City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, November 16, 2020 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

First for Roll Call Vote: Councilmember Walsh

6. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

PFAS Update ID 0773

packet pp.5–14

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

This Informational Update is to provide the Council with the progress made on the investigation of Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the Lower Issaquah Valley Aquifer by the PFAS Partnership over the past year.

Citywide Work Plan & Capital Improvement Plan Updates ID 0764

Carried 7-0

packet pp.15–69

Topics: Budget

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Feb 1, 2020 Transportation Advisory Board · Jun 18, 2020

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Staff report:

This informational update will provide the current status of the 2020-2021 Work Plan (Exhibit A) and the 2020 Capital Projects List (Exhibit B).

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of Nov. 16, 2020, $11,277,657.88 ID 0679

Approve · packet pp.71–93

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

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

Minutes: City Council Budget Study Session, Oct. 27, 2020

Approve · packet pp.95–96

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 10-27-20 Council Budget Study Session Minutes Page (0000)

Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Nov. 2, 2020

Approve · packet pp.97–101

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 11-02-20 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)

Temporary Water Supply Agreement with Cascade Water Alliance AB 8036

Authorize · packet pp.103–113

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

The City of Issaquah is one of seven members who purchase potable water from CWA. For various reasons, CWA has more water supply available than they can sell. CWA continues to purchase 33.3 million gallons per day (MGD) of supply from Seattle while using only 27 to 28 MGD in recent years. The surplus unused capacity could potentially benefit the four CWA members with independent supply (Issaquah is one of those 4) if provided at a reduced cost in return for reduced independent production. This arrangement would benefit all CWA members through an increased revenue stream and benefit interested members by providing cost-effective temporary alternatives to well production.

Performance Measurement Plan AB 8046

Approve · packet pp.115–180

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Staff report:

During the February 2020 Issaquah City Council retreat, staff presented a plan to transition the City from its current incremental, departmental-based budgeting system to a priority-based budgeting approach that will better align the City’s budget to the Strategic Plan and will allow the City to measure its progress in achieving the goals that it establishes. Part of this transition is establishing a performance measurement program that identifies metrics the City will commit to tracking over time and a plan to use these measures in making policy and programmatic decisions.

Changes to 457 Deferred Compensation and Compensatory Time for FLSA - Exempt Non-Represented Employees AB 8051

Approve · packet pp.181–182

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Apr 20, 2020

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Staff report:

The City’s total compensation philosophy includes that we believe in a transparent, market-competitive approach to total compensation. As part of the continued work of the Citywide classification and compensation study to address total employee compensation including benefits, the City has identified a need to address the 457 Deferred Compensation matching benefit for FLSA - Exempt non-represented employees that does not reflect benefits commonplace in the surrounding labor market.

Eastside Fire & Rescue Nonprofit Formation AB 8057

Approve · packet pp.183–231

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

In July 2019, the EF&R Board began the process to assess the potential of a new governance model. Goals of the potential formation were to share the responsibility for employee costs between the partners and establish a joint entity that can own assets, while ensuring employees remain government employees.

State Department of Health Drinking Water State Revolving Fund AB 8059

Authorize · packet pp.233–235

Topics: WaterBudget

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Staff report:

SUMMARY STATEMENT

FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Sub-Application Grant AB 8060

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.237–238

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

In August 2020, the Emergency Management Division of the Washington State Military Department announced the Annual Hazard Mitigation Grant Programs FY2020 funding opportunity. The program includes two types of sub-grants: the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant. This City Council authorization request is for the FMA grant.

King County Youth and Amateur Sports Grant AB 8062

Accept Grant; Authorize Agreement · packet pp.239–253

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Staff report:

Metropolitan King County Councilmember Dunn, District 9 awarded the City one-time funding totaling $5,000 to support programs to address athletic and fitness needs of youth.

Memorandum of Agreement with Catholic Community Services re: Congregate Meal Program AB 8063

Authorize · packet pp.255–260

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Staff report:

Catholic Community Services has been serving congregate meals within the Issaquah Senior Center since 2017 when the City began interim operations of this facility. For many years prior to 2017, CCS provided meals within the facility through the Issaquah Valley Senior Center, a third party operator of the facility. The attached MOA with CCS is the same agreement the City entered into for 2019-2020, but this agreement is for the 2021-2022 provision of meals.

Amendment to Interagency Agreement with Department of Ecology: PFAS Groundwater Modeling AB 8068

Authorize · packet pp.261–264

Topics: WaterCritical Areas

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Staff report:

In late 2015, detections of PFAS were found in the Lower Issaquah Valley Aquifer. The City’s smallest well, Well 4, was affected. The City implemented a treatment system removing the PFAS from the water supply and performed an investigation of the aquifer.

PSE Green Direct First Amendment AB 8070

Authorize · packet pp.265–274

Topics: Climate

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Staff report:

In 2016, Puget Sound Energy received approval from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) to offer a Green Direct tariff for municipal and large corporate customers. This innovative new tariff provides customers with the opportunity to purchase power from renewable energy sources in the northwest over a 10, 15 or 20 year term for power from a new wind facility located in southwest Washington in Lewis and Thurston counties, now called Skookumchuck Wind project.

Reallocation of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) Funding AB 8072

Authorize · packet pp.275–276

Topics: BudgetEconomic Development

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Staff report:

The City is eligible to receive $1,716,550 in CARES Act funding via the Washington State Department of Commerce on a reimbursement basis for eligible expenses incurred through Nov. 30, 2020. The City Council, through AB 7992, AB 8032, and AB 8044 allocated $475,000 of its total $1,716,550 CARES Act allotment for human services assistance and outreach and case management services as provided by several non-profit organizations.

8. PUBLIC HEARING

Proposed 2021 Budget & Salary Ordinance AB 7991

Carried 7-0

Conduct Public Hearing; Adopt Ordinances · packet pp.277–480

Topics: Land UseBudget

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends the City Council conduct the public hearings and adopt the salary and budget ordinances.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

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

9. REGULAR BUSINESS

Amending IMC 16.35, Construction Hours AB 8045

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.481–493

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Oct 7, 2020

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Staff report:

In 2016, the City adopted Ordinance No. 2777, which updated regulations for when contractors can perform work on a permitted job site. The revised standards were adopted by the City Council in response to several complaints received from City residents relating to construction. The intent of the updated code was to provide better clarity of the City's work hours and to minimize the amount of disruption occurring to residents in the evenings and on weekends from construction activities.

Proposed 2021 Budget & Salary Ordinance AB 7991

Adopt Ordinances

Topics: Land UseBudget

10. GOOD OF THE ORDER

10a

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:11 ↗ meeting format

0:13 ↗ on march 6 i issued an emergency

0:15 ↗ proclamation declaring a civil emergency

0:17 ↗ 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

0:26 ↗ open public meetings

0:28 ↗ the proclamation has been extended

0:30 ↗ through december 7th

0:31 ↗ due to these proclamations tonight

0:33 ↗ 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

1:45 ↗ 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

2:00 ↗ here thank you all we have all seven

2:04 ↗ 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

2:10 ↗ 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

2:20 ↗ united states of america

2:22 ↗ and to the republic for which it stands

2:25 ↗ one nation

2:26 ↗ under god indivisible with liberty and

2:29 ↗ 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

4:15 ↗ to declare can you please identify the

4:17 ↗ first person who has signed up to speak

4:19 ↗ this evening

4:22 ↗ 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

4:40 ↗ jacobson

4:42 ↗ jake i'm requesting you on mute now

4:47 ↗ thank you can you hear me yes we can

4:51 ↗ awesome thank you and good evening my

4:54 ↗ name is jake olson jacobson i am a

4:56 ↗ longtime resident

4:58 ↗ currently living at 480 and mountain

5:00 ↗ park boulevard southwest

5:02 ↗ here in issaquah and uh i led the israel

5:06 ↗ trolley group during the year

5:08 ↗ 2015-29 but have been involved

5:12 ↗ for many years since the current trolley

5:14 ↗ car arrived in the city of issaquah

5:17 ↗ mayor issaquah city council and citizens

5:20 ↗ of issaquah

5:21 ↗ as many of you are aware the issaquah

5:23 ↗ history museums has voted to discontinue

5:26 ↗ the issaquah trolley as a program of the

5:29 ↗ izakaya history museums

5:31 ↗ this action was primarily due to the

5:33 ↗ required increase

5:34 ↗ in liability insurance required by the

5:37 ↗ city of issaquah

5:38 ↗ roughly doubling the insurance premium

5:41 ↗ required to operate the trolley

5:44 ↗ on city-owned tracks the iss crow valley

5:47 ↗ trolley

5:48 ↗ has been a very visible and engaging

5:50 ↗ part of is aqua's community for many

5:52 ↗ years

5:53 ↗ and is now a part of issaquah's history

5:56 ↗ much like the refurbished izakaya depot

5:59 ↗ shell gas station homes candies xxx

6:02 ↗ and other places of public and

6:04 ↗ historical interest in issaquah

6:07 ↗ i am now leading a group of trolley

6:09 ↗ enthusiasts that include the trolley

6:11 ↗ committee members

6:12 ↗ responsible for operating the 95 year

6:14 ↗ old trolley car

6:16 ↗ under the issaquah history museums we

6:19 ↗ are very much

6:20 ↗ interested in finding a new operational

6:22 ↗ sponsor

6:23 ↗ able to provide the organizational means

6:26 ↗ to continue

6:27 ↗ izakaya valley trolley operations once

6:30 ↗ the health risks of the current pandemic

6:32 ↗ subside and we are able to operate while

6:35 ↗ ensuring the safety of our guests

6:38 ↗ we are asking for the city council and

6:40 ↗ communities help to support our efforts

6:43 ↗ finding a local sponsoring organization

6:46 ↗ and sources of funding uh the

6:49 ↗ incremental insurance costs required to

6:51 ↗ continue

6:52 ↗ operation of this well-loved issaquah

6:55 ↗ landmark

6:56 ↗ thank you for your time this evening

6:58 ↗ thank you very much jay

7:00 ↗ city clerk has anyone else signed up to

7:01 ↗ speak this evening

7:04 ↗ yes the phone in caller with the last

7:06 ↗ two digits

7:07 ↗ two nine i'm requesting you on youtube

7:14 ↗ now

7:16 ↗ thank you i'm here to speak this evening

7:19 ↗ to ab7991 so i'm happy to wait until

7:22 ↗ then

7:24 ↗ thank you very much do you want to

7:26 ↗ provide the city clerk your name

7:28 ↗ so that she can include it in the list

7:29 ↗ of speakers for the public hearing

7:32 ↗ that would have been a great idea to

7:33 ↗ start with yes thank you mayor paulie

7:36 ↗ that's kathy mccrory at the chamber of

7:38 ↗ commerce okay thanks kathy

7:42 ↗ city clerk who is uh next up for public

7:44 ↗ comments this evening

7:46 ↗ we don't have anyone else on the list uh

7:49 ↗ for the general audience comments

7:50 ↗ 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

7:56 ↗ press star

7:56 ↗ 3 on your phone that's star 3

8:03 ↗ and let's give them just a moment

8:08 ↗ and i don't see that anyone's indicated

8:10 ↗ a desire to speak at this time

8:13 ↗ that's great thank you city clerk and um

8:16 ↗ thank you jake for coming and speaking

8:18 ↗ to to us

8:19 ↗ tonight um as a council and a mayor and

8:22 ↗ administration and

8:24 ↗ we have received email on this topic as

8:26 ↗ well so thank you for present providing

8:28 ↗ more comment and telling us about the

8:29 ↗ work that's been going on

8:32 ↗ 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

8:39 ↗ the city council is.gov

8:42 ↗ 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

8:53 ↗ item of

8:53 ↗ agenda the next item of business this

8:56 ↗ evening

8:56 ↗ on our agenda is committee and regional

8:59 ↗ reports i will call

9:00 ↗ each council member by name

9:02 ↗ councilmember hall

9:05 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is

9:06 ↗ councilmember zach hall i'll be very

9:08 ↗ brief this evening

9:12 ↗ just a heads up the next meeting of the

9:14 ↗ king county affordable housing committee

9:16 ↗ of the growth management planning

9:17 ↗ council

9:18 ↗ 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

9:26 ↗ 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

9:35 ↗ sector organizations can look to when

9:37 ↗ considering affordable housing tools

9:39 ↗ and revenues so if any of you have any

9:41 ↗ thoughts between now and the end of the

9:43 ↗ year

9:44 ↗ i'd love to hear them and i'd be happy

9:45 ↗ to share our comments uh with the rest

9:47 ↗ of the committee

9:49 ↗ um and if anyone out in the community

9:51 ↗ would like to review the document or

9:53 ↗ chat about it with me too feel free to

9:54 ↗ send me a note at

9:55 ↗ uh z-a-c-h-h at issaquah.gov

10:00 ↗ and i'd be happy to walk you through it

10:02 ↗ um

10:03 ↗ the next meeting of the cascade water

10:05 ↗ alliance board of directors is this

10:08 ↗ wednesday november 18th at 3 30 pm

10:11 ↗ um and then i will let

10:14 ↗ uh either council member goodman or

10:16 ↗ deputy council president ray give the

10:17 ↗ report for last week's

10:18 ↗ east side fire and rescue board meeting

10:21 ↗ that concludes my report mayor paulie

10:23 ↗ thank you council member hall council

10:24 ↗ member g michelle

10:26 ↗ uh thank you mr paulie um

10:30 ↗ this is uh councilmember d michelle i

10:33 ↗ attended the healthier here governing

10:34 ↗ board on november 5th

10:36 ↗ and steady progress is being made on the

10:38 ↗ healthier here mission of integrating

10:40 ↗ 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

11:04 ↗ the other meeting i attended i attended

11:07 ↗ a legislative subcommittee meeting for

11:09 ↗ the east side transportation partnership

11:12 ↗ last thursday and will attend an east

11:14 ↗ side transportation partner partnership

11:17 ↗ 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

11:24 ↗ 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

11:35 ↗ thank you councilmember d michelle next

11:37 ↗ up is councilmember walsh

11:40 ↗ thank you this is councilmember walsh

11:42 ↗ 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

11:56 ↗ short council member goodman

11:58 ↗ thank you mayor probably councilman

12:00 ↗ goodman here um

12:02 ↗ eastside fire and rescue board of

12:03 ↗ directors met last thursday november

12:06 ↗ 12th

12:06 ↗ um we had several things on the agenda

12:11 ↗ the first item of note is that i think

12:13 ↗ it was 32 or 33

12:15 ↗ firefighters in the last month have been

12:17 ↗ exposed to

12:19 ↗ 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

12:41 ↗ 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

12:50 ↗ 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

13:01 ↗ 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

13:18 ↗ coming next at our next full council

13:21 ↗ 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

13:48 ↗ 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

14:00 ↗ those services

14:00 ↗ so i'm going to bring some information

14:02 ↗ to the full council at our first

14:04 ↗ meeting in december so that you all can

14:06 ↗ weigh in on that so we can provide

14:08 ↗ feedback

14:08 ↗ um at our next eastside fire

14:12 ↗ board of directors meeting which is i

14:15 ↗ think it's the 11th

14:16 ↗ um i think it's the second thursday um

14:19 ↗ of each month

14:20 ↗ 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

15:07 ↗ 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

16:13 ↗ report

16:16 ↗ 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

16:40 ↗ 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

45:48 ↗ obviously come before council for

45:50 ↗ consideration

45:51 ↗ and authorization to execute so we have

45:53 ↗ a few more steps to go

45:56 ↗ not seeing any other questions i will go

45:59 ↗ on to

46:00 ↗ the next informational item which is

46:04 ↗ id0764

46:05 ↗ citywide work plan and capital

46:07 ↗ improvement plan updates and i'd like to

46:09 ↗ ask

46:09 ↗ city administrator wally bobcoitz to

46:11 ↗ present this item

46:14 ↗ yes thank you man mayor members of the

46:16 ↗ council um

46:18 ↗ we have a presentation to walk through

46:20 ↗ madame mayor i guess i'd ask the

46:21 ↗ question given time

46:23 ↗ if the council would like us to do a

46:25 ↗ short presentation or just answer any

46:27 ↗ questions

46:28 ↗ of the work plan and the capital

46:29 ↗ improvement plan update documents

46:30 ↗ included in the agenda

46:33 ↗ that's a great suggestion i'll look to

46:35 ↗ the chat box to see

46:36 ↗ council comments on that council

46:42 ↗ president deputy council president ray

46:44 ↗ is indicating the chat box

46:46 ↗ short presentation let's just see what

46:48 ↗ other feedback we get from others

46:59 ↗ okay i think what we'll do city

47:01 ↗ administrator bob quits is

47:02 ↗ move through with a briefer presentation

47:05 ↗ and allow time for

47:06 ↗ questions on the topics that are of

47:07 ↗ interest to the different council

47:09 ↗ members thanks

47:10 ↗ great again thank you ben madam mayor

47:12 ↗ members of the council uh

47:14 ↗ clerk user we can go to the next slide

47:20 ↗ so what we've done in past updates is to

47:22 ↗ try to give you a

47:24 ↗ sort of a larger sense of where we're at

47:26 ↗ for each of the

47:27 ↗ goal areas within the work plan the

47:30 ↗ first is

47:31 ↗ the area of of mobility

47:34 ↗ we've been able to make some additional

47:36 ↗ progress from our last update in august

47:39 ↗ moving forward with a few additional

47:42 ↗ 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

48:01 ↗ was on police traffic management

48:02 ↗ but we had hoped as we were preparing

48:05 ↗ the budget for fiscal

48:06 ↗ 21 that we would be able to recommend

48:09 ↗ some additional investments

48:10 ↗ in police traffic magazine management

48:12 ↗ however given uh the kova 19 crisis

48:15 ↗ uh we have not made those changes so we

48:17 ↗ will continue as we move forward into

48:19 ↗ fiscal

48:20 ↗ 21 to look and see what we can be doing

48:22 ↗ in the area of police traffic management

48:24 ↗ next slide

48:27 ↗ in the goal area of growth and

48:28 ↗ 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

48:40 ↗ as we reported in august for those that

48:42 ↗ we were able to keep moving forward with

48:44 ↗ uh the critical other critical services

48:47 ↗ we have been able to pick up on two

48:49 ↗ that are on track next slide

48:55 ↗ 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

49:11 ↗ conduct

49:12 ↗ 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

49:19 ↗ moved that to an on hold really just

49:21 ↗ because of staff resources

49:22 ↗ again this is a two-year work plan so as

49:25 ↗ we look

49:26 ↗ at moving forward for fiscal 21 those

49:29 ↗ projects that are

49:30 ↗ on the plan that we've not mailed to

49:32 ↗ make progress we continue to hook to the

49:34 ↗ for fiscal 21.

49:35 ↗ next slide environmental stewardship um

49:39 ↗ again a mixed bag here of the things

49:42 ↗ that

49:42 ↗ 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

50:02 ↗ hope in

50:04 ↗ 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

50:12 ↗ complete

50:12 ↗ the community sustainability summit and

50:14 ↗ environment board uh

50:16 ↗ we've spent much of the summer and early

50:18 ↗ fall uh talking about the summit we

50:20 ↗ reported back on the summit

50:21 ↗ and the council recently approved moving

50:24 ↗ forward with the new environment board

50:25 ↗ so we're very happy

50:26 ↗ about that in the area of social and

50:28 ↗ economic vitality

50:30 ↗ again you'll see here on other critical

50:32 ↗ services

50:33 ↗ we've been able to shake a few of those

50:36 ↗ projects

50:37 ↗ loose given the copa 19 constraints next

50:39 ↗ slide

50:42 ↗ we continue to expand funding for

50:44 ↗ business grants included in the budget

50:45 ↗ as an additional 500 000

50:48 ↗ which we hope will certainly help

50:50 ↗ 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

50:59 ↗ program the council uh decided to move

51:02 ↗ forward

51:02 ↗ uh with that program so we'll be able to

51:05 ↗ start it before

51:06 ↗ the end of 2020 uh with the

51:09 ↗ food and clothing bank uh that position

51:12 ↗ 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

51:18 ↗ we've reported previously to you the

51:20 ↗ police accountability human services

51:22 ↗ 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

52:51 ↗ 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

1:06:44 ↗ 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

1:08:14 ↗ 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 ↗ [Music]

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

2:00:41 ↗ 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

2:01:19 ↗ questions oh

2:01:20 ↗ i'm looking i see council member d

2:01:22 ↗ michelle is up

2:01:25 ↗ thank you mayor paulie um

2:01:28 ↗ i'm not sure that i um liked the

2:01:32 ↗ planning policy commission's alternative

2:01:36 ↗ 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

2:01:55 ↗ 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

2:02:05 ↗ front of us right now

2:02:09 ↗ deputy minister thank you councilmember

2:02:12 ↗ d michelle this is

2:02:14 ↗ 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

2:02:43 ↗ council president ray

2:02:45 ↗ thank you mayor paulie this is chris

2:02:46 ↗ 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

2:05:11 ↗ 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

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (5)

Adopt Ordinance No. 2926, amending Chapter 3.64 and Section 109 of Chapter 16.04 of the Issaquah Municipal Code to update the City's land use and site work permit fees and additional fees for inspections, plan review and other related services. . b)

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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

1) Adopt Ordinance No. 2927, adopting the 2021 budget; setting forth the estimated revenues and appropriations for each separate fund, and estimated impact on ending fund balances for all such funds combined of the city for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 2021; and 2) Adopt Ordinance No. 2928,…

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

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

Adopt Ordinance No. 2929, relating to construction hours, amending IMC 16.35.005 to add a definition of “construction activity” and adding IMC 16.35.030 exempting certain activity from the limits on construction hours.

Moved by REH · seconded by HALL

Amend the definition of construction activity in the ordinance to remove the word “directly” as follows: “Construction activity” means any activity directly related to an active, permitted project, including but not limited to: constructing, enlarging, altering, repairing, maintaining, moving, or de…

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

Opposed: Marts

Main motion as amended: Amend the definition of construction activity in the ordinance to remove the word “directly” as follows: “Construction activity” means any activity directly related to an active, permitted project, including but not limited to: constructing, enlarging, altering, repairing, ma…

Moved by (main motion as amended) · seconded by

Carried 6-1

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

Opposed: Marts