City Council Committee of the Whole · Monday, November 18, 2024 · City Council Digest

3. AGENDA ITEMS

Comprehensive Plan Periodic Update COM 0040

60 min · Stephen Padua, Planning Manager · packet pp.5–448

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: hearing examiner · Jun 6, 2024 Environmental Board · Aug 14, 2024 Planning Policy Commission · Aug 22, 2024

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Staff report:

I. Draft Ordinance

Citywide Strategic Plan Update COM 0072

45 min · Dale Markey Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator · packet pp.449–550

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends that the City Council Committee of the Whole recommend the approval and adoption of the update to the Our Issaquah Strategic Plan.

2025-26 Budget: Deliberations COM 0039

30 min · Andrea Snyder, Deputy City Administrator · packet pp.551–653

Topics: Budget

▶ Watch from 1:55:52 Open packet at p.551 ↗

Staff report:

At the November 12, 2024 Council deliberations, City Council provided feedback on the budget and expressed interest in making adjustments to the proposed budget. The Administration proposes changes to the 2025-2026 draft budget in response to Council feedback for consideration. In addition to what is presented in the materials, the Administration anticipates additional

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0:06 ↗ welcome everyone I council president

0:08 ↗ Walsh call

0:10 ↗ the November it's Sor November November

0:14 ↗ 18th 2024 Committee of the whole meeting

0:17 ↗ to order at 6:31 p.m. as a reminder we

0:21 ↗ continue to have a remote aspect to our

0:23 ↗ meeting and so both staff and members of

0:25 ↗ the public may be participating in

0:27 ↗ tonight's meeting remotely via

0:31 ↗ there are multiple public comment

0:33 ↗ opportunities at tonight's meeting and

0:35 ↗ we have some lovely public uh members

0:38 ↗ here with us and online so there is

0:41 ↗ first a general public comment

0:42 ↗ opportunity at the beginning of the

0:44 ↗ meeting or if you want to wait through

0:46 ↗ the entire presentation kind of hear um

0:49 ↗ what's going on you can make comments

0:50 ↗ after the presentation and Council

0:52 ↗ question and answer period on any of

0:55 ↗ tonight's three agenda items so we'll

0:58 ↗ start with this general public com M uh

1:00 ↗ members of the public May address

1:02 ↗ council at this time in person or

1:04 ↗ virtually those who signed up in advance

1:07 ↗ to make comments will be called on first

1:09 ↗ if you're joining us virtually and would

1:11 ↗ like to make comments you're going to

1:13 ↗ look for the virtual hand if you're on

1:17 ↗ um a computer or smartphone look for

1:19 ↗ that hand icon or you can send the host

1:21 ↗ a chat message if you're on the phone

1:23 ↗ you can press star three if you're in

1:25 ↗ the room and didn't sign up we will ask

1:28 ↗ for speakers before closing that portion

1:30 ↗ of the meeting so I believe we have some

1:33 ↗ people signed up to speak so I'll just

1:35 ↗ move on to that portion you are invited

1:38 ↗ to address the council regarding matters

1:40 ↗ that are directly related to isqua

1:42 ↗ programs projects uh services or events

1:45 ↗ comments related to political campaigns

1:47 ↗ are not permitted please direct comments

1:50 ↗ to the whole Council and not individuals

1:53 ↗ while this is not a question and answer

1:55 ↗ session we will contact you to follow up

1:57 ↗ if needed when recognized if you're in

1:59 ↗ person you'll step up to the lecturn

2:01 ↗ press the button so that the microphone

2:04 ↗ shows up red or online um unmute your

2:07 ↗ microphone state your name address and

2:10 ↗ your relationship to the city speak

2:13 ↗ clearly and pause frequently and limit

2:15 ↗ your comments to 5 minutes there will be

2:17 ↗ a timer if you're attending virtually

2:19 ↗ and do not respond after your name or

2:21 ↗ phone number is called or if your

2:22 ↗ connection is lost unexpectedly the

2:24 ↗ meeting will need to proceed you are

2:26 ↗ encouraged to rejoin the meeting if able

2:29 ↗ personal attack suban language

2:31 ↗ derogatory remarks and disruptive

2:33 ↗ behavior will not be permitted so clerk

2:35 ↗ can you identify the first person who

2:37 ↗ has signed up to

2:39 ↗ speak sorry yes we have seven

2:42 ↗ individuals in the chambers here and two

2:45 ↗ uh virtual attendees indicating a desire

2:47 ↗ to speak so I'll assume you'll want to

2:49 ↗ speak at the top of the meeting here but

2:50 ↗ if you'd prefer to wait just let me know

2:52 ↗ and I'll skip over you so the first

2:54 ↗ person is Sharon Fus

3:08 ↗ in the short people position um thank

3:11 ↗ you all for the opportunity to speak I'm

3:13 ↗ the majority owner of art by fire down

3:16 ↗ here on front street where the glass

3:18 ↗ blowing studio um as many of you have

3:22 ↗ heard the starving artist thing it's

3:24 ↗ really true um we are a very small

3:28 ↗ business but both my husband and I also

3:31 ↗ still have our tech jobs to keep that

3:33 ↗ business open so we are very dependent

3:36 ↗ on the things that isqua provides in

3:39 ↗ order to keep our business open one of

3:42 ↗ the big things that has helped us is the

3:44 ↗ Downtown isqua

3:46 ↗ Association that extra foot traffic they

3:49 ↗ bring really helps our business to stay

3:52 ↗ running um so I am wanting to urge you

3:55 ↗ all to please give it what funding you

3:58 ↗ can and a especially take advantage of

4:01 ↗ that Main Street tax credit it's a great

4:04 ↗ way to stretch the city's budget and

4:07 ↗ make the dollars count as much as

4:09 ↗ possible um we have been in business

4:11 ↗ many years we've had many I've had kids

4:14 ↗ that have come to make Christmas

4:16 ↗ ornaments that are now adults bringing

4:18 ↗ their own kids um and we really love it

4:22 ↗ here when we were moving here we looked

4:25 ↗ all around the area and this quaint

4:27 ↗ downtown is What attracted us to by our

4:30 ↗ home in isqua and then we ended up

4:32 ↗ purchasing the business when the owners

4:35 ↗ retired um and we've often said that if

4:39 ↗ it was off in some industrial park or

4:40 ↗ something we wouldn't be at all

4:42 ↗ interested in having it it is that

4:45 ↗ downtown quaintness that's provided by

4:48 ↗ the flower baskets the events the artw

4:50 ↗ walks the wine walks and all the

4:52 ↗ different things that we that Dia

4:55 ↗ provides so um as much as we can we've

4:58 ↗ volunteered over the years art and I

5:00 ↗ have both been on their board at various

5:02 ↗ times um and you know even though we're

5:05 ↗ both working two jobs we try to make

5:07 ↗ time for it because it really does make

5:10 ↗ an impact both to our community and to

5:12 ↗ our business so thank you all for your

5:14 ↗ time I appreciate

5:16 ↗ it thanks Sharon and next art F art

5:30 ↗ good evening I'm here to to also speak

5:33 ↗ in support of you know the missions that

5:35 ↗ the city and Dia do together

5:38 ↗ and there's that emotional part that

5:41 ↗ Sharon talked about um we have families

5:44 ↗ that always do two Christmas trees and

5:46 ↗ the one Christmas tree is nothing but

5:48 ↗ ornaments they've made at the shop and

5:51 ↗ there's multiple families that do that

5:54 ↗ we've had everything

5:56 ↗ from Girl Scouts we have taught glass

5:59 ↗ flowing to uh a woman and her sister who

6:02 ↗ were blind we've had people who need you

6:06 ↗ know wheelchairs for assistance blow

6:09 ↗ glass it is a unique it is a special

6:13 ↗ thing that is frankly dying out in this

6:17 ↗ area a lot of glass Studios have gone

6:19 ↗ under particularly during the co time

6:23 ↗ frame what Dia and the city have brought

6:26 ↗ to us is an ability to reach out an

6:29 ↗ ability to have more financial resources

6:33 ↗ and

6:34 ↗ stability um when we have art walks or

6:37 ↗ when we have particularly isaad does

6:40 ↗ apples or you know the other

6:42 ↗ events we're pretty much guaranteed

6:45 ↗ anywhere from uh anywhere from 75%

6:49 ↗ greater Revenue those days or nights to

6:52 ↗ over 100%

6:53 ↗ Revenue um we've had Revenue during

6:56 ↗ esquad apples that has equal

7:00 ↗ and maybe a little more than our average

7:03 ↗ days at salm days so the impact our

7:07 ↗ business was huge the um streetery

7:11 ↗ during

7:13 ↗ covid and that kept us alive that gave

7:16 ↗ us a really you know a Lifeline that we

7:19 ↗ desperately needed because we were non

7:21 ↗ essential we were closed down for

7:23 ↗ months and it's it's a huge deal to shut

7:27 ↗ down a glass shop because it's 5 to 7

7:30 ↗ days when you shut down and it's 5 to 7

7:33 ↗ days to bring it back up otherwise the

7:35 ↗ furnace doesn't

7:36 ↗ live so really DIA has given us an

7:39 ↗ ability to reach out to so many more

7:41 ↗ people it's given us the ability

7:44 ↗ to give jobs to our staff we have you

7:49 ↗ know our full-time lead artist we have

7:53 ↗ two assistants we have another lead

7:56 ↗ glass blower we have an internet

7:58 ↗ salesperson

8:00 ↗ we're looking right now for a gallery

8:01 ↗ assistant but we also have a gallery

8:03 ↗ assistant these people have jobs these

8:07 ↗ people have more security because of the

8:10 ↗ help we get from the city and and

8:13 ↗ Via so anything you can do to you know

8:17 ↗ invigorate and help that mission is

8:21 ↗ really important to us it's important to

8:25 ↗ I don't really want to say customers

8:27 ↗ because so many of them are more like

8:28 ↗ friends it's important to our friends of

8:31 ↗ the shop and it's important you know to

8:34 ↗ us as you know stewards of something

8:37 ↗ that could go

8:38 ↗ away thank you very much have a good

8:42 ↗ evening thanks

8:44 ↗ art I'm sure there's going to be

8:46 ↗ somebody else coming after you I think

8:48 ↗ so uh who do we have next Kaye Jake

8:56 ↗ kayy hi my name is Kaylee Jake I'm the

8:59 ↗ executive director of the garage my

9:01 ↗ address is 2476 Southeast 30th Street

9:04 ↗ samamish

9:07 ↗ 98075 um so I just I have a couple

9:10 ↗ things that I wanted to say tonight and

9:12 ↗ one is I wanted to thank you all for

9:15 ↗ listening to the teens from the garage

9:18 ↗ um last time they spoke about Metroflex

9:20 ↗ this is a really important service um

9:23 ↗ that provides transportation for the

9:25 ↗ teens that come to the garage so that

9:27 ↗ they can swing by and

9:30 ↗ you know access anything from a cup of

9:31 ↗ coffee to meeting with their case

9:34 ↗ manager mental health therapist before

9:36 ↗ they go home or it also allows them to

9:39 ↗ come down before they go to their job so

9:42 ↗ and then we um we have teens that are

9:44 ↗ outside of our city but are able to

9:46 ↗ access us because of Metroflex so this

9:49 ↗ is just an amazing service that you all

9:51 ↗ have brought and I just want to thank

9:53 ↗ you for putting it back into the budget

9:55 ↗ for this next year and I also want to

9:58 ↗ thank you all

9:59 ↗ um a couple of you attended our

10:02 ↗ community event last week and I cannot

10:05 ↗ say how much that means to them um our

10:08 ↗ community event was on Civics and um

10:12 ↗ they had a lot of thoughts and

10:14 ↗ feelings um but to be heard from their

10:17 ↗ local city government um so for you all

10:20 ↗ to take that time is just really

10:23 ↗ impactful and I just want to thank you

10:25 ↗ for

10:27 ↗ that thanks Kaylee

10:30 ↗ and who's next on our sign up list Aaron

10:34 ↗ lery

10:41 ↗ Aaron hi everyone sorry I didn't know

10:44 ↗ that I had signed up but of course I

10:46 ↗ have things to say um Aon longi I am a

10:49 ↗ resident of Northbend Washington but a

10:52 ↗ longtime um worker in the nonprofit um

10:57 ↗ landscape in isqua it's the only place

10:59 ↗ I've worked in Washington it does feel

11:01 ↗ like my second home um echoing kayle's

11:04 ↗ thoughts um I want to thank the council

11:06 ↗ for I'm currently working at the garage

11:09 ↗ and I want to thank the council for

11:11 ↗ their time in consideration in thinking

11:14 ↗ through the Metroflex um Kaylee already

11:17 ↗ Illustrated why that's such an important

11:19 ↗ service we have a team um here today

11:22 ↗ who's going to do so I also want to

11:25 ↗ thank you all for your work on the

11:28 ↗ budget um this is a really hard

11:31 ↗ Enterprise it's thankless in many ways

11:34 ↗ um and Human Services appreciates the

11:38 ↗ time and consideration that you put into

11:41 ↗ your Partnerships in the in the

11:43 ↗ community it really means a lot um and

11:46 ↗ thank you for doing this hard work at a

11:48 ↗ less than optimal time thank you thanks

11:52 ↗ sarin and Tisha who's our next Simon

11:56 ↗ field Simon come on up

12:04 ↗ good evening um my name is Simon Fields

12:07 ↗ I am a resident of the city of samamish

12:09 ↗ um however I am um in isqua two to three

12:13 ↗ times a week um to visit the garage it

12:15 ↗ is a critical resource for teens such as

12:19 ↗ myself to access um like kayy said

12:22 ↗ anything from a cup of coffee to a case

12:24 ↗ manager um I am very thankful to city

12:28 ↗ council for for extending for renewing

12:30 ↗ the services provided by Metroflex um

12:33 ↗ that allow me often to get from the

12:35 ↗ plateau to here um to use those Services

12:39 ↗ um and I can only urge you to continue

12:42 ↗ to renew that so that teens that their

12:45 ↗ adults are busy or they don't have a car

12:47 ↗ or the bus is not working well um can be

12:50 ↗ able to access those Services thank you

12:53 ↗ very

12:53 ↗ much thanks Simon appreciate it and

12:58 ↗ Corby cast

12:59 ↗ Orby come on

13:04 ↗ up

13:06 ↗ again hi I'm Corby castler I'm the

13:08 ↗ executive director of The Downtown isqua

13:10 ↗ Association um I wanted to clarify some

13:14 ↗ things around what a Main Street

13:15 ↗ Community is I am Main Street our

13:18 ↗ businesses our hundreds of volunteers

13:20 ↗ are Main Street it's comprised of the

13:23 ↗ community so it's not an enti entity

13:25 ↗ that gets membership or derives any

13:27 ↗ benefit from outside funding funding our

13:29 ↗ funding comes from our tax credit

13:32 ↗ incentive program from the state it

13:34 ↗ comes from donations from businesses um

13:36 ↗ the city has availed itself of the tax

13:38 ↗ credit program as have a number of our

13:40 ↗ businesses so I just wanted to be clear

13:42 ↗ that DIA has been a Main Street

13:44 ↗ Community since its Inception nearly

13:46 ↗ since it Inception 30 years ago so if

13:49 ↗ you have any more Main Street questions

13:51 ↗ please contact me I want to thank the

13:53 ↗ city for rethinking the funding of Dia I

13:57 ↗ understand coming in that there was

13:58 ↗ going to be no funding for 2025 and it

14:01 ↗ since has changed I don't know the

14:02 ↗ details I haven't seen it yet I'll stay

14:04 ↗ for the meeting and learn more I really

14:07 ↗ appreciate it because I know there have

14:09 ↗ been some issues for the last 5 years

14:12 ↗ before my time and I just want to make

14:13 ↗ sure that we're moving forward not

14:16 ↗ looking back and making sure we're all

14:18 ↗ doing our best to serve our small

14:20 ↗ family-owned businesses it scares me the

14:23 ↗ thought of what happens to a downtown

14:25 ↗ when the lights are off and some of the

14:27 ↗ lights will be off literally the holiday

14:29 ↗ lights will be off and I know again I'm

14:32 ↗ so appreciative of the work that has to

14:34 ↗ be done with the budget I have to manage

14:36 ↗ my own budget I'm very cognizant of what

14:38 ↗ we need to do I just want to make sure

14:40 ↗ there are a couple things that we

14:42 ↗ consider when we consider the budget one

14:45 ↗ is the tax credit incentive program just

14:47 ↗ make sure that we are doing everything

14:49 ↗ we can to keep those monies in isqua 25

14:53 ↗ cents on the dollar if the city puts 25

14:57 ↗ cents from the operating fund into

14:59 ↗ budget 75 cents goes back to to the

15:03 ↗ Downtown isqua Association and those

15:05 ↗ small businesses rather than the utility

15:07 ↗ tax going back to Olympia I just want to

15:10 ↗ keep it local and that's what Main

15:12 ↗ Street intended when they created the

15:13 ↗ program the other thing is we can do

15:17 ↗ this and I know that we have some work

15:19 ↗ to do and the city and Dia need to come

15:22 ↗ together in a lot of ways and

15:24 ↗ collaborate we we can't do it alone

15:27 ↗ nobody can do this alone and with budget

15:29 ↗ cuts I think it's important for

15:31 ↗ governments to lean on nonprofits that's

15:34 ↗ what we're here for we can add the value

15:36 ↗ at very little cost we're all volunteers

15:39 ↗ I'm the only paid staff member so we do

15:42 ↗ it very leanly and cleanly we we want to

15:45 ↗ make sure that we stay agile we stay

15:47 ↗ responsive to the businesses and to all

15:49 ↗ of our stakeholders so please consider

15:52 ↗ the tax credit and Center program and

15:54 ↗ making sure that we keep those monies

15:56 ↗ here locally thank you thanks kby and

16:00 ↗ who else do we have signed up Barbara

16:01 ↗ Mayfield Barbara come on

16:06 ↗ up my name is Barbara Mayfield my name

16:09 ↗ is Barbara Mayfield I reside in

16:11 ↗ Northbend but I have family in the esqua

16:13 ↗ highlands and grandkids that attend

16:15 ↗ Grand rdge so I'm very familiar there

16:18 ↗ and I own a business in the Downtown

16:20 ↗ isqua Plaza I think it's that way so you

16:23 ↗ can practically see it from your

16:25 ↗ Chambers I moved into that uh spot from

16:30 ↗ Western isqua I was over in the the uh

16:34 ↗ Cascade Business Park I'm sorry uh

16:38 ↗ beforehand and moved in there in March

16:42 ↗ February March of

16:43 ↗ 2023 the very first day that I moved in

16:47 ↗ I went to a Dia general meeting annual

16:50 ↗ meeting down at uh the

16:53 ↗ sellers and I was so impressed by their

16:56 ↗ plans for activities throughout the

16:58 ↗ downtown Corps

16:59 ↗ that I just was amazed at what they

17:03 ↗ provided and wished I'd known what they

17:04 ↗ provided before I had signs made and

17:07 ↗ things like that because they do provide

17:10 ↗ networking for us downtown business

17:12 ↗ owners

17:14 ↗ uh during the summer months of 2023 I

17:18 ↗ hosted I was one of the hosts for the

17:21 ↗ wine walks and the amount of business

17:24 ↗ the amount of people that they brought

17:25 ↗ into my doors that would never have seen

17:27 ↗ me were a long arm quilting machine

17:30 ↗ showroom which is kind of a

17:33 ↗ unicorn there's not very many of us

17:35 ↗ around my business since I moved to

17:38 ↗ Downtown isqua Plaza has increased at

17:41 ↗ least

17:42 ↗ 25% over the other side of

17:45 ↗ isqua um and I'm very happy where I'm at

17:48 ↗ I would be sad to see the amount of

17:51 ↗ people that get to see what goes on in

17:54 ↗ downtown

17:55 ↗ isqua um be stopped because the activ

17:58 ↗ ities have to stop I do plead with you

18:02 ↗ to continue to fund DIA to the best

18:04 ↗ extent that you

18:06 ↗ can uh I support them myself

18:10 ↗ financially and I really would love to

18:13 ↗ see you be able to do that uh on behalf

18:16 ↗ of the businesses I plan to be here for

18:19 ↗ a full 10 years so thank you very much

18:22 ↗ for

18:23 ↗ listening thanks

18:25 ↗ Barbara and do we have anybody signed up

18:28 ↗ Rob Peters Rob come on

18:35 ↗ up thanks for uh your time um I own a uh

18:40 ↗ landscaping and Lighting Company my

18:42 ↗ company does the uh lighting for isqua

18:45 ↗ the last few years and we also do

18:46 ↗ Northbend and Fall City um I moved here

18:50 ↗ about 22 years ago and uh one of the

18:53 ↗ things we loved about the town when we

18:55 ↗ moved here was the uh hanging baskets my

18:57 ↗ wife loved it we were from Texas and

19:00 ↗ like you just can't get flowers to grow

19:02 ↗ like that um and she that was just the

19:04 ↗ most amazing thing she had ever seen and

19:06 ↗ you know I found out that Dia did that

19:08 ↗ and

19:09 ↗ um and uh I had a lighting business for

19:13 ↗ uh 35 years and I've always wanted to

19:16 ↗ get back and I was like why don't we

19:18 ↗ light this city it would just be so

19:21 ↗ beautiful and uh he reached out to me uh

19:25 ↗ we were able to make it happen and um

19:29 ↗ another thing is that

19:31 ↗ um you know when I work with Northbend

19:34 ↗ they have a a real Cooperative uh

19:36 ↗ relationship with the Chamber of

19:37 ↗ Commerce actually uh partner with

19:41 ↗ everything with them with their lighting

19:42 ↗ when they do that and it just doesn't

19:44 ↗ seem like it's the same with uh with the

19:46 ↗ uh in the city of isqua so I'm hoping

19:49 ↗ that that can get rectified and

19:53 ↗ um the uh I know that working with the

19:57 ↗ that uh every that they take they're

20:00 ↗ super super Frugal and with all the

20:03 ↗ volunteers uh I volunteer and do the

20:06 ↗ Shell station still uh we're going to do

20:08 ↗ it this year uh without Dia that

20:10 ↗ wouldn't happen so I just think it's

20:13 ↗ something that should be continued as

20:15 ↗ long as possible and if you can do what

20:17 ↗ you can to fund it that'd be great thank

20:19 ↗ you thanks Rob you have anybody else

20:23 ↗ signed up to

20:24 ↗ speak yes we have at least one virtual

20:28 ↗ attendee the first is Robert Lurch and

20:31 ↗ Robert I've just made you a panelist so

20:33 ↗ you should now see an option to unmute

20:35 ↗ and you can also choose to turn your

20:36 ↗ video on if you'd

20:40 ↗ like sorry was that for

20:42 ↗ me it sure was you're up yes thanks

20:45 ↗ awesome well good evening Council uh my

20:48 ↗ name is Robert Lurch and I am one of the

20:50 ↗ owners of pickles Playland uh we're a

20:53 ↗ Doggy Daycare located downtown we've

20:54 ↗ been down there for about a year and if

20:57 ↗ you've heard me speak before you'll know

20:58 ↗ that we have have three locations one in

21:00 ↗ Redmond one in Kirkland and like I said

21:01 ↗ the one in isqua and uh I lived in isqua

21:04 ↗ for 20 years both my kids graduated from

21:06 ↗ isqua high school and uh so I have this

21:10 ↗ big affinity for the community and I'm

21:13 ↗ here to speak about the DIA and its

21:15 ↗ impact on our business uh I've mentioned

21:18 ↗ before that even though we've been in

21:19 ↗ Kirkland and Redmond for better part of

21:21 ↗ six years we're not affiliated with any

21:23 ↗ of the programs or the the the

21:26 ↗ nonprofits in those communities but we

21:28 ↗ are all in Ona when I say we I mean my

21:31 ↗ my partner and I are both committee

21:33 ↗ members um we opened our doors to host

21:36 ↗ events and um the reason we're all in on

21:40 ↗ Dia is because DIA has been Allin on us

21:42 ↗ before we even signed our lease

21:45 ↗ Christina reached out to us and said

21:47 ↗ what can we do meaning DIA to make

21:51 ↗ introductions to give you resources to

21:54 ↗ help you with permitting and that's

21:55 ↗ something that that was revelatory we've

21:57 ↗ never experiened at least I've never

21:59 ↗ experienced that in my business

22:00 ↗ Community where I had somebody who

22:01 ↗ reached out to me that not looking for

22:03 ↗ money but just merely looking to help

22:05 ↗ and it wasn't just a platitude because

22:07 ↗ the minute we opened our doors Christina

22:09 ↗ was knocking on our door quite literally

22:10 ↗ to come in and saying okay what can we

22:12 ↗ do as far signage what do you need from

22:15 ↗ us and we've never had that support from

22:18 ↗ any other organizations uh not I'm not

22:20 ↗ going to try to throw chamber of commer

22:22 ↗ under the buser it's just an anomaly to

22:24 ↗ have somebody who cares in a in an

22:27 ↗ organization that cares that much for

22:29 ↗ the small businesses we really felt it

22:32 ↗ and give you a an example um I just

22:35 ↗ ended a social media campaign for our

22:37 ↗ isqu location so spent a $155,000 on a

22:40 ↗ social media expert did being searches

22:43 ↗ Google searches and I just finished it

22:46 ↗ and the net result was that I earned

22:50 ↗ five times more clients from D events

22:53 ↗ and I did for spending $155,000 on

22:55 ↗ Facebook ads and so that really and over

22:59 ↗ and above just the money it it's been um

23:02 ↗ it's a bit of um it's not even

23:04 ↗ hyperbolic to say that I've probably

23:05 ↗ spoken with a thousand residents in

23:08 ↗ downtown isqua by opening our doors up

23:11 ↗ to the wine walks to the art walks to

23:14 ↗ the um isago apples to all those events

23:18 ↗ we've met so many people in the

23:20 ↗ community who just want to come in and

23:21 ↗ chat about dogs or wine or whatever uh

23:25 ↗ truly feel like we're a part of the

23:26 ↗ community and that's indicative of the

23:29 ↗ impact that Dia had so much so that for

23:32 ↗ the last couple of months everyone in my

23:34 ↗ location has been collecting toys and um

23:38 ↗ and clothes for both humans and for dogs

23:41 ↗ so we were going to have uh the first

23:43 ↗ time ever we were going to put on and we

23:45 ↗ did just put it on last weekend a family

23:47 ↗ giving event and of course we held it in

23:50 ↗ issaqua so although we were collecting

23:52 ↗ toys and clothes and kirkin and Redmond

23:55 ↗ we distributed them in isqua and the

23:57 ↗ toys that that we have left over we're

23:59 ↗ donating to the issaqua food bank so

24:03 ↗ that's just a sort of a a minor uh

24:06 ↗ indication of our our our really our

24:10 ↗ warmth for the community and again that

24:12 ↗ has been part and parcel to the warmth

24:14 ↗ that DIA has has extended to us we've

24:17 ↗ only been there for a year although like

24:18 ↗ I said I've lived in isqua for 20 years

24:20 ↗ but again we feel closer and more tied

24:22 ↗ in to isqua than we do in any other

24:25 ↗ community and so one of the reasons

24:28 ↗ we're we're as successful we have been

24:31 ↗ is because we we know we have this

24:33 ↗ relationship that's bigger than us um

24:36 ↗ and the fact that we

24:38 ↗ are you know providing a service that

24:41 ↗ people award-winning service that people

24:43 ↗ like to the citizens of isqua the fact

24:46 ↗ that we're paying property tax and and

24:48 ↗ uh you know excise tax we're employing

24:51 ↗ people and doing things like this giving

24:54 ↗ uh uh bizaar that we had this weekend is

24:57 ↗ um really is in large part to our um our

25:00 ↗ relationship with Dia so again I know

25:03 ↗ your job is difficult I do every single

25:05 ↗ day I'm allocating resources amongst my

25:08 ↗ businesses and trying to make it sure

25:09 ↗ that we're successful uh but if you

25:12 ↗ please consider sort of the the the the

25:15 ↗ ancillary benefits supporting an

25:17 ↗ organization like Dia um in your

25:19 ↗ budgeting discussions um I would greatly

25:22 ↗ appreciate it thanks for your time

25:24 ↗ Council thank you

25:26 ↗ Robert and clerk to we have anyone else

25:29 ↗ indicating a desire to speak um

25:32 ↗ virtually I'm going to check in real

25:33 ↗ quick with Brian runberg I know he'd

25:35 ↗ like to make comments on the

25:36 ↗ comprehensive plan and let me see if

25:38 ↗ he'd like to do that now or later in the

25:41 ↗ meeting so Brian you've just been made a

25:43 ↗ panelist and would you like to make your

25:45 ↗ comments

25:48 ↗ now and we're having some trouble

25:50 ↗ hearing

25:54 ↗ you we can see you

26:01 ↗ still can't hear

26:09 ↗ you

26:15 ↗ no no nope you keep trying we appreciate

26:21 ↗ that yeah why don't we see if there's

26:23 ↗ anybody in the chamber or online that

26:25 ↗ wants to make a comment while you work

26:28 ↗ on your audio and we'll see if we can

26:29 ↗ check back in with

26:31 ↗ you um so I will just take a moment and

26:34 ↗ see if there's anybody on hand um that

26:38 ↗ has not spoken that would be interested

26:40 ↗ to

26:41 ↗ speak not seeing anybody in person I'll

26:45 ↗ just check in um there can you hear me

26:48 ↗ now yes we can great oh wonderful

26:51 ↗ wonderful thank you sorry about that um

26:54 ↗ thank you um I'm uh Brian runberg I'm

26:57 ↗ the principal the runberg architecture

26:59 ↗ group and um I also own the property at

27:02 ↗ 1085 Lake Drive formerly the Red Robin

27:06 ↗ over in Pickering uh Pickering place and

27:10 ↗ um I'm commenting tonight on the

27:12 ↗ comprehensive plan periodic update um we

27:16 ↗ as you are aware and and we've been went

27:19 ↗ through with the group here with uh the

27:21 ↗ Pioneer project status and I appreciate

27:24 ↗ appreciate that process um and we're

27:27 ↗ attempting to redevelop the

27:28 ↗ um into much needed mixed use multif

27:31 ↗ family housing in central

27:33 ↗ isqua um the central esqua vision is

27:37 ↗ defined as where people live work Play

27:40 ↗ and Learn however there's no living no

27:43 ↗ housing on the north side of the I90

27:45 ↗ within the urban core boundary and what

27:48 ↗ we're experiencing now there's there's

27:50 ↗ no there's current challenges we we're

27:53 ↗ experiencing in producing this housing

27:55 ↗ um due to a um

27:58 ↗ the code is overly prescriptive and has

28:01 ↗ inherent conflicts that haven't been

28:03 ↗ exposed or applied to the industry I

28:05 ↗ think we're the first project going

28:07 ↗ through second compounding that is

28:10 ↗ inflexibility there isn't um or does not

28:12 ↗ seem to be any mechanism within the code

28:15 ↗ to accommodate flexibility such as

28:18 ↗ alternative equivalent path to meet the

28:20 ↗ intent of the code where what we usually

28:23 ↗ experience in in most cities

28:24 ↗ administrative departures or director

28:27 ↗ decisions

28:28 ↗ um the only path available for a

28:30 ↗ majority land use code in isqua

28:32 ↗ currently is a variance process uh which

28:35 ↗ the staff does not feel empowered to

28:38 ↗ deploy even when situations meet the

28:40 ↗ variance

28:42 ↗ criteria um we feel the the

28:44 ↗ comprehensive plan is the right vehicle

28:46 ↗ to establish the policy intent to allow

28:48 ↗ code flexibility and an off-ramp for

28:51 ↗ some of the

28:52 ↗ city's uh overly prescriptive design

28:54 ↗ standards that conflict um with the

28:57 ↗ inherent over all comp plan policies and

28:59 ↗ I'll give you one example we have dozens

29:01 ↗ and dozens of them that we've uncovered

29:04 ↗ but uh land use policy A2 States ensure

29:07 ↗ the development regulations including

29:09 ↗ allowed density uses and site

29:12 ↗ requirements support isqua's preferred

29:14 ↗ land use pattern so um what what we

29:19 ↗ would suggest um and propose is

29:22 ↗ adding a line in the in in the in the

29:25 ↗ comp plan Amendment here is quotequote

29:28 ↗ to provide administrative flexibility to

29:30 ↗ deviate from building standards to

29:33 ↗ achieve these goals um we can submit

29:35 ↗ these in writing tomorrow and welcome a

29:37 ↗ dialogue around how the comp plan should

29:40 ↗ encourage flexibility so that going

29:41 ↗ forward the city is able to better reach

29:43 ↗ its goals in particularly in central

29:45 ↗ isqua so thank you for the opportunity

29:48 ↗ to speak and present that to

29:49 ↗ you thanks

29:51 ↗ Brian and I'll just check I know we've

29:54 ↗ checked in person but is there anybody

29:57 ↗ else on online that might be indicating

29:59 ↗ a desire to speak no okay fantastic well

30:04 ↗ we heard from bunch of folks which is

30:08 ↗ always appreciated we always encourage

30:10 ↗ your uh involvement and um hearing from

30:14 ↗ the perspective of Dia businesses and

30:18 ↗ executive director as well as um people

30:22 ↗ from the garage and students there um

30:25 ↗ and then someone on the comp place and

30:28 ↗ just really appreciate everyone's

30:30 ↗ perspective on that so we've got a busy

30:35 ↗ um agenda this evening you're welcome to

30:37 ↗ stay but you know you don't have to if

30:39 ↗ you don't want to so looking on to the

30:44 ↗ next um agenda item we've got Comm 0040

30:48 ↗ comprehensive plan periodic update and

30:51 ↗ this is presented by Steven Padua

30:53 ↗ planning

30:56 ↗ manager thank you council president W

30:58 ↗ good evening council members so tonight

31:01 ↗ I'm going to present on the

31:02 ↗ comprehensive plan as amended and

31:03 ↗ proposed in tonight's packet uh the

31:06 ↗ purpose is to go

31:08 ↗ over at a high level all the Amendments

31:10 ↗ that we're proposing for the periodic

31:12 ↗ update of the comprehensive plan and to

31:14 ↗ solicit any additional amendments from

31:16 ↗ city council and discussion tonight so

31:19 ↗ the One Direction needed for tonight is

31:22 ↗ does city council

31:23 ↗ want any additional amendments to

31:26 ↗ recommend as P of the plan prior to

31:32 ↗ adoption a little background information

31:34 ↗ for the comprehensive plan so the beyond

31:37 ↗ the purpose of being the city's

31:39 ↗ highlevel guiding policy guiding

31:41 ↗ document the comprehensive plan um meets

31:43 ↗ a series of requirements from the

31:45 ↗ Washington State growth management act

31:48 ↗ the conference plan addresses Urban

31:50 ↗ growth and um Economic Development

31:53 ↗ Regional Transportation and

31:54 ↗ infrastructure needs preservation of uh

31:57 ↗ open space affordable housing and public

31:59 ↗ participation in the planning process in

32:02 ↗ City Planning

32:05 ↗ processes and um what we call this is

32:08 ↗ the planning framework for the city is

32:09 ↗ squa the comprehensive plan provides

32:11 ↗ guidance to many of our functional plans

32:14 ↗ or topic areas where we identify

32:16 ↗ implementation and uh identification of

32:19 ↗ actions and prioritization of resources

32:22 ↗ when it comes to implementation of

32:24 ↗ different topic areas and all those

32:26 ↗ functional plans feed into

32:28 ↗ implementation and financing in our

32:30 ↗ strategic plan which you're going to

32:31 ↗ hear more about later tonight as well as

32:34 ↗ the city budget and and many of our

32:37 ↗ regulations in municipal code and then

32:40 ↗ come full circle our performance metrics

32:42 ↗ we take a look at how we're doing how

32:44 ↗ we're gauging our performance in all

32:46 ↗ those topic areas which brings us back

32:48 ↗ to the comprehensive plan to make any

32:51 ↗ necessary adjustments to make sure that

32:53 ↗ we're achieving what we want to achieve

32:54 ↗ over

32:56 ↗ time so for this periodic update we're

32:59 ↗ proposing nine elements um I'll go over

33:02 ↗ each of them um a little later in this

33:04 ↗ presentation but for the most part uh

33:08 ↗ there are three elements that aren't

33:10 ↗ necessarily required by the state and

33:12 ↗ the city has chosen to incorporate these

33:14 ↗ elements as priority topic areas to

33:17 ↗ identify and and discuss as the city

33:20 ↗ continues to grow the human services and

33:23 ↗ the arts and culture elements are two of

33:25 ↗ those elements that the city has decided

33:26 ↗ to add and to the conference plan as we

33:28 ↗ consider growth and the environment

33:32 ↗ climate element is is identified a

33:33 ↗ little bit differently because it's

33:36 ↗ technically not required yet but per

33:38 ↗ House Bill 1181 it will be required by

33:41 ↗ the city in 2029 but because by the

33:44 ↗ amazing work done by our sustainability

33:47 ↗ staff we're ahead we have all the

33:50 ↗ elements that are required at least as

33:52 ↗ we know of for House Bill 1181 to comply

33:55 ↗ with what's required from that bill in

33:57 ↗ 2029

34:01 ↗ so for the process for the periodic of

34:03 ↗ day you can kind of look at in two

34:04 ↗ different phases for the first phase

34:07 ↗ staff looked at each of the individual

34:08 ↗ elements to identify any required

34:10 ↗ changes from the state the region or the

34:13 ↗ county um but also look at our system

34:16 ↗ plan updates or our functional plan

34:18 ↗ updates to see if we're addressing any

34:19 ↗ required changes within functional plans

34:22 ↗ in the different topic areas once staff

34:26 ↗ assessed the different Heth elements we

34:28 ↗ went to the respective Boards of

34:30 ↗ commissions and the council committees

34:32 ↗ to propose different policy questions

34:35 ↗ and then we refined refined each of the

34:37 ↗ elements before getting to phase two

34:39 ↗ which was the assembly for the U the

34:42 ↗ latest phase for the comence plan which

34:44 ↗ was fully reviewed by the planning

34:45 ↗ policy commission and the Planning

34:47 ↗ Development environment Council

34:49 ↗ committee which brings us today for

34:50 ↗ final review with f city

34:54 ↗ council the general themes for the

34:57 ↗ comperat Plan update we had three

34:59 ↗ different areas the first being

35:02 ↗ identifying and assessing all the

35:04 ↗ different state requirements that have

35:06 ↗ been put in place since our last

35:08 ↗ periodic update in

35:10 ↗ 2015 we made major changes to our

35:14 ↗ housing policies and the direction we

35:16 ↗ want to go with housing we made a lot of

35:18 ↗ changes as it relates to the environment

35:21 ↗ natural natural environment and climate

35:23 ↗ um addressing climate change we also

35:26 ↗ looked at uh addressing

35:28 ↗ access and um the amount of services

35:32 ↗ provided were not provided for

35:33 ↗ disadvantaged

35:35 ↗ communities across the board we also

35:37 ↗ looked at divers diversity Equity

35:39 ↗ inclusion values within all the policy

35:42 ↗ and goal areas and all the different

35:43 ↗ elements and then we also looked at the

35:45 ↗ functional plans to make sure that we

35:47 ↗ were consistent in the terminology that

35:48 ↗ we're using but also in the strategies

35:51 ↗ for how we are addressing each of the

35:53 ↗ different topic

35:55 ↗ areas the last piece we looked at for

35:58 ↗ the comprehensive Plan update was design

35:59 ↗ and access So currently the

36:02 ↗ comprehensive plan is identified in

36:03 ↗ multiple different PDFs on the city

36:06 ↗ website that a lot of people have a

36:08 ↗ little difficulty accessing but also

36:10 ↗ using so what we're planning to do and

36:13 ↗ and something that we decided to do in

36:15 ↗ early on which influenced the design of

36:17 ↗ the comprehensive plan is we want to put

36:19 ↗ it on the code publishing platform with

36:21 ↗ our municipal code and what this allows

36:24 ↗ us to do is make it a little bit easier

36:25 ↗ to search but also adds more search

36:27 ↗ functionality to how we're using the

36:29 ↗ comprehensive plan for Community MERS

36:31 ↗ braful staff it also allows us to create

36:34 ↗ links with our Municipal Code so that

36:36 ↗ any references to the comprehensive plan

36:38 ↗ has a direct link where that's

36:40 ↗ identified in the

36:45 ↗ compy now I'm going to just provide a

36:48 ↗ brief overview for each of the sections

36:49 ↗ of the conference plan for the

36:52 ↗ introduction we primarily simplified it

36:54 ↗ we really wanted to dive into what does

36:56 ↗ the comprehensive plan provide us whilst

36:58 ↗ telling the story of who this this city

37:02 ↗ is and who we want to be as part of this

37:04 ↗ conference plan planning process it

37:07 ↗ outlines the process for the periodic

37:09 ↗ update and then it identifies the

37:11 ↗ Strategic plan guiding principles to

37:13 ↗ link with the implementation and

37:14 ↗ performance metrics on how we want to

37:17 ↗ gauge our performance for

37:21 ↗ implementation for the land use and

37:23 ↗ sustainability element we

37:27 ↗ paired the changes with this element

37:30 ↗ with the creation of the new environment

37:31 ↗ and climate element because many of the

37:34 ↗ policies that created the new

37:35 ↗ environment and climate element came

37:37 ↗ from our existing land use element so we

37:40 ↗ split it in half created the two

37:41 ↗ separate elements and then we went

37:44 ↗ through each of the policies and goal

37:46 ↗ areas for the land use sustainability

37:48 ↗ event to make sure Equity was being

37:50 ↗ addressed to make sure that our housing

37:52 ↗ and job targets are

37:55 ↗ identified we also moved several

37:57 ↗ policies to environment element as part

37:59 ↗ of the discussions with an environmental

38:00 ↗ board and planning policy commission and

38:03 ↗ then with land use sustainability we

38:04 ↗ considered a rezone redesignation of

38:06 ↗ City Hall Northwest

38:10 ↗ property so for the redesignation rezone

38:13 ↗ of the city property also known as City

38:15 ↗ Hall Northwest we proposed the rezone of

38:18 ↗ community facilities facilities to Urban

38:22 ↗ Corp and a redesignation from Community

38:25 ↗ faes to mix use and this was vied by the

38:27 ↗ hearing examiner and the hearing

38:30 ↗ examiner is recommending and supporting

38:32 ↗ the staff recommendation for the rezone

38:35 ↗ and the

38:39 ↗ redesignation for the housing element we

38:42 ↗ a lot of the changes were in compliance

38:44 ↗ with multiple several State mandates

38:47 ↗ around housing the first being House

38:49 ↗ Bill 1220 which looked at emergency

38:52 ↗ permanent Supportive Housing positional

38:54 ↗ housing and Emergency Shelters so we

38:56 ↗ added new policies and modified policies

38:59 ↗ to support many of the changes that went

39:01 ↗ into this and earlier this year city

39:03 ↗ council adopted code updates that

39:05 ↗ allowed a lot of these uses to fully

39:08 ↗ comply with house

39:10 ↗ build we also looked at house build 1337

39:13 ↗ and 1110 to address middle housing and

39:17 ↗ accessory dwelling units or adus to what

39:20 ↗ we want out of middle housing and how

39:23 ↗ that should go into our regulations

39:25 ↗ which is a concurrent project onoy that

39:28 ↗ city council will discuss early next

39:31 ↗ year additionally we

39:33 ↗ also reviewed the policies and ensured

39:36 ↗ Equity was being addressed in a lot of

39:38 ↗ our housing policies um in combination

39:42 ↗ with policy updates to the land use

39:43 ↗ element and then we also identified the

39:46 ↗ affordable housing targets which was the

39:48 ↗ other last component to compliance with

39:50 ↗ house spill

39:53 ↗ 1220 with the transportation element we

39:56 ↗ actually updated our Mobility master

39:58 ↗ plan only a few years ago so many of

40:01 ↗ those goals and policies were more

40:03 ↗ recently updated so for this periodic

40:05 ↗ update we FOC uh focused a lot of

40:08 ↗ efforts around what the recommendations

40:10 ↗ came out of the transit studies so

40:11 ↗ Transit specific policies to support the

40:15 ↗ light rail planning guide as well as our

40:18 ↗ uh transit system updates that were

40:20 ↗ proposed from the transit study we also

40:23 ↗ made changes to comply with House Bill

40:25 ↗ 1181 which identified

40:27 ↗ new level of service standards for

40:30 ↗ Transit and then we also identified uh

40:33 ↗ goals and policies that looked at equity

40:35 ↗ and access as related to non-motorized

40:38 ↗ Transportation walking or biking in city

40:44 ↗ as and for this new element environment

40:47 ↗ climate stewardship we it this we

40:51 ↗ created this element primarily to comply

40:52 ↗ with House Bill 1181 but by creating

40:56 ↗ this element it also emphasizes the

40:58 ↗ importance of the natural environment in

40:59 ↗ CL and addressing climate change in this

41:01 ↗ aqual community which is very apparent

41:04 ↗ in the creation of the climate action

41:05 ↗ plan the discussions on the resources

41:08 ↗ dedicated for how we want to address

41:10 ↗ climate change and then it's also

41:13 ↗ recognized in the discussions that we

41:16 ↗ have been having and continue to have

41:17 ↗ with the environmental board on how we

41:19 ↗ want to address those two major

41:21 ↗ topics and many of the policies were

41:24 ↗ pulled from the land use sustainability

41:25 ↗ element um but they were still under uh

41:30 ↗ we had many discussions with the

41:31 ↗ environmental board on how best to make

41:33 ↗ amendments to what was already adopted

41:38 ↗ before for the arts and culture element

41:41 ↗ we primarily made edit uh amendments to

41:44 ↗ guide the upcoming development of the

41:47 ↗ art strategic plan and added policies to

41:51 ↗ specifically uh address the Creative

41:52 ↗ Arts

41:55 ↗ District for economic vit ality we made

41:58 ↗ major updates concurrent with the

42:00 ↗ development of the economic development

42:02 ↗ action

42:03 ↗ plan that this action plan was adopted

42:05 ↗ earlier this year and so the goals and

42:07 ↗ policies are consistent what was adopted

42:09 ↗ by city

42:11 ↗ council for the Human Services element

42:14 ↗ we primarily just updated what was

42:16 ↗ consistent with the Human Services

42:18 ↗ strategic plan that was adopted by city

42:20 ↗ council less than two years ago and so

42:23 ↗ we weren't proposing anything new than

42:25 ↗ what was adopted in the Strat

42:30 ↗ for the parks element we updated in

42:32 ↗ alignment with the update to the what

42:35 ↗ was originally the park strategic plan

42:38 ↗ and we made name changes to now

42:40 ↗ recognize the new name which is the park

42:41 ↗ system plan we also made changes to

42:45 ↗ identify the creeks and Peaks concept

42:47 ↗ which is the expanded uh concept from

42:49 ↗ the green

42:54 ↗ necklace for utilities public service

42:57 ↗ and capital facilities this is actually

42:59 ↗ a merge of what was originally two

43:00 ↗ different elements and the reason for

43:03 ↗ the merge is because we found that both

43:05 ↗ elements actually had the same level of

43:07 ↗ service standards identified in both and

43:10 ↗ so to reduce some of the confusion we

43:12 ↗ just merged it into one so that we could

43:14 ↗ be more efficient with how we're

43:16 ↗ tackling utilities the needs for public

43:19 ↗ services and the needs on Capital

43:21 ↗ facilities in one element rather than in

43:23 ↗ two and we um similar to all the other

43:27 ↗ elements we reviewed the language with

43:29 ↗ the utility system plans and consistency

43:32 ↗ of terminology particularly with the

43:34 ↗ environment

43:39 ↗ element the appendices for the uh

43:41 ↗ comprehensive plan contain all the

43:42 ↗ analyses and data and information that

43:44 ↗ we used in the development of this

43:50 ↗ periodic and then timeline for the

43:52 ↗ legislative process leading up to today

43:53 ↗ we started with public hearing on August

43:56 ↗ 22nd with planning policy commission

43:58 ↗ they deliberated on the comprehensive

44:00 ↗ plan on September 12th we then met with

44:03 ↗ the Planning Development environment

44:04 ↗ Council committee on September 9th and

44:07 ↗ the council committee deliberated on

44:09 ↗ October

44:11 ↗ 1st the final recommendations that came

44:14 ↗ from the planning policy commission um

44:17 ↗ first included adding discussions in the

44:20 ↗ land use

44:21 ↗ element updating the policy B6 in the

44:24 ↗ land use element and then adding

44:27 ↗ environmental justice policy to The

44:29 ↗ Climate environment

44:31 ↗ element one note from the planning

44:33 ↗ policy commission that we wanted to

44:35 ↗ identify for city council was that the

44:39 ↗ uh attention of the planning policy

44:40 ↗ commission was primarily focused on

44:42 ↗ goals and policies so they just wanted

44:44 ↗ to highlight that they didn't spend as

44:45 ↗ much time on the introductions as they

44:47 ↗ did on the goals and

44:51 ↗ policy with the Planning Development

44:53 ↗ environment Council committee they are

44:57 ↗ recommended

44:58 ↗ approval with final direction listed

45:02 ↗ which includes recognizing City history

45:04 ↗ and the

45:06 ↗ introduction highlighting the commitment

45:08 ↗ to the

45:10 ↗ environment including the 1993

45:13 ↗ values in the

45:16 ↗ introduction directly addressing the

45:18 ↗ King County affordable housing

45:19 ↗ committee's

45:20 ↗ recommendations and being more specific

45:23 ↗ on neighborhood character and spirit

45:25 ↗ this was terminology that we found in

45:27 ↗ the comprehensive plan that just see was

45:29 ↗ too vague for what we were trying to

45:31 ↗ achieve with the comprehensive plan so

45:32 ↗ we just provided a little more

45:34 ↗ information on what we meant in those

45:41 ↗ sections for next steps the next step

45:43 ↗ for the comprehensive plan is coming

45:44 ↗ back to City Council on December 2nd for

45:46 ↗ tentative

45:49 ↗ adoption your materials tonight include

45:52 ↗ a matrix of changes which identifies all

45:54 ↗ the changes we made or proposing for the

45:56 ↗ period AC update as well as the reasons

45:59 ↗ we are making the change includes a

46:02 ↗ public comment Matrix which um contains

46:05 ↗ all the virtual public comments staff

46:07 ↗ received with staff

46:09 ↗ responses there is a document with list

46:12 ↗ of all the meetings that were conducted

46:14 ↗ in support of development of this

46:15 ↗ periodic

46:17 ↗ update you also have an letter from the

46:19 ↗ environmental board um with their

46:21 ↗ recommendations and highlights from this

46:23 ↗ periodic update process and IT staff

46:26 ↗ also includ included a staff response uh

46:28 ↗ table at the end of that

46:31 ↗ letter there's also a letter from the

46:33 ↗ Planning Development Council

46:35 ↗ committee on their recommendations for

46:37 ↗ the comprehensive plan

46:39 ↗ amendments there's the King County

46:41 ↗ affordable housing committee

46:43 ↗ letter there is the summary of decision

46:46 ↗ for the redesignation and rezone uh from

46:49 ↗ the hearing

46:50 ↗ examiner he also included a executive

46:53 ↗ summary for the environmental impact

46:55 ↗ statement for the comprehensive plan

46:57 ↗ primarily because the environmental imp

47:00 ↗ environmental impact statement isn't

47:02 ↗ necessarily a document that Council

47:05 ↗ adopts but it's more supplemental to

47:07 ↗ this comprehensive plan so we just want

47:09 ↗ to identify what was in that in a

47:11 ↗ summary

47:13 ↗ docum you also have the draft ordinance

47:15 ↗ for adoption of the comprehensive plan

47:18 ↗ and you have the draft comprehensive

47:20 ↗ plan in in multiple

47:23 ↗ exhibits so the administration

47:25 ↗ recommends approval of the comence

47:27 ↗ planned amendments has presented to city

47:31 ↗ council so this brings me back to my

47:34 ↗ direction need slide does city council

47:36 ↗ have any additional amendments for the

47:38 ↗ conference excellent um I'm trying to

47:41 ↗ remember at this point do we get

47:45 ↗ commentary from PD chair or does that

47:47 ↗ come after question and

47:50 ↗ answer okay fantastic chair hunt the in

47:55 ↗ thank you council president wsh

47:57 ↗ um there is a letter as one of the uh

48:00 ↗ one of several attachments with this

48:02 ↗ item in our packet tonight that is a

48:04 ↗ letter um uh by myself on behalf of our

48:10 ↗ um Council committee that reviewed this

48:12 ↗ over the course of multiple meetings um

48:15 ↗ I will preface this with Council uh

48:18 ↗ president Walsh and council member Hall

48:20 ↗ if there's anything I miss please uh as

48:22 ↗ always let me know um and uh correct me

48:26 ↗ if I uh mate anything we reviewed this

48:30 ↗ over several meetings and um as was

48:33 ↗ mentioned in

48:34 ↗ Steven's uh update here we focused on

48:38 ↗ making sure that um first of all

48:41 ↗ compliance was was met there are many um

48:46 ↗ many requirements by different agencies

48:48 ↗ that the comprehensive plan has to has

48:50 ↗ to clear and so uh we wanted to make

48:52 ↗ sure that we were meeting all of those

48:54 ↗ requirements we also focused on consist

48:57 ↗ with other plans there have been many

48:59 ↗ updates over the last several years to

49:02 ↗ city um to City functional plans and

49:07 ↗ things like the isqua climate action

49:09 ↗ plan um as well as the uh Regional plans

49:14 ↗ the state growth management act Regional

49:16 ↗ plan uh Vision 2050 and then King County

49:19 ↗ Planning policies so all of those were

49:22 ↗ considered and all of those policies

49:24 ↗ were aligned within our comp

49:26 ↗ comprehensive plan then there were many

49:30 ↗ uh multiple state laws that we reviewed

49:34 ↗ and I think for me the focus here was

49:37 ↗ there were state laws that we were

49:38 ↗ required to consider certain things like

49:40 ↗ Emergency Shelters um and new targets

49:43 ↗ for housing uh to meet housing um to in

49:48 ↗ increase the supply of housing for folks

49:50 ↗ at different income levels for example

49:52 ↗ and so for our committee we focused on

49:55 ↗ these are state law requirements how do

49:58 ↗ we make sure that we're providing

49:59 ↗ guidance that's is aest specific to help

50:02 ↗ future policy makers to help the

50:04 ↗ planning policy commission um guide us

50:07 ↗ in how we can achieve the intent of

50:09 ↗ these laws in a way that is specific to

50:12 ↗ our circumstance here in

50:14 ↗ isaga um there was the the Emergency

50:17 ↗ Shelters one which was HB uh 1220 there

50:21 ↗ were also multiple missing M missing

50:23 ↗ middle housing bills that um were passed

50:28 ↗ and we took those into account how how

50:30 ↗ we can make sure that we achieve that

50:32 ↗ goal of increasing the missing middle

50:34 ↗ housing which is in between large uh

50:39 ↗ multif family apartment buildings but um

50:41 ↗ also not single detached family homes so

50:44 ↗ uh duplex Triplex fourplex and

50:47 ↗ adus and then um

50:50 ↗ additionally we came into compliance

50:53 ↗ early with HB

50:55 ↗ 1181 which was the the climate action

50:57 ↗ planning provision um that is because of

51:01 ↗ the great work of our volunteer

51:03 ↗ commission and our our community and of

51:06 ↗ staff and this Council in adopting our

51:08 ↗ isqua climate action plan and really set

51:10 ↗ us up for being able to comply with that

51:12 ↗ law early we also uh complied with our

51:15 ↗ various functional plans including our

51:17 ↗ housing uh strategy action plan um in

51:21 ↗ addition to the multiple other

51:23 ↗ functional plans across the city in our

51:26 ↗ last last meeting we also addressed

51:29 ↗ terminology while we do hearken back to

51:32 ↗ the 1993 values for example we wanted to

51:34 ↗ make sure that we were using modern

51:36 ↗ terminology that we were referring to

51:39 ↗ community um Aesthetics but recognizing

51:42 ↗ that over time our city is changing and

51:45 ↗ so wanting to make sure that we were

51:48 ↗ recognizing that with the terminology

51:50 ↗ that we used and that we were also using

51:52 ↗ terminology that um reflected the

51:54 ↗ diversity and the growing diversity of

51:56 ↗ our community and then as has been

51:58 ↗ mentioned we also reviewed it with an

51:59 ↗ eye to readability wanting to make sure

52:01 ↗ that folks could access um the

52:03 ↗ information they wanted easily and

52:06 ↗ quickly throughout the document um

52:08 ↗ recognizing that most folks will be

52:10 ↗ searching for the part of this very

52:12 ↗ large document that they specifically

52:14 ↗ want to key

52:16 ↗ into um few other notes we did agree

52:21 ↗ with the majority of policy changes

52:23 ↗ recommended by the city advisory boards

52:26 ↗ one in particular was mentioned that I

52:27 ↗ just wanted to note for Council which

52:30 ↗ was land use B6 um and that has to do

52:34 ↗ with coming into agreement with our tree

52:38 ↗ um tree protection I believe um but I

52:42 ↗ did want to make sure that that was the

52:44 ↗ one that we were talking about there um

52:47 ↗ we Rec we recommended the majority of

52:49 ↗ changes that the planning policy

52:50 ↗ commission uh

52:53 ↗ recommended we also included

52:55 ↗ Environmental board's feedback

52:57 ↗ especially about achieving a sustainable

53:00 ↗ high quality natural environment and

53:02 ↗ going above and beyond what is required

53:04 ↗ to protect our natural environment

53:06 ↗ recognizing the importance of that in

53:08 ↗ isqua we recommended enhancing the

53:12 ↗ context around the plan which has been

53:15 ↗ reflected in multiple areas adding more

53:18 ↗ history adding more context around this

53:21 ↗ is where we're going but this is also

53:22 ↗ where we have been as a city and um

53:27 ↗ and then as I mentioned making sure that

53:29 ↗ as we address these you things like the

53:32 ↗ King County affordable housing

53:33 ↗ committee's recommendations that we're

53:35 ↗ including those in a way that is useful

53:38 ↗ to current and future policy makers as

53:40 ↗ we look to achieve these um goals of

53:43 ↗ increasing our affordable housing across

53:45 ↗ the

53:46 ↗ community

53:47 ↗ and all of that is uh summarized in the

53:50 ↗ letter we did have multiple meetings um

53:53 ↗ to review this as well as the uh prev

53:56 ↗ previous Council presentation of this

54:00 ↗ and so would happy would be happy to

54:01 ↗ take any questions from any council

54:04 ↗ members on our our um discussion and

54:07 ↗ also again if my fellow colleagues on

54:11 ↗ the committee would like to make any

54:12 ↗ additions happy to hear those as

54:17 ↗ well I think you summarized it quite

54:19 ↗ well and we did the hard work so

54:22 ↗ hopefully uh that comes through in the

54:25 ↗ letter and all of the

54:27 ↗ information um so I think at this point

54:30 ↗ do you want to put up the question again

54:32 ↗ just so that we have that really at this

54:36 ↗ point we're looking for questions and

54:38 ↗ then we'll get back into feedback so

54:41 ↗ we'll start with council member hunt and

54:43 ↗ then council member

54:46 ↗ Hall yes so uh

54:50 ↗ I I

54:51 ↗ saw the flag on um policy B6 and and I

54:56 ↗ wanted to make sure that that was

54:59 ↗ explained and I I do believe that that

55:02 ↗ has to do with um

55:04 ↗ recognizing um trees in in urban

55:07 ↗ environments and those sorts of things

55:09 ↗ but I wanted to check in with you if

55:10 ↗ that is the correct policy that we're

55:11 ↗ referring to yes that's the correct

55:14 ↗ policy okay thank

55:17 ↗ you so you were just clarifying and then

55:20 ↗ you'll have comments

55:21 ↗ later uh yes just because that one

55:24 ↗ didn't have any um didn't have any

55:27 ↗ explanation there yeah fantastic Council

55:29 ↗ Mall um thank you for writing the letter

55:33 ↗ on our behalf it was very comprehensive

55:35 ↗ for the comprehensive plan so I

55:36 ↗ appreciate that um so um to clarify I

55:40 ↗ thought the I thought the policy that we

55:42 ↗ disagreed with PPC on had to do with

55:44 ↗ economic vitality and underserved

55:47 ↗ communities so can you

55:49 ↗ was help me sorry help me understand um

55:54 ↗ this other one because I don't I don't

55:56 ↗ don't seem to

56:02 ↗ remember give me one moment to pull up

56:04 ↗ the policy

56:30 ↗ uh that seems to be a Tapo on our part

56:34 ↗ for the presentation it was you are

56:37 ↗ correct it was economic Vitality policy

56:39 ↗ A1 that was discussed by the by the

56:41 ↗ committee and so the discussion on that

56:44 ↗ one was the whether or not to include

56:47 ↗ the basically the second half of that

56:50 ↗ policy which was a requirement um from

56:53 ↗ the regional staff to identify

56:56 ↗ how we are providing services to small

57:01 ↗ locally local historically lack Capital

57:04 ↗ represent underserved communities and at

57:06 ↗ risk of displacement and so that was the

57:09 ↗ discussion from planning policy

57:10 ↗ Commission on whether or not to separate

57:12 ↗ that out or not I apologize for the typo

57:15 ↗ that you were correct that was that

57:18 ↗ that okay I'll look to the other members

57:21 ↗ any other

57:23 ↗ questions um being brought up okay

57:26 ↗ so at this point we have an opportunity

57:29 ↗ for any members of the public that want

57:31 ↗ to make comments on the comprehensive

57:34 ↗ Plan before we give into our feedback so

57:37 ↗ I'll just check in online if you're on

57:40 ↗ the um smartphone or computer you can

57:43 ↗ use the raise hand icon or send the host

57:45 ↗ a chat message you're on the phone you

57:47 ↗ can press star three you're in person

57:50 ↗ you can raise your hand jump up and down

57:53 ↗ anything like that we'll look for you um

57:56 ↗ is there anybody indicating a desire to

57:58 ↗ speak um we had a virtual attendee Glenn

58:01 ↗ cuadros who had his hand up for quite

58:03 ↗ some time it's possible his comments

58:05 ↗ related to another item I'm going to

58:07 ↗ check in with Glenn if that's okay

58:10 ↗ great so Glenn I've made you a panelist

58:13 ↗ if you do have some public comments to

58:14 ↗ make tonight you're welcome to do so

58:24 ↗ now Glenn just checked checking in with

58:26 ↗ you one last time if you did indeed want

58:28 ↗ to make some public comments tonight you

58:30 ↗ can unmute your microphone and do so

58:37 ↗ now okay so he is not unmuting and just

58:41 ↗ check here I don't think anyone else

58:44 ↗ virtually is indicating a desire to

58:46 ↗ speak well we always appreciate that

58:48 ↗ you're stepping above and beyond

58:50 ↗ monitoring people in between the process

58:52 ↗ uh who might be indicating desire to

58:54 ↗ speak I will just take a moment to state

58:56 ↗ that uh we receive a lot of emails on

58:59 ↗ topics like this so if somebody has uh

59:02 ↗ comments that they want to make City

59:04 ↗ counil at isqua wa.gov um will hit all

59:08 ↗ seven of us and we'll get a chance to

59:11 ↗ hear your voice and respond so turning

59:14 ↗ back to council you know this is just a

59:18 ↗ kind of touch point we're not looking to

59:20 ↗ adopt anything tonight but I think the

59:23 ↗ administration would like to know if

59:25 ↗ there is any feedback

59:27 ↗ um needed any uh amendments or

59:29 ↗ adjustments that we are looking for on

59:31 ↗ the comprehensive plan so does anybody

59:34 ↗ have any

59:39 ↗ comments council member Hall no

59:44 ↗ um comments for changes or anything like

59:47 ↗ that um I did just want to make sure to

59:50 ↗ share some comments of thanks even

59:52 ↗ though I'm sure we'll be able to do that

59:53 ↗ once we get to the um final adoption I

59:57 ↗ just wanted to say once again excellent

59:59 ↗ work um a significant amount of time and

1:00:02 ↗ effort has gone into updating the

1:00:04 ↗ Strategic plan especially after having

1:00:06 ↗ just updated title 18 so I hope very

1:00:09 ↗ soon you all get to read that sigh of

1:00:11 ↗ relief and take a vacation or something

1:00:14 ↗ like that um I um thanks again for

1:00:18 ↗ writing the letter I did just want to

1:00:19 ↗ just say I thought it was interesting

1:00:22 ↗ how on the agenda we have the Strategic

1:00:24 ↗ plan also and it got me thinking about

1:00:27 ↗ well if our strategic plan which is our

1:00:29 ↗ 5-year vision is let's say the paper

1:00:32 ↗ Atlas or something um that you that you

1:00:35 ↗ take out the comprehensive plan is

1:00:36 ↗ really the Google Maps right the allout

1:00:39 ↗ vision for what we want to do in our

1:00:41 ↗ community how we get the issaqua that's

1:00:43 ↗ on paper that we always talk about um to

1:00:46 ↗ come to life so I also just wanted to

1:00:47 ↗ recognize the meaning of the work that

1:00:49 ↗ you all have put in and just thank you U

1:00:51 ↗ for your engagement which will um last

1:00:55 ↗ much longer than our lifetimes here in

1:00:57 ↗ isqua so again uh thank you very muching

1:01:00 ↗ forward to

1:01:03 ↗ adopting fantastic well I'll just jump

1:01:06 ↗ in on that topic I I

1:01:09 ↗ think knock on wood this has been a

1:01:12 ↗ really smooth process and a lot of that

1:01:15 ↗ is because of the work that we had

1:01:16 ↗ already done in our functional plans a

1:01:18 ↗ lot of that is because we had done the

1:01:21 ↗ work on Title 18 so we're very familiar

1:01:24 ↗ with the areas of our code um that

1:01:27 ↗ really needed to you know just have a

1:01:31 ↗ reference in this um a lot of it is

1:01:33 ↗ because the hard work of our boards and

1:01:35 ↗ commissions who did the deep deep dive

1:01:39 ↗ on so many of these topic

1:01:41 ↗ areas and a ton of it is from just the

1:01:45 ↗ darn hard work of our staff um who know

1:01:48 ↗ our city and our code and our needs very

1:01:51 ↗ well and have done done the work on this

1:01:54 ↗ um I can also back to previous

1:01:57 ↗ comprehensive plans and the fact that we

1:02:00 ↗ did the work on the regional growth

1:02:02 ↗ Center meant we didn't have some of the

1:02:05 ↗ same difficult conversations that other

1:02:09 ↗ communities had to have regarding where

1:02:11 ↗ we going to up Zone we already know

1:02:14 ↗ where that plan is for the city of isqua

1:02:17 ↗ and so we were able to kind of roll that

1:02:20 ↗ forward and continue just working on the

1:02:23 ↗ customization of how do we adapt to all

1:02:25 ↗ of the state requirements and all of the

1:02:28 ↗ things that we needed to work into this

1:02:32 ↗ um and keep it referring to isqua and

1:02:36 ↗ keep it um really helping us move that

1:02:38 ↗ plan forward so just wanted to throw in

1:02:40 ↗ my appreciation do we have any other

1:02:43 ↗ comments feedback on

1:02:45 ↗ this I think you get a uh oh okay

1:02:49 ↗ council member Joe yeah thank you um I

1:02:52 ↗ would just like to uh thank you council

1:02:55 ↗ president Walsh for your work on the

1:02:57 ↗ affordable housing committee um I know

1:03:00 ↗ that uh as part of that work you're

1:03:02 ↗ you're reviewing the housing element for

1:03:05 ↗ each and every uh uh King County HB

1:03:10 ↗ County Pierce County and SES County

1:03:13 ↗ comprehensive plan we only have to read

1:03:15 ↗ one of them but you've read the housing

1:03:17 ↗ element for all of them so thank you um

1:03:19 ↗ the comments that came back from the

1:03:21 ↗ affordable housing committee uh were

1:03:23 ↗ helpful to um challenge us to you uh a

1:03:26 ↗ little bit more by saying you know

1:03:28 ↗ you're doing a great job but here are

1:03:29 ↗ some other things to think about and I

1:03:30 ↗ appreciate the administration's uh

1:03:33 ↗ guidance on how we are going to address

1:03:36 ↗ those uh requests or those suggestions

1:03:39 ↗ in the next generation of our housing

1:03:41 ↗ analysis and Mr P I look forward to uh

1:03:44 ↗ seeing that as we go forward as well but

1:03:47 ↗ um just wanted to make sure that your

1:03:50 ↗ work was not not overlooked in in that

1:03:52 ↗ whole process so thank you very much

1:03:55 ↗ appreciate that though I will say it's

1:03:57 ↗ the King County affordable housing

1:03:58 ↗ committee so we are only reviewing for

1:04:01 ↗ the cities in King County but yes that

1:04:03 ↗ is quite a lot my apologies I I I

1:04:06 ↗ mistook you for the psrc yes there you

1:04:09 ↗ go there you go but no that that has

1:04:11 ↗ been a really good point of being able

1:04:14 ↗ to pull in those elements of making sure

1:04:16 ↗ that housing at all levels of

1:04:19 ↗ affordability is addressed um and I

1:04:23 ↗ appreciate that the King

1:04:24 ↗ County let's see King

1:04:28 ↗ County cpps what is it thank you

1:04:33 ↗ countywide planning policies I just I've

1:04:35 ↗ heard that so many so many times um you

1:04:39 ↗ know that was the first part of it was

1:04:40 ↗ adopting the fact that we had to As

1:04:42 ↗ Cities support that in our comprehensive

1:04:44 ↗ plans and so we're seeing that come

1:04:46 ↗ through and uh I think we got a gold

1:04:49 ↗ star for uh our ability to address all

1:04:52 ↗ of those elements not all of the cities

1:04:54 ↗ have so appreciate that from staff as

1:04:57 ↗ well do you have everything that you

1:04:59 ↗ need yes I do and and I do want to

1:05:01 ↗ extend my own thanks to the planning

1:05:03 ↗ team who supported and made sure that

1:05:06 ↗ this project came out as as successful

1:05:09 ↗ as as we see it as and uh Christen Leon

1:05:12 ↗ senior planner who looked at uh our land

1:05:14 ↗ use and housing and arts and culture and

1:05:17 ↗ uh senior Transportation planers uh

1:05:19 ↗ Thomas Val Who's online listening in um

1:05:21 ↗ he looked at the infrastructure Capital

1:05:23 ↗ facilities public uh Public Services and

1:05:26 ↗ transportation um and then our associate

1:05:28 ↗ planner Valley valer repter looked at

1:05:31 ↗ everything else and so we I want to make

1:05:34 ↗ sure that I I extend my thanks to them

1:05:36 ↗ because a lot of the hard work was done

1:05:37 ↗ by them and um we have a great planning

1:05:40 ↗ document because of that because of the

1:05:42 ↗ amount of effort that the entire team

1:05:44 ↗ put into this and so thank you for all

1:05:47 ↗ the Gratitude uh but I also want to make

1:05:49 ↗ sure they're recognized for their hard

1:05:50 ↗ efforts as

1:05:52 ↗ well thanks Stephen appreciate it thanks

1:05:56 ↗ for passing it

1:05:57 ↗ on um okay so that is one of three items

1:06:02 ↗ on our agenda tonight uh so the second

1:06:05 ↗ item is Comm

1:06:07 ↗ 0072 the Citywide strategic Plan update

1:06:11 ↗ and this is going to be presented by

1:06:12 ↗ Dale Mary crimp the assistant to the

1:06:14 ↗ city administrator because we don't like

1:06:17 ↗ to do anything small on a night we're

1:06:20 ↗ taking on all of the big things

1:06:29 ↗ good evening city council Dale Mary

1:06:32 ↗ crimp assistant to the city

1:06:33 ↗ administrator and I am thrilled to be

1:06:35 ↗ here tonight uh following on Steven's

1:06:38 ↗ coat Tales here he stole a little bit of

1:06:40 ↗ my thunder but that's good I think

1:06:42 ↗ intentionally uh to share the final

1:06:44 ↗ proposed updates to the r isqua

1:06:46 ↗ strategic

1:06:48 ↗ plan the purpose of this evening is to

1:06:51 ↗ present the council with the final draft

1:06:55 ↗ of the proposed updates to the our isqua

1:06:57 ↗ strategic plan as a reminder this update

1:07:01 ↗ focused on the plan's goal area goal

1:07:04 ↗ statements objectives and recommended

1:07:07 ↗ actions while the the focus on those

1:07:10 ↗ three elements did necessitate some

1:07:12 ↗ minor updates to the opportunity and

1:07:14 ↗ background in each goal area it did not

1:07:18 ↗ pertain to and therefore did not

1:07:20 ↗ consider any updates to the Mission

1:07:23 ↗ Vision guiding principle

1:07:26 ↗ nor any changes to the goal area

1:07:28 ↗ categories

1:07:31 ↗ themselves this evening um the

1:07:34 ↗ administration is requesting that the

1:07:35 ↗ council review this final draft

1:07:38 ↗ recommended update and make fi any final

1:07:41 ↗ recommendations specifically does the

1:07:43 ↗ council agree with the policy Direction

1:07:46 ↗ outlined in the recommended update and

1:07:49 ↗ are there any additional additional

1:07:51 ↗ revisions or additions that the council

1:07:53 ↗ would like to see included in this final

1:07:55 ↗ stage ahead of approval and

1:08:01 ↗ adoption my favorite slide it's becoming

1:08:03 ↗ one that I'm going to be sad when I

1:08:04 ↗ don't have presentations that includes

1:08:06 ↗ this slide um but for as a refresher and

1:08:10 ↗ then for anyone in the audience who

1:08:11 ↗ hasn't uh seen me present this slide

1:08:14 ↗ before uh our first uh isqua strategic

1:08:18 ↗ plan the our isqua strategic plan was

1:08:20 ↗ adopted in 2019 following an 18-month

1:08:24 ↗ Community engagement

1:08:26 ↗ process through that process uh the plan

1:08:29 ↗ was developed and it provides leadership

1:08:31 ↗ both the administration and the city

1:08:33 ↗ council with a highlevel policy

1:08:35 ↗ Direction reflected in the six schal

1:08:38 ↗ areas um with between originally between

1:08:42 ↗ one and five objectives per goal area

1:08:44 ↗ and a number of aligned potential

1:08:46 ↗ actions for each

1:08:48 ↗ objective there was always a plan to

1:08:51 ↗ revisit the plan after 5 years and

1:08:55 ↗ therefore updating the Strategic plan

1:08:57 ↗ became one of Mayor Paulie's top 2024

1:09:02 ↗ priorities early in this year 2024 the

1:09:06 ↗ mayor selected members to a community

1:09:08 ↗ task force three of whom are members of

1:09:11 ↗ our city council and one of whom is in

1:09:12 ↗ the audience this evening um to Le to

1:09:15 ↗ inform and to lead the Strategic Plan

1:09:18 ↗ update the task force met six times

1:09:21 ↗ between late February of this year and

1:09:23 ↗ late June of this year first grounding

1:09:26 ↗ themselves in the current plan then

1:09:29 ↗ developing recommended updates for the

1:09:31 ↗ objectives in each goal area and then

1:09:34 ↗ working with City staff and our city

1:09:37 ↗ staff subject matter experts to

1:09:39 ↗ determine aligned actions for each of

1:09:41 ↗ their new or refined

1:09:43 ↗ objectives it will come not as a

1:09:46 ↗ surprise uh that many of the updates

1:09:48 ↗ that Steven discussed as updates to our

1:09:50 ↗ comprehensive plan those same Trends are

1:09:53 ↗ reflected in the updates to our

1:09:54 ↗ strategic plan which is exactly how it

1:09:57 ↗ should be the task force then presented

1:10:00 ↗ their recommendations to the city

1:10:02 ↗ council on July 16th of this year and at

1:10:05 ↗ that presentation you provided them with

1:10:07 ↗ positive feedback on their

1:10:09 ↗ recomendations and some very pointed uh

1:10:12 ↗ feedback for the administration as we

1:10:14 ↗ considered additional revisions moving

1:10:17 ↗ forward specifically you ask City staff

1:10:20 ↗ to attend to the Strategic plan

1:10:22 ↗ prioritization criteria that exist

1:10:24 ↗ within the plan document when making

1:10:26 ↗ final

1:10:27 ↗ revisions in July and August City staff

1:10:30 ↗ reviewed the recommendations from the

1:10:31 ↗ task force and considered them through

1:10:34 ↗ the following lens the level of impact

1:10:37 ↗ and Alignment to the goals and

1:10:39 ↗ objectives the likelihood of

1:10:42 ↗ success the ability for the city to

1:10:45 ↗ control the actions outlined in the plan

1:10:48 ↗ the cost and the budget alignment and

1:10:51 ↗ the five-year time Horizon so really

1:10:53 ↗ bringing this plan into its intended

1:10:57 ↗ time

1:11:01 ↗ Horizon the administration would like to

1:11:03 ↗ take a quick moment here before we dive

1:11:05 ↗ in just to acknowledge the 15 members of

1:11:07 ↗ the mayoral task force including the

1:11:09 ↗ three city council members for their

1:11:11 ↗ essential contributions to this project

1:11:14 ↗ this update is not just grounded in the

1:11:16 ↗ task force work but you'll see even

1:11:19 ↗ after the staff revisions the board and

1:11:22 ↗ the board and commission engagement and

1:11:23 ↗ the additional public engagement it

1:11:26 ↗ still largely resembles what you saw in

1:11:30 ↗ July also I'd like to thank um and the

1:11:34 ↗ administration would like to thank the

1:11:35 ↗ over 40 board and commission members who

1:11:38 ↗ attended a special meeting of board and

1:11:40 ↗ commissions making of 10 of our uh board

1:11:44 ↗ and commissions were represented at this

1:11:45 ↗ meeting to provide additional feedback

1:11:48 ↗ in September leading to the addition of

1:11:51 ↗ a couple of new objectives um in this

1:11:54 ↗ final recommendation

1:11:58 ↗ I don't have any words for this slide

1:12:00 ↗ just that I think it's important to see

1:12:02 ↗ the photos of the people that did the

1:12:04 ↗ work um and it's also important to

1:12:06 ↗ acknowledge you can see peppered in here

1:12:08 ↗ in little places um our city staff who

1:12:11 ↗ also provided invaluable knowledge as

1:12:13 ↗ they were providing Steven's team with

1:12:16 ↗ feedback on the functional plans and the

1:12:18 ↗ way that those feed into our

1:12:19 ↗ comprehensive plan they were also

1:12:21 ↗ providing that same feedback to our task

1:12:24 ↗ force members to our board and

1:12:26 ↗ commission members as they fed feed feed

1:12:28 ↗ feedback into this plan as

1:12:31 ↗ well so as I mentioned the task force

1:12:35 ↗ presented their recommendations to City

1:12:36 ↗ Council in July and their

1:12:39 ↗ recommendations were warmly received and

1:12:41 ↗ then you also provided specific feedback

1:12:43 ↗ to the

1:12:44 ↗ administration the first was to ensure

1:12:46 ↗ alignment between the Strategic Plan

1:12:47 ↗ update and the city's comprehensive plan

1:12:49 ↗ and functional plans was also to bring

1:12:52 ↗ the recommended actions within the time

1:12:54 ↗ Horizon that 5-year time Horizon and

1:12:57 ↗ then also to ensure that the recommended

1:12:58 ↗ actions within the plan could be

1:13:00 ↗ expected to be financed through the

1:13:02 ↗ city's budgets over the time Horizon of

1:13:04 ↗ the plan and one thing you likely

1:13:06 ↗ noticed um in the the uh draft update

1:13:11 ↗ presented tonight that there have been

1:13:13 ↗ some changes made specifically with the

1:13:15 ↗ budget in mind in some cases that leads

1:13:18 ↗ shows up as a more generalized action so

1:13:21 ↗ the mention of microtransit rather than

1:13:22 ↗ any particular program and in some cases

1:13:26 ↗ entire actions were removed or replaced

1:13:29 ↗ with an acknowledgement that we don't

1:13:31 ↗ currently foresee it's something within

1:13:33 ↗ our budgetary or fiscal um

1:13:38 ↗ ability so now the update the proposed

1:13:42 ↗ update differs from the original 2019

1:13:44 ↗ plan in the following ways so the 2019

1:13:47 ↗ plan at a high level six goal areas 16

1:13:50 ↗ objectives the task force presented

1:13:53 ↗ recommendations again within those six

1:13:55 ↗ goal areas but with 20 objectives and

1:13:57 ↗ they specifically recommended new

1:13:59 ↗ objectives within infrastructure City

1:14:01 ↗ leadership and services and Mobility the

1:14:05 ↗ final proposed update coming to you

1:14:06 ↗ tonight has those same six goal areas

1:14:09 ↗ but also has two additional um so 22

1:14:13 ↗ objectives total two added one in

1:14:15 ↗ environmental stewardship and one in

1:14:17 ↗ Social and economic

1:14:20 ↗ Vitality before I dive into the specific

1:14:22 ↗ objectives and some of the aligned

1:14:24 ↗ action

1:14:25 ↗ I I want to return to a what should be a

1:14:28 ↗ familiar slide which is the trends um

1:14:31 ↗ represented in this proposed update

1:14:34 ↗ you'll notice this is very similar to

1:14:36 ↗ the slide that the task force presented

1:14:38 ↗ and that's because not a whole lot has

1:14:40 ↗ changed in terms of the trends of this

1:14:43 ↗ update emergency preparedness Public

1:14:46 ↗ Safety and Community resilience is an

1:14:49 ↗ overarching theme of the proposed update

1:14:52 ↗ while ref it's reflected both in the

1:14:54 ↗ brand brand new emergency preparedness

1:14:56 ↗ objective within City leadership and

1:14:58 ↗ services it's also reflected in a

1:15:01 ↗ fleshed out Public Safety objective so

1:15:04 ↗ while there was an added objective in

1:15:06 ↗ 2021 around Public Safety it had no

1:15:09 ↗ specific actions this update builds out

1:15:12 ↗ specific actions aligned to that

1:15:15 ↗ objective also it's reflected in the

1:15:18 ↗ fact that climate resilience and

1:15:19 ↗ emergency preparedness show up across

1:15:22 ↗ different goal areas not only do they

1:15:24 ↗ have their own goal area um and their

1:15:26 ↗ own objective you'll also see elements

1:15:29 ↗ of resilience and climate preparedness

1:15:32 ↗ and emergency Readiness reflected in

1:15:35 ↗ infrastructure social and economic

1:15:37 ↗ vitality and environmental

1:15:39 ↗ stewardship which brings me to the

1:15:41 ↗ second Trend continued investment in

1:15:44 ↗ climate action and sustainability this

1:15:45 ↗ should come as no surprise it was a huge

1:15:47 ↗ headline of what Steven shared about the

1:15:49 ↗ comprehensive Plan update and so that is

1:15:51 ↗ also reflected in here uh the objectives

1:15:55 ↗ in our environmental stewardship goal

1:15:58 ↗ area have been expanded to truly align

1:16:01 ↗ with the commitments we've made in our

1:16:02 ↗ climate action plan and you'll see there

1:16:05 ↗ are additional success measures in that

1:16:06 ↗ section as well that align with the

1:16:08 ↗ success measures in the isqua climate

1:16:10 ↗ action

1:16:12 ↗ plan hoing housing affordability and

1:16:15 ↗ livability again another topic that came

1:16:18 ↗ up in the elements of the comprehensive

1:16:20 ↗ plan that's

1:16:22 ↗ also supported in the revision visions

1:16:25 ↗ and the added emphasis here and the

1:16:27 ↗ update to the Strategic plan as

1:16:30 ↗ documented in the 2023 Community survey

1:16:33 ↗ livability whether that's affordable

1:16:36 ↗ housing housing affordability or

1:16:40 ↗ amenities the

1:16:42 ↗ um this continues to be on the minds of

1:16:46 ↗ our community and an ongoing focus in

1:16:49 ↗ growth and development and social and

1:16:51 ↗ economic

1:16:52 ↗ vitality and last but certainly not

1:16:55 ↗ least oper operationalizing Equity

1:16:58 ↗ Equity is one of the guiding principles

1:17:00 ↗ in the original strategic plan and as

1:17:02 ↗ mentioned in the original uh City

1:17:04 ↗ leadership and services goal area this

1:17:08 ↗ proposed objective or this proposed

1:17:10 ↗ update goes a step further and outlines

1:17:12 ↗ very specific actions and the how of

1:17:15 ↗ operationalizing that

1:17:19 ↗ commitment so what I'll do is I'd like

1:17:22 ↗ to walk through each goal area and share

1:17:25 ↗ with you high level some of the changes

1:17:27 ↗ um and then also some of the aligned

1:17:29 ↗ actions especially if there's a brand

1:17:30 ↗ new objective you'll notice on each

1:17:32 ↗ slide and in in your packet that any um

1:17:35 ↗ objective that is highlighted in Gray um

1:17:39 ↗ or is highlighted um that connotes a new

1:17:42 ↗ objective or an objective that changed

1:17:44 ↗ significantly from the 2019 plan so the

1:17:48 ↗ 2019 plan for Mobility there were three

1:17:50 ↗ objectives we're proposing four

1:17:52 ↗ objectives for this update we made a

1:17:55 ↗ significant rewrite to the first one

1:17:58 ↗ with a focus on multimodal

1:17:59 ↗ Transportation which was not a focus in

1:18:01 ↗ the 2019 plan with the with a feeling

1:18:04 ↗ that multimodal transportation and

1:18:06 ↗ Investments there are needed to

1:18:08 ↗ alleviate congestion and also so the the

1:18:11 ↗ Reliance on solo vehicle travel this

1:18:14 ↗ shows up in particular actions of

1:18:16 ↗ incentivizing electric vehicle

1:18:18 ↗ infrastructure evaluating Trail and ro

1:18:20 ↗ road connectivity and also

1:18:23 ↗ implementation of the intelligent

1:18:25 ↗ transportation

1:18:27 ↗ system the second objective is is nearly

1:18:30 ↗ the exact same uh we still think it is

1:18:32 ↗ incredibly valuable to keep a focus on

1:18:35 ↗ near term connections and

1:18:37 ↗ efficiencies the third objective is a

1:18:39 ↗ new recommended objective focusing on

1:18:42 ↗ Safe Systems in Road design so

1:18:45 ↗ specifically this started originally as

1:18:46 ↗ a as the idea Vision zero so the idea of

1:18:50 ↗ eliminating um all uh pedestrian bike

1:18:54 ↗ fatalities and collisions with cars uh

1:18:57 ↗ the administration feels that taking the

1:18:59 ↗ more General language of Safe Systems

1:19:01 ↗ rather than committing to something like

1:19:02 ↗ Vision zero um provides us some

1:19:05 ↗ flexibility in exactly how we do that

1:19:07 ↗ but as you look at the actions within

1:19:09 ↗ the objective you'll see that they align

1:19:11 ↗ very closely to any Vision zero plan

1:19:13 ↗ that you look at so a redesign or a

1:19:17 ↗ commitment to Road redesign to increased

1:19:19 ↗ safety on our streets and then the last

1:19:21 ↗ objective here um is focused on

1:19:23 ↗ establishing the foundation for future

1:19:25 ↗ light rail this is a an update of the

1:19:28 ↗ light rail objective that existed in the

1:19:29 ↗ 2019

1:19:32 ↗ plan for growth and development um there

1:19:35 ↗ are four objectives recommended in this

1:19:37 ↗ update um and they are the four

1:19:39 ↗ objectives with minor changes um from

1:19:42 ↗ the original plan the first is probably

1:19:45 ↗ the most notable change in language and

1:19:47 ↗ I will say that is a trend of these

1:19:48 ↗ updates a lot of them are an update in

1:19:50 ↗ the language they're not necessarily an

1:19:52 ↗ update in the spirit maybe of the object

1:19:55 ↗ but bringing that objective into the

1:19:56 ↗ current day Steven talked a little bit

1:19:59 ↗ about how the the language um in the

1:20:02 ↗ values around land use have been

1:20:05 ↗ Revisited in the comprehensive plan the

1:20:07 ↗ task force recommended that we revisit

1:20:09 ↗ some of the language in the land the

1:20:11 ↗ growth and development or land use

1:20:12 ↗ section of this plan and this updated um

1:20:15 ↗ objective reflects that updated language

1:20:19 ↗ the second objective is largely the same

1:20:21 ↗ again with some very small language

1:20:23 ↗ updates and some changes to actions

1:20:26 ↗ specifically um the actions to achieve

1:20:29 ↗ balanced growth have been updated in

1:20:31 ↗ this plan the third objective is largely

1:20:34 ↗ the same the actions are largely the

1:20:36 ↗ same and the fourth objective reflects a

1:20:38 ↗ shift from a focus on near-term

1:20:40 ↗ livability so a focus on amenities to a

1:20:43 ↗ focus on long-term livability a focus on

1:20:45 ↗ climate resilience and proximity to

1:20:48 ↗ Mobility options and so you can see

1:20:50 ↗ that's again where that Trend in

1:20:52 ↗ community resilience um and climate

1:20:55 ↗ shows up outside of just um the

1:20:57 ↗ environmental stewardship goal

1:21:01 ↗ area speaking of environmental

1:21:03 ↗ stewardship that is the next goal area

1:21:05 ↗ uh this goal area originally had three

1:21:08 ↗ objectives the proposed update has four

1:21:10 ↗ objectives with this first objective

1:21:12 ↗ being the most notable um change it was

1:21:16 ↗ recommended by the boards and

1:21:17 ↗ commissions that an objective focus on

1:21:19 ↗ sustainable processes and approach to

1:21:22 ↗ project and program management be part

1:21:24 ↗ of this update it's the how we get to um

1:21:29 ↗ how we get to doing the work that we'd

1:21:31 ↗ like to commit to so seeing a change in

1:21:33 ↗ how we do our work not just what we've

1:21:35 ↗ committed to doing objective two

1:21:37 ↗ reflects an even more bold stance on the

1:21:39 ↗ city as a regional leader in climate

1:21:41 ↗ action and commitment to making progress

1:21:44 ↗ on targets outlined in our isqua climate

1:21:46 ↗ action plan objective three is nearly

1:21:50 ↗ the same language as our original 2019

1:21:52 ↗ plan an objective four which is similar

1:21:55 ↗ to the old objective three around land

1:21:59 ↗ acquisition but a focus on acquisition

1:22:01 ↗ that provides Community benefit and

1:22:04 ↗ ecosystem benefit so again aligning with

1:22:07 ↗ the park system Plan update but also

1:22:09 ↗ aligning with our commitment to climate

1:22:13 ↗ mitigation the social and economic

1:22:16 ↗ Vitality uh goal area the 2019 plan

1:22:19 ↗ originally had three objectives this

1:22:22 ↗ update is proposing four objectives and

1:22:24 ↗ the the last objective um is the most

1:22:27 ↗ notable uh change I will get there it

1:22:30 ↗ will be the last one I get to on this

1:22:32 ↗ Slide the first objective remains

1:22:34 ↗ similar with a focus on business

1:22:36 ↗ Recruitment and Retention for living

1:22:38 ↗ wage jobs the second is again similar

1:22:41 ↗ more specific actions on how the city

1:22:43 ↗ can attempt to build and expand

1:22:45 ↗ Partnerships that uh increase affordable

1:22:48 ↗ housing and housing affordability the

1:22:50 ↗ third objective is the language is

1:22:52 ↗ exactly the same and similar to what

1:22:54 ↗ Steven mentioned about the update uh to

1:22:57 ↗ the comprehensive plan this is reflect

1:22:59 ↗ the actions reflect the Human Services

1:23:01 ↗ strategic plan um and is so an update in

1:23:04 ↗ align with that functional plan this

1:23:06 ↗ newly added fourth objective came as a

1:23:08 ↗ combination of feedback received from uh

1:23:11 ↗ City Council in July around thinking

1:23:14 ↗ about um the loneliness epidemic and the

1:23:17 ↗ need to emphasize human and Community

1:23:20 ↗ connections and also feedback we

1:23:22 ↗ received from boards and commissions

1:23:24 ↗ specifically around the pride in our

1:23:28 ↗ arts and our public spaces and so really

1:23:30 ↗ thinking about how can our public spaces

1:23:33 ↗ and our spaces where we have public art

1:23:35 ↗ be thought of as assets to the community

1:23:37 ↗ and potential places to Foster

1:23:42 ↗ connection for our city leadership and

1:23:45 ↗ services goal area the original plan had

1:23:48 ↗ two objectives in 2019 in 2021 that was

1:23:51 ↗ increased to three objectives with the

1:23:53 ↗ addition of the public safety objective

1:23:55 ↗ this plan is recommending four

1:23:57 ↗ objectives the first two objectives are

1:24:00 ↗ revisions to two key Concepts Civic

1:24:03 ↗ engagement and efficient effective and

1:24:05 ↗ Equitable Services the original two

1:24:07 ↗ objectives essentially touched on those

1:24:10 ↗ two themes as well this is just a

1:24:12 ↗ Rewritten updated version of those two

1:24:15 ↗ elements what I will say is you can see

1:24:17 ↗ the most significant change in the plan

1:24:19 ↗ is the clarity and specificity of the

1:24:21 ↗ actions that the task force and boards

1:24:24 ↗ and commissions recommended to help the

1:24:26 ↗ city make progress in these areas

1:24:28 ↗ objective three was added in 2021 no

1:24:31 ↗ language was changed to the objective

1:24:33 ↗ but it was reaffirmed here in this

1:24:34 ↗ update and potential actions focused on

1:24:37 ↗ community policing Community Court and

1:24:40 ↗ enhanced um behavioral health support

1:24:42 ↗ have all been outlined as potential

1:24:45 ↗ actions and then objective four which is

1:24:47 ↗ a new uh objective for this goal area uh

1:24:52 ↗ which elevates the priority of Emergency

1:24:54 ↗ Man management and emergency

1:24:55 ↗ preparedness in the community so

1:24:57 ↗ preparing the city as an organization

1:25:00 ↗ preparing our isqua community and

1:25:02 ↗ responding to and recovering from any

1:25:05 ↗ future emergency while the city has

1:25:08 ↗ always maintained processes and

1:25:10 ↗ practices for emergencies The increased

1:25:13 ↗ focus on Preparation is Paramount and

1:25:15 ↗ that was reflected in the conversations

1:25:17 ↗ that the uh task force

1:25:20 ↗ had and then last but certainly not

1:25:22 ↗ least and I know uh our task force

1:25:24 ↗ members that presented on infrastructure

1:25:26 ↗ would be sad that it came at the end but

1:25:28 ↗ I thought for continuity with the plan

1:25:29 ↗ we would go in that

1:25:31 ↗ order um so certainly not you know last

1:25:34 ↗ in order not Las in our hearts objective

1:25:37 ↗ one for infrastructure remains largely

1:25:39 ↗ the the same there were some small

1:25:41 ↗ changes to language and specifically

1:25:42 ↗ some small changes to the language

1:25:44 ↗ within the actions a lot of feedback we

1:25:47 ↗ got from boards and commissions when we

1:25:49 ↗ brought the draft to them was that they

1:25:51 ↗ didn't just they just didn't understand

1:25:52 ↗ some of the language and so we wanted to

1:25:54 ↗ make it really clear uh what those

1:25:56 ↗ actions meant and then the addition of

1:25:58 ↗ the second objective as I mentioned at

1:26:00 ↗ the top resilience um infrastructure

1:26:03 ↗ resilience emergency preparedness as an

1:26:06 ↗ important Trend in this update and

1:26:08 ↗ that's reflected in this new objective

1:26:10 ↗ within this

1:26:13 ↗ section so the 2019 plan um two to four

1:26:18 ↗ measures per goal area uh generally

1:26:20 ↗ aligned to the I should say success

1:26:23 ↗ measures this I would say is one of the

1:26:25 ↗ most notable changes you probably

1:26:26 ↗ noticed as you read through in the

1:26:28 ↗ original plan each goal area had a few

1:26:31 ↗ success measures at the bottom um in 20

1:26:35 ↗ uh 20 the city council adopted a

1:26:37 ↗ performance measurement plan that sought

1:26:39 ↗ to expand uh the number of measures

1:26:42 ↗ including those success measures to

1:26:44 ↗ things that we could track in an ongoing

1:26:46 ↗ way to be able to report out on the

1:26:49 ↗ progress we were making what we're

1:26:51 ↗ proposing in this update is that success

1:26:54 ↗ measures live in alignment with each

1:26:56 ↗ objective so that instead of just

1:26:58 ↗ getting an update on whether an action

1:27:00 ↗ has been taken we're also able to track

1:27:02 ↗ over time if we're making progress on

1:27:04 ↗ each objective um and so you'll see that

1:27:07 ↗ in some cases uh there's an I should say

1:27:11 ↗ none of the success measures have gone

1:27:12 ↗ away it is actually just a combination

1:27:15 ↗ of what we are already tracking and a

1:27:17 ↗ few additional measures that staff said

1:27:19 ↗ hey I already track this and this would

1:27:21 ↗ let you know if we're making progress on

1:27:23 ↗ this objective it's what I'm using to

1:27:25 ↗ know if we're making progress on this

1:27:26 ↗ objective and so it's a combination of

1:27:28 ↗ the original success measures our

1:27:30 ↗ performance measurement plan and a

1:27:32 ↗ handful of additional measures um and so

1:27:35 ↗ that is probably one of the the most

1:27:37 ↗ notable changes that you'll see it's not

1:27:39 ↗ one to four at the end of a goal area

1:27:42 ↗ but at except with the exception of one

1:27:45 ↗ uh objective at least one performance

1:27:48 ↗ measure aligned to each

1:27:52 ↗ objective so um as I wrap up and I

1:27:56 ↗ promise I'll pause for questions here in

1:27:57 ↗ a moment the final proposal in front of

1:27:59 ↗ you um this evening is a culmination of

1:28:02 ↗ a number of decision points and various

1:28:06 ↗ options considered and choices made

1:28:09 ↗ along an each of the following uh points

1:28:13 ↗ in this process the task force

1:28:15 ↗ considered a variety of objectives and

1:28:18 ↗ their alignment to different goal areas

1:28:20 ↗ City staff worked to bring those task

1:28:22 ↗ force recommendations into the framework

1:28:25 ↗ for the Strategic plan prioritization

1:28:27 ↗ which is outlined in the 2019 plan board

1:28:30 ↗ and commission members added additional

1:28:33 ↗ objectives and actions um and we also

1:28:36 ↗ received additional public feedback

1:28:38 ↗ which is what outlined in one of the

1:28:39 ↗ attachments today um while a lot of that

1:28:44 ↗ feedback was largely positive and then

1:28:48 ↗ focused on implementation level so not

1:28:50 ↗ even Action level but when you do this

1:28:52 ↗ action I would like you to think about

1:28:54 ↗ this um and so we're going to keep uh

1:28:57 ↗ that feedback for when we get to the

1:28:58 ↗ implementation of some of those

1:29:01 ↗ actions the recommendation tonight um is

1:29:05 ↗ that the council um we're recommending

1:29:09 ↗ the approval and Adoption of the update

1:29:11 ↗ to the plan at the December 2nd meeting

1:29:14 ↗ and so um what that will look like is

1:29:17 ↗ after tonight's conversation any

1:29:19 ↗ additional necessary feedback will be

1:29:21 ↗ incorporated and will return to City

1:29:23 ↗ Council on December M 2nd to hopefully

1:29:25 ↗ approve and adopt and that will set the

1:29:27 ↗ staff up to prepare for implementation

1:29:30 ↗ and tracking starting in q1 of

1:29:33 ↗ 2025 direction for tonight um

1:29:36 ↗ specifically do you agree with the

1:29:37 ↗ policy Direction reflected in these

1:29:39 ↗ revisions and are there any additional

1:29:41 ↗ revisions the council would like to see

1:29:43 ↗ included at this final stage of the

1:29:51 ↗ process is that it Dale just that that's

1:29:55 ↗ it just that that's good that was just a

1:29:58 ↗ little bit okay uh Council question and

1:30:01 ↗ answers council member

1:30:03 ↗ Ms thank you Madame council president a

1:30:06 ↗ couple of questions can you go back to

1:30:08 ↗ ES1 for a

1:30:10 ↗ second absolutely I don't I just don't

1:30:14 ↗ understand it

1:30:19 ↗ at or or maybe I just don't understand

1:30:21 ↗ how it relates to Environmental

1:30:24 ↗ yes so the recommendation here is a

1:30:27 ↗ focus on sustainable project management

1:30:30 ↗ practices so not just that

1:30:32 ↗ sustainability itself is the only team

1:30:35 ↗ really thinking about the implementation

1:30:38 ↗ of green infrastructure or sustainable

1:30:41 ↗ processes in their project management

1:30:43 ↗ but it's something that they're going to

1:30:44 ↗ lead um and see from teams across the

1:30:46 ↗ city so I think what youve seen in some

1:30:48 ↗ of the actions outlined below is sort of

1:30:51 ↗ training for staff on how to think about

1:30:53 ↗ their projects through a lens of

1:30:55 ↗ sustainability um potenti can you give

1:30:58 ↗ an example I cannot personally I have

1:31:01 ↗ not gone through the training um

1:31:03 ↗ sustainable program management can you

1:31:06 ↗ even just Define that that phrase for me

1:31:11 ↗ the way that I understand it is in the

1:31:14 ↗ same way that we might think about

1:31:16 ↗ Equitable like a an equity lens

1:31:19 ↗ Equitable program or project design

1:31:21 ↗ Equitable program management it'd be the

1:31:23 ↗ same idea a but through the lens of

1:31:24 ↗ sustainability well equity and the lens

1:31:27 ↗ of equity but then you said Equitable

1:31:29 ↗ program management and I would be as

1:31:31 ↗ lost on Equitable program management as

1:31:34 ↗ I would be on sustainable program

1:31:35 ↗ management totally fair um I think

1:31:38 ↗ that's part of the reason why we're the

1:31:40 ↗ the board the environmental board and

1:31:43 ↗ the sustainability team felt strongly

1:31:45 ↗ about adding this in um is that it's not

1:31:48 ↗ something that we know how to do it's

1:31:49 ↗ not something that every um team is

1:31:54 ↗ uh what's the word I'm looking for um is

1:31:58 ↗ fluent

1:31:59 ↗ in I've just I mean I've done a lot of

1:32:02 ↗ program management both professionally

1:32:04 ↗ and here on in Council and I've just

1:32:07 ↗ never seen sustainable program

1:32:09 ↗ management before they're just I

1:32:11 ↗ understand each of those three words

1:32:12 ↗ individually but you put them together

1:32:14 ↗ in this combination and I don't know

1:32:16 ↗ what they mean so can I ask that someone

1:32:19 ↗ come back with a slide to explain that

1:32:22 ↗ absolutely before we

1:32:24 ↗ honor

1:32:25 ↗ before of December City administrator uh

1:32:29 ↗ and I would also and thank you council

1:32:31 ↗ member Mars I would also direct the

1:32:33 ↗ council to the potential actions on page

1:32:37 ↗ 518 of the packet um I think that helps

1:32:40 ↗ a little bit that talks about developing

1:32:42 ↗ sustainable infrastructure policy and

1:32:44 ↗ track project alignment to that policy

1:32:46 ↗ evaluate new plans policies and codes

1:32:48 ↗ with existing environmental plans to

1:32:50 ↗ identify gaps and vulnerabilities uh and

1:32:53 ↗ environmental and climate project

1:32:55 ↗ programs complete an after action review

1:32:56 ↗ to assess progress to goals and

1:32:58 ↗ objectives and identify recommendations

1:33:00 ↗ for improvement and to train staff and

1:33:02 ↗ sustainable processes environmental

1:33:04 ↗ design to support climate and

1:33:06 ↗ sustainability goals so hopefully that's

1:33:08 ↗ a little bit more information um and

1:33:10 ↗ certainly when we come back on December

1:33:12 ↗ 2nd we'll ask uh uh this been to come

1:33:18 ↗ and hold on yep thank you and I did have

1:33:21 ↗ a second question yeah um you said in

1:33:24 ↗ all but one of these you had two or more

1:33:27 ↗ metrics what was the one where you

1:33:28 ↗ didn't have two or more metrics and do

1:33:30 ↗ you have at least one good the the very

1:33:34 ↗ last objective in INF the new objective

1:33:36 ↗ in infrastructure um and

1:33:40 ↗ so we have the other infrastructure

1:33:44 ↗ performance measures that we feel

1:33:45 ↗ strongly about and feel as though they

1:33:47 ↗ are good indicators um we've not landed

1:33:52 ↗ on something that we think totally help

1:33:54 ↗ a a non-action completed um performance

1:33:58 ↗ measure that we think gives us a good

1:34:00 ↗ indication of our progress on that very

1:34:02 ↗ here and I'll bring this one up on that

1:34:04 ↗ very last objective well I can I I mean

1:34:07 ↗ I could offer you one right now would be

1:34:08 ↗ great which is no more than pick a

1:34:10 ↗ number of hours of downtime for major

1:34:13 ↗ city uh systems per year right you could

1:34:15 ↗ say no more than three hours of downtime

1:34:18 ↗ per year or one hour of downtime or be

1:34:20 ↗ like Amazon and say no more than five

1:34:22 ↗ minutes of downtime per year I mean it's

1:34:24 ↗ whatever a number that would be

1:34:26 ↗ reasonable uh because that that would

1:34:29 ↗ allow you to to set a goal and then you

1:34:31 ↗ could then your electronic systems and

1:34:34 ↗ your processes and all that you could

1:34:36 ↗ you could parse out the you could budget

1:34:39 ↗ basically how much per year you would

1:34:41 ↗ expect of downtime in each of those

1:34:43 ↗ areas and add it up to whether it hits

1:34:45 ↗ your number or not right but I would

1:34:47 ↗ love to see like our you know plows not

1:34:51 ↗ more than two days down per year right

1:34:54 ↗ or a number like that but that that

1:34:55 ↗ would be that would be a way to measure

1:34:58 ↗ this this one that's great thank

1:35:01 ↗ you thanks great any other

1:35:07 ↗ questions okay I will look on then um we

1:35:12 ↗ have a moment for public comment and see

1:35:16 ↗ if there's anyone in the room or online

1:35:19 ↗ who would indicate a desire to speak on

1:35:23 ↗ the strategic Plan update and so anyone

1:35:27 ↗ online um just raising your virtual hand

1:35:30 ↗ sending the host a chat message if

1:35:31 ↗ you're on the phone star three or in

1:35:34 ↗ person you can jump up and down wave

1:35:36 ↗ your

1:35:38 ↗ hands okay looking like nothing okay

1:35:41 ↗ then we will go into

1:35:45 ↗ feedback counc member Hall uh thank you

1:35:49 ↗ um specific piece of feedback because I

1:35:51 ↗ think um for the most part thrilled with

1:35:55 ↗ the revisions that we see here I mean

1:35:57 ↗ that's basically what you heard last

1:35:58 ↗ time too from the council and thankful

1:36:00 ↗ for the process and people who

1:36:02 ↗ contributed um to the process again um I

1:36:07 ↗ came prepared to talk about how I think

1:36:09 ↗ it was a missed opportunity to not have

1:36:11 ↗ stuff about um the epidemic of

1:36:14 ↗ loneliness and isolation and then you

1:36:15 ↗ spoke to it as part of that new

1:36:18 ↗ objective and I think that's telling for

1:36:20 ↗ me that I didn't pick that I didn't

1:36:21 ↗ clock that with that one so so I think

1:36:23 ↗ that needs a a little bit more of a

1:36:25 ↗ tweak um it's all it's almost I mean you

1:36:28 ↗ you bring up connecting community

1:36:29 ↗ members in the objective which is good

1:36:32 ↗ um but it's doesn't it doesn't really

1:36:34 ↗ live in the potential actions or the

1:36:37 ↗ success measures although it does talk

1:36:39 ↗ about the number of people attending

1:36:41 ↗ arts and culture events which gets at

1:36:43 ↗ that kind of in a roundabout way um I

1:36:46 ↗ guess my ask before um we come back on

1:36:49 ↗ on this next is if we could have um we

1:36:53 ↗ could Che on this a little bit more um

1:36:56 ↗ there is a a city partner Community

1:36:59 ↗ partner up in the highlands lindsy

1:37:01 ↗ Pinkston with the highlands Council who

1:37:02 ↗ has been living and breathing this kind

1:37:04 ↗ of work ever since the US surgeon

1:37:06 ↗ general's warning has come out who would

1:37:08 ↗ I think would just be a good person to

1:37:09 ↗ connect with and say hey what do you

1:37:11 ↗ think about how do we best align this um

1:37:14 ↗ and acknowledging that staff already

1:37:17 ↗ went through the Strategic plan with the

1:37:19 ↗ lenson budget I'm not necessarily saying

1:37:21 ↗ that we need to have brand new ction

1:37:23 ↗ items or anything like that but perhaps

1:37:25 ↗ finding ways to use language um in a way

1:37:29 ↗ where it's easily recognizable that okay

1:37:31 ↗ this objective helps to solve this

1:37:33 ↗ problem that exists in the community um

1:37:35 ↗ but again thank you for for hearing that

1:37:37 ↗ um from the last meeting I really

1:37:39 ↗ appreciate it and um everything else

1:37:41 ↗ looks great to

1:37:42 ↗ me right any other feedback comments

1:37:45 ↗ Deputy council president D Michelle yes

1:37:48 ↗ uh I'll just be very brief I just uh

1:37:51 ↗ again another great body of work we're

1:37:53 ↗ really seeing tonight the culmination of

1:37:56 ↗ a lot of hard work uh by our staff and

1:37:59 ↗ our community so thanks for our

1:38:01 ↗ community members that were also

1:38:03 ↗ involved and I just want to thank you

1:38:05 ↗ for that um addition of uh the Arts and

1:38:09 ↗ acknowledgement of their importance in

1:38:11 ↗ our community and the the other uh goal

1:38:15 ↗ uh that was also added I think is very

1:38:16 ↗ important as well so uh I think good

1:38:19 ↗ listening good work and uh are very

1:38:21 ↗ appreciative of the work that's been

1:38:23 ↗ done thank

1:38:24 ↗ you excellent council member

1:38:28 ↗ MZ thank you uh I think what's most

1:38:32 ↗ important in here was what you said on

1:38:36 ↗ give me page 546 I don't know what it

1:38:39 ↗ corresponds to under your under your

1:38:42 ↗ original 2019 success measures versus

1:38:44 ↗ your 2024 updated success measures um

1:38:49 ↗ and where you talked about aligned to

1:38:51 ↗ objective in order to provide provide

1:38:53 ↗ more information about progress on

1:38:55 ↗ individual objectives this has been a

1:38:58 ↗ persistent um concern of mine is that we

1:39:01 ↗ Define goals and metrics and then we

1:39:05 ↗ don't revisit them often enough this is

1:39:07 ↗ in engineering called having a closed

1:39:09 ↗ loop system versus an open loop system

1:39:11 ↗ right and uh so I'm thrilled that that

1:39:14 ↗ is an important part of our plan and I

1:39:17 ↗ look forward to seeing these measures

1:39:19 ↗ both the existing measures and the new

1:39:21 ↗ measures as functions over time to

1:39:24 ↗ understand how we're actually making

1:39:25 ↗ progress against so that's the part that

1:39:28 ↗ what I heard about today that I'm most

1:39:29 ↗ excited about and I think will bear

1:39:31 ↗ fruit um for us and the council and also

1:39:34 ↗ for the public about how we're doing

1:39:36 ↗ against

1:39:38 ↗ this thank you uh council member

1:39:42 ↗ hunt thank you council president Walsh I

1:39:45 ↗ was on um the committee that did the

1:39:49 ↗ Deep dive with our awesome uh volunteer

1:39:52 ↗ um commission members and community

1:39:54 ↗ members and I had the opportunity to

1:39:57 ↗ focus on a couple areas because the way

1:40:00 ↗ we worked was we all had the opportunity

1:40:03 ↗ to go around to all of the areas but we

1:40:05 ↗ had detailed um focus time on specific

1:40:08 ↗ areas and one of the ones that I focused

1:40:10 ↗ on was

1:40:11 ↗ infrastructure um which we really didn't

1:40:15 ↗ have as much time in the 2019 update to

1:40:18 ↗ work on and so one of the uh one of the

1:40:21 ↗ really notable improvements I think this

1:40:22 ↗ time was

1:40:23 ↗ we added one objective but we also spent

1:40:27 ↗ a lot more time and also spent a lot

1:40:28 ↗ more time with the other um focus areas

1:40:32 ↗ kind of including it throughout the

1:40:33 ↗ entire process and considering it

1:40:35 ↗ throughout the entire process uh as as

1:40:39 ↗ part of that I really appreciated

1:40:41 ↗ council member Mart's earlier questions

1:40:42 ↗ about the sustainable projects um in the

1:40:47 ↗ infrastructure Focus area we have this

1:40:51 ↗ we have actions about minimizing carbon

1:40:53 ↗ impact we have actions about preserving

1:40:55 ↗ and enhancing the city's resilient water

1:40:58 ↗ supply and I think for for future policy

1:41:02 ↗ makers and for people looking at the

1:41:04 ↗ Strategic plan for guidance it would be

1:41:06 ↗ really helpful to kind of give more

1:41:08 ↗ information about what do we Me by

1:41:10 ↗ sustainable projects because we

1:41:12 ↗ encountered that when we we were trying

1:41:14 ↗ to think through in the infrastructure

1:41:16 ↗ section how do we make these how do we

1:41:18 ↗ make our infrastructure sustainable what

1:41:20 ↗ does that mean what are the actions

1:41:21 ↗ associated with that and we had staff

1:41:23 ↗ help and they uh they really supported

1:41:26 ↗ us in in devising these actions that we

1:41:28 ↗ have in the plan at the same time as we

1:41:31 ↗ grow as a city as we uh have more

1:41:34 ↗ capital projects as we look to new

1:41:37 ↗ facilities Etc having that guidance more

1:41:41 ↗ accessible to more community members can

1:41:42 ↗ only be better right um so I I

1:41:46 ↗ appreciate that um the other thing I

1:41:49 ↗ think was really important was the

1:41:51 ↗ fiveyear time Horizon and really

1:41:53 ↗ focusing on that that gave us a really

1:41:56 ↗ good uh framework to work within bounds

1:42:00 ↗ to consider which actions and now that

1:42:01 ↗ we've seen five years play out we have a

1:42:04 ↗ much better sense of these are the

1:42:05 ↗ things that are realistic these are the

1:42:07 ↗ things that are helpful for us also to

1:42:09 ↗ have on our on our fiveyear plan so I

1:42:13 ↗ think that was good my only other

1:42:16 ↗ comment and I leave it to you for how to

1:42:19 ↗ document this but we do throughout the

1:42:22 ↗ throughout this process we've had a

1:42:24 ↗ number of Lessons Learned due to things

1:42:26 ↗ that have happened over the last five

1:42:28 ↗ years including the co pandemic and then

1:42:30 ↗ the economic impacts of the co pandemic

1:42:32 ↗ and as part of that I think also really

1:42:35 ↗ recognizing the loneliness um that's

1:42:37 ↗ also in my mind a component of that as

1:42:40 ↗ well recognizing the importance of Human

1:42:42 ↗ Services um for our community when when

1:42:44 ↗ folks are experiencing economic hardship

1:42:47 ↗ that was

1:42:48 ↗ another another um important thing that

1:42:51 ↗ happens over the five years that we were

1:42:53 ↗ able to address with that hindsight in

1:42:56 ↗ this update and so I was thinking if

1:42:59 ↗ somebody new to the process comes and

1:43:01 ↗ and sees you know this stuff about the

1:43:02 ↗ loneliness epidemic for example they

1:43:04 ↗ might not have that context and so I

1:43:07 ↗ thought it might be helpful to explain

1:43:09 ↗ that it was something that came up also

1:43:12 ↗ in the context of Public Safety and that

1:43:14 ↗ emphasis there emergency

1:43:16 ↗ preparedness um you know those were all

1:43:18 ↗ Lessons Learned uh in large part through

1:43:21 ↗ that pandemic and those um and those

1:43:24 ↗ years after the pandemic and so I think

1:43:27 ↗ in in our process that was a big part of

1:43:30 ↗ it and I don't you don't see the word

1:43:33 ↗ covid anywhere and I think that's

1:43:35 ↗ appropriate but at the same time I think

1:43:37 ↗ for our documentation of the process and

1:43:39 ↗ for the next group that looks at the

1:43:41 ↗ next update and people looking to this

1:43:43 ↗ for guidance of why did we change

1:43:44 ↗ certain things I thought that um

1:43:47 ↗ documentation of that in our thought

1:43:48 ↗ process might be might be helpful uh

1:43:51 ↗ again this was a really really thorough

1:43:53 ↗ process we had so many Community Voices

1:43:56 ↗ I think this end product really reflects

1:43:58 ↗ all of those Community Voices and I'm

1:44:01 ↗ very uh will be very supportive of

1:44:03 ↗ adopting this when it comes

1:44:06 ↗ back any other comments council member

1:44:11 ↗ Joe thank you um I would just like to

1:44:14 ↗ thank uh council member hunt and um

1:44:17 ↗ council member Marts and council

1:44:19 ↗ president Walsh for signing up to help

1:44:22 ↗ with this process

1:44:23 ↗ you attended seven extra meetings over a

1:44:26 ↗ six-month period and and we're all very

1:44:29 ↗ busy and yet you found time to go that

1:44:31 ↗ extra mile and do those extra meetings

1:44:32 ↗ so thank you so much um I'd like to talk

1:44:35 ↗ a little bit about the uh the the

1:44:37 ↗ loneliness issue but as it relates to

1:44:39 ↗ City leadership and services um I I

1:44:44 ↗ really think you're doing a great job in

1:44:46 ↗ measuring our you know number of tree

1:44:49 ↗ Acres preserved and all the metrics that

1:44:51 ↗ you've done on on the website it's

1:44:53 ↗ fantastic work when we talk about Lead

1:44:56 ↗ City leadership and services you're

1:44:57 ↗ talking about how we reestablish

1:44:59 ↗ Connection in community and cultural uh

1:45:02 ↗ um awareness in our community and it's a

1:45:04 ↗ little bit bit more difficult to to

1:45:06 ↗ measure and to track right in terms of

1:45:09 ↗ you could have a certain number of

1:45:10 ↗ meetings that we we had that reached out

1:45:13 ↗ to the Asian-American Community or the

1:45:15 ↗ Hispanic Community but that really

1:45:17 ↗ doesn't tell the the depth of our

1:45:19 ↗ connection the way that we're actually

1:45:22 ↗ building community the way that City

1:45:23 ↗ leadership is actually connecting with

1:45:25 ↗ the community to know what they really

1:45:27 ↗ need um and I think that uh if as we

1:45:31 ↗ look at this particular section it's

1:45:34 ↗ going to be more difficult to measure

1:45:37 ↗ but we can feel it in our hearts and

1:45:39 ↗ souls so to speak when I'm making a

1:45:41 ↗ connection with people in in another

1:45:43 ↗ community that I may not have a a strong

1:45:46 ↗ connection or history with um I'm

1:45:48 ↗ feeling that in terms of my connection

1:45:51 ↗ to the community my buy into what we're

1:45:54 ↗ doing here in the city and my sense of

1:45:57 ↗ belonging um so I don't know how you can

1:46:00 ↗ track those things um but I think it's

1:46:02 ↗ so important after the pandemic and

1:46:04 ↗ after the um election that we had the

1:46:08 ↗ national people and the Senate and House

1:46:10 ↗ members on the national level can't come

1:46:13 ↗ to our door and talk to us but those of

1:46:15 ↗ us here on this Council can make an

1:46:18 ↗ effort to go to a number of doors and

1:46:20 ↗ talk to our peers and our neighbors face

1:46:22 ↗ to to face and we need to we need to

1:46:25 ↗ reestablish that connection and sense of

1:46:28 ↗ civics uh as we're going to be challenge

1:46:31 ↗ the community uh as we become more and

1:46:33 ↗ more kind of pushed apart along the way

1:46:36 ↗ so anything you can do to measure that

1:46:39 ↗ to give us a sense that um we're coming

1:46:42 ↗ closer together as a community or we're

1:46:44 ↗ going farther apart as a community so

1:46:46 ↗ that we on the council can as Leaders uh

1:46:49 ↗ step in or Pat ourselves on the back or

1:46:52 ↗ take addition measures will be will be

1:46:54 ↗ very helpful as we go forward so um I

1:46:56 ↗ know it's not a metric you can measure

1:46:58 ↗ but I hope it's something that you can

1:46:59 ↗ keep in mind it's definitely something

1:47:02 ↗ that we can look into especially um

1:47:04 ↗ we're just in the early stages of our

1:47:07 ↗ 2025 banial Community survey um I think

1:47:11 ↗ we've we've asked questions that have

1:47:12 ↗ touched on that but not quite to the

1:47:14 ↗ heart of what you're saying and so

1:47:16 ↗ something to consider as we uh explore

1:47:18 ↗ that upcoming

1:47:21 ↗ opportunity any other

1:47:23 ↗ comments okay I will take my turn um

1:47:28 ↗ I've got a few specific comments um in

1:47:30 ↗ the growth and development area oh okay

1:47:33 ↗ before I dive into the

1:47:35 ↗ details I I'm just going to start by

1:47:38 ↗ saying I like council member Hall said

1:47:40 ↗ I'm just thrilled with this update uh I

1:47:43 ↗ think this takes us absolutely forward

1:47:46 ↗ um it's a gargantuan

1:47:48 ↗ effort and really thinking back into the

1:47:50 ↗ Strategic plan task force

1:47:53 ↗ the difference that they made in six or

1:47:56 ↗ seven meetings whereas the original plan

1:47:58 ↗ took 18 months is just huge um and so I

1:48:04 ↗ really feel like this update just feels

1:48:06 ↗ very very focused and helpful and I

1:48:09 ↗ appreciate all of your help in just

1:48:13 ↗ continually pushing it to be useful um

1:48:17 ↗ that's very helpful um I heard what

1:48:22 ↗ council member hunt said about kind of

1:48:24 ↗ documenting things I think it sounds

1:48:26 ↗ like that would be much like we do with

1:48:28 ↗ a um budget Council letter or something

1:48:32 ↗ I I think that concept of recognizing

1:48:35 ↗ what are the changes and the differences

1:48:37 ↗ between when the plan was adopted

1:48:39 ↗ previously and now and really talking

1:48:41 ↗ through the process would be great not

1:48:43 ↗ only because of what has happened in the

1:48:47 ↗ world but the way that you brought us

1:48:50 ↗ through that update task force was

1:48:53 ↗ really helpful and I I would love to

1:48:55 ↗ document that so that would be great

1:48:59 ↗ um few specific comments in the growth

1:49:02 ↗ and development area the opportunity

1:49:05 ↗ section the third sentence reads in the

1:49:08 ↗ face of this growth isqua has chosen to

1:49:10 ↗ direct development to the valley floor

1:49:13 ↗ to protect existing neighborhoods and

1:49:15 ↗ our forested hillsides and plan for

1:49:18 ↗ growth around a future light rail

1:49:20 ↗ station I agree with all of that except

1:49:22 ↗ except for the protecting existing

1:49:24 ↗ neighborhoods I think we specifically

1:49:27 ↗ mentioned in the first objective that

1:49:31 ↗ neighborhoods will be will neighborhoods

1:49:34 ↗ continue to be known for their unique

1:49:35 ↗ aesthetic experience reflected in both

1:49:37 ↗ the built environment and natural

1:49:39 ↗ surroundings while responsibly

1:49:41 ↗ accommodating additional housing and

1:49:43 ↗ services throughout the city so rather

1:49:46 ↗ than disagree with ourselves between the

1:49:48 ↗ objective I just think it's really

1:49:50 ↗ important for us to recognize that

1:49:53 ↗ neighborhoods throughout time have been

1:49:55 ↗ meant to change and adjust and grow to

1:50:00 ↗ provide the services that communities

1:50:02 ↗ need so I would specifically like to

1:50:05 ↗ remove that part about protecting

1:50:07 ↗ existing

1:50:08 ↗ neighborhoods um and then growth and

1:50:10 ↗ development I think it's gd3 though

1:50:13 ↗ looking over the draft it doesn't have

1:50:15 ↗ the numbers on it um the one related to

1:50:19 ↗ infrastructure um at least in your draft

1:50:22 ↗ here the success measure there is total

1:50:24 ↗ housing units by type I think that might

1:50:27 ↗ be a

1:50:28 ↗ typo um because that doesn't seem to be

1:50:32 ↗ related to that um and it doesn't relate

1:50:37 ↗ to the success measures that were in the

1:50:41 ↗ original

1:50:43 ↗ plan so the um objective is

1:50:46 ↗ infrastructure is planned in

1:50:48 ↗ anticipation of future growth leveraging

1:50:50 ↗ development and incorporating innovative

1:50:52 ↗ sustainable and resilient design

1:50:55 ↗ obviously that is supposed to be

1:50:57 ↗ responsive to housing units but I would

1:51:01 ↗ think that the success measures would

1:51:03 ↗ be based

1:51:06 ↗ on

1:51:07 ↗ infrastructure um and how we address

1:51:10 ↗ that so I'd like to just have you check

1:51:12 ↗ into that and see if that was meant or

1:51:15 ↗ um

1:51:16 ↗ otherwise um and then council member

1:51:19 ↗ Marts mentioned the ES1 phrasing and I

1:51:24 ↗ have to agree I I think the concept and

1:51:28 ↗ the way that you explained it verbally

1:51:30 ↗ helped me understand what is meant by

1:51:33 ↗ that but I think either by talking about

1:51:37 ↗ it as a sustainability lens or something

1:51:40 ↗ with that adopts sustainability

1:51:42 ↗ practices across

1:51:44 ↗ departments and creating a less

1:51:48 ↗ centralized you know Focus around

1:51:51 ↗ sustainability I think that would help

1:51:53 ↗ help create the concept that you're

1:51:56 ↗ doing more than saying

1:51:58 ↗ sustainable program and project

1:52:00 ↗ management so um I would just like us to

1:52:03 ↗ look at rewarding that and then what

1:52:07 ↗ council member Hall and council member

1:52:08 ↗ Joe said about the uh lonliness epidemic

1:52:12 ↗ I'd love to see how we can specifically

1:52:15 ↗ mention that um because I think that

1:52:18 ↗ does speak to the moment in time that we

1:52:21 ↗ are in

1:52:23 ↗ um so generally I just think this is

1:52:26 ↗ fantastic I think there's just a few

1:52:28 ↗ tweaks but gosh the difference between

1:52:31 ↗ what we even saw in July when it had

1:52:35 ↗ already gone through a bunch of work um

1:52:38 ↗ and then to streamline down to this I

1:52:40 ↗ think it's fantastic council member

1:52:42 ↗ Mars I I just want to build a little bit

1:52:45 ↗ about on what you were talking about in

1:52:46 ↗ terms of sustainability and I'm I'm

1:52:48 ↗ going to I'm going to play the Oldtimer

1:52:50 ↗ card here for a second and say that when

1:52:52 ↗ I started on Council uh we had every

1:52:58 ↗ bill that came forward we had a how is

1:53:02 ↗ this sustainable and what is the

1:53:04 ↗ sustainability aspect to this and we

1:53:06 ↗ divided it into three areas right

1:53:08 ↗ economic sustainability social

1:53:10 ↗ sustainability and environmental

1:53:12 ↗ sustainability and so I don't I don't

1:53:16 ↗ suggest we go back to that but I suggest

1:53:18 ↗ we we talked to some of the old-timers

1:53:21 ↗ who are around because we don't do that

1:53:23 ↗ anymore right and there's some reason

1:53:25 ↗ why we don't do it anymore so what when

1:53:28 ↗ I hear about this I hear some you know

1:53:30 ↗ if there's we have applied the

1:53:32 ↗ sustainability lens to everything in the

1:53:35 ↗ past what worked and what didn't what

1:53:37 ↗ did we learn from that and how can that

1:53:39 ↗ inform

1:53:42 ↗ this excellent okay any other feedback

1:53:46 ↗ for the

1:53:48 ↗ administration council member hunt uh I

1:53:51 ↗ will plus one the um aligning with our

1:53:55 ↗ actions on removing the protection

1:53:57 ↗ because we actually specifically are

1:53:59 ↗ removing that item because we wanted to

1:54:03 ↗ uh enhance Aesthetics and make sure that

1:54:05 ↗ we're also welcoming growth so I wanted

1:54:07 ↗ to plus one

1:54:10 ↗ that excellent okay just a little bit of

1:54:14 ↗ feedback for you but moving forward do

1:54:16 ↗ you have everything you need I do thank

1:54:18 ↗ you very much excited to be back in

1:54:20 ↗ December indeed

1:54:24 ↗ okay item two out of three do we want to

1:54:27 ↗ take a five minute break I'm seeing a

1:54:30 ↗ few nods for five minute break during

1:54:32 ↗ setup so chance we'll just take a little

1:54:36 ↗ five minute recess and we will be back

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2:01:51 ↗ agenda item com

2:01:53 ↗ 0039 the 2025 2026 budget deliberations

2:01:57 ↗ presented by Andrea Snyder the deputy

2:01:59 ↗ City administrator interim

2:02:02 ↗ CFO person with all the titles at the

2:02:04 ↗ city take it

2:02:06 ↗ away thank you council president uh

2:02:09 ↗ tonight we have a discussion on our

2:02:12 ↗ budget deliberations this is really a

2:02:14 ↗ follow-up to our meeting last week and

2:02:16 ↗ some of the questions and issues raised

2:02:18 ↗ by

2:02:18 ↗ Council um so tonight our uh Direction

2:02:23 ↗ needed is really focused around just

2:02:25 ↗ four items the first is Metroflex so

2:02:29 ↗ tonight we are presenting on our

2:02:30 ↗ proposal uh for changes to the the

2:02:33 ↗ proposed budget the first one of those

2:02:35 ↗ is to fund Metroflex for the remainder

2:02:38 ↗ of our contract through uh really

2:02:41 ↗ 2025 we would do that with funds from

2:02:45 ↗ the street operating fund balance of

2:02:49 ↗ 50,000 from the fleet fund and 50,000

2:02:51 ↗ from the general fund fund uh otherwise

2:02:53 ↗ make no changes to the fleet fund

2:02:57 ↗ levels and we're going to be providing a

2:02:59 ↗ lot more information on the fleet fund

2:03:01 ↗ there seem to be a lot of questions

2:03:02 ↗ about Fleet and how the city manages our

2:03:04 ↗ Fleet so we'll be providing a lot more

2:03:06 ↗ information about that this

2:03:08 ↗ evening another uh direction that we

2:03:11 ↗ seek from Council tonight is on the

2:03:14 ↗ light rail study we heard some concerns

2:03:16 ↗ and questions over light rails so we've

2:03:18 ↗ come back with a reduced scope um we

2:03:22 ↗ the original request for 400,000 so what

2:03:24 ↗ we're proposing is to fund It On A

2:03:26 ↗ reduced level for 200,000 and we'll talk

2:03:29 ↗ through what we believe we can

2:03:30 ↗ accomplish with that level of funding

2:03:33 ↗ and then also uh we've heard a lot of

2:03:35 ↗ comments about the Downtown isqua

2:03:37 ↗ Association this evening and I know

2:03:39 ↗ Council has received comments over email

2:03:41 ↗ about the Downtown isqua Association so

2:03:43 ↗ we are proposing to fund Dia

2:03:47 ↗ $93,900 in 2025 and

2:03:50 ↗ 68,000

2:03:52 ↗ $232 in 2026 and we'll talk a little

2:03:55 ↗ more specifics about that funding

2:03:57 ↗ proposal and then um also the final

2:04:01 ↗ direction that we seek is uh whether

2:04:03 ↗ Council feels comfortable in adopting

2:04:06 ↗ the budget on December second instead of

2:04:08 ↗ what we've been discussing on December

2:04:10 ↗ 9th and um if there's concerns and

2:04:13 ↗ desire for more budget uh conversations

2:04:15 ↗ and deliberations we can certainly U

2:04:19 ↗ have that uh time anticipate on December

2:04:21 ↗ 9th but if there's not a lot of concerns

2:04:23 ↗ raised by Council then perhaps we can

2:04:26 ↗ adopt it on December

2:04:28 ↗ 2nd so first I want to take a bit of a

2:04:31 ↗ step back and talk about what we've the

2:04:34 ↗ process of getting us here today so we

2:04:37 ↗ had our August forecast we discussed a

2:04:39 ↗ little bit about that forecast at the

2:04:40 ↗ city council Retreat back in July um we

2:04:45 ↗ uh and every step of the way we find out

2:04:47 ↗ more information we provide more

2:04:49 ↗ information we go into more detail we

2:04:51 ↗ had the prelim budget which is really

2:04:52 ↗ just a budget on a page very general

2:04:55 ↗ proposed budget and every step along the

2:04:57 ↗ way there are some changes that occur so

2:04:59 ↗ we're in this space between the proposed

2:05:01 ↗ budget and the adopted budget I bring

2:05:03 ↗ this up because um as we have looked at

2:05:05 ↗ the proposed budget we have a few

2:05:07 ↗ corrections to make Corrections are

2:05:09 ↗ really common some of these Corrections

2:05:11 ↗ happen through this deliberations

2:05:13 ↗ process with Council saying we want you

2:05:14 ↗ to make the a couple of adjustments to

2:05:16 ↗ the budget and some changes other

2:05:18 ↗ Corrections we find along the way as um

2:05:21 ↗ we look and make sure that the budget

2:05:24 ↗ document reflects what's in our

2:05:25 ↗ budgeting software for example um so we

2:05:28 ↗ find some corrections along the way that

2:05:29 ↗ happens with every budget process this

2:05:31 ↗ year is no different some of the

2:05:34 ↗ corrections that we've already found and

2:05:36 ↗ would like to put into the adopted

2:05:37 ↗ budget include uh epsa if you recall the

2:05:41 ↗ city was part of a partnership for um uh

2:05:44 ↗ Police radios and emergency radios that

2:05:47 ↗ partnership has dissolved we're going to

2:05:49 ↗ get some of that capital investment back

2:05:51 ↗ we hadn't known about the timing of that

2:05:54 ↗ until after the proposed budget was

2:05:56 ↗ published so we're going to like to put

2:05:58 ↗ that into the corrected uh adopted draft

2:06:02 ↗ of the budget also uh we calculated

2:06:06 ↗ utility tax for utility tax proposal but

2:06:08 ↗ we left out Sam plats uh water customers

2:06:11 ↗ as part of that so want to add that back

2:06:13 ↗ into the budget so those are just some

2:06:15 ↗ examples of the types of Corrections

2:06:17 ↗ that we found since the proposed budget

2:06:20 ↗ was published we also have some expenses

2:06:23 ↗ for example street sweeping of we are

2:06:26 ↗ pushing all of the street sweeping

2:06:28 ↗ street sweeping expenses to the storm

2:06:30 ↗ water fund instead of general fund and

2:06:32 ↗ the reasons for that is that our storm

2:06:34 ↗ water

2:06:36 ↗ um uh license essentially from the state

2:06:41 ↗ really requires much more street

2:06:43 ↗ sweeping to occur um because of the

2:06:46 ↗ storm water utility and considers our

2:06:48 ↗ streets and roadways as part of the

2:06:49 ↗ storm water utility so because of those

2:06:52 ↗ storm water regulations from the state

2:06:54 ↗ um street sweeping has really become an

2:06:56 ↗ integral part of that storm water

2:06:58 ↗ maintenance activity so we should assign

2:07:02 ↗ those to the storm water fund um there's

2:07:04 ↗ also some passrs that we had forgotten

2:07:06 ↗ Revenue that maybe we're not really

2:07:08 ↗ collecting but just kind of pass through

2:07:10 ↗ the city so these are just examples of

2:07:13 ↗ some of the the types of Corrections

2:07:15 ↗ that we found that would will be in the

2:07:18 ↗ draft for the adopted budget um and I'm

2:07:21 ↗ bringing these up now because some of

2:07:24 ↗ these

2:07:25 ↗ Corrections help provide funding for the

2:07:28 ↗ proposed additions that we're going to

2:07:30 ↗ be discussing in the rest of the

2:07:31 ↗ presentation so we've been talking about

2:07:33 ↗ our budget is really tight we've been

2:07:35 ↗ making lots and lots of reductions um

2:07:37 ↗ but because of these Corrections we have

2:07:39 ↗ been able to propose additional funding

2:07:42 ↗ to some of these categories tonight so I

2:07:46 ↗ wanted to make sure to bring those up um

2:07:49 ↗ quickly before we get into uh the bigger

2:07:52 ↗ proposals so as I said the

2:07:54 ↗ administration is proposing funding

2:07:56 ↗ Metroflex that's

2:07:58 ↗ $262,000 for the year of

2:08:00 ↗ 2025 that would fulfill our contract in

2:08:03 ↗ the meanwhile we would continue to

2:08:04 ↗ search for other funding sources we

2:08:06 ↗ mentioned a grant that we' applied for

2:08:09 ↗ um and maybe there's other Partnerships

2:08:11 ↗ that we need to examine as

2:08:13 ↗ well so

2:08:15 ↗ $50,000 of this funding would come from

2:08:17 ↗ the general fund $50,000 would come from

2:08:20 ↗ the fleet fund and then the remaining

2:08:22 ↗ from the street operating fund balance

2:08:25 ↗ the impacts of this as we think about um

2:08:27 ↗ are pretty minimal to the fleet fund and

2:08:29 ↗ general fund because again some of those

2:08:31 ↗ Corrections that I just discussed the

2:08:34 ↗ $162,000 from the street operating um

2:08:37 ↗ fund balance we don't anticipate to

2:08:39 ↗ affect our street operations activities

2:08:43 ↗ um unless there are major storm events

2:08:46 ↗ that's what we usually like to have that

2:08:48 ↗ fund balance for a healthy fund balance

2:08:50 ↗ for that fund um in case there's extra

2:08:52 ↗ snow that we hadn't anticipated Etc so

2:08:55 ↗ if we get to that um if that does occur

2:08:58 ↗ in the next bium then what we would do

2:09:00 ↗ is we would uh look at general fund um

2:09:05 ↗ to help supplement and provide for that

2:09:07 ↗ emergency type

2:09:12 ↗ response and uh at this point I'd like

2:09:15 ↗ to welcome AUM manahan admin Services

2:09:17 ↗ administrative Services director up to

2:09:20 ↗ give a lot more information about the

2:09:21 ↗ fleet

2:09:25 ↗ fund thank you again my name is Autumn

2:09:27 ↗ manahan administrative Services director

2:09:29 ↗ in my department includes Fleet um as

2:09:32 ↗ mayor paully mentioned last week at your

2:09:35 ↗ last meeting um we we have significant

2:09:37 ↗ deferred maintenance needs at the city

2:09:40 ↗ both in facilities which I've been

2:09:41 ↗ talking about now for a while and in

2:09:43 ↗ Fleet uh that we're really working to

2:09:45 ↗ address in this proposed budget so

2:09:47 ↗ really we're trying to play some

2:09:49 ↗ catchup um we're really thankful to have

2:09:52 ↗ some outside sources as consultant help

2:09:54 ↗ and we had their facility study we also

2:09:56 ↗ had a fleet study that was that was done

2:09:58 ↗ by matrix Consulting Group back in 2023

2:10:01 ↗ that help us assess the challenges and

2:10:03 ↗ then create plans moving

2:10:04 ↗ forward um so Matrix um fulfilled its

2:10:09 ↗ study in 2023 and came back with a

2:10:11 ↗ series of recommendations which we're

2:10:13 ↗ working on um as a start we have um

2:10:16 ↗ started purchasing some electric

2:10:18 ↗ vehicles uh installing charging stations

2:10:21 ↗ uh working really hard on improving

2:10:23 ↗ customer service with departments and

2:10:25 ↗ having more connections with our

2:10:26 ↗ customers creating some more internal

2:10:28 ↗ policies that help then provide SM

2:10:30 ↗ structure around our program and then

2:10:32 ↗ upgrades to our software which helps us

2:10:34 ↗ in making more data um driven

2:10:36 ↗ decision-making when it comes to

2:10:39 ↗ Fleet uh as I mentioned last week the

2:10:41 ↗ study also found that about a half of

2:10:42 ↗ our motorized Fleet in 2023 was older

2:10:46 ↗ than its recommended life

2:10:48 ↗ cycle so we're here now with budget

2:10:50 ↗ requests to really start addressing

2:10:51 ↗ those

2:10:55 ↗ deficiencies so um I sh I shared a chart

2:10:58 ↗ last week that showed a couple different

2:11:00 ↗ you know options for addressing

2:11:02 ↗ replacement vehicles um the goal is a

2:11:05 ↗ leveled replacement plan right one that

2:11:06 ↗ we don't have a lot of Peaks and valleys

2:11:09 ↗ uh in budgets year over to year um for

2:11:12 ↗ Replacements uh and that's what the

2:11:13 ↗ study recommends that said we have

2:11:15 ↗ significant investment needs now in

2:11:17 ↗ Fleet and that's due to many factors and

2:11:20 ↗ so here's a few

2:11:22 ↗ uh the first is many expensive vehicles

2:11:23 ↗ are all up at the same time to be uh

2:11:26 ↗ replaced um and that have further age

2:11:28 ↗ since 2023 uh and and really do need

2:11:32 ↗ some attention um in addition there's an

2:11:34 ↗ increased focus on infrastructure

2:11:36 ↗ maintenance now at the city we're also

2:11:38 ↗ doing a lot more specialized work that

2:11:39 ↗ requires certain types of equipment

2:11:42 ↗ supply challenges in the past several

2:11:43 ↗ years have been very very challenging as

2:11:45 ↗ far as even being able to purchase

2:11:47 ↗ vehicles and equipment so we have a

2:11:49 ↗ backlog as we're working toward actually

2:11:50 ↗ making those

2:11:51 ↗ purchases uh police patrol vehicles are

2:11:54 ↗ um more likely now used as take-home

2:11:57 ↗ Vehicles as part of a a pilot program

2:12:00 ↗ that shortens the life cycle of our

2:12:02 ↗ Patrol Vehicles significantly and so

2:12:04 ↗ that's also

2:12:05 ↗ changed um there are newer models for

2:12:08 ↗ several types of vehicles and equipment

2:12:09 ↗ that would provide substantial

2:12:11 ↗ efficiencies and safety enhancements for

2:12:13 ↗ our field staff and then finally um

2:12:16 ↗ further investment in EVS can increase

2:12:18 ↗ upfront costs

2:12:22 ↗ um so in your packet Autumn before you

2:12:24 ↗ move on we've got a question council

2:12:26 ↗ member

2:12:27 ↗ MZ why does taking the vehicles home

2:12:29 ↗ substantially reduce their life

2:12:32 ↗ cycle because often times police offic

2:12:35 ↗ vehicles are being used 247 so whether

2:12:38 ↗ they're used to be taken home or they're

2:12:40 ↗ being used in the field they're

2:12:41 ↗ constantly running so we don't have we

2:12:43 ↗ didn't add an extra you know several

2:12:46 ↗ vehicles that were just for take-home

2:12:48 ↗ the patrol vehicles that are being used

2:12:49 ↗ are also being used for take-home if

2:12:50 ↗ that makes sense no okay I'm sorry

2:12:54 ↗ because they're they're getting before

2:12:57 ↗ right they were getting driven a certain

2:12:59 ↗ amount per day but a lot right because

2:13:01 ↗ they're they're going out of Patrol then

2:13:03 ↗ you're just adding the the commute time

2:13:05 ↗ to and from but aren't they getting

2:13:07 ↗ driven like four or six hours or eight

2:13:09 ↗ hours a day um as as part of Patrol and

2:13:13 ↗ then the amount that that gets added to

2:13:15 ↗ that to just drive it home seems a small

2:13:17 ↗ addition compared to the

2:13:19 ↗ amount part of their

2:13:22 ↗ operational it it does add a significant

2:13:24 ↗ amount of mileage just depending on

2:13:25 ↗ where our police officers live a lot of

2:13:27 ↗ them don't live locally um and so there

2:13:31 ↗ is significant of mge in just driving to

2:13:33 ↗ and

2:13:35 ↗ from and if you would have anything to

2:13:37 ↗ add Kelly on

2:13:40 ↗ that this is Kelly kusman our fleet

2:13:44 ↗ manager good evening again Kelly cusman

2:13:47 ↗ fleet manager we don't have specific uh

2:13:50 ↗ data on exactly where the vehicles are

2:13:52 ↗ going home to um but initial data or

2:13:55 ↗ collection when we started looking at

2:13:57 ↗ pilot

2:13:58 ↗ program suggested that we patrolled

2:14:01 ↗ about 25 miles a day U when they

2:14:04 ↗ districted uh the city a little bit that

2:14:07 ↗ that mileage shrunk on those vehicles

2:14:09 ↗ and then we're looking at somewhere

2:14:12 ↗ about that same amount of mileage each

2:14:13 ↗ way for transportation alone so we kind

2:14:17 ↗ of went from about a six-year

2:14:19 ↗ replacement cycle to about a four

2:14:22 ↗ okay thank you thank

2:14:27 ↗ you think it's really indicative of

2:14:29 ↗ where our police officers live too and

2:14:31 ↗ seeing

2:14:34 ↗ that uh so in your packet is the full

2:14:36 ↗ list of the proposed vehicles for the um

2:14:39 ↗ the budget I pulled out a few just as

2:14:41 ↗ some examples not having to go through

2:14:43 ↗ the full list tonight but to show you

2:14:45 ↗ just some of the needs that um that are

2:14:48 ↗ included in the budget so to start off

2:14:50 ↗ some EX extremely old generators from

2:14:52 ↗ 1972 and 1983 that have low electrical

2:14:56 ↗ capacity a flatbed truck from 1986 in

2:14:59 ↗ the streets division that has some

2:15:00 ↗ worsening mechanical condition and

2:15:03 ↗ limited parts availability just due to

2:15:04 ↗ its age a one ton duck truck in Parks

2:15:08 ↗ operations from

2:15:09 ↗ 1992 a backhole loader from 2008 in the

2:15:12 ↗ Water Division that's showing some

2:15:14 ↗ Extreme Wear a jet vac heavy duty truck

2:15:16 ↗ with worsening mechanical issues from

2:15:19 ↗ 2009 a Transit bus used by the senior

2:15:21 ↗ center from 2010 that is not Ada

2:15:24 ↗ accessible uh is hindering some just

2:15:27 ↗ operations there and then as mentioned

2:15:30 ↗ uh Patrol vehicles used for the

2:15:31 ↗ take-home program aged in 2019 and 2022

2:15:34 ↗ would already be up for replacement in

2:15:36 ↗ this proposed

2:15:39 ↗ budget with that I'm here to answer any

2:15:42 ↗ questions

2:15:43 ↗ on council member hunt thank you um my

2:15:48 ↗ understanding is that there are some

2:15:49 ↗ cities that have a police Patrol

2:15:51 ↗ take-home program where they're using a

2:15:53 ↗ different vehicle to take home than the

2:15:55 ↗ police vehicle police vehicles have a

2:15:56 ↗ lot of uh special equipment and are um

2:16:01 ↗ are uh more expensive than a lot of

2:16:03 ↗ other vehicles uh and so I wondered if

2:16:05 ↗ that was considered in the budget and um

2:16:09 ↗ if we could see the results of that

2:16:12 ↗ consideration City

2:16:15 ↗ administrator council member hunt thank

2:16:17 ↗ you for the question because I just got

2:16:19 ↗ a text from Stephanie Johnson our HR

2:16:22 ↗ director which address directly

2:16:24 ↗ addresses your question and Stephanie

2:16:26 ↗ writes uh remind us that in order to be

2:16:29 ↗ eligible for take-home program employees

2:16:31 ↗ must live within a straight line

2:16:33 ↗ distance of 50 mi from the city if the

2:16:35 ↗ employee lives outside of this boundary

2:16:37 ↗ he or she must Park the take-home

2:16:39 ↗ vehicle at a secure location such as a

2:16:41 ↗ police or fire station within a straight

2:16:43 ↗ line distance of 50 miles from the city

2:16:46 ↗ so that is our version of that at a 50

2:16:48 ↗ mile p

2:16:52 ↗ um thank you for that I I do think that

2:16:55 ↗ my question so I I believe there are

2:16:56 ↗ some cities where they have a whole

2:16:58 ↗ different car it's not a police vehicle

2:17:00 ↗ that they get into the separate car they

2:17:02 ↗ take that home to and from work and so

2:17:05 ↗ that would be more my question um

2:17:07 ↗ because we're seeing the the two years

2:17:09 ↗ you know we're seeing more um wear on

2:17:13 ↗ the vehicles as a result of this program

2:17:15 ↗ and reducing those versus if it were a

2:17:17 ↗ different car that was um less expensive

2:17:20 ↗ and I and I have heard from other cities

2:17:22 ↗ that they they still allow their um

2:17:24 ↗ officers this benefit taking home the

2:17:27 ↗ cars but it's not the police patrol cars

2:17:29 ↗ but thank you for the additional

2:17:30 ↗ information about the the distance and

2:17:33 ↗ and we've had those discussions as well

2:17:35 ↗ um we don't have a police chief with us

2:17:37 ↗ this evening uh but in discussions with

2:17:40 ↗ with Chief Schwan um she believes there

2:17:43 ↗ is a value to them having that police

2:17:45 ↗ vehicle for emergency response um you

2:17:48 ↗ know the idea that if everyone has a

2:17:50 ↗ police vehicle and there is an emergency

2:17:52 ↗ uh we then have the value of police

2:17:54 ↗ officers who live near us who may work

2:17:56 ↗ from other jurisdictions and vice versa

2:17:58 ↗ so um we have explored the idea of a

2:18:02 ↗ take-home

2:18:04 ↗ sedan let Autumn fill in any blanks from

2:18:07 ↗ that but uh but certainly we have had

2:18:09 ↗ those discussions and I think the the

2:18:11 ↗ value the chief Swan feels and other

2:18:13 ↗ police Chiefs feel that in the case of

2:18:15 ↗ an emergency then those officers have an

2:18:18 ↗ additional uh uh flexibility and and

2:18:21 ↗ ability to support wherever they may

2:18:22 ↗ happen to that's good for the reg and

2:18:26 ↗ whether they're marked cars or not for

2:18:27 ↗ take-home um that would require just

2:18:30 ↗ funding and the budget that we're

2:18:32 ↗ proposing is is really focused on

2:18:35 ↗ replacement of existing at the moment

2:18:37 ↗ along with all the additions are really

2:18:39 ↗ funded by utility funds but there's no

2:18:41 ↗ new vehicles that really can be afforded

2:18:43 ↗ by the general fund in adding on to our

2:18:45 ↗ Fleet at this point

2:18:51 ↗ okay any other questions coming up on

2:18:54 ↗ fleet right

2:18:57 ↗ now um I know there was a question

2:19:01 ↗ related that a Community member had um

2:19:04 ↗ mentioned related to pervious surface

2:19:08 ↗ and a vehicle in the fleet plan that was

2:19:12 ↗ like $3.5 million uh related to prvious

2:19:15 ↗ surface cleaning um I'm not sure if that

2:19:18 ↗ I don't think that's in this 2025 2026

2:19:23 ↗ so maybe that's just something that you

2:19:25 ↗ can get back to us with information on

2:19:28 ↗ sure that would be great um and then the

2:19:30 ↗ other question I would have the transit

2:19:32 ↗ bus for the senior center I know the

2:19:34 ↗ county has a lot of programs with um

2:19:38 ↗ vans that um potentially could be

2:19:42 ↗ available have we looked into any

2:19:44 ↗ opportunities like that that could

2:19:47 ↗ potentially serve our needs I do know

2:19:49 ↗ our parks and community service

2:19:51 ↗ department has been active in seeking

2:19:54 ↗ those grants and I know they have been

2:19:56 ↗ watching I don't have any updates at the

2:19:57 ↗ moment if there's any availability but

2:19:59 ↗ we can look into that for sure or even

2:20:01 ↗ the King County vans that they have um

2:20:04 ↗ that they give away after they're done

2:20:06 ↗ using them and I think the challenge

2:20:08 ↗ anytime a agency's giving away a vehicle

2:20:10 ↗ that they deem no longer fills their

2:20:12 ↗ needs then there's often additional

2:20:14 ↗ maintenance costs to come along that so

2:20:17 ↗ again I think we try to be uh as smart

2:20:20 ↗ as this you know things that are free

2:20:21 ↗ rarely are

2:20:23 ↗ free I just want to be smart with u a

2:20:26 ↗ $28,000 purchase of a Transit bus so as

2:20:31 ↗ well um any other questions on

2:20:34 ↗ fleet okay thank you

2:20:42 ↗ autum other proposed changes

2:20:46 ↗ uh include funding the light rail study

2:20:50 ↗ so we be partial funding of the light

2:20:51 ↗ rail study as you recall the original

2:20:54 ↗ request was for

2:20:55 ↗ $400,000 and instead we're proposing A

2:20:58 ↗ reduced scope that reduced scope would

2:21:01 ↗ um the main deliverable would be to

2:21:05 ↗ develop locally preferred station

2:21:07 ↗ locations and Alignment options to

2:21:10 ↗ inform and streamline the planning for

2:21:11 ↗ Sound Transit so we'd be able to use a

2:21:14 ↗ consultant team to help us with that for

2:21:15 ↗ the 200,000 we take a lot more of the

2:21:18 ↗ work inhouse under this proposal so that

2:21:20 ↗ means that isqua staff would lead on the

2:21:23 ↗ public engagement and evaluation

2:21:26 ↗ activities to reduce um project costs as

2:21:29 ↗ well um it does delay in identifying and

2:21:34 ↗ updating the municipal code or zoning as

2:21:37 ↗ needed that was an analysis that we'd

2:21:39 ↗ have to take out at this time and

2:21:41 ↗ postpone uh for future

2:21:45 ↗ years and finally I'm sorry was there a

2:21:48 ↗ question

2:21:50 ↗ thank you uh council member Hall um

2:21:52 ↗ quick one around the light rail study

2:21:54 ↗ thank you um if I I don't actually

2:21:57 ↗ remember this being a huge priority in

2:22:00 ↗ our discussion last week in fact I think

2:22:01 ↗ there were a couple of us that even said

2:22:03 ↗ waiting might be might be a good thing

2:22:06 ↗ so I guess I'm I'm curious what the

2:22:08 ↗ administration's thinking was here

2:22:09 ↗ because I I suppose this so this is all

2:22:11 ↗ general fund a new new general fund

2:22:13 ↗ Revenue that we've identified this also

2:22:16 ↗ could have been used for other

2:22:16 ↗ priorities like Metroflex right so I'm

2:22:18 ↗ wondering if you could just kind of walk

2:22:19 ↗ us through

2:22:21 ↗ um your thinking and coming U refunding

2:22:24 ↗ this light rail study thank you I I see

2:22:27 ↗ City administrator Bob quitz has some

2:22:29 ↗ comments well I think uh the

2:22:31 ↗ administration reacted to your

2:22:33 ↗ conversation and I think that there was

2:22:34 ↗ a concern um as we were listening to the

2:22:37 ↗ council uh that that momentum is really

2:22:40 ↗ important and that to go for a year

2:22:44 ↗ without doing anything um was not

2:22:47 ↗ something we felt comfortable with after

2:22:48 ↗ the discussions that the council has so

2:22:50 ↗ we went back back to Minnie Dolly wall

2:22:52 ↗ our community planning and development

2:22:53 ↗ director and said what might be

2:22:55 ↗ something that's less that would keep

2:22:57 ↗ that momentum going continue uh to have

2:23:00 ↗ this issue not only before the public

2:23:02 ↗ but also I think what came out to me

2:23:04 ↗ from the council's discussion was Sound

2:23:06 ↗ Transit that you know we need to

2:23:08 ↗ continue to keep this in front of Sound

2:23:09 ↗ Transit as well as continue to have

2:23:11 ↗ dialogue with the community um Minnie is

2:23:14 ↗ on the line and I'll ask if she has

2:23:16 ↗ anything she wants to add because this

2:23:18 ↗ is really her recommendation back back

2:23:20 ↗ to the mayor uh to put that in so yes I

2:23:23 ↗ agreed that the council uh was kind of

2:23:26 ↗ veering from um you know further uh

2:23:29 ↗ support for something like this but it

2:23:30 ↗ really was from the issues that the

2:23:32 ↗ council raised that we went back and

2:23:34 ↗ said is there anything we can do and and

2:23:37 ↗ Minnie was able to come up with that

2:23:39 ↗ Minnie uh good morning uh to you in in

2:23:42 ↗ New Delhi and uh you care to add

2:23:45 ↗ anything uh sure no good evening council

2:23:48 ↗ members um that's exactly what it is you

2:23:50 ↗ know we went back and looked at the

2:23:52 ↗ light raail planning guide and the

2:23:55 ↗ experiences of other cities that have

2:23:57 ↗ had success with um being good partners

2:24:01 ↗ with Sound Transit if we have all our uh

2:24:04 ↗ information ahead of it otherwise we we

2:24:06 ↗ tend to react to something that's on

2:24:09 ↗ Transit as selected so um so that's

2:24:12 ↗ primarily I think I think we heard

2:24:14 ↗ Council raised uh Mor Island example

2:24:16 ↗ where it wasn't well well done we've

2:24:18 ↗ looked at Redmond's example where it was

2:24:21 ↗ or Kirkland's example so looking and and

2:24:24 ↗ other local cities experience of doing

2:24:27 ↗ this work earlier and puts isqua in a

2:24:30 ↗ good position where we don't have to um

2:24:33 ↗ react to something that's s Transit

2:24:35 ↗ proposes and then there's a uh you know

2:24:38 ↗ issue with the um community's desires

2:24:40 ↗ for the for the plus I think the biggest

2:24:43 ↗ other uh factor is coordination with the

2:24:46 ↗ over Crossing and

2:24:48 ↗ undercrossing uh work that is going to

2:24:50 ↗ to occur so our recommendation is at

2:24:53 ↗ least this puts the esqua in a better

2:24:55 ↗ position to have a locally preferred

2:24:57 ↗ station ahead of sound transits work

2:25:00 ↗ which will kick off in

2:25:03 ↗ 2026 okay thank you y uh council member

2:25:08 ↗ or Deputy council president D Michelle

2:25:10 ↗ uh is it appropriate for me to comment

2:25:12 ↗ on this or should I wait for yeah just

2:25:13 ↗ questions

2:25:15 ↗ okay okay go ahead

2:25:20 ↗ and the last of the proposed changes we

2:25:22 ↗ have for you this evening is to fund

2:25:24 ↗ Downtown isqua

2:25:26 ↗ Association uh this proposal includes a

2:25:28 ↗ 12% reduction to the uh City's

2:25:32 ↗ contribution out of the general fund um

2:25:35 ↗ which would mean in uh 2025

2:25:40 ↗ 26,400 and in 2026

2:25:44 ↗ 23,

2:25:46 ↗ 200 um we would also propose a reduction

2:25:50 ↗ in funds contributed through the Main

2:25:51 ↗ Street tax credit incentive

2:25:54 ↗ program from the 2024 level of $90,000

2:25:58 ↗ to um

2:26:01 ↗ 67,500 in 2025 and 45,000 in

2:26:05 ↗ 2026 before the city would offer this

2:26:08 ↗ funding we uh the administration

2:26:11 ↗ proposes to confirm with the Main Street

2:26:13 ↗ Association about Dia's eligibility for

2:26:15 ↗ the tax credit funds U before entering

2:26:18 ↗ into a memorandum of understanding in

2:26:20 ↗ for the tax credit funds and uh the

2:26:23 ↗ general fund

2:26:27 ↗ support and next I'd like to talk about

2:26:30 ↗ timing and next steps so here we are in

2:26:32 ↗ the budget uh timeline November 18th

2:26:35 ↗ with budget

2:26:36 ↗ deliberations next week we'll be coming

2:26:38 ↗ back to with uh property tax adoption

2:26:42 ↗ and we'll be discussing revenues at that

2:26:44 ↗ meeting and then looking for the final

2:26:47 ↗ budget hearing to happen on December 2nd

2:26:49 ↗ if Council is comfortable then um we

2:26:52 ↗ would propose to adopt the budget after

2:26:56 ↗ the final budget hearing if Council

2:26:58 ↗ feels like you still need more uh time

2:27:01 ↗ to deliberate you have more questions

2:27:03 ↗ more concerns with the proposed budget

2:27:06 ↗ then we have December 3rd and uh final

2:27:09 ↗ adoption could happen on December

2:27:12 ↗ 9th so again the direction that we seek

2:27:15 ↗ from you tonight is whether or not you

2:27:17 ↗ agree with the administration's

2:27:18 ↗ proposals to fund

2:27:20 ↗ Metroflex make no other changes to the

2:27:23 ↗ fleet fund levels fund the light rail

2:27:25 ↗ study with a reduced scope fund Dia uh

2:27:29 ↗ and also whether we should plan to adopt

2:27:32 ↗ the budget on December 2nd or December

2:27:36 ↗ 9th thank you okay looking for any

2:27:39 ↗ questions at this point uh council

2:27:41 ↗ member

2:27:42 ↗ hunt at the last meeting there was

2:27:45 ↗ mentioned that the remainder of the

2:27:47 ↗ contract I think for Metroflex got us

2:27:50 ↗ through partway through

2:27:52 ↗ 2025 um so when you in in the proposed

2:27:57 ↗ budget though we're funding the full

2:27:58 ↗ year of 2025 including the remainder of

2:28:00 ↗ the contract plus the rest of 2025 or is

2:28:02 ↗ it really only those couple months that

2:28:05 ↗ we're that we have to pay because we are

2:28:07 ↗ in an existing contract is this

2:28:09 ↗ extending beyond what we're required to

2:28:11 ↗ do by a contract or just that and so is

2:28:14 ↗ it a full year or is it it's just

2:28:16 ↗ fulfilling the contract I believe it is

2:28:19 ↗ a full year but I'm going to ask Emily

2:28:21 ↗ Moon who I believe is on the line if she

2:28:23 ↗ can confirm it's for the full year

2:28:27 ↗ um but I believe it's really just that's

2:28:31 ↗ the intention is is through the the

2:28:33 ↗ remainder of the contract and I'll just

2:28:35 ↗ reference my comments from the other

2:28:38 ↗ night was referencing the fact that we

2:28:39 ↗ would have to have the 180 day um

2:28:42 ↗ announcement period and so we were on

2:28:45 ↗ the hook because we haven't been able to

2:28:47 ↗ make that through the end of May or June

2:28:50 ↗ whatever that was and so that wasn't the

2:28:53 ↗ end of the contract that was just the

2:28:55 ↗ earliest we could get out of the

2:28:57 ↗ contract so our commitment with this

2:29:00 ↗ amendment change to the proposed budget

2:29:02 ↗ is to continue the contract in addition

2:29:05 ↗ uh we also need to sort through next

2:29:07 ↗ steps beyond that and so uh we'll commit

2:29:10 ↗ at least orally this evening uh that we

2:29:13 ↗ will do that and come back to the

2:29:14 ↗ council uh probably uh maybe second

2:29:17 ↗ quarter next year to say okay okay the

2:29:21 ↗ contract the Pilot's coming to an end

2:29:22 ↗ we've continued to talk with uh K County

2:29:25 ↗ Transit this is what it's going to take

2:29:27 ↗ to continue it moving forward we also

2:29:28 ↗ may know about the grants at that point

2:29:31 ↗ if the grant frees up these dollars then

2:29:33 ↗ that may be money available for the

2:29:34 ↗ second year of the bium uh to continue

2:29:37 ↗ this Beyond this but what we're

2:29:38 ↗ proposing this evening is to fund this

2:29:41 ↗ through the the pilot and I see the

2:29:43 ↗ Public Work Director

2:29:46 ↗ on that not

2:29:48 ↗ H oh okay came up under Andrew there's

2:29:51 ↗ uh and I would just ask director Moon if

2:29:54 ↗ I misspoke to correct me otherwise I

2:29:56 ↗ believe that's where we're

2:29:59 ↗ at evening yes the contract runs until

2:30:02 ↗ the end of December 2025 so this funny

2:30:06 ↗ would take us to the end of the

2:30:09 ↗ contract thank

2:30:11 ↗ you okay uh council member

2:30:15 ↗ Hall council member Hull

2:30:18 ↗ sorry um

2:30:23 ↗ um a few so a couple just um other

2:30:27 ↗ questions um based on kind of the Q&A at

2:30:29 ↗ the end of the packet so um thank you to

2:30:33 ↗ whomever wrote the lengthy response on

2:30:35 ↗ the CPD active Transportation um study I

2:30:39 ↗ I appreciate it I just had no clue what

2:30:40 ↗ it was and wanted some more information

2:30:42 ↗ seems like significant and important

2:30:44 ↗ work um that needs to be done and we're

2:30:46 ↗ so I think if I read it right we're

2:30:48 ↗ relying on hopefully getting this grant

2:30:50 ↗ to be able to fund that so I was just

2:30:51 ↗ wondering and this doesn't have to be a

2:30:53 ↗ now answer either but what what's our

2:30:56 ↗ plan because it seems so significant in

2:30:58 ↗ terms of something we need to do in the

2:31:00 ↗ near term what what's our plan if we

2:31:01 ↗ don't get the grant would it be to

2:31:03 ↗ continue to look for more grant

2:31:05 ↗ opportunities or would we try to find

2:31:07 ↗ cost savings and look within or do we

2:31:09 ↗ not see it as a near-term

2:31:12 ↗ priority we would continue to look for

2:31:14 ↗ grant opportunities uh and see how those

2:31:17 ↗ grant opportunities may change over time

2:31:21 ↗ um we have seen more grants for active

2:31:24 ↗ Transportation Planning uh in the recent

2:31:27 ↗ years and so that's something we're

2:31:29 ↗ still hopeful that we can achieve grant

2:31:31 ↗ funding for if we cannot find grant

2:31:33 ↗ funding then uh we would look to Future

2:31:38 ↗ years for funding that

2:31:40 ↗ work okay thank you appreciate the

2:31:42 ↗ clarification and then two more points

2:31:44 ↗ of clarification so I submitted a

2:31:47 ↗ question about kind of a future

2:31:48 ↗ conversation I'd like us to have about

2:31:50 ↗ um Public Safety revenues um knowing if

2:31:55 ↗ we were to actually do something in the

2:31:56 ↗ future we would account for those

2:31:58 ↗ revenues through a budget amendment but

2:32:00 ↗ is there any reason why we would need to

2:32:02 ↗ budget anything for like staff time or

2:32:05 ↗ Community engagement for having the

2:32:07 ↗ conversation in the first

2:32:10 ↗ place um we don't we don't believe that

2:32:13 ↗ such cost would be really significant um

2:32:15 ↗ if any to budget for we would be using

2:32:18 ↗ existing staff uh resources to be able

2:32:21 ↗ to have those conversations before

2:32:23 ↗ action is taken and the same could be S

2:32:26 ↗ then around this conversation we want to

2:32:28 ↗ have for East Side Fire and Rescue

2:32:29 ↗ around the fire permit fees then we

2:32:31 ↗ probably have capacity and

2:32:33 ↗ existing space to have those

2:32:35 ↗ conversations without budgeting any I I

2:32:37 ↗ believe that's the desire as well and

2:32:40 ↗ that's absolutely the desire but I think

2:32:41 ↗ the scope of that is a little bit too

2:32:43 ↗ unknown to give you a 100% um

2:32:46 ↗ declaration that we would not need

2:32:48 ↗ outside resources to do that uh clearly

2:32:51 ↗ public safy as we look at 25 the

2:32:53 ↗ administration and the priorities that

2:32:55 ↗ mayor paully has for next year um

2:32:58 ↗ there's a whole variety of Public Safety

2:33:01 ↗ uh jail fire uh issues that we're going

2:33:04 ↗ to have to have front and center at the

2:33:05 ↗ very beginning of 25 uh so that we can

2:33:08 ↗ come to the council you know probably

2:33:10 ↗ mid year next year uh and have some

2:33:12 ↗ serious conversations because certainly

2:33:14 ↗ while we're we're very pleased that this

2:33:17 ↗ budget seems to be coming together in

2:33:18 ↗ order to meet those needs um we are not

2:33:22 ↗ uh convinced that revenue streams will

2:33:25 ↗ support them in future years and so we

2:33:27 ↗ want to get the council talking about

2:33:29 ↗ that uh late spring early summer should

2:33:31 ↗ there be any midby anym changes that are

2:33:34 ↗ needed um and then beyond but it's going

2:33:36 ↗ to be as we think about priorities for

2:33:38 ↗ next year that's a top five uh looking

2:33:42 ↗ at those Revenue issues uh

2:33:44 ↗ safety police

2:33:47 ↗ enir thank you good I'm glad to hear and

2:33:49 ↗ actually just thought of another

2:33:50 ↗ question again just thinking about it

2:33:52 ↗ off to my head so I apologize I didn't

2:33:54 ↗ send this in

2:33:57 ↗ um the memo said we were largely in

2:34:00 ↗ agreement around delaying the housing

2:34:01 ↗ and parking studies um I had some um

2:34:06 ↗ suggestion around could we look at kind

2:34:09 ↗ of the housing and parking work plan

2:34:11 ↗ that we had a slide detailing that Dr

2:34:14 ↗ Dolly wall went through or actually I

2:34:16 ↗ can't remember who did it um around the

2:34:18 ↗ work that were already played planing in

2:34:20 ↗ housing and parking and and kind of as a

2:34:21 ↗ justification for delaying the the

2:34:23 ↗ studies which made which makes sense

2:34:25 ↗ logically um but had thought maybe we

2:34:28 ↗ can look at that list and some of the

2:34:30 ↗ other things that we're interested as a

2:34:31 ↗ council and looking at and kind of

2:34:33 ↗ having the policy discussion about what

2:34:35 ↗ makes sense recognizing that some of

2:34:37 ↗ those are required I was just curious if

2:34:39 ↗ the administration had kind of a

2:34:40 ↗ response to having that exercise on

2:34:42 ↗ Council or did we feel like really the

2:34:45 ↗ stuff that we had was required and so we

2:34:47 ↗ don't have capacity to consider other

2:34:48 ↗ things like FTE or or the other Eco

2:34:51 ↗ Northwest kind of

2:34:55 ↗ recommendations um I would invite uh

2:34:59 ↗ Community planning director mini Dolly

2:35:01 ↗ wall if you have

2:35:04 ↗ comments sure um you know we can

2:35:07 ↗ certainly have whatever conversation we

2:35:10 ↗ want to have about the work plan with

2:35:12 ↗ council with Council committee however

2:35:14 ↗ you desire uh at this time yes it's a

2:35:17 ↗ staff capacity issue the required um

2:35:21 ↗ items that we need to get through uh we

2:35:23 ↗ need to get through but I think also we

2:35:25 ↗ want to give some time for some of the

2:35:29 ↗ MF expansions that the council has

2:35:31 ↗ agreed to you know with the Pioneer

2:35:33 ↗ program with the shelter development to

2:35:35 ↗ see if there's anything that we can

2:35:37 ↗ learn from that um and and so we put in

2:35:41 ↗ the work and effort uh to calibrate it

2:35:44 ↗ accordingly the other part I think we we

2:35:46 ↗ mentioned in our presentation last time

2:35:48 ↗ was uh a lot of development feasibility

2:35:51 ↗ we learned from the Eco Northwest work

2:35:53 ↗ was tied to our parking requirements so

2:35:55 ↗ now that with the state Bill we Cann not

2:35:57 ↗ mandate um any sort of structured

2:36:00 ↗ parking that significantly improves

2:36:02 ↗ development feasibility for uh develop

2:36:05 ↗ you know for for housing and other uh

2:36:07 ↗ situations and so before we roll out

2:36:10 ↗ more incentives uh we want to see what

2:36:13 ↗ what are we getting out of the MFD that

2:36:15 ↗ we've already expanded how does this

2:36:17 ↗ parking uh play a role into it before we

2:36:20 ↗ take up any policy work related to doing

2:36:22 ↗ further work that was sort of our

2:36:24 ↗ justification for uh maybe in the next

2:36:26 ↗ two years we give it some time for

2:36:28 ↗ Council actions to play out uh before we

2:36:30 ↗ start tweaking

2:36:32 ↗ them and then we had an interim plan to

2:36:35 ↗ work in-house with Arch on the um uh

2:36:39 ↗ development density bonus program to see

2:36:41 ↗ if we can look at that specific uh

2:36:44 ↗ program which was also one of the

2:36:46 ↗ recommendations from Eco Northwest

2:36:48 ↗ report

2:36:50 ↗ oh that sorry just to clarify that item

2:36:52 ↗ about the development density bonus

2:36:54 ↗ program that would be something we

2:36:55 ↗ consider in the bium with

2:36:58 ↗ Arch H correct so there's no funding

2:37:00 ↗ request asked for it at this time it IT

2:37:03 ↗ staff will continue to look at whether

2:37:05 ↗ there's any efficiencies we can build

2:37:07 ↗ into that

2:37:08 ↗ program okay all right so before more

2:37:11 ↗ incentives evaluate what we've done and

2:37:13 ↗ really understand some of these new

2:37:15 ↗ requirements that actually might make

2:37:16 ↗ some of the things we want to consider

2:37:18 ↗ move point okay that makes sense correct

2:37:21 ↗ and staff capacity correct and staff

2:37:22 ↗ capacity okay thank

2:37:24 ↗ you always staff capacity um any other

2:37:30 ↗ questions not seeing any though I will

2:37:34 ↗ always look at council member Hall and

2:37:36 ↗ see if anything jumps up last minute but

2:37:38 ↗ you've already been

2:37:40 ↗ covered um so we have a moment for uh

2:37:45 ↗ Community comment um public comment here

2:37:48 ↗ and so I will see uh anybody online if

2:37:53 ↗ you're on the phone star three you're on

2:37:55 ↗ a computer raise your hand icon or send

2:37:58 ↗ the host a chat message and I will

2:38:01 ↗ obviously look into the room and see if

2:38:04 ↗ there's anybody here looking to make a

2:38:08 ↗ comment nothing either way okay

2:38:11 ↗ fantastic then we're looking for

2:38:14 ↗ feedback and so the direction needed

2:38:17 ↗ from the administration we've got five

2:38:20 ↗ specific areas that we definitely want

2:38:21 ↗ to make sure that we cover but we are

2:38:24 ↗ Council feel free to ask others um

2:38:28 ↗ Deputy council president D

2:38:30 ↗ Michelle thank you so uh we'll start

2:38:33 ↗ with the

2:38:35 ↗ Metroflex uh and I want to thank uh

2:38:37 ↗ people for the creative way that you've

2:38:39 ↗ put that together and yes I support that

2:38:42 ↗ um I just like to make some general

2:38:44 ↗ remarks about how we are approaching

2:38:47 ↗ these Transit and transportation

2:38:50 ↗ projects um you know we are one of 39

2:38:54 ↗ Suburban cities and U then there's the

2:38:57 ↗ Big Kahuna uh the city of Seattle and

2:39:00 ↗ they all go to Metro with their hands

2:39:03 ↗ out and wanting services and wanting uh

2:39:07 ↗ improvements to their Transit and uh I

2:39:10 ↗ think our approach here and also when we

2:39:13 ↗ go to Sound Transit the same situation

2:39:15 ↗ is there everybody's asking them for

2:39:17 ↗ everything we have demonstrated tonight

2:39:20 ↗ if we approve this that we are a strong

2:39:24 ↗ supporter of uh first mile Last Mile

2:39:27 ↗ Services in our community that we back

2:39:30 ↗ the Metroflex program and I think we

2:39:32 ↗ need to take that same attitude for the

2:39:36 ↗ light rail study and position ourselves

2:39:38 ↗ strongly if we are not fully committed

2:39:42 ↗ to um these programs we're going to

2:39:45 ↗ somebody else will be fully committed

2:39:48 ↗ and they will get those services so I

2:39:50 ↗ think we've just got to um we've got to

2:39:53 ↗ stay the course when it comes to uh our

2:39:56 ↗ backing of uh transit services and our

2:39:58 ↗ backing of the light rail study and our

2:40:01 ↗ commitment to bringing that light rail

2:40:03 ↗ station to isqua um I thought that uh

2:40:07 ↗ when we had this previous discussion

2:40:08 ↗ last week that many as I said made an

2:40:11 ↗ excellent case for holding on to this

2:40:13 ↗ light rail study um she gave the example

2:40:16 ↗ of Mercer Island as opposed to other

2:40:19 ↗ places are is our voice going to be

2:40:21 ↗ heard or is it sound transit's voice

2:40:23 ↗ that's going to be heard uh we want our

2:40:25 ↗ voice to be heard our our community

2:40:27 ↗ wants our voice to be heard and uh we

2:40:31 ↗ get there by getting ahead of the curve

2:40:33 ↗ by being on top of this of this process

2:40:37 ↗ rather than reacting to whatever sound

2:40:39 ↗ transis brings to us so in both cases

2:40:42 ↗ for Metroflex and for the light rail

2:40:45 ↗ study we just need to Bear down and stay

2:40:47 ↗ the course um when it comes to Metroflex

2:40:51 ↗ uh we have one year we've heard from

2:40:54 ↗ inumerable people and I've continued to

2:40:57 ↗ hear comments from community members on

2:40:59 ↗ Metroflex this is really something that

2:41:01 ↗ people are very concerned about really

2:41:04 ↗ want to see happen so as we go through

2:41:07 ↗ 2025 I hope that we will continue our

2:41:10 ↗ discussions with Metro about how they

2:41:13 ↗ might be able to step up at some point

2:41:16 ↗ and help us out or can we get grants or

2:41:20 ↗ in other words let's be looking at 2026

2:41:23 ↗ and see what we can do to ensure the

2:41:26 ↗ sustainability of this program going

2:41:28 ↗ forward so we've solved it for one year

2:41:31 ↗ and we solve it for the

2:41:33 ↗ future

2:41:34 ↗ um thank you to Autumn for the um

2:41:38 ↗ explanation about the fleet um fund and

2:41:41 ↗ yes I would go ahead and approve that

2:41:43 ↗ with no other changes so I think there

2:41:46 ↗ is a good case for that and um uh again

2:41:49 ↗ with the DIA fund um uh I appreciate

2:41:54 ↗ that the Administration has uh come up

2:41:57 ↗ with a new proposal there again can we

2:42:00 ↗ continue to look for or can we assist

2:42:03 ↗ Dia in looking for other sources of

2:42:05 ↗ funding I know they're eligible for ltac

2:42:08 ↗ funds for example um and are there other

2:42:11 ↗ sources that um we can work in

2:42:14 ↗ partnership with them to see if we could

2:42:16 ↗ fill the Gap that's that's been created

2:42:19 ↗ so um those are my comments thank you

2:42:22 ↗ very

2:42:26 ↗ much no um okay we're good on all of

2:42:30 ↗ that um who wants to go

2:42:35 ↗ next council member Joe then council

2:42:38 ↗ member hunt thank you um I'll start from

2:42:41 ↗ the bottom just to be

2:42:43 ↗ different um my sense is that we could

2:42:47 ↗ adopt the budget on December second

2:42:49 ↗ unless I hear some different uh

2:42:52 ↗ dissenting voices from my colleagues on

2:42:54 ↗ on that one I appreciate the funding

2:42:57 ↗ proposal for DM would support that um

2:43:00 ↗ appreciate the light rail study staying

2:43:02 ↗ on the front burner rather than the back

2:43:05 ↗ burner and support the $200,000 from the

2:43:07 ↗ general fund uh be devoted to that light

2:43:10 ↗ rail study um I also support making no

2:43:13 ↗ other changes to Fleet I think that uh

2:43:16 ↗ the uh experts in the ground Gage and

2:43:20 ↗ the uh experts that are watching the

2:43:22 ↗ entire plan have given us ample

2:43:25 ↗ justification for keeping that plan uh

2:43:27 ↗ in place um I want to just spend a

2:43:30 ↗ little bit of time on the Metroflex uh

2:43:32 ↗ briefly as a point of personal privilege

2:43:34 ↗ I guess uh I went to a the the garage

2:43:37 ↗ event that I think I told you about and

2:43:39 ↗ uh it was all about Civics and the young

2:43:42 ↗ people that were there were saying that

2:43:44 ↗ they didn't feel their voice was being

2:43:46 ↗ heard they thought decisions were being

2:43:48 ↗ made by adults that impacted their lives

2:43:50 ↗ that they could didn't have a voice in

2:43:53 ↗ um at the end of the conversation I was

2:43:55 ↗ able to give council president Walsh the

2:43:58 ↗ floor and she was able to talk about our

2:44:01 ↗ conversation that we had just had uh two

2:44:03 ↗ nights be the night before uh to talk

2:44:06 ↗ about Metroflex and our desire to keep

2:44:08 ↗ that uh alive and that program alive and

2:44:12 ↗ the whole tener of the room and the

2:44:14 ↗ whole attitude of the room changed to

2:44:18 ↗ hey our voices matter matter because we

2:44:20 ↗ had those two young people on Tuesday

2:44:22 ↗ night that came and talked to us and

2:44:24 ↗ said how important Metroflex was to them

2:44:26 ↗ and we had Simon tonight talk about how

2:44:29 ↗ important Metroflex was to him and now

2:44:32 ↗ they think I I hope they think and

2:44:34 ↗ understand that their voice does matter

2:44:36 ↗ and by coming and talking to us and

2:44:38 ↗ other government bodies they can make a

2:44:40 ↗ difference because they are a member of

2:44:41 ↗ the community that belongs to this

2:44:43 ↗ community and their voice makes a

2:44:45 ↗ difference so um I fully support the

2:44:48 ↗ Metroflex funding

2:44:49 ↗ I think it's good for our young people

2:44:51 ↗ those with disabilities those that are

2:44:53 ↗ elderly and might not have other

2:44:54 ↗ Transportation means I give great thanks

2:44:57 ↗ to the administration for finding the

2:44:59 ↗ funding there and making that a priority

2:45:02 ↗ for this budget thank you very

2:45:04 ↗ much M

2:45:08 ↗ hunt thank

2:45:10 ↗ you on Metroflex we are proposing to

2:45:15 ↗ fund the part of this program that we

2:45:18 ↗ are contracted to fund and I believe

2:45:24 ↗ strongly that if we want to demonstrate

2:45:26 ↗ that we heard the voices of the

2:45:27 ↗ community that we heard those students

2:45:29 ↗ who came that we heard our hopelink

2:45:33 ↗ representative who came and spoke to the

2:45:34 ↗ importance of this for seniors um that

2:45:37 ↗ we you know that we took into account

2:45:41 ↗ the fact that we have seen on the map

2:45:43 ↗ that our lowincome communities are the

2:45:46 ↗ groups that are are really those

2:45:48 ↗ low-income folks are really the ones who

2:45:49 ↗ are um heavily using this service which

2:45:52 ↗ was a big part of our intent um when we

2:45:55 ↗ think about that what we want to do with

2:45:57 ↗ this budget is focus on the things that

2:45:59 ↗ are most impacting people's day-to-day

2:46:01 ↗ and really also focusing in on equity

2:46:03 ↗ and sustainability this is one of the

2:46:05 ↗ very few things that we are able to do

2:46:06 ↗ to help give people an option for

2:46:09 ↗ transit in our community um and I think

2:46:13 ↗ for all those reasons we're doing a

2:46:16 ↗ two-year budget we should fund this

2:46:18 ↗ program for the two years in the budget

2:46:20 ↗ uh what we are doing right now I think

2:46:22 ↗ is inadequate it is what we are required

2:46:25 ↗ to do because we're in an existing

2:46:26 ↗ contract so I uh appreciate my

2:46:29 ↗ colleagues comments about support of

2:46:31 ↗ this program and I think to to

2:46:33 ↗ demonstrate our commitment we should do

2:46:35 ↗ that the other thing that I was thinking

2:46:37 ↗ about is uh we all did Equity training

2:46:41 ↗ um and as part of that training I

2:46:45 ↗ remember that our um the person who was

2:46:49 ↗ was giving us that training which I

2:46:51 ↗ reflect on often saying that uh the you

2:46:55 ↗ know folks that are requiring transit to

2:46:57 ↗ get somewhere they may not be or or

2:46:59 ↗ folks that are students that are using

2:47:01 ↗ this Transit service they may not be

2:47:03 ↗ able to um Advocate as regularly and so

2:47:07 ↗ you know we need to take into account

2:47:08 ↗ that we heard all of those voices and I

2:47:10 ↗ think it I do not think we should expect

2:47:13 ↗ folks to have to come back in 6 months

2:47:16 ↗ next year to Advocate again I think we

2:47:18 ↗ should take into account that people

2:47:19 ↗ took time out of their schedules um for

2:47:22 ↗ this we heard them we're doing a

2:47:23 ↗ two-year budget we should fund it for

2:47:25 ↗ two

2:47:28 ↗ years on the fleet fund I I do think we

2:47:31 ↗ could phase into that by um you know

2:47:34 ↗ taking into account some of the oldest

2:47:36 ↗ fund oldest Vehicles first uh and it is

2:47:41 ↗ a big change from the way we've done

2:47:43 ↗ Fleet in the past I think that is a

2:47:44 ↗ potential savings that we could use to

2:47:47 ↗ fund

2:47:49 ↗ Metroflex um I don't want to make a

2:47:52 ↗ recommendation without any any

2:47:54 ↗ suggestion there

2:47:57 ↗ um funding the uh Light Rail study is

2:48:00 ↗ another potential area I don't think we

2:48:04 ↗ th this

2:48:05 ↗ wasn't my uh when I made my comments at

2:48:09 ↗ the last meeting I was expecting this to

2:48:10 ↗ come back with with no funding for the

2:48:13 ↗ light rail for the next two years um I

2:48:16 ↗ was just looking back at my notes from

2:48:19 ↗ last

2:48:20 ↗ conversation

2:48:22 ↗ um I think we have done great work with

2:48:24 ↗ the community on early goal setting I

2:48:27 ↗ think that this is something that we can

2:48:30 ↗ move a little bit slower on because I

2:48:32 ↗ think the light rail overall is is going

2:48:35 ↗ slower so I I don't think prioritizing

2:48:38 ↗ the spending of

2:48:39 ↗ $200,000 on this over the next two years

2:48:42 ↗ would be my top priority and given all

2:48:45 ↗ of the other things that we're cutting I

2:48:47 ↗ I respect that

2:48:49 ↗ that there is an importance to tracking

2:48:52 ↗ this but I think over the next two years

2:48:54 ↗ and given our budget

2:48:56 ↗ situation I would work on doing this in

2:49:00 ↗ house or maybe adjusting if our

2:49:02 ↗ circumstance changes but the information

2:49:04 ↗ we have right now I think we can can put

2:49:07 ↗ this on the back

2:49:08 ↗ burner um I agree with the funding of

2:49:11 ↗ Dia and appreciate the uh the change

2:49:14 ↗ that was made there um also appreciate

2:49:16 ↗ all of the comments that have been

2:49:18 ↗ coming in about the uh about the

2:49:20 ↗ services provided by

2:49:23 ↗ Dia and um as far as December 2nd or

2:49:27 ↗ December 9th I think it seems like we're

2:49:30 ↗ we're all aligned uh there has there has

2:49:33 ↗ really been in this budget the one thing

2:49:36 ↗ that we've heard and I've heard too from

2:49:38 ↗ so many community members the one thing

2:49:39 ↗ that we I've heard is really about the

2:49:41 ↗ Metroflex um and so you know I think if

2:49:43 ↗ we can address that that would be great

2:49:46 ↗ there's not a lot of other pieces that

2:49:48 ↗ I've heard um that and the community uh

2:49:52 ↗ Human Services funding is another one um

2:49:55 ↗ so I think if we can address that I

2:49:57 ↗ think that would be that would be really

2:49:59 ↗ important um if the administration needs

2:50:02 ↗ more time than December 2nd then that

2:50:04 ↗ would be a consideration but other than

2:50:06 ↗ that I think December 2nd seems Seems in

2:50:09 ↗ the

2:50:10 ↗ cards got dueling microphones over here

2:50:14 ↗ think I saw council member Hall a moment

2:50:18 ↗ earlier

2:50:22 ↗ okay

2:50:25 ↗ um all right everyone seems to be going

2:50:27 ↗ in different I'm going to go random

2:50:29 ↗ order now so we mix it up a little bit

2:50:31 ↗ so starting with Fleet fund um I I just

2:50:35 ↗ want to say I agree with the direction

2:50:37 ↗ of the fleet fund that's been proposed

2:50:39 ↗ um I think what's stuck with me the most

2:50:42 ↗ is what the mayor concluded and what you

2:50:44 ↗ said today what the mayor concluded with

2:50:46 ↗ at the last meeting which is just the

2:50:47 ↗ picture of the fleet fund isn't great we

2:50:50 ↗ committed to looking at the picture and

2:50:51 ↗ it's not great and it's not going to

2:50:53 ↗ feel good to correct these positions but

2:50:56 ↗ um it's better to be making these

2:50:58 ↗ Investments sooner rather than later um

2:51:01 ↗ and all the more important to get

2:51:03 ↗ started now because you mapped out kind

2:51:05 ↗ of in the memo how implementation is

2:51:08 ↗ quite a while so um I buy the argument

2:51:10 ↗ around Fleet fund um I completely agree

2:51:13 ↗ with council member hunt on the light

2:51:15 ↗ rail study um I

2:51:19 ↗ understand um I understand the argument

2:51:21 ↗ that keeping the ball rolling in some

2:51:23 ↗ way even if it's not the same way it's

2:51:25 ↗ very similar to like the equity

2:51:26 ↗ assessment that we were right is is good

2:51:30 ↗ but um I think that there are other

2:51:33 ↗ community priorities that stand out as

2:51:37 ↗ more important in this bium to me like

2:51:39 ↗ Metroflex and things like that so that's

2:51:42 ↗ where I'm that's where I feel like on

2:51:44 ↗ the light rail study I don't think that

2:51:46 ↗ we would necessarily lose out on too

2:51:49 ↗ much um within this bium and that seemed

2:51:51 ↗ to be demonstrated to us in the previous

2:51:53 ↗ meeting um as well um with regard to DIA

2:51:59 ↗ um agree with the new approach here um

2:52:01 ↗ thank you and thank you it it was nice

2:52:03 ↗ to hear from other people um in the

2:52:04 ↗ community um about them

2:52:09 ↗ um uh I haven't talked about Metroflex

2:52:12 ↗ and that's because of the last question

2:52:15 ↗ whether or not to adopt December 2nd or

2:52:16 ↗ 9th um I'm

2:52:19 ↗ I'm going back and forth on this one

2:52:22 ↗ because there are a couple things that

2:52:23 ↗ are on my mind um

2:52:25 ↗ Metroflex it would be great to fund it

2:52:29 ↗ for the two years um but I think the

2:52:32 ↗ approach of funding it for 2025 is fine

2:52:35 ↗ knowing that it seems like we're fairly

2:52:36 ↗ aligned and supportive of Metroflex on

2:52:38 ↗ this Council so the administration

2:52:40 ↗ should be prepared to come forth with a

2:52:42 ↗ budget amendment at some point to fund

2:52:44 ↗ 2026 finding that savings elsewhere

2:52:47 ↗ which path you decide to take doesn't

2:52:49 ↗ necessarily matter to me as long as it's

2:52:52 ↗ funded for the two years because if

2:52:55 ↗ right now we decide we we don't want to

2:52:57 ↗ fund the second year until we find grant

2:53:00 ↗ funding or those other external funding

2:53:03 ↗ that makes sense understanding that

2:53:04 ↗ we're going to do a budget amendment but

2:53:05 ↗ the risk is we're going to have to find

2:53:07 ↗ savings at some point because I'm going

2:53:09 ↗ to want to see a budget amendment to

2:53:11 ↗ support two years of Metroflex

2:53:15 ↗ um hopefully that made some sort of

2:53:18 ↗ sense can retouch on retroflex a little

2:53:20 ↗ bit too the other things that were on my

2:53:22 ↗ mind which is why I was thinking okay

2:53:23 ↗ maybe December 9th was the housing a

2:53:26 ↗ parking study although I um by what um

2:53:30 ↗ Dr Dolly wall said um yes we can have

2:53:33 ↗ the conversation about like what are our

2:53:35 ↗ priorities here but maybe we look and

2:53:38 ↗ evaluate what we've already done

2:53:40 ↗ understand some of these new

2:53:40 ↗ requirements acknowledge staff capacity

2:53:43 ↗ and CPD um and so on so I'm okay um

2:53:45 ↗ delaying those um the only other thing

2:53:48 ↗ that made me think about maybe December

2:53:50 ↗ 9th is I wasn't quite I felt like I need

2:53:53 ↗ I feel like I still need more

2:53:55 ↗ information about the parks and open

2:53:56 ↗ space acquisition program um I would

2:53:59 ↗ really like I it's good to know that

2:54:01 ↗ these funds are largely like restricted

2:54:03 ↗ looks like there was like re and park

2:54:05 ↗ impact fees so like my first idea was

2:54:08 ↗ like Metroflex clearly that's not

2:54:10 ↗ something we can do with these funds

2:54:14 ↗ but I just want to get into a little bit

2:54:16 ↗ more like how often we're spending it

2:54:18 ↗ down and by Munch and I completely get

2:54:20 ↗ that it's for opportunities that come up

2:54:22 ↗ and you can't anticipate that but I also

2:54:24 ↗ want to just make sure we're having conf

2:54:25 ↗ I have confidence that we are

2:54:28 ↗ appropriately funding the fund at the

2:54:31 ↗ level that it should be year-over-year

2:54:32 ↗ considering that there are other

2:54:34 ↗ important Community priorities that we

2:54:35 ↗ also have to take in account to so I

2:54:38 ↗ don't know if that would require another

2:54:40 ↗ meeting to get information or if that

2:54:42 ↗ could be kind of year-over-year

2:54:43 ↗ information could be put in a memo I

2:54:46 ↗ guess maybe I'll stop here if you have

2:54:48 ↗ any kind of initial response to

2:54:51 ↗ that council president if I may uh we

2:54:55 ↗ plan to have an executive session on the

2:54:56 ↗ 25th on that

2:54:59 ↗ topic on Park and open space acquisition

2:55:02 ↗ on

2:55:03 ↗ historical use of the fund or and and

2:55:08 ↗ and current

2:55:10 ↗ opportunities that are present

2:55:14 ↗ today okay yeah that's what I thought I

2:55:16 ↗ was but more current I mean if the

2:55:17 ↗ convers ation that seems like it would

2:55:20 ↗ be more of a policy conversation outside

2:55:21 ↗ of executive session I guess what I want

2:55:23 ↗ to know is like where has it been over

2:55:25 ↗ the years how often are we drawing it

2:55:26 ↗ down to close to zero where we have to

2:55:29 ↗ kind of refill the bucket and you know

2:55:32 ↗ is there space

2:55:34 ↗ there consider using funds for other

2:55:37 ↗ things knowing that it's kind of

2:55:38 ↗ restricted use it for everything and I

2:55:41 ↗ have difficulty in Open Session

2:55:43 ↗ addressing this really specifically

2:55:45 ↗ other than to say this will be a topic

2:55:47 ↗ of conversation okay week okay then I

2:55:49 ↗ I'll look and I guess we will see where

2:55:51 ↗ we're at after that conversation

2:55:54 ↗ okay well then I'll look forward to that

2:55:56 ↗ then

2:55:59 ↗ um uh the only other thing I just wanted

2:56:02 ↗ to put on radar was just thank you again

2:56:05 ↗ for the answer about um the needs of the

2:56:07 ↗ core and something that continues to

2:56:09 ↗ worry me is just the downstream impacts

2:56:11 ↗ of our investments and in public safety

2:56:13 ↗ and police so um if staff needs to at

2:56:17 ↗ any time during the B come to us for

2:56:19 ↗ additional Court Investments that would

2:56:21 ↗ be something I would wanting to

2:56:23 ↗ prioritize be really mindful

2:56:25 ↗ of put that up okay thank you council

2:56:30 ↗ member Ms

2:56:32 ↗ thanks what a difference among month

2:56:35 ↗ month ago we were talking about how

2:56:37 ↗ nobody ever comes to city council

2:56:38 ↗ meeting anymore postco we just can't get

2:56:41 ↗ anybody to come into a city council

2:56:43 ↗ meeting we just have to come up with

2:56:44 ↗ something that people really care about

2:56:46 ↗ right so uh I am I am in I'm in the camp

2:56:51 ↗ for I would do Metroflex two years if I

2:56:53 ↗ could wave a magic wand but I am also

2:56:56 ↗ convinced that the Administration has

2:56:58 ↗ heard loud and clear how this Council

2:56:59 ↗ feels about Metroflex so I'm also

2:57:02 ↗ convinced that next year they will

2:57:03 ↗ figure out how to make 2026 work but I

2:57:06 ↗ would I would do two years if it was up

2:57:07 ↗ to me but I'm I'm fine with one year

2:57:10 ↗ because like I said confident the

2:57:11 ↗ Administration has hurt us uh Fleet fund

2:57:14 ↗ is fine uh Light Rail

2:57:17 ↗ study uh I would kill this I would throw

2:57:20 ↗ the my my clog into the machine as the

2:57:24 ↗ leite that I am right now I we funded

2:57:27 ↗ st3 almost 10 years ago we're all paying

2:57:31 ↗ tons of money on it we put such faith in

2:57:35 ↗ down transit when we funded that knowing

2:57:38 ↗ that we weren't going to get most of the

2:57:39 ↗ benefit but we thought we were going to

2:57:41 ↗ get some benefit and then what's

2:57:43 ↗ happened in the intervening years is I

2:57:46 ↗ mean they've come here and they've said

2:57:48 ↗ we know that 554 is like so much we have

2:57:51 ↗ so much more traffic going into Seattle

2:57:53 ↗ than we do into bellw but guess what

2:57:54 ↗ we're going to make you go to Bellevue

2:57:55 ↗ anyhow I don't want to go to Bellevue I

2:57:57 ↗ want to go to Seattle Seattle's where

2:57:58 ↗ it's all happens so there's this long

2:58:01 ↗ history I think of Sound Transit not

2:58:03 ↗ listening to us and by the way they did

2:58:05 ↗ that back when we had somebody on the

2:58:07 ↗ Sound Transit board how much worse will

2:58:09 ↗ it be if we don't have anybody on the

2:58:10 ↗ board so I need guard rails before we

2:58:14 ↗ start getting within a mile of what that

2:58:17 ↗ station is going to look like like I

2:58:18 ↗ need guard rails so that they won't just

2:58:20 ↗ do the thing that's cheapest we have so

2:58:22 ↗ little control in these billions of

2:58:25 ↗ dollars that are going on and they will

2:58:27 ↗ do what I mean they will build what they

2:58:30 ↗ can um to address Transit and if that's

2:58:33 ↗ 2500 parking stalls I mean just go look

2:58:36 ↗ at Atlanta look at the look at the end

2:58:38 ↗ of the lines of all the MARTA stations

2:58:40 ↗ it's all two giant 1250 parking lot

2:58:45 ↗ that's what they'll build because that's

2:58:46 ↗ what's cheapest um so I need to I need

2:58:50 ↗ to know that there are guard rails on

2:58:52 ↗ what they can build here in isqua before

2:58:54 ↗ I want to get within a mile of of that

2:58:58 ↗ because we're we'll get what they want

2:59:00 ↗ to give us because there's so much money

2:59:02 ↗ involved and they'll say well how dare

2:59:04 ↗ you hold up the poor residents of

2:59:06 ↗ samamish and Northbend and snami for

2:59:09 ↗ they getting Transit if you just put in

2:59:11 ↗ 2500 parking stalls you know all those

2:59:14 ↗ folks will be able to come to isqua and

2:59:16 ↗ then get on the train and we all know

2:59:18 ↗ that that's not what the our community

2:59:20 ↗ wants so I have I continue to have huge

2:59:22 ↗ concerns and I would zero this one out

2:59:25 ↗ uh

2:59:27 ↗ Dia

2:59:29 ↗ uh I'm on record for saying I I want to

2:59:31 ↗ have all the organizations that we give

2:59:33 ↗ money to come in on a regular basis and

2:59:36 ↗ talk to us about what they're doing I

2:59:38 ↗ hear loud and clear that there's a lot

2:59:40 ↗ of folks in the community uh that value

2:59:42 ↗ Dia I still want to know what we do with

2:59:45 ↗ our investments with Dia and what we get

2:59:48 ↗ for our investments with Dia but I am

2:59:49 ↗ supportive of this move going forward I

2:59:52 ↗ I hear the community on it and then

2:59:54 ↗ adopting on December 2nd versus December

2:59:56 ↗ 9th I I don't care um we the only things

2:59:59 ↗ that we do as a council is we write

3:00:02 ↗ checks and we write laws right and the

3:00:04 ↗ this is the writing check part and it's

3:00:06 ↗ most important part of our job and if it

3:00:08 ↗ you know we'll sell no wine before it's

3:00:10 ↗ time to uh for those of you who are old

3:00:12 ↗ enough to remember the the Ernest and

3:00:14 ↗ Julio Gallow uh commercials from the

3:00:16 ↗ 1970s and

3:00:20 ↗ sorry sorry Zach uh but you know we

3:00:23 ↗ we'll we'll be done when we're done

3:00:27 ↗ thanks okay I'm going to throw my

3:00:30 ↗ comments in there and then we'll see if

3:00:31 ↗ there's any round twos um I'm also going

3:00:34 ↗ to go random just because I can that's

3:00:37 ↗ how I wrote my notes um Fleet I'd like

3:00:41 ↗ the fleet plan and the concept to come

3:00:44 ↗ to a council committee and I think we

3:00:46 ↗ really need to work this over I

3:00:50 ↗ appreciate that there is a lot of

3:00:52 ↗ backlogged need here and I'm not willing

3:00:56 ↗ to take that out of the budget but I'm

3:00:59 ↗ also just not ready for us to make those

3:01:04 ↗ purchases yet um I I really just feel

3:01:08 ↗ like we need to be able to get into that

3:01:12 ↗ much like we do with our Capital

3:01:15 ↗ Improvement plan um and really have an

3:01:17 ↗ understanding of how this serves the

3:01:20 ↗ community um and whether each of these

3:01:22 ↗ purchases are really on the right scale

3:01:25 ↗ so I would love to get into that but you

3:01:28 ↗ know me I'm behind anywhere where we're

3:01:31 ↗ behind on maintenance um I'm going to

3:01:34 ↗ support that I just want us to do it

3:01:38 ↗ fully and really understand what we're

3:01:40 ↗ doing there um Dia I appreciate that

3:01:44 ↗ we've come together and you know made

3:01:47 ↗ some movement

3:01:48 ↗ here I really think that anything that

3:01:52 ↗ is a um utility tax

3:01:55 ↗ credit should be given um and stay local

3:02:01 ↗ rather than going to the state and not

3:02:03 ↗ have a 25% reduction for

3:02:06 ↗ 2025 um that being said it's a few

3:02:09 ↗ thousand dollar so I'm not going to put

3:02:12 ↗ my foot down over that um the areas

3:02:16 ↗ where I will put my foot down on and

3:02:18 ↗ where I think you've heard the most

3:02:20 ↗ contention is Metroflex and the LI rail

3:02:22 ↗ study so

3:02:24 ↗ my thoughts align most with um council

3:02:29 ↗ member hunt I think our community has

3:02:31 ↗ strongly talked about their support and

3:02:34 ↗ it is the people with the least ability

3:02:37 ↗ to Advocate who are the users of this

3:02:42 ↗ service and so the fact that we have

3:02:44 ↗ gotten comments on this at all and that

3:02:47 ↗ most of the com comments have been on

3:02:48 ↗ that um really indicates the importance

3:02:51 ↗ of this service is just getting off the

3:02:53 ↗ ground um and I really think that our

3:02:57 ↗ community wants us to fund it not just

3:02:59 ↗ for 2025 but for both years of the

3:03:02 ↗ budget um I Heard council member Hall

3:03:06 ↗ and council member Mart say hey we told

3:03:08 ↗ the administration what's important to

3:03:10 ↗ us so we think they'll come back to it

3:03:13 ↗ we told them on the 12th this was

3:03:15 ↗ important to us and what they came back

3:03:17 ↗ back with was a one-year funding uh our

3:03:22 ↗ job is to do the hard

3:03:25 ↗ things and to set a two-year budget

3:03:29 ↗ because that's the way that we do things

3:03:32 ↗ and I think

3:03:33 ↗ it's a much better

3:03:37 ↗ situation to make the hard decisions

3:03:39 ↗ about what we would cut um to fund our

3:03:42 ↗ priorities than

3:03:44 ↗ to and like if we get a grant we're

3:03:47 ↗ going to a budget amendment that would

3:03:48 ↗ just remove the funding for that and it

3:03:51 ↗ would go back to the general fund the if

3:03:53 ↗ your proposal is do a one-year funding

3:03:56 ↗ and then we'll come through then we're

3:03:58 ↗ just saying we're going to have to find

3:04:00 ↗ that money in the future so I think it's

3:04:03 ↗ our responsibility to find that money

3:04:05 ↗ now if it's a priority toward that

3:04:09 ↗ idea I really cannot support spending

3:04:15 ↗ $200,000 just to tell Sound Transit that

3:04:17 ↗ we're were serious about something that

3:04:19 ↗ we voted for as a community for

3:04:22 ↗ st3 and spend $200,000 of our money now

3:04:26 ↗ to plan for something for

3:04:29 ↗ 2041 um we have Community needs now and

3:04:33 ↗ we have Community priorities now that

3:04:36 ↗ are super important the idea that we're

3:04:38 ↗ doing this so that we can coordinate

3:04:40 ↗ with an overend Crossing um that has no

3:04:44 ↗ funding there is there is nothing out

3:04:46 ↗ there that nobody is going to plot money

3:04:49 ↗ down in our hands to say here you guys

3:04:51 ↗ need another over Ender Crossing for the

3:04:54 ↗ I90 for the city so um I really think

3:05:00 ↗ that we need to take a step back from

3:05:02 ↗ that and

3:05:04 ↗ recognize that we've got some really

3:05:07 ↗ important needs right now um what I

3:05:11 ↗ would like to do is fun Metroflex for

3:05:14 ↗ the two years and I think we can do that

3:05:16 ↗ by eliminating the light rail study and

3:05:19 ↗ finding some additional funds in land

3:05:22 ↗ acquisition Fleet fund adjustments or

3:05:24 ↗ general fund it's not that much money at

3:05:27 ↗ that point budget dust I believe it's

3:05:30 ↗ been

3:05:31 ↗ called

3:05:33 ↗ um that being said if the council

3:05:36 ↗ doesn't agree with that outright I would

3:05:40 ↗ suggest that we leave the funding um for

3:05:44 ↗ the light rail plan in the general fund

3:05:46 ↗ and have that item be

3:05:49 ↗ unfunded and then determine midb Anum

3:05:53 ↗ which of those two priorities between

3:05:55 ↗ Metroflex and the light rail are

3:05:58 ↗ important if at some point I don't want

3:06:01 ↗ to spend the money on light rail

3:06:05 ↗ planning and then have us have to come

3:06:07 ↗ back into Metroflex my first priority

3:06:10 ↗ would be don't do the light rail

3:06:12 ↗ planning and spend it and commit to two

3:06:14 ↗ years of Metroflex but if we're at that

3:06:17 ↗ point where we can't quite come to a

3:06:20 ↗ full agreement on that I just want to

3:06:23 ↗ make sure we're not spending the money

3:06:25 ↗ and can make that

3:06:26 ↗ decision

3:06:28 ↗ so those are kind of my thoughts

3:06:30 ↗ depending on how further conversation

3:06:33 ↗ goes would be dependent on whether I

3:06:36 ↗ think we can go for December 2nd or

3:06:37 ↗ December

3:06:39 ↗ 9th so I don't think we came

3:06:43 ↗ to full consensus on two of the bigger

3:06:47 ↗ items so I'm

3:06:51 ↗ wondering what the administration heard

3:06:53 ↗ or whether we want to do a second round

3:06:55 ↗ of

3:06:58 ↗ comments second round okay Deputy

3:07:01 ↗ council president D

3:07:03 ↗ Michelle well yeah it sounds like I'm in

3:07:07 ↗ the minority here but I will I will come

3:07:09 ↗ back with all due respect and

3:07:12 ↗ say uh if if Sound Transit is going to

3:07:15 ↗ do what they're going to do anyway

3:07:18 ↗ way

3:07:19 ↗ uh the only way that we can change that

3:07:23 ↗ course is by knowing where what we want

3:07:26 ↗ to do and we won't know what we want to

3:07:28 ↗ do unless we begin to do the studies and

3:07:31 ↗ the research that uh bolster our

3:07:34 ↗ decision about where we want that

3:07:36 ↗ station to be what we want it to look

3:07:38 ↗ like and so forth so uh I know that it's

3:07:42 ↗ 22 years away or more but 22 years is a

3:07:45 ↗ blink of an eye in the planning world uh

3:07:49 ↗ it will be here before people know it we

3:07:53 ↗ won't be here probably but it will be

3:07:55 ↗ here and uh if we have no plans we have

3:07:59 ↗ no research to back it up uh if we just

3:08:02 ↗ say Well they're going to do what

3:08:03 ↗ they're going to do anyway yes they will

3:08:05 ↗ do what they want to do anyway uh we

3:08:07 ↗ either get our voice out there or uh we

3:08:10 ↗ wait wait for them with whatever they've

3:08:12 ↗ got planned so uh uh I personally am

3:08:17 ↗ willing to hold off on the funding for

3:08:19 ↗ 2026 for metlex see where we could go

3:08:22 ↗ with that and at the same time get that

3:08:25 ↗ steud for light rail going so that we

3:08:29 ↗ are going forward on both fronts um with

3:08:33 ↗ our Transit planning

3:08:35 ↗ so uh if indeed I am in the minority and

3:08:40 ↗ there's not the votes for the light rail

3:08:43 ↗ study I would like to see that money go

3:08:45 ↗ to mlex and Bund that second year thank

3:08:50 ↗ you council member

3:08:54 ↗ Mars uh I hate disagree with Barb but

3:08:59 ↗ I'm going to in this particular

3:09:01 ↗ case

3:09:03 ↗ um I was struck earlier we were talking

3:09:06 ↗ about our goals around multimodal

3:09:08 ↗ Transportation the only thing that's

3:09:11 ↗ changed in the 15 years that I've been

3:09:14 ↗ on Council is Metro FL

3:09:17 ↗ and everything else the the landscape of

3:09:23 ↗ multimodal Transportation in this city

3:09:25 ↗ which we talk about we must talk about

3:09:28 ↗ every month or two for the last 15 years

3:09:30 ↗ and was probably the 15 years before

3:09:32 ↗ that um has not changed so I and I I I

3:09:37 ↗ so wish it had and it's part of why I'm

3:09:39 ↗ so excited about Metro flag uh I I don't

3:09:43 ↗ want to just I don't want to let Sound

3:09:45 ↗ Transit do what they want to do I want

3:09:47 ↗ to slow it down until we understand I

3:09:51 ↗ want somebody from them to come in and

3:09:54 ↗ tell us that they understand that they

3:09:57 ↗ can't just build the least expensive

3:09:59 ↗ thing we live so often if if I if I if I

3:10:02 ↗ were to still down what the last 15

3:10:05 ↗ years is is we make laws and then people

3:10:09 ↗ do the thing that is most cost effective

3:10:11 ↗ for them developers and the county and

3:10:15 ↗ the state they all do do the thing

3:10:17 ↗ that's most cost effective to them not

3:10:19 ↗ the thing that we want them to do

3:10:21 ↗ because we have less control than we

3:10:23 ↗ think so I'm I understand the urge to be

3:10:28 ↗ at the table not be on the menu but I I

3:10:31 ↗ want to get out of the

3:10:33 ↗ kitchen I don't know if this analogy

3:10:35 ↗ works very well but um in until such

3:10:38 ↗ time as as like I said we have we

3:10:40 ↗ understand that that we have when I when

3:10:43 ↗ I heard the description of how they're

3:10:45 ↗ going to go about doing this they're

3:10:46 ↗ going to decide what they want to do and

3:10:48 ↗ then they're going to do it and so that

3:10:51 ↗ scares me because I think what the

3:10:54 ↗ economics is going to point to is so

3:10:56 ↗ different than the vision that we have

3:10:58 ↗ for uh Light Rail in our city so until I

3:11:01 ↗ hear better on that again I'm going to

3:11:03 ↗ be the leite and throw my clog in the uh

3:11:06 ↗ windmill thank you okay I'm going to

3:11:08 ↗ push back and make sure that I get what

3:11:11 ↗ you said you're saying 0 to light rail

3:11:14 ↗ are you saying Metroflex 2025 or 2025

3:11:18 ↗ and 26 I already said that if I could

3:11:19 ↗ wave a magic one I would do 2026 I just

3:11:22 ↗ said I was I just said I was okay with

3:11:24 ↗ one year but I would prefer two years so

3:11:26 ↗ Mark me down is prefer two years okay

3:11:29 ↗ and if that isn't the case if we go with

3:11:31 ↗ only 2025 then the 200k for the light

3:11:35 ↗ rail study would just go back to the

3:11:36 ↗ general fund correct okay thank

3:11:39 ↗ you uh council member

3:11:43 ↗ Joe thank

3:11:45 ↗ you um as part of of my day job I'm in

3:11:49 ↗ SNES County quite a bit uh there's a

3:11:52 ↗ committee called skit which is SNES

3:11:54 ↗ County committee to improve traffic and

3:11:59 ↗ uh one of the parties that is a

3:12:01 ↗ consistent participant there is

3:12:02 ↗ Community Transit and Sound Transit and

3:12:06 ↗ the government Affairs person for Sound

3:12:08 ↗ Transit is named Eric Ashley and I've

3:12:12 ↗ had the benefit of having some

3:12:14 ↗ conversations with him about isqua in

3:12:17 ↗ 2042 or

3:12:19 ↗ 2043 and um he did

3:12:23 ↗ encourage uh me to uh try to have as

3:12:30 ↗ many different conversations within our

3:12:32 ↗ community so that we could really

3:12:35 ↗ articulate what our vision was for the

3:12:37 ↗ Terminus for this

3:12:40 ↗ spot uh for Sound Transit when it

3:12:44 ↗ comes uh and and our budget speaks l ly

3:12:47 ↗ in terms of what our priorities are and

3:12:50 ↗ I think that having that

3:12:52 ↗ $200,000 in there is important to show

3:12:56 ↗ that we have skin in the game and money

3:13:01 ↗ on the table

3:13:02 ↗ for the high stakes poker hand that's

3:13:05 ↗ going to be played between Sound Transit

3:13:07 ↗ and this

3:13:08 ↗ city uh we can look at a couple of

3:13:11 ↗ examples in terms of things that have

3:13:13 ↗ worked and things that haven't worked

3:13:15 ↗ with sound transit spots

3:13:18 ↗ um I think uh director Dolly wall talked

3:13:22 ↗ about redond doing a really good job in

3:13:25 ↗ terms of planning

3:13:27 ↗ um f Way also has been doing a really

3:13:30 ↗ good job of

3:13:32 ↗ planning we can probably get some

3:13:34 ↗ information from both those cities to

3:13:36 ↗ come back and find out how they funded

3:13:38 ↗ it over what years what worked what kind

3:13:41 ↗ of committee they had when it was in

3:13:43 ↗ place when it was best effective from

3:13:46 ↗ the city point of view to give direction

3:13:48 ↗ and vision to sound transit for what the

3:13:51 ↗ community really wanted to

3:13:52 ↗ see Federal Way did a great job

3:13:56 ↗ because

3:13:58 ↗ they scoped out and planned where they

3:14:01 ↗ wanted the

3:14:02 ↗ station by planning the zoning by

3:14:06 ↗ planning the road configurations or the

3:14:10 ↗ the little elements that would make

3:14:12 ↗ their Vision

3:14:14 ↗ possible I'd like to find out more about

3:14:16 ↗ what Federal Way did but it seems to me

3:14:19 ↗ that the in-house work that we do for

3:14:22 ↗ $200,000 to find out what our vision is

3:14:25 ↗ what we want to

3:14:26 ↗ see uh then goes to that next step of

3:14:29 ↗ trying to lay down the zoning and the

3:14:33 ↗ the the kind of layout for what we'd

3:14:36 ↗ like to see there so that it is easy for

3:14:40 ↗ Sound Transit to come in and say you've

3:14:43 ↗ done all this work let's now talk about

3:14:45 ↗ what we want to see there rather than

3:14:47 ↗ them saying Mercer Island you're going

3:14:50 ↗ to get this station right here on I90

3:14:52 ↗ and since you haven't talked to us since

3:14:54 ↗ you didn't come and communicate with us

3:14:56 ↗ that's what you get and you can sue us

3:14:58 ↗ you can take us to court but that

3:15:00 ↗ building's already there

3:15:03 ↗ so maybe we're too early in the

3:15:05 ↗ conversation but I really support Barb D

3:15:08 ↗ Michelle's idea that we need to have

3:15:09 ↗ that 200,000 in there to have skin in

3:15:12 ↗ the game and our poker chips on the

3:15:13 ↗ table our budget speaks to sound trans

3:15:17 ↗ as to how serious we are about what

3:15:19 ↗ we're going to do um so I would implore

3:15:22 ↗ my colleagues to put the $200,000 in for

3:15:25 ↗ the Sound Transit

3:15:27 ↗ Terminus um discussion Vision it's

3:15:30 ↗ in-house work we're not using consultant

3:15:32 ↗ that's going to uh ask us for a ton of

3:15:35 ↗ extra money but it's work that we can do

3:15:37 ↗ inhouse and if it turns out that we

3:15:39 ↗ don't have the staff to do it or don't

3:15:41 ↗ have the time to do it we've at least

3:15:43 ↗ put the marker on the budget of $200,000

3:15:47 ↗ on there so that sound transit does look

3:15:49 ↗ at it they can see that over the years

3:15:51 ↗ we put that money in there planning for

3:15:53 ↗ the future because we're serious about

3:15:55 ↗ the Terminus and what we want to see in

3:15:57 ↗ isqua at the end so

3:16:00 ↗ um alternate plan well the plan I would

3:16:03 ↗ propose would be um keep the funding for

3:16:07 ↗ next year for Metroflex keep the

3:16:10 ↗ $200,000 in there for the Terminus study

3:16:14 ↗ um direct the administration to continue

3:16:16 ↗ to track try to find money for Metroflex

3:16:18 ↗ or granting or other options for the

3:16:21 ↗ next year

3:16:22 ↗ 2026 um but that funding I think for

3:16:26 ↗ Sound Transit is fairly important in

3:16:28 ↗ that conversation we don't want to end

3:16:30 ↗ up like merer Island we want to end up

3:16:32 ↗ like redond or Federal Way so the one

3:16:34 ↗ request I'd have for the administration

3:16:36 ↗ is if you can find out what Federal Way

3:16:38 ↗ and Redmond did that was successful and

3:16:41 ↗ the timing for those pieces along the

3:16:44 ↗ way so that we can be more informed as

3:16:46 ↗ to when we might need to put that money

3:16:48 ↗ in there um that would be the asset I

3:16:50 ↗ would

3:16:53 ↗ have Council

3:16:57 ↗ mul I'm just not feeling as cynical

3:16:59 ↗ about s trans Sound Transit so I'm I'm a

3:17:02 ↗ little I don't feel as

3:17:07 ↗ um I just I'm not feeling that there's

3:17:09 ↗ this urgent need this B anym to be

3:17:11 ↗ moving forward with that work um

3:17:13 ↗ especially given our challenging

3:17:14 ↗ Financial atwork so I agree with um

3:17:18 ↗ council president Walsh um to use that

3:17:22 ↗ funding to support a second year of

3:17:23 ↗ Metroflex instead assuming it's not

3:17:25 ↗ restricted funding which I thought it I

3:17:26 ↗ think it's general fund funding so it's

3:17:29 ↗ not um and then and then it you know

3:17:31 ↗ maybe we find grant funding for our

3:17:33 ↗ light rail station work like that I just

3:17:36 ↗ to me it seems like this is a more

3:17:38 ↗ pressing need um in the community at the

3:17:41 ↗ moment

3:17:47 ↗ council member

3:17:48 ↗ hunt uh I agree with the proposal to

3:17:51 ↗ move the 200,000 from the general fund

3:17:54 ↗ which is currently earmarked for the

3:17:55 ↗ light rail study to the second year of

3:17:57 ↗ Metroflex and there's also few other

3:18:00 ↗ things um there's a a dis a new dis uh

3:18:04 ↗ for when we move this $50,000 which is

3:18:06 ↗ in the bium so $50,000 and that's

3:18:09 ↗ something that is marked as something

3:18:10 ↗ that council could consider because we

3:18:12 ↗ said we potentially don't need a new dis

3:18:15 ↗ um so there's other things that we could

3:18:18 ↗ we could chime in on to make up that

3:18:19 ↗ extra money but the 200,000 gets us most

3:18:21 ↗ of the way there uh I support that I

3:18:24 ↗ think this discussion of amendments that

3:18:27 ↗ our job right now is to look forward two

3:18:30 ↗ years and align this budget to the best

3:18:32 ↗ of ability with the values of the

3:18:33 ↗ community and there is this pressing

3:18:36 ↗ need for metrof Flix and I think we

3:18:38 ↗ should reflect that reflect the

3:18:41 ↗ community comments by funding it for for

3:18:43 ↗ the two years that we're budgeting for

3:18:44 ↗ as council member Mart said we write

3:18:46 ↗ checks so we're writing a check to show

3:18:48 ↗ that we care about this program we want

3:18:49 ↗ it to we want it to continue um and I

3:18:53 ↗ think we should do that in both years

3:18:56 ↗ that we are budgeting

3:18:58 ↗ for council member H can I ask a quick

3:19:01 ↗ question about that I can't remember if

3:19:02 ↗ we got into this last week do we are we

3:19:05 ↗ making the assumption that the cost for

3:19:07 ↗ Metroflex would be the same in 2026 than

3:19:10 ↗ it would be in our current contract do

3:19:11 ↗ we have any reason to expect it might be

3:19:13 ↗ more expensive absolutely we do not have

3:19:16 ↗ an offer service beyond the end of next

3:19:19 ↗ year and in talking with King County

3:19:22 ↗ Transit they're not sure that it will be

3:19:24 ↗ continued they're facing multi-million

3:19:26 ↗ dollar Cuts before the state legislature

3:19:28 ↗ deals with additional Cuts so we do not

3:19:31 ↗ have an offer of service beyond the end

3:19:32 ↗ of next

3:19:34 ↗ year okay that's helpful

3:19:38 ↗ Contex but with that said

3:19:40 ↗ Madam council president um the

3:19:43 ↗ administration hears you loud and clear

3:19:45 ↗ um so there's no there's no uh issue

3:19:49 ↗ with that the issue is operational uh

3:19:52 ↗ the King County Transit is not providing

3:19:54 ↗ the service or does not provide it at a

3:19:56 ↗ cost I mean we're already paying a

3:19:58 ↗ fairly significant perite cost and I

3:20:00 ↗ think the council is saying as a

3:20:01 ↗ community value okay but if it goes from

3:20:05 ↗ 200 and change to 400 and change is that

3:20:09 ↗ the same thing are we going to pay $100

3:20:11 ↗ a ride uh does that make sense if the

3:20:14 ↗ issue is providing

3:20:16 ↗ that transit for those in need there are

3:20:19 ↗ other opportunities other options and I

3:20:21 ↗ think the administration would like to

3:20:23 ↗ have some flexibility in providing those

3:20:26 ↗ options so uh I think we can say that we

3:20:29 ↗ hear you um we will continue to work

3:20:31 ↗ forward that the understanding from the

3:20:33 ↗ council is you'd like to see this

3:20:34 ↗ through the bium if not with uh King

3:20:37 ↗ County Transit some other operator and

3:20:39 ↗ so we will work with King County Transit

3:20:42 ↗ beginning of the year they let us know

3:20:45 ↗ in a conversation that director and I

3:20:47 ↗ had with them what about two weeks ago

3:20:49 ↗ now uh they were non-committed with

3:20:52 ↗ everything they saying they are having

3:20:53 ↗ significant budget problems uh and they

3:20:56 ↗ were not prepared to talk beyond that so

3:20:59 ↗ I think again as we talk about Sound

3:21:00 ↗ Transit uh as we talk about light rail

3:21:04 ↗ um we need to control our own destiny

3:21:06 ↗ that we cannot sit back and hope that

3:21:09 ↗ others will look upon isqua and say

3:21:11 ↗ We'll fine we'll take care of you and

3:21:12 ↗ mayor Paulie in presenting this budget

3:21:15 ↗ to you uh I that's a theme throughout um

3:21:18 ↗ so um we will commit this evening to uh

3:21:22 ↗ continue to work on uh the shared ride

3:21:25 ↗ option and if it is Metroflex great if

3:21:28 ↗ it's offered to us great um and we will

3:21:31 ↗ come back to you uh prior to the meeting

3:21:33 ↗ on December 2nd uh with a response as to

3:21:37 ↗ what a 26 funding strategy would look

3:21:39 ↗ like um you know if I may council

3:21:42 ↗ president kind of respond to other

3:21:44 ↗ comments the council's made or would you

3:21:46 ↗ like to take further comments from the

3:21:49 ↗ council um I'm fine with that I will

3:21:52 ↗ make my secondary comments um after and

3:21:55 ↗ then we can see what other well then

3:21:58 ↗ then let me wait until the council's

3:21:59 ↗ finished okay and we'll give you a

3:22:01 ↗ Roundup of the where the administration

3:22:04 ↗ thinks we are here at the end of the

3:22:05 ↗ evening yeah um I I think your comments

3:22:09 ↗ about whether or not service could be

3:22:10 ↗ provided for 2026 is important and

3:22:14 ↗ something that we can certainly

3:22:17 ↗ look at um from my perspective I would

3:22:21 ↗ be very hesitant to fund a program that

3:22:25 ↗ was some sort of you know single ride um

3:22:29 ↗ opportunity I think one of the benefits

3:22:31 ↗ of this is that it gets people an orca

3:22:33 ↗ card and it gets people uh used to using

3:22:38 ↗ the Metro service and so whether that's

3:22:41 ↗ training our young folks um that this is

3:22:43 ↗ an accessible service and something that

3:22:46 ↗ they can not just to get around isqua

3:22:48 ↗ but also throughout um the region I

3:22:52 ↗ think is an important element of all of

3:22:54 ↗ that and so um I would certainly hope

3:22:58 ↗ that we could rely on King County to

3:23:02 ↗ continue that service and if they were

3:23:04 ↗ going to be eliminating that service

3:23:06 ↗ from us I would hope that they would

3:23:08 ↗ also be looking at eliminating it from

3:23:10 ↗ everywhere because just because it's a

3:23:13 ↗ new program doesn't mean that um ours

3:23:15 ↗ should be on the cutting block first um

3:23:18 ↗ I don't mean that it should actually be

3:23:19 ↗ eliminated everywhere just that gosh it

3:23:23 ↗ yeah that would be quite uh unfortunate

3:23:26 ↗ if that was something that was looking

3:23:28 ↗ at um I am not supportive of funding the

3:23:33 ↗ light rail study not because I don't

3:23:36 ↗ think we sh I think we should have a

3:23:39 ↗ community conversation about where the

3:23:41 ↗ light rail station is but I think one of

3:23:44 ↗ the things

3:23:46 ↗ when we were talking about at the garage

3:23:49 ↗ on the Civics conversation um and just

3:23:52 ↗ in general it you can get community

3:23:55 ↗ engagement on things that people are

3:23:57 ↗ interested in especially if you have

3:24:01 ↗ maps and locations and places they can

3:24:03 ↗ put stickers on um I I think this is the

3:24:07 ↗ exact thing that we can do the initial

3:24:11 ↗ work

3:24:12 ↗ internally and have a conversation about

3:24:15 ↗ where does the Community want this

3:24:17 ↗ station to be I think that's the stage

3:24:19 ↗ that we're at right now um

3:24:24 ↗ I no I I think what this would be is

3:24:29 ↗ $200,000 spent on something I think we

3:24:32 ↗ can do that internally with our staff um

3:24:37 ↗ capabilities and get a sense of where

3:24:40 ↗ the

3:24:41 ↗ community wants a station before we get

3:24:44 ↗ into

3:24:46 ↗ you know any of the land use areas or

3:24:49 ↗ any of the Is it feasible um in those

3:24:53 ↗ locations I think we need the community

3:24:56 ↗ input first um before I'm willing to put

3:24:59 ↗ forth

3:25:01 ↗ $200,000 on something that would be for

3:25:04 ↗ a project that isn't going to happen for

3:25:07 ↗ 20 years so I I think it's important to

3:25:10 ↗ recognize I think we can do elements

3:25:15 ↗ that get us moving toward um that

3:25:18 ↗ concept without necessarily spending

3:25:21 ↗ that much

3:25:26 ↗ money any other comments or do we want

3:25:29 ↗ to hear from City administrator at this

3:25:32 ↗ point Okay C

3:25:35 ↗ administrator thank you council

3:25:37 ↗ president members of the council really

3:25:38 ↗ appreciate uh the Deep discussion this

3:25:41 ↗ evening and glad that uh uh we seem to

3:25:44 ↗ be whittling through the list so

3:25:47 ↗ um I think we hear that the DS spending

3:25:50 ↗ is in line with the council's thinking

3:25:52 ↗ so thank you on that um regarding the

3:25:55 ↗ fleet fund um this is something we'll

3:25:57 ↗ continue to bring to the council and in

3:25:59 ↗ in my discussions with mayor Paulie as

3:26:01 ↗ we look at the work plan for uh 20 uh

3:26:05 ↗ 25 we will we'll look at ways to

3:26:08 ↗ continue to involve the council in that

3:26:11 ↗ um again with Metroflex uh we are

3:26:14 ↗ committed to continuing this program we

3:26:16 ↗ will continue uh to talk with King

3:26:19 ↗ County Transit um uh the the Practical

3:26:23 ↗ reality is is they may come back and say

3:26:25 ↗ we're not able to do this and so then

3:26:27 ↗ the question will be are there less

3:26:30 ↗ optimal programs uh that might not teach

3:26:33 ↗ kids how to use an orca card but still

3:26:35 ↗ would allow them to and seniors and

3:26:37 ↗ others to have access to the service so

3:26:40 ↗ we will uh continue uh to do that uh so

3:26:43 ↗ that leaves uh the uh Light Rail study

3:26:48 ↗ um again the mayor is extraordinarily

3:26:52 ↗ committed to seeing this through uh and

3:26:55 ↗ through the comments that you have all

3:26:57 ↗ made um I think that there's there's

3:26:59 ↗ really two sides of a coin there's the

3:27:01 ↗ one side of the coin that says uh if we

3:27:03 ↗ are not diligent it will never come the

3:27:06 ↗ other side of the coin is it's 20 years

3:27:08 ↗ away we got more important things to

3:27:10 ↗ focus on and um you know I I think the

3:27:14 ↗ mayor is going to have to be thoughtful

3:27:17 ↗ over the next several days and uh uh

3:27:20 ↗ reflect on these comments um and decide

3:27:23 ↗ what you would like to ultimately have

3:27:25 ↗ as a a final proposal for the council to

3:27:28 ↗ vote either up or down uh on that um you

3:27:31 ↗ know the the commitment of the community

3:27:35 ↗ the ongoing dialogue with the community

3:27:38 ↗ um you know much of this we can do a

3:27:40 ↗ city forces but there are pieces that we

3:27:42 ↗ cannot um and so we can go back once

3:27:45 ↗ again and talk with community planning

3:27:46 ↗ and development and see if there is a

3:27:48 ↗ different scope uh of work for that um I

3:27:52 ↗ think what monies might be uh allocated

3:27:56 ↗ in reserve for 2026 for a shared ride

3:27:59 ↗ Metroflex or something else I think is

3:28:01 ↗ something that we will also go back uh

3:28:04 ↗ to see um but I I don't know in the eyes

3:28:07 ↗ of the administration that that funding

3:28:10 ↗ and the light rail study are tied that

3:28:13 ↗ they are separate Standalone issues um

3:28:15 ↗ which the the mayor will ponder over the

3:28:18 ↗ next several days and so I think from

3:28:20 ↗ the administration standpoint we've

3:28:22 ↗ heard enough of from the council that

3:28:25 ↗ with uh really uh the light rail study

3:28:29 ↗ uh funding and a commitment maybe more

3:28:33 ↗ uh flushed out commitment to met metlex

3:28:35 ↗ or a shared ride program in 26 uh with

3:28:39 ↗ those two issues resolved I think we are

3:28:41 ↗ done um and so with the council's

3:28:45 ↗ concurrence we will continue to work

3:28:47 ↗ toward that for December 2nd uh come

3:28:50 ↗ back uh with final recommendations on

3:28:53 ↗ those two points uh the light rail

3:28:56 ↗ funding and any additional funding for

3:28:59 ↗ Metro Flex or a shared ride service in

3:29:01 ↗ 26 Council can agree or disagree then we

3:29:05 ↗ package everything up final

3:29:12 ↗ consideration how does that feel folks

3:29:14 ↗ December 2nd or is there something that

3:29:18 ↗ we need from the administration in the

3:29:22 ↗ interim that would get us there for

3:29:25 ↗ December

3:29:28 ↗ 2nd council member Marts so in this in

3:29:32 ↗ the spirit of uh maybe helping uh the

3:29:38 ↗ how the mayor might respond on this I

3:29:40 ↗ mean you know what what do we get for

3:29:44 ↗ $200,000 like what how does it move the

3:29:46 ↗ conversation forward um why now right I

3:29:50 ↗ mean st3 was passed 8 years ago why is

3:29:53 ↗ it all of a sudden urgent

3:29:55 ↗ now the answers to those questions might

3:29:58 ↗ help me understand why this is important

3:30:01 ↗ to the administration and and in part

3:30:04 ↗ just building on the work that we have

3:30:05 ↗ done in the last 12 18 months um we have

3:30:08 ↗ had Community meetings we've had the

3:30:10 ↗ term of art the light rail planning

3:30:13 ↗ guide uh which has been developed the

3:30:15 ↗ money that the council was already

3:30:16 ↗ invested through arpa funds all that's

3:30:18 ↗ been spent in the last 12 or 18 months

3:30:20 ↗ and I think the mayor's concern has been

3:30:23 ↗ uh to not have a pause and so

3:30:26 ↗ consequently then the question is what

3:30:28 ↗ does that look like not having a pause

3:30:30 ↗ and so we went back as I said earlier

3:30:33 ↗ this evening um you know I was prepared

3:30:36 ↗ not to fund this recommend not to fund

3:30:37 ↗ this either you all convinced me kind of

3:30:39 ↗ otherwise despite the fact that you were

3:30:41 ↗ convincing yourself not to do it what I

3:30:43 ↗ was hearing was the importance of

3:30:45 ↗ continuing the discussion and so that's

3:30:47 ↗ why we went back uh and had that

3:30:49 ↗ discussion internally but we'll have it

3:30:51 ↗ again um and come back to you but again

3:30:54 ↗ we don't see the light rail study

3:30:56 ↗ funding and Metroflex funding tied we'll

3:30:59 ↗ come back to you and deal with them both

3:31:01 ↗ separately on their own individual

3:31:02 ↗ merits uh I think again the only two

3:31:05 ↗ remaining issues Council can vote up or

3:31:07 ↗ down based on the mayor's final

3:31:09 ↗ recommendations to you um and

3:31:12 ↗ hopefully but I think it's that issue of

3:31:14 ↗ momentum it's that issue of continuing

3:31:16 ↗ environmental issues are going to be

3:31:18 ↗ extraordinarily important um I think

3:31:21 ↗ isqua's view of environmental issues are

3:31:23 ↗ different than everyone else's view of

3:31:24 ↗ environmental issues and as we look at

3:31:26 ↗ the World perhaps that's going to even

3:31:28 ↗ accelerate um so we just want to be

3:31:30 ↗ thoughtful so we'll go back once again

3:31:33 ↗ and talk some more uh over the next

3:31:35 ↗ several days and uh again there'll be

3:31:37 ↗ two final recommendations from the mayor

3:31:39 ↗ on those two points for your

3:31:41 ↗ consideration on

3:31:43 ↗ December yeah I just want to say I

3:31:45 ↗ really appreciate what council member

3:31:46 ↗ Mart said about you know these are the

3:31:49 ↗ the ways that you're thinking about it

3:31:51 ↗ and what would be useful in

3:31:54 ↗ understanding that from my perspective

3:31:55 ↗ it would also be what can we get out of

3:31:59 ↗ $200,000 that we couldn't do internally

3:32:03 ↗ and

3:32:03 ↗ then anytime we make a decision to use

3:32:06 ↗ internal staff time we're choosing not

3:32:09 ↗ to do something else absolutely so I

3:32:11 ↗ think that would be an important element

3:32:14 ↗ of if we do more of the work internally

3:32:17 ↗ what does that push back um and I think

3:32:20 ↗ that gives us a fuller picture of what

3:32:22 ↗ that is

3:32:24 ↗ so any other comments do the

3:32:27 ↗ administration have what they need thank

3:32:30 ↗ oie dokie so looking at that go to the

3:32:34 ↗ order

3:32:36 ↗ anybody okay we are adjourned at 10:03

3:32:39 ↗ pm thank you

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Council / Members (6)

Barbara de Michele

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Russell Joe

Tola Marts

Lindsey Walsh

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Wally Bobkiewicz, City Administrator

Andrea Snyder, Deputy City Administrator

Tisha Gieser, City Clerk

Excused

Chris Reh

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Rob Peters