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Monday, November 2, 2020

7:00 PM · 2h 47m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Issaquah Police Accountability, Equity and Human Services Action Plan - Feedback from City Council Meeting Discussion, (D) AB 8065 8/12
Performance Measurement Plan AB 8046 1/2
ArtsWA Creative Districts Capital Project Pilot Program Grant AB 8021 2/2
Section
Topic
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
First Roll Call Vote: Hunt
6. CONSENT CALENDAR
6a
Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Nov. 2, 2020, $ 2,090,169.93 ID 0678
Approve · packet pp.5–41
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov
6b
Minutes: City Council Budget Study Session, Oct. 6, 2020
Approve · packet pp.43
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR b) 10-06-20 Council Budget Study Session Minutes Page (0000)
6c
Minutes: City Council Budget Study Session, Oct. 13, 2020
Approve · packet pp.45–46
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
Presented by: Andrea Snyder, Deputy City Administrator
6d
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Exec. Session, Oct. 19, 2020
Approve · packet pp.47
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR d) 10-19-20 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
6g
Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, Oct. 26, 2020
Approve · packet pp.57–58
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR g) 10-26-20 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Special Meeting 7:00 PM Virtual Meeting October 26, 2020 MINUTES
6h
2020 Annual Watermain Replacement - South Cove AB 7952
Accept Project · packet pp.59–61
Topics: Water
Staff report:
SUMMARY STATEMENT
6i
2020 Annual Watermain Replacement - Sammamish Bluffs AB 7954
Accept Project · packet pp.63–65
Topics: Water
Staff report:
SUMMARY STATEMENT
6j
ArtsWA Creative Districts Capital Project Pilot Program Grant AB 8021
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.67–72
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
The purpose of the Creative Districts Capital Project Pilot Program is to enable Washington State’s eight certified Creative District communities to make small-scale capital investments within the boundaries of their Districts. These projects will better enable Districts to add community visibility, draw tourists, and bring in new activity and revenues. Projects include, but are not limited to, ready-to-go investments in wayfinding, lighting, signage, frontage improvements, electronic reader- board renovations, pathway connections, and more, all of which can be completed by June 30, 2021.
6m
Memorandum of Understanding between the Social Security Administration and Jail re: Incentive Payment AB 8043
Confirm · packet pp.99–117
Staff report:
In February 2009, the City of Issaquah Jail, through the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC), entered into an Incentive Payment Memorandum of Understanding with the Social Security Administration related to the release of information regarding inmates in custody within the jail that receive Social Security benefits. The SSA provides incentive pay to jails for information on confined individuals resulting in the suspension of their payments or benefits from the SSA while in custody. The agreement outlines an incentive payment to Jail facilities for notifying the Social Security Administration of an individual being in custody, the process for notification to the Social Security Administration about individuals, and the payment process to the jail facility.
6o
Amendment to South Correctional Entity (SCORE) Interlocal Agreement re: Inmate Housing AB 8053
Authorize · packet pp.121–141
Topics: Housing
Staff report:
SCORE is a regionally owned jail in Des Moines, Washington serving the confinement needs of six member cities and a number of contract agencies with a total capacity of 802 inmates. The City contracts with SCORE to house inmates with acute mental illness or medical needs that generally require around the clock medical care. The City first entered into an ILA with SCORE in 2011 (Exhibit B).
6p
Local Hazardous Waste Management Program Grant AB 8054
Authorize Submittal · packet pp.143–144
Staff report:
The City of Issaquah is a member of the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program (LHWMP) in Seattle-King County and jointly plans for the management of hazardous wastes generated by households and conditionally exempt small quantity generators. Through the program, the LHWMP allocates money in the form of grants to local jurisdictions, including Issaquah, for the implementation of projects which reduce or minimize generation, exposure, or disposal of hazardous products and wastes.
6q
Landlord Consent to Assignment of Lease Agreement w/New Cingular Wireless (AT&T) AB 8055
Authorize · packet pp.145–153
Topics: Housing
Staff report:
The City entered into a lease agreement with New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC (now part of AT&T) on May 21, 2010 which allowed the tenant to operate a telecommunications tower and associated equipment at the lease property. The parties amended the agreement four times over the years.
6r
2020 Annual Sewer Main Rehabilitation AB 8061
Accept Project · packet pp.155–157
Topics: Water
Staff report:
SUMMARY STATEMENT
6s
Trail Lease with WSDOT for SPAR Water System Project AB 8064
Authorize · packet pp.159–233
Topics: HousingTransportationParksWater
Staff report:
SUMMARY STATEMENT
7. REGULAR BUSINESS
7a
Proposed 2021 Budget: Levy & Revenue Sources AB 7990
Carried 7-0
Adopt Ordinance; Approve Resolution · packet pp.235–253
Topics: Land UseBudget
Staff report:
The City's authority to impose a property tax is derived from the Washington State Constitution and described in the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) Chapters 84.52 and 84.55. The revenues from property tax are considered general government revenues. That means that this money is placed in the General Fund and can be used for any basic governmental service or goods such as public safety, planning, parks, or administration.
Roll call:
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
7b
Police Accountability, Equity and Human Services Action Plan Update Hear Presentation; Direct Administration AB 8065
packet pp.255–265
Topics: Public SafetyEquity
Staff report:
In response to public and City Council input during Summer 2020, the Administration drafted the Issaquah Police Accountability, Equity and Human Services Action Plan to address enhanced police accountability, equity initiatives and human services programs in Issaquah through 2021. This item was presented to the City Council through Agenda Bill 7999. The City Council endorsed the final version of the Action Plan (Exhibit A) on August 10, 2020.
7c
Performance Measurement Plan AB 8046
Carried 7-0
Forward to Nov. 16 Council Meeting · packet pp.267–324
Staff report:
During the February 2020 Issaquah City Council retreat, staff presented a plan to transition the City from its current incremental, departmental-based budgeting system to a priority-based budgeting approach that will better align the City’s budget to the Strategic Plan and will allow the City to measure its progress in achieving the goals that it establishes. Part of this transition is establishing a performance measurement program that identifies metrics the City will commit to tracking over time and a plan to use these measures in making policy and programmatic decisions.
Roll call:
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
8. GOOD OF THE ORDER
8a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:00 city council meeting to order before we
0:03 move on to tonight's agenda items i'd
0:05 like to
0:05 acknowledge our remote meeting formats
0:08 on march 6th i issued an emergency
0:10 proclamation
0:11 declaring a civil emergency in the city
0:13 due to the covid19
0:14 outbreak on march 24th the governor
0:17 issued proclamation 20-28
0:20 prohibiting meetings that fall under the
0:21 open public meetings act
0:23 such as our city council meetings from
0:25 being conducted in person
0:27 this prohibition has been extended
0:29 through november 9th
0:31 tonight's meeting will be held entirely
0:33 remotely the meeting will be recorded
0:35 streamed live and available for later
0:37 viewing on the city's youtube channel
0:40 a call-in number was provided on the
0:41 meeting agenda for
0:43 members of the public who wish to call
0:44 in by phone to listen live to the
0:46 meeting or make comments
0:48 and for those members of the public on
0:50 the call welcome thank you for joining
0:52 us this evening
0:53 for those of you who submitted the
0:54 online form to make comments your name
0:56 will be
0:57 will be called under the audience
0:59 comment portion of the meeting
1:01 if there's anyone on the call this
1:03 evening who did not sign
1:05 up but would like to make comments
1:06 tonight please press star 3 on your
1:09 phone
1:09 and we will add you to the speakers list
1:12 so at this point in time we'll take a
1:13 moment to
1:14 take a roll call of the council members
1:16 in attendance please stay here when i
1:17 call your name
1:18 councilmember d michelle here thank you
1:21 councilmember goodman
1:23 here thank you councilmember hall here
1:26 thanks council president hunt here thank
1:29 you councilmember martz
1:31 here thank you deputy city council
1:33 president ray
1:35 here thank you and council member walsh
1:38 here that's all seven council members
1:41 this evening
1:42 uh we also will have various staff
1:44 presenting and participating in
1:45 tonight's meeting including city
1:47 administrator wally bobkowitz
1:49 deputy city administrator andrea snyder
1:51 finance director beth goldberg
1:53 management
1:54 analyst jeremy brescher hanson city
1:57 attorney jim haney
1:59 and deputy city clerk tisha gizer
2:02 there may also be other city staff in
2:04 attendance
2:05 so i'd like to reiterate some meeting
2:07 guidelines
2:08 please speak clearly and pause
2:10 frequently
2:12 state your name each time before
2:13 speaking
2:15 mute your microphone when not speaking
2:17 for members of the public if you're also
2:19 streaming the live video feed
2:21 please turn the sound off as there is a
2:23 delay
2:24 and the next item on the agenda this
2:26 evening is the pledge of allegiance
2:28 so if everyone in attendance could keep
2:30 your microphone muted
2:32 i do welcome you to join me in the
2:34 pledge of the allegiance pledge of
2:35 allegiance
2:37 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
2:40 united states of america
2:42 and to the republic for which it stands
2:44 one nation
2:45 under god indivisible with liberty and
2:48 justice for all
2:50 the next item on our agenda this evening
2:52 is audience comments
2:54 and city clerk has anyone signed up to
2:56 speak this evening
2:57 yes great i'm going to go through a few
3:00 guidelines first and then we'll
3:02 we'll get to the list for those making
3:05 comments
3:05 please direct your comments to the whole
3:07 council and not to individuals
3:09 and while this is not a question and
3:10 answer session we will contact you to
3:12 follow up if needed
3:14 when recognized please unmute your
3:17 microphone
3:18 state your name address and relationship
3:21 to the city
3:22 speak clearly and pause frequently and
3:25 please limit your comments to five
3:27 minutes
3:27 when you are done please re-mute your
3:29 microphone
3:31 if you do not respond after your name or
3:33 phone number is called
3:34 or if your connection is lost
3:35 unexpectedly the meeting will need to
3:37 proceed
3:38 you are encouraged to rejoin the meeting
3:40 if you are able
3:41 again for those who have joined us
3:43 tonight and would like to speak under
3:44 audience comments but did not sign up in
3:46 advance
3:47 please press star 3 on your on your
3:49 phone so our clerk can see your desire
3:52 to speak
3:53 and we will call the last two digits of
3:55 your phone number when it is your turn
3:56 to make comments
3:58 personal attacks obscene language
4:00 derogatory remarks and disruptive
4:02 behavior will not be permitted
4:04 if the speaker is out of order i will
4:06 ask them to stop and mute their
4:08 microphone
4:09 if a speaker does not comply i may
4:10 direct staff to mute their microphone
4:12 if a disruption to the meeting occurs an
4:14 order cannot be restored
4:16 i may direct staff to remove you from
4:17 the call
4:19 citizen comments both written in verbal
4:21 are an important aspect of the public
4:23 process and the city takes these
4:25 comments seriously
4:27 we want to thank all of you for taking
4:28 the time to address us this evening
4:31 city clerk can you please identify the
4:32 first person who signed up to speak this
4:34 evening
4:35 yes and before i or when i call your
4:38 names
4:39 those on the phone to make comments i'll
4:41 send you a request to unmute
4:43 you will then need to press star 6 on
4:46 your phone
4:47 and if you also muted your own phone you
4:50 will need to unmute that as well
4:53 so our first caller or our first person
4:56 to speak tonight is james whitfield
4:59 james i'm sending you a request to
5:01 unmute now
5:09 okay thank you very much um
5:12 mayor and council members it is uh great
5:15 to address you this evening my name is
5:17 james whitfield
5:18 uh i am a member of the broader east
5:21 side community
5:21 and also a member of the right to breed
5:24 the committee
5:25 we work policy action for
5:29 to ensure black people's right to
5:32 breathe
5:33 and safety and respect for black people
5:36 here on the east side
5:37 i am calling in to provide some comments
5:41 specifically about the police
5:42 accountability equity and human services
5:44 action plan update
5:47 first of all i just want to say how much
5:48 i and we as members of the right to
5:50 breathe
5:51 committee appreciate the fact that the
5:53 city
5:54 is taking these steps in order to
5:57 address police accountability
5:58 equity and human services and are very
6:01 pleased to continue to support
6:04 the city as that work gets done
6:06 specifically though i want to talk
6:08 speak to the issue of school resource
6:10 officers
6:12 as a young man growing up i actually
6:16 had armed officers in my school but i
6:19 can assure you
6:20 that this is not a thing that is very
6:22 pleasant
6:24 i would assume for anyone but certainly
6:25 not for young black children
6:28 it is not just a distraction it's
6:30 actually a harm
6:32 the i came to my policy work uh through
6:35 health policy and issues related to
6:38 um health disparities and one of the
6:41 primary reasons that black children
6:43 and black people actually have worse
6:45 health outcomes is because of the
6:47 ongoing stress that is caused simply by
6:50 being black and suffering issues
6:52 of racism here in the united states
6:55 one of the ways that that happens is
6:57 when we are
6:58 around issues that in situations that
7:01 threaten our public
7:02 threaten our safety uh and unfortunately
7:05 today one of the things that threatens a
7:07 black person's safety
7:09 is an armed police officer it is not the
7:12 intent of the officer that's the issue
7:14 it's simply having an arm officer around
7:19 knowing that there may be some sort of
7:22 active
7:22 shooter situation that would require
7:26 an armed officer at the count at the
7:29 school is certainly a risk and something
7:33 that is
7:33 uh horrifying and nothing that anybody
7:35 would ever want to to deal with
7:37 however that risk is exceedingly small
7:40 however the black child
7:44 uh is actually traumatized every time
7:46 that officer walks by
7:48 uh with a gun uh so unfortunately
7:51 uh the research is very clear that black
7:54 children are perceived as older
7:56 uh black bodies are perceived as more
7:58 likely as a threat due to unconscious
8:00 and implicit diet
8:01 bias and so uh black children constantly
8:04 have to be on their own
8:05 frankly on their guard uh whenever they
8:07 are around
8:09 officers that have guns so unfortunately
8:12 while the risk of again an arm shooter
8:16 situation
8:16 is real it's very small and
8:19 unfortunately
8:20 the consequence of that is that in a
8:23 very real way
8:25 years are taking off being taking off
8:27 the lives of black
8:28 people when they grow up in situations
8:31 where there are armed officers
8:32 in their schools so we strongly
8:34 recommend
8:36 that you all look very closely at that
8:37 situation hopefully
8:39 remove armed sros from
8:42 the schools thank you very much for your
8:44 time and attention and again i
8:45 appreciate
8:46 all the work you all are doing on this
8:47 issue thank you
8:49 thank you james city clerk who signed up
8:52 next to speak
8:54 next we have loy lumala who i don't see
8:57 on the call loy if you are on the
9:00 meeting tonight please press star
9:02 3 on your phone to let us know you're
9:05 here
9:06 uh the next caller after loy is eric
9:09 nissen
9:10 i also don't see eric on the phone eric
9:13 if you
9:14 are one of our phone and callers please
9:16 press star 3
9:17 to let us know you're here
9:21 and then next we have julia dewan i know
9:24 julia is on the line
9:26 julia i'm going to send you a request to
9:28 unmute now please press star six and
9:30 then also unmute your phone
9:35 okay um can you hear me
9:38 yes okay good great yeah sending um i'm
9:41 on the landline so sending me
9:43 a signal it wasn't going to work hi i'm
9:45 julia dean
9:46 it's it's um looks it's spelled the ui
9:49 but it's not steen
9:50 i live kind of in the gilman village
9:52 area
9:53 i and i've lived in this city for five
9:56 years and i wanted to speak
9:57 also to this the equity and human
9:59 services
10:00 action plan having to do with mental
10:03 health professionals
10:04 substituting for police i am the mother
10:07 of a child who's currently
10:08 institutionalized in a
10:10 in a state mental institution south of
10:12 tacoma
10:13 i've had to call the police to my house
10:15 so i do know about this issue quite
10:18 well and just a couple questions i just
10:21 wanted
10:22 to bring up just so you can be thinking
10:23 about them in that
10:25 number one everyone talks about
10:29 hiring mental health professionals
10:30 instead of having police officers
10:33 just so you know the market is really
10:36 sparse out there
10:37 everybody everybody is clamoring for
10:39 mental health professionals
10:40 everywhere they are in huge need
10:44 and hopefully you would have to p you'd
10:46 have to pay them pretty well
10:47 because there aren't enough to go around
10:49 even now so just just saying
10:50 they're not on trees number two would
10:53 you have these
10:54 professionals um available 24 7.
