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

1. CALL TO ORDER

First for Roll Call Vote: Deputy Council President Reh

6. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

Rental Assistance Options ID 0738

packet pp.5–18

Topics: Housing

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Staff report:

The Administration would like to provide the additional requested informational on Rental Assistance measures the City Council may consider in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following elements will be incorporated in the report:

Environmental Board Update ID 0739

packet pp.19–35

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Staff report:

The purpose of this informational item is to provide an update on the Environmental Board including the draft ordinance,

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Aug. 3, 2020, $ 2,798,376.67 ID 0398

Approve · packet pp.37–61

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 Regular Meeting, July 6, 2020

Approve · packet pp.63–66

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Jun 9, 2020 City Council Regular Meeting · Jun 11, 2020 City Council Regular Meeting · Jun 15, 2020 City Council Regular Meeting · Jun 22, 2020

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 07-06-20 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)

Shoreline Master Program Periodic Update AB 7772

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.71–338

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Jun 13, 2019

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Staff report:

The SMA was passed by the Washington Legislature in 1971 and adopted by voters in 1972. It applies to both public and private uses within the jurisdiction of Washington's Shorelines of the State to protect natural resources for future generations, provide for public access to public waters and shores, and plan for water-dependent uses.

Teamsters 763 Collective Bargaining Agreement AB 7781

Approve · packet pp.339–372

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Staff report:

The City and Teamsters began negotiations for a successor agreement in November of 2019. In the midst of this, the City and Teamsters entered emergency negotiations surrounding the financial impacts of COVID-19. These emergency negotiations resulted in a furlough and concessions memorandum of understanding ("MOU") that was approved by Council on July 6, 2020.

Area of Special Flood Hazard Code Updates (Issaquah Municipal Code AB 7962

Carried 7-0

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.373–411

Topics: Land UseWater

Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Jul 9, 2020

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Staff report:

SUMMARY STATEMENT

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

ArtsWA Creative District Grant AB 7998

Accept Grant · packet pp.413–418

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Staff report:

At the March 2, 2020 Council meeting, Council approved AB 7876 which included 1) approval of Resolution No. 2020-03 designating a Creative District in Issaquah, and 2) authorizing submittal of an application for state certification of the district to the Washington State Certified Creative District Program.

Amend 2020 Salary Ordinance AB 8015

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.419–423

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 and Ordinance No. 2912 on July 20, 2020, amending salary schedules for non-represented staff and staff represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Issaquah Police Officers' Association. 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.

8. REGULAR BUSINESS

Utility Rate Adjustments AB 8002

Adopt Ordinances · packet pp.425–554

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

The City last adopted utility rate and charge adjustments for water, sewer, and storm at the regular Council meeting on November 2, 2015 (AB 7064). At that time, ordinances were adopted that made rate adjustments effective on January 1, 2016. These rate adjustments, including adjustments to the general facility charges (GFCs), were adopted for a 5-year period that will end on December 31, 2020.

Village Theatre Funding AB 8005

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.555–558

Topics: BudgetTourism

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Staff report:

Village Theatre is Issaquah's largest and most established arts organization and the sole nonprofit brick and mortar performing arts venue in the city. For 41 years it has served as the city's cultural anchor and an important tourist destination for downtown Issaquah. It is an award winning regional theatre that provides employment opportunities for equity actors and theatre professionals and supports a significant number of creative sector jobs. Village Theatre's youth programs foster in depth learning and training in the theater arts and its new theater development program gives playwrights opportunities to workshop contemporary works.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by GOODMAN

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

Second 2020 Budget Amendment AB 8006

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.559–576

Topics: Land UseBudget

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Staff report:

Budget amendments are required when the expenditures of a fund are forecast to exceed the adopted appropriation level. This budget amendment includes adjustments for 10 of the City's 30 funds. In total, these adjustments account for $8,643,107 in adjusted revenues and $9,068,086 in adjusted expenditures for a net decrease in fund balance to all City funds of $424,979. The General Fund accounts for $2,000 of the increased revenues and $2,000 of the increased expenditures, resulting in no net change to General Fund balance.

9. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:15 ↗ before we move on through tonight's

0:16 ↗ agenda items i'd just like to

0:18 ↗ acknowledge our remote meeting format

0:20 ↗ on march 6th i issued an emergency

0:22 ↗ proclamation declaring a civil emergency

0:24 ↗ in the city

0:25 ↗ due to the covid19 outbreak on march

0:28 ↗ 19th the governor issued proclamation

0:30 ↗ 20-28 prohibiting

0:32 ↗ meetings that fall under the open public

0:34 ↗ meetings act such as city council

0:36 ↗ meetings from being conducted in person

0:38 ↗ the prohibition has been extended

0:40 ↗ through september 1st

0:42 ↗ today today's meeting will be held

0:43 ↗ entirely remotely

0:45 ↗ the meeting will be recorded streamed

0:47 ↗ live and available for later viewing on

0:49 ↗ the city's youtube channel

0:50 ↗ a call-in number was provided on the

0:52 ↗ meeting agenda for members of the public

0:53 ↗ who wish to call in by phone

0:55 ↗ to listen live to the meeting or make

0:57 ↗ comments

0:58 ↗ for those members of the public on the

1:00 ↗ call today welcome for those of you who

1:02 ↗ submitted the online form to make

1:04 ↗ comments your name will be called under

1:05 ↗ the audience comment portion of the

1:07 ↗ meeting

1:08 ↗ and if there's anyone on the call who

1:10 ↗ did not sign up but would like to make

1:12 ↗ comments tonight

1:12 ↗ please press star 3 on your phone and we

1:15 ↗ will add you to the speakers list

1:18 ↗ at this point we'll take a moment to do

1:20 ↗ a roll call of the council members in

1:22 ↗ attendance so please stay here when i

1:23 ↗ call your name

1:24 ↗ councilmember d michelle here thank you

1:27 ↗ councilmember goodman

1:29 ↗ here thank you councilmember hall here

1:32 ↗ thanks council president hunt here

1:35 ↗ and council member marks here deputy

1:38 ↗ council president ray

1:40 ↗ yeah and council member walsh here

1:44 ↗ thank you that's all seven council

1:46 ↗ members here this evening

1:47 ↗ there are also various city staff

1:49 ↗ participating in tonight's meeting

1:50 ↗ including city administrator wally

1:52 ↗ bobkowitz

1:53 ↗ city administrator andrea snyder parks

1:56 ↗ and community services director jeff

1:57 ↗ watling

1:58 ↗ interim public works engineering

2:00 ↗ director bob york human services

2:02 ↗ coordinator monica ngrilla

2:04 ↗ sustainability coordinator megan curtis

2:06 ↗ murphy

2:07 ↗ senior budget analyst susie monsalm city

2:09 ↗ attorney jim haney and deputy city clerk

2:12 ↗ tisha geiser

2:13 ↗ other city staff may also be in

2:15 ↗ attendance we are also joined this

2:17 ↗ evening by one of our consultants sean

2:19 ↗ corn

2:19 ↗ with hdr so i'd like to go over a few of

2:23 ↗ the meeting guidelines

2:24 ↗ so for all meeting attendees please

2:26 ↗ speak clearly

2:27 ↗ and pause frequently set your name each

2:30 ↗ time before speaking

2:31 ↗ and mute your microphone when you're not

2:33 ↗ speaking if you are

2:34 ↗ also streaming the live video feed

2:36 ↗ please turn

2:38 ↗ the sound off as there is a bit of a

2:40 ↗ delay

2:42 ↗ and council members please continue to

2:43 ↗ use the chat function to indicate when

2:45 ↗ you wish to speak

2:46 ↗ please identify yourself before you ask

2:48 ↗ a question make a motion or second

2:51 ↗ emotion or participate in debate

2:53 ↗ so the next item on the agenda this

2:55 ↗ evening is the pledge of allegiance

2:56 ↗ and if you could all keep your

2:58 ↗ microphone phones noted please feel free

3:00 ↗ to welcome and join in with me as i read

3:02 ↗ the pledge of allegiance

3:04 ↗ i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

3:06 ↗ united states of america

3:08 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands

3:11 ↗ one nation

3:12 ↗ under god indivisible with liberty and

3:14 ↗ justice for all

3:16 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

3:18 ↗ is audience comments

3:20 ↗ please make sure you direct your

3:21 ↗ comments to the whole of counsel and not

3:23 ↗ individuals

3:24 ↗ and while this is not a question and

3:26 ↗ answer session we will contact you to

3:27 ↗ follow up if needed

3:29 ↗ so when you are recognized unmute your

3:30 ↗ microphone and if you're on your phone

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3:35 ↗ state your name address and relationship

3:36 ↗ to the city

3:38 ↗ speak clearly and pause frequently and

3:40 ↗ please limit your comments to up to five

3:42 ↗ minutes

3:42 ↗ when you're done speaking please remove

3:44 ↗ your microphone

3:46 ↗ if you do not respond after your name or

3:47 ↗ phone number is called or if your

3:49 ↗ connection is lost unexpectedly the

3:51 ↗ meeting will need to be proceed

3:52 ↗ you're encouraged to rejoin the meeting

3:54 ↗ if able again for those who have joined

3:56 ↗ us tonight and would like to speak but

3:58 ↗ did not sign up in advance

3:59 ↗ please press star 3 on your phone and we

4:02 ↗ will call the first six digits of your

4:03 ↗ phone number when it's your turn to make

4:05 ↗ comment

4:06 ↗ personal attacks obscene language

4:08 ↗ derogatory remarks and disruptive

4:09 ↗ behavior will not be permitted if

4:11 ↗ a speaker is out of order it allows them

4:14 ↗ to stop and mute their microphone

4:15 ↗ if a speaker does not comply i may

4:17 ↗ direct staff to mute their microphone

4:19 ↗ and if there is a disruption to the

4:20 ↗ meeting an order cannot be restored i

4:22 ↗ may direct staff to remove you from the

4:23 ↗ call

4:24 ↗ citizen comments written and verbal are

4:26 ↗ an important aspect of the public

4:28 ↗ process

4:29 ↗ the city council and my administration

4:31 ↗ take these comments very seriously and

4:32 ↗ we thank you for taking the time to

4:34 ↗ address us

4:35 ↗ city clerk could you please identify the

4:37 ↗ first person who signed up to speak

4:38 ↗ tonight

4:40 ↗ yes the first person is larry frank

4:45 ↗ hello am i coming through you are larry

4:48 ↗ go ahead

4:49 ↗ okay thanks tisha my name is larry

4:51 ↗ franks i'm a 48-year resident of izakaya

4:55 ↗ 24001 southeast 103rd street

4:59 ↗ the city council is probably familiar

5:01 ↗ with me as a fishy guy

5:03 ↗ advocating for the preservation and

5:05 ↗ enhancement of salmon

5:06 ↗ in our city the county the state in the

5:09 ↗ world

5:10 ↗ recall that salmon are an indicator

5:12 ↗ species which means

5:13 ↗ where they go extinction or thriving

5:17 ↗ human kind will go humans may use

5:19 ↗ technology to delay the effect but we

5:22 ↗ will definitely follow the lead of the

5:23 ↗ salmon

5:24 ↗ so it behooves us to protect our salmon

5:27 ↗ and

5:27 ↗ protect our own existence to that end

5:30 ↗ the proposed environmental board

5:32 ↗ will help guide the city in preserving

5:34 ↗ our fishy legacy

5:36 ↗ and addressing climate change at this

5:38 ↗ time i look forward to supporting these

5:40 ↗ efforts

5:42 ↗ thank you larry uh city kirk who else

5:45 ↗ has signed up this evening

5:48 ↗ next we have valet nolan vallette i've

5:50 ↗ unmuted you

5:52 ↗ go ahead thank you so much

5:55 ↗ good evening council members and mayor

5:58 ↗ paulie i'm villette nolan

5:59 ↗ ceo of imagine housing and we are a

6:02 ↗ non-profit affordable housing and

6:04 ↗ services provider doing business here in

6:06 ↗ issaquah

6:07 ↗ for 33 years we provide housing and

6:10 ↗ services

6:11 ↗ for 151 households of almost

6:15 ↗ 400 people and that includes 75 youth

6:18 ↗ under the age of 17. in fact our very

6:21 ↗ first apartment building is on front

6:23 ↗ street with 14 units

6:25 ↗ and as the pandemic has unfolded we've

6:27 ↗ directly seen the hardship this has

6:29 ↗ created

6:30 ↗ on low-income households since march our

6:33 ↗ case management team has increased its

6:35 ↗ delivery of services

6:37 ↗ by almost 400 percent and more

6:40 ↗ households than ever

6:41 ↗ are requesting assistance of all kinds

6:44 ↗ but rent is the most

6:45 ↗ pressing need in late june of this year

6:48 ↗ we established a 300 000 rental

6:51 ↗ assistance fund

6:52 ↗ for our residents and we have so far

6:55 ↗ raised 175

6:56 ↗ 000 from private sources eastside legal

7:00 ↗ assistance program is administering the

7:02 ↗ fund for us

7:03 ↗ and our residents apply directly to them

7:06 ↗ i'll refer to them as elab

7:08 ↗ i've shared with you earlier the letter

7:10 ↗ that we shared with our residents in

7:12 ↗ mid-july

7:13 ↗ to explain to them how to apply that let

7:16 ↗ that letter was translated into 14

7:18 ↗ languages

7:20 ↗ in issaquah specifically we've had 29

7:23 ↗ households

7:24 ↗ with 76 people apply to elap for a total

7:27 ↗ of 36 000

7:29 ↗ in rental assistance and that number is

7:31 ↗ as of today

7:33 ↗ we know that some households who are

7:35 ↗ behind in their rent have not yet

7:37 ↗ applied to elap

7:38 ↗ and unfortunately due to reporting

7:40 ↗ capacity of other systems that they

7:42 ↗ might have applied to

7:43 ↗ we don't know if they've applied

7:45 ↗ elsewhere

7:47 ↗ we're here to request that the city

7:49 ↗ council strongly consider

7:50 ↗ allocating funds towards rental

7:53 ↗ assistance for these households

7:55 ↗ and that you consider eastside legal

7:56 ↗ assistance program as a potential viable

7:59 ↗ source

8:00 ↗ for administering some of your funds we

8:03 ↗ totally expect to have to remain to

8:05 ↗ raise more than 300

8:06 ↗ 000 that was our shortfall as of june

8:09 ↗ 30th

8:10 ↗ and as the pandemic wears on and the

8:12 ↗ low-income community members do not

8:14 ↗ return to work

8:15 ↗ we expect non-payment of rent to

8:17 ↗ continue throughout the year

8:19 ↗ thank you so much for your consideration

8:21 ↗ of our request and

8:22 ↗ i look forward to talking to any council

8:25 ↗ members that have questions

8:27 ↗ thank you villa city clerk who is next

8:30 ↗ up on our

8:31 ↗ speaker system this evening next we have

8:33 ↗ connie march

8:34 ↗ connie ivan muted you

8:38 ↗ go ahead guys city council okay hey city

8:41 ↗ council and mayor this is connie marsh

8:43 ↗ and i have spent the last two weeks

8:47 ↗ thinking about city processes and you

8:50 ↗ have received some of my

8:52 ↗ process thoughts up to

8:56 ↗ a level six review flow chart

8:59 ↗ because well you discuss policy

9:03 ↗ the way things get done is they go from

9:06 ↗ your policy into implementation language

9:09 ↗ somehow and then they turn into reality

9:13 ↗ and what i do is when you set up new

9:15 ↗ systems

9:16 ↗ i try to figure out how those systems

9:19 ↗ that are being created

9:20 ↗ will will will become reality and what

9:25 ↗ that will look like

9:26 ↗ on the ground now with the master

9:29 ↗ mobility plan

9:32 ↗ i'm in the fog i am lost i cannot see

9:36 ↗ how what is written at this point in

9:38 ↗ time will turn into

9:40 ↗ a reality 238 pages

9:45 ↗ just makes it a smear of gray

9:48 ↗ to me and the policies

9:52 ↗ will be removed from some documents and

9:54 ↗ placed in this

9:55 ↗ document and we no longer

9:59 ↗ have a path so

10:03 ↗ i would ask that that document be

10:06 ↗ pulled back and heavily reviewed before

10:10 ↗ it gets pushed

10:11 ↗ forward uh to ppc

10:14 ↗ i would even like to see it go out to

10:16 ↗ the community

10:17 ↗ via a remote video call

10:20 ↗ similar to the environmental board video

10:24 ↗ calls which were

10:25 ↗ actually great now the document that was

10:28 ↗ created that you are looking at in a

10:30 ↗ sort of a review tonight

10:33 ↗ has an equal amount of grayness as i try

10:36 ↗ to follow the pathway

10:38 ↗ to see how a potential plan

10:42 ↗ whatever those plans are supposed to be

10:45 ↗ would then come to this board be decided

10:48 ↗ by

10:49 ↗ this board and then move forward

10:52 ↗ i am not assured that this is any more

10:54 ↗ clear than the river and streams board

10:56 ↗ pathway uh to be able to

11:00 ↗ look at projects which to me is an

11:02 ↗ important thing

11:03 ↗ going to development commission even in

11:05 ↗ the short term is equally

11:07 ↗ murky so i also think well i

11:10 ↗ i think the environmental board is a

11:12 ↗ good idea

11:14 ↗ this this needs to be looked at through

11:18 ↗ a

11:18 ↗ realistic eyeball and it's not there

11:22 ↗ yet so then i

11:25 ↗ watched planning policy commission that

11:28 ↗ is supposed to actually have weighted

11:29 ↗ decisions

11:31 ↗ write a letter that was trying to get

11:33 ↗ the council to

11:35 ↗ look at more flood hazard changes

11:38 ↗ in the future yet i found that on the

11:41 ↗ consent calendar today

11:43 ↗ so when they have an express opinion

11:45 ↗ that differentiated

11:47 ↗ itself from the staff opinion that was

11:49 ↗ not

11:50 ↗ pushed forward for the council

11:52 ↗ discussion

11:53 ↗ and so this leaves me again

11:57 ↗ fretting about the process because if

11:59 ↗ the environmental board is supposed to

12:01 ↗ have a weighted process

12:02 ↗ yet these processes don't get shown to

12:05 ↗ the council

12:06 ↗ how are we actually solving any problems

12:10 ↗ so i think we need a consistent

12:14 ↗ method set down for council to

12:17 ↗ understand what things can and cannot be

12:20 ↗ put on the consent agenda that are

12:22 ↗ coming from community

12:23 ↗ commissions and i think

12:27 ↗ i will stop with that thank you very

12:30 ↗ much for listening

12:32 ↗ thank you connie city clerk who's next

12:33 ↗ on our list tonight

12:35 ↗ next we have david johnson david i've

12:38 ↗ unmuted you

12:45 ↗ david we cannot hear you yet

12:52 ↗ that can you hear me now yes we can

12:54 ↗ thank you

12:56 ↗ you're welcome i'm david johnson i'm

12:58 ↗ calling about the seven percent

13:00 ↗ increase for water and my confusion is

13:05 ↗ why aren't the developers the big

13:07 ↗ developers such as raleigh and others in

13:09 ↗ the area

13:10 ↗ when they go to build why aren't they

13:13 ↗ taxed for that

13:14 ↗ infrastructure that's necessary for that

13:16 ↗ building they're pocketing the money in

13:18 ↗ the

13:18 ↗ and the burden is going on the citizens

13:20 ↗ and the residents of this community

13:22 ↗ why is that

13:26 ↗ thank you david did you have any

13:28 ↗ additional comments um

13:29 ↗ that question we don't typically answer

13:32 ↗ questions at this time but we can

13:33 ↗ respond

13:34 ↗ in an email or with a phone call to that

13:37 ↗ question did you have other comments you

13:38 ↗ wanted to share as well

13:40 ↗ sure i'm a previous water distribution

13:42 ↗ manager and waste water treatment plant

13:44 ↗ operator

13:45 ↗ and i i see a seven percent increase is

13:48 ↗ just outrageous

13:49 ↗ right at any time and especially right

13:51 ↗ now when we're people are burdened

13:53 ↗ and don't have incomes coming in

13:57 ↗ i think the time of it is is terrible

13:59 ↗ and that we've gone about this the wrong

14:01 ↗ way

14:01 ↗ the developers in most states would have

14:03 ↗ to pay for that as they build before

14:05 ↗ they built

14:06 ↗ to get the permits to build thank you

14:10 ↗ that's all i have thank you david city

14:13 ↗ kirk is there anyone else signed up to

14:14 ↗ comment tonight yes

14:16 ↗ next we have susan neville susan you're

14:18 ↗ unmuted

14:20 ↗ hello this is susan can you hear me we

14:23 ↗ can hear you just great susan thanks

14:24 ↗ great um 2825 northwest pinecone drive

14:28 ↗ this o'clock

14:29 ↗ 24 year resident happy resident let me

14:32 ↗ tell you

14:33 ↗ and i just wanted to comment

14:36 ↗ on the environmental board ordinance

14:38 ↗ draft before you tonight

14:42 ↗ what i noticed first off was the amount

14:45 ↗ of meetings

14:46 ↗ per year which were 10 and

14:49 ↗ um i'm wondering if during our

14:53 ↗ discussions

14:53 ↗ it wasn't picked up that people had

14:55 ↗ mentioned maybe this

14:57 ↗ environmental board should be meeting

15:00 ↗ more than once a month especially early

15:02 ↗ on

15:02 ↗ during um the setup and the process is

15:06 ↗ being put in place

15:07 ↗ and i'm not sure this is where you would

15:09 ↗ put it this is a document that you

15:10 ↗ wouldn't include that but

15:12 ↗ i would like to put that out there and

15:15 ↗ then

15:15 ↗ um page four when you speak to duties

15:18 ↗ and responsibilities

15:20 ↗ um i feel the wording is not very

15:22 ↗ specific

15:23 ↗ could be open for interpretation which

15:25 ↗ is what we have

15:26 ↗ issues with today um

15:30 ↗ and i believe that we're trying to close

15:31 ↗ that up

15:33 ↗ um and based on the new

15:36 ↗ current wording

15:39 ↗ is the new board no longer revealing

15:42 ↗ land development

15:43 ↗ that includes critical areas i couldn't

15:46 ↗ find anything of notation within this

15:48 ↗ and my next point was the checklist

15:53 ↗ the concept was involved to create an

15:55 ↗ early partnership between the various

15:57 ↗ parties

15:58 ↗ involved in a land and building

16:00 ↗ development that

16:02 ↗ included environmental critical areas

16:06 ↗ maybe the affected parties should be

16:08 ↗ part of the initial checklist

16:09 ↗ discussions

16:12 ↗ because as it is written now it is

16:14 ↗ determined

16:15 ↗ it is very is based on how the checklist

16:18 ↗ is being put together i

16:19 ↗ i don't even want to begin to explain

16:21 ↗ what i think it says

16:23 ↗ so lastly

16:26 ↗ between now and january first how are

16:29 ↗ the private and public developments that

16:30 ↗ do involve critical

16:32 ↗ environmental areas being monitored and

16:35 ↗ will apparently put in place to cover it

16:38 ↗ between now and january

16:40 ↗ before the new board is up and running

16:42 ↗ and i would really like to get a comment

16:43 ↗ back on that as possible by somebody

16:46 ↗ and lastly i just want to thank paul

16:49 ↗ time that the administration and megan

16:52 ↗ and even the community

16:53 ↗ has put into this newborn and i really

16:56 ↗ look forward to having community funding

16:58 ↗ in place

16:59 ↗ thank you thank you susan

17:02 ↗ hey clerk do we have anyone else signed

17:03 ↗ up to speak this evening

17:05 ↗ yes next we have danny madden danny i've

17:08 ↗ unmuted you

17:11 ↗ hi um my name's danny and

17:14 ↗ i'm a student at israel high school i'm

17:16 ↗ a rising senior

17:18 ↗ um and i just want to comment today on

17:20 ↗ my support of the environmental board

17:22 ↗ specifically

17:24 ↗ the fact that we will have i believe uh

17:27 ↗ two

17:28 ↗ youth members on the board i think

17:30 ↗ that's a really good idea

17:32 ↗ however i do have some suggestions um

17:35 ↗ reading to the documents

17:36 ↗ i think that it might be smart to

17:38 ↗ specify what the youth duties are

17:41 ↗ um as they often don't really have um

17:44 ↗ specific expertise in some of the areas

17:47 ↗ that the environmental board will kind

17:49 ↗ of be

17:50 ↗ advising on i think that it might be

17:52 ↗ good to specify what exactly would be

17:54 ↗ required from

17:57 ↗ a youth member secondly i think that it

18:00 ↗ might be smart to

18:02 ↗ discuss some of the um

18:05 ↗ things that will be used to measure the

18:07 ↗ success of the environmental board

18:09 ↗ um and and yeah that's pretty much it i

18:14 ↗ think this is a really good thing for

18:16 ↗ the future and just making issaquah a

18:18 ↗ leader in sustainability in general

18:21 ↗ and i'm very excited to see what happens

18:24 ↗ and thank you all for working so hard on

18:26 ↗ it

18:27 ↗ thank you danny city clerk next speaker

18:30 ↗ this evening

18:31 ↗ yes and real quick i'd like to mention

18:33 ↗ that anyone on the call who didn't sign

18:35 ↗ up to speak or indicate they wish to

18:37 ↗ speak can press star

18:38 ↗ 3 on their phone that's star three to

18:41 ↗ raise your hand

18:42 ↗ and we'll add you to the speakers list

18:44 ↗ so the next person who signed up to

18:46 ↗ speak

18:47 ↗ is ann fletcher and i've unmuted you

18:52 ↗ okay can you hear me okay we can hear

18:54 ↗ you anne thank you

18:56 ↗ great thank you um i'm ann fletcher i'm

19:00 ↗ a resident

19:00 ↗ of issaquah 255 southeast andrew street

19:06 ↗ and i'd like to speak about the

19:07 ↗ environmental board

19:09 ↗ proposed ordinance i have written some

19:12 ↗ comments that are more detailed but i

19:14 ↗ wanted to highlight a couple of things

19:16 ↗ in the public comment here today

19:20 ↗ first of all i want to heartily thank um

19:24 ↗ everyone who's working on this for

19:27 ↗ strengthening the proposal

19:29 ↗ since it was last looked at and um

19:32 ↗ i would like to especially in terms of

19:36 ↗ giving some examples

19:37 ↗ of things that the board might provide

19:39 ↗ feedback on

19:41 ↗ and that their written recommendations

19:44 ↗ would accompany

19:45 ↗ the items through the approval process

19:48 ↗ as well as that the decision maker will

19:50 ↗ give substantial weight

19:51 ↗ to the recommendations of the board

19:54 ↗ those

19:55 ↗ comments were heard and incorporated and

19:58 ↗ i wanted to

19:59 ↗ thank everyone for working on that

20:03 ↗ the other a couple of points that i want

20:05 ↗ to make about

20:07 ↗ this current proposal is

20:11 ↗ about the sun setting of the rivers and

20:13 ↗ streams board

20:14 ↗ if it's dissolved making sure that the

20:17 ↗ things that it did

20:19 ↗ are covered before the board and and

20:22 ↗ even after the board

20:24 ↗ in terms of making sure that the

20:26 ↗ critical areas

20:27 ↗ studies that they did and even um they

20:30 ↗ had a

20:30 ↗ in their job description when

20:32 ↗ appropriate environmental impact

20:34 ↗ statements

20:35 ↗ they had some some pretty important

20:37 ↗ things there and just making sure

20:39 ↗ uh that um we don't throw the baby out

20:42 ↗ with the bath water there and

20:43 ↗ incorporate somebody covering those

20:46 ↗ things

20:47 ↗ i'd like to comment on the objective of

20:50 ↗ the environmental board

20:52 ↗ the objective being to advise the mayor

20:54 ↗ city council and city department funds

20:56 ↗ and on the plans etc

21:00 ↗ for environment and um to me that's more

21:03 ↗ of a duty

21:04 ↗ um and i would like you to consider

21:07 ↗ that the real objective of this if you

21:10 ↗ if you think

21:10 ↗ you know about it and consider it is to

21:13 ↗ help

21:14 ↗ the council and the city to achieve the

21:16 ↗ goals of environmental stewardship

21:18 ↗ that are in the comprehensive and

21:20 ↗ strategic plans

21:21 ↗ it that would make it a lot clearer i

21:24 ↗ think

21:25 ↗ um if that were the goal then

21:28 ↗ how to go about putting that into the

21:32 ↗ plan

21:32 ↗ into the board's ordinance the

21:35 ↗ other thing that i'd like to talk about

21:37 ↗ is the in the duties and

21:39 ↗ responsibilities

21:40 ↗ um is that um that the

21:44 ↗ the one of the important parts of this

21:46 ↗ environmental board

21:47 ↗ is um having to do with climate change

21:51 ↗ and uh two things that the board

21:54 ↗ might be able to look at at higher

21:57 ↗ levels

21:58 ↗ would be capital improvement projects

22:00 ↗ and transportation improvement projects

22:02 ↗ which the

22:02 ↗ council looks at once a year and

22:06 ↗ because these projects affect the

22:08 ↗ building

22:09 ↗ and transportation areas that contribute

22:12 ↗ there are two top

22:13 ↗ contributors to carbon emissions

22:16 ↗ um and then i have a couple more

22:19 ↗ comments

22:20 ↗ one is that if the development

22:22 ↗ commission is going to take on

22:25 ↗ things that the rivers and streams board

22:27 ↗ has done in the past

22:29 ↗ until the new board is ready i am

22:33 ↗ wondering about the capacity for them to

22:36 ↗ do that

22:36 ↗ and the time it will take if it's a

22:39 ↗ short-term or

22:40 ↗ perhaps a long-term thing if the

22:43 ↗ enviro if the environmental board might

22:46 ↗ be

22:47 ↗ be a resource for the development

22:49 ↗ commission

22:51 ↗ not to take over their job or to

22:54 ↗ be redundant or supplant them but just

22:57 ↗ to be a resource to them

22:59 ↗ or if someone on the

23:02 ↗ development commission if some of the

23:04 ↗ members could have some environmental

23:06 ↗ expertise i think that would be super

23:08 ↗ important

23:11 ↗ the built environment is our biggest

23:13 ↗ contributor to carbon emissions so

23:15 ↗ that's something that really needs to be

23:16 ↗ addressed

23:18 ↗ someone already mentioned the checklist

23:20 ↗ i also

23:21 ↗ would like a better definition of that

23:23 ↗ and how that would work

23:25 ↗ and finally i want to

23:29 ↗ i want to let you know that i realize

23:31 ↗ how busy

23:33 ↗ everyone must be with the covid and the

23:35 ↗ budget issues and the racial justice

23:37 ↗ issues and

23:38 ↗ i um i am so grateful to you for taking

23:42 ↗ on the environmental

23:43 ↗ things all of you uh it has such a great

23:46 ↗ potential to protect our environment

23:48 ↗ and um i i know that you will

23:52 ↗ use your authority to create the

23:54 ↗ strongest conditions possible and

23:55 ↗ take the time that's needed so that we

23:57 ↗ do this right

23:59 ↗ thank you thank you ann

24:02 ↗ city clerk do we have anyone else signed

24:03 ↗ up to speak this evening

24:05 ↗ yes we have christy triple christy ivan

24:08 ↗ muted you

24:10 ↗ thank you can you hear me yes we can

24:15 ↗ wonderful good evening council and mayor

24:17 ↗ paulie this is christy tripple

24:20 ↗ first of all i wanted to thank you all

24:21 ↗ for your screen time needed

24:23 ↗ and dedicated since the onset of covet

24:25 ↗ it's taken a lot of resources

24:27 ↗ and resourcefulness during this

24:30 ↗ difficult time

24:31 ↗ it's really thrown a wrench in all of

24:33 ↗ our lives in one shape or form

24:35 ↗ again i'm christy triple my address is

24:38 ↗ 1595

24:40 ↗ northwest gilman boulevard suite one

24:42 ↗ here in esqua

24:43 ↗ i work for rally properties and also i

24:45 ↗ am a citizen and cares very deeply

24:48 ↗ for issaquah i have two short issues to

24:51 ↗ comment on

24:52 ↗ that arose since yesterday so i

24:55 ↗ apologize for not

24:56 ↗ signing up earlier in the day to speak

25:00 ↗ first of all my comment generally is

25:04 ↗ by uh by now you all likely have heard

25:07 ↗ about the costco armed robbery early

25:10 ↗ sunday morning and i don't know if

25:12 ↗ you've noticed the uptick in crime

25:14 ↗ but it's concerning for our community

25:17 ↗ with unrest and a recession we must

25:20 ↗ retain

25:20 ↗ every police officer we have as public

25:23 ↗ safety as paramount

25:25 ↗ i make this comment this evening as i

25:27 ↗ know that council is soon entering into

25:29 ↗ budgeting for 2021

25:32 ↗ we'll be reviewing the police department

25:33 ↗ budget in greater detail

25:35 ↗ and still yet must address this year's

25:38 ↗ anticipated

25:39 ↗ two and a half to three million dollar

25:40 ↗ revenue shortfall

25:43 ↗ and then secondarily i'd like to make

25:46 ↗ comment

25:47 ↗ on the rental housing assistance

25:50 ↗ assistance id 0 738

25:55 ↗ options as an informational update

25:58 ↗ i just learned today and i'm sure you'll

26:01 ↗ be hearing more about this

26:02 ↗ soon the washington if not already the

26:06 ↗ washington state department of commerce

26:08 ↗ just announced today it's

26:09 ↗ distributing approximately 100 million

26:12 ↗ in state corona

26:13 ↗ virus aid relief and economic security

26:16 ↗ cares act funding through its existing

26:19 ↗ network of homeless

26:21 ↗ service grantees and organizations

26:23 ↗ serving homeless youth to operate a new

26:25 ↗ rent assistance program

26:27 ↗ launched just august first the program

26:30 ↗ will focus on preventing evictions by

26:32 ↗ paying up to three months of past due

26:34 ↗ current and future rent

26:35 ↗ to landlords eligible for eligible

26:39 ↗ participants

26:40 ↗ this rent assistance program will

26:43 ↗ address some of the needs resulting from

26:44 ↗ the corona

26:46 ↗ coronavirus pandemic and hopes to reduce

26:48 ↗ some of the stress both renters and

26:50 ↗ landlords

26:51 ↗ are both facing now and into the future

26:54 ↗ assistance is limited to three months

26:56 ↗ and the program plans to end december

26:58 ↗ 31st 2020.

27:00 ↗ i hope with this news just announced

27:03 ↗ today it places

27:04 ↗ less pressure on council to act fast

27:07 ↗ trained to address

27:08 ↗ and to have a bit more peace of mind

27:09 ↗ knowing existing providers of services

27:12 ↗ will have more resources now to aid

27:14 ↗ those in need

27:16 ↗ freedom value city council with its

27:19 ↗ citizens many more staff and own needs

27:22 ↗ will look to the federal government to

27:24 ↗ address this important issue

27:26 ↗ financially my deepest admiration goes

27:30 ↗ out to all the many local non-profits

27:32 ↗ and our city staff working to make a

27:33 ↗ difference during this difficult time

27:36 ↗ i'm glad to know the federal resources

27:38 ↗ have been made more readily available

27:40 ↗ thank you again for the opportunity to

27:42 ↗ comment this evening

27:44 ↗ thank you christy city clerk are there

27:46 ↗ any additional

27:47 ↗ speakers this evening yes the caller

27:51 ↗ with the number 972-786

27:53 ↗ has raised to their hand i've unmuted

27:55 ↗ you

27:58 ↗ hi my name is ellen o'hara i'm not from

28:01 ↗ issaquah i live in kenmore

28:03 ↗ i work in redmond but i am on the board

28:06 ↗ of imagine housing

28:08 ↗ and therefore have a

28:11 ↗ yes you uh have an interest in

28:15 ↗ the uh presentation that valette nolan

28:17 ↗ made tonight as ceo of manchin housing

28:20 ↗ and i just wanted to speak up to

28:22 ↗ support her request for uh the council

28:25 ↗ to consider rental assistance

28:27 ↗ um and uh that's that's all i am thank

28:30 ↗ you

28:31 ↗ thank you alan is there anyone else

28:33 ↗ signed up to speak this evening

28:36 ↗ uh no indeed there are no other members

28:38 ↗ of the public on the call who haven't

28:39 ↗ made comments

28:42 ↗ thank you so i'd like to thank everybody

28:44 ↗ who took the time tonight to join

28:46 ↗ the council administration at our city

28:47 ↗ council meeting we heard from several

28:49 ↗ speakers about the environmental and

28:51 ↗ sustainability board a new board that

28:53 ↗ the council is hoping to form

28:55 ↗ um some positive comments on forming it

28:57 ↗ and some concerns

28:58 ↗ and questions around clarity of mandate

29:00 ↗ whether or not there should be project

29:02 ↗ review

29:02 ↗ how the transition would work this fall

29:04 ↗ the number of meetings per year and

29:06 ↗ critical area review we also heard some

29:08 ↗ comments on what the roles of student

29:09 ↗ representatives

29:10 ↗ should be we here to request this

29:13 ↗ evening for city funding to go to elab

29:15 ↗ to support distressed renters

29:17 ↗ in imagine housing residences in

29:19 ↗ issaquah

29:20 ↗ and also some late breaking news i from

29:23 ↗ washington department of commerce about

29:24 ↗ 100 million dollars in cares act funding

29:27 ↗ that they are putting back out into our

29:30 ↗ communities

29:31 ↗ we heard concerns over utility rate

29:33 ↗ increases and their possible connection

29:35 ↗ to

29:35 ↗ new projects we heard about the costco

29:39 ↗ armed robbery this weekend and the

29:41 ↗ potential uptick in crime as we move

29:43 ↗ through a difficult time

29:45 ↗ and how that could impact our policing

29:48 ↗ resources

29:49 ↗ and also we heard about the mobility

29:50 ↗ master plan and that it needs

29:52 ↗ more work before it's completed so i

29:55 ↗ want to thank all of you for coming in

29:56 ↗ this evening and sharing that with our

29:58 ↗ city council

29:59 ↗ at any time you can also write to city

30:01 ↗ council this worldwide.gov to share your

30:03 ↗ thoughts on any of the topics

30:06 ↗ and in addition any comments that were

30:08 ↗ received by email prior to the meeting

30:10 ↗ on tonight's agenda topics will be

30:12 ↗ acknowledged by the city council

30:14 ↗ president president hunt under the

30:16 ↗ relative agenda item while we are doing

30:18 ↗ our remote meeting format during this

30:20 ↗ emergency so the next item of business

30:23 ↗ is comedian regional reports and i'm

30:24 ↗ going to call

30:25 ↗ the council members by name and we'll

30:27 ↗ start with council member hall

30:32 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is uh

30:34 ↗ councilman zach hall i have two reports

30:36 ↗ for this evening

30:38 ↗ um first is for cascade water alliance

30:40 ↗ so on wednesday july 22nd

30:43 ↗ mayor paulie and i attended a meeting at

30:45 ↗ the cascade water alliance

30:47 ↗ board of directors we were presented

30:49 ↗ with additional information regarding

30:51 ↗ the organization's

30:52 ↗ budget proposed water rate increase

30:55 ↗ in particular uh staff again emphasize

30:58 ↗ their desire to increase rates starting

31:00 ↗ next biennium which begins next year in

31:03 ↗ 2021 um

31:06 ↗ staff believes um

31:09 ↗ pulling from some of my notes from the

31:11 ↗ meeting staff believes that this is a

31:13 ↗ watershed moment

31:14 ↗ for the organization in one if any if

31:17 ↗ there's any delay in water rate

31:18 ↗ increases or two

31:20 ↗ any uncomfortable cuts to the budget

31:22 ↗ those could have profound consequences

31:24 ↗ to the water futures

31:25 ↗ water futures of lake taps reservoir

31:28 ↗ um mayor paulie and i voiced our city

31:31 ↗ council's concerns

31:32 ↗ regarding raising rates during a

31:34 ↗ struggling economy

31:36 ↗ in particular mayor poly emphasized

31:39 ↗ our own uncomfortable budget cuts and

31:42 ↗ advocated that we continue to study the

31:44 ↗ organization's budget

31:45 ↗ and look for additional cost-saving

31:47 ↗ measures

31:49 ↗ and i asked the board to consider the

31:51 ↗ bigger picture you know making cuts here

31:53 ↗ and there

31:53 ↗ canceling contracts may be uncomfortable

31:56 ↗ now but

31:57 ↗ we also have a broader obligation to

31:58 ↗ consider the rate payers the families

32:02 ↗ who are struggling to make ends meet

32:03 ↗ during the code of 19 emergency

32:06 ↗ um so leadership has scheduled an

32:08 ↗ additional special board meeting a week

32:10 ↗ from today to continue this discussion

32:12 ↗ and

32:13 ↗ we'll have more to report later on but

32:15 ↗ if you have any questions or concerns

32:16 ↗ please feel free to follow up with mayor

32:18 ↗ paulie or myself

32:22 ↗ next is for the affordable housing

32:24 ↗ committee of the growth management

32:26 ↗ planning council

32:27 ↗ also on wednesday july 22nd i attended

32:30 ↗ that committee meeting

32:32 ↗ king county staff presented educational

32:34 ↗ information regarding

32:36 ↗ a strategic regional acquisition for

32:38 ↗ affordable housing

32:40 ↗ in unused and novel revenue sources some

32:42 ↗ really interesting

32:43 ↗ stuff i'll be following up with staff

32:44 ↗ about um

32:46 ↗ we also had a briefing from the

32:47 ↗ washington low income housing alliance

32:50 ↗ followed by a discussion about how best

32:52 ↗ uh to advocate for statewide policy

32:54 ↗ changes during the next legislative

32:56 ↗ session

32:57 ↗ um that is still ongoing we don't have

32:59 ↗ an answer to that

33:03 ↗ finally the committee approved a letter

33:05 ↗ to send to governor inslee in the state

33:07 ↗ legislature advocating for an extension

33:09 ↗ to the eviction moratorium

33:11 ↗ and some of the other policies that

33:12 ↗ we've even considered here

33:14 ↗ in council and a few days later the

33:16 ↗ governor extended the eviction

33:17 ↗ moratorium through october 15th

33:22 ↗ finally we had hoped to have a

33:23 ↗ discussion about our continued work

33:26 ↗ updating the housing chapter of the

33:27 ↗ county-wide planning policies so uh

33:30 ↗ deputy council president ray and our

33:32 ↗ good friends at the growth management

33:34 ↗ planning council could see our hard work

33:36 ↗ but uh

33:37 ↗ our our our agenda was quite ambitious

33:40 ↗ so we didn't get to it so

33:42 ↗ we'll be discussing that at our next

33:43 ↗ meeting later this year

33:45 ↗ uh again if you have any questions feel

33:46 ↗ free to follow up with me otherwise

33:49 ↗ that includes my report mayor paulie

33:51 ↗ thank you councilmember hall

33:52 ↗ councilmember d michelle

33:55 ↗ thank you this is councilmember d

33:57 ↗ michelle

33:58 ↗ i've attended two meetings of the

34:00 ↗ eastside human services forum

34:02 ↗ legislative committee which is preparing

34:05 ↗ for

34:06 ↗ uh august meeting of the association of

34:08 ↗ east side agencies

34:10 ↗ and that will help east side human

34:12 ↗ services forum set its legislative

34:14 ↗ priorities for 2021.

34:17 ↗ this week i have virtual meetings of the

34:19 ↗ eastside human services forum board of

34:22 ↗ directors

34:23 ↗ and the healthier here governing board

34:25 ↗ on thursday

34:26 ↗ august 6th and a combined meeting of

34:29 ↗ transportation boards on friday

34:32 ↗ august the 7th and that concludes my

34:34 ↗ report

34:36 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle up

34:39 ↗ next is council member walsh

34:42 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is

34:44 ↗ councilmember walsh and i have no report

34:46 ↗ tonight

34:47 ↗ that's short and sweet thank you

34:49 ↗ councilmember walsh

34:51 ↗ councilmember goodman thank you

34:53 ↗ councilmember goodman here and i too

34:55 ↗ have no report

34:57 ↗ and next on to council member marks

35:00 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is

35:02 ↗ councilmember marks well it's

35:04 ↗ august and when electeds take

35:06 ↗ well-deserved

35:07 ↗ time throttle down fewer meetings

35:10 ↗ uh puget sound regional council growth

35:13 ↗ management policy board

35:14 ↗ august meeting is cancelled sound cities

35:17 ↗ association public issues committee

35:19 ↗ august meeting is cancelled so all of us

35:22 ↗ can enjoy less time in our council

35:24 ↗ and legislative meetings and enjoy this

35:26 ↗ fine august weather this concludes my

35:28 ↗ report

35:30 ↗ thank you council member mertz uh deputy

35:32 ↗ council president ray

35:34 ↗ hi this is chris wray thank you mayor

35:36 ↗ paulie i have no report this evening

35:38 ↗ wow we are on a roll i know council

35:40 ↗ president huntsman has something for us

35:42 ↗ so council president hunt

35:44 ↗ i have no report this evening oh wow

35:46 ↗ okay that was surprising

35:48 ↗ okay thank you for that the

35:51 ↗ next item is the mayor's report

35:54 ↗ and just pulling this up there will be

35:58 ↗ an executive session this evening to

35:59 ↗ discuss pending and potential litigation

36:01 ↗ for rcw 42.30

36:04 ↗ 0.110 paren one parent i the item is

36:06 ↗ expected to last approximately 30

36:08 ↗ minutes and no action

36:09 ↗ is anticipated in open session

36:12 ↗ i'm very pleased to announce that the

36:14 ↗ city was recently awarded a 2.2 million

36:17 ↗ dollar federal transportation grant by

36:19 ↗ the puget sound regional council

36:22 ↗ the grant will be used to acquire right

36:24 ↗ of way for the newport way project

36:26 ↗ from state route 900 to 54th street

36:29 ↗ um in 2024. newport way between state

36:33 ↗ route 900 and east 54th street is an

36:35 ↗ important local and regional corridor

36:37 ↗ that provides access to a fast growing

36:39 ↗ area of the city

36:40 ↗ this project will improve safety for all

36:42 ↗ users of the corridor and provide

36:44 ↗ facilities for pedestrian and bicyclists

36:47 ↗ and for those that are watching from

36:48 ↗ home this is the section of corridor

36:50 ↗ that has the newly acquired bergsmop

36:52 ↗ property on it

36:54 ↗ shoreline master plan and flood hazard

36:56 ↗ code update

36:57 ↗ on the consent agenda for the city

36:58 ↗ council consideration this evening are

37:00 ↗ the shoreline master plan and the flood

37:02 ↗ hazard code update

37:04 ↗ both of these updates are required by

37:05 ↗ state law the updates we are asking city

37:08 ↗ council to approve tonight

37:10 ↗ meet and in a few cases exceed the state

37:12 ↗ requirements

37:13 ↗ throughout the update process we have

37:15 ↗ heard from members of our community on

37:17 ↗ the importance of doing more than just

37:18 ↗ meeting the state requirements to

37:20 ↗ protect our natural environment and

37:21 ↗ supporting salmon populations

37:23 ↗ i appreciate the comments from the

37:25 ↗ planning policy commission's july 9th

37:27 ↗ review of the flood hazard code

37:28 ↗ amendment

37:29 ↗ and agree that the city council should

37:31 ↗ consider dedicating resources for future

37:33 ↗ revisions of the code

37:34 ↗ which include feedback and input from

37:36 ↗ the public the updates on the docket

37:38 ↗ tonight better enable us to protect our

37:40 ↗ natural environment

37:41 ↗ but to do more we need time for

37:43 ↗ additional public outreach and we would

37:45 ↗ like our new environmental and

37:46 ↗ sustainability board to assist us with

37:48 ↗ these updates adopting the plan

37:50 ↗ updates we have tonight does not

37:52 ↗ preclude us from doing more in the

37:53 ↗ future when the environmental board is

37:55 ↗ fully formed

37:56 ↗ and as staff and other necessary

37:58 ↗ resources become available

37:59 ↗ many of these plans were initially

38:01 ↗ written decades ago and have been

38:02 ↗ updated with new requirements throughout

38:04 ↗ the years

38:05 ↗ our town looks very different now than

38:07 ↗ it did in the 80s and 90s and we need to

38:09 ↗ review our environmental goals and look

38:11 ↗ comprehensively

38:12 ↗ at the effectiveness of these plans to

38:14 ↗ protect our environment today

38:16 ↗ the administration is in support of

38:18 ↗ adopting these updates now so that the

38:20 ↗ city will not be out of compliance with

38:21 ↗ state and federal requirements

38:23 ↗ and in particular we want to ensure that

38:25 ↗ the update of the flood hazard code is

38:26 ↗ completed by mid-august

38:28 ↗ to prevent a situation where issaquah

38:30 ↗ residents and businesses would have

38:31 ↗ difficulty acquiring flood insurance

38:33 ↗ flood insurance for these reasons the

38:35 ↗ city administration is

38:37 ↗ recommending adopting the shoreline

38:38 ↗ master plan and flood hazard code

38:40 ↗ updates this evening

38:42 ↗ another item on tonight's consent agenda

38:45 ↗ is agenda bill 7781

38:47 ↗ teamsters 763 collective bargaining

38:49 ↗ agreement

38:50 ↗ i'd like to give a brief summary on

38:52 ↗ bargaining work for the year

38:54 ↗ the city now has six bargaining groups

38:56 ↗ assc

38:58 ↗ afscme which is our general employees

39:01 ↗ are teamster 763 which are public works

39:03 ↗ operations

39:04 ↗ ipssa the police dispatch records and

39:07 ↗ corrections

39:08 ↗ ipoa police officers and corporals and

39:11 ↗ new in 2020 teamsters 117 representing

39:14 ↗ the police sergeants and teamsters 117

39:16 ↗ representing police commanders

39:18 ↗ these groups represent over 61 percent

39:20 ↗ of our staff

39:21 ↗ our human resources team has been

39:23 ↗ negotiating for successor bargaining

39:24 ↗ agreements since late last fall as

39:28 ↗ three of the six units had contracts

39:30 ↗ expiring on december 31st 2019

39:33 ↗ those were affcme and teamsters and ipoa

39:37 ↗ last time we bargained for successor

39:38 ↗ agreements it took an average of 18

39:40 ↗ months after expiration to get an

39:42 ↗ approved contract

39:43 ↗ this time we have three contracts before

39:45 ↗ council within eight months of

39:46 ↗ expiration

39:47 ↗ including our first all virtual contact

39:50 ↗ negotiation with afscme

39:52 ↗ and the contract that is on the consent

39:54 ↗ calendar for approval this evening

39:56 ↗ due to the coveted pandemic and the

39:57 ↗ difficult financial situation our city

39:59 ↗ finds itself in

40:00 ↗ it has been necessary to have additional

40:02 ↗ discussions with our bargaining unit

40:04 ↗ we've finished bargaining for furloughs

40:06 ↗ and concessions with four of the six

40:08 ↗ units in that time frame as well

40:10 ↗ to reduce budgetary issues and save

40:12 ↗ additional positions from layoffs

40:14 ↗ the unions have been very creative with

40:15 ↗ a mix of furloughs benefits concessions

40:18 ↗ layoffs in some cases and wage freezes

40:20 ↗ to meet the city's financial needs

40:22 ↗ and we will continue to bargain with the

40:24 ↗ additional two groups

40:25 ↗ the human resources team has already

40:27 ↗ begun bargaining with ipsfa

40:30 ↗ for a 2021 plus successor agreement

40:33 ↗ and expect to begin contract

40:34 ↗ negotiations with our own police

40:35 ↗ sergeants and commanders units unions

40:38 ↗ this fall

40:39 ↗ i want to thank all that have been

40:40 ↗ involved in working with our labor

40:42 ↗ groups this year and to say thank you to

40:44 ↗ our union teams for working with us

40:46 ↗ through some difficult conversations

40:49 ↗ it's taken a lot of work and

40:50 ↗ collaboration from all parties to

40:52 ↗ achieve this

40:53 ↗ and that concludes the mayor's report

40:56 ↗ this evening

40:58 ↗ moving on to informational updates the

41:00 ↗ first item is id 0738

41:03 ↗ rental assistance options and

41:06 ↗ at the july 20th city council meeting

41:08 ↗ council directed the administration to

41:10 ↗ bring forward options for rental

41:11 ↗ assistance

41:12 ↗ to tonight's meeting and i'd like to ask

41:14 ↗ human services coordinator

41:16 ↗ coordinator monica ngrilla to present

41:18 ↗ this item

41:21 ↗ good evening madam mayor and members of

41:23 ↗ the council

41:25 ↗ this is monica aguilera in human

41:26 ↗ services

41:28 ↗ we can begin the slide thank you tisha

41:34 ↗ so um as mayor paulie mentioned tonight

41:37 ↗ we are returning to council to provide

41:39 ↗ additional requested information

41:41 ↗ on the rental assistance measures the

41:43 ↗ city might consider

41:44 ↗ in response to the coveted 19 pandemic

41:48 ↗ specifically we will cover housing data

41:50 ↗ that

41:51 ↗ includes estimated levels of overdue

41:53 ↗ rent

41:54 ↗ options for various levels of rental

41:57 ↗ assistance and a few updates on other

41:59 ↗ local and regional

42:00 ↗ rental assistance programs

42:03 ↗ next slide please

42:07 ↗ a few words on background on july 20th

42:11 ↗ of this year we provided an

42:13 ↗ informational update

42:14 ↗ regarding housing stability

42:18 ↗ the city council directed us to return

42:20 ↗ at the first

42:21 ↗ meeting in august to provide options on

42:24 ↗ what a possible rental subsidy package

42:26 ↗ would look like

42:27 ↗ for a potential small medium and large

42:30 ↗ investment by the city

42:33 ↗ next slide please

42:37 ↗ so moving on to the actual update since

42:40 ↗ our last presentation we gathered

42:42 ↗ additional data from the u.s census

42:44 ↗ bureau

42:45 ↗ and from arch what you see in front of

42:48 ↗ you

42:49 ↗ are a low and high range estimates for

42:52 ↗ renter occupied households and for low

42:55 ↗ income households in issaquah in

42:58 ↗ particular those

42:59 ↗ who are at or below 50 of the area

43:02 ↗ median income

43:03 ↗ um or ami we started with the estimated

43:08 ↗ number of

43:08 ↗ households in issaquah which is around

43:11 ↗ 15 000.

43:13 ↗ next we looked at the total number of

43:15 ↗ renter occupied households

43:17 ↗ which ranges between 62 and 66 hundreds

43:22 ↗ and then we followed that with looking

43:24 ↗ at the low income households in

43:26 ↗ particular those who are

43:28 ↗ at or below 50 percent ami

43:31 ↗ these households range between 3 700 and

43:34 ↗ 4 100.

43:36 ↗ as a reminder a four person households

43:39 ↗ at

43:40 ↗ a 50 ami uh in issaquah has an annual

43:43 ↗ income of 55 000

43:45 ↗ roughly um next slide please

43:52 ↗ so we use the information um about

43:55 ↗ low-income renter households

43:57 ↗ and the estimated percentage of

43:59 ↗ low-income households behind in rent

44:03 ↗ excuse me to calculate a monthly

44:06 ↗ and then a three-month estimated cost

44:08 ↗ for rent that's passed due in issaquah

44:11 ↗ um so again we started with the

44:13 ↗ estimated a number of issaquah renter

44:16 ↗ occupied households at or below 50

44:19 ↗ ami and that is between 1800

44:22 ↗ and 2400 based on arch data

44:26 ↗ um and then um the estimated number of

44:29 ↗ renter occupied households at or below

44:32 ↗ 50

44:32 ↗ ami um that is that are currently behind

44:35 ↗ in rent

44:37 ↗ um so that estimation we estimate that

44:40 ↗ that number

44:40 ↗ um ranges between roughly 568 on the

44:44 ↗ lowest range and up to 1400 for the

44:47 ↗ highest range

44:48 ↗ and these numbers assume that between 30

44:51 ↗ and

44:51 ↗ 60 percent of residents in the

44:53 ↗ low-income housing units

44:55 ↗ um in isoqua are behind rent

44:58 ↗ um and so also the past due rent ranges

45:01 ↗ between one and three months

45:04 ↗ so based on these our calculations um

45:08 ↗ we estimate that the monthly amount of

45:11 ↗ friends that's passed

45:12 ↗ due at the at a 1700

45:17 ↗ monthly rent for those who are

45:20 ↗ low income ranges between

45:24 ↗ 965 000 and all the way to 2.4 million

45:28 ↗ dollars per month

45:30 ↗ of course the numbers increase if we

45:33 ↗ look at a three-month estimate

45:35 ↗ um and those numbers can be anywhere

45:38 ↗ between 2.8 million and seven million

45:40 ↗ dollars

45:41 ↗ um these estimate estimates do not take

45:44 ↗ into consideration future changes

45:46 ↗ in number of households who fall behind

45:49 ↗ rent

45:50 ↗ or additional months as time progresses

45:55 ↗ next slide please

45:59 ↗ so i'm going to cover a few options for

46:02 ↗ various levels

46:03 ↗ um for possible rental assistance um

46:06 ↗ as a brief reminder in march of

46:10 ↗ um this year the council allocated a

46:12 ↗ hundred thousand dollars towards rental

46:14 ↗ assistance

46:15 ↗ to help community members impacted by um

46:18 ↗ covet 19. uh the initiative approved by

46:22 ↗ council

46:22 ↗ uh focused on assisting households with

46:25 ↗ incomes

46:25 ↗ at or below eighty percent ami and the

46:29 ↗ assistance provided was up to five

46:31 ↗ hundred dollars per month for up to

46:33 ↗ three months

46:34 ↗ um considering that um the large

46:37 ↗ majority

46:38 ↗ on nearly eighty percent of those who

46:40 ↗ were assistant

46:41 ↗ assisted during that time had incomes at

46:44 ↗ or below 50

46:46 ↗ ami and based on more recent council

46:49 ↗ feedback

46:49 ↗ um the options that we are providing

46:51 ↗ tonight um

46:53 ↗ for consideration focus on households

46:56 ↗ with incomes

46:57 ↗ at or below 50 ami and of course those

47:00 ↗ who are

47:01 ↗ impacted by covet um

47:04 ↗ so the assistance levels

47:08 ↗ proposed consider increasing the level

47:12 ↗ up to a thousand dollars per month for

47:14 ↗ three months

47:16 ↗ um and so the amount proposed would

47:18 ↗ cover

47:19 ↗ a higher percentage of the monthly rent

47:21 ↗ than um

47:22 ↗ in the prior assistance which was at 500

47:25 ↗ per month

47:27 ↗ um the options in front of you provide

47:29 ↗ details for

47:30 ↗ assistance at 150 000 300 000

47:35 ↗ and 450 000 in assistance

47:38 ↗ and with these numbers um anywhere

47:40 ↗ between 150 and 450 households could

47:44 ↗ benefit from a one-time assistance

47:47 ↗ or um between 50 and 150 households

47:51 ↗ could benefit from a three-month

47:53 ↗ assistance

47:55 ↗ if an allocation for rental assistance

47:57 ↗ is discussed

47:59 ↗ we believe that a few factors should be

48:02 ↗ considered

48:04 ↗ because the levels proposed are higher

48:09 ↗ we would like to highlight that perhaps

48:11 ↗ an administrative cost

48:13 ↗ to account for program capacity and

48:16 ↗ implementation should be considered

48:18 ↗ typically this administration cost

48:20 ↗ ranges between 10 and 15

48:22 ↗ of the total allocation um and also

48:25 ↗ um perhaps consider additional providers

48:29 ↗ to administer the program um you also

48:32 ↗ heard some comments from some guests

48:34 ↗ tonight but also

48:35 ↗ considering the capacity of the two

48:37 ↗ organizations that we used in the past

48:40 ↗ um would be helpful um

48:43 ↗ with that we can move to the next slide

48:46 ↗ thank you um and so i wanted to also

48:50 ↗ provide a couple of

48:51 ↗ updates um regarding other local and

48:54 ↗ regional rental assistance programs

48:56 ↗ uh since our last update to council we

49:00 ↗ learned that

49:00 ↗ additional federal financial assistance

49:02 ↗ is expected

49:04 ↗ as well as other state and county

49:06 ↗ allocations

49:08 ↗ and and the additional federal financial

49:10 ↗ assistance

49:11 ↗ expected is different than the update

49:14 ↗ that you just heard earlier

49:16 ↗ also during comments public comments

49:18 ↗ regarding the

49:19 ↗ department of commerce allocation and so

49:23 ↗ it is different

49:24 ↗ than on the other updates that people

49:26 ↗ provided

49:28 ↗ previously i do have however just a

49:30 ↗ brief upload

49:31 ↗ update regarding those previously

49:34 ↗ mentioned

49:35 ↗ rental assistance programs so one you

49:38 ↗ heard the department of commerce

49:40 ↗ that they're moving now to

49:43 ↗ implementation

49:44 ↗ in king county is working now for the

49:47 ↗ king county portion of that

49:49 ↗ rental assistance program and

49:52 ↗ they are getting pretty close to

49:53 ↗ launching that program

49:56 ↗ also i mentioned in our previous meeting

49:58 ↗ in july

49:59 ↗ some cdbg funds the community

50:01 ↗ development block grants we also

50:04 ↗ obtained a brief update on those and

50:07 ↗ the king count is also working on

50:09 ↗ implementation for that program

50:11 ↗ and they scheduled to launch

50:14 ↗ distribution of that rental assistance

50:16 ↗ for mid-august and so we will continue

50:19 ↗ to

50:20 ↗ monitor any other related financial

50:23 ↗ assistance programs that might become

50:24 ↗ available

50:25 ↗ in the upcoming weeks and months

50:28 ↗ and with that um we are ready for

50:32 ↗ uh questions and comments but um

50:35 ↗ perhaps before taking questions i would

50:37 ↗ like to check in with

50:39 ↗ city administrator bob kowitz in case he

50:41 ↗ might have any additional comments

50:43 ↗ regarding city budget

50:44 ↗ or any other comments for this one

50:49 ↗ thank you monica see administrator bob

50:51 ↗ quits do you have any information to add

50:53 ↗ uh yes madam mayor

50:55 ↗ monica thank you members of the council

50:56 ↗ good evening um what we've tried to do

50:59 ↗ is give you an overview of what we think

51:02 ↗ makes sense as

51:03 ↗ monica indicated the need is potentially

51:06 ↗ very great and

51:08 ↗ as the city council considers its

51:10 ↗ options uh

51:11 ↗ i just want to put the the larger city

51:14 ↗ budget issues in some perspective we'll

51:15 ↗ be coming back to you

51:17 ↗ next week with more details on that

51:20 ↗ we're still in difficult financial times

51:22 ↗ everyone is in difficult financial times

51:24 ↗ uh so i would just want to remind the

51:26 ↗ council uh that there's a lot of moving

51:29 ↗ pieces

51:29 ↗ to rental assistance there's lots of

51:31 ↗ moving pieces to uh issues regarding uh

51:34 ↗ evictions we stand ready to answer

51:36 ↗ questions that you have

51:38 ↗ but would just encourage that you keep

51:39 ↗ top of mind

51:41 ↗ you know the resources that we have

51:43 ↗ available to us i know you're all aware

51:45 ↗ that the federal government continues to

51:47 ↗ discuss

51:48 ↗ funding for state and local governments

51:50 ↗ as part of an additional bailout

51:52 ↗ uh package those talks have not been

51:54 ↗ fruitful at this point so

51:56 ↗ there is currently no money on the table

51:58 ↗ for state and local government

52:00 ↗ uh i think if that were to change at

52:02 ↗ some point

52:03 ↗ certainly that would provide a little

52:04 ↗ bit of additional financial flexibility

52:06 ↗ for us

52:07 ↗ but again just wanted to put a little

52:09 ↗ context to the good work that mr gorilla

52:11 ↗ did

52:12 ↗ we certainly want to be as helpful and

52:13 ↗ supportive to our community as we can

52:15 ↗ but there are financial parameters we

52:17 ↗ need to keep in mind

52:18 ↗ thank you madam mayor thank you

52:20 ↗ administrator bob griff so i'm getting

52:22 ↗ some

52:22 ↗ sign ups for questions let's go to

52:24 ↗ council member hall first followed by

52:26 ↗ council member mark

52:28 ↗ uh thank you mayor paulia this is

52:29 ↗ councilmember zach hall uh thank you so

52:31 ↗ much monica

52:32 ↗ great information so appreciate you

52:34 ↗ putting this together so quickly too

52:36 ↗ and everyone else that helped obviously

52:38 ↗ it's a team effort

52:40 ↗ with regard to the county c d

52:44 ↗ e g c program and um

52:47 ↗ this state fund commerce funding that's

52:49 ↗ going to flow through king county

52:51 ↗ after these are being implemented do we

52:53 ↗ as a city have the ability

52:55 ↗ to work with landlords to make sure

52:58 ↗ they're notifying

53:00 ↗ their tenants about how they can apply

53:02 ↗ for these existing pathways

53:04 ↗ or is that difficult on our end um

53:08 ↗ no thank you actually great question

53:10 ↗ we've been advocating to the county and

53:12 ↗ providing feedback over the last few

53:14 ↗ months

53:15 ↗ and trying to improve the processes

53:18 ↗ because i think in the previous

53:20 ↗ rental assistance rounds

53:23 ↗ there was a concern that by the time the

53:26 ↗ entire population learned

53:28 ↗ that funds were already exhausted so

53:31 ↗ with that

53:32 ↗ we are working with the accounting

53:33 ↗ making sure that all of the communities

53:35 ↗ have access to information

53:37 ↗ in timely manner and so therefore they

53:39 ↗ can um

53:42 ↗ access those resources i've been

53:44 ↗ checking i checked in on friday with

53:46 ↗ both the cdbg

53:47 ↗ um managers and with the assign manager

53:51 ↗ for the commerce money so as soon as

53:55 ↗ i'm on their list as soon as we find

53:57 ↗ that information

53:58 ↗ we will share that with our non-profits

54:00 ↗ and residents so

54:03 ↗ did you have a follow-up council member

54:05 ↗ hall

54:08 ↗ um just a short one mayor paulie this is

54:10 ↗ that call again um

54:11 ↗ so we have an existing pathway for

54:15 ↗ non-profits

54:17 ↗ um is there a difficult pathway for us

54:20 ↗ to communicate exactly with all the

54:22 ↗ landlords

54:24 ↗ issaquah so private landlords too

54:28 ↗ yes thank you so much yes and i

54:30 ↗ apologize um

54:31 ↗ yeah i did not clearly uh answer your

54:33 ↗ question um i think

54:35 ↗ the way we can reach too clearly to

54:38 ↗ landlord so far it is through the rental

54:40 ↗ assistance programs because they work

54:41 ↗ directly with the landlords

54:43 ↗ however another idea as i'm just

54:45 ↗ listening to you might be also to check

54:47 ↗ in with our economic development manager

54:49 ↗ to see if she might have additional

54:51 ↗ connections with landlords that i might

54:53 ↗ not be aware of so

54:54 ↗ thank you for that i'll make sure that i

54:56 ↗ will reach out

54:58 ↗ that's a great question councilmember

54:59 ↗ hall i do believe that when we passed

55:02 ↗ different tenant issues we were able to

55:05 ↗ contact

55:06 ↗ property owners so that's a great

55:08 ↗ follow-up monica thank you

55:09 ↗ councilmember hall did you have any more

55:11 ↗ questions

55:12 ↗ and move to council member marks thank

55:15 ↗ you

55:16 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is council

55:17 ↗ member mark first of all i want to say a

55:19 ↗ huge thank you to

55:21 ↗ monica this was exactly the information

55:24 ↗ that i was hoping to understand to

55:26 ↗ understand where

55:27 ↗ the need currently is in the city i mean

55:30 ↗ it's a range

55:31 ↗ engineers deal in orders of magnitude we

55:33 ↗ understand

55:34 ↗ the order of magnitude of the need out

55:36 ↗ there

55:37 ↗ with the extension of the eviction

55:40 ↗ moratorium

55:42 ↗ currently through at least october 15th

55:45 ↗ i think the urgency or the potential

55:48 ↗ urgency

55:49 ↗ of council action is somewhat lightened

55:53 ↗ i understand the administration's

55:55 ↗ argument

55:57 ↗ around wanting to understand better our

56:01 ↗ financial needs as we approach the end

56:02 ↗ of the year

56:04 ↗ certainly any action that the council

56:07 ↗ would

56:07 ↗ would take would be as sort of an

56:11 ↗ agent of last as an agent of last resort

56:15 ↗ when all other avenues are are

56:18 ↗ expended and right now there are still

56:21 ↗ other avenues so the urgency

56:24 ↗ that i had to examine this issue a

56:26 ↗ couple weeks ago

56:28 ↗ is is at least um deferred

56:31 ↗ um at this point and so um

56:34 ↗ i i think that uh council may still

56:38 ↗ um i i personally may still want to look

56:42 ↗ at this issue as you get further into

56:44 ↗ the fall if it looks like the eviction

56:45 ↗ moratorium

56:47 ↗ might be lifted statewide

56:50 ↗ and see where this all goes but for now

56:54 ↗ i think

56:54 ↗ understanding the the magnitude of the

56:56 ↗ problem in front of us

56:58 ↗ understanding what money would or

57:00 ↗ wouldn't move the needle

57:02 ↗ on this information is extremely helpful

57:04 ↗ and i think it's also helpful

57:05 ↗ for the public to understand i think a

57:07 ↗ lot of what's going on right now to

57:10 ↗ folks who aren't

57:11 ↗ uh in in difficult straights is

57:14 ↗ difficult

57:15 ↗ for the for other folks to understand

57:17 ↗ and this is extremely helpful so

57:19 ↗ um thank you again and uh i i really

57:21 ↗ appreciate it

57:23 ↗ thank you councilmember meretz that's

57:25 ↗ great feedback that this actually gave

57:26 ↗ you some

57:27 ↗ of the context that you were hoping to

57:28 ↗ get next up is council president hunt

57:32 ↗ thank you um this is council president

57:34 ↗ hunt and my comments are similar to

57:36 ↗ council member martz i

57:38 ↗ really appreciate the information i do

57:40 ↗ think it gives us a sense of the need

57:42 ↗ and because of the eviction moratorium

57:44 ↗ which i

57:45 ↗ am very grateful for and i think is very

57:48 ↗ necessary i

57:50 ↗ um one side effect though of the

57:52 ↗ eviction moratorium is that

57:54 ↗ we do not see the need in the same way

57:57 ↗ that we would

57:59 ↗ if we if we did not have that eviction

58:01 ↗ more time in place it's sort of papering

58:03 ↗ over

58:04 ↗ a growing problem for our community and

58:07 ↗ um

58:08 ↗ that problem is exacerbated by that

58:11 ↗ people may not have the same options

58:13 ↗ that they would have um otherwise in

58:15 ↗ terms of moving in with family members

58:17 ↗ or finding another place to live on

58:19 ↗ short notice if they were to be evicted

58:22 ↗ so i i continue to think that this is a

58:26 ↗ serious concern i appreciate the update

58:28 ↗ i i think it will be important

58:30 ↗ for us to continue to monitor the

58:33 ↗ situation in terms of what other

58:35 ↗ government entities are providing and

58:38 ↗ where there might be

58:39 ↗ gaps in that and and what our community

58:43 ↗ needs are

58:43 ↗ as well and what our community is

58:45 ↗ receiving from those various

58:46 ↗ programs and funding sources um

58:50 ↗ as council member mark said i think the

58:51 ↗ urgency is not the same

58:54 ↗ today as it was when we originally

58:56 ↗ considered this but there still

58:58 ↗ will be a time i think when the eviction

59:00 ↗ moratorium

59:01 ↗ ends and when we will have to reassess

59:03 ↗ and so i

59:04 ↗ i will be continuing to monitor this and

59:08 ↗ i

59:08 ↗ i think it's very important that we

59:11 ↗ continue that

59:12 ↗ and the last thing i'll say is that we

59:13 ↗ have in our strategic plan

59:15 ↗ um a number of goals around addressing

59:18 ↗ the needs of those that have housing and

59:20 ↗ security

59:21 ↗ and we also have references to our

59:24 ↗ housing

59:26 ↗ work work housing strategy plan which

59:29 ↗ also has a number of issues that we

59:32 ↗ we have worked on so i think that this

59:34 ↗ is in keeping with

59:35 ↗ council's goals over a long time but we

59:37 ↗ find ourselves in a completely

59:39 ↗ unprecedented situation in terms of the

59:41 ↗ need in this particular area

59:43 ↗ thanks thank you council president i'm

59:45 ↗ going to go to council member g michelle

59:49 ↗ oh thank you and uh i will join my

59:52 ↗ fellow council members in thanking

59:54 ↗ monica for a really as usual

59:56 ↗ as always thorough uh thoroughly

59:58 ↗ researched report and it's

59:59 ↗ very appreciated and i agree that it

1:00:02 ↗ provided me with

1:00:03 ↗ a lot of contacts going into our budget

1:00:06 ↗ deliberations

1:00:07 ↗ and understanding the full picture of

1:00:09 ↗ what we're facing here

1:00:11 ↗ uh in terms of human needs but also our

1:00:14 ↗ own budget needs

1:00:16 ↗ um i just wanted to provide and a word

1:00:19 ↗ of caution about the 100 million dollars

1:00:22 ↗ in

1:00:22 ↗ funding um i think that it's going to

1:00:25 ↗ behoove us

1:00:28 ↗ to be working really closely with our

1:00:29 ↗ state representatives and our state

1:00:31 ↗ senators

1:00:32 ↗ to ensure that um that we

1:00:36 ↗ impress upon them that even though we

1:00:38 ↗ are generally an affluent

1:00:40 ↗ community that being poor in issaquah

1:00:43 ↗ is no less

1:00:45 ↗ [Music]

1:00:46 ↗ worrisome than being poor in south king

1:00:48 ↗ county or

1:00:49 ↗ poor in seattle and often because we are

1:00:53 ↗ generally an affluent community we are

1:00:55 ↗ overlooked when funds are being

1:00:56 ↗ distributed

1:00:57 ↗ so i think we're going to need to

1:00:59 ↗ advocate clearly

1:01:01 ↗ that there is a need in issaquah and

1:01:03 ↗ that

1:01:04 ↗ those funds will be helping people in

1:01:06 ↗ need here as well

1:01:08 ↗ so that's my only um

1:01:12 ↗ warning about getting too

1:01:15 ↗ complacent or comfortable with the idea

1:01:18 ↗ that money is coming down the pike

1:01:20 ↗ in my experience and the experience of

1:01:22 ↗ other human services

1:01:23 ↗ agencies here in issaquah it doesn't

1:01:26 ↗ always end up coming to issaquah just

1:01:28 ↗ because of the perception of what

1:01:30 ↗ our community is and is not so again

1:01:33 ↗ many many thanks to monica

1:01:35 ↗ and um i agree with council president

1:01:38 ↗ hunt that

1:01:39 ↗ uh we will there will come a time when

1:01:43 ↗ um this information will be very helpful

1:01:46 ↗ because

1:01:46 ↗ at some point um the eviction moratorium

1:01:49 ↗ is going to have to come to an end

1:01:51 ↗ so thank you very much thank you

1:01:54 ↗ councilmember d michelle

1:01:55 ↗ i'm not seeing any other new commenters

1:01:58 ↗ i'm going to head back to council member

1:01:59 ↗ hall

1:02:01 ↗ thank you mayor paulie zach hall again

1:02:03 ↗ just a couple

1:02:05 ↗ final comments most of my comments were

1:02:06 ↗ stolen by my colleagues which is

1:02:08 ↗ fine but um i

1:02:11 ↗ i also want to call out acknowledge and

1:02:14 ↗ recognize

1:02:15 ↗ that the numbers we got clearly there

1:02:17 ↗ are a lot of rent burden

1:02:19 ↗ individuals here in istanqua but that

1:02:21 ↗ also highlights the number

1:02:23 ↗ of property owners and landlords that

1:02:24 ↗ are also feeling the pain right now so i

1:02:26 ↗ also just wanted to call that out

1:02:28 ↗ to ensure that they know that we see

1:02:30 ↗ them and we hear you

1:02:32 ↗ um and i guess the only other thing i'll

1:02:34 ↗ say is i love having the

1:02:35 ↗ engineering brains on our council which

1:02:37 ↗ is great

1:02:41 ↗ thank you councilmember hall at this

1:02:42 ↗ point in time i'm not seeing anything

1:02:44 ↗ else in the chat box about additional

1:02:46 ↗ speakers so

1:02:47 ↗ i would like to thank monica

1:02:50 ↗ and administrator bob kowip and find out

1:02:53 ↗ ask if you need any additional

1:02:55 ↗ information from the council or for good

1:02:56 ↗ to move on to the next item

1:03:01 ↗ madam mayor i think we're good again

1:03:02 ↗ thank you thank you for the council uh

1:03:04 ↗ for your your discussion and we will uh

1:03:06 ↗ it's an evolving issue and we'll talk

1:03:08 ↗ more in the future

1:03:10 ↗ that's great and i believe that i forgot

1:03:13 ↗ as usual to go to council president hunt

1:03:15 ↗ to ask her

1:03:16 ↗ if she had any emails on the subject so

1:03:19 ↗ council president hunt sorry about that

1:03:21 ↗ um no problem thank you this is council

1:03:23 ↗ president hunts we did receive an email

1:03:25 ↗ which had supportive

1:03:26 ↗ information regarding the situation

1:03:30 ↗ of residents behind on rents

1:03:33 ↗ and the needs of the imagine housing

1:03:36 ↗ residents in this class

1:03:38 ↗ thank you council president so there is

1:03:40 ↗ no formal council action being requested

1:03:42 ↗ this evening and it is anticipated that

1:03:44 ↗ this item will return to the city

1:03:46 ↗ council for action

1:03:47 ↗ at the september 8th reading off the

1:03:49 ↗ wrong part of my script my apologies

1:03:52 ↗ there's no formal uh council action

1:03:54 ↗ being requested however the council may

1:03:56 ↗ choose to make a motion directing the

1:03:57 ↗ administration

1:03:58 ↗ to return with a specific proposal which

1:04:00 ↗ we did not hear tonight but we heard

1:04:02 ↗ loud and clear that updates

1:04:03 ↗ are requested as new information comes

1:04:05 ↗ forward so thank you very much for that

1:04:07 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

1:04:09 ↗ is id0739 it's

1:04:11 ↗ the environmental board update and i'd

1:04:13 ↗ like to ask

1:04:14 ↗ sustainability coordinator megan curtis

1:04:16 ↗ murphy to make a presentation

1:04:17 ↗ welcome megan great thank you

1:04:21 ↗ good evening madam mayor and council

1:04:23 ↗ members i'm megan curtis murphy

1:04:26 ↗ sustainability coordinator with the city

1:04:28 ↗ of issaquah and i'm here tonight to

1:04:30 ↗ provide an update on the environmental

1:04:31 ↗ board

1:04:32 ↗ next slide please

1:04:36 ↗ i recently presented on the board

1:04:38 ↗ proposal at the july 14th study session

1:04:41 ↗ since then we have developed a draft

1:04:43 ↗ ordinance that i will discuss this

1:04:44 ↗ evening

1:04:45 ↗ i'll also provide an update on next

1:04:47 ↗ steps as we are not asking for council

1:04:49 ↗ action tonight on the proposal

1:04:51 ↗ as a reminder the city administration is

1:04:53 ↗ recommending sun setting the river and

1:04:55 ↗ streams board

1:04:56 ↗ and creating this new environmental

1:04:58 ↗ board to advise the mayor

1:05:00 ↗ city council and city departments on a

1:05:02 ↗ wider variety of environmental issues

1:05:04 ↗ including climate change and the

1:05:06 ↗ protection of the natural environment

1:05:08 ↗ next slide please

1:05:12 ↗ i want to provide a brief summary of the

1:05:14 ↗ comments we heard at the july 14 study

1:05:16 ↗ session

1:05:16 ↗ that helped refine the draft proposal

1:05:18 ↗ that is included in the agenda packet

1:05:20 ↗ for this evening starting with the title

1:05:22 ↗ of the board

1:05:23 ↗ we heard a preference for a shorter more

1:05:25 ↗ direct title so

1:05:26 ↗ change the proposed name to

1:05:28 ↗ environmental board rather than

1:05:30 ↗ environment and sustainability board

1:05:32 ↗ there was a lot of discussion

1:05:34 ↗ from the council about the best way to

1:05:35 ↗ approach protection of the environment

1:05:37 ↗ from development in the community

1:05:40 ↗ this was a topic that we heard a lot of

1:05:41 ↗ engagement from the community on as well

1:05:44 ↗ overall there was preference from the

1:05:46 ↗ council to have the board provide a

1:05:47 ↗ higher level advisory role

1:05:49 ↗ on environmental plans and regulations

1:05:52 ↗ rather than doing permanent review

1:05:53 ↗ as there's already an established body

1:05:55 ↗ the development commission

1:05:56 ↗ that does this work several council

1:05:59 ↗ members also stress the importance of

1:06:00 ↗ needing to prioritize

1:06:02 ↗ the title 18 code updates so the board

1:06:04 ↗ can help shape the environmental

1:06:06 ↗ regulations

1:06:07 ↗ that will guide all development in the

1:06:08 ↗ city rather than the project by project

1:06:11 ↗ approach

1:06:12 ↗ as i mentioned there is a lot of

1:06:14 ↗ engagement from the community and this

1:06:15 ↗ is something council valued

1:06:17 ↗ and believes will provide for better

1:06:19 ↗ environmental

1:06:20 ↗ outcomes through the board when we have

1:06:22 ↗ this level of engagement

1:06:23 ↗ early in the process on policies and

1:06:26 ↗ programs relating to the environment

1:06:29 ↗ there is discussion about the interim

1:06:30 ↗ period between river and streams

1:06:32 ↗ and this new board understanding that we

1:06:35 ↗ do not have a quorum for river and

1:06:36 ↗ streams

1:06:37 ↗ and that there's a need to provide some

1:06:38 ↗ oversight on projects now

1:06:40 ↗ before the code can be updated the city

1:06:42 ↗ is proposing a higher level of review by

1:06:44 ↗ the development commission

1:06:46 ↗ including discussion of the cipa

1:06:48 ↗ analysis

1:06:49 ↗ that's the state environmental policy

1:06:51 ↗ act currently

1:06:53 ↗ staff includes a short blurb in the

1:06:55 ↗ staff reports indicating cipa has been

1:06:57 ↗ completed

1:06:58 ↗ and they attached the cpa decision this

1:07:01 ↗ change would be to include more

1:07:02 ↗ information on the cipa analysis

1:07:04 ↗ to facilitate a more detailed discussion

1:07:07 ↗ on cipa at the development commission

1:07:08 ↗ meetings

1:07:10 ↗ we will continue discussions with the

1:07:11 ↗ community planning and development

1:07:13 ↗ department

1:07:14 ↗ to ensure a more robust conversation

1:07:16 ↗ about the environment occurs at these

1:07:18 ↗ meetings

1:07:19 ↗ we also heard a desire for the

1:07:21 ↗ recommendation to have

1:07:22 ↗ substantial weight which can be included

1:07:24 ↗ in the duties

1:07:26 ↗ and responsibilities that we'll review

1:07:29 ↗ there's a suggestion that this board may

1:07:31 ↗ need to meet more frequently to catch up

1:07:33 ↗ on some work

1:07:34 ↗ we acknowledge this is probably the case

1:07:36 ↗ in the beginning at least

1:07:37 ↗ but have kept the ordinance language to

1:07:39 ↗ meet at least 10 times per year

1:07:41 ↗ recognizing that several boards take off

1:07:43 ↗ a month in the summer and or december

1:07:46 ↗ during the recruitment process we'll

1:07:48 ↗ establish that the board may meet more

1:07:49 ↗ than once in the beginning

1:07:51 ↗ next slide please this slide reflects

1:07:55 ↗ the updated name of the new

1:07:56 ↗ environmental board

1:07:57 ↗ with the same objective to advise the

1:07:59 ↗ mayor city councils and city departments

1:08:02 ↗ on the city's plans policies regulations

1:08:04 ↗ and programs

1:08:05 ↗ relating to the protection of the

1:08:07 ↗ environment and climate change

1:08:09 ↗ again the themes of climate change and

1:08:11 ↗ overall protection of the environment

1:08:13 ↗ were the most frequently heard through

1:08:15 ↗ the public engagement process

1:08:17 ↗ so were important elements to include

1:08:18 ↗ here the objective itself is written

1:08:21 ↗ similar to the several other boards and

1:08:22 ↗ commissions

1:08:23 ↗ with the objective being to advise for

1:08:26 ↗ example the parks board provides

1:08:28 ↗ guidance and direction

1:08:29 ↗ and the transportation advisory board

1:08:31 ↗ makes available additional expertise and

1:08:33 ↗ advice

1:08:35 ↗ next slide please since the last meeting

1:08:38 ↗ the overall components of membership

1:08:40 ↗ have remained the same

1:08:42 ↗ we have however specifies the age for

1:08:44 ↗ the two youth members in the draft

1:08:45 ↗ ordinance one youth shall be at least 15

1:08:48 ↗ years old but not yet 18 years old

1:08:50 ↗ which is the same that's specified in

1:08:52 ↗ the transportation advisory board

1:08:54 ↗ and the second one shall be at least 15

1:08:56 ↗ years old but not yet 25 years of age

1:08:59 ↗ which allows for either high school

1:09:01 ↗ college or young professional membership

1:09:03 ↗ for this second position as similar to

1:09:06 ↗ the other boards with youth

1:09:07 ↗ recruitment will be done through the

1:09:08 ↗ youth advisory board as well as several

1:09:10 ↗ other channels including the issaquah

1:09:12 ↗ school district green teams

1:09:14 ↗ which we've seen a lot of engagement

1:09:16 ↗ from in both the brainstorming sessions

1:09:18 ↗ as well as the two-part climate

1:09:20 ↗ convening we had just last week

1:09:22 ↗ as specified here and in the ordinance

1:09:24 ↗ the majority of members will be

1:09:26 ↗ residents of issaquah

1:09:28 ↗ we are also seeking a diverse board in

1:09:30 ↗ age ethnicity and professional

1:09:32 ↗ backgrounds across a variety

1:09:34 ↗ of environmental topics as demonstrated

1:09:37 ↗ through the engagement process

1:09:38 ↗ we also have a lot of residents that may

1:09:40 ↗ not have professional background in the

1:09:42 ↗ environmental field

1:09:44 ↗ but do have an interest in serving on

1:09:45 ↗ the board so we want to ensure

1:09:47 ↗ some spots are open for community

1:09:49 ↗ members with a demonstrated interest in

1:09:51 ↗ the environment as well

1:09:53 ↗ next slide please this slide is a list

1:09:57 ↗ of the duties and responsibilities for

1:09:58 ↗ the environmental board which comes

1:10:00 ↗ directly from the draft ordinance

1:10:02 ↗ overall it's very similar to what was

1:10:04 ↗ presented at the study session

1:10:05 ↗ with a couple updates so i'll review

1:10:07 ↗ each item

1:10:08 ↗ the first duty is to provide feedback on

1:10:10 ↗ city plans

1:10:11 ↗ regulations and codes that impact the

1:10:14 ↗ natural environment

1:10:15 ↗ to ensure in alignment with community

1:10:16 ↗ vision including but not limited to

1:10:19 ↗ shoreline management program storm and

1:10:21 ↗ surface water master plan

1:10:23 ↗ and title 18. this is where we envision

1:10:25 ↗ the board having teeth

1:10:27 ↗ they'll be working to shape the laws of

1:10:29 ↗ the city that will guide development

1:10:31 ↗ we will encourage board members to do

1:10:33 ↗ their own due diligence and fall

1:10:34 ↗ development projects in the city so they

1:10:37 ↗ can start to understand the code

1:10:39 ↗ note issues and be prepared to make

1:10:41 ↗ improvements to it that will ensure

1:10:43 ↗ protections for the environment

1:10:45 ↗ particularly with the updates on title

1:10:46 ↗ 18.

1:10:48 ↗ i also think the cipa discussions at the

1:10:50 ↗ development commission will help inform

1:10:51 ↗ this

1:10:53 ↗ this board will issue board statements

1:10:54 ↗ to track their recommendations

1:10:56 ↗ throughout the approval processes

1:10:58 ↗ these recommendations will be noted to

1:11:00 ↗ have substantial weight for the decision

1:11:02 ↗ maker

1:11:03 ↗ directions for these statements will be

1:11:05 ↗ that they should be given full and

1:11:06 ↗ careful consideration in the decision

1:11:08 ↗ making process

1:11:11 ↗ next is to review research and best

1:11:12 ↗ practices to advise on environmental

1:11:14 ↗ policies and ordinances for the city

1:11:17 ↗ the board will also develop and maintain

1:11:20 ↗ an environmental and sustainability

1:11:21 ↗ checklist to be used on the projects

1:11:24 ↗ again this is another way for the board

1:11:25 ↗ to develop a tool that will help reduce

1:11:27 ↗ the impacts of development on the

1:11:29 ↗ environment

1:11:30 ↗ and this tool will be developed working

1:11:32 ↗ with the board itself as we start to

1:11:34 ↗ scope it

1:11:36 ↗ the board will also advise on planning

1:11:38 ↗ and prioritization of actions

1:11:39 ↗ related to climate change and resiliency

1:11:42 ↗ as i mentioned we just had the community

1:11:44 ↗ convening on climate the past two weeks

1:11:46 ↗ and this board will be able to advise

1:11:48 ↗ and provide input on the recommendations

1:11:50 ↗ that come

1:11:51 ↗ out of this community effort next is to

1:11:54 ↗ develop recommendations on programs

1:11:56 ↗ services and priorities relating to

1:11:58 ↗ environmental sustainability and

1:11:59 ↗ protection

1:12:01 ↗ the board will also provide an annual

1:12:03 ↗ report to the mayor and city council

1:12:05 ↗ on work plan activities and

1:12:06 ↗ accomplishments

1:12:08 ↗ we've heard this report should focus on

1:12:10 ↗ impacts with the board i expect we will

1:12:12 ↗ develop additional goals related to

1:12:14 ↗ climate which we can then report on

1:12:16 ↗ and will also look to align with other

1:12:18 ↗ work on measurement occurring in the

1:12:20 ↗ city

1:12:20 ↗ and can add additional metrics as needed

1:12:24 ↗ and last the mayor can direct the board

1:12:26 ↗ to perform any

1:12:27 ↗ other duties as may be prescribed in the

1:12:29 ↗ ordinance

1:12:31 ↗ next slide please the last update is

1:12:35 ↗ about the timing for the board

1:12:37 ↗ since the ordinance includes changes to

1:12:38 ↗ title 18 the city's land use code

1:12:41 ↗ there will be a public hearing on the

1:12:42 ↗ draft ordinance conducted by the

1:12:44 ↗ planning policy commission on august

1:12:46 ↗ 13th

1:12:47 ↗ the commission will provide a

1:12:48 ↗ recommendation for city council

1:12:50 ↗ consideration

1:12:51 ↗ and will return to the council for

1:12:53 ↗ anticipate action on september 8th

1:12:55 ↗ we'll begin recruitment for the board

1:12:57 ↗ following the council meeting in

1:12:58 ↗ september

1:12:59 ↗ and then interview and select board

1:13:01 ↗ members in the september october time

1:13:03 ↗ frame

1:13:04 ↗ mayor's appointments will be brought to

1:13:06 ↗ the city council for confirmation

1:13:07 ↗ hopefully in late october

1:13:09 ↗ or early november and the first meeting

1:13:11 ↗ is anticipated to be in november

1:13:13 ↗ thank you for the input that has brought

1:13:15 ↗ us this far and i look

1:13:17 ↗ forward to returning to council in

1:13:18 ↗ september

1:13:23 ↗ i'm assuming that is the wrap up and i'm

1:13:26 ↗ looking over

1:13:27 ↗ at the chat to see which council members

1:13:29 ↗ would like to start with questions or

1:13:31 ↗ comments because we did have a lot of

1:13:32 ↗ public input on this item as well this

1:13:34 ↗ evening

1:13:40 ↗ and catch back up on my time i will

1:13:44 ↗ start with

1:13:45 ↗ member goodman followed by council

1:13:46 ↗ president hunt

1:13:49 ↗ oh sorry followed by council member mart

1:13:51 ↗ councilmember goodman

1:13:53 ↗ uh thank you did if council president

1:13:57 ↗ hunt wants to go first with the email

1:14:00 ↗ comments if that's how we usually yeah

1:14:02 ↗ that's fine uh thank you

1:14:06 ↗ also president would you like to go uh

1:14:08 ↗ uh update us on the

1:14:10 ↗ emails um thank you i will

1:14:13 ↗ quickly do that um this council

1:14:15 ↗ president hunt and we did receive

1:14:16 ↗ a fair number of emails on this topic

1:14:19 ↗ and i'll

1:14:20 ↗ i'll um specifically go over the ones

1:14:22 ↗ that we received

1:14:23 ↗ on this agenda item because we have also

1:14:25 ↗ received numerous emails

1:14:27 ↗ the other times when council has

1:14:29 ↗ discussed the formation of the

1:14:31 ↗ environmental board

1:14:32 ↗ we received a email um

1:14:35 ↗ urging us that it's the time to step up

1:14:38 ↗ and that we could be a standard

1:14:40 ↗ setting city for the region we

1:14:43 ↗ received a uh comments that supported

1:14:47 ↗ one of the speakers this evening and had

1:14:48 ↗ some additional

1:14:50 ↗ additional requests and concerns that

1:14:53 ↗ were in that

1:14:54 ↗ email including that this board

1:14:57 ↗ we're recommending that this board

1:14:59 ↗ review the cip

1:15:01 ↗ and the tip so capital improvements

1:15:05 ↗ plan and transportation improvements

1:15:07 ↗ plan

1:15:09 ↗ and then also consider having

1:15:13 ↗ expertise in the environment on the

1:15:14 ↗ development commission

1:15:16 ↗ um and then we received an email urging

1:15:19 ↗ that this

1:15:20 ↗ board review commercial developments and

1:15:22 ↗ also have

1:15:24 ↗ more teeth or a way for their

1:15:26 ↗ recommendations to

1:15:27 ↗ stick more more than the substantial

1:15:31 ↗ substantial weight wording that is

1:15:33 ↗ currently given as far as their

1:15:35 ↗ recommendations and we also received a

1:15:39 ↗ infographic

1:15:40 ↗ to support one of the community members

1:15:42 ↗ that spoke

1:15:44 ↗ earlier and in the infographic there was

1:15:47 ↗ a recommendation to specify the youth

1:15:49 ↗ duties

1:15:50 ↗ to recommend sustainable habitat

1:15:54 ↗ habits sorry habits and also to have

1:15:57 ↗ measurable goals

1:16:00 ↗ and that it concludes the comments that

1:16:02 ↗ we received

1:16:03 ↗ thank you council president hunt back to

1:16:06 ↗ council member goodman

1:16:08 ↗ now thank you madam mayor councilmember

1:16:10 ↗ goodman here

1:16:11 ↗ um i first have a um a

1:16:14 ↗ question a little bit about process

1:16:18 ↗ i see that this is now going to um

1:16:20 ↗ planning policy commission

1:16:22 ↗ and our is the pro

1:16:25 ↗ is the just to be make sure i'm clear

1:16:28 ↗ here you're looking for feedback and

1:16:29 ↗ comments

1:16:30 ↗ tonight um that would be in addition to

1:16:33 ↗ what

1:16:34 ↗ ppc provides and then um

1:16:37 ↗ back to us on the 8th so for action

1:16:41 ↗ so this is our

1:16:45 ↗ proposed to be our last opportunity to

1:16:47 ↗ provide

1:16:48 ↗ comments except when we get to

1:16:51 ↗ september 8th correct megan can i take

1:16:55 ↗ that

1:16:56 ↗ sure yes that is correct so we had

1:16:58 ↗ originally

1:16:59 ↗ been planning to come back to council

1:17:00 ↗ this evening for action but

1:17:02 ↗ we'll be making this first stop at ppc

1:17:05 ↗ um but yes if there's any

1:17:06 ↗ comments i believe this is the first

1:17:07 ↗ time the council is seeing the full

1:17:09 ↗ draft ordinance so if there's any

1:17:10 ↗ comments on that we'd be happy to take

1:17:12 ↗ that

1:17:13 ↗ before my ppc great thank you um

1:17:16 ↗ i would first request that we get um

1:17:19 ↗ added to whatever presentation we're

1:17:21 ↗ going to get on the 8th we get an

1:17:24 ↗ invitation about what um

1:17:27 ↗ a summary of what ppc it you know added

1:17:30 ↗ to our presentation not just in written

1:17:32 ↗ form just sort of a brief summary about

1:17:34 ↗ what ppc

1:17:35 ↗ said um and my

1:17:38 ↗ my comments are these um first of all i

1:17:41 ↗ think we're getting

1:17:42 ↗ pretty close i um appreciate all the

1:17:44 ↗ work that's been done

1:17:46 ↗ and i think we've gotten a lot of um

1:17:48 ↗ really thoughtful feedback

1:17:50 ↗ um we got um or

1:17:53 ↗ several of us or all of us i don't know

1:17:54 ↗ how many i know i did got a few

1:17:57 ↗ years full from

1:18:00 ↗ several people in the community who have

1:18:02 ↗ been very involved in this

1:18:03 ↗ and um i don't mean just about just from

1:18:07 ↗ this particular initiative but going

1:18:09 ↗ back

1:18:10 ↗ 20 30 years um and even one um

1:18:14 ↗ former member of the city council who is

1:18:15 ↗ a a leader in that

1:18:18 ↗ environmental issues here in esquire

1:18:20 ↗ david kepler and i just want to say

1:18:23 ↗ how much i appreciate all those comments

1:18:24 ↗ and i take all those comments very

1:18:25 ↗ seriously

1:18:26 ↗ these are folks who are in the trenches

1:18:28 ↗ so to speak who work with our processes

1:18:30 ↗ who care deeply about our community who

1:18:32 ↗ know

1:18:34 ↗ probably more about our processes and

1:18:37 ↗ what goes on

1:18:38 ↗ in between all of our boards and

1:18:39 ↗ commissions and council um probably more

1:18:41 ↗ than

1:18:42 ↗ um almost all of us on council i mean

1:18:44 ↗ one degree or another

1:18:45 ↗ every one of us is sometimes involved

1:18:47 ↗ the people who are

1:18:48 ↗ involved in this environmental more

1:18:50 ↗ board formation out in the community

1:18:53 ↗ i'm going to go out on a limb and say

1:18:55 ↗ they know

1:18:57 ↗ um usually a lot more than

1:19:00 ↗ i know i do um because

1:19:03 ↗ we're spending our job doing this

1:19:04 ↗ they're spending their job being

1:19:06 ↗ watchdogs out in the community so i

1:19:07 ↗ take it seriously and i really

1:19:09 ↗ appreciate it

1:19:11 ↗ um so some of these comments you will

1:19:13 ↗ recognize from the comments

1:19:15 ↗ um i may see them differently but say

1:19:17 ↗ them differently and some of them are

1:19:19 ↗ strictly my own um first of all

1:19:22 ↗ overall i want to say that we got the

1:19:24 ↗ ordinance and i appreciate it and i

1:19:26 ↗ appreciate the agenda bill it's still

1:19:28 ↗ a little bit unclear to me as i'm

1:19:30 ↗ reading through the ordinance and trying

1:19:32 ↗ to figure out

1:19:32 ↗ what what changes what it looks like how

1:19:35 ↗ this actually works

1:19:36 ↗ it is a little bit unclear to me um we

1:19:38 ↗ haven't had a suggestion for a flow

1:19:40 ↗ chart

1:19:41 ↗ a couple of times and i think that that

1:19:43 ↗ would be very very helpful

1:19:45 ↗ which you know which types of projects

1:19:47 ↗ go where what's the trigger

1:19:49 ↗ you know when does it go to development

1:19:50 ↗ or development to commission

1:19:52 ↗ when might the environmental board weigh

1:19:54 ↗ in how that happens

1:19:55 ↗ what's the timing as a

1:19:59 ↗ person an applicant a couple of years

1:20:01 ↗ ago on a project in the city

1:20:03 ↗ i can tell you that it is a heck of a

1:20:05 ↗ job just trying to figure out what the

1:20:06 ↗ process is

1:20:07 ↗ and so i as i read this as a regular

1:20:11 ↗ who just did a big sign of relief as i'm

1:20:13 ↗ talking

1:20:14 ↗ [Laughter]

1:20:17 ↗ there um i can i can tell you that i

1:20:19 ↗ look at it now with that type of a hat

1:20:21 ↗ on and i think it's a little bit

1:20:23 ↗ un unclear um and megan i'm not saying

1:20:26 ↗ that it's bad i'm just saying that i'm

1:20:28 ↗ i'm unclear and i think a flow chart

1:20:30 ↗ would help um

1:20:32 ↗ as far as the checklist list goes i know

1:20:34 ↗ that that needs to be created

1:20:35 ↗ um i think that what we have learned um

1:20:39 ↗ recently or in the past few years as we

1:20:41 ↗ have a new

1:20:42 ↗ process if we use the checklist and have

1:20:45 ↗ a

1:20:46 ↗ mock project or take a project that a

1:20:49 ↗ land use application

1:20:50 ↗ and then see what that land you what

1:20:53 ↗ that

1:20:54 ↗ what that looks like if you apply the

1:20:55 ↗ new checklist and i think we will learn

1:20:58 ↗ about maybe how that checklist works so

1:21:00 ↗ i would suggest that we

1:21:02 ↗ do that when we have a checklist um

1:21:05 ↗ i agree with the comments about the

1:21:07 ↗ objectives

1:21:08 ↗ objective or objectives of the

1:21:10 ↗ environmental board i think that needs

1:21:12 ↗ some improvement

1:21:13 ↗ if you compare what river and streams

1:21:15 ↗ was

1:21:16 ↗ and i printed it off and it said

1:21:20 ↗ they have a responsibility and it talks

1:21:22 ↗ about what their responsibility

1:21:24 ↗ is and it talked about reviewing things

1:21:27 ↗ and making things better

1:21:29 ↗ and this one just says the environmental

1:21:30 ↗ board is concerned with things

1:21:32 ↗ i think that needs to be beefed up

1:21:34 ↗ significantly about what their objective

1:21:36 ↗ is their objectives should not be

1:21:38 ↗ advising

1:21:40 ↗ eis review that dropped off um out of

1:21:43 ↗ the

1:21:44 ↗ code and it's not back in

1:21:47 ↗ to the environmental board's

1:21:49 ↗ responsibilities

1:21:50 ↗ i don't know um if there's

1:21:53 ↗ some specific reason why that dropped

1:21:55 ↗ off and i would like that explained

1:21:57 ↗ otherwise i think it should be added

1:21:58 ↗ back

1:21:58 ↗ in uh i also like we heard a comment i

1:22:02 ↗ also

1:22:02 ↗ found that land use applications are not

1:22:05 ↗ specifically referred to

1:22:06 ↗ in the new ordinance and the code

1:22:10 ↗ so do i think they need to review them

1:22:12 ↗ yes um

1:22:13 ↗ public and private projects both yes

1:22:16 ↗ cipi and tip

1:22:18 ↗ i think probably yes if there's a reason

1:22:20 ↗ for no then i would like to know that

1:22:23 ↗ i'd like to know what the trigger is for

1:22:25 ↗ projects getting reviewed

1:22:28 ↗ um i really like the comment tonight

1:22:29 ↗ about specifying youth duties what would

1:22:31 ↗ be the expectation or the responsibility

1:22:33 ↗ of the

1:22:34 ↗ younger members um how do we go to how

1:22:37 ↗ do we measure the

1:22:38 ↗ board's success that kind of goes back

1:22:40 ↗ to the objective and i think we should

1:22:42 ↗ um take seriously the

1:22:46 ↗ comments we heard from the public about

1:22:47 ↗ that specifically what would the annual

1:22:50 ↗ port consists of that needs to be more

1:22:54 ↗ specific um

1:22:56 ↗ [Music]

1:22:59 ↗ and i think that's all i have right now

1:23:01 ↗ but i want to emphasize that i do think

1:23:03 ↗ that we're

1:23:04 ↗ getting close um and i really think that

1:23:06 ↗ this is um

1:23:08 ↗ as of what we have right now i think

1:23:10 ↗ it's a really good um piece of work and

1:23:12 ↗ i think we just should keep on going see

1:23:14 ↗ what p what ppc says and um

1:23:18 ↗ uh really should um add

1:23:21 ↗ and take seriously uh much of what we

1:23:23 ↗ heard from the public

1:23:24 ↗ thank you thank you i'm going to go to

1:23:26 ↗ city administrator bob quit

1:23:28 ↗ and or megan to see if there's any of

1:23:30 ↗ those items that you can respond to

1:23:32 ↗ before we move to the next set of

1:23:34 ↗ questions and comments

1:23:35 ↗ the administrator yes so matt madame

1:23:38 ↗ megan and i can kind of tag team this

1:23:40 ↗ let me speak first regarding project

1:23:42 ↗ review

1:23:43 ↗ we are proposing that the environment

1:23:45 ↗ board no longer do project review of any

1:23:48 ↗ kind so they would not be looking

1:23:50 ↗ at any level of project we spent a good

1:23:53 ↗ deal of time

1:23:54 ↗ uh taking in the feedback from the

1:23:56 ↗ council from your last meeting

1:23:58 ↗ we looked at ways that they

1:24:01 ↗ could continue to do project review we

1:24:04 ↗ spoke with

1:24:04 ↗ uh planning and community planning and

1:24:08 ↗ development staff

1:24:08 ↗ about what rivers and streams had done i

1:24:11 ↗ think we learned

1:24:12 ↗ that what was in the code and the work

1:24:14 ↗ that the committee

1:24:16 ↗ had previously done was perhaps not as

1:24:18 ↗ consistent as it would need be

1:24:20 ↗ our biggest concern is that

1:24:23 ↗ the administration feels that the focus

1:24:25 ↗ of the board should really be on policy

1:24:27 ↗ it should not be reviewing individual

1:24:29 ↗ projects but should be setting policy

1:24:31 ↗ and recommending policy to the council

1:24:34 ↗ as how

1:24:34 ↗ projects should be reviewed by staff and

1:24:36 ↗ by the development commission

1:24:38 ↗ so i think that is a very key point and

1:24:42 ↗ the ordinance uh clearly deletes

1:24:44 ↗ sections of

1:24:45 ↗ existing code where there would be that

1:24:47 ↗ review of plats which is currently

1:24:50 ↗ in the code and and the environmental

1:24:52 ↗ documents

1:24:53 ↗ we're also concerned about the amount of

1:24:55 ↗ time we can ask volunteers to spend

1:24:59 ↗ working on these various issues the

1:25:01 ↗ development commission

1:25:02 ↗ is focused on this land use we believe

1:25:04 ↗ that beefing up

1:25:06 ↗ their review of environmental documents

1:25:08 ↗ is really the key the other key quite

1:25:10 ↗ frankly is title 18.

1:25:12 ↗ the title 18 needs to be revised we feel

1:25:14 ↗ that the environment board can play a

1:25:16 ↗ real

1:25:16 ↗ key role in the revision of title 18

1:25:19 ↗ but we're not proposing that it would

1:25:21 ↗ have any uh

1:25:22 ↗ review as far as any projects moving

1:25:25 ↗ forward

1:25:26 ↗ a couple of the other items and and

1:25:28 ↗ megan can catch me for the things i'm

1:25:30 ↗ missing

1:25:31 ↗ um we can certainly talk about the the

1:25:33 ↗ youth

1:25:34 ↗ roles i think our view would be to not

1:25:37 ↗ have them be

1:25:38 ↗ a secondary role that they would have

1:25:40 ↗ the same role

1:25:41 ↗ as all the other members of the

1:25:42 ↗ environment board be fully participating

1:25:45 ↗ members so i think that would be

1:25:46 ↗ important to include

1:25:49 ↗ megan why don't you help me with some of

1:25:50 ↗ the other items that were mentioned

1:25:53 ↗ sure i just want to second that about

1:25:55 ↗ the youth role

1:25:56 ↗ at specifically the climate convening

1:25:59 ↗ and the brainstorming sessions on this

1:26:00 ↗ environmental board i think

1:26:02 ↗ i think everyone on the call was really

1:26:04 ↗ impressed with the youth engagement on

1:26:06 ↗ it so

1:26:06 ↗ i would want them to be full full

1:26:08 ↗ members without that secondary role

1:26:10 ↗ that we were just talking about um

1:26:13 ↗ agreed with

1:26:14 ↗ wanting to kind of hear if if we're

1:26:16 ↗ going in that right direction

1:26:18 ↗ so as wally mentioned we are do not have

1:26:21 ↗ any development

1:26:22 ↗ review in it right now i'm listening to

1:26:24 ↗ the previous feedback on that

1:26:26 ↗ um i think the annual report we can add

1:26:30 ↗ some more specifications to that

1:26:32 ↗ um with some some measurements is what

1:26:34 ↗ i'm hearing wanting to make sure that

1:26:35 ↗ there's specific

1:26:37 ↗ um impact in that so we'd be happy to

1:26:39 ↗ include that

1:26:40 ↗ um i think that's most of what i heard

1:26:42 ↗ from those conversations

1:26:44 ↗ and man mayor if i if i can just follow

1:26:46 ↗ up one last piece

1:26:47 ↗ on the the measurable results uh the

1:26:50 ↗ climate convenings that we've been

1:26:51 ↗ having with

1:26:52 ↗ community over the last few weeks i

1:26:54 ↗ think one of the outcomes is likely

1:26:56 ↗ going to be

1:26:57 ↗ the recommendation to move forward with

1:26:58 ↗ some sort of climate action plan

1:27:01 ↗ and it is very standard in communities

1:27:03 ↗ that those plans have

1:27:04 ↗ a measurable goals in them and i think

1:27:07 ↗ it would make sense for the environment

1:27:08 ↗ board to be the

1:27:09 ↗ the keeper of that plan and to

1:27:13 ↗ provide oversight and direction as to

1:27:14 ↗ how the city

1:27:16 ↗ achieves the goals that would be

1:27:18 ↗ outlined in such a plan and i think

1:27:20 ↗ those the measures would come through

1:27:21 ↗ that as well so

1:27:22 ↗ we're all for making sure that that is

1:27:25 ↗ there but there's probably going to be

1:27:26 ↗ multiple components

1:27:27 ↗ to measurement on the goals of the board

1:27:30 ↗ so two of the questions or comments this

1:27:32 ↗ is the mayor that

1:27:33 ↗ council member goodman brought up that i

1:27:35 ↗ haven't heard yet is

1:27:37 ↗ uh process flowchart and timing and how

1:27:39 ↗ does this work

1:27:40 ↗ um i'm assuming that question applied to

1:27:42 ↗ projects and if they're not doing

1:27:43 ↗ project review

1:27:44 ↗ that's why that is not being talked

1:27:46 ↗ about and then the second one was

1:27:48 ↗ checklist

1:27:49 ↗ which was um a process that the

1:27:52 ↗ environmental board would develop

1:27:54 ↗ for use by the development commission is

1:27:57 ↗ that the intent of that

1:27:58 ↗ that is and so we would their review

1:28:02 ↗ exactly so we would they would have the

1:28:03 ↗ existing uh cpa review that would be

1:28:06 ↗ required but we would also have an

1:28:07 ↗ additional squad

1:28:08 ↗ checklist that would be included with

1:28:10 ↗ that i think that

1:28:11 ↗ again from the issue of teeth you know

1:28:14 ↗ let's

1:28:15 ↗ let's have the board consider what

1:28:16 ↗ policies make sense

1:28:18 ↗ uh and then bring those policies forward

1:28:20 ↗ and so the checklist we thought was the

1:28:22 ↗ was the best policy put it in the

1:28:24 ↗ ordinance there may be additional things

1:28:25 ↗ that the board over time also recommends

1:28:28 ↗ okay thank you gonna move to council

1:28:30 ↗ member mertz

1:28:33 ↗ thank you madam mayor this is

1:28:34 ↗ councilmember martz just want to touch

1:28:37 ↗ on a small and hopefully

1:28:40 ↗ non-controversial element of this

1:28:42 ↗ thrilled to see

1:28:43 ↗ um a engagement role for the youth

1:28:46 ↗ advisory board

1:28:48 ↗ um i think that uh i've never made a

1:28:51 ↗ secret of the fact that

1:28:52 ↗ youth advisory board took my shy and

1:28:55 ↗ reserved

1:28:56 ↗ middle schooler and over you know six

1:28:59 ↗ years that included full membership in

1:29:02 ↗ the human services commission and the

1:29:04 ↗ parks board at different times

1:29:06 ↗ in fact i remember cut her coming home

1:29:07 ↗ with the the giant

1:29:09 ↗ uh uh human services commission

1:29:12 ↗ binder the giant you know three-inch

1:29:14 ↗ thick binder with all the

1:29:16 ↗ with all the funding presentations that

1:29:18 ↗ she would have to study his homework

1:29:20 ↗ turned her into the uh the confident and

1:29:22 ↗ empowered young woman

1:29:24 ↗ who's giving back to the world starting

1:29:26 ↗ a master's program in

1:29:27 ↗ public health uh graduate program

1:29:30 ↗ uh later this month at columbia

1:29:32 ↗ university and so the city's

1:29:34 ↗ uh role in

1:29:38 ↗ engaging with you the yab and bringing

1:29:41 ↗ forth youth leaders

1:29:42 ↗ is really something that our generation

1:29:44 ↗ didn't have as kids

1:29:46 ↗ we didn't have you know we saw

1:29:49 ↗ the way things got done was this sort of

1:29:51 ↗ shadowy world that the grown-ups

1:29:53 ↗ went off and did and kids nowadays have

1:29:55 ↗ the ability to get involved

1:29:57 ↗ and see that correlation and maybe

1:29:59 ↗ decide to get

1:30:01 ↗ uh to choose a career uh making the

1:30:03 ↗ world a better place like my daughter is

1:30:05 ↗ choosing so i'm just

1:30:06 ↗ really happy and i know that youth

1:30:09 ↗ advisory board members have served well

1:30:11 ↗ on their various

1:30:13 ↗ commissions and so i hope that they do

1:30:15 ↗ take this opportunity to get engaged

1:30:18 ↗ and and become better uh leaders of

1:30:21 ↗ environmental stewardship the next

1:30:22 ↗ generation of environmental stewards

1:30:24 ↗ issaquah

1:30:25 ↗ has a long and illustrious history and

1:30:27 ↗ maybe we'll uh

1:30:28 ↗ will bring forward that generation uh

1:30:30 ↗ here

1:30:31 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember martz

1:30:34 ↗ moving to

1:30:35 ↗ um councilmember hunt for a question and

1:30:38 ↗ a comment

1:30:41 ↗ thank you um so my this council

1:30:43 ↗ president hunt

1:30:44 ↗ um we we have consistently heard

1:30:47 ↗ questions about

1:30:48 ↗ the the responsibilities that were in

1:30:51 ↗ the

1:30:52 ↗ ordinance um for rivers and streams what

1:30:55 ↗ will happen

1:30:55 ↗ to those reviews in the especially

1:30:59 ↗ concerning the interim time between when

1:31:01 ↗ the new

1:31:02 ↗ um board is really operational

1:31:06 ↗ and now when we don't have um a

1:31:09 ↗ quorum for the represent stream so um so

1:31:12 ↗ that's my question what is the

1:31:13 ↗ process that we will be using for

1:31:15 ↗ projects that are

1:31:17 ↗ that would have been reviewed by the

1:31:19 ↗ rivers and streams

1:31:21 ↗ um that that will come up

1:31:24 ↗ in the near future for mr bapkins

1:31:29 ↗ working with the uh community

1:31:32 ↗ uh planning and development staff uh we

1:31:34 ↗ anticipate there are

1:31:35 ↗ probably just a handful of projects

1:31:37 ↗ between now and

1:31:38 ↗ the fall our recommendation is that the

1:31:41 ↗ administration would direct staff

1:31:43 ↗ but to bring those issues to the

1:31:44 ↗ development commission and have an

1:31:45 ↗ extended dialogue

1:31:47 ↗ at the development commission because

1:31:48 ↗ once this new board is in place that is

1:31:50 ↗ the role

1:31:51 ↗ that we are recommending the development

1:31:52 ↗ commission have

1:31:55 ↗ council president hunt you also had a

1:31:57 ↗ comment or and maybe or additional

1:31:59 ↗ questions

1:32:01 ↗ um i i do thank you i

1:32:04 ↗ um like councilmember goodman i think

1:32:06 ↗ that we're on the right track

1:32:08 ↗ i think there are some remaining

1:32:11 ↗ questions

1:32:12 ↗ that are lingering as far as

1:32:16 ↗ especially as far as the interim time

1:32:18 ↗ because

1:32:19 ↗ not only does it take a while for the

1:32:20 ↗ new board to

1:32:22 ↗ get up and running but then also for

1:32:24 ↗ them to actually

1:32:26 ↗ make the code changes that will be

1:32:27 ↗ necessary to

1:32:29 ↗ have an impact on projects that's

1:32:30 ↗ another

1:32:32 ↗ another step and that all takes time so

1:32:35 ↗ to have

1:32:35 ↗ processes for us to continue to have

1:32:38 ↗ environmental review in the meantime i

1:32:40 ↗ think is important and i think we should

1:32:42 ↗ be

1:32:42 ↗ clear about about what that looks like

1:32:46 ↗ i um i also like the idea of a flow

1:32:50 ↗ chart i think it could be

1:32:52 ↗ more than um more than

1:32:55 ↗ projects but also policies

1:32:58 ↗ i remember when i was on planning policy

1:33:00 ↗ commission we had a

1:33:02 ↗ architectural design standard document

1:33:04 ↗ that

1:33:05 ↗ development commission members came and

1:33:06 ↗ spoke to us about and they explained how

1:33:08 ↗ they would use it and that really helped

1:33:10 ↗ us

1:33:10 ↗ make comments on it and so you know i

1:33:14 ↗ think that

1:33:15 ↗ understanding the workflow of what

1:33:17 ↗ happens to your recommendations is

1:33:19 ↗ really empowering for these commissions

1:33:21 ↗ and it makes you

1:33:22 ↗ better able to serve in that

1:33:23 ↗ commissioner role so i think that a

1:33:25 ↗ flowchart would be good i certainly

1:33:27 ↗ would

1:33:28 ↗ appreciate it as well in terms of what

1:33:30 ↗ kinds of policies

1:33:32 ↗ get touched by which commissions and

1:33:33 ↗ then you know which ones go

1:33:36 ↗ to from different commissions and

1:33:40 ↗ how they all work together because it's

1:33:43 ↗ it's a

1:33:43 ↗ non-trivial but i do think a flowchart

1:33:45 ↗ would help and

1:33:48 ↗ then as i think it's great that this

1:33:52 ↗ will go to planning policy as the next

1:33:53 ↗ step

1:33:54 ↗ i would um like to hear what they have

1:33:57 ↗ to say and i also think that

1:33:59 ↗ um we should be we've we have heard a

1:34:03 ↗ lot of really great comments and

1:34:05 ↗ um input from the community on this and

1:34:07 ↗ i would like to be open to this next

1:34:09 ↗ round

1:34:11 ↗ at the public hearing that planning

1:34:12 ↗ policy will have and then the planning

1:34:14 ↗ policy commissioners themselves what

1:34:15 ↗ feedback they have and so i think

1:34:17 ↗ we have another opportunity to make

1:34:19 ↗ revisions based on that

1:34:20 ↗ and i would like to to be open to that

1:34:24 ↗ because i do think it's it's

1:34:27 ↗ going in the right direction but i would

1:34:28 ↗ like to be open to changes that they

1:34:30 ↗ might recommend especially

1:34:32 ↗ as commissioners i think that could be

1:34:33 ↗ really valuable um

1:34:38 ↗ and then i i also think the checklist

1:34:41 ↗ seems like something that would be um

1:34:44 ↗ you know like with the flow chart if you

1:34:45 ↗ could explain what happens with this

1:34:47 ↗ checklist that would be

1:34:48 ↗ that would be useful to me um i think

1:34:50 ↗ just some more

1:34:52 ↗ process based um

1:34:55 ↗ more process-based information would be

1:34:57 ↗ helpful in understanding

1:34:58 ↗ the role thanks

1:35:02 ↗ thank you council president i'm going to

1:35:04 ↗ give megan or wally a chance if there's

1:35:06 ↗ anything you wanted to add in there

1:35:08 ↗ before i move to the next

1:35:09 ↗ question or comment okay

1:35:13 ↗ i think just that i hear the the

1:35:15 ↗ comments about the flowchart so we'll be

1:35:16 ↗ sure to include that in the next round

1:35:18 ↗ and definitely bring back

1:35:20 ↗ um the comments from ptc so thank you

1:35:22 ↗ for that and the checklist

1:35:24 ↗ and also to make sure that we are

1:35:26 ↗ respectful to all those who have

1:35:28 ↗ tracked this item through the many many

1:35:30 ↗ months and provided comments

1:35:32 ↗ um it ppc really should be given links

1:35:34 ↗ to all of what's already happened so

1:35:36 ↗ that they can

1:35:37 ↗ you know people don't have to show up to

1:35:39 ↗ everything to be heard three times in

1:35:41 ↗ order to get it across once so

1:35:43 ↗ great comment thank you i think i'm

1:35:45 ↗ going to council member hall right now

1:35:49 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is

1:35:50 ↗ councilmember zach hall um

1:35:52 ↗ i had a long list i've crossed off most

1:35:55 ↗ of them so i'll be brief

1:35:56 ↗ because the people before me have said

1:35:59 ↗ it all

1:36:00 ↗ um i first just want to comment on

1:36:04 ↗ um whether or not we should specify the

1:36:06 ↗ role of youth on the committee

1:36:09 ↗ um i've met with the

1:36:12 ↗ ischool high school green team and

1:36:15 ↗ before

1:36:15 ↗ i joined council and before covet

1:36:19 ↗ um councilmember d michelle and i met

1:36:21 ↗ with the ischool youth advisory board

1:36:25 ↗ and there are some just really savvy

1:36:27 ↗ smart

1:36:28 ↗ young leaders in our community and i

1:36:30 ↗ would really like to just

1:36:31 ↗ empower them to show up however they

1:36:33 ↗ want to show up and fill whatever role

1:36:35 ↗ they want to so we're really elevating

1:36:37 ↗ their voice and not

1:36:39 ↗ um in any way hindering that so i would

1:36:42 ↗ just advocate that we

1:36:44 ↗ not specify exactly what role we want

1:36:47 ↗ them to fill because

1:36:48 ↗ it should be their role as young leaders

1:36:51 ↗ to decide

1:36:53 ↗ what they want to contribute so that's

1:36:56 ↗ how i feel on that

1:36:58 ↗ um i also really i think it actually

1:37:00 ↗ might have been the same community

1:37:01 ↗ member who brought up the idea about

1:37:04 ↗ recommending sustainable habits for

1:37:06 ↗ community members

1:37:07 ↗ i thought that was such a cool idea i'm

1:37:09 ↗ not sure if maybe that's something we

1:37:10 ↗ need

1:37:10 ↗ actually in the ordinance but perhaps

1:37:13 ↗ that's some that's something that

1:37:14 ↗ the board can look to put in their

1:37:17 ↗ annual

1:37:17 ↗ annual report of some kind i'd be

1:37:20 ↗ interested in

1:37:21 ↗ council members thoughts on that too

1:37:23 ↗ that concludes my call

1:37:39 ↗ hello mayor paulie i'm i'm finished with

1:37:41 ↗ my comments

1:37:42 ↗ okay i've been talking to myself for two

1:37:44 ↗ minutes thank you councilmember hall

1:37:46 ↗ now it's member day michelle

1:37:50 ↗ so that's always the fun part of this

1:37:52 ↗ meeting

1:37:53 ↗ um uh i'm going to key off of

1:37:57 ↗ councilmember hall's remarks because i'm

1:37:59 ↗ i'm kind of struggling with the comments

1:38:01 ↗ that were made about

1:38:02 ↗ um specifying the role for youth and

1:38:06 ↗ in my you know last 10 years a lot of

1:38:09 ↗ work

1:38:09 ↗ on boards commissions and committee

1:38:12 ↗ meetings and so forth that included

1:38:13 ↗ youth

1:38:14 ↗ and i fully agree that they should be

1:38:18 ↗ complete full members of the board

1:38:22 ↗ um i think that they should come to the

1:38:24 ↗ table be able to vote and participate in

1:38:26 ↗ every way like every other member

1:38:29 ↗ um what i'm struggling with is that i

1:38:31 ↗ think that sometimes when the

1:38:33 ↗ preponderance of people at the table are

1:38:35 ↗ adults

1:38:36 ↗ that the strengths of the young people

1:38:38 ↗ are

1:38:39 ↗ either ignored or not um uh

1:38:43 ↗ not allowed to flower i i would echo

1:38:46 ↗ council river hall

1:38:48 ↗ and that uh i hope there's some place in

1:38:51 ↗ here

1:38:51 ↗ for young people to bring their

1:38:54 ↗ strengths

1:38:55 ↗ and uh their strengths in my opinion as

1:38:58 ↗ a as a adult is uh that they have their

1:39:01 ↗ ear

1:39:02 ↗ ear to the new generation and new ideas

1:39:05 ↗ and creativity

1:39:06 ↗ and we can see that in the flyer that

1:39:08 ↗ danny sent us

1:39:10 ↗ they have unique ways of expressing

1:39:12 ↗ theirs themselves and

1:39:14 ↗ and it's often eye-opening to the adults

1:39:17 ↗ that are

1:39:17 ↗ in the room and then young people like

1:39:20 ↗ action

1:39:21 ↗ they they feel urgent about this issue

1:39:24 ↗ in particular and

1:39:26 ↗ again i think that that voice is really

1:39:29 ↗ important to hear

1:39:30 ↗ and to allow them uh room in the

1:39:33 ↗ in the proceedings to take action do

1:39:36 ↗ action

1:39:37 ↗ bring action to their fellow young

1:39:40 ↗ people

1:39:40 ↗ in in town so uh i don't know if any of

1:39:43 ↗ that could go into the ordinance

1:39:47 ↗ if we were to specify a particular

1:39:49 ↗ additional role for young people

1:39:51 ↗ i think it would start with talking to

1:39:53 ↗ young people and finding out what

1:39:55 ↗ they think might might belong there but

1:39:58 ↗ um i think that

1:40:02 ↗ it can happen that if there's a

1:40:05 ↗ preponderance of adults in the room then

1:40:07 ↗ everything

1:40:08 ↗ is run the way adults want it to be run

1:40:10 ↗ and they're

1:40:11 ↗ there because they're young and those

1:40:13 ↗ are the strengths that they bring

1:40:15 ↗ the other thing i wanted to comment on

1:40:17 ↗ was i really liked

1:40:18 ↗ megan's comments about the additional

1:40:21 ↗ things

1:40:22 ↗ that would be measured and how the

1:40:25 ↗ board would develop some measurements

1:40:28 ↗ around climate action i like that

1:40:32 ↗ i still feel like the ordinance the way

1:40:35 ↗ the ordinance reads

1:40:36 ↗ that the report will be on activities

1:40:39 ↗ and accomplishments

1:40:40 ↗ just kind of lands with a thud in

1:40:43 ↗ my opinion um and i'm just wondering

1:40:47 ↗ if we could just strengthen the wording

1:40:49 ↗ there

1:40:50 ↗ [Music]

1:40:53 ↗ the board will be responsible for a

1:40:55 ↗ report on

1:40:56 ↗ activities accomplishments and

1:41:01 ↗ climate measurements or you know i will

1:41:04 ↗ let you write

1:41:05 ↗ write the wording but i just think that

1:41:07 ↗ needs to be strengthened so that it's

1:41:09 ↗ clear

1:41:09 ↗ that there are um some results that

1:41:13 ↗ we're expecting to have come out of the

1:41:14 ↗ environmental board

1:41:15 ↗ so that those are my comments thank you

1:41:18 ↗ and uh megan wonderful job

1:41:20 ↗ and i agree with everyone else who says

1:41:22 ↗ we're almost there

1:41:23 ↗ thanks thank you councilmember d

1:41:26 ↗ michelle i'm going to circle back at

1:41:27 ↗ this point to council member goodman

1:41:30 ↗ thank you madam mayor councilmember

1:41:32 ↗ goodman here um

1:41:34 ↗ following up on the youth um comments i

1:41:36 ↗ don't know

1:41:37 ↗ um the person who had public comments

1:41:40 ↗ um about the specifying the youth

1:41:44 ↗ uh youth role they sounded

1:41:48 ↗ youthful and i thought it was

1:41:51 ↗ an interesting comment my support of

1:41:54 ↗ that comment had nothing to do with

1:41:55 ↗ limiting the role

1:41:56 ↗ and had everything to do with making

1:41:59 ↗ sure that we clarify

1:42:01 ↗ that role and um i was

1:42:04 ↗ thinking about that um and then um

1:42:07 ↗ councilmember d michelle said exactly

1:42:08 ↗ what i was thinking which is

1:42:10 ↗ you know as we sit here and try to

1:42:11 ↗ figure out what we might want to

1:42:14 ↗ do all of us being um or at least

1:42:17 ↗ almost all of us being um way older than

1:42:21 ↗ 25 and certainly older than 15 maybe we

1:42:24 ↗ should

1:42:24 ↗ ask how we could be helpful um not in

1:42:27 ↗ limiting

1:42:28 ↗ but as uh councilmember d michelle said

1:42:30 ↗ when you get a bunch of adults together

1:42:32 ↗ um they can be i'll just use the word

1:42:34 ↗ intimidating

1:42:36 ↗ and i've been on boards with youth and

1:42:39 ↗ they can be very quiet because it is

1:42:41 ↗ intimidating so maybe asking them what

1:42:43 ↗ we can do to help

1:42:46 ↗ provide some helpful guidance

1:42:49 ↗ in any of our the ordinance or the code

1:42:52 ↗ or

1:42:55 ↗ any other supplemental documents that

1:42:57 ↗ the environmental board might use

1:42:59 ↗ um to that would help the youth um

1:43:02 ↗ provide their voice on that board that

1:43:04 ↗ was where my head was at

1:43:06 ↗ um so i think we don't want to

1:43:07 ↗ necessarily limit as much as we want to

1:43:09 ↗ maximize their ability to contribute

1:43:12 ↗ and so however we want to do that i

1:43:13 ↗ think we start by asking them

1:43:15 ↗ some folks and maybe the person who

1:43:18 ↗ spoke tonight danny maybe we could ask

1:43:20 ↗ that person what they thought

1:43:21 ↗ um my other and last question tonight is

1:43:25 ↗ about title 18.

1:43:26 ↗ so the last time we talked about the

1:43:27 ↗ environmental board um i specifically

1:43:30 ↗ asked

1:43:30 ↗ um what it would take to get title 18

1:43:33 ↗ revisions rolling again because that's

1:43:35 ↗ been on hold and that hasn't been

1:43:37 ↗ presented

1:43:38 ↗ tonight so i'd like to know where we are

1:43:39 ↗ with that i specifically asked what it

1:43:41 ↗ would take to get it going

1:43:43 ↗ again um in terms of resources and so i

1:43:45 ↗ would ask that question now

1:43:47 ↗ great question thank you city

1:43:48 ↗ administrator bob quit

1:43:50 ↗ yes thank you councilmember goodman

1:43:52 ↗ members of the council

1:43:54 ↗ it really comes down to resource

1:43:55 ↗ allocation uh we need

1:43:57 ↗ both uh city staff to work to coordinate

1:44:00 ↗ and facilitate the process as well as

1:44:01 ↗ consultant staff

1:44:03 ↗ as you know the the council through the

1:44:05 ↗ budget reductions we made

1:44:07 ↗ in the spring of reduced funding

1:44:10 ↗ available for those consultants

1:44:12 ↗ we as staff have been talking about what

1:44:14 ↗ we need to do to begin to

1:44:16 ↗ start that process up and we need to

1:44:18 ↗ identify resources again both staff

1:44:20 ↗ and consultant resources to move forward

1:44:22 ↗ with this uh

1:44:23 ↗ you have the council has my commitment

1:44:25 ↗ that we will do that during the month of

1:44:27 ↗ august

1:44:28 ↗ and with the hope of having a plan to

1:44:30 ↗ get that process restarted in the fall

1:44:35 ↗ i just wanna this is the mayor i just

1:44:37 ↗ wanna add on to what the

1:44:38 ↗ administrator said just so it's clear

1:44:40 ↗ for the public um

1:44:41 ↗ the council was

1:44:45 ↗ provided information about budget

1:44:48 ↗ expenditure reductions and it wasn't

1:44:50 ↗ necessarily a council direction

1:44:52 ↗ at all to stop working on it it was more

1:44:54 ↗ of a financial response by the

1:44:56 ↗ administration in order to close the gap

1:44:58 ↗ and so the enthusiasm for title 18 has

1:45:01 ↗ never waned

1:45:02 ↗ one day so councilmember goodman i think

1:45:05 ↗ what you're hearing is uh

1:45:07 ↗ some uh thought going into in august

1:45:09 ↗ into how to getting this going again

1:45:11 ↗ because it does seem like it is a

1:45:12 ↗ significant priority for the community

1:45:14 ↗ and for the council did that answer your

1:45:16 ↗ question

1:45:17 ↗ um well not exactly um because i want to

1:45:21 ↗ know what it would

1:45:22 ↗ what it would take i don't think we have

1:45:23 ↗ a specific answer about what it would

1:45:25 ↗ take

1:45:26 ↗ and just as with all the other

1:45:27 ↗ priorities that we have um we have a

1:45:29 ↗ budget coming up here starting just in a

1:45:31 ↗ few weeks

1:45:32 ↗ and that's going to be one of

1:45:35 ↗ all of those priorities that we have and

1:45:38 ↗ um what we heard from the public

1:45:42 ↗ um is um significantly since the last

1:45:45 ↗ time we had this meeting about the

1:45:46 ↗ environmental board is exactly what

1:45:47 ↗ president

1:45:48 ↗ hunt said and that is that um there is a

1:45:51 ↗ is a gap

1:45:52 ↗ um and um if we're wanting the

1:45:54 ↗ environmental board to

1:45:56 ↗ be at the policy level and we have to

1:45:58 ↗ have a policy that

1:45:59 ↗ we're comfortable that they can

1:46:01 ↗ implement that's where my huge concern

1:46:03 ↗ is

1:46:04 ↗ to be clear thank you thank you and city

1:46:06 ↗ administrator bob chris when you talk

1:46:08 ↗ about revisiting in august

1:46:09 ↗ did you mean as part of the budget

1:46:10 ↗ process or as part of a 2020

1:46:12 ↗ conversation

1:46:14 ↗ uh i think at this point we're

1:46:16 ↗ revisiting it on the staff level

1:46:17 ↗ um you know it is in my opinion first a

1:46:21 ↗ a city staff resource issue and then a

1:46:23 ↗ dollar

1:46:24 ↗ consultant issue we need the ability

1:46:28 ↗ for the city staff team to focus uh that

1:46:31 ↗ includes deputy

1:46:32 ↗ city administrator schneider plan

1:46:34 ↗ community planning

1:46:35 ↗ and development director niven uh and

1:46:38 ↗ others

1:46:39 ↗ they're part of the 2021 budget process

1:46:42 ↗ knock on wood will be concluding shortly

1:46:46 ↗ and my hope is is that once their a

1:46:49 ↗ large role

1:46:49 ↗ in the budget has concluded at the end

1:46:52 ↗ of august that perhaps they will have

1:46:54 ↗ some

1:46:54 ↗ additional time while others of us are

1:46:56 ↗ working with you on the 2021 budget

1:46:58 ↗ that they can also work with you

1:47:00 ↗ separately the ad hoc that was assembled

1:47:03 ↗ that would be the next

1:47:04 ↗ first specific step would be to

1:47:06 ↗ reconvene that ad hoc look

1:47:08 ↗ at schedules uh you know we've never

1:47:10 ↗ talked specifically about community

1:47:12 ↗ engagement

1:47:13 ↗ on this topic using video we've had some

1:47:16 ↗ good experiences over the last few

1:47:17 ↗ months which we didn't have

1:47:19 ↗ when we last talked about this in april

1:47:21 ↗ and may

1:47:22 ↗ uh so i think that if we can free up

1:47:25 ↗ those key staff members to

1:47:27 ↗ reconvene the ad hoc guest schedule then

1:47:30 ↗ we can look

1:47:31 ↗ at the balance of the fiscal year to see

1:47:32 ↗ what consultant resources are available

1:47:34 ↗ on my i'm confident

1:47:36 ↗ that we can find then the dollars and

1:47:37 ↗ cents to pay for those consultants in

1:47:39 ↗ the fourth quarter

1:47:41 ↗ that answer your question councilmember

1:47:42 ↗ goodman thank you very much

1:47:44 ↗ thank you and i see deputy council

1:47:46 ↗ president ray as a comment

1:47:49 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray

1:47:51 ↗ um i was

1:47:52 ↗ really struck by the comments of council

1:47:54 ↗ members hall and michelle and goodman

1:47:55 ↗ about

1:47:56 ↗ youth involvement in the environmental

1:47:58 ↗ board it occurred to me that

1:48:00 ↗ this is only one of many boards that we

1:48:02 ↗ have used representatives on

1:48:04 ↗ and what we should be looking at is is a

1:48:07 ↗ larger how do we

1:48:09 ↗ get our boards to operate across the

1:48:12 ↗ across the board in a in an inclusive

1:48:15 ↗ manner so that

1:48:17 ↗ we do board training and we get

1:48:18 ↗ everybody on in line

1:48:20 ↗ with the different points of views are

1:48:23 ↗ what makes for a rich conversation it

1:48:25 ↗ might be

1:48:26 ↗ i come from a different socioeconomic

1:48:28 ↗ background or it might be my age or it

1:48:29 ↗ could be

1:48:30 ↗ anything but what makes the community

1:48:31 ↗ great is those different perspectives so

1:48:34 ↗ what i guess i would like to see

1:48:37 ↗ not only for the environmental board but

1:48:39 ↗ for all of our boards and commissions

1:48:41 ↗ is ongoing member training so that they

1:48:45 ↗ do have an appreciation for the

1:48:47 ↗ different things that

1:48:48 ↗ the different board members bring to the

1:48:50 ↗ discussion

1:48:52 ↗ that's great thank you for that

1:48:53 ↗ suggestion i am not seeing

1:48:55 ↗ any other comments or questions at the

1:48:57 ↗ time oh my

1:48:59 ↗ again um

1:49:03 ↗ i'll give it a second to see in the chat

1:49:04 ↗ box if anybody would like to have a

1:49:05 ↗ follow up

1:49:10 ↗ i'd like to thank megan and wally for

1:49:12 ↗ providing the presentation the

1:49:13 ↗ information and the q a this evening

1:49:16 ↗ we're now going to move to

1:49:20 ↗ our consent calendar the consent

1:49:22 ↗ calendar was distributed to council in

1:49:24 ↗ advance

1:49:25 ↗ and if authorized the items on the

1:49:26 ↗ consent calendar will be considered

1:49:28 ↗ together and approved under one motion

1:49:30 ↗ have the payables and payroll been

1:49:32 ↗ reviewed they have

1:49:34 ↗ thank you mark thank you council

1:49:36 ↗ president hunt

1:49:38 ↗ does any council member desire to remove

1:49:40 ↗ any item from the consent calendar and

1:49:41 ↗ consider it under regular business

1:49:47 ↗ council president hunt thank you madam

1:49:50 ↗ mayor it's council president hunt i

1:49:51 ↗ would like to move

1:49:54 ↗ ab7962

1:49:57 ↗ to regular business thank you

1:50:01 ↗ um if we uh sorry

1:50:04 ↗ thank you for that we'll remove that one

1:50:06 ↗ down looking at regular business

1:50:08 ↗ we'll slot that in at a under the agenda

1:50:11 ↗ so it'll be the first item under regular

1:50:12 ↗ business

1:50:14 ↗ and any other council members desiring

1:50:17 ↗ to remove anything from

1:50:18 ↗ [Music]

1:50:19 ↗ the consent calendar and i'll go to

1:50:22 ↗ council president hunt have you received

1:50:24 ↗ any email comments from the public that

1:50:26 ↗ you would like to share on the consent

1:50:27 ↗ calendar item

1:50:28 ↗ thank you madam mayor yes we did receive

1:50:30 ↗ an email comment on

1:50:33 ↗ ab7962 which is the flood

1:50:36 ↗ hazard the area of special flood hazard

1:50:40 ↗ code

1:50:40 ↗ updates is municipal code 16.36

1:50:44 ↗ and that is also the item that i pulled

1:50:47 ↗ down

1:50:48 ↗ off of the consent agenda and the

1:50:50 ↗ comment that we received

1:50:52 ↗ by email from a member of the community

1:50:54 ↗ was that

1:50:56 ↗ this community expressed that they

1:50:57 ↗ thought it was disrespectful to ppc to

1:51:00 ↗ have this on

1:51:01 ↗ consent and that the ppc's comments

1:51:04 ↗ should be considered

1:51:06 ↗ with this agenda bill

1:51:10 ↗ any other comments

1:51:13 ↗ no thank you very much

1:51:16 ↗ has there been emotion

1:51:25 ↗ i move to adopt the consent calendar as

1:51:28 ↗ amended

1:51:30 ↗ is there a second

1:51:34 ↗ deputy council president ray this is

1:51:36 ↗ chris royale's second demotion

1:51:38 ↗ thank you very much it's been moved and

1:51:40 ↗ seconded

1:51:42 ↗ um we're going to do a roll call vote

1:51:44 ↗ clerk

1:51:46 ↗ yes beginning with counts deputy council

1:51:49 ↗ council president ray

1:51:51 ↗ hi councilmember walsh

1:51:55 ↗ aye council member d michelle

1:51:58 ↗ aye councilmember goodman aye

1:52:02 ↗ councilmember hall aye council president

1:52:05 ↗ hunt

1:52:06 ↗ i council member marks aye

1:52:10 ↗ that's 7i zero nays thank you that

1:52:14 ↗ passes unanimously

1:52:17 ↗ moving on to the next item of business

1:52:19 ↗ which is our regular business we will

1:52:21 ↗ start with the

1:52:22 ↗ a b that council president had removed

1:52:24 ↗ from

1:52:25 ↗ the consent agenda council president

1:52:27 ↗ would you like to um

1:52:30 ↗ talk about that first or would you like

1:52:31 ↗ a very very brief introduction of the ab

1:52:34 ↗ by city administrator above quiz

1:52:38 ↗ um thank you if if it would be possible

1:52:40 ↗ to have a very brief

1:52:41 ↗ overview so we know what we would we

1:52:44 ↗ were talking about that would be great

1:52:45 ↗ thank you

1:52:46 ↗ city ministry bob quits could you give

1:52:48 ↗ us a very very brief summary so that

1:52:50 ↗ we have some context for council

1:52:51 ↗ president's comments sure

1:52:54 ↗ madam mayor council president hunt this

1:52:57 ↗ item

1:52:58 ↗ um has been before uh the city for some

1:53:01 ↗ time

1:53:02 ↗ uh we received a letter from fema on

1:53:04 ↗ february 19 2020

1:53:06 ↗ stating that they had finalized the

1:53:09 ↗ new flood policy maps uh part of the

1:53:12 ↗ national flood insurance act in 1968

1:53:14 ↗ uh the city is required to adopt these

1:53:17 ↗ uh with the uh the coven 19 crisis

1:53:19 ↗ uh this issue has been delayed um we are

1:53:22 ↗ now here before you with that

1:53:24 ↗ as has been mentioned uh this iron did

1:53:26 ↗ go before the planning policy commission

1:53:29 ↗ on july 9th the planning policy

1:53:31 ↗ commission recommended approval

1:53:33 ↗ of the amendments as submitted to the

1:53:34 ↗ city council in that approval however

1:53:37 ↗ they also commented three things

1:53:39 ↗ requesting that the council dedicate

1:53:41 ↗ resources for the continued revision of

1:53:43 ↗ areas of special flood hazard code

1:53:45 ↗ amendments

1:53:45 ↗ uh to return this issue to them for

1:53:47 ↗ their 2021 work plan

1:53:49 ↗ and as a priority item schedule concrete

1:53:51 ↗ work sessions to collect further

1:53:53 ↗ feedback and public input on these code

1:53:55 ↗ amendments

1:53:55 ↗ and as mayor paulie stated in her uh

1:53:58 ↗ comments at the top of the meeting

1:54:00 ↗ it's the administration's

1:54:04 ↗ intent to ask the council to consider

1:54:07 ↗ dedicating

1:54:08 ↗ additional resources for the areas of

1:54:10 ↗ flood management

1:54:12 ↗ as part of your 2021 budget discussion

1:54:14 ↗ i'll be happy to answer any questions

1:54:19 ↗ mayor you're on mute

1:54:23 ↗ three strikes and i'm out right okay i

1:54:25 ↗ think i'm on number two

1:54:27 ↗ count the president hunt

1:54:35 ↗ thank you i'd like to make a motion

1:54:38 ↗ please go ahead

1:54:39 ↗ i move to adopt ordinance number

1:54:44 ↗ 2915 i'm ending chapter 16.36 of the

1:54:48 ↗ isquad municipal code relating to areas

1:54:50 ↗ of special flood hazard providing for

1:54:53 ↗ several ability and establishing an

1:54:54 ↗ effective date

1:54:59 ↗ and it looks like council member deputy

1:55:01 ↗ council president ray

1:55:03 ↗ hi this is chris ray second the motion

1:55:05 ↗ thank you very much

1:55:06 ↗ uh council president hunt a comment

1:55:09 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

1:55:11 ↗ um so i i my motivation for moving this

1:55:15 ↗ off of

1:55:16 ↗ consent was that i did want to

1:55:18 ↗ acknowledge that planning policy did

1:55:20 ↗ make a

1:55:21 ↗ specific recommendation on this that we

1:55:23 ↗ consider

1:55:25 ↗ improving this plan in the future and

1:55:28 ↗ going above and beyond the minimal

1:55:31 ↗ requirements

1:55:33 ↗ so much like in the mayor's remarks this

1:55:37 ↗ evening i wanted to acknowledge that

1:55:38 ↗ council i think

1:55:40 ↗ knows that we have these plans that we

1:55:42 ↗ need to

1:55:43 ↗ allocate resources to update and to

1:55:46 ↗ bring

1:55:47 ↗ best practices best available science

1:55:49 ↗ into these plans because they are

1:55:52 ↗ they need to be reflective of the

1:55:55 ↗ community values that we have around

1:55:57 ↗ environmental sustainability and

1:56:00 ↗ the other one that is on here as well is

1:56:02 ↗ the shoreline master program both of

1:56:04 ↗ these i think would be

1:56:06 ↗ plans that are very important for our

1:56:08 ↗ community and they would be

1:56:10 ↗ they would benefit from this new

1:56:11 ↗ environmental board review and they

1:56:13 ↗ would definitely benefit from

1:56:14 ↗ a look at them at how we can improve

1:56:17 ↗ them so that we can

1:56:19 ↗ live up to our community's values of

1:56:21 ↗ environmental sustainability

1:56:23 ↗ so i wanted to pull this down so we

1:56:25 ↗ could acknowledge the planning policy's

1:56:29 ↗ recommendations and also commit to

1:56:33 ↗ revisiting this and we are adopting this

1:56:36 ↗ plan

1:56:37 ↗ this evening but we know we have work to

1:56:39 ↗ do

1:56:40 ↗ thank you council president hunt council

1:56:42 ↗ member walsh

1:56:43 ↗ thank you this is councilmember walsh um

1:56:46 ↗ also having come from

1:56:47 ↗ the ppc as my background um

1:56:50 ↗ i am a little bit frustrated that

1:56:54 ↗ we as council didn't that there isn't a

1:56:56 ↗ better

1:56:57 ↗ staff process administration an

1:56:59 ↗ administrative process

1:57:01 ↗ for providing us

1:57:04 ↗ direct recommendations from our very

1:57:07 ↗ valued boards

1:57:08 ↗ so that we get that in front of our eyes

1:57:11 ↗ when

1:57:12 ↗ reviewing something i think

1:57:15 ↗ for me the issue wasn't necessarily that

1:57:17 ↗ this was on consent

1:57:19 ↗ but rather that the recommendation

1:57:23 ↗ wasn't put in front of us in some way

1:57:26 ↗ that we can

1:57:28 ↗ address it um either it comes to us by

1:57:31 ↗ an email or

1:57:32 ↗ it comes to us via a mayor's reporter

1:57:36 ↗ something else um so i'd just like to

1:57:38 ↗ bring that up as a

1:57:40 ↗ hey how can we do better next time um

1:57:42 ↗ and i would appreciate that the

1:57:44 ↗ administration takes a look at that

1:57:45 ↗ thank you thank you councilmember walsh

1:57:48 ↗ i am going to ask

1:57:49 ↗ you mr bob quits in a second i just

1:57:51 ↗ wanted to point out that

1:57:53 ↗ um in the past we've had this come up as

1:57:55 ↗ well where um

1:57:56 ↗ in particular we're planning policy they

1:57:58 ↗ have a recommendation that it's actually

1:58:00 ↗ something council needs to hear in order

1:58:01 ↗ to plan for it

1:58:02 ↗ so it's not that you wouldn't want to do

1:58:03 ↗ it but how would you even plan for it if

1:58:05 ↗ you didn't know and

1:58:06 ↗ i think it had to do with um the

1:58:08 ↗ schedule for reviewing

1:58:10 ↗ impact fees if i'm correct that we had

1:58:12 ↗ we were way behind on a few and you may

1:58:14 ↗ have

1:58:15 ↗ even been sitting members at that time

1:58:17 ↗ so in order for you to know that you

1:58:19 ↗ need to

1:58:20 ↗ you may want to consider a budget you

1:58:21 ↗ need to know that somebody's brought it

1:58:23 ↗ out so thank you for that point city

1:58:24 ↗ administrator bob quits

1:58:26 ↗ uh yes ma'am mayor members of the

1:58:28 ↗ council um

1:58:30 ↗ the the item is included the there is a

1:58:33 ↗ paragraph in the staff report regarding

1:58:34 ↗ this

1:58:35 ↗ uh and just to clarify it was not a part

1:58:38 ↗ of their recommendation

1:58:39 ↗ their recommendation was to approve it

1:58:41 ↗ it was a comment

1:58:43 ↗ and so i i guess looking uh

1:58:46 ↗ the mayor and i will work in the future

1:58:49 ↗ to delineate comments i i think that

1:58:51 ↗ there are likely comments

1:58:53 ↗ on all matters before planning policy

1:58:55 ↗ and development commission

1:58:56 ↗ which may not be included in a

1:58:58 ↗ recommendation sometimes the comments

1:59:00 ↗ might be included in a recommendation so

1:59:02 ↗ uh i i think there is a distinction

1:59:04 ↗ there we'll need to

1:59:06 ↗ make sure uh and we'll talk with council

1:59:08 ↗ leadership which we did

1:59:09 ↗ on several occasions on this particular

1:59:11 ↗ item as well

1:59:13 ↗ i think just to get a better sense of

1:59:14 ↗ that we want to be responsible

1:59:16 ↗ for items that are on the consent

1:59:18 ↗ calendar but we also want to share

1:59:20 ↗ when there are recommendations from

1:59:21 ↗ planning policy or any of your boards

1:59:23 ↗ specifically to the council in this

1:59:25 ↗ instance there was not in this instance

1:59:27 ↗ the recommendation was approval

1:59:29 ↗ and there were additional comments which

1:59:30 ↗ were included in the a b

1:59:32 ↗ so we'll work to you know streamline

1:59:35 ↗ that

1:59:36 ↗ in the future but just to re-emphasize

1:59:38 ↗ uh that

1:59:39 ↗ the recommendation was approval with no

1:59:42 ↗ additional conditions

1:59:43 ↗ it was just the additional comments that

1:59:45 ↗ were made which again we'll have to sort

1:59:47 ↗ through because we may end up having a

1:59:48 ↗ lot more things

1:59:49 ↗ on regular business if we include all of

1:59:51 ↗ the comments

1:59:52 ↗ that come as part of the approval

1:59:54 ↗ process but we'll work on that

1:59:56 ↗ thank you council president hunt would

1:59:58 ↗ like to make a comment

2:00:00 ↗ thank you this is council president

2:00:01 ↗ hunts and this is in response to

2:00:03 ↗ the city administrator's um comments i

2:00:06 ↗ think like i heard from councilmember

2:00:09 ↗ walsh the

2:00:10 ↗ issue is more that we do have these

2:00:13 ↗ commissions that make recommendations

2:00:15 ↗ and we want to

2:00:16 ↗ value those so if we could work on a

2:00:17 ↗ process by which we can

2:00:20 ↗ use these these

2:00:23 ↗ comments or recommendations i mean i

2:00:24 ↗ think it is very clear that it is

2:00:27 ↗ whether it is formalized in that way it

2:00:30 ↗ says the commission requested that the

2:00:31 ↗ council dedicate resources for the

2:00:33 ↗ continued revision of

2:00:34 ↗ areas of special flood hazard code

2:00:36 ↗ amendments and then there are two other

2:00:38 ↗ things that they requested of the

2:00:40 ↗ council so

2:00:43 ↗ i think they probably weren't a

2:00:44 ↗ recommendation because it's a bit

2:00:46 ↗ of an aside to the item that they were

2:00:48 ↗ actually considering much like

2:00:50 ↗ this conversation right now but i do

2:00:52 ↗ think having a way to capture

2:00:54 ↗ that would be um would be valuable

2:00:56 ↗ because as the mayor said in her remarks

2:00:58 ↗ if we can keep these things on our radar

2:01:01 ↗ that then less things will slip through

2:01:04 ↗ and thank you council president had

2:01:05 ↗ great comment i also think that after

2:01:07 ↗ the budget

2:01:08 ↗ discussions that council goes through

2:01:11 ↗ even just having a note back from the

2:01:12 ↗ council president to a border commission

2:01:14 ↗ stating that you know we

2:01:16 ↗ we evaluated different priorities during

2:01:18 ↗ this budget cycle and

2:01:20 ↗ this is you know this one either is

2:01:22 ↗ going through in 2021 or it did not make

2:01:25 ↗ it in 2021 just so it doesn't go into a

2:01:26 ↗ vacuum

2:01:27 ↗ i think that's a great suggestion i'm

2:01:30 ↗ not seeing

2:01:30 ↗ any more um comments or questions at

2:01:32 ↗ this point in time

2:01:35 ↗ emotion um if i could get that oh

2:01:39 ↗ no i do have it here uh i don't can i uh

2:01:43 ↗ can i get the motion for this one in the

2:01:45 ↗ chat box thanks

2:01:48 ↗ yes

2:02:01 ↗ it has been moved and seconded to adopt

2:02:03 ↗ ordinance number 2915 amending chapters

2:02:05 ↗ 16.36 of the isco municipal code

2:02:08 ↗ relating to areas of special flood

2:02:10 ↗ hazard

2:02:10 ↗ providing perseverability and

2:02:12 ↗ establishing an effective date

2:02:14 ↗ we'll go to a roll call vote thank you

2:02:16 ↗ city clerk

2:02:18 ↗ council member walsh aye

2:02:21 ↗ council member d michelle aye

2:02:25 ↗ council member goodman aye councilmember

2:02:28 ↗ hall

2:02:29 ↗ aye council president hunt

2:02:32 ↗ aye councilmember martz

2:02:35 ↗ aye deputy council president ray

2:02:40 ↗ that's seven eye zero nays thank you

2:02:42 ↗ that passes unanimously

2:02:44 ↗ the next item under regular business

2:02:46 ↗ this evening is ab-8002

2:02:48 ↗ utility rate adjustments and this item

2:02:50 ↗ was last before council at the june

2:02:52 ↗ 23rd council study session and i'd like

2:02:55 ↗ to invite

2:02:56 ↗ interim public works engineering

2:02:57 ↗ director bob york to make a presentation

2:03:03 ↗ uh thank you mayor pulley can everybody

2:03:05 ↗ hear me we can hear you just great

2:03:07 ↗ oh great good evening mayor and good

2:03:10 ↗ evening council members this is

2:03:12 ↗ bob york interim public works

2:03:14 ↗ engineering director

2:03:16 ↗ and uh tonight i will be discussing

2:03:20 ↗ our utility rate study results for all

2:03:22 ↗ three of our city-owned utilities

2:03:25 ↗ uh water was talked about in june and

2:03:28 ↗ tonight we can talk about sewer and

2:03:30 ↗ storm water as well

2:03:32 ↗ uh presenting with me is sean corn he's

2:03:34 ↗ a our consultant

2:03:36 ↗ a rate study expert project manager with

2:03:39 ↗ hdr

2:03:40 ↗ engineering and his team did all this

2:03:43 ↗ number crunching

2:03:44 ↗ next slide please

2:03:51 ↗ so tonight we're here to request council

2:03:53 ↗ approval

2:03:54 ↗ for the adoption of water sewer and

2:03:56 ↗ stormwater rates for the next five year

2:03:58 ↗ period

2:03:59 ↗ that period would be 2021 through 2025.

2:04:03 ↗ next

2:04:07 ↗ and our recommendation would be

2:04:09 ↗ [Music]

2:04:11 ↗ to adopt ordinances that would

2:04:14 ↗ provide those stated water sewer and

2:04:17 ↗ stormwater rate adjustments for the

2:04:20 ↗ implementation in the future years

2:04:24 ↗ so um i'm going to turn it over to

2:04:27 ↗ sean corn for the balance of the

2:04:28 ↗ presentation

2:04:30 ↗ the person that did all the number

2:04:32 ↗ crunching and can talk to you about

2:04:34 ↗ what he came up with thank you

2:04:38 ↗ evening council members appreciate the

2:04:40 ↗ opportunity

2:04:41 ↗ this evening i'll quickly walk through

2:04:43 ↗ the purpose of the study

2:04:44 ↗ the background and key assumptions and

2:04:46 ↗ then we'll take a review of the overall

2:04:48 ↗ water sewer and storm water proposed

2:04:51 ↗ rates and rate study results

2:04:53 ↗ as well as a quick review of the utility

2:04:55 ↗ assistance programs

2:04:57 ↗ and then we'll talk real briefly on the

2:04:59 ↗ water sewer and stormwater general

2:05:01 ↗ facility charges and then

2:05:03 ↗ mr york and myself can answer any

2:05:05 ↗ questions that you may have

2:05:07 ↗ as you may all remember the purpose of

2:05:09 ↗ the rate study is to provide sufficient

2:05:11 ↗ revenues to operate and maintain the

2:05:13 ↗ city's water sewer and storm water

2:05:15 ↗ utilities

2:05:16 ↗ that includes both operations as well as

2:05:18 ↗ capital improvement needs

2:05:20 ↗ the results of the study will provide

2:05:22 ↗ the city with cost-based rates and fees

2:05:24 ↗ so both water sewer storm water rates

2:05:26 ↗ and gfcs

2:05:28 ↗ and as we develop the study we want to

2:05:30 ↗ make sure we take into consideration

2:05:32 ↗ our prudent financial planning criteria

2:05:35 ↗ such as debt service coverage ratios

2:05:37 ↗ prudent rate funding of capital that's

2:05:39 ↗ the renewal and replacement of the

2:05:40 ↗ system on an ongoing basis

2:05:42 ↗ and maintain target reserve balances in

2:05:44 ↗ case of emergencies

2:05:46 ↗ as we do this process we use generally

2:05:48 ↗ accepted

2:05:49 ↗ methodologies that are tailored to the

2:05:52 ↗ city's specific characteristics and

2:05:54 ↗ customers

2:05:55 ↗ for each utility

2:05:58 ↗ a little bit of background originally

2:06:00 ↗ the rate study results were presented to

2:06:02 ↗ council in september and october of 2019

2:06:04 ↗ at study sessions

2:06:06 ↗ as we went through that process the

2:06:07 ↗ council requested additional

2:06:09 ↗ information alternatives and analyses on

2:06:12 ↗ the water supply alternative so we went

2:06:14 ↗ back to

2:06:14 ↗ look at those alternatives as well as

2:06:17 ↗ the impact of covid as we were getting

2:06:19 ↗ ready to bring that back to the city

2:06:20 ↗ council

2:06:21 ↗ in june of this year we presented the

2:06:24 ↗ various options for

2:06:26 ↗ the water supply alternatives and were

2:06:28 ↗ directed by council

2:06:30 ↗ to move forward with option four which

2:06:32 ↗ was the purchase of discounted cascade

2:06:34 ↗ water alliance

2:06:36 ↗ water in lieu of well five supply and

2:06:38 ↗ delaying the central treatment plant

2:06:40 ↗ until early 2030s as we went through

2:06:43 ↗ this

2:06:44 ↗ analysis for the water which was

2:06:45 ↗ presented in june as well as the

2:06:48 ↗ sewer and storm water the capital plans

2:06:51 ↗ have been updated as part of that

2:06:52 ↗ process

2:06:53 ↗ and that did result in the

2:06:56 ↗ no change in utility rates for 2021.

2:07:00 ↗ so important aspect here as we look at

2:07:02 ↗ the rate studies for all three

2:07:04 ↗ water sewer and stormwater there is no

2:07:06 ↗ proposed rate adjustment

2:07:08 ↗ for 2021. the only change to that

2:07:12 ↗ is that king county has uh proposed a

2:07:15 ↗ four and a half percent increase in the

2:07:17 ↗ treatment rate

2:07:18 ↗ that equates to roughly two dollars per

2:07:20 ↗ month uh for

2:07:22 ↗ the city's customers that's the only

2:07:24 ↗ change in the rates for 2021

2:07:26 ↗ all city rates are being held constant

2:07:29 ↗ that was really be

2:07:30 ↗ accomplished through the delaying of

2:07:32 ↗ capital projects to smooth those rate

2:07:34 ↗ adjustments

2:07:35 ↗ and to re-prioritize that as you went

2:07:37 ↗ forward

2:07:38 ↗ as i mentioned that also reflects the

2:07:40 ↗ purchasing discounted cascade water

2:07:43 ↗ for purchase water that was the option

2:07:45 ↗ for from our june projection

2:07:48 ↗ and that did have an assumed long-term

2:07:50 ↗ debt in there

2:07:51 ↗ to borrow for specific capital projects

2:07:54 ↗ of about five percent so there are some

2:07:56 ↗ upcoming major capital projects

2:07:59 ↗ right now that is a little bit the

2:08:01 ↗ current

2:08:02 ↗ rates are lower than five percent as

2:08:04 ↗ part of that so we do have some ability

2:08:06 ↗ there to

2:08:07 ↗ gain some efficiency as you move forward

2:08:10 ↗ again the rates i'm showing

2:08:12 ↗ are only for the collection rate so

2:08:15 ↗ metro king county provides the treatment

2:08:18 ↗ we're only looking at the city's cost

2:08:19 ↗ for that

2:08:20 ↗ and just as a side note here solid waste

2:08:23 ↗ that was not part of our study review

2:08:25 ↗ but there is no change in the 2021 king

2:08:28 ↗ county solid waste pass-through as well

2:08:30 ↗ that's a zero percent for the city's

2:08:32 ↗ recology customers

2:08:37 ↗ as we jump into the results of the

2:08:39 ↗ analysis as you can see here the top

2:08:41 ↗ half of this chart shows the

2:08:43 ↗ annual percentage revenue increases for

2:08:45 ↗ water sewer that's the collection only

2:08:48 ↗ and storm water the 2020 has the adopted

2:08:51 ↗ rates that are in place today

2:08:53 ↗ there is no change in 2021 and then you

2:08:56 ↗ can see the percentage adjustments those

2:08:58 ↗ percentage adjustments are applied to

2:09:00 ↗ the average monthly bit

2:09:01 ↗ by monthly bill on the bottom half of

2:09:04 ↗ the sheet

2:09:05 ↗ and that shows you a rate based on a

2:09:08 ↗ three-quarter inch service meter and six

2:09:11 ↗ ccf 100 cubic feet of water per

2:09:14 ↗ month for water and sewer so that really

2:09:16 ↗ in this bill it's 12

2:09:18 ↗ ccf for the bi-monthly period you can

2:09:20 ↗ see again there's no

2:09:22 ↗ change in the overall bill for your

2:09:24 ↗ average customer in 2021 or any customer

2:09:28 ↗ again the only change is the king county

2:09:29 ↗ metro pass-through of the treatment rate

2:09:32 ↗ and then as you move into 2022 through

2:09:34 ↗ 2025 there is that annual percentage

2:09:37 ↗ adjustment

2:09:38 ↗ and that equates to approximately on

2:09:40 ↗ average a six percent

2:09:41 ↗ annual change in the utility bill as you

2:09:44 ↗ move forward

2:09:45 ↗ throughout 2022 to 2025.

2:09:51 ↗ as part of this the city does have some

2:09:53 ↗ utility assistance programs

2:09:56 ↗ there's a senior discount program which

2:09:58 ↗ is based on age and

2:10:00 ↗ income there's a low income rebate

2:10:02 ↗ program that's based on

2:10:04 ↗ income levels as well as a covid 19 bill

2:10:07 ↗ relief

2:10:08 ↗ payment plan so just as a point of

2:10:09 ↗ reference there's

2:10:11 ↗ around 90 accounts in total at the

2:10:13 ↗ current time

2:10:14 ↗ that are participating in these three

2:10:17 ↗ programs

2:10:18 ↗ in total as part of this so there are

2:10:19 ↗ resources again for your customers

2:10:21 ↗ should they have issues with the

2:10:24 ↗ current bill or as they move forward

2:10:26 ↗ within the proposed rate adjustments

2:10:30 ↗ as we look at the water sewer and storm

2:10:32 ↗ water rates uh this is the water rates

2:10:35 ↗ for the typical customer we have here

2:10:38 ↗ the fixed

2:10:39 ↗ charge which varies by meter size again

2:10:41 ↗ no change

2:10:42 ↗ in 2021 those are adjusted across the

2:10:45 ↗ board or

2:10:45 ↗ equally as we go out through 2025 and

2:10:48 ↗ the same with the consumption charges

2:10:50 ↗ the four

2:10:51 ↗ five different tiers zero to four ccf

2:10:54 ↗ five to 14 15 to 30 30 to 50 and 50 plus

2:10:58 ↗ those are those rates and you can see

2:11:00 ↗ the bi-monthly bill

2:11:01 ↗ impacts for that typical residential

2:11:03 ↗ customer that 12 or the red bar the

2:11:05 ↗ middle bar in the chart

2:11:07 ↗ that's the same numbers as that prior

2:11:09 ↗ chart

2:11:12 ↗ as we went through the process we also

2:11:14 ↗ have the general facility charges and

2:11:16 ↗ just as a reminder a general facility

2:11:18 ↗ charge

2:11:19 ↗ is a one-time charge to bring equity

2:11:22 ↗ between existing customers and new

2:11:24 ↗ connections to the system

2:11:26 ↗ so when a new home connects to the city

2:11:28 ↗ system

2:11:29 ↗ they pay for the capacity that they're

2:11:31 ↗ going to use on that system

2:11:33 ↗ and so they buy into the existing system

2:11:37 ↗ and they pay for any cost that the city

2:11:39 ↗ has funded to provide additional

2:11:41 ↗ capacity to meet their needs

2:11:43 ↗ those revenues are used by the city to

2:11:46 ↗ fund growth related

2:11:47 ↗ debt or capital projects related to

2:11:49 ↗ providing that capacity in the system

2:11:52 ↗ and these fees are really driven by

2:11:54 ↗ washington state law and how they are

2:11:56 ↗ developed and how those revenues are

2:11:58 ↗ used as part of that

2:12:00 ↗ so again this is what a new home or

2:12:02 ↗ business or a developer would pay when

2:12:04 ↗ they connect to the system

2:12:06 ↗ for each for water and sewer and storm

2:12:09 ↗ water

2:12:11 ↗ in late 2019 gfcs were adopted

2:12:15 ↗ for sewer and storm water the water gfc

2:12:18 ↗ was held at its current level as we were

2:12:20 ↗ working through the water supply

2:12:22 ↗ alternative process

2:12:24 ↗ as you move forward we would recommend

2:12:27 ↗ that for

2:12:27 ↗ 2021 the gfcs be updated

2:12:30 ↗ to reflect the annual inflationary index

2:12:33 ↗ that index is generally based on the

2:12:34 ↗ engineering news record construction

2:12:36 ↗ cost

2:12:37 ↗ index or enrcci and

2:12:41 ↗ per the city code the city annually

2:12:43 ↗ adjusts that

2:12:44 ↗ those gfcs based on that and index the

2:12:47 ↗ year-over-year change

2:12:49 ↗ so that they reflect the costs that are

2:12:51 ↗ incurred over time

2:12:52 ↗ these gfcs are updated at least every

2:12:55 ↗ five years so as part of a rate study

2:12:57 ↗ process like we went through

2:12:58 ↗ or when your master plans or other

2:13:00 ↗ planning documents are updated and

2:13:02 ↗ there's changes to that capital

2:13:04 ↗ improvement plan to meet future

2:13:06 ↗ growth and capacity needs

2:13:10 ↗ and then finally to summarize the water

2:13:12 ↗ sewer and storm water rate in gfc

2:13:14 ↗ study for the rate study future revenue

2:13:17 ↗ and rate adjustments are necessary

2:13:19 ↗ starting in 2022 there are no changes in

2:13:22 ↗ rates in 2021

2:13:24 ↗ those changes are those increases are

2:13:26 ↗ necessary to fund

2:13:28 ↗ annual o m increases as well as provide

2:13:31 ↗ funding for capital improvements that

2:13:33 ↗ are going on in the system the renewal

2:13:35 ↗ and maintenance

2:13:36 ↗ of the existing system as well as to

2:13:39 ↗ maintain strong financial metrics for

2:13:41 ↗ each chain

2:13:41 ↗ for each utility there are no changes in

2:13:44 ↗ the structure

2:13:45 ↗ or how you bill your customers those

2:13:47 ↗ have all remained constant

2:13:49 ↗ and each component of the rate has been

2:13:51 ↗ adjusted equally

2:13:53 ↗ on the general facilities charge study

2:13:55 ↗ you have

2:13:56 ↗ sewer storm water and water gfcs for

2:13:59 ↗ 2020

2:14:00 ↗ and then those future gfcs would be

2:14:02 ↗ adjusted annually by that enrcci cost

2:14:05 ↗ index to reflect the value of the

2:14:07 ↗ inflationary impacts

2:14:08 ↗ to construction costs

2:14:12 ↗ and with that mr york and myself would

2:14:14 ↗ be available

2:14:15 ↗ for any questions that you all may have

2:14:18 ↗ for us

2:14:19 ↗ thank you sean thank you bob uh we have

2:14:21 ↗ several more items on our agenda this

2:14:23 ↗ evening so at this point in time i think

2:14:24 ↗ i'm going to offer the

2:14:26 ↗ city council members a five minute break

2:14:28 ↗ uh

2:14:29 ↗ and we will reconvene at nine

2:14:33 ↗ around 9 20. as soon as i see seven

2:14:35 ↗ faces on the screen

2:14:37 ↗ we'll pull back together around 9 20.

2:14:40 ↗ thank you hang on with hang in there

2:14:42 ↗ with us

2:20:10 ↗ abe are you out there

2:20:18 ↗ okay great i'll just have a few second

2:20:20 ↗ break before i start

2:20:28 ↗ okay i'm pulling us back from our five

2:20:30 ↗ minute break

2:20:31 ↗ back into our council meeting and

2:20:34 ↗ looking at the script i believe the

2:20:37 ↗ where we are right now is it's time for

2:20:39 ↗ council president hunt before we move

2:20:40 ↗ into council questions

2:20:41 ↗ to share or summarize any public

2:20:43 ↗ comments that might have been received

2:20:45 ↗ on this item

2:20:46 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

2:20:47 ↗ we did receive an email

2:20:50 ↗ on this item from a member of the

2:20:51 ↗ community a longtime member of the

2:20:53 ↗ community that was opposed

2:20:54 ↗ to the increase in the water rates and

2:20:58 ↗ was also expressing concern about growth

2:21:02 ↗ and that growth

2:21:03 ↗ of the community was not providing value

2:21:05 ↗ to the long-time residents

2:21:07 ↗ that concludes the comments that we

2:21:08 ↗ received on this

2:21:10 ↗ thank you council president um

2:21:13 ↗ does council have any questions on the

2:21:15 ↗ presentation tonight please start

2:21:16 ↗ entering

2:21:17 ↗ um your name and question or comments

2:21:19 ↗ inside the

2:21:20 ↗ chat box we'll start tonight with

2:21:22 ↗ council president hunt

2:21:26 ↗ thank you um i wanted to ask some of the

2:21:30 ↗ questions that the community members

2:21:32 ↗ um that gave public comment this evening

2:21:35 ↗ asked so one of them was about and i

2:21:38 ↗ think that the answer may have been in

2:21:40 ↗ in the presentation that was given but

2:21:42 ↗ just to clarify

2:21:43 ↗ one of the questions was why developers

2:21:45 ↗ are not paying

2:21:47 ↗ um for the rate increase or are

2:21:49 ↗ developers not paying for a rate

2:21:52 ↗ increase

2:21:55 ↗ sean can you take a stab at that one

2:21:59 ↗ yeah sean corn hdr engineering

2:22:02 ↗ developers are paying for their share

2:22:06 ↗ of the cost to provide capacity one of

2:22:08 ↗ those ways

2:22:09 ↗ is through the general facility charges

2:22:12 ↗ so just like any other new home or

2:22:14 ↗ business that has not been connected to

2:22:16 ↗ the water sewer storm system

2:22:18 ↗ when they build a development or a home

2:22:21 ↗ they also

2:22:22 ↗ pay those gfcs for those

2:22:25 ↗ structures or connections that come to

2:22:27 ↗ the system

2:22:28 ↗ in other cases developers also

2:22:31 ↗ put in the infrastructure to get to the

2:22:34 ↗ city system

2:22:36 ↗ so they're also paying for it in that

2:22:38 ↗ way and then those customers or

2:22:39 ↗ businesses

2:22:40 ↗ would ultimately pay the rates as all

2:22:43 ↗ other customers would as part of this

2:22:48 ↗ council president hunt does it answer

2:22:49 ↗ your question it does yes thank you

2:22:51 ↗ um and then my second question is

2:22:55 ↗ um in the presentation you stated that

2:22:58 ↗ the

2:22:59 ↗ city is not raising rates for 2021 and

2:23:02 ↗ um

2:23:03 ↗ in the comments we had um

2:23:06 ↗ comments around that it be that it was a

2:23:08 ↗ seven percent

2:23:09 ↗ um increase and so i wondered if if you

2:23:12 ↗ could clarify what the

2:23:13 ↗ increase um the increase over time

2:23:17 ↗ what that is yes again

2:23:20 ↗ sean corn with hdr engineering uh those

2:23:23 ↗ adjustments were

2:23:24 ↗ a seven and a half for water it was a

2:23:27 ↗ seven and a half percent

2:23:28 ↗ per year increase starting in 2022

2:23:33 ↗ and then three and a half percent in

2:23:35 ↗ sewer per year

2:23:36 ↗ starting in 2022 and 5.5 for stormwater

2:23:40 ↗ uh the combined bill is an annual six

2:23:43 ↗ percent

2:23:43 ↗ increase in the overall average customer

2:23:46 ↗ bill

2:23:47 ↗ starting in 2022 no change in 2021.

2:23:51 ↗ thank you thank you

2:23:55 ↗ next up for questions is councilmember

2:23:57 ↗ goodman

2:23:58 ↗ thank you madam mayor councilmember

2:24:00 ↗ goodman here i just had a process

2:24:02 ↗ question

2:24:03 ↗ um what is our policy for

2:24:07 ↗ um having items such as rate increases

2:24:10 ↗ come to the council and

2:24:12 ↗ um be adopted on the first

2:24:16 ↗ reading i know we have this a work

2:24:19 ↗ session

2:24:19 ↗ but i'm just just curious

2:24:24 ↗ thank you um bob or

2:24:27 ↗ city mystery above quiz who wants to

2:24:29 ↗ take that question

2:24:31 ↗ madam mayor let me give that a try and

2:24:33 ↗ i'll uh

2:24:34 ↗ i'll ask to phone a friend and city

2:24:36 ↗ attorney jim haney as well

2:24:38 ↗ um the washington state law

2:24:43 ↗ provides latitude for municipalities and

2:24:45 ↗ how they adopt ordinances

2:24:47 ↗ uh the city of visquad and many other

2:24:48 ↗ washington state communities

2:24:50 ↗ uh only require a single um

2:24:53 ↗ a single uh reading of an ordinance or

2:24:56 ↗ passage

2:24:58 ↗ other communities have other local laws

2:25:01 ↗ that either

2:25:02 ↗ require additional readings for

2:25:04 ↗ particular types of

2:25:06 ↗ ordinances or in some cases for all

2:25:08 ↗ ordinances

2:25:09 ↗ so that has not been the practice here

2:25:12 ↗ in esqua my understanding is from time

2:25:14 ↗ to time

2:25:15 ↗ the administration will make a judgment

2:25:17 ↗ if an ordinance should have

2:25:19 ↗ a a second reading or a a second

2:25:22 ↗ consideration

2:25:23 ↗ by the city council but my understanding

2:25:26 ↗ is that there has not really been a

2:25:28 ↗ there's nothing in the council's rules

2:25:29 ↗ uh or in the municipal code that's

2:25:32 ↗ directly related to that mr haney i see

2:25:34 ↗ you're on the screen

2:25:36 ↗ do you want to add anything to that

2:25:38 ↗ overview

2:25:39 ↗ well i think the city administrator said

2:25:41 ↗ it very well there's nothing in state

2:25:43 ↗ law

2:25:43 ↗ or in the city code or in the council's

2:25:46 ↗ rules of procedures

2:25:48 ↗ that requires you to do a second reading

2:25:50 ↗ you can always do that if you wish to do

2:25:51 ↗ that

2:25:52 ↗ some cities do have uh council rules

2:25:56 ↗ that require a second reading and say

2:25:58 ↗ that no ordinance can be passed

2:26:00 ↗ or that certain types of ordinances

2:26:02 ↗ require a second reading

2:26:03 ↗ or your council rules and your code do

2:26:07 ↗ not require that

2:26:10 ↗ may have a follow-up question sure

2:26:12 ↗ council member goodman

2:26:13 ↗ um thank you i guess i'd be

2:26:17 ↗ heightened awareness on my part was only

2:26:19 ↗ because even though there's not a rate

2:26:21 ↗ increase for 2021 it still it still

2:26:24 ↗ would adopt a rate increase

2:26:26 ↗ and um it also struck me interesting

2:26:29 ↗ that there wasn't a

2:26:31 ↗ public hearing and i so i don't know

2:26:33 ↗ when one would be

2:26:35 ↗ required could you

2:26:37 ↗ [Music]

2:26:39 ↗ jim do you know the answer to that

2:26:40 ↗ question when a public hearing would be

2:26:42 ↗ required

2:26:44 ↗ there's generally not a requirement for

2:26:46 ↗ public hearing for the raising of

2:26:48 ↗ water sewer and storm water rates there

2:26:51 ↗ is a requirement for public hearing for

2:26:53 ↗ raising solid waste rates but this is

2:26:56 ↗ not solid waste

2:26:57 ↗ so garbage rates basically but

2:27:01 ↗ not to raise water and sewer rates

2:27:03 ↗ there's no requirement for public

2:27:05 ↗ hearing

2:27:07 ↗ you can always have one that's your

2:27:08 ↗ choice but

2:27:10 ↗ there is no legal requirement that you

2:27:12 ↗ have one

2:27:13 ↗ okay um i have a comment but in sticking

2:27:17 ↗ with robert's rules i'll

2:27:20 ↗ allow the mayor to tell me whether she

2:27:21 ↗ wants me to wait or not

2:27:24 ↗ uh we have a couple more questions so if

2:27:26 ↗ you wouldn't mind waiting that would be

2:27:27 ↗ great

2:27:29 ↗ thank you council member hall

2:27:32 ↗ thank you mayor pollock council member

2:27:33 ↗ zach hall here um

2:27:35 ↗ i don't have the exact numbers in front

2:27:38 ↗ of me for

2:27:39 ↗ um the discussed um cascade water

2:27:43 ↗ alliance rate increases

2:27:44 ↗ um so i'm not sure how that would fit

2:27:46 ↗ into this map if that were to be

2:27:48 ↗ um accepted by that board but could

2:27:51 ↗ someone um kind of walk me through

2:27:54 ↗ how that would impact this presentation

2:27:58 ↗ if uh cascade were to move forward with

2:28:00 ↗ maybe even just subjectively without

2:28:02 ↗ numbers but

2:28:03 ↗ where we would see differences

2:28:07 ↗ thank you bob york here um

2:28:11 ↗ sean i think you were looking into this

2:28:13 ↗ in more detail than i did but uh

2:28:15 ↗ can you take a snap at this again

2:28:18 ↗ absolutely seancorn hdr

2:28:20 ↗ uh we were talking with cascadas who

2:28:22 ↗ went as we were finalizing and putting

2:28:24 ↗ all these numbers together

2:28:26 ↗ and they sent us some information and

2:28:28 ↗ some ranges as part of that

2:28:30 ↗ and we kind of got our best case worst

2:28:32 ↗ case from them for the next three years

2:28:35 ↗ and our numbers tied almost exactly to

2:28:38 ↗ the worst case

2:28:40 ↗ so the good news is when they sent us

2:28:42 ↗ that we're

2:28:43 ↗ we're at that worst case so if it comes

2:28:45 ↗ in lower than what they're projected

2:28:47 ↗ over the next three years

2:28:48 ↗ then we're good with what our plan is at

2:28:51 ↗ this point in time does that answer your

2:28:54 ↗ question

2:28:55 ↗ councilmember hall

2:29:00 ↗ um i wonder if you could explain it to

2:29:02 ↗ me like i'm

2:29:03 ↗ younger i didn't quite understand that

2:29:09 ↗ no no problem but i apologize before you

2:29:12 ↗ start on that again

2:29:14 ↗ um bob i'm not sure it was in your

2:29:16 ↗ presentation materials or not but

2:29:18 ↗ regardless of where a resident gets

2:29:19 ↗ their water from in issaquah whether

2:29:21 ↗ they're

2:29:22 ↗ provided directly from cascade or some

2:29:23 ↗ sort of blender from well water

2:29:26 ↗ our philosophy has been to charge a

2:29:28 ↗ blended rate

2:29:29 ↗ so that all of our residents receive the

2:29:32 ↗ same increase but i'm not sure if you

2:29:33 ↗ covered that in your presentation um i

2:29:36 ↗ just want to get those

2:29:36 ↗ inside the table and now go ahead and

2:29:39 ↗ try and reword this a little bit for

2:29:40 ↗ council member hall's benefit

2:29:43 ↗ absolutely sean corn with hdr uh so

2:29:46 ↗ as we went through this process uh

2:29:48 ↗ cascade

2:29:49 ↗ water alliance provided us with the

2:29:51 ↗ original projections of the purchased

2:29:53 ↗ water

2:29:54 ↗ for each year as well as the assumptions

2:29:57 ↗ for the discounted water purchases

2:29:59 ↗ uh for the water supply alternatives

2:30:02 ↗ when they gave us those that was

2:30:04 ↗ in the midst of them developing their

2:30:06 ↗ different budgets and projections that

2:30:08 ↗ you referenced earlier

2:30:10 ↗ in the meeting about a week ago

2:30:14 ↗ cascade provided us with the ranges that

2:30:17 ↗ they were working with their staff and

2:30:19 ↗ board and with you on the board on

2:30:21 ↗ as they were developing those rate

2:30:23 ↗ projections

2:30:25 ↗ our costs in our model and in the rates

2:30:28 ↗ that we have included

2:30:29 ↗ tonight cover all of the costs

2:30:33 ↗ that cascade would be projecting the

2:30:35 ↗ high end of those costs

2:30:37 ↗ that cascade will be projecting over the

2:30:39 ↗ next three years

2:30:41 ↗ so in their worst case scenario

2:30:44 ↗ our rates that we're talking about

2:30:45 ↗ tonight for 22 and

2:30:47 ↗ 21 22 and 23 would cover those costs if

2:30:51 ↗ it's lower then that provides some

2:30:52 ↗ additional

2:30:53 ↗ revenues for the city's water utility

2:31:04 ↗ mayor yep i know got it just in time

2:31:08 ↗ is that better council member hall it is

2:31:10 ↗ much better thank you

2:31:12 ↗ my apologies i thank you for your

2:31:15 ↗ question because there are probably many

2:31:17 ↗ out there that are watching

2:31:18 ↗ that want it explained in the exact same

2:31:20 ↗ way that you do so thank you for that

2:31:22 ↗ it's very good

2:31:23 ↗ i am not seeing any other questions

2:31:26 ↗ right now in the chat box i'll give a

2:31:27 ↗ few minutes

2:31:28 ↗ to see and if not we will cycle back to

2:31:30 ↗ council member goodman's comment

2:31:35 ↗ um well my my comment is just

2:31:38 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman here my

2:31:40 ↗ my comment um

2:31:42 ↗ is just that i'm curious what um

2:31:45 ↗ my fellow council members think about a

2:31:47 ↗ first reading

2:31:48 ↗ of a rate increase ordinance in the

2:31:50 ↗ middle of a

2:31:51 ↗ pandemic um i guess that sounds like a

2:31:54 ↗ leading question doesn't it

2:31:55 ↗ um but those are just the facts so i'm

2:31:57 ↗ just curious what everyone

2:31:59 ↗ thinks thanks great and councilmember

2:32:02 ↗ deputy council president ray are you

2:32:04 ↗ going to make a comment on that

2:32:06 ↗ or something even though this is the

2:32:09 ↗ first time that we've looked at this

2:32:10 ↗ agenda bill

2:32:11 ↗ um we've been talking about the water

2:32:13 ↗ system plan and the rate study for

2:32:16 ↗ bob tell me how long has it been it's

2:32:18 ↗ been last

2:32:19 ↗ two years that this is about the fourth

2:32:21 ↗ or fifth time that this has come before

2:32:22 ↗ us

2:32:24 ↗ and all of the information that was

2:32:26 ↗ presented here was presented in the rate

2:32:28 ↗ studies as best i recall

2:32:30 ↗ so i guess this is the first time you've

2:32:31 ↗ seen this agenda bill

2:32:33 ↗ but i'm i'm thinking this is not at all

2:32:35 ↗ the first time we've seen this

2:32:36 ↗ information about

2:32:37 ↗ projected rate increases and quite

2:32:40 ↗ honestly i think the work that

2:32:42 ↗ public works engineering has done with

2:32:45 ↗ our

2:32:45 ↗ good consultant friends to keep the

2:32:47 ↗ rates down has been

2:32:49 ↗ [Music]

2:32:50 ↗ insignificant so you know no one wants

2:32:52 ↗ to raise the rates

2:32:54 ↗ but um you know this increases

2:32:57 ↗ um this is this isn't new to me so

2:33:01 ↗ um that's that's my only reaction to

2:33:04 ↗ to this proposal what i i do want to

2:33:07 ↗ build on what councilmember hall was

2:33:09 ↗ saying though and and the response which

2:33:11 ↗ is

2:33:12 ↗ um our rate increases um cover a worst

2:33:15 ↗ case scenario

2:33:16 ↗ from cascade water alliance if they

2:33:18 ↗ raise their rates so

2:33:20 ↗ there may be i think some um

2:33:23 ↗ latitude to not raise the rates

2:33:26 ↗ as much based on that information so i

2:33:29 ↗ may be misinterpreting that but that's

2:33:30 ↗ my interpretation of

2:33:32 ↗ what um mr corn was saying relative to

2:33:36 ↗ the factoring information from cascade

2:33:40 ↗ thank you deputy council president ray

2:33:42 ↗ at this point in time i'm not seeing

2:33:44 ↗ anyone

2:33:45 ↗ additional signing up in the chat box

2:33:47 ↗ would like to comment but i'll give it a

2:33:48 ↗ few seconds

2:33:50 ↗ let's go to council member hall

2:33:53 ↗ thanks merpauli zach hall here um i

2:33:56 ↗ think

2:33:56 ↗ i'm comfortable um voting on this agenda

2:34:00 ↗ bill tonight only because there's no

2:34:02 ↗ rate increase

2:34:03 ↗ next year but i think councilmember

2:34:05 ↗ goodman has stumbled upon a really good

2:34:07 ↗ idea for consideration in the future and

2:34:09 ↗ that is

2:34:10 ↗ how many touches do we want um

2:34:13 ↗ proposals or policies that have great

2:34:16 ↗ increases

2:34:17 ↗ um to come before the council and i

2:34:20 ↗ think

2:34:22 ↗ how often do we do a retreat i think

2:34:25 ↗ it's worth discussion

2:34:28 ↗ um you know even

2:34:30 ↗ broader policies how many touches it

2:34:32 ↗ should have and

2:34:33 ↗ if we're required to have a public

2:34:35 ↗ hearing um

2:34:37 ↗ even if we're not required you know i'm

2:34:40 ↗ sure there are

2:34:40 ↗ scenarios where i think it's probably

2:34:43 ↗ the benefit

2:34:44 ↗ to us and the community to have a public

2:34:46 ↗ hearing anyways

2:34:47 ↗ so i i'd be interested in having the

2:34:50 ↗ discussion

2:34:51 ↗ so thank you councilmember goodman for

2:34:52 ↗ bringing it up good idea

2:34:54 ↗ and just as a reminder our council has

2:34:57 ↗ been working towards

2:34:58 ↗ doing some early in the year retreats

2:35:02 ↗ i think last year may have been our

2:35:03 ↗ first but it's something that we're

2:35:04 ↗ hoping that if you had issues for

2:35:06 ↗ looking at council rules that would give

2:35:08 ↗ an opportunity early in the year to do

2:35:10 ↗ that

2:35:11 ↗ we will go to council president hunt

2:35:14 ↗ oh sorry um i'm not saying any more

2:35:16 ↗ comments

2:35:18 ↗ would anyone care to make a motion

2:35:19 ↗ council president hunt

2:35:22 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

2:35:24 ↗ i would like to make a motion

2:35:26 ↗ i move to

2:35:30 ↗ one adopt ordinance number 2916

2:35:33 ↗ amending section 13.24.110

2:35:37 ↗ parenthesis c of the isquad municipal

2:35:40 ↗ code relating to water rates and

2:35:42 ↗ establishing

2:35:42 ↗ january 1 2021 as the effective date

2:35:46 ↗ two adopt ordinance number 2917

2:35:49 ↗ amending section 13.30.050

2:35:54 ↗ c of the issaquah municipal code

2:35:56 ↗ relating to stormwater rates and

2:35:58 ↗ establishing january first 2021 as the

2:36:01 ↗ effective date

2:36:03 ↗ three adopt ordinance number 2918

2:36:05 ↗ amending section 13.70

2:36:10 ↗ of the it's municipal code relating to

2:36:12 ↗ sewer rates and establishing january

2:36:14 ↗ 1st 2021 is the effective date

2:36:17 ↗ and uh deputy council president ray

2:36:20 ↗ a second this is chris rail second the

2:36:22 ↗ motion

2:36:24 ↗ so it has been moved and seconded is

2:36:25 ↗ there any additional discussion

2:36:30 ↗ council president hunt thank you this is

2:36:33 ↗ council president hunt

2:36:34 ↗ i am confident that we have

2:36:38 ↗ vetted our options on this um we have

2:36:41 ↗ had a

2:36:43 ↗ recent work session and we have had many

2:36:45 ↗ other touches

2:36:46 ↗ in terms of presentations of our

2:36:48 ↗ different options and in fact

2:36:50 ↗ sent the staff back and asked them to

2:36:52 ↗ reconsider their options and could we

2:36:54 ↗ have an option that would be

2:36:56 ↗ more cost effective for the rate payers

2:36:59 ↗ so i

2:37:00 ↗ am confident that we have vetted those

2:37:01 ↗ options over time

2:37:04 ↗ and have taken into account the the rate

2:37:07 ↗ increase

2:37:08 ↗ minimizing the rate increase while

2:37:10 ↗ making sure that we have

2:37:12 ↗ um the infrastructure the the

2:37:15 ↗ we're able to maintain the

2:37:16 ↗ infrastructure that we need to have

2:37:19 ↗ safe water and meet our requirements for

2:37:22 ↗ the community so

2:37:23 ↗ um i i am confident that we have vetted

2:37:27 ↗ those options over time

2:37:29 ↗ um and i'm i think that um

2:37:32 ↗ we i am in support of the motion at this

2:37:36 ↗ point but um

2:37:37 ↗ we as a as i just wanted to clarify that

2:37:40 ↗ we have

2:37:40 ↗ talked about this before because um it

2:37:42 ↗ is the first reading of this ordinance

2:37:44 ↗ but

2:37:44 ↗ it's certainly not the first time we've

2:37:46 ↗ had a conversation about

2:37:47 ↗ this thank you council president hunt

2:37:50 ↗ moving to council member goodman

2:37:52 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman here um

2:37:55 ↗ i support the ordinance

2:37:56 ↗ um just to be clear my comments had

2:37:59 ↗ nothing to do with whether we've

2:38:00 ↗ thoroughly vetted it or whether

2:38:02 ↗ i or any of us was not aware of that

2:38:05 ↗ what we've discussed just as recently as

2:38:07 ↗ june

2:38:07 ↗ that really wasn't the issue the issue

2:38:09 ↗ was really a rating like i said before

2:38:12 ↗ a rate increase even though it's a

2:38:15 ↗ little over a year away

2:38:16 ↗ in the middle of a pandemic with one

2:38:18 ↗ reading i think we should be super

2:38:20 ↗ careful with

2:38:21 ↗ what we do when we do it we've been

2:38:23 ↗ talking about a lot about

2:38:25 ↗ what other organizations do and whether

2:38:27 ↗ they should be raising rates and

2:38:29 ↗ so i think we should be just super

2:38:31 ↗ cognizant of that and what we're doing

2:38:33 ↗ um but of course i agree with that we've

2:38:36 ↗ done terrific work

2:38:37 ↗ i agree with those comments but i just

2:38:40 ↗ i'm in

2:38:41 ↗ response to comments about awareness and

2:38:44 ↗ vetting

2:38:44 ↗ that those were not my were not my

2:38:46 ↗ concerns

2:38:47 ↗ um but anyway i do support it and i

2:38:49 ↗ thank everybody for all the work and i

2:38:50 ↗ think this administration

2:38:52 ↗ for um diving um a whole lot

2:38:56 ↗ deeper into what our options could be

2:38:58 ↗ and i really appreciate

2:39:00 ↗ um how this has come out

2:39:03 ↗ in terms of rate increases compared to

2:39:05 ↗ what we were

2:39:08 ↗ many discussions we've had before and

2:39:10 ↗ what it could be so i'm

2:39:12 ↗ pleased with what it is even though it

2:39:13 ↗ is a rate increase thank you

2:39:16 ↗ thank you councilmember goodman i'm not

2:39:17 ↗ seeing any other

2:39:19 ↗ commenters in the chat box right now i

2:39:22 ↗ will go back to reread the motion

2:39:24 ↗ um the motion before the council is

2:39:27 ↗ adopt ordinance number 2916 amending

2:39:30 ↗ section 13.24.110 parentheses of the

2:39:33 ↗ issaquah municipal code

2:39:34 ↗ relating to water rates and establishing

2:39:36 ↗ january 1st 2021 as the effective date

2:39:39 ↗ adopting ordinance number 2917 amending

2:39:42 ↗ section 13.30.050 parent c of the escrow

2:39:46 ↗ municipal code

2:39:47 ↗ relating to stormwater rates and

2:39:48 ↗ establishing january 1st 2021 is the

2:39:51 ↗ effective date

2:39:52 ↗ and adopting ordinance number 2918

2:39:54 ↗ amending section 13.70.040 of the islam

2:39:57 ↗ missile code relating to sewer rates and

2:39:59 ↗ establishing january

2:40:01 ↗ 1st 2021 as the effective date city

2:40:04 ↗ clerk could you please call the roll

2:40:07 ↗ council member d michelle

2:40:12 ↗ hi councilmember goodman

2:40:15 ↗ hi councilmember hall

2:40:19 ↗ aye council president hunt

2:40:22 ↗ aye council member marx aye

2:40:26 ↗ deputy council president ray aye

2:40:29 ↗ council member walsh aye

2:40:33 ↗ seven eye zero nays

2:40:40 ↗ mayor paulie you're muted

2:40:44 ↗ that really is strike three i'm out

2:40:46 ↗ vicki you have to take over

2:40:50 ↗ um i wanted that was a unanimous vote

2:40:53 ↗ thank you very much

2:40:54 ↗ um i just wanted to spend a few seconds

2:40:56 ↗ telling sean and bob

2:40:58 ↗ that their presentation tonight was one

2:41:01 ↗ of the most

2:41:03 ↗ and take this with a grain of salt

2:41:04 ↗ understandable that i've seen as a

2:41:06 ↗ council member

2:41:07 ↗ this is a topic that is enormously

2:41:09 ↗ confusing to the public

2:41:10 ↗ i thought you did a great job with your

2:41:12 ↗ creativity and looking at

2:41:13 ↗ how to incorporate a solution that would

2:41:15 ↗ allow us not to have a rate increase for

2:41:17 ↗ two years i am

2:41:19 ↗ just indebted to you for doing that and

2:41:20 ↗ taking that effort and making this all

2:41:22 ↗ work out

2:41:23 ↗ when there was an option for us to do it

2:41:25 ↗ so just thank you so much for the great

2:41:27 ↗ work you did tonight

2:41:28 ↗ really really good job thank you both

2:41:31 ↗ thank you mayor thank you very much

2:41:35 ↗ oh very welcome sean very welcome bob

2:41:37 ↗ next item on our agenda this evening is

2:41:39 ↗ ab8005

2:41:40 ↗ village theater funding this is the

2:41:43 ↗ first time that this item is coming

2:41:45 ↗ before the city council and i'd like to

2:41:46 ↗ invite parks and community services

2:41:48 ↗ director jeff wetland to present the

2:41:50 ↗ item

2:41:52 ↗ mayor thank you good evening council can

2:41:54 ↗ you hear me

2:41:57 ↗ i see head down it's great

2:42:00 ↗ thank you jeff great uh uh this item

2:42:03 ↗ before you seeks

2:42:04 ↗ uh an additional 25 000 uh

2:42:08 ↗ allocation and emergency funding to

2:42:10 ↗ village theater

2:42:11 ↗ uh that would be coming from the

2:42:13 ↗ municipal arts fund

2:42:15 ↗ um um as as you probably know the art

2:42:19 ↗ community

2:42:20 ↗ has not been immune to the covet impacts

2:42:23 ↗ um especially this is especially the

2:42:25 ↗ case for village theater

2:42:28 ↗ as our only non-profit brick and mortar

2:42:31 ↗ performing arts facility and agency

2:42:34 ↗ covet has really hit them

2:42:37 ↗ especially hard as well as

2:42:41 ↗ similar performing arts facilities

2:42:43 ↗ throughout the region

2:42:46 ↗ village theater serves as an anchor for

2:42:50 ↗ old town for front street

2:42:53 ↗ and uh certainly for our new uh creative

2:42:56 ↗ art district

2:42:57 ↗ um covid has um as i said earlier

2:43:01 ↗ uh been uh really difficult for village

2:43:04 ↗ theater to navigate through

2:43:06 ↗ um our arts program coordinator amy

2:43:09 ↗ dukes has done

2:43:11 ↗ a great job throughout covid reaching

2:43:13 ↗ out to all of our arts partners not just

2:43:15 ↗ village theater but

2:43:17 ↗ all of our contracted partners to see

2:43:19 ↗ how they're doing

2:43:20 ↗ to respond to find ways to support them

2:43:25 ↗ in in their efforts and so in in that

2:43:27 ↗ work

2:43:28 ↗ um really reaching out to all agencies

2:43:31 ↗ um her

2:43:32 ↗ communications her conversations with

2:43:34 ↗ village theater

2:43:36 ↗ we really began to understand they had

2:43:38 ↗ to close their doors really early

2:43:41 ↗ they've taken very hard measures to

2:43:43 ↗ reduce expenses significantly

2:43:45 ↗ including staff and are really currently

2:43:49 ↗ operating

2:43:49 ↗ in a very lean hold position uh they

2:43:52 ↗ want to

2:43:53 ↗ uh they want to reopen they want to

2:43:55 ↗ continue and and they want to be that

2:43:57 ↗ anchor on front street

2:43:58 ↗ and and we certainly recognize this

2:44:01 ↗ administration that's a priority for us

2:44:03 ↗ as well exhibit a in the agenda bill

2:44:06 ↗ tonight is a letter from village theater

2:44:08 ↗ that outlines their request

2:44:10 ↗ that's the same letter that was

2:44:12 ↗ presented to art commission

2:44:16 ↗ speaking of arts commission in in this

2:44:17 ↗ effort to support this cultural anchor

2:44:20 ↗ of issaquah the art commission

2:44:21 ↗ unanimously recommended

2:44:23 ↗ this emergency allocation of 25 000 to

2:44:26 ↗ village theater

2:44:27 ↗ at their july 7th meeting

2:44:31 ↗ if approved we will amend the 2020 arts

2:44:35 ↗ contract

2:44:36 ↗ with village theater to include this

2:44:39 ↗ emergency funding

2:44:41 ↗ along with their 50 000 allocation

2:44:44 ↗ um a note um about the municipal art

2:44:47 ↗ fund

2:44:48 ↗ real quick um amy has been doing a great

2:44:51 ↗ job

2:44:51 ↗ and i've been working with her on

2:44:52 ↗ managing that fund

2:44:54 ↗ as you would imagine we've been

2:44:58 ↗ looking for creative ways and have been

2:45:00 ↗ working with our partners as i said

2:45:01 ↗ earlier to reduce

2:45:02 ↗ expenditures and and reduce expenditures

2:45:05 ↗ significantly here in 2020

2:45:07 ↗ for a variety of reasons but one of

2:45:10 ↗ those is to make sure we're maintaining

2:45:12 ↗ a healthy fund balance

2:45:14 ↗ and remaining nimble enough not only

2:45:16 ↗ this year but as we look into 2021

2:45:19 ↗ to respond to emergency emergencies such

2:45:21 ↗ as as this but also make sure

2:45:23 ↗ as we navigate through covid

2:45:27 ↗ we have a a healthy

2:45:30 ↗ municipal art fund and and we continue

2:45:32 ↗ with the tradition of arts

2:45:34 ↗ in this community uh remains a huge

2:45:37 ↗ priority for us

2:45:38 ↗ um one last item to to

2:45:41 ↗ uh point out in the agenda bill if

2:45:43 ↗ approved this motion states

2:45:46 ↗ our commitment to include uh this 25 000

2:45:49 ↗ unanticipated fund uh would be would

2:45:52 ↗ come back to you in a subsequent 2020

2:45:55 ↗ budget amendment so that's the end of my

2:45:58 ↗ brief staff report request your

2:46:01 ↗ consideration and approval tonight

2:46:03 ↗ thank you very much

2:46:08 ↗ thank you very much director watlang

2:46:13 ↗ uh council president hunt did you have

2:46:16 ↗ uh

2:46:17 ↗ any comments that you need to summarize

2:46:20 ↗ before

2:46:21 ↗ we go into q a with the council thank

2:46:23 ↗ you i do not have comments on this item

2:46:26 ↗ thank you very much council uh let's

2:46:29 ↗ start lining up in the chat box for

2:46:31 ↗ questions i see deputy council president

2:46:32 ↗ ray

2:46:33 ↗ is there you're up hi this is chris roy

2:46:36 ↗ thank you

2:46:37 ↗ mayor paulie just a quick question

2:46:40 ↗ for director watland what

2:46:44 ↗ has happened this year to the inflow of

2:46:47 ↗ funds

2:46:48 ↗ to to the arts fund because they're

2:46:50 ↗ driven by

2:46:51 ↗ ticket sales and they've gotten crushed

2:46:53 ↗ worth in just about everything

2:46:56 ↗ yeah no great great point and as i was

2:46:59 ↗ saying managing

2:47:00 ↗ that municipal art fund not only in

2:47:02 ↗ expenditures but revenues

2:47:03 ↗ you're right a majority of revenues come

2:47:06 ↗ in through admissions tax

2:47:08 ↗ we received a pretty healthy portion of

2:47:11 ↗ admissions tax in the first quarter

2:47:13 ↗ that obviously stopped pretty abruptly

2:47:15 ↗ in march

2:47:17 ↗ we are anticipating no further revenue

2:47:20 ↗ coming in and and still as we manage

2:47:22 ↗ expenditures

2:47:23 ↗ i would anticipate i'm still having a

2:47:26 ↗ healthy fund balance

2:47:27 ↗ um at the end of this year of about

2:47:29 ↗ three hundred thousand dollars so

2:47:31 ↗ managing both understanding revenues are

2:47:33 ↗ going to be extremely limited and

2:47:34 ↗ managing those expenditures is a

2:47:36 ↗ top priority quick quick follow-up if i

2:47:39 ↗ might

2:47:40 ↗ so what is our annual outlay from the

2:47:43 ↗ arts fund

2:47:44 ↗ what has it been historically and what

2:47:46 ↗ do we envision it would be in 2021.

2:47:51 ↗ now um outlay for the entire fund

2:47:55 ↗ yeah well that's what i'm trying to get

2:47:57 ↗ to is we've got 400 and some odd

2:47:58 ↗ thousand dollars and

2:47:59 ↗ we got an extra 25 here revenue is way

2:48:02 ↗ off

2:48:02 ↗ um what so in the short term we've got

2:48:05 ↗ fund balance to cover us

2:48:06 ↗ what does 2021 look like though because

2:48:08 ↗ i'm not expecting we're going to have

2:48:10 ↗ lots of ticket receipts in 2021 today

2:48:15 ↗ great great point and as we are just

2:48:18 ↗ putting together

2:48:19 ↗ our proposed uh budget uh for the mayor

2:48:22 ↗ i've been working with with amy

2:48:24 ↗ and we are being very very conservative

2:48:27 ↗ with revenues and being very

2:48:28 ↗ conservative

2:48:29 ↗ with expenditures and i think what we're

2:48:32 ↗ uh wanting to propose and what you'll

2:48:35 ↗ see before you is a fund balance at the

2:48:36 ↗ end of 21

2:48:38 ↗ uh that would still remain in the 200

2:48:40 ↗ 000 range

2:48:41 ↗ of a fund balance great thanks jeff yep

2:48:46 ↗ thank you are there any other questions

2:48:49 ↗ or comments

2:48:54 ↗ give it another second or two

2:49:01 ↗ not seeing anything in the chat box um

2:49:03 ↗ would anyone

2:49:04 ↗ oh i am saying oh there we go council

2:49:06 ↗ president hunt shows up a little bit

2:49:08 ↗ late sometimes

2:49:10 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

2:49:12 ↗ i i wondered if the

2:49:13 ↗ arts commission um what their plans are

2:49:16 ↗ for the

2:49:17 ↗ funds if there are other items that um

2:49:20 ↗ or other businesses other things that

2:49:22 ↗ they're

2:49:22 ↗ thinking of supporting this year just

2:49:26 ↗ because the village theater is

2:49:29 ↗ is having is struggling right now but

2:49:33 ↗ as you also mentioned there are other

2:49:35 ↗ arts businesses that are as well and so

2:49:36 ↗ i just wondered if they had any

2:49:38 ↗ thoughts on that or or thoughts on

2:49:40 ↗ future steps that they might take

2:49:44 ↗ i can't speak for all of them but i do

2:49:46 ↗ know that as we had a discussion in july

2:49:49 ↗ um really village theater is is

2:49:52 ↗ different than the other ones

2:49:54 ↗ again as bricks and mortar when you look

2:49:56 ↗ at their overhead when you look at their

2:49:58 ↗ um encumbered costs it's very different

2:50:01 ↗ than many of our other arts partners

2:50:04 ↗ do not have that level of overhead and

2:50:06 ↗ so

2:50:07 ↗ um support that we've been able to

2:50:09 ↗ provide them and again amy's done a

2:50:10 ↗ great job looks at either modifying or

2:50:13 ↗ amending a contract

2:50:14 ↗ um finding other ways to support them

2:50:18 ↗ but not having to do it in a sort of

2:50:21 ↗ monetary support way like this

2:50:23 ↗ given again they don't have that bricks

2:50:27 ↗ and mortar overhead

2:50:28 ↗ that village theater does

2:50:32 ↗ thank you council president hunt i see

2:50:34 ↗ councilmember d michelle has a comment

2:50:40 ↗ there we go uh this is council member d

2:50:42 ↗ michelle i

2:50:43 ↗ will um very strongly support this

2:50:46 ↗ motion

2:50:47 ↗ and um i think you i've said this before

2:50:50 ↗ many times but i'll repeat it that

2:50:52 ↗ the arts are wonderful they're part of

2:50:54 ↗ our culture but they're also

2:50:56 ↗ a tremendous economic engine for our

2:51:00 ↗ city and have been for a long time and

2:51:02 ↗ the

2:51:03 ↗ village theater is certainly central to

2:51:07 ↗ that factor in our community

2:51:11 ↗ i was i was surprised myself reading

2:51:15 ↗ the letter from rob hunt that they had

2:51:18 ↗ laid off

2:51:18 ↗ 168 people i had no idea that

2:51:22 ↗ that that was that large of an operation

2:51:25 ↗ although

2:51:26 ↗ when you think about it of course it is

2:51:28 ↗ and then you think of

2:51:29 ↗ all of the uh attended

2:51:33 ↗ [Music]

2:51:34 ↗ positions that are affected by that

2:51:36 ↗ those laser

2:51:37 ↗ layoffs and then all of the businesses

2:51:39 ↗ in town that

2:51:40 ↗ depend on those shows going on

2:51:43 ↗ and so that they can generate income

2:51:46 ↗ it's just a huge

2:51:47 ↗ um linchpin to uh the economy

2:51:50 ↗ and to the culture in our city so i will

2:51:53 ↗ be supporting this

2:51:54 ↗ i also want to commend jeff and amy for

2:51:57 ↗ the job that they're doing to preserve

2:52:00 ↗ the funds because the municipal art fund

2:52:02 ↗ because

2:52:04 ↗ when uh whenever it is that we start to

2:52:07 ↗ move back to normal again

2:52:10 ↗ the arts are going to play such a huge

2:52:12 ↗ role in our economic recovery and we

2:52:15 ↗ have to have

2:52:16 ↗ the funds there to help that along and

2:52:19 ↗ so

2:52:19 ↗ thank you so much for the work you're

2:52:21 ↗ doing jeff and and

2:52:23 ↗ please convey that to amy as well so i

2:52:26 ↗ will

2:52:27 ↗ be voting yes on this very strongly

2:52:30 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle not

2:52:33 ↗ seeing any other

2:52:34 ↗ comments at this time looking for a

2:52:36 ↗ motion and i will go to council

2:52:38 ↗ president hunt

2:52:39 ↗ thank you i moved to direct the finance

2:52:42 ↗ director to include

2:52:43 ↗ an additional 25 000 for village theater

2:52:47 ↗ in a subsequent 2020 budget amendment

2:52:50 ↗ utilizing the municipal art funds

2:52:52 ↗ and authorized the amendment of village

2:52:54 ↗ theater's 2020 arts grants

2:52:56 ↗ contract to increase the funding amount

2:52:58 ↗ from fifty thousand dollars to

2:53:00 ↗ seventy five thousand dollars and

2:53:03 ↗ council member goodman

2:53:06 ↗ uh thank you councilmember goodman here

2:53:07 ↗ a second the motion

2:53:09 ↗ it has been moved and seconded is there

2:53:11 ↗ any council discussion

2:53:19 ↗ let's start with council president hunt

2:53:22 ↗ thank you this is council president hunt

2:53:24 ↗ i'll i will be supporting the motion

2:53:26 ↗ um i appreciate that the arts commission

2:53:29 ↗ looked at this and i

2:53:30 ↗ value that they voted unanimously to

2:53:32 ↗ support this with the arts fund

2:53:34 ↗ uh municipal arts fund um

2:53:38 ↗ allocation and um also this is

2:53:41 ↗ one of the treasures um on our treasures

2:53:44 ↗ list

2:53:45 ↗ the other um i i learned a lot

2:53:48 ↗ about this from listening to the

2:53:50 ↗ recovery task force and the presentation

2:53:52 ↗ that was presented there about the

2:53:55 ↗ challenges that village theater is

2:53:56 ↗ facing and um

2:53:59 ↗ also wanted to point out that there are

2:54:01 ↗ other businesses that are in

2:54:02 ↗ a unique position the other one that i

2:54:05 ↗ am thinking of it that came to recovery

2:54:06 ↗ task force was the

2:54:08 ↗ um the cougar mountain zoo and so there

2:54:10 ↗ are other businesses as well but this is

2:54:12 ↗ specific to the arts and the municipal

2:54:14 ↗ arts fund is um

2:54:15 ↗ able to uh to

2:54:18 ↗ be allocated in this way so i appreciate

2:54:20 ↗ that but we have a lot of other

2:54:22 ↗ businesses that we could use

2:54:23 ↗ a creative approach to supporting as

2:54:25 ↗ well and i know that the economic

2:54:26 ↗ development

2:54:27 ↗ department is working on that too thanks

2:54:31 ↗ thank you council president hunt uh no

2:54:33 ↗ seeing no further questions

2:54:35 ↗ um the motion before council is to

2:54:38 ↗ direct the finance director to include

2:54:40 ↗ an additional

2:54:41 ↗ 25 000 for village theater in a

2:54:44 ↗ subsequent 2020 budget amendment

2:54:46 ↗ utilizing the municipal art fund

2:54:49 ↗ and authorized the amendment of village

2:54:51 ↗ theatre's 2020 art

2:54:53 ↗ grant contract to increase the funding

2:54:55 ↗ amount from 50 000

2:54:57 ↗ to 75 000 and clerk can you please call

2:55:00 ↗ the rule for voting

2:55:03 ↗ yes council member goodman aye

2:55:06 ↗ councilmember hall aye council president

2:55:10 ↗ hunt

2:55:11 ↗ i'm councilmember martz

2:55:14 ↗ aye deputy council president ray

2:55:17 ↗ aye council member walsh

2:55:20 ↗ aye council member d michelle

2:55:24 ↗ hi that's 7i zero nays

2:55:32 ↗ mayor you're muted

2:55:42 ↗ almost exited the meeting there okay

2:55:46 ↗ yes little bit off today just have to

2:55:48 ↗ say

2:55:49 ↗ okay that passes unanimously um the next

2:55:53 ↗ item on our agenda this evening is

2:55:55 ↗ ab8006

2:55:57 ↗ it's the second 2020 budget amendment

2:55:59 ↗ and the ask you for council this evening

2:56:01 ↗ is to adopt the ordinance

2:56:02 ↗ i'd like to invite senior budget analyst

2:56:04 ↗ susie monsall to make a presentation

2:56:19 ↗ susie we can't hear you oh

2:56:22 ↗ she's just trying to make her her mayor

2:56:24 ↗ feel good that's all nice try susie

2:56:28 ↗ yeah can you all hear me now yes you can

2:56:31 ↗ thank you it was a moment of solidarity

2:56:33 ↗ i promise

2:56:34 ↗ um so uh this is susie monsell the

2:56:38 ↗ senior budget analyst

2:56:39 ↗ i am here to give a i promise very brief

2:56:42 ↗ presentation

2:56:43 ↗ on the second 2020 budget amendment

2:56:47 ↗ um so

2:56:51 ↗ if we move there we go the purpose of

2:56:52 ↗ tonight's budget amendment

2:56:54 ↗ is to implement the pr repayment of the

2:56:57 ↗ 2019

2:56:58 ↗ inner fund loan between the sewer fund

2:57:01 ↗ and the street capital fund

2:57:02 ↗ uh it implements budget changes

2:57:05 ↗ associated with earlier council

2:57:07 ↗ action as well as various corrections to

2:57:10 ↗ the 2020 budget

2:57:13 ↗ there are a total of seven budget

2:57:14 ↗ amendments included in tonight's

2:57:16 ↗ proposal

2:57:17 ↗ they are divided into three categories

2:57:19 ↗ the first is the previously approved

2:57:21 ↗ requests

2:57:22 ↗ so these are items that were already

2:57:24 ↗ approved in concept

2:57:25 ↗ by the city council via other agenda

2:57:27 ↗ bills and this budget amendment includes

2:57:29 ↗ three previously approved items the

2:57:32 ↗ second type is budget corrections

2:57:34 ↗ these are items that are technical

2:57:36 ↗ corrections to the 2020 adopted budget

2:57:39 ↗ that were identified subsequent to the

2:57:41 ↗ city council adopting the budget

2:57:44 ↗ and this amendment contains three budget

2:57:46 ↗ corrections

2:57:48 ↗ and the third type is a budget

2:57:50 ↗ adjustment these are requests that

2:57:52 ↗ are new or um and

2:57:56 ↗ that have not been previously considered

2:57:57 ↗ by the city council

2:57:59 ↗ and this budget amendment includes one

2:58:01 ↗ adjustment

2:58:03 ↗ so we're looking first at the previously

2:58:05 ↗ approved request

2:58:06 ↗ uh the first is ab-8003

2:58:11 ↗ which was just a couple of weeks ago

2:58:13 ↗ approved 41

2:58:14 ↗ 900 of additional water fund revenues

2:58:17 ↗ for

2:58:18 ↗ the forest rim reservoirs retrofits

2:58:21 ↗ and cougar ridge automatic isolation

2:58:23 ↗ valve projects

2:58:24 ↗ as a result of a higher project bid than

2:58:26 ↗ anticipated in the 2020 adopted budget

2:58:29 ↗ this amendment would increase

2:58:31 ↗ expenditures in the water fund by forty

2:58:33 ↗ one thousand nine hundred dollars

2:58:35 ↗ the second previously approved request

2:58:37 ↗ uh was ab-7983

2:58:40 ↗ back in june which authorized the city

2:58:42 ↗ to enter into an agreement with king

2:58:43 ↗ county to receive one-time funding

2:58:46 ↗ totaling two thousand dollars to help to

2:58:48 ↗ provide

2:58:49 ↗ housing stability during coven-19

2:58:51 ↗ response recovery

2:58:52 ↗ this amendment records the two thousand

2:58:54 ↗ dollars of new revenue to the general

2:58:56 ↗ fund

2:58:56 ↗ and authorizes an equivalent amount of

2:58:58 ↗ spending out of the general

2:59:00 ↗ fund the

2:59:03 ↗ third previously approved request which

2:59:05 ↗ is really the main purpose of tonight's

2:59:08 ↗ amendment is the various transfers

2:59:10 ↗ needed to repay that 2019

2:59:12 ↗ interfund loan between the sewer fund

2:59:14 ↗ and the street capital fund

2:59:16 ↗ to provide a little background for our

2:59:17 ↗ newer council members this interfund

2:59:20 ↗ loan

2:59:20 ↗ was initiated initiated in 2019 excuse

2:59:23 ↗ me in november of 2019

2:59:26 ↗ to begin work on tr031 which was the

2:59:29 ↗ southeast 43rd way

2:59:31 ↗ or providence point signal improvements

2:59:34 ↗ prior

2:59:34 ↗ to securing debt financing in early

2:59:36 ↗ 2020.

2:59:38 ↗ this allowed the project to begin work

2:59:39 ↗ in 2019 with the understanding that when

2:59:41 ↗ debt

2:59:42 ↗ financing was secured the loan would be

2:59:44 ↗ repaid with interest

2:59:45 ↗ with the debt financing now secured this

2:59:48 ↗ amendment seeks to transfer the bond

2:59:49 ↗ proceeds

2:59:50 ↗ to the city funds where the capital

2:59:52 ↗ projects uh

2:59:53 ↗ that were intended to be supported are

2:59:56 ↗ budgeted

2:59:57 ↗ as well as repay that inter-fund loan

2:59:59 ↗ and the resulting interest

3:00:03 ↗ there are three budget corrections

3:00:06 ↗ including this amendment as well

3:00:07 ↗ the first is in december of 2019

3:00:12 ↗ the city completed a different interfund

3:00:14 ↗ loan

3:00:15 ↗ which was a repayment from the street

3:00:17 ↗ capital fund to the fleet fund

3:00:20 ↗ as was adopted in 2019 uh that amendment

3:00:24 ↗ granted the loan repayment of uh three

3:00:26 ↗ million one hundred and forty two

3:00:28 ↗ thousand dollars

3:00:29 ↗ um including the initial three million

3:00:31 ↗ dollar loan and subsequent interest

3:00:34 ↗ that interest has since been

3:00:36 ↗ recalculated it was based on an estimate

3:00:39 ↗ and this resulted in an overpayment of

3:00:42 ↗ 1057

3:00:43 ↗ that will need to be returned to the

3:00:45 ↗ mitigation fund by way of

3:00:47 ↗ the street capital fund following the

3:00:49 ↗ same path as

3:00:50 ↗ that original loan repayment and

3:00:53 ↗ interest

3:00:55 ↗ the fifth item excuse me a little too

3:00:58 ↗ fast

3:00:59 ↗ was that the city under budgeted the

3:01:03 ↗ cost of the 2020

3:01:04 ↗ washington city's insurance authority or

3:01:06 ↗ the wcia

3:01:08 ↗ annual payment this is our insurance

3:01:11 ↗ provider

3:01:12 ↗ based on an estimate received in july of

3:01:15 ↗ 2019.

3:01:16 ↗ so while the general insurance fund the

3:01:19 ↗ city's fund has sufficient balance to

3:01:21 ↗ absorb that extra cost

3:01:23 ↗ the city will need the increased

3:01:25 ↗ expenditure authority to pay that annual

3:01:27 ↗ invoice

3:01:30 ↗ the sixth item and the third budget

3:01:33 ↗ correction item

3:01:35 ↗ was uh due to an error in the 2019

3:01:38 ↗ budget

3:01:39 ↗ the authorized expenditures for pk008

3:01:42 ↗ which is the bike park

3:01:43 ↗ exceeded the budgeted revenue

3:01:47 ↗ eight hundred by 19809 dollars the

3:01:49 ↗ intended revenue source was park

3:01:50 ↗ mitigation and impact fees

3:01:52 ↗ uh this amendment just transfers that

3:01:54 ↗ that discrepancy that 19809

3:01:57 ↗ from the mitigation fund to the park

3:01:58 ↗ capital fund to support the previously

3:02:01 ↗ authorized project expenditures

3:02:03 ↗ it doesn't reflect um any change in

3:02:05 ↗ project expenditures or in scope of the

3:02:08 ↗ project

3:02:08 ↗ it just fixes a mismatched

3:02:11 ↗ transfer in the 2019 budget

3:02:16 ↗ the seventh and final amendment included

3:02:19 ↗ tonight is the only budget adjustment

3:02:23 ↗ and the 2019 park capital project of the

3:02:26 ↗ falls drive trail

3:02:27 ↗ improvements which was tl001 was

3:02:30 ↗ completed in 2019

3:02:32 ↗ returning approximately fifty six

3:02:34 ↗ thousand dollars to the park capital

3:02:36 ↗ fund balance

3:02:37 ↗ uh this amendment appropriates fifty

3:02:39 ↗ thousand

3:02:40 ↗ of these unspent funds to support

3:02:42 ↗ emergency trail repairs needed on the

3:02:43 ↗ squawk mountain access

3:02:45 ↗ trail near the kalkari development

3:02:48 ↗ and the original source of this fifty

3:02:50 ↗ thousand dollars was

3:02:51 ↗ uh real estate excise tax or reach one

3:02:54 ↗ revenue

3:02:56 ↗ so with all of those amendments together

3:03:00 ↗ uh this shows this just summarizes the

3:03:02 ↗ impact

3:03:03 ↗ on each fund

3:03:07 ↗ that would be impacted by these

3:03:08 ↗ amendments the net impact across

3:03:10 ↗ all funds would be a hit

3:03:13 ↗ of four hundred and twenty four thousand

3:03:16 ↗ nine hundred and seventy nine dollars

3:03:18 ↗ the impact to the general fund would be

3:03:20 ↗ a net zero

3:03:21 ↗ impact um and with that

3:03:24 ↗ that is the end of my presentation i am

3:03:27 ↗ of course happy to answer any questions

3:03:30 ↗ that you may have thank you susie

3:03:34 ↗ uh council president hunt before we move

3:03:36 ↗ into council questions can you let me

3:03:38 ↗ know

3:03:38 ↗ if you have received any public comments

3:03:40 ↗ on this topic

3:03:42 ↗ thank you we did not receive public

3:03:43 ↗ comments on this topic

3:03:45 ↗ great um thank you for that looking into

3:03:49 ↗ the chat box to see if there are any

3:03:50 ↗ questions on the amendment

3:03:56 ↗ and if not if someone would care to make

3:03:58 ↗ a motion

3:04:01 ↗ council president hunt thank you mr

3:04:04 ↗ council president hunt i move to adopt

3:04:06 ↗ ordinance number

3:04:07 ↗ 2919 amending the 2020 budget has set

3:04:10 ↗ forth in ordinance number

3:04:12 ↗ 2888 and amended in ordinance number

3:04:16 ↗ 2908 concerning revenues expenditures

3:04:19 ↗ and fund balance for various funds for

3:04:20 ↗ the year 2020

3:04:23 ↗ and deputy council president ray this is

3:04:26 ↗ chris ray i second the motion

3:04:29 ↗ it's been moved and seconded is there

3:04:30 ↗ any discussion

3:04:39 ↗ being none i will ask the clerk to

3:04:42 ↗ please proceed with the roll call vote

3:04:54 ↗ my apologies council member hall

3:04:59 ↗ aye sorry call me okay council president

3:05:03 ↗ hunt

3:05:04 ↗ aye council member martz

3:05:08 ↗ aye deputy council president ray

3:05:11 ↗ aye council member walsh

3:05:15 ↗ aye council member d michelle

3:05:18 ↗ aye councilmember goodman

3:05:22 ↗ aye that's 7i zero nays

3:05:26 ↗ thank you that passes unanimously the

3:05:28 ↗ next item on our agenda this evening is

3:05:30 ↗ for good of the order if anybody has any

3:05:32 ↗ items could you raise your hand in the

3:05:33 ↗ chat box

3:05:39 ↗ oh there we go uh council member hall

3:05:43 ↗ thanks mayor paulie i'll be really brief

3:05:44 ↗ this is zach hall

3:05:46 ↗ um council president hunt brought up

3:05:50 ↗ um cougar mountain zoo and i just wanted

3:05:53 ↗ to share with the council two weekends

3:05:54 ↗ ago i went

3:05:55 ↗ to the zoo for the first time in maybe

3:05:59 ↗ 20 years

3:06:00 ↗ and i was thoroughly impressed with

3:06:03 ↗ the operation that they have going on

3:06:05 ↗ there especially given kovit making sure

3:06:07 ↗ everyone

3:06:08 ↗ is separated requiring face masks but

3:06:10 ↗ also just

3:06:11 ↗ the sheer amount of new exhibits and

3:06:14 ↗ animals that are there

3:06:15 ↗ and the care keepers that i met

3:06:18 ↗ who are just so dedicated to their

3:06:20 ↗ relationships with the animals so i just

3:06:22 ↗ you guys should all go again

3:06:26 ↗ thank you for that council member hall

3:06:28 ↗ we have a really good partner up there

3:06:30 ↗ at the zoo that is for sure and they've

3:06:32 ↗ worked really hard

3:06:33 ↗ to make this work during co-ed and

3:06:34 ↗ provide our community with an

3:06:36 ↗ opportunity to visit the game

3:06:37 ↗ so i plus one you on that any other

3:06:41 ↗ comments for good of the order

3:06:44 ↗ okay the upcoming council meetings will

3:06:47 ↗ all be held virtually there's a city

3:06:49 ↗ council special session meeting

3:06:51 ↗ monday august 2 10th and the potential

3:06:54 ↗ agenda items include

3:06:56 ↗ the issaquah police accountability

3:06:58 ↗ equity and human services action plan

3:07:00 ↗ and there will be an executive session

3:07:02 ↗ as well in the city council study

3:07:04 ↗ session tuesday august 11th the

3:07:06 ↗ potential agenda items include quarterly

3:07:08 ↗ reporting

3:07:09 ↗ and revenue forecasting uh the august

3:07:12 ↗ 17th city council meeting has been

3:07:14 ↗ cancelled and the next regular city

3:07:16 ↗ council meeting will be on tuesday

3:07:18 ↗ september 8th

3:07:19 ↗ at 7 pm and a game that is in line with

3:07:21 ↗ what council member marx was saying

3:07:23 ↗ august tends to be a month where

3:07:25 ↗ we encourage everyone to take a break

3:07:27 ↗ the last item

3:07:29 ↗ we have today is our executive session

3:07:31 ↗ and as was earlier announced there will

3:07:33 ↗ be an executive session this evening

3:07:35 ↗ to discuss potential pending or

3:07:38 ↗ potential litigation per

3:07:41 ↗ 42.30.110 per n1 parent i

3:07:43 ↗ this item is expected to last and i'm

3:07:45 ↗ going to say 20 minutes recognizing that

3:07:47 ↗ it may take up to 30.

3:07:49 ↗ no action is anticipated to follow an

3:07:51 ↗ open session and we will now recess into

3:07:54 ↗ executive session

3:07:55 ↗ at 10 06 pm i ask the clerk to move

3:07:58 ↗ anyone who is not part of the closed

3:08:00 ↗ session to the virtual lobby

3:08:02 ↗ and those in the lobby are welcome to

3:08:03 ↗ stay on the line until the meeting is

3:08:05 ↗ reconfirmed

3:08:06 ↗ reconvened

3:08:14 ↗ i'm assuming and head nods are fine that

3:08:17 ↗ you are fine recognizing the potential

3:08:18 ↗ length of the meeting but

3:08:20 ↗ actually having me call it a little

3:08:32 ↗ shorter

3:23:09 ↗ okay and i have readmitted

3:23:13 ↗ gabe and it looks like we still have

3:23:15 ↗ david johnson on the call

3:23:17 ↗ so uh mayor paulie we should just check

3:23:20 ↗ in with gabe to ensure he's got the

3:23:22 ↗ uh live stream going again great i'll do

3:23:25 ↗ that

3:23:26 ↗ thank you gabe so we are back in open

3:23:29 ↗ session

3:23:30 ↗ at uh 10 22 p.m and there being no

3:23:33 ↗ further business

3:23:34 ↗ the meeting is adjourned at 10 22 p.m

3:23:37 ↗ thank you all

3:23:44 ↗ you

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (4)

Adopt Ordinance No. 2915, amending Chapter 16.36 of the Issaquah Municipal Code relating to Areas of Special Flood Hazard, providing for severability and establishing an effective date. . 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

1) Adopt Ordinance No. 2916, amending Section 13.24.110(C) of the Issaquah Municipal Code relating to Water Rates, and establishing January 1, 2021 as the effective date. 2) Adopt Ordinance No. 2917, amending Section 13.30.050(C) of the Issaquah Municipal Code relating to Stormwater Rates, and estab…

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

Direct the Finance Director to include an additional $25,000 for Village Theatre in a subsequent 2020 budget amendment utilizing the Municipal Art Fund; and authorize the amendment of Village Theatre's 2020 arts grant contract to increase the funding amount from $50,000 to $75,000. . d)

Moved by HUNT · seconded by GOODMAN

Carried 7-0

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

Adopt Ordinance No. 2919, amending the 2020 budget as set forth in Ordinance No. 2888 and amended in Ordinance No. 2908 concerning revenues, expenditures, and fund balance for various funds for the year 2020. .

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