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it shifted for you I'll call the may 15
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2017 regular council meeting to order
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and ask those in the audience would like
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to join the council and myself in the
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pledge of allegiance to please stand as
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one nation under God indivisible with
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Israel our first two items under special
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business agenda bill 7428
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a proclamation announcing national
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Prevention Week and agenda bill 74 32
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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
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problems before they start
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we all have a role to play in keeping
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the people around us and ourselves
2:13
healthy and safe and now therefore I
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Fred Butler mayor the city of Issaquah
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do hereby proclaim May 14 through 20
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2017 to be national
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prevention week in the city of Issaquah
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and call upon our community to observe
2:33
this week with compelling programs and
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events that support this year's theme
2:39
making every day count and witness
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wherever I hear and to set my hand and
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seal in the city of visco on this 15th
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day of May 2017 so Pat this is
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recognition and a small appreciation for
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all of the work that you do in helping
3:02
us in that endeavor and I would be
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delighted if you have a few words to
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share with those side of the audience or
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watching on TV great thank you
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Thank You mayor Butler councilmembers
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guests in the audience on behalf of the
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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
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row your City Council has passed the
3:34
proclamation in recognition of national
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Prevention Week national Prevention Week
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is celebrated and recognized by
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communities across the nation striving
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to increase public awareness and
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promoting substance abuse prevention and
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mental health tonight I would also like
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to let you know about some specific
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actions that that we are taking in our
3:57
community around the issue of substance
3:59
abuse prevention and mental health under
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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
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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
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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
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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
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called it's up to you to encourage
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parents to talk with their youth about
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their boundaries and expectations around
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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
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across the community and finally here
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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
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awareness of this in increasing crisis
6:07
in our communities this year national
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Prevention Week steam as Fred said make
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each day count really speaks to our
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ongoing efforts every day to work with
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our partners such as the city of
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Issaquah to keep our young people
6:22
mentally healthy safe and drug-free for
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that we thank you very much thank you
6:29
thank you
6:31
[Applause]
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the next proclamation I have is one that
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talks about affordable housing and I'd
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ask Elizabeth my opinion and is Meghan
6:56
Baltimore here also Elizabeth come on
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down thank you whereas all people should
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have access to safe healthy and
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affordable homes within communities of
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opportunity studies have found that each
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100 dollar increase in medium rent
7:17
results in a 15% increase in
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homelessness in metro areas at a 39
7:24
increase in homelessness in nearby
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suburbs suburbs and rural areas whereas
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everyone benefits from affordable
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housing including the people who reside
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in these properties the neighbors
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businesses employees and communities as
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a whole
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now therefore I Fred Butler mayor the
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city of is gone do hereby proclaim May
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15 through 22nd 2017 to be affordable
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housing week in the city of Issaquah and
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endorsed the goals objectives and
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purposes of affordable housing week and
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in doing so recommit to ensuring that
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our community tries with opportunity and
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of all people and it live with dignity
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and safe healthy of affordable homes and
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with this we're by here to set by hand
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and seal in the city if is a Qantas 50
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they have made 2017 now what I suspect
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most people know but a few may not I'm
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speaking to the choir right now because
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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
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this Proclamation
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so Elizabeth thanks like you're ever
8:49
very much and I'm very very pleased to
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see the city doing this saying this and
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I hope lots of you will get to some of
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the events in affordable housing week
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and learn more about ways that we can
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make and keep housing affordable so my
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friends can stay in Issaquah Thank You
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Elizabeth
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there's that and again thank you very
9:19
very much for all you do thank you our
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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
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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
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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
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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
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would ask if anyone has signed up to
12:01
speak yes Joshua Shearer
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good evening mayor members of the
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council members in the gallery and
12:20
members of the viewing public
12:21
my name is Joshua share my office
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address is one three five five five
12:25
southeast 36th Street Suite 300 in
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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
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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
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I do councilmember winter sign thank you
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mr. mayor I'm a fourth the Peterson
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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
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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
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continue to keep you updated as we move
1:01:07
forward that concludes my report
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Thank You councilmember marks Thank You
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mr. mayor the Issaquah City Council
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services and Safety Committee met on
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Tuesday May 9th we took a look at to
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Bill's agenda bill 70 413 Eastside Fire
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and Rescue interlocal agreement and
1:01:24
attended Bill's 70 72 Central Park pad
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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
1:02:47
that
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
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Thursday June 20th this concludes my
1:04:17
report
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Thank You councilmember Barbour Thank
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You mayor
1:04:21
I attended the weimar eight management
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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
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that concludes my report
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I do council member pauly Thank You mr.
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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
1:22:41
time
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
1:26:08
2017
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
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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
2:08:39
plan
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
2:27:40
is
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
3:02:38
good
3:02:39
wizard emergency medical service Oh
3:02:44
lucky for you we have that lucky for you
3:02:48
[Music]
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item under regular business agenda bell
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seven four one three Eastside Fire and
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Rescue in Oracle agreement this is
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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
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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
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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
3:07:01
are
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
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with a longer planning window that we're
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going to have great things are to come
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so thank you very much seeing no one
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else raising a hand all those in favor
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of authorizing the mayor to enter into
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and execute their name an amendment to
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the side Fire and Rescue
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local agreements think about this a guy
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I was opposed that carries unanimously
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chief thanks for sticking around we have
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now moved to good of the order Ola I'll
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mention one you all know I'm a history
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buff so earlier tonight somebody
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mentioned someone important out of
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western US history and I just wanted to
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clarify they're referring to Saint
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Unipro Serra a possible of California so
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it's Nibiru Sarah and he he built nine
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missions in California running all the
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way barred me from San Diego to San
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Francisco including a mission Mission
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Santa Clara decease which is of course
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the mission that my daughter passes
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every day at 10 o'clock University which
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is done it's on campus at Santa Clara
3:10:06
University st. Unipro is also the patron
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saint of Hispanic Americans so I just
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thought I'd make sure that his uh his
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name is remembered clearly and anybody
3:10:16
who's driven down there of course be 880
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freeways also view to Procera highway oh
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thank you for that mr. sessemann
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hola mary lou i just say a couple of
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quick dates since we're not having
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another meeting this month the community
3:10:30
awards will be May 16th at the Hilton
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Garden Inn at 5:30 also if council
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members haven't heard the acoustical
3:10:38
foundation breakfast is this Wednesday
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May 17th at the eastward Church Eastside
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Fire and Rescue fire ground is on this
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Saturday May 20th and the consonance
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Park ribbon-cutting I can't remember if
3:10:49
the mayor mentioned this is um I have
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the time which is 10 a half on the 25th
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and Sammamish state party diggin any
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sense we said the 5th tinium 1815 a.m.
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and it's the managed State Park
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ribbon-cutting in Issaquah gosh I don't
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have the date for that either coming up
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it's a 5 p.m. when I'll have to find out
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and send it out but there's a
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ribbon-cutting at the park as well the
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new Beach
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okay we'll now take a short ten-minute
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break and then move into executive
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session at twenty after we are back
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following our recess
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we'll now move into executive session
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it's being held this evening for the
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purpose of discussing property
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acquisition per RCW 42.3 0.11 0 / n 1b
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and potential litigation / RCW 42.3 0.11
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0 or n 1i these items are expected to
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take approximately 15 minutes no action
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is anticipated to follow and open
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session so with that we will now move
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into its executive session at 10:22
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we are back in regular session our
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executive session as concluded that was
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extended a number of times for a total
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of 35 minutes is there any other
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business to come before the council this
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evening seeing none we are adjourned