10:57 sometimes people have mental health
10:59 episodes at very weird
11:01 hours of the day such as something to
11:03 think about
11:05 and number three if this person's out of
11:08 control
11:09 what are you going to do are you going
11:12 to have this person called police backup
11:14 i mean i've been in that situation where
11:16 yeah there was someone out of control
11:18 and yeah i needed a
11:19 strong someone with a gun so
11:22 just and four um
11:27 in that people 10 parents
11:30 or relatives tend to they call 911 for a
11:33 reason
11:34 we already have mental health
11:36 professionals that we take
11:38 um our offspring or relatives to go
11:41 see so we have plenty of them in our
11:44 lives but if there is an
11:45 episode that's really out of control
11:48 we pretty much um usually we call 911
11:52 because we need force
11:53 we need someone who is
11:57 several levels above a mental health
11:59 person so just to say
12:00 i know it's the real in thing to say i
12:02 replace police with mental health
12:03 professionals i'm just here to say
12:05 having lived through this it's a little
12:07 harder than it sounds and it's not
12:08 it's it's not a simple thing and it's
12:11 not necessarily
12:12 going to solve the problem if you have
12:14 any more questions
12:15 i'm happy some you know someone can i'm
12:17 happy to talk to people privately if you
12:19 want to get a hold of me after the
12:20 meeting
12:21 thanks for listening julia thank you so
12:24 much for sharing that
12:26 um going back to the city clerk to see
12:28 if either lloyd or eric
12:30 are on the line no mayor i don't see
12:34 that either of them have joined and i
12:35 don't see that our remaining phone and
12:37 callers are interested in making
12:39 comments at this time
12:41 okay thank you very much i'd like to
12:43 thank both of our speakers tonight
12:46 both are providing comments on the
12:47 police accountability equity and human
12:49 services action plan which the council
12:51 will be
12:52 talking about this evening the concerns
12:56 about
12:57 sros in schools potentially causing harm
13:01 to certain students and also about the
13:04 complexity of
13:05 mental health crossing over into
13:08 policing services
13:09 and that this is not an easy thing to do
13:12 so thank you both for coming in
13:13 and sharing that with us this evening
13:17 i am going to move to the next item
13:20 which is comedian regional reports
13:22 and we will start with council member
13:24 hall
13:27 thank you mayor paulie uh this is
13:28 councilmember zach hall
13:31 two quick reports this evening um
13:34 first the cascade water alliance board
13:36 of directors
13:37 met last wednesday october 28th
13:41 um the highlight of that meeting is that
13:43 the board
13:44 unanimously uh voted in favor um
13:48 to execute an agreement for the sale of
13:50 temporary surplus water
13:52 at discount to the city of issaquah um
13:54 so yay
13:55 and i also just want to send a big thank
13:58 you to director bob york and his entire
14:00 team for this
14:01 creative solution it gives us a lot of
14:04 time to focus on improvements and is
14:06 truly a benefit to our community so
14:07 thank you very much bob
14:09 um the neck oh and also um just to say
14:13 too that mayor paulie expressed her
14:15 gratitude for bob and his entire team at
14:17 the cascade board meeting
14:19 as well um so the next report
14:22 the next meeting of the king county
14:24 affordable housing committee of the
14:26 growth management
14:27 planning council is next friday uh
14:29 november 13th
14:31 spooky i haven't received an agenda for
14:35 that meeting yet
14:36 but i can tell you that we'll be
14:37 discussing the committee's list of
14:40 shared principles regarding revenue
14:42 untapped revenue sources
14:44 and potentially new revenue sources for
14:45 affordable housing like i've mentioned
14:47 to you all before um i do apologize i
14:51 don't yet have a draft to share with you
14:53 things seem to be moving slowly at the
14:55 moment but i've asked staff to get me a
14:57 copy to share
14:58 with council administration by the end
15:00 of the day tomorrow so
15:02 stay tuned for that um that concludes my
15:05 report mayor paulie
15:14 mary you're muted
15:24 twice it's not even funny anymore
15:28 okay i'll just write a check um
15:32 thank you councilmember hall hope you
15:34 can hear me
15:35 next up is councilmember d michelle
15:38 thank you uh this is councilmember d
15:41 michelle
15:42 um i attended the east side
15:44 transportation partnership meeting on
15:46 october the 10th
15:47 and following a presentation from sound
15:50 transit to the combined
15:51 transportation boards uh east side
15:53 transportation partnership members broke
15:56 into a subgroup
15:57 and our discussion centered on
15:59 legislative priorities for
16:00 transportation
16:02 we were all tasked with writing up a
16:04 short summary about why transit is
16:05 important to each of our communities and
16:08 kirkland deputy mayor jay arnold will be
16:10 coordinating the legislative discussion
16:12 that will take place
16:13 this month uh in addition i will be
16:16 attending the east side human services
16:18 forum legislative committee
16:20 on wednesday november 4th and the
16:22 healthier here governing board
16:24 meets on thursday november 5th and that
16:28 is my report tonight thank you
16:31 thank you very much councilmember d
16:33 michelle next up is
16:35 member walsh thank you this is council
16:37 member walsh i have a quick report in
16:39 that i will be attending the puget sound
16:42 regional council economic
16:44 development district board it's a
16:47 mouthful
16:48 on wednesday the 4th we have a working
16:50 session between
16:52 12 and 1. um just discussing
16:55 some of the upcoming things that we're
16:57 putting in place for
16:58 um some 2050 plans for economic
17:01 development
17:02 that concludes my report
17:05 thank you councilmember walsh
17:07 councilmember goodman next
17:09 uh thank you madam mayor councilmember
17:11 goodman here
17:12 eastside fire and rescue board of
17:14 directors will meet
17:15 on thursday november 12th
17:18 at 4 pm at headquarters on newport way
17:21 i do not yet have an agenda however but
17:24 that's the next meeting and that's my
17:25 report thank you
17:27 thank you councilmember goodman
17:28 councilmember mark
17:30 thank you madam mayor this is
17:31 councilmember mark uh the sound cities
17:34 association public issues committee is
17:36 going to be meeting
17:37 next thursday november 12th that's a
17:40 different day than usual
17:41 due to the veterans day holiday we have
17:44 three
17:45 actions potential actions regional
17:48 boards and committee appointments
17:50 um which is going to be uh
17:53 even less exciting than normal years
17:55 because we're trying to
17:57 not make a lot of changes because um
17:59 when the build is covered
18:00 there is uh uh
18:04 there's gonna be potent i don't say
18:06 potential action there's an action item
18:08 for consideration on emergency
18:10 management zone coordinators
18:12 and i am gonna take a little time during
18:14 the for good of the order
18:15 this evening to discuss that um the city
18:18 of issaquah
18:19 has taken a position on this uh in the
18:21 past but i would like to put this in
18:23 front of my fellow council members so
18:25 i can represent our view to pick and
18:28 then there's also a potential future
18:30 action which means we won't take final
18:32 action
18:32 uh this month on the 2021 sca
18:35 legislative agenda then the puget sound
18:39 regional
18:40 regional council's growth management
18:42 policy board
18:44 is going to be meeting thursday november
18:46 19th
18:48 and that agenda has not been released
18:49 yet that's that
18:51 concludes my report thank you thank you
18:53 councilmember martz deputy council
18:55 president ray
18:56 thank you mayor paulie this is chris
18:58 wray i have no report this evening
19:00 thank you council president hunt thank
19:03 you madam mayor this is council
19:04 president hunt
19:06 the title 18 land use ad hoc committee
19:09 met on october 29th this is a committee
19:13 of council members goodman
19:15 walsh and myself and we are reviewing
19:18 title 18 which is the land use
19:20 part of our municipal code and um
19:24 we're reviewing the plan for improving
19:26 this code
19:27 so we at this meeting reviewed the
19:30 budget plan
19:31 and we reviewed the path forward in
19:33 terms of how we
19:35 intend to continue communicating with
19:36 council
19:38 we will continue these regional reports
19:40 updates when we meet
19:42 as well as when there's a big item to
19:44 bring back to council for consideration
19:46 such as
19:47 um at one of our recent work sessions
19:50 when we brought forward the updates
19:52 table with all of the action items and
19:55 all of the proposed goals that we wanted
19:57 from the update we will bring that
19:59 forward to council at a study session
20:01 and we also began to review the public
20:04 engagement process
20:05 for the title 18 overhaul
20:08 process and we will be using the public
20:11 engagement toolkit
20:12 that the city has that's accessible on
20:16 the city's website we'll be using that
20:17 as the sort of
20:18 backbone of our public engagement
20:20 process and we'll continue
20:21 to strategize about how we can best
20:24 engage the public
20:25 in this process at our next meeting of
20:28 the
20:28 council ad hoc committee for title 18
20:31 which will be
20:32 on november 12th and that concludes my
20:34 report
20:36 thank you council president hunt the
20:38 next item up this evening is the mayor's
20:41 report
20:42 there is no executive session this
20:44 evening
20:45 i did want to take a few minutes to talk
20:47 about the green issaquah program
20:49 and the orientation that happened last
20:51 week the city hosted a green issaquah
20:54 orientation by a web
20:55 web act last wednesday night october
20:57 28th and over 30 residents took part in
20:59 the meeting
21:01 the green issaquah partnership is a
21:02 collaborative effort between the city of
21:04 issaquah
21:05 forterra community groups nonprofits
21:08 schools
21:09 businesses and hundreds of volunteers to
21:11 restore and maintain our forested parks
21:13 and open spaces
21:15 the partnership will build upon existing
21:17 city-wide community stewardship efforts
21:19 to foster long-term support
21:21 for restoration and maintenance of
21:22 issues parks and natural areas
21:24 the purpose of the meeting was to
21:26 highlight the program as part of
21:27 forterra's broader green cities
21:29 initiative
21:30 to share the issaquah-based work
21:32 completed to date including the forest
21:34 assessment
21:35 and to invite residents to become a
21:37 forest steward
21:38 and or consider ways to get engaged with
21:40 green issaquah as a volunteer
21:41 in a variety of different ways staff
21:44 from forterra mountain sits down
21:45 greenway trust and the city shared in
21:47 the presentation in the q a session with
21:49 attendees
21:50 for anyone who missed the meeting it was
21:52 recorded and is posted on the green
21:53 issaquah webpage
21:55 on the city's website coming up in the
21:57 month months ahead
21:58 for steward orientation and trainings
22:01 all within safe and smart public health
22:03 protocols
22:04 will begin at so that we can launch this
22:06 exciting partnership
22:09 i also wanted to take a few minutes to
22:10 talk about eviction mediation services
22:12 this is an item that the council has
22:14 been talking about a lot over the last
22:16 few months
22:17 at the september 21st 2020 city council
22:20 meeting council authorized the
22:21 allocation of 250
22:23 000 from the coronavirus aid relief and
22:26 economic security
22:28 act funds toward human services
22:31 to organizations providing food and
22:34 other
22:34 basic needs housing stability and
22:37 homelessness prevention
22:38 as well as mental health services one of
22:41 the proposed housing stability measures
22:43 was to utilize
22:44 cares act funding for mediation services
22:47 as a response to the expected increase
22:49 in residential eviction cases
22:51 due to the economic impact of the kovit
22:53 19 pandemic
22:55 the city is in the process of entering
22:57 into a contractual agreement with the
22:58 dispute resolution center of king county
23:01 a non-profit organization providing a
23:03 wide range of conflict resolution
23:05 services
23:06 to ensure that mediation services are
23:08 available free of cost
23:10 to issaquah landlords and tenants
23:12 wishing to solve disputes
23:13 prior to the commencement of any
23:15 unlawful detainer action
23:18 there is evidence showing that landlords
23:19 and tenants who participate in mediation
23:21 services
23:22 and or training will be more likely to
23:24 resolve their differences
23:26 resulting in reasonable settlements
23:28 issaquah residents who would like to
23:30 access these services may contact the
23:32 dispute resolution center of king county
23:34 directly
23:35 by phone at 206-443-9603
23:41 or via email at drdrc
23:45 info at kcdrc.org
23:50 there's also an upcoming recycling event
23:52 for tires batteries motor oil and
23:54 pesticides
23:55 in partnership with the ischool school
23:57 district hazardous waste management
23:59 program in king county and the king
24:00 county solid waste division
24:02 we're offering a place to bring hard to
24:05 recycle items
24:06 the event will be held from 9 a.m to 3
24:09 p.m
24:09 november 7th 2020 at issaquah high
24:12 school
24:13 please be safe wear masks and gloves and
24:15 pack your items so they can be removed
24:17 quickly
24:18 and easily no vehicles may enter after 3
24:21 only participants and cars will be
24:23 provided service walk-ups are not
24:25 allowed at this time
24:27 many items will be accepted free of
24:29 charge such as 18 inch and below tires
24:31 off the rim
24:32 lead acid and other batteries antifreeze
24:36 motor oil and pesticides and poison for
24:39 a more detailed list of additional items
24:40 that are accepted in any related fees
24:43 please go online to iskalawa.gov
24:46 and my last item for this evening is
24:48 elections king county has over 1.4
24:51 million registered voters
24:53 and 70 percent of voters have already
24:55 cast their ballot
24:56 i just got that updated it's actually 75
24:59 percent so i think i'm going to say
25:01 the up to date current number keep them
25:03 coming
25:04 return your ballot before november 3rd 8
25:07 the nearest ballot drop box in this aqua
25:10 is located at city hall
25:11 at 1 30 east sunset way and that
25:14 concludes the mayor's report
25:16 the next item on our agenda this evening
25:18 is the consent calendar
25:20 it was distributed to council in advance
25:22 and if authorized the items on the
25:24 consent calendar will be considered
25:26 together and approved by one motion
25:28 have the payables and payroll been
25:31 reviewed
25:32 they have also they have
25:35 thank you very much does any council
25:38 member desire to remove any item from
25:40 the consent calendar and consider it
25:42 under regular business
25:46 i guess it would help if i had the chat
25:48 open
25:51 i'm not seeing anyone as council
25:54 president hunt
25:54 is there any public comment that you
25:56 received by email sent to the council on
25:58 any items on the consent calendar that
26:00 you would like to share
26:01 thank you madam mayor there we did not
26:03 receive any emails on the consent
26:05 calendar agenda this evening
26:07 that's great is anybody willing to make
26:10 a motion
26:17 council president huh thank you this is
26:19 council president hunt i move to adopt
26:21 the consent calendar as it appears in
26:23 this evening's agenda
26:25 thank you deputy council president right
26:27 this is chris ray ii
26:30 it's been moved and seconded and i'll
26:31 get the city clerk to take the roll call
26:33 vote
26:36 beginning with council president hunt
26:39 aye
26:41 council member marks aye deputy council
26:44 president ray
26:45 aye council member walsh
26:48 aye council member d michelle
26:52 aye councilmember goodman aye
26:55 and councilmember hall that's seven eyes
26:59 zero nays
27:01 thank you city cleric that passes
27:02 unanimously and we'll go on to our next
27:04 item of
27:05 business this evening which is under
27:06 regular business
27:08 um the next item is ab7990 the proposed
27:13 2021 budget levy and revenue sources
27:17 and the action before council this
27:18 evening is to adopt the ordinance and
27:21 approve the resolution
27:22 this item was last before council for a
27:24 public hearing
27:25 at the october 19th council meeting and
27:27 i'd like to invite finance director beth
27:30 goldberg to make a brief presentation
27:32 welcome back good evening mayor
27:35 and uh council members i have a short
27:38 presentation this evening
27:40 about the property tax levy
27:43 ordinance and substantial need
27:46 resolution that is
27:48 before you for consideration this
27:51 evening
27:52 and i will just jump in here
27:57 at the october 19th city council meeting
28:01 there was a public hearing on the
28:05 property tax levy and revenues as
28:08 required by state law
28:11 and tonight we've got before you
28:14 a substantial need resolution as well as
28:17 the annual property tax levy ordinance
28:20 before you for consideration and
28:23 approval
28:24 so as a reminder property tax represents
28:28 about 21 percent of the general funds
28:30 uh 46.6 million dollars worth of
28:33 revenues as proposed it's about 9.8
28:36 million
28:37 dollars is what that translates into
28:41 state law allows jurisdictions to
28:43 increase property tax annually
28:46 by one percent or the implicit price
28:49 deflator
28:50 whichever is lower plus the value of new
28:52 construction
28:54 most years the implicit price deflator
28:57 which is a measure of inflation
28:59 is above one percent um but for 2021
29:04 uh the implicit price deflator is below
29:07 one percent
29:08 uh it's a point six zero five percent uh
29:12 and so um the city council has
29:16 a choice whether to levy the 1
29:19 or the 0.605
29:22 in order to levy the uh the
29:26 city council would need to declare a
29:28 special need
29:29 by adopting a substantial need
29:32 resolution that is
29:34 before you this evening the
29:35 administration does recommend
29:37 that the city council adopt the
29:39 substantial need resolution
29:42 so a little bit of background i talked
29:44 about this
29:45 on october 19th as well but just to
29:47 ground everyone
29:48 um it's it's fairly uncommon for the
29:52 implicit price deflater to fall below
29:54 one percent
29:55 uh in the last 10 years there's only
29:57 been uh two times where this has
29:59 occurred
30:00 and in both of those years the city
30:02 council adopted
30:04 a substantial need resolution um
30:08 ordinance so there is precedent for the
30:10 city doing this
30:11 in the past um if uh the
30:15 the value or what the substantial need
30:17 resolution will mean for the city
30:19 is it will protect about thirty eight
30:22 thousand dollars worth of property tax
30:24 revenues
30:25 um if the city were to um not
30:28 adopt the substantial need resolution
30:30 and levy the implicit price deflator the
30:33 .605
30:34 we would collect annually about 38
30:38 000 left less excuse me
30:41 in terms of how this impacts the average
30:44 property owner
30:45 it represents about 2.65 cents
30:49 annually in 2021
30:53 uh and so uh what the administration is
30:56 recommending as i said at the outset
30:58 is for the council to adopt the
31:00 substantial need resolution
31:02 as well as the property tax levy
31:05 ordinance
31:06 and uh with that i would be happy to
31:09 respond
31:09 to any questions that council may have
31:13 thank you director goldberg before we go
31:17 questions i was going to check in with
31:18 council president hunt to see if the
31:20 public had written
31:21 any comments on this item that she'd
31:22 like to share
31:24 thank you mayor we did not receive
31:26 public comments by email on
31:28 specifically on this a b that's great
31:31 thank you
31:32 i'm going to be checking the chat to see
31:35 which council members are interested in
31:37 asking a question
31:45 member walsh thank you this is
31:47 councilmember walsh
31:48 um director goldberg if we do not
31:52 um take the substantial need um
31:56 item this year is it something that
31:59 we could do in future
32:03 years in order to like i know in the
32:05 past
32:06 um if we haven't uh chosen to
32:09 increase by the one percent that we're
32:11 allowed we can
32:13 potentially go back in a future year and
32:15 do that
32:21 um so uh that what you're referring to
32:24 councilmember walsh is
32:26 banked capacity so in a more
32:29 traditional year if the implicit price
32:32 deflator
32:33 was above one percent as is most often
32:36 the case
32:38 the city is allowed to levy the one
32:40 percent if the city decided not to levy
32:43 the one percent in those years
32:45 it could um bank the capacity
32:49 to be used at a later time the city did
32:52 this
32:52 i believe around 2014 and you might
32:55 recall that last year
32:57 we um we then levied the bank banked
33:00 capacity
33:01 um in a in a year where the implicit
33:05 price deflator is below one percent
33:08 um technically there is no capacity to
33:11 bank
33:11 because technically the maximum you
33:14 would levy
33:16 would be the 0.605 unless you declared a
33:19 substantial need
33:21 i believe and i'd want to do a little
33:23 bit more research on this
33:25 i believe that there might be a
33:27 mechanism
33:28 to bank the difference between the 0.6
33:31 and the 1
33:34 but you would still have to declare a
33:36 substantial need and
33:39 that that
33:44 could potentially be seem a little bit
33:46 incongruous
33:47 if you're declaring a substantial need
33:50 because there is a need for those
33:52 property taxes but then not actually
33:54 levying it
33:55 and saving it for some um undetermined
33:58 uh period of time um
34:02 you know there could be some that could
34:04 be perceived as is a little bit
34:06 incongruous
34:07 um i will also note that because
34:10 the amount of property tax levied is
34:13 related to the amount
34:15 collected in the previous year that if
34:17 we were
34:18 to implement the um
34:22 the implicit price deflator is or not
34:25 take the substantial need
34:26 then the base upon which property tax is
34:30 growing
34:30 for all future years will be depressed
34:33 by that amount
34:34 and it will accumulate over time so
34:38 um in many respects you know in this
34:40 instance
34:41 um once it's gone it's gone and there it
34:44 wouldn't be an opportunity to recoup it
34:46 as there would be in a more traditional
34:49 year where
34:50 we levied the one percent and and think
34:53 maybe bank to the capacity in that year
34:56 thank you does that answer your question
35:00 come to member walsh
35:02 yes it does i will then move to
35:04 councilmember hall
35:07 thank you mayor paulie this is
35:08 councilmember hall and thank you
35:10 director goldberg the second half
35:12 of your answer answered my first
35:13 question
35:15 my second question is if adopting
35:18 um a substantial need resolution has any
35:21 impact on our future
35:22 bonding capacity or how bonding agencies
35:25 uh view the city
35:30 um i'm not sure it would
35:34 um i'm not sure it would impact how the
35:37 rating agencies would view
35:39 the city um with the exception
35:43 of and it's a little bit indirect
35:47 but you know they're looking at the
35:49 financial health
35:50 of the city and um if we've got a
35:54 structural deficit
35:57 and um you know not levying
36:00 revenues that are available to us then
36:03 you know there there may be
36:07 it would be foregone revenues that then
36:09 could impact
36:10 uh future future financial outlook um
36:14 but that being said you know we're
36:16 talking about 38
36:17 000 so um it's not
36:20 it's not um a significant amount it's
36:24 not like we're talking about you know
36:26 a third of our property tax revenue or
36:28 anything like that
36:29 um but um we we know
36:33 that we're facing some structural
36:34 challenges in the out years
36:36 and this would be foregone so
36:40 in that respect it would be an
36:41 opportunity that wouldn't necessarily
36:43 come back to us
36:45 thank you director goldberg i'm also
36:48 going to have city administrator bob
36:50 kowitz weigh in on this from a different
36:52 angle and that is that this is currently
36:55 one of the things on council draft
36:57 legislative agenda
36:58 is a request to the state that this one
37:01 percent be lifted
37:03 and just have him
37:06 talk about why that is on our
37:08 legislative agenda and what
37:10 not taking it this year might do to
37:13 those advocacy efforts
37:14 to administrator bob quest yes thank you
37:17 man members of the council good evening
37:18 as mayor paulie mentioned this has been
37:21 something that has been part
37:22 of our legislative agenda currently it
37:24 is on our our 2020 legislative agenda
37:26 to support lifting of the one percent
37:28 cap on property tax
37:30 with the washington state legislature
37:33 you'll be talking more about the
37:34 legislative agenda coming up on thursday
37:36 evening this week
37:37 and it is also included in our draft
37:39 agenda
37:40 for 2021. this has been in the
37:43 legislature for the last couple of
37:45 sessions
37:46 but unfortunately those bills have not
37:48 made it on a committee uh in discussing
37:50 this with our
37:51 state lobbyist helder
37:54 staff the administration feels uh that's
37:57 probably also unlikely coming up given
37:58 all the
37:59 other issues that are coming up in the
38:01 washington state legislature in 21
38:04 but certainly it's one of those things
38:06 will likely take some time
38:07 and the administration is going to
38:09 continue to
38:11 support this and recommend that the
38:12 council support it in the 2021
38:14 legislative agenda
38:19 thank you administrator bob kuehler i'm
38:20 looking to see if there are any more
38:30 questions
38:32 if there are no additional questions is
38:34 someone prepared to make a motion
38:38 council president hunt thank you this is
38:41 council president hunt
38:43 i move to approve resolution number
38:46 2020-15
38:48 making a declaration of substantial need
38:51 for setting the property tax levy for
38:53 2021
38:54 and adopt ordinance number 2925 levying
38:58 property taxes for the city of issaquah
39:00 for the fiscal year commencing january
39:02 1st 2021
39:03 on all property both real and personal
39:05 in said city which is subject to
39:07 taxation for the purposes of paying
39:09 sufficient revenue
39:10 to carry on the services of said city
39:12 for the ensuing year as required by law
39:16 thank you deputy council president
39:18 wright
39:21 no this is this is chris wright ii
39:24 thank you it's been moved in second is
39:26 there any discussion
39:28 and i'll keep my eye on the chat box to
39:29 see if anybody wishes to make comments
39:38 okay it's been moved and segmented to
39:42 approve resolution number 2020-15 making
39:45 a declaration of
39:46 substantial need for setting the
39:48 property tax levy
39:49 oops sorry nope i got a comment from
39:52 council president hunt so i'm going to
39:53 slow down
39:54 council president hunt um thank you
39:56 madam mayor this is council president
39:58 hunt
39:58 i just wanted to um speak to
40:01 uh why i would support this um we do
40:04 in addition to this being on our past
40:06 legislative agenda to lift the one
40:08 percent
40:08 levy cap to give more ability for cities
40:12 to use this as a revenue source it's
40:15 also the sca
40:16 on the sca legislative agenda so it's
40:18 not just our city it's many cities
40:21 in the state and i think that it
40:24 is important for that reason as well as
40:27 for the structural
40:29 reasons that beth mentions that we
40:31 continue to
40:33 use this revenue to support the services
40:35 of the city thanks
40:38 thank you council president hunt
40:41 being no other comments uh the motion
40:43 that's on the table is to approve
40:45 resolution number 2020-15
40:48 making a declaration of substantial need
40:50 for setting the property tax levy for
40:52 2021
40:54 and adopt ordinance number 2925 levying
40:57 property taxes for the city of issaquah
40:59 for the fiscal year
41:00 commencing january 1st 2021 on all
41:03 property both real and personal in said
41:06 city
41:06 which is subject to taxation for the
41:08 purpose of paying
41:09 sufficient revenue to carry on the
41:11 services of said city
41:13 for the ensuing year as required by law
41:16 and i will go to the city clerk for a
41:18 roll call vote
41:20 yes beginning with council member martz
41:23 aye deputy council president ray
41:27 aye council member walsh
41:30 aye council member d michelle
41:34 aye councilmember goodman aye
41:38 councilmember hall aye council president
41:41 hunt
41:42 aye at seven eyes zero nays
41:49 mayor you're muted i'm gonna go
41:53 bankrupt tonight okay thank you city
41:57 clerk that passes unanimously
42:00 get my script back up the next item on
42:03 our agenda this evening is ab-8065
42:06 the police accountability equity and
42:09 human services action plan
42:10 update the council will be hearing a
42:13 presentation
42:14 this evening and providing some
42:15 direction to the administration
42:17 the plan was adopted by council at the
42:19 august 10th council meeting and this is
42:21 the first
42:22 quarterly update i'd like to invite
42:24 student administrator bob kowitz
42:26 to present this item wally
42:29 yes uh thank you madam mayor members of
42:31 the council uh
42:32 on august 10th the city council endorsed
42:35 the mayor's police accountability equity
42:38 and human services action plan that we
42:39 spent a good part of our summer
42:41 uh talking about this plan and talking
42:43 about the various steps on the plan
42:45 we're here this evening for our course
42:48 first quarterly update on the plan
42:50 i'm joined uh by a cavalcade of
42:53 city staff that will be here to answer
42:56 any questions that you may have as we go
42:58 through
42:59 the proposals or if you need the
43:00 initiatives there are three specific
43:03 issues
43:03 that the administration would like to
43:05 bring particular attention to to the
43:07 council this evening
43:08 and as we get to those points on the
43:11 plan i'll
43:12 stop and pause but they are a further
43:14 discussion regarding school resource
43:15 officers
43:16 any next steps that the city council
43:18 would like to entertain
43:20 as far as its outreach with the police
43:22 department staff
43:23 and then uh next steps for city council
43:26 equity training
43:27 so the the deputy clerk has pl put up
43:30 the report so we can go to the next
43:32 uh page uh if you recall
43:36 members of the council there were three
43:38 categories of actions a
43:40 short medium and long term
43:43 [Music]
43:44 actions that we are proposing to work on
43:47 uh the short-term actions which were
43:49 by august 31st uh the
43:52 council on the police department through
43:54 a variety of public meetings
43:55 reviewed our current use of force policy
43:58 and so that
43:59 piece has been completed we continue in
44:02 the next
44:03 section on police department reporting
44:05 we have developed a new monthly report
44:07 that we are making available to members
44:09 of the public
44:10 uh we've had the first month of that
44:11 report uh
44:13 posted and we'll do a regular push of
44:15 that report during the month
44:17 of october uh in the website you're in
44:19 october and beginning now in november i
44:22 have a regular push to the community on
44:23 that
44:24 um otto monahan and chief erbaum are
44:28 with us this evening chief do you want
44:29 to say anything
44:30 about how this reporting is a little bit
44:33 different than what we've been
44:34 previously doing
44:38 absolutely our current report
44:43 really is just trying to give a quick
44:44 overview of our call responded to
44:48 our numbers of um uh
44:51 our resp our 911 calls and some basic
44:54 of our um more serious crimes just to
44:57 provide uh
44:58 updates um on a monthly basis and a
45:01 year-to-date basis uh we'll again
45:02 update those each month the october ones
45:05 should be posted here
45:06 in this next week just to continue to
45:09 provide that
45:10 information it's just a brief snapshot
45:13 and then of course it's
45:14 encouraging our community members then
45:16 to also look further at the data that's
45:18 available
45:19 kind of through our self-searching
45:22 options
45:23 on the website
45:26 great thank you very much chief and
45:29 i thought that assistant to the city
45:31 administrator
45:33 omanagan was on but i do not see that
45:35 she is
45:36 but we have made this available on the
45:37 website so people can sign up
45:40 as a newsletter to get that pushed and i
45:42 believe you can go chief to the
45:44 police department website and there's a
45:45 link there to get that
45:48 the next item was city council equity
45:50 training we did the first
45:53 equity training with the city council uh
45:55 over the summer
45:57 and one of the points for discussion
45:59 madam mayor i'd like to get some
46:01 feedback from the council
46:02 uh about that training and any
46:04 additional thoughts about next steps
46:06 uh that the council would like to do for
46:08 training so madam mayor would you like
46:10 be to go through all of this and then
46:11 come back uh to those
46:13 three items i mentioned at the beginning
46:15 or would you just like to take them as
46:16 encounter them i'm kind of looking at
46:19 council
46:20 not seeing much in the way of um
46:23 strong opinion i think it's up to you do
46:26 you want to just start with this first
46:27 one then on the training
46:29 sure again um we would like to offer the
46:33 council whatever you think would be
46:34 appropriate the
46:36 the training that we did was sort of a
46:38 30 000
46:39 foot training there were lots of
46:41 specific issues raised
46:43 we would be happy to come back to the
46:45 council with a couple of
46:47 alternatives as far as maybe some
46:50 additional training
46:51 uh also curious if the time was right
46:54 it was an evening's uh training
46:56 previously if that
46:57 time frame makes sense we can shoot to
46:59 do that again
47:01 um the next time and probably not before
47:04 the end of the year but we would perhaps
47:06 schedule something right at the first of
47:08 the year if the council's interested
47:10 that sounds great i believe that uh
47:12 council member jim michelle would like
47:13 to make a comment
47:15 um thank you and um first of all my
47:19 appreciation for the training that was
47:22 held
47:23 it was filled with really interesting
47:26 and uh helpful information uh the part
47:29 that i missed was
47:31 the ability of the council to
47:34 debrief at the end and to have a
47:36 conversation
47:37 about uh what does this all mean and how
47:40 does it apply
47:40 to issaquah and so i would like to see
47:45 uh in future trainings and i i would
47:47 support having future trainings
47:49 um uh do a little bit more on
47:53 um how we can affect actually our local
47:57 community
47:58 uh and a little bit more time for the
48:00 council to
48:02 absorb and debrief on the information
48:05 we've received
48:06 but i do think it was um i i've taken
48:10 the information i received that night
48:11 and applied it in many different
48:13 contexts
48:14 and so i am appreciative that we did
48:16 have that opportunity
48:17 so thank you great comment councilmember
48:20 walsh
48:22 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
48:24 i agree the
48:25 training was fantastic and having the
48:29 um i forget the woman's name who led it
48:32 was just
48:33 magnificent um that being
48:37 said i'm fine with doing another
48:39 training but i
48:40 really would love to be able to focus on
48:43 our community
48:44 and our needs and so the more that
48:48 we can hear from our community members
48:50 as well
48:51 as spend time with the council
48:55 ourselves talking about the way we see
48:58 things
48:59 uh moving forward i i think that in my
49:02 mind gets to
49:03 action um and so that would be my
49:07 preference that being said happy to do
49:10 more
49:11 training i just don't want it to be
49:14 there
49:15 instead of uh moving some things forward
49:19 thank you councilmember yeah i see that
49:21 thank you councilmember walsh bonita
49:23 horn was the instructor last time
49:25 i'm just looking in the chat to see if
49:27 anyone else would like to comment on
49:29 that
49:30 and council president hunt thank you
49:34 this is council president hunt one thing
49:36 um that's also on the longer term
49:38 actions for
49:39 this um this plan is around the
49:44 tool kit developing a racial equity
49:46 toolkit and one thing that i thought
49:49 we might benefit from training in as a
49:52 council would be
49:54 what how that would work how we might
49:57 use it as a council how we might take
49:59 different actions
50:00 using that how it's worked in other
50:02 cities and that kind of thing so
50:04 like councilmember walsh i'd like to
50:06 start thinking through the actions
50:08 part and so training that would help us
50:11 better orient
50:12 us in that direction i think would be
50:14 valuable
50:16 thank you any other comments
50:23 did administrator babka with do you have
50:25 everything you need on that first item
50:27 i do i think we we heard two different
50:30 kinds of training one that's a little
50:32 bit more
50:32 issaquah specific having community uh
50:35 leaders but talk about some of the
50:37 specific needs
50:38 in this squad and then the second
50:39 dealing with an equity toolkit and
50:42 certainly we can work on both of those
50:43 so we'll shoot to have the first one of
50:45 those the first of the year
50:47 uh and perhaps the second one uh in the
50:50 late winter early spring and
50:51 we'll uh we'll look at a uh
50:54 evening again as we did last training so
50:57 thank you for that
50:58 um the next item on the short term
51:01 actions was reporting and we're here
51:03 this evening
51:04 uh doing that first quarter report on
51:06 next page
51:10 then we're into the medium term actions
51:12 man i mean i'll stop there just briefly
51:14 to see if there's any other comments
51:16 regarding those first august 31 actions
51:23 not seeing any right now to the
51:24 administrator so it's probably good to
51:26 go ahead
51:26 great uh the next set are the medium
51:29 term actions that we're working on
51:31 this fall to be accomplished by the end
51:33 of the year uh the first deals with the
51:35 police department budget
51:36 and operations review and the council
51:39 has heard
51:39 a presentation last week by the police
51:41 chief talking
51:43 a little bit about this as well as mike
51:45 and garel our human services coordinator
51:47 um how we will hopefully be looking to
51:50 include human services there was a
51:53 question by a community member
51:55 this evening about that again madam
51:58 mayor i'm happy to have monica
52:00 kind of quickly summarize what our
52:02 current plans are would that be helpful
52:04 just to
52:05 to reiterate that i did i think that'd
52:07 be very helpful thank you
52:08 miss marilla i think you're on the line
52:10 if you could uh talk a little bit about
52:12 the
52:13 conversations you've been having with
52:14 chief burbaum on what our next steps
52:17 will be
52:17 if the council approves the budgeted
52:19 position that's proposed
52:22 thank you so much to the administrator
52:24 uh good evening madam mayor and members
52:26 of the council this is monica
52:28 grilla currently if a council approves
52:31 the budget
52:32 we are hoping to move forward with
52:35 hiring a mental health professional
52:38 this would be a licensed clinician
52:41 who has the ability to conduct
52:43 assessments on site
52:45 and we are hoping to provide
52:50 or to seek for a variable schedule
52:53 especially the swing shift
52:57 would be ideal as from initial
53:00 data we do understand and know that
53:03 evenings
53:03 or night times are
53:07 in higher need this would also
53:11 combine the existing human services
53:13 staff that we have during the day
53:14 so while we are not going to be able to
53:17 provide 24 7 coverage
53:19 in 2021 uh we will extend that coverage
53:22 just from the nine to five typical
53:25 um shift um and i'm gonna stop here i
53:29 can certainly provide more details but
53:31 that's
53:32 the initial overview thank you monica
53:36 uh and i think it's also important to
53:38 point out that
53:40 you know this proposal is not uh
53:42 replacing police officers
53:44 obviously police officers will continue
53:46 uh to respond to appropriate
53:48 uh calls for service as they do now we
53:51 really see this as
53:53 a partnership as we work with the
53:56 community as we work with police staff
53:58 during the course of next year uh
54:00 certainly we would anticipate coming
54:01 back to the council as part of the
54:03 2022 budget process with the additional
54:06 uh recommendations on on how to do this
54:10 many communities are grappling with us
54:13 as we are and i think we're looking to
54:15 make
54:15 the best decisions for esquad
54:19 that pretty much covers the police and
54:21 operations review some of the other uh
54:24 city administrator i believe you have a
54:25 question from council member hall
54:27 thank you thank you mayor paulie as
54:30 council member hall
54:31 um thanks to the administrator for
54:34 letting me interrupt real quickly um i
54:35 was going to ask
54:36 if someone could speak to um
54:40 during public com tonight uh i think her
54:41 name was julia
54:43 had brought up um some concerns that you
54:45 had or
54:46 that she had and you actually spoke to
54:48 some of it just now
54:50 the other concern that she had was the
54:52 market for mental health professionals
54:54 uh i didn't thought about that before so
54:56 i wondered if administration had thought
54:58 about that and if there's anything we
54:59 know about
55:00 kind of the market that's out there
55:01 right now
55:03 uh certainly i guess i would look to
55:06 miss negrilla who
55:07 i think keeps pretty close tabs on the
55:09 marketplace here in the
55:10 seattle metro region uh mr gorilla what
55:13 are
55:14 what's the marketplace look like uh yes
55:17 the market actually for
55:19 quality licensed mental health
55:20 professional is indeed
55:22 challenging just because typically a
55:25 good
55:25 licensed mental health clinician will
55:28 move up
55:29 into management positions and so finding
55:32 someone who's going to provide direct
55:34 services typically
55:35 takes quite a bit of time in my previous
55:38 experience i was
55:40 looking for three to almost six months
55:42 into finding the right clinician
55:44 so that definitely is a challenge
55:48 um but but but certainly i think
55:51 we uh we as an employer bring a variety
55:56 of attributes um in addition to a a good
56:00 competitive wage
56:02 our benefit packages retirement is
56:04 something that many non-profits are not
56:06 able to provide
56:07 so again i think as mr guerilla has said
56:10 it's
56:11 a competitive market but i think what
56:13 we'll be able to do and i think as we
56:15 have sized
56:16 the position that would be working in
56:18 the police department i think we're
56:19 hopeful that that will be attractive
56:21 position
56:24 okay i think um city mr bobquist if you
56:27 want to
56:28 continue with the presentation thank you
56:31 other uh processes at the police
56:33 department that
56:34 we're working on a use of force review
56:37 and reporting
56:38 were in the process of creating an
56:40 internal review committee
56:41 for all use of force complaints that
56:44 will be made up of the city attorney
56:46 myself the chief of police and uh miss
56:49 norilla
56:50 to view those complaints from a variety
56:52 of different perspectives
56:54 uh it's a process that i've used another
56:56 jurisdiction in which i've worked and
56:59 it's a very good process i think to have
57:02 multiple
57:02 uh sets of eyes and look at those
57:04 complaints to make sure that they're
57:05 being adjudicated properly so
57:07 we are working on establishing that
57:09 committee and that will be done
57:10 by the end of the year the next area
57:13 is the police department complaint
57:15 process
57:17 again the department has a current
57:19 process
57:20 i'm working with chief burbaum to review
57:22 that process to see if there are
57:23 improvements that we can make and again
57:25 those discussions are continuing and
57:27 we're on track to make those changes by
57:29 the end of the calendar year
57:31 uh next is police department data
57:33 collection and reporting
57:35 as we've mentioned we've instituted at
57:37 least one change already to how we are
57:39 reporting
57:40 on data that's something we're
57:42 continuing to look at we're looking at
57:43 best practices
57:44 of other jurisdictions but most of those
57:47 best practices
57:48 revolve around online self-serve if you
57:52 will
57:53 uh portals where individuals can look at
57:55 particular addresses and see
57:57 uh complaints that are made and so we're
57:59 going to continue to look and make sure
58:01 that what we have online makes the most
58:04 sense
58:05 and is comparable to other jurisdictions
58:07 we would like to
58:09 be like so that is something we're
58:10 looking at and we should have that
58:13 review done by the end of the calendar
58:14 year next page
58:20 now the next item is the use of school
58:21 resource officers uh this has been
58:23 discussed uh
58:24 on a couple of different occasions uh by
58:26 the council uh
58:27 when this action plan was uh confirmed
58:31 by the council a few months ago
58:32 uh we knew that this school board was
58:36 going to be having a retreat
58:37 sometime in the early fall let's talk
58:40 about this
58:41 just recently the city council's
58:43 leadership group
58:45 the council president and the deputy
58:46 council president and i met
58:49 with the leadership of the iss school
58:51 board on the subject
58:53 they informed us that upon their review
58:55 they continued to feel
58:56 that uh having a school resource officer
58:59 not only
59:00 at their high school here in his squad
59:03 but also their
59:04 schools in other parts of the district
59:05 which are serviced by the king county
59:07 sheriff's department
59:08 that continues to make sense and so they
59:10 have
59:12 let us know that they would like to
59:13 continue with this but certainly there
59:15 has been discussion by the council and
59:17 members of the community
59:18 on this issue and so the administration
59:20 would like to
59:22 take this opportunity this evening uh to
59:24 see if the council has
59:25 any other direction or other
59:27 investigation or other discussions you'd
59:29 like to schedule
59:31 regarding keeping that school resource
59:33 officer in place
59:34 chief bierbaum is here there were some
59:36 questions raised by the
59:38 school board leadership on training
59:39 which he shared that information
59:42 this afternoon with the council so he's
59:44 certainly happy to answer any questions
59:47 that might come up and there are many
59:50 uh this is the mayor i will start with
59:52 council member d michelle
59:56 thank you yes i have um i have
59:59 questions and comments about this item
1:00:01 and i'm wondering if
1:00:03 uh chief bierbaum if you would be
1:00:05 willing to
1:00:06 just for the public to hear uh i was
1:00:10 fascinated by the amount of training
1:00:11 that the sros have to have
1:00:14 and i was wondering if you could just
1:00:16 summarize that for the public so they
1:00:18 can hear that as well because it is
1:00:20 extensive training
1:00:22 i was particularly interested in
1:00:26 how uh whether or not sro's got training
1:00:29 like adolescent development and those
1:00:32 kinds of things and
1:00:33 so if you could just review that briefly
1:00:36 i would really appreciate it
1:00:40 absolutely thank you councilmember d
1:00:43 michelle
1:00:44 uh in regards to school resource officer
1:00:46 training
1:00:47 by actually state law they are required
1:00:50 to be
1:00:50 trained in multiple topics from
1:00:52 everything from constitutional and civil
1:00:54 rights of children in schools
1:00:57 child and adolescent development
1:00:58 trauma-informed approaches
1:01:01 with working with youth educational
1:01:03 rights of students with disabilities
1:01:07 resources available in the community to
1:01:10 for like diversion for youth
1:01:12 and de-escalation techniques state law
1:01:16 regarding restraint and isolation in
1:01:17 schools
1:01:18 uh of course bias free policing and
1:01:20 cultural competency
1:01:22 and um and uh and others um in addition
1:01:25 to that
1:01:26 um for state law the police department
1:01:28 isaac police department does focus on
1:01:30 on our core officer training that does
1:01:33 focus around crisis intervention
1:01:35 uh our basic or advanced specifically
1:01:38 working with youth
1:01:39 and of course de-escalation each one of
1:01:42 our sros attends additional
1:01:44 training which is has like a nationally
1:01:46 recognized
1:01:47 basic school resource officer training
1:01:49 program that really focuses on the
1:01:51 the triad of the uh school resource
1:01:54 officer approach of enforcement and
1:01:56 crime reduction
1:01:57 counseling mentoring and then of course
1:01:59 teaching or working within the
1:02:00 classrooms
1:02:01 uh in addition to the basic we want our
1:02:04 sros to attend our advanced school
1:02:05 resource officer training which is an
1:02:07 additional
1:02:08 focus on collaboration within the
1:02:10 schools social media training violence
1:02:12 reduction
1:02:13 and then on top of that we want our sros
1:02:15 also to attend training with adolescent
1:02:17 mental health
1:02:18 training as well thank you
1:02:21 thank you i appreciate that i do have a
1:02:23 follow-up question for you too but
1:02:26 um i always feel like i have to
1:02:29 do a full disclosure on this i was a
1:02:31 member of the issaquah school board when
1:02:33 they approved
1:02:34 sros um and i i heard from the public
1:02:38 comment tonight i think a perception has
1:02:40 grown up around
1:02:41 sros that they are there to prevent mass
1:02:44 shootings
1:02:45 and uh the issaquah school board
1:02:47 approved the sros
1:02:49 and had them in schools long before
1:02:51 columbine happened
1:02:53 and uh the focus was not on
1:02:56 preventing mass shootings but instead on
1:02:59 prevention of drug trafficking
1:03:02 prevention
1:03:03 of of other crimes that might happen
1:03:06 around schools and so forth so i did
1:03:08 want to know uh how
1:03:12 how often or whether or not our sros are
1:03:15 still dealing with
1:03:17 drug issues around our schools and drug
1:03:20 trafficking issues
1:03:21 how common is that is that still a focus
1:03:25 of the work that they're doing
1:03:29 i would not say thank you for that
1:03:31 question i would not say
1:03:33 that the drug investigation is the focus
1:03:36 of that program it is of course one of
1:03:39 auxiliary duties of enforcement of
1:03:41 crimes associated with schools
1:03:43 it really comes down to a partnership
1:03:45 with the with the individual school
1:03:47 each one of the school resource officers
1:03:49 that are in the squad school district of
1:03:50 course are
1:03:51 working with different jurisdictions the
1:03:53 issue high school is working with
1:03:55 issaquah police department
1:03:56 and of course we partner with our school
1:03:59 administration on
1:04:01 those different issues and things that
1:04:03 we're investigating are everything from
1:04:05 yes drugs but we're also addressing
1:04:07 dating violence
1:04:09 there's a lot of social media
1:04:11 investigations or theft fraud driving
1:04:14 there's a lot of different issues that
1:04:16 our school resource officers
1:04:18 do get to get involved with
1:04:21 i appreciate that and and i understand
1:04:23 that that is a much wider
1:04:25 area that that they cover um
1:04:29 and so i have some comments but i'd
1:04:31 rather hear
1:04:32 the questions from my fellow council
1:04:33 members and then maybe come back and
1:04:35 make a comment at the end thank you
1:04:37 that sounds great thank you
1:04:38 councilmember dave michelle
1:04:40 uh council uh the next question i see on
1:04:43 here is from council member walsh but
1:04:45 i'll just check in council member mart
1:04:47 says here's a question or a comment
1:04:49 okay uh council member hall question or
1:04:52 comment
1:04:54 comment councilmember walsh can go ahead
1:04:56 great council member whilst you're up
1:04:59 thank you so it's my understanding that
1:05:02 we as a city pay a portion of the sro
1:05:06 salary
1:05:07 or rather i guess we pay all of it
1:05:09 because they're
1:05:10 an ipd employee and then the
1:05:14 um school board the school district pays
1:05:18 half of that back is that correct
1:05:26 thank you for that question um i can
1:05:28 answer this city manager bob klitz um
1:05:30 it is approximately 70 000 a year of
1:05:33 what we
1:05:35 receive from the school district
1:05:38 is a little uh it's a little
1:05:41 it's around approximately half
1:05:45 okay following on that um
1:05:49 what are
1:05:53 what are our powers or our
1:05:54 responsibilities when it comes
1:05:56 to any staffing
1:06:00 in the school i mean i understand that
1:06:03 this is a
1:06:04 issaquah police department employee and
1:06:06 thus a city employee
1:06:08 um but do we have the ability to
1:06:11 tell the school whether or not they can
1:06:15 have a school resource officer or is
1:06:18 this really just a
1:06:19 financial conversation as far as the
1:06:22 city's responsibility
1:06:28 the it is actually an agreement between
1:06:30 the the city and
1:06:32 the school district there is a
1:06:35 mou or ioa that is that addresses this
1:06:38 that we
1:06:39 negotiate or we have this conversation
1:06:43 every three years is when we have to
1:06:45 renew the renew the
1:06:47 mou with the school district so um it is
1:06:50 something that it would be a joint
1:06:51 decision
1:06:54 so let me take that one step further if
1:06:56 we as a city said
1:06:58 nope we don't agree to it um
1:07:01 is there are there
1:07:04 other choices that the school district
1:07:07 has such as
1:07:08 bringing in king county sheriff's office
1:07:11 like they do
1:07:12 in other parts of the district that
1:07:15 or if we say no then
1:07:19 they have no options
1:07:22 typically the jurisdiction would still
1:07:24 fall for ischool high school or issaquah
1:07:26 middle school would fall for the city
1:07:27 business law police department to
1:07:28 respond to
1:07:29 any criminal activities that are that
1:07:31 are going on within within the schools
1:07:36 ultimately what would occur is if we
1:07:37 chose not to have a school resource
1:07:39 officer is then
1:07:40 any call for service that arose from
1:07:42 that would just get the
1:07:44 an on-duty patrol officer to respond
1:07:47 one of the benefits of the school
1:07:49 resource officer position is the
1:07:50 relationship
1:07:51 building and having having that
1:07:54 relationship with the
1:07:55 the individuals within the schools
1:07:57 understanding
1:07:58 how the interaction of the school's
1:08:02 management of issues within the school
1:08:05 versus
1:08:06 what a law enforcement response would be
1:08:09 some of that would be lost of course and
1:08:11 the ability to
1:08:12 navigate some of those complex issues
1:08:15 would
1:08:16 possibly be slowed down or lost but
1:08:19 ultimately isaqua police department
1:08:20 provides the policing services for
1:08:22 musical high school and the schools that
1:08:25 are within the city of izakawa
1:08:27 thank you chief i appreciate the answers
1:08:31 thank you councilmember walsh it looks
1:08:32 like deputy council president
1:08:34 ray has a question thank you mira paulie
1:08:37 chris ray i'm going to
1:08:38 pick up a little bit where councilmember
1:08:40 walsh left off but
1:08:42 chief can you talk about from the city
1:08:44 perspective and from
1:08:46 esqua police department's perspective
1:08:47 what are the benefits of us having an
1:08:50 deployed at the high schools
1:08:54 absolutely thank you for that question
1:08:57 if you if you permit me i think some of
1:08:59 you heard my stories before but
1:09:00 um i was one of the first school
1:09:02 resource officers for the
1:09:04 the city of issaquah at the ischool high
1:09:05 school prior to
1:09:07 us being within schools the
1:09:10 relationships
1:09:11 and trust that we had between law
1:09:14 enforcement and youth i think were at a
1:09:16 lower level
1:09:17 i was introduced on the first day of
1:09:18 school at a pep rally
1:09:20 and when i got introduced i received
1:09:22 booze and pig calls
1:09:24 um to and you know to to me being there
1:09:28 i uh answered by ex
1:09:31 you know expressing i appreciated their
1:09:32 enthusiastic uh
1:09:34 welcome and but and then you know jumped
1:09:37 right in to
1:09:38 you know endeavored to start building
1:09:39 those relationships um after a few
1:09:42 months we started the next time there
1:09:43 was a
1:09:44 pep rally and i was introduced and i was
1:09:46 actually getting some sort of you know a
1:09:47 positive response
1:09:49 a few months later i started getting
1:09:50 officers coming up to me and asking me
1:09:52 uh what are you doing and i asked them
1:09:55 back what do you mean what am i doing i
1:09:56 said well we have kids now coming up and
1:09:58 talking to us on the street
1:09:59 people who are coming up and feeling
1:10:01 comfortable and talking with us
1:10:02 and that's the difference that's
1:10:05 the that's the relationship and that
1:10:08 trust and that that
1:10:09 personal interaction i think that would
1:10:10 be lost
1:10:12 without having that so that's that's one
1:10:14 of those opportunities of building that
1:10:16 public trust that is what that what
1:10:17 we're about
1:10:19 it provides an opportunity for um
1:10:22 similar to what i said earlier with
1:10:23 the kind of the triad concept of school
1:10:25 resource officers yes there is the
1:10:26 enforcement aspect but really it's about
1:10:29 counseling and mentoring and also
1:10:31 working within the classroom
1:10:32 our sros do have a chance to help a lot
1:10:36 individuals and also prevent some issues
1:10:38 from occurring
1:10:39 so the benefits are providing that um
1:10:43 building that public trust building
1:10:45 those relationships
1:10:46 uh helping prevent issues that we can
1:10:49 get maybe get people to resources that
1:10:52 they need prior to it become rising to
1:10:54 the level of crisis or prior to it
1:10:56 rising to the level of
1:10:57 enforcement action
1:11:00 just if you council president ray just a
1:11:02 quick follow on if i might
1:11:04 um how do you respond to mr whitfield's
1:11:06 comments about
1:11:08 youth of color and their reaction to
1:11:11 police officers
1:11:12 in in the schools
1:11:16 i appreciate his comment and it is one
1:11:19 of those
1:11:20 that just like he said our intent is
1:11:23 never to harm someone
1:11:25 ultimately we want to create a positive
1:11:28 environment within our community whether
1:11:30 it's a learning environment or just a
1:11:31 positive safe environment
1:11:34 you know it obviously saddens me as a
1:11:35 police officer that
1:11:37 that is the impact that is potentially
1:11:39 from just you know being
1:11:41 present in any interaction within our
1:11:43 community whether it's in a school or
1:11:44 within a community so
1:11:46 um we're committed to working to try and
1:11:48 change that trying to
1:11:49 change it for the for the positive so um
1:11:52 i do appreciate the comment
1:11:53 and i recognize that anytime that we do
1:11:56 show up that we do show up with
1:11:57 there is a firearm present and so that
1:11:59 always can potentially
1:12:01 create a anxiety with some
1:12:04 some of our community members deputy
1:12:07 council president ray
1:12:08 ray thank you chief um i just want to
1:12:11 thank you for asking that question
1:12:13 because i do believe one of the
1:12:14 commitments we've made as a council in
1:12:15 the city and his administration is that
1:12:17 we're going to hear from voices we don't
1:12:19 typically hear from
1:12:20 and so we need to listen to them for the
1:12:23 solutions as well we may not be able to
1:12:25 solve
1:12:25 the problem by talking it out tonight
1:12:27 but we heard something and we need to
1:12:29 continue to work with
1:12:31 the groups that are coming to talk to us
1:12:32 so thank you for asking that question
1:12:35 i'm looking down to see if
1:12:39 council member goodman looks like you
1:12:40 have a question
1:12:42 uh yes thank you councilmember goodman
1:12:44 here i was going to follow up on that as
1:12:46 well that was going to be my question i
1:12:48 um chris ray asked about uh
1:12:52 response to james whitfield that was
1:12:53 going to be my question which is why i
1:12:55 said never mind
1:12:56 um and then um i would
1:13:00 it's i guess it's not do we have an idea
1:13:03 chief about how we may um do we have a
1:13:06 uh about how we're going to
1:13:10 address that i mean i know we're not
1:13:11 going to be able to solve it
1:13:13 with one action item um but
1:13:17 i think i think hearing listening
1:13:20 and appreciating comments um is probably
1:13:24 not good enough for me
1:13:25 i mean we made a commitment to the
1:13:27 community with our action plan
1:13:29 and if we're talking about resource
1:13:30 offices or in school
1:13:32 that's having a negative
1:13:35 impact on students from color
1:13:38 that's a big deal so do we have more
1:13:43 more of a plan than just knowing it's an
1:13:47 issue
1:13:51 thank you for that question
1:13:52 councilmember goodman uh one of the
1:13:55 conversations or some of the
1:13:56 conversations that we've had over the
1:13:57 spring and into the summer is
1:13:59 with some of our school school district
1:14:03 equity members to have that conversation
1:14:05 about school resource officers as well
1:14:10 i do believe that we are well internally
1:14:13 we are looking at
1:14:14 the right fit for the school as well
1:14:18 for a school resource officer that of
1:14:21 course can
1:14:21 help address those issues
1:14:25 but as a city and as a police department
1:14:29 you're right we're not going to be able
1:14:30 to solve it tonight
1:14:32 because we are talking about systemic
1:14:34 issues that
1:14:36 have put us in this position and
1:14:39 we are again i don't have a great answer
1:14:42 for you tonight but as i said we have
1:14:43 systemic issues across our nation and in
1:14:45 law enforcement in a lot of different
1:14:47 aspects of
1:14:49 society that have put us in this
1:14:51 position
1:14:54 but we want to work together with the
1:14:56 schools to
1:14:57 try and address that and as our police
1:15:00 officers
1:15:01 if and as we interact with youth whether
1:15:03 or not we're in the schools or not and
1:15:04 if we respond
1:15:05 to the schools we are still going to
1:15:07 respond and we want to see if
1:15:09 there are some things that we can do by
1:15:10 building better relationships um
1:15:12 having these conversations you know head
1:15:14 on with the different groups that are
1:15:15 impacted
1:15:16 to to try and address this for the long
1:15:18 term but we do have systemic issues
1:15:21 within society that
1:15:22 have put us in this position and i guess
1:15:23 we're going to have to keep working
1:15:25 towards addressing that as a community
1:15:26 so i don't have a broken answer for you
1:15:28 tonight but
1:15:30 i want to see if we can figure out how
1:15:31 to address it thank you
1:15:33 thank you chief and before i go to
1:15:35 council president hunt's question i'm
1:15:36 going to let the administrator
1:15:38 bob kowitz chime in yes thank you madam
1:15:41 mayor
1:15:42 members of the council one of the things
1:15:43 we're here tonight to do is try to get
1:15:45 some direction
1:15:45 so if there's an interest in having a
1:15:48 additional community dialogue
1:15:50 obviously the the elephant in the room
1:15:52 of sorts is the schools aren't hesitant
1:15:55 um and in person so uh there is perhaps
1:15:58 some time to have that discussion
1:16:00 um or any other direction you would like
1:16:02 to give us this evening so
1:16:04 uh perhaps madam mayor wants uh the
1:16:06 council's had questions and comments so
1:16:08 we would certainly look for direction if
1:16:10 there's additional next steps
1:16:12 that you'd like us to proceed with
1:16:15 great so here is my list so far
1:16:18 uh mart's is next up with a question
1:16:20 followed by hunt followed by walsh
1:16:23 and i do have noted down for comments
1:16:25 afterwards mart's hall and d michelle
1:16:27 and that list can expand so let's go to
1:16:28 council member marks
1:16:30 thank you madam mayor this is council
1:16:31 member marks uh yeah my question was
1:16:34 around given that we are encoded right
1:16:37 uh what are we doing with our current
1:16:39 school resource officer
1:16:40 and when do we project uh to be
1:16:44 returning an sro to issaquah high
1:16:49 thank you thank you councilmember martz
1:16:51 uh our current
1:16:52 um use of our school resource officer
1:16:54 actually he is assigned to our patrol
1:16:56 division
1:16:56 and he is currently responding to calls
1:16:59 for service on one of the squads
1:17:00 uh we've been in constant conversation
1:17:03 with the school district of trying to
1:17:04 figure out when we're going to have
1:17:07 students within the campuses on
1:17:10 a more regular basis then
1:17:13 we will of course have that conversation
1:17:15 of what that looks like what that return
1:17:17 to campus looks like
1:17:18 we have been dealing with over the
1:17:20 summer and even as part of the fall
1:17:22 our school resource officer still has
1:17:24 been a point of contact
1:17:26 for some of our staff members within the
1:17:28 school district and has
1:17:30 addressed or investigated some issues
1:17:32 that are directly related with
1:17:34 youth crimes and some of these other
1:17:36 issues because he does have some of
1:17:38 those connections and
1:17:40 within the school district and is able
1:17:41 to get a hold of the right resources
1:17:45 so it's kind of a wait and see of when
1:17:47 when we
1:17:48 um schools come back in session of when
1:17:50 maybe a school resource officer would
1:17:52 then return to the campus proper
1:17:54 but they're still are connected uh
1:17:56 remotely as we all are right now
1:17:59 thank you thank you council members
1:18:01 council president hunt
1:18:03 thank you this is council president um
1:18:07 could you uh explain the mou
1:18:10 process and when we would review the
1:18:13 um mou you mentioned every three years
1:18:20 yes i will have to get back to you here
1:18:22 in just a little bit i'll have to look
1:18:23 at the exact
1:18:24 date i don't want to give you the wrong
1:18:25 date of when we're due for it next
1:18:28 i will look that up here and provide it
1:18:30 here in the next few minutes
1:18:32 okay thank you very much that's a
1:18:34 question follow-up question for the
1:18:36 chief
1:18:36 does the mou come to council
1:18:40 and i only ask that because in other
1:18:42 organizations ilas come
1:18:44 which are analytical agreements
1:18:46 memorandums of understanding i'm not
1:18:48 sure that they always come it seems like
1:18:50 there's an interest to see it and be a
1:18:53 i just don't remember the process but
1:18:55 anyway when you bring it up if you could
1:18:57 clarify that as well so the council will
1:18:58 understand their process
1:19:00 looks like we have another question
1:19:02 council member walsh
1:19:04 this is councilmember welsh i'm afraid
1:19:06 mine's also a timing question
1:19:08 so um city administrator bob coats you
1:19:12 talked about you know since school isn't
1:19:14 in session we could potentially come
1:19:16 back and have a conversation on this so
1:19:18 my question was do we have a
1:19:22 timeline or anything that we have to
1:19:24 have something
1:19:25 signed or something decided either
1:19:26 because of our budget
1:19:28 or because of um the mou
1:19:34 customer walsh members of the council
1:19:37 there's not a specific uh
1:19:39 time frame that i have in mind um i'm
1:19:42 myself sure exactly when the mou is up
1:19:46 hopefully the chief will have that
1:19:47 information shortly but if this is
1:19:49 something that the council would like
1:19:51 further discussion on
1:19:52 uh we can certainly go back to the the
1:19:55 school district
1:19:56 see if they'd like to join us uh with
1:19:58 some sort of uh community gathering
1:20:00 then i think it's just a matter of
1:20:01 looking at the calendar now that we're
1:20:02 in the month of november um it may be
1:20:04 difficult to do this before the end of
1:20:06 the year
1:20:07 and i don't know that there's
1:20:08 necessarily that urgency to do that
1:20:11 but certainly we could do something
1:20:12 right at the beginning of 2021.
1:20:17 so there's no um constraints or
1:20:19 requirements for the budget because
1:20:21 the existing sro is
1:20:24 um just doing regular duties and so
1:20:28 would
1:20:28 continue to be in our budget if we were
1:20:32 if we didn't make a decision about the
1:20:36 that's that's correct and and this is
1:20:38 school district has indicated that they
1:20:40 will continue
1:20:41 making their financial contributions so
1:20:43 we're kind of at a status quo
1:20:45 um despite the fact there's schools not
1:20:47 a section
1:20:50 thank you thank you and it looks like
1:20:51 the chief has some information on the
1:20:56 thank you mary paul mayor paulie i
1:20:59 apologize um the mou is actually uh
1:21:03 shall remain in effect through june 30th
1:21:06 so as we get into 2021 that's an
1:21:08 opportunity
1:21:09 and um yes we have uh we have signed it
1:21:12 through june 30th 2021 um so
1:21:16 we will have an opportunity in 2021 to
1:21:19 fully uh review this
1:21:22 thank you there was a picture of me this
1:21:24 weekend with mary poppins so i didn't
1:21:26 know if that's where you were going
1:21:28 at the food bank right but anyway kind
1:21:29 of funny um
1:21:31 i am not seeing any additional questions
1:21:33 but i am seeing folks lining up for
1:21:35 comments
1:21:36 so let's start with i had
1:21:39 a council member martz followed by hall
1:21:43 followed by d michelle followed by
1:21:44 council president hunt so
1:21:46 council member thank you madam mayor
1:21:49 this is council member martz
1:21:51 um so i certainly am concerned to hear
1:21:54 that some members of the community
1:21:56 do not feel that the sro is a net
1:21:59 positive
1:22:00 to their children's experience i want to
1:22:03 understand that better
1:22:05 we didn't have sros when i was a kid
1:22:09 i uh i think it's great
1:22:12 that they are involved in trying to
1:22:15 reduce
1:22:15 drugs um however i'm also concerned i i
1:22:19 feel like the biggest problem with drugs
1:22:21 is home parties
1:22:22 and parents who are tolerant of uh
1:22:25 alcohol and other drug use in the homes
1:22:29 where unfortunately we can't do anything
1:22:31 about i don't really feel equipped today
1:22:34 to make a decision
1:22:35 so i'd like to know i'd like to get more
1:22:38 information about outcomes
1:22:40 nowadays how do what is the impact
1:22:44 of sros in schools what is the impact
1:22:49 specifically to communities of color
1:22:51 what are the outcomes in terms of impact
1:22:54 on incidents of racism and racial
1:22:56 bullying
1:22:57 if we can get that information so we can
1:23:01 what the impact is both for you know i
1:23:04 recognize that
1:23:06 um uh officers have have a different
1:23:09 feel for folks in the majority
1:23:11 uh of the community versus minority
1:23:13 elements of the community so whatever we
1:23:15 can get on outcomes
1:23:17 uh for the impact of sros in our schools
1:23:21 that would help me have a better
1:23:22 understanding of any decision that would
1:23:25 be in front of council
1:23:26 thank you thank you councilmember martz
1:23:29 i'm going to move to council member hall
1:23:36 thank you this is councilmember hall um
1:23:39 i think our city administrator
1:23:42 suggestion was a good one
1:23:44 i would like to see if the city and the
1:23:47 school district could hold a joint
1:23:49 community convening with students and
1:23:51 parents and other interested community
1:23:53 members
1:23:54 about sros earlier next year if that's
1:23:56 possible and if the school district is
1:23:58 interested
1:24:01 it's clear none of us have the full
1:24:02 picture or the answer here
1:24:04 um so i think it'd be a good idea to
1:24:06 have a conversation
1:24:07 through the context of school and
1:24:10 student safety
1:24:12 yes um but also student behavioral
1:24:14 health and um
1:24:15 and trauma-informed policy development
1:24:18 to make sure we're not making
1:24:20 students feel uncomfortable in a place
1:24:23 where they're
1:24:24 not ready to learn and not in a good
1:24:26 place to learn
1:24:27 um so anyways i'd be interested in what
1:24:29 other council members think about that
1:24:31 administration thinks about that and if
1:24:32 um that's something we could approach
1:24:34 the school district about thanks thank
1:24:37 you council member hall council member d
1:24:38 michelle
1:24:42 uh thank you i i still generally support
1:24:45 the concept of
1:24:47 of sros um in the school because i do
1:24:51 uh the good things that they've done
1:24:54 and in some very very sensitive
1:24:56 situations with young people
1:24:59 i had the privilege recently of meeting
1:25:01 with the student
1:25:03 equity council which is different from
1:25:06 the equity council
1:25:07 that the school district has and i want
1:25:10 to underline something that mayor paulie
1:25:11 said that
1:25:12 which is the answers are in our
1:25:14 community
1:25:15 and i do believe that our young people
1:25:17 have a lot of the answers
1:25:20 they are incredibly astute about their
1:25:22 own situations
1:25:24 um they are articulate about those
1:25:26 situations and they are willing to
1:25:28 uh voice their concerns but also willing
1:25:31 uh consider many different options so
1:25:35 i would be leery of any kind of plane
1:25:37 that's put together only by adults
1:25:39 i think this has to be something that
1:25:41 the students participate in fully
1:25:44 and sometimes a public gathering um
1:25:47 is not the best place for young people
1:25:49 to express themselves so
1:25:51 we need to take that into consideration
1:25:53 as we're building
1:25:55 and putting together whatever we're
1:25:57 going to do
1:25:58 the other thing going back to the
1:26:00 misperceptions that i talked about
1:26:02 earlier
1:26:03 that school resource officers are there
1:26:05 to prevent mass shootings
1:26:07 i think would be really good for us to
1:26:09 have a very clear statement
1:26:10 uh put together uh what is the role of
1:26:13 an sro
1:26:15 what's the purpose of an sro and
1:26:18 uh what are our goals in terms of what
1:26:21 we expect the sro
1:26:22 to achieve for us and i think a
1:26:24 statement like that
1:26:25 um would be very helpful as we go into
1:26:28 whatever public discussion we do
1:26:31 um so i think that's
1:26:35 i think that's it uh this is obviously a
1:26:38 point of passion for me so
1:26:40 thank you for having this discussion
1:26:42 tonight thanks
1:26:43 thank you councilmember d michelle lots
1:26:45 of good ideas here council president
1:26:47 hunt is up next
1:26:51 thank you this is council president hunt
1:26:53 council deputy president ray and i have
1:26:55 been meeting
1:26:56 quarterly with the school school
1:26:59 district
1:27:02 representatives um their leadership also
1:27:05 quarterly and so i think um one thing we
1:27:08 can do
1:27:09 to start preparing for um a discussion
1:27:12 on this which i think we should have is
1:27:14 to let them know about this conversation
1:27:17 and the
1:27:18 issues that have been raised with by
1:27:21 members of the community with regards to
1:27:23 sros in in addition to
1:27:26 the individual who called in
1:27:30 earlier at this meeting we did hear from
1:27:32 concerns
1:27:33 when we first were beginning the work of
1:27:36 making the
1:27:37 police accountability plan and
1:27:41 i think when we started this work we
1:27:44 asked the community to hold us
1:27:45 accountable
1:27:46 and this is one area where i think we
1:27:48 have more work to do
1:27:49 so i would like to start a conversation
1:27:51 with the school district to take back
1:27:53 this conversation to them and then also
1:27:57 look at this more deeply with the
1:27:59 community get all of the voices i liked
1:28:02 i liked where councilmember d michelle
1:28:04 was going with that making sure that
1:28:06 people are
1:28:06 comfortable giving us feedback in
1:28:09 in perhaps different venues than a
1:28:11 conventional
1:28:13 council meeting like we're in tonight
1:28:15 and making sure we get all of that
1:28:16 feedback so we can make its decision
1:28:18 and i think that the timing for the mou
1:28:21 gives us
1:28:21 a little bit of time to prepare that
1:28:24 kind of a
1:28:25 that kind of a timeline with some
1:28:27 community conversation in there
1:28:29 so that would be my recommendation for a
1:28:31 way forward
1:28:33 thank you council president hunt deputy
1:28:35 uh sorry council member goodman
1:28:38 uh thank you mayor councilmember goodman
1:28:39 here um so
1:28:41 i agree with that um direction we're
1:28:42 heading i agree with all of the
1:28:45 questions that we have um i'm not sure
1:28:48 i've heard this directly
1:28:50 but um the comment my comment would be
1:28:54 um you know the mentioning about the you
1:28:59 drugs and the war on drugs and
1:29:00 trafficking and drug trafficking and all
1:29:02 of that
1:29:03 you know the the efforts on the the war
1:29:05 on drugs have
1:29:06 you know it's well known to be first of
1:29:08 all not successful and second of all
1:29:10 more relevant to the topic at hand is
1:29:14 um it's also a source of racial inequity
1:29:18 um it seems to be it you know if we've
1:29:20 got concerns about
1:29:22 um sros in schools that are having
1:29:24 impacts on
1:29:25 um students of color and not
1:29:29 as council member marks mentioned not a
1:29:31 net positive for
1:29:32 um for the student body as a whole
1:29:36 um and i think one of the things that we
1:29:38 want to look at is
1:29:40 um what councilmember d michelle
1:29:42 mentioned which is that
1:29:44 you know the purpose and the role and
1:29:45 get all that clear and make sure that
1:29:47 um that we're
1:29:51 um we're using the the sro
1:29:54 power for for all good stuff and not
1:29:57 um ignoring the negative consequences so
1:30:00 generally i just agree that
1:30:02 we have a lot more questions um to be
1:30:04 answered and i appreciate all the
1:30:05 thoughtful conversation
1:30:07 thanks thank you councilmember goodman
1:30:09 uh deputy council president ray
1:30:11 thank you mayor paul is chris wright i'm
1:30:14 going to continue down the
1:30:15 track a little bit and just add a few
1:30:17 cars to the train
1:30:19 um i think it was really interesting
1:30:22 when councilmember d michelle
1:30:24 really started us off on this discussion
1:30:27 said you know back when i was on the
1:30:29 school board and we were
1:30:31 first pursuing this notion of sros
1:30:35 so what i'm thinking it is time to do is
1:30:39 actually do a reset on sros and
1:30:42 and go back to bare metal and say oh
1:30:44 instead of just
1:30:46 playing on the fringes as we move
1:30:48 forward i would like us to reimagine
1:30:50 what an sro could and should
1:30:52 should be and how that would fit in and
1:30:55 so that we can start to address
1:30:57 some of the good that the chief talked
1:30:59 about that really does come out of it in
1:31:01 terms of building
1:31:02 community and relationships but i think
1:31:05 we cannot
1:31:06 ignore the impact that it has on clearly
1:31:09 students of color but i also
1:31:11 know from having talked to a couple of
1:31:13 students that
1:31:14 our former students that i know that it
1:31:16 has an impact on on
1:31:17 others too so it's not just um um
1:31:21 you know minority populations that it
1:31:23 that it adversely affects so
1:31:25 as we move forward with this i i would
1:31:27 really like to
1:31:29 pursue the discussion from a um
1:31:32 as i think councilmember d michelle was
1:31:35 spot on
1:31:35 you know what's the purpose why are we
1:31:37 doing this what's the value proposition
1:31:39 uh what's what's in it for the kids
1:31:41 what's in it for the teachers the
1:31:43 parents
1:31:44 and the community and then um start
1:31:46 building from the ground up instead of
1:31:48 saying
1:31:48 okay how do we tweak at the edges so i
1:31:50 guess i'm advocating for a really
1:31:53 an open and discussion and the
1:31:56 no sacred cow
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1:32:01 in in the world so i'm excited about
1:32:03 this prospect and
1:32:05 i think that the school district will be
1:32:07 excited to work with us on this
1:32:13 thank you deputy i thank you deputy
1:32:17 council president ray
1:32:18 i'm going to check back in with
1:32:19 administrator bob kwich who said you had
1:32:21 several items tonight do you have
1:32:23 additional items that you need to get
1:32:24 feedback
1:32:26 uh yes madam mayor i do um
1:32:29 if we're ready to move off this item i
1:32:31 think what i've heard from the council
1:32:32 is the desire
1:32:34 uh for a joint community discussion
1:32:36 involving the esquire school district
1:32:39 working with them through the council's
1:32:41 leadership and school board leadership
1:32:43 craft that and then have all this eye
1:32:46 toward a new mou
1:32:48 that would go into effect uh the middle
1:32:51 part of
1:32:52 next year so we will do that as we move
1:32:54 forward thank you for
1:32:56 uh those comments uh we do have uh some
1:32:59 additional
1:32:59 items uh to share with you on the the
1:33:02 action plan
1:33:03 uh for the administrator bob quits
1:33:05 before we move on can we take a comment
1:33:07 from council member mark
1:33:08 of course thank you mr mayor
1:33:11 thank you madam mayor this is council
1:33:12 member marks yeah i just want to make
1:33:14 sure that my request for data
1:33:16 um is in there because i of course think
1:33:20 it'd be great to engage in the community
1:33:22 and i i think in particular
1:33:24 uh councilmember g michelle's suggestion
1:33:27 to talk
1:33:28 to students about their lived experience
1:33:31 would be hugely beneficial but i would
1:33:33 also like to see hard data
1:33:35 i think nowadays we sometimes
1:33:40 miss some of that when it can be
1:33:42 available and i would like to have that
1:33:44 an element of the conversation thank you
1:33:49 thanks and uh another comment from
1:33:51 councilmember goodman before we move on
1:33:53 it will be quick i completely agree with
1:33:56 council member marks on the data thank
1:33:59 that was very quick back to city
1:34:01 administrator bob quits
1:34:03 yes thank you madam mayor uh the next
1:34:05 item on the
1:34:06 uh the action plan under medium term
1:34:08 actions was
1:34:10 the issue of the city council police
1:34:11 department information sharing
1:34:13 uh this was a a nice title for
1:34:16 uh having the council members interact
1:34:19 more specifically with members of the
1:34:21 i know that since the plan was adopted
1:34:24 uh this summer that many of you
1:34:26 have taken the opportunity to do
1:34:27 ride-alongs
1:34:29 to visit the jail to meet with groups
1:34:31 patrol officers
1:34:33 and i just wanted to call that out this
1:34:35 evening just to see if there were any
1:34:36 comments
1:34:37 from the council about those
1:34:38 interactions in any additional direction
1:34:41 that you would like the administration's
1:34:42 assistance with
1:34:43 to set up future opportunities like that
1:34:47 that's great i'm keeping my eye on the
1:34:49 chat box to see if any council members
1:34:51 want to weigh in
1:34:54 let's start with council member martz
1:34:56 thank you
1:34:57 thank you madam mayor this is council
1:34:58 member mart well i should be a little
1:35:01 careful because my last
1:35:02 ride along the ipd was in 2010 but
1:35:06 uh i will say what i have said for a
1:35:08 long time which is
1:35:09 i wish folks in the community
1:35:13 had an ability to see
1:35:16 the uh ipd other than
1:35:19 you know someone standing at your window
1:35:21 with their ticket book
1:35:23 out right because it just gives you a
1:35:26 very different impression and this is
1:35:28 not in any way
1:35:30 i'm not trying to say anything about
1:35:32 anybody's
1:35:33 experiences with police departments but
1:35:37 not being at the business end of seeing
1:35:40 peace officers doing their job really
1:35:43 allows
1:35:43 allows you a very different experience
1:35:46 and i
1:35:47 came away very impressed with the ipd's
1:35:49 professionalism
1:35:50 and the idea that customer service has
1:35:54 i mean you know i had never really
1:35:57 thought about customer service in the
1:35:59 context of law enforcement
1:36:00 and you know when you think about it
1:36:02 that way it's another department
1:36:05 of the city with some of the same uh
1:36:08 customer service ethos that um and you
1:36:11 know public works has
1:36:12 um so i i find it very beneficial
1:36:15 and you know we get most people all you
1:36:19 is you know cop movies and cop tv shows
1:36:23 or uh you know getting a speeding ticket
1:36:27 um and it's just such a narrow uh set of
1:36:31 experiences
1:36:32 um compared to you know sitting in the
1:36:34 cruiser watching an
1:36:35 officer do their do their job so um
1:36:39 i i just i wish there was a way for more
1:36:41 folks to see that and
1:36:42 see the way the the department
1:36:45 structures itself
1:36:46 uh around customer service thank you
1:36:49 thank you councilmember martz for the
1:36:50 administrator these opportunities that
1:36:53 are mentioned you have it as on track
1:36:56 meaning that there is still opportunity
1:36:58 then for city council members to
1:37:00 participate this isn't
1:37:02 this isn't complete there are additional
1:37:04 opportunities
1:37:05 absolutely and madame what we'll do is
1:37:07 we'll do an outreach with the council
1:37:09 again to see if there's a interest for
1:37:11 additional uh
1:37:12 interactions and we'll we'll follow
1:37:14 through with that that is great thank
1:37:16 and what do what's next up on your list
1:37:20 next uh talks about the the equity uh
1:37:23 city equity team the equity training
1:37:25 that we're doing
1:37:26 uh and stephanie johnson our director of
1:37:28 human resources
1:37:29 is with us this evening and stephanie
1:37:31 perhaps i could ask you to just kind of
1:37:34 briefly talk a little bit about what the
1:37:36 equity team's
1:37:37 current uh agenda of issues is as well
1:37:41 some of the other items that are under
1:37:44 your jurisdiction either through the
1:37:45 equity team or through human resources
1:37:47 sure good evening madam mayor and
1:37:50 members of the council
1:37:52 the equity team has been meeting
1:37:55 every other week for some months now
1:37:58 we have divided into three subcommittees
1:38:01 focused
1:38:02 on recruitment training
1:38:05 and engagement we have
1:38:08 built in some quick wins
1:38:11 in our recruitment processes we've
1:38:14 developed an equity statement
1:38:16 we're talking about enhancing our
1:38:20 board and commission recruitments and
1:38:23 expanding our networks uh certainly when
1:38:26 are soliciting uh applications for
1:38:30 employment where we advertise in another
1:38:32 number of things on the recruitment side
1:38:34 of things
1:38:36 the training committee has put together
1:38:39 a rfq for trainers so that we can
1:38:43 focus our efforts on city-wide training
1:38:46 uh in 2021 i think we've talked at a
1:38:49 high level with the council
1:38:51 about the idea of uh staff cohort
1:38:54 uh and dividing up our
1:38:57 our staff that would
1:39:00 go through a series of trainings
1:39:02 together
1:39:03 that rfp is out right now due back
1:39:07 to the human resources department later
1:39:09 this month
1:39:11 we also have looked at some online
1:39:14 training options
1:39:16 lots of talk about what to offer our
1:39:19 staff and and delving through that
1:39:22 the engagement team and some of the next
1:39:26 of the committee will to start that
1:39:28 conversation
1:39:29 um council president hunt mentioned it
1:39:31 tonight
1:39:32 uh the equity toolkit and how we start
1:39:35 that process
1:39:36 we've partnered with a uh equity
1:39:39 consultant
1:39:41 to help our help our team kind of figure
1:39:43 out what our hurdles are
1:39:45 and where we should focus our work as it
1:39:47 relates to this plan and
1:39:49 and customizing things for issaquah so
1:39:51 um high level that's uh the items that
1:39:53 we're
1:39:54 working on you know selecting a trainer
1:39:57 and getting that underway continuing
1:40:00 those recruitment
1:40:01 efforts and then starting the
1:40:03 conversation
1:40:05 around the toolkit
1:40:10 i think you're on mute wally yay
1:40:13 somebody more than a mayor not trying to
1:40:15 do that thank you wally
1:40:17 much appreciated anytime madame mayor
1:40:19 thank you stephanie
1:40:22 the the next item on the
1:40:25 action plan is the human services
1:40:27 staffing we've talked quite a bit about
1:40:29 in recent weeks of previous council
1:40:30 meetings so at the end of the section
1:40:32 certainly happy to answer any questions
1:40:34 um the next page
1:40:38 is the longer term actions so mayor i'll
1:40:41 stop there and just see if there's any
1:40:42 questions
1:40:43 on those medium term actions
1:40:48 i am not seeing anything showing up in
1:40:50 the chat box so if you want to start the
1:40:52 review of the long term that would be
1:40:54 right and then uh most of these uh
1:40:58 um have not started yet the one
1:41:01 uh that has is one two three four five
1:41:05 six items down they evaluate resident
1:41:07 review of equity
1:41:08 and human services initiatives we have
1:41:10 been able uh to jump start that with the
1:41:12 human services commission
1:41:14 and if i could ask monica nigrella just
1:41:16 to come back online for a brief moment
1:41:18 and talk a little bit
1:41:19 about those initial discussions
1:41:23 uh thank you very much uh city
1:41:25 administrator bob kowitz this is monica
1:41:27 negrilla again
1:41:28 um so for the human services commission
1:41:31 we started with
1:41:32 a media recruitment where we
1:41:36 looked for additional members of the
1:41:38 human services commission
1:41:39 and we focused on increasing the
1:41:42 diversity on the commission
1:41:44 next the commission began an engagement
1:41:47 process with some of our community
1:41:49 members who expressed
1:41:50 interest in being part of this work um
1:41:53 and also we engaged with one of the
1:41:55 members of the right to breed committee
1:41:57 you have heard from one of them
1:42:00 earlier tonight and actually at this
1:42:02 last meeting the
1:42:04 human services commission had a great
1:42:05 conversation on meaningful ways to
1:42:08 engage the public
1:42:09 and provide community engagement
1:42:12 in in different ways not just through
1:42:14 the traditional methods
1:42:16 and uh next um the commission has
1:42:19 scheduled
1:42:20 a training on equity actually with the
1:42:22 same trainer that
1:42:24 the city council had training on a
1:42:26 couple of months ago
1:42:28 just to help and lay out the foundation
1:42:30 and make sure that all members of the
1:42:32 commission
1:42:33 have the same foundational concepts
1:42:35 moving forward
1:42:36 and then next we are working on planning
1:42:39 a few
1:42:40 community convenings and hearing more
1:42:44 members of our community again in in the
1:42:47 traditional way but also in in other
1:42:50 in more informal ways and trying to
1:42:52 build community
1:42:54 so i think those are the updates for now
1:42:56 and we do hope to
1:42:58 complete the process um sometimes in
1:43:01 february march of next year and
1:43:03 hopefully come back to council in april
1:43:06 uh however that also depends on how um
1:43:09 the community um engagement process goes
1:43:13 if we need to extend that a little bit
1:43:15 then um we appreciate the timeline and
1:43:18 flexibility to do so thank you monica i
1:43:22 am not seeing any questions at
1:43:24 this point in time on the
1:43:27 resident review of equity and human
1:43:29 services initiative
1:43:30 i do have a couple of questions on some
1:43:33 other long-term items that are listed
1:43:35 so if it's okay administrator bob quits
1:43:37 we'll move to those
1:43:38 you guys uh let's start with council
1:43:41 member walsh followed by council member
1:43:44 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
1:43:47 city administrator bob quist can you
1:43:49 talk about the timeline
1:43:51 for the police review community board or
1:43:54 commission
1:43:54 and kind of what we think the steps for
1:43:57 that will be
1:43:58 in 2021
1:44:01 absolutely thank you councilmember walsh
1:44:04 i think as mr guerilla mentioned uh the
1:44:06 human services commission
1:44:08 is having some initial discussions and
1:44:10 one of the things they're talking about
1:44:12 is what that might look like so our hope
1:44:15 would be
1:44:16 the administration's hope would be that
1:44:17 we would get some feedback
1:44:19 recommendations from the commission over
1:44:21 the winter
1:44:22 bring those back to the council and have
1:44:24 an additional discussion with the
1:44:25 council
1:44:27 thank you thank you councilmember martz
1:44:32 thank you madam mayor the council member
1:44:34 mart uh
1:44:35 where where is the consideration or
1:44:37 evaluation of body cameras
1:44:40 in this longer term actions list
1:44:43 uh thank you councilmember marks it
1:44:46 would be part of the
1:44:48 review of the 2022 proposed budget
1:44:52 [Music]
1:44:53 tisha if you could maybe go back a
1:44:55 couple of pages i think as we looked at
1:44:57 the budget item
1:44:59 body cameras was included there and so
1:45:02 our hope would be to convene a
1:45:05 group of police staff next year so as
1:45:09 we're looking at
1:45:10 budget issues for 2022
1:45:13 but we would look at that there so if
1:45:16 you look at the
1:45:17 at the the top of the the document
1:45:19 that's currently
1:45:21 on the screen there we would look
1:45:24 additionally at community policing
1:45:25 strategies body cameras
1:45:27 equipment purchases and to review a jail
1:45:30 operation
1:45:34 customer mark yeah uh
1:45:37 okay uh
1:45:40 did we did we decide previously to
1:45:44 wait to consider this as a fiscal year
1:45:46 2022 budget item
1:45:50 only councilman remarks members of the
1:45:52 council only to the extent of the
1:45:53 narrative that was included here
1:45:55 with the council's endorsement of the
1:45:57 plan back over the summer
1:46:00 okay i just uh i i understand it's a
1:46:03 complicated
1:46:04 topic um i just have a little
1:46:08 instinctive recoil at
1:46:11 saying um we're gonna
1:46:14 step forward to making any decision that
1:46:17 would impact
1:46:18 in wait until 2022 i'd like to find a
1:46:23 i guess as one of seven i would like to
1:46:25 find a way to start this conversation
1:46:27 because i feel that
1:46:28 this item has multiple threads it's
1:46:32 complicated
1:46:34 differing people in the community have
1:46:36 potentially very different
1:46:38 views on this one and as well it has a
1:46:40 potential huge price tag
1:46:42 and huge implementation cost associated
1:46:45 with it
1:46:46 so maybe maybe it i suspect we have to
1:46:50 get going on it soon
1:46:51 even if even if any potential action
1:46:54 would be
1:46:54 uh for january 1st 2022.
1:47:00 thank you councilmember martz
1:47:03 are there any other items on and i
1:47:06 wonder tissue if you could scroll to the
1:47:08 long term tab
1:47:10 on any of the other topics on the long
1:47:11 term tab
1:47:13 or anything that city administrator bob
1:47:15 quits you need additional input in or
1:47:17 have you
1:47:18 gone through your list thank you man
1:47:21 mayor we've gone through our list
1:47:22 appreciate the council's uh
1:47:24 uh comments and uh feedback and our plan
1:47:27 would be to come back
1:47:28 uh first part of the year with the next
1:47:30 quarterly update
1:47:32 that sounds great council president hunt
1:47:34 has some email comments on
1:47:36 this topic that you would like to share
1:47:37 with the
1:47:39 council thank you madam mayor um yes
1:47:42 we did receive two emails that i would
1:47:45 like to acknowledge
1:47:46 one was specific to sros and
1:47:51 this resident wrote to us that they
1:47:53 would support removing
1:47:54 sros from the schools and they spoke to
1:47:58 concerns about the school to prison
1:48:00 pipeline and also
1:48:02 spoke to that in their opinion having
1:48:04 school officers
1:48:05 did not make the schools safer or
1:48:08 prevent school shootings
1:48:10 additionally we received the email that
1:48:13 was about the human services and mental
1:48:16 health services part of this plan
1:48:19 and spoke up in agreement with earlier
1:48:22 parts of a council conversation in which
1:48:24 discussed the state needing to provide
1:48:26 mental health services at the state
1:48:28 level
1:48:28 and the the need for those services at
1:48:30 the state level and then
1:48:32 also asked about increasing
1:48:35 de-escalation training for
1:48:36 police officers in issaquah and then
1:48:38 spoke to the importance of awareness
1:48:41 around mental health issues and
1:48:43 behavioral health is
1:48:45 issues for people that help people
1:48:47 through those situations
1:48:48 so that concludes the emails that we
1:48:50 received specifically on this agenda
1:48:52 item this evening
1:48:53 thank you great thank you council
1:48:55 president hunt
1:48:56 so as it was stated earlier on there is
1:48:58 no formal action requested
1:49:00 on this item this evening just council
1:49:03 direction as you have provided
1:49:05 we do have one more item on the agenda
1:49:08 this evening it's
1:49:09 ab-8046 performance measurement plan
1:49:12 but i just wanted to kind of get a
1:49:13 visual head nod yes or no whether or not
1:49:15 the council would like to have a five
1:49:16 minute break before we start to the last
1:49:18 action
1:49:20 another thumbs up thumbs up okay let's
1:49:23 take a five minute break and we'll get
1:49:25 back here at 8 55.
1:54:16 okay i think we are just waiting for
1:54:18 councilmember goodman
1:54:30 tim i'm going to give you a 10 second
1:54:32 head start before i bring us out of our
1:54:34 break
1:54:50 welcome back everyone from break uh the
1:54:54 last item under regular business this
1:54:56 evening is ab-8046
1:54:58 performance measurement plan uh the
1:55:01 direction here is to get cancelled to
1:55:03 forward this
1:55:04 on to the november 16th council meeting
1:55:06 and this item was last before council at
1:55:08 the september 15th
1:55:10 council studies session so i'd like to
1:55:13 invite management
1:55:14 analyst jeremy bradshaw himself to
1:55:16 introduce this item jeremy
1:55:19 thank you mayor and members of the
1:55:20 council let me
1:55:22 share my screen presentation
1:55:32 can everyone see my screen yes we can
1:55:36 perfect thank you so this is jeremy
1:55:39 retrohamson management analyst and
1:55:41 tonight i'll be updating you on the
1:55:43 draft performance measurement plan
1:55:45 first i want to thank all the city staff
1:55:47 who helped me collect the data and
1:55:48 context for this plan
1:55:50 it was a large lift and the plan
1:55:51 benefited from all of these
1:55:52 contributions
1:55:54 at the presentation tonight summarize
1:55:56 the steps the administration took to
1:55:58 develop the plan discuss what's included
1:56:00 in the plan
1:56:01 and provide an overview of high-level
1:56:03 changes made to the performance
1:56:05 measurement list
1:56:06 since the last council presentation on
1:56:08 september 15th
1:56:11 before jumping into the presentation the
1:56:12 administration tonight is looking for
1:56:14 council's feedback on the performance
1:56:15 measure list
1:56:17 and the plan for managing the
1:56:18 performance measurement plan or program
1:56:20 rather
1:56:21 the administration will then make any
1:56:22 additional requested changes for the
1:56:24 be adopted during the november 16th
1:56:26 council meeting
1:56:29 the slide summarizes the council
1:56:31 presentations on performance measures to
1:56:33 this point
1:56:34 so starting back during the february
1:56:36 council retreat city staff presented a
1:56:38 to measure the city's progress in
1:56:40 achieving the goals that it established
1:56:42 in the strategic plan then during the
1:56:44 july 14
1:56:45 study session the administration
1:56:47 presented on performance measurement
1:56:49 program best practices
1:56:50 based on neighboring jurisdictions and
1:56:53 presented a wide range of sample
1:56:54 performance measures
1:56:56 most recently during the september 15
1:56:58 study session
1:56:59 the administration presented 46 proposed
1:57:02 performance measures
1:57:03 across the six strategic goal areas and
1:57:05 requested feedback from council
1:57:08 tonight as mentioned we'll be discussing
1:57:10 the draft performance measurement plan
1:57:11 included in the materials for tonight
1:57:14 now i'd like to summarize the main
1:57:16 changes and updates to the performance
1:57:18 measurement plan since the september
1:57:19 15th presentation
1:57:21 first the plan includes 8 additional
1:57:24 measures for a total of 54.
1:57:26 this breaks out to between 7 to 10
1:57:28 performance measures in each strategic
1:57:30 goal area
1:57:32 the plan also includes a performance
1:57:34 measurement matrix requested by council
1:57:36 during the last presentation
1:57:38 this matrix includes the following seven
1:57:40 fields for each performance measure
1:57:42 first there's a definition of the
1:57:44 measure it's a more detailed description
1:57:47 of what the measure is tracking beyond
1:57:48 just the measurement name
1:57:50 there's the reason for measuring which
1:57:52 is the importance of tracking the
1:57:54 measure
1:57:55 this description also includes relevant
1:57:57 objectives from the strategic plan that
1:57:59 the measure evaluates
1:58:01 there's the action to be taken based on
1:58:03 the measure these can be policy and or
1:58:06 funding strategies to impact the
1:58:07 performance of a measure
1:58:09 there's the target which are based on
1:58:11 historical data and regional goals
1:58:14 some targets have already been adopted
1:58:16 through council actions whereas others
1:58:18 should be viewed as initial targets that
1:58:19 are refined through continued
1:58:20 measurement and policy analysis
1:58:23 there's historical data which is data
1:58:25 from the past few years on measures
1:58:27 where data was available
1:58:29 the city dashboard and quarterly reports
1:58:31 which we'll discuss
1:58:32 later will include more detailed
1:58:34 historical data than what's included in
1:58:36 the plan
1:58:37 with additional time to collect older
1:58:39 historical data and analyze
1:58:40 sub-categories within measures
1:58:43 there's the data source which is
1:58:45 internal or external provider of the
1:58:47 measurement data
1:58:49 this includes city software that tracks
1:58:50 the data to the department responsible
1:58:53 for manually inputting the data
1:58:55 or non-city stakeholders that provide
1:58:57 the data to the city
1:58:59 lastly there's frequency which is the
1:59:01 time frame data will be reported on by
1:59:03 departments or provided by non-city
1:59:05 sources
1:59:08 uh so we have this slide in the last
1:59:09 presentation and as you can see the
1:59:11 performance measures are still
1:59:13 distributed relatively equally
1:59:14 across strategical areas
1:59:17 now i'm going to move forward and
1:59:19 summarize the high level changes to
1:59:20 measures in each strategic goal area
1:59:23 mainly focusing on the performance
1:59:24 measures added since the last
1:59:26 presentation
1:59:27 as well as measures in the plan that are
1:59:28 currently missing historical data in the
1:59:30 matrix
1:59:31 to be clear measures that are missing
1:59:33 historical data or don't have targets
1:59:35 can and will be measured in 2021.
1:59:39 so as i did in the last presentation um
1:59:43 if this sounds good to counsel i'll stop
1:59:46 after each of the different strategical
1:59:48 areas for comment and then move on to
1:59:50 the next strategical area
1:59:53 so we'll start with mobility measures in
1:59:56 terms of performance measures added
1:59:58 since the last presentation
2:00:00 we added linear feet of bicycle facility
2:00:03 commute mode share traffic related
2:00:06 collisions
2:00:07 and car travel time according to
2:00:09 recommendations made by council during
2:00:11 the september presentation
2:00:13 bicycle facility and commute mode share
2:00:15 were included to match the focus of
2:00:17 alternative modes of transportation in
2:00:19 the mobility master plan
2:00:21 and traffic related collisions was
2:00:23 included to match the focus on safety in
2:00:25 the mobility master plan
2:00:27 additionally during the september study
2:00:29 session council expressed interest in a
2:00:31 measure to assess
2:00:32 ease of car travel this is not data that
2:00:35 the current
2:00:35 that the city currently has or has the
2:00:38 capacity to collect the proposed measure
2:00:40 would require the city to
2:00:41 access this data from an outside source
2:00:44 the administration has found a low or no
2:00:46 cost option to gather data
2:00:48 on the time it takes to drive the city
2:00:50 in popular corridors
2:00:52 disaggregated by time of day and season
2:00:55 and so this information replaces the
2:00:57 request in the agenda bill and in the
2:00:59 presentation
2:01:00 that would require the city to budget
2:01:02 thirty thousand dollars annually for
2:01:03 this measure
2:01:05 and uh moving on to the next part of the
2:01:07 slide there are six mobility measures
2:01:09 that are missing historical data in the
2:01:11 plans matrix
2:01:13 uh linear feet of bicycle facility and
2:01:16 walkways
2:01:17 and percentage of households household
2:01:19 units within a quarter mile of transit
2:01:21 services
2:01:22 will have historical data updates in the
2:01:24 first quarterly report
2:01:26 staff need additional time to review
2:01:27 city data to access historical
2:01:30 data for these measures potholes filled
2:01:33 and average public transit boardings
2:01:34 are modifying the width the way in which
2:01:36 data is collected moving forward
2:01:39 and will set baseline data beginning in
2:01:42 and then as discussed the city has not
2:01:44 tracked car travel time historically and
2:01:46 could
2:01:46 can begin collecting this data in 2021
2:01:49 uh so i'll stop there for
2:01:51 for questions and comments on the
2:01:54 mobility strategical area
2:01:56 great i think we'll start with council
2:01:57 member hall with a question
2:02:00 thank you uh this is councilmember hall
2:02:02 can you say what you just said
2:02:05 again about um
2:02:08 car travel time and something about low
2:02:13 medium spend associated with that and we
2:02:15 could start right away
2:02:16 yeah so um the city doesn't currently
2:02:20 track this data in-house and so
2:02:23 we would need to access this data from
2:02:26 an outside source
2:02:28 and initially which was what was
2:02:31 included in the agenda bill
2:02:33 um a quote for full services
2:02:36 to to track this measure was quoted at
2:02:38 thirty thousand dollars
2:02:40 um but the administration has found um a
2:02:43 lower or no cost
2:02:44 option moving forward to track this uh
2:02:47 replacing the request for council to
2:02:50 consider this uh 30 000 annual
2:02:52 professional services line item
2:02:54 okay thank you i just need to hear that
2:02:56 twice so appreciate that
2:03:01 jeremy i'm not seeing any other
2:03:02 questions at this time if you want to
2:03:04 continue
2:03:05 fantastic thank you mayor so moving on
2:03:08 we have
2:03:09 growth and development and in terms of
2:03:12 measures added since september
2:03:14 we've included a new national community
2:03:16 survey measure to assess
2:03:17 residents perception of the whole city's
2:03:19 built environment
2:03:21 related to growth and development and
2:03:23 for historical data
2:03:24 most of the measures in this category
2:03:26 have existing and easily accessible
2:03:28 historical data
2:03:29 except for the measure that that puts
2:03:33 forth
2:03:33 a cpd customer survey that will be
2:03:35 designed in 2021
2:03:37 and within the first permit review time
2:03:40 measure
2:03:41 short flat and preliminary plant data
2:03:43 will begin being collected in 2021
2:03:47 and i'll stop there again for questions
2:03:49 or comments on the strategical area
2:03:52 i will give it one second jeremy right
2:03:54 now i'm not seeing any questions
2:03:56 i'll see if something pops up we do have
2:03:59 a question from council president hunt
2:04:02 thank you this is council president hunt
2:04:06 on the uh total housing units by type
2:04:10 the target was 55 owner
2:04:13 occupied and 45 rental and i wondered if
2:04:17 you could
2:04:18 explain that um as the target
2:04:22 yes thank you council president hunt so
2:04:25 this target was set to move closer to
2:04:27 the strategic plan objective of
2:04:28 diversified housing options which is in
2:04:30 the fourth growth and development uh
2:04:32 strategic plan objective
2:04:34 uh with the most recent data from 2018
2:04:38 suggesting a 59 owner and 41
2:04:41 renter split the target moves closer to
2:04:44 an even split from the historical data
2:04:47 in 2018.
2:04:49 this target can also be updated as
2:04:51 future data is measured and policies are
2:04:53 adopted
2:04:54 but the idea here is to move closer to a
2:04:57 more equal split of diversified housing
2:04:59 types
2:05:00 um thank you quick follow-up
2:05:04 is there data about the um
2:05:07 so in the past we've we have seen data
2:05:10 about the
2:05:11 preferences in terms of people wanting
2:05:13 smaller units than what's available in
2:05:15 our housing stock for the most part
2:05:17 that there's a mismatch between what
2:05:18 people would would prefer
2:05:20 to live in in the housing stock and so
2:05:24 i wonder if we could use preference
2:05:27 or you know the the demand
2:05:30 data for this to rather than set a
2:05:35 closer to even split thank you
2:05:40 thank you council president hunt
2:05:44 i also have a question in the list from
2:05:47 councilmember walsh
2:05:49 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
2:05:52 jeremy on the
2:05:53 owner occupied versus rental does that
2:05:56 really designate whether it's a
2:06:00 like single family house versus
2:06:03 apartment or are we
2:06:05 if somebody has a single-family house
2:06:07 that they rent out to a tenant
2:06:09 is that counted in this metric
2:06:14 thank you member walsh i believe that
2:06:17 the owner percentage does include
2:06:20 single-family
2:06:21 houses that are rented out but i'll have
2:06:23 to double check on that and get back to
2:06:26 okay and kind of along those lines as
2:06:29 much as
2:06:30 i appreciate a measure of
2:06:33 owned versus rented um
2:06:36 one of the things that i want to be able
2:06:40 to get at
2:06:40 when we're looking when we're trying to
2:06:42 diversify our housing
2:06:44 is is like
2:06:47 council president hunt said smaller
2:06:49 units and one way i might see
2:06:51 looking at that is things like condos
2:06:54 versus
2:06:55 townhouses versus single-family
2:06:59 you know or large lots versus smallest i
2:07:02 i don't know
2:07:03 what that is but i'm not
2:07:06 sure if in my mind
2:07:12 just having additional rental would
2:07:16 get us toward an a desired goal
2:07:20 um for the city's housing stock nor
2:07:24 am i certain that i would necessarily
2:07:27 want to
2:07:28 change the actions that are listed here
2:07:32 i guess i i still have some question
2:07:34 marks here whether or not we're getting
2:07:35 to the right
2:07:38 point
2:07:41 jeremy i don't see any other questions
2:07:43 or comments at this point if you want to
2:07:44 continue with the presentation
2:07:47 yeah it looks like uh city administrator
2:07:49 backwoods just
2:07:51 typed in for a comment so i'll let him
2:07:53 go before i move on
2:07:54 thank you city administrator bob quits
2:07:56 uh thank you
2:07:57 mayor paulie uh back to councilmember
2:07:59 walsh's
2:08:01 inquiry uh i think at this point we
2:08:03 continue to look for direction
2:08:05 uh my recommendation would be let's keep
2:08:08 what we have
2:08:08 let's measure it and we'll get feedback
2:08:12 as we are looking at 21 this process
2:08:16 get refreshed as part of the plan that
2:08:19 is part of the strategic plan to
2:08:21 look at the measures and that will
2:08:23 happen before we know it
2:08:25 in the in the late winter early spring
2:08:28 so i think if we could
2:08:29 you know go with the measure as it's
2:08:31 been discussed and presented by jeremy
2:08:33 this evening
2:08:34 we'll gather data as we can and as part
2:08:36 of that feedback loop on the
2:08:39 strategic plan which we had hoped to do
2:08:41 more of this year but because of kobe
2:08:43 we're not able to
2:08:44 um we'll be able to perhaps tighten that
2:08:47 measure up
2:08:48 as time goes on
2:08:53 thank you city administrator bob quits
2:08:55 jeremy do you want to move to your next
2:08:57 slide
2:08:58 thank you mayor next we have
2:09:00 environmental stewardship
2:09:02 so starting with the performance
2:09:04 measures added since the last
2:09:06 presentation
2:09:07 we've added tree canopy acres of
2:09:10 invasive plants removed and replanted
2:09:12 an involvement in environmental
2:09:14 stewardship programs according to
2:09:16 council's requests to better align with
2:09:18 the success measures in the strategic
2:09:21 and we also added percentage of streets
2:09:23 that received storm water treatment
2:09:25 to replace the percentage of salmon
2:09:26 returns to hatchery
2:09:28 according to guidance from hatchery
2:09:30 staff
2:09:31 city staff and council recommendations
2:09:34 for a measure that is more directly
2:09:36 influenced by city activities
2:09:38 but does influence salmon returns
2:09:41 the city is planning on collecting this
2:09:43 data beginning in 2021
2:09:45 and so it falls in the historical data
2:09:47 missing section as well
2:09:49 um i'll stop there for questions and
2:09:51 comments
2:09:52 sure council member walsh thank you
2:09:55 i see one of the measures for this is
2:09:58 acres of city-owned parks and
2:10:00 open space if i'm yep i'm in the same
2:10:04 spot number
2:10:05 22 on your list and
2:10:08 i appreciate having this as a
2:10:10 measurement but
2:10:11 i very much view open space and
2:10:14 parks differently and so rather than
2:10:18 having it as a single measurement or a
2:10:21 single target
2:10:22 i think it would do us more good to
2:10:25 include both measurements so that would
2:10:28 be my preference there
2:10:33 just looking to administration to see if
2:10:35 there's any issues with
2:10:36 separating that out into two numbers no
2:10:39 we'd be happy to do that
2:10:40 if we could keep it as one measure that
2:10:42 would be great but we'll report two
2:10:43 numbers
2:10:45 sounds good thank you jeremy you can
2:10:49 on with your presentation
2:10:53 sorry i was just writing a note thank
2:10:54 you mayor so next we have
2:10:56 social and economic vitality and
2:11:00 the performance measures added since
2:11:02 september we've
2:11:03 replaced the number of human services
2:11:05 programs with the number of
2:11:07 program beneficiaries from human
2:11:09 services programs
2:11:10 to more directly get it resident support
2:11:12 um which is noted by council in the last
2:11:14 presentation
2:11:16 we've also added in the percentage of
2:11:18 people who work and live in issaquah
2:11:20 to address a request by council from the
2:11:23 last presentation as well
2:11:25 and then that is it i'll stop there for
2:11:28 for questions or comments
2:11:31 i'll give it a second to see if
2:11:33 anybody's got a question or comments
2:11:39 okay i think you can move on jeremy
2:11:42 thank you
2:11:43 next we have city leadership and
2:11:46 services
2:11:47 and starting with the measures added we
2:11:49 replaced
2:11:50 debt per capita with the city's general
2:11:52 obligation bond rating
2:11:54 to better align with similar performance
2:11:55 measurement programs
2:11:57 and directly show city performance and
2:11:59 we also added
2:12:00 resident public safety perception per
2:12:03 council's request
2:12:04 from the last presentation um
2:12:08 for the historical data missing for
2:12:10 measures
2:12:11 we have historical demographic data for
2:12:14 applicants and employees which is one of
2:12:18 the proposed measures but not for boards
2:12:20 and commission members
2:12:21 that we propose to begin collecting in
2:12:24 additionally we plan to standardize the
2:12:26 way in which we collect
2:12:28 race and ethnicity data from applicants
2:12:29 and employees in 2021 as well
2:12:33 thank you jeremy it looks like council
2:12:34 member martz has a comment
2:12:36 thank you madam mayor this is council
2:12:38 member marx
2:12:39 first of all more generally i have a
2:12:43 concern
2:12:44 around um i have a concern that
2:12:48 if we change these metrics on a cadence
2:12:51 of you know a couple of times a year and
2:12:54 we change
2:12:55 10 of them uh i haven't done the math
2:12:59 you don't get very many metrics that
2:13:01 last very long
2:13:02 i think that one of the things that we
2:13:05 about this was to pick some measures and
2:13:07 stick with them for a while
2:13:09 so i do have i have some general
2:13:11 concerns around
2:13:13 how often and what criteria we want to
2:13:15 use to change i
2:13:16 sort of i guess on some level i'd love
2:13:19 to see a full list and see
2:13:21 okay here's what we've been collecting
2:13:22 for this long and here's what we're
2:13:24 starting to get through lines on
2:13:26 because i think the biggest value is
2:13:28 going to be metrics that we hold
2:13:30 for two or three or more years and we
2:13:32 can actually
2:13:33 see that see the trend line on on how
2:13:35 they're performing
2:13:36 more specifically about the specific
2:13:39 city general obligation bond rating i'm
2:13:42 not crazy about changing that for a
2:13:43 couple of reasons
2:13:45 one is i i have long held
2:13:48 that per capita numbers like
2:13:51 expenditures per capita and revenue per
2:13:53 capita
2:13:54 is really important in the city that's
2:13:56 growing the second thing is that the
2:13:59 city general obligation bond rating is a
2:14:01 super boring number
2:14:02 right it's it's changed once in the uh
2:14:05 11 years that i've been on council
2:14:07 went from double a to aaa we've been
2:14:09 sitting at
2:14:10 aaa for like five years uh you know
2:14:13 hopefully uh barring something crazy
2:14:16 we're gonna sit at triple a for a long
2:14:19 so i don't see this is a this is there's
2:14:21 no signal here
2:14:22 right i guess maybe we could go to
2:14:24 double a at some point and we'd
2:14:27 spank ourselves over it but i really
2:14:29 liked the previous metric and think the
2:14:31 new metric doesn't have much signal to
2:14:33 thank you the administrator bob quits
2:14:38 um you know i i think bond rating is
2:14:42 is a good um very hundred thousand foot
2:14:46 uh measure um it's something that gets
2:14:49 your attention when it changes
2:14:51 and so i think to keep that front and
2:14:52 center make sense
2:14:54 of jeremy i don't know if you have any
2:14:56 other comments about
2:14:58 any of the other issues that council
2:15:00 member march raised but
2:15:01 as far as the general obligation bond
2:15:04 again i think we're trying to create a
2:15:06 whole picture of what the city
2:15:08 is doing and i think that that's a
2:15:09 useful data point by itself
2:15:11 to help create that larger picture
2:15:13 jeremy any other comments
2:15:16 uh no thank you city admitted the city
2:15:18 administrator bob quicks i
2:15:19 i agree um with with your comments and
2:15:23 um i i also agree that it is a good
2:15:26 zoomed out view
2:15:27 of how the city is performing
2:15:28 financially um
2:15:30 we would be happy to add back in uh the
2:15:34 measure
2:15:34 that um council member marx is is
2:15:36 proposing
2:15:37 um but yeah i have no further comments
2:15:41 council member marks um
2:15:44 see the administrator i respectfully
2:15:47 disagree
2:15:47 uh i was here when we were double a it
2:15:50 wasn't a problem
2:15:51 we patted ourselves on the back and said
2:15:53 oh we'd be triple a except the district
2:15:55 is triple a
2:15:56 oh well we got to be triple a and the
2:15:58 district was triple a as well and
2:15:59 it didn't really change our lives very
2:16:02 but i do like the suggestion of having
2:16:05 both in there
2:16:06 i think understanding our debt for
2:16:07 resident is important and will change
2:16:09 over time
2:16:10 and we'll be impacted by what we choose
2:16:12 to do with councilmanic debt and with
2:16:15 debt that we put before the voters
2:16:16 and i think it's an important measure so
2:16:18 i guess what i'm saying is if
2:16:20 uh if we keep both managers then i guess
2:16:23 we both
2:16:23 you know you get to have your thing and
2:16:25 i get to have my thing but the double a
2:16:27 versus
2:16:28 aaa i i get it it's bad if you go from
2:16:31 triple a to double a but
2:16:32 i'll tell you we didn't sit around
2:16:34 ringing our hands saying oh if only we
2:16:36 were triple a we'd be happy
2:16:37 we were pretty happy with double a we
2:16:39 were even happier with aaa
2:16:41 thank you deputy council president ray
2:16:45 thank you mayor paulie chris ray uh
2:16:47 i'm just going to uh amplify council
2:16:50 member marks i
2:16:51 i think a the bond rating is a fine
2:16:54 um as you said uh council
2:16:57 or a city administrator about puts a 100
2:17:00 000 foot
2:17:01 view because it doesn't change much but
2:17:02 we it would be good to have something
2:17:04 like debt per thousand population that
2:17:07 does change so i
2:17:09 i'm just concuring with my esteemed
2:17:11 colleague that
2:17:12 that would be more meaningful to me
2:17:15 and madam mayor uh you know i don't
2:17:17 think there's any objection of adding
2:17:19 uh that back i think councilmember
2:17:22 martin i agree
2:17:23 i think that they they tell you
2:17:24 different things uh and
2:17:26 you know as we as we look at these
2:17:28 performance measures there are many
2:17:29 audiences
2:17:30 for these performance measures certainly
2:17:32 the city council is an audience
2:17:34 our community is an audience uh
2:17:36 businesses that may choose to come
2:17:38 locate here do business with us um and
2:17:40 so i think that
2:17:42 you know it's that whole package and i
2:17:43 think as hopefully we are at the end of
2:17:46 of the path that the council has been on
2:17:48 for the last several months
2:17:49 um you know i think a good set of
2:17:51 performance measures
2:17:52 uh serve all of those different
2:17:55 constituency groups
2:17:56 so we'd be happy to add back the
2:17:59 the per capita that uh as an important
2:18:02 factor
2:18:03 thank you and jeremy i'm not seeing
2:18:05 anything else on the chat box if you
2:18:07 want to continue
2:18:10 thank you mayor so lastly uh in terms of
2:18:13 performance measures changed um since
2:18:16 the last presentation we have the
2:18:18 infrastructure strategic goal area
2:18:20 and so the for the performance measures
2:18:22 added since september
2:18:24 we added percentage of stormwater lines
2:18:26 cleaned to better align with similar
2:18:28 performance measurement programs and
2:18:30 other public works
2:18:31 vision measures and we moved pavement
2:18:34 condition index from mobility
2:18:36 to infrastructure per council's
2:18:38 recommendation in september
2:18:42 thank you jeremy um i'm not seeing any
2:18:44 other uh
2:18:45 questions or comments on this particular
2:18:47 one but i will go to council president
2:18:49 quickly just to see if there is any
2:18:53 comments from the public that you would
2:18:54 like to summarize on this item
2:18:56 thank you madam mayor we did not receive
2:18:58 email comments on this man
2:19:00 that's great so let's do another round
2:19:04 of calls
2:19:04 for questions or comments and if not
2:19:07 we'll move to emotion
2:19:09 if i can sorry if i can add there there
2:19:12 is also more to the presentation uh this
2:19:14 was just
2:19:14 the this is the end of the uh the
2:19:17 updates on performance
2:19:18 measure changes across jeremy but if
2:19:20 there are
2:19:21 questions or comments on the specific
2:19:24 measures this would be
2:19:25 a great time to provide them as well
2:19:26 before moving on to managing the program
2:19:29 okay good it looks like we have several
2:19:31 so we'll start with council member walsh
2:19:33 followed by council president oh hang on
2:19:36 a second
2:19:38 looks like they want to hold their
2:19:40 comments uh council president hunt is
2:19:42 yours on a specific item
2:19:44 or is it for later um it is on a
2:19:46 specific item
2:19:48 great thank you um thank you so this is
2:19:50 council president hunt
2:19:51 uh i i think this list is um overall
2:19:56 really good it's really good start and
2:19:58 um you know as
2:19:59 council president or um councilmember
2:20:01 mart's spoke to will have to
2:20:04 measure these over a long period of time
2:20:06 one though that i think
2:20:08 really needs to be revisited and changed
2:20:11 is the ownership first rental i think
2:20:14 focusing on
2:20:15 whether people are owning or renting
2:20:16 their homes is the wrong focus for that
2:20:18 we have a need for this middle missing
2:20:22 middle
2:20:22 kind of housing and we have a need for
2:20:25 smaller units
2:20:26 to match the demand better of people in
2:20:29 the community but it's not really about
2:20:30 rental versus housing it's about that
2:20:32 that kind of housing so i think when we
2:20:35 look at a performance measure for
2:20:37 diversity of housing types it should be
2:20:39 around the diversity
2:20:41 of housing types that are available to
2:20:43 people including
2:20:44 adus and apartments condos single family
2:20:48 homes etc
2:20:49 so that one is is the one that i would
2:20:52 really request that it be revisited
2:20:56 and changed before the next
2:20:59 time we see this thanks
2:21:03 thank you and councilmember walsh it
2:21:06 looks like you're going to hold on until
2:21:08 we go through the rest of the
2:21:09 presentation is that correct
2:21:13 yes great jeremy
2:21:16 hey thank you mayor so now i'll talk
2:21:19 about the administration's plan to
2:21:20 manage the performance measurement
2:21:22 program
2:21:23 and utilize the data to inform policy
2:21:26 decision making
2:21:27 and transparency the two main vehicles
2:21:30 providing performance measure updates
2:21:32 will be through a performance
2:21:33 measurement dashboard
2:21:35 and quarterly reports so
2:21:38 here we have a sample dashboard page
2:21:40 providing data on tree canopy
2:21:42 and number of trees planted this isn't
2:21:45 by any means a final dashboard
2:21:47 but it's meant to highlight how data and
2:21:49 context for a measure
2:21:50 can be visualized through microsoft
2:21:52 power bi
2:21:54 more text can also be used where users
2:21:56 can scroll through a text box
2:21:58 as shown here and data can be
2:22:01 interactive
2:22:02 when there are measures broken down into
2:22:04 subcategories
2:22:06 and the administration is currently
2:22:07 working with it to ensure that the
2:22:09 dashboard can be updated automatically
2:22:11 as new data becomes available and then
2:22:15 we have performance measurement
2:22:17 quarterly reports
2:22:18 and these will include updates on
2:22:21 performance measure
2:22:22 data and further analysis on performance
2:22:24 measures
2:22:25 to provide a detailed story they can
2:22:28 include
2:22:29 disaggregating data by neighborhood or
2:22:31 subcategory
2:22:33 analyzing other data that may inform the
2:22:35 measure's performance
2:22:36 or including data from neighboring
2:22:39 jurisdictions
2:22:40 as comparisons as well
2:22:43 so moving forward here's an
2:22:45 implementation timeline
2:22:47 as we mentioned at the beginning of the
2:22:49 presentation uh we'll
2:22:51 take council's feedback and
2:22:54 propose that the performance measurement
2:22:56 plan be adopted
2:22:57 on november 16th along with the budget
2:23:00 by the end of the year
2:23:02 we'll develop streamline database to
2:23:04 collect data from multiple sources
2:23:06 as well as design and disseminate the
2:23:08 city performance dashboard with
2:23:10 finalized measures
2:23:12 and then moving forward as just
2:23:13 discussed we'll update the dashboard
2:23:16 and report on measures quarterly
2:23:20 so that has concluded the full
2:23:22 presentation and
2:23:24 as as i mentioned before uh feedback
2:23:26 both on specific performance measures
2:23:29 and the program management would be very
2:23:32 welcome
2:23:32 thank you so jeremy this is the mayor
2:23:36 sorry for cutting off your last few
2:23:38 slides thank you for that we'll go back
2:23:40 to council member walsh who has a
2:23:41 question
2:23:43 thank you i actually have a general
2:23:45 comment is that okay at this point
2:23:47 i would think so okay fantastic
2:23:50 so first of all love how this has
2:23:53 progressed um
2:23:55 and it's really great you can see the
2:23:57 incremental thinking on it
2:24:00 i very much appreciate the attention
2:24:02 that this has been given
2:24:05 at this point this is the first time
2:24:07 that we've seen
2:24:08 the target and i
2:24:12 have to say i'm a little bit
2:24:14 uncomfortable with
2:24:16 setting just having a target column
2:24:19 on there without knowing what the source
2:24:22 or the reasoning for that target is
2:24:25 in some cases you know much like council
2:24:27 president hunt said with the
2:24:29 um actually that one's separate that's
2:24:31 kind of
2:24:33 the idea of what we measure but just how
2:24:36 how we get to these points did we
2:24:39 choose um you know a certain number
2:24:42 of stormwater drainage issues responded
2:24:47 because that's what we thought was
2:24:49 internally or we saw
2:24:51 um a neighbor city has that or we've had
2:24:55 um a better metric in the past and we're
2:24:57 trying to get back
2:24:58 up to that um i guess i just want to
2:25:02 know the reasoning behind it because
2:25:04 there were some
2:25:05 that just seemed a little bit
2:25:08 not out of left field but i i couldn't
2:25:11 find a reason in my mind
2:25:13 why they were set at the particular
2:25:15 metric
2:25:17 [Music]
2:25:20 jeremy or see the administrator
2:25:22 background
2:25:26 go ahead jeremy i can go for it yeah
2:25:28 thank you for the
2:25:29 the comment councilmember walsh um i
2:25:32 think
2:25:33 you raised very good points and you you
2:25:36 included the
2:25:38 um the breadth of where the targets were
2:25:41 designed from so it is looking at
2:25:43 neighboring jurisdictions it is
2:25:45 looking at historical data to see how
2:25:47 we've performed
2:25:48 um some were ambitious
2:25:52 goals set to as you said returned to a
2:25:55 certain historical level
2:25:56 or above uh historical levels some were
2:26:00 um goals
2:26:04 that are set regionally or or in other
2:26:07 jurisdictions as well um we we could
2:26:10 provide
2:26:11 an explanation for kind of the
2:26:13 confluence of reasons that inform
2:26:16 each target um
2:26:19 i i was i was trying to think through a
2:26:22 that the matrix provided would still be
2:26:25 legible and easy to follow without more
2:26:28 texts
2:26:29 confusing each measure uh but i i i
2:26:31 fully acknowledge that
2:26:33 understanding how the targets are set is
2:26:35 very important um
2:26:37 so i can i can provide additional
2:26:39 context
2:26:40 in uh a following the follow-up that
2:26:44 that's submitted on the 16th to explain
2:26:47 they were determined or um city
2:26:50 administrator about
2:26:51 quits i would want you to step in here
2:26:53 as well but we could adopt
2:26:55 the performance measurement plan without
2:26:57 targets and then
2:26:59 in further quarterly reports that are um
2:27:02 examined we could we could dig deeper
2:27:04 into um deciding on targets and
2:27:06 informing you where
2:27:08 where the targets came from did the
2:27:10 administrative balkans
2:27:12 uh let me just add a little maybe a
2:27:14 little bit of context you know
2:27:16 we very much from the administration's
2:27:18 perspective wanted
2:27:19 to have a set of performance measures
2:27:22 that made sense
2:27:23 uh going into 21. this should have been
2:27:26 a year and a half process
2:27:28 we did it in six months um and so i
2:27:31 think
2:27:31 one of the challenges when you do that
2:27:34 is that we have brought together
2:27:35 information from a whole variety of
2:27:37 different sources
2:27:39 we have had a work with some staff
2:27:41 members who are very accustomed
2:27:43 to performance measurement other staff
2:27:45 members who quite frankly
2:27:47 are very apprehensive about this and so
2:27:49 in order to keep this process
2:27:51 moving forward i think what jeremy and i
2:27:55 and other members of the senior
2:27:56 leadership team have done
2:27:58 is just try to weigh this what makes the
2:28:00 most sense moving forward
2:28:02 is it perfect absolutely not we would
2:28:04 have had at least another six months
2:28:06 talking about targets
2:28:07 um which we just don't have in order to
2:28:11 move forward with so i think as jeremy
2:28:13 suggested we can have an appendix
2:28:15 uh that talks about the information that
2:28:17 we did use
2:28:18 uh to come up with the targets and i
2:28:20 think certainly as we review this
2:28:22 annually
2:28:23 with the council if there's interest in
2:28:25 making adjustments to those targets we
2:28:27 can do that
2:28:28 but again we wanted to give the council
2:28:31 mayor paulie wanted to give the council
2:28:33 this document to move forward with
2:28:35 in 21 and given all the challenges we've
2:28:37 had 20.
2:28:39 we're very proud that we've been able to
2:28:40 get you the quality document that we
2:28:43 in a relatively short period of time
2:28:46 i will go to council member walsh for a
2:28:48 question or a comment sorry
2:28:52 or am i late on that one uh that was me
2:28:54 giving the comment before
2:28:56 and so i oh sorry councilmember jamie
2:28:59 yep um thank you i
2:29:02 i just wanted to follow up and kiss
2:29:04 where walsh's comment because she
2:29:05 uh triggered um i an area that one
2:29:09 uh target that i saw that i had
2:29:12 questions and
2:29:13 question and then i forgot to to uh
2:29:16 comment on it earlier i think it's item
2:29:18 number 39
2:29:20 um let's see if i can get to that it's
2:29:23 uh percentage of human services partners
2:29:27 achieving one or more contract to
2:29:29 goal and the
2:29:32 target on that is a hundred percent and
2:29:35 i just
2:29:36 i don't need an answer tonight i just uh
2:29:39 to me
2:29:40 that's kind of a almost impossible
2:29:44 goal to reach or target to reach
2:29:47 um and so you know i just would like to
2:29:50 hear at some point the rationale for
2:29:52 that 100
2:29:53 target um you know even in the best of
2:29:56 worlds
2:29:57 it's things happen
2:30:01 i don't know 95 might be a little bit
2:30:03 more realistic than 100
2:30:05 uh but and i don't think it needs to be
2:30:08 resolved tonight at all i just wanted to
2:30:11 bring that to your attention
2:30:14 thank you councilmember d michelle i'm
2:30:16 not saying
2:30:17 anything else in the chat
2:30:20 i'll give it a few seconds let's go to
2:30:22 council president hunt
2:30:24 um thank you this is council president
2:30:26 hunt again i do think this is a really
2:30:30 list and it's really exciting to be um
2:30:33 to be adopting this and starting to use
2:30:36 these metrics um and then be in the
2:30:37 process of using these in future
2:30:39 decision making as well as in budgeting
2:30:41 i think that's that's all
2:30:43 really good progress for us um one
2:30:46 so i was comparing the um strategic plan
2:30:51 success measures which which some of
2:30:53 them were more
2:30:54 formed than others when we adopted the
2:30:56 strategic plan
2:30:58 but i did notice that um one of the
2:30:59 success measures for the environment
2:31:01 which we don't really have
2:31:03 in these success measures is around
2:31:06 forest health and it says in our
2:31:08 strategic plan condition of forest
2:31:10 health measure is in development
2:31:12 so um i i think it's still in
2:31:14 development i still don't think we have
2:31:15 a good measurement on that but it is a
2:31:17 concern because
2:31:19 um as we continue to plant trees and as
2:31:21 we continue to maintain our forested
2:31:23 areas and such an emphasis on that which
2:31:25 is measured in the
2:31:26 performance measures there's also a
2:31:28 growing concern about the
2:31:30 tree health with things like root rot
2:31:33 and other
2:31:34 and climate change affecting the health
2:31:35 of our forests et cetera so
2:31:37 so that's a continuing ongoing concern
2:31:39 and i wanted to flag it as something
2:31:42 that maybe with green issaquah starting
2:31:44 up and the forest stewards there maybe
2:31:46 they can help us
2:31:48 track the forest health in addition to
2:31:50 tracking that we are
2:31:51 we are planting trees and maintaining
2:31:54 our forest
2:31:55 canopy so that we have a holistic view
2:31:58 on that so
2:31:59 not recommending a change but just
2:32:00 wanted to flag that because
2:32:02 in addition to having the forest we want
2:32:04 to make sure it's healthy
2:32:06 thank you council president hunt looking
2:32:08 over the chat box
2:32:10 to see if there are any additional
2:32:12 comments
2:32:16 and if not if there is someone who is
2:32:18 prepared to make a motion
2:32:24 council president hunt thank you
2:32:28 as council president hunt i moved to
2:32:30 forward ab-8046 to the november 16
2:32:33 2020 council meeting for deliberation
2:32:35 and action
2:32:38 and deputy council president right this
2:32:40 is chris ray ii
2:32:43 and is there any discussion
2:32:53 not seeing any in the chat box i will go
2:32:56 to the city clerk for the roll call vote
2:33:01 yes starting with deputy council
2:33:02 president ray
2:33:04 hi council member walsh
2:33:07 aye council member d michelle
2:33:11 aye councilmember goodman aye
2:33:15 councilmember hall aye council president
2:33:20 aye and council member martz
2:33:23 that's seven eyes your own a's
2:33:27 thank you that passes unanimously and
2:33:29 that's pretty exciting that we're moving
2:33:31 forward with this thank you that was
2:33:32 great discussion lots of good questions
2:33:34 and comments as well
2:33:36 the next item on our agenda this evening
2:33:38 is for good of the order and does anyone
2:33:41 have anything for good of the order
2:33:46 council member march thank you madam
2:33:50 mayor as i mentioned earlier the sound
2:33:52 cities
2:33:52 association public issues committee is
2:33:55 going to be taking up
2:33:57 a position that says
2:34:00 the sound cities association recognizes
2:34:02 the vital role of emergency management
2:34:04 zone coordinators
2:34:06 in regional emergency management
2:34:08 coordination in king county
2:34:09 the essential support they provide to
2:34:11 sca cities particularly small cities
2:34:13 with limited or no
2:34:14 full-time emergency management staff fca
2:34:17 believes it is critical that the
2:34:18 positions
2:34:19 remain the independent advocacy role
2:34:21 that they currently hold to prioritize
2:34:24 the needs of the cities we represent
2:34:26 sca recommends that zone 1 and zone 3
2:34:28 coordinators remain independent contract
2:34:30 positions
2:34:31 with regular opportunities for the zone
2:34:33 partners including fire district cities
2:34:35 in king county
2:34:36 to evaluate their performance as the
2:34:38 zone coordinators may change over time
2:34:41 all zone partners should be involved in
2:34:42 the replacement selection
2:34:44 process due to the unique role the zone
2:34:46 coordinators play
2:34:47 in providing essential support to
2:34:49 jurisdictions for emergency coordination
2:34:51 and management
2:34:52 in king county this is a large issue for
2:34:55 small cities that don't have their own
2:34:57 emergency management staff
2:34:59 and i would say they have maintained
2:35:02 at pick in general discussions of very
2:35:06 strong
2:35:07 position in support of this and in
2:35:08 addition i believe we as a city
2:35:10 have sent a letter of support for this
2:35:13 position
2:35:16 not that we don't have our own emergency
2:35:18 staff but that we see the value
2:35:21 in these positions remaining independent
2:35:24 and not becoming i think the alternative
2:35:27 that they become regular full-time
2:35:29 county positions
2:35:31 madam mayor do you have any other
2:35:34 do you want to say anything about the
2:35:36 city's letter that it wrote on this
2:35:38 matter sure um we're in agreement
2:35:42 very strongly with the position that sva
2:35:44 is taking just based on our
2:35:46 emergency response team and so we're
2:35:48 we're
2:35:49 happy and supportive for what the sta
2:35:52 pick is going to be going on thank you
2:35:53 for bringing it here
2:35:55 sure so i'll ask if any if any
2:35:58 council members have any concerns about
2:36:02 basically i think this is fairly
2:36:03 straightforward given that the
2:36:05 city has already identified the value in
2:36:09 these positions but if anybody
2:36:11 had concerns i would love to hear it
2:36:14 council member ray
2:36:17 thank you council member marks this is
2:36:19 chris wright more of a question than
2:36:21 anything else
2:36:22 you mentioned zone coordinators what
2:36:24 exactly are those
2:36:29 uh uh the zones
2:36:32 are that is a good question
2:36:36 i believe these are designed to
2:36:38 facilitate
2:36:39 for communities that don't have their
2:36:41 own emergency
2:36:42 uh response personnel small communities
2:36:46 uh algona and carnation
2:36:51 and duvall and places that have very
2:36:53 small staffs
2:36:55 they provide assistance to those
2:36:58 communities but i don't know
2:37:01 specifically
2:37:02 what encompasses zone one or end zone
2:37:05 three and why they would be
2:37:06 different than other zones mayor paulie
2:37:10 can you help me out with yeah
2:37:11 we i thank you this is the mayor i do
2:37:13 not believe that we have anybody from
2:37:15 operations and emergency response on
2:37:17 with us tonight although i do know we
2:37:19 have andrea and she's welcome to chime
2:37:20 in if she wants
2:37:22 i think the thought is that if
2:37:25 the geographic area is divided into
2:37:27 zones that the
2:37:29 smaller cities larger cities everybody
2:37:31 wanted to make sure that the
2:37:32 coordination efforts were done on the
2:37:34 city side
2:37:35 versus having some done by cities and
2:37:37 some done by counties so
2:37:39 we work very very closely with the
2:37:40 county but this existing
2:37:42 communication network seems to work
2:37:44 better
2:37:46 for the smaller jurisdictions and the
2:37:48 jurisdictions at the edge so
2:37:50 we it's a contract position um we
2:37:53 we've benefited from it and so we're in
2:37:55 support of maintaining it
2:38:01 well that's great thank you
2:38:05 all right well i i don't see anybody uh
2:38:09 uh you know shaking their heads and
2:38:12 shaking their fifth century age so i'm
2:38:15 going to
2:38:16 present the the city's uh ongoing the
2:38:19 position the city has held that far
2:38:21 um as our position but thank you for
2:38:23 your time at the end of a fairly long
2:38:24 meeting and thank you
2:38:25 madam mayor for letting me cover this
2:38:27 issue thank you councilmember martz it
2:38:29 looks like council president hunt would
2:38:30 also like to bring up an issue
2:38:33 thank you um council president hunt and
2:38:36 we will be having a um as part of our
2:38:39 meeting on thursday
2:38:40 this week we will be having a budget
2:38:42 conversation and we will be
2:38:44 receiving updated revenue projections
2:38:47 and this is part of the normal budget
2:38:49 process in which we receive an updated
2:38:52 revenue projection around this time of
2:38:55 year this year
2:38:56 like everything else there was a lot of
2:38:57 uncertainty around the revenue
2:38:59 projections and so
2:39:00 i wanted to um i'm going to be the chair
2:39:03 on thursday and so i wanted to start
2:39:05 council members
2:39:06 thinking about about how we want to
2:39:10 proceed
2:39:10 with using the information that we will
2:39:13 receive regarding the updated
2:39:14 revenue projection and this evening um
2:39:17 not not wanting to start that
2:39:18 conversation this evening but wanting to
2:39:20 ask the administration about what our
2:39:22 procedural
2:39:24 options are in terms of the
2:39:27 budget and adopting the budget
2:39:31 given that we're receiving some
2:39:32 important updates
2:39:35 this week yes thanks this
2:39:38 is the mayor um typically the revenue
2:39:41 forecast update
2:39:43 is interesting not
2:39:46 ground shut like not earth shattering
2:39:48 this is a different year this is 2020
2:39:50 and so
2:39:51 the information that's going to be
2:39:53 provided has a more significant impact
2:39:56 i'll go to the administrator bob quit
2:39:59 see if we have
2:40:00 put together anything in addition
2:40:03 to the regular materials for thursday
2:40:05 night and what the process might look
2:40:08 thank you madam mayor the agenda for
2:40:12 the meeting on thursday was uh
2:40:14 distributed
2:40:15 this afternoon the council also received
2:40:18 some additional information prior to
2:40:20 that we're prepared to walk through that
2:40:23 for the council's consideration um
2:40:26 as we would with other proposals so
2:40:30 you have all of thursday evening to talk
2:40:33 about this
2:40:34 the council also had tentatively
2:40:36 scheduled some time
2:40:37 on the study session for the 10th of
2:40:40 november
2:40:41 uh there is one other item for that
2:40:43 meeting on the 10th and that is the
2:40:46 first review of the comprehensive plan
2:40:48 amendments so you'll have
2:40:51 at least two schedule times to consider
2:40:54 what the mayor is proposing uh with our
2:40:56 hope still that the council will be able
2:40:58 to adopt the budget on the 16th
2:41:00 thank you to the administrator and i
2:41:02 think what council president is asking
2:41:04 is in terms of process
2:41:07 and presenting a proposal they will
2:41:10 review the proposal
2:41:11 they can edit it throw it out
2:41:15 do something different they have all the
2:41:17 same options that they have with the
2:41:19 regular budget
2:41:20 so i'm just presenting a proposal and
2:41:23 they will have
2:41:24 their own discussion about how to
2:41:25 proceed
2:41:28 okay council president hunt
2:41:32 uh did we miss anything in the answer
2:41:37 um no not
2:41:40 exactly i guess i just um would
2:41:43 say that um as we as we look to that
2:41:47 revenue projection
2:41:48 part of the conversation on thursday
2:41:50 that i think we should have
2:41:52 is how comfortable our people either
2:41:55 you know think about if we if we think
2:41:57 we need more
2:41:59 time in terms of adding more meetings
2:42:01 that would be one option if we're
2:42:03 comfortable
2:42:04 or if we um we would do
2:42:07 my understanding is the third option
2:42:08 would be to adopt
2:42:10 um the budget that we've seen
2:42:13 previously and then separately we could
2:42:16 add meetings and adopt a
2:42:18 uh budget amendment um
2:42:21 at the towards the beginning of 2021. um
2:42:25 so those are as i see at
2:42:26 three potential options and since we are
2:42:30 since we are sort of towards the end of
2:42:32 our budget process right now i wanted to
2:42:34 flag those options for council as soon
2:42:36 as possible and
2:42:37 and um make sure that we're ready for
2:42:40 having
2:42:41 that conversation on thursday in
2:42:43 addition to the conversation about the
2:42:45 proposal itself okay great
2:42:48 thank you any other comments for good of
2:42:52 the order
2:42:54 i'm going to move on to the upcoming
2:42:56 council meetings
2:42:57 so the following up madame deputy
2:43:00 council president
2:43:01 ray thank you mayor paulie this is chris
2:43:05 um i just want to talk just a brief bit
2:43:08 more about
2:43:09 thursday's meeting because typically we
2:43:12 the updated revenue projections and
2:43:14 that's
2:43:15 that's pretty normal what's atypical
2:43:17 about this one is
2:43:19 we're getting also expenditure
2:43:22 revisions is that that's correct right
2:43:25 you're bringing forward
2:43:26 on thursday new expenditures along with
2:43:30 the updated budget uh revenue forecast
2:43:33 correct and and so the the question
2:43:37 um i just want to be really clear that
2:43:40 we need to
2:43:41 to wrestle is we you know we're not at
2:43:44 the 11th hour but we're
2:43:45 you know we're at 10 30 on um budget
2:43:48 deliberations
2:43:49 actually 9 45 but um seriously
2:43:52 we are late in the process to be
2:43:54 introducing new
2:43:55 new expenditures and i know that 2020 is
2:43:58 a different
2:43:58 year but i think we need to be really
2:44:01 clear about
2:44:02 do we that we need to do
2:44:05 our due diligence on this budget
2:44:08 proposal as if it was
2:44:09 the budget if we're going to enact it
2:44:12 this year
2:44:13 and you know we have two weeks from
2:44:16 tonight
2:44:16 essentially to the date we were going to
2:44:20 um targeting to approve the budget so
2:44:24 we we need to be really uh clear on what
2:44:27 we want to do
2:44:30 after thursday do we want to say yeah
2:44:32 everything that's in this new budget is
2:44:34 great and we're just going to roll it
2:44:35 forward
2:44:36 i think this is what pronounced the
2:44:37 president hunt was saying um do we want
2:44:39 to schedule some more
2:44:40 deliberation sessions between now and
2:44:42 two weeks from now
2:44:44 so that we can work through it um
2:44:50 and uh there's just looking at
2:44:52 councilmember goodman's comment
2:44:54 or do we want to push this off so um
2:44:57 it's it's more of a process for going
2:44:59 forward you know
2:45:00 what's the best way we'll provide some
2:45:03 additional process
2:45:04 information and i do want to be
2:45:05 respectful too of not actually having a
2:45:08 process meeting right now
2:45:09 but thursday can definitely start with
2:45:11 process um
2:45:12 the proposal that will come on thursday
2:45:15 will include
2:45:16 both a revised revenue projection
2:45:20 and um an additional expenditure plan
2:45:23 and it's the reason they're both coming
2:45:27 forward
2:45:28 is that we have also heard about ending
2:45:30 fund balances and wanting to make sure
2:45:32 we are staying within our fiscal
2:45:34 policies so
2:45:35 it is a proposal and we'll
2:45:39 talk more about process on thursday
2:45:42 it is also three million dollars worth
2:45:44 of spending in a hundred and thirty plus
2:45:46 million dollar budget
2:45:47 so three million dollars is a lot of
2:45:49 money to us
2:45:50 but um you know it's not it's not ten
2:45:53 million or fifteen million dollars so
2:45:55 we have lots of different ways of
2:45:56 looking at it i think thursday's gonna
2:45:58 be a very interesting meeting
2:46:01 i'm gonna move on to the uh
2:46:04 upcoming virtual meeting schedule so
2:46:08 as we just talked about the city council
2:46:09 study session on thursday november 5th
2:46:11 starts at 6
2:46:12 30. it'll have the 2021 legislative
2:46:15 agenda
2:46:16 and it will also have the 2021 proposed
2:46:18 budget
2:46:19 uh with the revenue projections we were
2:46:21 just referring
2:46:22 to city council study session on tuesday
2:46:25 november 10th at 6 30 p.m it's also a
2:46:27 virtual meeting it will have the 2020
2:46:30 comprehensive plan amendments and
2:46:32 rezones and the 2021 proposed budget
2:46:35 if needed the city council regular
2:46:38 meeting will be on monday november 16th
2:46:40 and the potential agenda items include
2:46:42 citywide work plan update
2:46:44 the capital improvement plan cip update
2:46:48 the per and polyfluoroalkyl substance
2:46:51 update which is our pfas
2:46:53 study community planning and development
2:46:56 and the final 2021 budget public hearing
2:46:58 and anticipated adoption
2:47:01 next item on our agenda this evening is
2:47:03 an executive session but there will be
2:47:05 no executive
2:47:06 session held this evening so there being
2:47:09 no further business the meeting is
2:47:10 adjourned at 9 48
2:47:12 have a good night everyone

Attendance

Council / Members (7)
Barbara de Michele
Stacy Goodman
Zach Hall
Victoria Hunt
Tola Marts
Chris Reh
Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (2)

Approve Resolution No. 2020-15, making a declaration of substantial need for setting the property tax levy for 2021; and adopt Ordinance No. 2925, levying property taxes for the City of Issaquah for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 2021, on all property, both real and personal, in said city whi…
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh
Forward AB 8046 to the November 16, 2020 Council meeting for deliberation and action. .
Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH
Carried 7-0
In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh