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one i call the september 21st city
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council meeting to order
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we are doing a remote meeting this
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evening
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and before we move on to tonight's
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agenda items i'd like to
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not acknowledge what our remote meeting
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format looks like
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on march 6 i issued an emergency
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proclamation declaring a civil emergency
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in the city
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due to the covid19 outbreak on march
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24th the governor issued proclamation
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20-28 prohibiting meetings that fall
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under the open public meetings act such
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as our city council
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meetings from being conducted in person
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the prohibition has been extended
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through october 1st
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the tonight's meeting will be held
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entirely remotely the meeting will be
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recorded
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streamed live and available for later
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viewing on the city's youtube channel
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a call-in number was provided on the
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meeting agenda for members of the public
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who wish to call in by phone
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to listen live to the meeting or make
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comments with those members of the
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public on the call
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welcome and for those of you who have
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submitted
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the online form to make comments your
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name will be called
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under the audience comments portion of
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this meeting and if there is anyone on
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the call who did not
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sign up but would like to make comments
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tonight
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please press star 3 on your phone and we
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will add you to our speakers list this
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evening
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i am going to check in on the attendance
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of our council members and we'll be
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taking a roll call of the council
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members in attendance so
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please stay here when i call your name
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councilmember d michelle
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here thank you councilmember goodman
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here
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councilmember hall here council
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president hunt
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here councilmember marks yes
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deputy council president ray here
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and council member walsh here
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all seven council members are here this
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evening we also have various staff
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participating in tonight's meeting
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including city administrator wally
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bopkowicz
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deputy city administrator andrea snyder
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i did see
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our director of parks and community
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services jeff watling is on
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transportation manager john mortensen
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economic development manager jen davis
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hayes
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human services and social sustainability
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coordinator monica negrilla
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city attorney jim haney and deputy city
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clerk trisha geezer
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other city staff may also be in
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attendance this evening
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i'd like to reiterate some meeting
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guidelines
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please remember to speak clearly and
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pause frequently
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state your name each time before
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speaking mute your microphone
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when you're not speaking and for members
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of the public if you're also streaming
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the live video feed
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please turn down the sound off please
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turn the sound off
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as there is a bit of a delay on the next
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item on the agenda for this evening is
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the pledge of allegiance and i would ask
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if your microphones could be muted
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but please feel free to join me in the
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pledge of allegiance
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i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
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united states of america
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and to the republic for which it stands
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one nation
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under god indivisible with liberty and
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justice for all
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the next item on the agenda this evening
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is audience comment
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and i know we have people signed up to
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speak this evening
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so um i want to
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make sure that i provide a little
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guidance before we start
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so um please make sure to direct your
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comments to the whole council
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and not individuals and while this
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audience comments is not a question and
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answer session we will contact you to
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follow up if needed
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when you are recognized please unmute
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your microphone and on your phone star
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sticks
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may be that option state your name and
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address
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and relationship to the city speak
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clearly and pause frequently
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uh please limit your comments to five
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minutes and re-mute your microphone when
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done
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there's also public hearing this evening
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on ab7993
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temporary regulatory relief for
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businesses
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use of sidewalk private property and
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signage interim zoning regulations
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if you would like to make comments on
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this topic you will have an opportunity
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later in the meeting
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if you do not respond after your name or
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phone number is called or if your
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connection is lost unexpectedly
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the meeting will need to proceed so i'm
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getting a note from the clerk
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that there may have been a person in
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here under the public hearing that is
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not for this evening
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yes mayor polly i'm sorry i'd like to
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clarify that was
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my mistake on the public hearing the
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public hearing being held tonight is on
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the topic of the transportation
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improvement program
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thank you
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thank you very much for that um
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so if you did not respond after your
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name or phone number has been called or
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if your connection is lost unexpectedly
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the meeting will still need to proceed
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and you are encouraged to rejoin the
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meeting if you are able to
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again for those who have joined us
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tonight and would like to speak but did
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not sign up in advance
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please press star 3 now on your phone
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and we will call the first six digits of
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your phone number when it's your turn to
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make comments
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personal attacks obscene language
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derogatory remarks and disruptive
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behavior will not be permitted and if a
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speaker is out of order i will ask them
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to stop and meet their microphone if the
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speaker does not comply i may have to
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direct staff to mute their microphone
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and if a disruption to the meeting
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occurs an order cannot be restored i may
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direct staff to remove you from the call
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citizens comments both written and
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verbal are an important aspect of the
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public process
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and the city takes these comments
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seriously we thank you for taking the
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time to come in tonight and to address
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us
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so city clerk could you please identify
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the first person who signed up to speak
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this evening
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yes i don't see the first person who had
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signed up which was beth
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jayvin's best i don't see your number
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here if you are on the call
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please press star three to raise your
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hand and let us know you're here
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the next speaker signed up is sharon
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freya's sharon i'm on muting you now
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thank you very much my name is sharon
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fries
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the owner of art by fire along with my
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husband
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at 195 front street north i'm also the
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vice president of dia
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um i'd like to thank the city council
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for their
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consideration and all the hard work
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they've put in during this pandemic
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this is not easy times it calls for much
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wisdom and decision making
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and thank you for your service i wanted
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to speak tonight
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in support of the cares act bill that
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has been put
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in front of city council this
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strikes what i believe is a good
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balanced approach for issaquah
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it does provide money for human services
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it also provides money for economic
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support
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the best thing we can do for all of us
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is to move forward on trying to get back
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on a more
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even normal keel and create that
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feeling of normalcy for the community
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supporting our businesses and providing
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this the environment like we have with
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the streetery where people can feel a
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sense of community
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and feel a chance to engage and relax
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and feel a little more
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close to a normal life is
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in my opinion the best thing we can do
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to move things forward
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and make life better for everyone in
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issaquah
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creating that sense of normalcy and
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attracting
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people to the downtown will help
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stabilize our tax base and having
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a good strong tax base is the best thing
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we can do
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to support the city and its ability to
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be able to provide
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additional human services for everyone
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so thank you very much i'm very proud to
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be part of dia
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and this i'm extremely thrilled with how
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the city
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india have worked together to pull this
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together
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and create a good community program for
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the whole community to feel like we are
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truly welcome and
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getting somewhat back to normal so
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thank you for your consideration tonight
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and i appreciate the time to speak
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thank you thank you sharon city claire
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who's next up on our list this evening
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the next speaker is art freeze and
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art i've unmuted you hello this is art
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freeze
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also owner of art by fire
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um at 195 uh north front street
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um if we're going to recover from the
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the pandemic we need to have that
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business space to be there
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that business base depends on each of
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the businesses making it through
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and from the people side that we have
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four employees in our business we have
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people who make glass
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we have people who run our gallery we
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have people who
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help us with our marketing and
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you know this program is going to help
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the other businesses
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bring people down into the town it may
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help our business directly
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and that's that's really critical that
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we survive this because
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we serve the people as well in in
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interesting ways
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we got a email the other day
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of sony begging us you know like how can
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i come down and make an ornament with my
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wife
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we've done this for 12 years you know we
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we want to keep that alive
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and to be there when things
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open back up the businesses need to
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survive this tough time
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um we make a lot of our
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you know yearly income for the business
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is made
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from you know events bringing people in
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to make ornaments
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um and it just for all these businesses
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on front street and
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gilman and throughout the town they've
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got to make it through this time because
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all their businesses are you know our
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way down
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um the street area has been really good
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and you know there's been a godsend
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in helping us in this summer
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but as the weather gets colder we're not
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going to have the
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the streetery you know all you know all
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year
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or through december or january probably
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so
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you know we're going to need other help
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to get it through those those tough
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times
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and i don't want to see you know
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i want to see front street be that
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vibrant place that
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you know made us decide to contin
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by the business and continue art by fire
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is part of the community
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and i really want to thank the city for
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being a partner to us
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through this difficult time thank you
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very much
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and um that's it for me
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thank you art did you cut our coup next
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up on our list this evening
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next we have rick reagan rick i've
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unmuted you
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thank you i appreciate you guys giving
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me a few minutes to talk i feel like
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i'll be saying some of the same things
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that other members and other
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merchants have already said but i want
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to first start off by saying thank you
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to all the volunteers
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you know i'm out there setting up
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outside the restaurant
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um on a weekly basis and they are so
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open to coming in
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and helping and and doing what is
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whatever
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is needed to make sure that we have a a
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really successful streetery event on
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that friday and saturday
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sunday night um i can tell you that in
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my
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past experience i did a lot of event
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planning and uh so i have a
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understanding of what it takes to
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organize such an event and execute it
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and execute it flawlessly and and safely
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and
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and the team that's been in charge of
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doing so has just done a fantastic job
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so
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a big thank you to the city of issaquah
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to the downtown association and to all
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the merchants working together
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i think some really solid relationships
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have been formed
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um over the summer both between
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the association and the americans and
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between the merchants as well
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so it's been a real pleasure
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i also have been a great opportunity to
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get feedback from a lot of our citizens
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since i interact with quite a few of
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them on a daily basis in the restaurant
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i try to table touch just about every
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table and i've gotten a really
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consistent message
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of hope and i think that's really
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powerful a message of
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we're all in this together what can we
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do to
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make sure that the streetery or
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something similar continues on
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not only is it good for the merchants
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it's good for and
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the restaurant merchants and the other
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merchants surrounding but i truly feel
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that it's good for the overall health of
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our community
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it brings all of us together in these
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troubled times
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so from my standpoint in my little
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business i can tell you that the street
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area has brought apart
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uh about a 55 overall increase in in my
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revenue
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uh that's enabled me to bring back two
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full-time employees back to the
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restaurant
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you know and be able to so they can
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provide for their families which is just
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wonderful
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it's also provided much needed cash flow
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for myself and my family
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if but it's troubling as we get towards
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the end of
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summer of what we're going to do if if
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we still remain
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in the same phase as we are right now
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i'm deeply troubled with what the fall
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and winter could bring to all of us
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so i i really am available to brainstorm
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on ideas
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of how we can all work together and
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continue the positive
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um progress that we've made
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uh i'd also want to take a moment to
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just remind all of us and this is
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a reminder for me and my wife reese as
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well that you know it's got to be a
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single vision
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for all of us it can't just be a vision
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that works for the restaurants but
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doesn't work for the merchants or vice
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versa
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it's really got to be a vision that we
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create the reason i bought and i might
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have said this last time the reason i
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bought that business and this
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was one i fell in love with the food and
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i fell in love with the team but i fell
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in love with this little community and i
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just feel blessed to be a part of it
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each and every day so i look forward to
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it i thank everyone who's been involved
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please let's all be open and really
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really brainstorm on how we can and what
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we can do to continue the motive
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momentum that we've gotten over the the
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summer and bring that into the fall so
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it's just been a pleasure and i look
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forward to working with all of you
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thank you rick thank you um and before
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we go to the next speaker
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um it is fine if you want to reiterate
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that
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you support the comments that you've
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heard already
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that's great and then just feel free to
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add on anything new that you want to add
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the rick you
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you did both we heard some new things
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from you as well so
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uh next speaker city clerk yes the next
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speaker who's raised their hand
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is the caller with the last two digits
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one nine
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i've unmuted you hi
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i think that's me i'm shawna london and
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um i'm a long time issaquah resident and
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i'm a dia volunteer
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and i'm also a mental health
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psychotherapist
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practicing busier than i've ever been
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during this trying time so i speak from
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all those places i i too am very proud
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to be connected to this city
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and what we have done to get through
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this together
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is just i i eat at this reedery probably
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every weekend and i just
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feel good on so many levels good about
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my community good about myself
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good about the helping the restaurants
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it's just a great thing but truly as a
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mental health
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practitioner i will tell you that
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particularly after the smoke thing and
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everything
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people are just needing to have
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safer places to go this is not something
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that's going to end soon we are in it
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for the long haul and
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and encourage issaquah to extend the
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streetery as long as it's
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viable and then to keep thinking of
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ideas that can help people to get out
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and feel like we're connected it really
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is going to help
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us all get through thank you again
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for all that you do and for just making
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things like this possible
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appreciate your time
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thank you shawna and who is our next
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speaker this evening
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our next speaker is the phone and caller
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with the last two-digit zero
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seven i've unmuted you
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hi this is bob hanna i'm a volunteer
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with the dia uh been
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doing it uh since the inception of this
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3d streetery
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and years before with our
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jazz sessions and other other projects
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just to reiterate what rick and
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daniel sharon has said
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there are a lot of
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merchants and restaurant owners and
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people that really haven't talked with
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each other
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that haven't come together until we were
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faced with these trying times and
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the sense of community that
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i've seen and how it's grown since we
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first started this is very impressive
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i've
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been in the area i've taught paragliding
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since 1992
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at tiger mountain and very much
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feel like i'm a part of the community i
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know that there are alternatives that we
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can
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do as a community hopefully with funds
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that are available
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to keep the streetery going
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increase the possibility of
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more days in the week and
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just make it so that people like rick
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and all our other
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merchants have a place that people know
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that they can come to
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and be able to enjoy themselves and
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as our mental health professional just
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said just
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have a sense of well-being and
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the number of smiles that we've seen and
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the number of people
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that we've seen from out of our
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community that actively
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uh made it a point to come to issaquah
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just because of that feeling i think is
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is wonderful so thank you very much for
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allowing me to speak
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i look forward to doing whatever i can
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to help implement some sort of a
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semi-permanent temporary solution
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to the problems we have with our
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rainy weather season and for what i've
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seen in other parts of the world i know
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that we can certainly do something
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that would be appropriate for our rainy
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seasons that
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would still allow the merchants to have
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the people come and be a part of our
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community
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thank you very much thank you bob
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uh city clerk who do we have next up to
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speak
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our next caller is the individual with
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the last
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two digits zero four i've unmuted you
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i think that's me is that correct we can
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hear you coming through yes all right
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thank you so much
19:53
um just wanted to say good evening uh
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council and mary lou
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my name is kim christensen i live on
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gibson lane
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off wildwood on the back side of squat
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mountain i've been there for 26 years
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and like bob i'm a volunteer for the
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downtown isquad association
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and if you've been to the screenery bob
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and i
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typically man that front
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and sunset vehicle the the black
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vehicle that the the black suv
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on sunset and front street for the
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emergency purposes
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uh first thing i want to say is thank
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you
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to um the the um approval
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by the um council for when we did our
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first two-week
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um
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um issue with with the the pilot program
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and the council approved us continuing
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forward
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and i sure thank them and uh thank you
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so much
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being at the position i'm at i have an
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opportunity to speak to a lot of people
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a lot of people coming
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into the streetery or exiting the
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streetery
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and i probably speak to i'm guessing
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probably 20 people on a weekend i'm
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there
21:19
friday saturday and sunday spend about
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30 hours
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every weekend and not one person has had
21:27
a negative
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comment everybody has been very positive
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of thank you
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great thing do it again continue after
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the virus
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we're very positive on this you know
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thank you for volunteering and
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this is a great thing and everybody has
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been very positive
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i know ken of jax pretty well
21:52
and he at jacks and l42
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and they have been so positive of god
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thank you so much
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this has been a really good opportunity
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for us to increase our revenue
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and um very very positive so i would
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just say that
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if we can do you know whatever we can do
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and work together with the city
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is if we can extend to some degree
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our our tenting
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whatever we can kind of do to continue
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the streetery i think that the um
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merchants would be very positive to that
22:34
effect
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and you know we will do that dia of
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course whatever we can do
22:40
to entertain that and be positive and
22:43
and be
22:44
be helpful on that so i i just i thank
22:48
you so much so
22:49
anyway thank you so much take care
22:54
thank you kim and thank you for all of
22:56
the speakers for volunteering we
22:58
appreciate that
23:00
uh to the career cause there's someone
23:01
else on the line our audience comments
23:03
at this time no one else has indicated a
23:06
desire to speak but one last call
23:08
out if there's anyone else on the line
23:09
who'd like to make comments this evening
23:11
and hasn't already please press star 3
23:13
on your phone
23:14
that's star 3 to let us know you'd like
23:17
to speak
23:19
and i'm just taking a quick look here i
23:21
see one more caller
23:23
two more callers who've indicated a
23:25
desire to speak the first one
23:27
is the caller with the last two digits
23:29
zero four
23:30
i've unmuted you
23:34
hi thank you very much for the
23:35
opportunity to speak real quick um
23:37
my name is ken from jack's grill and
23:39
from l42 canteen and sunset hill house
23:41
and
23:42
thank you kim for the very nice comments
23:44
and thank you very much to
23:46
everybody from the city of and the
23:48
downtown squat association for
23:50
everything that they've done to
23:53
make the streetery happen and all the
23:56
volunteers and
23:58
just the incredible like
24:01
just effort to come together to just to
24:03
make it happen i know
24:04
that there's a lot of red tape that has
24:06
to happen to allow
24:08
something of that magnitude happen and
24:10
it really has been
24:12
an incredible um it's been an incredible
24:16
way for us to
24:18
welcome back a lot of our guests who are
24:21
unwilling to dine indoors for um
24:24
for various reasons and i and that's
24:27
great
24:28
and to be able to get a lot of them back
24:31
and see their faces and to be able to
24:33
serve them and take care of them
24:36
with the ability to seat outdoors has
24:37
been incredible
24:39
it's it's allowed me with the
24:42
restaurants on front street and also
24:44
with the city's um kindness to allow
24:48
some help over at the at the ale house
24:51
where we're
24:52
in a parking lot and have some outdoor
24:54
seating has really allowed not just our
24:56
our issaquah businesses to survive but
24:59
we have two businesses in seattle that
25:01
do not have any outdoor seating did not
25:03
get the kind of support that we've had
25:04
in issaquah
25:07
with the streets being able to be closed
25:09
and the red tape to be able to be
25:11
gotten through in order to help those
25:13
businesses
25:14
um uh the way that the issaquah has come
25:17
together to do it so it's
25:18
it's been able to continue to bolster my
25:21
ability to keep all my staff
25:22
that i have on at the seattle stores not
25:25
just just aqua so i want you to know
25:26
that the impact is farther reaching than
25:28
just the community that it serves and i
25:31
live out here
25:31
my all my business partners live on the
25:34
east side
25:35
and um we can't thank you enough so uh
25:38
whatever we can do
25:39
to move forward and help both the
25:42
streetery and the city of issaquah
25:44
to help make decisions that do the kind
25:47
of things
25:48
this has done we're all for it and i'm
25:51
easy to reach i'm always around
25:52
and i just really want to say thank you
25:55
for everything so that's
25:56
it thank you that's great so declare we
25:59
have one more
26:01
we do the next speaker is christina
26:03
bruning christine i have unmuted you
26:07
okay thank you this is christina bruning
26:10
of the board president of the downtown
26:12
issaquah association and madame mayor
26:16
and members of the council on behalf of
26:19
the downtown issaquah association which
26:21
includes
26:22
merchants and members of the community i
26:25
personally have the pleasure
26:27
of extending our sincere gratitude to
26:29
all of you for your support
26:31
our mission is to cultivate a thriving
26:34
old town
26:35
that builds community and celebrates our
26:37
charm
26:39
the regulatory relief and the streetery
26:42
have made a significant
26:44
and positive impact on the quality of
26:46
life
26:47
during these uncertain times
26:53
numerous businesses have leveraged the
26:55
sidewalk and private lot use
26:58
this treatery footprint and even a local
27:01
park
27:01
to expand their business service areas
27:05
about 80 percent or 19
27:09
of the eateries in the heart of old town
27:12
have participated in the streetery and
27:14
private law use
27:17
of the five non-participating
27:20
two eateries remain closed and two are
27:23
continuing
27:24
a take-out business model at this
27:26
particular time
27:29
countless volunteers have dedicated
27:33
themselves to being good neighbors and
27:36
lending a helping hand
27:38
a generous smile and deep gratitude to
27:41
support our community in surviving
27:44
all with the simple hope that the fabric
27:48
of our historic district remains strong
27:52
and has the potential of thriving in the
27:54
future
27:56
the straitery itself is a true community
28:00
collaboration merchant teams community
28:03
members
28:04
and city staff have all rolled up their
28:06
sleeves
28:08
with competing priorities across the
28:12
city for both human services
28:14
and economic development we recognize
28:16
the challenge to meet all the needs
28:20
we're recommending the city council
28:22
support agenda bill
28:24
8032 and allocating funds to both
28:27
important needs in our great city
28:31
supporting the straightery supports 19
28:34
eateries plus retail and service
28:37
businesses
28:38
as well as the health of our community
28:43
historic downtown issaquah boasts a
28:45
strong
28:46
community of business and
28:49
people who live work and play stretching
28:52
the value of our dollars beyond
28:54
the benefit of a single business
29:00
the pedestrian way has been embraced by
29:02
the community
29:03
as a safe place to stroll
29:07
and recreate enjoy family and pets
29:10
and support restaurants retail and
29:13
service businesses
29:14
in a healthy way outside
29:17
among our issaquah treasures and with
29:20
the mountains as a backdrop
29:23
as the seasons shift the district
29:26
the district is continuing to look for
29:28
creative ways
29:29
to remain open during the next six
29:32
months
29:34
we asked the city of issaquah to
29:35
continue to support the regulatory
29:37
relief efforts
29:38
established earlier this year to ease
29:41
doing business in issaquah
29:44
again it's my pleasure to thank you all
29:46
for your leadership
29:47
of our community and support of a
29:50
historic downtown district that is alive
29:53
inviting and vibrant thank you so much
29:57
for all of your service
30:00
thank you christina i'm going to check
30:02
in with the city clerk and see if there
30:04
is anyone else signed up and then i will
30:06
summarize if not
30:08
no one else has signed up or indicated a
30:10
desire to speak
30:12
thank you city clerk so we heard from
30:16
a lot of the partners tonight that work
30:19
with the city on trying
30:20
these innovative and creative ideas
30:23
during a very difficult time
30:24
so thank everybody for coming we heard
30:26
about the benefit to the businesses the
30:28
benefit to the community
30:30
and creating those community connections
30:32
where people can actually
30:34
see their friends and look at them eye
30:35
to eye and we've also heard from some
30:37
retailers down
30:39
in old town as well thank you all for
30:41
coming in this evening
30:42
and sharing your thoughts with our city
30:44
council and my administrative team
30:46
please stay around with us for the rest
30:48
of the meeting or you're
30:49
able to drop off and watch it on home
30:51
and video if you'd like
30:53
thank you all
30:57
i also want to remind viewers and those
31:00
that are here tonight
31:01
that written comments can also be
31:03
submitted at any time to the city
31:05
council at their email address
31:07
city council at isco issaquah.gov
31:13
in addition any comments that were
31:14
received by email on any of tonight's
31:16
agenda topics will be acknowledged by
31:18
the council president
31:19
count by council president hunt under
31:21
the relevant agenda item
31:23
the next item of business this evening
31:25
is committee and regional reports
31:27
and i will start by calling on council
31:29
member hall
31:33
thank you mayor paulie this is zach hall
31:35
just pull over my notes real quick i
31:37
have three quick reports uh for council
31:39
today
31:40
uh first um the next meeting of the king
31:43
county affordable housing committee is
31:45
on
31:46
wednesday september 30th at 1pm
31:49
unfortunately though i don't have an
31:50
agenda for that meeting yet so i'm not
31:51
able to share
31:52
but if you're interested in the ongoing
31:54
work of the affordable housing committee
31:56
let me know and i'll let you know first
31:57
thing
31:58
when i know um
32:01
the next meeting of the king county
32:04
city's climate collaboration
32:05
uh is an elected official's work session
32:08
on thursday october 8th at 3 p.m
32:11
during that time the group hopes to
32:13
discuss shared climate priorities ahead
32:15
of the
32:16
2021 legislative session uh here
32:19
highlights from king county's 2020
32:21
strategic climate action plan
32:23
and then also see the final version of
32:25
the climate action toolkit so
32:27
long-awaited toolkit so feel free to let
32:29
me know if you'd like to tune in
32:31
city council or community members
32:34
and then lastly the next meeting of the
32:37
cascade water alliance board of
32:39
directors
32:40
is this coming wednesday at 3 30 pm
32:43
uh we'll again be discussing the
32:45
organization's 2021-22 budget and rates
32:49
options
32:50
uh and at the last board meeting we were
32:52
presented with a number of policy
32:53
questions that will help guide our
32:55
conversation about budgets
32:56
and rates and earlier today i forwarded
32:59
that information on
33:01
those items to the city council and i'll
33:03
be asking for your guidance
33:05
you may have for mayor paulie or mayor
33:07
paulie and i during tonight's
33:09
good of the order and that concludes my
33:11
reports
33:13
thank you councilmember hall next up is
33:15
councilmember d michelle
33:18
thank you mr paulie this is
33:20
councilmember d michelle i have two
33:22
reports
33:22
tonight first i attended the east side
33:25
transportation partnership on september
33:28
the 15th
33:29
and during our regular metro transit
33:31
briefing we learned that there has been
33:33
a gradual increase in metro service
33:36
to meet increased demand as of last
33:39
tuesday the agency was up to 73 percent
33:41
of its pre-coveted bus trips
33:44
uh remember back in march uh they fell
33:46
to 20
33:47
of their usual trip and passenger load
33:50
the east side transportation partnership
33:52
has been meeting with combined regional
33:54
transportation groups for the past
33:56
four months uh the group voted on
33:59
tuesday to continue
34:00
our monthly combined meetings to january
34:03
but with the addition of zoom breakout
34:05
rooms for the three
34:07
regional groups starting in october
34:10
in addition to etp i attended a meeting
34:12
of the east side transportation
34:14
association
34:15
on september 16th and report number two
34:19
is i attended the east side human
34:21
services forum board of directors on
34:23
september the 17th
34:24
the group is conducting an
34:26
organizational review
34:28
and that discussion took up most of the
34:30
meeting
34:31
on september 29th there will be a
34:33
special eastside human services forum
34:36
meeting focused on further discussion
34:38
of the organizational plan thank you
34:41
that's
34:41
my report for tonight thank you
34:44
councilmember d michelle
34:46
councilmember walsh thank you this is
34:49
councilmember walsh i have three quick
34:51
reports
34:52
um first we still have not had an
34:54
economic
34:55
development district board meeting the
34:57
next one is
34:58
october 7th and we don't have an agenda
35:02
yet on friday i attended the
35:05
chamber of commerce's meeting continued
35:08
to brief them
35:09
on budget situation and answer questions
35:13
that they may have
35:14
about that and some of the upcoming
35:17
bills
35:17
and so just keeping in contact and then
35:21
finally
35:22
the um title 18 ad hoc
35:25
committee has resumed meeting which
35:28
we're very eager to do
35:30
yes um so the
35:33
we have now met i guess technically
35:35
three
35:36
times um once just to get our bearings
35:40
then the three council members met as an
35:43
aside to kind of
35:44
refresh where we're at um make some
35:47
recommendations and then finally we met
35:50
again with
35:51
staff to go over that um what we've
35:54
kind of come to the conclusion is we
35:55
want to start back where we were
35:58
in february and march really focus in
36:01
on the outcomes goals um
36:04
and those things so what we're doing
36:05
right now is council members
36:07
from the alpha committee are reviewing
36:10
that we're going to give feedback to
36:12
staff and then we know it's
36:15
obviously going to come up during budget
36:18
season
36:19
we are still reviewing what our options
36:22
are before
36:23
being able to really come to a
36:25
conclusion between the three of us
36:27
so i think you'll see a placeholder
36:29
number there in the budget that we could
36:32
then
36:33
talk more about as we get a little bit
36:35
more information on that
36:37
and that's what i had written down on
36:39
the notes if any of the other
36:41
ad hoc members want to add anything um
36:45
certainly be willing to but i'm glad
36:46
that we are meeting again and making
36:48
progress and that concludes my report
36:51
thank you councilmember walsh
36:52
councilmember goodman thank you madam
36:55
mayor this is councilmember goodman
36:57
um the east side fire and rescue board
36:59
of directors
37:00
um committee finance administrative
37:03
committee
37:04
will meet this wednesday at noon and on
37:07
the agenda is continued discussion of
37:09
the proposed budget
37:11
which will be a recommendation to the
37:14
full board on october
37:15
8th and
37:18
i believe we have the chief
37:22
coming to a council meeting i think it's
37:25
next week but i can't remember the exact
37:26
date i apologize
37:28
so if somebody wants to fill that maybe
37:31
um maybe administrator bob quits knows
37:34
that date
37:35
but anyway that is my report and thank
37:37
you council member
37:39
walsh i thought you did a fine job of
37:40
updating everybody on where the title 18
37:42
ad hoc committee is
37:43
thank you did the administrator bob
37:45
quits you know the date
37:46
that is coming to our meeting yes ma'am
37:49
next
37:50
tuesday the 29th thank you very much
37:55
uh next up is council member mark thank
37:58
you
37:59
thank you madam mayor this is council
38:00
member mark the sound cities association
38:03
public issues committee
38:04
met on wednesday september 9th from 7 to
38:06
9 pm
38:08
no action was taken the puget sound
38:10
regional council growth management
38:12
policy board
38:13
met on thursday september 17th from 10
38:15
am until noon
38:17
uh the only action that was taken was
38:19
the board recommended that the psrc
38:22
executive board certify uh the sub-area
38:25
plans for
38:27
city of bellevue downtown city of burien
38:29
urban center
38:31
to the puyallup downtown and city of
38:33
puyallup
38:34
south hill no other actions were taken
38:36
this concludes my report
38:38
thank you councilmember mertz deputy
38:40
council president ray
38:42
thank you mayor pauline this is chris
38:44
ray um
38:46
the king county growth management
38:47
planning council will meet on
38:50
september 30th at four o'clock p.m
38:53
via zoo meeting and the agenda for that
38:56
meeting has not yet been published
38:58
and that concludes my report for this
38:59
evening
39:01
thank you council president hunt thank
39:04
you madam mayor
39:05
the wyra8 salmon recovery council met on
39:08
september 17th
39:09
wyra8 stands for water resource
39:11
inventory area
39:12
8 and that's the technical name for our
39:14
watershed
39:16
at the meeting we reviewed our
39:18
legislative priorities and a draft
39:20
letter to
39:21
governor inslee regarding those
39:22
legislative priorities and funding
39:24
priorities for salmon recovery for
39:26
our watershed we also received a status
39:29
update on the salmon return
39:30
so far for 2020 and
39:34
we reviewed the salmon recovery
39:36
council's funding guidance for the
39:38
project subcommittee which will be
39:40
reviewing
39:41
project proposals to fund as well as
39:45
we discuss the communications and
39:46
outreach plan for the coming year
39:48
the next meeting is november 19th at
39:51
2 to 4 15 pm and will be
39:54
conducted by zoom and that concludes my
39:56
report thank you council president hunt
40:00
i'm going to move to the next item which
40:02
is the mayor's report and ask if our
40:04
city
40:05
clerk can share her screen because we
40:07
have a few pictures to go along with the
40:09
reports
40:13
thank you tisha
40:19
the first thing under the mayor's report
40:20
this evening is that we will be having
40:22
an executive session to discuss pending
40:24
in potential litigation for rcw
40:27
42.30 0.110 per n1 for an i
40:30
and the item is expected to last 30
40:32
minutes and no action is anticipated
40:34
this evening
40:35
when we come back into open session i
40:38
want to talk a little bit about the
40:40
mallard bay
40:41
trail agreement laughing jacobs creek
40:43
trail has been a regional vision of
40:45
trail planners in king county for
40:47
over 20 years its trail that would
40:49
connect providence point
40:51
and this mammoth plateau to the east
40:53
lake sammamish trail
40:54
a 12 foot wide have public trail has
40:57
been constructed along southeast 43rd
41:00
as part of the mallard bay development
41:01
project
41:03
though small this little piece of public
41:05
infrastructure
41:06
plays a big role in the potential of
41:08
this long envisioned trail corridor
41:10
as the first parcel on the south side of
41:12
43rd this portion of public trail will
41:14
serve as the gateway
41:16
of the potential future laughing jacobs
41:19
creek trail
41:20
as it heads east from east lakes mamash
41:22
parkway
41:24
rather than end up with a choppy and or
41:26
disjointed trail segment this 12-foot
41:28
wide trail segment was created
41:29
now that was created now has the
41:31
potential to link directly with the
41:34
future trail that could run along the
41:35
abandoned rail corridor through state
41:37
park property up towards providence
41:39
point and the plateau
41:41
it has been a real team effort and i'd
41:43
like to thank the developer burmstead
41:45
construction
41:46
king county parks our city attorney jim
41:48
haney and the city staff and parks
41:50
planning public works for all the
41:53
collaborative effort that
41:54
had to occur in order for this to happen
41:58
i also would like to have some comments
41:59
make a few comments on the passing of
42:01
supreme court justice
42:02
ruth vader ginsburg last friday we
42:05
learned of the passing of supreme court
42:07
justice ruth bader ginsburg
42:09
a lifelong champion for gender equality
42:12
and his chief justice john roberts
42:14
described her a tireless
42:16
and resolute champion of justice there
42:19
have been
42:19
quiet candlelight vigils in many cities
42:21
and towns throughout the country through
42:23
this weekend including on the steps of
42:25
vistaqua city hall last night
42:27
her 50 years of advocacy on gender
42:30
equality broke down the barriers for
42:31
women
42:32
and strengthened women's rights creating
42:34
opportunity and equality for women
42:37
u.s and washington state flags will be
42:39
at half staff
42:40
until the day of justice internment
42:43
bader ginsburg leaves behind
42:45
an incredible legacy and she will be
42:47
missed
42:49
and that concludes the mayor's report
42:51
for this evening
42:52
the next item on our agenda is the
42:54
council consent calendar and it was
42:56
distributed in advance
42:58
to council if authorized the items on
43:00
the consent calendar will be considered
43:02
together
43:03
and approved by one motion have the
43:05
payer
43:06
payables and payroll been reviewed
43:12
mayor probably this is chris ray they
43:14
have
43:16
i was glad to to let councilmember ray
43:19
go first
43:20
yes they have thank you thank you both
43:24
does any council member desire to move
43:26
any item from the consent calendar and
43:28
consider it under regular business
43:34
and i would like to go to the city not
43:37
hearing none
43:38
i would like to go to the city clerk for
43:40
a quick clarification
43:43
yes thank you i just wanted to clarify
43:45
that on the consent calendar agenda item
43:47
see
43:47
the september 8th regular meeting
43:49
minutes we received a correction from
43:50
council member d michelle
43:52
the minutes were corrected and reposted
43:54
earlier today
43:55
it was a small correction under
43:57
committee reports and
43:58
with approval of the consent calendar
44:00
you would be approving the revised
44:01
corrected minutes
44:03
thank you very much for that so i'm
44:05
still not seeing anything
44:07
in the chat about anybody wishing to
44:09
pull something down so before we move to
44:11
the motion i'd like to ask council
44:12
president hunt if she had any emails or
44:14
comments to share on any of the items
44:17
on the consent calendar that may have
44:18
been submitted by the public
44:20
thank you madam mayor we did not receive
44:22
any emails on the consent calendar
44:25
this evening that is great thank you
44:27
would anybody
44:28
prepare to make a motion council
44:30
president hunt
44:32
thank you madam mayor this is council
44:33
president hunt i move to adopt the
44:34
consent calendar as it appears in this
44:36
evening's agenda
44:38
this is chris ray i'll second the motion
44:41
thank you it's been
44:43
moved and seconded i will ask the city
44:45
clerk to
44:46
please do a roll call vote yes beginning
44:49
with council member d michelle
44:52
aye councilmember goodman aye
44:56
councilmember hall aye
45:00
council president hunt hi
45:04
councilmember martz aye
45:07
deputy council president ray aye
45:11
council member walsh aye
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that's 7i zero nays thank you that
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passes unanimously
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next item on our agenda this evening is
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a public hearing
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and i'm sure our staff that is here is
45:25
glad that it was corrected when i made
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the
45:28
original announcement earlier the public
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hearing is actually
45:32
for ab-8031 the 2021
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to 2026 six-year transportation
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improvement program
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this is the first time this item is
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coming before council tonight
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and it is the required first time is
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coming before council and tonight is the
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required public
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hearing that we will be conducting no
45:51
council action
45:52
is being sought so i'd like to invite
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transportation manager john martinson
45:57
to make a presentation john thank you
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very much mary
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uh mayor paulie
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before you uh while you're setting up
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your presentation i'd just like to stay
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on
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on camera congratulations on your
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promotion
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glad to see you here tonight um
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very excited thank you very much
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all right the purpose of tonight's
46:35
presentation
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and the item that we're talking about is
46:39
to present the
46:40
22 to 2026 transportation
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improvement program to conduct a public
46:48
hearing
46:49
and to come back to the council on
46:50
october 5th to ask for adoption
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there are several reasons why the city
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prepares and adopts
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a transportation improvement program the
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first one
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is that it's good policy to have in good
47:12
practice to have a six-year planning
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document
47:15
the other reason is it allows the city
47:17
to receive funding
47:18
this is how the designs in the two
47:21
newport way projects
47:22
were funded and how the city
47:26
funded the construction of the east
47:28
lakes mamas parkway widening
47:30
the southeast 62nd extension and the
47:33
dogwood
47:34
bridge project and the final reason
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is that it is
47:41
the revised code of washington 35.77.010
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requires that the city prepares and
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adopts
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a six-year transportation program that
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is consistent with the city's
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comprehensive plan
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every two years the city prepares a
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capital improvement plan
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and the capital improvement plan
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includes
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a variety of capital assets
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such as the utilities parks facilities
48:24
technology and equipment and the
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transportation
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improvement program is a component of
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the
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capital improvement plan
48:36
this year's update to the transportation
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improvement program
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is a minor update from last year's
48:43
transportation improvement program
48:47
it is consistent with the city's current
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comprehensive plan
48:51
the mobility master plan
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is something that the city has been
48:56
working on and
48:58
the policies from the mobility master
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plan are being considered
49:02
as an update to the comprehensive plan
49:06
next year a major work plan will be to
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incorporate
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any changes to the transportation
49:13
element of the comprehensive plan
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into the transportation improvement
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program
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and we're expecting to do a major
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overhaul of the transportation
49:21
improvement program
49:25
this slide is a visual representation of
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what the previous slide
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explained that this year for the
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transportation improvement program
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it is based on the existing
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comprehensive plan
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and the transportation policies
49:43
in the future the mobility master plan
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will be
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considered for the an update in the
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comprehensive plan
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and the transportation policies and then
49:58
the outcome of that
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will guide the future transportation
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improvement program
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which will then be entered into the
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capital improvement plan
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over the rest of the presentation i'm
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going to give a
50:11
summary of some of the changes from the
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2020 to
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2025 transportation improvement program
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as well as talk a little bit about the
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work that
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the city will be working on during the
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2021 year
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of the changes and this is a partial
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list there's a
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exhibit b is a memo inside the agenda
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packet which gives a full
50:36
more detailed list of the changes from
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last year's transportation improvement
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program
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but this is some of the more major ones
50:43
and the first project is the second
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avenue
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southeast sidewalk project that was one
50:49
where the work plan was to apply for
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safe routes to school grant last spring
50:55
and with changes in the work plan due to
50:57
covet and the pandemic
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the city did not apply for a safe routes
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to school
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grant and that project has been moved to
51:06
the future years the next
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change is for the project the tr-003
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a crossing of i-90 somewhere
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around 10th or 12th avenue northwest
51:20
and that project was moved out into the
51:22
future by two years
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to allow more planning and coordination
51:26
with potential
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locations of the light rail station
51:34
the central park traffic signal and mini
51:36
roundabout
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was originally on the list of projects
51:39
that were being considered
51:41
for a transportation benefit district
51:44
sales tax increase that would support
51:49
debt and the city has did not pursue
51:53
an increase to the sales tax this year
51:55
and
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as a result this project was moved
51:59
into the future in the transportation
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improvement program
52:04
the northwest gilman boulevard
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improvements
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project is one that due to
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staffing due to changes in work plan due
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to covet
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and the 2020 under spend plan
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has did not happen and it's currently
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not proceeding
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and that is a project that we'll need to
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identify
52:26
funding for in order to move it forward
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again and then the final project
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on the list that i want to talk about
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tonight is the tibbetts valley frontage
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improvements
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that is a we've delayed that project one
52:39
year
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in order to allow the parks department
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to complete the
52:43
tibbetts valley master plan which will
52:45
then
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help guide this project
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this map shows the locations of the
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projects that
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will be worked on in 2021 and you can
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use it as a reference to see
52:59
where the different projects are located
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at as i talk about them
53:03
the first project is the
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turn lane capacity project at the
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location of 12th
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avenue northwest and sr 900
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this is the third and final project in
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the costco development agreement
53:18
design began last spring
53:22
work during the 2021 year will be to
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complete the design work on the wetland
53:29
study and obtain
53:30
the core of engineers wetlands permits
53:33
and acquire right-of-way for the project
53:35
with the plan to begin construction in
53:37
spring of 2022
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the newport way sr 900 to 54th
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project is close to 90
53:48
design but we have a few other things
53:50
that are going to happen along this
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corridor
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the first one is
53:56
a speed table and pedestrian bridge will
53:59
be
54:00
designed and constructed near the king
54:02
county trailhead
54:04
work will take place to repair the
54:06
landslide that also
54:08
occurred near the king county property
54:10
the
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environmental approvals for the corridor
54:14
project between sr 954th will be
54:17
approved
54:18
and then the final thing for this
54:19
project is last spring
54:21
the city applied for a right-of-way
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grant and
54:26
the city was awarded this grant and will
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have
54:29
money to acquire right-of-way in the
54:31
year 2024.
54:36
the newport way maple to sunset project
54:39
is about 30
54:40
designed work during the 2021 year
54:44
will be to continue the design and
54:46
acquire some of the right-of-way for the
54:50
project
54:52
the northwest samamish road
54:54
non-motorized improvement project
54:57
is a project that will connect lakes
55:00
provide a non-motorized connection
55:02
between lake sammamish state park
55:04
and the neighborhoods south of lake
55:07
sammamish
55:09
currently washdot is moving
55:12
a retaining wall in order to make room
55:14
for this project
55:15
during 2021 design will begin
55:18
and design during the 2021 year
55:22
will involve community input and
55:29
creating a project concept that will be
55:31
approved for the project
55:33
and identifying potential funding
55:36
sources
55:37
and this is a project that council
55:39
member d michelle
55:40
had a question about and actually found
55:42
an error
55:44
and in the current transportation
55:46
improvement program
55:47
we're showing money from the school's
55:50
own
55:50
safety fund to construct this project in
55:52
2022 and 2023
55:54
and there is not enough money in this
55:57
fund
55:58
and this project will be updated before
56:00
this item comes back to the council on
56:02
october 5th
56:05
the pavement management program extends
56:08
the life
56:09
of pavements throughout the city
56:14
a variety of treatments are used to
56:16
preserve the pavement
56:18
on arterials crack seals and overlays
56:21
are performed
56:22
and the life of residential streets is
56:24
extended
56:25
through installing cape seals
56:30
the southeast 43rd and providence point
56:33
traffic signal project is currently
56:35
under construction work began this
56:37
spring
56:38
currently the contractor is nearing
56:40
completion of the underground utilities
56:42
and retaining walls the next work on the
56:45
project will involve
56:47
installing the real aligned driveways
56:50
and the traffic signal
56:52
paving and installing the landscaping
56:57
work is expected to begin in early 20th
56:59
sorry
57:00
work is expected to be completed in
57:02
early 2021.
57:07
the southeast 43rd and east lake
57:09
sammamish parkway
57:11
roundabout modifications project is a
57:13
safety project
57:16
that will enhance pedestrian facilities
57:20
and remove the southbound through lane
57:22
the interim
57:23
improvements have been completed and the
57:25
design is currently underway
57:27
this project will be under construction
57:29
in 2021
57:34
and the final project is tr 058
57:37
strategic small capital projects this is
57:40
a result of the mobility
57:42
or the strategic plan's mobility goal to
57:45
create near-term connections and
57:46
efficiencies
57:48
it might involve improving a crossing or
57:51
filling in a gap of
57:52
sidewalk during 2021
57:58
small projects will be identified
58:00
designed
58:01
and constructed these are small scale
58:03
projects meant to have a big impact
58:05
on the people who live work and play in
58:07
essequa
58:10
the next steps are following this
58:12
presentation there will be a public
58:14
hearing to receive
58:16
feedback from the community on october
58:19
5th
58:20
we will ask the council to adopt the
58:22
transportation improvement program
58:24
and beginning in january 2021 work
58:28
will begin with the transportation
58:30
advisory board
58:31
to incorporate the adopted
58:33
transportation policies of the
58:35
comprehensive
58:36
plan into the 2022-2027
58:40
transportation improvement program and
58:42
capital improvement plan
58:45
and that concludes my presentation and
58:48
there are any questions thank you very
58:51
much john
58:52
i'm going to go back to council
58:54
president hunt first to see if the
58:56
public had sent in any comments on this
58:58
item
58:59
mr president thank you madam mayor we
59:01
did not receive any email comments on
59:03
this item
59:05
great then we are going to move into
59:08
questions
59:09
and i see in the chat box that council
59:10
member walsh has some questions
59:13
thank you um so i noticed that this
59:17
year's
59:18
tip is a lot shorter than
59:21
our previous tip and
59:24
the things that i notice are missing
59:27
are things that were on the previous tip
59:31
for
59:32
future years so the previous tip was
59:35
2018 to 2022
59:37
and then also in many cases
59:40
didn't have progress on items in those
59:43
years but had
59:44
a dollar value attached to them on
59:47
future years
59:48
i'm not seeing that in this case
59:51
so does that was there a reason for the
59:54
shift and is there a way that we're
59:56
keeping track
59:57
of other projects that
1:00:00
we still have future needs but which
1:00:03
we're not
1:00:04
necessarily planning to make progress on
1:00:06
during
1:00:07
the time period of this tip
1:00:11
thank you councilmember walsh i'll have
1:00:13
to double check
1:00:14
i thought we did include the future
1:00:17
years project
1:00:18
and if we didn't i will revise it and
1:00:20
include those into the transportation
1:00:22
improvement program
1:00:24
it came towards the end okay and i would
1:00:27
clarify that there is a future years
1:00:30
column um to track
1:00:33
costs on the ones that are included in
1:00:36
this year's tip
1:00:37
but like for example there was a
1:00:41
previous project
1:00:43
tro29 old town parking structure
1:00:46
for 10 million dollars that was
1:00:49
something that isn't
1:00:50
something that you know we necessarily
1:00:53
are planning to
1:00:55
make progress on but it kind of lists
1:00:57
out future
1:00:58
needs that we as a community have
1:01:01
identified i'm not saying that one's on
1:01:04
the top of my list but
1:01:05
um there are many items on there that
1:01:08
i'm just not seeing on this year's tip
1:01:11
so um and then i have another question
1:01:13
if that's okay mayor
1:01:15
okay fantastic um
1:01:19
one of the things i notice is uh project
1:01:22
tro33 black nugget again
1:01:25
looking back at the previous year's tip
1:01:29
the black nugget retaining wall
1:01:32
repair was listed
1:01:36
with 2 million dollars to be spent in
1:01:39
2022 and a total project cost
1:01:41
of almost 2.6 million i'm looking at
1:01:45
this new
1:01:46
tip i see the project the first project
1:01:49
cost is
1:01:50
in 2026 and it's for five million
1:01:54
dollars
1:01:54
wondering if we can get some information
1:01:57
about first of all
1:01:58
why the difference in cost between the
1:02:01
two of those
1:02:02
and also what what
1:02:06
gives us the feeling that that wall can
1:02:09
last
1:02:09
that much longer and why that
1:02:13
project would happen in 2026 rather than
1:02:16
earlier
1:02:18
okay that is one i'd like to provide
1:02:21
more information
1:02:22
before the october 5th meeting if that
1:02:24
would be okay
1:02:26
fantastic and then i will throw one more
1:02:29
in there
1:02:30
um what's the difference between the
1:02:32
concrete maintenance
1:02:34
and the pavement management line items
1:02:37
on here
1:02:39
the concrete maintenance item would be
1:02:41
to repair
1:02:43
the curb and gutter or the sidewalk to
1:02:45
make improvements
1:02:47
repairs to the the concrete next to the
1:02:49
road
1:02:50
and the pavement management program
1:02:51
takes care of in most cases the asphalt
1:02:54
pavement
1:02:54
or if we had concrete pavement it could
1:02:57
be used to repair that item as well
1:03:02
thank you councilmember walsh uh deputy
1:03:05
council president right
1:03:08
thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray
1:03:10
just a couple of
1:03:11
questions for you john and i'm just
1:03:13
gonna
1:03:14
highline congratulations on the
1:03:15
promotion well deserved
1:03:17
um first um
1:03:20
the non-motorized transportation project
1:03:23
for southco
1:03:25
when we were contemplating that we
1:03:27
funded uh watchdog
1:03:28
with a three million dollar um
1:03:33
something i'll allocation so that if
1:03:37
they had overruns that that would cover
1:03:38
the cost that do you know what the
1:03:40
status of that is and if we
1:03:41
know if that three million dollars might
1:03:43
come back to us do you have any insights
1:03:44
into that yet
1:03:47
yes thank you for the question and
1:03:49
congratulations
1:03:50
uh council deputy council president ray
1:03:55
to answer your question the project is
1:03:57
under construction
1:03:58
and we've asked washed out about it
1:04:02
knock on wood so far it's looking good
1:04:05
but
1:04:05
they don't want to get our hopes up yet
1:04:07
that we'll get that three million back
1:04:10
um can i add to that as well john this
1:04:13
is the mayor
1:04:13
um i believe when i checked in with
1:04:15
director goldberg and the city
1:04:17
administrator can correct me if it's
1:04:18
wrong
1:04:19
we haven't actually given them three
1:04:21
million dollars we've made sure that we
1:04:23
had
1:04:23
borrowing capacity to borrow it if we
1:04:26
needed this
1:04:26
so if you if it is not required it means
1:04:30
you have the capacity to borrow
1:04:32
additional money
1:04:34
for other projects yeah that makes
1:04:37
perfect sense and it's the allocation of
1:04:39
it when does that
1:04:41
that hold come off so that we can use
1:04:43
that for um
1:04:44
potentially other um improvement
1:04:46
opportunities my second one
1:04:48
question i have is a little bit
1:04:50
different and it's
1:04:52
what's the alignment between the master
1:04:54
mobility plan
1:04:55
and the current tip that we're going to
1:04:57
be voting on here in a couple weeks
1:05:00
um and and what do we see as the areas
1:05:03
that are likely to change in the
1:05:05
next update to the tip
1:05:08
to reflect what's in the master mobile
1:05:10
phone
1:05:13
okay i think in a lot of ways this
1:05:18
current transportation improvement
1:05:20
program does align with
1:05:22
a lot of what the mobility master plan
1:05:25
has although this transportation
1:05:27
improvement program
1:05:29
aligns with the current comprehensive
1:05:32
plan
1:05:32
and the transportation element of it
1:05:36
and so going forward
1:05:39
as the mobility master plan policies are
1:05:42
considered
1:05:43
as part of a comprehensive plan adoption
1:05:49
the the outcome of the tip
1:05:52
will really vary depending on if those
1:05:55
policies are adopted as is or if there
1:05:57
are any revisions
1:05:58
but i think one of the biggest things
1:06:00
will be a strong priority
1:06:02
in non-motorized and transit
1:06:05
i think that'll be the biggest
1:06:06
difference
1:06:09
deputy council president ray did that
1:06:11
answer your question or do you
1:06:13
know thank you very much oh great thank
1:06:16
you
1:06:17
i am not seeing any other questions in
1:06:20
the chat at this point in time
1:06:22
i'll give it a few seconds to let people
1:06:25
fill in if they have any
1:06:32
okay so seeing no further questions the
1:06:35
guidelines for citizen comments also
1:06:37
apply to those
1:06:39
that would be making comments under this
1:06:40
public hearing and i'm opening the
1:06:42
public hearing
1:06:43
at 809 pm and for those who have joined
1:06:46
us tonight and would like to speak but
1:06:48
did not sign up in advance
1:06:50
i would ask you to please test star 3 on
1:06:52
your phone
1:06:53
we will call the last two digits of your
1:06:56
phone number when it is your turn to
1:06:57
make comments
1:06:59
city clerk has anyone signed up or
1:07:01
indicated a desire to speak this evening
1:07:06
no madam mayor no one has signed up in
1:07:08
advance i see that we've just had one
1:07:10
member of the public
1:07:11
uh join our call
1:07:14
if you are interested in making comments
1:07:17
uh phone in caller please
1:07:19
press star 3 on your phone
1:07:22
that's star 3 and let us know if you'd
1:07:24
like to make comments under the public
1:07:26
hearing
1:07:28
okay and i do see that they've raised
1:07:29
their hand so i will unmute you
1:07:32
uh go ahead and make your comments
1:07:36
hi this is council hunt i apologize but
1:07:38
my internet is out so i'm calling him oh
1:07:42
that is a great surprise thank you
1:07:45
council president hunt for letting us
1:07:47
know
1:07:48
um so i do not believe the council
1:07:50
president raised her hand to provide
1:07:51
comments
1:07:53
but she has let us know that that is
1:07:56
uh her call-in number thank you very
1:07:58
much so city cleric i would assume that
1:08:00
means we do not have anybody signed up
1:08:02
for comment this evening
1:08:03
that's correct and there are no other
1:08:05
members of the public on the line
1:08:08
great uh is there any objection to my
1:08:11
closing the public hearing i'll look in
1:08:13
the
1:08:13
chat box to see
1:08:16
i do see council member walsh's question
1:08:20
um i think we should get through the
1:08:21
public hearing closure and then sure you
1:08:22
can ask another question that would be
1:08:24
great
1:08:25
okay hearing none i now close the public
1:08:28
hearing at 8 11 pm
1:08:31
the administration proposes that the
1:08:33
transportation improvement program
1:08:34
will return to council for adoption at
1:08:36
the october 5th council meeting
1:08:38
on the consent calendar potentially
1:08:41
depending we've heard a lot of requests
1:08:43
for information tonight
1:08:45
so first what i'd like to do before we
1:08:48
move through the next question i'd like
1:08:51
to go back to
1:08:52
council member walsh and see what the
1:08:53
additional question is councilman walsh
1:08:56
thank you this is councilmember walsh i
1:08:57
just wanted to check in
1:08:59
on the providence point intersection
1:09:01
that was listed as
1:09:03
tro31 um and
1:09:06
just see where the status of that
1:09:09
project is and whether or not the 300
1:09:12
000
1:09:13
there covers that through the end of the
1:09:16
project
1:09:17
and mr martinson if you have that
1:09:19
information tonight great if you don't
1:09:21
you can provide it in a response and
1:09:24
we'll make sure we
1:09:25
reiterate that at the next opportunity
1:09:28
john
1:09:30
yes i i do have that information and it
1:09:33
so we're
1:09:34
currently under construction the
1:09:38
work to locate relocate the utilities
1:09:42
is underway and
1:09:48
then the traffic signal will start going
1:09:50
in pretty soon and then the work to
1:09:51
realign the driveways
1:09:54
it looks like that i don't want to get
1:09:58
too far ahead but it looks like
1:10:00
we will be coming in under budget and
1:10:04
that 300 000 that's budgeted for 2021
1:10:08
will be enough to complete the project
1:10:09
with the current amounts of money that
1:10:11
have been budgeted for the project
1:10:16
thank you councilmember walsh i'm going
1:10:18
to
1:10:19
um cross my fingers
1:10:22
since we saw it a few months ago and
1:10:24
some weather but thank you for that
1:10:26
john so the original proposal was to
1:10:30
have it on the consent calendar and i
1:10:32
just want to check in with the council
1:10:33
and give you an opportunity to comment
1:10:35
on the agenda timing or placement
1:10:38
meaning coming back on october 5th and
1:10:41
being on consent a regular business so
1:10:43
if you would like to provide some input
1:10:46
on that please use the chat box and i'll
1:10:47
call on you
1:10:55
and madam mayor this is the clerk here i
1:10:57
just wanted to let council president
1:10:59
hunt know that
1:11:00
her line is open since she can't enter
1:11:03
anything into the chat
1:11:04
council president you do have an open
1:11:06
mic currently
1:11:10
thank you for letting me know
1:11:14
uh council member that's the uh
1:11:17
council deputy council president ray
1:11:19
followed by council member health
1:11:21
thank you mayor paulie this is chris
1:11:23
wright just a quick comment and since
1:11:25
since this update to the transportation
1:11:28
improvement
1:11:29
program is a minor update and
1:11:32
it appears to be that most of the
1:11:33
changes that we're seeing from previous
1:11:35
years have been to push out
1:11:36
the the work because of financial
1:11:39
extensions
1:11:40
my preference is that and
1:11:44
unless something changes between now and
1:11:46
then that we take this up at our next
1:11:47
council meeting and that i would be fine
1:11:49
if it was on the consent
1:11:51
calendar thank you deputy council
1:11:53
president ray uh council member hall
1:11:57
thanks mary paul this is zack call yeah
1:11:59
i was just gonna generally say the same
1:12:01
thing although if it does seem like
1:12:03
there are a lot of long-term projects
1:12:05
that seem to have been missed off i
1:12:07
are missed i think that that's something
1:12:10
we should probably not have
1:12:11
a consent just so that we can talk
1:12:13
through the ones that that didn't make
1:12:14
it
1:12:15
that haven't carried over to this plan
1:12:17
and i haven't had a chance to look at
1:12:18
the
1:12:18
previous year's tip yet either so okay
1:12:22
thank you so we'll take that into
1:12:24
consideration because we did have some
1:12:25
questions this evening
1:12:27
so thank you both for that if i
1:12:31
don't have anybody else wanting to weigh
1:12:33
in on that at this point in time i'll
1:12:34
give it a few
1:12:36
seconds i will move to the regular
1:12:39
business item for the evening which is
1:12:42
ab8032 and oh sorry i would like to say
1:12:45
thank you john for the presentation and
1:12:46
thank you for answering the questions
1:12:48
this evening
1:12:49
so the regular business item is ab-8032
1:12:52
coronavirus aid relief
1:12:54
and economic security act cares act
1:12:56
funding allocation
1:12:58
and the action before council this
1:13:00
evening would be to authorize that
1:13:02
and i'd like to invite seat
1:13:03
administrator wally bobkowitz to
1:13:05
introduce this item
1:13:07
yes thank you madam mayor members of the
1:13:09
council good evening
1:13:11
we are fortunate to report this evening
1:13:13
that the state of washington
1:13:15
has allocated additional dollars from
1:13:17
their cares
1:13:18
allocation to the cities throughout the
1:13:21
state
1:13:22
and our additional allocation according
1:13:24
to the state of washington will be 563
1:13:28
850 mayor paulie upon uh
1:13:32
receiving this information at the end of
1:13:33
august wanted to make sure
1:13:35
uh that we spend the money uh uh
1:13:38
expeditiously to help our
1:13:39
our community and so we are before you
1:13:41
this evening with a proposal
1:13:43
for the allocation of those dollars um
1:13:46
i'm joined
1:13:47
by jen davis hayes our economic
1:13:49
development manager
1:13:50
jeff watling our parks and community
1:13:52
services director and monica de grilla
1:13:54
are our human services coordinator and
1:13:57
they're each going to detail
1:13:58
uh some of the spending the majority of
1:14:00
the spending
1:14:01
that mayor paulie is proposing but let
1:14:03
me just go through this
1:14:05
in in a broad stroke uh first 250
1:14:08
000 for business assistance uh the
1:14:10
initial allocation of business
1:14:12
assistance i think has been very well
1:14:13
received
1:14:14
and jen is here in a moment to detail
1:14:16
the proposals on how this
1:14:18
next 250 000 will be spent uh secondly
1:14:21
uh 250 000 for assistance for human
1:14:24
services agencies
1:14:25
this would be the third allocation that
1:14:27
we've made toward human services
1:14:30
first being a general fund allocation
1:14:32
made by the council very early on during
1:14:34
the pandemic
1:14:35
and then of course there was a second
1:14:36
trance of money with the first cares act
1:14:39
allocation from the state of washington
1:14:41
and then finally uh the administration
1:14:43
is proposing that the the balancing
1:14:45
number sixty three thousand
1:14:46
eight hundred and fifty dollars uh be
1:14:48
allocated uh two expenses already
1:14:50
incurred by the city of issaquah
1:14:52
to fight the pandemic we have expenses
1:14:54
into the hundreds of thousands
1:14:56
of dollars which we have not had
1:14:57
reimbursed uh rightfully the council
1:15:00
has decided to take the lion's share of
1:15:02
the carriage dollars uh be allocated to
1:15:04
assist the community
1:15:06
uh but we feel it would be appropriate
1:15:07
uh to withhold that 63
1:15:10
850 madam mayor before
1:15:13
i have monica and jen uh give their
1:15:16
report i think it's important
1:15:17
for the community uh to understand that
1:15:21
the the congress of the united states
1:15:22
has not allocated any money
1:15:24
uh to cities under five hundred thousand
1:15:27
dollars in the united states
1:15:29
so unless a city has received funds uh
1:15:32
from a county over five hundred thousand
1:15:34
or their state
1:15:35
uh they have not received that dollar so
1:15:37
there are hundreds and hundreds of
1:15:38
cities
1:15:39
throughout america who have fought this
1:15:42
pandemic without any assistance from the
1:15:44
federal government
1:15:45
the national league of cities the united
1:15:47
states conference of mayors
1:15:48
and other local government associations
1:15:51
have worked hard
1:15:52
in washington to convince the need
1:15:55
certainly we have
1:15:56
laid off staff members we have cutlings
1:15:58
as you've heard
1:15:59
of this evening an impact on our capital
1:16:01
improvement program
1:16:03
but the congress of the united states
1:16:05
has not deemed to allocate any dollars
1:16:07
uh to uh local governments under 500 000
1:16:10
in the united states
1:16:12
so we are fortunate that the state of
1:16:14
washington has made this allocation
1:16:16
it is helpful to us as a municipal
1:16:18
government it is also helpful to our
1:16:20
communities
1:16:21
but again there are many many hundreds
1:16:23
and hundreds of communities around
1:16:25
america
1:16:26
city governments who have received no
1:16:28
funding from that
1:16:29
so again communities uh
1:16:32
under 500 000 uh there are 35 i think
1:16:36
cities in america over 500 000 that have
1:16:38
received funding
1:16:39
all the 50 states about all the
1:16:43
other 4 000 local governments in america
1:16:46
have not received funding
1:16:47
so with that unless there's any uh
1:16:49
preliminary questions madam mayor
1:16:51
i'd like to introduce jen davis hayes uh
1:16:53
to give an overview of what we're
1:16:55
proposing for this next tranche of money
1:16:57
250 000 for business assistance just one
1:17:00
little this is
1:17:01
there just one little correction i want
1:17:03
to make sure it's clear to everybody who
1:17:04
might be watching that it's a population
1:17:07
of five hundred thousand
1:17:08
it's not that your annual budget is 500
1:17:13
so um i believe the only city
1:17:16
in washington state that qualified for
1:17:17
direct care exact funding with seattle
1:17:19
if i'm not mistaken
1:17:20
so that shows you how many other cities
1:17:23
and towns in washington
1:17:24
did not um jen welcome
1:17:28
thank you madam mayor and good evening
1:17:30
city council members
1:17:31
um as um uh
1:17:35
city administrator bob kowitz mentioned
1:17:37
our recommendation is to
1:17:39
allocate 250 000 to help support our
1:17:42
city's economy through
1:17:44
our businesses two hundred thousand
1:17:46
dollars of that
1:17:47
will be to award additional business
1:17:49
grant funding so that's from the
1:17:51
existing pool
1:17:52
we would be able to fund an additional
1:17:54
17 businesses from our original small
1:17:57
business
1:17:58
response grant that was done in july and
1:18:01
an additional
1:18:02
five businesses from our business
1:18:04
reinvention grant pool that was done in
1:18:07
august
1:18:09
and we are also looking to as you heard
1:18:12
some concerns tonight from some of the
1:18:14
uh public comment to create a new grant
1:18:17
program for restaurants throughout the
1:18:19
city
1:18:20
for thirty thousand dollars total pool
1:18:24
they can apply for grants from as low as
1:18:26
five hundred dollars to five thousand
1:18:27
dollars to either extend outdoor seating
1:18:30
eating options
1:18:31
or address indoor eating uh public
1:18:34
public health and social distancing
1:18:36
needs
1:18:37
so we have heard over and over again the
1:18:39
concern about restaurants as people are
1:18:41
no longer
1:18:42
able to eat outside or that they're not
1:18:45
well prepared
1:18:46
to provide those things indoors we want
1:18:48
to provide that opportunity for
1:18:50
our restaurants and other food service
1:18:52
businesses throughout the city
1:18:54
and then the last twenty thousand
1:18:56
dollars would be to extend the streetery
1:18:58
and to winterize it through
1:19:00
october and again that will help the
1:19:02
restaurants
1:19:03
in downtown uh issaquah to to allow them
1:19:06
to continue
1:19:07
that successful program if there's any
1:19:10
questions
1:19:11
i'll take them an hour wait until the
1:19:12
end i think if it's okay jen
1:19:15
we'll get through monica's side of the
1:19:17
presentation as well
1:19:19
and then if the council members have a
1:19:21
question just indicate in the chat
1:19:24
and i'll call on you after monica
1:19:26
welcome
1:19:28
thank you madam mayor good evening
1:19:31
council members so following jen's
1:19:35
presentation
1:19:36
for human services um our recommendation
1:19:39
tonight follows a similar model with the
1:19:42
first round of allocation
1:19:44
as a brief reminder um in june the
1:19:47
council
1:19:47
authorized two hundred thousand dollars
1:19:49
for human services
1:19:51
and this was distributed to five
1:19:52
organizations providing food and basic
1:19:55
needs uh services as well as housing
1:19:58
related legal assistance
1:20:00
um so this time around we follow a
1:20:03
similar model
1:20:04
um focusing on food and housing
1:20:07
stability
1:20:08
as these were priorities of our city
1:20:10
during the covet 19 response
1:20:13
um this time though we are also adding
1:20:16
in our proposal mental health services
1:20:19
due to the increased need and projected
1:20:22
long-term
1:20:23
impact on mental health
1:20:26
again similar with last time depending
1:20:28
on the agency's abilities to spend the
1:20:31
funds in this
1:20:32
very short time frame provided by the
1:20:34
cares act
1:20:36
we would like to seek council approval
1:20:38
to allow for
1:20:39
just the limited flexibility to make
1:20:41
adjustments as necessary
1:20:43
reading the allocations proposed
1:20:47
to ensure that we can spend the money
1:20:49
and especially the organizations can can
1:20:51
spend those funds in the
1:20:54
time allotted um so specifically we are
1:20:57
proposing to
1:20:59
allocate a hundred thousand dollars for
1:21:01
the issaquah food and clothing bank
1:21:04
um the food bank during the covet um
1:21:07
crisis uh they have increased their
1:21:10
operations and in addition to just a
1:21:13
regular model they also provide um
1:21:16
emergency food deliveries to seniors and
1:21:18
then other residents in need
1:21:21
now they're also they continue to
1:21:23
provide food to
1:21:24
students um especially trying to
1:21:27
complement
1:21:28
um the meal and nutrition program that
1:21:30
the school district offers
1:21:32
focusing on school breaks and weekends
1:21:35
um and so we we thought that um
1:21:39
money will be well spent by the food
1:21:42
bank
1:21:43
um and then the second bucket
1:21:47
um housing and this we propose
1:21:50
120 000 to be
1:21:54
allocated to on one end we would like to
1:21:58
set aside
1:21:59
some limited funds um towards mediation
1:22:03
services
1:22:04
depending on what council decides in the
1:22:07
next couple of weeks
1:22:09
we know that again we need to spend the
1:22:10
money in a short period of time
1:22:12
and we only have a couple of months to
1:22:14
do so but if council will move forward
1:22:16
with mediation services we would like to
1:22:18
set aside
1:22:20
at least 10 20 or even 30 000 for that
1:22:24
um and then in addition uh we would like
1:22:26
to propose to
1:22:28
um distribute funds to uh supportive
1:22:32
housing services to alpha supported
1:22:33
living
1:22:34
um they are an organization that work
1:22:37
with
1:22:40
individuals with developmental
1:22:41
disabilities they have four housing
1:22:43
units
1:22:44
in issaquah that provides 24 7 care
1:22:48
and they've been um really really uh
1:22:51
struggling
1:22:52
during the covet response in providing
1:22:55
those services
1:22:57
to residents and then finally uh the
1:23:00
other two
1:23:01
um organizations proposed under the
1:23:03
housing
1:23:04
providers are the ywca issaquah family
1:23:08
village and imagine housing
1:23:10
as our two low-income housing providers
1:23:13
in the city
1:23:14
and we are working on trying to contract
1:23:17
and we are pursuing a
1:23:19
flat collaborative approach with them um
1:23:22
one of the proposed models would be to
1:23:25
cover
1:23:26
40 of the households rent
1:23:29
from the city from through the cares act
1:23:31
funds
1:23:32
and with 30 percent uh being covered
1:23:36
by the uh low-income housing providers
1:23:40
uh with the remaining 30
1:23:44
balance um that would have to be covered
1:23:47
through a payment plan by the residents
1:23:49
this is just one of the options that we
1:23:51
are considering
1:23:52
uh we are also working again just um um
1:23:56
with the low-income housing providers in
1:23:58
looking at
1:23:59
what can um residents realistically
1:24:03
provide
1:24:04
um and working through a payment plan
1:24:07
with them
1:24:07
also um and so finally we are also
1:24:11
proposing thirty thousand dollars to go
1:24:13
towards mental health services
1:24:15
specifically to friends of youth which
1:24:17
is
1:24:17
a local organization here in issaquah
1:24:20
providing a comprehensive array of
1:24:22
services
1:24:23
to children and family families of youth
1:24:28
18 to 24 and children as early as birth
1:24:32
to 18. um and
1:24:35
i think with that i'm gonna stop here
1:24:38
and i'm available for questions as well
1:24:41
um that is great thank you monica i'm
1:24:44
going to give the council a few seconds
1:24:45
standard in the chat and i just wanted
1:24:47
to echo
1:24:48
something that the city administrator
1:24:50
had said
1:24:51
which is that uh we have not directly
1:24:53
received cares act funding
1:24:55
if there is an opportunity in the next
1:24:56
few weeks as congress and the senate
1:24:58
consider
1:24:59
a package i will be poking council
1:25:02
members to help
1:25:03
sign or write letters with me to our
1:25:05
congresswoman i have been
1:25:06
updating her congresswoman schreier with
1:25:09
business information
1:25:10
and food and housing security
1:25:14
needs by sharing the dashboard for
1:25:16
monica and information from jen
1:25:18
constantly through this period of time
1:25:20
and so the need is great
1:25:22
cities do not have a revenue source to
1:25:24
pay for this it's going to be ongoing
1:25:26
and it's going to go for a longer time
1:25:28
we need their help we really need their
1:25:30
help so
1:25:32
it looks like deputy council president
1:25:33
ray has the first question
1:25:36
actually sorry if i may can i go to
1:25:38
council president hunt first to see if
1:25:40
there were any comments
1:25:42
yes thank you madam mayor we did receive
1:25:44
two comments by email on this
1:25:47
topic both of the residents who emailed
1:25:51
us on this topic were broadly supportive
1:25:53
of the streetery
1:25:54
and specifically of the work that dia
1:25:56
has been doing
1:25:57
in support of the streetery and would
1:25:59
support continuing it and one of the
1:26:01
residents who wrote to us
1:26:02
specifically supported continuing it
1:26:04
throughout the month of august
1:26:08
thank you very much council president
1:26:09
hunt where your signal is getting a
1:26:11
little choppy again though
1:26:13
but we heard october i think yes i think
1:26:16
we heard it quite clearly
1:26:17
deputy council president ray thank you
1:26:20
mayor paulie this is chris ray just
1:26:22
a couple of quick questions and one just
1:26:23
my own clarification
1:26:25
um this funding needs to be spent by
1:26:28
who's ever going to spend it by the
1:26:30
november 30th is that correct yes
1:26:34
yes um can can we um
1:26:39
or our grant recipients can they pre-pay
1:26:41
for services and
1:26:43
count that as spent by november 30th or
1:26:45
does it actually have to be services
1:26:47
paid for and rendered by november
1:26:51
and then monica all right jen go ahead
1:26:53
that's okay so
1:26:54
i'm sorry for the business grants um the
1:26:57
actual eligibility time frame is march
1:26:59
1st through november so
1:27:01
they can pre have already paid and
1:27:03
that's similar to the other
1:27:04
grants that we did so we because we
1:27:07
already have applications in hand we can
1:27:08
know we can quickly get that informati
1:27:10
information out and also get the
1:27:12
reporting and the receipts back which
1:27:14
are also important for us to have
1:27:18
uh and i'm just gonna add it's very
1:27:20
similar for human services as well
1:27:21
in terms of um start today of march
1:27:24
first
1:27:25
and the only difference is that for
1:27:26
human services organizations that
1:27:28
they cannot use the money uh to account
1:27:31
for budget losses
1:27:33
and so that makes it a little bit more
1:27:34
difficult especially since they had
1:27:38
quite a bit quite a bit yes
1:27:42
um so i think this is back to you monica
1:27:45
so
1:27:46
can we do direct rental assistance can
1:27:48
we use the funds for rental assistance
1:27:50
or there will have to be reimbursement
1:27:52
of a
1:27:54
provider's expenses um so
1:27:57
yes uh the intent of
1:28:00
will be to account the money towards
1:28:02
rental assistance
1:28:03
um for the two low-income housing
1:28:05
providers
1:28:07
um it's just we are gonna try to do it
1:28:09
in bulk rather than trying to go
1:28:11
resident by resident just again to buy
1:28:14
some time
1:28:17
seriously my last question this one back
1:28:19
to you
1:28:20
jen is um
1:28:23
the the standard grants would be the
1:28:25
same as we did last time
1:28:28
at the ten thousand dollar maximum level
1:28:30
and but there would be more flexibility
1:28:32
around the
1:28:33
grants that we beam towards uh
1:28:35
restaurants and food
1:28:36
our food service providers is that is
1:28:38
that correct
1:28:41
so if we would um approve this the 200
1:28:44
000
1:28:45
would go for grants that were up to ten
1:28:47
thousand dollars for
1:28:48
the two different programs we've already
1:28:50
done and then the that we would do a new
1:28:52
grant
1:28:52
that would be up to five thousand
1:28:54
dollars for restaurants so that would be
1:28:56
separate and we'd reduce that amount a
1:28:58
bit because
1:28:58
realizing it may not cost as much to buy
1:29:00
tents and and heat lamps and that type
1:29:03
of thing and we want to help as many
1:29:04
restaurants throughout the city as we
1:29:05
can
1:29:07
do we have any data about how many
1:29:09
grants we gave to restaurants in the
1:29:10
first round of funding
1:29:12
and or how many grants would we be
1:29:14
giving to restaurants through the
1:29:15
current round of funding
1:29:18
i can count that up as we continue to
1:29:20
ask questions because they
1:29:21
in your packet is the list of all the
1:29:22
rest the businesses that receive grants
1:29:24
through the two
1:29:25
programs and so no i haven't looked at
1:29:27
that what i what i will say is in the
1:29:29
winterization grant we're saying we will
1:29:31
give priority to those who have not
1:29:33
received the city of this law grant
1:29:35
so if we get you know 100 000 worth of
1:29:38
uh requests
1:29:39
we will first uh provide resources to
1:29:41
those who did not receive a grant
1:29:43
um previously that makes good sense i
1:29:46
guess what i'm poking at is
1:29:47
is the allocation right between the 200
1:29:50
for
1:29:51
general purpose business grants and 30
1:29:54
for restaurant
1:29:56
winterization support grants or or would
1:29:59
it make sense to
1:30:00
swing some money from the general
1:30:02
purpose grants into
1:30:05
the restaurant winterization where it's
1:30:07
because it touches more people
1:30:08
so that's that that's the question i'm i
1:30:11
personally am wrestling with
1:30:12
so for right now i'll just stop thank
1:30:14
you very much
1:30:16
thank you council president ray um
1:30:19
i just want to check in with jen did you
1:30:21
um
1:30:24
in regards to the deputy's uh question
1:30:26
chris did you need to uh
1:30:28
ask it to get the information you need
1:30:31
or
1:30:32
are you thinking of suggesting moving
1:30:34
between
1:30:35
two allocated amounts 250
1:30:39
um i can probably um
1:30:43
i'll listen to the rest of the comments
1:30:44
and questions and then i'll come back if
1:30:46
that's okay thank you yep
1:30:47
yep it looks like city administrator bob
1:30:50
bobquest wants to make a comment and
1:30:52
then we'll go to council member hall
1:30:54
yes thank you mayor mayor deputy council
1:30:56
president ray uh
1:30:58
we we thought very carefully about the
1:31:00
allocation for
1:31:01
the winterization we have been talking
1:31:04
with restaurants
1:31:04
outside of front street since the
1:31:07
beginning of the pandemic
1:31:08
to try to get a sense of interest in
1:31:11
doing more
1:31:11
outside and quite honestly we have not
1:31:14
heard
1:31:15
as much interest as we might have
1:31:16
thought we continue to talk to those
1:31:19
restaurants
1:31:20
uh either there they don't have the
1:31:22
ability with their
1:31:23
property owners to use the private
1:31:25
property for parking
1:31:26
uh on the outside so we are kind of
1:31:30
erroring on the side of putting more
1:31:31
money in the hands of more businesses
1:31:33
uh knowing that perhaps there is not
1:31:36
every restaurant in issaquah has the
1:31:38
ability
1:31:38
uh to go outside for lots of different
1:31:40
reasons so that's the reason we made
1:31:42
of the allocation proposal as we have
1:31:45
thank you
1:31:46
city administrator that that was very
1:31:48
helpful
1:31:50
great let's go to council member hall
1:31:54
thank you mayor paul this is alcohol i
1:31:56
had a similar question along the lines
1:31:58
of the
1:31:58
thirty thousand dollar grant full for
1:32:00
restaurants to extend outdoor seating
1:32:02
um so it's good to hear that we'll be
1:32:04
prioritizing new businesses but
1:32:06
is it um still a random lottery
1:32:09
or what's the system for awarding
1:32:13
um grants out of that point
1:32:17
um yes and so that would be our uh
1:32:21
our process if we receive grants more
1:32:23
than thirty thousand dollars and again
1:32:25
we're not really sure that we'll have
1:32:26
received
1:32:27
um as as much as thirty thousand dollars
1:32:29
of grants
1:32:30
and then so we would random randomly
1:32:32
order them
1:32:33
um and then uh go down and if someone
1:32:35
again has received funding before we
1:32:38
would go to the next person until we get
1:32:39
to the thirty thousand dollars and i
1:32:41
just counted up real quick
1:32:43
so there were eight businesses oh no
1:32:45
sorry ten businesses currently
1:32:46
that received them and then the new
1:32:48
allocation it'll be two additional ones
1:32:51
we um i did reach out to property
1:32:53
managers
1:32:54
um when we were exploring this option
1:32:56
for the winterization because again we
1:32:57
wanted to make sure that it made sense
1:33:00
um and um you know there are some places
1:33:03
like gilman village which has been very
1:33:05
is
1:33:05
easier to do those outdoor seating we've
1:33:08
heard back
1:33:09
from several of those we've heard from
1:33:12
some property on on
1:33:13
over on mall street and some restaurants
1:33:15
in some other areas but it's not
1:33:17
as wide of as a
1:33:20
city administrator bob quits mentioned
1:33:22
it's not as wide as
1:33:24
a an opportunity so we you know
1:33:27
the other thing is people were thinking
1:33:29
yeah that might be good for a few months
1:33:31
but
1:33:31
you know whether or not in december the
1:33:33
those investments
1:33:34
um will still make sense but
1:33:37
they will have them for early spring as
1:33:40
well if we're still in this
1:33:42
situation
1:33:45
thank you jen i am not seeing any other
1:33:49
questions at this time and i'm wondering
1:33:50
if someone is prepared to make a motion
1:33:53
actually yeah sorry that would be
1:33:56
appropriate because if council member
1:33:57
ray has additional
1:33:59
um conversation he can have it then
1:34:02
council president hunt
1:34:06
thank you this is councilor president
1:34:07
hunt i moved to authorize the allocation
1:34:10
of
1:34:13
563
1:34:15
850 designated to the city by the state
1:34:17
of washington from the coronavirus
1:34:26
security chairs restaurant
1:34:29
weatherization assistance and 250 000
1:34:33
for assistance to human services
1:34:35
agencies serving into our residents and
1:34:38
63
1:34:39
850 to be used for reimbursement of
1:34:42
expenses incurred by the city related to
1:34:44
the pandemic
1:34:46
and direct the finance director to
1:34:48
include the revenue and related
1:34:49
expenditures in a subsequent 2020 budget
1:34:52
amendment
1:34:54
and is there oh i see deputy council
1:34:56
president right
1:34:57
this is chris wray i second the motion
1:35:00
thank you
1:35:01
so council president we got about 98 of
1:35:04
your words
1:35:05
so i think we have most of it but after
1:35:08
the
1:35:08
comments and discussion i will make sure
1:35:10
to read the whole motion
1:35:12
so thank you uh it looks like council
1:35:15
president
1:35:16
uh sorry deputy council council
1:35:19
president hunt would like to make a
1:35:21
comment come to president
1:35:23
thank you this is council president hunt
1:35:25
um i apologize for my
1:35:27
internet problems hopefully you can
1:35:30
understand me i i wanted to indicate my
1:35:33
support of the motion i did make the
1:35:35
motion that appears
1:35:36
in our agenda pack good
1:35:40
and um i also wanted to thank the
1:35:42
administration and the multiple
1:35:44
departments
1:35:44
that have worked on getting this funding
1:35:47
allocated and out the door to people
1:35:48
that need it so quickly
1:35:49
thank you thank you very much
1:35:53
i'm not seeing unveiled the chat box but
1:35:55
i know there we go
1:35:56
council member do michelle you're up
1:35:59
thank you this is councilmember d
1:36:01
michelle um
1:36:03
i uh i admit to be into
1:36:07
becoming a little eclipt i think is the
1:36:10
way
1:36:11
you say that word when i was reading our
1:36:14
council
1:36:14
packet and reading the letters and
1:36:17
emails that we received from
1:36:19
small business owners who had received
1:36:21
previous grants
1:36:24
the need is great and i think one of the
1:36:28
things that i took away from all those
1:36:30
letters and emails was
1:36:32
that each business is a very individual
1:36:36
business
1:36:36
and they were given an amount of money
1:36:39
that they needed and were able to use it
1:36:41
specifically for what they needed in
1:36:43
their businesses
1:36:44
and i think it's a wonderful uh thing
1:36:46
that we've done
1:36:47
i'm very proud that issaquah has put
1:36:50
people
1:36:51
first and um
1:36:54
these are tough times and we cannot
1:36:57
afford to meet all the need but we are
1:37:00
doing what we can
1:37:01
and i am proud of that and i'm getting
1:37:05
you clapped again however you say that
1:37:08
word
1:37:09
uh i will stop because uh it makes me
1:37:12
teary to
1:37:13
hear uh how grateful people are how
1:37:15
appreciative
1:37:16
and i think how well thought out this
1:37:18
package is and i
1:37:19
too will be supporting it thank you
1:37:22
thank you councilmember d michelle
1:37:24
deputy council president ray
1:37:27
thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray
1:37:29
uh thank
1:37:30
you to the team for pulling this
1:37:33
together in the allocations i
1:37:35
would appreciate the legwork that was
1:37:37
done so that we could understand really
1:37:38
what the need is and
1:37:40
how best to use the limited resources we
1:37:42
have to make the greatest impact
1:37:44
um so i think this is a
1:37:47
really good approach but i would like to
1:37:51
see some data coming back as we move
1:37:53
forward with the
1:37:54
grants so we can see where that money is
1:37:56
going
1:37:57
and um you know learn learn from this
1:37:59
and make sure that we are
1:38:01
if we have another chance in a position
1:38:02
to help those
1:38:04
with the greatest need and helping to
1:38:06
create that sense of community that
1:38:07
makes it such a great place to live
1:38:11
thank you deputy council president ray
1:38:13
i'll give a few moments to see if any
1:38:15
other council members would like to
1:38:16
speak to it before i
1:38:18
reread the motion
1:38:24
all right the proposed motion before the
1:38:28
council that has been moved and seconded
1:38:30
is to authorize the allocation of 563
1:38:34
850 designated dollars dollars
1:38:37
designated to the city
1:38:39
by the state of washington from the
1:38:40
corona virus aid relief and economic
1:38:43
security
1:38:44
act as follows 250 000 for economic
1:38:47
development assistance
1:38:48
including business grants and restaurant
1:38:51
weatherization assistance
1:38:53
and 250 000 for assistance to human
1:38:56
services agencies serving issaquah
1:38:58
residents
1:38:59
and sixty-three thousand eight hundred
1:39:01
and fifty dollars to be used for
1:39:02
reimbursement of expenses incurred by
1:39:05
the city related to the pandemic
1:39:07
and direct the finance director to
1:39:09
include the revenue and related
1:39:10
expenditures in a subsequent 2020 budget
1:39:13
amendment
1:39:16
i will move to the city clerk
1:39:20
for our roll call vote
1:39:23
starting with council member goodman aye
1:39:27
councilmember hall aye
1:39:30
council president hunt i
1:39:34
council member martz aye
1:39:37
deputy council president ray aye
1:39:40
councilmember walsh
1:39:46
councilmember d michelle aye
1:39:50
7i zero nays that passes unanimously
1:39:54
i i have to say when council member d
1:39:56
michelle says that
1:39:57
this can make her feel quite emotional
1:40:00
um i got
1:40:01
different down my fine that we got this
1:40:03
good work done tonight because this
1:40:04
makes a really really big difference so
1:40:06
thank you very very much
1:40:09
the next item on our agenda this evening
1:40:11
is good of the order and i do know that
1:40:13
uh
1:40:13
councilmember hall has anything so has
1:40:16
something
1:40:17
so i will let him start and see who else
1:40:19
signs up in the chat councilmember hall
1:40:23
thank you mayor paulie this is zach call
1:40:24
now on to the fun stuff
1:40:26
um so
1:40:29
um i guess i'll start you know just for
1:40:33
the public and for the city council i
1:40:34
would like to bring up
1:40:36
a number of policy questions that have
1:40:38
been raised the cascade water alliance
1:40:40
board of directors
1:40:41
for feedback and discussion amongst us
1:40:43
all here
1:40:44
i did i was able to send out
1:40:48
some language earlier today um but i'll
1:40:51
ask you
1:40:52
in the mayor if if you'd like i'll read
1:40:54
through it all
1:40:55
we can go through question by question
1:40:58
um
1:40:58
i just saw a shake and a nod so i'm not
1:41:00
sure
1:41:02
perhaps we could ask that question to
1:41:03
the council mayor and secretary
1:41:06
that sounds good there was um
1:41:10
there was a significant amount of
1:41:12
information in detail passed today i
1:41:14
would suggest
1:41:15
that it would make sense um for the
1:41:19
council member hall just to introduce
1:41:21
the question and if you had any
1:41:23
uh follow-up questions or comments on
1:41:25
the information you provided great
1:41:27
um we're really just looking for general
1:41:29
direction on
1:41:31
how our council as a member of cascade
1:41:33
water feels about this so i would
1:41:34
suggest you ask the questions
1:41:36
and um the council will follow up if
1:41:39
they have any comments or questions
1:41:41
okay so then i'll start with the
1:41:45
uh first policy question um
1:41:48
before cascade water alliance board and
1:41:50
that has to do with the setting of new
1:41:52
rates in the coming years so i'll just
1:41:53
read off this first
1:41:55
um couple bits which kind of wraps up
1:41:57
most of the arguments so um
1:42:01
staff for cascade water alliance um had
1:42:04
presented us with several different
1:42:05
scenarios
1:42:06
um for rate increasements uh great
1:42:09
increases in the coming years
1:42:11
and has recommended a um an
1:42:14
option that would follow a 2.2 annual
1:42:18
increase for five years
1:42:20
uh and another option that we studied
1:42:22
was setting a zero percent increase
1:42:25
uh in 2021 followed by a four percent
1:42:28
increase in 2022
1:42:29
and three percent increases in 2023 and
1:42:32
2024 so that's zero
1:42:34
four three for the next two years um
1:42:40
mayor paulie and i have been supportive
1:42:43
of
1:42:44
uh zero percent increase in 2021 for a
1:42:46
number of reasons but the majority of
1:42:49
the cascade water alliance board
1:42:52
supports a 2.2
1:42:54
annual increase over five years uh for a
1:42:57
couple of reasons
1:42:57
one um well i should say primarily
1:43:01
because
1:43:02
if the economy is still struggling next
1:43:04
next year the board might not be
1:43:06
interested in having
1:43:07
a 4.4 or sorry a 4
1:43:11
increase in 2022 uh in this other option
1:43:15
um would make it a 2.2 increase in 2022.
1:43:20
um so if council would like any
1:43:24
additional
1:43:24
information through that section i can
1:43:26
walk through
1:43:28
um some more arguments in favor opposed
1:43:31
to
1:43:31
each one but we kind of just wanted to
1:43:34
better understand your general thoughts
1:43:36
on
1:43:36
on rates moving forward
1:43:40
at cascade
1:43:44
and i just add a little bit too this is
1:43:47
the mayor which councilmember hall said
1:43:48
and that is that we think both options
1:43:51
are good
1:43:52
um as members of the board we believe
1:43:55
that
1:43:55
the zero um four percent
1:43:59
and then three three three has a couple
1:44:01
benefits to it
1:44:02
our city staff says that either rate
1:44:05
structure is fine so it's kind of
1:44:07
more along the line of this council has
1:44:10
been working hard and lobbying through
1:44:12
sva
1:44:13
not to have increases next year this is
1:44:16
just a question
1:44:17
are you comfortable uh with the
1:44:20
increases
1:44:21
did you want us to advocate for the zero
1:44:23
percent and four percent and by the way
1:44:25
those are across cascade members and do
1:44:27
not necessarily mean that
1:44:28
issaquah water users that use cascade
1:44:31
water would get those increases so it's
1:44:32
just sort of a
1:44:34
political question of whether where your
1:44:36
heads are on that
1:44:37
uh council member goodman followed by
1:44:39
council president hunt
1:44:44
ah thank you councilmember goodman here
1:44:47
have they put forth any um
1:44:50
any ways to save any money
1:44:54
or will they are there just what the
1:44:57
rates are in order to cover capital
1:45:00
i think that this is the mayor i believe
1:45:02
the original proposal was to do some
1:45:05
flat three percent increases through the
1:45:07
next year so the 2.2
1:45:09
is a lower increase than what they were
1:45:12
originally
1:45:12
proposing have they included
1:45:16
uh other cost-saving measures such as
1:45:21
staff reductions counseling
1:45:24
other removing other expenditures they
1:45:27
have not
1:45:28
they have not and that is similar to
1:45:30
many of the organizations that we work
1:45:31
with that are not directly
1:45:34
um accountable to the repair or the
1:45:36
taxpayer
1:45:38
okay um thank you
1:45:42
i want questions and comments at the
1:45:44
same time
1:45:45
or questions and then comments what do
1:45:47
you want to do
1:45:49
they're really only this is the mayor
1:45:50
again there really only are
1:45:52
a couple of significant policy questions
1:45:54
the other ones we think are fairly
1:45:55
straightforward so um councilmember hall
1:45:57
maybe we should go through one at a time
1:45:59
anybody else with compliments and i do
1:46:01
see that um
1:46:03
council president hunt and deputy
1:46:04
council president ray also have
1:46:06
questions in common council president
1:46:07
hunt
1:46:10
um thank you this is council president
1:46:12
hunt
1:46:13
um i was formerly the alternate for
1:46:16
cascade water alliance i'm so
1:46:18
i'm familiar with some of the
1:46:21
the
1:46:32
hopefully you can hear me um the initial
1:46:34
demand estimates
1:46:35
were for um developed in the
1:46:38
late 1990s and then the demand has
1:46:40
actually not met
1:46:43
those and people will have been
1:46:44
conserving a lot more and so i think
1:46:46
depending on what happens in the future
1:46:48
we might continue to see savings in
1:46:50
those
1:46:50
ways and we might be able to delay
1:46:54
uh um
1:46:55
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1:47:01
you want to try turning up your rate
1:47:04
increase as well
1:47:08
economic hardship right now yeah we're
1:47:11
only getting part of what you're saying
1:47:13
sorry about that um i'm going to go to
1:47:16
deputy council president ray
1:47:20
so thank you uh mayor paul this is chris
1:47:23
i just have a question in in a
1:47:25
clarification so the two point
1:47:28
two percent or whatever rate those are
1:47:31
increases to the wholesale rate for
1:47:32
water right
1:47:34
correct what have we analyzed what the
1:47:37
impact of this would be on our water
1:47:38
system plants since we just adopted a
1:47:40
water system plan based on
1:47:42
an increase in cascade water um i'm just
1:47:44
wondering
1:47:45
was this in our what we were factoring
1:47:48
and what impacted will it have on our
1:47:49
rates because
1:47:50
i think it's all fine well what what
1:47:52
happens well was not
1:47:54
intended as a play on words but i'm
1:47:55
gonna take it anyway
1:47:57
um i think it's all fine that you know
1:48:00
whatever the rate increase is but i'd
1:48:02
like to
1:48:03
um if we could arm you with a
1:48:06
some insights into what the impact is
1:48:08
going to be
1:48:09
on our rate payers and what's going to
1:48:12
do to their
1:48:14
um the water part of their bill if
1:48:16
there's a percent or a four percent
1:48:18
or whatever percent increase in the
1:48:19
whole sale rates great
1:48:22
that is great thank you they are two
1:48:25
separate issues so the purchase of
1:48:28
wholesale water
1:48:30
is set at one price but the purchase of
1:48:33
surplus water my as far as my limited
1:48:36
understanding is at a different price
1:48:38
and so what we will do is provide some
1:48:39
information to council we'll get um
1:48:42
interim public works director mr york to
1:48:45
tell you what the other prices are so
1:48:47
i'm not sure that it
1:48:49
has a significant impact on that because
1:48:50
that water pricing is discounted
1:48:53
and council member hall did collect some
1:48:55
information
1:48:56
on if it's a zero first year four
1:49:00
percent second year or
1:49:01
two point two two point two what the
1:49:03
impact is to our current
1:49:05
um water uses around cascade water what
1:49:07
they would pay in issaquah and
1:49:09
councilmember paul did you wanna share
1:49:10
that information
1:49:14
yes and no it's a little confusing for
1:49:16
next year um
1:49:17
because no matter what our ratepayers
1:49:21
will see a significant amount of savings
1:49:23
due to a one-time
1:49:24
kind of unique true up um but it
1:49:28
um let me actually pull up the chart
1:49:31
that shows
1:49:32
the impact to city visit law so i'll
1:49:34
expand on that um
1:49:38
we pay a rate based on an estimated
1:49:40
usage
1:49:42
and when it's all started out at the end
1:49:44
there's a true up that happens
1:49:46
and so um the true ups sometimes go in
1:49:50
your favor and sometimes go against you
1:49:52
issaquah is using less cascade water now
1:49:55
than it was um i'm not sure if it's
1:49:57
related to the
1:49:58
fifa tissue there was a specific
1:50:01
um i think it was related to talus sorry
1:50:05
sorry so and so our usage has gone
1:50:09
down and therefore uh the amount that
1:50:12
we're paying has gone down some mammoths
1:50:14
the spanish plateau water and school
1:50:16
district has decided to purchase more
1:50:17
water in a blending
1:50:19
operation and they see significant
1:50:22
increases
1:50:23
in it so this is this true up that
1:50:25
happens and so our
1:50:26
residents won't really see it
1:50:30
other members of cascade water alliance
1:50:32
their users will see it
1:50:39
um sorry i think i'm missing on
1:50:40
questions here
1:50:43
mayor paulie did um you still want me
1:50:45
and deputy council president ray did you
1:50:47
still want me to expand on
1:50:49
some of the savings under each scenario
1:50:51
for issaquah or
1:50:52
deputy council president ray was that
1:50:54
sufficient for you no i'm great thank
1:50:56
you
1:50:57
okay and i'm going to move to council
1:51:01
member marks
1:51:05
thank you madam thank you madam mayor
1:51:07
this is council member mark
1:51:09
a couple things um first thing
1:51:12
is that i would get nervous when we talk
1:51:14
about
1:51:15
potential benefits down the road from
1:51:17
conservation
1:51:19
because unfortunately a lot of times
1:51:21
with things like water
1:51:22
it actually has a weird net effect right
1:51:25
because the operating costs are what
1:51:27
they are
1:51:28
and they're not necessarily volume
1:51:30
dependent so as you get conservation
1:51:32
hooray the resource lasts
1:51:34
longer but the actual per unit costs to
1:51:37
the
1:51:37
uh billable uh folks can actually go up
1:51:42
uh so we need to be careful on the
1:51:44
assumptions that we
1:51:45
that we hope to see you've certainly
1:51:46
seen great increases in conservation in
1:51:49
the area
1:51:50
over the last 20 years but it hasn't
1:51:51
necessarily resulted in a lot better
1:51:53
rate
1:51:54
uh then keeping costs down i'm
1:51:57
i'm all for it but i think
1:52:01
you know we need to start asking
1:52:02
ourselves it's quite possible that
1:52:05
um you know from everything that we hear
1:52:07
uh there are going to be challenges in
1:52:08
2021
1:52:09
just like there are in 2020 so
1:52:12
we need to understand if we think that
1:52:15
2021
1:52:16
is going to continue to be a difficult
1:52:18
year if we think that
1:52:20
um the uh pandemic will continue to be
1:52:23
an issue through 2021
1:52:25
we need to ask ourselves if going to
1:52:26
zero this year and four percent next
1:52:29
year versus 2.2 and 2.2 is
1:52:32
is it actually a better option i'm not
1:52:35
positive
1:52:36
it is i just feel like more and more we
1:52:39
have to assume
1:52:40
unfortunately i couldn't envision six
1:52:43
months ago that this wasn't going to be
1:52:45
over by the end of the year but
1:52:46
everything we hear
1:52:48
seems that this is going to be a
1:52:49
substantial issue in 2021 i want to be
1:52:51
careful that we don't just
1:52:53
pile a big increase on people next year
1:52:57
that concludes my comments thank you
1:52:59
good comment
1:53:00
thank you i think uh
1:53:03
on the rape issue uh one other point
1:53:06
that councilmember hall and i were
1:53:09
interested in sharing with you
1:53:10
is that the timeline for converting lake
1:53:14
tap
1:53:14
to a water source may or may not
1:53:18
extend but at the point in time that
1:53:20
they're doing project planning right now
1:53:22
these rate increases contribute partly
1:53:25
to that new capital
1:53:26
project and 2.2
1:53:29
2.2 over five years and will generate
1:53:32
about 15 million dollars less
1:53:34
it's a one billion dollar project that's
1:53:37
a big project
1:53:38
most of the members are not worried that
1:53:40
it generates less
1:53:42
we brought up the fact that we thought
1:53:44
50 million dollars was not
1:53:46
small change we've been on a big price
1:53:49
item ticket item
1:53:51
but our public internet public works
1:53:54
director is fine with either options but
1:53:56
just want to make sure you have all the
1:53:57
information
1:53:58
and i'm kind of hearing that there isn't
1:54:01
a big excitement to go one way or the
1:54:03
other
1:54:03
so we will just continue at cascade on
1:54:06
that one
1:54:07
saying that we're in support of either
1:54:08
option and we see pros and cons for both
1:54:11
options
1:54:11
if that makes sense that's where we'll
1:54:13
go on the first one
1:54:16
not seeing anybody else wanting to
1:54:18
comment council member hall would you
1:54:19
like to go to the next
1:54:20
policy question absolutely i would this
1:54:23
is zach hall
1:54:23
and uh if you have any additional
1:54:26
feedback maybe
1:54:28
it strikes you mid sleep sometime
1:54:31
between now and wednesday
1:54:33
feel free to call me i'm usually up but
1:54:36
we can talk through that then too all
1:54:38
right so rates that was the biggest one
1:54:40
um the next one regards the use of
1:54:44
something called rcfcs which
1:54:46
are um regional capital facilities
1:54:48
charges
1:54:50
which are new charges are charges to new
1:54:54
customers for new connections i wanted
1:54:56
to make that specific reference in the
1:54:57
email that i sent you
1:54:59
i defined an rcfc as a charge to a new
1:55:01
member
1:55:02
for newcomer new connections which would
1:55:04
refer to like the city of issaquah as a
1:55:06
member but rcfcs are actually charmers
1:55:09
who have a new connection or want to
1:55:12
expand on their connections
1:55:14
and um then that goes through the city
1:55:17
of visquad
1:55:18
to cascade water lines so i just wanted
1:55:19
to make that quick clarification
1:55:22
so it has to do with committing the use
1:55:24
of rcfcs for construction projects only
1:55:29
in fact we had a conversation with city
1:55:31
staff and it's actually preferred that
1:55:32
these costs
1:55:34
are used for capital costs and instead
1:55:36
of operational costs and i believe
1:55:38
um we've been using it for debt service
1:55:40
too mayor paulie feel free to
1:55:42
correct me there but um mayor paulie and
1:55:45
i are supportive of this change and we
1:55:46
just wanted to
1:55:48
see if anyone on council had any
1:55:49
thoughts about that one and i would
1:55:51
suggest
1:55:52
that if you have thoughts please put
1:55:54
something in the chat box
1:55:55
and otherwise we'll assume that you are
1:55:57
in agreement and we'll move to the next
1:55:58
policy question and just a correction it
1:56:01
is a regional connection facility
1:56:03
chart oh not seeing anything
1:56:06
what could be a regional connection
1:56:08
facility starts i just pulled this from
1:56:09
the powerpoint
1:56:11
my apologies no worries um so
1:56:13
councilmember hall i'm not seeing any
1:56:15
comments
1:56:15
uh let's move on to the next policy
1:56:17
question perfect um
1:56:19
so the next one has to do with um
1:56:22
adopting a two-year cycle
1:56:24
for rates and rcfcs uh instead of our
1:56:28
current one-year cycle
1:56:29
so um the mayor and i are actually
1:56:31
supportive of this
1:56:32
uh transitioning to a two-year cycle and
1:56:34
it might even
1:56:36
match up nicely should we decide to
1:56:39
move to a two-year budget cycle for our
1:56:41
own budget so
1:56:42
we wanted to see if there are any other
1:56:45
comments or feedback on that one
1:56:47
thank you councilmember hall i am not
1:56:49
seeing anybody in the chat box at this
1:56:50
point in time
1:56:51
so i'll keep my eye on it and you can
1:56:53
move on to the next policy question
1:56:55
it looks like council member goodman
1:56:56
doesn't count there you go
1:56:58
council member goodman uh thank you
1:57:01
councilmember goodman here uh
1:57:04
was that the last one councilmember hall
1:57:07
uh the second to last one we have uh
1:57:10
also
1:57:10
the policy question of the late taps
1:57:13
i'll wait till you're done thank you
1:57:14
okay the last policy question
1:57:18
yeah so this one has to do with this is
1:57:21
that call sorry uh this has to do with
1:57:23
finding a lake taps
1:57:24
equity fund to quote safeguard funds
1:57:27
monitor progress and provide
1:57:29
transparency and accountability for the
1:57:31
cascade water alliance's
1:57:33
long-term interests in lake taps
1:57:36
and our this is the mayor our city staff
1:57:39
is supportive of this
1:57:41
very supportive business not seeing
1:57:43
anything in the chat box right now
1:57:45
except council member goodman so
1:57:46
councilmember goodman we'll go back to
1:57:48
you
1:57:50
thank you councilmember goodman here um
1:57:52
my my general comment
1:57:54
was um just that i wanted to thank you
1:57:57
councilmember hall
1:57:58
and um for bringing this up and bringing
1:58:01
us
1:58:02
um the detail that we need to
1:58:06
um provide in um informed
1:58:10
feedback um i just want to show my
1:58:12
appreciation and say thank you
1:58:15
that's really nice mr mayor thank you
1:58:17
very much i am not seeing anything else
1:58:20
in the chat box
1:58:21
council member hal do you feel like you
1:58:22
have everything you need to report back
1:58:24
out at the board meeting
1:58:26
mayor paulie this is that call i think
1:58:28
um i think i have every
1:58:30
everything we need uh let's touch face
1:58:32
before wednesday and if anyone has any
1:58:34
additional comments moving forward
1:58:36
um that'd be great and thank you
1:58:38
councilmember goodman i
1:58:40
i appreciate you saying that i spent a
1:58:41
lot of today trying to
1:58:43
end last night trying to make this make
1:58:45
sense in my mind because i thought if it
1:58:47
made sense in my mind it would
1:58:48
definitely make sense
1:58:50
so good to know
1:58:53
great great feedback thank you i'm not
1:58:55
seeing anybody else indicating anything
1:58:57
for good of the order
1:58:58
so i will move down to the upcoming
1:59:00
council meetings
1:59:02
the following upcoming meetings will be
1:59:03
held virtually the city council special
1:59:05
meeting on tuesday september 29th at 6
1:59:07
pm
1:59:08
with potential agenda items including
1:59:10
the mayor's budget presentation
1:59:13
and the 2019 financial statement audit
1:59:16
exit conference the city council study
1:59:19
session
1:59:20
on tuesday september 29th at 7 pm has
1:59:23
the following potential agenda items
1:59:25
the east side fire and rescue governance
1:59:27
model changes and the east side fire and
1:59:29
rescue budget
1:59:30
and the city council regular meeting on
1:59:32
monday october 5th has potential
1:59:35
agenda items of the dog park an update
1:59:38
on the dog park
1:59:39
affordable housing efforts establishing
1:59:42
environmental
1:59:43
the environmental board and repealing
1:59:45
imc
1:59:46
regarding the river 18.03 regarding the
1:59:49
rivers and streams board
1:59:50
and a franchise agreement with video
1:59:53
communications
1:59:55
so those are our meetings that are
1:59:56
coming up i'm going to suggest that we
1:59:59
take a five-minute break
2:00:02
before we start the executive session so
2:00:04
we'll be taking a break
2:00:06
now at 902 i will see you around 907
2:00:10
thank you