City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, April 16, 2018 · City Council Digest

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Earth Day Proclamation Hear Presentation AB 7583

packet pp.5–6

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Staff report:

Administration / Executive Department:

2018 Legislative Session Summary and Appreciation for Doug Levy Hear Presentation AB 7590

packet pp.7–13

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

Administration / Executive Department:

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, April 2, 2018

Approve · packet pp.135–136

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Staff report:

A joint meeting between the Issaquah City Council and the Issaquah School Board to discuss items of mutual interest. No formal/final action will occur at this special meeting.

PSRC Transportation Alternatives Program Grant (Newport Way Improvements: SR 900 to SE 54th St) AB 7477

Accept Grant · packet pp.145–160

Topics: Transportation

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 5, 2017

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Staff report:

The Newport Way corridor from SR 900 to SE 54th St. was examined in the 2015 Pedestrian Crossing Study and discussed in the Central Issaquah Plan. The Central Issaquah Plan identifies this corridor as a Parkway. The Pedestrian Crossing Study and the Central Issaquah Plan proposed the following configuration of Newport Way NW:

Interim Board/Commission Extension AB 7501

Authorize · packet pp.161

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Administration / City Clerk's Office:

2018 Water Rehabilitation Project AB 7555

Award Bid · packet pp.163–167

Topics: Water

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Page 163 of 361 CONSENT CALENDAR g)

Forest Rim Booster Pump Station Project AB 7557

Award Bid · packet pp.169–173

Topics: Trees

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Administration / Public Works Engineering Department:

PSRC Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (STP) (Newport Way Improvements: SR 900 to SE 54th St) AB 7567

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.175–181

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

This project was included in the Council adopted 2018-2022 CIP, Project No. TR022. After significant community outreach, the Newport Way corridor concept was approved by Council at the Dec. 18, 2017 Council meeting (AB 7486). The preferred corridor concept for Newport Way NW includes the following design elements as described in the adopted design report:

WSDOT Pedestrian/Bike Grant AB 7568

Refer to Council Land & Shore Committee · packet pp.183–189

Topics: Transportation

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Central Issaquah Development and Design Standards Amendment limiting new Hotels, Motels, Time Share Lodging, Conference Centers and Self Storage Units in specific zones within Central Issaquah AB 7577

Refer to Council Land & Shore Committee · packet pp.231–255

Topics: Land UseTourism

Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Mar 22, 2018

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Staff report:

The Planning Policy Commission held a public hearing on March 22, 2018. After completing the public hearing, PPC:

Surplus City Equipment AB 7586

Carried 7-0

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.257–258

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Staff report:

Administration / Public Works Operations Department:

Roll call:

Moved by REH · seconded by RAMOS

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Chris Reh, Paul Winterstein

Washington State Patrol National Criminal History Improvement Program Grant AB 7592

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.267–268

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Administration / Police Department:

Property Tax Reduction Request via King Co. Public Benefit Rating System AB 7596

Set Public Hearing; Refer to Council Services · packet pp.269–290

Topics: Budget

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Administration / Development Services Department:

Civil Service Commission Appointments AB 7598

Confirm · packet pp.291–295

Topics: Boards & Commissions

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Administration / Human Resources Department:

8. PUBLIC HEARING

First Major Amendment to the Costco Development Agreement AB 7533

Carried 7-0

Conduct Public Hearing; Refer to Council · packet pp.297–327

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Staff report:

CITY COUNCIL UPDATED AGENDA BILL AB 7533 - City Council Regular Meeting - 16 Apr 2018 Public Hearing

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Chris Reh, Paul Winterstein

9. REGULAR BUSINESS

Teen Café Partnership & Lease Agreement AB 7484

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.329–358

Topics: Housing

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Staff report:

UPDATED CITY COUNCIL AB 7484 - AGENDA BILL Regular City Council Regular Meeting - 16 Apr 2018 Business

Roll call:

Moved by REH · seconded by BETTISE

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Chris Reh, Paul Winterstein

Funding Request for Temporary Staffing Resources AB 7594

Carried 7-0

Authorize Additional Funding · packet pp.359–361

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

Administration / Executive Department:

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Chris Reh, Paul Winterstein

10. GOOD OF THE ORDER

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0:21 ↗ welcome everyone I'm gonna call the

0:23 ↗ April 16th regular City Council meeting

0:26 ↗ to order i'm i'd ask those who'd like to

0:30 ↗ join the council myself in the pledge of

0:32 ↗ allegiance to please stand

0:51 ↗ thank you

0:53 ↗ our first item this evening under

0:54 ↗ special business is a b7 five eight

0:57 ↗ three Earth Day proclamation I'd like to

1:00 ↗ invite John Hoekstra executive director

1:02 ↗ and tour Bell field program director for

1:05 ↗ mountains of sound Greenway trust to

1:07 ↗ join me at the lectern to receive the

1:08 ↗ proclamation

1:22 ↗ turn John thank you very much for coming

1:24 ↗ this evening where is the global

1:27 ↗ community now more than ever faces

1:29 ↗ extraordinary challenges such as climate

1:31 ↗ change global health issues

1:34 ↗ environmental degradation food and water

1:36 ↗ shortages and economic struggles and

1:39 ↗ whereas local communities can lead the

1:41 ↗ way in taking such steps to protect and

1:44 ↗ preserve our natural resources and

1:46 ↗ wildlife by encouraging energy and water

1:49 ↗ conservation waste reduction

1:51 ↗ environmentally sound land-use pollution

1:54 ↗ prevention habitat restoration and

1:57 ↗ non-drive alone transportation traces

2:00 ↗ and whereas the city of Issaquah is a

2:02 ↗ regional leader in promoting sustainable

2:05 ↗ living and where as Earth Day offers

2:07 ↗ residents of all ages a unique

2:10 ↗ opportunity to make a personal

2:11 ↗ commitment to practices that are vital

2:13 ↗ in protecting the quality of human life

2:15 ↗ and other life in Issaquah for

2:18 ↗ generations to come and whereas the city

2:20 ↗ is celebrating 25 years as Tree City USA

2:23 ↗ and is joined together with mountains to

2:26 ↗ Sound Greenway Trust Lake Sammamish

2:28 ↗ State Park and volunteers to steward

2:30 ↗ public lands on April 21st

2:33 ↗ in celebration of Arbor Day and Earth

2:34 ↗ Day now therefore I Mary Lou Poly mayor

2:38 ↗ of the city of Issaquah do hereby

2:40 ↗ proclaim April 22nd 2018 to be Earth Day

2:44 ↗ in the City of Issaquah and urge all

2:46 ↗ residents to celebrate the special

2:49 ↗ observance and further to pledge to take

2:51 ↗ action together so that we can

2:53 ↗ contribute to a healthy environment and

2:54 ↗ make Issaquah an even greater place to

2:56 ↗ live work play learn and visit

3:01 ↗ [Applause]

3:13 ↗ Thank You mayor Poli and congratulations

3:16 ↗ city of Issaquah and citizens of

3:18 ↗ Issaquah this is amazing 25 years

3:20 ↗ history City USA it's a great

3:23 ↗ accomplishment and on behalf of the

3:25 ↗ bestest on Greenway trust we'd also like

3:26 ↗ to say thank you for your partnership

3:28 ↗ we've been working with the city of

3:30 ↗ Issaquah for more than 20 years

3:32 ↗ restoring native habitat planting trees

3:36 ↗ cleaning up and restoring the stream

3:38 ↗ habitat that is one of the reasons that

3:40 ↗ is Squa still has wild salmon swimming

3:42 ↗ back into your city year after year it's

3:45 ↗ a real testament to not just the spirit

3:47 ↗ of Earth Day but I think also its

3:48 ↗ intention that it's akua's walking the

3:50 ↗ walk and and demonstrating how do you

3:54 ↗ have a sustainable city in these kinds

3:55 ↗ of activities over 20 years you can now

3:59 ↗ you could take a walk from here and oh

4:00 ↗ there's a couple of tricky road

4:01 ↗ crossings but you can take a walk from

4:02 ↗ here all the way to Lake Sammamish State

4:04 ↗ Park and as you go along there you can

4:06 ↗ see what 20 years of riparian

4:08 ↗ restoration starts to look like from the

4:10 ↗ very newest plots that are being cleared

4:12 ↗ and getting ready to be planted this

4:13 ↗ year out to the kind of very first

4:15 ↗ forest that we helped plant in the city

4:18 ↗ of is well you can see how forests grow

4:20 ↗ up over time and get a feeling for

4:21 ↗ what's been accomplished over this time

4:23 ↗ that has been a tree city and it comes

4:26 ↗ because of all of you it comes not

4:27 ↗ because somebody did it for you it comes

4:30 ↗ because citizens came forward and put in

4:33 ↗ their own time their own energy their

4:34 ↗ own heart and soul over these years

4:36 ↗ we've got horrible correcting up and

4:38 ↗ napping the show I forget the numbers

4:40 ↗ really radically wrong but but thousands

4:42 ↗ of volunteers have come out and given

4:45 ↗ tens of thousands of volunteer hours of

4:47 ↗ Labor and planted more than a hundred

4:50 ↗ thousand trees in this quad Creek Basin

4:52 ↗ so it's really extraordinary what's been

4:54 ↗ accomplished here we're very very happy

4:57 ↗ for you we congratulate you on this

4:59 ↗ accomplishment and we look forward to

5:00 ↗ working with the city for another 20

5:02 ↗ years

5:03 ↗ to see what else we can do together to

5:05 ↗ make the future of Issaquah and the

5:07 ↗ mouth of sound Greenway truly

5:09 ↗ sustainable for generations to come I'll

5:11 ↗ also let tor lean in in the spirit of

5:13 ↗ this proclamation there is an

5:15 ↗ opportunity on Earth Day to

5:17 ↗ come out and be part of this all that

5:18 ↗ tor tell you about what that is yes

5:20 ↗ the Sammamish Cove adjacent to the State

5:22 ↗ Park from 10:00 to 2:00 this Saturday

5:25 ↗ you guys are invited and encouraged to

5:27 ↗ come out we'll be doing some trail work

5:29 ↗ planting some trees and doing some

5:31 ↗ maintenance on some older trees that

5:33 ↗ we've planted so encourage you all to

5:34 ↗ come out and have an opportunity to

5:36 ↗ pitch in and really you know continue

5:39 ↗ the environmental restoration out there

5:41 ↗ throughout the city our second item

5:59 ↗ under special business this evening is a

6:01 ↗ be seven five nine zero the 2018

6:04 ↗ legislative session summary and a end

6:07 ↗ after that an appreciation for Doug Levy

6:10 ↗ I'd like to invite the city's lobbyists

6:12 ↗ Doug levy to the lectern Doug will

6:15 ↗ provide a recap of the 2018 legislative

6:18 ↗ session thank you

6:30 ↗ thanks so much mayor and council members

6:32 ↗ and staff and community I'm good to be

6:35 ↗ here tonight and I was asked to give you

6:37 ↗ a little bit of a blow-by-blow of the

6:40 ↗ 2018 session we'll try and keep it

6:42 ↗ fairly brief and give you some of the

6:44 ↗ headlines and then get into how things

6:46 ↗ went for is sukwon the 2018 agenda first

6:51 ↗ off I tell you that the 60-day session

6:53 ↗ which ended on time that was the first

6:55 ↗ time in several years the legislature

6:57 ↗ had finished on time was what you would

6:59 ↗ call an activist session you know

7:01 ↗ however you feel about the things that

7:03 ↗ went into and came out of the session a

7:05 ↗ very frenetic session 308 bills passed

7:10 ↗ by the 2018 legislature so that compares

7:13 ↗ to about 317 in 2017 which ran several

7:18 ↗ months so that gives you a sense of the

7:21 ↗ the number of bills that were churning

7:23 ↗ through the system in 2018 the

7:28 ↗ legislature made a decision to try and

7:31 ↗ get into compliance in 2018 with the K

7:35 ↗ through 12 McCleary decision I think

7:38 ↗ blessed by a very very good economy

7:41 ↗ remember that the the state actually had

7:43 ↗ a couple of billion dollars of extra

7:45 ↗ revenue over the four-year period to

7:46 ↗ work with they put about 1.2 billion

7:50 ↗ dollars of additional money into the

7:52 ↗ k-12 system about 776 million of that

7:57 ↗ was in in upgrading teacher salaries

8:01 ↗ also some significant money in special

8:04 ↗ education and obviously if you've been

8:06 ↗ tracking the headlines we'll see if the

8:08 ↗ state has successfully made its case

8:12 ↗ with the courts that they've fully

8:15 ↗ complied with McCleary a lot of other

8:18 ↗ bills that had been kind of pent up and

8:20 ↗ not quite getting to the finish line the

8:22 ↗ last several years did in 2018 things

8:27 ↗ like a breakfast after the bill excuse

8:30 ↗ me breakfast after the bell piece of

8:31 ↗ legislation an equal pay bill the Voting

8:34 ↗ Rights Act several others I would say

8:38 ↗ and we'll get into this under our agenda

8:40 ↗ but for in areas like affordable

8:42 ↗ housing homelessness mental health a

8:46 ↗ very robust session a lot of important

8:49 ↗ things passed by the legislature also in

8:53 ↗ the area of Public Safety the

8:54 ↗ legislature did a bill on body cameras

8:56 ↗ that I think will make it much much more

9:00 ↗ palatable much easier for local

9:02 ↗ governments to get into the business of

9:04 ↗ deploying body cameras if they so choose

9:06 ↗ and on use of force we saw something

9:09 ↗ rather unusual and pretty controversial

9:12 ↗ actually but the legislature took a an

9:15 ↗ initiative filed to the legislature by a

9:18 ↗ group called deescalate Washington and

9:20 ↗ you know in all my 20-plus years running

9:23 ↗ down to Olympia what normally happens

9:25 ↗ with initiatives to the legislature is

9:27 ↗ that they send those straight to the

9:29 ↗ following November ballot in this case

9:32 ↗ the legislature enacted initiative 940

9:36 ↗ they also enacted House bill 33 which

9:39 ↗ comes about 91 days on the heels of the

9:43 ↗ initiative and amends it according to a

9:47 ↗ compromise worked out between deescalate

9:49 ↗ Washington and Public Safety and

9:52 ↗ domestic violence groups and a number of

9:54 ↗ others so pretty important pieces of

9:57 ↗ legislation to say the least I think

10:00 ↗ before I get into sort of the the

10:02 ↗ Issaquah story the other thing that I

10:04 ↗ would tell you is that you know we're

10:06 ↗ going to be in a midterm election year

10:08 ↗ so we'll have a lot of battleground

10:11 ↗ election races between now and November

10:14 ↗ and obviously on Election Day so

10:16 ↗ remember that we we still are in a very

10:19 ↗ narrowly divided legislature it happened

10:22 ↗ to be the first in a while where was

10:24 ↗ both a house and a Senate Democratic

10:27 ↗ majority but that was only 50 48 in the

10:30 ↗ house for Democrats and 25 24 in the

10:34 ↗ Senate a very important narrow majority

10:37 ↗ but a narrow majority nonetheless and so

10:39 ↗ a lot of districts this one and the

10:42 ↗ fifth will see some important races the

10:44 ↗ 45th legislative district in that whole

10:48 ↗ Redmond Woodinville Kirkland Carnation

10:50 ↗ area will see some important races in

10:53 ↗ the 44th district of in Snohomish County

10:55 ↗ in twenty eight down in the south to

10:58 ↗ coma Lakewood area so a lot of big races

11:01 ↗ to watch to see how that fifty 48 and 25

11:05 ↗ 24 changes I think if you look at

11:08 ↗ conventional wisdom you would say the

11:10 ↗ chances are decent that the Democrats

11:13 ↗ might add a couple of seats in both the

11:15 ↗ House and the Senate but conventional

11:17 ↗ wisdom can be right and it can be wrong

11:19 ↗ so we take that with a grain of salt and

11:21 ↗ we'll see how these next several months

11:23 ↗ go I think for Issaquah you know what I

11:27 ↗ feel really good about on your behalf is

11:29 ↗ that you had a really good session I

11:31 ↗ will be getting you a very comprehensive

11:34 ↗ report before May 1st that goes into in

11:37 ↗ intimate detail how you did on your

11:40 ↗ agenda and bills that passed and didn't

11:42 ↗ and you know where there are some

11:44 ↗ funding opportunities in front of you

11:46 ↗ and some interim studies to keep your

11:48 ↗ eye on the like but you know at a high

11:51 ↗ clip remember that one of the things we

11:53 ↗ did was we wanted the legislature to

11:55 ↗ finally get a 2017-19 capital budget

11:59 ↗ enacted you know for the first time in

12:01 ↗ several decades the the 2017 legislature

12:05 ↗ had gone home without a biennial capital

12:07 ↗ budget being enacted and it was

12:09 ↗ embroiled in a controversy with a an

12:12 ↗ unconnected water bill that became

12:14 ↗ politically connected to the budget well

12:17 ↗ the legislature and the fret and the

12:19 ↗ first couple weeks did pass a two-year

12:21 ↗ capital budget so that gave us a little

12:24 ↗ over 200,000 for confluence park and

12:26 ↗ then just under 5.4 million dollars for

12:29 ↗ Lake Sammamish State Park so good things

12:32 ↗ coming out of that capital budget early

12:34 ↗ in the session and then on some of the

12:37 ↗ things that that the city asked for

12:40 ↗ within the 2018 budgets some really good

12:44 ↗ results one of the things was that we

12:47 ↗ had tried in 2017 and come close we

12:50 ↗ wanted to get a little bit of seed money

12:52 ↗ for your innovation partnership zone

12:55 ↗ designation for sports medicine and help

12:58 ↗ the city get some money to hopefully

13:00 ↗ attract additional sports medicine firms

13:02 ↗ and clinics to come here put on a trade

13:05 ↗ show or conference and help that state

13:08 ↗ money with

13:09 ↗ local seed money so that $50,000 that

13:12 ↗ you asked for is in the final 2018

13:15 ↗ budget that's great you have been taking

13:18 ↗ on a disproportionate burden with this

13:21 ↗ whole issue of pea Foss

13:24 ↗ you know the chemicals that you found in

13:26 ↗ your water supply and where Issaquah as

13:29 ↗ a community I think you know exhibit a

13:33 ↗ of how to do this stuff right

13:34 ↗ discovering it spending well over a

13:36 ↗ million dollars to get the chemicals out

13:39 ↗ of the water supply but the whole notion

13:41 ↗ of getting maybe a more sustainable

13:44 ↗ cleanup program in place and piloting

13:47 ↗ something where we don't have to keep

13:48 ↗ doing one offs

13:50 ↗ we'd ask for $200,000 in the budget and

13:53 ↗ there is 206 thousand in the final 2018

13:58 ↗ capital budget and lastly we wanted to

14:01 ↗ get a little bit of money to help pay

14:03 ↗ for the programmatic EIS work or sorry

14:07 ↗ I'm getting into government jargon

14:08 ↗ Environmental Impact Statement work at

14:10 ↗ Lake Sammamish State Park and we asked

14:14 ↗ for about a hundred thousand dollars for

14:16 ↗ that and we also combined with the

14:18 ↗ Friends group that was looking for a

14:21 ↗ hundred thousand dollars for master plan

14:24 ↗ work for the park and so in the final

14:28 ↗ capital budget there is $200,000 for

14:30 ↗ Lake Sammamish State Park so you think

14:33 ↗ about it in in the span of a few months

14:36 ↗ that's another over five and a half

14:39 ↗ million dollars going to Lake Sammamish

14:41 ↗ State Park which is really gratifying

14:43 ↗ and and I'd like to say that these

14:47 ↗ things happened all because of us

14:50 ↗ but I think it's always important to

14:52 ↗ remember that we do these things and we

14:55 ↗ promote these things but the legislators

14:57 ↗ have to take the votes and ask for

15:00 ↗ things in the budget and you had some

15:02 ↗ great help and I think on both sides of

15:04 ↗ the aisle I think senator mullet has

15:06 ↗ really made this whole renovating and

15:09 ↗ modernizing of Lake Sammamish State

15:11 ↗ Parks a personal cause of his and

15:13 ↗ Senator Lisa Wellman another one of your

15:15 ↗ members really took the P foss issue to

15:18 ↗ heart

15:19 ↗ representative Graves has been a great

15:21 ↗ supporter of yours on Con

15:23 ↗ fluence Park and Lake Sammamish State

15:24 ↗ Park so those things don't just happen

15:27 ↗ through happenstance I mean they're

15:30 ↗ intentional conscious work by the

15:33 ↗ legislators themselves then to go over a

15:38 ↗ few things where they're issues of

15:41 ↗ importance for us and other local

15:43 ↗ governments that came out well I had

15:45 ↗ mentioned early on affordable housing

15:46 ↗ and homelessness the Legislature passed

15:49 ↗ a landmark bill on the document

15:51 ↗ recording fee House bill 1570 is adding

15:55 ↗ $22 to the document recording fee

15:58 ↗ surcharge and making all of the

16:01 ↗ additional fees permanent with money

16:04 ↗ that will go into dealing with

16:07 ↗ homelessness prevention for King County

16:10 ↗ this this House bill 1570 is going to

16:14 ↗ mean over fifteen million dollars a year

16:18 ↗ so that's a significant amount of new

16:21 ↗ money going to fight homelessness there

16:24 ↗ was also a hundred six point seven

16:26 ↗ million in the two year capital budget

16:28 ↗ for the housing trust fund a significant

16:30 ↗ amount of money for that program and

16:34 ↗ there was several hundred million

16:37 ↗ dollars for mental health behavioral

16:38 ↗ health efforts through both the

16:41 ↗ operating and capital budget one of the

16:44 ↗ other things that we had joined with a

16:46 ↗ number of other cities and asking for we

16:48 ↗ wanted the legislature to put some

16:50 ↗ additional money into the Basic Law

16:53 ↗ Enforcement Academy that's run by the

16:56 ↗ criminal justice training commission

16:57 ↗ it's centered in Burien and it is where

17:00 ↗ any newly hired police officer must go

17:04 ↗ to get trained before he or she can be

17:06 ↗ out on the street so there's been a big

17:10 ↗ backlog in getting folks through the

17:12 ↗ academy for training and we had hoped to

17:15 ↗ get two additional classes in the 2018

17:18 ↗ supplemental operating budget the

17:20 ↗ legislature ended up doing one however

17:23 ↗ in the last couple of years the

17:25 ↗ legislature has taken what had been a

17:27 ↗ base of ten classes up to seventeen now

17:32 ↗ so that's that's pretty important each

17:34 ↗ class holds about thirty

17:36 ↗ people so there's now slots for an

17:40 ↗ additional 210 folks going through the

17:42 ↗ Academy so that's very important

17:44 ↗ and something that had been on our list

17:49 ↗ there's also a bill that I had flagged

17:52 ↗ for our folks in police that we were

17:55 ↗ very supportive on it establishes a new

17:57 ↗ grant program for mental health field

17:59 ↗ response and by that I mean that it's

18:03 ↗ the notion of law enforcement agencies

18:06 ↗ being joined with mental health

18:10 ↗ professionals to help people who

18:12 ↗ probably need treatment and services and

18:16 ↗ more than they need incarceration and so

18:18 ↗ House bill 28 92 gives the Washington

18:22 ↗ association of sheriffs and police

18:23 ↗ chiefs a million dollars to do a grant

18:26 ↗ program to provide at least eight grants

18:29 ↗ around the state to law enforcement

18:30 ↗ agencies that want to team up with

18:32 ↗ mental health professionals and social

18:35 ↗ workers to help people on the ground

18:38 ↗ I mentioned the body camera legislation

18:40 ↗ that was Senate bill 60 408 and then in

18:44 ↗ the whole area of you know your your

18:47 ↗ local revenue base one of the things we

18:49 ↗ always go into a legislative session

18:51 ↗ looking for is we always want to make

18:53 ↗ sure we're preserving the revenues that

18:55 ↗ funnel down to local governments and

18:58 ↗ that's things like the municipal

19:00 ↗ criminal justice assistance account

19:02 ↗ liquor revenues the marijuana revenue

19:05 ↗ distributions and so you know I'm happy

19:08 ↗ to report there was nothing that took

19:11 ↗ money away or diverted it or froze any

19:14 ↗ of your local revenues and there was

19:17 ↗ also a very good result on the marijuana

19:19 ↗ revenue distributions in particular and

19:22 ↗ again I'll call out you know a member of

19:24 ↗ the local delegation representative

19:26 ↗ tonnison really worked hard on this

19:28 ↗ particular issue we were not sure after

19:31 ↗ the 2017 session if a 12 million dollar

19:35 ↗ allocation in 2017 actually would go up

19:40 ↗ to 30 million dollars because that had

19:41 ↗ been part of the deal when we started

19:44 ↗ the combined retail and medical

19:48 ↗ marijuana system that

19:49 ↗ there would be that level of sharing

19:51 ↗ with cities and counties and indeed the

19:54 ↗ 30 million dollars is what was in the

19:57 ↗ supplemental budget for the rest of 2017

19:59 ↗ 19 and the 30 million dollars will be in

20:03 ↗ the budget for 2019 21 so that's a very

20:07 ↗ good result and I think on the finance

20:09 ↗ side probably by about mid year you

20:11 ↗ should start seeing some additional

20:14 ↗ revenues from that I want to caution 30

20:17 ↗ million dollars sounds like a lot but

20:19 ↗ remember that's a distribution to cities

20:22 ↗ and counties throughout the state that

20:24 ↗ have marijuana facilities under the

20:26 ↗ legalized system so if you are hosting

20:29 ↗ retail outlets or production or

20:31 ↗ processing facilities you are entitled

20:34 ↗ to a share of that money under a formula

20:36 ↗ so it will be helpful to us I don't want

20:40 ↗ you to think it's going to be Nirvana on

20:42 ↗ the budget side but more in the every

20:44 ↗ little bit helps category and then

20:47 ↗ something I'll mention that we had a lot

20:49 ↗ of worries about going into session

20:50 ↗ there had been a big fight in the 2017

20:54 ↗ session over the deployment of new small

20:57 ↗ cell network technology and those in the

21:01 ↗ telecommunications industry I think

21:02 ↗ we're very excited about deploying that

21:05 ↗ to the point that they thought local

21:08 ↗ right-of-way authority and local

21:10 ↗ permitting should be overrun and we

21:13 ↗ respectfully disagree with that and so

21:16 ↗ there was no bill passed in 2017 there

21:19 ↗ was a vigorous debate again in 2018 and

21:21 ↗ again no bill passed so sometimes in the

21:25 ↗ world of Olympia no action can be a very

21:28 ↗ good action and in this case I think

21:30 ↗ that's true for all of you so I'm gonna

21:37 ↗ stop there that's sort of a high clip

21:39 ↗ summary I don't want to take all of your

21:41 ↗ time you've got a busy meeting and a lot

21:42 ↗ of people here but I think it was a

21:45 ↗ session that worked out very well for

21:47 ↗ you and I'm really pleased that some of

21:49 ↗ the things that that the city

21:51 ↗ highlighted in the budget process came

21:54 ↗ to fruition and that's always nice to

21:57 ↗ see and again through a lot of help from

21:59 ↗ your legislative delegation

22:03 ↗ so tonight is Doug's last report out to

22:07 ↗ our City Council he has been our

22:09 ↗ lobbyist for six years and I would like

22:11 ↗ to read about some of the

22:14 ↗ accomplishments that we as a team have

22:16 ↗ been able to make over the last six

22:18 ↗ years and give Doug a certificate of

22:21 ↗ appreciation this certificate of

22:24 ↗ appreciation is hereby awarded to Doug

22:26 ↗ Levy pronounced it correctly sorry for

22:29 ↗ the massage before in recognition of his

22:32 ↗ outstanding service to the city of

22:33 ↗ Issaquah as our lobbyist from July 2012

22:37 ↗ through April 2018 Doug was instrumental

22:40 ↗ in advancing the city's goals defeating

22:43 ↗ potentially harmful bills advocating for

22:46 ↗ legislation that could help us and in

22:48 ↗ bringing together like-minded entities

22:50 ↗ to collaborate for the common good those

22:53 ↗ efforts helped us to preserve programs

22:55 ↗ keep local revenue sources protect the

22:57 ↗ environment and ensure quality public

23:00 ↗ services you saw an example of that

23:02 ↗ tonight in what Doug has helped us to

23:04 ↗ accomplish in just this session we don't

23:07 ↗ have enough time to go through all the

23:09 ↗ projects and issues Doug had influence

23:11 ↗ on through his work with our state

23:12 ↗ legislature but I do want to highlight

23:15 ↗ some of the biggest successes and gains

23:17 ↗ Issaquah has seen from his work on our

23:19 ↗ behalf in the area of transportation

23:22 ↗ Doug helped us secure a five million

23:24 ↗ dollar grant from the Department of

23:26 ↗ Commerce for southeast 62nd Street which

23:29 ↗ is that portion off of East Lake

23:30 ↗ Sammamish Parkway that will connect to

23:32 ↗ Costco

23:34 ↗ a 1.5 million dollar grant from the

23:36 ↗ Department of Commerce for the

23:38 ↗ intersection of 12th Avenue and State

23:40 ↗ Route 900 near the former Tully's

23:42 ↗ location auxilary lanes on i-90 a

23:46 ↗ project that we're going to be talking

23:47 ↗ about I'm not going to mention it my

23:49 ↗ mayor's report tonight very exciting

23:51 ↗ project that's coming our way shortly

23:53 ↗ the improvements to East Lake Sammamish

23:55 ↗ Parkway support for the front Street

23:57 ↗ interstate 90 interchange justification

24:00 ↗ report and improvements to the highway

24:02 ↗ 18 and i-90 interchange probably one of

24:05 ↗ the most important projects that

24:07 ↗ Issaquah can hope to accomplish in

24:09 ↗ helping us with our congestion in town

24:11 ↗ other projects included it as Doug

24:14 ↗ mentioned

24:15 ↗ at 206 thousand dollar grant for the PFS

24:18 ↗ remediation study with the Department of

24:20 ↗ Ecology partnership on the Costco

24:22 ↗ expansion plans support for our salmon

24:25 ↗ hatchery and receiving our Sports

24:27 ↗ Medicine innovative partnership zone

24:28 ↗ designation

24:30 ↗ Doug was also quite prolific in the area

24:32 ↗ of Parks Recreation and the great

24:34 ↗ outdoors some of the noteworthy park

24:36 ↗ projects he assisted with are Central

24:39 ↗ Park pad won state funding that helped

24:41 ↗ complete a new synthetic turf field that

24:44 ↗ opened earlier this year funding for a

24:46 ↗ number of recent improvements at Lake

24:48 ↗ Sammamish State Park as well as the

24:50 ↗ support for the master plan update an

24:52 ↗ environmental impact statement process

24:54 ↗ that just kicked off and again Doug

24:56 ↗ covered some of those big wins in his

24:58 ↗ session summary tonight last but

25:01 ↗ certainly not least from 2013 through

25:03 ↗ 2016 he was influential in helping us

25:06 ↗ receive state funding to complete both

25:08 ↗ phase one and Phase two of confluence

25:10 ↗ part we know there was a lot of time and

25:13 ↗ effort spent on this endeavor and so we

25:15 ↗ would also like to close by giving Doug

25:18 ↗ a gift a picture of the part the bridge

25:21 ↗ in our inner park as a small token of

25:23 ↗ our appreciation that's awesome this

25:33 ↗ picture he'll always remember us and be

25:35 ↗ reminded of how grateful we are for the

25:37 ↗ work that he has done for the city and

25:39 ↗ all of the residents of Issaquah thank

25:42 ↗ you for your dedication to the city of

25:43 ↗ Issaquah we wish you so much success in

25:46 ↗ your future endeavors thank you Doug

25:48 ↗ thank you

25:53 ↗ I'd like to call a five-minute recess

25:55 ↗ now so our council members may be able

25:57 ↗ to come down and say goodnight to Doug

25:59 ↗ good bye to Doug because he's not

26:01 ↗ staying for our whole meeting tonight

26:02 ↗ we're in recess for the next five

26:04 ↗ minutes

26:15 ↗ you

30:55 ↗ we are back from recess and we're gonna

30:58 ↗ move into audience comments we have

31:03 ↗ about ten folks signed up this evening

31:05 ↗ so audience comments will be limited to

31:07 ↗ three minutes if you've come with a

31:09 ↗ group and I can see some signs and

31:11 ↗ badges so I know there are some groups

31:13 ↗ here if you have a spokesperson that's

31:15 ↗ great please feel free to raise your

31:18 ↗ hand while they're speaking to show

31:19 ↗ support for whoever is speaking so

31:23 ↗ audience comments and audience members

31:26 ↗ may address the council at this time the

31:28 ↗ guidelines for this are on the meeting

31:30 ↗ agenda those who signed up on our signup

31:32 ↗ list will be called for it first and if

31:34 ↗ you did not sign up at the end of us

31:36 ↗ getting through the list I will ask if

31:38 ↗ there is anyone else that would like to

31:39 ↗ speak when you come up please come up to

31:42 ↗ the lectern and speak into the

31:43 ↗ microphone state your name address and

31:46 ↗ relationship to the city and if you've

31:49 ↗ brought written comments please bring

31:51 ↗ them up to the clerk afterwards there is

31:53 ↗ also a public hearing tonight regarding

31:55 ↗ the first major amendment to the Costco

31:57 ↗ development agreement if you would like

31:59 ↗ to make comments on this topic you will

32:00 ↗ have an opportunity later in the meeting

32:02 ↗ thank you for taking the time to address

32:05 ↗ our meeting this evening and can you

32:08 ↗ read the Verdon signed up tisha

32:10 ↗ yes geraldine Carrie

32:21 ↗ my name is Geraldine Kerry my address is

32:24 ↗ 955 17th Avenue Northwest Issaquah I've

32:29 ↗ been a resident of Issaquah for 40 years

32:31 ↗ and I'm proud of it but I'd like to

32:33 ↗ leave because it's getting too crowded

32:34 ↗ but I won't I love the city I was

32:40 ↗ driving down to this meeting tonight and

32:42 ↗ I noticed there are traffic counters on

32:43 ↗ the Newport Way between well I guess

32:47 ↗ it's a target and the going up the hill

32:52 ↗ too from downtown Issaquah and I'm

32:56 ↗ concerned because the people who live on

33:00 ↗ Newports way I was on a committee

33:03 ↗ appointed by Rowan Hinds when he was

33:06 ↗ mayor that's a long time ago we talked

33:10 ↗ about widening Newport Way and the

33:13 ↗ consensus with the majority of residents

33:15 ↗ who lived in Issaquah was that if you

33:18 ↗ make Newport Way three or four lanes

33:20 ↗ with a turn center lane the people who

33:22 ↗ live on Newport Way will never be able

33:25 ↗ to get out of the residential driveway

33:27 ↗ because traffic will be going the speed

33:32 ↗ limit and never allow residents to exit

33:35 ↗ their properties so I I don't know what

33:38 ↗ you have planned for that road but I

33:39 ↗ know as a longtime resident when you

33:42 ↗ live on Newport Way in your access on

33:45 ↗ Newports way is impacted by traffic flow

33:48 ↗ with one lane in each direction it's

33:51 ↗ hard to get out of you need you need

33:54 ↗ turning traffic that blocks traffic

33:56 ↗ going in each direction so that you can

33:58 ↗ enter and exit from your private

34:00 ↗ residences so I would caution you when

34:04 ↗ you try to move traffic through is a

34:06 ↗ call you need to be aware of that the

34:07 ↗ people who live within the city need an

34:10 ↗ access point to get to their properties

34:13 ↗ so I would say you know be careful and

34:16 ↗ if you need more roads the more roads

34:19 ↗ you put in the they're not going

34:22 ↗ anywhere because there's there's nothing

34:24 ↗ improved between Seattle and it's a quad

34:27 ↗ there are no new off exits there are no

34:29 ↗ widening of roads you're just going to

34:31 ↗ jam up the city of is across roads

34:34 ↗ of Tulane traffic's in any direction

34:36 ↗ within the city limits so until they

34:39 ↗ widen the roads into Seattle or Bellevue

34:42 ↗ or wherever it doesn't do any good to

34:44 ↗ put more roads within the city limits

34:46 ↗ Thank you Thank You Geraldine Rebecca

34:51 ↗ rice my name is Rebecca rice my address

35:00 ↗ is one zero six zero three second place

35:02 ↗ South West Seattle nine eight one four

35:05 ↗ six and I'm here on behalf of the garage

35:08 ↗ the Issaquah teen cafe I've worked in

35:11 ↗ Issaquah for five and a half years as

35:12 ↗ the social services manager at the

35:14 ↗ Issaquah food and clothing bank and in

35:16 ↗ my work there I work with a lot of our

35:18 ↗ low-income families here in Issaquah and

35:20 ↗ I know that for them and their children

35:23 ↗ a big need is to have a safe place for

35:26 ↗ them to go after school in the evenings

35:28 ↗ and access services and of course the

35:31 ↗ garage will be a place for all teens in

35:33 ↗ our community but I think it will have a

35:35 ↗ outsize effect for our low-income

35:36 ↗ families and I know that the City City

35:39 ↗ Council and the city staff have been

35:42 ↗ huge supporters of the garage for the

35:43 ↗ past two years and going forward so I

35:45 ↗ also wanted to say thank you for that

35:47 ↗ support thank you very much

35:49 ↗ M Haines hello my name is M I live at

35:58 ↗ 761 Mountain View place southwest and

36:01 ↗ I'm a student at gives in at high school

36:02 ↗ and I'm also speaking on behalf of the

36:05 ↗ equity in cafe the teen Cafe will be an

36:08 ↗ amazing opportunity for high school

36:09 ↗ students all over Asakura it will be a

36:12 ↗ place where students can decompress make

36:14 ↗ new friends as well as a place where I

36:15 ↗ can get immediate access to counseling

36:17 ↗ services or homework help we've been

36:21 ↗ able to come this far thanks to the

36:22 ↗ members of the school community who have

36:24 ↗ volunteered their time to the teen 13

36:26 ↗ cafe steering committee and by voting to

36:28 ↗ authorize our lease today you too will

36:30 ↗ be part of creating a support network

36:32 ↗ Thirteen's all over the ice crystal

36:34 ↗ school district thank you Thank You M

36:38 ↗ Angeline you

36:44 ↗ my name is Angelina and I am a freshman

36:47 ↗ at Skyline High School residing at 350

36:49 ↗ 401 250 4th Avenue southeast aqua my

36:53 ↗ passion 14 Cafe began is I want to help

36:55 ↗ kick-start the future of the teens of

36:57 ↗ Issaquah by creating a safe place to

36:58 ↗ make memories of a lifetime by voting to

37:01 ↗ sign our lease you will be benefiting

37:03 ↗ generations of Issaquah teens to come

37:04 ↗ thank you Thank You Angela Steven

37:09 ↗ Colbert it okay if I borrow time from

37:20 ↗ all those short speeches no all right so

37:30 ↗ my name is Steven Cobert I live at 57 10

37:32 ↗ 140 third place southeast in Bellevue

37:35 ↗ the city of Issaquah is a great city for

37:37 ↗ many reasons but perhaps its most

37:39 ↗ outstanding feature is the fact that it

37:41 ↗ is set in the beautiful forest at

37:42 ↗ amphitheater of the Issaquah helps the

37:44 ↗ precipice is the very steep forested

37:46 ↗ northeast corner of Cougar Mountain it

37:48 ↗ is plainly visible from Issaquah and

37:50 ↗ i-90 and contains some of the most

37:51 ↗ beautiful old forests in the Issaquah

37:53 ↗ Alps the Briggs Moe property is located

37:56 ↗ at the east end of the of the precipice

38:00 ↗ it is the only parcel on the precipice

38:02 ↗ that has any land flat enough for

38:04 ↗ development the reason why this property

38:06 ↗ remains one of the last undeveloped

38:07 ↗ parcels is that it has no easy access

38:10 ↗ there are many reasons why this

38:11 ↗ development should not occur including

38:13 ↗ increased traffic potentially a

38:15 ↗ dangerous intersection on Newports way

38:17 ↗ loss of wild habitat and loss of the

38:19 ↗ skid road trail which happens to be the

38:21 ↗ easiest and most family-friendly way to

38:23 ↗ get from the Newport way up to the

38:25 ↗ precipice I would have liked to focus on

38:27 ↗ the most offensive feature of this

38:29 ↗ development which is the access road the

38:31 ↗ current proposal for the Bergsma

38:33 ↗ development involves putting in an

38:34 ↗ access road across the very steep

38:35 ↗ terrain that extends from Newport way up

38:38 ↗ to the development area which is a

38:39 ↗ vertical height of about 150 feet I'll

38:42 ↗ refer to this steep slope as the Bergsma

38:44 ↗ precipice the Bergsma precipice has a

38:46 ↗ grade of greater than 40 percent this is

38:50 ↗ steep or steeper than most double

38:52 ↗ diamond ski runs building this road at

38:54 ↗ the required 12% grade would require

38:56 ↗ they're cutting a large portion of the

38:58 ↗ precipice and extensive grading the

39:01 ↗ grading is estimated to require moving

39:03 ↗ 83,000 cubic yards of Earth which is

39:06 ↗ equivalent to 8,000 industrial size dump

39:09 ↗ trucks full of dirt just kind of almost

39:10 ↗ mind-boggling to think of the area to be

39:13 ↗ graded would extend along Newports way

39:14 ↗ for 1,200 feet and the top to bottom

39:17 ↗ regrade along the Bergsma precipice in

39:19 ↗ the most heavily disturbed section would

39:21 ↗ be 700 feet wide at the base and 400

39:23 ↗ feet wide at the top of the hill and the

39:25 ↗ top of the hill will have to be lowered

39:26 ↗ 12 feet to accommodate the road grade

39:28 ↗ the grading will have a very unnatural

39:31 ↗ stair step like pattern like one would

39:33 ↗ expect to see in an open pit mine the

39:35 ↗ scar created will never blend in with

39:37 ↗ the wild and natural surroundings I'm

39:39 ↗ asking the city of Issaquah to make

39:41 ↗ funds available to purchase the property

39:43 ↗ and protect it from development if I

39:45 ↗ have time to show just two more slides

39:46 ↗ you actually can't talk until the light

39:49 ↗ turns red so you got some more time so

39:51 ↗ this is a the previous view was from

39:53 ↗ i-90 from the bicycle bridge that goes

39:55 ↗ over i-90 this is actually from SR 900

39:58 ↗ right near i-94 of this picture sorry

40:11 ↗ Steven you have to tuck at the

40:12 ↗ microphone they won't be able to hear

40:13 ↗ you it's almost almost everything you

40:15 ↗ see in that in that green section would

40:16 ↗ be cleared and graded this is the view

40:22 ↗ from Newport Way as you can see this

40:25 ↗ some of the trees in here at least at

40:31 ↗ least a hundred year old trees and

40:32 ↗ sometimes even more than a hundred years

40:33 ↗ old a lot of the trees in this area this

40:38 ↗ is the view from inside of the of the

40:40 ↗ the Bergsma precipice at what I call

40:42 ↗ Ground Zero the area that we maximally

40:44 ↗ graded if you can summarize Steven that

40:46 ↗ would be great I just picture that's it

40:49 ↗ this is the from the Bergsma plan

40:51 ↗ showing the grading as the this stair

40:53 ↗ step type pattern that steeply goes up

40:55 ↗ to the top of the hill and that's all I

40:58 ↗ have to say thank you for your comments

40:59 ↗ today there are several members and

41:03 ↗ audience with signs and weaving their

41:05 ↗ hands to show support it would ask you

41:07 ↗ refrain from applause though it is a

41:08 ↗ business meeting and it's kind of

41:10 ↗ distracting so if you do support and

41:11 ↗ please just look at the council raise

41:13 ↗ your hand and they'll know that you are

41:15 ↗ in moved by their words thank you

41:18 ↗ Kaley Jake hi my name is Kaley Jake and

41:30 ↗ I'm the director of the garage I love it

41:32 ↗ too for 706 southeast 30th Street and I

41:36 ↗ won't be presenting today with Jeff so I

41:38 ↗ just wanted to take a few minutes and

41:40 ↗ share with the whole council and the

41:43 ↗ mayor what I was able to share with

41:45 ↗ those services and Safety Committee last

41:47 ↗ week in that this month we've been

41:51 ↗ working on this project for three years

41:52 ↗ and Barb D Michelle and I started this

41:56 ↗ together and I am just really

41:59 ↗ overwhelmed with the support that we've

42:03 ↗ had not only from the council and both

42:06 ↗ mayor's that I've had the pleasure of

42:08 ↗ working with but the staff has just been

42:10 ↗ incredible and and it's all about our

42:15 ↗ students it's all about our youth and I

42:17 ↗ know that you all care so deeply just as

42:20 ↗ we do and so I just really wanted to

42:23 ↗ thank you

42:24 ↗ mostly and for all of that and for

42:27 ↗ giving our students a voice and I think

42:28 ↗ when we turn on the news every day

42:30 ↗ giving them a voice is becoming more and

42:32 ↗ more important and so I appreciate that

42:35 ↗ and I also want to appreciate you in

42:39 ↗ allowing us to provide them the

42:40 ↗ resources that they need I wanted to let

42:43 ↗ you know that we've recently received

42:45 ↗ funding for a mental health counselor to

42:48 ↗ be on site for the next two years so

42:51 ↗ that's pretty exciting so thank you

42:53 ↗ thank you so much Kelly

42:56 ↗ Sara Crofton

43:05 ↗ hello my name is Sarah Carson I live at

43:09 ↗ 3277 8 Southie 86 streets in Snoqualmie

43:13 ↗ I've been in a squat area since 2013 I

43:16 ↗ had the opportunity to meet with Bob

43:19 ↗ Larson a Starbucks a few days ago and he

43:23 ↗ shared with me the plans to build a

43:25 ↗ school above the hospital and I had

43:29 ↗ several concerns about that one would

43:32 ↗ just be the building site he said that

43:35 ↗ they were gonna clear the top of that

43:36 ↗ which seems like it could cause

43:38 ↗ potential for landslides it's also very

43:41 ↗ steep on the other side so I'm not sure

43:42 ↗ how small children we kept rallied in

43:45 ↗ and unsafe also be just to access the

43:50 ↗ hospital is right below there which is a

43:52 ↗ world-class Hospital and we're really

43:55 ↗ fortunate to have that in our area but

43:58 ↗ there's only one lane going up to the

44:02 ↗ school they just built more residential

44:05 ↗ in that area and so if you were someone

44:09 ↗ that needed to get to the ER it would be

44:12 ↗ difficult to get there during school

44:14 ↗ drop-off times or pickup times imagine

44:17 ↗ traffic would be quite backed up I would

44:22 ↗ be concerned about emergency vehicles be

44:24 ↗ able to access if schools were doing

44:26 ↗ pick-up and drop-off times but it would

44:28 ↗ be even more concerning if you were

44:30 ↗ someone that had to drive someone that

44:32 ↗ had a life-threatening

44:34 ↗ anything.when minutes matter and all of

44:36 ↗ you want us or traffic to move and you

44:38 ↗ have no way of making that happen

44:40 ↗ so I sure that you've carefully

44:43 ↗ considered a lot of things but I hope

44:45 ↗ that those have all been taken into

44:46 ↗ consideration as well thank you thank

44:50 ↗ you for your comments Sara and Bob is in

44:52 ↗ the back with his hand in the air mm-hmm

44:55 ↗ Peter Crofton

45:01 ↗ my name is Peter Crofton I live here in

45:05 ↗ his aquarist Kenyan Court and I'm just

45:08 ↗ gonna piggyback off what Sarah was

45:10 ↗ saying I've been up there and it's just

45:12 ↗ it's real congested and it's no matter

45:15 ↗ no matter how high if you guys build up

45:18 ↗ the school up it's just too congested

45:20 ↗ there's not enough room for anything and

45:22 ↗ just a lot of safety issues with you

45:25 ↗ know especially we got young kids

45:27 ↗ walking around and congestion you know

45:31 ↗ in the morning coming up the hill and

45:33 ↗ coming I think it's down black nugget

45:36 ↗ and just everything just being backed up

45:38 ↗ right there turning into where you go

45:39 ↗ you know you go to the hospital so I'm

45:42 ↗ yeah that's it thank you Peter

45:47 ↗ Lisa Callan hello I am Lisa Callan and I

45:57 ↗ am a resident of I live at 353

45:59 ↗ North East mark can't wait and I'm here

46:02 ↗ just to thank the city and the council

46:04 ↗ for considering the garage and their

46:07 ↗ rental and that agenda item and just in

46:11 ↗ my work with youth and my work in public

46:14 ↗ service this watched this grassroots

46:17 ↗ effort unfold has been amazing so you

46:20 ↗ have the perfect ingredients you have

46:22 ↗ the grassroots effort you have the

46:24 ↗ organization you have representation

46:26 ↗ from the children in the youth that will

46:29 ↗ be served you have representation at the

46:31 ↗ meetings that I've attended from law

46:33 ↗ enforcement you've had it from Parks and

46:34 ↗ Rec you've had it from youth advocates

46:38 ↗ and community members and you have all

46:40 ↗ of that going to place and then you had

46:41 ↗ a very strong process where everybody

46:43 ↗ involved really dope deep to try to

46:45 ↗ understand how to be successful they

46:47 ↗ developed a plan and then from that plan

46:49 ↗ came all of this other energy and effort

46:52 ↗ to just talk about program to engage the

46:55 ↗ community on their concerns and then the

46:58 ↗ city and the staff and those engagements

46:59 ↗ when you have all of that come together

47:01 ↗ you have these perfect ingredients to

47:04 ↗ create this long-term sustainable change

47:08 ↗ that's going to impact our youth for

47:10 ↗ generations to come

47:11 ↗ and it's just really super exciting to

47:13 ↗ see all

47:13 ↗ to be a party about and so thank you for

47:15 ↗ that and I just want to make sure I lend

47:16 ↗ my voice to your vote and hope you were

47:19 ↗ a continuous support thank you thank you

47:22 ↗ Lisa Robert Swanson hello my name is

47:31 ↗ Robert Swanson 8:26 4th Avenue Northeast

47:34 ↗ yes well there's the mouse so oh boy

47:42 ↗ there it is when I came home today

47:45 ↗ it was raining like cats and dogs I

47:46 ↗ don't know if you know this but this

47:49 ↗ month is the most rainiest so far by the

47:53 ↗ way this is the hill everybody shut down

47:55 ↗ this is the area the rooftop

48:01 ↗ these are the trees the hill that they

48:03 ↗ want to cut down right here this was

48:05 ↗ this afternoon

48:06 ↗ five o'clock 5:15 you can hear the rain

48:08 ↗ just coming down and it's right above me

48:10 ↗ but you know what very little rain was

48:12 ↗ hitting me you know why you can see a

48:13 ↗ few drops coming down because the trees

48:16 ↗ are there to protect the hill I mean but

48:20 ↗ you can see some water that was there

48:24 ↗ because there's no trees right above

48:25 ↗ that but this is what it's all about and

48:29 ↗ we're supposed to be the the city of

48:32 ↗ trees

48:33 ↗ well let's not cut down the trees let's

48:35 ↗ keep the trees there let's keep the hill

48:36 ↗ there that would be a wonderful thing

48:38 ↗ they want to put the hit the school

48:40 ↗ there and put a road around it now I

48:42 ↗ found out so they gave the how much the

48:46 ↗ schools going to be but now they added

48:48 ↗ in the road so now that's easy more

48:50 ↗ trees coming down and it's even closer

48:52 ↗ to the to the edge so sorry about the

48:56 ↗ filming I was walking and trying not to

48:58 ↗ trip

48:59 ↗ but anyway so I just want everyone I

49:02 ↗ don't know if you've all had a chance to

49:03 ↗ go up there I appreciate the mayor I

49:05 ↗ know she's gone up there and she's

49:06 ↗ looked around and she actually gave me

49:08 ↗ the idea to go look around at the

49:09 ↗ different page and there's sticks in the

49:12 ↗ ground and so forth but if you're gonna

49:14 ↗ vote on this I think you should go take

49:16 ↗ a look anyway I know I don't know how

49:21 ↗ long it goes but I want to go I don't

49:24 ↗ got a couple more minutes left I'm sure

49:26 ↗ okay

49:26 ↗ we're Tree City the trees keep the water

49:29 ↗ from getting into the hill the roots

49:30 ↗ suck it on up so that doesn't get into

49:32 ↗ the hill and trees yes they do if you

49:35 ↗ want to go look at global warming

49:37 ↗ whatever you want to call it finally it

49:39 ↗ started in the 50s when we started just

49:41 ↗ clear-cutting everything and then we

49:43 ↗ started building roads and then blacktop

49:45 ↗ you put you cut down trees it does cause

49:48 ↗ there to be warming

49:52 ↗ trees drink water they love water Sarah

49:56 ↗ thank you for appreciate you two sharing

49:58 ↗ I just meant then there's some other

49:59 ↗ things that I've been talking with

50:01 ↗ community about and I happen to meet

50:02 ↗ them at Starbucks we had a great talk

50:04 ↗ for like at 45 minutes and you know they

50:08 ↗ saw that they just went up there and

50:09 ↗ they go wow that's that's weird anybody

50:11 ↗ I've ever met has looked at the hill

50:13 ↗ they go that's really weird why would

50:14 ↗ they want to put a school there but

50:16 ↗ actually that's not true there's one

50:18 ↗ person in my neighborhood that she works

50:19 ↗ at the school district so she wants she

50:21 ↗ wants to treat the school there I met a

50:24 ↗ mother and a father actually a father

50:26 ↗ and a daughter they moved to the

50:28 ↗ apartments right next to the hospital

50:31 ↗ the reason why is the father has heart

50:35 ↗ attacks and so forth seconds to wrap up

50:37 ↗ they need he needs get to the hospital

50:39 ↗ quickly so he they lived in Fall City

50:41 ↗ and they had to get there quickly you

50:43 ↗ you put a bunch of traffic there and yes

50:45 ↗ there truly are lives in in danger if

50:50 ↗ that you if people can't get themselves

50:53 ↗ to the hospital it really is I it's the

50:57 ↗ case there are proven people there I

50:59 ↗ will try to get them to come up here

51:00 ↗ next time and so they can speak because

51:01 ↗ I just met them two days ago thank you

51:03 ↗ Bob Linda Shepherd's in the air

51:15 ↗ my name is Linda Sheppard I live at one

51:17 ↗ one four nine eight five 256 Avenue

51:20 ↗ southeast Issaquah I'm in unincorporated

51:24 ↗ Issaquah and resident there so my

51:28 ↗ comments have to do with the Bergsma

51:30 ↗ when windward property development and I

51:34 ↗ think it's really appropriate that

51:36 ↗ hearing about the Earth Day proclamation

51:40 ↗ so in lieu of that Earth Day

51:42 ↗ proclamation and the identity of

51:45 ↗ Issaquah as a tree city

51:47 ↗ I am totally appalled that we're even

51:51 ↗ considering 22 acres of trees and two

51:56 ↗ wetlands being sacrificed for a mere 57

52:00 ↗ houses providing more housing which is

52:06 ↗ the development developers rationale is

52:09 ↗ a lame rationale this development serves

52:14 ↗ very few elite people who can afford

52:17 ↗ housing over a million dollars it's not

52:21 ↗ the best use of the land and leaves the

52:23 ↗ city of Issaquah vulnerable to

52:26 ↗ landslides and a lot of other things

52:28 ↗ that other people have talked about the

52:31 ↗ proposed Bergsma windward project is

52:33 ↗ technically difficult risky and

52:36 ↗ contentious it goes against the city's

52:39 ↗ policy goals of maintaining a forest to

52:42 ↗ character on the hillsides protecting

52:45 ↗ and preserving the existing tree canopy

52:48 ↗ this policy recommends the use of

52:51 ↗ off-site transfer of development rights

52:53 ↗ as a mean to means to achieve that end

52:55 ↗ with only a steep winding access road

52:59 ↗ across the 40% landslide prone slopes it

53:03 ↗ would be hazardous in snow and icy

53:05 ↗ conditions

53:06 ↗ I live in Mira mod and we have a similar

53:10 ↗ problem we have a windy road that goes

53:14 ↗ up and people cannot get up it or down

53:18 ↗ it when it snows on Christmas Eve this

53:22 ↗ year both at a friend's house on

53:25 ↗ pinecone Drive and in my own

53:26 ↗ neighborhood

53:27 ↗ there were cars blocking the road people

53:30 ↗ couldn't get up cars were in ditches

53:32 ↗ cars were in the middle of the road so

53:37 ↗ this is something I haven't heard

53:39 ↗ anybody else mentioned before it also

53:44 ↗ would be a difficult access for

53:46 ↗ emergency vehicles such as fire engines

53:49 ↗ and ambulance and that also doesn't fit

53:52 ↗ within the goals of our community the

53:55 ↗ estimated 84,000 I've also heard 83,000

53:59 ↗ cubic yards of dirt excavated from the

54:02 ↗ hillside and trucked to some unknown

54:04 ↗ site would exacerbate can already

54:07 ↗ congested traffic not only in Issaquah

54:10 ↗ but in surrounding communities that are

54:12 ↗ already experiencing massive traffic

54:14 ↗ congestion along the Aqua Hobart and Mae

54:18 ↗ Valley roads if you can sum up Linda

54:21 ↗ that would be great community support to

54:23 ↗ save Cukor Mountain is growing please

54:25 ↗ support the acquisition of the Berks

54:27 ↗ 'men Widmer Cougar Mountain hillside

54:30 ↗ property by the city of Issaquah in

54:32 ↗ cooperation with King County and

54:34 ↗ regional finance financial partners

54:36 ↗ taking leadership now will preserve a

54:39 ↗ gateway to Cougar Mountain trails from

54:41 ↗ the quad Transit Center Thank You Linda

54:45 ↗ lots of hands in the air lots of signs

54:48 ↗ waving it should do we have anybody else

54:50 ↗ thing done no is there anyone else that

54:53 ↗ would like to speak this evening si

54:56 ↗ Elizabeth's hand in the air

55:04 ↗ Elizabeth Mopan 100 Big Bear place

55:07 ↗ Northwest Issaquah Washington I want to

55:11 ↗ echo what has been said about the

55:14 ↗ importance of the trees I would love to

55:20 ↗ see the Bergsma properties saved I'd

55:23 ↗ also like to see us save the trees that

55:26 ↗ are on the providence Heights property

55:30 ↗ there's more there than just trees as

55:33 ↗ you know we've heard tonight that there

55:37 ↗ is more funding now for housing and

55:42 ↗ homelessness if it happens that the

55:49 ↗ property at Providence Heights stays

55:51 ↗ standing long enough for a buyer to come

55:55 ↗ along and put in a project there that

56:02 ↗ would provide social services access and

56:08 ↗ affordable housing and training for

56:11 ↗ women i hope the city will find it in

56:13 ↗ their heart to support that and i hope

56:20 ↗ whatever happens that we will have

56:24 ↗ learned something about permitting

56:26 ↗ demolitions of things that are really

56:29 ↗ treasures to the city

56:38 ↗ I know there was something else on my

56:39 ↗ mind but oh yes

56:42 ↗ the Teen Center lovely idea

56:47 ↗ it would be good because this is part of

56:52 ↗ the Human Services extension of the city

56:58 ↗ to have as Mary Lynch has asked for some

57:05 ↗ background and exactly how much that

57:07 ↗ will cost so we can kind of balance it

57:10 ↗ and if you have more property available

57:13 ↗ we still need a day Center someplace in

57:18 ↗ Issaquah thank you very much thank you

57:21 ↗ Elizabeth hands of support Mary my name

57:36 ↗ is Mary Lynch and I recited 2 6 9 o

57:38 ↗ Northcrest

57:39 ↗ Oak Crest Drive Northwest Oak Crest

57:42 ↗ Drive Issaquah Washington I first want

57:44 ↗ to say that for those of you that have

57:46 ↗ not watched the Development Commission

57:48 ↗ meeting where the lights at the Issaquah

57:51 ↗ middle were reviewed for those of half a

57:55 ↗ dozen of us that stayed until 11 o'clock

57:57 ↗ that night to make our public comment I

58:00 ↗ would go to the web city website and

58:03 ↗ look at that

58:04 ↗ city staff said that they really hadn't

58:07 ↗ heard any complaints about the lights at

58:09 ↗ the ball field well that's because we

58:11 ↗ didn't know that the lights are going in

58:13 ↗ at the ball field and if you haven't

58:16 ↗ paid attention those lights right now a

58:18 ↗ red tagged because there is no permit

58:20 ↗ for those lights but they were installed

58:22 ↗ mechanically electrically and large

58:26 ↗ poles of those lights are already

58:29 ↗ installed on the field without a permit

58:31 ↗ from the city so the school district

58:35 ↗ asked us to trust them if you look at

58:38 ↗ the all the summary of this aqua middle

58:41 ↗ never once were lights mentioned in the

58:44 ↗ staff review of the project staff

58:46 ↗ actually said if they were to consider

58:48 ↗ that that would have major impact

58:50 ↗ to the citizens but there was never any

58:54 ↗ mitigation it was never discussed in

58:57 ↗ open meeting except there was concern

58:59 ↗ from the neighbors about the impact of

59:01 ↗ the school but there was very very

59:02 ↗ little mitigation that was done so now

59:05 ↗ after the fact and I want to thank the

59:07 ↗ Development Commission to sending it

59:09 ↗ back to staff and saying we need more

59:10 ↗ information and hopefully this will

59:13 ↗ happen you know going forward when these

59:17 ↗ types of things happen because a public

59:19 ↗ entity should not be going ahead with

59:21 ↗ construction without an operating permit

59:24 ↗ that is just unconscionable the other

59:27 ↗ thing I would like to ask is I do and in

59:30 ↗ my letter that I sent you I do support

59:32 ↗ the Teen Center it's the process that I

59:34 ↗ have concerns with and the immediate

59:36 ↗ process and the real looking at the

59:39 ↗ other new places that Jeff and Parks did

59:43 ↗ I think is good but let's step back

59:45 ↗ where and how do we decide how our

59:48 ↗ public property is used how do we value

59:52 ↗ that public property and in arguing a

59:55 ↗ little bit well there's going to be free

59:57 ↗ rent well it's not free rent it's

59:59 ↗ costing us as taxpayers if we were to

1:00:01 ↗ rent out that building to another entity

1:00:04 ↗ a commercial entity we would be

1:00:06 ↗ receiving rent for it so there is a cost

1:00:08 ↗ now we may be doing it for free but we

1:00:11 ↗ need going forward to have transparency

1:00:14 ↗ in the process on how we select who gets

1:00:17 ↗ to use a public process or a public

1:00:20 ↗ property and we also need to identify

1:00:23 ↗ the cost and the contribution of our

1:00:26 ↗ taxpayers dollars that are going to this

1:00:28 ↗ because my fear is in four years the

1:00:32 ↗ five years are we going to need a new

1:00:34 ↗ parks or you know new and I already

1:00:38 ↗ heard a new staff building and where

1:00:41 ↗ we're going to get that money thank you

1:00:43 ↗ thank you Mary some hands of support are

1:00:47 ↗ there is there anyone else in the

1:00:48 ↗ audience this evening who would like to

1:00:50 ↗ address Council I see three four hands

1:00:54 ↗ we'll start skip Julie Dave Eve and who

1:01:00 ↗ is the fourth one thank you okay

1:01:04 ↗ good evening David Kapler 255 southeast

1:01:07 ↗ Sandra Street I want to make a

1:01:10 ↗ correction to some of the things said

1:01:11 ↗ tonight it talked about a restoration

1:01:14 ↗ project and trail project in Lake

1:01:16 ↗ Sammamish State Park it's not going to

1:01:18 ↗ be in the state park it's going to be on

1:01:20 ↗ city land the Greenwood trust property

1:01:22 ↗ and I think about that how important

1:01:25 ↗ that land is to all of us to the state

1:01:28 ↗ it's city property that we bought a long

1:01:31 ↗ time ago it was very expensive it was

1:01:33 ↗ threatened at that time when wetlands

1:01:36 ↗ were pretty much ignored with a big

1:01:39 ↗ condominium project the city was I'm

1:01:41 ↗ sure state and county money purchased

1:01:44 ↗ that it's still city park property we

1:01:46 ↗ are looking at hat with our money we are

1:01:49 ↗ spending on the park plan for Lake

1:01:51 ↗ Sammamish State Park we're gonna look at

1:01:53 ↗ how that Park land will blend in and be

1:01:56 ↗ a benefit to the State Park and the

1:01:59 ↗ State Park will benefit that land so

1:02:01 ↗ that was a great purchase in the past we

1:02:04 ↗ got another one to do soon thank you

1:02:05 ↗ thank you David it's in the air Julie do

1:02:10 ↗ you want to come up

1:02:20 ↗ good evening my name is Julie Clark I

1:02:23 ↗ live at nine one five bear Ridge Court

1:02:25 ↗ Northwest in Issaquah and I would like

1:02:29 ↗ to raise my hand actually both of them

1:02:32 ↗ to show support for the proclamation

1:02:34 ↗ made by Mayor Polly global residents

1:02:38 ↗ from as far away as Nepal

1:02:40 ↗ have reached out to offer support to the

1:02:42 ↗ safe Cougar Mountain initiative we have

1:02:45 ↗ heard here in these council chambers

1:02:48 ↗ from a physician who talked about the

1:02:50 ↗ necessity of forested lands to support

1:02:53 ↗ the health of nearby residents we have

1:02:56 ↗ also heard from a representative of the

1:02:58 ↗ east side Autobahn about the necessity

1:03:00 ↗ of the forested hill sites to support a

1:03:03 ↗ wide variety of birds that use the trees

1:03:06 ↗ for nesting and use the area from the

1:03:09 ↗ tree tops to the forest floor for food

1:03:12 ↗ mating and migration our local community

1:03:17 ↗ communities are working to protect and

1:03:20 ↗ preserve our natural resources and

1:03:23 ↗ preserve wildlife habitat we encouraged

1:03:27 ↗ the city of Issaquah to make

1:03:29 ↗ environmentally sound decisions

1:03:31 ↗ regarding our hillsides and provide open

1:03:34 ↗ space a forested hillsides for the

1:03:36 ↗ residents of Issaquah and neighboring

1:03:39 ↗ neighbor and neighboring cities within a

1:03:42 ↗ quarter of a mile from the Issaquah

1:03:44 ↗ Transit Center eliminating the need for

1:03:47 ↗ driving to a trailhead by acquiring the

1:03:50 ↗ 46 acre property Issaquah can offer all

1:03:54 ↗ residents a healthier place to live play

1:03:57 ↗ and learn while having a great open

1:04:00 ↗ space to visit this is how we here in

1:04:04 ↗ the city of Issaquah can be regional

1:04:06 ↗ leaders not just one day of the year but

1:04:11 ↗ every day saving the Bergsma Windward 46

1:04:15 ↗ acre per acre property on Cougar

1:04:17 ↗ Mountain is a significant way the city

1:04:20 ↗ of Issaquah can show that their Earth

1:04:22 ↗ Day proclamation is translated into

1:04:25 ↗ meaningful action thank you

1:04:28 ↗ Thank You Julie

1:04:30 ↗ lots of hands in the air skip bridge

1:04:33 ↗ like to come up

1:04:44 ↗ skip rally in my office is at 1595

1:04:47 ↗ Northwest Gilman and I want to throw my

1:04:49 ↗ two bits in on the Doug levy situation

1:04:53 ↗ we worked with Doug and found him to be

1:04:56 ↗ as straight talking's good person that

1:04:59 ↗ you could ever possibly have

1:05:01 ↗ representing in the city of Issaquah he

1:05:03 ↗ always did what he said he was going to

1:05:05 ↗ do and I think most of you know we have

1:05:07 ↗ a lobbyist that works for us down there

1:05:09 ↗ and side-by-side they were able to

1:05:11 ↗ really work together and now

1:05:13 ↗ unfortunately it's time to replace Doug

1:05:16 ↗ so I am standing here hoping that you

1:05:19 ↗ people will react to that and do it

1:05:21 ↗ relatively soon but use Doug in the

1:05:24 ↗ process he knows everybody down there he

1:05:27 ↗ knows the rituals he knows the chairs of

1:05:29 ↗ all the committees

1:05:30 ↗ he knows all the players so even though

1:05:34 ↗ he might not be on your payroll anymore

1:05:36 ↗ it would certainly be great to include

1:05:38 ↗ him you know with his recommendations so

1:05:41 ↗ that's pretty much what I wanted to say

1:05:43 ↗ other than let's get this teen cafe

1:05:46 ↗ built and I'm all supportive of its

1:05:50 ↗ location these folks have been working

1:05:52 ↗ for two or three years to get it to the

1:05:53 ↗ point where it is now they've been

1:05:56 ↗ working with a park staff and others on

1:05:58 ↗ this and so hopefully you will sign the

1:06:01 ↗ lease tonight Thanks thank you skip and

1:06:06 ↗ lots of hands it did see one more member

1:06:10 ↗ would like to talk to us this evening my

1:06:16 ↗ name is Selena Ian I live at 635 Kalmia

1:06:18 ↗ Place Northwest up in the woods part of

1:06:22 ↗ why we chose to move to Issaquah was

1:06:24 ↗ because I had read the is a call

1:06:25 ↗ comprehensive plan and I had this idea

1:06:28 ↗ that this was actually a city that had

1:06:30 ↗ the same ideals that I do I'm a

1:06:32 ↗ naturopathic physician and I'm also an

1:06:34 ↗ avid hiker and trail runner I've vlogged

1:06:36 ↗ probably almost a thousand miles in the

1:06:38 ↗ Issaquah Alps just last year so I know

1:06:41 ↗ my way around the mountains very well

1:06:43 ↗ and it's my favorite form of medicine

1:06:45 ↗ one thing that I had always imagined is

1:06:49 ↗ that somehow we would develop a way for

1:06:51 ↗ the citizens to make our way around city

1:06:53 ↗ without as many cars as we need now

1:06:56 ↗ and I feel like using the Bergsma

1:06:58 ↗ property would be a great way to let the

1:07:00 ↗ people of Talas make their way to the

1:07:02 ↗ Transit Center more efficiently I was

1:07:03 ↗ actually surprised that that hasn't been

1:07:05 ↗ considered as a major part of a

1:07:07 ↗ possibility there another thing that

1:07:10 ↗ really concerns me is that I'm a fan of

1:07:13 ↗ the weather I actually took a class from

1:07:15 ↗ Clif mass the meteorologist from u-dub a

1:07:18 ↗ few years ago and I've noticed that in

1:07:20 ↗ cliff mass's blog lately he's been

1:07:22 ↗ discussing the increased landslide risks

1:07:25 ↗ also how we're likely to continue having

1:07:27 ↗ more rain in the future than we do now

1:07:29 ↗ and he's of the opinion that we need

1:07:31 ↗ communities to stop building on steep

1:07:33 ↗ hill sites in general because of land

1:07:35 ↗ side risks I know my home has dirt

1:07:39 ↗ that's basically as hard as you could

1:07:41 ↗ imagine it's clay clay soaks up water

1:07:44 ↗ until it goes and we had a major

1:07:48 ↗ landslide just recently out in North

1:07:50 ↗ Bend on the Middle Fork trail that's

1:07:52 ↗ wiped out the trail similar land there

1:07:54 ↗ to the force we have here except that

1:07:56 ↗ it's not even a particularly steep area

1:07:59 ↗ and I'm concerned that when we have

1:08:01 ↗ these studies done that say oh it's not

1:08:03 ↗ a particular risk of landslides that

1:08:06 ↗ we're using old science that's not based

1:08:07 ↗ on what's going to happen with the

1:08:09 ↗ climate this year next year or in 10

1:08:11 ↗ years I feel like that's really critical

1:08:13 ↗ to consider since these are going to be

1:08:15 ↗ homes that people will live in I'm gonna

1:08:17 ↗ stay here

1:08:18 ↗ my kids have grown up and moved out but

1:08:20 ↗ many other people have families here and

1:08:22 ↗ we can't make homes in places that are

1:08:25 ↗ dangerous for them using outdated

1:08:26 ↗ science I want to make sure that

1:08:28 ↗ everyone here at least has considered

1:08:30 ↗ that that is a possibility don't just

1:08:33 ↗ look at those studies that are based on

1:08:34 ↗ old weather a meteorological data and

1:08:37 ↗ assume that it's going to hold true 10

1:08:38 ↗ years from now

1:08:39 ↗ thank you thank you Selena all the hands

1:08:43 ↗ are in there and thank you for reading

1:08:44 ↗ our comprehensive plan

1:08:47 ↗ impressive is there anyone else would

1:08:51 ↗ like to address the council this evening

1:08:53 ↗ I'll ask her second time anyone else

1:08:56 ↗ who'd like to address this evening

1:08:57 ↗ during audience comments in the last

1:08:59 ↗ time I'd like to thank you all for

1:09:01 ↗ coming we have a really big audience

1:09:04 ↗ tonight and we've been getting large

1:09:05 ↗ audiences because I think there are some

1:09:07 ↗ issues that are really compelling we

1:09:09 ↗ heard tonight about the importance of

1:09:11 ↗ having a lobbyist about the Newport Way

1:09:13 ↗ improvement projects and concerns that

1:09:15 ↗ residents may have about abilities to

1:09:17 ↗ access those properties we got a lot a

1:09:20 ↗ lot a lot a lot of speakers about the

1:09:22 ↗ garage at teen cafe and we have thank

1:09:24 ↗ you to the council and the staff for

1:09:26 ↗ their support we also heard from a lot

1:09:28 ↗ of speakers about the Bergsma windward

1:09:30 ↗ development requesting the city to find

1:09:33 ↗ funds to purchase the property and to

1:09:35 ↗ take consideration into preservation of

1:09:38 ↗ the trees we heard about school siting

1:09:40 ↗ concerns and encouraging council to

1:09:43 ↗ think about tree preservation during

1:09:45 ↗ that as well we did have a speaker talk

1:09:47 ↗ about Providence Heights project the

1:09:50 ↗ Issaquah middle school light proposal

1:09:52 ↗ and a restoration project on Greenwood

1:09:54 ↗ Park so thank you all for coming in this

1:09:56 ↗ evening the council really values your

1:09:58 ↗ time and the fact that you've come to

1:10:01 ↗ provide comments much appreciated we

1:10:04 ↗ will now start with committee and

1:10:05 ↗ regional reports and we'll start with

1:10:07 ↗ councilmember hunt thank you madam mayor

1:10:09 ↗ the Huayra eights management committee

1:10:12 ↗ meeting will take place on May 1st in

1:10:14 ↗ Seattle and I will attends the agenda is

1:10:17 ↗ not yet set and this concludes my report

1:10:19 ↗ Thank You councilmember Wray Thank You

1:10:22 ↗ mayor Pauley the services and Safety

1:10:24 ↗ Committee met on it April 10th and key

1:10:27 ↗ actions taken the committee received a

1:10:31 ↗ presentation from C administrator moon

1:10:33 ↗ related to broadcasting board and

1:10:35 ↗ Commission meetings there were a number

1:10:37 ↗ of individuals that spoke in support of

1:10:40 ↗ additional meetings during public

1:10:42 ↗ comment the committee is directed the

1:10:45 ↗ administration to include the Parks

1:10:46 ↗ Board and the transportation Advisory

1:10:48 ↗ Committee when it is formed in the list

1:10:50 ↗ of meetings that will be broadcast and

1:10:52 ↗ we also left open the possibility of an

1:10:55 ↗ additional meetings or

1:10:57 ↗ boards and Commission meetings in the

1:10:59 ↗ future we also heard gender bill 7480

1:11:02 ↗ for the teen Cafe partnership and lease

1:11:04 ↗ agreement public comment was wildly in

1:11:08 ↗ favor of tea cafe in the proposed

1:11:10 ↗ location agenda bill seventy four eighty

1:11:13 ↗ four is on the agenda this evening it

1:11:16 ↗ was reported out of committee with a

1:11:17 ↗ recommendation to approve the committee

1:11:21 ↗ also continues review of agenda bill 75

1:11:24 ↗ 20 to creating the visit Issaquah

1:11:26 ↗ organization staff presented responses

1:11:29 ↗ to the committee's questions from the

1:11:30 ↗ March 13th meeting public comment was

1:11:33 ↗ supportive and we are moving forward

1:11:37 ↗ with the crew support of a moving

1:11:39 ↗ forward with the creation of a

1:11:40 ↗ destination marketing organization for

1:11:41 ↗ Issaquah agenda bill 75 22 was reported

1:11:45 ↗ out of committee with a recommendation

1:11:46 ↗ to authorize the mayor for pot to

1:11:49 ↗ prepare and file articles incorporation

1:11:52 ↗ creating a new squad destination

1:11:54 ↗ marketing organization visit Issaquah as

1:11:56 ↗ a 501 C 3 not-for-profit organization

1:12:00 ↗ the committee has asked staff to return

1:12:02 ↗ to services and safety when the

1:12:05 ↗ destination marketing organization draft

1:12:07 ↗ by logs have been created for review and

1:12:10 ↗ approval this is important the next

1:12:12 ↗ services and Safety Committee will not

1:12:14 ↗ be held in our regular scheduled time

1:12:15 ↗ the next meeting will be on Wednesday

1:12:17 ↗ May 9th at 6:30 here in Council Chambers

1:12:21 ↗ Eastside Fire and Rescue Board met on

1:12:23 ↗ April 12th I attended the meeting along

1:12:26 ↗ with councilmember Goodman it's a timely

1:12:30 ↗ we had the conversation about pea Foss

1:12:33 ↗ we got an update from pea Foss from the

1:12:35 ↗ chief and talking about the partnership

1:12:39 ↗ between Eastside Fire Rescue the city of

1:12:41 ↗ Issaquah and the state of Washington

1:12:42 ↗ Department of Ecology to address the

1:12:44 ↗ problem and finally the board approved a

1:12:47 ↗ memorandum of understanding with the

1:12:49 ↗ city of Issaquah for station 72 and

1:12:53 ↗ future Eastside Fire and Rescue

1:12:55 ↗ facilities the MOU outlines the

1:12:57 ↗ agreement pertaining to facilities at

1:12:59 ↗ fire station 72 in the expectation and

1:13:01 ↗ how the agreement will facilitate for

1:13:05 ↗ future facilities will be addressed the

1:13:08 ↗ next East Side

1:13:09 ↗ my rescue board meeting will be on May

1:13:11 ↗ 10th council Goodman and I have

1:13:15 ↗ permission to participate in that

1:13:16 ↗ meeting via phone so that we can

1:13:18 ↗ participate in the council senior

1:13:20 ↗ leadership team retreat and that

1:13:22 ↗ concludes my report for this evening

1:13:24 ↗ Thank You councilmember a council member

1:13:25 ↗ Ramos Thank You mayor the city council

1:13:30 ↗ Infrastructure Committee met on April

1:13:32 ↗ 11th last week and a B 75 35 the

1:13:39 ↗ amendments to the Issaquah municipal

1:13:40 ↗ called regarding small cell design

1:13:42 ↗ guidelines was discussed we will be

1:13:45 ↗ bringing it to Council a next meeting on

1:13:47 ↗ the 7th of May so we'll talk about that

1:13:50 ↗ then 9 new item brought up was the

1:13:52 ↗ updated water system plan excuse me

1:13:55 ↗ that's going to be in committee for a

1:13:57 ↗ while that's a long process we'll be

1:13:59 ↗ working on that that's a legal

1:14:00 ↗ requirement and we'll be working on that

1:14:02 ↗ till probably November so the government

1:14:05 ↗ Boulevard project update we can update

1:14:07 ↗ on that that's a project we authorized a

1:14:09 ↗ while back to look at all of government

1:14:11 ↗ Boulevard and get all the information we

1:14:13 ↗ have so we can look at long term well

1:14:15 ↗ how we're going to design that through

1:14:18 ↗ Road and then I want to bring your

1:14:20 ↗ attention to a number of items are

1:14:22 ↗ actually on consent calendar tonight

1:14:24 ↗ they were there and they were brought to

1:14:28 ↗ us they hadn't gone quite through the

1:14:29 ↗ full process well they're brought the

1:14:31 ↗ Infrastructure Committee there are four

1:14:32 ↗ items regarding grants so one was all a

1:14:38 ↗ Newport way both sections of it so one

1:14:42 ↗ was a be 75 91 which is authorizing some

1:14:45 ↗ middle for grant for a maple of sunset

1:14:47 ↗ stretch the stretch of maple sunset a

1:14:50 ↗ Newport way and then on SR 902 54th

1:14:54 ↗ stretch there was to request for two

1:14:56 ↗ authorizations to submit for grants

1:14:58 ↗ again and one acceptance of a grant so

1:15:01 ↗ these you know grants come and go we

1:15:03 ↗ talked about that this is these are

1:15:05 ↗ projects that we're moving along with

1:15:06 ↗ and we would requested the city staff to

1:15:09 ↗ as much as possible look for other

1:15:11 ↗ people's money to help with this so

1:15:13 ↗ they've been doing that those things

1:15:15 ↗ come with tighter timelines when when

1:15:17 ↗ you have when they get notified regret

1:15:19 ↗ trying to apply for that and then when

1:15:21 ↗ we only get it an authorized reception

1:15:23 ↗ of it so it's on the consent calendar

1:15:25 ↗ tonight and then any questions you can

1:15:26 ↗ ask but I think that's pretty much we

1:15:28 ↗ were moving all the heads I just want to

1:15:30 ↗ highlight those because they're not

1:15:31 ↗ quite in the normal process and that

1:15:35 ↗ concludes my report

1:15:36 ↗ Thank You councilmember Reynolds

1:15:37 ↗ councilmember winter Stein thank you

1:15:39 ↗ madam mayor my only report this evening

1:15:41 ↗ is on the growth management policy board

1:15:44 ↗ we met last Thursday April 5th in

1:15:47 ↗ Seattle and the bulk of the meeting was

1:15:49 ↗ spent on discussing the scope of the

1:15:52 ↗ update to the vision 2040 document and

1:15:57 ↗ our our director Development Services

1:16:01 ↗ had sent a letter in representing the

1:16:03 ↗ city on some of our desired issues to be

1:16:06 ↗ addressed during the vision update and I

1:16:09 ↗ brought one of those up during our

1:16:11 ↗ discussion and I'd have summarized this

1:16:13 ↗ in an email to the mayor and council

1:16:16 ↗ president about one of our desires in

1:16:20 ↗ Issaquah is for kind of a future vision

1:16:24 ↗ for the region to incorporate accounting

1:16:30 ↗ for kind of existing deficits at least

1:16:34 ↗ if you're going to plan for some

1:16:35 ↗ improvements to and ways to manage

1:16:40 ↗ growth in the future that those plans

1:16:43 ↗ address the existing issues on the

1:16:47 ↗ ground as well as not just accounting

1:16:50 ↗ for the incremental growth that comes

1:16:52 ↗ we're going to have a challenge getting

1:16:54 ↗ the vision to to accept that way of

1:16:59 ↗ thinking but I like a challenge like

1:17:02 ↗ that that concludes my report

1:17:04 ↗ Thank You councilmember we understand

1:17:05 ↗ councilmember Goodman thank you Landon

1:17:07 ↗ Shore committee will meet this Thursday

1:17:10 ↗ April 19th here in Council Chambers at

1:17:12 ↗ 6:30 it is not our regular night they

1:17:16 ↗ typically meet the first Thursday of

1:17:17 ↗ each month on the agenda that night the

1:17:21 ↗ moratorium update as we have had since

1:17:25 ↗ the moratorium started Jen de belles

1:17:27 ↗ 7533 first major amendment to the Costco

1:17:30 ↗ development agreement

1:17:32 ↗ it is on our agenda tonight and if the

1:17:34 ↗ because council desires to refer that

1:17:37 ↗ item to Landon Shore then that will be

1:17:40 ↗ on the agenda for Thursday agenda bill

1:17:43 ↗ 7507 pertains to the moratorium central

1:17:47 ↗ Issaquah standards regarding

1:17:49 ↗ inclusionary zoning agenda bill 75-77

1:17:55 ↗ central Issaquah development and design

1:17:58 ↗ standards amendment limiting new hotels

1:18:00 ↗ motels timeshare lodging comfort centers

1:18:03 ↗ and self storage units in specific zones

1:18:05 ↗ within central Issaquah this does not

1:18:07 ↗ pertain to the moratorium even though it

1:18:09 ↗ pertains to central Issaquah under bill

1:18:13 ↗ 73 44 the visioning regarding central

1:18:18 ↗ Issaquah plan that is the second and

1:18:21 ↗ last item to be dealt with under the

1:18:23 ↗ moratorium and agenda bill 75 76

1:18:26 ↗ amendments to the is communist will code

1:18:29 ↗ regarding a second accessory dwelling

1:18:31 ↗ units that's the jam packed agenda I

1:18:35 ↗ cannot be there on Thursday so

1:18:37 ↗ councilmember hunt is filling in for me

1:18:39 ↗ and council president Mart's will chair

1:18:42 ↗ in my absence so thanks to both of you

1:18:44 ↗ that's my point

1:18:46 ↗ thanks councilmember Goodman council

1:18:48 ↗ deputy council president batiste

1:18:50 ↗ thank you madam madam mayor just one

1:18:54 ↗ announcement the PSR C Economic

1:18:57 ↗ Development District Board will be

1:18:59 ↗ meeting Wednesday May 2nd in Seattle and

1:19:02 ↗ so I'll be reporting back after that

1:19:04 ↗ meeting that case report Thanks council

1:19:07 ↗ president Mertz

1:19:08 ↗ thank you madam there the some cities

1:19:10 ↗ association public issues committee met

1:19:13 ↗ on Wednesday April 11th in City Hall our

1:19:17 ↗ pre-picked discussion we had a

1:19:19 ↗ presentation from staff from one table

1:19:21 ↗ on strategies to address the root cause

1:19:24 ↗ of homelessness and then in the main

1:19:26 ↗ pick meeting there was no discussion of

1:19:28 ↗ proposed actions so that concludes my

1:19:32 ↗ report on pick growth King County growth

1:19:35 ↗ management policy Council next meets on

1:19:38 ↗ Wednesday May 30th at 4 p.m. in PSR C

1:19:41 ↗ chambers and the agenda is still TBD

1:19:44 ↗ this concludes my report thank you for

1:19:48 ↗ the mayor's report this evening I have a

1:19:50 ↗ number of items to report on first there

1:19:52 ↗ will be an executive session held this

1:19:54 ↗ evening to discuss collective bargaining

1:19:56 ↗ sessions per hour CW 42 0.3 0.1 400 per

1:20:00 ↗ n 4 and pending and potential litigation

1:20:03 ↗ for our CW 42.3 0.1 1 o / n 1 / n b + 40

1:20:08 ↗ 2.30 / n 1 1 o racket 1 hour sorry / n 1

1:20:13 ↗ / ni these items are expected to last 35

1:20:15 ↗ minutes action is anticipated to follow

1:20:18 ↗ in open session I do submit my mayor's

1:20:20 ↗ report in advance but I did note that I

1:20:22 ↗ forgot to add one item I did want to

1:20:25 ↗ make sure that counsel was aware as well

1:20:27 ↗ as the public about wash dots upcoming

1:20:30 ↗ open house it's on April 25th from 5 to

1:20:33 ↗ 7 p.m. at Tibbets Creek Manor going to

1:20:36 ↗ be talking about the auxilary lanes on

1:20:38 ↗ i-90 that passes you know that

1:20:42 ↗ construction work there will actually be

1:20:44 ↗ adjacent to two of our neighborhoods and

1:20:46 ↗ so there's a huge community concern

1:20:48 ↗ there and I realized I'd forgot to put

1:20:51 ↗ it on if I didn't announce it tonight I

1:20:53 ↗ wouldn't have a chance to do that to the

1:20:54 ↗ council meetings so there is information

1:20:57 ↗ available online on April 3rd I attended

1:21:00 ↗ cascade water alliances board retreat

1:21:02 ↗ where we discuss future drinking water

1:21:05 ↗ supply even though climate change may

1:21:07 ↗ change our weather patterns the overall

1:21:09 ↗ amount of precipitation in our region is

1:21:11 ↗ expected to rain remain constant more in

1:21:13 ↗ the form of rain and less in the form of

1:21:15 ↗ snow over the years to come our issues

1:21:18 ↗ will be storage not quantity compared to

1:21:21 ↗ other areas in the u.s. that have

1:21:23 ↗ abundant storage and water quality

1:21:24 ↗ issues and water quantity issues on

1:21:27 ↗ April 4th I presented with other female

1:21:31 ↗ mayor's on a panel at the Go Green

1:21:32 ↗ conference in Seattle

1:21:34 ↗ April 9th I attended a meeting at the

1:21:36 ↗ Department of Ecology snore thouest

1:21:38 ↗ regional office with Eastside Fire and

1:21:39 ↗ Rescue Sammamish plateau Water District

1:21:42 ↗ and ecology staff this team has

1:21:45 ↗ assembled funding from various entities

1:21:46 ↗ to complete a soil and groundwater

1:21:48 ↗ investigation for PFS a constituent in

1:21:51 ↗ groundwater that the city of iske is

1:21:53 ↗ currently providing treatment for we are

1:21:55 ↗ hoping to begin our investigate

1:21:56 ↗ in the summer we study results and next

1:21:59 ↗ step sometime late this fall on April

1:22:02 ↗ 12th attended the Cascade Water Alliance

1:22:04 ↗ resource committee meeting we discussed

1:22:06 ↗ several capital projects and we're

1:22:07 ↗ provided with an update on the Lake

1:22:09 ↗ Tapps water quality project in the

1:22:11 ↗ future

1:22:12 ↗ councilmember hunt will be serving on

1:22:14 ↗ the resource committee and I'll be

1:22:15 ↗ moving over to the Finance Committee on

1:22:17 ↗ April 12th I attended the transportation

1:22:19 ↗ PSR C's transportation policy board the

1:22:23 ↗ board made a near unanimous

1:22:25 ↗ recommendation to recommend adoption of

1:22:28 ↗ the regional transportation plan to the

1:22:29 ↗ executive The Sound City representatives

1:22:33 ↗ at that meeting expressed concerns over

1:22:35 ↗ the unaddressed transportation gaps in

1:22:38 ↗ the current system similar to what

1:22:40 ↗ councilmember interestin was just

1:22:42 ↗ talking about there was a significant

1:22:45 ↗ discussion but no amendments were made

1:22:47 ↗ to the recommendation a couple of issue

1:22:50 ↗ updates moratorium Update you did hear

1:22:53 ↗ from councilmember Goodman

1:22:55 ↗ chair of land and shore that inclusion

1:22:57 ↗ visions was coming back to the Elana

1:23:00 ↗ char committee but inclusionary

1:23:03 ↗ requirements staff is working with Econ

1:23:05 ↗ north northwest to evaluate the impact

1:23:07 ↗ the proposed inclusionary inclusionary

1:23:09 ↗ requirements would have had on the atlas

1:23:12 ↗ project in town using Atlas as a case

1:23:15 ↗ study it's expected a report and

1:23:16 ↗ presentation will be made to land in

1:23:18 ↗ Shore at the committee's April meeting

1:23:19 ↗ on April 19th update on Cougar Mountain

1:23:23 ↗ and Bergsma there is no new news in

1:23:26 ↗ regards to the property known as Bergsma

1:23:28 ↗ at the March 5th City Council meeting I

1:23:31 ↗ shared that we are partnering with the

1:23:32 ↗ Trust for Public Land in exploring

1:23:34 ↗ acquisition options for this property in

1:23:36 ↗ that work Park staff and Trust for

1:23:39 ↗ Public Land staff are collaborating and

1:23:41 ↗ researching grant options and other

1:23:42 ↗ funding strategies that would be needed

1:23:44 ↗ to support any size or scale of

1:23:46 ↗ acquisition of the property an update on

1:23:49 ↗ talus parcels seven eight and nine

1:23:51 ↗ Pallas parcels seven and eight the

1:23:53 ↗ city's geotechnical consultants have

1:23:55 ↗ finished their first review of a new

1:23:57 ↗ critical area study for parcel seven and

1:23:59 ↗ eight the property owners consultants

1:24:01 ↗ are currently working through the city's

1:24:03 ↗ comments and we're expecting this final

1:24:04 ↗ plat will be before the city's Hearing

1:24:06 ↗ Examiner

1:24:07 ↗ may Alice parcel 9 property owners

1:24:11 ↗ continue to work on stabilizing the

1:24:13 ↗ property by the end of the month is

1:24:15 ↗ expected they will be 3/4 done with the

1:24:17 ↗ construction of the first wall system

1:24:18 ↗ last week the city issued a permit for

1:24:21 ↗ wall three and work is expected to

1:24:23 ↗ commence on that wall later this month

1:24:25 ↗ the city expects stabilization efforts

1:24:27 ↗ will continue through the end of 2018 an

1:24:31 ↗ update on the ending of the development

1:24:33 ↗ agreements fort Alice in the Highlands

1:24:34 ↗ at the March 19th council meeting the

1:24:37 ↗ council referred ending of the Talz

1:24:38 ↗ development agreement and imposing new

1:24:40 ↗ replacement regulations to the Planning

1:24:42 ↗ Policy Commission for review of the

1:24:44 ↗ proposed zoning designation for tal's

1:24:46 ↗ parcel 9 I just want to make sure the

1:24:48 ↗ community and the council are aware that

1:24:50 ↗ the Planning Policy Commission meeting

1:24:51 ↗ is scheduled for May 10th and I have a

1:24:54 ↗ rather long update on property in

1:24:57 ↗ Issaquah called Providence Heights

1:24:59 ↗ because of some recent action that

1:25:01 ↗ happened last week so bear with me this

1:25:04 ↗ one is a few paragraphs long there's

1:25:07 ↗ been a lot of public comment received by

1:25:08 ↗ the city regarding Providence Heights

1:25:10 ↗ and the proposal by the property owners

1:25:12 ↗ to demolish the current buildings the

1:25:14 ↗ Providence Heights campus is located at

1:25:16 ↗ 4 to 2 1 2:28 Avenue southeast adjacent

1:25:21 ↗ to Providence Point the property is

1:25:23 ↗ owned by Plateau campus LLC a wholly

1:25:25 ↗ owned subsidiary of church owned

1:25:27 ↗ previously known as the City Church a

1:25:29 ↗ non-profit nondenominational church

1:25:31 ↗ headquartered in Kirkland Church Rome

1:25:34 ↗ has decided to demolish the buildings

1:25:36 ↗ and sell the property to provide revenue

1:25:38 ↗ for their growing ministries they

1:25:40 ↗ believe that land marking the existing

1:25:42 ↗ structures reduces the value that could

1:25:44 ↗ get they could get from the property

1:25:47 ↗ sale and which would adversely impact

1:25:50 ↗ their ability to fulfill their religious

1:25:52 ↗ mission and expand their ministries

1:25:54 ↗ following the city's SEPA decision on

1:25:56 ↗ the demolition of the buildings the

1:25:58 ↗ Sammamish Heritage Society submitted an

1:26:00 ↗ application to landmark the property

1:26:02 ↗ city has code IMC 18.2 o protection and

1:26:07 ↗ preservation of land marks landmark

1:26:09 ↗ sites and districts that provides for a

1:26:12 ↗ landmark Commission and a process for

1:26:13 ↗ land marking properties within the city

1:26:15 ↗ since the city does not have enough

1:26:18 ↗ requests to justify its own

1:26:19 ↗ commissioned the city has an interlocal

1:26:21 ↗ agreement with King County to use the

1:26:23 ↗ county's landmark and Heritage

1:26:25 ↗ Commission with one local representative

1:26:27 ↗ for any preservation requests within the

1:26:29 ↗ city in July of 2017 the Commission

1:26:32 ↗ designated the property as a landmark

1:26:34 ↗ and the sittings cities Hearing Examiner

1:26:36 ↗ remanded the CEPA decision back to the

1:26:39 ↗ city to consider how the landmark status

1:26:41 ↗ affects the decision at the time of the

1:26:44 ↗ landmark designation church homes

1:26:46 ↗ attorneys advised the city that the

1:26:47 ↗ designate designation violated church

1:26:50 ↗ homes rights to the free exercise of

1:26:52 ↗ religion under the First Amendment of

1:26:54 ↗ the US Constitution an article 1 section

1:26:56 ↗ 11 of the Washington Constitution since

1:26:59 ↗ the city agreed with church homes

1:27:01 ↗ attorneys do to clear legal precedent

1:27:03 ↗ first covenant Church of Seattle versus

1:27:06 ↗ City of Seattle where the courts found

1:27:08 ↗ that the government's interests in

1:27:10 ↗ preservation of aesthetic and historic

1:27:12 ↗ structures is not compelling and does

1:27:14 ↗ not justify the infringement of a

1:27:16 ↗ church's right to freely exercise

1:27:18 ↗ religion the city entered into a

1:27:20 ↗ settlement agreement with church home

1:27:21 ↗ under which the city agreed not to

1:27:23 ↗ oppose a court judgment holding the

1:27:25 ↗ landmark designation unconstitutional in

1:27:28 ↗ exchange for a release of all potential

1:27:30 ↗ damage claims by church home on the 12th

1:27:32 ↗ of April King County Superior Court

1:27:34 ↗ Judge Julie Specter found that landmark

1:27:37 ↗ in the Providence Heights property was

1:27:39 ↗ unconstitutional and vacated that

1:27:41 ↗ decision further the judge prohibited

1:27:44 ↗ the city and King County from accepting

1:27:46 ↗ any other nomination seeking to

1:27:48 ↗ designate this property as a landmark so

1:27:50 ↗ long as Church home owns the property

1:27:52 ↗ and the city in King County are legally

1:27:54 ↗ prohibited from continuing to delay

1:27:56 ↗ church homes demolition permit on the

1:27:59 ↗ basis of the landmark designation judge

1:28:01 ↗ specter also found that the city and

1:28:03 ↗ church home had entered into the

1:28:05 ↗ settlement agreement as an arm's length

1:28:07 ↗ transaction and that the result was a

1:28:09 ↗ fair and reasonable one on Friday

1:28:11 ↗ preserved Providence Heights appealed

1:28:13 ↗ the reissued SEPA decision that appeal

1:28:15 ↗ will be held by the city's hearing

1:28:17 ↗ examiner and the date of that hearing

1:28:19 ↗ has yet to be scheduled that concludes

1:28:22 ↗ my mayor's report the consent calendar

1:28:27 ↗ was distributed to council in advance of

1:28:30 ↗ tonight's meeting

1:28:31 ↗ if authorized the

1:28:32 ↗ on the consent calendar will be

1:28:34 ↗ considered together and approved by one

1:28:35 ↗ motion have the payables and payroll for

1:28:38 ↗ April 16th been reviewed

1:28:40 ↗ thank you does any councilmember desire

1:28:44 ↗ to remove any item from the consent

1:28:45 ↗ calendar and consider it under regular

1:28:48 ↗ business councilmember Rey I do with

1:28:51 ↗ gender bill 75 86 the surplus City

1:28:53 ↗ equipment to regular business thank you

1:28:56 ↗ I'm going to propose that we move it to

1:28:58 ↗ or suggest that we move it to item a on

1:29:01 ↗ regular business since we do have the

1:29:02 ↗ Public Works operation director here to

1:29:04 ↗ answer questions if needed

1:29:07 ↗ there has been motion may I check with

1:29:12 ↗ tisha here so there is a request to

1:29:14 ↗ bring something down but the myth we do

1:29:16 ↗ not need a motion to bring something

1:29:18 ↗ down we'll be putting it as item a thank

1:29:20 ↗ you besides moving that one item down

1:29:24 ↗ does anybody wish to move any other by

1:29:26 ↗ you if no one does can I have someone

1:29:30 ↗ make emotions like to move the modified

1:29:33 ↗ consent agenda as listed in the packet

1:29:35 ↗ is there a second thank you it's been

1:29:38 ↗ moved and seconded to approve the

1:29:40 ↗ modified consent calendar all those in

1:29:42 ↗ favor signify by saying aye aye opposed

1:29:46 ↗ that passes unanimously next item on our

1:29:50 ↗ agenda is public hearing a b7 533 first

1:29:54 ↗ major amendment to the Costco

1:29:56 ↗ development agreement this is a

1:29:57 ↗ continuation of a public hearing and has

1:29:59 ↗ been referred from council land and

1:30:01 ↗ Shore of an item that is referred to

1:30:03 ↗ council and ensure this public hearing

1:30:06 ↗ was opened at the February 20th council

1:30:08 ↗ meeting and continued to April 16 the

1:30:09 ↗ land ensure committee heard this item at

1:30:12 ↗ their March meeting before I reopen the

1:30:15 ↗ public hearing I'd like to invite Keith

1:30:17 ↗ Nevin economic and development services

1:30:19 ↗ director to briefly present this item

1:30:21 ↗ thank you thank you madam Erin good

1:30:24 ↗ evening City Council so this this is

1:30:27 ↗ agenda bill is coming back from Landon

1:30:31 ↗ Shore so we actually opened the hearing

1:30:34 ↗ on February 20th and the expectation is

1:30:37 ↗ we'll go back to Landon Shore after this

1:30:39 ↗ evening and possibly come back as soon

1:30:43 ↗ as mace

1:30:45 ↗ vii so what's happening here is the city

1:30:49 ↗ is asking for a major amendment to the

1:30:53 ↗ Costco development agreement to look at

1:30:56 ↗ basically putting the last

1:30:58 ↗ transportation project from that

1:31:00 ↗ development agreement on hold for a

1:31:03 ↗ limited period of time while we work on

1:31:07 ↗ another project with state parks to look

1:31:10 ↗ at whether or not their main entrance

1:31:14 ↗ could be moved closer to the

1:31:16 ↗ intersection which is the the third

1:31:20 ↗ transportation project from the Costco

1:31:21 ↗ development agreement so listed here are

1:31:26 ↗ a number of policy questions that we've

1:31:27 ↗ started to talk through at committee I

1:31:30 ↗ assume we will continue to talk through

1:31:32 ↗ those at committee this week and to give

1:31:36 ↗ you a visual understanding of what we're

1:31:39 ↗ talking about so this intersection right

1:31:43 ↗ here and Holiday Inn is just off your

1:31:46 ↗ map and the old Tully's sadly was right

1:31:50 ↗ here and this is the entrance to the

1:31:54 ↗ park down here on the left and State

1:31:57 ↗ Parks has expressed a desire to see if

1:32:01 ↗ that intersect that entrance could be

1:32:03 ↗ moved closer to this intersection for

1:32:07 ↗ visibility reasons they think that there

1:32:11 ↗ is some confusion about where the

1:32:12 ↗ entrance is to the park and they would

1:32:14 ↗ see a benefit if it could be moved

1:32:16 ↗ closer what we don't want to do is move

1:32:19 ↗ forward with the Costco improvements to

1:32:21 ↗ this intersection and potentially find

1:32:24 ↗ that by moving the entrance to the State

1:32:27 ↗ Park closer to this interchange that it

1:32:30 ↗ would have wanted a different outcome

1:32:31 ↗ and so what we're asking for is to put

1:32:34 ↗ this project on hold while our

1:32:36 ↗ transportation consultants look at

1:32:39 ↗ moving this entrance to the park closer

1:32:42 ↗ to 12th Avenue so that's and Sheldon Lin

1:32:47 ↗ Director of Public Works engineering is

1:32:49 ↗ here if there's any technical questions

1:32:51 ↗ that you all might have thank you

1:32:53 ↗ otherwise that's the end and

1:32:55 ↗ questions of staff before we open the

1:32:58 ↗ public hearing thank you the guidelines

1:33:06 ↗ for Susan comments that are on the

1:33:08 ↗ agenda also apply for the public hearing

1:33:10 ↗ and I'm gonna reopen the public hearing

1:33:12 ↗ at 8:30 for this evening has anyone

1:33:15 ↗ signed up to speak this evening no is

1:33:19 ↗ there anyone in the audience who would

1:33:20 ↗ like to speak during this public hearing

1:33:22 ↗ this evening

1:33:27 ↗ second call anyone liking to anyone

1:33:30 ↗ wishing to speak this evening on this

1:33:32 ↗ bill and for the final time does anyone

1:33:34 ↗ wish to speak this evening okay no

1:33:36 ↗ speakers is there a motion to continue

1:33:39 ↗ the hearing let's remember Goodman thank

1:33:42 ↗ you

1:33:43 ↗ I would excuse me moved to continue the

1:33:45 ↗ hearing public hearing 2 May 7 2018 and

1:33:49 ↗ refer agenda bill 7533 to the April 19th

1:33:52 ↗ 2018 counsel and in short committee for

1:33:54 ↗ additional review and recommendation

1:33:56 ↗ returning to the full council on May 7th

1:33:58 ↗ second thank you it has been moved and

1:34:02 ↗ seconded is there any discussion all

1:34:06 ↗ those in favor of continuing the public

1:34:08 ↗ hearing to May 7 2018 and referring ab7

1:34:11 ↗ 533 to the April 19th 2018 council

1:34:14 ↗ landed short committee for additional

1:34:16 ↗ review and recommendation returning to

1:34:18 ↗ the full council on May 7 2018 signify

1:34:21 ↗ by saying aye aye

1:34:22 ↗ as opposed carries unanimously

1:34:26 ↗ next item on the agenda this evening is

1:34:28 ↗ regular business a b7 586 surplus of

1:34:34 ↗ City equipment this item was brought

1:34:36 ↗ down from the consent agenda for a

1:34:40 ↗ councilmember Ray is requesting a

1:34:43 ↗ clarification counsel Mary would you

1:34:45 ↗ like to speak to the though absolutely I

1:34:49 ↗ just like to State for the record that

1:34:51 ↗ agenda bill 75 86 surplus City equipment

1:34:55 ↗ includes vehicles that value is in

1:34:57 ↗ excess of the state at $3,500 in the

1:35:00 ↗ agenda bill

1:35:01 ↗ and I'd like that the record to show

1:35:03 ↗ that agenda bill 75 86 should more

1:35:05 ↗ accurately state that the estimated

1:35:08 ↗ value of these items is between zero and

1:35:11 ↗ $17,000 to reflect what's actually on

1:35:13 ↗ the list of equipment to be surplus

1:35:16 ↗ Thank You councilmember Rey so that was

1:35:19 ↗ the reason it has come down off of the

1:35:21 ↗ consent agenda would you care to make a

1:35:24 ↗ motion and then we can have a discussion

1:35:26 ↗ I would if you had it in front of you

1:35:33 ↗ I'm gonna keep up I'd like to move that

1:35:36 ↗ we declare items identified in a bill a

1:35:39 ↗ be seventy five eighty six a surplus and

1:35:41 ↗ authorized the administration to dispose

1:35:44 ↗ of them in accordance with Washington

1:35:45 ↗ state law with the modification to the

1:35:48 ↗ agenda bill that the maximum value is

1:35:51 ↗ seventeen thousand dollars not thirty

1:35:53 ↗ five hundred dollars okay maybe in

1:35:56 ↗ second I'm just going to check with the

1:35:58 ↗ clerk is it necessary to add that into

1:36:00 ↗ the motion or is it internally

1:36:10 ↗ administrator just again to clarify

1:36:15 ↗ those figures that are included in the a

1:36:18 ↗ B and as council member array has

1:36:20 ↗ suggested we modify our estimates one

1:36:24 ↗ does not know what the value of each of

1:36:27 ↗ those items is until we actually have

1:36:30 ↗ people at the auction bidding on them

1:36:32 ↗ and saying what they wish to pay for

1:36:34 ↗ them so I was just suggesting we use the

1:36:36 ↗ word estimate in connection with listing

1:36:40 ↗ that new dollar amount thank you and

1:36:44 ↗ council myraid do you have the motion

1:36:46 ↗ written down since it's different than

1:36:47 ↗ the motion that ones in the packet did

1:36:49 ↗ you just do that off the top here I just

1:36:51 ↗ do that off top of my head okay well I'm

1:36:53 ↗ gonna skip the clerk to read it back so

1:36:55 ↗ we're all clear thank you I think I did

1:36:58 ↗ use the word estimate if you didn't see

1:37:01 ↗ if we can slot it in there wait we will

1:37:03 ↗ okay declare the items identified in a B

1:37:07 ↗ seven five eight six a surplus and

1:37:09 ↗ authorized the administration to dispose

1:37:11 ↗ of them in accordance with Washington

1:37:13 ↗ state law with the modification to the

1:37:14 ↗ agenda

1:37:15 ↗ to build that the estimated maximum

1:37:16 ↗ value be $17,000 the word estimated that

1:37:24 ↗ there is there any questions or

1:37:26 ↗ additional discussion not are you ready

1:37:28 ↗ for the vote you should do I have to

1:37:32 ↗ read it again okay because I do I can't

1:37:35 ↗ read as fast as she can type so so it's

1:37:38 ↗ been moved and seconded all in favor

1:37:40 ↗ signify by saying aye aye opposed

1:37:43 ↗ awesome that passes unanimously

1:37:47 ↗ thank you very much the next item item

1:37:50 ↗ beyond our regular business agenda this

1:37:52 ↗ evening is a b 7 for 8 for teen cafe

1:37:55 ↗ partnership and lease agreement

1:37:56 ↗ this item is coming out of services and

1:37:59 ↗ Safety Committee and I'd like to invite

1:38:00 ↗ Parks and Recreation Director Jeff Walt

1:38:02 ↗ link to make presentation Thank You

1:38:06 ↗ mayor good evening Council appreciate it

1:38:08 ↗ as a council member and Services

1:38:11 ↗ Committee Chair Ray mentioned we talked

1:38:14 ↗ about this last Tuesday April 10th at

1:38:16 ↗ committee had a really good discussion

1:38:18 ↗ about that the recommendation did come

1:38:20 ↗ out three Oh from that discussion but

1:38:23 ↗ just given the council interest through

1:38:25 ↗ this process community interest through

1:38:27 ↗ this process it was desired to bring it

1:38:30 ↗ back to regular business opportunity for

1:38:32 ↗ me given how familiar you are already

1:38:35 ↗ with this partnership and this potential

1:38:39 ↗ real synergy I'll give a quick staff

1:38:43 ↗ report highlighting a number of things

1:38:45 ↗ highlighting the background and touching

1:38:48 ↗ on the background I'll highlight the the

1:38:50 ↗ process that we undertook for this I'll

1:38:53 ↗ also highlight the site selection

1:38:55 ↗ process that we undertook and then some

1:38:59 ↗ key elements of the lease agreement

1:39:00 ↗ itself so background certainly a number

1:39:10 ↗ of years have worked by the community

1:39:12 ↗ group really began to foster this idea

1:39:15 ↗ that group presented a letter of

1:39:17 ↗ interest to the city at June of last

1:39:20 ↗ year really highlighting there the

1:39:24 ↗ elements the framework of their business

1:39:26 ↗ plan and specifically request

1:39:28 ↗ a partnership of the city and the city

1:39:31 ↗ exploring the use of some public public

1:39:36 ↗ building for them to have this this

1:39:39 ↗ program after investigation and research

1:39:43 ↗ into that discussion with council it was

1:39:46 ↗ on the September 5th council meeting the

1:39:49 ↗ council then directed staff through a

1:39:52 ↗ prior agenda bill to further explore

1:39:55 ↗ this partnership and further explore

1:39:57 ↗ specifically the opportunity for a city

1:40:00 ↗ building city square footage to host

1:40:04 ↗ this host this program we then began

1:40:09 ↗ worked with the teen cafe group itself

1:40:12 ↗ it was pretty clear that there was a

1:40:13 ↗ preference of locating this program near

1:40:18 ↗ the community center and specifically

1:40:21 ↗ near the schools a great opportunity for

1:40:23 ↗ synergy there two public meetings were

1:40:26 ↗ hosted in the fall first on October 4th

1:40:28 ↗ and then the second meeting December 5th

1:40:31 ↗ between those two meetings we also had

1:40:34 ↗ an update we came back to services and

1:40:36 ↗ safety at the November meeting and began

1:40:39 ↗ to lay out the framework for what sites

1:40:43 ↗ are potentially available near the

1:40:45 ↗ community center and also the criteria

1:40:48 ↗ with which we would begin to look at and

1:40:50 ↗ analyze those four sites from that work

1:40:55 ↗ and from that discussion at November

1:40:57 ↗ with the committee but then also on

1:40:59 ↗ December 5th with the public we prepared

1:41:01 ↗ this this criteria this initial

1:41:05 ↗ assessment that was shared we identified

1:41:08 ↗ the four locations in and around the

1:41:12 ↗ community center these are all spaces

1:41:14 ↗ that the city currently owns all of them

1:41:18 ↗ are zoned CF so none of these are

1:41:20 ↗ commercial space none of these were

1:41:22 ↗ spaces that we would have potentially

1:41:25 ↗ looked at commercially leasing as we

1:41:28 ↗ went through this assessment we

1:41:29 ↗ identified five criteria that they were

1:41:32 ↗ all run through this was not a highly

1:41:35 ↗ complex process but it felt like it fit

1:41:39 ↗ really well we identified three grades

1:41:42 ↗ is it a great fit is it a good fit or

1:41:45 ↗ there's some some concerns that would

1:41:46 ↗ need to be addressed with this site it

1:41:48 ↗ became pretty evident both visually but

1:41:52 ↗ then as we had the public meeting and

1:41:54 ↗ hearing the public feedback and hearing

1:41:55 ↗ the feedback from the community partners

1:41:57 ↗ there was a location the number three on

1:42:01 ↗ this scale that 235 building and that's

1:42:05 ↗ a portion of the 235 building it became

1:42:07 ↗ pretty evident scored the highest and

1:42:11 ↗ and really began to look like the best

1:42:14 ↗ the best fit from that discussion and

1:42:18 ↗ from that conversation we began work

1:42:22 ↗ specifically on that on that site as

1:42:25 ↗ consensus was reached historically this

1:42:28 ↗ building has been used for a variety of

1:42:30 ↗ ways publicly even before the city it

1:42:34 ↗ was used by the county and the school

1:42:36 ↗ district most recently used a variety of

1:42:38 ↗ ways by parks and recreation and most

1:42:41 ↗ currently used as staff offices and

1:42:44 ↗ storage space as you recall as we went

1:42:47 ↗ through the budget process last year

1:42:49 ↗ within the Parks and Recreation

1:42:50 ↗ Department we've been doing quite a bit

1:42:53 ↗ of review of our functions and our

1:42:55 ↗ services that led to some realignment

1:42:58 ↗ that we began looking at as a department

1:43:00 ↗ and in that realignment work we really

1:43:03 ↗ saw and made it a priority if you call

1:43:05 ↗ through the budget process of how do we

1:43:07 ↗ take our recreation staff in particular

1:43:10 ↗ the recreation staff that were in that

1:43:11 ↗ building and what if we were to combine

1:43:14 ↗ them all at the community center and

1:43:16 ↗ create some real synergy amongst the

1:43:18 ↗ recreation team we also as we looked at

1:43:21 ↗ expanding our capacity within Park

1:43:23 ↗ Planning and Development if you recall

1:43:25 ↗ we had one Park planning and development

1:43:27 ↗ staff person in that building now with

1:43:29 ↗ adding two we saw as opportunity to

1:43:33 ↗ realign them to the trails house

1:43:35 ↗ historically that is where Park Planning

1:43:38 ↗ and Development was located in doing

1:43:41 ↗ that move we ate we saw the opportunity

1:43:44 ↗ of creating a community room a community

1:43:46 ↗ meeting room in the 235 building and

1:43:50 ↗ having storage stay there but that

1:43:54 ↗ realignment work really led to the Opera

1:43:56 ↗ tunity of this vacant and available

1:43:58 ↗ program space that a program such as the

1:44:02 ↗ teen cafe could could work within so

1:44:05 ↗ really a strategic opportunity as we

1:44:10 ↗ were looking at realigning some of our

1:44:12 ↗ services and also looking at the

1:44:14 ↗ potential of what this program could do

1:44:16 ↗ and really beginning to see the synergy

1:44:19 ↗ of the community center the pool and

1:44:21 ↗ this space that would have a community

1:44:23 ↗ room as well as this real focused

1:44:26 ↗ program for high schoolers through the

1:44:29 ↗ the garage I keep calling it the teen

1:44:30 ↗ cafe I got to get used to the new the

1:44:32 ↗ new name but really seeing that as a

1:44:35 ↗ recreation campus of sorts as we began

1:44:39 ↗ work with development services

1:44:41 ↗ department looking at the land use again

1:44:43 ↗ as a CF as a community facility initial

1:44:46 ↗ site analysis some of the initial pre

1:44:49 ↗ app and permitting work it really all

1:44:52 ↗ confirmed that continued to confirm that

1:44:54 ↗ this really was a good location for this

1:44:57 ↗ partnership that then began some work a

1:45:03 ↗ couple of months of work looking and

1:45:05 ↗ drafting the lease agreement our city

1:45:08 ↗ attorney Thank You mr. Haney gave us an

1:45:14 ↗ initial draft to take a look at and and

1:45:16 ↗ begin to shape and mold and through a

1:45:18 ↗ series of meetings and conversations

1:45:19 ↗ with our partners have have put together

1:45:23 ↗ a lease agreement that we think becomes

1:45:25 ↗ a great vehicle and a template for or

1:45:28 ↗ the vehicle for this partnership but I

1:45:30 ↗ would not say as we go into this it does

1:45:34 ↗ not define this relationship I wouldn't

1:45:36 ↗ call this a lessee a tenant owner

1:45:40 ↗ relationship this really is a much more

1:45:43 ↗ in-depth partnership than that but the

1:45:45 ↗ lease agreement itself is as important

1:45:49 ↗ so I'll highlight some of the elements

1:45:51 ↗ they're friends of youth it's important

1:45:54 ↗ to note as serving as team cafe's fiscal

1:45:56 ↗ sponsors so as you see in the lease

1:45:58 ↗ agreement and this is a lease agreement

1:46:00 ↗ with Friends of youth as that fiscal

1:46:03 ↗ spark sponsor for the the teen cafe

1:46:06 ↗ group there certainly is language and

1:46:09 ↗ room within this lease that should and

1:46:13 ↗ and when teen cafe becomes its own

1:46:15 ↗ nonprofit there's opportunity with our

1:46:18 ↗ approval with the city's approval is the

1:46:20 ↗ owner for this lease to be assigned to a

1:46:24 ↗ new nonprofit should teen cafe or when

1:46:27 ↗ teen cafe becomes its own nonprofit the

1:46:31 ↗ program itself is going to occupy the

1:46:32 ↗ southern two-thirds of the building the

1:46:35 ↗ utility expenses will be shared

1:46:38 ↗ proportionately so again they are

1:46:41 ↗ responsible for all operating costs all

1:46:44 ↗ the programming costs with this with

1:46:49 ↗ this work and with this space are is

1:46:50 ↗ going to be the responsibility of the

1:46:53 ↗ teen cafe of the tenant so moving

1:46:57 ↗ forward as we look at this there's no

1:46:59 ↗ direct operating costs for the city in

1:47:02 ↗ this partnership all tenant improvements

1:47:05 ↗ are also the responsibility of the the

1:47:08 ↗ tenant in this work and and as the city

1:47:13 ↗ has in a number of cases least come CF

1:47:17 ↗ community facility space to other

1:47:19 ↗ nonprofit groups we see the public value

1:47:24 ↗ and the community benefit that's going

1:47:26 ↗ to be achieved through this nonprofit

1:47:27 ↗ work as as the value in lieu of of rent

1:47:34 ↗ as I said earlier the lease agreement is

1:47:37 ↗ the vehicle but that doesn't define the

1:47:39 ↗ relationship it's really through

1:47:40 ↗ coordination collaboration with the

1:47:42 ↗ recreation team with our pool staff on

1:47:45 ↗ an ongoing and frequent basis that's

1:47:47 ↗ really going to be instrumental in this

1:47:49 ↗ work you may have noticed Kathy Jones

1:47:52 ↗ our Community Center supervisor was here

1:47:54 ↗ earlier and the bright blue shirt with a

1:47:56 ↗ couple of our youth advisory board

1:47:58 ↗ members I think that certainly

1:47:59 ↗ demonstrates both her as staff and and

1:48:02 ↗ the youth advisory boards interest and

1:48:05 ↗ intent in seeing this program really

1:48:08 ↗ being something that further augments

1:48:09 ↗ the the services that are provided to

1:48:12 ↗ this community there is an operative

1:48:14 ↗ performance requirement and

1:48:17 ↗ in an annual report as well as a minimum

1:48:19 ↗ hours of operation that are going to be

1:48:20 ↗ required by this group we had some

1:48:23 ↗ additional discussion at the services

1:48:25 ↗ and Safety Committee meeting some some

1:48:27 ↗ great discussion on a couple of other

1:48:29 ↗ items with the lease agreement that I

1:48:31 ↗ want to touch upon one had to do with

1:48:34 ↗ insurance an indemnification given that

1:48:38 ↗ the program the cost of the program the

1:48:41 ↗ operation of the program is totally the

1:48:43 ↗ responsibility of the tenant there's

1:48:46 ↗ very strong and defecation language

1:48:48 ↗ there's also very strong insurance

1:48:50 ↗ requirements that this group needs to

1:48:51 ↗ provide given our aim and our goal and

1:48:57 ↗ our aspiration that we see this as being

1:48:58 ↗ a very successful partnership but also

1:49:02 ↗ being prudent in the what-ifs there is

1:49:05 ↗ some default language that's in this

1:49:08 ↗ agreement that due to either lack of

1:49:11 ↗ performance or operational budget

1:49:15 ↗ struggles as owner we certainly have the

1:49:20 ↗ ability god forbid and certainly again

1:49:23 ↗ not the plan but there is language in

1:49:25 ↗ there that we could terminate the lease

1:49:30 ↗ another great question was how do we

1:49:32 ↗ look at best practices for managing a

1:49:36 ↗ lease agreement and and given again a

1:49:40 ↗ combination of that indemnification

1:49:43 ↗ language and also that default language

1:49:47 ↗ that clawback is the owner but I think

1:49:50 ↗ one of the key best practices that we

1:49:51 ↗ see in this is recognizing it truly as a

1:49:55 ↗ partnership this room is public space

1:49:57 ↗ it's public space that is going to have

1:50:00 ↗ some other public uses within that

1:50:01 ↗ building there's other public facilities

1:50:04 ↗ that surround this that frequent

1:50:06 ↗ coordination collaboration communication

1:50:08 ↗ is going to be essential and I think a

1:50:12 ↗ very key way of making sure that this is

1:50:15 ↗ a partnership this is a great an

1:50:16 ↗ agreement that has a significant public

1:50:19 ↗ benefit for for many years to come

1:50:23 ↗ just a quick highlight I won't take the

1:50:26 ↗ full tour but certainly in this work of

1:50:30 ↗ looking at the lease agreement the

1:50:33 ↗ garage team has done some great work and

1:50:35 ↗ looking at and having an architect begin

1:50:38 ↗ to to really map out and and imagine

1:50:41 ↗ what this new space is in this southern

1:50:45 ↗ portion of the building it's going to be

1:50:47 ↗ certainly a very exciting space and

1:50:51 ↗ executive director Kaley Jake is here

1:50:54 ↗ should you have any programmatic

1:50:56 ↗ questions you want to ask her or I'm

1:50:57 ↗ certainly available to answer any

1:50:59 ↗ questions you might have

1:51:01 ↗ you're familiar with the logo on your

1:51:03 ↗ left the logo on the right is the newly

1:51:08 ↗ commissioned garage logo that they're

1:51:11 ↗ they're really excited about so with

1:51:13 ↗ that thank you yeah thank you for your

1:51:16 ↗ presentation this has been before

1:51:17 ↗ council a couple of times but not

1:51:19 ↗ necessarily in this format so it's

1:51:21 ↗ really helpful for you tonight to

1:51:22 ↗ provide such a complete description of

1:51:25 ↗ what the council will be voting on thank

1:51:27 ↗ you other questions we want to move it

1:51:33 ↗ first I do have a couple questions about

1:51:35 ↗ one council member

1:51:38 ↗ Rey were you considering a motion I'd be

1:51:41 ↗ happy to I moved that we authorized the

1:51:43 ↗ mayor to enter into and execute the

1:51:47 ↗ lease agreement with friends of youth as

1:51:48 ↗ the as presented for the purpose of

1:51:51 ↗ providing the teen cafe program within a

1:51:54 ↗ portion of city-owned building at the

1:51:56 ↗ 235 first Avenue

1:51:59 ↗ second it moved and seconded council

1:52:02 ↗ discussion on summer winter stein thank

1:52:03 ↗ you

1:52:04 ↗ the lots of good terms so I read the

1:52:08 ↗ agreement and have a few simple

1:52:11 ↗ questions and I appreciate the summary

1:52:13 ↗ that you provided and I think you meant

1:52:14 ↗ the logo that's new is the one on the

1:52:16 ↗ left and and again I did appreciate the

1:52:23 ↗ terms were in there there's just a

1:52:24 ↗ couple I wanted to touch upon just for

1:52:26 ↗ clarity to make sure I understood a

1:52:27 ↗ couple things in paragraph 13 1 2 it

1:52:31 ↗ does talk about earthquake and flood

1:52:32 ↗ insurance and I'm just wondering we're

1:52:34 ↗ requiring the tenant to get that do we

1:52:36 ↗ have earthquake and flood insurance on

1:52:38 ↗ that now

1:52:39 ↗ I would imagine that's just okay I just

1:52:48 ↗ if we're putting the requirement upon as

1:52:51 ↗ a lot of you know on the tenant to have

1:52:54 ↗ that I would just assume that we were

1:52:55 ↗ doing that ourselves and I believe we do

1:52:59 ↗ and I could confirm with facilities our

1:53:01 ↗ insurance probably has to do with the

1:53:03 ↗ structure I I think that asking for

1:53:05 ↗ insurance here is to ensure their their

1:53:08 ↗ investment there okay okay that's a good

1:53:12 ↗ clarification thank you thank you very

1:53:13 ↗ much for that and it talks about and you

1:53:24 ↗ showed us the high-level schematic of

1:53:26 ↗ what the architect had done and in 7.6

1:53:30 ↗ the last sentence says tenant shall use

1:53:33 ↗ it's reasonable best efforts to cause

1:53:35 ↗ the tenant improvements to be completed

1:53:38 ↗ within 180 days of the of the

1:53:40 ↗ commencement date and I was just curious

1:53:45 ↗ it would be good to hear whether or not

1:53:48 ↗ the what the if the cost for those

1:53:54 ↗ potential improvements is that already

1:53:58 ↗ been covered I mean what's the

1:53:59 ↗ likelihood that there's any risk to this

1:54:01 ↗ date or not I just think would be good

1:54:03 ↗ to know what this is Kaleigh Jake is

1:54:05 ↗ coming forward she has some great it was

1:54:07 ↗ about capital budget and funding those

1:54:10 ↗ tenant improvements so um I thought it

1:54:13 ↗ was interesting that that you've got a

1:54:16 ↗ report from the your lobbyist so we were

1:54:19 ↗ fortunate to receive some state funding

1:54:22 ↗ as well we were in the supplement

1:54:24 ↗ supplementary budget for $100,000 thank

1:54:28 ↗ you Mark mullet for shepherding that

1:54:30 ↗ through so that on top of we just

1:54:33 ↗ received funding from is Kiwanis and

1:54:36 ↗ we've we have two more grants pending

1:54:39 ↗ with is quite rotary and Spanish rotary

1:54:41 ↗ are our estimated budget for the

1:54:46 ↗ improvements is about a hundred and

1:54:48 ↗ thirty thousand dollars and so we're

1:54:50 ↗ getting right there with our ass

1:54:53 ↗ and I'll also mention that we've raised

1:54:56 ↗ half of the operating costs for the

1:54:59 ↗ first three years in pledges so yeah so

1:55:03 ↗ we're ready to roll and our permits have

1:55:05 ↗ been submitted just no pressure okay

1:55:11 ↗ thank you that additional information I

1:55:13 ↗ just had one it's more of a comment on

1:55:17 ↗ the lease more than anything in else and

1:55:19 ↗ chap paragraph three term it says the

1:55:22 ↗ term of this lease shall be ten years I

1:55:27 ↗ think that's amazing

1:55:29 ↗ and I'm really I'm happy for all

1:55:31 ↗ involved because anybody getting started

1:55:34 ↗ in a non-profit especially there's a lot

1:55:38 ↗ of variables to to manage and to know

1:55:41 ↗ that you have access to the facility

1:55:44 ↗ really allows you to do the planning and

1:55:48 ↗ take the long view and I'm I do support

1:55:53 ↗ this I'm very enthusiastically support

1:55:56 ↗ this term I was glad to see it in there

1:55:58 ↗ okay nice job Thank You councilmember

1:56:01 ↗ we're just saying anyone else for

1:56:03 ↗ discussion comments that's what

1:56:05 ↗ President marks so some votes that we

1:56:10 ↗ take are tough calls and you have to

1:56:14 ↗ really sort of work through the issues

1:56:17 ↗ and decide how things check against your

1:56:19 ↗ you know your values and then and then

1:56:22 ↗ other votes are not that other votes are

1:56:24 ↗ just a joy and make you proud and feel

1:56:29 ↗ lucky to be on City Council and this is

1:56:31 ↗ one of those votes and you know I want

1:56:34 ↗ to go back to set the Wayback Machine

1:56:35 ↗ for a couple of things Friday September

1:56:38 ↗ 16th 2011 Paul and I I was still

1:56:43 ↗ building Rockets for Jeff Bezos and Paul

1:56:45 ↗ was not yet on City Council though

1:56:46 ↗ though he was soon to be soon to be on

1:56:50 ↗ Council and we went to the boiler room

1:56:52 ↗ in Port Townsend and met with those

1:56:54 ↗ folks and they cooked us up a homemade

1:56:56 ↗ dinner and we heard about how the boiler

1:56:58 ↗ room had impacted kids in port towns and

1:57:01 ↗ kids that didn't feel connected to

1:57:03 ↗ sports and and really

1:57:05 ↗ you know were not thriving before the

1:57:09 ↗ boiler room came along and it was it was

1:57:11 ↗ it was food for the Soul as well as as

1:57:14 ↗ food for the stomach then the next month

1:57:17 ↗ on Tuesday October 4th 2011 I went to

1:57:21 ↗ the Youth Advisory Board which I didn't

1:57:23 ↗ I didn't know anything about I took my

1:57:25 ↗ then thirteen-year-old daughter with me

1:57:27 ↗ and at the invited barb de Michelle and

1:57:31 ↗ we heard about how kids thought about

1:57:34 ↗ having a space at the time we were

1:57:36 ↗ talking about the Human Services campus

1:57:38 ↗ we were talking about potentially

1:57:40 ↗ partnering with the church kids said

1:57:43 ↗ that maybe going to a church would be a

1:57:44 ↗ little complicated for some of them that

1:57:47 ↗ was good feedback but it was really it

1:57:50 ↗ was this whole thing was in its infancy

1:57:51 ↗ and in addition to you know helping

1:57:54 ↗ stoke some of my enthusiasm on this I

1:57:57 ↗ didn't know it at the time but this

1:57:58 ↗ would begin a path for my daughter

1:58:00 ↗ which would lead to her getting very

1:58:02 ↗ involved in the city getting very

1:58:04 ↗ involved in Youth Advisory Board getting

1:58:06 ↗ very involved in the East quad at the

1:58:08 ↗ time is what teen cafe effort and she's

1:58:11 ↗ now majoring in public health with

1:58:14 ↗ minors and political science and women's

1:58:16 ↗ studies so you just never know on any

1:58:19 ↗ given day what you know going to a

1:58:21 ↗ meeting is gonna do so you know I

1:58:25 ↗ mentioned these two things I thank you

1:58:27 ↗ for your time in letting me roll back on

1:58:30 ↗ memory lane a little bit but this is

1:58:32 ↗ this is a really outstanding effort I

1:58:35 ↗ know how hard Kaylee and Jeff have have

1:58:37 ↗ worked together to make this happen I

1:58:38 ↗ know how hard Kaylee and all the

1:58:40 ↗ students involved over the years have

1:58:42 ↗ worked to make this happen both the

1:58:45 ↗ students getting involved and and

1:58:46 ↗ looking at the various options and

1:58:48 ↗ figuring out what the operating model

1:58:50 ↗ was going to look like

1:58:51 ↗ and what sort of you know certain you

1:58:53 ↗ know what sort of services might be

1:58:54 ↗ involved and and creating a more

1:58:57 ↗ welcoming environment for students so

1:58:59 ↗ they have done their homework and I am

1:59:02 ↗ just so proud to be able to vote YES for

1:59:03 ↗ this bill this evening Thank You council

1:59:06 ↗ president Moritz deputy counsel

1:59:07 ↗ president T's so I I would definitely

1:59:11 ↗ echo a lot of what council president

1:59:14 ↗ Mart's has said I'm very supportive

1:59:17 ↗ this agenda bill this is something that

1:59:21 ↗ my friends and through all of my time on

1:59:25 ↗ pts a there's been so much talk about

1:59:29 ↗ seeing something like this come to

1:59:32 ↗ fruition and so being able to watch this

1:59:35 ↗ grow over time has been an amazing

1:59:37 ↗ experience and and coming from services

1:59:40 ↗ and safety we had a very long long

1:59:44 ↗ discussion this bill has come back

1:59:46 ↗ several times the first time that that

1:59:50 ↗ we talked about a location and we took

1:59:54 ↗ that out and there was community

1:59:55 ↗ engagement around that it ended up that

1:59:58 ↗ that maybe that there was a lot of

2:00:01 ↗ feedback about that location and then

2:00:05 ↗ the process evolved and a new location

2:00:07 ↗ was found and so this amazing

2:00:10 ↗ collaboration that's happened between

2:00:13 ↗ the team Cafe Friends of youth and the

2:00:17 ↗ city has just again been been just

2:00:21 ↗ amazing to to watch this grow we we also

2:00:25 ↗ just for my fellow council members did

2:00:28 ↗ talk acid Nick significant amount about

2:00:30 ↗ the lease we we talked about best

2:00:34 ↗ practices we talked about some things

2:00:36 ↗ that maybe the city had gone through in

2:00:39 ↗ the past and just making sure that we

2:00:41 ↗ had captured all of those best practices

2:00:43 ↗ within the lease so we talked about

2:00:47 ↗ indemnification best practices the the

2:00:50 ↗ lease and and really at the end this had

2:00:53 ↗ a lot of support coming out of safety

2:00:55 ↗ and services thank you thank you any

2:00:57 ↗ other council members looking at the

2:00:59 ↗ four who have not commented yet

2:01:00 ↗ councilmember hunt thank you although

2:01:02 ↗ council member Ramos I wanted to thank

2:01:04 ↗ the community members that have come

2:01:06 ↗ forward and spoken to Council including

2:01:09 ↗ a number of young people that either it

2:01:11 ↗ came and attended and support today or

2:01:12 ↗ came and spoke today I think that

2:01:15 ↗ feedback has been very helpful I also

2:01:18 ↗ think there's a clear public benefit

2:01:21 ↗ here and it has been articulated very

2:01:23 ↗ well and the partnership is very well

2:01:25 ↗ thought out I think this is an

2:01:27 ↗ opportunity for the city to partner to

2:01:30 ↗ address a

2:01:31 ↗ need in our community and that is a need

2:01:33 ↗ for teens to have a space to access

2:01:35 ↗ services and programming and suggest be

2:01:38 ↗ themselves and so for all these reasons

2:01:40 ↗ I am very much in support of this bill

2:01:42 ↗ as well Thank You council member Ramos

2:01:45 ↗ thank you I just like to compliment all

2:01:48 ↗ the people who aren't here that were

2:01:50 ↗ part of this they're students that

2:01:51 ↗ started this long time ago that are not

2:01:54 ↗ directly benefiting but their work is

2:01:56 ↗ getting down to students they're here

2:01:58 ↗ it's a long process sometimes but that's

2:02:01 ↗ the way it works sometimes you work on

2:02:03 ↗ something and somebody else gets the

2:02:04 ↗ direct benefit later and that's just

2:02:05 ↗ fine that's where life works I like to

2:02:08 ↗ come with the fact also that as we got

2:02:10 ↗ it closer that there was continued work

2:02:13 ↗ through that that the first you find a

2:02:15 ↗ location you're so excited about it it's

2:02:17 ↗ like let's do it and then with a little

2:02:19 ↗ more work a little more input from the

2:02:20 ↗ plug

2:02:20 ↗ you find out what well we can actually

2:02:22 ↗ do a little better and then we get a

2:02:24 ↗ place that's actually better by doing

2:02:26 ↗ just a little more work and not just

2:02:28 ↗ dumping it the first thing that

2:02:29 ↗ possibility because you thought there'd

2:02:30 ↗ never be a possibility right so

2:02:32 ↗ compliments sticking with the work

2:02:33 ↗ staying with it finding a good solution

2:02:36 ↗ in the long run just I just love that

2:02:39 ↗ and how the community works working with

2:02:42 ↗ students is going to be great

2:02:44 ↗ I look forward to working with um on a

2:02:46 ↗ number of things also from Human

2:02:48 ↗ Services site being on the Human

2:02:51 ↗ Services Commission before this is a

2:02:53 ↗ direct thing that's a human services

2:02:54 ↗ thing we always tried to look across the

2:02:56 ↗ spectrum in Human Services from youth to

2:02:58 ↗ adult and senior and this is something

2:03:01 ↗ that it didn't quite fit there but it

2:03:03 ↗ does because this is a city putting

2:03:04 ↗ directly into that not through that kind

2:03:06 ↗ of grant program but it is for writing

2:03:08 ↗ that that big broader spectrum they're

2:03:10 ↗ always looking for it both ends

2:03:12 ↗ particularly so I am I am very

2:03:15 ↗ supportive of this I thank everybody for

2:03:17 ↗ the work from over in 2011 you're saying

2:03:19 ↗ so we're talking about what seven years

2:03:21 ↗ or more and look forward to seeing this

2:03:23 ↗ and seeing students have a good place to

2:03:26 ↗ do good things

2:03:29 ↗ that's americanman cute so I agree with

2:03:33 ↗ everything that's been said I don't have

2:03:34 ↗ anything additional except to say thanks

2:03:37 ↗ for everybody for all your work those

2:03:39 ↗ are here now and who are not here now

2:03:42 ↗ and this is just super exciting and it's

2:03:44 ↗ gonna be a great addition to our

2:03:45 ↗ community for teens so I'm of course

2:03:48 ↗ very supportive and very excited okay

2:03:51 ↗ not saying any other hands arrays so are

2:03:54 ↗ we done with discussion and ready to

2:03:55 ↗ vote all those in favor of authorizing

2:04:03 ↗ the mayor to enter into and execute the

2:04:05 ↗ lease agreement with friends of youth as

2:04:07 ↗ presented for the purpose of providing

2:04:09 ↗ the teen cafe program with a portion of

2:04:11 ↗ the city-owned building at the 235th 235

2:04:14 ↗ First Avenue signify by saying aye

2:04:18 ↗ aye as opposed passes unanimously thank

2:04:23 ↗ you evening is AP 759 for funding

2:04:31 ↗ request for temporary staffing resources

2:04:33 ↗ this is a request to authorize

2:04:35 ↗ additional funding this has not been

2:04:37 ↗ considered previously either at a

2:04:40 ↗ council meeting or committee meeting and

2:04:42 ↗ I'd like to invite interim City

2:04:43 ↗ Administrator Emily moon to present this

2:04:45 ↗ item good evening this bill makes a

2:04:50 ↗ request for allocations in three areas

2:04:56 ↗ in the city I'll preface going through

2:05:00 ↗ those requests by saying as you're aware

2:05:03 ↗ we have a really robust work plan for

2:05:07 ↗ this year and have in at least two of

2:05:11 ↗ these areas been hampered by some

2:05:15 ↗ vacancies and so at the mayor's request

2:05:18 ↗ I have put together a proposal to assist

2:05:22 ↗ us in filling some of those duties and

2:05:26 ↗ responsibilities in the short term and

2:05:29 ↗ hopefully that will allow us to

2:05:32 ↗ accomplish that ambitious 2018 work plan

2:05:35 ↗ and sustain progress on important city

2:05:38 ↗ goals so the three areas that we are

2:05:41 ↗ seeking funding resources include human

2:05:46 ↗ resources a request of $100,000 to

2:05:50 ↗ basically outsource a range of our

2:05:55 ↗ recruiting

2:05:56 ↗ functions our human resources department

2:05:58 ↗ staff has not had a lot of time to do

2:06:05 ↗ needed activities outside of recruitment

2:06:08 ↗ and some collective bargaining work and

2:06:12 ↗ urgent matters so in your packet you

2:06:16 ↗ have a list of other tasks that have

2:06:18 ↗ been put to the backburner or have been

2:06:21 ↗ getting far less attention that we need

2:06:24 ↗ to make progress on human resources

2:06:29 ↗ director has contacted some firms to

2:06:35 ↗ assess how much we might need in order

2:06:38 ↗ to accomplish those recruiting tasks

2:06:40 ↗ through the end of 2018 we would also

2:06:44 ↗ evaluate whether that's a good

2:06:45 ↗ methodology in the future for us to

2:06:48 ↗ employ and you may see a request in your

2:06:52 ↗ 2019 budget to continue to perform that

2:06:56 ↗ function out of house or an additional

2:06:59 ↗ full-time staff resource to perform that

2:07:02 ↗ function second area excuse me is in our

2:07:08 ↗ communications unit we have a request

2:07:12 ↗ for $60,000 there right now in that

2:07:16 ↗ group I'm missing half of the team and

2:07:19 ↗ the two individuals that are left are

2:07:22 ↗ specialized positions one that is mainly

2:07:25 ↗ responsible for our cable TV channel and

2:07:29 ↗ our video programming and then the other

2:07:31 ↗ position is our neighborhood engagement

2:07:33 ↗ coordinator those two individuals have

2:07:36 ↗ over the last several months been having

2:07:38 ↗ to sort of work outside of their job

2:07:40 ↗ description and provide other needed

2:07:43 ↗ services to the city in terms of

2:07:46 ↗ communication that has included

2:07:48 ↗ assisting with our social media

2:07:51 ↗ exchanges web site content development

2:07:56 ↗ assisting our departments with outreach

2:08:01 ↗ activities developing survey instruments

2:08:05 ↗ printed materials preparing

2:08:08 ↗ written remarks for colleagues as they

2:08:12 ↗ go to external meetings whole whole

2:08:17 ↗ range of duties and we're at risk of not

2:08:21 ↗ being able to accomplish all of the 2018

2:08:26 ↗ work plan items so I thought I would

2:08:32 ↗ also just stress to you what is on that

2:08:35 ↗ 2018 work plan so that you are reminded

2:08:40 ↗ about our intent for community outreach

2:08:43 ↗ on these pieces so we have the strategic

2:08:45 ↗ plan the interchange justification

2:08:48 ↗ report sign code update public noticing

2:08:50 ↗ and improvements like Sam he is and

2:08:54 ↗ master planning old town parking study

2:08:56 ↗ and recommendations squawk Tallis

2:08:58 ↗ community connections program transit

2:09:02 ↗ oriented development branding and

2:09:05 ↗ wayfinding internally our class comp

2:09:08 ↗ program which requires internal

2:09:11 ↗ messaging off leash dog park planning

2:09:14 ↗ Senior Center programming future Parks

2:09:18 ↗ and Recreation software update which

2:09:20 ↗ will be externally focused as long as

2:09:23 ↗ well as utility billing software which

2:09:25 ↗ will be externally focused traffic

2:09:27 ↗ calming program revamp and several

2:09:30 ↗ capital projects two of which are the

2:09:33 ↗ new port projects and Gilman corridor so

2:09:35 ↗ that's that's not the full list of 2018

2:09:38 ↗ that's quite a bit for two individuals

2:09:39 ↗ to pull off who were not hired to do

2:09:42 ↗ that function to begin with in the

2:09:47 ↗ executive office as the mayor had

2:09:50 ↗ requested a proposal to help augment our

2:09:54 ↗ staffing in that department which is

2:09:55 ↗ also at about 50% those are temporary

2:09:59 ↗ vacancies but we believe some temporary

2:10:02 ↗ help will help us to facilitate all the

2:10:06 ↗ work of the other departments so I've

2:10:08 ↗ put together a proposal for some

2:10:10 ↗ assistance on two different levels first

2:10:14 ↗ being experienced managerial level some

2:10:17 ↗ project management help would be

2:10:19 ↗ appreciated

2:10:21 ↗ we did envision that person also

2:10:24 ↗ providing some operational guidance to

2:10:26 ↗ our departments and day-to-day issues

2:10:28 ↗ facilitation and resolution ii would be

2:10:32 ↗ on the lower level positions of SE city

2:10:38 ↗ management analyst who would help us

2:10:41 ↗ perform some of the research data

2:10:43 ↗ analysis recommendation preparation

2:10:46 ↗ community reporting and team and project

2:10:49 ↗ facilitation that our office is involved

2:10:52 ↗ with on a daily basis that request is at

2:10:56 ↗ 160,000 with a hundred thousand going

2:10:58 ↗ toward the two part time limited term

2:11:02 ↗ management analysts and 60,000 going

2:11:06 ↗ toward a part-time more managerial level

2:11:09 ↗ position so those are the staffing

2:11:14 ↗ resources requests i'm happy to answer

2:11:15 ↗ any questions you might have

2:11:18 ↗ questions that's a member ray

2:11:22 ↗ i'll get things started so this is the

2:11:27 ↗ middle of april and we were talking

2:11:30 ↗ about the work plan so not exactly sure

2:11:34 ↗ how to express this but we're only three

2:11:38 ↗ months into the year and the work plan

2:11:40 ↗ last year that we developed was funded

2:11:42 ↗ by the budget and now we're we're

2:11:44 ↗ finding we're keep coming back for more

2:11:46 ↗ things so i'm just trying to understand

2:11:49 ↗ what has changed since the budget was

2:11:52 ↗ Thornton Lee what I'm trying to ask is

2:11:53 ↗ what are we going to do differently so

2:11:56 ↗ that we don't have to do this again

2:11:59 ↗ pretty much from now six months from now

2:12:01 ↗ a year from now sure I guess I'll take

2:12:04 ↗ your last question first it's the only

2:12:07 ↗ question okay very good there were there

2:12:11 ↗ were comments along the way that's true

2:12:12 ↗ I think in the future we need to do a

2:12:16 ↗ better job I believe that we have quite

2:12:18 ↗ frankly been communicating that the work

2:12:22 ↗ plan is too full for our current staff

2:12:26 ↗ to be able to handle and we have asked

2:12:31 ↗ for some positions in the past those

2:12:34 ↗ have not

2:12:35 ↗ been authorized in some cases in other

2:12:38 ↗ cases we have heard from the council

2:12:40 ↗ that there's a lack of desire to fund

2:12:43 ↗ additional full-time equivalents and

2:12:46 ↗ therefore that has kept us from asking

2:12:50 ↗ for additional positions on the flip

2:12:53 ↗ side though that has not diminished the

2:12:56 ↗ amount of work that is desired by the

2:12:59 ↗ community and by the council so we need

2:13:02 ↗ to get in better alignment on that I

2:13:04 ↗ think good project management dictates

2:13:06 ↗ that you have a resource plan and we

2:13:10 ↗ have not always had a resource plan it's

2:13:12 ↗ it's common practice particularly on our

2:13:14 ↗ capital side to also will ask for

2:13:16 ↗ additional staffing resources you can

2:13:20 ↗ tie that back to the project budget and

2:13:22 ↗ seems to be more palatable to most but

2:13:25 ↗ on the operation side that has not been

2:13:26 ↗ the case we have not asked for

2:13:29 ↗ sufficient resources and there hasn't

2:13:32 ↗ quite been the same level of support for

2:13:34 ↗ that I you also suggested that some of

2:13:42 ↗ these could have been foreseen and

2:13:45 ↗ that's not the case

2:13:47 ↗ budget development happened in July for

2:13:51 ↗ city staff was approved at the end of

2:13:54 ↗ December and most of these vacancies

2:13:57 ↗ happened after that point in time so

2:14:02 ↗ member ray or other council members

2:14:05 ↗ what's my over winter saying I need help

2:14:11 ↗ with something I maybe should know in

2:14:18 ↗ communications and the executive you

2:14:21 ↗ just said there we have vacant seats

2:14:22 ↗ this is a request for funds however the

2:14:25 ↗ actual salaries for those positions had

2:14:28 ↗ already been improved so maybe this is

2:14:29 ↗ more of a technical question than

2:14:31 ↗ anything why why why do we need to do

2:14:35 ↗ this additional authorization rather

2:14:39 ↗ than your just being able to use that

2:14:41 ↗ already authorized money sure so in some

2:14:46 ↗ cases they're those salaries are still

2:14:49 ↗ being utilized to pay for people who are

2:14:51 ↗ out on leaf for example in other cases

2:14:56 ↗ communications coordinator position for

2:14:58 ↗ example we will have only a couple

2:15:01 ↗ months

2:15:01 ↗ I hope vacancy salary savings and then

2:15:06 ↗ the we have requests for perhaps

2:15:10 ↗ part-time salaries and then we have a

2:15:14 ↗ request for contractual dollars and our

2:15:17 ↗ financial management practices do not

2:15:19 ↗ allow us to move salary and benefits

2:15:22 ↗ allocations into professional services

2:15:25 ↗ so in the case of the contract we can't

2:15:29 ↗ do that now what we can do is at the

2:15:31 ↗ point in time when we need to do budget

2:15:34 ↗ amendments we can look at how those

2:15:36 ↗ things offset and simply ask for the

2:15:40 ↗ difference okay so the financial

2:15:43 ↗ practices best practices you is I think

2:15:46 ↗ what the kind of the technical answer I

2:15:48 ↗ was looking for and then one other

2:15:50 ↗ question about especially in the

2:15:52 ↗ executive area because of the way this

2:15:54 ↗ is structured and ice we received an

2:15:57 ↗ email from you Emily and respond to some

2:15:59 ↗ questions where it did address the

2:16:01 ↗ search for a city administrator and I

2:16:08 ↗ interpret that to mean that that has not

2:16:10 ↗ started yet and given the structure of

2:16:12 ↗ this proposal I'm just wondering if does

2:16:16 ↗ this somehow priests age some potential

2:16:18 ↗ change in that part of the organization

2:16:22 ↗ compared to what we've had historically

2:16:24 ↗ the curiosity question I just simply

2:16:28 ↗ answer that it's no okay I think that's

2:16:32 ↗ a complete answer thank you it's okay

2:16:35 ↗ I'd like to chime in being stepping from

2:16:38 ↗ a councilmember Rohit roll into a

2:16:41 ↗ mayor's role there's a time period of

2:16:44 ↗ evaluating the work that's on the table

2:16:46 ↗ and the resources you have to do it and

2:16:48 ↗ I've talked about this with council

2:16:50 ↗ leadership quite a bit we are going to

2:16:52 ↗ be going out to do a search and the

2:16:55 ↗ timing of that has not been finalized or

2:16:58 ↗ shared yet with council leadership so

2:17:00 ↗ we're not expecting structural change we

2:17:02 ↗ just have not

2:17:03 ↗ started the search process yet that's

2:17:09 ↗ member Ramos and then council member a

2:17:11 ↗ thank you I have a couple questions

2:17:14 ↗ coming kind of fit in here to say a few

2:17:15 ↗ things and clarify my questions I think

2:17:21 ↗ one question I guess just technical and

2:17:24 ↗ you probably won't have it off the top

2:17:25 ↗ your hip I'll ask you is it is how much

2:17:27 ↗ I mean how much dollar amount have we

2:17:31 ↗ either already amended the budget this

2:17:33 ↗ year or already have plan to make an

2:17:35 ↗ amendment to the budget you know that we

2:17:38 ↗ have agreed to somewhere along the line

2:17:39 ↗ and it just haven't done the menu yet

2:17:41 ↗ you know for the top of my head no we

2:17:44 ↗ didn't think so

2:17:45 ↗ alright and and so what I'm trying to

2:17:49 ↗ get to here is is a budget process which

2:17:52 ↗ during the budget process I had some

2:17:53 ↗ concerns with because when I'm balancing

2:17:56 ↗ a budget every time you spend something

2:17:59 ↗ some money here you're not spending it

2:18:01 ↗ some other place you're always trading

2:18:03 ↗ off because there's only so much money

2:18:04 ↗ so when we come with amendments of this

2:18:07 ↗ nature a really hard thing for me to

2:18:09 ↗ understand is what are we not doing as

2:18:12 ↗ we just said we're going to take the

2:18:14 ↗ request is take 300 some thousand

2:18:16 ↗ dollars and spend it over here which

2:18:18 ↗ wasn't scheduled to be spent so that

2:18:20 ↗ means we're not spending it somewhere

2:18:22 ↗ else and when you come with a piece a

2:18:24 ↗ half of me half of the equation you

2:18:27 ↗ can't tell what the other half is that's

2:18:29 ↗ my rant I guess so like would you like

2:18:31 ↗ an answer to them would you like Emily

2:18:34 ↗ to answer that or I well it was kind of

2:18:36 ↗ a rhetorical because anything she could

2:18:38 ↗ like my first question but if you can

2:18:39 ↗ it's phrased as a question I'd be happy

2:18:41 ↗ to answer it

2:18:42 ↗ okay can you tell me what what we're not

2:18:44 ↗ going to do if we spend this money here

2:18:49 ↗ the proposal is to take it basically

2:18:51 ↗ from fund balance which wasn't allocated

2:18:53 ↗ so the answer of your question is we

2:18:55 ↗ would not be electing I saw I'm going to

2:18:59 ↗ try to avoid double negatives here by

2:19:01 ↗ spending this money out of fund balance

2:19:03 ↗ there isn't something that will not be

2:19:06 ↗ done I still did a bit of but did you

2:19:09 ↗ follow did you follow me

2:19:11 ↗ all right right but what doesn't work

2:19:13 ↗ for me there is something that won't be

2:19:14 ↗ done because it's some time we could

2:19:16 ↗ take this money and spend it on

2:19:17 ↗ something else sure that fund balance is

2:19:19 ↗ available to you for whatever privatized

2:19:21 ↗ need do you have I'm suggesting there's

2:19:23 ↗ one which isn't I saying which we don't

2:19:25 ↗ know that because later on when we look

2:19:26 ↗ at either next year's budget there's

2:19:28 ↗ less money and next year's budget of

2:19:30 ↗ what we want to do right so we're taking

2:19:32 ↗ something out of at some point in time

2:19:33 ↗ we've taken this money away from

2:19:35 ↗ spending so I get the in the process for

2:19:39 ↗ me is is it's just really really ten

2:19:43 ↗ amount that this item a request for sort

2:19:47 ↗ of million dollars I really found out

2:19:50 ↗ about it Friday night

2:19:51 ↗ so I'm looking at it how this process

2:19:56 ↗ comes to us we have we have a general

2:19:57 ↗ process that things come whether they

2:20:00 ↗ come from leadership or or

2:20:02 ↗ administration they go through committee

2:20:04 ↗ you know referral to committee and they

2:20:06 ↗ come back and there's some some in-depth

2:20:08 ↗ work done and that really bothers me

2:20:12 ↗ that that's not done here that process

2:20:15 ↗ is generally there and and I think that

2:20:17 ↗ process is there for a reason there's no

2:20:19 ↗ legal requirement that it be done but

2:20:22 ↗ it's there for a reason so that we work

2:20:24 ↗ through things have full understanding

2:20:25 ↗ full disclosure to those kinds of

2:20:27 ↗ questions that I have now that you

2:20:28 ↗ really can't answer and I understand

2:20:30 ↗ that but but those kinds of things need

2:20:32 ↗ to be shown because the fiscal

2:20:34 ↗ responsibility for us is one of our top

2:20:37 ↗ duties so that's okay so that's what I

2:20:44 ↗ have to say for you well actually I want

2:20:46 ↗ to say one more thing and as with all

2:20:49 ↗ these questions I do want to say that I

2:20:51 ↗ really I respect all the staff and all

2:20:55 ↗ the work they do and this is any of

2:20:56 ↗ these comments or talking about process

2:20:58 ↗ or not anything we reflected in any of

2:21:00 ↗ the staff or any the work they do and

2:21:01 ↗ and the need for keeping that work up to

2:21:05 ↗ the standards of the load that we give

2:21:06 ↗ you at times of course so I just want to

2:21:09 ↗ mention that as well so just I'm a

2:21:11 ↗ process not with all new work at any

2:21:14 ↗ time the council member Ramos I want to

2:21:16 ↗ add a couple of things what I'm doing

2:21:18 ↗ right now is tracking questions and if

2:21:20 ↗ questions are answered tonight my

2:21:21 ↗ expectation would be that

2:21:23 ↗ the council will vote on it so I think

2:21:25 ↗ why it's not following the similar

2:21:27 ↗ processes this is not an agenda bill of

2:21:30 ↗ a programmatic nature or anything like

2:21:33 ↗ that that committees typically that we

2:21:36 ↗ are hoping that we provided enough

2:21:37 ↗ information in the lead up to this and

2:21:40 ↗ last week that we can answer questions I

2:21:41 ↗ agree with you if they're not all

2:21:42 ↗ answered tonight would make sense to

2:21:44 ↗ refer to committee

2:21:45 ↗ the only question I have so far that

2:21:47 ↗ hasn't been answered is what is the

2:21:48 ↗ budget adjustment we have not brought

2:21:50 ↗ you a budget adjustment for this year

2:21:51 ↗ and that is a piece of information you

2:21:53 ↗ asked for so I would continue to ask the

2:21:55 ↗ council members to ask questions tonight

2:21:57 ↗ and see if answers can be provided and

2:22:00 ↗ whether or not you're satisfied that you

2:22:02 ↗ can vote on it this evening and we'll

2:22:04 ↗ vote on it

2:22:05 ↗ other ways we'll talk about what other

2:22:06 ↗ options we have so if there are more

2:22:07 ↗ questions let's keep moving with

2:22:09 ↗ questions I'm losing track

2:22:12 ↗ I think you too have asked questions I

2:22:15 ↗ moved to councilmember Goodman

2:22:16 ↗ councilmember winter Stang

2:22:17 ↗ Thank You Emily and the information we

2:22:21 ↗ received from you I and I don't remember

2:22:25 ↗ if this is day lighted in the agenda

2:22:28 ↗ Bell it was information about the

2:22:31 ↗ impacts of a delay and so I wondered if

2:22:34 ↗ you could just stay light that a little

2:22:36 ↗ bit for people who are watching sure I

2:22:41 ↗ my honest answer is I'm not sure I think

2:22:47 ↗ we impacts can be may be summarized as

2:22:51 ↗ we will need to think about how many

2:22:54 ↗ projects we can have underway at one

2:22:56 ↗ time if we only have two instead of four

2:22:58 ↗ people helping to provide for example

2:23:01 ↗ the public communication that we want to

2:23:03 ↗ do so that's one either eliminating or

2:23:09 ↗ d'Alene projects we had intended to do

2:23:12 ↗ quality of the projects that we

2:23:15 ↗ undertake I'd be concerned about that

2:23:19 ↗ perhaps but maybe they answer that first

2:23:21 ↗ question affects the answer to the

2:23:22 ↗ second and and then certainly as a

2:23:28 ↗ leader in this organization as a manager

2:23:30 ↗ I get concerned about the health of my

2:23:33 ↗ employees and their burnout rate

2:23:36 ↗ I have people who are working way too

2:23:41 ↗ many hours right now and I get concerned

2:23:45 ↗ about losing them either to health

2:23:49 ↗ issues or because they decide grass must

2:23:53 ↗ be green or somewhere else

2:23:55 ↗ so okay you know I don't I don't have

2:23:57 ↗ any that's just gut I don't I don't have

2:23:59 ↗ any way to measure that but I see that

2:24:02 ↗ as a potential issue it's certainly

2:24:03 ↗ something that we have heard in exit

2:24:05 ↗ interviews so I need to be mindful of

2:24:07 ↗ that Thanks don't summer winter Stein

2:24:11 ↗ actually I just I think councilmember

2:24:13 ↗ hunt councilmember hunt and then

2:24:15 ↗ councilmember interesting thank you

2:24:17 ↗ so you'd made a comment which was a good

2:24:20 ↗ project management dictates that you

2:24:22 ↗ have you need a resource plan and then

2:24:26 ↗ also you were talking about the work

2:24:27 ↗ plan and all of the items on the work

2:24:29 ↗ plan and the work plan being I think

2:24:31 ↗ untenable and I am wondering is there a

2:24:35 ↗ plan to revisit edit perhaps change the

2:24:41 ↗ timeline on the work plan not at this

2:24:45 ↗ moment we've been doing that on an

2:24:47 ↗ ongoing basis we don't have a formal way

2:24:50 ↗ a formal plan to come back for example

2:24:53 ↗ to council because there are items I

2:24:55 ↗ would want councils consent on to delay

2:24:58 ↗ or not undertake certainly have been

2:25:01 ↗ talking with council leadership at times

2:25:03 ↗ about timelines for different projects

2:25:08 ↗ and how we've had to space those out for

2:25:10 ↗ different reasons

2:25:11 ↗ if one I could think of is the mobility

2:25:13 ↗ master plan that we have said until we

2:25:17 ↗ get that staffing resource on board the

2:25:19 ↗ senior transportation planner we're not

2:25:21 ↗ able to undertake that but there there

2:25:24 ↗ was clarity right we had a staffing

2:25:26 ↗ resource proposed granted and at least

2:25:29 ↗ the first tasks and so it's easy to say

2:25:32 ↗ we don't have the resource therefore we

2:25:34 ↗ can't go forward on the project where

2:25:36 ↗ it's more difficult is taking the long

2:25:38 ↗ list of projects so that we're going to

2:25:40 ↗ have multiple employees working on them

2:25:44 ↗ because their cross departmental in

2:25:45 ↗ nature and thinking about okay if you

2:25:48 ↗ don't have the 10% increment

2:25:49 ↗ this person and the 50% from this and so

2:25:52 ↗ on can we still get it done we haven't

2:25:54 ↗ we haven't done that across the board

2:25:56 ↗ analysis but there are things that we

2:25:59 ↗ have already chosen to delay we shared

2:26:02 ↗ with you that we don't plan to move to a

2:26:04 ↗ two-year budget I've also asked the

2:26:06 ↗ finance director not to undertake some

2:26:09 ↗ new cost allocation work that we were

2:26:11 ↗ planning to do in the finance department

2:26:13 ↗ because I just there were bits and

2:26:14 ↗ pieces and finance departments work plan

2:26:16 ↗ I didn't feel that we were able to

2:26:17 ↗ accomplish but we haven't looked across

2:26:20 ↗ the board yet so just to follow up do

2:26:25 ↗ you anticipate that there will be

2:26:27 ↗ editing of that work plan in addition to

2:26:30 ↗ the if these positions where this

2:26:32 ↗ contracts words we find that in addition

2:26:34 ↗ to that there would also be at its to

2:26:36 ↗ the work plan I think we'll have to look

2:26:37 ↗ at it what's complicated is many of

2:26:41 ↗ those projects have been started and so

2:26:44 ↗ we're gonna need to look at whether or

2:26:47 ↗ not we can sustain that work or we're

2:26:51 ↗ gonna have to go back to community and

2:26:52 ↗ say it's going to take longer for us to

2:26:55 ↗ produce that product Thank You Kent

2:26:59 ↗ Somerville interesting thank you

2:27:01 ↗ appreciate the answers you've been

2:27:03 ↗ giving I want your help in doing a

2:27:05 ↗ little bit of math and I have maybe this

2:27:07 ↗ will be hopefully this won't be

2:27:09 ↗ difficult sure the way I view this yes I

2:27:14 ↗ know that we have a budget that we have

2:27:15 ↗ authorized the salaries and benefits for

2:27:17 ↗ the positions that are currently vacant

2:27:20 ↗ or have recently been made vacant when I

2:27:24 ↗ look at the total ask I think it's 320 I

2:27:27 ↗ believe the 100,000 for HR is all new

2:27:31 ↗ it's not fulfilling backfilling for some

2:27:36 ↗ some vacancy it's correct and I look at

2:27:39 ↗ the 60,000 for communications what would

2:27:42 ↗ you if you just want to give me a rough

2:27:45 ↗ estimate

2:27:46 ↗ twelve twelve thousand kinis there's

2:27:51 ↗ still fifty nine thousand nine hundred

2:27:53 ↗ eighty eight forty eight yep I've need a

2:27:57 ↗ budget so the 12 is what anticipated

2:28:02 ↗ salary saving

2:28:03 ↗ it's pretty happy ok so the incremental

2:28:05 ↗ ask on top of what was already been

2:28:08 ↗ authorized when you net it all out we

2:28:10 ↗ analysis it at the end of the year this

2:28:12 ↗ looks like this is an additional 48 to

2:28:14 ↗ what we think we would that is when I'm

2:28:16 ↗ estimating thank you and the executive

2:28:20 ↗ executive would be new dollars I'm sorry

2:28:23 ↗ new all all hundred and sixty would be

2:28:26 ↗ new okay okay that one surprises me

2:28:31 ↗ because the position is vacant

2:28:34 ↗ so I of at least of the city

2:28:39 ↗ administrator there's it used to be to

2:28:42 ↗ you and city administrator and the

2:28:44 ↗ deputy now there's just the in term so

2:28:46 ↗ okay that number surprises me what am I

2:28:49 ↗ missing

2:28:49 ↗ I you're missing that when employees

2:28:54 ↗ leave our employment there are benefits

2:28:57 ↗ that we still have to pay and contracts

2:29:00 ↗ that we still have to fulfill okay

2:29:06 ↗ okay so this is all new right thank you

2:29:09 ↗ thank you

2:29:10 ↗ Kristen I see your hand go up yeah just

2:29:12 ↗ a couple of follow-on questions and I'm

2:29:14 ↗ gonna pick on pickup on council winter

2:29:17 ↗ Stein's because I can't believe that the

2:29:18 ↗ salary savings is twelve thousand

2:29:20 ↗ dollars for the position so you're

2:29:23 ↗ saying the entire year that that

2:29:25 ↗ position was gonna cost us $12,000 no

2:29:28 ↗ that's not what I'm saying

2:29:29 ↗ then yeah so if I look at a calendar

2:29:32 ↗ year and we don't fill this position

2:29:34 ↗ what's the salary savings it doesn't

2:29:37 ↗ that number doesn't foot for me do you

2:29:43 ↗ have a vacant position in communications

2:29:46 ↗ that's correct

2:29:47 ↗ and so what do we pay what is that pay

2:29:51 ↗ grade for that position annually

2:29:54 ↗ I think council memory it starts with

2:29:56 ↗ the fact that there has been someone in

2:29:57 ↗ that position right but there is no one

2:29:59 ↗ in that position that's correct I mean

2:30:01 ↗ the Delta of why it's 12,000 yeah and

2:30:03 ↗ and I should have said 12 to 20 the

2:30:07 ↗ lower cost estimate is if we're able to

2:30:11 ↗ fill the position quickly so there's one

2:30:13 ↗ vacancy that is resulting in salary

2:30:16 ↗ savings in coming

2:30:17 ↗ Asians recently vacated I will be

2:30:20 ↗ marketing and recruiting for that

2:30:22 ↗ position as soon as I possibly can I

2:30:25 ↗ anticipate that position per my email

2:30:27 ↗ will be vacant for two and a half months

2:30:32 ↗ and that's what I'm chucking the salary

2:30:35 ↗ savings up to after you take out some

2:30:38 ↗ costs for benefits and that still have

2:30:42 ↗ to be paid and marketing for the

2:30:45 ↗ recruitment etc we come up with savings

2:30:49 ↗ of about twelve to twenty thousand for

2:30:51 ↗ that time period okay so do you on on a

2:30:57 ↗ monthly basis or quarterly basis or

2:30:59 ↗ something get a budget to actual report

2:31:01 ↗ that shows what was budgeted on each of

2:31:03 ↗ these line items and what our actual

2:31:04 ↗ spend was and what the Delta was I do

2:31:06 ↗ not on individual line items but at the

2:31:10 ↗ department division and what we call

2:31:13 ↗ object code roll-up level yes okay do

2:31:19 ↗ you have an idea how many vacant

2:31:21 ↗ positions there are citywide right now I

2:31:23 ↗ don't at the moment we had 44 last year

2:31:27 ↗ we are anticipating having about 55 52

2:31:32 ↗ if the trend continues from kind of

2:31:36 ↗ year-to-date and based off of

2:31:38 ↗ year-to-year increase in recruitments

2:31:42 ↗ exactly and my math is right about 20

2:31:45 ↗ percent of the workforce that's harder

2:31:50 ↗ math to do because some of that will

2:31:52 ↗ include seasonal positions and we may

2:31:58 ↗ have a position that's vacant for we may

2:32:02 ↗ run that recruitment more than one time

2:32:04 ↗ if we're not lucky the first time oh

2:32:06 ↗ good that's perfect so what's the

2:32:08 ↗ generally how longs it take us to fill a

2:32:10 ↗ vacancy it depends on the position give

2:32:14 ↗ me a range goodness and this is my

2:32:19 ↗ guesstimate here anywhere from eight

2:32:24 ↗ weeks to we have had a position open for

2:32:27 ↗ over a year because of this issue of

2:32:30 ↗ not finding app applicants that are

2:32:33 ↗ qualified or in that particular case

2:32:36 ↗ that I'm thinking of actually making two

2:32:37 ↗ job offers that were turned down you

2:32:40 ↗ know and I recognize it too it's a

2:32:42 ↗ difficult labor market right now I mean

2:32:44 ↗ it's a it's a competitive labor market

2:32:46 ↗ so do you have a sense of what our

2:32:48 ↗ turnover rate is annually I can't

2:32:52 ↗ remember what that number was last year

2:32:53 ↗ we gave that to Council at the last

2:32:56 ↗ council retreat we could get back to you

2:32:57 ↗ with that number I'd be awesome that's

2:33:00 ↗ it for thanks Council deputy council

2:33:04 ↗ president Batista's Thank You Emily what

2:33:08 ↗ is the so this is the plan for 2018 what

2:33:13 ↗ is the plan going forward after 2018

2:33:18 ↗ what are your what are your thoughts I'm

2:33:20 ↗ just curious in terms of human resources

2:33:25 ↗ and recruiting and just just that

2:33:28 ↗ there's been turnover there's been asked

2:33:32 ↗ for full time positions and now we're

2:33:35 ↗ looking at contingent staff so if you

2:33:38 ↗ could just talk a little bit about that

2:33:39 ↗ sure in in all three of those

2:33:42 ↗ departments okay so in human resources

2:33:45 ↗ as I mentioned we would look at how

2:33:49 ↗ contracting out the recruitment function

2:33:51 ↗ is working and if it's working well and

2:33:55 ↗ we think that's cost-effective for

2:33:57 ↗ example then we may continue to ask for

2:34:01 ↗ an allocation within the HR budget to

2:34:05 ↗ perform that task at a house if for some

2:34:08 ↗ reason we feel it's not the best model

2:34:10 ↗ or we can get better return on

2:34:12 ↗ investment through requesting a

2:34:15 ↗ full-time equivalent position in the

2:34:18 ↗ 2019 budget then we'll make that

2:34:20 ↗ proposal at the departmental level

2:34:23 ↗ because the process that we have is you

2:34:26 ↗ get the department request then it goes

2:34:28 ↗ to the mayor's office and then we look

2:34:30 ↗ across the board at all of the requests

2:34:32 ↗ and decide what to put forward to you so

2:34:34 ↗ I would anticipate we at least make the

2:34:36 ↗ request at that level at the department

2:34:38 ↗ mayor's office level so that would be

2:34:40 ↗ for a recruiter correct some

2:34:44 ↗ I couldn't tell you what that

2:34:45 ↗ classification is but that would be the

2:34:47 ↗ primary function yes and then in

2:34:50 ↗ communications

2:34:51 ↗ what is 2019 look like it looks like

2:34:55 ↗ we're fully staffed and there's no

2:34:58 ↗ additional funds requested so

2:35:01 ↗ everybody's back in their seats an exec

2:35:05 ↗ we're having ongoing conversations with

2:35:08 ↗ council leadership about how to go about

2:35:10 ↗ filling the spots in that department so

2:35:12 ↗ I'm not able to tell you at this moment

2:35:14 ↗ but I would expect we would also be

2:35:16 ↗ fully staffed at some point in 2019

2:35:19 ↗ thank you and I should say because I

2:35:23 ↗ don't want somebody to say I didn't I

2:35:25 ↗ would expect that department director

2:35:28 ↗ also make a request for additional

2:35:30 ↗ staffing in terms of that management

2:35:33 ↗ analyst level position that's lacking in

2:35:35 ↗ the department right now in the 2019

2:35:37 ↗ budget but whether or not that gets out

2:35:39 ↗ as a mayor's request or proposed budget

2:35:42 ↗ is to be seen thank you looking for more

2:35:50 ↗ questions did we have a motion member

2:35:56 ↗ Ramos yes just for process I'm just

2:35:58 ↗ trying to look a little bit in ways that

2:36:01 ↗ process could be in in our service

2:36:04 ↗ there's a safety committee met this

2:36:07 ↗ month on the 10th next month they'll

2:36:09 ↗ meet on the 9th I'm just trying to

2:36:10 ↗ figure out a way that we could have made

2:36:12 ↗ this through the process and if two

2:36:14 ↗ weeks ago at our council meeting it was

2:36:18 ↗ referred to services of safety and back

2:36:20 ↗ we could have had this here that having

2:36:22 ↗ gone through the process and been here

2:36:25 ↗ with a much more process if this was

2:36:26 ↗ brought forward just two weeks ago I

2:36:28 ↗ don't think most of this information is

2:36:31 ↗ you know that new so and I mean like so

2:36:36 ↗ I'm just looking at how that process now

2:36:37 ↗ at this point if if someone decided to

2:36:40 ↗ recommend referring this to MIDI at this

2:36:45 ↗ point with that we wouldn't be able to

2:36:46 ↗ get back until May 19th or something at

2:36:49 ↗ beetle after part 21st so it'd be it'd

2:36:52 ↗ be a good four month delay but we could

2:36:55 ↗ have done it this month with

2:36:56 ↗ just to leave its start here so just

2:37:00 ↗ question that a little bit I want to say

2:37:02 ↗ I know human resources we've know

2:37:05 ↗ they've been lean and mean for a long

2:37:07 ↗ time so that's like that's nothing new

2:37:09 ↗ that's the one thing here that is you

2:37:12 ↗ know has been around for a long time for

2:37:13 ↗ for looking at what we're doing there

2:37:15 ↗ and a complement to work they've done

2:37:16 ↗ over years they're being lean and mean

2:37:18 ↗ they're on that so I just want to yeah

2:37:22 ↗ I'll let you go thank you so just before

2:37:25 ↗ we start council president right it's

2:37:27 ↗ the two outstanding piece of information

2:37:29 ↗ that I've heard that aren't here this

2:37:30 ↗ evening what is the city's budget

2:37:32 ↗ adjustment I don't believe we've come

2:37:33 ↗ with one and what is a staff turnover

2:37:35 ↗ rate and I'm not hearing any other

2:37:38 ↗ questions that are missing at this point

2:37:39 ↗ in time I I guess I did have one more

2:37:42 ↗ that's my mind that was how much have we

2:37:44 ↗ already amended this budget or plant

2:37:47 ↗ haven't slam admit that's what I have

2:37:48 ↗ that was the budget ax men I by Judge

2:37:50 ↗ adjustment we haven't had a budget

2:37:51 ↗ adjustment yet and so it would include

2:37:53 ↗ several items including this one as a

2:37:57 ↗ president works

2:37:58 ↗ thank you madam there I moved to

2:38:01 ↗ authorize an allocation of three hundred

2:38:03 ↗ and twenty thousand dollars to provide

2:38:04 ↗ for additional staffing resources and

2:38:06 ↗ Human Resources communications in the

2:38:08 ↗ executive office and direct the finance

2:38:11 ↗ director to include the allocation a

2:38:12 ↗ subsequent 2018 budget amendment

2:38:15 ↗ utilizing the general fund second it

2:38:18 ↗ moved in second I'm so president marks

2:38:21 ↗ so a couple things on this so is it

2:38:27 ↗ needed

2:38:27 ↗ as we have heard this evening a lot of

2:38:31 ↗ this as is as a result of things that

2:38:34 ↗ have happened since we did the budget of

2:38:38 ↗ since when we looked at the budget and

2:38:40 ↗ since when we approve the budget things

2:38:42 ↗ come up timing I understand the urgency

2:38:48 ↗ on this on the administration's part

2:38:52 ↗ generally speaking I like to see things

2:38:54 ↗ go through committee first and I

2:38:56 ↗ understand what is concern some of my

2:38:58 ↗ fellow council members but I look at

2:39:01 ↗ these three areas HR is is is the

2:39:05 ↗ obvious first step I mean the the first

2:39:07 ↗ step when you're you

2:39:09 ↗ when there's water getting in your boat

2:39:10 ↗ is you Bale the water out and and HR is

2:39:13 ↗ that is the bucket with which you bail

2:39:15 ↗ out the ship calms you no communications

2:39:21 ↗ this council in this administration

2:39:23 ↗ value strongly our outreach into the

2:39:25 ↗ community and having the resources to

2:39:29 ↗ provide that communication in both

2:39:31 ↗ directions both both seeking and sharing

2:39:34 ↗ communications is a high priority and

2:39:36 ↗ the executive office you know we have

2:39:38 ↗ had three full-time senior executives in

2:39:41 ↗ this city since it was much smaller than

2:39:43 ↗ it is today and I understand I think

2:39:46 ↗ that the two of you are are doing a

2:39:49 ↗ great job but I understand why we are

2:39:52 ↗ there are things that we should be doing

2:39:54 ↗ in the executive office that we're not

2:39:56 ↗ doing currently

2:39:57 ↗ finally on availability you know I I

2:40:00 ↗ don't know what this revised number is I

2:40:02 ↗ know we have you know there's been

2:40:04 ↗ conversation about that we've seen other

2:40:06 ↗ amendments already in early in April but

2:40:08 ↗ you know the proposed budget had a 34%

2:40:11 ↗ margin on on ending fund balance of the

2:40:16 ↗ general fund and that is as compared to

2:40:18 ↗ a target of 15 to 20 percent and I like

2:40:21 ↗ having nice high ending fund balances

2:40:23 ↗ for just these sorts of issues as as

2:40:26 ↗ I've mentioned earlier a lot of these

2:40:28 ↗ needs are coming up because of things

2:40:30 ↗ that have happened since December that's

2:40:32 ↗ why you have nice healthy ending fund

2:40:34 ↗ balances so if we if we and by the way

2:40:38 ↗ 34 percent as compared to 20 percent

2:40:41 ↗ that represents 7.1 million dollars so

2:40:44 ↗ I'm quite confident we have not

2:40:45 ↗ authorized 7.1 percent 1 million dollars

2:40:48 ↗ of additional spending I would have

2:40:50 ↗ remembered it so I think it's I think

2:40:52 ↗ it's valuable to understand how this is

2:40:55 ↗ in context other additions that we've

2:40:57 ↗ made since last fall but because of

2:41:02 ↗ stated urgency by the administration I'm

2:41:06 ↗ willing to view this as a little bit

2:41:08 ↗ different of a process and so that's why

2:41:09 ↗ I made this motion tonight and that's

2:41:11 ↗ why I would support moving forward with

2:41:14 ↗ a with the motion that I think thank you

2:41:16 ↗ that's a member we're interesting thank

2:41:18 ↗ you thank you madam mayor earlier you

2:41:21 ↗ said you're gonna keep track of

2:41:21 ↗ questions

2:41:22 ↗ if we can't answer the questions maybe

2:41:24 ↗ that would be part of the justification

2:41:25 ↗ for moving on I would I would add I

2:41:27 ↗ think whenever we consider this type of

2:41:29 ↗ question I would sometimes you just need

2:41:31 ↗ to sleep on things and I know however

2:41:34 ↗ our our cycle it's not like we're

2:41:37 ↗ meeting again tomorrow and so there's

2:41:39 ↗ there's ramification for that because

2:41:40 ↗ some at least I'm speaking for myself

2:41:42 ↗ sometimes I just need I'm when I'm

2:41:44 ↗ really taking something in for the first

2:41:46 ↗ time I need I wish I had more time the

2:41:49 ↗ thing kind I just want to throw that out

2:41:50 ↗ there for that I'm interpreting the

2:41:55 ↗ numbers to say that the 100,000 for HR

2:42:02 ↗ may become an ongoing cost and that the

2:42:05 ↗ rest of the costs are one-time yes I

2:42:12 ↗ don't know that the 100,000 will be the

2:42:15 ↗ 100,000 in the future because it's

2:42:17 ↗ partial year and it's consulting dollars

2:42:19 ↗ versus full-time and benefits but your

2:42:23 ↗ basic premise function that it would

2:42:26 ↗ provide this may be a harbinger of an

2:42:29 ↗ ongoing cost something and where for HR

2:42:34 ↗ correct correct would year but the

2:42:37 ↗ answer to your question the question

2:42:39 ↗ earlier that what Mariah asked you see

2:42:43 ↗ fully staffed and if what we get fully

2:42:46 ↗ staffed in communications and staffed as

2:42:49 ↗ currently planned in executive then

2:42:52 ↗ these would have been one-time costs

2:42:55 ↗ correct with the caveat again being

2:42:57 ↗ maybe other staffing requests in 19 that

2:43:00 ↗ I've already spoken about yes thank you

2:43:03 ↗ okay thank you

2:43:04 ↗ let's move I'm really concerned with the

2:43:07 ↗ comment that our work plan for this year

2:43:11 ↗ and our budget for this year are at a

2:43:12 ↗ balance again being three months into

2:43:16 ↗ the year it just seems to me that we

2:43:18 ↗ should not be putting the other work

2:43:20 ↗ plan that we don't have a budget to

2:43:21 ↗ support and it's not good service to the

2:43:24 ↗ people to make commitments if we don't

2:43:26 ↗ think we can get them so that concerns

2:43:28 ↗ me my number two concern is there's

2:43:31 ↗ about budget visibility

2:43:33 ↗ we don't have it I don't have it I don't

2:43:35 ↗ know if you guys got it I don't have it

2:43:37 ↗ I don't know where we are compared to

2:43:39 ↗ where we should be this year I think

2:43:40 ↗ that's something that we need to have in

2:43:43 ↗ terms of fund balances yeah it is great

2:43:45 ↗ that we have fund balances but to

2:43:47 ↗ councilmember Ramos is point every time

2:43:49 ↗ we take the fund balance suspended on

2:43:51 ↗ one thing we don't have it suspended on

2:43:52 ↗ another thing because we don't have an

2:43:54 ↗ infinite amount of money there and then

2:43:56 ↗ finally it I believe it is our job

2:43:58 ↗ collectively to plan ahead and to have

2:44:00 ↗ visibility six months nine months a year

2:44:03 ↗ ahead of time so I don't buy the

2:44:05 ↗ argument that well shucks this just just

2:44:07 ↗ happened we need to have ways to get

2:44:09 ↗ ahead of this and we need to build in

2:44:12 ↗ whatever mechanisms we need going

2:44:15 ↗ forward so we're not a year from now

2:44:17 ↗ having the same discussion about Oh

2:44:18 ↗ shucks so we need another five hundred

2:44:20 ↗ thousand dollars because there's

2:44:22 ↗ something we didn't think about and

2:44:23 ↗ that's our job that's our job to figure

2:44:25 ↗ that stuff out so going forward I I

2:44:29 ↗ don't know how I feel about this agenda

2:44:32 ↗ bill right now I mean I'm I'm squarely

2:44:34 ↗ on the fence but I do know that I cannot

2:44:37 ↗ support this unless I see something that

2:44:39 ↗ lets me believe that next year we won't

2:44:41 ↗ have the same discussion or even next

2:44:43 ↗ month we won't have the same discussion

2:44:45 ↗ that we have a program in place and we

2:44:47 ↗ have methods in place so we can get

2:44:49 ↗ ahead of this and start to budget and

2:44:51 ↗ believe our budgets more councilmember

2:44:56 ↗ comments and then councilmember hunt so

2:45:02 ↗ I I wanted to echo some of the comments

2:45:06 ↗ from council president Mart's in terms

2:45:09 ↗ of if if we I can understand some of the

2:45:14 ↗ comments from my fellow council members

2:45:16 ↗ that - in terms of timing and having

2:45:21 ↗ this go through a committee and that I

2:45:25 ↗ think that that's always the way that we

2:45:27 ↗ that we want to structure that but in

2:45:29 ↗ regard to just guess I draw back on my

2:45:34 ↗ background both in operations

2:45:38 ↗ and in human resources when there are

2:45:40 ↗ when there are staffing changes when

2:45:43 ↗ there's FTE turnovers and people out on

2:45:49 ↗ leave and there can be a variety of

2:45:51 ↗ things happening and and often at the

2:45:55 ↗ operational side of the business is is

2:45:59 ↗ sometimes what starts to suffer when I

2:46:02 ↗ hear comments about employee well-being

2:46:07 ↗ and working a lot of hours and people

2:46:11 ↗ may be talking about that as they're as

2:46:13 ↗ they're exiting and turnover that that

2:46:16 ↗ concerns me and and we we do have work

2:46:19 ↗ plans in place and some of these things

2:46:21 ↗ can be very much unforeseen so I'll talk

2:46:26 ↗ about communications I think that there

2:46:30 ↗ can always be in terms of organizations

2:46:34 ↗ having turnover or having people on

2:46:37 ↗ leave that's a short-term time limit and

2:46:42 ↗ it seems like the right thing to do to

2:46:44 ↗ bring in staff to to cover that in terms

2:46:49 ↗ of communication and we we also have on

2:46:56 ↗ the executive side we are down people we

2:47:01 ↗ don't have as many people doing the jobs

2:47:03 ↗ as we need to have doing the jobs right

2:47:06 ↗ now

2:47:06 ↗ and again I just to comment on some of

2:47:11 ↗ the things that councilmember Ray has

2:47:14 ↗ talked about having that that planning

2:47:17 ↗ in place and being able to look into the

2:47:19 ↗ future

2:47:20 ↗ and and what is that going to look like

2:47:22 ↗ next year that that was really the crux

2:47:25 ↗ of why I was asking that question is

2:47:27 ↗ what kind of planning can we have going

2:47:29 ↗ forward to make sure that that we are

2:47:32 ↗ that we are fully staffed but that

2:47:36 ↗ doesn't often stop in organizations all

2:47:39 ↗ sorts of changes people go out on leave

2:47:41 ↗ there's turnover there's retirements

2:47:43 ↗ there's all sorts of things that happen

2:47:46 ↗ so I would be in support of of moving

2:47:50 ↗ forward with us I'm going to talk about

2:47:53 ↗ human resources

2:47:55 ↗ last human resources and recruiting is

2:48:02 ↗ something that that I think that we we

2:48:04 ↗ really should think about I I look at

2:48:08 ↗ the kinds of the things that were on the

2:48:11 ↗ list for the kinds of things that the HR

2:48:15 ↗ director could be looking at if they

2:48:19 ↗ weren't probably heads down with

2:48:21 ↗ recruiting which I know that they have

2:48:23 ↗ to be because it says the number

2:48:25 ↗ year-over-year recruitments have

2:48:27 ↗ increased an average of 55 percent in

2:48:29 ↗ the past three years and three hundred

2:48:30 ↗ percent since 2013 recruiting is an

2:48:35 ↗ incredibly time-consuming job in every

2:48:40 ↗ single way both administratively and the

2:48:43 ↗ time it takes to source and that it's

2:48:45 ↗ just so time-consuming

2:48:46 ↗ I managed this right now and so I I

2:48:50 ↗ understand this very deeply and on the

2:48:54 ↗ human resources side some of the things

2:48:56 ↗ that we're talking about are completing

2:48:59 ↗ the class and comp survey enhancing the

2:49:01 ↗ labor management protocol collective

2:49:04 ↗ bargaining I mean some of those things

2:49:07 ↗ are jobs within themselves and so having

2:49:12 ↗ a very small group do the recruiting and

2:49:14 ↗ try to be strategic in HR is oftentimes

2:49:18 ↗ an impossible task so to me when I look

2:49:21 ↗ at the numbers associated with human

2:49:25 ↗ resources that makes really really

2:49:28 ↗ perfect sense though that we need some

2:49:30 ↗ help there

2:49:31 ↗ and so I I would like to talk about what

2:49:34 ↗ are we going to do going forward after

2:49:36 ↗ 2018 but for now I understand the

2:49:40 ↗ reasons for this and I would be in

2:49:43 ↗ support of this thank you I'm sniper

2:49:48 ↗ hunt thank you

2:49:50 ↗ so you made a comment that this the

2:49:53 ↗ comment that I stated earlier which was

2:49:56 ↗ good project

2:49:57 ↗ dictates that you have a resource plan

2:49:59 ↗ and I think that that is really

2:50:00 ↗ important and I think that this is

2:50:03 ↗ proposed as a sort of temporary

2:50:05 ↗ tangential solution to that but I think

2:50:08 ↗ we also need to really look at that work

2:50:11 ↗ plan and look at the resource plan

2:50:13 ↗ associated with that work plan and try

2:50:15 ↗ to use that to get ahead of some of

2:50:20 ↗ these issues so that we do have more

2:50:22 ↗ time to contemplate and maybe come up

2:50:24 ↗ with different options or different

2:50:28 ↗ solutions in the summary statement on

2:50:31 ↗ Human Resources it actually refers to

2:50:34 ↗ the human resources as a historical

2:50:36 ↗ shortage and so it has been a long time

2:50:40 ↗ that this has been a need I think in in

2:50:44 ↗ my opinion if this had gone to committee

2:50:47 ↗ we could have had a lot of our questions

2:50:49 ↗ answered in a more thorough way and it

2:50:51 ↗ in the way that committees are supposed

2:50:54 ↗ to work and I I respect that we were

2:50:57 ↗ being asked to vote on this today but I

2:50:59 ↗ would ask that in the future we do be

2:51:03 ↗ given the opportunity to vet this

2:51:04 ↗ committee because our role on council is

2:51:07 ↗ to ask questions and I think that that's

2:51:10 ↗ that's why we have the committee process

2:51:12 ↗ and I think at least some of these items

2:51:14 ↗ could have gone through the more

2:51:16 ↗ thorough process thank you

2:51:19 ↗ two more council members have not spoken

2:51:21 ↗ Goodman and Rommels its member Goodman

2:51:23 ↗ thank you so I so I some of the some a

2:51:36 ↗ couple at least a couple of the asks

2:51:39 ↗ that you're making tonight is my

2:51:41 ↗ understanding or made because of some

2:51:44 ↗ fairly recent events and I think that if

2:51:50 ↗ you would have brought this earlier a

2:51:53 ↗ few weeks ago you very likely would have

2:51:57 ↗ been back before us again with another

2:51:59 ↗ ask shortly because the those events

2:52:04 ↗ would not have happened yet one of the

2:52:07 ↗ two of the vacancies

2:52:10 ↗ one of the vacancies wouldn't have

2:52:12 ↗ happened and one of them we would have

2:52:13 ↗ been unsure about the future of that

2:52:16 ↗ vacant position without being specific

2:52:18 ↗ the I agree that you know it's always

2:52:21 ↗ ideal if we go through committee and you

2:52:23 ↗ know when I was on leadership when Paul

2:52:25 ↗ was in leadership you know Mary Lou was

2:52:27 ↗ on leadership you know we stressed that

2:52:29 ↗ we try to do that but I think it's our

2:52:31 ↗ job to also recognize when we need to be

2:52:33 ↗ flexible and my concern tonight is that

2:52:37 ↗ we do a disservice to our community if

2:52:40 ↗ we continue to allow what I call a you

2:52:45 ↗ know a pretty significant short staff

2:52:48 ↗ that that in my own words what I'm

2:52:53 ↗ hearing is we're gonna have a problem

2:52:55 ↗ getting our work done and if we can't

2:52:57 ↗ get our work done things have to suffer

2:52:59 ↗ and a lot of what's on the work plan

2:53:00 ↗ it's not just you know who we want to do

2:53:03 ↗ this fun stuff it's it there are

2:53:05 ↗ mandatory things that have to be done so

2:53:07 ↗ we can't always cut the work plan to

2:53:10 ↗ meet short staffing needs but again I'm

2:53:13 ↗ going to support this because I think it

2:53:15 ↗ does a disservice to our community to

2:53:18 ↗ perpetuate the problem by focusing on

2:53:21 ↗ the fact that we should have brought

2:53:23 ↗ this a few weeks ago when I think the

2:53:25 ↗ ask would have been different a few

2:53:26 ↗ weeks ago and then you would have been

2:53:28 ↗ back before us again now or within a

2:53:32 ↗ couple of weeks with additional asks

2:53:34 ↗ because I think we still would have had

2:53:38 ↗ unknown vacancies in a couple of

2:53:41 ↗ positions thank you council member Ramos

2:53:45 ↗ yes I'm I'm I'm torn here because I want

2:53:51 ↗ to support our staff I don't have a good

2:53:53 ↗ staff and they need help but I'm torn

2:53:57 ↗ out in the process I do believe this two

2:53:59 ↗ weeks could have gone through the

2:54:00 ↗ process easily with a little bit or

2:54:04 ↗ advance thought here I know the human

2:54:06 ↗ resource has been leaning mean for years

2:54:08 ↗ and I want to support them for sure but

2:54:11 ↗ I really do that process is important

2:54:14 ↗ it's important not just for our Council

2:54:16 ↗ but it's for the public to see and

2:54:18 ↗ always weigh because I'm always there

2:54:20 ↗ whenever you spend money in one place

2:54:22 ↗ you're not spending it somewhere else on

2:54:23 ↗ some other priority and you may not you

2:54:25 ↗ may not know what that is right now but

2:54:27 ↗ it's not being spent somewhere else and

2:54:29 ↗ you never know that until you look at

2:54:31 ↗ the whole budget that's why we try to

2:54:33 ↗ balance those budgets and look at those

2:54:34 ↗ things and just because we're lucky

2:54:36 ↗ right now that we have plenty of money

2:54:37 ↗ and any fund balance we consider this

2:54:39 ↗ differently if our any of our mouths was

2:54:41 ↗ right at the 20% mark you know where

2:54:43 ↗ would we be looking at those things so

2:54:45 ↗ that's that's the tough part just

2:54:49 ↗ because you have it doesn't mean you you

2:54:50 ↗ know you just jump at those things so

2:54:53 ↗ but we do need some work done and and

2:54:56 ↗ and we do have some good folks and I

2:54:58 ↗ don't want to get folks burned out yes

2:55:02 ↗ and before I go to councilmember to

2:55:04 ↗ Stein's so we have heard from everybody

2:55:05 ↗ once I'm going to come back to Paul now

2:55:07 ↗ and give anybody else a chance for

2:55:09 ↗ closing comments if you'd like

2:55:11 ↗ councilmember winter stand Adam mayor

2:55:12 ↗ I'd also like just a quick chance to

2:55:15 ↗ talk about how we'll go about resource

2:55:17 ↗ planning in the future and some pieces

2:55:19 ↗ that I think council can assist in would

2:55:22 ↗ you like to do that now before we short

2:55:24 ↗ final comments okay so I want to

2:55:28 ↗ recognize acknowledge in fact I have

2:55:32 ↗ already admitted that we can do a better

2:55:35 ↗ job of resource planning we can continue

2:55:38 ↗ to try to calculate what we can handle

2:55:42 ↗ at full staffing capability which I

2:55:45 ↗ think we did we knew it was going to be

2:55:48 ↗ a stretch but there wasn't the support

2:55:53 ↗ that was desired and so we made that

2:55:57 ↗ calculated choice to stretch and try to

2:55:59 ↗ accomplish all that we have set before

2:56:00 ↗ us for 2018 however these were unplanned

2:56:06 ↗ events and so we don't even have that

2:56:09 ↗ complement of staff to work with the

2:56:12 ↗ other thing that I would say is we could

2:56:14 ↗ do a better job and you can also help us

2:56:16 ↗ with this in estimating the amount of

2:56:18 ↗ time that's needed to complete projects

2:56:21 ↗ we don't always a staff control the

2:56:24 ↗ destiny of particular projects and new

2:56:28 ↗ tasks get added throughout the year and

2:56:32 ↗ additional desires for outreach for

2:56:34 ↗ example or

2:56:35 ↗ for extra steps in process extra

2:56:39 ↗ research adds to the work plan so

2:56:43 ↗ there's a whole list of tasks that

2:56:44 ↗ weren't even on work plan that get added

2:56:47 ↗ in a given year or more sub-bullets

2:56:51 ↗ underneath each task and that's fine

2:56:54 ↗ that's fine but it is very hard to

2:56:57 ↗ measure going into a year how long a

2:57:00 ↗ certain project is going to take because

2:57:02 ↗ they shift around so I just wanted to

2:57:06 ↗ add that but even when we have staff try

2:57:09 ↗ to plan resources appropriately there's

2:57:11 ↗ a pieces outside of our control I'm

2:57:15 ↗ gonna go back for comments councilmember

2:57:17 ↗ widgets time I'll make them quick two

2:57:19 ↗ things Emily that I appreciate you those

2:57:21 ↗ last comments and I've been thinking

2:57:22 ↗ about councilmember Ray's comments I

2:57:25 ↗ think you were kind of responding to

2:57:26 ↗ this idea of a work plan and having a

2:57:29 ↗ proper staffing plan and believing that

2:57:33 ↗ we have a budget and a staff and a work

2:57:36 ↗ plan that we can be successful with and

2:57:38 ↗ I speaking for myself when we go through

2:57:41 ↗ this budget but also as we put

2:57:44 ↗ additional count as a council put

2:57:46 ↗ additional requests on the

2:57:47 ↗ administration I accept some culpability

2:57:50 ↗ for the situation because we approve the

2:57:53 ↗ budget and we put the demands on staff

2:57:55 ↗ so we are have to accept some of that

2:57:58 ↗ and I readily accept some of that

2:58:00 ↗ ourselves it's not just one-sided issue

2:58:03 ↗ and the way of the comment I'm just

2:58:04 ↗ going it's going to be really brief is

2:58:06 ↗ is for the record I don't consider us

2:58:10 ↗ lucky to have the ending fund balance

2:58:13 ↗ that we have it comes through some very

2:58:15 ↗ prudent fiscal management and and some

2:58:19 ↗ deliberate decisions as well yes we have

2:58:21 ↗ an economy that helps but a lot of that

2:58:24 ↗ is but based upon specific de si and

2:58:27 ↗ decisions that we've made so I do accept

2:58:31 ↗ the argument that yeah we knew we were

2:58:35 ↗ going to have some ending fund balance

2:58:36 ↗ but but we didn't know what we were

2:58:40 ↗ going to use it for and this is one of

2:58:43 ↗ those circumstances

2:58:46 ↗ categorically you want to be ready for

2:58:49 ↗ if they arise and that's what some of

2:58:52 ↗ the balanced ending fund balance would

2:58:54 ↗ be used for so I do accept that argument

2:58:57 ↗ you give you the comments councilmember

2:58:59 ↗ a so trying to figure out how exactly I

2:59:04 ↗ want to put this I want to be supportive

2:59:07 ↗ I know we have a mission to do I know it

2:59:09 ↗ is hard work I know it takes resources

2:59:11 ↗ to get the job done I appreciate the

2:59:15 ↗ work that you put into putting together

2:59:17 ↗ this this summary of the positions it's

2:59:20 ↗ it's very good but I feels like a bit of

2:59:23 ↗ a band-aid to me we are we are we are

2:59:25 ↗ sticking your finger in a dike and

2:59:27 ↗ waiting for it to pop out somewhere else

2:59:28 ↗ so I can support this but I wouldn't

2:59:31 ↗ really encourage the administration to

2:59:34 ↗ to dig into this and really help us to

2:59:37 ↗ understand what the root causes of these

2:59:38 ↗ problems are so that we can start to

2:59:40 ↗ attack the root causes instead of just

2:59:43 ↗ what I think are symptomatic look at me

2:59:47 ↗ - noted thank you very much that's very

2:59:52 ↗ well stated more final comments we have

2:59:55 ↗ five other council members who may want

2:59:57 ↗ to win councilmember Goodman

2:59:58 ↗ I just want to follow up and can I agree

3:00:00 ↗ with councilmember Ray's comments about

3:00:02 ↗ the bandaid on the problem and some of

3:00:08 ↗ the issues are not new but I were

3:00:12 ↗ numerous reasons that we've already

3:00:14 ↗ talked about it's at a point where we

3:00:18 ↗ need to we need to put those band-aids

3:00:21 ↗ out or we're going to suffer even

3:00:22 ↗ further but we also have some work to do

3:00:25 ↗ regarding we've already talked about the

3:00:26 ↗ resource planning but I also think that

3:00:28 ↗ we've got some issues that we should

3:00:30 ↗ probably look into that oh I shouldn't

3:00:33 ↗ say issues we should look into we have

3:00:35 ↗ some further work to do determine what

3:00:38 ↗ we might do to help us not be at this

3:00:43 ↗ place again for the period of time we've

3:00:46 ↗ got at this place

3:00:47 ↗ thank you council president Mertz thanks

3:00:52 ↗ I also want to say I share council

3:00:56 ↗ member ray Yorkin some of your concerns

3:00:58 ↗ about

3:00:59 ↗ what we want to do in the longer term -

3:01:02 ↗ to get more comfortable with with where

3:01:05 ↗ we're at the issue of retention is

3:01:07 ↗ something that actually at the

3:01:09 ↗ leadership level we've started talking

3:01:12 ↗ about and wanting to get our arms around

3:01:14 ↗ and see what is our retention rate how

3:01:16 ↗ does it compare with other

3:01:17 ↗ municipalities on the east side what is

3:01:19 ↗ the time to fill positions how does that

3:01:22 ↗ compare with other cities on the East

3:01:23 ↗ Side and so that's an important issue

3:01:26 ↗ you also raised a question around you

3:01:30 ↗ know how do we plan for handling some of

3:01:34 ↗ these exits and you know you know I say

3:01:38 ↗ well we can use the ending fund balance

3:01:39 ↗ but I also think it's worth having a

3:01:42 ↗ conversation as are there other

3:01:43 ↗ mechanisms are there other best

3:01:45 ↗ practices on how to do that that isn't

3:01:47 ↗ necessarily straight from the ending

3:01:48 ↗ fund balance but might might have a

3:01:50 ↗ different mechanism so I think because

3:01:51 ↗ both good questions thank you three

3:01:54 ↗ other council members wishing to provide

3:01:56 ↗ final comments or not deputy council

3:01:58 ↗ president patís I I appreciate I'm gonna

3:02:04 ↗ go back to councilmember Rea again and I

3:02:07 ↗ really appreciate the comments and and

3:02:09 ↗ and what we've talked about in terms of

3:02:12 ↗ how we can look forward into the future

3:02:15 ↗ I will point out that so many of the of

3:02:20 ↗ the questions that we're talking about

3:02:22 ↗ right now have to do with HR being able

3:02:26 ↗ to work strategically we're talking

3:02:30 ↗ about retention we're talking about

3:02:32 ↗ succession planning and we're talking

3:02:35 ↗ about being able to build those staffing

3:02:37 ↗ plans for the future and so I think that

3:02:40 ↗ that's all really really important but I

3:02:42 ↗ think that we we might be talking about

3:02:44 ↗ a piece of it right now in terms of

3:02:48 ↗ allowing human resources to do that that

3:02:51 ↗ more strategic work as opposed to

3:02:54 ↗ recruiting all day so thank you member

3:02:57 ↗ Ramos or councilmember hunt okay seeing

3:03:02 ↗ no more discussion I'll call for the

3:03:04 ↗ vote the motion sorry authorizing an

3:03:09 ↗ allocation of $320,000 to provide for

3:03:12 ↗ addition

3:03:12 ↗ Staffing resources in the human

3:03:14 ↗ resources communications and the

3:03:16 ↗ executive office and directing the

3:03:19 ↗ finance director to include the

3:03:20 ↗ allocation as subsequent 2018 budget

3:03:23 ↗ amendment utilizing the general fund all

3:03:25 ↗ those in favor please signify by saying

3:03:27 ↗ aye opposed motion carries unanimously

3:03:32 ↗ thank you thank you the next order of

3:03:35 ↗ business this evening is for good of the

3:03:37 ↗ order do council members have anything

3:03:39 ↗ for good of the order okay I have a

3:03:43 ↗ little peek ahead for good of the order

3:03:45 ↗ on our April 24th council of the whole

3:03:48 ↗ meeting there are four agenda items the

3:03:50 ↗ i-90 auxilary lane project which was

3:03:53 ↗ something that I referenced this evening

3:03:55 ↗ it's a quite Hobart road front Street

3:03:57 ↗ corridor study emergency management will

3:04:00 ↗ be discussed as a topic and that there

3:04:02 ↗ will be an update on the transit

3:04:04 ↗ oriented development on the May 7th

3:04:06 ↗ regular council meeting at this time

3:04:08 ↗ there are four proposed agenda items and

3:04:11 ↗ I say propose because some of them will

3:04:12 ↗ still be in committee or are still in

3:04:15 ↗ committee a public hearing on the update

3:04:18 ↗ of water system plan an agenda bill on

3:04:21 ↗ creating the visit Issaquah organization

3:04:23 ↗ agenda bill on amendments to the

3:04:25 ↗ Issaquah municipal code regarding

3:04:26 ↗ wireless communication facilities an

3:04:28 ↗ amendment to the IMC and central s quest

3:04:31 ↗ standards regarding inclusionary zoning

3:04:33 ↗ for central Issaquah that's all I have

3:04:37 ↗ we will be going into executive session

3:04:40 ↗ this evening this executive session will

3:04:44 ↗ be held this evening to discuss

3:04:45 ↗ collective bargaining sessions per our

3:04:47 ↗ CW 42.3 0.14 o paren for impending and

3:04:51 ↗ potential litigation for RCW 42.3 0.11 o

3:04:56 ↗ paren one for an eye these items are

3:04:59 ↗ expected to last 35 minutes action is

3:05:01 ↗ anticipated to follow in open session

3:05:03 ↗ the council will recess recess into

3:05:06 ↗ executive session at 1006

3:05:11 ↗ you

3:05:18 ↗ you

3:29:41 ↗ yeah oh and it's true are you reading

3:29:44 ↗ this one because we've added a word

3:29:50 ↗ we're back on the air I called the

3:29:53 ↗ meeting back to order at 10:30

3:29:57 ↗ and is there a motion to be made thank

3:30:02 ↗ you

3:30:04 ↗ I move to authorize the mayor to execute

3:30:06 ↗ the interlocal agreement with the

3:30:08 ↗ Sammamish plateau water district instead

3:30:10 ↗ substantially the form as discussed in

3:30:13 ↗ executive session there a second second

3:30:15 ↗ it's been moved and seconded is there a

3:30:17 ↗ discussion there's no discussion all

3:30:21 ↗ those in favor of authorizing the mayor

3:30:23 ↗ to execute the interlocal agreement with

3:30:25 ↗ the Sammamish plateau water district in

3:30:27 ↗ substantially the form as discussed an

3:30:29 ↗ executive session signify by saying aye

3:30:32 ↗ opposed passes unanimously

3:30:36 ↗ there being no further business the

3:30:38 ↗ meeting is adjourned at 10:31

3:30:50 ↗ you

Approved minutes

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Attendance

Council / Members (7)

Mariah Bettise

Stacy Goodman

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Bill Ramos

Chris Reh

Paul Winterstein

Motions and votes (5)

Continue the public hearing to May 7, 2018, and refer AB 7533 to the April 19, 2018 Council Land & Shore Committee for additional review and recommendation, returning to the full Council on May 7, 2018. . 04-16-18 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page 8023

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

Carried 7-0

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Chris Reh, Paul Winterstein

Declare items identified in AB 7586 as surplus and authorize the Administration to dispose of them in accordance with Washington State law with the modification to the agenda bill that the estimated maximum value be $17,000. . b) AB 7484 -Teen Café Partnership & Lease Agreement

Moved by REH · seconded by RAMOS

Carried 7-0

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Chris Reh, Paul Winterstein

Authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the Lease Agreement with Friends of Youth as presented for the purpose of providing the Teen Café program within a portion of the City- owned building at 235 1st Avenue. . c)

Moved by REH · seconded by BETTISE

Carried 7-0

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Chris Reh, Paul Winterstein

Authorize an allocation of $320,000 to provide for additional staffing resources in Human Resources, Communications and the Executive Office; and direct the Finance Director to include the allocation in a subsequent 2018 budget amendment, utilizing the General Fund. .

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

Carried 7-0

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Chris Reh, Paul Winterstein

Authorize the Mayor to execute the Interlocal Agreement with the Sammamish Plateau Water District in substantially the form as discussed in

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE