to
stay through the night
so everybody get everything out on the
table and then we'd like to pull it all
back together and present you
back what we've heard and have you
picked what you can talk about in a
reasonable amount of time
did you have anything else there that's
it okay deputy council president ray
we are paulie
um there is so much good information
in the community survey and this is not
the first one i've been part of this is
the best one i've seen so
that was just a treasure trove of
information to help inform
this conversation and i thought that it
really provided an excellent perspective
on
the community's point of view the
ability to slice and dice it by the very
second
um socioeconomic and demographic
factors was was really interesting and
you can bury yourself
there were two things that clearly
leaked off the page
in terms of what the community wants us
to focus on that's mobility
i read that as interested in mobility
how do i get around town
i read that as interested in transit we
there's a huge area of emphasis and then
into regional transit is this is where
we're not where we were
two years ago we've lost ground in that
area for sure
the second area that i think we need to
talk about
and figure out how to deliver on is
driving
driving is probably the wrong word since
i just talked about mobility um
achieving our city's
uh vision of what we look like and how
we build out and where we go about and
what the built
community is going to look like and how
do we steer i'm really into mobility
are we not um i don't know how many
excuses how do we steer clear of our
wood bill sites because
what i got thinking about as i looked at
our five uh strategic rules is they
really do overlap a lot in a number of
areas so
you know our built environment and uh uh
environmental stewardship are just two
sides at the same point so how do we
we look at that and build smartly
supporting both
investment and building smartly and our
mobility is around investing in our
infrastructure
and so it's how do we support our
mobility initiatives
but also i'm just going to rip on
council member paul
and how do we start to provide or look
for ways that we can provide
better access to broadband
communications because that is the
economic issue of the future
i think we proved that in the last year
um customer remarks that public safety
is
a huge issue being a safe community
i feel like people are not feeling as
safe as they did a year ago
to the council president hunt i mean we
think we need to rethink what community
engagement looks like um
as much as we think everybody is tuned
into channel 21 the ratings aren't what
they used to do
and so um we need to meet people where
they are not where we are
and especially there's some interesting
opportunities there and then this is
more of an aspirational thing or a
challenge thing is how do we bounce
forward from the pandemic how do we come
back stronger than we went in
what did we learn and then from the city
how do we apply the lessons we learned
from this dynamic
so that we we grow and we become a more
vibrant organization
thank you i'm just going to check back
in with council member goodman would you
like to chime in now or i'll be maybe to
catch a member
um i i only have one
observation about it that i want to make
about the community survey and
i think that my fellow council members
have made some comments about
um some things that have changed a
little bit in
focus for people such as um
you know access to the internet but i
think one of the things that surprised
me in the community survey
is that in all the years i've been on
the ground level
and it's been 25 i did not see
although i think that some of us
expected it
i did not see any dramatic changes
in the priorities and the top priorities
by the members of our community who can
who contribute to that survey
um so that's just one piece that i
wanted to
add thanks thank you councilmember
goodman
council member
my top priority absolutely is strength
and recovery and it's the exact same
thing
and that is a response to both what's
happened
this last year with the loss we had in
transit
um but also again the survey results
that showed that uh
our community is really concerned about
getting that can better
so uh in in addition to transit recovery
uh i would really like to see us expand
the um initiative we have with
squat fountain and palace shuttles and i
would like to see that
folded into uh we already have a
strategy of developing a city-wide
transit
plan um i think that should include
a first mile last mile type of analysis
and seeing where we can go with that
i think there are a lot of other things
i was in the climate change
to reading last night and we were able
to talk about transit for an hour and a
half
so there are a lot of things that we can
do like mobility is definitely
the top priority and i think there are a
number of things that we could be
undertaking
my second area and this is very specific
but
just general i really want to see us
get that transit oriented development
opportunity center project across the
line
and honestly um construction
so that fits in with the affordable
housing part of our
uh strategic plan and uh i i
you know i just want that to happen
uh in the area of human services my
secretary of priority is
uh first of all commend everyone
here for the unprecedented
expansion of our human services foreign
really wonderful work in response to the
pandemics
so my area focus for student services
is i'd like to see how we can further
stabilize
our human services funding um uh
historically human services has been a
uh up and down and in response to
recessions
and response to crises like we had last
year
at the same time that a crisis is
occurring that's when
funding for social services goes down
and so i have some ideas about how we
can stabilize that funding and
stabilize the response that we have
during crisis for our human services
and i think that would be a huge step
forward for
uh what is what i think has been
an amazing response um that we completed
this past year
and then finally in the area of
community engagement um
just want to throw out the community
engagement
equity i would say been a
subsidies association meeting this past
week
where they were talking about different
civic education
projects that have been undertaken in by
city development most notably
and i would like to just put that in the
mix
as something else that we can do um
buildings use it as an equity issue
because we are training a lot of people
ready
um
we've got a good strategic plan that
should be tweaked
and i think we'll just be right on
america
thank you councilmember to yourself i
will bring
us in for the clues
so i think the the good news from my
perspective
is that the strategic plan holds up it's
a multi-year
plan and despite going through a
chaotic and unprecedented to use that
lovely word
so much here uh i think
many of the things on it are still our
community priorities
and we certainly saw through the survey
that flow of traffic and congestion
management on historic streets and land
use planning and zoning were
number one and number two priorities as
far as opportunities for improvement
where we use
higher emphasis because there's lower
satisfaction
i think those are key areas within
um our strategic plan and so continuing
on those paths
and prioritizing them is essential
toward that idea title 18
title 18 title 18 because title 18
crosses the boundaries between
mobility um land use
planning growth and development
infrastructure
environmental stewardship all of it
and so i want to make sure that's
huge and important in our work plan
but i think it's already represented in
the strategic plan so i don't think
there needs to be tweets there
um i think the
the two areas if i was going to make
tweaks to the strategic plan would be
an additional emphasis on public safety
what that means for our community ways
that
we can push that forward um
and use what we have learned as a
society
and to
move that part to make changes that
our community supports so maybe
adding an emphasis is there and then
human services is certainly
in the plan but i think we've certainly
seen
over the last few years how essential
and important that is
and i'm not sure i see
as much of an emphasis
as i'd like to on both
services and political outreach um
so i think if i was going to make tweaks
to the plan those would be the two areas
that i would want
to either adjust objectives or actions
um to support that but generally i think
the strategic plan
holds up and using the information from
the community survey we can absolutely
prioritize within that plan and the
things that we're going to be able to
accomplish this next year that was great
thank you councilmember walsh but thank
you everyone that's a really great list
to be working from and it's nice to have
such a wide range of opinions from
everybody
um the next part unless anybody would
like
to ask questions of each other if you've
heard something that somebody said if
you weren't quite sure what it meant
feel free to just ask before i move on i
want to make sure
there's no unfinished conversation
i
uh yeah sure
um well i see it this way one of our
one of the tools that we have in our
toolkit with regard to alleviating
downtown traffic has always been
advocating for improvements to
stakeholder teams so people are going
down
there instead they feel safe going
definitely
um that's one of the tools in the
toolkit another one i see
is baseball hard road is
a county road and it's a very difficult
road to be on when there's a lot of
traffic
there's one lane there's not a lot of
creative creativity when it comes to
roundabouts or anything like that there
are any best practices when it comes to
you know 21st century transportation by
car um so i think
maybe it might be worth uh engagement
with our
county council members with county
council about how are we approaching
that road and where is it on your
priority list and how can we get it to
be
higher okay
how about anything else that anybody
heard from where the council members
were you might feel like you'd like a
little more information because we will
get a chance when we get into
council presidential president's section
to really give you more but anything
right now
that's not forgiving anything
no thanks it's so funny looking at that
owl and talking to yourself
okay so i think we will move into the
next part of it
tonight which is um mayor's
budget
so i have been spending a lot of time
this year
and we could finally breathe after the
covered response was trying to settle
down
um even before the community survey came
out thinking about
priorities that i hope that we can
incorporate because they're supported by
the community serving
in our next budget cycle so i
started with transit transportation
mobility issues
i am concerned that while we have a
central issaquah plan
we haven't really figured out what
success looks like
how are we going to do it and it really
is the place where we're going to house
the majority of our work and our new
housing types and so
i want to make sure that we are doing
things that move me along making sure
that that is the part of town that is
transforming and it transformed in a way
that
council president reyes said before
meaning that it has all the amenities
that the town should have
not just all houses but all the
amenities and services that the town
needs to have
um i'm really excited i feel
this group and administration have done
a lot of work to glue to a better focus
on environmental planning
have reported the environmental board uh
we are going to be
filling out one of our physicians that's
going to continue to be vacant to
work in a climate action plan and i
really think that's super important in
that whole land use component
housing thank you councilman richie
michelle today
for me that's going to be a let's pop
the champagne park tonight and
go is done seven years in the work
but we also have to talk about other
housing
strategies that we want to use for
preservation
and that we want to use that our new
styles of housing that that support
doesn't have right
and see what they've been doing because
we're not going to be building single
family problems
and code revisions i cannot echo enough
council members
i'm 18 i might take that has got to get
done
and get done not just as an exercise
but with the view to accomplishing the
goals that we have in this plan
super important meeting neighborhood
engagement
we have been experimenting and
highlighting a bunch of things but we
still
haven't got the golden rule yet of how
we're going to do all this but i am very
open into
ideas about how we can get more
engagement within the community
things such as potentially council
council meetings
elsewhere not necessarily in a castle
chamber but in a public place where
people
can where the people are and who can be
so
um i think that's just an ongoing
evolution there um
so i have another four on my list and
obviously police and human services
may have been not talked about very much
three years ago but
the seven council president ray said
it's a different world
and so i'm very proud of all the work
that the administration the council has
done
on the police accountability and equity
and human services
but i'm thinking that as we move forward
um
i'm just going to say this on the record
my plan
ability has caused a lot of concern
with community members and with police
in general
and i'm looking to make to maybe
choose new words because i believe our
goal here is transparency in policing
that we need to tell you what we're
doing we need to inform you we need to
provide you with information we need to
we need to do all of that and so i'm
thinking in my head i might be proposing
some changes
and then also working on the equity and
human services piece
but um that is something that the faults
in the system were clearly outlined
during coven and the social unrest and
everything that followed
so definitely something new definitely
something very high up on the list
uh quality of life um we get good marks
for this
um on the survey for sure but i
am really proud that we have put some
more investments into our
parks and our open spaces and i just
want to make sure we maintain that this
is a great place to live
and i want to be able to afford
everything that
we have built or developers have built
and given to us
i want to make sure we maintain that
standard within the community
diversity equity inclusion so much work
this year
both at the administration level the
council level and the community level
our conversations good conversations
i think in the last three or four years
we've had to take
part in the mirror and most people are
not very happy with what they see
we have a lot of work to do but that's
where uh
i'm glad we started but we have a lot
more to do definitely on our priorities
and then data it's always been important
to me with the plan and just in general
and governing that we'd be able to
measure if we're getting the outcomes
that we're planning for
so um i'm glad we have some performance
measures
um and then we're building those into
our budget but i feel like there are
even you know some more metrics of data
that we might want to talk about
i mean i get the best um response
out in the community when i can talk
numbers when i can talk
you know hours trees all about
and so we really like to talk to data
but i'm talking to a lot of
analysts and engineers all around us but
being able to show our good work for
sure
so those were the seven priority areas
that i had outlined for this year
any questions and council remember
goodman any questions
no
anyone else any questions or
clarifications before we move on to the
next section
then we can put back the slide if you
want to see
but i have seven priority areas
so i if you go back to the slide one
um what i put on slide one is
really where i think my focus is based
on the community survey but again
we're a full-service city and i believe
that
those are my top three priorities but
there are other areas of priority that i
saw
so yes they are not necessarily one two
three
they are good they would be
you want to flip it to the second side
okay the next part
of our agenda this evening i'm actually
going to pass over to the city
administrator
it's going to be an overview of
strategic plan accomplishments
and an overview of the community survey
themselves
thank you very much many of you have
covered this
so i think it's just the interest of
fine i just want to briefly go through
this if there's any questions
um you're all familiar
with the goal areas mobility growth
development environment stewardship
social and economic facilities here with
city leadership and services
and infrastructure science going through
each of those
mobility party advice talked about
exciting
covers a lot of those issues already
next slide broker development
next slide
all of that the housing strategy work
plan is embedded in the action plan
for that we've talked about we obviously
are working on podoc
stewardship um pretty much i think we've
talked about
uh all the things the final action plan
there's obviously
work going on this summer on that so
social economicality
human services strategic plan again as
many of you have mentioned we were kind
of going down a path with human services
and everything's changed so
proud to the leadership that basically
said let's not continue the planning
process that didn't make sense
given the changes that we had so we've
been
trying to pivot a little bit more and
with the addition of
some key staff members this year um
good infrastructure
leadership and services
we talked about all those things
um and somehow we're surviving so
we need to as we move forward over the
next year
evaluate where we're at with the changes
everything seems to be working pretty
well with this hybrid
model of people working the pumpkins and
coming into the office
that really is going to guide of what we
need to do as far as
the next area again a lot we're going to
talk about is the
areas of emphasis um leadership has to
be put in
for the presentation so the next several
slides
are from the
we've covered a bunch of these let's
just quickly put
needs sheltered food services that
promote cultural awareness diversity
inclusion
possibly within your spot
leadership services diverse communities
value received
is tree maintenance um that means that
some of the issues have similar
neighborhoods are not flights but the
trees
and so you know conditions apply water
but more money this year our plans are
more interesting
also the issues of crack sealing
versus slurry versus repaving
that does cover all the topics we had
under introduction and so
um i am going to be adding this part
over to
uh deputy master president perfect what
we do
questions and comments
so i'm i'm a huge fan of strategic
planning
and i usually i'll um leave um
council member mars to have the 50
quotes but i'm going to steal
that actually helps to orient the mind
to think about these things
and so my question to the administrator
is
do you think that having gone through
this plenty of exercise
with the city staff and all this input
do you feel like it's something that's
top of mind that we're making
operational decisions as we're we're
looking at day-to-day
managing the business of the city that
the strategic plan
uh permeates that or is it something
that's more
aspirational on the horizon well i think
it does create that
one because the mayor told what she
wanted so
that was the first thing you know we
have we have staff groups that meet
regularly
on each of
and we go through the action plan so we
talk about that
with all the various it's not just
department directors it's everyone who
touches
other various pieces so i think that it
actually does permission
and many of you have heard my uh
my thoughts on this is that the
strategic plan was aspirational
but it was not operational so one of the
things the mayor has asked me to do
is make it more operational i think that
you know what you're seeing
the conversations you're having on the
action plan the action plan
was not contemplated specifically by the
future planner
but the action plan is something we use
we rarely refer we share updates with
you in the community
so i think it is very very operational
there are some bridges we need to build
as you mentioned for example
it's not part of this it's very much a
part of what we do operationally
but it wasn't completely or was it an
aspirational need in 2018 2019
yes absolutely this is very much
and i actually take the credit
because the mayor wanted to do it i
think the amount of time that staff put
into the strategic planning process
with us is a huge benefit it's not
something that we develop as a council
and a body of electives
they participated in this huge buy-in on
it because they
contributed to the many many different
phases of it so it really really is a
vegan document
it has a lot of support as well and i
forgot that's
please let me know in the chat or
um raise your virtual hand
and uh julian would you like to make
some comments if you do i'm probably
going to try to find a way to get you
closer to microphones to it
why don't you come sit here yeah take
the city administrator's chair
thanks julie
so i want to make good comments
especially the strategic plan
there has to be a new emphasis on the
recovery
of transit services throughout the city
and even
the city
be a new um on meeting these engagements
i i love this idea
have more uh apple community being part
of
the creation culture
great thank you very much julian thank
you for coming tonight
okay um it doesn't sound like it i
am we are appearing that there
could be some audio issues um
um so i would encourage everyone to
try your best to project and we'll do um
some additional troubleshooting
it doesn't appear to anyone else let me
just
i'm
so this next section adjustments to
strategic planet objectives
is going to be led by council president
deputy president ray
we are about five minutes past my my
logic time
so um this is scheduled through
uh about five to eight maybe eight
o'clock
and then we'll be taking a terrific
council president
thank as we talked about at the top
of the meeting we wanted to spend some
time and look at
the objectives that we set out for each
of our strategic
areas and i want to ask three questions
with you
all
so this is just to make sure that we're
we're pruning the truth
you know there's some things that are no
longer
emphasis areas for whatever reason you
should just talk about the second is
are there some new objectives that we
need to add some things that we're not
as
uh today's administrator bob said we're
not part of our aspirational set
when we did the plan a couple years ago
that we should consider adding
into the plan and then the third
question which i think is maybe the most
interesting question are there some
objectives that we want to emphasize
in the coming year to the 2022
budget discussion and you know some
areas that we want to really dig into
so those are the three questions that i
like to to explore and i
see that we have some excellent slides
that
present all of the objectives so i don't
have to read them and they're
tedious about them so we could just
start maybe with the next slide which i
believe is mobility
and we have the three mobility
objectives one is a plan for
transportation systems in place and
funding is secure for major projects
near-term connections and efficiencies
um and the mobility system are complete
and the preferred location um
and vision for light rail integration is
established so
um question for you all you know we'll
start with the first one
is there anything there that you think
is no longer
a valid objective
looking around to see if they've been
coming out
so i'm going to say no to that um
are there anything that you'd like to
add to this in terms of new objectives
around mobility
right so there's a difference between
objectives and actions correct back
to that okay so i was going to say
there's some actions in here that we've
accomplished so that we need to cross
them off
okay we're sticking to
but i think that because it's about
prioritizing and operationalizing the
actions i think if there's an action
that we've accomplished then great like
we can skip
past that but i don't think we need to
go through that process it's more
are there actions that we don't need to
do because
they've been overthinking by events or
because we no longer
see the community need or whatever
reason there is or are there changes in
action so once we get to the actions
that's going to be more of the
conversation that
i'm looking for so let's focus
vision and timeline because
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but really clearly the timeline
is being performed like that
i think that that's rememberable
i was just going to say
well i was going to ask if in these
three objectives do we
see where our new emphasis
on multimodal transportation will fit
because i don't necessarily the first
one may be because you know we had
life retirement successful adoption
master mobility master plan so
that could easily just say successful
implementation later and that
conversation comes later
but is there a value instead of having
an objective
where people can easily get around
getting around town is easier for people
who live or complete here
by bike or by walking
or whatever is that accomplished in one
of these objectives or
is there a need for it
any thoughts on um
rewind a little bit to the question
about do we want to
modify the third objective and include
any language in there about
timing is something that we want to
discover so i when i was reading the
plan
and i was reading you know we have a
bunch of actions under this one it's
actually mentioned in other parts of the
plan
as well about the link um
and um at this point given where we are
with the potential timeline changes and
everything
i think we felt a lot more like um
it's still super important but now it's
much more
um sensitive and
i think we need to maybe add a different
kind of emphasis
and the timeline is definitely part of
it and also
they did a community survey
about light rail and which stations are
most
so i think that advocacy work about just
that that it is super crisp so
the location is vision okay but then
also like the timeline and getting it
on the timeline so i would be
the city dated our own letter saying
that we're in support of council member
baltimore city's
um plan which has to be scheduled
so i think that really goes through what
we're hearing
and uh second piece of information
so i think what i heard in some of our
earlier conversations
was a lot about transit recovery
and things around that area so when i'm
looking
at our mobility objectives
here and seeing this i almost feel like
the information about light rail and the
station location
and the vision for it is almost like a
subset
of transit and so i wonder
whether before we were very much focused
on light rail
but do we need to change the objective
to be about transit
and yeah broaden it and then have
actions under it
related to the light rail station and
other actions
related to transit recovery
and other ways that we can advocate for
our community i don't think
i certainly didn't see anything in the
community survey or anything like that
that said
please advocate for lightroom it says
please advocate for transit
and i'm not sure if that does it for our
community
you know light rail is really important
and
it's important for the long term so i
have no recommendations don't question
that
there's any message we send that off
that's not important because outside
yep if there's concern about about
current transit issues
and efficiency mobility
that's my only caution on all these
objectives
while they flashing on all these
objectives
is that um
unless you really think there's a
problem or there's an
urgent issue that has really changed i
would just talk about that question
um additional thoughts on this one
and then i want to also kind of segue
into a council member paul's question
about multi-modal
transportation and where that goes
and is it covered by one of our existing
objectives
and then council member walsh if i could
suggest even that
um those two costs could be merged the
transit and multimodal
might be the fourth objective here which
is alternative transportation methods
are
explored and developed or something like
that you know which
so i don't want this to sound
curmudgeonly but i'm a little concerned
in this
exercise because i feel like nobody's
going to want to say oh that item
yeah right no longer important and i
think
all we're going to want to say oh i have
a concern that we will wind up
saying everything that we think is
important is important
and we have the thing i'm struggling
with right now is a finance staff
and a finite amount of time and one of
the things that i'd like to
previous uh retreats
is a finite number of dots right you
know we can put our dots and i'm reading
this exercise right now
that because we don't have dots we're
going to love everything we emphasize
everything
from nothing so how do we how do we
prioritize
we did this
so i agree with you and that was why i
was kind of looking at
mo3 as an adjustment
but i also hear a city administrator but
with an
option on making a change like that so
actually was looking back in
and under the near-term connections
efficiencies in the mobility system
are completed the second action is
established partnerships with transit
agencies etc so we could also look at it
as
we've covered this with an action
and maybe we need to add an action about
recovery rather than adding at the
objective level
uh yeah i'll guess i was just gonna say
that i just agree a little bit i think i
see
this document more about what are all of
our
strategic objectives and what are all of
our strategic potential action items
and then we sit down for budget season
that's really the time when we have the
dots
because then we have a pop of money
right and we're putting dots
on things that we can accomplish in
specific timeline
things that have a specific community
priority because not all of these are
going to be a competing
community priority at one specific time
um so i was just going to say that
well for the sake of time i think you're
right that we probably shouldn't
pick everything i think that we should
feel safe and okay to
um you know go babe when it comes to
this plan because the budget season
almost feels like it's designed to skim
this down strategically
um well uh in response to the thoughts i
was just thinking i think a lot of us
are verbally putting thoughts on transit
so
um you know there's transit in there and
i think a bunch of us
could have thought
a while ago i just want to interrupt you
guys are having a good time um
the other piece of information and
council member michelle is great for
learning with us
is that as we talk about recovery of
transit through copenhagen
we're also doing uh working with an
agency that will now be using
a mobility framework which is focused on
equity guns
to recover
and redistribute and to
increase and so we
whatever the council decides they would
like to tweak her at end
a lot of where that service is going is
we have we have two voices at the table
but we have some very large regional
objectives that are going in a different
direction most eastside cities are
expecting not
to get their service back so i just want
to be clear that whatever
council sites put in here that we put
something we can move the needle
on
thank you so the other question i guess
this is where i think the verbal body
will come in
is of those three objectives
it says it's about uh the vision for
librarian but it also has a larger
transit
uh subtext is getting a lot of verbal
thoughts
i love that
any any thoughts on um
emphasis areas around mobility things
that we mean
couldn't agree more about the verbal
dots
our our uh central isabel plan is
so got to get it or we need to rethink
um and i think uh i totally agree and i
think light rail fits
nicely to um when we're thinking more
broadly about multiple transportation so
that would be
the reason i keep bringing that up too
is because we just put a lot of time and
effort into a hundredths
page document called the mobility master
plan i just want to make sure that that
is always
at the forefront of our mind and we have
walkability and we have writability
because it seems like cutting edge
leading cities are really investing in
people's ability to turn around
and that includes lighting for sure um
so that's definitely an emphasis when it
comes to situations and i think another
one that we need to focus on is public
we have this long-term company and we
have this you know happy
capital financing community task force
that we will
have to start with for sure
so that's number one
so the community survey response
that was great flashing red lights was
on
traffic flow and so
yes i think transit is super important
but it's not the only thing
that we need to be emphasizing for
traffic flow
and so i'm not quite sure
where in all of this traffic flow
is handled how do i put a dot on one of
those three and have it
improve traffic flow because as we've
talked about traffic flow
is as much getting around town as it is
improving regional uh you know pass
through
all of that i'm just not sure
where to put a pin in so i heard
fascinating listening to this
discussion and then my quote earlier
that planning is more important than the
plan what i
find that we are doing is we're using
these objectives as a scaffolding in
which to have a discussion about what
our problems
really are and so it may not be
necessary that we
complete the plan what is important is
that we have a scaffolding to have a
discussion about
priorities and then we can communicate
that to
the city administrator mayor and staff
so as they go
to the budget and they got some insights
on what
you're not sold on that council i will
push
i hate adjusting plans so i will agree
with that but i also
one of the things i found super valuable
in the last year
is going back to the letters that we've
written ourselves
so before this i went back to council
president hunt's
letter about the budget that's like oh
my gosh
yes those were the five things so
i want to make sure that we document
and so even if we don't adjust the
objectives
i still think it's important to put in
actions
that document the emphasis
okay
to know um really
really um so first of all
um you know mobility i think the first
point if you look at the actions
underneath it
provides a kind of place
the system is in place a plan is in
place it has to do with the funding it
has to do with repairing annual mobility
report
you know our data and so forth so i
think that
that takes care of that um my second
comment
is to go back to the third objective
uh them in uh referring to
uh the comment about sending a message
i i guess i'm gonna plug again for
getting more timeline in there
because uh i think that people are
watching what we're doing here
and uh how aggressive this is going to
be
and to secure this uh
display rail station i think that we
need to send a message that we're going
to be very aggressive
and so i'm going to kind of pump again
for that adding the term timeline
into that third objective
administrator
i have bigger processing yeah 7.25
one is you may have to only talk
about two of your top hill areas because
we're at
seven thirteen second is in relation to
something
and council member walsh said um
working on traffic flow
um i i'm not sure how to do that in an
objective or an action item without
first council deciding which floor were
you worried about
i think you mentioned improving regional
flow i don't know that we can do that
anymore
so there has to be there could be some
idea that you have around in there that
is focused
on improving a certain kind of flow so
i think i think that might be hard to
figure out in such a short period of
time but
we we don't get to have it at all we
don't get to have the regional shoppers
to pass the traffic the long drive in
the school
the you know the council is going to
have to narrow
in on these are the ones we're focusing
on these ones are not good
that's the piece of information and yes
time management
727 i didn't remember what you
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am i hearing your review of your
concerns
there really are two areas that i think
you should look after
one is public safety services um
i would encourage you to perhaps look at
the other objectives like
honestly think your mobility objectives
are inclined your action steps
that you want to look at but i think
those were the two areas i heard
from you that you might want to actually
talk about changing objectives
and use the rest of your time working in
the action plan
and
so let me just pull the group
to be as direct as the administrator
we heard a lot of things when we're
doing our initial emphasis i mean
are there things is there agreement that
um i think economic development i think
if you look at
satisfaction i don't know if it shows up
in the survey as much
but it shows up in the polling
that's in the metrics of the public on
the
economic development environment
that satisfaction has been going down
for some time and
so i i think that's an area that
potentially
requires a larger emphasis
do you think that needs a change at the
objective level
or potential changes in the action level
i'm just keying off of what i heard from
the city administrator because i think
the other two public safety
and human services
yes um i can see that we want to
do some more emphasis on that and i just
i don't think
when when we were talking earlier about
priorities
i don't think i've heard jobs as much as
i think we're seeing from the metric
data
well so uh i had two
objectives that i thought we couldn't
consider modifying so
um that aren't the ones that city
minister you're about to point out so
i'll just
put those out there one is that um and i
think this is
a little bit different but it is similar
to
cultural reports concern and the
objectives under
social and economic economic vitality
it's not about recovery because
at the time we didn't we weren't
so i think i think because we're going
to be emphasizing
recovery um we could just add that into
one of the objectives it's like a
two-word pad but it would add an
emphasis on it
on
um and then the other thing that i
didn't see
anywhere in the objectives and it's
actually in the it's in the memo on
environmental stupid
you know the narrative on environmental
stewardship but that it isn't anywhere
in environmental stewardship is um
climate so i i have a suggestion to
modify one objective in climate
to add that emphasis which we've seen
grow in awareness of the community for
the last two years
and that's under the community members
are active partners
which is one of the objectives so just
bringing them in on stewardship
including the
climate which i think we're already
emphasizing is just reflecting it
strategy so those are two uh
objective suggestions that i would throw
out on people that are not in the series
can you uh
so the first one is under social and
economic vitality
sp1 um it reads there is an increase
in new and existing businesses that
choose to locate an expanded issaquah
especially those with
wage levels that enable workers to also
live in the community
so i would propose adding um two words
which so that reads there is an increase
in new and recovery of
existing businesses that are choose to
locate and expand it as a product
any objections
the other one is under environmental
stewardship under es2
which is um uh community members are
active partners in the stewardship of
issaquah environments
and i would add another responsible
climate changes
and it is response to climate change and
those i
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and if you could share that with us with
the revised language i will do the same
thing with that
okay um
established any objections making that
objective change i just have a question
um administrators had mentioned be
careful with changing
or careful with changing but at the time
i think we were contemplating a bigger
change so
i think that this i would say to me this
still sends
the message that this is a strong
emphasis
and it doesn't change our commitment
it's just commitments
and now we have an additional
consideration to the timeline but i just
wanted to check in that that would be
received that way
yes i agree okay
without objection let's let's uh add
that to
that objective to add some further
urgency to it
thank you very much okay um
i'm gonna what i'm doing is i'm going
through the proverbial low hanging fruit
here
councilmember mark you talked about
economic and
job creation um is there something
specific you would like to propose as a
new objective
or a modification to an existing
objective
no okay because i don't know
how to do it uh we need i mean it's
rating of economic development
environment
it's been trending down for some time so
what that means is we're not going to
solve today
um but i but i i believe that we need to
figure out how to emphasize it uh
emphasize it on our point
and just an additional information
councilman hearts has been talking to us
for years
that he believes we really really need a
stronger plan to attract
retain and um help those with their
recovery
and it's got to be a stronger plan than
we've had
so what i am hearing now is that there
is consensus that
we may have two voids in our existing
set of objectives one
specifically related to public safety
another
got it all right so let us start
let's go alphabetically we'll start with
human services
any thoughts on what an objective that
we could include
in human services and where would we put
that in the plan would that
most logically fall within
city services or within
yes so goal se3
says services and resources reduce
inequities
in health and well-being in the
community i feel like we could
modify that one probably to achieve our
goals
i'm not sure how but i think that
is aware
i i think that that's an important place
to start the discussion any thoughts on
how we might modify an existing
objective potentially as inquiry
services the resources confusion
equities
and health well-being communities to put
a finer point on our need to develop our
union services capabilities
this year
all right next
to start this conversation um
you know when this was written there
weren't a whole lot of
human services delivered by the city
you know it was more really leveraging
services resources that would regional
so what if we were more specific about
regional services and resources
and local actions where possible
reducing equity i don't know if that's
the right wording or not but maybe
that's the right track to go down
is you know there are kind of two things
here we have some services that we're
providing but
others would recognize others doing
better and so our services really
connect to people with those services
does that need to be called out
i i have a reaction which is maybe
this is an objective thing this is the
action thing
and then that se3 may be an adequate
objective for us around the school of
human services
but we need to be more targeted
and put more emphasis on the direct
server
services in our in our actions
for your reaction to that
hot time councilmember d michelle
so uh so reads right now services and
resources reduce inequities
health and well-being and it doesn't
speak to the relationship between the
city and our social service providers
and it also is
it's more than reducing equities it's
providing
support so people can thrive
i think there's a more positive way of
putting it
and coming back from the social service
background
we always say social services are for
everybody it's not
just to do singing everybody someone in
their lifetime
needs social services whether it's when
they're young or middle-aged or
when they're seniors um it
actually doesn't even have to be so if
we could
reframe this in a more proactive
way
but i'm thinking that the objective
needs to be more robust in terms of
what we're trying to achieve but the
product struggling with is our
relationship with social service we
don't
we don't directly provide social
services as a city
that's their model for a long time and
we want to be sure
that we don't put up a uh
objective here that that implies that
we're going to start getting into the
direct service business so
does all that make sense to buy workouts
here for a little bit
okay hey just some information not an
opinion
i believe when we were doing the plan
some of this language might have come
right out of the
healthy community strategy and so i
think you have some flexibility here if
this doesn't reflect your desired
outcome
to change it and i think councilmember d
michelle has captured it really well
i took some of her words and left them
in there and it's still not pretty
um but we have increased our
human uh services
muscle in that we have tried to
improve the connective tissue between
the city
and those that provide service by
investing in that
portion significantly very important in
the last two years
so i i i think that was a little worse
than that
and if you do read through these
objectives they they talk about a
desired outcome that's really the frame
of
it's something we are that connected
tissue that's what we strive
folks listening together are still some
ongoing issues here with you
and that's pretty critical to us being
able to uh
be meeting in person today so i just
want to re-emphasize
um really trying to project encountering
michelle we
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let us move on to
um so i did have a potential
maybe starting point um for this
objective
because i know that we've been talking
about this as
something that we are working on and
that isn't on volume
okay we're good you're good um so
the subject suggested objective that i
thought about
was that people feel safe in issaquah
and have public safety resources that
meet their
needs so that's what i
thought it's open-ended but i feel like
there was a
gap there in the plan and that this is
what for me that's what
what we've been working to achieve and
like i said before i think the other
thing about
the way this is worded is that different
people
have different um requirements for
failing safe and so we've been working
through that
uh with the equity lens and with our
other um
our other work and so i think that i
think that this kind of captures
that and also
could you repeat the proposed objective
and then also
uh i thought it fits under city
leadership and services
are you suggesting a new objective or
adding to a
cs1 it's a new objective under city
leaderships and services okay
i i didn't i looked and i didn't think
that
i think it's it's uh
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a philosophical question i trust
everyone can hear me fine
good the benefits would be of doing
theater in high school
uh feel safe
so i was thinking about i was reading
the umpteen
person who had had a bicycle store which
happens in the valley
all the time i i have one friend who you
know that we used to work with
who's had like three bicycles so that's
not a i don't know if that's a feel
safe um but that's uh it's a
it's a crime related
i just i'm just triggering a little bit
off feel safe and wanting to make sure
that it covers
um i have a i have a sense that most
people
feel safe in issaquah but they worry
about and i speak to someone who's
almost burglarized
by having their home burglar right and
property crime and the uh
association between uh
human service needs and poverty
and uh chemical abuse
and uh property
that um that isn't really necessarily
like i said i never
don't feel safe in isaac but i worry
about my house getting burglarized
right so i don't know i just want to
make sure
as we talk about this didn't cover the
things that people are actually most
concerned about
so is there a definition of safety
it's just i'm just i'm just the words
feel safe
um again i don't think most people ever
don't feel safe in this before they're
just worried about
primarily
and drug abuse and people needles and
all that kind of stuff
um no i think that's good feedback i'm
not sure how to
change it um but i i think one
reason why i picked this wording too is
that i remember in the
community survey one of the things is
visibility of police officers
and um and so that seems to me that
that's
something that for some people they
think
that that they feel safe with the
visibility of police officers and so
that was one of the reasons why
it's there but then again different
people have different
needs for feeling safe so i don't know
if there's maybe something
yeah if somebody wants to propose a
change to address
concerns about uh
expanding it to cover non-safety
but could you just take the word
safehead and have people have
access to public safety resources that
meet their needs
whether it's stuff
gonna i was just gonna suggest dancing
yesterday administrator reaction to that
before
i was thinking the same thing they were
okay
councilman
um it's hard to hear all the
conversations
um truly so i'm re
i've been trying to restrain myself from
sending stuff in the chat every few
minutes it says
it would be nice to hear you know it's
not ideal
um but in terms of i just think people
feel one i think one of the things that
a lot of parts of our strategic plan
suffer from is it's very broad
and to me that's just very
broad i don't know i mean we
i don't know what we're trying to solve
but
it's anyway that's my comment it's hard
for me to have that kind of conversation
because i'm not there
having a conversation with you but
that's my that's my reaction
uh i think it is very broad and i
i recognize that and i think it's a very
broad thing that was missing
from
somewhere and it's it's my belief that
you're going from the very very very
directional
goals to something intermediate
objectives to something actionable
actions and so you know
um any objection to the people feel safe
and secure
and just want to have public safety
resources to meet their needs
as a new objective under city services
right sorry sorry i couldn't get my hand
raised up in time this is stacey can i
make another
comment or council member goodman as we
sometimes call you
my name is stacy that's fine um
just food for thought um
what about and it's not so much a
proposal
just to think about what about uh public
safety resources
meet our meet that community's needs
rather than people feel safe and secure
i think that's probably really what
everybody wants we want to make sure
that we have public safety resources
that meet
our needs mom i think as i further think
about people feel safe
it suggests that people don't feel safe
and i
am um concerned about
what uh what our police department
thinks about us adding something like
that to our strategic plan
councilman walsh i i can absolutely
appreciate
that adjustment and recognizing that
yes most people feel safe we do want to
address
the i want to call it edge cases but
certainly the
experiences of different people
experiencing safety
differently but leaving with
it may be read in
a certain way that i'm not sure we
intended
so i would i would support that concept
could do you think you could type that
up um rearrange as a secondary auction
administrator public safety resources
meet our community's need
just a question for council member walsh
we talked about the edges and i think
we need those places where we are not um
public safety resources meet our diverse
community
needs so that we are recognizing that
it means different things to different
groups who may be doing well for many
thoughts reactions
i've seen some thumbs up
i think the important thing is that
we've got something
where we again it's the scaffolding
which is going to be my word of the day
we have some staff we understand
and to build a discussion so
all right we've got that so we'll add
that one under
services as a new objective um i have
exactly one minute left
oh yeah wow i took five years and you
really have to six minutes
thank you deputy council president ray
that was awesome
um this is the point in time when we
were thinking of taking a five minute
break i believe
in this first question so we'll be going
offline for five minutes
facilitate connections with
community organizations
total services and resources
i'm sorry uh the city facilities
connections
to community organizations so
so they can provide services and
resources to help people thrive
facilitate connections to community
resources organizations so they
so they can provide
services services and resources
to help people try
and
uh question i i think
part of the part of this for me is that
there's also emphasis on
for example the homelessness out of each
person that will be
potentially um but it's
currently i think a city split position
that could potentially be a
city position or additional services of
that kind so that would not be
um as a direct service and so this is
facilitating connections to other
organizations
um so i wonder i guess i wonder if we
could make it
also include that that's another way and
that's kind of a shift in emphasis over
here so um but i think it's
that i think you want to continue
personally yeah comfortable
i think it's covered in there with the
wording the way you have it now
because the this is a this greatest
connective tissue it's a person who goes
out and connects somebody with an
organization provides housing
connects somebody with the media program
connects them with somebody who can do
their benefits so
i wouldn't say this language fear in any
way
would discount costs having that
decision
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thoughts on that one
i have my hand raised
i can't see your hand
um i i agree with
uh dwelling on removing the sew but the
city facilitates connections to
community organizations
between from from who
facilitates connections
whom to whom i i don't really understand
i'm not i'm i'm not saying i'm proposed
i just don't i'm
i guess i'm not post because i don't
know what it means it means what what
are we trying to do
what and maybe it's because um
councilman dean michelle is really hard
for me to hear
um so i probably haven't heard but a
quarter of what she said
the night during the night but to me i
don't understand what this means
who are we facilitating connections
from to community organizations
resident connections
don't we have programs where we're doing
that already
yeah we have programs that do a lot of
things that are in our objectives
a lot of our objectives are things that
we are already
sure so what are we trying to do i'm
just trying to find out what we're
trying to do so that i can figure out if
i understand it
and if i have any comments on how to
make it so i understand it that's all
if if you guys are all fine with it then
i think the piece that may be missing
here is
mentioning what we mean by
helping people thrive because the
previous
objective mentioned inequities and
health and well-being
i think what we're trying to adjust and
add in here
is a mention of human
services and so
perhaps perhaps it would be clarified by
the actions underneath it
but it's still this concept of
who are we talking about and what does
it mean to
thrive maybe
well let's talk about that for a second
we've covered a lot of material tonight
we've done some some hard thinking
what if we and councilmember and i'll
ask you this question why don't we move
forward this is a working
objective at this time as we go into
actions it may help us
as we start to dig into more of the real
and
specific it may be clear to us what we
want this to say
any reaction
no it's fine i just think when we end up
with final language
we need to make sure that we know what
we're trying to say
it may mean that we're just missing
words between let's say connect
connections you know between
you know between and among individuals
and community organizations or something
like we want to be the
you know we want to facilitate
connections between
people and community organizations or
something like that i don't know
but anyway that's all i just
it's just feedback thank you council
president
i have a suggestion um so well first
i'll
close the question this is human
services
focused right okay so what if we say
city facilitates connections to human
service
organization human services
organizations to help the community
right um and it's not and in the
original it talks about health and
well-being of the community but reducing
equities which we felt was
kind of not the end goal just reducing
equities is more to help people drive so
this is
some something what are we connecting to
from
too anyway
okay i think it's from residents to
human services organizations right
to help those presidents thrive to help
the community
i don't know connections between
residents and human services
organizations
actually between residents
and human services organizations what
did they then facilitate
connecting residents to human services
situations
sure yep
molly has hit steve
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and i think that we will always find
that as we start to think and we will
better understand what we're trying to
accomplish
all right so now i've gone over my five
minutes
so now i have not succeeded so i take
back the congratulations
thanks
tim if you can let us know if we're
ready to go again
social media
tim i'm going to assume that you can
hear me so i'll start in 10 seconds
and welcome back from the break uh
council president county is going to
take us through
the next section of tonight's special
council meeting and i'd just like to
check
in with councilmember goodman and find
out if the audio is any better
yes thank you okay we shuffled the
tables
good hopefully that works
i saw you were all busy while i just sat
here and watched
and also i'd like to remind people if
your laptop's directly in front of you
between you and the l
move it to the side when you talk just
so we make sure that um
our words are paired and then council
president
all right um so this next section is
going to be
focusing on actions and the idea is
really that we
prioritize actions add emphasis to
actions and also if there are
missing actions that we need to put in
the plan that we add those
and i understand that it would also be
helpful if there are actions that have
been overtaken by events or that are no
longer
actions that we think are strategic then
we can also
let the administration know that those
should be theonsized so i think that's
the second tier
but at first we'd like to go through the
actions under the different sections
and start prioritizing adding
actual dots i think um and
going through and adding any that we
need to add in
under either the new objectives or if
they're under other objectives
um so i would propose that we go through
the different goal areas and the
strategic plan
starting with mobility um
so who would like to kick it off for
mobility that's number walsh and i
actually ask a
question before we start on that yeah it
would be very easy to
sit there and try and go through
everything
um does it make sense to start on the
new
objectives that we have created
i think we should start with whatever we
think is most important
so if we think having having new actions
under the
objective that we think are the most
important then we should do that if we
think
calling out something that's existing
for emphasis is important then we can do
that
so either way i'm going to write it down
in the end and then we can
add our votes
and i'll i'll put it out here too if
council would like to
go through the process of adding things
that are for the new objectives first we
can definitely do that but
my suggestion would be we go kind of
important
okay does anybody want to kick us off
on mobility actions that are that we
need
that's alright uh thank you i guess just
starting from the beginning the very
first potential action that we have with
regard to mobility
is the adoption of the mobility master
plan and since that's been completed
um i think there are one or two options
we can either
update it to focus on implementation of
the action plan
or just strike it
yeah so a process suggestion is if
things are already completed
we'll administratively take them off so
if you want to adjust it so
that there is a work plan separate for
the mobility master plan for example
or whatever else an implementation focus
there
and not worry about it it's completely
mistaken okay
council deputy president right under um
the preferred location timing division
for the
light rail the first one is develop
action is develop a city-wide transit
plan that was lessons learned
i'd like to expand that to
build a citywide transit plan that
includes
light rail interim
city transit and other
and non-motorized trend
transportation so
it's not so different than councilmember
falls implementing the
master mobility blender it has a couple
of
textures in it okay so the suggestion is
light rail to add um under that one to
add
to expand to um transit and
other non-motorized transit other
non-motorized
mobility maybe yeah
okay um that's good
okay
there's a question on that one yeah uh
on that one in particular deputy house
president right so
um would
including you know the other types of
non-car
transportation in the transit plan be
focused on
station area planning like the city-wide
transit plan would be
or because i'm just trying to think
about like okay well how would that be
different
how to be different than the mobility
master plan when it comes to
multi-modal transportation and just
making sure we're not
duplicating things yeah it may will be
you know this i should know that's right
the master mobility
mobility master plan doesn't include uh
light rail and
the transit options yes and then you can
strike them
um advocate for
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transit recovery
and i believe that belongs over under
mm2 the near term connections and
efficiencies in the mobility system are
leaving do you want to add in postcode
transit recovery in case a couple years
from now we're reading this and
don't know which slash it was yeah yeah
that was
that was not a word smithing that was
just topic
councilmember goodman is stepping away
for a few minutes
ml3 i would use the word advocate
again and
you have let's see it says uh
sorry you can't see with the bathtub
um it says engage with the community
washed out and sound transit to
determine the preferred location and
border for light rail
i would change that to engage with the
region
or excuse me advocate with region
community watchdog and south transit to
determine the preferred location
important for librarian
and the timeline and finally and china
hey um is
that what we're seeing on the screen the
same thing no no i'm looking at it and
it's flipped
so it's just because that's already our
video feed
so but i was gonna say is it full screen
on
the is that that's for the user okay i
can do that here i thought that might be
yeah no that's fine i just wanted to
make sure people were going to be able
to see
that so yes it's legible yes
yeah i can i can verbally say it also so
everybody
if you're hearing us you can also hear
it um so this one is going to be to add
advocate engage with the region
on the light rail and then adding the
timeline considerations to the light
rail
advocacy action
okay anyone have any other ones
under mobility you had mentioned
congestion relief
yeah yeah so congestion relief whether
that is
a traffic czar
whether that's uh having a separate
focus on in
community getting around town versus
regional
i don't know which whether to put
both because i think both are important
but i don't know how much control we
have on
certain areas again process suggestion
brought up apparently advertised yep
right
i agree with you councilmember walsh
it's a little bit undefined but it's
added to the list
okay um congestion relief for what was
the wording you would use
yeah yeah let's put congestion relief
okay um so
does anyone have any other suggestions
actions uh i had one
that is i thought i was thinking about
what can we actually do
for transit for mobility and one of the
things is
when there were a lot less cars on their
own uh traffic was a lot better and that
was a product of a lot of people
being able to work from home so i
actually put um
i had action to assessment number and
reduction of barriers from working from
home for example improving
an internet reliability under under
mobility
but i know it could go other places but
um that seems like
something if we can support people
continuing to work from home
that would be something that could
actually make a difference
um why not just throw the word broadband
up there for now and then after all of
those buckets are full you can decide
which bucket belongs but it has multiple
benefits
yeah sorry i have a question what's the
advocate for you what do we have to
change the light rail
i love three the light rail threes
is the light rail one okay right
yes so this one i'm actually going into
the
work plan which is there but
broaden that squad campass
shuttle plan into a inner
city sorry
brought in this spock mountain talus
shuttle plan into an inter city
um transit plan
and i know it's in the work plan it's
been the work plan already so
perhaps it doesn't go here but
perhaps it does
okay anything else that anybody wants to
put up here
yeah okay
um so we have one two three four
five six um
and it'd be helpful if we prioritize so
process for prioritization we could have
everybody
um give your top one we can mark that or
how do we want to do this that
works
sure okay okay so um
i think vicky if you wanted to you could
just give everybody three opportunities
to put their thumb up
just count and shut down the numbers
then we don't have to pick one
all right so you get three three votes
first one is mobility and master plan
implementation
councilmember goodman
okay i mean one nice thing is we can
check in with her
um okay broadening squawk talus general
program
congestion release
i work from home
advocate with region on the light rail
transit recovery was focused
okay everybody vote on three things
you put your four next to advocate yep
drop it down and pull it
there we go
okay all right any other comments on
mobility i think that i'm
relatively speaking yeah 826.
that was probably one of the bigger yep
doing great
thank you doing great okay um we're
gonna go
to growth and development unless anybody
has any closing thoughts on
mobility growth and development
actions to add change and that will help
you group that emphasis
and if you if even if you don't want to
add or change it and you want it to be
the emphasis then
let me know
i think this is where the economic
development one
from councilman remarks really belongs
will you help me with
these words what are the actions
if you look under gg2 some of it's under
gd2
oh yeah the amenities but then the
the one that has the recovery of
businesses is under social and economic
i thought
maybe it belongs better
title 18.
sorry just stole my thunder
yeah i don't really know how to put it
but the
the community is very concerned with the
concept of
infrastructure and space future growth
which is in
gd3 which is basically what gd3 is
but i don't know how to translate that
well
to an action because i don't know
whether
the actions under that accomplish
that objective
can i provide some information so the
infrastructure master plan i think was
what i was trying to capture when i
said i really think we should be
focusing on the central isabel plan and
how to execute it
and so that to me is an actual
deliverable element under there
that really finds ways to incentivize
developers to come
because we've got a stormwater system
that they buy into
and all that so that ties a little bit
into how we're going to get development
to go
where we want development to go because
we haven't gone through that exercise
yet i'm not sure my concern
is that development goes where we want
it to go
so much as we know development's going
to happen because we're a desirable
community
how do we have the infrastructure to
support it so we're not constantly
behind
and so that's as much
simulations that say if development
comes you must do this
as it is working with the school
district
and the county and other things
so i'm i'm not sure the infrastructure
master plan as you've described it
accomplishes what i'm trying to explain
so the administration feels that we need
to have a better staff
resources for advanced planning
we eliminated the advanced planning
manager which is kobe cuts and we think
the time has come
to re-establish that it's not exact
closer so you have dedicated
professional staff that is working on
those issues all the time
trying to determine if having staff
is the same as developing an
action
well yes but the question of do i want
to just hire staff or do i want to
have something that i want to accomplish
and decide if staff is the right way to
do it i think the latter
maybe this is just me i'll let other
council members
ask i i want to ask a question we've got
title 18 undergrowth development
um but the thing that i was talking
about earlier
is really best encapsulated in se1
and the thing that is the title 18 is an
se1
also double reviews city permitted
to provide consistency and
predictability for businesses
and so title 18 is in multiple
locations yes i mean we're going to
double dipping
on the subject because what it really
comes down to
my concerns i guess are really se1
encapsulates
a lot of what i care about it's just
that it has four potential actions
apparently t is only one of them we
haven't done anything on everything
so it isn't that we need new goals it's
just that
we've got some stuff here that we
haven't had a chance to do
that and where you may want to put your
interests
i don't know exactly the words i want to
use but that seems to be your
recurring theme but um i want to promote
the development of
essentially youth so
what's what's the global term for you
know building more you that that's right
this exercise is coming up with new
things right
it isn't trying to also prioritizing the
existing
right so what do we do if our interest
isn't existing
it's mostly in existing items i think
what deputy council president ray was
trying to do at the outset
and say we may have some gaps because
think times have changed um
you know our all the stuff we went
through the last 18 months
but i think more importantly for wally
and i it's that
we have action items in here some that
have been budgeted some that have been
started
of the list that's here what are your
priorities so you don't have to create
new you can just say look i don't even
need to talk about title 18
under economic vitality or whatever that
what it's called
because i know you're doing it because
you've got four other reasons to do it
and you put it in further places
but i'm looking at the three the lowest
and for me if we don't get moving on
this third bullet we're just not going
to get anywhere so it's about emphasis
all
uh deputy right president ray i believe
the part about evus is helpful
codes and standards is that exactly
where you are going to be able to
affect change in housing styles yes and
no i can't predict
standards i want to do the um the push
how do we make it easier yeah so
that's in title 18 and title 16 as well
that's why it's title 18 in 2016. that's
our fan for two years
that was the thing um
so am i playing i think you can just
leave it there but i i think
that will get accomplished under the
cheating
monster i think maybe it's a little
different okay so let's leave it yeah so
title 18 says you can where you can what
i'm trying to do is say
how do we promote or saying you can do
it
how do we make it yeah
incentivize it such as bellevue just or
you know said here are plans that you
could do without permit
yeah yeah counter permit plans
my thought is it's not just adus it's
are missing middle
yeah i was gonna there is one for
missing middle so if
if it's if i can lump them together i
can lift them together but
i'm not sure hold them together
well i think there's i think there's
micro apartments i think there's missing
metal i think there's lots of things we
don't build
a lot of here that we get that's all
kinds of things
okay so that one does now it aligns with
one of the items
okay um so i there's one there's one on
central issaquah which was mentioned
earlier so i put down after advanced
planning from the administration
um the other ones are oh and then
there's a there's a communication to
community that's in there
now so i put that up there too
in case anybody wants to vote for that
one anything else
missing anything that you would want to
vote for
us maybe neighborhood-based or can you
neighborhood-based gaps and services and
amenities
would you put that as a potential action
item under gd1 then is that what you're
thinking
a new one um well actually i think it's
already under gd4 such as emphasizing
okay that's a point for you for
emphasize
thank you okay ready to
go let's go all right question yes
do we feel like infrastructure
anticipates future growth
is the same as advanced
planning
i don't okay
there's there's the operational piece of
this and then there's the
policy so we're going to have to marry
them
with all of these
how many bills
[Laughter]
yeah let's do that you can only vote
because then we have
we have not many council members that
are putting emphasis on it yeah but we
can put it at this part
and ask by one of the votes yeah okay so
title 18.
