City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, September 16, 2019 · City Council Digest

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Fishaquah Proclamation ID 0565

Topics: Tourism

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7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Amending School Impact Fees AB 7785

Carried 6-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.141–166

Topics: Land UseBudgetSchools

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Staff report:

The Issaquah City Council adopted a School

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Water Quality Combined Funding Program Grant AB 7848

Carried 6-0

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.167–170

Topics: WaterBudget

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Staff report:

SUMMARY STATEMENT

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

8. REGULAR BUSINESS

2019 Budget Amendment AB 7836

Carried 6-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.259–274

Topics: Land UseBudget

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 3, 2018

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Staff report:

Budget amendments are required when the expenditures of a fund are forecast to exceed the adopted appropriation level. This budget amendment includes adjustments for seven of the City's 30 financial funds. In total, these adjustments account for $6,515,370 in increased revenues and $7,591,118 in increased expenditures. The General Fund accounts for $75,000 of the increased revenues and $75,370 of the increased expenditures.

Roll call:

Moved by REH · seconded by GOODMAN

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Retention Incentive Personnel Policy AB 7845

Approve Resolution · packet pp.275–281

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Staff report:

The City recently performed a Classification and Compensation study to determine if its employee compensation was in line with market compensation levels. Also a part of this work, the City is providing related updates to its Personnel Policy manual. While it is a guiding principal of this work to compensate employees within market range, the City also seeks to expand and modernize its tools to attract and retain qualified employees.

Issaquah Police Support Staff Association (IPSSA) Memorandum of Understanding Ratify AB 7858

Carried 6-0

packet pp.283–288

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends ratification of the Memorandum of Understanding with the Issaquah Police Support Staff Association as presented.

Roll call:

Moved by MARTS · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

9. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:07 ↗ you

0:15 ↗ good evening I'd like to call the Monday

0:19 ↗ September 16th 2019 City Council regular

0:22 ↗ meeting to order

0:24 ↗ we have a pretty good crowd tonight

0:27 ↗ anybody that is interested in joining

0:29 ↗ the council and myself for the Pledge of

0:31 ↗ Allegiance please stand I pledge

0:52 ↗ deputy council president batise is

0:55 ↗ excused this evening under special

0:58 ↗ business I have several proclamations to

1:00 ↗ do this evening so I'm going to head

1:02 ↗ down to the podium and do all three and

1:06 ↗ one after another and I will call up

1:08 ↗ those who are accepting the

1:09 ↗ proclamations this evening

1:23 ↗ can I get Andrew Andrew Simmons hi

1:32 ↗ the first Proclamation I'm doing this

1:35 ↗ evening is diaper need Awareness Week

1:37 ↗ and I have Andrew Symonds with me from

1:40 ↗ Eastside baby corner where is diaper

1:42 ↗ need the condition of not having a

1:44 ↗ sufficient supply of clean diapers to

1:46 ↗ ensure that infants and toddlers are

1:48 ↗ clean healthy and dry can adversely

1:50 ↗ affect the health and welfare of infants

1:53 ↗ toddlers and their families and whereas

1:56 ↗ the average infant or toddler requires

1:58 ↗ an average of 50 diaper changes per week

2:00 ↗ over three years and whereas the people

2:03 ↗ of Issaquah recognized that addressing

2:05 ↗ diaper need can lead to economic

2:07 ↗ opportunity for the state's low-income

2:09 ↗ families and can lead to improved health

2:11 ↗ for families and their communities and

2:14 ↗ whereas is proud to be home to various

2:16 ↗ community organizations that recognize

2:18 ↗ the importance of diapers and helping

2:20 ↗ provide economic stability for families

2:22 ↗ and distribute diapers to low-income

2:25 ↗ families through various channels now

2:27 ↗ therefore i Mary Lou Polly mayor of the

2:29 ↗ city of Issaquah do hereby proclaim the

2:31 ↗ week of September 23rd - 29 29 2019 to

2:36 ↗ be diaper needs Awareness Week and I'd

2:39 ↗ also like to ask if you'd like to share

2:41 ↗ some words with us thank you Mary polly

2:44 ↗ council mayor polly thank you on behalf

2:48 ↗ of Eastside baby corner i'm andy simons

2:51 ↗ a member of the board and a resident of

2:53 ↗ Issaquah for 40 years and II said maybe

2:56 ↗ Corner has an influence throughout the

2:58 ↗ Eastside not just here but it's an aqua

3:00 ↗ organization and has many volunteers

3:03 ↗ within our own community we'll just cite

3:06 ↗ one statistic and he said baby corner

3:08 ↗ last year donated a million diapers to

3:11 ↗ different agencies and that can make a

3:13 ↗ tremendous difference so we appreciate

3:15 ↗ you recognising daya ferny with your

3:18 ↗ proclamation thank you

3:23 ↗ [Applause]

3:33 ↗ the second Proclamation this evening is

3:35 ↗ the mayor's day of concern for hungry

3:38 ↗ and I'd like to invite Corey Walters the

3:40 ↗ executive director of the escape feed

3:42 ↗ bank to come up and join me do you think

3:45 ↗ worried

3:45 ↗ I assume you will share some where as

3:54 ↗ our King County cities recognize

3:55 ↗ adequate nutrition as a basic goal for

3:58 ↗ each citizen and whereas food banks

4:00 ↗ emergency and hot meal programs working

4:02 ↗ with our city's local churches social

4:05 ↗ service agencies and hundreds of

4:07 ↗ volunteers are striving day in and day

4:09 ↗ out to stem the rising tide of hunger

4:12 ↗ however still more help is needed and

4:14 ↗ whereas we believe that when citizens

4:16 ↗ hear of the especially desperate needs

4:18 ↗ of the hungry as winter approaches and

4:20 ↗ how their low incomes must stretch

4:22 ↗ further to cover increasing fuel

4:25 ↗ electricity and rental costs leaving

4:27 ↗ even less money for monthly food

4:29 ↗ purchase an outpouring of community

4:31 ↗ assistance will follow

4:33 ↗ now therefore I marry the poli mayor of

4:35 ↗ the city of Viswa do hereby proclaim

4:37 ↗ September 21st 2019 as the mayor's day

4:41 ↗ of concern for the hungry thank you for

4:43 ↗ coming Cory thank you thank you for

4:48 ↗ having me we're excited for a big food

4:51 ↗ drive this Saturday so if you're at any

4:53 ↗ of the local QF C's or the Fred Meijer

4:56 ↗ think about contributing to the food

4:58 ↗ bank we also give out diapers and

5:01 ↗ support EBC and helping distribute those

5:04 ↗ diapers they give us there are a lot of

5:08 ↗ people in our community who have a lot

5:10 ↗ of needs so we really appreciate your

5:12 ↗ support the food bank is only one

5:15 ↗ solution one organization that's solving

5:18 ↗ food insecurity in our community and we

5:20 ↗ recognize that it takes all of us in

5:22 ↗ order to really make a difference so

5:24 ↗ thank you so much

5:27 ↗ [Applause]

5:40 ↗ okay the third and final proclamation of

5:44 ↗ the night is the Fisher kua proclamation

5:47 ↗ and I have a very small crowd joining me

5:50 ↗ tonight

5:50 ↗ Kathy McCrory Alan Finkelstein Carey

5:54 ↗ McGill Pete nerby Brenda Devore Sammy

5:58 ↗ the salmon and Dubai salmon day staff

6:01 ↗ some volunteers here as well

6:02 ↗ are you okay come on up thank you I love

6:07 ↗ your shirt perfect thank you where is

6:19 ↗ salmon have a long have long held a

6:22 ↗ special place in the heart of our

6:23 ↗ community and whereas each fall the

6:25 ↗ salmon returned to our creeks and lakes

6:27 ↗ the first salmon arrived this year at

6:30 ↗ the Downtown hatchery on August 19th and

6:32 ↗ whereas their lure has driven schools of

6:35 ↗ visitors to our town to learn more about

6:38 ↗ our beloved salmon and whereas the

6:40 ↗ instinctive nature to return home to

6:42 ↗ spawn has instilled a strong sense of

6:45 ↗ community and family and has earned us

6:47 ↗ family circles accolades for one of the

6:49 ↗ best towns for families in America

6:52 ↗ and whereas salmon days has its own

6:54 ↗ infamous mascot Sammy the salmon who is

6:57 ↗ rising to the official occasion by

7:00 ↗ welcoming tens of thousands of visitors

7:02 ↗ to celebrate our festival's 50th golden

7:05 ↗ year and whereas salmon are the primary

7:08 ↗ reason why our internationally

7:10 ↗ award-winning salmon days festival is a

7:12 ↗ Seafarer sanctioned event and voted best

7:15 ↗ Washington Festival for 2018 by four to

7:18 ↗ five magazine and Travel Channel now

7:20 ↗ therefore I Mary Lou Pauly mayor of the

7:22 ↗ city of Issaquah do hereby declare in

7:25 ↗ honor of the Ithaca salmon day festival

7:26 ↗ the first weekend of each year our

7:29 ↗ salmon friendly City shall be known as

7:31 ↗ fish Akua

7:35 ↗ and I am sure that I have somebody candy

7:43 ↗ so not only is it our 50th anniversary

7:46 ↗ but most festivals have a lifespan about

7:50 ↗ 25 years so we have doubled our life

7:53 ↗ expectancy which is amazing for our

7:55 ↗ community we couldn't have done it

7:58 ↗ without the city's help and we do have

8:00 ↗ our own official sponsor sign for the

8:06 ↗ city - thank you for all you've done for

8:09 ↗ us this festival has grown to be the

8:13 ↗ largest two-day festival in the state

8:15 ↗ and we're very proud of that but even

8:18 ↗ more so we're proud of the fact that

8:20 ↗ salmon days now supports over 70 local

8:24 ↗ nonprofits and that's really what

8:27 ↗ community is all about that's what

8:28 ↗ salmon days is all about and we just

8:31 ↗ want to thank everyone for making it

8:32 ↗ possible and invite all of you to join

8:34 ↗ us

8:40 ↗ I just love the flapping things you're

9:31 ↗ not staying Thank You counsel

9:41 ↗ that's a few more proclamations that we

9:43 ↗ typically do in one meeting but fall is

9:45 ↗ a very exciting time in Issaquah that is

9:48 ↗ for sure

9:50 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

9:52 ↗ is audience comments audience this is

9:56 ↗ your time to address your members of

9:58 ↗ council the guidelines for public

10:00 ↗ participation are displayed on the

10:01 ↗ screen and please limit your comments to

10:03 ↗ up to five minutes we have a sign-up

10:06 ↗ list and those who signed up will be

10:07 ↗ called up first and if you did not sign

10:09 ↗ up I'll make sure to ask if there are

10:11 ↗ any additional speakers before we close

10:13 ↗ this portion of the meeting if you are

10:15 ↗ here representing a group can you please

10:17 ↗ say that to let our council know and if

10:21 ↗ you are here listening to audience

10:22 ↗ comments and you strongly agree or agree

10:25 ↗ with what you're hearing please raise

10:26 ↗ your hand so that council understands

10:28 ↗ the level of support that is in the

10:30 ↗ audience this evening tisha has anyone

10:32 ↗ signed up to speak this evening no is

10:35 ↗ there anyone in the audience who would

10:37 ↗ like to address council this evening

10:40 ↗ sure come on up

10:43 ↗ [Music]

