City Council Regular Meeting · Tuesday, February 19, 2019 · City Council Digest

6. CONSENT CALENDAR

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Feb. 5, 2019

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.91–95

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 02-05-19 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)

Roll call:

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

King County Waste Reduction & Recycling Grant AB 7672

Carried 7-0

Accept Grant · packet pp.97–122

▶ Watch from 14:23 Open packet at p.97 ↗

Staff report:

Project Task Administration Supplies Consultant & Total Task Cost Contract Services Stipend Task I. $17,509 $4,844 $40,000 $62,353 School and ($8,754.50/ year) ($2,422/ ($20,000/ ($31,176.50/year) Community year) year) Recycling

Roll call:

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Polygon Parcel D Preliminary Plat Closed Record AB 7681

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.123–232

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: Development Commission · Dec 10, 2018

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Staff report:

In July 2017, the applicant and the City executed a number of agreements and amendments related to this property including an Affordable Housing Development Agreement, the 9th Amendment to the Issaquah Highlands Development Agreement, and the 1st Amendment to the Washington State Dept. of Transportation Transfer of Development Rights (WSDOT TDR) Development Agreement. These agreements and amendments relocated the affordable housing entitlement tied to Parcel D to other property, Westridge, owned by the applicant in exchange for allowing the applicant to place up to 11 market rate houses on Parcel D. Parcel D is currently owned by the City, and the City has given Polygon the right to proceed with this permit.

Roll call:

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Amendments to IMC 18.07.480 Community Facilities Standards Regarding Public Buildings AB 7683

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Land & Shore Committee · packet pp.233–258

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017 City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 15, 2018

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Staff report:

On July 13, 2017, the Planning Policy Commission (PPC) held a public hearing on proposed Land Use Code amendments requiring design standards for Compact Public Schools and Government Facilities. However, PPC recommended that Government Facilities be removed from the

Roll call:

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Criminal Code, Amending IMC 9.05 AB 7702

Carried 7-0

Accept Project · packet pp.259–265

Topics: Land Use

▶ Watch from 14:33 Open packet at p.259 ↗

Staff report:

In 1985, sections of the RCW adopted into the City’s Criminal Code (IMC 9.05) to allow the City to prosecute certain crimes.

Roll call:

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Memorandum of Understanding with Administrative Staff Association (ASA) Re: State Paid Sick Leave Legislation Ratify; Authorize k) Replacement Project AB 7731

Carried 7-0

Award Bid · packet pp.277–281

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Staff report:

Ratify the memorandum of understanding with the Administrative Staff Association; and authorize the Mayor to execute the changes.

Roll call:

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

2019 Sewer Rehabilitation Project AB 7733

Carried 7-0

Award Bid · packet pp.287–290

Topics: Water

▶ Watch from 14:39 Open packet at p.287 ↗

Staff report:

The Administration recommends awarding the construction contract for the 2019 Sewer Main Rehabilitation Project to Nordvind Company, in the amount of $440,022 (including sales tax).

Roll call:

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

7. REGULAR BUSINESS

Updated Water System Plan AB 7538

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.291–535

Topics: Water

▶ Watch from 35:33 Open packet at p.291 ↗

Staff report:

Approve the proposed resolution adopting the 2018 Water System Plan at the Feb. 19, 2019 Council meeting.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by BETTISE

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

8. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:12 ↗ thought never crossed my mind

