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Saturday, July 16, 2022

9:00 AM · 3h 53m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Community Survey & Performance Data 1/2
Administration Budget Priorities 2/2
CITY COUNCIL RETREAT
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Introduction
15 min · packet pp.5–6
Staff report:
TO: Issaquah City Council FROM: Council President Walsh & Deputy Council President Hall DATE: July 7, 2022 SUBJECT: 2022 Summer City Council Retreat
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Public Comment
5 min · packet pp.7–16
Staff report:
2023-2024 Biennial Budget Overview JULY 16, 2022 | CITY COUNCIL PLANNING RETREAT
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Biennial Budget Overview
20 min · Robert Hamud, Chief Financial Officer · packet pp.17–28
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Community Survey: 2021 Priorities for Investment IMPORTANCE-SATISFACTION ANALYSIS
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Community Survey & Strategic Plan Performance Dashboard View Performance Dashboard
20 min
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Budget Priority Setting
90 min
Topics: Budget
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Budget Priority Setting
60 min · packet pp.29–37
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
2023-2024 Administration Themes JULY 16, 2022 | CITY CO UN CIL RETREAT
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Administration Budget Priorities
20 min · Wally Bobkiewicz, City Administrator · packet pp.39–69
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
As part of the packet for the July 16, 2022 City Council retreat, the Administration is providing quarterly updates on the Citywide Work Plan and Capital Projects.
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Q2 Reports
10 min
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Topics: Arts & Culture
0:01 are we good okay i would like to welcome
0:03 everybody to our city council committee
0:06 of the whole
0:07 retreat meeting on saturday july 16th
0:11 after 9 00 4 a.m
0:14 um the goal of our retreat is really uh
0:18 we heard from council members we want to
0:20 talk about that we want to check budget
0:21 priorities
0:22 and
0:23 get a sense of where we are as a council
0:26 as we run into this new
0:29 biennium budget
0:30 process and so
0:33 since we heard that from council members
0:36 zach and i
0:37 talked about well how can this be
0:40 a good
0:42 good process so we hearkened back to the
0:45 strategic plan and all of that so i
0:48 think you'll see a lot of things in this
0:50 meeting
0:51 going back to that idea of
0:54 dot voting and things like that for all
0:58 of us that actually did this little job
0:59 voting um but the goal is really to
1:05 get a sense of what our priorities are
1:07 and we broke it up into capital
1:10 priorities and operations priorities
1:14 and so
1:16 we asked you to come with three to ten
1:18 capital and three to ten operations
1:21 priorities we gave some examples of we
1:24 don't want high level priorities like
1:28 human services we want things like
1:32 we need
1:33 24 7
1:35 behavioral health specialists so a
1:38 little bit farther downwards when we're
1:40 talking operations we're talking
1:42 capital we said
1:44 we don't want to just say we need more
1:47 parks we want to say
1:49 we want to fund
1:50 pk whatever in the
1:54 cip we also gave instructions to look
1:57 through
1:58 the
1:59 all of our various plans because not all
2:01 of them are
2:03 included in the capital improvement plan
2:06 or in the strategic plan so we
2:09 gave links to things like the master
2:11 mobility plan and the
2:14 human services strategic plan so that we
2:17 have a sense of what are all of these
2:20 overarching things that
2:22 we and our boards in the community have
2:24 said that we're interested in doing more
2:27 of or that we don't do
2:30 very well in the case of the strategic
2:32 plan
2:33 and so for our um
2:37 event today we're going to start out
2:38 we'll start out next with public comment
2:41 and then our cfo is going to give us an
2:44 overview of the biennial budget
2:47 we will follow that with a little bit of
2:49 information just to refresh our memories
2:51 on community survey and strategic plan
2:53 performance dashboards
2:55 and then we're really going to go into
2:57 the meat of our conversation so we're
3:00 going to have everyone share their lists
3:02 of budget priorities and then we'll kind
3:04 of see if we can discuss and group some
3:07 of those because we figure there's going
3:08 to be a lot of things that multiple
3:11 people are going to bring up and so we
3:13 want to make sure to list those out
3:15 we'll have a lunch break and then we're
3:18 going to have
3:19 the items that we come up with that are
3:24 individualized items on sheets written
3:27 out that we can then go around with dots
3:31 and give our priorities and then have a
3:34 conversation about output the goal of
3:36 that is
3:38 you know on the one hand we could just
3:41 give the
3:42 list of hey here are the
3:45 40 things that council has come up with
3:47 as priorities as ranked by votes but we
3:51 can also take it another step forward
3:53 and go okay we obviously know the
3:56 counselor the administration is not
3:57 going to be able to include all of those
3:59 in the budget so do we as council want
4:01 to shorten that list to be really
4:04 precise on these are what our top three
4:06 to five priorities are or do we want to
4:08 give the fullest and so we'll have that
4:11 discussion
4:12 and then give the administration an
4:14 opportunity to just do a preview of
4:16 their budget priorities
4:18 we've got a little section for qt
4:21 reports we're not going to present them
4:22 but if anybody has any questions or
4:25 discussions and then finally public
4:28 comment
4:29 and so
4:30 our goal is just to go through this
4:32 being responsive to everybody's needs
4:34 it's really about having conversations
4:37 and so those are kind of my ideas zach i
4:40 know you've had a few things you wanted
4:42 to say this introduction yeah and you
4:44 covered most of them that was a lovely
4:45 walkthrough the only other thing that
4:47 i'll add is just be mindful of kind of
4:49 where we're headed in terms of a
4:51 deliverable of this so it was really
4:52 important to lindsey and i when we heard
4:54 from each of you that you wanted to have
4:56 a discussion about budget priorities
4:58 that we think about there being a useful
5:00 deliberate rule that comes out of it
5:02 like you can see was talking about so
5:04 if we do end up going with a more
5:06 focused list and say these are our
5:08 priorities and we have a document that
5:10 now we can hold up as we go into budget
5:12 development or that the mayor can use
5:14 that she's coming up with her proposal
5:15 that doesn't mean that those are our
5:17 only priorities obviously this is over
5:19 two years now instead of just a one-year
5:21 budget so there will be a lot of
5:23 important things that go on in the span
5:25 of a biennium but these are the most
5:27 important things that council wants to
5:29 get accomplished
5:30 over the next two years so just keep
5:31 that in mind to you as we're going
5:32 through that exercise that's the only
5:34 other thing
5:36 excellent excellent um okay so
5:40 clerk can you let me know if there is
5:42 anyone on the call there's no one in
5:45 person for public comment is there
5:47 anyone who has joined us on the call for
5:50 public comment today
5:52 uh yes council president uh ann fletcher
5:55 i believe uh is on the line and would
5:58 like to
5:59 speak
6:00 fantastic is there anyone else should i
6:02 give the overview of
6:04 star three and all of that
6:06 that is the only member of the public
6:08 fantastic we would love to hear from ann
6:13 and you're unmuted you should be able to
6:15 speak
6:18 now hi can you hear me
6:21 you can
6:23 great good morning everybody
6:26 council members and staff
6:29 uh thanks for this opportunity
6:32 um i am a resident of the uh city and i
6:36 also am representing people for climate
6:38 action
6:40 and i sent in some written comment to
6:42 you yesterday i just wanted to make a
6:45 couple of major points from that
6:48 to refresh everybody's memory
6:52 my main
6:53 thought here is
6:55 this is a hard process to prioritize
6:58 and
6:59 looking at your values what you truly
7:01 value really
7:04 should result in how you spend
7:07 the
7:08 the resources and the time the expertise
7:11 that we have and any additional that we
7:13 need
7:14 and so this is a great opportunity
7:16 to prioritize
7:18 that expert time and sufficient funds
7:21 for the implementation of issaquah's
7:23 climate action plan
7:25 so my three points are
7:29 to consider
7:30 do we have
7:31 uh the
7:33 uh the right
7:35 strongest organizational structure
7:38 to implement a plan that
7:40 is connecting multiple departments
7:43 multiple
7:44 administration
7:48 groups and uh
7:50 staff
7:51 and especially in the areas where we're
7:54 emitting
7:55 uh the most carbon which is buildings
7:58 and energy
7:59 transportation and land use
8:01 and then connecting that with our
8:05 our one manager level sustainability
8:08 staff member
8:10 my second point is
8:13 that
8:14 i think it's really important to
8:17 do a realistic assessment of the climate
8:20 action plan which i'm happy to hear that
8:23 the council
8:24 has asked the administration to look at
8:27 those plans uh the the plan has an
8:31 implementation section
8:33 that provides
8:34 a near and mid one to three year
8:37 timeline and there's some benchmarking
8:40 that needs to be done
8:42 but
8:44 really looking at that plan
8:46 and assessing it would be a driver for
8:48 the budget
8:49 and the third point is
8:52 to make effective use of the the city
8:55 funds
8:57 to to prioritize looking at this this is
9:00 a new plan and a new area that we
9:03 haven't really delved into and
9:06 how do we get that integrated in and
9:10 and build in the the time the expertise
9:12 and the money to truly to truly uh
9:15 monitor um and evaluate how it's going
9:18 as it goes along and make be able to
9:20 make the changes to have the funds and
9:23 the flexibility
9:25 and to have a rationale behind
9:27 all of those items
9:30 so i just think that issaquah has been
9:32 great you've been great all in your
9:34 support of climate
9:36 up up until now and i i thank you for
9:39 that but we just can't rest on our past
9:42 laurels the challenging part is coming
9:44 now
9:45 and
9:47 it's really easy to get distracted and
9:49 tied up with business as usual
9:52 so i just ask that you keep that in the
9:54 forefront of your mind to move boldly
9:56 into this challenging future that we
9:58 have
9:59 with
10:01 the expert time
10:03 organization
10:04 and resources
10:07 to show that we really value addressing
10:09 the climate crisis
10:11 and we really plan to succeed
10:14 and achieve these
10:16 goals you and
10:18 best wishes for a a really great retreat
10:23 thanks so much
10:25 thanks and we appreciate your comments
10:28 um so seeing that there is still no one
10:31 on the line clerk yep okay so we can
10:34 move on to our next item which is the
10:36 biennial budget overview from robert
10:40 oh thank you yeah
10:43 hello
10:45 appreciate being with you this morning
10:47 so what we're going to do is i know we
10:48 have some questions on
10:50 how the biennial budget process works
10:52 compared to annual budget so we're going
10:54 to go over some of those just a high
10:56 level overview of this and then i'll
10:58 answer some questions
11:00 again council ratified the biennial
11:02 budget ordinance will take effect
11:04 january 21st to 23rd and again the
11:06 period that we'll cover would be
11:08 fiscal year 23 fiscal year 24. the staff
11:11 is preparing a two-year spending plan
11:13 for all government operations and
11:15 capital spending for approval by council
11:17 for that two-year period
11:20 and excitement
11:29 the budget ordinance will appropriate
11:31 all city funds
11:33 for the biennial period of
11:34 2023-24 so again that appropriation will
11:37 cover the entire two-year period but the
11:39 operating and capital spending plans
11:41 you're going to see will be presented
11:42 for each year both 23 and 24
11:45 totaling the biennial appropriations
11:46 again you're going to fund
11:48 one number for two years but you're
11:50 going to see each fiscal year separately
11:53 in the spending plans
11:55 next slide
11:57 so here's just an example of a spending
11:59 plan and again you know this is subject
12:01 to change this is just high level
12:03 overview two departments that don't
12:05 exist within the city so it's just a
12:06 hypothetical
12:08 the public health department very large
12:10 agency of hearts i'm sorry do you have a
12:12 way to make what you're showing larger
12:14 on the screen a larger fraction of this
12:16 yeah chris can be very enlarging to
12:18 maybe 120
12:20 or just close off the stuff at the top
12:24 we need to see ourselves well should
12:26 just be that hundred percent
12:28 on top
12:34 yeah i'm not able to
13:24 so the final budget example here
13:26 didn't have a 200 2022 base so i guess
13:30 the biggest difference i can say between
13:32 an annual budget and a vitamin budget is
13:34 when you get to that second year
13:36 you're still working on a 2020 base
13:38 you're saying okay 2022 here's
13:40 assumptions from each year going from
13:42 that base because we don't have to we
13:44 don't have to previous fiscal
13:46 obviously
13:47 for year
13:48 number so if you see here we have
13:51 this hypothetical 10 million dollars
13:53 our
13:54 huge public health department and the
13:55 huge solar waste department
13:58 so 10 million dollars and 22 and then
14:00 you see
14:01 10 million 523 11 million and 24.
14:05 you go down to the second
14:08 chart there and you see the difference
14:10 from the base
14:11 so again you can see here's your 10
14:13 million dollar base in 22 for the public
14:15 health department five percent increase
14:17 the first year and just for hypothetical
14:19 ten percent of the second year it could
14:21 be zero to say two percent just depends
14:24 on the spending time
14:27 and next slide
14:28 please
14:30 again this is going to be very small for
14:31 everybody so i do apologize
14:34 i just took
14:35 the city of mercer islands by you know
14:37 budget ordinance and you can see what
14:38 they do is they just
14:40 appropriate by fund
14:42 2020 you know two years of revenues two
14:44 years of expenditures that's just one
14:46 number
14:48 can you go back to the previous slide i
14:49 have a question of it
14:51 so in your example
14:53 um would we
14:55 then for public health sorry be
14:57 approving
14:58 21 million 500 000 and for solid waste
15:02 approving
15:05 million 750 absolutely yes that would so
15:09 again the two-year number like you said
15:10 both fiscal years would roll up into the
15:12 appropriation but the for the actual
15:15 thing that we would approve would have a
15:17 solid number that represents the fiber
15:20 you know the growth that you are hoping
15:23 for right the growth wouldn't be any
15:24 automatically thing done later
15:27 that's that's my point no right there's
15:29 going to be a review process i'll get to
15:30 the next slide there is going to be one
15:33 step to reopen the budget if possible
15:35 sure
15:37 yes yeah but the original budget
15:38 ordinance is going to look like that
15:40 next page for mercer island where that's
15:42 one number for the general fund one
15:44 number for all of our funds in the city
15:46 for the two-year period
15:53 and so the mid value review so this is
15:55 the this is the period this is by
15:57 statute
15:58 there will be a mid binary review that
16:00 will include an update of the revenue
16:01 expenditure forecast for the duration of
16:03 the biennium with comparison to the
16:05 appropriate amounts in the 2324 any
16:07 budget ordinance that occurs between
16:09 august and december of 2023
16:12 by the rcw codes you can't actually do
16:15 it before but this is a chance to
16:17 reopen the budget re-examine the
16:19 assumptions of the second year and make
16:21 budget amendments as necessary this does
16:23 not preclude or
16:25 stop the council from
16:27 doing budget amendments throughout the
16:28 year when we get grants we get other
16:30 modifications this is just the
16:32 statutorily
16:34 required process and even when the
16:36 process is just a review it doesn't
16:37 require an amendment if it's not
16:39 necessary there's just this review
16:41 process
16:44 and again um as we
16:47 developed a pattern hopefully like when
16:50 i came to you in april we're still going
16:52 to be doing um quarterly reports to
16:54 council on budget status so
16:57 um throughout the biennial budget you
17:00 know it's not going to be two years till
17:01 we come back to you it's not going to be
17:02 even until the video review you're going
17:04 to see the progress report each quarter
17:06 on how the budget is doing what that
17:07 means they're doing expenditures and
17:09 tracking
17:10 that next slide is
17:13 so handling of unexpected appropriations
17:15 so this is where it will be a little bit
17:17 of a departure from
17:19 previous practice so when we get to the
17:20 end of 2023
17:22 you're still within that two-year
17:24 appropriation so right now when we go
17:27 from one fiscal year to another
17:30 staff often comes back to council and
17:31 asks for reauthorizations this is for
17:33 capital projects to run spending other
17:36 operating budgets to carry it over from
17:38 one year to another from 23 to 24
17:41 that process will not be in place
17:43 because again you have that two-year
17:44 appropriation you're still working
17:46 so again if you have it's obviously up
17:49 to the executive to control how the
17:50 spending is within the departments but
17:52 in terms of going to council for
17:54 reauthorizations
17:56 as long as
17:58 a fund is within that appropriation
18:00 uh no budget amendment or carryover
18:02 would happen so again if you're in that
18:04 two-year appropriation you go for 23 to
18:06 24 in this remaining it would
18:08 automatically carry over that
18:09 appropriation balance from the first
18:11 year the second year because again
18:13 you're technically in one appropriation
18:16 so let me ask you a question on that one
18:18 of the things that we've been dealing
18:20 with as a city is
18:23 unspend unspent areas which mean that we
18:27 end up with
18:28 the
18:29 unallocated
18:32 fund balance undesignated fund balance
18:35 that is higher than our 15
18:39 if i'm interpreting this correctly that
18:41 means that
18:42 we wouldn't necessarily
18:45 deal with that in the midterm
18:49 but
18:50 if we end up with two years of
18:54 underspending within
18:56 several departments
18:58 that could end up at the end of that
19:02 with even larger
19:04 portions of
19:06 undesignated fund balance that just
19:08 hasn't been spent during that period of
19:10 time again assuming the underspin is
19:12 still happening but again if this does
19:14 not not not preclude counsel
19:17 from coming back and asking for a
19:18 question amendment
19:27 so do we anticipate having
19:30 that because this has been something
19:32 that has happened year over year do we
19:35 anticipate that being something that
19:40 planned to do
19:41 during that
19:43 mid-year
19:44 and i see
19:46 city administrator bob quits up there
19:48 raising his hand
19:50 so i'll turn over to him
19:54 yes
19:55 thank you council president wallace
19:57 members of the council good morning
19:58 sorry i'm
19:59 in town but not with you there um
20:03 as i think we've talked about the issue
20:06 underspend and the growth in the fund
20:09 balance the administration is committed
20:11 to continuing to spend the dollars uh
20:14 that the council budgets and so if we do
20:16 have
20:17 underspend as we move forward i think
20:19 certainly it's our plan uh as we would
20:21 come in for a second year of a biennium
20:24 but to address that so i think as robert
20:27 has said certainly it doesn't have to
20:29 happen but i think as a practical matter
20:31 uh it will happen certainly in the near
20:34 term um
20:35 today really is the beginning of
20:38 the budget process uh as i think you
20:40 will hear a little bit today and as we
20:42 go forward uh we're still a little
20:44 uncertain uh about a lot of things when
20:47 it comes to our budget and so we're
20:49 going to continue to
20:51 make our best estimates if there is
20:53 underspend you know we're committed to
20:54 continue to invest that back into the
20:56 community
20:59 thanks and just a side note as we
21:01 prepare by budget guidance and we're
21:03 working on the operating budget susie's
21:05 really taking the lead for us and dale
21:07 also is helping out with preparing the
21:09 operating capital budgets for the city
21:11 we're really trying to work with
21:12 departments to say what are you spending
21:14 what are you carrying over you know if
21:16 you're not spending something you're
21:17 here do some house cleaning so we're
21:19 really working with them to make sure
21:21 that the spending plan
21:23 is again like we said there's two years
21:25 so we want to make sure that that second
21:26 year is uncertain so we're really trying
21:28 to clean it up
21:29 justify everything and present a
21:31 spending plan obviously to the council
21:32 that is realistic
21:35 thanks
21:38 and so the next slide
21:40 so i just want to have a disclaimer on
21:41 this slide i know we've been asked for
21:43 questions on you know what the fiscal
21:45 picture is looking like this is very
21:46 preliminary we have until now until
21:49 at the latest december to adopt the
21:51 budget there's a lot of moving pieces
21:53 and changes for the purpose of this
21:55 we're just trying to show that
21:57 with some of the assumptions that we
21:58 have right now
22:00 that the city is still not in
22:02 a situation where
22:04 we're in concern we're obviously
22:05 monitoring everything but i just want to
22:07 show that right now our revenues seem to
22:09 be stable on the general fund side so
22:12 when you're looking at this chart this
22:13 is just the general fund this does not
22:14 include capital this is not a good read
22:17 else any of the other funding sources
22:19 this is just general fund and so what
22:21 we're looking right now is
22:23 pretty much we're just trying to show
22:24 you the trend line the revenues are
22:26 still tracking lower expenditures
22:28 and again that does
22:31 resonate to having that
22:34 ending fund balance but that the numbers
22:36 in here are subject to change so i just
22:37 want to make that very clear that
22:39 this number could be a revolving target
22:41 but right now as we build a budget
22:44 we are putting certain assumptions on
22:45 the expenditures about house of living
22:48 increases health care increases
22:50 everything for the two year period
22:51 because when we look at the few years we
22:52 have to make assumptions not just for
22:54 one year but for two years and so what
22:56 we're trying to do is track it on a
22:58 five-year forecast of 2026 just to show
23:01 what the trend lines are at this point
23:02 but this again this is one point in time
23:05 december even november even september
23:07 could look completely different from
23:09 this picture what we're just trying to
23:11 show right now is what our capacity is
23:13 at this moment in time
23:15 subject to change
23:18 yes so robert do you look back over the
23:20 last pick a number
23:22 10 years
23:24 what kind of variability do we see in
23:25 our revenue
23:27 projections i mean are we seeing wild
23:29 swings are we seeing wild swings in some
23:31 areas and fairly stable in others
23:34 i mean just just but particularly as we
23:36 go into a biennial budget and we're now
23:38 a rolling dice on two years um it'd be
23:40 nice to have a sense of okay can we
23:42 count on
23:44 65.3 million dollars or is it going to
23:48 be 43.8 you know i mean so just
23:52 i think you have a question
23:54 i wish i did
23:56 susie has a magic wand we can try that
23:59 but uh customer is a good question so
24:01 it depends on the revenue source i think
24:03 that's the best way to do it if you're
24:04 looking at
24:05 sales tax that's our number one source
24:07 but it's the most volatile source
24:10 so what we're trying to do is actually
24:12 that's the one that we we budget just by
24:14 nature the most conservatively on
24:16 because it's so around when you look at
24:19 auto sales auto sales are very
24:21 cyclical very fickle they've been going
24:23 up and down up and down based on the
24:24 shortage based on loans based on
24:26 everything else in the economy
24:28 if you look at
24:31 community planning development that's
24:32 another one that we're really trying to
24:34 look at we're looking at what the trends
24:35 are building permits that look at king
24:37 county king county building permits our
24:38 way down
24:40 we haven't seen a full trend of that
24:42 here and we have different
24:45 demographics different issues than some
24:47 of the other cities in the area we have
24:48 one of the last cities that has space to
24:50 build space to grow for example in the
24:52 urban growth area in king county
24:54 that's going to impact some of our
24:56 future growth say in a slowdown
24:59 and also just
25:01 with our commercial because we're a
25:02 headquarters account we're both a
25:04 bedroom community and a headquarters
25:06 town we have a little bit unique
25:07 demographic so
25:09 we have a utility tax that's kind of our
25:11 base size when you look at utility tax
25:14 and you look at anything even the solid
25:16 waste increases that happen
25:18 water increases sewer increases and just
25:20 the demand for services
25:22 that's pretty much
25:25 growing each year so that's probably our
25:27 most stable revenue source so because
25:29 it's such a large source for us that
25:31 continues to grow so we at least have
25:33 that foundation now with sales tax
25:36 we have some volatile parts of sales tax
25:37 but then we also have kind of that
25:39 baseline of sales tax where we know
25:41 people are going to a friend buyer we
25:42 know people are going to go to target
25:43 we're still a regional hub
25:46 so call me north bend at this point
25:48 aren't building any competitive retail
25:49 neither is spanish they don't have
25:52 that type of capacity to do so so we're
25:54 always going to be a retail hub and even
25:56 if you look at the trends
25:58 during covid
25:59 where you didn't see the volatility was
26:01 with construction sector that's probably
26:03 the one sector we're looking at that we
26:04 have concerned about and it's not just
26:07 our reach it's also
26:09 our any sales tax reconstruction
26:11 projects within the city
26:12 also
26:13 the lumberjacks when you look at home
26:15 depot and people here has a large
26:17 regional lumber yard so
26:19 say they're they stop delivering to
26:21 north bend the state north bend slows
26:23 down that's going to impact us here
26:25 so those are the things you're looking
26:26 at right now with sales tax
26:29 a lot of people ask is inflation going
26:31 to increase sales tax that's the other
26:33 question out there i know
26:34 and
26:35 the answer is yes or no yes you might
26:37 see a small bump and actually heard some
26:39 of the national statistics on retail
26:41 yesterday
26:42 saying that there was like a one percent
26:44 increase in retail that was probably
26:45 just driven by inflation
26:48 but where does inflation start to cut
26:49 into people's consumer spending happens
26:52 and you look at okay they might spend
26:53 more fred meyer but they're going to
26:54 spend less of marshalls
26:56 spend less at a high-end boutique and
26:58 maybe less than among the pops here so
27:00 there's there's those issues going on
27:02 but the other thing that's also volatile
27:04 that's that's difficult to forecast but
27:07 we have a pretty
27:08 solid you know trend over the past few
27:11 years as our b o tax or business
27:13 operations tax when you look at the
27:14 grocery seats and you look at the
27:16 expansion of costco you look at rei
27:18 coming in look at
27:20 some of the other large corporations
27:22 that have a presence in the city that's
27:24 been growing that's been growing pretty
27:25 strong so
27:27 this city you know barring
27:29 a mass exodus from washington state that
27:31 probably won't happen
27:32 we're pretty we're in pretty good shape
27:34 and weather recession with the caveat
27:36 that we could see slow downs in
27:37 construction and that is the sector
27:40 construction does account for
27:42 a lot of our sales tax now reed is a
27:44 different story rita is more volatile
27:46 that is not an astonishing
27:48 is budgeted separately and appropriated
27:50 separately for capital projects that is
27:52 something we're going to come back to in
27:54 later weeks as you get a better handle
27:56 of it because it's pretty erratic
27:57 because the good news is
28:00 commercial's been very strong there's
28:01 been some large commercial acquisitions
28:03 in the community but there's also been a
28:05 slow down to residential what does that
28:06 look like in two three years that's a
28:08 little more volatile so what i think
28:09 would be really interesting as we go
28:11 into the budget um is not to do a
28:13 prospective but to do a retrospective on
28:16 revenue so give us a look back and say
28:18 over the last 15 years here's what we
28:20 projected here's what came in because
28:21 then we'll see how good our projections
28:23 have been historically and that'll give
28:25 me at least some confidence that we
28:27 might have some sense of
28:29 going forward
28:30 and what's interesting
28:32 and we absolutely can do that and
28:33 provide that what's interesting about
28:35 that is there's there's certain trends
28:37 in there we would have to pull out for
28:38 example the city still grew the revenue
28:41 sources in 2008 and nine because
28:44 the highlands is growing like crates and
28:45 dallas is going like crazy the permits
28:47 are already pulled so everybody else is
28:49 going down isabella's going up so
28:51 there's there's some of those items in
28:53 there sure
28:55 we'll have footnotes right can't get
28:56 account without footnotes
29:00 we've been looking and actually when
29:02 we've been forecasting looking a lot at
29:03 18 to 19.
29:06 so we certainly can share that
29:07 information um going into our august
29:10 update
29:11 take a macbook history of each reference
29:13 source
29:14 so what i'm hearing is there's a
29:17 definite interest in
29:19 getting to know some of our past trends
29:22 and some of our future assumptions on
29:24 revenue and expenditures and all of that
29:26 and i'm happy to take other questions
29:28 but
29:29 this meeting is really about creating
29:31 our priorities and this is just a teeny
29:34 teeny tiny part of it because we're not
29:37 coaching our priorities in what the
29:40 actualities are yet we're setting a
29:43 sense of here's
29:45 here's what we want to accomplish we'll
29:47 give that to the administration see if
29:48 they
29:49 can find ways to do that and if not we
29:52 come back to the budget and
29:54 you know figure out what
29:56 what we might need to make adjustments
29:58 so uh councilmember
30:00 oh i thought i'd seen yours when uh
30:03 arrested go ahead
30:06 so this may or may not be a question on
30:08 a five-year time horizon uh you said
30:11 something interesting which is we're one
30:12 of the only communities that has a
30:14 sizable uh on a development space left
30:17 do we know
30:19 when we're projected to sort of run out
30:21 of space because that's going to
30:23 fundamentally change our financial model
30:28 do we know when that occurs
30:32 well
30:34 this is andrea snyder um i i think we we
30:37 look at when we do with the budget we
30:39 look at um what is the development
30:41 interest who's the serious development
30:43 interest over the next couple of years
30:45 and i think we have
30:46 um a decently accurate picture of that
30:49 just based on how long that development
30:51 process
30:52 takes
30:53 and so uh we have been as you know
30:55 inventorying our build buildable lands i
30:58 think we are making the shift we're
30:59 about to make this shift from having any
31:01 greenfield development to redevelopment
31:04 and we are seeing some interesting
31:06 redevelopment but that is going to occur
31:08 at a much slower rate and so i you know
31:11 i would say that transition starting to
31:13 occur right now and will really occur
31:15 after the next biennium um to looking at
31:18 more of a redevelopment mix so it is
31:20 within the next five years but not
31:22 within this biennium but it's going to
31:24 mean that our ability to project based
31:26 on past performance is going to go down
31:28 right the uncertainty levels are going
31:30 to go up because we don't really know
31:31 what that model is going to look like
31:32 the way we've known
31:34 what it's looked like for the last
31:36 20 years i think that's true we still
31:37 have areas that have not been built
31:40 right there's the
31:42 swedish development agreement there's
31:44 plenty of uh larger parcels in the
31:46 escala highlands so we're going to be
31:48 seeing a mix like i said we're going to
31:50 be in this transition area where we're
31:52 going to have some greenfield
31:53 development that we can see and predict
31:55 and then we're going to be having more
31:56 and more
31:57 redevelopments of our central supply
31:59 area um so i would say that next five
32:02 years is still going to be a mix with
32:04 one maybe two redevelopment projects
32:06 still greenfield and then moving more
32:08 into the redevelopment
32:10 all right thank
32:12 you thank you um so you explained a
32:16 little bit about how to think about
32:18 inflation on
32:19 the revenue side as far as how it might
32:21 impact um behavior of
32:24 different sectors but i'm wondering if
32:26 you could and maybe this is a
32:28 conversation for later which is fine but
32:29 at some point i think it'd be helpful to
32:31 understand how to think about inflation
32:33 because that's such a big issue right
32:34 now in terms of both revenues and
32:36 expenditures and how to factor in the
32:39 fact that we're seeing
32:41 very very high
32:43 so at this point again because the
32:45 numbers are changing monthly at this
32:47 point we did we did
32:49 build in
32:50 some of that going into 23 we built in
32:53 higher
32:55 cost of living increases and here we go
32:57 higher inflationary increases than we
32:59 did in the out years
33:00 and so again these numbers are subject
33:02 to change what is the long-term trend of
33:05 inflation most economists are still
33:06 saying
33:07 at some point in a level off but then
33:09 again that level off means potentially
33:11 recession if interest rates keep going
33:14 up so that's why we've been susie and
33:16 i've been talking a lot about what is a
33:17 recession look like on these numbers so
33:20 again the biggest impact would be sales
33:22 tax more than anything i could
33:24 discuss in the construction sectors
33:26 specifically
33:28 and maybe some of the available revenues
33:30 from the businesses so
33:31 so that that would be obviously
33:34 with a
33:35 prolonged recession
33:37 that line would drop down towards that
33:39 expenditure line
33:40 and so that gets into more concerns
33:43 even if inflation did drop although even
33:45 in 2008 2009 2010 we still may take a
33:48 robust
33:49 absolutely but we had legos so
33:53 and there's still construction going on
33:55 there so that's the same thing we have
33:56 construction we know
33:58 we have two-year construction that is
34:00 already on the horizon that's already
34:01 happening the next two years after that
34:03 of course the pictures will answer
34:06 and then one related question on the
34:08 ending fund balance
34:10 if there's inflation over the two-year
34:12 budget that is record high
34:15 how do you think about
34:16 the
34:17 ending fund balance because you're you
34:19 have a different
34:20 i guess value of that um
34:22 fun at the start and at the end due to
34:24 the inflation that occurs every day
34:27 yeah so again it's throwing a dart you
34:29 know especially when you get to the
34:30 second year but we did build in again we
34:32 did build an inflation for both years of
34:33 this forecast and we did go higher than
34:35 we normally do
34:36 so it is a higher number than we would
34:38 normally factor in for 23 and for 24 as
34:42 well so we're using higher assumptions
34:44 than we would even going in the out
34:45 years we're using four percent and
34:47 traditionally use about two percent so
34:50 so we have done higher but like you said
34:52 it could end up being higher but that's
34:53 when we come back and we review this
34:55 forecast every quarter to make sure that
34:57 we're going to hit those assumptions and
34:58 like council know
35:00 if the trends are changing but this is a
35:02 generally held economic view that
35:04 inflation washes out because it hits
35:05 both sides of the ledger the same way
35:07 it's only if you get differential
35:08 inflation right where some sectors are
35:10 more than other sectors that you have to
35:12 worry about
35:12 yeah and it's in this community too
35:16 like on sales tax one of the trends that
35:17 i'm looking at is how does inflation be
35:19 you know impact people's behavior and
35:21 spending habits
35:23 and
35:23 one of the downsides for the city is the
35:26 fact that people have to shift from
35:28 taxable to non-taxable spending so
35:30 example non-perishable food items are
35:33 not taxable we don't receive any tax
35:34 from going to fred meyer and buying a
35:36 piece of state but that piece of steak
35:38 was 9.99 last year it's 20.99 this year
35:41 people might buy that instead of going
35:43 to marshalls and buying a lamp
35:45 so that's going to impact us but same
35:47 thing gas prices we don't receive any
35:49 sales tax on gas so people are spending
35:51 more on gas they might spend less than
35:53 70 minutes but the reason i say on both
35:55 sides of the ledger is i'll tell you i'm
35:57 having to spend a lot more for engineers
35:58 this year than i had to last year
36:00 absolutely they're making everybody in
36:01 this town is making more money than they
36:03 made a year ago if they're
36:06 professional fields right so they're
36:08 going to spend more on those stakes
36:09 because they can because they're making
36:10 more money so it washes out as long as
36:13 there is a recession yeah and that's
36:14 actually exactly what we're looking
36:16 internally at the expenditures that's
36:18 what we're working with departments is
36:19 looking at our contracts assuming that
36:21 there's cost escalators going up and
36:23 even the pass-throughs from other
36:24 governments we're already seeing pastors
36:25 from other governments that are
36:27 obviously higher than they were in the
36:28 previous year so yes that expenditure
36:31 curve
36:32 and
36:33 we tried to estimate the base in here
36:35 but again we're just showing that yeah
36:36 some of that gap obviously
36:38 that you see here will be taken by
36:41 increased surface level adjustments
36:44 council president walsh
36:48 go for it
36:50 in the interest of time i think we've
36:52 come to the end of the presentation the
36:54 last slide is just a calendar that i
36:56 think you're all pretty familiar with
36:57 we'll be back
36:58 to the council next month uh for more of
37:01 a discussion but uh perhaps now is just
37:04 a good time if there's any final
37:05 questions otherwise we appreciate the
37:07 council's uh
37:09 comments and questions on the the larger
37:12 issues of the two-year budget
37:14 chris
37:15 the clerk would request that when
37:17 somebody has the floor they should speak
37:19 a little bit more loudly
37:21 we're having some uh virtual attendees
37:23 saying that they can't hear quite so
37:25 well
37:26 great
37:27 um is there any redistribution that we
37:30 might need to do with the owls toward
37:33 this end
37:34 no okay just checking in seeing what our
37:38 options are okay
37:40 so i think the next item is the
37:43 community survey and strategic plan
37:45 performance dashboard
37:47 and so
37:48 dale did you have anything
37:51 you yeah
37:52 okay a little frame for our time exactly
37:55 have any slides but
37:57 um would it be helpful chris if i come
37:59 closer
38:16 as you know from when i shared the final
38:18 draft of our dashboard in late april the
38:20 city has since launched
38:22 a public-facing interactive
38:24 performance measurement dashboard
38:25 aligned to our strategic plan uh very
38:28 exciting and a goal that we've had for a
38:30 number that predates my time here at the
38:32 city
38:33 uh the dashboard went live on june 1st
38:35 it was promoted in the mayor's
38:36 newsletter in early june um
38:39 and as it sits right now on our website
38:43 presents current as of year-end 2021
38:45 data for 52 of the 54 performance
38:48 measures aligned to our strategic plan
38:51 um it also communicates for each year
38:55 for which we have data
38:57 whether the city is meeting
38:59 exceeding
39:00 failing to exceed or has yet to
39:02 determine
39:04 a target for each of those measures
39:06 um and that sits on the sort of menu
39:09 landing page for each of the strategic
39:11 goal areas
39:13 since the early june public promotion
39:15 i've had the opportunity to engage with
39:17 just about 25 members of the public who
39:20 either through reaching out to the email
39:22 address on that on that webpage or via
39:25 the survey below have engaged around our
39:27 dashboard which is super exciting
39:29 um and i just jotted down some trends in
39:31 the feedback so one folks are loving the
39:34 professionalism and navigability those
39:36 were two words used
39:38 uh i certainly didn't write navigability
39:40 that was like get some good additions on
39:42 there of the dashboard
39:43 um i desire to see some of the some cuts
39:46 of the data by demographics whether it
39:48 be race ethnicity age gender
39:50 neighborhood within the city or home
39:52 language so a chance to sort of combine
39:55 our census data with some of the
39:58 some of the different measures we have
39:59 specifically
40:00 um a few on
40:02 homeownership
40:04 and being a renter or a homeowner
40:06 there's been a lot of like who owns
40:07 homes um questions that have come in
40:11 um also questions about how the measures
40:13 connect to one another and indicate if
40:15 the community is making progress towards
40:16 the strategic plan vision so like a love
40:18 of the data and then like a but how does
40:20 this how do we know if this is this good
40:23 or not
40:24 um and then making it more clear which
40:27 and when indicators are being met or
40:29 missed so not just letting us know the
40:31 number but
40:32 specifically being able to very quickly
40:34 look and say like oh that one's been
40:36 missed this year um
40:38 this is the 1.0 version of the dashboard
40:41 uh i'll be soliciting additional
40:42 feedback in late 22 early 23. i mean i'm
40:46 still listening feedback all the time
40:47 but specifically to get ready to watch
40:50 the 2.0 version
40:52 in the coming year
40:53 and then just i guess some quick
40:54 reminders about how to navigate uh
40:57 from that one main landing page clicking
40:59 on any of the goal areas in the wheel
41:01 will bring you to the landing page for
41:03 that goal area
41:04 from there you can click on any measure
41:06 and it will bring you to the page with
41:07 data and visuals related to that measure
41:10 or the promise of data and visuals when
41:12 we have the data for the two that we
41:14 don't
41:14 um and then you can use the navigation
41:16 features in the top right of the page to
41:18 either return back
41:20 uh to the previous page you were on or
41:22 navigate all the way home to that
41:24 landing page
41:25 but if you're old school and you just
41:26 like to click through like a slide deck
41:28 you also have the functionality to do
41:29 that and a lot of people actually share
41:31 that that's the way they move through it
41:33 and they've appreciated that
41:36 all the
41:37 landing pages for the goal areas are
41:39 front loaded so they can very quickly
41:40 see the measures for each area at the
41:42 top um
41:45 and i think that's it i'm here to answer
41:47 any questions you might have as you're
41:49 clicking through uh that have to do with
41:51 the functionality of the dashboard um
41:54 yeah grateful to be here
41:56 hello
41:57 so i mean this is exactly i mean i had i
42:00 have spent 12 of the last 13 years um
42:03 talking about metrics this is exactly
42:05 what i wanted um and so my question now
42:08 is what do we do with this right and how
42:10 do we uh use this down the road there's
42:13 an amazing amount of super super
42:16 strategic data here and and what do we
42:18 and what does the administration
42:20 do with this and how do we use it to
42:21 inform decision making going forward
42:25 i don't know if we have the answer to
42:27 that but i think it
42:29 gives a sense of a desire for
42:32 conversations on that so yeah
42:34 um and then we also had a presentation
42:38 yes uh city administrator roberts
42:41 yes thank you um
42:44 today is a discussion of resources i
42:46 think resources are an issue for the
42:48 administration on performance
42:50 measurement and business process
42:53 improvement because i think as
42:54 councilmember marx has rightfully
42:56 indicated now that we have but what do
42:58 we do with all this data
43:00 and so i think that is a an issue that
43:02 the administration is just thinking
43:04 about what additional resources do we
43:06 need to put forward on the business
43:08 process reinvention side of basically we
43:11 have a 1.0 person in dale um
43:15 working on this and so she has some
43:17 resources but to deal with the business
43:19 process re-engineering uh but if this is
43:21 something the council feels strongly
43:23 about it would be useful to get some
43:25 feedback today uh because we are as
43:28 we're looking at the at the budget
43:29 process uh how much more resources
43:31 should we put into this uh the other
43:33 thing i would mention is uh our work
43:36 with the what work cities initiative
43:37 through bloomberg philanthropies
43:40 that takes up dale what probably
43:43 10 or 15 percent of your time working
43:45 with other jurisdictions on this we're
43:47 starting to
43:49 have other staff and other departments
43:51 work on some of these projects so
43:53 council president members of the council
43:54 as you're discussing resources and
43:56 priorities
43:57 you might want to keep this one in the
43:59 mix
44:00 because i think from the administration
44:01 side we're grappling with how much more
44:05 resources should we be putting toward
44:07 the area performance measurement and
44:09 business process for engineering versus
44:11 other competing priorities
44:13 great
44:16 so i totally understand that and
44:19 understand needing to
44:21 maybe bring in some expertise to to
44:23 think about how to uh redo some
44:26 processes i mean
44:28 i'm hesitant to tell the executive
44:31 branch how they should run their own
44:33 place but
44:34 you know in my organization i have my
44:36 directors um that i ask them for metrics
44:38 of performance and i
44:40 evaluate their performance based on
44:42 their metrics right so this seems like
44:45 something that
44:46 a an element of this could be that some
44:48 of these metrics are owned by your
44:51 directors and and they
44:53 use that as they come to us and talk to
44:56 them about the health of their
44:58 but again
44:59 that's you know just an idea
45:08 i agree with that i think one of the
45:10 challenges we're facing and i think
45:11 other communities face
45:14 there's a bridge needed that how can
45:17 what's the resource to take these uh
45:19 pieces of data and work with the
45:21 operating departments and get them to
45:23 understand uh what the processes then
45:26 are necessary to move some of these
45:27 numbers and so uh it's really two
45:30 different kinds of resources it's that
45:32 central administration additional
45:33 resource to work with the department and
45:35 then what a programmatic resources the
45:37 department might need so there is no
45:40 right or wrong answer but but i think
45:42 there are two different buckets of
45:43 resources one's bucket from departments
45:46 and then one bucket uh again to help the
45:48 departments understand the data that's
45:50 being generated
45:53 great
45:54 yeah real quick wally can you clarify
45:56 what you meant by business process when
45:58 you're going referring to performance
46:00 measure
46:01 business process support
46:04 um you know every every performance
46:06 measure has an outcome and so those
46:08 outcomes uh
46:10 happen through
46:12 a way we do business
46:14 you know we could take any one of them
46:16 um and so it's if for example your
46:20 your planning permits for current
46:21 planning aren't being processed um in a
46:24 timely manner or through whatever your
46:26 benchmark is then you have to go back
46:28 and see why
46:30 are there not enough people is it a
46:32 systems issue is it a policy issue and
46:34 so you try to break all that down
46:36 and again there are different skill sets
46:38 required
46:39 in that you need the the actual folks
46:42 who work on delivering the service
46:43 involved you need sometimes a third
46:46 party and again dale's been doing an
46:47 excellent job of being that third party
46:49 in some instances working with those
46:52 those departments to understand what
46:54 what are they doing why why are they
46:56 handling a piece of paper the proverbial
46:58 handling of the piece of paper too many
47:00 times um you know so that's that's the
47:03 pieces we're trying to go down to and
47:06 the reality is is dale uh still works on
47:08 the operating budget so it's really um
47:12 you know what robert half the
47:13 three-quarters of dale's time is devoted
47:16 to performance measurement and another
47:19 half for a quarter of her time is still
47:21 devoted the operating budget so if we
47:23 were to expand that and bring on
47:25 additional resources is that something
47:27 that would meet the council's needs
47:29 moving forward so that's just something
47:31 the administration is grappling with and
47:33 again it's all about prioritization
47:36 great okay
47:38 um clark i think we also had a
47:40 presentation on the
47:43 um community survey
47:45 so i just want to go through that
47:47 really quick i'm not going to go through
47:49 all 12 of the slides but could you bring
47:51 that up
47:53 great
47:54 so again on the community survey you
47:58 know as we are coaching our priorities
48:02 what are our needs what did we find in
48:04 our strategic plan
48:06 um what do we have in all of our various
48:09 other plans in our capital improvement
48:10 plan
48:11 one of the other elements there is the
48:13 community survey and i know all of us
48:16 really thought that this last survey was
48:19 very consequential it was great to be
48:22 able to see the important satisfaction
48:24 analysis and all of that
48:28 whenever you are ready to pull that up i
48:31 think i'm just going to go through the
48:32 first few slides
48:40 and next slide
48:44 yes
48:46 first thing i noticed on this slide uh
48:49 because this is uh when we get to
48:51 priorities you're going to hear this
48:54 there's nothing on there about housing
48:56 and i realized i i believe this was
48:59 based on our strategic plan right
49:02 these priorities were
49:04 taken from our strategic plan
49:07 hi autumn monaghan
49:09 administrative services director when we
49:11 created the and formulated the survey we
49:13 organized the questions by bull area so
49:16 that that's how it was in my history
49:18 that's what i was thinking i think at
49:19 the time we did that because i
49:20 participated in the strategic plan
49:23 housing wasn't
49:25 i mean it's emerged as a really big
49:28 topic since the we did the strategic
49:30 semester so i just want to point that
49:32 out now in this summary on page 18
49:36 affordable housing is listed as number
49:38 four on the summary so so it did get
49:41 measured somehow but i just want to
49:42 point out that on this particular slide
49:45 people weren't asked about housing as a
49:48 priority okay so
49:51 just like that
49:53 uh well i just wanted to from my
49:56 perspective i think the land use
49:57 planning and zoning that's a factor that
50:00 impacts what kind of housing we get oh
50:02 definitely
50:03 that's the second one yes i see that but
50:06 you know when you're asking people
50:08 i don't know that everybody would
50:10 connect land use with exactly with
50:12 housing i agree with you but
50:15 again you just need to call things out
50:18 sometimes though yeah
50:19 so like if it didn't have public safety
50:21 you'd say well that's probably something
50:24 if you didn't have healthy safety and
50:26 nobody
50:26 you know you'd be like oh nobody cares
50:28 we'll probably see right no yeah yeah so
50:31 just want to point that out on that
50:32 particular slide
50:34 yeah so this is really just
50:37 which
50:38 uh services the residents think should
50:41 receive emphasis over the next two years
50:44 we can clearly see that there are two or
50:46 three at the top that are very
50:48 consequential the flow of traffic and
50:50 congestion management on esco streets
50:53 land use planning and zoning and then
50:55 maintenance of city street sidewalk and
50:57 infrastructure as we go on to the next
51:01 slide
51:02 we can kind of see
51:04 the
51:05 percentage of
51:06 satisfaction
51:08 versus importance and so the flow of
51:11 traffic and congestion management was
51:15 highly
51:16 important much lower satisfaction so
51:20 we've all seen this before i don't want
51:22 to dig into what each of those elements
51:25 are but i just wanted to make sure we're
51:26 using that as a place to kind of
51:31 talk things through can you go to the
51:32 next slide
51:34 this is our very famous uh
51:37 quarter
51:38 situation where we can see again
51:41 the areas where lower satisfaction
51:44 higher importance and then also the
51:46 continued emphasis
51:47 where there might be a little bit of
51:49 satisfaction there but
51:51 um still very much important
51:54 and so i don't think we need to go into
51:57 the rest of this because it's just
51:59 breaking down the areas but if you want
52:01 to go to slide 12
52:04 that's the
52:05 summary
52:08 the piece that we don't want to miss is
52:10 that
52:11 satisfaction in isabel is much higher
52:13 than other communities so we still have
52:16 that as a baseline and we've got a lot
52:19 of positive perception
52:21 um but there are areas that are
52:23 emphasized as top areas for improvement
52:27 and so those are
52:28 many of the things that we already know
52:30 but we now have data for and see our
52:33 continued emphasis
52:36 in order to keep on with our schedule
52:40 and i am
52:41 keeping us on schedule um
52:44 we have at this point a break if needed
52:48 before going into budget priority
52:51 setting um how are we feeling great no
52:54 break
52:57 yes love you people okay fantastic
53:00 so our next part is really about
53:03 giving yeah enough
53:07 intro
53:10 yes exactly jump up as needed do all of
53:13 that um so
53:16 this part is really about taking that
53:18 bit of homework and saying let's throw
53:21 it all out on the table let's see what
53:23 matches up between things
53:25 and then um we'll have a chance to
53:29 discuss those items and kind of group
53:31 them together so i'm wondering i'm happy
53:35 to go up to the whiteboard and write
53:37 things down as people
53:39 call them out or if anybody else wants
53:42 to do that
53:44 happy to look around
53:47 sure that's great my hands are quiet
53:50 yeah so many hands
53:53 okay
53:55 what i'm going to do to start out here
53:57 is just see if anybody wants to start
54:01 with their list and zach if you'll have
54:04 like half of it for capital and half of
54:07 it for operations
54:10 that will allow us to kind of
54:13 segment some of those ideas
54:17 so does anybody want to go first
54:21 okay we've got victoria and then chris
54:27 you want uh you both together
54:30 yeah go ahead and give one column and
54:32 then the other so that zack knows where
54:34 to write it and
54:35 zach just
54:37 right along and
54:38 if we have somebody else who mentions
54:40 the same thing we can just put an extra
54:42 check mark or something like that
54:44 can i do it breathe
54:46 go for it
54:48 okay
54:49 so um i was reviewing the past budgets
54:52 and i think that the 2020 budget where
54:54 we were
54:56 planning for 2021 but still in
54:59 figuring out how much covid was going to
55:01 impact the economy and going to impact
55:03 our community i think that we find
55:05 ourselves in a similar situation in some
55:08 ways now because we
55:10 have a lot of uncertainty about um how
55:13 long the effects of food will last and
55:16 the economic downturn how that will last
55:18 and how that will impact especially
55:20 um disadvantaged communities
55:22 in in issaquah and so i think that
55:26 with that framing i looked especially at
55:27 2020 given the uncertainties we have now
55:30 and
55:32 in that year we had
55:34 a couple of themes including the social
55:36 safety net public safety and investing
55:39 in parts and open space and i think that
55:41 those were
55:43 focal areas that served us well in that
55:46 creative uncertainty so building on that
55:49 for
55:50 this budget
55:52 i wanted to look at how we could expand
55:55 on progress made in those areas
55:58 and
55:58 continue to support our community and
56:02 uh become this welcoming community that
56:04 we want to be
56:05 so i thought of a rebranding of these as
56:07 community resiliency which would expand
56:10 to disasters and
56:12 climate resiliency and
56:14 protection against an economic downturn
56:17 and then
56:18 quality of life so this would extend the
56:20 parks and open space but i think could
56:21 also expand to our trails and mobility
56:24 so with that
56:26 i think of the green necklace as one
56:28 idea that i really want to
56:31 work on and so there's a number of
56:33 priorities that get to that in my
56:35 capital improvement list
56:37 the green necklace is something that's
56:40 been a priority for a long time as
56:43 councilmember marks talked about this is
56:44 a long time coming this is not my idea
56:46 this is something that counsels before
56:48 us has put forward and i think our
56:50 council has a real opportunity to make
56:52 that
56:52 happen i think it also um speaks to a
56:55 number of our
56:57 a number of things that we want to do in
56:59 the near terms to set bitcoin art in
57:01 terms of quality of life for our
57:02 residents
57:03 and it speaks to the communities needed
57:05 to do better planning for growth and um
57:09 and land use and becoming this welcoming
57:11 community that we still want to be
57:13 and um additionally we had this
57:15 conversation recently about
57:17 our park system and all of the benefits
57:19 they have mental health um you know
57:22 social well-being place to gather as
57:24 well as physical well-being and getting
57:26 people out of their cars and all the
57:27 things that we want to be as a community
57:29 um and so i think
57:31 uh i think that to use an analogy that i
57:34 really like that council member michelle
57:36 started i think that
57:38 investing in the green necklace is like
57:39 creating a college fund that better
57:41 enables all of the beautiful children of
57:43 all of our art systems to thrive
57:45 and um i would love to make this council
57:48 uh have that become real so with that
57:51 my first capital priorities are
57:54 the ones in the green necklace so that's
57:56 pre-corridor pko45
58:00 valley trail and creekside pk12
58:05 which
58:06 currently starts in 2026. so move that
58:09 enough tibbetts creek trail uh
58:13 009
58:18 and one additional note there the pk45
58:21 pre-corridor had a conversation with
58:23 director watling he indicated that the
58:25 costs on that are
58:26 likely to be higher than estimated
58:29 um the first one is crete corridor
58:32 yeah
58:38 and 12 was which one which probably
58:40 that's um
58:42 valley trail and creekside thank you
58:46 and then sorry rainier trail is 21.
58:50 i don't think i said it okay
58:53 is that tl zero two one um
58:56 trailer tk 21.
58:59 so those are the four in our cip that
59:03 are specifically referencing the green
59:05 necklace
59:08 which is why they're in my top ones
59:10 and then i have a couple other things uh
59:13 and these are just because mainly
59:15 because they're long-standing machines
59:19 squat mountain uphill bike lane sidewalk
59:21 it's not on the cip it doesn't have a
59:22 number it's in that um it's in the
59:25 i think it may be added now it's in the
59:27 mmp and it's in the walk-in world
59:37 hillside park
59:42 pk 31.
59:49 and then pavement management and the
59:51 annual concrete management that's tr30
59:55 and tr-54
1:00:13 fantastic so that's your capital list do
1:00:16 you want to go over operations list
1:00:20 do everybody's capital okay sounds good
1:00:23 then we're off to chris
1:00:25 all right i'm gonna pick some easy ones
1:00:27 i have a little more of a transportation
1:00:28 focus
1:00:30 and some of this we've already talked
1:00:31 about but tr003 which is the i-90
1:00:33 crossing between 10th and 12th
1:00:35 um i think we need to fully fund that
1:00:39 uh tr
1:00:44 which is the uh northwestern road
1:00:47 non-motorized improvement project or
1:00:49 pinch point
1:00:51 um and then tr 33 which is the southeast
1:00:54 black nugget road retaining wall repair
1:00:56 i think we've been kicking that cam for
1:00:58 a long time
1:00:59 and then when i first ran for council
1:01:02 i was listed one vote well doorbelling
1:01:06 because i said you know we're gonna have
1:01:08 a damn dog park so can we get the dog
1:01:10 park done pk 018 dog park
1:01:16 we have a mobile dog park
1:01:19 and then
1:01:20 finally is pk32 hillside acquisition
1:01:25 32 32
1:01:43 yeah and we will be taking pictures of
1:01:46 this and posting it i assume with the
1:01:48 minutes and all of that yeah great
1:01:51 that's all i got fantastic
1:01:54 uh so uh most of mine were also green
1:01:58 green
1:01:59 that being necklace related so pk12 and
1:02:04 um to that i would add
1:02:07 st009 squawk valley park south creek
1:02:10 restoration
1:02:12 uh st009
1:02:16 uh sierra tango
1:02:17 zero zero nine
1:02:20 squat kelly park
1:02:22 um which i consider part of the necklace
1:02:24 uh i didn't include hillside although i
1:02:26 would certainly of course plus won it um
1:02:28 but i i just consider hillside pinch
1:02:30 point to hopefully be um you know on the
1:02:33 menu already and we don't have to well
1:02:35 hopefully we won't have to argue to keep
1:02:37 them uh
1:02:38 in the near term
1:02:40 certainly important so that's me for
1:02:42 careful
1:02:44 so did you you plus one yeah you plus
1:02:46 one thing for
1:02:58 oh wait hillside acquisition
1:03:00 is that what you said no that's what i
1:03:02 said oh
1:03:04 no there's a hillside park halfway up
1:03:07 there's that there pk32
1:03:10 this one position is the first position
1:03:12 for hillside park no it's no just
1:03:23 uh so what is that
1:03:25 is that the little piece of property
1:03:26 that no it's a bucket of ongoing
1:03:30 monies to acquire hillsides sort of like
1:03:33 creek corridor purchases right ah i see
1:03:37 so you wanted to plus this one yes i'm
1:03:39 part of the side park specifically
1:03:42 thank you
1:03:46 so i have a very short list but tr028
1:03:49 uh northwest america
1:03:51 motorized project is
1:03:53 definitely the top of my list i think
1:03:56 it's been you know let's finish this
1:03:58 long promised project for that
1:04:00 particular neighborhood
1:04:02 and then
1:04:03 i don't have a crd
1:04:05 number for this but the tod project has
1:04:08 just got to be up there somewhere
1:04:12 let's be sure we have the funds
1:04:14 allocated for that for the for the next
1:04:16 two-year budget
1:04:18 okay so is tmv a capital or an operating
1:04:24 that would be more operating at three
1:04:26 points okay all right
1:04:29 so running around the uh
1:04:31 circle
1:04:34 good job
1:04:35 oh and then plus one to the green
1:04:38 next okay well
1:04:41 should i should i add little strikes for
1:04:43 you dude would that were those on your
1:04:45 list barb or would you rather that just
1:04:47 be because we'll also get to the point
1:04:48 where we will we'll be able to vote
1:04:51 yeah yeah
1:04:52 yeah that'll be fine okay
1:04:55 victoria did you have it do you have a
1:04:57 question for you
1:04:58 oh no i was just gonna say i think that
1:05:00 um there's some options for the
1:05:01 operating budget for the gop yeah but
1:05:04 it's not unscathed
1:05:08 [Music]
1:05:12 yeah i just want to welcome we have a
1:05:14 couple members of the public here so i'm
1:05:16 going to tell the acronym
1:05:20 bureaucracy that we are that we um use
1:05:23 plain english so that they can follow us
1:05:26 max over there with the soccer shirt on
1:05:28 is on the island youth advisory board
1:05:31 and so we want to make sure that we are
1:05:34 speaking in a manner that is
1:05:35 understandable to all yes so thank you
1:05:39 we love that we love that okay so
1:05:42 russell do you want to go next do you
1:05:43 want me to i'm going to do an experience
1:05:45 great go ahead
1:05:46 um you can mostly just put red marks up
1:05:49 there for mine
1:05:52 squawk mountain sidewalk project
1:05:55 it's high on my list
1:05:56 i want kids to get to school safely
1:06:00 i also would put a plus one beside the
1:06:03 northwest smamish road project to
1:06:05 promote intermodal
1:06:07 transportation and then
1:06:09 also with that in mind the uh
1:06:13 the rainier
1:06:15 project that we have up there for
1:06:17 rainier trail
1:06:18 i think that our conversation on
1:06:20 scooters really emphasized the need for
1:06:22 us to think about how we create other
1:06:24 ways for people to get around the city
1:06:26 without getting into their cars anything
1:06:28 that we can do on the capital side to
1:06:30 make that happen in a meaningful way i
1:06:32 think is is a focus in the staff for the
1:06:35 next couple of years
1:06:36 that's it thank you okay
1:06:39 i'm going to go next then
1:06:41 so you can put a plus one next to the
1:06:44 pavement management and concrete
1:06:46 management line item
1:06:49 also a plus one next to the
1:06:52 non-motorized
1:06:55 a plus one
1:06:56 next to black nugget road retaining wall
1:07:02 and then i've got new stuff
1:07:04 um tr004
1:07:08 so that's a transportation project
1:07:10 that's 12th avenue northwest and sr 900
1:07:14 or 17th avenue northwest
1:07:16 this is an intersection that i think we
1:07:19 need to
1:07:20 just move ahead on and i understand
1:07:22 there are a lot of
1:07:25 groups involved wash
1:07:27 state park etc
1:07:30 but i'm very eager to get that project
1:07:32 moving
1:07:34 i've got fc
1:07:37 027 so this is a facilities project the
1:07:40 new fire station 71.
1:07:43 we've been talking about this one and um
1:07:47 i think it is high time for us to focus
1:07:51 moving that fire station i think that
1:07:54 enables us not only to provide better
1:07:56 service but it also gives us an
1:07:58 opportunity to really take some time and
1:08:01 rethink the
1:08:03 facilities that we have
1:08:06 down and the space that we have down
1:08:08 near veterans memorial park
1:08:11 with the
1:08:14 council chambers and municipal court the
1:08:16 fire station there i think we have a
1:08:18 great opportunity to
1:08:20 think through that in the future but the
1:08:21 first step needs to be moving that fire
1:08:24 station
1:08:26 i've got one from the mmp the master
1:08:29 mobility plan which is on their map
1:08:33 they've got a
1:08:34 number system so it's 97 which is the
1:08:37 tier one sidewalk gaps and so i think
1:08:41 that might actually cover
1:08:44 the squawk mountain sidewalk ideas but
1:08:47 in the mmp they really highlighted
1:08:50 tier one two and three areas where we
1:08:53 have sidewalk gaps where we could close
1:08:56 those gaps and so i wanted to go with
1:08:59 kind of their
1:09:00 assessment of where the most important
1:09:02 things were
1:09:04 and just really quickly for the members
1:09:05 of the public that mmp is our mobility
1:09:07 master plan which describes our
1:09:09 transportation policies
1:09:12 [Laughter]
1:09:19 um i've got one that isn't in any of our
1:09:21 capital improvement plans which is
1:09:23 street lighting so when i was looking
1:09:25 over the community survey one of the
1:09:28 things that people were dissatisfied
1:09:30 with was our street lighting and we've
1:09:32 got several neighborhoods one of which
1:09:35 is south cove that just doesn't have any
1:09:38 lighting and so that can be called out
1:09:40 for mobility that can be called out for
1:09:43 quality of life that can be helped out
1:09:44 for public safety
1:09:46 and that's something that i think we
1:09:48 need to consider first of all adding to
1:09:50 our capital improvement plan but second
1:09:52 of all prioritizing because it's
1:09:53 something that needed to be called out
1:09:58 and then tola do you want to comment on
1:10:00 that or yeah
1:10:01 um i just wonder
1:10:03 is uh is the assumption that more
1:10:05 streetlights is good
1:10:07 in all neighborhoods
1:10:09 i don't know if the assumption is it's
1:10:12 needed everywhere but people were i
1:10:15 guess you could say are people
1:10:17 dissatisfied because there's too much i
1:10:19 i guess i'm asking because i suspect
1:10:21 that there may be some neighborhood
1:10:23 specificity to this i think i think swap
1:10:25 mountain has a long heritage of minimal
1:10:28 um overhead lighting as well as being a
1:10:30 mountain side yeah and um would not want
1:10:33 more necessarily it wouldn't wouldn't
1:10:35 necessarily work yeah i i absolutely
1:10:38 agree with you as a concept there
1:10:40 and perhaps something we need to explore
1:10:43 further but i think in the very least we
1:10:45 can say
1:10:46 that south cove
1:10:48 is interested in more street lighting um
1:10:52 and so there may be other neighborhoods
1:10:53 as well uh victoria um i believe that in
1:10:56 the title 18 which is our municipal land
1:10:59 use code conversation um that light
1:11:02 pollution is also raised as another
1:11:04 issue that we want to address and so
1:11:06 just a consideration on the street land
1:11:07 there's also light pollution the impacts
1:11:09 that that has on wildlife and on
1:11:11 our environment as well so something
1:11:14 else to think about in the street
1:11:15 lighting is in addition to the
1:11:16 neighborhood considerations
1:11:18 yeah yep
1:11:20 um and then i've got two from the icap
1:11:26 which i
1:11:27 i think that was just overview and the
1:11:30 icap is the isoqua climate action plan
1:11:33 um ov 2.5 which is solar on the
1:11:36 community center roof
1:11:41 and then ov 2.6 which is electrify our
1:11:46 municipal fleet vehicles
1:11:50 and so i call those out both as
1:11:54 things that
1:11:55 we can get done toward our climate
1:11:57 action plan but also honestly things
1:12:00 that will save us money in the long term
1:12:02 both of those things are things that
1:12:04 will lower our operating costs
1:12:07 because we'll either have solar coming
1:12:10 through to offset our power use or
1:12:12 electric vehicles which will offset our
1:12:15 gas use and so i think those
1:12:18 serve many different purposes toward
1:12:20 that idea
1:12:23 and i'm at 10 but i had three more so
1:12:26 i'll just
1:12:26 save those as lower priority items
1:12:30 yeah is the fleet uh is that
1:12:34 is that a capital expense complete
1:12:35 catalog sentence
1:12:36 [Music]
1:12:37 yep yeah it will have an effect on our
1:12:40 operating budget but it is a capital
1:12:43 expense anything that is fleet
1:12:45 facilities all of that um
1:12:48 russell and just to clarify my fleet
1:12:50 here meeting our city fleet and then
1:12:53 through our garbage contract we're going
1:12:54 to work with our contractor on there
1:12:56 therefore
1:12:57 vehicles in the city right okay yeah and
1:12:59 i don't i assume there are certain fleet
1:13:02 vehicles that there are valid electric
1:13:05 options for and certain others like
1:13:07 maybe our snowplows where there aren't
1:13:11 this idea is just let's budget toward
1:13:14 that idea um
1:13:16 yeah that's the
1:13:26 does the fleet study
1:13:28 get into sorry this is super off topic
1:13:30 get into detail about um
1:13:32 whether specific vehicle types have
1:13:34 innovated enough to be practical for use
1:13:37 of long-term it should yes okay
1:13:41 yeah great
1:13:42 now it's up to you to add your list
1:13:44 that's up to me okay
1:13:46 um all right um
1:13:49 so my top priority in terms of capital
1:13:52 budget priorities was uh tr 28 and
1:13:55 northwest manage road project i'm really
1:13:57 happy to see so many other people agree
1:13:59 with that um
1:14:01 the tip that we just described the
1:14:03 transportation improvement um
1:14:05 program
1:14:06 describes
1:14:08 seven hundred thousand dollars in rework
1:14:10 or great dollars um for that but then
1:14:12 also another for 2023 but then also
1:14:15 another 5.5 million dollars in
1:14:17 construction work for 2024 that i'm just
1:14:19 not necessarily convinced we have
1:14:20 general fund capacity to do yet i think
1:14:22 that's going to be tied into community
1:14:24 conversation about a potential
1:14:26 transportation ballot too so in the very
1:14:28 least my ask here is that
1:14:30 um that we match the 2023 funding
1:14:33 described in the transportation
1:14:35 improvement um program which is 700 000
1:14:39 for design and engineering work
1:14:41 so i checked that one
1:14:44 tr-003 which is the centralized
1:14:46 multimodal i-90 crossing with someone i
1:14:49 thought
1:14:51 that's another big one for me
1:14:54 and uh
1:14:56 it was eight hundred thousand dollars of
1:14:58 arpa and planning work for 2023 that was
1:15:00 in uh the tip but then most recently uh
1:15:03 with with the community investment
1:15:04 strategy that's been updated to a
1:15:06 million so my ask is that we go with the
1:15:08 community investment strategy
1:15:11 and then a couple other things pk 12
1:15:15 which is
1:15:17 uh valley trail and creekside sensitive
1:15:19 land acquisitions
1:15:22 which i agree with
1:15:25 uh pk 18 the dog park i completely agree
1:15:29 um that we need to um be prioritizing
1:15:31 the funding that's described in the cip
1:15:33 for that
1:15:34 uh pk32 which is hillside acquisitions
1:15:38 i agree with that
1:15:40 and then uh pk 45 creek corridor
1:15:45 i agree with vicki on that being an
1:15:47 important priority and component of our
1:15:49 green necklace
1:15:50 over the next two years
1:15:52 a couple other things i wanted to add
1:15:54 there has been
1:15:56 a lot of
1:15:57 community satisfaction with recent
1:15:59 funding within our pavement management
1:16:01 program our annual concrete maintenance
1:16:03 program
1:16:04 so i will press one to that but then
1:16:08 also add
1:16:10 water 15 which is our water main
1:16:12 replacement program which i think
1:16:14 there's also been a lot of
1:16:16 satisfaction
1:16:18 in that
1:16:21 so my ask for those three things is that
1:16:23 we continue to fund it at the better
1:16:26 level that's currently envisioned in our
1:16:29 um and then i will add
1:16:31 i'm not sure it's not
1:16:33 very actionable
1:16:34 yet but just for the sake of discussion
1:16:36 for the sake of
1:16:38 feedback for the administration i want
1:16:39 to add consolidated city hall to this
1:16:42 um i know it's not a capital
1:16:45 project that we can invest in right now
1:16:47 but i want to make sure that we're
1:16:49 thinking about
1:16:50 what that can be and how many different
1:16:52 goal areas we could check off the box
1:16:54 with a facility like that and where that
1:16:56 could go
1:16:57 and just start thinking about that in
1:16:58 the next couple years
1:17:00 exact toward that idea
1:17:03 do you envision
1:17:05 um any operations costs related toward
1:17:10 the idea of creating a consolidated city
1:17:12 hall or
1:17:13 because i think you're right we probably
1:17:16 don't have the ability to it might be
1:17:18 better in operations in terms of
1:17:20 thinking do we have the staff or
1:17:22 consultant capacity that we begin this
1:17:24 work and to start thinking about it so
1:17:27 right yeah
1:17:29 to the other side real quick
1:17:34 since facilities
1:17:37 yes so
1:17:38 we just recently issued our feed for
1:17:40 project management services to help us
1:17:42 in a few key areas uh starting this year
1:17:46 in fact uh first around just assessing
1:17:49 what space we do need
1:17:51 and then um my goal is that we have some
1:17:54 options for council to consider next
1:17:56 year as far as
1:17:58 are we are we consolidating a city hall
1:18:00 are we purchasing are we leasing
1:18:03 what are the options with some rough
1:18:04 order of magnitude and cost
1:18:06 um so that we really can start
1:18:08 formulating a plan for what's next
1:18:12 that's great
1:18:13 so so i know that's coming before uh
1:18:15 services safety parks uh just a couple
1:18:17 days but i just i i really want to see
1:18:20 us get going on this i've seen this
1:18:22 topic start at least i'm gonna say four
1:18:26 possibly five times in the last 12 years
1:18:29 so let's actually like have this plane
1:18:31 take off the runway because i don't want
1:18:33 to see it go down the runway for a while
1:18:35 and then slow down and stop it
1:18:39 thank you for that councilmember martz
1:18:41 um i think one of the things that is
1:18:44 going to make it happen this time is
1:18:46 that we had a pandemic
1:18:48 we had a complete upheaval in how we
1:18:51 work and we are now really starting to
1:18:53 understand what the future of work looks
1:18:56 like so we are tracking other businesses
1:18:58 who are trying to figure out what their
1:19:00 space is going to look like i feel like
1:19:01 we're in a really strong place and i
1:19:03 think autumn's groundwork that she's
1:19:05 doing right now we're bringing you
1:19:07 something we are bringing you something
1:19:09 that's for sure
1:19:11 uh sydney administrator buff quits
1:19:15 just to amplify everything that's been
1:19:17 said city hall northwest is closed
1:19:22 far as you know are moving forward to a
1:19:24 consolidated city hall uh we have
1:19:26 largely been consolidated uh since we
1:19:29 closed city hall northwest in march of
1:19:31 2020. so we don't we've not talked about
1:19:34 it a lot and again uh the item on
1:19:36 service and safety parks coming up is
1:19:37 really the first opportunity uh but
1:19:40 we have made a pretty big strides
1:19:42 already uh to do that in the midst of
1:19:44 everything we've gone through
1:19:48 and just added a conversation on the
1:19:50 future of consolidated city hall with
1:19:53 other services with respect to the
1:19:54 courts i know they're always looking to
1:19:57 other cities
1:19:58 i'd also throw out that after the most
1:20:01 recent supreme court decision on indian
1:20:03 sovereignty that we also reach out
1:20:05 potentially to the snokwami tribe to see
1:20:07 if they would like to join as well since
1:20:09 north bend and slovenia are already part
1:20:11 of our consolidated court system
1:20:13 if we can provide a
1:20:16 stable
1:20:17 court system with competent
1:20:20 representation on all the different
1:20:21 sides whether it's the defense or the
1:20:23 prosecution side and the judge it helps
1:20:26 when the state is looking at whether or
1:20:28 not they intervene on these cases or
1:20:30 whether or not the tribe is able to
1:20:32 stand on its own and do the things it
1:20:34 needs to do for its sovereignty so if we
1:20:36 can help in that effort
1:20:38 and still get more services provided in
1:20:41 the consolidated court i think it's a
1:20:42 win-win on both sides so i just asked
1:20:44 the administration to take a look at
1:20:45 that as a potential customer as well
1:20:50 i i want to enthusiastically plus one
1:20:52 that is and
1:20:53 because we're in a retreat give me 30
1:20:55 seconds to talk about um
1:20:59 we may have other opportunities to
1:21:00 partner with local tribes but i've been
1:21:02 thinking recently about
1:21:04 the lands acknowledgement that we often
1:21:05 do at meetings and there's a
1:21:07 court case on an educator in seattle
1:21:10 who's gotten in trouble because they
1:21:11 want to use a different land statement
1:21:12 but we need to do more than have land
1:21:14 statements right and if we as a
1:21:16 municipality have an opportunity um to
1:21:19 assist uh local uh tribal organizations
1:21:22 i think it would really benefit us and
1:21:24 put some meat on those
1:21:26 on the sentiment that we still often
1:21:28 share about the challenge
1:21:30 plus one there
1:21:32 so i'm gonna plus one
1:21:34 thank you council member marks i have an
1:21:36 ongoing
1:21:37 uh juliana's not here to remind me how
1:21:39 often but it's a monthly or quarterly
1:21:40 meeting with two of the tribal council
1:21:43 members right now where we are
1:21:44 coordinating our efforts and advertise
1:21:48 co-promoting each other's human services
1:21:51 grants and all the rest of it and we're
1:21:53 working on finding other areas where we
1:21:55 can work together
1:21:56 and we will have a land acknowledgement
1:21:58 at some point it is very issaquah
1:22:01 specific for all the tribes that have
1:22:03 ever been in this
1:22:05 beautiful area that we live in and so
1:22:08 that work is ongoing and it's very
1:22:10 exciting um and thank you for bringing
1:22:13 it up again
1:22:14 it's really exciting
1:22:16 great
1:22:18 yep okay zach you're running back in
1:22:22 um i think at this point we can get our
1:22:26 operations ideas down and then we'll
1:22:29 have to kind of go back there may be a
1:22:31 few areas
1:22:33 that we can kind of tie in on the
1:22:35 capital side but i think in general
1:22:37 would you rather do that first wrap up
1:22:39 capital or come back
1:22:42 or maybe
1:22:44 yeah let's wrap up capital actually um
1:22:51 [Music]
1:22:53 [Laughter]
1:22:59 so our goal is to eliminate anything off
1:23:02 this list we'll do that more in the dot
1:23:06 area um but are there any things that
1:23:11 you know you guys did a really great job
1:23:14 hitting the mark on what the homework
1:23:17 was getting down to something that was
1:23:18 on the cip or one of the plans numbers
1:23:21 like that
1:23:24 maybe the only one that would overlap is
1:23:27 the tier one sidewalk gaps with the
1:23:29 squawk mountain uphill sidewalk and all
1:23:32 of that does anybody agree that those
1:23:36 are can kind of be matched up or do they
1:23:39 need to be separate ideas
1:23:41 all right uh well so i put up the squat
1:23:44 button up still cyborg one and i think
1:23:46 that it should be its own one because
1:23:48 it's such a long-standing um priority
1:23:51 it's been in the walk-and-roll plan and
1:23:52 it's now one of the top tier projects in
1:23:55 the master mobility plan and yet it's
1:23:56 not even an rcip so i really think that
1:23:59 it's different yes there are other tiers
1:24:01 like once i once said a lot of that is
1:24:02 tier 1 sidewalks but that project i
1:24:04 think needs to be called out and
1:24:06 emphasize on its own to get done so my
1:24:08 preference is to keep it separate and
1:24:10 advocate for that specifically
1:24:12 well and i might make a comment and echo
1:24:15 that i think it might be of benefit to
1:24:17 have an emphasized or focused priority
1:24:20 on a specific neighborhood as opposed to
1:24:23 sidewalk gaps across
1:24:25 the city in terms of do-ability in my
1:24:29 so mind the person who put down this
1:24:31 here one sidewalk i'm going to say let's
1:24:32 cross that off and just keep these off
1:24:35 mountain
1:24:36 because i don't want to have people feel
1:24:38 like they have to split votes between
1:24:41 those
1:24:41 so yeah just cross
1:24:50 and then i think all of the others are
1:24:52 really distinct
1:24:54 projects and so the goal will be to have
1:24:58 each of those out on sheets
1:25:01 so that we can
1:25:03 split out our votes on various things
1:25:06 and then let me just count how many we
1:25:08 have because i have to figure out how
1:25:09 many votes
1:25:12 do we okay um pavement management
1:25:15 program and the concrete management plan
1:25:16 are technically two different items do
1:25:18 we want them to be two here
1:25:20 they cover two different things
1:25:24 one's
1:25:30 yeah i like them together because of the
1:25:32 idea of maintenance over new projects
1:25:36 but i could see
1:25:37 them as separate anybody else
1:25:40 two for together
1:25:42 i like it together three together okay
1:25:45 let's do it that way
1:25:48 and then the green necklace projects
1:25:51 those are each individual
1:25:54 right
1:25:56 so we've got four five six seven eight
1:25:59 nine ten i guess that's a conversation
1:26:01 for council if one of the priorities we
1:26:04 could vote on that could end up on the
1:26:05 list is green necklace is that as
1:26:08 effective as calling out a particular
1:26:09 project that is a priority for us in the
1:26:11 coming biennium
1:26:13 or not so that would be a question i
1:26:15 would raise in
1:26:16 victoria house
1:26:17 well i think that if we can why i
1:26:20 propose them all together is because
1:26:22 like i was saying i think if we invest
1:26:24 and start taking steps on all of these
1:26:26 at this point in time then that's the
1:26:28 way we actually get this
1:26:30 done so i would put them all together if
1:26:33 i think that we've been doing kind of
1:26:35 pieces every once in a while but that
1:26:36 the green necklace the whole idea is
1:26:38 connectivity
1:26:40 so i would jump together
1:26:44 plus one
1:26:45 all right that's two that's a good point
1:26:47 and i would put them together but for a
1:26:49 different reason which is um i want us
1:26:52 to invest in the necklace but um the
1:26:54 nature of acquisitions and whatnot is
1:26:56 that sometimes opportunities pop up in
1:26:59 some of the buckets more than others and
1:27:01 i want to vote for acquiring lands in
1:27:04 the necklace and working on the necklace
1:27:06 and let um
1:27:08 you know let parks and the
1:27:10 administration figure out where those
1:27:12 opportunities are within them
1:27:15 that's good i think these two are the
1:27:17 ones that are uh
1:27:20 that's a good point
1:27:22 so we've got
1:27:24 two up there that are acquisitions and
1:27:26 two that are trail projects you wouldn't
1:27:28 want to count those one as green
1:27:30 necklace acquisitions and one as green
1:27:33 necklace trails
1:27:38 i would like to keep them together just
1:27:40 on the basis of their strength as a
1:27:42 grant project if it's seen as a whole
1:27:46 while we might not get funding for any
1:27:49 one of them
1:27:50 uh at one time it's stronger if it's
1:27:52 seen as an overall project to kind of
1:27:55 get you know tibbetts creek trail um uh
1:27:58 funded for instance if it's seen as a
1:28:00 larger project that the state or any
1:28:02 other funder can see as a long-range
1:28:04 goal for us and we're really committed
1:28:06 to it
1:28:09 so are we feeling like
1:28:10 all four of them together or
1:28:13 acquisitions and trails
1:28:17 all together
1:28:21 so then so that's one
1:28:23 that's one yes
1:28:25 and this is together
1:28:44 okay so
1:28:46 then we can move on to operations and
1:28:50 we'll just kind of have to we'll figure
1:28:52 out during the lunch break how many jobs
1:28:55 we want to give to everybody for
1:28:57 operations versus capital
1:29:01 perhaps we could have a quick
1:29:03 conversation about that with the council
1:29:04 too before we go on it right
1:29:23 social event
1:29:24 you're saying rotation about why not
1:29:27 about yeah
1:29:32 all right
1:29:37 okay so this one is a little bit more
1:29:39 difficult because we don't have specific
1:29:43 you know like numbers and call outs from
1:29:45 the cip so there may be more
1:29:49 people describe them in different ways
1:29:50 and we might need to adjust
1:29:53 together but the goal is to get your
1:29:55 three to ten operations priorities dola
1:29:58 all right so i'm focused on you know six
1:30:01 months ago we said public safety and
1:30:04 social services um and um
1:30:08 my mind are going to be in those veins
1:30:11 and so um but
1:30:13 social and
1:30:14 social and economic vitality i decided
1:30:16 within that
1:30:18 to focus on major employers on the
1:30:20 employment side of that so um
1:30:23 we have under se zero sorry se1
1:30:27 increase in recovery of existing
1:30:28 businesses we have a couple of potential
1:30:30 actions that we haven't done yet conduct
1:30:32 a study to propose tools that would give
1:30:34 issaquah a competitive advantage to
1:30:36 recruit employers that fit the city
1:30:38 division so i would just call that
1:30:40 recruitment study or or business
1:30:42 recruitment study and what's the
1:30:44 objective uh se1 se1 c1
1:30:50 which potential action is it
1:30:52 it the potential action is not
1:30:54 enumerated with uh with an acronym okay
1:30:56 so i'm just going to call it
1:30:58 it was it wasn't well i know i'm just
1:31:00 well the first
1:31:04 i don't know but if we could just call
1:31:05 it a business
1:31:07 recruitment study
1:31:10 is what it is
1:31:15 kind of related to that develop an
1:31:16 employer recruitment plan eg major
1:31:19 employers marketing commercial space i
1:31:21 guess that's really
1:31:22 it's sort of a
1:31:24 i guess the first one is competitive
1:31:26 advantage and the second one is employee
1:31:28 employer
1:31:29 you know what i'll just leave that
1:31:31 as a business recruitment study that's
1:31:33 what i that's what i want um the other
1:31:36 a sec but a second thing is a
1:31:38 recruitment metric i am struck by the
1:31:40 fact that although we have great metrics
1:31:42 we do not actually have a uh any sort of
1:31:45 metric i believe at the moment to
1:31:47 reflect se1
1:31:48 so i think an sc1 metric of some form
1:31:51 whatever the
1:31:52 administration thinks is is a good
1:31:55 signal would be fine with
1:31:56 me um so then under
1:32:00 um public safety
1:32:04 uh public safety resources meet our
1:32:06 diverse community needs we don't
1:32:08 actually have any potential actions so
1:32:11 i'm going to suggest a couple
1:32:13 um one is evaluate body cameras um i
1:32:16 hear from officers that they would love
1:32:18 to have body cameras if it's done right
1:32:21 it's a it's an advantage for it makes
1:32:23 the public safer safer and it makes
1:32:25 police it's time to light up police
1:32:26 operations in a way that the police like
1:32:29 um evaluate adding more non-lethal tool
1:32:32 options
1:32:33 so um there are there are lots of
1:32:35 non-lethal tools that are on the market
1:32:37 right now
1:32:38 i stress adding not replacing um just
1:32:41 adding things that
1:32:42 additional tools that uh our officers
1:32:45 might have that are not lethal
1:32:47 um and then um a third thing
1:32:50 operationally would be a property time
1:32:52 metric we do not have a
1:32:54 a crime metric specifically related to
1:32:56 property crime and we're hearing from
1:32:57 the public that property crime is an
1:32:59 area of particular interest thank you
1:33:01 that's it for me
1:33:06 yeah victorian question um
1:33:08 question on the
1:33:11 non-lethal tool so would that in your
1:33:14 mind include programs because we've
1:33:16 recently added um programs you know
1:33:19 staff members that are there for mental
1:33:22 health or if there's not
1:33:24 i mean i think those are already being
1:33:26 integrated right i was wondering if
1:33:28 there are specific
1:33:30 literally tools tools on the tool belt
1:33:32 that that officers
1:33:34 uh might value you know in helping
1:33:37 resolve situations that they don't
1:33:39 necessarily have thanks yeah just
1:33:41 clarifying those literal tools or
1:33:42 literal tools
1:33:44 yeah yeah i like it okay
1:33:47 anybody
1:33:48 we've got chris and barb i didn't see
1:33:50 which one of you guys
1:33:52 okay chris
1:33:53 i'm going second on everything right and
1:33:56 my kind of builds on told us but a
1:33:57 little bit differently i don't want to
1:34:00 and i was trying to uh channel the
1:34:02 what's what's useful and what's less
1:34:04 useful
1:34:05 um but i want to see us reduce property
1:34:07 crime back to our pre pandemic level and
1:34:09 how you go about doing that that's your
1:34:11 business but
1:34:12 i want to do that
1:34:15 i want to find a way to integrate our
1:34:17 boards commissions plans strategic plan
1:34:21 and budget and cip process into a
1:34:26 comprehensive
1:34:27 integrated whole
1:34:29 so that it's not a bunch of stuff
1:34:31 so it needs to link together so some way
1:34:33 to bring all of those things together
1:34:39 well you know it's integrate our
1:34:40 planning processes is really what it is
1:34:43 and if you call it integrated planning
1:34:45 and then if you just remember from the
1:34:47 record that it's all of those things
1:34:48 that we do to plan as a integrated
1:34:50 community planning
1:34:53 i know what he's talking about it's fine
1:34:55 and we've been talking about it for a
1:34:57 long time
1:34:58 it's more of a
1:35:00 it's councilman gray that's a great
1:35:02 point
1:35:04 if you think about the new boards and
1:35:05 commissions we've added in the last
1:35:07 couple of years if you think about the
1:35:08 strategic plan and the new plans that
1:35:10 have come along since the strategic plan
1:35:13 it's just building up the connective
1:35:14 tissue so that the review cycles are
1:35:17 known and understood and that after
1:35:19 something is updated
1:35:24 and we know how
1:35:26 how and why we're doing it and how it
1:35:28 hangs together because otherwise it's
1:35:30 frustrating to people who build a plan
1:35:32 and then it falls into an abyss
1:35:35 uh i want to improve the resident's
1:35:37 perception of the built environment
1:35:40 um i want to increasingly wait wait wait
1:35:43 wait wait wait wait wait wait you got to
1:35:45 think about buddhism
1:35:49 yeah and similar with the reduced
1:35:51 property crime no i i disagree with you
1:35:54 on that i think that that's the mayor
1:35:56 the city administration's job to figure
1:35:58 that out i don't want to tell you how to
1:36:00 introduce property time i want you to
1:36:01 come back and tell me that
1:36:02 it's done and how you're how you're
1:36:04 going to do it
1:36:05 so how do we as a council then choose
1:36:09 that as a priority if we don't know the
1:36:13 how well i think policy is about the
1:36:17 execution is about the how our job is
1:36:19 about policy the administrations is
1:36:21 about the how we tell you what we want
1:36:23 to accomplish council member ray's got a
1:36:26 great point there yeah
1:36:28 we have a crime analyst coming on and we
1:36:31 have dale markey working with the police
1:36:33 department and so
1:36:35 just giving us the what is mine it's
1:36:38 fine because then we can tell the
1:36:40 narrative back the council of these are
1:36:42 the resources you've paid for and maybe
1:36:44 new resources we're going to put in the
1:36:45 budget and the outcome will be that you
1:36:48 will be able to see that we are reducing
1:36:50 property crime i i don't think it's our
1:36:52 place to say add three new people right
1:36:54 i think it's hard to say here's a
1:36:56 problem
1:37:05 we are a policy body not an
1:37:08 administrative body so we need we say
1:37:10 the directional stuff we want to i think
1:37:12 we should say here's what we want to
1:37:13 accomplish and then turn it to the
1:37:15 experts
1:37:17 and say how best to do it because i'm i
1:37:19 am no expert
1:37:21 and i wouldn't have any idea how
1:37:22 everything is property crime but i know
1:37:23 you guys do well and just uh just to add
1:37:26 a little bit to that not that it's bad
1:37:28 to get more specific though because we
1:37:29 have all these planning documents that
1:37:31 have described with experts what are the
1:37:34 best practices in terms of a particular
1:37:36 areas and there's another way of
1:37:38 thinking too that we are a policy
1:37:41 board and the executive is
1:37:44 management and they carry out the policy
1:37:46 that we enact to so i think there are
1:37:48 multiple ways of thinking about it and
1:37:49 if we
1:37:51 if anyway
1:37:53 no thank you thank you for that i think
1:37:55 council member ray has hit on a really
1:37:56 good point here and that is that you
1:37:59 don't need to tell us how to do it how
1:38:00 much to spend how many people to hire
1:38:02 you do need to tell us what you want
1:38:04 that's very helpful i i mean i think we
1:38:06 should be about outcomes and
1:38:08 and what outcome do we want to
1:38:09 accomplish i want to reduce property
1:38:11 credit
1:38:12 you know
1:38:13 and and i want uh yes to get people
1:38:16 excited about our built environment and
1:38:18 you know get it back up to where it was
1:38:20 five years ago because it's plummeted
1:38:22 thank you um
1:38:23 for the great metrics
1:38:26 so chris i think that's totally fine but
1:38:27 i also want to point out we do have a
1:38:29 plan that does have potential actions in
1:38:32 some areas right and and we reference
1:38:34 those potential actions so it's i'm not
1:38:36 disagreeing that the way you're
1:38:38 facing it today but it's also true that
1:38:40 we often do prescribe not people with
1:38:43 dollars but uh specific deliverables
1:38:46 from the administration for the
1:38:47 strategic plan
1:38:49 yeah and and those are things that the
1:38:51 administration came up with
1:38:53 well but that we yeah yeah we did but in
1:38:55 the end we're actually going to do this
1:38:56 yeah and we're going to sign off on
1:38:58 these too they're going to come back and
1:38:59 say oh so here's how we're going to
1:39:00 address proper crime we're going to do
1:39:02 we're going to have a crime analyst
1:39:04 we're going to do community based
1:39:05 policing we're going to do this we're
1:39:06 going to do that and we're going to say
1:39:07 yep yep no i don't want to do that
1:39:09 so all right here's what we heard here's
1:39:11 how much it's going to cost
1:39:13 so i don't understand this this current
1:39:14 one crew perception of builds
1:39:16 environments what do you mean by built
1:39:17 environment well it's one of our
1:39:19 strategic goals and it's one of our
1:39:20 performance measures
1:39:22 and we we don't particularly uh score
1:39:25 well on it and and we've been declining
1:39:27 the people don't like the built
1:39:29 environment so it may have a lot to do
1:39:30 with title 18 our bland juice code
1:39:33 might have to do with how we do
1:39:35 permitting it might have how we do
1:39:36 reviews and i don't know i just want it
1:39:39 fixed
1:39:42 all right all right so that's that one
1:39:45 um wait one second victoria well i just
1:39:47 on that one when we when i'm not gonna
1:39:51 interrupt but i
1:39:52 accept to say that title at 18 is i have
1:39:55 some thoughts from our conversations
1:39:58 about the environment on how we could
1:39:59 address the whiteboard the follow-up
1:40:01 list yeah we're title 18 which is our
1:40:03 municipal land use code and so that
1:40:04 might be an option to help with some of
1:40:07 those things because we want to do
1:40:08 everything in the update so um maybe we
1:40:10 could add some ideas under that when
1:40:13 it's over to me love it love it
1:40:16 i just have to push back i'm looking at
1:40:18 the strategic plan built environments
1:40:21 this own the only place it's mentioned
1:40:24 neighborhoods retain their charm and
1:40:25 distinctive character pattern and
1:40:27 settings that include both built-in
1:40:28 natural environments that's the only
1:40:30 reference to those environments okay go
1:40:31 look at the performance measures then
1:40:33 sorry i lent you the wrong legislation
1:40:35 it's from the community survey okay
1:40:37 oh that's right yeah it's from the
1:40:39 community
1:40:42 all right um
1:40:45 so also from the community survey is are
1:40:47 not from the community survey from our
1:40:48 performance metrics i have noticed that
1:40:50 our hours of equity training for our
1:40:52 city staff has not been increasing so
1:40:54 i'd like to see us do an increase in the
1:40:56 amount of equity training we're doing by
1:40:58 at least 15
1:41:01 um and then i have a couple of things
1:41:03 that i didn't have when we started today
1:41:04 but i've walked them on one is we
1:41:08 we need to have to improve our data
1:41:11 analysis and
1:41:12 capability and build out a continuous
1:41:14 improvement program
1:41:17 how do you want that written
1:41:19 uh increase our build out our data
1:41:21 analysis capability and
1:41:24 those two different items i think i
1:41:26 think they go together
1:41:27 they're they're they are
1:41:28 they are highly integrated and i think i
1:41:30 think that was kind of where wally was
1:41:32 going with that build out data analysis
1:41:34 capability
1:41:36 and implement a continuous improve
1:41:38 process improvement program
1:41:41 just to be clear
1:41:43 thank you
1:41:44 yeah and then uh my other walk-on is we
1:41:47 and and it sounds like this is in flight
1:41:48 but i want to make it a priority which
1:41:50 is we need a master facilities plan we
1:41:52 need to know where we're going with
1:41:53 facilities we need to know what city
1:41:54 hall is going to be we need to know
1:41:55 where fire station is going to be we
1:41:57 need to know all of those things that we
1:41:59 don't know
1:42:00 all right that that's all that's all i
1:42:02 it's all i need
1:42:06 have you seen that's all you need
1:42:09 fantastic that's what's going to make
1:42:11 you happy uh
1:42:18 i'm looking at my list here and i
1:42:21 i need to say that these are not in like
1:42:24 first second third fourth or anything
1:42:25 like that so
1:42:28 let's see where do i want to start um
1:42:31 so i think i think i definitely would
1:42:33 like to see us add a second position in
1:42:36 the office of sustainability
1:42:38 so what's the outcome
1:42:42 the outcome is that i would like to see
1:42:45 the uh give me a second the mayor has a
1:42:47 comment okay i think um what's most
1:42:50 helpful for the administration
1:42:52 is what you want done out of the climate
1:42:56 action plan that's right because then we
1:42:58 can figure out is that a third of a
1:43:00 position plus a consultant so yeah give
1:43:04 give us uh something in a plan that you
1:43:06 think needs to be resourced and then we
1:43:08 can come back with the research because
1:43:09 it might be more like this is really
1:43:11 more for public works
1:43:13 exactly so you've got these specific
1:43:15 action items under human services
1:43:17 climate action pick it and say this is
1:43:20 what we like to do and then we can
1:43:21 resource it because it may not be a
1:43:23 position it might be consulting though
1:43:26 exactly yeah no i'm sorry i did not copy
1:43:29 on it but that is exactly where i'm
1:43:30 going so uh what's the outcome i'd like
1:43:33 to see the
1:43:36 climate action plan accelerated i'd like
1:43:38 to see um
1:43:40 uh and i'm hearing from people in the
1:43:42 community who feel it's not going fast
1:43:44 enough and i'm sure you've also heard
1:43:46 from those folks but we have a goal in
1:43:50 uh 2030 uh and here we are in 2022 we're
1:43:54 talking about a budget because of 24
1:43:56 we're almost halfway through
1:43:58 so i think that we need more resources
1:44:00 now if that's in person or if that's a
1:44:02 consultant or
1:44:04 however it's done um that's that would
1:44:06 be one of my definitely top priorities
1:44:10 same thing with this next one and so let
1:44:13 me start by saying this could be done
1:44:15 many many many different ways
1:44:18 but uh i'll just throw it out there i
1:44:20 think that we need um
1:44:23 we need some way to really focus on our
1:44:25 housing on a progress on housing and i'm
1:44:28 feeling really kind of
1:44:30 um either frustrated or at sea on this
1:44:32 issue how are we doing and i'm not
1:44:36 saying that this isn't happening but
1:44:37 what i think we need to do is kind of
1:44:39 bring it all together so the council
1:44:41 knows how many
1:44:43 affordable housing units are on the line
1:44:45 how many uh housing that's affordable is
1:44:48 on the line how many single family
1:44:51 houses is on the line how many
1:44:52 multiplied
1:44:54 um are we encouraging people to come
1:44:57 and there's just a whole mix of things
1:45:00 um i just feel like
1:45:02 don't have a good grasp of what's
1:45:04 happening or what we could be doing as a
1:45:06 council to make it happen faster so so i
1:45:10 thought of like a housing czar
1:45:14 or a consultant or you know just uh
1:45:17 reassigning some people that are already
1:45:19 there to just focus more intently on
1:45:22 that but i would really like the council
1:45:24 to start receiving information
1:45:27 on a regular basis about our housing
1:45:30 picture and where we're going with it
1:45:32 and how we can encourage it
1:45:34 um how we can encourage
1:45:36 more progress in that area okay can it
1:45:38 finish your question
1:45:40 is is that part
1:45:42 and it might be it might not be is that
1:45:43 part of our larger data strategy though
1:45:45 you know it's just one important element
1:45:47 about housing it's more like no i'm
1:45:49 thinking more of the data okay how are
1:45:53 um how are we making strides towards our
1:45:54 goals okay how are we making strides
1:45:56 towards our goals and right now as a
1:45:58 council member i don't know that i have
1:46:00 the information so it's it's database
1:46:03 it is data but then it's also action
1:46:05 what can we do to accelerate
1:46:07 um our understanding uh and it fits
1:46:10 under the summary was
1:46:12 we have seven areas of the submarine
1:46:14 that said should be our focus how well
1:46:16 is planning for future growth going
1:46:18 quality of the development in issaquah
1:46:21 availability of affordable quality
1:46:22 housing and cost of living music while
1:46:24 we're on that were four of the seven
1:46:27 items
1:46:28 and so i really think we need to focus
1:46:30 on housing
1:46:32 so but i will let the administration
1:46:34 figure out that
1:46:38 and then oh no here's another one
1:46:41 so uh in the area of transportation
1:46:44 um we lost the transportation demand
1:46:47 manager because of of cobain i would
1:46:50 like to see that
1:46:52 that focus come back and transportation
1:46:54 demand manager is someone who's
1:46:57 encouraging people to take transit
1:46:58 encouraging people to know where the
1:47:00 trails are so they know where to walk
1:47:01 encouraging people
1:47:03 to bike um
1:47:05 working with a employee employers to get
1:47:08 ride share and ban goals going
1:47:11 and if you look at the traffic out there
1:47:13 you can see that we're back to pre-coded
1:47:15 levels and so i think it's really time
1:47:18 for us to start thinking about how do we
1:47:19 bring somebody in consultant an employee
1:47:23 somebody who's really got that outward
1:47:25 facing i even thought it might be part
1:47:27 of a communications
1:47:30 group because it is an outward-facing
1:47:32 position
1:47:33 it has to be a person that knows a lot
1:47:35 about transportation but it also has to
1:47:37 be a person who knows how to effectively
1:47:40 do outreach the public and do
1:47:42 informational campaigns for the public
1:47:46 kind of a mix of transportation savvy
1:47:49 with how do we communicate with the
1:47:51 public so
1:47:53 or can i ask you to speak up when you're
1:47:55 i just want to make sure everybody
1:47:56 online can hear is everybody having a
1:47:58 hard time with me i think you're fine oh
1:48:00 okay all right
1:48:02 uh and then uh the last one and this
1:48:06 will be no surprise
1:48:07 is i'd really like us to see us increase
1:48:11 our human services grant funding
1:48:13 investment and at the recent civic
1:48:15 meeting i know
1:48:20 at the last meeting we agreed to
1:48:23 accelerate
1:48:24 the um
1:48:26 the investments so that we're not
1:48:28 waiting to 25 to start using a formula
1:48:31 to start boosting it
1:48:33 but even doing that we are still nowhere
1:48:37 near meeting the need we have 1.3
1:48:39 million dollars in requests for grant
1:48:41 funding and we are only able to
1:48:45 uh if if we apply that if you prove it
1:48:47 in the budget it'll be 400 543 000
1:48:53 so less than half of what we're being
1:48:55 asked
1:48:56 that doesn't take into account the fact
1:48:58 that the inflation is
1:49:00 affecting our nonprofits just as much as
1:49:02 it is us
1:49:03 labor costs are growing for them just as
1:49:06 as it is for us
1:49:07 and uh also we are seeing increased need
1:49:13 i expect that we'll have more
1:49:14 non-profits coming into israel to
1:49:16 provide services so
1:49:18 that grant funding is right now is even
1:49:21 with the acceleration and which i
1:49:22 appreciate very very much
1:49:24 but even with the acceleration is
1:49:26 nowhere near meeting our needs and so
1:49:28 i'd like to see us
1:49:31 i'd like i'll say it again like like to
1:49:33 see us double what we're doing
1:49:37 if that's not possible i'd like to see
1:49:39 us make a substantial investment in
1:49:42 the human services grant funding
1:49:45 all right that's it that's fine
1:49:50 we have a next volunteer victoria okay
1:49:54 um i have several that are already up
1:49:56 there my first one with the icap one i
1:49:59 do think we need more resources so um if
1:50:02 we're gonna leave it at that that's fine
1:50:04 i think they do need to be in-house
1:50:07 [Laughter]
1:50:15 several on
1:50:17 title 18 which is our municipal land use
1:50:19 code so in our conversations on that we
1:50:22 have put a number of things as important
1:50:24 but not possible to be done in the
1:50:26 current update and so i would like to
1:50:29 consulting resources or in-house
1:50:32 resources to make several of those
1:50:34 happen in the in the near term
1:50:37 or get those started
1:50:39 and i think that they will also help
1:50:40 with this perception of built
1:50:42 environment but they i think also need
1:50:44 to be
1:50:45 probably
1:50:47 indicated on their own so um
1:50:50 on the whiteboard list item 25 has to do
1:50:54 with expand and diversify the housing
1:50:55 options
1:50:58 that will take a big community
1:51:00 conversation and we'll take a lot of
1:51:02 research on how to make it work for us
1:51:03 and so there needs to be some resources
1:51:05 on that
1:51:07 uh also in the title 18 whiteboard is
1:51:09 number one which is a stream buffer
1:51:12 update study
1:51:15 and then
1:51:17 on and that has to do with developments
1:51:19 and protecting our streams and then
1:51:21 title
1:51:22 uh title 18 whiteboard number 28
1:51:24 is about parking um and so this has to
1:51:28 do with parking mins and max and um
1:51:31 frankly it has to do with a lot of how
1:51:33 we develop because it has to do with
1:51:34 sustainability and how car integrity we
1:51:36 are and how expensive housing is which
1:51:38 is really important so it's not directly
1:51:40 but it is one of our
1:51:42 drivers that we can work on regarding
1:51:45 housing employability as is the as is
1:51:49 diversity of housing and getting smaller
1:51:51 housing types um and that's also in our
1:51:52 housing strategy work plan is in the
1:51:54 icap and it's in a lot of our plans so
1:51:56 that one i think there's
1:51:58 a lot of different numbers and systems
1:52:00 you could attribute that one too but i
1:52:02 want to do it
1:52:03 so from that list
1:52:06 um number 25 or number one can you go
1:52:08 over those ones again
1:52:09 uh what were those what the priorities
1:52:12 that you listed out so the first one you
1:52:14 said was item
1:52:27 yeah okay so would you group all of that
1:52:29 together as
1:52:31 work on
1:52:32 title 18 backlog whiteboard issues um
1:52:36 with kind of some call outs i'm thinking
1:52:38 when we're voting
1:52:40 right
1:52:41 can i can i add something
1:52:44 i really appreciate the council member
1:52:45 kind of is is looking at things on the
1:52:47 list you are also going to go through uh
1:52:51 exercise as a council where you're going
1:52:52 to look at that whole whiteboard
1:52:54 but she's letting you know right now
1:52:56 there's three things that during budget
1:52:58 process are very important to her so i
1:53:00 don't want you to decide the fact that
1:53:02 everything on the way forward very much
1:53:04 like the way you said it is important
1:53:06 but cannot all happen within this first
1:53:08 update
1:53:09 that is the work plan for the next four
1:53:11 to five years is what's on that like and
1:53:14 that's what planning policy will
1:53:15 continue to work on you're actually
1:53:17 giving them a work plan that's very
1:53:19 well laid out so
1:53:21 um you're gonna have another opportunity
1:53:24 thank you for putting a few on the table
1:53:26 today that's really good
1:53:28 yeah i mean they're budget priorities
1:53:29 for me yeah that's right
1:53:32 then should we
1:53:33 uh consider that as individual budget
1:53:35 priorities or a group budget party or we
1:53:37 can come back to them because some
1:53:39 people might like i'm going to bring up
1:53:41 some very specific actions with regard
1:53:44 to housing diversity from our plans and
1:53:45 we might want to group that together
1:53:46 into a separate thing so maybe
1:53:48 maybe we just get to that
1:53:52 yeah because it also touches on house
1:53:54 marketing michelle's um yeah
1:53:56 affordability it's not exactly the same
1:53:59 but it's it's in the mix so
1:54:03 okay so i had a ta plus one on tv which
1:54:05 i think could be a study lessons learned
1:54:08 also that'd be great
1:54:10 um and then
1:54:13 i had one that was kind of similar to
1:54:15 the um
1:54:16 integrated community planning although i
1:54:19 just had sync up the tip cip mmp and
1:54:22 icap which are a lot of acronyms but
1:54:24 that's transportation improvement
1:54:26 capital improvement master mobility and
1:54:29 it's my climate action plan and
1:54:31 sync those up but i guess we'll just put
1:54:33 plus one on the integration
1:54:36 oh that's exactly it's just a little
1:54:38 smaller scope i just want to have a
1:54:39 dream big
1:54:41 well you've got comp plan in there too
1:54:49 [Music]
1:54:51 um okay and then i have two more one is
1:54:57 so i it's
1:55:00 different i think then but it can be in
1:55:02 a conversation about the
1:55:04 human services
1:55:06 so we have you know recently the
1:55:08 ssp committee looked at
1:55:12 grants program and emergency housing
1:55:14 options and so i thought maybe
1:55:15 establishing a
1:55:17 program for pilot projects of that sort
1:55:21 could be
1:55:22 a focus because it seems that that's
1:55:24 going well but we're still expanding in
1:55:26 that area i think we should continue to
1:55:28 expand in that area
1:55:29 and then my last one is that um
1:55:33 this dashboard theta
1:55:36 one this let's see maybe add
1:55:39 the data analysis capability of
1:55:41 continuous
1:55:42 process improvement yes
1:56:08 russell do you have questions or are you
1:56:09 wanting to go next i always want to go
1:56:11 dance dudes
1:56:15 so we had an arborist and we got river
1:56:17 artists and so it would be good when we
1:56:19 go to talk about our risk to talk about
1:56:22 why we got rid of our argos
1:56:24 that's fantastic
1:56:27 russell thank you i'll go through just a
1:56:29 couple that i have in mind um
1:56:32 i think that we should look at whether
1:56:34 it's appropriate to have behavioral
1:56:35 staff to 24 7 24 7 coverage
1:56:39 with our police it's very effective to
1:56:42 handle the problem right when we have
1:56:45 first contact whether it's a person's
1:56:47 just experiencing homelessness means
1:56:49 getting put back into transitional
1:56:50 housing right away or a person needs
1:56:52 some mental health care right away we
1:56:54 can get to them early and get to the
1:56:57 problem i think it makes a big
1:56:58 difference so i'd ask the administration
1:56:59 take a look at that
1:57:01 on the housing focus i would uh ask that
1:57:04 on as an overarching principal we think
1:57:06 about attainable housing that allows our
1:57:08 young people to return home and our
1:57:10 seniors to age in place
1:57:12 this is kind of overarching ideals
1:57:15 on the icap focus i think that
1:57:18 we need to evaluate whether it might be
1:57:20 appropriate to increase our canopy
1:57:22 levels
1:57:23 in parts and open space and whether or
1:57:25 not the open space number is a little
1:57:26 bit higher than our parts number because
1:57:29 we need to keep our cars still open for
1:57:31 fields of play and playgrounds and
1:57:33 things like that but our open space
1:57:35 number could be higher to
1:57:36 bump up that overall number so we
1:57:38 continue to be a leader in tree
1:57:40 preservation
1:57:41 arborist issues tree uh city usa issues
1:57:45 so how do you pull that down as a budget
1:57:47 ass well i think that i'd like the
1:57:49 administration to evaluate
1:57:51 whether or not um our tree canopy is
1:57:53 appropriate whether it can be increased
1:57:55 in certain areas um split out the
1:57:57 categories a little bit later tree
1:57:59 canopy evaluation line yeah you should
1:58:02 combine it that would be great which is
1:58:04 what the arborist and tree canopy
1:58:07 analysis
1:58:10 again i'm just going to ask maybe if
1:58:12 this could come off um
1:58:14 but we need arborists expertise whatever
1:58:18 that is um but what i'm hearing is
1:58:22 you want focus on the health of the
1:58:24 forest and tree canopy we have the
1:58:26 potential growth of the tree county we
1:58:29 have for many good reasons so
1:58:31 you can i think you can put those two
1:58:32 together we want the canopy to be where
1:58:34 it's appropriate where it will thrive
1:58:37 city administrator
1:58:40 the administration has been talking a
1:58:42 lot about this largely coming from the
1:58:44 title 18 discussions and so the the
1:58:46 terms we've been using is urban forest
1:58:48 management um
1:58:50 and from our perspective that covers i
1:58:52 think everything you're you're talking
1:58:53 about here today is the
1:58:55 additional investment in in professional
1:58:57 services either city staff contract
1:59:00 staff to help us manage the urban forest
1:59:03 fantastic thank you just two more quick
1:59:06 just coming back are you comfortable
1:59:08 with that or i think we should at the
1:59:10 very least consider and have information
1:59:12 about the arborist issue but um yes it's
1:59:15 fine as as a part of the conversation
1:59:17 about the forestry
1:59:18 okay so let's put it down as urban
1:59:21 forest management and then knowing that
1:59:25 when the administration comes back with
1:59:28 budget they will need to justify and
1:59:32 have a conversation about arborists
1:59:34 versus outside dollars versus study et
1:59:37 cetera
1:59:41 right now you just have two more
1:59:44 i'd like the administration to take a
1:59:45 look at whether or not it might be
1:59:47 appropriate to support some of our city
1:59:49 staff
1:59:50 supporting
1:59:52 any of the civic groups or
1:59:56 other groups that are outside of our
1:59:57 regular city purview um i'll kind of
2:00:00 harken back to a day where we had a
2:00:02 police standard when i was on council
2:00:04 that encouraged a 35 community
2:00:07 um involvement kind of uh
2:00:10 value so that they were on the streets
2:00:12 35 of the time not necessarily writing
2:00:14 reports or making arrests or
2:00:15 transporting people but we're out on the
2:00:17 streets talking to people and and
2:00:19 getting close to the community as we're
2:00:21 coming out of code but i'd like the
2:00:22 administration to take a look at whether
2:00:24 or not there are some positions in our
2:00:26 city that can serve on a border
2:00:28 commission or be active in another group
2:00:30 whether it's the chamber or eia i know
2:00:33 we have eia people that are next
2:00:34 official members but whether or not
2:00:36 there are opportunities for us to get
2:00:37 closer to
2:00:38 the groups that are out there so that we
2:00:40 can become a stronger community we'll
2:00:41 know about the problems earlier we'll be
2:00:43 able to intervene on an earlier basis to
2:00:45 to help with the issues before they
2:00:47 become something that goes to the press
2:00:50 becomes a larger issue so just an
2:00:52 opportunity to think about that and
2:00:54 lastly i'd ask the administration to um
2:00:56 look at campaign finance for 2023
2:00:59 whether or not we um put caps on or
2:01:02 increase the caps that are already there
2:01:05 and whether or not we do public
2:01:06 financing for campaigns i know we've
2:01:08 talked about access to the council an
2:01:10 increase in the bench of people that
2:01:12 might want to come onto council and if
2:01:14 we had some campaign financing officer
2:01:17 number say 500
2:01:19 for people that were um signed up to run
2:01:22 and pass the date to um you know to
2:01:25 withdraw
2:01:26 but 500 for instance would cover the
2:01:28 filing fee and then give them a little
2:01:30 bit more
2:01:31 to handle any infrastructure things or
2:01:34 logistics for their campaign just to get
2:01:36 started right so it's not a barrier for
2:01:38 people that might want to run uh to
2:01:41 consider coming onto the council so we
2:01:43 have a wide variety of people that are
2:01:45 running and have contested elections
2:01:46 that make a difference
2:01:56 russell was just talking about does the
2:01:58 city have a matching fund for charitable
2:02:00 contributions our matching
2:02:02 employer match not that i'm aware
2:02:08 is there a reason we couldn't
2:02:12 yes there is a reason
2:02:15 i was afraid you'd say that wally
2:02:18 get the public funds
2:02:27 i i just want to preview that
2:02:30 suggested campaign financing exploration
2:02:32 might not be uncontroversial
2:02:35 would be controversial oh there you go
2:02:39 sorry yeah yeah just go back to you
2:02:44 so council member joe i'm thinking um
2:02:47 you are bringing up something that is
2:02:48 good policy discussion but i'm not sure
2:02:50 that it's going to feed into our budget
2:02:52 so i'm hearing a great idea here
2:02:54 but i i think you
2:02:56 the council at some point might want to
2:02:58 take your idea and talk a bit more about
2:03:00 it well if we decide to do some
2:03:02 financing for it it would impact the
2:03:04 budget potentially and i know that we
2:03:07 should have the conversation now if
2:03:08 we're going to talk about the 23
2:03:10 election to be effective for the 23rd
2:03:12 election so i'm throwing it out if it
2:03:14 doesn't get any support i certainly
2:03:16 understand but it's a conversation
2:03:19 all right uh so
2:03:21 value items from like you bellevue has a
2:03:24 program that they um it's more like
2:03:26 civics education bellevue
2:03:30 yeah so that's it's not exactly
2:03:33 point but i think it's related because
2:03:34 it's about what it's what you do as city
2:03:37 council what you do as a board member
2:03:39 how the city government works process
2:03:41 and so and presumably they budget for
2:03:43 that because
2:03:45 that could be another option that
2:03:48 might require
2:03:50 a good suggestion okay one second bart
2:03:52 did you have a comment or is your thing
2:03:54 still up
2:04:03 i'm currently working with a couple of
2:04:05 residents on a volunteer issaquah
2:04:08 essentials we've just gotten all the
2:04:10 building material they do have dedicated
2:04:12 staff resources and it's a
2:04:14 it's quite an expensive course but even
2:04:17 as a community program i'm thinking of
2:04:19 doing this just like i did how to run
2:04:22 for office i'm thinking of launching a
2:04:26 version of an issaquah essentials but if
2:04:28 the council is interested in this i
2:04:30 wasn't going to use any city resources
2:04:32 to do it i was just going to use
2:04:33 volunteers in the community i think it's
2:04:35 a great idea i think it's a way that you
2:04:38 offer opportunities to board and
2:04:40 commission members to learn all of what
2:04:42 the city does and to get students
2:04:44 excited to get residences
2:04:46 bellevue does it to broaden their
2:04:48 candidate
2:04:49 they do it it works
2:04:51 the program is well loved
2:04:53 but they actually have people
2:04:56 like two people i think who brought in
2:04:57 that program and it's quite amazing
2:05:00 great suggestion
2:05:03 and then uh councilmember joey you've
2:05:04 had one on housing that i wasn't sure
2:05:07 how to capture
2:05:08 yeah i think that just keeping the ones
2:05:10 that are up there are fine i've just
2:05:12 talked about um letting our young people
2:05:14 return to our city and letting seniors
2:05:17 uh age in place should be kind of the
2:05:19 overarching focus as we talk about
2:05:21 attainable housing at all all levels of
2:05:25 all levels of expenses
2:05:29 so there's one on the bottom that says
2:05:30 add resources on housing
2:05:47 haven't we heard from have we heard from
2:05:51 everybody there okay
2:05:53 then i can go can i ask um the one that
2:05:58 russell
2:05:59 i believe added that had to do
2:06:01 with the ipd i don't i can't read what's
2:06:04 written there 24 7 behavioral health
2:06:07 sports for law enforcement
2:06:09 that's law enforcement okay
2:06:10 i'll regret it
2:06:12 we'll rewrite everything
2:06:18 [Laughter]
2:06:24 [Music]
2:06:27 well i'm running into a problem
2:06:37 okay then i will go ahead and go um my
2:06:41 first priority is the title 18 backlog
2:06:43 list which i think yep that yeah i think
2:06:47 you can put there
2:06:49 um i also have the title 16 building
2:06:53 um so i want to make sure toward the
2:06:58 icap and
2:07:00 just making sure that our built
2:07:01 environment is better
2:07:04 we can start talking about the building
2:07:09 a mirror 24 7 the behavioral health um
2:07:13 item there yep
2:07:15 plus one
2:07:20 and then the consolidated city hall up
2:07:22 there i kind of had that down as
2:07:25 facility planning i know that's been
2:07:28 mentioned
2:07:29 elsewhere
2:07:32 yeah master facilities plans so i wonder
2:07:34 yeah do we want to combine those two
2:07:38 yes so
2:07:39 get rid of city hall and put two
2:07:43 yeah don't get rid of city hall there's
2:07:44 gonna be a
2:07:46 line item there
2:07:48 and put two marks next to master
2:07:50 facilities plan
2:07:58 are we just a clarifying question on
2:08:00 that for the administration are we
2:08:01 envisioning that what's going
2:08:04 to services safety and parks the review
2:08:06 of our facilities and their
2:08:09 assets
2:08:10 will turn into a master facilities
2:08:12 planners a separate thing that we're
2:08:14 under consideration that's a great
2:08:16 question um
2:08:17 autumn's
2:08:20 work that she's doing right now will
2:08:22 feed into a master facilities plan that
2:08:24 is a forward-looking plan that talks not
2:08:26 about the staffing needs now but the
2:08:28 staffing needs in the future so that we
2:08:31 planning ahead and you can see that
2:08:34 um city hall whatever city hall looks
2:08:37 like where it is what it looks like is a
2:08:39 piece of that plan but the master
2:08:41 facilities plan gives you the whole
2:08:43 picture and the goal is to be able to
2:08:46 then bring forward a recommendation of
2:08:48 that for a city
2:08:56 i'll read this out before you write it
2:08:58 down but in the master mobility plan
2:09:01 policy 6.3 is partner with public
2:09:03 agencies and or private companies to
2:09:05 pilot new types of small-scale transit
2:09:07 services and neighborhoods that are not
2:09:09 currently served by transit i know we
2:09:13 that is listed as a
2:09:17 major challenges in our work plan and so
2:09:20 i want to explore
2:09:22 hey if we're not
2:09:24 willing or if some transit isn't willing
2:09:27 to take that on with us
2:09:29 what our opportunities are to do
2:09:32 something that would serve our community
2:09:34 um so
2:09:36 in a way it's like that's already
2:09:40 on our work plan list but this is
2:09:42 potentially a different level of
2:09:45 investment in that area
2:09:48 sorry can you see a little bit more
2:09:49 about that i would would you mean if
2:09:51 south transit's not going to work
2:09:53 so metro yeah um so we just got in the
2:09:58 q2 reports that there are major
2:10:00 challenges to that because they're
2:10:03 really not willing to partner with us
2:10:05 on that as a project and so i think we
2:10:09 need to
2:10:10 potentially explore other ways of going
2:10:13 about that including with
2:10:16 paying for a service running or whatever
2:10:19 that is but it would be an entirely
2:10:21 different level of funding than i think
2:10:24 we had contemplated in the past i'm
2:10:26 having flashbacks to the conversation
2:10:28 about a new city hall because this is a
2:10:30 topic that has come up every couple of
2:10:32 years for the last 12 years
2:10:35 so which is which is to say you're
2:10:37 probably right
2:10:39 yeah basically i'm not willing to wait
2:10:41 anymore
2:10:42 um i i totally agree um clarification
2:10:45 are they unwilling or are they unable or
2:10:48 are they just so difficult to reach
2:10:52 we don't get any response kind of a
2:10:54 little bit of a new one yes
2:10:56 oh andrea oh good
2:10:58 inside stuff okay hi uh just real quick
2:11:01 um we uh they are unwilling so our
2:11:05 partner for local transit options would
2:11:07 be metro
2:11:08 and we have been trying to talk to them
2:11:10 about a local transit shuttle option and
2:11:13 they said it's completely off
2:11:17 their priority list so they're they're
2:11:19 putting that on hold they don't know
2:11:21 when they're going to
2:11:22 consider such programs again
2:11:24 we actually have uh options coming to
2:11:27 tab this month we've been working on
2:11:29 this item and it will go to the mobility
2:11:31 and infrastructure committee
2:11:33 pending tax discussion next month so
2:11:35 um we
2:11:37 trying to get in time for some of these
2:11:39 budget priorities as well so we're
2:11:40 bringing forward some options so
2:11:42 anticipate some conversations soon about
2:11:44 what these options might look like
2:11:46 and i'm attending
2:11:50 okay let's be good conversations
2:11:53 thank you so andrea what you're saying
2:11:55 is i'm reading your mind
2:11:57 and just giving you a plus one to
2:12:00 anything that you are going to include
2:12:01 in the question fantastic great
2:12:05 and then i've got two more neighborhood
2:12:07 communications
2:12:09 i feel like we've fallen behind on that
2:12:12 area and so i don't know whether that
2:12:15 needs to be additional staff i know we
2:12:17 used to have a
2:12:19 neighborhood coordinator
2:12:21 obviously we've had a time period where
2:12:25 a lot of things have gone virtual we
2:12:28 need to
2:12:29 establish and kind of roll with that but
2:12:33 i feel like there's a lot more that we
2:12:35 could be doing there that might require
2:12:37 resources
2:12:38 um and then
2:12:40 some sort of transportation staff or
2:12:42 whatever is needed to support the
2:12:44 capital projects
2:12:46 that we have on our ask list
2:12:49 transportation staff from my perspective
2:12:52 that's much different from the
2:12:54 transportation demand management this is
2:12:56 transportation capital
2:12:59 staff
2:13:01 just to make sure that we are staffed up
2:13:04 because
2:13:05 we have run into problems where we've
2:13:08 tried to ask to get things done and
2:13:09 we've heard hey we have staffing issues
2:13:12 and so i just want a
2:13:14 focus on that area
2:13:17 and that's my list
2:13:20 on to you zach all right well cool
2:13:29 so some of these will be
2:13:30 uh red marks
2:13:33 but the first one i kind of got specific
2:13:37 though um within our particular plan so
2:13:39 i'll get through this and then i'll
2:13:40 write
2:13:42 the right hand it's not already there so
2:13:44 the first one uh and going through the
2:13:46 strategic plan
2:13:47 um objective uh
2:13:50 growth and development for potential
2:13:51 actions a and b really call out to me um
2:13:56 i would really like us to kind of begin
2:13:58 it's a whiteboarded
2:13:59 some of it is a whiteboard issue and
2:14:01 i'll get to i'll read them off in a
2:14:02 second but
2:14:03 i'm not in i don't think we have the
2:14:05 ability to complete them but in the very
2:14:07 least to begin the process of
2:14:09 investigating and evaluating best
2:14:11 practices and emerging solutions
2:14:13 uh engaging with the community and
2:14:15 assessing our future options and these
2:14:17 around missing middle housing and near
2:14:20 neighborhood businesses so
2:14:22 in particular the budget priority here
2:14:23 would be ensuring we have the resources
2:14:25 and the staff our consultant capacity to
2:14:27 begin this work because i do think um in
2:14:30 particular the community engagement is
2:14:32 going to be
2:14:34 big around those issues so
2:14:38 strategic plan objective gd4 which is
2:14:40 across the city there are a variety of
2:14:41 public amenities housing types
2:14:42 educational and other services that
2:14:44 contribute to a livable community
2:14:46 so protection potential action a is
2:14:48 identifying implement code changes and
2:14:50 activities to address neighborhood-based
2:14:52 and community-wide gaps and amenities
2:14:54 and services so this is a goal i've been
2:14:56 thinking about for a while in terms of
2:14:59 some neighborhoods have incredible
2:15:01 walkability to businesses and goods and
2:15:03 services that support their lives like
2:15:04 dry cleaners when i lived up in the
2:15:06 highlands i was able to walk to my dry
2:15:08 cleaners walk to pick up food during the
2:15:10 pandemic because it was right across the
2:15:11 street go to the movie theater every now
2:15:13 and then
2:15:15 and when i grew up in south cove no such
2:15:17 luxury existed i had to walk or bike
2:15:20 down northwest smash road and avoid cars
2:15:24 that's something that i'm really
2:15:26 interested in starting to
2:15:28 get in on what are the kinds of
2:15:30 innovative practices that municipalities
2:15:33 in the region and across the country are
2:15:35 doing to address that it also
2:15:37 complements our climate action plan our
2:15:38 normal ability action plan by
2:15:40 eliminating single occupancy vehicle
2:15:42 trips for small trips so
2:15:44 um and then a potential action b is to
2:15:46 develop code amendments to address
2:15:48 missile middle or other housing options
2:15:51 again this work is cited and supported
2:15:53 in a lot of our planning documents the
2:15:55 housing strategy work plan strategy
2:15:56 eight um which is about housing
2:15:59 diversity um and the central is called
2:16:01 plan which references housing diversity
2:16:03 and access to housing across income
2:16:06 levels several times and also our
2:16:07 climate action plan that in the
2:16:09 implement implementation matrix tl 1.3
2:16:12 is adopt codes prioritizing missing
2:16:14 middle housing so
2:16:17 anyways the
2:16:18 kind of ask is to begin work on
2:16:22 and let me know if you think this fits
2:16:23 somewhere
2:16:24 maybe this does fit i think it does yeah
2:16:26 because the amenities is also
2:16:28 whiteboarded
2:16:29 it is
2:16:30 wonderful
2:16:41 is in like at least three plans like you
2:16:43 said so i also wasn't sure how to
2:16:46 this might be better because we
2:16:48 reference it you know a lot of our plans
2:16:50 put point in the same direction um and i
2:16:52 think the administration from
2:16:54 illustrating understands kind of what
2:16:56 we're getting at here from a budget
2:17:00 okay so that's that one
2:17:02 the next is and i'm kind of surprised
2:17:04 that this wasn't
2:17:06 brought up yet although i suppose this
2:17:07 fits into it so strategic plan objective
2:17:10 mobility three potential action days to
2:17:12 develop a citywide transit plan that
2:17:14 includes lessons learned from case
2:17:16 studies on stationary planning
2:17:18 the mobility master plan also goes a
2:17:20 little bit further to say develop an
2:17:22 adopted transit master plan that defines
2:17:24 transit policies transit routes and
2:17:26 streets where transit should be
2:17:27 prioritized key locations to serve
2:17:29 transit and transit projects and
2:17:31 programs to be led by the city of
2:17:33 issaquah i wanted quick clarification
2:17:35 that those are the same
2:17:37 action because they're kind of called
2:17:38 out differently okay
2:17:40 um so then uh this is a top priority for
2:17:43 improvement in the 2021 community survey
2:17:45 getting around by public transit um so
2:17:47 the budget party here would be to make
2:17:49 sure that we have the staff resources
2:17:50 right now in the planning calendar it's
2:17:52 listed on december 31st which i think
2:17:58 so just making sure that it will um
2:18:01 that will complete the work by the end
2:18:03 of 2024 which i think is described in
2:18:05 the work plan so
2:18:09 do you want to put it down as transit
2:18:10 master plan yeah i'll do that
2:18:13 i think it's related to
2:18:17 i think it is but i think this is
2:18:19 something because it does feel like the
2:18:21 transit master plan you call out
2:18:22 underserved neighborhoods but this is
2:18:24 for if you're talking about action
2:18:26 as opposed to planning for action in the
2:18:28 upcoming budget those might be different
2:18:32 so you feel like we need a transit
2:18:34 master plan more than what we have in
2:18:37 the mobility master plan
2:18:43 kind of the call out there well the
2:18:45 intents around both plans are different
2:18:47 right so the transit master plan we
2:18:48 would use to be able to highlight where
2:18:50 the area is service and needs are for
2:18:53 transit
2:18:54 different and more focused than mobility
2:19:01 i think a deputy council president has
2:19:03 it exactly correct so the transit master
2:19:05 plan transit plan is actually something
2:19:07 that um we're finalizing the contract on
2:19:09 right now uh so uh we are getting that
2:19:13 work started this year um and some of
2:19:16 that work will help inform the ciptip
2:19:18 project list next year
2:19:20 um so continued support of the transit
2:19:22 plan would be great for next year uh so
2:19:25 we can finish that out in accordance
2:19:26 with the work plan um but it is
2:19:28 different it's more specific than the
2:19:29 master mobility plan um and talks about
2:19:32 how we can ready ourselves for the light
2:19:34 rail um station what are the actions
2:19:36 that we can do
2:19:38 um what are the investments we need to
2:19:40 for uh getting ourselves ready for light
2:19:42 rail and providing connections to light
2:19:44 rail and then all of the transit service
2:19:47 improvements we can make um in addition
2:19:49 to that so that's really the focus of
2:19:51 the transit plan
2:19:53 so maybe we leave it separate yeah is
2:19:55 that what you're thinking okay
2:19:56 uh transit master plan all right so the
2:19:58 next thing
2:19:59 might also be a whiteboard issue then so
2:20:03 the climate action plan uh tl 1.1 talks
2:20:06 about incentivizing dense misuse and
2:20:08 transit oriented development and part of
2:20:10 the considerations there is evaluating
2:20:12 parking minimums and on-street parking
2:20:14 needs so i i think
2:20:17 that's this one right so i can't double
2:20:19 the market
2:20:21 that's there but i'm really just
2:20:22 interested in again us exploring what
2:20:24 best practices are and evaluating our
2:20:26 options and connecting with the
2:20:27 community because that's going to take
2:20:28 time and money does that include
2:20:31 what did you think yeah okay
2:20:35 human services strategic plan
2:20:42 oh okay so uh in the human services
2:20:44 strategic plan
2:20:46 oh this gets really um specific um focus
2:20:49 area three strategic approach 3b
2:20:51 strategic action 3.7 c and i'm only
2:20:54 listing this out so the staff are going
2:20:56 back and looking at planes they can find
2:20:58 but this is to help to implement a
2:20:59 minimum of one of the following services
2:21:01 in issaquah that respond to the
2:21:02 homelessness day center temporary
2:21:04 transitional or permanent housing so one
2:21:07 of their strategic actions is to
2:21:08 advocate and work with local and
2:21:10 regional partners to create a minimum of
2:21:12 one housing program either temporary
2:21:14 transitional permanent for individuals
2:21:16 who are experiencing homelessness of law
2:21:18 so i know we're currently in the middle
2:21:19 of exploring a kind of temporary housing
2:21:22 model for our unhoused population in
2:21:24 nissan um the budget priority here would
2:21:27 be ensuring that we have the resources
2:21:28 and staff support to continue that work
2:21:31 into the combine
2:21:33 thanks um yes we're we're we love in
2:21:37 isabel we love the pilots so yes there
2:21:40 is a pilot with an ask and then
2:21:43 that program could be transitioned into
2:21:45 a permanent program where we may be able
2:21:47 to get a contract for service with the
2:21:49 keycount regional homelessness authority
2:21:52 so thank you for bringing that up
2:21:55 wally i don't know you know we don't
2:21:57 have monica here today i don't know if
2:21:58 you want to add anything about where
2:22:01 we're headed with the pilot
2:22:04 only that
2:22:06 we've been to committee we have a plan
2:22:08 we have the dollars that are necessary
2:22:10 we have a funding source so
2:22:12 um i think we feel really confident that
2:22:14 as long as the council from a policy
2:22:16 perspective is an agreement uh that we
2:22:18 have a plan and funding to move forward
2:22:23 let me ask a question robert
2:22:25 how does it work with a two-year budget
2:22:27 if we
2:22:28 go into something and say we want to
2:22:30 pilot something
2:22:33 and we find that it works do we just
2:22:36 come back with that mid-year and say
2:22:38 we're going to bump it up and somehow we
2:22:40 have to find
2:22:42 money for that from other things
2:22:58 yeah and that's a great way of doing
2:23:00 things but now i'm looking at a two-year
2:23:02 thing and going wait if i pilot
2:23:03 something do i not get a chance to
2:23:05 really do anything about it
2:23:08 you like the pilot
2:23:11 so then to clarify is this something i
2:23:13 should put up on the board for a coming
2:23:15 biennium priority or is this a pilot
2:23:17 that will occur
2:23:25 i i put it up there because
2:23:28 it's our priorities right and do you
2:23:30 think there's something else up there so
2:23:32 my mine is the same idea human services
2:23:35 as a pilot well because it was
2:23:36 specifically the homelessness yeah yeah
2:23:39 yeah so i took this to mean kind of like
2:23:41 a bucket of money that we would use for
2:23:43 ongoing pilot programs well it was it
2:23:46 was a bucket of money to so my idea
2:23:49 which maybe
2:23:50 i don't know uh but was to have a bunch
2:23:53 of money to
2:23:54 build on
2:23:56 success of pilot programs in government
2:23:58 services with the homelessness pilot as
2:24:00 the example
2:24:02 so i think whatever you come up with for
2:24:04 yours i think mine is can be part of
2:24:07 that i'm fine with taking that off if
2:24:09 everyone thinks that that or just knows
2:24:11 that that's kind of part of that
2:24:13 flavor this one barb and then wally
2:24:16 oh um
2:24:17 so maybe wally could uh help me with
2:24:20 this but i believe the money from this
2:24:22 is coming from a specific
2:24:24 uh stream of money
2:24:33 sales tax that the city of issaquah has
2:24:35 retained uh is the funding source and so
2:24:38 that is a multi-million dollar uh
2:24:41 funding source susie has the precise
2:24:43 number um i always seem to get it wrong
2:24:46 but uh
2:24:47 there are sufficient money being
2:24:49 generated from that sales tax uh to
2:24:52 pursue the pilot as a more permanent
2:24:54 program or as councilmember huns
2:24:56 indicating if there's other options or
2:24:58 other
2:24:59 programmatic opportunities there's
2:25:00 funding there as well
2:25:04 i also just want to chime in and say if
2:25:06 the king county regional homeless
2:25:08 authority believes that this is a great
2:25:09 contract for service
2:25:11 i would propose that we get the contract
2:25:14 use their funding and you repurpose this
2:25:16 money for other initiatives that you're
2:25:18 interested in yeah
2:25:22 okay um
2:25:26 what else
2:25:30 um all right i've got kind of uh now a
2:25:31 list of things that i haven't really
2:25:33 thought that
2:25:34 um deeply about some of them are up here
2:25:36 though um so councilman remarks is
2:25:39 absolutely right you know we have a
2:25:40 strategic plan objective that we
2:25:41 recently created last year around public
2:25:43 safety resources that meet community
2:25:45 needs but we don't have any potential
2:25:47 actions listed under these i think these
2:25:49 are interesting and worth exploring um
2:25:51 and i think as was said earlier that the
2:25:54 crime analyst will come up with some
2:25:57 data that might lead us to some
2:25:58 potential um actions same with the data
2:26:01 on the property crime venture is
2:26:03 something we should definitely explore
2:26:05 creating i think that's a great idea
2:26:07 [Laughter]
2:26:14 all right
2:26:15 um what else
2:26:24 i don't like being this broad but
2:26:27 i thought anne's comments were well said
2:26:29 about the climate action plan
2:26:31 um and i think
2:26:33 it is up to
2:26:35 i've listed a couple priorities from the
2:26:38 climate action men that are important
2:26:39 and i think there are a couple that have
2:26:40 been laid out on the table that are
2:26:41 important
2:26:42 but to ant's point
2:26:44 and the point of others i think it's
2:26:46 really important for us to unders try to
2:26:48 get a sense of what's it going to take
2:26:51 to implement the plan in the timeline
2:26:53 that is currently set out so short-term
2:26:55 actions
2:26:57 by the end of next year are envisioned
2:26:59 to be complete and i'm not sure if we're
2:27:01 on track to do that so i almost started
2:27:03 thinking about do we need
2:27:05 resources to have a work plan of the
2:27:09 icap that says if we're on track and
2:27:12 then a description of why that is that
2:27:14 might inform whether or not we need
2:27:17 staff or consultant resources beyond
2:27:19 what we currently have is that some sort
2:27:21 of a pin to accelerate icap
2:27:22 implementation i think so
2:27:25 um and then just to you know reiterate
2:27:28 again i don't like being this broad but
2:27:31 important because
2:27:33 if we're able to actually meet our
2:27:35 timeline of the climate action plan i
2:27:37 think that that will be a signal to the
2:27:38 region to act more
2:27:41 aggressively on climate because i feel
2:27:43 like people without plans and then don't
2:27:45 necessarily meet the timelines all the
2:27:46 time so if we're able to do that that is
2:27:48 a beacon of progress right
2:27:51 um another thing i i might be alone on
2:27:54 this but the
2:27:56 new solid waste contract rates
2:27:59 are are going to be quite a shock to our
2:28:01 residents i do think that we need to
2:28:03 create a runway somehow
2:28:05 so i'm going to have that it did it
2:28:08 didn't seem like there was a lot of
2:28:09 support
2:28:10 um on that idea but uh
2:28:13 a runway of uh uh like a couple years
2:28:17 i think is important for us to in the
2:28:24 least run away
2:28:27 and completely much more by runway are
2:28:30 you suggesting that we
2:28:32 supplement
2:28:33 the cost to our citizens out of
2:28:36 sustainability fund or sustainability
2:28:38 funds general fund and bundle just yeah
2:28:41 whatever tools are available to us
2:28:44 to consider and then we can kind of
2:28:46 discuss what the or the administration
2:28:48 can kind of think about the
2:28:50 scope of that support as well but i
2:28:53 think it should be an aspect of our
2:28:55 budget discussions our upcoming budget
2:28:56 discussions um
2:28:58 with that i had an interesting
2:29:00 conversation um with someone uh just
2:29:02 yesterday about potentially adding
2:29:05 funding in the budget for a new water
2:29:08 sewer and storm water rate study
2:29:12 to just keep it in the budget just in
2:29:14 case inflation drives up a need to redo
2:29:17 that study so
2:29:20 i wanted to put that in there but maybe
2:29:22 i don't
2:29:25 maybe that's something the
2:29:26 administration is already considering
2:29:28 and doesn't need to be a priority
2:29:31 well so you said water sewer
2:29:34 right yeah um so
2:29:38 i'm on the regional water quality
2:29:41 committee for the and the sewer rate i
2:29:43 know is expected to really
2:29:46 increase a lot yeah um but the drivers
2:29:49 of that are not
2:29:51 within the city's
2:29:53 purview that there's not very much that
2:29:55 the city would be able to do unless it's
2:29:56 something like a rebate so i guess i'm
2:29:58 just wondering
2:29:59 i don't know that a study
2:30:01 i guess i'm wondering
2:30:03 first of all is it really all of those
2:30:04 things that you would want to need and
2:30:07 then what's the
2:30:09 there's limited actions
2:30:11 yeah well by the study i mean
2:30:14 our expenses might
2:30:17 be much more
2:30:18 than what we've planned in the current
2:30:20 five-year
2:30:21 rate analysis
2:30:23 if inflation continues to go up we might
2:30:26 need to
2:30:27 reevaluate how we're approaching those
2:30:29 those needs because those aren't funded
2:30:31 by anything except for water revenues
2:30:32 right so so let me ask you a question is
2:30:35 this just specific to water and sewer or
2:30:38 is this more of a
2:30:40 do we need to do a mid biennium
2:30:43 inflation analysis of our
2:30:47 rates for things
2:30:50 so it's things like recreation
2:30:53 our permit costs you know all of the
2:30:56 things that we charge
2:30:58 does that get toward the idea
2:31:01 i think that's interesting
2:31:07 hopefully before we we end today we can
2:31:10 talk at the end more about inflation and
2:31:13 you know this is really uncharted
2:31:14 territory uh for us uh for many number
2:31:18 of years uh i i think it's going to
2:31:20 become
2:31:22 something we just do um there will be
2:31:25 you know drivers on a whole variety of
2:31:27 levels of those things like classes if
2:31:30 all of a sudden we discover no one's
2:31:31 taking our classes because they cost too
2:31:34 that's going to be an impact for that
2:31:36 if the council from a policy perspective
2:31:38 wants to be thoughtful about uh charges
2:31:42 uh waters or anything else we could do
2:31:44 that so i think that's going to be part
2:31:47 of our normal operating that will
2:31:49 continue to keep the council prized and
2:31:51 as we would do the uh
2:31:53 the mid biennium check in with you a
2:31:55 year from now i think that's just going
2:31:57 to be part of our standard procedure so
2:32:00 certainly the council could prioritize
2:32:02 it but i i think i can safely say the
2:32:04 administration will be doing it anyway
2:32:07 okay great you want to just i'm okay
2:32:10 removing that then if that director moon
2:32:12 did you have anything you wanted to add
2:32:13 or is that
2:32:20 all right
2:32:23 neighborhood engagement um
2:32:26 ditto i think that that's something that
2:32:28 we should consider if we're in a good um
2:32:32 place to be able to
2:32:34 consider what kind of support that needs
2:32:37 i think that since we lost that worker
2:32:40 it has been well taken care of though
2:32:41 but in terms of what
2:32:43 what are we envisioning community
2:32:45 engagement to be we talk about that
2:32:47 quite a bit and that might need some
2:32:49 staff support or perhaps um training
2:32:52 across departments in terms of how to
2:32:54 communicate with community but mayor
2:32:55 quality did you have another one i'm
2:32:56 going to use the word pilot again you
2:32:58 guys piloted your first community
2:33:00 listening session which was great and
2:33:03 there are neighborhoods that are going
2:33:04 to request you do that as well so i
2:33:07 think we should have some conversations
2:33:09 about what it is that you expect as well
2:33:13 because
2:33:14 um i think we have a couple of events
2:33:16 coming up national life house and
2:33:19 concerts in the greens and councils
2:33:21 attending as well so it may be something
2:33:24 different than what we were doing in the
2:33:27 but i really appreciate your efforts to
2:33:29 try the listening sessions
2:33:31 and to be showing up at these community
2:33:34 events i think that's awesome anyway it
2:33:36 may look different than it was but you
2:33:39 definitely have been trying some great
2:33:40 things lately
2:33:41 so the administrator
2:33:43 and just to remind the city council in
2:33:45 this budget before 22 you added one
2:33:48 full-time position to communications to
2:33:50 do precisely what you requested so we
2:33:53 now have a full-time communications
2:33:56 manager who is not
2:33:58 spread among other responsibilities
2:34:01 and uh you know additional support staff
2:34:03 there so we're doing we're doing what we
2:34:05 need to do plus autumn's still managing
2:34:07 the whole shooting match so um you know
2:34:10 i think we're feeling very comfortable
2:34:12 but again we're still coming out of
2:34:14 the pandemic uh well we're really not
2:34:16 coming out of the pandemic we're but but
2:34:18 things like things remain uh fluid uh
2:34:21 but i think we're feeling comfortable
2:34:23 with the resources we just need to
2:34:25 continue to see what the world throws at
2:34:27 us and act accordingly
2:34:32 all right well we'll set i'll leave that
2:34:34 up there though but that's a that's a
2:34:35 good point um
2:34:37 and then the last thing that i had was
2:34:38 based on what um city administrator
2:34:40 about which i said earlier about
2:34:42 performance measurement stop support i
2:34:43 thought that was really interesting and
2:34:45 i know that was already up here
2:34:48 was it this one
2:34:53 um and those are my
2:34:55 upgrade
2:34:56 okay so before we break for lunch what i
2:35:00 would ideally like to get out is
2:35:03 are any of these things similar do they
2:35:05 need to come together
2:35:07 do we need to consolidate anything so
2:35:09 that while i'm eating i can spend lunch
2:35:12 writing down on the sheets so that we
2:35:14 can go with the voting next section i
2:35:16 have a process question yes
2:35:19 is there an opportunity to now that
2:35:21 there it's all up there to sort of opine
2:35:24 about what we see
2:35:27 putting it all together and and what not
2:35:29 separate from the
2:35:30 the blocking tackling of combining
2:35:33 things but to comment towards the
2:35:35 overall
2:35:36 picture yeah i'm just trying to decide
2:35:38 whether that we should have some time
2:35:40 before we do the voting i think is
2:35:42 really where
2:35:44 i want to let people have a few minutes
2:35:47 push their agenda if i say it's so
2:35:50 bluntly the oh that's what i intend to
2:35:55 and i want to give them space to do that
2:36:00 do you feel comfortable yeah that's fine
2:36:01 okay that's a good answer thank you i
2:36:03 just wanted to make sure that yeah
2:36:04 somewhere before we start placing dots
2:36:07 great
2:36:09 what do we see that might need to be
2:36:13 grouped or
2:36:16 kind of assigned together as far as a
2:36:18 potential way to
2:36:20 indicate priority
2:36:25 i'm seeing like
2:36:27 when i'm thinking about how i'm going to
2:36:29 be able to indicate priority i'm not
2:36:33 sure how i'm going to do it across the
2:36:36 cs3 evaluate body cams and on lethal
2:36:39 tools versus
2:36:41 reduced property crimes like if i want
2:36:45 to indicate a support of
2:36:49 those areas so
2:36:51 how do people feel between those
2:36:55 do we feel like they're different uh
2:36:57 radically different okay
2:37:00 well the property crime metric seems to
2:37:02 go with reduced property i think those
2:37:03 are going to go together sure because
2:37:05 this is almost the outcome
2:37:07 this is the way that's right yeah
2:37:10 if you do chris's you'll get the
2:37:12 property metric so maybe what i would
2:37:14 say in my mind is cs3 is about
2:37:19 funding for police
2:37:22 tools
2:37:23 where
2:37:25 the reduced property crime is
2:37:29 data analysis and coming up with
2:37:32 strategies
2:37:34 does that
2:37:36 make sense am i reading that right or
2:37:38 should do we specifically call out cs3
2:37:41 evaluate body counts as one and evaluate
2:37:44 non-lethal tools is another
2:37:48 well i'll just point out that they are
2:37:50 uh at least an order of magnitude
2:37:52 different in size right the body cams is
2:37:54 a big
2:37:55 possibly multi-year effort right it
2:37:58 actually fits better in a biennial
2:38:00 budget than it does in a single year
2:38:02 budget right and and adding additional
2:38:04 non-lethal tools is much much smaller
2:38:06 potential action
2:38:08 so i i sort of like keeping them
2:38:09 separate just in the sense that
2:38:12 the body chemist one is a i just want to
2:38:15 acknowledge it's a non-trivial it also
2:38:17 comes with an i.t records requirement
2:38:23 right okay so we'll keep the two of
2:38:26 those separate for evaluate body cams
2:38:28 versus evaluate
2:38:30 additional non-lethal tools property
2:38:33 crime metric i'm going to say cross that
2:38:36 out there because it really belongs in
2:38:37 the other area as as the person who said
2:38:40 it i support that
2:38:42 right
2:38:47 okay what else do we see
2:38:52 so business recruitment
2:38:58 you know i i think um i i could be
2:39:01 convinced to get rid of the improved
2:39:03 perception of the built environment and
2:39:05 and that concept is captured in the
2:39:07 resources to deal with the white board i
2:39:10 think
2:39:10 that's just the level of specificity
2:39:13 so i'd be okay with that if you erase
2:39:14 that other one great
2:39:20 we see a connection between ad resources
2:39:22 on housing and accelerating
2:39:24 action on housing with title 18
2:39:28 specifically or did we see that as
2:39:30 different i personally see that as kind
2:39:32 of the same work that would be
2:39:34 documented like in terms of a budget
2:39:46 so maybe but this one's focused on an
2:39:48 outcome right
2:39:50 and this is how we get to a particular
2:39:52 housing outcome that's having these
2:39:54 conversations unless there's something
2:39:55 beyond 18 that's required questions yeah
2:39:57 so do you just want to leave it right
2:40:01 mary lou
2:40:02 so i i do think they're different um and
2:40:05 i'm just saying that from the point of
2:40:07 view that there are cities around us
2:40:09 that have their own housing authorities
2:40:11 and we do not so we don't have a revenue
2:40:14 stream to support a housing authority
2:40:16 for a city of our size so that one
2:40:19 that's in the bottom corner that's a big
2:40:21 that's a big one so that would require
2:40:23 some conversation
2:40:25 of how
2:40:26 to do that because we currently don't do
2:40:27 that at all right now
2:40:30 we support non-profits that do it but we
2:40:32 don't do it
2:40:42 okay what else do we see is everything
2:40:44 else on there
2:40:46 individual items nothing that needs to
2:40:48 be grouped
2:40:51 i'm wondering about but whistle joe is
2:40:53 not here um
2:41:06 i don't have an objection with that i
2:41:08 think it also kind of goes into the
2:41:10 other
2:41:11 outreach items that are up there so any
2:41:13 kind of
2:41:15 combination would be acceptable
2:41:19 so can we put that in with the
2:41:22 neighborhood engagement
2:41:24 maybe we'll call that top one rather
2:41:27 than neighborhood
2:41:28 communications um
2:41:31 which also includes things about
2:41:34 getting police out and encouraging staff
2:41:38 community engagement with several
2:41:40 bullets underneath
2:41:42 put all those things under it yeah
2:41:46 community engagement i think instead of
2:41:48 neighborhood
2:41:49 yeah then you'll cover i think yeah
2:41:52 yeah yep
2:42:00 yeah and i think i'll throw out um
2:42:02 early elimination of the campaign
2:42:04 finance
2:42:06 topic if people would like i
2:42:09 i think it's important to build the
2:42:10 bench out but there may be better ways
2:42:12 to do it rather than having
2:42:13 uh the city take on any type of
2:42:16 a funding or formal project now you've
2:42:18 got everything let's throw it out there
2:42:20 well maybe that's a means to an end and
2:42:22 maybe the better ask is the more of a
2:42:25 conceptual of building the bench and and
2:42:28 getting civic engagement uh energized
2:42:32 does it fit then better under another
2:42:34 category out there for civic engagement
2:42:36 that are building um
2:42:39 interesting boards and commissions and
2:42:41 involvement in our specific process
2:42:45 yeah i mean i'd be interested in civic
2:42:47 engagement
2:42:48 yeah but i think it i think it is a
2:42:50 different one so is that different from
2:42:52 community engagements
2:42:58 council member joe i i think part of
2:43:01 what you're
2:43:02 saying as well is about broadening the
2:43:05 access to our problems and i'm sure that
2:43:08 there is a
2:43:09 work planning conversation that the
2:43:11 equity board has yet to have about
2:43:14 civic engagement and making it more
2:43:16 accessible and more effortful
2:43:19 so i like that i think putting a few of
2:43:23 these things together
2:43:24 okay so crossover campaign financing
2:43:27 civic engagement part
2:43:29 oh i just i don't want to lose the
2:43:33 comments that uh customer jill gave
2:43:36 about
2:43:37 city staff being
2:43:40 involved in community organizations
2:43:43 i don't know that we need to put it in
2:43:45 there
2:43:46 as a budget priority but i think just to
2:43:49 capture that idea um
2:43:51 and i'm sure you heard it so
2:43:54 yeah but that was a little piece of that
2:43:56 community engagement that i think is
2:43:58 important as
2:44:02 well can't read what's underneath
2:44:05 campaign finance
2:44:07 new solid waste rate runway
2:44:10 and then i removed new one
2:44:12 got it got it
2:44:13 so how are we feeling about this list
2:44:18 narrowed
2:44:20 focus all of that so now pick your top
2:44:23 two and we're done yeah um
2:44:25 [Laughter]
2:44:35 good job on us for staying pretty much
2:44:37 on time what we have right now is then
2:44:40 30 minutes for a lunch break
2:44:43 um when we come back at 12
2:44:46 15 ish um we will
2:44:48 have all of these things written out on
2:44:50 other sheets so we can do the dot
2:44:52 prioritization activity um started with
2:44:56 funders you know discussions sales
2:44:58 pitches all of that um
2:45:00 so we can start to
2:45:03 yeah go for it um this has probably been
2:45:06 one of the most enjoyable
2:45:08 uh retreats that i've ever been to
2:45:11 and the reason why
2:45:13 something that council member ray kept
2:45:15 harping on when we were doing the
2:45:16 strategic plan was like but are we
2:45:18 really going to use it what are we
2:45:21 really going to buy into that this is a
2:45:23 framework that we can go forward with
2:45:26 that we can talk about budget that we
2:45:28 can prioritize and wow you are totally
2:45:31 doing it today just by everybody's
2:45:34 homework that you did you came to the
2:45:36 table with lots of ideas that really
2:45:39 were born out of community movement so
2:45:42 this this to me you know before you get
2:45:44 into your one dot that you're allowed to
2:45:46 place up there
2:45:48 this has been a very very
2:45:50 good conversation and so council member
2:45:52 ray i think we got there i think the
2:45:54 strategic plan is a living document and
2:45:58 that you guys are using it exactly
2:46:01 how the best uh effective way they can
2:46:03 so great great conversation
2:46:07 great
2:46:08 you're free for 30 minutes moves in
2:46:10 there
2:46:13 okay keeping us on schedule being the
2:46:15 main person bringing us back but um
2:46:18 so the next part of our conversation is
2:46:22 about kind of
2:46:25 the dog prioritization activity
2:46:28 the output discussion so
2:46:31 from our initial set of lists we had 16
2:46:34 total projects for capital priorities
2:46:37 and 24
2:46:38 priorities for operations
2:46:42 that our clerk is working on putting
2:46:45 around the
2:46:47 grouping
2:46:48 we are going to give people about
2:46:51 one-third
2:46:53 of the number in dots so you're going to
2:46:55 get six dots for the capital priorities
2:46:59 eight dots for the operations priorities
2:47:02 we're going to do capital first um so if
2:47:07 i'll give everybody an opportunity to
2:47:09 kind of talk through hey this is what's
2:47:12 i think is important for capitals and
2:47:14 why we should focus on that area
2:47:17 we're going to try and keep it
2:47:19 short and quick um mark has to get out
2:47:22 of here at 12 30. and so i want to make
2:47:25 sure we get both sets of dots
2:47:30 before that point
2:47:32 and then we can have kind of the output
2:47:34 conversation we're going to pass these
2:47:36 around while everybody's doing their
2:47:37 spiel um take one color
2:47:41 and let's see do we do we have um
2:47:45 seven colors
2:47:46 chris wait okay i'll look at it so
2:47:50 capital wait before you start process
2:47:52 question
2:47:53 these don't appear to have we had the we
2:47:55 had the best ones correct
2:48:00 we're just going to do it
2:48:14 uh how does everybody feel about that
2:48:16 six dots
2:48:18 like for individuals or
2:48:21 technically yeah you should be able to
2:48:23 use multiple boxes
2:48:28 how many say you can put as many dots as
2:48:31 you want
2:48:33 well up to like three times
2:48:38 [Music]
2:48:41 two or three
2:48:59 sounds good okay so capital um
2:49:03 what do people want to talk about for a
2:49:05 few minutes before we go into voting
2:49:09 anybody anybody want to sell
2:49:13 stuff
2:49:14 yes go for it
2:49:16 well um so i think
2:49:18 community resiliency and recovery from
2:49:20 the last couple years is very important
2:49:22 and so just want to
2:49:24 pitch one more time the idea of setting
2:49:26 up a college fund so that all beautiful
2:49:28 parks projects can go to college and i
2:49:30 think that that would be the green
2:49:31 necklace investment
2:49:34 i'll be putting a lot of dots there
2:49:36 isn't that
2:49:38 anybody else want to talk through
2:49:41 capital
2:49:42 stuff
2:49:44 i got i got two i want to pitch
2:49:47 we heard from too many people about the
2:49:48 pinch point we got to do the pinch point
2:49:50 got to get it done and then we don't
2:49:52 talk enough about the routine on black
2:49:54 nugget road and we got to get it done
2:49:56 it's we're just kicking the can down the
2:49:57 road so both are expensive but both need
2:49:59 to be funded
2:50:01 and you know we gotta get creative to
2:50:03 figure out how to fund them you gotta
2:50:04 get creative
2:50:05 can i ask a question about the notion
2:50:11 well i mean you don't you don't replace
2:50:13 your car usually until the maintenance
2:50:15 costs are such that you have to replace
2:50:17 your car you don't replace your car
2:50:19 really because five years are up you
2:50:21 know we did address this wall about 10
2:50:24 years ago and we decided not to do
2:50:26 anything at the time because
2:50:28 uh it didn't need to be done like that
2:50:30 and so the question is
2:50:33 why right now instead of when the
2:50:34 engineers tell us we need to do it
2:50:39 well if i i just was curious about the
2:50:41 same thing so i wouldn't looked in the
2:50:43 cip and it looks like it's actually the
2:50:46 wall replacement is required by year
2:50:48 2024 i was wondering if we had anyone on
2:50:50 staff that could speak to that probably
2:50:52 not today
2:50:54 but there is a good question there one
2:50:56 of the
2:50:57 community perceptions
2:50:59 is that it looks like it's a problem but
2:51:02 the reality is
2:51:04 the seepage and all that may not be the
2:51:07 problem it's the structural integrity of
2:51:09 the tie-backs and all the rest of it so
2:51:11 i think we need to get you some more
2:51:12 information on it you could also decide
2:51:16 my opinion only an aesthetic something
2:51:20 that takes the if it is structurally
2:51:22 sound if there is a date for a repair
2:51:25 you can consider doing something to get
2:51:27 the community
2:51:29 here level down
2:51:32 the drainage is not the issue
2:51:33 construction stability
2:51:35 yeah and so
2:51:36 um sometimes you don't know that your
2:51:39 car is about to break down and you wish
2:51:41 you would replace it before your
2:51:43 transmission goes out and you spend
2:51:44 several thousand dollars replacing your
2:51:46 transmissions like a couple years ago so
2:51:48 um some of this is being a little bit
2:51:50 proactive trying to get ahead of it
2:51:51 before we have a disaster because if it
2:51:53 failed it would be catastrophic and
2:51:56 it's not a you know it's not a matter
2:51:58 when the when the transmission is going
2:52:00 out the transmission's going out
2:52:02 so so maybe it's getting the
2:52:04 professionals to tell us when the
2:52:05 transmission is going to go out and it's
2:52:06 going to fail um but
2:52:09 it's one we've been talking about
2:52:11 forever
2:52:18 i've got
2:52:20 seven colors here um
2:52:25 [Laughter]
2:52:41 or whether we're just going to say
2:52:44 take off a set of six and terror and
2:52:47 such yeah okay so
2:52:50 i'm gonna
2:52:52 around
2:52:53 i don't think he needs more than
2:53:13 [Music]
2:53:37 out of the atmosphere
2:53:39 stick a stake in the ground but the
2:53:40 environment put the uh
2:53:43 cars on the road that are setting an
2:53:45 example and set the infrastructure out
2:53:47 there as well that'll help uh encourage
2:53:49 others to follow that path
2:53:54 okay so you need to tear off or just
2:53:57 recognize you can only take sips for
2:54:00 um capital and capital is all of this
2:54:04 stuff on these walls that is black don't
2:54:08 bury into the green areas
2:54:14 sorry um
2:54:15 just the sight out of the black negative
2:54:17 road they're turning them all no
2:54:20 um the department we have a request in
2:54:24 already from the department that design
2:54:26 work would start in 23 construction
2:54:28 would be in 24.5
2:54:30 which is the plan for this draft budget
2:54:35 the other thing i will say is
2:54:37 what we are doing here as a project for
2:54:39 priorities is somewhat
2:54:43 irrespective not taking into account
2:54:45 what the budget actualities are um this
2:54:48 is not us
2:54:50 narrowing ourselves down and saying i
2:54:51 think the only thing we're going to be
2:54:53 able to accomplish is x this is putting
2:54:55 some priorities out there and then
2:54:57 letting the administration utilize it in
2:55:00 what the actual numbers are and then
2:55:02 also letting us
2:55:04 when we're coming back to our
2:55:06 budget analysis and
2:55:10 taking the proposal and making a
2:55:11 decision is
2:55:13 and how do we want to use our priorities
2:55:16 if they're not all in the budget which
2:55:18 obviously they won't be so
2:55:20 yeah okay everybody ready
2:55:30 [Music]
2:55:33 yeah exactly
2:55:35 [Music]
2:56:10 it was
2:57:48 up right yep okay
2:57:51 so what i'm going to do is a real quick
2:57:54 read through
2:57:56 okay guys
2:57:58 i'm going to do a real quick read
2:57:59 through
2:58:00 um so that it's heard on community and
2:58:04 all of that will also take pictures um
2:58:07 but the next thing we need to start
2:58:09 thinking about is
2:58:11 are there some natural groupings and the
2:58:13 way that i think zach and i had figured
2:58:16 it was the bottom grouping is zero to
2:58:19 and then we need to figure out where
2:58:21 that uh match point is so think about
2:58:24 all that
2:58:25 i'm going through so we've got
2:58:27 tr004 the 12th avenue uh sr 900 zero
2:58:31 votes
2:58:33 fc027 new fire station three
2:58:37 uh street lighting zero
2:58:40 icap solar on the community center route
2:58:44 icap uh electric complete we have four
2:58:49 uh wt015
2:58:51 water main zero
2:58:53 st zero zero nine squat valley park zero
2:58:56 pk zero three two hillside acquisition
2:59:01 pk zero one eight dog park two
2:59:05 uh tko three three black nugget
2:59:08 retaining wall two
2:59:10 we've got
2:59:26 um 10th and
2:59:28 12th avenue i-90 crossing two
2:59:32 uh tr030
2:59:36 and zero five for the concrete pavement
2:59:38 management
2:59:39 programs we've got four votes pko three
2:59:43 one hillside park we've got two votes
2:59:46 squawk mountain uphill sidewalk
2:59:49 four boats
2:59:50 and then the green necklace including
2:59:52 the creek corridor valley trail
2:59:54 acquisition
2:59:55 and tibbetts creek trail and rainier
2:59:57 trail we've got
3:00:02 11 votes
3:00:07 it is 12 35
3:00:09 i'm gonna wait on uh this ranking and
3:00:13 we're gonna say we have eight votes to
3:00:16 put on
3:00:18 the uh operation side to give mark a
3:00:21 chance to do that and then we'll come
3:00:22 back to kind of where we see the things
3:00:28 i think you said three
3:00:30 three three three three on one i i know
3:00:33 we're tight on time
3:00:35 don't worry about this so i i just i
3:00:37 just wanted to six months ago you know
3:00:39 we said public safety was going to be
3:00:41 one of our priorities for the year and
3:00:43 we don't have a lot
3:00:45 here we have a lot we also send human
3:00:47 services right public safety resources
3:00:48 we have a lot for human services we
3:00:50 don't have much on the public safety
3:00:52 side and although
3:00:54 you know the ipd and the chief and the
3:00:56 mayor's office has done an amazing job
3:00:58 in turning that ship around we still
3:01:00 have a lot to do i'm not saying that the
3:01:02 things that we have here are necessarily
3:01:03 the best i mean i like chris's
3:01:05 goal-oriented version of it i really
3:01:08 think um that we should that i would
3:01:11 like people to consider this uh
3:01:12 evaluation of the campus the ipd uh
3:01:16 officers have told me it's a good thing
3:01:18 civil libertarians think it's a good
3:01:19 thing it's very expensive it isn't
3:01:21 saying that we're going to do it but
3:01:22 it's it's saying we would you know
3:01:24 seriously ask the administration to
3:01:26 seriously look at it i think it would
3:01:27 send another signal um to the officers
3:01:30 that we are not done supporting them
3:01:32 that we get we are going to have an
3:01:34 ongoing support for them so that's funny
3:01:37 all right so i just want to say
3:01:39 additional things about the additional
3:01:41 housing resources
3:01:43 um again this is a really
3:01:46 important i think it's a root
3:01:48 one of those root causes that we need to
3:01:51 address
3:01:52 in terms of a whole range of issues in
3:01:53 our community
3:01:55 uh mayor paulie's comment about uh
3:01:57 housing authority i was reading a great
3:01:59 article about ellensburg little
3:02:01 ellensburg has a housing authority they
3:02:04 have invested in
3:02:05 affordable housing units and but we're
3:02:08 not there yet because we don't have the
3:02:11 data driving it we don't have the policy
3:02:13 in place
3:02:14 and all of that and so i would love to
3:02:16 see us have more personnel resources in
3:02:18 that area so i'm going to put my dots
3:02:21 there
3:02:22 no more than three so no more than three
3:02:26 i'm going to do a pitch for data
3:02:28 analysis capability because that's right
3:02:30 i look at almost everything up here and
3:02:32 if we do data analysis and we align to
3:02:34 that data analysis that we learn from
3:02:36 our data we're going to move the needle
3:02:37 in almost all of these so it's it's the
3:02:39 it's the great foundational activity
3:02:42 that i think will it's a gift it'll keep
3:02:44 on giving
3:02:46 okay can i ask what is sp
3:02:50 yes he wants the public state p.o
3:02:53 that's s cs3 let me check
3:03:06 [Applause]
3:03:09 okay so we need to write that down and
3:03:11 then also mmp policy 6.3 is
3:03:16 local transit
3:03:18 so we need to be able to
3:03:20 know what that is
3:03:24 um the mmp
3:03:28 policy next to that so
3:03:30 that's that and then um title 16 works
3:03:34 just want to make sure everybody knows
3:03:35 that building code different from title
3:03:38 18. and then let's see what else over
3:03:41 here might need
3:03:44 planning build update analysis increased
3:03:47 hours especially
3:03:50 additional nothing
3:03:51 um body cams and
3:03:53 accelerate i cap new solid waste runway
3:03:57 okay do all of those what
3:04:00 what do we got did you read
3:04:01 body cams over there yeah flying
3:04:04 oh we've got those twice so yeah well we
3:04:07 said we wanted body cam separate from
3:04:09 the oh yeah so
3:04:11 just pick that one scratch out that and
3:04:13 then stretch out body cameras
3:04:17 great
3:04:18 what was the other other
3:04:20 one so there's one more that needed
3:04:23 oh just title 16 i just want to make
3:04:26 that's building
3:04:28 code but that's fine
3:04:40 okay how are we feeling eight dots yeah
3:04:44 ready set go up
3:04:50 [Music]
3:05:29 [Music]
3:05:30 yes we should have one over there that
3:05:33 is the mmp
3:05:36 for locals
3:05:43 a surprise
3:05:54 that's the local
3:05:56 um transit
3:05:58 here where's the green pen
3:06:01 here yeah which one's that uh
3:06:03 and then see policy 6.3 is
3:06:07 yeah is the underserved neighborhoods
3:06:09 yeah transit neighborhood transit is
3:06:12 transpose staff different from transport
3:06:15 demand manager yes transportation staff
3:06:17 is for capital projects
3:06:20 and such
3:06:21 transportation demand manager is about
3:06:23 communication
3:06:26 alternative modes okay thank you
3:06:39 [Music]
3:06:51 yeah this is a lot easier doing it first
3:06:53 than we tried to do last year online oh
3:06:55 yeah yeah
3:06:57 it's just more fun
3:07:06 [Music]
3:07:21 so hard
3:07:35 you know if you're gonna add something
3:07:37 you have to take something out all right
3:07:40 it's not gonna be so much
3:07:43 [Music]
3:08:03 so if the orange dots are up i see
3:08:17 before
3:08:18 she heads out
3:08:23 i can program
3:08:25 yes you can photograph them
3:08:31 okay so i'm just gonna read them out so
3:08:34 that we have them on record as well and
3:08:37 then before bart gets out of here so for
3:08:40 the operations side we have tod the
3:08:44 transit oriented development no votes
3:08:47 title 16 building code no votes
3:08:50 community engagement one vote
3:08:52 master mobility plan policy 6.3
3:08:55 neighborhood transit three votes
3:08:57 additional transportation staff no votes
3:09:00 spse one business recruitment study one
3:09:04 spcs three body cams four votes
3:09:08 24 7 behavioral support two votes civic
3:09:11 engagement one vote
3:09:14 transportation demand manager one vote
3:09:16 increased human services grant money two
3:09:19 votes
3:09:20 title 18 whiteboard
3:09:23 seven votes
3:09:24 human services pilot example
3:09:34 urban forest management five votes
3:09:36 reduced property crime or vote
3:09:41 i was going to read these off and then
3:09:42 give you just a chance to summarize
3:09:44 anything if you feel like you need or
3:09:46 are you out of here okay
3:09:48 okay fantastic here we go um
3:09:50 community planning one vote
3:09:53 increase hours of equity training no
3:09:55 votes build out data analysis
3:09:59 six votes
3:10:00 master facilities planning
3:10:03 for votes transit master plan two votes
3:10:07 additional housing resources five votes
3:10:11 spcs three non-lethal tools two votes
3:10:15 accelerate icap four votes and new solid
3:10:18 waste runway zero votes
3:10:21 okay so
3:10:23 we will obviously take pictures of that
3:10:25 and have that included in the
3:10:28 um this is a great one thank you so much
3:10:32 we'll see you guys okay bye-bye
3:10:35 okay so the next part of this is really
3:10:38 about hey how do we
3:10:41 create
3:10:42 how do we decide what we want to create
3:10:44 as an output hypothesis and
3:10:47 where are those lines so there's a few
3:10:50 different ways that we can look at this
3:10:51 we can
3:10:53 give this just as it is to the
3:10:55 administration and to ourselves and use
3:10:59 the votes as just a
3:11:01 1 to 16 ranking type of thing
3:11:04 we can take it and develop buckets so a
3:11:09 bottom bucket with very little support a
3:11:11 little bucket with some support and
3:11:13 those top outlying
3:11:15 areas where we see a lot of support we
3:11:18 can just leave it in buckets or
3:11:21 we can decide hey we really want to be
3:11:24 strongly supportive of
3:11:26 two three four items for each of these
3:11:29 categories and be able to communicate
3:11:32 in a ranked order
3:11:35 to the administration and we might take
3:11:37 that top
3:11:38 bucket and really further say
3:11:42 okay between those we're going to take
3:11:44 what came rose to the top and be able to
3:11:48 this is the council's top priority um
3:11:51 beyond even what are out on the dots
3:11:55 i would like to suggest something in
3:11:58 that in previous years maybe an
3:11:59 adaptation suddenly worked in previous
3:12:01 years there was a time where what we
3:12:03 would do
3:12:04 is uh the council would ask for
3:12:06 something administration would come back
3:12:08 with a sort of a clarify clarification
3:12:11 sheet right and it's like okay this is
3:12:13 what we think we're hearing this is what
3:12:14 we think the effort is involved from a
3:12:16 budget standpoint so what i might what i
3:12:19 would suggest is that we consider having
3:12:21 a threshold and saying above that
3:12:23 threshold we ask the administration to
3:12:24 come back with a with a one pager on
3:12:27 each hypothetically we get that far
3:12:29 enough ahead of the budget process that
3:12:31 we could review it and if we had further
3:12:33 questions um we would arrive at budget
3:12:36 with those spec sheets in good shape so
3:12:38 that we could discuss whether it would
3:12:40 be a good or bad or a different thing
3:12:44 wally um i i don't know that you need to
3:12:48 put yourself through that pain
3:12:50 um from what i've heard
3:12:52 um you know is very consistent with the
3:12:55 administration's thinking nearly on
3:12:57 every topic
3:12:59 i think we're going to be able to
3:13:00 deliver most everything you're asking
3:13:04 i really just have one question in my
3:13:06 mind on prioritization and that's the
3:13:07 title 18 white board
3:13:09 um because there are lots of projects
3:13:12 there
3:13:13 they vary widely in cost and i think
3:13:15 those lend themselves to the kind of
3:13:16 analysis that council member marks was
3:13:18 just talking to
3:13:21 and so i i think the question for the
3:13:23 group council president this afternoon
3:13:25 is do you want to spend some time
3:13:28 talking about the title 18 projects now
3:13:30 should we put that on
3:13:32 for a
3:13:33 study session or a committee of the hole
3:13:35 rather
3:13:36 between now when the budget comes out
3:13:39 with that kind of here's our here's what
3:13:41 we're thinking is on the some of the
3:13:43 costs but the rest that you have put out
3:13:46 there
3:13:47 is very much in line with the
3:13:49 presentation that's in your packet of
3:13:51 the administration's priorities so we
3:13:53 think we can accomplish much of what
3:13:55 you've already identified
3:13:57 today without having further
3:13:59 prioritization
3:14:01 shorter
3:14:02 yeah i mean i i was predicating my
3:14:04 suggestion that the administration was
3:14:06 going to
3:14:07 want to at least uh you know try to
3:14:11 bound things or that there are things
3:14:13 here that you know they want to push
3:14:15 back on and if there's not then yeah you
3:14:17 need to do what you don't need to do
3:14:19 okay um zach before going to you i think
3:14:22 uh did you have something on the title
3:14:24 18 yeah well i think my
3:14:26 suggestion on that would be to have a
3:14:29 separate either committee a study
3:14:31 session or cookie at the bowl
3:14:33 because
3:14:34 i think it's
3:14:35 i think it would be helpful especially
3:14:38 i'm i'm in the clinical environment
3:14:40 committee so i've seen the whiteboard
3:14:42 we've discussed in that committee uh
3:14:45 recently but for other council members
3:14:47 and it would be helpful for them to have
3:14:48 some time to
3:14:50 process that list and look through it
3:14:52 and you know then then go into that
3:14:54 prepared um so that would be my
3:14:56 suggestion because i think that that's
3:14:58 more fair especially to the council
3:14:59 members that aren't in that committee
3:15:03 okay so
3:15:05 i didn't know that by the way i was
3:15:06 going to say that was a really good idea
3:15:08 that maybe we should pursue a committee
3:15:10 at the whole meeting on that topic
3:15:14 am going to advocate that
3:15:16 we do do some form of prioritization
3:15:19 whether or not we rank
3:15:21 might not be necessary i think we should
3:15:24 come out of this with our top two
3:15:27 capital priorities maybe our top three
3:15:30 operating priorities
3:15:32 ranked by the number of votes that they
3:15:34 have and maybe we can have a discussion
3:15:36 about that if they don't need to be
3:15:37 ranked maybe it's just this is our tier
3:15:39 one priorities for each and then um we
3:15:42 can include the list
3:15:44 of all the other votes kind of in an
3:15:46 attachment to that document but then we
3:15:47 have a really focused list heading into
3:15:49 budget development for the
3:15:51 administration but also for council to
3:15:53 say if we come out with with these um
3:15:59 some of them are really big like green
3:16:01 necklace in title 18 but if
3:16:03 we go into budget knowing that these are
3:16:05 our top priorities and we come out
3:16:06 satisfied then we will have you know had
3:16:08 a successful budget development season
3:16:10 um i think keeping it focused
3:16:13 um in short is also beneficial because
3:16:18 concerns with
3:16:20 inflation uh it's also our very first
3:16:22 two-year budget ever so i i think it
3:16:25 might be better to be more
3:16:28 conservative in that approach and then
3:16:29 also as uh city administrative was
3:16:31 pointed out the other day by email
3:16:33 we have a lot of labor agreements that
3:16:35 will be coming up that i think we need
3:16:37 to be
3:16:38 mindful of as well so i would i would
3:16:41 suggest that we stay as focused as
3:16:43 possible on our lists and come out with
3:16:46 maybe top two capital top three
3:16:48 operating um and go into budget season
3:16:52 with that document held high um
3:16:54 going forward thanks
3:16:56 to the administrator
3:17:00 no i'm sorry i just left my camera on um
3:17:03 we can we can certainly uh do that i i
3:17:06 guess my my message is is that we can
3:17:08 give you probably more than your top two
3:17:10 or three um but if you feel from a
3:17:13 policy direction that you'd like to do
3:17:15 that certainly by all means but i think
3:17:19 nothing i've heard today is
3:17:21 not really
3:17:22 going against anything we haven't
3:17:24 already modeled
3:17:26 so but whatever the council's pleasure
3:17:32 yes and then
3:17:33 okay so um that's great i mean that's
3:17:36 great to hear you've already said that
3:17:37 so then i guess the question for council
3:17:39 is if we go with top two or top three it
3:17:42 might be
3:17:44 you know thought as also makers that we
3:17:46 want additional investment than whatever
3:17:48 the proposal is in those ones and
3:17:50 because those are our top priorities we
3:17:52 might need to move buckets around and
3:17:54 prioritize a specific priority but um
3:17:58 i don't necessarily think
3:18:00 that's direction we need to go but maybe
3:18:02 that's a conversation we can have along
3:18:03 this process
3:18:04 well you know and i think that some some
3:18:06 cities
3:18:08 might have to do that but i don't think
3:18:10 that we do i mean i think that the
3:18:12 council and the administration are
3:18:14 working very collaboratively um
3:18:16 you know i i don't know i mean
3:18:19 i don't know that the community is
3:18:21 looking for something different i think
3:18:22 the community is just looking to get it
3:18:25 the projects that are the priorities the
3:18:27 operational initiatives so
3:18:30 you know i i think the council's been
3:18:32 very loud and clear today
3:18:34 about what you want to see done
3:18:36 many of the projects especially on the
3:18:38 capital side you were loud and clear
3:18:39 last year on um so
3:18:42 they're already in the pipeline um
3:18:45 so i really think it's a function of
3:18:46 time council president of how much more
3:18:49 time you'd like to further refine what
3:18:51 you've already identified as priorities
3:18:57 okay russell i would support uh
3:19:00 deputy president council member
3:19:04 all comments i i would like us to do
3:19:07 three at the top
3:19:08 just for a couple reasons one
3:19:11 we're unsure what the pandemic is going
3:19:12 to bring and if we end up having
3:19:15 a new wave we know that at least we're
3:19:18 going to shoot for these three if
3:19:20 something else happens it kind of gives
3:19:21 us a little bit of a focus also around
3:19:24 the community talking about what we're
3:19:25 doing
3:19:26 it's hard for us to talk about seven or
3:19:28 eight projects but it's easy for us to
3:19:29 talk about the top three that we're
3:19:31 focused on and so people can hold this
3:19:33 accountable people can hold the
3:19:34 administration accountable for what
3:19:36 we're saying we're going to do and then
3:19:38 getting it done if we get more than that
3:19:42 at the end of the year that's kudos to
3:19:43 us and that gives us extra talking
3:19:45 points but at least the community knows
3:19:47 exactly what we're trying to focus on
3:19:48 and what we're going for and getting it
3:19:50 done so there's a communication aspect
3:19:52 to it as well now the administration can
3:19:53 get all those things done that's that's
3:19:55 fantastic and that gives us bragging
3:19:57 rights but focusing on the top three or
3:19:59 four or whatever number we choose just
3:20:01 helps us kind of
3:20:04 focus the conversation
3:20:05 with the community when we're out there
3:20:07 talking and gives you both sides the
3:20:09 administration and the council uh the
3:20:12 the accountability that we need as
3:20:14 elected and um guardians of the city so
3:20:17 to speak
3:20:19 okay i might
3:20:21 so when i'm looking through
3:20:23 this list um
3:20:25 i think capitals really easy to kind of
3:20:28 bucket if i'm looking at it we have two
3:20:30 that stand out
3:20:32 with 11 and eight votes
3:20:35 which is the green necklace and the
3:20:37 northwest manish pinch point
3:20:39 the next number of votes underneath that
3:20:42 is four folks so i think we can very
3:20:46 clearly say those are top two priorities
3:20:49 and then we've got a grouping in there
3:20:52 of eight other priorities that are
3:20:54 between two and four votes and then six
3:20:58 priorities with no votes
3:21:02 do we feel like we need to take
3:21:05 northwest spanish and green necklace and
3:21:09 rank those or do we feel good with those
3:21:12 three sets of buckets victoria
3:21:14 uh well i was just gonna
3:21:16 say earlier so the ones that didn't get
3:21:18 any votes they were originally on
3:21:20 someone's yes of your priority so
3:21:22 they're they're still important to us
3:21:24 they're just the lowest ranked ones but
3:21:27 no votes doesn't mean that somebody
3:21:29 didn't
3:21:30 choose it initially
3:21:32 um and then on your question
3:21:37 they're so they're different because the
3:21:39 pinch point is already in the pipeline
3:21:42 and so i think um supporting that is is
3:21:45 different and that was one of our top
3:21:46 priorities last year as well so the one
3:21:48 that kind of is the
3:21:50 emerging new priority great necklace but
3:21:52 that puts them on different
3:21:54 planes i think so i don't know that we
3:21:56 need to bring them they're just
3:21:57 different
3:21:58 both important but different
3:22:02 so i would say i like your grouping
3:22:04 basically i think that's enough okay
3:22:06 anybody think we need to do more than
3:22:09 i mean i might suggest that
3:22:12 i'm probably coming out of this meeting
3:22:14 with what wally said feeling uh excited
3:22:17 and sort of expecting to see something
3:22:19 related to the stuff that's between two
3:22:21 and four and so if if there's things
3:22:23 that are in the two to four range that
3:22:24 you all don't intend to present in the
3:22:26 budget it would be great to hear that
3:22:27 ahead of time
3:22:29 yeah we could break
3:22:30 or we could yeah just have a
3:22:32 conversation
3:22:35 yeah okay does that sound good to the
3:22:38 administration to look over that
3:22:40 mid-tier list of two to four and
3:22:43 if it's not something that you feel you
3:22:45 can accomplish being able to explain and
3:22:49 we can have dialogue about
3:22:52 certainly you know i think i think the
3:22:54 green necklace
3:22:56 project's always a challenge because
3:22:59 there's property acquisition involved
3:23:01 and so you know we're going to have to
3:23:03 come up with a
3:23:05 a process
3:23:07 that one we have staff to aggressively
3:23:10 go after property which perhaps is not
3:23:12 for sale
3:23:14 as well as have proceeds to purchase um
3:23:18 and so i think that's
3:23:19 you know one of one of the questions
3:23:21 ultimately for the council will be what
3:23:23 what is the bucket of funds for proceeds
3:23:25 to purchase
3:23:28 you know we every time a property has
3:23:30 become available we've had money because
3:23:31 we have been putting money aside uh that
3:23:34 hasn't been an issue and so if the
3:23:35 council is requesting that the
3:23:37 administration accelerate that process
3:23:40 um so the devil gets in the details of
3:23:43 you know how do you encourage sellers to
3:23:46 uh and do it in a uh economical way so
3:23:51 we'll take on the challenge as you all
3:23:53 are aware we've already indicated um
3:23:55 through the capital financing work uh
3:23:58 desire to put some additional energy to
3:24:01 this so i i think i think we're going to
3:24:03 be fine with that um
3:24:06 something else that i i think everything
3:24:08 else that's on the list and autumn
3:24:10 andrea robert please correct me if i'm
3:24:12 wrong
3:24:13 is otherwise
3:24:14 in our plans to work on
3:24:18 you know unless there's a council
3:24:20 direction to wildly accelerate that
3:24:23 which i'm not hearing
3:24:24 those projects will continue to move
3:24:26 forward
3:24:27 anyone in the room staff please correct
3:24:29 me if i'm misstating that
3:24:32 no i think wally that's exactly correct
3:24:35 and i think based on that idea of green
3:24:38 necklace requires acquisition also
3:24:40 requires
3:24:41 trail creation and other things that
3:24:45 maybe by that being on the capital list
3:24:48 we're saying yes we need to allocate
3:24:51 money to acquisitions and trail creation
3:24:53 but it also sounds like maybe we need to
3:24:55 have a strategic conversation or
3:24:58 like have some prioritization around
3:25:01 where is it most important to do the
3:25:04 acquisition and
3:25:05 how can we do so in a feasible way well
3:25:08 and it's and it's a staffing issue too
3:25:11 because who's who's working these
3:25:13 projects right now we we had before the
3:25:15 pandemic two uh park planners uh we are
3:25:19 down to one park planner um as we look
3:25:22 at being able to
3:25:23 do this will there be a staffing
3:25:25 component as well i mean i think i think
3:25:27 the administration has plenty of of good
3:25:30 feedback from the council today again
3:25:32 these are all things we've been thinking
3:25:33 about anyway
3:25:35 i think we'll be able to put together a
3:25:36 budget that meets the council's needs
3:25:39 okay so do we feel good on the capital
3:25:42 side of giving those three buckets with
3:25:44 the direction of if something is in that
3:25:47 mid bucket and it isn't going to be in
3:25:49 the budget we want to hear about it and
3:25:51 have an early conversation
3:25:53 yes okay
3:25:55 operations is more difficult um
3:25:58 i think of the 24 we've got five that
3:26:03 votes of priority we've got another 11
3:26:06 that have one to two so that gives us
3:26:09 our bottom two thirds
3:26:12 maybe
3:26:13 but then we've got two other
3:26:15 potential buckets
3:26:17 we've got a top tier and we'll have to
3:26:20 figure out where we want to leave that
3:26:22 we've got one with seven votes one with
3:26:24 six votes and two with five votes so if
3:26:27 we took that as the top tier that would
3:26:29 end up with four at that top but then
3:26:33 we've got another
3:26:36 with four votes
3:26:38 and one with three books that almost
3:26:40 indicates that maybe there's
3:26:42 four tiers
3:26:44 or something so let me see if i can read
3:26:47 off um these top areas so with seven
3:26:50 votes we've got the title 18 white board
3:26:54 with six votes we've got the data
3:26:56 analysis
3:26:58 and tied with five votes we've got urban
3:27:00 forest management and additional housing
3:27:02 resources so it's possible that's a top
3:27:05 tier but then we also have with four
3:27:08 votes
3:27:09 accelerate the icap
3:27:11 facilities master plan
3:27:13 uh reduced property crime and body
3:27:16 cameras
3:27:19 yeah what is with three was the
3:27:22 neighborhood transit
3:27:25 so i could get it worked the same way
3:27:27 that it did with capital where the top
3:27:29 four get special attention
3:27:31 and the the ones that had three or four
3:27:33 votes again if the administration isn't
3:27:36 intending to uh come forward with the
3:27:38 proposal and budget time talked ahead of
3:27:40 that to understand
3:27:44 but do we feel like that three level is
3:27:46 the right area
3:27:48 um versus going down to two i think
3:27:51 there's one two three four five that
3:27:54 have two so that feels like it would
3:27:55 make the bucket too big
3:27:57 so the top tier would be four
3:28:00 items and the next tier would be five
3:28:03 items
3:28:04 that feel
3:28:05 comfortable
3:28:07 thumbs up
3:28:14 um within that top tier since they're
3:28:18 all very close together with seven votes
3:28:21 six five and five do we feel like we
3:28:23 need to do any kind of additional
3:28:25 ranking or is grouping those in with the
3:28:28 idea that they have six seven six five
3:28:31 does that make us feel comfortable
3:28:34 you know what i like about those four
3:28:35 things if you look at them they're all
3:28:37 very different
3:28:38 they're you know so i like two they're
3:28:40 kind of like adjacent so i kind of you
3:28:42 know i kind of think they are you could
3:28:45 put them at the same
3:28:47 same level
3:28:48 you know even though they broke just
3:28:49 slightly differently but they all looked
3:28:56 um so the pr the practical problem with
3:28:59 these four
3:29:00 uh really go back to title 18 because
3:29:03 that list could be worth two hundred
3:29:05 thousand dollars or it could be worth
3:29:07 two million dollars
3:29:08 uh based on how many projects off that
3:29:11 list you want to do
3:29:12 in whatever interval you want to do them
3:29:14 in um the the data analytics is likely
3:29:18 at fte or a portion of an fte so that's
3:29:21 a modest cost
3:29:23 the urban forestry
3:29:25 the administration really feels this is
3:29:27 extremely important we've been working
3:29:29 on models there
3:29:30 and that is also probably an fte um the
3:29:34 housing
3:29:35 we're also trying to sort through that
3:29:37 and that is probably
3:29:40 consultant costs or a portion of an fte
3:29:43 those three
3:29:45 combined you know are
3:29:49 you know two hundred thousand dollars
3:29:50 let's say uh or the title 18
3:29:54 uh blackboard whiteboard one project
3:29:56 could be more than that i don't know
3:29:58 that we are looked at really any of the
3:30:00 projects that are under 200 000 we've
3:30:02 started costing some of them um and
3:30:05 andrea i i don't know if you have any
3:30:07 recollection but certainly the ones
3:30:09 we've costed it seems like 250 was
3:30:12 perhaps the lowest amount i've heard as
3:30:15 we've done some preliminary costing so
3:30:17 the bottom the
3:30:19 the next three could be as much as one
3:30:22 project on the title 18 white board so i
3:30:25 think that's going to be the question
3:30:27 for the council and maybe again it's not
3:30:29 one that needs to be solved today
3:30:31 but it'll become a cash issue
3:30:33 the other issue too is that the data
3:30:36 analysts the urban forestry and the
3:30:37 housing are likely ongoing costs where
3:30:40 the title 18 is going to be one time
3:30:43 mostly so
3:30:46 you know we we're happy to noodle
3:30:47 through this if the council wants to
3:30:48 provide additional direction or priority
3:30:51 that's helpful of course
3:30:52 um but
3:30:54 that's what makes that group of four
3:30:55 harder the the next group um
3:30:58 kind of are all the same kind of bucket
3:31:00 of lower costs generally um you know we
3:31:04 can sort through that as well but uh you
3:31:06 know those those first four become
3:31:08 problematic just from a dollars and
3:31:09 cents
3:31:11 happy no surprise to hear you put body
3:31:14 cams in the low-cost bucket
3:31:16 well it's an evaluation of body cams
3:31:18 well that's true
3:31:20 it's an evaluation of the big things
3:31:22 body cameras are not as expensive as
3:31:24 they used to be uh we we already the
3:31:27 administration was already planning on
3:31:29 coming forward with us
3:31:31 we know it's at least a two year project
3:31:34 that we would not be able to implement
3:31:36 in 23 so that the dollars would likely
3:31:38 be at 24. we would be able to do the 23
3:31:41 part with existing staff
3:31:44 thank you i'm happy
3:31:46 i'm stopping it yes
3:31:48 so wally what i'm hearing in some cases
3:31:51 is maybe we were a little bit too
3:31:53 conservative and a little bit too cheap
3:31:55 but we should have gone for more
3:31:57 is kind of what i'm hearing
3:32:00 no no no no not at all i think again
3:32:04 you know
3:32:06 all kidding aside uh that the
3:32:08 administration and the council
3:32:10 is on the same page because we're all
3:32:12 we're playing off of the same hymnals
3:32:15 the strategic plan the master mobility
3:32:17 plan uh the icap you know we're all
3:32:21 reading the same documents and so that
3:32:23 the administration and the council are
3:32:25 like you know very much in the same
3:32:26 place
3:32:27 is that we're listening to the community
3:32:29 that we're listening to these boards
3:32:31 that are working so incredibly hard
3:32:33 um we're ending up more or less in the
3:32:35 same place
3:32:36 again dollars or dollars inflation's
3:32:38 inflation um but i think it's great
3:32:41 then and a lot of communities around us
3:32:44 can't say the same thing
3:32:47 um i just want to add on to
3:32:49 i think a very good point that wally
3:32:51 made many of you know my
3:32:54 my interest in town has been land use
3:32:56 for 30 years right so this title 18
3:32:58 project is huge to me and i do think
3:33:01 your big budget conversation is going to
3:33:04 be how much or how little or how fast
3:33:06 you're going to get through that
3:33:07 whiteboard
3:33:08 that's that's the big i think that's the
3:33:10 big piece you guys need to talk more
3:33:12 about at some point not today but at
3:33:13 some point because
3:33:15 you know it'd be sure nice before my
3:33:17 term ended you got through the whole
3:33:18 whiteboard but that's just me
3:33:21 but there's a lot of good stuff on there
3:33:22 and you guys have to decide what kind of
3:33:24 bike you want to take and then we have
3:33:25 to figure out if we can support that
3:33:27 so toward that idea what i was gonna say
3:33:30 continuing on what i heard from wally is
3:33:34 it sounds like we are going to need to
3:33:36 have another conversation about what
3:33:38 that title 18 whiteboard
3:33:41 list is and so does the council feel
3:33:44 like doing that in a
3:33:47 counsel the whole is a good idea does it
3:33:50 need to start with the pde and then move
3:33:54 on does the timing have to be it has to
3:33:57 happen before budget season
3:33:59 is all of that
3:34:00 right
3:34:03 well we're in budget season
3:34:07 it's july
3:34:10 no no no no
3:34:14 yeah i was gonna say i think going to a
3:34:16 committee the whole is fine because it
3:34:17 is a budget discussion and what i was
3:34:19 going to say was i really liked how
3:34:21 wally was talking about this and i think
3:34:24 it's okay for us to do
3:34:27 structure of the list kind of as we were
3:34:28 describing it um with the seven votes
3:34:30 six votes and five votes all being in
3:34:32 one category recognizing that title 18
3:34:35 has this asterisk next to it right now
3:34:38 and that we have this upcoming
3:34:39 conversation about what can we get
3:34:41 accomplished in the biennium from the
3:34:42 white board and then that will be in
3:34:45 place of title 18. that's what that will
3:34:47 mean not all of the title 18 whiteboards
3:34:49 so i think as long as all of councils is
3:34:52 in agreement on that which looks like
3:34:54 there's some nodding um then i'm okay
3:34:56 with that kind of list structure
3:35:02 anything else
3:35:04 so it sounds like
3:35:06 we've come up with this idea that there
3:35:08 are buckets and for operation and
3:35:11 capital that top bucket which is either
3:35:14 two or four projects respectively
3:35:18 just think our super priorities have to
3:35:21 be a budget the next set we are
3:35:24 asking for and saying hey if they're not
3:35:28 able to be because you guys know the
3:35:29 budget realities then let's talk through
3:35:32 what that is there's a few things in
3:35:34 each of the areas that might need more
3:35:36 conversation to get down to specifics on
3:35:40 what it means for the green necklace and
3:35:43 kind of how we approach the strategy for
3:35:44 that also on title 18 with the white
3:35:47 board
3:35:48 what is in scope on that what can we
3:35:50 accomplish in this budget cycle versus
3:35:52 future
3:35:53 um and how we have a conversation with
3:35:56 that with the
3:35:57 larger council
3:36:00 hey guys we're early
3:36:02 that's okay
3:36:06 we love this okay so at this point we
3:36:09 have the potential for a 10-minute break
3:36:12 followed by
3:36:13 the 20 minutes of the administration
3:36:15 budget priorities some
3:36:17 opportunity for q2 reports and public
3:36:20 comment
3:36:21 so keep it on keep going roll on
3:36:24 and you know people can get up as needed
3:36:28 we will roll on to
3:36:30 administration budget priorities
3:36:33 is that something wally's going to do
3:36:38 chris if you could put up the powerpoint
3:36:40 so i can see it too
3:36:48 just one moment
3:37:03 so i'll i'll make this quick because
3:37:05 most everything on here is something
3:37:06 we've talked about next slide
3:37:11 here are the seven buckets we came up
3:37:13 with uh next slide
3:37:19 we haven't talked a lot today about
3:37:20 staffing um
3:37:22 you know we we have in the last two
3:37:24 years probably gone through
3:37:27 you know two thirds to three quarters of
3:37:30 staff turnover and so for an
3:37:31 organization of about 250 people to
3:37:34 think that we have hired
3:37:36 you know over 150 new staff and though
3:37:39 that period is a daunting
3:37:42 large issue and it continues to have
3:37:44 impacts on everything we do
3:37:46 um and so as we look about look at the
3:37:49 budget moving forward you know
3:37:52 not only our fiscal health but staffing
3:37:53 issues are really important um
3:37:56 inflation we've talked about uh 10.1
3:38:00 as we go to the bargaining table uh that
3:38:02 number the june 30 inflation number is
3:38:04 the number we start bargaining with and
3:38:06 so where we've had two percent and three
3:38:08 percent increases in our contracts we
3:38:11 are now at least at the bargaining table
3:38:13 going to be starting with 10.1 percent
3:38:15 that's a huge huge hit to our budget um
3:38:19 every um percentage of payroll is about
3:38:23 200 250 000 robert
3:38:26 is that
3:38:27 in the ballpark um so that 10
3:38:30 potentially means 2 million
3:38:33 so that is something we need to continue
3:38:35 to be mindful of um
3:38:37 you know not only that we are seeing the
3:38:40 need to make adjustments on full-time uh
3:38:42 staff pay on a classification by
3:38:45 classification basis as we've gone out
3:38:47 to hire people that's going to continue
3:38:49 we have not come to grips completely
3:38:51 with all the costs associated with
3:38:53 part-time staff and so we've made
3:38:55 adjustments there we'll continue to make
3:38:57 adjustments uh on the fiscal side uh the
3:39:00 revenue stabilization we've already
3:39:02 talked to a little bit today and we'll
3:39:03 talk more we'll be coming to the council
3:39:05 next month with our mid-year budget and
3:39:09 revenue forecast so we'll leave the rest
3:39:10 of that discussion but clearly we're
3:39:12 still in the midst of seeing
3:39:14 stabilization there
3:39:16 and then the staffing stabilization
3:39:17 we've just had a recruitment and
3:39:19 retention
3:39:20 staff member in hr could come join us
3:39:23 in the last several weeks you know we're
3:39:25 going to have to continue to look at uh
3:39:26 the costs associated with recruitment
3:39:28 and retention and as we're building the
3:39:30 budget we're trying to make sure that
3:39:31 there is dollars available for that as
3:39:33 well next slide
3:39:36 apple improvement i don't know that
3:39:38 there's much else to say i think we've
3:39:39 talked about all of these points today
3:39:42 um let's just go to the next slide
3:39:46 police and human services uh again i
3:39:48 think we've covered that the performance
3:39:51 measurement piece uh appreciate the
3:39:53 council's interest in that and so we
3:39:55 will uh in the budget come back i think
3:39:57 with some adjustments on how we staffed
3:39:59 that we've also talked about the
3:40:01 homelessness issue the pilot and the
3:40:03 staffing resources required there next
3:40:05 slide
3:40:08 in the environment um
3:40:10 again i've covered that urban forest
3:40:12 management something that we've been
3:40:13 thinking of um and then the park
3:40:15 strategic plan update
3:40:18 i think we continue to struggle with
3:40:21 the time tempo of park planning
3:40:25 and so we're going to continue to invest
3:40:27 dollars in that as we move forward next
3:40:29 slide
3:40:33 we've covered all of this uh next slide
3:40:37 uh facilities uh again something that's
3:40:40 not really been
3:40:41 on the council's radar over the last
3:40:43 year or so
3:40:44 uh in the meantime we've been very uh
3:40:47 aggressive cleaning out city hall
3:40:48 northwest we've talked a little bit
3:40:50 about the report that's coming uh to
3:40:52 committee uh in the next week or two so
3:40:55 that's on our plate and on your
3:40:57 council's plate next slide
3:41:01 then citywide initiatives we have
3:41:03 another community survey coming up
3:41:05 next year so we'll need to budget for
3:41:07 we've talked about communications we've
3:41:09 talked a little bit about equity we're
3:41:11 going to need to continue to invest
3:41:12 resources in
3:41:14 having staff implement the equity
3:41:16 framework
3:41:17 and we've talked about the performance
3:41:18 measurement piece next slide
3:41:22 that's it i'm president happy to answer
3:41:24 any questions but as i said earlier
3:41:26 i think this conversation today really
3:41:28 echoes
3:41:29 uh that the council and the
3:41:30 administration are largely on the same
3:41:32 page of issues that are important in
3:41:34 this spot
3:41:37 um i have one comprehensive plan i know
3:41:41 that's coming up i haven't seen that in
3:41:44 any of our priority lists
3:41:46 are we looking at potentially needing
3:41:49 more staff or
3:41:50 that taking staff time away from some of
3:41:53 these priorities that we've established
3:41:56 and we'll be
3:41:58 here about that during the budget
3:42:00 presentation so that we understand that
3:42:03 we are staffed up for not only our
3:42:05 one time but our
3:42:06 other needs
3:42:10 and i think you'll hear about it with
3:42:11 the title 18 white board because the
3:42:13 nice folks that would worry about the
3:42:14 title 18 whiteboard the same folks have
3:42:16 to worry about account plan update
3:42:18 so um i think you'll hear about it in
3:42:21 that context
3:42:23 okay i'm thinking more of the staff and
3:42:27 commitment that's going to be needed i
3:42:30 you know i'm on the affordable housing
3:42:31 committee and other things and i'm
3:42:33 hearing regionally everybody's like comp
3:42:35 plan's going to be a big thing staff
3:42:38 isn't going to be able to do other
3:42:40 things and so
3:42:41 i want to be able to hear clearly from
3:42:44 the administration that when we're
3:42:46 looking at this budget cycle
3:42:48 we are aware and have considered that
3:42:51 and that it's not going to
3:42:55 these other priorities that we've
3:42:57 established i don't want to hear oh we
3:42:59 don't have staff for that
3:43:02 if it's
3:43:04 known thing coming up so
3:43:07 and and and the question back to the
3:43:08 council will be how aggressive on title
3:43:11 18 white board do you want to be
3:43:13 and depending on what the answer to that
3:43:14 question is is going to have an impact
3:43:16 on the resources we have for the comp
3:43:21 great let's have that conversation
3:43:23 because my answer is so aggressive
3:43:27 so looking forward to it and and then
3:43:30 and then it it comes down to how much
3:43:32 cash are we spending i mean it's
3:43:34 one-time dollars
3:43:36 we you know have one-time dollars to
3:43:38 allocate um
3:43:40 those would come from you know otherwise
3:43:42 we would likely spend them on capital
3:43:43 projects and so then you get to the list
3:43:46 of capital projects that weren't in your
3:43:48 top bucket um and then they'll that'll
3:43:50 compete with funding uh planning
3:43:53 consultants
3:43:56 um one thing i want everybody to
3:43:57 consider too especially since you're
3:43:59 hearing it at the regional level
3:44:01 is planners aren't
3:44:03 in abundance right now neither are
3:44:05 engineers and all cities are going to go
3:44:08 through this comprehensive plan update
3:44:10 so while getting the impact from the
3:44:12 council on how aggressive you want to be
3:44:14 we will have to go and do a reality
3:44:16 resource check to make sure that there
3:44:18 are consultants available for our title
3:44:20 18 just remember we're the only ones
3:44:23 with the title 18 white board nobody
3:44:25 else is doing what you're doing
3:44:27 which is to
3:44:28 build this new toolkit so we'll you know
3:44:31 let's talk about what you want to do and
3:44:33 then we have to do a resource reality
3:44:34 check and see because we don't want to
3:44:36 tell you that we can take on all these
3:44:38 contracts to do things when the
3:44:39 contractors are working on people's
3:44:41 comprehensive plan updates
3:44:43 so it's a we'll figure it all out after
3:44:45 you have your conversation about where
3:44:47 you guys want to land
3:44:51 and then um can we
3:44:54 robert can we pull up the slide that you
3:44:56 had on the budget
3:45:00 calendar yes i just want to kind of
3:45:03 close
3:45:04 with some of that idea on this budget
3:45:06 conversation so that
3:45:08 we are all aware of that i also like to
3:45:12 ask what is potentially different
3:45:16 in this budget cycle with you taking the
3:45:19 help on this and with it being a
3:45:21 biennium budget
3:45:23 what should we be aware of process-wise
3:45:26 and calendar-wise
3:45:28 that might be different from our
3:45:29 previous processes
3:45:33 you could probably answer it from last
3:45:34 year but yeah but i think i mean we're
3:45:36 really aiming first with the process you
3:45:38 know we tried to start a little bit it's
3:45:40 towards the end yeah we started a little
3:45:42 bit i think ahead of last year
3:45:45 i think stephanie's i'm just in a
3:45:46 different place
3:45:53 this year um
3:45:55 so we have started it and i know we have
3:45:58 adele was here susie so we have dale and
3:46:01 susie and myself working on the budget
3:46:03 this year so that's the difference
3:46:05 for previous
3:46:06 years i think again starting earlier
3:46:11 we have already gone actually we've
3:46:13 already gone through the request process
3:46:15 with staff already so we have the
3:46:18 the operating budget um
3:46:21 actually closing in about a week or so
3:46:22 with steps so we started really early we
3:46:24 already had a prioritization meeting
3:46:26 with senior leadership team
3:46:27 and wally and andrea so we've already
3:46:30 had that discussion
3:46:32 and so you know keeping on track we have
3:46:34 the august 8th is going to be
3:46:37 kind of deep dive forecast but again
3:46:40 like i said before there's a lot of
3:46:42 things that could change between now and
3:46:43 adoption you do have the ability to
3:46:45 change between our adoption so if we saw
3:46:47 a revenue drop say we're going to run
3:46:49 the increase before the end of the year
3:46:51 we can come back and make changes and we
3:46:53 don't like to make last minute changes
3:46:54 of course but again as long as the
3:46:56 budget's open if something fundamental
3:46:58 does change we're in a recession or some
3:47:00 other
3:47:02 other impact obviously we will have
3:47:05 that ability to go back during that time
3:47:07 so another thing i see on the calendar
3:47:10 is that we are taking the budget and
3:47:12 budget deliberations to each of the
3:47:14 committees so can you talk through what
3:47:17 that will be because that's obviously
3:47:19 different from any of our previous
3:47:21 processes is
3:47:23 yeah what what are you expecting as an
3:47:26 outcome of that that's different from
3:47:28 maybe say
3:47:30 going to committee of the whole because
3:47:33 it looks like
3:47:35 i'm seeing
3:47:37 only one committee
3:47:39 to committee of the whole
3:47:41 but only one for
3:47:44 deliberation and again that can be
3:47:47 extended so again we're
3:47:49 you know we're being pretty aggressive
3:47:51 on that back end schedule again we can
3:47:53 we can stretch that out if needed have
3:47:55 an additional meeting and actually
3:47:56 stretch out another council meeting
3:47:58 actually two council meetings maximum
3:48:00 so we could do that but as far as the
3:48:03 committee about the infrastructure
3:48:05 committee
3:48:06 and the services safety and parks that's
3:48:08 going to be really focused on capital
3:48:10 the capital requests
3:48:12 so if you need the whole really look at
3:48:14 the operating wise we've got the
3:48:15 executive budget of the other budgets
3:48:18 so those two would really be focused on
3:48:20 the capital discussion
3:48:22 so that's why we want
3:48:24 and that's the way we understand it of
3:48:26 course the council wants a different
3:48:28 format we're certainly open to it but
3:48:30 that's how we presented it so far we've
3:48:31 looked at the committees and said okay
3:48:33 but the capital was it does it fit with
3:48:35 the committee the whole or does it fit
3:48:37 the different components and so that's
3:48:38 what that was well it seems like pde
3:48:40 when you're looking at capital is
3:48:42 looking squarely at the green necklace
3:48:45 just as another
3:48:47 thought there
3:48:48 um but do any of the council members
3:48:51 have questions about that that all of
3:48:52 this is different from how we've handled
3:48:55 it previously because we didn't have
3:48:57 committees
3:48:58 um we did some of us
3:49:02 well i mean i think we did use this on
3:49:04 different pieces
3:49:06 yeah okay
3:49:08 feeling good about that any other
3:49:10 questions or thoughts about the budget
3:49:13 schedule or how we're going to handle
3:49:15 this as a two-year
3:49:17 process
3:49:19 nobody's as nervous about this as i
3:49:22 have one am question so i i would assume
3:49:25 you know we don't do the allergy the
3:49:27 reallocation in the mid year or the
3:49:30 middle of the two-year budget but at the
3:49:32 end of the two years if there were funds
3:49:35 that were unspent that you wanted to
3:49:38 reallocate to that same project
3:49:41 in the third year then that that would
3:49:42 be that reality yes
3:49:44 every authorization
3:49:48 as we go into a new two-year biannual
3:49:50 budget i'm wondering if
3:49:53 the administration has thought about
3:49:55 perhaps just putting out a brief blurb
3:49:56 about the changes in the budget how
3:49:59 community members or organizations can
3:50:01 contribute to that budget and maybe a
3:50:03 couple references both to this session's
3:50:05 recording in the previous session that
3:50:07 you did educating the council about the
3:50:10 budget process just because it's
3:50:12 different the public may have a regular
3:50:14 process if they're in terms of
3:50:15 requesting funding and now that's
3:50:17 changed we just need to know kind of how
3:50:18 the landscape has changed for their
3:50:20 proposals or their requests sure
3:50:24 okay i know on the calendar one thing
3:50:26 that i admitted that we have presented
3:50:28 before
3:50:29 was at some point
3:50:32 from september to october
3:50:34 we have
3:50:36 we have one public meeting so that's
3:50:38 also up to council if you don't have
3:50:39 more than one public meeting
3:50:42 the public hearings that we have as
3:50:44 requirements oh you're talking about
3:50:46 like outside okay
3:50:50 so something that's a community
3:50:52 engagement
3:50:54 ask questions provide feedback etc
3:50:58 okay and can i ask one question uh
3:51:01 that's president walsh just to clarify
3:51:03 you are okay and the council's okay with
3:51:06 the structure we have here in terms of
3:51:08 the committees where we're just bringing
3:51:10 for those community pieces we're just
3:51:11 bringing the capital we're operating
3:51:13 between
3:51:21 this is common practice for
3:51:23 communities that
3:51:24 have committees
3:51:25 how we use it
3:51:27 yeah i think the only thing you carved
3:51:28 out of the communities with the capital
3:51:30 because the capital pieces tend to be
3:51:32 there's they tend to be big
3:51:34 lots of details whereas the operating
3:51:36 budget can turn out as detailed
3:51:39 um i think the planning development and
3:51:40 environment committee just by its
3:51:53 i think that may close out the
3:51:55 administration budget priority we did
3:51:58 receive the q2 reports
3:52:01 the work plan and the capital project
3:52:05 open to questions
3:52:08 comments discussion anything
3:52:11 i thought it was staying straight
3:52:12 forward but really good information as
3:52:16 always if you have
3:52:18 questions when i ask you can email in
3:52:22 and we can continue on items like that
3:52:25 seeing no questions i will mark that one
3:52:28 down and then the last opportunity for
3:52:32 public comment do we have anybody on the
3:52:34 line nobody in person
3:52:40 and looks like anne just dropped off
3:52:44 no worries i'm sure we'll learn from her
3:52:50 gosh guys we have we have 30 minutes we
3:52:54 should just sit here and
3:52:55 [Music]
3:52:56 um i am going to then during the meeting
3:52:59 at 128 and thank everybody
3:53:08 staff

Attendance

Council / Members (7)
Barbara de Michele
Zach Hall
Victoria Hunt
Russell Joe
Tola Marts
Chris Reh
Lindsey Walsh, Designated Chair