10:48 ↗ hi my name is Alexandra Val I'm a

10:52 ↗ resident of probably about 15 years and

10:54 ↗ we are representing its core --decor hi

10:57 ↗ my name is Jasmine and I'm also

10:59 ↗ representing Issaquah Takahiro with

11:01 ↗ sander okay so something we wanted to

11:04 ↗ discuss is that we are doing a project

11:07 ↗ to become more environmentally friendly

11:11 ↗ and limit the use of stores in this area

11:14 ↗ so as addressing to the council we would

11:17 ↗ like to have your opinion on what

11:21 ↗ legislature is there for like if there's

11:24 ↗ any legislature for plastic straws and

11:26 ↗ also if there's any policies that we may

11:29 ↗ be able to implement thank you for

11:33 ↗ coming to audience comments and sharing

11:35 ↗ that typically the council does not

11:37 ↗ respond to questions in here but I'm

11:39 ↗ writing down what I think I heard you

11:41 ↗ say was that you were looking to see if

11:42 ↗ there is any legislative action that the

11:44 ↗ council could take or any policies that

11:47 ↗ they might want to consider yeah and

11:49 ↗ what we may be able to do this evening

11:51 ↗ is to have them talk about that at good

11:53 ↗ of the order and we will make sure that

11:54 ↗ we get a response to your question okay

11:56 ↗ did you have any other information you

11:58 ↗ wanted to share tonight hi so we're high

12:01 ↗ schoolers at its aqua high school and we

12:04 ↗ participated in this project because we

12:05 ↗ well we believe that waste reduction in

12:08 ↗ environmental friendliness in the future

12:10 ↗ and in the present is a very relevant

12:12 ↗ conversation although I know that

12:14 ↗ legislation can't be made overnight and

12:16 ↗ although in 2012 it's across City

12:19 ↗ Council has banned plastic paper bag

12:21 ↗ most plastic bags for paper bags social

12:25 ↗ legislation can't be repeated so

12:27 ↗ frequently and we understand that maybe

12:31 ↗ our plastic straws too paper straws

12:35 ↗ dream might not happen overnight today

12:38 ↗ but we want to look for more

12:40 ↗ opportunities to incorporate weight

12:42 ↗ reduction into the Issaquah resident

12:45 ↗ conversation and so looking at the

12:48 ↗ proclamations I seen today we're looking

12:51 ↗ to implement any any event where we

12:57 ↗ could bring that into the spotlight or

12:59 ↗ make it an awareness week for its a quad

13:02 ↗ residents to discuss and yeah for the

13:06 ↗ future that is great and I hope you have

13:08 ↗ your names I wanted to thank Jasmine and

13:10 ↗ Alexander for coming in tonight and we

13:12 ↗ will prepare a response for you okay

13:14 ↗ thank you thank you so much and there's

13:17 ↗ some hands in the air waving in support

13:21 ↗ is there anyone else who would like to

13:23 ↗ many hands in the air a waving for

13:26 ↗ support is there anyone else who would

13:28 ↗ like to address the council this evening

13:29 ↗ Connie

13:36 ↗ so I'm Connie Marsh and I live up on

13:39 ↗ squawk and waste waste boy we have tried

13:45 ↗ with waste haven't we but I do realize

13:47 ↗ that it's getting you go to the

13:50 ↗ Starbucks and it's chaos

13:52 ↗ so it doesn't seem like anybody is

13:54 ↗ really following up on our restaurant

13:56 ↗ waste program that we did long ago and

14:00 ↗ far far away I haven't heard a report on

14:02 ↗ that in a long time and it does seem

14:04 ↗ like it might be time for an update of

14:06 ↗ that remember Josh and all of that so

14:09 ↗ the other reason I'm up here is it got

14:12 ↗ an email the other day that I thought

14:14 ↗ was breathtaking from the city which you

14:18 ↗ know it's hard to take my breath away

14:20 ↗ with emails from the city unless it's in

14:22 ↗ fury so and that was that the request

14:27 ↗ for the 10 feet of right-of-way for

14:30 ↗ Newport Way is going to be reframed

14:33 ↗ potentially to the value engineering

14:39 ↗ study land form and so I feel like the

14:45 ↗ community was listen to that

14:48 ↗ neighborhood does not want a sidewalk

14:50 ↗ along that side of the road and framing

14:53 ↗ it from the community perspective it is

14:56 ↗ awesome and gives me hope that our

14:59 ↗ community will now start joining in with

15:02 ↗ our city and we can all go in the same

15:04 ↗ direction together instead of spending

15:06 ↗ so much energy

15:07 ↗ bopping at each other thank you

15:10 ↗ Thank You Connie hands in the air and

15:13 ↗ the audience this evening

15:14 ↗ anybody else willing wanting to address

15:17 ↗ their council tonight I'll ask for a

15:20 ↗ second time any audience members wishing

15:22 ↗ to address Council and a third and final

15:25 ↗ time thank you and thank you for the

15:27 ↗ comments both Connie and Alexander and

15:30 ↗ Jasmine that's super helpful the next

15:33 ↗ item on the agenda this evening is

15:34 ↗ committee reports and we will start with

15:36 ↗ councilmember Walsh no report at this

15:39 ↗ time thank you

15:40 ↗ Thank You councilmember hunt thank you

15:42 ↗ madam mayor no report this evening thank

15:44 ↗ you well what happened did August just

15:46 ↗ happen or something councilmember Rea no

15:48 ↗ report this evening oh wow councilmember

15:51 ↗ we're interesting thank you madam mayor

15:52 ↗ the growth management Policy Board of

15:54 ↗ the Puget Sound Regional Council met

15:56 ↗ last Thursday September 5th at PSR C

15:59 ↗ headquarters in Seattle and we conducted

16:01 ↗ a public hearing on the draft vision

16:03 ↗ 2050 plan there were a number of quite a

16:06 ↗ few comments and also today the 60-day

16:09 ↗ comment period for the draft plan ended

16:12 ↗ today so 60 days it up and so the board

16:14 ↗ will be briefed on those comments at our

16:17 ↗ next meeting on October 3rd but during

16:20 ↗ the rest of the meeting we continued our

16:22 ↗ discussion about three specific chapters

16:25 ↗ within the plan

16:26 ↗ one was fiscal sustainability there

16:30 ↗ there wasn't a lot of discussion about

16:33 ↗ this but it did come up and even in my

16:36 ↗ caucus meeting beforehand that the

16:38 ↗ primary concern that they were trying to

16:40 ↗ adjust here is the disincentive around

16:42 ↗ annexation annexation is a key goal of

16:45 ↗ the growth management act and but

16:48 ↗ they're expensive and the only King

16:50 ↗ County cities ever had the sales tax

16:52 ↗ rebate tool available to them and so

16:54 ↗ there's a big part of that fiscal

16:57 ↗ sustainability or or part of the cost of

17:01 ↗ living up to the goal is to the intent

17:03 ↗ to pur a Lim Pia to extend that tool to

17:06 ↗ other counties those are there some

17:08 ↗ conversation about that the other

17:09 ↗ chapter was climate lots of conversation

17:11 ↗ about climate most of the public hearing

17:13 ↗ comments were about climate climate

17:14 ↗ change and reducing greenhouse gas and

17:17 ↗ so there was a lot of interest and a big

17:21 ↗ number of members of the

17:23 ↗ which I agree with were very interested

17:26 ↗ that the plan actually names specific

17:28 ↗ goals it's more general and it says it's

17:31 ↗ referring to the goals of others but I

17:34 ↗ expect to see another revision that

17:37 ↗ maybe has some more specific goals in

17:38 ↗ that also there were a number of

17:41 ↗ interesting comments about how in the

17:43 ↗ future through other techniques even

17:45 ↗ more aggressive outcomes could be

17:48 ↗ achieved so I'm expecting to see some

17:51 ↗ revisions as spurred by the board to

17:54 ↗ come to that chapter still and then

17:57 ↗ finally we were going to talk about the

17:58 ↗ jobs housing balance section we really

18:00 ↗ didn't have time to discuss at length

18:02 ↗ and I expect that to come back in

18:04 ↗ October that concludes my report

18:06 ↗ Thank You councilmember Stein

18:07 ↗ councilmember Goodman Thank You mayor

18:08 ↗ Poli Eastside Fire and Rescue board of

18:11 ↗ directors met last Thursday on the 12th

18:13 ↗ and councilmember Chris ray and I

18:15 ↗ attended and notably the board gave sort

18:20 ↗ of head nods to the administration to

18:24 ↗ begin looking at the government created

18:27 ↗ excuse me nonprofit as a form of

18:29 ↗ governments currently the form of

18:31 ↗ governments is by interlocal agreement

18:33 ↗ that's what the administration is

18:35 ↗ looking at another potentially better

18:38 ↗ way for the agency to be governed but

18:40 ↗ more information will be coming in the

18:43 ↗ coming months and there will be reports

18:45 ↗ out on that an opportunity for our

18:47 ↗ council to participate and provide

18:50 ↗ feedback and ask questions

18:51 ↗ other notable item from the meeting is

18:54 ↗ that the 20-year celebration for

18:57 ↗ Eastside Fire Rescue is on October 5th

19:00 ↗ and if my fellow council members have

19:03 ↗ not signed up and would like to go then

19:06 ↗ there still is a very little bit of time

19:08 ↗ the deadlines today but I'm sure if you

19:09 ↗ called office tomorrow they might let

19:12 ↗ you sign up that's my report thank you

19:14 ↗ Thank You councilmember Goodman council

19:15 ↗ president marks thank you madam mayor

19:17 ↗ sound cities association public issues

19:19 ↗ committee met on Wednesday September

19:22 ↗ 10th we had two potential action items

19:26 ↗ the first regarded vision 2050 guiding

19:29 ↗ principles the

19:31 ↗ net was the pick recommended forwarding

19:35 ↗ by document on general principles but

19:38 ↗ did not recommend moving forward as a

19:41 ↗ body with a letter to GMP B go ahead

19:49 ↗ okay so I will mention that what sort of

19:53 ↗ SCA recommended was that individuals

19:55 ↗ cities consider putting together their

19:58 ↗ own letter there was sort of there

19:59 ↗ wasn't a coherent sense of the body so

20:03 ↗ so we said cities should do that on

20:06 ↗ their own not part of SCA the city of

20:09 ↗ Issaquah did put together a letter

20:11 ↗ that's been forwarded to all of us based

20:14 ↗ on the feedback that the administration

20:16 ↗ heard during for good of the order when

20:18 ↗ we previously discussed these topics and

20:20 ↗ did send that letter off to GMP B the

20:24 ↗ second item that we discussed was a

20:26 ↗ proposed King County Regional

20:27 ↗ homelessness authority and I'm not going

20:30 ↗ to spend too much time on it right now

20:31 ↗ because the consensus the body was it

20:35 ↗ was not ready to come out to individual

20:38 ↗ municipalities there are a raft of

20:40 ↗ questions around the finances the

20:44 ↗ relationship of this proposed body to

20:46 ↗ existing organizations that address

20:49 ↗ homelessness and probably most seriously

20:52 ↗ some very very very very serious

20:55 ↗ questions around governance and so I

20:57 ↗ believe that this proposal is going to

21:00 ↗ be revised before it would be in a form

21:05 ↗ that we would want to discuss as a body

21:08 ↗ King County growth management Policy

21:10 ↗ Council GMP GMP C will be meeting on

21:13 ↗ Wednesday September 25th the agenda has

21:16 ↗ not been finalized but there will be an

21:19 ↗ action item related to the proposed

21:21 ↗ Kirkland downtown Center and also update

21:24 ↗ briefings on the annual annexation

21:26 ↗ report and the Affordable Housing

21:27 ↗ Committee from councilman from County

21:30 ↗ councilmember Balducci this concludes my

21:32 ↗ report

21:32 ↗ Thank You council president Mertz there

21:35 ↗ are a couple of items I need to report

21:37 ↗ out on tonight in my mayor's report

21:39 ↗ earlier this evening at 6:30 p.m. an

21:41 ↗ executive session was held to discuss

21:44 ↗ at bargaining / RCW 42.3 0.14 o / n 4

21:48 ↗ there will be another executive session

21:51 ↗ held later in in this meeting to discuss

21:53 ↗ collective bargaining / RCW 42.3 0.14 o

21:58 ↗ / n 4 and that item will be expected to

22:01 ↗ take 20 minutes and action will not

22:03 ↗ follow in open session the next item on

22:06 ↗ my report today as you heard in public

22:09 ↗ comments I want to add some additional

22:12 ↗ information and background on the new

22:14 ↗ part right way right-of-way acquisition

22:15 ↗ on the Bergsma frontage an update from

22:19 ↗ post counsel study session from last

22:23 ↗ week so on Tuesday September 10th

22:25 ↗ Council received a presentation at a

22:27 ↗ council study session on a request to

22:29 ↗ acquire frontage along the Bergsma

22:31 ↗ property on newport way for construction

22:33 ↗ of future roadway improvements council

22:36 ↗ provided some comments and feedback at

22:38 ↗ the work session as well as the public

22:40 ↗ and our administrative team regrouped

22:42 ↗ last week to review next steps I want to

22:45 ↗ take this opportunity tonight to provide

22:46 ↗ an on-camera update so here's a bit of

22:49 ↗ background the city was developing the

22:51 ↗ new Parkway corridor concept at the same

22:53 ↗ time as a local developer was working

22:55 ↗ with the Bergsma property owners to

22:57 ↗ explore options to develop the Bergsma

22:59 ↗ property on Newports way for residential

23:01 ↗ use the developer held a community open

23:04 ↗ house for residents to discuss the

23:06 ↗ proposal for housing and potential

23:07 ↗ right-of-way improvements the community

23:09 ↗ input at that time was to ensure that

23:11 ↗ there was adequate pedestrian options on

23:13 ↗ both sides of Newport there was also a

23:16 ↗ request to consider whether or not the

23:18 ↗ multi mountains the sound Green Bay

23:20 ↗ multi-purpose trail on the north side

23:21 ↗ may be better suited to the south side

23:24 ↗ where the neighborhoods currently exist

23:26 ↗ the corridor concept plan included

23:29 ↗ pedestrian features on both sides but

23:30 ↗ did leave the mountains a sound Greenway

23:32 ↗ Trail on the north side and the council

23:35 ↗ adopted this concept plan the city then

23:37 ↗ purchased bergman Bergsma as an open

23:40 ↗ space acquisition in 2018 editorial

23:43 ↗ thank you the city is now responsible

23:46 ↗ for completing the frontage improvements

23:48 ↗ instead of the developer the city is

23:50 ↗ currently advancing the design of this

23:52 ↗ section of Newports way the city

23:54 ↗ completed a value engineering study that

23:56 ↗ indicated potential

23:57 ↗ savings through removal of elements on

23:59 ↗ the south side due to the expense of

24:01 ↗ constructing fairly high retaining walls

24:03 ↗ and removal of trees to accommodate the

24:06 ↗ right-of-way features shown on the

24:07 ↗ adopted concept plan which included

24:09 ↗ sidewalk and landscape elements on the

24:11 ↗ south side the community input on the

24:14 ↗ design since the city purchase of the

24:16 ↗ Bergsma property has placed the highest

24:18 ↗ priority now on preservation of trees

24:20 ↗ and the natural environment versus

24:22 ↗ pedestrian mobility on the south side of

24:24 ↗ Newport adjacent to this Bergsma open

24:26 ↗ space at roadway design open houses

24:30 ↗ since the acquisition the community has

24:31 ↗ expressed a strong desire to minimize

24:33 ↗ the impacts to the south side and to

24:35 ↗ delete the sidewalk and landscaping and

24:37 ↗ to preserve the natural landscape to the

24:39 ↗ maximum degree possible the city is in

24:41 ↗ the process of advancing the design of

24:43 ↗ the roadway and is using the corridor

24:45 ↗ planned as guidance the council was

24:47 ↗ asked for guidance last week on

24:48 ↗ preferences and timing for right away

24:50 ↗ acquisition at last Tuesday's council

24:52 ↗ study session so after the session last

24:55 ↗ week they were follow-up discussions

24:57 ↗ with the design team and it indicated

25:00 ↗ that the design process could proceed

25:02 ↗ with the minimalist approach to

25:03 ↗ improvements on the south side of

25:05 ↗ Newport way this is different than what

25:07 ↗ was stated at the council study session

25:09 ↗ we can proceed through our design to 90

25:12 ↗ percent without a sidewalk or landscape

25:14 ↗ strip on the south side but still allow

25:16 ↗ for the accommodation of utilities this

25:19 ↗ design may not require a dedication on

25:22 ↗ the south side of Newport across the

25:23 ↗ Bergsma frontage the administration can

25:26 ↗ complete that assessment in the next

25:28 ↗ three to four weeks to confirm that

25:30 ↗ assumption and can be prepared to bring

25:32 ↗ it back to Council for action on

25:33 ↗ November 4th the two options could be no

25:36 ↗ dedication but a type design fit within

25:39 ↗ the existing right-of-way or a small two

25:42 ↗ to three foot dedication to allow for

25:44 ↗ unforeseen circumstances which could

25:46 ↗ minimize the risk of unforeseen field

25:48 ↗ conditions that may require some minimal

25:50 ↗ dedication this approach seems to align

25:54 ↗ with the community comment and the

25:55 ↗ general comments from Council at last

25:57 ↗ week's study session so at the end of

25:59 ↗ tonight's meeting a good of the order

26:01 ↗ there'll be an opportunity for council

26:03 ↗ to comment on any of this informational

26:05 ↗ update the last item that I had on my

26:08 ↗ mayor's report tonight is I want

26:10 ↗ to welcome a special guest in our

26:11 ↗ audience at the last regular council

26:14 ↗ meeting I had announced that Wally babka

26:16 ↗ wits would be starting as our city

26:18 ↗ administrator on September 30th he is

26:20 ↗ here with us this evening in the

26:22 ↗ audience nice to see you and Wally will

26:24 ↗ you please stand so that those that are

26:27 ↗ here well no thank you I don't know how

26:36 ↗ to do that so we're very excited that

26:42 ↗ you're going to be starting at the end

26:43 ↗ of the month we are looking forward to

26:45 ↗ working together and that concludes the

26:47 ↗ mayor's report the next item on our

26:52 ↗ agenda this evening is the consent

26:54 ↗ calendar and it was distributed to

26:56 ↗ council in advance if authorized the

27:00 ↗ consent calendar will be considered

27:02 ↗ together and approved by one motion have

27:04 ↗ the payroll and payables been reviewed

27:07 ↗ yeah thank you

27:08 ↗ does any council member desire to remove

27:11 ↗ any item from the consent calendar and

27:13 ↗ consider it under regular business is

27:17 ↗ there a motion madam mayor I move we

27:20 ↗ adopted consent calendar is listed in

27:21 ↗ tonight's meeting agenda second it's

27:25 ↗ been moved and seconded all those in

27:27 ↗ favor signify by saying aye as opposed

27:31 ↗ it carries unanimously thank you our

27:35 ↗ first item under regular business this

27:37 ↗ evening is a b77 9-0 mitigation and

27:41 ↗ impact fees for transportation fire

27:43 ↗ police bike and pedestrian and general

27:45 ↗ government buildings this item was heard

27:48 ↗ at the July 8th council work session and

27:50 ↗ the August 13 council services and

27:53 ↗ Safety Committee and I'd like to ask

27:55 ↗ Trish Heinonen policy planning manager

27:58 ↗ to come up for our presentation hi Trish

28:00 ↗ hello

28:07 ↗ yes okay so the mayor already said one

28:14 ↗ of my slides so we're gonna just go

28:16 ↗ right through this the framework for

28:18 ↗ tonight is just a reminder that the

28:21 ↗ proposed rates that you see in your

28:22 ↗ packet are the highest that we're able

28:24 ↗ to legally charge for impact fees and

28:28 ↗ mitigation fees that was our so you move

28:31 ↗ a little closer oh sorry that was our

28:32 ↗ request to our consultant that we worked

28:34 ↗ with is that our policy was we wanted

28:36 ↗ the highest that we were able to legally

28:39 ↗ charge the second policy that we worked

28:42 ↗ under is to require the update of the

28:44 ↗ rate studies every three years to make

28:46 ↗ sure that we don't get behind on them as

28:48 ↗ we have in the past the third was to

28:50 ↗ continue our annual adjustments that are

28:53 ↗ we do in January February every year to

28:56 ↗ make sure that we're keeping up with

28:57 ↗ inflation and the fourth is to include

29:00 ↗ the new municipal facility in the

29:02 ↗ general government buildings rate and

29:04 ↗ that fee so the purpose tonight is

29:08 ↗ hopefully to have you authorize them the

29:11 ↗ update of all these fees I have a chart

29:14 ↗ here to show when we updated them

29:16 ↗ previously some are a while ago and the

29:21 ↗ only one we're not doing tonight is the

29:23 ↗ parks impact fee and we're scheduled to

29:25 ↗ have that before you in November the

29:30 ↗ history is we started in 2017 by hiring

29:34 ↗ a consultant FCS group we have two

29:38 ↗ different contracts with them one for

29:39 ↗ transportation and parks and the other

29:41 ↗ for fire police and general government

29:44 ↗ we came to you at a July 8th work

29:47 ↗ session to give you the initial

29:49 ↗ information that we had found get your

29:52 ↗ questions get some of your high at the

29:53 ↗ highlights and then we went to August

29:55 ↗ 13th council service and Safety

29:57 ↗ Committee for their last meeting and

30:00 ↗ there the information I believe there

30:02 ↗ were 13 questions that were asked that

30:04 ↗ night and we have that information and

30:05 ↗ the answers in your packet tonight we'll

30:10 ↗ start with fire fire is the oldest fee

30:14 ↗ that we've taken us to update so it did

30:18 ↗ go up

30:19 ↗ higher than the rest the reasons are

30:22 ↗ we're using the new station 71 and 72

30:27 ↗ the debt payments we're putting those

30:29 ↗ into the capital facilities plan and

30:31 ↗ allowing the impact fees to pay for

30:34 ↗ those that debt and the increases are

30:37 ↗ for as you can see for single-family

30:40 ↗ it's over 200% the multifamily fee is

30:43 ↗ almost over to hunt is almost 200% an

30:46 ↗ office building is 200% and again I

30:50 ↗ think those were updated the last time

30:52 ↗ was 2006 so part of that is everything

30:57 ↗ costs more for traffic we there was a

31:02 ↗ question on in the July meeting of the

31:05 ↗ concurrency when you did this in 2015 we

31:09 ↗ did the concurrency the new concurrency

31:11 ↗ back in the day and these the impact fee

31:14 ↗ update at the same time but you all are

31:16 ↗ so efficient now you did the

31:18 ↗ transportation in concurrency ahead of

31:21 ↗ this way ahead of this and so you worked

31:24 ↗ with Torsten you were fine with

31:25 ↗ concurrency he gave all that information

31:28 ↗ to us and we did the traffic impact fee

31:30 ↗ so these are based on the new

31:32 ↗ concurrency that you all did ahead of

31:35 ↗ this these didn't go up as much but they

31:39 ↗ did go up in the most was the

31:43 ↗ multifamily fee went down a lot of folks

31:44 ↗ ask us about that one and it's because

31:47 ↗ of the trip per person ite manual number

31:51 ↗ went down a little bit because there's

31:53 ↗ less people according to the ITP manual

31:56 ↗ there's less people that live in a

31:57 ↗ multi-family unit so they cause less

31:59 ↗ trips to come out so that's the reason

32:02 ↗ that the multi-family number went down

32:05 ↗ the bike ped mitigation fee the reason

32:09 ↗ that this one went up is this was a new

32:11 ↗ fee at mitigation fee in 2015 and since

32:15 ↗ we did this fee there's been a new

32:19 ↗ interest shall I say in bike ped

32:22 ↗ facilities from the central Issaquah

32:25 ↗ plan from the strategic park plan and so

32:28 ↗ there's a lot more projects that were

32:30 ↗ able to put into the fee calculations

32:32 ↗ than

32:33 ↗ or in 2015 so that's one of the reasons

32:36 ↗ that the fee has gone up for police

32:41 ↗ there these went up a bit and the reason

32:45 ↗ is the calls for service have gone up

32:49 ↗ citywide which isn't unusual because so

32:52 ↗ many more people so many more housing

32:54 ↗ and commercial buildings the calls for

32:56 ↗ service have gone up and those result in

32:58 ↗ a bit of an increase in the rates

33:02 ↗ general government buildings we still

33:05 ↗ have the two proposals here one with the

33:07 ↗ new municipal campus and one without as

33:10 ↗ we've said before the administration is

33:12 ↗ proposing to adopt the one to recommend

33:16 ↗ adoption of the one with the new

33:17 ↗ municipal campus and even with that in

33:23 ↗ there that fee goes down and that's

33:25 ↗ because we we haven't done a lot of

33:27 ↗ government buildings in the past and a

33:31 ↗ really interesting conversation came up

33:33 ↗ with services about not always doing

33:36 ↗ services through buildings anymore we do

33:39 ↗ them online a lot we do financial kinds

33:41 ↗ of things online you pay your fees you

33:43 ↗ do all sorts of things and so there was

33:45 ↗ discussion that maybe next time we

33:47 ↗ update the fees we would put that new

33:49 ↗ idea into the fee calculation and to see

33:54 ↗ if there's a different way to calculate

33:56 ↗ instead of the old brick-and-mortar way

33:57 ↗ so that was a really great discussion

33:59 ↗ Iram our consultants were just intrigued

34:02 ↗ by that idea and they keep saying when

34:04 ↗ do we get to do that it was like hang on

34:06 ↗ we haven't adopted this site yet so so

34:09 ↗ that was a really great discussion we

34:13 ↗ were asked to do a sample of what the

34:16 ↗ total fees would be to an applicant

34:18 ↗ coming in and it's the new fee would be

34:23 ↗ three thousand more than it is today and

34:26 ↗ and as you can see and then the fine

34:29 ↗ print the average home price in Issaquah

34:31 ↗ and Zillow now is seven just over

34:35 ↗ 700,000 and the fee the increase in the

34:38 ↗ fee represents a half of one percent

34:41 ↗ increase to the price of an average home

34:43 ↗ and from

34:45 ↗ our discussions with folks in the know

34:48 ↗ this it's not a really great increase

34:51 ↗ that we believe would cause folks to not