0:16 ↗ welcome everyone I call the February

0:18 ↗ 19th regular City Council meeting to

0:20 ↗ order I miss a class city council

0:22 ↗ president Toula marts mayor Pauly's

0:24 ↗ excused this evening so I will be

0:25 ↗ serving as mayor pro-tem

0:27 ↗ and I asked those who'd like to join the

0:30 ↗ council and myself in the Pledge of

0:31 ↗ Allegiance

0:32 ↗ to please stand thank you the first item

0:56 ↗ in the agenda is audience comments

0:58 ↗ audience comments may address the

1:00 ↗ council at this time the guidelines for

1:02 ↗ public participation are displayed on

1:04 ↗ the screen

1:04 ↗ please loo make comments to three

1:06 ↗ minutes those who signed up will be

1:08 ↗ called forward first if you did not sign

1:10 ↗ up I will ask for other speakers before

1:12 ↗ closing this portion of the meeting

1:14 ↗ comments may be made on any topic except

1:17 ↗ the closed record quasi-judicial

1:19 ↗ decision before council tonight which is

1:22 ↗ agenda bill 76 81 polygons parcel deep

1:26 ↗ luminary plat in the Issaquah highlands

1:28 ↗ if you here as part of a group please

1:32 ↗ identify a spokesperson for your group

1:33 ↗ and when they are speaking if you want

1:36 ↗ to indicate your support by raising your

1:37 ↗ hand that helps us know who's here on

1:40 ↗ what particular issues has anyone signed

1:44 ↗ up to speak this evening yes Sharon

1:46 ↗ frase son if you'll come forward

1:53 ↗ I am Sharon priests I live up in

2:06 ↗ miramont but my husband and I for the

2:08 ↗ last four years have owned art by fire

2:10 ↗ the glass studio down on Front Street

2:14 ↗ when we bought that location we bought

2:18 ↗ that business a lot of what attracted us

2:21 ↗ to Issaquah was the downtown feel and we

2:26 ↗ felt as part of creating and continuing

2:31 ↗ that downtown feeling that we loved so

2:33 ↗ much that we needed to get involved with

2:36 ↗ downtown Issaquah association so we

2:39 ↗ volunteered a bit here and there for a

2:41 ↗ couple of years last year I joined the

2:43 ↗ board this year I'm the vice president

2:46 ↗ of the board

2:48 ↗ downtown Association has done so much

2:50 ↗ for us to create that downtown vibe that

2:56 ↗ we all have come to love so I wanted to

2:59 ↗ share a little of Diaz news with the

3:01 ↗ board tonight excuse me in the City

3:04 ↗ Council downtown Issaquah Association

3:09 ↗ last year was very pleased to partner

3:11 ↗ with Galen Gutierrez as our interim

3:13 ↗ administrative manager and we took a

3:17 ↗ mindful pause to look at all our

3:19 ↗ programs and try and decide what we

3:21 ↗ needed to do to align ourselves better

3:23 ↗ with the Main Street approach to truly

3:27 ↗ support revitalizing downtown and

3:29 ↗ keeping that on going for another 25

3:32 ↗ years because next Gerry is our 25th

3:34 ↗ anniversary so we have just posted our

3:39 ↗ executive director position and the job

3:42 ↗ search has started with anticipated hire

3:45 ↗ date of May 1st for our executive

3:47 ↗ director we are also looking to add a

3:50 ↗ part-time program coordinator and more

3:53 ↗ volunteers to our group so we appreciate

3:56 ↗ all the city has done to support us in

3:59 ↗ our mission and we also hope you'll help

4:01 ↗ us to spread the word thank you

4:05 ↗ thank you for your comments doing it

4:08 ↗ anyone else sign up this evening yes

4:10 ↗ Kathy McCrory

4:22 ↗ good evening Kathy McCrory 155 North

4:25 ↗ West Gilman Boulevard I'm the CEO for

4:28 ↗ the Chamber of Commerce and I'm here

4:30 ↗ tonight with more downtown news just

4:32 ↗ trying to give you an update on salmon

4:34 ↗ days and even though salmon days was

4:36 ↗ last October it takes a little while to

4:39 ↗ kind of put it to get to bed and so we

4:42 ↗ just wanted to come one thank everyone

4:45 ↗ for their support seven days is a huge

4:48 ↗ event drawing over a hundred and fifty

4:50 ↗ thousand people to downtown in two days

4:52 ↗ it truly does take a village

4:55 ↗ we had almost 500 volunteers working

4:58 ↗ literally thousands of hours to help us

5:02 ↗ get this done we had city park services

5:05 ↗ police department fire all helping us in

5:09 ↗ providing their services the list goes

5:11 ↗ on and on and I'll touch on a few more

5:13 ↗ in just a minute but I also want to

5:15 ↗ bring to your attention that this year

5:17 ↗ is the 50th annual salmon days and so

5:21 ↗ talking about milestones we've got a

5:24 ↗ couple of big ones coming up 25 years

5:26 ↗ for DIA 50 years for salmon days and so

5:29 ↗ there's a few new things that we're

5:31 ↗ adding to the mix we wanted to make sure

5:33 ↗ everyone knew about one of them is is

5:37 ↗ we've decided what better way to

5:38 ↗ celebrate salmon days than with an art

5:40 ↗ competition so we've just launched a

5:43 ↗ two-month art competition will be taking

5:46 ↗ admissions from children under I think

5:51 ↗ it's under 12 and then 12 to 18 and then

5:54 ↗ of course adults and we're looking for

5:56 ↗ designs that will become anything from a

5:59 ↗ signature poster piece of art t-shirt

6:04 ↗ sweatshirt etc so you'll be seeing us

6:07 ↗ out and about and we'll have a public

6:09 ↗ judging at some point and we'll be

6:12 ↗ launching all of those so the community

6:14 ↗ can see them we have

6:16 ↗ theme that trying to get back to our

6:20 ↗ original roots of it being to promote

6:23 ↗ the hatchery and so with 50 years our

6:26 ↗ 50-year theme will be 50 ways to save

6:29 ↗ the salmon and so you'll see that

6:31 ↗ prominent and everything we do and a big

6:34 ↗ push towards awareness of our salmon

6:36 ↗ hatchery and just getting back quickly

6:39 ↗ then to last year you know we have over

6:42 ↗ 72 nonprofits that benefit from salmon

6:45 ↗ days and that's everything from our

6:46 ↗ school district because we hire their

6:48 ↗ school buses Youth Advisory Council the

6:52 ↗ Senior Center ROTC boys clubs girls

6:56 ↗ clubs schools every single possible

7:00 ↗ nonprofit practically that you can

7:01 ↗ imagine and together they raised over

7:04 ↗ $100,000 for those 70 nonprofits last

7:07 ↗ year we also have the restaurants

7:11 ↗ downtown the ones that reported in the

7:13 ↗ two days of 7 days they had over a

7:15 ↗ quarter of a million dollars worth of

7:17 ↗ sales we had a hundred and five nights

7:22 ↗ who were booked just from vendors dock

7:26 ↗ dogs I did not know this a little bit of

7:28 ↗ trivia one of doc dog judges that comes

7:31 ↗ over here every single year is actually

7:33 ↗ from Australia and so they stay with us

7:35 ↗ so again big boom to all of the economy

7:38 ↗ we couldn't do it without the city and

7:41 ↗ we just like to thank you again for your

7:42 ↗ support thank you for your comments it's

7:47 ↗ awesome hands of support out there some

7:49 ↗ some some silent clapping I appreciate

7:52 ↗ anyone else signed up this evening no

7:54 ↗ mmm all right well thank you would

7:57 ↗ anyone else like the opportunity to

7:59 ↗ speak who has not signed up this evening

8:09 ↗ give your name and address and yes

8:12 ↗ there's 255 southeast and Rose Street I

8:15 ↗ think Paul's going to steal some thunder

8:18 ↗ here later with a pitcher that'll be on

8:19 ↗ the screen of having to do with polls in

8:23 ↗ the the wireless issue and those of us

8:27 ↗ who live where wooden poles are already

8:29 ↗ there have to be concerned about what

8:32 ↗ could be hanging on them they can put 20

8:35 ↗ cubic feet of stuff on these poles if

8:39 ↗ you convert that to buckets it'd be

8:42 ↗ about thirty five gallon buckets it's a

8:45 ↗ huge amount of volume that could be on

8:48 ↗ these poles now in the highlands and

8:51 ↗ other places where they don't have all

8:53 ↗ these wooden poles gee there won't be a

8:54 ↗ problem if they'll just do vaults but if

8:57 ↗ you try and do vaults in many parts of

8:59 ↗ the Highlands you're gonna run into

9:01 ↗ phone fiber

9:03 ↗ da-da-da-da-dah there isn't room to put

9:06 ↗ all this stuff necessarily in that

9:09 ↗ narrow area between the road and the

9:11 ↗ sidewalk and the Highlands so we're

9:14 ↗ going to be looking at above-ground

9:16 ↗ stuff in the highlands as well in my

9:18 ↗ opinion anyway so I hope that council

9:22 ↗ will look into this really carefully and

9:25 ↗ protect our views of our wonderful areas

9:28 ↗ thank you thank you for your comments

9:32 ↗ anyone else like the opportunity to

9:35 ↗ speak let's see you

9:46 ↗ hello Christina Bruning I'm the

9:49 ↗ president of the board of directors for

9:51 ↗ the downtown it's across OCA ssin and

9:56 ↗ I'm here this evening just to remind

9:58 ↗ everybody that the downtown Issaquah

10:00 ↗ Association also referred to as dia is a

10:03 ↗ community led volunteer-driven

10:05 ↗ organization that promotes enhances the

10:08 ↗ vitality of Old Town is a cob through

10:11 ↗ different programs and events

10:12 ↗ celebrating the unique culture that we

10:14 ↗ have here in November I came in and I

10:17 ↗ shared a little bit about how and why I

10:19 ↗ got more involved in dia and I've lived

10:22 ↗ in Old Town since 1991 and I really

10:25 ↗ wanted to bring the voice and the spirit

10:27 ↗ of Old Town residents this past year I

10:30 ↗ must say Old Town residents have come

10:32 ↗ out in force and have now claimed the

10:35 ↗ Shell gas station at 232 Front Street

10:37 ↗ south or north I should say as they're

10:40 ↗ gathering place I also shared gratitude

10:45 ↗ for the city from Parks Department to

10:49 ↗ the Main Street Tax Credit and sent a

10:51 ↗ program to the your team everybody in

10:55 ↗ the city has been extraordinarily

10:56 ↗ supportive of the downtown Issaquah

10:58 ↗ association and has made it possible for

11:00 ↗ us to attract more people to walk the

11:03 ↗ streets and a good way and frequent our

11:06 ↗ businesses in February I shared a little

11:10 ↗ bit about our season kickoff which we

11:13 ↗ started with a pub crawl and we've added

11:16 ↗ a fourth pub crawl and that's in

11:18 ↗ collaboration with the Issaquah History

11:21 ↗ Museum's

11:22 ↗ we also talked about Street scapes super

11:25 ↗ excited about Street scapes so thank you

11:28 ↗ for your support of that downtown

11:30 ↗ Issaquah association looks forward to

11:31 ↗ being an active partner and making that

11:34 ↗ all happen today I'm here to highlight

11:38 ↗ some very exciting news you probably saw

11:42 ↗ the banner over front Street right

11:44 ↗ everybody see it it is the start of the

11:46 ↗ wine and art series that starts on March

11:49 ↗ 2nd it's Saturday evening it's gonna go

11:51 ↗ for 4 months so March April May and June

11:55 ↗ farm of fresh flowers

11:58 ↗ not sure if it's gonna pull it off on

12:00 ↗ March 30th based on the weather patterns

12:02 ↗ but March 30 is going to kick off the

12:05 ↗ farm fresh flowers market 9 a.m. to 2

12:08 ↗ p.m. at Shell gas station that's going

12:11 ↗ to run for five weeks so we build that

12:13 ↗ market and that'll stop as soon as the

12:15 ↗ it's a coffee farmers market begins up

12:17 ↗ at Pickering barn and we look forward to

12:21 ↗ keeping the doors open the old town

12:24 ↗ residents have said when we stop by we

12:27 ↗ want to be able to pop in we want to be

12:30 ↗ able to sit down and so we opened the

12:34 ↗ doors a lot last year we're looking

12:35 ↗ forward to doing that even more this

12:36 ↗ year February 25th it's this Monday is

12:41 ↗ our annual open house this is a three

12:44 ↗ part event so from 3 o'clock to 3:45

12:48 ↗ we're gonna highlight accomplishments

12:50 ↗ for 2018 and look ahead at 2019 from

12:55 ↗ 4:00 to 5:30 you can come and be a part

12:56 ↗ of actually a committee meeting of four

12:59 ↗ different committees and from 6:30 to

13:02 ↗ 8:30 we're looking forward to a

13:03 ↗ volunteer open house and training so dia

13:07 ↗ is powered by community volunteers last

13:10 ↗ year during a progress visit from the

13:12 ↗ Main Street program I was asked as the

13:15 ↗ board president what was I most proud of

13:17 ↗ and I said the people the people who is

13:22 ↗ stepped forward and contributed many

13:25 ↗ many hours of a variety of different

13:26 ↗ type of services has made dia shine and

13:30 ↗ we look forward to a super exciting year

13:31 ↗ in 2019 with supporters like the city of

13:35 ↗ Issaquah and the local small businesses

13:37 ↗ and our community partners like the

13:39 ↗ Chamber of Commerce so thank you so much

13:42 ↗ and we look forward to seeing you at the

13:43 ↗ events thank you for your comments

13:46 ↗ anyone else this evening Oh some hands

13:49 ↗ up in support of that anyone else this

13:52 ↗ evening wanting to speak who wasn't

13:54 ↗ signed up does England desire to speak

13:57 ↗ this evening and third call for the

13:59 ↗ final time does anyone desire to speak

14:01 ↗ this evening

14:03 ↗ hearing none audience comments are

14:05 ↗ closed and we'll move to committee and

14:07 ↗ regional reports there is no mayor's

14:10 ↗ report this evening

14:11 ↗ city administrator moon will provide a

14:13 ↗ brief report later under good of the

14:15 ↗ order and so we will proceed to the

14:20 ↗ consent calendar now one of the items on

14:22 ↗ tonight's consent calendar agenda bills

14:24 ↗ 76 81 polygons parcel deep oh I'm sorry

14:31 ↗ I skipped over I'm sorry I skipped over

14:35 ↗ the stuff in blue my my bad I was just

14:38 ↗ looking at the stuff in red I am so

14:40 ↗ sorry how how can I possibly forget

14:42 ↗ committee reports Lindsay I don't have a

14:48 ↗ committee report yet thank you all right

14:51 ↗ council member heights Thank You council

14:53 ↗ president Mart's the council land and

14:56 ↗ Shore committee met on February 7th 2019

14:59 ↗ there were four items the first item is

15:02 ↗ a B seven six eight one polygon parcel D

15:05 ↗ preliminary plat Issaquah Highlands

15:07 ↗ quasi-judicial closed record the

15:10 ↗ committee recommended approval and this

15:12 ↗ is on consent for this evening a B seven

15:15 ↗ six eight two proposed amendments 2018

15:18 ↗ comprehensive plan central Sukhois plan

15:20 ↗ IMC and central standards there was a

15:23 ↗ discussion by the committee and there

15:25 ↗ were recommendations for changes in a

15:27 ↗ number of places so this was recommended

15:30 ↗ by the committee to be referred back to

15:32 ↗ land and Shore committee and we'll go

15:34 ↗ back to Committee on March 7th

15:37 ↗ we also discussed amendments to IMC 18.0

15:40 ↗ 7.48 0 community facilities standards

15:43 ↗ regarding public buildings and on this

15:46 ↗ one as well the committee wanted more

15:49 ↗ information and some more options from

15:51 ↗ staff so this will be returning back to

15:52 ↗ committee and then we have we had a b7 7

15:56 ↗ to 6 2019 docket of comprehensive plan

16:00 ↗ amendments and this item is on our

16:04 ↗ consent agenda for this evening the

16:07 ↗ cascade water Alliance resource

16:08 ↗ management committee met on February

16:10 ↗ 14th and this committee discussed water

16:14 ↗ quality of Lake Tapps

16:16 ↗ reservoir as well as the surrounding

16:18 ↗ region and this was part of the ongoing

16:20 ↗ discussions

16:22 ↗ in that committee about planning for

16:25 ↗ activities and priorities around water

16:28 ↗ quality in the reservoir for 2019 and

16:31 ↗ going forward and we also discussed some

16:34 ↗ potential policy areas such as storm

16:36 ↗ water treatment herbicide pesticide and

16:38 ↗ fertilizer use and septic systems the

16:41 ↗ cascade water Alliance board will meet

16:43 ↗ on February 27th at their office in

16:45 ↗ Bellevue and this concludes my report

16:47 ↗ Thank You councilmember Wray Thank You

16:50 ↗ council president marts the services and

16:53 ↗ Safety Committee met on February 12th we

16:56 ↗ had two items on the agenda agenda bill

16:58 ↗ 7702 Criminal Code amending imc nine

17:03 ↗ point oh five paragraph a this item has

17:10 ↗ been returned to Council and is on

17:11 ↗ consent for this evening and we also

17:14 ↗ took up agenda bill 77237 Terry fee

17:17 ↗ increase amending imc 2.22 zero four

17:21 ↗ zero we had a spirited discussion on the

17:26 ↗ cemetery fees and a number of unanswered

17:28 ↗ questions so we are bringing that back

17:30 ↗ to service instance safety on the March

17:33 ↗ 12th committee meeting the next meeting

17:37 ↗ of services and safety will be March

17:39 ↗ 12th here in council chambers and that

17:41 ↗ concludes my report this evening Thank

17:43 ↗ You councilmember winters time Thank You

17:45 ↗ council president marks the growth

17:48 ↗ management policy board met on Thursday

17:50 ↗ February 7th at PSR C headquarters in

17:53 ↗ Seattle and since dish is putting up the

17:59 ↗ other diagram I'll jump to that report

18:01 ↗ first this Thursday on February 21st is

18:07 ↗ the next meeting of the council

18:09 ↗ Infrastructure Committee meeting and

18:11 ↗ thank you for putting up the picture

18:13 ↗ Trisha Trisha the meeting will be here

18:16 ↗ in council chambers and it will also be

18:17 ↗ live on IC TV and of course streaming

18:20 ↗ live from our website as well so in

18:23 ↗ addition to the regular water sewer

18:25 ↗ storm water and transportation project

18:27 ↗ updates there's going to be one item on

18:29 ↗ the agenda that's a gender bill 77 1 4

18:34 ↗ which pertains to wireless communication

18:36 ↗ facilities or cell towers and this

18:41 ↗ picture I put up just to perhaps inspire

18:44 ↗ more people to take some time and become

18:48 ↗ familiar with this issue in front of the

18:50 ↗ council and we would love to hear

18:52 ↗ comments from from you about the bill in

18:56 ↗ front of us last year this council the

19:00 ↗ the administration proposed and this

19:01 ↗ council adopted some new regulations for

19:05 ↗ the deployment of cell towers and

19:07 ↗ particularly small cell towers

19:09 ↗ throughout the city and then in in the

19:12 ↗ summer of last year the current

19:14 ↗ administration in Washington the FCC

19:16 ↗ changed some rules and it opened up the

19:22 ↗ placement of cell towers for the

19:24 ↗ infrastructure for 5g networks

19:27 ↗ opened up quite a bit and in fact it

19:30 ↗ invalidated some of the rules that we

19:31 ↗ put in place a year ago and so the

19:34 ↗ federal government has basically

19:36 ↗ trumping our local control apparently

19:39 ↗ they think there's some emergency and

19:42 ↗ having towers wherever the wireless

19:44 ↗ carriers think they ought to be is now

19:47 ↗ it's incumbent upon us to or we being

19:50 ↗ asked to change our current law that

19:52 ↗ regulates where and some of their form

19:54 ↗ and size to update our city Municipal

19:58 ↗ Code to conform with the federal code

20:01 ↗ and that's the purpose of the meeting on

20:03 ↗ Wednesday this item is to consider the

20:06 ↗ changes to that ordinance but I have

20:09 ↗ asked for this picture to be put up

20:10 ↗ because it's a simulation provided so

20:12 ↗ you have some idea we here to comment

20:14 ↗ earlier you had some idea that's a

20:16 ↗ simulation provided by Verizon of a

20:19 ↗ existing 30-foot tower with close to a

20:22 ↗ 20 foot extension put on top of it in

20:24 ↗ the box that's hanging off it and then

20:26 ↗ the antenna the hardware on the top as

20:28 ↗ well basically these new regulations

20:31 ↗ that we're being asked to consider to

20:34 ↗ adopt into our own IMC would allow the

20:37 ↗ wireless companies to install those in

20:41 ↗ the right away in public right away in

20:43 ↗ areas where we currently prohibit them

20:46 ↗ so our law is considered prohibitive to

20:48 ↗ the new federal law so where we sit

20:51 ↗ right here we're only tens of feet of

20:53 ↗ away from public right away on Sunset

20:54 ↗ and Front Street and so it's possible

20:56 ↗ that's cooked only at the whim of this

20:59 ↗ of the wireless communication companies

21:02 ↗ they could choose to use our public

21:04 ↗ right away and install such towers and

21:08 ↗ so we're gonna be discussing the change

21:10 ↗ legislation during the meeting and I'd

21:12 ↗ be very very happy and encourage and

21:15 ↗ invite everybody who has an opinion or a

21:17 ↗ feeling about this to come to our

21:20 ↗ meeting on Thursday the 21st at 6:30

21:23 ↗ here in Council Chambers and we would

21:25 ↗ love to you to hear the discussion and

21:27 ↗ and potentially hear what you have to

21:30 ↗ say as well so that can that's my CI C

21:33 ↗ report thank you Tish again for putting

21:35 ↗ that up I'm gonna go back to what I

21:36 ↗ started this past well back on February

21:39 ↗ 7th the growth management Policy Board

21:41 ↗ met in Seattle at PSR C headquarters and

21:44 ↗ there were three major items on the

21:46 ↗ agenda we're having a discussion of

21:48 ↗ course we're updating vision 2050 or

21:50 ↗ updating vision 2040 to something we're

21:52 ↗ calling vision 2050 and a very it's very

21:55 ↗ important for many people in this area

21:57 ↗ that as we grow that the issues of

21:58 ↗ equity are addressed and in the and the

22:02 ↗ board is really we spent an extended

22:04 ↗ period of time

22:05 ↗ on the seventh discussing equity so

22:07 ↗ between now and 2050 the Puget Sound

22:11 ↗ region is expected to grow by 1.8

22:13 ↗ million people and we're also at that

22:16 ↗ same time expected to become

22:18 ↗ increasingly diverse the growth will

22:20 ↗ bring many benefits but it could also

22:22 ↗ exasperate the number of challenges

22:24 ↗ including housing affordability and

22:26 ↗ economic and cultural displacement so

22:29 ↗ we've got a presentation from normal Lou

22:30 ↗ who is from the Nora

22:32 ↗ excuse me Nora Lou who's from race

22:34 ↗ forwards government Alliance on race and

22:36 ↗ equity and she presented on an approach

22:39 ↗ for incorporating equity into decision

22:42 ↗ making and policy setting which I found

22:44 ↗ fascinating because I don't think we've

22:45 ↗ ever really had that as a purpose or a

22:48 ↗ way with which we looked at our policies

22:51 ↗ and so we then broke into small groups

22:54 ↗ and discussed how equity you know could

22:57 ↗ be reflected in the regional policy that

22:58 ↗ we set

22:59 ↗ and how growth can benefit more of the

23:02 ↗ region's residents and how to mitigate

23:03 ↗ displacement and improve access to

23:06 ↗ opportunity so the P SRC will be

23:09 ↗ developing an updated demographic

23:11 ↗ profile for the four County region and

23:13 ↗ they have written an equity briefing

23:15 ↗ paper which I highly recommend and

23:17 ↗ they'll be developing some new analysis

23:19 ↗ tools to that arguing come out as part

23:22 ↗ of the supplemental draft EIS for vision

23:25 ↗ 2050 and they will the staff then will

23:28 ↗ be drafting some policies for the board

23:29 ↗ to consider for adoption into vision

23:32 ↗ 2050 we also talked about how housing

23:37 ↗ policies and again the staff has

23:41 ↗ proposed a number of changes and this

23:44 ↗ purpose was to get the board's feedback

23:47 ↗ because the rising cost of housing and

23:49 ↗ the growing homelessness our top

23:51 ↗ concerns for people in the region and it

23:54 ↗ has been consistently identified as a

23:56 ↗ key topic for us to address envision

23:58 ↗ 2050 so again we will be it'll come back

24:03 ↗ for action later on again it was

24:05 ↗ discussion and an opportunity for staff

24:07 ↗ to take our input and those are the

24:11 ↗ major two items that concludes my report

24:12 ↗ thank you

24:13 ↗ I'm Sameer equipment Thank You council

24:16 ↗ president marks the Eastside Fire and

24:20 ↗ Rescue board of directors met on

24:21 ↗ February 14th and first of all we

24:26 ↗ started off with a monthly mission

24:29 ↗ moment because of the Eastside fire and

24:31 ↗ rescues 20th year so every month we will

24:35 ↗ be talking a little bit about the

24:36 ↗ organization and there are some

24:39 ↗ additional things happening this year

24:43 ↗ such as a special banquet in October

24:45 ↗ it's a little more special than the

24:47 ↗ annual banquets that they usually have

24:48 ↗ we also had elections for board

24:53 ↗ leadership and North Bend councils Allen

24:57 ↗ Gulf was reelected as president or chair

25:00 ↗ sorry of the board and our own chris ray

25:02 ↗ was elected as vice chair for 2019 we

25:07 ↗ had a briefing on PFS i'm not going to

25:11 ↗ try to pronounce that

25:12 ↗ whole word a draft report is being

25:15 ↗ commented on right now and that will be

25:18 ↗ out in the coming months for public

25:21 ↗ consumption city of Issaquah and

25:23 ↗ Eastside Fire and Rescue also are

25:25 ↗ working together on getting another

25:27 ↗ another four hundred thousand dollars

25:29 ↗ from the legislature this year for the

25:31 ↗ department the there is on April 27th

25:40 ↗ there is a fire ground 101 training and

25:44 ↗ it is by RSVP only and not only our

25:48 ↗ board directors invited but also

25:51 ↗ councils and representatives from the

25:54 ↗ member cities and organizations plus key

25:58 ↗ staff

25:59 ↗ so if key staff of city of Issaquah or

26:01 ↗ any of you on council would like to

26:03 ↗ participate and I've participated before

26:06 ↗ and it's a it's a very fun educational

26:10 ↗ event again it's April 27th so you get a

26:13 ↗ hold of me or Chris or get a hold of

26:15 ↗ East Side Fire if you're interested we

26:17 ↗ also had a storm report and the focus of

26:23 ↗ that report was on a couple of things

26:28 ↗ number one if ya haven't caught if you

26:31 ↗ all haven't heard north been had at

26:33 ↗ least three feet of snow and it was a

26:36 ↗ very very significant event for North

26:39 ↗ Bend and so we heard about North bends

26:46 ↗ what they were going through and then we

26:48 ↗ also talked about and heard about

26:50 ↗ Eastside fire and everything that they

26:51 ↗ did to try to to react to the snow event

26:54 ↗ that we were having so the Army National

26:57 ↗ Guard was housed at some of the stations

26:59 ↗ they had ambulance transports when

27:01 ↗ ambulance transports weren't available

27:03 ↗ Eastside fire was staffing their aid

27:05 ↗ cars even at levels they don't normally

27:08 ↗ staff them out they each said fire was

27:11 ↗ had to creatively use their their

27:15 ↗ vehicles and their equipment in order

27:17 ↗ for them to be available to respond if

27:18 ↗ necessary and to have access to hydrants

27:21 ↗ if needed they Issaquah

27:25 ↗ provided snow plows to North Bend and so

27:30 ↗ we heard from chair got elf that he was

27:33 ↗ he and North Bend very very appreciative

27:35 ↗ of the help that the city of Issaquah

27:37 ↗ provided and II said fire also staffed

27:41 ↗ North bends Emergency Operations Center

27:46 ↗ one of the things that we also heard

27:48 ↗ about however is from the chief of

27:50 ↗ Eastside Fire is that we need to figure

27:52 ↗ out a better way to work together on

27:55 ↗ emergency management and we need to

27:57 ↗ formalize an emergency management

27:59 ↗ organization going forward he says it

28:02 ↗ needs to be better organized he made

28:04 ↗ these comments saying I know this is a

28:06 ↗ public meeting and I know these are

28:07 ↗ public comments so I felt they need to

28:09 ↗ share them here he shared that in the

28:12 ↗ last six months we've had two events

28:13 ↗ that were triggered emergency operations

28:16 ↗ one was the snow events that we recently

28:18 ↗ had and the other one was the 9-1-1

28:20 ↗ system operational problems that that we

28:23 ↗ had he called those both exercises that

28:26 ↗ were both of those were exercises in

28:28 ↗ dysfunction I primarily I think he was

28:31 ↗ talking about coordination with King

28:34 ↗ County in particular it took King County

28:37 ↗ three days to get out to North Bend and

28:38 ↗ that once Dow Constantine the executive

28:41 ↗ not out to North Bend then the resources

28:43 ↗ started flowing but I thought it was

28:46 ↗ important to share that the chief of

28:47 ↗ Eastside Fire and Rescue thought that

28:49 ↗ the region could do a better job that's

28:51 ↗ my report for this evening thank you

28:53 ↗ thank you

28:54 ↗ Council deputy president batise thank

28:57 ↗ you council president Mart's the east

28:59 ↗ side Human Services forum met on

29:01 ↗ Wednesday February 13th in Bellevue and

29:05 ↗ we went through a variety of updates we

29:08 ↗ had a year-end financial report and

29:12 ↗ discussed the meetings that and events

29:15 ↗ that were held in December we had a work

29:17 ↗ plan approval still working on the draft

29:21 ↗ so I'll be speaking more about that in

29:23 ↗ my next update a budget were approval an

29:27 ↗ organizational review that concludes my

29:30 ↗ report thank you sound studies

29:33 ↗ association didn't meet in February it

29:35 ↗ will next be meeting Wednesday March

29:36 ↗ 13th I'd mentioned Council

29:38 ↗ about some sort of countywide

29:40 ↗ transportation issues when looking into

29:42 ↗ it a little further and with the

29:44 ↗ assistance of Public Works engineering

29:45 ↗ decided there really wasn't anything for

29:48 ↗ structured enough yet at the county

29:50 ↗ level to have a deeper conversation at

29:52 ↗ Council so as but as things move forward

29:54 ↗ from the county I will look for input

29:58 ↗ from the council to better represent us

29:59 ↗ on sound cities Association on the

30:03 ↗ public issues committee I should save

30:04 ↗ growth management planning council

30:07 ↗ policy Council is meeting Wednesday

30:09 ↗ February 27th we don't actually have the

30:13 ↗ agenda yet which is a little unfortunate

30:15 ↗ but I just want to mention you know I

30:18 ↗ want to thank Paul for talking about GNP

30:21 ↗ B you know it for folks that are

30:23 ↗ interested there is a very substantive

30:25 ↗ conversation in the growth and

30:27 ↗ development subgroup of the strategic

30:30 ↗ plan development around what do we want

30:33 ↗ to do as a city and how do we want to

30:35 ↗ try to influence how we have to respond

30:38 ↗ to the growth that's coming at the

30:41 ↗ county level and at the state level and

30:43 ↗ so if the public is interested those

30:45 ↗ subgroups are or of course recorded and

30:49 ↗ will form you know a backdrop for the

30:52 ↗ conversation that we have as we move

30:53 ↗ forward with the strategic plan but it's

30:54 ↗ it's really important and this year more

30:57 ↗ so than ever as we developed a strategic

30:59 ↗ plan I realize how critical it is that

31:00 ↗ we be at the table for that conversation

31:02 ↗ I want to give a report out on the ad

31:05 ↗ hoc Finance Committee because I've sort

31:07 ↗ of mentioned it in passing we are going

31:10 ↗ to be on March 4th we're gonna be

31:12 ↗ talking about two things coming out of

31:14 ↗ ad hoc finance the first is that we have

31:16 ↗ put together sort of a bundle of

31:19 ↗ transportation goals that we would like

31:21 ↗ to accomplish in the type in the

31:23 ↗ five-year time frame so sort of a

31:25 ↗ strawman for conversation amongst the

31:27 ↗ seven of us but we we kind of went

31:29 ↗ through and had some criteria and and it

31:32 ↗ should be a good conversation it's going

31:34 ↗ to lead to there will be sort of a

31:38 ↗ taking of the I'm gonna say taking the

31:40 ↗ temperature of the room but I hope on

31:42 ↗ the 4th to have a conversation about

31:44 ↗ what we want to do with that package of

31:47 ↗ of goals and how we want to bring it

31:49 ↗ back for action in front of the full

31:52 ↗ council there is one element of that

31:54 ↗ pact of that set of transportation goals

31:59 ↗ that is time-sensitive and it has to do

32:03 ↗ with the response to Washington

32:05 ↗ Department of Transportation pinch point

32:07 ↗ which we've talked a little bit about

32:08 ↗ there's going to be and that's the sort

32:11 ↗ of the second half of the conversation

32:12 ↗ on the fourth that's going to be more

32:14 ↗ more substantive and more time critical

32:16 ↗ and we're gonna need to make a decision

32:17 ↗ sooner rather than later but I want it

32:19 ↗ within the context of what the ad hoc

32:21 ↗ Finance Committee is going to be

32:24 ↗ recommending that we adopt as a

32:26 ↗ comprehensive set of of transportation

32:28 ↗ goals again for for a five-year time

32:30 ↗ frame so that is coming March 4th with

32:35 ↗ that we are done with regional reports

32:39 ↗ so back to back to my script and and any

32:44 ↗ errors it did by delivery of the script

32:46 ↗ today is entirely my fault the staff has

32:48 ↗ been really supportive of my I haven't

32:49 ↗ done this in what all seven years six

32:52 ↗ years something like that so there is no

32:56 ↗ mayor's report this evening City

32:57 ↗ Administrator moon will provide a brief

32:58 ↗ report later under good of the order

33:00 ↗ we're gonna proceed to the consent

33:02 ↗ calendar one of the items on tonight's

33:05 ↗ consent calendar a B 76 81 polygons

33:08 ↗ parcel D preliminary plat and they

33:10 ↗ sequel Highlands is a quasi-judicial

33:11 ↗ matter I'd like to ask city attorney

33:15 ↗ Scott Snyder to facilitate the

33:18 ↗ appearance of fairness disclosures for

33:20 ↗ this item thank you and good evening

33:22 ↗ council members and those of you who are

33:24 ↗ meeting for the first time this evening

33:27 ↗ pursuant to the appearance of fairness

33:29 ↗ doctrine objections must be made at the

33:32 ↗ earliest opportunity when the basis for

33:35 ↗ an objection is known accordingly your

33:38 ↗ procedures ask that you reveal certain

33:42 ↗ communications I'm going to ask three

33:45 ↗ questions and would ask if any of you

33:48 ↗ these raise issues for them please put

33:51 ↗ and these communications into your

33:54 ↗ record this evening first as any council

33:58 ↗ member had a communication

34:00 ↗ with the applicant or any member of the

34:02 ↗ public regarding the preliminary plat

34:05 ↗ outside of the public meeting process

34:11 ↗ hearing none chair I'll proceed you does

34:16 ↗ any council member want to reveal a

34:18 ↗ business or personal relationship with

34:21 ↗ the applicant or any member of the

34:23 ↗ public who are participated in the

34:25 ↗ hearings today hearing none I'll proceed

34:30 ↗ to the third there's any council member

34:33 ↗ on property close to the proposed plat

34:39 ↗ again hearing none share with your

34:43 ↗ permission all now asked that any member

34:46 ↗ of the audience who has an objection to

34:49 ↗ the participation of any council member

34:51 ↗ ask you to come forward and state your

34:54 ↗ objection in place in the record the

34:57 ↗ basis for the appearance of fairness

34:59 ↗ doctrine objection mr. chair I see no

35:06 ↗ one has come forward so any appearance

35:08 ↗ of fairness doctrine challenges have

35:11 ↗ been waived

35:12 ↗ thank you thank you mr. Snyder I

35:14 ↗ appreciate it the consent calendar was

35:16 ↗ distributed to council in advance if

35:19 ↗ authorized the items on the consent

35:20 ↗ calendar will be considered together and

35:22 ↗ approved by one motion

35:23 ↗ I have payables and payroll been

35:25 ↗ reviewed yes yeah thank you does any

35:29 ↗ council member desire to remove any item

35:31 ↗ from the consent calendar and consider

35:33 ↗ it under regular business all right is

35:38 ↗ there a motion I would like to make a

35:41 ↗ motion to approve the consent calendar

35:44 ↗ as listed second the motion to approve

35:49 ↗ the consent calendar has been moved and

35:51 ↗ seconded all those in favor signify by

35:54 ↗ saying aye those opposed that passes I

35:59 ↗ believe unanimously 7 to 0 the next item

36:03 ↗ on the agenda is agenda bills 75 38

36:06 ↗ updated water system plan last heard of

36:09 ↗ the January 22nd council meeting and I

36:11 ↗ would like to invite Public Works

36:12 ↗ engineering

36:13 ↗ Sheldon Lynn to make a presentation

36:38 ↗ Thank You mayor pro-tem council my name

36:41 ↗ is sheldon lin director of public works

36:43 ↗ engineering and let me give a short

36:45 ↗ presentation about the water system plan

36:47 ↗ its processes and just slightly touch on

36:52 ↗ rates and then a final recommendation

36:55 ↗ for adoption of a plan in accordance

36:56 ↗ with the recommendation in agenda bill

36:58 ↗ seven five three eight the requirements

37:03 ↗ for planning under the water system are

37:06 ↗ governed by the washington

37:08 ↗ administrative code 246 290 I in 2017

37:13 ↗ HDR consulting firm as well as city

37:16 ↗ staff work to prepare the water system

37:19 ↗ plan that has been in councils arena for

37:23 ↗ the past year or so reviewing and

37:27 ↗ evaluating different items it was

37:33 ↗ referred to committee in March of 2018

37:35 ↗ since that time there has been four

37:38 ↗ council workshops and Department of

37:41 ↗ Health has been reviewing it as well as

37:43 ↗ the King County utility technical review

37:45 ↗ committee in 2018 there were some policy

37:52 ↗ issues discussed specifically the major

37:55 ↗ policy issues were conservation and

37:56 ↗ demand forecasting supply strategies

37:59 ↗ with systems operations as well as water

38:02 ↗ treatment following those discussions

38:07 ↗ where there was opportunity for public

38:09 ↗ comment the agenda bill was referred

38:13 ↗ back into council Infrastructure

38:15 ↗ Committee with a recommendation back in

38:17 ↗ January of this year for adoption

38:20 ↗ however at that time the CEPA process

38:22 ↗ had not been completed in that stupid

38:25 ↗ determination and non significance had

38:27 ↗ been issued but it had not been the

38:30 ↗ comment period hadn't been completed nor

38:32 ↗ the appeals period since that time the

38:36 ↗ appeals period as well as the comment

38:37 ↗ period have expired and the city has

38:39 ↗ received no comments on the CEPA

38:40 ↗ determination as i mentioned earlier i

38:44 ↗ was going to talk a little bit about

38:46 ↗ rates because at one of the workshops

38:49 ↗ rates were discussed briefly

38:53 ↗ the rate impacts solely due to the water

38:55 ↗ treatment plan was further evaluated by

38:58 ↗ city staff in a very rudimentary way and

39:02 ↗ it appears that over a four to five year

39:05 ↗ period

39:06 ↗ single-digit rate increases would be

39:08 ↗ needed to add up to a cumulative rate

39:10 ↗ increase of somewhere between 35 and 40

39:12 ↗ percent it's a very basic analysis that

39:16 ↗ has a lot of caveats associated with it

39:18 ↗ there was no rate study or anything done

39:22 ↗ as part of the water system plan that is

39:24 ↗ focused for this year to bring in a full

39:27 ↗ utility scale rate study the rate study

39:32 ↗ also is caveated or I should say this

39:34 ↗ rudimentary analysis is caveated in that

39:36 ↗ there was no assumption for connection

39:39 ↗ charges in here it's purely rate driven

39:42 ↗ there's bond council that needs to be

39:45 ↗ consulted in this because there's

39:47 ↗ strategies on bonding timing and things

39:49 ↗ like that that can affect the rates that

39:52 ↗ are associated with a water treatment

39:54 ↗ plan so water treatment plant was one of

39:57 ↗ the larger capital items that came out

39:59 ↗ of the water system plan and so with

40:02 ↗ that since the CEPA processes are all

40:04 ↗ complete which is what was postponing it

40:08 ↗ from the January meeting to now the

40:11 ↗ recommendation and the agenda bill is to

40:13 ↗ approve the resolution number whichever

40:16 ↗ it is when the clerk says it adopted in

40:18 ↗ 2018 water system plan update so if

40:21 ↗ there's any questions I'd be happy to

40:22 ↗ answer them are there any questions for

40:25 ↗ director Laden was a member winter Stein

40:29 ↗ Thank You Sheldon

40:32 ↗ and thank you for addressing the rate I

40:33 ↗ know that I was wondering about that and

40:36 ↗ you just said something curious about

40:38 ↗ there was no assumptions about

40:39 ↗ connection fees I know that a big part

40:41 ↗ of the capital of the funding for our

40:44 ↗ utility is through creating new

40:47 ↗ connections so I just want to make sure

40:50 ↗ I understood you correctly you didn't do

40:52 ↗ analysis on what the fees ought to be I

40:53 ↗ mean but you made some assumption that

40:55 ↗ some of the revenue Ness Ness the funds

40:57 ↗ to be raised would still come from

40:59 ↗ connection fees that's correct some

41:01 ↗ would come but I made an assumption of

41:03 ↗ none at this point because

41:04 ↗ no analysis has been done on that aspect

41:07 ↗ of the project okay and so the what you

41:10 ↗ said a moment ago is that in order to

41:14 ↗ fund a water treatment plant and that's

41:19 ↗ an item unlike roads and parks other

41:21 ↗ things that we do it would be the

41:24 ↗ customers of the water utility through

41:27 ↗ rates and connection fees that would pay

41:29 ↗ for that water treatment plant and that

41:32 ↗ you see that as a number of rating done

41:37 ↗ by a number of rate increases over a

41:39 ↗ number of years and that total rate over

41:41 ↗ today's rates could be from thirty five

41:44 ↗ to forty percent more than we paid today

41:47 ↗ that's correct all right thank you just

41:49 ↗ wanna make sure I understood thank you

41:50 ↗ thank you for doing that

41:52 ↗ other questions director Lee oh all

41:59 ↗ right would someone like to care to make

42:01 ↗ a motion councilmember hunt I move to

42:03 ↗ approve resolution number 2019 - two

42:07 ↗ adopting the 2018 Water System Plan

42:10 ↗ Update second the motion approve

42:14 ↗ resolution number twenty - sorry 2019 -

42:18 ↗ two has been moved and seconded

42:21 ↗ is there council discussion whatsoever

42:25 ↗ hunt thank you this this water system

42:30 ↗ plan has gone through a number of

42:32 ↗ meetings with Council and a lot of staff

42:34 ↗ work has gone into it so firstly I just

42:37 ↗ wanted to recognize that and recognize

42:38 ↗ the process and all of the hard work and

42:42 ↗ then I also wanted to relay some of the

42:48 ↗ public comments that have come to us or

42:51 ↗ some of the comments that have come to

42:52 ↗ us by email on this topic it has been a

42:55 ↗ long topic and it has been a long

42:57 ↗ process that the council has gone

42:59 ↗ through and so over the course of that

43:01 ↗ we've had a number of discussions and

43:03 ↗ one of the items that we have received

43:05 ↗ some emails about is the concept of

43:07 ↗ fluoride and this is in the context of a

43:11 ↗ water treatment plant that will be that

43:14 ↗ council will be discussing as a

43:15 ↗ follow-on conversation to this water

43:17 ↗ system plan

43:17 ↗ so we did receive email from an

43:22 ↗ informations supporting fluoridation of

43:25 ↗ water for community health benefits and

43:27 ↗ prevention of cavities from our Cora

43:29 ↗ which is the foundation of Delta Dental

43:31 ↗ Washington specifically from Emily

43:33 ↗ Furman who is a program officer and we

43:36 ↗ also received information from a

43:38 ↗ pediatrician Betsy Browder also talking

43:42 ↗ about the community benefits of fluoride

43:44 ↗ and Robin writes who is a director of

43:49 ↗ pediatric oral health research and

43:51 ↗ Policy Center American Academy of

43:53 ↗ pediatric dentistry and I'm looking

43:56 ↗ forward to talking more about the

43:59 ↗ science in support of the community

44:01 ↗ health and dental health benefits of

44:05 ↗ fluoride as we move forward into our

44:06 ↗ conversations around the water treatment

44:09 ↗ plants and our options and and I look

44:12 ↗ forward to also supporting this water

44:15 ↗ system plan this evening other comment

44:21 ↗ or discussion on the bill in front of us

44:24 ↗ nope all right I want to add this

44:28 ↗ conversation about fluoride I think is

44:30 ↗ long overdue in our community and I'm

44:31 ↗ looking forward to having it as well all

44:36 ↗ right if there's no further discussion

44:38 ↗ all those in favor of approving

44:41 ↗ resolution number 2019 - - adopting the

44:44 ↗ 2018 water system plan update signify by

44:48 ↗ saying aye aye opposed that passes

44:53 ↗ unanimously thank you very much the next

44:57 ↗ item on the agenda is good at the order

44:59 ↗ do any council members have anything for

45:02 ↗ for the good of the order council deputy

45:05 ↗ president patís Thank You council

45:08 ↗ president marts as we've been

45:11 ↗ considering different items in for

45:15 ↗ council leadership when one item has

45:18 ↗ risen to the top as council president

45:21 ↗ Mart's and I have been talking and that

45:24 ↗ is just having more information about

45:28 ↗ the engagement with our Kimmi

45:30 ↗ and different opportunities that would

45:33 ↗ be available for council

45:34 ↗ so autumn and her team have put together

45:37 ↗ a list of things that could come out

45:40 ↗ we'd been sort of discussing this back

45:43 ↗ and forth and a list of items that could

45:46 ↗ come out every Friday to council via

45:49 ↗ email and uh so I'm going to read

45:51 ↗ through some of those ideas so far that

45:54 ↗ the first would be the latest edition of

45:56 ↗ the Issaquah insider that would have

45:59 ↗ highlights of events that might be of

46:00 ↗ interest to council members invitations

46:03 ↗ to upcoming engagement efforts that are

46:06 ↗ not highlighted in the insider recap of

46:09 ↗ recent engagement efforts and then a

46:12 ↗ link to the neighborhood engagement map

46:14 ↗ through Facebook and Twitter and then

46:16 ↗ other other items as it comes up related

46:20 ↗ to community engagement so I was excited

46:23 ↗ to patola and I are both excited to be

46:26 ↗ able to talk about this with you today

46:28 ↗ and we're hoping that having a little

46:31 ↗ more of a touch on that and maybe every

46:33 ↗ week that gives us an opportunity to

46:36 ↗ look at that on a weekly basis and see

46:38 ↗ if there are some community engagement

46:40 ↗ opportunities that council would like to

46:42 ↗ attend thank you thank you and I'm

46:46 ↗ looking forward to that

46:50 ↗ augmenting our conversation about

46:51 ↗ getting out into the community even more

46:54 ↗ other items for good of good of the

46:57 ↗ order City Administrator moon great

47:03 ↗ thank you very much

47:13 ↗ it's just gonna help me advance some

47:15 ↗ slides here there are three items I

47:19 ↗ wanted to mention this evening I'm going

47:21 ↗ to start with a little report out about

47:25 ↗ our snow response from the past couple

47:28 ↗ of weeks

47:30 ↗ so it's quiet in our region as you know

47:32 ↗ was recently hit with a lot of snow the

47:36 ↗ largest February snow storm in decades

47:39 ↗ the initial snow storm began at 5 p.m.

47:43 ↗ Sunday February 3rd and lasted through

47:45 ↗ the afternoon of Thursday February 7th a

47:47 ↗ new storm system moved into on

47:50 ↗ Friday February 8th just to add to the

47:53 ↗ fun major response operations lasted

47:56 ↗ through Wednesday February 13th I'm

48:00 ↗ going to recap our response to this

48:02 ↗ incident and in doing so hope to

48:04 ↗ recognize our hard-working staff that

48:06 ↗ put in over three thousand three hundred

48:09 ↗ hours responding to the storm Itzik was

48:13 ↗ an incident management team our our IMT

48:16 ↗ coordinates the response to significant

48:18 ↗ snow storms by organizing activities

48:20 ↗ between city departments including

48:23 ↗ Public Works police parks fire

48:25 ↗ communications emergency management

48:28 ↗ support services and the Office of

48:31 ↗ Sustainability the response effort also

48:34 ↗ includes agencies and businesses such as

48:36 ↗ King County Emergency Management

48:38 ↗ lakeside industries and Cadman our

48:43 ↗ Public Works operations team was well

48:45 ↗ prepared in advance of this event

48:48 ↗ itsuka operates nine plows with Sanders

48:51 ↗ and three loaders working three sand

48:54 ↗ storage sites after the most recent

49:00 ↗ snowfall our crews had to dig themselves

49:02 ↗ out just to get to work many of them

49:05 ↗ left homes and families without power

49:08 ↗ and with snow loaded roofs to come and

49:11 ↗ plow snow for Issaquah at times our

49:14 ↗ crews operated a tandem plows to help

49:16 ↗ clear some of our steepest streets

49:19 ↗ innovative equipment repairs by our

49:21 ↗ mechanics kept snow clearing equipment

49:23 ↗ on the road while crews were

49:26 ↗ to 12-hour shifts the equipment ran 24

49:30 ↗ hours a day for 10 days straight

49:33 ↗ stopping only for fuel sand refills and

49:36 ↗ news plow edges at one point our

49:39 ↗ mechanics hot-wired a malfunctioning

49:43 ↗ snow plow sanding controller while

49:45 ↗ repair parts were ordered the temporary

49:48 ↗ fix worked well just as long as that

49:49 ↗ truck was not turned off during the

49:52 ↗ incidents pwo performed snow response

49:56 ↗ operations around the clock community

49:58 ↗ members were extremely positive about

50:01 ↗ our response and we're showing some of

50:03 ↗ those comments this evening over the

50:06 ↗ course of the two storms 2335 lane miles

50:10 ↗ of road were plowed and treated with 930

50:14 ↗ tons of sand 176 tons of salt and 8300

50:20 ↗ gallons of di sir we're still working on

50:24 ↗ the total estimated cost for this storm

50:27 ↗ response community members showed their

50:30 ↗ appreciation in many ways including

50:32 ↗ snacks always appreciated one family

50:37 ↗ reached out to us via social media and

50:39 ↗ asked how they could support our pwo

50:41 ↗ crews and homemade cookies were

50:43 ↗ delivered that next day I also want to

50:47 ↗ thank all the staff that has worked so

50:50 ↗ hard on putting together our GIS maps

50:53 ↗ thanks to that hard work by our GIS tech

50:58 ↗ our public works ops and communications

51:00 ↗ teams our new online snow plowing map

51:03 ↗ was very popular among community members

51:05 ↗ this map allows anyone to track the

51:08 ↗ progress of snow plowing and/or sanding

51:10 ↗ operations in Issaquah during an active

51:12 ↗ event it sees a more positive response

51:18 ↗ about our GIS map up on the screen once

51:22 ↗ our streets were substantially cleared

51:24 ↗ we provided plows and resources to the

51:27 ↗ city of North Bend as councilmember

51:29 ↗ Goodman mentioned North Bend had

51:31 ↗ declared a state of emergency and was in

51:34 ↗ desperate need of its neighbor friends

51:37 ↗ to help out

51:39 ↗ but once our streets were also plowed

51:41 ↗ our public works crews work is not done

51:44 ↗ they responded to many reports of urban

51:47 ↗ flooding issues that were caused by

51:50 ↗ snowmelt and Public Works cleanup

51:52 ↗ efforts are continuing even today as we

51:56 ↗ try to remove what's left of piles

51:59 ↗ including mounds of sand

52:02 ↗ well Public Works operations is at the

52:05 ↗ front and center of our storm response I

52:08 ↗ want to make sure to mention that many

52:10 ↗ other departments participate and extend

52:13 ↗ extra efforts when events like this

52:15 ↗ happen I want to thank our parks

52:18 ↗ facilities team for ensuring safety at

52:20 ↗ our buildings including sidewalks that

52:23 ↗ you've seen in various pictures our

52:27 ↗ Police Department also ensured the

52:29 ↗ safety of our community they were out on

52:31 ↗ the roads and responding to calls in our

52:34 ↗ dispatch communications center hello for

52:37 ↗ actually captured one of our officers

52:39 ↗ helping a driver in need of assistance

52:40 ↗ the coverage was viewed more than

52:43 ↗ 100,000 times online alone and even

52:50 ↗ during a challenging time like this our

52:53 ↗ teams have a great attitude they embrace

52:57 ↗ public service and they do their jobs

53:00 ↗ exceptionally well I'm grateful for

53:02 ↗ those who continue to provide service

53:05 ↗ even though at times it was a little

53:07 ↗ trying including this group from our

53:09 ↗ community center during the winter went

53:11 ↗ weather all of our staff feel the ton of

53:15 ↗ calls from the public many emails and

53:18 ↗ they deliver that excellent customer

53:20 ↗ service we also have staff that take on

53:23 ↗ additional responsibilities to allow

53:25 ↗ their co-workers to focus on storm

53:27 ↗ services our communications team worked

53:32 ↗ around the clock as well to keep our

53:34 ↗ community informed about our response

53:36 ↗ efforts and to filled customer service

53:40 ↗ requests within a two-week period our

53:43 ↗ team had outstanding online engagement

53:46 ↗ as these numbers show

53:51 ↗ also we have a lot of community partners

53:53 ↗ that stepped up due to mis service days

53:56 ↗ Recology offered an emergency drop-off

53:58 ↗ site for garbage and recycling at

54:00 ↗ Tibbets Valley Park from February 12th

54:03 ↗ to the 15th we're also aware of the

54:07 ↗ numerous times community members stepped

54:09 ↗ up to help neighbors in need here's just

54:13 ↗ one example in the next slide of Annisa

54:16 ↗ quoi Community Emergency Response Team

54:19 ↗ or a certain team responding to help a

54:21 ↗ squad nursing and rehabilitation center

54:24 ↗ shovel the snow from their parking lot

54:28 ↗ so events like this emphasize the need

54:32 ↗ for everyone to take responsibility for

54:34 ↗ emergency preparedness this means having

54:37 ↗ a plan and practicing that plan with

54:39 ↗ your family and friends everyone should

54:41 ↗ also have a kit with food water supplies

54:43 ↗ for at least 7 days during winter

54:47 ↗ weather please stay off the roads if

54:49 ↗ possible heavy traffic makes it very

54:51 ↗ difficult for our crews to do their work

54:53 ↗ ensuring our roads are in the best

54:55 ↗ possible condition this is a good time

54:58 ↗ also to remind you the city of Issaquah

55:00 ↗ and coordinating with Issaquah citizen

55:02 ↗ Court is offering Community Emergency

55:05 ↗ Response Team training starting March 6

55:09 ↗ you can register at it it's a class

55:13 ↗ citizen Corps dot org and the map your

55:17 ↗ neighborhood program is also a great way

55:19 ↗ to get to know your neighbors and

55:20 ↗ discover how you can help one another

55:22 ↗ during a snowstorm and other emergencies

55:25 ↗ go to Issaquah wad of /m y n i'm going

55:31 ↗ to end with this amazing photo of our

55:35 ↗ new bridge at confluence park and this

55:37 ↗ is care of our architects on the project

55:40 ↗ David Evans & Associates are project

55:42 ↗ managers that's item number one Thank

55:46 ↗ You tisha item number two I wanted to

55:51 ↗ happily announce that Beth Goldberg has

55:54 ↗ accepted our offer to become our next

55:56 ↗ finance director Beth has served as

55:59 ↗ interim since October 2018 and

56:02 ↗ become our regular finance director on

56:05 ↗ March 1st

56:06 ↗ Beth brings a wealth of experience and a

56:08 ↗ strong commitment to our organization

56:10 ↗ and I'm very very happy that she's

56:13 ↗ joining our team she previously worked

56:15 ↗ for King County the city of Seattle and

56:17 ↗ the city of Sammamish and I hope you'll

56:20 ↗ join me in welcoming her to both our

56:22 ↗ organization and our community lastly

56:27 ↗ it's with a heavy heart that I share the

56:30 ↗ news that our court administrator Lynne

56:32 ↗ Campo recently passed away then launched

56:36 ↗ is a quad Municipal Court right here in

56:39 ↗ 2005 since then she led a dedicated and

56:44 ↗ talented team that proudly serves

56:46 ↗ communities in Issaquah North Bend and

56:48 ↗ snow kwame as a former president of the

56:52 ↗ district and Municipal Court Management

56:54 ↗ Association Lynne was also a respected

56:57 ↗ leader among the court community

56:59 ↗ statewide in 2016 she was awarded this

57:04 ↗ organization's President's Award for her

57:07 ↗ service most recently Lynne also chaired

57:10 ↗ a committee committed to finding a

57:12 ↗ statewide case management solution she

57:16 ↗ will be remembered as a smart and witty

57:19 ↗ leader who was extremely passionate

57:22 ↗ about serving this community I'd also

57:25 ↗ like to thank court administrators Trish

57:28 ↗ skinned low of Tukwila

57:29 ↗ and Margaret yet her of Kent both sprang

57:33 ↗ into action to assist our court team

57:35 ↗ following Lin's passing they provided

57:40 ↗ much appreciated support on our court

57:42 ↗ tasks with poise reassurance and

57:46 ↗ professionalism in addition I'd like to

57:49 ↗ recognize the hard work and strength of

57:51 ↗ our court staff who have stepped up

57:54 ↗ during a very hard time to keep our

57:56 ↗ court operating smoothly so thank you to

57:59 ↗ that team that's all I have for good of

58:02 ↗ the order thank you thank you see the

58:04 ↗ administrator I you know I want to echo

58:07 ↗ the comments about the amazing work that

58:09 ↗ the public works did I had a co-worker

58:11 ↗ from another nearby city I'm going to

58:14 ↗ say which one but

58:15 ↗ you know were commiserating about a week

58:17 ↗ into snowpocalypse and he said we

58:20 ↗ haven't been plowed yet have you been

58:22 ↗ plowed yet and that's my street gets

58:25 ↗ plowed every morning it was just the

58:27 ↗ look he gave me was was really sort of

58:29 ↗ sad but good for good just a measure of

58:32 ↗ where we're is the city and yes that you

58:35 ↗ know I have I have 80 feet vertically

58:36 ↗ down to the street so the ability to go

58:38 ↗ on to the map and say oh yes it has been

58:40 ↗ plowed this morning

58:41 ↗ saved me from trudging down to the

58:44 ↗ bottom of the hill and the snow and the

58:45 ↗ ice so it was an extraordinary situation

58:48 ↗ handled with grace and professionalism

58:49 ↗ by our city staff so their upcoming

58:55 ↗ council meetings oh sorry anything else

58:57 ↗ for good for good of the order yep okay

58:59 ↗ upcoming council meetings tomorrow

59:00 ↗ February 20th work session rescheduled

59:03 ↗ from February 11th topics include see

59:06 ↗ you at strategic plan this is where we

59:07 ↗ start to bring back all the hard work

59:09 ↗ that occurred in the subgroups and then

59:11 ↗ we're also going to be going over

59:12 ↗ meeting room security training and then

59:15 ↗ the March 4th council meeting I already

59:18 ↗ mentioned the ad hoc Finance Committee

59:20 ↗ pieces that are coming back additionally

59:22 ↗ old town and transit centers parking

59:25 ↗ study will be coming back as well

59:27 ↗ there is no executive session this

59:29 ↗ evening so there being no further

59:31 ↗ business this meeting is adjourned at

59:35 ↗ eat exactly 8 o'clock p.m.

59:50 ↗ you

Approved minutes

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Attendance

Council / Members (7)

Mariah Bettise

Stacy Goodman

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem)

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Paul Winterstein

Motions and votes (2)

Approve Resolution No. 2019-02, adopting the 2018 Water System Plan Update. .

Moved by HUNT · seconded by BETTISE

Carried 7-0

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0325 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Feb. 19, 2019, $ 2,112,581.11; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Feb. 1, 2019; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Feb. 5, 2019; Approved. d) AB 7672 - King County Waste Reductio…

Moved by BETTISE · seconded by GOODMAN

Carried 7-0

In favor: Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts (Mayor Pro Tem), Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein