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meeting format
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on march 6 i issued an emergency
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proclamation declaring a civil emergency
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in the city due to covet 19 outbreak
0:20
on march 24th the governor issued
0:22
proclamation 20-28
0:24
relating to the covet-19 emergency and
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open public meetings
0:28
the proclamation has been extended
0:30
through december 7th
0:31
due to these proclamations tonight
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meeting tonight's meeting will be held
0:35
entirely remotely
0:36
the meeting will be recorded streamed
0:38
live and available for later viewing on
0:40
the city's youtube channel
0:41
a call-in number was provided on the
0:43
meeting agenda for members of the public
0:45
who wish to call in by phone
0:47
to listen live to the meeting or make
0:49
comments and for those members of the
0:51
public that are on the call welcome
0:54
given the high level of public interest
0:56
in the 2021 budget
0:58
i've been requested to shift regular
1:01
business item a
1:02
which is a b 8045 amending imc
1:06
16.35 construction hours to the last
1:09
item
1:10
under regular business it will become
1:12
agenda item c so we can consider the
1:15
budget items first
1:17
is there any objection
1:20
and council members please use the chat
1:22
if you would like to register an
1:24
objection
1:28
hearing none the agenda is revised
1:30
accordingly
1:34
at this point we'll take a moment to
1:36
take roll call of the council members in
1:37
attendance
1:38
please say here when i call your name
1:40
councilmember d michelle
1:42
here thank you councilmember goodman
1:44
here
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thank you councilmember hall here thanks
1:48
council president hunt
1:50
here thank you councilmember martz
1:53
here thank you and deputy council
1:56
president ray
1:57
yeah thank you councilmember walsh
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here thank you all we have all seven
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council members in attendance this
2:05
evening
2:06
the next item on the agenda is the
2:08
pledge of allegiance and i ask that you
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all
2:10
keep your microphones muted but you are
2:12
welcome to join me
2:14
in the pledge of allegiance
2:18
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
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united states of america
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and to the republic for which it stands
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one nation
2:26
under god indivisible with liberty and
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justice for all
2:31
the next item on our agenda is audience
2:33
comments and for those of you who
2:35
submitted the online form to make
2:37
comments your name will be called
2:39
shortly
2:40
and for anyone else who has joined us
2:42
tonight and would like to make comments
2:44
but didn't sign up in advance
2:46
please press star 3 on your phone this
2:49
will allow the clerk to see you raising
2:51
your hand
2:52
we will call the last two digits of your
2:54
phone number when it's your turn to make
2:56
comments
2:57
and city clerk has anyone signed up to
2:59
speak or indicated a desire to speak
3:01
this evening
3:02
yes great if you are making comments
3:06
tonight please make sure you address the
3:08
whole council
3:09
and not individuals and although this is
3:12
not a question and answer session we
3:14
will contact you to follow up as needed
3:17
when you are recognized by the city
3:18
clerk please unmute your microphone
3:21
state your name address and relationship
3:22
to the city and speak clearly
3:25
and pause frequently and limit your
3:27
comments to five minutes
3:29
and re-mute your microphone when done if
3:32
you do not respond after your name or
3:33
phone number is called or if your
3:35
connection is lost unexpectedly the
3:37
meeting will
3:38
need to proceed and you are encouraged
3:39
to rejoin the meeting if fable
3:41
personal attacks obscene language
3:43
derogatory marks
3:44
and disruptive behavior will not be
3:46
permitted i
3:48
also wanted to remind those with us
3:49
tonight that there is a public hearing
3:51
for ab7991 this is the proposed
3:55
2021 budget and salary ordinance
3:58
and if you would like to make comments
4:00
on that topic you will have an
4:01
opportunity later in the meeting when we
4:03
open that public hearing
4:05
citizen comments written and verbal are
4:07
an important aspect of the public
4:08
process
4:09
and the city takes these comments
4:10
seriously and we thank you for taking
4:12
the time to come tonight and address us
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to declare can you please identify the
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first person who has signed up to speak
4:19
this evening
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yes and first i'd like to remind our
4:24
phone and callers that when
4:25
i unmute you you'll have a two-step
4:27
process you'll need to press star six
4:30
on your phone to unmute yourself in the
4:32
meeting system and then you'll also need
4:34
to unmute your own phone if you had
4:36
muted that as well
4:38
so the first caller is jake olson
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jacobson
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jake i'm requesting you on mute now
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thank you can you hear me yes we can
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awesome thank you and good evening my
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name is jake olson jacobson i am a
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longtime resident
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currently living at 480 and mountain
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park boulevard southwest
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here in issaquah and uh i led the israel
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trolley group during the year
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2015-29 but have been involved
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for many years since the current trolley
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car arrived in the city of issaquah
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mayor issaquah city council and citizens
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of issaquah
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as many of you are aware the issaquah
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history museums has voted to discontinue
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the issaquah trolley as a program of the
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izakaya history museums
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this action was primarily due to the
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required increase
5:34
in liability insurance required by the
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city of issaquah
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roughly doubling the insurance premium
5:41
required to operate the trolley
5:44
on city-owned tracks the iss crow valley
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trolley
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has been a very visible and engaging
5:50
part of is aqua's community for many
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years
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and is now a part of issaquah's history
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much like the refurbished izakaya depot
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shell gas station homes candies xxx
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and other places of public and
6:04
historical interest in issaquah
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i am now leading a group of trolley
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enthusiasts that include the trolley
6:11
committee members
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responsible for operating the 95 year
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old trolley car
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under the issaquah history museums we
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are very much
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interested in finding a new operational
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sponsor
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able to provide the organizational means
6:26
to continue
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izakaya valley trolley operations once
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the health risks of the current pandemic
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subside and we are able to operate while
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ensuring the safety of our guests
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we are asking for the city council and
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communities help to support our efforts
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finding a local sponsoring organization
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and sources of funding uh the
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incremental insurance costs required to
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continue
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operation of this well-loved issaquah
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landmark
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thank you for your time this evening
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thank you very much jay
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city clerk has anyone else signed up to
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speak this evening
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yes the phone in caller with the last
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two digits
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two nine i'm requesting you on youtube
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now
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thank you i'm here to speak this evening
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to ab7991 so i'm happy to wait until
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then
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thank you very much do you want to
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provide the city clerk your name
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so that she can include it in the list
7:29
of speakers for the public hearing
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that would have been a great idea to
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start with yes thank you mayor paulie
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that's kathy mccrory at the chamber of
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commerce okay thanks kathy
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city clerk who is uh next up for public
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comments this evening
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we don't have anyone else on the list uh
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for the general audience comments
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tonight but i'll take a quick moment to
7:52
remind folks that if you're interested
7:54
in making general comments now you can
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press star
7:56
3 on your phone that's star 3
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and let's give them just a moment
8:08
and i don't see that anyone's indicated
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a desire to speak at this time
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that's great thank you city clerk and um
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thank you jake for coming and speaking
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to to us
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tonight um as a council and a mayor and
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administration and
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we have received email on this topic as
8:26
well so thank you for present providing
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more comment and telling us about the
8:29
work that's been going on
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as a reminder anybody that's watching
8:34
this evening or here
8:36
uh can also send us written comments at
8:38
any time
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the city council is.gov
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and if comments have been received by
8:44
email on any of tonight's agenda topics
8:46
they will be acknowledged by our council
8:48
president council president hunt
8:50
under the relative agenda item the next
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item of
8:53
agenda the next item of business this
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evening
8:56
on our agenda is committee and regional
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reports i will call
9:00
each council member by name
9:02
councilmember hall
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thank you mayor paulie this is
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councilmember zach hall i'll be very
9:08
brief this evening
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just a heads up the next meeting of the
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king county affordable housing committee
9:16
of the growth management planning
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council
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isn't until the new year so nothing new
9:21
to report here but that being said
9:24
earlier today i sent around a final
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draft copy of the committee's
9:28
shared revenue principles which i've
9:30
described before as a document
9:32
that local government non-profit and
9:34
private
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sector organizations can look to when
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considering affordable housing tools
9:39
and revenues so if any of you have any
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thoughts between now and the end of the
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year
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i'd love to hear them and i'd be happy
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to share our comments uh with the rest
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of the committee
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um and if anyone out in the community
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would like to review the document or
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chat about it with me too feel free to
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send me a note at
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uh z-a-c-h-h at issaquah.gov
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and i'd be happy to walk you through it
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um
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the next meeting of the cascade water
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alliance board of directors is this
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wednesday november 18th at 3 30 pm
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um and then i will let
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uh either council member goodman or
10:16
deputy council president ray give the
10:17
report for last week's
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east side fire and rescue board meeting
10:21
that concludes my report mayor paulie
10:23
thank you council member hall council
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member g michelle
10:26
uh thank you mr paulie um
10:30
this is uh councilmember d michelle i
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attended the healthier here governing
10:34
board on november 5th
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and steady progress is being made on the
10:38
healthier here mission of integrating
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behavioral health
10:42
with physical health through information
10:44
sharing
10:45
like efr eastside fire and rescue
10:47
healthier here is working toward
10:49
non-profit status and they are making
10:51
progress on
10:52
that status we also received a coven 19
10:56
update from patty hayes the director of
10:58
seattle king county public health
11:00
most of which is sadly already out of
11:03
date
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the other meeting i attended i attended
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a legislative subcommittee meeting for
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the east side transportation partnership
11:12
last thursday and will attend an east
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side transportation partner partnership
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meeting
11:17
tomorrow morning where the legislative
11:19
priorities will be finalized
11:21
uh the completion of sr-18 which is this
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council's top priority
11:26
has been included among etp's
11:29
legislative priorities as well
11:31
and that concludes my report thank you
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thank you councilmember d michelle next
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up is councilmember walsh
11:40
thank you this is councilmember walsh
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very short report
11:44
stating that i will be attending the uh
11:47
chamber of commerce board meeting on
11:49
friday morning there is not an agenda
11:52
there yet
11:53
and that concludes my report that is
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short council member goodman
11:58
thank you mayor probably councilman
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goodman here um
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eastside fire and rescue board of
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directors met last thursday november
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12th
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um we had several things on the agenda
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the first item of note is that i think
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it was 32 or 33
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firefighters in the last month have been
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exposed to
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covid taking them out of service for a
12:21
bit and that number
12:22
is not unlike numbers that other
12:26
agencies
12:27
first responders are seeing given that
12:29
given the uptick in cases
12:31
but there's no impact to service levels
12:33
at eastside fire and rescue
12:35
so it was more just a report out that
12:37
things are
12:38
picking up and the numbers of exposure
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are reflecting that
12:43
we also had a presentation regarded the
12:45
mobile integrated
12:46
health program and that was jointly
12:48
presented by the eastside um
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sorry the issaquah food and clothing
12:52
bank and also um east side fire
12:54
and um we've asked the eastside fire
12:57
administration to work with
12:58
our administration to bring that
13:00
presentation to the full council
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um because it was uh it was very good
13:04
um and then we also had a presentation
13:07
regarding a wildfire
13:09
urban inner base fire risk map
13:12
and hopefully that will come to a
13:15
council meeting soon as well
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coming next at our next full council
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meeting
13:21
and our first meeting in december will
13:23
be some information
13:25
on um a new policy that uh eastside fire
13:29
administration is considering and that's
13:31
a possible new fund that would use east
13:33
side
13:34
fire and rescue funds to pay private
13:37
ambulance service amr
13:39
for transports that east side fire is
13:41
unable to do because they are
13:43
unavailable on on other calls um
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and just unavailable for some reason and
13:50
then if those patients cannot afford to
13:52
pay
13:52
amr um then uh the policy would provide
13:57
that um east side fire would pay amr for
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those services
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so i'm going to bring some information
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to the full council at our first
14:04
meeting in december so that you all can
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weigh in on that so we can provide
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feedback
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um at our next eastside fire
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board of directors meeting which is i
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think it's the 11th
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um i think it's the second thursday um
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of each month
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then uh the lodging tax advisory
14:22
committee will have a special meeting
14:24
this thursday
14:26
at two o'clock
14:30
and on that agenda is the report back on
14:33
the action that we
14:34
we as a council took on the funding
14:36
recommendations
14:37
we're going to talk about the funding
14:38
application in 2020
14:40
2021 contract for the destination
14:44
marketing organization the 2020
14:46
membership
14:47
composition and term options
14:51
uh the mayor's recovery task force and
14:53
we will talk about our
14:55
2021 meeting schedule and work plan
14:58
items
14:58
it's a virtual meeting but it is a
15:00
public meeting
15:02
and again it's this thursday at two
15:04
o'clock and that's my report thanks
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thank you councilmember goodman
15:08
councilmember marks thank you madam
15:10
mayor this is councilmember
15:12
martz the sound cities association
15:14
public issues committee
15:15
uh met last thursday from seven till
15:19
nine pm
15:20
uh the only decision of note
15:24
was that we recommended that the fca
15:27
board of directors
15:28
adopt a policy that zone one and zone
15:31
three coordinators
15:32
uh for the emergency manager the
15:35
berkeley king county emergency
15:36
management zone coordinators
15:38
remained contract positions with regular
15:40
opportunities for the zone partners
15:43
including fire district cities in king
15:44
county to evaluate their performance
15:47
the puget sound regional council growth
15:50
management policy board
15:52
will be meeting this thursday from 10
15:54
a.m until noon
15:56
uh the board will be briefed on housing
15:57
needs in the region
15:59
and next steps in the development of the
16:00
regional housing strategy
16:02
board will also hear an update on the
16:05
2022
16:06
regional transportation plan and will
16:08
take up a recommendation to certify
16:10
center plans
16:11
for kent and kirtland this concludes my
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report
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thank you council member marks i thought
16:17
it was going to go a whole night without
16:19
missing that mute button but i missed it
16:21
by a second
16:22
okay deputy council president ray thank
16:24
you mayor paulie this is chris wray
16:26
the king county growth management policy
16:29
council will be meeting on december
16:31
2nd at 4 pm in a virtual format
16:35
and at this time the agenda has not been
16:37
set and that concludes my report
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thank you council president hunts
16:44
thank you madam mayor this is council
16:47
president hunt
16:48
on november 6th mayor paulie
16:50
councilmember d michelle and i met with
16:52
the
16:52
with committee members of the trolley
16:54
committee this was a community meeting
16:56
and while we do not always report out
16:58
regarding all of our community meetings
17:00
the mayor suggested in that meeting that
17:02
we would report back out to the
17:03
community
17:04
on this particular meeting in regional
17:06
reports due to the community and council
17:08
interest in the topic
17:10
the trolley committee is a part of the
17:12
ishwa history museum
17:13
and with the recent decision made by the
17:15
history museum's board of
17:16
directors to not
17:18
continue operating the trolley the
17:20
trolley committee is now actively
17:21
pursuing alternative options for
17:23
continuing to operate the trolley
17:25
as we heard in public comments this
17:27
evening city council was notified about
17:29
the history museum's decision
17:31
to not continue operating the trolley
17:33
last month citing
17:34
insurance costs and concerned concerns
17:37
around
17:38
cobit 19 and safety we discussed
17:41
funding for the increase in insurance
17:43
costs with the trolley committee and we
17:45
we relayed the following information on
17:47
october 19th city council approved
17:49
allocation of funds as recommended by
17:52
the lodging tax advisory committee
17:54
and these funds included a grant for the
17:56
issaquah valley
17:57
issaquah valley trolley operations with
17:59
the total requested amount
18:00
of 7 500 the application explains that
18:05
insurance had increased from
18:06
6 000 dollars annually to 12.5
18:10
thousand dollars annually and this
18:12
request was made before
18:14
the decision on the closure ltch grant
18:16
money is still available for this
18:18
purpose of offsetting the insurance cost
18:20
increase experienced by the trolley and
18:22
that grant is still in place and can be
18:24
awarded to any nonprofit organization
18:26
that may partner with the trolley
18:28
the trolley committee is pursuing
18:30
alternatives to partner with
18:31
to continue operating the trolley and
18:33
discussion about
18:34
those partnerships was a main focus of
18:37
our meeting with the committee
18:39
the city council and mayor look forward
18:40
to supporting the trolley committee in
18:42
this effort as they look to find
18:43
a partner to continue to operate this
18:45
important community asset
18:47
and also i have as council president
18:50
during our virtual meetings been
18:52
summarizing email comments that we've
18:53
received on topics
18:55
so i will at this time point out that we
18:56
have received around
18:58
seven emails in recent days in support
19:01
of continuing
19:02
the trolley operations from community
19:04
members
19:06
that concludes that report and then
19:08
additionally i have two upcoming
19:09
meetings to report on
19:11
there is a salmon recovery council
19:13
meeting of wyra8 which is the technical
19:16
name for our watershed and this will
19:17
meet
19:17
on thursday november 19th at 2 p.m
19:21
and then there will also be a title 18
19:22
ad hoc meeting
19:24
which is the land use part of our
19:25
municipal code and the ad hoc
19:27
committee of the council we will meet
19:29
tomorrow at 4 pm and we will be
19:32
reviewing a draft public engagement plan
19:34
that concludes my report
19:38
thank you council president hunt the
19:40
next item on the agenda this evening is
19:42
the mayor's reports
19:43
earlier this evening there was a special
19:45
meeting to hold an executive session
19:48
to discuss the sale of real estate for
19:50
rcw
19:52
42.30.110 for in one parenthesis and no
19:55
action will be taken in open session
19:58
this evening
20:00
so i have to start off with news on
20:02
kovid because
20:03
there was a lot of things that have
20:05
changed since this weekend
20:07
there are new statewide restrictions
20:11
yesterday it was heartbreaking to learn
20:13
that it was the most dangerous public
20:15
health day our state has seen in the
20:17
last hundred years
20:18
in response to the rapid spread of covet
20:21
19
20:22
governor jay inslee announced the
20:23
following restrictions for the next four
20:26
weeks
20:26
indoor gatherings of people outside the
20:29
household
20:30
will be prohibited unless they
20:33
quarantine for the 14 days prior to the
20:35
social gathering
20:37
or quarantine for the seven days prior
20:39
to the gathering and receive a negative
20:41
covid19 test result
20:43
that is no more than 48 hours prior to
20:45
the gathering
20:47
outdoor gatherings are limited to no
20:49
more than five people
20:50
and starting at 1201 am on november 18th
20:54
restaurants and bars will be closed for
20:56
indoor service
20:58
with to-go services and restricted
21:00
outdoor dining
21:01
still allowed in-store retail
21:04
grocery stores and personal services are
21:07
limited
21:08
to 25 of our occupancy
21:11
and must close any congregate areas
21:14
areas where people gather together
21:16
inside a
21:18
office or a facility religious services
21:22
will be limited to 25 percent of indoor
21:24
capacity or 200 people
21:26
whichever is less and
21:29
choirs vans or ensembles are prohibited
21:33
from performing
21:34
wedding and funeral ceremonies can go on
21:36
with limited attendance
21:38
but receptions of any size are
21:40
prohibited indoors
21:42
indoor service will be closed at fitness
21:44
facilities and gym
21:45
and youth and adult amateur sporting
21:48
activities
21:49
are limited to outdoors and only with
21:51
facial coverings
21:53
all k-12s in higher education
21:56
child care and court and court related
22:00
proceedings
22:01
are exempt from these new restrictions
22:04
following the new statewide restrictions
22:06
the following city facility programs
22:08
will be closed starting on november 17th
22:11
the issaquah community center including
22:14
any reservations
22:16
issaquah preschool and all indoor sports
22:20
child care via the school health rec
22:22
program
22:23
the senior centers to lunches and
22:26
limited programming at julia's bone pool
22:28
will continue to be offered under strict
22:30
coveted 19 precautions
22:32
so just to repeat child care via the
22:35
school health rec
22:35
program the senior centers to go lunches
22:38
and limited programming
22:40
at julius bone pool will still be
22:42
offered
22:44
more information is available on our
22:46
website at issaquahwa.gov
22:48
kovid19 so as we plan for the holidays
22:52
we must be safe in how we celebrate the
22:54
best option is simply to stay home
22:57
and only celebrate with those you live
23:00
with
23:01
the fatigue of necessary pandemic
23:03
precautions
23:04
is challenging for all of us but if we
23:06
all work together to reduce potential
23:08
exposure
23:10
the more we can ensure our health care
23:11
system is not overwhelmed
23:13
our loved ones are protected and we are
23:16
supporting our community's overall
23:18
health
23:19
the second item on my report this
23:21
evening is puget sound energy's green
23:23
direct program
23:24
and this item is on tonight's consent
23:26
agenda
23:27
the project was delayed nearly 18 months
23:30
so i'd like to give you an
23:31
update on this program issaquah is
23:33
committed to protecting our environment
23:35
and reducing our carbon
23:36
footprint to reduce up emissions from
23:40
city operations issaquah enrolled in the
23:42
purchase of renewable energy
23:44
for puget sound energy's green direct
23:46
program
23:47
green direct provides renewable energy
23:49
for larger corporate and municipal
23:51
customers that is local affordable
23:55
and responsible the first round of green
23:58
direct provides wind energy from a new
24:00
facility located
24:01
in southwest washington in lewis and
24:03
thurston counties
24:05
called the skookum check wind project
24:07
the project is going online this month
24:10
and will provide about two-thirds of our
24:11
electricity needs for city buildings and
24:13
operations
24:15
we are also enrolled in green direct 2
24:18
which will provide another 30 percent of
24:20
our electricity from solar energy
24:22
through the new lund hill solar project
24:25
at 150 megawatts
24:28
lund hill will be the largest solar
24:29
project in the state
24:31
and is expected to go online next year
24:34
together these projects will help us
24:35
reduce our carbon footprint
24:37
meet our greenhouse gas emissions
24:40
reductions goals
24:41
the green instagram partnership will
24:43
build upon existing city-wide community
24:45
stewardship efforts
24:47
to foster long-term support for
24:49
restoration
24:50
and maintenance of issues parks and
24:53
natural areas
24:54
that concludes the mayor's report for
24:57
this evening
24:58
and before we move on to our regular
25:00
business items the council will be
25:02
receiving two
25:03
informational updates the first
25:07
id 0773 is
25:10
per and polyfluoroalkyl substances or
25:13
pfas update and i'd like to ask
25:16
public works director bob york to
25:18
present this item and explain to anybody
25:20
watching
25:21
what that strange word was i just said
25:25
you're up bob thank you mayor paulie uh
25:28
can everybody hear me first of all
25:30
yes we can okay um you stole my second
25:34
sentence but i'll
25:35
go back to exactly what that means in a
25:37
minute uh
25:38
thank you mayor paulie good evening
25:40
council members this is bob york public
25:42
works director
25:43
tonight i have a intentionally brief
25:46
presentation on the progress being made
25:48
by the
25:50
2020 pfas partnership over the last year
25:53
mayor paulie already defined pfest but
25:56
briefly uh
25:57
that's a family of substances that
26:00
includes pfos our main primary concern
26:03
um that as needed as national geographic
26:07
we
26:08
recently called it a forever chemicals a
26:11
family of forever chemicals that means
26:12
they're
26:15
designed with all their positive
26:17
properties they're not biodegrade not
26:19
they're they're very persistent in the
26:21
environment
26:22
and that's why it's a challenge
26:26
to our city uh in terms of uh
26:30
of dealing with it um but we're making
26:32
progress as i'll talk to you about them
26:34
a second
26:35
next the definition of a partnership is
26:38
the city of issaquah eastside fire and
26:41
rescue
26:41
and department of ecology are
26:45
tackling this unique problem together as
26:47
this claw was
26:49
in the state of washington one of the
26:51
first
26:52
and one of the most unexpected cities
26:54
never have to deal with this
26:55
uh issue so it's a collaboration that's
26:58
going on and
26:59
i just have a 2020 update
27:02
and i'll provide that in the ensuing
27:06
slides next slide tisha
27:12
brief history we
27:15
were required by the epa to
27:19
take samples of what they called
27:21
unregulated chemicals
27:22
and that include this family of
27:24
compounds
27:25
named pfas and uh in 2015 we finally
27:30
recognized we had a detect
27:32
of uh pfas or pfos to use the
27:36
specific compound and uh of course the
27:38
city at that time
27:40
uh slightly before i arrived on the
27:41
scene started looking into what that
27:43
really meant
27:45
then it became apparent abundantly clear
27:48
when we were
27:48
in the national media in january of 2016
27:51
that
27:52
we had an issue we had to deal with and
27:54
then we became
27:55
the earnest um earnestly
27:58
moving quickly into determining what we
28:02
should do next so the council in march
28:03
of 2016 as i recall
28:05
just as i was coming on board as a city
28:07
employee
28:09
authorized something approximately
28:11
approximating a million dollars
28:13
to uh to do two things one is the
28:15
hydrogen geologic study
28:16
phase phase zero i'll call it because it
28:19
was a city-led study
28:20
and secondly was a a project to put a
28:24
carbon treatment system in well for
28:26
where the detects were occurring
28:28
and remarkably in three months after the
28:31
council approved we had a system
28:34
up and running this stun a job of
28:38
that exceeds expectations because
28:41
um it protects it produces
28:44
non-detectable
28:45
p foss and p fasses and
28:49
um it's was done cost effectively and
28:52
it's
28:53
relatively maintainable it's actually
28:55
been a
28:57
the success story if you
29:00
think about it that way so um
29:04
with that success in hand we the
29:07
phase one hydrogeologic study suggested
29:09
that firefighting foam fire training
29:11
facilities
29:12
were the likely primary
29:15
uh cause of pfas in the groundwater
29:19
and so over time we engaged with east
29:22
side fire and rescue
29:23
and starting starting in 2017
29:27
2018 uh formed a collaboration with them
29:30
and
29:31
and fortuitously department of ecology
29:34
uh this is unique to them so they in a
29:38
situation where the regulator actually
29:39
got involved
29:41
um helped form this partnership
29:44
so in late they're in july of 2018 the
29:48
council approved phase one that was
29:53
done in collaboration with eastside fire
29:55
and rescue and
29:56
we were fortunate enough to get an
29:58
ecology or excuse me a department of
30:00
commerce grant to
30:01
fund the vast majority of the phase one
30:04
efforts then that was over
30:08
in um
30:11
in in early 2019 and then in late 2019
30:14
last time i reported on this issue in
30:16
front of the council
30:18
we formed two new
30:21
partnerships one are we we established
30:24
our partnership one with an interagency
30:26
agreement with department of ecology
30:28
that provided some incremental funding
30:30
for the issaquah led portion of the job
30:32
and then a another
30:33
interlocal agreement with east side fire
30:36
and rescue
30:36
to continue this partnership so we began
30:39
phase two work and
30:41
the results of that work as
30:44
of today i'll describe in the next
30:46
slides tisha
30:51
um some of the work most of the work is
30:54
being done by
30:55
east side fire and rescues consultant
30:56
farrell on a nisswa based company
31:00
and they've been doing a good job that
31:02
those tasks included
31:04
additional and i have some more metrics
31:06
coming up additional
31:07
shallow and intermediate monitoring
31:09
wells and borings
31:11
and subsequent collection of groundwater
31:14
sample and soil samples
31:17
there's a groundwater monitoring and
31:19
soil monitoring over a period of a one
31:21
year period and we're just finished
31:23
the third round of sampling for for
31:25
these for the parameters
31:28
one one additional potential source area
31:31
was evaluated and
31:33
it turns out after the initial sampling
31:35
we found out that was not a
31:38
candidate site for contributions to our
31:42
problems in the soil and groundwater
31:45
and additional characterization occurred
31:47
and is occurring at the uh
31:50
eastside fire and rescue headquarters
31:51
site on 175
31:53
newport way northwest finally
31:57
and just just beginning uh from fairlawn
32:00
as the
32:01
development and initial discussions of
32:02
the social media action
32:05
action plan and other deliverables
32:08
the city side of this is with our
32:10
long-standing consultant experts
32:12
geosyntek
32:14
and we're supporting the effort with uh
32:18
refinement of our existing groundwater
32:20
model and
32:22
that model will after calibration be
32:25
used to look at the different options in
32:27
early 2021.
32:29
next slide tisha
32:33
here's a slightly modified slide from
32:35
what was in your packet
32:37
over the weekend council members
32:40
asked that i show a the legend of what
32:43
all this thing
32:44
this map shows my intention was to just
32:47
show the boundaries of the
32:49
investigatory area the area of interest
32:51
and uh you can see on here some
32:52
landmarks
32:54
uh side fire and rescue headquarters
32:56
site is
32:57
is uh as shown on uh there
33:00
on newport way you can see the uh
33:04
areas of interest include areas farther
33:07
north than that
33:08
bordering newport way and then all the
33:10
way up to some of our wells
33:12
over to the other side of the valley in
33:15
some cases across interstate 90
33:17
and then some areas on the east side of
33:20
or more east of the valley including
33:22
memorial park and
33:24
some areas on the other side of the
33:25
creek actually so
33:28
the areas in shaded orange are the
33:31
actual sites where we just
33:33
or the consulting team pulled the next
33:35
last latest round of samples so this is
33:39
a difficult slide to see but you can see
33:41
the legend there and
33:43
i'd be open to providing this slide in
33:46
more detail
33:47
anyone in the counsel or the council is
33:49
interested
33:50
again there's a body of work being
33:53
collected and uh
33:54
there's lots of graphics being ready for
33:57
uh finalization in mid 2021 where we
34:02
will share the qaqc results of all this
34:06
effort next slide tisha
34:09
um so here's the here's the key
34:12
highlights of 2020 the executive team
34:15
meets monthly remotely that includes the
34:19
mayor
34:20
the east side fire rescue fire chief a
34:23
board member from eastside fire and
34:24
rescue
34:26
supporting staff and consultants and a
34:29
number of
34:30
long-standing department of ecology
34:33
staff that
34:35
really understand remediation so we have
34:38
a
34:38
almost a dream team of uh different
34:41
representations here of
34:43
uh so i think the the punchline is
34:47
this has been successful and it
34:48
continues to be so uh we've
34:51
installed 35 more borings as a result of
34:54
phase two
34:55
18 of which of the borings became
34:57
monitoring wells
34:58
uh we've collected two rounds of
35:01
sampling and excuse me three rounds now
35:03
two more rounds have been
35:04
uh we got the results back and are
35:07
digesting those results
35:09
all these samples are done to a level of
35:15
competency that they will withstand the
35:17
scrutiny of department of ecology in
35:19
terms of
35:20
qaqc so uh extraordinary effort being
35:24
made to
35:24
have a defensible uh
35:28
sampling program um
35:31
so far we've or the with the entire
35:33
phase two has um
35:36
uh 55 unique groundwater excuse me soil
35:39
samples and
35:40
a total of 73 groundwater samples
35:44
and as the next phase of samples as
35:47
a as the previous fade get gets analyzed
35:49
the next phase is adjusted somewhere
35:53
the groundwater model is being updated
35:55
again once it's updated it'll be a tool
35:57
to use for
35:58
the completion of this work and
36:02
discussions have have started on the
36:06
interpretation of the results and and
36:08
what we think the
36:09
interim remedial actions will be
36:13
next slide tisha
36:16
please
36:20
so where we are we're on schedule
36:25
we should be complete as per our iaa and
36:28
ila
36:29
and satisfy the ecology requirements
36:31
tonight is a uh
36:33
consent item where we extend the uh the
36:36
city's
36:36
iia with ecology to allow much more time
36:39
than needed to uh
36:41
to perform the hydro hydrogeologic work
36:43
and modeling calibration
36:45
um overall the recent analysis i looked
36:49
at says
36:50
we're 80 spent and we're roughly 80
36:54
complete if we do go and and we're
36:57
close to budget if we do go over budget
36:59
which i think it'll be nominal if
37:01
anything
37:02
the city and eastside fire and rescue
37:04
split the uh
37:05
the overrun equally
37:11
so next slide efficient please
37:14
uh the city asked me and
37:18
actually ecology did too what if we what
37:20
does pfas
37:22
or pfos cost us
37:26
and the rest of our partnership in terms
37:28
of cost both
37:30
costs of things we actually incurred and
37:33
cost
37:34
of staff efforts that could have been
37:37
spent doing something else and
37:38
the best guess i can come up with
37:40
without the detailed accounting which i
37:42
think is reasonable
37:44
is this effort has cost the city itself
37:47
normally about two million dollars of
37:50
running the treatment plant
37:51
the public outreach and this is since
37:55
2015 where
37:56
all of a sudden we learned what the word
37:58
pfas
37:59
stood for and uh efer's costs have been
38:02
roughly
38:04
0.3 million i think there's staff time
38:06
above that
38:08
and two grants have occurred when the
38:09
department of commerce grant
38:11
and that's 0.2 million and ecology
38:14
funding
38:15
half a million and that doesn't include
38:18
their significant
38:19
investment in their staff time helping
38:22
the partnership be successful so
38:26
something on the order of 3 million is
38:28
what we're talking about here
38:30
because of the fact that yeah the word
38:33
pfas and pfas
38:35
ended up being this qua
38:38
concern last slide tisha i think
38:43
so we're and running to do the
38:47
finalization of this work the final
38:49
report would be ready by
38:51
mid-2021 at which time i think you'll
38:54
be interested in another update to
38:57
council on the findings of that
38:59
and in which case i'll bring more
39:01
technical services in
39:03
into play to help me and our team define
39:07
what all this means to to the city
39:11
we are constantly on the alert for
39:12
regulatory developments there's a 700
39:14
page document that's
39:17
just been produced by ecology on the
39:18
draft rulemaking for
39:21
what they call a chemical action report
39:24
similarly there's department of health
39:25
evolution of what our
39:28
requirements will be for drinking water
39:30
that's all for progressing nicely except
39:32
for covid may
39:33
delay all this so uh but we're tracking
39:35
it it's an important
39:37
aspect of not only the cleanup but also
39:39
our water utility
39:41
uh so we know what's going on um
39:44
there's an active effort to try to get
39:46
more funding both
39:47
either from the department of ecology or
39:49
through the legislature
39:51
for phase three and phase three would be
39:56
the time where we do an initial remedial
39:59
action we're
40:00
considering the efer site as the
40:05
most likely place for that but there's i
40:07
should
40:08
i shouldn't would be remiss by not
40:10
saying there's other areas that
40:12
uh throughout this in some places in the
40:15
city where
40:16
some ambassador unofficial investigatory
40:18
levels have been uh
40:21
showing up as a areas where we should
40:23
also
40:24
not forget to evaluate so with that
40:29
i think the department i think the
40:31
elected officials and the
40:33
team members would agree that our
40:34
partnership is strong and we're
40:37
deliberately focusing on
40:40
getting to a solution that deals with
40:42
our pfas issue
40:43
as challenges as challenging as it might
40:46
be thank you very much and
40:48
i'll be open any questions
40:51
thank you bob that was a very good
40:53
summary and update
40:54
and just a couple of points to remind
40:56
the council
40:58
when this issue did come up five years
40:59
ago i think the city
41:01
was very fortunate to have approval from
41:04
the council to proceed rapidly
41:06
to ensure that the drinking water
41:08
provided by the city of issaquah
41:10
is the best that we can provide and that
41:12
it meets all the guidelines so
41:14
thanks for all that past work previous
41:16
councils
41:17
previous folks in engineering it's an
41:19
important message to continue to get out
41:20
to the community
41:21
and just a second comment as a mayor who
41:25
worked in this field for 20 years
41:27
this is a very unusual and commendable
41:30
relationship that we're involved in
41:32
we are at the leading edge of work that
41:34
is going on throughout the nation in
41:35
order to figure out
41:37
how to identify and how to deal with
41:39
this
41:40
in drinking water so we are helping
41:43
to set the standards and the guidance
41:45
that will be used across the country
41:47
for other water purveyors and i'm really
41:49
proud that our city
41:51
in ecology and ever has created a
41:53
partnership that is a one of a kind in
41:55
the country it truly is unique
41:57
um i'll go next to council president
41:59
hunt to
42:01
let the council know and the audience
42:03
know if there have been any emails
42:05
related to this informational item this
42:06
evening that you would like to share
42:09
thank you madam mayor this is council
42:11
president hunt and yes we did receive
42:12
one email
42:13
comment on this item and the comment was
42:16
regarding the need for an action plan
42:18
and a question regarding the cost
42:20
breakdown
42:21
that concludes common sense thank you
42:24
council president
42:25
i'm going to look in the chat now for
42:27
questions from council members and i see
42:29
that council member hall has his hand up
42:31
first
42:31
council member hall thank you mayor
42:34
paulie this is councilmember zach hall
42:36
just a quick question for director
42:38
york and thank you very much for the
42:40
very detailed presentation
42:42
i appreciate you walking us through that
42:44
and it's very clear to me that the uh
42:46
the dream team as you described has been
42:48
quite productive
42:49
so thank you for taking that so
42:51
seriously um
42:53
my question is so part of phase two
42:56
which is where we're at right now is
42:58
developing this source
42:59
remediation action plan um and then
43:02
phase three would be that action plan
43:05
is there slash has there been any talk
43:08
about a phase four
43:10
about ongoing monitoring post action
43:13
plan
43:14
or does the partnership um end
43:17
as soon as the action plan is completed
43:19
well that's an interesting question
43:21
um there hasn't been any talk because
43:23
we're just focusing on
43:25
phase three but in this type of cleanup
43:28
measure you would
43:30
have ongoing monitoring of course
43:34
with our production wells
43:37
and i'm thinking that we'd be monitoring
43:40
the
43:41
continued the evolution of our cleanup
43:44
plan
43:44
and our and our uh and making sure that
43:47
we're
43:49
achieving successful results as a result
43:52
of our efforts that's the brief version
43:58
so we don't necessarily know whether or
44:00
not
44:01
the partnership would exist beyond phase
44:03
three i guess i'm just interested in
44:04
knowing a little bit more about the
44:05
structure of the
44:08
partnership post action plan
44:11
well i think um my version would be
44:15
that the partnership would continue i
44:18
believe that's
44:18
been in the interest of all for parties
44:22
and and the extended community so
44:25
my goal from a staff standpoint is yes
44:29
the partnership would continue
44:31
past phase three so uh and we have some
44:34
interesting remediation technologies
44:35
being discussed in phase three which
44:38
i won't elaborate on tonight but again
44:41
the mayor
44:42
has some experience in this i believe
44:44
we'll continue on with east side fire
44:46
and rescue and the department of ecology
44:48
throughout the duration of this thing uh
44:51
so
44:51
because of the unique interest to the
44:54
community
44:55
and the state and even the nation so
44:58
i think the partnership would continue
45:00
obviously it's up to the
45:02
representatives of the partnership to
45:04
make that decision
45:06
very good thank you very much appreciate
45:07
it
45:15
thank you councilmember hall i'm not
45:17
seeing any other questions at this point
45:19
in time i think i'll just add
45:21
something else on to director york's
45:23
comments and that is that ecology has
45:25
expressed an interest in continuing our
45:27
relationship
45:29
using another form either an agreed
45:32
order or consent decree
45:33
or some other form that they're more
45:35
used to once that we know that we have
45:37
some cleanup standards established and
45:38
we know what we're working towards
45:40
so i see this relationship going on
45:42
beyond into
45:43
future phases in a very positive way
45:46
those kinds of agreements would
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obviously come before council for
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consideration
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and authorization to execute so we have
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a few more steps to go
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not seeing any other questions i will go
45:59
on to
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the next informational item which is
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id0764
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citywide work plan and capital
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improvement plan updates and i'd like to
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ask
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city administrator wally bobcoitz to
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present this item
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yes thank you man mayor members of the
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council um
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we have a presentation to walk through
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madame mayor i guess i'd ask the
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question given time
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if the council would like us to do a
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short presentation or just answer any
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questions
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of the work plan and the capital
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improvement plan update documents
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included in the agenda
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that's a great suggestion i'll look to
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the chat box to see
46:36
council comments on that council
46:42
president deputy council president ray
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is indicating the chat box
46:46
short presentation let's just see what
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other feedback we get from others
46:59
okay i think what we'll do city
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administrator bob quits is
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move through with a briefer presentation
47:05
and allow time for
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questions on the topics that are of
47:07
interest to the different council
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members thanks
47:10
great again thank you ben madam mayor
47:12
members of the council uh
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clerk user we can go to the next slide
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so what we've done in past updates is to
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try to give you a
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sort of a larger sense of where we're at
47:26
for each of the
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goal areas within the work plan the
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first is
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the area of of mobility
47:34
we've been able to make some additional
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progress from our last update in august
47:39
moving forward with a few additional
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projects so that is
47:44
that is good news for that next slide
47:48
the master mobility plan progress is
47:51
probably chief among them
47:53
covet 19 however continues to impact
47:55
many of our projects
47:58
one change from major challenges to hold
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was on police traffic management
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but we had hoped as we were preparing
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the budget for fiscal
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21 that we would be able to recommend
48:09
some additional investments
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in police traffic magazine management
48:12
however given uh the kova 19 crisis
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uh we have not made those changes so we
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will continue as we move forward into
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fiscal
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21 to look and see what we can be doing
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in the area of police traffic management
48:24
next slide
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in the goal area of growth and
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development as you can see here
48:32
kind of a mixed bag of uh where we stand
48:35
on strategic action plan
48:37
items uh pretty much remain on track uh
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as we reported in august for those that
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we were able to keep moving forward with
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uh the critical other critical services
48:47
we have been able to pick up on two
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that are on track next slide
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from on hold to on track of the design
48:57
manual for old town
48:59
work is resumed on that as well as the
49:02
lake samana state park environmental
49:03
impact statement
49:05
from major challenges to on hold at the
49:08
beginning of the year
49:09
we had included a contractor code of
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conduct
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as something that was of interest to a
49:14
few council members
49:15
we've unfortunately not been able to
49:16
make progress on that and so we've
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moved that to an on hold really just
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because of staff resources
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again this is a two-year work plan so as
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we look
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at moving forward for fiscal 21 those
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projects that are
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on the plan that we've not mailed to
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make progress we continue to hook to the
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for fiscal 21.
49:35
next slide environmental stewardship um
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again a mixed bag here of the things
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that
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we've been able to move forward with
49:43
given the kobit 19 crisis
49:45
next slide uh one
49:49
that we have been able to move forward
49:51
with is the electric vehicle
49:52
infrastructure the council
49:54
has asked us to propose an ordinance uh
49:57
on that subject which will be going to
49:59
the planning policy committee
50:00
uh next month and back to the council we
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hope in
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uh january or february depending on the
50:06
number of meetings that planning policy
50:08
will need
50:09
for that and then minor changes uh to
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complete
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the community sustainability summit and
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environment board uh
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we've spent much of the summer and early
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fall uh talking about the summit we
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reported back on the summit
50:21
and the council recently approved moving
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forward with the new environment board
50:25
so we're very happy
50:26
about that in the area of social and
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economic vitality
50:30
again you'll see here on other critical
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services
50:33
we've been able to shake a few of those
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projects
50:37
loose given the copa 19 constraints next
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slide
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we continue to expand funding for
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business grants included in the budget
50:45
as an additional 500 000
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which we hope will certainly help
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businesses especially given
50:52
uh the ever-changing environment because
50:54
of coba 19.
50:56
our outreach and case management
50:57
services pilot
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program the council uh decided to move
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forward
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uh with that program so we'll be able to
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start it before
51:06
the end of 2020 uh with the
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food and clothing bank uh that position
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that will be funded
51:13
we hope to have onboard the food
51:15
clothing bank hopes to have on board
51:16
at the beginning of december and as
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we've reported previously to you the
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police accountability human services
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and equity action plan uh components of
51:24
that continue to move forward
51:26
next slide uh leadership and services
51:30
um again another mixed bag of where
51:33
we are at uh with these priorities
51:38
next slide offer minor challenges to on
51:43
track performance measurement
51:44
of the council this evening will be
51:46
moving forward with a performance
51:48
management plan
51:49
that you've signed off on over the
51:51
course of several meetings
51:53
the strategic plan implementation
51:54
reporting uh
51:56
continues in this document that you have
51:58
before you
52:00
major challenges to my minor challenges
52:03
the employee experience we've been able
52:05
to continue to focus on some of the
52:07
issues and programs
52:08
working with our employees and continue
52:11
to make improvements on our website
52:13
from on hold to minor challenges or
52:15
customer service standards
52:17
we've been able to begin to make some
52:18
progress on that
52:20
initiative and from on track to complete
52:23
the software to automate court processes
52:25
because i think we've talked on several
52:27
occasions the municipal court has done
52:29
an excellent job
52:31
in pivoting through the challenges of
52:33
the kova 19 crisis
52:34
so that's one more step in that
52:35
direction
52:38
infrastructure summary again on the
52:41
strategic action plan
52:44
one project remains on hold and then the
52:46
other critical service projects
52:48
the balance there remains unchanged next
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slide
52:52
capital improvement program update so
52:54
we've continued to provide quarterly
52:56
updates and the
52:57
latest quarterly updates including your
52:58
packet this evening um
53:00
the review of the city properties for
53:02
potential surplusing um
53:04
we're getting ready we shared some
53:05
initial information with the city
53:06
council a few weeks ago
53:08
and we're getting ready to move forward
53:10
with a presentation
53:11
and request additional guidance from the
53:13
council in the first quarter of 21.
53:16
next slide
53:20
on the capital improvement program
53:21
update again
53:23
i don't want to read to you but with
53:26
several projects
53:27
that you're aware of of the pedestrian
53:30
bridge kickoff
53:30
and will be fourth quarter munich
53:32
remains on track we've started the first
53:35
of the
53:35
well calling the dog park tour opened
53:38
last week
53:39
of the modifications for the water a
53:41
system
53:42
with using additional water from cascade
53:43
water has also been moving forward next
53:46
slide
53:49
and that's a very brief overview uh
53:51
again the council has asked that we
53:52
really
53:53
put the majority of information in the
53:55
council agenda packet which we have
53:57
done again at this meeting but certainly
53:59
happy to answer any questions anyone may
54:01
have
54:07
thank you city administrator bob quits
54:09
um at this
54:10
moment i am not seeing that anyone has a
54:13
specific
54:14
question but i will give it a few
54:16
seconds to allow them to add it in the
54:18
chat box
54:24
and while we're waiting i just want to
54:25
point out if you follow me on twitter
54:27
you will see a very cool drone video
54:29
that somebody submitted of the dog park
54:31
today
54:32
so and i went and it was very fun okay
54:36
um i'll also do a call out for comments
54:39
if anyone has any comments before we
54:40
move on to the next item i'll look in
54:42
the chat box
54:47
and madam mayor as we conclude this item
54:52
uh just to say that this is a continuous
54:54
process
54:55
and uh we'll be looking uh to the
54:57
council's calendars hopefully
54:59
sometime the latter part of january to
55:01
have a council retreat where we'll be
55:03
able to
55:03
uh the administration will be able to
55:05
propose any changes or adjustments to
55:08
this two-year work plan
55:09
so we'll be reaching out to the council
55:11
probably right after thanksgiving
55:12
uh to start scheduling a meeting again
55:15
hopefully
55:16
the latter part of january that sounds
55:18
great thank you city administrator
55:19
i'd like to go to council president hunt
55:21
for a summary of any emails that maybe
55:23
have
55:24
been received by the public on this item
55:27
thank you
55:28
this is council president hunt we did
55:29
receive an email on this item
55:32
and um the
55:35
community member who wrote to us by
55:37
email was in support for prioritizing
55:40
habitat preservation and also had a
55:43
question about potential
55:44
about the potential for redeveloping the
55:46
jail space into another youth
55:50
thank you council president hunt deputy
55:52
council president ray for a comment
55:54
um i have two comments one uh serious
55:57
and one
55:58
one less so serious so if city
56:00
administrator bob woods ever needs a
56:01
second
56:02
job i think auctioneer could be in there
56:04
with the speed with which you move
56:05
through that material
56:06
so thank you very much for that
56:07
presentation uh on a serious note i am
56:10
really excited to see the progress that
56:11
we are making on these
56:13
this action plan in a very difficult
56:15
time i was um
56:17
gratified to see the number of things
56:19
that have moved
56:20
from you know on hold to moving forward
56:23
and
56:24
the number of things that have completed
56:25
so these are difficult times and
56:27
um thank you for the update it's it's
56:29
good to see progress
56:31
um and then i feel i feel feel good
56:33
about that so thank you for all the hard
56:35
work
56:38
thank you deputy council president i
56:40
just am looking over at chat to see if
56:42
there's anybody else who would like to
56:43
chime in before we move on to our
56:44
regular arbitrary public hearing
56:50
and i'm not seeing anyone thank you very
56:52
much city administrator bob quits
56:56
oh sorry not uh public hearing we're
56:58
moving next to the consent calendar
57:00
so the consent calendar was distributed
57:02
to council in advance and if authorized
57:05
the items on the consent calendar will
57:06
be considered together and approved by
57:08
one motion
57:09
have the payables and payroll been
57:11
reviewed
57:14
yes yes they have and yes they have
57:18
thank you councilmember marks thank you
57:19
councilmember hall
57:21
does any council member desire to remove
57:23
any item from the consent calendar and
57:24
consider it under regular business
57:31
seeing none i'd like to go to council
57:33
president and see if there were any
57:35
email comments
57:36
to be shared on any of the consent
57:38
calendar items council president
57:41
um thank you madam mayor this is council
57:44
president hunt and yes we did receive
57:46
um several comments on items for
57:50
i a email that commented on several of
57:52
the consent
57:53
calendar items on the
57:57
temporary water supply agreement with
57:58
cascade water alliance ab-8036
58:01
comment on water usage and question
58:04
about expected
58:05
changes to water usage as isaqah's
58:07
population
58:08
grows on ab-8051 deferred compensation
58:12
and compensatory time for flsa
58:15
exempt non-represented employees a
58:17
comment on the duration of
58:19
covid and how that would affect this
58:22
on ab-8059 state department of health's
58:26
drinking waters
58:26
state revolving fund loan
58:31
this community member raised a question
58:33
regarding again the increase in water
58:36
usage and then ab-8063 memorandum of
58:41
agreement with catholic community
58:42
services
58:43
services regarding congregate meal
58:45
program within support
58:47
ab-8068 amendment to interagency
58:50
agreement with department of ecology
58:52
tpos groundwater modeling was in support
58:55
ab-8070
58:56
pse green direct first amendment within
58:59
support and lastly ab-8072
59:01
reallocation of chronovirus aid relief
59:04
and economic security acts cares funding
59:06
was also
59:07
in support
59:12
thank you council president is there a
59:14
motion on the table
59:21
council president hunt thank you this is
59:23
council president hunt i moved to adopt
59:25
the consent calendar as it appears in
59:27
this evening's agenda
59:29
this is chris ray ii thank you both
59:32
it's been moved and seconded and i'll go
59:34
to the city clerk for a roll call vote
59:38
beginning with council member walsh aye
59:43
council member d michelle aye
59:46
councilmember goodman aye councilmember
59:49
hall
59:50
aye council president hunt
59:53
i council member martz
59:56
aye and deputy council president ray
1:00:01
that's seven eyes zero nays thank you
1:00:04
that passes unanimously
1:00:06
the next item of our on business this
1:00:08
evening is the public hearing
1:00:11
ab7991 the proposed 2021 budget and
1:00:14
salary ordinance public hearing
1:00:17
so we will be conducting conducting this
1:00:19
public hearing
1:00:20
and also later this evening asking for
1:00:22
adoption of
1:00:23
ordinances i presented the proposed 2021
1:00:26
budget on september 29th
1:00:28
and since that time council has held
1:00:30
four study sessions
1:00:31
and deliberated changes to the proposed
1:00:34
budget
1:00:35
a public hearing was held on the
1:00:36
proposed budget on october 19th and
1:00:39
tonight the final public hearing will be
1:00:41
conducted
1:00:42
council deliberation and action are
1:00:44
requested a little later on in this
1:00:46
meeting
1:00:47
under regular business and so i'd like
1:00:49
to invite finance director
1:00:51
beth goldberg to make a presentation
1:00:53
beth
1:00:55
good evening mayor and council members
1:00:58
um we've got hopefully one last show on
1:01:02
the 2021 budget tonight
1:01:04
um i've got a short presentation
1:01:08
uh to kick off the public hearing
1:01:13
and i'm gonna make this really brief um
1:01:16
because i think you're all intimately
1:01:18
familiar
1:01:18
with uh the budget at this point um
1:01:22
so um is the mayor mentioned
1:01:25
we had a preliminary public hearing on
1:01:27
the budget on october 19th
1:01:30
uh rcw requires us to hold two public
1:01:33
hearings a preliminary public hearing
1:01:35
and a final public hearing which is this
1:01:37
evening
1:01:39
here is the schedule that uh you should
1:01:42
be familiar with seeing
1:01:44
at this point and tonight we are on the
1:01:47
final
1:01:48
uh the final stop on this journey
1:01:52
the 2021 budget
1:01:56
is about 14.3
1:02:01
million dollars smaller than 2020 you
1:02:04
might recall from
1:02:05
earlier presentations that
1:02:08
the budget is smaller primarily because
1:02:12
of a smaller number of capital
1:02:14
investments there were a number of very
1:02:15
large capital investments
1:02:17
in last year's budget including the
1:02:19
signal
1:02:20
at southeast 43rd at providence point
1:02:24
that um were
1:02:27
were unusually large so that is the
1:02:30
largest reason
1:02:31
for the budget being smaller this year
1:02:34
this year we aligned the budget by
1:02:37
strategic priorities
1:02:38
and this demonstrates how the city's
1:02:43
budget is allocated along those
1:02:44
strategic priorities
1:02:47
reflecting the changes that the council
1:02:49
discussed at the last
1:02:51
study session last week
1:02:54
the general fund budget which has been
1:02:57
the topic of most of our discussions
1:03:00
is 53 53.4 million dollars this year
1:03:03
um and uh it includes um
1:03:07
a five million dollars worth of fund
1:03:10
balance expenditures
1:03:12
and because of the use of fund balance
1:03:14
the size of the general fund
1:03:16
budget is uh larger than uh 2020
1:03:19
um and um
1:03:23
again some a lot of this is uh one time
1:03:26
so next year we'll see this come down
1:03:28
slightly
1:03:30
and then it's important to point out
1:03:32
that we are still feeling the strain
1:03:34
while our revenue
1:03:35
outlook has improved we are still
1:03:37
feeling a
1:03:38
strain from the covet pandemic and
1:03:41
overall general fund revenues are down
1:03:43
1.3 million dollars or three percent
1:03:46
from 2020.
1:03:48
uh in terms of fund balance i mentioned
1:03:51
that we're drawing down about five
1:03:52
million dollars worth of fund balance
1:03:54
in 2021. we are remaining
1:03:58
within the the designated
1:04:01
policy for fund balance which says that
1:04:04
undesignated fund balance should be
1:04:06
between 15 and 20
1:04:08
of general fund expenditures so you'll
1:04:10
see that reflected
1:04:12
in the bottom line of this chart we're
1:04:13
at 19
1:04:15
and then we stay above that 15 target
1:04:19
through 2023 uh what happens
1:04:22
in 2024 and beyond um is
1:04:25
subject to a lot of change so that's one
1:04:27
of those where
1:04:28
we'll cross that bridge when we get
1:04:30
there
1:04:31
but in the meantime we are well within
1:04:33
the 15 to 20
1:04:35
target uh set by city policy
1:04:39
and that concludes my presentation this
1:04:42
evening and
1:04:43
can pause there for the public hearing
1:04:48
thank you very much beth um council
1:04:50
president hunt before we move into
1:04:52
council
1:04:53
questions would you like to summarize
1:04:56
any public comments that have been
1:04:58
emailed on this topic
1:05:05
thank you mayor because they were
1:05:07
comments on the budget i think
1:05:09
i will i think it would probably be
1:05:11
appropriate to summarize them
1:05:12
under the item that comes later in our
1:05:14
agenda since i
1:05:16
uh we didn't receive any comments by
1:05:17
emails specifically regarding the public
1:05:19
hearing
1:05:20
thank you very much does council have
1:05:23
any questions before we move into the
1:05:26
public hearing and i'll
1:05:27
i'll give a little bit of a pause so i
1:05:29
can see give people a chance to sign up
1:05:31
in the chat if they do
1:05:39
i'm not seeing any questions from city
1:05:41
council
1:05:43
so the guidelines for citizen comments
1:05:45
also apply to those that were made under
1:05:47
the public hearing and i'm going to
1:05:49
open this public hearing tonight at 808
1:05:51
pm
1:05:52
again thank you if you have joined us
1:05:55
tonight and would like to speak
1:05:57
if you did not sign up in advance no
1:05:59
worries you can press star 3 on your
1:06:01
phone right now and that will enable the
1:06:03
city clerk to see you putting your hand
1:06:05
up
1:06:06
we will call the last two digits of your
1:06:08
phone number when it is your turn to
1:06:10
make comments
1:06:11
and i do know we have at least one
1:06:13
person signed up for public comments
1:06:14
already but i'll check in with the clerk
1:06:16
to see who she has on her list
1:06:20
yes mayor we have a few callers signed
1:06:22
up to speak just a quick reminder to our
1:06:24
phone and callers that when it's your
1:06:25
time to speak
1:06:26
i'll request that you unmute you'll need
1:06:28
to press star 6
1:06:30
on your phone to unmute in our system
1:06:32
and if you muted your own phone you'll
1:06:34
also need to unmute that
1:06:35
as well so the first speaker we have is
1:06:38
megan altimore
1:06:39
megan i'm muting you now
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good evening mayor paulie and members of
1:06:46
the council this is meegan altimore i
1:06:49
live at 2042 northeast newton lane
1:06:52
i work for hope link as the vice
1:06:53
president of community services
1:06:55
and i'm here tonight to just briefly
1:06:57
thank you for your leadership and
1:06:58
commitment to helping issaquah's most
1:07:01
vulnerable residents by prioritizing
1:07:03
their basic needs
1:07:04
i want to thank you for your partnership
1:07:07
in helping hopelink to provide a package
1:07:09
of services to help people stabilize
1:07:11
when in crisis
1:07:12
and to acquire the skills and tools that
1:07:14
they need to help them exit poverty
1:07:17
with your help hopeling served over 950
1:07:20
issaquah residents last year
1:07:21
providing critical services such as
1:07:23
flexible financial assistance
1:07:25
case management housing for families
1:07:27
experiencing homelessness
1:07:29
financial coaching employment services
1:07:31
and adult education
1:07:33
we're grateful for the city staff's
1:07:34
recommendations to fund hope link in the
1:07:36
upcoming biennium
1:07:38
please know your support makes a big
1:07:40
difference we understand that there are
1:07:42
a lot of priorities that the city is
1:07:43
facing is just
1:07:44
evidenced by the presentation that you
1:07:46
heard and so we're grateful that you are
1:07:48
continuing to prioritize
1:07:50
the needs of the most vulnerable within
1:07:52
our city
1:07:53
thank you very much and we're grateful
1:07:55
for your partnership
1:07:58
thank you megan we are grateful that we
1:08:00
get to partner with organizations like
1:08:02
yours and there's no year like 2020 and
1:08:04
covered to show us
1:08:06
how important your relationship is and
1:08:08
the work that you do for our residents
1:08:09
thank you so much
1:08:11
city clerk who do we have up next on our
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um
1:08:15
public speakers list yes our next
1:08:18
speaker
1:08:19
is tia heim tia i'm requesting you
1:08:21
unmute now
1:08:28
good evening this is kia heim with
1:08:30
shelter holdings
1:08:32
we own property in the issaquah
1:08:34
highlands area
1:08:36
we submitted a letter to the council
1:08:38
earlier today but wanted to follow up
1:08:40
with
1:08:40
some comments um our main concern is
1:08:44
that the proposed city budget does not
1:08:46
properly disclose nor does it account
1:08:48
for the liability
1:08:50
that the city has incurred in connection
1:08:52
with depriving shelter holdings from
1:08:54
economically beneficial use of our
1:08:56
property in issaquah highlands
1:08:58
this is particularly true because the
1:09:00
city's insurance policies
1:09:01
do not cover inverse condemnation and
1:09:04
regulatory takings of shelters property
1:09:07
and your proposed general fund balance
1:09:09
doesn't account for and
1:09:10
is not adequate to cover this liability
1:09:14
so we just wanted to urge you to make
1:09:17
sure you read the letter that
1:09:18
that we submitted as well as the
1:09:20
independent expert reports that are
1:09:21
referenced in the letter
1:09:23
and to revise the budget to be
1:09:25
transparent about these risks and
1:09:26
liabilities and to account for them
1:09:28
in your reserves and budgeting thank you
1:09:33
thank you very much city clerk who else
1:09:35
do we have on our speakers list tonight
1:09:38
uh before we go to the last speaker we
1:09:41
have signed up i'd like to remind folks
1:09:43
on the phone that you can press star
1:09:44
three to indicate that you'd like to
1:09:46
make comments
1:09:48
that's star three and next we have kathy
1:09:50
mccrory kathy i'm requesting you unmute
1:09:52
now
1:09:58
thank you can everyone hear me okay
1:10:01
yes we can thank you
1:10:05
uh thank you members of city council and
1:10:07
mayor paulie
1:10:08
my name is kathy mccrory and i am the
1:10:10
ceo at the greater issaquah chamber
1:10:13
i realize you've heard from me several
1:10:15
times now regarding the one-time
1:10:17
add-in of 500 000 for business grants
1:10:22
i just want to share with you again a
1:10:24
few extra
1:10:26
thoughts regarding that funding uh i
1:10:29
think it's going to be needed
1:10:30
now more than ever due to
1:10:33
yesterday's announcement from governor
1:10:36
inslee's office that the mayor talked
1:10:37
about earlier
1:10:39
we understand that the ryzen covid
1:10:42
infection
1:10:43
is causing the restrictions to go into
1:10:46
place
1:10:47
i think the difference this time around
1:10:49
that we need to realize
1:10:51
is that the businesses do not have all
1:10:53
of the federal support
1:10:55
in place that we had this past spring
1:10:59
your funding is needed now more than
1:11:01
ever
1:11:02
so tonight i ask that you not only
1:11:04
approve those dollars
1:11:06
but that you keep in the forefront of
1:11:09
your spots
1:11:10
that any other funds allocated
1:11:14
in the future are received in the future
1:11:17
be converted to programs that will keep
1:11:19
our businesses afloat
1:11:21
and our residents employed
1:11:24
i also asked that should this be
1:11:26
approved
1:11:27
that the implication of the grant
1:11:30
funding
1:11:31
be as swift as possible since inslee's
1:11:34
announcement yesterday
1:11:36
i have heard from dozens of businesses
1:11:38
expressing fear
1:11:40
concern frustration and even a little
1:11:43
bit of hope
1:11:45
they have literally brought me to tears
1:11:47
it is important to note
1:11:49
that they need not only the funding
1:11:51
being discussed here tonight
1:11:53
that they need to be heard that our
1:11:55
businesses need a shoulder to cry on
1:11:58
and a strong back to help carry them
1:12:00
through this
1:12:02
i know the numerous calls chats and
1:12:05
emails i
1:12:05
received today and that the mayor and
1:12:08
your economic development team and the
1:12:12
chamber
1:12:12
are all ready with our open hearts our
1:12:14
soft shoulders and our strong backs
1:12:17
my ask is that we can count on each and
1:12:19
every one of you tonight
1:12:21
to pledge the same our business
1:12:23
community is going to need it
1:12:26
i ask this for the fitness centers
1:12:28
needing to close their doors again
1:12:30
the restaurants that need to go back to
1:12:31
take out only the business owners that
1:12:34
have lay
1:12:34
have to lay off employees the week
1:12:36
before thanksgiving
1:12:39
and those that are looking at their 2021
1:12:42
budgets
1:12:42
without hope the mayor graciously
1:12:46
accepted many ideas discussed in the
1:12:48
visions partners meeting today
1:12:50
and i want to thank express my
1:12:52
appreciation
1:12:53
for the willingness to be open to any
1:12:55
ideas that we are throwing
1:12:57
at the at the wall right now and i'd
1:13:00
like to ask the board to submit
1:13:02
letters of support for these programs
1:13:04
and more
1:13:05
and support letters of support for our
1:13:08
local businesses
1:13:10
thank you for all that you do for the
1:13:12
community and for the tough decisions
1:13:14
you've been making throughout this most
1:13:16
difficult period of time
1:13:17
thank you thank you kathy city clerk do
1:13:21
we have anyone else signed up or
1:13:22
indicating a desire to speak this
1:13:24
evening
1:13:25
yes we do a phone in caller with the
1:13:28
last two digits
1:13:29
eight eight i'm requesting you unmute
1:13:31
now
1:13:39
hi this is corby kessler i am the ed and
1:13:42
program mag
1:13:43
manager with dia thank you so much for
1:13:45
having me and
1:13:47
i feel it's very heartfelt to hear other
1:13:50
supporters for our businesses and local
1:13:52
jobs just
1:13:52
the impassioned plea we all have for
1:13:55
being
1:13:56
servants to those businesses and doing
1:13:57
whatever we can to ensure that they are
1:14:00
able to survive
1:14:01
this latest tragedy of covid
1:14:04
my support is is similar to all of yours
1:14:07
is to put everything we have
1:14:09
behind our businesses and if it asks the
1:14:12
question if it
1:14:13
breathes life into these businesses
1:14:15
should we do it then the answer
1:14:16
absolutely it has to be a top priority
1:14:19
i am fully supportive of the 500 000
1:14:22
grant for the businesses
1:14:23
as well as the 300 000 for the
1:14:25
streetscape to keep our
1:14:27
downtown to be a place that people
1:14:29
really want to
1:14:30
to visit even in tough times so thank
1:14:32
you very much for that consideration
1:14:34
and also whatever we can do with
1:14:36
individuals to help those businesses
1:14:38
whether it's
1:14:39
takeout it's visiting their websites and
1:14:42
doing
1:14:42
interactive engagement with them
1:14:44
whatever they need
1:14:45
we're there for them and d in particular
1:14:48
we we
1:14:48
do promise to be as creative as we can
1:14:51
to continue to support them in whatever
1:14:53
ways it takes for the next couple months
1:14:55
so thank you again for hearing me and
1:14:57
thanks so much for everything you do for
1:14:59
our community
1:15:02
thank you so much for calling in and if
1:15:04
if you didn't fully
1:15:05
say what day it means i just want to
1:15:07
make sure everybody
1:15:08
who's watching or watching this later
1:15:10
knows it's the downtown issaquah
1:15:12
association thank you so much for coming
1:15:14
in
1:15:14
um city clerk do we have anyone else
1:15:16
indicating a desire to speak this
1:15:18
evening
1:15:19
no we do not thank you very much
1:15:23
is there any objection and i'm assuming
1:15:26
this is from the council
1:15:28
to closing the public hearing
1:15:33
looking in the chat room not seeing
1:15:35
anything
1:15:37
i now close the public hearing at 8
1:15:40
17 p.m
1:15:43
the next item on the agenda this evening
1:15:46
is we will be
1:15:47
moving into regular business and we have
1:15:49
three items under regular business
1:15:52
the first one is ab-8028 it's the
1:15:55
proposed 2021 budget
1:15:57
amending community planning and
1:15:59
development fees
1:16:00
and the action before the council this
1:16:02
evening will be to
1:16:04
adopt the ordinance this item was last
1:16:06
before council
1:16:07
at the october 19th council meeting and
1:16:10
i'd like to invite management analyst
1:16:11
gene paul to present this item
1:16:13
gene thank you madam mayor
1:16:17
good evening i'm gene paul the
1:16:19
management analyst in the executive
1:16:20
office
1:16:21
i'll be presenting tonight on amending
1:16:22
the community planning and development
1:16:24
fees
1:16:27
the purpose of tonight's presentation is
1:16:29
to provide the city council a brief
1:16:30
summary
1:16:31
on the administration's recommended
1:16:33
adjustments to cpd fees
1:16:35
and the updates to those recommendations
1:16:37
since the october 19th council meeting
1:16:39
at the conclusion of the presentation
1:16:41
the administration is requesting that
1:16:43
the council adopt the ordinance
1:16:44
they'll allow these fee adjustments to
1:16:46
take effect on january
1:16:48
1st 2021
1:16:53
as background the cost recovery for cpd
1:16:56
was last studied in 2016
1:16:58
by the fcs group using data from 2015.
1:17:01
the city council acted in january 2017
1:17:04
to update the fee schedule
1:17:05
and set an 80 cost recovery target
1:17:08
this year the administration examined
1:17:10
cost recovery again
1:17:12
as part of the city-wide services
1:17:13
assessment the first update on this was
1:17:16
provided at the june 23rd study session
1:17:22
here's the high-level summary of cost
1:17:24
recovery shown at the june study session
1:17:26
as you can see both revenues declined
1:17:28
and expenditures increased each year
1:17:30
which caused cost recovery to decrease
1:17:32
below the 80 target
1:17:34
in 2019. in addition to providing this
1:17:37
historical cost recovery
1:17:38
the administration sought city council
1:17:40
direction on the cost recovery target
1:17:43
at that time the city council did not
1:17:45
express a desire to change the 80
1:17:47
target
1:17:51
because of the declining cost recovery
1:17:53
the administration examined a number of
1:17:54
measures that could help restore
1:17:56
the desired 80 percent as part of the
1:17:58
2021 proposed budget
1:18:00
new and adjusted fees were one of these
1:18:02
measures for the fee recommendations
1:18:05
themselves
1:18:05
a staff working group developed these
1:18:07
proposed changes
1:18:09
first that group identified areas where
1:18:11
adjustments were needed
1:18:12
these included permits where staff spend
1:18:14
a considerable amount of time
1:18:16
with little or no revenue connection it
1:18:18
also included a significant realignment
1:18:21
of fees for site work and engineering
1:18:23
permitting
1:18:24
after generating these recommendations
1:18:26
the administration contracted with the
1:18:28
fcs group
1:18:29
to verify that the changes would achieve
1:18:31
the desired cost recovery
1:18:33
the fcs group consultant did this by
1:18:35
examining the past
1:18:36
five years of permitting data and
1:18:38
creating a projection for the next five
1:18:40
years
1:18:41
they then use that projection with the
1:18:43
recommended fee changes
1:18:44
to create a revenue forecast in that
1:18:47
forecast which i'll show in greater
1:18:49
detail on the next slide
1:18:51
cpd's cost recovery is expected to
1:18:53
remain above 80 percent
1:18:54
for the next five years after confirming
1:18:58
the adjusted fees achieved cost recovery
1:19:00
the administration conducted outreach
1:19:02
outreach with stakeholders
1:19:04
and further refined the fees before
1:19:06
arriving at the final recommendations
1:19:11
here's the projected cost recovery over
1:19:13
the next five years
1:19:15
the increase in the first two years is
1:19:16
the result of several large
1:19:18
one-time development projects generating
1:19:20
higher generating higher
1:19:22
revenues in 2023 and beyond the
1:19:25
projection shows
1:19:26
that the fees continue to recover at
1:19:27
least 80 percent
1:19:29
even in a relatively normal year that
1:19:31
does not have large one-time boost to
1:19:34
revenue
1:19:38
in summary the recommended fee
1:19:39
adjustments will generate an estimated
1:19:41
1.36 million in 2021.
1:19:43
this is 250 000 more than estimated as
1:19:47
part of the proposed budget
1:19:48
in total over 50 changes have been
1:19:50
recommended
1:19:52
these range from brand new fees or new
1:19:54
fee models
1:19:55
adjustment for existing fees or code
1:19:57
improvements that do not affect revenues
1:20:00
i presented the significant
1:20:01
recommendations in detail at the october
1:20:03
19th city council meeting
1:20:05
so tonight i'll only be presenting on
1:20:07
the two changes
1:20:08
since then
1:20:13
the first updated recommendation
1:20:14
concerns traffic control plans
1:20:17
the original proposal was to increase
1:20:18
the fee from three hundred dollars to
1:20:20
two thousand dollars
1:20:22
instead of an across-the-board increase
1:20:24
to two thousand dollars
1:20:25
the adjusted proposal has an option that
1:20:27
stays at three hundred dollars
1:20:28
for a single day plan while multiple day
1:20:31
plans will cost
1:20:32
two thousand dollars this adjustment
1:20:34
will minimize the financial impacts on
1:20:36
small projects
1:20:37
while still allowing the city to recoup
1:20:39
the costs for larger projects
1:20:41
this change is not expected to impact
1:20:43
the revenue forecast for 2021.
1:20:49
the second update is to the street cut
1:20:51
fee the original proposal for street cut
1:20:54
fees
1:20:54
doubled the fee for cutting into roads
1:20:56
that were newer and
1:20:57
in better condition newer and better
1:21:00
conditioned roads were initially defined
1:21:01
by a pavement condition index
1:21:03
or pci rating greater than 90.
1:21:06
the ordinance has been adjusted to
1:21:08
slightly lower the pci threshold
1:21:10
for a double fee to 85. this rating
1:21:13
better corresponds to when a
1:21:15
road degrades from good to satisfactory
1:21:17
and also better reflects the first five
1:21:19
years of a new road
1:21:21
this change is also not expected to
1:21:23
impact the revenue forecast for 2021.
1:21:30
in terms of timing and next steps the
1:21:31
administration is recommending adoption
1:21:33
of this ordinance tonight
1:21:34
and the new fees would go into effect on
1:21:36
january 1 2021
1:21:38
that concludes my presentation tonight
1:21:40
i'll be happy to answer
1:21:42
any questions thank you gene
1:21:45
i am first going to go to council
1:21:47
president hunt
1:21:48
and see if there were any uh
1:21:51
public comments you would like to
1:21:53
summarize before we go on to council
1:21:54
questions
1:21:56
this is council president hunt we did
1:21:58
receive a email comment on this topic
1:22:01
and the community member who emailed
1:22:04
their comments
1:22:05
was in support of increasing the rates
1:22:08
of cost recovery um
1:22:10
to 90 95 or
1:22:13
up to 100 thank you very much council
1:22:17
president hunt i am keeping an eye on
1:22:19
the chat box now
1:22:20
to see if there are any council
1:22:22
questions before we
1:22:25
move forward
1:22:32
and if there are no questions if
1:22:34
somebody would like to indicate that
1:22:36
they would like to make the motion
1:22:38
we could entertain that now
1:22:44
council president hunt thank you this is
1:22:47
council president hunt i move to adopt
1:22:49
ordinance number 292 amending chapter
1:22:53
3.64 and section
1:22:55
109 of chapter 16.04 of the issaquah
1:22:58
municipal code to update the city's land
1:23:01
use and site work permit fees and
1:23:02
additional fees for inspections plan
1:23:04
review and other related services
1:23:06
and it looks like i have a second from
1:23:13
this is chris ray i second that motion
1:23:16
thank you it's been moved and seconded
1:23:19
is there any council discussion
1:23:29
again i'm just keeping an eye on the
1:23:31
chat to see if there is any
1:23:36
council president hunt for a comment
1:23:39
thank you council president hunt i just
1:23:43
wanted to thank the
1:23:46
administration and the staff that worked
1:23:48
on this because i think
1:23:49
our comments from our last meeting when
1:23:51
we did discuss this in
1:23:52
detail were incorporated especially
1:23:55
regarding the
1:23:57
the street cut fees and so i appreciate
1:23:59
that and i will be in support
1:24:02
thank you very much not seeing
1:24:05
any other comments i'll give another
1:24:07
second
1:24:12
so we will move to the vote the motion
1:24:16
before council is
1:24:17
to adopt ordinance number 2926
1:24:21
amending chapter 3.64 and section 109 of
1:24:24
chapter 16.04
1:24:26
of the issaquah municipal code to update
1:24:29
the city's
1:24:30
land use and site work permit fees and
1:24:32
additional fees for inspections
1:24:34
plan review and other related services
1:24:37
see the clerk could you please do a roll
1:24:39
call vote
1:24:40
yes beginning with council member d
1:24:42
michelle
1:24:44
aye councilmember goodman
1:24:47
aye councilmember hall
1:24:50
aye council president hunt
1:24:53
i council member mart
1:24:57
aye deputy council president ray
1:25:00
hi councilmember walsh
1:25:03
aye that's seven eyes zero nays
1:25:07
thank you that passes unanimously
1:25:10
i'm going to propose and look for head
1:25:13
nods or not
1:25:14
uh we are due for a five minute break
1:25:16
and if i see a few head nods we will
1:25:18
take
1:25:18
oh some vigorous head nods and thumbs up
1:25:21
okay we are definitely taking a five
1:25:23
minute break before we move into our
1:25:24
next item
1:25:26
let's get back together around 8 32.
1:25:38
thanks
1:30:34
the city clerk it does look like we have
1:30:36
our seven council members back and i'd
1:30:38
like to give
1:30:39
gabe a 10 second warning
1:30:46
unless i don't have the city clerk
1:30:52
and i'm here
1:30:55
okay feeling better
1:30:58
welcome back everyone from our break the
1:31:02
second item under regular business this
1:31:04
evening is ab7991
1:31:06
it is the proposed 2021 budget and
1:31:09
salary ordinance
1:31:11
and the action before council this
1:31:12
evening is to adopt these ordinances
1:31:16
the staff presentation for this item was
1:31:18
provided under the public hearing
1:31:20
and so i will start with
1:31:24
counsel questions and then after council
1:31:26
questions
1:31:27
move to any emails from the public that
1:31:30
the council president would like to
1:31:32
share
1:31:33
are there any council questions
1:31:45
well let's go to council president now
1:31:47
to share emails and if somebody
1:31:49
does want to add a question to the
1:31:50
comment chat box i'll keep looking for
1:31:52
it
1:31:52
council president hunt thanks this is
1:31:56
council president hunt we did receive
1:31:58
several emails and these are the emails
1:32:00
that we've received
1:32:01
as since the last time the council
1:32:04
discussed the budget we received the
1:32:07
email
1:32:08
from a community member that was opposed
1:32:10
to the inclusion of the
1:32:12
parks maintenance manager funding
1:32:15
and the turf replacement funding and was
1:32:17
in support of the repainting
1:32:19
of the sidewalks expense we received a
1:32:23
email comment referencing the city's
1:32:25
legal budget as was also referenced
1:32:28
this evening in the public hearing
1:32:31
we received three new
1:32:34
emails in support of the small business
1:32:38
grants
1:32:38
funding that is in the budget this is in
1:32:41
addition to
1:32:42
emails that we received prior to the
1:32:44
last time we discussed the budget in
1:32:46
support of the small business grants
1:32:48
and
1:32:52
and that concludes the new emails that
1:32:55
we've
1:32:56
received on the budget
1:32:59
thank you very much council president
1:33:00
hunt
1:33:02
are there any questions from council
1:33:05
on the budget or the salary ordinances
1:33:15
i asked the city clerk if you would be
1:33:17
able to put in the proposed motion in
1:33:19
case somebody is prepared to make it
1:33:25
yes i will do that now thank you very
1:33:34
much
1:33:36
okay if there are no comments or
1:33:39
questions
1:33:39
is somebody prepared to make a motion
1:33:43
council president hunt
1:33:46
thank you this is council president hunt
1:33:48
i moved to
1:33:50
one adopt ordinance number 2927
1:33:55
adopting the 2021 budget setting forth
1:33:57
the estimated revenues and
1:33:58
appropriations for each separate fund
1:34:00
and estimated
1:34:01
impact on ending fund balances for all
1:34:03
such funds
1:34:04
combined of the city for the fiscal year
1:34:07
commencing january 1st
1:34:08
2021 and to adopt ordinance number
1:34:12
2928 adopting a revised 2021
1:34:16
salary schedule for all city employees
1:34:20
and i see deputy council president ray
1:34:23
has his hand up
1:34:25
this is chris ray ii so it has been
1:34:28
moved and seconded
1:34:29
is there any discussion
1:34:36
council president hunt
1:34:40
this is council president hunt i i
1:34:43
expect that
1:34:43
there aren't questions aren't too many
1:34:46
questions or comments this evening
1:34:48
because we have
1:34:49
discussed and i think that the
1:34:51
administration has made changes
1:34:53
according to the feedback that you've
1:34:55
received from council
1:34:57
so firstly i wanted to acknowledge that
1:34:59
and
1:35:01
thank you for i think this will be a
1:35:03
uneventful
1:35:04
budget night um
1:35:08
and i also wanted to highlight some of
1:35:10
the
1:35:11
the things that are in the council
1:35:14
president's
1:35:14
letter this year i do think that it will
1:35:18
be very important going into 2021
1:35:20
as we continue to face all of the
1:35:23
uncertainty around
1:35:25
covid19 and its economic impacts
1:35:28
i think it's very important that this
1:35:29
budget does build a social safety net
1:35:32
as well as factors in
1:35:36
the need for small business funding and
1:35:39
the front street streetscape
1:35:42
improvements things that will support
1:35:44
our businesses and our local economy
1:35:45
during this time i think these are very
1:35:47
important
1:35:48
and as well as a budget that
1:35:52
upholds police accountability and
1:35:55
protect
1:35:56
public safety i think i think that as we
1:35:59
go into 2021 we can continue to monitor
1:36:02
those things and i think the budget sets
1:36:04
us on a track for doing all those things
1:36:06
well in light of the challenges that
1:36:08
we're facing
1:36:10
with the ongoing kovid 19
1:36:13
pandemic i also wanted to
1:36:18
emphasize that we are within the
1:36:21
fund balance that is in our financial
1:36:26
our financial handbook as the where we
1:36:29
should be for fund balance which is 19
1:36:31
general fund expenditures and i
1:36:34
appreciate that very much
1:36:35
this year when there are so many needs
1:36:37
in the community that we are
1:36:39
continuing to fund our cip
1:36:42
not getting behind on infrastructure
1:36:44
projects and also continuing to fund
1:36:46
very important and very necessary
1:36:48
services for our city
1:36:51
um also in the letter
1:36:54
it speaks to that the
1:36:58
400 000 dollar community recovery fund
1:37:02
of the city council
1:37:03
is expected to be a one-time fund that
1:37:07
really is a product of the extraordinary
1:37:08
circumstances that
1:37:10
have come about in 2020 and that we do
1:37:13
not expect this to be a contingency fund
1:37:16
that we would see
1:37:17
for council spending under any other
1:37:19
circumstances
1:37:21
and there are some potential uses that
1:37:24
were discussed
1:37:25
by council at our last meeting that are
1:37:26
included in the letter
1:37:28
but again really adamant that council's
1:37:31
will is not to set a precedent
1:37:33
in which this would be ongoing but
1:37:34
rather to deal
1:37:36
with the unique circumstances in which
1:37:38
we had
1:37:40
better than expected revenue projections
1:37:42
towards the end of our budgeting cycle
1:37:44
as well as
1:37:46
truly unprecedented community needs that
1:37:49
we expect
1:37:50
will continue into 2021 and lots of
1:37:52
uncertainty around a pandemic
1:37:56
um and then additionally there are a few
1:37:59
other things that council
1:38:02
would like more information on which i
1:38:04
do call out in the letter so we can keep
1:38:06
track of those
1:38:07
and those will be 2021 items that we
1:38:09
will get more information on those
1:38:11
include the asset management program
1:38:13
that there is funding for scoping
1:38:16
for that project in the budget
1:38:19
and then also that council is interested
1:38:22
in
1:38:23
potentially expanding on
1:38:24
community-facing aspects of
1:38:26
the equity training work that we will be
1:38:29
continuing in 2021
1:38:32
and this would be for future years but
1:38:34
keeping that in mind in 2021
1:38:38
there are two projects that we will get
1:38:40
more information on
1:38:41
regarding the cip and those are cabin
1:38:44
creek
1:38:45
tributary stabilization and central park
1:38:47
biosoil improvements
1:38:48
and we will get information on those in
1:38:51
early 2021
1:38:52
q1 2021 to be specific
1:38:55
and then lastly i did look through the
1:38:58
last
1:39:00
council member or yes councilmember
1:39:02
martz at the time council president
1:39:03
mart's letter
1:39:05
from last year and i looked at anything
1:39:07
that hadn't been
1:39:08
accomplished and i think that this may
1:39:10
be a good
1:39:11
thing for council presidents to to
1:39:14
continue to do
1:39:16
so i looked at the last letter and saw
1:39:17
if anything should be carried over into
1:39:18
this letter
1:39:20
and there is one and that is
1:39:23
the surplus property plan
1:39:26
and also the um tibbetts creek
1:39:29
tibbetts manner in particular um so i
1:39:32
think this is in the work plan for 2021
1:39:35
but also wanted to carry it over into
1:39:36
this budget letter because it was
1:39:38
in the last budget letter and wasn't
1:39:39
completed in 2020
1:39:41
because of many things um so again thank
1:39:44
you to the
1:39:46
administration and mayor for working
1:39:49
with council on this budget
1:39:50
and i will be supporting it
1:39:56
thank you council president hunt
1:39:57
councilmember goodman
1:39:59
thank you madam mayor councilmember
1:40:01
goodman here
1:40:03
thank you president hunt for those
1:40:04
comments i
1:40:06
agree with all of them and i won't
1:40:08
repeat any
1:40:09
of them i too am going to be supporting
1:40:11
on the budget tonight
1:40:12
and um i just want to say that i think
1:40:15
the mayor's office
1:40:17
and um and in terms of city departments
1:40:20
particularly the finance department and
1:40:24
director goldberg just did a phenomenal
1:40:27
job of putting together
1:40:29
a budget for 2021 under um
1:40:33
extraordinary circumstances and
1:40:36
pivoting just constantly pivoting
1:40:39
was really remarkable and for the first
1:40:42
time ever we also have a budget
1:40:44
that is consistent with
1:40:47
a strategic plan and that's really
1:40:49
really exciting and so i wanted to thank
1:40:51
you for all the
1:40:52
all the work that you did and and even
1:40:54
as we uh use the strategic plan we also
1:40:56
had to
1:40:57
um you know look through this new
1:41:00
pandemic
1:41:00
um lens and i'm
1:41:04
you know you know i can be proud of this
1:41:07
budget but
1:41:07
i think 99 of the work was all on the
1:41:11
administrative side so i'm i'm really
1:41:13
happy with that
1:41:14
um and there are many things in there
1:41:16
that i think that this
1:41:18
community should be pleased with
1:41:21
and that we kept the community in mind
1:41:24
and the needs during the pandemic
1:41:26
when we are when we approve tonight
1:41:30
several allocations for um things in the
1:41:32
community that
1:41:34
keep pandemic in mind you know park
1:41:35
improvements and
1:41:37
street you know the um the the streets
1:41:39
streetscape
1:41:40
and businesses and so many things that
1:41:43
will be helping our community um
1:41:46
one the only the the only thing that i
1:41:50
wanted to say that i um wanted to keep
1:41:53
our
1:41:53
eye on next year and and make mention of
1:41:56
that is important to me and i know
1:41:57
councilmember martin
1:41:59
mentioned this as well is that we keep
1:42:01
an eye
1:42:02
on workloads and in particular um
1:42:05
police we have a number of positions
1:42:09
that are
1:42:09
in our budget and um allocated for next
1:42:12
year and i think that's an appropriate
1:42:14
number
1:42:14
given the circumstances that we are in
1:42:17
but as we
1:42:18
um come out of the pandemic as we have a
1:42:20
vaccine and
1:42:22
life begins um to get back to
1:42:27
normal whatever that new normal is we
1:42:30
may see
1:42:30
changes and we may see workload changes
1:42:33
that we may want to address and so i
1:42:36
think it's important that we
1:42:37
keep an eye out on all workloads and in
1:42:39
particular the police department
1:42:41
um i know they've been working
1:42:42
extraordinarily hard as
1:42:44
as are other first responders so i just
1:42:46
wanted to point out that that's
1:42:47
important to me and as we
1:42:48
as we um continue to monitor workload to
1:42:51
next year we will
1:42:53
be looking at that as well at least
1:42:54
that's my expectation other than that
1:42:57
um i don't have any concerns it's not
1:42:59
even a concern i just want to mention it
1:43:00
that we'll be looking out for it
1:43:02
and i'm just really toward the end of
1:43:05
this year
1:43:06
um pleased that we could offer that we
1:43:08
can approve not offer but approve
1:43:11
a budget um that meets so many needs
1:43:14
um it's really a pleasant surprise that
1:43:17
we could do
1:43:17
so much so thank you so much thank you
1:43:20
mayor's office
1:43:21
and i get a little emotional thinking
1:43:23
about it because it's really been a
1:43:24
tough year for everybody
1:43:26
so um this is this is just really a
1:43:30
happy occurrence for me
1:43:31
thank you thank you councilmember
1:43:34
goodman
1:43:35
next up is councilmember hall
1:43:38
thank you mayor paulie uh this is
1:43:40
councilmember zach hall
1:43:42
well this is um my first budget as a
1:43:44
city council member here in issaquah
1:43:46
it was uh certainly unusual but i'm
1:43:49
feeling
1:43:50
a bit nostalgic already but i'm ready
1:43:52
and eager
1:43:53
to um support this budget tonight um so
1:43:56
i guess uh
1:43:57
in my mind this budget um
1:44:01
which is the product i assume of
1:44:03
hundreds of hours of staff work and
1:44:05
community outreach and council meetings
1:44:08
does really two
1:44:09
important things it balances the needs
1:44:12
of our community
1:44:13
to respond to the public health crisis
1:44:14
and then invests
1:44:16
in many of the programs and priorities
1:44:19
our residents value deeply
1:44:20
i'm talking about it makes meaningful
1:44:23
strides to implement the isquad police
1:44:24
accountability equity and human services
1:44:27
action plan
1:44:28
it supports our local businesses at a
1:44:30
time when they definitely
1:44:31
definitely need support more than ever
1:44:34
it makes
1:44:34
parks management and leisure a priority
1:44:37
uh
1:44:38
it commits to an ongoing local effort to
1:44:40
address climate change
1:44:42
it invests around 18 million dollars in
1:44:44
capital projects around town
1:44:47
like councilmember goodman said it's in
1:44:49
line with the city-wide
1:44:51
um strategic plan you know it does all
1:44:54
this and more
1:44:55
and given like it's been said before
1:44:57
given the economic circumstances going
1:44:59
into budget season i'm very happy with
1:45:01
where this
1:45:02
budget ended up with and i also wanted
1:45:04
um add on
1:45:05
my thanks to director goldberg and
1:45:07
everyone
1:45:08
who had any hand in putting this budget
1:45:12
together
1:45:13
really really well done and i thank you
1:45:16
very much
1:45:20
thank you councilmember hall going to
1:45:21
council member walsh
1:45:23
thank you this is councilmember walsh
1:45:25
gosh i will just
1:45:27
plus one what my three previous council
1:45:30
members have said
1:45:31
um thank you to the administration
1:45:35
i think this really has been an
1:45:37
interesting budget
1:45:39
for the fact that the administration
1:45:42
really did a great job of anticipating
1:45:44
the
1:45:45
needs of the community understanding
1:45:49
the interest areas of the council
1:45:52
members
1:45:52
council members and supporting the
1:45:54
community and so
1:45:56
there were very few conflict points
1:45:59
because the administration
1:46:00
was so thoughtful to all of the needs
1:46:04
um and to have all of this happen in the
1:46:07
middle
1:46:08
of covid with all of the
1:46:12
big issues that we're having to handle
1:46:14
all of the uncertainty of our revenue
1:46:16
and everyone working from home and
1:46:19
having to coordinate
1:46:21
such a large budget and
1:46:25
just all of these aspects i just really
1:46:27
want to commend our team
1:46:29
for all of the hard work um and
1:46:32
appreciate that we're getting these
1:46:35
results for
1:46:36
the um residents of issaquah so
1:46:39
wonderful wonderful situation and i will
1:46:42
also be supporting this budget thank you
1:46:45
thank you councilmember walsh next time
1:46:47
councilmember mertz
1:46:49
thank you madam mayor i want to thank
1:46:51
the council president for carrying over
1:46:53
the
1:46:54
for pointing out the carryover of the
1:46:55
surplus property item from
1:46:58
uh my letter last year uh
1:47:01
someday near and dear to my heart this
1:47:03
is uh
1:47:04
counting the budget i sat in on my 12th
1:47:07
budget and
1:47:08
uh i'm just struck by that this was the
1:47:11
least contentious
1:47:12
but budget in the most challenging year
1:47:15
so i i agree with councilmember goodman
1:47:18
that 99
1:47:19
of the work was done by the
1:47:20
administration uh particularly
1:47:22
uh director goldberg but i i wanna i
1:47:25
wanna paraphrase leo tolstoy
1:47:27
and i wanna say uh all happy councils
1:47:31
are alike
1:47:32
but each unhappy council is unhappy in
1:47:34
its own way
1:47:36
and let me tell you we could have made
1:47:39
this
1:47:40
uh an awful process uh any one of us
1:47:43
if we had shown up uh looking to uh
1:47:46
cut political teeth with grandstanding
1:47:50
uh it could have been very different so
1:47:52
while the bulk of
1:47:53
the vast majority of the work was on the
1:47:56
part of the administration i just want
1:47:57
to congratulate
1:47:58
uh council president hunt council deputy
1:48:01
president ray my fellow council members
1:48:04
we were also a part of making this a
1:48:07
smooth process this year
1:48:08
thank you thank you councilmember murrah
1:48:11
councilmember t michelle
1:48:15
thank you mayor paulie well being the
1:48:17
seventh council member to
1:48:19
comment is always a difficult place to
1:48:21
be and i don't have any
1:48:23
additional wisdom to add to that of my
1:48:26
fellow council members
1:48:28
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1:48:30
i don't know who said but uh there's a
1:48:32
saying that crisis reveals
1:48:34
character and uh
1:48:37
i feel like we have had uh just superb
1:48:41
leadership throughout this year
1:48:44
uh i want to commend the mayor and the
1:48:46
administration
1:48:47
and my fellow council members because as
1:48:50
councilmember mart
1:48:51
said it could have been a very difficult
1:48:53
very difficult year
1:48:54
and instead we've really pulled together
1:48:56
and
1:48:57
um like councilmember goodman i was
1:49:00
agreeing with her and getting a tear
1:49:03
at the same time uh it's been very
1:49:06
emotional especially with the governor's
1:49:08
pronouncement yesterday which i think
1:49:10
was a large setback for
1:49:12
our community and for the state of
1:49:14
washington and yet absolutely
1:49:16
necessary uh decision on his part
1:49:19
and i know how hard that kind of
1:49:22
leadership decision can be
1:49:23
and so here we are ready to go into 2021
1:49:27
and i just commend everyone
1:49:31
for just the magnificent work that's
1:49:35
been done this is a budget that i am
1:49:37
very very proud to support
1:49:39
and i think it provides not only
1:49:42
a good response to our community but
1:49:45
sets the platform
1:49:46
for future um really future strategic
1:49:52
improvements and progress and so i will
1:49:55
too along with my fellow council members
1:49:57
being supporting it so thank you to
1:49:59
everybody
1:50:00
thanks thank you councilmember d
1:50:04
michelle
1:50:05
i'm looking to see if there is anyone
1:50:07
else that would like to make
1:50:08
comments and if not then i will re-read
1:50:12
the motion
1:50:15
the motion on the table for counsel is
1:50:17
to adopt ordinance number 2927
1:50:20
adopting the 2021 budget setting forth
1:50:23
the estimated revenues and
1:50:24
appropriations for each separate fund
1:50:26
an estimated impact on ending fund
1:50:29
balances for all such funds
1:50:30
combined of the city for the fiscal year
1:50:32
commencing january 1st
1:50:34
2021 and secondly adopting ordinance
1:50:37
number 2928
1:50:39
adopting a revised 2021 salary schedule
1:50:42
for all city employees and i will ask
1:50:45
the city clerk to do a roll call vote
1:50:48
beginning with council member goodman
1:50:50
aye
1:50:52
councilmember hall aye council president
1:50:56
hunt
1:50:57
aye councilmember martz aye
1:51:00
deputy council president ray aye
1:51:04
council member walsh aye council member
1:51:07
d michelle
1:51:08
aye that's seven eyes zero nays
1:51:17
mayor you're muted
1:51:24
i had such a great thing to say and now
1:51:26
i can't remember i forgot
1:51:27
just kidding that passes unanimously
1:51:31
thank you city clerk before we move on
1:51:33
to our last agenda item this evening
1:51:36
i just want to chastise chester is
1:51:39
council member goodman for
1:51:40
saying that she was tearing up in a year
1:51:42
that we've all been holding our breath
1:51:44
and knuckling down
1:51:46
and struggling to get through every
1:51:48
single thing thrown at it
1:51:50
i also got a little bit teary hearing
1:51:52
somebody express it
1:51:53
with that much emotion so don't do that
1:51:55
again don't do it on camera it's not
1:51:57
fair
1:51:58
um but it has been a hard year and we
1:52:01
have a lot of work ahead but i feel like
1:52:03
the budget that you just approved
1:52:05
and the work plan that we went through
1:52:07
is a road map
1:52:08
with all of the wonderful qualities that
1:52:10
you talked about and i feel like
1:52:12
the administration and the mayor's
1:52:14
office and the council in the community
1:52:17
really did come together in our absolute
1:52:19
show of strength this year to show how
1:52:21
resilient we are
1:52:22
and how well we can plan for what's
1:52:24
coming because i'm still holding my
1:52:26
breath
1:52:27
and i'm still all tensed up because i
1:52:29
know we have a ton of work to do
1:52:30
but thank you thank you very much on
1:52:32
behalf of the community
1:52:34
and the 500 hands at city hall who
1:52:36
helped put the budget together each and
1:52:38
every one of them
1:52:39
amazing amazing effort the last item on
1:52:42
our agenda this evening
1:52:43
is ab-8045 amending imc 16.35
1:52:49
construction hours the request before
1:52:51
council this evening is to adopt an
1:52:52
ordinance and this is the first time
1:52:54
that this item is coming before council
1:52:57
i'd like to invite code compliance
1:52:58
officer chris garbowsky to make a brief
1:53:01
presentation
1:53:02
and i'm not sure but this might be the
1:53:04
first time that you've actually met
1:53:05
chris
1:53:05
i can't remember if he's been on camera
1:53:07
with us before or not so welcome chris
1:53:10
good evening uh mayor paulie and members
1:53:13
of the council i must apologize this is
1:53:15
andrew
1:53:16
this is andrea snyder the deputy city
1:53:17
administrator
1:53:19
and uh chris will not be joining us this
1:53:21
evening so the
1:53:22
the part of chris will be played by me
1:53:25
though i thank chris for his his good
1:53:27
work on this item
1:53:29
um i will be running
1:53:32
through uh very quickly summarizing the
1:53:35
agenda bill that's in your packet that
1:53:36
chris did author
1:53:38
and also may i say that following the
1:53:41
budget is a really a tough act to follow
1:53:44
especially when um passed like this one
1:53:46
was so
1:53:47
um i will try to administer do you mind
1:53:51
if i allowed city administrator i
1:53:52
realized i missed that he had a comment
1:53:54
i believe it's on the last item and then
1:53:56
we would love to hear your presentation
1:53:58
sure thank you yes madam mayor uh thank
1:54:01
you
1:54:02
um thank you for letting me have just a
1:54:04
couple moments
1:54:05
uh to also uh reflect on what an
1:54:08
outstanding budget process uh this was
1:54:11
um
1:54:12
you know your leadership mata mayor from
1:54:14
the very beginning
1:54:15
of the process was you know let's do
1:54:18
what we can to invest in this community
1:54:20
let's do what we can to lay a groundwork
1:54:22
for a copic recovery let's do what we
1:54:24
can to bring resources back to serve the
1:54:26
community so
1:54:27
i want to thank you for your leadership
1:54:29
and guidance but certainly
1:54:31
the lion's share of the work has been
1:54:32
done by our finance staff
1:54:34
beth is is she gone
1:54:37
she may be gone um well
1:54:41
and in her absence i will simply uh say
1:54:44
how lucky and fortunate we are
1:54:46
to have someone of her skill and ability
1:54:48
uh to lead our finance staff
1:54:50
um the experience that she brings to
1:54:54
is is something that uh you know
1:54:57
since she's not with us i can say it you
1:54:58
know we're we have we have no right to
1:55:00
expect
1:55:01
uh someone of beth's skills and
1:55:03
abilities
1:55:04
uh to be with us and helping and she
1:55:06
that she does it and does it
1:55:08
so well is really great jeremy you're
1:55:10
still here so why don't you at least
1:55:12
take your put your camera back on uh
1:55:14
jeremy
1:55:15
is one of those new employees that we
1:55:17
have who's
1:55:19
really never been at city hall he
1:55:21
started with us right after the coven 19
1:55:24
crisis
1:55:25
happened jeremy you've been in two
1:55:28
two apartments before you've been to a
1:55:30
desk at city hall
1:55:32
so we really thank jeremy uh for his
1:55:35
good work
1:55:35
and suzy mancell who's not on the call
1:55:38
either at this point
1:55:40
um you know susie uh
1:55:43
devoted her entire professional being
1:55:46
over the last
1:55:47
six seven eight months focusing on
1:55:49
bringing you the best budget city
1:55:51
council she could
1:55:52
and finally i need to once again say
1:55:55
that you've had two budgets this year
1:55:57
this has not been a one budget year but
1:55:59
you leave you've asked your staff
1:56:01
uh to come back uh in the spring right
1:56:04
after adopting the 2020 budget
1:56:06
and to do it all over again um and so
1:56:08
that that
1:56:09
your budget team has you know gone
1:56:11
through this twice
1:56:13
uh with the uh with the skill and the
1:56:16
clarity and the transparency that they
1:56:18
have
1:56:18
is really outstanding and i've been very
1:56:20
proud uh to be part of the team and i
1:56:22
see
1:56:23
bob york and scott bierbaum and
1:56:25
stephanie johnson also
1:56:26
saw on the life jet wattling you know
1:56:28
each of the department directors as well
1:56:30
have worked
1:56:31
so diligently working with their staffs
1:56:33
first through the cuts we made in the
1:56:35
early spring
1:56:36
and then as we look to bring some
1:56:38
additional resources back online
1:56:40
with this budget so madam mayor thank
1:56:42
you for your leadership thank you for
1:56:44
letting me have a few moments
1:56:45
to crow about the outstanding work your
1:56:47
staff has done on the budget
1:56:50
thank you city administrator bob quits
1:56:52
and again thank you city council for all
1:56:54
of your consideration and your vote this
1:56:55
evening
1:56:56
i apologize deputy city administrator
1:56:59
continue with the next item
1:57:02
thank you madam mayor this is deputy
1:57:04
city administrator andrea snyder again
1:57:07
so this item is about
1:57:10
defining construction activity and
1:57:13
expanding the definition of construction
1:57:16
activity
1:57:16
in order to better define and clarify
1:57:20
what activity cannot occur outside of
1:57:22
construction hours
1:57:24
so typical construction hours are monday
1:57:26
through friday
1:57:28
and from 7 a.m to 6
1:57:31
p.m and we
1:57:35
understand that this has been a problem
1:57:37
of what constitutes construction
1:57:39
it's been a problem because the current
1:57:42
language is a little confusing for
1:57:44
staff to enforce complaints that we
1:57:46
receive from the community
1:57:48
it's a little confusing for the
1:57:49
community to understand
1:57:51
when there is activity occurring on a
1:57:55
construction site
1:57:56
what is and what isn't allowed on a
1:57:57
saturday morning for example
1:58:00
and so we in the administration are
1:58:02
seeking to
1:58:04
help allay that confusion by clarifying
1:58:08
the definition of construction activity
1:58:10
to include
1:58:11
um moving vehicles deliveries
1:58:15
the assembly dismantling or maintenance
1:58:18
of equipment
1:58:20
and that those would be included as part
1:58:23
of the definition of construction
1:58:24
activity such that
1:58:26
those activities cannot occur outside of
1:58:29
the approved construction hours and
1:58:33
um we took this item to
1:58:37
the planning policy commission and they
1:58:40
had some concerns that they expressed
1:58:43
they were concerned that
1:58:46
that the city already had pretty
1:58:49
stringent restrictions
1:58:50
on construction and uh
1:58:54
and construction activity including the
1:58:55
work hours they
1:58:57
had uh voiced some concerns that
1:59:00
the effect of this policy may
1:59:05
provide additional limitations
1:59:08
excuse me that they'll have an economic
1:59:10
impact on contractors
1:59:12
and may extend the length of the project
1:59:14
and finally they
1:59:17
were not convinced that this was a large
1:59:19
significant problem
1:59:20
faced in the city and that there wasn't
1:59:23
a
1:59:24
large number of complaints that we'd
1:59:26
received from
1:59:27
residents such that this really needed
1:59:30
to be addressed
1:59:31
so those were the concerns that the
1:59:33
planning policy commission brought up
1:59:35
um and as an alternative
1:59:38
they proposed instead of amending
1:59:42
the definition of what constitutes
1:59:44
construction
1:59:45
rather if there is activity that needs
1:59:48
to occur
1:59:49
that's delivery moving of vehicles
1:59:51
maintenance of equipment etc
1:59:53
if such activities do need to occur
1:59:55
outside of construction hours that the
1:59:57
contractor or the developer
1:59:59
provide notice 48 hours in advance to
2:00:02
the city
2:00:02
and to the surrounding community
2:00:06
so that's the planning policies
2:00:08
recommendation there's more information
2:00:10
and details about that in the packet for
2:00:12
this evening
2:00:13
that said the administration's moving
2:00:15
forward with our original recommendation
2:00:17
to you that we
2:00:18
amend the the municipal code to expand
2:00:22
the definition of construction
2:00:24
activities to include
2:00:25
moving vehicles a delivery
2:00:28
of materials equipment maintenance of
2:00:31
equipment
2:00:32
etc and at this time i
2:00:36
will open up for any questions you may
2:00:38
have
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thank you deputy city administrator
2:00:44
before we go to questions i'd like to
2:00:46
see if council president hunt has
2:00:48
anything
2:00:49
she would like to share that was
2:00:50
received via email on this item thank
2:00:54
you this is council president hunt we
2:00:55
did receive one
2:00:56
email on this topic and um
2:01:00
this the community member who wrote to
2:01:02
us commented
2:01:04
that the construction only from 7 am to
2:01:07
6 pm
2:01:08
was clear cut that was the
2:01:12
only comment that we received by email
2:01:14
thank you council president hunt
2:01:17
do any council members have any
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questions oh
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i'm looking i see council member d
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michelle is up
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thank you mayor paulie um
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i'm not sure that i um liked the
2:01:32
planning policy commission's alternative
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uh suggestion but i do kind of take to
2:01:39
heart
2:01:40
some of the questions that they had
2:01:41
around this and i think my question
2:01:43
for you is um what is the urgency here
2:01:47
um it feels like this is a little bit
2:01:51
rushed and that there wasn't they did
2:01:53
also mention that
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there wasn't outreach to the community
2:01:57
and outreach to
2:01:58
some of the construction firms so i'm
2:02:01
just wondering
2:02:02
um what is compelling this to come in
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front of us right now
2:02:09
deputy minister thank you councilmember
2:02:12
d michelle this is
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andrea snyder i think this was
2:02:17
some area of the code that we had an
2:02:19
opportunity to clarify
2:02:21
both for staff and for the community um
2:02:24
and uh so we
2:02:27
wanted to take the opportunity that we
2:02:29
have if council's direction is for us to
2:02:32
go back and rethink other options
2:02:34
or provide additional outreach then
2:02:36
that's something that we can do
2:02:40
thank you very much next up is deputy
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council president ray
2:02:45
thank you mayor paulie this is chris
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wright andrew what was your thinking or
2:02:49
um cpd's thinking on
2:02:52
um to move ahead with the original
2:02:57
proposal instead of the ppc
2:03:01
revisions
2:03:05
thank you deputy council president ray
2:03:07
this is andrea snyder again
2:03:08
um our our concerns with
2:03:12
the recommendations of ppc
2:03:15
was that um we we had
2:03:19
an overall goal of first wanting to make
2:03:22
sure that
2:03:24
as issaquah in the future especially
2:03:27
increases the development becomes
2:03:29
increasingly infill development
2:03:31
or redevelopment that we consider the
2:03:34
impacts
2:03:34
on the existing residents and as
2:03:37
part of that goal we have heard from our
2:03:40
residential community that they would
2:03:43
like to have
2:03:45
peaceful weekends and to preserve some
2:03:48
of that peace
2:03:49
and have some of that be free from noise
2:03:51
and so we're thinking about
2:03:53
impacts of construction on surrounding
2:03:55
communities
2:03:56
that's that's one goal for the
2:03:58
clarification of this language
2:04:00
another goal and the ppc's
2:04:03
recommendation doesn't do that
2:04:05
another thing that i
2:04:08
think i implied earlier is this idea of
2:04:11
decreasing confusion
2:04:13
and so if we have residents who
2:04:16
are disturbed by noise that's taking
2:04:18
place on a construction site
2:04:20
outside of construction hours it's uh
2:04:24
may be difficult for them to understand
2:04:26
that that's technically not defined as
2:04:28
construction it's delivery of materials
2:04:30
or it's these other things
2:04:31
they may look at it and say well this
2:04:33
looks like construction to me they're
2:04:35
they're you know taking down a crane or
2:04:38
you know that's an example
2:04:39
but um so so i think we really wanted to
2:04:43
make sure that
2:04:45
it was clear for the the community and
2:04:48
the surrounding residents
2:04:49
and that it also um that what we move
2:04:51
forward with also
2:04:53
helps preserve some of the peace for
2:04:55
those that would otherwise be impacted
2:04:57
by such activity
2:05:00
thank you deputy city administrator
2:05:01
councilmember walsh for the question
2:05:04
nope sorry councilmember hall with a
2:05:06
question followed by councilmember walsh
2:05:10
thank you mayor paulie uh this is
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councilmember zach hall uh
2:05:13
um deputy administrator snyder first and
2:05:16
foremost thank you very much for the
2:05:17
detailed packet and thank you for
2:05:18
answering my questions via email
2:05:22
very helpful um my one outstanding
2:05:25
question has to do with one of the
2:05:26
planning policy commission's concerns
2:05:28
which was
2:05:30
that isoqua's limitations on work hours
2:05:32
are already stricter than surrounding
2:05:34
cities can you
2:05:35
get into that a little bit more is it
2:05:38
largely
2:05:39
stricter than surrounding communities or
2:05:42
just the
2:05:46
you know where i'm going with that okay
2:05:49
i
2:05:49
i believe i do let me attempt to answer
2:05:51
thank you this is andrea snyder again
2:05:54
um i i think that their comment was
2:05:56
around the
2:05:57
um restriction of work hours to a monday
2:06:00
through friday schedule and that
2:06:03
many surrounding cities also allow
2:06:05
saturday work
2:06:06
and in issaquah's case we allow saturday
2:06:08
work
2:06:09
only if there's a public benefit and so
2:06:12
we have stipulations to do
2:06:14
that but we but we typically need to
2:06:15
understand
2:06:17
and have them demonstrate for us that
2:06:18
there's a significant public benefit
2:06:20
to saturday work
2:06:24
thank you deputy um we have council
2:06:26
member walsh up nick
2:06:28
thank you this is councilmember walsh
2:06:31
given
2:06:32
the large-ish
2:06:35
difference between the administration's
2:06:37
recommendation and
2:06:39
the um ppc's conclusion off of this
2:06:43
i'm wondering about the timeline what
2:06:47
what would be the effect if we
2:06:51
said nope maybe this needs a little bit
2:06:53
more baking we need to think about
2:06:55
what we're looking to achieve and
2:06:59
other alternatives in other ways can you
2:07:02
talk to me about
2:07:03
any impacts of doing that and then what
2:07:06
the
2:07:06
process might look like
2:07:12
thank you councilmember walsh this is
2:07:14
andrea snyder uh
2:07:16
as far as the timeline goes our timeline
2:07:19
is pretty flexible
2:07:20
we can certainly take more time with
2:07:22
this if that's something that
2:07:23
council would like if that's the case
2:07:25
then i would
2:07:27
uh really love to hear from council if
2:07:29
there's particular direction that they
2:07:31
would like us to
2:07:32
pursue um or or things that we should
2:07:35
consider that we haven't yet considered
2:07:38
um or additional goals that you may have
2:07:41
with this clarification of language so
2:07:44
uh we certainly welcome
2:07:46
input that would help us determine the
2:07:48
process moving forward
2:07:50
one of those steps could be additional
2:07:52
outreach to uh some stakeholders
2:07:55
um i'm i'm fairly confident i know what
2:07:58
master builders would likely have to say
2:08:00
about this one
2:08:01
um but we can certainly do more outreach
2:08:04
to have that conversation
2:08:06
and we could also take it back to
2:08:07
planning policy commission
2:08:09
um and try to identify alternatives
2:08:12
if this um suggested amendment is
2:08:16
um is uh if we if we need to look for
2:08:20
other alternatives
2:08:25
thank you i'm looking for additional
2:08:27
questions and if not i would be looking
2:08:29
for somebody to make a motion
2:08:31
so that you can have some deliberations
2:08:33
and provide your thoughts and comments
2:08:42
mayor paulie had a question yes i
2:08:45
just saw that so before we go to the
2:08:47
motion council member dean michelle
2:08:48
what's your question
2:08:50
uh just i just want to drill down a
2:08:53
little bit
2:08:53
further on i know that you was the
2:08:56
department received
2:09:00
complaints from neighborhood folks but
2:09:03
did was there any outreach to people in
2:09:07
the neighborhoods
2:09:07
asking them about the proposed changes
2:09:11
um or was were their complaints just
2:09:14
part of your thinking
2:09:16
in terms of developing this proposed
2:09:18
ordinance
2:09:21
uh thank you councilmember dean michelle
2:09:23
this is andrea snyder
2:09:25
their complaints that we've received uh
2:09:28
since
2:09:29
the code was revised are what
2:09:34
are the is the formed the reasoning for
2:09:37
why we wanted to revisit the code
2:09:38
language and provide additional clarity
2:09:40
uh we did not provide any additional
2:09:43
outreach
2:09:44
beyond um beyond what we've heard from
2:09:48
communities to date
2:09:51
and before we go to the motion as well i
2:09:54
believe
2:09:54
uh city minister bob kowitz would like
2:09:56
to make a comment
2:09:58
uh yes thank you madam mayor members of
2:10:00
the council kind of follow up on
2:10:01
councilmember d michelle's question
2:10:03
um when these issues came to me uh from
2:10:07
community members and
2:10:08
as ms schneider had mentioned uh you
2:10:11
know i i agreed with the inconsistency
2:10:14
that when we say there are no
2:10:15
construction times i think people
2:10:18
take that to the bank i think the the
2:10:20
issue of infill the issue of people
2:10:23
especially those who have been home
2:10:26
for the last eight months uh when they
2:10:28
know that you can't work on saturdays
2:10:30
and they see work on saturdays
2:10:32
and so uh in talking with mayor paulie
2:10:35
when this issue
2:10:36
came up a couple of months ago you know
2:10:38
it really was me who said
2:10:40
you know i think we owe it to our
2:10:41
residents that you know we have rules
2:10:44
that say you can't work on the weekends
2:10:46
they see people making deliveries they
2:10:48
think it's work
2:10:49
um and they've been sitting home uh
2:10:51
having to deal with the construction
2:10:53
um through this this cobit period um
2:10:56
it just seemed like it was a fair and
2:10:58
reasonable way to
2:11:00
make the adjustment so i think it from
2:11:02
my perspective really wasn't something
2:11:04
that required a lot of community
2:11:06
discussion
2:11:06
i for me it was just a matter of
2:11:10
what are we what are we providing to our
2:11:12
residents what kind of assurances are we
2:11:13
providing
2:11:14
and if this change in the code you know
2:11:16
helps just make it simpler for the
2:11:18
average resident
2:11:19
who was looking for some piece on the
2:11:20
weekend you know that was good enough
2:11:22
for me to recommend to the mayor that we
2:11:24
move forward with this as an
2:11:25
administrative
2:11:26
uh change or administration sponsor
2:11:28
change moving forward
2:11:38
all right okay it looks like thank you
2:11:41
city mr above quits it looks like our
2:11:43
attorney mr haney would also like to
2:11:44
make a comment to everyone
2:11:47
i was just going to comment that when
2:11:49
this issue came to me
2:11:51
from chris grabowski the
2:11:54
question that had arisen was we had
2:11:57
received a complaint
2:11:58
about the moving of equipment on or off
2:12:01
a site on the weekend and
2:12:05
the code contained no definition of
2:12:08
construction
2:12:09
activity it just said construction
2:12:12
activity
2:12:13
is prohibited except during the specific
2:12:16
hours
2:12:17
so we were struggling with the issue of
2:12:21
well is just driving a vehicle
2:12:24
off of the site or moving the equipment
2:12:27
off the site
2:12:27
is that construction activity or is it
2:12:30
not
2:12:31
it's not actually constructing anything
2:12:33
the question is just
2:12:34
moving the equipment on or off the site
2:12:37
and so that was kind of the origin
2:12:39
of the issue and that's why
2:12:42
the um the code section that's being
2:12:45
proposed
2:12:46
defines construction activity you can
2:12:48
define it in any way that you want
2:12:51
that is appropriate to meet the
2:12:54
your intent as a council but that was
2:12:56
the origin of the
2:12:58
of the ordinance
2:13:03
thank you mr haney i'm not seeing any
2:13:06
other comments or
2:13:07
oh a question from councilmember goodman
2:13:10
uh thank you councilmember goodman here
2:13:12
this is probably a question for jim
2:13:14
haney
2:13:15
in the proposed ordinance construction
2:13:19
activity defined
2:13:20
it says construction activity means any
2:13:23
activity directly related
2:13:26
directly related to an active permitted
2:13:29
project um
2:13:33
what about wiggle room here if somebody
2:13:36
argues that it's indirectly related
2:13:47
can can you possibly tell me what you
2:13:50
think indirectly related would be
2:13:52
um um
2:14:02
well i think of this is that
2:14:06
if we had directly related before
2:14:10
um in the definition and we didn't have
2:14:14
the
2:14:14
such an expansive definition here then i
2:14:16
think the argument could be made that it
2:14:18
was
2:14:18
indirect not direct so i'm wondering
2:14:22
if we possibly expanded to say any
2:14:26
activity directly or indirectly related
2:14:28
i don't know
2:14:29
just it's just my thought as soon as you
2:14:31
as soon as you have something in here
2:14:33
that's directly and particularly
2:14:38
um if you're using your brain or you
2:14:41
have an attorney you're gonna go well
2:14:43
this is indirectly related so that's
2:14:45
what that's really what i'm
2:14:46
if we're trying to be clear i'm
2:14:48
wondering if we need to be clearer
2:14:51
we we can certainly do that the language
2:14:54
that was put together there is mr
2:14:56
grabowski's language
2:14:58
um so i'm not exactly sure what he meant
2:15:01
or what his concern was there
2:15:03
i presume it was to make it
2:15:06
easier to enforce that he could find
2:15:08
that it was related to a permit
2:15:11
but um but uh
2:15:15
you know i don't think there would be an
2:15:17
issue with saying directly or indirectly
2:15:20
all right well maybe it's something you
2:15:22
can look at if we have any other
2:15:25
questions i would think we either
2:15:27
take out directly and just say relate it
2:15:30
or we say directly or indirectly
2:15:32
because we already have the not limited
2:15:33
to um so if we want to give ourselves
2:15:37
the
2:15:38
maximum definition here and the least
2:15:40
amount of wiggle room
2:15:41
then the clearer we want to be the
2:15:43
better
2:15:46
thank you councilmember goodman that is
2:15:48
very interesting suggestion there are
2:15:50
many activities that can happen on the
2:15:52
site that someone could argue you're not
2:15:54
directly related to construction
2:15:57
stockpiling fence stockpiling materials
2:16:00
all kinds of things that can be done
2:16:02
without a permit so interesting
2:16:05
um i am not seeing any other questions
2:16:07
at this point in time
2:16:08
if we're ready to move into discussion
2:16:10
and deliberations is somebody prepared
2:16:12
to make a motion
2:16:21
deputy council president ray
2:16:27
thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray
2:16:29
um i moved to adopt jordan's number
2:16:34
2929 2929 relating to construction hours
2:16:38
amending imc
2:16:41
16.35.005
2:16:43
to add a definition of construction
2:16:45
activity
2:16:46
and adding imc 1635.030
2:16:51
exempting certain activities from the
2:16:53
limits on construction hours
2:17:00
thank you do we have a second
2:17:06
council member hall makes more police
2:17:09
councilmembers alcohol i'll
2:17:10
second that motion that's been moved in
2:17:13
secondary we're going to move into
2:17:14
discussion deliberations
2:17:16
oh uh we have a motion to
2:17:19
amend which i assume i could take right
2:17:22
now city clerk
2:17:25
yes okay councilmember goodman you have
2:17:28
motion
2:17:31
um yes thank you and i would be willing
2:17:33
to
2:17:34
amend my proposed amendment if we have
2:17:36
any response from
2:17:38
uh uh jim haney um i would make a motion
2:17:41
to amend
2:17:42
the definition of construction activity
2:17:45
to remove the word directly
2:17:51
so the motion is to move the word
2:17:55
remove the word directly and deputy
2:17:58
council president ray
2:18:00
this is chris ray i second that it's
2:18:03
been moved and seconded
2:18:04
to remove the word directly from the
2:18:07
definition
2:18:08
um discussion
2:18:11
councilmember goodman thank you
2:18:14
councilmember goodman here
2:18:15
uh so my question is to jim haney and if
2:18:18
he has any
2:18:19
um opinion on whether that's if
2:18:22
to make an amendment to make it clear
2:18:25
does he have any opinion on whether the
2:18:26
way to go would be removed directly
2:18:28
or to add indirectly and directly
2:18:34
you know i think we're moving the word
2:18:37
directly
2:18:37
just in saying that it's related to a
2:18:39
permit gives you a broader
2:18:42
uh application so if that is your intent
2:18:44
i think that language change is fine
2:18:47
great thank you and councilmember
2:18:49
goodman would you like to speak to your
2:18:50
amendment
2:18:53
um no because i think i spoke enough to
2:18:56
it already before i made the amendment
2:18:57
if anybody is unclear they can ask me a
2:18:59
question thanks
2:19:00
just thought i would give you a chance
2:19:02
is there anyone else who would like to
2:19:03
speak to the amendment
2:19:09
i'll give a couple more seconds
2:19:13
okay it's been moved and seconded to
2:19:15
remove the word
2:19:16
oops we do have a comment council member
2:19:18
hall thank you mayor paulie this is that
2:19:20
call just a quick one
2:19:21
um i think if we're going to move
2:19:24
forward with the underlying motion this
2:19:26
amendment to the motion just makes sense
2:19:28
so i'm going to support this
2:19:29
amendment thank you for your comment any
2:19:32
other comments
2:19:38
right the amendment is to
2:19:41
remove the word directly from the
2:19:43
definition
2:19:44
and i'll go to the clerk for a roll call
2:19:46
vote on the amendment
2:19:48
beginning with council member hall aye
2:19:52
council president hunt aye council
2:19:55
member mark
2:19:56
aye deputy council president ray aye
2:20:00
council member walsh aye council member
2:20:04
d michelle
2:20:05
aye councilmember goodman aye
2:20:09
that's seven i zero nays so the
2:20:12
amendment carries
2:20:14
i'll go back to deputy council president
2:20:16
ray would you like to speak to the main
2:20:17
motion
2:20:19
thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray
2:20:21
um
2:20:22
just a couple thoughts on the main
2:20:23
motion and and i think uh city
2:20:25
administrator
2:20:26
bob quits uh spoke to this really well
2:20:30
i think this makes sense from a couple
2:20:32
of perspectives and this is one where
2:20:34
i'm going to rely a little bit
2:20:35
on council members goodman and marks who
2:20:38
were around in
2:20:40
2016 when the revised hours of
2:20:44
construction ordinance was passed
2:20:46
but this seems to be in my mind as we
2:20:48
move into an
2:20:49
area where we're doing more construction
2:20:51
in infill and in existing neighborhoods
2:20:53
the intent was to provide
2:20:56
peace and tranquility in in non-standard
2:21:00
business hours so after seven and on
2:21:02
weekends
2:21:03
so this is consistent with the intent
2:21:05
and the second
2:21:06
word that comes to my mind is
2:21:08
expectations and it's really
2:21:10
the community doesn't know the
2:21:11
difference between if i'm um
2:21:13
you know doing construction activity or
2:21:16
removing equipment all i know is
2:21:17
it is uh disruptive um to
2:21:21
to me and has an impact on my quality of
2:21:24
life so
2:21:25
from a community perspective it helps to
2:21:29
deal with what i should and shouldn't
2:21:31
expect of hours of construction
2:21:32
and also it takes ambiguity out of the
2:21:35
question
2:21:36
for the developers they know what they
2:21:38
can and they cannot do
2:21:39
and i think finally the last thing is it
2:21:41
provides clarity um
2:21:43
you know the the situation that jim uh
2:21:45
uh
2:21:46
mr haney referenced was we had a
2:21:48
situation where we didn't know how to
2:21:50
interpret the
2:21:51
uh the code it was ambiguous so it
2:21:54
provides clarity and i think anything we
2:21:56
can do to make our code
2:21:58
clearer and less ambiguous makes us
2:22:01
stronger for it so i think this is uh
2:22:05
this is in the community's interest to
2:22:07
move forwardness
2:22:09
thank you deputy council president ray i
2:22:11
believe the second for the main motion
2:22:12
was council member hall did you have any
2:22:14
comments
2:22:18
sure mayor paulie this is councilmember
2:22:19
zach hall um
2:22:23
i seconded the motion um first and
2:22:25
foremost because i wanted there to be a
2:22:27
discussion
2:22:28
about this item um i've actually got
2:22:32
two arguments kind of playing out my
2:22:34
head in my head on either side right now
2:22:36
so maybe i'll just comment on that
2:22:37
and then hopefully hear more comment
2:22:40
from other council members
2:22:41
um the biggest thing coming into this
2:22:44
meeting
2:22:46
in terms of a point of concern for me
2:22:48
was just the difference
2:22:50
in recommendations from the planning
2:22:52
policy commission and from
2:22:53
administration
2:22:54
i wasn't sure if i felt super
2:22:56
comfortable about that um
2:22:58
but i thought city administrator bob
2:23:00
kuitz and deputy council president ray
2:23:01
made a really good point as well
2:23:03
about you know ensuring our policies
2:23:05
actually reflect
2:23:07
reality they're enlightened with intent
2:23:09
and you know
2:23:10
respect for neighbors especially as new
2:23:13
development will be
2:23:15
closer and closer to existing
2:23:16
neighborhoods now i thought that was a
2:23:17
really compelling point
2:23:19
i'm leaning that way i would like to
2:23:21
hear what
2:23:22
the rest of the council thinks thank you
2:23:24
very much thank you councilmember hall
2:23:27
any other council members wishing to
2:23:30
comment
2:23:36
council president hunt thank you this is
2:23:40
council president hunt
2:23:42
one of the things that the title 18
2:23:45
ad hoc has on our um
2:23:49
list of values that we want to include
2:23:52
as we
2:23:53
um revise the title 18 part of our code
2:23:56
is
2:23:56
around consistency and um this is
2:23:59
this as far as i understand it's in 16
2:24:02
so it's not in um title 18 but at the
2:24:04
same time i think
2:24:05
um it's it's relevant you know we we
2:24:08
know that after 18 we will probably also
2:24:10
have to look at title 16
2:24:12
and so that is a ways off and i think
2:24:16
making changes to
2:24:19
improve quality of life for
2:24:22
residents even though it's not
2:24:26
fixing the consistency across like the
2:24:28
whole code i think that
2:24:29
incremental improvements as they come up
2:24:32
um
2:24:33
is appropriate at the same time i
2:24:35
recognize that
2:24:36
that doing these improvements that way
2:24:38
kind of like picking one piece and
2:24:40
and doing that i think it doesn't
2:24:44
it doesn't um make as much sense as if
2:24:48
you were to
2:24:49
you know make sure that everything has a
2:24:51
definition for instance but
2:24:53
this definition came up we didn't have a
2:24:55
definition in code we're now adding it
2:24:57
and i think i think that makes sense to
2:25:00
do
2:25:00
so i will be in support
2:25:06
thank you councilmember hunt
2:25:07
councilmember mertz thank you madam
2:25:10
mayor
2:25:10
um i think i'm going to vote no on this
2:25:13
i think
2:25:14
that the combination of
2:25:17
the difference between the
2:25:19
administration and
2:25:22
the the commission uh combined with the
2:25:26
fact that
2:25:27
this is happening quickly um i just feel
2:25:30
like
2:25:31
we normally say we like to err on the
2:25:33
side of getting citizen
2:25:35
and community input i certainly think
2:25:38
there's
2:25:39
folks that would support doing this but
2:25:43
i i just feel this one's a little bit
2:25:45
hasty so i'm going to vote no
2:25:46
thank you thank you councilmember mars
2:25:50
any other council members
2:25:55
council member goodman thank you
2:25:57
councilmember goodman here
2:25:59
um i'm going to vote in support because
2:26:01
i think that
2:26:03
the clarifications here are consistent
2:26:05
with the intent of the code
2:26:07
and that um the code was not um
2:26:10
i just think it needed clarification um
2:26:13
and uh did go to planning policy
2:26:17
which is where it should have gone and
2:26:19
back to us
2:26:20
so um and i agree with council president
2:26:23
hunt
2:26:24
um that where clarity is needed where we
2:26:27
have an issue we should address it even
2:26:28
though i know
2:26:29
we're going to deal with title 18 later
2:26:31
on so i'm going to support it thank you
2:26:35
thank you council member goodman
2:26:37
councilmember d michelle
2:26:40
uh thank you mayor paulie um just very
2:26:42
briefly i
2:26:43
i i am leaning towards supporting this
2:26:46
um
2:26:47
i i do think the policy planning
2:26:49
commission raised some very good issues
2:26:51
and especially about the outreach
2:26:53
process um
2:26:55
but um i do accept the the
2:26:58
explanations that were provided by the
2:27:00
administration and
2:27:02
i think um going into the future if we
2:27:05
can just be sure that we're
2:27:07
very um listening to
2:27:10
you know how this is playing out how
2:27:12
it's working is it solving the problem
2:27:14
we want to solve
2:27:16
but i think we can go ahead or at least
2:27:18
i could i feel comfortable going ahead
2:27:20
tonight and saying yes
2:27:22
um and then watch how it how it works
2:27:25
on the ground thank you thank you
2:27:28
councilmember d michelle
2:27:30
i am just going to look at the chat box
2:27:33
to see if anybody else wishes to comment
2:27:36
before we call for the vote
2:27:44
council president ray
2:27:48
thank you mayor police chris ray i just
2:27:50
want to acknowledge um also ppc because
2:27:52
i thought they were very thoughtful
2:27:54
and and you know they brought up some
2:27:56
really good points um
2:27:58
but i think you know moving forward it's
2:28:00
it's uh
2:28:01
what's the what's the best way to move
2:28:03
this forward and i also agree with
2:28:04
councilmember d michelle
2:28:06
in that from a process and also
2:28:09
councilman march from a process
2:28:10
perspective
2:28:11
you know citizen feedback is a
2:28:15
you know something we value very much uh
2:28:18
that being said i think that we're at a
2:28:20
point where
2:28:22
this is a decision i think
2:28:25
where we can make tonight and i i think
2:28:28
if we were to go out and do a round of
2:28:30
citizen feedback i'm not sure that we
2:28:32
would get um
2:28:33
much new information and uh
2:28:36
so those are just my final thoughts and
2:28:39
recognizing
2:28:40
the important work that was done to get
2:28:42
this here
2:28:44
thank you and back down my list here
2:28:49
thank you deputy council president ray
2:28:52
um seeing no one else in chat
2:28:54
that would like to add a further comment
2:28:57
uh the motion before the council is to
2:28:59
adopt ordinance number 2929
2:29:02
relating to construction hours amending
2:29:04
imc
2:29:06
16.35 .35.005 to add a definition of
2:29:10
construction activity
2:29:12
and adding imc 16.35.030
2:29:15
exempting certain activity from the
2:29:17
limits on construction hours
2:29:19
as amended and i'll go to the city clerk
2:29:22
for a roll call vote beginning with
2:29:25
council president hunt
2:29:28
aye council member mart
2:29:31
no deputy council president ray
2:29:35
aye council member walsh
2:29:38
aye council member d michelle
2:29:42
aye councilmember goodman aye
2:29:47
councilmember hall hi that's six eyes
2:29:51
one nay thank you very much city clerk
2:29:54
that passes six to one and the next item
2:29:57
on the agenda this evening is good of
2:29:59
the order
2:30:00
if anyone has anything for good of the
2:30:02
order please feel free to add it in the
2:30:04
chat box
2:30:05
i'll jump ahead and start reading some
2:30:07
meeting notices as well
2:30:09
i'm waiting to see if anybody would like
2:30:11
to make a comment
2:30:12
so the november 24th council study
2:30:15
session
2:30:16
is cancelled and the following upcoming
2:30:18
meetings will be held virtually
2:30:21
there will be a city council regular
2:30:22
meeting on monday december 7th with
2:30:25
potential agenda items including
2:30:27
a public hearing on extension of
2:30:29
temporary regulatory relief
2:30:31
for businesses the 2020 comprehensive
2:30:34
plan amendments and rezones
2:30:36
the 2021 legislative agenda
2:30:39
repealing chapter 8.05 retail carryout
2:30:43
bags
2:30:44
an extension of rv park management
2:30:47
agreement
2:30:48
and a final 2020 budget amendment
2:30:53
the city council meeting following that
2:30:56
will be on sorry that city council
2:30:59
regular meeting the city council special
2:31:01
meeting
2:31:01
following that will be on tuesday
2:31:03
december 8th
2:31:04
at 8 a.m for the annual legislative
2:31:07
breakfast
2:31:08
with the city council and issaquah state
2:31:10
legislators
2:31:13
going back in to see if there are any uh
2:31:17
good of the order and i'm
2:31:20
believing council member hall has
2:31:22
comment
2:31:24
just a really quick one mayor paulie
2:31:26
this is uh council member's at call
2:31:28
i just wanted to
2:31:31
end by saying you know given the public
2:31:34
health crisis
2:31:35
escalating numbers and new restrictions
2:31:38
placed by
2:31:40
the state executive's office um i just
2:31:43
want to say how very much our local
2:31:44
business community
2:31:46
and first responders and healthcare
2:31:47
workers are on my mind and in my heart
2:31:50
um over these next couple weeks
2:31:53
and to the members of the community we
2:31:55
are not going to beat this
2:31:57
if we don't come together to do so
2:32:01
if we fragment if we find opportunities
2:32:04
to disagree and to
2:32:09
not support the restrictions that are in
2:32:13
place that are designed to protect us
2:32:15
um we're not going to
2:32:18
succeed as quickly as we would like to
2:32:22
and lives could be lost so i just wanted
2:32:24
to underline that and just say how very
2:32:26
much
2:32:26
our business community and healthcare
2:32:27
workers are on my mind
2:32:30
thank you councilmember hal totally
2:32:32
agree it's been a very difficult year
2:32:35
but we need to hang in there if we have
2:32:37
more to do
2:32:39
i am so impressed with what the
2:32:41
community
2:32:42
has done and the community spirit has
2:32:44
shown i just
2:32:45
wanted to sort of drop another little
2:32:48
nugget out there council president hunt
2:32:50
and i are both
2:32:51
considering if we can pull together a
2:32:54
2020 local hero award
2:32:58
that would be some way of collecting all
2:33:01
those fantastic
2:33:03
stories of what the community did to
2:33:06
hold on and protect itself and pick
2:33:09
itself up during this crisis i am sure
2:33:11
there are tons of stories
2:33:13
that when i look around town and see how
2:33:15
we're doing and we're doing well
2:33:17
it's because everybody's commitment so
2:33:19
we're hoping to gather some
2:33:21
fabulous information to share and some
2:33:24
thank yous to give out to
2:33:25
those in our community like the front
2:33:27
line workers and like
2:33:29
all those community members who have
2:33:30
supported businesses through
2:33:34
doing takeout and buying gift cards
2:33:36
there's just
2:33:37
going to be a million things to share
2:33:38
but thank you for those closing comments
2:33:41
very good there was an executive session
2:33:44
that was held earlier this evening
2:33:46
and the last item on our agenda this
2:33:47
evening is
2:33:49
adjournment and so there being no
2:33:50
further business the meeting is
2:33:52
adjourned at 9 36
2:33:54
they will thanks