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Monday, October 7, 2019

6:00 PM · 1h 14m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topics tracked across meetings:
2020 Levy and Revenue Sources AB 7757 1/4
Domestic Violence Action Month Proclamation ID 0518 2/2
Section
3. SPECIAL BUSINESS
3a
Domestic Violence Action Month Proclamation ID 0518
packet pp.5–6
Staff report:
Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov
3b
Substance Abuse Prevention Month Proclamation ID 0556
packet pp.7–8
Staff report:
Executive Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3020 issaquahwa.gov
7. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES
7a
Regional Clean Fuels Standard ID 0571
packet pp.9–29
Staff report:
At the October 7, 2019 City Council Meeting, Council will receive an informational presentation on the proposed Clean Fuel Standard for the Central Puget Sound region. Craig Kenworthy, Executive Director of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) will be on hand to provide an overview. PSCAA is a regional government agency with jurisdiction over King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties.
8. CONSENT CALENDAR
8c
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Sept. 16, 2019
Carried 6-0
Approve · packet pp.207
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR c) 09-16-19 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
Roll call:
Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein
8f
Minutes: Council Study Session, Sept. 24
Carried 6-0
Approve · packet pp.217–218
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR f) 09-24-19 Council Study Session Minutes Page (0000)
Roll call:
Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein
8g
Proposed 2020 Budget: Levy and Revenue Sources AB 7757
Carried 6-0
Set Public Hearing · packet pp.219–227
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
The City's authority to impose a property tax is derived from the Washington State Constitution and described in the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) Chapters 84.52 and 84.55. The revenues from property tax are considered general government revenues. That means that this money is placed in the General Fund and can be used for any basic governmental service or good such as public safety, planning, parks or administration.
Roll call:
Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein
8h
Lodging Tax Advisory Committee AB 7855
Carried 6-0
Confirm · packet pp.229–232
Topics: BudgetTourism
Staff report:
letter (Exhibit B). Having met the qualifications for appointment, the Administration and Councilmember Goodman, LTAC Chair, recommend that Autumn Ridnell be appointed as representative of the Chamber for the remainder of the term, which expires on Dec. 31, 2019.
Roll call:
Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein
10. GOOD OF THE ORDER
10a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:09 you
0:19 good evening the gavel seems to be AWOL
0:22 tonight so I'm just gonna open the
0:25 meeting with my voice instead I'd like
0:27 to call to order the Monday October 17
0:30 2009 teen City Council regular meeting
0:33 we're starting at 6:00 p.m. this evening
0:35 because the council has a budget work
0:37 session following at 7:15 so I'd like to
0:40 welcome everybody from coming tonight we
0:42 have a really great crowd councilmember
0:46 Goodman is excused this evening and will
0:48 not be joining us and I would like to
0:51 ask those in the audience that would
0:52 like to join the council night to stand
0:54 for the Pledge of Allegiance I do like
1:17 to say welcome to our city administrator
1:20 Wally Bob quits this is the first
1:22 council meeting that he is sitting up
1:24 here with us welcome Wally thank you
1:27 under special business this evening I
1:29 have two proclamations that I'm going to
1:32 do unfortunately for our first
1:34 proclamation our recipients aren't here
1:37 to receive it this evening they're
1:39 unable to attend so I'm going to do a
1:41 few excerpts from that Proclamation and
1:44 I want to thank Wendy Lindquist and
1:47 Sabrina Coleman for life wire for
1:49 working with the city I'm putting this
1:50 Proclamation together whereas domestic
1:56 violence is a serious crime that affects
1:58 one in four women and one in seven men
2:01 during their lifetime and whereas
2:03 domestic violence does not discriminate
2:05 and crosses all economic racial gender
2:09 educational religious and societal
2:12 barriers and is sustained by
2:14 indifference and whereas ending the
2:17 cycle of this vicious crime requires the
2:19 courage of survivors and the support of
2:22 the larger community
2:23 now therefore I Mary Lou Polly mayor of
2:26 this
2:26 acqua do hereby proclaim the month of
2:29 october 2019 to be domestic violence
2:32 action month in the city of Issaquah and
2:35 i urge all citizens to speak out against
2:37 domestic violence and support life wires
2:39 efforts to prevent and end domestic
2:41 abuse in our community and increase
2:44 public awareness of an action on this
2:46 issue next proclamation that I'll be
2:52 reading this evening is ID zero five
2:55 five six Substance Abuse Prevention
2:57 Month Proclamation and I'd like to get
2:59 Jerry Blackburn to join me up at the
3:01 podium and hello friends thank you for
3:17 coming where as many of our young people
3:23 do not develop the skills needed to
3:25 productively go through adolescent
3:27 substance free and whereas substance use
3:30 can and does negatively impact the
3:32 development and potential for our youth
3:33 to succeed and where a substance use
3:36 prevention has a greater impact than
3:38 later intervention by changing a child's
3:41 early life path away from maladaptive
3:44 solutions and towards positive behaviors
3:46 and productivity and whereas substance
3:49 use preservation prevention is an
3:51 extremely cost effective model in
3:53 comparison to later high utilization
3:55 interventions in general terms a savings
3:58 of up to ten dollars or more for every
4:01 dollar spent on effective programming
4:03 and whereas the benefits of increasing
4:05 protective factors while reducing risk
4:08 factors and engaging social-emotional
4:11 learning provides a universal benefit to
4:13 all of our youth and whereas by stopping
4:15 the drug use before it starts we can
4:18 prevent the disease of addiction and
4:20 create stronger neighborhoods in our
4:21 community now therefore I Mary Lou poly
4:24 mayor of the city of Issaquah do hereby
4:26 proclaim the month of October 2019 as
4:30 2019 as substance abuse prevention month
4:32 in the city of Issaquah and call upon
4:35 citizens to join me and engaging in
4:37 appropriate programs that
4:39 to ''tis to promote comprehensive
4:40 substance abuse prevention efforts in
4:43 our community jerry wonder if you'd like
4:45 to introduce your guests and say a few
4:47 words
4:48 I would absolutely thank you members of
4:52 the council and thank you Mary polly for
4:54 this Proclamation it's hard not to be a
4:58 little bit emotional our community just
5:00 recently has went through the most
5:03 horrific tragedy one can imagine that
5:06 was you know a direct result of
5:08 substance abuse and substance use and it
5:12 really draws into focus the the
5:16 unbelievably important need for
5:19 prevention services in our community
5:21 influence of choice is on Jerry by the
5:24 way I've the honor of functioning as the
5:28 executive director for influence of
5:29 choice and and our sole mission is to
5:32 reduce substance use in our community
5:34 and promote medical physical and and and
5:37 social wellness in our community and we
5:40 do that as a as an organization we have
5:42 tons of members here we walk down from
5:44 our meeting just to make sure that we
5:46 are here to take an acceptance
5:47 proclamation because it's really
5:49 important that as a community we
5:51 recognize preventative interventions as
5:54 as the solution rather than just these
5:57 the high risk high intensity
6:00 interventions that occur later and again
6:02 there's no more tragic example of that
6:05 in our community than the the loss of
6:08 young people as a result of overdoses
6:11 and so thank you for this and thank you
6:14 in the future for everything that you're
6:16 able to do specific to human services
6:18 because there are lives on the line and
6:22 I'll introduce Katie she's our special
6:25 projects coordinator here and you can
6:27 introduce Hannah hi I'm Katie molar and
6:31 this is Hanna Frey singer she goes to
6:33 Gipps neck and we are we actually have
6:36 the pleasure of advocating on behalf of
6:38 youth in Issaquah this cost school
6:41 district to make change and I feel very
6:45 fortunate to have this job and hopefully
6:47 all of our students will positively be
6:50 influenced by
6:52 work that we are doing thank all of you
6:57 for coming this evening
7:00 [Applause]
7:26 thank you for coming in this portion of
7:33 the meeting is open for audience
7:35 comments this is your time to address
7:37 your council please limit your comments
7:40 to up to five minutes and we did have we
7:43 do have a sign-up list and those who
7:45 signed up will be called up first if you
7:47 didn't sign up don't worry we'll call
7:49 after to see if there are others that
7:51 would like to address council and if you
7:54 are here as part of a group can you
7:55 please identify that group when you're
7:58 up at the microphone and if you are in
8:02 the audience and listening this evening
8:03 and you would like to indicate to
8:04 council your support of the comments
8:06 your hearing please do so by raising
8:07 your hand and that really helps them
8:09 understand which I which item you came
8:12 for and where you feel like you strongly
8:14 support the comments you're hearing
8:15 tisha has anyone signed up to speak this
8:17 evening yes Larry Franks mana Larry
8:30 Mira Poly council and city staff
8:35 my name is Larry Franks I'm at two four
8:39 zero zero one southeast hundred and
8:40 third Street Issaquah for 47 years so
8:44 far I'm actually here to speak for my
8:47 constituents and her name is ms current
8:52 cos shall which she's also will tolerate
8:55 the the nickname Jenny Jenny would like
9:00 to thank the council mayor Polly and the
9:03 city staff for recognizing her and
9:05 Issaquah Creek as is a quad treasurer
9:07 number one she's also grateful for being
9:10 reared at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery
9:13 known as is a quad treasurer number two
9:16 however Jenny is worried the vast
9:20 majority of her offspring will die in
9:23 their attempt to travel to salt water
9:25 from the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery to
9:27 show she'll be a mere 49 miles something
9:31 can be done something must be done Jenny
9:34 is counting on her friends to help in
9:37 particulars she's depending on the
9:38 Friends of Salmon Hatchery who worked
9:41 closely with her official sponsors the
9:45 Washington Department of Fish and
9:46 Wildlife and other biologists Ginny is
9:49 asking you as asking the city to be
9:52 friends to friends and support their
9:54 efforts to keep her progeny a living
9:57 treasure not a historic footnote I thank
10:01 you and Ginny Thank You Larry it shows
10:05 anyone else signed up yes Linda Peters
10:07 oh and there are lots of hands in the
10:10 audience that are up then would you like
10:12 to come up
10:27 good evening and thank you mayor and
10:30 council my name is Linda Peters and I am
10:34 today representing people's climate
10:36 action of Issaquah this is what feels a
10:40 little low and I'm a resident my address
10:44 is one five five Mount Olympus Drive
10:46 Northwest and I want to start by saying
10:49 this is an amazing town it's a call I've
10:53 moved here recently prior to that I
10:55 lived on the Big Island of Hawaii which
10:57 is another beautiful spot my testimony
11:00 today is being submitted as a member and
11:03 representative of the people for climate
11:05 action this group was recently formed in
11:09 the city of Issaquah for the city of
11:11 Issaquah and it joins over ten other PCA
11:17 City groups and these groups are formed
11:20 as part of a coalition in King County so
11:24 anybody in a green scarf today are my
11:26 comrades-in-arms ready to fight the
11:28 climate change fight our group has
11:32 reached out to our elected officials and
11:34 our staff to share our our mission our
11:39 goals and to learn a little bit more
11:41 about some of your ideas and challenges
11:44 I know it's a claw is far advanced in
11:47 having a sustainability department we
11:49 were able to meet with mr. David
11:52 Fujimoto and some of his staff and talk
11:54 through again some of our goals and some
11:56 of theirs and that is something that's
12:00 like I say it's definite of a lot of
12:02 other cities so I congratulate you on
12:04 that we understand that this meeting
12:07 today is going to be a lot of focus on
12:08 budget and we just want to urge the
12:13 council and the mayor as they look at
12:15 the budgets that they consider things
12:17 that will impact climate action I was
12:20 really delighted when I walked in and
12:21 saw all these young beautiful faces and
12:24 just happened to chat briefly to say
12:26 that they were here from a college to as
12:29 a Civic assignment I believe
12:31 and I just think they are our future and
12:33 this climate it was my generation that I
12:36 feel responsible for helping create this
12:38 mess that we're in and so I really
12:40 really strongly support our youth that
12:43 are coming together and really doing
12:46 what they can to assure their future and
12:48 their future families and I know some of
12:50 you have gotten a copy of this book
12:52 called how cities businesses and
12:54 citizens can save the planet I haven't
12:56 read it all through yet but I'm going to
12:58 and it does really inspire me to realize
13:01 that we are the solution not looking to
13:04 the necessarily to the state or to our
13:06 federal government for for help so for
13:11 people that don't know the PCA mission
13:13 is to help local governments develop and
13:15 implement comprehensive climate action
13:17 plans and that's our local goal goal
13:19 here too and it's a call and I know most
13:22 of you are probably familiar with k4c
13:24 the some of the people in the audience
13:26 may not be which is King County's
13:28 climate collaboration that started in
13:29 2014
13:32 the goals were set so that we would
13:34 reduce greenhouse gases 25 percent by
13:37 next year 2020 by 50 percent in 2030 and
13:41 by 80 percent in 2050 and these are
13:45 critical goals the bad news is we're not
13:48 going to do it by 2020 no County is
13:50 going to no City is going to do that the
13:52 good news is we do have the opportunity
13:55 with all of us working together the
13:56 business the elected officials and the
13:59 people to make the goal city of Portland
14:03 is a model city within the Pacific
14:05 Northwest they they have done amazing
14:08 reduction in greenhouse gases while
14:11 increasing a lot of jobs and a lot of
14:13 populations so we're hoping that we can
14:16 learn from some of their challenges and
14:18 successes and I just want to close by
14:21 saying this is going to take bold brave
14:24 action to make a difference in to save
14:27 our planet but I think we can do it
14:29 thank you
14:33 okay to go I figured at least the people
14:35 with the green stars on we're gonna
14:36 raise their hands on that one is there
14:39 anyone else under sign-up list yes
14:40 Harlan Gallagher
14:55 hello mayor poly council city staff my
15:01 name is Harlan Gallinger and I'm here
15:02 tonight speaking on behalf of the school
15:05 board and representing the 21,000
15:07 students and families in our district I
15:10 wanted to chat a little bit about the
15:12 opioid crisis that I'm sure it's been a
15:14 luda to already with your population and
15:16 what I've handed out too is our
15:19 statement that we put together and
15:20 released last week you as council knows
15:23 how challenging that is to develop in
15:25 between meetings so a lot of work went
15:27 into that and I want to read just the
15:29 bottom three bullets of that so it says
15:32 we know that the opiate crisis will not
15:35 be fixed overnight but within days to
15:37 weeks we commit to number one deeper and
15:40 broader partnerships with our mayors and
15:41 city councils as well as with local law
15:43 enforcement agencies to address the easy
15:45 access to opiates to community-wide
15:49 discussion that is inclusive to students
15:50 parents teachers and community members
15:52 across our district and three focused
15:55 parent community meetings in our most
15:57 impacted school communities to discuss
15:59 prevention early intervention and
16:01 accountability strategies so I want to
16:04 talk a little bit tonight about what
16:06 that will actually look like for us so
16:08 when I think about deeper and broader
16:09 partnerships I really think about us
16:11 breaking down silos so we can better
16:13 serve all of our kids and all of our
16:15 families across your municipality in our
16:17 district so by doing this I think that
16:20 we can maximize the impact of our tax
16:23 dollars so for collaboration certainly
16:26 between the City Council in the school
16:28 board I know that we've asked for and
16:30 you've asked for it I'm here tonight to
16:31 say thank you for joining us in a
16:34 linkage tomorrow to talk about this
16:37 singular issue of the opiate crisis in
16:39 our community to encourage you to
16:43 continue to direct city staff and law
16:46 enforcement to work together with our
16:48 district you provide a great partnership
16:50 with us with the SRO program and you
16:53 know I think that some of it is so
16:55 personality or environmental dependent
17:00 that's we might not have the synergy
17:01 amongst our three schools across our
17:03 district in order to make sure we're
17:05 maximizing the use of those dollars in
17:07 that process
17:08 and number three I want to invite you to
17:11 the community meeting that Skyline High
17:13 School is hosting on Wednesday October
17:16 16th at 7:00 p.m. the second thing is
17:21 communication I think that we can
17:23 certainly do a better job of can you
17:25 have of making sure that we have a
17:28 shared vision between the district and
17:29 the city and then more importantly that
17:32 we share that out to our community
17:33 because the more that we have a
17:34 collective shared messaging really
17:37 speaking out against alcohol and illicit
17:42 drugs the stronger that our students
17:45 will hear that and if you flip over to
17:47 the backside of these graphs you'll see
17:50 that we do pretty well as a district
17:53 when it comes to our kids staying away
17:57 from alcohol use but if you look that by
18:00 time they're seniors we far exceed the
18:02 state and what that says is that we
18:05 collectively we the district you the
18:07 city we need to do a better job of
18:09 really speaking out against this and why
18:11 it's dangerous to our growing adolescent
18:13 minds and bodies and the third one I
18:17 want talk about is partnership so I
18:19 spoke a little bit about we spend a
18:21 hundred fifty thousand dollars a year on
18:23 SRO services that we sure jointly with
18:25 this city visit wha and you know what
18:28 when I think about prevention and
18:30 enforcement
18:31 I really wonder like have we aligned our
18:32 policies both as a city and a district
18:34 to make sure that we're maximizing the
18:36 ability and effectiveness of our SRO
18:39 program to really make sure that we're
18:41 focusing on prevention I think that we
18:45 can have frank discussions on how to
18:47 address easy access that our kids have
18:49 to alcohol to opiates in our community
18:53 and what are things from a policy
18:55 standpoint that we may need to adjust
18:57 and then talk about like what are the
18:59 barriers that we have that currently
19:02 exists and that's working together and
19:06 then I think it's most important that
19:10 the community sees is that just as we
19:12 set the tone for our district as a board
19:14 you also set the tone as a city for you
19:18 know how we work together
19:19 and how we say to our kids and our
19:21 families that this is not a place for
19:24 opiate use so looking forward to a
19:27 meeting with you guys tomorrow night
19:28 thank you Thank You Harlan and thank you
19:31 for inviting and coordinating this
19:33 meeting tomorrow night a council does
19:35 have a budget session tomorrow night as
19:37 well and I am very appreciative of all
19:40 of you who could do both of those events
19:41 thank you very much super important to
19:43 the community Thank You Harlan is there
19:45 anyone else on our signup us no is there
19:47 anyone else here this evening that would
19:49 like to address the kennel council Steve
19:50 come on up
19:59 hello mayor poly city council my name is
20:02 tiara I am a homeowner here in the old
20:04 town area for about twelve years now
20:06 before I started I wanted to say welcome
20:08 to Wally and I can say that's it so I
20:10 thought you should say that thank you
20:13 four things on my mind I want to be
20:15 respectful or five minutes together so I
20:17 want to try to maximize that the first
20:19 was I had opportunity to go to the the
20:25 Jazz Festival that was a fluence park
20:26 that seemed like a fun time so thank you
20:28 all for that
20:29 second item the library recently put
20:32 down new carpeting and add a new seating
20:34 table space in so it's just quick shout
20:36 out to our library as a public resource
20:37 to for people to use so if nothing else
20:40 if you don't even get a chance to stop
20:41 by please do a third issue as we start
20:47 going into budget talks I didn't want to
20:49 talk about a specific issue but just
20:50 kind of generally overall I know that
20:51 the city is looking at kind of master
20:55 plans for three parks and I just wanted
20:58 at one point stand in front of the
20:59 council and say I think we're looking in
21:01 the wrong place I think we need to look
21:03 at focusing our money and our spending
21:04 on maybe the connections between the
21:06 neighborhoods and the communities and
21:08 preserving areas and the minimal
21:11 infrastructure we need to make cannulas
21:13 going forward I think to build structure
21:15 for some 38,000 people isn't the best
21:18 use of the funds that we have now I
21:20 think in context a future that Cassity
21:22 to do that I think we need to kind of
21:25 change that focus of far as spending
21:28 money on fixtures they're going to run
21:29 down and just maintain and grow who were
21:31 going to become a big fan of a person
21:34 open space but I don't think that's the
21:35 best use for the limited resources that
21:37 seem to be what we're facing going
21:39 forward so just were not there for your
21:41 consideration I'm sure I'll talk more
21:42 about budget in the time ahead but why
21:45 don't kind of set that ground stone the
21:48 fourth issue is the recent evergreen
21:51 Ford Lincoln site I admit I have some
21:55 concerns at the best it seems like a
21:59 City Business City isn't doing the job
22:03 responsibilities that I expect to be
22:06 done at best - seems like the city found
22:09 a way a loophole to get some approve
22:11 of what I never thought would be
22:15 approved was business with 100 feet of a
22:18 fish bearing body had best to City
22:23 that's the best case scenario the worst
22:25 case is that I saw people with the
22:27 meeting attend the meeting asking
22:28 questions that I seems to me the city
22:30 staff should have been asking the city
22:32 should be asking that aren't happening
22:34 there's not seems to be some respect I'm
22:37 not disappointed staff but I as kind of
22:39 setting the tone as the governing body
22:41 of the city I'm spending expecting you
22:43 all to do and set that tone I guess I
22:47 both want to ask and to the degree that
22:50 I'm able to to insist that I'd like to
22:52 see the City Council go into executive
22:54 session if needed and come up with two
22:57 things one was a moratorium on future
23:00 growth until we get plans in place that
23:02 are going to prevent what happened from
23:04 happening again I don't understand why
23:11 we're so at risk we said we come this
23:13 different city than we are today
23:15 by maintaining our open spaces but
23:18 maintaining our creeks our fish salmon
23:19 as the previous speaker spoke about this
23:22 is a treasure that we're at risk losing
23:23 and we're not doing the things that we
23:25 say we're going to do that we promised
23:26 are going to be put forth so I just want
23:31 to see that maintained barring that I'm
23:34 not willing to wait until the right of
23:36 code until that happens so I guess I'm
23:39 asking what are we gonna do about that I
23:41 don't want to just add possibly I admit
23:43 I'm kind of an introvert and being angry
23:45 looks the same whether I'm an introvert
23:47 or not but I don't think we're doing our
23:50 job so please do something no thanks
23:55 thank you Steve is there anyone else who
23:57 would like to address Council this
23:58 evening
23:59 do a second call anybody who would like
24:02 to get up and address the council about
24:05 any of the Poli Sci students okay no it
24:08 is getting and
24:09 the third and last call for anybody who
24:11 would like to address their council this
24:13 evening okay with that I will close
24:15 audience comments and we will move on to
24:20 committee and regional reports
24:21 councilmember Walsh thank you madam
24:24 mayor I have no report at this time
24:25 thank you
24:26 that's member hunt thank you madam mayor
24:29 I have three reports so the Huayra ate
24:33 salmon recovery council met on September
24:35 19th and we had several items on the
24:38 agenda the first one was that we
24:40 approved the project subcommittee
24:42 funding recommendations so these are
24:45 salmon recovery funding board grants
24:48 that are given by the yr8 salmon
24:52 recovery council to various projects we
24:54 also had a presentation about the value
24:57 of our rivers which was by an individual
24:59 from American rivers and this was
25:01 interesting because it discussed how to
25:04 quantitate the economic value that
25:08 preservation and conservation of our
25:10 streams and creeks and rivers actually
25:12 brings to a community and it is a big
25:16 study that's going to be conducted that
25:19 will actually provide some quantitative
25:21 metrics around that value we also had a
25:24 presentation about how salmon
25:27 populations are monitored and we heard a
25:29 success story which was the citizen
25:32 action training school which was a
25:34 presentation by mid sound fisheries
25:36 enhancement group and I thought some
25:39 members of our communities might be
25:40 interested in this it was a presentation
25:42 about a program to educate interested
25:44 citizens to learn about the history of
25:46 our watersheds tribal management of
25:48 natural resources salmon recovery food
25:50 chain dynamics water quality and more so
25:53 this is for a citizen education and
25:55 there's a lot more information available
25:56 at the yr8 salmon recovery website if
25:59 individuals aren't interested the next
26:02 meeting of the salmon recovery council
26:03 will be Thursday November November 21st
26:06 and it will be at the Mercer Island
26:08 Community Center at 2 p.m. I also
26:11 attended the Cascade Water Alliance
26:13 board meeting on September 25th at 3:30
26:15 we had two items the first one was to
26:20 approve the cascade rate through up
26:22 adjustment for 2020
26:23 and this item we actually did not vote
26:26 on we all vote on this next meeting and
26:28 this has to do this is importance it's
26:32 about because actually it's ago I had
26:34 the largest percent change that would be
26:38 relevant to this trip and it would be in
26:40 our favor if we do if we are able to do
26:45 the true up now verses in 2021 and it
26:49 also affects other cities less that are
26:51 on a two-year budget cycle versus our
26:53 council which is on or our city rather
26:55 which is on a one-year budget cycle so
26:58 that will be coming back to the cascade
27:00 water Alliance and we will be discussing
27:01 that at the next meeting and then we
27:03 also approved a water supply audit in an
27:07 amount to not exceed one hundred and
27:08 forty six thousand dollars and this will
27:11 be an audit of all the member cities for
27:13 their individual water supplies the next
27:15 meeting of cascade water Alliance will
27:17 be on October 23rd at the cascade office
27:21 in Bellevue at 3:30 and last meeting is
27:25 the cascade or sorry the King County
27:27 King Conservation District Advisory
27:30 Committee meeting and this was on
27:32 September 18th and we reviewed the
27:34 regional food grants and approved the
27:37 recommendations regarding the regional
27:39 food grants that are given by the king
27:41 conservation district Advisory Committee
27:42 and that concludes my report thank you
27:45 before I move on to councilmember Rea I
27:47 think it good of the order this evening
27:49 this would be our opportunity maybe to
27:50 have a conversation with Council about
27:52 the true up so that we have some
27:54 direction depending on who is attending
27:56 that next board meeting okay that's good
27:58 it's Murray Thank You mayor poly the
28:01 East Side Fire and Rescue Board will
28:03 meet this Thursday October 10th at 4
28:05 p.m. at Eastside fire rescue
28:07 headquarters there are a couple of
28:10 interesting things on the agenda one is
28:11 the first is around mobile integrated
28:13 health care and prevent potential
28:15 partnerships we're going to get receive
28:18 the annual report from the King County
28:20 EMS cardiac arrest and then finally
28:24 we're going to be looking at a mid-year
28:26 biennial operating budget amendment also
28:30 if anyone is interested on October 26
28:33 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
28:35 at station 82 which is up in Sammamish
28:37 they're going to be having an open house
28:38 that day so if you want to go to the
28:40 fire station and climb on the trucks
28:43 opportunity and that concludes my report
28:46 this evening Thank You councilmember a
28:48 councilmember interesting thank you
28:50 madam mayor
28:50 last Thursday October 3rd was a meeting
28:52 of the growth management policy board at
28:54 PSR C I was unable to attend because I
28:57 was out of the country I do know that
28:58 the subject was vision 2050 and there's
29:01 still quite a bit of back-and-forth
29:03 going on on the terms about the policies
29:05 and the action items for that plan I'll
29:10 have the opportunity to review the
29:12 meeting minutes and video before our
29:14 next council meeting and I'll provide a
29:15 report at that time about what happened
29:17 last week that concludes my report thank
29:19 you Debu council president batiste
29:21 thank you madam mayor on September I've
29:25 got a couple of updates and then just a
29:27 couple of announcements on some events
29:30 that are coming up the East Side Human
29:33 Services forum met on Thursday September
29:35 19th
29:36 we started with an organizational review
29:40 from a group of consultants that have
29:43 come in to do an organizational review
29:45 for the Eastside Human Services forum is
29:48 very interesting to go through this as a
29:51 board that that works in so many
29:55 different areas and we all come together
29:57 from different backgrounds and this was
29:59 a whole organizational review on how
30:01 everything is functioning so we're
30:03 working our way through all of that
30:05 right now we're going to be working with
30:07 meeting with our work teams and then
30:09 findings will come forward a little bit
30:12 later and toward the end of the year we
30:16 also went through our 2020 state
30:18 legislative agenda review and I was just
30:22 going to run through that very quickly
30:24 there there are a few different bullet
30:27 points here as far as the East Side
30:29 Human Services forum goes it is to
30:33 support access to basic needs and health
30:35 services to make homelessness rare brief
30:37 and one-time by making housing more
30:40 affordable
30:41 I'm sorry more accessible support older
30:44 adults and people with disabilities
30:46 strengthen or
30:48 and youth services and new this year are
30:50 some cross-cutting priorities that that
30:53 NGO that really cross against all of
30:57 those areas and and how they all come
31:00 together so the will be meeting actually
31:04 tomorrow to talk more about
31:06 organizational reviews and then have
31:08 another meeting coming up in December
31:12 then also the the central Puget Sound
31:15 Economic Development District Board met
31:17 on October 2nd and at that we were able
31:21 to receive an update from greater
31:23 Seattle partners regional prosperity
31:25 plan given by Bryan McGowan and this was
31:29 the first time where when we've done
31:31 introductions but this is the first time
31:33 that we've heard a complete overview of
31:36 what this new group is working on and
31:40 the just to boil it down the goals and
31:43 strategies that they're working on now
31:45 are to build the region's global
31:47 identity to attract new investment in
31:50 advance trade to attract and retain
31:52 talent to strengthen our regional
31:54 competitiveness and to elevate regional
31:56 economic development to achieve
31:58 inclusive economic growth we also got an
32:02 update on the amazing place midpoint
32:06 review and just to remind you about what
32:08 the amazing place is it's the region's
32:11 economic strategy that was adopted by
32:15 the board and it serves as the official
32:17 comprehensive economic development
32:19 strategy for the central Puget Sound
32:20 Economic Development District and is
32:23 approved by the US economic development
32:25 administration this is this is the
32:29 midpoint in the five-year and it is
32:31 really long and really interesting it's
32:35 it's on the website for that group and
32:38 if you're interested I have a copy with
32:40 me tonight but it's really interesting
32:41 to read through and finally just a
32:44 couple of announcements the East Side
32:47 interfaith social concerns council and
32:50 arch our teeming up they have a teaming
32:53 up workshop that's happening partnering
32:56 it's the East Side faith communities
32:58 partnering with cities and developers
33:00 solve affordable the affordable housing
33:02 crisis it's Saturday October 12th from
33:05 9:00 to 1:00 at st. Luke's Lutheran
33:08 Church 3 0 3 0 Bellevue way northeast
33:11 and that is coming right up and I wanted
33:15 to make that announcement and then also
33:18 on Monday October 28th from 6:45 p.m. to
33:22 9:00 p.m. there's the East Side
33:24 community forum on homelessness and
33:27 poverty and that is at chain st. Jude
33:31 Catholic Church in in Redmond so just
33:36 wanted to give those a couple of
33:38 announcement and that concludes my
33:40 report
33:40 Thank You deputy council booties council
33:42 president marts thank you madam mayor
33:44 sound cities Association public issues
33:47 committee is going to be meeting this
33:49 Wednesday October 9th 7 p.m. in Renton
33:52 City Hall we have two potentially
33:55 actionable items on the agenda
33:58 the first is the 2020s C a legislative
34:01 agenda that is relatively unconscious
34:06 the second item is the proposed King
34:09 County Regional homelessness authority
34:12 that is whatever the opposite of on
34:15 contentious is so I don't believe that
34:19 SCA will be or pick will be taking
34:22 action at that meeting I think that we
34:25 will be hopefully receiving additional
34:27 information on governance and budgets
34:32 and the role of this proposed
34:35 organization within the existing
34:37 homeless homelessness NGO infrastructure
34:43 in Puget Sound and then there will be a
34:47 pre pick workshop at 6:00 p.m.
34:49 navigating toxic social media tips and
34:51 best practices from making the most and
34:53 avoiding the worst of social media and
34:56 then the second report I have is on
34:58 growth management policy council we had
35:01 a meeting Wednesday September 25th
35:03 there was one action item which was a
35:07 review of the greater downtown Kirkland
35:10 urban center designation as people may
35:12 know there is a totem lake basically
35:16 urban center for Kirkland but there
35:18 isn't an urban center where the urban
35:20 center of Kirkland is and so GM PC
35:24 recommended
35:25 support of that or voted in support of
35:28 it and then I'll just mention the next
35:31 meeting is Wednesday November 20th and
35:35 the reason I bring it up is actually I
35:37 found out I am in my sixth year as an
35:40 SCA pic representative to the GM PC and
35:43 according to the bylaws I can't do it
35:46 again next year
35:46 so that will be my last GM PC meeting
35:49 and I will have to find some other way
35:50 to represent Issaquah perhaps still with
35:54 pic but also looking at other roles that
35:58 I can take originally six years goes by
36:01 really fast this concludes my report
36:03 Thank You council president Mart's on to
36:05 the mayor's report I only have one item
36:08 on the mayor's report this evening but
36:10 it's huge so I am sure our council has
36:14 heard in some of our community but last
36:16 Tuesday October 2nd the King County
36:18 Council approved the conservation
36:21 futures bond project grant awards which
36:23 included our full requests for the city
36:26 of Issaquah for 5.3 million dollars for
36:29 the Bergsma acquisition this is what
36:31 makes it hash tag full Bergsma this is
36:35 awesome these bond projects were part of
36:37 the county land conservation initiative
36:39 and in all the King County County
36:41 approved the conservation futures
36:43 advisory boards recommendations of 35
36:46 million dollars in project Awards the
36:48 Bergsma grant was the largest award the
36:51 Bergsma property was purchased earlier
36:53 this year thanks to the bold and
36:55 innovative work of the city the City
36:57 Council the trust for public lands in
37:00 King County
37:00 the forty five acre acquisition was also
37:03 greatly aided by the terrific work save
37:06 Cougar Mountain I want to thank the City
37:09 Council again for your courage and your
37:12 trust in us to take this buy-and-hold
37:15 approach for this significant regional
37:19 acquisition
37:19 these grant funds from King County
37:22 represent a large portion of partner
37:24 funding that was part of our planned
37:26 funding strategy but it is not all of it
37:29 next up will be the state our CEO grants
37:32 that would be applying for the next year
37:34 in 2020 and the next steps with this
37:36 grant from King County is we will be
37:39 completing an interlocal agreement or an
37:41 ila it will be coming before the City
37:44 Council next month once it has been
37:46 received from King County and finalized
37:48 and as we work with King County staff on
37:51 the ila we will also get a better idea
37:52 on the timing of when we can anticipate
37:54 to receive the 5.3 million dollars on
37:58 another note staff has begun working
38:00 with King County and TPL and scheduling
38:02 a press event celebration for the entire
38:05 community now that this key piece of our
38:07 overall funding strategy has been
38:09 confirmed so again I just want to thank
38:12 you all for that extremely brave and
38:14 extremely bold decision that you made
38:17 for the city of its quad to pursue this
38:19 acquisition in such a sort period of
38:22 time such a large parcel and connected
38:25 to a wonderful Cougar Mountain wild lion
38:28 wild land regional park thank you very
38:30 much that concludes the mayor's report
38:33 and we'll move on to informational
38:36 updates and this evening we'll be
38:38 getting an update on the regional clean
38:40 fuel standard this is an informational
38:43 presentation council will not be asked
38:45 to take any action this evening and I'd
38:47 like to ask David Fujimoto our director
38:49 of sustainability to come to the lectern
38:52 good evening David good evening thank
38:54 you very much
38:56 so tonight we're here to receive as
38:58 mayor Mary Lou Polly just mentioned an
39:01 informational presentation from Craig
39:03 Kenworthy Craig is the executive
39:05 director of the Puget Sound clean air
39:07 agency and it's about a clean fuel
39:10 standard which is being considered for
39:12 adoption in the central Puget Sound area
39:14 you may be aware that the city has
39:16 adopted policy on greenhouse gas
39:18 emissions seeking to reduce emissions by
39:20 80% by 2050 from a base year 2007 and we
39:25 also have a variety of objectives and
39:26 policies designed to protect the health
39:28 of the community for its aqua we know
39:30 that auto travel contributes to the air
39:33 concerns such as oxides of nitrogen
39:35 particulate matter and price primarily
39:38 in proximity to high volume traffic
39:40 areas such as long I 90s so there's some
39:42 relevance locally and according to the
39:45 State Department of Health in our
39:46 Washington tracking neck network which
39:49 includes monitoring data from a variety
39:52 of scientific sources there are several
39:54 census tracts in Issaquah which with
39:56 moderate to high air quality concerns
39:58 that are in the seventieth to 80th
40:00 decile for diesel emissions we also know
40:04 that the transportation sector is
40:06 approximately one third of our community
40:08 green community-wide greenhouse gas
40:10 emissions and that identifying some
40:13 sound regional and market-based
40:15 approaches are important in our
40:17 endeavors to achieve some of our goals
40:19 Puget Sound clean air agency has been
40:22 studying this issue and looking for a
40:24 regional solution and we'll hear a
40:25 little bit more about that tonight the
40:28 clean fuel standard has some connections
40:30 to the city's legislative agenda which
40:32 will be considered by the City Council
40:33 as well as the King County at cities
40:36 climate collaboration or k4c which were
40:38 a member of as well and there are some
40:40 cities that are considering commenting
40:42 on the rule through that Avenue as well
40:44 so as I mentioned I'll turn it over to
40:46 Craig for an overview of the approach
40:51 thank you David
40:53 good evening mayor members of the
40:55 council so I actually have a firetruck
41:00 bill my office window every day and on
41:02 the phone and I'm like so this is not
41:04 new
41:05 last summer summer of 18 there were
41:09 sparked wildfire smoke one of our staff
41:10 got a call from a reporter and they kept
41:13 saying will people out here love the
41:14 outdoors there must be some activity
41:16 that's safe for them to engage in and we
41:19 had some of the worst air quality in the
41:21 world at that point and our staff kept
41:22 saying really there's nothing people
41:24 should be doing in terms of vigorous
41:25 activity and finally out of frustration
41:27 because the reporter and sister there
41:28 must be some safe activity our staff
41:30 members said well I guess you could go
41:31 scuba diving and of course that ended up
41:35 in the article and it being Seattle news
41:38 that ended up with someone contacting me
41:40 and reminding me that well we have to
41:41 tread water before we start she
41:42 shouldn't suggest scuba diving so we can
41:45 laugh about
41:46 that but the point of that was there was
41:48 nowhere to escape last summer only about
41:51 a third of the housing units in our
41:53 region have air-conditioning
41:54 so even for some filtration from the
41:57 smoke and those circumstances people
41:59 could not avoid the health effects of
42:01 all of the irritants of all that
42:03 wildfire smoke that's an indirect effect
42:06 of climate change on us as a region
42:09 because we get wildfire smoke not just
42:11 for our own fires in Washington state
42:13 but from Canada from California from
42:16 Oregon and even sometimes from Montana
42:18 so we're dealing right now with paying
42:22 for climate change use P we would talk
42:24 about climate changes coming future
42:26 generations are going to be dealing with
42:28 climate change they'll be paying for
42:29 climate change we're paying for climate
42:31 change right now so what are some tools
42:33 we could use to reduce greenhouse gas
42:35 emissions I'm going to talk to you about
42:36 one of those tonight so this is an
42:41 outline of what I'll cover our mission
42:44 we are the regional clean air agency for
42:45 the four counties around central Puget
42:47 Sound in Washington State the
42:49 legislature gave counties the option of
42:50 doing their own air quality work or have
42:51 an ecology do it all of western
42:53 Washington has regional air quality
42:54 agencies I talked about some of the
42:58 effects of climate change in our region
43:00 this is from actually from PS our seas
43:02 amazing places strategy that was
43:04 discussed earlier and these are just
43:06 some of the effects of this one thing
43:09 that doesn't get mentioned as much that
43:10 I was talking to David about is we tend
43:12 to focus on sea level rise lower flows
43:14 it'll change the system of the flow will
43:16 have less flow in the summer more flow
43:18 in the winter but one thing will also
43:20 happen is will have greater sill tation
43:21 dumped off of glaciers so even inland
43:24 not sea-level rise but inland we're
43:25 gonna have riverbeds lifted up by the
43:28 amount of material that's dumped in from
43:29 the glacier so it's not just water
43:30 coming off of them so we're likely to
43:32 see increased risk of flooding even
43:33 inland from the glacial melt and all the
43:35 siltation that occurs from that I talked
43:39 about wildfires this is from the
43:40 National Climate Assessment released by
43:43 the Trump administration last November
43:45 where the scientists found that 50% of
43:48 the wildfires that we had in the last 25
43:51 years in the US this is not Canada that
43:53 we basically doubled the Wildfire
43:55 acreage in the US due to the effects of
43:57 climate change that's because the
43:58 forests dry out
43:59 sooner in the spring the snowpack melts
44:01 higher temperatures lower tree moisture
44:04 we extend the fire season we extend the
44:06 risk of more fires what are the
44:09 pollution sources in our region David
44:11 mentioned how much were cars in Issaquah
44:13 about 1/3 overall transportation is the
44:16 biggest single emission source in our
44:17 region and over time as our electricity
44:19 grid gets cleaner it will continue to be
44:21 the largest source and get even bigger
44:22 in terms of its share of greenhouse gas
44:24 emissions so why are we talking about
44:27 clean fuel standard so several years ago
44:29 our board which consists of elected
44:31 officials from the four counties and
44:32 also one representative the largest city
44:34 in those four counties told us to look
44:37 at additional regional strategies to
44:38 reduce greenhouse gas emissions it was
44:40 mentioned earlier we set the target of
44:42 50% reduction by 2030 Scimitar the
44:45 city's target an 80 percent reduction by
44:47 2050 of transportation emissions the
44:49 board then directed us to look at a
44:51 number of different strategies we
44:52 analyzed 11 of them in detail what we
44:54 came up with is that a clean fuel
44:56 standard which requires reduction in the
44:58 carbon pollution from transportation
45:00 fuels was the highest impact on reducing
45:03 greenhouse gas emissions had the highest
45:05 certainty and also had additional air
45:07 quality benefits so I'm not going to
45:08 spend a huge amount of time on other air
45:10 quality benefits tonight but I will say
45:12 as was mentioned we expect to see
45:14 reductions in pollutants from the clean
45:15 fuel standard which is a greenhouse gas
45:17 standard but also results in less
45:19 particulate matter less air toxins less
45:21 diesel pollution which is a known
45:23 carcinogen so we'll get additional
45:25 public health benefits particularly
45:26 along major roadways from a clean fuel
45:29 standard we are the only state in the
45:32 West Coast that does not have a clean
45:33 fuel standard California's had one for
45:35 about nine years Oregon's had one for
45:36 four years British Columbia has a
45:38 variant of that I want to be clear our
45:40 board would prefer that the legislature
45:43 enact a clean fuel standard last year
45:45 got out of the Statehouse and now get
45:46 out of the state Senate but our board is
45:48 looking at adopting a regional standard
45:50 in light of an action by the legislature
45:52 on such a standard what's the basic
45:55 premise of a clean fuel standard so
45:57 basically what it says is that over time
45:59 in steps you've got to reduce the amount
46:02 of greenhouse gas pollution or carbon
46:03 pollution in transportation fuels so if
46:07 you think about you would actually score
46:09 a fuel and say this is how much
46:11 pollution you have in your
46:12 also take fossil gasoline regular
46:15 gasoline would have a score say a
46:16 hundred over time you would say you've
46:19 got to reduce the amount of pollution
46:20 from that so perhaps in the second year
46:22 of the program you've got to reduce that
46:24 by 2.5 percent and then you've gradually
46:27 over time have to make additional
46:28 reductions in doing that one of the
46:30 benefits of this tool though is it's a
46:32 performance standard but it doesn't tell
46:34 you how to get there it says you've got
46:35 to hit this target but you can get there
46:38 whoever you think best and you can get
46:39 there using innovation you can get there
46:41 using a trek a market that trades
46:43 credits as an example oil refineries
46:45 that are covered by this would have
46:47 these options they could say ok we're
46:49 actually going to improve the efficiency
46:50 at our refinery so our score is going to
46:52 come down that first time from 198
46:54 because we're gonna use less energy in
46:57 producing the gasoline they could say
46:59 we're going to produce our own biofuel
47:00 and there's actually a joint project up
47:02 north now with Phillips 66 and a company
47:04 called re G to actually blend biofuels
47:06 in at the refinery or they could go out
47:09 in the credit market that I'll talk
47:11 about where they could say we're just
47:12 gonna go to the credit market and people
47:13 who generate credits by using lower
47:16 carbon fuel we're going to purchase
47:17 those credits in the market so the
47:19 pathways are determined by the at the
47:21 person who's obligated the entity was
47:23 obligated we would not determine those
47:25 pathways we would set that performance
47:27 standard so it's basically displacing
47:30 the higher carbon fuel with lower carbon
47:31 fuel when I talk about credits that's
47:33 one credit is one ton of carbon
47:35 pollution removed from the system so how
47:40 this works I talked about you set a
47:41 target the target increases over time
47:43 year over year
47:44 you've got to meet that particular
47:45 target if let's say you're at that
47:48 hundred and you're you need to get to 98
47:50 and you don't take actions to do that
47:52 you generate a deficit of say two times
47:55 the number of gallons that you have in
47:56 the system you've got to meet that
47:58 target by either buying the credits I
48:00 talked about or engaging in other
48:01 tactics in terms of who can generate
48:04 credits credits can be generated by
48:06 several entities so for example one of
48:08 the things that will happen in this
48:09 system we expect is electricity is going
48:11 to substitute in more for fossil fuels
48:14 so electric utilities public fleets that
48:17 engage in electrification public
48:20 entities that engage in the electric
48:21 vehicle charging transportation transit
48:25 agencies can
48:26 generate credits under that system again
48:27 by switching from a higher carbon fuel
48:30 to a lower carbon fuel the way we score
48:33 that basically is we look at the what's
48:36 called the lifecycle intensity of that
48:39 carbon fuel so we look at how is the
48:41 fuel produced the electricity or energy
48:43 required for that how much carbon that
48:46 produces how is it transported how is
48:47 that refined and how is it ultimately
48:48 used in a vehicle so I gave some
48:50 examples here of what are cleaner fuels
48:53 biodiesel renewable diesel or lower
48:55 carbon fuels electricity is a lower
48:56 carbon fuel it's also very inexpensive
48:58 in our region ethanol is an example in
49:01 some cases and then things like landfill
49:03 gas so how does that work I mentioned
49:06 this earlier a low carbon fuel producer
49:08 let's say someone who has biofuel could
49:11 offer to sell that or sell credits to
49:14 the high carbon fuel producer they could
49:16 blend that fuel and get lower emissions
49:18 that's the trading part of the system
49:20 electric vehicle charging someone who
49:22 generates credits there could also offer
49:24 those credits in the market and say I've
49:26 generated this mean credits by switching
49:28 to electrification the refinery or the
49:30 covered entity that imports fossil fuel
49:32 into the region could purchase credits
49:34 from them or they could go with a bi and
49:36 blend method who can receive credits I
49:39 touched on this earlier several these
49:41 different entities can do that this is
49:43 transportation fuel related there are a
49:44 couple of things though that actually
49:45 are not strictly on road transportation
49:48 that are eligible to receive credits
49:50 similar to the california-oregon program
49:52 so some cargo handling equipment and
49:53 certain forklifts that move things
49:55 around are able to receive credits so in
50:01 looking at this we did an analysis of
50:03 high-level economic impacts we would
50:05 expect from this kind of standard and we
50:07 had a company called ICF - a report that
50:09 looked at what about fuel availability
50:12 can we do this if we were electrify over
50:14 time are we able to achieve these
50:15 targets we have the capacity in the grid
50:17 do we have enough biofuel available to
50:19 achieve these targets what would be the
50:22 economic effects of that we also looked
50:24 at the public health benefits that I
50:25 mentioned earlier in terms of less
50:26 hospitalization less sick time so what
50:29 we found on fuel availability is we do
50:31 have the room in the system here to
50:33 engage in more electrification of the
50:35 light duty fleet and eventually the
50:37 heavy duty fleet
50:38 that is that a lot of the utilities have
50:39 had their load actually start to drop as
50:41 energy efficiency is kicked in and
50:43 things like LED bulbs so they've got
50:45 space in the grid for electrification
50:47 there are challenges that we will have
50:49 to deal with in some locations in terms
50:52 of substation issues so it's not a grid
50:54 issue it's a substation issue so an
50:55 example is we had a conversation at one
50:58 point about working with residents in a
51:00 community to do a bulk buy of electric
51:02 vehicles from Costco if we could make
51:04 that work so when we were doing that we
51:07 talked to some utilities who said that's
51:08 a great idea be careful though if
51:10 everybody went home in that same small
51:12 area and plugged in at the same moment
51:14 we might have a substation issue we have
51:15 to deal with one of the advantages we
51:18 have though over some other regions on
51:19 this is our load in the evening is not
51:22 the same as say California everyone
51:24 comes home in California they plug their
51:25 electric car and they turn the air
51:26 conditioning up we don't have that same
51:28 pull on the system at this point so
51:30 that's one of the reasons we have more
51:31 space available on biofuels while the
51:34 state has some standards for biofuels
51:35 they really don't have a lot of teeth in
51:37 them so we're not using as much biofuel
51:39 as that available we do expect more
51:41 biofuel that's actually produced in
51:42 Washington State for example as a
51:44 facility in Grays Harbor would come into
51:46 our system so that there is space
51:49 overall for the fuels that we need to
51:50 make some of the shifts in terms of the
51:53 economic effects if you boil everything
51:56 down on this and I'm going to talk about
51:57 in the economics what you basically have
51:59 is more money stays in our region or in
52:01 the state because we don't produce
52:03 gasoline or oil we refine it in some
52:06 places but we don't drill for it here so
52:08 dollars that the public would spend on
52:09 those fossil fuels stay in the region
52:12 overall I talk about increase in fossil
52:16 gas and fuel prices I'll talk about that
52:17 we did a projection in a worst-case
52:19 scenario on that so part of our economic
52:22 analysis we looked at what would happen
52:24 in the four counties in 2030 and for
52:27 those of you familiar with the Remi
52:28 model it's been used in a lot of
52:29 different ways across the country by a
52:31 lot of different entities it's an
52:32 economic model that looks at your
52:34 economy plugs into one change you want
52:36 to make and says what's the ripple
52:38 effect of doing that so OFM projects our
52:41 four County region will have 12 percent
52:43 growth in by 2030 so we looked at what
52:46 are the impacts of a clean fuel standard
52:47 on that basically what it found is it's
52:50 a wash and I'll explain
52:51 why in just a moment the worst-case
52:53 economic jobs impact was less than one
52:56 tenth of one percent on top of the
52:58 baseline growth so basically it shifted
53:00 growth potentially from eleven point
53:02 nine five to twelve point zero five as
53:04 opposed to twelve
53:05 there was a small net increase in jobs
53:07 in the all in the most aggressive
53:08 emission reduction scenario and there
53:10 was a lesser impact in the early years
53:12 one of the reasons for that was this
53:15 when you look at our overall economy as
53:17 a region it's very diversified and our
53:19 fuel spending is actually a fairly small
53:20 component of that and what you would get
53:23 is what I mentioned earlier which is you
53:25 would over time have to make investments
53:27 to meet the standard but you get
53:28 substantial fuel savings as you start to
53:31 electrify the system electric vehicles
53:33 are about 60 to 65% cheaper on the fuel
53:36 costs than a gasoline or diesel powered
53:38 vehicle in addition to having much lower
53:40 maintenance costs so over time more
53:42 money stays in the four counties because
53:45 of those dollars not being shipped out
53:46 of state and the cost of the investments
53:49 is matched essentially by the cost of
53:51 the savings so let me back up on that
53:55 for just a second so one of the found in
54:00 this that was interesting was we looked
54:01 at four different scenarios of an
54:03 emission reduction target ranging from
54:05 ten percent to 25 percent which was the
54:07 most aggressive target and on the
54:09 economic effects again these are very
54:11 tiny changes to small changes what we
54:14 found was the ten percent target was
54:17 actually not as good for the economy as
54:19 the twenty five percent target because
54:22 you still had a lot of costs for the
54:24 investment to make the ten percent
54:25 target but you didn't see the fuel
54:27 savings fuel cost savings that you get
54:29 from the twenty five percent target so
54:31 essentially going partway in did not
54:33 have as much of a benefit again these
54:34 are very tiny changes on top of small
54:36 changes overall but the more aggressive
54:38 target was actually better for the
54:40 economy under that particular model so I
54:43 talked about fuel prices we did run some
54:46 fuel price scenarios to look at what
54:48 would happen but we ran worst-case
54:50 scenarios that said that the refineries
54:52 we have one in Tacoma in our region and
54:54 then there are other refineries up north
54:55 that would be covered by this rule if
54:58 the refineries did not do anything if
55:00 they just passed along the current cost
55:02 that there could be an
55:04 in gasoline prices in 2030 that could
55:08 range from 22 to 57 cents what I will
55:11 say about that is this the actual cost
55:13 to move around a mile on average in the
55:15 region actually is the same or cheaper
55:17 for gasoline vehicles that were overall
55:19 for light duty vehicles rather at that
55:21 point because of starting to mix in
55:24 electrification hybridization and fuel
55:26 efficiency so there could be worst-case
55:28 scenario again the refineries don't do
55:30 anything an increase in fuel costs that
55:33 said we actually know on the ground that
55:35 that's not what's happening because
55:37 we've seen things like a project up
55:38 north with Phillips and our AG part
55:41 Pacific which was us oil has been
55:43 talking about branding and alternative
55:44 fuels so we did run a worst-case
55:46 scenario on fuel costs but we don't
55:47 think that's the real-world scenario of
55:50 that so the overall effect of this is
55:53 it's an opportunity to reduce greenhouse
55:54 gas emissions from transportation our
55:57 board is going to look at a target of
55:58 25% which would get us a long ways
56:01 towards our 50% reduction target by 2030
56:03 it also would provide opportunity for
56:06 other public health gains across the
56:08 region at an original macroeconomic
56:11 scale it's basically a wash in terms of
56:13 the investments versus the cost savings
56:15 so let me pause there I'll talk about
56:18 our timeline in just a second but I know
56:19 the council has a budget session coming
56:22 up too so I went through that really
56:23 fast let me pause there for what
56:25 questions then and I'll talk about sort
56:26 of next steps potentially Thank You
56:28 Craig Counsell so I think the first time
56:30 we've had such a comprehensive
56:31 presentation on this so this is your
56:33 time for some Q&A if you'd like to have
56:35 it or we will proceed to schedule oh
56:39 there we go councilman Walsh what are
56:42 our opportunities to act on this and to
56:45 be interactive and have an impact so
56:48 I'll talk about our time line that talks
56:50 about our process so we're releasing a
56:51 draft rule later this week we will then
56:54 start a 90-day public comment period
56:56 that'll run into early January our board
56:58 will have a public hearing in December
56:59 so the council has the opportunity to
57:02 weigh in with comments during that
57:03 particular process I want to emphasize
57:06 again our board would prefer that the
57:08 legislature take action on this and I
57:09 know the council is going to talk about
57:11 that I think as well in terms of
57:12 legislative agenda but it's really the
57:14 opportunity to weigh in during that
57:15 public comment period with any thoughts
57:17 comments concerns that counts
57:18 would have to our board of officials
57:20 thank you
57:21 are there any other questions comes
57:23 present Mertz sure so III think this is
57:27 all good and commendable the the
57:31 scientists in me worries a little bit
57:33 about at some of the margins you
57:35 mentioned biofuel I mean biofuel is
57:37 another form of diesel right and and
57:40 diesel burns a hundred and sixty
57:43 one-pound it creates 161 pounds of co2
57:45 per million BTUs produced right all the
57:50 liquid fuels
57:51 I mean diesel you get efficiency because
57:54 the engines tend to be smaller and lower
57:56 output but diesel actually produces more
57:58 co2 per million BTUs than gasoline does
58:01 so well I think that this is great in
58:04 trying to move away from liquid fuels
58:07 which all produce co2
58:10 I worry a little bit about some of the
58:12 language in here that may be trying to
58:15 move towards specific liquid fuels that
58:17 don't necessarily have the overall
58:20 impact that people hope out of an effort
58:22 like this so that's a great point one of
58:24 the things I didn't get in the details
58:25 of is we actually use a model to score
58:27 the carbon intensity of every type of
58:29 fuel stock so that we look at whether
58:31 for example renewable diesel which is a
58:33 different form of regular diesel that
58:36 can be dropped in a hundred percent and
58:38 not isn't a blend so that actually has
58:40 to be scored on its carbon intensity
58:41 from the beginning of production all the
58:43 way to the end so we attempt to capture
58:45 some of that with the specific types of
58:48 those bio fuels and what their carbon
58:50 intensity score is thank you other
58:54 questions Craig I want to thank you for
58:58 their presentation tonight and I just
59:00 wanted to check in with dr. Fujimoto to
59:02 see if there's any closing comments or
59:04 we could we're good I want to thank the
59:06 council for the opportunity as well
59:08 thank you next item on our agenda this
59:14 evening is the consent calendar which
59:15 was distributed to Council in advance
59:17 and if authorized by the council the
59:20 items on the consent calendar will be
59:21 considered together and approved in one
59:23 motion I have the payables and payroll
59:26 been reviewed yeah if they have thank
59:28 you a does any councilmember desire to
59:31 remove any ID
59:31 from the consent calendar and consider
59:33 it under regular business would someone
59:37 care to make a motion madam mayor I move
59:40 we adopt the consent calendar is listed
59:42 in tonight's meeting agenda second thank
59:45 you
59:46 all those in favor please signify by
59:48 saying aye those opposed and that passes
59:52 unanimously thank you we have no items
59:56 under regular business this evening and
59:58 undergird of the order I did jot down a
1:00:01 few things that I've heard during
1:00:02 regional report-outs and also maybe a
1:00:05 potentially on the clean fuel standards
1:00:06 that I thought you might want to touch
1:00:07 on it good of your tonight but before I
1:00:09 go through this list is there anything
1:00:11 in particular that you want to talk
1:00:13 about its member a I just have a couple
1:00:16 of whole points one is on Saturday each
1:00:20 side Fire and Rescue celebrated their
1:00:22 20th anniversary mayor Polly system
1:00:24 administrator Bob poets and I attended
1:00:26 the site Fire and Rescue is served this
1:00:28 community and their success has been
1:00:30 built on the work of very many people
1:00:34 including some of the others up here who
1:00:36 really have contributed to this
1:00:37 organization's success and it was very
1:00:39 apparent at this awards banquet where we
1:00:42 celebrated 20 years of the Eastside Fire
1:00:43 and Rescue all of the work that went
1:00:45 into making this happen second I
1:00:49 attended salmon days loved the parade
1:00:50 huge success wanted to do a shout out
1:00:53 and thank you to all the volunteers and
1:00:55 the countless hours that were spent to
1:00:56 make that possible and mostly I wanted
1:00:59 to thank the salmon for being the reason
1:01:01 for this great event that's awesome any
1:01:05 other good of the order that's member
1:01:08 hunt so I wanted to take a minute to
1:01:11 explain the Cascade Water Alliance true
1:01:14 up issue and Mayor Polly if you have
1:01:18 anything to add or correct so this is
1:01:23 with regards to a true up policy the the
1:01:26 board had planned on for the purposes of
1:01:30 smoothing the rate that the that the
1:01:34 board would have the rate true-up
1:01:37 adjustment be sort of smooth over the
1:01:40 payment level monthly adjustments to
1:01:43 2021 member charges
1:01:45 however in the particular case of this
1:01:49 year itsuka has a 114 thousand dollar
1:01:55 820 114 thousand eight hundred and
1:01:58 twenty-two dollar true up in our favor
1:02:01 and that is the largest amount
1:02:06 percentage-wise in the favor of the
1:02:09 member cities and it's very important in
1:02:13 this particular case too because of our
1:02:15 budget situation and so rather than
1:02:17 proceed with having it be spread out in
1:02:20 future payments it became apparent that
1:02:24 it would be I think better for the city
1:02:27 looking at the number of things that are
1:02:28 cut that are less than that amount in
1:02:30 our budget if we could just have the
1:02:33 true up for this budget cycle and so
1:02:37 this will come up next at the next
1:02:41 cascade meeting and if there are any if
1:02:43 there is any feedback for me I believe I
1:02:46 will be the I will be representing our
1:02:48 city in that meeting as the alternate
1:02:52 for mayor Polly and I will be advocating
1:02:56 that in my opinion I think the city
1:02:59 would be better off if we were able to
1:03:01 have that adjustment now the other
1:03:03 complicating factor is that most if not
1:03:06 all of the other cities are on a
1:03:08 two-year budget cycle so for them it's
1:03:10 much less consequential to their their
1:03:13 budgeting this year okay I'm just gonna
1:03:15 just a couple of points that was a great
1:03:18 summary King County cities for climate
1:03:22 collaboration is meeting at the same
1:03:23 time and councilmember hunt and I
1:03:25 decided how we're gonna fill both chairs
1:03:26 at the same time so she's been pretty
1:03:27 well-versed on this issue even though it
1:03:30 comes up through the Finance Committee
1:03:32 she is also my backup on the board there
1:03:35 are no other member agencies right now
1:03:39 that are interested and this is a pilot
1:03:42 program this trip those jurisdictions
1:03:44 except Issaquah are on the two-year
1:03:47 budget and so that was the impetus for
1:03:49 doing the pilot so it was not an actual
1:03:51 practice right now it is a pilot program
1:03:53 but it's only the first year and this
1:03:55 came up so I guess what would be great
1:03:58 is if you could kind of weigh in on
1:04:00 whether or not I have voiced it in a
1:04:03 finance committee councilmember hunt has
1:04:05 voiced it in a board meeting but we
1:04:06 really do believe that we think the trip
1:04:08 should just happen in this year and that
1:04:10 could then feed into your budget
1:04:12 conversations a bit so that's I have a
1:04:18 question more than a thought so since
1:04:23 this is water right there the trip
1:04:26 around water so this really it's going
1:04:28 to go back into the water and enterprise
1:04:32 fund not the general fund so the any
1:04:34 refund we would get really wouldn't help
1:04:35 with our general fund problem question
1:04:37 mark great question I've Sheldon here
1:04:40 well then do you think you could come up
1:04:43 as Public Works Director and answer
1:04:45 against my better question
1:04:53 you're correct mr. Ray though any
1:04:56 savings or correction that happens at
1:04:59 the cascade water Alliance the money
1:05:01 would return into the water utility and
1:05:02 not the general fund
1:05:03 it's afraid you'd say that everybody
1:05:07 actually you Sheldon if I could get you
1:05:09 to stay up there till we finish this one
1:05:11 item then what would be your
1:05:14 recommendation on whether or not the
1:05:16 pilot should continue for this year or
1:05:17 we should oxtails for the true of this
1:05:19 year the pilot is one where they were
1:05:24 going to do the true up and correction
1:05:27 not in 2020 but in 2021 if we waited
1:05:33 till 2021 and we stayed true to the true
1:05:37 up pilot then the troops would occur
1:05:40 every other year and you could plan for
1:05:42 it better so if the troop was going the
1:05:45 other way we'd have about a 12 month
1:05:47 period to plan budget and things like
1:05:49 that for our utility to be able to pay
1:05:51 cascade what we would owe them versus if
1:05:55 you ask for it now and kind of upset the
1:05:59 applecart a little bit you may end up in
1:06:01 the future having to go UPS we need to
1:06:04 do a budget correction mid-year and pay
1:06:06 our share of a true up early
1:06:08 because now we're kind of shifting gears
1:06:10 it's kind of upsetting a little bit the
1:06:12 applecart for what the pilot is about
1:06:15 and do you have any additional
1:06:17 information you could give the council
1:06:18 on the and anticipating that we may be
1:06:22 on the wrong side of a true up meaning
1:06:24 that we may actually be using higher
1:06:26 allocation of cascade water Alliance
1:06:28 water than we do right now yes we may be
1:06:37 so a good question good question council
1:06:43 member a good answer from children so
1:06:45 thoughts on whether or not to pursue
1:06:47 this it does hit the enterprise fund and
1:06:50 not the general fund the one more I
1:06:53 thought is that for I think that for our
1:06:56 city on the currently on the one-year
1:06:59 budget cycle it does make it a different
1:07:02 situation for us to be on than the other
1:07:04 cities so once we are on the two-year
1:07:08 budget cycle as we expect and hope very
1:07:11 much to be on after this year I think it
1:07:14 it makes more sense but for right now it
1:07:16 seems like it puts us in a strange
1:07:19 position because we were doing our
1:07:20 budgeting every year but this particular
1:07:23 true-up would happen every other year so
1:07:27 there may be some logic being being the
1:07:29 only member agency not on a two-year
1:07:32 budget cycle right now to ask that in
1:07:34 the this year of the pilot we true it up
1:07:37 and going forward it is on it to your
1:07:39 cycle does the council think of that the
1:07:45 thoughts
1:07:48 yes it's my break
1:07:52 that's my Walsh I think it makes sense I
1:07:54 mean since this is me VR last year is an
1:07:57 annual budget City and not a biennial
1:07:59 budget city lets true it up this year
1:08:01 and then as we go into biennial budgets
1:08:03 with everyone else we'll be on the same
1:08:05 schedule as everyone else so seems clean
1:08:07 you know I had not agreement that that
1:08:09 is the message that councilmember hunt
1:08:11 should take into the meeting
1:08:12 looking like head nods a couple of
1:08:14 things thank you a couple of things that
1:08:16 I noted tonight maybe council batiste
1:08:19 talked a bit a faith community's meeting
1:08:21 that's coming up this Saturday they are
1:08:22 actually looking for an elected
1:08:25 representative to serve on one of their
1:08:28 panels I was originally scheduled to do
1:08:30 it and will not be in town and checking
1:08:33 to see if there's any interest or
1:08:35 availability for someone else to serve
1:08:36 on it if there is please let me know
1:08:39 elizabeth Mopan is following up as an
1:08:42 advocate for that inner city and i need
1:08:45 to give her an answer by as soon as I
1:08:48 so that becomes apparent patís thank you
1:08:50 for bringing that up
1:08:51 Elizabeth had reached out to me as well
1:08:54 and I'm not positive that I can do it if
1:08:56 anything changes I would love to but if
1:08:59 anyone is interested that would be great
1:09:01 yeah please let me know if you can by
1:09:04 tomorrow
1:09:05 they the panel is fine if they don't
1:09:07 have it but it is much richer if they
1:09:09 haven't elected sitting on the panel
1:09:10 with them and then the last thing I had
1:09:13 noted down tonight was this was the
1:09:15 first presentation on clean fuels and we
1:09:16 did get a question asked about what kind
1:09:19 of action could we take and so wanted to
1:09:21 just take the temperature of the group
1:09:22 on what you heard tonight and if there
1:09:24 are opportunities to sign letters what
1:09:27 is it that we as the administration can
1:09:28 do to help you with and are you
1:09:29 interested in showing support
1:09:32 council president Mertz councilman rich
1:09:35 Stein
1:09:35 councilmember hunt so how appropriate
1:09:39 that we hear about this tonight we also
1:09:41 in recent days have started hearing from
1:09:44 this new organization in our community
1:09:46 also devoted to addressing climate
1:09:49 change so it seems obvious to me that
1:09:53 this is something that that we should
1:09:56 hear more about and reflects at least a
1:09:59 segment of our
1:10:00 community's deep concern Thank You
1:10:02 councilmember we're interesting I
1:10:04 completely support that we continue to
1:10:05 move forward for opportunities to work
1:10:08 with others collaboratively on something
1:10:11 like a clean fuel standard I think
1:10:12 that's in our DNA and we should be
1:10:14 taking action in testing
1:10:16 councilmember hunt well I agree with my
1:10:19 colleagues comments I also was
1:10:23 interested to hear about the air quality
1:10:26 concerns that our own city has and I
1:10:28 think it's important to also consider
1:10:29 that I know that air quality is very
1:10:32 important for childhood health and for
1:10:35 the public health in general and for
1:10:37 asthma and other concerns and so I think
1:10:38 that I think that for a number of
1:10:41 reasons including the enthusiasm that
1:10:43 our community has for I'm an action that
1:10:47 we should proceed I am interested in in
1:10:51 writing a letter or doing something with
1:10:54 more gravity such as a resolution was
1:10:57 mentioned several times that the optimal
1:10:59 solution would be at the state
1:11:01 legislature so if we can support and and
1:11:04 my preference would be to let the state
1:11:08 legislature know that we strongly would
1:11:10 advocate for this kind of legislation
1:11:12 and so I would be interested in a
1:11:14 resolution to that effect and as far as
1:11:16 I know we have time to do that thank you
1:11:18 any other thoughts on appeal standards
1:11:21 if he can spur some teeth
1:11:23 so I too would be supportive of moving
1:11:26 forward it and it's been talked about
1:11:28 what we have a lot of a lot of
1:11:31 interested residents in our area that
1:11:34 are and in our whole community that are
1:11:37 really thinking about this right now I'd
1:11:39 like to hear more and would also be
1:11:41 interested in something coming forward
1:11:44 that we could review - no thank you
1:11:46 that's my rush last one to support and a
1:11:50 letter great thank you
1:11:52 was there any other items for good of
1:11:54 the order this evening and then I will
1:11:58 do a quick little read of coming council
1:12:01 meetings so this evening at 7:00 later
1:12:05 than 7:15 because I am gonna give a
1:12:07 short break after this council
1:12:09 having a budget session and they will be
1:12:10 hearing some staff presentations this
1:12:13 evening on Tuesday tomorrow October 8th
1:12:16 there'll be a 5 p.m. special council
1:12:18 meeting as was mentioned earlier by
1:12:20 Harlan from the school board
1:12:23 our council and mayor will be going to
1:12:25 the SQL school district administrative
1:12:27 offices at five one five oh two 20th
1:12:29 Avenue southeast in Issaquah and it will
1:12:31 be a joint meeting it's across school
1:12:33 board to discuss current and future
1:12:34 actions related to the opioid crisis and
1:12:38 then council will rush back over here
1:12:40 for a 6:30 p.m. Council budget study
1:12:43 session in council chambers and again
1:12:45 there will be some staff presentations
1:12:47 on Monday October 14th at 6:30 p.m.
1:12:50 there's a council special meeting it is
1:12:53 a public hearing consideration to oppose
1:12:56 initiative number 976 concerning motor
1:13:00 vehicle taxes and fees and a 7 p.m.
1:13:04 council budget session again with some
1:13:07 presentations this time from the
1:13:09 departments on Monday October 21st 7:00
1:13:12 p.m. Council regular meeting time and
1:13:14 some of the potential agenda items for
1:13:16 that are an informational update on the
1:13:18 dark park at Tibbets Valley Park public
1:13:21 hearings for the proposed 2020 budget
1:13:23 and levy and revenue sources and on
1:13:26 regular business potentially a proposed
1:13:29 2020 budget parks be proposed 2020
1:13:32 budget utility tax and bid awards for IT
1:13:34 s traffic camera upgrade there is no
1:13:40 executive session this evening and so we
1:13:43 will be a journeying the meeting at 716
1:13:46 thank you at this point in time I think
1:13:48 maybe a 10-minute break between meetings
1:13:51 so it offers head up would be great and
1:13:53 thanks

Attendance

Council / Members (6)
Mariah Bettise
Victoria Hunt
Tola Marts
Chris Reh
Lindsey Walsh
Paul Winterstein
Excused
Stacy Goodman

Motions and votes (1)

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0394 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Oct. 7, 2019, $4,200,279.59; Approved. b) Minutes: Council Study Session, Sept. 10, 2019; Approved. c) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Sept. 16, 2019; Approved. d) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Se…
Moved by MARTS · seconded by BETTISE
Carried 6-0
In favor: Mariah Bettise, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh, Paul Winterstein