okay
okay infrastructure anticipates future
growth
central island planning
advanced planning
communications who community
uh ads promote missing middle options
okay and then neighborhood gaps and
amenities
great
okay um now we're going on to
environmental
stewardship do you want to start
did you want to start with es2 where you
modified the objective
and look at the action against there
first
i don't remember what it was it's not
gonna happen yeah
um so that one is the yeah community
members are active partners in the
stewardship of this department's
environment and in issaquah's responsive
climate change
so we added climate change and we don't
have action
and i yeah so i have a potential action
i'll put it on the board and that's
implementation of the
climate action plan
you'll be adoption candidate
okay
um funding for land acquisition
i would do funding and maintenance of
open space
are those all emphasis ones for noon
um that one would be new maintenance
would be a new one
can i say question about
so my old neighbor margaret cloud her
job was to go find
grants for land acquisitions
right we don't have somebody like that
that's a good question and also there's
establish a dedicated funding source for
priority land acquisitions it's already
under es3 so that's why i was just
curious if this is something new or is
this just saying
that's an emphasis on that that's enough
that's
exactly what i was reading okay great
we have a request to announce the number
of audiences
okay
anybody want to add anything else up
here
um so under es1
it says develop a content performance
review protocol to assess
projects following completion to
evaluate and improve consistency of
outcomes with
policy intentions which is very long
but i think the point i would make there
is it feels sometimes it feels like we
create
plans or even code
and don't get the outcome we intended
especially when it comes to
environment and so i'm not sure if
there's a way to tie this in
to title 18 or whether
it is this specific idea of a
project performance review protocol
but some sense of
project assessment or looking backward
in order to
plan better for the future
is your policy worth getting you the
outcomes that you prefer
yes how do you do that how do you know
yeah so i hate
using the word moratorium or anything
like that but that concept of
hey take a step look back are you
achieving what you're trying to
and is there a way to adjust going
forward
and by no means by suggesting a
moratorium
just the concepts of moving backward
so i wrote project assessment
are we is that accurate
you have to add something to it i don't
try to decide it's
like consistency outcomes but
yeah that's a tough one to put like
themes
which is why there's so many words
because it may have been put in there to
solve a specific problem that nobody can
remember anymore
so why don't we just say this is odd and
revisited at some point because i don't
even remember why
i don't even really know just a heads up
we got a note from councilmember goodman
that she had to sign off for the night
okay thanks
i might also add the meaningful
volunteer opportunities since we have
such a
large face of folks that like to help
out in this space
um so councilmember walsh do we want to
have a project assessment
for emphasis because it apparently
sort of isn't actually an action we
don't know
exactly what that um
is covering so yeah i'm fine but then
let's turn around what did we mean with
that and
how would we adjust okay
and then i had said earlier
funding for land acquisition but it's
kind of a separate topic i also want to
know if we have a
strategy for a plan
so yeah
yeah we do
well okay shall we
i mean maybe it's yeah i mean
we have a major plan oh that's right the
corridor yeah i think a ton of it is
contained within the park strategic plan
where we identify
gaps and properties that would continue
trails um and i think it goes a lot to
that third bullet point
um under es3 priorities have practically
pursue strategic acquisitions that had
inventory to fill missing links for park
trail open space and critical areas and
natural resource protection
is that really colorful it's got the big
river very colorful
yeah it's very colorful good discussion
i would cross that out unless somebody
else wants to keep it on
no it's not surprising that we're not
just bumping them off here this is one
area
if you look at this community survey
that we are really really
very very well
you know me personally environmental
stewardship is an area of sustaining
non-emphasizing i mean because we're
really rocking it so
you know keep doing what we're doing but
i think they're
you know quite honestly there's a whole
lot of higher priorities than right now
that you know uh well i would
maybe have a different perspective i
think we have not
we don't have this dedicated funding for
land acquisition and we have a strategy
that has a lot of pieces
in it but i think prioritizing and
emphasizing that
more than it is currently is an option
so i think we can still do the emphasis
exercise on this area um
i i certainly think certain things are
more could be more emphasized than
others here
and just from an emphasis point of view
that
councilman marks mentioned this earlier
we can emphasize the heck
out of this list we've got 220 stuff
at x dollars to do it and so not
everything that
gets above that emphasis line is really
going to all happen
in your 2023 2022 budget
[Laughter]
unless anybody has anything to add
all right uh climate action plan
is it three votes again three votes
five campuses
acquisition
four
funding maintenance of land
four
project assessments and consistency of
outcomes
i thought we were going to put that yeah
okay uh and then meaning hold on to your
opportunities
three
time check
yes
my remarks if somebody added a change
into the objective we wanted to start
with that
oh we had a recovery recovery of
existing right
there's an increase in new and the
recovery of existing businesses
and there are four action items under
there
so i would like to emphasize the
employer recruitment plan
just something to be discussing as the
mayor mentioned for some time
okay
anything else for the list
i think hand-in-hand with uh abu's
promoting
middle options could be implementing and
enhancing the housing strategy
okay um
hi yeah yeah that's not really
for our human services
uh
i'd like to do something uh maybe help
me out here
that talks about stability but also
coherence
um we've had discussions about
the duplication of human services in our
area
and if we could use that connection to
facilitate conversations
i know that's really that sorry
but i think you know where i'm going yes
uh facilitating
use use or leverage our our ability at
the same to facilitate conversations
about human services stability and human
services
um validation
our efficiency of service delivery i
talked a lot about
if you mapped out all the organizations
and each one only does
one thing how do we turn it into a
spider web instead of
individual cycles of service yes so that
the individual gets
all of the services they needed through
this connective tissue that the city
provides
exactly no duplication of certification
yes and
easier facilitation for the clients to
access
yeah so okay so i yeah
a lot of words
yeah timeless outreach yeah
yeah and and uh councilman d michelle i
do think in that third bullet
that's what you just said you said
better than what the third bullet said
okay um because facilitate nonprofit
organizations to locate or expand to
provide
needed services locally i do believe
we're talking about that spider web of
services and how it's connected and that
we're not having duplicative services
and we have enough services and we have
a way to connect people to any service
that they yes
i think it might be worth adding
reevaluating to healthy community
strategy because i think that was
adopted in 2014
well i think we're doing the human
services strategic sciences
plan now oh yeah so
yeah yeah you just throw that like yeah
oh it's already there
okay so yeah scratch it re-revive it
oh oops yeah i see how's it trying to
work from yeah can you put up human
services
thank you good catch
eating services support
plan what's it special
which we haven't made much progress on
is the city assessment of affordable
uh city assessment of properties for
potential affordable use so i put that
up there in case anybody wants to vote
for it
uh anybody else have anything
um okay so then we have employer
recruitment plan
three okay
all right housing strategy works dan
assessment of properties for affordable
housing
two
leverage the human services efficiency
consistency of services spiderweb
spiderman
homelessness outreach
reevaluate human services worker plan
okay okay city leadership
and services that's the president they
have the moment
i have to leave i apologize i have a
family member in town for a birthday
and i beg them to wait till nine o'clock
and there they have agreed to do so so i
will miss the last two categories
uh city administrator bob quits is going
to do the next steps
after but i just a couple quick comments
before
uh i think uh this has been very
enlightening for me
thank you very very much i appreciate
everybody's opening comments the thought
you put in ahead of time the notes that
you brought
the back and forth exchange the asking
questions and other people's ideas
great job it's been very very enjoyable
tonight
so i hope you're not here till midnight
but i don't think you are you guys are
moving through this really well
thanks
thank you mayor colley thank you
president yeah
thank you
okay um city leadership and services
i'd like to see a police
catch retention plan
i'd like to see our equity framework
uh public outreach strategies community
engagement services
not sure how to put it but um
exploring other avenues
for public safety they undergo law
enforcement
and that is a way to take away but
there's a way to
evolve broadens the idea of what public
safety means
and so just the exploration of that and
i don't know whether that
comes through the human services work
uh strategy plan but
well we added an objective under city
leadership and services for them
yes so i think it would go into this
public safety unless you yeah
just don't know how to clean up
speak up sorry could be
alternative responses for
public safety
okay or maybe also complementary
responses yeah yeah
okay um
anyone else i have a question for the
city administrator
do we have or have we considered
any efforts um or are there any
other communities that would give us
ideas on it i'm worried that as isap
gets more expensive it's harder to get
city employees and are there
any mechanisms out there i mean
i don't know how to finish that yeah
right some sort of housing incentive
effort i guess it's just
it's just cash i mean there are
communities
that provide first-time home buyer
assistance down payments rental
assistance
all those things are doable over there
too
are we seeing it become a barrier to
getting employees
entertaining that is an evolving
question
we are among the most liberal cities for
work at home right now and that and that
is going to overtake those other issues
or
will really put them in a different
different place
police officers can't work from home
public works employees mostly can
network
so it's a mixed bag but if the council
wanted to put additional
financial resources if that is priority
we develop
options for consideration
let's put it down do we have
fans uh incentives for
housing uh city employee health
incentives
i think in some ways that presupposes
the solution
without necessarily having the data to
say
that the best way
to solve it or the barrier because i
think we we just said
in some cases there's a housing issue
in some cases it might be a
transportation issue in some cases it
might be
letting people perform from home
i wonder if similar to the idea of
police recruitment
and retention strategy there is a larger
city employee recruitment and retention
strategy
i'm trying to address the fact that my
wholeness approved forty percent in
value in the last few
months
so that's that has to be impacting our
ability to get it for us
like there's no way that could work
i i think it's controversial it's a
recruitment and retention there are
multiple pieces
housing there's peace reflectability is
a piece transportation is a piece
so i don't know if it's one or the other
it's all
you put up that one too oh
i'm going to put them together unless
you think they're separate and i can
separate them
do you think you're separate i i
hear how the room is going so fine put
them together i think i think it's a
very
well segmented
okay well as the maker of the suggestion
yeah that's fine yes
yes it works i can see where it's going
okay um
i had one which is uh update plans for
emergency
response given all of our given our heat
wave
response and
survey results that are low where it
says um
value received for your local tax
dollars and fees
where we scored fairly low when it's an
emphasis area
so i think there's something about how
do we increase
the effectiveness and efficiency of city
programs okay
so the action is maybe
increased efficiency in fact it visits
new programs
okay
anyone have anything else for the list
no okay um
okay everybody ready to vote
okay please recruitment and retention
strategy
or equity framework
free
community engagement strategies
two no put one more
public safety alternative and
complementary response
three same way housing incentives
recruitment and retention
one after all that
uh bang the goal
emergency plan i tried only got three
goals
increased effectiveness of city programs
okay
last one infrastructure i put a
broadband because we all talked about
rubbing
for me
it's just so unclear because i i realize
it's a big one coming out of today
it's a survey that's the thing
for needs assessment that's the main
focus for pushing
right for dropping yeah that's what i
had suggested like a community
um survey neighborhood survey on
internet connectivity
seems like a pretty logical next step
but if anyone else has anything else
very broken
that's it this is not good for not doing
it but i want to emphasize versus
payment management
did that also include the concrete
management so different management
concrete finishing i would pair them
together yes but we do
yes hundreds
but andrea schneider's still on the call
you can thank her because this is your
thing
water system yeah
sidewalks and street lighting
lighting for sidewalks and streets
is it on lighting or is it cyber uh i'd
pair them
together but well there's
there's stuff on sidewalks in the plan
there's not i think there's not stuff on
writing so laying would be interesting
yeah i'm just responding to the
community survey those were
two things that were called out if you
want to put on a separate that's fine
well i'm just i'm going to clarify for
more sidewalks and more lighting yes
okay
more silence and more lighting yes
okay so new
okay
okay
um i think that there's also the
development of an
infrastructure plan it's in there
already
the asset management policy yeah
that's underway yeah
okay
that's we only have four in this section
but there's
anybody have any other things to add to
this one
i mean i would add the asset management
would the capital financing community
task force be more here or more mobility
i think it's a dollar structure
oh good catch
and this is the work of having that task
force or is it the
implementing that recommendation so i
said task force which is not good
can't implement their findings until
they have findings so i'm just trying to
figure out what the
okay
okay is that a good list
ready to vote how many do we have them
three oh how many times one
yes um
okay so broadband survey pavement
management
pavement and concrete management water
system improvement
more sidewalks and more lighting
asset management program and then
capital finance
task force
okay are you ready okay broadband survey
thanks
uh pavement management and concrete
management
three water system improvement
one more sidewalks and more lighting
three asset management
one federal finance task force
four
president members of the council but two
last things
one is aligning metrics for successive
priority
prioritization actions it's late um
are you prepared to have a general
discussion about this would you like us
to come back
in a future study session talk about
this
go ahead um well so when we had this on
the agenda i was imagining that we could
probably have a better discussion with
with some response from the
administration on metrics because we
don't know what all data
is available and also probably don't
have all the metrics
memorized that we already have so i i
think we might have
a better conversation at a later date um
once this information has been processed
and
that would be my suggestion
i agree but the only one that i found
for looking through it that i really
wanted to emphasize
was the deferral rate of our maintenance
because that was specifically pulled out
in the plan as a performance
a success measure was the asset
maintenance deferral rate and
when i was looking through the um
dashboard i didn't find anything that
told me
the size of the hole that we're in just
the small number of pebbles that we were
throwing into it
okay so why don't we come back
at a future meeting um dale's on the
line watching
tonight so she's the staffer responsible
for this so
we will figure out some time here
september in october is very busy
not surprising so we will sort out an
evening
um then next steps um let me go back to
the powerpoint
so monday night's council meeting we
have a revenue forecast
for those of you who haven't opened the
packet yet we have
a very robust year financially we are
seeing
record sales tax revenue a record
a real estate transfer tax um
in sales tax we're estimating to be five
million dollars
over benching so we are seeing
significant
significant revenue so sales tax is at
all time
community highs we've never seen sales
tax at this level so
we are going to talk about that on a
monday evening
we are also going to tell you what i'll
tell you right now that we are going to
come back to the council of
administration in september
with mid-year budget adjustments to
start spending some of that one-time
money
for a year and likely bring forward a
few staff positions to begin hiring now
that would otherwise just be in the
budget but if we can start the process
now we can actually have the advice
pretty close to january so um that'll
come out
on monday evening it's in the packet for
you all to read
on the wednesday evening the fourth
we're going to have a community meeting
a
virtual meeting which will redo the
revenue discussion and get me to be back
so uh this is sort of that will then
sort of mark the
end of the budget preparation community
city council um input process
we're already working on this internally
um
i will tell you the most of what we're
doing with lines very nicely with your
discussion this evening so
um like really i i think the budget you
will see
um on september 20th we'll be
all aligned to this discussion very
nicely tonight so
i think one of the big challenges we
face though is one-time money
what do we do with fund balance we
haven't even really seriously
started talking about the american
recovery act funds
one of the reasons we haven't done that
um is we're still trying to assess
community need and there's information
in the
back of this presentation monday night
about that but we're also continuing to
get some very mixed messages from the
federal government state government
announcement so that's still
11 million dollars that we don't have
earmarked yet so there's lots of
one-time money the administration will
come forward with proposals to spend
some of to occur here
we heard the council very clearly the
last budget cycle
that fund balance should be what the
policy is and not
much more than that so we are
interacting with the budget
so on september 20th the mayor will
present the budget we'll have another
community meeting to talk about the
budget on september 21st
we have several budget meetings
scheduled through october november
for for regular i think from tonight
though we will need to schedule
one at least one study session and then
be a special study session to talk about
performance measures
it's like three last year so um they can
do it well nothing great
uh then scheduled budget adoption on
november 15th
so those are the next steps um i guess
i'm just curious to feedback was this
helpful tonight was this what the
visions made
that this is the one piece of that
circle we've never done
so this was the best efforts based on
the mayor and house leadership
to kind of suss out one sentence so i'm
just curious
for some feedback
i feel like it was super helpful to
go through the process of adding and
modifying some of the
objectives i think
naming out the
actions that we wanted to focus on is
useful but
going back to what deputy council
president ray said at the beginning
about
planning versus having had planned
whatever that was um i'm not quite sure
how we would use the
tick marks
because that's still within a goal
area and not overall and you know we
only have
four to ten things that we can do how do
we really stuff
that out so i think that's the the part
that sits with me and goes okay how do
we make
that actionable because
looking at that i mean i think i would
say
hey there's a lot of things in
environmental stewardship that
we all agree on doing but that may just
be
because there were fewer items in that
and so i guess i will
be interested to see how the
administration
takes some of those things to create a
work plan
for next year um
that's the only part that i'm not quite
sure how to
make it actionable though i do think the
process was useful
oh there's lots of good information you
will absolutely see a documentary
i mean the biggest challenge is
resources you know the police
departments
ask for resources sales everything on
that board
so the challenge for the administration
is how to balance that
and i still have money left to do other
things so
but this is a good first step absolutely
we'll figure it out
so it is planning is
uh plans are worthless planning is
indispensable
but what i like about this exercise and
i said it a couple times during the
evening and why i think the plan
is important it gives you a framework in
which to have the discussion
and if you don't have the framework then
you just meander in the woods
and so this just gives us you know um
a scaffolding on which to have and hang
our discussion so i thought it was
really good
um i think next year's gonna be even
better and and the year after that's
gonna be better still
um but for our first time you know first
bite of this apple
you know that's about
oh i think you were first so uh
i would have uh so we did about what
four hours
um i would have done this on saturday
and
i would have i think we yes we've seen
the survey data before yes we've seen
the metric data before
but i would have done uh the council
president's
exercise with survey and metric data
with the four quadrant with satisfaction
and importance up there which i think
would have helped us prioritize
so like i said we've done it on a
saturday probably that would take
another couple hours
so it probably would have been a six
hour exercise instead of the four hour
but i think having that data fresh
i think the particularly the metric data
and the trend lines
tell a story that i i would like to have
this in the future
have that up as we're as we're
discussing all the importance
i just wanted to ask a question you know
we have all these next steps for budget
but what's the next step in terms of
um the strategic plan coming back to
council with
kind of a summary of what's happening
here
um i guess that's kind of up to all of
you
the easiest thing will probably be just
to bundle up with the budget
if you want to deal with it separately i
mean you've made a lot of
progress tonight so i don't know that
there's a lot we'll have a draft
work plan that will come with the budget
so that i think it's the biggest
piece of this um if jack we could try to
find another
study section mate let's talk about it
probably just bubbles
um so i i had a similar question i
wonder also
if um councilmember walsh's earlier
moment it would be good to have a memo
that
lives with the strategic plan that says
we did this exercise on these for some
of the main takeaways
so then you don't have to go through
each page but you would have a
summary of the meeting and i think
that's ultimately what the council would
approve
i i haven't thought that far this
probably has to be more than a memo
i mean that's just my initial thought um
to accompany the
pretty document that exists so
you'll have something tangible that
yellow enough
i don't know what it looks like sitting
here this evening
yeah and my point is that i think it
should not live with our
budget i mean it can go with the budget
but i think it needs to live with the
strategic
absolutely absolutely and then in terms
of
just tonight i just thought it was great
uh
being in person so yeah and i think the
conversation was a lot
better because um we were able to meet
in person so i appreciate
all the comments that were all of your
participation
and the only thing i'll add is uh as a
pre-budget
discussion this was really
really valuable for me and uh and
i agree i think it was more free-flowing
because we weren't
all up on the screen and we were able to
talk back and forth and get things clear
what we're talking about and i
appreciated it
so yeah i think it was a good session
very good session
i'll also say we often do an exercise
like this
in the january february timeframe and
boy it feels like it makes a lot more
sense
in the budget season
and i think the council has to think
about obviously what we did
this january was not great because it's
virtual but
i mean i think then the question is is
it valuable to do something at the
beginning either slightly different
is it more team building
we have a new council this is january so
that's something
i think in january we have the
legislative
breakfast that we did and that was
i think the first thing i know it was it
was december
yeah i think it was one of the first
things that i attended a
council member that's an option for
people getting to know each other too
that's all the administration asking
i think that's the last item um
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