City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, September 17, 2018 · City Council Digest

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Diaper Need Awareness Week ID 0336

packet pp.5–6

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Staff report:

Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov

Welcoming Week Proclamation ID 0337

packet pp.7–8

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Staff report:

Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Sept. 17, 2018, $ 5,648,258.53 b) 4, 2018 ID 0272

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.9–99

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 Regular Meeting, Sept. 4, 2018

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.103–109

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 09-04-18 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page 8090

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, Sept. 10, 2018

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.111–112

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR d) 09-10-18 Council Committee Work Session Minutes Page 8097

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Holiday Inn Lift Stations Revisions Project AB 7339

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Infrastructure Committee · packet pp.113–119

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Staff report:

This project is the second of two sewer projects to be constructed in the commercial area in the vicinity of Costco and Pickering Place as part of the approved Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for Pickering Basin Improvements. The first project improved the Pickering Lift Station earlier this year.

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Vacation of a Portion of NE Gilman Blvd AB 7635

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution; Authorize · packet pp.121–136

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Staff report:

On Jan. 20, 2016 the Kyle Development Company Inc. submitted a petition for vacation of street right-of-way (Exhibit A) adjacent to its property located at 300 and 371 NE Gilman Blvd. (Exhibit B).

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

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.207–217

Topics: Land UseEconomic Development

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Staff report:

Council Services & Safety Committee / Chris Reh, Chair:

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Local Hazardous Waste Management Program Grant AB 7671

Carried 7-0

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.219–222

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Staff report:

Administration / Office of Sustainability:

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

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

Surplus Office Supplies, Furniture and Equipment AB 7675

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.223–228

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Staff report:

Administration / Parks & Recreation 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. PUBLIC HEARING

2018 First Budget Amendment AB 7605

Conduct Public Hearing; Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.229–237

Topics: Land UseBudget

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

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Staff report:

Council Services & Safety Committee / Chris Reh, Chair:

9. REGULAR BUSINESS

Puget Sound Energy Green Direct 2 Agreement AB 7654

Authorize · packet pp.239–245

Topics: Climate

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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.

2019 Legislative Agenda AB 7665

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.247–255

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Staff report:

City Council / Tola Marts, Council President:

Roll call:

Moved by REH · seconded by HUNT

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

10. GOOD OF THE ORDER

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0:17 ↗ welcome everyone good evening I'm

0:20 ↗ calling the September 17th regular City

0:22 ↗ Council meeting to order I'd like to ask

0:25 ↗ those who would like to join the council

0:27 ↗ myself in the pledge of allegiance to

0:29 ↗ please stand

0:50 ↗ under special business on our agenda

0:52 ↗ this evening we have a couple of

0:54 ↗ proclamations that I will come down and

0:57 ↗ deliver I'd first like to invite East

1:15 ↗ Side baby corner board member Andy

1:17 ↗ Simons to join me at the lectern to

1:19 ↗ receive the proclamation this is for

1:26 ↗ diaper need awareness week whereas

1:29 ↗ diaper need the condition of not having

1:31 ↗ a sufficient supply of clean diapers to

1:34 ↗ ensure that inferred infants and

1:36 ↗ toddlers are clean healthy and dry can

1:39 ↗ adversely affect the health and welfare

1:41 ↗ of infants toddlers and their families

1:43 ↗ and whereas there are no government

1:45 ↗ assistant assistance programs for the

1:48 ↗ purchase or provision of diapers and a

1:50 ↗ monthly supply of diapers can cost as

1:53 ↗ much as 6% of a full-time minimum-wage

1:55 ↗ worker salary therefore obtaining a

1:58 ↗ sufficient supply of diapers can cause

2:00 ↗ economic hardship to families and

2:02 ↗ whereas the people of Issaquah recognize

2:05 ↗ that addressing diaper needs can lead to

2:08 ↗ economic opportunity for the state's

2:09 ↗ low-income families and can lead to

2:12 ↗ improved health for families and their

2:14 ↗ communities now therefore I Mary Lou

2:17 ↗ Polly mayor of the city of Issaquah do

2:19 ↗ hereby proclaim the week of September

2:21 ↗ 24th to 30th 2018 to be diaper need

2:25 ↗ Awareness Week in the city of Issaquah

2:28 ↗ and strongly urge all citizens to donate

2:30 ↗ generously to diaper banks diaper drives

2:33 ↗ and those organizations that distribute

2:35 ↗ diapers to families in need to help

2:37 ↗ alleviate diaper need in Issaquah and

2:39 ↗ environs thanks would you like to say a

2:43 ↗ few words yes I would Thank You mayor

2:46 ↗ and members of the council thank you I

2:50 ↗ mean you're on behalf of Eastside baby

2:53 ↗ Corner and that's an aqua organization

2:56 ↗ it's a little gem that we have right

2:58 ↗ here in our own community it serves our

3:01 ↗ partners we serve about 50 partners

3:03 ↗ the east side including friends of youth

3:05 ↗ and this a clothing bank and we make

3:08 ↗ many things available to families in

3:10 ↗ need not just diapers but car seats

3:13 ↗ formula and many items of clothing and

3:15 ↗ of course clothing toys things like this

3:18 ↗ can be recycled donated throughout the

3:20 ↗ community diapers and formula of course

3:23 ↗ cannot and so each side baby corner

3:26 ↗ raises funds in order to be able to

3:27 ↗ provide that as well and so what is the

3:31 ↗ purpose of diaper need Awareness Week

3:33 ↗ it's to raise the awareness of everyone

3:36 ↗ of this need and inspire people to to

3:40 ↗ take part whether you contribute to a

3:43 ↗ diaper drive or contribute to an

3:45 ↗ organization like Eastside baby corner

3:47 ↗ you're doing a great service as we know

3:49 ↗ it's it's a necessity and so we thank

3:52 ↗ you very much for this proclamation

3:54 ↗ thank you I'm just gonna stay down at

4:07 ↗ the microphone for our next proclamation

4:10 ↗ and I'd like to invite Eastside refugee

4:13 ↗ and immigrant coalition executive

4:16 ↗ director Debbie Lacey to the lectern

4:21 ↗ where is the population on the east side

4:24 ↗ continues to grow rapidly increasing by

4:27 ↗ over 80,000 residents in the last five

4:29 ↗ years and whereas over forty percent of

4:32 ↗ these newcomers have arrived from places

4:34 ↗ outside the United States and whereas

4:36 ↗ more than one-third of East Side

4:37 ↗ residents now speak a language other

4:39 ↗ than English at home

4:41 ↗ and whereas diversity is the lifeblood

4:43 ↗ of our community bringing fresh

4:45 ↗ perspectives and new ideas innovation

4:48 ↗ and entrepreneurial spirit leadership

4:51 ↗ and hard workers and whereas our success

4:53 ↗ depends on ensuring that all our

4:55 ↗ residents feel welcome here now

4:57 ↗ therefore we the mayors of Bellevue is

5:00 ↗ Scott Kirkland Redmond and Sammamish

5:03 ↗ Washington proclaimed September 14th

5:05 ↗ through 23rd 2018 as Eastside welcoming

5:09 ↗ week in our cities and call on all our

5:11 ↗ residents to join together to build a

5:13 ↗ stronger community across the outside

5:17 ↗ and would you like to address the

5:19 ↗ audience thank you so much for your

5:24 ↗ Polly councilmembers appreciate it so

5:25 ↗ much so Eric coordinates aside refugee

5:28 ↗ and immigrant coalition coordinates the

5:30 ↗ National welcoming week every year

5:32 ↗ throughout the east side and this year

5:35 ↗ there are over 25 events being sponsored

5:37 ↗ and hosted by multiple organizations and

5:39 ↗ cities so we're very excited about this

5:42 ↗ event happening right now through the

5:43 ↗ 23rd and the week is more than just a

5:46 ↗ celebration it's the culmination of year

5:49 ↗ round work that our coalition does with

5:51 ↗ Issaquah and other cities across the

5:53 ↗ east side we have this partnership that

5:55 ↗ goes way back to 2002 when we first

5:58 ↗ started our coalition and welcoming goes

6:01 ↗ beyond community events it goes beyond

6:04 ↗ the neighbor to neighbor friendliness

6:06 ↗ that we hope we have in our communities

6:08 ↗ it's really in our view about

6:11 ↗ institutionalizing welcoming coming down

6:13 ↗ to the policies and the practices and

6:15 ↗ the programs that our communities

6:17 ↗ support to help all residents feel

6:19 ↗ welcomed and included so sometimes along

6:21 ↗ with the cultural richness that

6:23 ↗ diversity brings there can be some

6:25 ↗ divisions some tension and communities

6:27 ↗ and we've seen that long time residents

6:29 ↗ can feel a disconnect not being able to

6:31 ↗ communicate with their neighbors who

6:33 ↗ speak different languages new immigrants

6:35 ↗ can feel that same disconnect for

6:37 ↗ different reasons feeling isolated

6:38 ↗ unsure how to connect with their local

6:41 ↗ governments and community members so

6:43 ↗ cities that come together like in

6:45 ↗ Sukhois and promote welcoming in various

6:48 ↗ ways that you do really help to bring

6:50 ↗ those people together and bridge some of

6:52 ↗ those gaps so there are several is

6:55 ↗ across sponsored events on the welcoming

6:57 ↗ week calendar you have I believe fliers

7:00 ↗ in your packets and I believe mayor

7:02 ↗ Polly that you'll be coming to are you

7:04 ↗ going to do the rangoli art community

7:07 ↗ art project on Thurs it's a Wednesday

7:09 ↗ it's a quat library four o'clock so that

7:13 ↗ would be great way to connect and there

7:15 ↗ are lots of other opportunities too so

7:17 ↗ we hope you'll take the opportunity

7:18 ↗ council members and community members as

7:21 ↗ well to please join in an event and help

7:23 ↗ celebrate welcoming week with us thank

7:25 ↗ you so much thank you

7:28 ↗ [Applause]

7:44 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

7:46 ↗ is audience

7:50 ↗ he's audience comments and this is the

7:52 ↗ time for any of those in the audience

7:54 ↗ that would like to address counsel this

7:57 ↗ is your time guidelines for public

8:00 ↗ participation will be displayed on the

8:02 ↗ overhead screen and there is a sign-up

8:05 ↗ list out there if you have signed up

8:07 ↗ we'll call you forward first and if you

8:09 ↗ did not sign up I will ask for other

8:11 ↗ speakers before closing this portion of

8:13 ↗ the meeting if you are here as part of a

8:16 ↗ group please identify yourself as a as a

8:18 ↗ spokesperson for a group and if you're

8:21 ↗ here supporting someone speaking tonight

8:23 ↗ please let your counsel know by raising

8:24 ↗ your hand when you're in greement with

8:26 ↗ the speaker's comments you can also

8:28 ↗ raise your hand at any time if you're

8:30 ↗ here for one issue and hearing another

8:32 ↗ speaker speak and you want to support

8:33 ↗ what they're saying there's also a

8:35 ↗ public hearing tonight a be seven six

8:38 ↗ zero five is the 2018 first budget

8:41 ↗ amendment and you will have if you'd

8:43 ↗ like to make comments on this topic you

8:45 ↗ will have opportunity later in the

8:47 ↗ meeting audience comments are for up to

8:51 ↗ five minutes and has anybody signed up

8:53 ↗ to speak this evening no anybody like to

8:56 ↗ address the council this evening mr.

8:59 ↗ Kepler

9:05 ↗ thank you David Kapler 255 South East

9:08 ↗ and Rose Street just quickly it seems

9:10 ↗ like the requests to the state are all

9:12 ↗ legitimate probably highest priorities

9:14 ↗ but the state has done some great things

9:17 ↗ for Lake Sammamish State Park in open

9:19 ↗ space and parks in our area and I would

9:21 ↗ think that is something that should be a

9:24 ↗ higher priority than as I see it on the

9:27 ↗ agenda bill thank you thank you would

9:30 ↗ anybody else like to address council

9:31 ↗ this evening right ahead come on up your

9:34 ↗ name and address before you address

9:36 ↗ things hi my name is Jerry Potter and I

9:42 ↗ live at two six zero two zero southeast

9:45 ↗ old black nugget Road in sac wah and I'm

9:49 ↗ here as a spokesperson for Save Cougar

9:52 ↗ Mountain and I just wanted to say we

9:56 ↗ manned a table for the art and wine

9:59 ↗ night and it went very well we got a

10:03 ↗ hundred signatures and seems like we got

10:07 ↗ more signatures as the evening went on

10:09 ↗ are enjoying themselves it was great the

10:13 ↗ weather was great and people seemed very

10:17 ↗ enthusiastic and very excited about

10:19 ↗ signing being able to sign up and

10:22 ↗ they're concerned about what could

10:24 ↗ happen to the mountain and so it was a

10:28 ↗ very I think it was a very successful

10:31 ↗ event

10:32 ↗ hmm thank you thank you very much Jerry

10:35 ↗ would anyone else like to address

10:37 ↗ council this evening seeing no other

10:40 ↗ hands that is a really short audience

10:43 ↗ conversation thank you to the two

10:45 ↗ speakers who came to talk about open

10:47 ↗ space and safe Cougar Mountain is

10:53 ↗ actually I need to do one more call is

10:55 ↗ there anyone else who would like to

10:56 ↗ speak this evening

10:57 ↗ hey seeing no one will close this part

10:59 ↗ of the session committee and regional

11:02 ↗ reports we will start with councilmember

11:04 ↗ hunt thank you madam mayor the Eastside

11:09 ↗ Fire and Rescue Board met on September

11:11 ↗ 13th 2018 at the Eastside Fire and

11:14 ↗ Rescue headquarters I

11:15 ↗ a substitute and my fellow council

11:18 ↗ member stacy goodman also was present we

11:22 ↗ talked about pitas they are currently

11:24 ↗ testing for a pea sauce and the data

11:27 ↗ will be presented later in the year with

11:29 ↗ a final report that will come forward in

11:32 ↗ January of 2019 they we got an update

11:36 ↗ about and changed to their training

11:38 ↗ program they are going to be working

11:42 ↗ with east Metro training group or

11:45 ↗ they're moving from east Metro training

11:47 ↗ group to the South King County Fire

11:48 ↗ Training Consortium and that the reason

11:53 ↗ for this will be to increase

11:54 ↗ efficiencies and training opportunities

11:55 ↗ and ultimately decrease costs there were

11:59 ↗ some questions from the board members

12:01 ↗ and so it was decided that the board

12:02 ↗ would get more information at a later

12:04 ↗ briefing and a presentation about how

12:06 ↗ this training consortium works we got an

12:09 ↗ update about wildland fires in in

12:12 ↗ Washington State and also in California

12:14 ↗ and Oregon and about the efforts that

12:16 ↗ the Eastside Fire and Rescue had in in

12:20 ↗ addressing those many wildfires that

12:22 ↗ were experienced this year and then we

12:25 ↗ also heard an update about proposed a

12:30 ↗ proposed update to the NOx box program

12:33 ↗ this is the a program where the

12:37 ↗ firefighters have non destructive access

12:39 ↗ to buildings to so that they can access

12:45 ↗ buildings without having to break in if

12:47 ↗ there is a fire issue and so that was

12:50 ↗ recommended that it would be discussed

12:53 ↗ in detail at the by the financial

12:55 ↗ advisory committee and lastly we heard a

12:59 ↗ update from there 2014 to 2015 financial

13:03 ↗ audit the financial audit was clean

13:06 ↗ there was one finding and it sounded to

13:09 ↗ me like it was not substance substantive

13:11 ↗ it was more of a technical issue but the

13:17 ↗ emphasis was that the audit was clean

13:20 ↗ and the next meeting of the

13:23 ↗ site fire and rescue board will be

13:24 ↗ October 11th at 4 p.m. I have one more

13:28 ↗ committee report cascade Water Alliance

13:31 ↗ resource management committee met on

13:33 ↗ September 13th as well at the Cascade

13:35 ↗ office in Bellevue

13:36 ↗ the first topic that we talked about was

13:39 ↗ reclaimed water this is something that's

13:41 ↗ a very hot topic right now we heard a

13:43 ↗ presentation from a study that was

13:46 ↗ prepared by HDR that's the same group

13:49 ↗ that the city works with on their water

13:50 ↗ system plan the study explored

13:54 ↗ opportunities within cascades service

13:56 ↗ area for how to best use reclaimed water

14:00 ↗ what the cost would be what the use

14:02 ↗ cases could be and what the trade-offs

14:05 ↗ would be the so we we heard the

14:09 ↗ presentation there was a discussion

14:11 ↗ about the potential effects on

14:13 ↗ ratepayers that remains a major concern

14:15 ↗ of cascade in terms of use of reclaimed

14:19 ↗ water and also I always try to remember

14:24 ↗ to define reclaim water so reclaimed

14:26 ↗ water is waste water that has been

14:27 ↗ treated and is suitable for other uses

14:31 ↗ such as agriculture or irrigation and we

14:36 ↗ also talked about the cascades water

14:41 ↗ system plan they are going to be doing

14:43 ↗ an extension of their current plan and

14:45 ↗ then lastly we talked about water

14:46 ↗ quality management work plan this is a

14:49 ↗ work plan for that work plan to monitor

14:53 ↗ the water quality in Lake Tapps which is

14:55 ↗ the reservoir and also to study things

15:00 ↗ that are important to the health of the

15:02 ↗ reservoir such as identification of

15:04 ↗ storm water sources the next meeting of

15:07 ↗ cascade water Alliance resource

15:09 ↗ management committee will be October

15:11 ↗ 11th at the cascade office in Bellevue

15:14 ↗ that completes my report on some array

15:19 ↗ Thank You mayor poly the services and

15:22 ↗ Safety Committee met on September 11th

15:24 ↗ at 6:30 the agenda included agenda bill

15:28 ↗ 76-54 Puget Sound Energy green direct to

15:32 ↗ agreement which is on tonight's regular

15:34 ↗ business

15:34 ↗ agenda bill 7631 visit us qua bylaws

15:38 ↗ which will be on regular business on

15:40 ↗ October first agenda bills 7605 2018

15:45 ↗ first budget amendment which we are

15:47 ↗ having a public hearing on this evening

15:49 ↗ agenda bill 76 58 amendments to the

15:53 ↗ medical plan for the city for 2019 an

15:55 ↗ agenda bill 76 64 amendments to imc 5.0

16:00 ↗ to business licenses the services and

16:03 ↗ Safety Committee will have a special

16:04 ↗ meeting tomorrow September 18th at 6:30

16:07 ↗ p.m. here in council chambers

16:09 ↗ the agenda will include agenda bill 76

16:11 ↗ 40 amending school impact fees agenda

16:14 ↗ bill 76 55 expedited traffic enforcement

16:18 ↗ pilot project summary report an

16:20 ↗ extension and additionally the committee

16:22 ↗ will be receiving a presentation

16:24 ↗ entitled city gives that describes the

16:26 ↗ various ways the city supports

16:28 ↗ nonprofits in our community and that

16:30 ↗ concludes my report

16:31 ↗ Thank You councilmember a council member

16:33 ↗ Ramos Thank You mayor this Thursday the

16:36 ↗ 20th will have the council

16:39 ↗ Infrastructure Committee meeting here in

16:40 ↗ Council Chambers at 6:30 items on the

16:43 ↗ agenda two action items one a b7 t 646

16:47 ↗ the amendments to our sewer rates you're

16:50 ↗ looking at and the other one a b7 33 9

16:54 ↗ the holiday in lift stations or sewage

16:57 ↗ we'll be looking at that as well

16:59 ↗ two other items for information are

17:00 ↗ updates on the Providence point signal

17:03 ↗ intersection and Newport Way retaining

17:06 ↗ walls Newport wait Northwest excuse me

17:09 ↗ retaining walls so that would be then

17:12 ↗ the 7th I attended the Washington State

17:15 ↗ Public Works board meeting that on our

17:20 ↗ legislative agenda is a thing to help

17:22 ↗ encourage the legislature to continue to

17:25 ↗ fund the Public Works account which is

17:27 ↗ good so we're preparing for that as well

17:30 ↗ as going out for pre-construction loans

17:32 ↗ and just a reminder that's a funding

17:35 ↗ source for municipalities and other

17:36 ↗ utility service districts that to get

17:39 ↗ very inexpensive loans to allow them to

17:42 ↗ build and construct and maintain their

17:44 ↗ infrastructure at a much lower cost so

17:46 ↗ that's a very important thing to the

17:48 ↗ whole state on the 14th unless Friday I

17:51 ↗ was at the site transportation

17:52 ↗ partnership when the main items they

17:54 ↗ talked about was how electric bikes are

17:58 ↗ coming and how their changes may be

18:01 ↗ coming to our transportation system and

18:03 ↗ how we look at bike lanes or car lanes

18:06 ↗ or whatever electric bikes you know the

18:08 ↗ ones they have now can be up to 30 miles

18:10 ↗ an hour some of them so it's not quite

18:12 ↗ you know it's a little different whether

18:14 ↗ they mix with people on a multi-use

18:16 ↗ trail and those kinds of issues so we're

18:18 ↗ working on issues on that and looking at

18:20 ↗ how their areas of the country have

18:22 ↗ dealt with them as well so electric

18:24 ↗ bikes are probably coming we had a look

18:26 ↗ at them a little closer and then the

18:29 ↗ last thing is this Wednesday on the 19th

18:30 ↗ I will be attending the regional transit

18:32 ↗ committee meaning King County in Seattle

18:35 ↗ it includes mag report Thank You

18:38 ↗ councilmember we're interesting thank

18:40 ↗ you and I got to say I love electric

18:42 ↗ bikes the best thing about it they go up

18:43 ↗ hills your best thing about it I have

18:46 ↗ four reports to give this evening

18:47 ↗ including for Landon Shore which which I

18:50 ↗ don't normally do but I'll start with

18:51 ↗ the growth management policy board we

18:54 ↗ met Thursday September 6 at PSR C

18:57 ↗ headquarters in Seattle and has been in

19:00 ↗ the last few months and we'll be through

19:02 ↗ all of this year most of next year and

19:04 ↗ into early 2020 the main topic at GMP B

19:07 ↗ is the update division currently called

19:09 ↗ vision 2040 the update will be called

19:11 ↗ vision

19:12 ↗ 2050 and in this past meeting we had

19:16 ↗ conversations and this is really all

19:19 ↗ that's happening at this point the PSR C

19:21 ↗ staff is actually doing quite a bit of

19:22 ↗ work presenting us with lots of data and

19:24 ↗ lots of ways to talk about things and

19:27 ↗ there but there's no we're getting to

19:29 ↗ some decisions about something soon but

19:31 ↗ we had conversations about the

19:33 ↗ objectives of vision about outcomes we

19:36 ↗ had and we're going to continue to talk

19:38 ↗ about objectives and outcomes as well we

19:40 ↗ have lots of conversation about the

19:42 ↗ regional growth strategy so that is

19:44 ↗ that's in vision that's what identifies

19:46 ↗ things called regional growth centers

19:48 ↗ it's the foundation for all of that and

19:50 ↗ it is very it's a pretty important and

19:52 ↗ certain components of that we discussed

19:54 ↗ at length the

19:55 ↗ concept of regional geographies so

19:58 ↗ that's the idea of major metropolitan

20:00 ↗ cities large cities small cities and

20:05 ↗ unincorporated areas that have high

20:08 ↗ capacity transit it's so it's breaking

20:10 ↗ down the region into these various

20:12 ↗ geographies to define their their nature

20:14 ↗ and to identify kind of actual and

20:17 ↗ potential growth patterns we talked

20:19 ↗ quite a bit about growth scenarios

20:21 ↗ because there will be an EIS that's done

20:23 ↗ as part of this vision update and that's

20:25 ↗ one of the near-term decisions that has

20:27 ↗ to be made by the board on what

20:29 ↗ scenarios are going to be included in

20:31 ↗ the environmental impact statement work

20:33 ↗ that's done we had conversations about

20:36 ↗ Tod goals or transferred oriented

20:38 ↗ development goals and well I I want to

20:42 ↗ share I notice a shift that's happening

20:44 ↗ to the question about do you set

20:46 ↗ land-use and plan your transportation

20:48 ↗ around it or do you plan your

20:49 ↗ transportation and modify your land-use

20:51 ↗ to take advantage of that transportation

20:52 ↗ plan seems to be drifting in the

20:55 ↗ direction of there's quite a bit of

20:56 ↗ long-range transportation planning

20:58 ↗ that's been done with light rail and

21:00 ↗ stations everywhere let's modify

21:03 ↗ land-use surround those to take maximum

21:06 ↗ advantage of the region's transportation

21:07 ↗ infrastructure that's going to get built

21:09 ↗ and and so there was there was quite a

21:13 ↗ bit of conversation about that and I see

21:14 ↗ that moving in that direction we had

21:16 ↗ conversations about the job housing

21:18 ↗ balance now that's a very complex topic

21:19 ↗ and it's lots more complex than just a

21:22 ↗ few numbers on a piece of paper and so

21:25 ↗ these are conversations at this time but

21:26 ↗ I think those growth scenarios will be

21:28 ↗ ones that we'll be able to report back

21:30 ↗ more sooner than others because they'll

21:33 ↗ be decisions to affect the EIS that was

21:36 ↗ a GMP be the next I'll talk about is the

21:39 ↗ land and shore Committee meeting I was

21:41 ↗ able to I served I chaired that meeting

21:43 ↗ on September 6 Stacey was absent so at a

21:46 ↗ request I chaired it and councilmember

21:48 ↗ Rea

21:49 ↗ gende us as well so we had all three we

21:51 ↗ had two major issues on the agenda first

21:53 ↗ was the Old Town sub area plan this is

21:57 ↗ an issue that has been in front of the

22:00 ↗ council or at least the committee the

22:01 ↗ land in short quite a few times over I

22:03 ↗ think going back maybe certainly well

22:06 ↗ over a year maybe a year and a half

22:08 ↗ and it's been there has been public

22:11 ↗ engagement there has been numerous

22:14 ↗ meetings at PPC and it's been I think

22:17 ↗ those have been very robust they've been

22:19 ↗ very good I think it's gotten better and

22:21 ↗ better over time and the I think the

22:24 ↗ plan today is like 12 pages long and it

22:28 ↗ I found it succinct and and to the point

22:31 ↗ so we had a this was the first of two

22:34 ↗ scheduled conversations in front of

22:36 ↗ Landon Shore so the purpose of this

22:39 ↗ meeting was to have to go through we

22:41 ↗ went through every piece of the plan at

22:45 ↗ its state right now and we asked a

22:47 ↗ number of questions of staff staff had a

22:49 ↗ lot of answers they took they took away

22:50 ↗ some action items and and then the plan

22:53 ↗ is for that to come back with responses

22:55 ↗ for Landon Shore at the next meeting in

22:59 ↗ October where possibly that committee

23:02 ↗ will take action on it then the other

23:05 ↗ item on the agenda for for that landed

23:08 ↗ Shore meeting was discussion about

23:10 ↗ proposed land use changes to the central

23:13 ↗ area which is agenda build 766 1 again

23:16 ↗ that was a discussion to understand what

23:19 ↗ was proposed to ask questions staff

23:22 ↗ again you know took to recorded those

23:25 ↗ questions and will be coming back again

23:27 ↗ to the October meeting so there was no

23:29 ↗ action plan for that matter and that

23:31 ↗ will be coming back to land in shore

23:33 ↗ again at the October meeting and I'll

23:35 ↗ put a plug in right now that I will not

23:38 ↗ be able to attend the October meeting so

23:40 ↗ if anybody wants to let me know if they

23:42 ↗ can sub for me please let me know the

23:44 ↗ next report is about the lodging tax

23:47 ↗ advisory committee or LTAC we met on

23:49 ↗ Friday the 13th I think that's when it

23:54 ↗ was last Friday at Homewood Suites we

23:57 ↗ have four items on the agenda we got an

23:58 ↗ update on the destination marketing

24:01 ↗ organization known as visit Issaquah

24:04 ↗ their bylaws were in front of services

24:07 ↗ and safety earlier remember we appointed

24:11 ↗ a so aboard selection committee that

24:14 ↗ committee has been hard at work would

24:15 ↗ they currently have a board of 9 members

24:18 ↗ they received

24:21 ↗ over 20 applications for other board

24:25 ↗ physicians they are still reviewing

24:27 ↗ further applications that group has

24:29 ↗ reviewed those bylaws and that the

24:32 ↗ current board has accepted the bylaws in

24:34 ↗ the form that came in front of Landon

24:36 ↗ Shore they also have discs come up with

24:41 ↗ a job description for the executive

24:42 ↗ director for that they have not posted

24:45 ↗ it because they want this kind of bylaws

24:47 ↗ process to go through our council

24:48 ↗ process and maybe a little bit more

24:50 ↗ about budget as well because they also

24:52 ↗ did come up with their proposed budget

24:56 ↗ for 2019 and that's an item that's going

25:01 ↗ to come back in front of this council as

25:03 ↗ part of our own 2019 budget

25:05 ↗ deliberations as well so they have not

25:07 ↗ posted that executive director position

25:09 ↗ they want a couple of those gates to be

25:11 ↗ to go through before such as the bylaws

25:14 ↗ through the council and some

25:15 ↗ conversation about budget before they

25:17 ↗ post that position we got an update on

25:19 ↗ the AVP the American volleyball

25:21 ↗ professionals tournament was have been

25:23 ↗ held at Lake Sammamish State Park the

25:24 ↗ last three years they want to hold it

25:26 ↗ again next year at 2019 and the AVP

25:31 ↗ organization is in conversations with

25:35 ↗ similar bodies around the world

25:37 ↗ associated with beach volleyball and

25:40 ↗ they're there trying to make a decision

25:42 ↗ whether or not to make the 2019

25:44 ↗ tournament an Olympic qualifying event

25:47 ↗ for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and if they

25:49 ↗ did in 2019 the 2020 tournament would be

25:52 ↗ an Olympic qualifier as well so that

25:54 ↗ would significantly ratchet up the size

25:57 ↗ the global attention but also there

26:02 ↗ would be international teams we would be

26:03 ↗ travelers from internationally imagine

26:05 ↗ that that could probably double the

26:07 ↗ amount of attendees that we've got in

26:09 ↗ recent years to that tournament so

26:11 ↗ there's a lot of stakeholders involved

26:12 ↗ obviously State Parks is highly involved

26:14 ↗ the Seattle Sports Commission has an

26:17 ↗ interest in this obviously some of us

26:21 ↗ think the DMO should have an interest

26:22 ↗ but it's kind of early for the DMO yet

26:24 ↗ and and so that was that was interesting

26:28 ↗ to hear and I do not know if they have

26:30 ↗ made a decision whether or not to make

26:31 ↗ this an Olympic qualifying event

26:34 ↗ the the third item we discussed was City

26:37 ↗ branding and wayfinding and the idea to

26:41 ↗ creative a kind of a citywide

26:42 ↗ comprehensive wayfinding system we had a

26:44 ↗ presentation from Jennifer Fink and a

26:47 ↗ member of consultants from the Executive

26:49 ↗ Office about that and they I know I've

26:53 ↗ learned that they're coming forward and

26:56 ↗ likely in the 2019 budget there will be

26:58 ↗ proposals for council to consider for

27:02 ↗ funding for branding and wayfinding

27:03 ↗ study effort and later on I'll mention

27:07 ↗ because our last item is the LTAC talked

27:10 ↗ about a budget and the elta they didn't

27:12 ↗ ask of LTAC as well for some LTAC funds

27:14 ↗ for branding and wayfinding and that was

27:16 ↗ the last item on our agenda where we put

27:20 ↗ together our our proposed use of alt tag

27:24 ↗ funds for 2019 which had been submitted

27:27 ↗ to the administration it's going to be

27:29 ↗ part of the budget coming forward so

27:31 ↗ this this year you'll get an LTAC budget

27:33 ↗ that actually came from the LTAC

27:35 ↗ committee beef we finally got that in in

27:38 ↗ time so we're asking for money for the

27:40 ↗ DMO where you'll see money in there for

27:41 ↗ branding and wayfinding and also for the

27:45 ↗ AVP tournament so that was our

27:48 ↗ conversation at LTAC and then the last

27:51 ↗ thing I have to report on is this past

27:53 ↗ Saturday I was one of a dozen electives

27:57 ↗ that attended a workshop put on hosted

28:00 ↗ by the rekkles house center and it's an

28:03 ↗ issue regard they have been charged by

28:06 ↗ the Washington State Legislature to take

28:10 ↗ to convene and and collaborate Lee

28:13 ↗ talked with people around the state

28:14 ↗ about the state's growth management

28:17 ↗ framework all of us on the council

28:18 ↗ you've seen him and emails have come in

28:20 ↗ we've it's even mentioned in our

28:21 ↗ regional agenda about participating in

28:24 ↗ staying tracking the work that's being

28:26 ↗ done by the ruckus house center so I had

28:29 ↗ an opportunity I went this Saturday and

28:32 ↗ there's another they're gonna meet here

28:33 ↗ in Issaquah later this month I'm gonna

28:36 ↗ be out of town so that's why I didn't

28:38 ↗ attend that one but the the purpose for

28:41 ↗ these meetings I'll just going to read

28:42 ↗ something really quick is the purpose of

28:44 ↗ their calling this Washington roadmap

28:47 ↗ purpose of the roadmap to Washington's

28:48 ↗ future project is to articulate a vision

28:51 ↗ of Washington's desired future and

28:53 ↗ identity I an excuse me and identify

28:56 ↗ additions revisions or clarifications to

28:58 ↗ the growth management framework of state

29:01 ↗ laws institutions and policies needed to

29:04 ↗ reach that future growth GMA is just one

29:09 ↗ part of our framework that but there's

29:13 ↗ also Seba as part of that

29:16 ↗ special-purpose districts are part of

29:18 ↗ that there are there are over 20

29:20 ↗ different state laws and as they said

29:24 ↗ other institutions and policies that

29:26 ↗ make up this framework and this is a

29:28 ↗ multi-year effort which does not assume

29:32 ↗ that we're just going to change what's

29:34 ↗ in place it's actually that it's just a

29:37 ↗ wide-open opportunity to talk to

29:39 ↗ stakeholders around the state and this

29:41 ↗ was very good because this was my

29:43 ↗ meeting was all with other electives

29:44 ↗ here in that most them are from East

29:47 ↗ King County so they're represented

29:48 ↗ there's two state legislators that were

29:50 ↗ there there were representatives from

29:52 ↗ shoreline Kirkland bellevue redmond and

29:57 ↗ a couple special-purpose districts as

29:59 ↗ well

30:00 ↗ water and sewer districts and we talked

30:04 ↗ about what would be the purpose so that

30:06 ↗ these same me if you go they'll be the

30:08 ↗ same type of meeting they'll want to

30:11 ↗ hear what you think about what you think

30:13 ↗ the purpose and value of the growth

30:15 ↗ management framework what is that they

30:18 ↗ want to hear about the current state

30:19 ↗ what we think is working and what is not

30:21 ↗ about the future state what are our

30:23 ↗ citizens saying what may need to be

30:26 ↗ added what major issues need to be

30:28 ↗ addressed within this framework and we

30:31 ↗ had quite a bit of a robust conversation

30:32 ↗ about public engagement as well one last

30:37 ↗ point I'll make about this in the 2015

30:40 ↗ legislature there were 75 bills related

30:42 ↗ to growth management and not one of them

30:44 ↗ passed not one passed and and and it's

30:49 ↗ very clear that there are some

30:52 ↗ everybody's not on the same page work

30:54 ↗ needs to be done so that's the purpose

30:56 ↗ of this I would really encourage my

30:58 ↗ colleagues on the council if you have an

30:59 ↗ opportunity

31:00 ↗ and these this session on September 27th

31:02 ↗ from 1:00 to 4:30 so that I think that's

31:04 ↗ a Thursday it is in the middle of the

31:06 ↗ day that's at Pickering barn here in

31:07 ↗ Issaquah and they're hope and they're

31:09 ↗ holding many different types of sessions

31:11 ↗ and this is one for elected officials

31:13 ↗ but there are there are many

31:15 ↗ opportunities for all people to be

31:19 ↗ involved this is specifically for

31:20 ↗ electeds

31:21 ↗ and so that is I enjoyed it quite a bit

31:25 ↗ hearing from others as well and courage

31:26 ↗ you to maybe make it if you can that's

31:29 ↗ my fourth and final report

31:30 ↗ thank you councilmember Goodman Thank

31:33 ↗ You mayor Poli thank you Paul for

31:35 ↗ chairing for me and for the report out

31:36 ↗ the next meeting Landon Shore is October

31:39 ↗ 4th at 6:30 p.m. here in Council

31:41 ↗ Chambers the agenda has not been set yet

31:43 ↗ that concludes my very short report

31:46 ↗ Thank You deputy counsel batise thank

31:49 ↗ you madam mayor the East Side Human

31:52 ↗ Services forum board will be meeting

31:55 ↗ Thursday the 20th at 8:30 a.m. in

31:58 ↗ Bellevue on the agenda is the East King

32:02 ↗ County agencies and King County funding

32:06 ↗ an overview and presentation regarding

32:09 ↗ that also a review of this September

32:12 ↗ event which was the opiate and heroin

32:15 ↗ crisis next steps to to making a

32:19 ↗ difference and also the 2019 work plan

32:23 ↗ goals I was only able to attend the the

32:28 ↗ the last half of the opiate and heroin

32:30 ↗ crisis next steps to making a difference

32:33 ↗ but it was really an amazing event they

32:37 ↗ had brought people together from from

32:40 ↗ all over to talk about everything that's

32:44 ↗ happening in that arena so I look

32:46 ↗ forward to getting the report out so I

32:47 ↗ can better report back to Council on the

32:51 ↗ overview of that event that concludes my

32:54 ↗ report

32:54 ↗ Thank You council president Mertz thanks

32:57 ↗ madam mayor the sound cities association

32:59 ↗ public issues committee met last

33:01 ↗ wednesday the 12th at 7 p.m. in Renton

33:04 ↗ City Hall we started it with a

33:07 ↗ pre-picked meeting on OPM a and special

33:10 ↗ meetings and what

33:12 ↗ Institute's a special meeting and I once

33:15 ↗ again want to encourage those pre pick

33:17 ↗ meetings are open to all council members

33:19 ↗ because we don't you know we're not

33:21 ↗ discussing specific city policies so

33:24 ↗ it's kind of free as part of our

33:26 ↗ membership with SCA so if you're

33:27 ↗ interested not every speaker is

33:30 ↗ scintillating but this one was in terms

33:33 ↗ of things that were on the agenda there

33:34 ↗ was one item for potential future action

33:37 ↗ it was the draft 2019 SCA legislative

33:40 ↗ agenda

33:41 ↗ they they wanted to get it to one page

33:43 ↗ and they wanted like three items to

33:46 ↗ focus you know to focus attention where

33:48 ↗ have we where ever heard that before

33:50 ↗ so I would ask I've emailed out to all

33:53 ↗ of you the relevant section out of the

33:55 ↗ packet if you could get back to me this

33:58 ↗ will this will be returning at the

34:00 ↗ October SCA meeting and I would like to

34:03 ↗ be able to reflect how our city feels

34:06 ↗ about this what I will probably do is

34:08 ↗ ask at the next full council meeting and

34:11 ↗ for the good of the order to have a

34:13 ↗ conversation about that agenda so that I

34:15 ↗ can say you know my city thinks that

34:18 ↗ which is the most powerful thing you can

34:19 ↗ say it pic so GMP C growth management

34:23 ↗ policy Council is going to be meeting on

34:26 ↗ Thursday September 25th and I don't have

34:28 ↗ the agenda for that yet but it's gonna

34:29 ↗ be at 4 p.m. in PSR C chambers that

34:31 ↗ concludes my report

34:32 ↗ Thank You council president moving on to

34:36 ↗ the mayor's report which was distributed

34:37 ↗ earlier today there will be an executive

34:40 ↗ session held this evening to discuss

34:41 ↗ pending and potential litigation per

34:44 ↗ 42.3 0.11 o / n1 / ni this item is

34:49 ↗ expected to last 10 minutes and action

34:52 ↗ is anticipated to follow an open session

34:54 ↗ last few weeks on September 13th I

34:57 ↗ attended the Puget Sound's Regional

34:59 ↗ Council's transportation policy board

35:01 ↗ meeting and also the local crew which is

35:03 ↗ construction and real estate women's

35:05 ↗ networking meeting as a panelist speaker

35:08 ↗ with five other female mayor's on

35:10 ↗ September 13 I attended the built green

35:12 ↗ conference as a panelist speaker with

35:14 ↗ mayor Tolbert of arlington arlington and

35:16 ↗ mayor Wallen of Kirkland and on

35:18 ↗ September 14 attended the leadership

35:20 ↗ Eastside mayor's lunch as a panelist be

35:22 ↗ with eleven other mayors so September

35:24 ↗ must somehow be mayor's month there was

35:26 ↗ a lot of mayor stuff going on for

35:29 ↗ community outreach I September 4th

35:31 ↗ attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for

35:33 ↗ just poke a also hosted a Q&A session

35:37 ↗ with our Senior Center on September 6 I

35:40 ↗ attended influenced the choice with some

35:43 ↗ other council members I know at least

35:44 ↗ council president Mertz was there but I

35:46 ↗ think there were a few others as a

35:47 ↗ council member winter Stein it was a

35:51 ↗ five year celebration and the city was

35:53 ↗ presented with a plaque for continuous

35:55 ↗ support of youth substance abuse

35:56 ↗ prevention efforts in the greater is the

35:58 ↗ qua Aria on September 7th they attended

36:01 ↗ a timber Ridge community meeting is the

36:02 ↗ guest speaker along with Ken konigsmark

36:04 ↗ and brookie Scholl of the talus

36:06 ↗ residents association and on September

36:08 ↗ 8th I volunteered at Fred Meyer with the

36:10 ↗ Issaquah Food Bank for the mayor's month

36:12 ↗ of concern for the hungry which is going

36:13 ↗ on every Saturday in September on

36:16 ↗ September 11th I attended the Tallis

36:18 ↗ homeowners association meeting as a

36:20 ↗ guest speaker I also wanted to provide

36:22 ↗ three updates tonight first on our

36:24 ↗ strategic plan we are continuing to work

36:27 ↗ on our Issaquah which is the name for a

36:29 ↗ citywide strategic plan there is an

36:32 ↗ updated draft of the vision mission and

36:34 ↗ guiding principle a version of the

36:38 ↗ updated draft is planned to be reviewed

36:40 ↗ by your City Council at the work session

36:43 ↗ next Monday on September 24th at this

36:46 ↗ work session there will also be an

36:47 ↗ initial look at draft goal statements

36:50 ↗ and objectives that have been prepared

36:52 ↗ by staff workgroups there will be

36:54 ↗ additional information and opportunities

36:57 ↗ for input later this week and you can

36:59 ↗ always find more information and provide

37:01 ↗ feedback feedback by visiting the city's

37:04 ↗ website at Issaquah voix duck gov slash

37:07 ↗ our Issaquah also wanted to remind those

37:11 ↗ in the audience and those watching that

37:12 ↗ October is the beginning of budget

37:14 ↗ discussions I will be presenting the

37:16 ↗ mayor's budget to Council and we will

37:18 ↗ begin a series of meetings to review and

37:20 ↗ discuss the proposed budget for 2019

37:22 ↗ we're anticipating approval of the

37:25 ↗ budget at a December council meeting and

37:27 ↗ the last update I wanted to give I know

37:30 ↗ a lot of people in the community have

37:31 ↗ been tracking this but the new team cap

37:34 ↗ called the garage located by the

37:36 ↗ community center will have its grand

37:38 ↗ opening this Saturday it's located at

37:41 ↗ 235 470 southeast just below the pool

37:44 ↗ and that concludes the mayor's report

37:47 ↗ proceeding to the consent calendar the

37:51 ↗ consent calendar was distributed to

37:53 ↗ council in advance if authorized the

37:55 ↗ items on consent calendar will be

37:57 ↗ considered together and approved by one

37:58 ↗ motion of the payables and payroll for

38:01 ↗ September 17th been reviewed yeah

38:04 ↗ they have thank you and does any

38:06 ↗ councilmember desire to remove any item

38:08 ↗ from the consent calendar and consider

38:10 ↗ it under regular business is there a

38:14 ↗ motion at a mayor I move we adopt and

38:18 ↗ sun calendar is listed in this evening's

38:19 ↗ agenda second it's been moved and

38:23 ↗ seconded all those in favor signify by

38:25 ↗ saying aye aye those opposed that passes

38:29 ↗ unanimously

38:30 ↗ next item on our agenda this evening is

38:33 ↗ a public hearing a b7 6:05 is the 2018

38:37 ↗ first budget amendment we're here

38:40 ↗ tonight to conduct a public hearing and

38:41 ↗ adopt the ordinance I'd like to invite

38:44 ↗ finance director gen Olsen to make a

38:46 ↗ presentation Thank You mayor good

38:48 ↗ evening council members the purpose of

38:50 ↗ this agenda bill is for additional

38:52 ↗ budget requirements and amendments that

38:55 ↗ necessary to cover expenditures and

38:57 ↗ revenues that had not been anticipated

38:59 ↗ in the original adoption of the 2018

39:02 ↗ budget there are proposed amendments

39:05 ↗ that the council has authorized the

39:07 ↗ agenda bill previously this year

39:10 ↗ those include expenditures for

39:12 ↗ additional staffing grant related

39:14 ↗ spending and reauthorizations from 2017

39:18 ↗ primarily related to capital project in

39:20 ↗ cash flow for casual purposes the

39:24 ↗ proposed amendments also include budget

39:27 ↗ true ups these are to correct things

39:30 ↗ like unbalanced transfers for funds

39:33 ↗ where a transfer must match a transfer

39:35 ↗ and must match a transfer out there are

39:38 ↗ also a number of agenda types that we

39:43 ↗ included such as a pass-through which

39:44 ↗ which could also be in

39:46 ↗ as a budget true-up these amendments are

39:49 ↗ required when the adopted appropriation

39:51 ↗ level within the fund is changing based

39:54 ↗ on state statues that's defined for how

39:59 ↗ we have to go about a budget amendment

40:01 ↗ utilizing a public hearing there are a

40:05 ↗ number of exhibits included with the

40:08 ↗ proposed ordinance there is a line item

40:11 ↗ detail of those budget amendments and

40:13 ↗ the funds that they affect there is also

40:16 ↗ the exhibit to the ordinance that

40:20 ↗ identifies the original budget for

40:24 ↗ revenues and expenditures the proposed

40:25 ↗ amendment and then the proposed new

40:28 ↗ budget for revenue and expenditures and

40:30 ↗ estimates of fund balance please note

40:33 ↗ that fund balances is always an estimate

40:36 ↗ until we have some final audited

40:38 ↗ financial statements the fund balance

40:41 ↗ numbers for beginning 2018 are primarily

40:45 ↗ set as we have completed the preliminary

40:47 ↗ financial statement however the

40:50 ↗ auditor's office has not come to

40:51 ↗ Issaquah yet for that audit fieldwork

40:54 ↗ the September 4th council meeting is

40:57 ↗ where the council set this public

40:59 ↗ hearing for for the amendments and

41:04 ↗ referred to the council services and

41:07 ↗ Safety Committee there was one revision

41:09 ↗ in the proposed budget amendments and

41:13 ↗ this was an additional transfer in

41:16 ↗ revenue source to the street capital

41:19 ↗ project fund coming from the school

41:21 ↗ safety zone fund that was done through a

41:23 ↗ budget amendment but that is the

41:25 ↗ provision that has been provided with

41:28 ↗ the agenda bill online for the public to

41:31 ↗ review this public hearing on the agenda

41:34 ↗ bill held today we're certainly aware

41:37 ↗ that the council's desire is to have a

41:41 ↗ public hearing and then subsequent

41:44 ↗ council meeting where you would consider

41:47 ↗ and take action

41:49 ↗ however because timing is necessary for

41:52 ↗ the 2019 budget preparation this budget

41:56 ↗ amendment is

41:57 ↗ proposed to be acted on this evening so

42:01 ↗ with that I would certainly be happy to

42:04 ↗ answer any questions about the proposed

42:06 ↗ amendments Thank You Jen and I did

42:08 ↗ forget to say at the beginning that this

42:10 ↗ was being coming back from the services

42:13 ↗ and Safety Committee so there has been a

42:15 ↗ council committee I think that's correct

42:17 ↗ thank you questions

42:20 ↗ that's member hunt thank you is it

42:26 ↗ possible or do you expect that there

42:28 ↗ will be any other budget amendments for

42:30 ↗ the 2018 well for 2018 timing-wise

42:35 ↗ there if there is it may be a small one

42:38 ↗ if we might do a revenue adjustment but

42:42 ↗ it's possible that there will not be

42:45 ↗ typically there's usually two or three

42:47 ↗ budget amendments we like to do one

42:50 ↗ after a first quarter if we know it's

42:54 ↗ something that that is truly come up at

42:56 ↗ the beginning of the year that early but

42:58 ↗ but it is typical for there to be an

43:01 ↗ amendment in the late summer and fall we

43:05 ↗ also do not like to do budget amendments

43:07 ↗ so close to the the final budget for for

43:11 ↗ that particular year because then

43:12 ↗ they're really looked at as as

43:15 ↗ unnecessary because you're just you know

43:17 ↗ increasing the budget or decreasing the

43:19 ↗ budget based on actuals okay that segues

43:22 ↗ into my next question which is about

43:25 ↗ there are a lot of components to this

43:27 ↗ budget budget amendment there are a lot

43:30 ↗ of line items and I wondered what the

43:33 ↗ pros and cons of doing more than one

43:35 ↗ amendment or so having an earlier and

43:39 ↗ earlier version broken out into multiple

43:43 ↗ pieces multiple budget amendments may

43:46 ↗ offer up a condensed list a smaller list

43:51 ↗ but it really depends on the issues and

43:54 ↗ the unforeseen expenditures and revenues

43:57 ↗ that do come up throughout the year that

44:01 ↗ would that would dictate the the amount

44:04 ↗ of line items that are in the proposed

44:05 ↗ budget amendment okay thank you

44:09 ↗ I just want to clarify I think what I'm

44:11 ↗ hearing you say is that going forward

44:14 ↗ into next year you you have a preference

44:17 ↗ for seeing more than one budget

44:19 ↗ amendment so that it is smaller right I

44:23 ↗ think in in my personal preference would

44:27 ↗ be to see more than one amendment I and

44:32 ↗ I did know that previously that it has

44:35 ↗ been done that way so I was interested

44:36 ↗ in why or why not do it that way but

44:39 ↗ it's just a little more adjustable I

44:42 ↗ think fewer - thanks

44:44 ↗ that's member Goodman I didn't quite

44:48 ↗ understand the reason for having the

44:51 ↗ take action tonight after the hearing

44:54 ↗ rather than at the next meeting

44:57 ↗ historically or in the past

45:00 ↗ the council has taken action setting a

45:03 ↗ public hearing at one meeting at a

45:05 ↗ subsequent meeting then holding the

45:06 ↗ public hearing and then taking action on

45:08 ↗ the budget amendments it is not required

45:11 ↗ however because timing is of the essence

45:15 ↗ so that we can provide 2018 projections

45:18 ↗ for the 2019 budget discussions the

45:22 ↗ administration is asking that the the

45:24 ↗ council would take action tonight after

45:27 ↗ the public hearing okay the timing is

45:29 ↗ because we're preparing the 104 next

45:31 ↗ chair correct and so for the delays I

45:33 ↗ mean taking this into October when is

45:37 ↗ generally when we present the but the

45:39 ↗ proposed budget for next year that's

45:40 ↗ correct

45:41 ↗ q thank you any other questions

45:43 ↗ councilmember a just a couple of

45:45 ↗ clarifications so the budget amendment

45:49 ↗ impacts ending fund balances yes it does

45:53 ↗ and and it lowers our funding ending

45:56 ↗ fund balance right this proposed budget

45:59 ↗ amendment is expected to decrease lower

46:04 ↗ the the current budget decrease in

46:07 ↗ ending fund balance will that have any

46:11 ↗ impact on the overall financial health

46:13 ↗ of the city or financial position of the

46:15 ↗ city well this because this covers all

46:19 ↗ funds and this primarily incorporate

46:22 ↗ budget amendments force for capital

46:24 ↗ project funds which are typically there

46:28 ↗ traditionally they're meant to be spent

46:29 ↗ there for a capital investment and so

46:33 ↗ where you're where you're paying for

46:35 ↗ making these capital improvements you're

46:38 ↗ getting an asset a fixed asset in in

46:41 ↗ exchange for another asset cash so it is

46:46 ↗ important to note that that doesn't

46:49 ↗ necessarily degrade financial health

46:53 ↗ your your capital investments go up if

46:57 ↗ you if you monitor financial statements

46:58 ↗ you haven't that exchange of asset so

47:02 ↗ let me let me paraphrase back at you so

47:04 ↗ even with us doing this budget amendment

47:06 ↗ we are still in a solid financial

47:10 ↗ position as a city that is correct house

47:13 ↗ president Mart's answer the question

47:15 ↗ more pointedly so ending fund balance

47:19 ↗ ratio is the estimated ending fund

47:22 ↗ balance over expenditures yes that's

47:25 ↗ correct

47:26 ↗ so as I look at page 234 of the packet

47:30 ↗ tonight I see an estimated ending fund

47:32 ↗ balance of one of sixteen million seven

47:35 ↗ hundred and some odd thousand dollars

47:37 ↗ and an amended expenditure of 52 million

47:41 ↗ two hundred and some odd thousand

47:43 ↗ dollars yes so so my math gives gives

47:48 ↗ that as a 31.5%

47:50 ↗ ending fund balance on the general fund

47:53 ↗ that's correct

47:54 ↗ those are the if that's the right

47:55 ↗ numerator and denominator yes that seems

47:58 ↗ very healthy indeed it is very healthy

48:00 ↗ there we go all right that's what I

48:02 ↗ wanted I wanted to double check because

48:03 ↗ I hear what you say about those other

48:05 ↗ funds they're meant to be spent yeah I

48:07 ↗ got that but the general fund is the one

48:09 ↗ that you know rating services and

48:13 ↗ whatnot tend to look at yes that's

48:16 ↗ correct the the financial pump

48:18 ↗ management policy identifies the

48:20 ↗ council's general fund reserve target

48:23 ↗ with a range of fifteen to twenty

48:25 ↗ percent so 31 percent to ending fund

48:27 ↗ balance is quite healthy yes I think we

48:31 ↗ may later in the later in the year have

48:33 ↗ some ideas on how to redress that

48:35 ↗ particular

48:36 ↗ perhaps yes thank you and I wonder if

48:39 ↗ you could add one more clarification

48:40 ↗ when you're doing a budget amendment and

48:42 ↗ you're doing a revenue adjustment you

48:44 ↗ are not going through all the potential

48:46 ↗ revenue sources and projecting them

48:48 ↗ forward you are more or less just

48:50 ↗ putting in those that are known to be

48:52 ↗ new those that are known to be new for

48:55 ↗ revenues unless there is a major

48:57 ↗ windfall then you would see an increase

49:01 ↗ in a revenue forecast but typically not

49:04 ↗ going you know those individual for

49:06 ↗ those small revenue line items on the

49:08 ↗ revenue estimate going forward this is a

49:11 ↗ pretty conservative approach to

49:12 ↗ estimating the revenues through year end

49:14 ↗ it is that's correct

49:15 ↗ yeah I wasn't sure if all the council

49:16 ↗ members were aware of that council

49:17 ↗ member Ramos and just curating for me

49:19 ↗ for Dominic for the public all these

49:22 ↗ things that are in here have been

49:24 ↗ discussed and approved by council

49:26 ↗ previously this is basically paperwork

49:29 ↗ putting them in the budget officially

49:31 ↗ we've already approved all this in

49:33 ↗ actuality that's correct there's a fair

49:35 ↗ number of agenda bills that the council

49:37 ↗ already addressed those and in the the

49:39 ↗ budget amendment log you'll note the

49:41 ↗ agenda bill where it's referenced the

49:43 ↗ council had previously taken action to

49:45 ↗ direct this budget amendment thank you

49:48 ↗ thank you good clarification any other

49:50 ↗ questions

49:51 ↗ that's where we were interesting I don't

49:54 ↗ have a question but I do want to echo do

49:56 ↗ a plus one to Vicky's comment earlier

49:58 ↗ having these bundled up and arriving in

50:01 ↗ mid-september obviously it's an

50:04 ↗ accounting exercise and that can work

50:06 ↗ but I would like if at all possible my

50:10 ↗ preference would be that if we can if it

50:12 ↗ can be done some of these could have

50:14 ↗ been done earlier I would prefer that

50:16 ↗ thank you thank you for your comment any

50:19 ↗ other comments or questions and I would

50:22 ↗ be looking for oh no I'm not doing no

50:26 ↗ further questions the guidelines for

50:28 ↗ citizen comments also apply to those

50:30 ↗ made under the public hearing for this

50:31 ↗ item so I now open the public hearing at

50:35 ↗ 11:52 has anyone signed up to speak this

50:39 ↗ evening no is there anyone in the

50:42 ↗ audience that would like to speak to

50:43 ↗ this item this evening

50:45 ↗ anyone in the audience that would like

50:47 ↗ to speak

50:48 ↗ and last chance anyone wishing to

50:51 ↗ address the council at the public

50:53 ↗ hearing this evening seeing none I

50:55 ↗ closed the public hearing at 753 and I

51:01 ↗ would be looking for a motion I'd like

51:04 ↗ to make a motion I moved to adopt

51:07 ↗ ordinance number two eight four four

51:11 ↗ amending the 2018 budget has set forth

51:14 ↗ an ordinance number 2018 concerning

51:18 ↗ revenue expenditures and fund balances

51:20 ↗ for various funds for the year 2018

51:22 ↗ and authorizing the finance director to

51:25 ↗ make necessary adjustments and approving

51:27 ↗ private and approving prior expenditures

51:31 ↗ second it's been moved and seconded is

51:36 ↗ there any council discussion its member

51:40 ↗ right um I want to just note I think the

51:45 ↗ most important thing about this piece of

51:48 ↗ work is that it is fundamentally an

51:52 ↗ accounting catch up and so what we're

51:54 ↗ doing is making our books matched our

51:56 ↗ new reality and even though we're not

52:00 ↗ factoring in actuals as revenue or

52:04 ↗ expenses ago we are finding ourselves in

52:07 ↗ a very strong financial position and the

52:10 ↗ amendment doesn't really materially

52:13 ↗ affect that so I think that it is it is

52:16 ↗ due time to make the updates and get our

52:20 ↗ books in order and move forward and

52:21 ↗ prepare for the next budget cycle thank

52:23 ↗ you for your comment any other comments

52:25 ↗ or discussion how's the president Mertz

52:29 ↗ aye

52:30 ↗ I have to stay to my shock and horror

52:32 ↗ that my math was off earlier and it's

52:35 ↗ actually just slightly over 32% any

52:38 ↗ talking fine so I apologize to everyone

52:40 ↗ and evidently I can't do long division

52:42 ↗ even with electronic assistance well

52:45 ↗ we'll consider whether or not we'll

52:47 ↗ accept your apology

52:49 ↗ any other comments or discussion okay if

52:54 ↗ there's no further discussion all those

52:55 ↗ in favor of adopting ordinance number

52:57 ↗ 284 for amending the 2018 budget as set

53:01 ↗ forth in ordinance number 2 8 1 8

53:03 ↗ concerning revenues expenditures and

53:05 ↗ fund balance for various funds for the

53:08 ↗ year 2018

53:09 ↗ and authorizing the finance director to

53:11 ↗ make the necessary adjustments and

53:13 ↗ approving prior expenditures signify by

53:15 ↗ saying aye there's opposed that passes

53:19 ↗ unanimously

53:21 ↗ we're moving on to regular business and

53:23 ↗ the next item on the agenda is a b 7 6 5

53:27 ↗ 4 Fugit sound energy green direct to

53:30 ↗ agreement and this item is coming out of

53:32 ↗ council services and Safety Committee

53:34 ↗ like to invite sustainability director

53:37 ↗ David Fujimoto to make a presentation

53:40 ↗ great good evening council members again

53:44 ↗ David Fujimoto Department of

53:46 ↗ sustainability and just I have a real

53:49 ↗ quick presentation I'll go through this

53:51 ↗ is coming from services but want to give

53:55 ↗ a good overview of what green direct 2

53:57 ↗ is all about so green direct 2 is a

54:00 ↗ program of our local energy utility

54:03 ↗ Puget Sound Energy it's a program that

54:05 ↗ is relatively unique in the in the

54:08 ↗ nation so actually a relatively

54:11 ↗ innovative program Puget Sound Energy is

54:14 ↗ one of the first utilities to come out

54:15 ↗ with this type of an arrangement it's

54:17 ↗ geared towards just large customers and

54:20 ↗ municipal customers and it's important

54:22 ↗ that it affects only the electric side

54:24 ↗ of the equation and basically the idea

54:26 ↗ is to increase the quantity of renewable

54:29 ↗ power that's supplied to with some of

54:31 ↗ their larger customers it's also

54:34 ↗ important to note that it's a part of a

54:36 ↗ tariff that's passed through Washington

54:38 ↗ state utilities and Transportation

54:40 ↗ Commission they're the body at the state

54:41 ↗ level that regulates rates for Puget

54:44 ↗ Sound energy which is a regulated

54:46 ↗ utility as a result the tariff itself

54:49 ↗ has been through a vetting process in

54:50 ↗ terms of the overall costs associated

54:52 ↗ with it the tariff itself also provides

54:56 ↗ for new energy facilities or resource if

54:59 ↗ you will to to these customers

55:02 ↗ it's specifically linked to our

55:04 ↗ participating in counts which is

55:06 ↗ important as I'll talk about in terms of

55:07 ↗ flexibility later on it includes both a

55:10 ↗ charge for the renewable power as well

55:12 ↗ as a credit for the standard fuel mix

55:14 ↗ and it's a long term arrangement so

55:17 ↗ that's something to keep in mind in part

55:19 ↗ why we're talking about this with

55:20 ↗ council a little bit of background this

55:24 ↗ might be some important information to

55:27 ↗ convey and it's not widely known and I

55:29 ↗ think that the fuel mix although we are

55:31 ↗ a part of the country with a large

55:33 ↗ percentage of hydro power Puget Sound

55:35 ↗ Energy is fuel mix the meaning there our

55:37 ↗ supply sources for the electricity that

55:39 ↗ they provide to their customers

55:41 ↗ including Issaquah is actually

55:43 ↗ predominantly from non renewable sources

55:45 ↗ so actually about 37% of their fuel mix

55:48 ↗ is coming from coal

55:49 ↗ they have coal-fired plants in western

55:51 ↗ Montana town of coal strip cities had

55:55 ↗ some legislative pieces in the past

55:58 ↗ where we supported some work to

56:00 ↗ encourage PSC and support PSC in the

56:03 ↗ transition away from those fossil fuel

56:05 ↗ based sources and then there's also

56:07 ↗ another 22 percent on natural gas

56:09 ↗ combined about 59 percent from non

56:11 ↗ doable

56:12 ↗ non renewable resources about 31 percent

56:15 ↗ for hydro and Puget Sound Energy is the

56:17 ↗ largest utility provider in Washington

56:20 ↗ State actually so as I mentioned before

56:24 ↗ green direct is both a charge and a

56:26 ↗ credit so what you'll see here in this

56:29 ↗ particular particular case is Puget

56:31 ↗ Sound Energy had essentially let a

56:33 ↗ request for proposals for a new

56:35 ↗ renewable power generation this one

56:37 ↗ can't was for solar generation and they

56:41 ↗ received a proposal for one in

56:43 ↗ southeastern Washington which was a

56:45 ↗ pretty we're talking large utility scale

56:47 ↗ solar projects and this one happened to

56:51 ↗ be particularly well situated meaning it

56:53 ↗ was close to transmission lines the

56:56 ↗ proposed the operator had planned for

56:59 ↗ some energy credits and tax incentives

57:02 ↗ ahead of time so they're kind of well

57:05 ↗ positioned to come in with a very good

57:06 ↗ proposal the contract itself starts with

57:11 ↗ it because it's a long term arrangement

57:12 ↗ it provides for a fixed pricing

57:15 ↗ the start and it continues for the term

57:18 ↗ of the agreement and it has an

57:19 ↗ adjustment factor of about two percent

57:22 ↗ per year and then it it deals with

57:24 ↗ wrecks which are renewable energy

57:26 ↗ credits which are just a commodity

57:28 ↗ associated with renewable power it's

57:30 ↗ also important to include that it

57:31 ↗ doesn't include a lot of these other

57:33 ↗ pieces transmission and distribution

57:35 ↗ billing meter reading customer service

57:38 ↗ all these other functions that are

57:39 ↗ provided by the utility those pieces

57:41 ↗ remain intact nothing changes there's no

57:43 ↗ change in the rate for that portion of

57:45 ↗ their service as I mentioned there's

57:48 ↗ also a credit so while we're buying

57:49 ↗ renewable power we're also getting a

57:51 ↗ credit for the power we're not using and

57:53 ↗ that's the standard fuel mix that's

57:55 ↗ about fifty nine percent that's

57:57 ↗ non-renewable power that PSE would

57:59 ↗ otherwise get from the grid so we get

58:01 ↗ the credit for that cost that they would

58:04 ↗ normally be providing to the city as a

58:07 ↗ customer and again the credit doesn't

58:10 ↗ include all those other kinds of

58:11 ↗ functions there's a typical of the power

58:13 ↗ utility and then I think the most

58:16 ↗ important piece here is that they're

58:18 ↗ this kind of standard fuel mix the rates

58:21 ↗ associated with that change over time so

58:23 ↗ that's based on what their general rate

58:25 ↗ cases are to the Washington State

58:26 ↗ utilities and transportation Commission

58:28 ↗ so while the green direct contract is

58:31 ↗ fixed and provides first instability the

58:34 ↗ general are the they're kind of standard

58:37 ↗ fuel mix may fluctuate over time

58:39 ↗ depending on what their rate case is may

58:41 ↗ show as a result of that as you kind of

58:46 ↗ think about long term investment there's

58:49 ↗ a number of factors that will affect

58:51 ↗ energy costs over time some are more

58:54 ↗ bullish or more bearish if you look at

58:56 ↗ the average of their adjustments over

58:59 ↗ the past 15 years it's about 2.4 percent

59:03 ↗ the regionally planning you'll see in

59:06 ↗ Puget Sound's IRP which is their

59:08 ↗ integrated resource plan they're

59:10 ↗ actually looking at us they're

59:11 ↗ projecting a 6% rate the Northwest power

59:14 ↗ plan canceled the council uses a 3% rate

59:17 ↗ so just to give you an idea of worse are

59:19 ↗ some of the other factors in terms of

59:21 ↗ thinking about long term trends and

59:23 ↗ energy prices this is a quick chart just

59:27 ↗ to show

59:28 ↗ comparison between green direct to rates

59:31 ↗ which is the dark or the green line and

59:34 ↗ then some projections of current rates

59:36 ↗ at various levels and we went ahead and

59:40 ↗ included a relatively low 1.5% rate

59:44 ↗ that's far lower than a historical or

59:46 ↗ the regional planning efforts and that's

59:48 ↗ the orange line PSC is 15 year average

59:52 ↗ at 2.4 percent is the kind of cyan or a

59:56 ↗ blue line I guess there and then the

59:59 ↗ Northwest power planning council at 3

1:00:01 ↗ percent is the Purple Line the uppermost

1:00:03 ↗ line with this contract you might be

1:00:10 ↗ aware that about a year ago the city

1:00:12 ↗ signed up a number of accounts under the

1:00:15 ↗ first offering of green direct and that

1:00:17 ↗ was for primarily a wind generation

1:00:20 ↗ plant in south western Washington and so

1:00:25 ↗ we at that point in time we had signed

1:00:26 ↗ up a fair number of city accounts but we

1:00:29 ↗ also chose to reserve a number of

1:00:31 ↗ accounts wanting to take into

1:00:34 ↗ considerations and future facility plans

1:00:36 ↗ and also I think there was an interest

1:00:38 ↗ in thinking about can we also identify

1:00:41 ↗ some other renewable power sources which

1:00:43 ↗ had lower environmental impacts because

1:00:44 ↗ there is some impacts associated with

1:00:46 ↗ wind power solar is among the cleanest

1:00:49 ↗ if you will of the renewable power

1:00:52 ↗ sources so we did sign up a number of

1:00:55 ↗ accounts before we have about a third or

1:00:57 ↗ so remaining and that allows us also to

1:01:02 ↗ think about kind of latter investments

1:01:06 ↗ over time so some dollar cost averaging

1:01:08 ↗ might be possible as well so with this

1:01:11 ↗ next contract we're proposing adding the

1:01:14 ↗ about 17 accounts it's about 1.7 million

1:01:17 ↗ kilowatt hours per year and this would

1:01:21 ↗ bring us up to in total about 95 percent

1:01:24 ↗ of the city's electrical power coming

1:01:27 ↗ from renewable resources so that's a

1:01:29 ↗ pretty great opportunity great statement

1:01:32 ↗ in terms of the city's investment in our

1:01:34 ↗ work when you look at this fiscally

1:01:38 ↗ because it's a long-term contract this

1:01:40 ↗ is showing

1:01:41 ↗ the effect of an 18-year contract I'm in

1:01:45 ↗ and would start in 2021 there you can

1:01:48 ↗ see both the green direct charge as well

1:01:50 ↗ as the credit and you'll see that

1:01:52 ↗ there's actually a net savings and the

1:01:55 ↗ first year of the contract and that

1:01:56 ↗ continues out for many years and I

1:01:59 ↗ believe it's not until the last few

1:02:01 ↗ years of the contract where the prices

1:02:03 ↗ are actually higher based on and this is

1:02:05 ↗ based on a 1.5 percent forecast

1:02:08 ↗ so really competitive rates when you

1:02:10 ↗ look at that over the total term of that

1:02:13 ↗ contract not in at present dollars its

1:02:16 ↗ ends up being about savings of almost

1:02:18 ↗ $28,000 so real quickly on some benefits

1:02:25 ↗ and considerations this is a new

1:02:27 ↗ resource that would be added to the

1:02:29 ↗ existing power supply in the northwest

1:02:32 ↗ so it's not just like we're buying extra

1:02:33 ↗ credits or something that's actually

1:02:34 ↗ generate or developing new sources it

1:02:38 ↗ has extremely low environmental impacts

1:02:40 ↗ as I mentioned before difference between

1:02:41 ↗ wind and solar for example very cost

1:02:45 ↗ competitive it's flexible because of the

1:02:48 ↗ way in which the program works is that

1:02:50 ↗ it's assigned to individual accounts

1:02:52 ↗ Puget Sound Energy actually allows you

1:02:54 ↗ to transfer from account to account so

1:02:57 ↗ if for example the city were to you know

1:03:00 ↗ close a facility or rebuild a certain

1:03:03 ↗ facility we could move the green direct

1:03:06 ↗ enrollment from one account to another

1:03:08 ↗ they also don't specify any kind of firm

1:03:11 ↗ demand so they don't we're not

1:03:12 ↗ committing to a certain amount of

1:03:14 ↗ kilowatt hours either so we actually and

1:03:18 ↗ they're fine with us making energy

1:03:19 ↗ efficiency improvements or they're being

1:03:22 ↗ kind of demand reductions over time

1:03:24 ↗ those aren't factored into this they're

1:03:26 ↗ mostly looking for accounts so it still

1:03:28 ↗ allows us to be more efficient in our

1:03:30 ↗ operations and pursue other

1:03:31 ↗ opportunities there and then in a big

1:03:34 ↗ way it also helps to address community

1:03:36 ↗ climate goals for greenhouse gas

1:03:39 ↗ reductions as well as its implementing a

1:03:42 ↗ piece in our recently adopted

1:03:44 ↗ sustainable building action strategy

1:03:46 ↗ which was adopted last year there are a

1:03:50 ↗ number of cities and other agencies and

1:03:53 ↗ businesses that have

1:03:54 ↗ rolled in Puget Sound green direct most

1:03:57 ↗ of these are from the first round of

1:04:00 ↗ enrollment this latest round we haven't

1:04:03 ↗ gotten the final list of who would be

1:04:05 ↗ participating because of the timing of

1:04:07 ↗ when PG town energy was opening their

1:04:10 ↗ enrollment and they're expected really

1:04:12 ↗ high demand they were expecting they

1:04:15 ↗ were opening at 1:00 p.m. and they I

1:04:17 ↗ think were filled by it within a matter

1:04:19 ↗ of hours so that really was have high

1:04:23 ↗ demand for that and as a result of that

1:04:25 ↗ the administration went ahead and

1:04:26 ↗ submitted a placeholder application

1:04:28 ↗ while we were taking the time to

1:04:30 ↗ consider this through Council we didn't

1:04:34 ↗ hear back from Puget energy that we did

1:04:35 ↗ make the list so our recommendation is

1:04:39 ↗ that we enroll the remaining eligible

1:04:42 ↗ accounts given the pricing we believe it

1:04:45 ↗ makes sense to look at a long term

1:04:47 ↗ eighteen year agreement and this is as I

1:04:51 ↗ said consistent with some of our other

1:04:52 ↗ work to evaluate efficiency improvements

1:04:54 ↗ in our existing facilities find energy

1:04:57 ↗ savings where we can so we can continue

1:05:00 ↗ that work ahead and then as we start to

1:05:02 ↗ make some adjustments in our facilities

1:05:04 ↗ or come up with facility plans

1:05:07 ↗ we can also reevaluate the portfolio and

1:05:09 ↗ make some changes as we go

1:05:11 ↗ and that is it thank you David and this

1:05:14 ↗ came out of services and safety and I'm

1:05:16 ↗ wondering if the chair would like to

1:05:18 ↗ have any comments or just open it up to

1:05:20 ↗ comments and questions comments and

1:05:23 ↗ questions comments and questions

1:05:24 ↗ councilmember almost yeah just clarify

1:05:26 ↗ so the things you said there so if if I

1:05:29 ↗ heard your numbers right this the the

1:05:34 ↗ amount between green rec 1 & 2 will be

1:05:37 ↗ hidden 95% of our utility use in the

1:05:40 ↗ city as of now that would be once to

1:05:43 ↗ this so green direct 1 will be going

1:05:46 ↗ into effect in mid-year of 2019 this

1:05:48 ↗ would be going into effect 2021 so once

1:05:51 ↗ we hit 2021 95% of the electric power

1:05:56 ↗ generation will be renewable resources

1:05:58 ↗ of course we still have natural gas

1:06:00 ↗ that's operating being used in a number

1:06:02 ↗ of our buildings so that's not covered

1:06:04 ↗ by the

1:06:04 ↗ and then and and so that's basically

1:06:08 ↗ almost all of our facilities are gonna

1:06:10 ↗ be wrapped into that that's correct

1:06:12 ↗ excellent thank you thank you council

1:06:15 ↗ president Mertz

1:06:16 ↗ so help me understand the big picture

1:06:18 ↗ here we're going to by doing this we're

1:06:20 ↗ gonna spend less on electricity than we

1:06:23 ↗ would otherwise it that is the potential

1:06:27 ↗ scenario so depending on what happens

1:06:29 ↗ with PSE rate so if PSE rates for

1:06:32 ↗ example stayed flat for the next 18

1:06:33 ↗ years we would be paying more if they

1:06:36 ↗ increase by more than 1.5 percent on

1:06:39 ↗ average over that term we'll be saving

1:06:41 ↗ substantially more so it really depends

1:06:44 ↗ on how the contract compares to actual

1:06:46 ↗ so so there's so there's no such thing

1:06:49 ↗ as a free lunch

1:06:50 ↗ how does this where's help me understand

1:06:52 ↗ like benefits because as my

1:06:55 ↗ understanding is renewable energy is

1:06:58 ↗ still generally speaking more expensive

1:07:00 ↗ than fossil fuels which is why the whole

1:07:03 ↗ country hasn't moved

1:07:04 ↗ mmm wind farms and solar so how how are

1:07:07 ↗ we getting it less expensive so one of I

1:07:15 ↗ so that's a big question with lots of

1:07:17 ↗ the answers but I think one way of

1:07:19 ↗ thinking about it is that this is a

1:07:21 ↗ although it's a utilities skill

1:07:23 ↗ investment it's also small scale

1:07:26 ↗ relative to the overall power grid so

1:07:28 ↗ power needs to flow 24/7 solar obviously

1:07:32 ↗ only generates during the daytime

1:07:34 ↗ similar issues with wind although it's

1:07:36 ↗ you know it's different cycles in terms

1:07:39 ↗ of when the wind blows so Bonneville

1:07:42 ↗ Power Authority has a balancing

1:07:43 ↗ Authority that's their responsibility in

1:07:45 ↗ the region is to balance all the demands

1:07:47 ↗ with all the sources and because we have

1:07:50 ↗ that capacity in the region you can add

1:07:52 ↗ these types of facilities and provide

1:07:54 ↗ that kind of service so what we're not

1:07:56 ↗ what we're buying through this is the

1:07:58 ↗ power generation that's added to the

1:08:01 ↗ supply system we're not actually buying

1:08:02 ↗ those actual electrons that are going

1:08:04 ↗ from that plant to our specific

1:08:06 ↗ buildings because we can't do that so

1:08:08 ↗ essentially what we're doing is buying

1:08:09 ↗ additi capacity within the overall power

1:08:12 ↗ system and the project level basis

1:08:15 ↗ because of the conditions associated

1:08:17 ↗ with this one

1:08:18 ↗ able to get a great rate if you're

1:08:20 ↗ trying to extrapolate that to replace me

1:08:22 ↗ of the entire grid it's an entirely

1:08:24 ↗ different story first okay

1:08:27 ↗ that's extremely helpful and now I

1:08:28 ↗ understand great Thank You deputy

1:08:33 ↗ council president batiste

1:08:34 ↗ thank you David could you speak a little

1:08:37 ↗ bit to hole and the energy mix in

1:08:43 ↗ general there's there are some things

1:08:45 ↗ changing in that area with coal strip

1:08:48 ↗ there is so as I mentioned before I

1:08:54 ↗ think it there so this is PSC's Puget

1:08:59 ↗ Sound Energy's fuel mix as is 2016 it

1:09:02 ↗ changes a little bit from year to year

1:09:04 ↗ but there has been some work to think

1:09:07 ↗ about replacement of that those

1:09:09 ↗ non-renewable sources and in particular

1:09:11 ↗ coal because from a pollution standpoint

1:09:14 ↗ it's the highest emitter of a highest

1:09:17 ↗ level of emissions and so there are

1:09:19 ↗ several utilities which jointly owned

1:09:22 ↗ the coal strip plant in western Montana

1:09:24 ↗ Puget Sound Energy is one of the major

1:09:26 ↗ ones and there's been some work to

1:09:29 ↗ retire there's actually four different

1:09:30 ↗ plants on that site to retire our coal

1:09:33 ↗ strip plants one and two and they've

1:09:35 ↗ agreed to do that and they have a

1:09:37 ↗ timeframe for doing that I forgot the

1:09:39 ↗ closure date I believe it's 2025 and so

1:09:42 ↗ that part will be happening there are

1:09:45 ↗ also plants three and four which there

1:09:47 ↗ are through some negotiations with some

1:09:49 ↗ for environmental organizations and

1:09:51 ↗ others are working on a timeline for

1:09:53 ↗ closure of the the remaining two plants

1:09:56 ↗ they've agreed to the timing for the

1:09:59 ↗ amortization but that's not the same as

1:10:01 ↗ the actual closure date for those

1:10:03 ↗ facilities so there's there's some work

1:10:06 ↗ that's happening in that area and then

1:10:08 ↗ also some interest in making sure that

1:10:10 ↗ as those plants are retired that the

1:10:12 ↗ replacement sources are more towards

1:10:15 ↗ renewables and less towards other

1:10:17 ↗ non-renewable resources thank you more

1:10:21 ↗ questions or comments

1:10:25 ↗ it's chair raid did you want to add

1:10:27 ↗ anything I'd like to move to authorize

1:10:30 ↗ the mayor to enter into and execute the

1:10:33 ↗ green direct to agreement would Puget

1:10:35 ↗ Sound energy over an 18 year term second

1:10:42 ↗ it's been moved and seconded is there

1:10:44 ↗ any council discussion so even thank you

1:10:50 ↗ I think this is pretty exciting and when

1:10:53 ↗ years ago there was a push towards

1:10:56 ↗ recycling a paper it was government

1:10:59 ↗ demanding that recycled paper be used in

1:11:04 ↗ government contracts and this is a very

1:11:07 ↗ financially sound opportunity for us but

1:11:10 ↗ it's also a way for us to provide

1:11:11 ↗ leadership in terms of making a change

1:11:14 ↗ to how power is generated in the region

1:11:17 ↗ so it's not going to happen without some

1:11:18 ↗ some leadership and it is very exciting

1:11:21 ↗ for us to be out in front of this

1:11:23 ↗ working on something that is sustainable

1:11:26 ↗ and also very much aligns with our

1:11:30 ↗ long-term goal of being good stewards of

1:11:32 ↗ the environment so to me this is

1:11:34 ↗ something celebrate something to move

1:11:38 ↗ forward with and something to be really

1:11:40 ↗ proud of that we are really walking the

1:11:42 ↗ talk when it comes to environmental

1:11:43 ↗ stewardship let's remember almost

1:11:46 ↗ followed by a deputy council president

1:11:48 ↗ yes just add to that

1:11:50 ↗ it does take leadership to move towards

1:11:53 ↗ this this is a very painless way of

1:11:57 ↗ doing leadership it really isn't costing

1:11:59 ↗ us much directly but what we're doing is

1:12:01 ↗ encouraging working with PSE who's taken

1:12:04 ↗ some of these steps to allow us to join

1:12:05 ↗ in this program to start to build those

1:12:07 ↗ alternative energy sources for the grid

1:12:10 ↗ and it's a long-term process to do that

1:12:13 ↗ and shift that out and by being part of

1:12:15 ↗ this we are part of that process of

1:12:17 ↗ shifting over to renewable energy

1:12:20 ↗ sources so I'm very happy to be part of

1:12:22 ↗ this too so this is something we had an

1:12:27 ↗ opportunity to talk about in the past

1:12:30 ↗ and we talked about this and we were

1:12:35 ↗ excited about this and enrolled some of

1:12:37 ↗ the accounts and this is the ability to

1:12:39 ↗ Rolle almost all of the the city

1:12:42 ↗ accounts and I'm I'm excited that that

1:12:46 ↗ we're making that move and I just wanted

1:12:48 ↗ to thank David and his whole team for

1:12:52 ↗ paying really close attention to that

1:12:53 ↗ going ahead and submitting the

1:12:56 ↗ application and getting the placeholder

1:12:58 ↗ in so we were able to have some time to

1:13:02 ↗ talk this through have this go to

1:13:04 ↗ Council but I think that this really

1:13:06 ↗ just makes all the sense in the world

1:13:08 ↗ and I and I do believe it is an

1:13:10 ↗ opportunity for us to be a leader in

1:13:12 ↗ this area there's no further discussion

1:13:20 ↗ all those in favor of authorizing the

1:13:22 ↗ mayor to enter into and execute the

1:13:25 ↗ green direct to agreement with Puget

1:13:27 ↗ Sound Energy over an 18 year term

1:13:29 ↗ signify by saying aye opposed that

1:13:33 ↗ carries unanimously

1:13:36 ↗ next and last item on regular business

1:13:38 ↗ first this evening is a b7 665 the 2019

1:13:43 ↗ legislative agenda this item is coming

1:13:46 ↗ out of the September 10th council

1:13:48 ↗ committee work session and I'd like to

1:13:50 ↗ invite management analyst Jean Paul and

1:13:53 ↗ Lisa Olson to make the presentation good

1:13:57 ↗ evening my name is Jean Paul and I'm a

1:13:59 ↗ management analyst in the executive

1:14:01 ↗ office and I'm joined by my fennel

1:14:02 ↗ fellow analyst Lisa Olson we were here

1:14:05 ↗ this evening to present the final draft

1:14:06 ↗ of the 2019 to 2021 legislative agenda

1:14:10 ↗ to help famed presentation in the

1:14:13 ↗ administration ultimately asking the

1:14:14 ↗ council to adopt the legislative agenda

1:14:16 ↗ we presented our first draft last week

1:14:18 ↗ on the 10th and provided time for you to

1:14:20 ↗ answer the questions are the priorities

1:14:22 ↗ identified correct and clear and is the

1:14:24 ↗ language we have presented strong enough

1:14:26 ↗ or too strong we have incorporated your

1:14:28 ↗ feedback into the latest version of the

1:14:30 ↗ legislative agenda and we're prepared to

1:14:32 ↗ collect any additional comments this

1:14:33 ↗ evening this timeline will help provide

1:14:37 ↗ additional context to why we are here

1:14:38 ↗ this evening we have moved up the agenda

1:14:41 ↗ process from previous years in order to

1:14:43 ↗ create and approve the legislative

1:14:45 ↗ agenda in time to potentially influence

1:14:47 ↗ the governor's budget proposal which is

1:14:49 ↗ produced prior to the actual legislative

1:14:51 ↗ session

1:14:52 ↗ staff members have been working with our

1:14:53 ↗ consultants since June to develop this

1:14:55 ↗ agenda and we're here tonight to present

1:14:57 ↗ we've produced to you other important

1:15:00 ↗ dates on the horizon include the

1:15:02 ↗ legislative breakfast which is

1:15:03 ↗ tentatively scheduled for either

1:15:04 ↗ December 11th or the 13th and the actual

1:15:07 ↗ legislative session beginning in January

1:15:09 ↗ and running through March to review the

1:15:14 ↗ legislative agenda priorities contain

1:15:16 ↗ the top three funding requests for the

1:15:18 ↗ issues that the city deems most critical

1:15:20 ↗ to both ongoing operations and the

1:15:22 ↗ community's long-term vision the

1:15:24 ↗ priorities which are seeking funds from

1:15:27 ↗ the operating transportation and capital

1:15:29 ↗ budgets are the funding for the pilot

1:15:32 ↗ cleanup to remove P fossa P fast

1:15:33 ↗ implementation of i90 Front Street

1:15:36 ↗ interchange justification report and the

1:15:39 ↗ transit oriented development with the

1:15:40 ↗ Opportunity Center at the September 10th

1:15:44 ↗ work session we did not receive any

1:15:45 ↗ requests to change any of these

1:15:46 ↗ priorities we did have a question from

1:15:48 ↗ one council member concerning how public

1:15:50 ↗ opinion shaped these priorities which

1:15:52 ↗ led to our desire for public comment to

1:15:54 ↗ obtain this public input we published

1:15:56 ↗ the agenda called attention to it on our

1:15:58 ↗ website and provide an email address for

1:16:00 ↗ feedback there were over 300 people who

1:16:03 ↗ viewed that news piece but we received

1:16:05 ↗ no comments from that process we did

1:16:07 ↗ receive one email outside of this

1:16:09 ↗ engagement effort based upon all the

1:16:11 ↗ feedback collected there were ultimately

1:16:13 ↗ no changes to the agenda priorities Lisa

1:16:18 ↗ will now provide an overview of the

1:16:19 ↗ policy manual and its updates good

1:16:23 ↗ evening council members so as you'll

1:16:24 ↗ remember the policy manual represents

1:16:27 ↗ other issues that are important to the

1:16:29 ↗ city of Issaquah and presents an

1:16:31 ↗ opportunity to support oppose or monitor

1:16:34 ↗ positions of interest to Issaquah so

1:16:37 ↗ based on feedback from last Monday's

1:16:39 ↗ work session we addressed four changes

1:16:41 ↗ within the policy manual you'll see

1:16:44 ↗ these changes in the standalone document

1:16:45 ↗ in your packet entitled changes to the

1:16:48 ↗ policy manual the first change was

1:16:50 ↗ moving the statement around condominium

1:16:54 ↗ building from the land use and GMA

1:16:56 ↗ section to the affordable housing health

1:16:58 ↗ Human Services and homelessness category

1:17:01 ↗ the second change was the addition of a

1:17:04 ↗ statement concerning bra

1:17:05 ↗ ban and small cell networks to the

1:17:08 ↗ economic development and infrastructure

1:17:10 ↗ category the third change was an

1:17:13 ↗ expansion on the policy around product

1:17:15 ↗ stewardship within the Environment and

1:17:17 ↗ Natural Resources category you'll see

1:17:20 ↗ that there are now two statements on

1:17:21 ↗ product stewardship one is supporting

1:17:24 ↗ the expansion of product stewardship for

1:17:26 ↗ recycling and paint efforts and the

1:17:28 ↗ other one is opposing efforts to reduce

1:17:30 ↗ funding for prescription drug product

1:17:33 ↗ stewardship the last change that you'll

1:17:36 ↗ see was the addition of a statement on

1:17:38 ↗ protecting state shared revenues from

1:17:40 ↗ the taxation of marijuana and that was

1:17:42 ↗ added to the bud budget and fiscal

1:17:44 ↗ matters category we did not receive any

1:17:47 ↗ public comments on the policy manual so

1:17:51 ↗ with that we would like to thank you for

1:17:54 ↗ a presentation and open up to talk with

1:17:56 ↗ counsel about the direction of the

1:17:58 ↗ legislative agenda thank you Lisa

1:18:00 ↗ Thank You Jean this council have any

1:18:03 ↗ questions I have a couple okay let's

1:18:10 ↗ start with council member ray and then

1:18:11 ↗ go to council member hen

1:18:13 ↗ since I was the one who wanted some sort

1:18:17 ↗ of public input and you mentioned that

1:18:19 ↗ there were 300 ish hits on the news

1:18:22 ↗ story do you have any idea how many of

1:18:24 ↗ those hits came from within the city we

1:18:26 ↗ don't and so just to clarify that the

1:18:28 ↗ message was sent to a listserv that had

1:18:31 ↗ 300 folks I think view the email and we

1:18:33 ↗ only saw I think one or two folks

1:18:35 ↗ actually click through into genes email

1:18:38 ↗ address which was attached to that for

1:18:39 ↗ providing okay so we sent it out to 300

1:18:42 ↗ people but we didn't didn't really

1:18:44 ↗ generate any any traction or any input

1:18:46 ↗ right now from the community mm-hmm okay

1:18:50 ↗ more questions or should I move

1:18:52 ↗ councilmember hunt councillor hunt thank

1:18:58 ↗ you I had a question about if there were

1:19:01 ↗ other priorities considered in the

1:19:06 ↗ agenda other than the top three and if

1:19:08 ↗ those are appear in the policy manual or

1:19:11 ↗ if they are slated to be discussed at a

1:19:15 ↗ later date

1:19:19 ↗ you get Administrator moon to chime in

1:19:22 ↗ having had a longer history with how the

1:19:25 ↗ whole agenda was set up sure I we did

1:19:29 ↗ have conversations about other potential

1:19:33 ↗ priorities these seem to be the ones

1:19:35 ↗ that were I'll say bigger dollar item

1:19:42 ↗ possibilities and the lobbyists as you

1:19:45 ↗ heard on the tenth really encouraged us

1:19:47 ↗ to utilize this year's situation to go

1:19:55 ↗ big ask for some bigger projects and so

1:19:59 ↗ that was one of the filters we used as

1:20:01 ↗ we considered what to ask for

1:20:04 ↗ they also advised us on the type of

1:20:06 ↗ projects that tend to get traction

1:20:08 ↗ either in the governor's budget or with

1:20:12 ↗ the state legislators we we went through

1:20:15 ↗ a process particularly on the capital

1:20:18 ↗ side we frequently asked for dollars to

1:20:22 ↗ assist with capital projects so we

1:20:24 ↗ looked at some of the outstanding

1:20:25 ↗ capital projects of the city including

1:20:28 ↗ those that have received support in the

1:20:30 ↗ past because you can have a little bit

1:20:34 ↗ easier time seeking funds for a second

1:20:37 ↗ phase and a brand-new project so we

1:20:41 ↗ certainly do consider some but these

1:20:43 ↗ were the ones that rose to the time okay

1:20:46 ↗ and then related to that I in looking

1:20:50 ↗ back at previous legislative agenda as I

1:20:52 ↗ understand this process was a different

1:20:55 ↗ lobbyist so a little bit different

1:20:57 ↗ process you in comparison to those other

1:21:02 ↗ ones it's a smaller list of priorities

1:21:06 ↗ but you would say that it's sort of a

1:21:11 ↗ bigger picture is that right I would say

1:21:14 ↗ overall it's about the same number of

1:21:17 ↗ top priorities it may be less by one

1:21:22 ↗ let's say on average this year's

1:21:24 ↗ strategy differed in that our lobbyists

1:21:27 ↗ really encouraged us to have one

1:21:29 ↗ priority for each of those three

1:21:30 ↗ different budget buckets and whereas in

1:21:34 ↗ the past we may have had two or three

1:21:36 ↗ capital projects and maybe one one

1:21:40 ↗ operating ask so that's the difference

1:21:43 ↗ here is we really tried to limit it to

1:21:45 ↗ one project in each of those different

1:21:48 ↗ budgets deputy council president batise

1:21:55 ↗ thank you for the presentation I I have

1:21:59 ↗ a question that actually follows maybe a

1:22:01 ↗ little bit outside of the three top

1:22:03 ↗ legislative agenda pieces that we're

1:22:05 ↗ talking about here and that is one of

1:22:08 ↗ the things that they had talked about is

1:22:09 ↗ that there was a slight possibility that

1:22:13 ↗ there might be a mini transportation

1:22:15 ↗ package being put together and they

1:22:17 ↗ didn't really have any information to

1:22:19 ↗ know is that something that if that did

1:22:22 ↗ happen would we turn to our

1:22:25 ↗ transportation transit piece and those

1:22:30 ↗ bullet points and would or is there

1:22:33 ↗ something that we've thought of that we

1:22:34 ↗ would want to add or because we have

1:22:37 ↗ i-90 front street is that something that

1:22:39 ↗ we would wish for right I'm just

1:22:42 ↗ wondering what would happen in that case

1:22:45 ↗ sure if past is guidance on that usually

1:22:51 ↗ the lobbyists would contact us and say

1:22:53 ↗ it looks like we will indeed have a mini

1:22:56 ↗ package it's going to be of this size

1:22:59 ↗ therefore they would encourage us to

1:23:03 ↗ then produce extra projects to help fill

1:23:08 ↗ that allotment right now we do have that

1:23:12 ↗ ijr a request that would come from the

1:23:16 ↗ transportation budget but it's not

1:23:17 ↗ uncommon for lobbyists to if they get

1:23:20 ↗ new information and it looks like the

1:23:23 ↗ available funding is greater than what

1:23:25 ↗ was previously anticipated or if a

1:23:27 ↗ particular legislator or I it's excited

1:23:32 ↗ about a project or has indication that

1:23:36 ↗ there will be more available to his or

1:23:38 ↗ her district then sometimes they reach

1:23:40 ↗ back to us and ask us for an additional

1:23:42 ↗ and yes we would turn back to the policy

1:23:45 ↗ manual and look at those projects that

1:23:46 ↗ we've had conversations with council

1:23:49 ↗ members about in the past and and seek

1:23:52 ↗ some concurrence from you to move

1:23:54 ↗ forward and ask for funding on on that

1:23:57 ↗ particular project one more one more

1:24:01 ↗ question and that was in regard to the

1:24:03 ↗ timeline on your slides you had talked

1:24:07 ↗ about this being done before the

1:24:13 ↗ governor's budget and so what is the

1:24:16 ↗ timeline for that when is the governor's

1:24:18 ↗ budget proposed to be put together so my

1:24:23 ↗ understanding is the actual budget

1:24:25 ↗ proposal will be released sometime in

1:24:26 ↗ December but the state agencies were

1:24:29 ↗ already required to start that

1:24:31 ↗ discussion in terms of what will be in

1:24:33 ↗ the proposal in September and basically

1:24:36 ↗ the September to October time frame is

1:24:38 ↗ when that budget proposal will be

1:24:39 ↗ assembled so those conversations are

1:24:42 ↗ already starting in September correct

1:24:45 ↗ okay thank you

1:24:48 ↗ consumer bray so i'ma do a little

1:24:50 ↗ follow-up on deputy president petits

1:24:52 ↗ question so what would happen if the

1:24:55 ↗ council did not take action tonight and

1:24:57 ↗ were to defer action till say our

1:25:00 ↗ October first meeting that is within

1:25:07 ↗ we've kind of we've looked at additional

1:25:11 ↗ meetings if you were looking to come

1:25:13 ↗ back to a different meeting there is

1:25:16 ↗ like we have there's a couple of week

1:25:19 ↗ window where that would work we would

1:25:21 ↗ ask you for some direction around the

1:25:23 ↗ pthose issue because that is really the

1:25:26 ↗ one issue where we have an interagency

1:25:28 ↗ collaboration and so that's where we

1:25:31 ↗ would like to see here's some direction

1:25:34 ↗ on if that's going to remain on the

1:25:35 ↗ city's list of priorities so that we

1:25:37 ↗ could have that prepared with the

1:25:39 ↗ governor's budget not sure I heard the

1:25:43 ↗ answer there okay we'll let you take a

1:25:49 ↗ second stab and we'll take a second

1:25:51 ↗ stand but the answer we're gonna put the

1:25:53 ↗ city administrator on

1:25:54 ↗ ok so I think what we've heard from the

1:25:56 ↗ city's lobbyists is it's probably not

1:26:01 ↗ going to be detrimental to take a couple

1:26:03 ↗ extra weeks except for potentially our

1:26:07 ↗ request on pea Foss and that is because

1:26:10 ↗ we are engaged in a bit of a collaborate

1:26:16 ↗ on with Department of Ecology and they

1:26:20 ↗ are preparing their budget and are going

1:26:23 ↗ to be submitting it very shortly so we

1:26:26 ↗ want to be a line item in that and

1:26:30 ↗ there's a little bit of risk that if we

1:26:34 ↗ don't act now or provide some assurance

1:26:36 ↗ that that will remain a priority of the

1:26:41 ↗ city and a request on our behalf that it

1:26:44 ↗ it we may not be able to get it in since

1:26:47 ↗ psychology is preparing that budget for

1:26:49 ↗ the governor's or you thank you that's

1:26:54 ↗ great

1:26:54 ↗ I just deputy council president DS so

1:26:58 ↗ this I think this might be for City

1:27:01 ↗ Administrator moon-tan sir but I'm I'm

1:27:03 ↗ not sure is there a risk of that the

1:27:08 ↗ typical process is that the legislative

1:27:11 ↗ agenda priorities come forward from a

1:27:13 ↗ city in this case were we may

1:27:16 ↗ potentially if some of it was delayed

1:27:19 ↗ and we pulled pas out of there

1:27:23 ↗ that then they might look at that and

1:27:25 ↗ say okay well there's there there's

1:27:27 ↗ their top agenda and we haven't really

1:27:29 ↗ addressed the other things that might be

1:27:32 ↗ on our list is there a bit of a risk by

1:27:34 ↗ pulling those apart or is that a typical

1:27:38 ↗ practice I don't believe there's any

1:27:41 ↗ risk in doing it that way again you have

1:27:43 ↗ those separate buckets and this is

1:27:45 ↗ different and that it's interagency

1:27:48 ↗ collaboration so I don't think that by

1:27:53 ↗ submitting a request on the PAS project

1:27:56 ↗ that that would hamper our ability to

1:27:59 ↗ ask for funds out of those other buckets

1:28:02 ↗ two weeks later okay

1:28:04 ↗ you look around for more questions

1:28:07 ↗ councilmember no I can't remember we're

1:28:12 ↗ interesting yeah thank you I look at the

1:28:15 ↗ agenda the legislative agenda there's

1:28:18 ↗ it's only those top priority ones that

1:28:20 ↗ actually have numbers next to them and

1:28:25 ↗ so and everything else everything else

1:28:30 ↗ is statements of support or a request to

1:28:36 ↗ refrain from doing this or we're gonna

1:28:39 ↗ monitor that it's been the conversation

1:28:44 ↗ I just heard especially with ecology

1:28:45 ↗ that it's really these first three that

1:28:50 ↗ there may be somebody sitting in Olympia

1:28:53 ↗ waiting to get some information from us

1:28:55 ↗ because they're preparing their submit

1:28:58 ↗ all for the mayor's budget sorry mayor

1:29:05 ↗ of our state so okay and in what's

1:29:15 ↗ proposed here it still just has a TBD

1:29:17 ↗ amount what we gonna do about that we

1:29:23 ↗ are going to hope that the governor

1:29:26 ↗ writes in a fill in the blank in that

1:29:31 ↗ budget and that we have a little bit of

1:29:35 ↗ time to continue to have conversations

1:29:37 ↗ with ecology with east side fire rescue

1:29:39 ↗ we are just now starting to get some of

1:29:42 ↗ the data back from the phase one study

1:29:46 ↗ work that's happening and we needed to

1:29:49 ↗ get some of that data back so that we

1:29:51 ↗ would start to understand what the scope

1:29:53 ↗ of the next phase might be and we've

1:29:56 ↗ received some but quite frankly not all

1:29:58 ↗ that we had anticipated by this time and

1:30:00 ↗ so we're hoping that in another couple

1:30:03 ↗ of weeks we will have that and we'll be

1:30:05 ↗ able to send a number but I it it would

1:30:10 ↗ be an extra effort to also then at that

1:30:14 ↗ time try to get just the verbage in and

1:30:16 ↗ the

1:30:17 ↗ line item reservation that we're trying

1:30:20 ↗ to seek right now right and we're

1:30:22 ↗ working with the ecology on ecology

1:30:24 ↗ right okay thank you additional

1:30:30 ↗ questions

1:30:32 ↗ it's my Brent does it a follow up to

1:30:36 ↗ something you said earlier if they if

1:30:38 ↗ there was a additional ask for or if

1:30:44 ↗ there was an opportunity to provide

1:30:46 ↗ additional asks it's not clear to me

1:30:48 ↗ from the policy manual and from our

1:30:53 ↗ discussions what those specific other

1:30:55 ↗ asks would be I think this is related to

1:30:58 ↗ council member winter signs point that

1:31:01 ↗ it's a list of sort of support and some

1:31:04 ↗ oppose but there are three specific

1:31:07 ↗ projects and then there are a lot of our

1:31:10 ↗ general policy statements but not other

1:31:12 ↗ projects and so how how could you

1:31:15 ↗ elaborate on how that would work

1:31:17 ↗ if there were opportunities to expand on

1:31:20 ↗ or change my answer is it depends and it

1:31:28 ↗ depends on how much time we have to

1:31:30 ↗ respond so typically what we've done in

1:31:33 ↗ the past is we have turned back to that

1:31:35 ↗ policy document and we've looked

1:31:39 ↗ let's take Transportation Transit as an

1:31:41 ↗ example we've looked at the verbage

1:31:43 ↗ there and we then asked and take the

1:31:49 ↗ first bullet the first bullet is we'd

1:31:51 ↗ support initiatives that proactively

1:31:53 ↗ address regional transportation

1:31:54 ↗ solutions especially funding for state

1:31:56 ↗ route 18 improvements and so we might

1:32:00 ↗ then say ask for additional funds to

1:32:03 ↗ advance that project so we'd go we'd go

1:32:07 ↗ through the bullets under a particular

1:32:10 ↗ policy area that looks like it's a focal

1:32:14 ↗ point for the legislators who are asking

1:32:16 ↗ for additional projects and we'd try to

1:32:21 ↗ pick a project that's an aligned with

1:32:23 ↗ policy statement you've already endorsed

1:32:26 ↗ it's not as specific

1:32:29 ↗ but oftentimes it at that moment in time

1:32:33 ↗ we don't need to be as specific or we

1:32:36 ↗ will attach a state route 18 is a good

1:32:40 ↗ example we'd attach to some other agency

1:32:42 ↗ that has already started to develop a

1:32:44 ↗ capital project that we can then just

1:32:46 ↗ lend support and and hopefully some

1:32:50 ↗ additional funding dollars to I I think

1:32:53 ↗ state route 18 is also a good example

1:32:54 ↗ are they ordered within the categories

1:32:57 ↗ by priority that is no necessarily

1:32:59 ↗ although I would I would say we did have

1:33:01 ↗ some discussion particularly on the

1:33:04 ↗ transportation transit section of

1:33:07 ↗ putting state route 18 at the top of the

1:33:10 ↗ list but I would not I would not say

1:33:13 ↗ that's true of all the other sections

1:33:15 ↗ they aren't in a priority order its

1:33:22 ↗ member a so we're currently working with

1:33:23 ↗ the Department of Ecology right on the

1:33:25 ↗ PSB Pass study so this is something that

1:33:30 ↗ is on their radar screen and they they

1:33:35 ↗ they know that this is likely coming

1:33:37 ↗ forward so so even as they're working

1:33:40 ↗ through their initial budget request to

1:33:43 ↗ go into the governor's budget this is

1:33:45 ↗ probably something that's that they are

1:33:47 ↗ aware of and I recognize that we still

1:33:49 ↗ have work to do to push it through but I

1:33:52 ↗ don't think it's going to be a zero

1:33:54 ↗ dollar in the departmental budgets they

1:33:59 ↗ are aware but last year is a perfect

1:34:03 ↗ indication of probably how they will

1:34:05 ↗ want to pursue it with phase two they

1:34:08 ↗ did not ask for funds we asked for funds

1:34:11 ↗ on our collective behalf and lobbies

1:34:16 ↗ could probably explain this better than

1:34:18 ↗ I could but there's some political

1:34:19 ↗ circumstances around having a

1:34:23 ↗ municipality ask for funds rather than

1:34:26 ↗ the the Department of the state so I

1:34:30 ↗ suspect that would be the same logic

1:34:32 ↗ this year and that they would prefer for

1:34:34 ↗ us to make the ask even though they're a

1:34:36 ↗ partner in that endeavor thank you more

1:34:41 ↗ questions

1:34:43 ↗ that's my number one teresting we had a

1:34:49 ↗ comment this evening or mr. Kaplan from

1:34:52 ↗ the public about state parks and I

1:34:54 ↗ apologize I didn't write the comment

1:34:55 ↗ down and kind of logs

1:34:56 ↗ in my mind but I didn't forget about it

1:34:59 ↗ and and we really don't have I did look

1:35:02 ↗ again and there really isn't a section

1:35:05 ↗ in here that has anything to do with

1:35:06 ↗ state parks but I also know that because

1:35:09 ↗ I've heard this from the mouth from I

1:35:11 ↗ think the chair of the State Parks

1:35:13 ↗ Commission recently within the last few

1:35:14 ↗ months maybe back in June or July around

1:35:16 ↗ the AVP time they've got quite a bit in

1:35:20 ↗ the pipeline coming

1:35:21 ↗ they've got there's major capital

1:35:23 ↗ investments going into the state park

1:35:25 ↗ they're gonna be doing redoing the lawn

1:35:27 ↗ they're gonna be including building more

1:35:30 ↗ picnic areas and having volleyball

1:35:33 ↗ courts at them and they're gonna be

1:35:36 ↗ building a dock and they know about the

1:35:38 ↗ timing of all of that and and so over

1:35:41 ↗ the next probably three years there's

1:35:43 ↗ major capital investment already

1:35:45 ↗ approved going into the state park now

1:35:49 ↗ now for something like that I mean I

1:35:53 ↗ don't I don't know that it really

1:35:54 ↗ matters if it's on our agenda or not

1:35:56 ↗ this that's already kind of done I think

1:35:57 ↗ that money is appropriated it's

1:36:00 ↗ available to us the Commission the state

1:36:03 ↗ parks Commission and they're they're

1:36:05 ↗ lining up the work they're scheduling

1:36:06 ↗ everything so so I don't think we need

1:36:10 ↗ anything in our legislative agenda to

1:36:12 ↗ say and that thing you've already

1:36:14 ↗ approved we still support it I mean I

1:36:16 ↗ don't think we tend to do that but so

1:36:20 ↗ it's it's not like there but is do we

1:36:23 ↗ know is there a reason to that there

1:36:26 ↗ isn't did we consider anything that

1:36:27 ↗ would have been State Park related or is

1:36:30 ↗ it just that everything we know about

1:36:31 ↗ state parks we're feeling kind of like

1:36:34 ↗ we've got a lot of good things going on

1:36:35 ↗ and it didn't rise to this level that we

1:36:38 ↗ need that we we expect some other

1:36:40 ↗ legislative legislation whether it be

1:36:42 ↗ policy or budget to come along that we

1:36:44 ↗ felt we needed to allow to lend our

1:36:45 ↗ voice to typically we have gone to state

1:36:53 ↗ parks and we have asked what help do you

1:36:54 ↗ need how

1:36:55 ↗ can we assist and I there wasn't a

1:37:00 ↗ request this year for us to advocate for

1:37:02 ↗ some capital funding for example I think

1:37:05 ↗ that ongoing operational support the

1:37:07 ↗ advocacy will we'll be there no matter

1:37:09 ↗ what but we're not making a capital

1:37:13 ↗ request this year we have multiple times

1:37:16 ↗ over past years and and I I would say

1:37:19 ↗ this year we still have a need to

1:37:23 ↗ execute not just on the projects that

1:37:26 ↗ you named but we had a joint ask for

1:37:29 ↗ some funds for master planning and an

1:37:32 ↗ update to the EIS that work has not been

1:37:35 ↗ completed yet and I think in order for

1:37:38 ↗ us to be successful for a subsequent

1:37:40 ↗ capital ask or professional services ask

1:37:44 ↗ we need to finish the work that we have

1:37:48 ↗ already been granted funds for all right

1:37:49 ↗ thank you questions it's a couple of

1:37:53 ↗ council members who have a chance I'm

1:37:55 ↗ just kind of looking at you to see if

1:37:56 ↗ you want to weigh in and if not I'll be

1:37:59 ↗ looking for a motion I'm Marie I'd like

1:38:03 ↗ to make a motion I'd like to move to

1:38:05 ↗ direct the administration to engage the

1:38:08 ↗ public on the legislative agenda agenda

1:38:10 ↗ bill 76 65 before October 1st 2018 and

1:38:15 ↗ then refer agenda bill 76 65 to a

1:38:20 ↗ special services and Safety Committee

1:38:23 ↗ meeting on September 25th return for

1:38:26 ↗ Council on October 1st 2018 for final

1:38:31 ↗ action okay it's been moved and seconded

1:38:34 ↗ you have the words for all of that mr.

1:38:37 ↗ ray councilmember ray it's a little

1:38:39 ↗ different than what's in the packet

1:38:41 ↗ what's not did you just go straight down

1:38:43 ↗ action and then to know what's in the

1:38:47 ↗ packet on the sheet yes thank you okay

1:38:51 ↗ so I'm gonna reread it just to make sure

1:38:56 ↗ direct the administration to engage the

1:38:58 ↗ public on the legislative agenda a b7

1:39:00 ↗ 665 before October 1st 2018 and refer a

1:39:04 ↗ b7 665

1:39:07 ↗ to a special services and Safety

1:39:09 ↗ Committee on September 25th returning to

1:39:12 ↗ the full City Council on October 1st

1:39:14 ↗ 2018 for action discussion council

1:39:22 ↗ member a councilmember hunt so one of

1:39:24 ↗ the things that's really important to me

1:39:26 ↗ is that we engage with the public and

1:39:29 ↗ that we understand their priorities

1:39:30 ↗ there's unlimited ability to engage with

1:39:34 ↗ the state and we've talked about that

1:39:35 ↗ extensively about really focusing on

1:39:38 ↗ those three things that are most

1:39:40 ↗ important and these may be those three

1:39:42 ↗ things but it's not a determination that

1:39:45 ↗ I want to make without more input

1:39:46 ↗ there's many things that we could ask

1:39:48 ↗ the state to assist with and I want to

1:39:50 ↗ make sure that we have an opportunity to

1:39:53 ↗ solicit feedback from the public and

1:39:56 ↗ factor that into our decision-making

1:39:58 ↗ process and also I think we have time I

1:40:03 ↗ think we have time to do this and and

1:40:06 ↗ give it a little more transparency and a

1:40:09 ↗ little more opportunity for for public

1:40:11 ↗ engagement so I would feel more

1:40:14 ↗ comfortable going forward if we can

1:40:16 ↗ actively engage with the community and

1:40:19 ↗ make sure that our view of priorities

1:40:21 ↗ for the legislation next legislative

1:40:22 ↗ session aligned to the community's views

1:40:24 ↗ of our priorities thank you that's

1:40:28 ↗ member hunt followed by council

1:40:29 ↗ president Mertz

1:40:30 ↗ thank you I think there is a lot of

1:40:33 ↗ context here and a lot of it is

1:40:35 ↗ complicated some of these some of these

1:40:39 ↗ top priorities have been priorities of

1:40:43 ↗ the city for a long time some I think

1:40:46 ↗ are newer or have newer components but

1:40:48 ↗ there's a lot of context of the history

1:40:50 ↗ behind a lot of these items and then

1:40:52 ↗ there's also a lot of in terms of

1:40:55 ↗ understanding how the legislature work

1:40:57 ↗ there's a lot of context about the city

1:40:59 ↗ and how the city works in the region and

1:41:01 ↗ how the city works with the state and

1:41:04 ↗ the lobbyist role and I think that

1:41:08 ↗ there's a lot of conversation that we

1:41:11 ↗ could have with the community about all

1:41:13 ↗ of those things and about how to

1:41:14 ↗ represent their community values through

1:41:17 ↗ this legislative agenda

1:41:19 ↗ I I think that we may need to explore

1:41:25 ↗ different ways to engage with the

1:41:27 ↗ community I possibly because this is a

1:41:30 ↗ list of policy matters it's hard for the

1:41:33 ↗ community to know how to respond to for

1:41:37 ↗ example a one line solicitation on the

1:41:39 ↗ website about we have a legislative

1:41:41 ↗ agenda would you like to email your

1:41:43 ↗ comments I think we may need to or that

1:41:46 ↗ I think there's an opportunity here to

1:41:47 ↗ be maybe more creative or try to engage

1:41:51 ↗ with the community in a different way to

1:41:53 ↗ let them know what the legislative

1:41:55 ↗ agenda really is what it could

1:41:57 ↗ potentially do for our city what it's

1:41:58 ↗ done for the city in the past and how

1:42:00 ↗ how we might best represent their views

1:42:02 ↗ and so I am in support of this motion

1:42:06 ↗ I'm in supportive of trying to engage

1:42:08 ↗ with the community more and to also have

1:42:10 ↗ a fuller and more robust conversation

1:42:13 ↗ also in this meeting I come to realize

1:42:17 ↗ that I think there could be more

1:42:19 ↗ stratification of the policy manual I

1:42:22 ↗ think that we could try to expand on why

1:42:26 ↗ things are in the policy manual in the

1:42:29 ↗ locations that they are and if they're

1:42:31 ↗ if they are prioritized I think that

1:42:33 ↗ might be helpful especially as City

1:42:36 ↗ Administrator Mullen said sometimes

1:42:38 ↗ things might be time-sensitive it might

1:42:40 ↗ be good to know ahead of time what our

1:42:43 ↗ priorities are in terms of the policies

1:42:47 ↗ beyond the the top three and for these

1:42:52 ↗ reasons I think we I think we would

1:42:54 ↗ benefit from having more discussion and

1:42:56 ↗ I would I am in support of the motion

1:42:59 ↗ Thank You councilmember hunt consummate

1:43:02 ↗ martes Council is it merits followed by

1:43:04 ↗ a councilmember Goodman so unfortunately

1:43:07 ↗ I'm gonna have to oppose this measure

1:43:09 ↗ and if this measure fails I'll be moving

1:43:12 ↗ the original bill that's in our packet

1:43:14 ↗ with with the staff recommendation and I

1:43:17 ↗ have six reasons why I oppose this the

1:43:20 ↗ first is that we are following a

1:43:24 ↗ tradition that works well and has worked

1:43:26 ↗ well in the past for the legislative

1:43:28 ↗ agenda on November 14th of 2016 we

1:43:32 ↗ the draft 2017 legislative agenda in

1:43:34 ↗ work session chaired by former council

1:43:37 ↗ president Goodman public comment was

1:43:39 ↗ received then and then a week later in

1:43:42 ↗ full council we approved it we made an

1:43:44 ↗ amendment to it then again on November

1:43:47 ↗ 13 2017 we're at the draft 2018

1:43:50 ↗ legislative agenda and work session on

1:43:52 ↗ the 20th we received public comment and

1:43:55 ↗ on the 20th we actually approved the

1:43:57 ↗ agenda with not one but two amendments

1:44:00 ↗ so the process has worked in the past

1:44:04 ↗ we've had input and we've and we and

1:44:06 ↗ we've modified the agenda appropriately

1:44:09 ↗ the second is that no yeah sorry a

1:44:15 ↗ continuation of the first one is that

1:44:17 ↗ you know in this current round we've

1:44:20 ↗ received we have received up some public

1:44:22 ↗ input in the form of email the the

1:44:25 ↗ second point is that respectfully I

1:44:28 ↗ don't think we do have the time to to

1:44:32 ↗ give this significant further view the

1:44:35 ↗ packet for the next full council members

1:44:38 ↗ do in 11 days services and safety has a

1:44:41 ↗ committee meeting tomorrow they will go

1:44:43 ↗ to if this is approved to go to their

1:44:45 ↗ third with special meeting of the month

1:44:49 ↗ two to it address this I don't think

1:44:53 ↗ that if we want to solicit public input

1:44:55 ↗ those 11 days are sufficient to make a

1:44:58 ↗ significant outreach this did come to

1:45:03 ↗ Council on the 4th of September with a

1:45:06 ↗ referral to the work session and if

1:45:09 ↗ council members had felt that the

1:45:11 ↗ process was insufficient on the 4th had

1:45:14 ↗ they said something then we would have

1:45:16 ↗ had quite a bit more time and quite

1:45:17 ↗ quite a bit more options on soliciting

1:45:20 ↗ public input the third is that staff is

1:45:23 ↗ starting to spool up on the budget I

1:45:25 ↗ think it's going to be a hard task this

1:45:28 ↗ year and I think that we're hearing that

1:45:30 ↗ we're likely to go into December on the

1:45:33 ↗ budget and this would be this is there's

1:45:36 ↗ no question this would be additional

1:45:37 ↗ work on staff to make this happen I

1:45:39 ↗ think that this issue about P Faust

1:45:43 ↗ reading P Faust differently than the

1:45:44 ↗ other two

1:45:45 ↗ is problematic for me because it means

1:45:47 ↗ that some elements of this bill are more

1:45:50 ↗ equal than others and then finally I

1:45:53 ↗ have to ask how do we apply this

1:45:56 ↗ insufficient public input flag right

1:45:58 ↗ this has happened before

1:46:00 ↗ and it sort of begs a broader question

1:46:04 ↗ right like somebody could say Oh

1:46:06 ↗ Puget Sound Energy green direct like we

1:46:09 ↗ haven't had sufficient public input on

1:46:10 ↗ that maybe I want the fine folks in coal

1:46:13 ↗ strip to be able to continue mining coal

1:46:15 ↗ or whatever whatever the reasons would

1:46:18 ↗ be or I suspect the public you know has

1:46:20 ↗ concerns about the economic implications

1:46:22 ↗ of tying ourselves to a particular

1:46:24 ↗ energy stream but we don't do that right

1:46:28 ↗ we follow a policy I think that it would

1:46:31 ↗ be fine if we wanted to talk down the

1:46:33 ↗ road as a council about a comprehensive

1:46:35 ↗ community engagement policy we have such

1:46:38 ↗ a thing for projects right we have a

1:46:40 ↗ policy in place for how we want to do

1:46:43 ↗ community engagement if we feel that we

1:46:44 ↗ have insufficient community engagement

1:46:47 ↗ now on strategic issues I think we

1:46:49 ↗ should talk about that but I don't think

1:46:50 ↗ we should try to rush through an

1:46:52 ↗ additional public engagement process on

1:46:54 ↗ this particular bill in the next 11 days

1:46:56 ↗ because I don't think it'll it'll get

1:46:58 ↗ the kind of feedback that people want

1:47:02 ↗ councilmember Goodman thank you so I I

1:47:06 ↗ do think we have time we heard from the

1:47:08 ↗ administration that we have time we

1:47:09 ↗ heard the administration that we can do

1:47:11 ↗ it we have had a legislative agenda

1:47:16 ↗ process over the last several years that

1:47:20 ↗ was not my process and we have a new

1:47:25 ↗ lobbyist this year that is suggesting

1:47:28 ↗ that we do things a little bit

1:47:29 ↗ differently and I think that's great and

1:47:33 ↗ so we do have a new process and I think

1:47:36 ↗ it's the perfect time to expand that

1:47:38 ↗ process I did not realize that we had

1:47:42 ↗ been working on this since June and so

1:47:44 ↗ it feels it doesn't feel right to me

1:47:47 ↗ that we come a week before a week ago

1:47:54 ↗ and it feels very

1:47:57 ↗ rush you know that we had to get this

1:47:59 ↗ through I don't recall us having feeling

1:48:03 ↗ rushed the years before but this year

1:48:06 ↗ we've changed our process I think for

1:48:09 ↗ good reasons so that we can try to get

1:48:10 ↗ into the governor's budget rather as its

1:48:14 ↗ proposed rather than trying to get

1:48:16 ↗ legislators to put it in to add it to

1:48:19 ↗ the budget I I really would be

1:48:27 ↗ hard-pressed to understand why there

1:48:30 ↗ would be an opposition to more public

1:48:32 ↗ engagement I think it's a great

1:48:34 ↗ opportunity that we have now to engage

1:48:36 ↗ the community on what our legislative

1:48:39 ↗ priorities are as proposed get feedback

1:48:43 ↗ from the community and as councilmember

1:48:46 ↗ hunt talked about education I think is

1:48:51 ↗ not really the best word but to have

1:48:53 ↗ dialogue with our community about what

1:48:55 ↗ those projects are and why they're on

1:48:58 ↗ the legislative agenda and maybe also be

1:49:00 ↗ educated from the public or our

1:49:02 ↗ community about other ideas that they

1:49:05 ↗ might have for a legislative agenda the

1:49:10 ↗ P Foss issue I don't see as a is a

1:49:13 ↗ problem I think it's but I don't know

1:49:15 ↗ that it has to be treated differently I

1:49:17 ↗ think the council could just I mean I

1:49:21 ↗ think it's extraordinarily

1:49:22 ↗ extraordinarily unlikely that this

1:49:25 ↗ council would ever do anything in the

1:49:27 ↗ next a couple of weeks to take that off

1:49:29 ↗ the agenda nor do I think that the

1:49:31 ↗ public would engage with us and say no

1:49:34 ↗ we need to take that off the agenda I

1:49:36 ↗ think that's a red herring and I think

1:49:39 ↗ we could easily continue to have

1:49:41 ↗ conversations with the governor's office

1:49:43 ↗ and different agencies about yeah we

1:49:47 ↗ expect this to be on the legislative

1:49:48 ↗ agenda I just don't think that that's I

1:49:51 ↗ don't think that that's a threat that's

1:49:53 ↗ gonna be somehow removed I don't think

1:49:56 ↗ it has to be treated differently and can

1:49:57 ↗ be left on for public engagement

1:50:01 ↗ purposes and then the public knows that

1:50:03 ↗ we are seeking money from the state to

1:50:06 ↗ continue to work on an issue that we've

1:50:08 ↗ been talking about in the community for

1:50:09 ↗ a couple of years that's been

1:50:10 ↗ really really important I fully support

1:50:13 ↗ taking the extra time to engage with the

1:50:17 ↗ public even though it is only a couple

1:50:21 ↗ of weeks and next year what we should do

1:50:26 ↗ is learn from this and start this

1:50:30 ↗ process earlier engage the council

1:50:32 ↗ earlier and engage the public earlier

1:50:33 ↗ but I do support this Thank You

1:50:36 ↗ councilmember batiste is that a finger

1:50:39 ↗ in there you want to talk okay that's

1:50:41 ↗ all deputy council president Vitesse

1:50:43 ↗ thank you so I'm at this point I'm just

1:50:45 ↗ gonna make a couple of comments I would

1:50:49 ↗ echo a couple of things that my fellow

1:50:53 ↗ council members have talked about

1:50:56 ↗ councilmember Goodman just spoke about

1:50:58 ↗ next year and I think that's really

1:51:01 ↗ important we have a new lobbyist we're

1:51:04 ↗ looking to do things earlier then we had

1:51:08 ↗ been doing them in the past so I think

1:51:10 ↗ that we're going to give a need to

1:51:13 ↗ revise this process and so it makes all

1:51:16 ↗ the sense in the world to me to to look

1:51:20 ↗ at that for next year I'm not exactly

1:51:22 ↗ sure how I feel about it for this year

1:51:25 ↗ and would echo some of the some of the

1:51:30 ↗ concerns that council president Mart's

1:51:33 ↗ talked about in terms of we we have a

1:51:38 ↗ very short time period but this has been

1:51:41 ↗ the process in the past we have a very

1:51:43 ↗ short time period in which to eat to

1:51:46 ↗ gather any public engagement and it

1:51:49 ↗ seems like it's just sort of coming at

1:51:52 ↗ the at the final hour I I think I might

1:51:56 ↗ have heard things differently than some

1:51:59 ↗ of my fellow council members about the

1:52:01 ↗ EFA's PFS issue and I do have a concern

1:52:07 ↗ with not just putting that forward

1:52:12 ↗ initially so I'm not positive how I feel

1:52:15 ↗ about breaking these these items apart

1:52:19 ↗ but I do have a concern regarding that

1:52:23 ↗ and also have a concern regarding the

1:52:25 ↗ fact that we really are getting into

1:52:27 ↗ this point where we need to be budget

1:52:30 ↗ focused have a lot of work coming down

1:52:33 ↗ the road in in terms of that so I'm just

1:52:37 ↗ gonna leave it there for now and

1:52:39 ↗ continue to think for a few moments

1:52:42 ↗ thank you we have a couple more council

1:52:44 ↗ members to have them to council member

1:52:45 ↗ we're interesting oh thank you Mary

1:52:48 ↗ could you read the ocean again please

1:52:52 ↗ direct the administration to engage the

1:52:55 ↗ public on the legislative agenda a b7

1:52:57 ↗ 665 before October 1st 2018 and refer a

1:53:03 ↗ B 76065 to a special services and Safety

1:53:07 ↗ Committee meeting on September 25th

1:53:10 ↗ returning to the full council on October

1:53:13 ↗ 1st 2018 for action ok thank you

1:53:19 ↗ today is the 17th

1:53:23 ↗ I was listening carefully to the

1:53:27 ↗ comments Vicki made some comments about

1:53:29 ↗ context and depth background and I think

1:53:35 ↗ those those are valid comments as I

1:53:38 ↗ thought about that when I folded in my

1:53:40 ↗ mind was okay that sounds like a

1:53:42 ↗ three-month process to really make it

1:53:44 ↗ value-added and actually make a valuable

1:53:46 ↗ contribution to this effort

1:53:49 ↗ vaso 17th we engaged before the first

1:53:54 ↗ action on the first I don't think that

1:53:59 ↗ this motion with these time frames will

1:54:03 ↗ who are gonna work the kind of

1:54:07 ↗ engagement

1:54:07 ↗ I hear being asked for the opportunity

1:54:10 ↗ for there to be some material change or

1:54:17 ↗ contributions to this to get that out of

1:54:20 ↗ that process in this time frame I don't

1:54:24 ↗ think is very likely this is kind of yet

1:54:26 ↗ check the box we did some more

1:54:28 ↗ engagement I know the effort is serious

1:54:30 ↗ but it needs a lot more time than this

1:54:32 ↗ so I'm

1:54:33 ↗ going to not support this motion and

1:54:36 ↗ because engagement is important we

1:54:40 ↗ cannot and the public cannot be

1:54:42 ↗ successful in this timeframe as proposed

1:54:45 ↗ council member Ramos would you like to

1:54:47 ↗ comment yes thank you

1:54:51 ↗ first of all I'd really like to say I

1:54:54 ↗ like what we're doing this year with the

1:54:55 ↗ legislative agenda a whole lot better

1:54:57 ↗ than previously so thank you for that

1:54:59 ↗ not just the whole structure of it and

1:55:02 ↗ the timing of it is is just a real good

1:55:05 ↗ improvement adding to that I think I say

1:55:09 ↗ next year we need to add into the public

1:55:11 ↗ comment section of it so we can get more

1:55:14 ↗ input on that as well so that that's

1:55:17 ↗ kind of an overall thing I I'm having

1:55:22 ↗ trouble with this one too because I

1:55:24 ↗ always am one for more public comment

1:55:27 ↗ than less but at the same time we

1:55:32 ↗ haven't received it yet

1:55:34 ↗ too much and an 11 day period is just

1:55:38 ↗ I'm not sure what we can do at 11 days

1:55:42 ↗ you know to get that all back and around

1:55:45 ↗ it's just it's really I'm not sure what

1:55:49 ↗ we can really do to make it effective

1:55:51 ↗ and that's my concern in doing a lot of

1:55:54 ↗ work to get that there I appreciate you

1:55:56 ↗ you said you put some work into that a

1:55:59 ↗ little bit because you heard that so

1:56:00 ↗ there's been some attempt and engagement

1:56:02 ↗ I know I got one email on it and so

1:56:06 ↗ there's definitely some concern out

1:56:07 ↗ there but we haven't heard much other

1:56:09 ↗ public comment at any of these a couple

1:56:11 ↗ meetings so I'm really torn because

1:56:13 ↗ that's what I'd like to hear a little

1:56:15 ↗ more public comment but I'm just not

1:56:17 ↗ sure that the time period allows really

1:56:20 ↗ viable of the comment to that would add

1:56:24 ↗ significantly to changing this but

1:56:27 ↗ thanks for the work I really like what

1:56:28 ↗ we're doing this year for sure thank you

1:56:31 ↗ we have gone around once who comments

1:56:33 ↗ and if somebody would like to come back

1:56:36 ↗ on the second round before we take a

1:56:38 ↗ vote

1:56:39 ↗ let's member Goodman yes do you have the

1:56:43 ↗ list of

1:56:46 ↗ the criteria for a successful

1:56:48 ↗ legislative agenda on your senior slides

1:56:52 ↗ see if I can pull that back are you

1:56:57 ↗ looking for the slide from last week

1:57:10 ↗ oh no it was much more accession

1:57:35 ↗ yeah what did the council mokuba

1:57:42 ↗ Thank You anyone else wanting to make

1:57:46 ↗ final comments before I call for the

1:57:49 ↗ vote

1:57:50 ↗ deputy council president batiste

1:57:52 ↗ followed by councilmember Rea so I would

1:57:56 ↗ I would just like to reiterate that that

1:58:01 ↗ I I completely support that we want to

1:58:06 ↗ have as much public engagement as we can

1:58:08 ↗ going forward and and I think because of

1:58:12 ↗ I really feel like because of really the

1:58:16 ↗ shift in the timeline is is a little bit

1:58:19 ↗ about why we're sort of landing where we

1:58:22 ↗ are right now and so I just really want

1:58:24 ↗ to make sure that when we go forward

1:58:26 ↗ with this in the future regardless of

1:58:27 ↗ what the vote is tonight that we have

1:58:30 ↗ the opportunity to wrap that into the

1:58:33 ↗ timeline so we're really getting out and

1:58:36 ↗ being able to talk with the community

1:58:38 ↗ about all of these issues before it

1:58:41 ↗ comes down to such a short timeframe as

1:58:44 ↗ we're in right now I still do have a

1:58:47 ↗ concern that the 11 day window is not

1:58:51 ↗ adequate time to really go forward and

1:58:55 ↗ get everything that that that we really

1:58:58 ↗ need to in for the future

1:59:00 ↗ let's member ray thank you so I don't

1:59:04 ↗ remember goodman thank you for putting

1:59:05 ↗ that up so I just go down the list so I

1:59:07 ↗ Bonnie I mean by any ole agenda check

1:59:10 ↗ focused on two to three top priorities

1:59:13 ↗ check or relate to city goals check

1:59:17 ↗ consistency build on previous success I

1:59:19 ↗ think a check I don't know enough to say

1:59:21 ↗ full support of the council and

1:59:24 ↗ community maybe check - if funding

1:59:30 ↗ requests one priority per budget

1:59:32 ↗ operating capital transportation so

1:59:34 ↗ really as you look at the success

1:59:37 ↗ criteria that our consultants have laid

1:59:39 ↗ out for us we've done pretty good but

1:59:41 ↗ where we have failed or fallen short I

1:59:43 ↗ won't use the word fail that's too

1:59:44 ↗ strong fallen short is around community

1:59:46 ↗ engagement and getting support from the

1:59:47 ↗ community for this agenda so I am a very

1:59:50 ↗ cognizant of the time constraints and

1:59:53 ↗ is the reason for trying to move this as

1:59:55 ↗ quickly as possible

1:59:56 ↗ that being said I think some public

1:59:59 ↗ input and making a concerted effort to

2:00:03 ↗ get that community input which is

2:00:05 ↗ something more than sending an email to

2:00:07 ↗ 300 people because that's what 1% of the

2:00:11 ↗ population of the city so we've got to

2:00:13 ↗ do something different we've got to find

2:00:15 ↗ a different way to engage the community

2:00:16 ↗ because this is a topic that if it

2:00:18 ↗ showed up in most people's email which

2:00:20 ↗ is what it did I don't think it would

2:00:22 ↗ necessarily most per their interest and

2:00:25 ↗ yet I know that this is something that

2:00:27 ↗ is very important to people in this

2:00:29 ↗ community so recognize the short time

2:00:32 ↗ frame recognize that we don't have a lot

2:00:34 ↗ of time to do this

2:00:35 ↗ recognize that we need to do it better

2:00:36 ↗ next year but I firmly believe that we

2:00:39 ↗ need to make a concerted effort to

2:00:43 ↗ engage with the community and ask them

2:00:45 ↗ what they think our priority should be

2:00:47 ↗ and we might be right but we might be

2:00:49 ↗ wrong so here's what I'm seeing I have

2:00:53 ↗ councilman member hunt council member

2:00:55 ↗ Ramos and council president Mart's not

2:00:59 ↗ hearing a lot of people changing other

2:01:01 ↗ people's minds so let's let's have a

2:01:03 ↗ last round of comments I think you are

2:01:05 ↗ the last three maybe that having a

2:01:07 ↗ second chance so hunt Ramos becomes

2:01:09 ↗ president right right question it's my

2:01:15 ↗ understanding well that there was a

2:01:17 ↗ number of questions about how much can

2:01:18 ↗ actually be accomplished in terms of

2:01:20 ↗ public engagement in the timeframe

2:01:22 ↗ that's proposed my understanding is we

2:01:24 ↗ would be able to have a town hall or

2:01:26 ↗ some sort of open forum for a discussion

2:01:30 ↗ is that correct I think what I would

2:01:34 ↗ recommend at this point given that these

2:01:37 ↗ folks are part time not here every day

2:01:40 ↗ of the week

2:01:40 ↗ and if you were to move forward with the

2:01:43 ↗ special services and safety meeting on

2:01:45 ↗ the 25th is just a couple that meeting

2:01:47 ↗ with a public engagement opportunity

2:01:49 ↗ prior to the meeting

2:01:51 ↗ and so we would just post I want to be

2:01:54 ↗ clear because I was clear last time

2:01:56 ↗ about what we were gonna do for public

2:01:57 ↗ engagement yes I was I said it's gonna

2:02:00 ↗ look like we will post a news item

2:02:04 ↗ website we will put an email address on

2:02:08 ↗ that news item and that's what we would

2:02:12 ↗ plan to do and we didn't receive

2:02:13 ↗ feedback at that point in time as to

2:02:15 ↗ whether or not that was not enough or so

2:02:20 ↗ this time I want to be clear again that

2:02:22 ↗ we would intend to do public notice for

2:02:27 ↗ an open house opportunity where we would

2:02:29 ↗ go through the priorities as management

2:02:31 ↗ analysts have done tonight and we would

2:02:35 ↗ help facilitate that answering questions

2:02:38 ↗ pose

2:02:40 ↗ the big question which councilmember Rey

2:02:42 ↗ posed which I think was along the lines

2:02:44 ↗ of are these the right priorities for

2:02:48 ↗ the city to ask for funding on lead with

2:02:51 ↗ that try to provide some of the

2:02:53 ↗ background that you were suggesting

2:02:55 ↗ about the contacts so that people can

2:02:57 ↗ understand because I'm sure average

2:03:00 ↗ residents would come and say you need to

2:03:02 ↗ just be asking for transportation let's

2:03:04 ↗ say and then we can provide some context

2:03:06 ↗ so that's what we would do

2:03:08 ↗ notice the public meeting pushed some

2:03:10 ↗ social media to make sure that notice

2:03:14 ↗ gets out into the community that's what

2:03:16 ↗ I would recommend doing if there's

2:03:18 ↗ desires to do something I think you use

2:03:20 ↗ the phrase more creative then we would

2:03:22 ↗ need to talk about our ability to pull

2:03:24 ↗ that off given the time constraints and

2:03:26 ↗ the part-time nature the folks doing

2:03:28 ↗ this work and I just have a quick thing

2:03:32 ↗ in terms of this I I had a conversation

2:03:35 ↗ with director Fujimoto about the city

2:03:39 ↗ strategic plan and I think the city

2:03:41 ↗ strategic plan is being in development

2:03:44 ↗ as well and I I see this as an

2:03:46 ↗ opportunity to talk about how our

2:03:48 ↗ legislative agenda our policy are and

2:03:52 ↗ and our strategic plan as a city all

2:03:56 ↗ aligned and how we can best represent

2:03:59 ↗ the community in all of those facets and

2:04:01 ↗ so I see this is an opportunity for

2:04:02 ↗ engagement on that as well sure and I

2:04:04 ↗ just want to add something because David

2:04:07 ↗ just made me aware that the Tod open

2:04:09 ↗ house is also that same evening as the

2:04:11 ↗ 25th so just want to make sure I'll

2:04:14 ↗ understood that because we haven't we

2:04:16 ↗ haven't done that work usually we

2:04:17 ↗ look at our calendar and trying to find

2:04:18 ↗ out where we have conflicts and try to

2:04:20 ↗ avoid those so just be aware of that but

2:04:23 ↗ yes we always try to take advantage of

2:04:25 ↗ opportunities to then talk about bigger

2:04:28 ↗ and different things as well

2:04:29 ↗ I have council member Ramos followed by

2:04:33 ↗ council president Mertz so basically I

2:04:36 ↗ had the same question what exactly would

2:04:37 ↗ we be doing so just reiterate again is

2:04:40 ↗ is basically trying to get the word out

2:04:42 ↗ that you know in a week from now

2:04:44 ↗ there'll be a meeting that's gonna be

2:04:47 ↗ conflicting with the Tod meeting at the

2:04:49 ↗ same time and that's gonna be where is

2:04:51 ↗ that located

2:04:57 ↗ we believe it's that tivitz Creek manner

2:05:00 ↗ I can would get up and disability so

2:05:01 ↗ that would be at the same time than that

2:05:03 ↗ what it currently is one of our listed

2:05:04 ↗ about priorities correct so so the time

2:05:11 ↗ to get that word out and the time to

2:05:12 ↗ react and being able to to show up there

2:05:14 ↗ for that one night I mean but that's all

2:05:18 ↗ we've got that's what I wanted to know

2:05:19 ↗ thank you well the president marks so as

2:05:22 ↗ to this point about full support of the

2:05:24 ↗ counseling community I'm at peace that

2:05:26 ↗ we have supported the community on this

2:05:28 ↗ agenda it went out the September 4th the

2:05:31 ↗ agenda went out was posted August 31st I

2:05:35 ↗ am confident that if that agenda had

2:05:37 ↗ said that we want to see shell sites on

2:05:40 ↗ the east side I am confident that many

2:05:43 ↗ many members of the community would have

2:05:46 ↗ come before us at the council at the 4th

2:05:48 ↗ at the work session and at tonight's

2:05:53 ↗ meeting to let us know that they think

2:05:55 ↗ that would be a bad idea I think the

2:05:57 ↗ fact that we've only had one citizen

2:05:59 ↗ feedback on this agenda is because it

2:06:03 ↗ has not raised a lot of interest in the

2:06:05 ↗ community so I I take transparency

2:06:08 ↗ seriously I've said it before I'll say

2:06:10 ↗ it again I was the one who pushed hard

2:06:12 ↗ to get budget meetings on camera and get

2:06:14 ↗ committee meetings on camera I take it

2:06:16 ↗ very very seriously and I think we've

2:06:18 ↗ done due process on this bill thank you

2:06:21 ↗ so we've had a couple of rounds of

2:06:24 ↗ comments just looking around to see if

2:06:27 ↗ somebody is absolutely dying to say one

2:06:29 ↗ more thing to provide context or

2:06:33 ↗ information if not I'm going to call for

2:06:35 ↗ the vote and I'll read the motion again

2:06:38 ↗ motion is direct the administration to

2:06:41 ↗ engage the public on the legislative

2:06:43 ↗ agenda ab7 665 before October 1st 2018

2:06:48 ↗ and refer agenda bill 7 6 6 5 - the a

2:06:52 ↗ special services and Safety Committee

2:06:55 ↗ meeting on September 25th returning to

2:06:57 ↗ the full council on October 1st 2018 for

2:07:01 ↗ action all those in favor raise your

2:07:04 ↗ hands and say aye

2:07:05 ↗ all right as opposed

2:07:08 ↗ no motion fails you need me to read the

2:07:12 ↗ name so did you catch got it hey is

2:07:16 ↗ there another motion council president

2:07:19 ↗ marks at a mayor I move to approve the

2:07:21 ↗ 2019 2021 legislative agenda as

2:07:24 ↗ presented second did you find my proper

2:07:29 ↗ place it's been moved and seconded to

2:07:32 ↗ approve the 2019 2021 legislative agenda

2:07:35 ↗ as presented is there any council

2:07:37 ↗ discussion also a member Goodman yes I'm

2:07:41 ↗ not gonna support the motion we have a

2:07:43 ↗ list of criteria that was created and it

2:07:45 ↗ doesn't meet the list of criteria I'm

2:07:48 ↗ very disappointed to hear several

2:07:50 ↗ council members say I support public

2:07:52 ↗ comment engagement transparency and all

2:07:55 ↗ of that but I don't think those I don't

2:08:00 ↗ think those two go together I'm

2:08:01 ↗ disappointed that we couldn't at least

2:08:03 ↗ try to have a more concerted effort or

2:08:08 ↗ any concerted effort to actually engage

2:08:11 ↗ the public beyond our work session and

2:08:15 ↗ business meeting so for those reasons I

2:08:18 ↗ will not be supporting it maybe I'd like

2:08:21 ↗ to speak to the motion a no other hands

2:08:26 ↗ call for Oh seeing councilmember hunts

2:08:33 ↗ so I I am concerned about the the policy

2:08:42 ↗ manual of the ends that I think there

2:08:44 ↗ are so many different things in the

2:08:46 ↗ policy manual that are currently of

2:08:48 ↗ different priorities but are not ordered

2:08:50 ↗ as such I want I would like to is there

2:08:56 ↗ is there a possibility for the work in

2:08:59 ↗ terms of ordering those by the city

2:09:02 ↗ administration so that they would be

2:09:04 ↗ prioritized within the different than

2:09:09 ↗ the different topics categories and just

2:09:12 ↗ for clarification are you looking for

2:09:13 ↗ kind of rank order within each policy

2:09:18 ↗ area so my my question is really

2:09:21 ↗ related to how it will be used my

2:09:23 ↗ understanding is that if there was an

2:09:25 ↗ opportunity for additional asks that it

2:09:29 ↗ would be based on the category there

2:09:31 ↗ would be something about transportation

2:09:33 ↗ then you would look at the policy manual

2:09:34 ↗ and you look at the first one I would

2:09:37 ↗ think you look at the first one in the

2:09:38 ↗ policy manual and then go forward and

2:09:40 ↗ say this is what the city of Issaquah

2:09:42 ↗ feels as our first priority under that

2:09:45 ↗ category so categorizing by topic that

2:09:48 ↗ makes sense but then having them not be

2:09:50 ↗ categorized by importance seems

2:09:54 ↗ potentially problematic especially this

2:09:56 ↗ time sensitive did I get did I

2:09:58 ↗ understand your earlier statement about

2:09:59 ↗ how it would be used correctly yes I

2:10:02 ↗ think you did and tell me if I have

2:10:05 ↗ answered your question we have not

2:10:08 ↗ contemplated going through the document

2:10:11 ↗ and trying to put them in priority order

2:10:13 ↗ however we did have one conversation

2:10:17 ↗ about wanting to make sure that route 18

2:10:21 ↗ was right there front and center and so

2:10:25 ↗ we we purposely put that at the top of

2:10:27 ↗ the transportation bulleted list but we

2:10:32 ↗ did not contemplate the other bullet

2:10:36 ↗ points and other sections in the same

2:10:38 ↗ way so if we got an ask and that ask was

2:10:43 ↗ we have funds available for human

2:10:46 ↗ service oriented pieces we would turn to

2:10:49 ↗ the policy manual and we would look at

2:10:52 ↗ where we might have alignment with that

2:10:56 ↗ call for additional projects and if we

2:11:01 ↗ had a few that would fit then we might

2:11:03 ↗ if we had time we might bring that back

2:11:06 ↗ for your guidance if we did not have

2:11:09 ↗ time we would likely have a conversation

2:11:12 ↗ with at council leadership to decide if

2:11:17 ↗ we wanted to submit and which item we

2:11:20 ↗ would pick

2:11:26 ↗ that's all very interesting just I'm

2:11:29 ↗ curious why isn't our lobbyist here this

2:11:32 ↗ evening because in past years it wasn't

2:11:36 ↗ needed okay okay so I'm passionate we've

2:11:42 ↗ never had our lobbyists here at the

2:11:43 ↗ evening of the business meeting okay

2:11:47 ↗ understood it is unfortunate I think

2:11:50 ↗ there's been maybe some questions

2:11:52 ↗ tonight that could have been helpful for

2:11:55 ↗ I certainly look at an agenda and the

2:11:59 ↗ question about prioritizing and ordering

2:12:01 ↗ and I think I know how this is used I

2:12:05 ↗ don't believe it's a document that's

2:12:07 ↗ given to legislators or presented to

2:12:11 ↗ them and read to them and there's this

2:12:13 ↗ implied kind of preference from Issaquah

2:12:17 ↗ for these and less preference for others

2:12:20 ↗ I think with Abe dues they become

2:12:22 ↗ talking points when issues rise up

2:12:24 ↗ there's a committee meeting a topic is

2:12:26 ↗ there our lobbyist notes that what's

2:12:29 ↗ going on maybe know some committee

2:12:30 ↗ members and and and communication can go

2:12:34 ↗ out a word of support it's it's a play

2:12:36 ↗ sheet that allows whether it be people

2:12:39 ↗ city staff council members are lobbyists

2:12:42 ↗ other members who are aware of this that

2:12:44 ↗ can lend a voice however in support or

2:12:50 ↗ against a topic when it arises and when

2:12:53 ↗ there's an opportunity there may be some

2:12:55 ↗ staff members for various legislators

2:12:57 ↗ that maybe spend a little bit more time

2:12:59 ↗ on that to know where is the cause

2:13:00 ↗ coming from but but I could be wrong

2:13:03 ↗ with that too

2:13:04 ↗ I am but it would be helpful to maybe

2:13:06 ↗ know a little bit more but that's how I

2:13:08 ↗ imagine how this is used and and and as

2:13:13 ↗ such in years past

2:13:17 ↗ haven't felt that a priority order which

2:13:21 ↗ I think would be very difficult for us

2:13:23 ↗ to change attain anyway it's one of the

2:13:27 ↗ in years past that's why we haven't had

2:13:29 ↗ a priority order about that content very

2:13:33 ↗ interesting about the lack of convert

2:13:35 ↗ comments tonight about the

2:13:36 ↗ in itself I think it was good I'm really

2:13:39 ↗ glad to see highway 18 there upfront top

2:13:41 ↗ I mean you know it's it's transportation

2:13:44 ↗ and if there's one thing and we want to

2:13:46 ↗ have one subtle message about a list

2:13:48 ↗ somewhere okay but highway 18 out there

2:13:52 ↗ but I know that there is no specific

2:13:53 ↗ bills in place right now beyond what we

2:13:56 ↗ already know about and so there's no

2:13:59 ↗ reason to go for us to go beyond we're

2:14:01 ↗ not going to initiate legislation by a

2:14:04 ↗ legislative agenda from here in Issaquah

2:14:06 ↗ but I do like the Conte I do like the

2:14:09 ↗ agenda that's here I do like the way it

2:14:12 ↗ is stated I think it's all very clear I

2:14:14 ↗ think it is a very useable document

2:14:17 ↗ buyer by anybody who wants to use it and

2:14:22 ↗ so I it's it's been a good job I

2:14:24 ↗ appreciate the effort that that's gone

2:14:26 ↗ into this and I'll repeat or any what I

2:14:29 ↗ said earlier I think getting more

2:14:31 ↗ engagement with it would be great and

2:14:35 ↗ but we have to create an opportunity for

2:14:38 ↗ that to be successful for everybody who

2:14:40 ↗ participates in it and I think that's a

2:14:42 ↗ future consideration so thank you I'm

2:14:44 ↗ gonna support the motion deputy counsel

2:14:52 ↗ Vitesse so I'll be supporting this

2:14:56 ↗ motion this evening as we've first of

2:15:00 ↗ all thank you for all of the work that

2:15:02 ↗ has gone into this I think that were

2:15:06 ↗ we're learning a lot as we're going

2:15:09 ↗ forward and being able to sometimes get

2:15:13 ↗ an out out in front of that we you know

2:15:15 ↗ we're engaging with a new lobbyist we've

2:15:17 ↗ decided to push things up on the

2:15:20 ↗ timeline and that has resulted I think

2:15:24 ↗ and we're where we ended up this evening

2:15:27 ↗ so hopefully we're taking all of these

2:15:29 ↗ pieces and learning from them and that

2:15:32 ↗ we can go forward next year and have

2:15:34 ↗ additional engagement with the community

2:15:38 ↗ and the ability to talk through some of

2:15:41 ↗ the issues in including what

2:15:45 ↗ councilmember hunt just spoke about in

2:15:47 ↗ terms of would would we like to

2:15:50 ↗ those an order of priority and and get

2:15:52 ↗ more firm understanding but I'd like to

2:15:55 ↗ see us go forward and understand from

2:15:57 ↗ the counsel up front what we want to do

2:16:00 ↗ to get to that point in time where we're

2:16:04 ↗ ready to go forward and talk about what

2:16:07 ↗ our three top agenda items are before

2:16:10 ↗ the governor's budget I I am a firm

2:16:14 ↗ supporter in community engagement and I

2:16:17 ↗ always want to see that go forward I did

2:16:21 ↗ have a concern tonight in regard to the

2:16:25 ↗ pas pas and the partnerships that we

2:16:27 ↗ talked about and being able to present

2:16:30 ↗ that and and move forward thank you okay

2:16:37 ↗ remember almost yes I just wanted my

2:16:40 ↗ coming too and the public input side as

2:16:43 ↗ a someone who does support that we

2:16:47 ↗ regardless of what other people say that

2:16:50 ↗ is but Public Engagement must be in a

2:16:55 ↗ way in which it works for the public as

2:16:57 ↗ well as trying to get good input the

2:16:59 ↗ data has to come back in a way that's

2:17:01 ↗ usable in the time frame and the public

2:17:03 ↗ engaged in a way that's respectful and

2:17:07 ↗ there's just a whole lot of things go

2:17:09 ↗ with that and I've never seen any kind

2:17:10 ↗ of public engagement of value in a short

2:17:13 ↗ time period it's it tends to be a longer

2:17:16 ↗ time getting folks engaged getting that

2:17:17 ↗ their input and and putting it into an

2:17:21 ↗ assembly of what how you can take that

2:17:23 ↗ and add that to what we already have so

2:17:25 ↗ I think that timing of the quality of

2:17:29 ↗ how that would come out is definitely a

2:17:30 ↗ critical piece and yeah I don't like

2:17:35 ↗ like me said that not a supporter of

2:17:38 ↗ public transparency because I am can't

2:17:43 ↗ remember right so I really hate to do

2:17:46 ↗ this because I haven't embedded it with

2:17:50 ↗ anyone but I'm gonna be a little

2:17:51 ↗ extemporaneous I was hopeful that we

2:17:56 ↗ would have more time to listen to the

2:17:58 ↗ public after that in and then confirm

2:18:03 ↗ the legislative agenda but I would like

2:18:05 ↗ to make an amendment to the legislative

2:18:07 ↗ agenda as currently proffered and that

2:18:10 ↗ is I'd like to add a item that is to

2:18:14 ↗ pursue the acquisition of open space

2:18:16 ↗ within the city of Issaquah and the

2:18:18 ↗ reason I want to do that is because I

2:18:20 ↗ have heard a lot of public comment that

2:18:22 ↗ says this is something that's very

2:18:23 ↗ important to us your motion is to

2:18:27 ↗ propose to amend the legislative agenda

2:18:30 ↗ to add a fourth what fourth priority

2:18:35 ↗ priority which addresses the acquisition

2:18:39 ↗ of open space within the city of

2:18:41 ↗ Issaquah whatever this first chunk is is

2:18:49 ↗ there a second second

2:18:56 ↗ so it has been moved to propose an

2:18:59 ↗ amendment to the legislative agenda to

2:19:00 ↗ add a fourth priority which is addresses

2:19:03 ↗ the acquisition of open space in the

2:19:05 ↗ city of Issaquah and I'm not sure if

2:19:11 ↗ it's appropriate but I would like to

2:19:14 ↗ maybe provide you an option while you're

2:19:17 ↗ considering this which is our lobbyists

2:19:20 ↗ have advised us that more than one

2:19:22 ↗ capital loss can mean you're competing

2:19:24 ↗ against yourself but there is the

2:19:26 ↗ potential to amend a legislative agenda

2:19:29 ↗ you have a goal statement at the end

2:19:32 ↗ that talks about gives a look ahead or a

2:19:35 ↗ peek ahead about what the city of

2:19:37 ↗ Issaquah might be coming with in the

2:19:39 ↗ future and it could read something have

2:19:43 ↗ to look here but it's not a specific

2:19:45 ↗ ounce for dollars at this time but it

2:19:47 ↗ heads up to the legislators to the

2:19:49 ↗ governor to the Senators that this is a

2:19:52 ↗ priority for Issaquah that they may see

2:19:53 ↗ in the future

2:19:54 ↗ sure those I just put that information

2:19:57 ↗ out there and now I leave it up for you

2:19:59 ↗ for our comments president marks so I'm

2:20:04 ↗ gonna oppose this amendment because for

2:20:07 ↗ a couple of reasons one is that I don't

2:20:09 ↗ believe

2:20:10 ↗ currently the the major land allocation

2:20:15 ↗ question that's in front of us involves

2:20:18 ↗ any expected state contributions

2:20:20 ↗ I believe the partner contributions are

2:20:23 ↗ expected to be at the county level and

2:20:25 ↗ some of the other organizations so I

2:20:28 ↗ look at this front page and I see very

2:20:31 ↗ specific projects that state legislators

2:20:34 ↗ can say yes by golly I can help the

2:20:37 ↗ residents of Issaquah do this who do

2:20:38 ↗ that I am really loath to to put

2:20:46 ↗ something on there that we don't know

2:20:48 ↗ first and first of all we're not

2:20:50 ↗ expecting state contributions to it the

2:20:53 ↗ second issue is that it is still an open

2:20:57 ↗ discussion slash negotiation right and I

2:21:02 ↗ want to be careful about telegraphing

2:21:06 ↗ any changes

2:21:08 ↗ you know those landowners have are

2:21:12 ↗ considering their options in front of

2:21:13 ↗ them including private development and

2:21:16 ↗ so I want to be very careful what we do

2:21:20 ↗ in the in the midst of of those

2:21:22 ↗ discussions that that we've been having

2:21:24 ↗ with them and then the third is this

2:21:26 ↗ issue around muddying the waters with

2:21:28 ↗ multiple capital asks you know I'd

2:21:33 ↗ rather be I'd rather be strong in one

2:21:35 ↗ thing than then medium in two or more

2:21:37 ↗ things before I go back to an account

2:21:42 ↗ summary let me go around the table a

2:21:45 ↗ little bit

2:21:45 ↗ council member winter Stein thank you

2:21:47 ↗ thank you we asked the maker of the

2:21:50 ↗ motion you intend this to be used

2:21:55 ↗ this isn't ask for anything something

2:21:59 ↗ specific no I I think that thank you for

2:22:02 ↗ asking that I think that open space

2:22:05 ↗ acquisition within the city as a

2:22:07 ↗ priority of the city and I had nothing

2:22:10 ↗ particular in mind for what that

2:22:14 ↗ acquisition would be but I think that if

2:22:17 ↗ we could procure additional state

2:22:19 ↗ funding to support acquisitions it would

2:22:21 ↗ give us more latitude and flexibility to

2:22:25 ↗ maintain some of the things that make

2:22:28 ↗ this a charming place to live and you

2:22:30 ↗ are proposing it goes where in how into

2:22:35 ↗ this document it would be number four

2:22:37 ↗ week number four will come after transit

2:22:40 ↗ oriented development and Opportunity

2:22:42 ↗ Center and I recognize that this blows

2:22:45 ↗ the the notion of three and I know that

2:22:49 ↗ it blows to capital projects what I'm

2:22:53 ↗ reacting to is I know from public

2:22:57 ↗ comment on a number of things that open

2:23:01 ↗ space acquisition is a priority for the

2:23:03 ↗ city and the people who live here and

2:23:05 ↗ like I said I didn't intend to make this

2:23:08 ↗ motion until we did not pass the last

2:23:12 ↗ motion but I think since we're moving

2:23:15 ↗ forward this is my my opportunity to

2:23:17 ↗ suggest maybe we we look a little broad

2:23:19 ↗ and what we know our other public needs

2:23:24 ↗ request desire sorry okay thank thank

2:23:27 ↗ you for that answer it was it wasn't

2:23:28 ↗ clear to me before that was very helpful

2:23:31 ↗ to know what the intent of the motion is

2:23:35 ↗ it's my where I think your hearts in the

2:23:38 ↗ right place who would disagree that we

2:23:42 ↗ want to preserve and expand the amount

2:23:44 ↗ of open space both within the city

2:23:46 ↗ around and to restore those lands that's

2:23:49 ↗ been a very important to us has been for

2:23:51 ↗ a long time as proposed and as you just

2:23:54 ↗ described I don't think that that fits

2:23:56 ↗ within the legislative agenda it's not a

2:23:58 ↗ specific ask there's and there's no

2:24:01 ↗ money there's no legislative action or

2:24:04 ↗ action that we've already taken that

2:24:06 ↗ it's tied to so I don't think it at this

2:24:09 ↗ as proposed it fits within this agenda

2:24:13 ↗ in front of us so I'm not going to

2:24:14 ↗ support it that's my BrahMos followed by

2:24:17 ↗ councilmember hunt I addressed this a

2:24:21 ↗ little further and just see if seeing

2:24:27 ↗ those things and I second did this so I

2:24:29 ↗ want the discussion but would it be

2:24:32 ↗ better placed under environmental

2:24:34 ↗ Natural Resources as the number one

2:24:36 ↗ statement under there considering that's

2:24:40 ↗ the way it worded the way it's worded it

2:24:43 ↗ kind of follows into into that area and

2:24:46 ↗ be the number one priority listed under

2:24:48 ↗ that something to think about

2:24:51 ↗ look at that I would I would be willing

2:24:53 ↗ to work as your second on that as well

2:24:59 ↗ more discussion all right sorry

2:25:02 ↗ council member had you had your hand up

2:25:05 ↗ I I think that the I argue that I think

2:25:12 ↗ the motion is to as worded is perhaps

2:25:18 ↗ specific and limit limiting I think that

2:25:23 ↗ we especially if we think about this in

2:25:25 ↗ terms of a goal statement which may be

2:25:27 ↗ one possible way to

2:25:30 ↗ included in the legislative agenda as a

2:25:33 ↗ goal statement I think that one one

2:25:37 ↗ priority of the community that is not

2:25:39 ↗ strongly reflected in the document as it

2:25:41 ↗ stands is our environmental stewardship

2:25:44 ↗ ethic it has been it has been I think

2:25:47 ↗ more strongly communicated by previous

2:25:50 ↗ legislative agendas that have emphasized

2:25:52 ↗ the community's strong desire for park

2:25:55 ↗ strong desire for that community space

2:25:57 ↗ and the community use of parks and the

2:26:00 ↗ importance of the natural environment to

2:26:02 ↗ Issaquah I I think that in the current

2:26:06 ↗ in the current legislative agenda the

2:26:09 ↗ part of the agenda that's about the

2:26:11 ↗ environment is about peat boss which is

2:26:13 ↗ is not does not have that same sort of

2:26:18 ↗ use of the environments that kind of

2:26:21 ↗ importance for our community that they

2:26:22 ↗ want to go out and have hike and have

2:26:26 ↗ natural spaces and have parks and have

2:26:28 ↗ that that relationship with the

2:26:30 ↗ environment so I think that the struggle

2:26:33 ↗ to have this reflects our community's

2:26:36 ↗ values I completely see that I think

2:26:39 ↗ that potentially as a goal statement

2:26:41 ↗ this could be worded to have something

2:26:45 ↗ I've been kind of struggling to find

2:26:47 ↗ appropriate wording but something to the

2:26:51 ↗ effect of that the city that the city as

2:26:55 ↗ one of its goals and in future

2:26:57 ↗ legislative agendas likely would have

2:27:00 ↗ likely does aspire to have acquisition

2:27:05 ↗ of land for community use for parks open

2:27:08 ↗ space and also for operation and

2:27:11 ↗ improvements and expansion of services

2:27:13 ↗ provided by parks and open space and so

2:27:17 ↗ I I think that there's an opportunity to

2:27:19 ↗ to make this reflect the community

2:27:23 ↗ values and I so I think there's been a

2:27:30 ↗ couple of suggestions I mean I also felt

2:27:32 ↗ that the environmental section of this

2:27:34 ↗ policy document was very my in my

2:27:37 ↗ opinion limited and so it could be

2:27:40 ↗ strengthened there as well

2:27:43 ↗ right any more comments on the motion

2:27:50 ↗ which is to propose to amend the

2:27:52 ↗ legislative agenda to add a fourth

2:27:54 ↗ priority which addresses the acquisition

2:27:56 ↗ of open space in the city the squad

2:28:00 ↗ tonight can I make a amendment proposed

2:28:04 ↗ an amendment proposed I think what would

2:28:07 ↗ be cleanest is if people would like to

2:28:10 ↗ discuss the motion on the table I would

2:28:12 ↗ say let's do that and have a vote and if

2:28:15 ↗ it fails you more than welcome to

2:28:17 ↗ propose another amendment discussion on

2:28:20 ↗ the motion from councilmember ray

2:28:22 ↗ proposed to many legislative agenda to

2:28:24 ↗ add a fourth priority and I think deputy

2:28:26 ↗ council president to you that her hand

2:28:28 ↗ up so thank you for that Chris I I agree

2:28:35 ↗ we have heard so much public comment

2:28:41 ↗ about open space and and then looking

2:28:44 ↗ and actually listening to council member

2:28:48 ↗ hunt and also hearing the recommendation

2:28:51 ↗ from the mayor just thinking more about

2:28:54 ↗ how we can incorporate that this piece

2:28:58 ↗ into the legislative agenda I would I'm

2:29:04 ↗ still thinking about what you're talking

2:29:07 ↗ about Chris but I think the the goal

2:29:12 ↗ statement and and adding it to our

2:29:17 ↗ environmental section or strengthening

2:29:19 ↗ that is something that that I would be

2:29:22 ↗ supportive of we this is a little bit

2:29:29 ↗ difficult in that we we just talked

2:29:31 ↗ about trying to go forward and getting

2:29:33 ↗ more information and having more of an

2:29:35 ↗ opportunity to talk some of the council

2:29:38 ↗ talking about we didn't feel like we had

2:29:40 ↗ sufficient time and now we have

2:29:42 ↗ something else coming forward and trying

2:29:45 ↗ to sort of decide that right now so I'm

2:29:48 ↗ still thinking a little bit but I am

2:29:50 ↗ thinking very much about the comments

2:29:53 ↗ that councilmember

2:29:54 ↗ has made in terms of goal statement and

2:29:57 ↗ then strengthening the language under

2:29:59 ↗ the environmental section the other

2:30:04 ↗ discussion about the amendments that's

2:30:07 ↗ my boo interesting I'm struggling to

2:30:14 ↗ hear a legislative a true a tone and a

2:30:18 ↗ words and statements that fit within the

2:30:21 ↗ legislative agenda template or framework

2:30:26 ↗ it seems to me I'm hearing a lot of

2:30:29 ↗ comments that sound like elements of our

2:30:32 ↗ strategic plan and our mission and our

2:30:35 ↗ guiding principles and our priority

2:30:37 ↗ areas and goals and objectives bleeding

2:30:41 ↗ over into let's how get that reflected

2:30:43 ↗ in our legislative agenda and if there

2:30:46 ↗ were specific issues policy related or

2:30:51 ↗ potential funding related projects that

2:30:53 ↗ we're aware of that that could be

2:30:54 ↗ reflected on then that would make sense

2:30:56 ↗ but in I'm hearing this as a proposal to

2:30:59 ↗ get somehow our priorities that come

2:31:03 ↗ from our vision somehow reflected as a

2:31:06 ↗ statement and our legislative agenda

2:31:08 ↗ I agree our priority should influence

2:31:12 ↗ what's there but this isn't doing that

2:31:16 ↗ yeah their discussion on the proposed

2:31:18 ↗ amendment accounts membrane I'd like to

2:31:20 ↗ withdraw them motion if your second

2:31:22 ↗ agrees I'm okay

2:31:24 ↗ ocean has been withdrawn can't agree if

2:31:28 ↗ their amendment amendment has been okay

2:31:30 ↗ if there's no objection no objection

2:31:33 ↗ would anyone care to make propose a

2:31:36 ↗ different amendment I'd like to make a

2:31:44 ↗ motion to add a goal statement to the OC

2:32:05 ↗ okay

2:32:12 ↗ so I think as a goal statement it can

2:32:14 ↗ have a couple sentences so I'm gonna

2:32:18 ↗ propose I'm some ember hand and says

2:32:21 ↗ yeah this is just a suggestion if you'd

2:32:24 ↗ like to take a five-minute recess we can

2:32:26 ↗ talk sure well yeah this and it might

2:32:28 ↗ have mine okay take a five-minute recess

2:32:30 ↗ Thanks

2:32:46 ↗ you

2:42:27 ↗ we are back from our recess

2:42:29 ↗ councilmember hunt do you have a

2:42:32 ↗ proposed amendment I do I would like to

2:42:38 ↗ add a policy statement to the

2:42:39 ↗ legislative agenda in the policy manual

2:42:41 ↗ under the category of Environment and

2:42:44 ↗ Natural Resources that as the first

2:42:46 ↗ bullet states the city of Issaquah will

2:42:49 ↗ pursue opportunities to grow and enhance

2:42:51 ↗ the city's open spaces through

2:42:53 ↗ partnership acquisitions and or policy

2:42:56 ↗ changes second it's been moved and

2:42:59 ↗ seconded is there discussion deputy

2:43:02 ↗ council president I'm sorry could could

2:43:04 ↗ you just read that oh I'm sorry

2:43:13 ↗ any discussion yes okay so reading still

2:43:20 ↗ digesting that's a president merits

2:43:24 ↗ followed by councilmember hunt I will be

2:43:27 ↗ supporting this amendment I think that

2:43:30 ↗ the public has stated in basically every

2:43:33 ↗ time we ask them where our priorities

2:43:35 ↗ are broadly as a city acquiring open

2:43:39 ↗ spaces is a perennial strong point so

2:43:42 ↗ I'm glad this this would be a welcomed

2:43:43 ↗ addition I think to Arvind thank you and

2:43:46 ↗ councilmember hunt you and I I think

2:43:50 ↗ that the city has expressed interest in

2:43:54 ↗ this so we will be able to better align

2:43:56 ↗ some of our policy manual with with the

2:44:02 ↗ community's interests by by passing this

2:44:06 ↗ and I also think that in previous years

2:44:09 ↗ we have had many asks having to do with

2:44:13 ↗ specific Park projects such as in the

2:44:15 ↗ last last legislative agenda believe it

2:44:17 ↗ was confluence in Lake Sammamish State

2:44:19 ↗ Park and then also additional parks

2:44:23 ↗ previously so part of that history and

2:44:25 ↗ the context is that often typically the

2:44:28 ↗ city is looking in their legislative

2:44:30 ↗ to have funding for four parks and for

2:44:36 ↗ open space and for the community values

2:44:38 ↗ that that benefits so I will be

2:44:42 ↗ supporting this and I think that it puts

2:44:44 ↗ us in a better position in terms of

2:44:46 ↗ aligning with the community's values in

2:44:48 ↗ our policy manual Thank You council

2:44:51 ↗ member Ramos yes this is what I think

2:44:55 ↗ was missing his environmental piece so

2:44:59 ↗ and I think we've got it in the right

2:45:00 ↗ place now where we can maneuver this as

2:45:03 ↗ need be and as opportunities arise so I

2:45:06 ↗ definitely will be supporting this this

2:45:08 ↗ is a top priority for me and I think we

2:45:10 ↗ finally got it in here and it's good I'm

2:45:11 ↗ very happy Thank You deputy council

2:45:14 ↗ president batiste

2:45:15 ↗ so I I'll be supporting this this

2:45:19 ↗ evening and thank you too

2:45:22 ↗ councilmember Rey and councilmember hunt

2:45:25 ↗ for their work in this area and and this

2:45:28 ↗ is incredibly important it's something

2:45:30 ↗ that we've definitely heard so much from

2:45:33 ↗ the community and we really did have

2:45:36 ↗ need to draw that out and I think that

2:45:41 ↗ it now is in the appropriate place in

2:45:44 ↗ terms of a goal statement that something

2:45:48 ↗ that we would like to pursue thank you

2:45:50 ↗ are there comments let's remember ray I

2:45:53 ↗ think this is brilliant I really do I

2:45:57 ↗ mean we needed to get this in here and

2:45:59 ↗ my intent with the original amendment

2:46:02 ↗ was to was to elevate this and thank you

2:46:05 ↗ everyone for the discussion about how to

2:46:08 ↗ refine that and make this better and I

2:46:10 ↗ think this this captures it brilliantly

2:46:13 ↗ thank you

2:46:15 ↗ any other comments councilmember winters

2:46:17 ↗ time just a question about the wording I

2:46:23 ↗ look at the structure and kind of the

2:46:26 ↗ our current or how this would fit in

2:46:29 ↗ everything tends to align with

2:46:32 ↗ supporting generally modern same

2:46:35 ↗ monitoring legislation or supporting

2:46:37 ↗ efforts and there may even be supporting

2:46:41 ↗ legislation

2:46:43 ↗ name a specific program so at for the

2:46:48 ↗ intended audience being legislators in

2:46:50 ↗ Olympia this doesn't have the support or

2:46:58 ↗ monitor or opposed type language in it

2:47:02 ↗ so I'm actually just kind of an

2:47:05 ↗ open-ended question is like how does

2:47:07 ↗ this link how will this language be used

2:47:10 ↗ for its intended audience to acts to for

2:47:14 ↗ them to weigh as they consider potential

2:47:16 ↗ different legislation or policy this is

2:47:20 ↗ it is it really it just says we're okay

2:47:24 ↗ we're gonna we're gonna pursue

2:47:27 ↗ opportunities to grow and enhance

2:47:28 ↗ through partnership we are we suggesting

2:47:36 ↗ we're gonna partner with the state is

2:47:39 ↗ this we're gonna partner with you or

2:47:40 ↗ your departments or the legislature or

2:47:42 ↗ specific legislation what I'm I wouldn't

2:47:51 ↗ this is the first time I'm considering

2:47:53 ↗ this and I just don't see language up

2:47:55 ↗ there yet that will if we just want a

2:48:00 ↗ token statement about this it does that

2:48:02 ↗ for a legislative agenda to actually be

2:48:05 ↗ something meaningful for its intended

2:48:07 ↗ our audience I don't think that language

2:48:12 ↗ is as good as it could be but I don't

2:48:13 ↗ have an alternative I'm kind of putting

2:48:15 ↗ it out there Thanks are there any other

2:48:18 ↗ comments or questions are we ready for

2:48:21 ↗ the vote

2:48:22 ↗ looks like we might be ready for the

2:48:24 ↗ vote all those in favor of the amendment

2:48:28 ↗ to add a policy statement to the

2:48:30 ↗ legislative agenda in the policy manual

2:48:32 ↗ under the category of Environment and

2:48:35 ↗ Natural Resources that as the first

2:48:38 ↗ bullet states the city of Issaquah will

2:48:41 ↗ pursue opportunities to grow and or

2:48:43 ↗ enhance the city's open spaces through

2:48:45 ↗ partnership acquisitions and or policy

2:48:48 ↗ changes all those in favor say aye all

2:48:51 ↗ those opposed the amendment carry

2:48:54 ↗ unanimously back to the main motion

2:48:57 ↗ which I can reread if you'd like me to

2:49:00 ↗ main motion is to approve the 2019 2021

2:49:05 ↗ legislative agenda as amended now I

2:49:09 ↗ would guess tisha as amended is there

2:49:12 ↗ any discussion on the main motion being

2:49:16 ↗ none all those in favor of approving the

2:49:19 ↗ 2019 2021 legislative agenda as amended

2:49:23 ↗ signify by saying aye all right as

2:49:26 ↗ opposed nay motion carries five to two

2:49:31 ↗ with councilmember Rea and councilmember

2:49:33 ↗ Goodman opposed and I know it's highly

2:49:37 ↗ unusual but I would just like to add a

2:49:39 ↗ few comments that I recognize when we

2:49:41 ↗ change processes how difficult it is to

2:49:45 ↗ make sure that we can accommodate

2:49:48 ↗ everybody's interest and desire to weigh

2:49:52 ↗ in on the process and the changes I

2:49:54 ↗ think we made very good steps this year

2:49:56 ↗ but I can see through this conversation

2:49:58 ↗ tonight that this was tough and I

2:50:00 ↗ appreciate all your hard work and I also

2:50:02 ↗ wanted to thank the city administrator

2:50:04 ↗ and our Pollyanna policy analyst team or

2:50:08 ↗ procuring our new lobbyist team after

2:50:11 ↗ our former lobbyist retired and working

2:50:14 ↗ on this new format with them I think

2:50:16 ↗ this is really well done and I

2:50:19 ↗ appreciate all the effort I did hear

2:50:21 ↗ that in future processes you'd like to

2:50:23 ↗ talk about earlier or different types of

2:50:26 ↗ public touches whether or not the

2:50:29 ↗ council would like to consider

2:50:31 ↗ prioritizing these policies under the in

2:50:34 ↗ the policy manual and I think that was

2:50:37 ↗ it but I wanted to thank you for your

2:50:38 ↗ really really hard work on this thanks I

2:50:40 ↗ know this is tough thank you very much

2:50:43 ↗ we're now going to move to good of the

2:50:46 ↗ order and I believe council president

2:50:48 ↗ has an item for us thanks Bennet Mayor

2:50:51 ↗ so or three votes are very tough but I I

2:50:57 ↗ want to I want to commit that my

2:51:01 ↗ comments about developing a

2:51:02 ↗ comprehensive Community Engagement

2:51:04 ↗ policy we're

2:51:06 ↗ said in the heat of the moment but

2:51:08 ↗ rather because I do this is a recurring

2:51:12 ↗ issue that we as a council have have

2:51:15 ↗ challenged ourselves and and challenged

2:51:18 ↗ administration in terms of getting a

2:51:21 ↗ consistency as to what engagement we

2:51:24 ↗ want on what issues and so I would

2:51:26 ↗ welcome any feedback in the next couple

2:51:30 ↗ of weeks from people we are heading into

2:51:32 ↗ budget season but I sort of want to

2:51:36 ↗ pledge to you as council president that

2:51:37 ↗ I'm not going to let this issue die on

2:51:39 ↗ the vine and that I really want to work

2:51:41 ↗ with the other six of you on coming up

2:51:44 ↗ with a an engagement policy that all of

2:51:47 ↗ us can agree on any else for good of the

2:51:50 ↗ order I have a couple names to share

2:51:53 ↗ with you I just wanted to do a bit of a

2:51:55 ↗ look ahead at the September 24th council

2:51:58 ↗ work session the agenda items include

2:52:01 ↗ central I suppose owning for the old

2:52:03 ↗ route 10 and intensive commercial areas

2:52:05 ↗ around i-90 and also looking at some

2:52:08 ↗ citywide strategic planning draft

2:52:10 ↗ information that the staff teams have

2:52:12 ↗ been working on and at October 1st on

2:52:15 ↗ our regular City Council meeting the

2:52:17 ↗ tentative agenda items includes the

2:52:19 ↗ proposed 2019 budget brief and schedule

2:52:22 ↗ and the visit escort destination

2:52:24 ↗ marketing organization bylaw I'm just

2:52:27 ↗ going to go back and check on that is

2:52:28 ↗ the administrator proposed 2019 budget

2:52:31 ↗ briefing schedule I think that's what's

2:52:33 ↗ on the yeah that's our intended play

2:52:39 ↗ let's move it okay thank you

2:52:41 ↗ and lastly I just wanted to remind those

2:52:44 ↗ in leadership this week on Wednesday

2:52:46 ↗ that I believe we're meeting at the

2:52:48 ↗ Lewis house another tour of another arcs

2:52:51 ↗ meeting room and that is the park staff

2:52:55 ↗ office and meeting room that is south of

2:52:58 ↗ Andrews it's not the trails center it's

2:52:59 ↗ the other small house that's where our

2:53:01 ↗ leadership meeting will be this week

2:53:05 ↗ executive session is the next thing on

2:53:07 ↗ our agenda as earlier announced there

2:53:09 ↗ will be an executive session held this

2:53:11 ↗ evening to discuss pending potential

2:53:13 ↗ litigation for our CW 42.3 0.11 o

2:53:17 ↗ Maran one gran I this item is expected

2:53:20 ↗ to take approximately 10 minutes action

2:53:22 ↗ is anticipated to follow an open session

2:53:24 ↗ we will now recess into executive

2:53:26 ↗ session at 9:55

2:53:40 ↗ you

3:15:22 ↗ we are back in open session at 1017 p.m.

3:15:25 ↗ is there a motion yes madam mayor I

3:15:28 ↗ would like to move Lee authorized the

3:15:30 ↗ city attorney to commence litigation

3:15:32 ↗ against American tower has discussed an

3:15:34 ↗ executive session it's been moved and

3:15:39 ↗ seconded to authorize the city attorney

3:15:41 ↗ to commence litigation against American

3:15:42 ↗ Terrace discussed an executive session

3:15:45 ↗ is there any discussion all those in

3:15:51 ↗ favor signify by saying aye aye opposed

3:15:55 ↗ it carries unanimously and there being

3:15:58 ↗ no further business our meeting is

3:16:00 ↗ adjourned at 10:18

3:16:15 ↗ you

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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 (8)

Adopt Ordinance No. 2844, amending the 2018 budget as set forth in Ordinance No. 2818 concerning revenues, expenditures and fund balance for various funds for the year 2018 and authorizing the Finance Director to make the necessary adjustments and approving prior expenditures. . 09-17-18 City Counci…

Moved by REH · seconded by BETTISE

Carried 7-0

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

Authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the Green Direct 2 Agreement with Puget Sound Energy over an 18 year-term. . b) AB 7665 - 2019 Legislative Agenda

Moved by REH · seconded by HUNT

Carried 7-0

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

Direct the Administration to engage the public on the legislative agenda (AB 7665) before Oct. 1, 2018; and refer AB 7665 to a Special Council Services & Safety Committee meeting on Sept. 25, 2018 returning to the full Council on Oct. 1, 2018 for action. . (Proponents: Goodman, Hunt, Reh)

Moved by REH · seconded by GOODMAN

Failed 3-4

In favor: Goodman, Hunt, Reh

Opposed: Mariah Bettise, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Approve the 2019-2021 Legislative Agenda as presented.

Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE

Amend the 2019-2021 Legislative Agenda to add a policy statement in the policy manual under the category of Environment/Natural Resources that, as the first bullet, states: • “The City of Issaquah will pursue opportunities to grow and/or enhance the City's open spaces through partnership, acquisitio…

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

Opposed: Goodman, Reh

Authorize the City Attorney to commence litigation against American Tower as discussed in

Moved by MARTS · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0272 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Sept. 17, 2018, $ 5,648,258.53; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Sept. 4, 2018; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Sept. 4, 2018; Approved. d) Minutes: Council Committee Work S…

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: APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0272 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Sept. 17, 2018, $ 5,648,258.53; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Sept. 4, 2018; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Sept. 4, 2018; Approved. d) Minutes: …

Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by

Carried 5-2

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Opposed: Goodman, Reh