City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, July 20, 2020 · City Council Digest

6. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

COVID-19 Update 43 - 60 ID 0730 - Housing Stability during COVID- b) 19 Emergency ID 0727

Carried 7-0

packet pp.5–41

Topics: HousingPublic Safety

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Staff report:

The Administration will present a COVID-19 update of City activities. City Administrator will lead with the July 2020 Work Plan Update, followed by an update from Economic Development Manager covering Business Recovery Plan efforts (Business Grants, Streatery, and Issaquah Loyal buy local program.)

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by MARTS

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

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of July 20, 2020, $8,517,512.94 ID 0589

Approve · packet pp.61–77

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, June 23, 2020

Approve · packet pp.79

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 06-23-20 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000)

Minutes: City Council Study Session, June 23, 2020

Approve · packet pp.81–82

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 06-23-20 Council Study Session Minutes Page (0000)

Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) Grant (12th Ave NW and SR AB 7989

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.87–90

Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

SUMMARY STATEMENT

Forest Rim Reservoirs Retrofit & Cougar Ridge Automatic Isolation Valve Projects AB 8003

Approve Resolution · packet pp.91–99

Topics: Trees

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Staff report:

This project was included in the 2020-25 Capital Improvement Plan as Projects WT 017, Forest Rim Reservoirs Retrofit and WT 043, Cougar Ridge Automatic Isloation Valve.

8. PUBLIC HEARING

Temporary Regulatory Relief for Businesses: Use of Sidewalk, Private Property & Signage (Interim Zoning Regulations) AB 7993

Conduct Public Hearing · packet pp.139–155

Topics: Land UseTransportation

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Staff report:

The restrictions on business operations due to COVID-19 and outlined in the State's "Stay Home Stay Healthy" proclamation and “Safe Start” reopening plan have caused devastating impacts for many small businesses. As a result of business outreach and surveys, the City received requests from businesses to allow for easing the use of public sidewalks and private property to expand business operations as well as use of temporary signage. In addition, the Mayor's Recovery Task Force identified these items as critical to address business recovery needs. Economic Development staff worked with Development Services staff to develop two proposals to temporarily provide regulatory relief while maintaining accessibility and safety requirements.

9. REGULAR BUSINESS

Issaquah Police Officers Association (IPOA) Collective Bargaining Agreement AB 7784

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.201–238

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

The City and the IPOA began negotiations for a successor agreement in November of 2019 and entered mediation on the contract in February of 2020. In the midst of this, the City approached the IPOA with proposals to address the financial impacts of COVID-19.The IPOA worked with the City on creative solutions, and ultimately proposed a wage freeze in 2020 as a cost-savings mechanism for the City.

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

Amend 2020 Salary Ordinance AB 8000

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.239–252

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

The City Council adopted Ordinance 2887 on Nov. 18, 2019 which established 2020 salaries for all City staff. The City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2906 on May 18, 2020 which established a revised salary schedule for non-represented staff. Throughout the year there can be changes to classifications or collective bargaining agreements which require adoption of a revised ordinance and salary schedules to place positions within the City's classification and compensation system. Proposal The proposed ordinance (Exhibit A) revises the salary and wage schedule to add the following new classification:

10. GOOD OF THE ORDER

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0:06 ↗ good evening everyone and welcome to the

0:08 ↗ Monday July 20th 2020 city council

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0:24 ↗ format on March 6th I issued an

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2:03 ↗ Human Resources Director Stephanie

2:04 ↗ Johnson Senior Human Resources analyst

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2:15 ↗ administrator Andrea Snyder City

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3:20 ↗ the next item on the agenda this evening

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3:54 ↗ 7993 temporary regulatory relief for

3:57 ↗ businesses use of sidewalk private

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5:14 ↗ Rick rean Rick I've unmuted

5:19 ↗ you good evening everyone this is Rick

5:21 ↗ Reagan um I'm uh my wife and I Rea are

5:25 ↗ the new owners of multi restaurant we

5:27 ↗ took ownership in May of 2019

5:30 ↗ that is on 15 Northwest Alder

5:33 ↗ Street um and I just wanted to take a

5:35 ↗ few moments to talk to everyone about

5:38 ↗ the streetery that was open for a while

5:40 ↗ in the state of the restaurants here in

5:43 ↗ King County um since the co many of you

5:46 ↗ may know and some of you obviously will

5:48 ↗ not that Recon I bought the restaurant

5:50 ↗ back in 2019 and we bought it for a

5:52 ↗ couple different reasons one being the

5:54 ↗ love of isqua and the surrounding

5:56 ↗ Community um I've been in the restaurant

5:58 ↗ business for a very long time time and

6:00 ↗ just felt like I wanted to give back to

6:01 ↗ the community and chose isqua for that

6:04 ↗ reason um we had a fantastic 2019 and

6:07 ↗ was able to sponsor um local events such

6:10 ↗ as the Village Theater we have a

6:12 ↗ fantastic relationship with them the

6:14 ↗ isqua young life and many others um that

6:17 ↗ we were able to pass along some of our

6:19 ↗ good fortune in

6:21 ↗ 2019 I think it um goes also um I'd like

6:25 ↗ to say that you know some of these local

6:27 ↗ restaurants that I'm going to talk about

6:28 ↗ draw new visitors to downtown which

6:31 ↗ helps us all I don't mean to talk um and

6:35 ↗ be the voice for all restaurants but I

6:37 ↗ did want to talk about the impact that

6:40 ↗ this covid-19 has had on our restaurant

6:44 ↗ and many others since the covid-19

6:47 ↗ impact we have taken significant hits to

6:49 ↗ our Revenue um year-over-year

6:52 ↗ 2019 versus

6:54 ↗ 2020 um our little restaurant montinos

6:57 ↗ has had a decrease in revenue of over

7:01 ↗ 41% uh this is actually not too bad when

7:04 ↗ compared to other local restaurants that

7:06 ↗ are even seeing more significant

7:08 ↗ decreases uh we were able to fortify

7:10 ↗ some of our um Revenue by doing the uh

7:14 ↗ tog go program um but I have to say to

7:17 ↗ everyone on this call that without

7:19 ↗ immediate changes our little restaurants

7:21 ↗ in Jeopardy uh you know Ree and I are

7:24 ↗ are digging into savings and and um it's

7:28 ↗ just that without further changes we

7:30 ↗ really are in Jeopardy the good news is

7:34 ↗ is that the streetery project um was a

7:37 ↗ fantastic hit for us um the first week

7:41 ↗ we had a record night on that Friday uh

7:44 ↗ we drove uh revenues even above what we

7:48 ↗ would normally see on a Friday night

7:50 ↗ because we were able to add additional

7:52 ↗ seating outside and run the inside at

7:55 ↗ the 50% which is the Mandate for King

7:58 ↗ County at this time

8:01 ↗ um we also spent a lot of time working

8:04 ↗ with Christina and her team um on our

8:08 ↗ strategies for social distancing uh we

8:11 ↗ learned as we went but really worked

8:13 ↗ well with um her and her team on what we

8:16 ↗ could do to make sure we were being as

8:18 ↗ safe as we possibly could we received

8:22 ↗ really positive feedback from customers

8:25 ↗ as well as other business owners and the

8:27 ↗ community members I I spent lot of time

8:29 ↗ answering the phone and just having

8:31 ↗ people say wow this is really cool um it

8:34 ↗ enables us to feel good about going out

8:36 ↗ um and walking around and getting some

8:38 ↗ fresh air U please keep it up and then

8:40 ↗ unfortunately it went away and I

8:42 ↗ understand that it was just a test

8:43 ↗ period and we had to take some time to

8:44 ↗ to analyze and see if we wanted to move

8:47 ↗ forward um I want to also remind

8:50 ↗ everyone that you know sometimes I I'm

8:53 ↗ talking to people and they say well Rick

8:55 ↗ you know when business comes back it'll

8:56 ↗ be sort of business as usual and that's

8:58 ↗ just not the case when we've been shut

9:00 ↗ down for as long as we have and now

9:02 ↗ running at

9:03 ↗ 50% um it I project that it would take

9:07 ↗ if business came back as normal it would

9:09 ↗ take a year and a half to two years to

9:11 ↗ recover from this um to sort of dig our

9:13 ↗ way out so uh this is something that's

9:16 ↗ going to take some aggressive stance

9:17 ↗ it's going to take for us being um

9:19 ↗ working as a community together uh to

9:22 ↗ develop a a plan that will obviously

9:25 ↗ sustain the restaurants but the local

9:26 ↗ businesses as well I know that every

9:28 ↗ business owner has a different take on

9:30 ↗ the streety project and some had a more

9:32 ↗ positive impact than others and I

9:34 ↗ understand that I want to also say that

9:36 ↗ I uh uh had a friend who was in Edmonds

9:38 ↗ and he sent me some video and pictures

9:41 ↗ of Edmonds and Edmund that little

9:42 ↗ downtown in Edmonds is is doing a pilot

9:45 ↗ project very s similar to the streering

9:48 ↗ and from what I hear the feedbacks been

9:50 ↗ fantastic and the business owners are

9:52 ↗ really flourishing because of the

9:54 ↗ additional

9:56 ↗ Revenue so I just asked that the city

9:58 ↗ council and the mayor and everyone else

10:01 ↗ involved really pay close attention to

10:03 ↗ this um decision it's critical I know

10:06 ↗ that many of us are on the ledge of

10:08 ↗ having to close our doors and and let go

10:11 ↗ of some dreams and uh it would be a

10:13 ↗ shame to do so without a fight and I am

10:16 ↗ here to help where I can I have a lot of

10:18 ↗ expertise in in food service and and um

10:22 ↗ safety and how to run safe environments

10:25 ↗ and working with Christine has um

10:27 ↗ Christina has helped a great deal so I

10:29 ↗ guess that's all I have to say I

10:30 ↗ appreciate the time I appreciate the

10:32 ↗ Forum thank you for listening to my

10:34 ↗ comments um always know that I'm um in

10:37 ↗ my little corner and macino is willing

10:39 ↗ to help if you ever need anything so I

10:41 ↗ appreciate it and I hope to see all of

10:42 ↗ you in the restaurant very very soon

10:43 ↗ thank you thank you Rick uh city clerk

10:46 ↗ who's next up on our list

10:48 ↗ tonight next we have Sharon Fus Sharon

10:52 ↗ I've unmuted

10:54 ↗ you thank you hi I'm Sharon free um one

10:58 ↗ of the owners art by fire we the glass

11:01 ↗ blowing Studio on fren Street um I first

11:04 ↗ wanted to start by thanking the mayor

11:08 ↗ city council staff everyone pulled

11:11 ↗ together to make this Trey happen and

11:15 ↗ your extra efforts are greatly

11:18 ↗ appreciated I really appreciate how well

11:20 ↗ you worked with Dia to help pull this

11:23 ↗ together along with all the community

11:25 ↗ volunteers and and make this dream a

11:27 ↗ reality it was to scramble and and it

11:30 ↗ was well worth

11:32 ↗ it um artb Fire's been here for in isqua

11:36 ↗ for 12 and a half years I have a a young

11:40 ↗ man working for me who grew up blowing

11:42 ↗ glass there on a class trip um so it's

11:48 ↗ become part of the fixture of the

11:50 ↗ community and my husband and I were

11:53 ↗ lucky enough to take it on five years

11:55 ↗ ago when the founders

11:57 ↗ retired um um as this my husband's going

12:01 ↗ to give you some hard stats from this in

12:03 ↗ a little bit but I wanted to give you um

12:07 ↗ Personal

12:08 ↗ Touch when we had the streety running we

12:11 ↗ had people who'd been part of our

12:14 ↗ community our fires Community for years

12:17 ↗ stop by and check on us see how we were

12:20 ↗ but it also gave us the opportunity to

12:22 ↗ form new relationships with people who

12:25 ↗ came down to be part of the restaurant

12:27 ↗ team there was a wonderful Ambiance with

12:31 ↗ having the Street closed and having the

12:33 ↗ tables out there that made it feel like

12:36 ↗ just a nice vacation day and you could

12:39 ↗ sit down and just have a leisurely meal

12:41 ↗ and unwind and it was

12:44 ↗ wonderful um

12:47 ↗ so the the atmosphere was just

12:50 ↗ fantastic I do want to stress that I

12:54 ↗ really understand Safety First I'm

12:56 ↗ wholeheartedly behind that and and I

12:59 ↗ think the city and the council and

13:01 ↗ everyone have done a really good job of

13:03 ↗ finding that fine line to walk and I

13:06 ↗ understand why we paused it when the

13:08 ↗ covid numbers

13:09 ↗ Rose but what I'm here to ask you for

13:12 ↗ today is when the numbers

13:15 ↗ allow it would hugely help us to recover

13:20 ↗ to have Friday Saturday and Sunday

13:24 ↗ available to do this treety and I

13:27 ↗ personally thought it was so wonderful

13:30 ↗ and and it's done such great things for

13:32 ↗ our business I would like to see this

13:34 ↗ become a permanent thing in isqua not

13:37 ↗ just a CO recovery project thank you all

13:40 ↗ for your

13:43 ↗ time thank you very much for coming

13:45 ↗ tonight Sharon city clerk who is up next

13:47 ↗ on our list next we have Mike Brown Mike

13:51 ↗ I've unmuted

13:53 ↗ you thank you and um thank you to the

13:57 ↗ mayor and the city council for taking

13:58 ↗ Tak the time to listen to my

14:01 ↗ thought um I own and operate the

14:06 ↗ Domino's Pizza on uh front and Alder

14:09 ↗ Street and I just wanted to share with

14:12 ↗ you a little bit of my experience with

14:14 ↗ the uh

14:16 ↗ greetery and um just like many others uh

14:19 ↗ my family has been impacted by this

14:22 ↗ also so I'd just like to share with the

14:26 ↗ mayor and the

14:27 ↗ council some of the damages that has

14:30 ↗ happened to my business during the two

14:32 ↗ weeks of the

14:34 ↗ streetery so compared to the previous

14:36 ↗ two weeks before the streetery

14:40 ↗ streetery my sales dropped

14:44 ↗ 20% on Fridays and Saturdays with the

14:47 ↗ shut down of Front

14:50 ↗ Street I also had to bring in an extra

14:53 ↗ $300 per week in labor to try to make up

14:58 ↗ for the Sur service that it took my

15:01 ↗ drivers longer times to deliver my

15:04 ↗ customers driving around Front Street in

15:07 ↗ the crowded streets due to Front Street

15:10 ↗ being

15:11 ↗ closed I also had to pay

15:15 ↗ $700 for a mailer to go out to my

15:17 ↗ customers to try to help boost my sales

15:21 ↗ to keep this store at a break even or to

15:24 ↗ minimize the

15:26 ↗ losses I also had a 20 % additional

15:29 ↗ service times to my customer due to the

15:32 ↗ traffic and using alternate

15:36 ↗ routes we also had a 20% drop in foot

15:39 ↗ traffic coming into the store due to the

15:42 ↗ Alder Street being closed and Front

15:45 ↗ Street being closed and again out of all

15:49 ↗ the businesses down there I was impacted

15:52 ↗ the most because Alder Street was picked

15:56 ↗ out to be the only Street closed east to

15:59 ↗ west and Front Street being

16:02 ↗ closed I'd also like to point out that

16:05 ↗ the survey that the city did a nice

16:09 ↗ survey which I'd like to point out I

16:11 ↗ sent Jen Davis Hayes and Christina

16:14 ↗ brunning an email on July 7th requesting

16:18 ↗ to be included in the surveys but

16:21 ↗ unfortunately that request was not

16:24 ↗ answered the number or comments that I'm

16:28 ↗ going going to include next does not

16:30 ↗ include my business I'd like to point

16:33 ↗ out on the city

16:35 ↗ survey that question two only 27% of the

16:41 ↗ business seen increased

16:43 ↗ sales question three

16:47 ↗ 45% seen a decrease or no change in

16:51 ↗ their

16:52 ↗ sales question

16:54 ↗ four this is the one that really get to

16:58 ↗ me is

17:01 ↗ 68% of their employees seeing no

17:04 ↗ increase in their

17:07 ↗ hours let me repeat that

17:11 ↗ 68% of the employees seen no increase in

17:15 ↗ their hours that bothers me that my

17:19 ↗ employees would not see an increase in

17:22 ↗ their

17:23 ↗ hours question

17:26 ↗ s 81%

17:28 ↗ say they would participate in the

17:31 ↗ streetery it would seem to me when

17:33 ↗ you're

17:34 ↗ forced that they close the street down

17:37 ↗ regardless of what you have to say

17:39 ↗ that's not a fair question to say ask if

17:42 ↗ you would be participating in the next

17:46 ↗ streetery of the comments on there seven

17:49 ↗ there was

17:50 ↗ 21 seven were for the street

17:54 ↗ streetery five were against and five had

17:58 ↗ mixed comments or reviews for the

18:02 ↗ streetery the right away to my business

18:06 ↗ again Alder is the main true fair for

18:09 ↗ our delivery and our pickup business

18:12 ↗ both access points to my business were

18:15 ↗ closed which negatively impacted my

18:20 ↗ sale blocking these access points is our

18:23 ↗ biggest damage to my business Alder was

18:27 ↗ shut down for one business to put up a

18:31 ↗ tent and to have storage on all of Alder

18:35 ↗ Street and my business had to suffer for

18:38 ↗ it upon sending pictures to the mayor

18:42 ↗ showing the east side was not needed for

18:45 ↗ storage East Alder was thankfully opened

18:51 ↗ up our sales the second week increased

18:54 ↗ Sunday to to Thursday due to this

18:59 ↗ opening again once Front Street was

19:01 ↗ closed to stop our access point the

19:05 ↗ negative sales returned again Alder

19:08 ↗ Street access is needed for my

19:12 ↗ business the last I'd like to point out

19:14 ↗ that this benefits a few the streetery

19:18 ↗ only benefits the few of the 22 surveys

19:22 ↗ filled out only

19:24 ↗ 27% benefited excuse me Mike

19:28 ↗ you you've reached the end of your

19:30 ↗ comment period Please

19:32 ↗ summarize okay um let please let's have

19:37 ↗ a program that serves the whole and not

19:40 ↗ the few as the city survey

19:43 ↗ reinforces great job on the sidewalk

19:46 ↗ parking and signage Edmunds Redmonds and

19:49 ↗ Enumclaw have adopted but they have not

19:51 ↗ closed their streets this is an example

19:54 ↗ of good ideas that benefit the whole

19:57 ↗ thank you for for your time thank you

20:00 ↗ Mike thank you for joining us tonight

20:02 ↗ Tisha who else is on our speakers list

20:05 ↗ next is artree Art I've unmuted

20:08 ↗ you hello I'm art free and I'm the other

20:12 ↗ owner for art by fire and I just want to

20:15 ↗ get into a few observations a few

20:17 ↗ statistics that we've seen from the

20:19 ↗ streetery first thing we've saw was that

20:22 ↗ it is very weather related and the

20:24 ↗ results we saw were you know seriously

20:28 ↗ mod moderated by you know the weather

20:30 ↗ being Whata are cold but overall we saw

20:34 ↗ our business

20:35 ↗ increase

20:37 ↗ 54% during the the weekends of the

20:40 ↗ streetery versus the year before the

20:43 ↗ same

20:44 ↗ weekends um this is helping us with a

20:47 ↗ serious problem when we looked at our

20:50 ↗ march to May business in 2019 versus

20:54 ↗ 2020 we only did 15.7% of the business

20:58 ↗ business in 2020 that we had done in

21:02 ↗ 2019 on top of the challenges we face

21:05 ↗ 46% of our Revenue historically has been

21:09 ↗ from events and

21:10 ↗ classes and that is revenue that is

21:13 ↗ unrecoverable and will not resume at all

21:16 ↗ until we get into at least phase three

21:20 ↗ and even in phase three it will be

21:21 ↗ limited because we won't be able to do

21:24 ↗ our whole um range of shapes or objects

21:28 ↗ for classes and

21:30 ↗ events our best day during the

21:33 ↗ streetery was

21:36 ↗ 148%

21:38 ↗ higher than our best day outside of the

21:41 ↗ Streeter in this

21:43 ↗ year and our combined Friday and

21:47 ↗ Saturday totals were 349

21:50 ↗ per um with the streetery versus

21:55 ↗ without speaking to having it on Sundays

21:59 ↗ our average Sunday historically you know

22:02 ↗ historic Revenue Sundays is very

22:04 ↗ small and if we're going to recover from

22:07 ↗ the revenue we've lost in the March toay

22:10 ↗ time frame um the revenue we've lost

22:13 ↗ while we've had to bring our furnace

22:14 ↗ back up and melt glass we're going to

22:17 ↗ need to recover uh Revenue you know

22:20 ↗ during Sundays as

22:22 ↗ well we also employ three uh three and a

22:26 ↗ half people in the town

22:28 ↗ on top of my wife and myself in art by

22:32 ↗ fire and contribute to the city that way

22:35 ↗ as well as being a longstanding business

22:38 ↗ and an anchor for the Arts in

22:41 ↗ isqua to sum it up the streetery has

22:45 ↗ been very very positive for us um both

22:49 ↗ financially and also in getting more

22:51 ↗ people into the business and just

22:53 ↗ meeting more people for our

22:56 ↗ business we would we strongly support

22:59 ↗ continuing the sty and extending it into

23:02 ↗ Sundays as well if

23:04 ↗ practical and as well as having the

23:08 ↗ streetery be a more permanent thing and

23:11 ↗ not just a

23:12 ↗ recovery I want to thank everyone for

23:14 ↗ the time to give you these uh statistics

23:18 ↗ and I appreciate the work that Dia the

23:20 ↗ council the city and the other

23:23 ↗ volunteers and organizations have done

23:25 ↗ to keep downtown squa you know the

23:29 ↗ treasure that it is my wife and I would

23:32 ↗ have never bought the business if it had

23:34 ↗ been anywhere else but downtown esqua um

23:38 ↗ it has a unique Vibrance and a unique

23:41 ↗ you know environment for the Arts thank

23:44 ↗ you much and have a great

23:46 ↗ night thank you art um city clerk at

23:49 ↗ this point in time I'm going to remind

23:50 ↗ any others that may be with us because I

23:52 ↗ see a significant number of phone

23:54 ↗ numbers if you would like to be added to

23:57 ↗ the speaker list for audience comments

23:59 ↗ please press star three and we will call

24:02 ↗ the first six digits of your phone

24:03 ↗ number when it's your turn to make

24:05 ↗ comments um city clerk do we have

24:06 ↗ anybody else signed up for comments

24:08 ↗ today yes the next person signed up is

24:11 ↗ shaa London shaa I'm going to unmute

24:15 ↗ what I believe is your phone number uh

24:18 ↗ can you confirm you're on the line yes

24:21 ↗ I'm on the line and my name is

24:22 ↗ shaa okay great uh you're

24:26 ↗ up okay thank you

24:28 ↗ um thank you um Madam mayor and the

24:31 ↗ council um I'm here a little differently

24:35 ↗ than other people I'm a resident um I

24:38 ↗ live on uh on Tiger Mountain Road um

24:41 ↗ outside the city limits but downtown is

24:43 ↗ squa is really where I consider my home

24:47 ↗ I'm also um a Prof professional mental

24:51 ↗ health therapist I've been a

24:52 ↗ psychotherapist for over 30 years and I

24:55 ↗ have to say I've never been this busy as

24:58 ↗ what has been happening through this

25:00 ↗ pandemic and so I speak to you as a

25:02 ↗ resident but I also speak as somebody

25:04 ↗ who's very concerned about the mental

25:05 ↗ health of our community and really of

25:08 ↗ our world through this when I went

25:11 ↗ through to the streetery when I first

25:12 ↗ heard about it I just thought what a

25:14 ↗ wonderful idea we need this and when I

25:18 ↗ went to it I was so impressed with all

25:20 ↗ the safeguards that had been taken I

25:23 ↗ felt as a consumer like I was really

25:25 ↗ being considered and thought of

25:27 ↗ something special was being offered to

25:28 ↗ me and more importantly I felt like I

25:30 ↗ could finally get out in a safe way and

25:33 ↗ be in the world be sort of connected to

25:37 ↗ other people but still be uh distanced

25:40 ↗ and

25:41 ↗ protected it was so rejuvenating for me

25:44 ↗ and for all the people that I've told

25:46 ↗ about this I'm not only speaking for

25:47 ↗ myself but so many residents were so

25:50 ↗ excited about this streetery and when it

25:53 ↗ when you had to pause it we were really

25:55 ↗ really disappointed and we really hope

25:57 ↗ that you'll bring it back I it it I know

26:00 ↗ that there's a lot of business and

26:01 ↗ monetary and and all you guys have so

26:03 ↗ much you know love and support for all

26:06 ↗ you guys for hanging in there through

26:08 ↗ this but those of us that are trying to

26:11 ↗ survive this pandemic not only on the

26:13 ↗ physical level but on the emotional

26:15 ↗ level we need things like this and so

26:18 ↗ appreciate that our city stepped up and

26:20 ↗ did something different and it wasn't

26:23 ↗ easy and made it a very beautiful thing

26:27 ↗ and I appreciate all the restaurants

26:29 ↗ really that did the extra work to make

26:31 ↗ this happen and I want them to survive

26:32 ↗ and I want downtown to survive so I'm

26:35 ↗ speaking hopefully for a lot of people

26:37 ↗ when I say please bring this back and I

26:40 ↗ agree extend it to Sunday that'd be

26:42 ↗ great and maybe even after this crazy

26:45 ↗ pandemic is over that would be wonderful

26:47 ↗ too thank you very much for your time

26:50 ↗ appreciate it thank you shaa city clerk

26:53 ↗ is there anyone else signed up for

26:54 ↗ audience comment yes next we have Jeff

26:57 ↗ je canor Jeff I've unmuted

27:01 ↗ you hi and thank you for giving me the

27:03 ↗ opportunity um to talk um I'm

27:06 ↗ representing Jack's Grill Sunset Ale

27:08 ↗ House in l42 cinaa um I'm the director

27:11 ↗ of operations normally my boss would be

27:13 ↗ here but he is out of town um and he

27:16 ↗ asked me to to call in um I want to

27:20 ↗ comment on two aspects of this for us

27:22 ↗ and the first of it being the economics

27:25 ↗ um seats are everything our business and

27:28 ↗ there are a lot of considerations in

27:30 ↗ opening and Running a Restaurant but not

27:32 ↗ many as cord of making a go as how many

27:35 ↗ seats you can accommodate in the square

27:37 ↗ footage of your establishment um we we

27:41 ↗ the economics of sunset Ale House in

27:43 ↗ just a few days since we've expanded

27:44 ↗ seating into the parking lot over there

27:46 ↗ we see this in the bottom line of l42

27:50 ↗ Cantina during the times we can see it

27:52 ↗ out on the

27:53 ↗ patio

27:55 ↗ um and I think I would be echoing a lot

27:58 ↗ of uh restaurant tours um perspectives

28:00 ↗ on this that in these circumstances a

28:02 ↗ few tables a few nights a week can

28:06 ↗ really be the difference between it

28:07 ↗ making sense to um keep the lights on or

28:11 ↗ not or even being able to keep the

28:14 ↗ lights on or not um that's the kind of

28:18 ↗ the the economic perspective I wanted to

28:20 ↗ bring the second is um the comfort and

28:24 ↗ safety aspect of it um in my role part

28:27 ↗ of my job job is to respond to our

28:29 ↗ correspondents from guests we have

28:31 ↗ restaurants in Seattle um one in Laurel

28:33 ↗ Hurst one in West Seattle and and our

28:36 ↗ places in isqua of course and we get a

28:39 ↗ lot of folks who are reaching out to ask

28:41 ↗ if they can sit outside um and a number

28:45 ↗ of them taking a pass when we tell them

28:48 ↗ that they can't if it's for example our

28:50 ↗ West Seattle store or L store um they

28:52 ↗ say thank you we love you um we'll see

28:55 ↗ you we'll see you when we can when we

28:57 ↗ can feel a little bit more comfortable I

28:59 ↗ obviously don't have statistics on how

29:01 ↗ many more people would come out support

29:03 ↗ the businesses um in isqua if they were

29:05 ↗ able to sit outside how many people who

29:08 ↗ aren't going out who otherwise would

29:11 ↗ because they're not comfortable being

29:13 ↗ inside um but just based on on the

29:17 ↗ amount of Correspondence we get around

29:19 ↗ it I think it would be substantial um

29:22 ↗ and those are the two main points that I

29:23 ↗ wanted to make um and again I appreciate

29:25 ↗ all the hard work you are all doing

29:27 ↗ um have the opportunity to talk to

29:30 ↗ you thank you Jeff uh city clerk is

29:32 ↗ there anyone else who signed

29:34 ↗ up yes I see that the caller with the

29:38 ↗ first six digits 202 641 has raised

29:41 ↗ their hand I've unmuted

29:44 ↗ you yeah hello this is Jesse Jensen just

29:47 ↗ wanted to uh thank the city of isqua for

29:50 ↗ the opportunity to come out and just

29:53 ↗ listen uh I spoke with Mary uh Mary Lou

29:56 ↗ and I'm actually running running for the

29:57 ↗ eth congressional district and I'm just

30:00 ↗ happy and proud to have the opportunity

30:02 ↗ here uh to listen in and hear all the

30:05 ↗ important things are going on in squa so

30:07 ↗ thank you again I appreciate it and I'll

30:10 ↗ hope you

30:11 ↗ listening thank you Jesse city clerk do

30:14 ↗ we have anyone else just signed up this

30:16 ↗ evening yes Christina

30:18 ↗ Bruning

30:22 ↗ Christina hi uh this is Christina I'm

30:25 ↗ the board president of the down Town

30:27 ↗ isqua

30:29 ↗ Association Madame mayor and members of

30:32 ↗ the city council I want to thank you all

30:34 ↗ for your service and Leadership during

30:37 ↗ this uncertain

30:39 ↗ time if we were able to be in council

30:42 ↗ chambers you would see a room full of

30:45 ↗ businesses and community members United

30:48 ↗ on the success of the historic

30:52 ↗ downtown and the health of people who

30:54 ↗ live work and play

30:57 ↗ right here in

30:59 ↗ isqua the Downtown Association is a

31:02 ↗ community-led volunteer-driven

31:05 ↗ organization and it aims to cultivate a

31:07 ↗ thriving Old Town that builds community

31:10 ↗ and celebrates

31:11 ↗ charm celebrating 25 years of service in

31:14 ↗ the historic downtown district we are

31:17 ↗ most proud of the people who have

31:20 ↗ served we're powered by

31:23 ↗ volunteers and this evening I'd like to

31:25 ↗ Showcase Sue paus

31:27 ↗ a familiar face who was recognized

31:29 ↗ earlier today by the Washington Main

31:32 ↗ Street program as the Excellence on Main

31:36 ↗ standout volunteer for

31:39 ↗ isqua over the years we have all seen

31:41 ↗ Sue tending the flower beds and hanging

31:44 ↗ posters all over isqua a friendly hello

31:47 ↗ and a welcome for a community that she

31:50 ↗ loves she helps lead our keep isqua

31:53 ↗ beautiful day and she's even on the

31:55 ↗ pumpkin patch team

31:58 ↗ earlier today I had the privilege of

32:00 ↗ doing a private photo shoot physically

32:03 ↗ distanced from Sue after she received

32:05 ↗ her public

32:08 ↗ acknowledgement sadly Sue will be moving

32:10 ↗ to the east coast later this year so we

32:13 ↗ will miss her

32:16 ↗ dearly additionally finro and

32:19 ↗ Kaleidoscope School of Music were

32:21 ↗ recognized by the Main Street program

32:23 ↗ for resilience on main for brightening

32:25 ↗ the community and person intering

32:27 ↗ despite of numerous

32:29 ↗ challenges in midst a pandemic DIA has

32:32 ↗ pivoted and embraced a balanced work

32:34 ↗ plan challenging the historic district

32:37 ↗ to be alive inviting and

32:40 ↗ vibrant we ask ourselves several

32:42 ↗ questions how do we make it easier to do

32:45 ↗ business in

32:46 ↗ isqua and we want to thank you for your

32:48 ↗ Swift action to streamline and weigh

32:51 ↗ fees for sidewalk and private lot usage

32:53 ↗ as well as A-frame permits several of

32:56 ↗ our businesses have already leveraged

32:58 ↗ these

33:00 ↗ opportunities how do we engage in

33:02 ↗ Partnerships to showcase the best of

33:04 ↗ historic

33:05 ↗ isqua and how do we activate public

33:08 ↗ space and engage the

33:10 ↗ community it was last February when I

33:13 ↗ stood before you showcasing the

33:15 ↗ streetscapes plan how does the community

33:19 ↗ create an appealing pedestrian friendly

33:22 ↗ area where people would enjoy spending

33:25 ↗ time and money in local

33:28 ↗ shops the scery

33:31 ↗ exemplifies a collaborative effort that

33:34 ↗ provides additional seating for our

33:36 ↗ restaurant and creates that place to

33:39 ↗ recreate whether it's walking running or

33:41 ↗ cycling both of which enhance the

33:44 ↗ consumer

33:45 ↗ confidence we stand with the doctors the

33:47 ↗ scientists and the state leadership

33:50 ↗ supporting the mask mandate urging

33:53 ↗ people to take covid-19 seriously and do

33:56 ↗ what we can

33:58 ↗ together the pandemic as a social

34:01 ↗ movement created a window of opportunity

34:03 ↗ for

34:04 ↗ change some years ago we lost our way we

34:08 ↗ became car Centric and we are not

34:11 ↗ alone Robert Cam's bowling alone is a

34:15 ↗ critical look at the trends in the US

34:18 ↗ over time explaining bonding Social

34:22 ↗ Capital which is formed when people Bond

34:24 ↗ over shared feelings and experien

34:27 ↗ such as a

34:29 ↗ pandemic our community seeks a sense of

34:31 ↗ belonging and

34:33 ↗ empowerment we need to reclaim our

34:35 ↗ public

34:36 ↗ space we collectively have to

34:40 ↗ revision what a historic downtown

34:43 ↗ is we need to be a place that people

34:46 ↗ come to not a place that people go

34:50 ↗ through now more more than ever we have

34:53 ↗ a crucial role to play in the support of

34:56 ↗ small business

34:57 ↗ and the quality of life here in

35:00 ↗ isqua let's raise the collective voice

35:03 ↗ of our businesses and community and move

35:06 ↗ forward together to

35:08 ↗ thrive thank you so much thank you

35:12 ↗ Christina uh city clerk do we have

35:14 ↗ anyone else on our list tonight yes I

35:17 ↗ see the caller with the first six digits

35:19 ↗ 425 443 would like to make comments I've

35:23 ↗ unmuted

35:25 ↗ you

35:33 ↗ hello caller 425 443 are you on the

35:40 ↗ line you may need to unmute

35:43 ↗ yourself hi there can you hear me yes

35:47 ↗ goad this is Eric this is Eric Pascal

35:50 ↗ from levitate gastr Pub um I just want

35:52 ↗ to throw my cad into the ring for uh the

35:57 ↗ continued um opportunities with the the

36:00 ↗ streetery um just a couple of quick

36:03 ↗ comments we're doing as best we can

36:05 ↗ right now with uh

36:08 ↗ takeout uh being able to provide service

36:11 ↗ to guests in a very limited capacity we

36:13 ↗ have a pretty small space similar to

36:16 ↗ other restaurants down um on Front

36:19 ↗ Street so we're pretty challenged with

36:21 ↗ just having a small patio where we have

36:24 ↗ limited our capacity um certainly small

36:27 ↗ space within the restaurant and a couple

36:29 ↗ of tables out on Front Street right now

36:32 ↗ um for the days that we did participate

36:34 ↗ in the streetery we matched what we were

36:36 ↗ doing last summer which was our biggest

36:39 ↗ summer that we ever had so we were being

36:41 ↗ able to match revenue on a traditional

36:44 ↗ Friday and Saturday evening which is

36:46 ↗ pretty

36:47 ↗ exciting the last few weekends when we

36:50 ↗ haven't had the streetery in place we're

36:52 ↗ down about

36:54 ↗ 54% from what we were at uh when we were

36:57 ↗ participating in streety so it just

36:59 ↗ shows the the impact financially that it

37:02 ↗ has for us at the

37:04 ↗ restaurant um and then the impact

37:06 ↗ certainly that we could be able to

37:08 ↗ contribute to uh revenue for the city as

37:11 ↗ well through sales tax um I think the

37:13 ↗ big thing that I want to just highlight

37:16 ↗ real quick about uh Staffing really our

37:20 ↗ staffing right now is so impacted by um

37:25 ↗ the social distancing requirements that

37:27 ↗ we have and the restrictions on the

37:29 ↗ amount of seat and capacity that we

37:31 ↗ could have within the

37:32 ↗ restaurant that's not having our

37:36 ↗ opportunity for the street the past few

37:39 ↗ weekends it's actually made it more

37:41 ↗ challenging for us um to keep as much

37:44 ↗ staff on so for for me it's it's a great

37:48 ↗ thing to be able to keep a staffing

37:50 ↗ level similar to last summer versus the

37:53 ↗ Staffing level where um for instance

37:56 ↗ this weekend even though the weather was

37:58 ↗ nice I I think there's a lot more fear

38:01 ↗ that's being driven so people aren't as

38:03 ↗ excited to go inside of the restaurant

38:06 ↗ right now they prefer to be on the patio

38:08 ↗ or out on the two tables that are on

38:09 ↗ Front Street But ultimately the the

38:12 ↗ revenue impact that we saw was was

38:14 ↗ substantial it was it was it was big so

38:17 ↗ um I would like to encourage as best we

38:19 ↗ can the continued use of uh streetery

38:23 ↗ when there's that opportunity certainly

38:25 ↗ trying to accommodate some of the other

38:26 ↗ feedback that came into play this

38:28 ↗ evening um and certainly if we could

38:30 ↗ expand that to Sundays as well I really

38:32 ↗ do think that that would have not only a

38:34 ↗ good Revenue impact for the city

38:36 ↗ certainly for us uh but it's a great

38:38 ↗ thing for our staff as well because that

38:40 ↗ will allow me to keep additional staff

38:43 ↗ on as opposed to um needing to let

38:46 ↗ people go early or what have you so I

38:48 ↗ thank you for the time to be able to

38:50 ↗ quickly present to you this evening

38:52 ↗ thank

38:53 ↗ you thank you Eric city clerk do we have

38:56 ↗ anyone else uh wishing to

38:58 ↗ participate no no one else has indicated

39:01 ↗ the desire to speak and if I could ask

39:03 ↗ Jesse Christina and Eric to please press

39:06 ↗ star three on their phones to lower

39:08 ↗ their hands thank

39:12 ↗ you thank you for that and thank you for

39:14 ↗ everyone that came in tonight uh it

39:16 ↗ seems like the big topic we're hearing

39:18 ↗ about is the streetery which is an

39:20 ↗ informational item for Council this

39:22 ↗ evening uh we' heard from several

39:24 ↗ business owners and some residents about

39:26 ↗ the positive but we also did hear from a

39:28 ↗ business owner who is not seeing a

39:30 ↗ benefit from it uh and a few folks

39:33 ↗ actually asking for an expansion of the

39:35 ↗ amount of time from Friday through

39:37 ↗ Sunday and potentially through the year

39:40 ↗ so thank you all for coming in please

39:41 ↗ stay uh stay with us as we go through

39:43 ↗ this item with the

39:45 ↗ council um and also remember anyone

39:48 ↗ that's here this evening if there's

39:49 ↗ additional things you want to send

39:50 ↗ please just send an email to your city

39:52 ↗ council at city council isqua w.gov

39:57 ↗ mayor Paulie this is

39:59 ↗ Tisha oh my apologies it it looked as if

40:03 ↗ there was one more member of the public

40:04 ↗ wishing to speak but I I my apologies

40:07 ↗ they've just lowered their hand okay

40:09 ↗ sorry for the interruption thank you

40:11 ↗ Tisha I think it's great that if

40:12 ↗ somebody took the time and effort that

40:13 ↗ you're tracking it closely to make sure

40:15 ↗ they get the opportunity to speak so no

40:17 ↗ worries well and you know the the hand

40:19 ↗ just um reappeared so if if you're

40:21 ↗ willing to take a moment to see if this

40:24 ↗ caller would like to make some comments

40:26 ↗ absolutely thank you okay uh this is

40:29 ↗ caller 425 677 I've unmuted

40:34 ↗ you uh yes this is Kim

40:37 ↗ Christensen can you hear me we can Kim

40:40 ↗ and this is the mayor you can go ahead

40:42 ↗ with your comments oh hi Mary Lou thank

40:44 ↗ you hi I I just wanted to touch bases uh

40:48 ↗ do volunteer work with the the Downtown

40:52 ↗ Association and my participation those

40:55 ↗ two weeks of of the Downtown Association

40:58 ↗ was being um right behind the barricades

41:01 ↗ being the emergency attendant so I

41:04 ↗ needed to have my car there and I needed

41:07 ↗ to be there just in case there was an

41:09 ↗ emergency so subsequently um there were

41:12 ↗ a lot of people coming through that that

41:15 ↗ one entrance and a lot of people had you

41:19 ↗ know what's going on and this sound this

41:21 ↗ looks so neat and I probably volunteered

41:24 ↗ over those two weeks about probably

41:26 ↗ about 35 hours I'd

41:29 ↗ say and most most the people in fact not

41:33 ↗ most all of the people that I spoke with

41:36 ↗ and had interactions with there were

41:38 ↗ probably 35 to 40 people just asking

41:41 ↗ what's going on and maybe they hadn't

41:43 ↗ heard about it and what a great idea and

41:46 ↗ they just loved the it you know the idea

41:49 ↗ of getting out of the house um just

41:52 ↗ walking around and just being part of

41:53 ↗ the community and seeing other citizens

41:57 ↗ um I know Co is is is a concern for us

42:01 ↗ but I think that we did a good job and

42:03 ↗ Christina was so instrumental and at

42:06 ↗ each at least I know at each end and at

42:09 ↗ my end there because I was right there

42:11 ↗ at Front Street and sunset is that we

42:14 ↗ had masks uh if anybody needed a mask we

42:18 ↗ had sanitation stations so we were we

42:22 ↗ were being very cautious and providing

42:24 ↗ whatever needs that that people had so

42:28 ↗ um I would definitely suggest that that

42:31 ↗ we continue this and I think it not only

42:34 ↗ will just

42:36 ↗ provide excitement for the community and

42:38 ↗ the citizens and let them get outside

42:41 ↗ and just see other people but still be

42:43 ↗ able to socially you know distance

42:45 ↗ themselves but just just get out and

42:48 ↗ about and um it'll help I think all of

42:52 ↗ our merchants and restaurants and um I

42:55 ↗ think I think it was it was very

42:57 ↗ beneficial from from what I heard in the

42:59 ↗ feedback so I appreciate it and thank

43:03 ↗ you for your time thank you and I'm

43:05 ↗ going to go back to city clerk one more

43:07 ↗ time to see if we have anybody else who

43:09 ↗ would like to speak yes thank you we do

43:11 ↗ have one more caller uh with the prefix

43:14 ↗ 360 319 I've unmuted

43:23 ↗ you caller 360 319 I've unmuted you you

43:28 ↗ may also need to unmute your

43:37 ↗ phone one more time caller with the

43:40 ↗ number

43:43 ↗ 36319 I've unmuted you are you able to

43:52 ↗ speak okay uh my apologies mayor I we

43:57 ↗ don't seem to be getting any audio from

43:58 ↗ that

44:00 ↗ caller thank you such are the

44:02 ↗ limitations of our online meetings for

44:04 ↗ sure um thank you for checking back in

44:07 ↗ no city clerk that is great um I also

44:10 ↗ want to acknowledge that any comments

44:12 ↗ that received by email uh to the city

44:15 ↗ council that are on tonight's agenda

44:17 ↗ topics will be acknowledged by the

44:19 ↗ council president hunt under the

44:20 ↗ relevant agenda items the next item of

44:24 ↗ business is committee and Regional

44:25 ↗ report and we will start with council

44:27 ↗ member

44:31 ↗ Hall thank you mayor paully this is

44:34 ↗ council member Zach Hall um just to say

44:37 ↗ I guess that I'll be attending a few

44:39 ↗ upcoming Regional meetings uh the next

44:42 ↗ meeting of the affordable housing

44:44 ↗ Committee of the growth management

44:45 ↗ planning council is uh this Wednesday at

44:48 ↗ 1M uh and then also the next meeting of

44:50 ↗ the Cascade water Alliance board of

44:52 ↗ directors uh is also this Wednesday at

44:54 ↗ 3:30 p.m. big

44:57 ↗ day thank you may Paul concludes my

44:59 ↗ report thank you council member Hall

45:02 ↗ council member D

45:03 ↗ Michelle uh thank you this is council

45:06 ↗ member D Michelle and uh on July the 9th

45:10 ↗ I attended the governing board for

45:11 ↗ healthier here uh it was primarily a

45:15 ↗ business meeting but we did hear uh from

45:18 ↗ three members of the group uh who uh

45:22 ↗ discussed equity and then we met

45:24 ↗ together in breakout sessions

45:26 ↗ to have small group discussions about

45:28 ↗ how we could Implement some policy

45:30 ↗ changes in our organizations so it was a

45:34 ↗ very uh helpful meeting for me

45:37 ↗ personally um and that is my full report

45:40 ↗ on that meeting thank

45:43 ↗ you thank you council member D Michelle

45:47 ↗ next up is council member

45:49 ↗ Walsh thank you this is council member

45:51 ↗ Walsh and I have no report this

45:54 ↗ evening thank you council member Walsh

45:57 ↗ coming back to my list council member

46:01 ↗ Goodman thank you Madame mayor council

46:03 ↗ member Goodman here the lodging tax

46:05 ↗ advisory committee met on July 7th um it

46:08 ↗ is a five member committee uh we first

46:11 ↗ discussed the impact of the impact of

46:13 ↗ the pandemic on the lodging tax and

46:16 ↗ because the tax is only assessed on

46:18 ↗ hotel stays and hotel stays are down

46:22 ↗ significantly um we talked about the

46:25 ↗ project C for example in March 2019 the

46:29 ↗ monthly collection was

46:32 ↗ $1,662 but in March 2020 it was

46:36 ↗ $2,963 a de decrease of

46:39 ↗ 83% and the projection projection for

46:41 ↗ the rest of the year for the collection

46:43 ↗ of that tax doesn't look much better um

46:45 ↗ the committee then uh was presented with

46:48 ↗ a request from Village Theater for

46:50 ↗ $25,000 for covid related relief um and

46:54 ↗ that um request was facilitated by the

46:56 ↗ administration not by the lodging tax um

46:59 ↗ advisory committee or the council

47:02 ↗ Village Theater had a very lengthy and

47:04 ↗ thoughtful

47:05 ↗ presentation um and the committee's

47:07 ↗ general feedback was that the request

47:09 ↗ from one organization seemed like a

47:13 ↗ oneoff meaning that other organizations

47:15 ↗ were not given the same opportunity to

47:17 ↗ request funds I did um end up making a

47:20 ↗ motion with the hope that it would get

47:21 ↗ seconded so we could have a formal

47:23 ↗ deliberation by that committee and then

47:25 ↗ recommends um one way or the other to

47:28 ↗ the council but the motion did not get a

47:30 ↗ second uh so is there's nothing nothing

47:32 ↗ before the council I am in the process

47:35 ↗ of working with staff to schedule

47:37 ↗ another ltech meeting so the committee

47:39 ↗ can discuss in more detail its plans for

47:42 ↗ how to use its funds during the pandemic

47:45 ↗ and I anticipate that that meeting will

47:46 ↗ be in the next couple of

47:48 ↗ weeks

47:50 ↗ the Eide fire and rescue um finance and

47:55 ↗ administrative committee will meet this

47:56 ↗ Wednesday at 12: noon and the um the

48:01 ↗ only item on that agenda is the proposed

48:04 ↗ 2021 budget so we will begin that

48:07 ↗ discussion and that'll probably last at

48:09 ↗ least one more meeting and um uh Deputy

48:13 ↗ council president Chris Ray will be

48:15 ↗ giving the report out on the East Side

48:17 ↗ Fire and Rescue board meeting tonight

48:19 ↗ and that's my report thank you thank you

48:21 ↗ council member Goodman council member

48:23 ↗ Mars thank you Madame mayor this is

48:25 ↗ council member Mars The Sound cities

48:27 ↗ Association public issues committee met

48:30 ↗ on uh Wednesday July 8 at 7M in the Ron

48:35 ↗ City Hall no potential action by the

48:38 ↗ body was discussed the pet sound

48:41 ↗ Regional Council growth management

48:42 ↗ policy board met on Thursday July 16th

48:45 ↗ from 10 a until noon no potential action

48:48 ↗ by the body was discussed this concludes

48:50 ↗ my

48:51 ↗ report thank you council member Mars

48:53 ↗ Deputy council president Ray the East

48:56 ↗ Side Fire and Rescue uh board of

48:58 ↗ directors met on July 9th at 4M and

49:02 ↗ using a virtual meeting format I

49:04 ↗ attended with council members Goodman

49:05 ↗ and Hall the fire chief provided an

49:08 ↗ update on posos uh noting the completion

49:11 ↗ of the latest round of testing which has

49:12 ↗ produced extensive data which is being

49:14 ↗ analyzed and also uh kind of an

49:16 ↗ interesting note one of the things that

49:18 ↗ they detected was that the water closer

49:21 ↗ to the uh the Subterranean water closer

49:24 ↗ to the surface flows to the Northwest

49:26 ↗ whereas the deeper water appears to be

49:28 ↗ flowing to the Northeast so the water

49:30 ↗ flows aren't as well understood as we

49:31 ↗ thought they were the chief provided a

49:34 ↗ covid-19 update noting the increase in

49:36 ↗ number of cases in the state East Side

49:39 ↗ Fire and Rescue is taking precautions to

49:40 ↗ minimize spread one employee has been

49:42 ↗ exposed off duty to covid-19 and is

49:44 ↗ quarantined as a precaution and

49:46 ↗ currently out of budget expenses in

49:50 ↗ resulting from covid-19 are

49:52 ↗ approximately

49:54 ↗ $478,000 the board had a discussion

49:56 ↗ related to ambulance fees colle

49:58 ↗ ambulance fee collection the board did

50:00 ↗ not take any action this time on an

50:02 ↗ increas in ambulance fees or enhanced

50:05 ↗ collection

50:06 ↗ efforts um the board discussed racial

50:08 ↗ Equity East Side Fire and Rescue is

50:11 ↗ pursuing a partnership with leadership

50:13 ↗ East Side to provide diversity and

50:14 ↗ social justice educational

50:17 ↗ programs the King County Fire Chiefs are

50:19 ↗ leading uh educational awareness

50:21 ↗ discussions also across the region Eide

50:24 ↗ Fire and Rescue completed their 2019

50:26 ↗ performance on audit and there were no

50:28 ↗ findings and then finally the change in

50:30 ↗ the East Side Fire ran governance model

50:32 ↗ to a government not for-profit was

50:34 ↗ discussed we have forwarded the not

50:38 ↗ nonprofit bylaws the Articles of

50:40 ↗ Incorporation and an interlocal

50:41 ↗ agreement to the city Administration for

50:43 ↗ legal

50:44 ↗ review discussion will be on East Side p

50:47 ↗ and rescues board meeting in October and

50:49 ↗ I think as you all know the chief sent

50:51 ↗ uh the city council and City

50:52 ↗ administrator a letter on July 18th with

50:55 ↗ information regarding the changes in the

50:57 ↗ governance model and that concludes my

50:59 ↗ report this evening thank you Deputy

51:01 ↗ council president Ray council president

51:09 ↗ hunt thank you this is council president

51:12 ↗ hunt on July 16th which is um last

51:16 ↗ Thursday I met with the salmon Recovery

51:18 ↗ Council of virra 8 which is the

51:21 ↗ technical name for our Watershed and we

51:24 ↗ took several actions at that meeting we

51:26 ↗ approved the 2021 wira 8 budget and work

51:30 ↗ plan we approved the grant funding

51:32 ↗ recommendations for salmon recovery

51:34 ↗ funding board and um Puget Sound

51:37 ↗ acquisition and restoration funds also

51:39 ↗ referred to as PSAR funds and we

51:42 ↗ approved our 2021 state and federal

51:45 ↗ legislative priorities for salmon

51:47 ↗ recovery for the salmon Recovery Council

51:49 ↗ the next meeting of the salmon Recovery

51:51 ↗ Council will be on September 17th and

51:55 ↗ that concludes my

51:56 ↗ report thank you council president

51:59 ↗ hunt the next item on our agenda this

52:02 ↗ evening is mayor's

52:05 ↗ report um there will not be an executive

52:08 ↗ session this

52:09 ↗ evening um and I have just a couple

52:12 ↗ items to share with you all we have two

52:14 ↗ informational items this evening

52:15 ↗ providing some updates on covid-19 and

52:18 ↗ our community I want to highlight one

52:20 ↗ item being covered the isqua downtown

52:23 ↗ streetery this concept with was

52:25 ↗ suggested by the issaqua recovery task

52:27 ↗ force the group of residents providing

52:29 ↗ advice and guidance to the mayor's

52:30 ↗ office on the safe reopening of our

52:33 ↗ community the streetery concept was

52:35 ↗ strongly recommended by the task force

52:37 ↗ is a way to assist local businesses and

52:39 ↗ allow for a safe and family-friendly way

52:41 ↗ to provide our residents with an

52:43 ↗ opportunity to enjoy the summer and

52:45 ↗ share a meal it means we share the

52:47 ↗ public right away with our community by

52:49 ↗ creating extra outdoor seating

52:51 ↗ space it felt like we could finally give

52:54 ↗ ourselves a gift or a small taste of

52:56 ↗ what normal Friday and Saturday night

52:58 ↗ life used to feel like I attended both

53:01 ↗ weekends of our pilot and it was so

53:03 ↗ heartwarming to see the smiles on

53:04 ↗ everyone's faces as they got seated and

53:07 ↗ began to loudly chatter after the report

53:09 ↗ out this evening I'm proposing that with

53:11 ↗ the downtown Isa association's

53:13 ↗ assistance we continue this through the

53:15 ↗ end of September we will continue to

53:17 ↗ collect data and evaluate and adjust as

53:19 ↗ needed to stay in conformance with the

53:22 ↗ governor's order in addition we will

53:24 ↗ keep in close Conta with public health

53:26 ↗ Seattle and King County on safety

53:28 ↗ precautions and recommendations from

53:31 ↗ Health officials King County remains in

53:33 ↗ phase two of the governor's phase

53:35 ↗ reopening plan and restaurants must

53:37 ↗ still operate at a reduced capacity

53:39 ↗ offer table sizes no larger than five

53:42 ↗ people and keep bar area seating closed

53:45 ↗ in later phases phases of the governor's

53:47 ↗ reopening new things may be added like

53:50 ↗ music but for now all this hangs on the

53:53 ↗ fact that we must do all that we can do

53:56 ↗ to stem the transmission rate of the

53:57 ↗ virus and this terrible covid-19 disease

54:01 ↗ help me help our community by doing

54:03 ↗ these three simple things wear a mask

54:07 ↗ stay at least 6 feet apart when unmasked

54:09 ↗ and wash your hands frequently we can do

54:13 ↗ this

54:14 ↗ isqua the Washington State Department of

54:16 ↗ Transportation is currently adding

54:18 ↗ auxiliary Lanes on I90 in isqua state

54:21 ↗ crews are also building sound walls

54:23 ↗ along Northwest samamish Road which

54:25 ↗ requires a closure of the roads

54:26 ↗ eastbound Lane West of the state park

54:28 ↗ entrance to 193rd Place Southeast for 90

54:32 ↗ days starting on July 27th and East all

54:36 ↗ eastbound traffic on Northwest samamish

54:38 ↗ Road will be detoured to i90s and

54:41 ↗ detours for cyclists will be provided

54:43 ↗ this project will also make room for the

54:45 ↗ city to potentially add new pedestrian

54:48 ↗ cyclist amenities in this area funding

54:51 ↗ however is still needed and may be years

54:54 ↗ away isqua is hosting a virtual

54:57 ↗ neighborhood meeting with the South Lake

54:58 ↗ samamish residents on these projects at

55:00 ↗ 7M August 12th a representative from wot

55:03 ↗ will also attend to present on their

55:06 ↗ agency's I90 project and to answer

55:08 ↗ questions if you want to learn more

55:10 ↗ about the project or subscribe for

55:12 ↗ updates please go to isqua

55:15 ↗ w.gov southlakes

55:17 ↗ mamish and join us to learn more about

55:20 ↗ the city's draft police accountability

55:22 ↗ equity and Human Services action plan we

55:25 ↗ need to hear your feedback we will be

55:27 ↗ holding a virtual community meeting at 6

55:29 ↗ p.m. on July 29th the meeting will

55:32 ↗ include presentations from myself City

55:34 ↗ administrator Wally Bob quitz police

55:36 ↗ chief Scott beerbom and include time for

55:39 ↗ public comment please register on our

55:41 ↗ website and the link to join the meeting

55:43 ↗ will be sent to you if you aren't able

55:45 ↗ to join us please send feedback to Mayor

55:47 ↗ at isqua w.gov a recording of the

55:50 ↗ meeting will also be published on the

55:51 ↗ city's YouTube page all input will be

55:54 ↗ shared with the city city council which

55:56 ↗ is scheduled to vote on a final version

55:58 ↗ of the plan during its August 10th

56:02 ↗ meeting the next items of business

56:04 ↗ tonight are informational and we'll

56:06 ↗ start with ID

56:07 ↗ 0727 which is covid-19 update and I'd

56:10 ↗ like to ask the administrator Bob Kitz

56:12 ↗ to present this

56:14 ↗ item thank you madam mayor members of

56:16 ↗ the council good evening um we have a

56:18 ↗ couple different updates for you uh

56:20 ↗ regarding our response to the covid-19

56:22 ↗ crisis if I could ask the deputy City

56:24 ↗ Clerk to to put up the uh covid-19 work

56:27 ↗ plan um we uh have provided you this

56:30 ↗ update document before I just want to

56:33 ↗ cover some highlights of uh some of the

56:35 ↗ items on the work plan uh we also will

56:38 ↗ give a little bit deeper uh dive to two

56:41 ↗ areas I'll ask Monica Nilla uh our Human

56:44 ↗ Services uh officer to uh talk a little

56:47 ↗ bit about the status of the grant

56:50 ↗ funding that the city has allocated

56:53 ↗ through our cares act dollars and jend

56:54 ↗ Davis Hayes the economic development

56:56 ↗ manager is here as well and she'll do a

56:59 ↗ little bit deeper dive into the

57:01 ↗ streetery into other Economic

57:03 ↗ Development pieces of our work plan uh

57:05 ↗ we go to the next slide or next page um

57:08 ↗ Public Safety was the first area that we

57:10 ↗ focused on and certainly at the

57:12 ↗ beginning of this crisis we were very

57:14 ↗ concerned about funding we were very

57:16 ↗ concerned about allocation of both

57:18 ↗ police and fire resources um some of

57:20 ↗ those police issues have uh uh been

57:24 ↗ taken up as part of the larger uh police

57:27 ↗ uh accountability Human Services and

57:30 ↗ Equity action plan which mayor paully

57:31 ↗ referred to and that those discussions

57:33 ↗ are continuing uh so those issues that

57:36 ↗ you see here regarding the police

57:37 ↗ department uh largely been picked up

57:39 ↗ there uh we will be presenting

57:41 ↗ information on the jail update uh at

57:44 ↗ your July 28th study session if you

57:46 ↗ recall we also reached out to eite bar

57:48 ↗ and rescue regarding their current year

57:51 ↗ budget uh issues and uh unfortunately

57:54 ↗ we've not been able to make a lot of

57:56 ↗ progress there on the current year uh as

57:58 ↗ both uh council member um bman and

58:02 ↗ Deputy council president Ray mentioned

58:04 ↗ there have been discussions regarding

58:05 ↗ ambulance fees and so those discussions

58:06 ↗ are continuing uh it's certainly my hope

58:09 ↗ that uh e Side Fire and Rescue will make

58:11 ↗ some adjustments to those ambulance fees

58:14 ↗ uh and if they don't have an impact on

58:15 ↗ 2020 they should hopefully have an

58:18 ↗ impact on their 2021 budget It's My Hope

58:21 ↗ mayor's hope that uh our cost to East

58:24 ↗ Side Fire and Rescue will be flat as we

58:25 ↗ deal with our budget in the coming year

58:28 ↗ uh mayor Paulie would you like me to

58:29 ↗ stop at each of these sections look for

58:31 ↗ the for questions or you would you just

58:33 ↗ like me to go through and then have

58:34 ↗ questions at the end um thank you for

58:37 ↗ that City minist I think what we'll do

58:39 ↗ is if I see a question pop up in a

58:40 ↗ section I will let you know and right

58:43 ↗ now I'm not seeing any so let's continue

58:44 ↗ to the next session very good uh Public

58:48 ↗ Health and Human uh Services The isqua

58:51 ↗ Recovery Center uh King County continues

58:53 ↗ to operate the former holiday in as a

58:55 ↗ recovery center for those either

58:57 ↗ diagnosed with covid-19 or waiting test

59:00 ↗ results uh cour happy to say that that

59:03 ↗ facility has operated really without

59:05 ↗ much uh much issue within the community

59:07 ↗ it's certainly helping many members of

59:08 ↗ our community uh recover uh from

59:11 ↗ covid-19 so we continue to keep a close

59:14 ↗ eye on the facility and are in regular

59:16 ↗ contact with King County Health

59:18 ↗ regarding that uh social distancing

59:21 ↗ compliance uh we've gone through various

59:23 ↗ stages of social distancing and

59:25 ↗ certainly we have that still in full

59:26 ↗ force here but we continue to receive

59:29 ↗ complaints uh about public spaces about

59:31 ↗ businesses while the city of isqua is

59:33 ↗ not in a position to be the enforcer of

59:36 ↗ these issues uh we certainly do reach

59:38 ↗ out uh to business owners when issues

59:41 ↗ are raised with us uh and have staff

59:44 ↗ presence in our Parks when issues are

59:45 ↗ raised so we're not meant to be the

59:48 ↗ social distancing police but certainly

59:50 ↗ we want to be mindful and thoughtful and

59:52 ↗ thus far I think have had some good

59:53 ↗ success uh in having people comply with

59:56 ↗ Governor eny's orders regarding social

59:58 ↗ distancing housing security we're going

1:00:00 ↗ to talk more about that in the next item

1:00:02 ↗ um so I'll leave that for uh the next

1:00:05 ↗ discussion uh food security uh our food

1:00:08 ↗ Security Group continues uh uh to meet

1:00:11 ↗ and discuss uh issues as they come along

1:00:13 ↗ we presented a food security dashboard

1:00:16 ↗ uh back in June to the city council um

1:00:19 ↗ as far as mass distribution is concerned

1:00:21 ↗ we've been fortunate to get many

1:00:23 ↗ thousand uh cloth masks from King County

1:00:26 ↗ uh thanks to our community Emergency

1:00:28 ↗ Response Team volunteers we've had

1:00:30 ↗ several days of uh of opportunities

1:00:33 ↗ where members of the public can come to

1:00:35 ↗ a public place to pick up the masks uh

1:00:37 ↗ we are expecting an additional shipment

1:00:39 ↗ from King County soon and once that

1:00:42 ↗ shipment is received we'll make

1:00:43 ↗ additional time uh to move forward there

1:00:46 ↗ and then finally uh the federal cares

1:00:48 ↗ act funding on June 22nd the city

1:00:50 ↗ council allocated

1:00:51 ↗ $200,000 of State cares acts funds for

1:00:55 ↗ Human Services needs and I'd like to ask

1:00:57 ↗ mon Monica Nilla of our parks recreation

1:01:00 ↗ staff if she wouldn't mind coming on the

1:01:02 ↗ line and giving a brief update there and

1:01:04 ↗ then we'll be happy to answer any

1:01:06 ↗ questions Madame mayor in this section

1:01:08 ↗ thank you we do have a quick question

1:01:10 ↗ from council member Hall I'm just gonna

1:01:11 ↗ let him sneak in

1:01:14 ↗ here oh it was thank you um M mayor

1:01:17 ↗ Paulie this is council member Zach call

1:01:19 ↗ if it it was a question about the food

1:01:21 ↗ security dashboard so if it makes more

1:01:22 ↗ sense to wait for Monica to come on I'm

1:01:24 ↗ that too up to you uh I'm not sure that

1:01:27 ↗ Monica is talking much about that in

1:01:29 ↗ detail if you just want to throw the

1:01:30 ↗ question out there I'll let uh staff

1:01:32 ↗ answer it as part of whatever they're

1:01:34 ↗ presenting next so what's your question

1:01:36 ↗ perfect yeah just a clarifying question

1:01:37 ↗ about um trying to remember what the end

1:01:41 ↗ goal is with the food security dashboard

1:01:43 ↗ is that mostly just for you know inform

1:01:45 ↗ some informing policy makers or did we

1:01:47 ↗ have an end goal putting all that data

1:01:50 ↗ together so I'm just going to put my two

1:01:52 ↗ cents in first is I hope to use use the

1:01:54 ↗ data that Monica is collecting um in

1:01:57 ↗ lobbying efforts with uh Federal County

1:02:00 ↗ and state representatives so for me it's

1:02:02 ↗ a tool to show people a detailed picture

1:02:05 ↗ of what's really going on in the

1:02:07 ↗ community um Monica has her own reasons

1:02:10 ↗ for developing it

1:02:14 ↗ Monica um thank you so much uh good

1:02:17 ↗ evening Madame mayor um and members of

1:02:20 ↗ the council um my name is Monica kraa

1:02:23 ↗ and I'm the services coordinator so yes

1:02:25 ↗ in answering your question in addition

1:02:27 ↗ to advocacy efforts I think the um

1:02:30 ↗ numbers help us uh track um the number

1:02:33 ↗ of people served and the cost that

1:02:36 ↗ organizations ACR so they can also help

1:02:39 ↗ us in long-term planning and being able

1:02:41 ↗ to be more proactive um and just TR

1:02:43 ↗ trying to catch those situations as they

1:02:46 ↗ come early on instead of waiting for

1:02:47 ↗ several months so that's another reason

1:02:50 ↗ why we use it um and then going back uh

1:02:54 ↗ in answering uh City administrator Bob

1:02:56 ↗ KT's question uh a brief update on the

1:02:59 ↗ federal cares act funding um so far we

1:03:02 ↗ were able to draft up the contracts and

1:03:05 ↗ we also just received uh legal um review

1:03:09 ↗ on them um so we are ready to uh begin

1:03:13 ↗ Services uh the initial allocations

1:03:16 ↗ remained pretty much the same the only

1:03:18 ↗ difference is a $10,000 difference that

1:03:20 ↗ one of the smaller organizations uh

1:03:23 ↗ decided to give back and therefore we

1:03:26 ↗ allocated that $10,000 to the food bank

1:03:28 ↗ because the needs are the highest there

1:03:30 ↗ so other than that U all the other

1:03:32 ↗ initial allocations remain the same for

1:03:34 ↗ the

1:03:35 ↗ $200,000 and Monica can you remind us uh

1:03:38 ↗ how that was broken down yes so the food

1:03:41 ↗ bank the isoka food and clothing bank

1:03:43 ↗ now get $60,000 the original allocation

1:03:45 ↗ was

1:03:47 ↗ $50,000 uh East Side baby Corner gets

1:03:50 ↗ $50,000 um East Side friends of seniors

1:03:53 ↗ gets $30,000 000 the original allocation

1:03:56 ↗ here was

1:03:57 ↗ $40,000 um cataly Community Services the

1:04:00 ↗ meals program gets $30,000 and then East

1:04:03 ↗ Side legal assistance also gets

1:04:07 ↗ $30,000 thank you m thank

1:04:10 ↗ you Madame mayor I'm not seeing any

1:04:12 ↗ other questions on the Human Services

1:04:15 ↗ side so we'll move on next to finance

1:04:18 ↗ obviously uh the council has spent a lot

1:04:20 ↗ of time talking about budget this year

1:04:23 ↗ uh we've gone through two rounds of

1:04:25 ↗ budget reductions uh we will be coming

1:04:27 ↗ back to you on August 11th with our

1:04:29 ↗ midyear budget report um I think as we

1:04:32 ↗ have have talked a little bit uh in

1:04:34 ↗ recent weeks uh our our budget

1:04:36 ↗ projections unfortunately seem to be on

1:04:38 ↗ track uh with a 20% reduction uh in

1:04:42 ↗ revenues so still uh what we're looking

1:04:44 ↗ at we'll have more precise numbers for

1:04:46 ↗ you on August 11th um the adjustments to

1:04:50 ↗ the workforce you're familiar with uh

1:04:52 ↗ the utility billing relief uh

1:04:54 ↗ unfortunately only seven customers have

1:04:56 ↗ applied for flexible payments about two

1:04:58 ↗ weeks ago we did a large push on social

1:05:00 ↗ media uh in order to uh make people

1:05:03 ↗ aware of uh of this so we will continue

1:05:06 ↗ to uh Reach Out periodically uh to

1:05:10 ↗ inform folks if they need assistance uh

1:05:12 ↗ that that assistance is available uh the

1:05:15 ↗ federal uh cares act funding from the

1:05:17 ↗ state of Washington we've we've talked

1:05:19 ↗ about was allocated on June 22nd I think

1:05:22 ↗ as many of you are aware the Congress is

1:05:25 ↗ coming back into session in Washington

1:05:26 ↗ DC uh there I think there's an

1:05:28 ↗ expectation that there will be yet

1:05:29 ↗ another package of relief uh coming from

1:05:33 ↗ the Congress over the next several weeks

1:05:35 ↗ uh the national league of cities us

1:05:37 ↗ Conference of Mayors uh other local

1:05:39 ↗ government groups are pushing very hard

1:05:42 ↗ uh for a an inclusion of relief for

1:05:45 ↗ state and the local governments

1:05:47 ↗ unfortunately uh doesn't seem like

1:05:49 ↗ that's gaining a lot of traction so we

1:05:50 ↗ have not budgeted any additional

1:05:53 ↗ anticipated Revenue from the federal

1:05:55 ↗ government uh but I think we'll have a

1:05:57 ↗ much better idea by the time we see you

1:05:59 ↗ on August 11th um business and

1:06:02 ↗ operations tax relief um we continue to

1:06:05 ↗ track that very closely uh we are

1:06:07 ↗ identifying businesses that have made no

1:06:09 ↗ payment and that that that are now in

1:06:11 ↗ AAR uh for bno taxes and so we are

1:06:14 ↗ moving forward uh with the process to uh

1:06:18 ↗ remind uh those individual businesses

1:06:20 ↗ that the payment is required and we will

1:06:22 ↗ continue to uh follow up on those

1:06:24 ↗ outstanding payments and then finally uh

1:06:27 ↗ we continue to hope that there'll be

1:06:29 ↗ some FEMA funding uh coming as well for

1:06:31 ↗ expenses associated with the covid-19

1:06:34 ↗ crisis we have not seen any specific

1:06:37 ↗ dollars yet from FEMA so the finance

1:06:39 ↗ piece remains up in the air again uh

1:06:42 ↗ look to the August 11th the study

1:06:44 ↗ session is being the next big update on

1:06:46 ↗ where we are with finances thank you

1:06:48 ↗ City administrator bobit you have a

1:06:49 ↗ couple questions on finance we'll start

1:06:51 ↗ first with council member Walsh thank

1:06:54 ↗ you this is council member Walsh um for

1:06:56 ↗ the bno tax relief you mark that as

1:06:59 ↗ complete for businesses less than

1:07:02 ↗ 500,000 in gross revenue um what ended

1:07:07 ↗ up being the plan there it wasn't just

1:07:10 ↗ the

1:07:11 ↗ delayed um filing was it was there

1:07:14 ↗ something else that was it um I I I

1:07:17 ↗ think we need to probably broaden this

1:07:18 ↗ just to to monitor uh where we are with

1:07:22 ↗ the with the relief so um again we're

1:07:25 ↗ seeing a mixed bag on compliance uh for

1:07:28 ↗ those who were not part of the uh uh

1:07:31 ↗ $500,000 or less so businesses more than

1:07:34 ↗ $500,000 and so we're just going to have

1:07:36 ↗ to monitor that

1:07:37 ↗ carefully okay and do we have a plan to

1:07:41 ↗ bring that data back to us at some point

1:07:43 ↗ uh I imagine we'll have that as part of

1:07:45 ↗ the August 11th meeting okay thank you

1:07:48 ↗ thank you council member Walsh council

1:07:50 ↗ member Hall has a

1:07:52 ↗ question thank you Mar poly this is city

1:07:55 ↗ council member Zach Hall I had a

1:07:56 ↗ question about the utility building

1:07:58 ↗ relief um I'm actually just thumbing

1:08:00 ↗ through my Andy Dandy City this water

1:08:03 ↗ quality

1:08:05 ↗ report because I have it within's reach

1:08:07 ↗ I was wondering with uh if it's possible

1:08:10 ↗ for us to start advertising our utility

1:08:12 ↗ we need programs especially around water

1:08:14 ↗ in that seems like it's kind of a missed

1:08:16 ↗ opportunity that it's not so I thought

1:08:19 ↗ maybe there's some reason

1:08:21 ↗ between uh you I I think anytime we talk

1:08:24 ↗ about putting something in the utility

1:08:26 ↗ bills the sheer amount of paper that is

1:08:28 ↗ involved uh is something that we have to

1:08:30 ↗ weigh uh we have been putting

1:08:32 ↗ information on uh envelopes and so I

1:08:35 ↗ will follow up with the finance staff to

1:08:37 ↗ see since the envelope is certainly a

1:08:39 ↗ piece of paper we can't avoid uh if

1:08:41 ↗ there's an opportunity to use the back

1:08:43 ↗ of the envelope as an as a way to

1:08:45 ↗ publicize that relief

1:08:49 ↗ program thank you council member Hall um

1:08:52 ↗ and thank you for that suggestion to the

1:08:54 ↗ minister Bob quitz because uh I think it

1:08:56 ↗ would be great to keep reporting out on

1:08:57 ↗ this as we see participation

1:08:59 ↗ increase uh next you're on to

1:09:03 ↗ communication yes

1:09:05 ↗ um again we've done a lot in the last

1:09:08 ↗ several months between the mayor's uh

1:09:11 ↗ newsletters uh the information we've had

1:09:13 ↗ on the website uh we've done several

1:09:15 ↗ neighborhood community forums which I

1:09:17 ↗ know you're aware of and a few more are

1:09:19 ↗ in the planning stages we found that uh

1:09:21 ↗ people are comfortable uh with using the

1:09:24 ↗ video uh uh chat format to have these

1:09:27 ↗ meetings and so we will continue to do

1:09:29 ↗ that we UT them on hand the assistant to

1:09:32 ↗ the city administrator gave a report a

1:09:33 ↗ couple of meetings ago on that uh clerk

1:09:36 ↗ gezer next slide please next

1:09:41 ↗ page uh we've done a lot uh also with

1:09:44 ↗ videos we'll continue uh to do that uh

1:09:47 ↗ with videos we've been able to post the

1:09:50 ↗ uh uh recovery task force meetings on on

1:09:53 ↗ online and and and segment out the

1:09:56 ↗ particular discussions uh those have

1:09:57 ↗ been very well received uh and then the

1:10:00 ↗ increased use of social media um

1:10:02 ↗ Facebook Twitter next door uh we're

1:10:04 ↗ using that more and more in order to

1:10:06 ↗ connect with people about what's going

1:10:08 ↗ on um on all facets of of city

1:10:12 ↗ government uh don't see any questions um

1:10:17 ↗ I'm going to have Jen Davis Hayes at the

1:10:20 ↗ end of I'll give a brief overview of

1:10:22 ↗ most of the items here and then I'll

1:10:24 ↗ have her pick up a few of them uh at the

1:10:27 ↗ end um we continue to work uh with our

1:10:31 ↗ uh uh Partners Economic Development

1:10:33 ↗ Partners on the status of business

1:10:34 ↗ operations we've done a couple different

1:10:36 ↗ surveys I think at this point we're

1:10:38 ↗ really just a day-to-day week to week uh

1:10:41 ↗ regular Communications as to what is

1:10:43 ↗ going on with businesses in isqua um the

1:10:46 ↗ business support certainly uh the

1:10:48 ↗ bilocal campaign the isqua loyal uh has

1:10:51 ↗ has been starting up we did some

1:10:53 ↗ advertising with that with the Fourth of

1:10:55 ↗ July parade we've got banners uh that

1:10:58 ↗ are about ready to go up uh so we will

1:11:00 ↗ continue to reinforce uh that biocal

1:11:03 ↗ campaign uh on consumer support uh we've

1:11:06 ↗ talked a little bit about the social

1:11:08 ↗ distancing protocols as we hear from uh

1:11:10 ↗ businesses patrons of businesses we

1:11:12 ↗ follow up with those restaurants uh the

1:11:14 ↗ Eide app uh that has been used for

1:11:18 ↗ restaurants continues to move forward uh

1:11:20 ↗ the suspension on the pass through

1:11:22 ↗ charge on recycled

1:11:24 ↗ uh uh paper carry out bags the

1:11:26 ↗ suspension of that charge continues

1:11:29 ↗ however mayor Paulie has informed the

1:11:31 ↗ grocery stores that uh beginning August

1:11:33 ↗ 1st um they will need to go back to

1:11:36 ↗ paper bags so we have had Communications

1:11:39 ↗ uh from grocery stores and the grocery

1:11:41 ↗ store industry here in Washington State

1:11:43 ↗ uh concerned about that uh and the mayor

1:11:45 ↗ continues to meet with representatives

1:11:47 ↗ of the grocery store associations um to

1:11:50 ↗ perhaps have a short-term waiver if

1:11:53 ↗ those businesses can demonstrate that

1:11:55 ↗ they are unable uh to purchase those

1:11:57 ↗ bags and mayor Paulie I don't know if

1:11:59 ↗ you wanted to to share anything

1:12:01 ↗ specifically about that I know that you

1:12:02 ↗ and uh Megan uh Curtis Murphy our

1:12:05 ↗ sustainability coordinator have had

1:12:07 ↗ conversations with the industry

1:12:09 ↗ association yes thank you City

1:12:11 ↗ administrator Bob quits I have received

1:12:13 ↗ numerous um calls complaints emails from

1:12:17 ↗ folks that are disappointed with the

1:12:18 ↗ amount of plastic bag usage that's going

1:12:20 ↗ on and also suggestions about how under

1:12:24 ↗ the current covid phase that we're in

1:12:26 ↗ could re reusable bags come back into

1:12:29 ↗ the forum is there a way that you can

1:12:31 ↗ you know bag your own groceries and

1:12:33 ↗ signage could be put up encouraging you

1:12:35 ↗ to do that so that we get back off of

1:12:37 ↗ the band wig and of using plastic bags

1:12:39 ↗ and even paper bags and using our own

1:12:41 ↗ bags again so those are sort of the two

1:12:43 ↗ parts of our conversation what can the

1:12:46 ↗ market supply and can we move into a

1:12:48 ↗ safer protocol for bringing back your

1:12:49 ↗ own bag it's kind of like a a Hallmark

1:12:51 ↗ of isaquel wanting to be out in front of

1:12:54 ↗ us so I feel now like this is a time to

1:12:56 ↗ push again thank

1:12:58 ↗ you um other items here uh construction

1:13:03 ↗ uh continues to to move forward and and

1:13:06 ↗ those restrictions have been lifted um M

1:13:08 ↗ Davis hay will talk in a moment about

1:13:10 ↗ the cares act funding uh for businesses

1:13:13 ↗ that we've been working on I want to

1:13:15 ↗ talk a little bit about Village Theater

1:13:17 ↗ and uh council member Goodman uh

1:13:19 ↗ reported on the lodging tax advisory

1:13:21 ↗ committee's uh uh declining to move

1:13:23 ↗ forward with the request for $25,000 in

1:13:26 ↗ funds for Village Theater a similar

1:13:28 ↗ request was made to the Arts commission

1:13:30 ↗ and the Arts commission agreed to that

1:13:32 ↗ so we will be coming back to the Council

1:13:35 ↗ on August 3rd with the appropriate uh

1:13:37 ↗ action to allocate that $25,000 uh to

1:13:41 ↗ the Village Theater uh certainly over

1:13:43 ↗ the last several weeks uh we've been

1:13:45 ↗ hearing from our tourist serving

1:13:47 ↗ businesses uh certainly in addition to

1:13:49 ↗ the Village Theater uh both mayor and I

1:13:51 ↗ have been in touch with Cougar Mountain

1:13:53 ↗ Zoo

1:13:54 ↗ um and they're very disappointed at the

1:13:55 ↗ support that they're getting uh from

1:13:57 ↗ visit isap uh the organization charged

1:14:01 ↗ with the tourism issues um other

1:14:03 ↗ organizations that uh depend on uh

1:14:06 ↗ tourists uh clearly there's a disconnect

1:14:09 ↗ and it's something that uh I'm concerned

1:14:11 ↗ about and I know that members of the

1:14:12 ↗ council and the mayor are concerned

1:14:13 ↗ about and it's something that will

1:14:15 ↗ continue to uh uh pursue visitus Squad

1:14:19 ↗ as many of you know receed a little over

1:14:21 ↗ $300,000 uh in City funds through the

1:14:24 ↗ lodging tax uh this year about $100,000

1:14:28 ↗ of that was for events that are not

1:14:30 ↗ taking place so is there an opportunity

1:14:32 ↗ for that $100,000 to be repurposed to

1:14:35 ↗ support those tourist serving businesses

1:14:37 ↗ that are really uh in some very

1:14:39 ↗ difficult Straits The Cougar Mountain

1:14:40 ↗ Zoo for example is open and they are

1:14:43 ↗ probably the the largest business in

1:14:45 ↗ isqua DEA serving a tourist that's

1:14:48 ↗ actually open and operating uh and they

1:14:50 ↗ are struggling and they would certainly

1:14:51 ↗ appreciate help uh I reached out to

1:14:54 ↗ council member Walsh a few days ago she

1:14:56 ↗ has some spe particular expertise in the

1:14:58 ↗ area of internet marketing and

1:15:00 ↗ advertising and use of social media and

1:15:02 ↗ so she graciously agreed to help them uh

1:15:05 ↗ but there's other uh businesses other

1:15:07 ↗ nonprofits that really depend on uh

1:15:09 ↗ tourists uh that uh I think as a city we

1:15:12 ↗ need to do a better job of uh connecting

1:15:15 ↗ those needs with available dollars that

1:15:17 ↗ are out there so um I plan to come back

1:15:19 ↗ to the council in the next few meetings

1:15:21 ↗ to talk further about this but I think

1:15:23 ↗ this is an emerging issue uh an issue

1:15:25 ↗ that really is going to require the city

1:15:27 ↗ council's attention over the next few

1:15:29 ↗ weeks um next page clerk keer before you

1:15:32 ↗ go on um administrator Bob quits I'd

1:15:35 ↗ like to add something to that um it's

1:15:37 ↗ been a very bizarre and challenging four

1:15:40 ↗ months and I think we are really using

1:15:44 ↗ the Mantra of everybody has to take a

1:15:47 ↗ covid lens to what they had planned to

1:15:49 ↗ do for this year and really think about

1:15:52 ↗ resource

1:15:53 ↗ and where they can have the most impact

1:15:56 ↗ so it's really not business as usual we

1:15:58 ↗ have to be creative this year and just

1:16:00 ↗ as one of our council members will be

1:16:02 ↗ bringing up something at good of the

1:16:03 ↗ order it's again encouraging all those

1:16:06 ↗ partners that we work with to be very

1:16:09 ↗ very creative this is a really

1:16:12 ↗ ridiculously difficult time so it's the

1:16:15 ↗ same with the tourism where're also

1:16:17 ↗ we're taking that same lens to everybody

1:16:19 ↗ what are you doing different during

1:16:20 ↗ covid and what can you do that can be

1:16:21 ↗ most impactful so thank you City

1:16:23 ↗ administrat

1:16:25 ↗ Bob May m mayor let me introduce Jen

1:16:27 ↗ David Hayes our economic development

1:16:29 ↗ manager and let her touch a little bit

1:16:31 ↗ on the Streeter information that's

1:16:32 ↗ included in your packet uh and I know

1:16:34 ↗ that she also wants to give you some

1:16:36 ↗ other updates Miss Davis Hayes you on

1:16:38 ↗ the line yes thank you uh City

1:16:41 ↗ administrator Bob ktz good evening

1:16:42 ↗ council members and Madame mayor um I'm

1:16:44 ↗ going to provide some more details about

1:16:47 ↗ three items under the business recovery

1:16:48 ↗ plan um the first one is the small

1:16:51 ↗ business grants that we

1:16:53 ↗ um have been working on so as a previous

1:16:55 ↗ council meeting um Council authorized

1:16:59 ↗ $550,000 for business grants $500,000 of

1:17:02 ↗ that for a small business response grant

1:17:05 ↗ program and $50,000 for a business

1:17:07 ↗ reinvention grant so that

1:17:10 ↗ $500,000 pool was opened um and

1:17:13 ↗ accepting applications from July 1st to

1:17:15 ↗ the 15th and uh since writing the the

1:17:19 ↗ the memo in the packet we've started to

1:17:21 ↗ review the applications elig eligibility

1:17:24 ↗ can share some additional information um

1:17:26 ↗ we received 220 total applications the

1:17:29 ↗ memo stated eight more because there

1:17:31 ↗ were some duplicates and some test

1:17:32 ↗ applications when we pulled that out um

1:17:36 ↗ 140 of those applications so over 60%

1:17:39 ↗ were either women-owned or

1:17:40 ↗ minority-owned businesses they

1:17:42 ↗ collectively employ over 1,400 people

1:17:46 ↗ and they've collectively laid off over

1:17:48 ↗ eight I'm sorry 500 people um if we were

1:17:51 ↗ if we were able to to

1:17:53 ↗ um if all of them received some funding

1:17:55 ↗ we would uh be able to save 700 jobs and

1:17:59 ↗ that would require us to spend over $2

1:18:01 ↗ million so we um won't be able to fund

1:18:04 ↗ everybody but we know that that th those

1:18:06 ↗ that will receive funding will have a

1:18:09 ↗ large impact on the business and on jobs

1:18:11 ↗ here in isqua so this week we will

1:18:13 ↗ continue to review for eligibility and

1:18:15 ↗ expect to announce Awards by early

1:18:17 ↗ August and we'll rep provide a report of

1:18:19 ↗ the summary application data and Grant

1:18:21 ↗ awarde to council the future the second

1:18:25 ↗ grant program is the business

1:18:26 ↗ reinvention grant and the economic

1:18:29 ↗ Vitality commission met on July 15 to

1:18:32 ↗ begin to create eligibility and review

1:18:34 ↗ criteria the I the concept of that Grant

1:18:36 ↗ is support adaption and Creative

1:18:38 ↗ Solutions that uh business have had to

1:18:40 ↗ do because of covid-19 so that could

1:18:43 ↗ include new technologies physical

1:18:45 ↗ changes to businesses and other aspects

1:18:48 ↗ we recognize that many businesses are

1:18:49 ↗ very creative so these are examples

1:18:51 ↗ rather than must be criteria um and the

1:18:55 ↗ uh three members of the E economic

1:18:58 ↗ Vitality commission along with Ed staff

1:19:00 ↗ will uh be the review panel for that the

1:19:03 ↗ grant is expected to launch early August

1:19:06 ↗ and information will posted on our

1:19:07 ↗ website when details are finalized one

1:19:09 ↗ small thing to note um any business that

1:19:12 ↗ receives a grant from the small business

1:19:13 ↗ response Grant Pool for that larger pool

1:19:16 ↗ um will not be eligible for this funding

1:19:18 ↗ we want to make sure that we support as

1:19:19 ↗ many businesses as possible in this a

1:19:21 ↗ CLA

1:19:23 ↗ um and then I was going to provide um

1:19:25 ↗ some more details about the Streeter you

1:19:27 ↗ had a lot of uh input this uh earlier in

1:19:30 ↗ the meeting and as um we mentioned the

1:19:32 ↗ uh we will be going moving forward with

1:19:34 ↗ the streety um in until the end of

1:19:37 ↗ September um again most the information

1:19:39 ↗ you heard or have read in the packet the

1:19:41 ↗ business impact most of the restaurants

1:19:43 ↗ have increased sales compared to

1:19:45 ↗ previous out uh weeks of covid-19 and

1:19:49 ↗ some as much as prior to

1:19:51 ↗ covid-19 um Community response has been

1:19:54 ↗ overly uh overwhelmingly positive um the

1:19:56 ↗ mayor continues to get emails but had

1:19:58 ↗ over 37 or so emails supporting strong

1:20:01 ↗ support from residents throughout the

1:20:02 ↗ city um we believe that traffic and

1:20:04 ↗ parking impacts were pretty limited uh

1:20:06 ↗ we've been doing traffic counts and

1:20:08 ↗ monitoring parking um and uh about

1:20:11 ↗ social distancing and masks um we

1:20:14 ↗ recognize the need to do a little bit

1:20:15 ↗ more with signage the second weekend and

1:20:17 ↗ Dia distributed over 700 math that

1:20:20 ↗ second weekend so again really um seeing

1:20:22 ↗ that the public wants to follow those uh

1:20:25 ↗ regulations and and make sure they're

1:20:26 ↗ being safe as well um so overall we're

1:20:29 ↗ excited that um this that this has been

1:20:32 ↗ successful for most businesses and we'll

1:20:34 ↗ continue to work with businesses um uh

1:20:37 ↗ to be able to expand their business

1:20:39 ↗ operations and um remind people that is

1:20:42 ↗ it's not a gathering or social event but

1:20:44 ↗ it's a place to come and do business and

1:20:45 ↗ we know that our community members will

1:20:47 ↗ respect that um and then the third one

1:20:49 ↗ is just really quickly about isqua loyal

1:20:51 ↗ so that is are by local program and as

1:20:55 ↗ um Council I'm sorry as uh City

1:20:57 ↗ administrator Bob ktz mentioned that

1:20:58 ↗ will you'll begin to see posters and um

1:21:02 ↗ banners in this next coming week um

1:21:04 ↗ we're going to be doing some social

1:21:05 ↗ media ads and video push next week and

1:21:08 ↗ um vision partners and businesses will

1:21:10 ↗ also start to utilize the logo we'll

1:21:11 ↗ make that uh available next week um and

1:21:15 ↗ so as uh right currently the car magnets

1:21:18 ↗ that were used for the 4th of July are

1:21:19 ↗ now on inspector's cars for our

1:21:22 ↗ community planning and development

1:21:23 ↗ department and so they're driving

1:21:24 ↗ throughout the city uh as we speak and

1:21:27 ↗ uh later this week we'll be getting some

1:21:28 ↗ car CL some window clings that will not

1:21:30 ↗ only be for businesses to use um on

1:21:33 ↗ their windows but also uh Community

1:21:35 ↗ residents to put on their cars to show

1:21:37 ↗ their isqu pride so those are the three

1:21:39 ↗ items I would provide an update J thank

1:21:42 ↗ you I just want this is the mayor I just

1:21:43 ↗ want to make sure when you get those

1:21:45 ↗ clings there's seven set aside for our

1:21:47 ↗ seven local residents who are here

1:21:50 ↗ tonight oh yes we we will do that for

1:21:53 ↗ sure and so those for others that are

1:21:54 ↗ listening we'll be providing them also

1:21:56 ↗ to businesses throughout the city so um

1:21:59 ↗ we'll uh make sure to be able to to get

1:22:01 ↗ those out broadly and then once City

1:22:03 ↗ Halls are open we'll have them there as

1:22:06 ↗ well thank you City Minister Bob quits

1:22:09 ↗ is there additional presentation

1:22:10 ↗ material or are we through the

1:22:11 ↗ informational item uh there's a couple

1:22:13 ↗ more um if we could go to the next slide

1:22:15 ↗ uh the reduction and Community Services

1:22:17 ↗ I know we've uh we've done information

1:22:19 ↗ about that we're really uh stuck now in

1:22:23 ↗ uh uh phase two and uh we have reopened

1:22:26 ↗ what we can for phase two we are uh not

1:22:29 ↗ going to be making any other changes

1:22:31 ↗ until we get to phase three and it's

1:22:32 ↗ unknown at this point what that will be

1:22:35 ↗ so certainly that has impacted all of

1:22:37 ↗ our summer concerts most of all of our

1:22:40 ↗ uh Community serving summer activities

1:22:41 ↗ we continue to have day camps properly

1:22:44 ↗ social distan um but it's really had a

1:22:47 ↗ huge impact on our ability to provide

1:22:49 ↗ recreational services this summer in the

1:22:52 ↗ general area of recovery the squa

1:22:54 ↗ recovery board excuse me S St bobit you

1:22:57 ↗ do have a council member wishing to make

1:22:59 ↗ a comment before we move to recovery

1:23:02 ↗ sorry about that no worries Deputy

1:23:03 ↗ council president Ray thank you mayor

1:23:06 ↗ Paulie um I have been to the farmers

1:23:09 ↗ market almost every weekend and I I just

1:23:12 ↗ wanted to take advantage of this

1:23:13 ↗ opportunity to to say what an incredible

1:23:17 ↗ job the parks department has done in

1:23:19 ↗ managing that and and making it uh flow

1:23:23 ↗ smoothly um be respectful to our our

1:23:25 ↗ vendors and also keeping people distant

1:23:28 ↗ and safe it's um remarkably well well

1:23:31 ↗ orchestrated um so thank you very

1:23:34 ↗ much thank you Deputy council president

1:23:37 ↗ um sorry City administrator Bob quits go

1:23:39 ↗ ahead so on the recovery side the isqua

1:23:42 ↗ recovery board continues to meet every

1:23:43 ↗ two weeks they have a meeting coming up

1:23:44 ↗ this Thursday isqua school

1:23:46 ↗ superintendent Ron thy will be the guest

1:23:48 ↗ and he will talk about uh the school's

1:23:50 ↗ plans for reopening um I think many of

1:23:53 ↗ you are aware that the district has put

1:23:55 ↗ forward uh a s of framework that they're

1:23:59 ↗ getting Community input on the city is

1:24:01 ↗ concerned about the impacts on our

1:24:02 ↗ operations of this uh uh traffic issues

1:24:05 ↗ how buses will be used and what uh we

1:24:08 ↗ can do to support families if children

1:24:10 ↗ are not uh in school in class five days

1:24:13 ↗ a week so that's a huge uh question mark

1:24:17 ↗ I think for many in the community and

1:24:18 ↗ we're looking at ways that potentially

1:24:20 ↗ we could be supportive in that effort

1:24:22 ↗ but the district uh has yet to make its

1:24:24 ↗ final decisions hopefully superintendent

1:24:26 ↗ deely will have more information for the

1:24:27 ↗ board uh this coming Thursday at its

1:24:30 ↗ last meeting it heard from uh the

1:24:32 ↗ executive director of The Cougar

1:24:35 ↗ Mountain Zoo and the Village Theater

1:24:37 ↗ again really reinforcing the difficulty

1:24:39 ↗ that our tourist serving businesses are

1:24:41 ↗ having in the community and that was a

1:24:42 ↗ great discussion to hear especially what

1:24:44 ↗ the zoo has been through um the animals

1:24:48 ↗ need to eat and uh the uh information

1:24:51 ↗ that we received uh really uh shows what

1:24:53 ↗ a remarkable effort uh that the zoo has

1:24:56 ↗ done toh keep its doors open um so that

1:24:59 ↗ was I think very structive for the

1:25:00 ↗ recovery board in the area of social

1:25:02 ↗ distancing protocols this really refers

1:25:04 ↗ to City operations as you all know our

1:25:07 ↗ city uh office facilities remain closed

1:25:10 ↗ to the public uh certainly our Police

1:25:12 ↗ Department our field staff and Public

1:25:14 ↗ Works operations uh uh Recreation

1:25:17 ↗ services uh uh facility maintenance all

1:25:21 ↗ continue to work but we have many many

1:25:23 ↗ folks that are several months into

1:25:25 ↗ working from home and we continue to

1:25:27 ↗ work with employees to uh look at what

1:25:30 ↗ the world will be like when we come back

1:25:32 ↗ to work we really have no date uh for

1:25:34 ↗ when city offices will be reopened many

1:25:36 ↗ of our employees are concerned about

1:25:39 ↗ their own children uh if they go back to

1:25:41 ↗ school or don't go back to school and

1:25:43 ↗ what flexibility we can provide our

1:25:45 ↗ staff if they are uh entering the fall

1:25:47 ↗ with school age children still at home

1:25:49 ↗ and they themselves are still at home so

1:25:51 ↗ we're working a department by Department

1:25:53 ↗ to uh come up with plans uh that make

1:25:56 ↗ sense for our own staff we continue to

1:25:58 ↗ make sure that those staff that are

1:25:59 ↗ working at City facilities are wearing

1:26:01 ↗ masks keep appropriate social distancing

1:26:05 ↗ um next page clerk

1:26:14 ↗ teaser and

1:26:16 ↗ that's I believe the end of the list so

1:26:19 ↗ Madame mayor thank you uh members of the

1:26:21 ↗ council thank you for for letting us go

1:26:23 ↗ through this has been several weeks

1:26:25 ↗ since we''ve uh uh had an opportunity to

1:26:27 ↗ go through what we've done uh regarding

1:26:30 ↗ the covid-19 crisis uh if there's any

1:26:33 ↗ final questions happy to answer them

1:26:35 ↗ otherwise that concludes our report

1:26:37 ↗ there there does appear to be another

1:26:39 ↗ question um before I go to the question

1:26:41 ↗ I just want to really really thank the

1:26:43 ↗ administration and the staff for the

1:26:44 ↗ incredible work you've done to Pivot so

1:26:47 ↗ quickly and organize yourself so well in

1:26:50 ↗ response to covid and be able to to

1:26:52 ↗ clearly articulate what all those

1:26:54 ↗ different steps and changes were I I

1:26:56 ↗ think it's been outstanding and we will

1:26:58 ↗ go to council member hall for a

1:27:01 ↗ question thank you mayor paully this is

1:27:04 ↗ Council mov at call I just a real quick

1:27:06 ↗ ask to

1:27:08 ↗ um these departmental discussions uh on

1:27:11 ↗ like child care and flexibility for

1:27:13 ↗ employees can you keep us in the loop on

1:27:15 ↗ that as that develops that's

1:27:18 ↗ interesting certainly we absolutely can

1:27:21 ↗ thank you council member Hall so it

1:27:23 ↗ looks like we are at the end of

1:27:25 ↗ questions or comments for that

1:27:28 ↗ item and I'm going to go to council

1:27:32 ↗ president oh sorry did I not do that yet

1:27:35 ↗ I'm going to go to council president

1:27:36 ↗ hunt um to ask if the council had

1:27:38 ↗ received any email comments to summarize

1:27:41 ↗ on this item thank you um yes we did

1:27:44 ↗ receive many um email comments uh mostly

1:27:48 ↗ in regards to this treatery we also re

1:27:52 ↗ received a comment um regarding the

1:27:54 ↗ business grants that um the person that

1:27:57 ↗ wrote To Us was not in favor of the

1:27:59 ↗ random selection Pro process of um

1:28:01 ↗ selecting businesses for the cares act

1:28:04 ↗ funding business grants and would be in

1:28:06 ↗ favor of a more structured way of giving

1:28:08 ↗ that um funding and then regarding the

1:28:11 ↗ streetery um Jen Davis Hayes did give a

1:28:14 ↗ overview I just wanted to reiterate we

1:28:17 ↗ received um I counted about 35 or so um

1:28:22 ↗ we received several more today positive

1:28:24 ↗ comments about this treatery from both

1:28:26 ↗ people that attended and um people that

1:28:30 ↗ were the business owners or were working

1:28:32 ↗ in the businesses that participated in

1:28:35 ↗ the streetery some of the um some of the

1:28:38 ↗ other comments were

1:28:41 ↗ around more signage and more awareness

1:28:45 ↗ um in terms of having banners or having

1:28:48 ↗ more information for folks about what

1:28:50 ↗ was actually going on and why there was

1:28:52 ↗ a detour and why the street was

1:28:54 ↗ closed um additionally there were

1:28:58 ↗ comments about um liking to be outdoors

1:29:01 ↗ and the effect of the weather and a

1:29:03 ↗ number of other things that also came up

1:29:05 ↗ in the public comments um so those were

1:29:08 ↗ overwhelmingly positive and then we did

1:29:10 ↗ also receive some comments that were

1:29:13 ↗ opposed to the continuation of the

1:29:16 ↗ streetery um one person that wrote to us

1:29:20 ↗ um was concerned about retail being hurt

1:29:23 ↗ by the closure of the street and um

1:29:26 ↗ additionally One restaurant that was

1:29:29 ↗ also

1:29:30 ↗ um that also was opposed to the um

1:29:34 ↗ closure of the street because of the

1:29:35 ↗ effect on business and then additionally

1:29:39 ↗ there were some suggestions about

1:29:41 ↗ changes to times um so there was some

1:29:45 ↗ people who wanted it to be changed for

1:29:47 ↗ example from um 3: to midnight on Friday

1:29:50 ↗ and Saturday and then then um some other

1:29:53 ↗ changes about different timing that

1:29:55 ↗ might um better accommodate different

1:29:58 ↗ sorts of businesses and also I think

1:30:00 ↗ accommodate

1:30:01 ↗ traffic

1:30:03 ↗ um let's see and then also there was

1:30:06 ↗ some uh comment to the effect of that we

1:30:09 ↗ really need to be consistent about the

1:30:11 ↗ need for um wearing masks and the safety

1:30:14 ↗ measures that are so important to

1:30:16 ↗ keeping this um sort of event

1:30:20 ↗ continuing thank you council president

1:30:24 ↗ hunt and I going to go to council member

1:30:27 ↗ Goodman for a

1:30:29 ↗ question uh thank you Madame mayor

1:30:31 ↗ council member Goodman here um we did

1:30:33 ↗ have a question um from the public about

1:30:36 ↗ the city's overall cost um in the

1:30:39 ↗ streetery uh and so I I think the

1:30:42 ↗ question really is about um total costs

1:30:46 ↗ including in kind costs is there a sense

1:30:48 ↗ of um what the total costs are this is

1:30:53 ↗ probably something for the

1:31:00 ↗ administrator mayor council member

1:31:03 ↗ Goodman I'll I'll ask Jen Davis Hayes to

1:31:06 ↗ give sort of a general estimate both the

1:31:08 ↗ staff time and then the the costs

1:31:10 ↗ associated with the equipment that was

1:31:12 ↗ been needed thank

1:31:14 ↗ you yeah so we we the costs actual cash

1:31:17 ↗ costs um which have included for

1:31:19 ↗ equipment rental and signage and some

1:31:21 ↗ over time has been about

1:31:23 ↗ $14,000 and now that equipment rental

1:31:26 ↗ cost will not have to be re uh spent

1:31:28 ↗ again because we have that through the

1:31:30 ↗ summer for the equipment rental um and

1:31:33 ↗ then as far as staff hours um I would I

1:31:36 ↗ had we have not tracked that closely uh

1:31:39 ↗ at least I don't have that my fingertips

1:31:40 ↗ I should say um but I would say we we

1:31:43 ↗ probably have put in um you know

1:31:46 ↗ probably with both uh Stephen Padua and

1:31:49 ↗ myself maybe about 20 hours a week plus

1:31:52 ↗ uh in the plan in the weeks that had

1:31:54 ↗ happened and then some planning hours

1:31:55 ↗ before that so um we can get the exact

1:31:58 ↗ numbers um for you but I think now that

1:32:01 ↗ it will be continued it'll be it'll be

1:32:03 ↗ less ramping up and unraveling which

1:32:05 ↗ took a lot of time um once we decided to

1:32:07 ↗ put a pause on it which was

1:32:09 ↗ understandable and if Madame mayor

1:32:11 ↗ council member good if I could just add

1:32:14 ↗ uh we also have overtime associated with

1:32:16 ↗ the actual setup and takeown of the

1:32:18 ↗ barricades so M David Hayes and Mr pad

1:32:21 ↗ has time is is generally straight time

1:32:23 ↗ so it's not an additional cost but there

1:32:25 ↗ is the cost associated with the setup

1:32:27 ↗ and

1:32:28 ↗ takeown it's it's minor it's a sure it's

1:32:31 ↗ a couple of hours uh on either side sure

1:32:35 ↗ um I just think I think it was a good

1:32:37 ↗ question in the interest of in the

1:32:39 ↗ interest of transparency um just to know

1:32:41 ↗ what the overall costs are for this

1:32:43 ↗ program um but that has seems to be

1:32:46 ↗ overwhelmingly popular anyway thank you

1:32:48 ↗ very much thank you council member

1:32:50 ↗ Goodman um City Bob quit I'm not sure if

1:32:52 ↗ it was in the presentation materials or

1:32:54 ↗ not but if there is additional funding

1:32:56 ↗ made available through cares or heroes

1:32:58 ↗ or whatever it is would these costs be

1:33:00 ↗ eligible for

1:33:02 ↗ reimbursement uh based on Madame mayor

1:33:04 ↗ members of the council based on the uh

1:33:06 ↗ um current criteria that the the State

1:33:10 ↗ Department of Commerce and the federal

1:33:11 ↗ government has yes it would thank you

1:33:13 ↗ helpful I didn't know if that would have

1:33:15 ↗ been included or not I am not seeing any

1:33:18 ↗ additional questions at this time I did

1:33:20 ↗ sort of um mess up Council president's

1:33:23 ↗ input on emails because we went section

1:33:25 ↗ by section instead of a complete staff

1:33:27 ↗ presentation so for the next

1:33:29 ↗ presentation council president I will be

1:33:31 ↗ going to you after the staff

1:33:32 ↗ presentation is done prior to questions

1:33:35 ↗ and answers so the next item is ID 0730

1:33:39 ↗ housing stability during covid-19

1:33:41 ↗ emergency and I'd like to ask human

1:33:43 ↗ services coordinator Monica Nilla to

1:33:45 ↗ make a

1:33:50 ↗ presentation

1:33:59 ↗ and Monica if you are talking you are

1:34:03 ↗ muted I was talking thank you so much

1:34:06 ↗ and I totally thought I was

1:34:09 ↗ just I was carrying on so thank you yes

1:34:13 ↗ this is Monica Nilla again and thank you

1:34:15 ↗ so much uh mayor Polly and with that uh

1:34:18 ↗ Tisha we can begin the slide we can move

1:34:20 ↗ to the next one

1:34:25 ↗ so tonight I'm here to provide an

1:34:27 ↗ informational update on housing

1:34:28 ↗ stability during the covid-19 emergency

1:34:32 ↗ uh first I will provide a brief overview

1:34:34 ↗ of what housing stability is within the

1:34:36 ↗ local and National context of the

1:34:38 ↗ current pandemic and following that um

1:34:42 ↗ overview I will provide some housing

1:34:44 ↗ options available to Residents in our

1:34:46 ↗ community and some actions the city can

1:34:49 ↗ take uh to provide support

1:34:52 ↗ uh we can move to the next

1:34:54 ↗ slide so in preparing this report we

1:34:57 ↗ received input from legal assistance

1:34:59 ↗ programs that help residents with tenant

1:35:01 ↗ and landlord issues such as King County

1:35:03 ↗ Bar Association or east side legal

1:35:05 ↗ assistance program uh we also heard from

1:35:08 ↗ rental assistance providers such as the

1:35:10 ↗ United Way Home Based program or our

1:35:12 ↗ local providers isqua Community Services

1:35:15 ↗ in s then send the Paul uh we heard from

1:35:17 ↗ residents and then also some other local

1:35:19 ↗ and Regional entities

1:35:21 ↗ uh next slide please

1:35:25 ↗ Tisha oh so while housing stability is

1:35:29 ↗ defined in general terms as having

1:35:31 ↗ Choice over when and under what

1:35:33 ↗ circumstances a household wants to move

1:35:36 ↗ the concept is more complex um because

1:35:39 ↗ housing stability or lack thereof has

1:35:42 ↗ long-term consequ consequences on all

1:35:45 ↗ aspects of a person's life from physical

1:35:48 ↗ and emotional health access to Quality

1:35:50 ↗ education to Social and recreational

1:35:52 ↗ activities employment and so on and so

1:35:56 ↗ in the context of the covid-19 crisis we

1:35:59 ↗ recognize that Across the Nation

1:36:02 ↗ millions of people are experiencing

1:36:04 ↗ significant housing

1:36:06 ↗ instability and uh as you can see

1:36:09 ↗ statistics are somber uh isqua is not an

1:36:11 ↗ isolated

1:36:12 ↗ case according to the most recent data

1:36:15 ↗ about 32% of the households Nationwide

1:36:18 ↗ were unable to make their July payments

1:36:20 ↗ in

1:36:22 ↗ um in our state only nearly 248,000

1:36:26 ↗ households had overd rent in

1:36:29 ↗ June and then locally here in isqua

1:36:32 ↗ based on a brief survey conducted by our

1:36:34 ↗ local rental assistance providers an

1:36:37 ↗ average of 20% of the 1300 units from 12

1:36:41 ↗ different apartment complexes surveyed

1:36:43 ↗ are currently behind in rent this

1:36:46 ↗ translates to an estimated $1.1 million

1:36:49 ↗ in overdue rent

1:36:51 ↗ um of course local income and uh

1:36:54 ↗ lowincome and affordable housing

1:36:57 ↗ providers um experience the highest

1:36:59 ↗ percentage of tenants with overdue rent

1:37:03 ↗ uh and this um reaches sometimes 50 and

1:37:06 ↗ to

1:37:08 ↗ 60% um in your attachment uh in your

1:37:11 ↗ agenda packet I'm sorry uh the

1:37:13 ↗ attachment provides a specific

1:37:14 ↗ information regarding individual

1:37:16 ↗ apartment

1:37:18 ↗ buildings so while preventive measures

1:37:22 ↗ meant to minimize the housing

1:37:23 ↗ instability created by the pandemic have

1:37:26 ↗ been implemented early into the crisis

1:37:29 ↗ um I think we must recognize that needs

1:37:31 ↗ far outweigh the resources and um I

1:37:34 ↗ personally believe that it takes the

1:37:36 ↗ whole Community working together to find

1:37:38 ↗ Solutions and options moving

1:37:40 ↗ forward um we can move to the next slide

1:37:43 ↗ AA thank you so much for helping with

1:37:46 ↗ that so next I will review uh I will

1:37:49 ↗ provide a brief overview of the existing

1:37:52 ↗ and planned efforts to help address

1:37:54 ↗ housing instability uh as well as some

1:37:57 ↗ opportunities for action and support uh

1:38:00 ↗ specifically I will review Federal and

1:38:01 ↗ Regional advocacy options uh some City

1:38:05 ↗ policy considerations rental assistance

1:38:08 ↗ and some other strategies we might want

1:38:09 ↗ to consider next

1:38:13 ↗ slide so for federal and Regional

1:38:15 ↗ advocacy options uh the agenda packet

1:38:18 ↗ includes a sample of Bills currently in

1:38:20 ↗ Congress that directly or indirectly

1:38:22 ↗ address housing stability uh these are

1:38:25 ↗ at various degrees in the process um of

1:38:27 ↗ becoming a law and some of them um are

1:38:30 ↗ more likely to be successful than others

1:38:33 ↗ um new bills are being introduced

1:38:35 ↗ frequently though and and therefore

1:38:37 ↗ monitoring can be challenging uh however

1:38:41 ↗ um advocacy efforts can be meaningful

1:38:45 ↗ and if successful they can be quite

1:38:47 ↗ impactful for our community

1:38:50 ↗ members um um regionally in our state I

1:38:52 ↗ would like like to call out two

1:38:54 ↗ opportunities for advocacy um one is for

1:38:57 ↗ the Recently announced cares act funding

1:39:00 ↗ allocations of $110 million towards an

1:39:04 ↗ tion rent um assistance program by the

1:39:07 ↗ Department of

1:39:08 ↗ Commerce um advocacy opportunities here

1:39:11 ↗ include ensuring a wide and equitable

1:39:13 ↗ distribution of funds time frame for

1:39:16 ↗ funds distribution as well as um program

1:39:20 ↗ implement

1:39:22 ↗ uh Regional rental providers have

1:39:24 ↗ expressed concerns regarding the short

1:39:26 ↗ timeline allotted for spending the money

1:39:28 ↗ uh which is October 2020 and the risk of

1:39:32 ↗ leaving money on the table due to the

1:39:33 ↗ length of time that it takes to process

1:39:36 ↗ these applications so definitely uh

1:39:38 ↗ advocacy opportunity there the other

1:39:41 ↗ advocacy opportunity includes King

1:39:44 ↗ County um where a total of $600,000 in

1:39:48 ↗ Community Development block grants uh

1:39:50 ↗ cdbg G um these are specific for Corona

1:39:53 ↗ virus um funds for rental assistance are

1:39:57 ↗ available to small cities in the

1:39:59 ↗ Northeast sub region which includes

1:40:02 ↗ isqua um the estimated share for isqua

1:40:05 ↗ if equal distribution of funds is made

1:40:08 ↗ is approximately 35 to

1:40:10 ↗ $45,000 um asking the county to release

1:40:14 ↗ funds rapidly for distribution and

1:40:16 ↗ ensure Fair access to all participating

1:40:19 ↗ jurisdictions again could help our

1:40:21 ↗ community members and um just uh draw

1:40:24 ↗ some money to our

1:40:27 ↗ community uh next slide

1:40:30 ↗ please uh next in terms of some City

1:40:33 ↗ policy considerations what you have in

1:40:35 ↗ front of you um are some City specific

1:40:39 ↗ um ordinances that we can review in

1:40:41 ↗ further detail should the governor not

1:40:44 ↗ extend the moratorium on or before

1:40:46 ↗ August 1st um quick notes Seattle and

1:40:50 ↗ King County recently passed ordinances

1:40:52 ↗ providing for tenant protections um and

1:40:55 ↗ the table provides a summary of the

1:40:57 ↗ options included um next

1:41:03 ↗ slide in terms of rental assistance um

1:41:07 ↗ the following is a list of current and

1:41:10 ↗ upcoming granal Assistance programs

1:41:12 ↗ available to residents and landlords

1:41:14 ↗ locally and

1:41:15 ↗ regionally um I we just talked about the

1:41:18 ↗ Department of Commerce money and King

1:41:20 ↗ County t cdbg uh in addition to those

1:41:23 ↗ two the Seattle Foundation recently

1:41:26 ↗ allocated um uh funds for rental

1:41:29 ↗ assistance and there are two

1:41:31 ↗ organizations that we contract with

1:41:34 ↗ Excuse me and that also serve isqua

1:41:37 ↗ residents one is the Muslim Community

1:41:39 ↗ Resource Center and CRC uh which

1:41:42 ↗ received

1:41:43 ↗ $100,000 and they serve all uh residents

1:41:47 ↗ regarding uh regardless of religion

1:41:49 ↗ ethnicity or affiliation and also India

1:41:52 ↗ Association of Western Washington who

1:41:54 ↗ received

1:41:55 ↗ $25,000 um in addition the E King County

1:41:58 ↗ Community Fund um recently was created

1:42:02 ↗ and they are currently um raising funds

1:42:05 ↗ their goal is to raise initially $2

1:42:07 ↗ million for the East King County um

1:42:10 ↗ imagine housing the rental assistance

1:42:12 ↗ program uh they created recently uh they

1:42:15 ↗ started uh with $100,000 towards rental

1:42:19 ↗ assistance for imagine housing residents

1:42:23 ↗ and then of course um our two small

1:42:25 ↗ organizations continue to provide rental

1:42:27 ↗ assistance at this time um is a

1:42:30 ↗ community services and same V

1:42:33 ↗ Sendo so in addition to funding

1:42:35 ↗ consideration may also be given to some

1:42:38 ↗ um ideas that we heard and we thought

1:42:40 ↗ that they were more creative in terms of

1:42:43 ↗ frontal assistance uh such as um as I

1:42:47 ↗ just mentioned building capacity um and

1:42:49 ↗ um providing for opportunities for um

1:42:53 ↗ different organizations to collaborate

1:42:55 ↗ so they can help each other um then work

1:42:57 ↗ with rental assistance providers to

1:42:59 ↗ consider temporary negotiations with

1:43:01 ↗ landlords um to accept 80% of the rent

1:43:06 ↗ as an example as full satisfaction of

1:43:08 ↗ rent obligations with no late fees um or

1:43:11 ↗ just negotiate with larger developers in

1:43:14 ↗ bulk um and sign Collective agreements

1:43:16 ↗ just to um help with uh timeline and

1:43:20 ↗ efficiency

1:43:22 ↗ uh and with that we can move to the next

1:43:28 ↗ slide for some other strategies to

1:43:31 ↗ consider I heard earlier tonight about

1:43:34 ↗ um needing to come up with creative

1:43:37 ↗ ideas and strategies during the covid

1:43:40 ↗ crisis and personally I've been involved

1:43:43 ↗ and I hear from so many residents or

1:43:45 ↗ smaller organizations and I hear um many

1:43:49 ↗ creative ideas um recently for example I

1:43:52 ↗ heard from a bride who um had her

1:43:55 ↗ wedding cancelled and she decided to

1:43:57 ↗ donate um in food the deposit um that

1:44:01 ↗ they had put towards food and so they

1:44:03 ↗ used that deposit to donate the food to

1:44:05 ↗ one of the meals programs I also heard

1:44:08 ↗ for example from um a retired um

1:44:13 ↗ professional in the banking industry who

1:44:15 ↗ wanted to provide services and so forth

1:44:18 ↗ so um I think that involving the

1:44:20 ↗ community of large um identifying the

1:44:22 ↗ volunteer professionals uh with

1:44:24 ↗ expertise in various domains uh from

1:44:27 ↗ business to finances banking or social

1:44:30 ↗ services uh inviting faith based

1:44:32 ↗ organizations to be actively involved

1:44:35 ↗ partner and serve um during these times

1:44:38 ↗ can provide for opportunities to

1:44:40 ↗ identify joint and Creative Solutions

1:44:43 ↗ and so um possible actions um to

1:44:45 ↗ consider could include um technical

1:44:47 ↗ assistance for Supportive Housing

1:44:49 ↗ providers Financial education and

1:44:51 ↗ consultation for residents uh retraining

1:44:54 ↗ employment and educational programs or

1:44:57 ↗ even forming a collaborative community

1:45:00 ↗ group similar with the food

1:45:01 ↗ collaborative just for housing stability

1:45:04 ↗ um for isqua

1:45:06 ↗ only and with that um moving to the next

1:45:10 ↗ slide I think I can pause for discussion

1:45:12 ↗ and next steps um we really would love

1:45:15 ↗ to hear council's feedback um and then

1:45:18 ↗ also um some assistance in shape the

1:45:20 ↗ next

1:45:21 ↗ steps that's great thank you Monica I

1:45:25 ↗ have a couple of folks lined up with

1:45:26 ↗ questions I believe it's the council

1:45:28 ↗ member oh sorry before we go to

1:45:30 ↗ questions not going to do this again I'm

1:45:31 ↗ going to council president hunt to

1:45:33 ↗ summarize any emails she may have

1:45:34 ↗ received president hunt thank you we did

1:45:37 ↗ receive a email from a resident that

1:45:40 ↗ specifically um touched on this topic

1:45:42 ↗ and the resident um was aware that mayor

1:45:45 ↗ Paulie and myself um had written a

1:45:48 ↗ letter to Governor inle seeking

1:45:50 ↗ extension of the eviction moratorium and

1:45:52 ↗ was supportive of that and was um wrote

1:45:55 ↗ that this Resident was terribly worried

1:45:57 ↗ that this is going to crash into isqua

1:45:59 ↗ with ripple effects that we're not

1:46:00 ↗ prepared for and then

1:46:02 ↗ additionally um wrote that um this

1:46:06 ↗ resident would be supportive of

1:46:07 ↗ providing direct assistance to ensuring

1:46:10 ↗ um that families with children um that

1:46:13 ↗ received rental assistance would be at

1:46:15 ↗ the 50% Ami um housing level so that

1:46:19 ↗ would be a more

1:46:21 ↗ um that would be the most in need um I

1:46:25 ↗ believe was the intent there and that

1:46:27 ↗ concludes the comments that we received

1:46:29 ↗ on this thank you council president hun

1:46:31 ↗ we'll move to council questions and

1:46:33 ↗ start with council member

1:46:37 ↗ Hall thank you mayor paully this is

1:46:39 ↗ council member Zach Hall uh I have a

1:46:42 ↗ few

1:46:44 ↗ questions um the first was about

1:46:47 ↗ advocacy and so I kind of wanted some

1:46:48 ↗ clarity around that would that be

1:46:51 ↗ advocacy through our contracted

1:46:52 ↗ lobbyists like Shel Hilder or would that

1:46:55 ↗ asking council members to write emails

1:46:57 ↗ to folks or how are we envisioning that

1:47:01 ↗ process great question um I'm going to

1:47:05 ↗ let Monica take a stab at that I've been

1:47:07 ↗ working with her quite closely over the

1:47:09 ↗ last four months and listening to her um

1:47:14 ↗ contacts out in the region about when

1:47:16 ↗ and where to push a button or pull a

1:47:17 ↗ lever so U Monica have suggested advice

1:47:21 ↗ and and potentially how we can

1:47:23 ↗ coordinate our voice so we can amplify

1:47:25 ↗ our voice right exactly thank you so

1:47:29 ↗ much uh yes um while definitely we can

1:47:32 ↗ use our lobbyists I think it's always um

1:47:36 ↗ um it makes a strong uh statement if we

1:47:38 ↗ have letters from the mayor and the

1:47:40 ↗ council I think just recently the letter

1:47:43 ↗ that we sent to the governor I think had

1:47:45 ↗ so much more um power than if it's U

1:47:48 ↗ just a lobbyist um however I think that

1:47:51 ↗ if we can join efforts with also the

1:47:52 ↗ regional groups whether that is the

1:47:54 ↗ sound cities Association or whether it's

1:47:57 ↗ the Human Services um Forum or um um all

1:48:01 ↗ other uh Regional advocacy efforts I

1:48:04 ↗ think the more the merrier um but I do

1:48:06 ↗ see U being very impactful if we have

1:48:08 ↗ letters from Council and the mayor also

1:48:11 ↗ um and so I would love to help draft

1:48:13 ↗ those council member Hall thank you

1:48:15 ↗ Monica I'll also remind you that there

1:48:17 ↗ was an email that went out I can't

1:48:19 ↗ believe it was maybe last week about our

1:48:21 ↗ Congress getting back in session and

1:48:23 ↗ Monica gave some great details tonight

1:48:25 ↗ in her housing slides that would make

1:48:27 ↗ great content so I think we have a draft

1:48:28 ↗ letter but you can just grab her numbers

1:48:31 ↗ and really paint a picture for the

1:48:33 ↗ Congress um Congress members about the

1:48:38 ↗ Dire Straits that some people are in so

1:48:40 ↗ I love the data thank you Monica for

1:48:42 ↗ that that was great and if you hear of

1:48:44 ↗ opportunities that we are not

1:48:45 ↗ necessarily aware of where we may add

1:48:47 ↗ our voice collectively please Point them

1:48:49 ↗ out to the Administration that'd be very

1:48:51 ↗ very helpful I'm going to go to council

1:48:53 ↗ member D

1:48:55 ↗ Michelle um thank you this is council

1:48:57 ↗ member D Melle uh first of all I want to

1:48:59 ↗ thank Monica for a really superb bit of

1:49:03 ↗ research and really uh putting some uh

1:49:07 ↗ data in our hands that we can really use

1:49:09 ↗ and so very thankful and grateful for

1:49:12 ↗ that uh for that uh report that she put

1:49:15 ↗ together um I have been in discussion

1:49:18 ↗ with people in the community about this

1:49:21 ↗ um looming crisis and so I had a couple

1:49:24 ↗ of questions that I thought um might be

1:49:28 ↗ uh of interest to people in the

1:49:29 ↗ community the first one Monica is um do

1:49:33 ↗ we have comparative data to tell us uh

1:49:37 ↗ for example what was what what

1:49:40 ↗ percentage of people a year ago or even

1:49:43 ↗ preco were behind in their rent uh and

1:49:47 ↗ can you give us a kind of an idea of the

1:49:49 ↗ magnitude of how much more this is is it

1:49:52 ↗ two times more three times more than the

1:49:56 ↗ usual um number of people who are behind

1:49:58 ↗ in their rent could you could you just

1:50:00 ↗ speak to

1:50:02 ↗ that great question yes thank you um I

1:50:06 ↗ have a partial answer uh to your

1:50:08 ↗ question um while I do not have um

1:50:11 ↗ specific information for all the

1:50:13 ↗ apartment complexes um from

1:50:16 ↗ 2019 I I do have an anecdotal

1:50:19 ↗ information from one of the lowincome

1:50:21 ↗ housing providers uh who did report that

1:50:24 ↗ typically um 10 to 15% of um their

1:50:29 ↗ renters um are behind in rent whereas

1:50:32 ↗ now it is 50 to 60% um and then the

1:50:35 ↗ other information that I have for you is

1:50:37 ↗ from our rental assistance providers I

1:50:40 ↗ do have their quarterly reports and I

1:50:42 ↗ just um U glanced recently at the

1:50:46 ↗ quarterly report from um last year 2019

1:50:50 ↗ for quarter two and just the reports

1:50:52 ↗ that we just got in this week for 2020

1:50:56 ↗ and the numbers uh for people that they

1:50:58 ↗ assisted last year compared to this year

1:51:01 ↗ had doubled so I think that that's um

1:51:04 ↗ that gives us some information but I

1:51:06 ↗ would be happy to Circle back and

1:51:08 ↗ provide additional

1:51:10 ↗ information uh and then the other

1:51:12 ↗ question that was brought up was um and

1:51:15 ↗ I and I do think this is something that

1:51:18 ↗ people for for whatever reason think

1:51:20 ↗ that the unemployment checks are uh

1:51:23 ↗ there to you know that people are doing

1:51:26 ↗ fine because they're getting

1:51:27 ↗ unemployment checks and um and then I

1:51:30 ↗ think they forget about the context of

1:51:32 ↗ how much it costs to live in is a so

1:51:36 ↗ could you I I'm sure you've talked to

1:51:38 ↗ people who are having a difficult time

1:51:41 ↗ even though they're getting unemployment

1:51:43 ↗ [Music]

1:51:48 ↗ check all right and um I'm sorry I'm not

1:51:51 ↗ sure if I know exactly the question just

1:51:53 ↗ to just to explain sorry yeah I the

1:51:56 ↗ question to me was well doesn't the

1:51:58 ↗ unemployment check cover their rent oh

1:52:00 ↗ yeah yeah yeah certainly probably most

1:52:03 ↗ of the time now that the average rent in

1:52:05 ↗ is aqu it's about um

1:52:08 ↗ 2200 per month and so that's average and

1:52:12 ↗ so um especially for those who um might

1:52:15 ↗ have had um jobs in uh retail or um

1:52:19 ↗ restaurant business um the unemployment

1:52:22 ↗ will not fully cover that so okay thank

1:52:27 ↗ you for for those clarifications and

1:52:29 ↗ then one last question for people who

1:52:31 ↗ are are facing this challenge who are

1:52:35 ↗ new never perhaps had to think about

1:52:38 ↗ being um evicted um what is the best

1:52:43 ↗ place that they can where is the best

1:52:45 ↗ place uh for them to get help would they

1:52:47 ↗ would that be calling you or the food

1:52:49 ↗ clothing bank or where where would be

1:52:52 ↗ the place for people to be uh advised to

1:52:56 ↗ go right definitely the food and

1:52:58 ↗ clothing bank receives and accepts um

1:53:01 ↗ calls and emails um on a regular basis

1:53:04 ↗ we do have residents who contact me and

1:53:06 ↗ depending on their needs then I refer

1:53:08 ↗ them um to those services or other

1:53:11 ↗ services also our um rental providers

1:53:14 ↗ have their information on their website

1:53:16 ↗ so there are multiple ways for um

1:53:19 ↗ residents to to seek help whether that's

1:53:21 ↗ through US or directly through the

1:53:23 ↗ organizations thank you thank you so

1:53:25 ↗ much thank you thank you council member

1:53:27 ↗ D Michelle um Monica at one point at the

1:53:30 ↗ beginning of the crisis did we not also

1:53:32 ↗ put some information out to our service

1:53:34 ↗ providers that they could share such as

1:53:37 ↗ uh East Side legal assistance program

1:53:39 ↗ and just letting them know um we did

1:53:41 ↗ that at the beginning I believe of this

1:53:44 ↗ Cris that yes you're you're correct

1:53:46 ↗ mayor Paulie and that information is

1:53:48 ↗ still available on our website under the

1:53:51 ↗ covid-19 crisis page and we have a food

1:53:54 ↗ convening conference coming up on Friday

1:53:57 ↗ I believe or soon um and we could check

1:54:01 ↗ in with the food bank as well to see if

1:54:02 ↗ they thought that was successful to see

1:54:04 ↗ if they think that the numbers are

1:54:05 ↗ continuing to climb and they would like

1:54:07 ↗ us to do more of that and maybe even

1:54:09 ↗ update the information in case anything

1:54:11 ↗ has changed because a lot has happened

1:54:13 ↗ in four

1:54:14 ↗ months thank you uh more questions um

1:54:18 ↗ council member Goodman

1:54:21 ↗ uh thank you council member Goodman here

1:54:24 ↗ um Monica thank you very much for the

1:54:25 ↗ information uh you mentioned the King

1:54:29 ↗ County Housing homelessness and

1:54:31 ↗ homelessness and Community Development

1:54:33 ↗ Division um the $600,000 in the cdbg um

1:54:38 ↗ CV funds for rental assistance and that

1:54:40 ↗ we have advocacy opportunities there um

1:54:44 ↗ I didn't I think you meant I think I

1:54:46 ↗ heard that there was a portion of that

1:54:48 ↗ that was available to issaqua I thought

1:54:49 ↗ I heard

1:54:51 ↗ 30,000 but um so if you could clarify

1:54:54 ↗ that and then uh what do we need to do

1:54:56 ↗ to Advocate to actually get that money

1:54:59 ↗ released as soon as possible how can we

1:55:01 ↗ help yes thank you um so the six the the

1:55:05 ↗ total of $600,000 is available for the

1:55:08 ↗ small cities on the north and east side

1:55:11 ↗ region who do not um have we they are

1:55:15 ↗ either who do not have direct contracts

1:55:16 ↗ with the county or do not receive direct

1:55:19 ↗ contracts through HUD um and so there

1:55:23 ↗ are about 12 to 14 jurisdictions and so

1:55:26 ↗ all of us have um um access to that

1:55:32 ↗ partt of money and if the money would be

1:55:35 ↗ allocated equally to all of those then

1:55:38 ↗ we would get about 35 to

1:55:40 ↗ $45,000 um the county at this time did

1:55:43 ↗ not decide on how they will distribute

1:55:46 ↗ the money um their initial thoughts were

1:55:48 ↗ that they will put the money towards the

1:55:50 ↗ rental assistance uh through United Way

1:55:54 ↗ uh however after feedback received from

1:55:56 ↗ jurisdictions then they listened and

1:55:58 ↗ heard from all of us um regarding the um

1:56:02 ↗ local providers that each jurisdictions

1:56:04 ↗ work works with and so at this point

1:56:06 ↗ they are still deciding um and taking

1:56:10 ↗ all of that uh into consideration and

1:56:12 ↗ deciding how they're going to distribute

1:56:13 ↗ the money and so therefore I think

1:56:15 ↗ there's an opportunity for our Council

1:56:18 ↗ um to um perhaps send a letter um um to

1:56:23 ↗ to the county um just maybe outlining

1:56:27 ↗ what we as staff already provided for

1:56:29 ↗ input that yes we do need the money and

1:56:31 ↗ we would like to have access to that

1:56:33 ↗ money and that in addition to that um

1:56:36 ↗ that it would be helpful to have that

1:56:38 ↗ released as soon as possible because the

1:56:40 ↗ initial um conversation started in I

1:56:45 ↗ want to say may early May um and so a

1:56:48 ↗ decision has has not been yet taken so

1:56:51 ↗ there's there's money available there

1:56:53 ↗ that would be nice too sure um to

1:56:58 ↗ Residents and then I had a um second

1:57:01 ↗ question if I may or do you want me to

1:57:02 ↗ come back to it um I think a second

1:57:04 ↗ question is fine I just want to tell

1:57:06 ↗ Monica that we wanted to draft the

1:57:09 ↗ letter because we'll take

1:57:13 ↗ every we will take every opportunity to

1:57:16 ↗ Advocate with our biggest Possible voice

1:57:18 ↗ we can so please work on a letter that

1:57:20 ↗ um we can sign and at some point during

1:57:22 ↗ comments the council can decide if they

1:57:23 ↗ all want to sign it or they want to

1:57:24 ↗ direct the council president to sign it

1:57:26 ↗ so okay great council member Goodman

1:57:28 ↗ second question sure um Monica you you

1:57:31 ↗ at the beginning of your presentation

1:57:32 ↗ you mentioned the that the needs

1:57:34 ↗ outweigh the resources um which is not a

1:57:37 ↗ surprise you also said um that it was in

1:57:40 ↗ your um opinion that this needed to be a

1:57:42 ↗ CommunityWide effort and I wondered if

1:57:44 ↗ you could um expand on that a little bit

1:57:49 ↗ about what you meant please thank you um

1:57:54 ↗ I think yes what I meant is um perhaps

1:57:57 ↗ what I um also referred to uh at the end

1:58:01 ↗ uh we hear from many uh community

1:58:04 ↗ members who are willing to provide

1:58:06 ↗ volunteer hours expertise and uh we also

1:58:09 ↗ hear about fundraisers and perhaps if

1:58:12 ↗ there's a way for us to um increase our

1:58:15 ↗ education to our community that it's

1:58:17 ↗ it's not just

1:58:19 ↗ the city or it's not just um the very

1:58:22 ↗ large corporations uh such as Microsoft

1:58:26 ↗ or um Google that can make a difference

1:58:28 ↗ that perhaps just every small effort

1:58:31 ↗ that everyone can make can could make a

1:58:33 ↗ big difference so I think that's what I

1:58:35 ↗ meant uh it's just trying to look for

1:58:37 ↗ those opportunities it's it's har harm

1:58:40 ↗ heartwarming when I hear from uh whether

1:58:43 ↗ that's a small church group of three

1:58:45 ↗ members who is willing to do deep

1:58:47 ↗ cleaning uh for seniors years or for

1:58:50 ↗ some meals programs or whether there's

1:58:53 ↗ like I mentioned the the bride who

1:58:55 ↗ wanted to donate her

1:58:56 ↗ $400 um so so these are the things that

1:59:00 ↗ I'm was referring to great thank you so

1:59:04 ↗ much thank you thank thank you for the

1:59:06 ↗ question council member Goodman and

1:59:08 ↗ Monica just to take that point a little

1:59:09 ↗ bit further one of the suggestions I've

1:59:11 ↗ heard in other cities is that if there

1:59:13 ↗ is a second stimulus check we are

1:59:15 ↗ definitely not all feeling the pain in

1:59:17 ↗ the same way and for those that are

1:59:18 ↗ fully employed with both family members

1:59:20 ↗ fully employed maybe not feeling much

1:59:22 ↗ pain at all and there is definitely an

1:59:24 ↗ opportunity in a generous Community like

1:59:26 ↗ ours to do something where we can ask

1:59:29 ↗ those that can to donate their second

1:59:32 ↗ stimulus check if it comes for rental

1:59:34 ↗ assistance program and provide it

1:59:35 ↗ directly to one of those two agencies

1:59:37 ↗ without us having to be a middleman

1:59:39 ↗ Handler so thank you for bringing that

1:59:41 ↗ up that's a really great suggestion I am

1:59:43 ↗ going to go

1:59:45 ↗ to council president

1:59:47 ↗ hunt thank you um so Council allocated I

1:59:51 ↗ think in March I believe um about

1:59:56 ↗ $100,000 for or exactly $100,000 for

2:00:00 ↗ rental assistance which went to the two

2:00:01 ↗ local organizations um in isqua and I so

2:00:07 ↗ my first question is I believe that that

2:00:09 ↗ funded the needs for those organizations

2:00:11 ↗ for two months is that correct uh yes

2:00:15 ↗ approximately two months um one of the

2:00:17 ↗ organizations um

2:00:19 ↗ um distributed the funds in about six

2:00:21 ↗ weeks and the other one eight weeks okay

2:00:25 ↗ and then I wondered if in your

2:00:28 ↗ estimation if that rate of spending the

2:00:33 ↗ rate of need and dispersement of funds

2:00:35 ↗ would continue now or if it's

2:00:38 ↗ substantially different

2:00:40 ↗ now um it it's a little bit of both if

2:00:44 ↗ um so their numbers have been steadily

2:00:47 ↗ increasing um not um they haven't seen

2:00:51 ↗ huge increases so if if the moratorium

2:00:54 ↗ uh gets extended and the numbers

2:00:56 ↗ steadily increase I think we would see a

2:00:59 ↗ similar um distribution pattern except

2:01:02 ↗ for one of the

2:01:03 ↗ organizations uh the smaller one St

2:01:06 ↗ Vincent the Paul recently they told us

2:01:08 ↗ that they had a significant um drop in

2:01:11 ↗ their volunteers so then for them it

2:01:13 ↗ would take a longer time to distribute

2:01:16 ↗ um and perhaps um we should consider a

2:01:20 ↗ smaller allocation um but other than

2:01:23 ↗ that that would be a similar um pattern

2:01:26 ↗ now if

2:01:30 ↗ the moratorium evision does not get

2:01:33 ↗ extended in August then it's we don't

2:01:36 ↗ know what we are going to

2:01:37 ↗ see

2:01:39 ↗ um and yeah capacity would be a concern

2:01:42 ↗ for

2:01:43 ↗ sure thank you thank you council

2:01:46 ↗ president hunt uh and back to council

2:01:48 ↗ member Hall

2:01:51 ↗ thank you Mar PA council member Zack

2:01:53 ↗ here again ask question

2:01:57 ↗ I'm interested in this financial

2:02:00 ↗ counseling to renters what would the

2:02:02 ↗ logical Next Step be there is that

2:02:05 ↗ identifying organizations that do that

2:02:07 ↗ work locally or would we think we think

2:02:09 ↗ we need do that in

2:02:10 ↗ har um I'm not aware that we could do

2:02:14 ↗ that in house but that's definitely a

2:02:16 ↗ topic for discussion um I did hear from

2:02:19 ↗ a couple of volunteers so I think the

2:02:21 ↗ next step would be to definitely reach

2:02:23 ↗ out to see if their organizations doing

2:02:25 ↗ that already and some are doing that um

2:02:27 ↗ but perhaps a little bit different and

2:02:29 ↗ then also reaching out to the community

2:02:31 ↗ and identifying those volunteers so

2:02:33 ↗ creating that that group of um experts

2:02:36 ↗ for that opportunity um and then

2:02:38 ↗ connecting them uh with um the housing

2:02:41 ↗ providers and residents and tenants so

2:02:45 ↗ that would be so

2:02:47 ↗ Co

2:02:51 ↗ thank you council member Hall I am not

2:02:53 ↗ seeing any other questions at this time

2:02:56 ↗ Monica I want to thank you um I think in

2:02:59 ↗ four short months many oh there are a

2:03:02 ↗ few more I'll so I'll leave my comments

2:03:04 ↗ to the end let's go to council president

2:03:07 ↗ hunt followed by council member

2:03:10 ↗ Hall um thank you I I wanted to have um

2:03:13 ↗ some time for discussion for myself or

2:03:15 ↗ for anybody else that wanted to comment

2:03:17 ↗ on this topic um because we are

2:03:20 ↗ approaching the end of the eviction

2:03:24 ↗ moratorium um it's currently planned for

2:03:28 ↗ August 1st which is rapidly approaching

2:03:31 ↗ the last two times it's been extended it

2:03:34 ↗ has been extended either a day before or

2:03:37 ↗ two days before it was um going to end

2:03:42 ↗ and so it is definitely possible um that

2:03:45 ↗ it that it might be extended and the

2:03:47 ↗ mayor and I did write a letter um to

2:03:49 ↗ Governor

2:03:50 ↗ Insley requesting that it be extended

2:03:53 ↗ for the um benefits to renters that it

2:03:56 ↗ is providing in the sort of safety

2:03:59 ↗ safety net that it's providing right now

2:04:01 ↗ um but at the same time I have to think

2:04:04 ↗ that uh it's very very stressful for

2:04:07 ↗ renters right now to not know if the

2:04:09 ↗ eviction warum is going to end um in a

2:04:12 ↗ few weeks and to have rents due on

2:04:14 ↗ August 1st and to have this moratorium

2:04:16 ↗ also potentially ending the moratory

2:04:19 ↗ amount evictions potentially ending that

2:04:21 ↗ same day um and then all of the

2:04:24 ↗ complications right now around family

2:04:26 ↗ members taking in other family members

2:04:29 ↗ if they were evicted because of the

2:04:31 ↗ pandemic um and all of the associated

2:04:34 ↗ job loss having to do with the pandemic

2:04:36 ↗ as well it just is it must be so um so

2:04:40 ↗ stressful right now for renters that are

2:04:42 ↗ in these different positions where they

2:04:44 ↗ don't know what will be coming um and I

2:04:48 ↗ think

2:04:50 ↗ I think it's one of our main it's going

2:04:53 ↗ to be a big challenge right now because

2:04:56 ↗ um one thing we know is that it's much

2:04:59 ↗ it's it takes a lot Le less resources um

2:05:03 ↗ it takes a huge amount of resources to

2:05:05 ↗ get people back into housing once

2:05:07 ↗ they've lost their housing um it's much

2:05:10 ↗ preventative measures that keep people

2:05:13 ↗ hous and that provide that safety net

2:05:15 ↗ for people are are well worth it I think

2:05:19 ↗ um so I wanted to to talk with Council

2:05:22 ↗ about what we think we can do um Monica

2:05:27 ↗ mentions that it's a community effort

2:05:29 ↗ there are many generous people in our

2:05:31 ↗ community that would give their time and

2:05:33 ↗ energy as well as funding if they are

2:05:35 ↗ able to support this but I think that

2:05:37 ↗ the city should also consider what the

2:05:40 ↗ city can do um again I think

2:05:44 ↗ preventative measures right now are

2:05:46 ↗ really important to consider and then

2:05:48 ↗ the other thing is um I am very

2:05:50 ↗ interested in King

2:05:53 ↗ County's uh King County for

2:05:55 ↗ unincorporated county has instituted

2:05:58 ↗ this um payment plan

2:06:00 ↗ requirements and I wondered if we might

2:06:04 ↗ consider a program for rental assistance

2:06:07 ↗ that would have a payment plan um

2:06:10 ↗ requirements so that you would have sort

2:06:12 ↗ of both where individ or um property

2:06:16 ↗ owners that would enter into receiving

2:06:19 ↗ funding for late rents would also um

2:06:23 ↗ enter into a payment plan type program

2:06:25 ↗ where they would work with their tenants

2:06:26 ↗ because that seems like something that

2:06:28 ↗ we really need to have that cooperation

2:06:30 ↗ between landlords and tenants um so I I

2:06:33 ↗ hope to hear from other council members

2:06:35 ↗ on what they think the city's role is

2:06:37 ↗ here but I really think we put forward

2:06:39 ↗ 100,000 before and it lasted about two

2:06:41 ↗ months this could be um the difference

2:06:44 ↗ between being housed and not housed for

2:06:47 ↗ hundreds of families if we consider

2:06:49 ↗ doing something now so um the time is

2:06:52 ↗ now because we don't know if this

2:06:54 ↗ eviction moratorium will continue

2:06:56 ↗ council president hunt did you want um

2:07:00 ↗ our City attorney to answer the question

2:07:03 ↗ about what tools are legally available

2:07:06 ↗ or do you want to hear from the council

2:07:08 ↗ first just to take the temperature on on

2:07:10 ↗ the question that you asked um my

2:07:14 ↗ preference would be to hear from the

2:07:15 ↗ council because I think what I'm what

2:07:17 ↗ I'm proposing

2:07:19 ↗ um would not be something unless the um

2:07:22 ↗ City attorney has concerns about

2:07:23 ↗ something I said I don't think that

2:07:25 ↗ anything um I I don't think I have a

2:07:28 ↗ legal question in there okay thanks

2:07:32 ↗ council member

2:07:35 ↗ Hall thank you mayor Paulie city council

2:07:38 ↗ members at call here I just want to

2:07:40 ↗ piggy back off all that and um Echo

2:07:44 ↗ those comments that preventative

2:07:46 ↗ measures now going to be

2:07:50 ↗ first and foremost are incredibly

2:07:51 ↗ necessary and will pay off dividends in

2:07:53 ↗ the long run I believe we're thinking

2:07:56 ↗ about it from numerical perspective but

2:07:58 ↗ then we can also think about from the

2:07:59 ↗ story perspective I mean I live

2:08:01 ↗ literally right next to the YWCA

2:08:04 ↗ building here and to think that

2:08:06 ↗ potentially 50% of the people that I

2:08:08 ↗ know are struggling with rent between

2:08:11 ↗ one and two months rent behind

2:08:16 ↗ is difficult so clearly we need to do

2:08:20 ↗ something so I have um a couple of

2:08:22 ↗ comments if Council would um indulge me

2:08:26 ↗ um being the member of um for isaa and

2:08:30 ↗ the affordable housing committee um I

2:08:33 ↗ have a couple comments on some things

2:08:35 ↗ that we're doing there that I just

2:08:36 ↗ wanted to make sure everyone was aware

2:08:38 ↗ of and then I have some comments on

2:08:40 ↗ direction of things that I'm interested

2:08:41 ↗ in moving

2:08:43 ↗ forward um so the sound cities

2:08:45 ↗ Association block of the affordable

2:08:48 ↗ housing committee uh we're actually

2:08:49 ↗ working on a letter right now urging

2:08:51 ↗ Governor Insley and and legislative

2:08:53 ↗ leaders uh to enact Statewide

2:08:57 ↗ Solutions um I'll just Echo though that

2:09:01 ↗ I re

2:09:03 ↗ um that we shouldn't wait around the

2:09:06 ↗ Statewide

2:09:07 ↗ Solutions um so included in this letter

2:09:09 ↗ is an ask to request landlords and

2:09:12 ↗ tenants uh to enter into a reasonable

2:09:14 ↗ tenant Plan before eviction proceedings

2:09:17 ↗ can occur and additionally we're asking

2:09:19 ↗ for a Statewide legal defense for

2:09:22 ↗ tenants unable to make rent due to the

2:09:24 ↗ covid-19 emergency um and also that all

2:09:28 ↗ pandemic eviction proceedings are

2:09:30 ↗ prohibited from being made public um

2:09:33 ↗ because a lot of those proceedings

2:09:35 ↗ follow an individual impact their

2:09:37 ↗ ability to attain future rental housing

2:09:40 ↗ um then

2:09:43 ↗ finally oh we're

2:09:45 ↗ also um asking for additional grant

2:09:47 ↗ funding be made aail ailable to

2:09:48 ↗ nonprofits looking to meet increase need

2:09:52 ↗ especially for organizations serving

2:09:54 ↗ communities of

2:09:56 ↗ color

2:09:58 ↗ um so in terms of things that I would

2:10:02 ↗ like to see the city uh move forward on

2:10:06 ↗ um

2:10:07 ↗ I'm and at at at the end of council

2:10:10 ↗ conversation I would very much like to

2:10:12 ↗ hear um what our City attorney is um on

2:10:16 ↗ some things I think it's worth rolling

2:10:18 ↗ the dice no matter what no um so one

2:10:22 ↗ that one thing that I'm in favor of is

2:10:24 ↗ requiring that landlords and tenants

2:10:26 ↗ enter into reasonable payment plans and

2:10:29 ↗ if to the extent possible I would really

2:10:32 ↗ like to see that that be a first step or

2:10:35 ↗ First Option before eviction

2:10:38 ↗ proceedings um

2:10:41 ↗ proceed um because someone could walk

2:10:44 ↗ into a room and say no I've got the

2:10:45 ↗ legal defense here you know covid-19 hit

2:10:48 ↗ and I lost my job and or I got covid-19

2:10:51 ↗ I wasn't able to make rent um but then

2:10:54 ↗ that eviction proceeding even though it

2:10:56 ↗ failed still follows that I mean it's

2:10:59 ↗ ridiculous um I think so that that's the

2:11:04 ↗ second thing I think we should also

2:11:05 ↗ provide tenants legal defense to

2:11:07 ↗ eviction um they need

2:11:11 ↗ um to the extent that that's legal I'd

2:11:14 ↗ like to have a conversation about that

2:11:16 ↗ uh and then I'm also interested in the

2:11:18 ↗ I think Monica said a collaborative

2:11:21 ↗ group in It's s you know we have the

2:11:22 ↗ food security collaborative I think

2:11:24 ↗ having a housing security collaborative

2:11:25 ↗ is an excellent idea um and then I'm I'm

2:11:29 ↗ eager to have conversations too about

2:11:31 ↗ additional rental assistance and how

2:11:32 ↗ that can be beneficial but I think that

2:11:34 ↗ these other legal policy questions are

2:11:39 ↗ important for right

2:11:41 ↗ now anyways that's my two cents thanks

2:11:43 ↗ for letting us view thanks council

2:11:45 ↗ member Hall council member D Michelle

2:11:51 ↗ thank you this is uh council member de

2:11:53 ↗ shell I really appreciate the fact that

2:11:56 ↗ Council princi council president hunt

2:11:59 ↗ has brought up uh this issue and is

2:12:01 ↗ opening up for discussion um I I

2:12:05 ↗ definitely could support uh the city

2:12:07 ↗ stepping up uh and providing some more

2:12:10 ↗ rental assistance I do want to raise the

2:12:13 ↗ issue of um and um to give the context

2:12:17 ↗ here I attended uh an easts Side Rental

2:12:21 ↗ crisis uh Workshop that Elizabeth malan

2:12:25 ↗ has been very involved with uh and one

2:12:28 ↗ of the issues that was raised was uh the

2:12:30 ↗ issue of um what I will call Mom and Pop

2:12:34 ↗ landlords uh people who are not large

2:12:37 ↗ renters but maybe have one house or two

2:12:39 ↗ houses or uh you know a place that

2:12:42 ↗ they're renting and uh how do we and and

2:12:46 ↗ they may be very dependent on that

2:12:48 ↗ income for their own retirement or their

2:12:51 ↗ own financial plan so I want to be sure

2:12:54 ↗ that we um are thinking about those

2:12:57 ↗ folks who may not be one of the big

2:12:59 ↗ rental

2:13:01 ↗ associations um and um that we are

2:13:04 ↗ thinking about them as well because

2:13:06 ↗ they're economically impacted as well

2:13:09 ↗ and um then the next level up was uh the

2:13:14 ↗ nonprofit um rental associations like

2:13:18 ↗ imine housing and others who again are

2:13:20 ↗ probably operating on a very thin uh

2:13:22 ↗ margin so uh what can we do to uh as

2:13:27 ↗ council member Hall said what can we

2:13:28 ↗ bring do to bring landlords and tenants

2:13:31 ↗ together and try to find solutions that

2:13:34 ↗ um where maybe everybody has to give a

2:13:36 ↗ little but uh we keep everybody as whole

2:13:39 ↗ as possible um and I like the other

2:13:42 ↗ solutions that were uh put forward such

2:13:45 ↗ as having a coalition of housing um a

2:13:49 ↗ Housing Coalition another idea that I've

2:13:53 ↗ seen is um seeing if we can work with

2:13:57 ↗ landlords uh to reduce their U rents U

2:14:03 ↗ by let's say 20% I'm just throwing that

2:14:05 ↗ out uh and then the city rather than

2:14:08 ↗ giving um assistance to the renters

2:14:11 ↗ actually makes tries to make the

2:14:13 ↗ landlords whole by making up the the

2:14:16 ↗ deficit there that might work it might

2:14:18 ↗ not I it's just an idea that I thought

2:14:20 ↗ had some some uh Merit to it so overall

2:14:24 ↗ I uh you know it's astonishing the

2:14:28 ↗ numbers that we're seeing um it also

2:14:31 ↗ reveals once again how some people are

2:14:35 ↗ doing very well in uh the United States

2:14:37 ↗ and some people are just on the edge and

2:14:40 ↗ one or two paychecks away from disaster

2:14:43 ↗ and now it's really coming home to roost

2:14:46 ↗ that that is the sit situation in our

2:14:48 ↗ country so I would support U doing I I

2:14:53 ↗ would want to see a plan but uh I would

2:14:56 ↗ support U helping people who are nearing

2:14:59 ↗ crisis in our community so thank

2:15:03 ↗ you thank you council member D Michelle

2:15:05 ↗ council member

2:15:08 ↗ Goodman uh thank you madam mayor council

2:15:10 ↗ member Goodman here um I hope um Barb

2:15:13 ↗ didn't get cut off I my my my my

2:15:17 ↗ computer froze so when he came back it

2:15:19 ↗ sounded like Mary Le was cutting off

2:15:21 ↗ Barb saying thank you she she was able

2:15:24 ↗ to finish thanks okay um so uh I have a

2:15:30 ↗ question about um I do want to hear from

2:15:33 ↗ um our attorney about what we can what

2:15:37 ↗ we can do legally because the um we have

2:15:41 ↗ a residential um uh landlord tenant act

2:15:44 ↗ in Washington that is fairly thorough

2:15:47 ↗ and so I don't know what um what kind of

2:15:51 ↗ room there is for the city to make its

2:15:52 ↗ own rules on that and so I'm interested

2:15:54 ↗ in that I'm also interested in the um in

2:15:58 ↗ um our attorney addressing the eviction

2:16:01 ↗ process and the reason I'm asking is

2:16:04 ↗ because of the um the notion that it's

2:16:07 ↗ um we're sort of at the 11th hour now um

2:16:11 ↗ and my understanding is the eviction

2:16:14 ↗ process um is a semil lengthy one so you

2:16:19 ↗ don't somebody doesn't pay their rent on

2:16:20 ↗ the first and you go in on the second

2:16:22 ↗ they get booted out so I just want to

2:16:23 ↗ make sure we're all in the same um page

2:16:26 ↗ here um and then I had a question about

2:16:29 ↗ um and I um I've brought this up before

2:16:32 ↗ about landlords and so I appreciate um

2:16:35 ↗ council member D Melle bringing it up

2:16:37 ↗ again in that um we we do have a very

2:16:41 ↗ tenant friendly State and um maybe not

2:16:45 ↗ completely germine to tonight's

2:16:46 ↗ conversation but one thing that concerns

2:16:49 ↗ me is

2:16:51 ↗ the uh the more and more difficult it is

2:16:54 ↗ for landlords to have rental properties

2:16:57 ↗ um it the more the more we um are at

2:17:01 ↗ risk of losing rental properties and

2:17:04 ↗ that would be an unintended consequence

2:17:06 ↗ that I don't think we should um not just

2:17:10 ↗ us as isqua Council um but I'm hoping

2:17:12 ↗ that um the state and jurisdictions keep

2:17:16 ↗ their eye on because it it is already

2:17:20 ↗ difficult to be a landlord and it's even

2:17:21 ↗ more difficult to be a mom and pop

2:17:23 ↗ landlord as Barb mentioned so um then

2:17:27 ↗ the other question I had is have we

2:17:29 ↗ thought about possibly convening local

2:17:32 ↗ landlords um to see how we might be able

2:17:34 ↗ to help um and I don't pretend to know

2:17:38 ↗ what that help might look like uh but

2:17:41 ↗ anyway it's just a thought that I

2:17:44 ↗ had thank you thank you council member

2:17:46 ↗ Goodman um I'm hoping that our city

2:17:48 ↗ administrator is keeping track of the

2:17:50 ↗ various asks in here I'm hearing uh more

2:17:54 ↗ funding to go to rental assistance I'm

2:17:56 ↗ hearing about the city's ability to do a

2:17:59 ↗ convening of landlords versus bringing

2:18:02 ↗ eight people to the table with food

2:18:03 ↗ convenings trying to bring landlords

2:18:05 ↗ together and tenants together in town

2:18:08 ↗ seems like a much more significant ask

2:18:10 ↗ and that's something I'm going to have

2:18:11 ↗ Monica respond to and also the legality

2:18:14 ↗ of are there things that you can do to

2:18:16 ↗ push a lever or push a button or move a

2:18:19 ↗ lever to make a difference and not just

2:18:21 ↗ something on paper that says you can't

2:18:23 ↗ evict when it's not enforceable in court

2:18:25 ↗ so there are or even payment plans so

2:18:28 ↗ where those are I see council member

2:18:30 ↗ Marts has a question and if we can sort

2:18:32 ↗ of get everything out on the table it

2:18:34 ↗ would allow me the opportunity to have

2:18:36 ↗ our uh City attorney our staff person

2:18:39 ↗ and our city administrator

2:18:40 ↗ respond council member Mar thank you

2:18:43 ↗ Madame mayor this is council member

2:18:44 ↗ Marts more of a comment than a question

2:18:46 ↗ but um I like the idea in general of

2:18:49 ↗ sort of the uh First Look to

2:18:52 ↗ facilitation is there are do we have a

2:18:54 ↗ role in facilitation secondly do we have

2:18:57 ↗ a role in EV eviction avoidance and then

2:19:00 ↗ third do we have a role in direct rental

2:19:03 ↗ assistance um in terms of direct rental

2:19:05 ↗ assistance I guess my fundamental

2:19:08 ↗ question is can we move the needle if we

2:19:11 ↗ had a if we invested a certain amount of

2:19:14 ↗ money um I'm looking at about a six

2:19:17 ↗ month time Horizon I'm saying what could

2:19:20 ↗ we do for six months what sustained

2:19:23 ↗ level of effort for X number of dollars

2:19:27 ↗ uh if if we had X number of dollars um

2:19:30 ↗ you know I see this number of 1.1

2:19:32 ↗ million I'm assuming that's 1.1 million

2:19:34 ↗ per month that's not a stack up of like

2:19:36 ↗ three months worth of rent if it's 1.1

2:19:39 ↗ million per month that's a lot right

2:19:41 ↗ that's you're not going to you're not

2:19:43 ↗ going to run a check to cover everybody

2:19:45 ↗ for the next six months um uh from from

2:19:48 ↗ City coffers so um if we were to help H

2:19:53 ↗ you know what what a um uh what

2:19:58 ↗ AMR uh you know Ami sorry uh you know

2:20:01 ↗ what Ami threshold would we be at and

2:20:03 ↗ what would be the sort of outline uh or

2:20:06 ↗ Contours if you will of what an

2:20:08 ↗ assistance could look like I wouldn't

2:20:10 ↗ want to do something that was um just a

2:20:14 ↗ Showboat um if if if it was just

2:20:16 ↗ something that was scratching the

2:20:18 ↗ surface I would rather look to see an

2:20:21 ↗ investment with some of our housing

2:20:23 ↗ Partners if if by direct rental

2:20:26 ↗ assistance we couldn't make a

2:20:27 ↗ substantial substantive impact and what

2:20:30 ↗ is a substantive impact I don't know

2:20:33 ↗ I'll I'll know it when I see it uh so

2:20:37 ↗ sorry I can't be more definitive but

2:20:38 ↗ those are those are my thoughts as of

2:20:40 ↗ this evening thank you very much thank

2:20:41 ↗ you council member Mart circling back to

2:20:43 ↗ council president

2:20:46 ↗ hunt

2:20:49 ↗ um so a clarification from um for Monica

2:20:53 ↗ would be about that 1.1 million and what

2:20:55 ↗ time frame it was

2:20:58 ↗ representing thank you I'm looking in

2:21:00 ↗ the chat box and don't see a lot of

2:21:03 ↗ additional comments and so I'm going to

2:21:06 ↗ start with Mr Haney to see if he can

2:21:08 ↗ provide some legal perspective on the

2:21:11 ↗ questions and Jim if you need to ask the

2:21:14 ↗ council members questions to dig in a

2:21:16 ↗ little more please feel free to do

2:21:18 ↗ so yes well first uh let me say that I'm

2:21:21 ↗ not an an expert on the uh landlord

2:21:24 ↗ tenant residential landlord tenant act

2:21:27 ↗ um so but it is my understanding that as

2:21:30 ↗ council member Goodman said the landlord

2:21:32 ↗ tenant act does have um fairly detailed

2:21:36 ↗ Provisions relating to

2:21:37 ↗ evictions uh and uh both in terms of the

2:21:41 ↗ grounds for eviction and terms of the

2:21:43 ↗ process and it is a fairly lengthy

2:21:46 ↗ process it doesn't involve the landlord

2:21:48 ↗ giving notices to the tenant to pay rent

2:21:52 ↗ uh if the tenant does not pay rent it

2:21:54 ↗ involves the landlord bringing in what's

2:21:56 ↗ called an unlawful detainer action uh in

2:21:59 ↗ order to give the tenant the uh the

2:22:02 ↗ right to contest the eviction um I have

2:22:06 ↗ looked briefly at the ordinances that uh

2:22:11 ↗ uh some of the other jurisdictions in

2:22:13 ↗ King County have passed I have had some

2:22:15 ↗ concerns in the past uh about the

2:22:18 ↗ validity of those ordinances mainly

2:22:21 ↗ because the residential landlord tenant

2:22:23 ↗ act

2:22:24 ↗ does contain these these provisions and

2:22:27 ↗ whether or not the city is preempted

2:22:31 ↗ from uh doing something which the

2:22:34 ↗ residential landlord tenant act does not

2:22:38 ↗ um does not provide for I did spend some

2:22:41 ↗ time talking today with

2:22:44 ↗ um an attorney uh with the King County

2:22:47 ↗ Bar Association who was responsible for

2:22:49 ↗ the King County Bar Association proposal

2:22:52 ↗ uh I do understand the theory uh behind

2:22:55 ↗ it I have not had a chance to to take a

2:22:58 ↗ look and and see how valid that theory

2:23:01 ↗ is um but um there is certainly an

2:23:05 ↗ argument under the landlord tenant act

2:23:08 ↗ that you may have the authority to uh

2:23:11 ↗ Institute additional defenses under the

2:23:15 ↗ ACT um and that uh you may have the

2:23:19 ↗ ability to prevent or to give tenants an

2:23:23 ↗ additional defense to eviction so

2:23:26 ↗ there's there's some Authority for that

2:23:28 ↗ uh position but again I've not had a

2:23:31 ↗ chance to look at it very thoroughly I

2:23:34 ↗ would say at this point my conclusion is

2:23:36 ↗ that the governor clearly has authority

2:23:39 ↗ to suspend the provisions of the land or

2:23:41 ↗ Tenant Act because under the governor's

2:23:43 ↗ emergency Powers um the governor has

2:23:46 ↗ given a authority to suspend any and all

2:23:49 ↗ provisions of state law um and uh so the

2:23:54 ↗ governor clearly has that Authority a

2:23:56 ↗ city's Authority is not as clear um but

2:24:00 ↗ I think there is an argument to be made

2:24:02 ↗ um many there seems to be a split

2:24:06 ↗ of um a split of opinion among many City

2:24:11 ↗ attorneys that I have discussed this

2:24:14 ↗ issue with in the past as to whether

2:24:16 ↗ preemption applies or not and some

2:24:18 ↗ jurisdictions have not passed those

2:24:21 ↗ eviction um type of ordinances for that

2:24:25 ↗ reason but again there are others like

2:24:27 ↗ the King County Bar Association attorney

2:24:30 ↗ King County's attorney and the City of

2:24:31 ↗ Seattle's attorney who believe that if

2:24:34 ↗ you phrase it as a defense to a landlord

2:24:38 ↗ tenant to an eviction that that provides

2:24:41 ↗ you with uh some authority to do this

2:24:44 ↗ under existing case law so I'm still

2:24:46 ↗ looking at the issue but that is where I

2:24:48 ↗ am at at this point and that is what I

2:24:50 ↗ can tell you Jim is it possible to

2:24:52 ↗ explain what the downside would be from

2:24:55 ↗ being in a gray area like this could it

2:24:57 ↗ harm a potential renter uh could it uh

2:25:01 ↗ Prov propose a risk to the

2:25:04 ↗ city well I think the potential risk to

2:25:07 ↗ the city is uh that if landlords take

2:25:11 ↗ you to court in order to uh in order to

2:25:14 ↗ invalidate the regulation I suppose

2:25:16 ↗ landlords could also there are you know

2:25:19 ↗ there are potential claims if in fact

2:25:22 ↗ you are ordering a landlord to forgive

2:25:25 ↗ rent because a landlord has a contract

2:25:28 ↗ which requires the tenant to pay rent

2:25:31 ↗ and so there are some issues with that

2:25:34 ↗ but many cities have imposed this there

2:25:38 ↗ may be safety in

2:25:39 ↗ numbers of being with other cities uh

2:25:42 ↗ and so far I have not seen any

2:25:44 ↗ litigation that has been successful in

2:25:47 ↗ challenging um these regulations that

2:25:50 ↗ cities have imposed of course that may

2:25:52 ↗ be simply because the governor has

2:25:55 ↗ imposed a moratorium eviction and that

2:25:59 ↗ city regulations therefore have not been

2:26:02 ↗ challenged thank you Mr Haney I'm G to

2:26:04 ↗ check in with council member Goodman

2:26:05 ↗ because what I'd like to do is stay on

2:26:09 ↗ um the legal the tenant and the

2:26:11 ↗ administration buckets of questions uh

2:26:13 ↗ council member Goodman is your question

2:26:14 ↗ for Mr Haney it is oh great thanks go

2:26:18 ↗ ahead um thank you council member

2:26:19 ↗ Goodman here so

2:26:21 ↗ um this this this sounds like it's going

2:26:24 ↗ to get in the weeds but I think it's

2:26:25 ↗ important so um we don't

2:26:30 ↗ have um the means for a landlord in

2:26:34 ↗ isqua to go to court here and evict a

2:26:38 ↗ tenant right they have to go to King

2:26:41 ↗ County Superior Court that is correct

2:26:44 ↗ okay so my um so you're not you know a

2:26:47 ↗ landlord's not bringing a unlawful

2:26:50 ↗ detainer action in municipal court

2:26:52 ↗ before our judge you have to go to King

2:26:54 ↗ County Superior Court um in Seattle or

2:26:57 ↗ Kent or maybe in another jurisdiction so

2:27:00 ↗ if the city had um and I'm not for or

2:27:04 ↗ against I'm just questioning just so

2:27:06 ↗ that when we start if we have this later

2:27:09 ↗ it's some if we if we're if the council

2:27:12 ↗ asks for more information later we' be

2:27:13 ↗ sure to hit this point um if we

2:27:18 ↗ had a um a law in isqua a code in isqua

2:27:22 ↗ that we

2:27:23 ↗ adopted

2:27:24 ↗ um then could that could that be used in

2:27:29 ↗ King County Superior

2:27:31 ↗ Court um whether it was a you know

2:27:34 ↗ whatever we're talking about in terms of

2:27:36 ↗ evictions whether we're you know we have

2:27:37 ↗ our own moratorium or whether we've got

2:27:39 ↗ some defenses I'm just it sound I'm just

2:27:43 ↗ curious because I'm not sure what the

2:27:44 ↗ other jurisdictions are that have these

2:27:46 ↗ defenses and are they using them in

2:27:48 ↗ their own courts that's well I believe

2:27:51 ↗ that the defense would have to be used

2:27:53 ↗ in the King County Superior Court and

2:27:55 ↗ the argument would be that uh isqua is

2:27:59 ↗ where the relationship between the

2:28:01 ↗ landlord and tenant exists and therefore

2:28:03 ↗ in isqua the landlord tenant

2:28:06 ↗ relationship is governed by the isqua

2:28:09 ↗ municipal code provision and therefore

2:28:12 ↗ it could serve as a defense in King

2:28:14 ↗ County Superior Court just has Seattle

2:28:17 ↗ has its own landlord tenant regulations

2:28:19 ↗ and you can use those in Superior Court

2:28:22 ↗ um with a case that's involves landlord

2:28:24 ↗ tenants in Seattle yes and Seattle also

2:28:28 ↗ Seattle I think was the first uh City my

2:28:33 ↗ recollection is that it was the first

2:28:35 ↗ city to pass um the moratorium on on

2:28:39 ↗ late fees and the defenses and they

2:28:41 ↗ phrased it very carefully as a defense

2:28:44 ↗ because there is as I say some legal

2:28:47 ↗ Authority out there and for you council

2:28:49 ↗ member Goodman I I'll mention the name

2:28:51 ↗ of the case it's margola Associates

2:28:53 ↗ versus city of Seattle um there is some

2:28:56 ↗ Authority out there in that case which

2:28:59 ↗ could indicate that a city has the

2:29:01 ↗ authority to put up an a

2:29:03 ↗ defense okay sorry I missed that the

2:29:08 ↗ last I guess I just want to make one

2:29:09 ↗ last comment and that is um I haven't

2:29:12 ↗ done one in quite a while but I have

2:29:14 ↗ done some evictions and um uh it it is

2:29:19 ↗ not easy on the part of the landlord it

2:29:21 ↗ is courts don't like to do it there are

2:29:23 ↗ advocates in the courthouse that are

2:29:25 ↗ attorneys that help the tenants um so

2:29:30 ↗ uh personal experience um I would highly

2:29:33 ↗ doubt that there's going to be um judges

2:29:37 ↗ Commissioners that are super interested

2:29:39 ↗ in just evicting people in these huge

2:29:41 ↗ waves um it's uh practically speaking

2:29:45 ↗ it's going to be difficult

2:29:47 ↗ that is not to say that um the ending of

2:29:51 ↗ the eviction moratorium is not

2:29:53 ↗ concerning to tenants that is not what

2:29:54 ↗ I'm saying um but it simply is not going

2:29:57 ↗ to be people getting kicked out on

2:29:58 ↗ August 2nd or 5th or 10th um or 15th

2:30:02 ↗ it's just not that easy anyway those

2:30:05 ↗ that's just that's just reality thank

2:30:08 ↗ you thank you council member Goodman and

2:30:10 ↗ council president hunt has a question

2:30:12 ↗ for Mr Haney yes thank you this is

2:30:15 ↗ council president hunt I wondered about

2:30:17 ↗ the requirement for entering into a

2:30:20 ↗ payment plan between the landlord and

2:30:22 ↗ the Tenant and then um so so firstly I

2:30:26 ↗ know that that has been imposed for

2:30:27 ↗ unincorporated King County and um if if

2:30:31 ↗ does that fall into the same category of

2:30:33 ↗ defense like you were talking about

2:30:35 ↗ earlier well I'm not aware of any case

2:30:39 ↗ that deals specifically with imposing a

2:30:42 ↗ payment plan like that and I had

2:30:44 ↗ intended to try to find out who it King

2:30:46 ↗ County I could talk to in terms of their

2:30:49 ↗ attorney's office to see if they indeed

2:30:51 ↗ had had addressed this issue legally uh

2:30:54 ↗ and I haven't been able to find the

2:30:56 ↗ appropriate person yet to talk to but

2:30:58 ↗ I'm still attempting to do that I would

2:31:01 ↗ think that it falls under the same

2:31:02 ↗ category if the city has the ability to

2:31:06 ↗ regulate the landlord tenant

2:31:08 ↗ relationship relating to this then I

2:31:11 ↗ would believe that that would be within

2:31:13 ↗ the city's regulatory Authority the same

2:31:17 ↗ as it would it would be the same as the

2:31:19 ↗ defense regulatory Authority again the

2:31:23 ↗ the issue is whether there is a gap in

2:31:26 ↗ the regulation that allows the city to

2:31:29 ↗ to regulate and the court case I'm aware

2:31:32 ↗ of the margola case that I that I

2:31:34 ↗ mentioned to council member Goodman

2:31:37 ↗ basically upheld

2:31:39 ↗ Seattle's

2:31:40 ↗ um regulation that required landlords to

2:31:44 ↗ register with the city and it provided a

2:31:48 ↗ defense to tenants if landlords were not

2:31:51 ↗ registered and the Washington Supreme

2:31:53 ↗ Court upheld that so there is there is

2:31:57 ↗ at least as I say some precedent that

2:31:59 ↗ would say that is a matter of a setting

2:32:02 ↗ up a defense uh you could you could do

2:32:05 ↗ that and I think if you phrased it

2:32:07 ↗ correctly um you may be able to use the

2:32:09 ↗ same kind of authority here again not

2:32:13 ↗ something that has been litigated

2:32:15 ↗ specifically

2:32:18 ↗ okay um thank you and the second part of

2:32:21 ↗ my question

2:32:22 ↗ is about conditioning a if we were to do

2:32:26 ↗ rental assistance and then conditioning

2:32:29 ↗ entering into that rental assistance by

2:32:32 ↗ requiring that the landlords have a

2:32:34 ↗ payment plan and that I imagine would be

2:32:35 ↗ part of a contract and would be um

2:32:39 ↗ doable under

2:32:40 ↗ contract yeah and my assum my

2:32:43 ↗ understanding is that there is also some

2:32:45 ↗ discussion

2:32:46 ↗ of whether it should be the landlords

2:32:49 ↗ who are accessing the rental assistance

2:32:52 ↗ program versus the tenants whether it

2:32:55 ↗ might be set up where uh a landlord

2:32:58 ↗ could if a tenant could not make the

2:33:01 ↗ payment of rent a landlord could request

2:33:03 ↗ that that payment be made from the

2:33:04 ↗ rental assistance program that's one of

2:33:06 ↗ the options that some jurisdictions are

2:33:08 ↗ considering as well

2:33:13 ↗ so thank you council president hunt um I

2:33:16 ↗ am not seeing any more questions for Jim

2:33:18 ↗ but that doesn't mean he's off the hook

2:33:20 ↗ I'm going to move over to our um human

2:33:23 ↗ services manager Monica Nilla there were

2:33:25 ↗ several questions in there Monica I'm

2:33:27 ↗ not sure which ones you have some

2:33:29 ↗ information to provide on but feel free

2:33:31 ↗ to Enlighten

2:33:34 ↗ now um thank you mayor Paulie uh I think

2:33:38 ↗ one of the questions U was regarding the

2:33:40 ↗ $1.1

2:33:41 ↗ million um and so um the answer to that

2:33:45 ↗ is that um the organizations the rental

2:33:48 ↗ assistance providers have surveyed um 12

2:33:52 ↗ apartment complexes and so the to date

2:33:55 ↗ so the $1.1 million is the amount in

2:33:59 ↗ overdue rent um to date uh out of those

2:34:04 ↗ total 12 apartment

2:34:06 ↗ complexes I'm going to pause you

2:34:08 ↗ remembered something or

2:34:10 ↗ oh um should I oh I realized that I made

2:34:15 ↗ a mistake

2:34:16 ↗ um before we started in with the staff I

2:34:19 ↗ believe that I promised the council that

2:34:21 ↗ they would have a 5 minute break and so

2:34:23 ↗ Monica if you're okay to hold for a

2:34:25 ↗ second um for City Council Members let's

2:34:27 ↗ take a 5 minute break until 9:38 allow

2:34:30 ↗ you to take a restroom break uh grab a

2:34:32 ↗ glass of water whatever you want we'll

2:34:33 ↗ be back at 9:38 my

2:34:45 ↗ apologies

2:39:16 ↗ thanks folks we'll get going when

2:39:18 ↗ council member D Michelle has a chance

2:39:19 ↗ to come back on

2:39:21 ↗ camera and again my apologies it

2:39:27 ↗ was long

2:39:30 ↗ meeting okay I do see council member D

2:39:33 ↗ Michelle back as well thank you for

2:39:36 ↗ allowing the five minute break that was

2:39:38 ↗ very helpful um Monica you were sort of

2:39:40 ↗ working your way down some of the

2:39:42 ↗ questions that you heard and providing

2:39:43 ↗ some contact

2:39:46 ↗ yes thank you mayor paully uh so the

2:39:49 ↗ first question was regarding the $1.1

2:39:50 ↗ million and um I think I I apologize for

2:39:54 ↗ interrupting you I do have to check and

2:39:55 ↗ see if we are being recorded Tim can you

2:39:58 ↗ let me know if you are currently

2:40:03 ↗ recording thank you okay Monica now you

2:40:06 ↗ really can start answering the

2:40:08 ↗ question totally

2:40:12 ↗ fine so um I believe the question the of

2:40:15 ↗ the first questions I remember was

2:40:17 ↗ regarding the $1.1 million um and so I

2:40:20 ↗ was just clarifying that the number is

2:40:23 ↗ um currently overdue rent uh however it

2:40:26 ↗ is uh from the 12 apartment complexes

2:40:29 ↗ that were surveyed in the last couple of

2:40:31 ↗ weeks and the rental assistance

2:40:33 ↗ providers will continue to survey um

2:40:35 ↗ additional um apartment complexes so

2:40:38 ↗ that's just a sample for now um another

2:40:41 ↗ question I think was regarding the

2:40:43 ↗ possible collaborative for um

2:40:46 ↗ um housing stability or whether that

2:40:48 ↗ includes also landlords um and actually

2:40:51 ↗ this is and and how do you bring so many

2:40:53 ↗ landlords together right uh this uh was

2:40:56 ↗ actually a topic that we brainstormed uh

2:40:59 ↗ recently with our rental assistance

2:41:01 ↗ providers especially um um with there so

2:41:05 ↗ many additional layers of complexity

2:41:08 ↗ because sometimes you have property

2:41:09 ↗ managers um that are very different than

2:41:12 ↗ than the actual um landlords and owners

2:41:15 ↗ and then who would be uh the perfect

2:41:17 ↗ person to be at the table and then how

2:41:19 ↗ many sometimes like even with the food

2:41:22 ↗ collaborative we have seven eight

2:41:24 ↗ providers and the groups can get larger

2:41:27 ↗ and they therefore working groups um

2:41:30 ↗ more difficult to um make progress um

2:41:33 ↗ one of the first things that um we

2:41:36 ↗ offered was that perhaps we can limit

2:41:40 ↗ initially the collaborative to maybe the

2:41:42 ↗ lowincome and affordable housing

2:41:44 ↗ providers because it's it would be a

2:41:46 ↗ smaller group um and then as we learn

2:41:48 ↗ more then we can perhaps depending on

2:41:50 ↗ the meeting invite other guests from

2:41:52 ↗ outside so that is one option um however

2:41:55 ↗ definitely we are open for um other

2:41:58 ↗ options and and looking at the pros and

2:42:00 ↗ cons for and Monica if I'm hearing you

2:42:02 ↗ correctly um the parties that would

2:42:04 ↗ likely do a convening would be those

2:42:06 ↗ that you work with and isqua wouldn't be

2:42:09 ↗ the convenor necessarily but isqua would

2:42:11 ↗ participate in anything that the

2:42:13 ↗ organizations put together right if we

2:42:15 ↗ have capacity to do it okay thank you

2:42:17 ↗ were there other questions that you

2:42:18 ↗ heard in there or comments on the

2:42:20 ↗ council questions um I think that's it

2:42:25 ↗ on my end however if I miss something

2:42:28 ↗ would love to answer great well let um G

2:42:31 ↗ check in with council president Hunt is

2:42:32 ↗ your question for Monica council

2:42:34 ↗ president hunt it is thank you go

2:42:38 ↗ ahead yes this is council president hunt

2:42:41 ↗ um on the 1.1 million again a further

2:42:44 ↗ clarification is that is that only on

2:42:47 ↗ low income or um for example 80% Ami or

2:42:51 ↗ is that all income levels that's

2:42:53 ↗ included in that 1.1 million rents um

2:42:56 ↗ behind rent that's all income levels and

2:42:59 ↗ it's from that list that is in your

2:43:02 ↗ attachment um packet and so it provides

2:43:05 ↗ both low income affordable and just

2:43:08 ↗ regular okay thank Youk you thank you

2:43:11 ↗ council president hunt I'm going to move

2:43:13 ↗ to City administrator Bob ktz there are

2:43:15 ↗ ments and aspects of uh the questions

2:43:17 ↗ that were asked that had to do with

2:43:19 ↗ resourcing and City resources and I

2:43:21 ↗ wondered if you could take a few moments

2:43:22 ↗ to comment on that sure uh Madame mayor

2:43:25 ↗ members of the council thank you um in

2:43:27 ↗ my notes I kind of have a couple

2:43:29 ↗ different buckets there's the issue

2:43:31 ↗ regarding legislation having the council

2:43:33 ↗ pass ordinances uh that would uh protect

2:43:36 ↗ uh uh tenants from eviction put in place

2:43:40 ↗ issues regarding uh payment plans things

2:43:42 ↗ like that um if that's something the

2:43:44 ↗ council wishes to pursue I think we can

2:43:47 ↗ do that Mr Haney has indicated he is

2:43:49 ↗ already in touch with other

2:43:51 ↗ jurisdictions in King County that have

2:43:52 ↗ done this I certainly would not

2:43:54 ↗ recommend we reinvent the wheel uh if

2:43:56 ↗ there is going to be legal action taken

2:43:58 ↗ against uh local governments doing this

2:44:00 ↗ I would much rather we all uh hang

2:44:03 ↗ together uh with the with these

2:44:05 ↗ ordinances so I think we can do that

2:44:07 ↗ obviously there's a Time consideration

2:44:09 ↗ is the 20th of July today uh you do not

2:44:11 ↗ have another regular meeting scheduled

2:44:13 ↗ during the month of July uh so if that's

2:44:15 ↗ something that the council wishes to

2:44:17 ↗ move forward with I would hope that

2:44:18 ↗ there would be motions soon uh to that

2:44:21 ↗ effect uh as far as resources go for

2:44:23 ↗ drafting I'm not concerned I am

2:44:25 ↗ concerned about um any kind of

2:44:28 ↗ litigation moving forward uh if we would

2:44:30 ↗ be called to court to uh help defend

2:44:33 ↗ individual tenants using our law uh I

2:44:36 ↗ don't want to get bogged down with cost

2:44:39 ↗ because quite honestly I don't know what

2:44:40 ↗ they would be sufficed to say uh it's

2:44:42 ↗ likely there would be some and we'll

2:44:44 ↗ leave it at that

2:44:45 ↗ um the second issue is additional

2:44:47 ↗ funding for uh um rental assistance the

2:44:51 ↗ council's already allocated

2:44:53 ↗ $100,000 as you know that $100,000 was

2:44:56 ↗ done early during the pandemic and is

2:44:58 ↗ not eligible for reimbursement um

2:45:01 ↗ through cares act dollars uh the city

2:45:04 ↗ continues to face a two and a half to3

2:45:06 ↗ million budget deficit in the current

2:45:08 ↗ year which we have not made up with 23

2:45:11 ↗ layoffs uh and other Cuts accounting to

2:45:14 ↗ almost 7 and a half dollar so any money

2:45:16 ↗ that we would spend would likely have to

2:45:18 ↗ come from the general fund um and uh

2:45:21 ↗ would be sustainable if we did another

2:45:24 ↗ $100,000 probably six weeks and so in

2:45:27 ↗ six weeks or eight weeks time we would

2:45:28 ↗ be back looking at dollars as as Mr Gera

2:45:32 ↗ said you know the actual need is more

2:45:34 ↗ like over a million dollars um it's it's

2:45:37 ↗ a small a piece of the the problem but

2:45:40 ↗ it's a big piece of our financial issues

2:45:43 ↗ and so um at this point I don't think I

2:45:45 ↗ think the administration can be

2:45:46 ↗ supportive of additional direct cash

2:45:49 ↗ payments and then finally what other

2:45:51 ↗ staff resources can we do to coordinate

2:45:53 ↗ facilitate convene uh Miss Nilla who

2:45:56 ↗ you've seen nearly weekly since March um

2:45:59 ↗ dealing with all aspects of uh of human

2:46:02 ↗ needs in our community is the really the

2:46:05 ↗ sole staff member that we have uh doing

2:46:07 ↗ this we had a conversation today uh to

2:46:09 ↗ begin pivoting to another Council

2:46:11 ↗ priority and that is what do we do with

2:46:12 ↗ the police department and how do we uh

2:46:15 ↗ make the police department's Staffing

2:46:17 ↗ and resources on the Human Services side

2:46:19 ↗ be uh more appropriate as we move

2:46:21 ↗ forward with the 2020 budget uh that

2:46:23 ↗ will be before you on September 29th so

2:46:26 ↗ we are just tight for resources I've

2:46:29 ↗ instructed Miss Nilla to go find at

2:46:31 ↗ least another body uh to help her on at

2:46:34 ↗ least a part-time basis uh get through

2:46:36 ↗ the end of the year as we deal with

2:46:38 ↗ police issues as we deal with uh food

2:46:40 ↗ and shelter issues as we deal with the

2:46:42 ↗ Human Services Commission as we deal

2:46:44 ↗ with community Equity issues um this is

2:46:47 ↗ not what she signed up for um and we

2:46:49 ↗ need to be mindful of that resource so I

2:46:51 ↗ we would be very stretched to do any

2:46:54 ↗ additional aggressive uh convenings with

2:46:57 ↗ landlords and tenants on this so mam

2:46:59 ↗ mayor members of the council my

2:47:01 ↗ recommendation is um let's go forward if

2:47:04 ↗ you'd like with law let's go forward

2:47:06 ↗ with drafting of ordinances we'll need

2:47:08 ↗ to decide when you'll come together to

2:47:10 ↗ do that um as far as additional cash

2:47:13 ↗ resources the Federal government may

2:47:15 ↗ come through we'll know I would imagine

2:47:17 ↗ in the next month um if the federal

2:47:19 ↗ government provides additional resources

2:47:21 ↗ and I think at that time if the council

2:47:23 ↗ wants to revisit what dollar amount that

2:47:25 ↗ is what strings may be attached I think

2:47:27 ↗ that'd be very appropriate and the need

2:47:29 ↗ will absolutely still be there a month

2:47:31 ↗ from now as it is today um so I think

2:47:35 ↗ Madame mayor U unless there's other

2:47:37 ↗ questions from the council comments

2:47:38 ↗ maybe it's worth if there are motions

2:47:40 ↗ dealing with specific ordinances to

2:47:42 ↗ direct Mr Haney uh to draft those

2:47:45 ↗ ordinances thank you City administrator

2:47:47 ↗ Bob Quin I am not seeing questions right

2:47:49 ↗ now but I am seeing comments uh so it

2:47:52 ↗ doesn't preclude further questions but

2:47:53 ↗ if we're ready to move into some

2:47:55 ↗ comments and discussions let's do that

2:47:57 ↗ council member

2:47:58 ↗ Marts thank you Madame mayor this is

2:48:00 ↗ council member Marts um uh Sid

2:48:02 ↗ administrator Bob quitz talks about

2:48:04 ↗ sustainability and I completely

2:48:06 ↗ understand but I sort of wonder if this

2:48:08 ↗ is one of those times that it's not

2:48:09 ↗ about sustainability um this is a um it

2:48:15 ↗ been 75 years perhaps since the United

2:48:18 ↗ States has faced the challenge that we

2:48:20 ↗ are facing at this moment I think many

2:48:22 ↗ of us believe uh there was new

2:48:23 ↗ information out today from The Institute

2:48:26 ↗ for disease modeling that basically says

2:48:28 ↗ you can send kids back to school this

2:48:30 ↗ fall or you can keep the current social

2:48:32 ↗ distancing but you can't do both so we

2:48:35 ↗ either have to go back to stage one and

2:48:37 ↗ all our businesses have to suffer or we

2:48:39 ↗ have to stay in uh or we have to keep

2:48:41 ↗ our kids home and we all have a tough

2:48:43 ↗ time working and providing for our kids

2:48:46 ↗ and so at this time I think it's worth

2:48:48 ↗ considering we have we continue to

2:48:50 ↗ maintain um an ending fund balance in

2:48:53 ↗ excess of our financial uh recommend our

2:48:57 ↗ financial policy it's it's Mr bz's job

2:49:00 ↗ to keep us from spending that money

2:49:02 ↗ unreasonably um and he does a good job

2:49:05 ↗ at it but I think it's worth considering

2:49:07 ↗ what would what would it what would it

2:49:09 ↗ do for our community if we spent two

2:49:11 ↗ million or $3 million out of that ending

2:49:13 ↗ fund balance Maybe it wouldn't do much

2:49:15 ↗ and so maybe it's not worth considering

2:49:18 ↗ but the historical nature of the times

2:49:21 ↗ in which we find ourselves and the fact

2:49:23 ↗ that we continue to maintain this

2:49:25 ↗ extremely large ending fund balance that

2:49:27 ↗ is our citizens money and it may well be

2:49:30 ↗ that this is a time if ever there was a

2:49:32 ↗ rainy day this is that rainy day so I

2:49:35 ↗ don't I'm not ready to say that I want

2:49:37 ↗ to spend two million or $3 million on

2:49:39 ↗ any one particular thing but I would

2:49:41 ↗ like to know what that would do and what

2:49:43 ↗ that would do in the community and and I

2:49:44 ↗ know it gives City administrator Bob ktz

2:49:47 ↗ kittens to contemplate doing this

2:49:49 ↗ because it isn't what you historically

2:49:50 ↗ do but these are not historical times

2:49:52 ↗ these are these are unhistorical times

2:49:55 ↗ and I believe that we have a

2:49:57 ↗ long difficult period ahead of us and if

2:50:00 ↗ there's something that we can do as a

2:50:01 ↗ community for the for the heartest to be

2:50:03 ↗ set members of our community it's worth

2:50:05 ↗ at least considering doing it thank you

2:50:08 ↗ thank you council member Mars I'm not

2:50:10 ↗ seeing anybody else signed up to comment

2:50:12 ↗ at this moment any hands raised

2:50:16 ↗ council president

2:50:18 ↗ hunt um thank you this is council

2:50:20 ↗ president hunt I guess I first have a

2:50:22 ↗ question which is about some of the

2:50:24 ↗ comments that were made earlier about

2:50:26 ↗ the timing and um if the eviction

2:50:30 ↗ moratorium were to expire on August 1st

2:50:34 ↗ then evictions could begin to proceed

2:50:37 ↗ and yes there's a 14-day notice and some

2:50:39 ↗ other timing there but they could begin

2:50:42 ↗ to proceed then and I believe that um

2:50:45 ↗ shortly thereafter or thereafter the

2:50:47 ↗ eviction also gets um goes onto

2:50:50 ↗ somebody's record that it's been filed

2:50:53 ↗ is that correct or what's the What's the

2:50:55 ↗ timing around

2:50:57 ↗ that is that something you can answer um

2:51:01 ↗ Mr Haney or is that something you need

2:51:03 ↗ to provide some information later

2:51:10 ↗ on well certainly council member Hunt is

2:51:13 ↗ correct that if the moratorium on

2:51:16 ↗ evictions that the governor has imposed

2:51:19 ↗ expires August 1 the uh a landlord could

2:51:24 ↗ initiate an eviction at that

2:51:27 ↗ point so um that eviction could move

2:51:31 ↗ forward as council member Goodman says

2:51:34 ↗ that is an that is an involved process

2:51:37 ↗ that you know does take some time but

2:51:39 ↗ that eviction could you notice could go

2:51:41 ↗ out uh to the tenant to tell them that

2:51:44 ↗ they need needed to pay rent assuming

2:51:46 ↗ that they were delinquent in rent at

2:51:48 ↗ that

2:51:52 ↗ point um okay so I I do think that um so

2:51:58 ↗ thank you for that explanation and I I

2:52:00 ↗ do think that timing is important here

2:52:03 ↗ because I would like to see us put

2:52:05 ↗ something um if we are going to take

2:52:07 ↗ action I would like to see us take

2:52:09 ↗ action before the um the moratorium is

2:52:13 ↗ set to expire again I have to think it

2:52:16 ↗ must be so stressful for people to not

2:52:18 ↗ know if that's going to expire on August

2:52:20 ↗ 1st it's stressful for me um and I'm not

2:52:23 ↗ renting but I I just think we should try

2:52:26 ↗ to do what we can to give people some

2:52:28 ↗ certainty about taking action before

2:52:30 ↗ then um so in light of that um and in

2:52:37 ↗ light of that I think we heard this

2:52:39 ↗ evening that we could consider an action

2:52:42 ↗ in terms of law

2:52:45 ↗ um I would like to propose that we uh so

2:52:49 ↗ I would like to move that we continue

2:52:52 ↗ this topic at a special meeting on July

2:52:55 ↗ 27th at 7 P.M to dis consider actions to

2:52:59 ↗ support hous housing

2:53:02 ↗ stability second it's been moved in

2:53:05 ↗ seconded

2:53:11 ↗ discussion uh City administrator Bob kit

2:53:14 ↗ has a

2:53:17 ↗ question yes uh Madame mayor council

2:53:19 ↗ president hunt uh could you be more

2:53:21 ↗ specific as to what you're expecting to

2:53:23 ↗ see on the

2:53:24 ↗ agenda in your

2:53:26 ↗ motion yes this council president hunt

2:53:28 ↗ and I was just going to speak to that um

2:53:32 ↗ so we have discussed a number of items

2:53:36 ↗ this evening and the ones that I think

2:53:39 ↗ we I don't expect that we will have as

2:53:42 ↗ much information as we need to consider

2:53:46 ↗ um rental assistance although I would

2:53:49 ↗ like if we can consider rental

2:53:51 ↗ assistance I would like to have more

2:53:52 ↗ information there but then um really I'm

2:53:55 ↗ interested also in the defense of um to

2:53:59 ↗ eviction so the um payment plan

2:54:02 ↗ requirements that was mentioned earlier

2:54:04 ↗ and as well as the other item that we

2:54:07 ↗ discussed this evening which was around

2:54:09 ↗ the convening um and options for

2:54:13 ↗ convening of

2:54:15 ↗ uh landlords and

2:54:17 ↗ tenants thank you and Madam mayor may I

2:54:20 ↗ follow up just I want to be very clear

2:54:23 ↗ um so could you I'm most concerned about

2:54:25 ↗ the ordinances council president so um

2:54:30 ↗ the one regarding a payment plan one was

2:54:32 ↗ regarding defense so that the city would

2:54:35 ↗ defend

2:54:36 ↗ tenants and then a a master ordinance

2:54:39 ↗ that would prohibit the evictions I

2:54:41 ↗ would

2:54:43 ↗ imagine my intent is that um so I had

2:54:47 ↗ asked a question earlier and my

2:54:49 ↗ understanding was that the payment plan

2:54:51 ↗ issue was tied into a defense of

2:54:54 ↗ eviction um and that was based on the

2:54:57 ↗ case law that um potentially based on

2:55:00 ↗ the case law that Mr Haney spoke to

2:55:01 ↗ earlier so that was what I was referring

2:55:04 ↗ to um and then I am I I also am

2:55:10 ↗ interested in hearing what other council

2:55:11 ↗ members would like to

2:55:14 ↗ discuss because um right now we

2:55:19 ↗ have I think an opportunity um but it

2:55:22 ↗ you know like I said I think the

2:55:24 ↗ deadline for this eviction morium is

2:55:25 ↗ approaching and we don't know if it will

2:55:28 ↗ be extended

2:55:30 ↗ again is that clar c administrative

2:55:33 ↗ B uh unfortunately Madame mayor it's not

2:55:36 ↗ um and I guess I'd look to Mr Haney

2:55:38 ↗ because you're asking us if we move if

2:55:41 ↗ the motion is successful we will need to

2:55:43 ↗ have ordinances prepared and I just want

2:55:44 ↗ to make sure that those ordinances

2:55:46 ↗ reflect the council's wishes Mr Haney uh

2:55:50 ↗ can you do you understand what's being

2:55:51 ↗ asked of you and can you state that so

2:55:53 ↗ that the motion is clearer well I just

2:55:56 ↗ want to clarify myself um my

2:55:58 ↗ understanding is that what council

2:56:00 ↗ member council president Hunt is

2:56:02 ↗ proposing is not that the city would

2:56:04 ↗ defend an individual tenant if a from an

2:56:08 ↗ eviction but that the city would provide

2:56:11 ↗ that the tenant would have a defense

2:56:14 ↗ against an eviction for if the

2:56:17 ↗ landlord um was evicting them due to

2:56:21 ↗ non-payment because of covid uh and uh

2:56:25 ↗ or if they had not entered into a

2:56:27 ↗ payment plan but I don't understand that

2:56:30 ↗ the city would be spending resources to

2:56:32 ↗ actually defend the tenant unless unless

2:56:35 ↗ council president uh Hunt is saying

2:56:37 ↗ something that I'm not aware of

2:56:40 ↗ so thank you Mr Haney that was that was

2:56:43 ↗ correct that was what I was referring to

2:56:46 ↗ than president H see Mr Bitz I'm sorry I

2:56:49 ↗ just want to make sure everybody's on

2:56:50 ↗ the same page so Mr Haney then this

2:56:53 ↗ would this all one ordinance is it is it

2:56:56 ↗ one ordinance that declares a moratorium

2:57:00 ↗ on evictions and then a followup

2:57:02 ↗ ordinance with this additional

2:57:03 ↗ information how how would this be

2:57:06 ↗ drafted well I would certainly

2:57:08 ↗ anticipate that it would be one

2:57:10 ↗ ordinance um okay I'm I'm

2:57:15 ↗ I would want to ask the council then uh

2:57:18 ↗ are we looking at a moratorium on

2:57:20 ↗ evictions or are we looking at providing

2:57:23 ↗ a defense that's what I understood stood

2:57:26 ↗ the the question was not necessarily

2:57:29 ↗ saying a landlord cannot evict but

2:57:32 ↗ saying that a landlord cannot e that a

2:57:35 ↗ tenant has a defense to eviction if the

2:57:38 ↗ tenant has been unable to pay rent due

2:57:41 ↗ to covid if a tenant has been unable to

2:57:45 ↗ pay rent or unwilling to pay rent for

2:57:47 ↗ some other reason there would not be a

2:57:51 ↗ defense that's my understanding of how

2:57:53 ↗ the Seattle Ordinance

2:57:56 ↗ Works and council president is that your

2:57:59 ↗ that your understanding of what you're

2:58:01 ↗ requesting yes this is council president

2:58:03 ↗ hunt and yes and I I do not believe I

2:58:06 ↗ spoke to um at all a our own moratorium

2:58:10 ↗ on eviction so that was not the intent

2:58:12 ↗ but what Mr just said was my intent

2:58:16 ↗ thank you thank you Madame mayor thank

2:58:18 ↗ you um City administrator Bob kit so I

2:58:21 ↗ see a qu a process question from Deputy

2:58:23 ↗ council president Ray yeah this is well

2:58:26 ↗ really a question I'm sorry this is

2:58:27 ↗ Chris Ray this is a question for the

2:58:29 ↗ city clerk can can we do a continuation

2:58:32 ↗ of an informational item I've never seen

2:58:34 ↗ that before not that I I've seen

2:58:37 ↗ everything I'm just

2:58:39 ↗ curious this is uh Deputy city clerk

2:58:42 ↗ Tisha um and yes the council can can

2:58:46 ↗ make a a motion uh to Broad effect at

2:58:51 ↗ their regular meetings and so this this

2:58:53 ↗ is a proper motion before the

2:58:57 ↗ council okay thank you so um council

2:59:01 ↗ president hunt the motion maker had an

2:59:03 ↗ opportunity to um explain the rationale

2:59:06 ↗ and clarify it for City administrator

2:59:08 ↗ I'm going to go to the second council

2:59:09 ↗ president or sorry um council member Mar

2:59:12 ↗ did you want to make comments and then

2:59:13 ↗ it would be great if we could go around

2:59:15 ↗ the wheel talk to hear what everybody's

2:59:17 ↗ thinking no I mean obviously um anything

2:59:20 ↗ having to do with rental assistance is

2:59:22 ↗ Downstream I was more my comment before

2:59:25 ↗ was more in response to the question of

2:59:27 ↗ sustainability as it relates to the

2:59:29 ↗ options in front of us but obviously we

2:59:31 ↗ should explore the regulatory uh options

2:59:34 ↗ before we explore any financial aid

2:59:38 ↗ thank you thank you very much uh next uh

2:59:41 ↗ looking for comments from any of the

2:59:43 ↗ other C council

2:59:52 ↗ members let's see council member Goodman

2:59:54 ↗ followed by council member Hall thank

2:59:57 ↗ you council member Goodman here so just

2:59:59 ↗ to

3:00:00 ↗ clarify um we would be it would be

3:00:02 ↗ coming back and it would just be

3:00:05 ↗ potential

3:00:07 ↗ regulatory

3:00:10 ↗ issues that is a question uh for the

3:00:14 ↗ motion maker

3:00:16 ↗ or are you are you asking whether or not

3:00:19 ↗ there are additional motions that may

3:00:21 ↗ feed into some sort of work product at a

3:00:23 ↗ special meeting is that the question uh

3:00:26 ↗ no I'm just clarifying that so far the

3:00:30 ↗ motion on the table only has to do with

3:00:33 ↗ um bringing information to next week's

3:00:36 ↗ meeting that would be about

3:00:40 ↗ um ordinances regarding regulation

3:00:44 ↗ in particular a defense but not a

3:00:50 ↗ financial um piece for rental assistance

3:00:53 ↗ is not part of this motion

3:00:55 ↗ thanks clarification just with council

3:00:57 ↗ president the motion as Tisha put it in

3:01:00 ↗ the comment box is continued this topic

3:01:02 ↗ at a special virtual meeting on July

3:01:04 ↗ 27th at 7M to consider actions to

3:01:07 ↗ support housing stability I think the

3:01:09 ↗ question is are the actions just the

3:01:11 ↗ consideration of this proposed orance

3:01:18 ↗ question for me yeah okay this is

3:01:20 ↗ council president hunt and I believe the

3:01:23 ↗ action would be yes the the um

3:01:27 ↗ regulatory or ordinance and not the

3:01:30 ↗ financial piece but I do expect that we

3:01:32 ↗ would have the opportunity with the

3:01:35 ↗ agenda Bill to review again the

3:01:38 ↗ financial piece and the financial need

3:01:41 ↗ um but again the action I think is the

3:01:43 ↗ regulatory action that Mr Haney spoke to

3:01:46 ↗ earlier that we would be considering and

3:01:48 ↗ then also just to clarify this is a

3:01:50 ↗ motion to have that discussion but

3:01:52 ↗ you're not obviously nobody is voting on

3:01:55 ↗ that tonight we don't even have that

3:01:57 ↗ before us thanks council member Goodman

3:02:00 ↗ does it answer your

3:02:01 ↗ question I see a head

3:02:04 ↗ knot uh let's see moving down the list I

3:02:08 ↗ believe it's council member Hall

3:02:11 ↗ next uh mayor Paul uh this is z call

3:02:14 ↗ feel free to to take um coun member

3:02:17 ↗ Mark's question for assistance along the

3:02:19 ↗ same lines great thanks council member

3:02:22 ↗ Marts question thank you mayor paully I

3:02:24 ↗ just as the second on the motion I just

3:02:26 ↗ wanted to concur with the maker of the

3:02:27 ↗ motion that I I didn't I was I was

3:02:31 ↗ trying to explain it more clearly

3:02:32 ↗ earlier but my though I made my comments

3:02:35 ↗ about what might or may not be good

3:02:37 ↗ about financial assistance I support the

3:02:39 ↗ narrow definition of what the meeting is

3:02:41 ↗ for next week great thank you council

3:02:44 ↗ member Marts um back to well actually

3:02:47 ↗ City administrator Bob ktz has a

3:02:49 ↗ question City administrator Bob ktz yes

3:02:51 ↗ thank you madam mayor council president

3:02:53 ↗ hunt you mentioned then Financial issues

3:02:56 ↗ again and so I'm still

3:02:58 ↗ unclear what additional information you

3:03:00 ↗ would

3:03:02 ↗ like um this council president hunt

3:03:07 ↗ I you can disregard I mentioned it in

3:03:10 ↗ the context of that we are provided with

3:03:13 ↗ other information and agenda bills but

3:03:15 ↗ you can disregard it's not the action

3:03:17 ↗ that we would be taking thank you thank

3:03:20 ↗ you City ministrator Bob quits uh let's

3:03:24 ↗ see I believe it's council member D

3:03:26 ↗ Michelle followed by council member

3:03:29 ↗ Goodman yes I just wanted to sorry this

3:03:32 ↗ is council member D Michelle I just

3:03:34 ↗ wanted to say that uh I really uh

3:03:37 ↗ appreciated um uh council member

3:03:40 ↗ Martin's comments and I do think that's

3:03:43 ↗ a discussion that we should have I just

3:03:45 ↗ think that it's a very broad question

3:03:47 ↗ and one that um requires some thinking

3:03:50 ↗ and research possible research um

3:03:53 ↗ because the question that I heard

3:03:55 ↗ council member Marts ask is if we were

3:03:58 ↗ to move um significant funds out of the

3:04:02 ↗ reserves what do we get for it and I

3:04:05 ↗ think that is a question that is going

3:04:07 ↗ to take more than a week to come uh come

3:04:10 ↗ up with a uh viable answer so I

3:04:13 ↗ interested in the question and I am

3:04:15 ↗ interested in the answer but I think at

3:04:18 ↗ this meeting a week from now that we

3:04:20 ↗ should focus in narrowly on the um on

3:04:25 ↗ the question that uh council president

3:04:27 ↗ Hunt is recommending so that's just my

3:04:30 ↗ comment thank you I have a question for

3:04:34 ↗ City administrator Bob ktz about process

3:04:37 ↗ and August and September um there seems

3:04:40 ↗ to be a couple information requests here

3:04:42 ↗ one is if funding for rental assistance

3:04:45 ↗ is to be impactful what number would

3:04:48 ↗ that be and we are currently entering

3:04:50 ↗ into a budget season where an additional

3:04:53 ↗ 3 something million dollars in Cuts will

3:04:55 ↗ have to be made and it seems like these

3:04:57 ↗ two conversations are really married

3:05:00 ↗ because it's not just about how

3:05:01 ↗ impactful the money is it's what else do

3:05:03 ↗ you cut out of your city

3:05:05 ↗ services uh or how far down do you draw

3:05:09 ↗ your ending fund balance and so does it

3:05:12 ↗ in from process point of view are these

3:05:14 ↗ two questions married and part of a same

3:05:16 ↗ same

3:05:17 ↗ conversation uh Madame mayor members of

3:05:19 ↗ the council they can be and and let's be

3:05:21 ↗ clear on fiscal years that we're talking

3:05:23 ↗ in the current fiscal year we may have

3:05:25 ↗ a$ two and a half to3 million deficit we

3:05:27 ↗ have not discussed what deficits would

3:05:29 ↗ be next year in 21 and so um just to be

3:05:33 ↗ clear on that uh you know that's a very

3:05:36 ↗ large question about how we could be

3:05:38 ↗ impactful I think there's a lot of

3:05:40 ↗ different ways to look at that uh and

3:05:42 ↗ Madame mayor I guess I would hope that

3:05:44 ↗ there' be an additional Motion in that

3:05:46 ↗ because that's going to take a

3:05:46 ↗ significant amount of staff work uh to

3:05:49 ↗ to answer that question which we're

3:05:50 ↗ happy to do uh but I think it it is

3:05:53 ↗ significant enough that just a a a a a

3:05:56 ↗ mention at a council meeting is is not

3:05:59 ↗ enough I think that there would need to

3:06:00 ↗ be a direction from the legislative body

3:06:03 ↗ because we may have to bring in outside

3:06:04 ↗ resources again miss Nilla is completely

3:06:07 ↗ stretched at this point it's a large

3:06:09 ↗ question we may need to have to retain U

3:06:12 ↗ an outside person just to answer that

3:06:14 ↗ particular question so if that's

3:06:16 ↗ something the council would like to see

3:06:18 ↗ in coming weeks I would appreciate a

3:06:19 ↗ motion okay thank you uh that's very

3:06:23 ↗ helpful um now going to comment to

3:06:26 ↗ council member

3:06:27 ↗ Goodman um thank you council member

3:06:29 ↗ Goodman here you sort of covered what I

3:06:31 ↗ was going to say and that is that we are

3:06:34 ↗ um precipitously close to our budget

3:06:36 ↗ presentation and starting our budget

3:06:38 ↗ deliberations and that um you know all

3:06:41 ↗ of that should be married

3:06:44 ↗ and you know we're talking about this

3:06:46 ↗ year but soon we're talking about next

3:06:48 ↗ year and if we thought last year's

3:06:49 ↗ budget season um was super awesome fun

3:06:54 ↗ wait till this year so um I am very very

3:06:58 ↗ concerned about

3:07:01 ↗ considering um in particular a large

3:07:03 ↗ amount of money before we have um all of

3:07:08 ↗ the information and all the facts before

3:07:10 ↗ us about the proposed budget

3:07:13 ↗ thanks thank you council member

3:07:20 ↗ Hall thanks M pa uh council member Hall

3:07:23 ↗ here um I guess first I'll just say yeah

3:07:26 ↗ this question of how much would be in

3:07:28 ↗ fact was very clearly a policy

3:07:32 ↗ question some of us might think helping

3:07:34 ↗ one family would be

3:07:36 ↗ impactful too

3:07:39 ↗ so it's clearly a policy question um my

3:07:43 ↗ I my comment and actually I might want

3:07:44 ↗ to save this for this future meeting

3:07:46 ↗ then so maybe this may be a question for

3:07:48 ↗ you then I have comments and suggestions

3:07:50 ↗ on um how the policy should be written

3:07:54 ↗ for um providing this legal defense of

3:07:58 ↗ eviction is this something I should sa

3:08:01 ↗ for special meeting would this be

3:08:03 ↗ helpful like

3:08:05 ↗ your uh I believe what would be most

3:08:09 ↗ helpful for Mr Haney is for you to ask

3:08:11 ↗ your questions now so that can consider

3:08:13 ↗ it during the drafting of the um

3:08:17 ↗ proposed

3:08:19 ↗ ordinance okay yeah not necessarily a

3:08:23 ↗ question but just to say that I guess

3:08:26 ↗ when he's doing his research in his

3:08:27 ↗ digging into Seattle County are doing um

3:08:31 ↗ they very specifically call

3:08:34 ↗ out under what circumstances tenants

3:08:37 ↗ cannot be adicted and it's a broad net

3:08:40 ↗ that I that I like from a policy

3:08:43 ↗ perspective that i' would like to be

3:08:44 ↗ included um that include things like

3:08:48 ↗ loss of income because of loss of job

3:08:50 ↗ but also caretaking for a family member

3:08:53 ↗ who has covid-19

3:08:57 ↗ s and Madame mayor council member Hall I

3:09:00 ↗ I think as as we've said we are not

3:09:02 ↗ looking to reinvent the wheel here uh

3:09:04 ↗ that Mr Haney is going to go to the city

3:09:07 ↗ of Seattle ordinance to the King County

3:09:08 ↗ ordinance and my sense would be to uh

3:09:12 ↗ the ordinance you see in a week's time

3:09:14 ↗ will be if not completely identical

3:09:16 ↗ nearly identical to that uh for many

3:09:18 ↗ reasons one because of the comprehensive

3:09:20 ↗ nature of the ordinances as they exist

3:09:22 ↗ and also um if we are all sued let's all

3:09:25 ↗ be sued together uh over over the same

3:09:28 ↗ language if we have slightly different

3:09:31 ↗ language uh we'll be sued separately

3:09:33 ↗ from Seattle and King County and any

3:09:35 ↗ other jurisdiction that might in the

3:09:37 ↗ next seven days want to do the same

3:09:38 ↗ things we're talking about so um I I

3:09:41 ↗ would suspect you'll see something

3:09:42 ↗ nearly identical to the Seattle

3:09:46 ↗ ordinance thank you um I want to give an

3:09:49 ↗ opportunity to we haven't heard from all

3:09:51 ↗ council members are there any other

3:09:52 ↗ council members that would like to make

3:09:53 ↗ a comment or have remaining questions

3:09:55 ↗ before we call for the

3:10:01 ↗ vote looking in the

3:10:04 ↗ chat not seeing anybody I'm going to

3:10:08 ↗ move up to the motion the motion on the

3:10:11 ↗ table is continue this topic at a

3:10:13 ↗ special virtual meeting on July 27th at

3:10:16 ↗ 7.m to consider actions to support

3:10:18 ↗ housing stability Tia have I got the

3:10:20 ↗ right

3:10:22 ↗ motion yes thank

3:10:24 ↗ you all those in favor say I oh excuse

3:10:28 ↗ me we take a roll call vote roll call

3:10:30 ↗ vote sorry thank

3:10:33 ↗ you yes council member D Michelle

3:10:36 ↗ I council member Goodman I council

3:10:41 ↗ member Hall I council president hunt I

3:10:46 ↗ council member Marts I Deputy council

3:10:50 ↗ president Ray I council member

3:10:54 ↗ Walsh I that's seven I zero

3:10:58 ↗ nay thank you um city

3:11:01 ↗ clerk uh there was discussion and I just

3:11:04 ↗ want to make sure there wasn't

3:11:06 ↗ additional action uh do any of the

3:11:09 ↗ council members oh council member Marts

3:11:11 ↗ has a motion

3:11:13 ↗ yes so I'm I'm freewheeling this so if I

3:11:17 ↗ get it wrong then we'll figure out how

3:11:19 ↗ to say it better but um I would like the

3:11:22 ↗ administration to come back in the first

3:11:24 ↗ meeting in August with uh what a

3:11:29 ↗ potential

3:11:31 ↗ rental uh subsidy package would look

3:11:35 ↗ like for uh a potential small medium

3:11:38 ↗ large investment by uh this Council

3:11:44 ↗ is there a second if you could indicate

3:11:46 ↗ in the chat

3:11:52 ↗ box seconded by uh oh sorry council

3:11:55 ↗ president hunt would you like

3:11:57 ↗ to this counc I

3:12:01 ↗ second great uh City administrator Bob

3:12:04 ↗ crit you have a

3:12:11 ↗ question

3:12:13 ↗ if you're talking you're on

3:12:17 ↗ mute Madame mayor members of the council

3:12:19 ↗ I had a question on the uh separate from

3:12:22 ↗ the motion but now that there's the

3:12:23 ↗ motion um that's two weeks from now um

3:12:27 ↗ two weeks from tonight so that gives us

3:12:29 ↗ roughly a week and a half to to sort

3:12:31 ↗ through this um we want to be helpful we

3:12:34 ↗ want to be supportive um we are in kind

3:12:38 ↗ of Uncharted Territory here um it's

3:12:41 ↗ going to be very difficult to do that um

3:12:44 ↗ if the motion passes we'll figure it out

3:12:46 ↗ but I just want to say uh given

3:12:49 ↗ everything else that is on our plate all

3:12:51 ↗ the other uh challenges we are trying to

3:12:54 ↗ uh sort through here uh we have very

3:12:56 ↗ limited staff resources in this area um

3:12:59 ↗ and it will be difficult it would be

3:13:01 ↗ difficult even to find additional

3:13:02 ↗ resources to bring in and give them you

3:13:05 ↗ know five or six days uh to work on this

3:13:08 ↗ so I mentioned that if the motion passes

3:13:10 ↗ we'll figure it out and we'll be with

3:13:12 ↗ with you on August

3:13:14 ↗ 3rd uh council member Marts you'd like

3:13:16 ↗ to speak to the motion I would thank you

3:13:18 ↗ Madame mayor this is council member

3:13:20 ↗ Marts um I I think I think this can be

3:13:23 ↗ done relatively lightly um one of the

3:13:26 ↗ things we heard tonight was a $1.1

3:13:28 ↗ Million number but that was everybody

3:13:30 ↗ right that included market rate uh the

3:13:33 ↗ mayor is shaking your head no that that

3:13:35 ↗ did not include market rate I thought I

3:13:37 ↗ Monica sorry um council member Marts

3:13:39 ↗ Monica did you um in your report talk

3:13:42 ↗ about how many of the rental units

3:13:44 ↗ within isqua was contained in the

3:13:46 ↗ information was it 100% of the rental

3:13:49 ↗ unit no not 100% uh it was a total of 12

3:13:53 ↗ apartment uh complexes um so it was just

3:13:56 ↗ a

3:14:00 ↗ sample um Council uh member Mars you are

3:14:04 ↗ still okay on the floor but I what I

3:14:07 ↗ thought Monica said was there was a

3:14:09 ↗ question about whether that was Folks at

3:14:11 ↗ 50% am or 80% Ami and I thought Monica

3:14:14 ↗ said that that included people all the

3:14:17 ↗ way up through whatever it was not it

3:14:20 ↗ was not parsed out by uh by

3:14:24 ↗ Ami thank you uh council member Mars I'm

3:14:26 ↗ going to let Monica expand on that

3:14:28 ↗ because I I think we've heard different

3:14:31 ↗ I think we all heard what she said

3:14:33 ↗ differently so Monica let's take a

3:14:34 ↗ second stab at

3:14:36 ↗ it so from those 12 apartment complexes

3:14:40 ↗ that were surveyed um to date um there

3:14:45 ↗ are Market race rate apartment complexes

3:14:48 ↗ as well as low income and affordable

3:14:50 ↗ housing um uh providers um however the

3:14:55 ↗ caveat is that um mainly if you take a

3:14:59 ↗ look at the attachment um those that are

3:15:02 ↗ at market rate um um they are about one

3:15:06 ↗ or two or maximum 4% of the units are

3:15:09 ↗ have overdue rent whereas those that um

3:15:12 ↗ are the low income and affordable

3:15:14 ↗ housing providers are at 50 or 60% so

3:15:18 ↗ overall the

3:15:20 ↗ majority of those um apartment complexes

3:15:24 ↗ are um low income um Monica I think the

3:15:28 ↗ question two is about is this a sampling

3:15:30 ↗ or is this representative of our housing

3:15:33 ↗ inventory it's just a sampling and it is

3:15:36 ↗ ad just 12 apartment complexes that the

3:15:38 ↗ rental assistance providers work with

3:15:40 ↗ and they had a chance to survey up to

3:15:43 ↗ this point so they the story line that's

3:15:46 ↗ coming out of there is that you have a

3:15:48 ↗ far higher percentage of folks in

3:15:51 ↗ subsidized housing that are struggling

3:15:53 ↗ to a much more significant degree than

3:15:55 ↗ in market rate housing but we don't have

3:15:57 ↗ the full market rate picture exactly or

3:16:00 ↗ the full picture I guess the full

3:16:01 ↗ picture Okay council member Marts we'll

3:16:03 ↗ come back to you does that answer your

3:16:05 ↗ question well I was I was going to speak

3:16:07 ↗ to my motion and answer um city the city

3:16:10 ↗ administrator so my point was that um I

3:16:13 ↗ think that this could be fairly light I

3:16:14 ↗ don't I don't think I'm saying that what

3:16:17 ↗ we would have to have at the beginning

3:16:18 ↗ of August would be all the eyes dotted

3:16:21 ↗ and te's crossed but I want to

3:16:23 ↗ understand if we can move the needle or

3:16:25 ↗ not and I'm not willing to wait until

3:16:28 ↗ November because that's four months away

3:16:30 ↗ we won't have a new budget for four

3:16:32 ↗ months I think four months will

3:16:34 ↗ represent uh a sizable fraction of the

3:16:38 ↗ time that it's going to take and until

3:16:40 ↗ you know if if we're going to see if

3:16:42 ↗ things are going to start to improve in

3:16:43 ↗ the new year with hopefully a vaccine

3:16:46 ↗ and all those sorts of things the the

3:16:48 ↗ the window of Crisis is coming up it's

3:16:50 ↗ not it's not four months from now so I'd

3:16:52 ↗ like to understand that and that's why I

3:16:54 ↗ think that the administration can get

3:16:56 ↗ the broad outlines of what that kind of

3:16:59 ↗ money would or would not mean if it's if

3:17:01 ↗ it's a drop in the bucket let's

3:17:03 ↗ understand that and move on but if it

3:17:04 ↗ really would impact things and let's at

3:17:07 ↗ that first meeting decide we want to uh

3:17:10 ↗ delve into it further thank you

3:17:13 ↗ thank you council member Mar and I think

3:17:14 ↗ you know if it's if it's broad broad

3:17:16 ↗ Strokes it may be unsatisfying but it

3:17:18 ↗ may be all that can be done in two weeks

3:17:20 ↗ um since there are other you know larger

3:17:23 ↗ organizations that are working on this I

3:17:25 ↗ just don't know that the data is

3:17:26 ↗ available because it hasn't shown up

3:17:27 ↗ anywhere um going to a question from

3:17:29 ↗ council member Ray there's there's hi

3:17:32 ↗ this is Chris Ray there's actually two

3:17:34 ↗ two questions in my question one of them

3:17:37 ↗ is do we know how many rental units

3:17:38 ↗ there are in the city of isqua I'm going

3:17:41 ↗ to guess there's more than3 00 by a

3:17:43 ↗ significant

3:17:44 ↗ margin um I'm not sure we have anybody

3:17:47 ↗ this evening that would be able to

3:17:49 ↗ address that yeah so um though it was a

3:17:51 ↗ great sampling it was a small sample and

3:17:54 ↗ particularly if we're going to try and

3:17:55 ↗ extrapolate from that so I just would

3:17:57 ↗ like to to know that and then do we know

3:18:00 ↗ if we captured in that sampling all of

3:18:03 ↗ our um affordable housing um locations

3:18:07 ↗ because it it uh you know that may be

3:18:10 ↗ helpful too to understand the mag trying

3:18:12 ↗ to get to council members Mart's uh

3:18:15 ↗ question which is What's the magnitude

3:18:17 ↗ of this problem and and and can we do

3:18:20 ↗ something and and and because we're

3:18:22 ↗ working from a sample and I don't know

3:18:23 ↗ how big the sample is I can't get there

3:18:26 ↗ so um um Monica any any insights there

3:18:31 ↗ to

3:18:31 ↗ share um thank you Council um member Ray

3:18:37 ↗ um so yes I think that's what we are

3:18:39 ↗ trying to attempt to do to get an idea

3:18:42 ↗ of how big the problem is um however uh

3:18:46 ↗ this is what the rental assistance

3:18:48 ↗ providers were able to obtain in the

3:18:50 ↗ last couple of weeks um just surveying

3:18:53 ↗ the the landlords it takes time and so

3:18:56 ↗ yes that's exactly our intent to get to

3:19:00 ↗ a better picture and more realistic

3:19:03 ↗ picture of what does

3:19:06 ↗ um rental assistant needs look like in

3:19:10 ↗ isqua but it might take more time and I

3:19:12 ↗ don't know if I can promise to you that

3:19:14 ↗ I'm going to have the full picture in

3:19:16 ↗ the next couple of weeks like you said

3:19:18 ↗ they're just like we don't even know how

3:19:19 ↗ many rental apartments are however we

3:19:21 ↗ can definitely that's the list we

3:19:23 ↗ started with the low income and

3:19:25 ↗ affordable housing units um for

3:19:29 ↗ sure and thank you Monica council member

3:19:33 ↗ Goodman thank you council member Goodman

3:19:35 ↗ here um so my comments about the budget

3:19:38 ↗ weren't um meant to put off a question

3:19:42 ↗ about rental assistance too the time

3:19:44 ↗ when we vote on the ultimate budget for

3:19:47 ↗ 2021 which typically is November or um

3:19:50 ↗ has been in the past at some times early

3:19:52 ↗ December my my point was um exactly what

3:19:56 ↗ um administrator bod Bob quits had

3:19:58 ↗ talked about um in that we've really got

3:20:03 ↗ a limited amount of resources here and

3:20:06 ↗ uh at the same time we're trying to

3:20:08 ↗ finalize a budget and in early September

3:20:12 ↗ that proposed budget comes out and at

3:20:14 ↗ that point the mayor has to have

3:20:16 ↗ recommendations and we will know what

3:20:19 ↗ the

3:20:21 ↗ administration's um report is on the

3:20:23 ↗ impact for next year so this is not a

3:20:26 ↗ four Monon um uh waiting period um I'm

3:20:31 ↗ concerned that we would have not all of

3:20:34 ↗ the information to make an informed

3:20:36 ↗ decision and it's and it's not if we did

3:20:40 ↗ something um early August my concern we

3:20:43 ↗ would have uh we also have a city that

3:20:46 ↗ we have to make sure that we're

3:20:48 ↗ financing properly and um and I I don't

3:20:50 ↗ know that we're going to have all that

3:20:51 ↗ information that's really what my

3:20:53 ↗ concern it was not about let's wait all

3:20:55 ↗ the way till the end of O till the end

3:20:56 ↗ of nove November um but I'm concerned

3:21:00 ↗ about making decisions peac meal um

3:21:02 ↗ rather than making them in an informed

3:21:04 ↗ Manner and the part about big chunks of

3:21:07 ↗ rental assistance before we have all the

3:21:09 ↗ information to us about the budget um

3:21:11 ↗ for next next year that's really where

3:21:13 ↗ my con is and so that's why I think it's

3:21:16 ↗ um just a few weeks too soon to consider

3:21:19 ↗ something large um and because of our

3:21:23 ↗ resources in Staffing I'm not sure that

3:21:25 ↗ we'll have the information that we

3:21:26 ↗ needan anyway that's just where my

3:21:28 ↗ concern was thanks thank you council

3:21:30 ↗ member Goodman council member Walsh um

3:21:32 ↗ actually before you go council member

3:21:34 ↗ Walsh I think um uh City administrator

3:21:37 ↗ Bob quitz has got some um approximate

3:21:39 ↗ rental numbers that he'd like to share

3:21:42 ↗ so according to the US Census their

3:21:44 ↗ latest data which is 2018 there are

3:21:48 ↗ 16,3 uh housing units in isqua 41% of

3:21:52 ↗ those are rental and so that works out

3:21:54 ↗ to

3:21:56 ↗ 6565 units so uh that's all that's all

3:22:00 ↗ incomes all all all costs but it's a

3:22:04 ↗ it's a gross number uh so it's

3:22:07 ↗ 6565 according to the US Census Bureau

3:22:09 ↗ is how many rental units there are Squad

3:22:13 ↗ thank you for looking that up I'm going

3:22:15 ↗ to now go to council member

3:22:17 ↗ Walsh thank you this is council member

3:22:19 ↗ Walsh I I was going to say something

3:22:21 ↗ similar to council member Goodman about

3:22:24 ↗ the timing of our budget and wanting to

3:22:27 ↗ hear the administration's proposal um at

3:22:31 ↗ the very least before looking at a an

3:22:35 ↗ output of cash um understanding that the

3:22:40 ↗ administration's proposal May rely on

3:22:44 ↗ having some of that cash available and

3:22:47 ↗ so I think the the timing of these two

3:22:50 ↗ things need to be linked if we're

3:22:53 ↗ looking at using um a sense of cash and

3:22:56 ↗ also that just this is coming up for us

3:22:58 ↗ tonight but this rental crisis hasn't

3:23:02 ↗ been something that just happened now it

3:23:06 ↗ hasn't been something that just happened

3:23:08 ↗ two weeks ago it's been happening and so

3:23:12 ↗ the the idea that we have to manage this

3:23:16 ↗ in the have a response in the first week

3:23:19 ↗ of August when we also have a

3:23:21 ↗ responsibility to a budget in a short

3:23:23 ↗ period of time I I think is causing me a

3:23:26 ↗ little bit of consternation there

3:23:29 ↗ so thank you council member Walsh I'm

3:23:31 ↗ looking in the chat to see if any other

3:23:33 ↗ council members either have a question

3:23:36 ↗ or a comment before we call for the

3:23:38 ↗ vote comment from Council president hunt

3:23:43 ↗ um yes thank you this is council

3:23:45 ↗ president hunt I will be supporting and

3:23:48 ↗ I wanted to explain why um I think that

3:23:51 ↗ the timing is important and I think what

3:23:54 ↗ we're my understanding of the intent

3:23:56 ↗ here is that we want to understand um

3:24:00 ↗ the extensive need we want more

3:24:01 ↗ information on that and Council council

3:24:04 ↗ member Walsh is corrects that this has

3:24:06 ↗ been a looming crisis for a while and I

3:24:09 ↗ think um in my mind this timing I think

3:24:12 ↗ would be good to have that conversation

3:24:15 ↗ before we have the proposed budget so

3:24:17 ↗ that Council can consider more where we

3:24:20 ↗ all are um with more information to have

3:24:23 ↗ that discussion so um I will be

3:24:25 ↗ supporting the motion and I

3:24:28 ↗ um and I I understand the timing is a

3:24:30 ↗ challenge but I think it's important

3:24:32 ↗ that we have the discussion

3:24:34 ↗ sooner council member

3:24:39 ↗ Ray hi this is Chris Ray

3:24:42 ↗ this is a question for administrator btz

3:24:45 ↗ um so what aren't you going to do if you

3:24:47 ↗ do this I mean I appreciate your heroics

3:24:49 ↗ and your get it done attitude but so

3:24:51 ↗ what isn't going to get done if you

3:24:53 ↗ spend the next two weeks um putting this

3:24:56 ↗ together I'm just trying to understand

3:24:58 ↗ from an opportunity cost perspective

3:25:00 ↗ what what this is going to cost

3:25:03 ↗ me uh council member depy counc

3:25:06 ↗ President right members of the council

3:25:08 ↗ um Miss Nilla is a busy person

3:25:12 ↗ um and we spoke today about how to move

3:25:14 ↗ forward with the city council's

3:25:17 ↗ potential uh action plan on police

3:25:20 ↗ accountability equity and Human Services

3:25:22 ↗ and so uh our charge is how do we uh

3:25:26 ↗ evaluate the police department's budget

3:25:28 ↗ as far as human services are concerned

3:25:31 ↗ and have a proposal in the uh proposed

3:25:34 ↗ budget at the end of September um and so

3:25:37 ↗ uh absent this work assignment uh that

3:25:40 ↗ is what we were going to begin to work

3:25:42 ↗ on which means that we will put aside uh

3:25:45 ↗ work on the police department budget um

3:25:49 ↗ until August

3:25:53 ↗ 4th and and Madam mayor maybe you

3:25:56 ↗ know as your city administrator I always

3:25:59 ↗ am hesitant to try to weigh a competing

3:26:02 ↗ resource requests because I'm damned if

3:26:05 ↗ I do and I'm damned if I don't um you

3:26:08 ↗ know if if there's a desire on the

3:26:10 ↗ council's part to invest additional

3:26:12 ↗ dollars in rental assistance we can come

3:26:15 ↗ up with some ideas to do that uh I think

3:26:18 ↗ that the this larger overarching desire

3:26:21 ↗ to come up with something that's

3:26:23 ↗ meaningful given the context of the

3:26:25 ↗ world we live in is just really hard

3:26:27 ↗ because I we're not going to be able to

3:26:29 ↗ tell you on August 3D how long it's

3:26:31 ↗ going to be needed we're not going to be

3:26:32 ↗ able to know um so many other factors

3:26:35 ↗ but if the council truly wants to make

3:26:37 ↗ an investment in the community I mean

3:26:39 ↗ any dollar is going to make a difference

3:26:40 ↗ I think it was Council member Hall who

3:26:42 ↗ said you know how do you measure this

3:26:43 ↗ one family helped is a measurable result

3:26:46 ↗ and I I would agree with that um so if

3:26:49 ↗ you want us to come back on August 3rd

3:26:51 ↗ we'll come back with our best estimates

3:26:53 ↗ it may not be this look in the crystal

3:26:56 ↗ ball and say this is what the next 12

3:26:57 ↗ months look like and here you know

3:26:59 ↗ here's a gradation of small medium and

3:27:02 ↗ large it may not be that fine but at

3:27:05 ↗ least it would be something for you to

3:27:06 ↗ decide on because I my sense of the

3:27:09 ↗ councils you want to do that um my

3:27:11 ↗ challenge is we got to pay other bills

3:27:13 ↗ too and we have to serve other critical

3:27:16 ↗ Community needs as well there's just so

3:27:18 ↗ many in front of us um and we can't

3:27:21 ↗ carry all the water the state of

3:27:22 ↗ Washington needs to step up and start

3:27:24 ↗ carrying some more water the federal

3:27:26 ↗ government needs to step up and carry

3:27:28 ↗ some more water you know we're going to

3:27:30 ↗ have done more for rental assistance in

3:27:32 ↗ this aquad than the United States

3:27:33 ↗ government has

3:27:35 ↗ done you know drink that in for a moment

3:27:38 ↗ um and so so that so that's that's the

3:27:40 ↗ challenge

3:27:42 ↗ uh so we'll come back with something if

3:27:43 ↗ it's the will of the Council on August

3:27:44 ↗ 3rd I just can't guarantee that it's

3:27:46 ↗ going to be as insightful or as

3:27:48 ↗ meaningful as perhaps you all might hope

3:27:50 ↗ it is thank you City administrator Bob

3:27:52 ↗ quitz I I just have to add on to what

3:27:54 ↗ you're saying and then we're going to

3:27:55 ↗ come back we have more questions and

3:27:56 ↗ comments um as the head of the

3:27:58 ↗ administration I don't support this at

3:28:00 ↗ all um so we'll get through the rest of

3:28:02 ↗ the reasoning but this is just really

3:28:04 ↗ unfortunate that we're doing this

3:28:06 ↗ tonight and we're doing it on camera and

3:28:08 ↗ that we're doing it um in a real really

3:28:11 ↗ narrow focus when I look at the numbers

3:28:14 ↗ and I look at what's coming ahead and

3:28:15 ↗ the amount of uncertainty and I just we

3:28:18 ↗ just don't even have the bandwidth to do

3:28:19 ↗ it so it's not a simple thing um we have

3:28:23 ↗ staff that have totally switched their

3:28:25 ↗ jobs this year and are doing brand new

3:28:26 ↗ things and doing amazing work but I

3:28:29 ↗ don't know how we can do this and

3:28:30 ↗ satisfy I think we can do it and

3:28:32 ↗ disappoint and like Wally said he'll

3:28:34 ↗ give you what you know he'll give you

3:28:35 ↗ what you want but the administration's

3:28:37 ↗ recommendation is not to proceed with

3:28:38 ↗ this at that time uh Council member Ray

3:28:41 ↗ had a question but I we caught it

3:28:43 ↗ council member Marts has a comment

3:28:44 ↗ followed by council member

3:28:48 ↗ Goodman

3:28:52 ↗ oh madame mayor this is council member

3:28:55 ↗ Marts I came in this evening just

3:28:58 ↗ wanting to know if it was possible to

3:29:01 ↗ move the needle with rental assistance

3:29:04 ↗ your Administration said you wanted it

3:29:06 ↗ phrased in the form of a motion so I

3:29:09 ↗ gave it in the form of a motion I

3:29:12 ↗ I think that you're being against a

3:29:15 ↗ motion that doesn't that the terms of

3:29:17 ↗ which does don't exist yet is

3:29:20 ↗ unfortunate and perhaps unprecedented in

3:29:23 ↗ my 11 years on the council look I get

3:29:26 ↗ that the administration doesn't want to

3:29:27 ↗ do this but I want to know if we can

3:29:30 ↗ move the needle or not maybe we can

3:29:33 ↗ that's fine but and it I wasn't even

3:29:37 ↗ particularly in love with August 3rd but

3:29:38 ↗ you said you wanted it in the form of a

3:29:40 ↗ motion so you got it in the form of a

3:29:42 ↗ motion um but really your comments

3:29:45 ↗ opposing a motion that doesn't exist yet

3:29:48 ↗ are very

3:29:50 ↗ unfortunate I'm sorry uh council member

3:29:52 ↗ Marts that's the way it's coming across

3:29:54 ↗ the motion has been formed and it

3:29:56 ↗ provides an opportunity for the council

3:29:57 ↗ to have a discussion on camera which I

3:29:59 ↗ think is a great idea I think what

3:30:01 ↗ you're hearing is that we just can't do

3:30:03 ↗ it well if this is an assessment that's

3:30:05 ↗ needed I would suggest we give it the

3:30:07 ↗ amount of time we need with our current

3:30:09 ↗ Staffing and with the work that's going

3:30:10 ↗ on out Community out in the region the

3:30:12 ↗ numbers don't exist so so you you can

3:30:15 ↗ get something in two weeks but you

3:30:16 ↗ probably can't get what you're asking

3:30:18 ↗ for I'm sorry but I'm sure Arch knows

3:30:20 ↗ exactly how many units at 30% and 50%

3:30:23 ↗ and 80% are in the city that's why we're

3:30:25 ↗ a member of

3:30:28 ↗ arch

3:30:32 ↗ right I'm I'm I'm

3:30:35 ↗ through uh going to comments council

3:30:38 ↗ member

3:30:39 ↗ Goodman thank you madam M mayor um I um

3:30:45 ↗ am concerned about like I said before

3:30:47 ↗ concerned about the timing um and I

3:30:50 ↗ think um to council member Walsh's point

3:30:54 ↗ about this is not something that just

3:30:56 ↗ happened right away um I looked at it a

3:30:58 ↗ little differently in that um this is a

3:31:01 ↗ long-term problem and we're going to

3:31:02 ↗ have there are going to be so many

3:31:04 ↗ opportunities to help if this is going

3:31:06 ↗ to go on for a long time and um to

3:31:09 ↗ council to sorry council member to um

3:31:13 ↗ administrator Bob KT's um point you know

3:31:15 ↗ others have to carry the water I think

3:31:18 ↗ that we should focus our e efforts on uh

3:31:23 ↗ shaking loose some money in other places

3:31:26 ↗ um from King County and getting some um

3:31:29 ↗ some advocacy um going for the feds and

3:31:34 ↗ for the state and we should focus now on

3:31:37 ↗ our budget and try to get that out so

3:31:39 ↗ that we can have a um more thoughtful

3:31:42 ↗ and thorough

3:31:44 ↗ deliberation um about the budget once we

3:31:47 ↗ know exactly what that looks like um

3:31:50 ↗ it's to me it's an issue of timing and

3:31:53 ↗ uh the reality regarding um our

3:31:56 ↗ resources and what we can put to this um

3:31:58 ↗ it's not about a a willingness or an

3:32:00 ↗ interest in helping um it's just that we

3:32:03 ↗ have um so many other balls in the air

3:32:05 ↗ right now um we're going to have this

3:32:08 ↗ question is going to be around for a

3:32:10 ↗ long time this is not our only

3:32:12 ↗ opportunity uh so I those are the

3:32:15 ↗ reasons I'm not supporting it's not

3:32:16 ↗ about um helping it's about timing and I

3:32:19 ↗ don't think it's the right timing right

3:32:20 ↗ now I think if we wait a few weeks we'll

3:32:22 ↗ have a lot more information um and then

3:32:24 ↗ I think we make a better decision um for

3:32:27 ↗ the community for the city

3:32:30 ↗ thanks thank you council member Ray

3:32:33 ↗ thank you this is Chris

3:32:35 ↗ Ray we have limited cap capacity and I

3:32:38 ↗ think we all know that and if we ask

3:32:41 ↗ people to do more that means we're going

3:32:44 ↗ to get um um a less satisfactory

3:32:47 ↗ response um in terms of what a potential

3:32:53 ↗ rental subsidy program could look like

3:32:54 ↗ but it also will have a spillover effect

3:32:56 ↗ and it will have an impact on our

3:32:58 ↗ discussions we're having around um

3:33:00 ↗ policing and um you know redefining what

3:33:04 ↗ the role of police is and from where I

3:33:07 ↗ sit I think this is a an important

3:33:09 ↗ discussion to have but the one that the

3:33:12 ↗ people in this city have talked to us

3:33:13 ↗ about a lot of late is what are you guys

3:33:16 ↗ going to do around policing and what's

3:33:17 ↗ going to happen how are you reimagining

3:33:19 ↗ policing it and I don't want to short

3:33:21 ↗ trift that conversation and I know we

3:33:24 ↗ will and because I know Monica will um

3:33:27 ↗ will deliver and she'll you know bust

3:33:29 ↗ her her hump and she'll try and get it

3:33:32 ↗ done and um and everything will both

3:33:36 ↗ will turn out in a position where we

3:33:38 ↗ will be less satisfied and I'd rather

3:33:40 ↗ just take on one thing and get it right

3:33:42 ↗ and we can come back to this um at a

3:33:45 ↗ future date because I I don't think it's

3:33:47 ↗ um I don't think it's going away

3:33:49 ↗ so thank you thank you Deputy council

3:33:53 ↗ president Ry I am looking in the comment

3:33:55 ↗ section to see if anybody else or the

3:33:58 ↗ chat section to see if anybody else

3:33:59 ↗ would like to comment before calling for

3:34:01 ↗ the

3:34:04 ↗ vote I'll give it a few

3:34:08 ↗ seconds okay not seeing anyone further

3:34:12 ↗ it has been moved and seconded to direct

3:34:14 ↗ the administration at the first meeting

3:34:15 ↗ in August to provide what a potential

3:34:17 ↗ rental subsidy package would look like

3:34:19 ↗ for a potential small medium large

3:34:22 ↗ investment by the city council all those

3:34:26 ↗ uh whoops going to a roll call vote

3:34:27 ↗ again handing it back over to the city

3:34:29 ↗ clerk council member D Michelle I

3:34:34 ↗ council member Goodman

3:34:36 ↗ nay council member Hall I council

3:34:41 ↗ president hunt I council member Marts I

3:34:47 ↗ Deputy council president Ray nay council

3:34:50 ↗ member Walsh

3:34:53 ↗ nay Four Eyes three Nays the motion

3:34:57 ↗ carries thank you city clerk is there

3:35:00 ↗ any other uh questions or clarifications

3:35:03 ↗ that um administrator Bob ktz needs

3:35:06 ↗ before we proceed to the next

3:35:09 ↗ item Madame mayor yes

3:35:13 ↗ sir so if Governor Insley issues a

3:35:17 ↗ proclamation next Monday at 5:00 pm uh

3:35:21 ↗ saying that the moratorium has been

3:35:23 ↗ extended do we still need to

3:35:26 ↗ meet great question um thoughts and

3:35:29 ↗ comments from the

3:35:35 ↗ council give you time to digest it first

3:35:38 ↗ council president hunt thank you this is

3:35:41 ↗ council president hunt uh first the

3:35:43 ↗ clarification this is regarding the

3:35:45 ↗ specifically regarding the July 27th

3:35:48 ↗ special meeting is that right yes I'm

3:35:50 ↗ sorry that's correct okay

3:35:54 ↗ um thank you my opinion would be that we

3:35:58 ↗ should still meet because um this will

3:36:02 ↗ be to consider primarily to be

3:36:04 ↗ considering this defense and at some

3:36:06 ↗ point the moratorium will expire and I

3:36:09 ↗ would like to have this

3:36:11 ↗ conversation um but um I'm open to

3:36:15 ↗ feedback from others it

3:36:17 ↗ definitely you know it's definitely

3:36:19 ↗ uncertain about the moratorium but one

3:36:20 ↗ thing that is certain is it will

3:36:22 ↗ eventually

3:36:23 ↗ end thank you council president hunt

3:36:25 ↗ anybody else wanting to um

3:36:31 ↗ comment Deputy council president

3:36:36 ↗ Ray council member Hall beat me in oh I

3:36:40 ↗ miss that council member Hall followed

3:36:42 ↗ by Deputy council president

3:36:44 ↗ Ray I pressed enter a fraction of a

3:36:47 ↗ second earlier um thanks M Paul Council

3:36:51 ↗ Zach Hall um I guess I personally think

3:36:53 ↗ that if uh the governor R extend his

3:36:55 ↗ moratorium it would be fine

3:36:57 ↗ to in my opinion to move our

3:37:00 ↗ conversation but I agree with council

3:37:02 ↗ president hunt it needs to happen in the

3:37:04 ↗ very me future because he can I don't

3:37:07 ↗ see it as a sustainable action to just

3:37:09 ↗ keep extending

3:37:11 ↗ in the Statewide moratorium so I would

3:37:14 ↗ be comfortable with moving it later um

3:37:18 ↗ next month if that

3:37:20 ↗ Cas thank you Deputy council president

3:37:23 ↗ Ray I I think we uh unanimously agreed

3:37:26 ↗ to have this meeting I think we need to

3:37:28 ↗ have it and if the governor um gives us

3:37:31 ↗ some new data maybe it'll be a briefer

3:37:33 ↗ meeting but look we just agreed that

3:37:35 ↗ we're going to do it so um let's go

3:37:37 ↗ ahead and do

3:37:39 ↗ it thank

3:37:41 ↗ you looking in the chat box to see if

3:37:43 ↗ anybody else wants to comment Mr the

3:37:46 ↗ administrator but I'm not seeing

3:37:48 ↗ any uh any other questions from the city

3:37:51 ↗ administrator or are we moving on moving

3:37:53 ↗ on thank you ma'am thank you so the next

3:37:56 ↗ item on the agenda this evening is a

3:37:58 ↗ consent calendar the consent calendar

3:38:00 ↗ was distributed to Council in advance if

3:38:02 ↗ authorized the items on the consent

3:38:04 ↗ calendar will be considered together and

3:38:06 ↗ approved by one motion have the payables

3:38:09 ↗ and payroll been vied this is Chris Ray

3:38:12 ↗ they

3:38:13 ↗ have this is council member Walsh they

3:38:16 ↗ have thank you very much does any

3:38:18 ↗ council member desire to remove any item

3:38:20 ↗ from the consent calendar and consider

3:38:22 ↗ it under regular

3:38:28 ↗ business I'm seeing a a comment from

3:38:32 ↗ council member Goodman and I just want

3:38:33 ↗ to check in with the city clerk would

3:38:35 ↗ this be appropriate time for a comment

3:38:36 ↗ from a council

3:38:38 ↗ member I don't believe the motion has

3:38:41 ↗ been made yet so yes unless unless the

3:38:46 ↗ comment is related to the

3:38:49 ↗ motion okay that's great um I'm not sure

3:38:52 ↗ that the comment is related to the

3:38:53 ↗ motion or not so I will give council

3:38:55 ↗ member Goodman a chance to Enlighten us

3:38:59 ↗ I was only going to um alert you that I

3:39:02 ↗ had a comment after the motion is second

3:39:05 ↗ oh

3:39:05 ↗ sorry just so I have don't have to put

3:39:08 ↗ my microphone on and go wait wait wait

3:39:11 ↗ okay great thank you um first I'm going

3:39:13 ↗ to go to council president hunt to see

3:39:15 ↗ if any email comments uh are to be

3:39:17 ↗ shared on the consent calendar

3:39:20 ↗ items thank you um yes we did receive

3:39:24 ↗ some comments on the consent calender

3:39:26 ↗ from one

3:39:28 ↗ resident

3:39:30 ↗ um firstly on the roll call um which was

3:39:34 ↗ AB 8007 amending section 4.23 of the

3:39:38 ↗ council rules of procedure to allow for

3:39:39 ↗ alter ating roll call um this resident

3:39:42 ↗ felt that especially with less public

3:39:45 ↗ visibility um the resident would like a

3:39:47 ↗ set roll call um and I believe that was

3:39:53 ↗ the extent of the consent calendar

3:39:55 ↗ comments thank you council president

3:39:57 ↗ hunt it also looks like you want to make

3:39:58 ↗ a

3:40:00 ↗ motion yes thank you Madame mayor this

3:40:02 ↗ is council president hunt I would move

3:40:03 ↗ to adopt the consent calendar as it

3:40:05 ↗ appears in tonight's printed

3:40:08 ↗ agenda is there a second

3:40:10 ↗ this is Chris Ray I'll second the

3:40:13 ↗ motion it's been moved and seconded is

3:40:16 ↗ there any comments council member

3:40:19 ↗ Goodman thank you council member Goodman

3:40:22 ↗ here so

3:40:24 ↗ um as um was just mentioned one of the

3:40:30 ↗ items on the consent agenda is um agenda

3:40:33 ↗ Bill

3:40:34 ↗ 8007 amending um section 4.3 4.23 of the

3:40:39 ↗ council rules of procedure to allow for

3:40:41 ↗ alternating roll call votes and

3:40:45 ↗ um since the general topic of that

3:40:49 ↗ agenda bill is virtual meetings I wanted

3:40:51 ↗ to um make a comment about that in that

3:40:54 ↗ I was thinking that it might be time for

3:40:55 ↗ the council to um discuss the virtual

3:40:58 ↗ meeting format and I'm not talking about

3:41:01 ↗ tonight um but we um we've had a request

3:41:05 ↗ in last week to um change up our format

3:41:09 ↗ to allow what we used to allow in our

3:41:10 ↗ in-person meetings for study SE sessions

3:41:13 ↗ which is public comment after um each

3:41:16 ↗ agenda item and I've personally had um

3:41:20 ↗ four community members ask me about that

3:41:23 ↗ um

3:41:25 ↗ so not necessarily specific to that um

3:41:30 ↗ but because the topic of the agenda Bill

3:41:33 ↗ item is um virtual meetings and we first

3:41:36 ↗ started having a virtual meetings in

3:41:38 ↗ March so we're four months into this we

3:41:41 ↗ have we've never had a council

3:41:42 ↗ discussion about them and I uh haven't

3:41:46 ↗ heard anything about any end in sight so

3:41:48 ↗ I would say that we're in a

3:41:49 ↗ semi-permanent state of virtual meetings

3:41:51 ↗ here so um what I'm my ask would be is

3:41:56 ↗ that we have virtual meetings as a topic

3:41:59 ↗ um as soon as we can on a at a study

3:42:01 ↗ session so we can talk publicly about

3:42:03 ↗ the format um and uh understand what it

3:42:07 ↗ is that we can and can't do technically

3:42:10 ↗ what it is that's working well and not

3:42:11 ↗ working so well what it is we might be

3:42:14 ↗ able to change or improve I just think

3:42:16 ↗ it's a it's time that we have a

3:42:18 ↗ conversation about it um at the council

3:42:20 ↗ level in public um just so that we can

3:42:23 ↗ all check in and um and and and yes one

3:42:27 ↗ of the topics um would be whether we can

3:42:30 ↗ have um um virtually whether we can H

3:42:33 ↗ have public comment after each agenda

3:42:35 ↗ item but um anyway I'm I'm interested in

3:42:39 ↗ what other council members

3:42:40 ↗ think and if the administration thinks

3:42:42 ↗ that we could do that at a stud session

3:42:44 ↗ pretty soon so that's what I wanted to

3:42:46 ↗ comment

3:42:46 ↗ about thank you are you um asking your

3:42:50 ↗ fellow council members to provide some

3:42:52 ↗ comments tonight and asking the city

3:42:54 ↗ administrator to propose a potential

3:42:56 ↗ date

3:42:57 ↗ tonight um if there are um comments or

3:43:01 ↗ if I guess specifically for meeting

3:43:03 ↗ efficiency if there are objections to

3:43:07 ↗ having that as a topic as a study

3:43:09 ↗ session then um perhaps those would be

3:43:12 ↗ those objections would be important to

3:43:14 ↗ note um if there are not um then um I

3:43:18 ↗ would be interested in what the

3:43:20 ↗ administration thinks we could do in

3:43:22 ↗ terms of timing about bringing this to a

3:43:23 ↗ study session that's those are my

3:43:26 ↗ personal thoughts so I am keeping my eye

3:43:28 ↗ on the chat box to see if any council

3:43:30 ↗ members want to weigh in with comments

3:43:32 ↗ or objections and we start with Deputy

3:43:34 ↗ council president Ray thank you mayor

3:43:36 ↗ Paulie this is Chris Ray uh I think it's

3:43:40 ↗ time to do that too I think council

3:43:41 ↗ member govern is correct we are we are

3:43:44 ↗ in this um for a long haul and I think

3:43:46 ↗ there's an opportunity to not just look

3:43:48 ↗ at during the covid crisis how do we do

3:43:52 ↗ this but is this uh what are we going to

3:43:54 ↗ do going forward um we've learned a lot

3:43:56 ↗ um some of it painful but how do we move

3:44:00 ↗ forward and and what do we need to do

3:44:02 ↗ with our rules of procedure um I think

3:44:04 ↗ the changing the roll call was such a a

3:44:07 ↗ knit change to make but I think there

3:44:08 ↗ are other changes we should probably be

3:44:10 ↗ considering at this point too so I would

3:44:12 ↗ definitely think that would be a good

3:44:13 ↗ use of our

3:44:15 ↗ time thank you Deputy council president

3:44:17 ↗ Ray council member D

3:44:19 ↗ Michelle uh yeah I I I hesitated to do

3:44:23 ↗ this but I will do it now I did want to

3:44:25 ↗ thank my fellow council members for the

3:44:27 ↗ thoughtfulness since my name starts with

3:44:31 ↗ d and I'm always first so I do

3:44:33 ↗ appreciate that there was some thought

3:44:36 ↗ about uh uh rotating uh the

3:44:40 ↗ um the order in which we vote uh and I

3:44:43 ↗ agree with both uh council member

3:44:45 ↗ Goodman and council member Ray that uh

3:44:47 ↗ it would be a good topic for a future

3:44:49 ↗ meeting yes thank you council member D

3:44:52 ↗ Michelle I'm not seeing any other

3:44:53 ↗ council members weighing in so I'll move

3:44:55 ↗ over to City administrator Bob

3:44:58 ↗ Kitz yes uh Madame mayor members of the

3:45:00 ↗ council um your calendar is a full one

3:45:05 ↗ uh you now have a special meeting next

3:45:07 ↗ Monday a study session next Tuesday uh a

3:45:11 ↗ regular meeting on the 3r of August a

3:45:14 ↗ special meeting on the 10th of August

3:45:16 ↗ and a study session on the 11th of

3:45:18 ↗ August um the study session on the 11th

3:45:21 ↗ of August is already full uh in that

3:45:23 ↗ it's going to be talking about budget

3:45:25 ↗ issues so I would not recommend that um

3:45:28 ↗ you could add it to one of your special

3:45:30 ↗ meetings on either the 10th or on the

3:45:36 ↗ 27th or that we could do it on the the

3:45:39 ↗ study session of the 28th study session

3:45:41 ↗ of the 28th has a presentation of the

3:45:43 ↗ mobility master plan and a analysis of

3:45:47 ↗ our jail cost so uh those two items for

3:45:50 ↗ the study session of the 28th are are

3:45:52 ↗ pretty needy um maybe it would make

3:45:55 ↗ sense uh if you have a one item special

3:45:58 ↗ meeting next week uh we would not have

3:46:01 ↗ any information to prepare I know that

3:46:02 ↗ the uh city clerks have been uh uh been

3:46:06 ↗ thoughtful about this topic so if it's

3:46:08 ↗ just a matter of placing on the agenda

3:46:11 ↗ next Monday um maybe that works if it's

3:46:14 ↗ just going to be a discussion and uh um

3:46:16 ↗ I'll ask Deputy city clerk gizer um if

3:46:20 ↗ she is aware that both she and uh clerk

3:46:23 ↗ Edgars would be available next Monday

3:46:25 ↗ evening to speak to any questions or the

3:46:29 ↗ discussion yes uh yes we'll be

3:46:32 ↗ available so Madame mayor I think given

3:46:36 ↗ um given the choices before the council

3:46:39 ↗ over the the next few weeks probably a

3:46:41 ↗ second item then next Monday probably

3:46:43 ↗ makes the most

3:46:46 ↗ sense okay great um I believe there's a

3:46:49 ↗ couple more council members that want to

3:46:51 ↗ weigh in Deputy council president Ray I

3:46:54 ↗ think this is a bit of a question to the

3:46:56 ↗ body I think this is important but I

3:46:58 ↗ don't know that it's urgent that we need

3:47:00 ↗ to disrupt you know the the current flow

3:47:03 ↗ of things I wonder if it might um make

3:47:07 ↗ sense for Council leadership to work

3:47:09 ↗ with the administration to find the most

3:47:11 ↗ appropriate place to put it into the

3:47:13 ↗ planning calendar at this time and and

3:47:17 ↗ recognize that it is important but I

3:47:19 ↗ don't think it's as urgent as some of

3:47:21 ↗ the things that we have on our

3:47:23 ↗ document thank you Deputy council

3:47:26 ↗ president Ray any other thoughts on

3:47:30 ↗ timing council member

3:47:33 ↗ Goodman forgive my spelling

3:47:37 ↗ um comment um

3:47:40 ↗ I'm French now so uh I I would agree

3:47:44 ↗ that it's not this super urgent have to

3:47:46 ↗ happen tomorrow um but I also think that

3:47:48 ↗ if we I don't think it's a super long

3:47:50 ↗ conversation and if we wait until

3:47:52 ↗ September um then we will have been

3:47:55 ↗ closing in on six months um that seems

3:47:58 ↗ unreasonable to not have a conversation

3:48:00 ↗ so I trust Council leadership to um make

3:48:03 ↗ a uh reasonable decision um with the

3:48:08 ↗ public in mind too thank you

3:48:12 ↗ thank you that's a important

3:48:14 ↗ consideration to um if you're going to

3:48:17 ↗ have a discussion next Monday that it's

3:48:20 ↗ um apparent to the public who also has

3:48:23 ↗ comments on this that they know that's

3:48:24 ↗ happening okay thank you um I'm not

3:48:26 ↗ seeing anything after council member

3:48:29 ↗ Goodman uh just check back in with the

3:48:32 ↗ city Administration and city clerk that

3:48:34 ↗ you have everything you need so Madame

3:48:36 ↗ mayor my understanding is that this will

3:48:37 ↗ be discussed by leadership and we'll

3:48:39 ↗ place it on a future agenda yes thank

3:48:42 ↗ you thank

3:48:44 ↗ you uh then we are going back to thank

3:48:48 ↗ you for the comment council member

3:48:50 ↗ Goodman we are going back to the roll

3:48:52 ↗ call vote on the consent agenda and I'll

3:48:54 ↗ turn it back over to the city

3:48:57 ↗ clerk council member D

3:49:01 ↗ Michelle sorry

3:49:04 ↗ I council member Goodman hi council

3:49:08 ↗ member Hall hi council president hunt I

3:49:13 ↗ council member Marts I Deputy council

3:49:17 ↗ president Ray I council member Walsh I

3:49:22 ↗ that's seven I zero

3:49:24 ↗ nay thank you uh that passes unanimously

3:49:29 ↗ the next item of business tonight under

3:49:31 ↗ uh regular under sorry public hearing is

3:49:34 ↗ AB

3:49:36 ↗ 7993 temporary regulatory relief for

3:49:39 ↗ businesses use of sidewalk private

3:49:41 ↗ property and signage these are interim

3:49:43 ↗ zoning regulations we are conducting the

3:49:46 ↗ public hearing this evening this item

3:49:47 ↗ was last before city council at the June

3:49:50 ↗ 22nd special city council meeting at

3:49:52 ↗ which the city council adopted the

3:49:54 ↗ interim zoning regulations tonight the

3:49:57 ↗ required public hearing will be

3:49:58 ↗ conducted and no council action is being

3:50:00 ↗ sought I'd like to invite economic

3:50:02 ↗ development manager Jen Davis Hayes to

3:50:04 ↗ make a

3:50:06 ↗ presentation thank you Madame mayor and

3:50:08 ↗ good evening again council members my

3:50:10 ↗ name is Jen Davis Hayes I work at the

3:50:12 ↗ city in Economic Development and we're

3:50:14 ↗ here tonight um for the temp two

3:50:16 ↗ temporary regulatory relief uh

3:50:18 ↗ ordinances that the council passed on

3:50:20 ↗ June 22nd one was for the use of the

3:50:23 ↗ sidewalk and private Pro property for

3:50:25 ↗ business operations that suspended the

3:50:28 ↗ current permitting process and created a

3:50:30 ↗ shorter permit application and review

3:50:32 ↗ process these were also waved um the

3:50:35 ↗ intent of that was to provide businesses

3:50:36 ↗ safe alternative to conducting business

3:50:39 ↗ to date seven businesses have applied

3:50:41 ↗ for this permit um the second is a

3:50:43 ↗ commercial A-frame signage uh permit

3:50:46 ↗ that uh we temporarily suspended the

3:50:50 ↗ permit process and waved the fees again

3:50:52 ↗ the intent was to allow businesses to

3:50:54 ↗ quickly respond to signage needs such as

3:50:56 ↗ curbside parking instructions on

3:50:59 ↗ entering the store and other

3:51:00 ↗ Communications with

3:51:02 ↗ customers um again this uh regulatory

3:51:05 ↗ relief is temporary for six months

3:51:07 ↗ intended to assist businesses during the

3:51:09 ↗ phase

3:51:10 ↗ reopening that is

3:51:13 ↗ it thank you

3:51:18 ↗ Jen okay um before we go to council

3:51:21 ↗ questions council president hunt did you

3:51:24 ↗ have any emails to summarize on public

3:51:27 ↗ comments that may have been emailed in

3:51:28 ↗ on this

3:51:29 ↗ topic yes thank you um we did we

3:51:33 ↗ received a comment and email um on this

3:51:36 ↗ topic and that there were um a couple

3:51:40 ↗ parts there was

3:51:41 ↗ concern about um concern about the

3:51:46 ↗ maintenance of the public spaces in

3:51:48 ↗ front of commercial businesses and the

3:51:50 ↗ need to clean up those spaces um that

3:51:54 ↗ businesses keep those spaces tidy and

3:51:56 ↗ then uh there was a request that um this

3:51:59 ↗ resident would like the regulation code

3:52:01 ↗ to not allow marketing of tobacco

3:52:03 ↗ alcohol or other controlled substances

3:52:05 ↗ in the public right of way and a um with

3:52:09 ↗ like more regulation around the A-frame

3:52:11 ↗ signage that this um pertains

3:52:14 ↗ to and uh would like the city

3:52:17 ↗ proactively reviewing

3:52:19 ↗ concerns that concludes the comment that

3:52:21 ↗ we received on this item thank you very

3:52:24 ↗ much uh does council have any questions

3:52:29 ↗ uh on the information

3:52:31 ↗ presented I give you a few seconds to

3:52:34 ↗ enter it in the

3:52:38 ↗ chat member Goodman oh sorry council

3:52:42 ↗ president hunt followed by council

3:52:43 ↗ member

3:52:44 ↗ Goodman thank you this is council

3:52:46 ↗ president hunts just a quick question I

3:52:47 ↗ wondered if um you Jen have heard from

3:52:51 ↗ businesses um the response to the

3:52:54 ↗ ordinance because we are in the sort of

3:52:55 ↗ unique position of having a hearing

3:52:57 ↗ today but we did already pass the

3:52:58 ↗ ordinance I believe it has already um

3:53:00 ↗ been

3:53:01 ↗ enacted yes and we've heard positive

3:53:04 ↗ response even from businesses that

3:53:05 ↗ aren't intending to use the the

3:53:07 ↗ regulatory relief I think it does say

3:53:10 ↗ let businesses know that we are don't we

3:53:12 ↗ want to get out of their way to help

3:53:14 ↗ them do business and to Pivot quickly um

3:53:17 ↗ again so uh seven businesses have

3:53:19 ↗ applied for the and for the the use of

3:53:22 ↗ sidewalk and private property permit new

3:53:24 ↗ process there's been others that have

3:53:26 ↗ been in conversations with us so it's

3:53:28 ↗ just a matter of you know making it fit

3:53:30 ↗ for what they they want to do but every

3:53:33 ↗ business uh that has reached out to me

3:53:35 ↗ has talked about the positive nature and

3:53:37 ↗ appreciative that the council has done

3:53:38 ↗ this

3:53:42 ↗ thank you for the question uh council

3:53:43 ↗ member Goodman has a comment thank you

3:53:46 ↗ um council member Goodman here so um we

3:53:49 ↗ had the comment about cleaning spaces um

3:53:52 ↗ and sort of requiring cleaning of spaces

3:53:57 ↗ um I am not interested in more

3:54:02 ↗ regulations um and I don't want to go

3:54:04 ↗ down this Rabbit Hole now but I do think

3:54:08 ↗ that

3:54:09 ↗ um uh at some point when we have not so

3:54:13 ↗ many critical things to work on um it

3:54:17 ↗ maybe uh I have noticed um um an

3:54:21 ↗ increase in garbage around town in

3:54:23 ↗ certain areas and so I would be um

3:54:26 ↗ interested at some point when we have

3:54:28 ↗ not a lot of things to do I think it

3:54:30 ↗ would be interesting to

3:54:33 ↗ um

3:54:35 ↗ uh um have a focus on how we might have

3:54:39 ↗ some Community um more Community

3:54:42 ↗ engagement on that issue um we used to

3:54:44 ↗ have a lot more volunteer um what's that

3:54:48 ↗ called on when you have the oh the adop

3:54:50 ↗ a highway program um we used to have

3:54:52 ↗ something similar around town um and I

3:54:55 ↗ know we have a spring cleanup day uh but

3:54:57 ↗ I don't think it would be bad thing to

3:54:59 ↗ see if we could get some energy around

3:55:00 ↗ town and get people to you know to

3:55:03 ↗ volunteer to do that so I appreciate the

3:55:05 ↗ suggestion I'm not interested in another

3:55:07 ↗ layer of Regulation um but I have

3:55:10 ↗ noticed in not not where the the um the

3:55:14 ↗ commenter um noticed garbage but I have

3:55:17 ↗ noticed it in other areas and I S think

3:55:19 ↗ some attention at some point might be um

3:55:22 ↗ might be good anyway that's my comment

3:55:24 ↗ thank you thank you any other questions

3:55:28 ↗ or

3:55:32 ↗ comments okay seeing no further

3:55:35 ↗ questions the guidelines for citizen

3:55:37 ↗ comments also apply reply to those made

3:55:39 ↗ under the public hearing I now open the

3:55:42 ↗ public hearing at 10:54 p.m. again for

3:55:45 ↗ those who have joined us tonight and

3:55:47 ↗ would like to speak but did not sign up

3:55:48 ↗ in advance please press star three on

3:55:51 ↗ your phone to raise your hand we'll call

3:55:53 ↗ the first six digits of your phone

3:55:55 ↗ number when it is your turn to make

3:55:56 ↗ comments I'm checking in with the city

3:55:58 ↗ clerk has anyone signed up to speak or

3:56:01 ↗ indicated a desire to speak this evening

3:56:04 ↗ uh no mayor Polly but I do see we only

3:56:06 ↗ have two members of the public with us

3:56:08 ↗ if you don't mind I can check in with

3:56:10 ↗ them quickly I would appreciate that

3:56:12 ↗ thank

3:56:14 ↗ you first uh caller

3:56:18 ↗ 75793 are you wishing to make comments

3:56:20 ↗ under the public hearing

3:56:25 ↗ tonight callor

3:56:27 ↗ 75793 are you interested in making

3:56:32 ↗ comments I've unmuted you and I'm going

3:56:35 ↗ to assume that is a no and then we have

3:56:38 ↗ Miss Mr Jensen on the line Mr Jensen are

3:56:41 ↗ you interested in making comments under

3:56:42 ↗ the public

3:56:44 ↗ hearing uh the only comment that I would

3:56:46 ↗ make is again thank you for the

3:56:48 ↗ opportunity to uh listen in this evening

3:56:50 ↗ and learn uh it's some important stuff

3:56:53 ↗ you guys are are debating uh both at the

3:56:56 ↗ local and the federal levels thank you

3:56:58 ↗ again for the

3:57:00 ↗ opportunity thank you Jesse I think what

3:57:03 ↗ we're seeing is that the other line is

3:57:05 ↗ likely a staff person's line so um there

3:57:09 ↗ being uh no additional comments I now

3:57:11 ↗ close the public hearing at 10:56

3:57:15 ↗ p.m. um as stated earlier there was no

3:57:17 ↗ council action being requested tonight

3:57:19 ↗ and staff will provide an update on the

3:57:21 ↗ use and effectiveness of these interim

3:57:23 ↗ regulations prior to their expiration in

3:57:25 ↗ December if there is a desire to extend

3:57:28 ↗ the temporary regulations belong beyond

3:57:30 ↗ the initial six months another public

3:57:32 ↗ hearing will be required moving on to

3:57:35 ↗ the next item under regular business AB

3:57:37 ↗ 7782

3:57:39 ↗ this is the

3:57:40 ↗ afcme general it's a general employee

3:57:43 ↗ group collective bargaining agreement

3:57:45 ↗ and I'd like to invite Human Resources

3:57:47 ↗ Director Stephanie Johnson to make a

3:57:49 ↗ presentation thank you Madame mayor good

3:57:52 ↗ evening members of the council Stephanie

3:57:53 ↗ Johnson Human Resources Director uh also

3:57:56 ↗ joining me this evening is Lauren Knox

3:57:59 ↗ uh senior HR analyst um thank you uh

3:58:02 ↗ Deputy clerk giser um she's going to

3:58:04 ↗ navigate our PowerPoint here for us

3:58:07 ↗ tonight um tonight we are presenting to

3:58:09 ↗ the council uh two collective bargaining

3:58:12 ↗ agreements for which we seek uh Council

3:58:14 ↗ approval uh for two of our five labor

3:58:17 ↗ units um in the city the American

3:58:20 ↗ Federation of state county and Municipal

3:58:22 ↗ Employees also known as asme and the

3:58:24 ↗ isqua Police Officers Association also

3:58:27 ↗ known as

3:58:28 ↗ ipoa um these Agreements are before you

3:58:31 ↗ tonight because City management and the

3:58:33 ↗ union teams were successful in uh

3:58:37 ↗ reaching tentative agreements through

3:58:38 ↗ negotiations over the last months um to

3:58:42 ↗ reach those tentative agreements um

3:58:44 ↗ those groups have also ratified these

3:58:46 ↗ contracts by their membership and now we

3:58:48 ↗ seek Council authorization tonight uh to

3:58:51 ↗ to implement um what has been

3:58:54 ↗ negotiated um so we do have three agenda

3:58:56 ↗ bills that are linked together tonight

3:58:59 ↗ um with one

3:59:00 ↗ presentation um I think what we'll do is

3:59:03 ↗ uh we'll present uh the

3:59:06 ↗ asme uh contract first I think we'll

3:59:09 ↗ pause um ask any questions uh maybe call

3:59:13 ↗ for a motion and then move on to the

3:59:15 ↗ next uh the third agenda Bill item that

3:59:18 ↗ we have is related to the contracts um

3:59:21 ↗ it's a housekeeping item to seek Council

3:59:24 ↗ authority to update the master salary

3:59:27 ↗ ordinance Associated um should you move

3:59:29 ↗ to approve these contracts um and also

3:59:32 ↗ has a housekeeping item for a

3:59:34 ↗ non-represented um item as well so Tisha

3:59:38 ↗ if you could advance to the next slide

3:59:43 ↗ please you can go again thank you so

3:59:47 ↗ asme uh just to give uh some refresher

3:59:50 ↗ around asme is our general employee

3:59:52 ↗ union um this is our one Union of all

3:59:55 ↗ five that are spread out uh the the

3:59:57 ↗ staff that are represented by this unit

3:59:59 ↗ are spread out of various departments um

4:00:03 ↗ this group represents staff across

4:00:05 ↗ Finance Community Planning and

4:00:07 ↗ Development public Public Works parks

4:00:09 ↗ recreation and Community Services it's

4:00:12 ↗ our City's largest Union it currently

4:00:14 ↗ has 47 members which make up about 20%

4:00:17 ↗ of our city Workforce uh you may call

4:00:20 ↗ recall that uh this unit was previously

4:00:23 ↗ the isqua administrative staff

4:00:26 ↗ Association um and their previous

4:00:28 ↗ contract expired at the end of

4:00:31 ↗ 2019 um uh this particular unit ASA

4:00:36 ↗ changed representation at the beginning

4:00:38 ↗ of of 2020 so this is the first time in

4:00:41 ↗ which we actually have negotiated an

4:00:43 ↗ agreement with this new Union uh

4:00:46 ↗ definitely a weird environment to be

4:00:48 ↗ doing collective bargaining but I I

4:00:50 ↗ think we've been uh very successful and

4:00:52 ↗ in getting to the place where we're at

4:00:54 ↗ um presenting to council tonight Tisha

4:00:57 ↗ go ahead and um Advance

4:00:59 ↗ please so contract highlights uh with

4:01:02 ↗ asme um the agreement before you tonight

4:01:05 ↗ is achieves a three-year agreement uh

4:01:09 ↗ 2020 through

4:01:11 ↗ 2022 um uh included in those highlights

4:01:15 ↗ um we have achieved an agreement uh that

4:01:18 ↗ staggers market-based wage increases it

4:01:22 ↗ also achieves implementation of class

4:01:24 ↗ comp study that has been previously

4:01:26 ↗ implemented for the non reps as of

4:01:29 ↗ January 1 earlier this year um just to

4:01:33 ↗ highlight what those wages are for 2020

4:01:36 ↗ uh it achieves class comp 20 2021 is a

4:01:39 ↗ 1.5 modest uh increase and

4:01:44 ↗ 2022 uh is a CPI Consumer Price Index U

4:01:49 ↗ formula 100% with a minimum of a

4:01:53 ↗ 1.5% increase and a maximum of

4:01:57 ↗ 3.5 um we also uh attempted to achieve

4:02:01 ↗ uh s setting a number of the benefits

4:02:03 ↗ that we have historically um already in

4:02:06 ↗ this 2020 calendar year

4:02:08 ↗ um had sunset for our non-rep staff that

4:02:12 ↗ includes replacing uh an orthodontia

4:02:15 ↗ pool with a rer plan um uh which is a

4:02:19 ↗ best practice in the market eliminating

4:02:22 ↗ sick leave

4:02:23 ↗ conversion um education Merit plan uh

4:02:27 ↗ replacing an education incentive day

4:02:30 ↗ with a floating holiday are some of

4:02:32 ↗ those benefits that we already had

4:02:34 ↗ implemented with non reps um it also

4:02:37 ↗ achieves a few compliance items we've

4:02:39 ↗ had a few uh different laws that have

4:02:41 ↗ surpassed since the last contract um

4:02:44 ↗ Janice and public or excuse me the um

4:02:48 ↗ pfml uh which is uh the state uh the new

4:02:51 ↗ state leave Law um so uh contract also

4:02:56 ↗ um addresses those items we also have an

4:02:59 ↗ addition of some robust language around

4:03:01 ↗ some articles as it relates to changes

4:03:04 ↗ to hours of work and some additional

4:03:06 ↗ definition there um discipline layoff

4:03:10 ↗ and recall um something that we actually

4:03:12 ↗ had to do uh this year unfortunately

4:03:15 ↗ with that unit um was layoff and recall

4:03:17 ↗ so um we negotiated some future language

4:03:20 ↗ around that and then some language also

4:03:23 ↗ around grievance

4:03:25 ↗ Provisions uh overall 2020 cost is

4:03:30 ↗ 120,000 um but that has been offset by

4:03:33 ↗ Furlow through previous Council action

4:03:36 ↗ this was our first employee unit um that

4:03:39 ↗ uh furloughed and gave concessions on

4:03:42 ↗ their

4:03:42 ↗ 457 um right away um I do want to say

4:03:47 ↗ you know uh again it's interesting um to

4:03:51 ↗ negotiate in this Dynamic um certainly

4:03:54 ↗ interesting to do Union negotiations

4:03:57 ↗ virtually um but as a firsttime contract

4:04:00 ↗ um I think that we have done some good

4:04:02 ↗ relationship building and built some

4:04:04 ↗ groundwork with this contract for future

4:04:06 ↗ years so I'm going to pause there and

4:04:09 ↗ see if we have any

4:04:20 ↗ questions AP apologies uh nothing is in

4:04:24 ↗ the chat right now you're good to go

4:04:26 ↗ ahead thank you Stephanie for checking

4:04:27 ↗ in thank you so Madame mayor um should

4:04:31 ↗ we go ahead and call for a motion on the

4:04:34 ↗ particular askme contract um before we

4:04:37 ↗ move on to

4:04:39 ↗ ipoa I think it's a um council's um

4:04:45 ↗ perview to decide how they would like to

4:04:47 ↗ vote on them um I think what might be

4:04:50 ↗ beneficial but I'll look for uh to see

4:04:52 ↗ who would like to comment in the

4:04:54 ↗ suggestion box that we go through the

4:04:55 ↗ entire presentation and then go through

4:04:57 ↗ the

4:04:58 ↗ vote if uh I'm looking to see if there's

4:05:00 ↗ any objections to that in the chat

4:05:06 ↗ box so continue Stephanie thank you okay

4:05:09 ↗ and actually my continuation is to uh

4:05:12 ↗ turn it over to Lauren KNX our senior HR

4:05:15 ↗ analyst she's going to talk to you about

4:05:16 ↗ the ipoa contract so I think um Tisha if

4:05:19 ↗ you could please Advance the slide

4:05:20 ↗ that'd be great thank you Stephanie um

4:05:24 ↗ so uh we'll do a similar thing with ipoa

4:05:28 ↗ which we just did with asme but add in a

4:05:30 ↗ couple of elements that I think are

4:05:32 ↗ particularly relevant for this group

4:05:34 ↗ including looking at this contract

4:05:36 ↗ through an equity lens um so first and

4:05:39 ↗ foremost um who is the ipoa they

4:05:42 ↗ represent our police officers and

4:05:44 ↗ corporals they are an interest

4:05:46 ↗ arbitration eligible unit um and we'll

4:05:48 ↗ talk a little bit more about that in

4:05:51 ↗ just a

4:05:52 ↗ second um their previous contract also

4:05:54 ↗ expired on December 31st

4:05:58 ↗ 2019 um an Tisha if you want to advance

4:06:01 ↗ thank

4:06:01 ↗ you so again contract highlights um and

4:06:05 ↗ these will look fairly similar to what

4:06:06 ↗ you saw with as it's a three-year

4:06:09 ↗ agreement um this group was fairly

4:06:12 ↗ creative in working with us in terms of

4:06:15 ↗ some 20120 um ways to address Financial

4:06:19 ↗ issues in 2020 and their uh thought that

4:06:22 ↗ we agreed to was a wage freeze in 2020

4:06:26 ↗ rather than furing um you know furling

4:06:29 ↗ has some particular staffing issues in

4:06:31 ↗ the police department um so that made a

4:06:33 ↗ lot of sense with this

4:06:35 ↗ group um market-based wage increas

4:06:37 ↗ increases um so starting next year we

4:06:40 ↗ will implement the class comp study with

4:06:42 ↗ this group as well uh that uh data is

4:06:46 ↗ going to be inflated by 1% just to you

4:06:49 ↗ know kind of catch up um given that

4:06:52 ↗ times have changed since that uh study

4:06:54 ↗ was completed and then in 2022 um also a

4:06:59 ↗ CPI based wage

4:07:02 ↗ increase um again with this group we

4:07:04 ↗ have restructure of some compensation

4:07:07 ↗ items to better align with our market

4:07:09 ↗ comparables so uh what I mean by that is

4:07:13 ↗ uh for example in our longevity pay

4:07:15 ↗ article we were aware going into

4:07:17 ↗ negotiations that we did longevity pay

4:07:19 ↗ in sort of a strange way and so just um

4:07:22 ↗ restructuring that to better match um

4:07:25 ↗ the jurisdictions around us same thing

4:07:26 ↗ with education pay as

4:07:29 ↗ well um also Sunset of benefits um

4:07:33 ↗ similar to what was implemented for

4:07:34 ↗ non-rep

4:07:36 ↗ staff um with this group uh it looks

4:07:38 ↗ just a tiny bit different but things

4:07:40 ↗ like the health reimbursement

4:07:42 ↗ Arrangement um that's going to be going

4:07:44 ↗ away the orthodontia pool will be moving

4:07:46 ↗ to an orthodontia writer similar to what

4:07:49 ↗ Stephanie mentioned for

4:07:50 ↗ asme um compliance items again same deal

4:07:55 ↗ some language uh surrounding the Janice

4:07:57 ↗ Supreme Court case um we've achieved a

4:08:00 ↗ premium share on the Paid Family Medical

4:08:02 ↗ Leave premiums um things like that um

4:08:05 ↗ overall 2020 cost of this contract is

4:08:09 ↗ about $10,000 and that essentially comes

4:08:11 ↗ down to adding the Christmas Eve holiday

4:08:14 ↗ in this year and they are only group

4:08:17 ↗ currently that does not receive that as

4:08:19 ↗ a holiday so there there's some

4:08:21 ↗ administrative and sort of internal

4:08:23 ↗ Equity pieces to aligning them with the

4:08:25 ↗ rest of our groups as

4:08:28 ↗ well um Tisha if you could advance to

4:08:31 ↗ the next slide thank

4:08:33 ↗ you um so I mentioned earlier that this

4:08:36 ↗ group is uh eligible for interest

4:08:38 ↗ arbitration and I want to talk about

4:08:40 ↗ that just a little bit so um with this

4:08:44 ↗ slide you know I want to talk in

4:08:46 ↗ particular about sort of the role that

4:08:47 ↗ the state of Washington plays in

4:08:51 ↗ regulating the collective bargaining

4:08:52 ↗ process and sort of how that looks um on

4:08:55 ↗ our side of the

4:08:56 ↗ table so um this on on the slide you see

4:09:00 ↗ we've got the public employees

4:09:01 ↗ collective bargaining act a couple of uh

4:09:04 ↗ Provisions from that um RCW 4156

4:09:09 ↗ um in that statute it essentially

4:09:11 ↗ creates two types of collective

4:09:13 ↗ bargaining uh one is not eligible for

4:09:16 ↗ interest arbitration and one is eligible

4:09:19 ↗ for interest

4:09:20 ↗ arbitration so groups like asme are

4:09:23 ↗ Teamsters group that represents Public

4:09:26 ↗ Works employees they are not eligible

4:09:28 ↗ for interest

4:09:29 ↗ arbitration on the other hand our police

4:09:32 ↗ officers are eligible for interest

4:09:34 ↗ arbitration what this means uh and where

4:09:38 ↗ the real difference comes down is if we

4:09:40 ↗ are not able to reach agreement with

4:09:41 ↗ these groups on some issue um so with

4:09:45 ↗ asme for example if we were not able to

4:09:47 ↗ reach agreement on an issue that was

4:09:50 ↗ important to the city we'd be able to

4:09:53 ↗ present a last best and final offer um

4:09:55 ↗ wait a certain period of time a year

4:09:58 ↗ after contract expiration and then we'd

4:10:00 ↗ be able to implement um our offer so the

4:10:03 ↗ city is certain of achieving its goals

4:10:06 ↗ um if they're uh an enough and we're

4:10:08 ↗ willing to take that

4:10:10 ↗ step with uh the ipoa on the other hand

4:10:14 ↗ if we're not able to reach agreement by

4:10:17 ↗ Statute um we're required to go to

4:10:19 ↗ mediation as a first step um we would uh

4:10:23 ↗ mediate um to impass and then at that

4:10:28 ↗ point would head to interest arbitration

4:10:30 ↗ if there were still outstanding issues

4:10:33 ↗ in interest arbitration a neutral

4:10:35 ↗ arbitrator would ultimately decide what

4:10:38 ↗ the city's contract with the ipoa would

4:10:40 ↗ look like so you know where with asme or

4:10:44 ↗ other non-interest arbitration groups we

4:10:46 ↗ we have some certainty in terms of what

4:10:48 ↗ we can achieve with the ipoa at the end

4:10:51 ↗ of the day the city does not have the

4:10:53 ↗ same level of certainty that that would

4:10:55 ↗ actually be determined by essentially an

4:10:58 ↗ agent of the state um looking at

4:11:01 ↗ comparable contracts um in in the

4:11:05 ↗ region um so to if you could head head

4:11:13 ↗ forward okay um so it was important to

4:11:16 ↗ us with this contract uh given current

4:11:19 ↗ conversations and dialogue to U make

4:11:22 ↗ sure that we presented it using an

4:11:24 ↗ equity lens and the lens that the um

4:11:27 ↗ city has chosen to use is the campaign

4:11:29 ↗ zero Fair Police contract um The

4:11:32 ↗ Campaign zero Fair Police contract

4:11:35 ↗ essentially argues for a Back to Basics

4:11:38 ↗ contract for police um that does not um

4:11:42 ↗ you know add in kind of layers upon

4:11:45 ↗ layers of protections for police

4:11:47 ↗ officers it's a little bit more simple

4:11:49 ↗ and just a straightforward

4:11:51 ↗ contract um some of their goals are to

4:11:54 ↗ remove barriers to effective misconduct

4:11:57 ↗ investigations increase transparency

4:11:59 ↗ around police discipline and increase

4:12:01 ↗ Financial accountability for

4:12:04 ↗ officers um they have a to to of 14

4:12:08 ↗ recommendations of those you know our

4:12:11 ↗ analysis is that we meet eight of those

4:12:14 ↗ recommendations we partially meet four

4:12:16 ↗ and we do not meet two of them in this

4:12:19 ↗ proposed

4:12:20 ↗ contract so um we'll move forward and

4:12:24 ↗ talk about each of those um so I don't

4:12:27 ↗ want to go through all eight of these

4:12:29 ↗ things individually but you know I do

4:12:32 ↗ think it's significant that this

4:12:34 ↗ contract um already you know has some

4:12:37 ↗ good movement in there um it's got some

4:12:41 ↗ common sense language around things like

4:12:43 ↗ police discipline that um is similar to

4:12:46 ↗ what you'd find in other contracts but

4:12:48 ↗ also gives the city a fair amount of

4:12:50 ↗ flexibility to do what need what we need

4:12:52 ↗ to do um so I'll just move forward past

4:12:56 ↗ this one

4:12:58 ↗ please so I will talk about these just

4:13:01 ↗ briefly um The partially meets and the

4:13:03 ↗ do not

4:13:04 ↗ meet um without going into a huge amount

4:13:08 ↗ of detail um so first of all um

4:13:12 ↗ partially states that the police chief

4:13:14 ↗ has sole authority to disciplined police

4:13:16 ↗ officers this is actually not in our

4:13:18 ↗ Union contract but I didn't want to give

4:13:20 ↗ us credit for meeting it because we do

4:13:22 ↗ have a code that um restr the sole sole

4:13:27 ↗ authority to discipline police officers

4:13:29 ↗ with the police chief that's part of our

4:13:30 ↗ civil service code so I just wanted to

4:13:32 ↗ call that out um partially expunges or

4:13:36 ↗ destroy records of past misconduct both

4:13:39 ↗ sustained and unstained from

4:13:40 ↗ disciplinary files so there's nothing in

4:13:43 ↗ this contract that you know requires us

4:13:45 ↗ to um shred or incinerate or anything

4:13:48 ↗ like that um disciplinary files there is

4:13:51 ↗ one provision in section article 18.1 um

4:13:55 ↗ that mentions warning letters and sets a

4:13:59 ↗ kind of limited effective date of

4:14:01 ↗ warning letters um they have a 12 month

4:14:04 ↗ uh expiration period essentially at the

4:14:07 ↗ end of that period we wouldn't destroy

4:14:09 ↗ the letter it would still exist in the

4:14:11 ↗ file but um it would not be able to be

4:14:14 ↗ used as you know a a basis for

4:14:18 ↗ Progressive discipline at that

4:14:20 ↗ point um the next one is um partially

4:14:25 ↗ requires uh the next two both have to do

4:14:27 ↗ with PID to administrative leave um

4:14:29 ↗ following some kind of

4:14:31 ↗ misconduct so um the Civil Service

4:14:35 ↗ Statute in Washington State um makes

4:14:39 ↗ police officers for cause

4:14:42 ↗ employees um that means that we cannot

4:14:45 ↗ terminate terminate them at will we can

4:14:47 ↗ only terminate them for cause um one of

4:14:50 ↗ the downstream effects of that is that

4:14:52 ↗ police officers have due process rights

4:14:54 ↗ to their employment which means that we

4:14:56 ↗ cannot um impact their employment or

4:14:59 ↗ their pay without providing due process

4:15:02 ↗ so functionally speaking um if there was

4:15:06 ↗ an incident in the field you know we

4:15:08 ↗ would have to put that officer on paid

4:15:10 ↗ administrative leave as a first step

4:15:13 ↗ while allowing due process steps to

4:15:15 ↗ occur um at the end of due process steps

4:15:18 ↗ then we would be able to take um

4:15:21 ↗ subsequent

4:15:23 ↗ actions so I will move on from there

4:15:26 ↗ thank you um so there are two

4:15:29 ↗ recommendations of the campaign zero um

4:15:31 ↗ Fair Police contract that our ipoa

4:15:34 ↗ contract does not meet um so this

4:15:38 ↗ contract does allow officers to use a

4:15:41 ↗ contract grievance process and have an

4:15:43 ↗ outside arbitrator reverse disciplinary

4:15:47 ↗ decisions um the

4:15:49 ↗ one thing that I'll say about this is

4:15:52 ↗ that if you were to look at any um

4:15:55 ↗ contract for any of our comparable

4:15:56 ↗ jurisdictions they all have similar

4:15:59 ↗ Provisions

4:16:00 ↗ there um that is relevant because if we

4:16:03 ↗ were to try and negotiate this provision

4:16:06 ↗ away assuming the police Union did not

4:16:09 ↗ agree um we would end up in interest

4:16:12 ↗ arbitration over the issue and the city

4:16:14 ↗ would likely lose in interest

4:16:16 ↗ arbitration because the arbitrator would

4:16:18 ↗ look at comparable contracts which all

4:16:20 ↗ have a similar provision in

4:16:22 ↗ them um it's a similar scenario with lie

4:16:26 ↗ detector test our contract does say that

4:16:28 ↗ we cannot um force a police officer to

4:16:32 ↗ take a lie detector test as a condition

4:16:34 ↗ of employment so we couldn't say you

4:16:36 ↗ know

4:16:37 ↗ take this test or you're fired kind of

4:16:40 ↗ thing um again if you look at our

4:16:42 ↗ comparable contracts you'll find that

4:16:45 ↗ almost all of them I think there's one

4:16:47 ↗ exception have similar or more stringent

4:16:50 ↗ language to

4:16:52 ↗ ours so if we want to continue from

4:16:55 ↗ [Music]

4:16:57 ↗ there okay um next steps so um we've put

4:17:02 ↗ these next steps in the framework of

4:17:04 ↗ police reform but quite honestly these

4:17:07 ↗ apply to collective bargaining in

4:17:08 ↗ general this could apply to asme as well

4:17:12 ↗ um and I just want to be clear that you

4:17:15 ↗ know there are whether Council um

4:17:19 ↗ approves this contract tonight or does

4:17:20 ↗ not approve this contract tonight there

4:17:22 ↗ are other opportunities for us to make

4:17:24 ↗ movement on police reform this is not

4:17:27 ↗ the only time or place that we're able

4:17:28 ↗ to do this um so obviously you know

4:17:32 ↗ conversations with our community are

4:17:34 ↗ just starting City administrator Bob

4:17:36 ↗ quits you know mentioned a couple of

4:17:37 ↗ opportunities for that on July 29th and

4:17:41 ↗ subsequent to that and and I believe

4:17:43 ↗ that we need to allow some time and

4:17:45 ↗ space for the community to have those

4:17:47 ↗ conversations in a meaningful

4:17:49 ↗ way um once those conversations have you

4:17:53 ↗ know um bubbled up to the level of sort

4:17:56 ↗ of some action items um we can certainly

4:17:58 ↗ work with the Union on items that are

4:18:01 ↗ identified and see what progress we're

4:18:03 ↗ able to make if they need to be

4:18:05 ↗ bargained um I also you know there is an

4:18:09 ↗ opportunity um should the council wish

4:18:12 ↗ to to Lobby the legislature um in

4:18:15 ↗ January on some of these issues um where

4:18:18 ↗ really legislative change is what would

4:18:20 ↗ be needed if we were to make change in

4:18:22 ↗ these

4:18:23 ↗ areas and then also you know this is a

4:18:26 ↗ three-year agreement um so we would

4:18:28 ↗ begin bargaining a successor agreement

4:18:30 ↗ in 2022 which is not terribly far away

4:18:32 ↗ so if there were you know additional

4:18:34 ↗ recommendations at that point in time we

4:18:36 ↗ would

4:18:37 ↗ um have another opportunity to include

4:18:39 ↗ those in the collective bargaining

4:18:41 ↗ process so I will pause there and if

4:18:44 ↗ anybody has comments or questions um

4:18:47 ↗ please ask them yes Lauren we do have a

4:18:51 ↗ question um council president

4:18:54 ↗ hunt thank you um regarding the lobbying

4:18:58 ↗ um so it seems it seems from your

4:19:02 ↗ presentation that the two items on

4:19:04 ↗ campaign zero that um were not in our

4:19:08 ↗ contract um those were because they are

4:19:12 ↗ not in other Regional contracts so would

4:19:14 ↗ you would in your estimation those be

4:19:16 ↗ the ones that would need to be addressed

4:19:18 ↗ at the state

4:19:20 ↗ level yeah so

4:19:22 ↗ essentially um and some of this is

4:19:25 ↗ speculation because we have not

4:19:27 ↗ approached our police Union on those

4:19:29 ↗ issues in this bargaining cycle so

4:19:32 ↗ certainly as a first step you know we

4:19:34 ↗ could approach the union and just see if

4:19:36 ↗ there's any willingness to move on some

4:19:39 ↗ of those um with something like

4:19:41 ↗ grievance arbitration I would be

4:19:43 ↗ honestly shocked and I don't think that

4:19:45 ↗ their Council would you know at all um

4:19:49 ↗ recommend that they make movement there

4:19:52 ↗ um but uh you know at the end of the day

4:19:54 ↗ I think that comes back to the interest

4:19:56 ↗ arbitration statute if if we want to be

4:19:59 ↗ able to make movement on something like

4:20:01 ↗ grievance arbitration we need to be able

4:20:04 ↗ to use a process that's different than

4:20:05 ↗ the interest arbitration process um as

4:20:08 ↗ long as that process exists you know

4:20:11 ↗ we'll end up in arbitration the

4:20:12 ↗ arbitrator looks at the regional

4:20:14 ↗ contracts and we'll um set contract

4:20:18 ↗ language that matches those Regional

4:20:20 ↗ contracts at the end of the day whether

4:20:22 ↗ the city likes it or not um and there is

4:20:25 ↗ some movement bubbling up um I've heard

4:20:31 ↗ murmurings here and there about lobbying

4:20:32 ↗ around the interest arbitration statute

4:20:35 ↗ so we can certainly keep our ear to the

4:20:36 ↗ ground and inform Council if there are

4:20:39 ↗ any

4:20:41 ↗ um any bills that look you know

4:20:44 ↗ promising or interesting or of

4:20:46 ↗ note thank you thank you uh council

4:20:50 ↗ member

4:20:51 ↗ Hall thank you may paully counc member

4:20:54 ↗ Hall here just quick comment to that

4:20:57 ↗ effect

4:20:58 ↗ um long time is friend former C council

4:21:02 ↗ member now state representative Bill

4:21:04 ↗ Ramos is actually leading a lot of this

4:21:06 ↗ work right here so think we have a

4:21:08 ↗ partner in

4:21:09 ↗ legisl in this

4:21:14 ↗ conversation thank you council member

4:21:16 ↗ Hall not seeing any other comments in

4:21:18 ↗ the chat box so do we have one more

4:21:22 ↗ presentation um we do not I think just

4:21:26 ↗ Stephanie did you want to say anything

4:21:28 ↗ about the salary ordinance sure so

4:21:31 ↗ should the council move to um to adopt

4:21:35 ↗ both these agreements um both of these

4:21:38 ↗ agreements um H have class comp

4:21:41 ↗ implementation within them and so um in

4:21:44 ↗ an effort to approve the contracts we

4:21:46 ↗ then need to do the housekeeping item of

4:21:49 ↗ updating the master salary ordinance um

4:21:52 ↗ so the changes that would be achieved in

4:21:54 ↗ both contracts um then would need to be

4:21:57 ↗ changed in the master salary ordinance

4:21:59 ↗ which is why we've packaged it together

4:22:01 ↗ tonight I don't want to also lose sight

4:22:03 ↗ of the fact that there is one more

4:22:05 ↗ change to the master salary ordinance

4:22:07 ↗ around one non-represented position um

4:22:10 ↗ we do not have a public works director

4:22:14 ↗ uh classification currently in our

4:22:17 ↗ classification and compensation system

4:22:19 ↗ and just to remind um the council

4:22:21 ↗ tonight we have historically had both a

4:22:25 ↗ public works engineering director and a

4:22:27 ↗ public works operations director uh with

4:22:30 ↗ both those positions being vacant an

4:22:33 ↗ administration's desire to move those

4:22:35 ↗ departments and merge them together um

4:22:38 ↗ we have begun um conversations around

4:22:41 ↗ recruitment for our next Public Works

4:22:43 ↗ director um in a merge department and so

4:22:47 ↗ um one of the other housekeeping items

4:22:49 ↗ while we're bringing the master salary

4:22:52 ↗ ordinance would also be to add the

4:22:54 ↗ Public Works director a non-represented

4:22:57 ↗ position into the master salary

4:22:59 ↗ ordinance as

4:23:01 ↗ well thank you for that Stephanie um

4:23:04 ↗ before we go to any of the motions

4:23:06 ↗ I want to check in with council

4:23:07 ↗ president hunt and see if there was any

4:23:10 ↗ email comments received on any of these

4:23:12 ↗ three regular business

4:23:14 ↗ items thank you um Madame mayor yes we

4:23:17 ↗ did receive a comment it it didn't

4:23:20 ↗ specifically reference this agenda item

4:23:22 ↗ but it did um look at and specifically

4:23:25 ↗ reference our um police contracts and

4:23:27 ↗ had questions specific to the police

4:23:29 ↗ contracts and things regarding um police

4:23:32 ↗ pay and how agreements between the city

4:23:34 ↗ and police unions are reached as as well

4:23:36 ↗ as whether unions have the power to

4:23:38 ↗ override the disciplinary actions of the

4:23:41 ↗ police chief um and the the

4:23:45 ↗ resident um felt that our chief was a

4:23:49 ↗ great leader and wanted to have wanted

4:23:52 ↗ to um so that's that was the basis of

4:23:54 ↗ the question about whether the union had

4:23:56 ↗ the power to override the disciplinary

4:23:58 ↗ action of the police chief the resident

4:24:00 ↗ wrote that um they would not want to be

4:24:02 ↗ able to overpower they would not want

4:24:05 ↗ the union to be over able to overpower

4:24:07 ↗ the Judgment of the police chief sorry

4:24:10 ↗ it's late um and I I also just wanted to

4:24:15 ↗ say that we have also received a lot of

4:24:17 ↗ public comments and emails regarding um

4:24:20 ↗ police reform and I think having

4:24:24 ↗ residents look through our contracts is

4:24:26 ↗ also part of that that there's there is

4:24:28 ↗ a heightened interest in understanding

4:24:31 ↗ um Public Safety and understanding

4:24:33 ↗ police and we have received comments on

4:24:35 ↗ that more broadly as

4:24:37 ↗ well thank

4:24:38 ↗ you um can I see in the chat box if

4:24:42 ↗ somebody is prepared to make a

4:24:46 ↗ motion thank you council president

4:24:49 ↗ hunt thank you

4:24:52 ↗ um I move to approve the terms of the

4:24:55 ↗ 2020 to 2022 collective bargaining

4:24:58 ↗ agreement between the city and the

4:25:00 ↗ American Federation of State count

4:25:03 ↗ County and Municipal Employees it's

4:25:05 ↗ requirement administrative staff

4:25:07 ↗ Association and authorize the mayor to

4:25:09 ↗ enter into and execute the

4:25:11 ↗ agreement and Deputy council president

4:25:13 ↗ Ray this is Chris Ray I second the

4:25:17 ↗ motion thank you it has been moved and

4:25:20 ↗ seconded is there any Council discussion

4:25:22 ↗ and I will look to the chat box to see

4:25:25 ↗ if any members of council would like to

4:25:33 ↗ comment not seeing any I'm going to to

4:25:36 ↗ call for the vote oh sorry com yeah fine

4:25:40 ↗ thank you sometimes it shows up a little

4:25:42 ↗ late council president hunt um thank you

4:25:45 ↗ this is council president hunt I

4:25:47 ↗ appreciated that this information was

4:25:49 ↗ brought forward in the regular meeting

4:25:51 ↗ and regular business and I I think that

4:25:53 ↗ people are um people in the community

4:25:56 ↗ have been asking um us questions and and

4:25:59 ↗ just wanting to better understand the

4:26:00 ↗ processes around how we work with the

4:26:03 ↗ police department and with the Union um

4:26:06 ↗ there is heightened awareness around

4:26:07 ↗ this so I appreciate you bringing

4:26:08 ↗ forward the information that you brought

4:26:10 ↗ forward and I think it it was very clear

4:26:13 ↗ um about how we how we work with the

4:26:15 ↗ unions and um I appreciate that we have

4:26:19 ↗ more um transparency by having this in

4:26:22 ↗ the regular

4:26:23 ↗ meeting thank you council president hunt

4:26:25 ↗ I agree uh there being no other comments

4:26:30 ↗ uh if there's no further discussion the

4:26:31 ↗ motion before council is to approve the

4:26:33 ↗ terms of the 2020 through 20 22

4:26:37 ↗ collective bargaining agreement between

4:26:39 ↗ the city and the American Federation of

4:26:41 ↗ state county and Municipal Employees

4:26:43 ↗ isqua administrative staff Association

4:26:46 ↗ and authorize the mayor to enter into

4:26:48 ↗ and execute the agreement um city clerk

4:26:51 ↗ could you please do the roll call vote

4:26:52 ↗ using the new alternating format yes and

4:26:56 ↗ we will begin in alphabetical order so

4:26:59 ↗ council member D

4:27:01 ↗ Michelle can we not oh this is the very

4:27:05 ↗ first time we using it so Barb here you

4:27:08 ↗ go okay council member D

4:27:11 ↗ Michelle I said I yes thank you council

4:27:15 ↗ member Goodman

4:27:17 ↗ I council member Hall

4:27:21 ↗ hi council president hunt I council

4:27:25 ↗ member Marts I Deputy council president

4:27:29 ↗ Ray I council member Walsh I 7 i0

4:27:37 ↗ thank you very much city clerk that

4:27:38 ↗ passes

4:27:40 ↗ unanimously uh we're look I'm looking to

4:27:42 ↗ see if there is anyone prepared to make

4:27:45 ↗ another motion

4:27:47 ↗ on um the isqua Police Officers

4:27:50 ↗ Association ipoa collective bargaining

4:27:59 ↗ agreement oh I see council member

4:28:03 ↗ Goodman uh thank you I approved the

4:28:05 ↗ terms of the 2020 to 2022 Collective

4:28:08 ↗ bargain bargaining agreement between the

4:28:11 ↗ city and the isqua Police Officers

4:28:12 ↗ Association and authorize the mayor to

4:28:14 ↗ enter into and execute the

4:28:16 ↗ agreement thank you um council president

4:28:22 ↗ hunt council member Mars oh sorry

4:28:25 ↗ Council there's a lot going on in that

4:28:27 ↗ chat chat box thank you for the second

4:28:30 ↗ council member Marts has a question or a

4:28:32 ↗ comment

4:28:34 ↗ sorry uh thank you m M mayor does the

4:28:36 ↗ maker of the motion wish to speak to

4:28:38 ↗ their motion before taking com before

4:28:40 ↗ you take comment for me great great

4:28:42 ↗ question thank you would uh council

4:28:44 ↗ member Goodman like to make some

4:28:50 ↗ comments no thanks thank you council

4:28:54 ↗ member Marts thank you Madame mayor this

4:28:56 ↗ is council member Marts um you know I

4:28:59 ↗ think this will not satisfy all the

4:29:01 ↗ people who came before us uh and spoke

4:29:04 ↗ to us but what get out of this is

4:29:07 ↗ there's a there's a number of issues

4:29:08 ↗ that we face as a community where the

4:29:11 ↗ solutions are really region-wide or

4:29:14 ↗ Statewide and I look at this and what I

4:29:16 ↗ hear from our staff this evening is that

4:29:19 ↗ we have done everything that we can as a

4:29:22 ↗ city and if we wish to seek if we want

4:29:25 ↗ to move the dial on some of these things

4:29:27 ↗ further it's really a Statewide solution

4:29:30 ↗ and I like that because I think most of

4:29:32 ↗ us feel the ipd is a is a great

4:29:35 ↗ organization and we're not trying to

4:29:36 ↗ single out the ipd on some of these

4:29:39 ↗ things um and yet um standards are

4:29:42 ↗ changing and I look forward to a

4:29:43 ↗ Statewide conversation about some of the

4:29:45 ↗ issues that we've heard about this

4:29:47 ↗ evening uh to which I feel appreciative

4:29:50 ↗ of Staff uh offering these

4:29:52 ↗ clarifications thank you thank you for

4:29:54 ↗ the comment council member Marts I'm not

4:29:56 ↗ seeing any other commenters in the chat

4:29:58 ↗ box so I will call for the vote if

4:30:01 ↗ there's no further discussion the motion

4:30:03 ↗ before council is to approve the terms

4:30:05 ↗ of the 2020 through 2022 collective

4:30:07 ↗ bargaining agreement between the city

4:30:09 ↗ and the isqua Police Officers

4:30:11 ↗ Association and authorize the mayor to

4:30:13 ↗ enter into and execute the

4:30:15 ↗ agreement clerk can you please use uh

4:30:18 ↗ can you please call the roll vote roll

4:30:21 ↗ call the roll call vote using the new

4:30:23 ↗ alternating

4:30:24 ↗ format yes council member Goodman hi

4:30:29 ↗ council member Hall I council president

4:30:32 ↗ hunt I council member Marts I Deputy

4:30:38 ↗ council president Ray I council member

4:30:42 ↗ Walsh I council member D Michelle

4:30:46 ↗ hi 7 I zero

4:30:51 ↗ nce thank you uh that passes unanimously

4:30:56 ↗ and then the last one I'm looking for a

4:30:58 ↗ motion on is the amendment to the 2020

4:31:02 ↗ salary

4:31:03 ↗ ordinance and um

4:31:07 ↗ uh the motion has been posted in the

4:31:10 ↗ chat box and do we H council president

4:31:13 ↗ hunt would you care to make a motion

4:31:15 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

4:31:17 ↗ I move to adopt ordinance number

4:31:19 ↗ 2912 adopting revised 2020 salary

4:31:23 ↗ schedules for non-represented

4:31:26 ↗ afscme and ipoa represented city

4:31:30 ↗ employees and amending the salary

4:31:32 ↗ schedules previously adopted by

4:31:34 ↗ ordinance numbers 2 2887 and

4:31:39 ↗ 2906 and Deputy council president Ray

4:31:43 ↗ this is Chris Ray I'll second the motion

4:31:45 ↗ so it has been moved and seconded is

4:31:47 ↗ there any Council

4:31:49 ↗ discussion pause to allow you some time

4:31:51 ↗ to enter something in the chat box if

4:31:53 ↗ you'd

4:31:58 ↗ like not seeing any if there's no

4:32:01 ↗ further discussion the motion before the

4:32:03 ↗ council is to adopt ordinance number

4:32:04 ↗ 2912

4:32:06 ↗ adopting revised 2020 salary schedules

4:32:08 ↗ for nonre non-represented

4:32:11 ↗ AFS CME and ipoa represented to the

4:32:14 ↗ employees and amending the salary

4:32:16 ↗ schedules previously adopted by

4:32:18 ↗ ordinance numbers

4:32:19 ↗ 2887 and 296 city clerk can you please

4:32:23 ↗ call the

4:32:24 ↗ role council member

4:32:29 ↗ Hall uh I council president hunt I

4:32:34 ↗ council member Mars I Deputy council

4:32:38 ↗ president Ray I council member Walsh I

4:32:44 ↗ council member D Michelle I council

4:32:47 ↗ member Goodman I 7 I zero nay thank you

4:32:52 ↗ that passes unanimously it looks like

4:32:54 ↗ City administrator Bob Kitz has a

4:32:58 ↗ comment yes madame mayor members of the

4:33:00 ↗ council before Lauren and Stephanie go I

4:33:02 ↗ just want to thank them both um have had

4:33:06 ↗ a very busy 2020 um they are uh without

4:33:10 ↗ 25% of their staff in the Human

4:33:13 ↗ Resources uh Department uh they have had

4:33:16 ↗ to negotiate labor agreements completely

4:33:18 ↗ remotely uh they have done it in record

4:33:21 ↗ time uh with results that uh uh really

4:33:26 ↗ uh fashion the needs that we have as a

4:33:28 ↗ community they have been able to work

4:33:30 ↗ with our bargaining units uh in order to

4:33:32 ↗ help understand the challenges that we

4:33:34 ↗ Face uh and they have done it uh really

4:33:37 ↗ in exemplary fashion just another fact

4:33:40 ↗ that Stephanie shared with me uh this

4:33:42 ↗ year uh we have hired 72 individuals and

4:33:46 ↗ we have terminated 67 individuals so

4:33:50 ↗ that is uh almost 100 over 120 staff

4:33:54 ↗ members uh that since the beginning of

4:33:56 ↗ this year we've either separated or

4:33:58 ↗ hired um and that's all done with 25%

4:34:01 ↗ less staff so as we as we talk about St

4:34:05 ↗ staing resources as we talk about uh the

4:34:07 ↗ good work that we all want to do for you

4:34:10 ↗ I really want to recognize uh uh Lauren

4:34:13 ↗ and Stephanie and shaie our three

4:34:15 ↗ members in the human resources

4:34:16 ↗ department they've done extraordinary

4:34:18 ↗ work under extraordinarily difficult

4:34:20 ↗ circumstances uh you will like likely

4:34:22 ↗ not see them now for a few months

4:34:24 ↗ because of some of the the last pieces

4:34:26 ↗ of this uh will will will Trail as we go

4:34:29 ↗ into the fall but I just want to

4:34:31 ↗ recognize the excellent work that Lauren

4:34:33 ↗ Stephanie and shaie have been doing

4:34:35 ↗ um I mean people were working so hard

4:34:38 ↗ for you Madame mayor members of the

4:34:40 ↗ council I think it's just important to

4:34:42 ↗ remind you um that this has been very

4:34:45 ↗ very difficult you know there are over

4:34:47 ↗ 40 vacant positions in the city right

4:34:49 ↗ now that's almost 20% of our Workforce

4:34:52 ↗ is either uh vacant because of layoff or

4:34:54 ↗ vacant because of positions being held

4:34:56 ↗ open um we're trying our best to serve

4:34:59 ↗ you and the members of the community and

4:35:01 ↗ Lauren Stephanie Shaunie really are are

4:35:03 ↗ leading the way so thank you Madame

4:35:04 ↗ mayor for letting me say a few words

4:35:08 ↗ thank you w very strong team well done

4:35:10 ↗ ladies lots of hard work in there the

4:35:13 ↗ next item on our agenda this evening is

4:35:16 ↗ good of the order and I know that at

4:35:17 ↗ least one council member has something

4:35:19 ↗ for good of the order so uh council

4:35:21 ↗ member

4:35:24 ↗ Hall thank you mayor Paulie this is

4:35:27 ↗ council member Hall my apologies to

4:35:29 ↗ everyone that this is late I guess I'm

4:35:31 ↗ still a new beond counsel and assumed

4:35:33 ↗ postponing it from the last council

4:35:35 ↗ meeting would mean it wouldn't be late

4:35:37 ↗ this time so I'm learning um I'll be

4:35:41 ↗ quick um so it has to do with um the

4:35:45 ↗ Cascade water Alliance board of

4:35:46 ↗ directors meeting that mayor paully and

4:35:48 ↗ I attended on Wednesday June 24th last

4:35:52 ↗ month uh we attended that meeting and

4:35:54 ↗ heard a presentation from Cascade staff

4:35:57 ↗ on preliminary budgeting and and water

4:35:59 ↗ rates into the future and like I

4:36:01 ↗ mentioned a few weeks ago and in a

4:36:03 ↗ recent email to you all about I think we

4:36:05 ↗ wanted to gauge uh your reaction and

4:36:07 ↗ your interest in increasing in

4:36:09 ↗ increasing

4:36:11 ↗ um CWA water rates um so during that

4:36:15 ↗ present so if you weren't able to uh

4:36:17 ↗ read that email I'll just really quickly

4:36:20 ↗ go over some highlights from it during

4:36:21 ↗ that presentation staff I described some

4:36:24 ↗ of the key drivers around um why they

4:36:28 ↗ were presenting water potential water

4:36:29 ↗ rate increases to us one seeing uh that

4:36:33 ↗ we're seeing an overall uppr trend

4:36:35 ↗ upward Trend in water demand uh but the

4:36:38 ↗ demand isn't increasing as fast as the

4:36:40 ↗ customer base

4:36:41 ↗ growth uh the efficiencies in water

4:36:44 ↗ conservation measures are critical but

4:36:46 ↗ the gains are expanding throughout the

4:36:48 ↗ regional customer base and that's

4:36:50 ↗ actually screening revenues to Cascade

4:36:53 ↗ water Alliance and then finally the lake

4:36:55 ↗ lake lake toxs

4:36:57 ↗ development um which will be um a

4:37:01 ↗ regional Reservoir that was purchased by

4:37:03 ↗ Cade water Alliance um turning that into

4:37:05 ↗ a usable Reservoir will will cost

4:37:08 ↗ there'll be a lot of capital costs that

4:37:10 ↗ so they showed us a couple different

4:37:12 ↗ models of what rate increases might look

4:37:14 ↗ like through 2060 some even starting

4:37:17 ↗ next year and so when that happened

4:37:19 ↗ there were there were some people around

4:37:20 ↗ the table you could tell that um might

4:37:24 ↗ not feel uncomfortable or might feel

4:37:26 ↗ uncomfortable having rate increases

4:37:27 ↗ during during a pandemic while families

4:37:30 ↗ were struggling with their bills so um

4:37:34 ↗ like like council member Marts did

4:37:36 ↗ previously I wanted to bring this issue

4:37:38 ↗ up with all you all uh to take your

4:37:40 ↗ temperature and if you had any questions

4:37:43 ↗ I'd be happy to try to answer along with

4:37:44 ↗ mayor paully or at least ask them of

4:37:46 ↗ tascate staff on your behalf and uh our

4:37:50 ↗ next meeting is this Wednesday and I

4:37:52 ↗ think um mayor paully I think our Hope

4:37:55 ↗ was to be able to go into the board

4:37:57 ↗ meeting and communicate that you know

4:37:59 ↗ this is how our colleagues feel uh in

4:38:01 ↗ isqua and perhaps I'm seeing some

4:38:04 ↗ comments right now but perhaps um in the

4:38:07 ↗ interest of time we could assume unless

4:38:10 ↗ we hear otherwise that the council is

4:38:12 ↗ not in favor of water increases starting

4:38:14 ↗ 2021 but I know for sure counc council

4:38:17 ↗ president Mars has something she got to

4:38:19 ↗ say yeah I think we should yeah I I know

4:38:23 ↗ it's late but I really do think this is

4:38:25 ↗ important and it goes to the same

4:38:28 ↗ questions we've been asking all of our

4:38:29 ↗ partner organizations is what's your

4:38:32 ↗ covid plan what's your economic crisis

4:38:34 ↗ plan plan because it's not business as

4:38:36 ↗ usual whether it's the county or it's

4:38:38 ↗ Cascade water Alliance or anybody that

4:38:40 ↗ we work with this is not business as

4:38:42 ↗ usual and we really need people to tell

4:38:44 ↗ us that so I think um even though it's

4:38:46 ↗ late I do think it' be important to go

4:38:48 ↗ around um the the room and take the

4:38:51 ↗ council's temperature and also I do

4:38:53 ↗ believe that there's a few other cities

4:38:55 ↗ on Cascade water Alliance that um are

4:38:58 ↗ hearing the same sort of thing from

4:38:59 ↗ their Council not an appropriate year

4:39:01 ↗ for a rate increase uh so let's start

4:39:04 ↗ with I believe it was council president

4:39:07 ↗ hunt that was first with a comment thank

4:39:10 ↗ you this is council president hunt um so

4:39:13 ↗ as the former um alternate member of the

4:39:16 ↗ board for Cascade water I do know that

4:39:18 ↗ the plans around using Lake Taps as um a

4:39:22 ↗ reservoir those development plans those

4:39:24 ↗ are in many um ways many years off also

4:39:29 ↗ there's a lot of efficiency in water

4:39:30 ↗ that's um people are using less less

4:39:33 ↗ water even though our population is

4:39:34 ↗ growing and um I really I really

4:39:38 ↗ question that we would need to um make

4:39:42 ↗ this Reservoir the the argument about

4:39:45 ↗ needing to increase rates to fund the

4:39:47 ↗ development of the lake Taps Reservoir

4:39:49 ↗ at this time it really doesn't feel like

4:39:51 ↗ something that we should pass along to

4:39:53 ↗ the rate payers at this point um because

4:39:56 ↗ of the huge economic um impacts of

4:39:59 ↗ covid-19 and the fact that we're asking

4:40:01 ↗ really to to reduce the impacts um of

4:40:05 ↗ rates across the board and so I I don't

4:40:07 ↗ see why we would make an exception in

4:40:09 ↗ this case and it seems um

4:40:12 ↗ doubly uh doubly um important to not

4:40:17 ↗ increase this rate if the reason is this

4:40:19 ↗ um very

4:40:20 ↗ longterm um need that we could

4:40:24 ↗ postpone thank you council president

4:40:26 ↗ hunt it looks like council member Marts

4:40:28 ↗ would like to make a comment thank you

4:40:30 ↗ Madame mayor this is Council M Mars yeah

4:40:33 ↗ I heard the lake lake Taps thing and

4:40:35 ↗ like blood filled my ears and my hair

4:40:37 ↗ started sizzling off the top of my head

4:40:40 ↗ um this is not the year to implement the

4:40:43 ↗ grand master plan for the future of

4:40:45 ↗ water uh for CWA this is a year to

4:40:48 ↗ hunker down and just get through so uh

4:40:51 ↗ plus one plus one thank you thank you

4:40:54 ↗ very much council member D

4:40:56 ↗ Michelle uh council member March just

4:40:59 ↗ woke me up

4:41:01 ↗ because I now seen this vision of blood

4:41:04 ↗ coming off the top of his head um I just

4:41:07 ↗ wanted to go on the record and say that

4:41:09 ↗ I agree I don't think this is time to uh

4:41:12 ↗ do a rate increase and uh we saw uh when

4:41:16 ↗ the St cities Association pushed back

4:41:19 ↗ oring County that they were able to come

4:41:21 ↗ up with savings so I think it's time to

4:41:24 ↗ push back and and this is not not the

4:41:27 ↗ time to be doing

4:41:29 ↗ this thank you council member D Michelle

4:41:31 ↗ Deputy council president

4:41:33 ↗ Ray

4:41:35 ↗ I'm no no big surprise I I don't think

4:41:37 ↗ that this is the time given a lot of

4:41:39 ↗ factors and I just think back about a

4:41:41 ↗ year ago when we were looking at a new

4:41:43 ↗ water system plan here in town and it

4:41:45 ↗ was uh an increase that we thought was

4:41:48 ↗ unacceptable and we said you know try

4:41:50 ↗ again sharpen your pencil and I would

4:41:51 ↗ like to ask Cascade to to go back and

4:41:54 ↗ look at what they're doing and really um

4:41:57 ↗ better justify any rate increase and

4:42:00 ↗ particularly at this

4:42:02 ↗ time thank you um council member

4:42:06 ↗ Goodman agreed with everyone thank you

4:42:10 ↗ thank you um before we go back to

4:42:12 ↗ council member Hall to wrap up and for

4:42:14 ↗ him to verify uh what he has heard from

4:42:17 ↗ all of you I am the voting member on the

4:42:19 ↗ board however um as this when this item

4:42:22 ↗ comes up if council member Hall is um at

4:42:25 ↗ the meeting I'm going to let him

4:42:27 ↗ summarize and address your comments and

4:42:28 ↗ concerns um even though I'm the voting

4:42:30 ↗ member it's good for them to hear from

4:42:33 ↗ more than just the mayor of thisal

4:42:35 ↗ council member Hall do you want to wrap

4:42:37 ↗ this

4:42:38 ↗ up thank you mayor paully council member

4:42:40 ↗ Hall here I was going to say roughly the

4:42:42 ↗ same thing that I've been taking notes

4:42:44 ↗ on what everyone's saying so I thought I

4:42:46 ↗ would just kind of wrap up and see if

4:42:48 ↗ I'm C right so I'm hearing pretty

4:42:52 ↗ consistently no go back to the drawing

4:42:54 ↗ board um using like Taps as a

4:42:58 ↗ justification for water water rate

4:43:00 ↗ increases is not justifiable at this

4:43:02 ↗ point um even go back look what you're

4:43:05 ↗ doing and you back to us with better

4:43:08 ↗ justification of why you think water

4:43:09 ↗ rate increases are necessary right now

4:43:11 ↗ I'm hearing know this is the year to

4:43:13 ↗ hunker down I'm hearing we not time for

4:43:17 ↗ water rates potentially even a Time come

4:43:20 ↗ up with savings so these are some of the

4:43:23 ↗ things I'm hearing I'm looking

4:43:27 ↗ for I think you got it I think that's

4:43:29 ↗ really good it'll be very interesting I

4:43:33 ↗ also am not sure if anyone else has

4:43:35 ↗ something for good of the order but I do

4:43:37 ↗ um I want to apologize to council member

4:43:39 ↗ Marts for obviously getting him upset in

4:43:41 ↗ the meeting um we are all stressed out

4:43:45 ↗ and I appreciate how hard not only the

4:43:47 ↗ council's working but how hard the staff

4:43:49 ↗ is working um kind of you know the

4:43:53 ↗ request to be able to understand a

4:43:56 ↗ situation before you take a significant

4:43:59 ↗ action on it that totally makes sense to

4:44:01 ↗ me um I had a reaction very much about I

4:44:04 ↗ just not sure that we can deliver on

4:44:06 ↗ that promise um but we will um provide

4:44:10 ↗ something that hopefully provides

4:44:11 ↗ context for a better conversation so in

4:44:14 ↗ this period as we work our way through

4:44:16 ↗ all the way to the end of December um

4:44:18 ↗ we're all going to be overloaded and so

4:44:20 ↗ I I will try harder to give gracious

4:44:22 ↗ space I encourage you all to try harder

4:44:24 ↗ to give gracious space we're a very

4:44:26 ↗ strong team we're doing incredible

4:44:28 ↗ things right now so I just put that out

4:44:30 ↗ there on the table and then I want to

4:44:32 ↗ run through a few items that are up

4:44:34 ↗ coming so the following upcoming

4:44:36 ↗ meetings will be held virtually there's

4:44:38 ↗ a city council study session uh Tuesday

4:44:41 ↗ July 8th with potential agenda items

4:44:44 ↗ including the mobility master plan and

4:44:46 ↗ city services assessment of the jail

4:44:49 ↗ there is a new meeting now scheduled for

4:44:52 ↗ the Monday I believe the 27th is correct

4:44:55 ↗ as um well he can correct me if I'm not

4:44:58 ↗ stating that accurately there is a

4:45:01 ↗ community meeting on isqua's draft

4:45:02 ↗ police accountability equity and Human

4:45:05 ↗ Services action plan Wednesday July 29th

4:45:08 ↗ at 6 p.m you can register online to

4:45:10 ↗ participate at isqua w.gov and there is

4:45:13 ↗ a city council regular meeting on Monday

4:45:16 ↗ August 3D at 7M so there is no executive

4:45:19 ↗ session this evening thank you all for

4:45:22 ↗ hanging out till 11:44 p.m. we are now

4:45:28 ↗ adjourned night

4:45:32 ↗ all

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

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Continue this topic at a [virtual] special meeting at July 27 at 7:00 pm to consider actions to support housing stability. . The City Council provided informal direction to the Administration to bring forward an ordinance to provide tenants a defense against eviction if the landlord has not entered …

Moved by HUNT · seconded by MARTS

Carried 7-0

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

Direct Administration at the first meeting in August to provide what a potential rental subsidy package would look like for a potential small/medium/large investment by this Council. (Opponents: Goodman, Reh, Walsh). CONSENT CALENDAR Items listed were distributed to Councilmembers in advance for stu…

Moved by MARTS · seconded by HUNT

Carried 4-3

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts

Opposed: Goodman, Reh, Walsh

Approve the terms of the 2020-2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Issaquah Administrative Staff Association and authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the Agreement. . b)

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

Approve the terms of the 2020-2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City and the Issaquah Police Officers' Association and authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the Agreement. . c)

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by HUNT

Carried 7-0

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

Adopt Ordinance No. 2912, adopting revised 2020 salary schedules for Non-Represented, AFSCME and IPOA represented City employees and amending the salary schedules previously adopted by Ordinance Nos. 2887 and 2906. .

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