34:53 ↗ build here it hasn't seemed to have put

34:55 ↗ a damper on on any of the builders that

34:58 ↗ we've talked to question sure come

35:02 ↗ summer winter saying thank you so that's

35:04 ↗ the average price with in Issaquah

35:05 ↗ but of course impact fees on

35:07 ↗ single-family homes I am assuming that's

35:09 ↗ what this would do it has to do largely

35:11 ↗ with the construction of new it have to

35:13 ↗ be a source very significant right a

35:17 ↗ remodel thank you do you have that price

35:21 ↗ Avenue because that's average of any all

35:24 ↗ stock and equality any location but

35:27 ↗ we're talking this is this affects new

35:30 ↗ correct it would only impact fees only

35:32 ↗ new homes would have to pay an impact

35:34 ↗ fee correct average I'm sorry doesn't

35:38 ↗ apply to remodels okay okay

35:44 ↗ but the but the I just think I mean

35:46 ↗ we're presenting this information that

35:48 ↗ maybe the average price but it's

35:50 ↗ probably not the average price of new

35:51 ↗ homes that's my point right and I think

35:53 ↗ when we were trying to calculate it we

35:55 ↗ weren't quite sure how to calculate

35:57 ↗ prices because like you said there are

36:00 ↗ there's depending on where someone's

36:03 ↗ building we thought this was a safer

36:08 ↗ consistent but you're right it would

36:10 ↗ only be new and it would depend on where

36:12 ↗ the homes are being built and that fee

36:14 ↗ is fixed regardless of size or cost

36:17 ↗ correct so it you know for new home

36:20 ↗ construction it would be more a smaller

36:22 ↗ percentage probably but they just wanted

36:25 ↗ to point that out right thank you any

36:29 ↗ other questions or words like just to

36:30 ↗ continue thank you okay thanks and for

36:34 ↗ multifamily we also calculated that in

36:37 ↗ its this one represents point six

36:40 ↗ percent of the value of a project using

36:42 ↗ Atlas as an example of a new

36:45 ↗ multi-family project that looks like in

36:50 ↗ the fine print down here a hundred and

36:53 ↗ ten million the whole project

36:57 ↗ there any questions with multifamily and

37:00 ↗ then we did a non residential just

37:03 ↗ because folks had asked how high or not

37:05 ↗ high those went up and so we did office

37:08 ↗ as a sample and it's it only added a

37:11 ↗ dollar 13 to the square footage for

37:13 ↗ office across with all the fees as a

37:17 ↗ sample we did receive questions on

37:21 ↗ Sunday afternoon good you guys are all

37:25 ↗ reading your packets and I wanted to

37:27 ↗ take a minute to go through those and

37:29 ↗ see if anyone had questions and the

37:33 ↗ first question was how frequent our

37:35 ↗ impact fee adjustments per imc 3.7 1.08

37:41 ↗ oh and that's when an applicant can come

37:43 ↗ to the city and say we don't believe

37:45 ↗ your impact views really reflect our

37:48 ↗ business and the way our business runs

37:50 ↗ and the question the questioner asked

37:52 ↗ does this ever happen and what would the

37:55 ↗ rationale be what would then applicant

37:57 ↗ use the rationale to be if it didn't fit

38:00 ↗ and the one that I could think of I

38:03 ↗ haven't heard recently of many of them

38:05 ↗ asking but I wasn't able to ask Keith

38:07 ↗ today he's the one that gets the

38:09 ↗ questions because he's the one that has

38:11 ↗ to make the determination because he's

38:13 ↗ the director but back in the day in the

38:17 ↗ mid-1990s we had a senior housing

38:20 ↗ applicant come to us and say that they

38:22 ↗ shouldn't have to pay parking impact

38:24 ↗ fees because the seniors that lived in

38:26 ↗ their complex would not be using park

38:28 ↗ facilities and our answer was that our

38:31 ↗ parks system has many different types of

38:35 ↗ park facilities for old and young and of

38:38 ↗ all abilities and all ages and all types

38:42 ↗ and so yes they really did need to pay

38:44 ↗ park impact fees because everybody uses

38:47 ↗ parks and and should be able to use

38:49 ↗ parks that are made to allow them to use

38:52 ↗ the parks and so that's the only time

38:55 ↗ that I've heard someone ask us but then

38:57 ↗ again I didn't get to ask Keith if there

38:59 ↗ were any recent ones but that's an

39:00 ↗ example of why they believe that it's

39:04 ↗ not structured for the folks that

39:05 ↗ they're bringing to the city fish can I

39:08 ↗ ask

39:09 ↗ I'm not familiar with the email and the

39:11 ↗ length of questions but for example and

39:14 ↗ if if council members had an opportunity

39:17 ↗ to review the QA do you want to have it

39:21 ↗ done on camera as well or did you have

39:23 ↗ any follow-up questions what's your

39:24 ↗ preference

39:26 ↗ that's my Brent so those are my

39:29 ↗ questions or that one's my question

39:30 ↗ anyway to signaling you out so this one

39:36 ↗ I did I do appreciate I'm having a

39:39 ↗ discussion about because I did wonder

39:42 ↗ about this adjustment I saw that there's

39:44 ↗ the adjustment for this fee and all the

39:46 ↗ other fees and then the adjustment

39:49 ↗ language and our codes seem to be

39:51 ↗ different for the traffic fee and then

39:54 ↗ for for example the fire protection fee

39:57 ↗ adjustment code section and so I

39:59 ↗ wondered about how often this adjustment

40:01 ↗ is made and how it impacts the use of

40:04 ↗ the code so that's great thank you I

40:07 ↗ want to just take the temperature of you

40:10 ↗ and anyone else who's too many questions

40:12 ↗ and if you would think that it is best

40:16 ↗ most transparent most understandable to

40:18 ↗ have Trish go through the questions and

40:20 ↗ answers on camera she can and so that's

40:23 ↗ great and if you think not because

40:25 ↗ you've got your answers that's fine we

40:28 ↗ don't have to go through them it's

40:29 ↗ really your choice I'd like to proceed

40:33 ↗ that's member Goodman just one of six

40:37 ↗ tonight yeah I've read them all and if I

40:41 ↗ have questions I can follow up on them

40:42 ↗ it's quite a lengthy list so it could

40:44 ↗ take us well for to go through every one

40:46 ↗ of them on camera but I'll do what

40:47 ↗ everything whatever anybody everybody

40:49 ↗ else wants to do I'm just looking for

40:51 ↗ head nods or suggestions I'm fine though

40:55 ↗ the one that I think it was it was

40:58 ↗ mentioned about the municipal facility

41:02 ↗ municipal consolidation of City Hall

41:04 ↗ that was the other question about how

41:06 ↗ flexible we could be if we have that in

41:09 ↗ the plan and we say that we're putting

41:10 ↗ impact fee for that when it's solar

41:12 ↗ potential in the CIP so that would be

41:14 ↗ the other question that I

41:16 ↗ okay I'm interested to discuss and the

41:18 ↗ others I'm fine with the written

41:20 ↗ response great if you have some

41:21 ↗ information on the question on

41:23 ↗ consolidated municipal campus that would

41:25 ↗ be great yeah and that's was that six

41:28 ↗ this number 650 okay I've been six yeah

41:32 ↗ okay the question was if the funds had

41:39 ↗ to be used in five years and we weren't

41:41 ↗ ready to use them in five years could we

41:44 ↗ extend our ability to use them and the

41:48 ↗ good news is the state actually extended

41:50 ↗ it to ten years it originally was six

41:52 ↗ years and now it's ten years but we if

41:55 ↗ we don't use them in ten years then we

41:58 ↗ have to return them back to the

41:59 ↗ applicant so we keep as Finance knows we

42:03 ↗ keep very good track of when they come

42:05 ↗ into the city and then we're the clock

42:08 ↗ is ticking and then they go ahead go out

42:10 ↗ of the city and we track when it comes

42:12 ↗ in and when it goes out so that we know

42:14 ↗ that hopefully we know that it is done

42:17 ↗ is paid for some facility capital

42:19 ↗ facility within the ten years and

42:24 ↗ there's no wiggle room on that if if we

42:27 ↗ haven't used it in the ten years then we

42:30 ↗ have to return it and as far as I know

42:32 ↗ that's only happened once that I

42:34 ↗ remember and that was back when it was

42:37 ↗ six years and we didn't get the we

42:39 ↗ didn't use them and enough in time and

42:42 ↗ so we had to return him to the applicant

42:44 ↗ is that an offered was there we'll look

42:48 ↗ for follow-up questions and follow-up

42:49 ↗ questions any additional questions that

42:52 ↗ were not submitted earlier that you

42:54 ↗ would like to ask well Tricia's up the

42:56 ↗ podium Thank You Trish all right well

43:01 ↗ then the next slide is the the easy one

43:05 ↗ is the timing is September 16th which is

43:08 ↗ today would hopefully be council action

43:11 ↗ and then they wouldn't go into effect

43:12 ↗ until January 1 because the projects

43:16 ↗ that are in the impact fees need to be

43:18 ↗ in the capital facilities element of the

43:21 ↗ comprehensive plan in order to us for us

43:24 ↗ to legally assess those fees and so we

43:27 ↗ have to wait for the comp plan to be and

43:29 ↗ that

43:30 ↗ to be adopted before we can assess those

43:33 ↗ fees so we're hoping January 1 they'd be

43:35 ↗ effective and then I also put just to

43:37 ↗ get you excited I put the parks impact

43:39 ↗ fee update schedule as far as we know

43:41 ↗ knowing you guys are super busy but

43:44 ↗ that's the schedule perhaps for the

43:46 ↗ parks impact fee update questions on

43:49 ↗ timing great great thank you is there a

43:56 ↗ motion that's a member right

44:01 ↗ I moved to adopt ordinance number 2 877

44:08 ↗ relating to impact and mitigation fees

44:10 ↗ adopting the 2019 impact fee and

44:13 ↗ mitigation study and amending Issaquah

44:15 ↗ Municipal Code in order to update the

44:17 ↗ city's Transportation and Fire impact

44:20 ↗ fees and the city's general government

44:22 ↗ buildings pedestrian and bicycle and law

44:25 ↗ enforcement mitigation fees with an

44:28 ↗ effective date of January 1st 2020

44:31 ↗ second it's been moved and seconded

44:34 ↗ is there any council discussion let's

44:38 ↗ member winter saying followed by

44:39 ↗ councilmember hunt thank you there were

44:46 ↗ some comments tonight which I think are

44:47 ↗ very important it's if there's been one

44:49 ↗ question I've heard or claimed or desire

44:53 ↗ or wish and sometimes it's delivered

44:55 ↗ very emphatically is that boy I really

44:57 ↗ hope that growth is paying for growth

44:59 ↗ and that's easy to say hard to do and

45:02 ↗ one of the tools that we have we do use

45:05 ↗ impact fees this is this is about under

45:08 ↗ trying to understand how additional

45:11 ↗ population additional jobs or whatever

45:13 ↗ new number of people moving around trips

45:16 ↗ they generate visits the parts that they

45:18 ↗ generate actually are contributing to

45:20 ↗ the cost and the construction of these

45:22 ↗ new public facilities to accommodate you

45:25 ↗ know the demand that they put on them

45:27 ↗ and and so that's called growth paying

45:29 ↗ for growth it was said tonight and I've

45:31 ↗ shared this before and we did this in

45:33 ↗ our last update in 2015 that we have a

45:36 ↗ policy of working within the framework

45:40 ↗ of the law that allows us to set our

45:42 ↗ impact

45:43 ↗ fees at the highest interest you said

45:45 ↗ this this evening about setting our

45:48 ↗ impact fees at the highest allowed by

45:49 ↗ law now there's a calculation that goes

45:51 ↗ into that it's not it's not trivial but

45:53 ↗ I think we take that very seriously it's

45:56 ↗ not a perfect tool it doesn't it doesn't

45:59 ↗ we have some deficits so when we make

46:01 ↗ changes and updates to things where

46:03 ↗ we're kind of dealing with some deficits

46:05 ↗ we already have and this money can't go

46:07 ↗ to a fixing the deficit it actually has

46:09 ↗ to be what's new there but I've been

46:12 ↗ asked that and earlier we had this

46:14 ↗ number of representatives from the

46:15 ↗ chamber the chamber here and I've go to

46:20 ↗ their board meetings and I've been asked

46:21 ↗ that question there and I and I just

46:23 ↗ want to repeat publicly and that as a

46:27 ↗ policy and with what's the proposal in

46:29 ↗ front of us this night tonight that

46:31 ↗ we're considering with this motion is to

46:34 ↗ adopt impact fees that are the highest

46:37 ↗ allowable by law and I think that does

46:39 ↗ reflect the wishes of many of our

46:40 ↗ residents and of mice of my own as well

46:43 ↗ the second comment I wanted to make is I

46:45 ↗ just want to respond to something that

46:47 ↗ was said about some of these prices or

46:50 ↗ impact fees going up how it reflects

46:53 ↗ that everything costs more and I just

46:55 ↗ it's a little bit more nuanced than that

46:56 ↗ because we do have a capital plan

46:58 ↗ including a transportation improvement

47:01 ↗ plan and it's in its it's the body of

47:03 ↗ work that's in that plan that we're

47:05 ↗ trying to price out and those projects

47:07 ↗ that are have an impact due to growth

47:09 ↗ and so it's not just a static set of

47:14 ↗ buildings or roads or parks and their

47:16 ↗ costs have gone up that's set that we

47:18 ↗ envision is the right level for our

47:20 ↗ community changes over time we add and

47:23 ↗ we take away and there are other factors

47:26 ↗ as well so it's not as simple as just

47:29 ↗ the price of things it does reflect

47:31 ↗ plans and our capital plan and our

47:33 ↗ improvement plans about what we think is

47:36 ↗ essential and right for the city as it

47:39 ↗ grows and I think that's the important

47:42 ↗ part we're trying to identify what is

47:45 ↗ needed to provide the level of service

47:47 ↗ whether it be with mobility or police or

47:49 ↗ what-have-you and we're trying to we

47:52 ↗ estimate that we figure out what part of

47:55 ↗ that is required or driven

47:56 ↗ growth and we priced that out and I

47:58 ↗ think that's it's important for the

47:59 ↗ general public to understand it's not

48:01 ↗ just about cost

48:02 ↗ it's about us trying to right-size the

48:03 ↗ services and the facilities that this

48:05 ↗ city requires thank you Thank You

48:07 ↗ councilmember hunt I also wanted to

48:12 ↗ support this because it does put the

48:15 ↗ impact fees at the maximum allowable

48:17 ↗ level and that's what we hear from the

48:20 ↗ community and I think that's the best

48:21 ↗ thing for the community to put those

48:23 ↗ fees at the maximum maximum allowable

48:25 ↗ level in the process of reviewing this I

48:29 ↗ did I did start looking more at the feet

48:32 ↗ just Monsanto potentially revisit that

48:40 ↗ and to understand better why we allow

48:43 ↗ for adjustments or in what circumstances

48:45 ↗ we do and to look across the different

48:47 ↗ categories and make sure that we're that

48:50 ↗ we're applying the fees that we've

48:53 ↗ stated thank you any other councilmember

48:58 ↗ right and actually councilman RAM to

49:00 ↗ apologize too as you know I'm only 20

49:02 ↗ months into chairing meetings and I

49:04 ↗ still have a lot to learn I just checked

49:07 ↗ in with the city clerk

49:08 ↗ I believe when you make a motion this

49:10 ↗ evening any council member I am supposed

49:13 ↗ to ask the motion maker first if they

49:15 ↗ would like to make comments and I didn't

49:17 ↗ do that there's time for you though

49:20 ↗ heads up there are some more action

49:22 ↗ items tonight so do not be surprised

49:24 ↗ when you make a motion that I'm going to

49:26 ↗ end up going to so apologies council

49:28 ↗ member right

49:29 ↗ ecology accepted not net not necessary

49:32 ↗ by any means there are two things in

49:35 ↗ here that I think are really important

49:36 ↗ one is the as we've heard previously the

49:39 ↗ setting the fees at the maximum

49:42 ↗ allowable level and I think the other

49:45 ↗ thing which is may be equally as

49:47 ↗ important is the direction to do impact

49:50 ↗ fees impact and mitigation fee reviews

49:53 ↗ every three years so that we don't find

49:56 ↗ ourselves 10 or 12 years out and what we

49:58 ↗ see is with the fees that have the

50:01 ↗ biggest jump are the ones that we

50:03 ↗ haven't looked at

50:04 ↗ in in more than 10 years so so I think

50:07 ↗ that is another part of this that's very

50:10 ↗ important and we're balancing the cost

50:11 ↗ of doing these studies which isn't

50:13 ↗ necessary trivial with the benefit that

50:16 ↗ I derive with that we derive from it the

50:19 ↗ second thing that's not in this agenda

50:22 ↗ bill or this resolution Trish touched on

50:26 ↗ briefly which is around government

50:27 ↗ buildings and the impact mitigation

50:32 ↗ mitigation fee associated with that and

50:35 ↗ and we had a very interesting discussion

50:36 ↗ about broadening the scope of that to

50:38 ↗ include general government investment in

50:42 ↗ things other than capital investments

50:44 ↗ and things other than buildings and

50:47 ↗ that's something that I would like to us

50:49 ↗ to pursue in some more detail in the

50:52 ↗ very near future I think this is well

50:55 ↗ overdone and thank you for the work that

50:56 ↗ you all did and putting this together

50:58 ↗ thank you can't smell rain that's moving

51:01 ↗ Goodman I just had a couple of comments

51:02 ↗ and I don't need answers but based on

51:06 ↗ the dates that I see in the in the

51:08 ↗ agenda bell it looks like maybe the last

51:11 ↗ ordinance that we passed that required

51:14 ↗ us to do updates every three years maybe

51:17 ↗ won't it not even worse looks like we're

51:19 ↗ still outside those three years so like

51:25 ↗ to make sure that we addressed during

51:26 ↗ budget there's a mention in the agenda

51:29 ↗ bill also that one of the reasons that

51:31 ↗ we get behind is potentially a budget

51:33 ↗ impacts so I want to make sure that

51:35 ↗ during the budget that we are making

51:38 ↗ sure that we can keep up with the

51:39 ↗ schedules that we have adopted every

51:41 ↗ three years and then the second one is

51:44 ↗ only slightly related to the agenda bill

51:46 ↗ and that is that I had an occasion to go

51:48 ↗ to the city's website over the past few

51:50 ↗ days and look at how these are if you

51:52 ↗ are wanting to build something or

51:54 ↗ remodel something in the city how you

51:55 ↗ actually figure out what that what's

51:58 ↗ your impact fee is and whether you have

51:59 ↗ to have a traffic impact analysis it is

52:03 ↗ very not user friendly at all so I know

52:07 ↗ that's just remotely related related to

52:10 ↗ the agenda to the agenda bill what but I

52:11 ↗ wanted to take an opportunity to say

52:13 ↗ that I would hope that when we are

52:15 ↗ revising

52:17 ↗ website in the future and ways that we

52:19 ↗ inform our applicants on what our fees

52:21 ↗ are going to be that we make in a more

52:22 ↗ much more friendly usable we should be

52:25 ↗ able to go to the website and just

52:26 ↗ figure it out and maybe there's just an

52:28 ↗ explanation sheet but it's not user

52:30 ↗ friendly but I am supporting that Thank

52:33 ↗ You councilmember Jim and Trish is not

52:35 ↗ something that gets updated looked at in

52:38 ↗ the redo of chapter 18 it might I know

52:42 ↗ that we're talking about making the

52:43 ↗ website more user friendly and making it

52:46 ↗ fewer clicks to find where the fees are

52:49 ↗ and how to calculate them I've heard the

52:51 ↗ current planners talking about that so

52:53 ↗ and I'll take it back and say that it

52:55 ↗ was mentioned again to see what we can

52:56 ↗ do on that and they are in chapter 18

52:58 ↗ impact no they're in three I don't see

53:02 ↗ three but there is right on our the DSD

53:05 ↗ page with applications that has all the

53:08 ↗ different applications your fees and

53:10 ↗ your affidavits and all that and it is

53:12 ↗ several clicks down before you get to

53:14 ↗ the fees and how to calculate them key

53:15 ↗ for the city different tracks

53:17 ↗ yeah or impact fees and dia right and

53:21 ↗ I'm just I wanted to know if it was

53:24 ↗ going to be included in the update of

53:26 ↗ the code but that is a great suggestion

53:27 ↗ thank you very much

53:28 ↗ council president Mart's so I'm going to

53:31 ↗ be supporting this measure this evening

53:32 ↗ I think to the extent that we have the

53:35 ↗ ability growth should pay for growth but

53:38 ↗ I think that we should acknowledge two

53:39 ↗ things with this one is that this is a

53:41 ↗ very small amount of money compared to

53:43 ↗ the fiscal challenges that we have as a

53:47 ↗ community and the second is that once

53:49 ↗ again as Washingtonians we are faced

53:52 ↗ with regressive and unsustainable

53:55 ↗ revenue sources we have the institute on

54:00 ↗ tax and economic policy last year said

54:03 ↗ we had the most regressive taxes in the

54:06 ↗ United States the mechanisms that we

54:08 ↗ have to pay for the things that we need

54:11 ↗ put an undue burden on the least

54:14 ↗ affluent among us and this by being a

54:17 ↗ flat tax essentially on new housing is

54:19 ↗ yet more of the same

54:21 ↗ some day probably when I am dead and

54:25 ↗ buried our state will finally come

54:26 ↗ around to having a progressive tax

54:28 ↗ system and our municipalities won't

54:30 ↗ be faced with these awful choices on

54:33 ↗ levert levying more and more aggressive

54:35 ↗ taxes on people will be more like my

54:38 ↗ home state of Minnesota which nobody

54:39 ↗ considers a basket case but is at the

54:42 ↗ progressive end of the spectrum and so

54:44 ↗ it is unfortunate that tonight we have

54:46 ↗ two we are faced with mekin the only

54:48 ↗ mechanisms the mechanism that we have

54:50 ↗ for growth to pay for growth is

54:51 ↗ regressive and it is unsustainable

54:53 ↗ Thanks

54:54 ↗ you council president Mertz is there

54:56 ↗ anyone else who would like to speak this

54:58 ↗ evening any further discussion Amen all

55:04 ↗ those in favor of adopting ordinance

55:06 ↗ number two 877 relating to impact and

55:09 ↗ mitigation fees adopting 2019 impact fee

55:12 ↗ and mitigation studies and amending

55:14 ↗ Issaquah municipal code in order to

55:16 ↗ update the city's Transportation and

55:18 ↗ Fire impact fees and the city's general

55:21 ↗ government buildings pedestrian and

55:23 ↗ bicycle and law enforcement mitigation

55:25 ↗ fees with an effective date of January

55:27 ↗ 1st 2020 signify by saying aye I was

55:31 ↗ opposed that passes unanimously thank

55:34 ↗ you second night item under regular

55:37 ↗ business this evening is a b7 836 the

55:41 ↗ 2019 budget amendment and this is the

55:43 ↗ first time this item is before council

55:45 ↗ and I'd like to ask Beth Goldberg

55:47 ↗ finance director to make a presentation

55:50 ↗ good evening Beth good evening

55:55 ↗ you broke away from budget I did to talk

56:00 ↗ about budget thank you

56:11 ↗ okay good evening everyone taking a

56:14 ↗ break from the budget to talk about the

56:18 ↗ budget because that's what we do in

56:20 ↗ finance my name is Beth Goldberg I'm the

56:22 ↗ Director of Finance and I am here to

56:24 ↗ talk tonight about the 290 2019 budget

56:27 ↗ amendment this is the first time before

56:30 ↗ the council and we are seeking if

56:35 ↗ council is comfortable approval - not

56:38 ↗ tonight because most of the items in

56:40 ↗ this budget amendment are things that

56:42 ↗ the council has already seen so this is

56:46 ↗ very much of a technical item a

56:48 ↗ housekeeping item to align the 2019

56:51 ↗ budget with previous action that the

56:54 ↗ council has taken and so I'm gonna

56:57 ↗ provide you tonight with an overview of

56:59 ↗ the items that are in the budget

57:01 ↗ amendment and then as I mentioned we'll

57:03 ↗ be seeking council approval of the

57:05 ↗ ordinance I should also mention at the

57:07 ↗ outset that there is hopefully we're

57:10 ↗ actually hoping to bring forth another

57:13 ↗ budget amendment later this year that

57:16 ↗ would reflect some grant monies that

57:19 ↗ were hopefully going to receive from

57:22 ↗ King County that will help offset some

57:24 ↗ of the Bergsma costs that we have

57:26 ↗ previously talked to you about so there

57:29 ↗ likely will be one other budget

57:30 ↗ amendment that will be coming forth to

57:32 ↗ the council later this year the first

57:36 ↗ item I want to talk about with regard to

57:38 ↗ the amendment that is before you tonight

57:41 ↗ is actually a somewhat new item in this

57:45 ↗ budget amendment and it's new in that

57:48 ↗ the council has not talked about it this

57:49 ↗ year but council has talked about it in

57:52 ↗ previous years and this is going back to

57:55 ↗ November of 2016 the council authorized

57:59 ↗ an interfund loan between from the fleet

58:03 ↗ services fund to the street capital fund

58:05 ↗ to address what was seen at the time as

58:10 ↗ cash flow needs related to two projects

58:12 ↗ in particular southeast 62nd and some

58:15 ↗ work on East Lake Sammamish Parkway at

58:18 ↗ the time that this was presented to the

58:20 ↗ council

58:22 ↗ there was an anticipation of some grants

58:24 ↗ that were coming in and so this was to

58:26 ↗ address some cash flow needs to keep the

58:28 ↗ projects moving while we were waiting

58:31 ↗ for the grants the initial payback

58:34 ↗ period contemplated at the time was that

58:37 ↗ it would be paid back in the following

58:39 ↗ year that the grants would be received

58:40 ↗ we would pay back the loan in the

58:41 ↗ following year the following year came

58:44 ↗ and the grants did not materialize so

58:47 ↗ the loan was extended until December of

58:50 ↗ 2019 so finance staff have worked with

58:56 ↗ worked with Public Works engineering to

59:01 ↗ understand what was going on with this

59:03 ↗ grant because as best as we could tell

59:05 ↗ the grants didn't materialize so the

59:09 ↗ grants that were cited in the ordinance

59:11 ↗ were actually grants that were received

59:12 ↗ earlier than 2016 so we've never it's

59:17 ↗ not clear what grants the the ordinance

59:20 ↗ was was based on and so as we're looking

59:23 ↗ at this loan coming due we were faced

59:26 ↗ with a couple of options we could extend

59:28 ↗ the loan again or because we do not

59:32 ↗ believe that these grants are going to

59:33 ↗ materialize look for a mechanism to pay

59:36 ↗ off these loans so that is what we're

59:38 ↗ recommending here and we are

59:41 ↗ recommending using fund balance in the

59:44 ↗ mitigation fund related to the traffic

59:47 ↗ impact fees there's a balance in excess

59:50 ↗ of six million dollars in that in that

59:53 ↗ fund for traffic impact fees to repay

59:56 ↗ this loan and we believe that this is an

59:59 ↗ eligible expense because if you look

1:00:01 ↗ back at the impact study that was done

1:00:03 ↗ back in 2015

1:00:07 ↗ southeast 62nd and East Lake Sammamish

1:00:10 ↗ Parkway were named projects for those

1:00:13 ↗ mitigation dollars so that is why we are

1:00:16 ↗ recommending using those funds to pay

1:00:19 ↗ off this loan it is as I mentioned three

1:00:22 ↗ million dollars plus we owe interest of

1:00:24 ↗ one hundred and forty two thousand

1:00:26 ↗ dollars to so to effectuate this payback

1:00:29 ↗ of this loan it would require a transfer

1:00:32 ↗ or an expenditure from the mitigation

1:00:34 ↗ fund

1:00:35 ↗ for it to revenez revenue to the street

1:00:38 ↗ capital fund and then another transfer

1:00:42 ↗ to the fleet services fund to pay off

1:00:44 ↗ the loan and then with this action the

1:00:46 ↗ loan will be paid off fleet services

1:00:49 ↗ will be made whole and there will be

1:00:52 ↗ over three million dollars left in the

1:00:55 ↗ the excuse me the traffic mitigation

1:00:59 ↗ fund for other other impact projects

1:01:04 ↗ eligible for the impact if you see some

1:01:06 ↗ questions yeah move on okay we're good

1:01:11 ↗ keep going thanks Beth okay so the other

1:01:14 ↗ the other new adjustment and this is

1:01:17 ↗ very much of a technical change that is

1:01:19 ↗ included in the budget amendment that

1:01:21 ↗ has not come before council before is

1:01:24 ↗ related to work on the environmental

1:01:27 ↗ impact statement for Lake Sammamish

1:01:29 ↗ State Park the budget had contemplated

1:01:31 ↗ this work would be done by DSD but

1:01:36 ↗ instead Public Works engineering is

1:01:38 ↗ going to complete this work so we're

1:01:41 ↗ recommending the transfer of the

1:01:43 ↗ expenditure authority that had been in

1:01:45 ↗ the general fund and transfer that to

1:01:46 ↗ street operating to allow Public Works

1:01:49 ↗ engineering to complete this work again

1:01:52 ↗ this is not a new project this is just

1:01:54 ↗ shifting budget Authority from one fund

1:01:56 ↗ to another fund and then we have a list

1:02:01 ↗ of items that we are requesting

1:02:04 ↗ appropriation Authority for for items

1:02:07 ↗ that council has previously had talked

1:02:09 ↗ about through other legislative action

1:02:12 ↗ and authorized the administration to

1:02:15 ↗ include these items in a late later

1:02:17 ↗ budget amendment and so very quickly

1:02:19 ↗ these items are one hundred and fifty

1:02:22 ↗ six thousand three hundred seventy

1:02:24 ↗ dollars for the front street streetscape

1:02:27 ↗ project this was approved by council in

1:02:30 ↗ February two thousand nineteen it is an

1:02:33 ↗ increase in general fund expenditures

1:02:36 ↗ transferred to the street capital fund

1:02:38 ↗ to pay for this work in addition there's

1:02:42 ↗ a project lower read infiltration

1:02:44 ↗ gallery out of the stormwater fund this

1:02:47 ↗ would increase X

1:02:49 ↗ furniture authority by five hundred and

1:02:50 ↗ thirty thousand dollars just over five

1:02:52 ↗ hundred thirty thousand dollars this

1:02:55 ↗ project was originally approved by

1:02:57 ↗ council and April 2019 and the sewer

1:03:01 ↗ fund five hundred and our sorry excuse

1:03:04 ↗ me you got those numbers back room 315

1:03:06 ↗ thousand is sought for the holiday in

1:03:09 ↗ lift stations this was outlined in

1:03:13 ↗ action that council took in April of

1:03:16 ↗ 2019 and then increase in general fund

1:03:21 ↗ revenues from a grant and then the

1:03:24 ↗ corresponding expenditures related to

1:03:26 ↗ the King County 1 million tree grant

1:03:29 ↗ tree planning program and this was taken

1:03:33 ↗ up by council in June of 2019 and then

1:03:36 ↗ last the Gilman ditch restoration

1:03:39 ↗ project that was just before the council

1:03:42 ↗ a couple of weeks ago this would

1:03:44 ↗ increase the appropriation Authority and

1:03:46 ↗ the stormwater fund by $230,000 so this

1:03:52 ↗ slide here shows the overall impact of

1:03:55 ↗ all of these changes on on fund balances

1:03:59 ↗ so the there is a modest impact to the

1:04:03 ↗ general fund fund balance of a three

1:04:05 ↗ hundred and seventy dollars and then if

1:04:08 ↗ you look through the rest of street

1:04:10 ↗ operating a decrease in fund balance of

1:04:13 ↗ 156 thousand the mitigation fund as I

1:04:17 ↗ mentioned for related to the traffic

1:04:19 ↗ impact fees this balance is over six

1:04:22 ↗ million dollars so this reduction would

1:04:24 ↗ leave three million available Street

1:04:27 ↗ Capital is increasing which is offset by

1:04:31 ↗ the increase of above related to the

1:04:33 ↗ general fund and street operating and

1:04:36 ↗ then sewer and stormwater are decreasing

1:04:39 ↗ and fleet is increasing as the loan has

1:04:42 ↗ been paid off so that concludes my

1:04:48 ↗ overview of the budget amendment you

1:04:51 ↗ questions from Council are we ready for

1:04:56 ↗ a motion

1:04:57 ↗ at sooner mushroom ocean bed Ameri move

1:05:01 ↗ we adopt ordinance number two eight

1:05:04 ↗ seven eight amending the 2019 budget is

1:05:07 ↗ set forth in ordinance number two eight

1:05:09 ↗ five four and amended in ordinance

1:05:11 ↗ number two eight six three concerning

1:05:13 ↗ revenues expenditures and fund balance

1:05:15 ↗ for various funds for the year 2019 be

1:05:18 ↗ paying the inter fund loan set forth and

1:05:20 ↗ ordinance number two seven eight six and

1:05:22 ↗ extended by ordinance number two eight

1:05:24 ↗ three four and authorizing the finance

1:05:27 ↗ director to make the necessary

1:05:28 ↗ adjustments and approving prior

1:05:30 ↗ expenditures second it moved and

1:05:32 ↗ seconded is there any council discussion

1:05:34 ↗ because if there is I'm gonna have to

1:05:37 ↗ read this whole thing again so president

1:05:39 ↗ burns just read okay seeing no

1:05:41 ↗ discussion I'll call for the vote

1:05:43 ↗ all those in favor signify by saying aye

1:05:45 ↗ aye opposed thank you that carries

1:05:48 ↗ unanimously

1:05:49 ↗ third item under regular business this

1:05:52 ↗ evening is a b7 8:45 retention incentive

1:05:55 ↗ personnel policy and I'd like to ask and

1:05:58 ↗ your ass Snider our interim City

1:06:00 ↗ Administrator to come forward for the

1:06:02 ↗ presentation good evening good evening

1:06:06 ↗ what is not widely known is that in

1:06:09 ↗ addition to serving as interim city

1:06:11 ↗ administrators sometimes I also

1:06:12 ↗ moonlight as the acting HR director so I

1:06:18 ↗ wanted to give a quick presentation

1:06:19 ↗ about the retention policy that is

1:06:23 ↗ available in the agenda packet this

1:06:25 ↗ evening the retention incentive policy

1:06:28 ↗ would allow the city flexibility to

1:06:30 ↗ offer short-term financial incentives to

1:06:33 ↗ retain key mission-critical employees to

1:06:36 ↗ maintain adequate levels of service to

1:06:39 ↗ the public and the city recently

1:06:41 ↗ performed a classification and

1:06:43 ↗ compensation study to determine if its

1:06:46 ↗ employee compensation was in line with

1:06:49 ↗ market compensation levels also as part

1:06:52 ↗ of the classification compensation study

1:06:54 ↗ the city is examining personnel policies

1:06:56 ↗ that would expand and modernize our

1:07:00 ↗ tools to attract and retain qualified

1:07:03 ↗ employees retention incentives are a

1:07:07 ↗ part of those personnel policies that we

1:07:09 ↗ anticipate bringing forward two counts

1:07:11 ↗ this is the first part that's coming out

1:07:14 ↗ to you rather quickly because we've

1:07:17 ↗ established that there may be a need

1:07:18 ↗ within city operations to exercise this

1:07:20 ↗ tool Council approves retention

1:07:23 ↗ incentives are common in the private

1:07:25 ↗ sector education settings and large

1:07:27 ↗ public sector agencies so they have been

1:07:32 ↗ shown to be effective on a short-term

1:07:34 ↗ basis while other long-term changes to

1:07:38 ↗ compensation job duties work environment

1:07:40 ↗ etc are being explored retention

1:07:44 ↗ incentives are utilized for positions

1:07:46 ↗ that are again mission-critical or

1:07:48 ↗ difficult to fill so the city has

1:07:53 ↗ drafted a retention policy that's

1:07:56 ↗ concluded in your packet as per part as

1:07:58 ↗ part of this policy the policy provides

1:08:01 ↗ authority for the mayor and the city

1:08:04 ↗ administrator to administer a retention

1:08:06 ↗ incentive agreement with key

1:08:09 ↗ mission-critical employees as defined in

1:08:11 ↗ Section a of the policy attached in your

1:08:13 ↗ packet it also establishes eligibility

1:08:17 ↗ requirements for employees to receive

1:08:19 ↗ the incentive payment it also requires

1:08:24 ↗ verification that the city is at

1:08:26 ↗ imminent risk of losing its employee it

1:08:31 ↗ establishes a maximum rate of incentive

1:08:34 ↗ and the length of time the incentive can

1:08:36 ↗ be utilized again the intention is that

1:08:38 ↗ the incentive is a short-term bridge to

1:08:42 ↗ a longer term solution to retain

1:08:44 ↗ employees or recruit critical employees

1:08:47 ↗ and it also establishes payment payment

1:08:53 ↗ methods and requirements for executing

1:08:56 ↗ the agreement between the city employee

1:08:57 ↗ including repayment of the incentive if

1:09:00 ↗ the employee leaves before the agreement

1:09:04 ↗ expiration those are the general

1:09:08 ↗ components the city foresees using this

1:09:11 ↗ policy on a very rare basis that's why

1:09:14 ↗ we have tailored the criteria for

1:09:16 ↗ eligibility to be pretty narrow as

1:09:19 ↗ compared with other retention policies

1:09:21 ↗ that are out there in the market

1:09:23 ↗ but we do seek tools that will allow us

1:09:26 ↗ flexibility and times of need to respond

1:09:30 ↗ to urgent situations so next steps would

1:09:36 ↗ be if the city were to adopt this

1:09:39 ↗ retention policy there is an item that

1:09:42 ↗ follows this on the agenda today

1:09:45 ↗ discussing an MoU with one of our

1:09:47 ↗ bargaining units to be able to utilize

1:09:50 ↗ this incentive if adopted and also in

1:09:54 ↗ regards to the classification

1:09:55 ↗ compensation study council will be

1:09:58 ↗ hearing a presentation from our

1:09:59 ↗ consultant with an update on that study

1:10:01 ↗ on September 24th and so we can discuss

1:10:04 ↗ where the city is in compensation in

1:10:07 ↗ relation to the market as well as

1:10:10 ↗ preview what are some of the other

1:10:13 ↗ changes we may anticipate to personnel

1:10:15 ↗ policies at this time the administration

1:10:21 ↗ is asking council to adopt a retention

1:10:25 ↗ incentive policy that would be

1:10:28 ↗ applicable to all city employees an

1:10:32 ↗ alternative is that the council may

1:10:35 ↗ choose for example to narrow the policy

1:10:38 ↗ further to a specific group with an

1:10:41 ↗ amendment to the resolution any

1:10:44 ↗ questions any questions that's a member

1:10:49 ↗ right I just have a couple really easy

1:10:51 ↗ ones for you great so where's the

1:10:53 ↗ funding come from come from to cover the

1:10:57 ↗ cost of the retention incentives mm-hmm

1:11:00 ↗ we anticipate that the cost would come

1:11:02 ↗ from the department budget so in the

1:11:05 ↗ cases that we could foresee in the near

1:11:07 ↗ future that would that would be the case

1:11:09 ↗ that they would be absorbed in the

1:11:10 ↗ department budget and the reason for

1:11:12 ↗ that is that if we are at a point where

1:11:14 ↗ we may be losing employees such that it

1:11:18 ↗ threatens a critical service that the

1:11:19 ↗ city provides that we anticipate having

1:11:21 ↗ salary savings in that case that would

1:11:24 ↗ then be used to cover the cost of a

1:11:26 ↗ retention incentive now the second ones

1:11:29 ↗ will harder

1:11:30 ↗ we have two levels of incentive at 2.5%

1:11:33 ↗ any five percent what's the criteria to

1:11:37 ↗ determining whether we would do a two

1:11:39 ↗ point five or a five percent retention

1:11:40 ↗ bonus great their criteria are so

1:11:45 ↗ section a of the draft policy lists a

1:11:51 ↗ number of criteria in order to be able

1:11:55 ↗ to use five percent so the the amount so

1:12:01 ↗ let me back up a little bit here on

1:12:04 ↗ section a we have four criteria that may

1:12:07 ↗ be applied to be for an employee to use

1:12:11 ↗ this incentive that would be up to

1:12:15 ↗ twenty two point five percent of the

1:12:17 ↗ annual base salary in exchange for an

1:12:19 ↗ agreement to stay with the city for six

1:12:20 ↗ months now that amount may be doubled to

1:12:23 ↗ five percent as you note if at least

1:12:26 ↗ three of those criteria and section a

1:12:29 ↗ are met so up to five percent of annual

1:12:31 ↗ base salary can be used in exchange for

1:12:33 ↗ an agreement to stay with the city for

1:12:35 ↗ six months so that means that the

1:12:37 ↗ employee would have to meet not just one

1:12:40 ↗ of the criteria in section a but three

1:12:44 ↗ thank you are there any other questions

1:12:49 ↗ because president Mart's would you like

1:12:52 ↗ to make a motion I would like to make a

1:12:54 ↗ motion and if that motion is seconded

1:12:56 ↗ I'm gonna follow it immediately with an

1:12:58 ↗ amendment I moved to adopt resolution

1:13:00 ↗ number twenty 19-12 amending the city's

1:13:05 ↗ personnel policies to include a

1:13:06 ↗ retention incentive policy zero second

1:13:10 ↗ second couple of seconds there council

1:13:14 ↗ president Mart's I moved to amend

1:13:17 ↗ resolution number 2019 as 12-12

1:13:21 ↗ with the four following changes change

1:13:24 ↗ number one add to the end of the title

1:13:27 ↗ or employees represented by the Issaquah

1:13:30 ↗ Police Support Services Association

1:13:33 ↗ change number two in the first recital

1:13:36 ↗ substitute in critical roles with

1:13:40 ↗ represented by the Issaquah police

1:13:42 ↗ support services Association

1:13:44 ↗ Ainge number three add to the end of

1:13:47 ↗ section one for employees represented by

1:13:50 ↗ the Issaquah police support Services

1:13:52 ↗ Association and finally changed number

1:13:55 ↗ four delete section three is there a

1:13:58 ↗ second for the amendment second Thank

1:14:02 ↗ You council president Mart's would you

1:14:04 ↗ like to talk to your proposed amendment

1:14:06 ↗ I think that we would like to move

1:14:14 ↗ forward with this understanding that

1:14:17 ↗ personnel challenges in the city but I

1:14:20 ↗ think that we would like to take the

1:14:24 ↗ time when we look more broadly beyond

1:14:27 ↗ the Issaquah police support services

1:14:29 ↗ Association we would like to take a

1:14:31 ↗ little bit more time to understand the

1:14:33 ↗ implications for a citywide policy

1:14:36 ↗ thus wanting to keep this narrow focus

1:14:39 ↗ this evening

1:14:40 ↗ any other comments councilmember winter

1:14:44 ↗ Stein yes this amendment to the motion

1:14:49 ↗ which amends resolution achieves another

1:14:56 ↗ goal that I had coming here tonight

1:14:57 ↗ which would which would have been

1:15:01 ↗ proposed changes to the actual policy

1:15:05 ↗ itself we've heard a couple times this

1:15:08 ↗ evening description of the work as being

1:15:12 ↗ urgent or critical and since I know that

1:15:16 ↗ would been the intent of the application

1:15:19 ↗ of the policy I thought it would have

1:15:21 ↗ been appropriate to add those adjectives

1:15:24 ↗ to the actual policy itself but in these

1:15:29 ↗ amendments of placing it specifically

1:15:34 ↗ within this one group it's I think by

1:15:38 ↗ very definition of the work they do I

1:15:40 ↗ believe it's it's Public Safety related

1:15:42 ↗ and and that work is generally very

1:15:44 ↗ essential and critical and urgent so I'm

1:15:48 ↗ satisfied with these of this amendment

1:15:51 ↗ proposal to adjust the concern I had

1:15:54 ↗ earlier thank you any other

1:15:56 ↗ on the amendment are you

1:15:59 ↗ councilmember right I think this is on

1:16:01 ↗ the amendment but it it's it's a little

1:16:03 ↗ bit broader in scope and that is we we

1:16:05 ↗ we operate in a very competitive labor

1:16:09 ↗ market and I think we all know that and

1:16:11 ↗ there is a significant cost of turnover

1:16:13 ↗ in any organization when people leave

1:16:15 ↗ and so there's there is good reason to

1:16:18 ↗ have a tool such as a retention

1:16:22 ↗ incentive to keep people who are in very

1:16:25 ↗ high visibility high highly critical

1:16:28 ↗ positions employed that being said and

1:16:32 ↗ why I think the amendment is absolutely

1:16:34 ↗ essential is that it's a very very

1:16:38 ↗ important decision we're making to put

1:16:41 ↗ something like this in place and given

1:16:43 ↗ the timeframe in which we need to act

1:16:45 ↗ for some immediate needs I would like to

1:16:49 ↗ move forward with the resolution as

1:16:52 ↗ amended and I would love to come back

1:16:54 ↗ and spend some more time and hammer out

1:16:56 ↗ this policy so that we can make sure we

1:16:59 ↗ have something that is effective and is

1:17:01 ↗ equitable you can't remember a any other

1:17:04 ↗ comments before we go to vote on the

1:17:06 ↗ amendment only no other comments reread

1:17:11 ↗ the amendment the motion is to amend

1:17:14 ↗ resolution number 2:01 9-12 as follows

1:17:18 ↗ change number one add to the end of the

1:17:21 ↗ title for employees represented by the

1:17:22 ↗ Issaquah Police Support Services

1:17:24 ↗ Association change number two in the

1:17:27 ↗ first recital substitute in critical

1:17:29 ↗ represented by the ax square police

1:17:30 ↗ Support Services Association change

1:17:33 ↗ number three is to add to the end of

1:17:35 ↗ section 1 for employees represented by

1:17:37 ↗ the escuela police support services

1:17:39 ↗ Association and change number four is to

1:17:41 ↗ delete section three all in favor of the

1:17:44 ↗ amendment to the motion opposed it

1:17:50 ↗ carries unanimously

1:17:52 ↗ council president Mertz would you like

1:17:53 ↗ to speak to the main motion

1:17:54 ↗ I would so when we talk about services

1:18:02 ↗ that go to the heart of our community

1:18:05 ↗ I am always drawn back to the active

1:18:08 ↗ shooter incident that we

1:18:09 ↗ had in the city approximately Oh time

1:18:13 ↗ flies six or seven years ago and what it

1:18:18 ↗ means to have dispatchers who are local

1:18:23 ↗ and know our community and this is a

1:18:27 ↗ subject that I fought very hard for when

1:18:29 ↗ there was a conversation about a piece

1:18:31 ↗ AB consolidation effort in King County

1:18:34 ↗ I fought about as hard as anything I

1:18:36 ↗ fought to try to keep our ability to

1:18:39 ↗ have a peace app which is a which is a

1:18:42 ↗ dispatch basically for those who don't

1:18:44 ↗ who don't know but on the day that we

1:18:47 ↗ had the active shooter incident it's my

1:18:49 ↗ understanding that within 60 seconds of

1:18:51 ↗ the call coming in we had done a number

1:18:53 ↗ of things we had done things like

1:18:55 ↗ calling over to the gun range to get the

1:18:59 ↗ gun range to shut down and there's video

1:19:00 ↗ out there that that shows them getting

1:19:02 ↗ the call and shutting down the gun range

1:19:04 ↗ so that responding officers would

1:19:07 ↗ understand what was going on where and

1:19:08 ↗ we had I believe it was 10 or 11 other

1:19:11 ↗ law enforcement agencies that were

1:19:13 ↗ already on their way pretty impressive

1:19:16 ↗ so understanding the need to have strong

1:19:24 ↗ continuity and and strongly capable

1:19:27 ↗ people in these positions I think is an

1:19:28 ↗ absolute cornerstone of what we do in

1:19:32 ↗ our community

1:19:32 ↗ thanks you can't spend inerts anyone

1:19:36 ↗ else wishing to comment on the main

1:19:37 ↗ motion thank you if there's no further

1:19:43 ↗ discussion sorry all those in favor of

1:19:45 ↗ approving resolution number 2 0 1 9 - 1

1:19:48 ↗ - amending the city's personnel policies

1:19:51 ↗ to include a retention incentive policy

1:19:53 ↗ please signify by saying aye opposed

1:19:56 ↗ that carries unanimously thank you thank

1:19:59 ↗ you Thank You Andrea

1:20:03 ↗ fourth item under our regular business

1:20:05 ↗ this evening is a b 7 8 5 8 Issaquah

1:20:08 ↗ police support staff association

1:20:10 ↗ Memorandum of Understanding and I'd like

1:20:13 ↗ to ask Lauren Knox our HR coordinator to

1:20:15 ↗ make a presentation hello good evening

1:20:17 ↗ everyone thank you and this is closely

1:20:19 ↗ related to

1:20:20 ↗ obviously what Andrea just spoke about

1:20:23 ↗ so with this gender bill we're asking

1:20:27 ↗ for council to ratify a memorandum of

1:20:30 ↗ understanding with our Issaquah police

1:20:32 ↗ support services Association that MOU

1:20:36 ↗ essentially allows us to offer the

1:20:38 ↗ retention incentive policy to ipsa so

1:20:42 ↗ that they're members which are our

1:20:43 ↗ dispatch Corrections and police records

1:20:46 ↗ staff may be able to participate in the

1:20:49 ↗ policy the MOU was a result of

1:20:56 ↗ conversations between the city and EPSA

1:20:59 ↗ recognizing a need to respond quickly to

1:21:02 ↗ some staffing challenges particularly

1:21:05 ↗ particularly in our dispatch group group

1:21:09 ↗ these are typically extremely hard to

1:21:12 ↗ fill positions in the region and as

1:21:16 ↗ councilmember marks mentioned earlier a

1:21:18 ↗ need for strong continuity and

1:21:21 ↗ experience amongst that staff group the

1:21:25 ↗ MOU

1:21:26 ↗ the city open conversations with ipsa

1:21:29 ↗ about participating in the policy and

1:21:32 ↗ negotiated with the unit the MoU

1:21:36 ↗ represents the completion of discussions

1:21:39 ↗ between the parties and a agreement

1:21:42 ↗ between the parties with the recognition

1:21:44 ↗ that council would need to act in order

1:21:46 ↗ to implement the agreement the

1:21:51 ↗ understanding in the MOU is that this

1:21:55 ↗ policy will apply to our dispatch staff

1:21:58 ↗ and that is the intention we again we

1:22:02 ↗ need flexibility to be able to have

1:22:05 ↗ tools to react to situations with these

1:22:07 ↗ critical staffing positions as they

1:22:09 ↗ arise if council approves the policy

1:22:17 ↗ again we'll seek to apply it to our

1:22:19 ↗ dispatch staff within the language of

1:22:21 ↗ the policy and subject to its terms so

1:22:23 ↗ again very limited application we

1:22:28 ↗ anticipate that the cost impact for 2019

1:22:31 ↗ will be approximately $20,000

1:22:34 ↗ as Andrea mentioned earlier that will be

1:22:37 ↗ absorbed in the department budget so

1:22:39 ↗ there's no no need for additional budget

1:22:42 ↗ for this item so again to reiterate we

1:22:46 ↗ are asking for council to ratify the MOU

1:22:50 ↗ representing an agreement between the

1:22:52 ↗ city and EPSA to apply the retention

1:22:55 ↗ incentive policy to the episode

1:22:57 ↗ bargaining unit Thank You Lauren

1:23:00 ↗ questions is anyone prepared to make a

1:23:04 ↗ motion that's president Mertz I moved to

1:23:07 ↗ ratify the memorandum of understanding

1:23:09 ↗ with the Issaquah police support staff

1:23:11 ↗ Association EPSA as presented second

1:23:14 ↗ it's been moved and seconded is there

1:23:16 ↗ any council discussion that's the

1:23:20 ↗ present council pen that's great so

1:23:22 ↗ member winter Stein okay thank you I'm

1:23:30 ↗ glad to see and know that management and

1:23:35 ↗ the administration when recognizing my

1:23:42 ↗ need are able to respond so effectively

1:23:47 ↗ in such a short period of time I do

1:23:49 ↗ appreciate your work on this thinking

1:23:51 ↗ Thank You councilmember winters thank

1:23:53 ↗ you

1:23:53 ↗ any other comments no further discussion

1:23:58 ↗ all those in favor of ratifying the

1:24:00 ↗ memorandum of understanding with the

1:24:01 ↗ Issaquah please support staff

1:24:02 ↗ association as presented signify by

1:24:04 ↗ saying aye opposed it carries

1:24:08 ↗ unanimously

1:24:09 ↗ thank you very much next item on our

1:24:11 ↗ agenda this evening is good of the order

1:24:14 ↗ there I have two items noted down but I

1:24:17 ↗ want to see if anybody has anything to

1:24:19 ↗ add you think we're good of the order

1:24:21 ↗ council member which thing Thank You

1:24:23 ↗ mayor question start with a question for

1:24:25 ↗ you

1:24:26 ↗ I had the opportunity to meet with you

1:24:27 ↗ and deputy administrator Snyder last

1:24:31 ↗ week we had a kind of a briefing on

1:24:33 ↗ budget were you able to meet with every

1:24:38 ↗ member of the council I was I wasn't the

1:24:41 ↗ last one good question for interim city

1:24:44 ↗ administrator Snyder since last week yes

1:24:47 ↗ yes well I apologize can you repeat the

1:24:52 ↗ question

1:24:52 ↗ you met with everyone of the council and

1:24:56 ↗ giving a preview of your anticipated

1:24:59 ↗ major items of the 2020 budget like you

1:25:02 ↗ and I yes mayor Matt last ones yes we

1:25:05 ↗ have yes so everybody has kind of heard

1:25:07 ↗ that news and I just wanted to take this

1:25:09 ↗ opportunity very interesting this

1:25:10 ↗ evening for two year council president

1:25:13 ↗ Mart's talk about regressive nature of

1:25:16 ↗ impact fees flat fee regardless of the

1:25:19 ↗ price and all of that and we know

1:25:23 ↗ because and she's no longer here are in

1:25:26 ↗ this room a couple weeks ago our finance

1:25:30 ↗ director talked about gave a

1:25:31 ↗ presentation about the forecasted

1:25:35 ↗ deficit because forecasted revenues

1:25:38 ↗ being down expenses being up for 2018

1:25:42 ↗ carrying that over excuse me 2019 some

1:25:45 ↗ of that carrying over into 2020 and we

1:25:48 ↗ were looking at at that time I think the

1:25:50 ↗ number who was presented was pretty

1:25:51 ↗ significant like around 5.2 million

1:25:53 ↗ dollars I heard in the briefing that

1:25:55 ↗ there was a consideration of new revenue

1:25:57 ↗ and I and and related to utility taxes

1:26:01 ↗ and I've been thinking quite a bit about

1:26:03 ↗ that that only applies to property

1:26:05 ↗ remember when you're saying let me take

1:26:06 ↗ a break for a second

1:26:07 ↗ because there has been no proposal made

1:26:10 ↗ yet oh I just want to check back with

1:26:12 ↗ the city interim city administrator and

1:26:14 ↗ see if she's comfortable with this

1:26:17 ↗ I'm just letting people know that I

1:26:20 ↗ believe that's very regressive and it's

1:26:22 ↗ not something I'm going to support thank

1:26:26 ↗ you anything else we're good of the

1:26:27 ↗ order I have a couple of things here you

1:26:30 ↗ did here and during public comments

1:26:32 ↗ tonight that we had some deck of

1:26:34 ↗ students here who had some questions for

1:26:36 ↗ you wanting to kind of probe around the

1:26:38 ↗ edges and see how their council feels

1:26:39 ↗ about environmental issues recycling and

1:26:42 ↗ I think in particular banning of plastic

1:26:45 ↗ straws and I just wanted to get some

1:26:48 ↗ direction from you I have a suggestion

1:26:49 ↗ that maybe we the administration goes

1:26:52 ↗ back to the office of sustainability and

1:26:54 ↗ get some more information and gets in

1:26:56 ↗ contact with deca to see what resources

1:26:58 ↗ we can provide

1:26:59 ↗ and maybe there is an opportunity or

1:27:01 ↗ some will on your part to consider other

1:27:04 ↗ options along that line that seem

1:27:07 ↗ appropriate to start with os accounts

1:27:11 ↗ present merits and then councilmember

1:27:12 ↗ hunt did I see your hand go up yeah I

1:27:13 ↗ mean I think we should always be looking

1:27:16 ↗ at ways to reduce the waste stream I

1:27:20 ↗ personally have not yet been convinced

1:27:24 ↗ that changing straws will have a

1:27:26 ↗ substantial impact I mean I think when

1:27:28 ↗ we look at food packaging and we look at

1:27:31 ↗ general plastic bags I understand that

1:27:36 ↗ impact so as we look at this I would

1:27:38 ↗ want to understand how this might

1:27:41 ↗ compare to other mechanisms that we

1:27:43 ↗ could use or that other municipalities

1:27:44 ↗ like ours have used to reduce the waves

1:27:47 ↗ waste stream in if it's the if it's the

1:27:50 ↗ most bang for the buck so to speak

1:27:51 ↗ Thanks

1:27:54 ↗ I'm often impressed by the enthusiasm

1:27:56 ↗ that our community has for preserving

1:27:59 ↗ our natural environment and for doing

1:28:01 ↗ things like reducing our waste stream so

1:28:04 ↗ I think this could be part of a

1:28:07 ↗ discussion about how we could do that

1:28:09 ↗ and how we could look at what options we

1:28:11 ↗ could take as a city to make a

1:28:13 ↗ meaningful impact and reduce the waste

1:28:16 ↗ that we're producing thank you

1:28:18 ↗ other comments councilmember Goodman I

1:28:20 ↗ don't disagree with the comments that

1:28:22 ↗ it's first of all I'm impressed with the

1:28:28 ↗ interest in our local students to come

1:28:31 ↗ to a city council meeting and express

1:28:32 ↗ their concerns and their interests in

1:28:34 ↗ their their environment in the future

1:28:37 ↗ and whatever else they want to comment

1:28:38 ↗ to us about and certainly as we would

1:28:42 ↗ with all other commenters we would go

1:28:44 ↗ back and analyze and evaluate what their

1:28:48 ↗ suggestions are and that could be part

1:28:50 ↗ of a conversation of course keeping in

1:28:51 ↗ mind that we are facing a difficult

1:28:53 ↗ budget coming up thank you other

1:28:56 ↗ comments okay thank you that's very

1:28:59 ↗ helpful earlier today we did here in

1:29:03 ↗ audience comments about follow-up

1:29:06 ↗ conversations from your study session

1:29:08 ↗ let's become Newport way I presented

1:29:10 ↗ some additional information tonight

1:29:12 ↗ which was shared with you all

1:29:13 ↗ last week near the end of the week and I

1:29:15 ↗ just wanted to provide you an

1:29:16 ↗ opportunity if you so desire to provide

1:29:19 ↗ comments on that or just to wait till

1:29:21 ↗ the next touch which is I think we said

1:29:24 ↗ November 4th

1:29:26 ↗ councilmember interesting very much I

1:29:29 ↗ appreciate your taking action in

1:29:32 ↗ response not only to the public comments

1:29:34 ↗ but to I think a general sentiment that

1:29:36 ↗ was very clear from the council during

1:29:37 ↗ that study session I wouldn't say it

1:29:42 ↗ made me speechless but there were heard

1:29:44 ↗ some phrases tonight that a comment this

1:29:46 ↗ evening about how that was how that was

1:29:48 ↗ received and my reaction was similar I

1:29:51 ↗ was very pleased I I think that's tough

1:29:55 ↗ and because there isn't fun there isn't

1:29:56 ↗ there's a formal there is a formal

1:29:59 ↗ adoption that we've done and I just I I

1:30:05 ↗ do in follow-up and I think we're gonna

1:30:07 ↗ ear said you're gonna address this that

1:30:09 ↗ we have formally adopted that concept

1:30:11 ↗ plan and would like to know if from I'm

1:30:15 ↗ gonna kind of keeping things buttoned up

1:30:17 ↗ and tight that if any type of amendment

1:30:19 ↗ to that or any other legislative action

1:30:22 ↗ may be required even just to make sure

1:30:25 ↗ the the what we adopted and then the

1:30:28 ↗ design that you your staff goes forward

1:30:31 ↗ with our in sync thank you is there

1:30:36 ↗ anyone else who would like to comment on

1:30:37 ↗ a council member a so this is I'm super

1:30:41 ↗ excited about the change in direction I

1:30:43 ↗ think it's what the community wants but

1:30:45 ↗ there's a I guess a larger question that

1:30:49 ↗ I'd like us to ponder as we go forward

1:30:51 ↗ which is our environment is not static

1:30:53 ↗ and things change and we set plans and

1:30:55 ↗ we set directions and then the world

1:30:57 ↗ changes around us and what I think is

1:30:59 ↗ really good about what we did around

1:31:01 ↗ Newport it was it was US administration

1:31:04 ↗ pivoting with that new information and

1:31:07 ↗ saying you know it made sense in in 2017

1:31:11 ↗ the world changed the situation changed

1:31:13 ↗ and we recognized the change the

1:31:15 ↗ community recognized the change and we

1:31:17 ↗ were able to pivot so there this is an

1:31:19 ↗ instance and we did the right thing and

1:31:22 ↗ I'm really excited about that but I

1:31:23 ↗ think as we look forward it's all

1:31:25 ↗ questioning that are we doing the right

1:31:28 ↗ thing

1:31:29 ↗ are we factoring in new information are

1:31:31 ↗ we are we getting tied into something

1:31:35 ↗ because we it's what we said we were

1:31:36 ↗ going to do and it no longer is the

1:31:38 ↗ right thing to do so it's always doing

1:31:40 ↗ the right thing even if it means we have

1:31:41 ↗ to backtrack sometimes thank you any

1:31:44 ↗ other comments councilmember Goodman

1:31:49 ↗ I just think thank you for you know to

1:31:51 ↗ everybody who is involved in listening

1:31:54 ↗ to the community and primarily the

1:31:57 ↗ community because I think the council

1:31:59 ↗ had questions but also heard the

1:32:01 ↗ questions of the community which

1:32:02 ↗ influenced our study session so not only

1:32:07 ↗ just thank you for listening but thank

1:32:08 ↗ you for being prompt about telling the

1:32:14 ↗ community about the have it changed

1:32:16 ↗ right any other comments it worked last

1:32:21 ↗ week the last thing I wanted to do is

1:32:23 ↗ give a few meeting updates so September

1:32:26 ↗ 16th

1:32:27 ↗ I'm sorry September 24th there'll be a

1:32:30 ↗ council special meeting at 6 p.m. and

1:32:32 ↗ the potential agenda items are the

1:32:34 ↗ presentation of the proposed 2020 budget

1:32:36 ↗ September 24th is also a council study

1:32:40 ↗ session starting at 6:30 p.m. and the

1:32:42 ↗ potential agenda items are the

1:32:45 ↗ classification and compensation study

1:32:47 ↗ the south-southeast forty-third signal

1:32:50 ↗ improvement funding options and on

1:32:53 ↗ October 7th at the regular City Council

1:32:55 ↗ meeting which will be starting at 6 p.m.

1:32:57 ↗ which is a time change for us there are

1:33:00 ↗ currently no regular is schedule II no

1:33:03 ↗ regular business items currently

1:33:05 ↗ scheduled October 7th is also a budget

1:33:09 ↗ study session starting at 7:15 p.m. so

1:33:12 ↗ you're doing double-duty and it will be

1:33:15 ↗ the first proposed 2020 budget

1:33:18 ↗ deliberations opportunity for council

1:33:20 ↗ and that is all I had on meeting updates

1:33:24 ↗ as we announced earlier we will be going

1:33:27 ↗ into an executive session this evening

1:33:29 ↗ to discuss collective bargaining per RCW

1:33:33 ↗ 42.3 0.14 o paren 4 and this I

1:33:36 ↗ is expected to last 20 minutes and there

1:33:39 ↗ is no action anticipated to follow an

1:33:41 ↗ open session so we will not recess into

1:33:44 ↗ executive session at 8:42

1:33:59 ↗ you

1:55:58 ↗ we are back in open session at 9:04 p.m.

1:56:01 ↗ and there being no further business this

1:56:04 ↗ evening we're adjourned at 9:04 p.m.

1:56:12 ↗ you

1:56:15 ↗ you

1:56:18 ↗ you

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Council / Members (6)

Stacy Goodman

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Paul Winterstein

Excused

Mariah Bettise

Motions and votes (7)

Adopt Ordinance No. 2877, relating to impact and mitigation fees, adopting 2019 impact fee and mitigation studies and amending Issaquah Municipal Code in order to update the City's transportation and fire impact fees, and the City's general government buildings, pedestrian and bicycle and law enforc…

Moved by REH · seconded by GOODMAN

Carried 6-0

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Adopt Ordinance No. 2878, amending the 2019 budget as set forth in Ordinance No. 2854 and amended in Ordinance No. 2863 concerning revenues, expenditures and fund balance for various funds for the year 2019, repaying the interfund loan set forth in Ordinance No 2786 and extended by Ordinance No. 283…

Moved by MARTS · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

Carried 6-0

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Approve Resolution No. 2019-12, amending the City’s Personnel Policies to include a Retention Incentive Policy.

Moved by MARTS · seconded by GOODMAN

Amend the resolution as follows: At the end of the title, add: “for employees represented by the Issaquah Police Support Services Association” In the first recital, substitute: “in critical roles” with “represented by the Issaquah Police Support Services Association” At the end of Section 1, add: “f…

Moved by MARTS · seconded by REH

Carried 6-0

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Ratify the Memorandum of Understanding with the Issaquah Police Support Staff Association (IPSSA) as presented. .

Moved by MARTS · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

Carried 6-0

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0393 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Sept. 16, 2019, $4,487,497.78; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Sept. 3, 2019; Approved. c) AB 7785 - Amending School Impact Fees; Adopted Ordinance No. 2876, amending subsection 3.63.100(a) of…

Moved by MARTS · seconded by GOODMAN

Carried 6-0

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein

Main motion as amended: APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0393 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Sept. 16, 2019, $4,487,497.78; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Sept. 3, 2019; Approved. c) AB 7785 - Amending School Impact Fees; Adopted Ordinance No. 2876, amending s…

Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by

Carried 6-0

In favor: Stacy Goodman, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein