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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

7:00 PM · 3h 23m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topic tracked across meetings:
Recovery Month Proclamation ID 0527 2/2
Section
Topic
4. SPECIAL BUSINESS
4a
Recovery Month Proclamation ID 0527
packet pp.5–6
Staff report:
Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov
9. CONSENT CALENDAR
9a
Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Aug. 19 and Sept. 3, 2019, $6,661,125.53 ID 0392
Approve · packet pp.199–414
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov
9b
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Aug. 5, 2019
Approve · packet pp.415
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR b) 08-05-19 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
9c
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Aug. 5, 2019
Approve · packet pp.417–421
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR c) 08-05-19 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
9d
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Aug. 12, 2019
Approve · packet pp.423
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR d) 08-12-19 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
9g
Establishing a Park Bench Donation Program AB 7602
Carried 5-0
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.429–435
Topics: Land UseParks
Staff report:
The City has received several requests each year from people seeking a way to memorialize a loved one within a park. This input was also received during development of the 2018 Parks Strategic Plan.
Roll call:
Moved by WINTERSTEIN · seconded by BETTISE
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein
10. REGULAR BUSINESS
10b
Gilman Ditch Restoration Project AB 7834
Award Bid; Authorize Funding · packet pp.461–479
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
The Gilman Ditch is a section of Tributary 0170 which flows to Tibbetts Creek, on the south side of Northwest Gilman Boulevard from 975 NW Gilman Boulevard to the intersection of 7th Avenue NW and NW Gilman Boulevard (Exhibit A).
11. GOOD OF THE ORDER
11a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:30 good evening and welcome to the Tuesday
0:33 September 3rd 2019 City Council regular
0:36 meeting and call this to order
0:39 councilmembers Goodman and Ray are have
0:41 an excused absence this evening and
0:43 we're going to start with the Pledge of
0:44 Allegiance if you'd like to join the
0:46 council and I stand next item on our
1:09 agenda this evening is an executive
1:11 session we will be having an executive
1:14 session this evening to discuss pending
1:15 potential litigation for RCW 42 0.3 0.1
1:20 104 n1 bran I the executive session is
1:23 expected to last 15 minutes it is closed
1:26 to the public
1:27 and will be held at the side room of the
1:29 council chambers so you may remain in
1:31 the council chambers while it occurs the
1:33 open meeting will resume following the
1:35 executive session so council will be
1:37 going into executive session at 7:02
1:39 p.m.
1:45 you
1:52 you
18:21 you
18:37 thank you we are back in open session at
18:39 7:19 p.m. and moving on to the next item
18:42 on the agenda ID 0 527 recovery month
18:47 Proclamation and I'd like to invite Brad
18:50 fine good king county public health
18:51 strategic advisor and jerry blackburn
18:54 the executive director of influence to
18:55 trace to the lectern with me to receive
18:58 the proclamation
19:14 okay
19:22 so good evening this Proclamation is
19:26 about behavioral health
19:27 whereas behavioral health is an
19:30 essential part of health and one's
19:31 overall wellness and whereas preventing
19:34 and overcoming mental and/or substance
19:36 use disorders is essential to achieving
19:39 healthy lifestyles both physically and
19:41 emotionally and whereas we estimate
19:44 400,000 people in King County are
19:46 affected by these conditions and whereas
19:49 to help more people achieve and sustain
19:51 long-term recovery the US Department of
19:54 Health and Human Services the substance
19:56 abuse and mental health services
19:58 administration the White House Office of
20:01 National Drug Control Policy and the
20:03 King County mental health and chemical
20:04 abuse and dependency Services Division
20:07 invite all residents of Iskra to
20:09 participate in national recovery month
20:12 now therefore I Mary Lou Polly mayor of
20:14 the city of Issaquah do hereby proclaim
20:16 the month of September 2019 as recovery
20:20 month in the city of Issaquah and call
20:23 upon citizens to join me in observing
20:25 this month with appropriate programs
20:26 activities and sarra ceremonies
20:29 supporting this year's recovery month
20:31 and Brad if you'd like to introduce some
20:34 of the other guests thank you man
20:37 Thank You Brad fine good Seattle King
20:41 County Public Health I just would like
20:43 to thank you mayor polly and council
20:44 members for declaring this national
20:46 recovery month in addition to working
20:48 for King County I'm also a resident of
20:49 this beautiful city and I just have
20:52 always valued how much we here value our
20:55 citizens and our people and the idea
20:57 that recovery is possible
20:59 last year we had a overdose Awareness
21:03 Month event at the library where we
21:06 passed out narcan which is the overdose
21:09 antidote drug that the mayor was able to
21:11 attend and from that we know that
21:14 actually somebody's lives was saved that
21:16 day and so that that value that this
21:18 city places on our citizens and humans
21:22 lives is just amazing so we have some
21:24 other guests with us today I'll let them
21:25 introduce themselves but thank you all
21:27 so much thank you man
21:31 hi my name is Jerry Blackburn I'm the
21:33 executive director for influence of
21:35 choice drug use prevention coalition in
21:38 Issaquah and obviously our job is to
21:41 raise awareness and change perspective
21:43 and reduce stigma associated but when I
21:46 come on these nights I really I want to
21:50 thank the city and Mayor poly from a
21:53 personal standpoint as a person in
21:54 long-term recovery the capabilities we
21:57 have when we have a healthcare condition
21:59 that's addressed and and doesn't take
22:03 over our existence as substance use
22:06 disorders are we have the capability to
22:09 do unbelievable things when Brad was
22:11 talking about the narcan kit that was
22:14 distributed our event that went to a
22:15 staff member at Friends of youth and she
22:17 encountered somebody in a parking lot
22:19 when she was shopping he was turning
22:22 purple he was losing his capability of
22:25 breathing and she was able to reverse
22:26 the overdose and save his life
22:28 so those things do happen all of the
22:31 things that we can do in our community
22:33 to change perspective and increase
22:36 access to care is super valuable so I
22:39 want to thank again my wonderful City
22:41 for making that possible my name is
22:48 Andrea Chappell Holman and this is my
22:50 son Harrison Chappell Holman and we
22:54 actually I'm the family of a person in
22:57 long-term recovery five years this month
22:59 actually
23:04 and we got involved as a family long
23:07 before we saw him turn the corner
23:10 because we weren't willing to just give
23:12 up without a fight and so we started a
23:14 group for families of people dealing
23:17 with substance use and behavioral health
23:20 and we are now a church in Issaquah at
23:23 high point specifically for families and
23:25 individuals in recovery looking for
23:28 recovery dealing with substance use and
23:31 mental health issues called through hope
23:33 community because we believe there is
23:35 true hope life's can be changed and
23:37 people can become productive people
23:40 again so I think you made mayor poly and
23:42 city council for having us and declaring
23:45 this recovery month
23:46 I want to thank Unruh and Harrison and
23:51 Jerry and Brad one more time thank you
23:52 for coming in tonight receiving the
23:53 proclamation next I didn't mind our
24:05 agenda this evening his audience
24:07 comments and I know we have some because
24:08 I see a lot of green out there this is
24:11 the time where the audience may address
24:13 the council the guidelines for public
24:15 participation will be displayed on the
24:17 screen
24:18 and please limit your comments to
24:19 5-minutes those who signed up will be
24:22 called for it first and if you did not
24:24 sign up I will ask for other speakers
24:26 before closing out this portion of the
24:28 meeting if you are here as part of a
24:30 group please identify yourself as the
24:33 spokesman for your group and if you are
24:35 here tonight and hearing any audience
24:37 comments that you want to show your
24:39 support for please raise your hand so
24:41 the council understands what those
24:43 comments are that are so impactful to
24:45 you and tisha has anyone signed up to
24:48 speak this evening yes Larry Franks
24:50 Thank You Larry kamana
25:01 madam mayor councilmembers city staff my
25:05 name is larry franks my address is two
25:07 four zero zero one southeast one hundred
25:09 and third Street and I'm speaking on
25:11 behalf of the Friends of is Salmon
25:13 Hatchery also known as fish by now each
25:17 of you have received a card with a save
25:20 the date on it for October 1st which is
25:23 a session that we have under the heading
25:26 of predation protection and prediction
25:31 and what we'll be presenting there we've
25:33 secured two outstanding speakers so
25:36 Roger Tabor and professor David
25:39 Beauchamp who have been researching in
25:42 this watershed for over 15 years
25:46 what we'll be doing is sharing some of
25:48 their data about the impacts on
25:50 especially our chinook salmon trying to
25:53 make it from the Issaquah Salmon
25:55 Hatchery to salt water and then the
25:57 adult salmon coming back and ending up
26:00 with suggestions and very concrete
26:02 activities that can then be pursued to
26:05 improve these circumstances I thought
26:09 briefly about using the last 60 seconds
26:12 to talk about the outstanding things
26:16 that have happened for chinook salmon in
26:18 the the last year so but I couldn't find
26:22 a cricket noise maker they're in trouble
26:26 we're going to be asking for help
26:28 thank you very much thank you Larry this
26:31 is there anyone else that signed up this
26:32 evening
26:33 yes Robert Clausen line up to the podium
26:37 Robert
26:52 okay
26:54 thank you very much for having me I'm
26:57 Robert Clawson I'm at 2585 20th Avenue
27:02 Northeast in Issaquah I live up in the
27:04 highlands we're gonna get you to pull
27:05 the microphone just a little bit closer
27:07 all right the extension here so once
27:15 again I'm Robert Clawson I'm here for
27:17 people for climate action basically here
27:21 to introduce ourselves to you I'm
27:24 resident here as as all of us those of
27:27 us with the green scarves you can point
27:29 us out here so people for climate action
27:32 is a growing group of citizens concerned
27:35 about the increasing impacts of climate
27:38 change with a focus on what can be done
27:41 on our local communities to address this
27:43 threat to our livelihoods and those that
27:45 follow us PCA as we're known PCAs echo
27:51 was kicked off on July 12th with a
27:54 picnic I wasn't there personally but I
27:57 understand the number of you were able
27:58 to attend and thank you very much for
28:00 doing so since then we've been reaching
28:04 out to individual members on the council
28:06 and and elsewhere to let you know sort
28:09 of who we are and what we're about and
28:11 this was as a continuation of that our
28:14 whole idea here is to is to create a
28:17 relationship that we can build on over
28:19 time and and we'll get into that a bit
28:22 the mission of PCA we're basically we
28:27 are a collection of city groups with a
28:30 common mission to quote to help local
28:33 governments develop and implement the
28:35 comprehensive climate action plans to
28:37 reach the greenhouse gas reduction
28:39 targets set by the King County City
28:42 climate collaboration or k4c which
28:46 includes a 50% reduction of emissions by
28:51 2030 that's 50% below 20 2007 so as most
28:59 of you do know the King County city's
29:02 climate collaboration was developed in
29:04 2005
29:06 excuse me 2015
29:07 and brings together the county and
29:10 seventeen cities within the county these
29:13 cities and the county have pledged to
29:17 increase the effectiveness of local
29:20 local sustainability and climate change
29:22 solutions by working together the
29:24 collaboration aims to help develop
29:27 regional emissions targets and track
29:30 progress towards those goals share local
29:33 success stories and challenges pursue
29:36 and share grants resources and other
29:39 financial sources provide coordinated
29:42 outreach and messaging of climate
29:43 solutions raise the profile of excuse me
29:48 of climate efforts of King County and
29:49 the cities involved and to coordinate
29:52 city and county sustainability efforts
29:55 through workshops presentations and
29:56 other efforts let's see we got here so
30:04 these are the cities that are currently
30:07 involved of those 17 cities in the k4c
30:12 14 of them have PCA groups involved and
30:16 and we're growing as a matter of fact of
30:19 Issaquah and Sammamish just just formed
30:22 this summer so we've got more and more
30:25 people that are that are joining in and
30:27 they're really involved with this so
30:29 this is not a single effort but one to
30:31 to work together among the cities in the
30:33 area
30:35 Itzik who's been doing actually quite
30:37 well if you look at the 2016 sustainable
30:41 sustainable cities report we are done
30:44 very well within the county we are the
30:47 number one in the percent of tree canopy
30:50 we're number one as far as green
30:52 building is concerned as particularly
30:54 pointed out if you look at the Z homes
30:55 and the Issaquah Highlands and and the
30:58 fire stations that have been built to
31:00 the LEED standards at the highest levels
31:03 that we can we can get to where we're
31:05 making some excellent progress there are
31:07 our stream health has been good for the
31:09 last ten years although I'm sure Larry
31:11 could tell you that we've got a ways to
31:13 go and keep that going and we also have
31:17 had been noted for significant growth in
31:19 the use of renewable and
31:21 but there are in fact areas where we
31:24 need to make better progress along the
31:27 way so it's not all roses we've got
31:29 things that need to be done and those
31:31 include working on mobility and
31:34 transportation particularly in areas
31:35 that ways that that impact the climate
31:38 and then reducing our carbon footprint
31:44 specifically in the area of green
31:46 building and renewable energy so real
31:50 quickly this is this is to show sort of
31:53 how we're doing within King County and
31:55 we're right there with all of the other
31:56 cities the the green box up there shows
32:00 where we are on the projected time track
32:03 seems that I'm running out of time
32:04 evidently I ramped up yes if I could so
32:08 we're going to be you know we've got a
32:09 lot of work ahead of us but it's
32:11 certainly doable the main thing I want
32:13 to point out is that we're here to help
32:15 we know that you've got your
32:18 sustainability plans and your strategic
32:21 plans and we're reaching out to each and
32:24 individuals we want to you know bring
32:28 our experience to help you so thank you
32:31 very much for your time thank you Robert
32:32 and there are hands in there but there's
32:36 also about ten green scarves at least in
32:38 the audience that I can see thank you
32:42 tisha is there anyone else that signed
32:43 up no is there anyone else would like to
32:46 take this opportunity this evening to
32:48 address council asking for a second time
32:51 anyone wanting to address council the
32:54 third time anyone for audience comments
32:56 this evening okay we will close audience
32:58 comments thank you all for coming next
33:02 item on our agenda this evening is
33:04 committee and regional reports and we'll
33:06 start with councilmember Walsh thank you
33:10 madam mayor we had a excuse me aside
33:15 transportation partnership meeting in
33:18 August which included presentations from
33:22 our own bill Ramos and it was just a
33:27 nice conversation there was a good set
33:29 of information about how
33:31 lacking the King County portion of roads
33:34 are and it was nice to hear the city's
33:37 agree to support the idea of building up
33:41 some of those roads and looking at the
33:43 state and federal level of how we can
33:45 get some of that funding the picture was
33:47 not all that rosy on the federal level
33:49 but I think we did hear certainly about
33:53 highway 18 at the state level and how
33:56 we're making inroads in that way thank
33:58 you Thank You councilmember hunt thank
34:01 you madam mayor
34:02 I have never prepared this evening Thank
34:04 You councilmember winter saying thank
34:07 you there are no more reports for the
34:10 council Infrastructure Committee so at
34:12 least for now as far as the growth Puget
34:16 Sound growth management policy board our
34:20 next meeting is this Thursday September
34:24 5th at 10:00 a.m. at Puget Sound PSR C
34:27 headquarters in Seattle vision 2050 is
34:31 the only thing on the agenda we will be
34:32 holding a public hearing and then the
34:35 board will be discussing doing an
34:37 overall plan review with staff from PSR
34:40 C there's no other action anticipated
34:44 during this meeting that concludes my
34:46 report
34:46 Thank You deputy council president
34:48 booties thank you madam mayor just a
34:51 quick update that the Eastside Human
34:53 Services forum will be the board will be
34:55 meeting in Bellevue on 7 September 19th
34:58 thank you thank you council president
35:00 marts thank you madam mayor the sound
35:03 cities association public issues
35:04 committee will be meeting at 7:00 p.m.
35:06 on Wednesday September 10th at Renton
35:09 city hall we have two action items one
35:12 is regarding the King County charger
35:15 charter regional committees will be
35:18 forming up and the other is to discuss a
35:21 draft vision 2050 guiding principles
35:24 letter that I will be discussing with
35:28 Council in four good of the order in
35:31 terms of our potential input to that SCA
35:33 meeting following that King County
35:35 growth management policy Council
35:37 Planning Council will be meeting on
35:40 Wednesday September 25th at 4 p.m. at
35:42 PSR C chambers
35:44 the agenda has not been distributed yet
35:48 but I do know that at a further
35:50 discussion of the vision 2050 guiding
35:52 principles will be I it is my
35:55 understanding that that will be part of
35:56 the conversation that concludes my
35:58 report
35:59 Thank You council president Mertz next
36:01 item is the mayor's report so there was
36:03 an executive session if you're here you
36:05 knew because we all left the room at
36:07 approximately 7:00 p.m. and it was held
36:10 to discuss pending and potential
36:11 litigation per RCW 42.3 0.11 o paren one
36:16 pray and i and no action is anticipated
36:19 in open session I'm gonna give my final
36:22 update on the city administrative
36:24 recruitment so I am excited to announce
36:26 that while the Bobcats will be starting
36:28 as to the administrator on September
36:29 30th 2019 and in the interim andia
36:34 Andria Snyder at our desk here this
36:37 evening is our interim City
36:38 Administrator and the council voted on
36:40 this confirmation at their first council
36:43 meeting in August this is also child
36:46 Cancer Awareness Month so in addition to
36:49 the proclamation I did earlier this
36:50 evening
36:51 I'm also proclaiming September 29th as
36:54 Childhood Cancer Awareness Month whereas
36:57 each year in the United States more than
36:59 15,000 children from birth to 19 years
37:02 old I were diagnosed with cancer equal
37:04 to about 42 childhood cancer diagnoses
37:06 each day and whereas each year worldwide
37:09 more than 300,000 new childhood cancer
37:12 diagnoses equal to about every three
37:15 months a family will hear the words your
37:18 child has cancer
37:19 I urge all citizens to join in the
37:21 activities that will increase awareness
37:22 and Prevention of childhood cancer
37:26 next item an inmate report is the park
37:28 bench donation program so this evening
37:30 Council has an item on their consent
37:32 calendar which is typically approved
37:35 with one vote but I did feel like I
37:37 should bring down this bill not bring
37:39 down this bill I should talk a bit about
37:41 this bill on the consent agenda
37:43 it is agenda bell 7 602 it's called the
37:47 Park Bench donation program and council
37:49 discussed this program in on July 23rd
37:52 2019 and recommended to be put up for
37:54 adoption on today
37:56 consent calendar the park bench donation
37:58 program is a wonderful way to give so
38:00 that both donors and park patrons can
38:02 enjoy individuals who wish to donate
38:05 will work with city staff to determine a
38:07 preferred location for their donation
38:09 bench upon installation the donated
38:11 bench will be owned and maintained by
38:13 the city donated benches will be
38:16 recognized with a personal message on a
38:18 plaque that we replaced on each donated
38:20 bench and each donation will help to
38:23 enhance our city's parks and trail
38:25 systems for all to enjoy once adopted
38:27 this program will go live in
38:29 approximately 30 days so that we can
38:31 begin marketing this opportunity to the
38:32 community as well as putting some
38:35 finishing touches on the mechanics of
38:37 our program I also want to talk a little
38:40 bit tonight about the confluence park
38:41 turf and irrigation maintenance project
38:43 on august 26 2019 we began maintenance
38:46 on the turf and irrigation system at
38:48 confluence park we will add a complete
38:52 lawn irrigation system and the Tony
38:53 Anderson homestead and civil Madeline
38:55 green areas of the park the project will
38:58 also address a new drinking fountain at
38:59 the playground and fresh bark around
39:01 trees in the lot located in the lawn
39:03 area the lawn will be hydro seeded and
39:06 highly utilized area adjacent to the
39:08 highly utilized areas adjacent to the
39:11 picnic shelter will receive sod during
39:15 this project the following areas the
39:17 park will remain open for the public the
39:19 main east-west path over the bridge
39:22 access to the community garden the
39:25 picnic shelter the sidewalk along
39:27 Rainier Avenue and Margaret's meadow
39:29 where no work is taking place on the
39:31 west side of the bridge the restroom
39:33 will also remain open except for when
39:35 water line connections are being made
39:37 sections of the main north-south path to
39:40 Holly will be closed for a large portion
39:42 of this project the project should take
39:44 about seven weeks to complete upon
39:47 completion of the project access to the
39:49 lawn areas will be restricted while
39:51 grass becomes established and the law
39:53 and establishment period is unknown
39:55 since it depends on the weather the
39:57 total cost of the total project cost is
39:59 five hundred and seventy thousand but it
40:01 is partially funded through a grant from
40:03 the Washington State Department of
40:04 Commerce local and community projects
40:06 program in the mail
40:07 one hundred and ninety nine thousand
40:09 eight hundred and twenty dollars council
40:13 rules of procedure so after a lot of
40:15 hard work this year the council and the
40:18 rules of procedure ad-hoc committee put
40:22 forward a new set of City Council rules
40:25 that went into effect as of September
40:27 1st these rules formalized councils
40:29 processes for running meetings and
40:31 conducting business well the majority of
40:33 the rules simply documented councils
40:35 existing practices there are two changes
40:36 that I'd like to highlight there will
40:39 now be a new order of business at
40:41 regular council meetings titled
40:43 information updates this is an
40:45 opportunity for council in the public to
40:47 receive informational presentation on
40:49 projects and issues that do not require
40:51 current council action or direction the
40:54 updates will include a staff
40:55 presentation an opportunity for council
40:57 Q&A special business will be reserved
41:00 for populations awards and comments or
41:03 reports by special guests there are
41:05 going to be two informational updates on
41:07 tonight's council agenda of a
41:09 significant change with the adoption of
41:11 council rules is the transition away
41:12 from council committees as councilmember
41:14 winter Stein pointed out earlier
41:16 committee of the whole infrastructure
41:18 committee land and shore and services
41:20 and Safety Committee which were council
41:23 committees of up to three members are
41:26 being replaced by twice monthly study
41:28 sessions effective September first study
41:30 sessions will be attended by all seven
41:32 council members and generally resemble a
41:34 council work session with a few changes
41:36 it will be held twice monthly on the
41:39 second and fourth Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.
41:41 they will be working meetings focused on
41:44 getting council direction and feedback
41:45 on mid and high level policy items and
41:47 as is the current practice any formal
41:50 council action will occur at a regular
41:52 or special council meeting council
41:54 members will take turns chairing the
41:56 meetings on a rotating schedule as is
41:58 the current practice audience comments
42:00 will be accepted after each agenda item
42:03 so some upcoming events welcoming week
42:06 is coming there's a proclamation and in
42:09 Issaquah hosted event regionally i along
42:12 with the mayors of bellevue Kirkland
42:13 Redmond and Sammamish issued a joint
42:16 proclamation supporting welcoming week
42:18 across the east side from September 30
42:20 through 22nd 2019 we join hundreds of
42:24 other jurisdictions across the nation
42:25 celebrating the contributions of all
42:28 residents a full list of the events on
42:31 the east side is listed on East Side
42:33 welcomes dot-org East Side welcomes org
42:37 in collaboration with the East quad
42:38 Library in the US Schools Foundation the
42:41 city of ask was hosting a welcoming Week
42:43 event Issaquah welcomes you this is an
42:46 inaugural event celebrating the cultural
42:48 diversity of our community and is part
42:50 of the welcoming America movement geared
42:52 towards making everyone feel like they
42:53 belong the festivities will include
42:56 world dances a mariachi band a drum
42:58 group food trucks and informational
43:00 booths will be on September 20th from
43:03 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Issaquah
43:05 community center in the second last
43:09 event I wanted to talk about is we are
43:11 having a pesticide and paint roundup so
43:14 in partnership with green Sheen paint
43:15 recycling in King County local hazardous
43:17 waste management our office of
43:19 sustainability is hosting a paint
43:21 recycling and pesticide collection event
43:23 this event will allow residents to
43:26 properly dispose of pesticides and
43:28 herbicides for free and will include
43:30 education on less toxic alternatives and
43:33 natural yard care practices that can
43:35 help protect our waterways attendees
43:38 will also be able to recycle unneeded
43:40 latex paint for a fee the paint will be
43:42 recycled in a new paint by Green Sheen
43:44 paints and pesticides must be an
43:46 original containers for collection and
43:48 payment for paint recycling is cash only
43:50 no oil-based paints will be accepted
43:52 this event will be occurring September
43:55 28th from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at is Sequoia
43:57 Middle School in the last item on that
44:00 very lengthy mayor's report is coffee
44:02 with the mayor and the next coffee with
44:04 the mayor event will be on Saturday
44:06 September 21st from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in
44:09 the Eagle room of City Hall main floor
44:11 and I'm looking forward to it that
44:14 concludes the mayor's report the next
44:18 thing will be some informational updates
44:20 starting with I do four or five to
44:22 national community service results and
44:24 I'd like to ask Auto Monaghan assistant
44:26 to the city administrator to make a
44:27 presentation
44:28 welcome autumn
44:50 hi thank you my name is autumn Monahan
44:53 I'm the assistant to the city
44:54 administrator for the City of Issaquah
44:56 thanks for having me here tonight to
44:58 present an overview of the 2019 national
45:01 community survey results we have limited
45:04 time this evening and there is a
45:05 significant amount of data involved in
45:07 this survey so I will be providing a
45:10 brief overview tonight and a recap of
45:12 what's next
45:15 so before I lunge into what we've
45:17 learned I want to thank the City Council
45:19 for authorizing our distribution of the
45:21 third national community survey in
45:22 Issaquah I also want to thank our
45:24 community members who participated in
45:26 this year's survey this tool provides us
45:28 with a wealth of information that's
45:29 incredibly useful to us and I'm happy to
45:32 report that the survey continued to
45:33 demonstrate a high level satisfaction
45:35 within our community so why do we survey
45:39 for the past several years as Lacroix
45:42 has used this data to track service
45:43 delivery as well as informs some key
45:45 priorities data from previous NCS
45:48 surveys was also used in the development
45:49 of the newly adopted strategic plan in
45:52 future years some of is akua's results
45:54 will be used to evaluate performance on
45:56 success measures outlined in the
45:58 strategic plans plan do check and adjust
46:00 cycle which you see here meanwhile many
46:04 of the community's priorities and our
46:06 concerns reflected in the survey results
46:08 this year are proactively identified in
46:11 the strategic plan for example one goal
46:14 mobility had the results of about half
46:16 of the residents or less gave favorable
46:19 reviews to the overall ease of travel in
46:21 Issaquah ease of travel by car and
46:23 traffic flow these ratings were all
46:26 lower than the national benchmarks so
46:31 quickly here's a brief overview on the
46:32 survey we contracted with the National
46:34 Research Center or NRC to conduct the
46:38 National Community Survey NRC is widely
46:39 recognized as a leader in this work and
46:42 has the only database of its size that
46:44 contains people's perceptions about
46:46 government service delivery and quality
46:48 of life our 2019 survey was conducted in
46:53 April and May this is our third survey
46:55 we also conducted the same survey in
46:57 December of 2014 and May of 2017
47:01 for 2019 3,200 households are randomly
47:05 selected from all of his applause
47:07 neighborhoods for those who are not
47:09 selected to take the survey we did have
47:11 an online option that is non-scientific
47:14 but was available online for four weeks
47:18 along with the raw data
47:20 NCS also provided us with demographic
47:22 Geographic and regional comparison
47:24 reports which are all available in your
47:26 packet and online NCS included this
47:31 graphic in its report to show that this
47:33 is not just a survey on city services
47:35 but instead on the livability of
47:37 Issaquah great communities are
47:39 partnerships of government private
47:40 sector community based organizations and
47:43 residents that are all connected a
47:47 little bit about the survey methodology
47:51 randomly selected households received an
47:53 advance postcard as well as two hard
47:55 copies of the survey within three weeks
47:57 via mail response then had six weeks to
48:00 respond this was an unbiased sampling
48:03 using the birth day method which means
48:05 that our cover letter requested the
48:06 respondent household be an adult over
48:08 the age of 18 who most recently had a
48:11 birthday the results were also weighted
48:14 to reflect the demographics of our
48:15 population and any don't know responses
48:18 were recorded to include it in the full
48:20 data set we received but not in the
48:22 analysis and reports that came with it
48:25 a bit on the response rate out of the
48:29 3,200 households in our sample size 3073
48:33 households were indeed occupied meaning
48:36 four percent were undeliverable from
48:38 that 643 households participated which
48:41 is a 21 percent response rate response
48:45 rate varied by neighborhood the highest
48:46 response rate was in squawk Mountain Old
48:48 Town and sycamore and the lowest
48:51 response rate was in the Issaquah
48:52 Highlands the margin of error was great
48:55 at plus or minus 4 percent traditionally
48:58 you want to see that plus or minus about
48:59 five percent so in an another way to say
49:02 that is means our level of confidence in
49:04 the survey accuracy is about 96 percent
49:07 eighty-six people also participated in
49:10 our online survey which was down from
49:13 2017 or we had 250
49:15 when people respond I looked back and we
49:17 did the same amount of outreach that we
49:19 did in 2017 but we also had a whole lot
49:21 of online surveys going on at the same
49:23 time so the survey measured residents
49:29 opinions about three types of attributes
49:30 that make a community liveable community
49:33 characteristics governance and
49:34 participation we also asked a few
49:37 questions special to Issaquah related to
49:39 neighborhood connection sources of
49:41 information and use of alternate
49:42 transportation modes and also some
49:44 questions on demographics in the survey
49:48 results you'll see each of n css3
49:50 livability sections are organized by
49:52 these eight topics as in 2017 residents
49:55 stated the most important focus areas in
49:57 the next two years are safety mobility
49:59 and the natural environment overall
50:03 readings for all of the eight topics
50:04 were similar to national benchmarks most
50:07 of these topics are self explanatory I
50:09 did what I mentioned community
50:11 engagement has many definitions in this
50:13 survey so for the survey purposes it
50:15 includes topics like neighborliness
50:17 openness and acceptance reading or
50:20 watching local news or voting in
50:22 elections
50:27 it was residents opinions were compared
50:30 to a national benchmark as well a figure
50:33 that depicts the average response from
50:34 residents from over 600 cities
50:36 nationwide that are part of NRC's
50:38 database as we did in 2017 we also
50:41 requested a regional benchmark NRC
50:44 selected 25 West Coast cities and
50:46 metropolitan areas with similar
50:47 household incomes our peer benchmarks
50:50 and the reports include Bainbridge
50:52 Island Bellevue Edmonds Kirkland Redmond
50:55 and Woodinville and now to some of the
50:59 results as I mentioned earlier the
51:01 survey produced a ton of data so I'm
51:03 going to highlight only a fraction of
51:05 that tonight
51:06 so first it's time to celebrate several
51:08 of our overall ratings ninety-three
51:10 percent of our respondents rated
51:11 Issaquah as an excellent or a good place
51:13 to live 90 percent rated their overall
51:19 quality of life in Issaquah as excellent
51:21 or good here are some readings for
51:26 overall community characteristics or in
51:28 words what makes a community livable
51:30 attractive and a place where people want
51:32 to be green on this chart means that we
51:35 were similar to the national benchmark
51:37 well grey shows that we are higher than
51:39 the national benchmark and for those two
51:41 its place to raise children and overall
51:43 appearance overall quality of city
51:49 services was rated at 84% these topics
51:56 related to governance rates how well is
51:59 across governments doing to meet the
52:01 needs and expectations of its residents
52:02 and as you see here all areas are
52:05 similar to the national benchmark for
52:10 participation the topics address how
52:12 much Issaquah residents are connected to
52:14 the community and to each other here
52:16 you'll see we are lower in what area in
52:19 compared to the national benchmark for
52:21 how many people contacted a city of
52:22 Issaquah employee so a few trends since
52:29 2017 according to NCS overall ratings in
52:32 Issaquah for 2019 remained relatively
52:35 stable of the hundred and thirty-four
52:37 items for which we had a comparison from
52:38 2017 113 were rated similarly to
52:43 increased in nineteen decreased so for a
52:48 higher rating in 2019 we saw two areas
52:51 natural areas preservation which I
52:53 included a photo of Bergsma was my guess
52:55 for why and folks are not feeling under
52:59 housing stress among the topics of the
53:04 lower rating from 2017 to 2019 all but
53:08 two still remain within the national
53:09 benchmark there were two outliers and
53:12 those were adult education and reading
53:14 or watching local news both of those
53:16 were lower than the national benchmark
53:18 so some lower ratings for 2019 included
53:21 new development employment opportunities
53:23 health and wellness openness and
53:25 acceptance opportunities to volunteer or
53:28 participate treating all residents
53:30 fairly snow removal traffic signal
53:33 timing and cable television for areas
53:39 where we were higher than the national
53:40 benchmark in 2019 and
53:42 clewd overall appearance paths and
53:44 walking trails overall natural
53:46 environment overall economic health
53:48 preventative health services K through
53:51 12 education bus or transit services
53:54 drinking water and using public
53:56 transportation and then lower than the
54:01 national benchmark um some of these are
54:02 not surprises overall ease of travel
54:04 travel by car traffic flow the cost of
54:08 living contacting Issaquah employees
54:11 participating in religious or spiritual
54:14 activities and reading or watching local
54:16 news I'd mentioned we asked some
54:21 questions specific tis a quad and one of
54:23 them is how our community members
54:25 receive information on the city of
54:28 Issaquah most residents 84 percent
54:31 reported using the city's website as an
54:33 information source an 8 out of 10
54:35 utilized email social media or word of
54:37 mouth of sources for information about 4
54:40 in 10 residents or fewer reported using
54:42 city council or other public meetings
54:44 talking with city staff and IC TV
54:48 channel 21 as a major or minor source of
54:50 information about Issaquah when compared
54:53 to 2017 more people are now turning to
54:56 email and social media for information
54:58 instead of word-of-mouth and about 20
55:00 percent say they use local media as a
55:02 major source of information we have a
55:07 separate report on demographics some
55:09 notable differences were based on income
55:11 length of time they lived in Issaquah if
55:14 they've had children at home their age
55:16 and their race and ethnicity and there's
55:19 a lot more details in that report which
55:21 are included in my staff report
55:26 systematic sampling ensured that the
55:28 sampling density mirrored our overall
55:30 housing density in Issaquah response
55:32 rates in each area range from 15 to 30
55:35 percent as I mentioned before the
55:37 highest response rate was in squawk
55:38 Mountain Alton sycamore all the lowest
55:41 was in the highlands the responses were
55:43 rate were weighted to correlate with
55:45 each area's percentage of our total
55:46 population residents of the Issaquah
55:50 highlands tended to give higher ratings
55:51 to those who lived rather excuse me
55:54 residents of a highly
55:55 gave higher ratings and those who lived
55:57 in other sub areas of our community this
55:59 was particularly true in the facets of
56:01 mobility and the built environment as
56:03 well as for aspects of government
56:04 performance and public trust I'd like to
56:10 thank councilmember hunt for sending in
56:12 your question ahead of time concerning
56:14 this this graph so there's many ways to
56:17 analyze the results by location or by
56:20 neighborhood that we received and this
56:21 is one very oversimplified way to view
56:24 the data is by the number of times each
56:27 neighborhood was the highest or the
56:28 lowest Raider on all of our surveys 134
56:32 variables so in other words we looked at
56:34 all the responses to the questions and
56:36 more often the Hyland's had highest
56:39 ratings for that question
56:40 well the i-90 Newport Tibbets and Gilman
56:43 area more often had the lowest rating so
56:52 some key takeaways from the survey
56:54 residents continued to rate their
56:55 quality of life positively in Issaquah
56:57 safety remains a priority mobility is a
57:00 significant concern in Issaquah and
57:02 there are opportunities with community
57:04 engagement and not always the classic
57:06 form of engagement as we talked about in
57:08 city government but also areas to help
57:10 people find places to volunteer there
57:13 are other areas like I mentioned that
57:14 were rated lower like campaigning for an
57:16 issue cause or candidate or read or
57:18 watched local news so as far as next
57:23 steps we'll be sharing these results
57:24 with our community we're also gonna have
57:28 some further analysis with city
57:29 departments to help inform our work plan
57:31 items and then we'll be using this
57:33 information to help inform our future
57:34 planning efforts including the
57:36 development of success measures with our
57:38 newly adopted strategic plan and with
57:41 that I'm here for any questions
57:43 questions customers and Mertz
57:49 so it's interesting I am taking a look
57:54 the the thing that struck me in that
57:56 that I had some concern in hearing was
57:58 around that openness and acceptance one
58:00 and hearing that it had gone down but
58:03 you included in your report
58:05 some break out and I don't see anything
58:09 in that section that jumps out at me
58:12 whether parsing by household income
58:14 length of residency age race ethnicity
58:18 there is a split on whether there's
58:20 children 17 or under in the home and
58:23 there's significantly less satisfaction
58:25 with openness and acceptance for people
58:27 that don't have kids at home which but I
58:31 don't overall I don't see anything that
58:33 helps explain that particular one and
58:36 I'm wondering if there's anything
58:37 further that we can do to try to
58:40 understand that one because it's the one
58:43 I'm not surprised that people list
58:45 transportation I'm not surprised that
58:47 people list cost of living but I'm that
58:50 one it's close to home I'm just I'm
58:54 surprised and a little disappointed is
58:56 there anything we can do in further
58:58 parsing the data beyond what we have in
59:00 front of us definitely yes yes we can
59:03 look at it and compare the data among
59:06 many of the different sub reports that
59:09 we have so I would be interested if
59:11 council members have certain areas we'd
59:13 like they would like staff to dive into
59:15 more as far as research so I'll put that
59:18 one down for sure thank you I don't
59:20 think we'll get you your answers tonight
59:22 but we will get you an answer and what
59:23 we may want to do is deliver it to you
59:26 in a way that it's visible to the public
59:29 of it as well have a meeting good
59:30 question
59:33 along those lines I was struck by the
59:36 difference in different neighborhoods in
59:40 a number of different areas and so I
59:43 think it would be interesting to dig
59:46 into that a bit more and to try to
59:48 understand how we could improve the
59:51 improve the results for those
59:53 neighborhoods that have particularly
59:56 frustration in different areas that was
1:00:00 my attempt with our neighborhood
1:00:02 engagement coordinator Lisa and I just
1:00:04 started diving into that information by
1:00:06 neighborhood and we'll be doing a lot
1:00:07 more of that in the months to come thank
1:00:10 you that's member Walsh
1:00:12 so similar to what councilmember hunt
1:00:14 was saying I did find the different
1:00:16 neighborhood worse
1:00:17 is very interesting and impact I might
1:00:20 find those more interesting as
1:00:22 performance measures then and overall
1:00:25 because for many instances our overall
1:00:28 was just very similar to previous years
1:00:31 right and I think you might see more of
1:00:33 an adjustment so I would be interested
1:00:36 including that with our strategic plan
1:00:39 performance measure is a way to look
1:00:41 into it
1:00:42 thank you are there other questions
1:00:46 thank you thank you Adam thank you next
1:00:49 informational item tonight is I do five
1:00:52 one seven this is an update on fire
1:00:54 services and facility needs and I would
1:00:57 like to ask chief Clark to come up and
1:01:00 do presentation
1:01:11 that was great teamwork autumn thank you
1:01:13 she saved me all right good evening
1:01:16 mayor members of the council city staff
1:01:19 I appreciate the opportunity to present
1:01:22 in front of you I've done the best I can
1:01:24 to anticipate what your questions are so
1:01:26 hopefully I'm going to hit hit the high
1:01:28 points here and I'll be happy to take
1:01:31 questions after the presentation and you
1:01:34 know with that said if you feel free to
1:01:36 interrupt me as we go here it'll
1:01:38 probably easier that way so I was asked
1:01:40 originally for our audience Nate can you
1:01:42 explain a bit about you phrasing agency
1:01:44 because you're not just the city because
1:01:47 absolutely thank you so so each side
1:01:51 Fire and Rescue is a partnership put
1:01:53 together by an interlocal agreement
1:01:55 between the cities of Sammamish Issaquah
1:01:57 North Bend and then Fire District 38
1:02:00 which surrounds North Bend and Fire
1:02:02 District 10 which is May Valley the city
1:02:04 of carnation Preston and just about
1:02:06 everywhere it's in between by landmass
1:02:09 district 10 is the largest and so we're
1:02:12 five partners and we've been this is our
1:02:14 20th anniversary this year so we've been
1:02:16 working together for 20 years on this
1:02:17 very successful model in my opinion so
1:02:21 originally I was asked to talk about the
1:02:23 first three bullets here which was the
1:02:24 deployment model the need for station in
1:02:27 Northeast kua and then an interim
1:02:29 temporary station location and I'll get
1:02:31 into those and then about a week and a
1:02:33 half ago the subject of wildland
1:02:35 preparedness came up so we thought we
1:02:37 would take this opportunity while I'm
1:02:38 here to also address that issue so I'll
1:02:40 address that issue in the end okay so as
1:02:44 a study this is a pop quiz for all of
1:02:46 you because you've all seen this stuff
1:02:47 before for the first five to seven
1:02:50 slides all right since 2017
1:02:52 Eastside has been looking at the way we
1:02:55 respond to calls as a reminder I walked
1:02:57 through the door in February of 2016 the
1:03:00 number one issue from the cities of
1:03:01 Sammamish in Issaquah that was presented
1:03:03 to me walking through the door was that
1:03:04 we have too many stations between the
1:03:06 two cities that we have as as the mayor
1:03:09 just asked me to allude to we have our
1:03:12 we're a group of cities or entities that
1:03:14 came together but we never really
1:03:16 planned together we didn't plan our
1:03:18 resources together so we're evolving
1:03:20 into that organization that streamlines
1:03:22 where we're going this is
1:03:24 first step and in 2017 we did what was
1:03:26 called the response standards of
1:03:27 response coverage study this was a
1:03:29 comprehensive study that took about
1:03:30 eight months we presented to the e4
1:03:32 board and for those of you in the
1:03:34 audience the e4 board is made up of
1:03:35 elected officials from the five entities
1:03:38 that I listed and they I report directly
1:03:40 to them and it is up to them to decide
1:03:43 what direction we go as an entity and
1:03:46 then the parent councils of each of the
1:03:49 entities have the overall say depending
1:03:52 on what the issues are that we bring
1:03:53 forward this standards a response
1:03:55 coverage that this is the Bible for
1:03:57 deployment within the fire service all
1:04:00 right and it is made up of these points
1:04:02 you see here and I'm not gonna read all
1:04:03 these but basically it's the
1:04:05 distribution so where our power our fire
1:04:08 stations spread out the concentration of
1:04:10 our resources how can if we need more
1:04:13 than one fire apparatus to arrive on the
1:04:15 scene how fast can we get them there the
1:04:17 reliability of those resources so how
1:04:19 busy are they when a 9-1-1 call comes in
1:04:22 and this in the downtown area when how
1:04:24 what percentage of the time does the
1:04:26 downtown engine respond to that call and
1:04:28 then draw down how often are we
1:04:30 completely out of resources all right so
1:04:32 this is a comprehensive assessment and
1:04:34 then you set your plans based on what
1:04:36 you learn from that standards of
1:04:37 response coverage which is what we did
1:04:38 at E fir along this is really hard to
1:04:41 read but this is easy to see if you go
1:04:43 to our website and as the Board of
1:04:45 Directors adopted this policy this
1:04:48 response policy back at the end of 2017
1:04:50 at the conclusion of the standards of
1:04:53 response coverage study all right and I
1:04:55 got to take my glasses off to read it
1:04:56 but the one area I highlighted was that
1:04:59 the again this is our yfir Board of
1:05:02 Directors policy the urban deployment
1:05:04 plan which includes urban area for East
1:05:07 Side is Sammamish in Issaquah combined
1:05:09 the urban deployment plan should include
1:05:11 elements that limit the number of fire
1:05:13 stations necessary to ensure positive
1:05:15 outcomes
1:05:15 it should also outline a transition to a
1:05:17 dynamic dedicated aid car response
1:05:19 system and I'll get into the merits of
1:05:21 that here shortly but understand that
1:05:23 from the e4 Board of Directors point of
1:05:26 view after reviewing the standards of
1:05:27 response coverage this is the policy
1:05:29 that they chose to enact and that's what
1:05:32 started us in in December of 2017
1:05:34 working down a path
1:05:35 of achieving that this objective along
1:05:38 with many others and then also in 2017
1:05:42 as part of that document the companion
1:05:43 document was looking at and for the
1:05:45 first time as an entity establishing
1:05:48 response times by demand type so in
1:05:50 other words we split our response area
1:05:52 into urban suburban rural and wilderness
1:05:55 this is something that hadn't been done
1:05:57 before we basically had one response
1:05:58 time for the entire service area and our
1:06:01 response time goals were so for example
1:06:04 example we had a response time goal in
1:06:06 one of these areas of 12 minutes
1:06:08 something that we attained 100 percent
1:06:10 of the time by more than 2 or 3 minutes
1:06:12 they just were not effective goals all
1:06:14 of the goals you see listed here our
1:06:17 goals that our reach goals we do not
1:06:18 attain all of these and this is
1:06:20 something that I need to report to every
1:06:22 year based on our performance and we'll
1:06:23 adjust those goals accordingly the one
1:06:25 that's pertinent to this conversation
1:06:26 will be the first column under urban our
1:06:29 current goal was nine minutes at the
1:06:31 time that this policy went into place
1:06:32 our current actual was 658 and our goal
1:06:35 now is 630 what we're going to talk
1:06:37 about now the planning perspective of
1:06:39 this is when we plan fire stations
1:06:41 what's ultimately important is the
1:06:43 response time goal that our policy
1:06:46 makers have determined is appropriate
1:06:47 for the urban area so we're gonna be
1:06:49 talking about 6 minutes and 30 seconds
1:06:51 travel time which is nearly 30 seconds
1:06:53 better than what we were actually
1:06:54 attaining and all this data is based on
1:06:57 2017 and ended in a minute here some of
1:07:00 these slides will be based on 2018 data
1:07:02 and I'll show you which ones those are
1:07:05 so we have established policy and
1:07:09 established goals within that policy
1:07:11 that we're operating under now and in
1:07:14 this slide you all saw through our
1:07:15 budget process and I did bring it to
1:07:17 this body as well last year when we were
1:07:19 adopting our two-year budget for the
1:07:21 first time and this was a slide that
1:07:24 looked at the operational piece this was
1:07:26 no 1 operational ask that we had and
1:07:28 what this is demonstrating is that again
1:07:31 combining Sammamish had three fire
1:07:33 stations Issaquah has three fire
1:07:35 stations so a total of six stations
1:07:37 serving the area we determined that by
1:07:39 moving one of those stations we could
1:07:41 limit the the access coming out of one
1:07:43 of the Sammamish stations which I'll get
1:07:45 into in a minute here as well
1:07:46 so station 81 which is up in Sammamish
1:07:48 which was the
1:07:49 the least busy station in the urban area
1:07:52 we determined that we could minimize the
1:07:54 response coming out of that if we
1:07:56 maximize the response and maybe shift
1:07:58 some resources in the Issaquah service
1:07:59 area so that five stations could
1:08:01 effectively cover the total urban area
1:08:03 we started a shift towards that in this
1:08:05 budget and what we were able to do while
1:08:07 addressing other needs in our from our
1:08:09 strategic planning process is we were
1:08:11 able to put forward a plan that we added
1:08:12 five hundred and forty eight thousand
1:08:14 dollars to our budget for the operations
1:08:15 piece at that time but we avoided one
1:08:18 and a half million dollars worth of cost
1:08:20 because we were able to shift resources
1:08:22 that we had in some of these overlapping
1:08:24 operational areas between Sammamish in
1:08:26 Issaquah all right so this slide is
1:08:32 meant to demonstrate ok how did we
1:08:33 decide where to shift our resources and
1:08:35 why believe me we went into very
1:08:38 detailed data analysis in order to get
1:08:40 to this is an overview that's meant for
1:08:41 a public meeting to make it really as
1:08:43 simple as we can make it and as I can
1:08:45 make it so when you look at this slide
1:08:46 you'll see that the total urban
1:08:48 incidents and this is based on 2018 this
1:08:50 was data that was updated for 2018 there
1:08:53 were six thousand three hundred
1:08:54 seventy-five calls for service within
1:08:56 this the six response areas the three on
1:09:01 the top of your screen are Sammamish the
1:09:02 three on the bottom are Issaquah this is
1:09:05 depicted depicting response areas that
1:09:07 do not overlap jurisdictions all right
1:09:09 we do have overlap in our jurisdictions
1:09:11 we're simply looking at the incidents
1:09:13 that actually occur within each fire
1:09:16 station response district okay and you
1:09:19 can you can see from this that the the
1:09:22 light green 284 incident section that
1:09:26 station 81 that is the station that we
1:09:28 took down to 12 hours of service back in
1:09:30 January because when you look at the
1:09:32 total number of incidents that occurred
1:09:33 in that response area 284 compared to
1:09:35 the other in areas 920 867 and then down
1:09:39 in the Issaquah area
1:09:41 13:42 1840 and 1122 that there were many
1:09:45 more incidents that occurred and in at
1:09:47 the at the minimum nearly three times as
1:09:49 many incidents that occurred in all
1:09:51 other fire station response districts
1:09:53 than that one that's why we targeted
1:09:55 station 81 as a potential for if we can
1:09:57 trim resources that's the service area
1:09:59 that is over served right now so to
1:10:00 speak
1:10:02 and that's where we might have some
1:10:04 possibility of doing so what do we have
1:10:05 to do in order to make that a reality
1:10:08 the other numbers you see here are
1:10:10 depicting what happens at night all
1:10:13 right and every one of our service areas
1:10:16 not only in the urban area but
1:10:17 throughout our service area two-thirds
1:10:19 of our calls occur from roughly 8:30 in
1:10:22 the morning
1:10:22 until 8:30 at night and then from 8:30
1:10:25 at night to 8:30 in the morning is a
1:10:26 third of our calls
1:10:27 so we're twice as busy during the 12
1:10:30 hours of daylight in theory the one we
1:10:32 had in the summer there's a mainly date
1:10:34 it's not daylight in the winter right
1:10:35 but those 12 hours we are we are roughly
1:10:38 twice as busy as we are at night so
1:10:40 understanding that what we did at
1:10:41 station 81 in January is we took a
1:10:43 two-person aid unit and we are posting a
1:10:46 12-hour car during the day in that
1:10:48 service area okay and the rest of the
1:10:52 service area we are still responding
1:10:54 with the 24 hour responses that we
1:10:56 always have with an addition of an aid
1:10:58 unit yes sir I have a question I noticed
1:11:03 as I look at that and I look at the
1:11:05 three stations that are essentially just
1:11:09 Issaquah the 1840s sort of jumps out at
1:11:13 me because it seems like and it's hard
1:11:15 to tell a little bit the colors of the
1:11:18 three in the south but it looks to be
1:11:20 the less populous the populated of the
1:11:23 three zones I would think that squawk
1:11:26 and and the Highlands and the valley are
1:11:31 the higher density parts and the the one
1:11:33 in the West while it has the while it
1:11:36 has talus that number seems a lot higher
1:11:38 is there anything about that district
1:11:40 that generates more more incidents than
1:11:43 the others you know I can't I can't
1:11:45 recall off the top of my head with that
1:11:46 there are there are a lot of homes in
1:11:47 that area but then you have 90 and car
1:11:51 accidents are going to be probably more
1:11:52 prevalent in that area but you do have a
1:11:55 piece of squat coming off of there and
1:11:56 then while these are just the incidents
1:11:59 not necessarily the unit that responded
1:12:01 to it but the incidence in there that is
1:12:02 a bigger area and I can't tell from this
1:12:05 photo provenance point is your busiest
1:12:07 area in the city of Issaquah by far I
1:12:11 cannot tell by the overlap here if
1:12:14 Providence point may be considered in
1:12:17 there for Issaquah call volume I'd have
1:12:19 to go back and break down the data but
1:12:20 that's gonna be my guess okay thank you
1:12:27 okay so in order
1:12:32 I should back up and say the the other
1:12:34 thing so what we effectively did is we
1:12:37 took station 81 and we took the
1:12:38 resources from that station we created
1:12:41 another battalion chief response unit
1:12:43 which was identified in our strategic
1:12:44 plan back in 2016 and then we took we
1:12:48 took the resources and we put them on to
1:12:50 dedicated aid units historically what
1:12:53 the what Eastside has done is when an
1:12:55 EMS call comes in in any one of our
1:12:57 stations the firefighters would jump on
1:13:00 a response unit an aid unit to respond
1:13:03 in the medical call and they would jump
1:13:05 on an engine company or a ladder company
1:13:07 to respond on a fire call that's a
1:13:09 highly inefficient way very expensive
1:13:11 way to operate an urban response in an
1:13:14 urban response model so now these five
1:13:16 stations that remain they respond
1:13:18 strictly in an engine or a ladder
1:13:20 company all right they're dual
1:13:21 responsible they can respond on EMS or
1:13:23 fire and then we have two aid units the
1:13:26 one at station 81 responding 12 hours a
1:13:28 day and we have a 24 hour eight unit
1:13:31 responding out of station 71 right
1:13:33 across the street here 24 hours a day
1:13:35 those units can respond much more nimbly
1:13:38 and they allow us to leave engines and
1:13:41 ladders available back in 2017 there are
1:13:44 at least three incidents while I was
1:13:46 listening to a radio where a fire call
1:13:48 came in and our closest resources were
1:13:50 responding in an aid unit that does not
1:13:52 have any fire equipment in order to
1:13:53 attack a fire all right highly an
1:13:55 efficient way to respond this is much
1:13:57 more efficient and this begins our what
1:13:59 we call the dynamic aid unit response
1:14:01 model what we're trying to do is get
1:14:04 these aid units with two people on them
1:14:06 rather than three to respond to EMS
1:14:08 calls in a more rapid fashion while we
1:14:10 leave our fire resources available
1:14:12 making them more reliable all right and
1:14:14 that's our that's where we're starting
1:14:15 to shift towards as part of this model
1:14:17 now what you're gonna see is a series of
1:14:20 slides that were made up for a community
1:14:22 meeting in Sammamish I do not believe
1:14:24 this body has seen these slides before
1:14:26 my board has board members have but what
1:14:30 this is is this is computer modeling
1:14:32 alright and this is taking that six
1:14:34 minutes and 30 seconds to travel time
1:14:36 what is this that is the state at efore
1:14:38 board policy and laying it over the
1:14:41 urban area if it's in green then we are
1:14:43 we are responding by via the computer is
1:14:46 is tallying that our travel time is six
1:14:49 minutes or thirty seconds or less okay
1:14:51 the red areas would be areas that do not
1:14:54 receive a response time in six minutes
1:14:56 or thirty seconds at best the computer
1:14:59 as far as modeling future performance
1:15:01 it's the best technology that we have at
1:15:02 this point it's not perfect but it is
1:15:04 what we have so as we sit this is where
1:15:07 this is where we're at when we close
1:15:12 station 81 and at night we go down to
1:15:14 that 18 incidents in that area there and
1:15:17 that that big swath of area where we do
1:15:20 not have the six minutes and thirty
1:15:22 second coverage but as we start to shift
1:15:25 here and what our our ultimate plans
1:15:28 were is as we shift a station and it's a
1:15:31 quater to the north on East Lake Sam and
1:15:33 we address with the configuration that
1:15:37 we have on the left which is what I said
1:15:38 before where we have the two dedicated
1:15:39 aid units one 12-hour day one 24-hour a
1:15:42 day we become more nimble then we shift
1:15:45 in that six minutes and 30 seconds that
1:15:46 we're covering everything you can see
1:15:48 shift here now down on the south part of
1:15:50 Issaquah here there were eleven
1:15:51 incidents this again was in 2018 that do
1:15:55 not receive that but based on that these
1:15:57 are orders of understand the proximity
1:16:00 when when you look at the area here that
1:16:02 we're talking about we're talking about
1:16:03 not six thirty probably six 46 45 we're
1:16:06 not talking minutes later this is just
1:16:09 adjacent to it and then the other red
1:16:11 area here out near High Point we didn't
1:16:13 have any calls out there in 2018 that's
1:16:15 a very low call volume area historically
1:16:17 the areas in Sammamish that will not be
1:16:21 affected under either plan are the
1:16:23 [Music]
1:16:25 drowning because you said talis trois
1:16:27 excite was a t trois six area and then
1:16:30 way up north by on borders on redmond
1:16:33 okay so but what this does is it
1:16:36 actually creates using the same
1:16:38 resources personnel that we had before
1:16:40 or we are going from six dedicated units
1:16:43 at all times to seven dedicated units
1:16:46 during while we have two-thirds of the
1:16:48 calls that we respond to and six
1:16:50 dedicated units overnight alright and
1:16:52 we've done this with the existing
1:16:53 resources a big piece of this is
1:16:55 shifting the stations to or shifting a
1:16:58 station to better centrally address the
1:17:02 entire service area entire sir urban
1:17:04 service area okay so with that then came
1:17:10 the conversation about temp station
1:17:13 which you've which you've now seen in
1:17:14 your capital improvement plan the
1:17:17 temporary station and the permanent
1:17:20 station and in order to talk through
1:17:22 this there there's a bit of history
1:17:24 that's involved here and at least mice
1:17:27 my immediate history here is first this
1:17:29 notion that we need to go down to five
1:17:31 stations in the urban core which I agree
1:17:33 with and have agreed with my board and
1:17:35 the board has agreed with them in the
1:17:37 manner that we've moved forward secondly
1:17:39 there was some time ago the under the
1:17:42 previous administration that the city
1:17:45 administrator purchased a piece of land
1:17:47 that would and it was in an ideal
1:17:49 location and part of that evaluation was
1:17:51 whether or not the fire department
1:17:53 whether that would be a good spot for a
1:17:54 fire station and in fact it would be on
1:17:56 East Lake Sammamish Road unfortunately
1:18:00 recently we found that that land will
1:18:02 not support is not a safe place to build
1:18:04 a building okay due to a landslide or
1:18:08 something that's that's going on on the
1:18:10 hillside there so that took away our
1:18:12 opportunity our hopes were that we would
1:18:14 put a temp station on that site until
1:18:16 such time that we would be able to build
1:18:18 a permanent station and move from there
1:18:20 we've since lost that ability on that
1:18:22 site and we are shifting our plans
1:18:24 internally operationally on what we do
1:18:26 with that kind of delay what our need is
1:18:28 right now is a temporary station
1:18:30 somewhere along East Lake Sam and
1:18:32 ultimately someday move a permanent
1:18:36 station down to the East Lake same area
1:18:38 all right do you prove a few quizzical
1:18:41 looks and it's r2e for board members who
1:18:44 have seen much longer I notice that are
1:18:47 not here tonight might want to give you
1:18:51 an opportunity
1:18:52 there's been a few acronyms used and a
1:18:55 lot of sort of fire department jargon so
1:18:58 is there anything that needs to be more
1:19:00 needs to be clarified at this point in
1:19:02 time okay good
1:19:06 Thank You chief you're welcome there
1:19:09 okay so when when we when we are talking
1:19:13 about a temporary station the the notion
1:19:17 that and what I envision could be
1:19:21 different than what others do one of the
1:19:22 things that I want to I want to remind
1:19:24 all of you are before my time here is
1:19:26 that station 72 which now lives over on
1:19:29 Maple was actually housed in a temporary
1:19:32 station across the street for years
1:19:34 while a temporary station can be
1:19:36 something you put up for a few months
1:19:37 historically in the fire service and
1:19:39 what we're referring to now is it's a
1:19:41 stopgap and it could be from three years
1:19:44 to five years to seven years the it's a
1:19:47 you can almost call it a relatively
1:19:49 temporary station it's a it's an
1:19:50 investment yes it's time but we're
1:19:53 looking at a longer haul than just you
1:19:54 know having it there for a few months
1:19:57 there are these and these are examples
1:20:00 only so you can get your head around
1:20:01 what a temporary might look like this is
1:20:03 actually a product this in the next
1:20:04 product I'll show you are actually using
1:20:06 shipping containers okay and this this
1:20:08 one is an aid station only it's an
1:20:11 outfit out of Canada that builds
1:20:13 shipping container they drop it on-site
1:20:15 they completely do the hookups
1:20:16 they provide the furniture and all the
1:20:18 safety systems you need it's a one-stop
1:20:21 shop the other and then if you were to
1:20:24 do a full temporary station this is
1:20:27 similar this has a ladder company and an
1:20:28 aid company again all shipping container
1:20:30 material that's built on this everything
1:20:33 everything's provided that you see what
1:20:35 you'll see around town and perhaps more
1:20:37 like the model you had for 72 here would
1:20:39 be more of a portable like you see on
1:20:41 school grounds with some type of a pole
1:20:43 barn that actually our garage that
1:20:45 actually houses the piece of apparatus
1:20:47 any of those are open when we're talking
1:20:50 about a temporary station how what is
1:20:53 important to me
1:20:54 is how I'm how temporary a station is
1:20:57 going to be whether that's three years
1:20:59 five years seven years determines how
1:21:02 much you put in on the front end
1:21:04 you you definitely whatever stab you
1:21:06 take it attempt station you want to make
1:21:08 it a temp station that we can actually
1:21:09 be in for a longer amount of time if
1:21:11 need be all the planning in the world is
1:21:14 great but we all know that things end up
1:21:16 taking a little longer than what we
1:21:18 initially thought so we want to go
1:21:19 through the process of doing what's
1:21:21 right we have not landed on one first of
1:21:23 all we don't have a sight right now
1:21:24 specifically but we haven't landed on a
1:21:27 temp station but there are lots of
1:21:29 options available to us at a minimum
1:21:32 you know moving the aid unit over on
1:21:36 East Lake Sam that is currently right
1:21:38 across the street here would be the best
1:21:40 step stopgap measure for us moving
1:21:42 forward all right that allows us the
1:21:45 flexibility to cover our entire urban
1:21:46 service area within the response time
1:21:49 standards that we're trying to achieve
1:21:50 and continue the flexibility and the the
1:21:53 ability for the city of Issaquah to
1:21:55 pursue whatever plans you need to pursue
1:21:57 in order to accomplish our longer-term
1:21:58 goals some other considerations that I
1:22:03 want to throw up for you cost of
1:22:06 updating the current station 71 station
1:22:08 71 across the street here is a station
1:22:10 that we have updated our facility
1:22:15 standards within efer in the in the last
1:22:18 I think was 18 months ago when we did
1:22:20 that one of the things that we left off
1:22:22 of one station that we left off of those
1:22:24 facility standards was this station
1:22:25 across the street because there were
1:22:27 things being considered and we knew that
1:22:30 the future was up in the air about that
1:22:32 but there are a lot of considerations
1:22:34 for this that that building is extremely
1:22:36 outdated from from healthy in and
1:22:39 healthy out which is a a state law now
1:22:41 for firefighters what we have to do in
1:22:43 order to protect our folks on where they
1:22:45 can take their soiled equipment having
1:22:47 carpet in the station having positive
1:22:49 pressure in the living areas so that the
1:22:51 carbon monoxide from the vehicles do not
1:22:53 come in those types of things there's a
1:22:56 number of issues that need to be
1:22:57 addressed I do not have a report in
1:22:59 front of me that says what all those
1:23:00 issues are we are working those issues
1:23:02 on to stations and Sammamish right now
1:23:04 we have had a study done up there so we
1:23:06 have similar comparisons but understand
1:23:09 that there's a lot of work that needs to
1:23:11 be done with station 71
1:23:14 depending on the permanency of that
1:23:15 station as well the cost of the
1:23:17 temporary station configurations I know
1:23:19 in your CIP that was presented to you by
1:23:21 staff there there are some numbers in
1:23:23 there anything that we look at can
1:23:25 certainly be done with the numbers that
1:23:27 are in there and we've been working with
1:23:28 city staff on the possible
1:23:30 configurations from the shipping
1:23:31 containers down to the the mobile and
1:23:33 that's the mobile home options which are
1:23:35 things that we can we can talk about and
1:23:37 then timeline for constructing the
1:23:38 permanent station on the north there
1:23:41 right now that station is in the CIP I
1:23:43 believe design in 22 and build in 23
1:23:47 okay so just for your consideration
1:23:50 that's that's what's been presented to
1:23:51 you to this point in that CIP you know
1:23:55 and that's really my update on the need
1:23:57 for the temp station what our plans are
1:23:58 how we got where we're in how we got to
1:24:01 where we are today and then the next
1:24:03 slide I have is on wildland so but I
1:24:05 think this is a good place to pause and
1:24:06 address any questions you might have
1:24:08 let's remember we're just saying can't
1:24:09 spent hands member Walsh impetus thanks
1:24:18 chief I always appreciate you coming
1:24:20 here sharing this information appreciate
1:24:22 the work of your staff and the
1:24:23 firefighters and the emergency medical
1:24:25 personnel very one of the very top
1:24:29 public services that we provide and I
1:24:31 appreciate your work thank you I don't
1:24:34 have any qualms or questions about this
1:24:38 material except for right at the very
1:24:40 beginning there was a policy decision
1:24:42 that the or Board adopted and your
1:24:47 representation of that kind of struck me
1:24:49 how the response times in urban first it
1:24:54 goal of six minutes 30 seconds mm-hmm
1:24:58 was deemed the appropriate and then
1:25:00 suburban seven minutes and 30 seconds
1:25:03 could you explain those goal differences
1:25:07 because I'm very sure it has nothing to
1:25:10 do with valuing the lives and property
1:25:13 in urban or suburban there's probably
1:25:15 other key factors that we would be good
1:25:18 to hear about them yes so Thank You
1:25:20 councilmember winter Stein and through
1:25:22 the mayor
1:25:23 what when the context that is lacking in
1:25:27 the presentation that I gave there was
1:25:29 having to do of looking at our entire
1:25:30 service area on a map and looking at the
1:25:33 resources we have available so what we
1:25:35 have defined is suburban areas is the
1:25:37 city proper of car nation and the city
1:25:40 proper of North Bend and those are very
1:25:43 I believe North Bend is five or six
1:25:46 square miles incarnation is one square
1:25:48 mile all right and there they each have
1:25:50 a single fire station in they're getting
1:25:53 backup resources into those cities is
1:25:55 very difficult because of the the travel
1:25:58 time that is involved and providing
1:26:00 coverage while it's in there
1:26:01 with based on their call volume as well
1:26:03 so when you look at everything in its
1:26:05 totality you'll see that on this graph
1:26:07 we're achieving we're almost a minute
1:26:09 slower in those areas even before we did
1:26:10 any of this planning so naturally it was
1:26:13 set up
1:26:14 we are still basing one of the words I
1:26:16 did not use that we did use in this
1:26:18 presentation and in policy is outcomes
1:26:20 we are more concerned about outcomes
1:26:22 than we are response time and our
1:26:24 outcomes throughout our service area
1:26:25 meaning how many lives do we say from
1:26:27 CPR when do we put out fires do we
1:26:29 contain them to the room of origin or
1:26:30 not and go on down the list for the
1:26:33 different call types our outcomes are
1:26:35 still high-performing anywhere else in
1:26:37 the region we compete with them
1:26:39 regardless of the slower response times
1:26:41 that we have in some areas there's also
1:26:43 a realization in all of these areas Road
1:26:46 configuration matters connectivity of
1:26:48 neighborhoods matter Hills lakes rivers
1:26:51 matter so if you're out in North Bend
1:26:53 you have a lot more water barriers in
1:26:55 the way and you have you know I come
1:26:57 from a state in Arizona that
1:26:58 everything's gridded almost nothing's
1:27:01 gridded here from when I talked gridded
1:27:03 90 degrees square mile and break it down
1:27:05 everything here is on an angle and
1:27:07 everything is uphill downhill across the
1:27:09 river or the lake all of those realities
1:27:11 come into to a slower travel time one of
1:27:15 the slides that we demonstrated the efer
1:27:16 was if you wanted in our urban area to
1:27:19 get to at the time what was a national
1:27:21 standard travel time of five minutes and
1:27:24 12 seconds we would actually have to
1:27:25 build an additional three stations and
1:27:28 staff them 24 hours a day to have a shot
1:27:31 at getting to about five ten all right
1:27:33 so that would be basically 50% more
1:27:36 resources than what we have now
1:27:37 there's absolutely no call for that from
1:27:38 a call volume standpoint so you're right
1:27:40 this has absolutely no value on on lives
1:27:43 or anything else this is looking at
1:27:44 performance based on the resources
1:27:46 available to us and making a statement
1:27:48 that where you live doesn't matter urban
1:27:50 suburban and then especially when you
1:27:51 get into the wilderness areas if you are
1:27:53 one of the few residents that live way
1:27:55 out one of the things that's being
1:27:56 sacrificed is response time you may be
1:27:58 lucky and be somewhat close but on
1:28:00 average you're not going to be I hope
1:28:02 that answers your question thank you
1:28:05 thank you I had a question about the
1:28:08 sort of life cycle of the temporary or
1:28:12 the shipping container type temporary
1:28:14 fire stations are they is there any
1:28:16 consideration as far as would they be
1:28:18 possible to be used somewhere else
1:28:20 afterwards is it a longer term
1:28:22 investment than just the three years
1:28:24 where you plunk it down in one place
1:28:25 yeah councilmember hunt thank you for
1:28:29 that the yes they are something that
1:28:31 would be mobile we actually have a need
1:28:33 for a temporary station aid station like
1:28:37 the first one I showed you in Sammamish
1:28:39 soon next spring they're shutting down
1:28:41 Issaquah Fall City Road for a road
1:28:43 construction project and we're gonna be
1:28:45 for six months putting a temporary aid
1:28:47 station in the area of trois X for that
1:28:50 very purpose these stations can be moved
1:28:52 around and reutilized in different areas
1:28:55 and that's one of the appeals for us is
1:28:57 well if you're buying something you're
1:28:58 not buying it in a single location we've
1:29:00 actually brainstormed a little bit about
1:29:01 well you know maybe we try it at this
1:29:03 intersection and you know six months
1:29:05 from now we have another opportunity on
1:29:06 a piece of land try a response from that
1:29:08 standpoint so yeah I think they will
1:29:09 last a long time
1:29:10 these the we have not put our hands on
1:29:13 the buildings yet have not seen it
1:29:15 deputy chief Lane we'll be going up to
1:29:17 Canada here soon to take a look at the
1:29:19 actual product and but we do know based
1:29:22 on the number of agencies that are using
1:29:24 it up there there must be somewhat
1:29:26 successful and I was a bit worried about
1:29:27 the cold but they're using them in
1:29:29 Canada so I think we'll probably okay
1:29:31 but we're gonna talk some firefighters
1:29:33 on the ground and make sure of that
1:29:34 but there they definitely should last us
1:29:35 for years to come and we can use them in
1:29:38 other areas and possibly even cost share
1:29:40 at the end of the fact if say yes the
1:29:42 quad now goes and we don't need it
1:29:44 anymore but it goes to some a mesh we
1:29:45 can figure something out there
1:29:48 council member walsh that segues quite
1:29:51 nicely into my question about cost
1:29:53 sharing so I'm fairly new to the council
1:29:56 so I haven't gotten a chance to really
1:29:59 get into the interlocal agreement and
1:30:02 what that is but I know that this is a
1:30:05 project that is going to be potentially
1:30:08 in North s equi which will serve areas
1:30:11 of Sammamish and Issaquah yet it's on
1:30:14 our CIP so can you talk to me about how
1:30:18 that cost works so council member Walsh
1:30:21 the the cost is spelled out in great
1:30:24 detail and if you do read it once and
1:30:27 you understand it then I definitely want
1:30:29 you on the board because that hasn't
1:30:30 happened yet
1:30:31 I think average is probably four or five
1:30:33 sorry council member winter Stein but
1:30:36 the the unique thing about our agreement
1:30:41 is that any property is still owned by
1:30:45 the individual entity so if anything is
1:30:47 built in Issaquah it is it's a quat
1:30:49 property and therefore it does have to
1:30:50 go to your CIP there has been minimal
1:30:53 cost sharing and building new buildings
1:30:56 and believe the only one that's occurred
1:30:58 has been station 72 where district 10
1:31:01 contributed some dollars towards the
1:31:03 construction of that but where the
1:31:06 cost-sharing bears out currently under
1:31:07 the current cost model is the use the
1:31:10 ongoing use of it your your cost will be
1:31:13 apportioned based on call volume that
1:31:15 you actually respond to an AV of the
1:31:18 properties you actually cover which say
1:31:20 the new station the assessed valuation
1:31:23 sorry thanks mayor but it is basically
1:31:28 85% of the cost of any structure the
1:31:31 operation of any structure is a portion
1:31:33 to the assessed valuation that you that
1:31:34 that station responds to 15% to the call
1:31:37 volume of that station response to do so
1:31:39 in a very generic term if that unit
1:31:42 responds into Sammamish then for that
1:31:44 piece of the response Sammamish will pay
1:31:45 that portion if if Sammamish responds
1:31:49 into Issaquah then the Issaquah is
1:31:51 paying that piece of the bill for
1:31:52 whatever station that's that came from
1:31:54 now that is the current model full
1:31:56 disclosure we are talking about
1:31:59 the board level what that model could
1:32:01 look like because we're actually looking
1:32:02 at trying to reconfigure the Articles of
1:32:05 Incorporation or that the type of
1:32:07 corporation or entity that we are that's
1:32:10 all to come later this year I do not
1:32:13 know where that's going to land but I do
1:32:14 want to say we are talking about it but
1:32:16 currently just because you own the
1:32:18 structures then yes it's your CIP I
1:32:21 would I would highly doubt that if
1:32:25 Sukhoi would pay for anything in
1:32:26 Sammamish nor would Sammamish pay for
1:32:28 anything in Issaquah on the front end
1:32:30 but in in the operational side you under
1:32:34 the current model you you should see
1:32:36 some kind of change we have not modeled
1:32:37 that out on purpose because we tried to
1:32:40 make a decision based on what was right
1:32:42 operationally to correct the agency and
1:32:44 how we've been responding to with our
1:32:46 assets and that's something that will be
1:32:49 discussed and ferreted out over the next
1:32:52 few years I'm sure Thank You council
1:32:56 president buhdeuce thank you for the
1:32:59 presentation tonight chief it's great to
1:33:01 have more information as about this and
1:33:04 be able to talk more about this as we go
1:33:06 forward my first question is about we
1:33:09 with the temporary station you had
1:33:11 talked about with with what we have
1:33:13 within the CIP that you could work with
1:33:18 with whatever that is you showed a
1:33:19 couple different examples of what the
1:33:22 temporary station might look like but
1:33:24 are there certain one I believe had an
1:33:27 engine and one had an engine and an aide
1:33:30 car and different obviously different
1:33:34 numbers of people that would fit within
1:33:36 staff members so are there certain
1:33:38 parameters that you have to meet with to
1:33:41 make things effective with that
1:33:43 temporary station in terms of number of
1:33:46 people and and how much room you need
1:33:49 how's the engine and the aid cars yeah
1:33:52 they excuse me the critical part is that
1:33:54 they're two-person response in an aid
1:33:57 unit be placed there as soon as possible
1:34:00 would be my recommendation and so if we
1:34:02 addressed that then the need for
1:34:06 everything deployment wise we have met
1:34:08 for the foreseeable future then it
1:34:11 becomes a value proposition in my
1:34:13 opinion to the city on operating this
1:34:17 say this station and the station on East
1:34:19 Lee exam and do you have the ability to
1:34:22 move all the resources to another
1:34:24 station that's something where we're
1:34:26 looking at things like so can we do the
1:34:27 temp aid station now so this one and
1:34:30 we've asked the vendor been has talked
1:34:32 to the vendor can we ask this station
1:34:34 and then let's say two years from now we
1:34:35 want to move the entire operation there
1:34:37 after we've had lots of community
1:34:39 comment and discussions and and work
1:34:41 through the process then can we add on
1:34:43 to that they do believe there's a way
1:34:45 we're still working on them with that of
1:34:47 course if you if we're gonna ask you to
1:34:49 make that decision that's going to be
1:34:50 something that they'll impact cost
1:34:51 somewhat because this is the smallest
1:34:54 this is the smallest and most
1:34:56 inexpensive way to move into the temp
1:34:58 station business and of course because
1:35:00 this is the largest and the most that's
1:35:02 going to be the most expensive but then
1:35:04 the full value proposition comes into
1:35:06 what happens with this station timing
1:35:08 and everything else but from our need
1:35:10 perspective this is what we need now as
1:35:13 soon as we can do this and then we have
1:35:16 as when I say we East Side Fire and
1:35:18 Rescue in the city of Issaquah we have
1:35:20 plenty of time from planning discussions
1:35:23 community workshops budget processes
1:35:25 that we can all work through to figure
1:35:26 out the rest of these details moving
1:35:29 forward thank you and just one other
1:35:32 question just to go back in the
1:35:34 presentation a bit yes ma'am you were
1:35:36 talking about station 81 and taking that
1:35:41 down to the 12 hour time limit so how
1:35:45 much time does it take to evaluate
1:35:47 whether that is being effective how much
1:35:50 time do you need to say this is working
1:35:52 really well or so so we are not
1:35:56 accredited but the fire service does
1:35:59 have an accreditation process and which
1:36:02 I have been a member of since 1998 and I
1:36:05 subscribed heavily to the accreditation
1:36:07 standards and we look at three years of
1:36:09 data is the minimum that we want to see
1:36:12 to actually make a sound evaluation on
1:36:14 anything operational obviously it's
1:36:16 going to be a little while but we will
1:36:17 look and do look at you know monthly we
1:36:20 look at dad
1:36:21 see every six months is nice but even an
1:36:24 annual piece there are so many anomalies
1:36:26 that can come up over one year it's
1:36:28 tough to make a 20-year decision on
1:36:30 investment on one year of data so I'm
1:36:32 gonna ask for three on the dynamic
1:36:34 response model and I think that that
1:36:37 will bear out over three years we'll
1:36:38 know whether we have a solid model or
1:36:41 not I know from experience and I can
1:36:43 tell you from what happens in urban and
1:36:46 metropolitan departments from around the
1:36:47 country
1:36:48 we're not trying something brand new
1:36:50 here this is this is a tried-and-true
1:36:52 method for responding so I'm confident
1:36:54 it's gonna work here what I'm not
1:36:55 confident of is what the actual times
1:36:58 are that will realize because we have
1:37:00 such unique features from what I was
1:37:03 talking about before the non connected
1:37:05 communities straight up the hillsides
1:37:08 the lakes the rivers that's gonna be
1:37:10 very unique to our area and I would like
1:37:11 to see three years of data to know
1:37:13 exactly how those numbers are gonna are
1:37:15 gonna bear out one of the things I can
1:37:17 say with confidence is that our service
1:37:18 area with the with the response volume
1:37:21 that we see now and into the future
1:37:23 is that five stations with the response
1:37:26 units are more than enough to handle
1:37:29 these calls in any one of these stations
1:37:32 where you have a fully staffed company
1:37:34 all right you can I start to get
1:37:36 concerned about things like reliability
1:37:38 on call load when it gets to 3,500 calls
1:37:42 3,500 calls okay so as you look across
1:37:46 the map here you can double most of the
1:37:48 Issaquah units and I would not be
1:37:50 concerned or I would start to be getting
1:37:52 concerned about whether or not we need
1:37:54 to add and a brand new resource just
1:37:56 simply because of call volume we have
1:37:58 capacity in our system which is a great
1:38:00 thing to have the tough part is covering
1:38:03 the terrain that we have in order to
1:38:04 provide the standards thank you welcome
1:38:07 Thank You councilmember Walsh
1:38:09 so Chief Clark what is the next step
1:38:12 then if you guys don't if the temporary
1:38:16 location that you were looking at wasn't
1:38:17 going to work out what's the next step
1:38:20 and when's the next time we'll hear
1:38:22 about it okay so the next step that
1:38:24 we're that we've taken as an agency is
1:38:26 on September 12th our fact our Finance
1:38:29 and Administration Committee just made a
1:38:31 recommendation to take that unit that's
1:38:33 at station 81
1:38:34 up to 24 hours a day for with a
1:38:37 two-person unit which if they approve
1:38:39 that on September 12th that'll start
1:38:41 immediately until such time as we can
1:38:43 get a temporary station located on East
1:38:45 Lake Sam and since in the CIP right now
1:38:48 you have a temporary station plugged in
1:38:51 and I know you're that's why we're here
1:38:52 we're deliberating on that we'll know
1:38:53 more based on the Issaquah process we
1:38:56 are currently on September 12th c4 board
1:38:59 meeting we're funding it through the end
1:39:02 of 2020 hoping that in this next 18
1:39:05 months we're going to get resolution on
1:39:07 the temp aid station so and then as far
1:39:10 as for here I would have to defer to
1:39:11 Andrea - on what the timeline is for the
1:39:15 next steps here within the city process
1:39:22 sure well I think as the chief has said
1:39:24 we're really focused on meeting their
1:39:28 requirements to have the aid station
1:39:32 moved up north and we're working with
1:39:34 them on siting for a temporary location
1:39:37 we're also in the process of
1:39:39 investigating a permanent location and
1:39:42 we are gonna need to have plenty of time
1:39:45 as the chief indicated earlier and
1:39:47 having public discussions of what that
1:39:49 could look like and and have that
1:39:53 conversation with the community so I
1:39:55 think we're first we're focused on
1:39:57 meeting the needs for the temporary
1:40:01 station and then having another
1:40:03 conversation about what the future is
1:40:05 for the full station what those services
1:40:07 are other questions
1:40:13 testing see if we want to thank you for
1:40:16 coming tonight we need to make I still
1:40:18 have one more slide one more slide sorry
1:40:25 okay so the last is the wildland
1:40:30 preparedness and our wildland
1:40:32 preparedness efforts and I appreciate
1:40:35 being asked to update you on this
1:40:38 subject this is a very important subject
1:40:39 I am very happy that this summer did not
1:40:43 turn into and when I'm not talking about
1:40:46 just district well I'm talking about
1:40:47 entire western side of the mountains did
1:40:51 not turn into the fire season that we
1:40:53 were concerned about but if you'll
1:40:55 notice over the last few summers the
1:40:57 concern for a wildfire has started to
1:40:59 ramp up and we in fact did have more
1:41:01 fires on this side of the mountain than
1:41:02 we ever have but fortunately we were
1:41:05 able to jump on them quicker and none of
1:41:07 them expanded into larger fires we do
1:41:09 have a fire concern on this side now
1:41:12 specifically in the east side service
1:41:14 area and then into Issaquah and I'll let
1:41:16 you read the bullets I want you to know
1:41:18 that there's no other fire department
1:41:19 that has done more to prepare in
1:41:21 anticipation for what we've been seeing
1:41:22 this year you through the e4 board
1:41:25 funded 100% of our firefighters going to
1:41:27 wildland training we accomplished that
1:41:30 back in the spring no other fire
1:41:32 department in King County Pierce or
1:41:34 Snohomish anywhere on this side has put
1:41:36 all of their firefighters through
1:41:38 wildland training we have equipped every
1:41:40 engine company every response unit with
1:41:42 the necessary tools and equipment needed
1:41:45 to fight wildland firefighting and we
1:41:48 are equipping our firefighters with
1:41:50 believe it or not the equipment you wear
1:41:53 on a wildland fire is very different
1:41:55 than the equipment you learn in a
1:41:56 structure fire and one of the things
1:41:58 that you'll see listed up here are dual
1:41:59 compliant pants something that's it's
1:42:01 kind of hard to get your head around as
1:42:03 a layperson it's like whoa I can't I
1:42:05 can't firefighters wear whatever pants
1:42:07 they're wearing into a wildland setting
1:42:08 well it's a completely different set of
1:42:10 circumstances so we're buying dual
1:42:13 compliant pants so that the pants that
1:42:14 our firefighters wear any day especially
1:42:17 during the summer months will be pants
1:42:19 that they can wear on a while an
1:42:20 incident or in a structure fire all
1:42:22 right you'll see from here we started
1:42:25 two years ago ordering all of our engine
1:42:26 companies with 750 gallon water tanks
1:42:29 rather than the typical 500 gallon fire
1:42:31 water tank in anticipation of the urban
1:42:34 interface which is a term you'll hear me
1:42:35 refer to when you have an urban area
1:42:39 that comes into a forested area or a
1:42:41 desert area that's referred to in our
1:42:43 business as the Ehrman urban interface
1:42:45 all right we have throughout the
1:42:47 Eastside service area and certainly
1:42:49 throughout Issaquah what would be
1:42:50 determined to be urban interface all
1:42:53 right that's where our forest meets
1:42:54 wherever number of neighborhoods that we
1:42:56 have I live in the woods that's
1:42:57 certainly an urban interface over
1:43:00 the woods okay so it's a it's a it's a
1:43:03 term you'll hear me refer to also we
1:43:05 hosted thanks to representative Kim
1:43:07 Schreyer and then the State Land
1:43:09 Director Hillary Franz we hosted both of
1:43:11 them in our building here in Issaquah a
1:43:13 couple of months ago to discuss wild
1:43:17 land response we had met with
1:43:19 representative Schreyer and she was
1:43:21 highly concerned and she was doing town
1:43:23 halls on the eastern side and we asked
1:43:26 if she would be interested and she was
1:43:27 excited to come and do one on the
1:43:29 western side and I anticipate that
1:43:31 something and will repeat each year and
1:43:32 then we were able to invite Hillary
1:43:35 Franz if you haven't met her she is
1:43:37 doing a fabulous job as a state land
1:43:39 director and she is really getting ahead
1:43:42 to the best that you can administrative
1:43:43 Leon the wild land piece and we had her
1:43:45 here to talk about it we designated a
1:43:49 battalion chief as our fire wise
1:43:50 coordinator which is the next program
1:43:52 that I want to talk about we as your
1:43:56 response agency we can do everything
1:43:58 that we've listed here and I can assure
1:44:00 you we've also listed on here some read
1:44:04 some brush truck assets you have for
1:44:07 brush trucks within East Side Fire and
1:44:08 Rescue you have water tenders within e4
1:44:11 these are units that are designated to
1:44:13 respond on wildland calls we do have one
1:44:15 based right here in Issaquah we move to
1:44:17 station 72 for that urban interface feel
1:44:20 so that we did have a response
1:44:21 capability here you won't see another
1:44:23 agency that has the number of assets
1:44:25 that we do that you have funded over the
1:44:26 years for this type of thing but we can
1:44:30 buy all the equipment in the world we
1:44:32 can train all of our firefighters this
1:44:35 will not stop with the conditions are
1:44:38 correct a wildland fire from entering
1:44:41 this community or any other community on
1:44:42 the west side what it takes in order to
1:44:44 change that is the community and
1:44:46 neighborhood groups citizens and each
1:44:49 and every one of you that aren't owned a
1:44:51 home in Issaquah of doing what you can
1:44:53 do to to protect your house all right
1:44:56 and that's Firewise is a program that is
1:44:59 run it's a national program which is
1:45:02 about awareness and it's really
1:45:03 surrounds eight points that are printed
1:45:04 off here there's eight points in order
1:45:06 to keep your house safe all right
1:45:09 remove all dead plant material from
1:45:11 around your home break up dry leaves
1:45:13 and move firewood away from your house
1:45:15 keep your roof and gutters clear from
1:45:17 flammable debris pretty simple stuff
1:45:19 think about a fire think about when you
1:45:20 have a campfire when if you had dry
1:45:22 leaves and a tree catches on fire and
1:45:25 you got dry leaves on your roof or one
1:45:26 of those branches touches your house
1:45:28 where's that fire gonna go it's gonna go
1:45:30 right to your house okay when you think
1:45:32 about bushes up close to your house and
1:45:34 I have bushes up close to my house but
1:45:36 you think about dry bushes up close to
1:45:38 your house they look great
1:45:40 in the off season but if it dries up and
1:45:42 a fire season comes up
1:45:43 what are those bushes gonna do and if it
1:45:45 burns where is it going to spread and
1:45:47 I'm sure none of you have wood siding on
1:45:48 your houses place a three to five foot
1:45:52 swath of gravel or stone around the
1:45:53 foundation of your home protect your
1:45:55 home if you have gravel instead of mulch
1:45:57 around your home for three to five feet
1:45:59 you're gonna make a difference prune
1:46:01 branches that overhang or touch the
1:46:03 house take out ladder fuels vegetation
1:46:06 between grass and tree tops that can
1:46:08 carry fire between foliage and
1:46:09 structures so imagine a tree with
1:46:11 branches hanging down to the ground and
1:46:12 maybe I don't know six inches of grass
1:46:14 dry grass if the fire starts on the
1:46:17 grass and the branch is touching it it
1:46:18 can now go up the tree climbs a ladder
1:46:20 if you take the branches out or you or
1:46:22 you trim the grass you no longer have
1:46:24 ladder fuels you're not going to get the
1:46:25 fire extending into the tree the bark is
1:46:28 very resilient to fire all right so it's
1:46:30 not not very easy for the for a fire it
1:46:32 takes quite a fire to climb bark store
1:46:35 flammable materials including cushions
1:46:37 and indoors instead of on porches and
1:46:38 deck use fire resistant construction
1:46:41 materials such as Class A asphalt
1:46:42 shingles metal or concrete on your roof
1:46:44 and then use fire resistant plants and
1:46:48 if you go to our web site at Eastside
1:46:50 Fire and Rescue we have these listed and
1:46:53 we can go through your
1:46:54 but what fire wise the reason I read
1:46:56 those was for the residents that are
1:46:58 here for the councilmembers if we are
1:46:59 going to make a difference in the saqqaq
1:47:01 community when it comes to wildland
1:47:03 preparedness we need to get into the
1:47:06 neighborhoods we need to get into the
1:47:07 community groups they need to attend and
1:47:09 then they physically need to go out to
1:47:12 their houses and make these changes in
1:47:14 order to address it this is not
1:47:16 something a fire department can provide
1:47:17 for you we can provide the education we
1:47:19 can provide some personnel to address
1:47:22 some of these issues but this is an
1:47:23 education topic and this is something we
1:47:26 have to do
1:47:26 they're now coming into this wildland
1:47:28 fire season we thought it was gonna be a
1:47:29 lot drier on the west side than when it
1:47:31 ended up being thankfully that's the
1:47:33 case and hopefully we have wet seasons
1:47:35 moving forward and we won't have to
1:47:36 worry about it but I will say this when
1:47:38 I would I came from Arizona as I noted
1:47:40 earlier I came in three and a half years
1:47:41 ago and the first thing I asked I was in
1:47:43 I'm up here for all the same reasons
1:47:45 everyone else that's beautiful up here I
1:47:47 love it not going anywhere else for the
1:47:49 rest of my life I can say that but
1:47:50 driving through these communities I was
1:47:53 just shocked and I asked I asked my
1:47:55 fellow firefighters said what are we
1:47:57 doing to prepare if this dries out it's
1:47:59 too wet to burn and the titanic's too
1:48:02 big to sink right I did not like hearing
1:48:05 that when I arrived and I think if we
1:48:07 can do anything there's no reason for
1:48:08 alarmist but what we can do is be
1:48:11 smarter about the way we treat so the
1:48:12 Firewise program which is supported by a
1:48:14 number of agencies I think we can do
1:48:17 more in the Firewise program but efore
1:48:19 can't do that alone
1:48:20 there is a King County Conservation
1:48:22 District that provides fire wise help
1:48:25 but they are there really liaison to
1:48:28 grant dollars once you have established
1:48:29 programs and established community
1:48:33 groups that want to do something so we
1:48:35 have some work to do there I don't know
1:48:37 we're currently working on an internal
1:48:39 strategic plan on what we might be able
1:48:41 to do to work with staff to try to get
1:48:43 something up and running Issaquah but we
1:48:46 have an attention that we need to
1:48:47 address throughout our service area
1:48:49 we've done everything we can do to
1:48:51 prepare from a professional standpoint
1:48:53 on this standpoint and I I can tell you
1:48:56 we have prepared more than any other
1:48:58 fire department in this area and we'll
1:48:59 continue to keep this up this is the
1:49:01 easy stuff the the difficult part will
1:49:04 be engaging in the community and this
1:49:06 won't be a one-year thing this is going
1:49:08 to take years to engage properly in the
1:49:10 community but I'll be happy to answer
1:49:12 any questions or if you have any
1:49:13 suggestions I'll be happy to take those
1:49:14 as well
1:49:15 Thank You chief Kirk questions on
1:49:17 wildland preparedness this one Brad and
1:49:20 you did touch on my question which was
1:49:23 regarding the king conservation district
1:49:25 so I serve on the advisory board for the
1:49:27 King Conservation District and I I would
1:49:30 just like to make sure that to the
1:49:32 extent possible we do partner with them
1:49:35 there's a lot of interest in our
1:49:36 community and making sure that we are
1:49:39 prepared for fires and they have
1:49:41 previously engaged in that education
1:49:44 program for homeowners so I did have the
1:49:48 question about the status of that from
1:49:50 your perspective and I would like to
1:49:52 continue to work with them so then we
1:49:55 can make sure everybody is prepared for
1:49:57 we did have them engaged with the
1:49:59 community group that was going to meet
1:50:02 but then the community group decided
1:50:03 that they didn't want to have a meeting
1:50:05 so but we do we do have them on the
1:50:08 phone and we will be sure that anything
1:50:10 that we go to that they're a part of we
1:50:12 do think they can bring a lot of
1:50:13 resources to help us out thank you other
1:50:16 questions on well the wildly and
1:50:18 Preparedness president Mart's can you
1:50:21 talk to them really about how if people
1:50:24 in the community hear this presentation
1:50:26 mm-hm and they think oh yeah I'm pretty
1:50:30 close to some open space whatnot how do
1:50:33 they go about engaging you say you have
1:50:37 a battalion chief who's leaving the
1:50:38 Firewise program efforts what's the
1:50:40 right mechanism for a community or a
1:50:44 group of individuals to engage with on
1:50:48 fire West yeah thank you we all they
1:50:51 need to do is call Eastside Fire and
1:50:52 Rescue the easiest thing is to go to our
1:50:53 website contact us either by email or
1:50:56 phone call we will have someone get back
1:50:58 in touch with them go out to their to
1:51:01 their community meet with them and what
1:51:03 we're going to encourage them to do is
1:51:04 put together a community meeting if we
1:51:06 have any in Issaquah the develop will
1:51:09 certainly let you know so that if any of
1:51:11 you want to be present or if it's in
1:51:12 your area we would love to have your
1:51:14 leadership there we think that's
1:51:16 something that will help help make it go
1:51:19 any other council member questions on
1:51:23 wildland preparedness any other
1:51:25 questions at all for the chief you've
1:51:28 Clarke go ahead and thank you for coming
1:51:30 in tonight that was a very good
1:51:32 presentation on what's a very
1:51:34 complicated topic and also a timely one
1:51:36 with the wildland preparedness so thank
1:51:38 you very much all right thank you next
1:51:41 item on our agenda this evening is the
1:51:43 consent calendar and the consent
1:51:45 calendar was distributed to council in
1:51:47 advance and they've authorized the
1:51:48 items on the consent calendar will be
1:51:50 considered together and approved in one
1:51:53 motion have the payables and payroll
1:51:56 been reviewed
1:51:57 they have thank you there's any
1:52:00 councilmember desire to remove any item
1:52:02 from the consent calendar placed it
1:52:03 under regular business I would
1:52:06 that's member interesting you would yes
1:52:09 item G they attended bill 7602 I see
1:52:13 Jeff Clark just stepped outside the room
1:52:15 too it has to do with the establish a
1:52:17 park bench donation program Jeff Watling
1:52:23 it will move that one down and it will
1:52:27 come as item C under regular business
1:52:40 any other items council president Mertz
1:52:43 okay thank you would anyone care to make
1:52:46 a motion and I would like to do thank
1:52:48 I move we adopt a consent calendar is
1:52:50 listed in tonight's meeting agenda and
1:52:52 subsequently amended second all those in
1:52:56 favor of moving the a day and item down
1:52:58 and improving the amended agenda say aye
1:53:01 fine it was opposed thank you that
1:53:03 carries unanimously
1:53:04 the first item under regular business is
1:53:07 a b7 8 to 3 intent to adopt a sales and
1:53:10 use tax for affordable housing this is
1:53:13 the first time this item is before
1:53:14 council and Jean Paul our management
1:53:17 analyst is going to make a presentation
1:53:24 good evening I'm jean-paul management
1:53:27 analysts in the executive office I'll be
1:53:29 presenting on new funding available for
1:53:30 affordable housing there are two primary
1:53:35 reasons for the presentation tonight
1:53:36 first I'd like to provide information on
1:53:39 a new state law from the 2019
1:53:40 legislative session and second the
1:53:42 administration's requesting council
1:53:44 action for the approval of the proposed
1:53:46 resolution in your packet for this
1:53:47 meeting before getting into greater
1:53:52 detail on the background I would like to
1:53:54 provide some context for how the
1:53:55 resolution fits into the overall process
1:53:57 the new law encourages investment in
1:54:00 affordable housing by sharing a portion
1:54:02 of the state sales tax revenue with
1:54:04 local governments there are two steps
1:54:06 required to obtain the shared revenue
1:54:07 the first is to adopt a resolution
1:54:10 declaring your intent to pass future
1:54:12 legislation that is a request for this
1:54:15 meeting while actually passing the
1:54:17 legislation and deciding how to allocate
1:54:19 the funds will come in the future the
1:54:21 only action we are requesting tonight is
1:54:23 to express your intent to adopt future
1:54:25 legislation getting into a little more
1:54:30 detail on the background the state
1:54:32 legislature passed a substitute House
1:54:34 bill 1406 on April 28 2019 as previously
1:54:38 mentioned the law encourages local
1:54:41 governments to invest in affordable
1:54:42 housing and supportive housing by
1:54:44 providing new the potentially confusing
1:54:47 mechanism for local governments to
1:54:48 obtain their share of the state's
1:54:50 revenue is to adopt a sales tax but to
1:54:53 be clear in spite of the mechanism this
1:54:55 is a tax credit that comes from the
1:54:57 state's portion of the existing tax rate
1:54:59 there is no additional tax for consumers
1:55:02 finally the law making this funding
1:55:04 available for 20-year the law makes this
1:55:07 funding available for 20 years after our
1:55:09 local government begins participating
1:55:12 there are two increments for the amount
1:55:15 of shared revenue available to local
1:55:16 governments the first increment is 0.007
1:55:20 3 percent of the amount of taxable
1:55:23 retail sales within a jurisdiction the
1:55:26 second increment is an additional 0.007
1:55:29 3 percent for a total of 0.01 for 6
1:55:33 percent of the retail sales within a
1:55:34 jurisdiction the specific amount of
1:55:37 revenue
1:55:38 available for any jurisdiction is based
1:55:39 upon three factors a city's decision to
1:55:42 participate in the program whether that
1:55:45 city has adopted a qualifying local tax
1:55:47 and the county's decision to participate
1:55:49 in the program for this program having a
1:55:54 qualifying local tax is the only way a
1:55:56 city can receive the full 0.01 for six
1:56:00 percent of shared revenue there are four
1:56:02 qualifying local taxes an affordable
1:56:05 housing levy a sales tax for affordable
1:56:07 housing a sales tax for chemical
1:56:09 dependency and mental health services or
1:56:11 a property levy lid lift solely
1:56:14 dedicated to affordable housing all of
1:56:17 these taxes require voter voter approval
1:56:19 before July 30 2020 in order to be
1:56:22 considered qualifying according to the
1:56:25 municipal research and services Center
1:56:27 only six cities in the state have
1:56:29 implemented one of these qualifying
1:56:30 local taxes Seattle is the only city
1:56:33 with in King County that has done so
1:56:34 it's important to note that passing a
1:56:36 resolution of intent tonight is
1:56:38 independent of any decision on a
1:56:40 qualifying local tax as the graphic
1:56:44 indicates with the red box without a
1:56:46 qualifying local tax the city would be
1:56:49 eligible for 0.007 3 percent of taxable
1:56:53 retail sales after adopting a future
1:56:55 ordinance King County would be eligible
1:56:57 to receive the second increment of
1:56:59 shared revenue notably there is a use it
1:57:02 or lose a component to the shared
1:57:04 revenue if the city does not participate
1:57:06 in this program King County is eligible
1:57:08 to receive the city share and the city
1:57:10 would have decreased control over how
1:57:12 the county allocates revenues collected
1:57:14 in this o'clock besides setting the
1:57:19 percentages of shared revenue the law
1:57:21 also defines the maximum amount to be
1:57:23 shared the maximum is based upon data
1:57:25 from the 2019 state fiscal year which
1:57:28 ran from July 1 2018 to June 30 2019
1:57:32 because the entirety of that sales tax
1:57:34 data has not yet available the 2018
1:57:36 annual sales tax from January to
1:57:38 December 2018 provides the closest
1:57:40 estimate of maximum revenue using the
1:57:44 2018 data and the 0.007 3% increment the
1:57:48 maximum annual revenue for the city
1:57:50 would be 122
1:57:52 $725 this is the annual cap and not a
1:57:56 guarantee of revenue the city would
1:57:58 receive its share of the sales tax
1:58:00 revenue up to the cap
1:58:01 so if total sales are under the 2019
1:58:03 amounts then so too would the revenue
1:58:05 collected for cities with a population
1:58:10 under 100,000 residents the revenue from
1:58:13 this credit must be used for acquiring
1:58:16 rehabilitating or constructing
1:58:18 affordable housing which may include new
1:58:20 new units within an existing structure
1:58:22 or facilities providing supportive
1:58:25 housing services funding the operations
1:58:28 and maintenance of new units of
1:58:30 affordable or supportive housing or
1:58:32 providing rental assistance to tenants
1:58:35 first question every winter saying thank
1:58:38 you the first bullet rehabilitating does
1:58:43 that include is that preservation so
1:58:47 it's one thing there is naturally
1:58:49 affordable naturally market-driven
1:58:52 affordable housing today not a lot of it
1:58:56 but it exists losing that is one of the
1:59:02 challenges that we have here people
1:59:04 might tear down rebuild something more
1:59:07 that they're more interested in
1:59:09 preservation is a key strategy and I
1:59:12 think we even call for that in our own
1:59:14 affordable housing strategy it's one of
1:59:17 ours it's one of its one of the tools
1:59:19 and these funds be used for preservation
1:59:24 is that what rehabilitating is referring
1:59:27 to I'm not 100% certain but I'd be happy
1:59:31 to look into it and get back to you
1:59:35 questions
1:59:45 regardless of population size the
1:59:47 revenue may only be used to provide
1:59:49 housing and services to persons whose
1:59:51 income is at or below sixty percent of
1:59:53 the median income of the county or city
1:59:55 imposing the tax based on data from the
1:59:57 US Department of Housing and Urban
1:59:59 Development for the Seattle Bellevue
2:00:01 metro area sixty percent of the area
2:00:03 median income or ami is just over
2:00:06 sixty-five thousand dollars for a family
2:00:08 of four people the law states that
2:00:14 revenue can be used to finance loans or
2:00:16 grants to nonprofit organizations or
2:00:18 public housing authorities issued
2:00:20 general obligation or revenue bonds with
2:00:22 revenue pledged for bond repayment or
2:00:24 pool resources with other local
2:00:27 governments or housing authorities as
2:00:28 part of an interlocal agreement such as
2:00:30 a regional coalition browsing or arch
2:00:37 the regional affordable housing task
2:00:39 force formed by King County Seattle and
2:00:42 the sound cities Association issued a
2:00:44 series of recommendations as it
2:00:46 concluded its work in December 2018
2:00:48 a new affordable housing committee of
2:00:51 the growth management planning Council
2:00:53 has formed to implement the
2:00:54 recommendations of that task force King
2:00:57 County councilmember claudia Balducci
2:00:59 chair of that committee has written the
2:01:01 mayors of all king county cities to
2:01:03 share the recommendations of the
2:01:05 affordable housing committee one of the
2:01:07 primary recommendations is to pool money
2:01:09 to maximize its impact as previewed in
2:01:13 the August 5th 2019 memo to council the
2:01:15 administration will be proposing in the
2:01:17 2020 preliminary budget to contribute
2:01:20 the shared sales tax revenue to arch the
2:01:22 contribution of approximately one
2:01:24 hundred twenty two thousand dollars will
2:01:25 be broken down in two parts
2:01:27 roughly twenty-five thousand will
2:01:29 supplement the current arch
2:01:30 administrative fee to support the two to
2:01:32 three expected new full-time employees
2:01:34 to increase the administrative and
2:01:36 oversight capabilities of arch programs
2:01:39 the second part of the contribution will
2:01:41 be an increase of roughly ninety seven
2:01:43 thousand dollars to the Housing Trust
2:01:44 Fund the Housing Trust Fund is used to
2:01:47 construct and preserve affordable
2:01:48 housing while arch funding can be used
2:01:51 for housing that supports individuals up
2:01:53 to eighty percent of the area median
2:01:55 income the vast majority of funding goes
2:01:58 to individuals at
2:01:59 80% or below arch is also capable of
2:02:02 complying with the 60% meeting income
2:02:04 requirements of this law as they often
2:02:06 have projects with specific accounting
2:02:08 requirements these numbers are provided
2:02:11 for informational purposes only the
2:02:13 actual allocation decisions will be made
2:02:15 during budget deliberations and are not
2:02:17 required in order to adopt the
2:02:19 resolution tonight to review the
2:02:24 timeline and next steps the first step
2:02:26 is to adopt the resolution of intent the
2:02:28 administration is requesting that action
2:02:30 tonight but the deadline for this action
2:02:32 is January 27 2020 the second step is to
2:02:36 adopt the legislation the deadline for
2:02:38 that action is July 2020 and the
2:02:40 administration expects to present this
2:02:42 to you in the first quarter of 2020 that
2:02:47 concludes my presentation are there any
2:02:49 questions Thank You Jane
2:02:51 questions that's Marvin um you did I had
2:02:57 sent my questions that I think you did
2:02:58 answer them in the Kris your
2:02:59 presentation but I had a question about
2:03:02 how giving money to the arch
2:03:06 administration fee would comply with the
2:03:10 sixty percent and under a my requirement
2:03:13 for this funding because they do have
2:03:15 some projects that are above sixty
2:03:17 percent and they are more broadly they
2:03:20 have a more broad mandate as far as I
2:03:23 understand it then what's required
2:03:24 specifically for the spending so I think
2:03:29 that based on your explanation is
2:03:31 possible that this funding can be used
2:03:35 for that but I would also later on like
2:03:38 to have a more comprehensive discussion
2:03:40 about what this funding could be used
2:03:42 for outside of for example the
2:03:45 administrative fee for art thank you
2:03:48 thank you other questions anybody care
2:03:54 to make a motion yes madam mayor I move
2:04:00 we approve resolution number 2019 dash
2:04:04 11 declaring the council's intent to
2:04:07 adopt legislation which would authorize
2:04:08 the sales and use tax for affordable and
2:04:11 support
2:04:11 housing in accordance with substitute
2:04:13 House bill 1 for 0-6 from the 2019 state
2:04:17 legislative session second it's been
2:04:21 moved and seconded is there any
2:04:23 questions any discussion
2:04:25 what's the president marts I just want
2:04:28 to make sure that I understand this
2:04:29 correctly this isn't something that
2:04:33 anybody in the public would experience
2:04:36 as a new tax this is a tax that already
2:04:39 exists that the money is sent to Olympia
2:04:42 and we have the opportunity to redirect
2:04:45 some of that money to local housing
2:04:47 efforts is that correct you are correct
2:04:49 okay great thank you thank you for the
2:04:52 clarification any other discussion it
2:04:55 has been moved and seconded so if there
2:04:57 is no further discussion motion is to
2:05:00 approve resolution number 2019 11
2:05:03 declaring the council's intent to adopt
2:05:05 legislation which would authorize a
2:05:07 sales and use tax for affordable and
2:05:10 supportive housing in accordance with
2:05:11 substitute House bill 1406 from the 2019
2:05:15 state legislative session please signify
2:05:17 by saying aye aye opposed thank you that
2:05:21 carries unanimously
2:05:22 thank you very much Jeanne next item
2:05:25 under regular business is a B 783 for
2:05:28 Gilman ditch restoration project this
2:05:31 item is also having its first time
2:05:33 before council and I'd like to ask
2:05:35 Harvey Walker manager of storm and sewer
2:05:37 operations to make a presentation
2:05:38 good evening Harvey good evening
2:05:53 okay yeah good evening as the mayor said
2:05:56 I'm Harvey Walker his akua's public
2:05:59 works stormwater Operations Manager
2:06:01 that's if I can stand here I'm here to
2:06:04 talk about the maintenance needs of the
2:06:06 Gilman ditch the purpose of this
2:06:12 presentation is to give you some
2:06:14 information about how this project came
2:06:15 about and to authorize funding and bid
2:06:19 award first we need to cover some
2:06:21 background information on the Gilman
2:06:23 ditch Gilman ditch is part of tributary
2:06:33 old one 700 and it originates from
2:06:35 wetland behind the King County shop so
2:06:39 let's see if I can it's a king county
2:06:40 library facility let me see here down
2:06:47 here off of Newport way it travels east
2:06:50 and an open ditch along a trail kind of
2:06:52 behind Safeway in the Commons and then
2:06:54 it goes north along 7th Avenue where'd
2:06:59 my mouse go there it is okay so we go
2:07:02 north along 7th Avenue Northwest and
2:07:04 then we follows Gilman Boulevard as an
2:07:08 open ditch and then goes under i-90
2:07:11 through the state park because it goes
2:07:13 Northwest and empties into Tibbets Creek
2:07:15 the Gilman ditch the section circled in
2:07:18 red on this map that is from 7th Avenue
2:07:23 Northwest to 975 Gilman Boulevard and
2:07:26 that's where the Petco and Ross and
2:07:30 Trader Joe's the entrance to that
2:07:32 driveway
2:07:38 so this map was developed in 2015 when
2:07:42 the city discovered that maintenance of
2:07:44 the ditch was needed a survey of the
2:07:46 ditch was conducted and determined that
2:07:49 the sediment had built up to an average
2:07:50 of two feet maintenance of the Gilman
2:07:53 ditch is a responsibility of the
2:07:55 property owners of his comments per
2:07:57 resolution 88 - 1 which is a part of the
2:08:00 development agreement of the property
2:08:02 the city informed Issaquah Commons and
2:08:05 Madison Marquette Marquette which is the
2:08:08 Commons property management company of
2:08:09 the situation by sending a letter in
2:08:12 2016 in May of 2016 the date set for the
2:08:17 maintenance to be completed during the
2:08:20 summer of 2016
2:08:22 excuse me let me read that again dates
2:08:24 were said for the maintenance to be
2:08:26 completed during the summer of 2016 the
2:08:30 property owners did not meet the
2:08:31 deadlines established by the city the
2:08:34 window to work in a tributary is short
2:08:36 due to the environmental restrictions
2:08:37 the city decided to move forward with
2:08:40 emergency remedial maintenance in the
2:08:42 fall of 2016 for flood mitigation the
2:08:46 48-inch culverts under the roadway and
2:08:49 driveways were reduced to approximately
2:08:51 50% of the capacity so city crews clean
2:08:55 the culverts and then 20 feet on each
2:08:56 end of the culverts a city in voice'
2:08:59 Commons am as Madison Marquette roughly
2:09:03 $37,000 for this work which remains
2:09:06 unpaid so more work is needed the
2:09:16 remainder of the sediment must be
2:09:18 removed to restore the conveyance
2:09:20 capacity of the ditch the next few
2:09:23 slides are representative of the current
2:09:25 condition of the Gilman ditch as you can
2:09:27 see the culverts are holding water and
2:09:31 due to the sediment level and flow
2:09:34 continues to be restricted so this is
2:09:37 segment one and these are the culverts
2:09:41 they're 48 inch diameter culverts and
2:09:44 about half full here on each end of that
2:09:47 segment
2:09:50 segment two is in similar condition
2:09:53 culverts are half full of water and
2:09:55 sediment is holding back flow a similar
2:10:02 situation in segment three
2:10:10 and segment poor is in a little better
2:10:15 shape this this is a result of the the
2:10:17 maintenance that the city crews did in
2:10:19 2016 the culverts were cleaned and it's
2:10:22 a real short section of ditch and most
2:10:24 of the sediment was removed at that time
2:10:25 from this section so in segment 2 there
2:10:34 is a row of apple trees they're very
2:10:37 tightly spaced and for the equipment to
2:10:39 actually access the ditch up to six
2:10:42 trees may need to be removed
2:10:44 I met with representatives from Parks
2:10:47 Department on site and the consensus is
2:10:49 that the remaining trees would benefit
2:10:51 from improved air flow and more access
2:10:54 to sunlight by increased separation
2:10:56 stream restoration projects require
2:10:59 enhancements to the riparian zone along
2:11:01 the channel to improve habitat and water
2:11:04 quality the Western hemlock the permit
2:11:08 for this project includes planning 50
2:11:10 trees vine maple Western hemlock along
2:11:13 with live staking zuv Sitka and dwarf
2:11:15 Pacific willow and dwarf red twig
2:11:17 dogwood and then adjacent to the water
2:11:20 sluice edges will be clumped together at
2:11:22 5 foot spacings so there's a significant
2:11:25 number of plants that go along with this
2:11:26 project so if the funding request and
2:11:34 bid award were granted tonight the court
2:11:38 contractors would have until September
2:11:40 30th to complete the sediment removal
2:11:42 and any in water work plantings and
2:11:45 restoration would be complete by
2:11:46 November 30th of this year
2:11:54 this project is currently not budgeted
2:11:56 because the city was hopeful there's a
2:11:59 comments would fulfill their maintenance
2:12:00 obligations per resolution 88 - 1 and
2:12:05 restore the conveyance capacity of the
2:12:07 Gilman ditch this year approximately
2:12:11 1,000 feet the Gilman ditch needs to be
2:12:13 cleaned to restore the design conveyance
2:12:15 capacity and minimize the chances of
2:12:17 flooding during a large rain event
2:12:19 tonight we're asking for project funding
2:12:23 in the amount of $230,000 and a bit
2:12:25 award of two hundred eight thousand the
2:12:28 difference between those numbers is the
2:12:30 contingency are there any questions
2:12:33 Thank You Harvey are there any questions
2:12:41 question for the clerk what is the
2:12:46 appropriate time if a council member
2:12:47 wished to start a discussion on a
2:12:51 potential additional motion at what time
2:12:53 would that happen that can occur now
2:12:57 okay sorry I do have I have questions
2:13:00 okay so let's go to questions first
2:13:01 Thanks so I did have a question about
2:13:04 how how often we would have to do this
2:13:08 sort of work and if we are expecting
2:13:11 that we would need to do the work again
2:13:12 there was work that was done previously
2:13:15 as well yes
2:13:17 well ideally the Commons would resume
2:13:21 maintenance responsibility for this and
2:13:22 that would depend on the weather how
2:13:26 often we get these large rain events or
2:13:27 how much pollution and sediment travels
2:13:31 down the stream so it would really be on
2:13:33 a monitoring basis and need to be
2:13:35 monitored annually so it's it's hard to
2:13:38 tell it's been a long time since
2:13:40 maintenance was conducted for it to get
2:13:42 this bad have you did talk about
2:13:45 maintenance on one section but not all
2:13:47 sections so three of those sections have
2:13:49 not been maintained for 20 years well
2:13:52 I'm not certain it was 1988 when the
2:13:56 resolution when the property was
2:13:57 developed I'm not I'm unaware of any
2:14:00 maintenance and done to the ditch
2:14:02 since then okay you had a second
2:14:04 question
2:14:05 council member hunt well I think you did
2:14:08 touch on it but just to clarify about
2:14:10 the replacement of apple trees and why
2:14:12 they're being replaced with the
2:14:14 difference or why they are not being
2:14:16 released yeah the apple trees in
2:14:19 addition to just being crowded and they
2:14:24 you know the other trees may benefit the
2:14:26 Gilman corridor plan is also
2:14:30 recommending that the vegetation or
2:14:32 edible landscape be removed along the
2:14:34 right away so and in a future years
2:14:38 there are plans to provide edible
2:14:40 landscape in another location for Parks
2:14:43 Department would maintain it okay and
2:14:46 question for deputy and for interim
2:14:50 administrator Schneider is that plan
2:14:54 adopted it is not it is still something
2:14:58 that's in progress so I think what
2:15:00 Harvey is referring to is that so far is
2:15:04 contemplated in the plan there's been a
2:15:06 recommendation for example from the
2:15:08 parks board to relocate that abble
2:15:11 landscape but council has not yet
2:15:13 discussed this or or adopted this plan
2:15:18 so it's something that is still in
2:15:19 development you any other questions
2:15:24 councilmember winter Stein concerning
2:15:26 those apple trees there to rehabilitate
2:15:30 a stream or ditch whatever you want to
2:15:32 call it are those existing fruit trees
2:15:37 in the buffer no when I walked this the
2:15:42 channel with Department of Fish and
2:15:45 Wildlife representative and and he he
2:15:47 didn't he wasn't not concerned about the
2:15:49 apple trees as being important to the
2:15:52 stream and and thought that the planting
2:15:54 plan more than made up for any trees we
2:15:56 were going to remove okay so it's simply
2:16:00 for the unable to I think you said
2:16:05 earlier these they get the equipment in
2:16:07 do what you have to do they're in the
2:16:09 way it's not about the status of the
2:16:13 buffer when the work is complete it's
2:16:17 that they can't be there it's just there
2:16:19 in the way to do the work correct yeah
2:16:21 they certainly could be replaced I would
2:16:24 have to consult with the parks
2:16:26 department to see if it was a good area
2:16:28 form or if we could put him somewhere
2:16:30 else you know something like that but
2:16:31 but as far as the Fish and Wildlife
2:16:33 Department efficient wildlife were
2:16:35 concerned that they had no opinion and
2:16:37 whether the trees
2:16:40 deputy council president ease so I would
2:16:44 I would assume that the planting of the
2:16:46 the planning around the new trees being
2:16:49 planted would allow spaces for equipment
2:16:53 to come in if we needed to do or they
2:16:56 needed to do maintenance in the future
2:16:59 well there probably would be some
2:17:03 sacrificial you know plants that would
2:17:05 have to come out if we had to do it but
2:17:07 the larger trees are spaced a 50-foot
2:17:09 apart so as long as well as the fine
2:17:13 maples the Western hemlock and fine
2:17:15 maples are 50 foot spacing so there
2:17:17 would be room to work in between those
2:17:18 okay okay that's what I thought
2:17:20 thank you yeah any other questions so
2:17:24 i'm i wanted to thank councilmember hunt
2:17:27 for emailing in and talking about a
2:17:30 potential additional motion that she
2:17:32 would like the council to consider it is
2:17:34 related to this project work and it is a
2:17:37 different motion than the one that's in
2:17:38 the a b however it's very important to
2:17:41 her to have the vote occur in this order
2:17:43 so let her provide some commentary to
2:17:46 the rest of the council okay so i will
2:17:48 go ahead and make the motion and the
2:17:50 motion is move to direct the
2:17:52 administration to replace street trees
2:17:54 with in-kind street trees and the event
2:17:56 the street trees are removed during the
2:17:58 Gilman ditch restoration project is
2:18:01 there a second second second you didn't
2:18:05 second did council member hunt do you
2:18:08 want to yeah pass that down and then
2:18:10 maybe start off with some comments on
2:18:12 why you were making this mission
2:18:14 okay thank you I'm making this motion
2:18:17 because I think that the restoration
2:18:20 work that's outlined here is justified
2:18:23 and reasonable and I think it's been
2:18:25 made clear why we need to do this
2:18:29 restoration work however I don't see the
2:18:33 reason for removing Street trees and
2:18:36 violating our street tree replacement
2:18:39 policy as far as I understand it which
2:18:41 is that if we are removing street trees
2:18:43 that we replace them with in kind Street
2:18:45 trees just as we would request that a
2:18:48 property owner that is removing trees
2:18:50 also do that and so I think that as if
2:18:54 we as the city are removing trees to
2:18:57 access this area we should go ahead and
2:19:00 replace them and I think they should be
2:19:02 replaced in kind and I am also concerns
2:19:10 that the current bill before us which
2:19:14 has to do with the Gilman debt
2:19:15 restoration which is along one part of
2:19:17 Gilman this really is at the time that
2:19:20 we're considering a corridor plan for
2:19:23 all Gilman that is in the works and we
2:19:25 will have a lot more public engagement
2:19:27 around that a lot of our engagement with
2:19:29 the community with the businesses along
2:19:31 Gilman about what they want to see for
2:19:34 that corridor what their visions are for
2:19:36 that corridor but I am very concerned
2:19:38 that we're conflating that with the
2:19:41 ditch restoration because I don't think
2:19:44 that in the process of the stitch
2:19:46 restoration work we should be making a
2:19:48 decision about the Gilman edible
2:19:50 landscape and while this is just one
2:19:52 small portion of the government out of
2:19:53 millions cap I also think it's chipping
2:19:55 away at that Gilman edible landscape and
2:19:59 also there's justifications coming into
2:20:01 this conversation about where it seems
2:20:04 that plan is headed and I don't think
2:20:06 that that's appropriate for this
2:20:07 conversation I think we should have that
2:20:09 conversation separately about the Gilman
2:20:11 edible landscape I personally think that
2:20:14 that it contributes a lot to the
2:20:17 streetscape to the character of the
2:20:18 street and if there is in the future
2:20:22 plans for doing something different with
2:20:24 the streetscape I would want to make
2:20:26 sure that the
2:20:27 he is on board the Gilman edible
2:20:30 landscape is also one of the Issaquah
2:20:31 treasures it's on the treasurer's list
2:20:33 from 1993 which was in resolution 93 15
2:20:36 I think we should make sure that we have
2:20:39 a lot of community community engagement
2:20:41 about the future of that and I don't
2:20:42 think that this bill is the place for
2:20:45 that and I also don't think it's
2:20:46 transparent to be chipping away at that
2:20:48 in the process of a Gilman ditch
2:20:51 restoration project so I'd like to
2:20:53 emulate the sequencing of the motions
2:20:56 you would like us counsel to consider
2:20:59 this first motion because it's important
2:21:01 to you in terms of voting on the project
2:21:03 yes so I leave that also it was not
2:21:08 considered an amendment because I I
2:21:11 consulted with the clerk's they thought
2:21:13 it was not appropriate to have it as the
2:21:14 amendment but rather standalone motion
2:21:17 because it is not the motion is focused
2:21:21 on funding and the the the motion in our
2:21:25 packet is focused on funding and this is
2:21:27 focused on a specific aspect of the
2:21:31 project councilmember Wolf's and deputy
2:21:35 counsel impetus are you indicating you
2:21:37 wanna talk as well yes okay
2:21:38 council member wash so based on the
2:21:41 presentation I believe you said that
2:21:44 there are currently six apple trees
2:21:46 which are they've determined our space
2:21:49 to close for healthy viability I'm
2:21:55 wondering whether this motion then means
2:21:58 that we have to plant six or whether we
2:22:02 can plant three based on the
2:22:04 recommendations of what they're saying
2:22:10 is healthy spacing
2:22:13 I would think if it's not clear in the
2:22:14 motion that there are streetscape
2:22:16 standards for landscaping trees and that
2:22:18 we would be following those so I'm not
2:22:21 sure if that means six or three but it
2:22:23 means that whatever is planted would be
2:22:25 in coordinate in accordance with the
2:22:27 streetscape standards I also would add
2:22:33 that I think at some point it would be
2:22:35 helpful to have an arborist come look
2:22:37 and have a report on the status of these
2:22:39 trees but I've also
2:22:41 I also don't think we have that here and
2:22:44 I think that that's that the argument
2:22:48 about the health of the trees if if it
2:22:52 were that it would be different but this
2:22:53 is that we're removing trees because
2:22:56 we're accessing a certain part of a
2:22:58 ditch and so I think we should in that
2:23:01 case not worry about all these other
2:23:05 things like are the trees healthy or not
2:23:09 healthy I think that we should follow
2:23:11 through with our plan and follow through
2:23:16 with our regular policy and replace the
2:23:17 trees so I'm hearing that it would be
2:23:20 replanted in accordance with this motion
2:23:21 with existing extent Street standards
2:23:23 but it like in in kind trees fruit trees
2:23:27 for fruit trees if you can surprise
2:23:29 empties so it's sort of a long a similar
2:23:33 pathway in we were talking about the
2:23:36 health of the trees but also if we if we
2:23:39 do replant those six trees right where
2:23:42 those trees are and then they need to go
2:23:45 in and do additional work or then we you
2:23:48 know just tearing those trees down again
2:23:50 so my question was around the spacing
2:23:53 and if there's if there's a way that we
2:23:56 could work around that I it just seems
2:24:01 that that would be odd to you know
2:24:05 replace six and then find out that
2:24:06 they've got to go in and do work and
2:24:08 then we're taking the trees out again so
2:24:10 I'm just wondering if there's a there's
2:24:12 a solution for that
2:24:14 that's my Brian um I don't have the I'm
2:24:17 not I don't have the answer to that
2:24:19 specific question but I do think it's
2:24:21 relevant that the as my understanding is
2:24:23 the smaller trees are possible to be
2:24:25 moved removed and moved subsequently so
2:24:30 that might be a possibility with the
2:24:32 smaller trees that are planted somebody
2:24:35 for me do you have the parks director
2:24:37 here if you want he's just waiting to
2:24:41 jump in here Jeff do you want to come in
2:24:44 and talk about the end of the landscape
2:24:45 the proposal to replant some trees in
2:24:50 the edible landscape thank you
2:24:56 hi Jeff Watling Parks and Recreation
2:24:59 Director I don't know that I have
2:25:02 anything to add specifically I think
2:25:05 this is a very intriguing discussion and
2:25:09 and I think we are as the parks
2:25:11 department are ready to they move
2:25:13 forward in whatever direction is deemed
2:25:17 a priority for Council so I don't if
2:25:21 there's a specific question I can answer
2:25:23 I'd be happy to
2:25:24 I think the concern that's being
2:25:27 expressed is that is there some practice
2:25:31 or protocol in place that would allow
2:25:32 these to be planted so in the event that
2:25:35 the edible landscape were to remain a
2:25:37 future maintenance activity wouldn't
2:25:39 take all six out again I think that's
2:25:41 what we're being asked so recognizing
2:25:45 the removal of this really has to do
2:25:48 with access to that ditch yeah I too
2:25:53 would need to look at the specific plans
2:25:55 I know Harvey did have a chance to meet
2:25:58 with our Park operations team I think
2:26:00 asking that specific question on-site
2:26:02 and saying alright assuming there is
2:26:05 future maintenance whether it's by the
2:26:06 private developer or us what's the
2:26:10 frequency of that and what is where is
2:26:13 that access going to be that would be
2:26:15 really helpful information and specific
2:26:17 information to then identify ideally we
2:26:21 would replace these trees in a manner
2:26:23 that would also promote access without
2:26:28 having to remove them and put them back
2:26:31 back in not knowing not gauging how
2:26:34 often that that access would need to be
2:26:43 additional comments or questions council
2:26:45 president Mertz council member we're
2:26:46 intersting so I broadly support council
2:26:53 member hunts efforts to make sure we
2:26:55 don't wind up with fewer trees but I'm a
2:26:57 little confused it's like if you take
2:26:59 out six trees because to access the
2:27:03 ditch six trees are too many and we and
2:27:06 it's not clear to me that we aren't
2:27:07 gonna replace it with six trees that
2:27:09 that isn't what the language calls for
2:27:11 and it seems clear you'd have to remove
2:27:13 them again the next time you went to
2:27:15 service the ditch so I'm confused how
2:27:19 this policy would work you're replanting
2:27:23 well just going forward what how this
2:27:26 property how our trees on this property
2:27:28 would work if six trees are too many to
2:27:31 access to clearly we'll have someone the
2:27:36 property owner someone will have to
2:27:38 access the ditch again at which point
2:27:40 six trees will be too many trees to
2:27:42 access the ditch again enough Harvey a
2:27:45 question you are performing this work on
2:27:48 behalf of a property owner who is not
2:27:50 performing the work and so the city you
2:27:53 did not have a plan for accessing this
2:27:55 ditch because the city was not going to
2:27:56 be performing the maintenance work
2:27:58 typically is there a plan or a method or
2:28:01 a way that the owner who is responsible
2:28:04 for doing the maintenance could access
2:28:05 the stitch from their side of the
2:28:07 property without removing our street
2:28:08 trees to do so possibly I in this area
2:28:15 that that's one option that I I kind of
2:28:17 looked at but without the cooperation of
2:28:19 the Commons
2:28:20 I didn't look they don't consider going
2:28:22 on their property to do this it I think
2:28:25 there was currently a little bit of room
2:28:27 to work there I didn't really explain
2:28:31 how the maintenance is done it's it's
2:28:33 large excavator with a really long reach
2:28:35 so it stays out of the ditch and kind of
2:28:37 reaches all the way down to try to
2:28:38 disturb the least amount of area
2:28:40 possible it's just that with the trees
2:28:42 it can't reach over the tree and still
2:28:45 reach the ditch so it's it's kind of a
2:28:47 simple simple process but a you know um
2:28:51 it's a complicated issue I don't know if
2:28:54 the six trees if there was
2:28:56 further down the corridor where we could
2:28:57 just space the trees a little bit
2:28:59 farther and go a little farther east you
2:29:01 know maybe something simple as that I
2:29:03 don't know I I feel for counsel because
2:29:06 this is awkward we are actually doing
2:29:08 someone else's work and in so doing we
2:29:11 were removing our street trees to do it
2:29:13 and I hear councilmember hunts very
2:29:16 thoughtful comment that we should be
2:29:18 stewards of our own inventory like
2:29:22 everybody else and that we should
2:29:23 replace them but a concern from the
2:29:25 deputy president that they might be
2:29:28 removed again so I I feel for you I
2:29:30 think the best that we can do for you
2:29:32 tonight is to tell you that the city
2:29:34 believes we need to do the work we need
2:29:35 to do it from our side of the road
2:29:37 because of our current condition and
2:29:39 therefore the trees have to come out and
2:29:41 if you would like to put them back in
2:29:44 put them all back in I think you can
2:29:46 specify that or put them back in
2:29:48 according to standards that we have now
2:29:50 that may be different which may mean
2:29:51 trees spaced further apart to allow for
2:29:55 healthy growth to allow for some minimal
2:29:57 access but in the future I would
2:29:59 anticipate that the property owner would
2:30:00 be doing this and would likely be doing
2:30:02 it from their side of the property and
2:30:04 you would not have to deal with this
2:30:05 issue but it's a tough one for tonight
2:30:07 because this is awkward that's I can't
2:30:12 smell Richard saying motion specifically
2:30:14 mentioned Street trees it doesn't say
2:30:16 but their whole conversation is about
2:30:19 these six your intent that by using the
2:30:26 phrase Street trees that is somehow
2:30:28 linked to Co language in the IMC or some
2:30:32 standards that we have and could you
2:30:34 shed a little light on that your choice
2:30:37 of the word Street trees is very
2:30:38 specific I haven't had I can't in real
2:30:42 time kind of do any research on this but
2:30:45 I just want to make sure that we're
2:30:48 actually when we say Street trees and
2:30:50 those six apple trees or whatever they
2:30:52 are we're actually talking about the
2:30:53 same thing so I believe that the
2:30:58 relevant code is
2:31:01 eighteen point twelve point three one
2:31:05 three nine
2:31:07 oh maybe um I read my replacement trees
2:31:12 that's called replace injuries and so my
2:31:18 motion is really getting at that when
2:31:24 this when trees are removed such as the
2:31:28 trees that were removed along front
2:31:30 streets who do the required work the
2:31:32 city I believe should be making effort
2:31:35 to adhere to in a timely fashion adhere
2:31:39 to the plans for planting along those
2:31:42 Street right aways and I think it
2:31:44 contributes to the character of the
2:31:47 street my intent is not to have not to
2:31:53 in any way diminish the restoration work
2:31:59 that has to do with the riparian area
2:32:01 that as as was mentioned this this is
2:32:04 not actually in the buffer of the stream
2:32:07 these are the street trees that's why I
2:32:10 specified that I'm I think that
2:32:14 restoring in terms of planting native
2:32:16 plants in the riparian area and along
2:32:18 the stream is part of our environmental
2:32:22 stewardship best practice I also think
2:32:25 our best practice for street trees is to
2:32:27 replace those street trees and it seems
2:32:30 to me from the project description that
2:32:32 there was an exception being made in
2:32:34 this case and it had to do with this
2:32:36 plan which has not yet been approved in
2:32:37 which we have not yet had a community
2:32:40 conversation about and that didn't seem
2:32:42 appropriate and by plan you mean Gilman
2:32:46 corridor plan the Gilman corridor plan
2:32:48 which is not at issue there right
2:32:50 councilmember Walsh so I respect the
2:32:54 fact that councilmember hunt has brought
2:32:56 this up with the idea that this plan the
2:32:59 Gilman corridor plan has not been
2:33:02 adopted and so I can appreciate that I
2:33:06 do get a little bit of concern now that
2:33:09 I'm looking at that area of code and
2:33:12 thinking of this
2:33:13 emotion saying if a street tree is
2:33:16 removed it needs to be replaced with the
2:33:19 same type because I'm thinking of things
2:33:22 like when we took out the trees on Front
2:33:25 Street in order to replace them we
2:33:30 wouldn't ideas evolve about what is
2:33:34 going to be a healthy tree for the
2:33:38 current environment you know if our
2:33:40 climate change is happening and
2:33:43 temperatures are gonna go up we're gonna
2:33:44 want different trees to be put in so I
2:33:47 would be hesitant to put in something
2:33:52 with that broad of language stating
2:33:56 plainly that any street tree that's
2:33:58 removed needs to be replaced with the
2:34:01 same in-kind type that's a that's a good
2:34:07 point and I think councilmember hunt was
2:34:10 trying to pull apart three different
2:34:13 things that were rolled into that
2:34:15 including the Gillman quarter planned
2:34:17 the edible walk and restoration for a
2:34:19 maintenance projects councilmember how
2:34:22 did you want to respond to that comment
2:34:24 I just add that it does in the motion
2:34:28 specify that this is for the this Gilman
2:34:32 ditch restoration it's not that I'm
2:34:34 trying to make a code change broadly and
2:34:38 it's really trying to adhere to my
2:34:45 understanding of our color would reshape
2:34:47 that I think though I'm not trying to
2:34:49 change the code broadly I'm trying to
2:34:51 actually adhere to the code which in
2:34:53 this case was in my reading made in
2:34:56 except they made an exception my reading
2:34:59 of the code for the specific instance
2:35:01 and I would like to not accept that's my
2:35:03 answer
2:35:04 that's more interesting so I'm reading
2:35:06 the code and I'm not sure that that it's
2:35:08 true Harvey you talked about some of the
2:35:12 planned planting so you talked about
2:35:13 different types of trees cedar a couple
2:35:18 others Craig it's possible I read this
2:35:22 and this is IMC eighteen
2:35:28 12.30 90 which says replacement trees it
2:35:32 doesn't use the word Street trees at all
2:35:33 just says replacement trees it's
2:35:35 entirely possible that the plan right
2:35:37 now even with the trees that you're
2:35:40 adding is completely in compliance with
2:35:45 this part of the IMC well well it's a
2:35:50 question staff so well yeah I'm
2:35:55 understanding the question to be that
2:35:57 planting 50 trees to remove six would be
2:36:00 in compliance with the code I don't have
2:36:03 the code in front of me I don't know it
2:36:06 would be really good to know the answer
2:36:08 to that there is some language in here
2:36:10 about if it's if it's a conifer replaced
2:36:14 with conifer if it's deciduous replaced
2:36:17 with deciduous there I don't I kind of
2:36:19 looked at it real quickly I think
2:36:21 consideration of this it would be really
2:36:23 good to know if the proposal as
2:36:26 presented from from in the tonight's
2:36:29 packet is consistent with this IMC or
2:36:32 not I think that's I'd like some help on
2:36:35 it yeah let me ask the question I'm
2:36:37 gonna look at interim city administrator
2:36:40 Schneider and ask if it makes sense this
2:36:43 evening if this is very germane to how
2:36:46 folks are going to vote whether or not
2:36:47 we can take a break so that you can
2:36:50 provide some sort of interpretation
2:36:52 whether or not it meets code and beyond
2:36:55 that they can decide whether or not they
2:36:57 want to do it that's a different
2:36:58 different question not a break to do
2:37:01 that or you ready I would appreciate a
2:37:03 break thank you hey how about we take a
2:37:05 ten-minute recess Thanks
2:46:41 we are back from our short recess and
2:46:44 I'm glad s interim city administrators
2:46:46 Snyder to respond to the question that
2:46:49 was out there which was if the trees are
2:46:54 not replanted are we within code and
2:46:58 excused or planted a really thin coat so
2:47:00 there are two options Thank You mayor
2:47:03 and thank you for the opportunity to
2:47:04 review of a recess in looking at the
2:47:07 code 18 dot 12.1 3904 replacement trees
2:47:12 we it does not appear that this imc item
2:47:19 addresses anything but really private
2:47:23 development or development so when we
2:47:25 talk about other trees we feel that this
2:47:29 code doesn't really address the issue so
2:47:32 does the current plan meet code that was
2:47:36 one of the questions that counsel had
2:47:37 asked before recess yes we believe that
2:47:40 it does also replacing the trees and
2:47:43 replanting them could also meet code so
2:47:46 it's up for council decision and council
2:47:49 action to direct staff and what you
2:47:50 would like to see any questions on that
2:47:54 interpretation before we go back to
2:47:56 discussion about the motion that's my
2:48:02 friend well is there a different section
2:48:05 of code that is more that would better
2:48:08 address this rather than the part about
2:48:11 development because we would need we
2:48:16 would need some more time to review what
2:48:19 other parts of city code may May more
2:48:23 specifically outline how this should be
2:48:24 handled
2:48:31 okay councilmember winter Stein I heard
2:48:35 your words thank you I'm replaying him
2:48:36 in my mind in my mind you answer two
2:48:40 questions
2:48:41 does the plan as presented me code yes
2:48:44 doing something different would it also
2:48:46 mean code the answer was yes mm-hmm okay
2:48:55 and we are discussing the motion that
2:48:58 has been moved and seconded which is to
2:49:00 have the city replant the trees in kind
2:49:04 any other conversation before we go to
2:49:07 the vote council president Mart's I
2:49:10 think I think this is a bill that on a
2:49:14 different night with more information I
2:49:16 would be able to support but and again I
2:49:18 agree with the fundamental idea that you
2:49:20 have here but just this question I have
2:49:22 it just it seems like these same trees
2:49:24 would have to be ripped out the next
2:49:26 time a a deep cleaning of this ditch
2:49:29 would occur so I'm gonna vote no this
2:49:31 evening deputy counsel precipitous so I
2:49:36 I was wondering about just adding some
2:49:41 language to the to the motion and I'm
2:49:47 not exactly sure of the wording here but
2:49:50 councilmember hunt has moved to direct
2:49:52 the administration to replace any Street
2:49:54 trees removed as a result of this
2:49:56 project for the same type of street tree
2:49:58 and then add the language but taking
2:50:01 spacing for future maintenance work into
2:50:03 consideration so you're proposing
2:50:06 amendment to the motion is there a
2:50:08 second for that proposal second
2:50:11 discussion amending the most do you have
2:50:15 those words written down comes soda it's
2:50:17 just at the end and then it says but
2:50:20 taking spacing for future maintenance
2:50:22 work into consideration thank you I'm
2:50:24 happy to wordsmith those words but my
2:50:28 point in making that amendment is that I
2:50:32 too would like to not see those trees
2:50:35 removed and if those trees need to be
2:50:37 removed because I really do believe that
2:50:39 it's very important that we go forward
2:50:41 with this project and get
2:50:44 work done we are working within a time
2:50:47 line and it sounds like we have to take
2:50:49 those six trees out in order to have
2:50:51 access so I definitely would like to see
2:50:54 them replaced but not just at the cost
2:50:57 of we plant for two years and we don't
2:50:59 seem to have a great answer about
2:51:01 whether those could then be you know
2:51:04 taken up and and perhaps moved and then
2:51:07 put back we don't we don't have a clear
2:51:10 answer to that so I would hate to see
2:51:11 them plant it again and then torn out so
2:51:14 if we could just take some spacing
2:51:16 within the code into consideration in
2:51:19 case we had to go back and do future
2:51:21 maintenance work but you know it's kind
2:51:24 of do our best to get those six trees
2:51:26 back but take the the spacing into
2:51:29 consideration comments discussion that's
2:51:34 member hunt I'm in support and I
2:51:37 recognize the necessity of the work and
2:51:40 the necessity of getting the equipment
2:51:43 into the area and so I would support
2:51:47 this amendment any other comments or
2:51:50 discussion that's Mary Walsh
2:51:53 that's president all right kind of
2:51:56 interesting I think that gets me to the
2:51:59 point and it allows us to have two
2:52:02 conversations about whether or not we
2:52:04 should have fruit trees on our streets
2:52:08 to the appropriate time and so I'm in
2:52:12 support I like them against my house
2:52:15 president Mertz I'm gonna support the
2:52:17 amendment and I support the main measure
2:52:19 if the amendment passes that's why we're
2:52:21 interesting I'll make comments after we
2:52:24 move vote on the amendment okay so what
2:52:28 we have on the table right now is an
2:52:29 amendment to the motion and you're ready
2:52:31 to go ahead with the vote that's correct
2:52:33 okay so the amendment to the motion is
2:52:36 to take the original motion and add to
2:52:40 it taking spacing for future maintenance
2:52:43 access into consideration is there any
2:52:47 additional comments on that all those in
2:52:50 favor of the amendment to the motion say
2:52:52 aye aye
2:52:53 opposed that carries unanimously the
2:52:56 motion is now I moved to directly
2:52:58 admitted erected ministration to replace
2:53:00 Street trees with in kind Street trees
2:53:03 in the event that Street trees are
2:53:04 removed during the Gilman ditch
2:53:06 restoration project taking spacing for
2:53:09 future maintenance access into
2:53:10 consideration
2:53:11 it's been moved in seconded discussion
2:53:13 councilmember weirdest thing I'm
2:53:17 satisfied that the plan has originally
2:53:19 proposed and the restoration work and
2:53:22 the planning of trees would have
2:53:23 resulted in something someone to look at
2:53:25 say you know what that kind of fits the
2:53:26 character you've done you've restored
2:53:28 this properly without knowing more
2:53:31 details I've seen the kind of work that
2:53:33 you've done before I've known this it we
2:53:34 have a track record of doing that not
2:53:37 when we go in and disturb something we
2:53:39 do some type of restoration work what
2:53:41 gets replanted I think that would be
2:53:43 fine I'm gonna support this because I
2:53:46 agree with the contention I don't want
2:53:48 to presuppose the outcome of what we're
2:53:50 gonna do with the we call these free
2:53:56 Mirabal landscape so that is a
2:53:59 discussion that has not been settled
2:54:01 let's not presuppose an output at this
2:54:05 point conclusion at this point so that's
2:54:10 why I'm gonna support it thank you any
2:54:12 other comments before we go to the vote
2:54:13 on the main motion seeing none move to
2:54:18 direct the administration to replace
2:54:19 Street trees with in kind Street trees
2:54:21 in the event that Street trees are
2:54:22 removed during the Gilman ditch
2:54:24 restoration project taking spacing for
2:54:27 future maintenance access into
2:54:28 consideration all those in favor say aye
2:54:31 opposed that carries unanimously
2:54:34 there is another motion sorry I moved to
2:54:43 dry I moved to direct the finance
2:54:47 director to include funding in the
2:54:49 amount of twenty three two hundred
2:54:51 thirty thousand dollars for the Gilman
2:54:53 ditch restoration project in a
2:54:55 subsequent 2019 budget amendment
2:54:57 utilizing the stormwater fund and award
2:55:00 the construction contract for the Gilman
2:55:02 ditch restoration project to a court
2:55:03 contractors LLC in the
2:55:06 of 200 8100 $11.20 including sales tax
2:55:11 second it's been moved in second it is
2:55:13 there any discussion that's more
2:55:15 interesting I appreciate the fact that
2:55:17 you're on the ball on this this is
2:55:18 something has to be done and it's
2:55:22 unfortunate that our original resolution
2:55:26 hasn't borne fruit
2:55:29 but but I'm gonna support this I'm very
2:55:36 grateful that we happen to have the cash
2:55:39 around that we can do something like
2:55:40 this it's the right thing to do I think
2:55:42 it's consistent with who we are as a
2:55:46 city in both our obligations to property
2:55:50 owners residents guests visitors to the
2:55:54 city it's the right thing also you know
2:55:58 for the environment it is a ditch and
2:56:02 part of it along 7th is now underground
2:56:04 along because we did that a couple years
2:56:07 ago when you approve the Atlas
2:56:10 development but I'm going to prove this
2:56:13 or vote in favor of this this evening
2:56:17 and I'm hoping that wherever we go from
2:56:20 here that you know we can get a good
2:56:26 resolution to the open question thank
2:56:29 you that's my rush so I too appreciate
2:56:32 that we have proactively
2:56:34 taken this on when we have seen a
2:56:36 problem with them our city I would like
2:56:41 to make sure that we are not blaming any
2:56:46 future responsibilities or this which is
2:56:52 on which is an area that is within a
2:56:56 development agreement with a property
2:56:59 owner who should maintain their their
2:57:04 commitment and so I want to make sure
2:57:07 that I'm it doing this work we are not
2:57:11 saying and we take responsibility going
2:57:15 forward because that is not what this
2:57:17 states to me
2:57:19 this is a one time we're protecting our
2:57:22 city from flooding and only because we
2:57:28 have to mm-hmm thank you
2:57:31 any other comments and we will call for
2:57:36 the vote the motion is to direct the
2:57:38 finance director to include funding in
2:57:40 the amount of two hundred and thirty
2:57:41 thousand dollars for the Gilman ditch
2:57:43 restoration project in a subsequent 2019
2:57:47 budget amendment
2:57:48 utilizing the stormwater fund and award
2:57:50 the construction contract for the Gilman
2:57:52 ditch restoration project to Accord
2:57:54 contractors LLC in the amount of 208
2:57:57 thousand one hundred $11.20
2:58:00 including sales tax all those in favor
2:58:02 say aye those carries unanimously thank
2:58:06 you coming off of consent agenda a b7
2:58:09 602 was moved down to regular business
2:58:13 and we have director Watling here from
2:58:18 Parks and Recreation if you can give us
2:58:22 a quick intro to this we will let the
2:58:27 councilmembers talk about it absolutely
2:58:30 thank you yeah Geoff Watling Parks and
2:58:32 Recreation Director yeah this motion
2:58:36 before you as we discussed earlier in
2:58:40 July is a a program that we've been
2:58:43 looking at and modeled it off of a
2:58:47 number of neighboring cities that seeks
2:58:51 an opportunity for interested donors to
2:58:54 purchase a bench to help us add those
2:58:59 amenities to our parks and trail system
2:59:01 the park strategic plan really actually
2:59:05 identified a lot of the feedback we
2:59:07 heard as we were doing engagement with
2:59:10 the park strategic plan was a need for
2:59:12 more amenities within our parks
2:59:15 themselves and within our trail system
2:59:18 again modeling a bench donation program
2:59:22 off of other jurisdictions we found this
2:59:24 as an opportunity maybe not to purchase
2:59:27 every bench but to certainly add to and
2:59:30 find a creative
2:59:31 innovative way to add these amenities to
2:59:35 our system so at that discussion in July
2:59:39 as we talk through the the draft bench
2:59:42 program three main points came out of
2:59:47 council feedback that we did some
2:59:50 further research on those three main
2:59:52 points were first there was a desire to
2:59:56 clarify some of the language in the
2:59:59 draft we had at the time had some
3:00:03 language that wasn't really clear around
3:00:05 City responsibility for handling
3:00:09 potential vandalism to the benches or
3:00:12 whatnot we went back and clarified that
3:00:14 to make sure it was understood that
3:00:16 city's going to be responsible for that
3:00:19 for those repairs but at the same time
3:00:22 should the city be in a financial
3:00:25 situation that it could not immediately
3:00:27 replace that bench
3:00:30 the city might need some flexibility in
3:00:32 time and ability to replace that another
3:00:36 item that came up was the plaque itself
3:00:39 and what creativity what latitude do we
3:00:43 provide the donor in terms of the plaque
3:00:46 the plaque size in looking at best
3:00:50 practices and looking at how to create a
3:00:53 standardized approach for any and all
3:00:56 donors knowing that those donors have
3:00:58 different motives or different intent
3:01:00 some might be a company wanting to
3:01:04 strategically locate its name throughout
3:01:07 the park system it might be a service
3:01:10 club or a youth sports group that would
3:01:14 want to donate it might be a family
3:01:15 wanting to donate in memoriam to a loved
3:01:20 one we felt the best practice with that
3:01:23 plaque was to stick with a standard size
3:01:27 and to stick with alphanumeric meaning
3:01:31 letters or numbers in in that as opposed
3:01:34 to pictures or photos or anything like
3:01:37 that and again that really is consistent
3:01:41 with some of the best practices we see
3:01:43 in neighboring cities that have bench
3:01:45 nation programs the third item was a
3:01:47 question around the bench itself and do
3:01:49 we want to accept multiple bench
3:01:54 standards or bench types do we want
3:01:57 donor to be able to provide a customized
3:02:00 bench again a really sensitive one and a
3:02:05 difficult topic but as we look at how to
3:02:07 best balance the the donation itself
3:02:11 with the placement in the context of
3:02:14 these benches being in a public space
3:02:16 and again looking at some best practices
3:02:19 with other cities it was our
3:02:21 recommendation ours the department and
3:02:24 administration's recommendation to
3:02:27 similar to best practice we see other
3:02:29 places too for the city to provide what
3:02:33 that bench standard is in that bench
3:02:34 type that would be identified for which
3:02:38 specific location so again being able to
3:02:42 be repeatable being able to be
3:02:44 consistent with what we're providing a
3:02:47 prospective donor and so what you see
3:02:50 before you tonight is sort of taking
3:02:54 those three comments and questions we
3:02:57 hear from council and bringing back our
3:03:00 recommendation for this program thank
3:03:03 you Joe yep I do want to make a motion I
3:03:09 have some comments okay you can do it
3:03:14 for or in the motion whichever you like
3:03:17 well like to make a comment first its
3:03:20 you've never known that this really
3:03:24 wasn't on the agenda for presentation
3:03:26 this evening Jeff the way you just
3:03:27 covered everything so thank you for your
3:03:29 flexibility I asked for this to be
3:03:33 brought down because actually of the
3:03:36 last point that you made during the July
3:03:39 23rd meeting I was the one who asked the
3:03:41 question hey what about the design can
3:03:42 in any way be customized or can the the
3:03:47 donor have any say to
3:03:50 in what actually gets placed there and
3:03:54 of all of the main points that were
3:03:58 brought up in the back on July 23rd that
3:04:00 was the one that didn't have any reply
3:04:02 to it in the materials that we have I
3:04:04 had no reason I wasn't sure if it had
3:04:06 been heard or if it was considered you
3:04:10 know why or maybe why not in this case
3:04:13 it hasn't been incorporated into the
3:04:17 material in front of us so that's why I
3:04:19 brought it down and and and I appreciate
3:04:22 very much I if I could do this different
3:04:25 I'd be in front of this a little bit
3:04:26 further and and what before tonight
3:04:29 could have let you know that I wanted to
3:04:32 discuss it further but boy you were
3:04:34 pretty ready anyway so so I appreciate
3:04:37 that so anyway there's there's why I
3:04:42 wanted to bring it down because I hadn't
3:04:44 heard at all about the result that
3:04:47 question from July 23rd I mean I just
3:04:51 quick I apologize if the materials
3:04:54 within the agenda bill didn't address
3:04:56 that third topic as well okay to make
3:05:00 the motion I'm gonna make a motion
3:05:22 I moved to adopt ordinance number two
3:05:25 eight seven five establishing a program
3:05:29 for park bench donations or Park System
3:05:31 enhancement and authorizing the mayor to
3:05:35 accept the use of donations for said
3:05:37 purpose second thank you it's been moved
3:05:40 and seconded to adopt ordinance number
3:05:42 two 875 is there any additional
3:05:45 conversation or discussion that's maybe
3:05:49 winter s time it's a pretty thoughtful
3:05:50 program and it could it I appreciate
3:05:55 wherever the idea came from no Jeff that
3:05:59 was you or someone on your staff or
3:06:00 somebody outside the organization please
3:06:03 you know thank them for me or let me
3:06:06 know who they are I'll thank them myself
3:06:07 and you did mention that could be a lot
3:06:11 of different reasons that people come
3:06:12 forward it could be an organization like
3:06:15 you said or it could be something much
3:06:17 more personal and I know that you know
3:06:23 for some this could be a very important
3:06:25 option that's available to them so I'm
3:06:29 grateful I would ask that as you
3:06:34 mentioned to me that you know there may
3:06:38 be different styles available there that
3:06:40 whole idea where you source these from
3:06:43 that you remain open to and what might
3:06:50 be within that your you and your staffs
3:06:54 capabilities within this program and the
3:06:56 provider of those benches to to within
3:07:02 the spirit of what we're adopting here
3:07:04 still be able to maybe offer some type
3:07:07 of more personalization to the design if
3:07:09 indeed it's possible
3:07:12 so I just wanted to also speak to the
3:07:16 this program I think that this is
3:07:19 incredibly important and I'm just really
3:07:24 happy that that we have a program
3:07:26 established for this and I would echo
3:07:28 what councilmember winter Stein talked
3:07:31 about in terms of if there is some
3:07:34 flexibility for creativity
3:07:37 and personalization I think that that's
3:07:39 so important and I know that there are
3:07:42 members of the community that this is
3:07:44 incredibly incredibly important to and
3:07:48 so I'm very very happy to see the
3:07:50 program going forward thanks for your
3:07:53 and your staff and everyone's really
3:07:56 hard work on this thank you any other
3:07:59 comments before I call for the vote
3:08:01 that's president Mertz yeah I'll just
3:08:04 add that I think that these types of
3:08:07 programs are very important in this day
3:08:11 and age where so many people move around
3:08:15 so much it's a way to connect into your
3:08:19 community there's a tree by the Chemung
3:08:22 River in Elmira New York that has a
3:08:25 plaque with my mom's name on it and that
3:08:30 certainly ties us back to our old family
3:08:33 homeland in Elmira so these sorts of
3:08:37 things have a importance quite outsized
3:08:40 to the to the dollars involved any other
3:08:45 comments all those in favor of adopting
3:08:48 ordinance number two 875 establishing a
3:08:51 part a program for park bench donations
3:08:54 for Park System enhancement and
3:08:56 authorizing the mayor to accept and use
3:08:58 the donations for said purpose say aye
3:09:00 aye those opposed the passes unanimously
3:09:03 thank you very much and thank you for
3:09:05 staying tough the last item tonight is
3:09:12 good of the order and I believe council
3:09:14 president Mart's has a question for a
3:09:16 council this evening well I feel a
3:09:17 little curmudgeonly because it's a late
3:09:19 evening I'll try to I'll try to go
3:09:21 quickly on this misguide a little
3:09:24 complicated because I forwarded a draft
3:09:27 letter from SCA on the 5th of August the
3:09:31 problem is that on August 27th a revised
3:09:34 letter was issued that has different
3:09:37 language in it and none of us have had
3:09:39 much of a chance to take a look at it
3:09:41 but I will go over the a couple of the
3:09:44 or go over the the high points in it
3:09:46 which again are a little different than
3:09:48 the draft I did forward it on to
3:09:50 everybody this evening but I apologize I
3:09:54 as you guys know we're gone what's
3:09:56 gotten last weekend didn't have a chance
3:09:57 to to see that this had come in so the
3:10:01 major points in the draft letter now are
3:10:04 as follows the growth pattern should
3:10:06 maintain the integrity of the urban
3:10:08 growth area and prioritize cities and
3:10:11 centers for accommodating growth and
3:10:13 then there's some language around that
3:10:16 vision 2050 should advance racial and
3:10:19 social equity outcomes as a cornerstone
3:10:22 principle of the plan vision 2050 should
3:10:26 allow for a variety of housing types
3:10:28 while addressing housing affordability
3:10:30 for all residents especially for those
3:10:33 in the lowest income categories vision
3:10:36 2050 should reduce greenhouse gas
3:10:38 emissions address hazard mitigation and
3:10:41 promote regional open space vision 2050
3:10:46 should address the financial constraints
3:10:48 facing counties and municipalities
3:10:50 implementing vision 2050 those are the
3:10:53 major points but there are sub-bullet
3:10:55 items associated with those so SCA will
3:11:01 be pick will be taking up this draft at
3:11:05 the meeting next week so I'm hoping that
3:11:09 if I would like to say Mike and here's
3:11:13 how my council feels so I'd like to get
3:11:16 your thoughts on at a high level whether
3:11:18 any of those specific areas you have any
3:11:24 particular pros or cons about them or if
3:11:26 you just feel like we haven't had the
3:11:28 time to take a look at it that's a fine
3:11:30 position to take as well you know Paul
3:11:34 Paul's been talking about 2050 for a
3:11:36 while 20:54 I've been talking about it
3:11:37 for a while we've had various meetings
3:11:39 on it but I don't want to you know I
3:11:42 want to push anybody to take an opinion
3:11:43 before they can but you know it's always
3:11:45 more powerful as CA when when anybody
3:11:49 who's attending says you know my city
3:11:51 feels or my city things here's what my
3:11:54 city wants just for a little context you
3:11:57 actually are drafting your and
3:11:59 so 2050 letter as well that's in
3:12:01 progress right now she's gathered some
3:12:04 comments I'm not sure if you were there
3:12:07 okay Trish I've gathered some comments I
3:12:10 think there were five different comments
3:12:11 that were going into a comment letter
3:12:12 from this council as well I haven't had
3:12:17 a chance
3:12:18 very quickly to see I'm not sure that
3:12:20 there's anything in here that
3:12:21 contradicts oh sorry
3:12:29 councilmember Walsh councilmember hunt
3:12:31 so I appreciate the way that they've
3:12:34 organized this and the addition of that
3:12:37 kind of concept of municipal government
3:12:40 is gonna have a hard time funding
3:12:42 everything in the current scenario but
3:12:46 and kind of looking at the structure
3:12:48 behind that I think one of our concerns
3:12:52 when we talked about this earlier was
3:12:54 that concept of transportation funding
3:12:57 and how that plays into the planning so
3:13:01 I think my only comment would be along
3:13:04 that concept of municipal funding toward
3:13:08 vision 2050 how that ties in with the
3:13:12 region regional transportation funding
3:13:15 so I don't know how that works in but as
3:13:19 a touch point that would be my concern
3:13:21 area in other words making sure there's
3:13:24 money from sorry make sure that there's
3:13:27 money at the municipal level if there's
3:13:29 elements that are required of
3:13:30 municipalities yeah and also just the
3:13:33 the regional idea of planning a
3:13:35 transportation network that and funding
3:13:38 it that goes along with this concept of
3:13:41 where we place housing which always
3:13:44 seems to be the part that isn't
3:13:48 addressed in saying we're going to focus
3:13:52 population and jobs in these areas
3:13:57 no word about how we're gonna pay for
3:13:59 the transportation network for that so I
3:14:03 don't think the transportation problem
3:14:04 the cost problem is as much on the local
3:14:08 level but from my perspective on a
3:14:09 regional level
3:14:11 when we're making these kinds of
3:14:13 decisions regionally about where the
3:14:16 people and jobs should go cancel i had
3:14:21 ken's member hat thank councilmember
3:14:22 interesting i had previously raised the
3:14:29 that displacement was displacement of
3:14:32 communities was one of the challenges
3:14:38 are one of the concerns that was flagged
3:14:40 with the transportation focused vision
3:14:46 and so i see that they do raise that
3:14:50 here and they specifically talk about
3:14:56 ways to address it a lot of the ways to
3:14:59 address displacement it seems they're
3:15:03 more focused on monitoring so i haven't
3:15:07 read the entire plans that are
3:15:10 referenced here but i would just like to
3:15:12 make sure that that continues to be one
3:15:16 focus because it is it is flagged here
3:15:18 but there's a lot of monitoring and
3:15:20 really actions because it's expected
3:15:23 that this is going to be a concern so
3:15:24 actions to mitigate that or reduce that
3:15:26 would be i think important couple points
3:15:35 it's all over the last point in what you
3:15:37 outlined for us i think it's the draft
3:15:39 from pic from se a that that last point
3:15:44 about could you read that again
3:15:48 certainly and this is this is SC a's
3:15:52 draft draft response to the 2050 draft
3:15:57 plan the last point was vision 2050
3:16:01 should address the financial constraints
3:16:03 facing counties and municipalities
3:16:05 implementing vision 2015 okay as a
3:16:10 member of the GMP bboy that is gonna
3:16:12 it's a that's a I don't I haven't heard
3:16:14 a lot about that hasn't been part of the
3:16:17 conversation a lot and at the end of the
3:16:20 day what its gonna mean for all
3:16:21 jurisdictions whether you're a county or
3:16:23 a city is it's gonna be your calm
3:16:25 it's a plant what what you know what is
3:16:28 what's allowable and it is it consistent
3:16:30 with both the county and the region you
3:16:33 know planning policies that this vision
3:16:37 document lays out but the idea of you
3:16:41 know the costs associated with that so
3:16:43 that's that that strikes me as something
3:16:46 new and I have really no idea how we
3:16:48 would address that I'm gonna to
3:16:50 councilmember Worcester's point though
3:16:52 actually if you the plan as currently
3:17:00 proposed it's always been a question of
3:17:05 the chicken or the egg you know what do
3:17:06 you do first and do your land-use
3:17:08 planning and then follow up with a
3:17:10 transportation plan or you do your
3:17:11 transportation planning and through your
3:17:13 land-use around that this is very
3:17:15 specifically a choice that says the
3:17:18 region has decided to invest in its
3:17:20 transportation a certain way let's plant
3:17:23 let's do our land-use planning around
3:17:25 that it's varied this is actually a plan
3:17:27 that says let's get the most out of that
3:17:29 transportation investment that the
3:17:30 region is making so the region is saying
3:17:33 is saying things about bus rapid transit
3:17:35 we're doing quite a bit around light
3:17:38 rail and this is saying okay let's
3:17:40 direct let's make sure that that
3:17:42 infrastructure that we're putting money
3:17:44 into that we Mack so that we do land-use
3:17:47 planning in proximity to that to get the
3:17:51 most value out of that infrastructure
3:17:52 investment that's actually was a I think
3:17:55 that was the that concept is a big part
3:17:58 of what started the ball rolling down to
3:18:00 the form that we have today so I think
3:18:02 so I heard your question is what we're
3:18:04 doing this but is there transportation
3:18:06 planning around it so actually so that
3:18:08 that let that eggs been laid right it
3:18:11 was yes there's transportation planning
3:18:12 let's make sure now we do land use it's
3:18:14 consistent and gets the most out of that
3:18:16 return out of that plan so I don't know
3:18:18 if that helps with your question but I
3:18:20 think you and you'll see that in many
3:18:22 different ways in this by because there
3:18:25 always was the concept of regional
3:18:26 centers and in a regional center signs
3:18:31 up for quite a bit but it also makes
3:18:33 gives them regional centers access to
3:18:37 transportation dollars ramps
3:18:39 infrastructure dollars for
3:18:40 transportation that they wouldn't
3:18:41 otherwise have access to so it is about
3:18:43 it's really just about okay these
3:18:46 limited transportation dollars that we
3:18:47 have where can we focus and make them
3:18:49 most effective and so regional centers
3:18:52 are part of that strategy what this does
3:18:54 go beyond that it says and there's other
3:18:56 things there's things we're doing now
3:18:57 with light rail for example a bus rapid
3:18:59 transit those are other transportation
3:19:01 investments that are already being
3:19:02 planned let's make let's make sure that
3:19:05 we maximize the return off them as well
3:19:08 so this adds to the regional center
3:19:10 concept I think that that's really at
3:19:13 the core of of the justification for the
3:19:17 plan and the major element of the plan
3:19:19 as it is and then the other thing I
3:19:23 wanted to respond to and and Vicki I
3:19:26 really appreciated it back many months
3:19:27 ago when he first brought that up you
3:19:29 said we looked at all of these different
3:19:31 alternatives that were being considered
3:19:33 and this this transit oriented focus
3:19:36 looks really good however we got this
3:19:38 displacement issue and you were the
3:19:44 first that I heard who really brought
3:19:46 that out then I've been to though that
3:19:47 the issue comes up constantly
3:19:49 and like everybody Wow this is this is
3:19:51 this really seems to line up in many
3:19:53 ways what our priorities are equity
3:19:57 social justice environmental issues as
3:20:00 well but but boy you know what are we
3:20:02 gonna do about this and it is a tough
3:20:04 it's there is I guess the gonna make any
3:20:10 excuses why there isn't more in it as
3:20:13 proposed all I know is that that myself
3:20:16 included I think there's a lot of
3:20:18 sensitivity to that and it's something
3:20:20 that the board has struggled with
3:20:22 finding a solution to because because by
3:20:26 its very nature some of this
3:20:28 transportation infrastructure is going
3:20:30 to go through areas where there is
3:20:32 naturally affordable housing and there's
3:20:34 going to be pressure to redevelop that
3:20:36 to take advantage of this transportation
3:20:38 infrastructure so it is that is a I
3:20:40 think it's widely recognized as probably
3:20:42 the biggest concern and we don't we
3:20:44 haven't been able to put our thumb on
3:20:46 something that we can
3:20:47 think to address that so I do I don't
3:20:49 know if that helps you at all but I just
3:20:50 know it's not being overlooked or missed
3:20:52 it's a very deep concern by many people
3:20:55 on the board so I want to clarify on
3:21:01 that last one there's specific
3:21:03 additional public financing policy
3:21:06 proposals as sub items and basically
3:21:08 there's five of them and then four of
3:21:10 them boil down to assistance with the
3:21:12 state legislature legislature the hours
3:21:16 late on regional and local funding
3:21:19 mechanisms one is a modification of
3:21:22 existing planning policy what's the term
3:21:27 the planning policies yeah
3:21:31 modify RC action 5 to include funding
3:21:33 for local and regional implementation
3:21:35 planning and adding schools to the list
3:21:37 of areas needing funding so that's the
3:21:40 that's where the rubber meets the road
3:21:41 so most of it is is help with our
3:21:44 friends in Olympia but if if we think
3:21:48 that that last one is orthogonal to the
3:21:52 others I'm happy to provide that
3:21:54 feedback I just couldn't I couldn't
3:21:55 place it with all that was in the plan I
3:21:59 hadn't really thought about it that way
3:22:00 I hadn't heard it that way thank you
3:22:03 everything you need does anyone else
3:22:06 have any other feedback for me that I
3:22:07 can share with as with pick and I have
3:22:11 everything I need
3:22:12 yeah but Marin thank you for your
3:22:14 indulgence at this late hour
3:22:15 aside I might agree to the order is some
3:22:18 upcoming council meetings on September
3:22:19 10th there will be a council study
3:22:21 session at 6:30 p.m. and council
3:22:23 chambers three potential items are
3:22:26 right-of-way dedication for Newport way
3:22:28 slash Bergsma property Old Town sub area
3:22:32 plan implementation and utilities the
3:22:36 results of the utility rate study
3:22:38 chamber 16 that our regular council
3:22:40 meeting at 7:00 p.m. there are three
3:22:42 potential agenda items for regular
3:22:45 business mitigation and impact fees 2019
3:22:49 budget amendment and transportation
3:22:51 benefit district sales tax and bond
3:22:53 issuance
3:22:55 for the meetings if there's no further
3:22:58 business the meeting is adjourned at

Attendance

Council / Members (5)
Mariah Bettise
Victoria Hunt
Tola Marts
Lindsey Walsh
Paul Winterstein
Excused
Stacy Goodman
Chris Reh

Motions and votes (5)

Approve Resolution No. 2019-11, declaring the Council's intent to adopt legislation which would authorize a sales and use tax for affordable and supportive housing in accordance with Substitute House Bill 1406 from the 2019 State Legislative session. . b)
Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE
Carried 5-0
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein
Direct the Administration to replace street trees with in-kind street trees in the event that street trees are removed during the Gilman Ditch Restoration Project.
Moved by HUNT · seconded by MARTS
Amend the motion by adding: "but taking spacing for future maintenance access into consideration" . AS AMENDED, 5-0.
Moved by BETTISE · seconded by MARTS
Carried 5-0
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein
Direct the Finance Director to include funding in the amount of $230,000 for the Gilman Ditch Restoration Project in a subsequent 2019 budget amendment utilizing the Stormwater Fund; and award the construction contract for the Gilman Ditch Restoration Project to Accord Contractors LLC in the amount …
Moved by MARTS · seconded by WINTERSTEIN
Carried 5-0
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein
Adopt Ordinance No. 2875, establishing a program for park bench donations for park system enhancement and authorizing the Mayor to accept and use the donations for said purpose. .
Moved by WINTERSTEIN · seconded by BETTISE
Carried 5-0
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein