City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, February 3, 2020 · City Council Digest

6. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

Washington State Creative District Designation ID 0583

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Staff report:

At the February 3, 2020 City Council Meeting, Council will receive an informational presentation on the City’s application to the Washington State Arts Commission to designate downtown, Gilman Village and surrounding area as a WA State Certified Creative District.

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Jan. 21, 2020

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.161–164

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 01-21-20 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Bid Award SE 43rd Way Signalization Project AB 7915

Carried 7-0

Award Bid · packet pp.165–169

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Staff report:

SUMMARY STATEMENT

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Cascade Water Alliance Board of AB 7922

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.171–173

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

Approve resolution as presented.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

9. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Council President/Mayor Appointments

packet pp.175–177

Topics: Boards & Commissions

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Staff report:

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0:09 ↗ you

0:13 ↗ good evening I'd like to call to order

0:15 ↗ the February 3rd City Council meeting

0:18 ↗ and for those of you that are joining us

0:20 ↗ today if you would like to join the

0:22 ↗ council myself in the Pledge of

0:23 ↗ Allegiance

0:24 ↗ please dance though we'll be starting

0:45 ↗ off this evening with audience comments

0:48 ↗ this is your time to speak to your

0:50 ↗ council the guidelines for public

0:52 ↗ participation are displayed on the

0:54 ↗ screen behind me please limit your

0:56 ↗ comments to five minutes we do have a

0:59 ↗ sign-up list and those who signed up

1:00 ↗ will be called up first if you did not

1:02 ↗ sign up I will still call to have others

1:04 ↗ speak before we close this portion of

1:06 ↗ the meeting if you aren't here

1:08 ↗ representing a group or an association

1:10 ↗ please identify that when you're

1:11 ↗ speaking this evening and if you are

1:14 ↗ here this evening and joining us and

1:15 ↗ want to show support for a speaker's

1:18 ↗ thoughts and comments please raise your

1:19 ↗ hand so council understands the level of

1:21 ↗ support in the room tisha has anyone

1:24 ↗ signed up to speak this evening yes

1:27 ↗ Tanya Hanson Avery Finnerty Heather

1:29 ↗ Finnerty and Malia greening

1:31 ↗ will be coming up together together as a

1:33 ↗ group for how do you guys want to do it

1:37 ↗ okay great

1:39 ↗ good thing well who's ever first come on

1:42 ↗ up hi I'm Tanya Hanson and I'm I work at

1:49 ↗ Clark elementary right here and we're

1:51 ↗ all up here about this crosswalk or the

1:54 ↗ intersection of second and bush I've

1:56 ↗ worked for clerk for five years this is

1:58 ↗ my third year in our new building in my

2:00 ↗ third year at the crosswalk

2:02 ↗ there's about 25 families that cross

2:04 ↗ from the I guess it would be the east

2:08 ↗ side of a second over to the west side a

2:10 ↗ second to get to the school and there's

2:12 ↗ been a lot of concerns about the

2:13 ↗ intersection so I'm in the crosswalk

2:16 ↗ every morning for about 20 minutes in

2:19 ↗ every afternoon for about 20 minutes

2:20 ↗ kind of it's typical storm you know 9:00

2:22 ↗ in the

2:23 ↗ then three in the afternoon except the

2:25 ↗ half day on Wednesday at 1:30 from about

2:28 ↗ 1:30 to 2:00 so I always stand on on the

2:34 ↗ southwest side of the crosswalk and I

2:37 ↗ wear a yellow vest yellow gloves I have

2:39 ↗ the standard school flag am I trying to

2:42 ↗ be as visible as possible I have a

2:46 ↗ specific spot on each side of the street

2:48 ↗ that I have the kids stand on typically

2:50 ↗ when you're crossing guard you cross

2:52 ↗ away from the school when the kids are

2:54 ↗ coming to school and you cross from the

2:56 ↗ school side when the kids are coming

2:57 ↗ home from school the school side is the

3:05 ↗ yeah okay okay so if you look at that

3:08 ↗ right there so you see the the beautiful

3:11 ↗ old house on the on the top left that's

3:14 ↗ where I stand that's the southwest

3:16 ↗ corner of that the topper right is going

3:20 ↗ that way is where the school is

3:22 ↗ typically I would stand in the morning

3:26 ↗ on the left side and in the afternoon on

3:28 ↗ the right side the right side I don't

3:29 ↗ stand on because it's very dangerous

3:31 ↗ it's a really tight turn and I think we

3:34 ↗ have a picture down below that shows how

3:36 ↗ the curb is a full ramp so any large car

3:39 ↗ anything bigger than like a really small

3:42 ↗ sedan they come up on to the curb I

3:44 ↗ think on that you can even see tire

3:46 ↗ marks so I always stand on the opposite

3:49 ↗ side you can't see in this picture very

3:51 ↗ well but on that on the southwest corner

3:53 ↗ the top left there's actually two

3:54 ↗ telephone poles and I strategically

3:56 ↗ placed myself behind the telephone poles

3:59 ↗ because there's so many close calls in

4:00 ↗ that intersection so that's kind of

4:03 ↗ where we are I have a specific spot on

4:07 ↗ each side of the road that I have the

4:08 ↗ kids stopped on the side that has the

4:10 ↗ the flat corner for the entire corner I

4:13 ↗ actually have the kids stand in the

4:14 ↗ grass I understand that's a house that's

4:16 ↗ owned by the city so we're not you know

4:18 ↗ it's okay and then on the opposite side

4:21 ↗ I have a line where all the kids have

4:22 ↗ been trained to stay behind until I go

4:24 ↗ out into the street so after the meeting

4:27 ↗ after a meeting in I believe early late

4:31 ↗ October early no

4:32 ↗ remember the neighbors and families and

4:34 ↗ the people that are here tonight had

4:36 ↗ come to start to address this after they

4:38 ↗ did they came and talked to me at the

4:41 ↗ crosswalk we've been talking for five

4:42 ↗ years about getting the kids to school

4:44 ↗ safely I've been the crossing guard for

4:46 ↗ the whole time I've been there

4:48 ↗ so I know a lot of these families really

4:50 ↗ fairly well so they asked me if I'd be

4:54 ↗ willing to talk about how I felt about

4:56 ↗ the safety of the crosswalk and how I

4:57 ↗ felt about the kids crossing and how I

4:59 ↗ felt about actually my own personal

5:01 ↗ safety so I focused mostly on second

5:05 ↗ Avenue that's the street that you see

5:07 ↗ going north-south right here and I know

5:09 ↗ there's been other issues though they

5:10 ↗ just recently put speed bumps in and the

5:12 ↗ signs and different things it's really

5:15 ↗ busy at school times I'm super busy lots

5:18 ↗ of traffic lots of parents lots of

5:19 ↗ students a lot of things so I focused

5:23 ↗ mostly on that one because that

5:25 ↗ crosswalk at the very top of the screen

5:27 ↗ is the one that I'm in I don't cross the

5:29 ↗ whole intersection I just do the one

5:30 ↗ crosswalk and I focused on the

5:34 ↗ north-south north-south traffic because

5:37 ↗ the speeds are higher and it's not if

5:40 ↗ it's not a there's no stopping a lot of

5:42 ↗ people think it is a four-way but I'll

5:44 ↗ tell you about that in a second so my

5:46 ↗ biggest concern and fear was the cars

5:48 ↗ not stopping when I had kids in the

5:50 ↗ crosswalk because sometimes they're not

5:52 ↗ paying attention they had just

5:53 ↗ previously stopped at the light up here

5:55 ↗ and a lot of times people are in a hurry

5:57 ↗ I thought that it would be a lot of

5:59 ↗ teenagers from the high school and what

6:01 ↗ I found just in my observations is it's

6:03 ↗ mostly parents who are dropping off

6:05 ↗ fleet teenagers that miss their bus they

6:07 ↗ come flying out of there and so I

6:12 ↗ tracked from November 6th to November

6:16 ↗ 21st and then I did two days in December

6:19 ↗ the 17 days that I tracked and what I

6:23 ↗ was tracking is cars that went through

6:25 ↗ the crosswalk when I was physically

6:26 ↗ inside of it not I usually will raise my

6:29 ↗ flag I'll try and make eye contact

6:31 ↗ before I step out I try and give cars

6:34 ↗ warnings I also try and wait for a

6:35 ↗ logical break in traffic I don't walk

6:37 ↗ into the street when there's tons of

6:39 ↗ cars both ways I wait for a little break

6:41 ↗ so what I was tracking was cars that

6:44 ↗ actually went through the

6:45 ↗ crosswalk when I was physically in it I

6:47 ↗ don't let the kids come out and I never

6:49 ↗ have so they're fortunately have not

6:52 ↗ been well there's been a couple of

6:53 ↗ instances on that other corner but

6:56 ↗ that's what I was tracking and I found

6:58 ↗ that an average of three days a week on

7:00 ↗ those 17 days which was kind of two

7:03 ↗ weeks before breaking then one week in

7:05 ↗ December the three cars a week blow

7:08 ↗ through the traffic blow through the

7:10 ↗ crosswalk they just keep going

7:11 ↗ they don't stop I did not track the cars

7:14 ↗ that as soon as they see me start to

7:16 ↗ head out we'll blow through I mean they

7:18 ↗ literally speed up and blow through as

7:21 ↗ soon as they see me on the corner and

7:22 ↗ like I said I raised my flag I make it

7:23 ↗ obvious I'm coming out and I've reached

7:26 ↗ the end of your comment time oh shoot

7:28 ↗ shoot shoot okay if you want to take an

7:31 ↗ extra few seconds and wrap it up we'll

7:33 ↗ call up the base just wrap it up anyway

7:34 ↗ that interception is really dangerous

7:36 ↗ it's elementary school kids there are a

7:38 ↗ lot of families a lot of parents but

7:40 ↗ really that crosswalk is not it's very

7:43 ↗ unsafe thank you is it ten yeah yes

7:47 ↗ thank you for coming tonight it's so

7:49 ↗ much more yeah if you want you can leave

7:54 ↗ your printed comments with the city

7:56 ↗ clerk and she can pass the full list of

7:58 ↗ your comments around to cut Council if

8:00 ↗ you want okay okay you want to pull the

8:06 ↗ microphone down so we can hear nine

8:18 ↗ years old and I go to Clark elementary

8:21 ↗ I'm here to speak because of the little

8:24 ↗ safety we have in our in my neighborhood

8:27 ↗ and our city I live just off the street

8:31 ↗ and I walk to my school every day when I

8:33 ↗ walk to school I don't feel safe one

8:36 ↗ because a man got hit a month ago in

8:38 ↗ front of the threescore and six

8:40 ↗ and two because people speed down my

8:43 ↗ street without noticing that there is a

8:45 ↗ neighborhood with kids all around them

8:48 ↗ whenever I'm walking to school with my

8:52 ↗ family

8:53 ↗ and I hear a car c1 when we are going to

8:56 ↗ walk in the crosswalk immediately put my

9:00 ↗ arm I get so scared because every

9:07 ↗ morning I always see high schoolers were

9:10 ↗ grownups flying over the speed bumps and

9:13 ↗ cutting through our neighborhood just to

9:16 ↗ get to school or work and sometimes even

9:19 ↗ parents to us but whether they your

9:22 ↗ parents were high schoolers they

9:23 ↗ shouldn't be cutting across our street

9:26 ↗ at over 25 miles an hour another problem

9:30 ↗ in our neighborhood is the turn

9:32 ↗ restriction signs that got taken down

9:35 ↗ along sunset and second those

9:41 ↗ restriction signs were not taken down

9:44 ↗ that man would not have gotten hit by

9:47 ↗ the car this makes a lot of people said

9:50 ↗ that you chose not to put those signs

9:53 ↗ back up after the man was hit I also do

9:56 ↗ safety patrol at Clark on Thursdays when

10:00 ↗ I do patrol all I think about is the

10:02 ↗ cars hitting me or another person or

10:05 ↗ crashing onto the sidewalk with me to

10:08 ↗ hurt someone else

10:10 ↗ one day when I was doing safety patrol a

10:13 ↗ big childcare bus was turning on my side

10:16 ↗ and my front side just as it was turning

10:20 ↗ the bus wheels whirled up onto the

10:23 ↗ sidewalk and the bus was tipped over on

10:25 ↗ me and my friend I don't like this

10:28 ↗ because there's a bus picking up kids in

10:31 ↗ a school zone and it rolls up onto the

10:34 ↗ curb where kids are thank you for your

10:37 ↗ time

10:38 ↗ Thank You Avery thank you Avery has seen

10:42 ↗ us working on this and these are her

10:43 ↗ words and she wanted to write that

10:45 ↗ letter and share that with you um it was

10:47 ↗ not prompted by Malia or myself but just

10:49 ↗ from her heart and pretty brave of her

10:52 ↗ to do that I'm gonna continue with what

10:55 ↗ I've got

10:56 ↗ if you wouldn't mind going to the next

10:58 ↗ slide tisha I'll try and be quick here

11:00 ↗ we've already talked about there's

11:01 ↗ Turtles confusing drivers they don't

11:04 ↗ know that that sign isn't

11:05 ↗ stop sign and so part of the problem too

11:07 ↗ that Tonya was talking about is some

11:09 ↗ people will stop and it causes a big

11:10 ↗ confusion at that circle because of the

11:12 ↗ unexpected stopping so then other people

11:14 ↗ in cross traffic don't know when to go

11:16 ↗ and the people who are going to start to

11:18 ↗ stop and then it becomes anybody's guess

11:20 ↗ who's actually going to resume the

11:23 ↗ traffic flow and that causes near misses

11:25 ↗ every day since the last time I saw you

11:28 ↗ I have almost been hit in the middle the

11:29 ↗ crosswalk twice dead center in the

11:32 ↗ middle of a sidewalk one of them I had

11:33 ↗ my 70 year old mother with me who was

11:35 ↗ holding on to me during the snow when it

11:37 ↗ was icy out so that she wouldn't slip

11:39 ↗ and fall and I'm sure that we were

11:40 ↗ slower crossing the intersection than

11:42 ↗ normal so I had her on one side I had my

11:44 ↗ daughter on the other side and we were

11:46 ↗ in the center of the crosswalk where

11:47 ↗ Elkhart Alan decided to come

11:49 ↗ through two weeks later four o'clock

11:52 ↗ picking up my daughter from school well

11:54 ↗ after her crossing guard the same thing

11:55 ↗ happened this time it was so dramatic

11:58 ↗ that there was an a pause in all of the

12:01 ↗ cars after the car came around they were

12:04 ↗ taking a left-hand turn pretty much

12:05 ↗ straining to us and had I been a little

12:07 ↗ bit quicker and thinking I could have

12:08 ↗ reached out and just whacked on a car

12:10 ↗ because they were that close

12:11 ↗ every car in that intersection stopped

12:15 ↗ and paused for a very long time because

12:17 ↗ it was so jarring and nobody wanted to

12:19 ↗ move the school bus driver who was the

12:21 ↗ oncoming traffic actually stopped the

12:24 ↗ school bus and rolled down her window

12:25 ↗ and asked if we were okay before

12:26 ↗ continuing and that's not an isolated

12:28 ↗ incident and that's just me talking to

12:31 ↗ you who nice two to two times in one

12:34 ↗ month the next slide please

12:37 ↗ and the traffic studies are great we do

12:40 ↗ appreciate that there were traffic

12:41 ↗ studies that were put into Andrews and

12:44 ↗ Bush Street after we first visited you

12:46 ↗ in November but they only show one facet

12:49 ↗ of the problem that's going on here

12:50 ↗ the median speed we understand is

12:52 ↗ probably closer to the 25 miles an hour

12:54 ↗ but it's that peak speed or peak traffic

12:56 ↗ times that we're worried about and so

12:57 ↗ the traffic studies are a little bit

12:58 ↗ skewed as far as what we're talking

13:00 ↗ about and being able to get it from one

13:02 ↗ one piece of that same thing with police

13:06 ↗ records and this is just an example of

13:07 ↗ that as well because if you go back to

13:10 ↗ that same corner the tire tracks on the

13:11 ↗ street aren't going to show up on a

13:12 ↗ police record the X and that in that

13:14 ↗ grassy spot where she has the kids stand

13:16 ↗ that's actually where a white SUV you

13:18 ↗ came to land

13:19 ↗ during an accident one day and that

13:21 ↗ happened moments after the kids crossed

13:22 ↗ so there was a near-miss on that one as

13:24 ↗ well

13:24 ↗ something else that doesn't show up in

13:26 ↗ traffic rice burgers I circled my

13:27 ↗ intersection of 4th and Bush on there

13:29 ↗ that's a traffic accident that happened

13:30 ↗ there the white car behind the van was

13:33 ↗ the one that hit me because I could not

13:34 ↗ see to take a left-hand turn there are

13:37 ↗ 10 new houses that have just been built

13:39 ↗ on Costin which is one Street the

13:41 ↗ alleyway behind Bush Street that's what

13:43 ↗ I would estimate a minimum of 20 more

13:45 ↗ cars in that section that are gonna be

13:47 ↗ accessing Bush Street at that same spot

13:50 ↗ had there been a four-way stop there

13:52 ↗ that truck would have been forced to

13:53 ↗ move back just a little bit which would

13:54 ↗ have increased visibility to take

13:56 ↗ left-hand turns and not get hit by

13:58 ↗ oncoming traffic I have no choice but to

14:00 ↗ pull out into oncoming traffic and hope

14:02 ↗ that nobody's there same situation is

14:04 ↗ created on Andrews and fifth there's

14:05 ↗ 20-foot tall trees at the corner you

14:07 ↗ cannot see even though there's a

14:08 ↗ roundabout there next slide please

14:12 ↗ our neighbors have taken to putting up

14:15 ↗ their own slides and their own signs in

14:17 ↗ their yards next line please these are

14:22 ↗ the pathways up to on the left is Clark

14:24 ↗ elementary school and on the right is

14:26 ↗ the pathway up to the high school and

14:27 ↗ the middle school both the right-hand

14:30 ↗ side pathway up to the middle school is

14:31 ↗ half as wide as the one going up to

14:33 ↗ Clark and that means that we would have

14:35 ↗ had to cross 2nd just to get to that

14:37 ↗ sidewalk as well the one on the

14:39 ↗ right-hand side that goes up to the

14:41 ↗ middle school also depends on how much

14:42 ↗ to Breeze in the road how much

14:44 ↗ walkability it has as well notice that

14:46 ↗ neither side has any signage for a

14:48 ↗ school zone go ahead and click the next

14:50 ↗ slide please if I look at last year's

14:54 ↗ school reports that gives the next has

14:55 ↗ 148 or excuse me 184 students Clark

14:57 ↗ Elementary as of today has 787 students

15:00 ↗ although the report is a little bit less

15:02 ↗ is kua middle schools 994 with Eska high

15:04 ↗ school 2442 that's over 4,000 407

15:08 ↗ students every day Clark and

15:10 ↗ understanding is averaging 10 new

15:12 ↗ students every day it does not take into

15:15 ↗ account that is community center has two

15:17 ↗ locations of preschools in the area

15:18 ↗ giggly Wiggly preschool and at least

15:20 ↗ three group homes servicing adults with

15:22 ↗ differing disabilities within that same

15:23 ↗ spot there are two school sites within

15:27 ↗ that vicinity next slide please

15:29 ↗ and both of those school signs by the

15:32 ↗ way are up

15:33 ↗ at the middle school and the high school

15:35 ↗ contrast here's cougar Ridge elementary

15:37 ↗ school it's in the it's in the hayloft

15:39 ↗ school district we just learned tonight

15:40 ↗ as we keep getting information trickling

15:42 ↗ in via our Facebook page community

15:44 ↗ Facebook page and specifically created

15:47 ↗ email address that cougar Ridge

15:49 ↗ Elementary School initiated the safety

15:53 ↗ measures around our school it is a

15:54 ↗ Bellevue address but it isn't as cross

15:56 ↗ school district school is the sign a or

16:00 ↗ excuse me picture a on the left has a

16:02 ↗ residential area this is the first thing

16:04 ↗ you see when you turn in off the main

16:05 ↗ road into the residential area is the

16:06 ↗ residential blue sign and 25 miles an

16:09 ↗ hour on the actual roadway crosswalks

16:12 ↗ signage ahead and in Section B there's

16:14 ↗ one that says it's coming up and then

16:16 ↗ you can see the far one that's up there

16:17 ↗ as well and the other one is just my GPS

16:18 ↗ I'm half mile away from the school next

16:21 ↗ slide please

16:23 ↗ these are just more examples I drove

16:26 ↗ around the entire perimeter as a half

16:27 ↗ mile perimeter around cougar Ridge the

16:29 ↗ entire thing is lined with different

16:31 ↗ types of sight our signage there's

16:34 ↗ raised crosswalks at important important

16:36 ↗ crossings where most of the kids cross

16:38 ↗ there is a solar paneled flashing lights

16:41 ↗ there's speed trackers there are street

16:44 ↗ cameras to catch speeders going by as

16:45 ↗ well and there are multiple of each of

16:47 ↗ those things there's also a multi

16:50 ↗ directional signs as well when you come

16:52 ↗ to a tee in the road next slide please

16:55 ↗ just more examples of differing portions

16:58 ↗ if you just notice the landscaping

16:59 ↗ they're not the same signs going around

17:01 ↗ the entire school next time our next

17:04 ↗ slide please

17:04 ↗ and so with that this brings me to that

17:08 ↗ we have an S Class School District issue

17:10 ↗ as well as a city issue and I'm hoping

17:11 ↗ that we can come together and work

17:13 ↗ together to create a solution to this

17:14 ↗ because we're looking at Maslow's

17:16 ↗ hierarchy of needs our kids in our

17:17 ↗ neighborhood are stuck at that safety

17:20 ↗ need our kids compared to cougar Ridge

17:22 ↗ kids have a different set of skills that

17:24 ↗ they are getting to school with and if

17:26 ↗ you are familiar with Maslow's hierarchy

17:28 ↗ of needs if a child becomes stagnant at

17:31 ↗ any one of those levels in their

17:32 ↗ developmental progression they can't

17:36 ↗ move forward 100% as well as the the

17:38 ↗ child who does not have that obstacle in

17:41 ↗ their way

17:42 ↗ cougar Ridge does not have the obstacles

17:44 ↗ of getting to school safely as the

17:45 ↗ same as ours and so we have kids in the

17:48 ↗ same school district that are being

17:49 ↗ provided for in different manners and

17:51 ↗ that is not okay

17:52 ↗ basic safety needs are not being met

17:54 ↗ next slide please

17:56 ↗ so if I took that half mile perimeter

17:58 ↗ and I put it around Clark elementary

18:00 ↗ school as the central point to that you

18:02 ↗ can see how far that radius from Clark

18:05 ↗ elementary would go if we implemented

18:06 ↗ the same safety measures as cougar Ridge

18:08 ↗ however if you move that down a little

18:11 ↗ bit because I when I first did this I

18:13 ↗ did not

18:14 ↗ Center it between their exhaust my

18:16 ↗ Eagles reached our time okay if you move

18:18 ↗ it down a little bit you can see you

18:19 ↗ could it will cover old town as well as

18:23 ↗ the high school middle school and

18:24 ↗ community center all of you

18:27 ↗ Thank You Heather a good question you

18:29 ↗ mentioned the school district and the

18:31 ↗ city are you also doing these

18:32 ↗ presentations at the school board

18:33 ↗ meetings I have not but it's on the list

18:35 ↗ nothing you have to yeah curiously no

18:38 ↗ boards our plans are to start bringing

18:40 ↗ in more people you are our first stop

18:45 ↗ Thanks next I'm Melissa tisha Aliyah

18:49 ↗ greening and while Heather in Avery and

18:54 ↗ Tanya were talking there was some Hansen

18:57 ↗ support in the audience for those that

18:58 ↗ are home and can't see our audience

19:00 ↗ apparently the live stream isn't working

19:07 ↗ okay all right so which one am i I'm 17

19:18 ↗ I'm a 17

19:19 ↗ I'm slide 17 okay we could skip five

19:23 ↗ slides no cuz you can hear this oh

19:26 ↗ that's me but you can yeah okay all

19:29 ↗ right I'm good evening mayor City

19:30 ↗ Council and community members my name is

19:33 ↗ Malia greening Bechtel my family and I

19:35 ↗ live in old Issaquah just two blocks

19:37 ↗ from here

19:38 ↗ I am a mother and teacher in its across

19:40 ↗ school district I'm here today to share

19:43 ↗ with you my concerns about the

19:44 ↗ pedestrian crosswalks the words I just

19:47 ↗ spoke are the exact same words I spoke

19:49 ↗ four years ago on July 6 2015 10 days

19:54 ↗ after a four year old boy was killed in

19:56 ↗ a crosswalk on Newport

19:58 ↗ back then I was here to create a safer

20:01 ↗ Newports way for the children and

20:02 ↗ community there today I am here for the

20:05 ↗ safety of my own children and my own

20:07 ↗ community I want to talk about being

20:09 ↗ proactive I have spoken at several City

20:13 ↗ Council meetings about my concerns with

20:15 ↗ the crosswalks and the traffic on second

20:17 ↗ and bush my neighbor Heather and our

20:19 ↗ crossing guard Tania both have shared

20:22 ↗ specific incidents and proposed

20:23 ↗ solutions I will not be repeating what

20:26 ↗ they said instead I'm going to take us

20:28 ↗ back in time because I want to

20:30 ↗ demonstrate how important it is to be

20:32 ↗ proactive and not reactive on March 12

20:36 ↗ 2012 three years before how Jen died

20:39 ↗ Troy Sheldon shown in this picture here

20:42 ↗ was in a crosswalk on Newports way with

20:44 ↗ his guide dogs he spoke at a council

20:47 ↗ meeting about his experience and I quote

20:49 ↗ I pushed the crosswalk button and waited

20:52 ↗ for my opportunity to cross I made it to

20:55 ↗ the middle of the intersection and all I

20:57 ↗ saw was the front grille of a truck

20:59 ↗ approaching me at a fast rate it came to

21:03 ↗ my mind I don't want to die all I heard

21:06 ↗ was a woman screaming and there I saw

21:08 ↗ both of my dogs both dead and mutilated

21:11 ↗ in front of me the truck did not stop

21:13 ↗ more and more people complained again

21:15 ↗ because we all knew it was only a matter

21:17 ↗ of time before a child was going to be

21:20 ↗ hit he came here to the City Council

21:23 ↗ along with all of his neighbor's several

21:26 ↗ times before the incident in 2015 next

21:30 ↗ slide please

21:31 ↗ on June 17th of 2013 2 years before how

21:36 ↗ Jen died Hart Sugarman spoke before you

21:38 ↗ about his concerns regarding the

21:40 ↗ crosswalks off of Newports way he said

21:43 ↗ and I quote I activated the flashing

21:46 ↗ lights and four vehicles drove through

21:47 ↗ not one of them slowed down they are

21:50 ↗ just aren't paying attention something

21:52 ↗ needs to be done I hereby submit to you

21:55 ↗ a citizen's actions request Hart

21:59 ↗ returned again ten days after how Jen

22:01 ↗ died on July 6 2015 stating I have come

22:06 ↗ before City Council on numerous

22:07 ↗ occasions

22:09 ↗ letters to the mayor's office and

22:10 ↗ directly the city administrators to

22:12 ↗ address the concerns about Newport way

22:13 ↗ tonight I'm going to send another

22:15 ↗ citizens action request tonight is not a

22:18 ↗ request

22:19 ↗ it is a demand a demand so that another

22:21 ↗ life will not be lost I share these

22:25 ↗ memories with you because I want the

22:27 ↗ city to be proactive now be proactive to

22:31 ↗ keep our children safe in these

22:32 ↗ crosswalks be proactive by adding lights

22:37 ↗ speedbumps stop signs turn restrictions

22:41 ↗ whatever it takes

22:42 ↗ be proactive now so that you don't have

22:46 ↗ to be pre active in the future in the

22:49 ↗ end you did give Newport weight

22:51 ↗ community a safer Newport way but what

22:53 ↗ did it take Thank You Amelia yes Larry

23:01 ↗ Frank's on up Larry touch subject to

23:18 ↗ follow my name is Larry Franks I live at

23:22 ↗ two four zero zero one southeast one

23:24 ↗ hundred and third Street a longtime

23:26 ↗ resident of Issaquah and I'm also

23:29 ↗ speaking on behalf of the Friends of his

23:31 ↗ class a man here tree and I see some

23:33 ↗ other next slide please

23:41 ↗ this is a picture that I've shared in

23:44 ↗ the past and this is basically the

23:46 ↗ return of adult fish to the Issaquah

23:50 ↗ hatchery over the the last 20 years on

23:54 ↗ next slide please

23:55 ↗ but it did not point out at the time is

23:58 ↗ that the trajectory passes through zero

24:03 ↗ at some point in the near future so

24:06 ↗ biological systems are not linear we

24:09 ↗ can't look at this and say it six years

24:11 ↗ we will have zero fish but we're at risk

24:14 ↗ and we need to take action to avoid

24:18 ↗ extinction so

24:21 ↗ can we improve the habitat can we roll

24:23 ↗ back pavement can we remove toxic waste

24:27 ↗ from stormwater runoff can we remove or

24:31 ↗ bypass predators can we improve the

24:34 ↗ temperature of the high seas mitigate

24:37 ↗ the blob how much time do we have not

24:42 ↗ enough to carry out any of these actions

24:44 ↗ so we need to think outside the box we

24:46 ↗ need to do something different than what

24:48 ↗ we've been doing managing these fish for

24:51 ↗ the last two decades we do not want to

24:54 ↗ be the curator of a museum run of fish

24:58 ↗ that was a new term to me this week

25:00 ↗ think about museums you've got dead

25:03 ↗ stuffed animals you've got mummies we

25:06 ↗ don't want to go there what will it take

25:08 ↗ to work that problem what will it take

25:11 ↗ to turn this around basically we've got

25:14 ↗ to have all of the co managers of these

25:17 ↗ fish get together get on one plan so

25:20 ↗ that means Department of Fish and

25:23 ↗ Wildlife we're working that angle that

25:25 ↗ means the knuckle chute Indian tribe

25:29 ↗ they're the co managers here and they're

25:31 ↗ very interested in continuing these runs

25:33 ↗ and the city of Issaquah next month I'll

25:38 ↗ bring some ideas about steps we can be

25:40 ↗ taking thank you thank you Larry and

25:44 ↗ tisha do we have anyone else signed up

25:45 ↗ this evening no is there anyone else

25:47 ↗ here this evening that would like to

25:49 ↗ address it besides Cyrus come on up

25:51 ↗ Cyrus and if there are any others I'll

25:54 ↗ call you up after good evening I

25:56 ↗ actually rolled out of bed because I

25:59 ↗ wouldn't watch it on live TV and it's

26:01 ↗ not working so I don't know if someone

26:02 ↗ can get the live stream kickin but I'm

26:05 ↗ out of bed so here I might as well say a

26:06 ↗ couple things now you are live streaming

26:09 ↗ so

26:13 ↗ welcome new councilmembers it's nice to

26:14 ↗ see you all I want to follow up on the

26:18 ↗ earlier gentleman's come in and it's

26:20 ↗ accidental because I just roll in late

26:23 ↗ there's one other state government

26:26 ↗ entity that could help with the same in

26:28 ↗ recovery which is Department of

26:31 ↗ Transportation and I haven't heard back

26:34 ↗ from Dao Constantine's office on this

26:36 ↗ but let me briefly tell you how this

26:39 ↗ came about that permit for the Ford

26:42 ↗ dealership at 229th and North and South

26:45 ↗ East 66th I'm not sure where that

26:48 ↗ actually stands has that has a ruling

26:50 ↗ been made on that permit yet do you know

26:52 ↗ we usually don't do Q&A but I can get

26:55 ↗ you the answer so what what kind of my

26:58 ↗ attention was that there was a lot of

26:59 ↗ conversation on next door about that

27:01 ↗ location and I got into a little tangle

27:04 ↗ surprised that there is a major

27:08 ↗ environmental risk taking place a hazard

27:11 ↗ right now on Department of

27:13 ↗ Transportation property in that

27:15 ↗ right-of-way where the ditch resides and

27:20 ↗ it's filled two levels deep with cans

27:25 ↗ and trash there's some homeless living

27:27 ↗ back there

27:29 ↗ there's biohazard that's there and so

27:32 ↗ while everyone's concerned about what's

27:35 ↗ a pretty clean property this under

27:38 ↗ permit process we can't actually clean

27:41 ↗ up our own backyard and help the salmon

27:42 ↗ because we're not given access to that

27:45 ↗ property to do group cleanups so if we

27:49 ↗ could work with d-o-t to open up because

27:51 ↗ there's a double wide gate there I

27:53 ↗ wouldn't encourage anyone to do that

27:55 ↗ with bare feet or sandals because it

27:56 ↗ really is a biohazard but if we could as

27:59 ↗ a city or groups or the state could open

28:03 ↗ up those gates and do a day cleanup we

28:07 ↗ could clean up our own backyard instead

28:08 ↗ of worrying about the potential risks

28:10 ↗ that don't currently reside and help

28:13 ↗ ourselves and clean up our own backyard

28:15 ↗ and help the fish in the process so if

28:16 ↗ anyone has means of talking to Dow or

28:19 ↗ d-o-t I am my understanding

28:23 ↗ talking to Connie Marsh and others is

28:25 ↗ there been multiple requests made for

28:27 ↗ access to that location inside that

28:30 ↗ fenced area where pollution is in fact

28:34 ↗ filling the ditch and it's falling on

28:38 ↗ deaf ears so let's start helping the

28:41 ↗ salmon by cleaning up our backyard first

28:43 ↗ and thank you for the update on where

28:48 ↗ the permit resides I think it'd be a

28:49 ↗ nice location for that spot there's

28:51 ↗ plenty of other car operations along

28:55 ↗ that same locations I don't know what

28:56 ↗ happens being singled out

28:58 ↗ thank you thank you Cyrus anyone else

29:01 ↗ who did not sign up and would like to

29:03 ↗ address the council come on up Mary my

29:09 ↗ name is Mary Lynch and I recited to six

29:11 ↗ 9o northwest okra drive Issaquah

29:13 ↗ Washington I just want to build up on

29:16 ↗ what Malia and Heather said tonight I've

29:19 ↗ actually come here probably three or

29:21 ↗ four times over the last five years to

29:23 ↗ talk specifically about second and the

29:25 ↗ need for more safety for their

29:27 ↗ schoolchildren I've also attended

29:30 ↗ development council meetings and

29:32 ↗ basically told that's not what you

29:33 ↗ talked about that type of traffic issue

29:35 ↗ that's not there in their purview it's

29:38 ↗ all to be done after so a lot of

29:40 ↗ recommendations that I made did not get

29:42 ↗ done and put into the new middle school

29:44 ↗ or the Clark or the new high school and

29:46 ↗ if anybody would just stand on any of

29:49 ↗ those corners not just down there at

29:51 ↗ Bush but Evans or even at the main

29:55 ↗ entrance to the high school you'd be

29:57 ↗ appalled we need more police presence to

30:01 ↗ start enforcing behavior of our the

30:04 ↗ people that are using that road in the

30:06 ↗ morning people are not giving way to

30:09 ↗ especially at the high school to high

30:11 ↗ school students that are crossing with

30:14 ↗ the light you've got people that are

30:15 ↗ cutting through you've got people that

30:17 ↗ are blocking intersections you've got

30:19 ↗ still students turning well you have the

30:21 ↗ the no turn left turn off of second onto

30:26 ↗ Evans you still have students doing that

30:28 ↗ the police have been there a little bit

30:30 ↗ but you still have people doing that and

30:32 ↗ they

30:32 ↗ so then our cutting off the students

30:34 ↗ that are in the crosswalks I made the

30:36 ↗ recommendation I think over six months

30:38 ↗ ago at one of the meetings when this

30:39 ↗ concern was brought up is the city needs

30:42 ↗ to work on changing their standards on

30:44 ↗ where school zones are and I would

30:46 ↗ recommend that you do go to Bellevue and

30:48 ↗ look at what they've done around cougar

30:50 ↗ Ridge Elementary as they were saying on

30:53 ↗ one sixty-fourth which is a major all

30:55 ↗ Tyrael for Bellevue there is a school

30:58 ↗ zone all along the length of that road

31:01 ↗ where the students to the elementary

31:02 ↗ have to cross the road on one sixty

31:05 ↗ seven seventy first there also is a

31:08 ↗ school zone well away from the

31:11 ↗ elementary but that's where a majority

31:13 ↗ of the kids cross the roads they don't

31:16 ↗ even have bus service there so everybody

31:18 ↗ in those neighborhoods that goes at

31:20 ↗ elementary has to walk and so they've

31:22 ↗ done exceptional amount of work to try

31:25 ↗ and slow the traffic down and control it

31:26 ↗ if the clause really done nothing where

31:29 ↗ I can see and my concern is I've gone

31:31 ↗ and I will come again next week to the

31:34 ↗ department developmental development

31:37 ↗ Commission for Tallis because I also see

31:40 ↗ them at that school we are basically

31:42 ↗ told that's not in our purview on where

31:45 ↗ the school zones will be that's

31:47 ↗ something that the school would decide

31:48 ↗ later on with construction but this the

31:52 ↗ citizens trade to come to the

31:54 ↗ Development Commission and talk about

31:56 ↗ their concerns on the speed with Tallis

31:58 ↗ and the school basically said well

32:00 ↗ that's not a problem

32:01 ↗ speeding is not a problem on Telus Drive

32:03 ↗ we won't have an issue but they're also

32:06 ↗ looking to putting in that new school

32:08 ↗ with only one stoplight and you've got

32:11 ↗ to have buses pulling in and out without

32:12 ↗ a stoplight in to tell us to sit down as

32:16 ↗ a city with the school district with the

32:18 ↗ parents and design some school safe

32:21 ↗ school bus zones we need more cameras so

32:24 ↗ I'll also slow down because it's second

32:26 ↗ they everybody knows now where that

32:29 ↗ camera is so they speed up to it they

32:32 ↗ stop and then they speed south going

32:35 ↗ south the same thing when they turn on

32:37 ↗ Front Street on a second they speed all

32:39 ↗ the way if they're going to school they

32:41 ↗ speed to the school if they're going

32:44 ↗ through there's food

32:45 ↗ they speed up to that camera and slow

32:47 ↗ down just before and I see that every

32:49 ↗ day I'm on that road consistently from

32:51 ↗ about 6:30 in the morning till sometimes

32:54 ↗ five six o'clock at night and that's the

32:56 ↗ behavior because there is very little

32:58 ↗ police presence over there as far as

33:00 ↗ ticketing the only thing I know is there

33:02 ↗ probably some tickets with the camera

33:04 ↗ but it's not affecting and really

33:06 ↗ slowing the traffic down where you've

33:07 ↗ got crosswalks so please sit down with

33:10 ↗ the school district sit down with the

33:11 ↗ parents and redesign how we does not

33:14 ↗ find decide school safety zones in

33:18 ↗ Issaquah and where we place cameras to

33:20 ↗ help slow down the traffic thank you

33:22 ↗ thank you Mary there were lots of hands

33:24 ↗ up for lots of the points that Mary made

33:27 ↗ about school zone safety Thank You mr.

33:30 ↗ Kepler thank you David Kepler 255

33:36 ↗ southeast Andrew Street there's been

33:39 ↗ talk of a four-way stop at Busch Street

33:41 ↗ which actually would increase the

33:43 ↗ traffic I believe on Bush and reduce it

33:45 ↗ on Andrews Street which I don't think is

33:48 ↗ what you want to do the reason is if

33:50 ↗ you're coming in the morning you could

33:52 ↗ turn on 6 make your left turn into 6

33:55 ↗ come down if you come down Andrews you

33:58 ↗ got to stop then you're gonna go one

33:59 ↗ block into the 4-way stop at Busch so

34:02 ↗ you got two stop signs you got to

34:04 ↗ maneuver through if you have a four-way

34:06 ↗ stop at Busch you come off of sunset you

34:09 ↗ would have the one stop make a left turn

34:11 ↗ at Busch and be at the school so we got

34:15 ↗ to do something about speeds on second

34:18 ↗ and I don't think of stop signs going to

34:21 ↗ do it I think not sure cameras and signs

34:26 ↗ and won't be in the right direction and

34:29 ↗ enforcement thank you thank you David

34:32 ↗ anyone else who would like to speak this

34:34 ↗ evening second call for audience

34:38 ↗ comments in the last call for audience

34:40 ↗ comments so we'll be closing audience

34:42 ↗ comments there was a lot of information

34:44 ↗ provided today from a lot of neighbors

34:47 ↗ about traffic concerns at 2nd and Bush

34:50 ↗ and in school zones in general and we

34:53 ↗ also got to hear some more information

34:55 ↗ salmon from one of our repeat visitors

34:58 ↗ so thank you for doing that I did want

35:01 ↗ to ask our let me get this right interim

35:04 ↗ public works director to give counsel a

35:07 ↗ little bit of information about this

35:09 ↗ issue has been in councils in audience

35:12 ↗ comments at several councils and can you

35:14 ↗ come up and let the council know when

35:15 ↗ you expect to be presenting some

35:17 ↗ information back to them on this Old

35:21 ↗ Town area

35:22 ↗ yes Thank You mayor Polly Kurt seaman

35:25 ↗ formerly transportation manager and

35:27 ↗ currently interim public works director

35:29 ↗ first of all I really wanted to

35:32 ↗ acknowledge and thank all of you for

35:34 ↗ coming out and expressing your concerns

35:37 ↗ we share those concerns and we take

35:39 ↗ safety very very seriously and and many

35:43 ↗ of the points you're right on it's a it

35:45 ↗ certainly is a partnership between the

35:47 ↗ city and the parents and the school

35:49 ↗ district and we're very committed to

35:54 ↗ coming up with effective easy to

35:56 ↗ implement and budgetary financially

36:01 ↗ feasible solutions for that whole Old

36:04 ↗ Town school area so we do have an

36:09 ↗ opportunity to talk about this more we

36:12 ↗ have some ideas that we'd like to share

36:16 ↗ with the community and we saw and we'd

36:19 ↗ also like to hear more from all of you

36:21 ↗ so currently currently we have an open

36:25 ↗ house scheduled for February 11th

36:27 ↗ that's a Wednesday night if I'm not

36:30 ↗ mistaken we're still still the location

36:34 ↗ seems to be moving around so we'll let

36:35 ↗ everybody know when we have that tied

36:37 ↗ down for sure but February 11th is that

36:40 ↗ I've that Wednesday or 12th it must be

36:43 ↗ there 12:00 it's the Wednesday is not

36:44 ↗ Council you take that back it must be

36:48 ↗ February 12th is the Wednesday yes so

36:52 ↗ Wednesday February 12th is will be the

36:55 ↗ open house when we figure out where it

36:59 ↗ is and then February 25th which is the

37:01 ↗ council study session we'll be coming

37:04 ↗ back to you and sharing what

37:07 ↗ both what we've discovered and what

37:09 ↗ we're proposing along with everything

37:10 ↗ that we've learned at that open house on

37:13 ↗ the 12 so again I want to thank all of

37:16 ↗ you for coming out you raised some very

37:18 ↗ good points we've looked at this a great

37:20 ↗ deal and we're anxious to share what

37:22 ↗ we've found out there as well as listen

37:25 ↗ to your idea so that's where we're at

37:28 ↗ Thank You Kurt we're moving on to

37:31 ↗ committee and regional reports starting

37:33 ↗ with councilmember Hall oh thank you you

37:38 ↗ had no report Thank You councilmember

37:40 ↗ Dean Michele no report

37:42 ↗ that's member Walsh I'll go slowly where

37:48 ↗ Stacy's benefit so we have each been

37:53 ↗ appointed to regional boards and local

37:58 ↗ committees I've been appointed as the

38:02 ↗ Chamber of Commerce so the first meeting

38:06 ↗ of that I believe is February 21st thank

38:09 ↗ you and so I will be I think I'm gonna

38:15 ↗ be out of town unfortunately so I'll

38:17 ↗ have to work out something with Kathy to

38:20 ↗ get information about that and then the

38:22 ↗ P SRC EDD B which I believe is the

38:28 ↗ Economic Development District board that

38:31 ↗ meeting is on Wednesday and so that's

38:33 ↗ the first meeting the agenda looks

38:35 ↗ pretty light but I will have a report

38:37 ↗ out on that after I attend thank you and

38:42 ↗ I was maybe on some member give them in

38:43 ↗ another second we will be later on in

38:45 ↗ the meeting reporting out on all those

38:47 ↗ boards and committee assignments so that

38:49 ↗ we put it on the record where which

38:51 ↗ chairs you are all occupying this year

38:53 ↗ and I wanted to thank you for expanding

38:56 ↗ on the acronym I have heard that those

38:58 ↗ that watch us on video like it when we

39:00 ↗ give them the full name so thank you for

39:03 ↗ doing that well then maybe I should do P

39:04 ↗ SRC Puget Sound Regional Council yeah

39:09 ↗ there we go

39:09 ↗ thank you councilmember Goodman thank

39:13 ↗ you madam mayor

39:15 ↗ I first have a report out on the Title

39:19 ↗ 18

39:19 ↗ ad hoc committee the title 18 ad-hoc

39:25 ↗ committee met on January 23rd last met

39:29 ↗ on January 23 we've been meeting every

39:31 ↗ every couple of weeks the committee

39:33 ↗ discussed a list of substance of topics

39:36 ↗ that staff and the consulting team had

39:38 ↗ identified relating to the work of

39:39 ↗ updating that title 18 and the committee

39:43 ↗ as we discussed those items the

39:45 ↗ committee created a list of topics that

39:47 ↗ required a deeper dive and our next

39:50 ↗ meeting will focus on continuation of

39:53 ↗ the discussion of those bigger topics

39:55 ↗ focusing on lighting hillside

39:56 ↗ development public notice requirements

39:58 ↗ short plats and non-conforming uses and

40:02 ↗ the the staff will also be providing a

40:05 ↗ proposed Public Engagement plan for the

40:07 ↗ committee to consider discussion of the

40:09 ↗ presentation and the report out is

40:12 ↗ planned for the February 25th council

40:16 ↗ study session so you'll all get a lot

40:18 ↗ more information at that time and our

40:20 ↗ next meeting has been scheduled for

40:21 ↗ February 13th the I recently attended

40:26 ↗ the Eastside fire and rescues finance

40:30 ↗ and administrative committee because I'm

40:32 ↗ the city's representative on that

40:33 ↗ committee and we had one item to discuss

40:36 ↗ and that's east side fires consideration

40:39 ↗ of a new governance model and that new

40:41 ↗ model is based on a new where Washington

40:45 ↗ law and I say a newer because Eastside

40:47 ↗ fire was formed 20 years ago so between

40:49 ↗ then and now there's a new state statute

40:52 ↗ that allows for East Side fire to be a

40:54 ↗ nonprofit corporation and the purpose of

40:57 ↗ potentially changing to that governance

41:00 ↗ model is twofold one is so the East Side

41:02 ↗ Fire can own property which now it can't

41:06 ↗ and the second reason is perhaps more

41:10 ↗ important than that so that East Side

41:11 ↗ Fire can take over as the employer of

41:14 ↗ record from Fire District ten and that's

41:16 ↗ having Fire District ten which is just

41:19 ↗ one member of the five-member East Side

41:22 ↗ Fire and Rescue agency is not ideal for

41:25 ↗ for Fire District ten or East Side Fire

41:30 ↗ also regarding assigned fire

41:33 ↗ councilmember Ray and I had the great

41:36 ↗ pleasure of attending the the graduation

41:39 ↗ ceremony for the South King County Fire

41:41 ↗ Training Consortium last week this was a

41:46 ↗ recruit class eight and it was the

41:48 ↗ second time that Eastside Fire and

41:50 ↗ Rescue had sent firefighters to the

41:54 ↗ training and so we attended the

41:57 ↗ graduation and you can see that there I

42:00 ↗ think we had seven graduate eight eight

42:03 ↗ and now it's that I wanted to read their

42:08 ↗ names their names

42:11 ↗ well there were 37 altogether a native

42:13 ↗ of reward for you for you side fire they

42:15 ↗ are Adam Benson Brandon Davidson Josh

42:18 ↗ Gilbert Joseph stone Ramon Casas Lyon

42:22 ↗ Anna Erikson Brandon Mahoney and Ferrum

42:25 ↗ are yaag my zadeh

42:27 ↗ and it was just a phenomenal evening and

42:31 ↗ congratulations to the graduates and

42:33 ↗ they are now able to start full-time

42:35 ↗ permanent shift work with Eastside Fire

42:38 ↗ and Rescue and that's my report

42:40 ↗ Thank You councilmember Mertz thank you

42:43 ↗ madam mayor the Puget Sound regional

42:46 ↗ council growth management policy board

42:49 ↗ the SRC GMP B is meeting for the first

42:52 ↗ time this year Thursday this Thursday

42:54 ↗ February 6th from 10:00 till noon in the

42:57 ↗ PS RC boardroom and our agenda includes

43:01 ↗ a recommended consideration for action

43:04 ↗ of a recommended conditional

43:06 ↗ certification the black diamonds

43:08 ↗ Comprehensive Plan a discussion item on

43:10 ↗ housing incentives and tools survey a

43:13 ↗ discussion item on the state legislature

43:16 ↗ update and an informational item the

43:18 ↗ draft supplemental biennial budget and

43:20 ↗ work program and if any of these this

43:23 ↗ will be my first meeting there as the

43:27 ↗ alternate is one of the alternate reps

43:28 ↗ for SCA but if there's anything that

43:31 ↗ should come before council I will back

43:33 ↗ the sound cities Association public

43:37 ↗ issues committee SCA pick you

43:39 ↗ meeting the following Wednesday at 7

43:42 ↗ p.m. at berry 12 in Renton City Hall and

43:45 ↗ the SE APEC meeting will include a

43:47 ↗ discussion on the King County waste

43:49 ↗ energy and waste export feasibility

43:51 ↗ study a discussion of vision 2050 an

43:55 ↗ update on the affordable housing

43:56 ↗ committee work plan and an update on the

43:58 ↗ 2020 regional transit policy and plan

44:01 ↗ updates and their - if there are issues

44:04 ↗ to come before for which SCA will be

44:08 ↗ looking for is input then I will share

44:10 ↗ that with the council at our next

44:12 ↗ meeting the SCA pre pick workshop is

44:15 ↗ oftentimes a topic that folks beyond

44:19 ↗ pink would be interested in this is not

44:21 ↗ one of those times it's actually they

44:23 ↗ picked 101 extremely boring if you're

44:25 ↗ not on pick this concludes my report

44:27 ↗ Thank You deputy council president ray

44:29 ↗ no report this evening Thank You council

44:31 ↗ president Han thank you On January 22nd

44:35 ↗ the Cascade water Alliance board met at

44:37 ↗ the Cascade office in Bellevue and we

44:39 ↗ had no action items only consent items

44:43 ↗ and then additionally we had two

44:45 ↗ presentations one was on the strategic

44:47 ↗ plan which the board had previously met

44:51 ↗ to discuss and there were some revisions

44:53 ↗ to that plan and that plan is to go into

44:58 ↗ detail about the mission and vision for

45:00 ↗ cascade and the mission of cascade is to

45:03 ↗ provide safe clean and reliable water to

45:05 ↗ our members and a cost-effective and

45:06 ↗ environmentally responsible way through

45:08 ↗ regional leadership and strongly

45:10 ↗ relationships and the vision is to

45:12 ↗ create a lasting legacy by establishing

45:14 ↗ a model for regional cooperation and

45:16 ↗ effective public resource management so

45:19 ↗ we received a draft update on that plan

45:21 ↗ and then additionally we heard an update

45:24 ↗ about the we need water program which is

45:26 ↗ a water efficiency education program

45:29 ↗ that cascade uses to educate members

45:31 ↗ about how they can better save water the

45:34 ↗ next meeting of the cascade water

45:36 ↗ Alliance board will be February 26 2020

45:39 ↗ and I will this year no longer be

45:42 ↗ serving as alternate so be very in very

45:45 ↗ good hands with councilmember Hall as

45:47 ↗ the alternate and mayor poly as the

45:49 ↗ regular board member that concludes my

45:52 ↗ report

45:52 ↗ thank you so for the mayor's report this

45:54 ↗ evening

45:56 ↗ there is no executive schedule executive

45:59 ↗ meeting scheduled for this evening

46:01 ↗ southeast 43rd contract award included

46:04 ↗ in tonight's consent agenda is

46:05 ↗ legislation awarding the construction

46:07 ↗ contract for the southeast 43rd

46:09 ↗ signalization project the southeast 43rd

46:12 ↗ signalization project will realign the

46:14 ↗ driveways to Providence point in forest

46:16 ↗ village and install a traffic single

46:18 ↗ signal at the new intersection the city

46:21 ↗ received ten bids from contractors to

46:24 ↗ construct the project and the low bid

46:25 ↗ was submitted by Road art construction

46:27 ↗ out of Auburn work is going to begin

46:29 ↗ this March with the relocation of

46:31 ↗ utilities and the project is expected to

46:33 ↗ be completed within ten months I also

46:36 ↗ wanted to touch a little bit on the

46:37 ↗ transit oriented development opportunity

46:40 ↗ Center project at the January 28th City

46:43 ↗ Council study session Council received a

46:45 ↗ presentation in an update on the transit

46:47 ↗ oriented development proposal that the

46:49 ↗ city is working on with our development

46:50 ↗ partners the King County Housing

46:52 ↗ Authority and spectrum development as a

46:55 ↗ next step on this project the council

46:57 ↗ will determine whether to use city-owned

46:59 ↗ land currently an RV park to instead

47:02 ↗ support the project the council

47:04 ↗ requested additional information prior

47:06 ↗ to a scheduled vote that was to have

47:08 ↗ occurred at tonight's February 3rd City

47:10 ↗ Council meeting over the course of the

47:12 ↗ last five years as this proposal

47:14 ↗ developed we have welcomed five new

47:16 ↗ council members to council and it worked

47:18 ↗ through a series of changing

47:20 ↗ circumstances after this last City

47:22 ↗ Council study session I had asked our

47:24 ↗ team city staff King County housing and

47:27 ↗ spectrum to provide an opportunity for

47:29 ↗ those council members who feel

47:30 ↗ additional time is necessary for them to

47:33 ↗ review the proposal progress of the last

47:35 ↗ five years and to reschedule the vote

47:38 ↗ that was to occur tonight out to the

47:40 ↗ next scheduled council meeting on

47:41 ↗ February 18 2020 at that council meeting

47:44 ↗ the request for information from the

47:46 ↗ council study session will be presented

47:48 ↗ to the public and the council the

47:50 ↗ council will then consider a motion to

47:52 ↗ direct the administration to pursue

47:53 ↗ negotiations for the transit oriented

47:55 ↗ development opportunity Center project

47:57 ↗ utilizing a portion of the RV park as a

48:00 ↗ relocation site for century thing I want

48:02 ↗ to provide that update because we really

48:04 ↗ we're going to schedule that vote for

48:06 ↗ this evening we have an informational

48:11 ↗ update this evening I do 583 Washington

48:14 ↗ State creative district designation it's

48:16 ↗ informational only this evening no

48:18 ↗ council action is requested and I'd like

48:20 ↗ to ask Amy Dinks our arts coordinator to

48:23 ↗ make the presentation come on up Amy

48:32 ↗ good evening madam mayor and council

48:34 ↗ members thanks for having me I'm here to

48:37 ↗ just give you a brief overview of the

48:39 ↗ Washington State creative district

48:40 ↗ designation program and then is the

48:43 ↗ croisé application which is currently so

48:48 ↗ the program for a creative district

48:50 ↗ designation was formed in 2017 with the

48:53 ↗ passage of legislation and the

48:56 ↗ Washington State Arts Commission arts

48:58 ↗ wah is the one that manages the program

49:01 ↗ to date there have been three cities

49:04 ↗ designated there are a couple more that

49:06 ↗ are currently under review by the

49:10 ↗ committee that reviews designation and

49:13 ↗ then we and a couple of more cities are

49:15 ↗ in the midst of applying so it's about

49:17 ↗ seven groups that are taking part in

49:19 ↗ this program right now and our

49:21 ↗ application would be the first

49:22 ↗ application from King County so the

49:25 ↗ program was created to enable local

49:27 ↗ communities to use arts and culture and

49:29 ↗ the creative sector to really help

49:31 ↗ bolster economic development and

49:32 ↗ activity in their community so that can

49:35 ↗ mean jobs and creative sector businesses

49:37 ↗ but also tourism and so the arts program

49:41 ↗ and the economic development program had

49:43 ↗ been working together over the past year

49:45 ↗ to work on designation in the area that

49:48 ↗ we are looking to designate as our

49:50 ↗ cultural and business district in Old

49:53 ↗ Town as well as some of government

49:55 ↗ Gilman village and some of the

49:57 ↗ surrounding area but we'll look at a map

49:59 ↗ in just a few slides so what is a

50:02 ↗ certified creative district it's really

50:05 ↗ a concentrated area it should be

50:07 ↗ generally walkable and it is a place

50:10 ↗ where there's a concentration of places

50:12 ↗ for people to enjoy

50:13 ↗ arts and culture activity there's a

50:15 ↗ concentration of cultural facilities

50:17 ↗ creative businesses and organizations it

50:20 ↗ should be an exciting place to live and

50:22 ↗ work and visit and it should have

50:24 ↗ opportunities for job growth and other

50:26 ↗ economic creative opportunities like

50:29 ↗ tourism and so we feel that the area

50:31 ↗ that we are proposing really meets all

50:35 ↗ of those criteria and then who and what

50:39 ↗ is creative so for the purpose of the

50:41 ↗ application we are using a very broad

50:44 ↗ definition of creative so we're

50:46 ↗ absolutely talking about artists and

50:48 ↗ musicians and entertainers but we're

50:50 ↗ also talking about creative

50:52 ↗ restauranteurs and game developers and

50:55 ↗ landscape architects and so anyone that

50:57 ↗ has a really core creative component to

51:00 ↗ their occupation or their business we

51:03 ↗ absolutely want to include those as well

51:07 ↗ and why is a glass so we have an

51:10 ↗ established cultural and business

51:12 ↗ district in Old Town so that's a natural

51:15 ↗ fit for the program and we have lots of

51:18 ↗ cultural amenities there we have all

51:20 ↗ types large and small obviously village

51:23 ↗ theater is a huge anger there but we

51:26 ↗ have lots of smaller schools of music

51:29 ↗ and art galleries and we have lots of

51:32 ↗ good cultural amenities there too like

51:34 ↗ the library and the Senior Center the

51:38 ↗ community center and then we also

51:40 ↗ thought that this was a great program

51:42 ↗ for us to pursue because it helps us

51:44 ↗ achieve some of our goals so for

51:46 ↗ instance the Arts Commission has a

51:48 ↗ adopted strategic direction that is

51:51 ↗ foster the arts as part of our primary

51:53 ↗ community identity and then from the

51:56 ↗ cultural vitality plan they hope to

51:59 ↗ advance and expand creative experiences

52:01 ↗ and attract creative businesses and

52:04 ↗ nonprofits so we really feel that the

52:05 ↗ designation would help achieve all of

52:08 ↗ those and those are just a few that we

52:11 ↗ pulled out of some of the city's plans

52:12 ↗ and then here's the big question and

52:15 ↗ that everybody wants the answer to is

52:17 ↗ what how would our community benefit if

52:19 ↗ we're designated so initially we would

52:22 ↗ get endorsement from the state of

52:23 ↗ Washington and

52:25 ↗ with that would come $5,000 in grant

52:28 ↗ funds that would be primarily intended

52:30 ↗ for using to promote our creative

52:33 ↗ district it would also come with

52:35 ↗ technical assistance and networking from

52:38 ↗ arts Washington as well as opportunities

52:41 ↗ for additional funding and then we feel

52:44 ↗ that by designating the area we would

52:47 ↗ really help attract artists and other

52:50 ↗ creative businesses we would increase

52:53 ↗ tourism we would really build on that

52:55 ↗ hope to have a supposed creativity it's

52:59 ↗ part of our primary identity and and

53:01 ↗ then there's a lot of things that could

53:04 ↗ enter the conversation if we have this

53:07 ↗ district we would be able to really talk

53:08 ↗ about live work space and maker space

53:12 ↗ and other longer-term plans for our

53:14 ↗ creative economy and so I'm gonna invite

53:19 ↗ Christopher right to talk about the

53:22 ↗ boundaries of our district and why we've

53:24 ↗ sort of come to this particular map and

53:27 ↗ hopefully you guys can see that okay and

53:31 ↗ Christopher and through his role in

53:33 ↗ economic development last year was a

53:35 ↗ really integral part of our team putting

53:37 ↗ together our application thank you Amy

53:42 ↗ hello everyone my name is Christopher

53:44 ↗ Wright and I'm with the city's

53:45 ↗ development services department but as

53:48 ↗ Amy said I've been working closely with

53:49 ↗ her and our consultant Leslie as we pull

53:51 ↗ this application together to establish

53:53 ↗ this designation and Amy's asking to

53:56 ↗ kind of summarize how we came up with

53:58 ↗ the boundaries for the creative district

54:01 ↗ that you see there and this is kind of

54:03 ↗ the the latest draft that we've been

54:05 ↗ sharing with everyone and getting input

54:07 ↗ on not a whole lot of direction from the

54:11 ↗ state as far as how to establish the

54:13 ↗ boundaries other than as Amy alluded to

54:15 ↗ that it should be a walkable area and so

54:19 ↗ certainly we started with the area of

54:21 ↗ the city that is zoned cultural and

54:23 ↗ business district which is the heart of

54:26 ↗ downtown including front street north

54:28 ↗ and around the Front Street and sunset

54:31 ↗ intersect

54:32 ↗ but we knew that there was area outside

54:35 ↗ of the CBD and particular uses that we

54:37 ↗ wanted to draw into the district as well

54:40 ↗ and so starting kind of at the northwest

54:43 ↗ corner we wanted to make sure Gilman

54:46 ↗ village was included so expanded the

54:49 ↗ boundary there and then also then we

54:51 ↗ could pull in Gilman station which is

54:53 ↗ the building with the clock tower

54:55 ↗ there's actually handful of creative

54:57 ↗ uses in there as well we wanted to make

54:59 ↗ sure that Gilman lofts or that the

55:01 ↗ Issaquah work lofts was also included

55:04 ↗ because we think that's going to be a

55:05 ↗ great space a great opportunity for

55:07 ↗ artists to locate in that new

55:09 ↗ development and then moving forth

55:12 ↗ further east towards Northeast Gilman

55:15 ↗ Boulevard pulling in the xxx we had to

55:18 ↗ have bombs in there for sure and then

55:21 ↗ going south we wanted to make sure that

55:22 ↗ the museums were included the train

55:24 ↗ depot the History Museum the the Salmon

55:29 ↗ Hatchery as well and then moving north

55:32 ↗ then we included confluence park we also

55:35 ↗ wanted to make sure we included the new

55:37 ↗ housing that the village theater bought

55:39 ↗ for their for their artists because

55:42 ↗ that's one of the things in the

55:43 ↗ application that we need to be tracking

55:45 ↗ and monitoring which is available

55:46 ↗ housing for artists and then following a

55:50 ↗ kind of the the Issaquah Creek boundary

55:53 ↗ on the west side to pull in confluence

55:55 ↗ park as well so that's how we landed on

55:59 ↗ those boundaries within that area there

56:01 ↗ are about 65 creative uses that is not

56:06 ↗ counting restaurants or hair salons and

56:10 ↗ nail salons which I think a couple of

56:12 ↗ other cities we're counting all of the

56:14 ↗ restaurants in the area we don't need to

56:16 ↗ pad our numbers that much so about 65 is

56:19 ↗ what we're counting this creative uses

56:21 ↗ in this area and it's a it's a good mix

56:24 ↗ so that we're feeling pretty good about

56:26 ↗ these boundaries thank you

56:31 ↗ thanks Christopher and so really quickly

56:35 ↗ our timeline sort of where we've been

56:37 ↗ where we are now and where we're heading

56:39 ↗ the arts Washington has a pretty

56:41 ↗ comprehensive community readiness

56:43 ↗ toolkit it's about 30 pages of

56:46 ↗ activities that they would like a

56:47 ↗ community to work through before they

56:49 ↗ apply so we have been working through

56:52 ↗ that with our consultant Leslie Moore

56:54 ↗ flug who's here tonight as well and

56:56 ↗ preparing the application and that

56:58 ↗ involved putting together a stakeholder

57:00 ↗ group we have about 25 people on the

57:03 ↗ stakeholder group that represent

57:05 ↗ nonprofit for-profit creative businesses

57:08 ↗ different associations and organizations

57:11 ↗ and community members and the doesn't

57:14 ↗ the area that we're hoping to get

57:16 ↗ designated and we've had various

57:18 ↗ planning meetings throughout the last

57:20 ↗ year with that group we also did some

57:24 ↗ community engagement this summer and at

57:27 ↗ the library and the farmers market and

57:29 ↗ different cultural events and we

57:30 ↗ collected about 750 unique responses

57:33 ↗ from the community and basically telling

57:35 ↗ them about the opportunity to apply for

57:38 ↗ creative district asking them what they

57:40 ↗ thought about that and what they'd like

57:41 ↗ to see or what they'd like to do in a

57:43 ↗ creative district and so we've used a

57:45 ↗ lot of that information in our

57:47 ↗ application and then as Christopher just

57:50 ↗ discussed we've been sort of working on

57:51 ↗ those boundaries and had some site

57:53 ↗ visits from the arts Washington's staff

57:55 ↗ and they're actually coming back on

57:57 ↗ Wednesday to walk the latest boundaries

57:59 ↗ of this and then tonight here we are

58:02 ↗ giving you this overview information and

58:04 ↗ then we'll be coming back in March with

58:06 ↗ the resolution so in order to put in the

58:09 ↗ application we need a resolution from

58:11 ↗ Council and we'll be submitting that to

58:13 ↗ you the hidden agenda bill and then if

58:16 ↗ all goes well and we submit to Arts

58:18 ↗ Washington we expect the the evaluation

58:21 ↗ process will take a couple of months and

58:23 ↗ we could have our designation as early

58:25 ↗ as this summer so we will be back March

58:31 ↗ 2nd with agenda Bell 7876 and that

58:35 ↗ resolution and I'm happy to answer any

58:37 ↗ questions and Christopher and Leslie may

58:39 ↗ want to help me out with questions thank

58:42 ↗ you thank you Amy thank you Christopher

58:44 ↗ council questions any questions okay

58:49 ↗ Debbie counts president right so what

58:52 ↗ what does it mean to an organization or

58:54 ↗ a business or an individual to be

58:56 ↗ located in a certified creative district

58:59 ↗ well there will be obvious benefits of

59:02 ↗ promotions so the cities that have

59:04 ↗ already been designated which Edmunds

59:07 ↗ was the first example has received quite

59:09 ↗ a lot of regional press and has received

59:13 ↗ a lot of promotion from arts Washington

59:15 ↗ for their district and so you know if a

59:18 ↗ business is located we're hoping that

59:20 ↗ they will see expanded interest in their

59:23 ↗ business or in activities that they

59:25 ↗ might be offering and really also I

59:29 ↗ think that we're going to be providing

59:30 ↗ anybody who wants to take part in our in

59:33 ↗ the the committee that will form after

59:35 ↗ the designation so it really gives

59:37 ↗ people a voice to also express how they

59:40 ↗ would like to you know economically

59:42 ↗ impact the district so there's a

59:44 ↗ participation opportunity there too

59:47 ↗ so building on that a little bit how

59:51 ↗ does the district designation align with

59:53 ↗ the city's overall economic development

59:55 ↗ plan and strategy and vision so I we

59:58 ↗ have been meeting with the economic

1:00:01 ↗ vitality Commission throughout the

1:00:02 ↗ process and talking to them about that

1:00:05 ↗ and and wanting their input as well and

1:00:09 ↗ we pulled out this couple of items that

1:00:11 ↗ were sort of those things are embedded

1:00:13 ↗ in their plan about attracting creative

1:00:16 ↗ businesses and creative workers to the

1:00:19 ↗ city so we feel like this is absolutely

1:00:21 ↗ in line with that but we also are going

1:00:25 ↗ to want their voice and participation on

1:00:27 ↗ the group moving forward to help

1:00:30 ↗ establish how we can help meet those

1:00:33 ↗ goals through the creative district so

1:00:35 ↗ once we create the creative district is

1:00:38 ↗ there some sort of ongoing oversight

1:00:40 ↗ governance entity or how does how do we

1:00:43 ↗ move it forward that's a really good

1:00:45 ↗ question so every community thus far

1:00:47 ↗ seems to be doing it a little bit

1:00:49 ↗ differently the one common denominator

1:00:51 ↗ seems to be that the

1:00:52 ↗ locations are coming from the cities

1:00:54 ↗ then the cities have been managing sort

1:00:59 ↗ of the initial development of the group

1:01:04 ↗ that's seeing the day to day through for

1:01:07 ↗ the creative district but our plan is to

1:01:10 ↗ have the city for this year and that

1:01:13 ↗ we've budgeted for it in the municipal

1:01:15 ↗ arts fund for 2020 and hope to budget

1:01:17 ↗ for it in 2021 if we're designated but

1:01:20 ↗ then we would initially are we would

1:01:22 ↗ eventually pass it on to a community

1:01:24 ↗ organization to do that day-to-day

1:01:26 ↗ management but there would be a steering

1:01:29 ↗ committee that would sort of live on

1:01:31 ↗ with that group that would help with you

1:01:35 ↗ know it could be programming activities

1:01:36 ↗ it could be suggested policy development

1:01:39 ↗ and then obviously they would need to

1:01:41 ↗ move through the proper channels for

1:01:42 ↗ that but initially it will be the city

1:01:45 ↗ and eventually we're hoping it'll be a

1:01:47 ↗ community organization alright last

1:01:49 ↗ question what input we received from the

1:01:52 ↗ chamber of commerce down tennis squash

1:01:54 ↗ sociation and visit Issaquah to help

1:01:56 ↗ craft this so all three of those

1:01:59 ↗ organizations are represented on our

1:02:01 ↗ stakeholder group so they've all been

1:02:03 ↗ actively engaged throughout the last

1:02:05 ↗ year and a couple of them are here

1:02:09 ↗ tonight right I lied now last question

1:02:13 ↗ what what's important to those three are

1:02:16 ↗ those those entities why is this

1:02:19 ↗ important to them to do you I want to

1:02:23 ↗ invite them to answer that or do you

1:02:25 ↗ like to have this entities come up and

1:02:27 ↗ answer I would okay we have the

1:02:30 ↗ executive director from the chamber and

1:02:32 ↗ we have the board chair for DIA if they

1:02:34 ↗ would like to come up and provide a few

1:02:36 ↗ thoughts on how this designation is

1:02:39 ↗ beneficial I'd be great in queue by the

1:02:41 ↗ way it's volunteering I feel like well

1:02:45 ↗ and told but greater is the core Chamber

1:02:51 ↗ of Commerce I have to tell you in first

1:02:54 ↗ that our Board of Directors has not yet

1:02:56 ↗ taken a position on this we plan to have

1:02:59 ↗ it on our agenda at our meeting later on

1:03:01 ↗ this month with that I have

1:03:04 ↗ been attending all of the stakeholder

1:03:06 ↗ meetings it's been a great process to

1:03:09 ↗ work through I also want to fully

1:03:11 ↗ disclose that my husband is a full union

1:03:14 ↗ member and retiree of sag-aftra and

1:03:18 ↗ equity so I have a little bit of love

1:03:21 ↗ and passion for theater in particular

1:03:23 ↗ and I do believe that personally I think

1:03:26 ↗ that art does better a community I think

1:03:31 ↗ that when you create that synergy in any

1:03:34 ↗ business sector you create an

1:03:39 ↗ opportunity to grow and thrive when you

1:03:41 ↗ look at for instance technology and you

1:03:44 ↗ look at our region and you see the

1:03:46 ↗ technology-based strengths that we have

1:03:49 ↗ in the entire Puget Sound area I think

1:03:52 ↗ it speaks volumes to where how if you

1:03:54 ↗ take that down into a microcosm level it

1:03:58 ↗ will benefit so I think that districts

1:04:00 ↗ are important I think that belonging and

1:04:02 ↗ having that sense of knowing what you

1:04:04 ↗ belong to is also important and can be

1:04:06 ↗ beneficial and again this is Kathy

1:04:09 ↗ McCrory speaking thank you Christina did

1:04:13 ↗ you want to come up in answer that

1:04:15 ↗ question as well

1:04:18 ↗ hello everybody I'm Christina I'm the

1:04:20 ↗ board chair of the downtown Issaquah

1:04:22 ↗ sociation and I would echo what Kathy

1:04:24 ↗ just shared the Downtown Association has

1:04:27 ↗ had a lot of local businesses

1:04:28 ↗ participating in the different meetings

1:04:31 ↗ and what we're hearing from folks is

1:04:33 ↗ that we need more foot traffic and when

1:04:36 ↗ you have one small business one artist

1:04:38 ↗ location if you have more it keeps

1:04:40 ↗ people in town longer and so we have a

1:04:43 ↗ destination destination shop like Zen

1:04:46 ↗ gallery somebody will come there but if

1:04:48 ↗ we have more things for them to go look

1:04:49 ↗ at it's going to create that environment

1:04:51 ↗ so that's what we're hearing from the

1:04:53 ↗ local businesses so we look forward to

1:04:55 ↗ it thanks thank you

1:04:56 ↗ any other questions comes from Goodman

1:04:58 ↗ thank you so thanks to councilmember ray

1:05:03 ↗ for the questions and I my question was

1:05:06 ↗ similar to the question about the the

1:05:10 ↗ visitors aqua and that is because

1:05:13 ↗ tourism

1:05:14 ↗ was mentioned in the presentation I

1:05:17 ↗ think when the agenda bill comes back

1:05:18 ↗ I'll be interested to hear more about

1:05:23 ↗ how those efforts are are how they go

1:05:29 ↗ together because I don't I my mind goes

1:05:33 ↗ to concerns that that we're doing two

1:05:35 ↗ separate things so I just want to make

1:05:38 ↗ sure that we're not we aren't on

1:05:39 ↗ different tracks and then also when

1:05:43 ↗ you're when you were talking about the

1:05:45 ↗ boundaries I think I heard a lot about

1:05:50 ↗ making sure we capture what we currently

1:05:53 ↗ have which I understand but I also was

1:05:58 ↗ thinking about we also want to make sure

1:06:00 ↗ I think that we think about what we want

1:06:04 ↗ to be just not what we currently have

1:06:07 ↗ so looking towards the future about and

1:06:10 ↗ whether that changes anything I don't

1:06:11 ↗ know but not just what we currently have

1:06:13 ↗ it future when correct and the program

1:06:15 ↗ the designation is really based on what

1:06:20 ↗ you currently have plus the potential

1:06:22 ↗ for the future and so part of the

1:06:25 ↗ exercise of the readiness and preparing

1:06:28 ↗ application is creating a sort of

1:06:30 ↗ estimated draft three to five year plan

1:06:33 ↗ for the district and so they do want to

1:06:35 ↗ hear how you want to measure and impact

1:06:39 ↗ job growth as well as tourism so it

1:06:42 ↗ really is intended to be impacting both

1:06:45 ↗ things and Beth Chavez has been actively

1:06:48 ↗ involved in the representing visitors

1:06:51 ↗ Coe has been actively involved in the

1:06:53 ↗ group as well so the intention is to

1:06:55 ↗ really affect both of those things the

1:06:58 ↗ tourism and the the job growth he thinks

1:07:02 ↗ I can't remember home

1:07:05 ↗ real quick I'm gonna have to ask you to

1:07:07 ↗ brag a little bit can you speak to the

1:07:10 ↗ other members of the stakeholder group

1:07:12 ↗ who else has been involved in the

1:07:13 ↗ process okay I'm gonna have Leslie come

1:07:17 ↗ up and answer since she's here and she's

1:07:19 ↗ the one that's been doing all the

1:07:20 ↗ communication with our stakeholder group

1:07:22 ↗ and she probably actually has a list

1:07:24 ↗ with her or I can read her list if she

1:07:29 ↗ would like yeah I have a partial list of

1:07:33 ↗ who came just to the last meeting but I

1:07:35 ↗ don't have a full list introduce

1:07:37 ↗ yourself I'm Leslie Moore fluke

1:07:40 ↗ I live at one six two one nine two sixty

1:07:42 ↗ sixth Avenue southeast into okay

1:07:45 ↗ and on the Arts Commission and currently

1:07:49 ↗ consulting and writing this grant so we

1:07:52 ↗ had Rob hunt and Tracy from village

1:07:54 ↗ theatre we have Katie and Christina from

1:07:57 ↗ dia Christy Gerard from the Highlands

1:08:01 ↗ Kathy from the chamber barb from Council

1:08:07 ↗ and from before council Karen Donovan

1:08:10 ↗ and she's with yeah

1:08:14 ↗ previously with Deena on the Arts

1:08:15 ↗ Commission Alison Lange who's with the

1:08:19 ↗ so they're small business

1:08:22 ↗ Trish blower on the Arts Commission

1:08:24 ↗ Erica man Mendez with the Historical

1:08:28 ↗ Society Irene from the library Beth from

1:08:34 ↗ Beth cabins from the tourism Sharon and

1:08:38 ↗ art by fire

1:08:39 ↗ [Music]

1:08:41 ↗ Doreen Russell from the Zen gallery

1:08:45 ↗ Jason from squawk art don't remember his

1:08:50 ↗ last name the person from Chopin music

1:08:54 ↗ and from kaleidoscope in person at the

1:08:59 ↗ West

1:08:59 ↗ Charles so you know a pretty good

1:09:02 ↗ representation of the creative district

1:09:04 ↗ people here and we plan because we

1:09:07 ↗ expanded to Gilman we want to get at

1:09:10 ↗ least one or two more from that area as

1:09:12 ↗ well okay thank you

1:09:14 ↗ council president hunt

1:09:17 ↗ I had a just to comment but I was at the

1:09:21 ↗ farmers market over the summer and there

1:09:23 ↗ was a booth with two women who were

1:09:25 ↗ introducing the concept and getting

1:09:27 ↗ community feedback and there was a ton

1:09:29 ↗ of sticky notes on a board and people

1:09:31 ↗ participating and giving their feedback

1:09:32 ↗ and there was a lot of enthusiasm and

1:09:35 ↗ then I was motivated to look at what

1:09:38 ↗ other cities have done with this

1:09:39 ↗ designation and it seems like there's a

1:09:41 ↗ lot of potential for a city like ours

1:09:43 ↗ that has a solid base of arts and I

1:09:47 ↗ think that's some some of the things

1:09:48 ↗ that make it far really special so I

1:09:50 ↗ just wanted to offer my support and that

1:09:54 ↗ I think it's great and it seems like

1:09:56 ↗ you're bringing the community along with

1:09:58 ↗ you which will make it that much easier

1:10:00 ↗ to have the community really be the

1:10:02 ↗ driving force as this goes forward which

1:10:04 ↗ is exciting to see thank you oh sorry

1:10:08 ↗ and we do really want to open up the

1:10:11 ↗ opportunity once we do get designated to

1:10:14 ↗ have more people involved in the process

1:10:16 ↗ so we will kind of have an open call for

1:10:18 ↗ that from the district that's great

1:10:21 ↗ any other comments or questions from

1:10:23 ↗ Council this evening council member Dean

1:10:25 ↗ Michele so I'm just - two comments I

1:10:28 ↗ just looked it up there's a book called

1:10:30 ↗ the rise of the creative class by

1:10:31 ↗ Richard Florida it's sort of a classic

1:10:33 ↗ and it talks about and shows

1:10:37 ↗ demonstrates how communities all over

1:10:41 ↗ the United States have turned their

1:10:43 ↗ communities around through creative arts

1:10:45 ↗ and how arts are create a synergy

1:10:48 ↗ between economic development and and

1:10:53 ↗ more arts and if you have creative

1:10:55 ↗ people in your community they attract

1:10:57 ↗ other creative people and those creative

1:10:59 ↗ people create businesses and all kinds

1:11:02 ↗ of things so I would recommend that that

1:11:04 ↗ book and then several years ago and in

1:11:08 ↗ the data I'm sure too old to to

1:11:12 ↗ resurrect but the East Side Arts

1:11:15 ↗ Commission's asked for a study of the

1:11:19 ↗ relationship between the arts and the

1:11:22 ↗ economic development and that study

1:11:25 ↗ showed a very positive coalition excuse

1:11:30 ↗ me between

1:11:32 ↗ communities that had arts as a basic

1:11:35 ↗ part of their identity did better and

1:11:38 ↗ attracted more income than those that

1:11:41 ↗ didn't and it's equated very well even

1:11:44 ↗ in those days on that on that study so

1:11:48 ↗ I'm sure the data is out of out of date

1:11:51 ↗ but I'm sure that the principle

1:11:54 ↗ continues that if you have a creative

1:11:56 ↗ community you do very well economically

1:11:59 ↗ as well so I think this is a great idea

1:12:01 ↗ and I commend everybody for all the hard

1:12:03 ↗ work that's already been done yeah for

1:12:06 ↗ the comments any other comments from

1:12:08 ↗ Council on this item great thank you

1:12:11 ↗ very much just for naming we'll see you

1:12:13 ↗ in March right next item on the agenda

1:12:17 ↗ this evening is a consent calendar and

1:12:19 ↗ it was distributed to Council in advance

1:12:21 ↗ if authorized the items on the consent

1:12:24 ↗ calendar will be considered together and

1:12:26 ↗ approved by one motion who have the

1:12:28 ↗ payables and payroll been reviewed yes

1:12:30 ↗ thank you

1:12:32 ↗ does any councilmember desire to remove

1:12:34 ↗ any item from the consent calendar and

1:12:36 ↗ consider it under regular business being

1:12:40 ↗ none is there a motion I've moved to

1:12:44 ↗ adopts the consent calendar as listed in

1:12:46 ↗ tonight's published agenda second it's

1:12:49 ↗ been moved and seconded all those in

1:12:50 ↗ favor signify by saying aye it was

1:12:53 ↗ opposed that carries unanimously

1:12:56 ↗ the next item on the agenda normally

1:12:59 ↗ would be regular business but we have no

1:13:01 ↗ items under regular business this

1:13:03 ↗ evening so we'll be going into good of

1:13:05 ↗ the order do council members have

1:13:08 ↗ anything for good of the order this

1:13:09 ↗ evening that's member Goodman I just

1:13:12 ↗ wanted to mention in my report out

1:13:13 ↗ regarding me sorry Fire and Rescue and

1:13:16 ↗ the board considering a new governance

1:13:17 ↗ model I failed to mention that it is in

1:13:23 ↗ the review stage right now and before

1:13:26 ↗ the board would take any action on that

1:13:28 ↗ it would in some way shape or form be

1:13:32 ↗ presented to this council for an

1:13:33 ↗ opportunity for any questions and

1:13:35 ↗ comments thank you any other items for

1:13:38 ↗ good of the order I'm just this body

1:13:41 ↗ will need to

1:13:43 ↗ that any change in governance of esight

1:13:45 ↗ fire and rescue any other items for good

1:13:49 ↗ of the order I have one small one it's

1:13:53 ↗ the red white and blue badges that some

1:13:55 ↗ of you are wearing I just wanted to

1:13:57 ↗ remind everybody that we do have an

1:13:59 ↗ election next week February 11th while

1:14:02 ↗ the ballot may be a little skinny it is

1:14:04 ↗ an election as an immigrant to this

1:14:06 ↗ country who could not vote in her first

1:14:08 ↗ 10 years here I take this super

1:14:10 ↗ seriously I encourage you to with your

1:14:14 ↗ constituents and at your workplace to do

1:14:16 ↗ the same thing I'm really excited to

1:14:19 ↗ give recognition to those who already

1:14:20 ↗ drop the ballots and want everybody else

1:14:22 ↗ to do it as well so that's just a public

1:14:25 ↗ service announcement next item on the

1:14:27 ↗ agenda is the council president and

1:14:29 ↗ mayor appointments and it's an

1:14:30 ↗ informational item I thought be a good

1:14:32 ↗ idea for council president to talk about

1:14:34 ↗ what seats you'll be sitting in this

1:14:35 ↗ year within our organization and then I

1:14:38 ↗ have some that I'll add on where we

1:14:40 ↗ actually fill chairs that sound cities

1:14:42 ↗ Association has been allocated on

1:14:44 ↗ various regional boards and commissions

1:14:46 ↗ present thank you so we had this list

1:14:51 ↗ distributed to council recently and I'll

1:14:54 ↗ go through the items and I'll try to

1:14:56 ↗ make sure I say the complete name for

1:14:59 ↗ any of the many acronyms that we have so

1:15:02 ↗ for our for its akua's finance ad-hoc

1:15:05 ↗ committee this year that will be council

1:15:07 ↗ deputy president ray council president

1:15:10 ↗ hunt and councilmember Goodman for LTAC

1:15:13 ↗ which is the lodging and tax advisory

1:15:16 ↗ committee that will be councilmember

1:15:17 ↗ Goodman cascade water Alliance

1:15:20 ↗ the board this the mayor is the regular

1:15:24 ↗ member and councilmember Hall will be

1:15:26 ↗ the alternate member Eastside Fire and

1:15:29 ↗ Rescue board

1:15:30 ↗ councilmember Goodman and council deputy

1:15:33 ↗ president ray will be the regular

1:15:36 ↗ members and councilmember Hall will be

1:15:38 ↗ the alternate Eastside Human Services

1:15:42 ↗ forum the member will be council member

1:15:46 ↗ day Michelle Eastside transportation

1:15:48 ↗ partnership ETP will be council member

1:15:51 ↗ day Michelle the Chamber member of the

1:15:54 ↗ council will be council member

1:15:56 ↗ wash and then Vyra eight water resource

1:16:00 ↗ inventory area which is a technical name

1:16:04 ↗ for our watershed salmon recovery

1:16:06 ↗ council member will be myself

1:16:08 ↗ council president hunt sound city's

1:16:11 ↗ association i believe you will be doing

1:16:13 ↗ those okay and then the last one before

1:16:16 ↗ the sound cities association

1:16:18 ↗ appointments is k4c the mayor is a

1:16:22 ↗ regular member and council member hall

1:16:24 ↗ will be an alternate and the KFOR c

1:16:26 ↗ stands for King County's King County

1:16:29 ↗ cities climate collaboration so that has

1:16:32 ↗ to do with climate action and I believe

1:16:35 ↗ I've got all of the ones that are not

1:16:37 ↗ the sound cities so we are also a very

1:16:42 ↗ proud member of the sound cities

1:16:43 ↗ association which consists of 38 cities

1:16:45 ↗ and 1 million people and it's a great

1:16:48 ↗ regional voice and they have done an

1:16:50 ↗ absolutely fabulous job negotiating

1:16:52 ↗ seats on all these various boards and

1:16:55 ↗ commissions so while we serve on them we

1:16:56 ↗ are speaking with for the voice of SDA

1:16:59 ↗ it is a great opportunity for our local

1:17:01 ↗ reps to be out regionally the council

1:17:05 ↗ president and I also made recommend

1:17:06 ↗ recommendations for those and the new

1:17:08 ↗ 2020 regional appointments that were

1:17:10 ↗ approved by the SDA board include

1:17:12 ↗ council member Hall on affordable

1:17:14 ↗ housing I councilmember Rey on the

1:17:16 ↗ growth management Planning Council which

1:17:18 ↗ is a king county committee councilmember

1:17:22 ↗ D Michelle on the healthier here

1:17:24 ↗ governing board and for Puget Sound

1:17:27 ↗ regional councils Economic Development

1:17:29 ↗ District Board I guess I didn't really

1:17:31 ↗ know what it was councilmember Walsh

1:17:32 ↗ will be sitting there and for Puget

1:17:35 ↗ Sound Regional Council's growth

1:17:36 ↗ management policy board

1:17:37 ↗ councilmember Mart's will begin to serve

1:17:39 ↗ this year also councilmember Mertz

1:17:42 ↗ is the regular member on the sound

1:17:44 ↗ city's public issue committee and

1:17:45 ↗ councilmember D Michelle is serving as

1:17:47 ↗ the alternate and one of the things I

1:17:50 ↗ left off here was I also did get elected

1:17:52 ↗ to the SCA board this year so we have a

1:17:53 ↗ lot of we have probably our largest

1:17:56 ↗ footprint in these regional assignments

1:17:59 ↗ that we've ever had so I want to thank

1:18:00 ↗ you all for stepping up and volunteering

1:18:03 ↗ to serve on these seats and reporting

1:18:06 ↗ out on them as you do in your regional

1:18:07 ↗ reports

1:18:10 ↗ the last thing I had unless we've missed

1:18:12 ↗ something I think we covered all the

1:18:14 ↗ assignments is I'm just gonna talk a

1:18:16 ↗ little bit about what's coming up at the

1:18:18 ↗ upcoming council meetings so February

1:18:21 ↗ 11th there is a council study session at

1:18:23 ↗ 6:30 p.m. in this chamber potential

1:18:25 ↗ agenda items are the workers

1:18:28 ↗ compensation retro refund

1:18:30 ↗ acknowledgement the shoreline master

1:18:32 ↗ plan periodic update the green is

1:18:34 ↗ Sequoia funding opportunity which is a

1:18:36 ↗ forest carbon credit program solid waste

1:18:39 ↗ collection contract extension carbon

1:18:42 ↗ inventory update and climate planning

1:18:44 ↗ sounds like a late night Tuesday

1:18:47 ↗ February 18th which is our regular City

1:18:49 ↗ Council meeting at 7:00 p.m. in this

1:18:51 ↗ chamber the potential agenda items are

1:18:52 ↗ an informational update Parks master

1:18:55 ↗ plans that are underway

1:18:56 ↗ Tibbits Valley Park Veterans Memorial

1:18:58 ↗ Park and the Issaquah Creek corridor and

1:19:01 ↗ also as was mentioned a couple times

1:19:03 ↗ this evening a council direction on

1:19:06 ↗ whether or not to utilize a portion of

1:19:08 ↗ the RV park for the transit oriented

1:19:10 ↗ development relocation site for

1:19:12 ↗ CenturyLink there is no executive

1:19:16 ↗ session this evening if there are no

1:19:19 ↗ other items we are adjourned at 8:28 go

1:19:30 ↗ you

1:19:35 ↗ you

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (1)

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. a) ID 0536 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Feb. 3, 2020, $4,658,095.69; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Jan. 21, 2020; Approved. c) AB 7915 - Bid Award SE 43rd Way Signalization Project; Awarded the construction contract for the SE 43r…

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh