City Council Regular Meeting

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

7:00 PM · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA

Topics tracked across meetings:

Amending School Impact Fees AB 7640 ›››› 3/5

City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 6, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 15, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 3, 2018

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Olde Town Subarea Plan Update AB 7326 ››››››››››››› 12/14

Planning Policy Commission · Jan 28, 2016 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 7, 2016 → Planning Policy Commission · Feb 9, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 20, 2017 → Planning Policy Commission · Apr 27, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · May 15, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 7, 2017 → Planning Policy Commission · Mar 1, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · Mar 19, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 19, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · May 10, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 15, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 19, 2018

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Proposed Amendments to Central Standards Table 4.3B Permitted Land Uses AB 7661 ››››››› 6/8

City Council Regular Meeting · Jun 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Jun 18, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · Jul 18, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · Aug 23, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 23, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 15, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 19, 2018

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Expedited Traffic Enforcement Pilot Project Summary Report & Extension AB 7655 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 15, 2018

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 15, 2018 ▶

2018 First Budget Amendment AB 7605 ›› 2/3

City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 17, 2018

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Amendments to IMC 5.02 Business Licenses AB 7664 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 17, 2018

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 17, 2018 ▶

Puget Sound Energy Green Direct 2 Agreement AB 7654 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 17, 2018

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 17, 2018 ▶

2019 Legislative Agenda AB 7665 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 17, 2018

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 17, 2018 ▶

Department of Ecology Grant for Shoreline Master Program Periodic Update AB 7513 › 2/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 4, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 4, 2018

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7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Aug. 20, 2018, $ 4,752,424.74 ID 0309

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.29–163

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

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

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Aug. 13, 2018

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.275

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Staff report:

The purpose of this special meeting was to conduct a Financial Retreat.

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Aug. 20, 2018

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.277

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Staff report:

The purpose of this special meeting was to allow the City Council to recess into Executive Session to discuss pending/potential litigation.

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Minutes: Council Committee Work Session, Aug. 20, 2018

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.279–280

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR f) 08-20-18 Council Committee Work Session Minutes Page 8087

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Olde Town Subarea Plan Update AB 7326

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Land & Shore Committee · packet pp.281–452

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Jan 28, 2016 City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 7, 2016 Planning Policy Commission · Apr 27, 2017 Planning Policy Commission · Mar 1, 2018 Planning Policy Commission · Mar 19, 2018 Planning Policy Commission · May 10, 2018

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Staff report:

D. Response to Council Questions E. Revised Plan as of July 2017 Nov. 2017

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

2017 Complete Streets Project, Phase 1 AB 7354

Carried 7-0

Accept Project · packet pp.453–454

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

Administration / Public Works Engineering 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

East Lake Sammamish Pkwy Project AB 7396

Carried 7-0

Accept Project · packet pp.455–457

Topics: Parks

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Staff report:

NEW CITY COUNCIL AB 7396 - AGENDA BILL Consent City Council Regular Meeting - 04 Sep 2018 Calendar

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Department of Ecology Grant for Shoreline Master Program Periodic Update AB 7513

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant · packet pp.459–489

Topics: Critical Areas

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Staff report:

Administration / Development Services 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

2018 First Budget Amendment AB 7605

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Services & Safety · packet pp.491–499

Topics: Public SafetyBudget

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017

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Staff report:

Administration / Finance 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

Amending School Impact Fees AB 7640

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Services & Safety · packet pp.529–559

Topics: Public SafetyBudgetSchools

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017

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Staff report:

UPDATED CITY COUNCIL AB 7640 - AGENDA BILL Consent City Council Regular Meeting - 04 Sep 2018 Calendar

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Puget Sound Energy Green Direct 2 Agreement AB 7654

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Services & Safety · packet pp.561–567

Topics: ClimatePublic Safety

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Staff report:

The City recommends purchase of power through Green Direct 2 for certain accounts (Exhibit B) which were not enrolled in the first Green Direct offering. These include buildings, parks and infrastructure. The annual energy cost (2017) for these accounts is approximately $180,000 and they represent approximately 25% of City facility electricity demand (1,600,000 kWh). Because PSE allows for the transfer of enrollment in Green Direct from one City account to another City account, there is low risk associated with enrollment of facilities which may change use or ownership as a result of future plans. Due to the favorable rates with the long term contract and flexibility of the program, the Administration recommends entering into an 18 year agreement for these accounts.

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Proposed Amendments to Central Standards Table 4.3B Permitted Land Uses AB 7661

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Land & Shore Committee · packet pp.645–680

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Jul 18, 2018 City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 23, 2018

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Staff report:

On May 21, 2018, Council adopted Ordinance No. 2837, limiting Self-Storage Units in specific zones within Central Issaquah.

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Olde Town Traffic Calming Pilot Program Project AB 7663

Carried 7-0

Accept Project · packet pp.681–682

Topics: Land UseTransportation

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Staff report:

Administration / Public Works Engineering 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

Amendments to IMC 5.02 Business Licenses AB 7664

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Services & Safety · packet pp.683–690

Topics: Land UsePublic SafetyEconomic Development

▶ Watch from 1:19:45 Open packet at p.683 ↗

Staff report:

Administration / Economic Development 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

2019 Legislative Agenda AB 7665

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Committee Work Session · packet pp.691–696

▶ Watch from 1:19:46 Open packet at p.691 ↗

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

8. REGULAR BUSINESS

Expedited Traffic Enforcement Pilot Project Summary Report & Extension Hear Presentation; Authorize Additional Funding AB 7655

Carried 7-0

packet pp.697–751

Topics: TransportationBudget

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Staff report:

At the March 19, 2018, Council meeting, Council authorized the Expedited Enforcement Pilot Project (AB 7563) as an interim option to address traffic concerns until the police department is up to full staffing, projected spring of 2019.

Roll call:

Moved by REH · seconded by BETTISE

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

Amendments considered (2):

Amend the employment contract in Section 12, Severance, to read as follows: A. If the Employee is terminated by the City for any reason other than as set forth in Subsection E, below, the Employee shall be entitled to a severance payment equal to 6 months of her annual base salary. This severance sh

Moved by REH · seconded by MARTS

Amend the amendment to Section 12, Severance, by amending Subsections A and D, to read as follows: A. If the Employee is terminated by the City for any reason other than as set forth in Subsection E, below, the Employee shall be entitled to a severance payment equal to 6 months of her annual base sa

Moved by REH · seconded by MARTS

City Administrator Appointment AB 7673

Carried 7-0

Confirm · packet pp.753–765

Topics: Boards & Commissions

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Staff report:

The City Administrator position has been filled on an interim basis since Jan. 2, 2018, by Deputy City Administrator Emily Moon. Mayor Pauly elected to leave the Deputy position unfilled for at least six months as she reviewed the Administration work in progress and considered options for permanently filling the City Administrator position. The Mayor has considered three options:

Roll call:

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

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

9. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Upcoming Council Meetings

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1:57 ↗ it hurts second Foster

2:01 ↗ good evening welcome to the Tuesday

2:05 ↗ September 6th City Council regular

2:07 ↗ meeting like to call the meeting to

2:09 ↗ order

2:10 ↗ first up Pledge of Allegiance I'd like

2:13 ↗ to ask those in to join the council

2:15 ↗ myself in the Pledge of Allegiance

2:16 ↗ please stand next item on today's agenda

2:37 ↗ is special business ID 0 3 3 5 mayor's

2:43 ↗ month of concern for the hungry

2:44 ↗ Proclamation and I'd like to invite

2:46 ↗ Corey Walters to join me at the lectern

2:49 ↗ to receive the proclamation

3:07 ↗ whereas our King County cities

3:09 ↗ recognized adequate nutrition as a basic

3:11 ↗ goal for each citizen and whereas no

3:14 ↗ parent should have to send a child to

3:16 ↗ school hungry

3:17 ↗ no baby should be without the comfort of

3:20 ↗ the feedings needed for mental and

3:21 ↗ physical growth no elderly person's

3:24 ↗ health should be jeopardized by lack of

3:25 ↗ appropriate foods and whereas food banks

3:29 ↗ emergency and hot meal programs working

3:31 ↗ with our cities local churches social

3:34 ↗ service agencies and hundreds of

3:36 ↗ volunteers are striving day in and day

3:38 ↗ out to stem the rising tide of hunger

3:41 ↗ however still more help is needed and

3:44 ↗ whereas we believe that when citizens

3:46 ↗ hear of the especially desperate needs

3:48 ↗ of the hungry as winter approaches and

3:50 ↗ how their low incomes must stretch to

3:53 ↗ cover increasing fuel electricity and

3:55 ↗ rental costs leaving even less money for

3:58 ↗ monthly food purchase and outpouring of

4:00 ↗ community assistance will follow and

4:02 ↗ whereas the emergency feeding program of

4:05 ↗ Seattle and King County coordinates an

4:07 ↗ annual food drive to help support the

4:09 ↗ efforts of their program and the area's

4:12 ↗ food banks in fighting hunger which will

4:14 ↗ be held at grocery stores throughout

4:15 ↗ King County on each Saturday on

4:18 ↗ September of 2008 team and whereas the

4:21 ↗ cities of Kirkland Redmond Bellevue

4:24 ↗ Issaquah Sammamish and Mercer Island

4:26 ↗ would like to extend this effort into an

4:28 ↗ entire month of concern for the hungry

4:30 ↗ beginning on September 1st 2018

4:33 ↗ now therefore I Mary Lou poly mayor of

4:37 ↗ the city of is squad do hereby claim

4:38 ↗ September 2018 to be mayor's month of

4:42 ↗ concern for the hungry in the city of

4:44 ↗ Issaquah and strongly urge all citizens

4:47 ↗ to join the emergency feeding program

4:50 ↗ it's the Kraft Food Bank and other area

4:52 ↗ food banks to share what they can to

4:55 ↗ nourish those who are hungry in witness

4:57 ↗ thereof I here on to set my hand and

5:00 ↗ seal to the city of Ithaca this fourth

5:02 ↗ day of September 2018

5:09 ↗ and I'm sure Cory would love to talk to

5:12 ↗ you about the first Saturday we've

5:14 ↗ already had the first Saturday and it

5:16 ↗ was pretty awesome great thank you so

5:19 ↗ yes we kicked off mayor's not the

5:22 ↗ concern drive on list last Saturday and

5:24 ↗ we were at the Fred Meyer crochet store

5:27 ↗ down the street here and we brought in

5:29 ↗ over three thousand pounds of food for

5:31 ↗ our food bank and this coming Saturday

5:34 ↗ we're gonna be at six different grocery

5:36 ↗ stores between Sammamish and issaquah so

5:39 ↗ we just appreciate everybody support and

5:41 ↗ buying a little extra food when you're

5:43 ↗ at the grocery store this Saturday and

5:45 ↗ if you're interested in volunteering and

5:47 ↗ helping we could use some more support

5:49 ↗ soliciting donations out the grocery

5:52 ↗ stores so thank you Mary Lou Pauley for

5:53 ↗ coming on Saturday it was very fun thank

5:57 ↗ you so much for your support

6:00 ↗ [Applause]

6:11 ↗ next item on our agenda this evening ID

6:14 ↗ 0 3 1 1 homeless response system and

6:17 ↗ regional affordable housing efforts I'd

6:20 ↗ like to introduce sustainability

6:21 ↗ director David Fujimoto to the lectern

6:23 ↗ to introduce the next item great Thank

6:27 ↗ You mayor good evening Council again

6:29 ↗ David Fujimoto director of the Office of

6:32 ↗ Sustainability I'm happy to join you

6:34 ↗ here tonight and to introduce a couple

6:36 ↗ of guest speakers who will be sharing a

6:38 ↗ little more information about the

6:39 ↗ regional homeless emergency response

6:42 ↗ system and affordable housing efforts

6:44 ↗ that are happening in the region we have

6:45 ↗ Curos ill stroke who's the acting

6:47 ↗ director of all home as well as mark

6:50 ↗ eller Brooke who's the Regional Housing

6:51 ↗ and Community Development Manager with

6:53 ↗ King County and we're bringing this

6:56 ↗ presentation to Council so that all of

6:59 ↗ council can hear some of this content

7:01 ↗ really because there are it's a topic of

7:04 ↗ interest to the City Council it's one

7:07 ↗ that touches upon various facets of

7:09 ↗ cities investments and policy decisions

7:11 ↗ and it's really to provide a kind of

7:13 ↗ regional context for some of our local

7:15 ↗ conversation so I think we've

7:17 ↗ intentionally shaped this as a

7:19 ↗ broad-brush of what's happening in the

7:21 ↗ region and there's quite a bit that's

7:22 ↗ happening in the region currently so we

7:24 ↗ want to get you all up to speed on that

7:26 ↗ but then also kind of provide a

7:28 ↗ introduction into some of these so that

7:30 ↗ if there is interest in diving further

7:32 ↗ into any of these topics we can do so as

7:35 ↗ well and so I believe Kara and Mark both

7:38 ↗ also have quite a bit of time available

7:40 ↗ where they slide some time so that you

7:42 ↗ can answer ask some questions as well so

7:45 ↗ with that I will turn it over to Kira to

7:47 ↗ get us underway

7:51 ↗ good evening thank you for having me

7:54 ↗ David said my name is Kiera Zylstra I'm

7:56 ↗ acting director for all home I'm gonna

7:58 ↗ start by just telling you a little bit

8:00 ↗ more about who all home is and the work

8:02 ↗ that I do in particular really glad that

8:05 ↗ mark Ella Burke can be here with me

8:06 ↗ though because this is truly a community

8:08 ↗ effort and there's a lot of work

8:11 ↗ happening in the community that even

8:12 ↗ just two of us won't be able to cover

8:14 ↗ all of it but we'll do our best tonight

8:15 ↗ to give you that broad brush and further

8:19 ↗ context about the work of our community

8:21 ↗ and ending homelessness and again leave

8:23 ↗ time for questions for you so all home

8:25 ↗ if you aren't familiar or as a refresher

8:28 ↗ we are the continuum of care lead for

8:31 ↗ Seattle King County that that comes

8:34 ↗ along with a certain set of federal

8:35 ↗ designations or requirements to bring to

8:38 ↗ our community together to be inclusive

8:40 ↗ and our planning efforts to ensure that

8:43 ↗ all people experiencing homelessness

8:45 ↗ providers funders government partners

8:48 ↗ are all participating in our efforts to

8:51 ↗ plan around what we are doing to address

8:52 ↗ the crisis of homelessness this is a

8:55 ↗ visual of the strategic plan that we

8:58 ↗ currently have in place a few of the

9:00 ↗ other before I dive into that though a

9:02 ↗ few of the other regulations that all

9:03 ↗ home is charged with coordinating beyond

9:07 ↗ the strategic planning is really the

9:09 ↗ system components of how we are

9:11 ↗ addressing the crisis specifically the

9:14 ↗ point-in-time count which I will

9:15 ↗ actually go into more detail in tonight

9:16 ↗ as well as overseeing the system

9:20 ↗ functions of data collection the

9:22 ↗ homeless management information system

9:23 ↗ the county actually does the day-to-day

9:26 ↗ management of that an all home is the

9:28 ↗ governing body doing the oversight and

9:30 ↗ making policy decisions around how we

9:32 ↗ collect data and how we use the data to

9:34 ↗ inform our decisions and then the

9:36 ↗ coordinated entry system as well and

9:38 ↗ that we have a system again that King

9:40 ↗ County manages from day to day but our

9:42 ↗ Coordinating Board for all home is

9:44 ↗ making the policy policy decisions to

9:46 ↗ ensure that that system is operating as

9:48 ↗ equitably as possible to meet the needs

9:50 ↗ of people experiencing homelessness in

9:52 ↗ our community and lastly the core

9:54 ↗ responsibilities of all home is

9:55 ↗ overseeing the federal dollars that come

9:57 ↗ into our community to address the crisis

9:59 ↗ of homelessness

10:00 ↗ that's the continuum of care funding

10:02 ↗ explicitly and we right now receive

10:04 ↗ about 36

10:05 ↗ million dollars annual annually we are

10:07 ↗ actually just in the final stages of

10:09 ↗ preparing our annual application for

10:11 ↗ that competition we have been a

10:14 ↗ tremendously successful year over a year

10:15 ↗ though and maintaining that funding and

10:17 ↗ even increasing what we receive from the

10:18 ↗ federal partners and that's thanks to

10:20 ↗ staff at King County at the city of

10:23 ↗ Seattle and many many others that are

10:25 ↗ regularly involved in that process and

10:26 ↗ again this is an overview of our

10:29 ↗ strategic plan as it stands now folks

10:31 ↗ may also be familiar with what preceded

10:33 ↗ this which was the 10-year plan to end

10:35 ↗ homelessness we do not say that that

10:37 ↗ plan was a failure many say well what

10:39 ↗ happened in that ten years more than

10:41 ↗ 40,000 units of housing was created

10:43 ↗ during that time more than 8,000 people

10:45 ↗ were housed a tremendous amount of work

10:47 ↗ happened as the community came together

10:48 ↗ around establishing a true plan for how

10:50 ↗ we addressed this crisis we did make

10:52 ↗ some changes as we completed the 10-year

10:55 ↗ plan and launched into a new four-year

10:56 ↗ plan one is making it a four-year plan

10:58 ↗ to make it more actionable and be able

10:59 ↗ to adapt as we go we are in the third

11:02 ↗ year of that plan so actually just now

11:04 ↗ cross over into the fourth year of the

11:05 ↗ plan so we are really seeing the

11:08 ↗ progress of this work we've become more

11:10 ↗ data-driven so really these underlying

11:12 ↗ factors are really ensuring that we are

11:15 ↗ making decisions based on the

11:17 ↗ information that we have available to us

11:18 ↗ getting better about collecting

11:20 ↗ information and ensuring that it is

11:21 ↗ accurate again I'll dive into the point

11:23 ↗ in time count aspect of that but also

11:25 ↗ the day-to-day data collection through

11:26 ↗ the homeless management information

11:27 ↗ system but the broad goals here are to

11:30 ↗ make homelessness rare ensure that as

11:33 ↗ few people as possible or experiencing

11:35 ↗ homelessness over the course of a year

11:36 ↗ and year after year that we're making

11:38 ↗ homelessness brief in one time that when

11:40 ↗ someone does experience a crisis that

11:42 ↗ we're able to address that crisis

11:44 ↗ quickly and get folks back into housing

11:45 ↗ quickly and that we are also creating a

11:48 ↗ community to end homelessness and again

11:51 ↗ over all of these things one of the

11:52 ↗ other overarching principles is

11:53 ↗ addressing racial equity we know that

11:55 ↗ there are tremendous disparities in the

11:57 ↗ experience of homelessness and so we're

11:59 ↗ looking to directly address those when

12:01 ↗ it pertains to race LGBTQ people living

12:04 ↗ with disabilities there's many

12:05 ↗ disparities in our homeless system that

12:07 ↗ we must address if we are going to end

12:09 ↗ the crisis now I'm going to dive a

12:13 ↗ little bit into the numbers I want to

12:15 ↗ start the information about the point

12:18 ↗ I'm count by expressing that this is

12:20 ↗ only one source of information about the

12:22 ↗ scope and scale of homelessness in our

12:24 ↗ community what the point in time count

12:26 ↗ tells us is what is happening on one

12:28 ↗ given night in the King County area we

12:31 ↗ have made some changes to how this count

12:33 ↗ takes place hopefully some of you have

12:35 ↗ participated in the count either in the

12:38 ↗ last year and years prior to that we

12:40 ↗ have in the last couple of years now

12:42 ↗ it's there the 2018 was our second year

12:45 ↗ of doing this we moved from doing what

12:47 ↗ we called a hot spot counting or known

12:49 ↗ area count to a full census enumeration

12:52 ↗ of people experiencing homelessness in

12:54 ↗ the community this is still an

12:55 ↗ estimation so we know that there are

12:57 ↗ people that will not be counted that are

12:59 ↗ not invisible locations but we make sure

13:01 ↗ to be as respectful as possible on the

13:03 ↗ count as accurate as possible and we

13:06 ↗ have a few ways we've gone about doing

13:07 ↗ that one to be as accurate is to make

13:09 ↗ sure that we're not just relying on

13:10 ↗ known areas and do that full census

13:12 ↗ track count another is to include people

13:14 ↗ with lived experience in the process of

13:16 ↗ counting so we have teams that are going

13:19 ↗ throughout the county this is happening

13:21 ↗ between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:00

13:23 ↗ a.m. on a Friday morning and we have

13:26 ↗ people with lived-experience assigned to

13:28 ↗ those teams so they can use their

13:29 ↗ experience from the past use their

13:31 ↗ expertise to help guide the teams and

13:33 ↗ again continue to do that in a really

13:35 ↗ respectful way so with that context in

13:38 ↗ mind this is the information that we

13:40 ↗ found from this last 2018 count that on

13:42 ↗ one given night in King County 12112

13:45 ↗ people were experiencing homelessness

13:47 ↗ and this is both sheltered and

13:49 ↗ unsheltered so that means there were

13:51 ↗ approximately this year 50% just over

13:55 ↗ 50% people living unsheltered this is

13:57 ↗ people in tents in vehicles people not

14:01 ↗ in a safe placement for human habitation

14:02 ↗ the other half just under 50% of the

14:06 ↗ people in that 12,000 number were in

14:08 ↗ sheltered locations but not permanent

14:10 ↗ locations so that means emergency

14:11 ↗ shelter transitional housing or safe

14:13 ↗ havens a little bit about what we found

14:19 ↗ this particular year and that we did see

14:22 ↗ some tremendous successes that we really

14:24 ↗ want to build off of and learn from this

14:26 ↗ year we saw a 31 percent decline in

14:28 ↗ veteran homelessness

14:29 ↗ and this is a tremendous success and we

14:32 ↗ have not seen this kind of drop in a

14:34 ↗ number of years but we do feel like we

14:36 ↗ know why this is happening with veteran

14:38 ↗ homelessness in particular we have a

14:39 ↗ very coordinated process where we have

14:41 ↗ people working across sectors providers

14:43 ↗ funders and system partners that are

14:46 ↗ working together and actually meeting on

14:47 ↗ a weekly basis and they're using the

14:49 ↗ data they're looking at a by name list

14:51 ↗ going person by person understanding the

14:54 ↗ needs and names of every single veteran

14:55 ↗ known to be homeless in our community

14:57 ↗ and connecting them with the resources

14:59 ↗ that they need and that third prong the

15:02 ↗ third component that really leads to

15:03 ↗ success is the resources that they need

15:05 ↗ that for veteran homelessness we've had

15:07 ↗ tremendous investment from our federal

15:09 ↗ partners and from our local partners

15:11 ↗ that veterans seem seniors and Human

15:13 ↗ Services levy locally in King County all

15:15 ↗ of that the targeted increased

15:17 ↗ investments along with the coordination

15:19 ↗ and person-centered process has led to

15:21 ↗ this 31 percent decline and we aim to

15:23 ↗ continue that kind of progress for youth

15:26 ↗ and young adult homelessness as well we

15:28 ↗ saw steady numbers in terms of overall

15:30 ↗ youth and young adults experiencing

15:32 ↗ homelessness however for minors under

15:33 ↗ the age of 18 there was a 22% decrease

15:36 ↗ these are smaller numbers than among the

15:38 ↗ veterans but at the same time we also

15:40 ↗ saw that kind of continued coordinated

15:43 ↗ focus and we have a lot of attention to

15:45 ↗ minors under 18 from the state level and

15:48 ↗ new investments that have come from the

15:49 ↗ awesome office of homeless youth and so

15:51 ↗ we do continue to see knowing why that

15:54 ↗ progress is happening and wanting to

15:56 ↗ recreate that and replicate that for

15:57 ↗ other populations of course when the

16:01 ↗ numbers are rising which we did see an

16:02 ↗ overall increase in the number this year

16:06 ↗ people experiencing homelessness on one

16:07 ↗ night that means that there are some

16:10 ↗ some areas where we see increases and

16:12 ↗ the the primary increases are truly

16:14 ↗ among single adults unsheltered in our

16:16 ↗ community and a 46 percent increase in

16:19 ↗ people living in vehicles so that is

16:22 ↗ really the most tremendous number that

16:24 ↗ we've seen and I don't make strong

16:27 ↗ assumptions or predictions about this

16:28 ↗ number as I did for veterans because we

16:30 ↗ need to learn a lot more about the

16:32 ↗ people that are living in vehicles the

16:33 ↗ particular needs that they have the

16:35 ↗ characteristics and typology of this

16:37 ↗ population at the same time we saw a

16:39 ↗ slight decrease in the number of people

16:41 ↗ in tents and in camp

16:42 ↗ that isn't something we should be

16:44 ↗ celebrating because of the number

16:46 ↗ alongside of it and this really tells us

16:48 ↗ that there's a changing unsheltered

16:49 ↗ population and we need to continue to

16:51 ↗ adapt to make sure that our response is

16:53 ↗ changing to recognize this need other

16:59 ↗ things that the point in time count

17:01 ↗ tells us that we also know from

17:03 ↗ annualized data is that people of color

17:05 ↗ experience homelessness at higher rates

17:07 ↗ than their peers

17:09 ↗ 52% of people experiencing homelessness

17:11 ↗ are people of color and they own that

17:14 ↗ people of color only make up 33 percent

17:16 ↗ of the overall population the highest

17:18 ↗ disparities are seen among black

17:20 ↗ african-american communities as well as

17:22 ↗ American Indian Alaskan native and

17:23 ↗ Pacific island Pacific Islanders are

17:26 ↗ Asian Pacific Americans and these are

17:30 ↗ consistent across the community and over

17:33 ↗ time so I want to make it known that

17:34 ↗ this is something that is not new this

17:36 ↗ is not unique to our community across

17:38 ↗ the country we see these kinds of

17:40 ↗ disparities and that is because of years

17:42 ↗ of oppression and that is why we must

17:44 ↗ make that part of the overarching goals

17:45 ↗ of our work other things that the data

17:50 ↗ tells us and this is where we really

17:51 ↗ want to tie this together to again not

17:54 ↗ see this as one source of data and then

17:56 ↗ tell the story along with other sources

17:58 ↗ of information in our community I've

18:00 ↗ mentioned the homeless management

18:01 ↗ information system multiple times that

18:03 ↗ is the the system that we're using to

18:05 ↗ track data about people experiencing

18:07 ↗ homelessness the programs that they're

18:09 ↗ receiving the characteristics and needs

18:10 ↗ that they have and what the services in

18:13 ↗ our community are actually doing to

18:14 ↗ create change in the community one thing

18:17 ↗ that we've seen from the resources that

18:18 ↗ we do have in the community is a

18:20 ↗ tremendous increase in the number of

18:21 ↗ people that are housed year after year

18:23 ↗ so this shows a doubling of the number

18:25 ↗ of households that were housed last year

18:27 ↗ in 2017 as compared to just four years

18:29 ↗ ago in 2013 we're doing more and more

18:32 ↗ with the resources that we have but the

18:34 ↗ story that this tells us is that we have

18:36 ↗ far more people falling into

18:38 ↗ homelessness over the course of a year

18:39 ↗ than we have the resources to serve so

18:41 ↗ we continue to see these rising numbers

18:43 ↗ in the point-in-time count

18:44 ↗ annually again that's just one point in

18:47 ↗ time what we know over the course of a

18:49 ↗ year is that 30,000 individuals are

18:51 ↗ experiencing homelessness over that full

18:52 ↗ course of a year that is far more people

18:55 ↗ than the resources that we have

18:56 ↗ are able to house as you can see we have

18:58 ↗ approximately 6,800 households it's

19:01 ↗ about 20,000 and individuals but it's

19:03 ↗ still far fewer than the number of

19:05 ↗ everything homelessness so we need to do

19:07 ↗ better at matching the resources to the

19:09 ↗ need that we see I think this actually

19:12 ↗ yes pivots us so that larger spectrum

19:14 ↗ and scope I think pivots us to

19:17 ↗ information that Marc's gonna share

19:18 ↗ great thank you very much again my name

19:21 ↗ is Mark Ella Brooke and I manage the

19:23 ↗ housing in community element program for

19:25 ↗ King County and just so folks know that

19:28 ↗ is the program that does kind of five

19:30 ↗ areas that we work in affordable housing

19:32 ↗ homelessness housing repair Community

19:35 ↗ Development and then we also operate the

19:37 ↗ coordinated entry system so that kind of

19:40 ↗ touches all areas that Kyra talked a

19:43 ↗ little bit about and so Kure did a great

19:46 ↗ job of really drilling into the numbers

19:48 ↗ around homelessness and what we see and

19:50 ↗ so I'm gonna take a step back and talk a

19:53 ↗ little bit about the one table effort

19:55 ↗ that went on over the first half of this

19:57 ↗ year and then also the regional

19:59 ↗ affordable housing task force and I kind

20:02 ↗ of walked through this relatively

20:03 ↗ quickly and then want to leave folks an

20:06 ↗ opportunity to ask questions so Kyra

20:10 ↗ touched a little bit about this when she

20:13 ↗ just mentioned the 30,000 number but

20:16 ↗ it's worth repeating and I'm sorry the

20:18 ↗ colors are not great on this slide but

20:20 ↗ when we started the one table

20:22 ↗ conversation it really was to look at

20:24 ↗ the root cause of homelessness and it is

20:27 ↗ this graphic that really sort of drove

20:30 ↗ home the point of trying to get to root

20:32 ↗ cause if Kyra pointed out on one single

20:34 ↗ night we count a little over twelve

20:36 ↗ thousand homeless people on the one

20:38 ↗ night in January but if you look at the

20:41 ↗ bars and it's the kind of the clear bars

20:44 ↗ that are to the left of each year in

20:46 ↗ 2017 we counted over 30,000 people over

20:52 ↗ the course of the year experiencing

20:53 ↗ homelessness so we know that are the

20:56 ↗ actual magnitude of the problem that we

20:58 ↗ see is much higher than that one number

21:00 ↗ that we report every year that I think

21:03 ↗ within the community and people who I

21:05 ↗ talk to and friends are like well it's

21:06 ↗ 12,000 people can't you just solve

21:08 ↗ homelessness for those P

21:10 ↗ but homelessness is dynamic the people

21:12 ↗ who we counted in January and not the

21:15 ↗ people who are necessarily homeless now

21:17 ↗ and it is kind of a revolving or an

21:20 ↗ evolving number of people so but the

21:23 ↗ interesting thing also is that in the

21:25 ↗ course of a year we have 30,000 and

21:27 ↗ change people who experience

21:28 ↗ homelessness in 2017 we actually had

21:31 ↗ over and I'm sorry I don't have my wife

21:36 ↗ about 25,000 people exited homelessness

21:40 ↗ through the HMI and were able to track

21:42 ↗ through our HMIS system so in fact

21:44 ↗ actually the system that we have either

21:47 ↗ through actions of our own or through

21:49 ↗ the resiliency of people and in on their

21:52 ↗ individual actions we actually have a

21:53 ↗ lot of people who are able to address

21:55 ↗ their homelessness as well the issue

21:57 ↗ that we have is that we just have more

21:59 ↗ people coming into homelessness than the

22:01 ↗ emergency response system and people's

22:03 ↗ own actions are able to address and so

22:06 ↗ the actions and the plan behind one

22:08 ↗ table was if we're able to bring down

22:10 ↗ the number of people becoming homeless

22:13 ↗ if we can reduce that 30,000 number to

22:16 ↗ some amount below what the emergency

22:18 ↗ response system is able to do then we

22:21 ↗ will actually be able to begin to bring

22:23 ↗ down on the number and the prevalence of

22:25 ↗ homelessness in our community so that

22:27 ↗ was the effort of one table and how we

22:30 ↗ sort of looked at that so when we kicked

22:32 ↗ this off in January 2018 there were it

22:37 ↗ very quickly became a very large one

22:39 ↗ table we had 80 community members from

22:42 ↗ government nonprofits the private sector

22:46 ↗ philanthropy that were interested in

22:47 ↗ participating in this and as Kyra

22:51 ↗ pointed out this has become really a

22:54 ↗ community effort and a community

22:55 ↗ conversation the number of people that

22:57 ↗ certainly I engage with but that I have

23:00 ↗ conversations around homelessness has

23:02 ↗ really increased over the last number of

23:04 ↗ years and I think we were able to garner

23:07 ↗ a lot of people's expertise as we work

23:10 ↗ through the one table effort what we did

23:13 ↗ really is looked at root causes and

23:15 ↗ these were when we got the groups

23:17 ↗ together and we said what are people's

23:19 ↗ sense of the root causes of homelessness

23:21 ↗ it is these

23:22 ↗ five issues that are up here affordable

23:25 ↗ housing behavioral health exits from the

23:28 ↗ child welfare system the criminal

23:31 ↗ justice system and people's access and

23:33 ↗ ability to sustain employment and so I

23:35 ↗ think largely if you talk to people who

23:39 ↗ experience homelessness and if we look

23:41 ↗ at some of the survey data that came

23:42 ↗ from the point in time count that we did

23:45 ↗ in January

23:46 ↗ folks would identify one or multiple of

23:49 ↗ these root causes for why they have

23:52 ↗ become homeless and so we tried to look

23:55 ↗ at these as areas where we could come up

23:57 ↗ with high-level strategies or actions on

24:01 ↗ the that one table could look to address

24:03 ↗ the way the one table process worked was

24:07 ↗ that we actually because we had so much

24:09 ↗ interest in even beyond the eighty

24:10 ↗ people who sort of volunteered we

24:13 ↗ actually ended up with even larger

24:14 ↗ groups we actually broke it into

24:16 ↗ subgroups so as a working group we had

24:19 ↗ Community Action workgroup members and

24:21 ↗ these were people who either are people

24:25 ↗ with lived experience to some degree or

24:27 ↗ represent some of the nonprofit's

24:29 ↗ working in this area government entities

24:31 ↗ multiple representatives from Sound

24:33 ↗ City's Association all of that these are

24:36 ↗ the people who did the week to week work

24:38 ↗ looking at root causes strategies

24:42 ↗ actions to be taken in addition there

24:45 ↗ was an elected leadership group with I

24:47 ↗ think 12 to 15 folks from city council

24:49 ↗ SCA and other members who were kept up

24:53 ↗ to speed with the work that the

24:54 ↗ Community Action workgroups we're doing

24:56 ↗ and helped sort of guide that similarly

24:58 ↗ there was a civic leadership group that

25:00 ↗ looked at that and these were

25:01 ↗ representatives from philanthropy from

25:03 ↗ business and for for-profit companies

25:06 ↗ that sort of helped guide that work and

25:08 ↗ then we actually started after the sort

25:11 ↗ of first set of meetings we actually

25:13 ↗ started a group which was leaders with

25:15 ↗ lived-experience

25:16 ↗ often people who have had limited

25:19 ↗ experience who have been homeless are

25:20 ↗ more than willing to participate in

25:22 ↗ large groups and have those discussions

25:23 ↗ on the flip side sometimes those folks

25:26 ↗ for obvious reasons feel either

25:28 ↗ tokenized or marginalized and don't

25:30 ↗ necessarily want to participate and be

25:32 ↗ that one person that everybody looks to

25:34 ↗ and says how come this half

25:35 ↗ to you so we looked and created a

25:38 ↗ leaders with lived-experience group that

25:40 ↗ really helped guide some of the

25:42 ↗ recommendations and said you know if

25:44 ↗ this if we took this action would that

25:46 ↗ have helped you that sort of piece and

25:48 ↗ so it became a safe place for people to

25:49 ↗ have that conversation all of that over

25:54 ↗ the course of months really took the

25:57 ↗ place and came away with sort of action

25:59 ↗ statements and what I don't have and I

26:01 ↗ can provide it to Emily to give to all

26:04 ↗ of you is the link to the website that

26:06 ↗ actually has a lot of in-depth

26:08 ↗ information under each root cause as far

26:11 ↗ as the various strategies I think if you

26:13 ↗ looked at just affordable housing there

26:15 ↗ was something like 3435 strategies that

26:18 ↗ just the affordable housing group came

26:19 ↗ up with four actions to help a Druce

26:22 ↗ address the root cause but I think these

26:25 ↗ were sort of the overarching action

26:27 ↗ statements that came out of each of

26:29 ↗ those groups so not surprisingly

26:31 ↗ preserving an increasing affordable

26:33 ↗ housing and creating is was one action I

26:36 ↗ think one of the main root causes that

26:38 ↗ we learned and I think if there was any

26:41 ↗ that was sort of the most pervasive an

26:43 ↗ obvious one it is the loss and the

26:46 ↗ sustainability of affordable housing in

26:48 ↗ all of King County and I think that was

26:51 ↗ a very strong statement that we need to

26:53 ↗ work and I'll talk even more about this

26:55 ↗ in the next piece on the Affordable

26:58 ↗ Housing Strategy Group where we're going

27:00 ↗ with that

27:01 ↗ the second is create a housing

27:02 ↗ Stabilization Fund it is dramatically

27:05 ↗ more efficient and cheaper to help

27:07 ↗ somebody stay in their housing than it

27:10 ↗ is to address their homelessness once

27:12 ↗ they become homeless they become more

27:14 ↗ marginalized it's just more challenging

27:16 ↗ so if we can take and create

27:19 ↗ Stabilization Fund with flexible funding

27:21 ↗ to help somebody stay in the housing

27:24 ↗ that they have even if that is a couple

27:27 ↗ thousand dollars to help with a behind

27:28 ↗ the rent payment or an action like that

27:32 ↗ it is way more expensive than ultimately

27:35 ↗ having somebody going to the shelter

27:36 ↗ system and has worked with them on

27:38 ↗ housing and employment in those sorts of

27:40 ↗ actions and so the housing Stabilization

27:43 ↗ Fund is another area where we are very

27:45 ↗ excited to do work and

27:47 ↗ actually we're both philanthropy and

27:49 ↗ business is interested in potentially

27:51 ↗ participating because of sort of the

27:53 ↗ economic argument on that on demand

27:56 ↗ behavioral health services is a big

27:58 ↗ action for our department what our

28:01 ↗ largest division is the behavioral

28:02 ↗ health division within department

28:04 ↗ community and Human Services what we

28:06 ↗ know is that when people need behavioral

28:09 ↗ health services they need it right at

28:11 ↗ that moment it's no different than any

28:13 ↗ other acute illness that people have and

28:16 ↗ to say that you have to wait or to say

28:18 ↗ that you well we need to send you to

28:20 ↗ Yakima

28:20 ↗ because we don't actually have any

28:22 ↗ mental health beds in King County

28:24 ↗ ultimately doesn't address people's

28:26 ↗ behavioral health conditions and can

28:29 ↗ lead to homelessness if we are sending

28:30 ↗ people out of the county out of the

28:32 ↗ state even for their behavioral health

28:34 ↗ services and then they reenter often

28:37 ↗ they've lost their housing at that point

28:38 ↗ and have become homeless so on demand

28:42 ↗ Health Services is a key for behavioral

28:44 ↗ health is a key for us the foster youth

28:47 ↗ is another place we see if you go

28:51 ↗ through the foster care system you are

28:54 ↗ three times more likely to experience

28:55 ↗ homelessness then if you have not and

28:59 ↗ for foster youth who age out that number

29:03 ↗ is even higher so what we know is we

29:05 ↗ need to have alternative housing options

29:08 ↗ for youth that age out of the foster

29:09 ↗ system so that they don't simply exit

29:12 ↗ out at 18 and are sort of left to their

29:16 ↗ own good luck within sort of our region

29:19 ↗ so that's an area again where we are

29:22 ↗ doing a lot of work the zero bookings

29:25 ↗ for charges that are direct result of

29:27 ↗ homelessness this sounds complicated but

29:31 ↗ frankly it's actually pretty evident

29:33 ↗ when you think about it the biggest

29:38 ↗ booking for people who are homeless is

29:40 ↗ failure to appear at their court hearing

29:42 ↗ if they are homeless

29:44 ↗ they have no address to receive their

29:46 ↗ hearing notice they fail to appear they

29:48 ↗ end up with additional bookings on their

29:50 ↗ record and then when they apply for

29:52 ↗ housing often they are screened out

29:55 ↗ through landlord screening processes so

29:58 ↗ this is one where

30:00 ↗ frankly through some through some

30:03 ↗ inefficiencies of the system we can

30:05 ↗ actually help not exacerbate people's

30:07 ↗ homeless condition if we can not send

30:11 ↗ them charge them for failure to appear

30:14 ↗ notices so that's another one and then

30:17 ↗ the last one I think is the employment

30:20 ↗ pieces we've seen housing costs go up in

30:23 ↗ this community what is the housing wage

30:25 ↗ for people has gone up and it is around

30:27 ↗ $25 an hour to afford a one-bedroom

30:30 ↗ apartment throughout the county in

30:31 ↗ certain areas likely Issaquah Seattle

30:35 ↗ and some of the other Eastside

30:36 ↗ communities it's even higher and so if

30:38 ↗ we want to have a diverse set of people

30:43 ↗ living in our communities we have to

30:45 ↗ increase wages for people it plain and

30:47 ↗ simple and we want to have those people

30:48 ↗ able to live in the county so this is

30:50 ↗ again an area where we are working to

30:53 ↗ integrate our employment programs across

30:55 ↗ the county directly in a lot of our

30:57 ↗ homeless shelter system so the people

30:59 ↗ who enter in can receive their

31:02 ↗ employment services as part of that so

31:05 ↗ that is quick overview of six months

31:08 ↗ worth of work for one table the other

31:10 ↗ work that's going on that started last

31:13 ↗ year is the regional affordable housing

31:15 ↗ task force and this was led and it's

31:17 ↗ continuing to be led by councilmember

31:18 ↗ Balducci and there is a 12 member group

31:24 ↗ elected officials plus one ex officio

31:26 ↗ member who are going through and looking

31:29 ↗ at actions really around affordable

31:32 ↗ housing and as I mentioned the

31:35 ↗ affordable housing piece is a very close

31:37 ↗ tie between one table and the root cause

31:40 ↗ around affordable housing and the work

31:42 ↗ that Claudia and this committee are

31:45 ↗ doing on affordable housing if you look

31:49 ↗ out into the future which what seemed

31:51 ↗ like a long time into the future but

31:52 ↗ actually is only 23 years away we as a

31:57 ↗ region and this is based on PSR C data

32:00 ↗ Edo need to create over 240,000

32:02 ↗ affordable homes so that would be from

32:05 ↗ 80 percent median income and below to

32:07 ↗ meet the knee the existing need plus the

32:10 ↗ growth need in King County

32:13 ↗ and that frankly is a really big bite

32:16 ↗ and so the work of the regional

32:19 ↗ affordable housing task force is to say

32:21 ↗ well how are we gonna do that what

32:24 ↗ actions can we recommend both land-use

32:28 ↗ actions preservation actions additional

32:31 ↗ financial resources that we can use to

32:33 ↗ fund affordable housing are their

32:35 ↗ legislative needs at the state or local

32:37 ↗ level that we need to really help make

32:40 ↗ that effort a reality and the task force

32:45 ↗ at this point is at the point of having

32:49 ↗ come up with a draft action plan and now

32:52 ↗ beginning to walk that through various

32:55 ↗ community meetings that are happening

32:57 ↗ this this month and then ultimately

32:59 ↗ going back to the task force by the end

33:03 ↗ of the year to come up with that final

33:04 ↗ set of recommendations you can see and I

33:08 ↗ can walk through here what are sort of

33:12 ↗ the original action plan that is out for

33:16 ↗ comment it includes things not

33:18 ↗ surprisingly around regional

33:20 ↗ collaboration additional preservation

33:22 ↗ for units at our below 50% of meeting

33:26 ↗ income the trying to prioritize housing

33:31 ↗ around transits we know that there's a

33:33 ↗ very close connection between the cost

33:35 ↗ of transit and how you get to your work

33:37 ↗ and affordable housing we also know that

33:40 ↗ around particularly fixed transit light

33:42 ↗ rail to a lesser degree bus rapid

33:45 ↗ transit the value of land goes up

33:48 ↗ dramatically in those locations as

33:50 ↗ compared to other areas but I think as a

33:53 ↗ policy matter we really feel as though

33:55 ↗ and the task force really feels that

33:57 ↗ there should be the ability for all

34:00 ↗ income levels to live near transit so

34:02 ↗ that they're able to take advantage of

34:03 ↗ that so how do we work with transit how

34:06 ↗ do we work with local land use to help

34:09 ↗ prioritize and make sure there's equal

34:12 ↗ access for affordable housing around

34:14 ↗ tant transit locations tenant

34:17 ↗ protections is another one again it kind

34:20 ↗ of relates a little bit back to the one

34:22 ↗ table recommendation around keeping

34:24 ↗ people in their home

34:25 ↗ similarly if there is a way for people

34:28 ↗ who are largely renters to have a

34:32 ↗ process by which they're able to stay in

34:34 ↗ their home before increasing rents or

34:37 ↗ other changes that landlords make that's

34:41 ↗ another action that the task force is

34:42 ↗ looking at a variety of housing types

34:46 ↗ think we are very you know historically

34:50 ↗ have been stuck in sort of apartment

34:52 ↗ buildings and single-family homes and

34:53 ↗ what we know is that the amount of land

34:55 ↗ available to us throughout the region is

34:58 ↗ becoming more and more restricted so are

35:01 ↗ there alternative housing models that we

35:04 ↗ can use in this community to develop

35:06 ↗ affordable housing that is more

35:08 ↗ cost-effective accessory dwelling units

35:10 ↗ or something that people are familiar

35:12 ↗ with and I know a number of these site

35:14 ↗ communities have looked a lot at that

35:15 ↗ there's micro apartments and I think the

35:19 ↗ challenge that this task force is

35:21 ↗ wrapping their brain around a little bit

35:22 ↗ is and for all of us is sort of

35:24 ↗ challenging a little bit our assumptions

35:26 ↗ of what housing and homes are and what

35:29 ↗ they may need to become in this

35:31 ↗ community if we are gonna hope to meet

35:33 ↗ the 240,000 units we need in the next 20

35:36 ↗ 20 years and then I think the other

35:39 ↗ piece is and this relates to what

35:42 ↗ curious said as well on homelessness

35:43 ↗ this is an important community

35:46 ↗ conversation I think I have never have

35:49 ↗ been doing this work for 15 years I've

35:51 ↗ never been more involved with just

35:54 ↗ person on the street talking to me about

35:56 ↗ homelessness person on the street

35:57 ↗ talking to me about affordable housing

35:59 ↗ it makes the work very challenging but

36:03 ↗ it is the path to success for us we need

36:06 ↗ to be able to have good positive

36:09 ↗ conversations in our community about

36:11 ↗ what affordable housing is and needs to

36:13 ↗ be for us to meet the goals where we

36:15 ↗ need to be at and so I think the task

36:17 ↗ force is also trying to think about how

36:19 ↗ do they set up a structure that can

36:22 ↗ continue to have those conversations

36:24 ↗ once the task force has kind of finished

36:26 ↗ their work so that is kind of where we

36:30 ↗ are going with those two pieces and then

36:33 ↗ I think they well separate action

36:38 ↗ are married together in a lot of

36:40 ↗ conversations that the Kira mentioned as

36:43 ↗ well around governance around how do

36:47 ↗ affordable housing efforts and

36:49 ↗ homelessness overlap how do we

36:51 ↗ effectively have those conversations and

36:53 ↗ that is really the next step of both of

36:55 ↗ those works as both of those bodies of

36:58 ↗ work as they sort of evolve and mesh and

37:00 ↗ I think that is where I am going to stop

37:03 ↗ and leave time for folks to have

37:06 ↗ questions thank you very much thank you

37:08 ↗ Mark thank you Kira council questions

37:10 ↗ have either of our guests this evening

37:12 ↗ that's why every winter saying thank you

37:15 ↗ thank you thank you Kira thank you mark

37:17 ↗ for this very informative presentation a

37:22 ↗ lot of material there to talk about

37:25 ↗ policy that would be fascinating and fun

37:27 ↗ at least for me I mean this is a topic

37:29 ↗ that's dear to my heart and it is

37:30 ↗ difficult it is a very difficult nut to

37:32 ↗ crack and but so I have two specific

37:36 ↗ questions for you and and one of the one

37:42 ↗ of your slides mark you you talked oh

37:46 ↗ yeah it was under what it was under one

37:48 ↗ table and my question would be if we run

37:51 ↗ into somebody or anybody in this room or

37:53 ↗ listening runs into somebody on the

37:55 ↗ street or and what a local meals program

37:57 ↗ or you know we have a food bank and they

37:59 ↗ and they maybe haven't they may be on

38:01 ↗ the verge of becoming homeless or they

38:04 ↗ may need behavioral health services like

38:07 ↗ right now what can that what can a

38:11 ↗ citizen do to get them connected with

38:14 ↗ the programs that you listed up here now

38:15 ↗ we have local resources and we have

38:17 ↗ local nonprofit very civic-minded groups

38:22 ↗ that try to do those same things but but

38:24 ↗ how can someone connect to your programs

38:26 ↗ yeah so what I would the the thing that

38:29 ↗ we say is the action to take is for

38:33 ↗ people to call 2-1-1 and connect that

38:34 ↗ person to services I think there that's

38:39 ↗ a phone number that's available all the

38:41 ↗ time for people to get references for

38:43 ↗ housing behavioral health services if

38:45 ↗ it's an acute behavioral health moment

38:48 ↗ for somebody then

38:50 ↗ that is a 911 call as well so I mean I

38:53 ↗ think that's those are kind of the

38:56 ↗ actions that we would say I'm not sure

38:59 ↗ care if you would change that or add

39:01 ↗ anything to that know if this is maybe

39:03 ↗ someone who may is already enrolled in

39:05 ↗ your system I know you're maintaining a

39:06 ↗ system of trying to track there's

39:09 ↗ there's got to be some way to connect

39:11 ↗ the dots right from someone who may be

39:13 ↗ enrolled already and so when I may be

39:14 ↗ talking with yeah so if if somebody you

39:17 ↗ know so if you you know council member

39:19 ↗ you run across somebody on the street

39:20 ↗ and you say okay can you you know you

39:23 ↗ should connect to one one and they say

39:25 ↗ oh I've called them I can't you know

39:27 ↗ they don't have services for me or they

39:30 ↗ say I'm on a waitlist or you know pick

39:32 ↗ your thing I would I had experienced

39:36 ↗ that all the time and I say well it's

39:37 ↗ still important for you to call you can

39:40 ↗ get reconnected with the person who is

39:42 ↗ familiar with your situation as you

39:44 ↗ point out council member all of that

39:45 ↗ information whenever somebody touches

39:48 ↗ the homeless system it goes into the

39:50 ↗ homeless management information system

39:52 ↗ HMIS so we're able we collectively are

39:55 ↗ able to look in there and see where that

39:58 ↗ person is where are they in for housing

40:00 ↗ all of those sorts of things so it you

40:03 ↗ know we are unfortunately in a system in

40:06 ↗ a period of time where we don't have

40:08 ↗ resources for everybody who experiences

40:10 ↗ homelessness but that doesn't mean that

40:12 ↗ we don't have information on where they

40:15 ↗ are within that system or moving towards

40:17 ↗ housing so that's what I would say okay

40:20 ↗ my second question real quick thank you

40:22 ↗ for that is we like many jurisdictions

40:25 ↗ do a legislative agenda and I know you

40:28 ↗ didn't mention specifically like the

40:29 ↗ housing trust fund for example yeah but

40:32 ↗ it's just one of the things that we can

40:35 ↗ put in front of our elected down in

40:39 ↗ Olympia or maybe at the federal level

40:41 ↗ with HUD or what have you could what I

40:44 ↗ think I've heard some things that maybe

40:46 ↗ that fund level may be rising again mark

40:49 ↗ I don't know if it's I think it's it's

40:50 ↗ gone down it's been really suppressed

40:51 ↗ but yeah what would you have to say for

40:54 ↗ this council as we're in the our city is

40:56 ↗ in the process of developing our

40:58 ↗ legislative agenda about actions that we

41:01 ↗ could take there

41:03 ↗ in in alignment with what you're doing

41:05 ↗ here sure so thank you for that I think

41:07 ↗ one thing to point out both the one

41:10 ↗ table and it's sort of evolution and the

41:14 ↗ regional affordable housing task force

41:15 ↗ are both going to have legislative

41:17 ↗ slates or agendas that will be public

41:19 ↗ and so that can be shared as actions

41:22 ↗ that any other jurisdiction can take

41:24 ↗ owner or adopt so that's one thing to

41:26 ↗ sort of be on the lookout for I know for

41:28 ↗ certain that the regional affordable

41:29 ↗ housing task force is talking a fair

41:31 ↗ amount about that because this takes

41:32 ↗ resources from all levels to your point

41:35 ↗ on the affordable housing side the

41:38 ↗ Housing Trust Fund is the State Housing

41:41 ↗ Trust Fund is probably the single

41:44 ↗ biggest piece to advocate for from a

41:47 ↗ state from a local jurisdiction level to

41:49 ↗ the state because ultimately the way

41:52 ↗ that we build affordable housing much of

41:54 ↗ which goes to support people who are

41:56 ↗ homeless is by marrying together

41:58 ↗ multiple resources and without any one

42:01 ↗ of those resources either we we don't

42:05 ↗ end up with as much housing so we do a

42:06 ↗ lot of leveraging and the trust fund is

42:08 ↗ a critical component several years ago

42:11 ↗ five six years ago it was a 200 million

42:13 ↗ it has fallen over time it is it is

42:18 ↗ being slowly built back up but it has

42:20 ↗ not reached the 200 million dollar for

42:22 ↗ the biennium yet so I don't know if you

42:25 ↗ would add the only thing I would add is

42:27 ↗ just kind of what might be helpful in

42:29 ↗ that conversation I think this is

42:31 ↗ actually the perfect slide to aid that

42:33 ↗ that we need to push for more housing

42:35 ↗ everywhere we look that we cannot do

42:37 ↗ more and more with the resources that we

42:40 ↗ have and I think that is really

42:43 ↗ demonstrated in these numbers that we

42:44 ↗ know that there are far more people

42:46 ↗ experiencing homelessness than over the

42:48 ↗ course of year then we have the

42:49 ↗ resources to serve and it is critical

42:51 ↗ that housing be a major component to

42:54 ↗ that solution thank you any other

42:58 ↗ council member questions council deputy

43:00 ↗ council president batiste

43:01 ↗ thank you for their presentation that

43:04 ↗ was a lot of really important

43:06 ↗ information I was wondering particularly

43:09 ↗ about the increase in homeless

43:14 ↗ homelessness and living in vehicles and

43:18 ↗ does that correlate to programs that are

43:21 ↗ allowing people to come and stay in

43:25 ↗ their vehicles or or is that where do

43:30 ↗ you have an answer for so the number is

43:33 ↗ demonstrated here are captured actually

43:35 ↗ through a specialized count effort so in

43:37 ↗ the point-in-time count we have a few

43:38 ↗ subpopulations that we use specialized

43:40 ↗ efforts for for encampments for youth

43:43 ↗ and young adults for families and for

43:45 ↗ vehicles to make sure that we're taking

43:47 ↗ special measures to address the ways

43:49 ↗ that we need to count this population to

43:51 ↗ be as accurate as possible so we have

43:54 ↗ actually had vehicle teams that were

43:56 ↗ deployed in parts of the county they

43:58 ↗ were deployed in addition to the regular

44:00 ↗ count teams that were in every track so

44:02 ↗ we used information from research

44:04 ↗ experts locally about when to count a

44:07 ↗ vehicle when not so this did include

44:09 ↗ anyone that was in a safe parking

44:11 ↗ location as well as vehicles that are

44:14 ↗ parked throughout the county that had

44:16 ↗ indication of people living there

44:18 ↗ whether it was steamed up windows or you

44:22 ↗ could see a lot of belongings but they

44:24 ↗ we had a set of guidelines to really

44:26 ↗ guide that team so that we were as

44:27 ↗ accurate as possible I mentioned there's

44:29 ↗ a lot more to learn about this

44:30 ↗ population because this isn't

44:32 ↗ necessarily information we can glean

44:34 ↗ from the homeless management information

44:35 ↗ system the way that it's collected and

44:37 ↗ tracked and a lot of the what we're

44:39 ↗ relying upon is the surveys that are

44:42 ↗ conducted in the community and the the

44:43 ↗ surveys that are accompanied with the

44:45 ↗ point in time count there was only a

44:47 ↗ small sample of them that were people

44:49 ↗ living in vehicles and so we we need and

44:51 ↗ want to learn more and we'll be digging

44:53 ↗ in further and I would add that

44:56 ↗ partially a result of seeing this rise

45:00 ↗ in vehicle you know people living in

45:03 ↗ their cars who are homeless we put in

45:05 ↗ our upcoming one of our upcoming request

45:08 ↗ for Proposal round specifically set

45:10 ↗ aside money to help address the vehicle

45:13 ↗ residency question there are has been

45:16 ↗ often on a number of

45:18 ↗ religious communities on the Eastside

45:20 ↗ who have talked about using their

45:22 ↗ parking lots as places where people

45:25 ↗ living in vehicles can come park their

45:27 ↗ vehicle maybe use a shower inside the

45:29 ↗ building sometimes they can leave it

45:33 ↗ there during the day sometimes they have

45:36 ↗ to leave it they have to exit during the

45:38 ↗ day and can come back at seven o'clock

45:39 ↗ at night so we're interested in seeing

45:42 ↗ trying to gather some proposals about

45:44 ↗ how that model can be expanded and that

45:48 ↗ we can eat we can help support that as

45:50 ↗ well as services to the people living in

45:51 ↗ those vehicles because we would we would

45:53 ↗ like to if we get a group staying at a

45:56 ↗ church or wherever we would then like to

45:58 ↗ have a housing navigation team be able

46:00 ↗ to talk with the people living in that

46:02 ↗ car how do we you know how do we help

46:04 ↗ you is there you know can we connect you

46:06 ↗ to housing that sort of thing so we're

46:08 ↗ hoping to start to see some proposals

46:10 ↗ from nonprofits or or others to help

46:13 ↗ address that number Thank You

46:17 ↗ councilmember hunt thank you for that

46:19 ↗ information I had a question about the

46:22 ↗ action statement create a housing

46:24 ↗ Stabilization Fund to me because it says

46:28 ↗ create that implies that there isn't

46:29 ↗ currently housing stabilization funds

46:31 ↗ the rationale that you gave for why this

46:33 ↗ is necessary it was very clear to me and

46:36 ↗ so I wondered if there are other

46:38 ↗ services that fill partially this need

46:42 ↗ either in our region or in other regions

46:44 ↗ other counties other examples and how do

46:46 ↗ those how do those other examples work

46:49 ↗ yeah so that's a very good question and

46:51 ↗ actually in some ways that maybe this

46:54 ↗ should say scale up a housing

46:55 ↗ stabilization fund we have a couple

46:57 ↗ different things that already do this

46:59 ↗ work but at a smaller level so the best

47:02 ↗ starts for kids levy passed a couple

47:05 ↗ years ago has a youth family homeless

47:07 ↗ prevention initiative and it is designed

47:09 ↗ for people who are kind of families with

47:13 ↗ children who are sort of on the edge

47:14 ↗ either an apartment or or whatever for

47:17 ↗ them to connect through the county and

47:19 ↗ local and very some of them very very

47:21 ↗ grassroots nonprofits to get that sort

47:24 ↗ of flexible resource and it's been

47:27 ↗ everything from paying to have

47:28 ↗ somebody's car repaired so they can

47:30 ↗ continue to go

47:31 ↗ work to connecting folks with families

47:35 ↗ out-of-state anything like that so we

47:37 ↗ have an example where that's already

47:39 ↗ working and frankly been very effective

47:41 ↗ in the first 18 months of that program

47:44 ↗ we've actually prevented homelessness

47:46 ↗ for fourth the way that we're able to

47:48 ↗ count that for our estimate is around

47:49 ↗ four thousand households so that's been

47:52 ↗ effective we also have diversion

47:56 ↗ programs that we use out of our regional

47:58 ↗ access points that also do this to a

48:01 ↗ slightly lesser degree just because of

48:03 ↗ how much funding is available so I think

48:06 ↗ we've seen positive impacts of it and I

48:09 ↗ think nationally people have seen

48:10 ↗ positive impacts of this it's frankly

48:12 ↗ sort of how do we bring it to scale for

48:15 ↗ the 30,000 households and all the many

48:19 ↗ more who sit on the cusp of homelessness

48:21 ↗ I think your question brings up an

48:23 ↗ important theme across all of these

48:25 ↗ action statements for the one table for

48:26 ↗ the regional affordable housing task

48:28 ↗ force that also tie back to the

48:30 ↗ information I gave about the success

48:32 ↗ among veteran homelessness there's a

48:33 ↗ theme of needing to target and scale up

48:36 ↗ that we need to be more refined about

48:38 ↗ what we're offering in to whom and we

48:40 ↗ just need more we need to scale up

48:42 ↗ what's working and scale up the housing

48:44 ↗ response and I think that's what you see

48:46 ↗ throughout the themes of all this any

48:50 ↗ more questions

48:52 ↗ none Karen mark I want to thank you for

48:55 ↗ coming tonight and David for arranging

48:58 ↗ this the council had asked for an update

49:00 ↗ so that they could really understand the

49:02 ↗ big picture and for providing us some

49:04 ↗ suggestions on how we can be advocates

49:06 ↗ for success in this area as well so

49:08 ↗ thank you very much for coming tonight

49:10 ↗ thank you thank you

49:15 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

49:18 ↗ is audience comments I want to thank all

49:20 ↗ of those members of the public who have

49:22 ↗ come here to speak this evening because

49:23 ↗ we know it's hard to stand up at the

49:25 ↗ microphone and on camera so there are

49:29 ↗ some rules for public participation that

49:32 ↗ tisha is putting up on the overhead for

49:35 ↗ us this is a great time for you to talk

49:39 ↗ with your council those who signed up on

49:42 ↗ the speaker sheet will be called forward

49:43 ↗ first and if you didn't sign up don't

49:46 ↗ worry I will ask for other speakers

49:47 ↗ before closing this portion of the

49:49 ↗ meeting if you are here representing a

49:51 ↗ group if you are here on your own or as

49:54 ↗ part of a group please identify yourself

49:57 ↗ as a spokesperson for the group and

49:59 ↗ those that are here to support a speaker

50:02 ↗ please raise your hands when they're

50:04 ↗ speaking if there are certain points

50:05 ↗ that you want to let your council know

50:07 ↗ that you support has anyone signed up to

50:11 ↗ speak this evening tisha

50:12 ↗ yes Robin Kelly

50:15 ↗ [Applause]

50:29 ↗ thank you my name is Robin Kelly I

50:32 ↗ presided at 4:45 Mountain Park Boulevard

50:34 ↗ southwest I'm here tonight on behalf of

50:38 ↗ the Issaquah sister City Commission and

50:40 ↗ I'd like to introduce two other

50:42 ↗ commissioners Heather and Mary tonight

50:47 ↗ we'd like to share and celebrate a

50:49 ↗ recent accomplishment possible due to

50:52 ↗ many efforts

50:53 ↗ you might remember last year's artists

50:55 ↗ from our sister city and sundal Norway

50:58 ↗ the reception that the city hosted and

51:00 ↗ the ribbon-cutting unveiling the utility

51:03 ↗ wrap that's located at 2nd and sunset we

51:07 ↗ passed this international award

51:11 ↗ officially on madam mayor if we could

51:14 ↗ present this to you please again Robin

51:16 ↗ yes I'm sorry

51:27 ↗ so this is for communities of up to

51:31 ↗ 100,000 people for innovation innovation

51:35 ↗ with arts and culture award from the

51:37 ↗ Sister Cities International Conference

51:40 ↗ that was held in August of 2018 so thank

51:45 ↗ you and we have a representation of the

51:47 ↗ art work here so you can recognize it

51:52 ↗ and I'd like to also thank our liaison

51:56 ↗ on our Commission is Tina and she's

51:58 ↗ invaluable to us so although she's not

52:01 ↗ up here with the Commission I want to

52:02 ↗ make sure that we share our appreciation

52:05 ↗ for all of her hard work and all of your

52:07 ↗ support with us we the city staff and so

52:12 ↗ many citizens make this possible

52:15 ↗ including the arts commissioners the

52:17 ↗ other commissioners who aren't here

52:18 ↗ tonight and we worked very closely also

52:20 ↗ with Amy Dukes and the Arts Commission

52:23 ↗ so the sister city Commission and the

52:25 ↗ Arts Commission both made this possible

52:27 ↗ and we want to share this officially

52:29 ↗ with you and look forward to working

52:32 ↗ with another artist this year thank you

52:41 ↗ Elizabeth Taylor

52:57 ↗ good evening Council and mayor Polly my

53:01 ↗ name is Elizabeth I live in 34:25

53:04 ↗ Northeast Monterey Lane Issaquah

53:07 ↗ Highlands and on behalf of all who have

53:10 ↗ worked on the campaign to save Cougar

53:13 ↗ Mountain I want to thank the three

53:15 ↗ council members for their recognition we

53:19 ↗ have often wondered if our efforts we're

53:22 ↗ doing any good or if we should continue

53:24 ↗ or for how long we should keep trying

53:27 ↗ when Jerry Potter and I gather petition

53:31 ↗ signatures had trail heads we talked to

53:34 ↗ so many hikers who feel so lucky to have

53:36 ↗ these mountains and miles and miles of

53:39 ↗ trails many hikers are from out of town

53:42 ↗ or even out of state we look forward who

53:48 ↗ look forward to visiting here because of

53:51 ↗ the many trails that are so close hike

53:53 ↗ friendly and accessible many often

53:57 ↗ wishing they had the same recreation

53:59 ↗ facilities close to their homes we

54:04 ↗ greatly appreciate your resolution 2018

54:07 ↗ and now know we have been heard and

54:10 ↗ shall keep on in our efforts to preserve

54:13 ↗ this valuable mountain thank you thank

54:16 ↗ you Elizabeth

54:18 ↗ no one further has signed up to speak I

54:21 ↗ see some hands though let's start with

54:25 ↗ Ken and then yes okay Ken you're up next

54:30 ↗ and then we'll have Tom single-use oh

54:32 ↗ you were just signaling support nicely

54:34 ↗ done cougar Mountain Tom come on

54:37 ↗ microphone I see I see a lot of new

54:44 ↗ faces over the last last year my name is

54:48 ↗ Tom Harmon and live for 3 6 9 240 third

54:52 ↗ Avenue southeast and claw honey and I'm

54:55 ↗ here as a commissioner of the Sammamish

54:58 ↗ plateau Water and Sewer District and

55:01 ↗ what I want to talk to you about a

55:04 ↗ little bit is some some comments that

55:07 ↗ we've made on

55:08 ↗ here on your water plan and I have

55:13 ↗ copies basically we we I've been a been

55:27 ↗ a commissioner by the way two months

55:30 ↗ it'll be it'll be nineteen years

55:32 ↗ so certainly Ivan I've enjoyed the job

55:37 ↗ and I've enjoyed working with the city

55:39 ↗ of is achill over over all these years

55:43 ↗ our concern in our main our main comment

55:46 ↗ is that is of assumption of the the

55:52 ↗ areas there now inside the city of

55:55 ↗ Issaquah butter butter being served by

55:59 ↗ other entities us being being one of

56:01 ↗ them our district was created in 1948

56:05 ↗ with the idea that Issaquah would assume

56:09 ↗ the south end of the plateau from

56:11 ↗ southeast 8 south and redmond would

56:14 ↗ assume the north end of the plateau and

56:16 ↗ the reason the reason i mention it is we

56:19 ↗ have very few lines crossing south east

56:21 ↗ 8th we didn't dream I think in 1942 even

56:25 ↗ in the 1970s when a lot of this was when

56:28 ↗ the district was really put together

56:30 ↗ there'd be something like the city of

56:32 ↗ Sammamish and then all of a sudden areas

56:36 ↗ like like Providence point or kahani are

56:39 ↗ these areas that Issaquah would would

56:43 ↗ not ultimately annex the whole south end

56:48 ↗ of the plateau but only part of it and

56:50 ↗ when you're dealing with water and sewer

56:53 ↗ and I know guys do on a regular basis is

56:56 ↗ you're dealing with geography elevation

56:59 ↗ and so forth it ends up being a little

57:02 ↗ tougher nut to crack

57:04 ↗ assumption was created to handle the

57:08 ↗ problems of East Bellevue where every

57:09 ↗ subdivision had a water district there

57:12 ↗ were there were there were 19

57:13 ↗ assumptions with Bellevue as they took

57:16 ↗ that areas there wasn't a

57:19 ↗ another city being formed in in that

57:21 ↗ Plateau like like it is with ours that's

57:24 ↗ why we have the difference in in the

57:29 ↗ plan I'm basically going to talk about

57:31 ↗ three point six point two which says the

57:35 ↗ city shall assume municipal and

57:37 ↗ special-purpose district water utilities

57:39 ↗ to provide retail service within the

57:41 ↗ city of is across corporate limits work

57:44 ↗ cooperative when they bring

57:45 ↗ municipalities in special-purpose

57:47 ↗ district during the assumption within

57:50 ↗ this within the city limits it's my

57:55 ↗ belief that assumption is probably the

57:57 ↗ worst solution I weave understand over

58:00 ↗ the years named the district understands

58:02 ↗ that providing water and sewer to you

58:05 ↗ two-year residents and citizens is part

58:09 ↗ of is akua's DNA we know that's where

58:13 ↗ you want to go and it's a very important

58:15 ↗ goal and then we try to say what is the

58:18 ↗ best way to accomplish it that's why we

58:21 ↗ talk about all these various agreements

58:23 ↗ and attach to a copy of our comments

58:25 ↗ letter is the agreement we've made we

58:29 ↗ will sit down and talk about this and

58:32 ↗ end up with the best solution mate I

58:35 ↗ don't think it'll be assumption because

58:36 ↗ assumption is the most most costly

58:39 ↗ millions of dollars the the tanks that

58:44 ↗ supply Providence point are in our in

58:48 ↗ our district but they're in Sammamish

58:50 ↗ know do you have to build a tank to do

58:52 ↗ it water lines to get water from music

58:56 ↗ waa up there I know in looking at the

58:58 ↗ last assumption running another line

59:01 ↗ down south east 48th that's expensive in

59:04 ↗ cost money in most cases like Coal Creek

59:08 ↗ Coal Creek is still supplying water to

59:12 ↗ the Bellevue part that was assumed by

59:14 ↗ the City of Bellevue so we we recognize

59:17 ↗ what it that there's that the ways that

59:21 ↗ we can talk about it that's why we we

59:23 ↗ put in the in the agreement we'll talk

59:25 ↗ about later on in the letter we talk

59:28 ↗ about both serve

59:30 ↗ delivery in governance may I make a

59:34 ↗ friendly suggestion 23.62

59:38 ↗ I forgot to say at the beginning this is

59:40 ↗ Mary though we have five minutes for

59:44 ↗ public comments but I know you have a

59:46 ↗ lot of information in your letter so

59:48 ↗ give you a little bit of time if you

59:49 ↗ could wrap it up y'all know I'm I'm 30

59:52 ↗ to 40 more seconds perfect three point

59:55 ↗ six point two I would say and I and I

59:57 ↗ was getting to the the last paragraph of

1:00:00 ↗ I would say that the city strive to

1:00:05 ↗ provide direct retail service within the

1:00:07 ↗ city of Issaquah corporate limits

1:00:10 ↗ working cooperatively with neighboring

1:00:13 ↗ municipalities and special-purpose

1:00:14 ↗ districts within the city limits or

1:00:18 ↗ potential annexation I think that's

1:00:20 ↗ where we want to go getting this

1:00:23 ↗ assumption is one of the solutions but

1:00:26 ↗ it's a chance of working together to

1:00:28 ↗ solve that problem that's my comments on

1:00:31 ↗ on your plan but thank you very much

1:00:35 ↗ thank you for sharing that in writing

1:00:37 ↗ and leaving it with the clerk that's

1:00:38 ↗ super helpful okay well that's what I

1:00:39 ↗ wanted to okay thank you so much Tom

1:00:42 ↗ okay anyone else too looking forward to

1:00:45 ↗ I see Elizabeth's hand go up

1:00:57 ↗ hello my name is Lizabeth moped and

1:01:01 ↗ tonight I'm here primarily as the

1:01:04 ↗ Secretary of the Board of Preserve

1:01:07 ↗ Providence Heights I've been a resident

1:01:10 ↗ of Isikoff since 1982 I think you're

1:01:19 ↗ aware that preserve Providence Heights

1:01:24 ↗ challenged the city's decision to grant

1:01:29 ↗ a demolition permit on that site and

1:01:34 ↗ there was an appeal and the Hearing

1:01:37 ↗ Examiner did not for the most part

1:01:42 ↗ support our appeal but his decision did

1:01:47 ↗ include a stipulation that no further

1:01:51 ↗ demolition at the site might occur until

1:01:54 ↗ the site is assessed for the presence of

1:01:56 ↗ hazardous substances especially PCBs in

1:02:00 ↗ a manner consistent with ecology

1:02:02 ↗ requirements as adopted under RCW 70

1:02:06 ↗ point 105 D if hazardous substances are

1:02:11 ↗ determined to be present a detailed

1:02:13 ↗ cleanup and disposal plan consistent

1:02:16 ↗ with ecology requirements as adopted

1:02:19 ↗ under our CW 70.1 o5d shall be prepared

1:02:24 ↗ by the applicant approved by the city

1:02:26 ↗ and ecology prior to any disturbance of

1:02:29 ↗ PCBs or other hazardous substances

1:02:33 ↗ however when Donna Musa searched the

1:02:38 ↗ Department of Ecology databases she has

1:02:40 ↗ found that no one has contacted them

1:02:43 ↗ regarding Providence Heights and I think

1:02:46 ↗ that's something that you need to know

1:02:50 ↗ apparently nothing as being as far as we

1:02:56 ↗ can find out nothing is being done about

1:02:59 ↗ the PCBs on the site or any other

1:03:03 ↗ hazardous substances so I hope that

1:03:08 ↗ something can happen about that we would

1:03:12 ↗ love to preserve that sight see it

1:03:16 ↗ reused in ways that will be helpful to

1:03:19 ↗ the community and if in the end what

1:03:22 ↗ happens to that sight is that all of

1:03:26 ↗ what is probably the most beautiful

1:03:31 ↗ historical site in the city is

1:03:33 ↗ demolished and a school is put there

1:03:37 ↗ those substances if they are still

1:03:40 ↗ present in the soil are a danger to our

1:03:44 ↗ youngest citizens we don't want that to

1:03:49 ↗ happen

1:03:51 ↗ whoever uses that site it's important

1:03:55 ↗ that that work be done and properly

1:03:59 ↗ through the Department of Ecology thank

1:04:01 ↗ you very much thank you Elizabeth anyone

1:04:04 ↗ else Steve come on up

1:04:15 ↗ I could even steeper or Oldtown and by

1:04:18 ↗ 10 years so part of that was just hands

1:04:21 ↗ up in recognition and support for

1:04:22 ↗ Elizabeth comments as well so just

1:04:23 ↗ sharing that do you want to segue though

1:04:26 ↗ I appreciate the council listening to

1:04:28 ↗ the presentation on the whole all home

1:04:29 ↗ and it is kind of a deep topic dive

1:04:33 ↗ inside preciate you all taken time to

1:04:34 ↗ want to pay attention to that there is

1:04:36 ↗ obvious segue to preserving Providence

1:04:40 ↗ Heights I wonder if it's more beneficial

1:04:44 ↗ if we could take a look at I guess both

1:04:47 ↗ within as gwon larger communities stock

1:04:50 ↗ that is at risk of being lost and steps

1:04:54 ↗ can be taken to preserve that rather

1:04:55 ↗ than building new affordable housing as

1:04:57 ↗ an opportunity I think that's worth some

1:05:00 ↗ serious consideration I think we keep

1:05:02 ↗ existing stock maintains the less than

1:05:04 ↗ the cost of building new housing as far

1:05:11 ↗ as Providence Heights it seems like when

1:05:13 ↗ I read the the decision there were a

1:05:17 ↗ couple comments that were made that I

1:05:18 ↗ didn't understand I think this council

1:05:20 ↗ should be worth considering one was

1:05:24 ↗ there was testimony that said that it

1:05:28 ↗ wasn't part of Issaquah code was to

1:05:30 ↗ consider historic preservation as far as

1:05:33 ↗ something to be maintained that

1:05:35 ↗ something should be reviewed and

1:05:36 ↗ maintained that we should consider

1:05:38 ↗ historic preservation ordinance and

1:05:41 ↗ deciding whether not to issue a

1:05:43 ↗ demolition permit another was that it's

1:05:48 ↗ not part of the city code currently to

1:05:50 ↗ look at the release of stored energy

1:05:53 ↗ from existing Holmberg karbix maybe that

1:05:56 ↗ she'd part of the strategic plan as well

1:05:58 ↗ has one for that something should be

1:06:00 ↗ considered as part of legislation that

1:06:01 ↗ would like to see somebody move forward

1:06:03 ↗ I still want to keep the idea that we

1:06:04 ↗ can preserve Providence Heights I just

1:06:08 ↗ want to keep these other things walls

1:06:10 ↗ move moving at the same time next topic

1:06:15 ↗ was I haven't had a chance to go to any

1:06:18 ↗ of the the Tuesday concert in the park

1:06:20 ↗ I'm sure if I did I'm sure I'd say that

1:06:21 ↗ those were well done but didn't get a

1:06:23 ↗ chance to sadly I did go to the Jazz

1:06:25 ↗ concert on

1:06:27 ↗ influence park that scene wall attended

1:06:29 ↗ and well done so thank you for that last

1:06:33 ↗ issue was an issue it will be on the

1:06:35 ↗ regular business I'm not gonna have a

1:06:36 ↗ chance to stay it's the traffic

1:06:39 ↗ enforcement issue that's coming up and I

1:06:42 ↗ support the idea but I think there needs

1:06:44 ↗ to be a better mechanism for engaging

1:06:46 ↗ the way we talk about with community

1:06:47 ↗ members this maybe gets hopefully people

1:06:50 ↗ who obey the laws but we need to talk

1:06:52 ↗ about this these are children our

1:06:53 ↗ families our friends our neighbors to

1:06:56 ↗ engage that public conversation that

1:06:57 ↗ doesn't happen because that's the goal

1:06:59 ↗ is to get the behavior that we want not

1:07:01 ↗ to raise revenue but we need to talk

1:07:02 ↗ about it in a way that these people

1:07:04 ↗ whether they are local people to live

1:07:08 ↗ here to passing through have a job here

1:07:10 ↗ whatever reason respect and obey the

1:07:12 ↗ laws that's the goal on the outcome and

1:07:13 ↗ I don't see that having happened yet I

1:07:16 ↗ see missed opportunity for that so

1:07:20 ↗ that's all I wanted to say for a night

1:07:22 ↗ thank you thank you Steve anyone else

1:07:25 ↗ wishing to speak tonight Corey

1:07:37 ↗ Corey Christensen if you want to mail me

1:07:39 ↗ something 1420 Gilman Boulevard I'd like

1:07:43 ↗ to talk about last week's parks

1:07:46 ↗ department

1:07:46 ↗ dog park introductory meeting before I

1:07:50 ↗ really dive into that I'd like to just

1:07:52 ↗ compliment the parks department I do

1:07:54 ↗ think that they're open friendly and I

1:07:58 ↗ do think they work hard I think there's

1:08:00 ↗ a lot of things they do that goes

1:08:03 ↗ unrecognized and I think especially some

1:08:05 ↗ of the things related to growth because

1:08:08 ↗ I don't think that I think parks are one

1:08:10 ↗ of the things that have been left behind

1:08:12 ↗ in growth and they're having it's

1:08:14 ↗ difficult both in the money they get and

1:08:17 ↗ to work with what they're handed which

1:08:20 ↗ is insufficient I think that said I was

1:08:24 ↗ utterly disappointed with the dog park

1:08:26 ↗ meeting a matter of fact I was sitting

1:08:28 ↗ there and I wasn't seething mad but I

1:08:32 ↗ was frustrated so why was I frustrating

1:08:35 ↗ the first reason I was frustrated is

1:08:37 ↗ that they didn't give any scope to this

1:08:39 ↗ project second reason there was no no

1:08:46 ↗ criteria laid out for what they were

1:08:49 ↗ going to do what would constitute a good

1:08:52 ↗ dog park and what would and I as far as

1:08:55 ↗ the users and then also what would be a

1:08:58 ↗ good dog park as far as a location so

1:09:01 ↗ they didn't give that they also didn't

1:09:04 ↗ do any kind of user needs assessment in

1:09:07 ↗ other words looking at what people in

1:09:09 ↗ Issaquah need and what their dogs need

1:09:12 ↗ and what their expectations are they

1:09:15 ↗ clearly did not do their homework

1:09:18 ↗ they also ended up with a survey which

1:09:22 ↗ you can take online and then one of the

1:09:24 ↗ classic here's a bunch of pictures and

1:09:26 ↗ you put stickers on it sort of thing but

1:09:28 ↗ absent of any criteria or scope or

1:09:31 ↗ anything like that it's basically a

1:09:33 ↗ beauty contest but you have no idea what

1:09:37 ↗ you're voting on and the problem is the

1:09:40 ↗ eight locations they gave us basically

1:09:43 ↗ seven of them are fatally flawed in one

1:09:45 ↗ way or another and one is maybe a maybe

1:09:48 ↗ so

1:09:50 ↗ where would I have started and do I

1:09:52 ↗ really expect that they needed to start

1:09:55 ↗ some grandiose process no but I do

1:09:57 ↗ expect that they would have given us

1:10:00 ↗ some indication of again criteria and

1:10:03 ↗ all of this sorts of things so I looked

1:10:06 ↗ online and of course dog parks aren't

1:10:09 ↗ something new matter of fact there's

1:10:11 ↗ something that's been in communities

1:10:12 ↗ large communities 20 years 25 years and

1:10:16 ↗ interestingly maybe 10 years ago many of

1:10:19 ↗ these communities were re-evaluating

1:10:21 ↗ what they had done in that first 10 or

1:10:22 ↗ 15 years so if you look online there's

1:10:25 ↗ probably between fifty or a hundred

1:10:26 ↗ different sorts of master plans or this

1:10:29 ↗ is or that's that are very nice Studies

1:10:31 ↗ on dog parks so I found one I liked from

1:10:34 ↗ Denver and I will send you this to look

1:10:36 ↗ at and it was their master planning

1:10:38 ↗ process for dog parts the first thing

1:10:41 ↗ they did is they had a kind of a game

1:10:43 ↗ plan session which is essentially I

1:10:45 ↗ think a scoping which is what you sort

1:10:48 ↗ of directed them does the parks

1:10:50 ↗ department to do as a City Council the

1:10:53 ↗ next thing was they had a public input

1:10:54 ↗ survey now Bellevue matter of fact they

1:10:57 ↗ redid their robins wood dog park ten

1:11:00 ↗ years ago they did a public input survey

1:11:02 ↗ that's online and it's and maybe instead

1:11:05 ↗ of our Parks Department doing a survey

1:11:08 ↗ they could have at least read Bellevue

1:11:09 ↗ survey because there's a lot of

1:11:11 ↗ similarities between Bellevue residents

1:11:13 ↗ and us and the similar needs and that's

1:11:15 ↗ also ten years into their dog park so

1:11:18 ↗ they could look forward and not make the

1:11:20 ↗ same mistakes the next step was they

1:11:22 ↗ were going to examine and evaluate

1:11:24 ↗ Denver's needs for fill their existing

1:11:28 ↗ facilities and those needs of the people

1:11:29 ↗ we didn't do that either the next step

1:11:32 ↗ study and evaluate local and national

1:11:34 ↗ best practices that's going out and

1:11:37 ↗ looking at what other communities are

1:11:38 ↗ doing and trying to do the best you

1:11:40 ↗ possibly can by not making the same

1:11:42 ↗ mistakes the last step

1:11:44 ↗ develop a draft or recommended sites

1:11:46 ↗ well that was our first step and so and

1:11:51 ↗ that's the problem that's our first step

1:11:54 ↗ so now let's move to a minute to another

1:11:57 ↗ study about about what some of these

1:11:59 ↗ criteria should be the city of Atlanta

1:12:02 ↗ they have a guidebook

1:12:03 ↗ just a few pages creating off-leash dog

1:12:05 ↗ parks a step-by-step guide so

1:12:08 ↗ identifying site for an off-leash type

1:12:10 ↗ dog park number one area must be a

1:12:13 ↗ minimum of two acres sites must be

1:12:15 ↗ divided for large and small dogs they

1:12:18 ↗ must be accessible to all park users and

1:12:20 ↗ if you look at some of the other studies

1:12:21 ↗ we're talking about 88 children seniors

1:12:25 ↗ all that sort of thing it has to have

1:12:27 ↗ water it has to be habitable topography

1:12:31 ↗ that's well-drained and shaded it should

1:12:34 ↗ be graded so it begin prevents standing

1:12:37 ↗ water and muddy areas on it goes well am

1:12:40 ↗ I done very much if you can summarize

1:12:43 ↗ quarry that would be great if you can

1:12:45 ↗ leave us a copy I know I will send you

1:12:49 ↗ that quick conclusion it's very easy to

1:12:53 ↗ look to see what some of these design

1:12:55 ↗ criterias are most parks at a minimum

1:12:58 ↗ are 2 acres and and one other point I

1:13:01 ↗ wanted to quickly add is that most parks

1:13:03 ↗ are not in the proximity of where people

1:13:06 ↗ live two of the parks on the list Muir

1:13:08 ↗ wood and Bernsen are right across from

1:13:11 ↗ residents most of these studies say

1:13:13 ↗ don't put them by residents and

1:13:15 ↗ absolutely all the parks that are

1:13:16 ↗ adjacent to us are all parks in parks

1:13:19 ↗ they are not they are not parks in

1:13:23 ↗ residence so anyway I hope you send them

1:13:26 ↗ back to the drawing board because I'm

1:13:28 ↗ especially concerned that this study or

1:13:30 ↗ their survey is going to end up with

1:13:32 ↗ flawed information and something that an

1:13:35 ↗ out an outcome that they treat is gospel

1:13:37 ↗ but that is based on absolutely nothing

1:13:40 ↗ that means much thank you thank you Cory

1:13:42 ↗ anyone else wishing to address Council

1:13:44 ↗ this evening anybody else wishing to

1:13:51 ↗ address Council this evening

1:13:52 ↗ last call for audience comments seeing

1:13:56 ↗ no hands we'll move to committee and

1:13:59 ↗ regional reports starting with

1:14:01 ↗ councilmember hunt thank you madam mayor

1:14:03 ↗ no report this evening thank you it's a

1:14:06 ↗ member a Thank You mayor Polly the

1:14:09 ↗ services and Safety Committee will meet

1:14:11 ↗ on September 11th at 6:30 here in

1:14:13 ↗ Council Chambers the agenda will include

1:14:16 ↗ agenda bill 7605 a 2018 first budget

1:14:20 ↗ amendment agenda bill 76 31 visit

1:14:23 ↗ Issaquah bylaws agenda bill 76 54 Puget

1:14:28 ↗ Sound Energy Green District two

1:14:29 ↗ amendments agreement excuse me

1:14:33 ↗ agenda bills 76 58 amendments to the

1:14:37 ↗ medical plan for 2019 and agenda bills

1:14:40 ↗ 76 64 amendments to IMC 5.02 business

1:14:46 ↗ licenses because of the popular demand

1:14:49 ↗ on services and safety this month we

1:14:51 ↗ will have a second service as a safety

1:14:52 ↗ meeting on on the 18th also here in

1:14:55 ↗ council chambers and we will be hearing

1:14:57 ↗ agenda bill 76 40 amending school impact

1:15:00 ↗ fees Eastside Fire and Rescue Board did

1:15:03 ↗ not meet in August and the board will

1:15:05 ↗ meet on September 13th at 4 o'clock p.m.

1:15:08 ↗ at headquarters

1:15:09 ↗ the state auditor has completed their

1:15:11 ↗ audit of efer and an exit interview was

1:15:14 ↗ held on August 29th the eeper board

1:15:17 ↗ president our Board Chair attended the

1:15:20 ↗ exit interview to represent the board

1:15:22 ↗ and a full report will be provided on

1:15:24 ↗ the audit at the regularly scheduled

1:15:26 ↗ board meeting on September 13th and the

1:15:28 ↗ balance of the board meeting agenda has

1:15:31 ↗ not yet been sent set and that concludes

1:15:33 ↗ my report this evening thank you

1:15:35 ↗ council member Ramos thank you the

1:15:38 ↗ Council on Infrastructure Committee

1:15:39 ↗ meeting will be on the 20th this month

1:15:42 ↗ at 6:30 in this chamber no agenda set

1:15:45 ↗ yet into my report Thank You

1:15:47 ↗ councilmember winter Stein thank you the

1:15:48 ↗ Puget Sound regional councils growth

1:15:50 ↗ management policy board next meeting is

1:15:52 ↗ this Thursday September 6th at 10:00

1:15:55 ↗ a.m. at PSR C headquarters in Seattle

1:15:57 ↗ the entire meeting will be dedicated to

1:16:00 ↗ vision 2050 there will be one discussion

1:16:03 ↗ between the board and PSR C staff about

1:16:05 ↗ the vision outcomes and objectives and

1:16:08 ↗ another about the regional growth

1:16:10 ↗ strategy there will also be a breakout

1:16:12 ↗ session for more intimate discussion and

1:16:14 ↗ brainstorming about these topics then

1:16:18 ↗ the lodging tax advisory committee our

1:16:20 ↗ next meeting is this Thursday September

1:16:22 ↗ 13th at 9:00 a.m. in a conference room

1:16:25 ↗ at the Hilton Garden Inn I don't have

1:16:27 ↗ the specific room this is

1:16:28 ↗ the first time we've met in a number of

1:16:30 ↗ months on the agenda we'll get an update

1:16:32 ↗ on the work of the destination marketing

1:16:35 ↗ organization board selection committee

1:16:38 ↗ and there is information about that

1:16:40 ↗ because the bylaws issue there is an

1:16:43 ↗ agenda bill in today's packet and some

1:16:45 ↗ of the information about that committees

1:16:46 ↗ work can be found in that agenda bill

1:16:49 ↗ also get a report on the association of

1:16:53 ↗ volleyball professionals or AVP

1:16:55 ↗ tournament that was held here in in June

1:16:58 ↗ at Lake Sammamish State Park and we'll

1:17:01 ↗ hear about the prospects for the

1:17:02 ↗ tournament

1:17:03 ↗ returning in 2019 and Beyond we're also

1:17:07 ↗ going to get a presentation from

1:17:08 ↗ Jennifer Frank from the parks department

1:17:10 ↗ on wayfinding and branding both topics

1:17:13 ↗ have been priority issues for the LTAC

1:17:16 ↗ for many years now and using both

1:17:20 ↗ lodging tax funds and recommended by

1:17:24 ↗ LTAC and the general fund the City

1:17:25 ↗ Council funded the branding effort

1:17:27 ↗ number of years ago but that project did

1:17:30 ↗ not get started so I think this

1:17:32 ↗ represents a potential restart and as

1:17:34 ↗ for wayfinding LTAC has advocated for a

1:17:38 ↗ comprehensive citywide plan while

1:17:40 ↗ recognizing that there is a large and

1:17:41 ↗ diverse group of stakeholders and that

1:17:44 ↗ its development and rollout will be

1:17:45 ↗ expensive likely well over a million

1:17:47 ↗ dollars knowing this is why LTAC has

1:17:50 ↗ held the majority of the lodging tax

1:17:52 ↗ funds in reserve the past few years so

1:17:55 ↗ that the committee could offer

1:17:57 ↗ substantial funds for both the branding

1:17:59 ↗ and wayfinding initiatives and the last

1:18:01 ↗ agenda item will be about the 2019

1:18:04 ↗ recommended budget now what we're hoping

1:18:08 ↗ to do is have the LTAC recommendation to

1:18:11 ↗ the administration finance department in

1:18:14 ↗ time that you can include that in your

1:18:16 ↗ draft budget that you release in October

1:18:18 ↗ we really want the committee's input to

1:18:23 ↗ get to the council in your first public

1:18:26 ↗ budget so that'll we're going to be

1:18:27 ↗ taking that up all of that this Thursday

1:18:30 ↗ the 13th that concludes my report before

1:18:33 ↗ going to councilmember Goodman city

1:18:35 ↗ administrators notice

1:18:36 ↗ there's an additional item on services

1:18:38 ↗ and safety it didn't get no say it ain't

1:18:40 ↗ so

1:18:41 ↗ so what did I miss the item that we

1:18:47 ↗ added to September 18th is a

1:18:49 ↗ presentation on the various ways the

1:18:51 ↗ city contributes to nonprofit and other

1:18:54 ↗ types of entities so it's a follow up

1:18:56 ↗ conversation to help provide a little

1:18:59 ↗ bit more information on scholarships

1:19:03 ↗ grants contracts for services various

1:19:06 ↗ ways we contribute thank you for sure to

1:19:09 ↗ let us in yes you're worried you're

1:19:11 ↗ gonna have a short meeting so we're not

1:19:12 ↗ gonna shorten me okay member Goodman

1:19:15 ↗ Thank You mayor Poli the council's land

1:19:18 ↗ in short committee will meet this

1:19:19 ↗ Thursday September 6th at 6:30 here in

1:19:22 ↗ Council Chambers we have two items on

1:19:24 ↗ our agenda agenda bills 73 26 Old Town

1:19:27 ↗ sub Area Plan Update pending referral

1:19:30 ↗ from tonight's consent agenda and agenda

1:19:33 ↗ bills 76 61 proposed amendments to a

1:19:36 ↗ central standards table 4.3 be permitted

1:19:40 ↗ land uses that concludes my report

1:19:43 ↗ Thank You deputy council president

1:19:45 ↗ batiste thank you madam mayor just an

1:19:48 ↗ announcement that tomorrow a Wednesday

1:19:52 ↗ September 5th from 2 to 4 p.m. the

1:19:55 ↗ Eastside Human Services forum board has

1:19:58 ↗ put together a panel in an overview on

1:20:03 ↗ the opiate and heroin crisis and it's

1:20:06 ↗ called next steps to make a difference

1:20:09 ↗ basically King County formed a task

1:20:12 ↗ force to address the issue and offered

1:20:15 ↗ the recommendation back in 2016 and so

1:20:18 ↗ this is a look at what has been

1:20:21 ↗ accomplished in the past 20 months

1:20:23 ↗ especially on the east side there the

1:20:27 ↗ forum is looking to receive feedback

1:20:28 ↗ from attendees to inform and address the

1:20:32 ↗ work going forward so a really important

1:20:34 ↗ topic and if any council members can

1:20:38 ↗ attend that would be fantastic thank you

1:20:41 ↗ thank you council president Mertz thank

1:20:43 ↗ you madam mayor

1:20:43 ↗ the sound studies association public

1:20:45 ↗ issues committee will be meeting on

1:20:47 ↗ Wednesday September 12th at 7 p.m.

1:20:50 ↗ in written cityhall the agenda is still

1:20:51 ↗ to be decided and the king county growth

1:20:54 ↗ management policy council GMP c will be

1:20:59 ↗ meeting Thursday September 27th at 4

1:21:01 ↗ p.m. in PS RC chambers and that agenda

1:21:04 ↗ is also to be lost that concludes my

1:21:07 ↗ report thank you I'm moving on to the

1:21:11 ↗ mayor's report this evening I summer is

1:21:14 ↗ a little bit lighter for most of us so I

1:21:16 ↗ put up on the tisha put up on the

1:21:19 ↗ overhead some of the regional meetings

1:21:21 ↗ and the community outreach that happened

1:21:22 ↗ but I wanted to focus tonight's report

1:21:24 ↗ on just some announcements and a pretty

1:21:26 ↗ significant update on where we are with

1:21:28 ↗ our strategic plan it was an executive

1:21:31 ↗ session held this evening before the

1:21:32 ↗ regular council meeting in addition to

1:21:35 ↗ the proclamation that I presented

1:21:37 ↗ earlier this evening I also issued two

1:21:39 ↗ additional proclamations for the month

1:21:41 ↗ of September Childhood Cancer Awareness

1:21:43 ↗ Month encouraging all citizens to join

1:21:45 ↗ in the activities that will increase

1:21:47 ↗ awareness and prevention of childhood

1:21:49 ↗ cancer and recovery month urging

1:21:51 ↗ citizens to join me in observing this

1:21:53 ↗ month with appropriate programs

1:21:55 ↗ activities and ceremonies supporting

1:21:57 ↗ increase in awareness and understanding

1:21:58 ↗ of mental and substance use disorders

1:22:00 ↗ and celebrate the people who recover so

1:22:05 ↗ the strategic plan we were out in the

1:22:07 ↗ community quite a bit earlier on in the

1:22:09 ↗ year and it now seems to have gone quiet

1:22:11 ↗ but a lot is going on and I thought I'd

1:22:13 ↗ provide you some information in the

1:22:14 ↗ mayor's update following the

1:22:16 ↗ confirmation of six strategic priority

1:22:18 ↗ areas by the City Council in July staff

1:22:21 ↗ have begun to work on the next phase

1:22:23 ↗ which is focused on goals and objectives

1:22:25 ↗ the six strategic priority areas are

1:22:28 ↗ mobility growth and development social

1:22:31 ↗ and economic vitality core

1:22:33 ↗ infrastructure environmental stewardship

1:22:35 ↗ and city leadership and services staff

1:22:38 ↗ have attended a strategic planning

1:22:40 ↗ design charrette

1:22:41 ↗ informed six strategic priority

1:22:43 ↗ workgroups work groups have been meeting

1:22:46 ↗ throughout August they have been

1:22:47 ↗ reviewing results of community

1:22:49 ↗ engagement the community Charette and

1:22:50 ↗ local plans applying knowledge and

1:22:53 ↗ expertise in considering council

1:22:54 ↗ feedback to refine the draft goal

1:22:56 ↗ statements and develop a set of draft

1:22:57 ↗ objectives for each of the goals next

1:23:01 ↗ steps will be seeking input from the

1:23:03 ↗ community

1:23:03 ↗ the draft vision mission and guiding

1:23:05 ↗ principles look for these announcements

1:23:07 ↗ in social media on the city's website or

1:23:10 ↗ in the insider and the project

1:23:12 ↗ leadership team including the mayor's

1:23:14 ↗ office senior leadership council

1:23:16 ↗ president Mart's and deputy president

1:23:17 ↗ batiste will be meeting next week to

1:23:19 ↗ review initial drafts of goal statements

1:23:21 ↗ and objectives council work session on

1:23:24 ↗ the strategic plan will take place on

1:23:26 ↗ September 24th the council will make a

1:23:29 ↗ final review and adopt the vision

1:23:31 ↗ mission and guiding principles an

1:23:32 ↗ initial look at the draft objectives

1:23:35 ↗ will be presented and these will be

1:23:37 ↗ discussed more fully at an October 15th

1:23:39 ↗ work session starting in late September

1:23:42 ↗ we'll be seeking input from the

1:23:43 ↗ community on the goal statements and

1:23:44 ↗ draft objectives so we look forward to

1:23:47 ↗ your input the last thing I had on my

1:23:50 ↗ mayor's report today is an announcement

1:23:52 ↗ on our agenda this evening I have added

1:23:54 ↗ agenda bill 7-6 7-3 under regular

1:23:57 ↗ business it was prepared for Council to

1:24:00 ↗ consider confirming my appointment of

1:24:02 ↗ Emilie moon to the position of city

1:24:04 ↗ administrator and pleased to announce

1:24:07 ↗ this tonight as part of my mayor's

1:24:08 ↗ report and to present the bill to

1:24:10 ↗ council when it comes up under regular

1:24:11 ↗ business and that concludes my report

1:24:16 ↗ the next item on the agenda is the

1:24:20 ↗ consent calendar consent calendar was

1:24:23 ↗ distributed to council in advance if

1:24:26 ↗ authorized the items on the consent

1:24:27 ↗ calendar will be considered together and

1:24:29 ↗ approved under one motion of the

1:24:32 ↗ payables and payroll for August 20th

1:24:34 ↗ been reviewed you have thank you

1:24:37 ↗ does any council member desire to remove

1:24:39 ↗ any items from the consent calendar and

1:24:40 ↗ consider it under regular business being

1:24:44 ↗ none would you care to make a motion

1:24:46 ↗ madam mayor I move the adopted consent

1:24:49 ↗ calendar is listed in this evenings

1:24:51 ↗ agenda thank you second the moved and

1:24:54 ↗ seconded all those in favor signify by

1:24:56 ↗ saying aye hi as opposed motion carries

1:25:00 ↗ unanimously

1:25:01 ↗ next item on the agenda is regular

1:25:04 ↗ business first a bee app is a bee seven

1:25:07 ↗ six five five expedited traffic

1:25:09 ↗ enforcement pilot project summary report

1:25:12 ↗ and extension you'll be hearing this

1:25:15 ↗ presentation

1:25:16 ↗ evening it's a report out of the pilot

1:25:18 ↗ program provided by Council at the March

1:25:20 ↗ 19 2018 council meeting and this is the

1:25:23 ↗ first time this agenda bill has been

1:25:25 ↗ before council I'd like to invite Police

1:25:27 ↗ Chief Scott bierbaum to make a

1:25:28 ↗ presentation

1:25:36 ↗ good evening i'm chief scott peer bomb

1:25:40 ↗ with the police department here to

1:25:42 ↗ follow up on the conversation we had

1:25:44 ↗ back in March about our expedited

1:25:46 ↗ traffic enforcement pilot project first

1:25:49 ↗ off I want to start by thanking

1:25:51 ↗ commander Paula chuan she was the the

1:25:54 ↗ main person driving this project within

1:25:56 ↗ our Police Department and coordinated

1:25:58 ↗ with Washington State Patrol as well and

1:25:59 ↗ also our city communications team as

1:26:02 ↗ they were a big component of acquiring

1:26:04 ↗ the information regarding the surveys on

1:26:07 ↗ the pre and the post incident or from

1:26:09 ↗ the project as well again just a

1:26:13 ↗ reminder back in March 19th we

1:26:16 ↗ implemented that limited term traffic

1:26:17 ↗ emphasis project to increase traffic

1:26:19 ↗ enforcement during the new staff

1:26:21 ↗ implementation we collaborated with

1:26:24 ↗ Washington State Patrol to focus on our

1:26:26 ↗ kind of our four major corridors through

1:26:28 ↗ our downtown area stereo 900 Northwest

1:26:30 ↗ Gilman front Street in Newport Way

1:26:32 ↗ Northwest and we wanted to focus on

1:26:35 ↗ driving behaviors that impacted mobility

1:26:37 ↗ throughout our city such as blocking red

1:26:39 ↗ blocking intersections running red

1:26:41 ↗ lights improper lane travel distracted

1:26:44 ↗ driving etc throughout that in

1:26:47 ↗ coordination with the enforcement we

1:26:49 ↗ also conducted the pre and post surveys

1:26:51 ↗ to get the community's input on what

1:26:54 ↗ they are observing and how they felt

1:26:56 ↗ traffic and mobility was happening in

1:26:59 ↗ the city of Issaquah start right off

1:27:03 ↗ with the the data collected during the

1:27:06 ↗ pilot project initially we had been

1:27:13 ↗ authorized for 39 traffic emphasis

1:27:16 ↗ shifts of about six hours long which

1:27:19 ↗ equally equated to about two hundred

1:27:20 ↗ thirty-four hours of traffic emphasis

1:27:23 ↗ what we actually achieved was 33 shifts

1:27:28 ↗ with about 214 hours

1:27:29 ↗ emphasis overall there was about 370

1:27:33 ↗ infractions issued during that timeframe

1:27:35 ↗ the reality of it was it was really

1:27:38 ↗ condensed down to two months of May and

1:27:40 ↗ June for once we were had obtained

1:27:42 ↗ authorization we had to acquire the

1:27:44 ↗ contract with Washington State Patrol

1:27:45 ↗ which closed our window of enforcement

1:27:49 ↗ time just a little bit but we were able

1:27:51 ↗ to accomplish that within that two-month

1:27:52 ↗ period a lot of the types of violations

1:28:02 ↗ that we observed during the next I'm

1:28:05 ↗ going to go back one slide here we

1:28:08 ↗ really tried to in focus on

1:28:09 ↗ red-light violations blocking the

1:28:11 ↗ intersections speeding distracted

1:28:14 ↗ driving illegal passing crosswalk

1:28:16 ↗ violations and in seatbelt as well a lot

1:28:20 ↗ of other citations were issued during

1:28:22 ↗ that enforcement period just depending

1:28:25 ↗ upon but we really tried to capture and

1:28:27 ↗ focus on the ones that had been

1:28:28 ↗ identified by previous conversations in

1:28:30 ↗ the pre survey but also some of the

1:28:33 ↗ community input I kind of want to

1:28:35 ↗ provide a little bit more information

1:28:37 ↗ related to this when we examined the

1:28:40 ↗ data and we looked at kind of May versus

1:28:43 ↗ June to see if we've been having any

1:28:45 ↗ sort of an impact on the violations or

1:28:49 ↗ on potential violations or return

1:28:52 ↗ violations interesting enough in May we

1:28:58 ↗ had about 297 contacts or 2.7 contacts

1:29:02 ↗ per hour for violations that's like a

1:29:03 ↗ traffic stop we had to hire 96 citations

1:29:06 ↗ this is the State Patrol data so we're

1:29:08 ↗ kind of compiling the State Patrol data

1:29:10 ↗ her 96 citations which averaged about

1:29:13 ↗ one point seven eight citations per hour

1:29:14 ↗ in June although we saw a few less hours

1:29:19 ↗ we also saw less violations so we had to

1:29:24 ↗ earn 24 contacts during 57 and a half

1:29:27 ↗ hours which equates to about 2.15

1:29:29 ↗ contacts per hour or traffic stops per

1:29:33 ↗ hour and about seventy three citations

1:29:34 ↗ overall which is about one point two

1:29:36 ↗ seven citations per hour so we saw

1:29:40 ↗ approximately 0.5 citations per hour

1:29:43 ↗ for you no citations but we also saw

1:29:45 ↗ over a half of a contact per hour of you

1:29:49 ↗ know observed violations from May to

1:29:51 ↗ June as well now that didn't necessarily

1:29:54 ↗ carry across all types of violations

1:29:57 ↗ when we looked at some of the when we

1:29:59 ↗ group red-light violations and blocking

1:30:01 ↗ intersection we saw actually an increase

1:30:04 ↗ of that those type of violations from

1:30:06 ↗ May to June from about 0.67 per hour to

1:30:09 ↗ about 0.8 distracted driving we saw just

1:30:12 ↗ a really small drop from 0.59 per hour

1:30:16 ↗ to about 0.53 and then we actually saw a

1:30:18 ↗ large drop in seat by seatbelt

1:30:21 ↗ violations about 0.4 8 down to 0.1 L so

1:30:23 ↗ I think most of the time when people see

1:30:26 ↗ in law enforcement they kind of think of

1:30:27 ↗ some of the major campaigns that are out

1:30:29 ↗ you know in in the media about like

1:30:31 ↗ click it or ticket things like that so I

1:30:33 ↗ think when they see the presence that

1:30:35 ↗ that has a little bit of an impact on

1:30:36 ↗ that now overall can I say that it was

1:30:39 ↗ absolutely because of that because the

1:30:41 ↗ enforcement we're not sure but at least

1:30:43 ↗ the data that that we collected during

1:30:45 ↗ that time frame in those specific

1:30:46 ↗ locations showed a little bit of drop in

1:30:50 ↗ violations from May to June but then we

1:30:53 ↗ had some changes in behaviors on some of

1:30:55 ↗ the citations so we're only looking at

1:30:57 ↗ about a two month window though you know

1:30:59 ↗ sample size so again just kind of

1:31:06 ↗ looking at percentages of the main

1:31:10 ↗ violations that were issued during our

1:31:12 ↗ emphasis we're looking about 21% of

1:31:14 ↗ distracted driving 17% of like blocking

1:31:17 ↗ intersection 7% of red-light violations

1:31:20 ↗ and then 4% of improper turning those to

1:31:23 ↗ again these are the violations that we

1:31:24 ↗ had identified during the surveys kind

1:31:28 ↗ of asking input from our asking input

1:31:32 ↗ from our community some of the

1:31:37 ↗ expenditures during this time frame we

1:31:39 ↗ were authorized 34,000 $125 we only

1:31:43 ↗ expended about 23,000 735 as you can see

1:31:47 ↗ we had to rely on Washington State

1:31:48 ↗ Patrol contracting services to

1:31:50 ↗ accomplish this and again this is about

1:31:53 ↗ that

1:31:55 ↗ hiring of positions and getting our

1:31:57 ↗ staffing up and running so we hired five

1:31:59 ↗ new positions and July 1st and this is

1:32:02 ↗ just after this had actually concluded

1:32:04 ↗ so we're I'm in the process of getting

1:32:06 ↗ those people trained and hope to have

1:32:07 ↗ them up and running by the end of 1st

1:32:10 ↗ quarter 2nd quarter

1:32:11 ↗ of 2019 but so I want to go into our

1:32:21 ↗ survey results now again we sent out a

1:32:25 ↗ pre survey to try and get a little bit

1:32:28 ↗ of input from community as we started

1:32:29 ↗ off this project to get a feel for what

1:32:32 ↗ kind of violations were they seen and

1:32:34 ↗ maybe where they were seeing them we

1:32:36 ↗ also want to get some input on what they

1:32:38 ↗ saw as some of the contributing factors

1:32:40 ↗ to our traffic issue our pre survey

1:32:44 ↗ consisted of two separate surveys and we

1:32:47 ↗ utilized peak democracy and we use

1:32:49 ↗ Survey Monkey and the intent of that was

1:32:52 ↗ to hopefully be able to push out the

1:32:53 ↗ Survey Monkey to some of our commuters

1:32:56 ↗ or some of the communities outside of

1:32:57 ↗ our community just to try and get their

1:32:59 ↗ input a little bit more and to hopefully

1:33:01 ↗ get just more participation by giving

1:33:04 ↗ them a couple of different venues to

1:33:05 ↗ reach out to so we had about 363

1:33:08 ↗ participants in the pre survey and we

1:33:18 ↗ had a club about 13 questions in the pre

1:33:21 ↗ survey I've captured a few of them just

1:33:24 ↗ to include in in the presentation

1:33:26 ↗ tonight just to kind of talk about it I

1:33:29 ↗ know if you do the numbers in rock and

1:33:31 ↗ all add up butts because the people had

1:33:32 ↗ opportunity to choose me on multiple

1:33:34 ↗ selections for at least for this one for

1:33:37 ↗ this description of how they typically

1:33:38 ↗ commute but it's it's pretty

1:33:40 ↗ overwhelming about single occupancy

1:33:41 ↗ vehicles as opposed to maybe some of the

1:33:44 ↗ other choices I've tried to we've

1:33:47 ↗ captured both surveys provide them and

1:33:49 ↗ similar the next two columns and then

1:33:51 ↗ some of the other ones we've provided

1:33:51 ↗ some averages as well we want to get a

1:33:56 ↗ feel for what their feeling was on their

1:33:59 ↗ average daily commute and what we saw

1:34:01 ↗ was they we had over

1:34:06 ↗ over fifty percent are claiming that

1:34:08 ↗ it's difficult or very difficult to have

1:34:10 ↗ their commute through our community next

1:34:17 ↗ we want to get a feel for what they felt

1:34:19 ↗ was contributing factors and as you can

1:34:21 ↗ see again multiple responses you know

1:34:26 ↗ opportunities here but there was a

1:34:27 ↗ overwhelming response for a traffic

1:34:29 ↗ volume and then they went down on to

1:34:32 ↗ focus on road design or traffic signal

1:34:35 ↗ timing and then unsafe driver behavior

1:34:38 ↗ we wanted to get a feel for what their

1:34:42 ↗ thoughts were in addition to just these

1:34:44 ↗ questions some of the participants also

1:34:48 ↗ provided additional comments through a

1:34:50 ↗ lot of these answers as well and they

1:34:51 ↗ are included in a link in your guys in

1:34:54 ↗ your packet as well just to kind of look

1:34:56 ↗ at it but there was definitely outside

1:34:59 ↗ of the mobility issues or how the

1:35:03 ↗ factors are talking about the violations

1:35:07 ↗ as well it's a majority are focusing on

1:35:13 ↗ sometimes often or almost always have

1:35:15 ↗ seen violations during their commute so

1:35:22 ↗ this table shows the violation frequency

1:35:25 ↗ observation by our you know survey

1:35:27 ↗ respondents showing a at least the

1:35:32 ↗ blocking intersections there was a heavy

1:35:34 ↗ focus on blocking intersections and not

1:35:37 ↗ following signs and distracted driving

1:35:39 ↗ and that kind of actually goes in touch

1:35:42 ↗ with our citations as well that we that

1:35:45 ↗ we issued in the amount of contacts that

1:35:48 ↗ we had during this pilot project that

1:35:49 ↗ they were more focused on blocking

1:35:51 ↗ intersections and distracted driver the

1:35:56 ↗ locations varied for where they saw but

1:36:00 ↗ Front Street was the highest observation

1:36:04 ↗ location and as a result a lot of our

1:36:08 ↗ initial enforcement was focused on Front

1:36:12 ↗ Street and of course Gilman and 900 with

1:36:16 ↗ a little bit focused on Newport that's

1:36:18 ↗ where we tried to apply

1:36:19 ↗ resources based on where some of our our

1:36:22 ↗ the complaints or the response were

1:36:23 ↗ focusing their observations and again

1:36:31 ↗ the pre survey there was a statement of

1:36:33 ↗ that there was this was interesting to

1:36:38 ↗ see looking at the Survey Monkey we see

1:36:40 ↗ we it appears that Survey Monkey was

1:36:43 ↗ more for people outside of our city or

1:36:45 ↗ community and the and the peak democracy

1:36:47 ↗ was more inside our community as well so

1:36:51 ↗ it's interesting that you see a little

1:36:54 ↗ bit more of a focus on internally on the

1:36:57 ↗ not enough enforcement in the more of

1:36:59 ↗ the the local comments and respondents

1:37:02 ↗ versus the external survey the survey

1:37:06 ↗ monkey said 73% were neutral on this and

1:37:11 ↗ you find that actually throughout some

1:37:12 ↗ of these is the the variances on between

1:37:15 ↗ the the kind of the external and the

1:37:17 ↗ local responses now we get to the post

1:37:22 ↗ project survey results we had a few less

1:37:26 ↗ participants but a majority of those

1:37:28 ↗ were emailed directly with the survey

1:37:30 ↗ because when they had the opportunity to

1:37:32 ↗ sign up for the original survey they

1:37:34 ↗ were provided that saying would they

1:37:36 ↗ like to be able to be contacted to

1:37:38 ↗ provide it and so we had 214 total

1:37:40 ↗ participants of that about a hundred

1:37:42 ↗ eighty eight were residents of that

1:37:44 ↗ responded in the last so when asked the

1:37:52 ↗ question about if they've noticed on

1:37:55 ↗ during this pilot project if there

1:37:57 ↗ hasn't been any sort of increased about

1:38:00 ↗ 25 percent stated that they noticed an

1:38:03 ↗ increased and then 73 percent said that

1:38:05 ↗ they did not did not notice it so again

1:38:10 ↗ if you're talking about 39 shifts over a

1:38:13 ↗ period of a few months for six hours so

1:38:16 ↗ three times a week for about six hours

1:38:18 ↗ and if it's not on your commute location

1:38:21 ↗ you may or may not have that come in

1:38:23 ↗ contact with it on the violations

1:38:29 ↗ concerning traffic violations did did

1:38:31 ↗ our community notice

1:38:33 ↗ a change in driving behavior 84% did not

1:38:37 ↗ really notice a change in traffic

1:38:38 ↗ violations

1:38:39 ↗ they did not again most of the just

1:38:43 ↗ blocking intersections or distracted

1:38:45 ↗ drivers there was not a significant

1:38:47 ↗ change so when asked for some of our

1:38:54 ↗ community members if they felt the

1:38:56 ↗ traffic enforcement was a right amount

1:38:57 ↗ or not enough there still is a 60 per

1:39:00 ↗ majority stating there's not enough and

1:39:02 ↗ although that 31% did feel that there

1:39:05 ↗ was a small difference that was made or

1:39:07 ↗ there was an impact there's still 66%

1:39:09 ↗ and say that there is no difference when

1:39:17 ↗ asked specifically if they felt that if

1:39:20 ↗ they would like to see continued traffic

1:39:22 ↗ enforcement emphasis in the downtown

1:39:23 ↗ area there was a bad overwhelming

1:39:25 ↗ response again of 84 percent saying that

1:39:27 ↗ they would like to see it and then of

1:39:28 ↗ course the continued notification of any

1:39:31 ↗ continued enforcement projects or if

1:39:34 ↗ there is any sort of an intention to

1:39:35 ↗ look at additional enhanced enforcement

1:39:38 ↗ there was a an interest as well that

1:39:42 ↗ concludes the overall presentation and

1:39:46 ↗ update on the pilot project if you have

1:39:48 ↗ any questions that's members questions

1:39:53 ↗ all good you can go home Scott they're

1:39:57 ↗ thinking and digesting it's an awful lot

1:40:00 ↗ of data and it's very interesting

1:40:06 ↗ there's no questions are we ready for

1:40:09 ↗ emotion I'd like to I'd like to make a

1:40:11 ↗ motion wait ahead I'd like to move that

1:40:13 ↗ we were fir abies 7655 to the September

1:40:17 ↗ 18th 2018 council services and Safety

1:40:20 ↗ Committee for review and recommendations

1:40:22 ↗ returning the full council for

1:40:24 ↗ consideration and possible action on or

1:40:26 ↗ before October 15 2018 I think this

1:40:29 ↗ gives us an opportunity to do a little

1:40:31 ↗ bit more second I think this gives us an

1:40:35 ↗ opportunity to

1:40:38 ↗ spend some time with the numbers and to

1:40:40 ↗ really look at what was working what

1:40:42 ↗ wasn't working whether or not we need to

1:40:45 ↗ do more of this broader and also as we

1:40:48 ↗ bring our new officers online in 2019

1:40:51 ↗ how best to apply them to meet the needs

1:40:54 ↗ of the community either councilmember

1:40:57 ↗ comments as president Mertz I want to

1:41:00 ↗ thank the member the very busy members

1:41:03 ↗ of the services and Safety Committee

1:41:04 ↗ meeting if this goes through for their

1:41:07 ↗ service never a dull moment I would also

1:41:12 ↗ ask in your in your evaluation of this

1:41:15 ↗ data I would be interested you know some

1:41:18 ↗ of you who know I was the president of

1:41:19 ↗ my students against drunk driving

1:41:20 ↗ chapter in high school my junior and

1:41:22 ↗ senior years and spent a lot of weekends

1:41:25 ↗ giving kids rides home from ride homes

1:41:27 ↗ from parties we had these little

1:41:29 ↗ keychains that people would call in and

1:41:31 ↗ get a boy and a girl team that would

1:41:33 ↗ take them home but you know seeing the

1:41:36 ↗ very small number of DUIs that makes me

1:41:39 ↗ really happy if in fact we were looking

1:41:42 ↗ for it and we can't find it but I would

1:41:44 ↗ love it if you would make sure that

1:41:46 ↗ we're leaving every stone we're leaving

1:41:50 ↗ no stone unturned I guess would be the

1:41:52 ↗ way I've been sit because I have no

1:41:56 ↗ sympathy at all for those folks thanks

1:41:59 ↗ to provide some comments the services

1:42:02 ↗ and safety might want to dig further

1:42:04 ↗ into councilmember interesting thank you

1:42:07 ↗ in the original bill back from March

1:42:09 ↗ there were four outcomes identified

1:42:11 ↗ increased presence at traffic emphasis

1:42:13 ↗ locations increased traffic stops

1:42:15 ↗ reduction in behind driver behaviors

1:42:18 ↗ that impact traffic flow and local

1:42:20 ↗ mobility and fourth increased mobility

1:42:22 ↗ in traffic emphasis locations and in

1:42:25 ↗ today's bill the first two questions are

1:42:29 ↗ addressed right in the primary body of

1:42:32 ↗ the bill as well and I know it's a

1:42:34 ↗ little bit more difficult because we

1:42:35 ↗ didn't have empirical data it was based

1:42:37 ↗ upon survey information so my ask of the

1:42:40 ↗ committee would be to dive into those

1:42:44 ↗ last two outcomes and

1:42:47 ↗ and to get a good understanding we could

1:42:50 ↗ spend more time of it now I'm really I

1:42:52 ↗ like the idea of taking it to committee

1:42:54 ↗ I think that's that's a good form for

1:42:55 ↗ this when we originally adopted this

1:42:58 ↗ there were a big part of the presumption

1:43:00 ↗ was that due to driver behavior

1:43:03 ↗ especially at certain intersections they

1:43:06 ↗ were contributing to decrease mobility

1:43:08 ↗ because of intersection light violations

1:43:12 ↗ and and improper turning and that this

1:43:17 ↗ increased enforcement would reduce those

1:43:21 ↗ behaviors and hopefully improve the the

1:43:26 ↗ traffic flow at through those locations

1:43:28 ↗ I realize that's a pretty difficult task

1:43:31 ↗ that's a big ask to make and may be

1:43:33 ↗ difficult to measure and really do but

1:43:36 ↗ those are the since that was a key part

1:43:39 ↗ of the justification for this in the

1:43:41 ↗ first place I would ask the committee to

1:43:43 ↗ really investigate those parts to the

1:43:45 ↗ best of their ability and I know that

1:43:48 ↗ Commander bierbaum and his staff and

1:43:50 ↗ others in the and the administration you

1:43:53 ↗ know how Scott thank you this for this

1:43:55 ↗ evening bringing the kind of the trend

1:43:57 ↗ information that I had asked and sharing

1:44:00 ↗ that with us I think it is there's just

1:44:02 ↗ a couple data points and and some of the

1:44:04 ↗ trends look like Wow some of these

1:44:06 ↗ behaviors that maybe contribute to poor

1:44:09 ↗ traffic flow actually got worse during

1:44:11 ↗ that time and I'd like to look deeper

1:44:13 ↗ dive into that and can we really make

1:44:15 ↗ any polisseni conclusions from that or

1:44:19 ↗ should we be considering further policy

1:44:22 ↗ questions of addition extending or in

1:44:27 ↗ funding it further so that we can get

1:44:29 ↗ some more data

1:44:30 ↗ those are my interests and ass in the

1:44:31 ↗ committee thank you thank you any other

1:44:34 ↗ councilmembers council member Ramos yeah

1:44:37 ↗ that you've just definitely thank you

1:44:40 ↗ for this designing this project as you

1:44:43 ↗ did so we could get a good sample on a

1:44:46 ↗ little bit of what increased enforcement

1:44:49 ↗ would become which our community is

1:44:51 ↗ asking for it's a great start I really

1:44:54 ↗ appreciate this I myself saw a few out

1:44:57 ↗ there a couple times so

1:44:59 ↗ yeah nice to see folks out there and and

1:45:02 ↗ and how that reacts again community

1:45:05 ↗ we'll take a deeper dive I believe that

1:45:07 ↗ and and look at how we're going to deal

1:45:09 ↗ with this in the future but I think it's

1:45:10 ↗ a great start and thank you for your

1:45:12 ↗ work and putting this pilot together

1:45:14 ↗ great other council members being none

1:45:19 ↗ I'll call for the vote the motion was to

1:45:24 ↗ refer a be seven six five five to the

1:45:26 ↗ September 18th 2018 council services and

1:45:29 ↗ Safety Committee for a review and

1:45:30 ↗ recommendation returned to the full

1:45:32 ↗ council for consideration and possible

1:45:34 ↗ action on or before October 15 to 2018

1:45:37 ↗ all those in favor say aye

1:45:42 ↗ motion carries unanimously

1:45:45 ↗ Thank You chief the next and last item

1:45:50 ↗ under regular business is a b7 673 city

1:45:53 ↗ administrator appointment I will be

1:45:56 ↗ presenting a brief summary to the

1:45:58 ↗ Council of the agenda bill and then

1:46:01 ↗ taking questions this agenda bill seeks

1:46:05 ↗ counsels confirmation of the mayor's

1:46:07 ↗ appointment of Emilie moon to the

1:46:08 ↗ position of city administrator it also

1:46:11 ↗ asks for direction for the council to

1:46:14 ↗ direct the mayor to execute the

1:46:15 ↗ employment contract and authorize the

1:46:18 ↗ mayor to retain retained recruitment

1:46:20 ↗ services to fill the vacant deputy city

1:46:22 ↗ administrator position the miss moon has

1:46:25 ↗ been filling in as interim City

1:46:26 ↗ Administrator since January 2nd

1:46:29 ↗ she was formerly our deputy

1:46:31 ↗ administrator that position has remained

1:46:33 ↗ vacant during this time on my first two

1:46:37 ↗ quarters in office I spent a lot of time

1:46:40 ↗ reviewing the work in progress and

1:46:42 ↗ looking at the projects underway and

1:46:44 ↗ also considering options for how to fill

1:46:47 ↗ the city administrator position so I

1:46:50 ↗ considered three different options

1:46:51 ↗ continuing with an interim City

1:46:53 ↗ Administrator completing a national

1:46:55 ↗ search or appointing a qualified

1:46:57 ↗ internal candidate I looked at several

1:47:00 ↗ of the significant projects underway

1:47:02 ↗ that that really are taking a lot of the

1:47:05 ↗ executive and senior leadership team and

1:47:07 ↗ focus and want to really make sure that

1:47:10 ↗ these projects are come

1:47:11 ↗ cleated the development of our first

1:47:14 ↗ ever city strategic plan and the

1:47:16 ↗ implementation of some new budget new

1:47:19 ↗ budget tool for 2018 as well as an

1:47:21 ↗ overhaul of most of the city's financial

1:47:24 ↗ systems I did not consider continuing

1:47:29 ↗ with the interim city administrator role

1:47:31 ↗ because it's been providing a strain on

1:47:34 ↗ resources in that we have been unable to

1:47:37 ↗ completely stop the executive office

1:47:39 ↗ during this at this time completing a

1:47:42 ↗ national search was also an option

1:47:44 ↗ having gone through that and serving on

1:47:47 ↗ the site Fire and Rescue Board two years

1:47:49 ↗ ago I really I understand the

1:47:52 ↗ significant lift that that can be in the

1:47:54 ↗ amount of time and attention that it can

1:47:55 ↗ take it would be about a nine-month

1:47:59 ↗ process which means that the mayor's

1:48:01 ↗ office would not be fully staffed for

1:48:04 ↗ quite a long time I felt that that could

1:48:07 ↗ complicate our abilities to get our

1:48:09 ↗ priority projects listed priority

1:48:11 ↗ projects completed so I went with the

1:48:14 ↗ option of appointing a qualified

1:48:16 ↗ internal internal candidate interim city

1:48:19 ↗ administrator moon has 21 years of

1:48:21 ↗ service in public administration and has

1:48:23 ↗ held positions and cities and agencies

1:48:25 ↗ around the country

1:48:26 ↗ she is the training the experience and

1:48:28 ↗ the qualifications to perform the city

1:48:30 ↗ administrator role and I'm recommending

1:48:32 ↗ to Council this evening to confirm this

1:48:34 ↗ appointment it's required by the code i

1:48:39 ↗ am c 2.0 2.0 8.01 o states how this

1:48:46 ↗ process works and while the mayor makes

1:48:48 ↗ the appointment I do bring it forward to

1:48:50 ↗ the council for our confirmation which

1:48:51 ↗ is what I'm doing this evening I've

1:48:55 ↗ provided some financial information also

1:48:57 ↗ in the agenda bill since the candidate

1:48:59 ↗ is currently acting as interim City

1:49:02 ↗ Administrator and compensated for those

1:49:04 ↗ duties and it does not anticipate that a

1:49:06 ↗ deputy City Administrator will be on

1:49:08 ↗ board till early to 2019 the increase

1:49:11 ↗ for the salary and the appointment can

1:49:13 ↗ be a calm

1:49:13 ↗ in the current approved budget there is

1:49:16 ↗ a typo in the next paragraph of the

1:49:18 ↗ agenda bill and I can see people I

1:49:20 ↗ already found it do it there's two

1:49:21 ↗ potential typos the request for funding

1:49:24 ↗ to complete recruitment for a deputy

1:49:25 ↗ City Administrator is estimated at

1:49:28 ↗ $30,000 not $30.00 this funding was not

1:49:32 ↗ included in the 2019 approved budget and

1:49:34 ↗ if approved it may require a future

1:49:36 ↗ budget amendment to be authorized by

1:49:38 ↗ Council

1:49:39 ↗ so my recommendation this evening is for

1:49:41 ↗ council to confirm the appointment of

1:49:42 ↗ miss moon as an internal candidate

1:49:44 ↗ fulfill the position of city

1:49:46 ↗ administrator question are we ready for

1:49:54 ↗ a motion

1:49:55 ↗ [Applause]

1:49:57 ↗ deputy council president batiste

1:49:59 ↗ I would move to confirm the Mayoress

1:50:03 ↗ appointment of Emilie moon as the city

1:50:05 ↗ administrator authorized the mayor to

1:50:08 ↗ enter into and execute the employment

1:50:10 ↗ contract and authorize the mayor to

1:50:13 ↗ retain recruitment services to fill the

1:50:15 ↗ vacant deputy administrator positions

1:50:17 ↗ let go and frantically scribbling

1:50:22 ↗ something down here so it has been moved

1:50:24 ↗ and seconded actually I realized that I

1:50:28 ↗ wanted to propose an alternate motion so

1:50:32 ↗ if I may add some comments and have you

1:50:34 ↗ consider them I would like to add to the

1:50:39 ↗ second bullet authorized the mayor to

1:50:40 ↗ enter into an execute the employment

1:50:42 ↗ contract I'd like to add in as directed

1:50:44 ↗ in the executive session as we didn't

1:50:47 ↗ have a discussion on this contract in

1:50:48 ↗ session shall I read that again

1:50:58 ↗ actually they take the tisha do we have

1:51:01 ↗ to withdraw the other motion just a mint

1:51:05 ↗ you're gonna offer as amendment thank

1:51:07 ↗ you so as amended meeting I read one

1:51:11 ↗ more time that would be good I would

1:51:16 ↗ move to confirm the mayor's appointment

1:51:18 ↗ of Emilie moon as the city administrator

1:51:20 ↗ authorized the mayor to enter into and

1:51:23 ↗ execute the employment contract and

1:51:25 ↗ authorized the mayor to retain

1:51:26 ↗ recruitment services to build the vacant

1:51:29 ↗ deputy administrator position as amended

1:51:34 ↗ [Music]

1:51:35 ↗ as directed in executive session okay I

1:51:48 ↗ I'm sorry I thought I could just say as

1:51:50 ↗ amended at the end I'm gonna do this one

1:51:51 ↗ more time I would move to confirm the

1:51:54 ↗ mayor's appointment of Emilie moon as

1:51:56 ↗ the city administrator authorized the

1:51:58 ↗ mayor to enter into and execute the

1:52:00 ↗ employment contract as directed in

1:52:02 ↗ executive session and authorized the

1:52:05 ↗ mayor to retain recruitment services to

1:52:07 ↗ fill the vacant deputy administrator

1:52:08 ↗ position thank you

1:52:11 ↗ second degrees I'm missing questions

1:52:14 ↗ councilmember Bates I just have a

1:52:17 ↗ procedural question and to start with

1:52:20 ↗ and that is can we do that making that

1:52:23 ↗ contract amendment change an executive

1:52:25 ↗ session and not disclose what it is here

1:52:30 ↗ actually no I was just thinking about

1:52:34 ↗ that the directed an executive session

1:52:36 ↗ the council did not give any direction

1:52:38 ↗ and an executive session and can't do

1:52:40 ↗ that

1:52:41 ↗ so you do need to either make the

1:52:43 ↗ amendment here or you can could say with

1:52:49 ↗ the amendments discussed an executive

1:52:52 ↗ session I think it might be cleaner just

1:52:56 ↗ to make the amendment here cuz it's

1:52:57 ↗ pretty tight I think so too

1:52:58 ↗ I'd be happy to make that amendment so

1:53:01 ↗ in motion oh well I'm not mending the

1:53:03 ↗ motion it's pending motion

1:53:07 ↗ so I think to amendment I I move that we

1:53:11 ↗ amend the motion on the floor to change

1:53:17 ↗ section 12 severance me excuse me I I

1:53:20 ↗ think that you should dispose you should

1:53:23 ↗ take a vote on the current an amendment

1:53:26 ↗ which was to add the phrase so maybe you

1:53:28 ↗ haven't taken that vote yet there to

1:53:31 ↗ incorporate Mariah's language so she

1:53:34 ↗ could with move to withdraw the language

1:53:37 ↗ she offered and that would put that

1:53:40 ↗ first motion back before council and

1:53:43 ↗ open it for amendments council president

1:53:47 ↗ batiste

1:53:48 ↗ you think that's clean way of doing it

1:53:50 ↗ motion would be dispositive when I would

1:53:55 ↗ remand would be disposed of okay I would

1:53:59 ↗ move to withdraw Yemen and the second

1:54:01 ↗ degree is read there back to the

1:54:03 ↗ original motion that's a member right

1:54:05 ↗ I'd like to move to amend the motion

1:54:08 ↗ under consideration to change section 12

1:54:12 ↗ severance of the employment contract

1:54:14 ↗ section a and delete the last sentence

1:54:19 ↗ in that paragraph that reads this

1:54:21 ↗ severance shall be paid out in a lump

1:54:23 ↗ sum basis can you please restate I doubt

1:54:31 ↗ it

1:54:32 ↗ I would move to amend the employment

1:54:37 ↗ contract section 12 severance section a

1:54:42 ↗ subsection a and strike the final or the

1:54:46 ↗ last sentence in that paragraph this

1:54:49 ↗ severance shall be paid out in a lump

1:54:51 ↗ sum basis second it moved and seconded

1:54:56 ↗ so if add some clarifying comments for

1:54:59 ↗ the council the reason this came up is

1:55:02 ↗ because of a difference in one

1:55:04 ↗ employment contract to another and the

1:55:07 ↗ intention is to make it then the same

1:55:11 ↗ I'm not sure if council members raised

1:55:14 ↗ wording changes makes them the same

1:55:18 ↗ as in the previous contract but I know

1:55:20 ↗ that is his intent so well so my intent

1:55:28 ↗ and I think this does do it is the first

1:55:31 ↗ part of that section says if the

1:55:33 ↗ employee terminates by the city for any

1:55:35 ↗ reason other than set forth in

1:55:37 ↗ Subsection e below the employee shall be

1:55:39 ↗ entitled to severance payments equal to

1:55:41 ↗ 6 months of annual base salary down

1:55:46 ↗ below in section in the subsequent

1:55:50 ↗ sections it talks about the fact that

1:55:52 ↗ this would be paid out over a period of

1:55:57 ↗ 6 months and in the event that

1:55:59 ↗ employment was gained during that six

1:56:01 ↗ months the payment would stop so if we

1:56:03 ↗ pay it out in one lump sum we don't have

1:56:05 ↗ the ability to retroactively we boat

1:56:07 ↗ back and get it so I think by just

1:56:08 ↗ striking that the other sentences or

1:56:10 ↗ other subsections stand on their own

1:56:12 ↗ it's good comments questions on the

1:56:20 ↗ amendment okay

1:56:26 ↗ excuse me oh sorry I guess I would just

1:56:29 ↗ look for a nod before our city attorney

1:56:31 ↗ that that striking that sentence works I

1:56:41 ↗ think it the the appropriate thing would

1:56:45 ↗ be to change that sentence to read that

1:56:49 ↗ the severance shall be paid in equal

1:56:52 ↗ monthly installments and then to change

1:56:57 ↗ to make sure that in well you can either

1:57:05 ↗ do that or you can simply direct the

1:57:07 ↗ city attorney and the mayor to amend the

1:57:11 ↗ contract as per the intent stated by mr.

1:57:17 ↗ Rey we have a question

1:57:19 ↗ that's um madam mayor I would request at

1:57:23 ↗ this point we've taken a couple of

1:57:24 ↗ whacks at this I would request that we

1:57:27 ↗ take a five or your discretion 10-minute

1:57:29 ↗ bio break and the administration came

1:57:32 ↗ back with language that has worked with

1:57:34 ↗ Jim and these confident addresses the

1:57:37 ↗ question it

1:57:39 ↗ agreed five minute recess

1:57:59 ↗ you

2:04:59 ↗ we are returning from our recess and I'm

2:05:03 ↗ going to councilmember Rea for a

2:05:04 ↗ replacement motion I'd like to offer a

2:05:07 ↗ replacement motion say I would like to

2:05:13 ↗ replace the motion I made earlier with

2:05:16 ↗ an amendment to change section twelve

2:05:19 ↗ severance subsection a on the last

2:05:23 ↗ sentence to read this severance shall be

2:05:26 ↗ paid in six equal monthly installments I

2:05:30 ↗ would also like to amend section

2:05:32 ↗ subsection D inserting in the first

2:05:37 ↗ sentence after the severance and

2:05:40 ↗ deferred compensation benefits shall be

2:05:42 ↗ reduced by the salary and benefits of

2:05:45 ↗ said other employment second it's been

2:05:50 ↗ moved and seconded to change section

2:05:52 ↗ twelve severance as noted in red on the

2:05:55 ↗ screen do we have any questions this is

2:05:58 ↗ an amendment not the main motion

2:06:00 ↗ councilmember winter Stein just to be

2:06:02 ↗ extra special careful

2:06:06 ↗ councilmember Rey read that and I'd like

2:06:11 ↗ to hear from the administration if

2:06:12 ↗ indeed this language now is consistent

2:06:14 ↗ and makes the intent with what your

2:06:17 ↗ objective was sure so I'll check I'll

2:06:20 ↗ check

2:06:21 ↗ I'll give you my opinion but also this

2:06:23 ↗ is an employment contract and I want to

2:06:26 ↗ make sure that miss moon agrees that

2:06:28 ↗ this is what we had talked about so the

2:06:32 ↗ language up here is what I had thought

2:06:37 ↗ our contract was going to capture which

2:06:39 ↗ is a language we have used some language

2:06:42 ↗ we have used Bevers which is not

2:06:48 ↗ language this captures the intent from

2:06:52 ↗ previous contracts and that was how I

2:06:54 ↗ thought this contract would be written

2:06:55 ↗ so yes this is what I expected intent to

2:06:58 ↗ be Ms moon I concur

2:07:04 ↗ thank you sessions okay I think to be

2:07:11 ↗ clear you need me to read everything

2:07:14 ↗ tisha or can I just refer to okay so an

2:07:19 ↗ amendment to the motion has been made it

2:07:21 ↗ has shown up on the overhead it is the

2:07:23 ↗ red text that you see been moved and

2:07:26 ↗ seconded all those in favor say aye I

2:07:29 ↗ oppose the amendment carries back to the

2:07:33 ↗ main motion

2:07:34 ↗ any discussion questions further

2:07:37 ↗ amendments that's a member right so this

2:07:42 ↗ is a very obviously important and

2:07:45 ↗ long-range decision that we're making

2:07:47 ↗ this evening there's a number of pieces

2:07:52 ↗ of information that I don't have that I

2:07:54 ↗ think are important for me personally to

2:07:58 ↗ make this decision so I'm gonna abstain

2:07:59 ↗ from this vote

2:08:03 ↗ other comments or questions just deputy

2:08:06 ↗ counsel extension will be a vote in

2:08:09 ↗ favor

2:08:10 ↗ deputy council president the teeth so I

2:08:13 ↗ I just wanted to speak to the motion I

2:08:17 ↗ am very supportive of this confirmation

2:08:21 ↗ I've had the pleasure of working with

2:08:25 ↗ Emily moon for a few years now and we

2:08:29 ↗ have a strong and talented person in the

2:08:36 ↗ interim role for City Administrator

2:08:38 ↗ right now someone who has many years of

2:08:42 ↗ targeted experience in this area

2:08:45 ↗ and has served as both the deputy deputy

2:08:47 ↗ counsel I'm sorry

2:08:50 ↗ the deputy city administrator and then

2:08:53 ↗ the interim city administrator so we've

2:08:56 ↗ we have an internal candidate who has a

2:08:59 ↗ very strong working relationship with

2:09:01 ↗ the existing city staff the city

2:09:05 ↗ workload that we have right now is

2:09:07 ↗ immense and the agenda bill mentions

2:09:10 ↗ many

2:09:10 ↗ of the important projects that that this

2:09:14 ↗ role would be involved in and helping to

2:09:18 ↗ oversee including the strategic plan and

2:09:22 ↗ overhaul of the city's financial systems

2:09:24 ↗ and new 2018 budget tool that on top of

2:09:29 ↗ the day-to-day workings of the person

2:09:33 ↗ that's in the city administrator role a

2:09:36 ↗ national search is something that could

2:09:39 ↗ take up to a year and then the the time

2:09:45 ↗ that would be spent for that person to

2:09:48 ↗ come in the learning curve and the ramp

2:09:50 ↗ up really can I think could end up

2:09:53 ↗ taking another year and right now we're

2:09:57 ↗ sitting with someone who is an

2:09:59 ↗ incredibly strong experienced candidate

2:10:01 ↗ who would also be incredibly adept at

2:10:04 ↗ bringing in a deputy City Administrator

2:10:06 ↗ and training them and so for me this

2:10:09 ↗ makes really good sense to go forward

2:10:13 ↗ with the appointment and confirmation of

2:10:17 ↗ Emily moon thank you any other comments

2:10:21 ↗ or questions very confident

2:10:24 ↗ councilmember winters time thank you

2:10:26 ↗ I was on council when there was an open

2:10:30 ↗ deputy city administrator position it

2:10:33 ↗ was a competitive process Emily was one

2:10:35 ↗ of a number of applicants and she was

2:10:38 ↗ selected for that process for that

2:10:41 ↗ position then in my capacity as a

2:10:44 ↗ council member both as a regular member

2:10:46 ↗ but also a number of years in council

2:10:49 ↗ leadership had lots of opportunities to

2:10:51 ↗ work directly with Emily but also with

2:10:55 ↗ many members of her staff and so I have

2:10:58 ↗ direct experience that I'm drawing from

2:11:01 ↗ also in my own personal experience

2:11:04 ↗ outside of the city I have worked with a

2:11:07 ↗ number of executives in organizations of

2:11:11 ↗ about the same size in terms of

2:11:13 ↗ personnel and some even smaller

2:11:15 ↗ organizations that we have here at the

2:11:16 ↗ city and there's a lot that goes into

2:11:20 ↗ getting the top administrator getting

2:11:24 ↗ the right person for that rule and I

2:11:28 ↗ think we're in a very unique position

2:11:29 ↗ here with Emily as a candidate for being

2:11:32 ↗ familiar with and through my own

2:11:34 ↗ observations having very effective and

2:11:38 ↗ professional working relationships with

2:11:39 ↗ the staff leadership already with the

2:11:44 ↗ city my own personal experience is are

2:11:48 ↗ that I have found Emily to be very

2:11:51 ↗ knowledgeable very when asked for her

2:11:56 ↗ opinion and input

2:11:58 ↗ she always has provided I think very

2:12:01 ↗ strong strong input good fact-based

2:12:05 ↗ arguments when asked for her opinion I

2:12:09 ↗ have found them to be very reasonable

2:12:11 ↗ and many times very acceptable and I

2:12:15 ↗ think the overall kind of performance

2:12:18 ↗ that I've witnessed with the staff and

2:12:20 ↗ with my own interaction and you look at

2:12:22 ↗ the duties that this job requires for

2:12:24 ↗ this city there is it's very difficult

2:12:28 ↗ for me to imagine that there is another

2:12:30 ↗ candidate out there who would be better

2:12:34 ↗ than Emily for this position I care very

2:12:37 ↗ much what happens to the city and within

2:12:39 ↗ with Issaquah and having the right

2:12:42 ↗ people in the right place is very

2:12:44 ↗ important it's difficult and disruptive

2:12:46 ↗ to go through such a search I think

2:12:48 ↗ we're in a very unique position right

2:12:51 ↗ now to make this offer to Emily I think

2:12:55 ↗ it's the best thing that we can do

2:12:57 ↗ long-term and back at the beginning of

2:12:59 ↗ the year when there was change at the

2:13:01 ↗ administration I told a number of people

2:13:03 ↗ I thought you know one of the key things

2:13:05 ↗ that we have to do over these next few

2:13:06 ↗ months is make sure that we retain Emily

2:13:10 ↗ moon at the city and I think this is the

2:13:12 ↗ right long-term step and I'm grabbed

2:13:13 ↗ gladly going to support this proposal

2:13:17 ↗ via comments let's remember good

2:13:20 ↗ riddance all of my council president

2:13:21 ↗ Mertz well I just wholeheartedly agree

2:13:24 ↗ with

2:13:25 ↗ both of my fellow council members here

2:13:28 ↗ who spoke before me and I'm enthusiastic

2:13:31 ↗ ly support confirmation of Emily moon as

2:13:36 ↗ our city administrator and just really

2:13:39 ↗ really glad that you're gonna be here to

2:13:43 ↗ help continue with the important

2:13:45 ↗ projects and I really do also feel like

2:13:47 ↗ you're the right person for this

2:13:49 ↗ position right now thank you

2:13:52 ↗ that's president Mertz thank you madam

2:13:54 ↗ mayor so sometimes fate reaches out and

2:13:58 ↗ unexpectedly bestowed oh ship I'm

2:14:01 ↗ thinking here of George the sixth who

2:14:03 ↗ had no expectation of being king of

2:14:06 ↗ England in the 30s but lo and behold

2:14:09 ↗ Edward the eighth inexplicably abdicated

2:14:12 ↗ and there he was in World War Two to

2:14:15 ↗ provide sort of this staunch quiet

2:14:17 ↗ leadership that was the counterpoint to

2:14:19 ↗ Churchill's brilliant oratory 40 years

2:14:23 ↗ later Corazon Aquino when her husband

2:14:26 ↗ was assassinated was launched into the

2:14:28 ↗ spotlight in the Philippines and three

2:14:29 ↗ years later led the peaceful and

2:14:33 ↗ bloodless revolution that overthrew her

2:14:36 ↗ husband's killers and and to use a less

2:14:38 ↗ martial example Kate Winslet got the

2:14:42 ↗ role of ROS and Titanic because Gwyneth

2:14:44 ↗ Paltrow turned it down

2:14:45 ↗ so as deputy City Administrator Emily

2:14:49 ↗ showed her leadership early she's

2:14:51 ↗ shepherding many important city projects

2:14:54 ↗ through the council process always

2:14:56 ↗ representing the mayor's office with the

2:14:58 ↗ highest professional standard she's

2:15:01 ↗ handled the interim appointment

2:15:02 ↗ gracefully she's been the mayor's chief

2:15:04 ↗ advocate all the while building and

2:15:06 ↗ expanding her relationship with us

2:15:07 ↗ individual council members I'm so glad

2:15:10 ↗ Emily was there when fate reached out

2:15:12 ↗ this year to put her in that big chair

2:15:14 ↗ and if we confirm her appointment

2:15:15 ↗ tonight I have no doubt she'll continue

2:15:17 ↗ to serve the city and her mayor and this

2:15:20 ↗ council without standing in

2:15:22 ↗ conscientious leadership and I am so

2:15:24 ↗ looking forward to continuing to work

2:15:25 ↗ with her thank you

2:15:27 ↗ any other comments that's member hunt

2:15:30 ↗ I I think that the city has a lot of

2:15:34 ↗ really big challenges right now and I

2:15:36 ↗ think the confirmation of Emily moon to

2:15:40 ↗ this position will allow us to address

2:15:42 ↗ some of those challenges more

2:15:43 ↗ efficiently and with continuity that I

2:15:45 ↗ think is important I I think one of

2:15:48 ↗ those challenges and also a really big

2:15:50 ↗ opportunity right now it's the city's

2:15:52 ↗ strategic plan and so I'm I'm really

2:15:55 ↗ excited that we will have continuity of

2:15:57 ↗ leadership as we develop that plan and

2:16:00 ↗ for that reason I am in support of the

2:16:04 ↗ confirmation thank you

2:16:06 ↗ any other comments councilmember almost

2:16:08 ↗ yes when you're at this level the wood

2:16:11 ↗ really matters me is is how you work

2:16:13 ↗ with people and how you get people to

2:16:15 ↗ work and that's what really matters in

2:16:18 ↗ this position and I'll be supporting

2:16:19 ↗ Emily thank you

2:16:22 ↗ any other comments I'm going to read the

2:16:25 ↗ motion main motion moved to confirm the

2:16:29 ↗ mayor's appointment of Emily moon as the

2:16:31 ↗ city administrator authorized the mayor

2:16:33 ↗ to enter into and execute the employment

2:16:35 ↗ contract as amended and authorize the

2:16:38 ↗ mayor to retain recruitment services to

2:16:40 ↗ fill the vacant deputy administrator

2:16:42 ↗ position as directed in executive

2:16:44 ↗ session all those in favor all those

2:16:48 ↗ opposed abstentions yes the motion

2:16:53 ↗ carries six in favor

2:16:55 ↗ none opposed and one abstention and as

2:16:59 ↗ mayor I want to thank you for the

2:17:01 ↗ confirmation I cannot imagine what it

2:17:04 ↗ feels like for miss moon to sit there

2:17:07 ↗ and hear us have our deliberations and

2:17:10 ↗ talk about her like she's not even in

2:17:12 ↗ the room even though it was very nice

2:17:14 ↗ stuff that was said I would like to give

2:17:16 ↗ her the opportunity to address the

2:17:18 ↗ council for a few minutes or less

2:17:22 ↗ whatever she's comfortable with

2:17:24 ↗ thank you very much mayor poly and city

2:17:29 ↗ council members I do want to thank you

2:17:31 ↗ for this privilege in 2014 when my

2:17:34 ↗ family decided to return to the Pacific

2:17:37 ↗ Northwest I was very fortunate to have

2:17:40 ↗ the opportunity to compete in a national

2:17:43 ↗ search for deputy City Administrator and

2:17:44 ↗ be selected here I have found an

2:17:48 ↗ organization that shares and

2:17:49 ↗ demonstrates my values public service

2:17:52 ↗ dedication and a passion for building

2:17:55 ↗ community my family found a community of

2:17:59 ↗ unparalleled attributes and quality of

2:18:02 ↗ life which is why we chose to live here

2:18:06 ↗ I'm proud to be both a part of this team

2:18:09 ↗ and this community mayor Polly's

2:18:12 ↗ appointment in the council's

2:18:13 ↗ confirmation enables us to move forward

2:18:16 ↗ with clarity thank you again I look

2:18:19 ↗ forward to continued collaboration with

2:18:22 ↗ staff City Council and community members

2:18:25 ↗ on all of our shared goals as many of

2:18:27 ↗ you have expressed the meant the work is

2:18:31 ↗ immense and we have lots to accomplish

2:18:34 ↗ over the next year plus and so I'm eager

2:18:37 ↗ to get to work on that thank you thank

2:18:39 ↗ you the next item on the agenda is good

2:18:44 ↗ of the order does anybody have anything

2:18:45 ↗ for good of the order this evening I

2:18:47 ↗ have a couple Oh deputy counts the

2:18:49 ↗ president parties so I just wanted to

2:18:53 ↗ first of all I'm very excited and just

2:18:57 ↗ wanted to say that about Emily moon

2:18:59 ↗ being a new city administrator the other

2:19:03 ↗ thing is I talked about the opiate and

2:19:06 ↗ heroin crisis the next steps to make a

2:19:08 ↗ difference which is tomorrow

2:19:11 ↗ it's September tomorrow September 5th

2:19:13 ↗ from 2:00 to 4:00

2:19:14 ↗ I believe unfortunately I have a

2:19:17 ↗ conflicting board meeting and being a

2:19:20 ↗ member of the board it's something that

2:19:23 ↗ if there is anyone who can attend that I

2:19:26 ↗ would love to have somebody from these

2:19:30 ↗ Qwest City Council there if possible so

2:19:32 ↗ just let me know thank you

2:19:36 ↗ eight a couple of items I just wanted to

2:19:38 ↗ remind you about the mayor's month of

2:19:40 ↗ concern and volunteering that we're

2:19:43 ↗ doing for the food bank there are lots

2:19:45 ↗ of locations in Issaquah it is the next

2:19:48 ↗ four Saturdays I had an awesome time

2:19:53 ↗ doing it

2:19:55 ↗ last Saturday and I'm going to be doing

2:19:58 ↗ it this Saturday plus the fifth Saturday

2:20:00 ↗ of the month so anybody who wants to

2:20:02 ↗ join me it was super fun it's very fun

2:20:04 ↗ the other thing I wanted to do is give

2:20:06 ↗ you a little bit of a look ahead the

2:20:08 ↗ September 10th council work session has

2:20:10 ↗ three agenda items on it right now water

2:20:12 ↗ system plan you've been getting a lot of

2:20:14 ↗ updates on this this is another step in

2:20:17 ↗ that process of reviewing the

2:20:18 ↗ information facility space study the

2:20:21 ↗ 2019 legislative agenda on the September

2:20:25 ↗ 17th regular council meeting the

2:20:27 ↗ potential agenda items include a public

2:20:29 ↗ hearing for the first budget amendment

2:20:32 ↗ 2018 and the 2019 legislative agenda

2:20:36 ↗ that's a look ahead does anybody have

2:20:38 ↗ anything else I do yeah thank you for

2:20:41 ↗ the mention of the mayor's month of

2:20:43 ↗ concern and similarly for many years now

2:20:47 ↗ my wife and I have participated in the

2:20:50 ↗ meals program and we provide one meal a

2:20:55 ↗ month over there the second Thursday and

2:20:58 ↗ we do this with a group of friends but

2:21:00 ↗ due to job conflicts and people moving

2:21:03 ↗ out of town where I'm kind of down a few

2:21:05 ↗ families so I'm gonna extend this open

2:21:06 ↗ invitation

2:21:07 ↗ if anybody listening this evening in the

2:21:09 ↗ audience on TV or here at the Dyess or

2:21:12 ↗ elsewhere in the room may be interested

2:21:15 ↗ in maybe trying that out and

2:21:17 ↗ participating or joining us and others

2:21:19 ↗ please contact me and it's a good

2:21:23 ↗ opportunity to meet many existing

2:21:26 ↗ Issaquah residents that are dependent on

2:21:30 ↗ whatever limited resources they may have

2:21:32 ↗ this program helps them go those

2:21:34 ↗ resources go further and it's also an

2:21:37 ↗ excellent opportunity for young adults

2:21:40 ↗ and children who otherwise maybe

2:21:42 ↗ wouldn't have the same type of

2:21:43 ↗ interaction with with with people at a

2:21:46 ↗ meals program a chance to have that

2:21:48 ↗ life interaction and in a very safe and

2:21:51 ↗ very helpful environment so if anybody

2:21:53 ↗ else anybody would think they might be

2:21:55 ↗ interested in joining me give me a call

2:21:59 ↗ or send me an email or talk to me and we

2:22:01 ↗ can talk about that program it's opened

2:22:04 ↗ extending this to anybody I need I need

2:22:06 ↗ really about three more families to be

2:22:08 ↗ joining my party so anyway there's my

2:22:10 ↗ recruit statement thank you and could

2:22:15 ↗ you say what time that meal is provided

2:22:17 ↗ so people know well it's always provided

2:22:19 ↗ at 5:30 on Monday through Friday at the

2:22:22 ↗ community hall which is adjacent to the

2:22:24 ↗ to the fire station and that's when it's

2:22:28 ↗ that's when it's served there's a little

2:22:30 ↗ bit of preparation time before that as

2:22:32 ↗ Emily well knows your second Thursday of

2:22:35 ↗ the month that's when I am there there's

2:22:38 ↗ actually a meal served every weekday and

2:22:41 ↗ even on another group does it on

2:22:43 ↗ Saturday so there are many opportunities

2:22:44 ↗ for people in the community to perhaps

2:22:47 ↗ get involved I'm just one of about

2:22:49 ↗ 20-some volunteer groups that do these

2:22:51 ↗ meals thank you

2:22:53 ↗ anything else we're good at the order so

2:22:58 ↗ the executive session was held during

2:23:01 ↗ prior special meeting before today's

2:23:03 ↗ meeting and if there's no further

2:23:05 ↗ business we are adjourned at 9:28

2:23:21 ↗ you

Approved minutes

Extracted from the next meeting's packet, where this meeting's minutes were approved as a consent-calendar attachment.

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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 (6)

Refer AB 7655 to the Sept. 18, 2018 Council Services & Safety Committee for review and recommendation; returning to the full Council for consideration and possible action on or before Oct. 15, 2018.

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

Confirm the Mayor’s appointment of Emily Moon as the City Administrator; authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the Employment Contract; and, authorize the Mayor to retain recruitment services to fill the vacant Deputy Administrator position.

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

Carried 7-0

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

Moved by REH · seconded by MARTS

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED

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

Main motion as amended: Confirm the Mayor’s appointment of Emily Moon as the City Administrator; authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the Employment Contract; and, authorize the Mayor to retain recruitment services to fill the vacant Deputy Administrator position.

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

Carried 7-0

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