City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, December 5, 2016 · City Council Digest

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Tolerance Awareness Day Proclamation Hear Presentation AB 7300

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Administration / Executive Department:

Growth Education Series: Forterra Hear Presentation AB 7273

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7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll, Dec. 5

Approve · packet pp.2016

Topics: Budget

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Minutes: City Council Committee Work Session, Nov. 14, 2016

Approve · packet pp.89–90

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CONSENT CALENDAR b) 11-14-16 Council Committee Work Session Minutes Page 7843

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Nov. 21, 2016

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CONSENT CALENDAR c) 11-21-16 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page 7845

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Nov. 22, 2016

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The purpose of this special meeting was to allow councilmembers the ability to attend a regional transportation summit and participate as audience members. No formal/final action was taken by the Council at this meeting.

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Nov. 28, 2016

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The purpose of this special meeting was to allow councilmembers the ability to attend a community open house regarding Newport Way NW. No formal/final action was taken by Council at the open house.

Water Treatment, Long Term Options Study Postpone Authorization AB 7183

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Topics: Water

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UPDATED CITY COUNCIL AB 7183 - AGENDA BILL Consent City Council Regular Meeting - 05 Dec 2016 Calendar

2016 Budget Amendments AB 7230

Carried 7-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.109–117

Topics: Land UseBudget

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · May 16, 2016

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Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

First Amendment to South Cove/Greenwood Point Assumption Interlocal Agreement with Bellevue AB 7269

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Council Infrastructure Committee / Paul Winterstein, Chair:

8. PUBLIC HEARING

2017 Budget AB 7243

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Topics: Budget

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City Council / Stacy Goodman, Council President:

9. REGULAR BUSINESS

Human Services Grant Recommendations (2017-2018) AB 7253

Carried 7-0

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Topics: Equity

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UPDATED CITY COUNCIL AB 7253 - AGENDA BILL Regular City Council Regular Meeting - 05 Dec 2016 Business

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BARBER

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

2017 Non-Profit Funding AB 7265

Failed 3-4

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Topics: Budget

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Council Services & Safety Committee / Tola Marts, Chair:

Roll call:

Moved by RAMOS · seconded by BETTISE

In favor: Ramos, Bettise, Pauly

Opposed: Eileen Barber, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Paul Winterstein

King County Alternative Services Pilot Proposal AB 7280

Carried 7-0

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NEW CITY COUNCIL AB 7280 - AGENDA BILL Regular City Council Regular Meeting - 05 Dec 2016 Business

Roll call:

Moved by WINTERSTEIN · seconded by RAMOS

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

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0:55 ↗ I'll call to order the Monday, December 5th, 2016 regular council meeting

1:01 ↗ and ask those in the audience who would like to join the

1:06 ↗ council and me in the pledge of allegiance to please stand. I

1:12 ↗ pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and

1:18 ↗ to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible,

1:23 ↗ with liberty and justice for all.

1:29 ↗ - We have two items under special business

1:34 ↗ this evening. The first is agenda bill 7300,

1:40 ↗ tolerance awareness day proclamation. And I would

1:46 ↗ ask Don Burnett, a community outreach

1:52 ↗ coordinator for the YMCA, Dante Pollard

1:57 ↗ and family, Danita and Amira, Torquisha

2:03 ↗ Johnson, Xavier Ramira and family, and

2:08 ↗ Robin Kelly of our sister city commission and Elizabeth Maupin

2:14 ↗ of the Human Services Commission to join me at the

2:20 ↗ podium. And as I'm moving towards the podium, I'm delighted

2:26 ↗ that those names that I just announced are here to

2:31 ↗ accept this proclamation. Since 1984, the YMCA has

2:37 ↗ championed social justice issues and equal rights. Each

2:43 ↗ new facility, including ours here in Issaquah, reflects

2:48 ↗ the growing needs of our communities and our

2:54 ↗ region's diversity. So with that...

3:01 ↗ So I can

3:06 ↗ speak into the

3:11 ↗ microphone And

3:16 ↗ so, whereas the Issaquah City Council has passed resolution

3:22 ↗ number 2002-09 in April 2002 urging Issaquah City officials

3:27 ↗ and staff, the Issaquah School District, and all citizens

3:33 ↗ to work to reduce intolerance towards others of different

3:38 ↗ backgrounds and beliefs, And whereas in the wake of the

3:44 ↗ recent contentious national election, the City Council wishes to reaffirm our core

3:50 ↗ principles and values. And whereas as your city government, our job is

3:56 ↗ to bring people together and to be welcoming of all people and

4:02 ↗ all ideas with the belief that we are truly We truly

4:08 ↗ are smarter and stronger when we join together, and

4:13 ↗ whereas it is especially critical at this time to

4:19 ↗ reaffirm our stand against intolerance of another's race, sex,

4:25 ↗ religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity,

4:30 ↗ and whereas the city pledges to foster a community

4:36 ↗ that condemns all discrimination and racism and proclaims our

4:42 ↗ city a hate-free zone. Whereas our city leaders, we

4:48 ↗ also demand that our national, state, and regional leaders

4:54 ↗ uphold the same values. Now, therefore, the Mayor and City

5:00 ↗ Council of the City of Issaquah do hereby proclaim December 5th, 2016 to

5:06 ↗ be Tolerance Awareness Day in the City of Issaquah and encourage all citizens

5:12 ↗ to be mindful, tolerant, and accepting of others today and every day throughout

5:18 ↗ the year. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand

5:23 ↗ and seal of the City of Issaquah this fifth day

5:29 ↗ of November 2016. This proclamation is signed not only by

5:34 ↗ myself, but each of our City Council members, Council Goodman,

5:40 ↗ Council President Goodman, Council Member Pauley, Barber, Martz, Winterstein, Ramos,

5:45 ↗ and Batiste. And with that, I want to thank you for

5:51 ↗ joining me up here. And I know that those were a lot of

5:57 ↗ words. We just want to treat everyone with respect and dignity and work

6:03 ↗ together. And that is the bottom line of all of it. So, sir,

6:09 ↗ thank you for being here this evening. Thank you for being here. Thank

6:15 ↗ you for being here. Thank you for being

6:20 ↗ here. And thank you for being here. Sir, thank you for

6:26 ↗ being here. Thank you for being here, Elizabeth. Thank you. Thank

6:31 ↗ you for the proclamation. And Robin, thank you very, very much.

6:37 ↗ And so with that, I would like to present this to you. And

6:43 ↗ I hope that finds a prominent place at the Y, up in the

6:49 ↗ Issaquah Highlands. And we gratefully accept this on behalf of Passage Point, the

6:55 ↗ YWCA outreach just outside of Issaquah, where we, our mission is to reunite

7:01 ↗ and reenter people. And thank you for your support this evening.

7:06 ↗ We gratefully accept it.

7:11 ↗ Thank you very, very

7:16 ↗ much. And thanks to

7:21 ↗ each of you all.

7:26 ↗ Our next item of

7:31 ↗ business under special reports

7:36 ↗ is Agenda Bill 7273,

7:41 ↗ Growth Education Series for

7:46 ↗ Terra. This is the second presentation in the City's Growth

7:52 ↗ Education Series. These presentations are intended to provide the Council and the

7:58 ↗ public the opportunity to learn more about regional growth management, including state

8:03 ↗ requirements and regional and local efforts. We are joined here this evening

8:09 ↗ by the Executive Director of Forterra, or the President of Forterra, Jean

8:15 ↗ Duvernoy. And Michael Benick will make a presentation on a livability survey that

8:21 ↗ was recently conducted for Puget Sound Millennials this evening. He has promised me

8:27 ↗ he will keep it to 20 minutes or less. And in order to

8:32 ↗ do that, he asked that you save your questions until the end. And

8:38 ↗ so, Michael, you can make your way. Are you going to kick it

8:44 ↗ off, Gene? Of course you can, but that counts against the 20 minutes. All right.

8:49 ↗ I am going to be, I'm going to be very quick. Thank you mayor for

8:53 ↗ allowing us to present. Uh, thank you council for allowing us to present. Good to

8:58 ↗ see you, Bob. Um, you all know us mostly as a conservation organs organization. In

9:03 ↗ fact, Mayor, we've done some great work together in terms of land conservation. But

9:08 ↗ over the last 10, 15, even 20 years, this organization, For Terra, has really totally

9:14 ↗ recognized that if we want to save our woods, if we want to save our

9:20 ↗ mountains, our wetlands, That's only half the battle. If you want to do that, you

9:26 ↗ need to make great livable places for our citizens. So we need to do both.

9:31 ↗ And Fort Terra has totally shifted its work and is committed to doing both, conserving

9:37 ↗ our great open spaces and making cities and communities second to none. Cities and communities

9:42 ↗ worthy of our children. So... Part of our job to really get that balance right

9:48 ↗ and to do our work correctly is constantly checking in with our public, with our

9:53 ↗ citizens. Over time, you see us do research into how our fellow citizens are considering

9:59 ↗ growth in our cities and how then this next generation of leaders, millennials look at

10:04 ↗ our future and growth. A year ago, we did a very broad-based

10:10 ↗ research poll on how our citizens across this region are looking at growth. We

10:16 ↗ learned some very interesting facts. First, our citizens, and I don't care where they

10:22 ↗ come from, Issaquah, Renton, even Seattle, Our citizens first and foremost appreciate the environment they

10:28 ↗ live in. There is an astounding response in our polling that indicates that our citizens

10:32 ↗ compared to anywhere else in America, anywhere else in the USA are very taken without

10:37 ↗ our outdoors with the beauty of our area. Our citizens recognize that to conserve that

10:42 ↗ beauty, we have to learn how to build within our cities and live within our

10:46 ↗ cities. They gave strong support for continuing to grow within our cities if we

10:52 ↗ do two things, just two things, solve the transportation mess and solve the affordability issue.

10:58 ↗ But the good news is that's what our citizens are looking for us to really

11:04 ↗ achieve is some real focus on transportation affordability. They want to see our landscape preserved

11:10 ↗ as a consequence. That was the research we did a year ago. that our citizens

11:16 ↗ are all in on helping us build our cities and to preserve our outdoors. We

11:20 ↗ thought it best to really check in now with the next generation of leaders, our

11:25 ↗ millennials, and are we in concert with their beliefs and values? So that's what we

11:29 ↗ did over the summer and that's what Michael talked to you about, is do our

11:34 ↗ citizens to our next generations of leaders have those same values? And I think he

11:38 ↗ has some very interesting information to bring to you tonight. Over the months ahead now,

11:43 ↗ we are going to be looking at how our citizens are looking more regionally at

11:48 ↗ our whole growth management structure and whether they see that -- how they see that

11:54 ↗ serving themselves and the quality of life. So we'll probably be reporting back to you

11:59 ↗ again shortly on that element of our continuing research into our community. So, Mayor, thank

12:04 ↗ you very much. I cede my -- rest of my time to my colleague. Thank

12:09 ↗ you, Gene, and Michael, welcome. Thank you very much. Great. All

12:15 ↗ right. So thanks, everybody, for having us. We really appreciate it.

12:20 ↗ My name is Michael Benecke. I'm the Director of Communications at

12:26 ↗ Portera. And we've had an interesting summer and fall of getting to

12:32 ↗ know more of the millennials that have become such a force and such a presence

12:37 ↗ in Seattle and for that matter in all of the surrounding communities as well. It's

12:43 ↗ a phenomenon of growth that has even captured the attention of the New York Times

12:48 ↗ on its front page back in August. You may have noticed this article. Calling attention

12:54 ↗ to the fact that this area has become one of the millennial magnets across the

13:00 ↗ country. Second only to Brooklyn in terms of the concentration of young people 18 to

13:06 ↗ 34 who have chosen this as their place to live, whether because they've come here

13:12 ↗ or they were already here. Certainly there has been plenty of local attention to

13:17 ↗ the influx of millennials too. In Seattle, for example, there has been, frankly, a bit

13:22 ↗ of a backlash against some of the tech workers who have come in, especially to

13:27 ↗ work for places like Amazon or Facebook or Google, or for that matter, Microsoft, which

13:32 ↗ is developing a presence in South Lake Union. A lot of pushback against perceptions that

13:37 ↗ may or may not be true with regard to millennials and the

13:43 ↗ values that they hold and their willingness to be good citizens within

13:49 ↗ the community that we all share. Taking nothing for granted, we wanted to

13:54 ↗ dive in and really get to know the young adults in our midst and find

14:00 ↗ out what was accurate and what was perhaps not. So we thought about a survey,

14:06 ↗ hardly a novel idea when it comes to millennials, a generation that has invited an

14:12 ↗ incredible amount of scrutiny over the years. So we thought hard about whether we should

14:18 ↗ in fact undertake such a thing. did some Googling, as you might expect, and some

14:24 ↗ binging, and found that there was an incredible trove of existing research. 1.3 million hits

14:28 ↗ is what you get if you should put in millennial attitudes, research, say, into Bing.

14:33 ↗ So we began to read that stuff, frankly thinking that maybe we would find out

14:37 ↗ what we wanted to know just from stuff that had already been done with respect

14:42 ↗ to studying. you do find quite a trove of fascinating, even at times

14:48 ↗ amusing research. And as we got deeper into it, we started to see

14:54 ↗ things that made us feel like we really do need to focus in

15:00 ↗ on our local millennial population. For example, this is a telling set of

15:06 ↗ statistics that observes that we have an unusually, unusually highly educated millennial population

15:12 ↗ in the greater Seattle area with pushing on 60% of our 25 and ups having

15:18 ↗ a bachelor's degree. If you compare that to the national average, it's about 23%. So

15:23 ↗ we are blessed by having this incredibly well-educated population. And this, among other things, made

15:29 ↗ us think, you know, but we really do need to undertake some region-specific research. And

15:35 ↗ so we dived in with, yes, our own survey of millennials. And

15:41 ↗ here are some numbers that will give you a sense as to the scale of

15:46 ↗ the undertaking. We got 1,168 millennials to talk to us through a combination of a

15:51 ↗ phone survey, which was a randomized sample survey, and then a web survey, which was

15:56 ↗ more of an opt-in convenient survey. But in total, we had 1,168 people to take

16:01 ↗ it. 300 of them were phone respondents, to give you some sense

16:07 ↗ of scale, there's a very well-regarded, sort of gold standard survey done by

16:13 ↗ Pew of millennials that has 617 millennials that it talked to, so we

16:19 ↗ feel pretty gratified that we got 300. We feel like this is really

16:25 ↗ rich, robust information. 42,547, that's the number of phone calls that

16:31 ↗ we had to make to get to those 300. Just in

16:37 ↗ general, it's not easy to poll people these days. Millennials are

16:42 ↗ an especially elusive subspecies of people. But ultimately, we got our

16:48 ↗ sample of 300 and feel really pleased with the richness of

16:54 ↗ information that all of that yielded. Just very fast, here's a, don't

17:00 ↗ scrutinize this too closely, just to give you a sense as to the demographic attributes

17:06 ↗ of the phone sample that we did. as well as the web sample

17:11 ↗ that we did. The phone sample tracks quite closely to who we know millennials

17:17 ↗ to be in our community in terms of gender and racial and ethnic background

17:23 ↗ and ages. The web sample is actually pretty close in many respects to what

17:28 ↗ the phone sample was. Again, the web sample was that convenience sample. We did, though,

17:34 ↗ oversample, as it worked out, Seattle, and oversample Democrats as well by virtue of the

17:39 ↗ web sample. So I'll go back and forth a little bit between what we found

17:44 ↗ out from the phone respondents and from the web respondents, but most of the data

17:49 ↗ you'll be hearing is from that scientific sample done by phone. Here's a little bit

17:54 ↗ more with respect to demographics. People coming from that tech universe, they work in tech.

18:00 ↗ We know that overall in our local millennial population about 10% are working in tech,

18:06 ↗ so we feel good about having sampled that number and in fact getting even more

18:12 ↗ of them over the phone. We had a surprisingly high number of people tell us

18:18 ↗ that they are LGBTQ. We would have expected about 7% based upon what we know

18:23 ↗ nationally. to be how millennials identify, but 14% answering on the phone

18:29 ↗ said that that's their identity. We also found that yes, they do

18:35 ↗ live with their parents, which is a commonly held conception. And it

18:41 ↗ was in fact true for our phone respondents for certain with younger

18:46 ↗ millennials especially being folks who still live with their parents. we did

18:52 ↗ though find that newcomer millennials in our community don't live with their parents i suppose

18:57 ↗ the reason for that is sort of obvious they probably left their families behind in

19:01 ↗ order to move here so they are out on their own so these are generally

19:06 ↗ true statements with regard to the sample that we did those who took the phone

19:11 ↗ survey long established here those who took the phone survey newer to the area and

19:15 ↗ there are some interesting differences between those uh kinds of people that we'll go into

19:21 ↗ a little bit more. We asked about just in general looking at your community, do

19:26 ↗ you feel like we're on the right track, the wrong track? And overwhelmingly, millennials are

19:30 ↗ feeling upbeat about the direction of this community. We got interested in whether they are

19:35 ↗ more sanguine than millennials elsewhere in the country, and you know what? It's actually about

19:40 ↗ the same. Nationally, they're actually even more optimistic. 69% feel like their particular community is

19:45 ↗ on the right track. Anyway, we have a crop of standard issue, optimistic young people.

19:51 ↗ We inquired about what's the best thing about living here, and well, Jean kind of

19:57 ↗ already gave it away because wonder wonders it happens to be the same thing that

20:02 ↗ the broad population feels about this region, that this is a place of beauty, of

20:08 ↗ incredible natural richness and recreational opportunity. Unpacking it a little bit more, 37% had

20:14 ↗ an answer in that realm. And then these are the other things that popped out

20:19 ↗ with respect to those kinds of responses. People love that this is a diverse and

20:24 ↗ progressive community, and they are attracted by the job opportunities, but this is not maybe

20:30 ↗ as high a number as we might have thought. This actually holds even for people

20:35 ↗ who are new to the area. You might think, well, they came for jobs, wasn't

20:41 ↗ that the main thing for them? But actually not. It's the beauty. It's the diverse

20:47 ↗ and progressive community even for that population. We asked a question about what makes you

20:53 ↗ happiest, and here's the word cloud that describes those responses. Again, that theme of nature

20:59 ↗ and being outdoors. predominates along with the opportunity to be with

21:04 ↗ friends and family. Work comes up, but not very high here

21:10 ↗ either. This seems to be a group of people for whom

21:16 ↗ work matters, but it's not the predominant thing by any means.

21:22 ↗ And now a concerningly blank slide. I have no idea what

21:28 ↗ should be there. Yeah, oh, that's a video that I can't

21:34 ↗ show you, so we're moving on. So with respect to

21:40 ↗ concerns that people have, so we know that people overall, our millennials are overall content

21:46 ↗ with their life here, feel like the community's on the right track, but what are

21:51 ↗ their concerns? Here we're comparing their responses to a poll done of the broad community

21:58 ↗ actually by the same pollster EMC research that worked with us, giving us a chance

22:04 ↗ to compare the overall adult population with the millennial subgroup. And there's some interesting differences.

22:09 ↗ You see that affordable housing and homelessness are top of mind for virtually everybody, but

22:15 ↗ millennials' concern for inequality and racism pops out at number three. You know what, it

22:21 ↗ doesn't even make the top ten for everybody else, which is fascinating. This is a

22:27 ↗ recurring motif in the research. this concern about fairness and dealing with racism.

22:32 ↗ And you notice that traffic is a top five concern for everybody, but in

22:38 ↗ particular for the broad adult population, much less so for the millennials that we

22:43 ↗ spoke to. We asked our respondents about wanting to stay in the region, and

22:49 ↗ overwhelmingly, and this is for people who have been here for a long while

22:55 ↗ or maybe new here, do you want to stay? Emphatically, the answer is yes.

23:01 ↗ We asked, can you afford to stay? And here, this is a very striking, maybe

23:06 ↗ one of the most striking findings in the survey, we think. Half are very worried

23:12 ↗ that they will not be able to afford to stay. This could have real implications

23:17 ↗ for the kind of community that we are perceived as and become unless we can

23:23 ↗ address this concern about affordability. Let's take a step back and look at whether our

23:29 ↗ local millennials are different in any notable ways from millennials nationally. we

23:34 ↗ started off by asking about party affiliation and you see that approximately the same

23:40 ↗ percentage of locals as nationals call themselves democrats fewer though call themselves republicans here

23:46 ↗ but they don't become democrats they become independents so that's a striking finding going

23:52 ↗ forward notice the orange and the apples distinguishing our locals who are apples from

23:58 ↗ the nationals who are oranges Here we compared what folks said

24:04 ↗ in a national Pew survey to what we learned in ours with respect to various

24:09 ↗ values, like are you an environmentalist, are you a person who considers yourself religious or

24:14 ↗ patriotic? And you can see some things that are pretty interesting, like our local millennials

24:20 ↗ are less inclined to call themselves environmentalists. This was a little bit jarring for us

24:25 ↗ to see as a sustainability organization. We'll talk more about that in a

24:31 ↗ minute. With respect to religiosity and patriotism, we haven't unpacked the implications of those

24:37 ↗ findings, but we do observe that our local millennials are clearly different.

24:43 ↗ Back to that issue about being an environmentalist or not, we asked another question, "Do

24:49 ↗ you feel a personal responsibility for the environment?" And here, our faith was restored. We

24:55 ↗ saw, "Okay, maybe you don't like the label for whatever reason, but you do still

25:00 ↗ subscribe to the values." And so this gave us some heart. We then went into

25:06 ↗ environmental concerns that millennials hold, and you see that climate change and global warming tops

25:12 ↗ out the list. This is interesting insofar as it used to be in past polls

25:17 ↗ that Fortera has done about public environmental concerns that water quality was topmost. You can

25:22 ↗ see the climate change has popped up to the top of the list, at least

25:27 ↗ with respect to millennials. And I have to tell you that while they are highly

25:32 ↗ concerned about it, they are not really at all optimistic that we're going to do

25:37 ↗ anything about it. which is a sobering finding. Here are some representative quotes from

25:43 ↗ a freeform part of the survey. And there were a lot in this

25:49 ↗ vein with the sense of feeling besieged and betrayed by earlier generations and

25:54 ↗ without a lot of optimism that we're actually going to do something meaningful

26:00 ↗ about it. Here we're comparing adults, all adults nationally versus local

26:06 ↗ millennials and you can see that these pessimistic responses about, yeah, it's

26:12 ↗ real, we know what we could do and we're not going to

26:17 ↗ do anything about it. I found this to be discouraging and I

26:23 ↗ hope that ultimately we can turn that around and recreate some optimism about

26:29 ↗ the possibility of doing something. And also it's worth saying this is pre-election. All of

26:35 ↗ this polling happened pre-election, so I don't know, though I have my suspicions about where

26:40 ↗ these attitudes might have gone since then. Here's how millennials pitch in in their personal

26:46 ↗ lives to help. Initially we were frankly a little bit underwhelmed by some of this

26:52 ↗ stuff, Like, is this the best you could do? But then we started to think

26:57 ↗ about our own lives and what we actually do in our own personal sphere of

27:01 ↗ day to day. And this really is the stuff that probably we all do. Bigger

27:06 ↗ things, you know, with respect to dealing with climate change, for example, or extinction of

27:10 ↗ species. Those are things that require a community, a whole society, even a whole planet

27:15 ↗ to take on. But these are the things that they do in their personal realms.

27:20 ↗ So let's narrow down the focus now and look at distinctions among purely local millennials,

27:26 ↗ because there are some very fascinating ones. We are depicting newcomers and homegrown millennials with

27:31 ↗ our icons here. Hopefully they make you chuckle a little bit. The premise being that

27:37 ↗ if you've been here for a while, you've learned to wear a raincoat and put

27:43 ↗ away your umbrella. So back to that question, are you an environmentalist?

27:50 ↗ the home grounds as we know um about a quarter of them embrace the term

27:55 ↗ but the newcomers to the region people who have been here for five years or

28:00 ↗ less are much more willing to wear that label and and proudly um and i

28:05 ↗ should point out much more even than millennials nationally if you remember that earlier slide

28:10 ↗ it was 32 percent of millennials nationally who liked the label 27% of

28:16 ↗ our homegrowns and now 51% of the newcomers. So it's like, wow,

28:22 ↗ the people newly coming here really have this value system, or at

28:27 ↗ least they really like the label quite a lot. We asked a

28:33 ↗ question about parks and green space, and here that difference sort of

28:39 ↗ went away, actually, mostly with the newcomers. and the long-timers feeling equally adam

28:45 ↗ equally ardent about wanting to have more more parks and green space in the region

28:50 ↗ um somebody equipped that maybe the newcomers just haven't haven't discovered all the parks and

28:55 ↗ green space yet and they won't see quite the same need um they'll be more

29:00 ↗ like the long timers here but regardless you can see that there is a very

29:05 ↗ high degree of enthusiasm for more parks and green space and in terms of using

29:10 ↗ that parks green space what we find is that, yeah, they are getting out

29:16 ↗ and enjoying it. They are not sitting at home and watching Netflix or getting obsessed

29:21 ↗ with work and staying late in their cubicles. No, they're actually getting out and recreating.

29:26 ↗ And that holds even for the farther off green space. They want to be out

29:32 ↗ there relishing the beauty and all that this incredible part of the world has to

29:37 ↗ offer in terms of nature and nature experiences. We

29:43 ↗ wondered whether screens are more interesting than nature. So we asked this

29:49 ↗ question and we found that, yeah, a third maybe would rather spend

29:55 ↗ a spare hour looking at a screen, but nonetheless two-thirds would like

30:01 ↗ to get out and do something else, potentially out enjoying nature. Sprawl.

30:07 ↗ This is a very emphatic finding. We asked, do you support policies that

30:12 ↗ will prevent us from spilling out of our cities and swallowing farmland and swallowing working

30:18 ↗ forests? And with great vehemence, folks said, yes, we support that. And this is a

30:23 ↗ finding that holds really across every single demographic. I know it's a little bit hard

30:28 ↗ to read this, but the carry away from this slide is whether you're a male

30:34 ↗ or female or a Democrat or a Republican or you live in Seattle, or

30:39 ↗ another part of King County, you are somebody who very much believes that we want

30:45 ↗ to keep our cities contained so that we can continue to have those green spaces

30:51 ↗ beyond, you know, for all that they provide in terms of food and fiber and

30:57 ↗ recreation. - So Michael? - Yes. We have the slide deck, and I'm just looking

31:03 ↗ at the progress that you're making and the number of slides to go. So you're

31:08 ↗ going to have to pick up the pace a bit more. Okay. And... I appreciate

31:13 ↗ the... Hands up, roll them. Okay, yep, okay, very good. So cars, let's look

31:18 ↗ at cars. We find that even though there is a common conception that millennials do

31:24 ↗ not own cars, here they do, actually. And it doesn't matter whether you are new

31:30 ↗ to the region or have been here for a long time, you own a car

31:36 ↗ and you're using them, yes? to drive, although worth saying that the extent

31:42 ↗ of driving by millennials is not as much as for the broad population. And

31:48 ↗ millennials are more inclined to do things like carpool and use public transit. Can

31:54 ↗ you see giving up your car, we asked. And we found that a lot

32:00 ↗ of millennials indeed were willing to do that, newcomers even more so than long

32:06 ↗ timers. And if you go to that web collection of respondents, these are the

32:12 ↗ people who are more from seattle and generally more new to the region those folks

32:17 ↗ are especially willing to give up their cars and perhaps it's because of the fact

32:22 ↗ that seattle has a very built-out public transit infrastructure that would seem to be the

32:27 ↗ logical reason and it's kind of confirmed by these break by this breakdown of that

32:32 ↗ question with respect to geography yes seattle lights very willing to give up their car

32:37 ↗ folks The farther out parts of King, no doubt including Issaquah, for very

32:43 ↗ good practical reasons, I would argue, less disposed to. But maybe that's surprising and

32:49 ↗ great that as many as 40% could see them giving up a car in

32:55 ↗ the outlying areas. Looking at this in a little bit more fine-grained way, a

33:01 ↗ willingness to use public transportation is something that People from across

33:07 ↗ the region are pretty disposed to do, even in places that are not

33:13 ↗ that well-seared by the mass transit infrastructure. Housing. We were curious

33:19 ↗ as to whether folks desired to have a great big house and the answer was

33:24 ↗ no. Although people who are longtime millennials, longtime residents and millennials, they are a little

33:30 ↗ bit more interested in having a big house, but still not that interested in having

33:35 ↗ a big house and broken down by geography. you can see that there is not,

33:41 ↗ this is a value for millennials pretty much anywhere in the three-county region. This is

33:47 ↗ a slide that asks about being a renter, whether you would do that if you

33:53 ↗ could stay close to the center of the city, or would you really rather own

33:58 ↗ a home even if it meant you had to drive a good distance to get

34:04 ↗ into the city. And you can see that there's a pretty interesting split

34:10 ↗ with the long-time millennials being much more disposed to wanting to have that

34:16 ↗ home and deal with the driving in. And the newcomers, even the older

34:22 ↗ newcomers, it's worth saying, being much more interested in staying within the center

34:28 ↗ city and even if that meant renting. Rent control.

34:33 ↗ was something we asked about and given the concern for affordability, there was quite

34:39 ↗ a bit of support that we learned about. I actually asked the pollster about

34:45 ↗ the east side feelings of millennials and there was actually a little bit less

34:51 ↗ interest among folks from the east side of the county. But nonetheless, it's a

34:57 ↗ pretty striking finding that there is such a high degree of interest rent

35:03 ↗ control. Values around housing, we were curious as to if you had to stack

35:09 ↗ up these four attributes of new housing, what would you say, Mr. and Ms.

35:14 ↗ Millennial? Maybe ponder that yourself for a second. Here's what they told us. Affordability,

35:20 ↗ maybe unsurprisingly, that most practical of things. Topmost, but then not displacing current residents

35:26 ↗ being a very important value. Going back to what we know about millennials and

35:31 ↗ their concern for RACIAL JUSTICE AND LIVING IN A DIVERSE SORT OF

35:37 ↗ SETTING. THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT THEY RANKED VERY HIGH. FIT WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND

35:43 ↗ BEAUTY FOLLOWING UP ON THAT. MICHAEL, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO MOVE TO

35:49 ↗ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. YES. AND IT WOULD BE HELPFUL, I THINK, IF YOU COULD just describe

35:55 ↗ in broad general terms the rest of your slide deck. I'd like to

36:01 ↗ leave a little bit of time for questions if you would. So if

36:07 ↗ you could wrap your portion up in five minutes or less, I think

36:13 ↗ that would provide an opportunity for questions. Yeah, I don't even think

36:19 ↗ I need five minutes actually for this last section. I notice there's a lot of

36:25 ↗ data which we'll have an opportunity to look at. Yeah, you can digest that offline,

36:31 ↗ great. So turning now to millennials and dealing with government and playing a part in

36:37 ↗ civil society, we asked questions about what do you feel like you can have influence?

36:43 ↗ Is it on the federal government? answer, no, not so much. But locally,

36:49 ↗ very much so. There's a strong sense that this is a place where, yeah,

36:54 ↗ I can get active and my voice can be heard. I would imagine that

37:00 ↗ this may be an intensifying feeling given the election. We went into questions about

37:06 ↗ just involvement with respect to giving and volunteering with nonprofits in the

37:12 ↗ community and found that there's a very high degree of philanthropic engagement that

37:18 ↗ is quite comparable to the adult population in general. And with respect to

37:24 ↗ giving and volunteering and where that gets directed, we found that there is

37:30 ↗ a very broad range of interests and this too stacks up and looks

37:36 ↗ like the broad adult population pretty closely. So that same sort of range

37:42 ↗ of of concerns and ways of giving back. I think I'll skip that. Let me

37:47 ↗ just wrap up on this slide that recaps what Jean said at the very top.

37:53 ↗ So this is what we found in the 2015 opinion research in terms of general

37:58 ↗ sentiment around direction of the community and growth and concerns. As Jean said, there's a

38:03 ↗ strong sense that this is a great place to live with the communities on the

38:09 ↗ right track. We found that as well with our millennials. What we like is

38:14 ↗ the beauty and the nature of our communities. That is strongly echoed again with

38:20 ↗ what the millennials have told us. What we don't like: traffic and affordability. Unaffordability

38:26 ↗ big time for the millennials. Traffic not so much a concern. Maybe the thing

38:31 ↗ to say next is yet. Maybe it will become more of a concern as

38:37 ↗ they move into later life stages. Definitely a desire to keep growth in

38:43 ↗ our cities and not sprawl out. That's something we found both with the

38:49 ↗ broad adult population and the millennials. And with respect to growth, clearly that's

38:55 ↗ going to take attention with respect to a well-articulated vision and a great

39:00 ↗ execution of plans that everybody understands and subscribes to. I think we can

39:06 ↗ say that's going to apply to our millennial population. So, summing it

39:12 ↗ up, we feel like our millennial population, including millennials who are new

39:18 ↗ arrivals here, are very much folks that we can relate to and

39:23 ↗ folks who share the kinds of value orientation that folks in general

39:29 ↗ have. And we look forward to welcoming them into our cause and

39:35 ↗ into the greater cause of sustainability for the community. Great. A lot of

39:41 ↗ information in a relatively short period of time. Are there questions of Michael?

39:47 ↗ Appreciate the fact that we have the slides. There's a lot more detailed information here

39:53 ↗ for those that want to delve into that. And this provides a pretty interesting picture

39:59 ↗ of a segment of our population. And so we appreciate you coming this evening, Jean.

40:05 ↗ Thank you very, very much for coming. And with that, we will now move to

40:11 ↗ audience comments.

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41:06 ↗ attacks, obscene language, derogatory remarks, and disruptive behavior will not be permitted. Again, citizen comments,

41:12 ↗ written and verbal, are an important aspect of the public process. We take them seriously,

41:17 ↗ and we thank members of the public for taking the time to address us during

41:23 ↗ our meetings. And with that, I would ask if anyone has signed up to speak.

41:29 ↗ Yes, Mark Bloom? And then I would

41:34 ↗ ask also that someone turn off

41:40 ↗ the slide there. Good evening. My

41:45 ↗ name is Mark Bloom. I live

41:51 ↗ at 19222 Southeast May Valley Road.

41:56 ↗ I have lived on the May

42:02 ↗ Valley Road since 1970 for 40

42:07 ↗ years, and now I am retired.

42:13 ↗ My concern is... Now that you have

42:18 ↗ stopped the commercial trucks from coming through Issaquah, you have

42:24 ↗ created a truck noise that is unbearable on the May

42:30 ↗ Valley Road. There is literally one dump truck going by

42:35 ↗ every minute, coming and going. Some dump trucks are very

42:41 ↗ noisy. I can sit in my lunch room and eat

42:47 ↗ my lunch, and I actually vibrate. in my chair

42:52 ↗ because of the trucks. 400 plus trucks every day. 400 gallons

42:58 ↗ of diesel every day burned on the May Valley Road. The

43:04 ↗ trucks use their Jake brakes. I can hear them miles away.

43:09 ↗ I'm an outdoors person. I've always been an outdoors person. And

43:15 ↗ I just, you know, I don't know what's going to happen

43:21 ↗ to the May Valley Road. Like I say, it's very unbearable

43:27 ↗ to me. I was hoping to retire, live there, and be, you know, because May

43:33 ↗ Valley Road is a beautiful area. It always has been. And the road itself is

43:39 ↗ way too narrow for the trucks. One of these days, one of those trucks is

43:44 ↗ going to end up in the ditch if they don't run over a bicycle person.

43:50 ↗ The other day, I came out and turned to go down towards Highway 900 on

43:56 ↗ the May Valley Road. And the two bicyclers just came out on

44:02 ↗ the road. There's not enough room. I stopped. And sure enough, here comes

44:08 ↗ a dump truck. If I hadn't have stopped and slowed way down, I

44:14 ↗ don't know what would have happened. But people are really, I don't know

44:20 ↗ how other people feel about that area. I can't imagine that there aren't

44:26 ↗ more people here. And, yeah. You know, I don't know

44:32 ↗ if the trucks coming from Seattle area or Bellevue or something, and I know

44:38 ↗ 405 is a pretty bad corridor, but if they could take 405 to Highway

44:44 ↗ 169, because you've got already a lot of trucks on 169, and I don't

44:50 ↗ know what quarry they're going to. I mean, I haven't literally followed them to

44:56 ↗ see where they're going, so... Anyway, I need some ideas. I don't know

45:02 ↗ what's going to happen. If you can slow down the speed limit on the May

45:07 ↗ Valley Road to 25, trucks go by there, they're doing 50 miles an hour. And

45:13 ↗ when they come by you, you can't hear yourself think. And one of these days,

45:19 ↗ something's going to happen. I don't know if you can fill in the rumble strips

45:25 ↗ because... They're so wide, they have to ride almost on the rumble strips. And then

45:30 ↗ when they go by, they hit the rumble strips. And their tires are noisy. So

45:35 ↗ I don't know if that's a possibility. I know over in the Squim area, if

45:40 ↗ they go by a residential area, they have actually filled in the rumble strips. And

45:45 ↗ then the rumble strips go on. I know it's a traffic-- for people that drive

45:50 ↗ that can't stay on the road, we have to protect them. Anyway, those

45:56 ↗ are my concerns. I don't know where I go

46:02 ↗ from here, but I want to thank you all

46:07 ↗ for listening to me. Mark, thank you very, very

46:13 ↗ much. Next is Robin Kelly. Robin Kelly, 445 Mountain

46:19 ↗ Park Boulevard, Southwest, Issaquah. Mayor and council members, the

46:24 ↗ Sister City Commission takes great pride in our work,

46:30 ↗ sharing our community, our citizens and our culture with two unique

46:36 ↗ cities located halfway around the world, Sundal, Norway, and Chefchaouen, Morocco. We've

46:41 ↗ shared elected officials, educators, students, business people, and artists. Those exchanges increasing our exposure and

46:47 ↗ our understanding of two very different governments and people with those different cultures and religions

46:53 ↗ finding we are still more alike than different and we are all richer for it.

46:59 ↗ So thank you for your support for those efforts. On behalf of the commission and

47:05 ↗ myself, we appreciate all that you do for us. Changing hats.

47:11 ↗ Robin Kelly, Executive Director at FISH, Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery. I apologize

47:17 ↗ when you reviewed nonprofit funding. I became ill that evening and wasn't able to

47:23 ↗ make my presentation. So without slides, I would just like to... Thank you for

47:28 ↗ your support of all nonprofits in Issaquah. I'm new at the Friends of the Issaquah

47:34 ↗ Salmon Hatchery. I've found it to be a very lively, invigorating center of activity in

47:40 ↗ Issaquah. And so your support was asked to help bridge a gap bringing on a

47:45 ↗ full-time executive director. They'd only had a part-time person before. With that comes a

47:51 ↗ lot of new opportunities and activities that I'm looking forward to being able

47:57 ↗ to research and bring to fruition. So thank you for your consideration of

48:03 ↗ that funding. Thank you, Robin. Christy Gerard, excuse me. Good evening, council members

48:09 ↗ and Mayor Butler. I am Christy Gerard. I'm the executive director at Issaquah

48:15 ↗ Highlands Council. I live at 2086 Northeast Noble Street in Issaquah. And

48:21 ↗ I just wanted to thank you in advance as well for considering

48:26 ↗ Esquire Highlands Council's grant application for nonprofits to improve the acoustics in

48:32 ↗ Blakely Hall as a community center by installing sound baffling panels. All

48:38 ↗ of you have attended meetings and events at Blakely Hall and already

48:43 ↗ clearly understand the acoustical challenges that we have in our very beautiful

48:49 ↗ facility. Just this year, we've hosted the city of Issaquah over 10 times for various

48:55 ↗ community events and meetings. And your funding support for this sound baffling project will ensure

49:00 ↗ that Blakely Hall is a valued community resource for many years to come. And I

49:06 ↗ just want to say thank you very much in advance for considering we are very

49:12 ↗ grateful to still be in the running. Thank you. - Thank you, Christy. - No

49:17 ↗ one further has signed up to speak? Is there anyone in?

49:23 ↗ Mr. Kapler. Dave? Good evening. David Kapler, 255 Southeast

49:29 ↗ Andrews Street. Affordability is definitely an issue we're facing.

49:34 ↗ And if a developer has 10 lots or ground

49:40 ↗ that can be into 10 lots, they can build

49:45 ↗ 10 mansions or 10 two bedroom, one bath homes. Obviously in

49:51 ↗ this market, they're gonna choose the mansions. Perhaps we need to be looking at

49:57 ↗ some of our residential zonings and looking at how many square feet of usable

50:03 ↗ plus garages they can do on that property and get more units

50:09 ↗ and not so many of these very large homes that

50:14 ↗ supply, that take in a very small portion of the

50:20 ↗ population. Just a thought on that topic. Thank you. Thank

50:25 ↗ you. Is there anyone else? Mary. Catherine, you're after Mary.

50:31 ↗ My name is Mary Lynch and I reside at 2690

50:37 ↗ Northwest Oakcrest Drive, Issaquah, Washington. And I just want to thank the City Council

50:43 ↗ for taking most of the day on Saturday to go over the budget and I

50:48 ↗ think take a pretty positive step on getting control of spending and moving forward in

50:53 ↗ the right direction. And I want to thank you and applaud you for that. If

50:57 ↗ the public has not watched it, I would encourage you to go back and watch

51:02 ↗ it and see what's happening. So I just want to thank you on that. I

51:08 ↗ also want to just invite you on the 11th of January to the Northwest Newport

51:13 ↗ Way community meeting where we will engage again hopefully with some of the city staff

51:18 ↗ and officials on what's happening out there and trying to get a vision for what's

51:23 ↗ going to happen on Newport Way. And that will be on the 11th of January

51:28 ↗ at the King County Library Center because unfortunately Most of us HOAs out there

51:34 ↗ do not have a Blakely Hall to be able to meet.

51:40 ↗ So that's one of the few meeting places where we can

51:46 ↗ meet. Thank you. Thank you, Mary. Elizabeth? I'm Elizabeth Mopin from

51:52 ↗ 100 Big Bear Place Northwest in Issaquah. Been here quite a

51:57 ↗ number of years. I would like to address the question of

52:03 ↗ the trucks. And I know all of us have

52:09 ↗ concerns about the annoyance of the noise and the traffic, but

52:15 ↗ my concern is what they're hauling. I've gotten the impression that

52:21 ↗ we have a lot of truck traffic that's taking peat out

52:27 ↗ of Issaquah and bringing in fill. Peat is a sponge. Peat

52:33 ↗ absorbs a lot of the water. If we're taking away

52:38 ↗ a lot of the peat and filling in with

52:44 ↗ less absorbent material, we are setting ourselves up for

52:50 ↗ a lot of flooding. I just hope that somehow

52:56 ↗ as you're approving new development, you will take into

53:01 ↗ consideration that that peat is a resource that has

53:07 ↗ been saving us from a lot of flooding and it

53:13 ↗ will be a considerable economic damage to the community to continue

53:19 ↗ to haul away the peat thank you thank you Elizabeth is

53:25 ↗ there anyone else in the audience desiring to speak please

53:38 ↗ Hi, my name is Steve Pereira. I live at 170 Northeast Dogwood Street for about

53:43 ↗ nine years now. Sadly, I can no longer identify with the millennial trend, so it

53:47 ↗ was good to see all that information. I do like some of the things that

53:52 ↗ the squad does that are kind of community and average-based, so I maybe with that

53:56 ↗ agree with the millennial trend. So I want to see those things that the squad

54:01 ↗ does that reach out to community and involve community as continuing. The thing, though, that

54:06 ↗ I came to talk about was the... budget proposal that talks about borrowing $3 million

54:12 ↗ from one fund to another fund. That kind of concerns me in that if we

54:16 ↗ borrow it from the fund, it means at some point we're going to repay that

54:21 ↗ fund or it's just debt or borrowing that we have to repay. I think maybe

54:25 ↗ there's even some finer tuning of the budget that could be done. I don't have

54:30 ↗ a pair of magical scissors on what I would cut. I tend to continue looking

54:34 ↗ at the civil metal and bridge pedestrian is a cost that probably

54:40 ↗ should go on the chopping block that we can't afford. I think it's more important

54:45 ↗ we preserve the space than we have a big bridge on it that's not needed

54:50 ↗ or not as value added to the things that could add value to Issaquah. So

54:56 ↗ that's my input. Thank you. - Thank you, Steve. Anyone else in the audience desiring

55:01 ↗ to speak this evening? Anyone else? Third and final call, anyone else desiring to speak?

55:06 ↗ With that, audience comments are closed and we'll now move to committee and regional

55:12 ↗ reports beginning with Councilmember Patis. thank you mr mayor no report this evening that's a

55:18 ↗ member ramos uh yes i want to report on the regional transit committee um since

55:23 ↗ i missed the last meeting we met twice in november on the 10th and the

55:27 ↗ 16th we have a call set up for tomorrow the 6th and another meeting for

55:32 ↗ the 14th which will be at king county council chambers as usual i'm still working

55:36 ↗ on metro connects that long range plan we're just diving really deep into it one

55:41 ↗ of the big issues um is King County passed their budget and in that budget

55:46 ↗ they allotted an increase of 300,000 service hours to Metro Transit. Now the plan says

55:52 ↗ that we're 600,000 hours short of where we should be, so 300,000 hours is 50%

55:57 ↗ which is a big chunk in a very short period of time. One of the

56:02 ↗ big things we're working on in that is if we're getting half of that service,

56:07 ↗ where is that service going to go? So SCA, the smaller cities all outside of

56:11 ↗ Seattle are very concerned of where that goes. And so a lot of this detail

56:15 ↗ is trying to figure out how that gets divvied up because we get half of

56:19 ↗ it now maybe. And that'll probably start rolling the latter half of 2017 with the

56:23 ↗ new fall schedule. And then when will it be when we get the other half?

56:27 ↗ It may be quite a while. So that's a lot of the nip and tucking

56:31 ↗ back and forth on trying to make sure we have a good handle on how

56:35 ↗ that's expanded. Eastside Transportation Partnership. There was a conference

56:41 ↗ last Friday on transportation technology, which was great. It dealt with a lot of the

56:46 ↗ new stuff coming in, everything from autonomous cars and a lot of the fancy technology

56:51 ↗ stuff, which was fun because it really helped look at different ways of what we

56:55 ↗ talk about often the first mile, last mile connection to get transit going. And so

57:00 ↗ there's a lot of new ideas on that, on how those things may work. The

57:05 ↗ other thing is finding out how much they already know and how much our cars

57:09 ↗ are actually talking to the internet as we go and don't even know that understanding

57:13 ↗ that some of the traffic reports are just they're coming because our cars are telling

57:18 ↗ them that we're going 10 miles an hour on 405 and so the other thousand

57:22 ↗ cars around us and that's being reported back and forth and that's how they're getting

57:26 ↗ traffic reports no longer a helicopter flying overhead and so a lot of things those

57:30 ↗ cars are really talking a lot and they're very advanced now to pay attention to

57:34 ↗ that that's what's coming the conference and then we have an ETP meeting this Friday.

57:39 ↗ I will be attending and also later on I'll do a little more within good

57:44 ↗ of the order but in that meeting this Friday is the legislative agenda for the

57:48 ↗ Eastside Transportation Partnership. So I sent it out to everybody just the other day. Take

57:52 ↗ a look at that and then go to the order. You can give me some

57:56 ↗ comments or anything if you have any concerns on that. Hopefully Friday we'll be able

58:01 ↗ to adopt that from the Eastside Transportation Partnership because the legislative agenda. And that's the

58:06 ↗ end of my report. Thank you. Council Member Winterson. Thank you. Not much to report.

58:11 ↗ There is a, for Eastside Fire and Rescue Board of Directors, our next meeting is

58:17 ↗ this Thursday, December 8th. The Council Infrastructure Committee hasn't met either since our last council

58:22 ↗ meeting. That next meeting is this Thursday, December, next Thursday, December 15th. and there was

58:28 ↗ no meeting of the puget town regional council growth management policy board in december so

58:33 ↗ if nothing to report there either that concludes my non-report thank you uh council member

58:39 ↗ mars thank you mr mayor uh the isaac city council services and safety committee will

58:44 ↗ be meeting next tuesday december 13th at 6 30 in the eel room and then

58:49 ↗ the agenda is still tbd on that Sound Cities Association Public Issues Committee has decided

58:55 ↗ not to meet in December. So that meeting will be in January. King County Growth

59:00 ↗ Management Planning Council, GMPC, is also meeting on Tuesday, December 13th, a little bit earlier

59:04 ↗ in the day at 4 o'clock in PSRC Chambers. And it will be the annual

59:09 ↗ panel on housing issues and affordable housing. then as I've mentioned the regional e911

59:15 ↗ strategic plan scoping leadership group meeting in January when hopefully we will

59:21 ↗ have a draft of the governance model for the e911 system next

59:27 ↗ generation this concludes my report you councilmember barber no report this evening

59:32 ↗ so member Polly mr. mayor City Council Land and Shore Committee met

59:38 ↗ on December 1st. We had too much on our agenda that night. The first

59:44 ↗ item was a moratorium update. It was just some general information and a review

59:50 ↗ of the work plan schedule again. The next item was AB7196. That is a

59:56 ↗ development agreement, a draft development agreement for Silverado. It is A request

1:00:02 ↗ to allow cluster housing on a property on SR 900 south of

1:00:08 ↗ 90 and to allow for 20 homes. There was a request within

1:00:13 ↗ the draft language to provide an exemption from the moratorium so that the platting and

1:00:19 ↗ the building could continue during the moratorium. That did not get positive comments from the

1:00:24 ↗ committee members and likely will show up as a strikeout in the development agreement when

1:00:30 ↗ you see it. And there is some additional work that's being done on trail easement

1:00:36 ↗ language and then it should be ready to come to council. Next item

1:00:41 ↗ was AB7219, a proposal to enter into a development agreement for the Gilman Lofts property.

1:00:47 ↗ This property is on Newport Way. There's some building going on there right now for

1:00:53 ↗ a storage facility. This has to do with a building that would be constructed in

1:00:59 ↗ front of it. It's adjacent to the regional trail. It's coming back to the January

1:01:05 ↗ 5th land and shore. And it also will have some draft language in there requesting

1:01:11 ↗ an exemption to the moratorium. So this project is in the central Issaquah area. It

1:01:16 ↗ would propose to provide some additional improvements to the Three Tails Crossing area, which is

1:01:22 ↗ one that's on our road project list right now. There were concerns expressed at

1:01:27 ↗ the meeting over staff's capacity to negotiate development agreements for the Central Issaquah area while

1:01:33 ↗ still reviewing design standards and working on moratorium work plan issues. But the discussion was

1:01:39 ↗ to have staff work with the developer and come back in January and talk with

1:01:45 ↗ us again. Next item was AB7215. It's the ninth major amendment

1:01:51 ↗ to the Issaquah Highlands two-party development agreement. Polygon Northwest is requesting a major modification

1:01:57 ↗ for a transfer of development rights. This Polygon owns the property next to Shelter

1:02:03 ↗ Holdings in Issaquah Highlands. It's the old Microsoft property. They have an assignment or

1:02:09 ↗ they have A number of housing residential units they are allowed to build on that

1:02:14 ↗ site and they are going to propose purchasing 100 additional units through the Transfer of

1:02:19 ↗ Development Rights Program. This would increase the number of units that could be built on

1:02:24 ↗ the site. A SEPA review would still be completed to ensure that the current infrastructure

1:02:29 ↗ in the Highlands can support the additional units. Of the 100 units that would be

1:02:34 ↗ added, staff is recommending that 30% or 30 be constructed as affordable. This is in

1:02:40 ↗ line with the original vision and requirements of the Issaquah Highlands Development Agreement. Polygon is

1:02:46 ↗ going to propose to construct those units on a city-owned parcel to the north of

1:02:51 ↗ the commercial zone in the Highlands. The committee did not support moving the units away

1:02:57 ↗ from the transit center. This amendment though is still under development and will

1:03:03 ↗ be coming back to Land and Shore. Next item, AB7001, amendments to wetland

1:03:08 ↗ rating system was pulled from the agenda and not discussed that evening and

1:03:14 ↗ that left four minutes to do AB7270 which is all of the amendments

1:03:20 ↗ to the comprehensive plan for 2016. So we did not finish our homework. We did

1:03:25 ↗ not get it done. Staff is going to be coming back to the meeting in

1:03:30 ↗ January, but potentially two meetings to break it out. It's a really large package of

1:03:34 ↗ amendments. So we didn't get very far with that. That's the end of my report.

1:03:39 ↗ Thank you. Council President Goodman. No report. Thank you. For the Mayor's report, there will

1:03:45 ↗ be an executive session this evening for the purpose of discussing property acquisition

1:03:51 ↗ per RCW 42.30.110, per N1, per NB. The item is expected to take

1:03:56 ↗ approximately 20 minutes. No action is anticipated to follow in open session.

1:04:03 ↗ Just to let you know that city staff has met several times

1:04:08 ↗ with Issaquah Valley senior staff and board members to discuss transition of

1:04:14 ↗ senior services operations. These meetings will continue over the coming weeks. One

1:04:20 ↗ item that will be addressed is the assessment and confirmation of what

1:04:26 ↗ property items, furniture, supplies, equipment, and vehicles will remain. The initial

1:04:32 ↗ Senior Center Program schedule is being finalized this week. A new Senior Center

1:04:38 ↗ Program and Service Guide is being produced and will be ready for circulation

1:04:43 ↗ next week. As I've mentioned before, our staff is hard at work. Several

1:04:49 ↗ were over for the Tuesday meal and The acting

1:04:54 ↗ director from Parks and Rec, Katie, was

1:05:00 ↗ there and introduced, and there will be

1:05:06 ↗ two other opportunities this month to meet

1:05:12 ↗ new staff and to gather information about

1:05:17 ↗ what Where

1:05:23 ↗ was I? Anyway, we're continuing to meet. Thank you, Tish.

1:05:29 ↗ I want to correct something that I said earlier, that

1:05:35 ↗ no action would be taken. Action is anticipated and will

1:05:41 ↗ be taken in open session following our executive session.

1:05:46 ↗ As you know, or most people, well, you do know that November

1:05:52 ↗ 22nd, the city hosted a regional transportation summit. A lot of different

1:05:58 ↗ people attended, both elected and not. The total attendance was about 130

1:06:04 ↗ to 150. What you might not know, the summit is now available

1:06:10 ↗ to watch via Zoom. YouTube channel. Written

1:06:16 ↗ comments submitted from audience members are also available on our

1:06:21 ↗ website. Next steps include bringing technical staff together from each city

1:06:27 ↗ in King County in early 2017 to identify issues and potential

1:06:33 ↗ solutions. And we are in the process now of trying to

1:06:38 ↗ identify smaller coalitions of agencies and jurisdictions to work on certain

1:06:44 ↗ corridors. An example of that would be the Esquahoma Road as

1:06:50 ↗ a corridor. The city recently received the latest report from

1:06:56 ↗ our consultant, Geotech, concerning PFCs in our water system. This report includes updated

1:07:02 ↗ data and analysis. A representative from Geotech will present the findings of this

1:07:08 ↗ report and answer questions during the city council's December 19th meeting.

1:07:14 ↗ Moving forward the City of Issaquah will continue to partner with both

1:07:20 ↗ Sammamish Plateau Water and Eastside Fire and Rescue on next steps including

1:07:25 ↗ a memorandum of agreement. The design for the Southeast 62nd Street

1:07:31 ↗ Extension project is complete and has been advertised for construction bids.

1:07:37 ↗ To date, 12 general contractors have picked up plans. The bid

1:07:43 ↗ opening is scheduled for December the 20th.

1:07:49 ↗ With a certain amount of sadness that I announced that November 13th, Ed

1:07:55 ↗ Swiflett Sr. passed away at the age of 88. Ed was a long

1:08:01 ↗ time Issaquah resident and active in the Issaquah community. Ed served on the

1:08:06 ↗ Issaquah City Council from 1966 to 1973 and the Civil Services Commission for

1:08:12 ↗ more than 30 years. He was a life member of Kiwanis and

1:08:18 ↗ served on the Issaquah Food Bank Board. He also volunteered as

1:08:24 ↗ a reading aid in Issaquah Elementary Schools for nearly a decade.

1:08:29 ↗ Just for the viewing public's interest and your interest, ridership continues

1:08:35 ↗ to grow on Sound Transit Express Route 554, which is the

1:08:41 ↗ route that goes from Issaquah into Seattle. It

1:08:46 ↗ increased 12% from the third quarter in 2015 to

1:08:52 ↗ the same period in 2016 with a year-to-date ridership

1:08:58 ↗ of a little less than 900,000 riders. That was

1:09:04 ↗ the fastest-growing route of all of the Sound Transit

1:09:10 ↗ routes. express routes and was highlighted in their

1:09:16 ↗ quarterly report. Issaquah Police Department, I'm happy to report,

1:09:21 ↗ received official re-accreditation last month at the Washington Association

1:09:27 ↗ of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Conference. The purpose of accreditation

1:09:32 ↗ is to professionalize the law enforcement industry by providing

1:09:38 ↗ a review of process for agencies to be certified

1:09:44 ↗ as operating under industry best practices and standards. This

1:09:49 ↗ is an achievement that only 25% of police agencies in

1:09:55 ↗ Washington have obtained and is a testament to the professionalism

1:10:01 ↗ of our Issaquah Police Department employees. And I

1:10:06 ↗ attended a Lake Sammamish State Park Stakeholders Group meeting

1:10:12 ↗ on November 29th along with 25 other interested attendees

1:10:18 ↗ representing 16 different groups. Five work groups were formed

1:10:23 ↗ that will focus on trails, athletic fields, water trails,

1:10:29 ↗ EIS feasibility, and will be helped by the Washington

1:10:35 ↗ State Parks personnel. And with that, that concludes my report and

1:10:41 ↗ we'll now move to the consent calendar. Have the accounts payable

1:10:47 ↗ in payroll for December 5th, 2016 been reviewed? They have. They

1:10:52 ↗ have. Thank you. I would ask the clerk to read into

1:10:58 ↗ the record the consent calendar. The consent calendar was distributed to Council

1:11:04 ↗ in advance for study. If authorized, Council action will occur by single motion regarding the

1:11:09 ↗ following items. Item A seeks approval of the accounts, payables, and payroll of December 5th.

1:11:14 ↗ Items B through E seeks approval of the minutes of the committee work session of

1:11:20 ↗ November 14th, the regular meeting of November 21st, and the special meetings of November 22nd

1:11:25 ↗ and 28th. Item F, AB 7183, Water Treatment Long-Term Options

1:11:30 ↗ Study, seeks to postpone authorization. Item G, AB 7230, 2016 Budget

1:11:36 ↗ Amendments, has been or will be moved to regular business. Item

1:11:42 ↗ H, AB 7269, First Amendment to South Cove Greenwood Point Assumption

1:11:48 ↗ Interlocal Agreement with Bellevue, seeks authorization. This concludes the reading. Thank

1:11:54 ↗ you. There's been a request to move Agenda

1:12:00 ↗ Bill 7230 to 2016, budget amendments down to regular

1:12:05 ↗ business. That will become item 9D. With that amendment

1:12:11 ↗ -- I have a question first. Okay. The AB

1:12:16 ↗ 7230 moving down to 9D, is it -- would

1:12:21 ↗ it make more sense to have it as an

1:12:27 ↗ 8B because it's a budget?

1:12:36 ↗ perhaps would. We can put it, why don't we put

1:12:41 ↗ that under, make that 8B and have that in conjunction

1:12:47 ↗ with the public hearing and the discussion following. Great, thanks.

1:12:52 ↗ Thank you. Council President Goodman. Thank

1:12:58 ↗ you. And with that, I would move to adopt the consent

1:13:04 ↗ calendar as presented as amended. Second. Moved and seconded. All those

1:13:10 ↗ in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, that carries

1:13:15 ↗ unanimously. Moving now to our continuation of our public hearing on

1:13:21 ↗ the 2017 budget. brief presentation

1:13:27 ↗ by our finance director and

1:13:32 ↗ who's pulling that up now.

1:13:37 ↗ Jennifer Olson, our finance director

1:13:42 ↗ for a staff report. Thank

1:13:47 ↗ you Mayor Butler, City Council

1:13:52 ↗ members. Tonight's agenda item is

1:13:57 ↗ a public hearing continuation from

1:14:02 ↗ the November 21st public hearing.

1:14:08 ↗ I'm just going to do a very brief overview of the 2017 budget

1:14:14 ↗ process. And then there is a recommendation to, again, continue the public hearing

1:14:20 ↗ after taking public testimony to the December 19th city council meeting. So the

1:14:26 ↗ 2017 budget has been developed and is being discussed. The budget overview essentially

1:14:32 ↗ has been investing capital, talking about capital investments, the operating impacts that are

1:14:38 ↗ proposed for a transitioning community. The budget includes the current level of

1:14:43 ↗ services to be maintained while important challenges are being addressed. The budget

1:14:49 ↗ is published at issaquahwashington.gov. 2017 budget for those who want to see

1:14:55 ↗ the recommended budget. The total proposed funds for all sources

1:15:00 ↗ is $126,513,000. There is a breakout of the types of revenues that

1:15:06 ↗ are anticipated for 2017 with the largest portion coming from charges for

1:15:12 ↗ services, 29% of all sources coming from taxes, and then a variety

1:15:18 ↗ of sources coming from licenses, permits, inter-fund transfers, and intergovernmental or shared

1:15:24 ↗ revenues. On the spending side, there is

1:15:30 ↗ a proposed total appropriations of $133,651,000. The biggest largest category

1:15:36 ↗ would be the general fund at 33% of those appropriations

1:15:42 ↗ and then utility operations being second with regards to enterprise

1:15:48 ↗ funds. The City Council deliberated the 2017 proposed

1:15:53 ↗ budget during the December 3rd, the Saturday workshop. The final deliberations list of budgetary cuts

1:15:59 ↗ and additional proposed allocations is being prepared and had been distributed to the City Council

1:16:05 ↗ prior to the meeting for your review. So with that, I

1:16:11 ↗ will end my very brief presentation and the agenda bill identifies an

1:16:17 ↗ update of a proposal to continue the public hearing to the December

1:16:22 ↗ 19th meeting. Thank you, Jen. Are there questions of Jen before we

1:16:28 ↗ open the public hearing? With that, Just a

1:16:34 ↗ reminder for those desiring to testify, the same rules that

1:16:40 ↗ I outlined under audience comments a while ago still apply.

1:16:45 ↗ And with that, I'll open the public hearing at 8:18

1:16:51 ↗ and ask, has anyone signed up to speak? Yes. Melissa

1:16:57 ↗ King?

1:17:03 ↗ Melissa, welcome. Hi, thank you so much. And thank you City Council of Issaquah for

1:17:09 ↗ hearing me and Mayor Fred Butler. I'm here tonight for two reasons. First and foremost,

1:17:14 ↗ to thank all of you for funding Athletes for Kids for the last eight years.

1:17:19 ↗ We have been serving the Issaquah community since we began our program 15 years

1:17:25 ↗ ago. And in 2005, we opened the third Athletes for Kids chapter following Skyline

1:17:31 ↗ and Eastlake at Issaquah High School. Since that time, we have provided services to

1:17:36 ↗ over 250 Issaquah youth, both mentors and children who have special needs and disabilities.

1:17:45 ↗ Our services benefit children who are in first through ninth grades who have physical, emotional,

1:17:50 ↗ and learning disabilities of all kinds. These children often feel isolated and lonely, which leads

1:17:55 ↗ to all sorts of mental and behavioral issues. Our services also benefit high school athletes.

1:18:00 ↗ We see high schoolers who are so stressed and anxious and sometimes at the point

1:18:06 ↗ of breaking and our program has proven to a lot of these high school mentors

1:18:12 ↗ that by serving another human being and impacting their life, it gives them such fulfillment.

1:18:18 ↗ It helps them gain perspective on the world, When they begin to mentor a child,

1:18:23 ↗ they see the impact they are having on their life and it just gives them

1:18:28 ↗ such joy and gratification and an overall sense of well-being that propels them to persevere

1:18:32 ↗ with all of their other commitments. We've had kids that are in IB programs, AP

1:18:37 ↗ programs that come to us at first and think, "I don't know if I have

1:18:42 ↗ enough time." But they tend to make that hour and a half every single week

1:18:46 ↗ because it allows them to disengage from all of their stresses and pressures and allows

1:18:51 ↗ them to be a kid again. And again, by working with a child that has

1:18:55 ↗ a disability, it opens their minds to different ways of thinking. So most of our

1:19:01 ↗ mentors when they graduate I would say 95% have had a very positive effect and

1:19:05 ↗ just recently I received a LinkedIn request from a mentor who's at Chapman University who

1:19:10 ↗ wants to start a mentoring program like ours at his college. I checked my text

1:19:15 ↗ right before I came. I have a high schooler at Skyline who just wanted to

1:19:19 ↗ pick my brain about starting a program for seniors and upperclassmen to mentor incoming freshmen

1:19:24 ↗ and sophomores and that's for kids of all abilities. Our program also touches those families

1:19:29 ↗ who have children with special needs as well as community members. A lot of these

1:19:34 ↗ families are stressed, exhausted from parenting a child with special needs and we provide them

1:19:40 ↗ with 90 minutes of respite every single week. Over the last

1:19:46 ↗ 11 years, Athletes for Kids Issaquah mentors have recorded over 14,000 hours of time

1:19:51 ↗ spent. When I was writing these things, I thought of the song from Rent,

1:19:57 ↗ 565,600 minutes or whatever I was going to sing for you, and I thought

1:20:03 ↗ better. But that translates to about 840,000 minutes or moments. when you think about

1:20:08 ↗ it, those are moments of pure joy and love that it's coming from the hearts

1:20:14 ↗ of these mentors and also is impacting their lives. It improves the child's self-esteem and

1:20:20 ↗ social skills. It improves their attitude towards school, and it also increases their happiness and

1:20:26 ↗ sense of well-being. It gives them hope for life through the power of having someone

1:20:32 ↗ there for them despite their disability, despite their isolation despite their differences and for

1:20:38 ↗ many these first experiences for these buddies is having a friend. So it's sometimes oftentimes

1:20:44 ↗ their first time having a friendship. This also may sound a little dramatic but in

1:20:49 ↗ the last two years since I've become the executive director I have also seen our

1:20:55 ↗ mentorships save lives. I've had two cases where parents have told us that their seven-year-old

1:21:01 ↗ and 11-year-old were so depressed that they didn't want to live. Following being matched

1:21:06 ↗ with a mentor, their overall life and desire to continue on has

1:21:12 ↗ improved. So we're focusing and we're helping in the mental health realm

1:21:18 ↗ as well. We applied for supportive relationships, and I think over the

1:21:23 ↗ last 11 years, we have done a great job of doing that.

1:21:30 ↗ With your support, we've been growing our program substantially and have opened new chapters and

1:21:36 ↗ we've also added new programs, one of which is we try to have a community

1:21:41 ↗ building event for mentors to do with their buddies every month. For the longest time,

1:21:48 ↗ Mentors go to the buddies house. It's kind of siloed. It's isolated. But in the

1:21:53 ↗ summer of 2015, we had a non-paid intern who put together some programs where we

1:21:59 ↗ saw mentors meeting other mentors. In fact, Paul Winterstein's daughter Emily was a mentor in

1:22:04 ↗ our program going to Oregon State. She showed up at an event wearing her sweatshirt.

1:22:10 ↗ close and was able to talk with a younger mentor about the possibility of attending

1:22:15 ↗ that he actually chose you a vote which as a dog as a husky that

1:22:21 ↗ was disappointing so I am just asking you to please reconsider the funding for athletes

1:22:27 ↗ for kids because the impact of five thousand dollars on a small nonprofit like ours

1:22:32 ↗ is huge and it's gonna take a lot to make that deficit

1:22:38 ↗ up. So thank you. - Thank you, Melissa. - No one further

1:22:44 ↗ has signed up to speak. - Is there anyone else desiring to

1:22:49 ↗ speak? Anyone else desiring to speak? Third and final call. Seeing no

1:22:55 ↗ one, then the public hearing is closed at, excuse me. - Do

1:23:01 ↗ I wanna continue it? Do we close it or continue it? -

1:23:07 ↗ No. I said closed. This iteration is closed at 8:25.

1:23:12 ↗ And Council Member Goodman. - Thank you. I would move

1:23:18 ↗ to continue the public hearing to December 19th, 2016 for

1:23:24 ↗ final budget adoption. - Second. - Moved and seconded. Any

1:23:30 ↗ discussion? Seeing none, oh. - So I have a question

1:23:35 ↗ about the budget process. If we, I don't want to

1:23:41 ↗ entertain any additional information coming out of our work session on Sunday.

1:23:47 ↗ How does that relate to this process? - I missed the one

1:23:53 ↗ on Sunday, sorry. - Saturday. - Did I say Sunday? I'm sorry,

1:23:58 ↗ Saturday. The budget session on Saturday. How would any discussion or review

1:24:04 ↗ like that fit into this context?

1:24:14 ↗ I'm dialing a friend right now. We have the formal hearing coming up

1:24:19 ↗ and the final budget adoption. We do have one more council meeting next

1:24:25 ↗ week, Monday. A work session. A work session. If there was anything that

1:24:31 ↗ the council would like to take up in advance of that, but it's

1:24:36 ↗ not a scheduled work session. But I guess we finalize the agenda on

1:24:42 ↗ Friday of each week. And then I'd like to ask for that meeting

1:24:48 ↗ that the city draw up information on I guess there's been some question about for

1:24:53 ↗ the amount of money that we authorized for the Central Park what that would actually

1:24:58 ↗ build if anything and so what I'd like to see is what can we build

1:25:03 ↗ with the money that we authorized if the answer is nothing what is the minimum

1:25:09 ↗ set of of money that would be required to do the baseline, which is the

1:25:14 ↗ two pads themselves drained with whatever minimal additional facilities. And I guess those two, for

1:25:20 ↗ me personally, those are the two options that I'd want to understand and have a

1:25:26 ↗ conversation about. If that's okay with Council leadership. - The December 12th work session right

1:25:32 ↗ now is scheduled to have three hours of DSD fee discussion, just as an FYI.

1:25:39 ↗ So that would need to be talked about. - I guess one thought that

1:25:45 ↗ I appreciate that you asked that process question, 'cause I was confused as well,

1:25:51 ↗ what we would do. I guess that if now that you brought up the

1:25:56 ↗ Central Park, the piece that I would add to that discussion is that that

1:26:02 ↗ set of improvements that was in the original budget included increased parking and lighting

1:26:08 ↗ because it's a capacity project. and for me I guess any sort of discussion of

1:26:13 ↗ what is going to be built should come with an operational discussion you don't build

1:26:17 ↗ you don't add lights then you don't have games at night that kind of thing

1:26:22 ↗ and so I kind of like to understand what we can actually how the park

1:26:27 ↗ actually functions if we build something less than what was in the original budget. That

1:26:32 ↗ may mean that we're not renting out to sports teams if we don't have lights

1:26:37 ↗ or we're not renting out to clubs and tournaments if we don't have parking spots

1:26:43 ↗ for them. I'd like to have that lens on the discussion as well. And we

1:26:48 ↗ can provide that information to the council prior to the meeting. Thank you. You're welcome.

1:26:54 ↗ Any additional discussion? All those in favor

1:26:59 ↗ of continuing the public hearing to the

1:27:05 ↗ December 19th City Council meeting, signify by

1:27:10 ↗ saying aye. - Aye. - Those opposed,

1:27:16 ↗ that carries unanimously. Moving now to agenda

1:27:22 ↗ bill 7230, 2016 budget amendments. Jen Olsen

1:27:27 ↗ for brief discussion of to put that one

1:27:33 ↗ in context please. Thank you Mayor. Agenda Bill

1:27:39 ↗ 7-2-3-0 is a budget appropriation adjustment. This is for

1:27:45 ↗ the 2016 budget that was originally adopted in the

1:27:50 ↗ latter part of 2015. There is an exhibit A

1:27:56 ↗ that was updated and some information changed on that

1:28:02 ↗ particular exhibit.

1:28:07 ↗ The changes that were made to exhibit A of the ordinance were the

1:28:13 ↗ 2016 beginning fund balance. That number was changed to reflect the audited financial

1:28:19 ↗ statement 2015 end balance, which automatically then rolls to the 2016 beginning fund

1:28:25 ↗ balance. So that was change number one. Change number two to

1:28:31 ↗ Exhibit A and to the information detail to the agenda bill

1:28:36 ↗ was the removal of a proposed allocation for a position that

1:28:42 ↗ was authorized in 2016 but is vacant. That's the Intergovernmental Relations

1:28:48 ↗ Manager position. That position for the budget amendments in

1:28:53 ↗ 2016 was proposing to add 70,000 to the 2016

1:28:59 ↗ budget. However, based on the budget deliberations this Saturday

1:29:04 ↗ with that position, discussed as remaining vacant and not be

1:29:10 ↗ filled and no allocation for that position, then administration felt that

1:29:16 ↗ this expenditure for the budget adjustment would just need to be

1:29:22 ↗ removed. And so those were the two changes to Exhibit A

1:29:28 ↗ for the ordinance for your consideration. Are there questions of Jen?

1:29:35 ↗ Councilmember Winterstein. It's more of a process question. Thank

1:29:40 ↗ you, Jen. So what we have in that item

1:29:46 ↗ is an ordinance with whereas clauses. So are you

1:29:51 ↗ basically suggesting that we remove or alter those? So

1:29:56 ↗ we have to do that by formal action, I

1:30:02 ↗ assume, because the packet actually includes, like, you know,

1:30:07 ↗ language. Do we have to come up with these specific changes and

1:30:13 ↗ amend this packet before we adopt it, before we take action on it?

1:30:19 ↗ My understanding is that because a revised ordinance was provided to Council in

1:30:24 ↗ advance for review that we could designate the ordinance as revised, which includes

1:30:30 ↗ the changes that Jennifer spoke to. The revised version has removed those portions.

1:30:48 ↗ Yes, if you have the revised ordinance in front of you,

1:30:54 ↗ you can simply move the revised ordinance and approve it. And

1:31:00 ↗ that was provided to the council in advance. So that would

1:31:05 ↗ be the appropriate procedure rather than having to move the initial

1:31:11 ↗ ordinance and then make specific amendments to it. OK, thank you.

1:31:17 ↗ OK. So do we want to-- I actually want to make

1:31:22 ↗ some comments about the content. So-- I'll make a motion then.

1:31:28 ↗ All right. Correct me if I've got this wrong, but

1:31:34 ↗ I have moved to adopt revised ordinance number? 2789. Amending the

1:31:40 ↗ 2016 budget adopted by ordinance number 2752, amended by ordinance number

1:31:46 ↗ 2763, and ordinance number 2765, authorizing the finance director to make

1:31:52 ↗ the necessary adjustments and approving prior expenditures. Second. Moved and seconded.

1:31:58 ↗ Discussion? So, One of the whereases

1:32:03 ↗ that deals, if you just get an electronic copy of

1:32:09 ↗ the amended one, or even the original one, if you

1:32:14 ↗ just search on the word mitigation, it's the- On page

1:32:20 ↗ two. It's the one, two, three, fourth whereas. So when

1:32:26 ↗ I read this, I've been studying the mitigation fund a

1:32:31 ↗ bit, and it mentions the amount, but- it doesn't at all

1:32:37 ↗ ever mention um the purpose of that uh it just says it's going to the

1:32:43 ↗ park instruction file um and so um i just think then you know for house

1:32:48 ↗ cleaning and for clarity purposes when we we have language that describes that movement it

1:32:54 ↗ wasn't it was wasn't exactly clear to me on what that would be for i

1:32:59 ↗ guess i could compare numbers elsewhere in the ordinance But I

1:33:05 ↗ sent an email to Jen earlier today

1:33:10 ↗ and I think she clarified that more

1:33:16 ↗ recently that that transfer of 305,246 was

1:33:21 ↗ related to construction of Confluence Park. So

1:33:26 ↗ I just think that, and it didn't,

1:33:32 ↗ so, I just want to make sure everybody knows that. We talked about the mitigation

1:33:37 ↗ fund a bit on Saturday, not on Sunday. I missed that meeting as well. And

1:33:42 ↗ so that got my attention. I wanted to make sure that we weren't taking some

1:33:46 ↗ action now that maybe we were actually going to undo later. Jen clarified for me

1:33:51 ↗ it was all about the confluence parking. And when you look at other areas in

1:33:55 ↗ this ordinance, you can line up the numbers and maybe figure that out. I just

1:34:00 ↗ didn't want to leave it. to any ambiguity there and just make sure that everybody

1:34:05 ↗ knows. I guess we could change the language and just make sure everybody knows that

1:34:10 ↗ that has to do with Confluence Park and not Central Park. OK. Other questions or

1:34:16 ↗ discussion? Well, I just agree with that. And I followed it because the next whereas

1:34:22 ↗ dealt with Confluence Park and had the exact same total dollars in there. So I

1:34:27 ↗ had to make that assumption there, which I did. But it would be nice to

1:34:33 ↗ be a little clearer on that.

1:34:38 ↗ Other questions or discussion? Seeing none,

1:34:44 ↗ all those in favor of approving

1:34:49 ↗ resolution, our ordinance number 2789, amending

1:34:55 ↗ the 2016 budget as revised. No,

1:35:00 ↗ wait, it was adopt ordinance number

1:35:05 ↗ 2789 as revised, amending the 2016

1:35:11 ↗ budget adopted by ordinance Number 2752 amended

1:35:17 ↗ by ordinance 2763 and ordinance number 2765, authorizing the

1:35:22 ↗ finance director to make the necessary adjustments and approving

1:35:28 ↗ prior expenditures. Signify by saying aye. - Aye. -

1:35:34 ↗ Opposed? That carries unanimously. Moving now

1:35:39 ↗ to regular business, Agenda

1:35:44 ↗ Bill 7253. This is

1:35:49 ↗ coming back from Services

1:35:54 ↗ and Safety with a

1:35:59 ↗ summary of all expenditures

1:36:03 ↗ for human services and

1:36:08 ↗ the community fund. Correct.

1:36:14 ↗ That has been been provided to council a week or so ago or. And it

1:36:20 ↗ is in fact in this packet. So it's the public can see it as well.

1:36:26 ↗ Perfect. So I guess I will, to kick this

1:36:31 ↗ conversation along, I will move to approve the Human Services

1:36:37 ↗ Grant recommendations at the increased funding level pursuant to the

1:36:43 ↗ adopted funding target of $371,500 and as recommended by the

1:36:48 ↗ Human Services Commission. Second. Moved and seconded. Discussion? So we had

1:36:54 ↗ this agenda bill and our last agenda bill at our last regular council meeting. And

1:36:59 ↗ I requested that we defer those two items, those two agenda bills to this meeting

1:37:05 ↗ specifically for the purpose of obtaining the information that we have on page 173 of

1:37:10 ↗ the packet and also in the next agenda bill as well, the spreadsheet is included.

1:37:16 ↗ And I asked for it for transparency reasons. And if you

1:37:22 ↗ take a look at the spreadsheet, it's now very transparent. It

1:37:27 ↗ shows that we have a total of 70-- if I counted

1:37:33 ↗ right-- 73 grants. and 10 organizations receiving money from more than one

1:37:39 ↗ source. And if you look at across the top, the sources are human services grants,

1:37:44 ↗ art fund, capacity grants, service contracts, Main Street, Main Street POD program. And there just

1:37:49 ↗ isn't any way for anyone to go through the budget or gather all these agenda

1:37:55 ↗ bills together and try to figure out who's getting what and from where. So I

1:38:00 ↗ would, first of all, thank you very much for providing the spreadsheet. And I would

1:38:05 ↗ request that this be included in the budget. So it is, nobody has to

1:38:11 ↗ go look forward to an agenda bill and I'm thrilled with it. - Thank

1:38:17 ↗ you. - Exactly what I wanted. - You're welcome. - So I, at the

1:38:22 ↗ risk of repeating myself from last council meeting, I've got a couple of things

1:38:28 ↗ that I'd like to say. First of all, I just really want to thank

1:38:34 ↗ the Human Services Commission and the city staff who worked on the grant

1:38:39 ↗ recommendations. It's a very in-depth, time-consuming process and there's a lot of thoughtful

1:38:45 ↗ deliberation that goes into looking at all of these grants. And I want

1:38:51 ↗ to say that I'm in full support of the identified funding targets, getting

1:38:56 ↗ the city to the goal of the $10 per capita. That's very important

1:39:02 ↗ with the additional allocation for homeless services. I wanted to point out

1:39:08 ↗ again that some of the larger agencies that are funding things regionally

1:39:13 ↗ are now using some targeted funding and that's leaving certain groups and

1:39:19 ↗ programs without funding for the first time this year and it really

1:39:24 ↗ is having an impact. I I know how difficult the deliberations can be

1:39:30 ↗ going through all of the grants and I'm in complete agreement with

1:39:36 ↗ the way the group, the commission went about this by setting goals

1:39:42 ↗ and having goal areas and what they've decided would be a good

1:39:48 ↗ funding recommendation and I'm in support of that. I do want

1:39:53 ↗ to bring up one thing and would love to hear back

1:39:59 ↗ from council members. There are a couple of programs and agencies

1:40:05 ↗ that in my review of this that are long-term grantee recipients from

1:40:11 ↗ the city of Issaquah and those are athletes for kids. We heard

1:40:17 ↗ from athletes for kids tonight and life enrichment options that were not

1:40:22 ↗ funded and I would like to discuss the potential possibility of putting

1:40:28 ↗ $10,000 in the budget to cover athletes for kids and life enrichment

1:40:34 ↗ options. I'd like

1:40:40 ↗ to actually, I guess, make a formal motion on that. Well, it

1:40:46 ↗ would be an amendment to the motion, I believe. There's a motion.

1:40:52 ↗ Amendment to the motion, excuse me. Correct. So I would like to

1:40:58 ↗ amend the motion to include $5,000 for both athletes for kids and

1:41:04 ↗ life enrichment options added to this. Second. Moved and seconded. Discussion on

1:41:10 ↗ the amendments. I

1:41:16 ↗ really appreciate you speaking to these issues because I don't, I've never sat on the

1:41:21 ↗ Human Services Commission and I don't sit on safety and services. But if you've gone

1:41:26 ↗ through an extensive process and you believe in the process, is it the painful outcome

1:41:32 ↗ of that very first year of the new process that somebody who has received funding

1:41:37 ↗ is really left in the lurch? And so this is an exception year, why we'd

1:41:43 ↗ be doing this? Well, I think that there are a few things going

1:41:49 ↗ on in terms of some of the targeted funding that's happening, but it is

1:41:54 ↗ a new process. Just taking a look through, those were two of the agencies

1:42:00 ↗ and groups that really stuck out to me as groups that have been funded through

1:42:06 ↗ the years by the City of Issaquah, and that's very tough for them to go

1:42:11 ↗ forward. So is this recommendation, I guess I look at both you and Bill at

1:42:17 ↗ the same time, is this recommendation to do this as an outlier for one year?

1:42:23 ↗ in that or is it an expectation that we may go

1:42:28 ↗ through the evaluation process every year and after the evaluation process

1:42:34 ↗ is done look at adding i think it's for this year

1:42:40 ↗ okay thanks other questions or discussion so do is anybody familiar

1:42:46 ↗ with um why both organizations life enrichment options or leo and

1:42:52 ↗ athletes for kids were not recommended for funding do we know

1:42:58 ↗ discussion or did you guys was did services and safety get to

1:43:03 ↗ um you have anything you can help us with understanding how this

1:43:09 ↗ what how the commission came to these conclusions

1:43:15 ↗ we did not ask why some recommendations were made and uh when

1:43:21 ↗ some organizations there was a administration recommendation in favor versus not in

1:43:27 ↗ favor we primarily looked at amounts for organizations that were recommended and

1:43:32 ↗ we also had the higher level conversation of how much money did

1:43:38 ↗ we want to uh on the On the previous one, actually, the amount of

1:43:44 ↗ money that we wanted to put in this one was different. But no, we did

1:43:49 ↗ not ask why some organizations were recommended for and others were not. Seems like that

1:43:54 ↗ would be a challenging conversation to have at a council committee level. There's a lot

1:43:59 ↗ of organizations, I think, didn't get funded, both organizations that had previously been funded and

1:44:04 ↗ organizations that hadn't previously been funded. so david fujimoto director of our

1:44:10 ↗ office of sustainability can speak to the uh to the process

1:44:16 ↗ and uh any information you have on those two organizations i

1:44:22 ↗ think would be helpful absolutely um thank you um so they

1:44:27 ↗ I think overall, as has been mentioned, there was a different approach in terms of

1:44:33 ↗ categorizing and grouping the proposals that were brought forward. That was actually to improve the

1:44:38 ↗ process so that the Commission could have more focus on the specific objectives of each

1:44:43 ↗ of the proposals. And the reality is that there was a very competitive process and

1:44:49 ↗ we had applications which I think were over nearly $700,000 in total value for

1:44:54 ↗ a very large number of worthy programs. And our commission had a very challenging

1:45:00 ↗ job of sorting through all those proposals and identifying the needs and the ones

1:45:06 ↗ that stood out and had the most in terms of kind of the potential and

1:45:12 ↗ that was I know a difficult very difficult job to do and many agonizing hours

1:45:17 ↗ of weighing a number of different services and in the end the recommendations that they

1:45:23 ↗ brought forward to the council are those in considering the different service proposals there are

1:45:29 ↗ a number of mentoring programs that were proposed athletes for kids is one one mentoring

1:45:34 ↗ program that's out there there's others that are funded as well and leo is a

1:45:39 ↗ program that serves in individuals with disabilities and there are other programs that serve individuals

1:45:45 ↗ not in the same exact kind of program style but there are there's that those

1:45:50 ↗ individuals are being covered but i think in the short story is that there you

1:45:55 ↗ know it was really challenging to make some of those decisions as a commission took

1:46:00 ↗ a look at all those applications Thank you.

1:46:06 ↗ So this is a tough question because one would think that the

1:46:11 ↗ decision would be based on or the decision to vote tonight would

1:46:17 ↗ be based on the merits of the organization or whether the organization

1:46:23 ↗ deserved the funding or should have the funding. And that's certainly not

1:46:28 ↗ how I see it. What I'm having a tough time is that

1:46:34 ↗ we have a Human Services Commission that works several months to

1:46:40 ↗ go through this process and I would have a, I have a tough

1:46:45 ↗ time ending that process a little bit. It has nothing to do with

1:46:51 ↗ the those valuable organizations that, you know, I'm sure there are more in

1:46:57 ↗ here that didn't get money. But that's tough for me. It says, has

1:47:03 ↗ a well-developed, Human Services Commission has a well-developed process for reviewing human services

1:47:09 ↗ grant applications that benefited from a process improvements exercise following the previous application

1:47:14 ↗ cycle. It talks about their thoughtful review and deliberation spanning May through September.

1:47:20 ↗ I just have a hard time, you know, I'm, I'm having that that

1:47:26 ↗ would be the reason I would have a tough time supporting that. So and I

1:47:31 ↗ just want to provide a little background for people beyond beyond the debt dies here.

1:47:37 ↗ You know, this year we were really trying hard to telegraph a goal early on.

1:47:43 ↗ You know, we came up with this 371 number. And so, you know, to further

1:47:49 ↗ this idea, further this idea that the Human Services Commission had a very comprehensive process

1:47:54 ↗ and to hit this number presentation talks about the five major

1:48:00 ↗ areas that these grantees were in and so they really tried to

1:48:06 ↗ balance between the five areas given the $371,000 target. My challenge tonight

1:48:12 ↗ is that I'm not ready tonight to make a decision on organizations

1:48:18 ↗ that I haven't seen any information on specifically and you know part of the challenges

1:48:23 ↗ that we have as a council had this information for I think about a month

1:48:28 ↗ and so I think if if we want it if next year if we want

1:48:33 ↗ to have something where the full council wants to have a review after the Human

1:48:38 ↗ Services Commission I think that the time to do it would be in planning next

1:48:43 ↗ year's activities not trying to amend it to the end of this year's activities. Thanks.

1:48:49 ↗ Yes. I'm just also following in on the

1:48:55 ↗ same area. I've sat on this organization and worked through these before.

1:49:00 ↗ It is very, very difficult to go through. That the Human Services Committee

1:49:06 ↗ has taken all of their time and thoughtfully and very diligently deliberated this,

1:49:12 ↗ it is a very difficult spot for anyone to be in to say

1:49:18 ↗ one particular organization will not receive funding. I think we need to honor

1:49:24 ↗ the definite difficult work. And I will be supporting the amendment as it's here

1:49:30 ↗ tonight before me. Even though I have some resistance, I mean, LEO for me

1:49:35 ↗ is a very special organization and they are not receiving funding, but I honestly

1:49:41 ↗ have to honor the process that has gone through to get us to where

1:49:47 ↗ we are this evening. I thought Mariah had her hand up earlier. - Paul?

1:49:53 ↗ - Yeah, so I appreciate it and the, the suggested amendment. It

1:49:58 ↗ certainly touches on some sensibilities that I have. Similarly, I'm familiar with

1:50:04 ↗ both organizations. And I think this is one of the very difficult

1:50:10 ↗ things we're called to do as council members. I think sometimes

1:50:16 ↗ We have to make choices, though we like the option, but for, in the

1:50:22 ↗ comprehensive picture, and I think in this case, honoring the work that's already been

1:50:27 ↗ done, I would, this is tough for me, because like I said, I know

1:50:33 ↗ both organizations, and I have personally assisted both organizations, but I think the, I'm

1:50:39 ↗ gonna put the integrity of the process that we have through the

1:50:45 ↗ commission in front of my own personal wishes. I don't have enough information

1:50:50 ↗ and I wasn't party to their conversations. I'm gonna put the integrity of

1:50:56 ↗ that process in front of my own references and I'm not gonna support

1:51:02 ↗ the amendment. - So I just wanted to reiterate that I very

1:51:08 ↗ much believe in the integrity of the process for the Human Services

1:51:13 ↗ Commission. And I think that the new process as it turned out

1:51:19 ↗ this year, and I've had a chance to talk with both David

1:51:25 ↗ and Martha about the process afterwards, that it really has improved. the

1:51:30 ↗ way the Human Services Commission can look and have a vision for the

1:51:36 ↗ different goals. And that's so important and I don't want to take away

1:51:42 ↗ from any of the work that the Human Services Commission has done in

1:51:48 ↗ any way. I think that with the changes, there were some long-term

1:51:53 ↗ groups that when I took a look through and those were

1:51:59 ↗ two that really stood out to me and that was the

1:52:05 ↗ purpose and what I felt was behind the amendment. But I

1:52:11 ↗ really want to have everyone know that I am very focused

1:52:17 ↗ on and I think that the Human Services Commission and all of their

1:52:23 ↗ thoughtful deliberation is so important and I do want to retain that integrity.

1:52:31 ↗ Other questions or discussion on the amendment? Mary Lou? Quick question then a comment.

1:52:37 ↗ So we're hearing, for those of us that don't sit on services, we're hearing

1:52:43 ↗ from the recommendations covering two organizations who didn't get funded. out of how

1:52:49 ↗ many organizations that used to get funding, is it we didn't fund 10 that we

1:52:55 ↗ normally funded or just two or five? I would have to run through them. So

1:53:00 ↗ there's more though? There are more. As David said, there was almost 700,000 in total

1:53:06 ↗ ask. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I guess the hard thing for me is that I

1:53:12 ↗ think when we I went through all that work to come up with what

1:53:18 ↗ sounds like a huge process improvement. It's really hard in that transition year to go

1:53:23 ↗ from your old process to your new process without making very hard choices. I'm not

1:53:29 ↗ really sure how I'm going to vote right now. Other questions or discussion on the

1:53:34 ↗ amendment? I'll just mention it looks like from the material

1:53:40 ↗ there were somewhere between 15 and 20 organizations that requested money.

1:53:46 ↗ Normally got money. I don't know about normally. That's what I

1:53:51 ↗ meant in past. Okay. Are you ready to act on the

1:53:57 ↗ amendment? All those in favor of amending the Human Services

1:54:03 ↗ grants by adding $5,000 for Athletes for Kids and $5,000 for

1:54:09 ↗ Leo. Signify by saying aye. - Aye. - Those opposed? -

1:54:14 ↗ Nay. - So the amendment fails by a vote of 4-3.

1:54:20 ↗ Do I need to identify? I did not think so. Back

1:54:25 ↗ to the original amendment then. - The initial motion, I wanted

1:54:31 ↗ to mention that Council has, well, I think

1:54:37 ↗ we completed our deliberation process sometime before Sunday. And we did not--

1:54:43 ↗ - Not going to forget it, Toler. - We did not make

1:54:49 ↗ any changes to the recommendation from the administration, which means that we

1:54:54 ↗ are proceeding forward to final approval of the budget at the higher

1:55:00 ↗ amount. So I just wanted, because the, The recommendations as given

1:55:06 ↗ have two different numbers in it and I appreciate the commission working that

1:55:12 ↗ out for us, but we did not deliberate and didn't discuss. We're moving

1:55:17 ↗ forward with the administration's recommendation in the spending amount. Additional discussion or questions?

1:55:24 ↗ And I'll just mention that those numbers were derived around

1:55:30 ↗ how you define $10,000 per resident, or sorry, $10 per

1:55:36 ↗ resident, and including, you know, How you define that is how we arrived

1:55:41 ↗ at an option A of 321 and option B of 371. I just have to

1:55:46 ↗ say, I was thinking of Sunday because I was just so fixated on the Seahawks

1:55:51 ↗ win over North Carolina that Sunday is just sticking around. - Again, I'd like to

1:55:57 ↗ thank the commission for all their work. It is a lot. I've done it before

1:56:02 ↗ in the past. I'd like to thank the administration for finally reaching that $10 per

1:56:07 ↗ capita. That's been a big dollar mark that for my previous 10 years we've been

1:56:12 ↗ working towards. So we've actually hit that now finally. It only took us about 10

1:56:17 ↗ years to get there. So I'm very glad we at least hit that mark this

1:56:23 ↗ year. And thank you. All those in favor of approving

1:56:28 ↗ the Human Service Grant recommendations at the increased funding

1:56:34 ↗ level pursuant to the adopted funding target of $371,500

1:56:39 ↗ as recommended by the Human Services Commission signify by

1:56:45 ↗ saying aye. Aye. Those opposed? That carries unanimously. Moving

1:56:51 ↗ now to agenda bill, the next one.

1:56:57 ↗ 7265, non-profit funding. This is coming back from services and

1:57:03 ↗ safety. There was a request as pointed out and that

1:57:08 ↗ is included in your packet to show all of the

1:57:14 ↗ funding to the different groups that we fund.

1:57:21 ↗ - Are you ready to make a motion? - Sure, I will move to approve

1:57:27 ↗ the nonprofit funding as recommended by the Council Services and Safety Committee. - Second. -

1:57:32 ↗ It's moved and seconded, discussion. So I think really that the question

1:57:38 ↗ here and to point out for folks at home, this one didn't go

1:57:44 ↗ through the Human Services Commission, right? This one, services and safety effectively had

1:57:49 ↗ that role. And so we had presentations from each of the organizations that

1:57:55 ↗ the city was recommending funding for. and two of the three of

1:58:01 ↗ us recommended an increase in the amount for at work. There was to

1:58:06 ↗ be a focus this year of, oh, help me out, the word was

1:58:12 ↗ capacity building? And so we felt that... at work's interest in building

1:58:18 ↗ a customer relations management capability would absolutely hit that on the head. And so

1:58:24 ↗ they had asked for 20,000. The administration had recommended 10, which is still nice.

1:58:30 ↗ But as I said, two of the three of us recommended going with the

1:58:36 ↗ full ask of 20. And that was the only potential change we made to

1:58:42 ↗ the administration's recommendation. - Okay, other questions or discussion? - Just

1:58:47 ↗ for the record, those who may be, who, as it was, unlike it

1:58:53 ↗ was, as it was suggested earlier tonight that people can go watch the

1:58:59 ↗ record, the five hour recording of our meeting on Saturday. We did, we

1:59:04 ↗ did deliberate this item on Saturday. And the majority of the

1:59:10 ↗ council did accept the committee's recommendation to increase above the

1:59:16 ↗ administration's recommendation funding and add $10,000 additional to at work.

1:59:22 ↗ So I just wanted to make sure we had a

1:59:28 ↗ lengthy discussion. We had a discussion about it Saturday. -

1:59:34 ↗ Additional discussions or questions? Seeing none, then all those

1:59:39 ↗ in favor of approving the nonprofit funding as recommended by

1:59:45 ↗ the council services and safety committee signify by saying aye.

1:59:51 ↗ - Aye. - Those opposed? That carries unanimously. Moving now

1:59:56 ↗ to agenda bill 7280, King County Alternative Services Pilot Proposal.

2:00:02 ↗ David Fujimoto. Office of Sustainability Director for a staff

2:00:08 ↗ presentation on this item. Good evening Council Members. I

2:00:13 ↗ have a quick slide presentation about this. We also

2:00:19 ↗ had some presentations at both the Services and safety and infrastructure

2:00:24 ↗ committees earlier this month anticipating this proposal simply because of the timing and short

2:00:30 ↗ time frame for which they were the county was requesting turn around. And I'm

2:00:36 ↗ here on the behalf of we have an internal transportation mobility team which includes

2:00:41 ↗ multiple departments includes OS office of sustainability economic development. the executive department as well

2:00:47 ↗ as public works engineering to work on interdepartmental transportation issues. In this

2:00:53 ↗ agenda bill, the administration is seeking authorization for a partnership proposal to

2:00:59 ↗ King County Department of Transportation. The goal is to develop and implement

2:01:04 ↗ mobility solutions or transportation solutions for two neighborhoods in Issaquah.

2:01:10 ↗ But first, what is alternative services? It's a little bit of an ambiguous term.

2:01:16 ↗ But as described here on the screen, there are innovative solutions, innovative alternatives, really

2:01:22 ↗ to fixed route transit solutions. Some of this has some origins. back several years

2:01:28 ↗ when King County was anticipating making some significant service reductions and they were looking at

2:01:33 ↗ alternative services to help meet some of those kind of missing links and some of

2:01:38 ↗ those needs. But at the same time, they also recognize that there are potential opportunities

2:01:44 ↗ for applying these kinds of solutions in other areas of the county as well. So

2:01:49 ↗ they've already set into place some initial projects. The vast majority of those are shuttle-based

2:01:54 ↗ services. but there are looking at some other options that they want to test

2:02:00 ↗ and assess in different communities to see how they perform. And so some of

2:02:06 ↗ the goals are to link to existing services such as regional transit services, employment

2:02:12 ↗ centers or major employers, as well as community services such as healthcare and groceries

2:02:18 ↗ and some other services like that. And so you think about Issaquah and there's a

2:02:23 ↗ limited number of fixed route services is potentially very useful for our community. So

2:02:29 ↗ the county in their pilot partnership program is really looking to identify candidate communities that

2:02:35 ↗ are not interested so much at this stage in identifying specific solutions. In fact, they

2:02:41 ↗ were very specific about asking us not to propose specific solutions, whether it be a

2:02:46 ↗ community van or a shuttle or kind of real-time ride sharing. They were asking more

2:02:52 ↗ about kind of who are the communities we're trying to address. And so the They

2:02:58 ↗ kind of laid out some of these elements as potential candidate communities in which they

2:03:03 ↗ could test some of these services through a partnership with the local community.

2:03:11 ↗ In late October, they had sent out an RFP, a request for proposals, seeking pilot

2:03:16 ↗ partnerships. And as I had stated, they were looking for specific communities. They're anticipating funding

2:03:22 ↗ about eight pilot communities starting in 2017. And they would go through a two-year pilot

2:03:27 ↗ phase and then follow up with some evaluation. Some of the first work would include

2:03:33 ↗ some engagement work with the community, understanding a little bit more about trip patterns and

2:03:39 ↗ opportunities, and then kind of designing solutions around those and going forward. They also spoke

2:03:44 ↗ about this is not just being an opportunity to justify a service, but to really

2:03:49 ↗ look at a community and the population and their transportation needs, and also looking at

2:03:55 ↗ equity. And so equity as they consider kind of populations being served and the diversity

2:04:00 ↗ and income levels as also being an important consideration.

2:04:06 ↗ So what we are proposing for the application is to focus on our squawk and

2:04:12 ↗ talus neighborhoods and thinking about kind of the hill to valley mobility. Our mountainous areas

2:04:17 ↗ are a great contributor to the character of the community, but at the same time

2:04:23 ↗ that topography creates some challenges in terms of how people connect from the hills or

2:04:28 ↗ the mountains down to the valley. This is also It's an area that the council

2:04:34 ↗ has had some interest in. The city has had some interest in trying to find

2:04:39 ↗ some other solutions for how do we improve connections and mobility within those neighborhoods. And

2:04:44 ↗ they're approximate too, but they're not directly served by transit. So Squawk Mountain has transit

2:04:49 ↗ that kind of goes around the valley, but doesn't go up top. And then Tallis

2:04:54 ↗ doesn't actually have any direct service, but it's within about two miles in kind of

2:04:59 ↗ direct distance from it. Although there have been plans for providing things like transit turnaround

2:05:05 ↗ spots and things like that, we haven't been successful in getting fixed route transit service

2:05:10 ↗ to those neighborhoods. So the focus here would be on the topographic and

2:05:16 ↗ kind of geographic mobility challenges and finding some solutions. We include both commuters as

2:05:22 ↗ well as daytime populations. There are kind of needs across the spectrum, whether it's

2:05:28 ↗ seniors or residents in some of our affordable housing communities or even shift workers

2:05:34 ↗ at Timber Ridge, as an example, that could be served by some of these

2:05:40 ↗ solutions. And as part of this, we're also proposing that the city would be pretty

2:05:45 ↗ active participant in this. We would want to work closely with King County in looking

2:05:51 ↗ at the communities and assessing kind of needs and opportunities, would work with them on

2:05:57 ↗ engagement and communication, marketing, and the overall approach. And then within the 2017 budget, we

2:06:03 ↗ had anticipated about $15,000 that would go towards assessment work related to this, so we're

2:06:08 ↗ proposing to put that towards this proposal as well so that we can combine those

2:06:13 ↗ efforts. Just in terms of timing going

2:06:19 ↗ forward as I mentioned we had made a couple of updates to services and safety

2:06:24 ↗ and infrastructure the application deadline actually came and passed we did submit a preliminary application

2:06:30 ↗ as a holding place to the county subject to the authorization to proceed the county

2:06:36 ↗ has said that they anticipate making a notice of award fairly quickly they've said mid-December

2:06:42 ↗ and we'll hopefully see that happen and then the if we're selected there would actually

2:06:47 ↗ be an agreement that we'd anticipate coming back where council could review and choose to

2:06:52 ↗ take action at that point in time and then depending on the timing of the

2:06:56 ↗ the different proposals they receive we would know more about schedule in the first quarter

2:07:01 ↗ of next year at this point in time we don't know when the actual project

2:07:05 ↗ would start the county said that they want to do kind of a rolling start

2:07:10 ↗ to projects over 2017. Thank you, David.

2:07:16 ↗ Are there questions of David? Mary Lou? Thanks. David, this is really exciting to hear

2:07:21 ↗ this. I was wondering if, since we've done our application, one of the biggest things

2:07:26 ↗ that would really help ISSAQUAH would be if outlying jurisdictions also were able to take

2:07:31 ↗ advantage of this program such that they had an alternate way to get to one

2:07:36 ↗ of the transit centers instead of driving and parking themselves. Have you heard of anything

2:07:41 ↗ about other jurisdictions also applying for this grant money that may actually help our congestion

2:07:46 ↗ from a pass-through traffic point of view? We haven't gotten any information back from the

2:07:51 ↗ county on what other proposals have been submitted. I do know that Sammamish was considering

2:07:57 ↗ something. It was in dialogue with the county. The other part is some of what

2:08:03 ↗ comes out of these pilot projects can be applied to other communities, and so there's

2:08:08 ↗ some benefit there as well. Thank you. Paul? - Yeah, I'd like to

2:08:14 ↗ move to authorize submission of the alternative services pilot participation proposal to

2:08:20 ↗ King County Metro. - Second. - Moved and seconded discussion or additional

2:08:26 ↗ questions. Paul? - Yeah, I wanna thank you, David. I think the

2:08:32 ↗ Hill to Valley is a creative way to label this. It's absolutely

2:08:38 ↗ true that those two, residential areas are underserved if served at

2:08:44 ↗ all by public transit. And I'm also pleased to, you know, I

2:08:49 ↗ hope it, I hope we're very competitive. i we've all known for a long

2:08:55 ↗ time the fact that squawk mountain residents really don't have any choices other than to

2:09:00 ↗ get in their car to come and go there's very very limited choices and so

2:09:06 ↗ not only does that would that help them but if if members of either of

2:09:11 ↗ these communities can say get to other transit regional transit say at the transit center

2:09:16 ↗ And I like the way you pointed out earlier, you know, reduce demand for parking

2:09:22 ↗ at the transit center. It'll just reduce trips in town. I appreciate Councilmember Pauley's comment

2:09:28 ↗ about, hey, is this another way to maybe reduce pass-through? We never want to miss

2:09:33 ↗ those opportunities. And we don't know, but it still, I think, would be a benefit

2:09:39 ↗ to our residents and even with their fewer trips on the road. So I'm really

2:09:44 ↗ glad that we did this application and I'm really pleased to see the focus you

2:09:49 ↗ put on that. I think it would be very deserving should we get an award.

2:09:54 ↗ Thank you. Yeah, I just want to mention when I talk about RTC, the Regional

2:09:59 ↗ Transit Committee, this project and this proposal comes a lot from that metro working particularly

2:10:05 ↗ with the SCA caucus and tying into the Regional Transit Committee. A lot of work

2:10:10 ↗ went into this to work on the details. to make sure everybody gets a fair

2:10:15 ↗ shot and try to have some creativity and see how not just our community, but

2:10:20 ↗ other ones that have similar concerns to ours could possibly get some help and assistance

2:10:24 ↗ to get some things going and people moving. So this is kind of the fruition

2:10:29 ↗ of that. There's $6 million, $12 million that will go for this. And that's a

2:10:34 ↗ start. And so hopefully we can, as you say, be successful and keep pushing at

2:10:38 ↗ it from the city standpoint. To my knowledge, Sammamish, I believe, has been talking about

2:10:42 ↗ this. But I don't think they're as ready as we are to submit a proposal.

2:10:47 ↗ There'll be more coming. And some other cities are the same way. So I hope

2:10:51 ↗ we're one of the first ones in there that will help us get in there

2:10:55 ↗ quickly. Thank you. CHAIRMAN BRYANT: Other questions or discussion? Mariah. It just looks like, David,

2:11:00 ↗ a lot of great work that's gone into this and that was great to

2:11:06 ↗ see Squawk Mountain and TALIS mobility. And so I just wanted to say that

2:11:12 ↗ I hope everything can go forward and it was exciting to read about this.

2:11:17 ↗ Other questions or discussion? Seeing none then, all those in favor of authorizing the

2:11:23 ↗ submission of the alternate Alternative Services Pilot Participation Proposal to King

2:11:29 ↗ County Metro signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed? That carries

2:11:34 ↗ unanimously. Moving now to good of the order.

2:11:42 ↗ I have two items. I'll do one at a time, see if anybody else has

2:11:47 ↗ anything else. First of all, for information, some of you may or may not be

2:11:52 ↗ familiar with the Muslim Association of Puget Sound, MAPS, commonly called MAPS. They suffered some

2:11:57 ↗ vandalism a few weeks back, and to support that community, many folks went there to

2:12:03 ↗ help support them. Folks that were there included our mayor, Councilmember Martz, myself, Human Services

2:12:08 ↗ Commissioner Maupin, and others from Issaquah. And we went on a Friday and they were

2:12:13 ↗ great at open house, brought everybody in, really shared with everyone what they do in

2:12:19 ↗ the community, which is amazing. Their association has about 5,000 families, not members, but 5,000

2:12:24 ↗ families. It's really huge. They do a lot of community work. To culminate that process

2:12:29 ↗ this Friday at one o'clock, they will be replacing that sign that was vandalized. So

2:12:34 ↗ I will be going. I think Council Member Marks is going to join me for

2:12:40 ↗ sure again. If anybody else wants to, they can carpool with me. This is located

2:12:45 ↗ right at the north end, top end of Marymoor Park. And so please do so

2:12:50 ↗ if you can. Thank you. Other questions? I want to take two. I'll give somebody

2:12:56 ↗ else a shot. I've got some too, so go right ahead. Go ahead. All right.

2:13:01 ↗ The other thing I mentioned earlier with the Eastside Transportation Partnership, I sent out a

2:13:07 ↗ little two-page Eastside Transportation Partnership legislative priorities. I hope everybody got a chance to take

2:13:12 ↗ a look at those and see if there's any questions on any of those or

2:13:17 ↗ any comments, concerns this Friday at ETP meeting. Hopefully they will be accepting this. It's

2:13:22 ↗ gone through a number of iterations and a lot of different communities have a lot

2:13:27 ↗ of different points of view. This is a difficult thing to get done from that

2:13:32 ↗ Eastside Transportation Partnership as a whole because it's large and everybody has different uh anyway

2:13:38 ↗ different concerns so i think this has come out pretty well and just want to

2:13:42 ↗ get some comment on it and see if i can go back and support this

2:13:47 ↗ on friday with uh the council behind me good comment thanks for bringing that bill

2:13:51 ↗ that that was great it was really interesting um I had two questions. One was,

2:13:57 ↗ I mean this is very self-centered question, but Highway 18 and 90

2:14:03 ↗ interchange, it was hard to tell if that's their number one priority

2:14:08 ↗ or just a priority. Which one? Highway 18 and 90 interchange and

2:14:14 ↗ Highway 18 itself. It's on there, but not attending those meetings. Is

2:14:19 ↗ that their top priority or a priority? these are not in priority order. All of

2:14:25 ↗ these are priorities of things. - Just your sense of how that group is feeling.

2:14:30 ↗ Like I say, it would depend a little bit if you're up in Bothell, it

2:14:35 ↗ probably wouldn't be on your list, right? So I think that a lot of people

2:14:40 ↗ that are affected by that, which is around here, Sammamish, Upper Snoqualmie Valley, those folks,

2:14:45 ↗ it'd be obviously a higher priority for. But I think the group overall definitely supports

2:14:50 ↗ it. This tried to look at, like I say, the whole regional network, and this

2:14:55 ↗ seemed to have, nobody was, attracted on this one. It was his supporter like, okay,

2:15:00 ↗ that doesn't really bother me so much. You know, it's not in our neighborhood kind

2:15:04 ↗ of thing, but it had a lot of support. And then the second question had

2:15:09 ↗ to do with the T word. You guys ever talk about tolling? Not on... 405

2:15:13 ↗ tolling gets talked about a lot. Not on 405 tolling, tolling on city roads and

2:15:18 ↗ county roads. Is that a subject that's ever discussed at ETP? Not that I, in

2:15:22 ↗ the time I've been there, has ever been talked about to my knowledge. And looking

2:15:27 ↗ at the mayor, he's been on there longer than I have, no. It would be

2:15:31 ↗ the answer on that. The one thing I'll throw out there is a thing that

2:15:37 ↗ I think that should be just thought about more so is item number three on

2:15:42 ↗ there, which is a road usage charge. That's fairly hot potato politically. I'll put my

2:15:48 ↗ two cents in on that. If you look at our gas tax model, historically it's

2:15:54 ↗ been a great model. It's worked very well. As times have changed, that model has

2:16:00 ↗ become less and less effective. So the one thing I'd say on that issue is

2:16:05 ↗ it's not trying to add to that. It's trying to work towards something to replace

2:16:09 ↗ that. That is again, an efficient, fair model across as the gas tax has been

2:16:14 ↗ for decades. So that's the one thing people get, get afraid on that, that it's

2:16:19 ↗ going to be in addition to, but it's trying, it's, this is for, uh, the

2:16:24 ↗ pilot program to go through and which is already set up with WSDOT

2:16:30 ↗ to set up a pilot program this year in 2017 to start actually

2:16:35 ↗ trying to see how you can make that work. That's probably one of

2:16:41 ↗ the big controversial ones on there. Thanks. Other questions on ETP's legislative agenda

2:16:47 ↗ for 2017? I would say the road usage charge study You know,

2:16:53 ↗ this council probably doesn't have a position to take back to ETP because

2:16:59 ↗ we haven't studied that. We hadn't had any conversation about that. So you

2:17:05 ↗ might want to report that back. Just the fact that we haven't talked

2:17:10 ↗ about it. Okay, thank you. Other questions or, so Bill, I think you

2:17:16 ↗ have council in back, feedback and go forth and do great things for Issaquah and

2:17:22 ↗ King County. And I was actually on the legislative committee that worked on this, so

2:17:26 ↗ just as a side note. So thank you very much. Thank you. Other items for

2:17:31 ↗ good of the order, Stacy. - Yeah, thanks, I have three. The first is

2:17:36 ↗ something that I sort of missed on Saturday and that was that at our

2:17:42 ↗ budget work session, a Downtown Issaquah Association, as you've seen in an email requested

2:17:48 ↗ the council consider including funds in the 2017 budget for actually implementing the streetscape

2:17:53 ↗ plan downtown and I think, We didn't actually, my fault, I didn't bring it

2:17:59 ↗ up to talk about it. But what we heard from the administration is that we

2:18:04 ↗ don't have a figure yet because we don't actually have a plan. And so we

2:18:10 ↗ don't know what the, what it would cost to implement that plan. But we did

2:18:15 ↗ on Saturday talk a lot about the items that could be included in, you know,

2:18:20 ↗ considering mid-year and there is a letter from the council president after the

2:18:26 ↗ budget is adopted that could include a reference to council, like

2:18:31 ↗ some other items we talked about, you know, maybe willing to

2:18:37 ↗ entertain funds during the year, an additional, an allocation of funds.

2:18:43 ↗ for that implementation plan. And if I get sort of head

2:18:49 ↗ nods, I would include that in the letter. Yes. I'm

2:18:54 ↗ seeing-- Head nods. Head nods. Mm-hmm. Yes. The second item I have is we have--

2:19:00 ↗ we are creating a special fund for camera revenue, as we've talked about before. And

2:19:06 ↗ one of the things that we talked about is-- or discussed a couple of council

2:19:12 ↗ meetings ago is what the-- the definition use of those

2:19:17 ↗ funds, what that actual language would be in that

2:19:23 ↗ fund in the budget. And we haven't seen that

2:19:29 ↗ yet. So I had asked Bob to let us

2:19:35 ↗ know what that process is, when we will be

2:19:40 ↗ seeing that. The actual language for the new special

2:19:46 ↗ fund for the camera revenue. - Sheldon, are you

2:19:52 ↗ back there or Jen?

2:19:58 ↗ CHRISTIE WOOD: Thank you, Mayor. The description of that fund will be included in

2:20:03 ↗ the final 2017 adopted budget book. And it will define what those revenues are,

2:20:09 ↗ where they come from, and the purpose of that fund. So that is planned

2:20:15 ↗ to be in the final 2017 adopted budget for year review and adoption on

2:20:21 ↗ December 19. So I think when we talked about this initially, I think the

2:20:26 ↗ council was indicated that we would have a little more time than that, than just

2:20:32 ↗ put in the final budget. So just as a heads up that we could be

2:20:38 ↗ in a sausage making session again if we don't see it until then.

2:20:44 ↗ If it's okay with you, I think I do recall that you had indicated you

2:20:50 ↗ wanted like kind of an intent statement that would go with the fund. And so

2:20:55 ↗ if we do have some time at the work session next week, if by your

2:21:01 ↗ leave, if you'd like to add that description, we could spend a little time on

2:21:07 ↗ that on Monday, if you so choose. Okay, I have that down for consideration at

2:21:12 ↗ leadership. Thanks. And then the third item was a little, thank you, Jen.

2:21:18 ↗ I had given you a little heads up on Saturday about the notion that

2:21:24 ↗ we might want to consider or that I was considering bringing forward a few

2:21:29 ↗ proposed agenda bills. And there were several that I, that some, and some that

2:21:35 ↗ I had mentioned. And so what I'm looking for tonight is feedback on

2:21:41 ↗ some agenda bills. They all have to do with transportation. And one of

2:21:47 ↗ the ways that we can show our legislative, interest in legislative actions is

2:21:53 ↗ to direct the preparation of certain agenda bills. And so for tonight, I

2:21:59 ↗ just, I would like to say lists that I'm thinking

2:22:05 ↗ about and get your feedback to see which ones my intent would

2:22:11 ↗ be to work on them for another couple of weeks, talk to

2:22:16 ↗ appropriate folks in administration and bring back some proposed actions, hopefully in

2:22:22 ↗ a couple of weeks. That's so it's just feedback to I don't

2:22:28 ↗ have any I don't have any motions to make. So I

2:22:35 ↗ One of the reasons that I'm bringing these forward is because, as I mentioned on

2:22:40 ↗ Saturday, we've known that transportation has been the number one issue in our community for

2:22:45 ↗ many, many, many, many years. And as I mentioned on Saturday, I don't think we

2:22:51 ↗ quite got us there in this proposed budget. And I want to see if there

2:22:56 ↗ are some things that we can do to ensure that we get some additional transportation

2:23:01 ↗ items addressed. sooner rather than later and also for transparency and accountability purposes, put

2:23:07 ↗ some items in agenda bills. So the first one that I will bring up

2:23:13 ↗ is the Trader Joe's Target intersection and an improvement there that we have talked

2:23:19 ↗ about many, many times and what we heard on Saturday was that there was

2:23:25 ↗ a proposal, maybe not sure it's a, back of the napkin

2:23:31 ↗ kind of thing. I'm hearing, I'm seeing head nods

2:23:36 ↗ about people who are thinking that that's something I

2:23:42 ↗ should, yeah? I'll take feedback, comment. Okay. Okay. Look

2:23:48 ↗ at Paul's like looking at me. Okay. Another one

2:23:54 ↗ I will bring up is Providence Point. And that

2:24:00 ↗ is a, In terms of road improvements,

2:24:06 ↗ it looks like maybe we would have the financial capacity to do that. And

2:24:12 ↗ so I would be looking at just an agenda bill that would ask the

2:24:17 ↗ administration to review financing options and also in light of some new information we

2:24:23 ↗ had about a downhill development, look at that as well and see if we

2:24:29 ↗ have maybe some design updating that we need to do.

2:24:35 ↗ - Very much in favor of taking, especially as a result

2:24:41 ↗ of our bond not getting the level of support that was

2:24:46 ↗ required. We have, I think that we may have the resources

2:24:52 ↗ to do something there and I definitely in favor of looking

2:24:58 ↗ at that in favor of Providence Point. - Agreed. - The

2:25:04 ↗ next one I'm looking at or I'm thinking about is the

2:25:10 ↗ capital. special projects fund over the camera revenue, do we want to look at

2:25:15 ↗ agenda bill that would consider projects to actually spend that money on? It would be

2:25:21 ↗ a little over $200,000. Or do we want to skip that right now and accumulate

2:25:27 ↗ a little bit and then look at it? - So skip and accumulate. We wouldn't

2:25:33 ↗ have until the end of the year anyway, right? - Yep. - So, end of

2:25:39 ↗ the year. - Right, and we also, indicated or approved an additional

2:25:45 ↗ 300,000 in spending for complete streets. So that's, I think, yeah, since we're only,

2:25:50 ↗ we can't spend it until we have it. - Okay. - That's kind of

2:25:56 ↗ like, yeah, let's, we might have to wait a year. - Okay. And then

2:26:02 ↗ the Street Improvement Fund has two, I don't know, line

2:26:07 ↗ items in, I don't know how you say that, line items

2:26:13 ↗ in it? Projects? Well, one's a program, one's a project. Complete

2:26:18 ↗ streets/traffic calming has $476,000 in it. And... Plus 300. Plus 300.

2:26:24 ↗ Okay. Sorry, I wasn't listening. And, you know, do we want

2:26:30 ↗ to have a say in what those projects are, what projects

2:26:35 ↗ get designated? So that was a thought I had about that fund. So one

2:26:41 ↗ of my questions on that, since we put that extra $300,000 there, and we're also

2:26:46 ↗ looking at probably complete streets needed with the skate park, I think we definitely need

2:26:51 ↗ to talk more about where that money is going, because we're going to need some

2:26:56 ↗ money there too. We kind of did that, the $300,000 first, and then we did

2:27:02 ↗ the second half. So I felt like we needed to bring that conversation back to

2:27:07 ↗ look at those two together. And this, if we do

2:27:12 ↗ that, this will be, I don't recall council doing

2:27:18 ↗ a detailed review of the Complete Streets work. And

2:27:24 ↗ I think as a, if the ask is, you

2:27:30 ↗ know, can we get a chance to review the

2:27:36 ↗ proposed plan, maybe in committee, infrastructure committee for comment?

2:27:43 ↗ I think that would be appropriate. I'm not yet at that point where

2:27:48 ↗ I want to take the full step that we would require council legislative

2:27:54 ↗ action to approve the list of projects, if that's what you're considering. -

2:28:00 ↗ It would be a question that I would have. So if you're interested

2:28:05 ↗ in any of these becoming legislative action, then I would be looking at

2:28:11 ↗ them and they may or may not end up in an agenda bill.

2:28:18 ↗ based on further exploration by me, probably Mary Lou. I think what you would

2:28:23 ↗ be getting there is I don't believe the intent was to have council approval

2:28:29 ↗ of some projects. It was to give council or committee an opportunity to look

2:28:35 ↗ at whatever priorities you set for how to spend that money and the list

2:28:41 ↗ of projects that qualify so that there is It's a review to make sure that

2:28:47 ↗ we are spending the complete street money in accordance with priorities that council has, whatever

2:28:51 ↗ that is. And right now, I don't know what it is because we don't see

2:28:55 ↗ it. So it's that kind of conversation. It's not to say this one should be

2:28:59 ↗ one and that one should be three. It's more about is our priority to... work

2:29:04 ↗ on capital projects we have ongoing and use the money to do bike lanes and

2:29:10 ↗ sidewalks and supplement those budgets or is our intent to look at where we want

2:29:15 ↗ priority missing trail connections and missing bike lanes and spend the money on that. It's

2:29:21 ↗ that level of conversation and then you see the list of projects. What about priorities?

2:29:26 ↗ I wasn't necessarily proposing that. I have it written down as way

2:29:32 ↗ to go about it. Yeah. Yeah. Perhaps we can

2:29:37 ↗ have a conversation and infrastructure with administration around the

2:29:43 ↗ topic and see where that takes us. And then

2:29:49 ↗ we talked about on Saturday, the Gilman Boulevard safety

2:29:54 ↗ improvements and put an agenda bill. And then the

2:30:00 ↗ last one I have is Newport Way west of

2:30:06 ↗ SR 900. It's a The question is, do

2:30:11 ↗ we want that project potentially in Agenda Bill, or the possibility

2:30:17 ↗ of, I don't know if speeding up is the right word,

2:30:23 ↗ but having a-- - Acceleration. - Acceleration. - In the projects.

2:30:29 ↗ - A comprehensive public conversation about what we do with that

2:30:34 ↗ section of road. - Newport Way West? - Yeah. - Or

2:30:40 ↗ is it really called-- - Newport Way Cougar? - Cougar.

2:30:46 ↗ So there's clearly, I mean, some of us participated in a

2:30:51 ↗ public meeting last week. So, I mean, there's beyond what's currently

2:30:57 ↗ planned for engagement. Is it more of an engagement ask or

2:31:02 ↗ are you looking at more of a identification ask? Yeah, so

2:31:08 ↗ I don't have specifics. These are the things that I thought

2:31:14 ↗ rose to the top of potential legislative action. I have been

2:31:19 ↗ struck by the amount of activity over in that area and we

2:31:25 ↗ have $250,000 in the budget for next year. And a lot of

2:31:31 ↗ mitigation fees are being paid to the city for those projects over

2:31:37 ↗ there. And it seems like it's time for us to have a

2:31:43 ↗ conversation about that road. I don't have any specific personal agenda.

2:31:49 ↗ or ideas other than just that so if you're looking to say should we have

2:31:54 ↗ a conversation about that road and that's an absolute yes and that's what you're asking

2:31:59 ↗ for and that's negative yeah i don't have an answer either but yes again it

2:32:04 ↗ was a bond project that was listed in the bond but it happens to be

2:32:09 ↗ one of the busiest areas for new development in town and so it should just

2:32:14 ↗ get a discussion yeah so well i'm sorry no go ahead i was just i

2:32:19 ↗ agree - Yeah, and I think since we are kind of the,

2:32:25 ↗ you are initiating these agenda bills, I wonder too, I mean, that

2:32:30 ↗ if this would be one that we can start as a conversation

2:32:36 ↗ again at infrastructure committee and 'cause I think there was some, with

2:32:42 ↗ some type of kind of knowledge transfer, kind of analysis and conversation

2:32:47 ↗ back and forth, especially about funding options then we might be

2:32:53 ↗ in a good, better position to guide the administration's preparation of

2:32:59 ↗ a more you know, of at least a somewhat vetted bill as opposed to not

2:33:05 ↗ having that chance to talk with them first. So I'd like the opportunity to go

2:33:09 ↗ through infrastructure first and-- Sure. None of them are proposed to be agenda bills without

2:33:14 ↗ any conversation with the administration. Just to be clear. Oh, of course, of course. I

2:33:18 ↗ wasn't going to go off and write them and come back. Oh. I understood that.

2:33:23 ↗ I understood that. I was just thinking that, Oftentimes bills, you know, they come to

2:33:29 ↗ us the first time almost fully formed. Right, and you want a conversation. So let's

2:33:35 ↗ help with that formation prior to becoming a bill. So I think that that's the

2:33:41 ↗ list I have, and I actually lied. I have four. Yeah, there's one. Oh,

2:33:46 ↗ sorry. You missed one on the list we talked about earlier, which is a front

2:33:51 ↗ street streetscape, right? That would be on that list also? No. No. That was, I

2:33:56 ↗ was proposing that earlier to be in the letter. The letter. So we'll do a

2:34:01 ↗ little later. We need a little more information before we do that, but. Yes. Okay.

2:34:05 ↗ Gotcha. All right. Well, the fourth thing I have, This is a completely separate topic.

2:34:11 ↗ You know, we've heard a lot from, it was fairly timely that we heard from

2:34:15 ↗ somebody in the public comment tonight, Mark Bloom, I believe his name is, who lives...

2:34:20 ↗ down in May Valley and we've heard a lot from the folks in May Valley

2:34:25 ↗ who are concerned about the truck traffic and rightfully so. And I think sometimes it's

2:34:30 ↗ not clear exactly who has jurisdiction or owns those roads and it's King County. But

2:34:36 ↗ one of the things that I talked to Mary Lou about a couple of weeks

2:34:41 ↗ ago is the notion that we might want to show a little bit of support

2:34:47 ↗ for our neighbors in the unincorporated area. because I don't think that we certainly

2:34:52 ↗ didn't want to cause any harm, although we knew that was going to be

2:34:58 ↗ the result that they were going to endure increased truck traffic. I wondered if

2:35:04 ↗ the council would be interested in transmitting a letter to our counterparts on the

2:35:10 ↗ King County Council asking them to engaged our fellow Issaquah community folks,

2:35:16 ↗ because a lot of them have Issaquah addresses, even though they don't live

2:35:21 ↗ in the city limits. And just a letter asking them to, that we

2:35:27 ↗ hope that they work with those folks on finding some, I don't know

2:35:33 ↗ if relief is the right word. I haven't thought about any kind of

2:35:38 ↗ language. Just thought maybe it was an opportunity for us to

2:35:44 ↗ send a message to the King County Council that we support and hope

2:35:50 ↗ that they work with those folks in the South End. Just an idea.

2:35:55 ↗ - I'm unsure. The reason I'm unsure is because I know that council

2:36:01 ↗ member, County Council Member Lambert spends a lot of time with that community

2:36:07 ↗ and really considers them key constituents of hers. The problem to me seems

2:36:12 ↗ more, uh of communicating to the folks there that the county council is there are

2:36:17 ↗ there elected officials i mean people are asking us to make changes to may valley

2:36:22 ↗ road and that's not that's not isaac that's not even our paa as we all

2:36:27 ↗ know at the dais so to me if there's communication and engagement that needs to

2:36:31 ↗ occur I really think Councilmember Lambert is extremely aware of the transportation issues down there.

2:36:37 ↗ She sees herself as having the majority of unincorporated King County in her district. But

2:36:42 ↗ it's the folks down there understanding how to engage the county government. It seems like

2:36:47 ↗ there would be value in communication there, and I don't know exactly how that would

2:36:52 ↗ happen. But I was struck by the fact that people came tonight thinking we could

2:36:57 ↗ make changes to May Valley Road. Ms. Ann Marie Buerkle: Comment

2:37:03 ↗ as well, Fred, if that's okay? I kind of like two, two texts. One is

2:37:08 ↗ that I think, and I'm not sure, clarify with the Mayor, would, would he get

2:37:12 ↗ a response from us saying that it's not our jurisdiction? Is that something we respond

2:37:17 ↗ to or not through public hearing? Mr. Oh, well, there's a lot of misinformation and

2:37:22 ↗ stuff like that. I believe the appropriate thing would be for me to engage Reagan

2:37:27 ↗ Dunn and Kathy Lambert who have an interest in that area and share

2:37:32 ↗ with them what we're hearing at our council meeting because they're not at

2:37:38 ↗ the King County Council. council meetings expressing these concerns. Do we get, for the people

2:37:44 ↗ that come here though, do we close the loop with them at all? No.

2:37:50 ↗ Not really, unless there's a specific request or they have a specific question of

2:37:56 ↗ us. But then the second part for me is that I actually support doing

2:38:02 ↗ two things. One is when we do have opportunities to work with residents who live

2:38:07 ↗ in what I call South Issaquah, I think we should be clearly letting them know

2:38:12 ↗ where we are, what we do. But we have one of the biggest issues coming

2:38:18 ↗ up on the whole east side in terms of a non-highway that is congested. And

2:38:23 ↗ so for For me, I think this is the time to begin developing a relationship

2:38:28 ↗ with that valley and work with them because Issaquah-Holbert Road, South Front Street, that's one

2:38:33 ↗ thing. And so it's probably our biggest thing. And so I do think we need

2:38:38 ↗ to start developing some sort of relationship that's a little different with that part of

2:38:43 ↗ the valley. I agree with that comment and that's one of the

2:38:49 ↗ reasons we invited the mayor of Covington and the mayor of Maple Valley to come

2:38:55 ↗ to hear our concerns and for us to hear their concerns. And so in looking

2:39:00 ↗ at a coalition, I've already identified those who I believe ought

2:39:06 ↗ to be involved in that effort. And that includes Covington and

2:39:12 ↗ Maple Valley and perhaps even Black Diamond. But Seattle Times had

2:39:18 ↗ a very interesting article on Black Diamond and the 6,000 potential

2:39:23 ↗ homes that may go in there. How many of those are

2:39:29 ↗ going to be coming this way? And by the way, the mayor

2:39:35 ↗ of Black Diamond was at the transportation summit. She wasn't invited, but I'm glad

2:39:41 ↗ she was interested in enough to come. And I do plan to do some

2:39:46 ↗ outreach with her and try to foster that relationship. And I hope it's in

2:39:52 ↗ Black Diamond because it's been many, many, many years since I've been there. It

2:39:58 ↗ seems to me that the mayor letting do county council

2:40:04 ↗ members know of the traffic we're getting about this the truck traffic has

2:40:09 ↗ be sufficient we have already done that and um i think the idea

2:40:15 ↗ was just to show them some support that we um and i think

2:40:21 ↗ that carries some weight that that's what i was going to say i

2:40:27 ↗ think the question is You started the transportation summit. We're going to be moving

2:40:33 ↗ on that. We've got the Issaquah-Hobart Road Study. There's things happening. So that's happening, but

2:40:38 ↗ I think the question that the President is asking is, should we put something in

2:40:42 ↗ writing that really shows that we were wanting to do those kinds of things that

2:40:47 ↗ you mentioned there? And I think it's worth it. I think it does have weight,

2:40:52 ↗ and I think putting something in writing like that does add to that and strengthens

2:40:58 ↗ the conversations to say hey yes we want to work together on

2:41:03 ↗ that that's my thoughts and i'm more than more than happy to

2:41:09 ↗ do that it's been a good conversation and that is a good

2:41:15 ↗ next step uh just as a reminder kathy lambert will be at

2:41:21 ↗ our council meeting 19th on the 19th to provide a report on

2:41:27 ↗ the state of king county so i think mariah had a comment

2:41:33 ↗ I was just going to say I agree with the idea of the letter and

2:41:39 ↗ I think it's important just to show our neighbors that we're hearing what they're saying

2:41:44 ↗ and then to also let the county council members know that we are getting people

2:41:50 ↗ coming in and talking to us about that. So I think it's important on both

2:41:55 ↗ fronts. I just got to say, All good points, but I want to signal to

2:42:00 ↗ anybody that we're like going to maybe roll back the change we just made about

2:42:05 ↗ the truck routes, right? So it's so to, so... I mean, I'm not sure what

2:42:11 ↗ our conversation would be about truck routes that people are now using May Valley Road.

2:42:16 ↗ So, I mean, making, you know, the fact that there are people who live there,

2:42:21 ↗ I used to live there, I'm very aware of it. I know there are a

2:42:26 ↗ couple HOAs in that corridor, South Furs, High Valley, probably one others, you know, making

2:42:31 ↗ sure that they know who to contact, not us, to talk about, you know, mitigating

2:42:36 ↗ impacts of truck routes. it doesn't mean we're going to entertain a conversation about

2:42:41 ↗ going rolling back what we just did. That just needs to be perfectly clear.

2:42:47 ↗ Nope. Agreed. Yeah, so the question I had didn't have anything to do with

2:42:52 ↗ a letter about coming together and talking about changes in the valley, about any

2:42:58 ↗ working together on, you know, future road projects. It was only to lend an

2:43:04 ↗ air of support for our Issaquah/May Valley residents who

2:43:09 ↗ are feeling the burden of our new code and

2:43:15 ↗ that's all it was. It was very simple. -

2:43:21 ↗ Anything else for the order? - Stacey, so where

2:43:27 ↗ did signalization at Park Drive and the Central Park

2:43:33 ↗ Access Road fall? - In terms of? - I

2:43:39 ↗ think we just have to continue the Central Park

2:43:44 ↗ conversation. That's not a, It wasn't on the potential list for

2:43:50 ↗ a separate agenda bill? I didn't have it for tonight. It-- Because it was something

2:43:56 ↗ we considered to add funding to do the design, but then we chose not to

2:44:02 ↗ add the funding. And we talked about it being handled because the plan that was--

2:44:08 ↗ the administration did have include both signalization and the roundabout with the intersection of the

2:44:13 ↗ Park Access Road with College Drive. And we had a conversation. We might need to

2:44:19 ↗ break that down. - I don't remember. - It might be premature. I mean, I

2:44:24 ↗ have my notes from talking about that. If so, if you didn't, we have plenty

2:44:29 ↗ of time to follow up. The work plan you're creating is significant already. - Yeah,

2:44:33 ↗ I just can't remember what the, I don't have my Saturday notes with me. -

2:44:38 ↗ That's from, I wrote that to myself on Saturdays. Okay, I don't have anything else

2:44:43 ↗ for good of the order. - Does anyone else have anything for good of the

2:44:47 ↗ order?

2:44:49 ↗ Seeing

2:45:25 ↗ none

2:46:01 ↗ then,

2:46:37 ↗ we

2:47:13 ↗ will

2:47:49 ↗ now

2:48:25 ↗ move

2:49:01 ↗ to

2:49:37 ↗ executive

2:50:13 ↗ session

2:50:49 ↗ for

2:51:25 ↗ the

2:52:01 ↗ purpose

2:52:37 ↗ of

2:53:13 ↗ discussion,

2:53:49 ↗ discussing

2:54:24 ↗ property

2:55:00 ↗ acquisition

2:55:36 ↗ for

2:56:12 ↗ the

2:56:48 ↗ RCW

2:57:24 ↗ that

2:58:00 ↗ I

2:58:36 ↗ quoted

2:59:12 ↗ during

2:59:48 ↗ the

3:00:24 ↗ mayor's

3:01:00 ↗ report.

3:01:36 ↗ And

3:02:12 ↗ so

3:02:48 ↗ I

3:03:24 ↗ would

3:04:00 ↗ ask

3:04:36 ↗ that

3:05:12 ↗ those

3:05:48 ↗ who

3:06:24 ↗ are

3:07:00 ↗ not

3:07:36 ↗ directly

3:08:12 ↗ related

3:08:48 ↗ to--

3:09:24 ↗ Good

3:09:59 ↗ night,

3:10:35 ↗ Steve.

3:11:11 ↗ We

3:11:47 ↗ are

3:12:23 ↗ back

3:12:59 ↗ in

3:13:35 ↗ open

3:14:11 ↗ session.

3:14:48 ↗ Mr. Mayor, I move that we give the city

3:14:54 ↗ attorney settlement authority in the Bass condemnation action as

3:14:59 ↗ discussed in executive session. Second. Moved and seconded. Any

3:15:05 ↗ discussion? Seeing none, then all those in favor signify

3:15:11 ↗ by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? That carries unanimously. We

3:15:17 ↗ are adjourned.

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Council / Members (7)

Eileen Barber

Mariah Bettise

Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM)

Tola Marts

Mary Lou Pauly

Bill Ramos

Paul Winterstein

Motions and votes (7)

Continue the public hearing to the Dec. 19, 2016 Council meeting. . b) AB 7230 - 2016 Budget Amendments

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Adopt Ordinance No. 2789 as revised, amending the 2016 budget adopted by Ordinance No. 2752 amended by Ordinance No. 2763 and Ordinance No. 2765; authorizing the Finance Director to make the necessary adjustments; and approving prior expenditures. .

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Approve the human services grant recommendations at the increased funding level pursuant to the adopted funding target of $371,500 and as recommended by the Human Services Commission.

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BARBER

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Add $5,000 in human services grant funding for Athletes for Kids and $5,000 for Life Enrichment Options. . (Proponents: Ramos, Bettise, Pauly). . 12-05-16 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page 7863 b) AB 7265 - 2017 Non-Profit Funding

Moved by RAMOS · seconded by BETTISE

Failed 3-4

In favor: Ramos, Bettise, Pauly

Opposed: Eileen Barber, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Paul Winterstein

Approve the non-profit funding as recommended by the Council Services & Safety Committee. . c)

Moved by MARTS · seconded by GOODMAN

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Authorize submission of the Alternative Services Pilot Participation Proposal to King County Metro. .

Moved by WINTERSTEIN · seconded by RAMOS

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman (left at 10:00 PM), Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Give the City Attorney settlement authority in the Bass Condemnation action as discussed in

Moved by PAULY · seconded by WINTERSTEIN