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City Council Regular Meeting

Monday, May 15, 2017

7:00 PM · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topics tracked across meetings:
Affordable Housing Week Proclamation ID 1837 1/2
Olde Town Subarea Plan Update AB 7326 6/14
Central Park Pad #1 Construction AB 7072 2/2
Section
Topic
3. SPECIAL BUSINESS
3b
Affordable Housing Week Proclamation Hear Presentation AB 7432
Carried 5-0
packet pp.7–8
Topics: Housing
Staff report:
Administration / Executive Department:
7. CONSENT CALENDAR
7a
Accounts: Payables and Payroll, May 15
Approve · packet pp.2017
Topics: Budget
7d
Olde Town Subarea Plan Update AB 7326
Confirm · packet pp.17–194
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
The Olde Town Subarea Plan, adopted in 1999, was the first subarea plan adopted after the Growth Management Act compliant Comprehensive Plan in 1995. In 2009, following Council's direction to end support of the SE Bypass, amendments were adopted removing references to the Bypass. In 2014, after focusing on the Central Issaquah Plan for several years, several Council goals were established regarding Olde Town, including: Š Enhancing Old Town Vitality - Task Force creation to review plan and development standards, placemaking, streetscape, Pedestrian Park, wayfinding, parking, and safety; and Š Creation of an Olde Town circulation plan and design guidance.
9. REGULAR BUSINESS
9a
State of the Judiciary Address Hear Presentation AB 7325
packet pp.355–370
Staff report:
Administration / Municipal Court:
9b
Central Park Pad #1 Construction AB 7072
Authorize · packet pp.371–388
Topics: Parks
Staff report:
The conversion of the existing grass sports field at Central Park Pad #1 into a lighted, synthetic turf facility was identified as a project within the 2013 Park Bond supported by 77% of voters. Through the ensuing design process and public engagement, there was a clear interest from the public to address some of the existing/historical Central Park site issues while completing this project.
0:14 it shifted for you I'll call the may 15
0:20 2017 regular council meeting to order
0:23 and ask those in the audience would like
0:25 to join the council and myself in the
0:28 pledge of allegiance to please stand as
0:40 one nation under God indivisible with
0:45 Israel our first two items under special
0:55 business agenda bill 7428
0:59 a proclamation announcing national
1:03 Prevention Week and agenda bill 74 32
1:09 affordable housing week and so there's a
1:36 proclamation
1:36 whereas substance abuse and mental
1:39 health problems affect all communities
1:43 nationwide whereas through national
1:47 Prevention Week people become more aware
1:50 and able to recognize the signs of
1:52 mental health problems and substance
1:56 abuse equally important community
1:59 members of all walks of life learn what
2:03 they can do to help prevent these
2:05 problems before they start
2:07 we all have a role to play in keeping
2:10 the people around us and ourselves
2:13 healthy and safe and now therefore I
2:19 Fred Butler mayor the city of Issaquah
2:21 do hereby proclaim May 14 through 20
2:25 2017 to be national
2:27 prevention week in the city of Issaquah
2:29 and call upon our community to observe
2:33 this week with compelling programs and
2:36 events that support this year's theme
2:39 making every day count and witness
2:43 wherever I hear and to set my hand and
2:46 seal in the city of visco on this 15th
2:49 day of May 2017 so Pat this is
2:55 recognition and a small appreciation for
2:59 all of the work that you do in helping
3:02 us in that endeavor and I would be
3:06 delighted if you have a few words to
3:09 share with those side of the audience or
3:11 watching on TV great thank you
3:17 Thank You mayor Butler councilmembers
3:21 guests in the audience on behalf of the
3:23 Issaquah Schools Foundation healthy
3:25 Youth Initiative and influence the
3:27 choice drug prevention Alliance for
3:29 youth thank you for the third year in a
3:32 row your City Council has passed the
3:34 proclamation in recognition of national
3:37 Prevention Week national Prevention Week
3:40 is celebrated and recognized by
3:42 communities across the nation striving
3:45 to increase public awareness and
3:47 promoting substance abuse prevention and
3:49 mental health tonight I would also like
3:52 to let you know about some specific
3:54 actions that that we are taking in our
3:57 community around the issue of substance
3:59 abuse prevention and mental health under
4:02 the umbrella of the healthy youth
4:03 initiative and partnership and in lead
4:06 with the iske Youth Advisory Board three
4:10 state of mind conferences have been
4:12 organized this year the conference was
4:14 attended by over 225 people with the
4:18 largest participation at the last
4:21 conference at a high school with a
4:24 grant through the Issaquah Arts
4:26 Commission the Alliance received funding
4:28 to help support its 5th annual video
4:31 contest to commemorate its fifth year a
4:34 contest for middle and high school
4:36 students we received over 62 submissions
4:39 and just last
4:41 gave out over 22 cash prizes 9 from
4:45 Issaquah high school and 1 from Middle
4:48 East qua middle school who just happened
4:50 to be the overall middle school winner
4:53 we initiated this year apparent campaign
4:56 called it's up to you to encourage
4:58 parents to talk with their youth about
5:00 their boundaries and expectations around
5:03 no drugs or alcohol thanks to the city
5:06 of Issaquah communication staff helping
5:09 us we got the message out far and wide
5:12 across the community and finally here
5:15 are a number of events that you may be
5:17 interested in attending on June 1st at a
5:20 Holiday Inn which we will promote and
5:23 get invitations to all of you under the
5:26 title of action forum for youth healthy
5:28 Youth Initiative and the Issaquah School
5:30 District will reveal the results of the
5:34 2016 healthy youth survey a similar
5:37 event will be held in Sammamish on June
5:40 6 as an effort to further educate
5:43 community on opioid on the opioid health
5:47 crisis and we are helping to assist in
5:53 organizing a June event it's June 14th
5:56 from 2:00 to 4:00 old Redmond
5:58 schoolhouse to act to bring to the
6:03 awareness of this in increasing crisis
6:07 in our communities this year national
6:10 Prevention Week steam as Fred said make
6:13 each day count really speaks to our
6:16 ongoing efforts every day to work with
6:19 our partners such as the city of
6:20 Issaquah to keep our young people
6:22 mentally healthy safe and drug-free for
6:26 that we thank you very much thank you
6:29 thank you
6:31 [Applause]
6:43 the next proclamation I have is one that
6:49 talks about affordable housing and I'd
6:51 ask Elizabeth my opinion and is Meghan
6:56 Baltimore here also Elizabeth come on
7:00 down thank you whereas all people should
7:05 have access to safe healthy and
7:08 affordable homes within communities of
7:11 opportunity studies have found that each
7:15 100 dollar increase in medium rent
7:17 results in a 15% increase in
7:20 homelessness in metro areas at a 39
7:24 increase in homelessness in nearby
7:27 suburbs suburbs and rural areas whereas
7:32 everyone benefits from affordable
7:36 housing including the people who reside
7:39 in these properties the neighbors
7:40 businesses employees and communities as
7:44 a whole
7:45 now therefore I Fred Butler mayor the
7:47 city of is gone do hereby proclaim May
7:49 15 through 22nd 2017 to be affordable
7:54 housing week in the city of Issaquah and
7:57 endorsed the goals objectives and
7:59 purposes of affordable housing week and
8:02 in doing so recommit to ensuring that
8:05 our community tries with opportunity and
8:07 of all people and it live with dignity
8:10 and safe healthy of affordable homes and
8:12 with this we're by here to set by hand
8:15 and seal in the city if is a Qantas 50
8:17 they have made 2017 now what I suspect
8:23 most people know but a few may not I'm
8:27 speaking to the choir right now because
8:30 you have invested a lot of your personal
8:35 time your effort trying to get the
8:38 Nestor's message out doing everything
8:41 that you can be do to meet what's in
8:45 this Proclamation
8:46 so Elizabeth thanks like you're ever
8:49 very much and I'm very very pleased to
8:54 see the city doing this saying this and
8:57 I hope lots of you will get to some of
9:00 the events in affordable housing week
9:02 and learn more about ways that we can
9:06 make and keep housing affordable so my
9:11 friends can stay in Issaquah Thank You
9:15 Elizabeth
9:16 there's that and again thank you very
9:19 very much for all you do thank you our
9:35 next item is audience comments few
9:38 comments about are those business and
9:44 comments an important part of the public
9:45 process we take them seriously and
9:48 factor them into the decisions that we
9:50 make anyone from the public who wishes
9:54 to comment on tonight's agenda items or
9:57 other topics should do so at this time I
10:01 will point out that there are joint
10:06 public hearing scheduled after the
10:11 consent calendar and those two agenda
10:16 bills are the ninth major amendment to
10:18 the Highlands two-party development
10:20 agreement and the second the first
10:24 amendment to the Washington State
10:25 Department of Transportation Park Point
10:29 TDR development agreement and
10:30 development agreement with polygon
10:33 Northwest so for those speaking this
10:38 evening please direct your comments to
10:42 the whole council and not individuals
10:44 while this is not a question-and-answer
10:46 session we will contact you to follow up
10:50 if needed if you did not have an
10:52 opportunity to include your email
10:54 address on the sign-in sheet
10:57 you may leave that information
10:59 the clipboard at the front table after
11:02 speaking and recognize please come to
11:06 the lectern speak into the microphone
11:08 state your name address in any
11:11 relationship to the city please limit
11:14 your comments to 5-minutes
11:15 submit any written comments to the city
11:19 clerk visual timer has been placed on
11:22 the lectern when it turns yellow you are
11:23 within the last minute of your comment
11:26 period if you use the full five minutes
11:28 the timer will sound to indicate the end
11:32 of your allotted time please refrain
11:35 from personal attacks obscene language
11:37 derogatory remarks and disruptive
11:40 behavior behavior will not be tolerated
11:42 again citizen comments written and
11:45 verbal an important aspect of the public
11:48 process the city takes comments
11:51 seriously and we thank members of the
11:53 public for taking the time to address us
11:56 during our meetings and with that I
11:59 would ask if anyone has signed up to
12:01 speak yes Joshua Shearer
12:15 good evening mayor members of the
12:18 council members in the gallery and
12:20 members of the viewing public
12:21 my name is Joshua share my office
12:23 address is one three five five five
12:25 southeast 36th Street Suite 300 in
12:28 Bellevue I have three items to discuss
12:31 with you this evening
12:33 to neighborhood related one is a little
12:35 broader I don't have any scripted
12:38 remarks or amazing oratory for you I
12:41 just jotted down some bullet points I
12:43 didn't even put on a suit for you
12:44 tonight
12:45 what I have to tell you is is sincere
12:48 its heartfelt
12:49 it's somewhat informal but I want to
12:52 start with a significant issue for the
12:54 Tallis neighborhood as a resident of
12:56 that neighborhood and I've been there
12:59 now for a little over four years and the
13:02 first thing I want to talk about is the
13:04 road from the Bergsma property up to
13:07 Harvey Manning park at talus and that
13:12 road is just it's a bad idea if you're
13:14 thinking about making it an arterial
13:16 it's it's just not it doesn't make any
13:19 sense and frankly I don't really know
13:21 who's asking for it to be done that way
13:24 potentially I guess it would increase
13:26 the developers value of the birch and
13:28 parcel but it's certainly not going to
13:30 help anybody who lives there in terms of
13:33 ingress and egress to go all the way up
13:35 into our neighborhood what I'm afraid is
13:38 going to happen I think a lot of
13:40 residents in the neighborhood are afraid
13:41 is going to happen is it's going to be
13:43 used as a pass-through to beat traffic
13:45 on nine-hundred and you might say well
13:47 it'll take a really long time we'll put
13:49 in a lot of speed bumps you know you
13:51 could put in a speed bump every five
13:53 feet up that windy road that might get
13:55 built and it's still going to be faster
13:57 than sitting on 900 to go up and then
13:59 back down talus drive to beat that
14:01 congestion 5:45 this evening I don't
14:03 even want to tell you how long it took
14:05 me to get from the freeway down to talus
14:07 Drive it's just absurd if it's f- - on
14:12 the concurrency matrix so adding a road
14:16 up there is just going to encourage cut
14:17 through traffic and it's a bad idea if
14:21 you want to do emergency access with
14:23 bollards and you can get the developer
14:25 to pay for that
14:25 hundred percent go for it that's totally
14:28 fine more emergency access is a great
14:30 idea but not using it as an arterial you
14:34 know there's portions of that road that
14:35 are going to be steeper than talus Drive
14:37 which is I think ten or eleven percent
14:38 and there's portions of that I was told
14:41 back in 2008 by Public Works engineering
14:44 that building that road up behind the
14:46 park would be not feasible from an
14:49 engineering perspective so it's just
14:50 shocking to hear that it's even being
14:52 considered today and if no one's going
14:54 to use it as an arterial because you're
14:56 trying to slow everybody down and not
14:57 get up there then why even build it in
14:59 the first place it just doesn't make
15:00 sense the second issue is in talus on
15:03 shangri-la we've got the giant tarp the
15:05 tarp hill or mountain doom as you might
15:07 have heard me refer to it as and you
15:10 know that's where the slide happened a
15:11 couple years ago the very minor slide
15:13 but it's still a giant tarp and it looks
15:16 horrible it's it's ridiculous that we
15:18 still have this tarp there and you've
15:20 got this booster pump station sitting
15:22 there as well next to the park on
15:24 shangri-la and I don't know why it's
15:26 blinking how many minutes that is two
15:28 three this is new you know if you had a
15:33 booster pump station sitting there with
15:35 a covering on and on Gilman Boulevard
15:37 you'd be doing something about it pretty
15:38 quickly but it's out of sight it's out
15:40 of mind it's up in shangri-la nobody
15:42 sees it it's absurd we're getting into
15:44 the summer kids are going to be playing
15:46 there put the thing in the ground
15:47 already please it's just ridiculous to
15:49 be sitting out there next to the park
15:51 next to this giant white tarp on the
15:53 hill revegetate the hillside or build
15:55 the houses but something needs to be
15:57 done then the final thing is just some
16:00 general comments on vision you know year
16:03 and a half ago I said in December of
16:05 2015 that I encouraged you to be
16:08 innovators and I'm sure that you may
16:11 have felt that a lot of good things have
16:13 been done over the last year and a half
16:14 but I haven't seen a lot of positive
16:17 change around the community in fact in
16:18 some ways I've seen us going backwards I
16:20 see styrofoam starting to show up at
16:23 food establishments I see traffic not
16:26 getting any better and I brought with me
16:27 and I know my time is waning but I can
16:30 show anybody later
16:31 you know 2008 I 90 corridor study 2009
16:35 overcrossing 12th Avenue here we are
16:38 eight
16:39 nine ten years later 2013 report to the
16:43 Transportation Committee on concurrency
16:46 your projects for 2030 action model run
16:49 one included the overcrossing
16:51 we are now like 25% into the timeline
16:54 for getting this done to meet that model
16:56 and no steps have been taken it's absurd
17:00 you know you're not going to wake up one
17:01 day in 2030 and there's going to be this
17:03 beautiful road with direct access ramps
17:05 you're not going to wake up one day in
17:07 2030 and have this beautiful mixed-use
17:09 development on the valley floor you've
17:11 got to start taking action and steps to
17:13 get to the end of the plan you know Will
17:15 Rogers once said you can be on the right
17:17 track but you'll get run over if you
17:19 just stand there it's time to act
17:21 thank you very much that went a lot
17:23 quicker than I thought it would I'm
17:24 going to stick around for the state of
17:25 the judiciary though thank you former
17:28 council member joshua share Susan Haas
17:38 good evening I'm going to set up
17:41 something fancy here okay thank you so
17:54 much um good evening Council and others
17:59 my name is Susan half and I live at 195
18:03 who for southeast 24th place and
18:06 Sammamish and I live that is actually
18:11 quite near Issaquah and also pretty near
18:15 Providence height and I have a great
18:19 honor tonight of showing you a few
18:21 pictures not a lot very short
18:23 presentation and I also I sent these to
18:25 you as an email before this presentation
18:28 was prepared by Steve Christensen and
18:33 yes and basically I wanted to show you
18:40 these pictures because one thing that
18:42 Catholics are really good at is finding
18:45 wonderful places and creating seclusion
18:48 they're a place that's so special and
18:51 you have to stumble upon
18:53 sometimes and that's what the Catholics
18:55 did in 1961 especially for women to have
19:00 a college and this shows you the
19:04 centerpiece of the college on the top
19:07 picture it's a chapel and then you can
19:10 see the pointy windows at the top those
19:13 are stained-glass windows that were
19:15 crafted by Gabriel you are why making
19:20 something like a mosaic like taking
19:22 really thick pieces of glass and
19:25 arranging them and then pouring molten
19:27 cement around them so you can see how
19:31 it's sort of like a mosaic and then it
19:32 all dried over a day or so or longer and
19:36 then the bottom is one of these pictures
19:38 taken by Michael salaita core athletic
19:41 and he's taken a lot of pictures in the
19:44 windows and you can just see these rich
19:47 colors coming through in even reflecting
19:50 off of the surface of the wall there
19:53 these images of Christian stories from
19:58 the Bible and these deep colors you use
20:01 like the blues and the Reds and the
20:03 yellows and some white too the light
20:07 comes through and everybody who's ever
20:09 been in this chapel just yeah they just
20:14 love these windows people all over the
20:17 world love windows like this that he
20:19 made he was very prolific and his family
20:22 is still making these windows in print
20:26 and this picture shows you this kind of
20:31 like a peekaboo view of this wonderful
20:34 bucolic place you can see how high it is
20:37 and the views seeing all these Mountains
20:40 with the snowcaps and this is a campus
20:44 it's all from 1961 big-rig bright
20:48 windows lots of greenery the greenery is
20:52 what first attracted me because I went
20:54 to the Y there and went swimming and
20:56 went to this like event with kids making
20:59 s'mores at a fire pit and they were
21:03 really having fun so
21:06 so in the center here is the chapel so
21:20 it's like the most sacred space in the
21:25 place is nestled in the middle of all
21:28 these living spaces and um you know
21:32 cafeteria and swimming pool and you know
21:36 for a lot of nuns and 61 it's
21:39 fascinating that there are all these
21:40 sports facilities to ballfields them
21:44 I mean nuns must have had a great time
21:49 there just losing that inhibition
21:51 sometimes of having the habit on and
21:56 then finally here's a picture of a very
22:00 early picture of the sisters and
22:03 especially you can see a lot of them on
22:06 the right and a couple of them on the
22:07 left wearing their crucifixes and being
22:11 outside and just enjoying that wonderful
22:15 place in Issaquah you can see the
22:18 windows in the background and how tall
22:20 they are they're massive and in front of
22:22 the two nuns on the left and those nuns
22:26 are really smiling for a great reason I
22:30 have a very special place so thank you
22:35 very much I'm going to give the paper to
22:39 tisha which do you print it out of of
22:43 these pictures and I'll flip to them
22:47 once more since I'm not on the read yet
22:52 you can see just the scale and just the
22:57 majesty of the architecture oops
23:01 thank you Susan thank you thank you
23:06 all right David Wagner good evening
23:28 Council my name is David Wagner and I'm
23:29 a 360 Northwest dogwood Street
23:33 department k2o for Issaquah Washington
23:36 first thing I want to do since this is
23:38 the last council meeting before Memorial
23:41 Day is in to invite not only the council
23:44 and the audience but the residents of
23:48 Issaquah through the TV to come to our
23:51 service which will be at 10:00 in the
23:54 morning on Memorial Day hopefully this
23:59 rain will finish and we will have some
24:01 wonderful weather for that service if
24:06 it's nice weather it will be in the
24:09 cemetery lower hillside Cemetery at 5:15
24:15 west sunset way if it's inclement
24:18 weather will be in the Senior Center and
24:22 that's a big deal for me this year
24:24 because I haven't been on sabbatical
24:26 from the Senior Center for a couple of
24:29 years one other thing I told the mayor
24:34 that I am here for a purpose and that
24:37 purpose is a brand new law that was
24:40 signed into law on April 20th by
24:43 governor Inslee so you'll see a flag
24:46 called the PIO WMI a flag for all appeal
24:50 W&M is in 1971 the National League of
24:54 families recognize the need for a symbol
24:56 of our powa my ace following league
25:00 approval the flags were manufactured and
25:02 distributed March 9 1989 an official
25:06 league flag which flew over the White
25:09 House in 1988 national powa recognition
25:13 day was installed in the US Capitol
25:16 rotunda
25:17 and as a result of legislation passed
25:20 overwhelmingly during the 100th Congress
25:23 in the United States national powr eken
25:27 days observed on the third Friday of
25:29 September it honors those who were
25:32 prisoners of war and those who are still
25:34 missing in action this day was
25:36 established by an act of Congress by the
25:39 passage of section 10 82 of the 1998
25:43 Defense Authorization Act you're going
25:46 to wonder how this applies to the city
25:49 our city has a total of seven mi A's
25:53 listed on a monument right across the
25:55 street monument on Veterans Memorial
26:01 Field
26:03 however this monument does not list them
26:05 as mi is it simply list them serving
26:08 their country
26:09 most of those served service members
26:12 were lost at sea in World War two or
26:15 some of them were lost in air crashes in
26:17 World War Two and Vietnam on April 20th
26:21 of this year governor jay Inslee signed
26:24 House bill Senate bill 1204 into law
26:27 here's the wording of that law each
26:31 public entity must display the National
26:36 the National League of families Pio wmia
26:39 flag along with the flag of the United
26:42 States and the flag of the state upon or
26:46 near the principal building of the
26:48 public entity there are 10 days I'm not
26:51 going to read them all that that flag is
26:53 to fly our VFW Post here by volunteers
26:58 to partner with the city of Issaquah and
27:02 present these flags as a gift of service
27:05 and sacrifice to this nation in this
27:08 community I am requesting today the
27:13 council and the mayor of the city of
27:15 Issaquah consider this request of
27:18 partnering with us and we will provide
27:20 the flags at no cost to the city
27:28 this request to fly the official
27:31 prisoner-of-war flag on those 10 days as
27:33 noted by state law to honor those still
27:36 missing in action
27:37 and I look forward to your response to
27:40 this request I am as always available to
27:43 work with the city to make this happen
27:46 thank you for your time and I finished
27:49 before the red light went off hey thank
27:53 you very very much and thank you very
27:54 much for that offer Greg Morris
28:11 is Greg Morris here okay then we have
28:20 Paula Harper Christensen
28:35 good evening my name is Paula Harper
28:38 Christensen two three four one six
28:41 southeast 17th place Sammamish walking
28:46 distance to Providence Haight Chapel and
28:49 I have walked there many times over the
28:53 last thirty years that we've lived in
28:56 our home we moved here to be in the
29:01 country and we've watched it just as you
29:05 have grow up around us and in many ways
29:09 watching the growth of our beautiful
29:11 area it has been a joy to observe the
29:16 progress and the people forming a more
29:20 diverse community filled with cultures
29:24 languages traditions and many faiths my
29:30 family was fortunate to worship for 12
29:33 years in the lovely Providence Haight
29:36 Chapel we my church's spirit of peace
29:41 United Church of Christ and we rented
29:44 space from the Lutheran Bible Institute
29:46 and from Trinity Lutheran College until
29:50 it was purchased by City Church and then
29:54 we had to go someplace else
29:55 in fact my daughter was married in that
29:58 beautiful Chapel and because of my many
30:02 years on that cab campus and my
30:05 children's involvement in the YMCA
30:07 program for countless years I know that
30:11 property and those buildings really well
30:14 in fact there's a bomb shelter because
30:20 it was built in the 60s in the basement
30:23 of that church so by profession I am a
30:29 child development specialist and I'm a
30:32 teacher and knowing that there are some
30:36 nice usable classrooms that are empty
30:43 bordered off and empty is very
30:47 unsettling for this old teacher Issaquah
30:51 and Sammamish we have a very rich
30:55 history in 1860 the area was called
31:00 Valley then later incorporated as
31:04 Gilman in 1892 and in 1900 the area was
31:10 called started to be called Issaquah
31:12 because of the native word is qual I
31:17 hope I said that close said is qua which
31:23 means sound of water bird Issaquah
31:28 continued to preserve the history as
31:30 exemplified by the buildings you just
31:33 have to drive down Front Street or
31:35 stroll through Gilman village and visit
31:38 the old jail the xxx drive through the
31:42 railroad road buildings and many others
31:45 we have been named the top place to live
31:49 in America in multiple publications you
31:53 know them as well as I do Forbes
31:55 magazine Money Magazine does Seattle
32:00 metropolitan magazine and there have
32:03 been a number of them so we you know we
32:05 feel a lot of pride in our community our
32:08 community in these magazines has been
32:11 described as peaceful serene rich in
32:16 history full of wildlife which we had a
32:19 bear on our back patio last week low in
32:22 crime and a a forested retreat that's
32:29 how Issaquah and the Sammamish plateau
32:31 have been described forested retreat if
32:35 we wish to continue to be serene with a
32:40 rich history we need to maintain
32:43 Providence Heights as a historic site
32:48 and to find ways that we can share this
32:53 rare gem it is possible to get
32:57 and come up with ways to use the
33:00 property and the buildings for let's say
33:02 concerts in the acoustically sound
33:06 chapel with an old pipe organ in it
33:10 which last time I was in there it still
33:13 worked
33:13 conference retreat center school shelter
33:17 for women in crisis museum jazz
33:21 festivals
33:22 it's a cloth Film Festival imagine that
33:25 hey even Ellensburg has its own Film
33:28 Festival Park year long shakespeare
33:33 theatre and all the while we could be
33:35 generating revenue for the city of
33:37 Issaquah the possibilities are endless
33:41 can I finish and summarize ok I'll
33:45 summarize we owe it to the residents to
33:48 teach them the history the new residents
33:51 the background of the area the buildings
33:55 and the windows belong together
33:57 the sisters of Providence built it on
34:00 that site to have a serene place for
34:04 education and for worship Thank You
34:08 Paula Peter Kim I know now would be the
34:20 time
34:31 these followers she's right there by
34:34 size like so
34:35 very much please introduce yourselves
34:37 yes sir
34:39 their Butler City Council my name is
34:41 Peter Kim I'm a resident of the
34:44 Highlands at sixteen twenty eight twenty
34:45 fourth Avenue Northeast I'm also a
34:47 parent of two children play with the
34:49 soccer club and a parent who's
34:51 involved with the kids activities I'm
34:53 here to speak with regard to the
34:55 psychopath Park pad and and the
34:58 committee that spoke tar acted on it or
35:01 I believe it's going to give
35:02 recommendations today as a council as a
35:04 parent I implore the council to consider
35:08 approving the central plateau park
35:10 improvements pad improvements you know
35:13 watching and having my kids play and not
35:16 having the space to play is a real
35:19 problem and you know the younger kids
35:22 and with field availability it's getting
35:24 later and later in the evening because
35:25 of field availability and with more
35:27 youth organization sports organizations
35:30 having need for fields we're just at a
35:33 crisis point in terms of being able to
35:35 allow our kids and our youth to safely
35:38 play I also happen to be a resident of
35:41 the Highlands just east of Central
35:43 Park
35:44 and so I'm vested in the development
35:47 from that angle as well and I know our
35:49 community is keen on trying to minimize
35:53 the disruption to our community
35:54 including the light pollution so I
35:56 implore the city to consider the LED LED
35:59 lighting improvement as well as the
36:01 traffic safety and widening of the road
36:04 and park and and then you know as a
36:07 regards other issues I know again I
36:10 really hope that the council approves
36:12 the park but I know there's going to be
36:14 more traffic as well and so considering
36:17 a light or some sort of street
36:19 improvement at the park entrance I think
36:21 it's going to be a must to eventually
36:23 finally before I see thanks my colleague
36:26 you know I'm also very interested in and
36:28 what the city has in plan for the
36:31 development of lakes to us the Lake
36:33 Sammamish State Park and use it
36:35 utilizing and improving that space as
36:37 well to this need four fields is not
36:40 diminish with all the kids and families
36:42 we have in in our community and so I
36:44 hope the city takes some visionary
36:46 action to move forward with the Central
36:47 Park pad development and something for
36:50 LSP eventually
36:52 thank you Peter my name is Gina toilet
36:55 key and I am here as a resident of
36:57 Issaquah in the South Cove area one
37:00 eight eight to six South East 42nd
37:02 Street and not only here as a resident
37:04 but also as a taxpayer a parent and I'm
37:07 here representing the Issaquah soccer
37:09 club Gunnar's and as well as that I am
37:15 here advocating and representing the
37:17 youth of Issaquah and this is more than
37:21 just about a sports field or lighted
37:23 turf field and I want to take a step
37:25 back for just a second and talk about
37:26 the big picture I think the council has
37:28 done a fine job we're talking about you
37:31 know the Senior Center we're talking
37:33 about preserving open spaces we're
37:34 talking about proust we're talking about
37:35 some very significant things but if you
37:38 take a step back and think about the use
37:40 of Issaquah if sports and places to play
37:43 provide one one child to keep them from
37:48 going awry this is a win and we can tell
37:51 you as we're representing over 2,500
37:54 families with Issaquah soccer club alone
37:56 not to mention football and baseball we
37:59 can tell you that we are we are helping
38:00 or one cog in the great wheel of a
38:04 child's development if and again if we
38:06 can prevent one or two or ten or five or
38:08 hundreds it's it's just so much more
38:12 important than just talking about a
38:13 lighted turf field and we do need those
38:15 improvements like the road and and LED
38:18 lighting for the residents of Issaquah
38:19 but I just wanted to take a step back
38:21 thank you for trying to do your best
38:23 with regard to seniors the veterans you
38:26 know the transportation the streets but
38:28 again it all comes back to in order for
38:30 us to have a really great community we
38:33 have got to pay attention to these youth
38:35 and we're doing a lot of programs that
38:37 can lot of programs that that do help
38:39 with that but these lighted sports
38:41 fields are again a very important cog in
38:43 the wheel in terms of health and
38:44 wellness productivity teamwork all those
38:47 things that lead to very strong
38:49 productive adults
38:50 we're on third base Council let's bring
38:52 it home tonight
38:54 thank you Peter and Jenna thank you very
38:56 very much thank you Elizabeth my pen
39:08 hello counsel I'm Elizabeth mop a
39:14 resident of Issaquah coordinate the
39:20 Issaquah Sammamish interfaith coalition
39:22 serve on the Human Services Commission
39:25 I'm here tonight to speak to something
39:31 that relates to affordable housing week
39:34 and also to Providence Heights the
39:38 Greeks who invented democracy believed
39:41 that the one purpose of government is to
39:43 improve the lives of the citizens not
39:47 just some citizens but all citizens
39:50 serving the common good means making
39:52 sure that no one's personal
39:54 self-interest is put ahead of the good
39:57 of society at large
39:59 sometimes we undermine our ability to
40:02 serve the common good through laws
40:05 placing the desires of individual
40:07 property owners above the needs of the
40:09 community as a whole
40:11 the Providence Heights determination of
40:14 non significance being a case in point
40:19 the church is instituted by Jesus serves
40:23 purposes of teaching and fellowship for
40:26 its members but it's not a social club
40:30 Archbishop William temple said the
40:33 church is the only institution that
40:35 exists primarily for the benefit of
40:37 those who are not its members when the
40:41 church is truly the body of Christ
40:44 it offers healing and sound teaching to
40:46 all with special care for those who
40:49 suffer want or are pushed to the margins
40:52 of society regardless of their religious
40:56 affiliation or lack of it we saw this
41:01 embodied in the ministry of the sisters
41:04 of Providence who built what is now
41:06 known as the Providence Heights campus
41:10 when I came to si claw in 1982 Issaquah
41:14 was a small town in which the largest
41:16 employers were the school district and
41:19 dairy gold
41:21 and retail outlets were so limited that
41:24 if you wanted if what you needed was not
41:26 available at Ben Franklin or true value
41:30 you pretty much had to go to Bellevue to
41:32 shop there was concern that the town was
41:35 becoming a bedroom community from which
41:38 people largely commuted elsewhere to
41:40 work so our city government focused on
41:44 economic vitality now there are lots of
41:48 shopping opportunities here and quite a
41:51 few large employers but fewer and fewer
41:54 of those who work here can afford to
41:58 live here I am pleased to see the
42:02 council looking at how they might
42:03 control housing affordability to serve
42:07 the common good of our citizens instead
42:10 of favoring the interests of developers
42:13 real estate brokers and companies that
42:16 manage properties I'm delighted that you
42:19 are also looking at sites like Gibson
42:22 Hall which have value to the community
42:25 that is greater than mere real estate
42:28 both for what it has been and for its
42:31 ability to enrich the community at large
42:33 now and for the future what saddens me
42:39 is that an even more awesome part of the
42:42 history of our community and state is in
42:46 danger of destruction because the value
42:49 of Providence Heights former campus of
42:52 the sisters of Providence of Lutheran
42:54 Bible Institute and of Trinity College
42:56 has not been recognized by the city it
43:00 grieves me that the current owner city
43:03 church has missed many opportunities to
43:06 use Providence Heights campus to its
43:09 full potential to nourish the hungry to
43:13 house widows orphans and those facing
43:15 economic challenges and to promote a
43:18 social order which welcomes and embraces
43:21 all equally now it is asked permission
43:25 to utterly destroy a sound campus
43:28 including over 200 units of housing so
43:33 as to allow brixon Hall
43:34 homes LLC to put up a hundred and forty
43:37 houses that won't be very affordable
43:41 they would tear down sound buildings
43:45 when there are thousands of people in
43:47 our county unable to find shelter fit
43:50 for human habitation there is still time
43:55 for them to recall their purpose as the
43:58 body of Christ to repent and to withdraw
44:02 that request for a demolition permit
44:05 I for one pray that they will do just
44:08 that I also pray that the city of
44:12 Issaquah will move to save not just our
44:15 significant cultural historical sites
44:18 from needless destruction but also
44:20 extend a measure of protection to other
44:23 structures that currently offer
44:24 inexpensive housing by requiring that
44:28 when any now affordable housing is
44:31 demolished the redevelopment must
44:34 include a matching number of equally
44:37 affordable unit Elizabeth if you would
44:40 summarize please otherwise we will
44:43 continue to move backward rather than
44:45 forward in our efforts to have Issaquah
44:48 be a place where people can live play
44:52 and work work play and live thank you
44:58 thank you Elizabeth
45:00 no one further has signed up to speak is
45:03 there it if Kapler
45:14 good evening David Kapler 255 southeast
45:17 Andrew Street I got up in Brooklyn at
45:20 2:30 this morning Seattle or Seattle or
45:23 is a quad time so I'll make less sense
45:24 than usual even homelessness in New York
45:28 was pretty amazing how little I saw we
45:31 walked six seven miles every day and I
45:34 in a few blocks in downtown Seattle I
45:37 would have seen more homeless people
45:38 than I saw any day in my time in New
45:41 York we were all over many of the
45:43 borough's the agenda on the the field I
45:49 don't have you know I can understand why
45:53 we're going for more artificial turf
45:56 fields in the highlands and we've got an
45:58 opportunity there to do that we're
46:00 putting a lot of extra money into that
46:02 and I'm hoping the council as
46:05 considering what we need to do in the
46:08 future
46:08 for the rest of Issaquah South Cove area
46:11 has no fields at all that our city
46:15 there's the state park
46:17 Kalas has no fields and squawk Mountain
46:21 and the downtown here area old town has
46:26 waterlogged fields that are been mostly
46:30 unusable this spring because of the
46:32 weather I'm hoping real consideration is
46:36 being given to how we can get some
46:39 lighted artificial turf fields at
46:42 Tibbets valley which i think is a
46:45 possibility now given the improvements
46:48 in the Tibbets Creek Basin that have
46:52 reduced flooding and siltation into the
46:54 creek and hopefully not going to see and
46:57 say Tibbets Creek flowing across the
46:59 fields in Tibbets so hope you're
47:04 considering that future and coming up
47:06 with some good fields for the majority
47:09 of the residents of Issaquah thank you
47:12 thank you David anyone else in the
47:15 audience desiring to speak this evening
47:18 anyone else third and final call Steve
47:40 Ste Pereira 170 northeast dogwood Street
47:43 I'm going to see if I learned from
47:44 Chrissy last time Jesus correctly my
47:49 preamble though is that I was thinking
47:51 of what would be appropriate literary
47:53 reference to go with tonight's topic
47:55 which is Providence Heights preservation
47:58 and I was thinking that Shakespeare's
48:00 Henry the deaths and Christmas Day
48:01 speech it seems to be kind of a lost
48:03 cause and some folks have spoken that
48:07 about it
48:08 initially it was proposed for a historic
48:11 preservation and a meeting was held and
48:13 the threatened lawsuit caused that
48:16 request to be put on hold through 100 to
48:20 105 letters that were submitted by
48:22 various residents to the city staff
48:26 requesting and indicating that it had
48:28 historic artistic and cultural
48:30 preservation attributes and should be
48:33 maintained so I well maybe there are not
48:36 a lot of people here today speaking on
48:37 it what we're hoping to do today is both
48:40 inform the council the mayor and the
48:43 city through this televised presentation
48:46 that there is need to preserve this site
48:47 to buy time to kind of engage the
48:50 community as a whole in saying there's
48:52 something significant here we're saving
48:55 I think about the 20 missions that were
48:58 started in California by fathers Sara
49:01 Junipero and that today are recognized
49:04 as a historical landmark throughout and
49:08 city students are bused to see those
49:12 landmarks what the city is proposed with
49:15 an mdns is to remove the stained glass
49:18 windows and destroy the structures when
49:19 what historically happened can't be
49:22 maintained just by the windows it's the
49:24 fact that something significant happened
49:26 here that has historical precedents for
49:28 not just as a father for the state as a
49:31 whole and should be maintained
49:48 so the first part of this presentation
49:50 is just what was reserved from the
49:53 previous initial resolution of a b7 I'm
49:56 sorry
49:57 seven three four seven that talked about
50:00 and had an appendix in Appendix B that
50:02 does recognize enlist Providence Heights
50:06 campus as likely having historical
50:08 precedence or historical reasons why it
50:10 should be maintained and saved that was
50:14 submitted before the initial
50:16 determination of mdns but it seems like
50:21 it's evidence of the fact that is now
50:23 current that the city recognizes it does
50:25 have significance the later part of the
50:30 documentation here talks about that's
50:36 what I would like to see some changes
50:37 made in city code that allows when there
50:40 is a structure that has potential for
50:43 significance to be maintained by the
50:45 city that that shouldn't be determined
50:48 by the city staff that should be
50:49 determined by either City Council or
50:54 some resident body and that's in very
50:58 much in line with the CEPA guidelines as
51:00 aside as is highlighted in yellow the
51:07 next highlighted yellow section talks
51:08 about that there could and should be a
51:14 way that allows the city to administrate
51:17 it would remove the mdns pending
51:19 recognition of it having the potential
51:23 for historical references in guidelines
51:25 with SEPA standing
51:28 [Music]
51:43 so again the 100 to 105 letters written
51:49 supported the recognition of the site so
51:53 based on that I'm asking that the one in
51:58 the proposal that submitted that the
52:01 guidelines be included a reference to
52:04 the site that talks about this is akua's
52:07 historical structures I like to revision
52:10 of city existing city codes so that any
52:12 structure that may have historical
52:15 precedence has reviewed by a body of
52:21 residents if not the City Council itself
52:23 and again keeping with SEPA that the
52:27 current mdns that was approved be
52:31 removed or put on hold rather than just
52:34 being handled administrative lee thank
52:37 you oh I guess I would add the many
52:40 people have talked about I think there's
52:43 great purpose here for the city to
52:46 either alternative housing or to look at
52:49 repurposing the buildings for student
52:51 use and I think that sends a lesson to
52:53 the students on what we value and what
52:55 we would like them to value as future
52:56 residents thank you see thank you
52:59 anyone else desiring to speak oh it's
53:01 not signed up yes sir hi I'll be brief
53:15 my name is Johnny Locke I'm the
53:17 president of its choir youth football
53:18 I've been with a club for seven years
53:20 now we represent about 400 kids in the
53:23 its clock community every fall they're
53:25 playing cheerleaders and football
53:26 players or anything else echo the
53:29 comments from soccer it's a it we need
53:33 the fields about actually I was looking
53:34 at my email folder today and I went back
53:36 and I saw that I first started working
53:38 on this project for the city four years
53:41 ago next week because I've been on all
53:43 the citizen vited committees and the
53:45 bond committee and there's been an
53:47 incredible amount of work that the team
53:49 from the city has done on this and all
53:50 the citizen action committees and all
53:52 the forums we've had and all the input
53:54 and I know the discussion tonight is
53:55 about coming up with more
53:56 money for additional pieces that we
53:59 really want to get on that will really
54:00 make this facility top-notch I mean if
54:03 there's really critical pieces like the
54:05 LED lights the street whitening the
54:07 mounted seating all those things are
54:08 just going to make this instead of
54:10 having a good field a great field a
54:12 place that we can be really really proud
54:14 of when we go up there and say for the
54:16 kids which is a big thing especially
54:17 with Street widening and some of the
54:19 parking things you want to do so just
54:21 want to say I support it and I know our
54:23 Cole community does and if we had a
54:25 bigger room we could probably fill it
54:26 with a lot of little kids who would jump
54:28 up and down and thank you thank you for
54:30 all your work
54:30 I'm thank you very much anyone else is
54:33 evening desiring to speak anyone else
54:36 earned in final call with that audience
54:41 comments are closed and will now move to
54:44 committee and regional report beginning
54:47 with varieties Thank You mr. mayor
54:50 the Keene Conservation District Board is
54:54 meeting Wednesday May 17th at 4 p.m. in
54:58 Renton on the agenda is the new program
55:02 of work and an introduction to the
55:04 annual report the Eastside Human
55:07 Services forum has been taking time to
55:11 meet with different congressional
55:12 leaders they most recently has met with
55:18 representative Dave Dave Reichert in his
55:21 Issaquah office and I was unable to
55:23 attend and Mary Lou Polly very nicely
55:26 stepped in so she might have a report on
55:29 that but on the agenda in all of those
55:32 meetings is healthcare that is
55:35 affordable and accessible to all
55:37 maintaining current funding levels on
55:39 community service block grants and some
55:42 other items that are part of the
55:43 Eastside Human Services forum
55:47 legislative agenda and I it was talked
55:51 about during public comments which is
55:56 wonderful that I'm going to say it one
55:58 more time Martha from humans and human
56:02 services asked me to to reach out and
56:04 talk about this one more time and the
56:06 Eastside Human Services forum is hosting
56:09 a conversation about the girl
56:10 heroin and prescription opiate addiction
56:14 problem is called moving from awareness
56:17 to action it's Wednesday June 14th from
56:19 2 to 4 p.m. at the old Redman
56:22 schoolhouse community center and that
56:25 concludes my report I do
56:27 council member Ramos Thank You mr. mayor
56:31 on may 5th also known to some of us as
56:36 Cinco de Mayo I attended the special
56:39 Eastside transportation forum with a few
56:41 other folks from the city as well that
56:43 was hosted by King County councilmember
56:45 claudia Balducci and i mentioned this
56:47 before in our last meeting that there's
56:50 concerns of all the construction
56:52 projects and everything that's coming up
56:54 in the next five years and the
56:55 consternation that will cause so that
56:58 was a good laying out of all the
57:00 information to everybody
57:02 there's handouts that autumn was good
57:04 enough to forward on to everybody on the
57:06 council so I suggest you take a look at
57:07 those get it get that get your head
57:10 wrapped around it there'll be a lot more
57:11 to come and again on the RTC I'll be
57:13 continuing to work with folks on that to
57:15 try to adjust that a little bit if we
57:17 can on the 10th I attended the emergency
57:22 management advisory council and at that
57:24 meeting we passed the final budget for
57:26 the federal grants that work on various
57:29 preparedness projects just information
57:33 that's a budget that has been going down
57:34 since earlier 15 years ago it's been
57:37 steadily decreasing this year it stayed
57:40 the same so we had to continue to cut
57:42 back some of the things a little bit but
57:44 at least the state level and didn't
57:45 decrease this year so we got some things
57:48 on there coming up on the 17th this week
57:51 is the regional transit committee which
57:53 I'll be attending and King County
57:55 council chambers at 3 o'clock and
57:57 there's 3 issues on that agenda which
57:59 we'll continue working on is fares
58:02 adjustments parking issues and also the
58:05 new community connector connections or
58:07 alternative services which is used to be
58:09 called and then on the 18th this week is
58:13 the Infrastructure Committee meeting and
58:15 there's four items on the agenda there
58:17 none of them are action items are all
58:19 informational on discussion so those
58:22 items
58:22 our Newport Way 900 254th will be
58:26 discussing that and sharing information
58:27 along with the 2017 Complete Streets
58:29 program and then we'll start further
58:32 discussion on the Complete Streets
58:34 policy as a whole which we've been
58:35 looking at a little bit also as a
58:37 committee as a whole Duensing the some
58:39 work there and then a b72 49 is a
58:42 continued discussion on the creation of
58:44 the transportation mobility board so
58:47 we'll continue to work on that issue
58:49 it'll be a while before we get it back
58:51 to you but we'll continue to work on
58:52 that and that concludes my report
58:55 I do councilmember winter sign thank you
58:58 mr. mayor I'm a fourth the Peterson
59:01 Regional Council's growth management
59:03 policy board met and the we're
59:06 continuing the focus this month and the
59:10 next coming six or seven months is going
59:11 to be on the regional centers frameworks
59:13 update the bulk of the conversation on
59:17 the fourth was all about the military
59:21 installations in the area they such as
59:24 Joint Base lewis-mcchord the Everett and
59:28 Bremerton naval shipyards we do not they
59:32 do not plan under growth management yet
59:34 they represent quite a significant
59:37 population and employment forces within
59:40 the region and so I would say that there
59:45 seems to be quite a lot of interest and
59:48 and perhaps majority is support of
59:51 expanding the regional centers framework
59:54 program to allow for these military
1:00:00 installations in their nearby
1:00:01 communities to actually be to apply for
1:00:06 be competitive for funds for
1:00:08 transportation improvements in their
1:00:10 proximity this would be a significant
1:00:12 change to the regional centers framework
1:00:14 because they do not plan for growth they
1:00:16 do not plan for employment that they
1:00:19 represent significant employment and so
1:00:22 I think this was probably just the first
1:00:24 of multiple conversations there was no
1:00:27 action and we are many months away from
1:00:31 any formal action but I can tell you
1:00:33 that my concern was
1:00:36 that the pie sounded like it's just
1:00:38 getting spread even further and if we
1:00:42 were to bring them into the fold in this
1:00:45 planning organization there would be no
1:00:47 additional federal funds available for
1:00:50 for transportation as a result so it's a
1:00:54 serious issue that the region has to
1:00:56 plan for and I think we're going to be
1:00:59 looking very seriously at making such an
1:01:01 adjustment but I think this will really
1:01:02 have an impact is applause so I'll
1:01:04 continue to keep you updated as we move
1:01:07 forward that concludes my report
1:01:09 Thank You councilmember marks Thank You
1:01:12 mr. mayor the Issaquah City Council
1:01:14 services and Safety Committee met on
1:01:16 Tuesday May 9th we took a look at to
1:01:20 Bill's agenda bill 70 413 Eastside Fire
1:01:22 and Rescue interlocal agreement and
1:01:24 attended Bill's 70 72 Central Park pad
1:01:27 number one construction both of those
1:01:29 were recommended for passage and are on
1:01:31 tonight's regular business Sound city's
1:01:34 association public issues committee met
1:01:35 the next night at 7 p.m. in Renton city
1:01:37 hall amongst the things that we
1:01:40 discussed three stand prominent the
1:01:43 first is the veteran and human services
1:01:45 levy there is a proposed levy for this
1:01:49 fall the final shape of that document
1:01:51 has not been writ
1:01:54 there's a question on one of the areas
1:01:58 of interest is around whether that
1:02:00 should be expanded to include senior
1:02:02 housing in specific beyond the the two
1:02:05 areas that are already covered so I
1:02:07 would encourage my fellow council
1:02:08 members when they pick minutes come out
1:02:10 to take a look at that we don't have an
1:02:12 action yet planned for FCA
1:02:16 in regards to a new veteran in human
1:02:19 services levy just other than ongoing
1:02:22 discussion with the county about the
1:02:25 best way for them to move that forward
1:02:27 the second is a cultural access sales
1:02:30 tax which is going to be moving forward
1:02:32 for I believe in August vote it is 67
1:02:36 million dollars per year for comparison
1:02:38 I believe the entire National Endowment
1:02:41 of the Arts is something like 170
1:02:43 million dollars per year just to give
1:02:45 you a comparison as to the magnitude of
1:02:48 it is primarily Seattle focused however
1:02:52 there are four or five
1:02:54 non Seattle major arts organizations
1:02:57 slated for that and one of them is
1:02:59 village theater so if Nicola has a
1:03:02 particular interest again when the
1:03:04 minutes come out on the pick please take
1:03:07 a look there is some some complicated
1:03:10 language in there but there's an element
1:03:12 that has to do with public public school
1:03:15 arts education so it isn't just major
1:03:18 institutions that would receive money
1:03:20 out of that sales tech sales tax if it
1:03:23 is approved by the voters
1:03:25 finally regional centers were discussed
1:03:27 I appreciate councilmember winter
1:03:29 Stein's comments I echo them I have
1:03:34 concerns that this is the wrong solution
1:03:36 at the wrong time in search of a problem
1:03:38 that doesn't exist in terms of by
1:03:40 changing the the nature of the funding
1:03:44 mechanisms that all of our cities rely
1:03:47 on and planned for but sounds like
1:03:50 Paul's doing a good job and I know Hank
1:03:52 Markuson from pick is also representing
1:03:55 essays concerns on GMP be going forward
1:03:58 so I feel so what Phil feel well
1:04:02 represented King County growth
1:04:04 management planning Council will meet on
1:04:06 Wednesday May 31st and the it's been a
1:04:10 long time but the e-911 strategic plan
1:04:13 scoping leadership group will meet on
1:04:14 Thursday June 20th this concludes my
1:04:17 report
1:04:17 Thank You councilmember Barbour Thank
1:04:20 You mayor
1:04:21 I attended the weimar eight management
1:04:24 committee meeting on May 2nd we reviewed
1:04:27 and recommended the 2018 work plan and
1:04:30 budget for salmon recovery council
1:04:32 consideration at the full meeting of May
1:04:35 18th we also reviewed a draft letter
1:04:38 sharing their recently approved Huayra
1:04:40 eight habitat goals for the Cedar River
1:04:43 supporting inclusion of the habitat
1:04:45 opportunity areas in the Cedar River
1:04:47 corridor planned capital investment
1:04:50 strategy and emphasize what Rio eight
1:04:52 has interests in partnering with the
1:04:55 district and implementation of multi
1:04:58 benefit projects for our our
1:05:01 constituents
1:05:03 and the next meeting will be May 18th
1:05:07 that concludes my report
1:05:09 I do council member pauly Thank You mr.
1:05:12 mayor on May 10th I attended with the
1:05:15 representatives from the Eastside Human
1:05:17 Services forum the meeting with our
1:05:20 representative Reichert to discuss
1:05:22 several items on the legislative agenda
1:05:25 we discussed his recent vote on the
1:05:28 healthcare and emphasized and stressed
1:05:31 the importance of making sure that
1:05:32 health care will be affordable and
1:05:34 access for all in Washington State we
1:05:38 talked about the community services
1:05:39 Block Grant Program and the food
1:05:42 assistance program and Community
1:05:44 Development Block Grants as well most of
1:05:47 the asks were to maintain funding at
1:05:50 current levels not to reduce it and some
1:05:52 were to not convert from allocations to
1:05:55 block to block grants because that that
1:05:58 cap sings in a way that actually could
1:06:00 harm Washington State where we are one
1:06:02 of the ones who very efficiently use our
1:06:05 community Block Grant we'd actually be
1:06:07 capped at a level that would be hard for
1:06:09 us to support we asked a representative
1:06:13 how we could best support him in his
1:06:15 initiatives well it was a great
1:06:16 discussion we I think we're at the
1:06:18 offices for over an hour with he and his
1:06:20 assistants so it was a great opportunity
1:06:23 on May 11 the Cascade Water alliances
1:06:26 resource committee met they had a
1:06:28 discussion of a number of items related
1:06:30 to the operation of the Lake Tapps
1:06:32 Reservoir which is an asset that the
1:06:35 agency purchased there were two issues
1:06:38 on it being discussed that had to do
1:06:41 with King County one was the county's
1:06:44 intent to use to have a water reuse
1:06:47 program from the wastewater treatment
1:06:49 plant and bright water and the second
1:06:52 item for discussion was a proposed
1:06:55 franchise ordinance that the county
1:06:57 wants to put in place there are some
1:07:00 some effects to Issaquah on both of
1:07:03 those and so I'll be asking the
1:07:04 administration for some input on how to
1:07:06 work on those may 11th we also had the
1:07:09 Eastside Fire and Rescue Board meeting
1:07:11 some of the items we discussed there's
1:07:14 an update to the automatic
1:07:15 eight agreement there is a draft that
1:07:17 was sent to the board and to our city
1:07:20 representative as well Jane Olsen and
1:07:22 this will need to be signed by all the
1:07:25 fire agencies all the King County Fire
1:07:28 agencies the second thing we discussed
1:07:30 was a new protocol that you cite Fire
1:07:33 and Rescue put in place for a rare
1:07:35 condition called adrenal insufficiency
1:07:37 and this was a really interesting to
1:07:40 hear about because it was showing how
1:07:42 proactive and innovative our Fire
1:07:44 Department is in addressing these kinds
1:07:47 of situations where we may have a very
1:07:49 few individuals within the service area
1:07:52 that have very very specialized needs
1:07:54 and in this case they actually write a
1:07:55 protocol for that person and the
1:07:58 condition that they have so it was it
1:08:00 was really inspiring to hear how they're
1:08:02 approaching that sort of treatment we
1:08:04 got an update that our financial audits
1:08:06 should be completed in and around
1:08:08 September of this year and that will be
1:08:10 for fiscal years 2014 and 15 the ILA
1:08:14 extension we got a status report on that
1:08:17 and it is actually on our regular
1:08:18 business this evening as councilmember
1:08:20 mark said we had an update on the water
1:08:23 quality issues related to pee Foss and
1:08:26 connections to the Eastside Fire and
1:08:28 Rescue headquarter property there is
1:08:30 still a draft map that has not been
1:08:33 completed and issued but other than that
1:08:35 there are no other deliverables expected
1:08:37 from you site Fire and Rescue right now
1:08:38 and the strategies that were discussed
1:08:41 and the options going forward or to
1:08:43 continue to meet with the affected water
1:08:45 purveyors which would be Sammamish
1:08:47 plateau water and the city of Issaquah
1:08:50 and to continue to cooperate on the
1:08:53 information sharing that's been going on
1:08:55 we had a discussion of a modification to
1:09:01 the advanced life support program
1:09:03 related to construction and Sammamish
1:09:05 and I thought this is quite interesting
1:09:07 efore is implementing a mitigation
1:09:09 program for supplemental services in the
1:09:11 north part of Sammamish due to the
1:09:14 significant number of construction
1:09:15 projects occurring simultaneously this
1:09:18 program for this area of there's part of
1:09:22 their service area will be in place from
1:09:23 August 9th from August of this year
1:09:26 through February and I think that's
1:09:28 important in Tyson's
1:09:29 council member Ramos said we're going to
1:09:31 have a confluence of projects happen
1:09:34 over the next five years both regionally
1:09:36 within our city and within our fire
1:09:38 jurisdiction and so items like those
1:09:39 coordinating services and making sure we
1:09:41 still cover our service areas very very
1:09:43 important the Eastside Fire and Rescue
1:09:46 fire ground 101 training is this
1:09:48 Saturday and it's an opportunity for
1:09:50 electeds to go participate in fire
1:09:52 training at the Bellevue training center
1:09:54 I think there's around 10 to 12
1:09:58 attending this year on Friday May 19th
1:10:02 I'll be attending is the Quad Chamber of
1:10:03 Commerce meeting which will be in the
1:10:05 eco room of City Hall and on Wednesday
1:10:08 May 31st you said fire and rescues
1:10:11 Finance and Administration Committee
1:10:12 will be meeting at 12:30 and that
1:10:14 concludes my report thank you council
1:10:17 personally good luck Thank You mr. mayor
1:10:18 on May 4th I landed short committee met
1:10:21 and we had our regular moratorium update
1:10:25 we also continue our discussion of
1:10:28 agenda ville 72 15 and 74 17 the
1:10:32 polygons to the polygon northwest
1:10:35 proposal for using 100 TDRs in Misco
1:10:38 Highlands and also some affordable
1:10:40 housing that's on our agenda tonight
1:10:42 public hearing and because Landon Shore
1:10:46 has asked to discuss that again in June
1:10:50 the recommended action tonight is to
1:10:54 remand it back after the public hearing
1:10:55 to land in Shore to come back in June to
1:10:58 the full council and we will talk all
1:11:01 the way more about that a little later
1:11:02 tonight we also had our first of at
1:11:05 least two meetings on agenda bell 7 1 1
1:11:07 0 windward Bergsma development agreement
1:11:10 we also discussed is an agenda bill 73
1:11:14 16 sustainable building action strategy
1:11:17 and that is coming back for additional
1:11:20 discussion vertical mixed-use announced
1:11:22 we had a discussion on that and then
1:11:25 that came subsequently to a work session
1:11:27 and then we had our first briefing on
1:11:32 the end of development agreements
1:11:34 regarding a Highlands and talus
1:11:36 and the punchline is that the general
1:11:41 it's the general way that the
1:11:44 administration is going about thinking
1:11:47 about zoning which will have to right
1:11:51 now the development agreement guide to
1:11:55 zoning in those in those areas that are
1:11:58 covered by the DA's and so the the DA's
1:12:01 go away at the end of their lifespan
1:12:02 there isn't any underlying zoning so
1:12:05 this right now the sug what the
1:12:08 administration is planning on is having
1:12:10 the zoning match what's there mimic
1:12:13 what's there so the entitlements
1:12:16 underlining entitlements would be what's
1:12:18 already on the land order what's already
1:12:20 entitled to be on the land under the
1:12:22 development agreements and those the
1:12:26 process will continue this year several
1:12:29 public meetings so the next land insurer
1:12:31 meeting is the first Thursday of June I
1:12:35 don't think I have a date right in front
1:12:37 of me but it is 6:30 right here in
1:12:39 council chambers and the agenda has not
1:12:41 yet been set that's my report thank you
1:12:44 we had four for citizen speech this
1:12:48 evening on Providence height I'd like to
1:12:52 make a few general comments number one
1:12:56 there is no historic designation for the
1:12:59 site city's development services
1:13:02 department and not the City Council was
1:13:06 bound to review the demolition request
1:13:08 and make a determination under the
1:13:10 current land use laws that have been
1:13:13 adapted by the city even if the City
1:13:16 Council changed the property's historic
1:13:19 designation now it would not affect the
1:13:22 best demolition permit or resulting SEPA
1:13:26 decision SEPA provides a process for
1:13:30 public input and for the city to make
1:13:33 legally permissible mitigations or
1:13:35 restrictions based on the public comment
1:13:38 in this case the city did so by adding
1:13:42 requirements to help ensure preservation
1:13:46 of the chapel windows at this time
1:13:50 so I hope that information is somewhat
1:13:54 helpful for the mayor's report there
1:13:58 will be an executive session held this
1:14:00 evening for the purpose of discussing
1:14:01 property acquisition per RCW 42.3 0.11 0
1:14:07 / n 1 / n b and potential litigation for
1:14:11 our CW 42.3 0 1 1 0 / n 1 / n i these
1:14:18 items are expected to take approximately
1:14:21 60 minutes election is anticipated to
1:14:25 follow an open session last week we
1:14:30 celebrated you Nissel clerk's week and
1:14:34 honor difficult clerks who provide a
1:14:37 professional link between our citizens
1:14:40 the city council and our city team and
1:14:43 government agencies at all levels Thank
1:14:48 You Tina a Gertz and tisha somehow tisha
1:14:56 I have problems saved and I know the
1:14:58 German pronunciation for your excellent
1:15:02 service to our community and the region
1:15:07 finally on May night we broke ground on
1:15:13 this request new skate park at Tibbets
1:15:16 Valley Park we anticipate completing the
1:15:19 project by late 2017 we had a wonderful
1:15:22 turnout at the groundbreaking which was
1:15:25 attended by councilmember Polly and
1:15:30 councilmember Ramos they even got the
1:15:34 fro scoop of dirt up in the air that
1:15:39 concludes my report
1:15:41 we'll now move to the consent calendar I
1:15:44 would ask the the clerk to please read
1:15:52 that into the record after I ask if the
1:15:55 accounts payables have been reviewed
1:15:59 yeah thank you
1:16:01 Fischer
1:16:03 the consent calendar was distributed to
1:16:05 council in advance for study if
1:16:06 authorized council action will occur by
1:16:08 single motion regarding the following
1:16:10 items item a seeks approval of the
1:16:12 accounts payables and payroll is May
1:16:13 15th items B and C seeks approval of the
1:16:16 minutes of the committee of the whole
1:16:18 Council of April 25th and the regular
1:16:20 meeting of May 1st item D a b7 three to
1:16:23 six Old Town sub Area Plan Update seeks
1:16:26 referral to council Landon Shore
1:16:27 committee item e a b7 four to four
1:16:30 additional boarding Commission
1:16:31 appointments seeks to confirm this
1:16:33 concludes the reading thank you
1:16:37 does any council member desire to move
1:16:40 any item on the consent calendar to
1:16:42 regular business force consideration
1:16:48 that's what I think Goodman I would move
1:16:50 to adopt the consent calendar as
1:16:53 presented second moved and seconded all
1:16:55 those in favor signify by saying aye aye
1:16:58 those opposed carries unanimously
1:17:02 moving now to public hearing for the
1:17:06 same rules that I presented under
1:17:12 audience comments still prevail a
1:17:16 purpose of this public hearing is to
1:17:21 jointly here on agenda bills 7215 an
1:17:28 agenda bills 74 1 7 and we will open the
1:17:35 public hearing at 818 we'll begin with a
1:17:41 an update from Keith Niven our director
1:17:44 of development services and economic
1:17:49 development Thank You mr. mayor
1:17:52 good evening City Council so this is a
1:17:55 continuation of the public hearing for
1:17:57 agenda built 72 15 which is the ninth
1:18:00 major amendment to these clients
1:18:01 development agreements seeking to add
1:18:04 100 transferred development rights into
1:18:07 the development agreement but why we've
1:18:09 connected it to agenda bill 74 17 is
1:18:13 these two items are actually linked
1:18:15 together
1:18:17 because of the proposed affordable
1:18:19 housing that would be a component of
1:18:21 those transferred development rights and
1:18:23 that's being done through potentially
1:18:27 through the agenda bill seventy four
1:18:29 seventeen which is the first major
1:18:31 amendment to the wash dot development
1:18:33 agreement and a separate new development
1:18:35 agreement for affordable housing with
1:18:37 polygons northwest so I'm just going to
1:18:41 summarize what the pieces are to this
1:18:44 and then open it up for additional
1:18:48 public comments so so should the city so
1:18:51 what are we talking about should the
1:18:52 city approve 100 transfer of development
1:18:54 rights into Issaquah Highlands with that
1:18:56 is how many units are part of that
1:18:59 conversation in total is there an
1:19:01 infrastructure impact that has not been
1:19:04 evaluated is the ten ten ten okay what
1:19:07 that refers to is the affordable housing
1:19:09 mix from the original Issaquah Highlands
1:19:12 development agreement and should that be
1:19:14 applied to these additional 100 TDRs and
1:19:18 then the fourth one is should the city
1:19:21 agree to include parcel D in the
1:19:23 proposal we own parcel D right now so
1:19:26 that brings up a question of what's
1:19:28 parcel D worth and then is there
1:19:31 sufficient value in affordable housing
1:19:32 to allow the city to deed parcel D to
1:19:35 polygons at no additional cost so those
1:19:37 are the things that we've been talking
1:19:39 about primarily at land and shore
1:19:40 committee this is a map to help those of
1:19:45 you who are not familiar with these
1:19:46 properties understand where we're at so
1:19:50 this is Highland this is ninth Avenue
1:19:53 right here Highlands Drive this is
1:19:55 discovery this building down here is the
1:19:59 hospital that's Swedish this is this big
1:20:02 roof right here is Safeway and so what
1:20:05 polygon has proposed is to have 39
1:20:10 housing units located is it blue in this
1:20:14 blue area right next to West Highlands
1:20:17 Park so it's kind of at the far east
1:20:19 edge of the property that they own north
1:20:23 of Swedish hospital and then parcel D is
1:20:26 located this is park dry
1:20:29 up here on the north and this is 15th
1:20:32 coming in these are the apartment
1:20:34 complex right there
1:20:36 this is College Drive right here comes
1:20:39 in and tees right into parcel D and then
1:20:42 as this street moves down through Forest
1:20:45 Ridge this becomes Falls Drive and this
1:20:49 is about a 1.1 acre piece of property
1:20:52 that we currently own so how many units
1:20:57 are we talking about
1:20:58 so polygon purchased 265 housing units
1:21:02 from the master developer of is equal
1:21:05 Highlands port Blakely communities what
1:21:07 they're asking for is to add 100 units
1:21:11 of transfer development rights and then
1:21:14 they are proposing to build 39
1:21:19 affordable units and you can see those
1:21:21 39 are right here and these other
1:21:23 numbers are the allocation of the other
1:21:27 entitlement and the TDRs that they
1:21:30 currently own including proposing 11
1:21:33 market rate units up here on parcel D
1:21:35 and then the last slide I have is
1:21:40 talking about the value of parcel D it's
1:21:43 kind of over here on the left side and
1:21:45 then there was an analysis done by arch
1:21:47 on what the additional nine units are so
1:21:51 if you think about 30% of the 100 units
1:21:54 are coming with this deal anyway
1:21:56 assuming it's a straight mirror of the
1:21:59 development agreement there's an
1:22:00 additional nine that's being discussed
1:22:02 so those nine units what are they worth
1:22:05 in terms of the Delta between being
1:22:08 affordable and market and then there's
1:22:12 an additional adjustment because some of
1:22:14 the units were brought down to a lower
1:22:16 level of affordability so that analysis
1:22:18 was done by arch and presented at Landon
1:22:22 Shore last month so that's that's what
1:22:25 I've got for tonight I'm going to put it
1:22:27 back on the map because that might be
1:22:29 easiest but I'm open for questions
1:22:33 if there are any at this time otherwise
1:22:35 I'll turn the mic over to public comment
1:22:38 are there questions of Keith at this
1:22:43 seeing none then I would ask if anyone
1:22:46 signed up to speak for senior mr. Morris
1:22:51 were you hoping to speak at this time
1:23:05 okay so no one further has signed up to
1:23:08 speak
1:23:08 is there anyone other than Dave Kepler
1:23:13 who follow us to make it short because
1:23:16 he was in Brooklyn New York earlier
1:23:19 today
1:23:20 David Kaplan 255 southeast Anders Street
1:23:23 it is pretty simple straightforward
1:23:25 there's two documents referenced in that
1:23:28 huge package of material you have in
1:23:30 there the conservation easements both
1:23:32 for Part point and for the 75 acres
1:23:36 seventy eight acres that on in the
1:23:39 highlands on the north side of i-90 Bowl
1:23:43 cases of the drafts are shown or
1:23:45 referenced in the actual recorded
1:23:47 documents are out there and I think they
1:23:49 should be part of the packet rather than
1:23:51 the drafts I know we did I'm not sure
1:23:54 how much it mean I don't know if it
1:23:56 means anything for this particular deal
1:23:58 but getting the record right is good and
1:24:01 because conservation easements will come
1:24:03 in the future as we deal with trail
1:24:05 issues and some of the other things
1:24:06 going on both at park point and
1:24:09 especially at them the Highlands area
1:24:12 thank you thank you
1:24:14 David anyone else desiring to speak
1:24:20 anyone else
1:24:21 desiring to speak this evening third and
1:24:24 final call seeing no one desire to speak
1:24:28 a public hearing is closed at 8:00 means
1:24:33 good excuse me council president goodbye
1:24:38 thank you I'm in order to take this next
1:24:41 up here I'm going to make a motion and
1:24:42 move to continue the public hearing to
1:24:45 the June 19 2017 council meeting and
1:24:48 remand agenda bill 72 15 to the June 1st
1:24:52 2017 council Lyndon Shore committee for
1:24:54 additional review and recommendation
1:24:56 returning to the full council on June
1:24:58 19th 2017 Ford attend for decision
1:25:03 second moved and seconded discussion or
1:25:08 questions seeing none all those in favor
1:25:17 of referring a continuation of the
1:25:20 public hearing to the dates mentioned
1:25:23 signify by saying aye I was opposed I
1:25:28 want to pull it sorry I did I but I was
1:25:31 just raising my hand not who I said I
1:25:35 was just like Oh the motion carries
1:25:40 unanimously
1:25:41 okay now moving to regular business
1:25:44 agenda bills 73 I think we have to refer
1:25:49 the second one don't we yeah there's two
1:25:52 of them okay yeah so I would move to
1:25:55 continue the public hearing to the June
1:25:57 19 2017 council meeting and remand
1:26:00 agenda till 74 17 the June 1st 2017
1:26:03 Council and ensure committee for
1:26:04 additional review and recommendation
1:26:05 returning to the full Council on June 19
1:26:09 second any questions or discussion all
1:26:14 those in favor signify by saying aye I
1:26:16 was opposed at carries your Nana's way
1:26:20 and I think council president Goodman
1:26:23 for keeping me on task because evening
1:26:27 welcome moving now to regular business
1:26:34 first up agenda Bell 73 25 state of the
1:26:38 judiciary address judge Scott Stewart
1:26:42 here for the presentation a Scott it's
1:26:47 interesting to see you on the other side
1:26:49 of the diocese you're sitting in my
1:26:52 chair
1:26:52 yeah said in this chair what do you have
1:26:54 to say for yourself a little nervous
1:27:00 attached anything mayor members the
1:27:04 council members of the public my name is
1:27:06 Scott Stewart and since 2007
1:27:10 than my honor to serve as the Issaquah
1:27:12 Municipal Court judge as most you know
1:27:14 because I'm the Issaquah Municipal Court
1:27:16 judge I'm also the city of Stowe Kwami
1:27:18 Municipal Court judge and the city of
1:27:20 north band Municipal Court judges both
1:27:22 of those cities contract with the city
1:27:24 of bisque law and we provide court
1:27:28 services for them here as well I'm gonna
1:27:30 throw a lot of numbers at you primarily
1:27:31 because that just gives them folks an
1:27:33 idea what we're going where the courts
1:27:35 going and what's going on with the court
1:27:36 although I do want to give you an idea
1:27:38 how our day goes as well as we go
1:27:40 through the process I'm I'm here at the
1:27:43 cork now just about every day of the
1:27:46 week not full-time by any means Tuesday
1:27:48 I mean Monday afternoons for instance
1:27:50 I'm only here for an hour just for
1:27:51 anybody over the weekend
1:27:52 Wednesday's is a regular day but just
1:27:54 about every day maybe one day a week I'm
1:27:57 not here but I am sitting up there not
1:28:00 behind a Fred Butler sign but behind a
1:28:02 judge sign in that particular chair we
1:28:06 have in both criminal cases and
1:28:08 infraction cases in the city of s qua
1:28:11 this gives you a breakdown of the cases
1:28:14 and there's been a slight decrease
1:28:15 although that the nature of the cases
1:28:16 that are filed in our court have changed
1:28:18 and we'll see that with the next the
1:28:20 next slide this is the number of
1:28:22 different folks that were charged with
1:28:24 specific individual criminal offenses
1:28:26 into the Issaquah Municipal Court either
1:28:28 out of the city bus across new kwame or
1:28:30 north bend in the three most recent
1:28:33 years this is a breakdown between last
1:28:36 year and this year the most significant
1:28:39 thing that I see and the problem is I
1:28:41 don't see this as a big picture when
1:28:42 they're in front of me I have individual
1:28:43 people that come into my court I know
1:28:45 what they're charged with I focus on
1:28:46 them but when I look at this the thing
1:28:48 that jumped out the most when these
1:28:50 numbers were put together is the
1:28:51 domestic violence arrests at least were
1:28:54 up in 2016 I can't give you the reason
1:28:57 for that but it's a significant leap to
1:28:59 go from one hundred and thirty three
1:29:00 cases to 174 cases domestic violence is
1:29:04 is not a crime in and of itself any
1:29:07 crime that involves domestic
1:29:09 relationship is filed as a domestic
1:29:11 violence charge most of these cases are
1:29:13 assault domestic violence harmful or
1:29:16 offensive touchings between folks that
1:29:18 have some type of a domestic
1:29:19 relationship and or malicious mischief
1:29:21 domestic violence but they also include
1:29:23 viola
1:29:23 a no-contact order another protection
1:29:25 order type to play dead cases are filed
1:29:28 into our court and those are up
1:29:29 significantly most everything else kind
1:29:32 of gets pushed aside by the domestic
1:29:34 violence but remained relatively
1:29:35 constant the assault malicious mischief
1:29:38 that you see down here at the bottom are
1:29:39 the cases that involve bar fights or
1:29:42 fight in the park or something like that
1:29:43 didn't involve people that were related
1:29:45 but the other numbers are relatively
1:29:47 consistent I found it interesting that
1:29:49 we had eight vehicle prowls in 2015 none
1:29:52 were filed into the court I included the
1:29:54 number up there because it dropped to
1:29:55 zero in 2016 so that's a crime that at
1:30:00 least went away for one year criminal
1:30:03 non traffic the one that most folks are
1:30:06 worried about is DUIs
1:30:07 DUI is dramatically reduced at least by
1:30:10 23 cases in 2016 from 2015 the rest of
1:30:15 them remained relatively constant up
1:30:17 there and other you've got crimes like
1:30:21 allowing an unauthorized person operate
1:30:23 a motor vehicle things like that the
1:30:25 largest crime in the state of Washington
1:30:27 is driving license suspended in the
1:30:29 third degree which meant and no valid
1:30:32 operator's license which still makes up
1:30:33 the majority of what's filed into our
1:30:34 court as well that's an idea of the type
1:30:37 of criminal cases that we see in this
1:30:39 court the hearings break down as follows
1:30:42 and these numbers that you'd have to add
1:30:46 all the numbers up to get the total
1:30:48 number of hearings that we have in our
1:30:49 court but to give you an idea eight
1:30:53 arraignments the first court date
1:30:55 that's the court date where folks come
1:30:57 in they're initially charged they enter
1:30:58 plea of guilty or not guilty at that
1:31:00 point in time I have to review their
1:31:02 criminal history I have to make a
1:31:03 determination as to whether or not to
1:31:05 release them and set conditions or take
1:31:06 them in custody release is what's
1:31:08 presumed and most of nonviolent
1:31:10 offenders and folks are released folks
1:31:13 that end up being in custody oftentimes
1:31:14 folks that when I see them they're in
1:31:16 custody and they're in custody because
1:31:17 either they have a heated violent
1:31:19 history or it's a tremendously violent
1:31:20 event pre-trials one of the goals of any
1:31:23 court is to try to reduce the number of
1:31:25 free trials because pre trials is the
1:31:27 one court date that keeps getting set
1:31:29 over there's cost associated with that
1:31:31 there's time associated with that we've
1:31:33 been relatively successful so that
1:31:35 doesn't necessarily mean that we have
1:31:36 less cases
1:31:37 simply means that we're cutting back on
1:31:38 the number of times where we're setting
1:31:40 cases over constantly we're moving the
1:31:42 case forward as much as we can
1:31:44 motion states are dates where you might
1:31:47 have constitutional issues motions to
1:31:49 suppress evidence things along those
1:31:51 lines right now we have a number of
1:31:52 battles where folks are trying to get
1:31:54 records and other folks are fighting
1:31:56 about the records it's any time the
1:31:57 attorneys are fighting about something
1:31:58 and want the court to resolve their
1:32:00 issue before cases goes to trial
1:32:02 readiness is the final hair before trial
1:32:06 sentencing is for folks that have been
1:32:08 convicted and reviews want to talk
1:32:11 briefly about reduced we do review
1:32:13 calendars what we call probation reviews
1:32:16 to Thursday's in the morning per month
1:32:20 and this court if you were here and I
1:32:23 know that mayor Butler's actually come
1:32:25 by and sat in the back of the courtroom
1:32:26 review hearings are the cases where
1:32:28 folks have been ordered to do something
1:32:30 in lieu of going to jail and they
1:32:32 haven't done what they've been ordered
1:32:33 to do and this courtroom will be full
1:32:35 will have anywhere from 60 to 80 people
1:32:39 on a calendar and we're getting through
1:32:41 them in the morning they didn't do their
1:32:43 alcohol drug treatment they picked up a
1:32:44 new criminal law violation they tested
1:32:47 positive for opiates or something like
1:32:49 that and I have to decide what to
1:32:50 sanction them whether or not we're going
1:32:52 to continue with treatment whether we're
1:32:54 going to put them in jail or something
1:32:55 like that but each of those 1811 people
1:32:59 of hearings represents a different
1:33:00 person that's appeared this court on a
1:33:02 very large calendar represented by
1:33:04 counsel and determining how we're going
1:33:06 to treat them as they go to the process
1:33:07 and the review hearings are down not
1:33:10 significantly down from last year and
1:33:14 close to where they were in 2014 we have
1:33:18 a probation department before I get into
1:33:20 this I want to break a little bit about
1:33:22 my probation officer so they don't
1:33:23 forget um miss Bannock in the last two
1:33:27 years she carries a caseload we try to
1:33:30 keep it around 100 cases that's what's
1:33:32 considered what's appropriate right now
1:33:33 she has 88 that doesn't represent her
1:33:36 total caseload we have 159 cases that
1:33:39 are in warrant status she's dealing with
1:33:41 the most difficult clients that we deal
1:33:43 with because we put them on probation we
1:33:44 had so limited resource we want that
1:33:46 limited resource to be responsible for
1:33:48 the most difficult cases
1:33:50 the same since manic has done and I'm a
1:33:53 hottie if I can characterize this and
1:33:54 get it across how significant it is
1:33:56 she's so good at closely monitoring
1:33:59 these cases within the last two years
1:34:01 she's actually caught two folks that
1:34:02 were essentially had become fake
1:34:05 treatment agencies we're reporting to
1:34:07 the court compliance with treatment I
1:34:09 would get these reports in court persons
1:34:12 gone to all their treatment sessions all
1:34:13 of the random urinalysis has have been
1:34:15 negative everything's going great she's
1:34:18 followed up on it because something just
1:34:19 didn't sit right either
1:34:20 the signatures didn't match she called
1:34:22 the agency the agency say that guy never
1:34:24 worked for me or that guy they used to
1:34:26 work for me she's followed all the way
1:34:27 through one of the guys is facing
1:34:29 felonies on the other court another one
1:34:32 it's I think it's still pending but
1:34:34 essentially they're folks they're
1:34:35 perpetrated fraud on the court they're
1:34:37 ripping off the the defendants are
1:34:39 presumably folks that have alcohol or
1:34:40 drug problems that aren't getting
1:34:41 treatment they're just paying somebody a
1:34:43 chunk of dough to do false things and so
1:34:45 because miss Bannock caught it I don't
1:34:47 only the probation officer that's done
1:34:48 that she's done it twice so I wanted to
1:34:49 break briefly about her because that's
1:34:51 been pretty amazing 88 cases right now
1:34:54 this does not include cases where she
1:34:56 has not seen them yet so that means
1:34:58 folks I've recently appointed from
1:35:00 Hispanic to see and you can see what she
1:35:02 sees 47 of them are duis 17 or domestic
1:35:05 violence those numbers add up to 88 27
1:35:09 folks with alcohol significant alcohol
1:35:11 problems 13 with significant drug
1:35:13 problems 32 with significant alcohol and
1:35:15 drug problems four with mental health
1:35:17 issues mental health and alcohol issues
1:35:19 mental health and drug issues mental
1:35:22 health alcohol and drug issues she's got
1:35:23 six so we're dealing with a part of the
1:35:26 population needs that type of
1:35:27 supervision that's what miss Bannock as
1:35:29 you folks gave me Scott trial within the
1:35:33 last two years
1:35:34 Scott trial works in the courtroom as my
1:35:36 court security officer but he also helps
1:35:38 with u-ace and that may seem like a
1:35:40 strange thing for a court security
1:35:42 officer to do but one of the unfortunate
1:35:45 realities that you discover when you
1:35:46 become a municipal court judge is that
1:35:48 people carry urine around on them and
1:35:50 because we order random urinalysis and
1:35:53 when I have a female probation officer
1:35:54 and I send a mail to provide a UA
1:35:56 because I think they've been using they
1:35:58 go into the bathroom she stands on the
1:36:00 outside and oftentimes that urine comes
1:36:02 back it's questionable as to whether
1:36:04 it really came from that person's body
1:36:06 the existence of Scott trial allows that
1:36:08 to stop happening so when you look at
1:36:10 2015 and 2016 if Scott trial wasn't with
1:36:14 me those numbers would probably make it
1:36:17 look like people were doing better
1:36:20 because they'd be able to provide fake
1:36:21 your analysis which I don't know how
1:36:23 comfortable I am talking to the City
1:36:25 Council meeting about urine but urines
1:36:27 part of I tell my probation officers one
1:36:29 of the worst parts of my job is I get to
1:36:31 tell somebody to go take somebody else's
1:36:32 urine but I do we're finding the drugs
1:36:36 were finding 14 percent of the positive
1:36:38 UAS have been
1:36:39 methamphetamines 12 percent folks th see
1:36:42 obviously marijuana was legalized but I
1:36:45 order folks not to smoke marijuana you
1:36:46 commit a crime involves marijuana you
1:36:48 don't get smoked marijuana anymore 12
1:36:50 percent of them continue to smoke it
1:36:51 they come back in front of me opioids is
1:36:54 now the 7% which I think is down we've
1:36:55 been working really hard especially with
1:36:58 our young people with regard to opioids
1:36:59 we have a special calendar just to
1:37:01 address them and make sure they get into
1:37:03 treatment quickly and then alcohol is 5
1:37:06 percent if you're not familiar with ET g
1:37:08 ET g is the tool that we're able to use
1:37:10 with regard to folks they're using
1:37:12 alcohol that allows us to test over a
1:37:14 longer period of time if you just test
1:37:15 them for alcohol burns off relatively
1:37:17 quick but if you're testing for etg you
1:37:19 can tell them folks have used at the
1:37:21 more distant time so it's been very very
1:37:23 useful in monitoring folks compliance
1:37:25 with their orders civil cases civil
1:37:29 cases are up in 2014 we had 21 49 civil
1:37:32 cases are infractions 2015 2176
1:37:37 2016 3031 the top number are numbers
1:37:41 where someone has actually seen a law
1:37:42 enforcement officer the lights come on
1:37:44 behind them they pull over and they get
1:37:45 to talk to the officer at the door below
1:37:47 that is photo enforcement those are also
1:37:49 up 2014 6335 2016 8305
1:37:57 and this is just a breakdown how they
1:37:59 look on the graph with regard to the
1:38:01 different numbers we do get a limited
1:38:03 number of parking tickets a lot of those
1:38:05 are called in by citizens that are
1:38:07 complaining about the way someone's
1:38:08 parked in the neighborhood or up by the
1:38:10 school a limited number of non traffic
1:38:12 tickets what those have typically been
1:38:15 is a enforcement of some of the
1:38:19 business license type cases and stuff
1:38:21 like that they end up filing into our
1:38:22 court and we handle those as civil
1:38:24 matters and then you got photo
1:38:25 enforcement and traffic and this is how
1:38:30 the hearings are breaking broken down in
1:38:31 2014 we had 40 183 just flat out pay
1:38:34 their ticket it's up to 55 to 71 this
1:38:38 year we had 652 actual contested
1:38:41 hearings where people challenged their
1:38:43 ticket from 565 and 478 last year not
1:38:47 committed is at 76 these numbers of this
1:38:50 98 74 76 not committed are actually kind
1:38:55 of um I don't know that there's a cup of
1:39:00 King County officers and a couple in
1:39:01 Washington State Patrol officers that
1:39:03 file their tickets into our court for
1:39:05 some reason and so what will happen so I
1:39:07 would say probably maybe a third of
1:39:10 those folks are situations where someone
1:39:12 ends up in front of me they've got an
1:39:14 attorney they say Your Honor I would
1:39:15 point to you where this ticket occurred
1:39:17 occurred on 520 you know 520 might as
1:39:19 well be Mexico I mean I have no
1:39:21 jurisdiction over 520 by the Washington
1:39:24 state trooper has filed it into my court
1:39:25 so the case gets dismissed so that
1:39:27 number probably as far as is not
1:39:29 consistent with the reality with regard
1:39:30 to the not committed and then these are
1:39:32 the mitigation calendars that we have
1:39:34 across the bottom those are folks that
1:39:36 have asked for reduction in their ticket
1:39:38 or community service based upon their
1:39:40 economic circumstances I'm going to
1:39:44 fastest I was worried about the 5 minute
1:39:46 things so you have two minutes left
1:39:50 Scott I was a high school debater I can
1:39:53 get it done um miss Campo did a user
1:39:58 survey in 2016 you may remember we did
1:40:00 one in 2013 a lot of courts were doing
1:40:03 them we were interested in how we
1:40:05 compared to other courts we did a survey
1:40:08 about three years ago and our survey
1:40:11 results came out that we were as well or
1:40:13 better than any other court out there as
1:40:15 far as the way folks felt about record
1:40:16 the biggest complaint was parking but as
1:40:19 far as the court itself we did very well
1:40:21 we're not familiar with whether anybody
1:40:23 else has redone a survey but we decided
1:40:25 to do it see whether or not we've
1:40:26 improved and we did our scores ranged
1:40:30 from 0 to 5 for the survey
1:40:32 the results showed an improvement
1:40:33 essentially in every category the one
1:40:35 I'm most proud of third one down we had
1:40:38 a four point eight four out of five in
1:40:39 how my staff treats folks with respect
1:40:43 and courtesy by court staff and I sit
1:40:45 back there and listen to them if you
1:40:46 ever get a chance to go over the the
1:40:47 four folks that work at that office are
1:40:49 tremendously polite they do an amazing
1:40:51 job avoiding giving legal advice because
1:40:54 everybody wants legal advice but they
1:40:56 tell them what's going on they provide
1:40:57 the information everyone's a mam
1:40:59 everyone's asserted something we can be
1:41:00 very proud of the lowest score was a
1:41:03 four point two four that had to do with
1:41:05 our website focused in like our website
1:41:06 and then some other ones feel safe in
1:41:08 the courthouse four point seven seven
1:41:10 and you can just read those on down I
1:41:12 don't want to just read what simply on
1:41:14 the board but all of our numbers went up
1:41:16 and our numbers were better than other
1:41:18 folks so I'm pretty proud of that in
1:41:21 2017 all of the staff was involved in
1:41:23 court trip staff training both for
1:41:25 ethics understanding the impact of bias
1:41:28 bias is a big deal in the legal
1:41:30 community right now working on bias
1:41:32 issues court security and department
1:41:35 licensing issues we did the court survey
1:41:37 we've revamped our jury summons and
1:41:40 selection process brought it more
1:41:41 in-house saved money cut back on some of
1:41:43 the unnecessary expenses modified our
1:41:46 bench warrant policies and procedures
1:41:47 again brought more of it in-house
1:41:49 simplified our forms and a number of our
1:41:52 staff have been asked to go out to other
1:41:54 courts to help the other courts develop
1:41:55 their systems to try to get their
1:41:56 Simpsons more efficient and work in more
1:41:59 the way miss Campo has our system
1:42:01 working this is about miss Campo
1:42:06 as you may know you probably don't know
1:42:08 she's the chair of the limited
1:42:10 jurisdiction case management system
1:42:11 project the case management system that
1:42:14 we use in our courts of the computer
1:42:16 system that sits in front of all of the
1:42:18 judges it's in front of the clerk's was
1:42:19 developed I think in 1992 and it works
1:42:23 like it was developed in 1992 and
1:42:25 they've got funding she's actually
1:42:27 involved in pretty much overloads the
1:42:28 judicial information system has to do
1:42:30 with the funding to help improve it the
1:42:32 technology system and the conference
1:42:35 committee is all the active things that
1:42:36 she's active in this is something we
1:42:38 need to be the most proud of every year
1:42:40 they award a court administrator and
1:42:42 there's hundreds of them a president's
1:42:44 award for the best
1:42:45 the most with the recognized quarter
1:42:47 ministry of the year there's been one
1:42:49 court administrator that's gotten it
1:42:50 twice that's miss Campo and she received
1:42:53 it this last year so my court
1:42:55 administrator has been the President's
1:42:57 Award winner twice I'm pretty darn proud
1:42:58 of that and this is just me
1:43:01 well I continue I teach at s qua high
1:43:04 school every week and judges in the
1:43:08 classroom I think I've seen a couple of
1:43:09 you up there I'm on the Education
1:43:12 Committee this past year at the Fall
1:43:15 Conference which is what all the
1:43:16 district court judges are required to
1:43:18 attend I presented on prosecutorial
1:43:20 misconduct is an effective assistance of
1:43:22 counsel a sense that what judges are
1:43:23 supposed to do when you're on the bench
1:43:25 and you realize that the attorneys in
1:43:26 front of you have just fallen apart and
1:43:28 I have an obligation to protect the
1:43:30 system to protect the record to protect
1:43:32 the defendant to protect the city what I
1:43:35 can do at the annual conference which is
1:43:38 with the Supreme Court judges I worked
1:43:39 on the procedural fairness and changes
1:43:41 in the DUI law for the second time I was
1:43:45 selected by the Washington State Bar
1:43:48 Association to present the judicial
1:43:50 demeanor section of the training with
1:43:53 regard to the Pro Tem judges and along
1:43:56 those lines I also was sent to San Diego
1:44:00 to it be involved in the advanced bench
1:44:02 skills and procedural fairness program
1:44:04 and in 2017 when I'm still in school
1:44:09 high school very popular you call a
1:44:11 class Street law at a high school level
1:44:13 and people I know it's a line up to get
1:44:15 into it's a very popular class out there
1:44:17 I'm doing ability and procedural
1:44:20 fairness similar to the Pro Tem training
1:44:22 but this time to judges evidence based
1:44:24 treatment and sentencing alternatives
1:44:25 for addicts primarily dealing with
1:44:27 opiate issue at the annual conference
1:44:30 the this I enjoy because the the judges
1:44:34 that are hide the Supreme Court judges
1:44:36 the Superior Court judges are constantly
1:44:38 looking for things that the lower court
1:44:40 judges to do and this year they gave us
1:44:41 masking which is a the federal
1:44:45 government concerned with hiding traffic
1:44:47 tickets from the record and so we're
1:44:49 gonna I get to help the folks learn
1:44:50 about that and I was just put on the
1:44:53 judicial college faculty so while I get
1:44:55 to start judges have to go to judge
1:44:56 College and I'm on the faculty there
1:44:58 with regard to
1:44:59 and probation and I know I talked fast
1:45:01 but I know he said you had an hour
1:45:02 meeting or something so I figured I
1:45:04 think that's it does anyone have any
1:45:05 questions at all are there questions
1:45:07 Toller um - two separate questions first
1:45:11 is I think two requests from Mayor
1:45:14 Butler and council president Goodman
1:45:15 that we consider for next year perhaps
1:45:17 having a presentation maybe not the
1:45:19 judge but somebody from the judge's
1:45:21 office presented services to go through
1:45:23 these numbers with a little bit more
1:45:25 detail because you know the numbers God
1:45:27 I as the the committee that deals with
1:45:30 Public Safety I think we might want to
1:45:31 spend a little bit more time now having
1:45:33 said that and keeping brief I did have a
1:45:36 question it seems like the infractions
1:45:39 may be up but I was struck by generally
1:45:41 how violent crime our violent crime like
1:45:45 criminal non traffic almost everything
1:45:47 is down that and down considerably was
1:45:49 there a change in jurisdiction or I mean
1:45:52 it's it's really noticeable with the
1:45:53 exception unfortunately of domestic
1:45:55 violence which is which is unfortunately
1:45:57 higher in every other category we're
1:45:59 down like twenty to forty percent its
1:46:01 market and and I would say that there's
1:46:03 probably a lot of things that figure
1:46:05 into that well you know obviously I'd
1:46:07 like to take some credit for we we had
1:46:10 some we had some what I would call right
1:46:15 folks that I'd recognize on the street
1:46:16 probably 10 or 15 young folks we
1:46:18 developed what we called a young people
1:46:20 calendar initially and then we change it
1:46:23 to a high-risk calendar where what what
1:46:25 happens with with criminal defendants
1:46:27 when they're when they're sentenced
1:46:29 especially folks that have been in the
1:46:30 system for a long time you sentence
1:46:33 somebody on a January the first and
1:46:36 which wouldn't be a court day but you
1:46:37 sit in some of the first of the month
1:46:39 and they're ordered to go get an alcohol
1:46:41 drug evaluation and so they go and you
1:46:44 said it with you hearing out 30 days so
1:46:46 the next court date is February the
1:46:47 first on what happens on February the
1:46:50 first is they come in on February the
1:46:51 first and they have called the day
1:46:54 before and scheduled the alcohol drug
1:46:55 evaluation so now you said over till
1:46:57 March the first and when they should
1:46:59 have March the first they got the
1:47:00 evaluation on February 28th so now you
1:47:04 said it over till April the first and
1:47:06 you can literally stretch it out so we
1:47:08 started doing especially with young
1:47:09 folks especially folks that were
1:47:11 involved in
1:47:13 I'm the opiate type type of things where
1:47:15 you were yet and you had a lot of crime
1:47:17 that was related to that is we created
1:47:19 this calendar where rather than set in
1:47:20 about 30 days we were literally bringing
1:47:22 them on this high-risk calendar and we
1:47:24 still do it's 11 o'clock on Tuesdays so
1:47:26 what happens on Tuesdays is typically
1:47:29 have a very small calendar oftentimes
1:47:30 it's in custody x' they're just left
1:47:32 over from Monday and then at eleven
1:47:34 o'clock I can bring them in and it had
1:47:37 some success some of those folks
1:47:39 literally dropped out of the system one
1:47:41 of my favorite stories is a gal that I
1:47:43 saw in court constantly and then I
1:47:45 didn't see her anymore
1:47:45 and the next time I saw her she was
1:47:47 working at the fast food restaurant
1:47:49 having a job telling me she's paying her
1:47:51 rent and stuff I'm not saying that's
1:47:53 everything that happened but I think
1:47:56 there was some success just because
1:47:57 rather than taking four months to get
1:47:59 folks into treatment we were taking two
1:48:01 weeks to get him into treatment and
1:48:02 maybe a month and sometimes what would
1:48:05 happen is you'd give them an instant
1:48:06 sanction so rather than a month nothing
1:48:10 happens and sort of over another month
1:48:12 nothing happens said of another nothing
1:48:13 happened some another month nothing
1:48:14 happens given 30 days in jail you said
1:48:17 over two weeks nothing happens you said
1:48:18 oh another two weeks then you give them
1:48:20 a day in jail you make it immediate two
1:48:22 weeks later they've followed through
1:48:23 because there's a there's a sanctions
1:48:26 debt and that's kind of the the process
1:48:29 that we fit I think it's had some effect
1:48:30 but I'm not going to take full credit
1:48:32 for it I mean there there's a lot lots
1:48:34 of factors that figure into it thank you
1:48:37 very much but you're right I'm the wrong
1:48:38 eye whenever I live in this camp boy sit
1:48:41 down I go I don't it's not that don't
1:48:42 pay attention to the numbers I walk in
1:48:44 on a calendar and look down I think oh
1:48:45 my gosh there's 84 people on my review
1:48:47 calendar but you look at the individual
1:48:50 stories and every person that's there in
1:48:52 a domestic-violence review is there with
1:48:55 typically with the the victim who's
1:48:58 there either speaking foreign Oh contact
1:49:00 or against no contactor and if you
1:49:03 really want to chat about what I do
1:49:04 that's what I like to talk about but I
1:49:06 can't talk about individual cases and
1:49:07 stuff obviously so anything else other
1:49:10 questions or comments
1:49:12 judge great presentation you did clip
1:49:16 right through it but if I do and and
1:49:20 Lynn our court administrator
1:49:23 congratulations on the
1:49:25 president Award for 2016 and I don't
1:49:30 know what year the first one was but I
1:49:33 would just say this cork is creative and
1:49:39 has been a tremendous resource dealing
1:49:44 with the homelessness drug abuse and
1:49:47 mental illness problems that our
1:49:49 community had and you've done a lot to
1:49:54 reduce those numbers pretty
1:49:56 significantly so thank you very much
1:49:58 okay thank you
1:49:59 okay moving now to agenda bill 7:07 to
1:50:06 central pad number one construction
1:50:10 Jennifer Fink is approaching the lectern
1:50:15 for a presentation and then this is
1:50:19 coming back to us from services and
1:50:22 safety
1:50:32 good evening my name is Jennifer Fink
1:50:36 Park planner for the city before I get
1:50:39 started on agenda bill seventy seventy
1:50:41 two for Central Park Padawan
1:50:42 construction I first wanted to share a
1:50:44 bit of good news with Council
1:50:46 hopefully tomorrow the fences will be
1:50:49 down at confluence park and the bridge
1:50:51 will be open so just wanted to share
1:50:54 that with everyone and I apologize in
1:50:58 advance for those of you who are in
1:51:00 attendance that services and safety this
1:51:02 may be a little bit of a repeat
1:51:04 presentation for you but I'll try and go
1:51:07 quickly and touch on the items that were
1:51:13 highlighted in the staff report within
1:51:15 the agenda bill I'll give a brief
1:51:19 description of kind of the project
1:51:20 layout how we bid the project the
1:51:23 various components what the staff
1:51:25 recommendation was and then open it up
1:51:28 for discussion because I may end up
1:51:29 answering some questions as we go the
1:51:34 bids for the Central Park had one
1:51:36 project were open on April 26 we
1:51:39 received two bids
1:51:41 soon after the opening one bid did
1:51:43 withdrawal due to a calculation error as
1:51:47 we reviewed the bids we started looking
1:51:50 that had the bid been complete the bids
1:51:54 we received would have been roughly one
1:51:57 hundred and twenty-seven thousand
1:51:58 dollars within each other or roughly
1:52:01 four point eight three percent the
1:52:05 reason I mentioned this is it's somewhat
1:52:07 important as we look at some of the
1:52:09 options available to us as we for
1:52:13 awarding the bid Terra Dynamics is the
1:52:17 apparent low bidder with a submitted bid
1:52:19 of two million seven hundred seventy one
1:52:21 thousand dollars one hundred and twenty
1:52:23 dollars some of the options presented
1:52:29 within the agenda bill also include
1:52:32 rejecting the bid we have the option to
1:52:36 reject the bid and rebid immediately we
1:52:39 also have a option to reject the bid and
1:52:42 bid sometime in the future
1:52:45 however as we looked at the bids that we
1:52:47 received and did some further analysis
1:52:50 we feel that rewarding the bid and
1:52:53 perhaps a combination of alternatives
1:52:55 either all of the alternatives or none
1:52:58 of the alternatives or more viable
1:53:02 options than rejection but before I dive
1:53:06 into some of the project details I think
1:53:10 we should take a step back look at what
1:53:11 the current market is doing construction
1:53:14 market in Seattle it doesn't take a
1:53:17 genius to look around downtown Seattle
1:53:19 see how many cranes are up and moving
1:53:21 Seattle has been the forerunner and
1:53:24 leading the national average for
1:53:26 construction indexes recently averaging
1:53:29 for the q1 of 2017 three and a half to
1:53:33 four percent higher than the region a
1:53:35 year ago the Mortensen index is also
1:53:39 projecting up to a four percent increase
1:53:42 for the next 12 months as well so while
1:53:46 we're seeing bids within four percent of
1:53:48 each other we're also facing potential
1:53:50 increases of four percent if we are
1:53:52 going out to bid again at a future date
1:54:00 in addition to some of the current
1:54:02 market conditions
1:54:04 there's also sight conditions that
1:54:06 played a factor into some of the bids
1:54:08 some of you may know that central park
1:54:10 was used as a fill site during the
1:54:12 construction of the Issaquah Highlands
1:54:14 the quality of the soils on that flat
1:54:18 ground run a gamut of depth and are
1:54:22 somewhat questionable this was evident
1:54:24 in the geotechnical report that was part
1:54:26 of the bid package when we look at some
1:54:29 of the bid analysis we see that the base
1:54:31 bid showed the most variant for both
1:54:35 contractors from engineers estimate
1:54:37 we're thinking some of that uncertainty
1:54:39 had to do with some of the unknowns with
1:54:42 the soil out there and the potential and
1:54:45 if they had to hit some unsuitable soils
1:54:48 what might happen there so as we looked
1:54:53 at both the current conditions with the
1:54:55 big climate site conditions
1:54:59 staff as we were crunching numbers
1:55:02 really felt that rebidding wasn't the
1:55:06 best option if the intent was to try and
1:55:08 get lower bids given market in talking
1:55:11 to some over neighboring communities on
1:55:13 the east side they too have been seeing
1:55:16 bids coming in 10 to 20 percent higher
1:55:19 than engineers estimates and ours came
1:55:22 in right around 15 percent higher than
1:55:25 an engineer's estimate as your call last
1:55:30 December during budget deliberations
1:55:33 there was concerns that some of the the
1:55:35 project costs were increasing and we're
1:55:37 still in early design phase staff
1:55:41 introduced a proposal to phase pad 1
1:55:44 which in lieu of constructing the
1:55:47 expanded parking lot was using the
1:55:50 interim the public works operation site
1:55:53 which is currently paved and across the
1:55:55 street from the pad one site during that
1:56:00 approach we knew that wasn't going to
1:56:03 address all of our funding needs at that
1:56:04 time we'd identified about four hundred
1:56:06 fifteen thousand dollars of what we
1:56:08 thought were alternates
1:56:09 at that time but we knew we'd probably
1:56:12 be coming back to ask for additional
1:56:15 funds instead of awarding council
1:56:17 decided to let's wait and not fund any
1:56:22 additional funds at that time and once
1:56:25 we got real bid members then take a look
1:56:28 at the project as to how we wanted to
1:56:29 proceed after we had gone through
1:56:36 finished the design and the permitting
1:56:38 process unlike most construction bids
1:56:47 like safer the skatepark for example
1:56:50 when we go out to bed
1:56:51 the contractors doing all the work in
1:56:53 purchasing all the material in this
1:56:55 project we did the phasing a little bit
1:56:58 differently the city will actually be
1:57:00 investing in some items themselves they
1:57:03 won't be supplied by the contractor and
1:57:07 this was a Avenue to help we as staff
1:57:10 pursued
1:57:11 as far as trying to maintain quality do
1:57:14 price control by purchasing these items
1:57:17 they weren't experiencing contractor
1:57:19 markup or potential substitution after
1:57:22 the construction award had already been
1:57:25 bid some of these items are like the
1:57:29 artificial turf and the Lighting's
1:57:31 lighting field lighting whether or not
1:57:34 we do the metal halide or the LED
1:57:36 lighting we'd be looking at entering
1:57:38 into an agreement and purchasing while
1:57:40 we already have an agreement with the
1:57:42 King County Directors Association also
1:57:45 known as KC da which is a cooperative
1:57:47 agency they contract out in bet all the
1:57:51 projects all the vendors and materials
1:57:55 and supplies and since we have an
1:57:57 interlocal agreement and we've had a
1:57:58 standing agreement with them since 1997
1:58:01 we're able to purchase materials
1:58:04 directly from them and get the benefit
1:58:08 of the cost without the exposure to
1:58:11 contract or markup in addition we'd also
1:58:15 need to work with PSE we'd need to get a
1:58:18 new transformer set in order to support
1:58:21 the field lighting and for the interim
1:58:24 parking lot as we investigated the costs
1:58:27 on that there's no electricity directly
1:58:30 to the site and set it pulling new power
1:58:33 to the site would be very cost costly
1:58:36 and we're entering into an agreement
1:58:39 with into light which allows us to
1:58:42 basically red light standards for that
1:58:44 area it's a temporary use and once the
1:58:48 larger expanded parking lot is corrected
1:58:51 we can decommission those without a
1:58:53 terrible expense as we would if we were
1:58:56 setting new service to the site
1:59:03 now as far as what the contractor bid on
1:59:06 they bid on the base bid which is the
1:59:08 construction of the fields again we'd be
1:59:11 providing the artificial turf and the
1:59:14 lighting as some materials for the work
1:59:16 but they also bid on the you may recall
1:59:23 the site plan here they bid on the four
1:59:28 different alternates the first one was
1:59:30 the safety improvements which were is
1:59:33 along this stretch of road here and it's
1:59:37 widening the parking two feet to allow
1:59:41 for safer vehicular passage right now
1:59:44 the parking stalls are six foot wide
1:59:46 this would be moving the kerb to an 8
1:59:48 foot parking stall width along that area
1:59:54 this was in reaction this was added as a
1:59:57 part of the project in reaction to
2:00:00 public comment receive throughout the
2:00:02 design process alternate number two is
2:00:06 the addition of the picnic shelter up
2:00:08 here this is probably the least
2:00:10 impactful of all items to come back and
2:00:13 do at a future date however this is also
2:00:16 in reaction to public comment because
2:00:19 the existing picnic shelter is so
2:00:22 heavily used they felt it would be a
2:00:23 nice amenity for the site bid alternate
2:00:29 number three for the contractor was site
2:00:32 amenities which included trash cans
2:00:35 soccer goals scoreboard padding for the
2:00:39 backstop bike racks and a few other
2:00:42 items and then alternate number four
2:00:46 includes is a little more graphic and
2:00:51 functional and this it's this mound here
2:00:55 which as we went out to public comment
2:00:59 during the design we heard from people
2:01:01 were really saddened to think that this
2:01:03 was going to be a fenced off field that
2:01:06 they could no longer access and we
2:01:08 worked with our Landscape Architect dave
2:01:10 Andrews to come up with the solution of
2:01:14 creating this mound
2:01:15 to help prevent balls and also provides
2:01:19 some safety but we were able to remove
2:01:21 the sense from here all the way up into
2:01:25 here to allow more public open access so
2:01:29 when you're approaching from the
2:01:31 existing parking lot which is here or in
2:01:33 the playground areas this feels like an
2:01:35 open field that if it's not in use you
2:01:37 could go walk out on go fly a kite and
2:01:40 do other things so this mound the
2:01:45 alternate includes the addition of some
2:01:47 of these other seat walls and the
2:01:49 plantings in there again to come back
2:01:52 and do this bit alternate item would be
2:01:55 a little more costly at a future date
2:01:57 just because of the canal you construct
2:01:59 the mound and the walls at the same time
2:02:04 so those are the four items that the
2:02:07 contractor bid on utilizing the apparent
2:02:11 low bid from terra dynamics the project
2:02:17 is currently has a funding gap of 1
2:02:20 million eight hundred and eighty eight
2:02:21 thousand five hundred and fifty dollars
2:02:24 as stated in the agenda bill this also
2:02:30 assumes if you recall last december and
2:02:33 during budget deliberations what the
2:02:36 available funding was at this time which
2:02:38 was three point seven three million
2:02:40 dollars moving forward with that request
2:02:45 of 1 million eight hundred eighty eight
2:02:48 thousand dollars and change it's
2:02:51 important to note that about three
2:02:53 hundred and forty thousand of is
2:02:55 contingency and the contingency is based
2:02:58 upon fifteen percent of the contractors
2:03:01 base bid as well as the road improvement
2:03:05 works along Central Park Lane because
2:03:09 those two elements during construction
2:03:12 pose a lot of unknowns when you start
2:03:15 digging and what's really happening out
2:03:17 there and proximity to utilities and so
2:03:20 on and so forth though we're asking for
2:03:24 an additional million dollars for the
2:03:27 Central Park project I do want to remind
2:03:29 so that by no means does this finish
2:03:32 Central Park by any means they're still
2:03:34 pad four which came out of the site
2:03:37 development plan process and other park
2:03:41 improvements bike park other lighting
2:03:44 and restroom facilities and things that
2:03:47 are needed up here so you will see those
2:03:49 in future capital requests so as we
2:03:57 worked with both finance and
2:04:00 administration on how we're going to
2:04:02 fund this project two primary sources
2:04:05 were identified one which we spoke of
2:04:07 last December was the park mitigation
2:04:11 fund and the other available funding
2:04:14 source would be general fund and on page
2:04:18 six of the staff report in your packet
2:04:21 are the funding options and due to the
2:04:26 complexities of the bid setup and other
2:04:29 items like contingency sales tax that
2:04:32 get added in to them it was a little
2:04:34 cumbersome to try and come up with a
2:04:37 very clean presentation of all the
2:04:38 potential alternates so what we did is
2:04:42 we took the extreme approach if the
2:04:45 project were to be funded fully with
2:04:48 general fund revenues a million dollars
2:04:51 what this would look like option number
2:04:54 two was if we used a million dollars out
2:04:57 of the park
2:04:58 mitigation funding and then we kind of
2:05:02 saw those as two bookends of the funding
2:05:05 and we'll walk through this here in a
2:05:07 moment and then the other third option
2:05:10 is really in between those two bookends
2:05:12 you could select any book or series of
2:05:14 books to help make up your package for
2:05:18 the design so assuming that we need our
2:05:24 current if we look at bookend 1 the full
2:05:27 project using general revenue sources
2:05:29 our current project revenue is the 3.7 3
2:05:33 million the general fund revenue we'd
2:05:36 request for this project is 1 million
2:05:40 just over a million
2:05:42 and in working with the finance
2:05:44 department the estimated sun balance
2:05:46 currently for the General Revenue Fund
2:05:49 is 16 million pending other budget
2:05:53 amendments that council has would also
2:05:56 deduct another nine hundred almost nine
2:05:59 hundred thousand less a central park
2:06:02 need we'd be looking at a revised ending
2:06:04 fund balance of just over 14 million
2:06:07 dollars if you were to fund the million
2:06:11 with the general revenue now if we took
2:06:13 the same picture looking at the park
2:06:15 mitigation revenue we have the same
2:06:18 project cost but the estimated fund
2:06:22 balance for 2017 currently is the 3.4
2:06:27 million and the park mitigation if we
2:06:30 used a million of that for this project
2:06:33 we'd end up with a revised ending fund
2:06:35 balance of about 2.3 million okay as of
2:06:42 course here we can pick a book or any
2:06:44 book series of books or bit alternates
2:06:47 between those book ends and you know
2:06:50 given the project balance we'd you could
2:06:52 divide the funding sources you could
2:06:54 provide a myriad of bid alternates it's
2:06:58 really up to you as to what you'd want
2:07:00 to do and then the general fund revenue
2:07:02 and the park mitigation revenue would be
2:07:07 Val ending fund balances would be
2:07:10 altered accordingly
2:07:12 as staff we looked at some of the
2:07:16 complexities within this project and a
2:07:19 lot of you know this is a park bond
2:07:23 project the way to address the community
2:07:27 needs we really felt that funding our
2:07:30 recommendation would be to fund the
2:07:32 whole project utilizing the general fund
2:07:36 [Music]
2:07:37 this does a number of things it fulfills
2:07:40 our park bond obligation it also
2:07:42 addresses the community desire for the
2:07:46 LED lighting upgrades functionality with
2:07:50 the parking the additional picnic
2:07:52 shelter it also maximizes the field use
2:07:55 by ad
2:07:56 over 2,000 hours of playable field time
2:07:59 which given the winter we've had is a
2:08:01 lot of time I know it's been a concern
2:08:05 as to whether or not to move forward
2:08:08 with this project since the park
2:08:09 strategic plan has not been updated
2:08:12 we feel it's beneficial to move forward
2:08:15 and complete this project in its
2:08:18 entirety so we can focus on new projects
2:08:21 that would arise out of the park
2:08:23 strategic planning effort and utilizing
2:08:27 general fund also preserves park
2:08:29 mitigation fee our the park mitigation
2:08:32 fund in order to approach and address
2:08:34 those current and future projects that
2:08:37 would arise out of the park strategic
2:08:43 utilizing the general fund you can see
2:08:47 what this does to a complete and
2:08:50 balanced fund package the city of
2:08:54 Issaquah Park mitigation fund currently
2:08:56 has is giving a million dollars to this
2:08:59 project and that's 21 percent of the
2:09:02 project total the 2013 park bond is
2:09:06 giving 32 percent of the project total
2:09:09 we have various grants that are giving
2:09:12 24 percent of the project total and the
2:09:16 general fund would be just over a
2:09:19 million and that would be roughly 23%
2:09:21 there's a small little yellow sliver
2:09:24 here and that is a thank you to Issaquah
2:09:27 soccer club for their donation of $5,000
2:09:31 to this project and with that I'm happy
2:09:35 to take any questions you may have
2:09:40 hola I'm for the sake of the larger
2:09:43 council I'll ask one of the same
2:09:45 questions I asked in committee which is
2:09:47 if you could talk about that ending fund
2:09:48 balance in regards to city fiscal policy
2:09:52 I have someone here who I think can
2:09:56 answer that question all the better than
2:09:58 I Jennifer over to this time I won't be
2:10:02 surprising over the question I'm like
2:10:03 I'm like I'm we're in committee
2:10:15 good the Union Council with regards to
2:10:18 fiscal policy currently the city of
2:10:22 Ithaca financial policy includes
2:10:24 reserves where a minimum of 8 percent of
2:10:27 budgeted expenditures need to be set
2:10:30 aside up to a maximum of 15 percent
2:10:34 currently the 2017 budget is identifying
2:10:39 ending fund balance to be over 40
2:10:42 percent and so with there are some
2:10:45 pending budget amendments that you have
2:10:46 not seen yet but they are pending coming
2:10:48 to you at a June council meeting date
2:10:51 but with this additional proposed budget
2:10:54 amendment that would bring us down to an
2:10:56 ending fund balance of approximately 32
2:10:59 percent keeping in mind is this the
2:11:01 ending fund balance from a budgeted
2:11:03 perspective can be fluid based on
2:11:05 council budget amendments but
2:11:07 approximately 32 percent so that is well
2:11:10 over the council financial policy with
2:11:12 regards to the min and maximum of what's
2:11:16 required for reserves thank you very
2:11:19 much No I have some questions on how the
2:11:25 lighting works it's pretty clear to me
2:11:28 the for bid alternates they're just laid
2:11:30 out there's alternates but the lighting
2:11:32 is is option it's not an alternate and
2:11:36 falling the numbers I expect to be about
2:11:38 $90,000 increase for LED which which I
2:11:41 love but you're trying to follow that
2:11:44 when I get down into the budget with
2:11:46 purchasing equipment it only shows 477
2:11:48 thousand so I assume that's you know
2:11:51 what I'm making some assumptions here so
2:11:53 tell me exactly how the lighting cost
2:11:55 works okay in the base did we have the
2:12:02 LED lighting or excuse me the metal
2:12:06 halide lighting in this alternate here
2:12:12 the total cost to add the LED lighting
2:12:16 has the metal halide in it so
2:12:20 collectively it's like 700,000 I think
2:12:24 for all of the lighting
2:12:28 that correct ik hang on here the
2:12:34 purchase from KCDC shows four hundred
2:12:36 seventy seven thousand right bear with
2:12:39 me just a moment let me get my so let's
2:12:50 see here
2:12:59 so what that is the 477 thousand there
2:13:03 is the metal halide with the LED upgrade
2:13:08 so that is the correct amount of the
2:13:10 four hundred seventy seven thousand
2:13:12 dollars for the project elements so
2:13:18 that's the purchase of the material yes
2:13:20 but the increase over the metal halide
2:13:23 is only ninety two thousand we drop back
2:13:26 that would drive back - you know that -
2:13:28 ninety two thousand right current and
2:13:30 the construction of putting in the
2:13:34 lighting is basically the same whether
2:13:35 it's it's lights it's lights but the 90
2:13:39 mm difference yeah that's just the
2:13:41 purchase and the installation is
2:13:43 included in the base bid correct okay
2:13:46 thank you other questions or discussion
2:13:52 say none this is coming back from the
2:13:56 services safety committee at Ola Thank
2:14:00 You mr. mayor on May 9th 2017 Parks and
2:14:03 Recreation Director Jeff Watling gave
2:14:04 the council services and Safety
2:14:06 Committee a presentation on the Central
2:14:07 Park Pat one project he's a patsy
2:14:09 presentation focused on the memo
2:14:11 provided to the committee detailing the
2:14:12 bid summary project summary funding
2:14:14 options and recommendation following the
2:14:17 staff presentation public comment was
2:14:19 held after discussion the committee
2:14:21 recommended two to zero ordering the
2:14:23 base bid and bid alternates one through
2:14:25 four to Tara dynamic sank they also
2:14:27 recommended including the LED lighting
2:14:29 option authorizing an additional 1
2:14:31 million eighty eight thousand five
2:14:32 hundred and fifty dollars funding option
2:14:34 one from the general fund to the central
2:14:36 park pad one project so I would like to
2:14:42 move to award the central park pad
2:14:44 number one construction contract for the
2:14:47 base bid and bid alternates one through
2:14:49 four for central park pad one to Tara
2:14:52 dynamics pink in the amount of 271
2:14:55 thousand one hundred and twenty dollars
2:14:56 including sales tax and direct the
2:14:58 finance director to include 1 million
2:15:00 eighty eight thousand five hundred and
2:15:01 fifty dollars central park pad one
2:15:04 project in the subsequent 2017 budget
2:15:06 amendment utilizing general funds and
2:15:08 mr. mayor I'm sorry but as I read that
2:15:10 item not sure it includes the halide
2:15:13 lighting it says I'll base bid and bid
2:15:17 alternates one through four but the
2:15:18 halide lighting was LED lighting sorry
2:15:22 LED lady in the way that it was worded
2:15:26 in the earlier section I just want to
2:15:29 make sure that the bid I'm sure the
2:15:31 dollar amounts are correct but I want to
2:15:32 make sure that the the motion that I
2:15:35 make visited what we intend what the
2:15:39 what the at least the committee intended
2:15:41 you're moving forward but LED is to be
2:15:45 in that me I believe the LED is to be in
2:15:49 that that it is in the motion mm-hmm
2:15:56 okay they're a lucky one all right well
2:16:01 then then I've made the motion second
2:16:04 moved and seconded
2:16:07 official discussion or questions Mary
2:16:10 Lou you just have some comments to share
2:16:13 so I am supporting this tonight and I
2:16:16 wanted to thank Jen for the agenda bill
2:16:19 I found it very easy to understand and
2:16:21 we asked for you to bid this in a more
2:16:24 complicated way than normal so thank you
2:16:26 so my comments are a couple of real big
2:16:30 pluses for our Parks Department I do
2:16:32 think they're amazing at leveraging
2:16:34 grant opportunities going out and
2:16:35 finding the money and leveraging that
2:16:37 and that's why we get to build a lot of
2:16:39 the stuff that we get to do also the
2:16:41 community outreach that you've done on
2:16:43 these specific projects that's been good
2:16:46 when I've been to community meetings
2:16:49 where the Parks Department has been
2:16:50 talking about a project you really
2:16:51 listen and you really react to what you
2:16:53 hear in the meeting room and that's
2:16:56 fantastic why I was so concerned with
2:16:59 this at budget time goes back to the
2:17:01 discussion about our Ridge our first
2:17:03 parks recreational space and trail plan
2:17:06 prost and the strategic plan that you're
2:17:09 working on now and the concern i've
2:17:11 always had is that when we take a scope
2:17:15 of a project and change it as we go
2:17:17 along and we're talking to a small group
2:17:19 of the community i mean a piece of it we
2:17:22 are not then using our lens of our week
2:17:25 equitably the
2:17:26 building and improving all the parks in
2:17:28 the city because we don't have a list of
2:17:31 what where our other deficiencies and
2:17:33 needs are we can add a scope to a
2:17:35 project and add money and pay for and we
2:17:37 don't know what we're not getting and
2:17:39 I'm not sure that we can even do that
2:17:42 tonight because we haven't finished the
2:17:44 strategic plan process that was the
2:17:46 reason why a budget I wanted it brought
2:17:48 back with alternates
2:17:49 and so if we were not in a healthy
2:17:52 financial position like we are now where
2:17:54 we could use general fund I wouldn't
2:17:56 support this at all but I do support it
2:17:59 and I support it with the general fund I
2:18:01 believe we need to protect that
2:18:03 mitigation fund and build it till we
2:18:06 figure out what the priorities are for
2:18:08 parks and the rest of the town and
2:18:10 remember that we collected that money
2:18:11 from construction projects and it is
2:18:14 supposed to be used in all neighborhoods
2:18:16 that are requiring it they can have
2:18:19 capacity improvements and so you had to
2:18:22 be careful not to focus on just too hard
2:18:25 just Central Park and just confluence we
2:18:27 have a much bigger system than that and
2:18:29 we need to make sure we're equitable
2:18:31 throughout our community so I'm
2:18:33 supportive it tonight
2:18:34 I think the agenda bill was really well
2:18:36 done and I think on a project specific
2:18:39 basis our parks department does a great
2:18:41 job in listening to their community
2:18:43 right other questions or discussion I
2:18:49 would like to make a clarifying question
2:18:53 or a statement real quick Toula to
2:18:56 answer your question about the LED
2:18:58 lights in the motion that term is not in
2:19:01 the motion but it should be included in
2:19:03 the motion the dollar amounts do include
2:19:06 the LED lights so that are presented in
2:19:09 the motion the 1 million so it should be
2:19:10 the base bid and the option 1 and put
2:19:14 where alternate so I would like to amend
2:19:16 my motion I would like to move to amend
2:19:19 my motion to change the language to
2:19:21 construction contract for the base bid
2:19:23 and LED lighting and bid estimates one
2:19:27 through four second discussion on the
2:19:32 amendment
2:19:34 seeing none all those in favor of the
2:19:37 amendment signify by saying aye
2:19:38 alright those opposed that carries
2:19:41 unanimously
2:19:42 Toula so I'll speak back to the main
2:19:44 motion so you know we thought long and
2:19:49 hard about this acting before the the
2:19:52 new Proust parks recreation opens bass
2:19:54 trails plan is back because we also were
2:19:58 concerned we want to make sure that we
2:20:01 have that document to guide our general
2:20:04 policy on parks we felt that time and
2:20:07 time again these these well drained the
2:20:10 fields get so much used they're so
2:20:12 critical to both kids and adults in the
2:20:15 community and their recreation that it
2:20:16 affords sort of a special place and we
2:20:19 knew that we I mean one way or the other
2:20:22 we're going to want to build these
2:20:24 fields they're so central just to so
2:20:26 many folks around the city so we felt it
2:20:29 was a it was a safe bet to assume that
2:20:31 even if we had the new Prost plan in
2:20:34 place that we would not be not building
2:20:35 this so we we decided that we wanted to
2:20:38 move forward and while there were a
2:20:41 couple of the pieces of the bid
2:20:44 alternate that might have might have
2:20:46 been able to wait most of them had
2:20:47 additional costs associated with them if
2:20:49 they were to wait so we decided to put
2:20:51 that all in and then finally the issue
2:20:55 around general fund versus parks
2:20:58 mitigation we felt that there's a
2:21:01 fundamental question around sort of for
2:21:04 the long-term Finance Committee about
2:21:06 why we have a general fund that's quite
2:21:07 so high if our target is is a floor of
2:21:11 8% and a nominal of 15% and we're at 40%
2:21:14 at the at the moment it's a good problem
2:21:17 to have
2:21:18 I get but it's also there's also
2:21:20 probably something in there that that
2:21:22 deserves further attention but with
2:21:24 outstanding changes that are coming down
2:21:26 the pike plus plus this additional
2:21:29 monies having the general fund go to 32%
2:21:32 because this was also a one-time cost
2:21:34 you know we've talked many times and if
2:21:37 I want to call the Winter Stein criteria
2:21:38 but the idea that general fund money
2:21:40 shouldn't be used for long-term
2:21:42 financial I think it's actually probably
2:21:43 older than just bolts you can do 2,000
2:21:46 for it
2:21:48 but you know for many years we've talked
2:21:50 about how we only want to take out a
2:21:51 general fund for varies for specific
2:21:54 individual uses and not for systemic
2:21:57 issues and this is certainly an
2:21:58 individual use so it met that criteria
2:21:59 so for all those reasons I supported it
2:22:02 to me no so I I went to compliment the
2:22:08 park staff for all the work they've done
2:22:09 keeping us informed along the way so so
2:22:12 this came to us with without any
2:22:13 surprises we knew this was going to be
2:22:15 more than we thought so that process was
2:22:18 really good and appreciate that and and
2:22:21 this is a park we won and I support
2:22:23 getting these fields in and using LED
2:22:25 lighting but I have some big concerns
2:22:27 and and one of those is we really have
2:22:30 one bid you know that that always
2:22:33 bothers me when you only really have one
2:22:34 bid and you're asking for 1.1 more
2:22:38 million dollars yes there's money in the
2:22:40 general fund but right now I know a lot
2:22:43 of people that are talking to me about
2:22:44 all the other things we want to do in
2:22:46 Issaquah you have a Providence Point
2:22:48 traffic light we have traffic
2:22:51 enforcement of the development of
2:22:52 enforcement we have just bike and ped
2:22:54 safety roads traffic the big thing so
2:22:57 there's a lot of things that I want to
2:23:00 look at and we normally look at those
2:23:01 things in the budget when we balance
2:23:04 those out if I remember last budget
2:23:06 negotiation we're down to ten thousand
2:23:08 arguing about ten thousand dollars here
2:23:10 or there and also in 1.1 million comes
2:23:12 and it's like yes it's a good thing we
2:23:14 want it but you know how does that
2:23:16 balance with everything else so the
2:23:17 strategic part of this additional
2:23:19 funding is I'm very concerned about
2:23:23 we've done this a couple times this year
2:23:25 we've confluence bridge four hundred
2:23:28 thousand dollars which I heard from a
2:23:30 lot of my constituents they were very
2:23:32 upset with projects creeping up in scope
2:23:37 and in caliber and those kinds of things
2:23:40 and and some people read me the riot act
2:23:42 I'll tell you bluntly we've spend more
2:23:44 money on Trader Joe's three trails we
2:23:46 couldn't been putting out four hundred
2:23:48 thousand at a pop pretty easy for a lot
2:23:50 of things they're all good things we
2:23:53 want them all my problem is we're not
2:23:56 doing it strategically as some of the
2:23:58 things that
2:23:59 you said so I don't know what I'm
2:24:02 trading off here and yes we have a nice
2:24:04 general fund balance right now that
2:24:07 doesn't mean you just go spend it
2:24:10 because this is the next project that
2:24:12 comes up when we have to have the money
2:24:14 with us and the next project doesn't now
2:24:16 we're sitting pretty good but there's a
2:24:19 lot of things on a list of things we
2:24:20 want to do particularly in the traffic
2:24:21 and other mode and other parks so I I'm
2:24:26 feeling like I want the field and what
2:24:28 the lights and that gets us pretty high
2:24:30 right there that's 650,000 increase but
2:24:34 we put those four alternates in there
2:24:36 for a reason so we could look at them
2:24:37 and that's about you know when you take
2:24:40 the contingency and there's about
2:24:41 $450,000 we could reduce this by build
2:24:45 the field and the lights and then those
2:24:48 items could go back in the next year's
2:24:50 budget and they could compete with
2:24:51 everything else in a fair way
2:24:53 strategically balanced when then we
2:24:55 could know hey we're looking at doing
2:24:57 this or doing that and we can balance
2:25:00 that we're here we have no comparison
2:25:01 it's just like yes we want it but we
2:25:05 don't really have money that's going to
2:25:07 go on forever so I guess I'd like to
2:25:12 propose an amendment the memo would be
2:25:15 too fun I propose we fund the base bid
2:25:20 with the LED lights of the general fund
2:25:22 and not the four alternates okay
2:25:33 point of order question oh oh it's a
2:25:40 point of order is that questions is that
2:25:43 a really a Amendment
2:25:46 it sounded like an alternative motion it
2:25:50 didn't mention amending the motion on
2:25:53 the floor
2:25:53 I just just want clarity so either it
2:26:00 needs to be an amendment to the motion
2:26:02 or the motion would need to be voted on
2:26:05 in a new motion lead or the motion could
2:26:07 be withdrawn and a new motion made so it
2:26:09 could happen a few different ways okay
2:26:13 let me clarify it thank you I would like
2:26:17 to amend the motion too and I'll read
2:26:20 the whole thing but I would just take
2:26:22 out the bid alternates one through four
2:26:24 so all would remain the same base bid
2:26:28 the new piece we get it back in the
2:26:29 alt/option one would be there but take
2:26:33 out the bid alternatives one through
2:26:35 four so remedy dollar amount would have
2:26:38 to change that again also read read the
2:26:41 amendment in it okay or the central park
2:26:44 pad number one construction contract for
2:26:46 the base bid and the wording is an
2:26:56 option LED lighting for central park pad
2:27:01 one to tear dynamics ink in the amount
2:27:03 of two million seven hundred seventy-one
2:27:06 thousand hundred twenty dollars
2:27:07 including sales tax and direct finance
2:27:10 director to include and this number is
2:27:12 going to change it I don't know the
2:27:13 exact number on my map that's
2:27:14 approximately six hundred fifty three
2:27:16 thousand dollars in the Central Park
2:27:20 pattern one project in a subsequent and
2:27:22 subsequent to 2017 budget amendment
2:27:25 utilizing general funds second o redone
2:27:30 yes the the amendment the amended motion
2:27:42 to the lead in alternatives one through
2:27:46 four summary of the amendment discussion
2:27:49 on the proposed amendment Malu followed
2:27:55 by Paul question for Jen I guess when we
2:27:59 were talking about it in budget session
2:28:01 and we were talking about whether or not
2:28:02 to do halide lighting or LED lighting
2:28:06 there was a lot of concern about redoing
2:28:09 it twice so you know installing
2:28:11 something and then ripping it out these
2:28:13 alternates that council member Ramos
2:28:17 pulled out they are all on a different
2:28:20 part of the site than the sports field
2:28:23 itself so is there still the same
2:28:25 concern like is there any kind of
2:28:28 overlap here or could it be phase so
2:28:30 that lights and field at one time and
2:28:34 without going back into the same
2:28:36 footprint could you do all the rest of
2:28:37 the items that he suggested at a later
2:28:40 date alternate ones the road widening
2:28:44 could be done at an alternate date
2:28:46 however it would be a substantial
2:28:49 disruption will all barely already be
2:28:54 doing construction on site doing that
2:28:57 work at the same time would mean less
2:28:59 disruption in the future but the road
2:29:03 widening yes it could be done at a
2:29:05 future time however it could be also
2:29:07 more cost of more expensive to Rameau
2:29:10 belies because you pull it out because
2:29:12 you do it out and then you have time and
2:29:14 materials and time to do the work and
2:29:17 then you have a whole new mobilization
2:29:19 for someone to come out on site the
2:29:22 picnic shelter as stated earlier is
2:29:24 probably the easiest of all the items to
2:29:26 pull out and do at a separate date it's
2:29:28 the least impactful it's an isolated
2:29:32 area that alone would be the best the
2:29:36 amenities and site furnishings those are
2:29:39 soccer goals bike racks things that are
2:29:42 required by permit things that allow the
2:29:44 use and enjoyment of the fields portable
2:29:47 mounds but they could be purchased at a
2:29:51 future date
2:29:54 just want to say I mean it's going to be
2:29:55 hard to play soccer if you got no goals
2:29:57 okay it's going to be hard to play
2:29:58 baseball if you don't have a mom so I
2:30:00 mean there while they were separated out
2:30:02 from the bid they're an integral part of
2:30:05 the overall use of the field so just
2:30:08 gotta be cognizant of that otherwise
2:30:09 they could go we could go there a long
2:30:13 time and that associations will just
2:30:15 have to pick up the cost if they want to
2:30:17 use it and then worth the alternate
2:30:22 number for the walls and mounds some of
2:30:26 the mounting work would be done innately
2:30:29 as part of the basement
2:30:31 the additional walls that would be used
2:30:33 as seating those would be much more
2:30:36 expensive to come back and do at a
2:30:38 future date again another mobilization
2:30:40 further disruption close to the sports
2:30:44 field use it was cost-effectiveness
2:30:47 would be better to do it now than at a
2:30:49 future date during the construction
2:30:53 thank you all I think there was a maybe
2:31:01 a problem with the MP motion the
2:31:04 amendment on the floor because I think
2:31:05 bill you said the total amount of 2.7
2:31:10 million which which actually included
2:31:15 all for bid alternatives you said to
2:31:18 7/7/11 one poor finish but the base bid
2:31:23 is two three three fly the alternatives
2:31:25 for 35 six yeah but you said that amount
2:31:28 you said I think he said 2.7 yeah I'm
2:31:30 getting in oh you're right so so we got
2:31:34 that to deal with it a little
2:31:35 housecleaning to deal with I'm asked
2:31:37 this question Oates in slightly
2:31:40 different ways so when I go back and
2:31:42 review the budget deliberations from
2:31:47 last year the original proposal from the
2:31:49 administration was for an additional
2:31:52 roughly 1.1 million dollars from
2:31:54 mitigation Council cut that out said no
2:32:01 now you're coming back with basic almost
2:32:04 the same amount and yet
2:32:07 and yet the proposal came in higher than
2:32:12 the engineers estimate so if he could
2:32:14 you could you help me understand that
2:32:18 sector it's really back to the original
2:32:22 amount you asked for in the fall yet the
2:32:25 bid is high well the original million
2:32:29 that was requested last fall also
2:32:31 included the expanded parking lot which
2:32:33 is no longer part okay of the project so
2:32:36 we had pared it down to the 415 of the
2:32:39 bid alternates okay in looking at let me
2:32:42 find my notes here
2:32:46 and looking at the try and find it here
2:32:58 the bids themselves it was 400 the
2:33:07 majority of the cost increase for this
2:33:11 over the engineers estimate was in the
2:33:13 base bid and that was roughly 500 and
2:33:18 trying to find it here five hundred and
2:33:21 some thousand the base or the alternates
2:33:25 their bid price was only a hundred and
2:33:29 thirty seven thousand more trying to
2:33:33 find the numbers here you may have
2:33:37 answered the question in that the
2:33:39 proposal in the fall included everything
2:33:41 which we eventually called the for the
2:33:43 alternatives right and and but what's
2:33:47 not in the one in front of us today is
2:33:50 the full parking collision now we don't
2:33:53 have a line on him for how much that
2:33:54 cost but maybe that amount is so that I
2:33:58 was looking for some kind of general
2:34:00 description how did we get to the same
2:34:01 number even though you know it was it
2:34:05 was came in high and it's because the
2:34:07 scope is less because parking is not in
2:34:09 it I think is the answer right a lot of
2:34:12 the but also some of the construction
2:34:15 costs materials have increased sign of
2:34:17 the times with a higher
2:34:20 market and construction costs right now
2:34:22 materials are two premium contractor
2:34:25 availabilities that a premium costs are
2:34:27 just innately increasing so a lot of it
2:34:32 was seen in the base there was five
2:34:35 hundred thousand was our initial overrun
2:34:38 there's a hundred and some thousand
2:34:41 thirty thousand give or take in the ad
2:34:43 alternates so from four hundred and
2:34:46 fifteen thousand to roughly five hundred
2:34:48 thirty seven I think it was and then we
2:34:51 also have our contingency which is in
2:34:53 that as well which gets us back up to
2:34:55 that million dollars where we were okay
2:35:00 so okay so the current amended amended
2:35:06 motion is to not include the street
2:35:10 widening or the parking widening of two
2:35:12 feet not build a picnic shelter the
2:35:16 other amenities which frankly I thank
2:35:18 you I thank you to the administrator for
2:35:20 the clarification I don't know I don't
2:35:23 know how they're I'm sorry I don't know
2:35:25 how they're not park the original cost
2:35:28 that that's nonsensical to me and I will
2:35:31 say that the the mounding in the walls
2:35:33 it seems like the that seems like an
2:35:36 amenity per the design that really is
2:35:39 kind of I want to use the word core but
2:35:44 it seems essential to the kind of the
2:35:46 overall operation and use of of the you
2:35:50 know facility for spectator but also I I
2:35:55 I did like the way you described it as
2:35:59 allowing us to not sense the entire area
2:36:03 and make it more you know more
2:36:07 accessible and so I really do appreciate
2:36:10 my colleague consul member Ramos is way
2:36:14 of pointing that out you know 300
2:36:16 thousand there 400 thousand there I
2:36:18 think that's a very important and as far
2:36:23 as from the general fund I think that's
2:36:24 a very important way to to to think
2:36:28 about this we have to we're not seeing
2:36:29 them all in total we're kind of
2:36:31 dousing ourselves to death so to speak
2:36:33 of you but and so but I do last fall
2:36:37 when we did consider we talked about all
2:36:40 of these and so I am going to harken
2:36:42 back to the fall when we said break them
2:36:45 out you don't have the hundred million
2:36:47 dollars for mitigation get the bid
2:36:49 alternatives and and and at that time
2:36:54 you know that agree with you it was like
2:36:57 let's let's see can we slice some of
2:36:59 these off and I think what's proposed if
2:37:04 I go back to then I think we you know I
2:37:06 we considered them we weighed them
2:37:09 against the rest of the budget and and
2:37:12 we didn't approve it and so when we said
2:37:16 come back and prove you know that you
2:37:18 can price them differently and we didn't
2:37:21 get that we they're basically they did
2:37:23 eat up the original proposed budget
2:37:25 along without getting the parking so so
2:37:28 I'm really struggling here because I
2:37:31 feel that all of these are justified
2:37:33 especially the mounting and I think and
2:37:35 the amenities but I agree that you know
2:37:39 we that you know this we're not getting
2:37:44 a chance to look at these in context of
2:37:46 other a full budget consideration so I'm
2:37:49 a little bit torn I it's kind of more of
2:37:51 a ramble I realized but I'm a little bit
2:37:53 torn on which way to go Ohio so I just
2:37:59 wanted to speak to the to the alternates
2:38:03 and the options and and then I'll have
2:38:08 more to say when we get back to the
2:38:09 original motion in terms of the
2:38:12 alternates I think two council member
2:38:15 Ramos Ramos comments when I was looking
2:38:20 at this going back to it for the first
2:38:23 time I really did focus in on the LED
2:38:25 lighting we had a lot of a lot of
2:38:28 community engagement around that issue
2:38:32 and a lot of public comments about what
2:38:36 the other lights would mean in that area
2:38:39 and I think that that is very important
2:38:41 so when looking through there
2:38:43 that was my first focus
2:38:45 as well but after sitting and going
2:38:48 through everything on safety in services
2:38:50 I would say that a lot of the other
2:38:53 pieces of this became I think really
2:38:56 important and we're going forward we're
2:38:59 doing construction we'll have the park
2:39:01 under construction and so though so the
2:39:06 the first alternate the Central Park
2:39:09 Lane widening would be something that
2:39:11 would already be under construction I
2:39:13 think that that would be hard to go back
2:39:15 and do and then have the park go through
2:39:17 construction again I've I've said this
2:39:21 before but I'll reiterate this is that I
2:39:24 definitely you know from a community
2:39:28 perspective I think that this is so
2:39:29 important the park in general and having
2:39:32 more space for everyone to come and play
2:39:35 but I I am a mom who has been up there
2:39:38 in the rain and the dark with kids
2:39:41 darting to and fro and soccer balls and
2:39:44 lacrosse balls flying and when you're
2:39:46 trying to get into those really small
2:39:48 lanes and all parking spots and all of
2:39:51 the kids are out there it really it does
2:39:53 raise a safety concern and so I would be
2:39:57 a proponent of that the picnic shelter
2:40:00 and I would just say that overall we're
2:40:05 trying to create this amazing community
2:40:08 space and when you're out there in
2:40:09 tournaments all day long
2:40:11 parents and kids and the teams need a
2:40:14 place to sit and rest and the the
2:40:19 amenities that was one of the questions
2:40:22 that I brought up and then we ran
2:40:24 through what they were
2:40:25 it's the soccer goals the the portable
2:40:28 mounds the back stops the wall padding
2:40:31 so it's difficult to go forward with
2:40:33 this and then not have those sorts of
2:40:36 amenities the the mounding and the
2:40:41 plantings as we talked us through on
2:40:43 safety and services it really to me was
2:40:46 part of the design it's it's the part of
2:40:49 the design of having that open area and
2:40:53 so that was really difficult for me to
2:40:56 pull out again I'll speak to
2:40:59 some of the other reasons when we get
2:41:00 back to the main motion but I just
2:41:03 wanted to share my feelings after going
2:41:05 through this and talking mister on
2:41:08 safety and services and I'm in still in
2:41:10 support of I would not be in support of
2:41:13 the amendment for that reason thank you
2:41:18 so bill I appreciate your thoughts on on
2:41:24 concern about spending it's struggled
2:41:29 with that with several projects I I have
2:41:33 a little bit of a different take on why
2:41:35 I wouldn't support it however and just
2:41:37 doing the lights and not the alternates
2:41:40 I'm still a little confused why we're
2:41:41 calling them all turrets if the project
2:41:43 won't work without them however I'm not
2:41:45 quite sure how we can call them
2:41:47 alternates but I think the effect of put
2:41:53 of doing part of the project and doing
2:41:56 the LED lighting but not including
2:41:59 something is important of park being
2:42:02 widening for example is that then you
2:42:04 have the lighting to increase the
2:42:07 programming and all of the use and all
2:42:10 of the additional people and all of the
2:42:12 cars but then you don't have you don't
2:42:14 get something as significant as parking
2:42:17 widening we have had recently and
2:42:21 there's a growing concern in the
2:42:23 highlands about speeding through the
2:42:26 neighborhood and whether we need to put
2:42:28 in some permanent safety measures such
2:42:30 as speed humps I believe that movement
2:42:34 is going to be coming before us very
2:42:36 soon from more than one neighborhood but
2:42:40 I see a significant problem in upgrading
2:42:43 the park and having the lighting so that
2:42:47 you can have all the programming carry
2:42:49 into the night all of the cars but none
2:42:52 of the safety aspects that you get with
2:42:57 parking lightening and then if you're
2:42:59 gonna go that far you know just the
2:43:01 picnic shelter and the other amenities I
2:43:03 think are when you're talking about this
2:43:04 much the size of a project then I think
2:43:07 that's you know I don't want to say it's
2:43:09 pennies on the dollar but it becomes
2:43:10 relatively insignificant
2:43:12 I think what we I'm just going to speak
2:43:14 TVA amendment right now and then I have
2:43:17 some other comments so for those reasons
2:43:18 I wouldn't support it bill but it's not
2:43:20 it's not that I don't appreciate the
2:43:22 fact the underlying premise of why you
2:43:25 raised it Ola I viewed these alternates
2:43:30 in two different categories I think that
2:43:33 some of them are essential if you're
2:43:34 going to build the facility and some of
2:43:36 them are not essential and so I consider
2:43:40 alternate one the road safety
2:43:41 improvements essential I think six-foot
2:43:43 parking is not appropriate when you've
2:43:45 got kids getting out of cars on a
2:43:47 regular basis I think there may be other
2:43:49 places in the highlands where six feet
2:43:50 is fine but this is not one of those
2:43:52 locations so I want to see it go to
2:43:54 eight I think also the mountain walls
2:43:56 and plantings particularly the mountain
2:43:58 walls are going to would be a big hassle
2:44:00 to put in later so I consider alternates
2:44:03 one in four essential I totally get why
2:44:05 why you want to be careful and measure
2:44:08 twice and cut once and I do
2:44:10 I appreciate the administration putting
2:44:12 together these alternates I think two
2:44:13 and three could potentially be done
2:44:15 later but because I consider one in
2:44:18 force until I I will not be supporting
2:44:20 the amendment other questions or
2:44:23 comments all those in favor
2:44:26 oh sorry I just want to concur also as
2:44:32 looking through this I think all of
2:44:35 these the one through four are important
2:44:38 if we need to and if we want to I think
2:44:40 the picnic shelters would be the one
2:44:41 item that I could agree to remove but
2:44:44 how can you possibly move forward with
2:44:48 this project without having the proper
2:44:50 mounting for your your your pictures and
2:44:54 your catchers and and the parking why
2:44:57 mean to be really honest when this
2:45:02 development happened up there and they
2:45:04 came in with six-foot parking spaces
2:45:06 that should have never happened to begin
2:45:08 with and we've lived with it for many
2:45:10 years so this would be a nice
2:45:12 opportunity for us to correct that but
2:45:14 if we put this off there's no way we can
2:45:17 put this off without the cost of
2:45:18 materials going up in the labor going up
2:45:20 and so we need to move forward with this
2:45:22 project and
2:45:23 and bring it together any other
2:45:27 discussion on the amendment Paul and
2:45:30 then Mary Logan is one clarification are
2:45:32 we are we discussing an amendment and
2:45:35 then we're gonna have a second we're
2:45:36 going to vote on amendment and then vote
2:45:37 on the onion possibly a real mended
2:45:41 amended motion that's good right now we
2:45:44 are voting on bills amendment which is
2:45:48 simply to remove the alternatives Thank
2:45:52 You Marlo so I feel like I owe
2:45:54 councilmember ramos explanation since I
2:45:56 seconded his but I'm not supporting it I
2:46:00 think at this point in time with the
2:46:02 community the expectation has been set
2:46:05 that what we're going to do up there is
2:46:07 give them something that's fully
2:46:08 functioning I 100% agree with you that
2:46:11 it's a lot more money than we ever
2:46:13 thought it was going to be and that we
2:46:14 struggled with it in the fall when we
2:46:16 didn't think we had the money my primary
2:46:18 purpose back in the fall was to protect
2:46:20 the mitigation fund and if at that point
2:46:23 in time staff had been able to present a
2:46:25 proposal where potentially those parking
2:46:27 improvements were coming from a road
2:46:28 fund and so if they could have pieced it
2:46:30 together then I probably would have
2:46:31 considered it for me the killer was that
2:46:34 it was the mitigation fund and I have a
2:46:36 big concern now that having talked about
2:46:39 it and looked at it in detail that we
2:46:41 have how disappointed that community up
2:46:43 there would be with us to do part of it
2:46:45 so I'm not going to support the
2:46:47 amendment to the motion but I think the
2:46:49 rationale that you put on the table
2:46:51 should be what we use going forward no
2:46:53 more of this this is where we have to
2:46:56 plan how we're going to do our parks
2:46:58 projects differently and we have to use
2:47:00 our strategic parks plan to do it so
2:47:02 that we know what we're comparing to
2:47:04 what our priority is and what we're not
2:47:06 getting when we spend more money on
2:47:08 something else so I think you're bang on
2:47:11 with what you said but I do think it
2:47:13 would be too much of a devastation for
2:47:14 the community up there to get part of
2:47:16 what they expect is coming so I'm going
2:47:19 to not support the motion no so a point
2:47:25 of order and I withdraw the amendment
2:47:29 horse first so before I do that I just
2:47:32 want to say I really appreciate the
2:47:34 discussion I wanted that discussion to
2:47:35 happen because I really want to
2:47:37 to consciously say what we're doing with
2:47:39 money and why the bid alternates really
2:47:42 art alternates except for the picnic
2:47:45 shelter so it's kind of we kind of fool
2:47:47 ourselves and lull ourselves into
2:47:48 something that we could do without
2:47:50 because it's not a whole project but
2:47:52 it's now triple what the park bond said
2:47:55 it for and we just it's it's a lot of
2:47:58 money and I have to answer to people
2:47:59 that are going to be very upset that
2:48:01 we're going to 1 million and now another
2:48:03 1.1 million dollars and we had to have
2:48:06 this discussion so thank you very much
2:48:08 and I appreciate your second so we could
2:48:09 have the discussion and I withdraw my
2:48:11 amendment I'm assuming the seconder
2:48:14 I completely disagree so we are back to
2:48:19 the amended motion discussion on the
2:48:24 amended the original amended motion Paul
2:48:29 okay here's a detail and the in the
2:48:33 project elements the thanks for the
2:48:35 explanation on the into lights I think I
2:48:39 captured that those were temporary I
2:48:40 assume that that's just now an ongoing
2:48:42 cost until we actually some point on
2:48:45 certain in the future did something
2:48:47 about parking may be correct okay and so
2:48:51 and so what tell me what is those like
2:48:55 light stanchions on wheels you know what
2:48:58 do they what are we talking about their
2:48:59 standard 15-foot parking lot lights but
2:49:04 rather than setting a new service we're
2:49:07 tapping into existing PSE service so
2:49:11 we're renting the electricity from them
2:49:13 at a at a rate and so instead of you
2:49:17 know putting new electricity at that
2:49:19 site and then we can keep the light
2:49:22 standards and we can disable the and
2:49:25 reuse those light standards at the new
2:49:28 parking lot and we didn't have to pay
2:49:31 for a new utility service at the public
2:49:35 works operation site okay so we would be
2:49:38 looking at a reoccurring yearly expense
2:49:40 until a long-term it would be monthly
2:49:42 and it would be billed and paid out of
2:49:45 operating okay and then so along those
2:49:47 same lines so we never
2:49:49 this line item for the artificial turf
2:49:51 itself for us buying it from KC da that
2:49:55 was always part of the plan and remember
2:49:58 that being described before so so okay
2:50:03 you're telling me it was that was we've
2:50:05 always laid it out this way okay and see
2:50:07 that in any other previous documentation
2:50:09 okay thank you there's no questions or
2:50:15 discussion Stacey thank you that's why
2:50:20 I'm going to support the agenda Belle
2:50:22 and I thank you for all the detail I
2:50:24 really appreciate that
2:50:26 I I still concerned about I think what
2:50:32 happened with this with this is this got
2:50:34 away from us a long time ago in the
2:50:36 beginning and I'm I'm I don't do project
2:50:39 planning so I don't know what happened
2:50:41 but I think too many times now we've had
2:50:43 projects that we roll out the ideas that
2:50:48 we're going to in good faith great
2:50:52 efforts go to the public and we take all
2:50:54 of that comment back and we'll and
2:50:56 perhaps somewhere along the line we need
2:50:59 to remember that we don't just have a
2:51:00 blank check I don't know how you I don't
2:51:03 know how we do that better because I
2:51:04 don't know what the process is but it
2:51:06 tapped into many times I do agree with
2:51:09 the comments that have been made about
2:51:12 you know we're this far doesn't mean
2:51:14 that I'm happy that we're spending this
2:51:15 money we've got the mitigation fund
2:51:18 we've got the park strategic plan that's
2:51:21 that's coming soon and I think to pull
2:51:25 it now and start all over is just not
2:51:28 just not wise but it doesn't mean that I
2:51:31 that I support it without some concern
2:51:35 about how we got here but the community
2:51:37 is excited and I and I say that it's not
2:51:41 thing for me to say because I live in
2:51:42 the highlands and so you'd think I'd
2:51:43 just be like yay I can't wait but I
2:51:46 don't represent the highlands I
2:51:47 represent the city this claw I represent
2:51:49 everybody and you know it's all of us
2:51:51 who have to answer to all of the people
2:51:54 who live here and all of the people who
2:51:56 work here and all of the people who have
2:51:58 an interest here and so whether it's in
2:52:00 my neighborhood or any one of your
2:52:02 neighborhood
2:52:02 where you live I think we have to be
2:52:04 good stewards of our money and we are
2:52:06 fiduciaries we sit here as fiduciaries
2:52:08 well and unlike something that we all
2:52:11 take seriously so while I think it's a
2:52:14 great amenity and it's going to be a
2:52:15 great amenity for the highlands and for
2:52:17 the city it's it's it's been a little
2:52:20 bit troubling how we got to this point
2:52:23 with this price tag all right so I just
2:52:30 when we first started to look at this it
2:52:32 was just really tough to to think about
2:52:35 the fact that we only had the one bid
2:52:37 and we and we had the bid withdraw and
2:52:39 and but in talking through the fact that
2:52:42 going out for bid again would
2:52:44 potentially bring that in higher or much
2:52:48 higher than having to look at at both
2:52:51 the general fund and the park mitigation
2:52:54 fund but having the alternates of the
2:52:57 bookends and and coming up with maybe
2:52:59 something in between we really had to
2:53:02 think about all of that but we we
2:53:05 definitely had talked back and budgeting
2:53:07 about really not wanting to and I had
2:53:12 talked about not wanting to touch the
2:53:14 park mitigation funds and and I it would
2:53:17 be great if we had the strategic plan
2:53:21 for the parks together so we could look
2:53:23 at look at this more holistically but
2:53:26 were but we're not there yet and I think
2:53:28 with the looking at the the ending fund
2:53:33 balance for the general fund and seeing
2:53:35 that that was healthy and talking about
2:53:37 the fact that this would be a one-time
2:53:39 type of project brought me to the place
2:53:42 where where I wanted to support this
2:53:46 project
2:53:51 oh yes so this actually is a very
2:53:55 exciting project the idea for us to
2:53:58 create a really a world-class outdoor
2:54:00 recreational amenities for Bewkes and
2:54:03 their families and really for people of
2:54:05 all ages and in in the place the fact
2:54:08 that we have a location for it that it's
2:54:11 that we're creating an opportunity and
2:54:14 fitting it within a neighborhood I know
2:54:16 there was concerns about the lights I
2:54:17 really respect everybody who spoke about
2:54:19 lighting and I I have to accept the
2:54:22 testimony of the experts that this LED
2:54:25 lighting option is actually going to
2:54:27 minimize the impact in the nearby
2:54:30 neighborhoods and I and I hope indeed
2:54:33 that that is that is the case and I'm
2:54:36 also like the fact that we got some
2:54:39 pushback that's really the roadway was
2:54:41 should be fixed by transportation funds
2:54:44 personally I always said this is a park
2:54:46 project we are kind of important we're
2:54:50 redoing something that was done earlier
2:54:51 that's unfortunate it's not efficient I
2:54:53 mean this is a good a good example of
2:54:55 having to go back and redo something and
2:54:57 we know how much it costs more the
2:54:59 second time it's somewhat of a reminder
2:55:00 so for though for all those reasons I'm
2:55:04 going to support this as well and I want
2:55:07 to also at the same time echo what what
2:55:11 Stacy said earlier it is in that we saw
2:55:15 it actually and this can be hard to
2:55:16 mention with the skate park where we we
2:55:20 took the idea to the public and
2:55:22 everybody said we want all these
2:55:24 wonderful things and and this kind of
2:55:27 happened the same way and there is
2:55:28 definitely a process I think I would
2:55:30 like to see parks go forward with kind
2:55:33 of managing the how the expectations and
2:55:38 making sure that the options are better
2:55:40 and our costs are better understood when
2:55:42 we do the public process because if a
2:55:45 company is putting any limit on what you
2:55:46 can spend people are going to want quite
2:55:48 a bit which is natural I understand that
2:55:49 but that's part of what needs needs to
2:55:51 be improved and I think along with
2:55:53 confluence park and now this Park I
2:55:57 think these were the two that had master
2:56:00 site plans that go back quite a ways
2:56:03 and I'm not aware of any other kind of
2:56:05 park potential project that's out there
2:56:08 that is that has that type of basis has
2:56:11 that kind of vesting like this dude does
2:56:13 so like my other colleagues have said on
2:56:15 the council that now the next we're
2:56:18 going to now we're getting to the point
2:56:19 where you know with a complete citywide
2:56:23 you know a strategic plan capital plan
2:56:25 on parks we can assess all potential
2:56:28 projects within that context and I'm
2:56:29 glad we're to that point but this I
2:56:31 think closes the door on those kind of
2:56:33 vested projects varalu thank you mr.
2:56:36 mayor
2:56:37 so I'm voting for this project tonight
2:56:39 I've already said that my comment though
2:56:42 has to do with the next phases and it's
2:56:45 this is a cautionary tale to me of just
2:56:48 what what could happen with a local
2:56:49 project if it grows in scope but my my
2:56:52 bigger concern and I think it applies to
2:56:54 both confluence park and Central Park
2:56:56 has to do with what comes in the future
2:56:58 and those impacts that it has so we
2:57:00 heard from the soccer clubs tonight that
2:57:02 was great there's a lot of other sports
2:57:04 clubs that weren't here but if physical
2:57:06 as considering expanding parks to become
2:57:08 regional facilities that's a really big
2:57:10 discussion that has to happen with the
2:57:12 community because a community park with
2:57:15 a community draw is one thing a regional
2:57:17 facility in the middle of a neighborhood
2:57:19 and the parking requirements and traffic
2:57:21 requirements for that is something
2:57:23 entirely different so for future phases
2:57:25 I guess my comment is we need to be
2:57:27 talking about where we want those
2:57:29 regional attractions in town and and and
2:57:31 that should be something we should take
2:57:33 into account otherwise we can end up
2:57:34 again looking at parking needs way in
2:57:37 excess of what we're providing so but
2:57:40 I'm completely in support of what you're
2:57:41 doing tonight and thank you for all your
2:57:43 hard work
2:57:43 oh just subtly quick comments
2:57:48 I want to thank this the staff for
2:57:51 putting together these alternates the
2:57:53 way they were I think if we were in
2:57:57 really tough financial straits I think
2:58:00 we would want these options and we might
2:58:01 exercise we might have exercised some of
2:58:03 them even at the expense of not being
2:58:05 whole on the on the project if you know
2:58:09 we really wanted to be super careful
2:58:11 last fall and so I know it was a bit of
2:58:14 a bitter pill for the administration at
2:58:15 the good
2:58:16 acting not get a yes from us and so I
2:58:18 feel a lot better today and some of that
2:58:20 is from the information that was
2:58:22 provided so I appreciate that the other
2:58:23 thing I want to mention is I think I
2:58:26 heard a question around the LED lighting
2:58:27 and I wanted to I wanted to communicate
2:58:30 forward one of the things we heard in
2:58:31 committee which was we had one of the
2:58:33 people who was in attendance was
2:58:35 actually did a lot of the facilities
2:58:37 design work for the University of
2:58:40 Washington and he said they're in the
2:58:42 process right now of retrofitting all
2:58:44 their lights to LED because it's such so
2:58:47 much better of a so much better for
2:58:50 users and neighborhoods and he was so he
2:58:53 was wanted to convey that to us that
2:58:55 that is just the direction that
2:58:57 everybody's going in because it's so
2:58:58 much better it looks like guy you are
2:59:04 ready to act all those in favor of
2:59:06 awarding the Central Park had one
2:59:09 construction contract for the base bid
2:59:11 and LED lights and bid alternates one
2:59:14 through four for Central Park had one to
2:59:18 Tara dynamics as further described in
2:59:23 the motion signify by saying aye aye
2:59:25 those opposed but carries unanimously
2:59:30 moving now to agenda bill 73 47 landmark
2:59:34 in Gillman town all building Kristen
2:59:39 Leeson is still here this is coming back
2:59:48 to all of you from the committee of the
2:59:51 whole Council and system for the staff
2:59:55 report if you would well sorry I just
2:59:59 banging the heck out of my neighbor's
3:00:00 okay oh god oh we could move to the next
3:00:04 name is fun I just had to regather
3:00:06 myself for a second good evening
3:00:11 so as I just mentioned this was
3:00:14 introduced to you at the April 25th
3:00:16 committee of the whole council the
3:00:18 purpose is to ask you to approve moving
3:00:21 forward with denomination of Gillman
3:00:23 Town Hall as a local issue quad landmark
3:00:26 you may recall is built in 1888 it was
3:00:29 our original
3:00:29 Town Hall it is in its original location
3:00:31 it was also used two's a fire station a
3:00:34 police station a polling hall a school a
3:00:37 library and from 1930 to 1972 it was
3:00:42 used as a residential purpose until it
3:00:44 was purchased by the city so we still
3:00:47 own it which is why you would be asked
3:00:49 to move to allow us to move forwards and
3:00:52 not with the nomination it is actually
3:00:54 the in squat historical museums whose
3:00:56 administrative offices are housed here
3:00:58 and part of the museum is housed here
3:00:59 who is requesting this nomination if we
3:01:03 were to do this the intent is to
3:01:05 preserve the building we if it were
3:01:08 landmarked then it's about historical
3:01:11 museums in the city could receive grant
3:01:13 funding to do the maintenance which the
3:01:15 city currently pays for and it could
3:01:18 also paste divorce and restoration work
3:01:20 that needs to be done particularly on
3:01:21 the facade of the building
3:01:23 it's a gwah historical museums applied
3:01:26 for a grant to hire a consultant to do
3:01:30 the nomination form last week they
3:01:32 received a $7,500 grant to do this and
3:01:36 they are asking the city to pay once the
3:01:40 nomination is done they are asking the
3:01:41 city to pay $1,500 application fee to
3:01:45 King County for the application process
3:01:48 and that is all I have like you please
3:01:54 be sure I make a motion to direct the
3:01:58 administration to proceed with the
3:02:00 landmark nomination of a Gillman Town
3:02:02 Hall building and partial application
3:02:04 fee of $1,500 to the Issaquah
3:02:07 landmarking Commission okay any
3:02:10 discussion or questions seeing none then
3:02:14 all those in favor of directing the
3:02:17 administration to proceed without that
3:02:21 nomination of the Gillman Town Hall
3:02:23 building and partial application fee of
3:02:26 1500 bucks to the physical and marking
3:02:30 Commission signify by saying aye I was
3:02:33 opposed that carries unanimously
3:02:35 well that was quick thank you thank you
3:02:39 wizard emergency medical service Oh
3:02:44 lucky for you we have that lucky for you
3:02:48 [Music]
3:02:50 item under regular business agenda bell
3:02:54 seven four one three Eastside Fire and
3:02:56 Rescue in Oracle agreement this is
3:02:59 coming back from the services and Safety
3:03:03 Committee
3:03:04 Jennifer Olsen for an introduction
3:03:09 Thank You mayor Butler city council
3:03:11 members the city provides fire services
3:03:13 to the community by partnering with
3:03:15 others through the Eastside fire and
3:03:18 rescue the interlocal agreement that's
3:03:20 in place was crafted and adopted in 1999
3:03:24 and has been amended over time the the
3:03:28 board of her board has proposed
3:03:31 amendments to the existing ila those
3:03:33 include extending the current ila to
3:03:36 December 31st 2026 and which is a
3:03:40 five-year extension and then subsequent
3:03:43 extensions would be in tenure intervals
3:03:45 instead of seven the next proposed
3:03:48 amendment would change the partner
3:03:50 opt-out notice from one year to three
3:03:52 years so this would give partners the
3:03:55 existing partners more time for
3:03:56 potential increases in their financial
3:03:58 commitment and the final amendment
3:04:00 proposes to change the funding formula
3:04:02 from four years reducing it to two years
3:04:05 so this change keeps the cost-sharing
3:04:08 current and aligns with a biennial
3:04:10 budget cycle
3:04:12 chief Clark is here if you have any
3:04:15 questions the services and Safety
3:04:18 Committee did discuss this particular
3:04:21 item and it was unanimous that these
3:04:24 proposed amendments be considered by the
3:04:26 City Council in the rec administration
3:04:29 also recommends approval of the adapted
3:04:33 amendments so with that I would be happy
3:04:35 to answer any further questions of the
3:04:37 council are there questions of infer
3:04:42 also member marks Thank You mr. mayor on
3:04:45 May 9 27 teen the council services and
3:04:47 Safety Committee met to review agenda
3:04:49 bills 74th
3:04:51 tene the administration made a brief
3:04:52 presentation to the committee on the
3:04:53 proposed ila amendments Chief Clark was
3:04:56 present to answer questions the
3:04:57 committee all other ila partners have
3:04:59 adopted the amendments as presented
3:05:00 committee unanimously recommended
3:05:02 approval through 2-0 of the proposed
3:05:04 amendments to the Eastside Fire and
3:05:06 Rescue interlocal agreement this item we
3:05:09 recommended it be placed under regular
3:05:10 business which here we are so I move to
3:05:13 authorize the mayor to enter into and
3:05:15 execute the amendment to the site Fire
3:05:17 and Rescue interlocal agreement second
3:05:20 moved and seconded questions or
3:05:23 discussion seeing none oh it I find it
3:05:31 it's it's remarkable that we're
3:05:34 considering these changes it wasn't that
3:05:37 many years ago when there was a lot of
3:05:39 talk around here about about the
3:05:45 effectiveness of the partnership of the
3:05:47 being in partner with with the others
3:05:50 with the fire districts in the other
3:05:52 cities in part of yfir just when we
3:05:54 negotiated the ila the last time we did
3:05:57 the full renegotiate of the ila there
3:05:59 was a lot of a lot of turmoil within
3:06:01 some of the members at that time and and
3:06:04 in just a few short years this is I
3:06:07 think for the here the administration to
3:06:10 see us express your support for
3:06:14 extending the term to 10 years I know
3:06:17 that that was sought and previously and
3:06:20 it represents an opportunity for
3:06:23 stability and longer longer term
3:06:25 planning that is good for the
3:06:27 partnership so it was something I vote I
3:06:31 supported when the first when it first
3:06:33 came up a couple years ago I understood
3:06:35 that but I know now that to hear that
3:06:37 the administration as well so is in
3:06:39 support for this longer term I think
3:06:40 speaks really broadly and really well
3:06:42 about the overall health of the
3:06:45 partnership is our role in this
3:06:47 partnership with the other parties and
3:06:48 just the overall execution and and faith
3:06:53 in the leadership of v4 so I think it's
3:06:56 just remarkable that we've got here in
3:06:58 this short period of time I think
3:06:59 there's some some of the other inches
3:07:02 are also I think for the good of the
3:07:05 partnership three years
3:07:06 notice if you're going to withdrawal
3:07:08 that was very there was a lot of turmoil
3:07:10 a couple years ago when there was the
3:07:12 threat of of a withdrawal and we had
3:07:15 just one year to try to work through
3:07:16 those issues so again I think that's
3:07:18 better for the stability of the of the
3:07:21 partnership so so quite a bit has
3:07:25 improved and the fact that it's got to
3:07:29 this point tonight I thank all that
3:07:30 we're involved with identifying these
3:07:32 issues championing these changes and
3:07:34 bringing them forward you know who you
3:07:36 are so thank you very much for those I'm
3:07:38 going to I'm glad to I'm glad to support
3:07:42 this as evening Stacy I'll support it as
3:07:47 well I've been part of the ether board
3:07:50 before and also was around when the
3:07:53 initial joining of the partnership
3:07:58 happens and watch it happen so that's
3:08:00 been what 20 almost 21 15 15 is 99 1999
3:08:07 so 18 to so memory is not that bad yet
3:08:13 and I want to I just want to make a very
3:08:17 clear statement about how much I
3:08:19 appreciate your extraordinary leadership
3:08:22 chief Clark I I know that there are are
3:08:26 many factors I think that your
3:08:29 leadership is a significant one and I
3:08:31 think that's one of the primary reasons
3:08:35 that we are here considering this today
3:08:36 so thank you
3:08:38 heirloom it is the +1 to what Stacey
3:08:41 said this is fantastic that this is
3:08:44 where we are and we are the fifth
3:08:46 partner to do this tonight and so it's
3:08:49 all done and it's a great place to be
3:08:51 looking forward to a great future and
3:08:53 with a longer planning window that we're
3:08:56 going to have great things are to come
3:08:58 so thank you very much seeing no one
3:09:04 else raising a hand all those in favor
3:09:06 of authorizing the mayor to enter into
3:09:08 and execute their name an amendment to
3:09:11 the side Fire and Rescue
3:09:12 local agreements think about this a guy
3:09:14 I was opposed that carries unanimously
3:09:18 chief thanks for sticking around we have
3:09:25 now moved to good of the order Ola I'll
3:09:31 mention one you all know I'm a history
3:09:34 buff so earlier tonight somebody
3:09:35 mentioned someone important out of
3:09:37 western US history and I just wanted to
3:09:40 clarify they're referring to Saint
3:09:42 Unipro Serra a possible of California so
3:09:45 it's Nibiru Sarah and he he built nine
3:09:48 missions in California running all the
3:09:50 way barred me from San Diego to San
3:09:52 Francisco including a mission Mission
3:09:58 Santa Clara decease which is of course
3:10:01 the mission that my daughter passes
3:10:02 every day at 10 o'clock University which
3:10:05 is done it's on campus at Santa Clara
3:10:06 University st. Unipro is also the patron
3:10:09 saint of Hispanic Americans so I just
3:10:11 thought I'd make sure that his uh his
3:10:13 name is remembered clearly and anybody
3:10:16 who's driven down there of course be 880
3:10:17 freeways also view to Procera highway oh
3:10:20 thank you for that mr. sessemann
3:10:22 hola mary lou i just say a couple of
3:10:27 quick dates since we're not having
3:10:28 another meeting this month the community
3:10:30 awards will be May 16th at the Hilton
3:10:32 Garden Inn at 5:30 also if council
3:10:37 members haven't heard the acoustical
3:10:38 foundation breakfast is this Wednesday
3:10:40 May 17th at the eastward Church Eastside
3:10:43 Fire and Rescue fire ground is on this
3:10:45 Saturday May 20th and the consonance
3:10:48 Park ribbon-cutting I can't remember if
3:10:49 the mayor mentioned this is um I have
3:10:54 the time which is 10 a half on the 25th
3:10:57 and Sammamish state party diggin any
3:11:00 sense we said the 5th tinium 1815 a.m.
3:11:03 and it's the managed State Park
3:11:04 ribbon-cutting in Issaquah gosh I don't
3:11:08 have the date for that either coming up
3:11:11 it's a 5 p.m. when I'll have to find out
3:11:13 and send it out but there's a
3:11:14 ribbon-cutting at the park as well the
3:11:16 new Beach
3:11:20 okay we'll now take a short ten-minute
3:11:26 break and then move into executive
3:11:31 session at twenty after we are back
3:11:44 following our recess
3:11:46 we'll now move into executive session
3:11:49 it's being held this evening for the
3:11:50 purpose of discussing property
3:11:52 acquisition per RCW 42.3 0.11 0 / n 1b
3:11:58 and potential litigation / RCW 42.3 0.11
3:12:04 0 or n 1i these items are expected to
3:12:10 take approximately 15 minutes no action
3:12:13 is anticipated to follow and open
3:12:16 session so with that we will now move
3:12:20 into its executive session at 10:22
3:12:32 we are back in regular session our
3:12:36 executive session as concluded that was
3:12:40 extended a number of times for a total
3:12:43 of 35 minutes is there any other
3:12:45 business to come before the council this
3:12:47 evening seeing none we are adjourned

Motions and votes (2)

Continue the public hearing to the May 15, 2017 Council meeting; and remand AB 7215 to the May 4, 2017 Council Land & Shore Committee for additional review and recommendation, returning to the full Council on May 15, 2017. .
Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY
Carried 5-0
Direct the Administration to prepare a new agenda bill for consideration that: a) Amends the Washington State Department of Transportation Development Agreement, specifically relating to affordable housing and Parcel D. b) Establishes a new development agreement with Polygon Northwest relating to Pa…
Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY
Carried 5-0