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uh welcome everyone
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i would like to call the february 5th
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regular city council meeting to order
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due to inclement weather last night's
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regular council meeting
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was rescheduled to this evening the
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council chambers was booked
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for another meeting tonight so we are
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holding our meeting here
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at pickering room at city hall northwest
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so a few things about this room it's a
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little different than council chambers
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we do have
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microphones but you do have to speak
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loudly to be heard
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sidebar conversations or conversations
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in the audience can hurt the quality of
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the tape so i ask everybody to
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not have conversations while we are
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recording
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uh usually we typically do the pledge of
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allegiance to begin our meetings however
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since we have moved this meeting
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uh to an available room where we could
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have video
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capabilities we do not have a flag and
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in this venue we will not be doing our
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customary practice of
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starting our meeting by reciting the
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pledge of allegiance
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the first item on our agenda is special
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business we were to have
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id 0374 youth advisory board
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presentation
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this item has been delayed to an
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upcoming council meeting
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and the next item on our agenda is
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ab7710
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council vacancy for council position
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number four
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at the january 7th council meeting we
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had the opportunity to hear from the
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five individuals who applied for the
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council vacancy
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council and i also had the opportunity
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to speak with the applicants at an
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informal community meet and greet on
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january 22nd
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two of the applicants rachel cox and
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mary harris have since withdrawn from
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consideration
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and tonight council will have the
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opportunity to appoint one of the
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remaining three applicants
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however first the applicants have been
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asked to participate in a question and
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answer session
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the process will be each council member
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will have the option to pose a question
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this evening each applicant will then
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get one minute
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to respond names were randomly drawn
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in advanced by the clerk's office to
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determine the order of response
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applicants will respond to the first
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question in the following order
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michelle kemper lindsey walsh and
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catherine hurt
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the first to respond will then rotate
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and lindsay will then respond
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first to the second question asked
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catherine to the third question asked
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so for council members we will be
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starting with council member hunt and
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working our way
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towards the council president i ask
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that each council member read their
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question to the panelists and then pass
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a copy over for the clerk and myself to
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be able to repeat it
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for uh who's ever answering second and
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third do you have any questions
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council members do you have any
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questions
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council member ray since we have such a
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small not touchable a smaller group of
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panelists
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and time would it be possible to have a
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little longer
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answer period possibly 90 seconds
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instead of a minute
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so i'm just going to look at the clerk
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and see if there's any reason why we
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wouldn't be able to do that and then
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allow you to discuss it with your
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fellow council members so long as
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there's not an objection from
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the council okay council what are you
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thinking about
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if we increase the amount of time for
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each candidate to answer to 90 seconds
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to give them a little more opportunity
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to hash out some details
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sounds good okay with it sure good sing
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all head knots
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you'll have 90 seconds to answer the
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question tina will be keeping track
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and are you going to give them any sort
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of warning when they're near the end can
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you give them a 15 second warning
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perhaps
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do my best to give you a 15 second one
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is there anything else or are there any
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other questions
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okay council member hunt right
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um my question is about affordable
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housing which applies to those making 30
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to 80 percent
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of the king county median income and my
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question is what are your thoughts on
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the mix of rental and ownership housing
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particularly affordable housing in the
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city
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and what can and should the city do and
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what are some metrics that we could
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track
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okay a couple of points on that one
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in terms of not in the sequence that you
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asked but in terms of what the city is
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doing
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the tod down by comcast
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that location which is roughly a 50 50
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combination of
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rental and ownership i think is a good
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way for the city to do a mix
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that is my opinion on how we should be
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approaching affordable housing in other
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areas as well
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i think when it's a concentrated heavier
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percent on affordable
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it changes the dynamics of the
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neighborhood
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closer to a 50 50 combination of
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ownership
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and rental
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thank you michelle lindsey would you
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like me to reread the question
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sure it's about affordable housing which
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applies to those making 30 to 80 percent
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of the king county median income what
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are your thoughts on the mix of rental
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and ownership housing
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particularly affordable housing in the
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city what can
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should the city do and what are some
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metrics that we could track as a city
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related to affordable housing excellent
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so
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um i would agree with michelle that our
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tod project
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down by the transit center is a great
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way for us to
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add in a large chunk of affordable
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housing much like we did with the ywca
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down at the bottom of the highlands
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for that in general i very much support
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arch and our contribution to that as a
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way to
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get those larger groupings of affordable
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housing
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i also i think we've done a pretty good
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job
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of development agreements in the
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highlands and telus
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and in other areas in
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having an inclusionary zoning
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piece in it that creates the affordable
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housing i think we have to have a mix
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between the 30 and 80 percent
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and we've maybe done a better job at the
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top
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of that without getting to the bottom
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which really helps with our
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retail and other workers that are
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working in the city that currently can't
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afford to live there
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as far as rental and ownership i think
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we need both
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i think more of the ownership is going
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to come maybe
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from improvements to the condo laws
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and our ability to get those as far as
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metrics i would look
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at numbers created both within and
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without development agreements
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and also the number of bedrooms so that
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we're making sure that we're getting
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some for families and not just
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individuals thank you lindsay catherine
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would you like me to reread the question
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the question is about affordable housing
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which applies to those making 30 to 80
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percent of the king county median income
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what are your thoughts on the mix of
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rental and ownership housing
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particularly affordable housing in the
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city what can and should the city do
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and what are some metrics that we would
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track as a city related to affordable
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housing
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so not to also just
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agree and agree but i i do agree with
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the uh
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tod project which i learned about really
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recently
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um and with the 50 50 model um i also
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to focus more on metrics because i would
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want to learn more about kind of where
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we're at and where we want to go
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so looking at in rental
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number of bedrooms is this
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when rents are increasing by how much
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is that something that we can
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encourage to change how do we want to
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look at that in the future because i
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have seen personally
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high increases in rent there and
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a lot of that is state law but to just
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look at where we're at as a city and
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where we can
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go in the future
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as far as inclusion in development
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agreements we
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we have people who want to develop here
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and those are good
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good problems to have and look at the
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agreements that
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we form i think that the city has done a
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good job of that
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currently and to include that
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going forward 15 seconds thank you
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thank you catherine council member ray
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well congratulations and
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so excited to have the three of you here
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this evening can you give us an example
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of where you've had to do
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or to use i'm going to use our quotes
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active listening
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to help a group work through a difficult
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situation or a problem
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and we will start with lindsay
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well right now or for the past five
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years i've been a
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girl scout leader for a troop and that's
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definitely an area that requires a lot
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of active listening
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uh taken my daughter's troupe from
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kindergarten up through fifth grade
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and we have had certainly sometimes
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particularly when we have taken trips
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with the girls
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that have created periods where
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you know the girls are having
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disagreements and we want to get them
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together but we also want to teach them
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how to work through a problem so it's
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not just the adults girl scouts is all
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about
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not just the adults leading but
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encouraging the girls growth
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and so in those situations we're sitting
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with groups of girls that are having a
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disagreement
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and not telling them what to do but
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rather taking that moment and saying
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okay let's hear from one side let's hear
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from the other side
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now did you hear what they said and
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repeating it back
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and so i think that's a really good
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example of taking a situation that
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maybe you're referring to in the case of
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adults and looking back
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at children and actually teaching them
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that method as well
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thank you lindsay catherine would you
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like me to read the question no i think
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i
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i got it um so
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as you all know i'm an attorney
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i work with a lot of clients and so
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the obvious answer for me is working
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with clients to
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assess not only the solution to their
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problem but to assess even what their
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problem is in the first place
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and also to work with then
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understanding what my client's issue is
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and when i'm working with an opposing
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counsel
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to work with active listening to see
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what
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the opposing counsel's view on the
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problem is
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because often times what i see when i'm
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working through a problem
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is that both sides haven't defined the
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problem the same way
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so as soon as we can kind of understand
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how everyone sees the problem
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then we can start that's usually when
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i'm working in mediation and things like
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that that's when we really start to get
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some traction
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on uh progress
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towards a mutual agreeable settlement or
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goal
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so that's when i am working through a
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problem here
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i like to see what is my definition of
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the problem what is my definition of the
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solution
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can i identify rules regulations laws
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facts to get myself from point a to
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point b
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and the best way that i know how to do
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that is to
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listen to people who are much more
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expert than i am
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to get there thank you thank you
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catherine michelle would you like me to
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repeat the question no i think i'm there
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as you know i'm a retired executive in
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the financial services industry so
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active listening takes on a different
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mantra there when you're the senior
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officer at the table
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most of the people around the table have
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to listen to me so that's not a good
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example
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so i'm going to use one from my
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volunteer roles one of the volunteer
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activities that i've done over the years
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is i'm a advocate for a senior
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who is moving from a hospital setting to
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a convalescent setting
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to possibly a nursing home or other
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long-term care or hopefully
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back to their home and when you're
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listening to the patient
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you have to be very careful in
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understanding senior issues
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as they're navigating the health care
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issues
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their independence you've got family
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members at the table
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who are not only looking at what their
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role might be changing in terms of their
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long-term responsibilities for that
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senior care
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you also have the medical professionals
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who have got rules that they have to
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abide by in terms of when and how
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a senior is going to be moved from point
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a to point b through our medical systems
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and then you have money and you have
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insurance and you have long-term care
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plans
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so it's a the the act of listening as
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the
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advocate for the senior is not just
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listening to all the others around them
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it's being the advocate for the senior
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so that their voice is heard 15 seconds
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and i think the listening skills when
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you're listening to someone who has an
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emotional
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stake in what's happening in their
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future is a different set of listening
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skills
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than when you're sitting at the table as
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a senior officer in a financial services
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company
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thank you michelle councilmember
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winterstein
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thank you that's remember goodman i was
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going to pass too
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as we work through our strategic plan
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and start to focus on economic vitality
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we've been discussing
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jobs and job growth what are your
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thoughts and potential solutions
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regarding
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job growth in issaquah thank you
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we are going to start this time with
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katherine
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um actually i
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i have i guess
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reference a conversation i had with uh
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council member ray
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he and i talked about trying to
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nourish the population
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of our community that works from home
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looking at
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how can we help support those who work
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from home
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to increase our economic vitality in
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issaquah with people who
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are already here and whether that is
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looking into supporting wework
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a wework building coming in if you are
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unfamiliar with wework it is where
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if you work from home you can rent a
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space or pay
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to go in and have an office that is a
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shared
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office where lots of different people
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work
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in different areas so looking
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at that or supporting others who work
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from home but also looking at
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different uh businesses who would like
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to come into issaquah i would want to
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talk to the businesses who have already
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opened and are successful here
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do what made them open here why do they
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stay here what are the things that help
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them to stay here and what are the
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things that our hindrances so that when
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we are looking to attract additional
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businesses
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we know those things going forward thank
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you thank you catherine
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michelle would you like me to reread the
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question yes please
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as we work through our strategic plan
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and focus on
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economic vitality we have been
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discussing jobs
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and job growth what are your thoughts
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solutions regarding
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job growth thank you this is probably
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the
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number one reason why i threw my hat in
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the ring uh
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for consideration for a council seat um
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i think that it's
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a three-prong approach i think we've got
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about five major employers
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and my hats off to the city and its
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support role with our major employer
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groups
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we also have the small to medium-sized
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companies i think our focus there with
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our chamber
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and with activities in terms of
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promoting
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as they've authored in their 2002 and
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2012
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update on the economic vitality for the
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small employer
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they've asked for everything from
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marketing training to internet
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and social media help in terms of how to
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get the word out on the small employer
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and the role that we have between the
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council and with our chamber and with
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our medium to small
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companies i think would be my number one
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focus and then i think the third
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is today's economic vitality for an
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employer is
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something we don't know what it is is it
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e-commerce is it working from home
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you know what is the company of tomorrow
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and i think one of the opportunities
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issaquah has is to plan
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for tomorrow and not replicate the brick
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and mortar
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that we have in uh our small town field
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today
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thank you michelle lindsay would you
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like me to reread the question
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got it okay so as a 15-year business
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owner myself i've
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been through this i've you know had to
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work through the growth
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working from home and figuring out
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hiring and all of that
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i will take a slightly different tact
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which is as a business owner i
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understand what the taxes situation is
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i feel very comfortable with issaquah's
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bno tax rate
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what i would like to see is being able
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to do that application online
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i can do that for the state i can do
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that for federal i can't
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do that for the city and that's a
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monthly
17:32
pain or a quarterly pain um the other
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thing i would say is
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since we're talking about the strategic
17:38
plan we really want to get down to the
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metrics so i know we know what our
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current job numbers are i'd like to see
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a little bit more on trends as far as a
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dashboard on that
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what is the growth rate and particularly
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are they coming from the small to medium
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business
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the work from home or from our larger
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employers
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and thus that helps set the ideas of how
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we want
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to work with each of these in order to
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pursue that growth
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i'd also say our chamber of commerce
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does an excellent job they
18:07
are rearing at the bit to help us out
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with this and i would love to see
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more engagement more welcoming from the
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city
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to bring their ideas in particularly
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on the growth idea thank you lindsay
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council president martz thank you all
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right
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if you could secure a one-time one
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million dollar federal grant for the
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city
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to be spent on anything operations or
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capital
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what would you pick and i believe this
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question is starting with michelle
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dangle a millionaire
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kid in the candy store here
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i think i would put it on infrastructure
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i think it's very important that
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we have the infrastructure by that i
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mean our police our safety
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first responders our schools our
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our parks the whole structure of what is
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issaquah
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once that funding's in place then with
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the money left over
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i'd like to see something innovative
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that these small to medium-sized
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business companies can step forward and
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look for grant money to help them
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whether it's in the arts the theater
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or in bringing in something new and
19:27
creative that will bring tourism into
19:29
into esqua
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lindsey would you like me to reread the
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question
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so um i think we've heard pretty clearly
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from our the citizens of issaquah that
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traffic and congestion is a major major
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issue
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most of those projects weigh more than a
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million dollars
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so they're not on the table things like
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um
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at providence point putting the light in
19:54
things like that that we know are on our
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agenda
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but what i would like to do is
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since it's a million dollar gift
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use it for something that you're going
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to be able to grow further in the future
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so much like the test that we did with
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the old down
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old town traffic calming which was a low
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cost
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area where we could test things out see
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if they work before putting the bigger
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money in we know where our problem areas
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are in the city
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and so if we were able to take that
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million dollars and roll
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out some tests whether that was extra
20:29
crosswalks or
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protected bike lanes or anything like
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that that would allow us to
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gather the data which often gets
20:38
pushed off because we don't have the
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money for that
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in order to figure out is this something
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that's going to make a dent
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for a budget that we could put forth
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from the general fund or something going
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forward
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thank you nancy catherine i was actually
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going to say something really similar to
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lindsay uh with a million dollar grant
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yeah you can't
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do a ton with
21:04
a million dollar in as far as the
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traffic situation
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but you can collect a bunch of data
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you can yeah
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put this money into something that we
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wouldn't otherwise
21:20
necessarily see the immediate benefit
21:23
and
21:24
growth to so by getting something to
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yeah see something that can grow into
21:31
a better idea so that we know exactly or
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or we know with
21:35
better confidence how much something is
21:37
going to cost
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and doing the homework on that um
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that's what i would want to do it for
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seeing
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putting in the research the data to see
21:51
how much something's going to
21:53
cost in the future thank you catherine
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so we have given each of our council
21:58
members an opportunity to ask a question
22:00
thank you for your thoughtful questions
22:02
thank you for participating on the panel
22:05
and tina thank you for your timekeeping
22:06
that was awesome
22:08
right now the council has um
22:11
choices you can proceed to nominations
22:16
you can also decide as a council body to
22:19
go into executive session and discuss
22:21
qualifications and come back
22:23
to the live session to proceed with
22:27
nominations so it's really up to you now
22:29
what you would like to do next
22:32
any suggestions
22:36
anybody interested in an executive
22:37
session i am
22:40
uh is that the will of the body then
22:42
let's enter executive session
22:43
let's do that okay we're going to be
22:46
entering executive session do we need to
22:47
state an amount of time
22:49
we do okay should we start with 20
22:52
minutes
22:56
okay great 20 minutes
23:00
now you do remember you can't come back
23:02
we cannot come back early
23:04
so you're good with 20 do we want to do
23:07
15.
23:08
you can always extend but you cannot
23:11
leave
23:11
the room early 17 15. okay we will
23:14
proceed into executive session for 15
23:16
minutes
23:19
so we are back on air um we have
23:22
returned from the executive session
23:23
where the council was considering
23:25
qualifications
23:26
and discussing qualifications um i'm
23:29
gonna
23:29
explain a little bit about process
23:31
before i open it up for nominations
23:33
so the process will be i will open it up
23:35
for nominations and we will
23:38
see which candidates are nominated
23:41
when we close the nominations
23:45
we will then take a voice vote on all
23:48
those that were nominated
23:50
do you have any questions nominations do
23:53
or do not require a second
23:55
they do not they do not just so
23:57
everybody
23:58
good question and then you have the
24:00
opportunity to
24:02
close the nomination process by vote or
24:06
as long as there's no objection on
24:08
closing the nomination
24:10
so you have two routes on closing
24:15
are there any other questions about the
24:17
process before we begin
24:21
seeing none i now open the nominations
24:24
for oh
24:24
i have one remember no worries so
24:28
we'll do nominations we'll close
24:29
nominations and then you said we would
24:30
go into a vote is there
24:32
any kind of deliberations before there
24:34
is discussion before you vote
24:36
so there will be an opportunity for
24:38
those that nominated
24:39
to provide some information to the rest
24:42
of the council members on why they
24:43
chose to do the nomination
24:49
okay i have a question about the process
24:51
um i saw a note in there about
24:53
your view on tie breaking do you want to
24:57
elaborate that before so in the event of
25:00
a tie there are several
25:02
options that the council has to consider
25:04
one is to go back into executive session
25:06
and talk to each other again for 15
25:08
minutes
25:10
another would be for them to i'm going
25:12
to use the wrong word
25:14
move it forward will spawn or continue
25:17
continue to a date certain
25:21
which would allow you more opportunity
25:23
to engage with
25:25
the different applicants and the third
25:27
option is that the mayor can break a tie
25:30
so i'm going to strongly encourage you
25:32
to do one
25:33
and two i think that we have really good
25:37
candidates and i think you've had the
25:38
opportunity to
25:40
touch base with them and talk with them
25:42
and should be able to select one of the
25:44
three for the position
25:47
good question any other questions about
25:49
process before we open it up for
25:51
nominations
25:52
i'm sure that's the president i just i
25:54
and i don't want to put words in your
25:55
mouth but i just i read it
25:57
i read in here in the event of an
25:58
initial thai vote mayor polly has opted
26:00
to temporarily waive her right to break
26:02
the tie so in a first vote that's going
26:04
to
26:04
those two other options which is i'll
26:06
encourage you to go into executive
26:08
session
26:09
and i will also ask you to consider
26:10
whether or not you would like to
26:11
postpone
26:12
that's what that means okay i just
26:14
wanted to do it no that's good that's a
26:16
different way so thank you for asking
26:17
that
26:18
any other questions on process
26:21
okay i know they're excited so here we
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go
26:24
i now open the nominations for council
26:27
position number four
26:28
council member we're interested i'd like
26:30
to nominate michelle kemper
26:33
you are there any other nominations
26:39
council member hunt nominate lindsay
26:41
walsh
26:43
thank you are there any other
26:50
nominations is there a
26:52
motion to close nominations nominations
26:56
okay it's been moved and seconded all
26:59
those in favor of closing nominations
27:00
for council position number four
27:02
signify by saying aye aye let's opposed
27:06
that passes unanimously council
27:09
discussion
27:11
so before we vote on the first nominee
27:14
is there any discussion and council
27:16
member winter stein i'll
27:17
start with you say something thank you i
27:20
don't have prepared remarks
27:24
always extremely grateful for anybody
27:25
who steps forward and says
27:27
i'd like to serve the public in this way
27:29
we all know it's not an uh
27:31
you know it's a difficult job very
27:32
demanding it's also an opportunity that
27:35
comes around on a pretty regular basis
27:37
and there are different routes on which
27:39
to get here
27:40
and i know you're all very well versed
27:41
in that
27:43
my nomination of michelle is is an
27:46
expression and a belief
27:48
that what you represent and what you
27:51
would mean to this council in the city
27:53
i think best uh meets what
27:56
i believe is necessary and at the same
27:59
time and in no way it's not an
28:01
expression
28:02
at all about my perception of the
28:04
qualifications for
28:05
for either of you um uh you'll i'll say
28:08
it and you'll probably hear it again
28:10
tonight as well
28:11
that all of you possess uh
28:14
lindsay and katie as well the capability
28:17
the tools the potential the kind of
28:18
things that i know could serve this city
28:20
well on this council and serve our
28:22
citizens and work with the rest of us
28:23
there's no doubt in my mind but
28:26
i nominated michelle um
28:30
for principally because of the
28:33
um and i and i used a word earlier i'm
28:36
going to use a different word
28:38
but i look up at the makeup of this
28:40
council our strengths
28:42
our backgrounds what we bring together
28:44
how we work
28:45
uh and i truly believe in in a
28:49
marketplace
28:50
a way in which issues are thought of
28:53
discussed
28:54
uh and and decided upon in a group and
28:57
and new perspectives that are well
29:00
represented that
29:01
that bring an experience and a
29:02
perspective to such a dialogue
29:05
enriches the conversation uh and
29:08
generally leads to better conclusions
29:10
and it's my assessment that michelle you
29:13
know with your
29:13
your particular uh traits and
29:17
work experience and and where you did
29:19
that work um
29:20
is j it will be of benefit to the
29:23
council in this city
29:25
thank you councilmember richardson
29:27
councilmember hunt would you like to
29:29
have some time for discussion yes so a
29:32
year ago i went through this process and
29:34
i just wanted to
29:35
first of all say thank you so much for
29:36
all sticking with it
29:38
and for participating and we're in a
29:40
good position today that we have
29:41
several good choices and so i i
29:44
appreciate that it is a difficult um or
29:47
sometimes a challenging process
29:49
and thank you all very much
29:52
so i am nominating lindsay this evening
29:54
because um
29:56
i think that first of all she has shown
29:58
a tenacity and a stick-to-itiveness
30:01
um this is her second time through the
30:03
process and she's
30:04
come forward with new ideas and new
30:06
perspectives and i think that
30:08
she she brings although she is very
30:12
familiar with the issues she also brings
30:13
a new perspective on those issues
30:16
and then i i also really value
30:19
the long-term commitment that i think
30:21
she's shown through planning policy
30:23
as well as um this being the second time
30:27
applying for council
30:28
um and then also i think on a number of
30:31
issues
30:32
uh lindsay brings a different
30:33
perspective and something for us
30:35
to consider and i think that this is
30:38
especially valuable for council because
30:40
these new ideas i think
30:43
are whether or not i agree with them
30:44
they give us
30:46
the ability to formulate why we don't
30:49
agree or why we agree so i think that
30:51
the generation of creative
30:54
options for the council to consider is
30:56
another reason why
30:57
i have valued lindsay's input from
31:00
planning policy and why i'm nominating
31:01
her
31:02
thank you and now open it up to any
31:04
other council members who would like to
31:06
add
31:07
comments to this discussion
31:10
council president so by my telly this is
31:13
this is my fifth time doing this
31:15
um and and i will say and i hope it
31:17
doesn't sound like a cliche
31:18
um this is the most difficult um
31:21
appointment that i have been involved in
31:23
any of the three first of all each of
31:25
the three of you has has shown to be
31:27
the strongest in differing areas of uh
31:31
aspects that would be valuable on the
31:32
council and so any of the three of you
31:35
would be a joy to work with and that's
31:37
why this is so hard
31:38
because at the end of the day we have to
31:40
pick one and not the other two so i will
31:41
say
31:42
the thing that i will then say the thing
31:44
i have said before which is run for
31:45
office if you don't get appointed uh the
31:48
deadline for filing is less than four
31:50
and a half months away
31:51
uh there will be three council seats up
31:53
for uh
31:55
three or four four four uh so
31:58
i you know whoever doesn't get it i hope
32:00
to see again
32:02
i will say that i am also supporting uh
32:06
the nomination of michelle in this case
32:08
i feel that her executive experience
32:11
um has shown through in her in her
32:14
responses
32:15
and it um she would bring a skill set
32:17
that i don't think
32:18
is um uh as represented on council at
32:22
present
32:23
um as it could be and so while the other
32:26
two candidates are great
32:28
that's where my that's where i'm going
32:29
to start off with this evening
32:31
thank you is there any other discussion
32:33
before we go to the vote and i will
32:35
explain the process of voting council
32:36
member goodman thank you
32:38
as will be said several times tonight
32:42
i mean we just can't go wrong the
32:44
community can't go wrong
32:46
because you all are just
32:51
equally qualified in so many different
32:53
ways
32:54
and so i'm just thrilled that all of you
32:58
are here
32:58
and that all of you applied and uh
33:01
so it it's it is really a tough decision
33:04
um
33:05
my my decision
33:09
really is based upon
33:13
much of what council member hunt said
33:15
and that is that
33:17
not that either one of you
33:21
catherine or michelle wouldn't do a
33:22
great job you just you just would
33:24
but lindsay has
33:28
worked in my opinion very hard
33:31
for to be on council and
33:35
i have every reason to believe that she
33:38
will make a fine council member
33:39
and have not been convinced that
33:43
she shouldn't be afforded that
33:44
opportunity based on the work that she's
33:46
done over the past few years to get here
33:48
that's that's the sole reason um but
33:51
you know like tola said whoever doesn't
33:53
um get it tonight i hope you stay
33:55
involved because you're all very very
33:57
valuable and thank you again for
33:58
applying
34:00
any other discussion
34:04
um this is really hard and and i can say
34:06
with great honesties i don't have any
34:08
idea
34:09
where i'm going um
34:12
and i'm gonna these are notes i made um
34:15
that we talked about just moments ago
34:17
and i think all three of you are are
34:20
marvelous and in completely different
34:21
ways um
34:23
you know catherine tonight or katie the
34:26
other time i talk to you
34:28
you are massively creative and you bring
34:31
a fresh perspective to problem solving
34:32
that i completely admire
34:34
and and lindsay your grasp of the issues
34:37
is
34:38
um is incredible and michelle your your
34:41
poise and
34:42
your competence and your background um
34:44
you know make you an
34:46
excellent candidate so i i am completely
34:49
um you know game day decision on on on
34:54
this one so
34:55
is that done and it's half time
34:58
council member petite so first of all i
35:02
just want to start out by thanking each
35:04
of you
35:04
for coming forward and all the work that
35:07
goes into the appointment process i've
35:09
sat
35:09
in your seat before um and it's a
35:12
it's a bit nerve-wracking and i i wanted
35:15
to echo what
35:17
what you've heard this evening is that
35:19
all three of you
35:21
uh would do an amazing job on council
35:23
and so this is an incredibly
35:25
tough decision you all have these great
35:28
strengths in different areas
35:30
and that makes the decision all the
35:32
harder
35:33
tonight i'm going to be supporting
35:37
lindsay for the position
35:40
i i think lindsay has really
35:44
shown um so much work with the pcc
35:48
i've seen her at many many council
35:51
meetings
35:51
i i just appreciate her tenacity
35:56
but also just a fresh perspective and a
35:58
really deep
35:59
understanding of the issues i had the
36:02
opportunity to have
36:04
conversations with each of you um and
36:07
just
36:08
just got so much out of it and i again
36:11
want to
36:11
thank you for your time and i hope
36:15
that as we go forward if if one of you
36:18
are not
36:19
not the person chosen that you really
36:21
will stay involved and
36:23
run for election or or find a way within
36:25
the city that
36:26
you can that you can give back because
36:29
you all have so much to offer
36:32
thank you is there any other discussion
36:36
before we go to the vote okay
36:39
before i go through the process i just
36:42
wanted to let you know
36:43
that five of the seven electeds up here
36:46
have all gone through the process
36:48
and only three were picked through this
36:50
process
36:51
two had to run for office to get the
36:53
seat so it seems unusual
36:55
that we have repeated this in the last
36:57
few years but
36:59
i appreciate your courage and your
37:00
bravery and your confidence
37:02
to put your hat in the ring thank you
37:03
very much for doing this
37:05
so the process each council member has
37:08
one vote to cast for the nominee of
37:10
their choice
37:11
the votes will be taken by a show of
37:12
hands and the first nominee to receive
37:15
four votes will be appointed
37:17
i will call the vote in order of the
37:20
nomination we can have
37:22
voice and show of hands voice and show
37:25
of hands
37:25
did i not read that right okay voice and
37:28
show of hands
37:30
so all those in favor of appointing
37:33
michelle kemper
37:34
signify by saying i and a show of hands
37:38
three all those in favor of
37:42
uh lindsay walsh signify by saying aye
37:46
aye council is tied
37:49
so now you have some considerations if
37:52
you
37:53
feel that you can break the tie
37:56
by additional discussion right now on
37:58
camera you can
37:59
if you would like to recess into
38:02
executive session
38:03
you can and if somebody would like to
38:05
make a case for postponement to a future
38:07
date
38:08
you can do that
38:12
so let's step through the options is
38:15
there general sense that additional
38:16
discussion tonight on camera will get
38:18
you
38:19
to a different vote i'm not seeing it
38:24
councilmember winterstein more
38:26
discussion on camera
38:35
i would con you know last time we did
38:37
this
38:38
we got to the same point actually there
38:40
wasn't somebody with four
38:41
and i my vote was in the minority and
38:44
and i decided i knew that there was
38:47
you know i could easily um uh
38:50
think that we're doing the right thing
38:51
for the city by switching my vote and we
38:53
we went right through it really really
38:55
quick
38:55
so i say that just to remind all of us
38:57
that are here that possibility possible
39:01
that's possible and the situation arises
39:03
in this particular case
39:04
um and um i agree with my other
39:07
colleagues
39:08
uh that uh
39:11
that lindsay would be an excellent
39:15
council person as well and yet this
39:18
evening
39:19
i'm remaining firm at this point with my
39:20
vote so
39:23
i don't have i'm not going to switch and
39:25
flip the vote look at it last time
39:27
that's remember right
39:29
i wonder if we might spend 15 minutes uh
39:31
an executive session to
39:33
will agree that's true i agree through
39:34
some of this okay
39:36
sorry boy you guys are making a tough
39:40
okay i think we will recess
39:44
into executive session for 15 minutes
40:00
thank you so we are back from our second
40:04
executive session and i'm just going to
40:07
give a little summary of where we are in
40:09
the process the council elected to go
40:11
into executive session
40:12
to consider qualifications after the
40:16
first vote this evening resulted
40:18
in no candidate receiving four votes
40:21
at this point in the process the council
40:24
could can somebody could consider a
40:27
motion
40:28
to um give me the right word tina to
40:32
revoke on the nominees we vote on the
40:34
nominees or
40:35
continue so those are the two options
40:38
you have left so i need to get a general
40:39
sense from the council if anybody'd like
40:41
to motion
40:41
otherwise i will re-call for the votes
40:44
on the
40:45
two nominees i mean i will call them
40:49
again
40:49
call the vote again on the two nominees
40:52
we have
40:54
that's my winston continue means what
40:56
again i thought
40:57
we had you would be pausing this process
41:00
to allow for additional discussion with
41:03
the candidates
41:04
and pushing the vote to another date
41:07
and we still have other options
41:08
available to us
41:12
you we can we can go taivo and we can
41:15
cycle through
41:16
again in the game so
41:20
if there is no motion then i will
41:24
call for the all those in favor of the
41:28
first
41:28
nominee and we'll repeat the process we
41:30
did before
41:32
all those in favor of appointing
41:34
michelle kemper
41:35
signify by saying i and a show of hands
41:39
that's three all those in favor
41:43
of uh lindsay walsh signify by saying i
41:46
in a show of hands hi okay
41:49
three we're tied so at this point uh you
41:53
have the same options you had before
41:56
you can continue discussion on camera
41:58
you can go to executive session
42:00
you can move to continue or the mayor
42:03
can choose to break the time
42:09
council president mark i would move to
42:10
continue to the next council meeting
42:13
to allow further discussion
42:16
with the two remaining candidates by the
42:18
city council members
42:20
do we need a second is there a second
42:24
second it's been moved and seconded
42:28
to continue the discussion
42:31
council discussion on the motion as as
42:33
the maker of the motion
42:36
i think we all have ample evidence that
42:38
we have strong candidates
42:40
here tonight and i think that
42:43
i have a hope that um
42:46
that each uh the candidate the two
42:48
candidates who
42:49
who have gotten to this point have shown
42:51
ample interest in communicating with us
42:53
and communicating their vision and we
42:55
have talked to and they've referenced
42:57
their conversations with us in their
42:59
answers and my hope is that
43:01
by spending some more time we could
43:05
uh get a little further clarity i have
43:08
said that all these candidates are good
43:09
so i'm not
43:10
i'm not hard over um
43:14
and i also would prefer not to put the
43:17
mayor in the position to be a tiebreaker
43:19
so that's why i would like to go this
43:22
direction
43:22
additional discussion councilmember
43:24
interesting
43:26
i am not going to support this motion
43:29
i would like to see this uh concluded
43:32
this evening
43:33
and uh feel that as an elected
43:36
representative of the people
43:38
i would ask the mayor to cast her vote
43:40
and i think that would be fair
43:42
so if this doesn't pass i'm going to
43:44
make i'm going to move in that direction
43:48
discussion um i don't support the motion
43:51
either i think we
43:52
we've already had a process that's
43:55
linkedly lengthier than any other
43:56
process that we've had
43:58
and i think to delay it anymore
44:02
is not necessary i mean
44:05
we all know we have great we have great
44:08
applicants
44:08
and but i don't see any need to delay it
44:11
any further
44:12
we can break a tie
44:16
one way or the other discussion
44:20
because customer head i am
44:24
persuaded i think by my fellow council
44:26
members um councilmember winterstein and
44:29
goodman i think this is a
44:32
challenging process and i recall sitting
44:35
in the chair and thinking that you know
44:37
a decision was going to be made and so i
44:39
would like to see
44:41
um i would like to see a decision made
44:43
this evening
44:44
any other discussion deputy council
44:46
president batiste
44:48
so i i very much appreciate the the
44:52
motion um on on the table and
44:55
uh can understand the reasoning behind
44:57
that but on
44:59
the flip side uh having
45:02
sat in the the seat and gone through the
45:05
appointment process and
45:07
this particular process has given us
45:09
some additional
45:12
time with the candidates in some
45:14
different ways so
45:16
my concern would be that we
45:19
take more time and and may still be
45:22
where we're at
45:23
um so i i think that
45:26
uh i would like to see us move forward
45:29
madam mayor i withdraw my motion
45:32
second degree no okay
45:35
keep it on the table it's a lot of
45:37
parliamentary procedure you're all
45:38
learning tonight
45:39
council member ray so um i appreciate
45:42
the difficult situation
45:44
that you're in and you know waiting
45:46
another two weeks to make a decision
45:51
it must be quite frustrating and
45:53
agonizing
45:54
but i don't believe it is if we don't
45:58
if we continue on the path we are in
46:00
then
46:01
to council member winter science point
46:03
it will fall to the mayor to break the
46:04
tie
46:05
and i believe it is this body not um
46:08
that is the city council's
46:09
responsibility to
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fill this vacancy not the mayor's
46:13
responsibility to fill this vacancy and
46:15
i would like
46:15
us to i would like us the council to
46:18
give a little more
46:19
effort into getting ourselves in a place
46:23
where we can
46:24
do our response our job which is to fill
46:27
this vacancy and not ask
46:29
not hunt and ask the mayor to make our
46:31
decision for us
46:32
so that is why i really would like to
46:34
not withdraw the motion and i really
46:36
would like to continue this
46:38
despite the difficulties that i know are
46:41
associated with it is your additional
46:43
discussion
46:44
a question for the clerk um does the
46:47
motion need to contain a date
46:51
i believe communicated oh it did say
46:54
nice meeting okay i missed that
46:56
so can you read me the emotion back it
46:58
would be
46:59
to continue um consideration of the
47:03
nominees
47:05
at the council meeting of february 19th
47:12
so it's been moved in second to consider
47:14
consent to continue consideration
47:16
of the nominees at the february 19th
47:20
council
47:20
18th uh 18th story 18th
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all those in favor to continue please
47:33
say aye hi
47:34
hey could you raise your hands opposed
47:38
the motion fails four to two you
47:41
do have the option to continue to
47:44
discuss qualifications you do
47:46
have the option to take another vote
47:48
what is your desire
47:53
so you didn't list um
47:56
the option of the mayor bringing the tie
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so is there a procedural step that we
48:02
have yeah let's make that informal
48:04
and we'll hear that so does the
48:07
governing
48:08
does the council body um
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have an option on the table that says we
48:14
the body
48:15
choose to have the mayor break the time
48:19
actually it's the ability of the mayor
48:21
to take break a tie
48:22
is in your power um
48:26
and in my view you would have to take
48:29
another vote right now the votes have
48:31
been counted
48:32
on both of the candidates on the last
48:35
vote you've had an intervening motion to
48:37
continue
48:38
which has failed you should if the mayor
48:41
is going to break a tie there should be
48:42
another vote on the candidates
48:44
assuming that that if that vote were to
48:47
result in a tie
48:48
then it would be fall to you mayor to
48:50
make your decision as to whether you
48:52
would break the tie
48:56
uh deputy council so i
48:59
i and i'm not sure if this is the right
49:01
time to bring this up but i'm thinking
49:02
about
49:03
what council member ray just spoke to
49:07
um and before we would go forward with
49:11
the mayor
49:12
breaking the tie i i may want us to
49:16
try uh a little more time this evening
49:19
with the council in executive session
49:22
yes
49:28
thoughts
49:32
councilmember weren't you saying well
49:33
since that was expressed uh i would want
49:36
i would
49:37
my first reaction is to want to answer
49:39
that and honor that
49:40
request it's not my first choice and
49:42
i'll all because
49:44
i think uh in in rebuttal to
49:48
what chris said earlier um
49:51
i don't feel at all that this council is
49:53
not doing what it's charged to do
49:56
um the fact is it's there's only six of
49:59
us
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and and um that is okay
50:04
i also feel like i said earlier and this
50:07
would be an encouragement to do that
50:08
um as an elected representative the
50:10
people who has real
50:12
care and concern about the outcome and
50:14
the
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and and what's good for the city i think
50:17
that our mayor has demonstrated you know
50:19
kind of thoughtful deliberation about
50:21
the options as well though she hasn't
50:22
shared that with us
50:24
i think that that would be a fair
50:26
outcome for the citizens
50:28
um if it went that route i'm not trying
50:32
to put anybody in a spot i think it's
50:33
trying to do what's best
50:36
thoughts i'm
50:40
councilmember goodman council president
50:41
mertz i'm i just want to say that i'm
50:44
certainly not opposed to the mayor
50:45
breaking the tie um
50:47
as paul said there's six
50:51
of us and i think in there would
50:55
it would be anticipated on almost
50:58
any agenda bill that comes before us
51:00
including the decision to
51:02
appoint someone to fill the vacancy
51:06
that there could be a 3-3 and that's why
51:08
we have that procedure in place and i'm
51:11
i'm comfortable with that
51:16
against prison mertz i support the
51:20
motion to go into executive session for
51:22
further discussion
51:23
um it isn't the end of the world if the
51:25
mayor has to be the tiebreaker but
51:28
i would love to take at least one more
51:30
stab at having a
51:32
qualifications conversation before we
51:33
put the mayor in that position
51:38
so it looks like the general consensus
51:41
is that we will go back into executive
51:43
session for 15 minutes
51:46
10 minutes head nods
51:49
and okay
51:56
thanks so we are
51:59
back from our executive session to
52:01
discuss candidate qualifications
52:04
and we are doing groundhog day here and
52:07
going back
52:08
to the part of our process
52:11
where we will be you will be voting
52:14
on the two nominees and i will list them
52:18
in the order that they were nominated
52:21
all those in favor of appointing
52:23
michelle kemper
52:24
signify by saying hi hi
52:28
it's three all those in favor of
52:31
appointing lindsay walsh say
52:34
i i three to three
52:38
so at this point in time you do that
52:41
vote again
52:44
yes because nobody's gotten four votes
52:46
yet
52:47
correct we have some options right
52:50
choosing not to break the tie at this
52:52
moment
52:53
he's asking if they can do a re-vote and
52:55
so i would
52:56
say that that is an option for them
53:00
so since no candidate has received four
53:02
votes we will
53:04
redo the voting i will call out the
53:06
names of the nominees in the order they
53:08
are nominated
53:09
all those in favor of appointing
53:10
michelle kemper say aye
53:14
that's two all those in favor of
53:16
appointing lindsay walsh
53:17
say aye hi hi that's four voids
53:21
um congratulations
53:24
to both of you i would like to
53:27
call lindsey walsh forward for the oath
53:28
of office
53:34
when it's up there draw us back here
53:40
um
53:54
i'm mary lou paulie having been duly
53:57
appointed
54:03
meet after me hi
54:07
lindsay having been duly appointed to
54:09
the office
54:10
having been duly appointed to the office
54:13
of city of issaquah council position
54:15
number four
54:16
of city of missouri council position
54:18
number four
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do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that
54:22
i will faithfully and
54:23
impartially that i will faithfully and
54:25
impartially
54:26
discharge the duties of this office
54:28
discharge the duties of this office
54:31
as prescribed by law as prescribed by
54:33
law and to the best of my ability
54:35
and to the best of my ability and that i
54:37
will support and maintain
54:39
and that i will support and maintain the
54:41
constitution of the state of washington
54:43
the constitution of the state of
54:45
washington and of the united states of
54:47
america
54:48
and of the united states of america
54:59
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55:04
recess
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uh we are back from our short five
55:12
minute break
55:13
and welcome council member walsh gets to
55:16
join the council this evening and is
55:17
seated with us
55:19
the next item on our agenda this evening
55:21
is audience comments
55:23
this is when audience members may
55:24
address the council the guidelines for
55:27
public participation
55:29
are not displayed on the screen but i
55:31
can read them if necessary
55:33
please limit your comments to three
55:35
minutes
55:37
those who signed up will be called
55:38
forward first if you did not sign up i
55:40
will ask for other speakers before
55:42
closing that portion of the meeting
55:44
and if you're here as part of a group
55:46
please identify
55:47
yourself as a spokesperson for the group
55:50
and if you are in the audience this
55:51
evening and want to indicate your
55:53
support for comments you're hearing
55:54
during audience comments please raise
55:56
your hand
55:57
tina has anyone signed up for this
55:58
evening or none
56:00
are there any members of the public who
56:02
would like to address the council during
56:03
audience comments
56:05
seeing none audience comments are closed
56:08
and we'll move to the committee in
56:09
regional reports
56:10
and we will skip council member walsh
56:13
and move to
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council member hunt uh thank you madam
56:18
mayor on
56:19
january 23rd i attended a special
56:21
meeting for the king conservation
56:23
district advisory committee
56:24
the meeting was part of the ongoing
56:27
discussions that kcd
56:28
is having around a proposal to increase
56:31
their parcel
56:32
per parcel fee which is the main funding
56:35
mechanism
56:36
of the king conservation district and
56:38
this discussion was
56:41
particular to the jurisdiction grants
56:44
which is part taken in before
56:48
so it is relevant to us and they
56:51
the discussion was around how to achieve
56:53
their goals around these grants which is
56:56
to fund creative and innovative
56:57
conservation
56:58
and um whether to increase that rate
57:01
proportionally as they're increasing
57:02
their per personal fee or to keep that
57:04
static and to allocate funds elsewhere
57:06
um and then also the land
57:10
february 7th is 6 30 in chancellor
57:13
chambers
57:14
and we have four items they are ab-7681
57:19
polygon personal d preliminary plat
57:22
issaquah highlands quasi-judicial
57:26
closed record ab-7682
57:29
proposed amendments 2018 comprehensive
57:32
plan centralisation imc
57:34
central standards ab-7683 amendments to
57:38
imc
57:40
18.07.480 community facility standards
57:42
regarding public buildings and
57:44
ab7726 2019 docketive comprehensive plan
57:48
amendments
57:49
and this concludes my report thank you
57:51
councilmember ray
57:52
the services and safety committee will
57:54
be meeting on february 12th at 6
57:56
30 p.m in council chambers likely agenda
58:00
items include a b 7702 amending imc
58:04
9.05 criminal code to align better with
58:07
state statute
58:08
and ab 7723
58:11
amending imc 2.20.040
58:16
changing cemetery cemetery fee
58:19
increases and that concludes my report
58:22
this evening thank you councilmember ray
58:23
councilmember winterstein
58:24
thank you the next meeting of the
58:26
futuretown regional council's growth
58:28
management policy board
58:29
is this thursday two days from now on
58:32
the 7th of february
58:34
and the issues of
58:37
the bulk of the issues and the agenda
58:39
again pertain to
58:41
the development of vision 2050 and
58:44
we are there's no action involved we
58:47
will have a number of discussion and
58:49
breakout sessions
58:50
around the general topics of equity
58:53
housing and the implementation and
58:56
accountability
58:58
uh sections within vision all of these
59:00
have basis in the current vision 2040
59:03
and what happens is the
59:06
staff and there's been quite a bit
59:08
they've had quite a few
59:09
you know public touches over the last
59:10
year they bring together that
59:12
information
59:13
their and their own kind of technical
59:15
expertise they present
59:17
kind of how equity exists may be
59:19
represented in the current form of
59:21
vision
59:22
and then discuss alternatives on
59:25
their recommendations on how it may be
59:27
expanded or updated in the next vision
59:29
and then we just talk about them
59:31
as a policy board uh and it will be
59:34
in the future all of these will come
59:37
back
59:37
uh with kind of a formal recommendation
59:40
from the staff
59:40
so we're still kind of continuing with
59:43
discussion about these very aspects of
59:45
vision
59:46
that is thursday and then on the 21st of
59:50
february we
59:51
have planned i am going to be chairing
59:53
the council infrastructure committee
59:54
meeting
59:55
lindsay look forward to seeing you on
59:57
that along with
59:58
stacy's other members i believe that's
1:00:01
right
1:00:02
and uh there it's on the calendar that
1:00:04
we're going to have a meeting
1:00:05
on thursday the 21st of february
1:00:08
the agenda has not yet been set there's
1:00:10
nothing in this
1:00:11
packet that would move something there
1:00:13
though uh
1:00:14
uh director lin and i are um lynn are
1:00:17
gonna
1:00:18
have a conversation uh uh next week
1:00:22
and um if indeed there's gonna be a
1:00:24
meeting we have an agenda item then
1:00:25
we'll we'll go through the formal
1:00:27
channels but this at this point i do not
1:00:29
know what an agenda would be that
1:00:32
concludes my report
1:00:33
thank you councilmember goodman thank
1:00:35
you madam mayor eastside fire and rescue
1:00:38
board will meet on february 14 at 4 p.m
1:00:42
at headquarters on newport way and the
1:00:44
agenda has not yet been set
1:00:46
that's my report thank you deputy
1:00:48
council president bates
1:00:50
thank you madam mayor tomorrow on
1:00:53
february 6 the psrc
1:00:56
economic development district board will
1:00:58
meet and will be discussing
1:01:00
the global trade and supply chain
1:01:02
management economic sector analysis that
1:01:05
is expected to be released in
1:01:08
2019 in addition to
1:01:11
the washington state global health
1:01:13
landscape study
1:01:14
which was released december of 2018
1:01:18
that is something that speaks to
1:01:20
washington-based organizations working
1:01:22
in
1:01:23
global health and that concludes my
1:01:25
report
1:01:26
thank you council president martz thank
1:01:29
you madam mayor the sound cities
1:01:30
association public issues committee
1:01:32
is actually going to skip the february
1:01:34
meeting because people are off
1:01:36
at the national association of cities
1:01:40
so the next meeting will be held on
1:01:41
wednesday march 13th
1:01:43
at 7 am in renton city hall the agenda
1:01:46
of course has not been
1:01:47
developed yet king county growth
1:01:49
management policy council gmtc
1:01:51
will meet wednesday february 27th at 4
1:01:53
pm in psrc
1:01:55
chambers downtown on the agenda
1:01:58
full agenda has not been defined but it
1:01:59
will at least include
1:02:01
the new housing committee composition
1:02:04
and work plan for the affordable housing
1:02:06
task force recommendation as well as an
1:02:08
update on vision 2050
1:02:10
so to see what our friends over at gmpb
1:02:12
are doing uh
1:02:13
this concludes my report thank you
1:02:16
moving to the mayor's report the
1:02:18
short report for this evening um
1:02:20
executive session there will be another
1:02:22
executive session held this evening
1:02:24
to discuss pending potential litigation
1:02:27
for rcw
1:02:29
42.30.110 paren one for ni
1:02:32
this item is expected to last 30 minutes
1:02:34
action will not follow
1:02:36
in open session
1:02:39
proceeding to the consent calendar the
1:02:41
consent calendar was distributed to
1:02:43
council in advance
1:02:44
if authorized the items on the consent
1:02:46
calendar will be considered together and
1:02:48
approved by one motion
1:02:49
have the payables and payroll been
1:02:51
reviewed
1:02:53
does any council member desire to remove
1:02:55
any item from the consent calendar and
1:02:57
consider it under regular business
1:03:02
uh can i have a motion to approve the
1:03:03
calendar madam mayor i move we adopt the
1:03:05
consent calendar is listed in this
1:03:07
evening's published agenda
1:03:09
second it's been moved and seconded all
1:03:11
those in favor signify by saying aye
1:03:14
aye those opposed that passes
1:03:17
unanimously
1:03:18
the next item on the agenda is under
1:03:20
regular business
1:03:22
ab7715 front street
1:03:25
streetscape phase one project this is
1:03:27
coming out of the infrastructure
1:03:29
committee
1:03:30
and i'd like to invite public works
1:03:31
director sheldon lin
1:03:33
to make a presentation as you mentioned
1:03:45
ab-7715 was referred to
1:03:47
the infrastructure committee and is now
1:03:49
coming back from committee
1:03:51
i in committee they had a brief
1:03:56
presentation about what the project
1:03:57
entailed and
1:04:00
the request for providing a revenue
1:04:03
source was brought back
1:04:05
to the full council from the committee
1:04:08
and put on regular business this evening
1:04:11
so as a reminder
1:04:12
this agenda bill is requesting council's
1:04:14
consideration
1:04:15
to provide a revenue source to support
1:04:17
the adopted 2019
1:04:18
expenditure for the streetscape
1:04:20
improvements alongside street
1:04:23
in my presentation i'll give a short
1:04:25
project description
1:04:27
it's history followed by alternatives to
1:04:30
address the revenue
1:04:31
need the project itself
1:04:35
uh entails the area within the uh
1:04:40
box in purple i it entails the
1:04:43
installation of five street trees
1:04:45
irrigation movable planters with seating
1:04:48
some a couple of decorative screenings
1:04:51
some benches
1:04:52
trash recycling receptacles and bicycle
1:04:55
racks
1:04:56
this is the smaller scale or piece of a
1:04:59
larger project
1:05:00
called the front street streetscape
1:05:02
project in 2016
1:05:05
and part of 2017 economic development
1:05:08
department
1:05:09
publicly engaged the downtown businesses
1:05:11
and community
1:05:12
to plan what front street streetscape
1:05:14
would look like
1:05:17
the plan the project plan was adopted
1:05:20
via an agenda bill in april of 2017 by
1:05:23
the city council
1:05:24
and then again included as one of the
1:05:26
projects in the 2018-2022 cip
1:05:30
what is proposed contains the same
1:05:32
elements and is part of the larger
1:05:34
adopted project
1:05:38
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1:05:40
the funding history of this project once
1:05:43
it was adopted in the 2018-22 cip
1:05:47
the revenue source at that time was
1:05:49
identified to be debt service
1:05:51
it was a larger project however
1:05:54
in 2018
1:05:57
the council
1:06:01
put in the 2018 budget about a hundred
1:06:04
and fifty six thousand dollars
1:06:06
uh to do a phase one essentially what i
1:06:09
was describing earlier
1:06:11
in this presentation uh however
1:06:14
in 2018 the revenue source was still
1:06:17
supposed to be a larger
1:06:19
part of a larger debt issuance
1:06:20
associated with other projects
1:06:22
so that we weren't so the city wasn't
1:06:24
issuing a small debt
1:06:25
issuance for this project
1:06:28
no debt issuance occurred in 2018
1:06:32
of which this project would have been
1:06:33
incorporated within
1:06:35
in 2019 the council again adopted budget
1:06:40
with this 156 000
1:06:45
in it but it did not identify a revenue
1:06:47
source other than what was in the cip
1:06:51
which the cfb continues to say that it
1:06:53
is a pet issuance
1:06:54
the administration does not recommend
1:06:57
using service for this small amount
1:07:03
funding alternatives are
1:07:04
[Music]
1:07:07
using the fund balance of the general
1:07:08
fund or
1:07:10
the council could delay the project and
1:07:11
include in the funding discussion for
1:07:13
currently unfunded projects
1:07:15
which the finance ad hoc committee is
1:07:17
currently in discussion over
1:07:18
or it could use a combination of the
1:07:20
tree mitigation fund
1:07:22
and the fund balance in the general fund
1:07:26
all three of these are options that the
1:07:27
council has the administration's
1:07:29
recommendation
1:07:30
is to use the fund balance
1:07:35
if there's any questions thank you
1:07:37
sheldon
1:07:38
questions councilmember hunt followed by
1:07:41
council member walsh um
1:07:45
so my first question is about the um
1:07:49
the locations of the different
1:07:52
furniture and in particular
1:07:56
so i know that some of the businesses on
1:07:57
the street have changed since
1:07:59
the streetscape was adopted
1:08:02
and so i wondered if those locations are
1:08:04
set or if they're still
1:08:06
being determined being worked out with
1:08:08
the businesses that are
1:08:09
there i don't know the exact locations
1:08:12
of all the street furniture
1:08:13
the screens are shown in
1:08:19
circles the purpose of the screening
1:08:23
is to screen the diagonal parking that
1:08:26
is off the street
1:08:28
from the people that are actually on the
1:08:30
street walking around
1:08:31
so there's an actual performance need
1:08:33
for those
1:08:34
from an aesthetic perspective an end
1:08:36
user perspective so the screen locations
1:08:38
would be set
1:08:41
and then this is for part of the street
1:08:43
but is the idea to
1:08:45
use screens on other parts of the street
1:08:47
as the
1:08:48
as enters the next phase of the
1:08:51
streetscape
1:08:52
we just evaluated this area and have
1:08:54
been in company
1:08:55
and conversation with the businesses and
1:08:58
so forth as we were
1:08:59
selecting street furniture and things of
1:09:01
that sort
1:09:03
um and then i i did have a follow-up
1:09:04
question which we discussed a little bit
1:09:06
at
1:09:07
the council infrastructure committee
1:09:08
meeting um
1:09:10
but i i'm still a little bit unclear
1:09:13
and i got a there was a letter um from
1:09:16
the downtown issaquah association that
1:09:18
sort of added
1:09:19
to the discussion so i wondered if we
1:09:21
could get some more information about
1:09:23
what the businesses that are directly
1:09:25
adjacent to
1:09:27
in particular the screens and in
1:09:28
particular the one that is
1:09:31
indicated through the restaurant because
1:09:32
i know that there's a side business
1:09:34
there which will be
1:09:35
locked by the screen
1:09:38
so christopher economic development has
1:09:42
been a conversation with businesses
1:09:46
certainly hi my name is christopher
1:09:49
wright and i'm with the city's economic
1:09:50
development department
1:09:52
uh with regard to uh the the discussions
1:09:55
we've had with those adjacent businesses
1:09:57
um we've talked to owls folly who
1:10:01
is the new tenant of the crawl bar space
1:10:05
and we've also talked to the edward
1:10:07
jones
1:10:08
tenant and the building owner of that
1:10:10
building as well
1:10:12
the concerns that they both expressed
1:10:14
were similar in that they wanted to make
1:10:16
sure that the screens that are
1:10:18
installed can be seen through you know
1:10:21
a certain amount of visibility through
1:10:24
them
1:10:25
for different reasons alice foley is
1:10:27
concerned about their business being
1:10:28
blocked
1:10:29
whereas edward jones they're more
1:10:31
concerned about security
1:10:33
and that's why they want to be able to
1:10:34
see through it so that and they wanted
1:10:37
to make sure that the
1:10:38
the walkways are maintained adjacent to
1:10:40
the buildings
1:10:41
so i think if you look at the original
1:10:42
streetscape plan the screens were going
1:10:44
right up to the walls
1:10:46
but we want to make sure that we agree
1:10:48
that there should be the walkways
1:10:50
maintained
1:10:51
next to the wall so those were the
1:10:52
couple of concerns that they had
1:10:54
and we've told them that we're going to
1:10:56
continue as the
1:10:58
screen selection process goes through
1:11:01
uh through the arts commission we're
1:11:03
going to continue to
1:11:04
to ask for their input during the the
1:11:06
selection process for the
1:11:08
design of the walls okay so i i do hear
1:11:12
that they had
1:11:13
concerns um and so were those
1:11:17
um and and i didn't also get a sense
1:11:20
that those concerns were ultimately
1:11:21
resolved but it is ongoing discussion so
1:11:24
were they is the tone that they
1:11:28
are thinking that there's a way to
1:11:30
resolve those concerns or the concerns
1:11:32
are yeah and i can't totally speak for
1:11:36
them but i do know that
1:11:37
again edward jones especially you know
1:11:40
they're they're they're more
1:11:41
uh optimistic that that that
1:11:44
we're gonna be able to work through the
1:11:46
the design process and they said i'll
1:11:48
also follow two i'd say maybe they're
1:11:49
skeptical
1:11:50
uh but they're certainly willing to work
1:11:52
with us on that
1:11:54
as we narrow down the design
1:12:06
and councilmember hunt i can come back
1:12:08
to you and let councilmember walsh ask
1:12:10
question
1:12:11
because it looks like you have some more
1:12:12
um
1:12:15
i i do have one more um so that this
1:12:18
this is about the tree mitigation fund
1:12:20
option specifically
1:12:22
so the tree mitigation funds we we had a
1:12:27
comment and an email from connie marsh
1:12:30
and she was asking about whether the
1:12:32
city had
1:12:34
paid into the tree fund when they
1:12:37
removed
1:12:38
the trees as part of or if this would be
1:12:41
taken from the tree mitigation fund
1:12:42
after removing trees without paying into
1:12:45
the
1:12:45
fund and so i wanted to ask that
1:12:47
question i don't
1:12:49
recall whether or not the city paid into
1:12:51
the fund
1:12:52
as a result of taking the trees off the
1:12:54
front street
1:12:56
the municipal code 18.12.180
1:13:00
specifically titled the city tree fund
1:13:03
provides for the city to be able to use
1:13:05
the money for for multiple purposes
1:13:08
one is to defray the cost of enforcing
1:13:10
the tree regulations
1:13:12
acquire maintain and preserve wooded
1:13:14
areas
1:13:15
to plant and maintain trees on publicly
1:13:18
owned property
1:13:19
which city streets are and provide urban
1:13:22
forestry education
1:13:23
so the code provides for the ability to
1:13:25
use tree fund money
1:13:27
on this project for planting trees
1:13:30
okay it was i guess was part of the
1:13:32
original plan to replace the trees
1:13:34
part of the original plan was replaced
1:13:36
trees but there was no money available
1:13:38
except for the fund balance
1:13:40
and then my last question is um at the
1:13:43
council infrastructure meeting we had a
1:13:45
discussion that
1:13:46
downtown israel association was going to
1:13:48
be able to do the watering
1:13:50
and then i received a letter which gave
1:13:51
me the impression that that is a
1:13:53
possibility
1:13:54
but not not
1:13:57
definitive and so i wanted to revisit
1:14:00
that because i want to know if there is
1:14:02
a plan
1:14:02
for maintenance that if that does not
1:14:06
end up being possible for them or
1:14:09
something that they would want to do
1:14:10
yeah dia has been maintaining and
1:14:13
watering
1:14:14
the existing pots that are out there
1:14:16
between sunset and alder
1:14:18
and so this isn't a new thing a new
1:14:21
program for them
1:14:22
they've already been doing it what
1:14:23
christina bruning who's the president of
1:14:25
dia
1:14:26
but neither she nor i could find though
1:14:28
was any kind of formal written agreement
1:14:30
between the city and dia that they do
1:14:32
that so we agree that now is a perfect
1:14:34
time
1:14:35
to formalize that and we don't see any
1:14:39
problems with that but
1:14:40
but we acknowledge we should formalize
1:14:42
the
1:14:43
agreement to maintain and monitor those
1:14:49
okay so is there so is there a plan in
1:14:52
case that
1:14:53
they with the city staff water them
1:14:56
in case they aren't able to well there's
1:14:59
basically three options one would be dia
1:15:01
the second would be that business owners
1:15:04
that have the planters in front of their
1:15:05
business
1:15:06
and then third would be the parks
1:15:08
department
1:15:10
and so like i said i'm not anticipating
1:15:12
that we would have to go to
1:15:13
the second or third options okay
1:15:17
um and just just so i can get into the
1:15:19
record what
1:15:20
um what i'm referring to this is in the
1:15:22
letter from christina bruning and it
1:15:24
says
1:15:25
it may be reasonable for dia to partner
1:15:26
in watering the planters however how
1:15:28
this is managed and the source of
1:15:29
funding are not finalized and mou
1:15:31
responsibilities will be necessary to
1:15:33
ensure
1:15:34
clear understanding and to manage
1:15:35
expectations and that's excellent
1:15:39
i would like to have that
1:15:43
i guess taken into consideration as we
1:15:45
consider how to maintain the streetscape
1:15:49
thank you councilmember walsh your first
1:15:52
question
1:15:53
thank you i have a few um first of all
1:15:56
i haven't seen connie's letter or dia
1:16:00
i'm not sure if anybody has any printed
1:16:02
copies
1:16:03
okay we're a little bit of a loss
1:16:05
tonight in our new home
1:16:07
yes indeed um secondarily i know
1:16:10
that since the 156 thousand three
1:16:15
hundred and seventy dollars i seem to
1:16:17
remember
1:16:17
seeing that number back when it was
1:16:20
first
1:16:21
considered by pbc and then in the cip
1:16:23
adoption in 2017.
1:16:25
has that number increased since it was
1:16:28
originally adopted to account for
1:16:32
an increase in construction costs or
1:16:34
whatever that would be in that
1:16:36
interim time the 156
1:16:40
370 uh wasn't shown as a pulled out cost
1:16:45
in the cip
1:16:46
because the cip was well over a million
1:16:48
dollars
1:16:49
at the time in 2000 i believe it was
1:16:53
2018 when the council wanted to fund
1:16:57
you know at least getting the trees and
1:16:59
some other streetscape in place uh
1:17:02
an estimate was given in 2018 for the
1:17:04
156 370.
1:17:07
uh based upon the engineer's estimate we
1:17:09
think that we can get this phase one
1:17:11
done for the 156 370.
1:17:14
what we've talked about tonight okay
1:17:18
um and then i did look up
1:17:21
the um
1:17:24
the city tree fund code piece and
1:17:28
i agree that it seems to imply
1:17:31
that or seems to state that you'd be
1:17:34
able to
1:17:34
add in trees on
1:17:38
city areas i was wondering whether there
1:17:41
was
1:17:41
any opinion on whether that suggested
1:17:44
that these should be
1:17:45
a net new growth of trees or whether
1:17:49
replacement seems to be an acceptable
1:17:53
use
1:17:54
in that situation
1:17:58
city administrator moon it's uh city
1:18:01
attorney's opinion and administration's
1:18:03
opinion
1:18:03
that the tree fund can be used for this
1:18:06
purpose
1:18:09
thank you uh other questions
1:18:14
councilmember winterstein related to
1:18:16
that question
1:18:20
remind me how the tree mitigation fund
1:18:24
gets funded the tree mitigation fund is
1:18:28
funded
1:18:30
is it an impact fee it's not an impact
1:18:33
fee
1:18:34
i would have to go back and read
1:18:37
this section of the code and i don't
1:18:39
believe i have that yeah one second
1:18:41
children council uh city administrator
1:18:42
moon
1:18:43
in essence or very briefly a developer
1:18:48
if they can't meet the requirements for
1:18:51
tree retention
1:18:53
has potential opportunity to pay
1:18:56
into the tree fund if they're not able
1:18:58
to then replant
1:19:00
the amount that would be required by our
1:19:02
tree retention ordinance
1:19:04
have an option and paying into the tree
1:19:05
fund so that so that on a
1:19:08
different site trees can be planted
1:19:12
and also when there's violations there's
1:19:15
violations that's right
1:19:19
and they would point out before we get
1:19:21
to a motion that there are two motions
1:19:23
available
1:19:24
so there is a question of can you use
1:19:26
this fund
1:19:28
to do this type of work and the answer
1:19:30
you're hearing from administration is
1:19:31
you can
1:19:32
then you have a choice do you want to
1:19:35
use this
1:19:36
font in this and you will see in the
1:19:38
packet that there are several motions
1:19:39
that you may consider
1:19:41
are there additional questions
1:19:42
councilmember winterstein thank you
1:19:46
sheldon do you recall the original prize
1:19:48
i want to go back to the actual the
1:19:50
original when we removed the trees i
1:19:51
know that we did some storm water
1:19:53
work in there and we also rebuilt the
1:19:55
sidewalks there were some
1:19:57
it wasn't just cosmetic there was there
1:19:59
was functionality i think especially of
1:20:01
storm water
1:20:03
and and um why were the trees removed
1:20:06
then
1:20:08
at the time they were removed because
1:20:11
they were one
1:20:12
not as healthy as what they should be
1:20:14
and two the sidewalk work was going out
1:20:16
past where the tree wells were
1:20:18
and with changes of grade and things
1:20:20
like that the trees had to be removed as
1:20:22
well
1:20:23
the primary aspect of that project was
1:20:26
driven by storm water
1:20:28
and ponding that was happening on front
1:20:31
street on the roadway itself
1:20:34
and to accommodate the drainage we had
1:20:36
to move the sidewalk out make it larger
1:20:40
but in consultation with the parks
1:20:42
department
1:20:43
the recommendation was to remove the
1:20:45
juice okay so our
1:20:48
original reason to remove the trees
1:20:52
in essence is could be similar why a
1:20:55
similar
1:20:56
reason for why any development or
1:20:58
redevelopment
1:21:02
trees and not maybe have the means to
1:21:04
then replace them and they would
1:21:05
add into the fun and i i think that's
1:21:07
the sense of you know what
1:21:09
where that questioning comes from is is
1:21:14
if we have a standard for developers
1:21:16
under those circumstances to not
1:21:18
retain be able to retain and i don't
1:21:20
know if we meet that criteria
1:21:22
um then then they they pay into that
1:21:25
fund and i understand that
1:21:27
it is an interesting question to me as
1:21:29
well of what you know
1:21:31
is that is there some reason if this
1:21:34
is could be assessed that same way
1:21:38
you know why why why wouldn't we
1:21:41
pay into that same fund if we can't
1:21:44
and and i and so i don't know if you're
1:21:47
prepared to ask that but
1:21:49
and anyway i already know what direction
1:21:52
i'm going to go tonight but
1:21:54
this is a question i'd like to
1:21:55
understand the answer too
1:21:59
[Laughter]
1:22:01
children can you speak up a little he
1:22:03
said i don't have an answer to that
1:22:04
question right here
1:22:05
okay so may not have it tonight
1:22:07
administrator moon did you want to add
1:22:08
anything
1:22:09
no other than we understand that's
1:22:12
that's more of a policy question and it
1:22:14
wasn't the one that was to be
1:22:15
deliberated tonight and we can
1:22:17
have other conversations about that
1:22:20
that's fine thank you
1:22:21
now deputy council president thank you
1:22:24
for the presentation sheldon could you
1:22:26
just tell me a little bit more about the
1:22:28
tree
1:22:28
choice the trees that are going in you
1:22:30
mentioned that the trees before
1:22:32
were not completely healthy so could you
1:22:36
speak to a choice of trees that are
1:22:39
something i'm going to defer to
1:22:40
christopher on that the streetscape plan
1:22:43
as part of that review and adoption
1:22:46
process
1:22:47
they specified the trees that their
1:22:50
landscape architect that worked on the
1:22:51
plan
1:22:52
suggested for the street trees and we're
1:22:55
going to we're going along with that
1:22:56
plant
1:22:57
so not the same kind of trees that we
1:23:00
had before
1:23:01
no no i think they're different and
1:23:03
there were there five trees that were
1:23:05
removed being replaced by five trees so
1:23:07
it's
1:23:09
the number is the same within this area
1:23:11
that was removed
1:23:15
additional questions uh council member
1:23:18
walsh
1:23:20
uh do we know what the city tree fund
1:23:23
balance is right now it's estimated to
1:23:26
be around a hundred thousand dollars
1:23:28
okay and have there been any recent
1:23:31
usages
1:23:32
on that i'm trying to get a sense of how
1:23:34
much that
1:23:35
fund varies or is used it hasn't been
1:23:39
used
1:23:39
much at all
1:23:43
and i believe we're gonna be looking at
1:23:47
tree canopy or something
1:23:50
in the coming year where that
1:23:53
may be part of it i can let city
1:23:56
administrator moon provide more
1:23:57
information on that
1:23:59
sure this year's work program does
1:24:01
include
1:24:02
a few objectives around trees including
1:24:06
assessment of the tree canopy
1:24:08
and i think ultimately as we get the
1:24:11
results of those studies
1:24:15
we can have a conversation about then
1:24:17
how do we want to proceed with any
1:24:19
recommendations
1:24:20
there could be varied recommendations
1:24:22
but one of those might be
1:24:25
you should invest more in your tree
1:24:27
canopy for example and if that's the
1:24:29
case then this would be a logical source
1:24:33
additional questions
1:24:34
[Laughter]
1:24:38
this came out of infrastructure looking
1:24:40
for someone to make a motion
1:24:47
do i have any takers to make a motion
1:24:49
councilmember hunt
1:25:00
youtube directs the finance director to
1:25:03
include a
1:25:05
150
1:25:07
370 fund transfer from the general fund
1:25:11
fund balance to the street capital fund
1:25:13
for a total transfer
1:25:15
of 156
1:25:18
370 in assist thousand dollars
1:25:22
in a subsequent 2019 budget amendment to
1:25:24
provide revenue for phase
1:25:26
one of the front street streetscape
1:25:27
between sunset way
1:25:29
and northeast alder project and to
1:25:32
authorize the administration to enter
1:25:34
into a construction contract for the
1:25:36
front street streetscape project between
1:25:38
sunset and alter phase one project
1:25:41
not to exceed 156 3170
1:25:46
so a second second
1:25:49
it's been moved and seconded is there a
1:25:51
discussion
1:25:56
the version of the motion that uses the
1:25:59
general fund
1:26:00
primarily because i think we have a
1:26:03
number of challenges with
1:26:05
um with tree canopy and with trees of
1:26:08
various health varying health in the
1:26:10
city and other
1:26:11
locations and i do believe that
1:26:15
my my understanding of the intent of
1:26:18
having a tree mitigation fund is really
1:26:20
to
1:26:20
improve and to strengthen
1:26:23
our our trees on public
1:26:27
properties in the city and so i think
1:26:30
that
1:26:31
replacing trees that the city removed i
1:26:34
don't know that that
1:26:35
in my opinion meets meets the intent i
1:26:38
do understand that legally it is
1:26:39
possible but at the same time i think
1:26:41
that
1:26:42
that fund should be for for new trees or
1:26:45
for
1:26:45
improving the health of trees elsewhere
1:26:47
in the city and not because we remove
1:26:48
trees and now we're just going to be
1:26:50
putting them back and then taking from
1:26:51
the tree mitigation funds to do so
1:26:53
um so that's the that's the reason why i
1:26:56
made the motion that
1:26:57
draws from the general fund and then
1:27:02
i do i appreciate the new information
1:27:05
about the businesses
1:27:07
i have a remaining concern which is
1:27:10
about the
1:27:11
um screens and my concern is that the
1:27:14
street has changed over time since the
1:27:16
plan
1:27:18
was adopted and one of the changes has
1:27:21
been the activation of one of the alleys
1:27:23
that is screened
1:27:24
by a new side business and so i think if
1:27:27
we want to have
1:27:28
a pedestrian friendly interesting
1:27:32
um street where you have businesses that
1:27:35
are dependent on walk walk up traffic
1:27:38
and those sorts of things we want to
1:27:40
potentially have visibility of those
1:27:42
businesses
1:27:42
and i don't know that screening in that
1:27:45
case
1:27:46
i can see screening parking in an alley
1:27:48
but in this case we are actually
1:27:49
screening a side business and i think
1:27:51
in this case one of
1:27:55
one of the businesses that has made
1:27:56
effort to be visible and to actually
1:27:58
activate that
1:27:59
side of the of the building
1:28:02
um so when i look at the objectives for
1:28:04
the doing the streetscape in terms of
1:28:06
improving the pedestrian experience etc
1:28:08
i don't know that that
1:28:09
that particular screen meets
1:28:13
those criteria and so
1:28:16
i would like to make an amendment
1:28:20
did you speak up to that um um if i
1:28:23
could get you to hold on from one second
1:28:25
council member
1:28:25
city administrator moon just a point
1:28:29
point of reference and i'm not sure this
1:28:30
is the exact exact moment
1:28:32
um i i would just
1:28:35
like to make sure that council also
1:28:37
understands there's a lot of public
1:28:38
input on this
1:28:40
project and i just ask you to consider
1:28:44
the amount of that public input that
1:28:46
went into
1:28:48
the concept plan and that
1:28:52
the public art features this the
1:28:54
screening
1:28:55
and those being one of the same and in
1:28:57
this case
1:28:58
were elements that
1:29:02
did get a lot of input and feedback and
1:29:05
resonated with community members and
1:29:09
we showed a bunch of different models
1:29:12
concepts and this was one of the
1:29:15
elements that
1:29:16
scored highly in in the feedback that we
1:29:18
received
1:29:20
i do believe and if we haven't expressed
1:29:23
it with great confidence
1:29:24
i do believe that we can work
1:29:27
with businesses and community members
1:29:29
and the arts commission to design
1:29:31
something that
1:29:32
meets meets all the objectives but still
1:29:35
attends to the fact that there are
1:29:37
businesses on
1:29:39
those alleyways and that they have a
1:29:41
desire for
1:29:43
visibility in particular some of those
1:29:46
businesses have
1:29:47
because they're not located on the
1:29:49
frontage they have signage that's
1:29:51
elevated it's at the eaves level
1:29:54
and i don't expect the screens to be
1:29:57
that high
1:29:58
we're just trying to cover
1:30:02
a you know passenger car type height
1:30:05
and so i want to make sure that that's
1:30:07
understood that that's kind of
1:30:09
the objective and that's kind of the
1:30:12
visual that you should have in your head
1:30:13
as you're considering what the screens
1:30:15
might be
1:30:16
thank you thank you did you
1:30:20
want to propose an amendment for this
1:30:21
evening okay
1:30:23
um i moved to amends av
1:30:26
7715 front street streetscape phase one
1:30:29
project
1:30:30
to remove the decorative screens
1:30:31
component and associated funding and to
1:30:33
include them as a discussion item with
1:30:36
additional information in a subsequent
1:30:37
phase of the streetscape project
1:30:41
did you do you have that
1:30:46
yeah i have to re-read it is there a
1:30:49
second first
1:30:50
to remove the decorative screens from
1:30:52
the landscape design
1:30:55
i have a question you can i think
1:30:58
to see have to second it in order to
1:31:01
have a discussion or can you ask a
1:31:02
question
1:31:04
if he wants to discuss the motion then
1:31:06
meant
1:31:07
then further than there would be how
1:31:10
about a point of order then
1:31:11
maybe murder um i think these are two
1:31:14
separate topics and not
1:31:16
should not be lumped together and would
1:31:18
be better
1:31:20
for the business the council to handle
1:31:21
them independently one is about funding
1:31:24
of the project and what is about the
1:31:25
content of the project
1:31:30
uh so i'm looking at city administrator
1:31:32
moon the content of the project
1:31:34
was approved when the landscape plan was
1:31:37
approved concept
1:31:38
landscape concept plan so that is not
1:31:40
the question before you tonight whether
1:31:41
or not you want to amend the plan that
1:31:43
may be a question that you have but it's
1:31:44
not the one in front of you tonight
1:31:46
the one in front of you tonight is to
1:31:47
approve the funding
1:31:52
in the motion it's about funding it's
1:31:55
removing the funding for that portion
1:31:58
i'll second it so that at least um
1:32:01
council member hunt can
1:32:02
express her it's been moved and seconded
1:32:05
councilmember hunt well my my big
1:32:08
concern is yes i do believe there was a
1:32:10
lot of community engagement i looked
1:32:12
back at the last
1:32:13
um times when this came forward the
1:32:15
picture that i saw was the edward jones
1:32:17
alley
1:32:18
decorative screen that was there um
1:32:22
and in that case it is ali that doesn't
1:32:24
have a side business
1:32:25
i think that because this plan has been
1:32:27
in the works for a while
1:32:28
the streetscape has changed and so the
1:32:30
community engagement is perhaps outdated
1:32:34
and so i would like to see a discussion
1:32:37
for making sure that this is still the
1:32:41
way that the street went in or to make a
1:32:44
pedestrian friendly experience when in
1:32:46
this case it seems like there's already
1:32:48
a pedestrian friendly experience
1:32:50
there that i do not see the benefit of
1:32:53
having screens and i also don't see the
1:32:55
benefit of putting money towards the
1:32:56
screen if it's going to be blocking an
1:32:58
activated
1:32:59
side business additional discussion
1:33:03
councilmember winstein question first
1:33:04
staff
1:33:06
explain for me what's there now in this
1:33:10
council member hunt's referring
1:33:11
specifically to one of the screens per
1:33:14
the plan
1:33:16
i do recall everything how the process
1:33:18
was explained earlier
1:33:20
i do recall i know that it had to do
1:33:23
with
1:33:23
creating kind of a visual screen
1:33:26
decorative that's why the arctic
1:33:27
submissions involved
1:33:29
to to block just a clear line of sight
1:33:32
to cars
1:33:34
at least from certain directions so i'm
1:33:36
curious about what's
1:33:37
what's there now and i also want to hear
1:33:39
about a little bit more about a
1:33:41
reference you made earlier about
1:33:43
a process as you currently intend to go
1:33:46
through
1:33:46
to to make a choice on whatever
1:33:50
whatever type of treatment is put there
1:33:54
so right now so here's edward jones
1:33:57
and then here is the crawl bar and
1:34:01
the side tenant space which is a new
1:34:03
tenant space just in the last year or so
1:34:06
is where alps folly is this is
1:34:08
completely open
1:34:09
from front street to the you know
1:34:12
there's no kind of walls or screens or
1:34:14
any
1:34:14
anything that blocks visibility of the
1:34:17
angled parking here
1:34:19
and the angled parking here and so the
1:34:22
intent
1:34:23
is to help screen the vehicles again
1:34:26
the plan did a couple of things it
1:34:28
talked about an eight foot height
1:34:30
for those screens we all agree that they
1:34:33
do not need to be that tall as
1:34:35
emily mentioned just tall enough to
1:34:36
screen a vehicle
1:34:38
and then they also showed that the
1:34:40
screen and that the picture that's in
1:34:42
the
1:34:43
the plan does show going like all the
1:34:46
way to the wall
1:34:47
here uh and we have since agreed that
1:34:50
uh maintaining the walkway along the
1:34:53
side of this building
1:34:54
similar to maintaining the walkway
1:34:56
that's used to access the new tenant
1:34:58
space here
1:35:00
so that the screens would be not as
1:35:03
long or as tall as basically what was
1:35:06
shown in the plan
1:35:09
what's there now is there parking there
1:35:11
now yes
1:35:12
there's yeah there's style yeah there's
1:35:14
angled parking
1:35:16
in both of those okay so and that's
1:35:18
that's what is will be screened
1:35:20
with the with the screens okay what i'm
1:35:23
seeking clarification on
1:35:24
is because i don't i honestly i'm not
1:35:27
familiar with the details that you're
1:35:28
referring to
1:35:29
and it'd be easy to assume that there is
1:35:31
no parking there more there's now
1:35:33
there's just a side business but i'm
1:35:34
hearing that it's
1:35:35
those these are still spaces that are
1:35:37
used for parking and
1:35:39
the intent of this would be to screen
1:35:41
that parking and maybe there's a
1:35:43
block of some business that there as
1:35:45
well okay so
1:35:46
there's that and then what's the process
1:35:49
you're going to go through
1:35:50
to make a selection well we've been
1:35:52
talking to
1:35:54
amy dukes and she's agreed that going
1:35:57
through that
1:35:58
arts commission review process and
1:36:00
selection
1:36:01
would be the would be appropriate
1:36:03
because we didn't want to just
1:36:04
buy us out of a catalog screen we want
1:36:07
to make it
1:36:08
art and we want to use local artists to
1:36:10
create them
1:36:12
and by doing that i think we will have a
1:36:14
little more say on
1:36:15
what that looks like exactly so with
1:36:18
that approach then
1:36:19
maybe local stakeholders and business
1:36:21
owners will be involved but it all
1:36:23
depends on how that
1:36:24
process unfolds we will involve them
1:36:30
additional questions or discussion
1:36:35
thoughts you want to share
1:36:42
i can't remember it i think we had a
1:36:43
process we went through to
1:36:45
you know to to set this up and to define
1:36:48
this
1:36:48
and it just feels very inappropriate for
1:36:50
me to me to be using the funding
1:36:53
discussion
1:36:54
to be talking about making design
1:36:55
element changes it just seems
1:36:57
like the the wrong place in the wrong
1:36:59
time in the wrong vehicle
1:37:02
okay council member goodman
1:37:06
i um we have a
1:37:09
we have a plan and i do agree with
1:37:12
uh council member hunt that there could
1:37:15
be some
1:37:16
that there are changes based on a new
1:37:18
tenant
1:37:19
um and that that needs to be kept in
1:37:22
mind
1:37:23
um it uh
1:37:27
i we i i think we have to
1:37:30
allow the administration to implement
1:37:32
the plans that we have
1:37:34
adopted and if the
1:37:39
screen goes up and blocks a business
1:37:42
then we're going to hear about it and i
1:37:44
would be very unhappy again in the
1:37:46
conversation
1:37:47
but i would be willing to allow the
1:37:49
administration to
1:37:50
implement the plans and take into
1:37:53
consideration
1:37:55
what you've heard from us and what
1:37:56
you've heard from businesses
1:37:59
additional comments um councilmember
1:38:02
walsh followed by councilmember winstein
1:38:04
so i very much appreciate hearing about
1:38:07
this
1:38:08
business having been on ppc when we were
1:38:11
reviewing uh the screens those
1:38:14
they're beautiful and i love the
1:38:17
addition to it
1:38:18
but not at something that's going to
1:38:20
hurt a business
1:38:21
so i would very much encourage the city
1:38:24
to work with those businesses
1:38:26
consider a half height something that's
1:38:29
going to
1:38:30
add to the beauty and not hurt a
1:38:32
business
1:38:34
i do think that i will probably
1:38:37
put my trust in the city to do that and
1:38:41
take this out of the funding
1:38:43
conversation
1:38:44
councilmember winterstein thank you
1:38:46
[Laughter]
1:38:49
it's my preference that
1:38:52
the individuals involved with the
1:38:54
process going forward has already
1:38:55
envisioned
1:38:57
i would fully expect that they will use
1:39:00
good judgment and be
1:39:02
responsive to and sensitive to
1:39:05
these any issues that could arise
1:39:08
i've already there's already been some
1:39:10
engagement you've demonstrated some
1:39:11
knowledge
1:39:12
i know some of the people that are going
1:39:13
to be involved i know about the kind of
1:39:14
work they've done in the past and the
1:39:16
engagement that they've
1:39:17
exercised in the past so rather than use
1:39:20
a legislative process to perhaps tweak
1:39:22
part of this design i would like it to
1:39:24
go through the process that's currently
1:39:26
envisioned so i'm not going to support
1:39:28
the amendment
1:39:29
i've heard from five of you council
1:39:31
deputy council president batiste
1:39:33
so i i appreciate all the thought behind
1:39:36
this
1:39:36
i think with the public process that
1:39:38
we've had
1:39:41
especially around the screens and i just
1:39:45
feel comfortable with the administration
1:39:48
and the arts commission working with
1:39:51
the groups and the business owners and
1:39:53
making the right decisions so i won't be
1:39:55
supporting
1:39:56
this motion council president mertz did
1:39:58
you want to weigh in on the discussion
1:40:00
nope okay just checking um
1:40:03
i have a little difficulty reading the
1:40:06
motion is it okay if i
1:40:07
just sort of let vicky read that
1:40:10
there was an amendment to the amendment
1:40:12
sorry
1:40:13
that's in front of you you could ask for
1:40:16
um council member hack could you repeat
1:40:17
the amendment before i call for the vote
1:40:21
um so move to amend ab7715
1:40:26
front street streetscape phase one
1:40:29
project to remove the decorative screens
1:40:30
component and associated funding and to
1:40:32
include them as a discussion item with
1:40:34
additional information in a subsequent
1:40:36
phase of the streetscape project
1:40:38
thank you the amendment has been moved
1:40:40
and seconded and discussed all those in
1:40:42
favor of the amendment signified by
1:40:43
saying aye
1:40:45
post the amendment fails
1:40:49
one in favor six opposed we're back to
1:40:52
the main motion is there any further
1:40:54
discussion of the main motion
1:40:56
councilmember winterstein i'm glad to
1:40:58
see this coming forward it was the will
1:41:00
of the council
1:41:01
when we saw in our cip how it really was
1:41:04
a big block of work further out in the
1:41:06
future
1:41:07
and and not that long ago we said we've
1:41:09
got to do something let's at least work
1:41:10
on the trees
1:41:11
that was a a lot of us felt that loss in
1:41:14
many different ways not just visually
1:41:16
but it
1:41:16
kind of you're striking at the real core
1:41:19
part of this acquisition
1:41:20
so i'm glad that we that we have
1:41:23
entertained this
1:41:24
this this special project this carve out
1:41:26
and the council did ask for that this
1:41:28
way
1:41:28
it wasn't we broke it out we set aside
1:41:31
some money
1:41:32
um i'm glad to see this going
1:41:35
forward it it but it's just a small step
1:41:38
or at least it may go forward it's just
1:41:40
a small step
1:41:42
and i'm looking i i think it'll be
1:41:44
create
1:41:45
quite a lot of a response it'll
1:41:48
people will respond to this if we do
1:41:50
this and i'm
1:41:51
so i'm glad that we're taking this
1:41:54
earlier step than it was originally
1:41:55
envisioned
1:41:56
i'm going to support this and i'm
1:41:59
excited about
1:42:01
this first step thank you any other
1:42:03
discussion council member ray
1:42:05
and then councilmember hunt so i believe
1:42:08
and i think staff would concur
1:42:11
that using the tree mitigation fund is
1:42:13
an appropriate thing
1:42:15
funding vehicle for this particular
1:42:18
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1:42:20
undertaking the tree
1:42:23
mitigation fund is far more restricted
1:42:25
than the general fund so
1:42:27
i don't support the motion to
1:42:31
fund this completely out of general fund
1:42:34
when the tree mitigation fund is a
1:42:35
legitimate
1:42:38
complement to general fund dollars that
1:42:41
doesn't mean
1:42:42
we can't use general fund dollars down
1:42:44
the road to increase our tree canopy
1:42:47
but there are things that we can't do
1:42:48
with the treatment mitigation fund
1:42:51
and so by not taking advantage of this
1:42:53
we are giving away flexibility that we
1:42:55
could use down the road
1:42:56
so i cannot support the notion of using
1:42:59
simply general fund for this initiative
1:43:01
when tree fund is
1:43:05
is a legitimate complement to general
1:43:08
fund
1:43:09
thank you councilmember ray
1:43:11
councilmember
1:43:12
hunt are you next yes um so thank you
1:43:16
again for all the information about the
1:43:17
outreach to the businesses i would
1:43:19
um just i do believe that there is a way
1:43:22
to do the
1:43:24
watering of the plants the maintenance
1:43:26
of the streetscape the decorative
1:43:27
screens
1:43:28
the furniture in a way that complements
1:43:30
the businesses so
1:43:31
i just would
1:43:34
like to see continued outreach and also
1:43:36
continued public engagement
1:43:38
because this is a street with really
1:43:39
high visibility as you know and
1:43:41
changes will be noticed and potentially
1:43:44
appreciated a great deal by the public
1:43:46
so i'm looking forward to that and i
1:43:47
think there are lots of different ways
1:43:48
to activate
1:43:49
and increase the pedestrian experience
1:43:52
along the street
1:43:53
and so i i do have confidence in the
1:43:56
city that
1:43:57
that these changes will be made in a way
1:44:00
that
1:44:00
improves the pedestrian experience and
1:44:02
meets the other goals of the streetscape
1:44:04
i still as far as the funding which is
1:44:08
what we're just
1:44:08
we're discussing i still think that um
1:44:13
i i think the tree fund is more
1:44:16
restricted
1:44:17
and in my opinion using the tree funds
1:44:20
for
1:44:22
improving rather than to just simply
1:44:25
replace
1:44:26
trees that were removed is it is a more
1:44:28
appropriate use of that tree funds it's
1:44:30
also
1:44:31
i think a fairly small portion of the
1:44:35
overall funding for the treats
1:44:37
for the streetscape which is possible to
1:44:40
be funded by that and so i
1:44:42
i would argue i think that
1:44:46
the tree fund could be used elsewhere to
1:44:48
improve
1:44:49
rather than to simply replace what has
1:44:51
been removed by
1:44:52
the city and keep us at par with our
1:44:55
trees
1:44:56
um so i i would still stand by using the
1:44:58
general fund
1:44:59
for the funding thank you councilmember
1:45:01
i'm councilmember goodman
1:45:03
i agree with councilmember hunt
1:45:04
regarding the use of the
1:45:06
uh tree fund um i think this needs to be
1:45:08
paid for
1:45:09
out of the general fund thank you um
1:45:12
councilman bridgestein before i come
1:45:14
back to you i want to see if
1:45:16
wall ship or tcr marks would like to
1:45:18
weigh in otherwise i will come back to
1:45:20
council member side council president
1:45:21
marx so
1:45:23
i'm a tad bit confused council member
1:45:26
ray
1:45:27
if we so you suggested you're not in
1:45:31
favor of this motion
1:45:32
so does that mean
1:45:35
a amendment or what if we if we fail
1:45:38
this
1:45:41
i i'm more favorable of the alternative
1:45:44
motion which
1:45:45
splits the funding from the tree fund
1:45:47
and the
1:45:48
general instead of solely general fund
1:45:51
so why haven't you moved that because we
1:45:54
have an active motion on the table
1:45:57
so it wouldn't be doing i see you're
1:45:59
waiting got it
1:46:02
but okay because i also
1:46:06
um feel that we are at a financial point
1:46:11
where
1:46:11
every dollar in the general fund is
1:46:14
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1:46:16
is there's a lot of heavy lifts to come
1:46:19
out of the general fund and if we can
1:46:22
spread some of that heavy lifting out i
1:46:24
think that the rest of our every dollar
1:46:26
we can do will help us
1:46:27
uh in the rest of the year and the tough
1:46:29
choices in front of us
1:46:31
thank you deputy council president batis
1:46:34
and then
1:46:36
so i i agree with
1:46:39
council president martz i i do feel that
1:46:42
we need to
1:46:43
really focus on every
1:46:46
dollar that's coming from the general
1:46:48
fund but i completely understand
1:46:51
uh the the amendment and thinking about
1:46:54
what we
1:46:55
what we have in the future um i
1:46:57
understand that's thirty thousand
1:46:59
dollars it sounds like we have a hundred
1:47:01
thousand dollars in
1:47:03
uh in that account which um and i do
1:47:06
know we've got everything coming up at
1:47:08
the tree canopy
1:47:09
so i would i would be supportive of
1:47:14
a potential upcoming motion where we're
1:47:17
using the general fund and the tree
1:47:18
mitigation fund council councilmember
1:47:21
walsh did you get a chance to weigh it
1:47:24
do you want to weigh it you do not have
1:47:26
to i'm still considering okay
1:47:29
councilmember winterstein you want
1:47:30
that's a little bit of a different take
1:47:31
thank you
1:47:32
on the use of the tree fund i think
1:47:35
general fund is appropriate
1:47:37
i would we haven't
1:47:42
asked the question of ourselves at a
1:47:43
policy level to
1:47:45
should and and i'm it's i'm not
1:47:48
entirely clear that this project that
1:47:51
would that originally move the pro
1:47:52
the trees um is similar enough to
1:47:57
a type of project that some other
1:47:59
developer would do that
1:48:00
that and would then trigger them
1:48:04
having to give to the tree fund because
1:48:06
we're doing to retention
1:48:07
but i would rather us as a city
1:48:11
address that as a policy question like
1:48:14
should we
1:48:16
hold ourselves up to that same criteria
1:48:19
as our developers
1:48:20
and address that as a as a policy
1:48:22
question and and
1:48:24
not set a precedent for that before we
1:48:27
have this conversation
1:48:28
so let's use the general fund money and
1:48:31
then
1:48:31
going forward give ourselves more
1:48:33
clarity on
1:48:36
when our project should contribute or
1:48:38
not
1:48:39
and therefore because i do agree it's
1:48:43
the fund the tree fund idea of getting
1:48:46
um we had to treat coverage
1:48:49
canopy couldn't be retained let's make
1:48:52
sure that that
1:48:53
re-emerges somewhere else on public land
1:48:55
that's the intent of that
1:48:57
and that and that's that's a nice nice
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intent
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but we want to look at when we remove
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the or reduce the canopy you know should
1:49:07
that
1:49:07
obligation be for us as well so i think
1:49:10
taking
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it out of that fund today would set a
1:49:13
precedent i'd rather have the
1:49:14
conversation about that policy before we
1:49:16
do that
1:49:17
thank you councilmember goodman thank
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you
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um so code 18.12.180
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talks about the city tree fund and it
1:49:26
said that the tree fund is created and
1:49:28
shall be administered by finance
1:49:30
all funds it has two purposes all funds
1:49:32
received from civil penalties resulting
1:49:34
from violations
1:49:35
shall be deposited in the fund it shall
1:49:37
be used only for the purpose of paying
1:49:39
all or part of the cost and expense of
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enforcing
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and implementing this chapter and
1:49:44
secondarily and may be used
1:49:46
for the purpose of acquiring maintaining
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and preserving wooded areas
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for planting and maintaining trees on
1:49:51
publicly owned property within the city
1:49:52
and for urban forestry education so
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i would say that the intent of the tree
1:49:59
fund
1:49:59
is for the primary purpose of that
1:50:04
the constant expense of enforcing and
1:50:05
implementing the chapter which is about
1:50:08
landscaping trees and not for the city
1:50:11
to use to just
1:50:13
simply replace trees and if we were
1:50:15
going to improve
1:50:16
the conditions then that's one thing but
1:50:20
i still agree with councilmember hunt
1:50:21
that
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that i don't think that that is an
1:50:24
appropriate use of the city
1:50:26
tree fund for this project
1:50:29
any other final comments council member
1:50:32
ray so can i get a little clarification
1:50:34
from either the city attorney or
1:50:37
city staff on their interpretation of
1:50:39
the
1:50:40
of the tree fund because what i what i
1:50:42
heard
1:50:43
from councilmember goodman and what i
1:50:45
think i heard earlier don't comport and
1:50:47
i would like
1:50:48
and i think that is a really significant
1:50:49
question if what we're proposing
1:50:52
is inconsistent with the ordinance then
1:50:54
that's one thing and if it's not then
1:50:56
that's another thing
1:50:57
sure and and i can give that to
1:51:00
administrator moon to start
1:51:01
well i was just going to clarify i think
1:51:04
councilmember goodman's
1:51:05
point was there's there's a primary
1:51:08
primary purpose and then there's
1:51:09
there's an allowable range and we're and
1:51:12
the way that i answered that question
1:51:14
earlier is that it's an allowable use
1:51:23
any other discussion or questions before
1:51:26
i call for the vote
1:51:28
or final comments
1:51:32
okay the motion in front of you is to
1:51:35
direct the finance director to include a
1:51:37
156
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370 dollar fund transfer from the
1:51:40
general fund balance to the street
1:51:42
capital fund
1:51:43
for a total transfer of
1:51:47
hundred 156 dollars in a subsequent 2019
1:51:51
budget amendment to provide revenue for
1:51:53
phase one
1:51:54
of the front street streetscape between
1:51:56
sunset way and northeast alder project
1:51:59
and authorize the administration to
1:52:01
enter into a construction contract for
1:52:03
the front street streetscape project
1:52:05
between sunset and alder phase one
1:52:07
project not to exceed 156
1:52:11
370 all those in favor signify by saying
1:52:15
aye
1:52:16
and raise your hands thank you
1:52:19
um all those opposed nay
1:52:23
the vote is four the vote passes and is
1:52:25
four in favor with three opposed
1:52:30
i want to thank you for your thoughtful
1:52:32
deliberation one thing that's been
1:52:34
really important to me is that when you
1:52:35
have options we present all your options
1:52:37
sometimes that generates a lot of
1:52:39
conversation and dialogue but i think
1:52:41
that's really good
1:52:42
so thank you for that that was very
1:52:45
thoughtful
1:52:46
the next item on the agenda this evening
1:52:47
is good of the order
1:52:49
and we'll start first with the council
1:52:51
president martz who will be talking
1:52:53
about
1:52:54
um id0404 which is council appointments
1:52:57
for 2019.
1:52:59
certainly and before i start that i just
1:53:01
want to say how refreshing it is to be
1:53:03
able to have a 4-3 vote
1:53:04
after uh five or six weeks without
1:53:07
that's
1:53:07
a very good feeling so uh we did uh
1:53:11
finish 2019 council appointments
1:53:14
for the year for infrastructure
1:53:16
committee council member winterstein
1:53:18
will be chairing council members goodman
1:53:20
and walsh
1:53:21
will also be members sheldon lin will be
1:53:23
staff liaison
1:53:25
landon shore council member hunt is
1:53:27
going to be
1:53:28
chairing and
1:53:32
council members goodman and martz will
1:53:34
be on
1:53:36
as members and then director niven
1:53:39
is our staff liaison and then services
1:53:43
and safety
1:53:44
uh council member ray continues his
1:53:46
chair and then council members
1:53:48
council deputy president batis and
1:53:49
council member walsh
1:53:51
will also be on that committee and chief
1:53:54
bierbaum
1:53:55
is liaison if i didn't say that already
1:53:57
so i want to thank
1:53:59
directors lynn and niven and chief
1:54:02
bierbaum for
1:54:02
continuing their liaison roles it's
1:54:04
really important to the proper
1:54:05
functioning
1:54:07
of those committees and i'll also
1:54:10
mention
1:54:12
the ad hoc long term financial committee
1:54:14
which is organized a little bit
1:54:15
differently
1:54:17
council members ray and winterstein and
1:54:18
myself i will be on that along with
1:54:21
city administrator moon interim finance
1:54:23
director uh goldberg
1:54:25
and our tbd deputy city administrator
1:54:28
and then last but not least i just want
1:54:30
to mention other regional appointments
1:54:32
uh council member hunt is going to be
1:54:33
doing cascade water alliance and wyra8
1:54:36
council members goodman and ray are
1:54:38
going to continue their excellent work
1:54:39
on eastside fire and rescue
1:54:41
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1:54:43
council deputy president batis is going
1:54:45
to continue on eastside human services
1:54:47
forum
1:54:49
councilmember witterstein is going to
1:54:51
continue as
1:54:52
a chamber liaison
1:54:56
and uh council member goodman is going
1:54:58
to step forward stepping forward to do
1:54:59
lodging tax
1:55:00
advisory committee which we appreciate
1:55:03
and i'm going to stay as primary and
1:55:05
council member reyes
1:55:06
as alternate for the sound cities
1:55:07
association pick that i love so much
1:55:10
so with that thank you thank you for
1:55:13
your work on your pregnancy
1:55:14
and thank you everyone for your
1:55:16
willingness and enthusiasm both
1:55:18
to be part of these various
1:55:19
organizations and for your flexibility
1:55:21
as we came up with the appointments to
1:55:24
make sure that
1:55:24
i think every single person got if they
1:55:27
if they had something as a one or two
1:55:29
everybody who's in a position somebody
1:55:31
had that that person had a one or a two
1:55:33
for that position so we have the right
1:55:35
people in the right places so thank you
1:55:37
thank you council president uh do any
1:55:40
other council members have something for
1:55:41
good of the order before i move into
1:55:43
upcoming
1:55:44
council meetings council member ray i
1:55:46
just wanted to recognize
1:55:47
public works operations and the squad
1:55:50
police department
1:55:51
for their excellent work over the last
1:55:53
couple of days of inclement weather and
1:55:56
and it is very satisfying to hear the
1:55:58
the rumble of the snow plows coming down
1:56:00
your street
1:56:01
and you recognize that you might just be
1:56:03
able to get out and get to the grocery
1:56:04
store so
1:56:05
thank you to all all who have worked so
1:56:08
hard and all the long hours and
1:56:09
some it's appreciated by the by the
1:56:12
people in the community thank you they
1:56:14
are on 12-hour shifts now
1:56:16
24 hours a day and so it will be passed
1:56:18
on
1:56:19
your words of appreciation thank you
1:56:21
very much
1:56:23
um upcoming council meetings on february
1:56:24
11th there is a council work session
1:56:27
and the potential agenda items include
1:56:29
the citywide strategic plan
1:56:31
on february 9th there was a regular
1:56:32
council meeting and potential agenda
1:56:34
items include the updated water system
1:56:36
plan adoption
1:56:37
and a discussion on regional
1:56:39
transportation funding
1:56:42
our last item under rig under on our
1:56:44
agenda this evening is the executive
1:56:46
session
1:56:46
another yet another executive session
1:56:49
as earlier announced there will be an
1:56:51
executive session held this evening to
1:56:53
discuss pending potential litigation per
1:56:55
rcw
1:56:57
42.30.110 paren one per ni and i'm also
1:57:00
going to
1:57:01
add i was missing in my earlier comments
1:57:04
to discuss collective bargaining under
1:57:06
rcw
1:57:07
42.30.140 paren paran4
1:57:10
this item is expected to take 30 minutes
1:57:12
action may follow in open session
1:57:15
we will now recess at 1004.
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you