City Council Regular Meeting Auto captions

Monday, November 6, 2017

7:00 PM · 2h 34m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA

Topics tracked across meetings:

Proposed Amendments: 2018 Comprehensive Plan, Central Issaquah Plan, IMC and Central Standards AB 7682 ››››››› 2/8

City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 5, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017 → Planning Policy Commission · Jan 11, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Feb 20, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · Oct 25, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · Dec 13, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Jan 22, 2019 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 18, 2019

◀ Prev: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 5, 2017 View full lifecycle → Next: Planning Policy Commission · Jan 11, 2018 ▶

Amendments to IMC and Central Issaquah Standards Regarding Inclusionary Zoning Requirements for Central Issaquah AB 7507 ››› 2/4

City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 26, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · May 7, 2018

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017 ▶

Amending IMC and Central Standards, Prohibiting Community Health Engagement Locations, Safe Injection Sites AB 7511 ›››› 1/5

City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017 → Planning Policy Commission · Jan 11, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Jan 11, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Feb 5, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 5, 2018

View full lifecycle → Next: Planning Policy Commission · Jan 11, 2018 ▶

Franchise Agreement with Seattle Limited Partnership d.b.a. Verizon Wireless AB 7495 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Jan 16, 2018

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Jan 16, 2018 ▶

Amending School Impact Fees AB 7462 ›››› 3/5

City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 1, 2016 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 2, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 4, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017

◀ Prev: City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 2, 2017 View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 4, 2017 ▶

Newport Way: SR 900 to SE 54th Street, Corridor Concept AB 7486 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 4, 2017

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 4, 2017 ▶

2018 Legislative Agenda AB 7491 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 20, 2017

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 20, 2017 ▶

2018 Arts Grant Recommendations AB 7389 ›› 3/3

Arts Commission · Aug 14, 2017 → Arts Commission · Oct 23, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017

◀ Prev: Arts Commission · Oct 23, 2017 View full lifecycle →

Termination of Costco Easement AB 7459 ›› 3/3

City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 7, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 16, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017

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Moratorium on Community Health Engagement Locations, Safe Injection Sites AB 7489 › 2/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 16, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 6, 2017

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3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Talus Parcels 7, 8 and 9 Update Hear Presentation AB 7505

packet pp.5–34

Topics: Land Use

▶ Watch from 0:59 Open packet at p.5 ↗

Staff report:

Administration / Development Services Department:

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of November 6, 2017, $3,762,442.15 ID 0175

Approve · packet pp.35–170

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

Pursuant to 42.24.080 RCW, I, Jennifer Olson, Auditing Officer for the City of Issaquah, Washington, present all claims against the City by persons furnishing materials, rendering services or performing labor, or for any other full or partial contractual purpose and obligation. Such claims have been prepared for audit and payment on an authenticated form and in the manner prescribed by the state auditor. The claims are just, due and unpaid obligations against the City of Issaquah and are certified to be paid after approval of the Issaquah City Council.

Minutes: Council Committee Work Session, Oct. 9, 2017

Approve · packet pp.171

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 10-09-17 Council Committee Work Session Minutes Page 7913

Minutes: Council Budget Work Session, Oct. 12, 2017

Approve · packet pp.173

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 10-12-17 Council Committee Work Session Page 7914

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Oct. 16, 2017

Approve · packet pp.175–180

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR d) 10-16-17 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page 7915

2018 Arts Grant Recommendations AB 7389

Refer to Council Services & Safety · packet pp.185–187

Topics: Public SafetyArts & Culture

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Staff report:

Administration / Executive Department:

Termination of Costco Easement AB 7459

Confirm · packet pp.189–243

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Staff report:

City Council / Stacy Goodman, Council President:

Newport Way: SR 900 to SE 54th Street, Corridor Concept AB 7486

Approve Resolution; Refer to Council · packet pp.249–503

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

NEW CITY COUNCIL AB 7486 - AGENDA BILL Consent City Council Regular Meeting - 06 Nov 2017 Calendar

Amendment to Route 269 Transit Service Direct Financial Partnership Agreement AB 7490

Authorize · packet pp.531–535

Topics: Transportation

▶ Watch from 46:35 Open packet at p.531 ↗

Staff report:

Administration / Public Works Engineering Department:

2018 Legislative Agenda AB 7491

Refer to Council Committee Work Session · packet pp.537–538

▶ Watch from 46:42 Open packet at p.537 ↗

Staff report:

Administration / Executive Department:

Franchise Agreement with Seattle Limited Partnership d.b.a. Verizon Wireless AB 7495

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.539–572

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Staff report:

Administration / Public Works Engineering Department:

Amendments to IMC and Central Issaquah Standards Regarding Inclusionary Zoning Requirements for Central Issaquah AB 7507

Refer to Council Land & Shore Committee · packet pp.577–594

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 26, 2017

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Staff report:

On Sept. 18, 2017, after much work by Planning Policy Commission, Human Services Commission, Economic Vitality Commission, focus groups and community outreach, City Council adopted Issaquah’s Housing Strategy Work Plan. The Strategy describes how the City intends to, over the next 5 years, actively and positively influence the existing housing stock as well as that being built in the City through nine strategies. The purpose of the Strategy is to improve the likelihood that the City will be successful in meeting the long-term aspirations of the Comprehensive Plan; and, the needs and housing desires of those choosing to live in Issaquah.

8. PUBLIC HEARING

2018 Proposed Levy and Revenue Sources AB 7392

Conduct Public Hearing; Direct · packet pp.595–621

Topics: Budget

Open packet at p.595 ↗

Staff report:

Administration / Finance Department:

Moratorium on Community Health Engagement Locations, Safe Injection Sites AB 7489

Conduct Public Hearing · packet pp.623–631

Open packet at p.623 ↗

Staff report:

and zoning regulations. This agenda bill also proposes scheduling a public hearing on Nov. 6, 2017 to take public testimony on the moratorium and the interim official control adopted by this ordinance.

9. REGULAR BUSINESS

Amending School Impact Fees AB 7462

Carried 7-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.633–659

Topics: Land UseBudgetSchools

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 1, 2016

▶ Watch from 47:04 Open packet at p.633 ↗

Staff report:

Council Services & Safety Committee / Tola Marts, Chair:

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise (arrived at 7:04 PM), Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

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0:22 ↗ I'll call to order the November 6 2017

0:27 ↗ City Council regular meeting and ask

0:30 ↗ those in the audience who would like to

0:31 ↗ join the council and myself in the

0:33 ↗ Pledge of Allegiance to please stand our

0:57 ↗ first item of business this evening is

0:59 ↗ under special business is agenda bill

1:01 ↗ seven five zero five an update on tellus

1:05 ↗ parcels seven eight and nine and that

1:09 ↗ update will be given by Keith Niven our

1:12 ↗ director of development services

1:14 ↗ division and economic development Kate

1:17 ↗ welcome this evening Thank You mr. mayor

1:20 ↗ good evening city council so there was a

1:23 ↗ request made that the City Council get

1:26 ↗ an update on Dallas parcels seven eight

1:29 ↗ nine and what's going on up in Dallas so

1:32 ↗ I'm here this evening to do that so for

1:37 ↗ orientation apologize I couldn't get a

1:39 ↗ more recent aerial photo but this was

1:41 ↗ the best that the internet had to offer

1:43 ↗ so this is parcel seven up here at the

1:47 ↗ very top of Dallas parcel eight is kind

1:52 ↗ of back in here and parcel nine is right

1:56 ↗ here I'm also going to talk about water

1:59 ↗ reservoirs you can see these are the 752

2:03 ↗ reservoirs and then here's the pad where

2:06 ↗ the 912 reservoirs have been constructed

2:08 ↗ and I'll show you photos of those in a

2:10 ↗ sec so here's the here's the new 912

2:15 ↗ water tanks they are built up in parcel

2:20 ↗ seven and they will provide water to the

2:23 ↗ upper elevations of talus this is the

2:26 ↗ 752 tanks these will be decommissioned

2:30 ↗ and taken down and what I can tell you

2:33 ↗ is we got the green better this was not

2:36 ↗ the right color green make you can see

2:39 ↗ them from everywhere and then this is

2:42 ↗ the booster pump station it's on

2:45 ↗ shangri-la and it's right next to the

2:48 ↗ community park and it actually pumps

2:50 ↗ water up to these reservoirs at the top

2:53 ↗ of parcel seven we have completed the

2:59 ↗ paving work on shangri-la so this

3:02 ↗ section of roadway which is down at the

3:05 ↗ kind of at the bottom of parcel nine

3:07 ↗ this was damaged from the landslide and

3:10 ↗ so this paving work is now complete the

3:15 ↗ only thing that is not complete is the

3:17 ↗ sidewalk and the streetscape on this

3:20 ↗ side which is right next to parcel nine

3:23 ↗ it's this - liz is looking the other

3:26 ↗ direction so it's on the uphill side

3:27 ↗ here and that's because the construction

3:32 ↗ that they're doing on parcel 9 to

3:34 ↗ further stabilize it needs to have

3:36 ↗ equipment in this area and you'll see a

3:38 ↗ photo of that in a sec so this is parcel

3:42 ↗ 9 conceptually they have offered a

3:48 ↗ stabilization plan which includes so I'm

3:51 ↗ sorry I know this probably better than

3:54 ↗ some of you

3:55 ↗ so here's talus Drive coming up this is

3:58 ↗ shangri-la as it winds up the hill north

4:02 ↗ would be to the left and so this is the

4:07 ↗ part of the damaged road down here at

4:10 ↗ the base of the slide so what they're

4:12 ↗ planning to do is to actually bury four

4:16 ↗ walls within the property there's number

4:19 ↗ two there's number three and number four

4:22 ↗ is up at the top and you can actually

4:25 ↗ see some equipment I took these pictures

4:28 ↗ today so this equipment's out there

4:31 ↗ today and they're basically sinking in

4:35 ↗ big metal plates that then get guided

4:39 ↗ into the bedrock to provide

4:42 ↗ friction against additional earth

4:45 ↗ movement you can see this is this

4:48 ↗ picture here is looking from the top

4:51 ↗ down so they have a bunch of equipment

4:54 ↗ staged in the middle of the property

4:56 ↗ right now parcels seven it's actually

5:02 ↗ seven and eight

5:02 ↗ there's 63 Lots up at the top this is

5:07 ↗ the view

5:08 ↗ it's pretty amazing view on a snowy

5:11 ↗ Monday

5:13 ↗ this final plat was approved by the

5:16 ↗ Hearing Examiner

5:17 ↗ it was then appealed to the City Council

5:21 ↗ and that decision was then appealed to

5:24 ↗ King County Superior Court the judge

5:28 ↗ remanded that plat back to the city for

5:32 ↗ additional geotech work and the scoping

5:35 ↗ of that activity is happening right now

5:38 ↗ so that's my summary of Talas seven

5:43 ↗ through nine and shangri-la and the

5:45 ↗ infrastructure that's being constructed

5:48 ↗ any questions or are there any questions

5:52 ↗ of Keith seeing none then thank you for

5:56 ↗ thank you a short and succinct update

6:00 ↗ will now move to audience comments

6:03 ↗ audience comments are an important part

6:07 ↗ of the public process we take them

6:09 ↗ seriously and factor them into the

6:11 ↗ decisions that we make anyone from the

6:15 ↗ public who wishes to comment on

6:17 ↗ tonight's agenda items or other topics

6:20 ↗ will be given an opportunity to do so

6:24 ↗ shortly I would just point out that

6:26 ↗ there are two public hearings scheduled

6:29 ↗ this evening

6:31 ↗ one the 2018 proposed levy and revenue

6:34 ↗ sources and the second a moratorium on

6:39 ↗ Community Health engagement locations

6:41 ↗ and also known as safe injection sites

6:45 ↗ so if you would like to speak on those

6:48 ↗ two things the more the appropriate time

6:50 ↗ to speak to those would be

6:53 ↗ after the approval of the consent

6:55 ↗ calendar please direct your comments to

6:58 ↗ the whole council and not individuals

7:01 ↗ and while this is not a

7:02 ↗ question-and-answer session we will

7:04 ↗ contact you to follow up if needed if

7:07 ↗ you did not have an opportunity to

7:08 ↗ include your name and email address on

7:13 ↗ the sign-in sheet you may leave that

7:14 ↗ information on the clipboard on the

7:18 ↗ table in front of me when recognized use

7:22 ↗ the electron's speak into the microphone

7:24 ↗ state your name address and relationship

7:27 ↗ to the city if any limit your comments

7:29 ↗ to 5-minutes if you have written

7:31 ↗ comments please submit those to the city

7:34 ↗ clerk there's a visual timer at the

7:38 ↗ lectern when it turns yellow you have

7:41 ↗ one minute remaining on your time and

7:43 ↗ when you hear a buzzer your five minutes

7:47 ↗ are up if you take the full five minutes

7:50 ↗ with that again audience comments are an

7:54 ↗ important part of the the process please

7:58 ↗ keep them civil and with that I would

8:02 ↗ ask if anyone has signed up to speak

8:05 ↗ this evening thank you I have three

8:08 ↗ individuals signed up to speak regarding

8:10 ↗ general audience comments those are

8:12 ↗ comments that are not related to the

8:13 ↗ public hearings first on the list is

8:15 ↗ Kaylee Jake hi my name is Kaylee Jake

8:24 ↗ and I met two four seven oh six

8:26 ↗ southeast 30th Street Sammamish and I

8:28 ↗ just wanted to give the council and the

8:30 ↗ mayor a quick update since we've last

8:33 ↗ met and I'm also the director of the

8:35 ↗ team cafe the we've had an open house

8:39 ↗ and that was very well attended we

8:42 ↗ gathered some great information some

8:44 ↗ concerns and and some thoughts from the

8:46 ↗ community and then since then we've had

8:49 ↗ conversations with the parks department

8:51 ↗ and believe that we've located a better

8:54 ↗ site than the house this site is at 235

8:57 ↗ First Avenue southeast it's embedded in

9:00 ↗ my brain now and so what we'd like to do

9:05 ↗ and what we will submit a full report to

9:08 ↗ the services and Safety Committee and a

9:10 ↗ couple weeks on the 14th but I just

9:12 ↗ wanted to keep you all in the loop of

9:14 ↗ the progress that we've been making and

9:17 ↗ we're really excited to to show all the

9:20 ↗ work that we've done and the information

9:21 ↗ that we've gathered and then keep the

9:23 ↗ process going so I just wanted to give

9:25 ↗ you that update anyway thank you very

9:28 ↗ very much

9:28 ↗ all right thanks next on the list Robert

9:32 ↗ last name with an S oh there you are can

9:38 ↗ you hold on one second

9:41 ↗ oh no when you know it this slideshow

9:45 ↗ just does not want to get put up there

9:58 ↗ [Music]

10:06 ↗ well hello

10:09 ↗ so this slideshow this was the famous

10:12 ↗ slideshow that was never shown so Robert

10:14 ↗ did you identify yourself yeah my name

10:17 ↗ is your address my name is Robert

10:19 ↗ Swanson I live at 826 fourth Avenue up

10:23 ↗ in this COIs Highlands so this was a

10:25 ↗ going to be a wonderful slideshow that I

10:28 ↗ took pictures all over the is qua

10:29 ↗ Highlands starting up past the movie

10:32 ↗ theater going on down all the way around

10:35 ↗ the neighborhood it was going to show a

10:37 ↗ couple of things one is long we all know

10:41 ↗ this but I'm gonna say it again the

10:42 ↗ ninth and High Street which but a much

10:43 ↗ better location from the high school

10:45 ↗ then I mean the elementary school then

10:46 ↗ cutting off the hill and doing it right

10:48 ↗ in front of the place I had pictures of

10:50 ↗ it anyway so as you go down this street

10:53 ↗ you're gonna see it's one lane going

10:54 ↗ each way which is fine I think traffic

10:56 ↗ would be just fine but as you get down

10:57 ↗ toward where I live there's an alley

10:59 ↗ it's Fifth Avenue it's kind of an alley

11:01 ↗ Road if you want to call it that there's

11:04 ↗ no sidewalks right there so you cannot

11:06 ↗ have cars go through that impossible

11:09 ↗ while kids going to school completely

11:11 ↗ impossible if you saw the picture you'd

11:12 ↗ see I'm talking about this you can't

11:14 ↗ have two SUVs one has to stop one has to

11:16 ↗ go this is just in the alleyway it would

11:19 ↗ be in a danger zone to having cars go

11:21 ↗ down there while kids are walking down

11:23 ↗ there with no safety no sidewalk at all

11:25 ↗ so some kid would get run over so you'd

11:28 ↗ have to put a stop sign there which I I

11:30 ↗ had signs that pictures are the signs

11:32 ↗ right down the street here to show that

11:34 ↗ we do have signs saying no left turns

11:36 ↗ going up and down here doing school

11:37 ↗ hours I'm assuming that's because of

11:39 ↗ school hours I don't know why they have

11:41 ↗ it there but I was just assuming so

11:44 ↗ anyway the so we'd have to have a sign

11:46 ↗ there saying there's no way you could

11:47 ↗ have kids cars go down that alley

11:49 ↗ impossible very unsafe the next one is

11:52 ↗ you go down the corner there's a stop

11:53 ↗ sign too

11:54 ↗ cars are literally physically impossible

11:56 ↗ for two small cars that taking a left

11:58 ↗ and right at the same time you go there

12:00 ↗ I had pictures had my car there so you

12:02 ↗ could see that there was no but you can

12:04 ↗ use your imagination anyway so you could

12:07 ↗ not have cars go through in and out

12:10 ↗ right there and that Street there I had

12:12 ↗ pictures you can't have two SUVs and

12:14 ↗ parents love SUVs you cannot have two

12:17 ↗ SUVs anybody it's been up in the

12:18 ↗ neighborhood I know several of you have

12:20 ↗ been you cannot have two SUVs you have

12:22 ↗ to pull over it's just a mess you could

12:24 ↗ not have cars go down there so you're

12:26 ↗ going to basically eliminate that whole

12:27 ↗ place as cars going up and down unless

12:29 ↗ you want to domain one of the houses and

12:33 ↗ just wipe out that whole place there and

12:35 ↗ build a whole street hey if you got to

12:37 ↗ do that you got to do it but I can't see

12:39 ↗ that happening then you can go all the

12:41 ↗ way down to the very end of that street

12:42 ↗ and then you have taken a left you

12:44 ↗ cannot have two cars take a left that's

12:47 ↗ right next to the hill oh right right

12:48 ↗ there you can't have two cars one car

12:50 ↗ has to take a left one car has to go

12:51 ↗ this way you cannot have two SUVs

12:53 ↗ especially can't do it you're getting to

12:55 ↗ an accident so that's a bottle

12:57 ↗ bottleneck then you go up the little

12:59 ↗ hill which I'm just gonna let you know

13:01 ↗ if you do build a school there you have

13:02 ↗ to I di saat Hill every single time it

13:05 ↗ snows or it gets icy rain and ice

13:07 ↗ because nobody can go up that hill I

13:09 ↗ mean we all put up on our Facebook hey

13:11 ↗ don't go up that hill go all the other

13:12 ↗ when you have to go all the way around

13:13 ↗ because it's so I see you literally

13:15 ↗ can't get up you start sliding back down

13:16 ↗ it's a very small hill but it's it's an

13:19 ↗ owner hiding up there anyway so then you

13:21 ↗ get to the hospital now so the hospital

13:24 ↗ I'm just gonna let you know I'm mr. me I

13:26 ↗ know you talk you're not part of the

13:28 ↗ City Council so I can say your name I

13:29 ↗ hope but the you've talked to mr. case I

13:34 ↗ believe that he's the parking director

13:36 ↗ for the for the hospital I don't want to

13:41 ↗ put words in his mouth or anything I'm

13:43 ↗ just gonna say they have concerns I'll

13:46 ↗ just leave it that I don't want to get

13:48 ↗ him in any trouble or say anything but

13:50 ↗ he has concerns on how that's going to

13:51 ↗ work out I know there's communication

13:53 ↗ going on with that I also talked to the

13:55 ↗ Issaquah Highlands today I don't want to

13:58 ↗ give any names there too but they have

14:00 ↗ extreme concerns on the whole driving

14:04 ↗ it's cutting down the hill water the

14:07 ↗ whole shabang kids where they agree they

14:11 ↗ cannot have cars going down the

14:12 ↗ neighborhood it's just impossible sorry

14:14 ↗ I had pictures of all that a beautiful

14:16 ↗ picture of the hills so we could all see

14:18 ↗ what it looks like why everybody wants

14:19 ↗ to cut down the hill and put an

14:20 ↗ elementary school there anybody I've

14:23 ↗ shown the picture to that leaving lives

14:24 ↗ outside the neighborhood that has no

14:26 ↗ saying one way or the other they go well

14:29 ↗ that's a dumb spot friends of mine have

14:30 ↗ come over that don't live there don't

14:31 ↗ live in his quad I show him the hill I

14:32 ↗ said what do you think about putting the

14:33 ↗ hill an elementary school cut down that

14:35 ↗ hill the hill and put an elementary

14:37 ↗ school right on top of that every single

14:39 ↗ person and I try not to give you know

14:42 ↗ I'm sure there's a little bias comes out

14:44 ↗ of me I admit it but I tried them my

14:46 ↗ best and everything every single person

14:49 ↗ is said that is the dumbest idea I've

14:50 ↗ ever heard in my entire life so I'm just

14:53 ↗ letting you know that it is there are

14:55 ↗ many people and when we had our first

14:58 ↗ the the school board had their first

15:00 ↗ meeting I went to thank you very much it

15:03 ↗ was wonderful talking to thank you

15:05 ↗ Robert

15:06 ↗ next last on my list is David Wagner

15:16 ↗ oh there you go there you go

15:19 ↗ good evening mayor council mine's gonna

15:22 ↗ be brief if that red light comes on I've

15:24 ↗ been here way too long

15:27 ↗ Friday as you well know we will have

15:31 ↗ veterans ceremony at the Senior Center

15:34 ↗ and specifically asking one of you to be

15:39 ↗ there hopefully at you mayor you know

15:41 ↗ that we always present a flag in honor

15:43 ↗ of all the flags that we give to the

15:46 ↗ city every year to fly well we have men

15:50 ↗ and women harm's way and we'll do that

15:52 ↗ again so Friday 11 o'clock Senior Center

15:56 ↗ Veterans Day service and Friday at 9:30

16:01 ↗ in the highlands two brand new flags are

16:05 ↗ going to be raised there as well

16:09 ↗ for the first time a Pio wmia flag under

16:12 ↗ the US flag so just would like to invite

16:15 ↗ you out and anybody from the public is

16:18 ↗ welcome to come as well and we'll have a

16:23 ↗ great service and thank you very much

16:26 ↗ thank you Dave

16:32 ↗ lessons there anyone desiring Brian I

16:38 ↗ see you in the back come on down

16:52 ↗ thank you very much my name is Brian

16:55 ↗ Weinstein my address is on file I'm here

16:58 ↗ to speak to agenda bill seven four six

17:01 ↗ two which are the school impact fees

17:04 ↗ I've been following this as it's moved

17:07 ↗ its way to the council Services

17:10 ↗ Committee and at that meeting one of the

17:14 ↗ things we learned from a representative

17:15 ↗ of Issaquah School District is that they

17:19 ↗ don't charge the full amount of impact

17:21 ↗ fees that they could to developers and

17:24 ↗ the reason they do that is because

17:26 ↗ they're afraid they might be sued and so

17:31 ↗ this is the amount that they are legally

17:34 ↗ entitled to charge developers for impact

17:38 ↗ fees and that calculation is included in

17:40 ↗ your agenda bill for a single-family

17:42 ↗ home that's twenty nine thousand two

17:45 ↗ hundred and six dollars for a

17:48 ↗ multifamily housing development per

17:51 ↗ units eleven thousand five hundred

17:53 ↗ thirty five and what they charge instead

17:56 ↗ after they give a generous discount is

18:01 ↗ basically eight thousand seven hundred

18:04 ↗ for a single-family and three thousand

18:06 ↗ four hundred for multifamily so what the

18:11 ↗ school district is doing is throttling

18:14 ↗ growth in Issaquah and throttling growth

18:18 ↗ is something that really is the purview

18:21 ↗ of the city council not the Issaquah

18:24 ↗ school district by charging so little

18:28 ↗ for these impact fees the school

18:31 ↗ district has made a calculus that

18:33 ↗ there's more money to be had in forever

18:36 ↗ levies that we have that are assessed on

18:39 ↗ our property via property taxes than to

18:43 ↗ get a lump sum amount from developers at

18:45 ↗ the time that the impact fees are

18:46 ↗ supposed to be collected and of course

18:49 ↗ that makes total financial sense would

18:51 ↗ you rather have the present value of

18:53 ↗ twenty thousand dollars today or the

18:55 ↗ present value of several hundred dollars

18:58 ↗ spread across all the houses in Issaquah

19:00 ↗ for

19:01 ↗ forever so that's an infinitely larger

19:05 ↗ sum but again when we've talked about

19:09 ↗ growth and we've talked about traffic

19:11 ↗ and we've talked about the impacts to

19:14 ↗ overcrowding in our schools that are

19:16 ↗ causing the school district to look for

19:19 ↗ land anywhere they can find it and build

19:21 ↗ schools any way they can find it they

19:24 ↗ are in part creating a problem for us

19:27 ↗ and themselves my hope would be that the

19:31 ↗ council could look at this agenda bill

19:33 ↗ table it send it back to committee send

19:37 ↗ it back to the school board have them

19:39 ↗ charge the full amount that they are

19:41 ↗ legally entitled to charge and not be

19:45 ↗ afraid of being sued by developers for

19:47 ↗ doing the right thing that they're

19:49 ↗ legally entitled to do it shouldn't fall

19:52 ↗ upon the taxpayers and the residents of

19:54 ↗ Issaquah again to make up for a

19:57 ↗ difference that the school district has

19:59 ↗ the ability to make up for themselves

20:00 ↗ thank you very much thank you Brian

20:05 ↗ anyone else Steve

20:13 ↗ Steve Crawford director capital project

20:16 ↗ for this law school district I just want

20:17 ↗ to clarify a few points that the school

20:20 ↗ impact fees are put together in

20:22 ↗ accordance with a sub-element of the

20:23 ↗ King County Comprehensive Plan and in

20:26 ↗ that plan there is a mandatory

20:28 ↗ requirement for a 50% discount off the

20:30 ↗ caca

20:31 ↗ calculated amount so Brian's numbers

20:33 ↗ aren't quite accurate there's a big

20:35 ↗ difference between what is a the 50%

20:39 ↗ discount and the $20,000.00 number that

20:42 ↗ he was talking about I would be happy to

20:45 ↗ explain further and other situations and

20:48 ↗ circumstances but there is a 50% we're

20:52 ↗ not afraid of being sued by the

20:54 ↗ development community nearly every year

20:57 ↗ we amount a pretty strong effort to

21:00 ↗ counter the building community who is

21:03 ↗ down in Olympia lobbying very hard to

21:07 ↗ eliminate the collection of impact fees

21:10 ↗ so that's the balancing act it's not

21:13 ↗ being afraid of sued being sued by

21:15 ↗ developers it's the real threat of

21:18 ↗ losing the ability to collect any impact

21:20 ↗ fee thank you thank you Steve anyone

21:26 ↗ else desire to speak during general

21:29 ↗ audience come Elizabeth

21:37 ↗ Elizabeth Mopan 100 Big Bear place

21:40 ↗ northwest Issaquah it does seem to me

21:45 ↗ that a lot of our codes laws and other

21:50 ↗ things are tilted a bit in the favor of

21:53 ↗ the developers in a way that is not

21:59 ↗ helpful to the cities I'm not sure what

22:03 ↗ the remedy of this is but I I do note

22:07 ↗ that that seems to be the case and I

22:11 ↗ also like to address the process we have

22:15 ↗ on some of our really emotional topics

22:19 ↗ like safe injection sites it seems to me

22:23 ↗ that prior to having the public hearing

22:29 ↗ it would be helpful to have an

22:33 ↗ opportunity for people to hear from

22:36 ↗ experts who really understand the topic

22:41 ↗ so that people are speaking from a good

22:45 ↗ knowledge base rather than from an

22:49 ↗ emotional reaction I don't think we

22:52 ↗ really know a whole lot about the safe

22:55 ↗ injection sites originally the Human

22:59 ↗ Resources people and some other groups

23:02 ↗ were supposed to look at this and bring

23:04 ↗ something back and that got wiped away

23:09 ↗ so it just seems to me it would be more

23:12 ↗ helpful to the council to hear from

23:15 ↗ people after they've had a chance to

23:18 ↗ hear from people who really know

23:20 ↗ something about the topic thank you

23:23 ↗ thank you Elizabeth

23:27 ↗ anyone else desiring to speak this

23:30 ↗ evening

23:31 ↗ anyone else Steve

23:43 ↗ the Union Council mr. mayor members of

23:47 ↗ the public

23:48 ↗ Keith you didn't share your caffeine

23:50 ↗ with me so identify your sorry Steve

23:52 ↗ when 70 North you start with Street is

23:55 ↗ why for about 10 years so first of all

23:57 ↗ thank yous because we don't say thank

23:59 ↗ you enough and it's good we put that out

24:01 ↗ there thanks to the salmon day

24:03 ↗ volunteers my nephews particularly like

24:04 ↗ we could paint the rubber fish and then

24:06 ↗ make a portrait of it and they allowed

24:08 ↗ them to dry there so you didn't have to

24:10 ↗ take a wet portrait and carry it around

24:11 ↗ so kudos tell the staff for that second

24:16 ↗ the Scarecrow's that displayed about old

24:18 ↗ town kind of a cool fall Halloween event

24:22 ↗ I think that was kind of cool I guess

24:26 ↗ crime-related they have the pop-up free

24:28 ↗ or fresh vegetable stand at the start

24:30 ↗ Shell station subs kind of cool to see

24:32 ↗ out there next was I'm seeing an

24:35 ↗ increased presence of the Issaquah

24:37 ↗ police vehicles about town so I'm glad

24:39 ↗ to see that thanks to the police

24:40 ↗ thanks for the city for expressing their

24:43 ↗ concerns on that the next issue was

24:49 ↗ gonna be somewhat similar Elizabeth my

24:54 ↗ pen talked about emotionally charged

24:55 ↗ topics and that's the Providence Heights

24:58 ↗ campus it seems like people who have

25:01 ↗ fought for it have had to fight to get

25:04 ↗ the city to recognize that it's a it's

25:06 ↗ historical site has cultural and

25:08 ↗ artistic ability to understand why that

25:10 ↗ happened there was a presentation for

25:15 ↗ the Hearing Examiner and said that there

25:16 ↗ was not a process correctly followed for

25:19 ↗ historical sites the King County

25:24 ↗ Historical Commission met the city

25:28 ↗ church representative suggested that

25:30 ↗ they meet an executive session to see

25:31 ↗ whether or not there were any

25:32 ↗ constitutional issues regarding a church

25:35 ↗ site we met they came back and voted

25:37 ↗ five to zero that it met historical

25:40 ↗ considerations for being considered so

25:44 ↗ its would be easy to say that it's

25:46 ↗ heartbreaking to understand that the

25:48 ↗ site is again threatened by demolition

25:51 ↗ beyond that though and to be frank it's

25:54 ↗ makes me kind of angry that we're at the

25:57 ↗ place we are today where this happens

26:01 ↗ today where the city is decided not to

26:03 ↗ fight a threatened lawsuit there are

26:06 ↗ processes in place in the process that

26:07 ↗ says we have an appeal process within

26:13 ↗ that historical designation process that

26:15 ↗ wasn't followed often there's a new

26:17 ↗ entity and sort of plateaued limited

26:20 ↗ liability corporation there's

26:21 ↗ organization called church home that

26:23 ↗ presented the city with a threatened

26:26 ↗ lawsuit it just seems like a break into

26:29 ↗ the public trust for the city not to

26:31 ↗ follow that process that I don't use

26:32 ↗ those words lightly I'm not saying that

26:33 ↗ there was a break in public trust but it

26:37 ↗ certainly feels looks sounds that way I

26:41 ↗ don't know at this point that there's

26:43 ↗ something next to do from the city

26:47 ↗ standpoint it seems the city's made a

26:49 ↗ stand I'm not sure what the next site is

26:52 ↗ for this process but I think process

26:55 ↗ wise we need to look at this we need to

26:56 ↗ I'd like to hear feedback from the city

26:58 ↗ on why that process didn't seem to

27:01 ↗ happen and what steps need to be taken

27:02 ↗ to change the process so that gets

27:04 ↗ followed again there were four criterias

27:09 ↗ on why the site had historical cultural

27:12 ↗ and artistic preservation up to zero but

27:16 ↗ that doesn't seem to be taken into

27:17 ↗ consideration I'm very disappointed in

27:19 ↗ again angry thank you thank you Steve

27:23 ↗ anyone else designed to speak anyone

27:27 ↗ else third David good evening David

27:32 ↗ Kepler just remember sometime in the

27:37 ↗ future when you are given to have a rest

27:41 ↗ to a resolution supporting a school

27:43 ↗ district bond think about what you do

27:46 ↗ tonight about getting those fees

27:50 ↗ appropriate because if you don't get

27:52 ↗ them right tonight we're going to just

27:54 ↗ mean that bond in the future will be

27:56 ↗ larger thank you thank you David anyone

28:00 ↗ else yes please

28:12 ↗ hello my name is Julie Clark I live at

28:15 ↗ nine one five bear Ridge Court Northwest

28:17 ↗ and I just wanted to come down tonight a

28:21 ↗ couple of things one I wanted to thank

28:23 ↗ whoever was responsible for the bike

28:26 ↗ artheon skatepark it looks like it's

28:29 ↗ being well used and it's nice to see

28:32 ↗ young adults and kids out there during

28:35 ↗ the day and early evenings using it so I

28:40 ↗ appreciate that it's been placed in a

28:43 ↗ place where it's accessible and seems to

28:47 ↗ be well used second I wanted to make a

28:52 ↗ request I had sent an email last week

28:55 ↗ about transparency within the city and

28:59 ↗ between the different departments and

29:01 ↗ I'd like to again request that there is

29:03 ↗ an effort made to increase the

29:06 ↗ transparency it seems that some

29:09 ↗ departments have had information

29:11 ↗ regarding talus parcels and their

29:15 ↗ stability and that information was not

29:17 ↗ provided to the Hearing Examiner or the

29:20 ↗ City Council

29:21 ↗ prior to permitting being issued so I

29:26 ↗ wanted to just address that and request

29:29 ↗ that there is an effort to have the

29:34 ↗ different groups within our city work

29:36 ↗ together and to recognize the need for

29:41 ↗ information being brought forth so that

29:44 ↗ everybody can make a well-informed

29:45 ↗ decision thank you Thank You Julie Mary

29:52 ↗ you held out to the end perhaps my name

29:58 ↗ is Mary Lynch and I recited 216 I know

30:00 ↗ North West Oak Crest Drive Issaquah

30:02 ↗ Washington I also want to say that I

30:05 ↗ really think going into the budgeting

30:07 ↗ period we need to look at all impact

30:08 ↗ fees not just the school because the

30:11 ↗ school has admitted they have not been

30:13 ↗ collecting what they could in the past

30:15 ↗ and with developers adding TDRs to their

30:18 ↗ sites and we're not getting any

30:21 ↗ affordability in our homes and things

30:24 ↗ that are being built as far as

30:25 ↗ affordable homes

30:26 ↗ or apartments we're driving the the

30:29 ↗ market skyrocketing so those of us who

30:31 ↗ live here now can't afford to stay here

30:33 ↗ because of the increased raise in

30:35 ↗ property tax developers have not and

30:38 ↗ still are not paying their fair share

30:40 ↗ because during last year's budget

30:42 ↗ process you still did not elect to cover

30:46 ↗ all the development impact fees by

30:49 ↗ developers and what I've heard so far

30:51 ↗ this year that still not being proposed

30:53 ↗ by city staff that you fully cover the

30:56 ↗ development services fees and it's a

30:58 ↗ fully burdened rate because it hasn't

31:01 ↗ been in the past also we've talked about

31:04 ↗ during the budgeting or was talked about

31:07 ↗ budgeting process last year that there

31:09 ↗ would be studies done for levels of

31:11 ↗ service that are the level service for

31:15 ↗ the police and some of the other staff

31:16 ↗ are based upon 2006 2007 numbers and I

31:21 ↗ haven't seen any studies that have been

31:22 ↗ updated and I know there's some

31:24 ↗ preliminary talks that we do need or be

31:27 ↗ nice to have three more policemen added

31:29 ↗ to it but what is that based on we need

31:31 ↗ to have transparency we need to do real

31:34 ↗ studies that accurately show the levels

31:37 ↗ of service that we want and based upon

31:40 ↗ the existing and the predicted

31:42 ↗ population throughout the year because

31:44 ↗ we're growing drastically and we're

31:46 ↗ bringing on a lot of new homes over the

31:47 ↗ next year or two and we also know

31:50 ↗ especially with police it takes two to

31:52 ↗ three years to get a policeman up and

31:54 ↗ running once you've had them on board so

31:56 ↗ you have to plan for that the other

31:59 ↗ thing I haven't seen is a recent

32:00 ↗ concurrency and when we went through the

32:03 ↗ development hearings and studied the

32:06 ↗ transportation that studies that were

32:08 ↗ done for the central area plan there was

32:10 ↗ some major flaws in that and we were

32:12 ↗ told that we were going to have a new

32:13 ↗ concurrency study done but what is that

32:17 ↗ going to be based upon for this year's

32:18 ↗ budget so we can help really see what is

32:21 ↗ needed and then also go back and charge

32:23 ↗ the appropriate impact fees for

32:25 ↗ developers we're way behind on what we

32:28 ↗ need an infrastructure and right now the

32:31 ↗ way it exists is you're expecting

32:33 ↗ existing homeowners to pay for it and

32:36 ↗ yes are the value of our homes are going

32:39 ↗ up

32:39 ↗ but those of us that are on a fixed or

32:41 ↗ limited income cannot afford to have our

32:45 ↗ property taxes go up unless we move away

32:47 ↗ and sell our house and go to another

32:49 ↗ place if that's what you want keep doing

32:52 ↗ what you're doing but I would hope that

32:54 ↗ you have more transparency in this

32:57 ↗ year's budget and you get it out to the

33:00 ↗ public so we can see what's being said

33:02 ↗ and the numbers are what the numbers are

33:05 ↗ being projected and what they're based

33:07 ↗ on because right now what I've seen

33:09 ↗ that's been available to the public we

33:11 ↗ can't add up any column or really see

33:14 ↗ how the total budget is being rolled up

33:16 ↗ and we need more transparency on not

33:19 ↗ only impact fees but on everything in

33:21 ↗ the budget so the citizens can

33:22 ↗ understand what our taxpayers are going

33:24 ↗ to thank you thank you Mary

33:28 ↗ anyone else anyone else third and come

33:34 ↗ on down

33:39 ↗ Geraldine Carrie 955 17th Avenue

33:42 ↗ Northwest Issaquah I've been a resident

33:47 ↗ in this quad for 40 years and I guess

33:49 ↗ I'm getting to be on the older side I

33:52 ↗ know there are a few here I see who have

33:55 ↗ been here longer than myself but I have

33:58 ↗ voted every year for a lot of the bonds

34:02 ↗ and levies and I'll tell you now unless

34:05 ↗ the city and the school district does

34:07 ↗ something different and charge the

34:09 ↗ developers there their impact fees and

34:14 ↗ not make me a citizen of Issaquah pain

34:18 ↗ higher poverty taxes I will not vote for

34:21 ↗ the February levy or bond that's going

34:24 ↗ to be put before me and it's the first

34:26 ↗ time in 40 years that I have not voted

34:29 ↗ for it but I just kind of feel like here

34:31 ↗ you know everything I hear about the

34:33 ↗ school school board not charging the

34:37 ↗ correct impact fees makes me pretty

34:40 ↗ angry and I'm not going to support the

34:42 ↗ school system if they're not going to

34:44 ↗ take into account what how it impacts my

34:48 ↗ personal finances the other issue I have

34:52 ↗ and

34:52 ↗ without these are called press I'm kind

34:54 ↗ of dumb I mean the other quoi press to

34:56 ↗ me what's the heart and soul of Issaquah

34:59 ↗ and I'm really sorry to see it gone I

35:02 ↗ feel like the you know the news isn't

35:05 ↗ getting out there and I have an interest

35:08 ↗ just to find out where this safe

35:11 ↗ injection sites going to be I haven't

35:13 ↗ heard anybody talk about where it's

35:16 ↗ going to be located and you know whose

35:19 ↗ neighborhood it's going to be put in and

35:21 ↗ so I would like some clarification from

35:23 ↗ the City Council as to where they think

35:25 ↗ they're going to put this safe injection

35:27 ↗ site it might be out there but I as a

35:31 ↗ citizen have not found it on any

35:33 ↗ information I have read and if you're

35:35 ↗ going to be putting this into our

35:37 ↗ community we as citizens need to be told

35:40 ↗ where so that we can understand how it's

35:44 ↗ going to impact our community how it's

35:46 ↗ going to impact you know the area that

35:48 ↗ it's put in where its finds a home I

35:53 ↗ think the next door to the police

35:55 ↗ department is my favorite site so with

35:59 ↗ that I thank you for listening

36:02 ↗ Thank You Geraldine anyone else desire

36:06 ↗ to speak anyone else third and final

36:11 ↗ call seeing no one that audience

36:13 ↗ comments are closed and we'll move now

36:16 ↗ to committee and regional reports Mariah

36:20 ↗ Thank You mr. mayor no report this

36:23 ↗ evening no thank you mr. mayor first

36:27 ↗ report I attended my first Washington

36:29 ↗ State Public Works board meeting last

36:30 ↗ Friday and basically they were extending

36:34 ↗ contracts because of the state not

36:36 ↗ passing the capital budget hoping to get

36:39 ↗ that passed some time so they can issue

36:40 ↗ some more loans and just to mention that

36:44 ↗ from the use acquired and point they may

36:46 ↗ not be aware of but we've gotten two

36:47 ↗ loans in the recent past one for 1.1

36:51 ↗ million for a new Newport Bridge and 170

36:55 ↗ thousand for sewer linger sewer line

36:57 ↗ repair so we've been benefit

36:59 ↗ manufacturers of that program as well

37:03 ↗ and Infrastructure Committee will meet

37:05 ↗ on November 16th at 6:30 here the agenda

37:09 ↗ is not quite together yet so it'll

37:11 ↗ become short ly I was with the regional

37:15 ↗ transit committee we had a work session

37:17 ↗ on the 25th of October talking mainly

37:20 ↗ about again how to the Metro Development

37:24 ↗ Program which is we're really looking at

37:26 ↗ how they're expanding their service you

37:28 ↗ know working towards their plan 2025

37:32 ↗ system which is quite an expansion from

37:35 ↗ what the current services so they're

37:36 ↗ slowly taking some steps on that and

37:38 ↗ we're working with them on that so

37:39 ↗ hopefully we had some expansion this

37:41 ↗ last fall schedule hopefully the spring

37:44 ↗ the new schedule will bring someone some

37:46 ↗ more bus lines in the various places I'm

37:48 ↗ not sure where yet that's what they're

37:50 ↗ working on now so hopefully a little

37:52 ↗ better transit in the near future

37:58 ↗ emergency management Advisory Council we

38:00 ↗ met on the will meet excuse me on their

38:03 ↗ level eight of this Wednesday we'll be

38:07 ↗ looking on relocating some grant funds

38:09 ↗ that have not been used in one area to

38:11 ↗ put them in another area and then the

38:14 ↗ east side transportation partnership was

38:16 ↗ scheduled to meet this Friday but due to

38:18 ↗ Veterans Day has been moved to the 17th

38:20 ↗ and we don't have an agenda for that yet

38:21 ↗ either but I'll be tending there that

38:23 ↗ concludes my report

38:24 ↗ thank you Bill Paul Thank You mr. mayor

38:26 ↗ the Puget Sound Regional Council's

38:28 ↗ growth management policy board met last

38:31 ↗ Thursday there are two items of special

38:34 ↗ interest on the agenda for Issaquah

38:37 ↗ first the regional center framework

38:40 ↗ project that Update is still out for

38:44 ↗ public comment and they'll be receiving

38:46 ↗ public comments through this Wednesday

38:49 ↗ now the just today the City of Seattle

38:55 ↗ King County the Port of Seattle and

38:58 ↗ possibly Bellevue and also

38:59 ↗ representation from staff at sound

39:02 ↗ city's Association put out a letter of

39:06 ↗ potato potential it's it's draft it's

39:09 ↗ not finalized and I will afford that to

39:12 ↗ everybody here on the council as well

39:15 ↗ it's a very nice sum

39:16 ↗ of a lot of what I think the from an SCA

39:19 ↗ perspective comments about the framework

39:23 ↗ update it's it's about four pages long

39:26 ↗ it's and I'm asked a city administrator

39:29 ↗ this just deceiving that how and whether

39:35 ↗ because what SCA did was ask whether or

39:37 ↗ not the city of Issaquah wants to sign

39:39 ↗ on to that we just got that today so

39:41 ↗ hopefully you guys will take that up at

39:43 ↗ leadership on Wednesday and I think also

39:48 ↗ so GM PB member cities but also

39:52 ↗ executive P SRC executive board member

39:57 ↗ cities they're asked of whether or not

39:59 ↗ they want to sign on to that letter so

40:02 ↗ that that's the framework updates and

40:06 ↗ then it's actually targeted for

40:08 ↗ completion possible completion still

40:12 ↗ before the end of this year the other

40:14 ↗ item that we spoke about there kicking

40:16 ↗ off an update to the vision 2040

40:20 ↗ document and and I think that was

40:23 ↗ updated within about ten years ago

40:26 ↗ so this a lot has happened since that

40:28 ↗ last update of the vision 2040 there's

40:32 ↗ been a lot of growth of employment

40:33 ↗ there's been growth in the region in

40:36 ↗ general there's a there's a lot of new

40:37 ↗ infrastructure just the floating bridges

40:40 ↗ for example the Kitsap County fast ferry

40:43 ↗ system there's been quite a investment

40:46 ↗ in the infrastructure and the robustness

40:49 ↗ of our regional economy still has a huge

40:51 ↗ impact and so there's also been a lot of

40:54 ↗ planning work that's been done in the

40:55 ↗ region there are three new regional

40:57 ↗ centers of which we are one and so this

41:01 ↗ update which they're going to call

41:03 ↗ vision 2050 is actually going to be a

41:05 ↗ multi-year process so they just kicking

41:07 ↗ that off and they're not they're

41:10 ↗ targeting to complete this update by

41:11 ↗ actually 2020 so there's gonna be a

41:13 ↗ couple years of work to get that done so

41:16 ↗ we'll be hearing more about that as we

41:19 ↗ progress that concludes my report

41:21 ↗ thank you : thanks mr. mayor first of

41:24 ↗ all I want to point out the SCA s

41:26 ↗ deadline for request for appointment to

41:29 ↗ SCA really

41:30 ↗ bodies and boards which is GFP BGM PC

41:33 ↗ and a whole slew of others including a

41:36 ↗ number of transportation related

41:38 ↗ entities that is all due tomorrow at 4

41:41 ↗ p.m. so I have it I have it as I have it

41:47 ↗ it's from Kaitlyn McGee at SCA is 4 p.m.

41:50 ↗ Tuesday November 7th so let's assume

41:53 ↗ that and out we can double check on that

41:59 ↗ after the meeting I want to point out

42:01 ↗ that that is also for reappointment for

42:03 ↗ existing boards so if you want to stay

42:06 ↗ on what you're already on you're going

42:08 ↗ to need to reapply then 6:00 p.m.

42:10 ↗ Wednesday November 8th is we have the SE

42:14 ↗ a pre pic workshop we're going to be

42:16 ↗ focusing on domestic violence and

42:17 ↗ firearms a new regional approach which

42:19 ↗ is of course receiving a new and

42:21 ↗ terrible focus with the events from

42:23 ↗ Sutherland Springs Texas on Sunday it

42:27 ↗ just so happens that this was the topic

42:28 ↗ for this week but for this meeting but

42:31 ↗ we're going to have Bothell police chief

42:33 ↗ Carl Cummings judge and Levinson retired

42:36 ↗ and David Martin senior deputy

42:37 ↗ prosecutor in the King County

42:39 ↗ Prosecutor's Office Domestic Violence

42:41 ↗ Unit so it should be a timely

42:44 ↗ conversation then at 7 we have the SCA

42:47 ↗ pick we will be taking the second read

42:50 ↗ on the SCA 2018 legislative agenda and I

42:54 ↗ will be talking about that and for good

42:56 ↗ of the order of this evening then 9 a.m.

42:59 ↗ Friday November 10th is the e-911

43:00 ↗ leadership group in the schnook building

43:03 ↗ Suite 123 6:30 Tuesday November 14th is

43:07 ↗ services and Safety Committee the agenda

43:10 ↗ is TBD and I just want to point out that

43:12 ↗ at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday November 29th is

43:14 ↗ the SCA annual meeting so mr. mayor if

43:18 ↗ you're not going to be there

43:19 ↗ let me know if you're not want to be

43:22 ↗ there Stacey if you don't want to be

43:23 ↗ there let me know

43:24 ↗ Marilu if you don't want to be there let

43:26 ↗ me know if none of the three of you want

43:27 ↗ to attend that I will be happy to

43:29 ↗ represent the city at that meeting

43:30 ↗ that's this concludes my report thank

43:33 ↗ you told Eileen no report this evening

43:36 ↗ Mary

43:37 ↗ Thanks that's a hard act to follow

43:41 ↗ Thank You mr. mayor two items both

43:44 ↗ related to East Side Fire and Rescue

43:46 ↗ thanks to councilmember Tolan marks for

43:49 ↗ actually standing in at this meeting

43:51 ↗ instead of our regular reps it was the

43:53 ↗ finance and administrative committee

43:54 ↗ meeting on October 25th it was at the

43:57 ↗ headquarters on new part way the one

43:59 ↗ item of interest to Issaquah is there

44:01 ↗ was a discussion of alternative revenue

44:03 ↗ sources and a new fee for motor vehicle

44:06 ↗ accident accidents responses to motor

44:09 ↗ vehicle accidents it would require a

44:12 ↗ board resolution of East Side Fire &

44:13 ↗ Rescue in order for it to come into

44:15 ↗ effect there will be a point in time in

44:18 ↗ the future maybe within the next few

44:20 ↗ months where I'll come back at for good

44:22 ↗ of the order and ask for your direction

44:24 ↗ on whether or not it's acquires an

44:26 ↗ agreement that this would be a good idea

44:28 ↗ it is currently allowed under the state

44:30 ↗ RC R CW's it has minimal impact on e4

44:35 ↗ staffing it's a third party cost

44:37 ↗ recovery from insurance providers and

44:40 ↗ it's estimated that it would be about

44:42 ↗ six hundred and seventy dollars per

44:44 ↗ response there's a lot of data and

44:46 ↗ information on how they came up with

44:48 ↗ this number and also how they came up

44:49 ↗ with revenue forecasts but it is rather

44:52 ↗ a divided issue right now and so I think

44:54 ↗ we're not going to see it back here for

44:56 ↗ several months the next item is the

44:58 ↗ agenda for the November 9th East Side

45:02 ↗ Fire and Rescue board meeting is out

45:03 ↗ there will be overview of volunteer

45:06 ↗ recruitment there'll be a new business

45:09 ↗ item on developing for the first time a

45:11 ↗ legislative agenda and a continued

45:15 ↗ discussion on standards of response for

45:18 ↗ coverage which is something that's been

45:19 ↗ reported out here before and that will

45:22 ↗ be at 3 o'clock nope 4 o'clock and

45:25 ↗ headquarters on Newports way this

45:26 ↗ Thursday Thank You mr. mayor

45:28 ↗ Thank You Stacey Thank You mr. mayor a

45:32 ↗ Landon sure met on November 2nd and one

45:38 ↗ of the items on the agenda was

45:40 ↗ considering the Costco easement and that

45:42 ↗ is agenda bill 74 59 and it's on the

45:46 ↗ consent agenda for approval tonight

45:48 ↗ next item was the gender bill seventy

45:52 ↗ four ninety three Lake Sammamish State

45:54 ↗ Park the State Parks has asked the city

45:58 ↗ of Issaquah to participate in the

46:00 ↗ preparation of an environmental impact

46:01 ↗ statement for possible future

46:05 ↗ development at the park development

46:07 ↗ meaning new and interesting and fun

46:10 ↗ things not necessarily or not typical I

46:15 ↗ use the word development but that's just

46:16 ↗ a broad word there have been a plan in

46:19 ↗ place for improvement its Lake Sammamish

46:21 ↗ State Park since 2007 and so this

46:25 ↗ environmental impact statement would

46:27 ↗ take in the and consider the activities

46:30 ↗ that are in that plan as well as the

46:33 ↗ potential of moving the entrance closer

46:38 ↗ to SR 912 and the don't seem to have it

46:42 ↗ in my notes but I believe the request

46:44 ↗ for the city shares just under $300,000

46:48 ↗ and Parks would be contributing $300,000

46:51 ↗ as well the committee enthusiastically

46:54 ↗ recommended approval of that agenda bill

46:57 ↗ and it's coming to the full council and

47:01 ↗ an upcoming me upcoming meeting on

47:04 ↗ regular business will have a chance to

47:05 ↗ discuss that further we also talked

47:08 ↗ about end of development agreements and

47:10 ↗ committee requested that come back for

47:13 ↗ continued discussion at the committee

47:16 ↗ because we had just seen it twice and

47:17 ↗ it's a very large topic we also had

47:22 ↗ agenda bill 73-42 architectural review

47:25 ↗ and design guidelines this was related

47:27 ↗ to the moratorium and that'll be back on

47:30 ↗ regular business before the full council

47:32 ↗ on November 20th and then we also had

47:35 ↗ our first introduction to inclusionary

47:37 ↗ zoning and that also has to do with the

47:40 ↗ moratorium and the agenda bill will come

47:44 ↗ to land in Shore next month and that's

47:46 ↗ actually on the consent agenda tonight

47:48 ↗ for referral the next landed Shore

47:51 ↗ meeting is expected to be a special

47:55 ↗ meeting that we haven't set the date yet

47:56 ↗ and that's for discussing the end of

47:58 ↗ development agreements that's my

48:00 ↗ thank you I it is the 10th isn't it you

48:07 ↗ know there is a deadline tomorrow at 4

48:09 ↗ p.m. it is the city's deadline the city

48:12 ↗ would like to have people inform you and

48:14 ↗ Stacy of our intent to make sure there

48:17 ↗ isn't a collision of multiple applicants

48:19 ↗ for the same position so I apologize

48:21 ↗ there is a deadline it is not the sca

48:23 ↗ deadline which is as you say the 10th

48:25 ↗ sorry for thank you for that

48:26 ↗ clarification

48:28 ↗ Ola and I I'm attending the annual South

48:35 ↗ cities Association meeting but everyone

48:39 ↗ of course is welcome welcoming the part

48:44 ↗ of that agenda an annual meeting is the

48:46 ↗ approval of the budget and assessments

48:50 ↗ for next year just briefly at the recent

48:55 ↗ ICMA conference in San Antonio Emily

48:57 ↗ moon our assistant city administrator

49:01 ↗ received the assistant excellence in

49:04 ↗ leadership award this award honors the

49:07 ↗ local government management professional

49:09 ↗ who has made significant contributions

49:12 ↗ towards excellence in leadership as an

49:14 ↗ assistant to a chief local government

49:17 ↗ administrator or department head so

49:21 ↗ Emily I think you're in the back there

49:23 ↗ somewhere congratulations

49:32 ↗ and in addition the three CMA awarded

49:38 ↗ Issaquah the silver circle for the most

49:42 ↗ creative activity with the least dollar

49:44 ↗ spent and thanks to automate her team

49:49 ↗ for doing an outstanding job producing

49:51 ↗ the April Fool's Day video fish are

49:55 ↗ friends not food and if you've not had

49:58 ↗ an opportunity to see that humorous

50:00 ↗ video you can check it out on YouTube

50:03 ↗ and that concludes my report

50:06 ↗ we'll now move to the consent calendar

50:09 ↗ and I ask the city clerk to read the

50:13 ↗ lengthy consent calendar the record

50:16 ↗ please thank you the consent calendar

50:18 ↗ was distributed to council and advance

50:20 ↗ for study a fogger eyes council action

50:22 ↗ will occur by a single motion regarding

50:24 ↗ the following items item a6 approval of

50:27 ↗ accounts payable and payroll dated

50:30 ↗ November 6 items B through F seek

50:33 ↗ approval of the following meeting

50:35 ↗ minutes

50:36 ↗ October 9th council committee work

50:38 ↗ session October 12 council budget work

50:42 ↗ session October 16th

50:44 ↗ City Council regular meeting October

50:47 ↗ 24th City Council special meeting

50:49 ↗ October 24th committee of the whole

50:52 ↗ council item G a B 7 3 8 9 of the 2000

50:59 ↗ 2018 excuse me

51:01 ↗ arts grant recommendation this seeks

51:03 ↗ referral to council services and Safety

51:05 ↗ Committee item H a B 7 4 5 9 termination

51:11 ↗ of Costco easement this seeks approval

51:13 ↗ item I a b7 478 Human Services

51:18 ↗ Commission midterm appointment this

51:20 ↗ seeks confirmation item J a B 7 4 8 6

51:25 ↗ Newport way from SR 902 southeast 54th

51:29 ↗ Street Quarter concept this seeks

51:31 ↗ referral to council committee work

51:34 ↗ session and referral to council

51:36 ↗ Infrastructure Committee item K a B 7 4

51:40 ↗ 8 8 establishing a multi-family housing

51:42 ↗ property tax exemption program

51:45 ↗ proposed transit oriented development

51:47 ↗ parcel this seeks approval of a

51:50 ↗ resolution notifying the public of

51:52 ↗ intent if approved this resolution will

51:55 ↗ be assigned number 2017 - 15 this item

51:59 ↗ also seeks referral to Council committee

52:01 ↗ work session item lab7 for 9-0 amendment

52:06 ↗ to route 269 transit service direct

52:09 ↗ financial partnership partnership

52:11 ↗ agreement this seeks authorization item

52:15 ↗ n/a b7 491 the 2018 legislative agenda

52:19 ↗ this seeks referral to Council committee

52:21 ↗ work session item n a b7 495 franchise

52:26 ↗ agreement with Seattle limited

52:28 ↗ partnership which does business as

52:30 ↗ Verizon Wireless this six referral to

52:33 ↗ council Infrastructure Committee item Oh

52:35 ↗ a B seven four nine seven Washington

52:39 ↗ State Department of Ecology Centennial

52:41 ↗ grant regarding Issaquah Highlands

52:43 ↗ wetlands water quality the sixth

52:45 ↗ authorization to submit grant last item

52:48 ↗ aid excuse me item P a B seven four zero

52:51 ↗ seven amendments is a quad municipal

52:53 ↗ code and central is across standards

52:55 ↗ regarding inclusionary zoning

52:57 ↗ requirements for central Issaquah the

53:00 ↗ six referral to council and is short a

53:02 ↗ committee this concludes the reading

53:04 ↗ thank you

53:06 ↗ Tina have the accounts payables and

53:09 ↗ payroll of November six been reviewed

53:13 ↗ they have thank you I would ask if any

53:19 ↗ council member desires any item from the

53:22 ↗ consent calendar to be removed and

53:25 ↗ considered under regular business Stacey

53:30 ↗ I moved to adopt the consent calendar as

53:33 ↗ presented second moved and seconded all

53:36 ↗ those in favor signify by saying aye

53:38 ↗ those opposed that carries unanimously

53:42 ↗ moving now to our first of two public

53:47 ↗ hearings agenda bill 7 3 9 2 2018

53:51 ↗ proposed levy and revenue sources

53:55 ↗ Jennifer Olsen our Director of Finance

53:57 ↗ for a staff report before I open the

54:02 ↗ public hearing

54:06 ↗ Thank You mayor Butler tonight pursuant

54:09 ↗ to state law RCW 84.5 5.1 to zero the

54:15 ↗ city is required to collect property tax

54:19 ↗ levies and must hold a public hearing

54:21 ↗ with regards to all the revenue sources

54:24 ↗ that are included in the upcoming budget

54:27 ↗ for 2018 the this budget is proposing to

54:32 ↗ increase the limit of 1% in the property

54:38 ↗ tax levy and so I'd like to go through a

54:39 ↗ brief presentation of all of the revenue

54:42 ↗ sources which does include property

54:44 ↗ taxes and then we'll hand it over for

54:47 ↗ the public hearing to start it is

54:49 ↗ anticipated that the public hearing

54:51 ↗ would be continued to the next council

54:54 ↗ meeting and that would be November 20th

54:58 ↗ so for the 2018 proposed revenue sources

55:02 ↗ the revenue forecasts were based on

55:04 ↗ financial management policy which is set

55:06 ↗ to be conservatively objective so that

55:09 ↗ we minimize our risk of not being too

55:11 ↗ optimistic about those revenue sources

55:12 ↗ that come in the city receives a number

55:15 ↗ of revenue sources those include

55:18 ↗ property taxes sales taxes B&O utility

55:21 ↗ taxes lodging tax real estate excise

55:24 ↗ taxes in our licenses and permits

55:26 ↗ category we receive revenue associated

55:30 ↗ with business licenses building permits

55:32 ↗ and other permits and licenses charges

55:35 ↗ for services are typically included such

55:39 ↗ as jail fees development review

55:42 ↗ sometimes referred to it as plan check

55:44 ↗ services recreation and programming fees

55:47 ↗ and utility rates for our water sewer

55:50 ↗ and stormwater funds intergovernmental

55:53 ↗ revenue or share revenue comes from our

55:56 ↗ federal state and local granting

55:58 ↗ agencies

55:59 ↗ sales tax mitigation liquor profits and

56:02 ↗ criminal justice sources we also receive

56:05 ↗ impact fees such as traffic parks police

56:08 ↗ and mobility type fees

56:27 ↗ we have a little bit of technical

56:28 ↗ difficulty Robert you weren't the only

56:33 ↗ one

56:58 ↗ looks like it

57:26 ↗ then do we have a plan B oh yeah we

57:34 ↗ could call Eastside Fire and Rescue

57:51 ↗ which is they don't

57:54 ↗ okay

58:00 ↗ [Music]

58:09 ↗ I can't I can't get it yeah

58:17 ↗ I'm gonna pull up an alternative

58:19 ↗ PowerPoint but we will not be able to

58:21 ↗ put it on the screen the console was

58:23 ↗ provided a preview of the slide deck so

58:25 ↗ I'll go through that in if you bear with

58:27 ↗ me just one moment please

59:10 ↗ I certainly appreciate everyone's

59:12 ↗ patience while we attempt to address the

59:16 ↗ technical difficulties all right I'm

59:19 ↗ ready to proceed a few our mirror any

59:22 ↗ time okay all right total sources of

59:25 ↗ revenue for the 2018 proposed budget

59:28 ↗ include all city funds revenues tally

59:32 ↗ one hundred and twenty nine point five

59:34 ↗ million dollars they're broken up by a

59:37 ↗ number of different types of revenues

59:39 ↗ our largest in the in the pie chart is

59:44 ↗ essentially our charges for services

59:46 ↗ because that includes when you talk

59:48 ↗ about all revenues for the city it

59:50 ↗ includes our utility rates in our

59:52 ↗ utility funds that's at 32% of all

59:55 ↗ revenue sources come for charges and

59:57 ↗ services taxes are the next largest

1:00:01 ↗ source of revenues that come at

1:00:03 ↗ thirty-one percent and then we have

1:00:06 ↗ intergovernmental or shared revenues and

1:00:08 ↗ those are that come from federal state

1:00:11 ↗ and local granting agencies and other

1:00:14 ↗ shared sources such as liquor profits on

1:00:20 ↗ the general fund side which is our

1:00:22 ↗ largest fund this is our major operating

1:00:25 ↗ fund the proposed 2018 general fund

1:00:28 ↗ revenue equals an eight point seven

1:00:30 ↗ percent increase from 2017 new sources

1:00:34 ↗ in the general fund include rebate

1:00:36 ↗ program sources 9-1-1 escrow and

1:00:40 ↗ increased recreation program

1:00:42 ↗ enhancements for new programming that

1:00:44 ↗ has been proposed expanded existing

1:00:47 ↗ sources include the property tax levy

1:00:50 ↗ and the limit of 1% that increase we're

1:00:55 ↗ expanding permit and development charges

1:00:57 ↗ based on what is anticipated in the

1:00:59 ↗ project pipeline and we're also

1:01:02 ↗ anticipating and expanded cost

1:01:04 ↗ allocation charges and what that means

1:01:07 ↗ is that funds charge other funds for the

1:01:11 ↗ direct service that is provided

1:01:20 ↗ for the general fund it's estimated that

1:01:22 ↗ we'd received in 2018 a little over

1:01:25 ↗ fifty million dollars the largest

1:01:27 ↗ portion of general fund revenue does

1:01:29 ↗ come from taxes so that shifts when we

1:01:31 ↗ talk about just the general fund we've

1:01:33 ↗ got it proposed about 69 percent of that

1:01:38 ↗ 51 million dollars comes from a number

1:01:41 ↗ of different tax sources the next

1:01:44 ↗ largest portion of the general fund with

1:01:46 ↗ regards to revenue sources comes from

1:01:48 ↗ charges or goods and services and that

1:01:51 ↗ is our building permit and license

1:01:53 ↗ revenues we also receive cost allocation

1:01:57 ↗ charges in the general fund as

1:02:00 ↗ departments such as the finance

1:02:02 ↗ department or administration department

1:02:04 ↗ charged out for services that are

1:02:06 ↗ provided to other funds such as the

1:02:10 ↗ utility funds a further breakdown of the

1:02:18 ↗ general fund taxes include forty three

1:02:21 ↗ percent of that total in the general

1:02:23 ↗ fund coming from sales tax and the

1:02:25 ↗ largest component of its ëcause sales

1:02:27 ↗ tax are from the retail sales tax

1:02:30 ↗ portion and the construction portion of

1:02:34 ↗ the sales tax the next largest type of

1:02:36 ↗ tax that comes into the general fund

1:02:38 ↗ comes from property taxes and that's at

1:02:41 ↗ 26 percent then we have our B&O taxes at

1:02:45 ↗ fifteen percent and our combination of a

1:02:48 ↗ number of different utility taxes which

1:02:50 ↗ include cable which include natural gas

1:02:53 ↗ utility taxes taxes that is at fourteen

1:02:55 ↗ percent which makes up our total tax

1:02:57 ↗ portion of the general fund sales tax

1:03:02 ↗ revenues continue to trend upward for

1:03:04 ↗ 2018 in a stable economy the property

1:03:09 ↗ taxes which are the second largest type

1:03:12 ↗ of revenue source on the taxes are

1:03:14 ↗ proposed as I mentioned before at the 1

1:03:17 ↗ percent limit allowed by state law this

1:03:20 ↗ equates to 60 excuse me eighty six

1:03:24 ↗ thousand six hundred ninety eight

1:03:25 ↗ dollars for 2018 the King County

1:03:29 ↗ Assessor's Office

1:03:30 ↗ it's overall assessed valuation

1:03:32 ↗ information and the estimated levy

1:03:35 ↗ amount in 2018 the s the assessed

1:03:40 ↗ valuation for the city of Ithaca only is

1:03:43 ↗ over 10 million dollars the 2018

1:03:47 ↗ proposed regular levy is eight million

1:03:50 ↗ nine hundred ninety-three thousand four

1:03:52 ↗ hundred seventy eight dollars and this

1:03:54 ↗ is a number that as we develop the

1:03:56 ↗ budget remains somewhat fluid because we

1:03:59 ↗ start to receive preliminary estimates

1:04:01 ↗ from King County Assessor's Office and I

1:04:04 ↗ just today actually received the final

1:04:07 ↗ estimated general levy that the city is

1:04:11 ↗ allowed to to assess and that is that

1:04:14 ↗ eight point nine million dollars for

1:04:17 ↗ 2018 the proposed excess levy is 1

1:04:21 ↗ million seven hundred fifty thousand

1:04:23 ↗ this is the voter approved portion for a

1:04:27 ↗ ballot measure in previous years the

1:04:30 ↗ amount does not necessarily tie to the

1:04:32 ↗ amount of debt associated the principal

1:04:36 ↗ and interest payments because there is

1:04:38 ↗ existing funds in that debt service fund

1:04:40 ↗ to help pay down the bonds that were

1:04:42 ↗ issued based on the voters approval so

1:04:46 ↗ that regular levy then equates to for

1:04:50 ↗ 2018 a proposed tax rate of eighty nine

1:04:54 ↗ cents per thousand dollars of assessed

1:04:57 ↗ valuation the proposed excess tax rate

1:05:00 ↗ would be 17 cents per 1000 of assessed

1:05:04 ↗ evaluation for a property owner property

1:05:09 ↗ taxes are combined by jurisdiction on a

1:05:14 ↗ property owners bill the total tax rate

1:05:17 ↗ in 2017 for all taxing jurisdictions was

1:05:23 ↗ about nine dollars and nine dollars and

1:05:26 ↗ ninety cents per a thousand in assessed

1:05:28 ↗ valuation and all taxing jurisdictions

1:05:32 ↗ on a property owners tax bill include

1:05:35 ↗ authorities such as the regional transit

1:05:38 ↗ authority King County flood zone Port of

1:05:40 ↗ Seattle Ferry District emergency medical

1:05:43 ↗ services

1:05:44 ↗ Library District King County city of

1:05:47 ↗ Issaquah state school fund in the it's

1:05:50 ↗ across school district a 2017 tax bill

1:05:56 ↗ with an average valued home of about

1:05:59 ↗ seven hundred thousand dollars would for

1:06:04 ↗ 2017 would bring in a city of Issaquah

1:06:08 ↗ tax bill of about seven hundred and

1:06:11 ↗ eighty six dollars and so this is

1:06:13 ↗ probably easier to understand if it had

1:06:17 ↗ been in the up on the screen to

1:06:19 ↗ understand that that the tax bill for a

1:06:21 ↗ property tax owner comes from all of

1:06:24 ↗ those taxing jurisdictions or is made up

1:06:26 ↗ from all of those who assess property

1:06:29 ↗ taxes but the portion of the tax bill

1:06:33 ↗ for the city of Issaquah for 2017 at

1:06:37 ↗ that house valuation would be seven

1:06:40 ↗ hundred eighty six dollars now when we

1:06:42 ↗ start to look at in the next year the

1:06:44 ↗ new year we've got a regular levy rate

1:06:48 ↗ for Issaquah was 94 cents per thousand

1:06:52 ↗ and in 2018 it is planned to drop to

1:06:56 ↗ eighty nine cents per thousand because

1:06:59 ↗ of that assessed valuation going up

1:07:01 ↗ overall for 2018 on the excess levy that

1:07:05 ↗ in 2017 was about 18 cents that is now

1:07:10 ↗ planned to go down to 17 cents per 1000

1:07:21 ↗ the reason that the write goes down as I

1:07:24 ↗ mentioned is that property values are

1:07:26 ↗ going up faster than the state law

1:07:31 ↗ allows for a property tax levy increase

1:07:34 ↗ so just to give an example is that in

1:07:38 ↗ 2017 property tax assessed valuation

1:07:41 ↗ changed for the city of Issaquah about

1:07:43 ↗ eleven point three percent and that is

1:07:46 ↗ an average amount it it is different for

1:07:49 ↗ your actual your actual home or business

1:07:52 ↗ from a valuation standpoint in 2018 it

1:07:56 ↗ is estimated that properties are going

1:07:58 ↗ to property valuations are going up

1:08:01 ↗ twelve point three percent and just to

1:08:04 ↗ give another quick number history-wise

1:08:06 ↗ in 2016 property values went up nine

1:08:09 ↗ percent so over a three year period we

1:08:12 ↗ have a nine percent increase an eleven

1:08:14 ↗ point three percent increase and an

1:08:15 ↗ estimated 2018 increase of twelve point

1:08:18 ↗ three percent in assessed valuation

1:08:21 ↗ change so if we go back to then the

1:08:26 ↗ property tax bill and what we don't know

1:08:28 ↗ is we don't know what the what the other

1:08:30 ↗ jurisdictions are planning for their

1:08:32 ↗ rate their portion of the property tax

1:08:35 ↗ bill but if we were to use the same

1:08:39 ↗ rates but we were to apply the city new

1:08:42 ↗ city of Issaquah proposed tax rate the

1:08:46 ↗ tax bill for an average valued home of

1:08:48 ↗ seven hundred thousand would go down

1:08:50 ↗ three dollars a year to seven hundred

1:08:53 ↗ eighty three dollars

1:09:00 ↗ so a little bit about other taxes that

1:09:03 ↗ the city takes in B&O tax which is that

1:09:07 ↗ third largest portion of the taxes that

1:09:10 ↗ come in a little bit of history here

1:09:13 ↗ back in 2015 on April 1 the B&O tax

1:09:18 ↗ rates increase this is then the reason

1:09:20 ↗ why our sources have gone up this and

1:09:24 ↗ one thing to keep make dona visit

1:09:26 ↗ non-religious hospitals and clinics no

1:09:28 ↗ longer are exempt from being oh tax so

1:09:31 ↗ that combination with the rate increase

1:09:33 ↗ started to bring our revenue sources up

1:09:37 ↗ in this area of Taxation this is a this

1:09:40 ↗ is a strong or stable tax source that we

1:09:45 ↗ see in our forecasting utility taxes are

1:09:51 ↗ also somewhat stable there was a decline

1:09:55 ↗ in 2016 due to some unseasonally warm

1:09:58 ↗ weather but we are seeing our utility

1:10:01 ↗ tax revenue sources also trending upward

1:10:05 ↗ in a in a stable path trending up real

1:10:12 ↗ estate taxes is another taxing source

1:10:14 ↗ that the city collects is just a quick

1:10:16 ↗ reminder is that the reed taxes are

1:10:20 ↗ collected or proposed to be collected in

1:10:23 ↗ a new separate special revenue fund for

1:10:25 ↗ 2000 it we started in 2017 with some

1:10:29 ↗ changes and we had a very large one-time

1:10:32 ↗ increase due to a real estate

1:10:35 ↗ transaction that added for 2017 about

1:10:38 ↗ seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars

1:10:40 ↗ in reaped axes but we are estimating

1:10:43 ↗ that REIT sources would be going up this

1:10:48 ↗ is one of those places though that we

1:10:50 ↗ want to be a little bit more

1:10:51 ↗ conservative in our forecasting instead

1:10:53 ↗ the budget for 2018 reflects that we

1:10:59 ↗ also have some increased proposed for

1:11:02 ↗ development services revenues in the

1:11:06 ↗ information provided for tonight's

1:11:08 ↗ presentation you would see that plan

1:11:10 ↗ check fees are

1:11:12 ↗ estimated to go up based on the projects

1:11:14 ↗ that are in the pipeline building permit

1:11:16 ↗ revenues are somewhat staying the same

1:11:21 ↗ and then we have engineering and

1:11:23 ↗ inspection fees that are also staying

1:11:25 ↗ the same for the enterprise funds this

1:11:29 ↗ includes the funds for utilities of

1:11:31 ↗ water sewer and stormwater ninety seven

1:11:35 ↗ percent of our operating revenues in the

1:11:37 ↗ enterprise funds are do come from

1:11:39 ↗ utility rates just another note is that

1:11:43 ↗ for our King County Metro sewage

1:11:46 ↗ treatment rate this is plan to stay the

1:11:49 ↗ same from this year at forty four

1:11:52 ↗ dollars and 22 cents per month the city

1:11:55 ↗ Mystikal establishes rates on a

1:11:57 ↗ five-year schedule we're in our third of

1:12:00 ↗ five years in the last ordinance that

1:12:02 ↗ was adopted the rates increasing for

1:12:05 ↗ this year are proposed to be at five

1:12:08 ↗ point five percent rate increase for

1:12:09 ↗ water five point five percent increase

1:12:12 ↗ rate for sewer and a three point five

1:12:15 ↗ percent rate increase for our stormwater

1:12:17 ↗ and our total proposed utility funds by

1:12:20 ↗ fund are for the water fund we

1:12:22 ↗ anticipate about nine point eight

1:12:24 ↗ million dollars coming in the sewer fund

1:12:27 ↗ nine point nine million dollars coming

1:12:28 ↗ in and the stormwater anticipating five

1:12:31 ↗ point two million dollars coming in and

1:12:35 ↗ with that that concludes my presentation

1:12:37 ↗ on our sources of revenue proposed for

1:12:40 ↗ 2018 Thank You Jen are there questions

1:12:43 ↗ of Jen at this time no yeah just to

1:12:49 ↗ clarify a couple numbers so the one

1:12:53 ↗ percent increase that we're allowed to

1:12:55 ↗ talking about you said was eighty six

1:12:58 ↗ thousand dollars total to the city yes I

1:13:00 ↗ didn't find anywhere where that was

1:13:01 ↗ broken down to that average seven

1:13:04 ↗ hundred thousand dollar home evaluation

1:13:07 ↗ what would that be because this one

1:13:08 ↗ point you said it was going down from

1:13:09 ↗ 786 seventy eighty three so I got

1:13:11 ↗ refused in there so what if you're

1:13:15 ↗ saying it was 786 seven hundred eighty

1:13:17 ↗ six dollars per house yeah the city of

1:13:19 ↗ theirs got taxes with the one percent

1:13:21 ↗ increase it would go to what it would go

1:13:23 ↗ down to an

1:13:25 ↗ estimated $783 it's a 3% reduction we

1:13:30 ↗ dollar reduction with the one per dollar

1:13:32 ↗ reduction yes you're right okay I'm just

1:13:36 ↗ trying to figure out how that math works

1:13:37 ↗ because I want to know that the price

1:13:39 ↗ per thousand can vary but if your

1:13:42 ↗ evaluation goes up and you stay at or

1:13:45 ↗ you decrease in rate not at the same

1:13:49 ↗ level you may see a reduction if your

1:13:52 ↗ valuation doesn't change because the

1:13:55 ↗ city's rate is planned to go down so you

1:13:57 ↗ would see a reduction however if your

1:13:59 ↗ valuation goes up based on the counties

1:14:02 ↗ Assessors values then your property tax

1:14:05 ↗ bill would be at that new rate per

1:14:09 ↗ thousand okay thank you other questions

1:14:14 ↗ of yen seeing none the council was

1:14:20 ↗ provided

1:14:21 ↗ oh excuse me thank you I didn't have me

1:14:24 ↗ I just thought of it as very closing can

1:14:25 ↗ I ask one question of course the gym

1:14:29 ↗ this is going to be kind of sort maybe

1:14:32 ↗ sound kind of simple and silly but if

1:14:34 ↗ folks tax bills are going up and we are

1:14:38 ↗ telling them that we actually are going

1:14:41 ↗ to collect a little less next year but

1:14:43 ↗ you know they're seeing a 10% increase

1:14:44 ↗ on their bill where is where is it where

1:14:46 ↗ is the increase going to the increase in

1:14:50 ↗ the city's my tax bill is four thousand

1:14:53 ↗ dollars and I know it's broken out into

1:14:54 ↗ all those different portions but my tax

1:14:56 ↗ bill last year was three thousand

1:14:58 ↗ dollars then the city portion of it is

1:15:01 ↗ actually going to be a little less where

1:15:03 ↗ are their tax dollars going for that Oh

1:15:05 ↗ year-over-year increase in assessed

1:15:08 ↗ valuation is the state getting the money

1:15:10 ↗ is the county getting the money like who

1:15:11 ↗ where's the money it depends it would

1:15:15 ↗ depend on on which jurisdiction so it

1:15:18 ↗ would be going to either the Regional

1:15:21 ↗ Transit Authority the the King County

1:15:24 ↗ the Library District emergency medical

1:15:27 ↗ services the Port of Seattle State

1:15:30 ↗ School Fund or the school district so

1:15:33 ↗ those are all of the the parts of a

1:15:35 ↗ total property tax bill

1:15:37 ↗ so so when they see their increase but

1:15:40 ↗ their City portions actually a decrease

1:15:42 ↗ it's just our jurisdiction then that

1:15:45 ↗ isn't collecting so their tax dollars

1:15:47 ↗ are getting spent in other jurisdictions

1:15:49 ↗ that is correct

1:15:50 ↗ hey thanks other questions

1:15:54 ↗ seeing none then the council was

1:15:57 ↗ provided a copy of the slide deck that

1:16:01 ↗ Jen was briefing from via email today

1:16:06 ↗ and we will post that slide deck on the

1:16:09 ↗ city's website this evening for those

1:16:11 ↗ who would like to see a visual

1:16:14 ↗ representation of what was presented

1:16:16 ↗ this evening and with that I will open

1:16:20 ↗ the public hearing at 8:17 and ask if

1:16:24 ↗ anyone has signed up to speak there

1:16:28 ↗ anyone who has not signed up desire to

1:16:33 ↗ speak at this time yes please come to

1:16:40 ↗ the lacquered oh okay third and final

1:16:50 ↗ call anyone desiring to speak on the is

1:16:56 ↗ there someone in the back

1:17:02 ↗ yes seeing no one desired to speak the

1:17:09 ↗ public hearing is closed at eight eight

1:17:13 ↗ eight nineteen and there's to clarify

1:17:20 ↗ things what we're doing this evening is

1:17:23 ↗ not approving what you heard but

1:17:26 ↗ directing the administration to prepare

1:17:29 ↗ the necessary documents which will be

1:17:31 ↗ considered by the full Council on

1:17:34 ↗ November the 20th at our regularly

1:17:36 ↗ scheduled meeting thank you I would move

1:17:43 ↗ to direct the administration to prepare

1:17:44 ↗ the necessary documents ordinance and

1:17:47 ↗ resolution setting the amount of taxes

1:17:49 ↗ to be collected in 2018 to include a 1%

1:17:52 ↗ base increase for adoption at the

1:17:55 ↗ November 20 2017 council meeting okay

1:17:58 ↗ it's moved and seconded any questions or

1:18:01 ↗ discussion seeing none then all those in

1:18:05 ↗ favor of the motion signify by saying

1:18:08 ↗ aye it was opposed that carries

1:18:12 ↗ unanimously

1:18:13 ↗ moving now to agenda bill seven four

1:18:20 ↗ eight nine moratorium on community

1:18:23 ↗ health engagement location safe

1:18:25 ↗ injection sites I will open the public

1:18:32 ↗ hearing

1:18:33 ↗ at 8:20 and ask if anyone has signed up

1:18:40 ↗ if you comment in advance of that Bob

1:18:43 ↗ thank you and by your leave I'm going to

1:18:46 ↗ make those comments here so the clerk

1:18:48 ↗ can remove the Melting computer and take

1:18:52 ↗ that upstairs so okay my name is Bob

1:18:57 ↗ Harrison and the city administrator so

1:19:00 ↗ in September of 2016 the heroin and

1:19:02 ↗ opiate addiction taskforce that was

1:19:04 ↗ convened by King County and Seattle

1:19:05 ↗ recommended a comprehensive strategy

1:19:07 ↗ focusing on prevention and increasing

1:19:09 ↗ access to addiction treatment on demand

1:19:13 ↗ and in 2017 the king county executive is

1:19:15 ↗ Seattle mayor announced they would move

1:19:16 ↗ forward on a complete set of

1:19:18 ↗ recommendations including the

1:19:19 ↗ establishment of facilities referred to

1:19:21 ↗ as community health engagement locations

1:19:23 ↗ or safe injection sites one of those

1:19:25 ↗ sites would have been located in Seattle

1:19:27 ↗ and the other one was recommended

1:19:29 ↗ recommended to be located somewhere

1:19:30 ↗ within King County as a result of that

1:19:35 ↗ uncertainty on October 16 2017 the

1:19:39 ↗ council adopted ordinance 2 8 1 1

1:19:42 ↗ establishing an emergency moratorium on

1:19:45 ↗ safe injection sites and included

1:19:47 ↗ findings within that ordinance and set a

1:19:50 ↗ public hearing for this evening and

1:19:52 ↗ that's what is going to come following

1:19:54 ↗ this just to be clear and what the

1:19:59 ↗ council did is they directed the

1:20:02 ↗ development services to partment

1:20:04 ↗ to prepare permanent amendments to the

1:20:07 ↗ permitted uses tables in the city

1:20:08 ↗ regulations including but not limited to

1:20:10 ↗ section 18 point oh six point 1 3 0 of

1:20:14 ↗ these communistical code and section 4

1:20:16 ↗ point 3 B of the centralist qua

1:20:18 ↗ development and design standards that

1:20:20 ↗ prohibit community again prohibit

1:20:23 ↗ Community Health engagement locations

1:20:25 ↗ safe injection sites and other uses or

1:20:27 ↗ activities designed to provide a

1:20:28 ↗ location for individuals to consume

1:20:30 ↗ illicit drugs within the city of fistic

1:20:32 ↗ law the permanent regulations would be

1:20:37 ↗ developed and then presented to the

1:20:38 ↗ Planning Policy Commission for

1:20:40 ↗ recommendation to the City Council for

1:20:42 ↗ action before expiration of moratorium

1:20:44 ↗ and interim control adopted by this

1:20:46 ↗ ordinance working with the development

1:20:48 ↗ services department they were able to

1:20:50 ↗ identify the following timeline so they

1:20:53 ↗ anticipate by January of 2018 they would

1:20:56 ↗ have draft code amendments and have a

1:20:58 ↗ sip a checklist prepared with a report

1:21:01 ↗ in February to the Planning Policy

1:21:03 ↗ Commission for their review at that time

1:21:06 ↗ there would be an agenda bill that would

1:21:08 ↗ include the proposed code amendments

1:21:10 ↗ that would based on our recommendation

1:21:12 ↗ prohibits safe injection sites within

1:21:14 ↗ the city of Issaquah and all zoning

1:21:16 ↗ essentially all zoning within the city

1:21:18 ↗ it would be a prohibited use with a

1:21:20 ↗ referral to the land and Shore committee

1:21:22 ↗ and we anticipated in March that the

1:21:24 ↗ lane

1:21:24 ↗ short committee would review that and

1:21:26 ↗ would have turned for council at that

1:21:28 ↗ second meeting in March for final code

1:21:30 ↗ adoption and so following this public

1:21:39 ↗ hearing this evening at the closure of

1:21:40 ↗ that the council may choose if if it

1:21:43 ↗ desires to add additional findings of

1:21:45 ↗ fact that in addition to what they've

1:21:48 ↗ already found in the original ordinance

1:21:50 ↗ if it so desires

1:21:52 ↗ so that's mayor that sets the stage if

1:21:56 ↗ you will for the public here thank you

1:21:58 ↗ Bob and my apologies for getting that

1:22:02 ↗ you were going to provide that overview

1:22:04 ↗ that's okay Thanks so with that I'll

1:22:07 ↗ open the public hearing at 8:23 and ask

1:22:12 ↗ if anyone has signed up to speak so what

1:22:21 ↗ typically happens we'll call all the

1:22:22 ↗ individuals up I'm going to call three

1:22:24 ↗ at a time so you could first one up come

1:22:27 ↗ and speak next to line up right behind

1:22:30 ↗ there and then if you haven't signed up

1:22:32 ↗ and I have the last person signed up as

1:22:35 ↗ Samantha is this Tasi oh you would just

1:22:41 ↗ essentially be request to be called upon

1:22:44 ↗ by the mayor and then you would be able

1:22:46 ↗ to go up and in speed so the first

1:22:48 ↗ speaker is Veronica Garcia followed by

1:22:54 ↗ Jennifer ass blonde and then Cindy

1:22:57 ↗ Pierce

1:23:03 ↗ hello members of the council everyone my

1:23:06 ↗ name is Veronica Garcia I'm a resident

1:23:09 ↗ here in Issaquah better and you pull the

1:23:17 ↗ mic just a little bit closer to you

1:23:20 ↗ can you hear me oh there we go alright

1:23:22 ↗ my name is Veronica Garcia I'm a

1:23:24 ↗ resident here in Issaquah I'm speaking

1:23:27 ↗ on behalf of initiative 27 and the 60

1:23:30 ↗ 9850 voters who signed the initiative

1:23:34 ↗ this is the initiative to ban heroin

1:23:37 ↗ injection sites in King County for those

1:23:40 ↗ of you who might not be familiar last

1:23:42 ↗ month a King County judge took

1:23:44 ↗ initiative 27 off of the planned

1:23:46 ↗ February ballot this sent a clear

1:23:50 ↗ message to the county and the cities in

1:23:52 ↗ King County that Seattle and King County

1:23:56 ↗ plan to implement injection sites and

1:23:59 ↗ their agenda regardless of local input

1:24:03 ↗ this is alarming and an indication that

1:24:07 ↗ cities need to take action we ask for

1:24:11 ↗ you to join a burn SeaTac bellevue kent

1:24:16 ↗ Renton Federal Way and Burien and the

1:24:22 ↗ growing list of other cities that have

1:24:24 ↗ banned injection sites Snohomish County

1:24:27 ↗ unanimously voted to ban injection sites

1:24:30 ↗ across their County we urge you to

1:24:33 ↗ follow in Bellevue's footsteps and

1:24:35 ↗ permanently ban injection sites in

1:24:37 ↗ Issaquah instead we're asking for you to

1:24:42 ↗ push for a path forward that chooses

1:24:45 ↗ treatment first and stand behind efforts

1:24:49 ↗ to keep our community safe and give

1:24:53 ↗ truly compassionate care to the most

1:24:55 ↗ vulnerable members of society thank you

1:24:58 ↗ Thank You Veronica next please

1:25:05 ↗ hi my name is Jennifer ass blend and I

1:25:08 ↗ reside in North Seattle I'm here today

1:25:11 ↗ to urge you all to do a permanent ban on

1:25:15 ↗ safe injection sites and to remind the

1:25:18 ↗ public of Issaquah bellevue and across

1:25:20 ↗ King County that the City Council in

1:25:24 ↗ Seattle has a tendency to use a lot of

1:25:27 ↗ verbage and so don't be fooled when you

1:25:29 ↗ hear the words chels Community Health

1:25:32 ↗ engagement locations or sis sis safe

1:25:35 ↗ injection sites or the most recent is

1:25:38 ↗ now SCS which is safe consumption spaces

1:25:42 ↗ they all mean the same thing and it's

1:25:44 ↗ the using of heroin and other drugs in

1:25:48 ↗ what they say as a controlled

1:25:50 ↗ environment I have a personal story

1:25:54 ↗ about heroin my brother started shooting

1:25:57 ↗ up when he was in his teens by the time

1:25:59 ↗ he was 20 he was stealing cars he was

1:26:02 ↗ robbing people all to feed his habit in

1:26:05 ↗ his 30s and 40s he was doing alcohol and

1:26:08 ↗ a lot of hard drugs my brother did not

1:26:11 ↗ die from a heroin overdose he died from

1:26:14 ↗ the long-term use of the very drugs that

1:26:16 ↗ he was injecting so to say that having a

1:26:20 ↗ controlled environment is going to work

1:26:22 ↗ you every day that you're using you're

1:26:26 ↗ depleting your brain cells to make a

1:26:27 ↗ rational decision to stop I don't know

1:26:30 ↗ how you can come to a conclusion of when

1:26:33 ↗ you're ready which is the criteria that

1:26:35 ↗ Seattle will give so I would just urge

1:26:39 ↗ you to ban these sites permanently and

1:26:43 ↗ instead offer 24/7 on-demand treatment

1:26:47 ↗ offer mental health and substance abuse

1:26:49 ↗ services that's what's needed thank you

1:26:53 ↗ Thank You Jennifer and who are the the

1:26:57 ↗ next three good indeed we have Steve

1:27:01 ↗ foot Katie Cassidy and followed by

1:27:04 ↗ Samantha mr. mayor council thank you for

1:27:10 ↗ letting me speak tonight my name is

1:27:12 ↗ Cindy Pierce and I'm also a resident

1:27:15 ↗ Seattle and I am here tonight

1:27:18 ↗ representing the neighborhood safety

1:27:20 ↗ Alliance which we began about two years

1:27:23 ↗ ago we were concerned about the homeless

1:27:27 ↗ and the RV's and in the city of Seattle

1:27:30 ↗ and so we started dealing with the City

1:27:33 ↗ Council and in the middle of that we

1:27:36 ↗ were sitting in a City City Council

1:27:38 ↗ meeting and we were we happen to be

1:27:41 ↗ there when the individual who runs

1:27:44 ↗ insite up in Vancouver which is their

1:27:47 ↗ injection site the only one in North

1:27:49 ↗ America legally she gave a two-hour

1:27:55 ↗ presentation on the an expert there

1:28:00 ↗ somebody was looking for an expert here

1:28:01 ↗ and it was compelling because they spoke

1:28:07 ↗ about all these people that were not

1:28:10 ↗ dying inside insite and since 2003 when

1:28:16 ↗ insite was opened up they have they have

1:28:20 ↗ dealt with about 49,000 users and

1:28:25 ↗ they've and those 49,000 users have done

1:28:28 ↗ over 3 million injections and nobody has

1:28:33 ↗ died inside of that small building but

1:28:38 ↗ do you ask the question how many have

1:28:40 ↗ died outside of that building and out of

1:28:43 ↗ the 49,000 people who have used in site

1:28:46 ↗ since 2003 how many of those people are

1:28:49 ↗ still alive today we don't have that

1:28:53 ↗ data we don't know we do know that

1:28:56 ↗ insight is a hellhole to go see I've

1:29:01 ↗ been there I know what it looks like

1:29:04 ↗ around their women and children are

1:29:06 ↗ crawling around on the sidewalks there's

1:29:09 ↗ drug deals going on right outside the

1:29:11 ↗ building of insight you can do drugs you

1:29:15 ↗ can buy and sell drugs without anybody

1:29:18 ↗ bothering you

1:29:19 ↗ Vancouver has had to hire 60 plus police

1:29:23 ↗ officers to patrol that area you were

1:29:27 ↗ concerned about police officers well

1:29:29 ↗ you're gonna have to add more so I'm

1:29:31 ↗ here today to just encourage you to to

1:29:34 ↗ do the right thing and ban these

1:29:36 ↗ permanently in the city this is I don't

1:29:40 ↗ come to Issaquah very often but I must

1:29:42 ↗ say I'm very impressed I'm impressed

1:29:44 ↗ with you I'm impressed with how you've

1:29:46 ↗ conducted this meeting

1:29:48 ↗ Seattle could learn a lot from you and

1:29:50 ↗ do the right thing and let's do it and

1:29:55 ↗ get these don't allow them to happen

1:29:58 ↗ thank you

1:29:59 ↗ Thank You Cindy followed by Katie and

1:30:07 ↗ Samantha we're gonna restart the clock

1:30:12 ↗ that doesn't mean you're okay that's

1:30:14 ↗ fine you know I didn't even know I was

1:30:16 ↗ signing up to speak tonight but here I

1:30:18 ↗ am so I will drill shortly I'm Steve

1:30:21 ↗ foot I am NOT a direct resident of

1:30:24 ↗ Issaquah I rub shoulders I've been

1:30:26 ↗ thirty years up on the tail into the

1:30:29 ↗ black nugget road here just just outside

1:30:32 ↗ the boundary the limit and I just wanted

1:30:34 ↗ to come here tonight support the folks

1:30:37 ↗ for i-27

1:30:39 ↗ as far as expertise goes I'll claim to

1:30:43 ↗ be an expert I'm 70 years old I've been

1:30:46 ↗ a student of human behavior and

1:30:49 ↗ fundamental ways that a lot of people

1:30:53 ↗ have also and quite frankly providing an

1:30:59 ↗ addict with the means of his

1:31:02 ↗ self-destruction and yeah death is Ryan

1:31:08 ↗ sanity to me you'd go a lot of their

1:31:13 ↗ references they'll talk about keeping

1:31:15 ↗ people alive

1:31:16 ↗ from my perspective you're keeping them

1:31:19 ↗ dead there's a difference between

1:31:20 ↗ keeping someone's a body afloat and on

1:31:23 ↗ the other hand watching them die as

1:31:25 ↗ individuals we need to provide these

1:31:27 ↗ people with with help and the last thing

1:31:34 ↗ you give an addict is is is death and

1:31:37 ↗ that's the injections the taxpayer I

1:31:40 ↗ will feel vile

1:31:42 ↗ very deeply if you use any of my tax

1:31:47 ↗ money to bribe me the provide these

1:31:49 ↗ people with the means of their own death

1:31:52 ↗ and that's what my perception of it I'm

1:31:55 ↗ gonna get out of the way and let

1:31:57 ↗ somebody else talk Steve Thank You Katie

1:32:03 ↗ to speak Samantha so I've been a

1:32:10 ↗ resident for the Issaquah area for very

1:32:13 ↗ long time before there was a stoplight I

1:32:15 ↗ loved Issaquah I'm here with my family

1:32:18 ↗ gone to school Issaquah hilum go Indians

1:32:22 ↗ I would submit that there is no safe

1:32:24 ↗ injection of heroin you've probably

1:32:26 ↗ figured that out already I'm a little

1:32:28 ↗ concerned about as you mentioned with

1:32:30 ↗ your overview illicit drugs they are

1:32:33 ↗ Elizabeth that's a federal offense is

1:32:35 ↗ the host site then liable for violating

1:32:38 ↗ that law and then allowing somebody else

1:32:42 ↗ to violate it are they then complicit if

1:32:44 ↗ there is any damage which I would submit

1:32:46 ↗ that there's always damage with heroin

1:32:48 ↗ just something to consider

1:32:49 ↗ and I would like to see a goal presented

1:32:52 ↗ the goal should be something like

1:32:55 ↗ getting a person to stable housing a job

1:32:58 ↗ situation stable family situation where

1:33:01 ↗ they're contributing to society I think

1:33:03 ↗ ultimately that's what we've heared and

1:33:04 ↗ I have not really heard that in any of

1:33:06 ↗ this where it's come in coming out of

1:33:10 ↗ Seattle or even in Vancouver it doesn't

1:33:12 ↗ really seem like the goal is to get

1:33:13 ↗ people out I would like to see metrics

1:33:17 ↗ you know for whatever treatment there is

1:33:19 ↗ metrics for success you know what does

1:33:21 ↗ success look like so we know if we've

1:33:23 ↗ gotten there so as you can tell I'm from

1:33:24 ↗ an engineering background so I like to

1:33:26 ↗ see things like that

1:33:28 ↗ so we as far as either quad goes yes you

1:33:31 ↗ have a small area where the exact city

1:33:34 ↗ is Issaquah but there's many many people

1:33:37 ↗ as you know on Hobart Road many people

1:33:38 ↗ come in to Issaquah my daughter's really

1:33:41 ↗ doesn't live at home anymore and she

1:33:43 ↗ still comes here to her doctor and to

1:33:45 ↗ shop I have friends that come from KLM

1:33:48 ↗ and I know they're not the only ones

1:33:49 ↗ that come here to shop so we really want

1:33:50 ↗ to keep this a great place quick comment

1:33:54 ↗ on this

1:33:54 ↗ gules considering that the homeowner is

1:33:58 ↗ the one the home buyer is the one that

1:33:59 ↗ really pays the fees so looking at the

1:34:02 ↗ school district fees maybe we need to

1:34:05 ↗ look at another model of Education

1:34:08 ↗ because it's getting really expensive

1:34:10 ↗ and there's many models out there so

1:34:12 ↗ thank you very much

1:34:14 ↗ Thank You Samantha hi I'm Kathy Cassady

1:34:21 ↗ and I'm from Snoqualmie Washington and I

1:34:25 ↗ had about an hour's notice to come to

1:34:27 ↗ this meeting and I thank you for giving

1:34:30 ↗ us a chance to express our opinion as

1:34:34 ↗ taxpayers about what's going down

1:34:37 ↗ obviously you people play by the rules

1:34:39 ↗ we've listened for quite a while about

1:34:42 ↗ how your meeting goes on and how you do

1:34:44 ↗ things legally and aboveboard

1:34:46 ↗ if this is put into place I think it

1:34:50 ↗ will set a horrible precedent that could

1:34:53 ↗ come back legally because as you just

1:34:57 ↗ read it it is the City Council that is

1:35:01 ↗ approving the use of illicit drugs and I

1:35:05 ↗ think that's a really big deal I could

1:35:08 ↗ go on I've heard the testimony from

1:35:11 ↗ Vancouver and that site there and the

1:35:16 ↗ quote was it is like walking down into

1:35:19 ↗ hell and I I'm sorry I feel so

1:35:23 ↗ emotionally about this but I think not

1:35:26 ↗ not only is this a bad idea just for

1:35:29 ↗ Washington state but we are kind of

1:35:32 ↗ known as the bellwether state and if we

1:35:34 ↗ approve this here it will be approved in

1:35:37 ↗ Oregon it will be approved in California

1:35:40 ↗ and I've kind of been tracking on how

1:35:43 ↗ these things are falling down so that's

1:35:45 ↗ my input and thank you for giving me a

1:35:47 ↗ chance to talk Thank You Cathy

1:35:57 ↗ yes sir and anyone else who desires to

1:36:01 ↗ speak this evening if you'll line up

1:36:04 ↗ about three or four we'll get to you

1:36:10 ↗ thank you for allowing me to speak my

1:36:13 ↗ name is Dale Timmons

1:36:15 ↗ I live at two three to five to South

1:36:18 ↗ East 54th Place and I've been a resident

1:36:21 ↗ of Issaquah for thirty years when I

1:36:25 ↗ moved here I didn't have to lock my

1:36:27 ↗ doors now my neighborhood experiences a

1:36:31 ↗ robbery once every week or two and just

1:36:34 ↗ four months ago there was a vehicular

1:36:37 ↗ homicide

1:36:38 ↗ one block from my home and this was this

1:36:41 ↗ was done by an adolescent who was coming

1:36:44 ↗ from a party where drugs and alcohol

1:36:46 ↗ were being used now this was unheard of

1:36:48 ↗ two decades ago so drug use and drug

1:36:55 ↗ distribution is illegal federally and

1:36:59 ↗ state statutes so some say that having

1:37:04 ↗ this injection site may save a life

1:37:08 ↗ but as was stated here earlier these

1:37:11 ↗ people will inject themselves in any

1:37:14 ↗ location not necessarily always at a

1:37:17 ↗ safe injection site and so there's

1:37:19 ↗ really nothing here that's preventing

1:37:21 ↗ these these people from giving

1:37:23 ↗ themselves an overdose now the drug

1:37:30 ↗ culture brings with it crime including

1:37:34 ↗ robbery assault and is what happened in

1:37:37 ↗ my community murder okay is that really

1:37:41 ↗ what we want to bring to our community

1:37:46 ↗ and so you know you want to compare well

1:37:49 ↗ we might save a life what about the

1:37:50 ↗ lives of our residents here that are

1:37:54 ↗ being subjected to this crime the risk

1:37:56 ↗ to those lives is much greater than the

1:38:01 ↗ risk from someone injecting themselves

1:38:03 ↗ and again you're asking the community to

1:38:08 ↗ endorse crime

1:38:10 ↗ by illegal drug use and distribution

1:38:12 ↗ because that's what's taking place and

1:38:14 ↗ asking the community to be subjected to

1:38:17 ↗ that crime and so it is in conscionable

1:38:21 ↗ to allow this to take place thank you

1:38:25 ↗ Thank You Dale you may have to pull the

1:38:31 ↗ microphone down just a little bit okay

1:38:35 ↗ my name is barbara Lewis I'm from Auburn

1:38:37 ↗ and let me start by saying I echo what

1:38:41 ↗ everybody says

1:38:43 ↗ but let me also say I have a

1:38:45 ↗ granddaughter that's a drug addict I am

1:38:47 ↗ NOT excusing it I hate it I am raising

1:38:49 ↗ two babies at 70 years old I'm a CO

1:38:52 ↗ custodian with the babies aunts and I

1:38:57 ↗ asked her this question and what she

1:39:00 ↗ said to me was we need well first off

1:39:03 ↗ one thing she said to me in response to

1:39:06 ↗ what somebody said is there's worse

1:39:08 ↗ things than dying and you know that is

1:39:12 ↗ how she feels but what she said they

1:39:15 ↗ need is not as safe and direct in safe

1:39:19 ↗ drug injection location they need

1:39:22 ↗ treatment they can inject anyplace like

1:39:25 ↗ was just said they can go any place they

1:39:27 ↗ can get anyplace now what she said is

1:39:29 ↗ going to happen is you're gonna have it

1:39:32 ↗ here on Main Street or wherever you put

1:39:34 ↗ it and the people are going to come to

1:39:37 ↗ it and the dealers are going to come to

1:39:40 ↗ it because nobody will have to go

1:39:43 ↗ looking for clients or nobody will have

1:39:45 ↗ to go looking for drugs is because

1:39:47 ↗ everybody will be here and like was said

1:39:51 ↗ it's going to take down the community

1:39:53 ↗ I'm from Auburn it's horrid and my

1:39:59 ↗ suggestion would be to go up to 1116

1:40:02 ↗ summit and Seattle up behind the

1:40:04 ↗ McDonald's where they have a methadone

1:40:06 ↗ injection place and just sit in your car

1:40:09 ↗ for 10 or 15 minutes and watch the

1:40:11 ↗ people and see who you're dealing with

1:40:13 ↗ but what my granddaughter said is what

1:40:16 ↗ they need is beds they need places to go

1:40:19 ↗ for treatment because they can decide

1:40:21 ↗ today they

1:40:22 ↗ treatment but they can't get into a

1:40:24 ↗ treatment bed for six weeks and lots can

1:40:27 ↗ change in the meantime they can change

1:40:29 ↗ their mind they can change their

1:40:30 ↗ whatever and I heard a quote as I was

1:40:33 ↗ coming in tonight and I think it's very

1:40:38 ↗ applicable and please excuse the color

1:40:45 ↗ of it but nonetheless this would be as

1:40:48 ↗ the quote goes like exploding the

1:40:50 ↗ outhouse your community would be horrid

1:40:54 ↗ thereafter and I can't tell you enough

1:40:58 ↗ what some of these places look like cuz

1:41:00 ↗ I've been by him near a minim and that

1:41:03 ↗ would be my suggestion is don't do it

1:41:05 ↗ thank you Thank You Barbara

1:41:18 ↗ hi my name is Kim fan I've been in it's

1:41:22 ↗ a cry for about four years

1:41:24 ↗ so just some numbers overdose death is

1:41:30 ↗ now the leading cause of death in

1:41:32 ↗ America gun about 30 from 18 to 65 years

1:41:35 ↗ old gun is 35,000 and car accidents

1:41:42 ↗ 37,000 and overdose and stuff 52,000

1:41:46 ↗ it's huge number so I use the thing that

1:41:50 ↗ it's just a small number doesn't affect

1:41:52 ↗ anyone that's not true

1:41:55 ↗ so this this SDF have reception where it

1:42:00 ↗ will be greeted there's a waiting area

1:42:02 ↗ there's an injection room where they can

1:42:04 ↗ wash the hand and they can use clean and

1:42:07 ↗ sterilized equipment and wow they're

1:42:12 ↗ injecting that people weren't monitoring

1:42:14 ↗ them to make sure that's safe there's a

1:42:17 ↗ clinic on site there's counseling and

1:42:19 ↗ support offices and they usually come

1:42:23 ↗ with supportive housing right next to

1:42:25 ↗ the SES and and people who seek

1:42:32 ↗ treatment as well so I want to address

1:42:39 ↗ some of the myths that people think

1:42:41 ↗ that's safe SES increased public

1:42:44 ↗ disorder and the surrounding community I

1:42:47 ↗ don't think it's true because first it

1:42:50 ↗ reduced public drug use and to it reduce

1:42:55 ↗ and discarded serene at the street well

1:42:59 ↗ I have found some and reduce the spread

1:43:03 ↗ of HIV or hepatitis C which can go

1:43:06 ↗ around and hit somebody you know another

1:43:10 ↗ myth is save SES encourage drug use

1:43:16 ↗ study have shown that it does not

1:43:19 ↗ encourage drug use in fact it encouraged

1:43:23 ↗ treatment

1:43:25 ↗ the participant of SES are more likely

1:43:28 ↗ to enter detox and treatment services

1:43:31 ↗ Anonymous is safe conscience consumption

1:43:34 ↗ cost too much so there are a lot of

1:43:39 ↗ studies on this and for San Francisco

1:43:45 ↗ study of Shonna we save 3.5 million a

1:43:49 ↗ year and Baltimore we save 6 million a

1:43:52 ↗ year and I've looked at the proposed

1:43:55 ↗ number 4 for SES in King County

1:43:59 ↗ treatment was 162 million prevention and

1:44:03 ↗ intervention is 48 million and recover

1:44:06 ↗ and aftercare is 14 million and the cost

1:44:09 ↗ to spend on SES is proposed to be only 2

1:44:11 ↗ million last last year there were two

1:44:16 ↗ hundred three hundred and thirty two

1:44:17 ↗ people that died of overdose in King

1:44:21 ↗ County and if you think about human life

1:44:24 ↗ I don't think two million really stand

1:44:28 ↗ up for it to conclude I want a coat

1:44:33 ↗ Lauren Davis the director of King County

1:44:36 ↗ recovery coalition's across the street

1:44:40 ↗ from my home I saw a young women

1:44:43 ↗ searching for a vein if we have not safe

1:44:47 ↗ conception size who then we'll wait

1:44:49 ↗ beside her and make sure her lines keep

1:44:52 ↗ breathing the path to recovery

1:44:58 ↗ [Music]

1:45:13 ↗ good evening council members thank you

1:45:16 ↗ so much for having me here my name is

1:45:17 ↗ Ivan games I am and it's a car resident

1:45:20 ↗ I have been here for five years and if

1:45:23 ↗ there's one thing that I've done since I

1:45:24 ↗ started hearing out safe injection sites

1:45:26 ↗ is do my homework and actually read the

1:45:29 ↗ research and I am a researcher by

1:45:31 ↗ profession I have a PhD in behavioral

1:45:33 ↗ sciences and what I do and what I

1:45:35 ↗ specialize on is understanding the

1:45:37 ↗ patterns of human behavior and what

1:45:39 ↗ incentives drive those patterns if you

1:45:43 ↗ want to understand this where the apathy

1:45:45 ↗ appeared epidemic came from a murderer

1:45:47 ↗ the drug epidemic came from you should

1:45:50 ↗ read a book called

1:45:51 ↗ dreamland by Sam quinones it is the most

1:45:54 ↗ eye-opening most eye-opening story I

1:45:58 ↗ could ever you know offer anybody to

1:46:02 ↗ read and it came from the the

1:46:05 ↗ fundamental driver of the opioid

1:46:08 ↗ epidemic of those 53,000 people that are

1:46:10 ↗ dying a year in this country came from a

1:46:13 ↗ high in the sky goodwill idea from

1:46:17 ↗ doctors in the East Coast who decided to

1:46:20 ↗ make pain the fifth vital sign

1:46:23 ↗ essentially being driven being driven by

1:46:26 ↗ pharmaceutical industries that are being

1:46:27 ↗ sued today by three states in the

1:46:30 ↗ country to go and throw pills that they

1:46:33 ↗ knew very well were highly addictive to

1:46:36 ↗ people who had pain instead of

1:46:38 ↗ implementing pain management that we

1:46:40 ↗ invented in Washington State

1:46:43 ↗ the University of Washington dr. Bonica

1:46:46 ↗ at the University of Washington created

1:46:47 ↗ the first clinic on pain management

1:46:49 ↗ without drugs and that pink clinic was

1:46:51 ↗ shut down purely because he was cheaper

1:46:54 ↗ to send people the pills that they could

1:46:58 ↗ pop and get addicted to and today that

1:47:01 ↗ is the main driver today that draw pill

1:47:07 ↗ mills and cheap heroin cheap black tar

1:47:11 ↗ heroin coming from Mexico are the

1:47:13 ↗ drivers of the heroin crisis the safe

1:47:16 ↗ injection site will not solve that

1:47:17 ↗ problem in a million years what it's

1:47:20 ↗ going to do is it's going to do

1:47:21 ↗ something that I call we've seen this

1:47:23 ↗ story before

1:47:24 ↗ somebody mentioned the methadone sites

1:47:26 ↗ down in down in Auburn you want to see

1:47:29 ↗ what this injection site will create go

1:47:32 ↗ see those sites it is essentially

1:47:34 ↗ concentrating the market for drugs so

1:47:36 ↗ that the worst elements in our society

1:47:39 ↗ can come and take advantage of it and

1:47:41 ↗ sell their drugs cheaply and I know this

1:47:44 ↗ firsthand I come from Mexico I grew up

1:47:47 ↗ in Mexico I can tell you stories not

1:47:49 ↗ only of addiction but of 15 year-olds

1:47:52 ↗ being hanged in their backyard by drug

1:47:55 ↗ cartels because they were not selling

1:47:58 ↗ the drug that was necessary

1:47:59 ↗ yes 50,000 people die a year in this

1:48:03 ↗ country over 40,000 Mexicans have died

1:48:06 ↗ in the drug war in the attempt to push

1:48:09 ↗ drugs into this country enabled by

1:48:13 ↗ failure in policy in border policy in

1:48:16 ↗ our ability to control and more

1:48:18 ↗ importantly in our well intention

1:48:21 ↗ pie-in-the-sky idea that by enabling

1:48:23 ↗ more people to just consume and be ready

1:48:26 ↗ one day they will be ready we will sort

1:48:29 ↗ this out the reality is they have not

1:48:31 ↗ been ready since Prohibition people are

1:48:33 ↗ still dying of alcohol people are still

1:48:37 ↗ dying of you know violence related to

1:48:39 ↗ these things I ask you as council

1:48:42 ↗ members to really look deep into your

1:48:44 ↗ consciousness and think how many people

1:48:47 ↗ are we going to enable to die here and

1:48:50 ↗ abroad by continuing this thank you so

1:48:53 ↗ much thank you Ivan

1:49:03 ↗ thank you my name is Debra Dom's I'm an

1:49:07 ↗ osteopathic physician I manage pain I do

1:49:13 ↗ some locums work at a medication

1:49:16 ↗ assisted treatment facility in Bellevue

1:49:20 ↗ I participate on a weekly basis at the

1:49:23 ↗ University of Washington in their

1:49:26 ↗ telemedicine conference on pain

1:49:28 ↗ management and what the prior gentleman

1:49:32 ↗ said was true in that when we started

1:49:37 ↗ asking to treat pain the idea was give

1:49:41 ↗ people as much medication as they wanted

1:49:43 ↗ until they said they were okay today

1:49:47 ↗ that thinking is a hundred and eighty

1:49:49 ↗ degrees the other way in the University

1:49:51 ↗ Washington is actually leading the

1:49:52 ↗ country with the CDC in posting

1:49:55 ↗ guidelines about safe opioid use which

1:49:58 ↗ generally is less is more and if you can

1:50:02 ↗ avoid it at all cost

1:50:03 ↗ please do so in my experience and I have

1:50:09 ↗ both personal experience anecdotal

1:50:12 ↗ experience treatment experience as a

1:50:15 ↗ physician and counseling with my

1:50:19 ↗ patients and others there are only a few

1:50:22 ↗ ways to effectively treat addiction one

1:50:25 ↗ is the methadone maintenance program for

1:50:27 ↗ very hardcore the intravenous users

1:50:33 ↗ those people rarely become productive

1:50:35 ↗ members of society the other is the

1:50:38 ↗ abstinence method prescribed by 12-step

1:50:43 ↗ programs which actually are effective in

1:50:46 ↗ changing behavior which over time do

1:50:49 ↗ create what is called a sober mindset

1:50:52 ↗ and medication assisted treatment

1:50:56 ↗ medication assisted treatment is exactly

1:50:58 ↗ what the initial presenter here who said

1:51:03 ↗ we want people who are employable who

1:51:07 ↗ are stable who are productive medication

1:51:12 ↗ assisted treatment provides that to

1:51:14 ↗ people it keeps them

1:51:16 ↗ away from being craving and it keeps

1:51:20 ↗ them away from being in withdrawal and

1:51:23 ↗ provides a dose of opioid medication

1:51:27 ↗ sufficient to keep them away from these

1:51:31 ↗ harmful behaviors there is as well as

1:51:35 ↗ addiction to a substance and addiction

1:51:38 ↗ to using a needle and that is almost a

1:51:43 ↗ more difficult symptom to treat than the

1:51:49 ↗ craving for the drug and I would

1:51:52 ↗ encourage you with all of my heart to

1:51:54 ↗ not foster a plan which keeps needles in

1:52:00 ↗ the hands of addicts in any way shape or

1:52:02 ↗ form

1:52:03 ↗ I think it's unconscionable what the

1:52:07 ↗ City of Seattle has done in ignorance

1:52:09 ↗ and absolute deafness to many many

1:52:16 ↗ people of which I am one who signed the

1:52:18 ↗ petition I 27 and I think it's

1:52:20 ↗ disgusting what they're doing but that

1:52:24 ↗ is the way Seattle operates they make

1:52:27 ↗ decisions and public comment is of

1:52:30 ↗ absolutely no importance in changing the

1:52:34 ↗ plan I implore you not to go that route

1:52:38 ↗ it's a bad idea to put needles in the

1:52:41 ↗ hands of addicts medication assisted

1:52:43 ↗ treatment is what works it allows people

1:52:47 ↗ to become stable in their brain it

1:52:49 ↗ allows them to incorporate and absorb

1:52:51 ↗ principles of sobriety and sober living

1:52:54 ↗ which over time do change their lives do

1:52:58 ↗ make them productive and you get them

1:53:01 ↗ contributing to society in a way that

1:53:06 ↗ continuing a habit particularly as

1:53:11 ↗ obnoxious as injecting something into

1:53:15 ↗ your body it just has absolutely you

1:53:19 ↗ know no place in in compassion and

1:53:23 ↗ that's the biggest thing don't get

1:53:25 ↗ shamed into the idea that if you're not

1:53:28 ↗ going along with this idea

1:53:30 ↗ of safe injection that you're not humane

1:53:34 ↗ that you're not compassionate

1:53:38 ↗ there is nothing compassionate about

1:53:41 ↗ allowing an addict to continue to use

1:53:43 ↗ drugs so I applaud you for considering

1:53:48 ↗ this prohibition I would urge you to

1:53:51 ↗ make it a prohibition because there is

1:53:53 ↗ no place in effective treatment of

1:53:56 ↗ addiction for anything like a safe

1:54:01 ↗ injection site thank you

1:54:03 ↗ Thank You Debra next please my name is

1:54:13 ↗ Molly jester and I am an is a quant and

1:54:15 ↗ a parent I object to injection sites and

1:54:19 ↗ I would like to ask the City Council to

1:54:23 ↗ have a permanent ban on injection sites

1:54:26 ↗ in Issaquah I also want to thank you

1:54:28 ↗ guys for having this meeting tonight and

1:54:30 ↗ letting everyone speak I'm super touched

1:54:32 ↗ that no one here is attacking people

1:54:35 ↗ that use drugs I think if you're against

1:54:37 ↗ ejection sites there's this fallacy that

1:54:39 ↗ you're somehow against users and their

1:54:41 ↗ families who I have the utmost respect

1:54:43 ↗ for people going through addiction and

1:54:45 ↗ their relatives I just do not think it's

1:54:48 ↗ compassionate to help people shoot up as

1:54:50 ↗ the last speaker said so eloquently I

1:54:53 ↗ would rather if it costs 2 point 1

1:54:55 ↗ million dollars to run an injection site

1:54:57 ↗ every year I'd rather we spent 2.1

1:54:59 ↗ million dollars on rehab on demand and

1:55:02 ↗ have permanent solutions to addiction

1:55:05 ↗ versus temporary band-aids that will

1:55:07 ↗ lead to permanent brain damage and more

1:55:09 ↗ drug usage and criminals in our

1:55:12 ↗ community thank you so much to everyone

1:55:14 ↗ Thank You Molly

1:55:15 ↗ next please my name is senthil Chandra

1:55:22 ↗ I just want to be clear I'm not here to

1:55:25 ↗ speak for or against the injection side

1:55:27 ↗ I just want to lay out some facts and

1:55:29 ↗ want everybody to make the decision for

1:55:31 ↗ themselves you know with the social

1:55:34 ↗ media it's quite easy to fall into the

1:55:37 ↗ trap of listening to all false

1:55:39 ↗ information

1:55:40 ↗ and you guys can go fact-check what I

1:55:42 ↗ say too so don't trust me please do

1:55:45 ↗ check one thing is that's councilmembers

1:55:49 ↗ and everybody in the audience know that

1:55:51 ↗ you are not required to ban it King

1:55:55 ↗ County's Council passed an ordinance

1:55:59 ↗ prohibiting the opening of a safe

1:56:01 ↗ consumption side without a city's

1:56:04 ↗ explicit approval so unless you guys

1:56:07 ↗ don't approve nobody is going to come

1:56:10 ↗ and set up a shop here tomorrow for a

1:56:12 ↗ safe consumption side so you don't

1:56:14 ↗ really have to ban it what you are doing

1:56:17 ↗ by coming up with these bands which they

1:56:20 ↗ are not requiring you to do is you are

1:56:22 ↗ avoiding the conversation to happen

1:56:25 ↗ whether it is good or bad for the

1:56:27 ↗ society you're not you are you're giving

1:56:30 ↗ your opinion to the citizens that the

1:56:33 ↗ conversation of whether for them to

1:56:35 ↗ decide whether this should happen or not

1:56:37 ↗ from happening that's one and then the

1:56:41 ↗ other point is I mentioned and I keep

1:56:44 ↗ hearing this a lot that I don't want my

1:56:46 ↗ tax dollars to be used towards the safe

1:56:49 ↗ consumption side I would not either but

1:56:51 ↗ but the fact is we are already paying

1:56:54 ↗ 0.1 sales tax towards King County's

1:56:58 ↗ mental illness and drug dependency so

1:57:01 ↗ this tax dollars is already used when

1:57:04 ↗ somebody is overdosing on the streets

1:57:06 ↗ this type of cars are already used it is

1:57:09 ↗ far more expensive to treat people in

1:57:12 ↗ those emergency situations rather than

1:57:14 ↗ spending that money in a safer

1:57:16 ↗ environments okay and then there is also

1:57:20 ↗ some belief that people just because you

1:57:24 ↗ have a safe injection site in your

1:57:26 ↗ neighborhood that people are going to

1:57:28 ↗ come travel from different counties and

1:57:30 ↗ from everywhere to inject themselves

1:57:32 ↗ that's not true some studies have shown

1:57:35 ↗ that only the the users only travel

1:57:40 ↗ about eight to ten blocks to the safe

1:57:43 ↗ injection sites for their purposes it's

1:57:46 ↗ not like they're gonna you know carpool

1:57:48 ↗ together and come here to a site or take

1:57:51 ↗ public transportation and travel

1:57:53 ↗ so much and so yeah I mean that's about

1:57:57 ↗ it

1:57:58 ↗ so I would like everybody to you know

1:58:01 ↗ fact check everything that they hear and

1:58:03 ↗ make a decision for yourself you know I

1:58:07 ↗ mean I've been fortunate that none of

1:58:10 ↗ the drug addictions have anything have

1:58:11 ↗ touched my family or my close friends

1:58:14 ↗ but one thing that I feel as a community

1:58:17 ↗ member I forgot for a bit if something

1:58:19 ↗ should touch my family I would like my

1:58:21 ↗ community to fight that fight with me

1:58:23 ↗ and not me leave me hanging to fight

1:58:27 ↗ that fight for myself I would really

1:58:29 ↗ feel valued by living in community that

1:58:33 ↗ is going to help me fight that fight

1:58:35 ↗ thank you and if you could put your

1:58:40 ↗ contact information on the yellow sheet

1:58:42 ↗ up there that would be helpful as the

1:58:45 ↗ next person comes forward good evening

1:58:56 ↗ council members I'm Margaret Hall I live

1:58:59 ↗ in over Dale Park 56:47 to 29th Avenue

1:59:03 ↗ southeast I would like to share my

1:59:07 ↗ concerns about the actions that you may

1:59:09 ↗ take which would preclude citizens from

1:59:13 ↗ getting the help they need and which

1:59:15 ↗ also could make our communities safer

1:59:19 ↗ and healthier by allowing this

1:59:22 ↗ opportunity and I'm not here to advocate

1:59:27 ↗ for these sites but I am advocating that

1:59:32 ↗ you look at our community and address

1:59:37 ↗ what is the problem do not please make

1:59:41 ↗ your decision based on fear but on facts

1:59:47 ↗ recently in the nation's health which is

1:59:52 ↗ the newsletter of the American Public

1:59:54 ↗ Health Association in their August

1:59:56 ↗ newsletter there was a small blurb and

1:59:59 ↗ when the subject came up online a few

2:00:04 ↗ weeks ago I was reminded of this

2:00:07 ↗ and so I looked it up went back and

2:00:10 ↗ found it and I want to read it to you

2:00:13 ↗ this is a reiteration of a cost-benefit

2:00:18 ↗ analysis done by the city of Baltimore

2:00:21 ↗ Maryland was published originally in the

2:00:25 ↗ harm-reduction Journal this study

2:00:28 ↗ calculated how much a safe consumption

2:00:31 ↗ space would save if one were opened in

2:00:34 ↗ Baltimore Maryland the estimates were

2:00:38 ↗ generated using the data from the safe

2:00:40 ↗ space in vancouver researchers found

2:00:44 ↗ that running a 1,000 square foot space

2:00:47 ↗ in baltimore for 18 hours a day would

2:00:50 ↗ cost 1.8 million dollars a year

2:00:54 ↗ however the baltimore space would also

2:00:57 ↗ generate 7.8 million dollars in annual

2:01:01 ↗ savings prevent preventing for HIV

2:01:06 ↗ infections that's AIDS 21 hepatitis C

2:01:10 ↗ infections 374 days in the hospital for

2:01:16 ↗ skin and soft-tissue infections prevent

2:01:21 ↗ 6 overdose deaths 108 overdose related

2:01:25 ↗ ambulance calls 78 emergency department

2:01:30 ↗ visits and 27 overdose related

2:01:33 ↗ hospitalizations in addition about a

2:01:37 ↗ hundred and twenty one additional people

2:01:40 ↗ would enter addiction treatment quote no

2:01:45 ↗ one has ever died from an overdose and a

2:01:47 ↗ safe consumption space I think someone

2:01:50 ↗ else noted that earlier this evening

2:01:52 ↗ said the lead the study's lead author

2:01:54 ↗ Susan Sherman professor at the Johns

2:01:58 ↗ Hopkins University Bloomberg School of

2:02:00 ↗ Public Health in a news release instead

2:02:03 ↗ thousands of Canadian lives have been

2:02:05 ↗ saved of course I don't know how many

2:02:07 ↗ died outside the street but anyway the

2:02:10 ↗ purpose of this study say we want them

2:02:13 ↗ to walk through a door that may

2:02:14 ↗ eventually lead to a successful

2:02:17 ↗ treatment and keep them alive until they

2:02:20 ↗ are able

2:02:20 ↗ to do that again I want to repeat I'm

2:02:24 ↗ not here to advocate for the sites but I

2:02:27 ↗ am here to have that advocate that you

2:02:29 ↗ do a thorough study of your community

2:02:32 ↗ needs maybe your time and attention

2:02:34 ↗ needs to be put into prevention maybe it

2:02:38 ↗ needs to be put into the pharmaceutical

2:02:41 ↗ issues they're related I also

2:02:44 ↗ appreciated the forerunner before me

2:02:46 ↗ stating that my understanding too is

2:02:49 ↗ that nothing can be done here in

2:02:52 ↗ Issaquah unless you approve it not

2:02:56 ↗ because you prohibit it so indeed I do

2:03:00 ↗ request that you put more time into this

2:03:02 ↗ please do not make this a permanent

2:03:05 ↗ decision who knows things may change

2:03:07 ↗ thank you very much for your attention

2:03:10 ↗ Thank You Margaret my name is Claude

2:03:17 ↗ Allen I'm a security professional you

2:03:20 ↗ know downtown Seattle and on the

2:03:23 ↗ waterfront I've been doing this for

2:03:25 ↗ about five years and I don't want to see

2:03:28 ↗ I call them the shooting galleries I

2:03:31 ↗ don't want to see those come to any city

2:03:35 ↗ I've seen just about everything in five

2:03:38 ↗ I want to adjust the microphone just a

2:03:40 ↗ little bit is that better absolutely

2:03:44 ↗ thank you

2:03:47 ↗ yeah I've seen just about everything

2:03:49 ↗ there is to see when it comes to drugs

2:03:51 ↗ I've been doing this for five years I'm

2:03:53 ↗ a security professional downtown

2:03:55 ↗ downtown core I've worked at Columbia

2:03:59 ↗ Sportswear

2:04:00 ↗ for a year and a half and I've been at

2:04:05 ↗ Tiffany's downtown West Lake Park I'm

2:04:10 ↗ currently at Amtrak so I see a lot of

2:04:14 ↗ drug drug users I don't want to see I

2:04:18 ↗ don't want to see safe injection sites

2:04:20 ↗ and we're shooting galleries they're not

2:04:23 ↗ good for anyone and that's about all I

2:04:26 ↗ have to say

2:04:28 ↗ but Thank You next please good evening I

2:04:38 ↗ didn't realize when I came I fell in

2:04:40 ↗ love with Issaquah I was invited to come

2:04:44 ↗ so I do please identify yourself oh my

2:04:48 ↗ name is mani foo I live in Bellevue and

2:04:51 ↗ I'm very happy that Bellevue chose not

2:04:54 ↗ to have an injection site I'm a trained

2:04:59 ↗ scientist I'm also a trained

2:05:02 ↗ professional in the field of medicine

2:05:07 ↗ but right now because of time limit I'm

2:05:10 ↗ going to make mine really short as a

2:05:14 ↗ Chinese but also an American so I'm more

2:05:18 ↗ American than Chinese so I choose to

2:05:21 ↗ share with you a little bit of Chinese

2:05:24 ↗ history if you would remember the opium

2:05:28 ↗ war in China so you know a lot of opium

2:05:35 ↗ got shipped to China they didn't choose

2:05:38 ↗ to take opium but everybody was taking

2:05:41 ↗ it it was legal nobody got to put in

2:05:44 ↗ jail by the emperor of the Qin Dynasty

2:05:48 ↗ so this opioid addiction in China

2:05:53 ↗ totally wiped out the dynasty system not

2:05:58 ↗ to say that the dynasty system was any

2:06:01 ↗ good but that was how it ended on the

2:06:06 ↗ Qin Dynasty and the Chinese race was

2:06:11 ↗ very humiliated and to rebuild a new

2:06:16 ↗ country it wasn't easy and so up to this

2:06:21 ↗ state you know I'm glad that the Chinese

2:06:23 ↗ race still got to lead a live so I would

2:06:27 ↗ recommend that we learn something from

2:06:30 ↗ history that the opium addiction in

2:06:35 ↗ China totally wiped out everything so

2:06:40 ↗ much money was gone

2:06:42 ↗ just think of all the money that could

2:06:44 ↗ raise another generation of young men or

2:06:47 ↗ young young women didn't happen there so

2:06:51 ↗ I would totally suggest that we

2:06:57 ↗ permanently not go with the injection

2:07:01 ↗ site because the Chinese experience

2:07:05 ↗ thank you very much thank you

2:07:14 ↗ my name is Artyom I'm is a co resident

2:07:19 ↗ homeowner for a couple of years and just

2:07:22 ↗ want to share some impressions so I just

2:07:26 ↗ leave could you speak a little okay I'll

2:07:32 ↗ try yeah so I live here in a second

2:07:36 ↗ homeowner and usually I came to not

2:07:42 ↗ America to Vancouver I'm software

2:07:45 ↗ engineer and Microsoft brought me here

2:07:47 ↗ and they placed me to one cover downtown

2:07:49 ↗ quite close to that safe injection site

2:07:54 ↗ that is over there and the thing I did

2:07:57 ↗ on the first we can't I I got I went

2:08:02 ↗ there to discover the city and when I

2:08:04 ↗ went to the east side inside of downtown

2:08:09 ↗ there were some a couple of young ladies

2:08:13 ↗ who just stopped me right on the street

2:08:16 ↗ I was walking with my family and said

2:08:18 ↗ like excuse me sir where I go and he'll

2:08:21 ↗ probably don't want to go there with

2:08:23 ↗ your family mind which was much worse

2:08:26 ↗ that day but I got the idea that they do

2:08:29 ↗ not recommend me to go there on the next

2:08:31 ↗ day I asked my relocation specialist

2:08:34 ↗ like what's wrong with that area and she

2:08:37 ↗ took me for some quick colored car ride

2:08:42 ↗ through the area

2:08:43 ↗ we traveled well just for those of you

2:08:49 ↗ who think that it's a good idea to have

2:08:51 ↗ that

2:08:52 ↗ site here just travel to Vancouver its

2:08:55 ↗ couple hours from here

2:08:58 ↗ there are drawn people on the streets

2:09:02 ↗ I mean drunk because of drugs they just

2:09:07 ↗ walk through the areas there are no

2:09:08 ↗ normal people we traveled and she set me

2:09:12 ↗ like if you ever want to come back here

2:09:15 ↗ don't even stop your car we drove

2:09:18 ↗ through there people just literally

2:09:21 ↗ coming by to our car just to take a look

2:09:24 ↗ and so just think why people do not want

2:09:31 ↗ to walk there do not want we'll say a

2:09:34 ↗ trying to escape that area and also I

2:09:38 ↗ heard that that area was not great even

2:09:40 ↗ before that site that might be true but

2:09:43 ↗ then think why Vancouver city government

2:09:48 ↗ decided to put that site there to those

2:09:52 ↗ slums not to some expensive area to the

2:09:57 ↗ west from downtown where you can't find

2:10:00 ↗ anything cheaper than probably 1 million

2:10:03 ↗ dollars homeowners would be freaked out

2:10:07 ↗ if if somebody would propose to bring

2:10:10 ↗ all those drug addicts there an thank

2:10:15 ↗ you next please

2:10:21 ↗ hi my name is Chrissy Kallstrom and I've

2:10:24 ↗ been here in Issaquah for about two

2:10:25 ↗ years and I just wanted to actually say

2:10:27 ↗ that I am a single parent and I had my

2:10:32 ↗ kids pretty young and so I know a lot of

2:10:34 ↗ people who lost their kids because they

2:10:36 ↗ were addicted to drugs

2:10:38 ↗ and I my kid's father actually he's in

2:10:43 ↗ and out of jail for drugs and so I'm

2:10:45 ↗ really curious how I could ever

2:10:47 ↗ rationalize a treatment center down the

2:10:49 ↗ street from me because I tell my kids

2:10:51 ↗ you know you can't see your dad because

2:10:52 ↗ he's doing drugs but you know there are

2:10:54 ↗ people down the street doing drugs and

2:10:55 ↗ that just please please don't bring this

2:10:57 ↗ here because I really don't want drugs

2:10:59 ↗ back and back in my life because I work

2:11:02 ↗ so hard to you know get away from that

2:11:03 ↗ thank you

2:11:05 ↗ Thank You Christy good evening I'm Bob

2:11:14 ↗ Flanders I live at 5:39

2:11:16 ↗ 227 new southeast in Issaquah have been

2:11:19 ↗ here for 14 years

2:11:20 ↗ I've sent each of you an extensive email

2:11:23 ↗ today thank you Mary for responding

2:11:26 ↗ about my opposition to the six-month ban

2:11:31 ↗ and making it a permanent ban for

2:11:34 ↗ injection sites here in Issaquah I won't

2:11:37 ↗ go through the extensive email because

2:11:39 ↗ y'all can read that but a couple things

2:11:41 ↗ that would say I am retired so I have

2:11:43 ↗ the ability to do a lot of research not

2:11:46 ↗ only on the Vancouver site but also on

2:11:48 ↗ the 90 plus sites in Europe and if you

2:11:52 ↗ look at the research contrary to what

2:11:54 ↗ some have said today none of the

2:11:56 ↗ research effort is in those areas is to

2:11:59 ↗ fix the root costs it is simply an

2:12:01 ↗ enablement for folks on that had the

2:12:04 ↗ drug problem to deal with drugs and so

2:12:07 ↗ my challenge to us is the community as

2:12:09 ↗ some have said is let's approach it from

2:12:11 ↗ a holistic approach and address the root

2:12:14 ↗ cause and find solutions for these

2:12:16 ↗ unfortunate people because all of us

2:12:18 ↗ have empathy for folks that are on drugs

2:12:21 ↗ and any other type of addiction but

2:12:23 ↗ enabling people without solutions is not

2:12:27 ↗ the answer for example in Vancouver if

2:12:30 ↗ you all looked at research only 4% of

2:12:33 ↗ the 6,000

2:12:34 ↗ plus people that went to the site last

2:12:36 ↗ year went to a program that would

2:12:41 ↗ address their issue 4% and this area of

2:12:45 ↗ their spent four and a half million

2:12:47 ↗ dollars for that four percent so my

2:12:49 ↗ chart shows is one is that second

2:12:51 ↗ challenge is the role model as leaders

2:12:54 ↗ in our community as you are is to step

2:12:57 ↗ up and say to children in our community

2:12:59 ↗ that we do not tolerate illegal activity

2:13:03 ↗ so be it drugs or other activities be it

2:13:07 ↗ would we say that we would support

2:13:10 ↗ domestic abuse because there's some

2:13:12 ↗ issue with that clearly not so my charge

2:13:15 ↗ to us as leaders in our communities

2:13:17 ↗ would be courageous and set the message

2:13:18 ↗ that says we'll address the root cause

2:13:21 ↗ and we'll attack the problem and we have

2:13:23 ↗ empathy for those that have needs but we

2:13:25 ↗ cannot send a message to our young

2:13:26 ↗ people that says we will tolerate some

2:13:30 ↗ illegal activity but not others then

2:13:33 ↗ lastly I challenge us as leaders that

2:13:35 ↗ say why add to the complexity we talked

2:13:37 ↗ much earlier in the day's council

2:13:40 ↗ meeting and others about the other

2:13:41 ↗ challenges we have in this wonderful

2:13:43 ↗ community we have why do we want to add

2:13:46 ↗ the complexity potentially endorsing

2:13:49 ↗ drug use and other illegal activities

2:13:53 ↗ and not addressing more critical causes

2:13:55 ↗ to make this one of the best cities in

2:13:57 ↗ America live in

2:13:58 ↗ thank you much thank you Bob next please

2:14:06 ↗ hi there my name is Alex I live with in

2:14:09 ↗ Renton Highlands I just want to say

2:14:11 ↗ thank you guys for hearing this issue I

2:14:14 ↗ think it's a very important issue and I

2:14:16 ↗ just want to ask that you banned the

2:14:19 ↗ heroin safe injection sites permanently

2:14:21 ↗ in Issaquah I also want to thank

2:14:24 ↗ everyone who had personal stories about

2:14:27 ↗ loved ones or family members who have

2:14:30 ↗ dealt with this with a heroin addiction

2:14:33 ↗ I think hearing those stories is really

2:14:37 ↗ important because we can hear from the

2:14:39 ↗ source and the more people I talked to

2:14:43 ↗ who have gone through that the more I

2:14:45 ↗ hear them saying this isn't a good idea

2:14:47 ↗ this is from people who have you know

2:14:50 ↗ gone through it themselves and were able

2:14:52 ↗ to recover people like some of the other

2:14:55 ↗ speakers who had you know children or

2:14:58 ↗ other loved ones so let's continue this

2:15:01 ↗ you know topic let's keep talking about

2:15:03 ↗ it because we do need to find a solution

2:15:05 ↗ we do need to be compassionate but I

2:15:07 ↗ don't think the injection sites are the

2:15:09 ↗ right thing to do so thank you Alex if

2:15:13 ↗ you could sign that yellow sheet please

2:15:17 ↗ Robert are you back again well I looked

2:15:23 ↗ at your website to find out what was

2:15:24 ↗ speaking and what was the topics and I

2:15:27 ↗ saw this was one of the topics and I

2:15:30 ↗ personally I've gotten to know

2:15:31 ↗ practically most of you guys in

2:15:33 ↗ different ways some I've known a lot

2:15:36 ↗ longer than others but I can't even

2:15:38 ↗ imagine you guys would ever vote for us

2:15:41 ↗ anyway that's just my personal opinion

2:15:43 ↗ but anyway so I'm not even worried about

2:15:46 ↗ that to be quite honest so that being

2:15:48 ↗ said I just wanted to thank Christy I

2:15:50 ↗ think she had to leave but I think what

2:15:52 ↗ she had shared was what I wanted to talk

2:15:55 ↗ about was maybe we need to have

2:15:56 ↗ something the opposite how about having

2:15:59 ↗ parenting training time where you can

2:16:03 ↗ talk about drug use with your kids when

2:16:07 ↗ you're really young just to give you a

2:16:09 ↗ little background on my family growing

2:16:10 ↗ up it's I had one brother go to prison

2:16:17 ↗ for murder

2:16:17 ↗ I had one died of AIDS my mom was

2:16:23 ↗ schizophrenic it it it affected me so

2:16:28 ↗ deeply because I knew I wanted to have

2:16:32 ↗ kids I couldn't wait to have kids my

2:16:34 ↗ personally my I loved my dad and

2:16:36 ↗ greatest guy I ever met

2:16:37 ↗ he told me just because of his marriage

2:16:39 ↗ he told me about on a weekly basis don't

2:16:41 ↗ ever get married so

2:16:42 ↗ yeah III in the back of my mind I go

2:16:45 ↗ well I got some things to work on but I

2:16:46 ↗ can't wait to get married and I couldn't

2:16:48 ↗ wait to have kids but you know I knew

2:16:51 ↗ that I had to have a plan for case that

2:16:54 ↗ I had to have you know talk to other

2:16:57 ↗ people I had to I got lots of advice

2:17:01 ↗ when my wife is pregnant just and she I

2:17:03 ↗ asked hey why are you close to your you

2:17:06 ↗ close to your dad yes or no and whenever

2:17:08 ↗ they were close to her dad they told me

2:17:10 ↗ I asked him why they said because we had

2:17:12 ↗ great talks whenever they said no it's

2:17:15 ↗ because they said we never talked and

2:17:18 ↗ that stuck with me from the moment my

2:17:21 ↗ daughter was born and I would always

2:17:23 ↗ always talk to my daughter

2:17:25 ↗ and anyway don't mean to cry but I love

2:17:28 ↗ my kids and what Christie talked about

2:17:30 ↗ she became a great parent I shook her

2:17:33 ↗ hand because that was somebody that

2:17:35 ↗ looked at their kids and said I need to

2:17:37 ↗ change something form it for my kids

2:17:39 ↗ sake so maybe it would be a great thing

2:17:43 ↗ to go the other way and go hey let's

2:17:46 ↗ have a parent kid teen talk what we all

2:17:49 ↗ get together and we have a great talk

2:17:51 ↗ with our kids maybe on a monthly basis

2:17:54 ↗ maybe a six-month basis I don't know

2:17:56 ↗ exactly how it all work but I know I

2:17:58 ↗ needed a lot I had I didn't get married

2:18:00 ↗ until I was 28 I had a lot of things to

2:18:02 ↗ learn and unlearn and I think if you had

2:18:06 ↗ both my kids up here if they see this

2:18:08 ↗ video I don't know if they are not sorry

2:18:11 ↗ kids but I think they would both say wow

2:18:14 ↗ you know my dad really loved me I hope

2:18:17 ↗ they'd say that but my three goals like

2:18:21 ↗ yo like three goals was for them to

2:18:22 ↗ graduate high school because that's a

2:18:24 ↗ totally destroy your life don't get

2:18:26 ↗ pregnant before you get graduated high

2:18:28 ↗ school and don't get somebody pregnant

2:18:29 ↗ before you graduate yeah it's quite one

2:18:30 ↗ of each and the other one who is don't

2:18:33 ↗ get involved with drugs and so we

2:18:35 ↗ watched movies we did all kinds of

2:18:36 ↗ things and we talked about it afterwards

2:18:39 ↗ and because it just can destroy your

2:18:41 ↗ life

2:18:41 ↗ so I'm gonna present you let's have

2:18:44 ↗ something positive

2:18:45 ↗ and let's not wait until they get

2:18:47 ↗ involved with drugs it's it's just so

2:18:48 ↗ devastating let's do something positive

2:18:50 ↗ why not let's it's Quan setting an

2:18:51 ↗ example for the rest of the you know if

2:18:53 ↗ it spread some here we'll let's spread

2:18:55 ↗ some positive and let's get involved

2:18:57 ↗ with all the parents and young parents

2:18:58 ↗ especially let them have an opportunity

2:19:00 ↗ to start talking now and maybe you guys

2:19:03 ↗ I think you guys are awesome people and

2:19:06 ↗ know everybody in different ways but

2:19:08 ↗ let's do it

2:19:10 ↗ thank you Robert

2:19:15 ↗ all right David Kepler 255 southeast

2:19:18 ↗ Andres Street I must say it was a little

2:19:20 ↗ more civil in here than I expected it to

2:19:22 ↗ be but if you saw election materials

2:19:25 ↗ from Bellevue and other places it's as

2:19:27 ↗ about as ugly as it ever gets

2:19:31 ↗ but let's think about why are we I mean

2:19:35 ↗ we got sick points five-and-a-half

2:19:36 ↗ months of talking about this possibly

2:19:39 ↗ it's a waste of staff time in my view to

2:19:42 ↗ be writing ordinance and stuff to write

2:19:44 ↗ against something that's never going to

2:19:46 ↗ happen here this is somebody mentioned

2:19:49 ↗ 18-hour days that's seven days a week

2:19:51 ↗ eighteen hours how many people are you

2:19:53 ↗ gonna staff how many hundreds of people

2:19:56 ↗ a day need to come to the facility it's

2:19:59 ↗ you know where are you gonna put it

2:20:01 ↗ across the street community hall you got

2:20:03 ↗ five got bus transportation you got

2:20:05 ↗ police and fire on both sides of it it's

2:20:08 ↗ not going to happen

2:20:09 ↗ maybe you want to put it you'd love it

2:20:14 ↗ closer to the other end of town this

2:20:16 ↗ man's end of town because you got a fire

2:20:18 ↗ station there and you got a Transit

2:20:20 ↗ Center there so people can get by

2:20:22 ↗ transfers to the to the buses that come

2:20:25 ↗ through our Transit Center you can get

2:20:27 ↗ people from the whole eastern part of

2:20:29 ↗ King County it's just not going to

2:20:32 ↗ happen here

2:20:33 ↗ whether it should happen in Seattle is

2:20:35 ↗ another question but let's not keep

2:20:38 ↗ dragging this out and and be realistic

2:20:41 ↗ thank you thank you David I don't see

2:20:47 ↗ anyone else in the queue so I say is

2:20:50 ↗ there anyone else desiring to comment

2:20:54 ↗ before I closed the public almost break

2:20:57 ↗ time I would assume so Joshua freed from

2:20:59 ↗ the city of Bothell I'm with I 27 with

2:21:01 ↗ the chief sponsor for AI 27 we gathered

2:21:03 ↗ 69 thousand eight hundred and fifty

2:21:05 ↗ signatures with a thousand volunteers

2:21:07 ↗ you've all run for office so you know

2:21:10 ↗ that's an extraordinary number this has

2:21:12 ↗ been a item in this election season and

2:21:14 ↗ for the last six months that's been in

2:21:16 ↗ the news has been very prevalent in

2:21:18 ↗ conversations across King County and

2:21:20 ↗ even beyond there's a lot of attention

2:21:22 ↗ on this and there's going to be a lot of

2:21:23 ↗ attention on you as well

2:21:25 ↗ and of course you've heard from a lot of

2:21:26 ↗ people tonight and on this issue

2:21:27 ↗ passionate about this because we're for

2:21:30 ↗ the user somebody that is currently

2:21:33 ↗ living in there at an addiction that is

2:21:35 ↗ heartbreaking it's a path toward suicide

2:21:37 ↗ with those people that signed on they

2:21:39 ↗ have a lot of personal stories even some

2:21:41 ↗ were shared tonight a lot of passion on

2:21:43 ↗ this because they've lost loved ones so

2:21:45 ↗ we gathered 60 9850 signatures with this

2:21:48 ↗ initiative 27 we got to validate it it

2:21:51 ↗ was going on in the February 13th ballot

2:21:53 ↗ and then the ACLU and the City of

2:21:54 ↗ Seattle decided their grand wisdom to

2:21:57 ↗ file suit against initiative 27 and ban

2:21:59 ↗ our constitutional right to participate

2:22:01 ↗ in the process and so just about two

2:22:03 ↗ weeks ago King County judge and Superior

2:22:06 ↗ Court well very far out in her positions

2:22:09 ↗ on thing decided to take our

2:22:11 ↗ constitutional rights from 1.3 million

2:22:13 ↗ voters in King County we're of course

2:22:15 ↗ with I 27 are gonna be fighting that in

2:22:17 ↗ the Washington State Supreme Court

2:22:18 ↗ sometime in December or January we're

2:22:20 ↗ asking for an expedited schedule so

2:22:23 ↗ we're on that path

2:22:24 ↗ my hope and is for each one of you have

2:22:28 ↗ you been to Canada have you seen the

2:22:30 ↗ nearest Herren injection site if you not

2:22:32 ↗ if you've not done so that is your

2:22:34 ↗ responsibility as an elected official if

2:22:36 ↗ you're going to entertain regulations as

2:22:38 ↗ you are tonight you will and should be

2:22:41 ↗ held responsible by the people that

2:22:43 ↗ elect you to office because you are

2:22:45 ↗ elected to your seat where you sit

2:22:47 ↗ the citizens of Issaquah own those seats

2:22:50 ↗ and you in the next election will have

2:22:52 ↗ to answer that you were the council that

2:22:53 ↗ said we want regulations to entertain

2:22:56 ↗ having heroin injection site in the city

2:22:58 ↗ of Issaquah that is a big burden on you

2:23:00 ↗ and one that I hope that you take very

2:23:01 ↗ seriously listen I've been to Canada

2:23:04 ↗ taking my wife several times which is a

2:23:06 ↗ great date night right been up there

2:23:09 ↗ five times walk the streets feets

2:23:10 ↗ Hastings sat down on the sidewalk talk

2:23:12 ↗ and people at one time I went up there

2:23:15 ↗ my wife and I got out of the car not

2:23:17 ↗ even 200 feet from the front door we

2:23:19 ↗ walked as police officer was driving

2:23:21 ↗ slowly by as we watched five people

2:23:23 ↗ shooting up heroin and their arms on the

2:23:25 ↗ street I walked right in front of in

2:23:28 ↗ sight

2:23:28 ↗ right within the 30 or 40 foot with

2:23:30 ↗ frontage of that and talked to Sarita

2:23:32 ↗ after I finished talking to Sarita

2:23:35 ↗ she took a needle out and shot heroin up

2:23:37 ↗ in her arm and then started bleeding on

2:23:39 ↗ the sidewalk the undercover police

2:23:41 ↗ officer who I took up there with me took

2:23:44 ↗ a picture with his iPhone she took a

2:23:46 ↗ knife out and started stabbing the

2:23:47 ↗ building so I walked down that's my left

2:23:51 ↗ so I walked down a little bit further

2:23:52 ↗ sat down on the street with three

2:23:54 ↗ different people and then an ms-13 team

2:23:57 ↗ member came up with tattooed face and

2:23:59 ↗ said this conversation is over

2:24:01 ↗ of course I agreed and I continued to

2:24:03 ↗ walk on down the street listen the

2:24:05 ↗ heroin injection site atmosphere in that

2:24:08 ↗ five block radius is frightening not in

2:24:11 ↗ the sense that I was scared for my

2:24:13 ↗ safety because I had two undercover

2:24:15 ↗ police officers with me and I'm a black

2:24:17 ↗ belt but that's all issue out of itself

2:24:19 ↗ what is frightening is the broken lines

2:24:22 ↗ that are there as I've walked by I've

2:24:24 ↗ seen so many young girls that are gone

2:24:26 ↗ in the face their bodies are

2:24:27 ↗ deteriorating and they're selling their

2:24:28 ↗ bodies for dollars just so they can buy

2:24:31 ↗ their heroin the

2:24:32 ↗ just a block and a half away there's a

2:24:34 ↗ park that sits there there are 40 tents

2:24:37 ↗ in the park my wife tried to take a

2:24:38 ↗ picture with her iPhone she was yelled

2:24:40 ↗ at there are needles littering the

2:24:43 ↗ streets people are passed down on the

2:24:44 ↗ streets there's 5000 users that live

2:24:46 ↗ within a five-block radius there were

2:24:48 ↗ some statistics tonight that nobody

2:24:50 ↗ moves there they don't go beyond 8

2:24:51 ↗ blocks that's completely false that's

2:24:53 ↗ not an accurate statement I talked to

2:24:55 ↗ many people have moved from Quebec and

2:24:57 ↗ other places throughout Vancouver those

2:24:59 ↗ statements are coming from people that

2:25:00 ↗ don't understand listen the environment

2:25:03 ↗ around a heroin injection site is cattle

2:25:05 ↗ cattle I can't even say the word its

2:25:07 ↗ apocalyptic we're in bought that we have

2:25:10 ↗ a treatment center methadone clinic

2:25:11 ↗ where people can go get suboxone and get

2:25:13 ↗ help that environment around that is

2:25:15 ↗ nothing like you see around a tree of

2:25:16 ↗ heroin injection site this Aquash should

2:25:19 ↗ be known as the place that is dedicated

2:25:21 ↗ to get people back to treatment not a

2:25:23 ↗ place that people continually use they

2:25:26 ↗ spend 4.5 million dollars a year on one

2:25:28 ↗ site in Canada King County is talking

2:25:30 ↗ about opening two that's nine million

2:25:32 ↗ dollars that's gonna be stolen toward

2:25:34 ↗ the most radical change in drug policy

2:25:36 ↗ in America and if it's a qualm wants to

2:25:38 ↗ had that as their identity then you will

2:25:40 ↗ hang it around your necks and you'll be

2:25:41 ↗ responsible for it my hope is that you

2:25:44 ↗ will make a choice for the treatment and

2:25:46 ↗ for the user and create an atmosphere

2:25:48 ↗ that says welcome to Issaquah we want to

2:25:50 ↗ make sure that you get back to health

2:25:51 ↗ that is what we're committed to as

2:25:53 ↗ people in Issaquah so I hope that you

2:25:55 ↗ vote for a permanent ban tonight not

2:25:57 ↗ entertain regular regulations that would

2:25:59 ↗ allow for a heroin injection site thank

2:26:01 ↗ you thank you Joshua

2:26:08 ↗ it's a don't see anyone else signed up

2:26:10 ↗ to speak normally I would I would say

2:26:15 ↗ please don't applaud if you agree or or

2:26:19 ↗ disagree with the speaker but if you

2:26:21 ↗ agree or raise your hand if you agree

2:26:25 ↗ with the speaker good evening

2:26:28 ↗ keep this very short just one fun thing

2:26:30 ↗ to say my name is readin live down 190th

2:26:33 ↗ I have struggled with addiction not

2:26:36 ↗ heroin but it literally is the dumbest

2:26:40 ↗ thing like

2:26:43 ↗ I've heard is to allow people to or

2:26:49 ↗ promote it I guess you know you don't

2:26:52 ↗ you don't treat that epidemic with

2:26:56 ↗ letting people do it so thank you like

2:27:00 ↗ you read I saw it and so did the rest of

2:27:09 ↗ the council is there anyone else desired

2:27:12 ↗ to speak anyone else third and final

2:27:16 ↗ call

2:27:16 ↗ anyone else desiring to speak seeing no

2:27:19 ↗ one ban the public hearing is closed at

2:27:23 ↗ 9:28

2:27:24 ↗ and the purpose of this public hearing

2:27:30 ↗ was to hear from the the 24 people that

2:27:35 ↗ spoke this evening and so there is a

2:27:43 ↗ moratorium in effect right now that

2:27:47 ↗ moratorium is will remain in effect

2:27:50 ↗ through April 16th 2018

2:27:54 ↗ does the council have any direction that

2:27:59 ↗ they want to provide to the

2:28:01 ↗ administration this evening Stacey well

2:28:07 ↗ I think just to be clear clearer when

2:28:10 ↗ you ask the question as the council want

2:28:12 ↗ to provide any direction to the

2:28:13 ↗ administration I think you mean any

2:28:15 ↗ additional direction because the

2:28:16 ↗ direction to the administration is to

2:28:18 ↗ prepare as amendments to the code that

2:28:21 ↗ would prohibit safe injection sites

2:28:24 ↗ abolition is whether the council wants

2:28:26 ↗ to revise that direction to the mayor's

2:28:27 ↗ office seeing none then we will now move

2:28:33 ↗ to our final item under regular business

2:28:39 ↗ agenda bill 74-62 amending school impact

2:28:44 ↗ fees this is coming back from the

2:28:46 ↗ services and Safety Committee

2:28:50 ↗ thanks mr. mayor I would actually like

2:28:52 ↗ to refer agenda bill 74-62 back to the

2:28:57 ↗ November 14th 2017 council services and

2:29:00 ↗ Safety Committee returning to the full

2:29:02 ↗ council on December 4th 2017 second it's

2:29:06 ↗ moved and seconded any so to speak to

2:29:10 ↗ the motion I would since this issue has

2:29:15 ↗ come before services and safety I have

2:29:18 ↗ seen a number of questions both from my

2:29:21 ↗ fellow council members and from folks in

2:29:23 ↗ the community around this issue what is

2:29:26 ↗ the city council's role what are the

2:29:29 ↗ City Council's options why you know what

2:29:32 ↗ why does the school district want to do

2:29:35 ↗ what the school district wants to do in

2:29:37 ↗ regards to impact fees and so what I'd

2:29:40 ↗ like to do is take the questions that

2:29:43 ↗ have been generated by my fellow council

2:29:47 ↗ members and then allow the

2:29:48 ↗ administration and the Utica School

2:29:50 ↗ District to return to services and

2:29:53 ↗ safety with answers to those questions

2:29:55 ↗ thank you

2:29:57 ↗ any additional discussion or questions

2:30:01 ↗ seeing none then all those in favor of

2:30:04 ↗ referring agenda bill 7 4 6 - back to

2:30:11 ↗ services and safety returning to the

2:30:16 ↗ full council on the 7/4

2:30:20 ↗ signify by saying aye I was opposed that

2:30:24 ↗ carries unanimously now moving to go to

2:30:28 ↗ the order does anyone have anything for

2:30:30 ↗ good of the order this evening Toula I

2:30:33 ↗ do so I would like to get the council's

2:30:37 ↗ thoughts so the motion that's going to

2:30:39 ↗ be before the sound cities Association

2:30:41 ↗ pick next week says and I won't go

2:30:44 ↗ through all the language but I'll go

2:30:46 ↗ through the highlights sound Studies

2:30:48 ↗ Association urges the Washington State

2:30:50 ↗ Legislature to take the following

2:30:52 ↗ actions in 2018 one is adjusting the

2:30:55 ↗ property tax cap urges the legislature

2:30:57 ↗ to give local governments the option to

2:30:59 ↗ replace the arbitrary annual 1%

2:31:01 ↗ with a limit tied to inflation plus

2:31:04 ↗ population growth

2:31:05 ↗ it isn't specifying what that limit

2:31:07 ↗ should be invest in public health

2:31:10 ↗ services urges the legislature to fund

2:31:12 ↗ the core public health services provided

2:31:14 ↗ by local health jurisdictions and then

2:31:16 ↗ address housing and homelessness crisis

2:31:19 ↗ urges legislature to partner with us to

2:31:22 ↗ address homelessness increases the

2:31:23 ↗ supply of affordable housing by

2:31:25 ↗ expanding making permanent the document

2:31:27 ↗ recording fee to invest 200 million in

2:31:30 ↗ the housing trust fund allow local

2:31:32 ↗ governments to create and preserve

2:31:33 ↗ affordable housing through optional

2:31:35 ↗ local tools and this SCA urges the

2:31:37 ↗ legislature to address other underlying

2:31:39 ↗ issues of homelessness by making

2:31:41 ↗ investments in our state's behavioral

2:31:43 ↗ health system and enacting legislation

2:31:45 ↗ to prohibit source of income

2:31:47 ↗ discrimination so that is the proposed

2:31:51 ↗ agenda I think it was intentionally kept

2:31:54 ↗ very light so that folks could know what

2:31:58 ↗ were the really most important issues

2:32:00 ↗ rather than having a long list but I

2:32:02 ↗ want to find out if anybody on council

2:32:04 ↗ has any objections or concerns or if we

2:32:07 ↗ can say that our council strongly

2:32:09 ↗ supports making this the 2018 SCA agenda

2:32:13 ↗ input for Toula I was quite a list I'm

2:32:18 ↗ not sure I can remember all of them is

2:32:20 ↗ when Nami when well this action be taken

2:32:24 ↗ at the upcoming pick it will which is on

2:32:28 ↗ the that would be Wednesday this

2:32:33 ↗ Wednesday the 8th so again it's

2:32:37 ↗ adjusting the property tax cap investing

2:32:40 ↗ public health services address housing

2:32:42 ↗ and homelessness crisis those are the

2:32:43 ↗ three central pillars and that is all in

2:32:46 ↗ the FCA the SE a call for upcoming

2:32:51 ↗ meeting very low though strongly support

2:32:59 ↗ everything that's in there also kind of

2:33:00 ↗ a little intimidated by the amazingly

2:33:02 ↗ huge problems that you're putting

2:33:05 ↗ together that's that's a big order and I

2:33:08 ↗ think they've they've chosen well they

2:33:10 ↗ support it thank you

2:33:12 ↗ other comments bill I'd support that as

2:33:16 ↗ well to go for it okay well Mariah I I

2:33:21 ↗ saw you raised I saw you nod your head I

2:33:26 ↗ raised my hand I just wanted to say I do

2:33:29 ↗ I do support that it a lot of that is

2:33:31 ↗ there's a lot to it but I really support

2:33:35 ↗ that but appreciate that they've also

2:33:38 ↗ narrowed things down thank you

2:33:41 ↗ okay it sounds like Toller you've got

2:33:45 ↗ council support and direction for

2:33:49 ↗ dealing with that issue the most

2:33:51 ↗ powerful words that pic are my city

2:33:53 ↗ feels so it is joy to be able to use

2:33:57 ↗ those words is there anything else for

2:33:59 ↗ good of the order this evening there

2:34:02 ↗ will not be an executive session we are

2:34:04 ↗ adjourned

2:34:05 ↗ [Applause]

2:34:21 ↗ you

Approved minutes

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Attendance

Council / Members (7)

Eileen Barber

Mariah Bettise (arrived at 7:04 PM)

Stacy Goodman

Tola Marts

Mary Lou Pauly

Bill Ramos

Paul Winterstein

Motions and votes (2)

Direct Administration to prepare the necessary documents (ordinance and resolution) setting the amount of taxes to be collected in 2018 to include an 1% base increase for adoption at the November 20, 2017 Council meeting. . b)

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise (arrived at 7:04 PM), Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Refer AB 7462 to the Nov. 13, 2017 Council Services & Safety Committee for additional review and recommendation, returning to the full Council on Dec. 4, 2017. .

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise (arrived at 7:04 PM), Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein