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City Council Regular Meeting

Monday, May 18, 2020

7:00 PM
Topics tracked across meetings:
Recognition of Public Works ID 1227 1/2
Holiday Inn Lift Station, Change Order 3 AB 8233 1/2
King County Flood Control District Grant (East Lake Sammamish Parkway Conveyance Improvements) AB 7809 1/2
First 2020 Budget Amendment AB 7926 3/4
2020 Budget Reauthorizations AB 7930 2/3
Amendment to 2020 Salary Ordinance AB 7976 2/2
Section
Topic
3. SPECIAL BUSINESS
3a
Recognition of Bret Heath, Public Works Operations Director
6. MAYOR'S REPORT
6a
2020 COVID-19 Workplan
packet pp.5–8
Staff report:
COVID Work Plan Action Narrative Status Lead 2020 Dept Budget Public Safety Fire - FY2020 Contract Issues Request EF&R Board to review costs in the 2020 Budget On Track Exec $— Police - Review Police Department staffing Department to initiate review of existing staffing and classification use On Track IPD $— and classifications to identify any changes for remainder of 2020 and 2021. Police - Jail and Court reviews as part of Because of COVID-19 crisis, the City Services Assessment has been On Track Exec $— City Services Assessment included in 2020 budget revision process. Staff will be examining current contracts for cost recovery and possible fee adjustments.
7. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES
7a
Food Delivery Fees ID 0696
packet pp.9–15
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
The Informational Update on May 18, 2020 is a continuation of the
7b
COVID Response, Round 2 Budget Plan ID 0691
packet pp.17–53
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
B. General Fund Monthly Results C. Street Operating Fund
8. CONSENT CALENDAR
8b
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, May 4, 2020
Carried 7-0
Approve · packet pp.99
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR b) 05-04-20 City Council Special 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
8c
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, May 4, 2020
Carried 7-0
Approve · packet pp.101–104
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR c) 05-04-20 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
8d
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, May 7, 2020
Carried 7-0
Approve · packet pp.105–106
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR d) 05-07-20 City Council Special 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
8e
King County Flood Control District Grant (East Lake Sammamish Parkway Conveyance Improvements) AB 7809
Carried 7-0
Authorize Submittal · packet pp.107–110
Topics: ParksWater
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
8f
Surplus City Equipment AB 7945
Carried 7-0
Authorize Submittal · packet pp.111–114
Staff report:
The Administration recommends Council declare the items as surplus and authorizes the Administration to dispose of them in accordance with Washington Sate law.
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
8h
Holiday Inn Lift Station Change Order AB 7965
Carried 7-0
Authorize · packet pp.117–119
Staff report:
On April 15, 2019, the Council awarded the construction contract for the Holiday Inn Lift Station Revisions Project (SEWR 15001) to Road Construction Northwest in the amount of $768,531.50 (including sales tax).
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
8i
Position Reclassifications AB 7969
Carried 7-0
Authorize · packet pp.121–122
Staff report:
Due to the economic
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
8j
Amendment to Personnel Policies AB 7971
Carried 7-0
Approve Resolution · packet pp.123–214
Staff report:
The City Council approved Resolution No. 2001-01 on Jan. 16, 2001 establishing Personnel Policies to provide for the legal and efficient administration of the personnel affairs of the City. The Mayor as the Chief Administrative Officer of the Personnel Code has the authority to prepare and submit to the City Council any proposed amendments to the Personnel Policies that are deemed necessary or desirable.
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
8k
Amendment to 2020 Salary Ordinance AB 7976
Carried 7-0
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.215–225
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
The City Council adopted Ordinance 2887 on Nov. 18, 2019 which established 2020 salaries for all City staff. Throughout the year there can be changes to classifications which requires adoption of a revised ordinance and salary schedule to place positions within the City's classification and compensation system.
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. REGULAR BUSINESS
9a
First 2020 Budget Amendment AB 7926
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.227–248
Topics: Land UseBudget
Staff report:
The focus of this budget amendment includes adjustments to interfund transfers required to implement the Administration's COVID underspend plan. In addition, there are several items that formalize previous
9b
2020 Budget Reauthorizations AB 7930
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.249–268
Topics: Land UseBudget
Staff report:
In each year's budget, funding is provided to complete a series of projects or programs. It is not unusual for a government entity to not complete all of those projects and programs - whether that be because there was an unanticipated delay starting said project or program or because a project or program takes longer to complete than originally anticipated. When this happens, the spending authority (or a portion thereof) provided in the prior fiscal year goes unspent and reverts to fund balance. If the government entity wishes to finish the project or program in the following fiscal year, it typically needs to reauthorize the spending authority from the prior fiscal year in the current fiscal year. This process is typically completed in the first quarter of each fiscal year to allow the government entity to have an accurate accounting of which projects need to continue and how much…
10. GOOD OF THE ORDER
10a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:02 welcome everyone
0:03 I'm calling the may 18th City Council
0:05 meeting to order
0:07 we are doing a remote meeting tonight
0:09 and before we move on to tonight's
0:12 agenda items I'd like just to
0:13 acknowledge the remote meeting format on
0:16 March 6 I issued an emergency
0:18 proclamation declaring a civil emergency
0:21 in the city due to the Cova 19 outbreak
0:24 pop-up screens right in the middle of my
0:27 message on March 24th the governor
0:29 issued proclamation 20-20 eight meetings
0:33 that fall under the open public meetings
0:35 acts such as our city council meetings
0:37 from being conducted in person the
0:39 proclamation has been extended through
0:41 May 31st tonight's meeting will be held
0:43 entirely remotely the meeting will be
0:45 recorded streamed live and available for
0:48 later listening on the city's YouTube
0:50 channel myself the council and certain
0:53 city staff are using our cameras however
0:55 be aware that our meeting platform
0:57 cannot show all of our videos at one
0:59 time rather it will focus on the last
1:01 four to five individuals who spoke a
1:03 callin number was provided on the
1:06 meeting agenda for members of the public
1:07 who wished to call in by phone to listen
1:10 live to the meeting for our phone
1:13 callers during staff presentation staff
1:15 will make every effort specify which
1:18 materials they're referencing so
1:19 everyone can follow along those who
1:22 provided advance notice are able to make
1:24 comments under the audience comment
1:25 portion of the meeting we also encourage
1:29 email comments to be sent to the council
1:31 as well at this point we'll take a
1:33 moment take a roll call of the council
1:35 members in attendance so please stay
1:37 here when I call your name councilmember
1:39 Dee Michelle cheer councilmember Goodman
1:43 here councilmember Hall here
1:47 council president hunt here
1:49 councilmember mark here
1:52 deputy council president ray here and
1:56 councilmember Walsh here all present in
1:59 addition the following City staff are
2:02 participating in tonight's meeting city
2:04 administrator Wally babka WIPs deputy
2:07 City Administrator Andrea Snyder city
2:10 attorney Jim Haney city clerk Tina
2:12 Eggers
2:13 deputy city clerk tisha Geezer Public
2:16 Works Operations Director Brett Heath
2:18 economic development manager Jen Davis
2:21 Hays finance director Beth Goldberg
2:23 senior budget analyst Suzy Munsell have
2:27 I missed any staff members city clerk's
2:32 it looks as if we also have HR director
2:35 Stephanie Johnson on the line thank you
2:37 for that for those members of the public
2:40 on the call welcome the clerk or I will
2:42 call on you to make comments when we
2:43 reach that portion of the agenda so
2:46 before we begin I'd like to reiterate
2:47 the meeting guidelines for all meeting
2:50 attendees p-please speak clearly and
2:54 pause frequently state your name each
2:56 time before speaking and mute your
2:58 microphone when you're not speaking if
3:01 you are also streaming the live video
3:03 feed please turn the sound off as there
3:05 is a delay for council members please
3:08 continue to use the Skype meeting
3:10 messenger to indicate when you wish to
3:12 speak identify yourself before you ask
3:14 the question make a motion or second
3:17 demotion or participate in a debate
3:19 first item on our agenda this evening is
3:22 the Pledge of Allegiance so if you all
3:24 keep your microphones needed I do
3:26 welcome you to join me in the Pledge of
3:28 Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the
3:31 flag of the United States of America and
3:34 to the Republic for which it stands one
3:37 nation under God indivisible with
3:40 liberty and justice for all the next
3:44 item on the agenda this evening is some
3:46 special business we're going to take a
3:49 few moments to recognize the work and
3:52 career of Brett he's our public works
3:54 operations director effective June 1st
3:57 Brett will be leaving the city of istic
3:59 LA and he is the city's longest-serving
4:02 employee of 42 years brett has made a
4:05 lasting impact on our community both at
4:07 City Hall and for our customers and
4:09 residents fred has ensured the safety of
4:12 our community mentored countless
4:15 employees opened the existing public
4:18 works operation shop developed one of
4:20 the best emergency preparedness programs
4:22 in the state served as incident
4:25 commander during several emergencies in
4:27 design
4:27 and was a member of our city's senior
4:30 leadership team and these are only a few
4:32 of his accomplishments Brett I want to
4:35 thank you for your distinguished service
4:36 for the city of Ithaca and I understand
4:38 that you may have some comments you'd
4:40 like to share with us tonight yes good
4:45 evening to take this opportunity to say
4:49 thank you to the mayor and to the City
4:51 Council and I'd also like to thank past
4:53 mayors and past City Council's for the
4:55 opportunity to serve the city of
4:57 Issaquah over the last 42 years I also
5:02 want to take an opportunity to say a
5:04 special thanks to Leon cost for taking a
5:06 chance on me many years ago and it's
5:09 been a great great opportunity to serve
5:12 the community it's been a very good
5:14 experience and I will certainly miss
5:16 everyone as I move on so thank you very
5:19 much for the opportunity to work and
5:22 serve it as a quad Brett thank you it's
5:25 been an absolute pleasure to work with
5:27 you I also want to let everybody know
5:29 that the interim pwo director will be
5:32 Harvey Walker and Harvey has been with
5:34 the city for nearly 13 years and is
5:37 currently our Public Works manager of
5:39 storm water and sewer operations next
5:42 month the city will begin recruiting for
5:44 a new public works director who will
5:46 lead the efforts to merge two existing
5:47 departments engineering and operations
5:49 Brett thank you very much for your
5:52 service
5:54 next portion of our meeting this evening
5:56 is audience comments I'll be asking the
5:59 city clerk if anyone has signed up to
6:01 speak this evening yes we have Ann
6:07 Fletcher and I understand you have some
6:09 guidelines to read so hold on just a
6:11 moment Anne thank you written comments
6:17 can be submitted at any time to City
6:20 Council at escola gov comments received
6:23 by email on tonight's agenda items will
6:25 be acknowledged by council president
6:27 hunt under the corresponding agenda item
6:32 citizen comments are important part of
6:34 the public process we take them
6:36 seriously and factor them into the
6:37 decisions we make please make sure to
6:39 direct your comments to the whole
6:41 council and not individuals well this is
6:43 not a question-and-answer session we
6:45 will contact you to follow up if needed
6:47 when recognized please unmute your
6:49 microphone state your name address and
6:52 relationship to the city speak clearly
6:55 pause frequently limit your comments to
6:58 five minutes and remove remute your
7:01 microphone when done if you do not
7:04 respond after your name or phone number
7:05 is called or if your connection is lost
7:07 unexpectedly the meeting will need to
7:10 proceed you are encouraged to rejoin the
7:12 meeting if able if a speaker is out of
7:15 order I will ask them to stop and mute
7:17 your microphone and if the speaker does
7:18 not comply I may direct staff to mute
7:20 their microphone if a disruption to the
7:23 meeting occurs an order cannot be
7:24 restored I may direct staff to remove
7:26 you from the call again citizen comments
7:29 written and verbal are an important
7:30 aspect of the public process the city
7:33 takes comments seriously and we thank
7:34 you for taking the time to address us
7:36 during our meetings city clerk can you
7:39 identify the first person who has signed
7:40 up to speak this evening yes and
7:43 Fletcher thank you very much and if you
7:46 would like to unmute your microphone and
7:48 go ahead thank you for coming to the
7:50 meeting this evening can you hear me we
8:00 can Thank You Ann oh good okay this is
8:04 Ann Fletcher I'm a resident at 255 South
8:07 East Andrews Street in Issaquah and I
8:10 would like to orally share some points
8:13 from a letter that the people for
8:14 climate action already submitted to the
8:18 City Council dear City Council members
8:23 if the call people for climate action
8:25 appreciates the environmental caring and
8:28 commitment the city has shown despite
8:31 the intensity of the response that was
8:34 needed for the pandemic we are grateful
8:36 that you have kept in mind the continued
8:39 need to allocate some resources and to
8:42 engage community members in addressing
8:45 climate change we are currently working
8:47 with Issaquah sustainability staff
8:50 member megin curtis murphy and other
8:53 community organizations
8:54 the other week to plan a two-part
8:57 virtual climate community convening
9:01 scheduled for July 20th and 30th we also
9:06 look forward to a city sponsored meeting
9:08 on June 16th for the public to give
9:12 input on expanding the current rivers
9:15 and streams board to include all areas
9:18 of environmental sustainability in other
9:22 news King County held two virtual k4c
9:27 public input sessions about the toolkit
9:30 being developed by consultants for use
9:33 by cities several PCA members at least
9:37 two council members and staff member
9:41 Megan Curtis Murphy attended to learn
9:43 from the many concerned citizens who
9:45 attended also about 70 each session and
9:49 to provide perspectives on priorities
9:51 for the toolkit the toolkit will be
9:55 finished hopefully by the end of August
9:58 and sent to the King County Council for
10:00 approval in September although the
10:04 public will not have further direct
10:06 opportunity for oral input before then
10:09 people for climate action will be in
10:12 touch with our city representatives who
10:15 will attend a June 3rd k4c meeting about
10:17 the toolkits mayor poly an alternate Zac
10:21 Hall as well as k4c steering committee
10:25 member Megan Curtis Murphy and we will
10:28 be encouraging them to make the elected
10:30 officials meeting very interactive for
10:33 them and as transparent as possible for
10:36 the public and to provide a follow-up
10:40 summary of what was discussed in any
10:42 action item on another front people for
10:47 climate action held a webinar on May 2nd
10:49 with a focus on building energy
10:52 efficiency it included several
10:55 interesting speakers and so we provided
10:58 a link to the webinar recording in the
11:02 communication to you to accompany this
11:06 the PTA coalition
11:08 published the building section of a list
11:11 of possible City actions which they've
11:14 been working on this spring and it's
11:17 it's also attached to the email by
11:20 mid-june PC a coalition plans to publish
11:22 the transportation and land use section
11:25 of this same document as you may recall
11:29 is cause to biggest carbon emission
11:31 areas are buildings and transportation
11:35 accounting for over seventy percent of
11:37 our greenhouse gas production cities
11:41 must take bold action in those two
11:44 sectors if we are to meet the goals of
11:47 50% carbon emission reduction by 2030
11:51 and finally we offered you an important
11:56 five minute YouTube video from the
11:58 global Council of Mayors published April
12:01 24th it emphasizes the push by this
12:04 global alliance of 10,000 mayor's for
12:08 local actions on climate we hope our
12:12 representatives will be able to view it
12:14 before the June 3rd k4c toolkit meeting
12:18 to see the opportunities we have before
12:21 us still and to continue the positive
12:24 partnership that we have begun thank you
12:29 Thank You M I just want to check back in
12:32 with the city clerk and make sure that
12:34 we only had one person signing up to
12:36 speak this evening yes that's correct
12:39 thank you thank you for your comments
12:42 and again just to remind folks you can
12:45 also submit comments to the council
12:47 before the meeting at City Council of
12:49 the square walk of the next item of
12:52 business this evening is the committee
12:54 and regional report so I'd like to call
12:56 each council member to in order to
12:59 report out councilmember Hall Thank You
13:05 mayor Polly I have two reports this
13:08 evening first last Thursday I attended a
13:12 board meeting for East Side Fire &
13:14 Rescue and I'll let either councilmember
13:17 Goodman or deputy council president
13:19 braze speak to that meeting
13:20 as I'm just the city's alternate last
13:25 Friday I attended a meeting of the
13:27 affordable housing committee and we
13:29 spent a lot of time talking about Kovan
13:31 19 impacts on the broader affordable
13:34 housing world of that day we discussed
13:37 short-term emergency measures long term
13:40 challenges and lessons learned from
13:42 previous experiences like those from the
13:45 Great Recession and just for some
13:47 perspective for council and for the
13:50 community I'm moving my camera over
13:53 because it keeps moving to the right for
13:55 some reason before the coab in nineteen
13:57 crisis one in three king county
13:59 households were cost burdened which is
14:02 30% of your income or more dedicated to
14:07 housing and renters were twice as likely
14:09 to pay half of their incomes on housing
14:11 communities of color were significantly
14:14 more likely to be paying more than half
14:16 of their incomes on housing so very
14:19 clearly there is a huge need for housing
14:22 affordability in our region and some
14:23 takeaways from the presentation last
14:26 Friday where it was that cost burden
14:29 households would rise dramatically a
14:32 disproportionate impacts like those on
14:34 communities of color would be amplified
14:36 and the need to build and preserve
14:38 affordable housing is still there in in
14:41 fact is growing as each day passes
14:44 so another thing another takeaway was
14:46 that we need to be doing more to connect
14:47 to the silos of Housing and Human
14:50 Services work together so as a committee
14:54 our charter responsibilities are
14:55 somewhat narrow sometimes frustratingly
14:57 narrow but we decided that we wanted to
15:00 take time to focus really on advocating
15:03 for new policy at the state and federal
15:04 level as well to support the affordable
15:07 housing need in our region so that is
15:09 that work to identify a future policy
15:12 action is happening now so I'll keep the
15:14 council in the community updated on that
15:17 work and that was really just a little
15:20 bit of what we discussed and I'll be
15:22 consolidating my notes for city staff
15:24 this week as I think we discussed a lot
15:27 of helpful and interesting information
15:28 that city staff will find interesting
15:30 and helpful as well and if any one a
15:32 councillor in the community want to talk
15:34 about this meeting offline I'm happy to
15:36 do that to just let reach out and
15:39 finally our next regularly scheduled
15:41 meeting is scheduled for July 22nd thank
15:44 you who's my report Thank You
15:46 councilmember Hall
15:47 councilmember G Michele thank you marry
15:52 me or Polly I attended the healthier
15:55 here governance board meeting on May the
15:58 7th and at that meeting they reallocated
16:02 funding from their training fund to the
16:05 community navigator fund the community
16:07 navigator fund supports services that
16:10 help non-english speaking residents and
16:12 citizens to navigate social services
16:15 behavioral health and health care
16:17 systems this reallocation added two
16:20 hundred and forty thousand to the
16:22 previously reallocated funds of three
16:25 hundred seventy-five thousand and I took
16:28 it upon myself to do a little bit of
16:29 research to find where the closest
16:31 community navigator is located in our
16:34 area it is located ordinarily at
16:37 Bellevue City Hall they offer Spanish
16:40 and Russian languages and they share the
16:43 couple dare one day a week with it
16:44 together Center in Redmond and of course
16:47 all services are currently being
16:48 provided remotely it's important to note
16:51 that the agencies and tribal partners
16:53 across County have requested 1.8 million
16:56 in assistance for the community
17:00 navigator fund and so the funds that
17:02 were allocated by healthier here meet
17:04 only a relatively small part of that
17:07 need agencies that offer cultural
17:10 navigator services such as those offered
17:13 at that together center have been
17:14 severely impacted by the dual pressure
17:17 of extremely increased need at the same
17:19 time as fundraising has collapsed
17:22 another highlight at the meeting was
17:24 that healthier here was warded 1.4
17:27 million for the implementation of a
17:29 community information exchange or CI
17:33 platform again the goal of this project
17:36 is to reduce the barriers silos that
17:38 characterize a lot of modern medicine
17:40 and allow different doctors and agencies
17:43 to share information and integrate
17:45 mental health services and substance
17:47 abuse
17:48 services with health services the
17:50 funding for the 1.4 million came from
17:53 the county's veterans seniors and Human
17:56 Services funding coming up I will be
18:00 attending the Eastside transportation
18:02 program tomorrow morning at 9:30 it's a
18:06 combined meeting with ETP
18:07 skateboard and seashore will be meeting
18:11 with Metro and then on Thursday at 9:30
18:15 in the morning I will be meeting with
18:16 the site Human Services forum for the
18:20 second meaning of this year the past my
18:23 report Thank You councilmember G
18:26 Michelle
18:26 councilmember Walsh Thank You mayor Poli
18:32 a last Friday City Administrator well
18:36 like Bob quits and I attended the
18:38 Chamber of Commerce board meeting just
18:42 trying to stay in touch trying to
18:44 understand what our economic development
18:46 needs are and because everything is
18:51 still up in the air we were just talking
18:54 a lot about this meeting and what our
18:57 budgetary issues look like and making
19:01 sure that they understood where we were
19:02 in that conversation we also talked just
19:06 a little bit we had just received notice
19:09 from King County that some of their
19:11 carers act funding was going to be
19:14 distributed to cities in order to use
19:18 for economic development we still don't
19:20 know what King County if there are any
19:23 requirements on who we can give the
19:25 money to or how we can use it but we
19:27 wanted to let the chamber know that we
19:30 had received notice that that money was
19:32 going to come and we would keep in touch
19:34 with them about what that means and how
19:37 we're going to be able to use it and
19:39 then the PSoC economic development
19:43 economic District Development Board the
19:46 other way around has not had a meeting
19:49 that they are hosting a webinar on
19:53 Wednesday which I'm going to attend
19:55 about cares Act funding in the region
19:58 and how we might best be able to utilize
20:01 that so if I learn anything from it I'll
20:03 be able to bring that back that
20:07 concludes my report
20:08 Thank You councilmember Walsh
20:10 councilmember Goodman thank you madam
20:13 mayor council member Goodman here last
20:15 Thursday the Eastside Fire Rescue Board
20:18 of Directors met and at that meeting we
20:24 received a couple of briefings from the
20:27 chief one was just an update or a report
20:33 out to the board about Eastside fire and
20:36 its approach to Co bid and that if
20:40 phasing will coincide with the
20:43 governor's facing process we also
20:46 received some budget information and
20:50 esight fires current expenses related to
20:53 cooperated 19 it's about four hundred
20:55 thousand dollars and it's costing
20:57 Eastside fire ten thousand dollars in
21:01 additional costs weekly for the cobia
21:05 response and that's tied mostly to
21:08 supplies increase in the cost of
21:10 supplies and the chief as everyone is a
21:14 little bit concerned about the threat of
21:16 a second wave of kovat 19 and mitigating
21:18 those financial impacts also the copa 19
21:22 doesn't anything have anything to do as
21:23 diminishing the potential wildland
21:26 season threat and that would be
21:27 wildfires and if any events of any
21:30 significance would take place that would
21:32 be a minimum impact of about a million
21:34 dollars to eat like fire in with pea
21:39 sauce the Department of Ecology has
21:45 money for capital funding for that
21:47 problem that project but that there is a
21:52 potential that that capital funding
21:54 could be swept by the governor
21:56 Eastside fire has 250,000 dollars spent
22:00 on that already hoping to get
22:02 reimbursement before any sweep of that
22:07 capital budget could take place not that
22:10 it's going to take place but that is one
22:14 and the result of that gets potentially
22:17 possibly suspending the work a little
22:19 bit also transports are down 20% which
22:23 directly impacts revenue do the less
22:25 people being on the road and also fewer
22:27 people being interested in going to the
22:29 hospital right now
22:31 east lights fire has also done some
22:33 expenditure control they have a hiring
22:35 freeze and right now in vacant positions
22:38 are frozen there is a freeze on all
22:41 non-essential spending and that aside
22:44 fire has negotiated a memorandum of
22:47 understanding with the Union related to
22:49 a 12-hour training day and reducing
22:52 overtime which will see a $100,000
22:54 savings we talked about is akua's
22:57 request for some contribution
23:00 concessions and in response to that
23:06 these are my words that it appeared as
23:10 though the board took that as an
23:13 opportunity in light also of the
23:17 increased expenditures related to kovat
23:20 for each side fire to look at revenue
23:25 increases potential revenue increases so
23:28 the board decided to refer to the
23:29 finance and administrative committee the
23:31 task of discussing ambulance fees and
23:34 any other fees and potential revenue
23:36 sources that the committee may deem
23:38 appropriate to discuss and then bring
23:40 those recommendations back to the board
23:42 that meeting will take place in early
23:45 June I don't have the exact date in
23:47 front of me and that concludes my report
23:50 thank you
23:51 Thank You councilmember Goodman
23:52 councilmember marks thank you madam
23:58 mayor
23:58 this is councilmember mark speaking but
24:01 the sound cities association public
24:02 issues committee met on Wednesday May
24:05 13th at that third date yes once I mean
24:13 13 sorry at 7:00 p.m. there were three
24:16 Co vid 19 related issues that we are
24:20 either considering or took action on the
24:23 first is that we will be considering
24:26 next month a resolution that states that
24:29 the sound cities association urges King
24:32 County and other entities to forego any
24:34 increases in rates and fees in light of
24:37 the kovat 19 public health emergency and
24:39 the resulting economic impacts what I
24:43 would ask is that my fellow council
24:45 members take a look at the FCA a bias on
24:47 cities association public issues
24:49 community packet from may and be
24:52 prepared to discuss whether we should be
24:55 supportive of this potential action by
24:58 the sound cities association at the next
25:01 so we should discuss it at the next
25:03 council meeting for potential action at
25:06 the next sound cities association
25:07 meeting which would be in June the
25:09 second issue that I would ask that you
25:11 take a look at it be prepared to discuss
25:13 was potentially basically in preparation
25:19 for the potential of a special session
25:21 the association of Washington City's AWC
25:24 adopted legislative priorities related
25:26 to kovat 19 response and relief to
25:29 provide a consistent message to
25:31 legislators FCA is considering adopting
25:33 the same legislative priorities so I
25:35 will be asking the next council meeting
25:37 whether we should consider taking we
25:40 should consider recommending that FCA
25:44 adopt the same legislative priorities
25:47 and then finally emergency action was
25:49 taken it was a first reading but a
25:53 supermajority considered it an emergency
25:57 and a even stronger Seibert majority
25:59 voted for a proclamation of commitment
26:02 to an inclusive community that rejects
26:04 stigma and bias related to coab in
26:06 nineteen and I will actually be
26:09 discussing this further in for the order
26:11 because a number of cities have taken a
26:14 municipal level similar proclamations or
26:18 made similar proclamations and I will be
26:20 discussing with the rest of Council and
26:22 the mayor whether we as a city want to
26:25 consider doing something similar so that
26:28 concludes my report
26:29 Thank You councilmember Mertz deputy
26:32 council president ray thank you Mira
26:34 Polly I have no report this evening
26:36 Thank You council president hunt
26:39 thank you madam mayor this is councillor
26:42 president hunt the salmon recovery
26:45 Council of riah 8 which is water
26:48 resource inventory area but it's the
26:50 technical name for our watershed the
26:53 salmon recovery council will meet this
26:54 Thursday at May 21st at 2 and the main
27:02 agenda item will be approval of the work
27:06 plan and cost share for 2021 and it's a
27:10 clause proposed cost share is $16,000
27:14 it's the sixteen thousand eighty five
27:16 dollars this reflects a increased based
27:18 on the Consumer Price Index CPI /w from
27:23 our previous cost share of fifteen
27:26 thousand seven hundred and nine dollars
27:28 so we will be voting on this as well as
27:30 on the work plan which explains what
27:32 conservation actions and camera recovery
27:36 actions will be taking place by the
27:38 salmon recovery council and what work
27:41 will be funded so if you have any
27:43 questions about the cost share or
27:44 anything like that please do let me know
27:46 if you have concerns please let me know
27:48 before we vote on that on Thursday and
27:51 that concludes my report thank you
27:53 council president hunt next thing on the
27:55 agenda this evening is the mayor's
27:57 report and most of my report has to do
28:01 with Cove at 19 in the city in in March
28:05 of this year cities and counties reacted
28:07 quickly to reduce the spread of Cove at
28:09 19 by adopting physical distancing
28:12 measures and focusing on readiness to
28:14 treat those affected by the disease now
28:17 we're in the position to engage our
28:20 community in a conversation about
28:21 reopening our community in a phased
28:24 approach as we learn more about this
28:26 virus
28:27 earlier this month I appointed a
28:29 recovery task force selecting community
28:31 members to represent the many important
28:33 perspectives in Issaquah this diverse
28:36 team is comprised of representatives
28:37 from the cities boards and commissions
28:39 as well as some community members at
28:41 large they will advise the city on
28:43 various issues relating to responding to
28:46 the Cova 19 pandemic and future
28:48 reopening of city services and programs
28:51 the task force will also advise the city
28:53 on other community initiatives that are
28:55 important to instakill our residents and
28:57 businesses and the task force will meet
28:59 regularly through August 2020 however
29:02 meetings may be extended beyond this
29:04 time depending on the progress of the
29:06 pandemic response so far we've had two
29:09 meetings May 7th included introductions
29:12 briefing of our response to date and
29:15 city halls new budget realities May 14th
29:19 included presentations on economic
29:21 development from community partners as
29:23 well as a brainstorm on the group's work
29:25 plan moving forward which will have a
29:28 focus on community health economic
29:30 recovery community engagement and more
29:33 our next virtual meeting will be held at
29:36 4:00 p.m. on may 28th and community
29:39 members can watch live submit comments
29:41 through the group ahead of time or just
29:43 join us for public comment
29:45 councilmember Walsh had mentioned about
29:48 some potential funding Kovach funding
29:50 for businesses and I thought what I
29:52 would do is talk about what we do know
29:54 and what we don't know so far in terms
29:56 of funding that might be available our
29:59 city is experiencing the financial
30:00 strain from the pandemic response and
30:02 the resulting impacts to our economy and
30:05 we have been working to reduce
30:06 expenditures to align with a revised
30:08 revenue forecast as well as looking for
30:12 available funding to offset covered 19
30:14 related expenses the state of Washington
30:17 has proposed funding to cities including
30:20 Issaquah through the Coronas coronavirus
30:22 aid relief and Economic Security Act
30:25 also known as the cares act if the kwame
30:28 receive 1 point 1 2 million dollars and
30:31 at this time the money can only be spent
30:34 to cover costs related to kovat 19
30:36 crisis and cannot be used to make up for
30:40 revenue losses current guidance appears
30:43 that the reimbursement guidelines will
30:44 be very broad but we're waiting for
30:46 further details
30:47 additional funding for economic recovery
30:50 from the federal government is possible
30:52 but it remains unknown at this time
30:54 there will also be available funding
30:57 from the Federal Emergency Management
30:58 Agency FEMA for costs directly incurred
31:02 from kovat 19 but specifics
31:05 unknown at this time and I'd like to
31:07 give a special thanks to King County
31:08 councilmember Cathy Lambert for
31:10 directing $5,000 in unrestricted funds
31:13 to the city of Vista club and the city
31:16 administration will continue to keep you
31:18 informed as we know learn more about the
31:21 various funding or reimbursements that
31:23 become available but right now there's a
31:24 lot of unknowns and a lot of uncertainty
31:27 also tonight this evening finance
31:30 director Beth Goldberg will be
31:32 presenting the city's plan for the
31:33 second round of expenditure reduction
31:36 round two identifies an additional 1.6
31:39 million in general fund under spend
31:41 bringing the total under spend from
31:43 rounds one and two to six point four
31:45 million round 2 also includes plans to
31:48 address covered related financial
31:50 impacts on the following other funds on
31:53 the other city funds director Goldberg
31:56 will be providing details in her
31:58 presentation this evening we are right
32:01 now in a monitoring mode waiting for
32:03 additional revenue projections from the
32:05 state and confirming financial
32:07 assistance from the federal government
32:09 FEMA state in King County and at this
32:12 time we are not expecting any additional
32:15 expenditure reductions and that
32:17 concludes the mayor's report the next
32:21 item on our agenda this evening is
32:23 informational updates and will be
32:24 starting with I do 696 food delivery
32:28 fees and I'd like to ask gen Davis Hays
32:30 to unmute she is our economic
32:33 development manager and she's going to
32:34 have a presentation for council this
32:36 evening thank you madam mayor and good
32:40 evening council members I'm Jen Davis
32:42 Hays and the Economic Development
32:43 Manager first I'd like to showcase and
32:47 ask for forgiveness for wearing a
32:50 t-shirt to today's council meeting and
32:52 hopefully those you can see it I just
32:54 received this in the mail today
32:56 it actually says for those of you who
32:57 are not able to see this difficult I
32:59 once traumer together and this was an
33:02 issue Highlands council fundraiser for
33:06 their organization and if I thought was
33:08 a great message to share because all the
33:09 things we're doing for businesses oh is
33:12 about our work with our partners which
33:14 helps to makes us make us stronger so we
33:17 were training tonight
33:18 additional information about the
33:20 restaurant service fee topic and what
33:22 our efforts to help restaurants and
33:24 actually also to hear from Kathy McCrory
33:26 the is a call chamber CEO so two weeks
33:30 ago we provided some initial information
33:33 about the restaurant delivery apps we
33:35 have continued to reach out to
33:37 restaurants and either the city or our
33:38 partners have spoken to approximately 50
33:41 businesses the input we received was
33:43 similar to what we shared with our
33:45 initial report out that some businesses
33:47 are not using the food delivery services
33:49 some are using them but we'll only
33:51 during do that so during their reduced
33:53 sales period and some are you in general
33:57 sorry in general the businesses would
33:59 like to pay lower delivery fees and but
34:01 they also mentioned that several
34:03 services already reduced their fees on a
34:05 temporary basis they shared with us
34:08 there are varied performance for each
34:09 platform and some is concerned about the
34:12 delivery service choices such as one of
34:14 the apps waiting for several orders in
34:17 an area before dispatching a driver and
34:19 other factors that can create a negative
34:21 customer service experience in the
34:24 councilmember council agenda memo we
34:28 provide some additional information
34:29 about research from other cities
34:31 regarding fees in general we can't just
34:34 look up how much a food delivery service
34:37 app charges to restaurants but there was
34:39 some research done in other larger
34:41 cities in general in general the service
34:44 delivery apps charged differently
34:45 according to not only the business
34:47 models they individually have but also
34:49 the area they're serving the type of
34:51 restaurant and the level of services
34:53 provided several cities have already
34:56 passed caps while others are exploring
34:59 it currently this is a moving target and
35:01 activities and the caps are so new that
35:03 impact name may not be completely known
35:05 yet most are in larger cities and I
35:09 spoke to staff in Seattle and Evanston
35:12 Illinois to learn about their experience
35:14 I mentioned in the memo that Seattle has
35:18 had antidotal stories about not
35:20 following the rules and they are also
35:22 exploring exactly how to take
35:24 enforcement there is some interest to
35:26 potentially maintain some regulations on
35:29 their fees after the state of emergency
35:30 in Seattle
35:32 in Evanston Illinois which several
35:34 council members had asked us to look
35:35 more into because their size is smaller
35:38 than Seattle but still has a population
35:40 of about 74,000 people they've also set
35:43 a cap during the state of emergency they
35:45 have not had any pushback from the
35:49 delivery services nor reports of
35:50 providers not following the rules
35:52 although they acknowledge the challenge
35:54 in that they don't get to see the
35:56 individual receipts they're also
35:58 exploring how to actually enforce what
36:02 kind of mechanism they have which may be
36:03 a fine through a general citation and
36:06 she mentioned that there's an
36:07 uncertainty if that would deter action
36:09 or not by the delivery service acts so
36:12 the administration has decided not to
36:14 bring a recommendation to implement a
36:16 cap on food delivery service fees
36:18 instead focusing on promotion education
36:21 and enhanced business support of the
36:23 restaurants so this will include
36:25 education and promotion will include
36:28 encouraging the public to order directly
36:30 from restaurants to avoid the food
36:32 deliveries surcharges that are put on
36:35 our restaurants will also do promotion
36:38 of our local restaurants in the regional
36:40 restaurant map on the saving local
36:42 website and other eat local messaging we
36:46 have allocated ten thousand dollars of
36:49 our economic development funding to
36:50 implement a sixty day restaurant
36:52 marketing campaign this is an amount
36:55 that we could really reallocate from our
36:57 port grant funding from our business
37:00 attraction marketing we believe there's
37:02 an immediate need for this and plan to
37:04 take some efforts in June and July we've
37:07 had some initial discussions and we'll
37:09 continue these with our vision partners
37:10 that includes the chamber the downtown
37:13 Issaquah sociation the visit Issaquah
37:15 Gilman village merchants and Sukhois
37:18 Highlands Council on how to best
37:20 implement and ways to leverage actions
37:22 that they have already taken well we
37:24 don't have all the details yet some of
37:26 those ideas include social media
37:28 marketing and some joint marketing
37:30 efforts with our partners that are
37:31 already occurring we'll continue to do
37:34 outreach to our businesses through
37:36 one-on-one calls and roundtables to
37:38 discuss how they plan to how and if they
37:41 plan to reopen in phase 2 and phase 3 so
37:44 that's at 50% and
37:45 75% capacity of their interior dining
37:48 space and learn more about the
37:50 restaurant needs and our initial
37:52 discussions the restaurants some were
37:54 not going planning to open during phase
37:56 2 because of the challenges of opening
37:59 at a 50% capacity the we will also
38:05 ensure that our restaurants at all
38:07 businesses know about our business
38:09 assistance resource through restart up
38:11 four to five and that is one-on-one
38:12 technical assistance free for business
38:15 business owners in Issaquah and then our
38:18 partners are also looking at some other
38:19 efforts such as bulk purchasing of
38:22 personal protection equipment PPE
38:25 they're looking the reservation platform
38:27 through open table how do use expansion
38:31 of outdoor eating options so this may be
38:33 around helping to assist with the
38:36 permits or allowing expansion into
38:38 private and public parking lots and
38:42 we're also exploring a signage so
38:44 everywhere from a-frame signage as well
38:46 as dedicated curbside pickup spaces and
38:49 some of our partners have talked about
38:50 decals for windows with cohesive
38:52 messaging so we recognized a need for
38:55 signage about being open and will
38:56 explore options we also need to know
38:58 know we also know that we need to set
39:00 some boundaries about what's allowed as
39:02 we've already heard that there are some
39:03 business signage miles away from the
39:05 current business and so we want to make
39:07 sure that we have such as our community
39:10 remains beautiful as that moves forward
39:14 so we'll figure out a good balance on
39:15 that at the last council meeting we
39:19 heard that you like to hear directly
39:20 from the chamber so I would like to
39:22 introduce Kathy McCrory the CEO of the
39:25 Greater Issaquah Chamber of Commerce to
39:27 further speak on this topic and we'll
39:29 both be available for questions after
39:30 she's done thanks Jen before we get
39:34 Kathy on are there any I know I have one
39:36 question lined up councilmember Goodman
39:39 would you like to raise your question
39:43 for Jen I can wait until after Kathy
39:48 McCrory has spoken thank you thank you
39:51 Kathy go ahead and I apologize I had a
39:54 dog barking in the background there and
39:57 thank you Jen
39:58 good evening madam mayor City Council I
40:01 pretty much I'm gonna echo a lot of
40:04 Jen's statements we do support
40:09 everything that the restaurants first
40:11 inquired about as far as anything we can
40:14 do to help them lower their costs
40:17 restaurants traditionally have a very
40:19 thin margin when it comes to markup and
40:24 so we we look to at what was being done
40:29 by the delivery services it is very
40:32 complicated lots of different models are
40:36 out there the things that came to mind
40:39 for us was if you've ever used those
40:43 apps they tend to be more regional you
40:47 can pull up Mexican food and you can see
40:49 Mexican food from Issaquah from
40:53 Sammamish from Bellevue and so some of
40:57 the things we were concerned about is if
41:00 if we set caps on what delivery
41:06 organizations could charge would that
41:10 put Issaquah at a disadvantage could it
41:13 have those restaurants show up lower in
41:15 the rankings could it delay delivery as
41:19 Jen mentioned would they start bundling
41:21 delivery for Issaquah so that it takes a
41:25 little bit longer and the one thing we
41:27 want to make sure that doesn't happen
41:28 for our restaurants is that their
41:30 reputations would suffer during any of
41:32 this what we also noticed was that you
41:36 know free market was already taking hold
41:38 in some cases we saw doordash lower
41:42 their fees right away and capped theirs
41:44 at 15% and so we're hoping that others
41:49 do follow suit we realize some have and
41:52 there are a few holdouts of course but
41:55 again if it were more regional in its
41:57 application to include Sammamish
42:00 Bellevue etc I think it would be more
42:04 equitable to all the restaurants so when
42:07 we mentioned unintended
42:09 sequences in our letter those were some
42:11 of our concerns we want to make sure
42:13 that is a quantum repeat its acquired
42:15 restaurant reputations remain solid and
42:20 that there would be no unintended
42:22 consequences and lack of service in
42:25 lowering their where they appear on the
42:28 listing of restaurants etc some of the
42:32 other things were that we talked about
42:36 were the educational proponents and
42:39 again Jen touched on this anything you
42:42 know anything that the chamber can do to
42:45 help the city to help the restaurants
42:47 share messaging restaurants a lot of
42:52 times they have great specials that
42:54 they're offering on their web sites that
42:56 might not be available through delivery
42:59 services so can we do something in that
43:01 respect to help draw make residents
43:04 aware of the fact that maybe they want
43:06 to go to the web sites first they want
43:08 to look at the options that they have
43:10 even from the standpoint of the money
43:13 they can save ordering directly from the
43:15 restaurant and doing takeout or less
43:18 expensive options that the that the
43:21 restaurants might have available we
43:23 realize that everyone has their favorite
43:25 app per se but we think that there's a
43:28 lot that we could do together to educate
43:31 local restaurants and in particular our
43:34 residents about their options and how
43:37 they could actually eat out more often
43:41 for less and with that I just want to
43:45 say that we will support any and all
43:47 decisions made by the City Council
43:49 regarding the restaurant delivery fees
43:53 we support our restaurants as we do all
43:56 of the businesses in the community and
43:59 we're here to help and thank you very
44:01 much for your time Thank You Kathy Jen
44:05 did you have any closing comments no
44:09 that was it I just look forward to two
44:10 questions council members okay we will
44:13 move to councilmember Goodman Thank You
44:17 councilmember Goodman here Thank You
44:21 Kathy for come
44:23 to our meeting and presenting
44:24 information and Jen for your information
44:26 as well so the materials and Jen talked
44:29 about the allocation of ten thousand
44:31 dollars of economic development program
44:33 funding to implement a sixty day
44:35 restaurant marketing campaign and I I'm
44:41 a little bit concerned not about
44:45 supporting restaurants with this but
44:46 about the other segments of our retail
44:51 and commercial businesses who are also
44:53 that are also hurting and so setting out
44:57 to help one segment of that of the
45:01 business community at this time seems to
45:05 set us up for other segments also asking
45:08 us for help and so I went in and I did
45:14 have a brief conversation with
45:17 administrator Bob Kuwait's today and who
45:20 gave me the impression that this was not
45:23 going to be strictly about restaurants
45:25 so I'm looking for information that
45:27 would make me feel comfortable that
45:30 we're not it looks as though we're you
45:34 know we're focused on one segment of the
45:36 business community which has me
45:38 concerned
45:38 you know hotels are you know really
45:41 hurting as well and so what are we going
45:43 to be doing to help them out with with
45:48 money later because I think that's the
45:50 expectation that we're setting up so
45:52 that's sort of my question I'm looking
45:54 for information about how this is not
45:58 just focused on one segment or if it is
46:00 what we're prepared to do to respond to
46:03 that future request Thanks great
46:08 question thank you councilmember Goodman
46:10 you again we believe that there's an
46:13 immediate need an urgent need with our
46:16 restaurants right now that are open as
46:19 councilmember wash mentioned there is
46:21 some allocation of cares Act funding
46:24 that for from King County to the city
46:27 that again we don't know the exact rules
46:31 and regulations on how to use that
46:32 that's an available resource to help
46:34 market more
46:35 in the future we completely anticipate
46:38 that our future economic development
46:41 efforts will be about a buy local and a
46:45 welcome back in a more local tourism way
46:49 so check out the your attractions in
46:52 your own community and so we do have
46:55 partners again so we will have some
46:57 resources from the cares act and also
46:59 from our port grant that is not been
47:02 allocated to other resources and we have
47:05 our visit Issaquah and our chamber and
47:08 our downtown ethical association that
47:09 also have resources to help amplify and
47:12 leverage that those messages for buying
47:16 local for all businesses in Issaquah
47:21 councilmember Goodman does that answer
47:23 your question
47:29 well let me maybe yes and maybe no I
47:32 think it answers maybe answers my
47:34 questions I don't know that it lays my
47:36 concern so it looks like we are spending
47:39 $10,000 now focus on restaurants and
47:42 that we are expecting to allocate other
47:48 money in the future to help other
47:51 business segments is that accurate
47:55 so it is going to be a Buy and local eat
47:58 local kind of effort in the beginning
48:00 but the buy local will be an ongoing
48:01 effort I don't know exactly if we're
48:04 going to allocate a certain amount of
48:06 dollars for marketing in the future but
48:07 we do anticipate that a buy local and
48:14 recreative Minister Bob woods have a
48:17 comment on this as well ok yes madam
48:23 mayor
48:24 councilmember Goodman I think it's fair
48:26 to say there will be additional requests
48:28 for spending to support the business
48:30 community as I think miss Davis has said
48:33 we see this as a first step the
48:36 restaurants are sort of leading into
48:38 this as the first large business segment
48:41 in the community I think by having this
48:43 be a shop dine local event there will be
48:46 some opportunities to leverage that
48:48 investment with other
48:49 industries but it clear that we're going
48:51 to have to have a discussion I think at
48:53 some later point about the hospitality
48:55 industry we collect lodging tax money
48:58 there is some fun balance there I think
49:00 it'd be natural to talk about that we
49:03 have a large performing arts
49:05 organization in the village theater we
49:07 have been talking about them because of
49:08 the enormous economic impact they have
49:11 on our community the number of
49:13 individuals they bring to Issaquah every
49:15 year so I think there will be other
49:17 discussions of our intent is to use this
49:20 initial funding to partner with our
49:23 vision partners to focus on shop buying
49:27 local and we'll keep you posted on our
49:30 good progress Thank You councilmember
49:34 Goodman thank you before we go on I
49:40 should have gone to council president
49:41 hunts before we start our questions and
49:44 comments and councilmember hunt do you
49:46 have any items from the public that you
49:48 received in the way of comments City
49:51 Council that you would like to report
49:52 out on and thank you yes mr. council
49:56 president hunt and we did receive some
49:57 emails so I will summarize them as best
50:01 I can so we received the email from
50:04 Steve Pereira on this ID and he wrote
50:08 that he did not support taking action on
50:11 the delivery fees and he also opposed
50:13 the city of its by entering into the ten
50:16 thousand dollar marketing campaign for
50:18 restaurants that's described in the ID
50:20 additionally Connie Marsh wrote to us
50:23 that restaurants run on volume with
50:26 narrow margins and she felt that
50:27 restaurants currently have our larger
50:29 problems and delivery fees and she wrote
50:32 to us with a number of solutions
50:34 focusing on promotion of businesses
50:39 that's a key includes that of course -
50:41 Thank You council president hunt so in
50:44 my list of those wishing to have asked
50:47 questions or have comments you are next
50:49 up council president followed by
50:51 councilmember hall and then
50:52 councilmember marks so helps the
50:54 president hunt
50:55 thank you this accounts the president
50:57 hunt I have a question regarding the
51:00 $10,000
51:03 Marketing also so it was mentioned in
51:06 your presentation that this is from the
51:10 Port of Seattle grants and so I wondered
51:13 if you could give us an overview of what
51:15 we would not be doing with that and then
51:20 additionally is the 60 days is that so
51:24 that we would be able to prepare for the
51:27 phase 2 or how does that timing line up
51:30 with phase 2 Thank You council president
51:35 so the $10,000 from the port grant it
51:39 would be from our business attraction
51:42 marketing component that we had that
51:45 bucket for and again we even in
51:47 communication with our Port of Seattle
51:48 partners about reallocating and how to
51:52 they have given us the message loud and
51:54 clear to work on business retention
51:56 efforts and so that's coming from the
51:58 port commissioners down to the staff so
52:00 this fits in and aligns with their their
52:03 goal so that is not a problem to
52:05 reallocate these funding and then of the
52:08 60 days it's really meant to again more
52:11 of an immediate urgent need in the next
52:14 and you know June in July given us some
52:16 time to ramp to develop in more detail
52:20 the marketing campaign and to really
52:22 again and the times when people are
52:24 starting to get back out and thinking
52:25 about eating and shopping and so really
52:30 encourage people to do that locally so
52:32 there's no magic number I think it's
52:34 again the amount of money what will may
52:39 may not by a large media Buy so having
52:41 it more focused and over 60 days seem to
52:44 make sense but it's not set in stone but
52:46 we wanted to also be able to make an
52:48 impact and come back to the council with
52:51 that those results okay that would be
52:56 great to know at a future time with
52:59 those results will be and what the
53:01 discussion would look like and then my
53:02 second question is about you mentioned
53:07 in the memo about the outdoor seating
53:11 requirements and then also in your
53:12 presentation you talked about the
53:14 signage and I believe the permit
53:16 on signage and other things and that we
53:19 might do and so I wondered which of
53:21 these potential actions do we expect
53:25 will take council action and then what
53:28 will the timeline be for that and again
53:30 I'm trying to be conscious of the phase
53:32 two and restaurants trying to know what
53:35 they're gonna actually be able to do
53:37 when they reopen and if they're going to
53:38 be able to reopen and all of the
53:40 uncertainties so if we could get
53:41 certainty on our timeline that would
53:43 that's the context of my question great
53:49 yes I appreciate that because timing is
53:51 of the essence so we actually are
53:54 partners in the downtown Medical
53:55 Association and it's chol Highlands
53:57 Council are currently reaching out to
53:59 restaurants and also talking to their
54:01 other other businesses about curbside
54:04 parking and also signage needs so one of
54:07 the things we need to the idea of
54:10 curbside parking or pickup parking
54:12 spaces and allocating those whether
54:13 they're some of those spaces are in
54:16 private Lots so that's not as in our in
54:18 our bailiwick but in the downtown we
54:21 definitely own the parking behind some
54:23 of those businesses and all along the
54:25 street frontage the idea is at a higher
54:29 level is a great idea we need to make
54:31 sure that we allocate those we look at
54:33 those spaces in a way that works for
54:35 businesses and is not two blocks away
54:37 from where they may deliver that so
54:39 those things may not need council action
54:42 I believe then the other parts about the
54:45 permitting around the signage and the
54:50 outdoors our eating would potentially be
54:54 about around permitting us that would be
54:55 under the Community Development
54:58 Community Services directors ability to
55:02 to proceed with that so I don't
55:06 anticipate any initial council needs or
55:09 actions for that but as we start to dive
55:11 into the code and hear what those ask
55:13 specific ask are there may be some
55:16 nuances we need to explore thank you
55:19 City Administrator Bob Chris you had
55:21 some information you wanted to add here
55:22 yes madam mayor council president hunt
55:25 we plan to come back to the council at
55:27 the first study session you're going to
55:30 on Tuesday June 9th and we should have
55:32 answers to many of those questions we
55:34 see this as a very urgent matter of the
55:37 mayor's recovery task force spent a lot
55:40 of time speaking about these issues on
55:42 Thursday our presentations from the
55:44 chamber from from anti-business
55:47 association with some very specific asks
55:50 and so we would like to process those
55:52 and bring those to the council in the
55:54 study session format on June 9th and if
55:57 there are specific actions for the
55:58 councilman to bring them back to your
56:00 next regular meeting follow me Thank You
56:04 administrator Bob Krist and in case
56:06 councilmembers have not all been able to
56:08 view or see a summary of those recovery
56:10 task force meetings we may be trying to
56:13 do things through the next nine months
56:15 12 months just to help businesses be
56:19 able to get their feet back on the
56:21 ground and some of them may be that we
56:23 are waiving a fee so they still are
56:27 required to have insurance and do all
56:29 the rest of it but whatever we can do to
56:32 help them be more successful so there's
56:35 there's a laundry list of items so thank
56:37 you for bringing that up to the
56:38 administrator council president hunt did
56:41 you have any additional questions no
56:44 that's it thank you Thank You
56:45 councilmember Hall with the question
56:49 Thank You maripony yeah I have a quick
56:52 question and thank you to Jen thank you
56:54 to Cathy for the great presentation I
56:56 appreciate all the deep work you did
56:57 there when I was going through this list
57:00 of next steps that you have nicely laid
57:03 out in our agenda packet I tried to go
57:07 through it with a focus on different
57:09 things first on you know business
57:11 assistance and then second more broadly
57:14 on Public Health and I noticed that
57:17 there were two to next steps that I
57:20 really appreciated you know ensuring
57:22 that you know when we review when we are
57:23 opening up we're doing it in a right way
57:25 we're doing it in a way that are going
57:29 to keep people healthy and ensure that
57:31 we don't have a you know resurgence and
57:33 infections so I was hoping you could
57:35 speak a little more in detail about two
57:38 that was particularly interested in the
57:42 first bullet point
57:43 the second batch which was out oh no
57:47 sorry not that one the one that says
57:49 discuss operations with restaurants
57:51 regarding 50% and 75% real thing so that
57:54 phase 2 and phase 3 you know what really
57:55 should that look like and I know we're
57:57 going to be getting you know guidance
57:59 from the governor about what that looks
58:01 like but I'd be curious what Jen you
58:04 know what you're thinking and Kathy what
58:05 you're hearing from the business
58:06 community about about that too from the
58:08 ground up and then also that last one
58:10 about coordinating supply chain and
58:13 other efforts to provide PPE to
58:15 restaurants and other retail businesses
58:17 I was really interested about those two
58:19 points that you can discuss that that
58:21 very um I'll have Kathy to start off
58:26 because she actually is involved in both
58:27 of those and more so for the second one
58:29 so then I'll fill in anything else Thank
58:34 You Jen um so regarding the PPE I think
58:40 one of the things we're looking at is
58:42 [Music]
58:43 finding out if we can find resources
58:46 that for instance the chamber has some
58:50 accounts that we use primarily for
58:53 salmon days but could we get them could
58:56 for instance maybe the chamber be the
58:59 the Clearing House so that we could
59:03 purchase larger orders saving money
59:06 combining our resources together to give
59:10 us greater buying power and there's also
59:15 an effort by dia to have masks donated
59:20 so that the businesses downtown can get
59:24 free masks and we think we could
59:27 probably all do a little bit more of
59:29 that the highlands the chamber and Dia
59:31 but I think most of our efforts were
59:34 really around trying to get those group
59:38 buy-ins so that we can truly lower the
59:41 cost of what everyone's having to pay
59:44 maybe even taking advantage of some of
59:47 those deals that a lot of the
59:51 distilleries that have switched over to
59:54 making Hansen
59:55 tiser and they're giving away certain
59:57 amount you know finding those and seeing
59:59 if we can make runs for multiple
1:00:03 businesses at the same time and if some
1:00:05 of those distilleries would allow us to
1:00:07 do that on their behalf things like that
1:00:09 and I'm sorry Zack could you refresh my
1:00:13 memory on your first question
1:00:15 it was the safety issue
1:00:18 sure yeah thanks Kelly yeah kind of
1:00:20 everything under the umbrella of you
1:00:23 know public safety and public health so
1:00:24 one in particular was discussing you
1:00:27 know what is operation for restaurants
1:00:28 and retail business is going to look
1:00:30 like in phase 2 and phase 3 and how do
1:00:33 we do that safely because you know I I
1:00:34 know a few business owners here in
1:00:37 Issaquah and I think the in the
1:00:41 community the misconception is everyone
1:00:44 is chomping at the bit to just reopen
1:00:46 regardless of what public health is they
1:00:48 just want to reopen but everyone that I
1:00:50 talked to who our business owners like
1:00:52 know we've got to keep people healthy
1:00:54 otherwise we don't have customers so it
1:00:56 seems to me like our community gets it
1:00:58 so I was just interested in in from your
1:01:01 perspective what's the conversation like
1:01:02 about what what is phase 2 and phase 3
1:01:05 and look like maybe that's just
1:01:06 beginning yeah it is just beginning
1:01:09 that is correct there's um there's a
1:01:12 true concern from the restaurant
1:01:14 standpoint about the actual
1:01:18 affordability of being able to open and
1:01:20 Phase two at all you know 50% capacity
1:01:24 on our smaller restaurants isn't you
1:01:29 know they do the math they're trying to
1:01:30 figure it out is it worth the expense of
1:01:33 bringing back the staff if they can only
1:01:36 serve so many people in an evening
1:01:39 so what we're anticipating is some
1:01:42 businesses will reopen it at 50%
1:01:45 capacity in Phase two some might choose
1:01:48 to wait till Phase three
1:01:50 some might even wait and to not open
1:01:53 until phase four when they can bring
1:01:56 back a hundred percent capacity so they
1:01:59 have those options and yes indeed safety
1:02:03 does come first they do have they've
1:02:06 gotten behind the ordering
1:02:08 online and doing takeout so they have
1:02:10 that and now it's just a matter of that
1:02:15 next economic portion on top of keeping
1:02:19 people safe does it can they afford to
1:02:22 open that 50% capacity that's great
1:02:28 thank you Kathy and I think she hit the
1:02:31 nail on the head what we've been hearing
1:02:33 as well with restaurants and so the
1:02:34 phase 2 restaurant report guidelines
1:02:37 already out so they have been looking at
1:02:38 them and they're still they're still
1:02:41 being adjusted so for instance the
1:02:43 governor has changed about the logging
1:02:45 of customers for restaurants so as they
1:02:48 continue to look at that and figure out
1:02:50 what makes sense for their individual
1:02:51 floorplate and their operations
1:02:54 you know they will make the decision and
1:02:56 they want to keep their employees
1:02:57 healthy as well and so having an
1:02:59 additional exposure to people at this
1:03:00 time is a concern and so I think again
1:03:04 we'll be working with the chamber as a
1:03:05 held restaurant and retail and other
1:03:08 industry type roundtables downtown
1:03:11 Issaquah Association is having around
1:03:13 holding roundtables as well with their
1:03:15 businesses so this is how we'll learn
1:03:17 about what the needs for the individual
1:03:19 businesses are beyond our one-on-one
1:03:21 contact with them Thank You
1:03:24 councilmember hall satisfied yeah that
1:03:28 was great thank you so much for all that
1:03:29 great information I love the emphasis
1:03:31 Kathy behind you no greater we are and
1:03:35 you know the support from everyone we're
1:03:37 better and working together to get
1:03:39 people the protective equipment they
1:03:41 need hand sanitizer dot so thank you for
1:03:44 a great work that's great next question
1:03:48 or comment is coming from councilmember
1:03:50 marks thank you madam mayor actually
1:03:54 first a question are is the
1:03:57 administration I sort of thought when we
1:03:59 started this conversation the
1:04:01 administration was looking for a
1:04:02 feedback now but it sounds like you're
1:04:05 more looking for feedback at the study
1:04:07 session that may have city administrator
1:04:11 Bob coats come back on mister yes madam
1:04:15 mayor council remember March you know
1:04:18 this is an evolving issue we want to
1:04:20 give you the benefit of the
1:04:22 information that we have tonight we
1:04:23 certainly are interested in getting
1:04:25 feedback from you we've gotten a pretty
1:04:27 long list of items from the council from
1:04:31 the recovery task force from businesses
1:04:33 we want to keep the ball rolling and so
1:04:35 we're going to come back in a couple of
1:04:37 weeks with some more details but
1:04:39 certainly anything you have to
1:04:40 contribute this evening is very welcome
1:04:43 our bottom line is we have a business
1:04:45 community that needs help and we want to
1:04:47 be as focused as we can to provide that
1:04:49 assistance would you like to comment or
1:04:53 have a question or both sure I'll come
1:04:57 up first of all I want to thank Jen
1:04:58 Davis Hays and the city staff this was a
1:05:01 lot of really good informative
1:05:06 informative information which is a
1:05:08 redundancy but really helps me
1:05:11 understand the feedback from a number of
1:05:14 restaurants helps kind of move it beyond
1:05:17 just anecdotal so that was extremely
1:05:20 helpful yeah this is this is help for
1:05:23 restaurants in particular and yeah
1:05:25 perhaps we're gonna have to help other
1:05:27 businesses good if it's good help if
1:05:30 it's not just throwing money at a
1:05:34 problem you know I've heard about some
1:05:36 cities that are doing vouchers for local
1:05:38 businesses that's an example of just
1:05:40 kind of handing out money but this isn't
1:05:43 this seems to be a smart small use of
1:05:46 uniquely city functions things the city
1:05:48 can do that other entities can't do as
1:05:52 well in terms of getting information out
1:05:54 to the public so it seems like a really
1:05:58 really smart use of a small dedicated
1:06:00 amount of money you know our restaurants
1:06:03 are as already mentioned low-margin a
1:06:06 lot of them are run by families you know
1:06:08 they're going to be under the same
1:06:10 regulations as everybody else that
1:06:12 somebody's exposed to coronavirus
1:06:14 they're gonna have to self quarantine
1:06:15 that could have a that could have a
1:06:19 terrible effect on the small family-run
1:06:21 restaurant many of our small restaurants
1:06:25 and Issaquah really unique and part of
1:06:28 the essential charms that make our city
1:06:31 they're also most of them are not
1:06:34 big chains that can afford to you know
1:06:37 amortize the cost out over a large
1:06:39 number of restaurants so for all those
1:06:42 reasons I think taking a small focused
1:06:44 amount of money and doing things the
1:06:46 city does uniquely well is really smart
1:06:49 and a great suggestion by the part of
1:06:50 the city thank you Thank You
1:06:53 councilmember Martha I have
1:06:55 councilmember Goodman up next with a
1:06:57 question followed by a councilmember D
1:06:59 Michelle I'm happy to let councilmember
1:07:01 Dee Michelle go first since I've already
1:07:03 had a question that is very nice
1:07:06 councilmember D Michele question and a
1:07:08 comment perhaps yes thank you
1:07:10 Thank You councilmember Goodwin so as a
1:07:14 frequent user of door - I have observed
1:07:19 how many people are working as delivery
1:07:24 people and I think I raised this last
1:07:27 time as well and maybe Kathy McCrory has
1:07:31 some insights into this but as we have
1:07:35 so many people unemployed and I'm sure
1:07:38 that for some being a delivery person
1:07:41 for the the food delivery of industry is
1:07:46 a lifeline that they wouldn't have
1:07:48 otherwise have do we have any insight
1:07:50 into how many people in Issaquah are
1:07:55 employed by these services and are you
1:08:00 working with people in the so-called gay
1:08:05 economy to help support people who are
1:08:10 out of work and and as we ease into
1:08:14 reopening is that playing a role in the
1:08:17 plans that you're making Thank You Kathy
1:08:21 McCrory
1:08:28 still getting used to my unmute button I
1:08:31 apologize for the delay I do not know
1:08:34 exactly how many are employed in that
1:08:37 field in Issaquah so my apologies
1:08:41 councilman G Michelle I do not have that
1:08:44 information I can tell you though what
1:08:48 we have done and will continue to do is
1:08:52 in our kovat 19 pages there's actually a
1:08:57 jobs page now that we post who's hiring
1:09:01 and companies like that are listed so
1:09:05 we're not concerned with who's a member
1:09:08 who's not a member
1:09:10 we're concerned with who needs help and
1:09:12 so in that those delivery companies as
1:09:17 we find the websites and we can drive
1:09:21 people to them because you're right in a
1:09:24 gigawatt imme many delivery people do
1:09:27 have other jobs or multiple even
1:09:30 deliveries that they will deliver for
1:09:32 doordash and GrubHub
1:09:34 and etc so we do continue to pay
1:09:38 attention to that but I just don't have
1:09:41 all the answers to your questions at
1:09:44 this time and I'll just add that we
1:09:49 aren't tracking the number of people
1:09:50 that are working for get in the gig
1:09:52 economy in Issaquah as far as residents
1:09:54 and we also on our city web page for the
1:09:57 Cobie 19 have listings for jobs and also
1:10:00 linking to work source and other
1:10:03 resources for jobs we were planning to
1:10:06 have our annual job fair on May 12 we
1:10:09 did cancel that postponed it we have
1:10:11 attentively scheduled in August but
1:10:14 we're also looking at virtual options so
1:10:16 we'll determine closer to the time if
1:10:18 the in-person job fair makes sense or
1:10:21 really continue to kind do some virtual
1:10:24 connections through the chamber and
1:10:26 other organizations to make sure that
1:10:28 people can get jobs in Issaquah and the
1:10:30 businesses have the resources because as
1:10:32 Kathy mentioned and the recovery task
1:10:34 force last week and there's some
1:10:36 businesses who are you
1:10:38 you think they're not doing well but
1:10:39 beyond restaurants that are open and
1:10:42 actually are hiring people so we want to
1:10:46 make sure that we help support all the
1:10:47 businesses that are in need of
1:10:48 additional employees throughout the
1:10:51 community and I I appreciate the fact
1:10:55 that those are difficult numbers to come
1:10:56 by and I appreciate your input thank you
1:10:59 thank you for the question councilmember
1:11:02 Dee Michele it was something that the
1:11:03 Issaquah recovery task force also felt
1:11:06 so it's a highly appropriate thing for
1:11:08 city resources partnering with the
1:11:10 chamber to do connect people with
1:11:13 available jobs so that was a great
1:11:15 question um councilmember Goodman thank
1:11:18 you madam mayor council member Goodman
1:11:19 here I don't think I've heard an answer
1:11:24 to this and if I missed it I apologize
1:11:27 but my question is how do we with this
1:11:30 money how do we define success what a
1:11:34 success look like
1:11:36 what are we i I'm not I think I know
1:11:44 what we're trying to achieve and I'm
1:11:46 certainly not opposed to us I just
1:11:47 opposed to it I just wanted I'm just
1:11:49 trying to understand what success looks
1:11:51 like and then how do we monitor that and
1:11:54 how do we measure it when we had rentals
1:11:57 assistance discussion we had there was a
1:12:00 lot of talk about the parameters and the
1:12:01 requirements and there seems to be
1:12:05 unanimous agreement here that this is
1:12:08 just the first financial help for the
1:12:12 business community so want to make sure
1:12:15 that we get off on the right foot and
1:12:18 agreed that we don't want to with
1:12:20 councilmember marks comment that we just
1:12:23 want don't want to throw money at
1:12:24 projects we want to make sure that we
1:12:26 are actually using it for good and I
1:12:30 realize that for good that I also want
1:12:32 to make sure that we are we are
1:12:36 successful in what we're trying to
1:12:37 achieve thank you in great yes I mean we
1:12:41 take we take our public dollars as
1:12:43 serious as as you do and making sure
1:12:46 that we're not wasting them and I will
1:12:48 say that we don't have all those answers
1:12:49 right tonight and so we will again we're
1:12:51 going to
1:12:51 coming back to the June study session
1:12:54 we'll have more details so it really
1:12:55 will depend on if we end up leveraging
1:12:58 some of these resources with programs
1:12:59 that exist already marketing programs
1:13:01 with our partners so it could be if we
1:13:05 do some social media marketing we'll
1:13:06 have exact numbers of click-throughs and
1:13:10 other metrics through the social media
1:13:14 platform we use it could be surveying
1:13:18 restaurants again I don't want to commit
1:13:20 to anything right now until we have more
1:13:22 details of exactly what we'll do and
1:13:23 then base those metrics off of that but
1:13:26 completely agree that we want to be able
1:13:28 to come back because we will also need
1:13:29 to report this to the port so this isn't
1:13:32 this is important from many and many
1:13:35 levels but also to our funders who to
1:13:38 make sure that we're we can show them
1:13:39 that we've done good things with their
1:13:41 money and not just fin it where we
1:13:43 nearly thank you and I think that we
1:13:47 should probably make a pretty quick
1:13:49 pivot to not simply restaurants because
1:13:52 we also have retailers who are now able
1:13:53 to offer a curbside curbside pickup
1:13:56 anyway thank you very much everybody I
1:13:58 really appreciate it City Administrator
1:14:00 Bob quits you want to add some more
1:14:01 additional information yeah just to
1:14:04 follow up what Jen said you know the
1:14:07 metrics piece is going to be really
1:14:09 important right now we have one economic
1:14:10 development staff member we hope that
1:14:13 with the item later on the agenda
1:14:14 tonight we're going to be able to have a
1:14:17 second economic development staff member
1:14:19 and I think our goal working with a new
1:14:22 staff member and our finance department
1:14:24 as we look at performance measures
1:14:25 another item that we would like to talk
1:14:28 about it you're a Jew study session is
1:14:30 what metrics can we be putting in place
1:14:33 but the entire ISKCON how can we measure
1:14:35 jobs businesses in place I think
1:14:38 business license revenue be you know tax
1:14:40 revenue that comes in so I think there's
1:14:43 lots of ways to measure success and it's
1:14:46 clear that we need to have multiple
1:14:49 meant for not only this initiative that
1:14:51 we're proposing this evening but I'm
1:14:54 sure other initiatives and listening to
1:14:56 the conversation the other day at the
1:14:58 recovery tax course you know they
1:15:00 certainly believe that in a very
1:15:02 comprehensive way of looking at economic
1:15:04 recoveries a real
1:15:05 piece of this and so we need to
1:15:06 measuring that so we'll come back at the
1:15:08 June meeting to talk a little bit more
1:15:10 about economy why it measures within
1:15:13 this fall
1:15:14 thank you City Administrator Bob Chris
1:15:16 Thank You councilmember Goodman for the
1:15:18 question we do want to make sure we're
1:15:20 getting the outcomes and we are using
1:15:22 the money effectively and efficiently I
1:15:24 am not seeing any additional questions
1:15:26 on this item I will wait a second or two
1:15:29 to see if I have missed anybody Thank
1:15:33 You Kathy Thank You Jen
1:15:36 we are going to move on to the next item
1:15:38 ID zero 691 Kovac responds round two
1:15:43 budget plan and I'd like to ask finance
1:15:46 director Beth Goldberg to make the
1:15:47 presentation
1:15:48 Beth good evening everyone I tisha could
1:15:55 post the PowerPoint on the screen that
1:15:59 would be terrific
1:16:10 there we go okay so good evening
1:16:22 everyone we are here tonight to present
1:16:25 the round two budget plan in response to
1:16:30 the ovid crisis and tisha if you can go
1:16:34 to the next slide please
1:16:37 so the purpose of tonight's presentation
1:16:40 mayor Polly spoke of this a little bit
1:16:42 earlier is to provide an update of the
1:16:46 next round of our work to respond to the
1:16:51 general fund budget shortfall that we
1:16:53 spoke about first starting in April and
1:16:57 then also starting to look at the other
1:16:59 funds that we are anticipating to have
1:17:02 some financial difficulty as a result of
1:17:05 bovid and then also to provide you a
1:17:08 preview of the round three work that as
1:17:12 well as other next steps latisha if you
1:17:14 can move to the next slide please
1:17:17 so just by way of background and to
1:17:21 remind everyone we projected ana 10
1:17:25 million decline in general fund revenues
1:17:27 as a result of the kovin emergency
1:17:30 during round one which was April 20th
1:17:34 screen went blank
1:17:36 there goes okay during round 1 we
1:17:40 identified nearly 5 million dollars in
1:17:43 under spend plans that included 22
1:17:46 layoffs and freezing 15 vacant positions
1:17:49 if that meaning we indicated that we
1:17:53 would be reporting back with round 2
1:17:56 plan which is the intention of tonight's
1:17:59 presentation if you can move to the next
1:18:02 slide please so just a brief reminder we
1:18:06 went over this at the April 20th council
1:18:09 meeting in terms of roles and
1:18:11 responsibilities the ability to
1:18:14 understand a budget which is what this
1:18:17 plan is rests with the mayor but there
1:18:21 are certain elements of this plan as
1:18:24 the case with round one that we will be
1:18:27 seeking council action force so the last
1:18:30 meaning it was primarily changes to
1:18:33 personnel policies um tonight in
1:18:36 addition to some personnel policy
1:18:38 changes on the consent agenda we will
1:18:41 also be asking council to adopt some
1:18:44 changes to our inner fund transfers and
1:18:47 don't hear me speak about that
1:18:48 throughout the meeting or breakfast
1:18:50 presentation and then there's a regular
1:18:53 business item that covers this later on
1:18:56 tonight's agenda
1:18:58 tisha if you can go to the next slide
1:18:59 please so is a reminder of where we are
1:19:06 and the results of of the work that we
1:19:10 have done we started on April 6th with
1:19:13 the ten million dollar shortfall that I
1:19:15 mentioned earlier during round one we
1:19:19 identified roughly five million four
1:19:21 point eight million dollars worth under
1:19:23 spend plans that left a remaining
1:19:25 shortfall of roughly 5.2 million dollars
1:19:30 tonight's plans that I will talk about
1:19:32 momentarily identify another 1.6 million
1:19:36 dollars of under spend leaving the
1:19:39 remaining shortfall to three point six
1:19:42 million dollars so if we can go to the
1:19:46 next slide please so now I want to talk
1:19:53 about a summary of how we got to the one
1:19:55 point six million dollars worth of
1:19:58 reductions or under spend that we're
1:20:00 talking about tonight the first is we
1:20:03 identified in doing a little bit more
1:20:06 work on the round one savings that we
1:20:08 identified we've identified another
1:20:10 three hundred and nearly eighty thousand
1:20:12 dollars worth of savings you'll recall
1:20:15 at the last meeting that we talked about
1:20:18 leave cash outs for the departed
1:20:21 employees we allocated those at that
1:20:24 meeting entirely to the general fund
1:20:26 however some of those positions were
1:20:28 funded again some of our other funds so
1:20:30 that reduced the hit to the general fund
1:20:33 so that's one source of the savings we
1:20:36 also have run since
1:20:38 calculations on how the furloughs and
1:20:43 salary reductions that we identified in
1:20:46 round one will lower our employer taxes
1:20:48 so that's also captured in here and then
1:20:51 some other fine-tuning another element
1:20:54 of round two was we did a thorough
1:20:57 review of our IT functions and IT costs
1:21:02 in particular that are borne by the
1:21:05 general fund but also some but for other
1:21:07 funds and the results of that work and
1:21:11 I'll go into more of these details later
1:21:13 total three hundred and four thousand
1:21:15 dollars so I had mentioned in I think
1:21:19 two slides ago about how the actions to
1:21:24 adjust interfund transfers and a
1:21:27 required council action so the concepts
1:21:30 behind this is that this IT savings that
1:21:34 we've identified here will accrue to the
1:21:37 IT fund but in order for the general
1:21:40 fund to reap the benefit of it that's
1:21:43 where the revenue hit is we need to
1:21:45 lower the amount of money we're
1:21:47 transferring to the IT fund so this is
1:21:49 one of the changes that will require
1:21:52 council action through an interfund
1:21:55 transfer similarly the general fund
1:21:58 makes a sizable contribution to the
1:22:01 street operating fund so we've
1:22:03 identified reductions there I will go
1:22:05 through those momentarily that will
1:22:08 reduce the transfer by seven hundred and
1:22:10 eleven thousand and then last we've
1:22:13 identified nearly two hundred fourteen
1:22:15 thousand of additional labor savings
1:22:18 from furloughs and some of our
1:22:20 retirement contributions thanks to some
1:22:23 concessions made by our AskMe labor
1:22:26 union and the administration wants to
1:22:29 extend our thanks to that Union for
1:22:33 helping us address these financial
1:22:35 challenges the administration is
1:22:37 continuing to negotiate with the
1:22:40 Teamsters and it's F for additional
1:22:43 concessions and if we are successful in
1:22:46 those negotiations we will report back
1:22:48 to Council so
1:22:51 you can move to the next slide please so
1:22:56 mayor Polly spoke of this earlier in the
1:22:59 evening we are anticipating that we will
1:23:02 receive some Paris act funding through
1:23:05 the state of Washington we believe this
1:23:08 will total roughly 1.2 million dollars
1:23:11 we are expecting application materials
1:23:14 sometime this week we have not allocated
1:23:19 this fund these funds as part of the
1:23:22 round 2 plan but when we have more
1:23:25 information about the receipt of these
1:23:26 funds we will be reporting back to the
1:23:29 council and some options for this
1:23:32 funding and it could help us offset some
1:23:36 of the remaining gap while the funds
1:23:39 cannot be used for to offset the revenue
1:23:42 it that we are experiencing they can
1:23:45 help offset some of the costs that we
1:23:47 are incurring as part of our day-to-day
1:23:49 work these days in response to the
1:23:52 ghovat emergency so that's one option
1:23:53 the other option or a combination
1:23:56 thereof would be to offset any
1:23:59 unforeseen ovid related costs that the
1:24:02 city anticipates in the future so if we
1:24:05 can move to the next slide please
1:24:08 I'm so I'm going to talk a little bit
1:24:11 about the other friends but at first
1:24:13 maybe I want to touch on some of the
1:24:15 other steps the administration is taking
1:24:18 to identify additional savings so we're
1:24:22 continuing and councilmember Goodman
1:24:25 spoke of this in her comments and at the
1:24:28 beginning of the meeting we're
1:24:29 continuing discussions with efer about
1:24:32 whether there are any opportunities the
1:24:34 reduce our contractual costs with them
1:24:37 we're also as I mentioned continuing
1:24:40 discussions with our labor unions and
1:24:42 there may be additional opportunities
1:24:44 for Tears Act money through the county
1:24:47 and there's also talk although there is
1:24:51 not bipartisan support for this so a
1:24:54 little bit of skepticism but there's
1:24:56 talk that perhaps Congress in their next
1:24:59 relief package may offer some funding to
1:25:02 state and local governments
1:25:04 struggling right now so on to the other
1:25:08 funds so when we provided the the
1:25:11 financial forecast on April sticks we
1:25:14 did touch on very briefly the work at
1:25:17 that point had been very preliminary
1:25:18 that we were anticipating some of our
1:25:21 other funds we're gonna feel the pinch
1:25:24 from the economic downturn and we
1:25:28 committed to reporting back on plans for
1:25:31 how we would address those challenges so
1:25:34 we've identified six funds that we
1:25:38 believe will be facing financial
1:25:40 challenges as a result of kovat and that
1:25:42 includes the street operating funds and
1:25:45 I'm gonna go into more details of each
1:25:46 of these throughout the presentation the
1:25:49 street operating fund the real estate
1:25:52 excise tax fund our school zone safety
1:25:55 fund municipal arts fund RIT fund not
1:25:59 because they're facing direct revenue
1:26:01 challenges but because they support
1:26:03 functions in funds that are facing
1:26:06 challenges and then last the lodging tax
1:26:09 fund I want to point out that we are not
1:26:14 talking about some of our other larger
1:26:16 funds such as the utility funds because
1:26:18 we're not anticipating at this time that
1:26:21 they're gonna experience significant
1:26:23 significant Kovan related financial
1:26:26 impacts so if we can move to the next
1:26:29 slide please
1:26:32 so first I want to talk about the street
1:26:36 operating fund so the street operating
1:26:39 fund rice ninety seven percent of its
1:26:42 revenues from sources that are forecast
1:26:44 to decline as a result of the 19 the
1:26:47 first revenue listed on this slide is
1:26:52 the motor vehicle fuel tax so under the
1:26:56 stay at home orders people are driving
1:26:58 less so we are expecting that this
1:27:00 revenue is going to contract
1:27:03 similarly general fund we've talked
1:27:06 about that at length when we allocated
1:27:08 reduction targets we're anticipating a
1:27:11 20% shortfall in general fund but
1:27:14 because some functions couldn't take his
1:27:16 veto cuts
1:27:17 someone given 30% targets which is
1:27:19 what's reflected here and then REIT
1:27:23 which I will talk about in a little bit
1:27:26 we're forecasting a 20% reduction in
1:27:29 that revenue so this was our starting
1:27:32 point basically needed to come up with a
1:27:35 plan that would close a 1.2 million
1:27:38 dollar shortfall in the street operating
1:27:41 fund as a result of these three revenue
1:27:44 sources contracted so if we could move
1:27:48 to the next slide please
1:27:55 so in terms of what we have identified
1:28:01 to bring the street operating fund into
1:28:05 balance were freezing to vacant
1:28:08 positions a senior engineer position and
1:28:10 a construction technician technician
1:28:13 position staff as was the case in the
1:28:17 general fund will be furloughing and
1:28:19 we're also capturing savings for the 457
1:28:24 retirement account contributions like
1:28:28 other departments the street operating
1:28:31 fund is reducing miscellaneous operating
1:28:33 accounts that includes like travel and
1:28:36 training things of that nature
1:28:38 the review of the work plan and our
1:28:43 professional services contract has
1:28:45 resulted and some changes in some of our
1:28:47 professional services expenditures from
1:28:50 deferral of repairs and maintenance and
1:28:53 then as the mayor acknowledged at the
1:28:57 outset of this meeting with the
1:29:00 retirement of our Public Works
1:29:02 Operations Director the city is looking
1:29:06 at this as an opportunity to consolidate
1:29:08 our public works engineering departments
1:29:11 and our public works operations
1:29:13 department into a single department so
1:29:17 all of these these changes accumulated
1:29:21 some savings but not enough to close the
1:29:24 1.2 million dollar gap that I spoke
1:29:26 about on the earlier slide maintaining
1:29:29 funding for our street opera
1:29:31 functions is a high priority and so as a
1:29:34 result of that we actually and I'll talk
1:29:37 about this a little bit later in
1:29:39 tonight's presentation but as part of
1:29:43 this we made some deeper cuts into some
1:29:46 of the capital investments that were
1:29:49 planned for the REIT funds so that we
1:29:51 could increase the amount of reap that
1:29:54 were transferring from the refund into
1:29:56 the street operating budget so if we can
1:30:00 go to the next slide please
1:30:03 so now for the real estate excise tax so
1:30:09 by way of background this is a
1:30:11 notoriously volatile revenue source this
1:30:13 is a revenue source our revenue that is
1:30:16 derived by a small assessment on the
1:30:22 sale of real estate in the city of
1:30:24 Issaquah and it has been a healthy
1:30:27 source of revenue of late but during the
1:30:30 Great Recession this revenue source
1:30:33 defined by 55% so that's that's kind of
1:30:38 a peg in which to think about this so
1:30:42 far the data on how the real estate
1:30:45 market is holding up has been a little
1:30:47 bit mixed on there there was certainly a
1:30:50 drop in mark but there is some
1:30:52 indication in April that things were
1:30:54 picking up again
1:30:56 certainly not to the precoded levels but
1:31:00 indicating some level of strength in the
1:31:03 real estate market so for the purposes
1:31:05 of this exercise were assuming a modest
1:31:09 20% reduction in these revenues so part
1:31:13 of it is because of uncertainty about
1:31:16 how this is going to impact the real
1:31:18 estate market some of this also is
1:31:20 driven you will notice that these that
1:31:22 Reed has a very healthy fund balance so
1:31:24 that provides us a little bit more
1:31:26 cushion to respond if revenues
1:31:29 deteriorate beyond 20 percent we will
1:31:33 have some resources to fall back on so
1:31:37 if we can move to the next slide I will
1:31:39 then talk about some of the changes that
1:31:43 we have made
1:31:44 in our plans so on this slide lists a
1:31:50 number of transfers made from the brief
1:31:54 the refund to other city funds to
1:31:58 complete various primarily capital or
1:32:01 one-time investment cost so we're making
1:32:04 a series of reductions meaning we will
1:32:10 spend less on the particular project or
1:32:13 some deferrals of various investments so
1:32:18 what you will see on this slide is most
1:32:20 of these numbers are negatives except
1:32:23 for under the street operating fund
1:32:26 which is displayed in the upper
1:32:28 right-hand corner of the table on the
1:32:31 screen you will notice an increase to
1:32:34 the street operating fund four hundred
1:32:37 and fifty eight thousand dollars and
1:32:39 that is because as we looked at the
1:32:41 street operating fund and the reductions
1:32:44 we felt we can make there or the
1:32:46 underspend we can make there we did not
1:32:48 feel like we could cut any deeper so
1:32:50 we're cutting a little bit more deeply
1:32:53 on the capital plans on reach so that we
1:32:57 can bolster the investment to the refund
1:33:00 I'm just also another note on this in
1:33:05 deferring or reducing the capital
1:33:09 investments it's it's providing some
1:33:12 protection for us the city of Issaquah
1:33:15 is unique and that it uses this the real
1:33:18 estate excise tax fund to support
1:33:21 ongoing operating cost this is fairly
1:33:24 unusual most jurisdictions rely on this
1:33:27 fund because of its volatility solely
1:33:30 for capital investments in one-time
1:33:32 investments because it's easier to
1:33:34 adjust if the real estate market
1:33:37 contracts and this revenue goes down so
1:33:42 one of the reasons to defer some of
1:33:45 these capital projects is to position us
1:33:47 so that we can have those unbalances
1:33:50 remaining will allow us to sustain those
1:33:53 ongoing operating costs if this revenue
1:33:56 deteriorates so for
1:33:58 example currently were contributing
1:34:01 about 1.2 million dollars to ongoing
1:34:03 street operating costs if Reid were to
1:34:07 decline the 55% as was the case during
1:34:10 the Great Recession we would we would
1:34:14 barely have enough money to sustain
1:34:16 those ongoing operations so by putting a
1:34:19 pause on the capital investments we're
1:34:21 protecting the fund balance as a cushion
1:34:24 to support this ongoing operating costs
1:34:26 not only this year but into future years
1:34:29 if this revenue source contracts if for
1:34:31 some reason the revenue picture improves
1:34:34 we can return to the council and
1:34:37 recommends that we proceed with some of
1:34:41 the capital investments that we are
1:34:43 deferring or reducing here so tisha if
1:34:47 we can go to the next slide please
1:34:51 actually maybe one last thing before I
1:34:53 move on to this slide so the refund I
1:34:56 think I mentioned is making transfers to
1:34:59 other funds so this is another section
1:35:02 where the budget amendment that will be
1:35:05 on discussion to regular business this
1:35:08 evening adjusting those interfund
1:35:10 transfers important okay now we can go
1:35:14 to the next slide so the school zone
1:35:17 safety fund receives revenue from the
1:35:22 speed enforcement camera near is a high
1:35:25 school these cameras are only
1:35:27 operational when school is in session so
1:35:31 the closure of the schools since March
1:35:35 through through June is putting a damper
1:35:38 on these revenues we are anticipating
1:35:41 about a two hundred and seventy-six
1:35:43 thousand dollar revenue hit as a result
1:35:46 of disclosure this forecast assumes that
1:35:50 schools will be back in session in the
1:35:53 fall if that's not the case then there
1:35:55 will be an additional revenue hit here
1:35:58 but the main point with this slide is
1:36:01 that this is another fund with a healthy
1:36:04 fund balance and it can sustain even
1:36:08 with this revenue hit and even frankly
1:36:11 if there's an
1:36:11 the revenue it in the fall could sustain
1:36:15 all of the anticipated investments that
1:36:18 had been planned in the 2020 adopted
1:36:20 budget for this fund so we are not
1:36:23 recommending any major spending changes
1:36:26 to this fund at this time this plan does
1:36:29 reflect a modest twenty four thousand
1:36:32 dollar reduction because the firm that
1:36:35 manages the cameras for us is not
1:36:38 charging us to all of the schools are
1:36:40 not in session so we are capturing that
1:36:42 savings I also want to point out that in
1:36:46 doing this work we have identified that
1:36:50 the fine the penalty charge for people
1:36:53 that speed through this zone is below
1:36:57 what nearby jurisdictions are charging
1:37:00 so our plan is to return to the council
1:37:03 the summer with a plan that would bring
1:37:06 that penalty more in line with what our
1:37:10 nearby jurisdictions are charging and I
1:37:13 should point out that the people that
1:37:16 receive this penalty 85% live outside of
1:37:21 the city of Issaquah so we will be
1:37:24 returning with a plan the summer to
1:37:26 increase the penalty so that it can be
1:37:29 in place when schools open again this
1:37:31 will help recover these revenues that
1:37:34 have been lost during the shutdown and
1:37:36 also give us some flexibility to perhaps
1:37:40 make additional investments as some of
1:37:42 our other revenue sources are
1:37:43 contracting we can move to the next
1:37:46 slide please
1:37:49 so the municipal arts fund derives a
1:37:53 majority of its revenues from the
1:37:55 admissions tax on emissions taxes urged
1:37:58 on people that attend movie theaters in
1:38:00 the city who supply live theaters they
1:38:03 are all shut down now this initial
1:38:06 forecast it seems the 30% reduction but
1:38:09 certainly depending on the length of the
1:38:11 stay at home orders
1:38:13 this revenue could contract further but
1:38:17 again looking at the fund balance on
1:38:19 this fund there is sufficient fund
1:38:21 balance to sustain this year spending on
1:38:24 even if this revenue source contract so
1:38:27 we are not recommending any underspend
1:38:30 plans with the Municipal Arts Fund at
1:38:33 this time we are and we recognize
1:38:36 particularly if the stay at home orders
1:38:39 extend for a longer duration we will be
1:38:42 looking at this fund as part of the 2021
1:38:46 budget process and may be recommending
1:38:48 some changes in for this fund in 2021 we
1:38:55 move to the next slide please
1:38:58 so the IT fund so as I mentioned I think
1:39:03 a little bit earlier the IT fund is not
1:39:07 facing revenue challenges per se but
1:39:10 many of the funds that it serves are
1:39:13 facing revenue challenges so we asked
1:39:17 the IT team to look at its spending and
1:39:20 identify savings mainly to provide
1:39:23 relief to the general fund but some of
1:39:27 the the plans that they identified will
1:39:29 also result in savings to some of our
1:39:32 other funds so this slide provides a
1:39:36 summary of that savings and again all of
1:39:40 this is effectuated through a cost
1:39:42 allocation plan or interfund transfers
1:39:44 so so that is part of the amendment that
1:39:49 will be before the council for
1:39:52 consideration on regular business
1:39:54 tonight and I see there's a question so
1:39:56 I will pause there okay mute this for a
1:40:08 second Thank You councilmember Hall has
1:40:12 a question
1:40:13 on the IP fund yeah thanks Mary Polly
1:40:16 Beth I just have a quick question I've
1:40:22 seen two numbers associated with IT fund
1:40:24 savings the general
1:40:25 and I know you can clear this up for me
1:40:28 so I see this 376 six to 370 thousand
1:40:35 six hundred sixty-two dollars but then
1:40:38 towards the beginning there was IT
1:40:39 savings in round two at three hundred
1:40:42 four thousand dollars and sixty eight so
1:40:45 I was hoping you can clear up what each
1:40:49 of those mean yes so on that first slide
1:40:57 the three hundred four thousand is
1:40:59 capturing the new savings that we've
1:41:03 identified in round two you may recall
1:41:07 that in round one we identified a
1:41:11 position for layoffs that was an IT
1:41:16 position so the savings from that
1:41:19 position was captured in round one this
1:41:24 slide here is capturing the full savings
1:41:27 whereas from a general fund balancing
1:41:30 perspective why that earlier slide was
1:41:33 was trying to capture what is new the
1:41:36 new Delta for tonight perfect thank you
1:41:40 very much appreciate that clarification
1:41:41 I also have a question from
1:41:46 councilmember marks hi director Goldberg
1:41:50 my question for you is what does this
1:41:53 represent as a total fraction of IT fund
1:41:57 and what are we really talking about
1:41:59 when you say understand what's the
1:42:01 actual meat and potatoes what what
1:42:05 checks don't get written in cash to
1:42:08 realize these savings thank you so maybe
1:42:13 that's a good opportunity to go to the
1:42:15 next slide where we've got some
1:42:18 additional details on what is not going
1:42:22 to be done through this underspend plan
1:42:26 so I mentioned in response to
1:42:28 councilmember Paul's question about the
1:42:32 the the position that we've had been
1:42:37 slated for layoffs
1:42:39 um also similar to the other funds that
1:42:43 we talked about we are capturing some
1:42:45 savings from furloughs and the
1:42:47 elimination of the 457 account and then
1:42:51 there's a series of projects listed on
1:42:53 the slide
1:42:53 where were either deferring or reducing
1:42:57 some of the investments that had been
1:43:00 planned for 2020 through the IT fund and
1:43:05 maybe I can pause there and see if
1:43:09 council member Mart's has follow-up
1:43:12 questions now that he has seen these
1:43:14 details just the question about what
1:43:19 fraction of the total IT budget this
1:43:21 represents thank you so I might have to
1:43:27 phone a friend for that one
1:43:29 um if Suzy's on the line maybe she I
1:43:32 don't know if she has that at her
1:43:33 disposal or if you can look it up while
1:43:35 I'm finishing the rest of this
1:43:37 presentation and we can report that back
1:43:39 to you we have an additional follow-up
1:43:43 question from council president hunt and
1:43:46 we'll see what we can get from Suzy
1:43:49 council president hunt thank you council
1:43:52 president hunt here I wonder if and it
1:43:57 it might be at a future present a few
1:44:00 Chur meeting that we would get this
1:44:02 information but I wonder if we could get
1:44:04 information about the implications of
1:44:08 the cost reductions that were on the
1:44:12 previous slide so especially with the
1:44:16 reach slide there were a number of
1:44:17 deferrals and a number of a number of
1:44:22 reductions and some of them are specific
1:44:25 projects some of them I imagine are
1:44:27 going to be a cost that will incur the
1:44:30 next year on top of additional costs and
1:44:32 so I think for our planning purposes it
1:44:35 would be helpful to understand the
1:44:37 implications of all of the costs in
1:44:40 addition to these ones which are
1:44:42 explained for the IT fund yeah we can
1:44:47 report that back to you okay
1:44:53 do you want to continue bath Susie is
1:44:56 chasing the numbers yes continue the
1:44:58 presentation that degree yes so if we
1:45:00 can move to the next slide please
1:45:04 so the LTAC fund the lodging tax fund
1:45:09 similar to municipal Arts Fund and the
1:45:13 school's own safety fund this is a fund
1:45:16 that we're anticipating will contract as
1:45:19 a result of ovid this fund derives its
1:45:23 revenues from a surcharge on people
1:45:26 staying local hotels so we're assuming a
1:45:29 30% reduction to this revenue source
1:45:32 again depending on the length of the
1:45:35 stay at home orders there may be
1:45:37 additional reductions that we'll need to
1:45:39 recognize your additional revenue
1:45:41 reductions we need to recognize but like
1:45:43 the school zone safety fund and the
1:45:46 municipal arts fund this fund has a
1:45:48 healthy fund balance that is enough to
1:45:51 sustain the plan spending for the
1:45:55 duration of the year so we are not
1:45:57 recommending any understand for this
1:45:59 fund at this time but we are working as
1:46:04 part of the 2021 budget and we may
1:46:07 return later the summer with additional
1:46:09 plans for this fund on and then just
1:46:13 looking at the comments I am seeing
1:46:16 Susie has responded the IT reductions
1:46:20 represent about thirteen point four
1:46:22 percent of the budget for IT for 2020 so
1:46:28 if we can move to the next slide please
1:46:31 so as I mentioned at the outset these
1:46:39 under spend plans are within the mayor's
1:46:41 authority to to achieve but a number of
1:46:47 these changes in order to capitalize on
1:46:53 the savings in the funds that are
1:46:55 actually being constrained we do need to
1:46:58 adjust the interfund transfers so on the
1:47:01 budget amendment that's on councils
1:47:03 agenda later this evening
1:47:05 include some items to make those changes
1:47:08 to those interfund transfers so that's
1:47:10 one area that will require council
1:47:12 action and then on the consent agenda
1:47:16 this evening there are several changes
1:47:18 personnel policies that we will also be
1:47:21 seeking a council action on I see that
1:47:25 there may be another question so I will
1:47:28 pause there Thank You deputy council
1:47:32 president ray has a question hi this is
1:47:36 Chris Rea that's when we talked about
1:47:39 the general fund the administration's
1:47:41 position was not to draw down on fund
1:47:45 balance and yet with all the funds we've
1:47:48 talked about today we're drawing down on
1:47:49 fund balance to you know maintain spend
1:47:52 is there their rationale there that that
1:47:56 you're differentiating between general
1:47:58 fund and these other funds yeah
1:48:02 so the general fund is supporting
1:48:04 ongoing services for which the city has
1:48:08 an ongoing obligation to continue to
1:48:11 provide so having a fund balance and
1:48:15 sustaining a fund balance is important
1:48:18 for example if the downturn is deeper
1:48:22 than we anticipated or you know god
1:48:25 forbid there is another you know natural
1:48:28 disaster that's happening at the same
1:48:29 time there's another another shock to
1:48:32 the budget for which we need to draw
1:48:34 revenues on things like municipal arch
1:48:37 funds schools own safety fund and the
1:48:40 elf hat fund are very limited in scope
1:48:44 and there aren't necessarily
1:48:47 requirements that we continue those
1:48:50 functions so if revenues recover we can
1:48:55 continue our current spending and you
1:48:58 know perhaps work to build that fund
1:49:00 balance but if if there's a contraction
1:49:04 there you know you can have a discussion
1:49:06 of you continue in the municipal arts
1:49:09 function the way it had originally been
1:49:11 contemplated or not we feel like that is
1:49:14 a better discussion to be having
1:49:17 in the context of a formal budget
1:49:19 process and that to change course with
1:49:24 with some of these functions mid-year
1:49:27 gets a little bit tricky so for example
1:49:29 the LTAC fund the city appropriates
1:49:34 those dollars but it's actually the l
1:49:36 tax committee that is setting those
1:49:38 spending plans so in order to change
1:49:41 that spending we'd have to go back to
1:49:43 the L tax committee and ask them to take
1:49:46 a vote to change that allocation but
1:49:48 that's kind of the difference between
1:49:50 fund balance philosophy on the general
1:49:54 fund versus versus these other funds
1:49:58 also the general fund is the only fund
1:50:00 that has a formal fund balance policy at
1:50:03 this point that we need to honor and
1:50:06 that's for example what the bond rating
1:50:08 agencies are looking to that we're
1:50:10 maintaining maintaining those fund
1:50:12 balances thank you thank you
1:50:20 Thank You deputy council president ray I
1:50:23 am not seeing any additional question
1:50:25 and comments that you have any
1:50:27 additional information to present are we
1:50:29 wrapping up actually madam mayor members
1:50:34 of the council I'm going to take the
1:50:35 last few slides to wrap up if that's all
1:50:38 right thank you we have the next slide
1:50:43 please so next steps as we've said at
1:50:50 the outset the idea of the first two
1:50:54 rounds was to get us to a place that we
1:50:57 felt comfortable we do not anticipate
1:50:59 any other proposals to the City Council
1:51:02 for any further significant reductions
1:51:05 at this point as I have been meeting
1:51:08 with staff over the last few days it is
1:51:11 the number one question on their mind is
1:51:13 are we done and the answer is generally
1:51:16 yes we are done the best of our building
1:51:19 short of other issues or calamities that
1:51:23 may follow us as I think that I did a
1:51:26 good job of detailing we are done the
1:51:30 only except
1:51:31 into that Oh an element I'll talk a
1:51:32 little bit more in the minute is our
1:51:34 ongoing work regarding the ball Police
1:51:37 Department Jail and if there may be
1:51:39 opportunities for closure of the jail
1:51:42 prior to the end of the fiscal year
1:51:43 that that would have an impact on on
1:51:46 staffing but as we look at next steps
1:51:48 for the remainder of the year on budget
1:51:52 management and planning we are going to
1:51:54 continue to monitor data and pursue
1:51:56 additional underspending revenue
1:51:58 solutions as they present themselves I
1:52:00 think we've detailed that we have
1:52:02 outstanding issues with a number of our
1:52:04 bargaining units so there are some small
1:52:07 ways to do that we certainly are waiting
1:52:09 to see if the federal government
1:52:11 provides any additional dollars if
1:52:12 there's any additional tasks through
1:52:14 from the state of Washington County our
1:52:16 plan on June 9th is to come back to you
1:52:19 with an update on the budget schedule
1:52:21 because as we end now around 2:00 and we
1:52:25 look toward the future of the future
1:52:27 also includes the preparation of the
1:52:29 2021 budget our next major financial
1:52:32 update to you again pending any other
1:52:36 unknown calamities than they occur would
1:52:39 be in August where we would give you a
1:52:40 full update invest of our knowledge of
1:52:42 where we've ended mid-year and then our
1:52:45 updated financial forecast as we work on
1:52:47 the 21 budget and then in September
1:52:50 begin the 2021 proposed budget process
1:52:54 next slide to other pieces that we have
1:53:01 been working on which I'd like to give
1:53:02 you a brief update on are the
1:53:04 reorganizations of two departments as
1:53:07 the council is aware we started work on
1:53:09 these reorganizations earlier this year
1:53:11 we have been working with the staff of
1:53:13 Public Works operations Public Works
1:53:15 engineering on models for combining the
1:53:18 departments that work continues now that
1:53:22 we will have interim directors of both
1:53:24 departments we can move to the next
1:53:26 phase of that which will be to advertise
1:53:28 for and recruit a new public works
1:53:31 director for a single public works
1:53:33 department given the challenges that we
1:53:36 are facing the issue of hiring staff at
1:53:40 this executive level I think is a
1:53:42 question and I want to take an offer
1:53:44 you need to reach out to the community
1:53:47 of recruiters that work to hire these
1:53:50 types of positions to get a sense of
1:53:52 what the marketplace is like certainly
1:53:54 all the public works directors are busy
1:53:57 serving their communities through this
1:53:59 crisis and I think we're going to have
1:54:01 to pay close attention to the
1:54:03 marketplace to see when an appropriate
1:54:05 time would be to begin a full
1:54:07 recruitment I am will keep the council
1:54:09 apprised of that the other department
1:54:11 reorganization that we've been looking
1:54:12 at is Development Services Department
1:54:14 those discussions also began before the
1:54:17 koba 19 crisis we are resuming those
1:54:21 discussions there have been some impact
1:54:23 with position reductions through round
1:54:26 one that have had an impact on the
1:54:28 department and Fe City Administrator
1:54:30 Snyder and I will be meeting with the
1:54:32 staff of a DSD over the next few weeks
1:54:36 to begin we began the those
1:54:39 reorganization prize projects and
1:54:42 development services next slide with
1:54:49 this presentation this evening we really
1:54:52 see ourselves turning yet another corner
1:54:55 as part of our new normal
1:54:56 um and we believe it is appropriate to
1:54:59 begin resuming more of our regular
1:55:03 projects and initiatives as we've
1:55:06 indicated a few times this evening our
1:55:08 intention is to resume the site of the
1:55:09 assessment scheduled with the City
1:55:10 Council starting on June 9 having to
1:55:14 study sessions in June 2 in July 1 in
1:55:17 August which will cover a whole variety
1:55:20 of different issues I've listed some of
1:55:23 them here on this slide on the issue of
1:55:26 recovery and reopening lots of issues
1:55:28 economic development the logistics of
1:55:32 reopening our own city facilities all of
1:55:34 that needs careful attention and so we
1:55:36 will continue to focus on that
1:55:38 next is the munis reimplementation again
1:55:41 much has been discussed by the council
1:55:42 the council approved a a contract to do
1:55:46 this so this will be a prime focus of
1:55:48 ours through the summer months into the
1:55:51 fall as we shoot to relaunch our general
1:55:56 ledger general financial operations
1:55:58 obligating January 1st 2021 also as I
1:56:02 mentioned this evening jail operations
1:56:04 as we've looked at the city assessment
1:56:07 of program and looking at the
1:56:09 initiatives that we can pursue there's
1:56:12 been interest on the council and
1:56:13 interest among senior staff to continue
1:56:15 to look at jail operations there are a
1:56:18 number of issues associated with that
1:56:20 but we feel that the opportunities for
1:56:23 the city are significant enough that we
1:56:25 need to continue to focus on exploring
1:56:28 that and we will keep the council
1:56:29 apprised of our work if we are able to
1:56:33 make a recommendation to the council
1:56:35 this would occur prior to the end of the
1:56:38 fiscal year then that is something that
1:56:40 we would look at and look at the impacts
1:56:42 that would have on staffing for the
1:56:44 current fiscal year water operations and
1:56:47 fees another issue that has been on the
1:56:50 backburner since the beginning of the
1:56:51 year we need to bring back forward to
1:56:53 you and we plan during a study session
1:56:55 in June or July to come and resume that
1:56:58 discussion regarding water operations
1:57:00 and fees issues regarding community
1:57:03 engagement as we've talked previously on
1:57:05 June 1st will begin community engagement
1:57:09 initiatives remotely three specific
1:57:12 items one is a broader look at how we
1:57:15 engage our neighborhoods and we
1:57:17 currently plan to come to the study
1:57:19 session on June 9th with an update on
1:57:21 that initiative you've heard from a
1:57:23 public speaker this evening about the
1:57:25 work we're doing with sustainability not
1:57:27 only having a 3-2 key being on
1:57:29 sustainability issues later in the
1:57:31 summer but also the work regarding the
1:57:33 urban streams board and the
1:57:35 reconstitution of that and then finally
1:57:38 another initiative that will start up
1:57:40 again in the month of June is issues
1:57:42 regarding the mobility master plan next
1:57:45 slide so madam mayor members the council
1:57:49 of that concludes our presentation this
1:57:52 evening on behalf of your excellent
1:57:55 finance team and all of the department
1:57:57 directors that have work so diligently
1:58:00 over the last eight weeks it's been a
1:58:02 very very difficult process to assess
1:58:05 where we were because of the Go vat19
1:58:07 crisis to take decisive action to make
1:58:11 adjustments to the
1:58:12 that we think are appropriate as we move
1:58:14 forward as a city but also being prudent
1:58:17 to keep reserves in place so that if
1:58:20 there is a second way of a coronavirus
1:58:23 if there's anything else that would
1:58:25 bring would come to the city where we
1:58:27 would need resources that those
1:58:28 resources are still available to us
1:58:31 again madam mayor members of council of
1:58:33 this goldberg myself others are
1:58:35 available to answer any questions thank
1:58:38 you for that the administrator I do want
1:58:41 to go back to council president hunt to
1:58:43 see if there were any email comments to
1:58:46 the City Council that she would like to
1:58:47 summarize on this item
1:58:50 thank you sis council president hunt we
1:58:53 did receive an email with comments on
1:58:56 this informational item from Steve
1:58:58 Pereira he commented that he is looking
1:59:03 to the istic West City Council to be
1:59:04 active members in this budget and
1:59:06 prioritization process regarding the
1:59:09 school safety fund he was okay with the
1:59:11 increase in the fine structure and
1:59:13 lastly regarding the administration's
1:59:16 plan to rely on some balance to sustain
1:59:19 the 2020 budgeted expenditures and then
1:59:22 evaluate as part of the 2021 budget
1:59:25 process he asked some clarifying
1:59:26 questions about what else we will be
1:59:28 able to do to close the projected
1:59:30 revenue gap that concludes the
1:59:33 correspondence
1:59:35 thank you very much council president
1:59:37 hunt deputy counts president ray do you
1:59:39 have a question or a comment it's more
1:59:42 of a clarification and I I apologize if
1:59:44 I missed this but on page 5 of the
1:59:48 presentation there was a general fund
1:59:50 summary that showed the initial
1:59:53 forecasted deficit at ten million
1:59:55 dollars and then round one spend at four
1:59:57 point eight remaining shortfall of five
2:00:00 point two and then we just covered the
2:00:02 round two under spend plan of one point
2:00:05 six that still left us with two point
2:00:08 our three point six million dollars a
2:00:09 shortfall and I thought I heard ministry
2:00:12 Bach would say that we were done with
2:00:14 additional cuts and I I didn't how do we
2:00:18 fill that three point six or did I miss
2:00:20 something administrator Bob Chris
2:00:26 well at this time
2:00:28 council president ray members of the
2:00:30 council I think there's a number of
2:00:32 outstanding issues that may very well
2:00:34 help us with that one is the care grant
2:00:38 money that the state of Washington is
2:00:40 passing through that's about 1.1 million
2:00:43 dollars there will be money from the
2:00:46 federal government I'm confident to help
2:00:48 cities and states it will not be at the
2:00:52 level that the heroes Act that was
2:00:55 passed by the US House of
2:00:56 Representatives had the amount of money
2:00:59 that would have been included for
2:01:00 Issaquah and that was 12 million dollars
2:01:02 and so we don't suspect to see that I
2:01:06 think though that it is safe to say that
2:01:08 there will be a small smaller amount of
2:01:11 money that will come unclear as to when
2:01:14 that will happen it's unclear to how
2:01:15 much that will be
2:01:16 so I think there's that and then I think
2:01:19 anything else we can hope that our
2:01:22 projections perhaps were more dire than
2:01:26 the reality is and I think that at that
2:01:29 point you take the carrot act money what
2:01:32 would get from the federal government
2:01:33 were probably under a million dollars to
2:01:36 reach that ten million and I think as we
2:01:39 stand here this early still in the year
2:01:41 I am comfortable and discussions with
2:01:44 the mayor she's comfortable that if we
2:01:46 would have to rely that on fund balance
2:01:48 for the remainder that's a relatively
2:01:50 small amount given the scope of what
2:01:52 we've accomplished great thank you
2:01:55 so just kind of paraphrase we're doing a
2:01:57 little bit of risk management here and
2:01:59 we know we've got a certain amount of
2:02:01 this gap that that we don't have a plan
2:02:03 to fill but we believe that it's
2:02:06 reasonable I think that we we are going
2:02:08 to be able to fill it through external
2:02:12 funding unseen additional expense
2:02:17 reductions or if has a fallback fund
2:02:20 balance yeah that's that's what I think
2:02:23 I heard you said great thank you all I
2:02:24 appreciate it yeah and if I made that be
2:02:26 council president finance director
2:02:29 Goldberg has a comment as well yeah
2:02:32 thank you
2:02:33 city administrator Bob coats just wanted
2:02:36 to add
2:02:37 I did a little bit of an analysis of
2:02:39 that three note that three point six
2:02:42 million that remains if we get the cares
2:02:46 at funding and we apply it plus some of
2:02:49 these additional things that we've
2:02:52 talked about through the evening while
2:02:54 we might have to draw on fund balanced
2:02:56 fund balance as a percent of
2:02:59 expenditures which is what the policy is
2:03:01 set on would actually remain fairly
2:03:04 constant to where we were at the start
2:03:06 of the year because we have been
2:03:09 reducing expenditures so we started the
2:03:12 year with fund balance equaling roughly
2:03:14 thirty percent of expenditures when you
2:03:17 take into account all the under spend
2:03:19 plans plus the infusion potentially of
2:03:23 the cares Act funding and you do the
2:03:26 calculation on that we would remain at
2:03:28 about thirty percent
2:03:33 Tibbie council doesn't raise does the
2:03:36 mayor I'm just gonna add a couple of
2:03:37 thoughts here most of the funding
2:03:40 sources that we're talking about for
2:03:42 kovat can go only for kovat related
2:03:46 expenses for the city or if the city
2:03:50 chooses to do for businesses etc the
2:03:53 money that the federal our that the
2:03:58 health would actually be able to be used
2:04:04 as far as we know for revenue
2:04:07 replacement so that's the first funding
2:04:11 source that could actually do some
2:04:12 revenue replacement but just to get you
2:04:14 all thinking about August I'll remind
2:04:16 you that if we get it this year we do
2:04:18 not have it likely there I think they
2:04:20 broke it into two buckets a significant
2:04:22 bucket in 2020 and a lesser amount in
2:04:26 2021 but it's not a solution because
2:04:29 it's just it's just a little bit of help
2:04:32 in twenty and twenty-one so just
2:04:35 something to think about as we come into
2:04:36 budget in the fall I am not seeing that
2:04:40 there are any additional questions but I
2:04:42 will wait a few seconds to see actually
2:04:45 I think I did have yes sorry
2:04:48 councilmember hunt history councilmember
2:04:51 the question thank you Mary Polly this
2:04:55 is Zach Hall I just wanted to ask a real
2:04:58 quick clarifying question of director
2:05:02 Goldberg what you just said because I
2:05:04 thought it was probably the most
2:05:07 important line that ever at all evening
2:05:09 so you said using a fund balance you
2:05:13 know as a percentage of expenditures
2:05:15 even if we were using from about so it
2:05:17 still remains similar to the beginning
2:05:19 of the year because of the reductions
2:05:21 that we've been making and in current
2:05:23 expenditures throughout the year is that
2:05:24 correct that's correct so the fund
2:05:29 balance policy is set at fund balance as
2:05:34 a percentage of expenditures so as were
2:05:38 I were lowering the expenditures the
2:05:44 amount of fund balance that is required
2:05:47 by policy or to maintain current levels
2:05:51 actually decreases so the combination of
2:05:56 expenditures going down and then if we
2:05:59 have to take the modest bras on fund
2:06:01 balance the math of that would be such
2:06:04 that we would be at about 30% at the end
2:06:08 of all of this council member Hall that
2:06:16 was excellent thank you great not seeing
2:06:19 any other questions or comments from
2:06:21 Council I will move to the next item on
2:06:25 the agenda this evening Thank You
2:06:27 director Goldberg thank you city
2:06:28 administrator bob quits next item is the
2:06:31 consent calendar and it was distributed
2:06:33 to council in advance and if it's
2:06:35 authorized the items on the consent
2:06:36 calendar will be considered together and
2:06:39 approved by one motion the clerk's
2:06:43 office has circulated and posted a
2:06:45 revised copy of the may fourth regular
2:06:47 council meeting minutes agenda item c2
2:06:50 correct the call to order time this is
2:06:53 the version that will be adopted upon
2:06:54 approval of the consent calendar have
2:06:57 the payables and payroll been reviewed
2:07:00 they have this is a call they have thank
2:07:04 you and councilmember Goodman voiced I
2:07:07 believe does any councilmember desire
2:07:09 that was traitors council president hunt
2:07:11 they have been a thank you very much
2:07:14 does any councilmember desire to remove
2:07:17 any items or items from the consent
2:07:19 calendar and considered under regular
2:07:21 business before we move to the motion
2:07:25 council president hunt do you have any
2:07:27 email comments to share on the consent
2:07:29 calendar item thank you
2:07:32 yes this is council president we do have
2:07:34 one email with specific references to
2:07:37 consent calendar items we received an
2:07:40 email from Steve Pereira so I will do my
2:07:42 best to summarize her item on a be seven
2:07:47 eight zero nine which is King County
2:07:49 flood district Flood Control District
2:07:51 France he recommended approval on eighty
2:07:55 seven nine six three federal Community
2:07:58 Development Block Grant ask clarifying
2:08:00 questions regarding reasons for having
2:08:03 not submitted a grant application
2:08:05 previously holiday in lift station
2:08:10 change order a b7 965 asked clarifying
2:08:14 questions eighty seven nine seven one
2:08:18 amendments of personnel policies
2:08:20 commented on the part of that ad that
2:08:24 refers to the senior leadership team
2:08:26 being eligible for an annual Bank of 80
2:08:29 hours and managers being eligible for an
2:08:32 annual Bank of sixty hours and wanted to
2:08:36 see the bank potential extended beyond
2:08:38 managers and the senior leadership team
2:08:40 and that concludes the items that coming
2:08:45 Thank You council president hunt is
2:08:47 there motion so it's council president I
2:08:53 move to approve the consent calendar as
2:08:57 has presented in this evening's agenda
2:09:01 hi this is Chris Rea I will second the
2:09:04 motion
2:09:05 it's been moved and seconded so we'll
2:09:07 have the clerk proceed with a roll call
2:09:11 councilmember dee Michelle are
2:09:14 councilmember Goodman hi
2:09:18 councilmember Hall aye
2:09:21 council president hunt aye
2:09:24 councilmember Mart aye
2:09:28 deputy council president ray hi
2:09:32 councilmember Walsh hi @ 7i 0 nice thank
2:09:38 you very much that passes unanimously
2:09:41 next item will be moving to as regular
2:09:44 business and before we begin I'd like to
2:09:46 clarify that there are two agenda bills
2:09:48 under the regular business tonight but
2:09:50 only one proposed action adoption of an
2:09:53 ordinance that encompasses both items
2:09:56 staff will begin by presenting the
2:09:58 budget amendment a b7 9:00 to 6:00
2:10:00 followed by council questions staff will
2:10:03 then present the budget reauthorizations
2:10:05 a be seven nine three zero followed by
2:10:08 council questions then council may
2:10:10 choose to make a motion to adopt the
2:10:11 ordinance and debate both items a B
2:10:15 seven nine two six the first 2020 budget
2:10:18 amendment I'd like to ask senior budget
2:10:20 analyst who's new Munsell to make a
2:10:21 presentation Suzy
2:10:24 Thank You mayor can everybody hear me
2:10:27 yes we can excellent thank you I will
2:10:33 give tisha a moment to pull up the
2:10:35 presentation the first presentation that
2:10:38 I'll be giving tonight both should be
2:10:40 pretty brief the first one is this first
2:10:44 2020 budget amendment so I think we can
2:10:47 go to the next slide great thank you so
2:10:52 the purpose of this proposed amendment
2:10:54 it's primarily to implement the changes
2:10:56 to interfund transfers the Director
2:10:59 Goldberg
2:11:00 discussed earlier this evening as well
2:11:02 as those discussed in round one that
2:11:05 require an adjustment to those interfund
2:11:08 transfers in order to recognize the
2:11:10 savings in the fund where those savings
2:11:12 are needed but it also implements a
2:11:15 couple of budget changes associated with
2:11:18 earlier council action and I'll get into
2:11:20 those in a moment as well next slide
2:11:23 please
2:11:25 alright so there are three types of
2:11:27 items included tonight the first is the
2:11:31 previously approved request so these are
2:11:32 items that went through by agenda bill
2:11:35 through the council that just needed
2:11:39 formal actions or a budget amendment to
2:11:41 actually be included in the amended 2020
2:11:44 budget there are two of those items this
2:11:47 evening there is also one that has come
2:11:51 before the council before but not
2:11:54 necessarily in a formal addition of
2:11:57 funds to the budget we consider this a
2:11:59 budget correction it doesn't really
2:12:01 reflect a change in policy
2:12:03 it just corrects a prior error to the to
2:12:08 expenditures in the budget the bulk of
2:12:12 the amendments that will be seen tonight
2:12:14 seven of which are these interfund
2:12:17 transfer adjustments that director
2:12:20 Goldberg mentioned next slide please
2:12:25 so the previously approved request the
2:12:29 first came in 87 nine four eight which
2:12:33 was the Renner's Assistance Program it
2:12:35 added $100,000 of general fund or
2:12:38 allocated $100,000 of general fund
2:12:41 dollars or that Renner's Assistance
2:12:43 Program
2:12:44 the second item was accepting a 2020
2:12:49 census outreach funding for that out
2:12:52 says this outreach in 87 nine to nine as
2:12:56 well as the corresponding expenditures
2:12:58 in use of those funds next slide please
2:13:04 thank you the one budget correction
2:13:07 included tonight is filling an under
2:13:09 budget in a 2019 Street capital project
2:13:13 which was the Gilman Boulevard and three
2:13:14 trails crossing this was presented I
2:13:18 believe in late March or early April by
2:13:22 the Public Works operations department
2:13:24 it was accepting a contract for this
2:13:28 work and in further evaluation of this
2:13:33 project it had been determined that
2:13:34 three hundred thousand of the three
2:13:37 hundred and seventy-five thousand
2:13:39 dollars a project cost hadn't had an
2:13:41 identified revenue source when it had
2:13:44 originally been added to the budget a
2:13:46 few years ago
2:13:47 so this corrects that error by
2:13:50 allocating three hundred thousand
2:13:52 dollars out of street capital fund
2:13:55 balance which would ultimately be
2:13:58 utilizing and understand on another
2:14:00 capital project that wasn't using those
2:14:02 dollars next slide please
2:14:08 thank you so as I said the bulk of the
2:14:11 items tonight are the changes to the
2:14:14 interfund transfers I can talk about
2:14:17 these in broad quick strokes as Dirk and
2:14:20 Goldberg already provided significant
2:14:24 detail but these first four were from
2:14:26 round one which was presented about a
2:14:29 month ago
2:14:30 the first was adjusting the transfer
2:14:34 between the general fund and the cable
2:14:36 TV fund the second between the general
2:14:39 fund and sustainability fund the third
2:14:42 between the general fund and the debt
2:14:44 service non voted fund and the fourth in
2:14:49 regards to the cost allocation the new
2:14:51 cost allocation policy for city
2:14:54 facilities cost which primarily affects
2:14:58 the general fund as well as treat
2:15:01 operating and the utilities next slide
2:15:05 please
2:15:07 thank you so the last three items of the
2:15:10 ten amendments tonight were presented
2:15:14 earlier this evening in round two the
2:15:18 adjustment the IT fund and the eight
2:15:22 funds that it ultimately event altom
2:15:24 utley feed into the IT fund the general
2:15:27 fund and street operating fund and
2:15:29 finally between reet and b5 funds that
2:15:34 were benefiting from projects that are
2:15:38 now being reduced in scope next slide
2:15:42 please
2:15:46 thank you
2:15:48 so ultimately the slide reflects all of
2:15:52 the revenue and expenditure impacts
2:15:53 across all of the funds affected by
2:15:57 tonight
2:15:58 amendment the net impact across all the
2:16:01 funds is a negative $400,000 excuse me
2:16:06 which is primarily just the renters
2:16:08 Assistance Program and the street
2:16:11 capital project correction all of the
2:16:15 interfund transfers are balanced in that
2:16:18 one fund goes up one fund goes down so
2:16:21 those haven't met across all funds of
2:16:25 zero next slide please
2:16:29 which I believe is just questions great
2:16:31 okay so that is the budget amendment
2:16:35 presentation there is a budget
2:16:38 reauthorization presentation that
2:16:40 follows this but I wanted to certainly
2:16:43 give the opportunity for any questions
2:16:45 on the amendments Thank You Suzie that
2:16:48 is great I am not seeing any questions
2:16:50 or comments right now on a b7 9:00 to
2:16:53 6:00 so feel free to move on to a B 7 9
2:16:57 3 o 20/20 budget real thank you and I'll
2:17:03 give tisha a moment to pull that one up
2:17:17 let me take a step back here
2:17:19 councilmember hunt did you have anything
2:17:21 you wanted to add to summarize public
2:17:24 comments that might have been emailed in
2:17:26 87 96 but did I ask you that already
2:17:28 this is council president hence I do but
2:17:32 I will save that for the second
2:17:34 presentation because it's tied together
2:17:35 Thanks great thank you
2:17:39 great so budget reauthorizations
2:17:43 I think we can't go to the first slide
2:17:46 thank you
2:17:48 the purpose of this presentation it's
2:17:50 requesting council approval to
2:17:53 reauthorize certain funds which were
2:17:55 previously budgeted in 2019 for
2:17:58 expenditure in 2020 next slide please
2:18:04 so the background on budget
2:18:06 reauthorizations in general typically
2:18:09 this is an annual housekeeping matter
2:18:11 that is done at the beginning of every
2:18:13 year once you close out the previous
2:18:16 year and a budget reauthorizations
2:18:19 typically just reallocates
2:18:21 unspent funding Authority for an
2:18:23 unfinished project from the prior fiscal
2:18:26 year in this case 2019 into the next
2:18:29 fiscal year to allow for the completion
2:18:32 of the project next slide please
2:18:37 thank you so 2020 we'll be doing a
2:18:41 little bit different of an approach from
2:18:43 prior years primarily because in prior
2:18:46 years the city wasn't really following
2:18:47 that practice when it comes to
2:18:49 reauthorization in prior years
2:18:52 reauthorizations were included in the
2:18:54 annual budget and since the annual
2:18:57 budget is that process begins
2:19:01 usually June or July of the of the prior
2:19:05 year for which you are budgeting
2:19:08 obviously that year isn't finished yet
2:19:10 so you don't necessarily have a clear
2:19:12 picture of how much you're going to be
2:19:13 spending on each project so in prior
2:19:16 years
2:19:17 the year-end projects spend so the spend
2:19:20 on each project was anticipated based on
2:19:22 actual only through mid 2019
2:19:26 excuse me in 24 the it's the prior year
2:19:29 put that way
2:19:31 and what this leads to is a lack of
2:19:33 transparency over new budget authority
2:19:36 versus reauthorization for each project
2:19:38 so it wasn't always clear in it for a
2:19:42 given project how much of that funding
2:19:44 was new to that budget year and how much
2:19:47 had been reauthorized from prior years
2:19:49 but for 2020 we are we could we
2:19:53 separated it from the annual budget
2:19:55 process so our year-end projects end was
2:20:00 confirmed based on year-end actuals when
2:20:02 we closed the 2019 financials we were
2:20:06 able to calculate how much was spent on
2:20:08 each project that was being considered
2:20:10 for reauthorization so that we made sure
2:20:12 we weren't exceeding the prior year
2:20:15 Authority for that project and what this
2:20:18 ultimately gives us is clarity over what
2:20:21 is new 2020 project costs and what is
2:20:24 carried forward and it gives us some
2:20:27 better authenticity in the numbers that
2:20:30 we're providing and the end result of
2:20:33 this is that the 2020 process better
2:20:35 aligns with best practice and what we're
2:20:38 seeing from many of our neighboring
2:20:39 jurisdictions next slide please
2:20:44 thank you
2:20:45 so the items that can be considered for
2:20:48 reauthorization so unspent funds for
2:20:51 routine expenses so things like office
2:20:53 supplies or you know things like travel
2:20:57 and training or things like that are not
2:21:00 eligible for reauthorization to be
2:21:03 eligible for reauthorization it must be
2:21:05 a discrete project that we had
2:21:09 originally intended to be completed in
2:21:12 2019 but was not finished for various
2:21:15 reasons and must be continued into 2020
2:21:18 to be completed
2:21:20 it was also required that funds
2:21:22 originally appropriated in 2019 remain
2:21:26 to support the continuation of that
2:21:27 project in 2020 so what this means is
2:21:31 that the if funds were transferred for
2:21:35 to support that project that those funds
2:21:38 were transferred and they are still
2:21:39 available in fund balance to use for
2:21:41 this project
2:21:44 slightly so what made this year also a
2:21:50 little unique as it made many other
2:21:53 things unique is in response to the Cova
2:21:56 19 budget reductions we did a full
2:21:59 reexamination of what we had intended to
2:22:01 propose for reauthorization originally
2:22:04 we had intended to present the
2:22:06 reauthorization proposals to the council
2:22:09 in late March but you know due to many
2:22:14 other things getting pushed down the
2:22:15 calendar listed as well but that allowed
2:22:17 us the opportunity to reexamine these
2:22:20 items before we brought them to the
2:22:22 council and from this reexamination what
2:22:26 resulted was a nearly 1.9 million
2:22:30 dollars less and originally considered
2:22:32 across all funds in all projects and the
2:22:35 elimination of 11 projects from the
2:22:37 original list and what remains that our
2:22:42 primarily projects where the funds have
2:22:44 already been spent in the first half of
2:22:46 2020 or our longer-term capital projects
2:22:50 with a dedicated revenue source next
2:22:53 slide please
2:22:58 so this summarizes all of the items for
2:23:01 consideration and the detail of those
2:23:03 items were included in the packet this
2:23:06 evening so the list of specific projects
2:23:08 and the specific amount for each project
2:23:11 this just summarizes the number of
2:23:13 projects by funds and the total
2:23:15 expenditures by fund but I also wanted
2:23:18 to flag here that several projects have
2:23:22 an accompanying accompanying revenue
2:23:24 reauthorization as well which is
2:23:27 primarily or its its grant it's pretty
2:23:31 exclusively so when a reauthorized
2:23:35 project is reliant on a revenue source
2:23:37 that is sitting in fund balance there
2:23:39 that has already been included it's fund
2:23:42 balance if it's a grant for example
2:23:46 that's a typically a real reimbursement
2:23:50 grant we won't bill for that grant until
2:23:53 the project expenditures have occurred
2:23:57 which means that those grant revenues
2:24:00 aren't available in fund balance yet so
2:24:01 we need to make sure that we carry
2:24:03 forward those revenues along with those
2:24:06 expenditures to make sure that we
2:24:08 understand that those revenues are still
2:24:10 coming and so that it wouldn't create a
2:24:14 false negative fund balance next slide
2:24:20 please
2:24:22 all right just questions I'm happy to of
2:24:26 course answer any questions from this
2:24:28 presentation or if there are any that
2:24:30 linger from the prior presentation Susie
2:24:33 thank you I'm going to go back to
2:24:35 council president hunt first there were
2:24:37 some public comments received on this
2:24:40 and the prior attended bill council
2:24:42 president hunt thank you we received a
2:24:46 email from Steve Farah on this item on a
2:24:51 b7 nine-30 the budget reauthorization
2:24:54 and he asked what actions if any are our
2:25:00 forecast that previously approved grants
2:25:02 may not be fully funded and the
2:25:03 corresponding impact to the budget of
2:25:05 not receiving such funds and wondered
2:25:09 because budget constraints by original
2:25:12 grants or may results in delay or
2:25:13 cancelling of such funding that
2:25:17 concludes the email comments on the same
2:25:20 Thank You council president hunt I whew
2:25:22 councilmember Walsh has a question got
2:25:27 to get to the microphone and unmute
2:25:29 myself okay I have I have a few
2:25:32 questions so first of all I wanted to
2:25:33 say very much appreciate bringing up
2:25:36 this reauthorization idea and the
2:25:40 transparency it provides in the past
2:25:43 it's always been a little bit murky what
2:25:47 was spent out of a previous budget year
2:25:52 what was continuing on what was new
2:25:55 authorization of funds so I really
2:25:57 appreciate this concept here what I'm
2:26:02 trying to get a sense of because this is
2:26:05 packaged in a general idea about
2:26:08 our financial situation we're looking at
2:26:12 this on a numbers basis but I think it's
2:26:15 really important for us to think about
2:26:17 this on the project impact side and so
2:26:21 when when we look at many of these
2:26:26 projects that we're talking about lower
2:26:30 authorizations for I really need to get
2:26:33 a sense of what the impact is on the
2:26:35 project is that a you know less is being
2:26:40 done on the project
2:26:42 you used the dog perk for an example
2:26:45 that has less money that's being
2:26:50 reauthorized for that does that mean
2:26:53 less is being done for that does it mean
2:26:56 that hey construction was delayed and so
2:26:59 we're expecting a continued sense of
2:27:01 cost in 2021 is there cost savings that
2:27:08 was discovered in the first portion of
2:27:11 doing the work in 2019 I think that's
2:27:15 the level of visibility that I think I
2:27:18 need to see to understand this Thank You
2:27:24 councilmember boss is this City
2:27:26 Administrator Bob Choate's or finance
2:27:29 director Goldberg on the projects madam
2:27:36 mayor members of the council I think
2:27:38 it's a question for I'm sorry I'm
2:27:43 getting text messages hold on I think
2:27:47 each each project has its own story I
2:27:51 understand from the deputy City
2:27:53 Administrator that Suzy's not prepared
2:27:56 to speak individually to these we can
2:27:58 put the slides back up and I can do my
2:28:01 I think madam mayor I think it might be
2:28:03 Lydia a better sense of the council of
2:28:05 where folks stand and how much time
2:28:08 you'd like to spend on this this evening
2:28:09 versus putting this to another meeting
2:28:17 not sure where everybody stands on that
2:28:19 right now but I know Council President
2:28:21 Hunt has a question in a comment so
2:28:24 let's start there this council president
2:28:28 hence I I had very similar questions
2:28:32 concerns to councilmember Walsh I feel
2:28:36 that as I asked earlier there are
2:28:40 projects here where we are deferring
2:28:43 cost into next year but there are also I
2:28:45 think a lot of a lot of projects that
2:28:48 will have implications in terms of the
2:28:52 services that will be provided and those
2:28:54 are not explained here so for me there's
2:29:00 a big teeth missing as far as what the
2:29:02 actual implications are and what the
2:29:07 timelines are for the projects
2:29:10 implications of these changes thank you
2:29:13 and I see deputy council president ray
2:29:16 has comment I'm working on the mute hi
2:29:23 this is Ben this is uh I got the mayor's
2:29:26 problem this is a Chris ray you know you
2:29:32 know I think that there's enough
2:29:34 question about what the budge are the
2:29:36 output impact of the reauthorizations is
2:29:41 going to be particularly with the
2:29:41 projects that have been reduced in scope
2:29:44 and we have deferred this until this
2:29:47 date anyway I think this is something
2:29:49 where we could easily push this off and
2:29:52 get a little more information so the
2:29:53 council would be more comfortable in
2:29:55 making a decision with the
2:29:56 reauthorizations with a better
2:29:57 understanding of what the service
2:29:59 delivery impact would be associated with
2:30:01 them thank you I'm not question for the
2:30:06 city administrator and that is what
2:30:08 other additional information would you
2:30:10 like from the councilmembers to
2:30:12 understand their need do you have any
2:30:15 questions for them about additional
2:30:17 information
2:30:22 oh alright make sure before we close
2:30:30 this that the administration is clear in
2:30:34 what additional explanation needs to be
2:30:38 provided in order for the council
2:30:39 members to feel like they are ready to
2:30:41 move forward with this madam mayor
2:30:44 members of the council I'm looking at
2:30:47 some information we provided to the
2:30:49 council earlier today it's a relatively
2:30:52 small number of projects I think that we
2:30:55 can be able to come back some of them
2:30:58 III think we can provide a narrative in
2:31:02 a staff report and then briefly walk
2:31:04 through it at a council meeting I think
2:31:06 we know what we need to do okay a second
2:31:10 question since the council was going to
2:31:12 move towards just one motion does this
2:31:17 impact the nature of the motion for
2:31:19 tonight or both these items coming back
2:31:23 madam mayor members of the council I
2:31:26 don't know a reason why we couldn't hold
2:31:29 both items at this point I think the the
2:31:33 other budget transfers were just good
2:31:36 timing housekeeping for us and I think
2:31:39 if your agenda for June 1 is already
2:31:42 pretty light at this point so we can
2:31:44 come back on June 1 with this
2:31:47 information and I think of actions taken
2:31:49 I don't think that we'll have any
2:31:50 material impact on our operations thank
2:31:54 you so do we need a motion to continue
2:31:57 this to the June 1st meeting and I'd ask
2:32:01 the city clerk for guidance on an
2:32:04 appropriate motion this is tisha
2:32:08 typically the council has made a motion
2:32:11 to postpone an item that they had
2:32:14 planned to take action on at a given
2:32:16 meeting I don't believe that's a
2:32:19 requirement as there's no motion pending
2:32:21 currently no I think we've received
2:32:25 direction from them if there's a desire
2:32:27 to formalize that through a formal
2:32:29 motion to postpone these agenda bills
2:32:32 someone could proceed to do that and
2:32:34 take a formal vote
2:32:35 oh I think it hmm that's a great
2:32:39 question we've only heard from two
2:32:43 council members if I don't see anybody
2:32:46 else wishing to comment on this I will
2:32:48 assume that direction is provided it's
2:32:50 good enough and we do not need to have a
2:32:52 motion councilmember Hall you have a
2:32:55 question thanks mayor Poli this is Zack
2:32:59 Hall I just had a quick follow-up
2:33:01 question to what City Administrator bout
2:33:03 quotes was saying I'm always concerned
2:33:09 how much we ask of you all and your
2:33:11 staff and so it seemed to me what I
2:33:14 heard from you was that it seems doable
2:33:17 that you could come back to council with
2:33:19 to have a discussion about this I just
2:33:22 wanted to confirm that and also what the
2:33:24 scope of the work would be would it be
2:33:26 breaking out each of these funds and
2:33:28 saying these are all the projects that
2:33:30 are being affected or is it just
2:33:33 projects that are being affected to a
2:33:39 certain extent what's your vision in
2:33:42 terms of yeah go ahead I think our
2:33:45 understanding of the question is that
2:33:47 the reauthorizations
2:33:49 its funding for particular projects and
2:33:52 so if I'm understanding correctly the
2:33:55 council members would like to understand
2:33:57 what does that mean to that specific
2:33:59 project so it's not so much of the
2:34:00 funding source as it is this is a
2:34:03 smaller project is this delayed business
2:34:06 cancels so getting just a better
2:34:09 understanding of the impacts to each
2:34:11 individual project see the administrator
2:34:13 Bob quits is that your understanding yes
2:34:15 ma'am
2:34:16 okay council member Hall
2:34:19 does that answer your question hmm yeah
2:34:23 I guess so I had mentioned the funds
2:34:28 really because that's kind of how it was
2:34:29 structured and presented to us like this
2:34:31 so I was envisioning a project list
2:34:34 within each fund that would but it
2:34:38 sounds like I
2:34:42 sounds like counsel was talking about
2:34:44 something else so I'm maybe I'm maybe it
2:34:46 needs to be repeated again I'm
2:34:47 okay let me get director Goldberg to add
2:34:51 something in as well and then we'll go
2:34:53 to a comment from councilmember Walsh so
2:34:57 I guess I'm a little confused too and
2:35:01 would like some clarification so the
2:35:04 reauthorizations are not for the most
2:35:08 part impacted by the round to plan so
2:35:14 those a few of those were reduced
2:35:17 because of kovat but it's basically
2:35:19 carrying forward work so I'm hearing
2:35:21 there being a request for an explanation
2:35:25 of projects that are being reduced but
2:35:28 very few of that is in the
2:35:30 reauthorization most of that is in the
2:35:33 budget amendment related to the
2:35:36 interfund transfers we did provide lists
2:35:39 of most of those projects in the
2:35:41 presentation of what would be deferred
2:35:44 and what would be reduced perhaps there
2:35:48 is an desire for more specifics but I
2:35:52 want to be clear what we're providing
2:35:55 that for is it for both the
2:35:57 reauthorization which has less to do
2:35:59 with the reductions or is it the budget
2:36:02 amendment and the transfers that are
2:36:04 impacted by the ground to production so
2:36:07 if I can get some clarification on that
2:36:09 that will help guide our work over the
2:36:11 next couple weeks
2:36:12 sure I'll head back to councilmember
2:36:15 well great so the reason that this came
2:36:19 up for me was looking in our packet let
2:36:24 me get back to it page 234 of our packet
2:36:28 has exhibit a which shows the full
2:36:32 project list and then we've had a few
2:36:35 different emails going around one with a
2:36:37 PDF one with an Excel document and the
2:36:41 Excel document that really shows the
2:36:43 difference between the previously
2:36:45 proposed reauthorization amount and the
2:36:48 updated it I'm seeing over a dozen
2:36:54 projects it looks like where the project
2:36:59 just doesn't have a
2:37:01 reauthorization amount which to me means
2:37:03 it was canceled or delay I don't know
2:37:08 what that means for that project and so
2:37:10 I'm trying to understand on the sign
2:37:12 code update for example why the previous
2:37:17 authorization was 57,000 and the new
2:37:20 reauthorization is only 11 thousand you
2:37:23 know are we not spending the 46,000 is
2:37:26 that gonna be spent later so I'm trying
2:37:28 to understand this on a
2:37:29 project-by-project basis not really on
2:37:31 the fund basis but what this is an
2:37:35 impact for our community
2:37:38 Thank You councilmember Walsh I think
2:37:40 that it was my understanding and city
2:37:42 administrators as well as the status of
2:37:44 the project based on on the table that
2:37:47 you're looking at I just want to check
2:37:49 in and see if there are any other
2:37:51 council members that have a question or
2:37:53 a comment on this and if not we'll take
2:37:57 the direction provided which is to bring
2:37:59 back that project list on june 1st with
2:38:01 some additional explanations okay City
2:38:09 Administrator Bob Chris did you want to
2:38:10 add anything are we good to go we're
2:38:12 good to go
2:38:13 thank you so thank you for that the next
2:38:17 item on the agenda this evening is good
2:38:19 of the order and do any councilmembers
2:38:21 have something for good of your order I
2:38:22 believe councilmember marks suggested
2:38:25 that he had something there you go
2:38:26 councilmember marks thank you madam
2:38:32 mayor so I wanted to discuss a
2:38:34 resolution passed by the sound cities
2:38:36 Association and let me just well yeah it
2:38:41 says whereas the sound cities
2:38:43 association has declared a commitment to
2:38:45 diversity equity and inclusion as an
2:38:48 organizational priority whereas since
2:38:50 the outbreak of Koated 19 immigrant and
2:38:52 refugee community leaders and civil
2:38:54 rights organizations have reported a
2:38:56 regional and national increase in bias
2:38:58 harassment and hate crimes particularly
2:39:01 against Asian American and Pacific
2:39:02 Islander black and african-american
2:39:04 Hispanic and Latino and other
2:39:06 marginalized communities whereas
2:39:09 misinformation about coronavirus
2:39:11 propagates fear that hurts people and
2:39:13 impairs the ability of our first
2:39:14 Ponder's in other city services to
2:39:17 provide necessary response Cove is 19
2:39:19 and where each of us can and should
2:39:22 promote inclusiveness celebrate
2:39:24 diversity support all fellow community
2:39:26 members prevent the spread of
2:39:28 misinformation reject hate and bias in
2:39:30 all forms whereas the sound cities
2:39:32 association and its member cities reject
2:39:34 racially buy based biased harassment and
2:39:38 hate crimes due to crook obeyed nineteen
2:39:40 will not tolerate discrimination of any
2:39:42 kind and denounces all koban nineteen
2:39:44 related miss naming blaming and
2:39:46 harassment based on race ethnicity place
2:39:49 of origin physical ability socioeconomic
2:39:52 status gender identity sexual
2:39:55 orientation age or religion and whereas
2:39:58 we ask community members who observe or
2:40:00 or are experiencing incidents of
2:40:03 discrimination harassment or hate crimes
2:40:05 to report the incident to call 911 in
2:40:09 emergency circumstances or to contact
2:40:12 the Washington State Human Rights
2:40:13 Commission and it has a number or the
2:40:15 King County Office of Civil Rights with
2:40:17 a number now therefore we the some
2:40:19 cities associations you hereby the claim
2:40:21 our commitment to an inclusive community
2:40:22 that rejects stigma and bias related to
2:40:25 cover 19 and we urge all our members and
2:40:28 residents of our member cities to treat
2:40:29 each other with respect and work
2:40:31 together to overcome all expressions of
2:40:33 hate and bigotry so in addition to sound
2:40:38 cities Association the cities of Redmond
2:40:40 Renton Burien and feat tag as well as
2:40:43 the Port of Seattle have also issued
2:40:45 similar proclamations having to do
2:40:48 specifically with kovat 19 and targeted
2:40:52 communities so my question for fellow
2:40:56 council members is whether we want to
2:40:59 consider joining SCA and the cities that
2:41:03 I've mentioned already I in addition I
2:41:06 have mentioned Bellevue has also passed
2:41:08 a similar Proclamation so whether we
2:41:12 want to consider at a future meeting
2:41:14 some similar Proclamation and the
2:41:17 urgency that surrounds the response to
2:41:20 provide 19 thank you
2:41:24 I am looking in the comment box to see
2:41:27 who would like to speak to this I have a
2:41:29 question for councilmember marks it was
2:41:33 at the board of SBA that approved it or
2:41:35 did this happen at a pic meeting it was
2:41:41 the pic unanimously recommending that
2:41:45 the board adopt the policy I believe is
2:41:48 technically how it went okay thank you
2:41:52 we have comments from Council member
2:41:54 team Michelle followed by councilmember
2:41:56 well I'm sorry before before we move on
2:41:58 I'm sorry I said unanimously it was not
2:42:00 unanimous
2:42:01 we had several cities that abstained
2:42:05 from voting but it was greater than 85%
2:42:08 of the members present okay great
2:42:11 councilmember Dee Michelle followed by
2:42:14 council president hon thank you me or
2:42:17 Polly I would also be very interested in
2:42:19 seeing a proclamation similar to this
2:42:24 you know edited to reflect is a clause
2:42:29 interest in it
2:42:31 and I would like to I would very much
2:42:33 like to work on that and have that come
2:42:37 before us perhaps next next month so I
2:42:41 support having this on the agenda in a
2:42:45 future meeting thank you council
2:42:49 president hunt followed by councilmember
2:42:51 Goodman
2:42:53 Thank You this is council president hunt
2:42:55 I I too am interested in this similar
2:43:00 proclamation to the one from a CA on
2:43:03 this topic and wanted to add that we we
2:43:09 have received some concern about this
2:43:12 and questions from the community about
2:43:15 what we are doing to to be an inclusive
2:43:20 community and to prevent any sort of
2:43:24 bias and I think that it is appropriate
2:43:27 at this time so I I do support it and I
2:43:31 also would ask that during that
2:43:33 conversation we have information
2:43:35 presented about what we are doing in
2:43:37 terms
2:43:37 of our messaging and and other actions
2:43:41 to counteract bias so that we can have a
2:43:44 conversation about actions that
2:43:45 accompanies this resolution Thanks Thank
2:43:50 You councilmember Goodman followed by
2:43:53 Dexy council president right Thank You
2:43:56 councilmember Goodman here we have had
2:43:59 two or three proclamations in the last
2:44:02 well I want to say 15 years I can't
2:44:04 remember we went through this history a
2:44:06 couple of years ago or a year and a half
2:44:08 ago and so while I support the message
2:44:17 and the words I am concerned that we we
2:44:24 actually do think that make a difference
2:44:26 and we actually have actions rather than
2:44:29 just piling on words and so I think I
2:44:33 would be it would be interested in
2:44:35 knowing how this would be any different
2:44:37 from what we've done in the past and
2:44:42 because I'm not hearing how it'd be any
2:44:44 different we did have a presentation
2:44:46 last year about what what a difference
2:44:52 it made in our proclamations and I
2:44:55 frankly can't recall at this point
2:44:57 because it was a while ago but but
2:45:01 that's my concern is that we do things
2:45:03 that make a difference not just do
2:45:07 things that feel good at the time so I'm
2:45:11 it's not that I'm not interested
2:45:14 I'm just want to make sure that we do
2:45:17 things that make a difference because
2:45:19 this these kinds of things are
2:45:23 significant and let me back that up want
2:45:32 to make sure that what we do for the
2:45:34 concerns that are significant are
2:45:36 actually actions that that are
2:45:40 significant in response and not just
2:45:42 words Thanks thank you give
2:45:46 council president ray Kenny come here
2:45:49 Polly this is Chris right I'm a little
2:45:53 aligned with councilmember Goodman I
2:45:56 think this is something that we've
2:45:58 talked about a lot and I think it's
2:45:59 something that this body is completely
2:46:01 on board with which is inclusion
2:46:03 anti-hate Ann Tobias
2:46:05 and making that resolution so as we move
2:46:08 forward with this and if we're going to
2:46:09 tag it to Coba 19 I'd like to know what
2:46:11 specifically is different about covin 19
2:46:15 then our more global Proclamation that
2:46:18 says we we don't support it we don't
2:46:22 condone it we actively try and crush it
2:46:24 wherever we find it so so as we move
2:46:27 forward I just want to be anywhere if
2:46:30 we're going to tag it with Cove in 19 I
2:46:31 just wanted it to speak specifically to
2:46:34 what we could do in this theater or in
2:46:38 this situation but I completely reaffirm
2:46:42 our commitment to to the values that the
2:46:45 proclamation talks about thank you for
2:46:47 bringing it forward councilmember marks
2:46:48 Thank You deputy council president ray
2:46:51 comments from council president hunt
2:46:53 followed by councilmember d Michelle
2:46:57 thank you this is council president I I
2:47:01 agree as well about the need for action
2:47:06 to back up any sort of proclamation that
2:47:10 we do so that we are so that we're
2:47:14 taking meaningful actions with what
2:47:18 we're working on and so that that's one
2:47:20 of the reasons why in my comments I was
2:47:23 suggesting we discuss what actions we
2:47:25 are taking we are taking and I know from
2:47:28 talking with autumn our communications
2:47:30 and communications department director
2:47:33 that we are in our communications and
2:47:37 our messaging taking specific steps
2:47:39 regarding anti-bias in our messaging and
2:47:44 so I think we we have actions to back
2:47:47 this up and we should discuss those and
2:47:51 discuss what else we can do
2:47:52 so I would I would be supportive of this
2:47:55 kind of proclamation especially if we
2:47:57 can pair it with the discussion about
2:47:59 what actions we
2:48:00 Thanks Thank You councilmember G
2:48:04 Michelle Thank You mayor Paulie I take
2:48:10 to heart the comments about making a
2:48:13 difference and making sure that we're
2:48:15 not just putting out empty words I agree
2:48:19 with that
2:48:20 however I I want to remind everybody of
2:48:24 the power of the bully puppet and we as
2:48:29 a council making a statement like this
2:48:32 that is very meaningful to the
2:48:35 communities that are directly impacted
2:48:37 by discrimination and marginalization
2:48:40 and just to give you one example a
2:48:44 number of years ago the City Council
2:48:46 honored Pathak's point for its diversity
2:48:50 efforts and I can tell you visiting
2:48:54 package point shortly after that
2:48:56 occurred that those people were thrilled
2:48:59 and felt so recognized and so
2:49:03 acknowledged by that gesture on behalf
2:49:08 of the council and the mayor at the time
2:49:10 and so if we seek that words don't
2:49:15 matter or that that's not important to
2:49:20 marginalize communities I think that
2:49:23 we're wrong I think it's really
2:49:25 important and it really is meaningful to
2:49:29 them and just to just in response to
2:49:34 councilmember Ray's comments about how
2:49:37 is this different I think there has been
2:49:39 well documented that in this particular
2:49:43 case in many many people in the Chinese
2:49:47 community and then of course the greater
2:49:49 agent community have been targeted
2:49:52 unfortunately unfortunately because of
2:49:57 some of those things that appear in the
2:49:58 media and so forth and so there is a
2:50:00 particular reason why there's an urgency
2:50:03 around this to really point out again
2:50:06 that we do not tolerate those kinds of
2:50:10 actions in our community thank you
2:50:13 councilmember Dee Michelle not seeing
2:50:16 any other councilmembers machine to
2:50:18 comment at this time I'd like to ask
2:50:19 city administrator Bob quits if the
2:50:21 request is clear and possible to add for
2:50:27 the June 1st agenda is being suggested
2:50:30 madam mayor members of the council
2:50:32 certainly transmitting a resolution is
2:50:35 something we can do I think the
2:50:37 challenge is the compilation of work
2:50:40 that we have been doing quite honestly a
2:50:43 lot of the resources that we've devoted
2:50:45 to this have been limited through
2:50:47 changes with the Cova 19 if it's if you
2:50:50 just would like to hear what we've been
2:50:52 doing with messaging we can do that if
2:50:54 you're looking for a broader analysis or
2:50:57 scope of things I think we would need
2:50:59 until June 15 sorry and had done meet
2:51:10 myself not seeing any other comments of
2:51:13 council members wishing to comment at
2:51:14 this time but I do know that
2:51:15 councilmember Hall also had something he
2:51:17 wanted to bring for good of the order
2:51:18 couple member home Thank You mayor Polly
2:51:24 this is Zack Hall I just wanted to
2:51:28 quickly say some of you on council and
2:51:33 if community may know that a year ago
2:51:37 today I lost a friend of mine to suicide
2:51:38 and spent most of the weekend and today
2:51:41 reflecting and remembering him and
2:51:44 really I just wanted to take this
2:51:45 opportunity now as a council member to
2:51:47 remind everyone to please take good care
2:51:50 of yourself and your friends and your
2:51:52 family during this challenging time and
2:51:54 just to remember that you know no matter
2:51:57 what you may think are here or how
2:52:00 helpless or alone you may feel you
2:52:02 matter and you are loved and you make
2:52:04 the world a better place to live in so I
2:52:07 just ask that everyone on council and
2:52:09 the community keep that at top of mind
2:52:11 throughout the week and thank you
2:52:14 Thank You councilmember Hall for sharing
2:52:16 that I have a couple of little items to
2:52:21 provide upcoming council meetings city
2:52:24 council regular meetings will continue
2:52:26 to occur as scheduled
2:52:27 this room using a remote meeting
2:52:30 platform the next regular meeting will
2:52:32 be held on June 1st at 7 p.m.
2:52:34 Council study sessions will also begin
2:52:37 again remotely in June the next study
2:52:39 session will be held on June 9th at 6:30
2:52:42 p.m. and certain boards and commissions
2:52:44 will meet remotely in June on an
2:52:46 as-needed basis the retired recovery
2:52:49 taskforce will continue meeting remotely
2:52:52 on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month
2:52:55 there is no executive session happening
2:52:58 as part of this meeting but there was
2:53:00 one conducted earlier at 6:30 during a
2:53:04 special council meeting just like this
2:53:06 evening
2:53:07 and there being no further business this
2:53:10 meeting is adjourned at 9:50 - thank you
2:53:13 all very much

Attendance

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. Page 42 of 116 CONSENT CALENDAR b) 05-18-20 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) a) ID 0543 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of May 18, 2020, $ 6,850,254.69; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, May 4, 2020; Approved. c) Minutes: Ci…
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