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Monday, February 1, 2021

7:00 PM · 1h 59m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) Criteria (I) ID 0804 2/4
RV Park Management Agreement AB 8202 1/2
Olde Town Subarea Architectural Standards for Single Family - Duplex AB 7846 6/6
Section
Topic
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
First for Roll Call Vote: de Michele
6. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES
6a
Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Process ID 0804
packet pp.5–31
Topics: Budget
Staff report:
The purpose of tonight’s presentation is to provide an overview about how the Administration intends on approaching the 2022 – 2027 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) process.
7. CONSENT CALENDAR
7a
Minutes: City Council Study Session, Jan. 12, 2021
Approve · packet pp.33–35
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR a) 01-12-21 Council Study Session Minutes Page (0000) CITY OF ISSAQUAH Council Study Session 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting January 12, 2021 MINUTES
7d
Minutes: City Council Regular Meeting, Jan. 19, 2021
Approve · packet pp.71–74
Staff report:
CONSENT CALENDAR d) 01-19-21 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000)
7e
Olde Town Subarea Architectural Standards for Single Family - Duplex AB 7846
Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.75–114
Topics: Land Use
Staff report:
The City updated the Olde Town Subarea Plan in 2018. The Plan includes the following goals and policies intended to preserve Olde Town's residential character, which were prioritized as Immediate Action #1. These are quoted below for reference:
7f
Independent Force Investigation Team of King County Interlocal Agreement AB 8086
Authorize · packet pp.115–148
Staff report:
On Jan. 30, 2019, the Washington State Legislature unanimously approved the requirement of an independent investigation of any police use of force that results in death, great bodily injury, or substantial bodily injury. The independent investigation is to be performed by a law enforcement agency not involved in the incident and is required to decide whether, under all the facts, circumstances, and information known to the officer at the time, a similarly situated reasonable officer would have believed that the use of deadly force was necessary to prevent death or serious physical harm to the officer or another individual.
7g
Lodging Tax Advisory Committee AB 8113
Confirm · packet pp.149–150
Topics: BudgetTourism
Staff report:
In 1998 the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2192, establishing LTAC. Currently, hotels, motels, and bed-and- breakfast inns collect the City's one percent share of the lodging tax to pay all or any part of the cost of tourism promotion, acquisition or operation of tourism-related facilities.
8. REGULAR BUSINESS
8a
WRIA 8 Watershed Restoration Enhancement Committee Final Plan AB 8083
Carried 7-0
Authorize · packet pp.151–533
Topics: Water
Staff report:
In 2018, the state legislature passed the Streamflow Restoration Law, RCW 90.94, which requires the development and adoption of a Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Plan to help restore streamflow levels with the ultimate goal of supporting healthy and sustainable salmon populations while providing water for homes in rural Washington.
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. GOOD OF THE ORDER
9a
Upcoming Council Meetings
0:00 one i'm calling the february first city
0:02 council meeting to order
0:04 and before we move on to our agenda
0:06 items this evening i do want to
0:08 acknowledge that we are still using our
0:10 remote meeting format
0:11 on march 6 i issued an emergency
0:14 proclamation
0:15 declaring a civil emergency in the city
0:17 due to the covet-19 outbreak
0:19 on march 24th the governor issued
0:21 proclamation 20-28
0:24 relating to the covet 19 emergency and
0:26 open public meetings
0:28 the proclamation has been extended until
0:30 termination of the state emergency
0:32 or until it's repealed by the governor
0:34 or legislature
0:36 due to these proclamations tonight's
0:37 meeting will be held entirely remotely
0:40 meeting will be recorded streamed live
0:42 and available for later
0:44 viewing on the city's youtube channel a
0:46 call-in number was provided on the
0:48 meeting agenda for members of the public
0:50 who wish to call in by phone
0:52 to listen live to the meeting or to make
0:54 comments and for those members of the
0:55 public on the call welcome this evening
0:58 at this point in time i'm going to take
1:00 a moment to take a roll call of the
1:02 council members in attendance so please
1:03 stay here when i call your name
1:05 councilmember d michelle here thank you
1:09 councilmember goodman here thank you
1:12 councilmember hall here thank you
1:16 council president hunt here thank you
1:19 councilmember martz here thank you
1:23 deputy council president ray here
1:26 thank you and council member walsh here
1:30 great that is seven of seven council
1:34 members
1:34 um next i'd like to do the pledge of
1:36 allegiance and if i could ask you all to
1:38 keep your microphones muted during
1:40 this but i do welcome you to join me in
1:42 the pledge of allegiance
1:45 i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
1:48 united states of america
1:50 and to the republic for which it stands
1:52 one nation under god
1:54 indivisible with liberty and justice for
1:57 all
2:00 next item on our agenda this evening is
2:02 audience comments
2:04 so for those of you who have submitted
2:05 the online form to make comments your
2:07 name will be called shortly
2:09 and for those who have joined us tonight
2:11 and would like to make comments that did
2:13 not sign up in advance
2:14 please press star 3 on your phone and we
2:16 will call the last two digits of your
2:18 phone number when it's your turn to make
2:19 comments
2:21 city clerk has anyone signed up to speak
2:23 or indicate a desire to speak this
2:25 evening
2:27 yes kathy has indicated a desire to
2:30 speak
2:31 thank you so for those making comments
2:33 please make sure to direct the comments
2:35 to the whole council and not to
2:36 individuals
2:37 and while this is not a question and
2:39 answer session we will contact you to
2:41 follow up if needed
2:43 when you are recognized please unmute
2:45 your microphone
2:46 state your name address and relationship
2:49 to the city
2:50 speak clearly and pause frequently limit
2:53 your comments to five minutes
2:55 and please remove your microphone when
2:57 done
2:58 if you do not respond after your name or
3:00 phone number is called or if your
3:01 connection is lost unexpectedly
3:04 the meeting will still need to proceed
3:06 and you are encouraged to rejoin the
3:07 meeting if you are able
3:09 personal attacks obscene language
3:11 derogatory remarks and disruptive
3:13 behavior will not be permitted
3:15 citizen comments written in verbal are
3:17 an important aspect of the public
3:18 process
3:19 and the city takes comments seriously we
3:21 thank you for taking the time to address
3:23 us today
3:24 city clerk can you please identify the
3:26 first person who signed up to speak
3:29 yes kathy i'm going to send you a
3:31 request to unmute you'll need to press
3:33 star 6 on your phone and then you'll
3:35 also need to unmute your phone if you've
3:37 needed that as well
3:46 hello can you hear me yes we can
3:50 thank you this is kathy mccrory i'm the
3:52 ceo of the greater iskclaw chamber of
3:54 commerce
3:55 and i just have a few brief comments
3:57 this evening
3:58 first of which i'd like to thank the
4:01 city for all of their participation
4:04 and awards at community awards last week
4:07 to me it's always extremely moving to
4:10 see
4:11 all of these wonderful individuals who
4:13 step up in our community
4:15 i think in my 20 years of service in the
4:17 chamber industry
4:19 community awards is by far my favorite
4:22 event so thank you again for all you
4:25 did to support the event and
4:28 congratulations
4:29 to all the winners i also want to thank
4:32 you for your consideration
4:34 on the consent agenda for this evening
4:39 i served last year on ltch
4:42 advisory council and look forward to the
4:44 opportunity to serve
4:45 again it's my pleasure to be able to do
4:49 and lastly going back to the study
4:52 session i know i took a lot of your time
4:54 last week and i sent comments about
4:55 several of the things
4:58 that the city is working on in its next
5:00 round of funding including grants
5:02 and i just want to remind you that if
5:04 we're ever able to support businesses
5:07 it helps save those jobs and hopefully
5:10 create new jobs and that in turn
5:13 then supports the entire community
5:15 meaning that we take people
5:17 off of needing assistance
5:20 whether it be rental or food and we
5:23 bring donations
5:24 back to nonprofits that also support
5:26 low-income elderly
5:28 and those in need thank you very much
5:30 for your time this evening
5:32 thank you very much cathy uh city clerk
5:35 do we have anyone else speaking this
5:36 evening
5:38 no one else has signed up to speak but
5:40 i'll just ask if there's anyone else on
5:42 the line who'd like to make comments
5:44 please press star 3 on your phone
5:47 that's star 3
5:51 and i'm just monitoring the callers now
5:55 and i don't see that anyone else is
5:57 indicating a desire to speak
5:59 thanks very much it was nice to hear
6:02 tonight
6:03 kathy's appreciation for the community
6:05 awards
6:06 uh and also uh comments on ltch
6:09 appointments and funding for programs
6:12 and services during covet thanks for
6:13 joining us this evening kathy
6:16 and anyone who would have liked who
6:17 would like to make comments
6:19 this is just a reminder that you can
6:20 always submit them at any time to your
6:22 city council by emailing them at city
6:24 council at iscowa.gov
6:26 i'm also going to head over to council
6:28 president hunt and ask her to summarize
6:30 any comments that the council might have
6:32 received
6:33 by email on tonight's agenda topic
6:36 thank you madam mayor this is council
6:37 president hunt and while we're doing
6:39 virtual meetings we are summarizing
6:41 emailed comments that we've received on
6:43 agenda topics and as of
6:46 this meeting start time we have not
6:49 received any email comments on the items
6:51 that are
6:52 specifically on the agenda that that
6:55 occurred between the last time we
6:56 discussed items that we've discussed
6:58 before
6:58 and today's meeting so i don't have
7:00 anything to anything to summarize this
7:03 evening
7:04 thank you council president hunt we'll
7:05 move to committee and regional reports
7:08 let's start with council member hall
7:14 thank you mayor paulie councilmember
7:16 zach hall here
7:18 a couple quick reports let me get out my
7:21 notes
7:24 uh the cascade water alliance board of
7:26 directors met last wednesday
7:29 we received a couple informational items
7:31 including a presentation
7:32 from the city of sumner about the lower
7:35 white river restoration project
7:37 but nothing of particular impact to
7:39 issaquah
7:40 the next board meeting is scheduled for
7:42 wednesday february 24th at 3 30 pm
7:46 um and then the affordable housing
7:48 committee of the growth management
7:49 planning council
7:51 met last friday to discuss the final
7:54 amendment recommendations for the
7:55 housing chapter of the county-wide
7:57 planning policies
7:58 those recommendations were approved and
8:01 are now headed to deputy council
8:02 president
8:03 ray and the other members of the growth
8:05 management planning council
8:08 i tried to summarize those
8:09 recommendations to share with you all
8:10 tonight but i failed
8:11 miserably as they're more complicated to
8:13 condense than i thought they would be
8:15 so i'll be following up with an email to
8:17 the city council in the administration
8:19 with that information if you're
8:20 interested
8:21 and for those of you in the community
8:23 who want to learn more about the housing
8:24 chapter amendment recommendations or
8:27 for that matter the county-wide planning
8:29 policies more generally
8:31 i'd be happy to share that information
8:32 with you as well and you can find my
8:34 email and phone number
8:35 on the city council webpage the next
8:38 meeting of the affordable housing
8:39 committee
8:40 is scheduled for wednesday march 24th at
8:42 1pm
8:43 and that concludes my report thank you
8:46 councilmember hall councilmember d
8:48 michelle
8:50 thank you mayor paulie this is
8:52 councilmember d michelle
8:54 on february 21st i attended the east
8:56 side human services forum meeting and we
8:58 discussed the search for an executive
9:00 director and formed a search committee
9:02 and in line with the new organizational
9:04 structure each member selected a
9:06 subcommittee to serve on
9:08 i selected the advocacy group which is
9:11 the same group that i've been serving on
9:12 this past
9:13 year on february 28th i attended the
9:16 kickoff meeting for the connect 2
9:18 community advisory group
9:21 as a reminder this is part of the
9:22 healthier here governing board
9:24 a facilitator a facilitator ushered us
9:27 through
9:28 a getting to know you exercise we
9:30 received an overview of the project and
9:32 we shared our hopes and vision for the
9:33 community
9:34 information exchange project and as part
9:37 of my
9:39 representation on the healthier here
9:41 governing board they will be holding a
9:42 meeting this coming
9:43 thursday one o'clock in the afternoon
9:46 and that concludes my report
9:50 thank you council member dean michelle
9:52 up next is council member walsh
9:54 thank you this is councilmember walsh um
9:58 let's see i have attended two uh sound
10:01 cities association
10:03 lunches with county council member
10:06 claudia balducci
10:07 and the sea's new president ed prince
10:12 both were great opportunities for
10:14 networking
10:16 and really getting to know the
10:18 representatives in the area
10:20 um and claudia balducci learning about
10:22 how she came onto
10:24 council and some of the areas that she's
10:26 interested was quite interesting
10:28 on wednesday the third coming up i will
10:31 attend the puget sound regional
10:33 council's
10:34 economic development district board um
10:37 two of the agenda items
10:38 are the regional housing needs
10:40 assessment and next steps which i'm
10:41 particularly interested in
10:43 and the regional industry employment
10:46 discussion
10:47 that meetings at one o'clock on
10:49 wednesday so if anybody has any
10:50 questions
10:52 that's great it's mostly informational
10:54 so i'll bring it back if there's
10:56 anything to learn from it
10:57 that concludes my report
11:00 thank you councilmember walsh
11:02 councilmember goodman
11:04 uh thank you madam mayor councilmember
11:06 goodman here
11:07 related to lodging tax advisory
11:09 committee
11:11 for which i served as chair last year
11:14 on the consent agenda tonight is agenda
11:16 bill 8113
11:17 um it's the annual appointments of the
11:19 committee members um
11:21 there are five uh a council member must
11:23 serve as
11:24 a chair and i'm serving again this year
11:26 as chair so there were four
11:28 openings we had 11 applications
11:31 um and the state is very prescriptive
11:35 about who fills those
11:37 chairs not the people but
11:40 specifically collecting tax and who
11:43 receives the tax
11:44 um anyway the point in me bringing it up
11:46 is just that we had 11 applications and
11:48 from
11:49 um anyone's memory that i talked to that
11:51 was the most applications that we've
11:53 that we've ever had since we
11:54 started collecting the tax so thank you
11:57 to everybody
11:58 who applied um and the appointments were
12:02 in the package
12:03 the east side fire and rescue board of
12:05 directors had a special meeting last
12:07 thursday um to discuss one item and it
12:10 was to um
12:12 whether to provide interim chief
12:14 services to mercer islands fire
12:16 department
12:17 because their chief is leaving
12:20 i think at the end of january so i guess
12:22 today would be the first
12:23 day um and so mercer island would be
12:27 paying east side fire and rescue
12:28 fourteen thousand dollars a month
12:30 in exchange for interim chief services
12:33 and the board united
12:34 unanimously approved um that
12:38 that proposal eastside fire and rescue
12:41 board of directors will have its regular
12:44 monthly meeting on february 11th at 4 pm
12:47 at their headquarters station on
12:48 newparkway and i do not yet have an
12:50 agenda
12:51 that's my report thank you thank you
12:54 councilmember goodman councilmember
12:55 martz
12:57 thank you madam mayor this is
12:58 councilmember martz the sound cities
13:01 association public issues committee
13:03 will be meeting on wednesday february
13:05 10th we will be discussing the 2021
13:07 legislative session thus far
13:09 solid waste fee and sewer rate
13:11 developments
13:13 uh i see that means for the county
13:16 uh county-wide planning policies and
13:18 then have an update
13:20 on king county regional homelessness
13:22 authority
13:23 levies and ballot measures in king
13:24 county and then upcoming sca
13:26 issues this thursday at 10 a.m
13:30 the puget sound regional council growth
13:33 management policy board
13:35 will be meeting the first thing on the
13:37 agenda is
13:39 uh the board will be asked to provide
13:41 direction to staff on vision 2050
13:43 implementation actions
13:45 as you may remember i was not able to
13:47 attend the january meeting due to
13:49 a work-related emergency and so um
13:52 i have included the presentation uh that
13:55 was sent
13:56 out uh on ahead of that meeting i've
13:59 sent it out to you
14:01 and to the mayor it does not provide
14:04 a lot of uh grapplers onto which one can
14:08 sync one's
14:09 uh clause policy wise i'm not really
14:12 sure
14:13 how the body is uh of the francometer
14:16 the body is supposed to be providing
14:17 feedback
14:18 and of course uh sca reps to gmb are
14:21 also
14:22 generally supposed to reflect uh sca
14:26 policy so if anybody sees anything in
14:29 there that they have thoughts on
14:31 feel free to share them with me and i
14:34 will ask
14:35 if mayor holly uh and the administration
14:38 has looked into this issue more i'm
14:40 happy
14:40 to convey their thoughts on there's
14:42 going to be a
14:44 sca caucus meeting ahead of the gmpb
14:47 meeting so i apologize i'm a little
14:49 flat-footed on this issue
14:51 this month and the reference materials
14:54 do not shed a lot of light on the
14:56 subject
14:57 will also be having discussion updates
15:01 growth related bills under consideration
15:03 of the legislature
15:04 school citing briefing paper and the
15:07 psrc's draft 2022-2023
15:10 budget and work program this concludes
15:12 my report
15:15 thank you council member mertz deputy
15:17 council member
15:19 council president ray
15:23 thank you mayor paulie this is chris ray
15:25 and i'm
15:27 having some technical challenges here
15:28 here we go um the king county growth
15:31 management planning council the gmpc met
15:33 on january 27th
15:35 in a virtual format the meeting was a
15:36 work session to review the initial staff
15:39 work on the 2021
15:41 county planning policy updates the work
15:43 session involved
15:44 four rotating breakout groups that
15:46 explored different aspects of the
15:48 cpps the county planning policies and
15:52 this included
15:53 housing patterns housing environmental
15:56 and economy transportation and public
15:59 facilities
16:01 the gmpc members provide the king county
16:03 staff with input
16:04 on missing concepts that would be and
16:08 what would be implementation challenges
16:10 uh the input will be reflected in
16:12 an updated draft of the cpps that will
16:14 be reviewed by the gmpc at our next
16:17 meeting on february 24th
16:19 in addition to the cpp update the gnpc
16:22 will be receiving updates on growth
16:25 target progress
16:26 at the february 24th meeting and that
16:28 concludes my report this evening
16:31 thank you deputy president council
16:33 president hunt
16:35 thank you madam mayor this is council
16:36 president hunt on january 21st
16:40 um the yra 8 salmon recovery council met
16:44 wire 8 as the technical name for our
16:46 watershed
16:47 and we reviewed the legislative
16:49 priorities of the council for this
16:52 for this current legislative session
16:55 and we also saw a presentation
16:59 on the final draft plan from the
17:01 ecology-led watershed restoration and
17:03 enhancement committee in rio8 which may
17:06 sound familiar because
17:07 tonight on our regular agenda we will
17:10 also be seeing a presentation on the
17:11 same plan
17:13 and so this is a plan that helps address
17:15 withdrawals from permanent exempt
17:17 wells and this is important for salmon
17:19 because it is important to have adequate
17:21 stream flow for salmon habitat in the
17:23 watershed
17:25 so this is a presentation that i will be
17:27 i will
17:28 i will be seeing for the second time and
17:31 looking forward to it
17:33 and then we also saw a success story
17:35 about the environmental science
17:37 center salmon heroes program about how
17:39 they had adapted their educational
17:40 programs during covid to continue to
17:43 educate people about salmon um and
17:47 the next meeting of the salmon recovery
17:48 council will be march 18th
17:50 2021 that concludes my report
17:55 thank you council president hunt i'm now
17:58 going to move to the mayor's report
18:00 there will not be an executive session
18:02 held this evening
18:04 first item on my report today is a black
18:07 history month proclamation and i'm
18:09 pleased to provide the following
18:10 proclamation this evening
18:13 february as black history month in
18:15 celebration of achievements by african
18:17 americans
18:18 and in recognition of their central role
18:20 in u.s history
18:22 whereas black history month is
18:23 celebrated every february in recognition
18:26 of achievement by black americans
18:28 and all people of african descent in the
18:30 united states
18:32 and whereas black history month
18:34 originated in 1926
18:36 when famed activists writer and
18:38 preeminent historian carter g
18:40 woodson influenced the american
18:42 historical society to designate the
18:45 second week of february
18:46 as negro history week and whereas
18:49 issaquah acknowledges and rejects the
18:52 long history of institutional and
18:54 structural racism towards african
18:56 americans in the u.s
18:57 and the observance of black history
18:59 month calls our attention
19:01 to the continued need to confront racism
19:04 and build a society that lives up
19:06 to its democratic ideals and whereas
19:09 king county has declared that racism is
19:11 a public health crisis
19:13 and issaquah joins its regional partners
19:15 in pledging to implement
19:16 a racially equitable response that's
19:19 centered on community
19:21 and whereas issaquah honors the
19:23 significant scientific
19:25 technological economic political and
19:28 cultural innovations
19:29 of african americans in the united
19:31 states
19:32 now therefore i mary lou paulie mayor of
19:35 the city of issaquah
19:36 you hereby proclaim february 2021 to be
19:39 black history month
19:41 in the city of issaquah and urge all
19:43 community members to join me
19:45 in this observance the second item on my
19:48 report today is the issaquah vaccine
19:51 community partnership update
19:54 our isaac vaccine community community
19:56 partnership which includes the city of
19:58 issaquah
19:59 swedish issaquah eastside fire and
20:01 rescue the issaquah school district the
20:03 city of samamish
20:05 costco and the greater issaquah chamber
20:07 of commerce and more
20:09 continues to meet weekly unfortunately
20:12 there is
20:13 currently not enough vaccine available
20:15 however to meet demand
20:17 and when that changes issaquah wants to
20:19 be ready
20:20 as a team we have been coordinating on
20:23 possible vaccine distribution sites
20:26 eastside fire and rescue has designated
20:28 andrew stevens to be our manager for a
20:30 future
20:31 mass vaccination site meanwhile we're
20:34 focused on protecting our most
20:36 vulnerable and i'm pleased to report
20:38 that starting this week
20:40 eastside fire and rescue is using
20:42 limited vaccine supply
20:44 to offer mobile vaccination clinics to
20:47 adult family homes
20:49 learn more at issaquah.gov
20:52 vaccine and will continue to provide
20:54 updates as
20:56 more information is available and the
20:58 last item i had tonight was on board and
21:00 commission recruitment
21:01 and i just want to let everybody know
21:03 that we will soon begin recruiting for
21:04 open board and commissioned seats
21:07 that this is a fun and interesting way
21:09 to make a difference in your community
21:11 many of our council members have served
21:13 on boards and commissions
21:15 prior to becoming a council member so
21:18 please look for
21:19 more details including what seats are
21:21 open on our
21:23 our application is online and there's
21:25 more information at issaqua.gov
21:27 at issaquah.gov
21:30 boards starting on february 5th and that
21:33 concludes the
21:34 mayor's report
21:40 and the mayor is scrambling to find her
21:42 next
21:43 talking points there we go we're going
21:47 to move on to our next item of business
21:48 which is
21:49 informational updates the this
21:53 first item is id 0804
21:56 it is the capital improvement plan or we
21:59 abbreviate it
22:00 cip process and i'm going to leave the
22:04 first portion of the presentation
22:06 and i will then pass it over to our
22:08 finance director
22:10 beth goldberg
22:17 and thank you for getting the slide back
22:24 good evening all every other year the
22:27 city updates a
22:28 six-year capital improvement plan as
22:30 required by state law
22:32 and as we get ready to embark on the
22:36 2022-2027 process
22:38 i wanted to provide you with an overview
22:40 of the approach that i'm going to make
22:42 in preparing the proposed draft cip
22:46 i will then turn the presentation over
22:47 to director goldberg to go into some
22:49 more specifics about the cip
22:52 and some key revenue sources that
22:54 support the capital improvement plan
22:58 and if i can get you to advance the
22:59 slide
23:06 one more thank you there are
23:10 two different approaches that local
23:11 government can take in preparing a
23:13 capital improvement plan
23:15 first an aspirational approach that
23:18 lists a wide
23:18 array of projects that may or may not
23:21 have a funding source
23:23 this type of approach allows the
23:25 organization to highlight its
23:26 full gamut of needs and identify where
23:30 funding gaps
23:31 may exist second
23:35 could be a more realistic approach that
23:37 focuses more
23:38 narrowly on the projects that the city
23:40 can afford within the available revenue
23:42 streams
23:44 the last capital improvement plan
23:46 process took the former approach
23:48 in an attempt to highlight the need for
23:49 new revenues
23:51 namely the transportation benefit
23:53 district sales tax
23:55 so that the city could meet an array of
23:57 transportation capital needs
24:00 for a number of reasons that i will
24:01 explain later in this presentation
24:04 i am recommending that the city take
24:07 the second approach this time the more
24:09 realistic approach for this year's
24:11 capital improved draft capital
24:13 improvement
24:14 plan under this approach the plan will
24:16 recommend projects that we anticipate
24:18 can be funded with existing revenues as
24:22 well as fund balances
24:23 and while the cip may highlight some
24:26 future year projects with more funding
24:28 there is more
24:28 funding uncertainty for example those
24:31 projects that may require grant funding
24:34 the scope of projects without an
24:35 existing funding source will be limited
24:38 because the last year six-year cip set a
24:41 series of priorities for 2022 and beyond
24:44 we will use that document as our
24:46 starting point
24:48 next slide please
24:52 in determining which projects to include
24:54 in the 2022-2027 proposed cip
24:57 we'll use the following criteria whether
25:00 the project has been established as a
25:02 community priority
25:03 through a planning document such as a
25:05 park strategic plan
25:07 or a mobility master plan for example
25:10 we will prioritize projects that replace
25:12 or repair
25:13 existing infrastructure and projects
25:16 with known funding sources will also be
25:19 prioritized
25:20 as well as will projects providing
25:22 environmental benefits
25:25 we will also use our strategic plan to
25:27 guide funding recommendations and
25:29 finally
25:30 projects that address life safety
25:31 concerns will also be prioritized
25:34 next slide please in terms of priorities
25:38 the city has gone through a number of
25:40 community engagement efforts they give a
25:42 sense of the community's capital
25:44 priorities including the park's
25:46 strategic plan
25:47 the mobility master plan and old town
25:50 traffic calming
25:52 that said it's important to note that
25:54 we're not able to fund all these
25:56 priorities within our existing revenue
25:58 sources
25:59 next slide please
26:03 as i mentioned earlier the 2020 through
26:06 2025
26:07 adopted capital improvement plan will
26:09 serve as the starting point
26:11 for us this year for the proposed
26:14 2022-2027
26:15 cip as was the case with the 2020-2025
26:19 cip we will focus
26:21 most intensively on the year 2022
26:24 the first year of the next capital
26:25 improvement plan as this
26:27 is the year where we will have the most
26:29 certainty
26:30 as we move through the latter years of
26:32 the cip there is more uncertainty
26:35 including how post-covered realities may
26:38 influence our change our capital
26:39 priority
26:40 for example will traffic patterns and
26:42 transportation needs return to
26:44 pre-covered norms
26:46 or will we see new patterns and needs
26:48 emerging
26:50 also will the city pursue new revenue
26:53 sources to support
26:54 outer year capital needs next slide
26:57 please
26:59 the 20 2022 through 2027 proposed
27:03 capital improvement
27:05 plan recommends the use of reach
27:08 and mitigation fund balances i'm going
27:11 to probably get this wrong but i believe
27:13 it's a real uh best
27:16 director goldberg can you help me with
27:18 reits just for those that are watching
27:20 really real estate excise tax correct
27:24 okay thanks lots of acronyms in here
27:27 um director goldberg shortly we'll be
27:29 walking you through
27:30 our early reit and mitigation forecast
27:34 while our fund balance outlook is strong
27:36 i need to emphasize that there is not
27:37 going to be enough to support
27:39 all of our outer year capital and asset
27:42 maintenance needs
27:44 while not the focus of this year's cip
27:46 process i am recommending that the city
27:48 starts discussions this year
27:50 about new revenue sources and potential
27:53 revenue sources could include
27:55 revenues generated by using the
27:57 transportation benefit district
27:59 and that could be either an incremental
28:02 sales tax increase
28:03 or vehicle licensing fees another
28:06 potential revenue source
28:08 is property tax levies
28:11 next slide please
28:16 when it comes to new revenue sources i
28:18 want to underscore
28:19 that they take time to develop
28:23 and i just want to see if we can move
28:25 forward there we go
28:26 thank you this slide lays out a
28:29 potential schedule for securing a new
28:31 revenue source
28:32 i am recommending that the city start
28:34 the process of considering new revenues
28:36 in the second quarter of this year
28:38 separately from the cip process it is
28:41 important that we start early
28:43 in order to allow sufficient time for
28:44 community input and buy-in
28:47 as a reminder once the city council
28:49 approves the ballot language
28:50 the city can no longer advocate for
28:52 those items that are in the measure
28:55 so the time between now and when the
28:57 city potentially decides on ballot
28:58 language
28:59 is critical in securing community
29:01 support
29:03 next slide please so with this
29:06 background in mind
29:07 i'm going to turn the remainder of the
29:08 presentation over to director goldberg
29:11 director goldberg
29:14 good evening uh madame mayor and
29:18 council members it's nice to see you
29:20 it's been a while um
29:21 so i'm going to give you a brief
29:24 overview of the nuts and bolts of this
29:27 year's cip and i'm to be honest with you
29:30 having a little bit of technical
29:31 difficulty
29:32 every time i touch my mic i lose the
29:35 ability to forward
29:37 slides so anyway i apologize about that
29:40 so um first i just want to uh ground all
29:43 of you
29:44 as to why we do a cip every other year
29:47 and the state's growth management act
29:50 requires communities in washington state
29:52 to develop six year capital improvement
29:54 plans
29:55 is an element of of the comprehensive
29:57 plan we're required to do so every two
30:00 years so
30:01 we're on we're on that's that cycle
30:03 right now
30:05 in addition state law also requires
30:07 cities to adopt a six-year trans
30:09 transportation improvement programs by
30:12 july 1st
30:13 so this image on this slide is a visual
30:16 depiction
30:18 of how each one of these planning
30:20 processes kind of nest in with each
30:22 other
30:23 and basically the cip and the tip are
30:27 smaller subsets
30:28 of the larger cities the city's larger
30:31 comprehensive plan
30:33 it's also important to note that in
30:35 order to use reit and mitigation dollars
30:38 projects slated for those funding
30:40 sources must also be included
30:42 in the cip so this is an important
30:44 framework so that we can start using
30:47 our real estate excise tax and
30:49 mitigation dollars
30:54 so this uh image is to reinforce
30:59 some of what the mayor spoke about in
31:01 her remarks
31:03 so as we're developing a capital
31:04 improvement plan it is not being done
31:06 in isolation the capital improvement
31:09 plan
31:10 is being informed by
31:13 other planning documents and processes
31:16 that the city has gone through so
31:18 a few examples park strategic plan
31:20 mobility master plan
31:23 mayor also mentioned old town traffic
31:25 calming study
31:27 and then also in terms of the utilities
31:30 the utilities have
31:31 a number of capital projects these are
31:33 all set forth
31:34 and contemplated in the utility rate
31:37 studies that
31:38 the city periodically undergoes and
31:41 those projects
31:43 set forth in those utility studies also
31:46 then
31:46 are reflected in the capital improvement
31:49 plan
31:50 is the mayor noted um while all of these
31:53 documents
31:54 lay out a number of priorities the city
31:57 does not and this is not unusual the
32:00 city of issaquah is not unusual in this
32:01 regard
32:03 does not have sufficient resources to
32:05 fund all of these priorities so
32:07 the cip becomes the mechanism
32:11 and using the criteria that the mayor
32:14 spoke about
32:15 to decide what we are able to put forth
32:18 for this next six-year planning horizon
32:22 put another way the city plans for
32:25 long-term capital improvements through
32:27 documents
32:28 such as the park strategic plan the
32:30 mobility master plan
32:32 and then these plans inform which
32:35 projects get included in the cip
32:38 and are prioritized based on limited
32:40 revenues the transportation element
32:43 of the cip then gets reflected in
32:46 the transportation improvement program
32:49 which is
32:50 submitted to the state and both of these
32:53 documents then
32:55 serve as the long-term capital planning
32:57 element
32:58 of the comprehensive plan
33:03 so it wouldn't be a cip presentation
33:08 by the finance department if the finance
33:10 department did not take a moment to
33:12 remind
33:13 everyone that the cip is not a funding
33:16 commitment
33:17 it is a planning document and it is
33:20 those plans are subject to change
33:23 projects
33:24 that are contained within the cip do not
33:27 officially get implemented
33:29 until funding is appropriated through
33:31 the annual budget process
33:33 if the city's revenue outlook changes
33:35 from what was assumed when the cip was
33:37 prepared
33:38 what actually gets funded may look
33:40 different from what was adopted in the
33:42 cip
33:43 so if our revenue picture deteriorates
33:45 as was the case
33:48 last year as we were dealing with covid
33:50 we might
33:51 not do the same number of projects that
33:54 we originally contemplated
33:56 on the flip side if the revenue outlook
33:58 improves we might be able to accelerate
34:01 projects
34:03 that are in future years or add
34:05 additional projects
34:07 also it's important to note that cip
34:09 capital projects particularly large ones
34:11 could be complex
34:13 and so depending on
34:16 timing in different variables project
34:19 schedules may slip
34:20 so for example last year there were a
34:22 number of things that we contemplated
34:24 that may have involved community
34:26 involvement
34:27 that got delayed so really it is a
34:31 planning document
34:32 based on a set of assumptions at a
34:35 moment in time
34:36 and if those assumptions change
34:39 then we might have to adjust what is
34:41 ultimately
34:42 funded in the cip
34:45 so um when we prepare the cip
34:49 this year i want to talk a little bit
34:51 about what the council can expect
34:53 within the document that we will be
34:55 transmitting to the city council
34:58 we will for each project we will include
35:01 a summary of the project and a
35:02 justification for why that project is
35:04 funded
35:05 we will include estimated costs for each
35:09 year of the cip
35:10 so if it's a one-year project there will
35:12 be a cost for one year if it's a
35:14 multi-year project
35:16 we would reflect the costs over the
35:18 six-year planning horizon
35:20 for those projects that extend beyond
35:22 the planning horizon we also actually
35:24 include an
35:24 estimate there we will include for each
35:28 year that
35:29 the project is expected to precede
35:32 an anticipated funding source and
35:35 because this year's
35:37 focus of the cip will be on things that
35:39 we anticipate
35:40 being able to afford with existing
35:42 revenues
35:44 in most cases will be we will be
35:46 attaching a revenue source
35:47 there may be some instances however
35:50 where uh the revenue source is is not
35:54 yet known
35:54 so for example the newport
35:58 projects um are are being done over many
36:01 years
36:02 are proceeding as grant dollars become
36:05 available
36:07 but in future years we may not have
36:09 those grants secured
36:10 so in those instances there may be a
36:13 funding source that's more in the to be
36:15 determined
36:16 category we will also be including
36:20 estimated ongoing and operational costs
36:23 for each project and we will identify
36:26 which strategic
36:27 plan goals or goal is served by the
36:31 capital
36:32 project being recommended
36:35 so now i want to take some time to pivot
36:39 to uh preliminary forecasts for
36:42 some of the key revenues that feed into
36:45 the cip
36:46 um and the first one that i want to talk
36:48 about is
36:50 reit so
36:53 in 2020 uh we collected 4.3 million
36:57 dollars
36:57 in reit um and as you've heard me talk
37:00 about before
37:02 reit is an um is an extraordinarily
37:04 volatile revenue source
37:06 and if you unpack data from recent years
37:10 for the city of issaquah's reit
37:11 collections
37:12 what you'll actually find is what i
37:16 describe is routine
37:17 which is residential smaller commercial
37:21 transactions
37:23 that revenue stream has been pretty
37:25 stable since 2017
37:28 averaging about 3.8 million dollars
37:31 a year even even during the pandemic
37:34 residential and those routine
37:37 transactions held up
37:39 where we've seen volatility over the
37:42 last four years
37:43 is really in those large commercial
37:46 transactions
37:47 and in the years where we have had
37:51 several sizable commercial transactions
37:54 our reit revenues have exceeded 5
37:57 million dollars
37:58 and in those years where commercial
38:01 large commercial transactions have been
38:03 more limited
38:04 we've hovered right around that
38:07 3.8 4 million dollar mark so what we're
38:10 recommending for this year's cip
38:12 is that we assume uh ongoing revenues in
38:16 that 3.8 million dollar range
38:19 certainly if large commercial
38:21 transactions come through
38:23 we would welcome those revenues into our
38:26 coffer
38:26 but we would not contemplate programming
38:28 those out at this time
38:31 we that would be something we would do
38:33 more is a rear view mirror
38:36 kind of thing um is is
38:39 you're thinking about the 3.8 million
38:41 dollars in revenue per year
38:44 it's important for me to highlight that
38:47 the 2020 through 2025
38:49 adopted cip um assumed
38:53 5.1 million dollars of reit
38:56 expenditures in 2022 meaning
39:00 that there was an assumption in the last
39:03 cip
39:04 that we would be drawing down fund
39:07 balance
39:08 to support some of those cip projects
39:11 given this revenue forecast it would be
39:13 equivalent to
39:14 about 1.3 million dollars worth of fund
39:17 balance
39:18 to support the projects contemplated
39:21 in for 2022 in the last cip
39:24 now we need to go through and update
39:26 those estimates
39:28 but i just want to give i want to ground
39:30 you in
39:32 the context of this 3.8 million dollars
39:35 is not
39:35 um unaccounted for at this point there
39:38 were some original
39:40 priorities set for these dollars in the
39:43 last cip
39:46 in terms of reit fund balance reit
39:49 does have a healthy fund balance
39:53 we are expecting based on current
39:56 projections
39:58 to begin 2022 with
40:01 6.6 million dollars of reit fund balance
40:06 i mentioned in the last slide some of
40:08 this would be used if we go forward with
40:10 all of those projects
40:12 contemplated in the last cip for 2022
40:15 some of this would be drawn down for
40:18 those projects
40:19 but it would leave approximately 5.3
40:22 million dollars in fund balance
40:25 that is not yet programmed out that we
40:28 will be looking at
40:29 in this next cip um
40:32 so this slide um basically summarizes
40:36 what i've just
40:37 explained verbally it's also important
40:40 for me to remind all of you that while
40:43 we talk about
40:44 reit um in general terms there are
40:46 actually two parts of
40:48 of reit money there's reit one money and
40:50 reit two money
40:51 and so that 3.8 million dollars of
40:53 ongoing revenue gets split
40:55 evenly among re are between route 1
40:58 and reit 2. um when you're thinking
41:01 about re
41:02 2 um think primarily transportation
41:04 that's our our main
41:06 source for transportation projects reit
41:09 one
41:09 is a little bit more flexible in its use
41:12 we do
41:13 use some of reit one for transportation
41:16 but we also rely
41:17 on reit one for our parks investments
41:21 i.t investments city facility
41:24 investments
41:25 so that's used a little bit more broadly
41:28 uh reflective of the
41:31 multitude of transportation needs that
41:33 the city has
41:35 most of the reit fund balance is
41:39 tied to reit 1 rather than reit 2.
41:42 so of the 5.3 million of currently
41:45 unprogrammed
41:46 reit fund balance uh 3.6 million
41:50 is reit 1 and about 1.7 is reit 2.
41:53 so when we're putting forward projects
41:56 in this next capital improvement plan
41:58 we will not only be looking at our needs
42:01 but also
42:02 be aligning it with our funding sources
42:04 and
42:05 how we're allowed to use those funding
42:08 sources by state law
42:12 next i want to talk a little bit about
42:14 mitigation and
42:15 impact fees so this slide
42:19 depicts what we are estimating for
42:22 annual mitigation and impact fees
42:26 over the the next six-year planning
42:29 horizon
42:30 we're anticipating um just under 1.6
42:33 million dollars
42:34 in mitigation revenues but as uh council
42:38 knows
42:39 the these are for specific purposes uh
42:42 traffic and street
42:44 general government police parks fire
42:47 bike pedestrian and then we don't have
42:50 we're not anticipating any revenue for
42:52 open space but
42:54 we need to use those dollars for
42:56 qualifying purposes
42:59 as is enumerated here so we will again
43:02 be looking as we're programming out
43:05 mitigation dollars
43:07 what what specific revenues are
43:09 available for
43:11 each of these designated purposes and as
43:14 council is aware
43:16 we need to spend these mitigation
43:19 dollars within 10 years of collection so
43:22 we will also be looking
43:23 at when the revenues were brought in to
43:27 make sure that we're deploying them
43:28 before that 10-year cycle
43:31 runs out mitigation
43:34 like reit is also also
43:37 enjoys a healthy fund balance among
43:40 among the various categories
43:42 we are forecasting about 13.3 million
43:46 dollars
43:47 in fund balances and again in the cip we
43:51 will be looking
43:52 for ways to deploy those dollars to
43:54 support our capital needs
43:58 in terms of next steps so we
44:02 are going to be beginning the cip
44:04 process this month
44:05 and the administration anticipates
44:08 transmitting
44:09 uh the cip the proposed 2022-2027 cip
44:14 to the city council on april 19th
44:18 at that meeting we will present an
44:20 overview of the proposed cip
44:24 and as the mayor indicated
44:27 in her opening remarks this cip
44:30 will not assume any new revenue sources
44:35 as as we put forth uh the various
44:38 projects for your consideration
44:41 uh in terms of the schedule
44:44 as i mentioned april 19th we will be
44:47 transmitting the cip
44:49 we have scheduled a deliberation session
44:53 for
44:54 april 29th public hearing for may
44:57 3rd an optional deliberation session
45:01 on may 11th and then the final public
45:05 hearing
45:05 and adoption on may 17th so
45:09 that is a glimpse uh forward to the next
45:13 uh three or four months and hopefully by
45:14 the time we're at may 17th we're not all
45:17 sitting in rain like we
45:18 are today so that
45:22 concludes uh what i wanted to cover here
45:25 today and we can
45:27 now open it up for discussion
45:30 thank you director goldberg and thank
45:32 you to your team for getting us
45:33 started off on this process at an
45:35 earlier time in the year i think that's
45:37 really important
45:38 uh we do have a couple of folks signed
45:40 up for questions let's start first with
45:42 council member dean michelle and i
45:44 believe she has a couple of questions to
45:45 share
45:46 yesterday thank you
45:49 um i'd like to go back to
45:52 the format that's being proposed for the
45:57 cip we have six uh selection
46:01 uh criteria for the projects are those
46:04 selection criterias in order by priority
46:07 or does a project have to meet all six
46:09 criteria
46:10 or will each project um
46:15 be evaluated on its own merits
46:18 uh more or less within those criteria i
46:21 guess is my question
46:25 oh beth
46:32 i believe that's on mute yeah
46:38 i can't hear you bath
46:41 sorry here we go did you want me to go
46:44 back to the slide i thought i heard you
46:46 want me to
46:46 say you wanted me to go back to the
46:48 slide you don't need to go back and look
46:50 i think it would be easier for the
46:52 public i will stop i'll stop sharing
46:54 that sorry technical difficulties this
46:56 evening
46:57 so in terms of the criteria we talked
47:00 about
47:01 community priority life safety issues
47:07 environmental impacts to name a few a
47:11 funding source
47:12 we projects we will be evaluating those
47:17 criteria
47:18 a project does not need to meet all six
47:20 of them i believe there were six
47:21 criteria they don't need to meet all six
47:25 and one doesn't take higher priority
47:27 than the other
47:29 those are just variables that we will be
47:31 considering
47:32 as part of the decision making process
47:34 so for example
47:35 on that slide life safety
47:38 was listed at the bottom for no
47:41 particular reason
47:43 but if there is a project that is
47:46 addressing
47:47 an urgent life safety issue that is
47:50 going to take
47:51 a higher priority for example than
47:53 something that has
47:55 um you know may have been deemed as a
47:58 community
47:59 a community priority just because we
48:01 need to address life safety issues
48:04 um similarly if a project has
48:08 a funding source for example grant
48:10 funding
48:11 and it needs city dollars that that
48:14 might take a higher priority
48:16 than a project that is a community need
48:18 that does not have grant dollars to it
48:21 it's it's um it's a little bit of a
48:24 puzzle
48:24 and one one uh criteria doesn't
48:27 necessarily
48:28 trump other criterias criterion but
48:31 um you know it it's it
48:34 it worked we're considering them all is
48:36 a package i guess is
48:38 how i would respond to that okay thank
48:41 you
48:42 um and we will see those we'll see we'll
48:45 see that when the package arrives but i
48:47 i just wanted a little bit more clarity
48:48 about how that process was going to go
48:51 and then for the projects that aren't
48:52 selected
48:54 um for the cip then will there be a list
48:58 you know next up or are we going to keep
49:01 track of those
49:02 projects that have have are valued but
49:05 just don't make it onto the cip list
49:10 yes so um we we will be
49:14 uh programming out projects over six
49:16 years
49:17 so um in considering
49:20 next up if more revenue becomes
49:24 available
49:26 the first option is do you accelerate
49:30 projects that were contemplated for
49:33 later years in the cip
49:36 in addition the last cip and i imagine
49:39 we'll do the same thing again this time
49:41 around
49:43 we um we included a list of projects
49:46 that were beyond
49:47 the six-year planning horizon so um
49:50 there
49:50 are certain projects um again i'll pick
49:53 on the newport projects
49:54 um that we know are going to be um
49:58 worked on beyond the six years that that
50:01 we would list
50:02 beyond um beyond that planning cycle but
50:06 typically the next up would be
50:09 out year projects that we're not doing
50:13 now
50:13 mainly because we don't have a revenue
50:15 source or don't have the staffing
50:16 capacity to take on
50:18 um in the current year or the next
50:21 planning year
50:22 okay thank you and mayor paulie i have
50:25 two more but they're more in the realm
50:27 comments and questions do you want me to
50:29 hold those until we get to
50:30 uh discussion sure that would be great
50:33 i'll come back to you thank you
50:34 councilmember d michelle
50:35 okay thank you councilmember walsh
50:40 thank you um so
50:44 trying to pick through my thoughts on
50:47 this
50:48 approach so you said if the
50:51 approach you're taking to the cip this
50:53 year is kind of the more realistic
50:55 and looking at just
50:58 the funded projects yet you also said
51:01 that reit varies and you're not going to
51:03 program
51:03 out the kind of large
51:07 commercial revenue then
51:10 how how do we choose
51:13 how to allocate and which projects we
51:16 use
51:17 we we choose for that additional
51:21 revenue so if you're looking at it
51:24 it could be a million and a half dollars
51:27 a year how do we decide which
51:31 projects those go to if
51:35 everything-ish in the cip is
51:38 has a funding source
51:44 so um i'm not sure i completely
51:47 understand the question but let me try
51:49 this as an
51:50 answer and if it's non-responsive let me
51:52 know
51:53 so we will be putting forth a series of
51:57 projects we're projecting 3.8 million
52:00 dollars
52:00 of ongoing reit revenue
52:05 in each of the years over the six-year
52:07 planning horizon
52:08 so we will be programming out
52:13 projects totaling 3.8 million dollars in
52:15 each of those years
52:17 we also will be looking at some of that
52:19 existing fund balance
52:21 whether that's all deployed in the first
52:23 year or the second year
52:25 we will then be also articulating and
52:28 recommending projects
52:30 over and above 3.8 million that is
52:33 using that fund balance um
52:36 as you know though with fund balances
52:38 you you want to maintain
52:40 a level of fund balance you don't want
52:42 to spend it down to zero
52:45 because if the reit doesn't materialize
52:47 and you don't have fund balance to
52:49 uh to fall back on um you've got a
52:52 problem funding your projects
52:54 so so those if commercial dollars come
52:57 that then builds into fund balance and
53:00 then when we're
53:01 looking for example at the 2023
53:05 budget we would be looking what was
53:07 contemplated in in
53:09 the the cip for 2023 that would take
53:13 funding priority and then you know for
53:16 example if more commercial dollars come
53:19 maybe you accelerate something that was
53:21 contemplated for 2024
53:23 and move that up so um because we're you
53:28 know you're always on the six year cycle
53:30 and you've got an annual budget process
53:32 and frankly by 2023 hopefully we will be
53:35 on a biennial budget process
53:37 you've got that sort of that um
53:39 continuous
53:40 feedback mechanism where you've got okay
53:43 this is what we were contemplating for
53:44 the cip
53:46 for the next six years in the
53:49 winter of 2021. um summer of 2021 will
53:53 be working on the annual budget
53:55 saying okay what how are those revenues
53:57 panning out
53:58 compared to what we assumed we would put
54:01 forth
54:01 the projects in the annual budget
54:03 process come 2022
54:07 the summer of 2022 we will then
54:10 be recommend looking again at the cip
54:13 saying okay this is what was
54:14 contemplated in the cip
54:16 are those revenues materializing as we
54:19 anticipated
54:20 we would put then those projects forward
54:23 either as contemplated in the cip adjust
54:27 it up
54:27 if revenues are are looking better
54:29 adjusted down
54:30 if revenues are are looking worse so
54:33 that's
54:33 that's kind of the feedback mechanism
54:35 that goes into informing
54:37 what ultimately gets funded out of the
54:39 cip
54:41 come from overwatch great i've got one
54:44 more if you'll let me
54:45 of course okay um so does
54:49 the approach of kind of having a more
54:52 realistic only listing out funded
54:54 projects
54:55 does that approach differ at all for the
54:57 enterprise or utility funds
54:59 um i would guess that more of those
55:01 projects
55:02 would be requirements life
55:06 you know altering types of things so is
55:09 is there a different approach that comes
55:11 for those versus general fund
55:15 yeah so um most if not all
55:19 in in most cases 99.9
55:22 of the time projects that we will be
55:25 putting forward
55:26 in the cip are projects that were
55:28 contemplated
55:29 in the rate studies um because we need
55:32 to set the utility rates based on a set
55:36 project assumptions operating
55:38 assumptions
55:39 we then set the rates to support that
55:42 mix of projects
55:46 in some respects um not to be
55:49 disrespectful for my colleagues in the
55:51 utilities
55:52 the um the cip for the utilities is a
55:55 little bit less interesting because a
55:57 lot of that
55:58 work has already been done when um
56:01 you were considering and contemplating
56:04 the utility rates so we take what was
56:07 contemplated there
56:08 um put that in the cip um again
56:11 you know all of these this is subject to
56:13 change so
56:15 um you know if costs of projects
56:19 fluctuate if timing fluctuates then
56:22 we would update that in the cip and
56:25 subsequent budgets
56:26 but um the idea is is that it's
56:29 reflected
56:30 um you know both are are are reflected
56:33 in both documents
56:34 acknowledging that if things change we
56:37 may need to make some tweaks there
56:40 right thank you thank you councilmember
56:43 walsh i'd like to go to deputy council
56:44 president ray for a question
56:47 thank you mayor paul it's chris wray um
56:50 super excited to see the work on the cip
56:52 starting earlier in the year
56:54 um my question is does the council what
56:57 does the council do
56:58 between now and mid april when we get
57:01 the budget transmitted there's some
57:03 there's some good time here for some
57:05 good work and i just want to know what
57:06 we ought to be doing
57:08 um thank you for the question it won't
57:11 be a budget
57:12 it'll be a plan i think
57:15 last year we had a lot of confusion over
57:17 whether or not
57:18 we were proposing a capital improvement
57:20 budget which would kind of tie your hand
57:22 so i just want to make sure we use the
57:24 word plan and i'll hand it over to
57:26 the finances and i i misspoke i know
57:29 it's important
57:33 so um typically
57:36 um between in if it typically this phase
57:40 of a cip this is done by the
57:42 administration
57:43 um and um once the administration
57:47 develops um its recommendations they're
57:51 transmitted similar to the budget
57:52 process
57:53 so i'm not
57:56 familiar with a specific role for the
57:58 city council
57:59 in that that proposal phase except
58:03 to say um that we're talking about the
58:06 cip
58:06 today but the mayor did indicate
58:10 that there is likely a need for
58:14 additional revenue sources
58:15 in future years and so one of the things
58:19 that
58:20 i think we wanted you to start
58:23 discussing today
58:24 is whether on a parallel track
58:28 the city council wishes to start
58:30 discussions
58:32 about what a new revenue package
58:36 might look like again that would be
58:38 separate from the cip
58:40 um and the timing of that i think
58:44 is is subject for discussion but perhaps
58:46 that's something that the council could
58:49 start considering in in the intervening
58:52 period
58:56 thank you thank you deputy council
58:59 president
59:00 i am going to go back to council member
59:02 dean oh hang on i'm going to ask a
59:04 question first
59:05 um so we've had the one council member
59:08 that's been dropping on and off i want
59:10 to make sure that we are able to get all
59:12 the questions on the table before i come
59:14 to comment so i'll give a second to sign
59:16 up in the chat
59:18 i know council member d michelle would
59:19 like to have some comments
59:21 and so are there any other questions
59:23 before we proceed
59:25 and while i'm waiting um as the finance
59:29 director just stated there's a couple of
59:30 things we'd be looking for
59:32 comments on the capital improvement
59:35 program
59:36 process and any general comments you
59:39 want to provide on the second question
59:41 which was
59:41 consideration of a discussion
59:44 later in this year on future new revenue
59:47 sources to support capital
59:50 so i am not seeing any more questions so
59:52 let's start with comments councilmember
59:54 d michelle
59:56 thank you and and uh this is
59:57 councilmember d michelle it's
59:59 actually a perfect segue because uh
1:00:02 um i just from the presentation i just
1:00:05 was a little concerned that we were
1:00:07 focused on the transportation benefit
1:00:09 district and
1:00:10 so um i would like us to make sure that
1:00:14 every option is on the table uh
1:00:16 throughout our discussions and that uh
1:00:18 when it comes time that we do a really
1:00:21 uh careful pro and con on every kind of
1:00:23 of revenue option
1:00:25 that we're considering so i just want to
1:00:27 get that on the table
1:00:30 and then my other comment has to do with
1:00:32 the community engagement and i see that
1:00:34 we're
1:00:35 contemplating um doing community
1:00:38 engagement in the was it the first
1:00:40 quarter first quarter
1:00:42 or second quarter
1:00:46 well the schedule that we laid out and
1:00:50 it was just an example
1:00:51 would be starting in the second quarter
1:00:53 of 2021.
1:00:55 okay i'm just hoping that we are
1:00:58 considering
1:00:59 uh doing a community advisory group that
1:01:02 involves every neighborhood in the city
1:01:05 i would like us to really consider a
1:01:07 very wide and transparent
1:01:10 community outreach we're in a difficult
1:01:13 period
1:01:13 and if we're talking about new revenue
1:01:15 sources during
1:01:16 in the aftermath of the pandemic
1:01:20 i don't think it's impossible i think
1:01:21 it's very needed but i think we're going
1:01:26 need to listen very very carefully to
1:01:28 our community and get
1:01:29 everybody's voices to the table and when
1:01:32 we're contemplating new revenue sources
1:01:34 again i think this is a very critical
1:01:36 area for us to be looking at it through
1:01:38 our equity lens
1:01:41 taxation is certainly one of the great
1:01:43 big issues when it comes to equity and
1:01:46 how are we
1:01:47 treating the people in our community who
1:01:49 are less able
1:01:50 to carry a tax burden when compared to
1:01:54 others who are more able
1:01:55 so those are are my comments i i do want
1:01:59 to say overall
1:02:00 i'm very pleased with the direction that
1:02:02 this is going
1:02:04 i uh the old cip with everybody
1:02:07 every every project thrown in i think
1:02:10 isn't clear and i think this is a much
1:02:11 clearer direction so i support it
1:02:13 thank you
1:02:21 i am not sure if you can hear me right
1:02:24 now because i'm having some headset
1:02:26 issues ah there we go okay but i'm kind
1:02:28 of frozen on the screen that's kind of
1:02:29 weird
1:02:30 um thank you councilmember d michelle
1:02:35 let me look through here
1:02:36 [Music]
1:02:38 anyone else for comments
1:02:51 let's go to council president hunt
1:02:54 followed by council member hall
1:02:57 thank you mayor paulie and i apologize
1:03:00 for my
1:03:00 internet going in and out um but
1:03:03 hopefully this will work
1:03:04 so um i agree with what council member d
1:03:07 michelle said i also just wanted to
1:03:09 add that there were council members in
1:03:11 ad hoc committee that had looked at
1:03:13 several options for a transportation
1:03:15 benefit district
1:03:16 projects and done a deep dive on that
1:03:18 recently within
1:03:20 a year or so i believe and just wanted
1:03:22 to make sure for continuity that we are
1:03:25 making the best use of that body of work
1:03:27 as well because i know
1:03:28 a lot of a lot of work went into that
1:03:32 and thank you for the presentation
1:03:36 thank you next let's have
1:03:39 council member hall thanks mayor paulie
1:03:42 this is councilmember hall
1:03:43 not not a whole lot more to add to that
1:03:45 uh councilmember michelle and council
1:03:47 president hunt
1:03:48 said it perfectly i think i'm um
1:03:51 i'm happy with this new process i'm
1:03:53 eager to see where it goes
1:03:55 um i am ready if not eager to talk about
1:03:58 new revenues um the benefits that they
1:04:01 provide but also the impact to our
1:04:03 community and i think uh
1:04:04 i applaud councilmember de michel for
1:04:06 bringing up the issue of equity in the
1:04:07 situation certainly needs to be top of
1:04:10 as we move forward and then i was also
1:04:12 glad to see community engagement listed
1:04:14 first
1:04:14 um and like you know going from
1:04:18 community determines what projects we
1:04:20 move forward with so i was just
1:04:22 wanted to say that i'm happy to see that
1:04:24 come first and
1:04:26 no other comments thank you
1:04:30 are there any other council members who
1:04:31 would like to comment
1:04:36 i'll give it a second to look into chat
1:04:42 okay thank you very much director
1:04:44 goldberg
1:04:46 the next item of business uh this
1:04:48 evening is the consent calendar
1:04:50 and the consent calendar was distributed
1:04:53 to council in advance
1:04:54 and if authorized the items on the
1:04:56 consent calendar will be considered
1:04:57 together and approved by one motion
1:05:00 have the payables and payroll been
1:05:02 reviewed
1:05:03 they have yes they have
1:05:06 thank you does any council member desire
1:05:09 to remove any item from the consent
1:05:10 calendar and consider it under regular
1:05:12 business
1:05:17 is there a motion
1:05:21 council president hunt thank you this is
1:05:24 council president hunt i move to approve
1:05:26 the consent calendar as it appears on
1:05:27 this evening's agenda
1:05:29 thank you deputy council president
1:05:31 wright this is chris right second
1:05:34 it's been moved and seconded i will go
1:05:35 to the clerk for the roll call vote
1:05:38 starting with council member d michelle
1:05:41 aye councilmember goodman
1:05:45 aye councilmember hall aye
1:05:49 council president hunt aye
1:05:52 councilmember martz aye deputy council
1:05:56 president ray
1:05:59 councilmember walsh aye at 7i
1:06:02 zero nays thank you city clerics ben
1:06:07 passes unanimously the next item on our
1:06:10 agenda this evening is regular business
1:06:12 and we have a couple of abs the first
1:06:14 one being ab8083
1:06:16 water resource inventory inventory area
1:06:20 watershed restoration enhancement
1:06:22 committee final plan
1:06:24 and the ask before council this evening
1:06:26 is to approve the resolution
1:06:28 i'd like to invite senior engineer alan
1:06:30 quinn to present on this item
1:06:43 yes hi good evening i'm sorry i just
1:06:45 lost my um
1:06:47 my bluebeam powerpoint so i just need to
1:06:50 try to get it up here i apologize i just
1:06:53 give me bear with me while i
1:07:10 unfortunately i have to connect back
1:07:11 into the vpn so uh that's why it's
1:07:14 taking a little bit of time
1:07:15 alan this is tisha
1:07:18 i'm happy to display this slide
1:07:22 oh are you sure okay yeah i just
1:07:24 actually okay well it's up to you um
1:07:29 all right that's fine well let me begin
1:07:30 then um
1:07:32 good evening madam mayor council
1:07:34 president hunt and members of the city
1:07:35 council
1:07:36 my name is alan quinn senior spring
1:07:38 water engineer and public works
1:07:40 and tonight stephanie potts from the
1:07:42 department of ecology
1:07:43 has graciously offered to present the
1:07:45 riot 8 watershed restoration enhancement
1:07:47 committee
1:07:48 final plan to the city council for
1:07:50 consideration and approval
1:07:52 stephanie is watershed restoration
1:07:54 enhancement lead and is responsible for
1:07:56 the coordinating implementation of the
1:07:58 through the watershed restoration
1:08:00 enhancement committee process
1:08:02 as staff i uh and the city
1:08:05 representative
1:08:06 at the watershed restoration enhancement
1:08:08 committee so i've been attending most of
1:08:10 the meetings
1:08:11 over the last i'd say about 18 months
1:08:15 so with that i'd like to turn over to
1:08:16 stephanie
1:08:21 hi everyone thank you for inviting me to
1:08:23 speak this evening
1:08:26 um i'm joining from my phone because my
1:08:29 my computer camera stopped working so
1:08:32 please let me know if there's any kind
1:08:33 of technical issues that are
1:08:36 going haywire while i'm presenting um
1:08:39 so again my name is stephanie potts i
1:08:41 work for department of ecology
1:08:43 i'm the streamflow restoration
1:08:45 implementation lead for
1:08:47 riot 8 which is the cedar smamish
1:08:48 watershed and the chair of the
1:08:51 rio watershed restoration enhancement
1:08:53 committee
1:08:56 so if you can go to the outline slide
1:08:59 which is the second slide today in my
1:09:01 presentation i'll just provide a brief
1:09:03 overview of the streamflow restoration
1:09:07 i'll talk about the membership of the
1:09:09 riot 8
1:09:10 water restoration enhancement committee
1:09:14 give you an overview of the elements in
1:09:16 the riot 8
1:09:17 watershed plan and then talk about next
1:09:20 steps in terms of kind of where we are
1:09:21 in the process now and what's coming up
1:09:24 next slide please
1:09:29 so the stream flow restoration law was
1:09:32 passed
1:09:32 in january of 2018 and it clarified how
1:09:36 local governments can issue building
1:09:38 permits for homes intending to use a
1:09:40 permanent exempt well for their domestic
1:09:42 water supply
1:09:43 and then offsets those impacts through
1:09:45 this local watershed
1:09:47 planning effort another component of
1:09:50 law was to authorize 300 million dollars
1:09:54 in capital funds
1:09:56 over 15 years to fund stream for
1:09:58 restoration
1:09:59 projects slide please
1:10:05 so certain types of small groundwater
1:10:08 withdrawals
1:10:09 are exempt from permitting requirements
1:10:11 those are
1:10:12 single homes small developments
1:10:15 irrigation of small lawns and gardens
1:10:17 stock watering an industry that needs
1:10:19 minimal water
1:10:20 and those types of wells are called
1:10:23 permanent exempt wells
1:10:25 and so these permanent exempt wells
1:10:27 often provide water where
1:10:29 municipal supply is not available often
1:10:32 in kind of rural unincorporated areas
1:10:35 and the streamflow restoration law which
1:10:38 rcw 1994 it applies to
1:10:42 new permanent exempt wells that serve
1:10:44 indoor and outdoor domestic health
1:10:46 household uses so it only applies to
1:10:48 wells that
1:10:49 are installed after the law was passed
1:10:52 in january of 2018.
1:10:56 and a couple of the things it does it
1:10:59 it attaches a new fee for those wells of
1:11:03 and then it restricts the withdrawal
1:11:05 from those new wells to an annual
1:11:07 average of 950 gallons per day
1:11:09 which was lower than the existing cap of
1:11:11 5000 gallons per day
1:11:13 so that's a little bit about permanent
1:11:15 exempt wells next slide please
1:11:20 and so another kind of key term
1:11:23 in this plan is consumptive water use
1:11:26 and so
1:11:27 in the context of the streamflow
1:11:28 restoration law consumptive use
1:11:31 is water that is evaporated transpired
1:11:34 consumed by humans or otherwise removed
1:11:36 from the immediate
1:11:38 water environment due to the use of
1:11:39 these wells so for
1:11:41 indoor household use most homes with
1:11:44 wells are also in septic systems
1:11:46 so we assume that a lot of that water
1:11:48 goes back into groundwater
1:11:50 and only about 10 is considered
1:11:52 consumptive
1:11:53 whereas outdoor water use we assume that
1:11:57 80 percent is lost
1:11:59 to the immediate immediate water
1:12:00 environment mainly due to
1:12:02 evapotranspiration
1:12:05 next slide please
1:12:08 so there are 15 impacted watersheds
1:12:13 under this law and the law includes a
1:12:15 process
1:12:16 for developing plans to estimate the
1:12:19 impacts from new permanent
1:12:21 domestic withdrawals over 20 years and
1:12:24 then identify projects and actions to
1:12:26 offset those impacts
1:12:27 and provide what the law calls a net
1:12:29 ecological benefit
1:12:32 so the major steps to do that planning
1:12:35 included first estimating the
1:12:38 consumptive water use from new domestic
1:12:40 wells
1:12:41 for the 20-year period of 2018 to 2038
1:12:45 then identifying projects to offset that
1:12:48 consumptive use
1:12:49 and provide an ecological benefit and
1:12:52 the plan really looks at those projects
1:12:54 on a watershed scale so
1:12:57 the projects and the wells don't need to
1:12:59 always be
1:13:01 you know a direct kind of in the same
1:13:03 time in the same place
1:13:04 it's offsetting at the watershed scale
1:13:08 in addition to offsetting that water the
1:13:10 plant also
1:13:11 can include projects that enhance
1:13:12 habitat for fish
1:13:14 and then once that plant is completed
1:13:17 the department of
1:13:18 ecology is required to evaluate the plan
1:13:21 and make a determination of whether to
1:13:23 achieve an
1:13:23 ecological benefit and in july of 2019
1:13:27 ecology released
1:13:29 guidance for determining ecological
1:13:31 benefit
1:13:32 that provided some um support and kind
1:13:36 of instructions for our committees to
1:13:37 use for the planning process
1:13:39 and also define the term necological
1:13:41 benefit in a number of other terms
1:13:45 next slide please
1:13:48 so as i mentioned there are 15
1:13:50 watersheds
1:13:52 across the state that are undergoing
1:13:53 this planning process
1:13:55 a number of them have just completed
1:13:57 their process so
1:13:58 the two in red had a very short timeline
1:14:01 of one year and they completed theirs in
1:14:04 the ones in pink were just formally
1:14:07 adopted
1:14:08 last week and then the ones in green are
1:14:10 all kind of going through the same
1:14:12 process
1:14:13 they're newly formed committees that are
1:14:14 chaired by department of ecology
1:14:19 next slide please
1:14:22 so in rio 8 for these newly formed
1:14:26 committees
1:14:27 the law directed ecology to establish
1:14:30 and chair the committee and develop
1:14:32 this watershed plan and invite specific
1:14:35 entities to participate so the law was
1:14:37 pretty specific and who should be
1:14:39 part of this committee including cities
1:14:42 counties tribes department of fish and
1:14:45 wildlife
1:14:46 the largest non-municipal water purveyor
1:14:48 and organizations to represent
1:14:50 interest groups including environmental
1:14:52 residential construction
1:14:53 and agricultural interest groups and
1:14:56 ecology invited all of the cities in the
1:14:58 watershed to participate
1:14:59 however many of the cities declined to
1:15:02 participate because
1:15:04 they they didn't think that it was
1:15:06 especially relevant to them
1:15:08 because a lot of cities don't have a lot
1:15:10 of perma-exempt wells going in
1:15:12 or um you know for other reasons
1:15:15 so that slide shows the entities that
1:15:17 decided to participate in this process
1:15:22 next slide please and so in terms of the
1:15:25 role of the committees
1:15:26 and ecology ecology is working with
1:15:28 these committees to develop the plan
1:15:31 um one thing that's the law was very
1:15:33 clear about
1:15:34 is that each member of the committee
1:15:36 must approve the plan before it can be
1:15:38 submitted to ecology
1:15:40 for a review and then once the plan is
1:15:42 approved unanimously
1:15:44 it comes to ecology review for review
1:15:47 ecology reviews the plan and makes a
1:15:49 determination of whether it meets
1:15:51 a net ecological benefit and then
1:15:53 decides whether to adopt the plan
1:15:56 and the law also had a deadline of june
1:15:58 30th 2021
1:16:00 for all of that to happen so we had a
1:16:03 limited amount of time to complete this
1:16:05 planning process
1:16:09 next live please so now i'll go into an
1:16:11 overview of what's in the
1:16:13 cedar sammamish watershed restoration
1:16:15 enhancement plan
1:16:19 so the planning horizon as i mentioned
1:16:21 was 2018 through 2038
1:16:24 um in order to kind of better
1:16:28 see the relationship between projects
1:16:30 and where we think the wells are going
1:16:31 to go we divided the watershed into 12
1:16:34 sub basins and then we looked at
1:16:37 how many wells we thought were going to
1:16:39 go in over the 20-year period
1:16:41 and we projected 967 new wells
1:16:45 we used that number to estimate
1:16:47 consumptive use and estimated 425.4 acre
1:16:51 feet per year of consumptive use
1:16:53 and then we looked for projects and
1:16:55 actions to offset
1:16:56 that that estimated contempt of use and
1:16:58 so there's a total of 36 projects in the
1:17:01 and i'll give a brief overview of those
1:17:05 so i'll show you some maps to visually
1:17:06 display
1:17:08 the information i just
1:17:11 told you about so if you can go to the
1:17:14 first map
1:17:14 which shows the sub-basins you can see
1:17:17 how we divided the watershed into 12
1:17:20 sub-basins and then
1:17:25 there's an inset map there so you can
1:17:27 see how
1:17:28 where issaquah is in relation to those
1:17:30 sub-basins
1:17:32 so um in that little red circle you can
1:17:35 see that issaquah overlaps with the
1:17:36 issaquah sub basin and the lakes and
1:17:38 mamish creeks
1:17:39 sub basin next slide please
1:17:46 and so the next slide shows
1:17:49 the 967 new wells and how those
1:17:52 how we expect those to be distributed
1:17:54 across the watershed
1:17:56 we expect those to mostly be in rural
1:17:59 unincorporated king and snohomish
1:18:00 counties
1:18:01 um and outside of urban growth areas
1:18:05 and so they're um mostly in the sub
1:18:08 basins in the lower cedar
1:18:10 issaquah bear evans and little bear so
1:18:12 the dark
1:18:13 orange and red colors on the map next
1:18:16 slide please
1:18:19 and then the consumptive use estimate
1:18:21 really reflects
1:18:22 um you know where the wells are going to
1:18:24 go so we we
1:18:26 used that 20-year projection of new
1:18:27 wells to estimate consumptive use
1:18:29 and estimated 425.4 acre feet and then
1:18:33 the committee
1:18:34 added a margin of safety and sought
1:18:37 projects to offset at least about
1:18:39 700 acre feet just to account for
1:18:41 uncertainties and and trying to
1:18:44 guess what's going to happen in 20 years
1:18:45 so we just wanted to make sure that we
1:18:48 went over our estimate just in case in
1:18:50 case uh we were wrong
1:18:52 and there's a technical memorandum
1:18:54 that's in an appendix
1:18:56 that goes into a lot more detail about
1:18:58 the methodology and assumptions involved
1:19:00 in that
1:19:01 consumptive use estimate
1:19:05 next slide please
1:19:10 so in terms of the types of projects and
1:19:12 actions in the plan
1:19:13 the plan includes 11 projects that were
1:19:16 calling water offset projects
1:19:18 and 25 projects for calling habitat
1:19:20 projects
1:19:21 to meet that net ecological benefit
1:19:23 standard to find projects we distributed
1:19:25 a call for projects in january of last
1:19:28 we also asked committee members to
1:19:29 recommend projects to include
1:19:32 and we contracted with a few technical
1:19:35 consulting
1:19:36 firms to help with project development
1:19:37 and those were
1:19:39 geo engineers and washington water trust
1:19:42 and so the main project types included
1:19:43 in the plan
1:19:45 are water right acquisitions managed
1:19:47 aquifer recharge
1:19:49 storm water infiltration habitat
1:19:51 projects and there are also number of
1:19:53 policy recommendations
1:19:57 next slide please so for the
1:20:00 water offset projects most of them are
1:20:03 water right acquisition opportunities
1:20:06 there are also two managed aquifer
1:20:08 recharge projects that would use
1:20:10 recycled water from the bright water
1:20:12 treatment plant
1:20:14 and these projects are really conceptual
1:20:17 a lot of them we developed
1:20:19 from scratch during this planning
1:20:21 process so
1:20:23 a lot of them need a lot more work you
1:20:25 know to kind of further develop them
1:20:27 before they could be implemented
1:20:29 so that was kind of one of the key
1:20:30 reasons why we wanted to have a really
1:20:33 robust project portfolio that goes above
1:20:35 and beyond
1:20:36 our estimated consumptive use because
1:20:40 it's likely that not all these projects
1:20:41 will be implemented
1:20:45 next slide and i'll go through a couple
1:20:47 in more detail that are um
1:20:49 in or around issaquah
1:20:52 so the first one is the pre-identified
1:20:54 number two water right acquisition
1:20:57 um some of the water rights we often
1:20:59 refer to by number instead of
1:21:01 um by anything that kind of identifies
1:21:05 the property um the the water right
1:21:08 holder
1:21:09 just out of sensitivity for including
1:21:11 you know private information
1:21:13 um so this water right served a housing
1:21:15 development in issaquah
1:21:17 and now those houses are served by
1:21:19 sammamish plateau water and sewer
1:21:20 district
1:21:21 so the overdeal water association no
1:21:24 longer
1:21:24 is using the water right and um one of
1:21:28 the reasons why we looked at this water
1:21:29 as an opportunity is because uh the
1:21:32 water right holder put
1:21:33 this into um ecology's trust water
1:21:36 rights program as a temporary donation
1:21:39 which is a way to kind of protect the
1:21:41 water right that's not being used
1:21:43 from being relinquished so we knew that
1:21:45 the water right wasn't currently in use
1:21:48 and um for this water right and other
1:21:50 water rights in the plan
1:21:52 washington water trust really did a lot
1:21:53 of the
1:21:55 you know analysis and outreach and so
1:21:58 they initiated outreach to this water
1:22:00 right holder
1:22:01 in the spring of last year just to kind
1:22:04 of see if they were interested
1:22:06 and a potential acquisition and they did
1:22:08 express interest
1:22:10 however additional conversations need to
1:22:12 happen before
1:22:14 the project moves forward so to confirm
1:22:17 their interest and negotiate
1:22:19 a price for the water right another
1:22:22 thing to note is that
1:22:23 these water right quantities are based
1:22:26 for the most part a pretty rough
1:22:28 analysis so that would also
1:22:30 change with further investigation and
1:22:32 negotiation of the purchase
1:22:36 next slide please
1:22:40 and so there's another water right
1:22:42 that's in issaquah as well
1:22:43 pre-identified water right number four
1:22:46 this water right
1:22:47 was used to support dairy production
1:22:50 it's also
1:22:51 currently placed in the trust water
1:22:53 right program as a temporary donation
1:22:55 so we know that the water right is not
1:22:57 currently being used
1:22:59 because it's being held in that program
1:23:02 and for this water right as well
1:23:04 washington water trust initiated
1:23:06 initiated outreach last spring um just
1:23:08 to see if the water right holder was
1:23:10 interested
1:23:10 they seemed open to further discussions
1:23:13 um but those discussions need to
1:23:15 still happen because really at that
1:23:18 point we then
1:23:18 just needed to focus on completing the
1:23:21 plan and then once the plan is
1:23:23 approved and adopted then we can go back
1:23:26 to having these discussions
1:23:29 next slide please so i'll give you an
1:23:33 overview of the habitat projects that
1:23:34 are included in the plan
1:23:37 number these we really relied on
1:23:38 committee members to help identify
1:23:40 projects to include we looked for
1:23:43 projects that were
1:23:44 larger on in kind of a geographic
1:23:48 scale and in sub basins with higher
1:23:50 expected consumptive use
1:23:51 and then one thing that committee talked
1:23:53 about a lot is that you know a lot of
1:23:55 these types of habitat projects like
1:23:57 floodplain restoration
1:23:58 levee removals a lot of those types of
1:24:01 projects have the potential to
1:24:03 recharge groundwater um and have a
1:24:06 streamflow benefit however it's they're
1:24:07 really difficult to quantify
1:24:10 um so we explored trying to put a number
1:24:12 on those for a while and then ultimately
1:24:13 they can be chose
1:24:15 not to try to quantify the stream flow
1:24:17 benefit from those projects
1:24:19 just to acknowledge that many of them do
1:24:21 have a streamflow benefit
1:24:24 and so they're including the plan really
1:24:25 to kind of provide that
1:24:27 more of that ecological benefit and then
1:24:30 on the next slide i'll just describe one
1:24:32 um that's in issaquah
1:24:36 it's the iskawa creek and stream and a
1:24:38 riparian restoration in lake snema state
1:24:41 it was proposed by mountains to sound
1:24:44 greenway trust and it would restore
1:24:45 habitat along issaquah creek
1:24:48 within the lakes and mammoth state park
1:24:53 next slide please and then also as kind
1:24:56 of a subset of habitat projects there
1:24:58 are a number of stormwater retrofit
1:25:00 projects
1:25:02 these were identified through our call
1:25:04 for projects by
1:25:06 a number of cities responding with
1:25:09 with projects that they suggested
1:25:11 including in the plan
1:25:14 next slide please and so
1:25:17 this slide shows how the
1:25:20 projects are distributed across the
1:25:21 watershed and also how they kind of
1:25:24 match up with our estimated consumptive
1:25:26 so the consumptive use is higher in the
1:25:29 kind of dark blue areas and then
1:25:32 the water offset projects are shown with
1:25:34 circles and the habitat projects are
1:25:36 shown with squares
1:25:41 next slide please and so the plan also
1:25:45 includes a section
1:25:46 on prospective projects and actions so
1:25:49 these are projects
1:25:50 that the committee wanted to show
1:25:52 support for we might we didn't have a
1:25:54 specific
1:25:55 project description but wanted to show
1:25:58 that they would support these types of
1:26:00 projects being developed in the future
1:26:04 next slide please and then the committee
1:26:08 also chose to include some policy and
1:26:09 regulatory recommendations related to
1:26:11 streamflow restoration
1:26:15 one was well reporting upgrades one
1:26:17 thing we found out through this process
1:26:18 is there's not
1:26:19 a good existing tracking system for
1:26:22 perma-exempt wells
1:26:23 so they thought that was really
1:26:24 important in the future
1:26:27 overall just projects or actions to
1:26:30 encourage
1:26:31 connections to public water more
1:26:33 development and use of reclaimed water
1:26:35 voluntary metering
1:26:38 water conservation education and
1:26:40 incentives and water conservation during
1:26:42 droughts
1:26:45 next slide and then the plan also
1:26:48 includes
1:26:49 recommendations for adaptive management
1:26:51 of the plan
1:26:53 and that again highlights the need to
1:26:55 track the number and location of puls
1:26:57 to monitor project implementation and
1:27:00 the water offset achieved and whether
1:27:01 we're meeting
1:27:02 our goals there and then regular reports
1:27:05 from ecology to show
1:27:07 how the plan is being implemented and
1:27:10 then the adaptive management
1:27:11 recommendations also say that
1:27:13 you know if it looks like we're really
1:27:14 not on track to meet our goals
1:27:16 ecology can adjust the plan if needed or
1:27:18 the committee can
1:27:19 reconvene to make recommendations as
1:27:26 and next slide
1:27:29 so in november of last year
1:27:32 the committee provided interim approval
1:27:35 of the final draft plan
1:27:37 and so where we are now is that
1:27:39 committee members are sharing the plan
1:27:40 with their local decision makers
1:27:42 in order to get authorization for
1:27:44 approval before we have a final
1:27:46 vote which is currently scheduled for
1:27:48 february 25th
1:27:50 and as i mentioned the legislation
1:27:52 requires
1:27:54 all members of the committee to approve
1:27:55 the plan before it can be submitted to
1:27:57 ecology
1:27:58 for review but the legislation also has
1:28:04 a description of what happens if we do
1:28:06 not achieve that so if the plan
1:28:08 is not approved unanimously
1:28:11 then ecology will finish the plan um
1:28:14 instructs the law instruction ecology to
1:28:16 send the plan to the salmon recovery
1:28:17 funding board for a technical review
1:28:20 and then we would finalize the plan and
1:28:22 initiate a rule making process
1:28:24 and so that's something that happened um
1:28:28 once already and in raya one which is
1:28:30 the nook stack watershed
1:28:32 they did not approve their plan and so
1:28:35 ecology had a rule making process for
1:28:37 that watershed
1:28:41 next slide please
1:28:46 and so post plan submission after the
1:28:48 plan is approved by the committee
1:28:50 ecology will initiate the sipa process
1:28:53 state environmental policy act
1:28:55 and that includes an environmental
1:28:57 checklist
1:28:58 and threshold determination for a
1:29:00 non-project programmatic plan review
1:29:03 and um we expect to have a 30-day public
1:29:06 comment period although
1:29:08 the minimum would be 14 days but we're
1:29:10 hoping we'll have time to do 30 days
1:29:12 and then ecology will be the view the
1:29:14 plan determine whether it achieves an
1:29:17 ecological benefit
1:29:18 and the ecology director will decide
1:29:21 whether to adopt the plan all with a
1:29:23 deadline of june 30th of this year
1:29:29 next slide please
1:29:33 and so one thing to note you know with
1:29:37 this law it really focuses on
1:29:40 development of the plan
1:29:41 but there is not um an obligation
1:29:45 for entities on the committee to
1:29:49 to um implement the plan so by including
1:29:51 a project or action in the plan
1:29:53 it does not obligate the sponsor to
1:29:55 implement that project
1:29:56 or um you know to carry out that
1:30:00 recommendation uh next slide please
1:30:05 however the to support implementation
1:30:08 the legislature authorized that 300
1:30:10 million dollar grant program
1:30:12 um to really you know provide incentives
1:30:15 for implementing projects in the plan
1:30:17 and so we've had two grant rounds so far
1:30:20 and awarded about 40 million dollars
1:30:23 and expect to have another grant round
1:30:26 kind of depending on what happens with
1:30:28 legislative session will determine the
1:30:29 timing of that
1:30:30 um but one thing to note is that you
1:30:32 know we don't you don't expect this to
1:30:34 be enough
1:30:36 funding to um fund all the projects and
1:30:39 all of these plans that are
1:30:40 being developed across the state so we
1:30:42 expect that other sources of funds will
1:30:43 be needed to fully implement these plans
1:30:48 and so that's all i have for my
1:30:50 presentation i'm happy to answer
1:30:52 questions thank you stephanie thank you
1:30:56 and just in case council's not aware we
1:30:58 also have public works director bob york
1:31:00 here today
1:31:01 i will give you all a second or two to
1:31:04 put something
1:31:05 any questions you have in the chat box
1:31:08 and we'll move on from there to comments
1:31:11 so um
1:31:12 first up let's have a question from
1:31:13 council president hunt
1:31:16 thank you this is uh council president
1:31:18 hunt and i had a question on the
1:31:20 well well reporting upgrades and
1:31:23 the tracking of the permit exempt wells
1:31:26 and so um i guess my question is what's
1:31:28 the recommended
1:31:30 way to track that would it be tracked at
1:31:33 the level of the city or would it be
1:31:34 tracked
1:31:35 at a county level or do you have
1:31:38 is there more detail on the recommended
1:31:40 way to go about that
1:31:42 and he's interested
1:31:47 yeah so the recommendation is for
1:31:49 ecology to really manage that tracking
1:31:52 um the legislation already um
1:31:55 requires some reporting from local
1:31:57 jurisdictions that
1:31:59 have wells going in within their
1:32:00 boundaries so mostly counties
1:32:02 are who that applies to and so counties
1:32:05 are already
1:32:06 sending ecology since since this law was
1:32:09 passed in 2018
1:32:10 counties have been sending ecology
1:32:12 annually a record of
1:32:14 the number of wells that are going in
1:32:17 and so the recommendation is for ecology
1:32:19 to kind of
1:32:20 either build a database or adjust a
1:32:22 database we already have
1:32:24 to see where the wells are going in and
1:32:27 identify which ones are permanent exempt
1:32:29 because the database we have now is
1:32:32 based on
1:32:35 notices from drillers and so it doesn't
1:32:37 identify
1:32:38 the type of well accurately um
1:32:41 and so really it's on the recommendation
1:32:44 would fall on ecology to
1:32:46 develop a better system to
1:32:49 identify the type of well and and show
1:32:52 where it is
1:32:54 thank you thank you stephanie thank you
1:32:56 council president hunt it looks like
1:32:57 council member martz has a question
1:32:59 thank you this is council member mark so
1:33:03 help me understand how this would work
1:33:06 practice i saw you talked about darygold
1:33:10 you talked about
1:33:12 uh uh
1:33:16 the neighborhood up on the hill and over
1:33:20 over there thank you having a
1:33:23 senior moment uh so how would
1:33:27 in those particular cases how would the
1:33:29 conversations go with
1:33:31 those entities i guess gary gold used to
1:33:33 use a ton of water and doesn't use it
1:33:35 anymore and so
1:33:36 they'd be compensated like what is that
1:33:38 honest obviously there's going to be
1:33:40 specific discussions with those two
1:33:42 entities but broadly speaking how would
1:33:43 those conversations work
1:33:48 yeah so i think the main source of
1:33:50 funding would likely be the stream
1:33:51 of restoration grant program how this
1:33:55 has happened and other um and other
1:33:58 examples is kind of
1:33:59 depending on the entity that owns the
1:34:02 water
1:34:03 if they're a public or non-profit entity
1:34:05 they could apply directly for grant
1:34:07 funding and they would need to kind of
1:34:08 show justification for the
1:34:10 amount of funds and why they think
1:34:12 that's a fair price or
1:34:14 the other way it happens sometimes is
1:34:16 there's an intermediary and so
1:34:18 um for example washington water trust
1:34:20 who did a lot of that analysis for us
1:34:22 they often are kind of um involved in
1:34:25 these and negotiating these transactions
1:34:27 and so they could you know approach the
1:34:30 water right holder confirm their
1:34:33 interest negotiate
1:34:34 um the price do a lot of that analysis
1:34:38 see you know exactly what is that valid
1:34:40 quantity of water
1:34:41 and then apply for you know funding from
1:34:44 the grant program
1:34:45 for example to
1:34:48 to cover the cost of that acquisition
1:34:51 and then ultimately
1:34:52 the goal is that that water right would
1:34:54 be transferred into
1:34:56 ecology's trustwater program to be held
1:34:58 permanently for the first stream flow
1:35:00 benefit
1:35:02 okay so if i so what you're saying is
1:35:04 like the conversation with an entity
1:35:06 would be
1:35:07 a one-time lump sum to basically give up
1:35:11 the rights to accessing that water
1:35:15 yeah it's very similar to
1:35:18 you know a land acquisition um it would
1:35:22 be kind of putting a
1:35:23 value on the water and negotiating that
1:35:26 price and then acquiring it all right
1:35:28 okay but it would be a permanent uh
1:35:30 transaction
1:35:32 okay correct that was the part i was
1:35:34 missing thank you
1:35:36 thank you councilmember mertz stephanie
1:35:38 and alan i'm not seeing
1:35:40 any additional questions i'm not sure if
1:35:43 there's any
1:35:43 uh comments that the council members
1:35:45 want to be shared and while i'm waiting
1:35:47 to see
1:35:48 i'll just thank you as well for your
1:35:50 presentation
1:35:52 very good very thorough we do
1:35:55 have a motion on the table and council
1:35:58 president
1:35:59 or sorry we could have a motion on the
1:36:01 table i'm looking for
1:36:02 someone to make the motion council
1:36:03 president hunt looks like he'd like to
1:36:05 make it
1:36:06 thank you i moved to approve resolution
1:36:09 number 2021-01
1:36:12 approving the water resource inventory
1:36:14 area 8 watershed restoration enhancement
1:36:16 committee final draft
1:36:18 plan thank you
1:36:21 deputy council president ray
1:36:27 this is chris ray ii thank you it's been
1:36:30 moved and seconded
1:36:31 is there any additional council
1:36:34 discussion
1:36:37 and i'll keep an eye on the chat to see
1:36:42 let's go to council president hunt
1:36:46 thank you um and thank you for the
1:36:48 presentation
1:36:49 this is actually my second time seeing
1:36:51 this presentation because i'm also the
1:36:53 city's representative on the wire8
1:36:55 salmon recovery council and i appreciate
1:37:00 having seen it twice because it is very
1:37:02 complicated and there are a lot of parts
1:37:04 to it
1:37:04 i think one concept that seems to be
1:37:07 increasingly important is this concept
1:37:08 of net
1:37:09 ecological benefit and that we
1:37:12 are more than offsetting our
1:37:16 in this case the water that's being
1:37:19 removed from the system but i think that
1:37:20 that's
1:37:21 that's important um as we as we continue
1:37:24 to try to improve our
1:37:26 um our nature around us
1:37:30 so um i appreciate that approach a lot
1:37:32 and glad that that approach is being
1:37:33 taken here
1:37:35 and then i also learned from the
1:37:38 documentation here that
1:37:39 the flow trends in the issaquah sub
1:37:43 basin actually are
1:37:44 specifically of a concern it notes that
1:37:46 in the report so
1:37:47 i think to make sure that we maintain
1:37:49 our habitat this
1:37:50 this sort of that ecological benefit
1:37:53 approach is really important
1:37:55 and i will be supporting this thank you
1:37:58 thank you council president council
1:38:00 member hall
1:38:02 thanks mark paulie councilmember hall
1:38:04 here um
1:38:05 first and foremost i'll be supporting
1:38:07 this motion tonight i really wanted to
1:38:08 speak tonight
1:38:10 um just to give my appreciation and
1:38:12 thanks to you both
1:38:14 um read this plan over the weekend and
1:38:16 very clearly
1:38:18 it is a heavy lift um to have done all
1:38:20 this work
1:38:21 so i thank you very much for everything
1:38:23 that you did
1:38:24 on the back end to get it here in front
1:38:26 of us today
1:38:28 um to support net ecological benefits
1:38:31 all across our watershed so i just
1:38:33 wanted to
1:38:34 send my a note of appreciation your way
1:38:36 so thank you
1:38:38 thank you councilmember hall next up
1:38:40 councilmember goodman
1:38:43 uh thank you um stephanie for coming to
1:38:45 our meeting and presenting to us
1:38:47 um i too read it and i just wanted to
1:38:48 add it on add on to councilmember hall
1:38:51 um hall's comment about the plan is it's
1:38:55 um very uh readable
1:38:58 so means it's very accessible to the
1:39:00 public which is very very much
1:39:02 appreciated
1:39:03 um and i too will be supporting this
1:39:06 thank you
1:39:08 thank you very much councilmember
1:39:09 goodman i'm not seeing any
1:39:11 additional comments at this time and so
1:39:14 the motion before the council
1:39:16 is to approve resolution number 2021-01
1:39:19 approving the water resource inventory
1:39:22 area 8
1:39:23 watershed restoration enhancement
1:39:25 committee final draft plan you may have
1:39:28 to work on the title of all this
1:39:30 so we will go to the clerk for a roll
1:39:33 call vote
1:39:34 starting with council member goodman aye
1:39:38 councilmember hall aye council president
1:39:42 aye council member martz aye
1:39:46 deputy council president ray aye
1:39:49 council member walsh aye councilmember d
1:39:53 michelle
1:39:54 hi that's seven eye zero nays
1:39:58 thank you city cleric that passes
1:39:59 unanimously stephanie thank you for
1:40:01 presenting tonight
1:40:02 uh the council members comments i think
1:40:05 show the quality of the work that you
1:40:06 brought and the understandability it has
1:40:08 for the public and also the importance
1:40:10 of the work you're doing
1:40:11 so thank you very much for doing that
1:40:12 and thank you alan and thank you bob for
1:40:14 being here
1:40:22 so the next item that we have under
1:40:24 regular business is ab-8079
1:40:28 extension of the rv park management
1:40:31 agreement and the request before council
1:40:33 this evening is for authorization
1:40:36 and i'd like to have deputy city
1:40:38 administrator andy schneider come
1:40:40 come and present to us thank you madam
1:40:44 mayor good evening and good evening
1:40:46 members of city council this is andrea
1:40:48 snyder the deputy city administrator
1:40:51 and also joining me for this
1:40:53 presentation
1:40:54 is tracy andres who is our consulting
1:40:58 project manager
1:40:59 for the transportation opportunity
1:41:02 i'm sorry but the uh
1:41:05 the um the tod project which stands for
1:41:09 uh transit oriented development project
1:41:11 that we've been discussing over the past
1:41:12 couple of months
1:41:14 um so uh the
1:41:18 as um if you go to the next slide please
1:41:23 um as as you indicated madam mayor the
1:41:27 the purpose for this evening's
1:41:28 discussion is that we're seeking council
1:41:30 approval to renew our
1:41:33 rv park management agreement for the
1:41:35 period of january through june of this
1:41:37 year with midwest members only llc
1:41:41 the city has the city owns the land by
1:41:43 way of background
1:41:44 the city owns the land on which the rv
1:41:46 park operates and we've been in a
1:41:48 long-term
1:41:49 management agreement with with midwest
1:41:51 members
1:41:52 llc and
1:41:55 we're you know this year the agreement
1:41:58 looks a little bit different
1:41:59 than what it has looked in years past
1:42:01 and that's largely because
1:42:02 of the anticipation that centurylink
1:42:06 now called lumen would
1:42:10 take ownership of a portion of the rv
1:42:12 park property
1:42:14 in order to have relocate their
1:42:16 operations
1:42:17 and provide land for the uh
1:42:20 transportation
1:42:21 transit oriented development project i'm
1:42:23 having trouble trouble with that acronym
1:42:24 this evening
1:42:27 and so uh so
1:42:30 so in anticipation of lumen taking
1:42:33 ownership of a portion of the rv park as
1:42:35 we've discussed at recent city council
1:42:37 meetings
1:42:39 the rv park management agreement we're
1:42:42 proposing a shorter term than what we
1:42:43 would otherwise propose
1:42:45 because things are a little bit in flex
1:42:47 as we have
1:42:49 conversations with city council about
1:42:52 whether or not to expand
1:42:53 the rv park on city owned land that's
1:42:55 adjacent to the current footprint
1:42:58 that conversation is scheduled for march
1:43:01 also we will have a better idea mid-year
1:43:05 as to whether lumen will take possession
1:43:08 of that portion of the rv parks there's
1:43:10 a few things
1:43:11 um that are undetermined
1:43:15 in our future at this point in time and
1:43:16 that's why we're proposing this
1:43:18 short six-month agreement management
1:43:21 agreement
1:43:22 um so with that at this point
1:43:26 i'd like to introduce tracy andres and
1:43:29 she's going to
1:43:30 uh go over some of the details of
1:43:34 what's in the proposed agreement and
1:43:37 also um
1:43:38 as tracy andres is doing a lot of the
1:43:40 background behind the scenes work for
1:43:42 tod project i wanted to be sure to get
1:43:44 her in front of you this evening take
1:43:46 that opportunity so you can
1:43:48 um start to match her face with her name
1:43:52 tracy please take it away
1:44:02 andrea this is tisha i'm not seeing
1:44:05 tracy on the
1:44:06 line at the moment
1:44:09 unless she's uh we have one person who's
1:44:11 called in by phone
1:44:14 but i don't see her in our participant
1:44:19 okay well thank you tisha i definitely
1:44:22 saw her
1:44:23 on earlier so um maybe she can join
1:44:26 us uh perhaps you like others are having
1:44:30 internet and technical difficulties this
1:44:32 evening
1:44:33 so um tracy i invite you to let us know
1:44:37 that you've joined us if you can
1:44:39 either raise your hand if you're dialing
1:44:41 in and the clerks can
1:44:43 um help you with that or if you can
1:44:44 leave a comment in the chat so that i
1:44:46 know when you're back but
1:44:48 otherwise i'll proceed with the rest of
1:44:49 the presentation so
1:44:51 uh the proposal for the um that we have
1:44:54 before you this evening the proposed
1:44:56 management agreement
1:44:57 would as i said be through june 30th of
1:45:00 this year
1:45:01 and would include all of the existing rv
1:45:04 sites
1:45:05 same footprint that the rv park has
1:45:09 occupied over the past many years that
1:45:11 we've had this management agreement
1:45:13 you'll see a map on this slide and
1:45:15 also provided in the council packet the
1:45:18 reservations beyond june 30th
1:45:20 beyond the length of the agreement would
1:45:24 only be accepted for spaces within
1:45:26 what's labeled here as the monthly site
1:45:29 area and that's
1:45:31 that's where most of the long-term users
1:45:34 of the rv park currently
1:45:36 are you'll see in the map on the slide
1:45:39 there's a shaded area that it says
1:45:41 centurylink replacement site that's the
1:45:44 portion of the rv park that centurylink
1:45:46 now called lumen
1:45:48 would be taking possession of if the
1:45:50 transaction is to go through
1:45:52 and that portion of the rv park property
1:45:57 we discussed i believe in december was
1:46:01 where most of the if not all
1:46:04 of the uh temporary users and by
1:46:07 temporary i mean those who have
1:46:08 reservations for less than a month
1:46:10 i'm looking at a couple of days could be
1:46:12 one night could be a couple of days
1:46:14 could be a week
1:46:15 that's where those very temporary users
1:46:20 are are situated versus
1:46:23 those who rent the site by a monthly
1:46:26 basement
1:46:27 a basis so that's
1:46:30 uh that that's a summary of what's in
1:46:33 the proposal
1:46:34 again it looks uh very similar to the
1:46:37 management agreement
1:46:38 that we've had in the past with this
1:46:40 organization knowing that the future
1:46:42 management agreement
1:46:44 will likely look different should blue
1:46:46 men take possession
1:46:48 of a portion of the rv park site next
1:46:50 slide please tisha
1:46:55 so in terms of of timing and next steps
1:47:01 we're we're asking city council this
1:47:03 evening to renew the management
1:47:04 agreement that
1:47:05 is in your packet and knowing that
1:47:09 the future we will need to negotiate
1:47:12 another management agreement
1:47:13 that speaks to the future site and what
1:47:17 that future site will look like
1:47:20 we expect those negotiations to occur
1:47:23 following
1:47:24 the city council study session in march
1:47:26 where we get
1:47:27 guidance from city council as to whether
1:47:29 or not we expand the rv park into the
1:47:32 adjacent city-owned parcel
1:47:35 and also it will be informed by um
1:47:38 you know whether the property
1:47:40 transaction moves forward with lumen as
1:47:42 anticipated
1:47:45 um and um of course then at that point
1:47:49 in time we would return to city council
1:47:51 to request approval for
1:47:53 the future management agreement i would
1:47:54 anticipate the earliest time that we
1:47:56 would do that would be in june
1:48:00 of this year next slide please tisha
1:48:06 great and so um as we stated before
1:48:08 we're
1:48:09 uh the administration is recommending
1:48:12 that the city council approve this
1:48:15 proposed management agreement
1:48:17 and i look to see if council has any
1:48:20 questions
1:48:23 thank you very much andrea and let us
1:48:25 know if tracy does show up as well at
1:48:28 least we could introduce her but it has
1:48:30 been a very strange
1:48:32 night here in our it council meeting um
1:48:35 let's start with some questions council
1:48:37 member
1:48:38 walsh thank you
1:48:42 uh this is council my rule so i know
1:48:43 this is about
1:48:45 the agreement but as we are
1:48:48 kind of looking at this map i'm
1:48:51 wondering if i can just sneak in a
1:48:52 question
1:48:53 um you showed a map that included a blue
1:48:58 for the lumen replacement site and then
1:49:02 red lined area oh gosh that sounds
1:49:05 horrible
1:49:06 um an area surrounded in red
1:49:10 that is the monthly sites but then
1:49:12 there's
1:49:13 maybe six sites that are in
1:49:16 kind of a yellow background um along
1:49:20 the office location wondering if you can
1:49:23 about those and whether or not the
1:49:25 office will be
1:49:28 kept or what those specific areas are
1:49:31 talking about
1:49:34 great thank you councilmember walsh
1:49:36 again this is andrea snyder
1:49:38 so that that shaded in area that's
1:49:42 shaded in with a beige or a yellow
1:49:44 um from number 79 through i think that's
1:49:48 um that those are spots that
1:49:51 i think um we are uh
1:49:56 that again we believe that long-term
1:49:59 um or monthly site users are
1:50:02 um are using at this point in time they
1:50:05 haven't necessarily been
1:50:07 designated that in advance by the
1:50:10 rv park management again
1:50:13 we do not anticipate that should
1:50:16 lumen take possession of that blue
1:50:18 shaded portion of the site
1:50:20 we do not anticipate any
1:50:24 relocation or dislocation of users in
1:50:27 that area because they are
1:50:29 all a temporary you know
1:50:33 one day one week type of
1:50:36 uses occurring there um the office and
1:50:39 the other buildings there's a
1:50:40 laundry and bathroom facility as well on
1:50:42 the site
1:50:44 those the laundry and bathroom facility
1:50:47 we believe will stay
1:50:49 where it is in its current location the
1:50:52 office i think we
1:50:54 our best determination is that we might
1:50:56 need to move it over a couple of feet
1:50:58 and so we're working with development
1:51:00 team to be able to do that
1:51:02 to meet the the requirements of the site
1:51:06 to provide that portion of the park to
1:51:08 lumen
1:51:09 as they're requiring so all
1:51:12 that's what we anticipate in the future
1:51:14 that the office would
1:51:15 remain but we would just need to move it
1:51:17 over a little bit
1:51:20 does that answer your question
1:51:21 councilmember walsh
1:51:25 yes i have another one go ahead
1:51:29 um so this idea
1:51:32 of only extending the management
1:51:36 agreement
1:51:37 for you know six months basically
1:51:41 um does that
1:51:45 what happens if that expires and we
1:51:47 haven't
1:51:48 created another agreement does that
1:51:50 cause any problems
1:51:52 for the residents or for management
1:51:55 of this and it appears that the
1:51:58 agreement has been expired for
1:51:59 a month so i'm guessing not but i just
1:52:02 want to
1:52:03 ask thank you for that question again
1:52:06 this is andrea snyder
1:52:08 um so what happens when an agreement
1:52:11 like this expires
1:52:12 is that unless uh we have it
1:52:15 in writing um we assume that the
1:52:18 agreement continues um until we're able
1:52:21 to form a different agreement or until
1:52:23 we have
1:52:24 um in writing uh you know a different
1:52:27 expectation
1:52:28 per the contract i think um
1:52:31 the reason why we're bringing this to
1:52:33 council to extend
1:52:35 this agreement for another six months or
1:52:39 is to be able to provide a more
1:52:41 certainty to the rv park users
1:52:43 because at this point in time i think
1:52:46 there are some that are a little nervous
1:52:47 about what is taking place and whether
1:52:50 or not
1:52:51 they'll be able to stay there or
1:52:55 what they can predict in the future in
1:52:57 addition it provides
1:52:58 more predictability for the rv park
1:53:00 management company
1:53:02 in terms of when they can continue to
1:53:06 reservations and
1:53:09 that they are they can have a little bit
1:53:11 more certainty and predictability for
1:53:13 their business
1:53:17 thank you andrea thank you councilmember
1:53:20 walsh
1:53:20 i am not seeing any other questions at
1:53:22 this time but i will give it a second
1:53:24 and also asset the city clerk the
1:53:26 promotion in the chat
1:53:27 in case we are ready to head towards the
1:53:29 motion
1:53:36 not seeing additional questions is there
1:53:38 someone who would propose
1:53:41 emotion
1:53:44 council president hunt thank you i moved
1:53:48 to authorize the mayor to
1:53:49 enter into and execute the updated rv
1:53:52 park management agreement with
1:53:54 midwest members only llc for the period
1:53:57 of january 1st through
1:53:58 june 30th 2021.
1:54:01 thank you deputy council president ray
1:54:04 this is chris ray ii
1:54:07 it has been moved and seconded let's
1:54:09 move to discussion and i'll keep my eye
1:54:11 on the chat to look for
1:54:12 comments
1:54:20 council president hunt followed by
1:54:22 council member hall
1:54:24 thank you this is council president hunt
1:54:28 a few things one i appreciate
1:54:32 what deputy city administrator snyder
1:54:35 regarding that this provides a little
1:54:37 bit more
1:54:39 certainty for the rv park users about
1:54:41 the length of time
1:54:43 for another agreement so i appreciate
1:54:45 that i
1:54:46 had also emailed in some questions about
1:54:49 the communication
1:54:50 strategy and it sounds like there's a
1:54:51 very thorough communication strategy
1:54:54 to make sure that the rv park users are
1:54:57 aware of the
1:54:58 upcoming changes and know what to expect
1:55:00 and i think that's
1:55:01 that's very important also also
1:55:04 important that we still
1:55:06 expect that we do not have
1:55:09 we we can accommodate the long-term
1:55:12 users of the rv park and we do not
1:55:13 expect to
1:55:14 have to displace any long-term users so
1:55:17 those are all
1:55:18 very important and um just wanted to
1:55:20 make sure that
1:55:22 i stated that all of those things were
1:55:24 very important to me with going forward
1:55:25 with this agreement at this point
1:55:27 um i i had asked previously about the
1:55:30 playground it is in the area that's in
1:55:36 in the area that is to be acquired by
1:55:39 lumen
1:55:39 um and so i think you know as we go
1:55:41 forward just to make sure that those
1:55:43 those sorts of amenities are at least
1:55:45 taken into consideration i think would
1:55:48 would also be important and then lastly
1:55:52 i'm looking forward to the
1:55:53 next conversation in which we consider
1:55:55 the possibility of extending
1:55:57 the rv park into the adjacent parcel or
1:55:59 at least thinking about what
1:56:01 we would need to take into consideration
1:56:03 to do that
1:56:05 to consider that because as i've said
1:56:08 before i think
1:56:09 this is potentially a
1:56:12 form of housing that people prefer
1:56:16 and as we think about how we can have
1:56:18 more housing options in our city i think
1:56:20 we should
1:56:20 strongly consider that thank you
1:56:25 thank you council president hunt council
1:56:27 member hall
1:56:28 thank you mayor paulie councilmember
1:56:30 hall here um well i was going to say a
1:56:32 lot of the same things
1:56:34 i will just start by saying i'm
1:56:35 supportive of this
1:56:39 i will also say deputy administrator
1:56:42 snyder i
1:56:43 also do appreciate what you said about
1:56:44 this providing level of
1:56:46 predictability for the tenants and for
1:56:47 management there seems very
1:56:49 straightforward for me so i'll be
1:56:50 supportive of it
1:56:52 i too am also looking forward to our
1:56:54 study session discussion
1:56:55 in march
1:56:59 other than that no comments thanks
1:57:01 [Music]
1:57:04 thank you council member hall i'm
1:57:05 keeping my eye on to see if anyone else
1:57:08 wants to join so i'll give it a few
1:57:10 seconds for additional comments before
1:57:13 i reread the motion
1:57:18 okay seeing none the motion on the table
1:57:21 is to authorize the mayor to enter into
1:57:23 and execute the updated rv park
1:57:25 management agreement
1:57:26 with midwest members only llc for the
1:57:29 period of january 1st
1:57:32 through january 30th 2021
1:57:35 and i will go to the city clerk for a
1:57:36 roll call vote
1:57:39 beginning with council member hall
1:57:43 i council president hunt
1:57:46 aye council member martz
1:57:50 aye deputy council president ray
1:57:53 hi councilmember walsh
1:57:56 aye councilmember d michelle
1:57:59 aye councilmember goodman aye
1:58:03 that's seven eyes zero nays thank you
1:58:06 that passes unanimously
1:58:08 the next and last item on our agenda
1:58:11 this evening is good of the order
1:58:12 and so i will keep my eye on the chat to
1:58:17 see if anyone has anything for good of
1:58:19 the order
1:58:20 so you know i can't see your faces
1:58:21 because my script is blocking your faces
1:58:25 so if you're raising your hand i won't
1:58:26 see it
1:58:28 and just in case um i will move through
1:58:30 some up the upcoming council meetings
1:58:32 but if you
1:58:33 want to add something for good of the
1:58:34 order please feel free to put in the
1:58:36 we will be having a council study
1:58:38 session on tuesday february 9th and the
1:58:40 potential agenda items at this time
1:58:42 include electric vehicle charging
1:58:45 mobility master plan
1:58:48 amendments to imc 12.10 which is the
1:58:51 complete streets section
1:58:53 old town traffic calming update
1:58:56 transit system update and near-term
1:59:00 capital projects update there will be a
1:59:03 city council regular meeting on february
1:59:05 16th and the potential agenda items
1:59:07 include
1:59:08 a regional coalition for housing
1:59:11 administrative budget and work
1:59:13 program and trust fund recommendations
1:59:16 the 2021 budget amendment and budget
1:59:19 authorizations
1:59:21 a 2021 docket of comprehensive plan
1:59:24 and zoning map amendments and funding
1:59:27 for emergency housing
1:59:29 business assistance grants and fit and
1:59:33 fund outside funding there is no
1:59:36 executive session this evening and i'm
1:59:39 not seeing any additional good of the
1:59:41 order items
1:59:42 so that there being no further business
1:59:44 the meeting is adjourned at nine o'clock
1:59:47 good evening

Attendance

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

Motions and votes (2)

Approve Resolution No. 2021-01, approving the Water Resource Inventory Area 8 Watershed Restoration Enhancement Committee Final Draft Plan. . 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
Authorize the Mayor to enter into and execute the updated RV Park management agreement with Midwest Members Only LLC for the period of January 1 through June 30, 2021. .
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